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- Tilt & Telescoping Wheel
- Head Curtain Air Bags
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- Shift knob leather-wrapped
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In case you missed it, GameInformer.com has revealed that the dragon text on the back cover their upcoming Skyrim issue relates back to last month's announcement trailer. Here's their explanation…
"Last month saw the release of the teaser trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, also available at the bottom of this article. During the trailer, you probably noticed some mysterious language being sung. What you might not have known is that the words are in the tongue of the dragons, an entirely new language crafted by Bethesda for use in the upcoming game. This complete language plays an integral role in the story and gameplay of the upcoming epic, and introduces an intriguing new facet to the Elder Scrolls mythology."
Once you've decrypted the text and know what it says, we suggest you celebrate by downloading the game's announcement trailer from Xbox LIVE (or just using the video above) and start singing along* in English. And grab a camera — we want to see videos on YouTube.
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|Books: General Radio-Electronics
By Cathleen Shamieh & Gordon McComb.
Electronics is fascinating – want to make something of it? This book shows you how! You can make all sorts of things, once you understand what electronics is and how it works. This book helps you out with that part, explaining the whole thing in plain English. Learn how electricity functions, how to harness it and put it to work, what tools you need to build circuits, what you can make with them, and how to do it safely.
* Mystery solved – understand what makes your iPod, remote control, and computer work.
Wiley 432 pages. ©2009. List price $24.95.
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How To Smoke a Cocktail
Wood smoke evokes all kinds of wonderful things. A campfire as a kid. A pit full of coals at a great barbecue joint. The aroma is intoxicating on its own, but bottled up—and stirred into a drink—it's indescribable. Expert barman Sother Teague showed us how a smoke infusion can give a cocktail a delicious twist.[jump]


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Practical ideas for social, emotional and behavioral challenges
Help your child practice looking out for colorful expressions that people don't intend to be taken literally. Use TV shows, books and personal experiences to help him "read between the lines" and understand what people really mean.
"Jacob, when Dad says his work is driving him crazy, what he really means is he has so much work to do right now that he feels a bit overwhelmed. People sometimes exaggerate to make a point or to emphasize an emotion. I promise you that Dad is not crazy. He's just really busy!"
"People use these kinds of expressions a lot. For example, you might hear a friend say, 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!' He doesn't actually mean he's going to chow down on a Clydesdale. This is just a dramatic way of saying he's really, really hungry."
"Maybe we could watch The Middle or Modern Family together and try to decide when people are saying exactly what they mean or are exaggerating to make a point. It might be kind of fun, especially since we both love those shows."
"Or maybe we could read an Amelia Bedelia book together? It might be a little young for you, but she's a really funny character and shows how being very literal-minded can lead to all sorts of confusion."
Kids with learning and attention issues can get tripped up by some of the subtler aspects of language. They may not realize when someone uses a metaphor or exaggerates to emphasize a point. They tend to be very literal-minded. This also means they may not naturally pick on things like irony and sarcasm.
By practicing together, you can help your child get better at understanding nonliteral language. Reminding him to be on the lookout for colorful phrases will help him interpret people's comments correctly. Focusing on these kinds of expressions will also help him start to use them more effectively.
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Girl Asks Bro to Pee On Her After Sex in an Elevator, Plus a St. Patty's Day Eiffel Tower
The story begins last summer, my roommate and I had just passed our personal trainers exams and went to happy hour to celebrate. After drinking a few pitchers I decided to make my way to my favorite college bar in town. Upon arrival I see a girl who had been in one of my classes the previous semester, so naturally I struck up a conversation with her. A few hours passed and with the drinks pouring through my system I went and found her. When I approached her she licked my face and it turned into a full on make out in the center of the packed bar. Knowing what was in store I flashed my car keys and we were on our way.
After walking for what seemed like forever we come across an elevator on the outside of the college of music. I pull her into the elevator and we start going at it. This wasn't just hike up the skirt public hookup, this was butt ass naked on the dirty ground sex. In the course of her riding me we feel the elevator start to move, in a drunken panic we grab our clothes and awkwardly run out of the elevator as a local security guard awkwardly stares. We get to my car and she drives me home. Upon arrival to my house she immediately jumps into my bed. Hoping for some shower sex I demand she gets in the shower to get off whatever god forsaken things inhabit the floor of a 60 year old elevator.
Upon entry into the shower she asks me to pee on her. In my state of intoxication I oblige and begin giving her a golden shower while she is on her knees. After finishing up in the shower we went to my bed and finished up what we started ultimately culminating in me giving her a facial. The next morning I had a philanthropy event to be at and needed to pick up some people. I, of course, pick everyone else up first before dropping her off so they could see my previous nights prize. Upon arrival to her house she flings the door handle open and starts quickly walking out of my car out of embarrassment. To this day she still won't speak to me, but hey, I got to have sex in an elevator, completely worth it.
Funny that the elevator sex, and not the part about urinating on HER FACE, was what he deems "worth it." NEXT!
Alright so this story comes from my first semester freshmen year. It's a typical Saturday, wake up, masturbate, and start my day. But this weekend is special because my bro, let's call him Megashark(don't ask) tells me his friends from home are coming to visit for the night. Needless to say, I'm stoked. We have a hockey game at 4 and we get our first win of the season, so we get even more stoked for the night. Anyway, my boy Megashark's friends show up and it's a dude, babyface, a blonde, a brunette, and this smokin' latina.
Now the fun starts, we start pre-gamin by playing Kings with rum and cokes and four lokos. After playing this and sluggin' back diesel gasoline, lokos, we decide to head out to the hockey house and take some parting shots in the room. We walk over and I'm already pretty sauced and when we open the door we're greeted by a bunch of bros and a table full of shot glasses and a handle of captain. Thing is, the handle had been in the freezer for a while so it was like semi-slushy shots which were fucking gross. I digress, I take 4 more shots, take a piss, and that's all i remember until the sex picnic.
The rest of the story is from multiple accounts from my friends and everyone involved.
After I took a piss I take about 7 more shots, and we all go outside to smoke a boge. and as we were out there one of the kids who owns the house, bitch face, just looks at the brunette and says "he looks like mac miller(me), you two should make-out" and we just start goin at it. he then points at the latina and Megashark and says they should make-out, they do. Then babyface and blondie decide to start makin out. As I'm makin out with this girl I lost my balance and straight up fell into this girl and she rocked her dome on this fucking glass table. But this girl gets over it and we makeout more. The latina goes to push my friend up against a railing but WHOOPS there's no railing and she ended up pushing him down a fucking flight of stairs, he brushes it off somehow and is completely fine. Then we decide to head over to the baseball house. I come in
and see my friend with huge sweater cannons and just yell at her to show me her tits, she thought it was hilarious…but her boyfriend didn't. But he didn't hit me cause he was already about to beat the shit out of some other kid for talkin to her, close one.
