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Set on the dark and dangerous film noir influenced streets of NYC it tracks the fortunes of 50 as a Noo Yoik hustler who gets entangled in an international conspiracy.
As a result he'll have to seriously shake up, or (more to the point) shoot, his way through the city's crime families. This won't be a GTA romp-a-thon but a game with a story that will drive you through the game.
Expect a far more linear, narrative-driven structure with some pretty awesome set pieces.
A hustler doesn't own the streets alone of course. 50 will come across various different crews including gangbangers, bikers, the Italian mob and Latinos who'll fight both with and against you as the story unfolds.
And of course your own G-Unit. But mates and tattoos don't cut the mustard alone. Emerson filled us in...
"The arsenal is gigantic. We've got everything from nine millies to Macs to AK's to grenade launchers. There are over 20 heaters in the game."
You may be packing more heat than the sun but Andre insists that there's more to it than blasting away. "The game mechanic diversity is crazy. We've got extremely brutal counter-kills, silent kills, human shields, mobile cover objects that allow you to run or crush enemies with a dumpster for instance."
Any particular favourite moves? "Body jacking," he say. "You can steal everything from fallen enemies, from wallets to chains, and from passports to credit cards."
Combining 50's darkly humorous lyrics with an outrageous take on the gangster lifestyle makes for what looks like some truly sensational action.
We've seen 50 using enemies' bodies as shields, leaping across furniture while firing, dual-wielding automatic weapons and when all else is up, taking out a goon by throwing a pistol at his face - made all the cooler with slick, stylised animation.
The city might not be laid open for you but this crime caper will take in a broad cross-section of New York - from subways to mansions, junkyards to offices, it seems badass crime rots every part of the Big Apple to the core.
Each gang has its own hangouts of course, and in those areas you'll come across different levels of enemies with a hierarchy that takes in foot soldiers, generals and leaders, with seniority seemingly reflected in height and gut size.
Saving the world in your own unique thug way takes a bit more than whacking fatty though. On the streets you'll have to interact with pawnbrokers, weapon dealers, informants, shady doctors and music bootleggers.
If you need a little R&R before your next blood-soaked killing spree you can chill in your crib listening to 50 music and watching honey-filled videos. And of course, being a P.I.M.P. there'll be a few hip-hop honeyz, all too keen to 'interact' with you. And have sex too, we'd wager.
You can also impress the fly ladies in your local 'hood and let your inner 50 run riot by using the 'lab'.
Here you can mix beats with 50 and G-Unit freestyle lyrics to create phat joints without having to wear a baseball cap at a jaunty angle or buy baggy pants with the surface area of the Millennium Dome's roof.
50 Cent Bulletproof tells a story that's about as far removed from British culture as you can get. But let's face it: a game about getting pissed on Stella before pathetically attempting to trade blows with some other mashed up idiot/your best mate/a traffic light doesn't exactly inspire.
If we're more than happy laying the smack down with a bit of Kung Fu in ancient China or imagining ourselves as a futuristic space marine fighting aliens, it's fair to say that hip-hop gangsters provide an equally valid base for grounding a combat fantasy game in.
And we're reassured that they're exploiting the resources at their disposal - maximising the support of some of the world's few bona fide superstars, getting a decent writer in and committing themselves to a Daily Mail-bating orgy of bloodshed.
50 Cent may have rolled the dice on making this game, but despite giving us a glimpse, Genuine Games are keeping their cards all too close to their chest right now.
Will this be the dopest game dropped this decade or a cash-in dropped for dopes? We'll be the first to let you know once Vivendi show their hand.More very, very soon...
50 Cent Bulletproof will be available for PS2, Xbox and PSP this autumn


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'"In Al Kotalik's place, (it wasn't personal) because you're just looking for something different for your team because you have an abundance of wingers. My problem is, that story broke and I have no idea how TSN gets it. Those things break so quickly after they're done. We have a policy that no one speaks to anyone. You don't talk to the players until after the trade is official. In this case, Kotalik heard it first from Ales Hemsky. There's only one way Ales Hemsky would know about it. Al told me he was texted by Ales Hemsky."'
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At the Dec. 9 meeting, more than 60 residents turned out to listen to the HOA board discuss a proposal to increase fines from the current $20 to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second offense, and $250 for a third offense.
The issue stems from an ongoing problem with picking up and dropping off students at Tassajara Hills Elementary School. Each day, long lines of cars form all the way out onto Camino Tassajara and parents can be stuck in line for upwards of 20 minutes. So several Blackhawk parents have started parking just inside the East Gate on Blackhawk Drive near an area known by residents as "the grassy knoll."
Each day, dozens of students walk back through the East Gate and up to waiting parents. In response to complaints, the HOA is looking to make the fines untenable enough to stop the practice, which has caused a strong backlash from those parents.
Board members opened up the floor to discussion and it became obvious early on that there were factions both pro and con the fine increases. Those in favor shared their frustrations with the cars parking in driveways, lawns and landscaping being trampled, and children walking in the busy street.
Scott Rindner, who lives on Blackhawk Drive, complained of the number of vehicles infringing on his property. "People park in our driveways and make U-turns on our property. I think we all agree that that's pretty rude," he commented.
Rindner said that isn't the worst of it. He spoke of having to contact police when a child was not picked up after school but left out on the street. He also expressed his anger over an incident where his wife was struck by another parent. "My wife Lynette was taking a license plate down and a woman came up and hit her in the chest," he stated.
Lynette Rindner said she was upset over the damage done to their lawn and landscaping as well as numerous broken sprinkler heads. "We had a $4,000 water bill because of all the broken sprinkler heads." In addition she pointed to the danger of having children walking up the busy street, where there are no sidewalks. "Safety is pick up your children and put them in your car. That's safe."
Constance Smith, one of the group of parents opposed to increasing the fines, said she believes that the children are supervised and that safety is a concern for them. "We try to monitor the kids. And we try to keep them out of the roadway," she said. "I haven't seen anyone breaking sprinkler heads."
Smith contended that a main part of the push for these fines is coming from residents who live very near the East Gate and don't like the increased activity of the parents waiting at the Grassy Knoll. "I'm sorry your parcel is on a corner and you're bummed." She suggested that both sides take a fresh look at the problem and try to work together to resolve the issue.
Resident Steve Caria advocated finding middle ground as well. "We need the people to work together," he said. "When I was a kid I walked home from school and didn't need a police officer to monitor me."
He went on to say that he thinks the answer lies with the school district. "If you have to wait 45 minutes then you have to wait 45 minutes and that's a school district problem."
Members of the HOA board had been planning to issue a ruling on the fines that night but instead chose to hold off until their Jan. 13 meeting in order to give residents more time to work toward a resolution.
Community Manager Mark Goldberg said it was exciting to see such a big turnout and all of the opinions expressed.
"I think the board was pleasantly surprised at how much interest there was. Not just in talking about it, but in coming together to find a solution." He added, "I was glad to see there was passion on both sides and I felt they both expressed themselves well."


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I'm not here to discuss the pros and cons of fracking, the controversial process used to extract petroleum and natural gas from the earth. I'm just here to discuss director Gus Van Sant's new drama "Promised Land," a film primarily interested in illustrating the cons of fracking.
The script was written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski (Jim from "The Office"), who also star. Damon plays Steve Butler, a perfectly likable guy who works as a closer for the gas companies. He visits rural towns with large gas reserves and, with the help of his partner Sue (Frances McDormand), convinces the land owners to sign over the rights to their land.
Steve and Sue arrive in the small town full of the usual characters, like a wise retiree played by Hal Holbrook who has researched the dangers of fracking and a wild young redneck played by Lucas Black who just wants that big money check.
Their task becomes much harder with the appearance of environmentalist Dustin Noble (Krasinski), who begins to rally the townsfolk by illustrating how devastating fracking can be to their community.
I have nothing against films that have an agenda, political or otherwise, but I do not like it when the movie is preachy (even if I agree). For instance, I won't argue that the U.S. health care system has some flaws, but I hated "John Q" because the film just harped on that message for two hours. I still have a headache from the time "The Life of David Gale" hit me over the cranium with a mallet for two hours to make sure I understood it was against the death penalty.
"Promised Land" isn't as preachy as those two films, to be fair, but it's not far off. The script, based on a story by Dave Eggers, provides well-rounded enough characters so that I actually cared (a little) about what was going on. Damon is good as the conflicted hero who is actually stopping to think about what he does. Holbrook makes every scene he's in better the moment he appears.
I also enjoyed Rosemarie DeWitt as a school teacher that Steve has a crush on, even if the romantic subplot was forced and unnecessary. Still, her scenes provided a nice break from the "fracking is bad!" sermon.
I also think that Gus Van Sant was the wrong choice to direct this film. It's a bland-looking film content with showing pristine rural landscapes, so we have a constant reminder of what the gas companies are about to completely destroy (the film's message, not mine). This is a low point for Van Sant, who has made several wonderful films, including "Good Will Hunting" (also written by Damon), "To Die For," "Milk" and the harrowing "Elephant."
Really, this material devolves into such an anti-fracking infomercial that I felt like it wasted the time of all of these talented people. I kept smiling when I saw familiar faces, but only because I fondly remember McDormand in "Fargo" or Black in "Sling Blade."
I tried (valiantly, I believe) to stay interested in the plot and the characters, or notice any interesting filmmaking techniques, but by the time "Promised Land" was nearing the end all I could see were the beads of sweat rolling down the preacher's face.
"Promised Land" is rated R for language.


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NEW YORK (Jul. 11)
The American Jewish Conference today issued a statement declaring that its Commission on Rescue has, in collaboration with the World Jewish Congress, "constantly pressed" for measures to save the Jews of Hungary from extermination.
"The mounting danger in Hungary was brought to the attention of the War Refugee Board shortly after its creation and even before the Nazi occupation of that country." the statement said. "From the beginning it was apparent that militant warnings were essential if the Jews of Hungary were to be saved. The first such warning was issued by the President in March when he called on the people of the occupied countries to assist and shelter Jews and when he warned that those who share in the crimes against the Jews would share in the punishment."
The statement emphasizes that among other things, steps were taken by the American Jewish Conference to mobilize American public opinion in support of an effective rescue program. The Jewish Agency was requested to obtain as many Palestine certificates as possible for Hungarian Jews. Efforts were made to secure visas for Hungarian rabbis in view of the fate that had befallen rabbis generally in occupied countries. The proposal was made that the Hungarian government be asked by neutral intermediaries for a statement of its intentions with regard to the Jews, and that the Red Cross be permitted access to the concentration camps.
"It was also urged that a complete list of all German aliens in the Americas and the British Empire be prepared with a view to exchanging them for endangered Jews in Hungary," the statement continues. "The President's warning has been reinforced by the statements of the Senate Foreign Relations and the House Foreign Affairs Committees. The Vatican and the heads of neutral governments have taken action. In addition to these measures, many other steps have been proposed and partly executed, some of them of a nature that cannot be indicated at this time."


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Lisa (nee Schwartz) and Matthew Papsin of Troy, Mich., announce the birth of their daughter, Bella Rose (Hannah Rebecca), on Jan. 15.
Sharing in their joy are first-time grandparents Andrea and Allan Papsin of Lafayette Hill; and Debbie and Bernie Schwartz of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Joining in welcoming the baby are Aunt Rachel and Uncle Dave Stolzenberg, and Aunt Tracye and Uncle Stuart Schwartz.
Bella Rose is the great-granddaughter of Shirley and Seymour Klipper of Manchester, N.J.; Meyer Apple and Al Schwart of Michigan; and the late Lorraine and Herbert Papsin.
Bella Rose is named in loving memory of her maternal great-grandmothers Beverly Apple and Rebecca Schwartz.


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I am concerned with performance issues involving the storage of DV on a database. I though of some options, which would be the most advised for speed? 1) Pack N frames inside a "container" and store the container to the db. 2) Store each frame in a separate record in the table "frames". 3) (type something here) Thanks for the help, Rodrigo
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Somalia's Factions Hold Peace Talks
Published: September 4, 2006
Negotiators for Somalia's weak, United Nations-backed interim government held peace talks over the weekend with delegates from the increasingly powerful Islamic courts and militia that control most of the country's south, including the capital, Mogadishu.
Negotiators have said they hope to discuss cabinet positions for the Islamists and seats in Parliament as well as the transitional charter during the talks, which are expected to last several days.
The two sides held talks in June, but failed to resume them in July as planned. Islamic leaders refused to attend after reports that Ethiopian troops had entered Somalia, which were denied by Ethiopia. The Islamists later reversed their position.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991, when warlords overthrew the longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on one another, pulling the country into anarchy.
Clerics and militiamen have set up a network of Islamic courts in an effort to restore order by enforcing Islamic law. In June, a militia allied with the courts gained control of much of the south of the country.
President Abdullahi Yusuf's representatives have said they are open to the Islamists being part of the government, but only under a clan-based formula that was used to form the government and Parliament.


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Today's news
STOLEN VOUCHER FUNDS: Maya Dennard, director of a private school in Pinellas, is arrested for taking more than $250,000 in voucher money intended for poor and disabled students.
TACKLING LOW GRAD RATES: Pinellas superintendent Clayton Wilcox instructs his administration to figure out why Hillsborough's high school graduation rate is so much higher than Pinellas' and then to do something about it - ASAP.
HELP FOR DISABLED STUDENTS: Tampa Transitional School of Excellence, a new charter school in downtown Tampa, places older students with disabilities into the work force, getting them skills and the confidence to use them in the "real world."
A MATTER OF GOVERNANCE: Twenty Florida school districts plan to appeal the State Board of Education's denial of their request for exclusive authority over charter schools. District lawyers are gathering in Tampa today to discuss strategy. "This is not really as much about charter schools as what does it mean when the state Constitution says an elected school board shall run the local schools," says Ron Meyer, lawyer for the Florida School Boards Association.
MORE CONTROL: The State Board of Governors requires all 11 public universities to create a plan of short-term, measurable goals. These compacts are to let the Board better oversee the system it's charged with running.
NICE TRY: The Pasco school district should give teachers better pay, not offer them affordable housing because they can't afford the market prices on their current salaries, columnist Andrew Skerritt writes.
MORE ON DIPLOMA MILLS: A Palm Beach County police officer faces trouble over claims of three degrees received on the same day from a school called Hamilton University, the Palm Beach Post reports.