Later, my boy megashark is puking on the side of the house and looks over and I'm 20 feet away in-between some houses with my hands on my knees projectile vomiting all over the grass. At this point we decide to walk back to megasharks room, who doesn't have a roommate so he has an extra bed, SCORE. As soon as we enter the room me and the brunette start going at it and end up on the floor. Babyface is with the girl on the extra bed getting his dome-piece shmopped, megashark is in his bed getting this latina all hot n bothered and I'm on the floor slamming this chick. Megashark witnesses me going to absolute town on her and started throwing condoms at me, which he tried putting on but whiskey dick was stopping him so he decided to throw them at me. Good guy, great morals. But this girl ends up on top of me and is riding me like seabiscuit and i just let out a really loud "oh YEAH" and smack this girls ass so hard, which my friends still laugh at me for. I end up finishing, the only thing i remember before passing out. Megashark fucked this smokin latina, and babyface got head in the other bed all in a tiny ass dorm room. Best night of my entire life and only sex picnic I've been involved in.
Sidenote: I ended up getting wasted with my dad last summer at a casino and told him this story and ended it with high fives and bro hugs.
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It couldn't be a more dramatic birthday for Tom Cruise, who turned 50 on Tuesday just days after his wife Katie Holmes filed for divorce.
Cruise had expected Holmes to join him for a celebration in Iceland, where he has been shooting the sci-fi flick "Oblivion," People.com reported.
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"Iceland is beautiful," Cruise told the magazine several weeks ago. "We like hiking, and so we'll have some nice hikes and maybe go camping."
But those plans changed last week when Holmes, 33, surprised her husband of more than five years by filing for divorce and moving out of their New York apartment with 6-year-old daughter, Suri, according to CBS News.
More from GlobalPost: Katie Holmes steps out in New York City, smiling but without wedding ring
Holmes is reportedly seeking sole custody of their daughter amid rumors she feared Cruise's Scientology plans for Suri.
On Monday, a smiling Holmes stepped out -- wiithout her wedding ring -- to tape a guest appearance on "Project Runway: All Stars" in New York, the New York Daily News reported.
According to TMZ, Holmes has fired her husband's security team, which had guarded her as recently as last week, and returned to her premarriage publicist.
Cruise is said to be planning to file for divorce in California, where Scientology is more accepted and where experts say he'd have a better chance of at least partial custody of Suri, according to the Daily News.


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Ramsey residents have selected six candidates for two wards and one at-large council seat for the Nov. 6 election.
Moving onto the November ballot for the at-large council seat will be John LeTourneau with 55.19 percent of the vote, who was the leader with 963 votes, and Joe Field with 18.28 percent of the vote.
Incumbent Jeff Wise received only 16.28 percent of the primary vote, with the support of 284 voters. Challengers Thomas Towerman received 6.48 percent and Rick Chubb collected 3.78 percent of the votes.
Although incumbent Colin McGlone will be heading to the November election with 29.43 percent of the vote, challenger Mark Kuzma placed first in the primary race with 60.59 percent, or 352, votes. Bob Sibilski received only 9.98 percent of the Ward 2 votes.
In the Ward 4 race, Chris Riley, who received 52.8 percent of the vote, will face off with Wayne Buchholz, who received 24.53 percent of the vote, in November.
Although Rebecca Brown had asked people not to vote for her, 17.99 percent of the voters cast a ballot in her favor. The final contestant in the race, Jeremy Chubb, received 4.67 percent of the vote.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Microsoft (MSFT) hit a one-year high of $39.90 as of 11 a.m. on Tuesday amid reports that CEO Satya Nadella plans to introduce its Microsoft Office software suite for iPad on Thursday, March 27.
Reuters reports through a source close to the situation that Nadella would use his first major press appearance, an event in San Francisco at which he will address media and industry executives, to announce a version of Microsoft's most profitable product compatible with Apple's (AAPL) iPad tablets.
Investors have pressured Microsoft to adapt Office for Apple and Google (GOOG) mobile devices as PC sales decrease, but Microsoft had hesitated to do so because it did not want to damage its Windows PC operating software. Analysts estimate that Microsoft leaves $2.5 billion in revenue on the table by keeping Office off of the iPad, which has sold nearly 200 million units.
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"We rate MICROSOFT CORP (MSFT) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, attractive valuation levels and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow."


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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
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Pricing: White Paper
To show the need for gradual harmonisation at Community level of the charging principles applied in the various commercial modes of transport.
White Paper, presented by the Commission on 22 July 1997: Fair payment for infrastructure use: A phased approach to a common transport infrastructure charging framework in the EU.
Escalating congestion and pollution raise doubts about the sustainability of transport. Transport charges can help address these issues in that they influence prices, which in turn can change transport use.
However, transport charging systems differ greatly between Member States. For example:
- There are nine different railway infrastructure charging systems;
- Annual taxes on lorries vary between Member States by up to ECU 3000;
- Only four Member States levy tolls on a large part of their motorway network;
- VAT charges and energy taxation vary considerably between transport modes and Member States.
The White Paper outlines the transport problems that result from current charging systems. Charges and taxes that do not reflect transport sector costs result in:
- distortions of competition between Member States;
- distortions of competition between different modes of transport and within modes;
- the failure to consider environmental and social aspects of transport;
- difficulties in funding infrastructure investments.
These distortions are often thought of as specific problems isolated from one another, such as modal imbalance, congestion and pollution.
The White Paper then sets out a Community approach to infrastructure charging with four aims:
- to improve the overall efficiency of the provision and use of European transport infrastructure;
- to promote fair competition;
- to safeguard the single market;
- to enhance the sustainability of the transport system.
This approach is based on four fundamental concepts:
- the same fundamental principles should apply to all commercial modes of transport in each Member State of the European Union;
- infrastructure charges should be based on the "user pays" principle;
- charges should be directly related to the costs that users impose on the infrastructure and on others;
- charges should promote the efficient provision of infrastructure.
According to the White Paper, the only approach that fully satisfies these criteria is marginal social cost charging, i.e. charging users for both internal and external costs (operating costs, infrastructure damage costs, congestion costs, environmental costs and accident costs) that they impose at the point of use.
Transport undertakings that face the real costs would have incentives to adjust transport choices, for instance:
- using vehicles that are less polluting and safer;
- choosing routes and logistics with lower levels of road damage, congestion, accident risks and environmental impact;
- switching to another mode of transport.
This transport charging system will also give incentives to promote transport safety.
Various Commission studies show that the introduction of such a charging policy should lead to social benefits of ECU 30-80 billion per year.
To take into account the different situations of the various modes of transport in respect of Community legislation and the complex issues involved in developing new charges, the Commission advocates step-by-step implementation of the common charging framework. Three phases are proposed:
- 1998-2002: introduction of charging systems for railway infrastructure and airports;
- 2001-2004: harmonisation and adjustment of charging systems, in particular for heavy goods vehicles and rail transport;
- beyond 2004: revision of the Community framework in the light of experience drawn from the first two phases.
The White Paper outlines the priority actions to be taken in the first two stages. Apart from the development of consistent costing and accounting practices, measures are envisaged:
- for road transport: electronic charging, electronic fee collection systems, funding of road-pricing research, development of harmonised methods for determining road infrastructure costs, analysis of the treatment of road accident costs, revision of State aid legislation, etc.