21ST CENTURY MODEL: The new Boca Ciega High gets touted as a model for the future at the Florida School Boards Association conference in Tampa, Channel 10 in Tampa reports.
NOT ON THE SITE: When teachers get punished by the state, the information goes online. Apparently not so for administrators. The state's recent action against Putnam superintendent David Buckles didn't make its way onto the web, the Florida Times-Union reports.
NO RULING: The Florida Supreme Court refuses to consider a case involving a boy who was kicked out of Jupiter Christian School after administrators learned he is gay, the Palm Beach Post reports.
BACK TO WORK: Manatee's Head Start program brings back its laid off workers after finding some money left over from 2005, the Bradenton Herald reports.


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A Manifesto in a Notebook
I love these scanned notebook pages containing the creativity manifesto of Frederick Terral. (Hard to say what brand of notebook it is, but I'm guessing it could be a Piccadilly):
Good advice! Read more about other inspiring messages and manifestos for creative people at Five Manifestos for the Creative Life | Brain Pickings.
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For a manifesto on creativity this person sure did quote a lot of other people's work.


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By Greg Robb, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed Thursday that the central bank is looking into Goldman Sachs Group's dealings with the Greek government.
Bernanke said the investigation included other companies.
"We are looking into a number of questions related to Goldman Sachs and other companies and their derivatives arrangements with Greece," Bernanke said in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.
The European Union has demanded that the Greek government provide details of how it used currency swaps and other instruments.
Greece in 2001 borrowed billions, with the aid of Goldman Sachs /quotes/zigman/188479/composite GS -0.37% in a deal hidden from public view because it was treated as a currency trade rather than a loan.
Greek Debt Crisis: Athens Choked By General Strike
A massive general strike to protest E.U.-mandated austerity measures closed banks, government offices and post offices, crippling the Greek capital Wednesday. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from the streets of Athens.
Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, said Wednesday that Greece's level of outstanding debt will rise after taking into account the previously undisclosed currency swaps and it still is seeking more details on how the country used the instruments.
Greece has said it's no longer using them but did so, legally, in the past.
Goldman Sachs spokesman Michael DuVally declined to comment on the Fed's probe. "As a matter of policy we don't comment on legal or regulatory matters," DuVally said.
Goldman Sachs had defended the transactions in a statement posted on its Website Sunday. The firm said they had a "minimal effect" on Greece's overall fiscal situation.
The bank said that in December 2000 and in June 2001, Greece entered into new cross-currency swaps and restructured its cross-currency swap portfolio with Goldman at a historical implied foreign-exchange rate.
These transactions reduced Greece's foreign denominated debt in euro terms by 2.367 billion euros and, in turn, decreased Greece's debt as a percentage of GDP by just 1.6 percentage points, from 105.3% to 103.7%, Goldman said. Greece's deficit in 2001 was equal to 4.5% of GDP, and would have been 4.64% without the swaps, the bank said. Read story on Goldman's defense.
Bernanke also said the Fed was looking into trading of credit default swaps that allow financial firms and investors to bet that Greece will default on its debt.
Credit-default swaps have proved a popular way to bet on the troubled finances of Greece and some of its more indebted Southern European neighbors. The Wall Street Journal earlier this week profiled Mark Hart, a Houston hedge-fund manager whose Corriente Advisors has made over $300 million through such instruments. Balestra Capital and Glenview Capital also have made such trades.
Bernanke said credit default swaps are properly used as hedging instruments. He said using the swaps to bet against Greece was "counterproductive" and under review by the Fed and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Obviously, using these instruments in a way that intentionally destabilizes a company or a country is counterproductive, and I'm sure the SEC will be looking into that. We'll certainly be evaluating what we can learn from the activities of the holding companies that we supervise here in the U.S.," Bernanke said.
Beyond Greece ... the U.S. economy
The revelation of the probe into Goldman came at the start of Bernanke's second day of congressional testimony.


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Presbyterians set gay ordination
A Presbyterian congregation in Madison, Wis., plans to ordain the church's first openly gay minister today. With the ordination of Scott Anderson, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) becomes the latest mainline Protestant church to allow the practice, following the Episcopal and Evangelical Lutheran churches and the United Church of Christ. Anderson was in the closet more than two decades ago when he acknowledged to his former California congregation that he was gay and therefore must resign as its pastor. A couple had learned he was gay and tried to use the information against him.
Schwarzenegger opens his museum
Action star-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his native Austria on Friday, setting off cheers as he pulled a string to unveil a bronze statue of a young Arnie flexing in the skintight trunks of his Mr. Universe days. He returned to the village of Thal to open the museum in the house of his birth. In a speech, the former California governor made only passing reference to the media attention focused on him back home because of his divorce.
Prince Harry in U.S. for copter class
Buckingham Palace said Friday that Prince Harry has arrived in the United States for a two-month military helicopter training course. The British army captain will start at the Naval Air Facility at El Centro, Calif., where he will fly Apache helicopters. He is among 20 participating in the training that ends at an Air Force station in Gila Bend, Ariz.
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3D printed optical mount system for use with extruded aluminum angle from the local home store
This is the beginning of an optical mount system for use with extruded aluminum right angle trim you can find at the home store. The STL files are for 3/4"x3/4"x1/16", which I used to build the schlieren photography rig in this youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGskL2wdQ54 Here is another video with me discussing how the schlieren camera works for my local hackerspace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgCn6SYeVT0
The schlieren camera consists of a 150 mm diameter, 1500 mm focal length spherical mirror from Anchor Optics, a pinhole made by the beer can method, and an LED light source, with the glass lens sanded flat. The pinhole and LED are set very close to each other at twice the focal length of the mirror, so 3000 mm, or about 10 feet. The object being photographed goes immediately in front of the mirror. There are some good tutorials on schlieren at http://www.ian.org/Schlieren/HowTo.html.
The design needs some work. The holes for the angle are very tight. I had to do quite a bit of filing to get them to fit. Threaded rod is a terrible excuse for an optical post in most cases. There could stand to be set screws to hold things in place. Probably a dozen other things could be improved, but at least it is a start.
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OverviewFor more pictures/info, see the page for the nearby Siyalan Peak.
Elevation Note: Experience has proven to me that the most accurate maps of the Central Alborz Mountains are those with a scale of 1:50 000 produced by the Iranian armed forces. The elevations shown on these maps have generally agreed closely with measurements with my own GPS/altimeter. Other details (high points on ridgeline, valleys…) have also proven to be accurate. For the Kandigan area, however, the map turned out to have a few inaccuracies. It failed to identify the Kandigan Peak. Instead, it only showed a minor high point on the ridgeline with contour lines of 3840-3860 m. The Soviet military map shows a nameless peak with an elevation of "4000 m". Most maps used by Iranian mountain climbers give an approximate elevation of 4050 m. My GPS showed an elevation of 13170 ft (4014.2 m).
Click for Introduction to the Central Alborz Mountains
Click for a detailed map of the Central Alborz Mountains. Please note that the word "Kandigan" will not appear on this map. Instead you will see "Darya Ab" 3850 m. See "Elevation Note" above.