- for rail transport: proposal for a directive on rail infrastructure charging, revision of State aid legislation;
- for inland waterways: revision of State aid legislation;
- for aviation:- measures relating to air traffic services, covering air transport and the environment, the taxation of aviation fuel, pollution charges and levels, and the financing of air traffic management infrastructure;- measures relating to airports, covering airport charges, airport capacity and airport cost developments in the EU;
- for maritime transport: increased transparency of port financing.
Measures are also planned in the field of transport-related tax policy.
Finally, the White Paper gives a socio-economic evaluation of the proposed strategy, analysing the general economic effects, the distributional effects and the effects on peripheral or less developed regions.
4) deadline for implementation of the legislation in the member states
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5) date of entry into force (if different from the above)
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Taxes and other tempests
Four items this morning, on various tempestuous matters:
Did John Boehner, the House Speaker in waiting and Ohio's tannest citizen, really say yesterday that, as the chamber's Republican leader, he's now willing to let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire on schedule at year's end? That he'd bow if necessary to President Obama's insistence that the rich lose their Bush cuts? That he'd be fine if the cuts were extended only for beleaguered middle and lower class Americans?
Indeed Boehner did say all this, on CBS News: "If the only option I have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, I'll vote for them." And this: "If the only option I have is to vote for those at 250 and below ($250,000 annual income or below), of course I'm going to do that."
So wasn't that a major concession to Obama? Actually, no. It was just shrewd political gamesmanship.
Boehner was merely trying to defuse one of Obama's midterm campaign issues; he figures that the GOP's status in the polls, seven weeks from election day, is strong enough to allow him to play this particular card.
The president spent much of last week trying to make Boehner the face of an implacable Republican opposition that, in his view, toadies to the rich even if it means holding "hostage" any extension of the Bush cuts for less affluent Americans. Boehner's statement yesterday was a chessboard move, designed to undercut Obama's rhetoric by demonstrating that he's willing to be flexible after all. It was also designed to take some steam out of a Democratic party TV ad, slated for airing tomorrow, which paints Boehner as a staunch defender of tax cuts for the rich.
Boehner loses nothing right now by portraying himself as reasonable, at least rhetorically - because he can sit back and watch the Democratic divisiveness on this very issue. Roughly half a dozen Democratic senators favor the extension of tax cuts for the rich, and they could wind up foiling Obama anyway. If that were to happen, Boehner could say, in effect, "Well, at least I was on record with my willingness to be flexible."
So Boehner didn't offer his Sunday "concession" from a position of weakness. Quite the opposite.
Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam of the proposed Cordoba House community center in lower Manhattan, played his own strongest card yesterday during an interview on ABC News. Rather than invoke the First Amendment's freedom-of-worship guarantees, he took a far less abstract approach, stressing the issue of national security.
If he surrenders to all the hysteria, and abandons the proposed site several blocks from Ground Zero, that decision would play directly into the hands of the terrorists who claim that America is at war with Islam. He said that "if we make the wrong move, it will only expand and strengthen the voice of radicals and extremists...(it) will help the radicals in the Muslim world, help their recruitment. This will put our people, our troops, our embassies, our citizens, under attack in the Muslim world, and we (will) have expanded and given and fueled terrorism."
Note his wording - "our" troops. America's troops are his troops, too.
It's also worth checking out Rauf's guest column last Tuesday in The New York Times, if only for the factoids that trump the ongoing hysteria. For instance: "There will be separate prayer spaces for Muslims, Christians, Jews, and men and women of other faiths." And this: "The center will also include a multifaith memorial dedicated to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks." And this: "Our name, Cordoba, was inspired by the city in Spain where Muslims, Christians, and Jews co-existed in the Middle Ages during a period of great cultural enrichment created by Muslims."
Yeah, the polls continue to show that a majority of Americans oppose the community center's planned locale; a new Quinnipiac survey finds a landslide majority, 63 percent. But the whole point of the First Amendment is to protect the rights of unpopular minorities. And it's worth noting that, during the summer of '63, a landslide majority of Americans - again, 63 percent - told Gallup that they opposed a planned event that would feature tens of thousands of black people marching in the streets. This turned out to be the March on Washington, starring Martin Luther King.
Fortunately, progress is not a popularity contest.
Speaking of polls, there's a doozy in Delaware today, 24 hours before the Senate Republican primary. According to Public Policy Polling, upstart tea-party darling Christine O'Donnell has surged into the lead among likely primary voters, topping GOP establishment candidate Mike Castle, 47-44 percent.
Backed by $300,000 in ad money from the California-based Tea Party Express astroturf group, and aided by the fact that the Delaware primary is open only to registered Republicans (thus depriving longtime congressman Castle of his usual moderate voters), O'Donnell may now have a decent shot at winning, a scenario that would trigger celebrations among Delaware Democrats.
I itemized O'Donnell's manifest flaws in this space last Wednesday. So here's the big question for today. If she does win the senatorial nomination, how can the Republican establishment possibly embrace her for the stretch run to November - given the fact that it has already publicly denounced her as "hypocritical" and "delusional" and "reckless"?
Conventional wisdom has already decreed that the GOP will capture at least one congressional chamber in November. There is a possible counter-scenario in which the Democrats would retain control despite heavy losses, but I'm not convinced. Or so I explained, in a Sunday newspaper column.
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Britney Spears 'Toxic' Soulful Remake [VIDEO]
American Idol is a great place to listen to new talent, but they can only show so much. Youtube has continued to provide music lovers with an incredible array of talent. Jaymee Dee is one such talent, and her soulful rendition of Britney Spears' 'Toxic' makes me happy that real talent exists in the world.


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There's just a few days left until Navy Pier welcomes the 2013 Chicago Green Festival! Join us this Saturday and Sunday for one of the city's largest events celebrating a commitment to green, sustainable living!
And what better setting for an event like this than Navy Pier? Enjoy a scenic walk through Gateway Park or down Dock Street before heading inside Festival Hall A to experience the green offerings of over 350 local and national businesses!
So who will be on hand? Get ready to network and learn from exhibitors like Clif Bar, Simply Wood Rings, the Sierra Club, Hoy, Clear Channel, Democracy Now!, Yelp, Zipcar, Yoga Journal, Ford, and many more. Grab a bite in the Organic Food Court or a drink in the Organic Beer & Wine Garden. Learn all about fair trade and ways you can become an environmental advocate for your own community. Take a free yoga class! Bring the kids and let them play eco-carnival games and make recycled crafts. Enjoy some live music, dancing, and eco-art installations. Settle in for one of the day's amazing speakers. We can't mention it all here so you'll just have to come see it for yourself!
So what kind of difference has the Green Festival already made? Hundreds of thousands of pounds of materials have been diverted from landfills; instead of being thrown out, plastics, aluminum, glass, mixed paper, and cardboard have been processed at recycling plants. Thousands of pounds of fresh, organic soil have been produced and composted by local agencies. And many valuable resources, like metal and wood, have been recovered and donated to local organizations. Pretty amazing stuff!