Sehezar River carves a deep valley in the northwestern part of the Central Alborz Mountains south of the coastal town of Tonkabon where the mountains rise abruptly above the Caspian Sea. If you follow some of the branches of the Sehezar River, you can go from an elevation of 25 meters below sea level at the Caspian coast to more than 4000 m within a distance of 30-35 Km. Most of the 4000 m peaks of the area belong to the Takhte Soleyman Massif to the east of the Sehezar River (The 4000 m mountain with the shortest distance to the Caspian Sea is probably the 4412 m Kalahoo Peak. Some of its sub-peaks are even closer). To the west of the Sehezar River, you will find a series of peaks with elevations in the high 3000 m range. Three of these peaks exceed 4000 m. These include:
1) Siyalan 4190 m
2) Unnamed Peak 4050 m
3) Kandigan 4015 m
Kandigan sits to the west of Siyalan Peak and is connected to it via a 3870 m saddle. The northern slopes of these mountains drop steeply down to an elevation of 1000 m at the bottom of the Dohezar River Valley (a branch of the Sehezar River). Following the river north, will quickly get you down to the coastal plain. These slopes form a formidable barrier to the moist air that rises from the Caspian Sea. A lush sub-tropical forest covers the northern slopes up to an elevation of roughly 2200 m. The southern slopes see much less moisture and appear much drier. These slopes go down to the bottom of the Alamoot River Valley and are covered by a scattered growth of Juniper trees up to around 2700 m.
Kandigan is often climbed along with Siyalan in a multi-day hiking program. Shorter distance and less elevation gain, mean that the mountains are often climbed from the south. Most hiker, however, go on to descend the beautiful northern slopes. The starting place is the village of Haniz (2150 m) to the south. From there you will hike to the 3870 m saddle where you can set up your camp before climbing Siyalan and Kandigan. You will then descend the northern slopes down to the village of Asal Mahale (1250 m).
Unlike the summit of Siyalan which remains hidden from view from the beautiful northern slopes, the summit of Kandigan is often visible and provides a spectacular background for the foggy forests, lakes, meadows etc. on these slopes. This, in my opinion, makes Kandigan a much more photogenic peak than the higher Siyalan.
I was hoping to see the Caspian Sea from the upper slopes of these mountains, but clouds and haze blocked the view. At night, however, the obvious line created by the light of the coastal communities marked the coastal line very clearly.
Below you will find a brief description along with some photos of what you will encounter on the hike. Please refer to the "Climb South, Descend North" Route Page for much more info. Check out the page for Siyalan Peak for more photos of the area.
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Its eminently fair to ask what exactly the NHL and NHLPA are trying to prove at this point.
Both sides met for an hour on Sunday to discuss player contract rights and smacked head-long into a wall after a long week of discussions. Both NHLPA Exec Director Donald Fehr and NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly admitted the two sides were gaining ground on the big issue of splitting Hockey Related Revenue (HRR), but said the league isnt going to budge on their player rights demands.
That led Fehr to pessimistically tell reporters that he doesnt see a path to an agreement given the tenor of negotiations.
Those are the same player contract rights (eight years of service or 28 years old until unrestricted free agency, reduction in arbitration rights, five year contract term limits, considerable change to the entry-level deals and limiting year-to-year salary variance to five percent) that the NHL has whispered to members of the media that they would have flexibility on all along.
Instead the NHL appears willing to cancel more games and further cannibalize their record-breaking business so they can limit players to five-year deals. This is the same group of NHL owners that were giving thumbs up on signing players like Tyler Seguin to six-year contracts immediately prior to the Sept. 15 lockout.
Take a bow for your stunning new level of hypocrisy, Jeremy Jacobs. Now thats really saying something.
The league-approved media messengers have said all along that the only player contract demand that was non-negotiable was the five percent variance on player contracts to limit the back-diving deals designed to circumvent the salary cap. But thats not how its played out in face-to-face negotiations as those around the NHL started to get their hopes up.
Daly reiterated after Sundays face-to-face meeting that the NHL owners werent willing to budge on the seemingly minor player contract rights, and were willing to go to the wall on it.
These issues are very, very important to the clubs, said Daly to NHL.com. If we were hearing from the clubs, Geez, dont let these player contracting issues get in the way of a deal. Lets get a deal done and get the players back on the ice, then thats what we would be saying at the bargaining table, but thats not what were hearing from our clubs.
So there you have it.
The NHL owners have told Gary Bettman and Daly to draw the line in the sand on player contracts, and theres no budging them despite the window beginning to slam shut on a Dec. 1 start to the regular season. The players are still wondering whats in it for them as theyre taking a drastic pay reduction from the last CBA, and potentially facing much more limited options in controlling the fate of their individual careers.
Players have two interests here, said Fehr. Interest No. 1 is how big the share is and thats not agreed upon yet either, but the parties have at least moved on that. The second one is how does an individual player negotiate his piece of the pie? The answer is players will have vastly fewer rights, vastly less leverage for vastly longer portion of their career under the NHL proposal.
The NHL and NHLPA need to get an agreement done this upcoming week if they hope to have training camp begin after Thanksgiving for a Dec. 1 start season opener. That means there needs to be give and take on both sides. Otherwise the earliest start to the NHL season well be looking at his Jan. 1 with a date for the obliteration of the 2012-13 season slowly crawling onto the horizon.
Perhaps this is just one final showdown between the league and the players before they eventually lock down a deal.
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I have just found 53 boots in the ladies section of the clothingattesco website, ranging in price from £45 for leather and suede boots at the top of their range, down to £10 for leopard print wellies (with chunky, deep tread, soles), and £7 for faux suede ankle boots, so I think they cater for most occasions.
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The Motley City Council approved changes to the dimensions of two additions that were originally brought to the Planning and Zoning Committee from Morey's Seafood International LLC in March.
In March, the Council approved a variance for the construction of two additions on the north side of Morey's existing building toward East River Road. The variance was required due to the additions being closer to the road right-of-way than the required 50-foot minimum.
In the original request, the drawing showed the new engine room at 24 feet by 24 feet, the freezer room at 20 feet by 27 feet and the concrete pad in between at 12 feet by 13 feet.
The wording of the original application said the engine room would be 24 feet by 24 feet, the freezer room would be 24 feet by 27 feet and the concrete pad in between would be 13 feet by 18 feet.
The current drawing shows the engine room will be 24 feet by 26 feet (2 feet wider), the freezer room will be 24 feet by 38 feet (11 feet wider and 4 feet deeper) and the concrete pad will be 12 feet, 8 inches by 19 feet, 4 inches.
Planning and Zoning sought direction from the Council on whether the larger additions may be approved under the existing variance granted in March (the proposed additions will be closer than the minimum 50 feet required for setbacks) or if a new public hearing would be required.
There will be no public hearing for this issue.
The new dimensions would not bring the building any closer to the right-of-way than what was granted in March and it did not appear that the larger additions would impact the sight lines for vehicles entering or exiting East River Road.
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Other business conducted by the Motley City Council Tuesday night included:
•Authorizing the issuance of $406,000 general obligation water and sewer revenue refunding bonds at 2.4 percent interest with First State Bank of Grand Marais. The original bonds for $775,000 carried an interest rate of 4.51 percent. This will save the city approximately $25,000;
•Learning the concrete work for the floor slabs and walls at the wastewater treatment plant are completed. Top soil has been removed and stockpiled on site for reuse at the end of the project. Concrete work for reclaiming the tank walls and the building foundation, along with the underground piping is planned for the future;
•Voting to make the second payment of $220,968.10 to Di-Mar Construction Inc. for work on the wastewater treatment plant project;
•Authorizing the Motley Fire Department to hire three new firefighters contingent on their background checks. They are Sarah Swecker, Chuck Gerard and Isaiah Erbe;
•Approving the purchase of a new Liberty LED lightbar for the city's tanker truck;
•Learning the Police Department has ordered a new Chevrolet Tahoe to be delivered in September;
•Hearing that Police Officer Jeff Jares resigned due to his full-time position at the Little Falls Police Department;
•Authorizing the police department to purchase a push bumper and cage for the new squad car as the old ones won't fit;
•Voting to have the city's maintenance department fix the sink hole in the street between city hall and the Dairy Queen at a cost of about $1,100;
•Learning it took six dumpsters to clean up an abandoned property in the city. Maintenance Supervisor Bruce Brotherton was asked to find someone who could pick up the steel frame from the trailer at no cost;
•Appointing Lorraine Macho, Lydia Goodwater, Terri Smith, Joseph Mrazek and Patsy Roberts as election judges and Deanna Thompson as the head judge;
•Voting to donate $400 to the Initiative Foundation in 2015;
•Approving the job description for a part-time deputy clerk to work at city hall for approximately 20 hours per week;
•Extending the Motley Two Rivers Music Fest's beer license to 11:30 p.m.;
•Moving the Tuesday, Aug. 12 meeting to Wednesday, Aug. 13 due to the primary election;
•Moving the Tuesday, Nov. 11 meeting to Wednesday, Nov. 12 due to Veterans Day;
•Setting Thursday, July 31, at 6 p.m. for the public hearing on the Eldredge Street project; and
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Student debt: Will it put you off going to university?
The government will miss its target of getting 50% of under-30s into university by 2010 without more help for lower income students according to a new report.
The National Audit Office says that many youngsters from poorer families are deciding not to go into higher education because of money worries.
While more students than ever are going to university, the proportion of those from lower social groups - about 28% - has not changed since 1994, the NAO report found.
Since the introduction of tuition fees and the replacement of maintenance grants with loans, graduates are now likely to leave university with debts of between �10,000 and �16,000.
What do you think? Should the government be doing more to help poorer students? Does the prospect of student debt put you off going to university?
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Paul, UK
I think it is appalling that the Government expects people to pay for education. Education is a right, not an elitist body which only allows the wealthy to learn. How are the pupils from very low earning families ever supposed to move out of near poverty if they have to pay for the right to learn? The Government need to seriously think about their fee policy. Euan Blair might be able to pay for university fees, but what about others?
Why are people so unwilling to invest �10,000 in their own futures, but are quite happy to spend the same amount on a car, which will lose half it's value the second they drive it out of the showroom?
Well I'm glad I finished when I did in 1996 and that was hard enough! I'm not sure what the incentive is to go to university these days when as a software engineer with a postgraduate degree I read about a train driver in the North East earning �10k a year more than me! I think that some people are a bit misguided about the difference in earnings between a graduate and a non graduate.
Tom, UK
I totally agree with Will Faulkners comments, I did my degree part time whilst working and it never did me any harm to completely self finance it, I think the trouble is people think they have a right to be able to just drift though A levels then Uni and get a good job at the end of it, it just doesn't work like that and I don't see why I should pay tax to finance what for most, is a 4 year long party!
Will Faulkner says "Why should the government spoon-feed them through university, only for them to leave and end up earning double the amount that a non-graduate earns?". The reason is that, by earning twice that of a non-graduate, they are paying at least twice as much in taxes; add this up over the course of a lifetime and these payments should be more than enough to cover the cost of goverment giving students a helping hand through university...
To Will Faulkner, UK: big wage packets? double the amount of a non-graduate? Try being a librarian! With a first degree, and a postgraduate diploma, only now, some twenty years later, am I earning just over �18,000 a year! I was lucky to go to university at a time when grants were paid to students. But please don't assume all graduates end up with massive salaries as a result. I think students have a hard time these days, and it is only the fortunate few who end up with large salaries at the end of it. Most are struggling.
Why are students going to university? To earn more money than the rest of us in the end. Why should the government spoon-feed them through university, only for them to leave and end up earning double the amount that a non-graduate earns? If you want a degree, you need to pay the money back in the end. Let them get into debt and make them pay it all back with their big wage packets when they leave.
Over here in the United States we have the same problems. College is very expensive and puts a lot of people in serious debt. However our government gives many grants to people who can't afford an education. There are many poor students who struggle to make ends meet while getting an education, myself included. However our military is a good option as it pays for 75 percent of our college tuition and after our four year duty is complete we get a $30,000 grant to help pay for school - it's called the GI Bill. I don't know if the British military offers such great benefits but perhaps they should. It would help them with retention as well as helping the starving student by having their college paid for. Also I find you have more money to spend on school when you spend less on beer.
Around twenty years ago, when I was at college, student grants were an automatic right, though you had to have parents, carers or guardians declare their earnings for means testing and thus how much they contributed. The fact that loans have replaced grants is a disgraceful move that ignores basic rights and short changes the country). How many unknown Hawkings, Einsteins, or Newtons have we lost just because they are scared of accumulating debts like these?
My husband completed a degree in 1998. We were left with a huge amount of debt which has left me unable to pursue my studies to university level.
The only way that the government are going to hit their target is by bringing back the grant system, and getting rid of the ridiculous loans!
I graduated last summer with debts of nearly �10 000. I earn only �13 000 so by the time I have paid for my living expenses and loans I have very little left. It's easy to say that graduates are highly paid so can afford to pay off their debts. When I started my degree, I didn't except to earn as little as this as a graduate. I could earn similar money in an unskilled non-graduate job so I can quite understand why the thought of getting into debt puts many people off.
The law faculty at Oxford have recently reviewed their course. They expect students to spend 45 hours a week studying. It is also forbidden by several colleges to have jobs in term time. To expect students to work to pay for their studies would be unreasonable if they were to keep up with their course. There is also the fact that working for 15 hours a week wouldn't even cover the cost of my rent, and that's in college accommodation. Those that assume all students are able to work in term time are just mistaken.
On top of this I am paying a higher rate of tax. It is no wonder that people don't want to go to university. Then on top of that people complain that there is a lack of teachers, doctors, IT people, engineers etc. You can't have your cake and eat it. In 20 years time this country is going to have no good graduates leaving university because it will be too expensive and then how can the country compete on a world stage
Vishal Vashisht, UK
I would not have gone to University if it would have left me with a �10,000 to �16,000 debt. I work in software, and it took me three years to gain the same salary level as a friend who went into supermarket management with A-levels. He has recently overtaken my salary again, since he has been given regional responsibilities. He worked just as hard for this as he would have done at University, but he was paid at the time rather than having to pay fees.
Having graduated from university last year I am now in so much debt - student loans, overdraft and credit cards all to pay off. I just don't really know if it was worth going to uni in the first place. Its going to take 2 years to pay back the loans, so I cant even make any plans financially. I received a grant, however it was �200 per team which paid for a months rent!