If this is your first time visiting the Chicago Green Festival, please keep in mind these helpful practices to help us meet our goal of a zero-waste event and spread the fun for everyone!
We look forward to seeing you all this weekend, and remember – stay green!
Chicago Green Festival:
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New Jersey State Police Seeking to Enact Further Firearms Restrictions by Regulation
Monday, August 06, 2007
Please Mail Your Comments in Today!
The New Jersey State Police recently issued new rule proposals for the regulation of firearms, magazines, and retailers in the Garden State. If approved, these regulations will have the rule of law without ever being debated by our legislators in Trenton, turning thousands of unsuspecting citizens into felons!
The proposal would do the following: It would require law-abiding gun owners to surrender or pay to render their large capacity magazines permanently blocked. Possession of a temporarily blocked large capacity magazine would be a crime. Certain semi-automatic shotguns and handguns would be classified as assault firearms because of cosmetic features, which have not been named in any statute enacted by the New Jersey Legislature. Another proposal seeks to harass lawful owners and retailers of assault firearms by requiring that licensed dealers who accept an assault firearm and/or machine gun from a citizen for transfer, resale, or repair must notify the Superintendent of the State Police within 48 hours. Also, all firearms sold by retailers would be mandated to be secured by steel cable. Finally, the proposal forces those placing handguns on consignment to produce a new permit to retake possession of the handgun
If that doesn't get your blood boiling, nothing will.
Unfortunately, this kind of stuff happens too frequently in NJ and NY.
Vote with your feet.
New Jersey is one of the most freedom-unfriendly states in North America. Furthermore, after the US Congress passed the Firearm Owners' Protection Act, New Jersey "law enforcement" agencies continued to arrest US citizens protected under FOPA, even though they continually had the cases thrown out of court.
Leave. Let them stew in their own juices as they are reduced to a slobbering mob of nanny state fascists.
FALPhil is exactly right!
GET OUT! Look, you can move to any other State and be much happier. For example, Tennessee has no income tax, relatively low energy costs and excellent real estate prices ( as compared to New Jersey ). You can get a Carry Permit with minimal hassle, and the State believes citizens are intelligent human beings who want to decide their own destiny.
These Northern and West Coast so******t states can only exist by sucking the very life out of you, as well as your tax dollars. To hell with them. Vote with your feet. If enough intelligent people do so, the remainder will eventually perish of their own stupidity.
Errr... just do us one favor; if you do move South, PLEASE don't tell us how it was done "up North".
In other words, tuck tail and run away?
The idea that states will implode if all the taxpayers leave and the states are left with no one to pay the bills is nonsense. These states will just ask the Feds for a bail-out, and they'll probably get it. And the folks in Tennessee and elsewhere can expect higher federal taxes to keep those in NY and NJ afloat.
The cancer of socia1ism will spread unless we actively work to stop it. New York and New Jersey weren't nanny state socia1ist fascists...until one day they were.
The fascist thugs can only be made to understand by resisting them. I don't think most people are ready to go there yet.
I find myself in agreement with FALPhil and others who say "get out". It's all very well to talk about staying and resisting--but why would I stay and fight in a state where (a) the authorities routinely ignore the actual law in efforts to harass gun owners, (b) gun ownership is held in open contempt by public officials, (c) transparent efforts are underway to criminalize legal gun ownership without even a pretense of actual legislative action, and (d) where the majority of the population is apparently either indifferent, or actually hostile, to private gun ownership?
It's already too late for NJ, and has been for a long time. I remember reading stories about illegal harassment of gun owners by NJ cops--illegal by NJ law, that is--being common and winked at by NJ courts when I was a kid.
What's left to save? Who's going to stand and fight with you? How are you going to change things from inside a NJ state prison cell?
Texas has no income tax, either. You can take a 1-day class and have your CHL in 60 days. We LIKE guns here. Yeah, it's hot in the summer and we talk funny. But if you like guns and want to own and carry them without being hassled--what the hell are you doing in the People's Republic of New Jersey?
Relocating to another state only buys me (or my kids) a little time and strengthens the opposition by ceding states to anti-2A fanatics. NJ might be too far gone, but NY isn't.
Git!! I did 20 yrs. ago.
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This page is about the slang term yob | yobbo
Meaning: an aggressive, impolite, crude person
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- Be careful if you go to a pub on Friday or Saturday night. The yobs will be out and lots of them will be looking for a fight.
- Lots of yobbos travel to places like Spain and Greece and get drunk, behave badly, and damage the image of Britain and the British.
usually used as an insult, so calling someone a yob or a yobbo can be dangerous
Origin: first appeared in mid-19th century British English and believed to have been derived from spelling "boy" backwards
Variety: This is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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Voters between ages 18 and 34 in New Mexico accounted for about 10 percent of all votes cast in the 2010 primary elections, according to data compiled by Research & Polling Inc. That was the last election cycle in New Mexico to include a governor's race.
Voters ages 50 and older, meanwhile, cast about 75 percent of all 2010 primary election ballots, according to the data.
That means that young voters – who make up about one in four registered Democratic and Republican voters – accounted for no more than one in 10 votes cast in the Republican and Democratic primaries in 2010.
In the 2010 general election, the proportion of young voters nearly doubled to account for about 20 percent of votes cast – closer to but still under their actual proportion of the registered voter population – the data show.
Brian Sanderoff, president of Research & Polling and a New Mexico political analyst, said the low participation by young voters in the 2010 gubernatorial primaries is likely to carry over into the 2014 primary election, which includes five Democrats seeking their party's nomination for governor.
Considering the trend of low turnout among young voters in state races, candidates for office tend to target their campaign efforts to older voters who historically have been far more likely to cast a primary ballot, Sanderoff said.
"Because the campaigns know that the participation in primary elections is an over-50 affair, they focus on those voters. They talk about issues they think are important to those (older) voters," Sanderoff said.
Sanderoff said interest voters showed in electing Obama in 2008 apparently failed to carry over to later elections where state issues were the primary focus.
"It was sort of like a one-time deal," Sanderoff said. "… It did not translate into permanent and continued participation in the electoral process."
University of New Mexico political science professor Lonna Atkeson said young voters were directly engaged by the Obama campaign's get-out-the-vote efforts. But orchestrating the same kind of young voter mobilization has proven difficult for state candidates with limited resources running in a primary election.
That could be, in part, because young voters don't have an established record of voting in primaries – records that candidates and their volunteers regularly use when knocking on doors to get potential supporters to vote.
"You may be less likely to be mobilized because you're more shoddy in your behavior," Atkeson said, referring to younger voters.
The fact that New Mexico prohibits independent and minor-party voters from participating in its primaries also is a likely factor in driving down primary election participation among voters 34 years old and younger, Atkeson said.
"I bet that older voters are more partisan and younger voters are more independent," Atkeson said. "We have a closed primary state, and that probably also functions to reduce turnout of younger voters."


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2012 Impreza - Reassuring
2012 Subaru Impreza Sport Package
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The photo gallery / slide show of the Impreza
We are fortunate, often when we have a Subaru something comes up, a road trip is in order, quickly followed by inclement weather.
This time was not different...