My cousin tried his best to support himself while earning a degree, but at the end of the day he couldn't focus on his work long enough to pass because he was working eight hours a day 5 days a week and then trying to study and go to university! I think we must now understand that university is now the preserve of the rich and degrees are going to be much more difficult to get.
Tony and co, if you want 50% of under 30s with or doing a degree by 2010, there is one solution. Scrap fees and bring back the grants! This will halve the debts of most students.
Will Faulkener seems to have missed the point with his "learned" comments. Everyone is entitled to aspire, that should not be judged on the basis of wealth or status, but on capability. I myself am a 4th year Law student, who has struggled, continuously for 5 years on �400 a year from the government whilst holding down a 30 hour a week job. I only hope that I will walk into one of these jobs which pays "double the salary of a non-graduates" however the fact remains that trainee solicitors can expect to earn about �7-10,000 after struggling for so long hardly seems justifiable.
Simon, UK/Finland
This country needs an educated workforce as never before. Restricting higher education to those who can afford fees and to incur massive debt is short-sighted and limiting and disastrous for the country in the long run. My comprehensive school-educated son worked hard for his Oxford place and accepts that he'll be living in poverty for the next few years, and still leave owing a fortune. He's resigned to this, but most of his friends wouldn't put themselves and their families through it. So they won't be getting degrees and that most precious asset, human talent, is thrown away, and higher education restricted to the rich. It's not only unfair, it's outrageously wasteful and ultimately harmful to the economy.
Is 50% really a realistic or desirable target for university? In many fields such as IT and engineering courses are so far behind industrial practice as to be a joke and an apprentice would turn out more practically skilled workers. Of course in the modern status obsessed workplace an apprentice doesn't compare to the perceived value of a degree, but that value will by definition be diminished if 50% of the population have them.
For that matter what proportion of the UK NEED degrees, I'm a university drop out and I'm now a successful accountant due to experience and professional (part time) study set and graded by an institute of accounting professionals and geared to the workplace. But this is not the course that would have been plotted for me had I finished my (electronics) degree. I suspect that many people will find them selves with outdated knowledge tailored specifically for a perceived role that they may not suit but which they have been channelled toward since their GCSEs.
I believe in more vocational training, few, more highly selected students entering direct from school (those with a clear idea of what they want from life at 18, very few) but based on ability not wealth, and more slightly older student who have had the opportunity to experience the workplace, find their role and enter with experience to build on and learning goals beyond gaining a qualification for it's own sake.
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18 Jan 02 | Education
Money 'still a barrier' for poorer students
27 Nov 00 | Business
Higher education, larger debt
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The 22nd Annual Leo Party, held recently at The Hidden Door, raised $16,147 for the Daire Center, the adult day care center operated by AIDS Interfaith Network. It was the second-highest amount ever raised in the long history of the fundraising party. Funds will help fund the Daire Center's Client Service Programs, including the meals program. Anita Martini, aka Dan Perry, owner of Eagle Leather by Dan, won the title of Miss Leo 2009. Pictured are, from left, AIN Associate Executive Director Edgar Carmona, Miss Leo Pageant organizer Andy Scanlon and AIDS Director of Development Blake M. Perry.
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quiet, cynic taxidermist, who suffers epilepsy attacks, is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He claims that the cops are too stupid to find out about it when it's well executed, and that the robbers are too stupid to execute it the right way; and that he could do it himself relying on his photographic memory and his strategic planning skills. After he is invited on a hunting trip away from his home, an accident gives him the chance of his life: the possibility to commit the perfect crime he has been waiting for.Résumé de IMDb.com
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cool remake of one of the most memorable parts of FF7
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This song is great, I remember this part of the game as a kid... brings back memories, y'know?
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The saddest moment in gaming history. I think this song, used at that precise event, was what solidified Final Fantasy 7 as the greatest JRPG ever made.
But sadly, games are losing their soundtracks. The songs just don't come as epic as they used to. The soundtrack itself is slowly becoming an accessory to games, rather than a natural piece of the metagame used expertly to capture the narrative and set the mood. Which is beyond me, because soundtracks are 90% of the reason games become legendary in the first place. Without epic music to set an epic mood, you're left with crap.
I know what you mean, game music is losing the quality it once had and moving towards the "hollywood" sound. Not a trend I agree with at all. This was definitely an epic time in gaming and game music. I'm glad you enjoyed my remake. Cheers!
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TAMPA — Law enforcement officers wanted three things from Luis "Danny" Agosto: guns, drugs and Latin Kings.
In exchange, the confidential informer received probation instead of prison, a cell phone, a rent-free apartment and a monthly stipend.
The officers set two important ground rules: Don't lie, and don't commit unauthorized crimes.
Agosto, a seventh-grade dropout with 17 felony convictions and a penchant for stealing motorcycles, didn't obey. Court records and testimony show he brazenly broke the law while on the government dime, and his FBI and Tampa police handlers did little to stop him.
A Hillsborough judge found that mix unacceptable. Monday, Circuit Judge Daniel Sleet dismissed racketeering charges against 23 alleged Latin Kings gang members arrested during a highly touted August 2006 raid.
The decision drove a dagger into the Hillsborough state attorney's case and raised questions about the largely secretive practice of employing criminals to do police work.
"When you're trying to beat organized crime, you have to deal with these kinds of folks," Stetson College of Law professor Charles Rose said. But, "If you don't follow them religiously, you get burned."
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The marriage between Agosto and law enforcement was rooted in mutual interest: his to avoid prison, theirs to arrest gang members.
Agosto, 30, is a habitual felony offender with a record in Florida, New York and Puerto Rico. He says he has been a member of the Latin Kings since 1995.
When FBI Agent Dan Wierzbicki and Tampa police Officer Matt Zalansky suggested he become an informer in November 2005, Agosto was sitting in jail for hitting his baby's mother with a telephone and was looking at no fewer than 25 years if convicted on charges of grand theft and armed burglary of a dwelling.
The Latin Kings had been dormant in Tampa since that August, but Agosto said he would get elected as the gang's "enforcer" to require attendance at meetings.
After he agreed to cooperate, the State Attorney's Office dropped his armed burglary charge and Agosto pleaded guilty to the theft charges.
Then, on Jan. 30, 2006, he was let out of jail and put to work.
The FBI gave him a cell phone. The calls were supposed to be recorded. But two weeks passed before anyone listened in.
That's when agents realized that Agosto was stealing motorcycles and using his government-issued phone to send pictures to potential black market buyers.
Sleet said Agosto should have been either terminated as an informer and jailed or be more closely monitored.
Neither happened.
Agosto continued to deal in stolen motorcycles and counterfeit money, carried a gun and threatened to beat up his baby's mother, evidence showed. When he worried that she had exposed him as an informer, officers allowed him to drive to Miami on a suspended license.
The FBI cut Agosto loose on March 22, 2006, after he refused to stop contacting his ex-girlfriend. Tampa police decided to keep using him, but the recording of his cell phone calls ended.
Attorney Lyann Goudie and her colleagues don't know the full extent of Agosto's actions. The FBI, which served as record-keeper, has refused Sleet's orders to turn over all investigative materials.
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With societal pressure to lower crime, police use of informers has become more pervasive.
The practice lacks scrutiny and allows for a culture of rule-breaking, said Alexandra Natapoff, a Loyola Law School professor who has called for more accountability.