By now you probably know that we like Subaru's driving characteristics, the peace of mind, and reassurance they provide especially when it gets awful, and you have to drive.
This new 2012 Impreza is no exception, the styling although evolutionary is crisper than the outgoing version, while the 5 door hatchback remains versatile. Yes...this new Impreza has a discreet street presence, that only Subaru aficionados quickly recognise.
The interior is well finished, the seats are comfortable, and yes we did spend a few hours in the car, the rear seat has acceptable leg room to accommodate adults. The rear hatch and folding rear seat make this version extremely versatile. One expects a level of conservatism from Subaru, especially with the interior execution. On our tester the radio faceplate was a constant reminder of a dot matrix printer, and average execution. Get the optional radio with the faceplate that better matches the information center.
Needless to tell you, this car has all the active and passive safety features that you expect, including the symmetrical full time all wheel drive, vehicle dynamic control, and driver knee air bag to name a few.
We did have reservations towards the CVT transmission, which were quickly dispelled, its a cool set up, and in manual mode the paddle shift is truly enjoyable, the CVT behaving like a 6 speed transmission, with quick shifts either up or down...especially in surface street usage, the paddle shift raises the fun factor.
You expect a Subaru to deal with challenging Canadian climatic conditions with reassuring competence, this new Impreza did not disappoint. We were anxious, and excited to drive a few hundred kilometers in snowy conditions...here. The Impreza did not waver, few cars deal with adverse conditions like a Subaru.
The information, specifications, and configurator is...here.
The car is solid, reassuring, with a good steering feel, and progressive brakes, agreed that you would not expect anything less from Subaru. The power level of the 2 L engine is acceptable, for surface streets, while providing the required reserve for highway cruising.
The manual mode with the paddle shift is very cool...
If you place a priority on driving capabilities, if you are not attracted by CUV's and are considering a sedan with comparable or better yet superior capabilities, make it a point to experience the new Impreza.
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In Brief: Gmail to get IMAP support
Posted by Sparky Categories: Google, Internet, Misc. Tech, Software
Gmail, Google's popular web based email solution is likely about to get IMAP features - a welcome addition for email power-users. It appears that some users are seeing options to IMAP-enable their account in the settings page. This will help Google's service compete with Yahoo Mail which has offered IMAP access for some time now.
We don't yet have the option on our accounts here at Gear Live, but we definitely look forward to trying it out. If your account has the new option, be a pal and leave a comment to let the world know what you think.
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Mercenaries 2 Delayed Until 2008
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: Electronic Arts, PC, PlayStation 3, Release Dates, Xbox 360
EA's upcoming open-world game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is being pushed back until 2008, further relaxing the pressure on a still crowded holiday season for games. Speaking to developer Pandemic Studios President Josh Resnick, IGN coaxed out a few more details:
We're adding nothing at this point. Our only goal is to make gamers proud that they own a copy of Mercenaries 2 by making the highest quality next-gen open-world experience the world has ever seen. If that sounds ambitious, then you should see how many cans of caffeine our programming guys have choked down during the past two years of development.
Resnick also complimented Rockstar and said that he wasn't concerned about competing with Grand Theft Auto IV because, as he puts it, "We know gamers are bloodhounds when it comes to sniffing out a quality gameplay experience, and we're hoping that scent leads them directly to Mercenaries 2." He said they were using the extra time to focus on fixing bugs, tuning the physics and working on the mission structures.
The delay was initial rumored because retail outlets adjusted their release dates from late '07 to 2008, forcing Pandemic and EA to confirm the delay. Commenting on the leak, Resnick said, "Those dang sneaky retailers! You just can't seem to keep a lid on something once they hear about it."
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Call of Duty 4 Beta Ends September 30th
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: Activision, First Person Shooters, PC, PlayStation 3, Release Dates, Xbox 360
Robert "402" Bowling from Infinity Ward has posted about some upcoming changes to the Call of Duty 4 beta on his blog. The most significant announcement is the closing of the beta on September 30th, but he also revealed that two days prior the level cap, which has been at 16 for a couple of weeks after being lifted from the initial cap of 11, will go up to 25. That gives beta testers only two days to jump from 16 to 25 before the beta closes down in anticipation of the game's release November 5th.
Part of the post hinted that CoD4 had gone gold, but Bowling refused to come right out and say it, saving the announcement for more official channels. He did say that Infinity Ward had received congratulations from the Sony of America and the Xbox 360 certification team, which leaves little room for doubt that the game is in the final stages before shipping.
The beta has been an excellent marketing tool for Infinity Ward since the strength of the game is quite evident from the limited, multiplayer-only test version. Even though the game is likely gold, the beta continues for developers to continue gathering data for the inevitable title upgrades and expansion packs. The raising of the level cap so close to the end of the beta is, speculatively, due to the launch of a certain multiplayer juggernaut a few days prior.
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Harmonix Co-Founder Answers Questions About Rock Band
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: Accessories, Downloadable Content, Features, Hardware, Microsoft, Music, PlayStation 3, Wireless, Xbox 360
The Official Xbox Magazine's podcast has an interview this week with Harmonix co-founder and president Alex Rigopulos about their upcoming game Rock Band. In the interview he talks about the game bundles, although light on concrete details he does confirm a band-in-a-box bundle that will include a guitar, drum kit and microphone. However, he goes on to say that the PlayStation 3 version will include a wireless guitar controller while the Xbox 360 version will have to include a wired guitar because Microsoft's wireless technology is too expensive to make the bundle reasonably priced. Since the 360 also has only two USB ports, the 360 Rock Band bundle will also be packed with a USB hub.
Rigopulos goes on to discuss the game's career modes a little, saying there will be both solo career mode that progresses in a linear fashion similar to what Guitar Hero players are used to, but they are also including a less linear band career mode. In this mode you traverse to various venues trying to build up your fan base and in some cases return to previously played locations to maintain your fame there. Also it's worth noting that the solo career mode will not include a bass career track so your options are vocals, guitar and drums in solo career mode. But Rigopulos did reveal that the finale songs for each career path (and therefore likely the difficulty distinctions throughout) will be different for each instrument, and he even said that at this point the drum finale will be The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
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Silent Hill V Video and Developer Interviews
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: PlayStation 3, Survival Horror, Trailers, Xbox 360
Check out the video featuring footage and interviews with developers of the upcoming spook-fest sequel, Silent Hill V. Development of the game has been handed off to The Collective, but they seem to be determined to return the game to territory more akin to Silent Hill 2 than the mixed reception of IV. They've got a pretty solid looking engine running that features a lot of the familiar effects now rendered in real-time plus they've worked to enhance the combat which was always kind of a series weak point.
Unfortunately the interview doesn't dive too deeply into how well The Collective can manage to retain the creeping psychological unease Silent Hill is famous for (versus rival series Resident Evil's shock and gore approach).
Silent Hill V is due sometime in 2008 for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Quake Wars PC Demo Coming
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: First Person Shooters, PC
Splash Damage, developer for the upcoming multiplayer shooter Enemy Territory: Quake Wars based on the Quake property, announced that it will be releasing a PC demo of the game on Monday, September 10th in anticipation of the game's October 2nd release in North America.
Quake Wars was originally slated to be released in 2006 but was pushed back to allow for more testing and polish. The game is a team-oriented multiplayer skirmish game that takes place prior to Quake II in the game's chronology and features objective-based missions, vehicles and full bot support for solo play.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is due in Europe and Australia September 28th.
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New Folklore Videos Show Gameplay and Story Bits
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: Adventure, PlayStation 3, Sony
New videos for the upcoming PS3 game Folklore show some interesting footage of the game's combat including some idea of how the epic boss fights will unfold. The game has a remarkable style and art direction that is visible here especially in the brief pre-combat cinematics.
Folklore looks a little like Kameo crossed with Fable and Pokemon as players control one of two characters who use the game's "folks" as summoned creatures to do the grunt work of fighting foes. A follow-up to Genji, developers Game Republic are promising better Sixaxis controls and an online mode.
Folklore is scheduled for a North American release on October 12.
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Valve's Gabe Newell Speaks About the Orange Box and Wii
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: First Person Shooters, PlayStation 3, Release Dates, Wii, Xbox 360
Game Informer has an interview up with Valve's Gabe Newell where he discusses the upcoming Orange Box which will include Half-Life 2 plus Episodes 1 and 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2. From the interview:
Episode Two was really helped by Episode One, believe it or not. I think that we'll continue to get the hang of it. It's a pretty big deal to throw a bunch of wrenches into your development process and say, "We're going to try to do this differently now." We've learned a lot. If we're right, the fans we'll let us know, and if we're wrong, they'll let us know. (laughs) I think they're going to be pretty happy. I think they're going to be really, really happy with the Orange Box in what we've been able to pull off, and a lot of it is based on their feedback from what we did with Episode One.
Newell also briefly weighs in on the Wii, casually dismissing the lesser hardware specs compared with the other next gen consoles saying, "I think it's more interesting than just graphics chip – CPU combination. It's the machine I have at home."
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New Spore Videos From Leipzig
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: Electronic Arts, PC, Simulation, Trailers
New trailers showing some of the refinements made to Spore, the upcoming game from Sim City creator Will Wright, over the last year shows some excellent progress. As ambitious as Wright's games tend to be, this one seems incredibly rich as you expand from a single-celled organism into a galaxy-spanning spacefarer. The developers ring up an interesting point that most games are about destroying things while this (and other Wright games) are more about building or creating. Of course you can fight with other tribes in Spore, once you get to that point, and take over other planets and the like, but perhaps it's different to attack if it's all in the name of progress. A second trailer is also available, showing more gameplay and the creature editing - check that one out by clicking through the jump.
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Anticipated PC Demos Dropping This Week: World in Conflict and BioShock
Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: First Person Shooters, Games for Windows, Internet, PC, Release Dates, Strategy
Timed to sync with the start of PAX and Leipzig, Sierra will release a rather full-featured demo of their upcoming real-time "action" strategy game World in Conflict on Friday containing demos of both the single-player mode via a tutorial, plus one mission as well as multiplayer supporting 16 players. There will be one multiplayer map available to all demo-downloaders that can also be played in solo skirmish mode and a second map playable only by those who pre-order the game. World in Conflict is designed to incorporate first-person shooter elements like speed into the RTS genre and by design requires no resource management. The game is due out September 18th.
In other demo-related news, the PC version of the BioShock demo that Xbox Live users have been enjoying since last week is out in time for the full retail release of the game. Any PC users on the fence about this game can check out the first half hour or so of the game and most likely put it down only long enough to run to the store and buy the full copy.
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The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, is due to travel to India in the first visit there by a Pakistani head of state for seven years.
Zardari will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, before travelling to an important Muslim shrine in Rajasthan.
Officials say the trip is a private visit, but there is hope it could boost economic ties between the two nations.
However correspondents say little progress is expected on other issues.
Relations between the two countries have been gradually improving since peace talks were derailed after the Mumbai attacks in 2008.
But tensions remain over more sensitive issues, such as the disputed region of Kashmir, and Pakistani militant activity against India.


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Can we add a group to cron.allow
I am trying to give access to a group to use cron.
I tried adding @groupname and %groupname and (escaped ) \@groupname and \%groupname, nothing worked. makes me start thinking that this is probably not possible. Does anyone have any experience on that. Can we add a group in cron.allow/deny instead of a user?
As far as I know you can't use groups in /etc/cron.{allow,deny}.
*If the system uses PAM you could try a pam_listfile entry because it can allow or deny based on for instance group membership.
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As long as there are young men dying on America's streets, Hollywood will continue to promise that the key to salvation includes basketball, spelling, or the unstoppable wisdom of Michelle Pfeiffer. Sometimes, in the case of last spring's neglected "Akeelah and the Bee," or "Gridiron Gang," which opens today, the inspirational hogwash takes a back seat to the realities of the crisis at hand.
Good filmmaking and complex characters cut away at the contempt familiarity breeds for based-on-a-true-story tales. And "Gridiron Gang" is well enough made to not leave you too terribly rankled when the pallid documentary footage that plays during the closing credits suggests that this healthier-looking football movie appears to be a shot-for-shot remake.
Still, despite the shameless cutting and pasting, it's hard to argue with the movie's intentions. ``Gridiron Gang" is set at Camp Kilpatrick, a Los Angeles County juvenile detention compound whose delinquents are merely waiting to rejoin their street gangs or resume their lives of petty crime.
Having lost his last recidivist gang banger in a drive-by, probation officer and former high-school football star Sean Porter (Dwayne ``The Rock" Johnson) decides to impose the sport's discipline on his young charges. The administrators are expectantly resistant (Porter is setting them up to fail, goes the argument), and the kids are self-doubting and skeptical. Obviously, it all works out: the Kilpatrick Mustangs have a pretty good maiden season.
But the movie's inevitabilities (the humiliating loss, the ebb and flow of camaraderie, the triumphant finale) have deep resonance. If the actors playing the Kilpatrick residents are tough and charismatic, they also have stores of hurt. These are young men who know the odds are against them, and not because this is the sort of movie that beats you over the head with grim statistics (although it is just that sort of movie).
Porter takes an interest in Willie (Jade Yorker), whose slain cousin was one of Porter's old causes, while taking time to escort his own gravely ill mother (L. Scott Caldwell) to her hospital appointments. Those developments would leave any other movie feeling hopelessly rigged, but this flinty picture needs whatever teary release it can get, however cheap. Not that Johnson is immune to feeling. His masculine sensitivity holds the film together.
The veteran director Phil Joanou and screenwriter Jeff Maguire refuse to keep the kids' outside worlds from intruding on their reasonably safe prison life. Porter and his assistant Malcolm Moore (Xzibit, the rapper and host of ``Pimp My Ride") are paternal saints compared with the inhumanity outside Kilpatrick. The gang bangers we see are like terrorists. Indeed, contrary to most uplifting sports dramas, street life in this movie is meaner and scarier than any of the football plays.