"Our criminal justice system is not well-designed to uncover criminal activity" by informers, she said. "In fact, it's very well-designed to hide it."
In his ruling last week, Sleet noted that Florida courts permit wide latitude for confidential informers.
The Tampa police agreement with Agosto said he would be prosecuted if he broke the law.
But Zalansky did not include Agosto's criminal behavior in a letter telling prosecutors how he helped nab gangsters, which helped him avoid prison on the old theft charges. He drew 10 years of probation instead.
When he violated probation in spring 2007 by driving on a suspended license in South Florida, the Sheriff's Office flew him to Tampa for his court hearing on the agency's plane.
And when he later was stopped for driving a used police cruiser and appearing to impersonate an officer, Hillsborough and Tampa detectives persuaded other agencies not to arrest Agosto. But a day after Sleet's ruling, Agosto was jailed in Tampa on a probation violation charge for the traffic infractions. He was released on his own recognizance.
The FBI did not make a full break from the case. The federal government continues to pay Agosto $2,400 a month and gave him a $5,000 bonus late last year. He testified in November that he had not paid taxes on the money.
Goudie was most troubled by Agosto's testimony that he could earn a bonus of more than $100,000 based on Latin Kings convictions and pleas.
The Florida Supreme Court has forbidden criminal prosecutions based on the testimony of vital state witnesses with a financial stake in criminal convictions.
With Agosto's help, law enforcers arrested more than 50 alleged gang members on racketeering charges in 2006. Nearly half accepted plea deals of probation, sometimes for agreeing to testify for the state.
Of 28 defendants remaining when Goudie filed her motion last fall charging police and prosecutor misconduct, just six still face racketeering charges after Sleet's ruling.
The judge took particular offense that Agosto was allowed to revive a gang and then threaten reluctant members with beatings if they did not show up.
"Law enforcement's goal of eliminating gang violence is commendable," Sleet wrote, "but its trust in this C.I. was misplaced and ill advised."
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IN the terror nurseries straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan it is not uncommon, we are told reliably, to find boys much younger than Ajmal Kasab pleading with their trainers to be pushed up the queue for suicide missions as a divine favour.
How can we sensibly argue then that such motivated souls could be deterred by the hangman's noose?
In the given equation, the outrage that transpired in Mumbai in November 2008 could only be avenged, not redressed. In the bargain the Indian state has done precisely that with Kasab — enacting barbarism disguised as justice.
Just a day before they hanged the young killer, India had voted at the UN against the abolition of the death penalty in the company of a few other bloody-minded states, including who else but Pakistan.
The Indian representative would have been more honest in accepting that capital punishment in India has proved to be neither a good prophylactic nor a reliable cure. There is no dearth of examples to illustrate the point.
Nathuram Godse was hanged for killing Gandhi. Today, he has a few million more followers, including the alleged bombers of the Samjhauta Express. Godse became an idol for the subversive lot.
However, another key suspect in Gandhi's assassination plot was honoured by the Indian parliament recently. Savarkar's statue was not only installed in the Indian parliament, a leading fellow Brahmin politician from Maharashtra threatened to leave the Congress party if the decision was revoked. It wasn't.
Then there was this criminal duo simply known as Billa and Ranga in the late 1970s. As far as I can remember they were both taxi drivers in Delhi. They raped and killed the two children of a naval officer in a remote park. It was a heartrending act of brutality and the duo were duly hanged. Today, four decades later, Delhi has acquired the sobriquet as the rape capital of the country.
A cursory sociological analysis would show that a predominant segment of the offenders come from backgrounds that support the khap panchayats around Delhi, village kangaroo courts that dispense quick justice, chiefly against the social mixing of boys and girls from different castes.
The khap's brand of widespread 'honour killings' closely resembles the practice favoured by the Taliban. Is there a study of Delhi policemen who support the khap panchayats, and who expectedly also blame women for inviting rape?
We hanged Satwant Singh for Indira Gandhi's murder. His memory is worshipped in Punjab.
If the Gandhi family believes they have atoned for the assault on the Golden Temple and for all the injustices against the Sikh youth by placing high-visibility Sikh officials in government posts, they should hear the hiss of the Sikh taxi drivers when they remember 1984.
It's almost three decades since the massacre of thousands of members of their faith. Not a single Congress politician has been convicted for leading the charge. The death toll was at least 50 times more than was inflicted by Kasab and his cohorts.
There was something arbitrary about Kasab's hanging. A few years ago, a Kashmiri vegetable vendor was handed capital punishment on the basis of circumstantial evidence that he plotted the December 2001 armed attack on parliament.
The order said Afzal Guru should be hanged to assuage the collective conscience of society. Guru is still lingering in jail robbing the Indian society of its ghoulish salve. Kasab's was an open and shut case by comparison.
However, there are several more death-row convicts awaiting justice for years. Why was he killed first? Was it the enormity of his crime? Is there a law to determine the order in which the convicts would be sent to the gallows? If it is a decision of the president alone, it only raises more questions.
Why was Kasab not given his right to seek a judicial review of the president's decision? It is an inviolable legal right of a condemned prisoner. Did he know about it? Did he turn it down?
What if the president is a bleeding heart liberal (as we would like them to be) and he or she opposes capital punishment. Does the president impose his or her choice in the matter? Conversely, what if the head of state is a closet lover of the death sentence? Where is the impersonal, unbiased promise of justice?
Shortly after Kasab was executed in Pune, a spokesperson for the late Bal Thackeray's party boasted to a TV channel that the Mumbai killer's fate may have been sealed when the Shiv Sena chief committed his support for Pranab Mukherjee's candidature as president of India. Kasab's death was the biggest homage to the memory of Thackeray, Sanjay Raut proclaimed.
Thackeray had told Mr Mukherjee, who came to visit the Mumbai strongman for his crucial backing in the presidential contest, that he saw the veteran Congress man as an upright nationalist. He said he expected Mr Mukherjee to swiftly send the condemned man to the gallows.
How much Thackeray's persistence weighed in with Mr Mukherjee's final decision is a matter of conjecture and will probably never be known. But who can deny the larger, (though not very large) benefit the Congress expects to gain out of the sordid episode.
Kasab was reportedly humming Hindi movie songs during his long stay on death row, not fully aware of the enormity of his crime. Nor will his death stop another gun-toting delinquent from killing people senselessly, nor from smiling at his would-be executioners while still humming a juvenile song.
The writer is Dawn's correspondent in Delhi.


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SALT LAKE CITY — The jingle of a single ringing bell outside grocery stores is a sure sign to Utahns that the holidays have begun.
And donations to bell ringers in the state this year are up from last year — but not to the point they were from before the recession hit.
"Last time I looked, we were 3 percent over what we did last year. Last year was a miserable mess," said Richard Greene, who supervises all the Salvation Army's bell ringers in the state.
"Last year, in our kettle campaign, we raised a little over $300,000, which is 18 percent below where we were the year before that."
That's with a 20 percent reduction in staff.
Only about two years ago, Green said they used to raise closer to $400,000 and could afford to hire more paid workers.
All the money goes toward helping local families in need. This is the biggest fundraiser the Salvation Army does all year.
There are about 120 bell ringers and red kettles out across Utah on any given day during the holiday season.