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The bodies of two American soldiers who disappeared Friday after an insurgent attack on a checkpoint were discovered late Monday and showed signs of having been tortured, according to the Iraqi military. Continue reading
A report looks at the latest details of his killing of al-Zarqawi's death in Iraq, including the announcement today by that U.S. military that the Al-Qaeda operative was alive for a short time after the bombings. Continue reading


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A schoolgirl spectator hit on the forehead by an ice hockey puck at a Belfast Giants match is not entitled to damages, a judge ruled yesterday.
Courtney Harris-Browning was seeking £30,000 in a potentially landmark action.
But Mr Justice Gillen dismissed the 18-year-old's negligence High Court claim after declaring the Belfast venue had been made as safe as reasonably possible.
He said: "The risks were no different from those which exist in a number of other sporting arenas including field hockey, football, cricket, rugby or golf. Such risks are amongst the jolts and jogs to be expected of sporting life."
Ice hockey bosses elsewhere feared the case could open the floodgates to actions.
Ms Harris Browning was bidding to become the first spectator in the UK to sue successfully after being struck by a puck leaving the ice rink.
She was 12 when injured during a warm-up before a match against the Cardiff Devils in September 2008. A puck came off the rink and struck her over the eye, inflicting a wound which left a scar and needed four stitches. She was sitting with friends about 14 rows from the ice.
Warning signs had been displayed on entrances to the arena, the court heard. PA annoucements also advised spectators to watch the pucks.
Lawyers for the girl sued the Belfast Giants 2008 Ltd and the Odyssey Trust Company Ltd, alleging negligence and a failure to provide enough barriers to protect fans. They claimed it was impossible for her to keep an eye on the puck because up to 20 were on the rink during the warm-up.
Evidence was also given by another girl said to have been hit in the eye in a separate accident in February 2008.
But Belfast Giants General Manager Todd Kelman testified that in his 14 years with the team these were the only two known such injuries.
With up to 120,000 spectators attending the Odyssey to watch ice hockey each season, Mr Kelman stressed that the defendants had complied with International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) regulations.
Providing netting to go above Perspex glass around the rink would cost £50,000-£60,000, the court heard.
Mr Justice Gillen said: "The plaintiff was injured as the result of a danger inherent in the sport itself which she must be taken to have accepted and against which the defendants cannot reasonably have expected to guard."
Acknowledging that just two such injuries were known of, he added: "This is not a case of relentless occurrence."
Outside the court Mr Kelman said they "take every precaution" and exceed "IIHF guidelines on public safety".


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Warm weather is good for trees, shrubs, flowers
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:12:21 GMT —
For Friday's Facebook Story of the Day, many of you wanted to know how the mild weather has affected outdoor growth.
In general, warmer, milder temperatures are good for all varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers.
"The trees have been a lot less stressed since we haven't had a severe winter," said Gene Rathje, Ottumwa Parks Director. "So some of the species we have, like Sweetgum and Bald Cypress, they're going to do a lot better in spring when it warms up, so we're not going to have a lot of dead trees caused by a severe winter, so that's good."
Rathje said if the warm weather continues into the spring, many of the flowers, including perennials, will bloom earlier. Many trees have already started to bud as well.
One species particularly benefitting from the warm weather is evergreens.
"Evergreens go through a normal process, especially like white pines, where they do a fall needle drop and then in the winter, they sort of go dormant," Rathje said. "But since we had a mild winter this year, they're probably going to green up a little earlier than normal and also, since we didn't have a lot of moisture over the winter, that's probably good for the evergreens because in the last couple of years, the soil moisture has gotten too high for the evergreens and we basically had some evergreens that basically drowned over the last couple of years. So this kind of weather is good for the evergreens."
The warm weather has helped humans as well -- park and cemetery staff have been able to get a jump start on maintenance projects due to the lack of snow removal.


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Sign the petition to advocate for girls education.
The Taliban's attack on 14 year-old Malala Yousafzai created a grotesque counterpoint to The International Day of the Girl Child, celebrated on October 11. She was shot in the head by the Taliban while taking the bus to school. Simply for speaking up and seeking an education for herself. And as the world watches and hopes for Malala's recovery, the future of girls has never seemed more precarious, or more important.
According to CARE, 25,000 girls, meaning female human beings under the age of 18, are forced into an arranged marriage EVERY DAY in the so-called "developing world." Many of these thousands of forced marriages involve girls as young as age 7 or 8.
CARE and other human rights organisations declared International Day of the Girl Child as a Day of Action to End Child Marriage. Because there is no such thing as child-marriage – it's an oxymoron. Marriage in any modern sense is consensual, so what happens to 1 in 3 girls worldwide is child-rape by another name. Also keep this in mind: girls who complete a secondary school education, according to CARE, are 6 times less likely to become child-"brides."
We may comfort ourselves with the notion that this sort of thing doesn't happen in America. Well, let's not get too comfortable: Malala's message needs to be heard everywhere, including here.
Even if you are able to push this aside with "it can't happen to my daughter" reasoning, consider some of the other stats discussed by Ms. Bahr, involving our Western obsession with body-image and our hyper-sexualising of girls:
- 54% of rapes inflicted upon women – or girls – in the U.S. occur before their 18th birthdays
- The U.S. teen pregnancy-rate is the highest in the developed world
- The average rate of entry into prostitution in the U.S. is between 12 and 14 years old
Deeply institutionalised gender inequality permeates every aspect of society, at every level, just about everywhere. To break its grip, girls must be empowered, women must be educated and respected, and civilised people everywhere, men as well as women, must stand together to protect them.
Because it simply is not enough to be horrified, take action now by signing the petition for Malala and use your voice to advocate for girls' right to education. Once 1 million signatures are collected UN education envoy, Gordon Brown, will deliver the call in person to the President of Pakistan, and the Pakistani media. Do it now!
Want to do more? Read the call to action from Tina Brown and Angelina Jolie to help ensure the girls of Pakistan and Afghanistan have access to education. Together, we can become a part of something bigger than us all.


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Kevin Federline is a $1 Million Man. Maybe.
The twosome has finally reach a settlement in their divorce. Now that Britney is out of rehab, she's supposedly ready to tackle the life ahead of her. While the details are sketchy about the actual details of the settlement, here is what is being reported:
The settlement session took place Thursday at Spears attorney Laura Wasser's office in Century City, California. Spears, Federline and their respective lawyers met for five hours, during which they came to terms on "all issues of their marriage and child custody," according to a statement from the spokesperson for Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan. "At one point, Kevin went down for a smoke and Britney followed him outside," the statement read. "They had a 15-minute conversation. Then they went back upstairs."
While reports have circulated that K-Fed's end of the deal is a $1 million payout with a joint-custody arrangement, sources close to the case told MTV News those reports are false. The terms of the settlement had not been disclosed as of late Thursday.
Federline originally asked the court not to award spousal support to Spears because he wanted it for himself, according to papers he filed in November (see "Kevin Responds To Britney's Divorce Filing: He's Going To Fight"). Spears had petitioned the court that her property — including jewelry and earnings from and after the date of separation — be considered separate from Federline's.