Barry, a bell ringer in Salt Lake City, admits his hand gets tired. "You have to switch off back and forth," he explained.
He's also noticed that Mondays and Tuesdays are typically slower. More people donate later in the week, he guesses because it's closer to pay day.
Many say it wouldn't seem like the holidays without the bell ringers.
"It kind of reminds me the season is starting. It's no longer just cold and winter; it's the start of the season, "Olivia Etringer said.
Bell ringers will be out until Christmas Eve, and people typically donate more the week before Christmas, Greene said.
He is hoping for another $25,000 in the kettles.
"Change makes change. When you put change in, change comes out. We help change people's lives with the change people donate," Greene said.
Donations are also accepted online, but such donations only account for less than $1,000, he said.
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QCADesigner is a Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) circuit simulator. With powerful CAD capabilities, it allows the designer to quickly layout and simulate QCA circuits constructed with thousands of QCA cells. QCA is one of several emerging nanotechnologies with potential applications in future computers.
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YaPIDE aims to be a fully featured Microchip PIC simulator for Linux (and probably other Unixes). It is a GUI that provides a viewer for RAM, ROM, stack, breakpoints, and watchpoints, and has a source editor with inline debugging (ASM). The chip currently supported is the 16F628 (partial).
JCCad is a project to develop a 2D/3D CAD program that can be used to create technical drawings. One of the main goals of this project is to include a plugin system to allow usuaries to make new commands. In this way it will be easy to use the program for any particular task. JCCad provides an easy interface with a command line.


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Once dinner was over and the cake had been cut, it was time to dance! We kicked off the traditional dances with our first dance as husband and wife. Technically, our first dance as husband and wife probably took place on the trolley to "Call Me Maybe" or "Party in the USA," but for the publicized one, we chose Ingrid Michaelson's version of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love."
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I love the line in the song that says, "Take my hand, and take my whole life, too," and that's what caused us to choose it for our first dance.
As we danced, the world melted away. It was just the two of us swaying together like we often do in the kitchen while we're cooking dinner.
This is one of my favorite pictures because I think it captures exactly how I felt during our first dance.
We ended with a dip and a kiss for the crowd.
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Practice Makes Perfect – Our rehearsal
Hitting Rock Bottom – Our rehearsal dinner and too many butterflies
Hair, Makeup, and Broken Mirrors – I get ready with my girl friends
All Dressed Up – I become a bride
The Somethings – Old, new, borrowed, blue
The Guys Get Ready – Mr. T and the rest of the guys get dressed and head to the church
Goin' to the Chapel – We head to the chapel and fix a wardrobe malfunction on the way
Moments Before – My nerves resurface just before the ceremony
The Processional – The bridal party makes their way down the aisle
Here Comes the Bride – My parents walk me down the aisle as I see Mr. T for the first time
I Do – Our Catholic wedding ceremony
We Are Family – We take formal photos with our family
Trolley Time – We cruise around Chicago on our trolley
Life's a Beach – We take photos at North Avenue Beach
The Nitty Gritty – We take gritty, urban photos near the Kinzie Street Bridge
Stopping Traffic – We take photos in the middle of LaSalle Street
Magnificent – We take photos on the Magnificent Mile
The Da Vinci Code – We finish up our group photos in Renaissance style
Cocktail Hour – We mix and mingle with our guests
The Little Things – The details of our day, including our non-traditional centerpieces
Make an Entrance – The wedding party enters the reception to the sounds of Passion Pit
Raise Your Glass – Our family members toast our new marriage
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Linebacker Scott Fujita may in fact get to suit up for the Cleveland Browns on Opening Day. From Sports Illustrated's Jim Trotter, a three-member appeals panel has overturned the ruling that resulted in players being suspended in the New Orleans Saints bounty case.
The panel overturned a ruling by NFL system arbiter Stephen Burbank that commissioner Rodger Goodell was within his powers under the current league collective bargaining agreement to suspend four players for their alleged roles in a pay to injure system. Fujita was handed a three-game suspension for his alleged role in the scandal, a ruling which was quickly appealed.
Though dealing in hypothetical earlier on Friday, Browns head coach Pat Shurmur stated that he anticipated Fujita playing in the contest against the Philadelphia Eagles in the event that the suspension was indeed overturned. The team will have to make a roster move as the veteran linebacker was on the reserved/suspended list heading into the season, thus not counting against the team's 53-man roster.
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Here you can find a list of most, if not all, of my articles I've written all over the internet. The internet is a big and scary place when nothing is organized eh? I've compiled most of my articles via three options: By Date, By Website, and By Show. I would highly suggest Show because it just seems cleaner in that fashion, but I know people out there and choice is always a good thing. I'll admit that Date and Website aren't as quickly updated as by show.
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We live in a world of instant gratification. Everything is automated and readily available to be brought directly to us with little or not effort. That is the expectation that we have created for ourselves, and more importantly our children. Today's children are growing up in a world where effort and sacrifice are replaced by laziness and apathy. Every other day there is an article detailing the dramatically increasing statistics on childhood obesity because everything they want is being brought directly to them and they have no motivation to seek it on their own. The days of "playing outside" are quickly being obsolete. However, I believe strongly in the advancement of modern society and striving for technological greatness. I am a big supporter of innovation and progress, growing and adapting, but not at the cost of moving away from what God teaches us as a pivotal requirement for spiritual fulfillment. That teaching is self-denial.
The primary example of self denial in the Bible is fasting. The physical act of denying ourselves food so that God can fulfill us. Matthew 6:16-18 says. "Fasting draws me closer to Christ. One of three things that we do in private that God rewards in public." What do we, as a culture, deny ourselves of today?
Bob Sorge had this to say about self denial;
"The world denies itself nothing, so when you embrace self-denial, you are doing something other worldly. Self-denial demonstrates that we do not love the world nor the things in the world."
There is your answer. We deny ourselves nothing. It's not the "American way." We want what we want and we want it now. The mere thought of denying ourselves what we perceive as important to us is as foreign as anything else. So, what is the result of our lack of self-denial?
I believe the result is struggle. A never ending yearning for what comes next. A powerful driving force that will never cease to let up. As we constantly seek more that the world has to offer without even the slightest thought of sacrifice, spiritual and physical fulfillment gets farther and farther away.
Think about what it is that you are seeking. Healthier body, financial security, relationship bliss, a closer family. Regardless of what the "it" is, think about what you are willing to sacrifice and deny yourself in order to reach it. There is power in letting go. There is success in self-denial. Because when you let go of your perception of what you can and can't do and allow God to take over, the happiness you seek will be revealed to you.
What is your crutch? What are you allowing to stand in the way of getting where you want to be? My challenge for you this week is to let go. Deny yourself whatever that "thing" is and be willing to work for it. Nothing in this life worth having ever came easy. Letting go won't come easy. But you can do it and when you do God will show you unfathomable greatness. I wish you my best, and good luck.
Have an amazing week!
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Thanks for the comment Jen! Self denial is one of the most powerful things we can do. When we deny ourselves what our flesh desires, we allow ourselves to open up to other-worldly possibilities, and that is where the magic is! Have a great day!
This is so true with so many things in our instant gratification society. Sacrafice isn't always "fun" at the time, but so worth it in the end. Thanks Nick.
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