That's Britney leaving the lawyer's office last night in the photos below. As soon as we have more details on the divorce settlement, we'll keep you posted.


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A denial of a report of an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, head of the Agrojoint, the agency of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, in charge of the agricultural work in Russia, issued by the Rosta, the official Soviet telegraphic agency, was made yesterday in a statement issued by the headquarters of the United Jewish Campaign.
The report, which was circulated throughout Europe and in several American newspapers, including the London and New York editions of the "Jewish Daily Bulletin," quoted, according to the Rosta, Dr. Rosen as having said inter alia that "the Americans have finally been convinced that the national question in the Soviet countries has been properly solved and that therefore the Zionist demands for Palestine are no longer received sympathetically" and that "the Joint Distribution Committee which is campaigning for $25,000,000 in the United States has secured $20,000,000 within a few months, while the Zionists raised a much smaller sum."
The newspaper reports also quoted Dr. Rosen as speaking of the posibility of the United States granting recognition to the Soviet government.
The statement issued by the United Jewish Campaign made public the following cable received from Dr. Rosen:
"Moscow, July 6, 1926. Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletin London Edition June twenty-ninth carries presumed interview with me with reference to American Jewry and Jewish colonization. Interview partly fabrication, partly gross misrepresentation. Never gave or will give any interviews of political nature. Can accept responsibility only for statements appearing under my signature. Please request Bulletin to publish this statement.–Rosen"
The alleged interview was referred to during the discussion at the Zionist Convention on the Russian colonization plan and was one of the arguments for the adoption of the now famous resolution which caused the controversy between the Zionist Organization of America and the Joint Distribution Committee.


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Human Mortality at Extreme Ages: Data from the NLTCS and Linked Medicare Records
An analysis using the 1982-1999 National Long-term Care Survey (NLTCS) linked to Medicare vital statistics data 1982-2003 focused on deaths at ages 85 + where deviations from the Gompertz mortality function are often observed. To model the complex mortality patterns observed at late age, standard mortality functions were generalized with i) a location parameter, ii) a fixed heterogeneity distribution, and iii) parameters expressing heterogeneity in the individuals' rate of aging. The data are consistent with not only an upper bound to mortality rates but also declines in the yearly hazard rates at ages 100 + . To determine if these patterns could be due to errors in age reporting, effects of plausible age misreporting patterns were simulated. Biases due to age misreporting at ages 95 to 115 did not materially change this pattern.
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What Drives the S&P 500 Inclusion Effect? An Analytical Source
We present an analytical survey of the explanations—price pressure, downward-sloping demand curves, improved liquidity, improved operating performance, and increased investor awareness—for the increase in stock value associated with inclusion in the S&P 500 Index. We find that increased investor awareness is the primary factor behind the cross-section ofabnormal announcement returns. We also find some evidence of temporary price pressure around the inclusion date. We find no evidence that long-run downward-sloping demand curves for stocks, anticipated improvements in operating performance, or increased liquidity are related to the cross-section of announcement or inclusion returns.
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GWYNETH Paltrow shows she's game for a laugh as she plays the "Chubby
Bunny" eating challenge on Jamie & Jimmy's Food Fight Club.
The Hollywood A-lister took on the show's co-host Jimmy Doherty in the game,
which involved them placing as many marshmallows in their mouths as they
could, while still being able to say "Chubby Bunny".
Jamie Oliver said he had seen a quote from the actress saying she could "eat
any man under the table".
And Gwyneth agreed, adding: "I embarrassingly tend to eat more than the
men that I eat with."
Jimmy and Jamie then said they would test that by playing the marshmallow
eating game.
Gwyneth, 40, went first placing one of the fluffy treats in the side of her
mouth, before saying: "Chubby Bunny."
Jimmy followed her, and the game went on until Gwyneth managed to place a
whopping eight marshmallows in her mouth.
While Jimmy managed just six.
Later in the show Gwyneth, who is married to Coldplay singer Chris Martin, was
seen joining the boys on a rollercoaster in Southend, Essex, for another
Food Fight contest.
Jimmy told the Sliding Doors star that the aim of the game was to see who
could eat the most of their burger and fries while riding the rollercoaster.
But when they said about drinks, Gwyneth point blank refused to have a
milkshake too.
She told them: "No we're not having drinks, I'm drawing the line, I just
got my hair blow-dried this morning, I beat your a** at Chubby Bunnies, no
She was then seen clutching her burger and trying to take a bite out of it as
the rollercoaster whisked her up into the air.
But she didn't seem to enjoy the game too much, as the ride ended she told the
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SANTA CRUZ — Designer Jill Alexander knows what curvy women want.
She got hearty applause for her styles at the inaugural Full Figured Fashion Week Los Angeles in October and compliments from celebrities like Miss Plus America.
Now she's been selected to present her line at the Full Figured Fashion Week in New York City, June 16-18.
"I'm really excited," said Alexander, 42, though she admits to being a little nervous. "I'm really quite shy. I like to be behind the scenes."
Her fashions, however, are anything but low-key, offering bright colors, striking patterns and innovative designs, which is why women with curves appreciate her.
"Jill Alexander blew my mind with her off-the-shoulder dress," said a fashionista named Natasha, in a post-show interview posted on YouTube.
Sumer Noelle Lucksheider is a local fan.
"Jill's designs are unique and different than most 'plus size' clothing," said Lucksheider, who can be seen modeling on Alexander's website. "We don't want to wear shapeless muumuus, we want to wear clothes that make us feel good, that celebrate our curves, that make us feel confident and powerful ... and she gets that."
Jill Alexander Designs, based in the Sash Mill, is only 2 years old, but it's built on Alexander's two decades of experience in the fashion industry. In addition to the off-the-shoulder dress, her Steel Magnolia collection — currently in production — includes a wrap-style cotton dress, silk tops, cotton capri pants, skinny stretch denim jeans and a jersey jumpsuit, each selling for $100 or less.
Sales are currently in six figures.
"I'd love to be in seven figures," said Alexander.
Her styles are only available online but she'd like to sell them in local stores.
A resident of Scotts Valley, where she lives with husband Ernie and two daughters ages 14 and 16, she described her career as a series of unplanned but fortuitous moves.
After graduating from San Diego State University, she went to work for Ann Taylor, where she learned visual merchandising. She discovered buyers like to see a full collection but they might scrap a third of it when they place an order.
"It's all about the marketability," she said.
Recruited by A Pea in the Pod, a high-end maternity fashion company, she learned how materials could be cut different ways to accentuate a growing body.
"The shape of clothes has to change to accommodate a curve," she said. "I've been curvy always. I'm a size 18 right now."
She found customers with curves sought her out, asking her to dress them.
"They were paying me to shop," she said.
After her children were born, she got involved in costuming through her younger daughter, who has been involved in local theater for seven years.
She decided to go back to school, enrolling at West Valley College to study design and learn about manufacturing, before starting her business.
She makes frequent day trips to Los Angeles, where her clothing manufactured though she is looking for a manufacturer in San Francisco.
"It costs more to cut a curvy seam than a straight one," she said, noting that designers who don't understand the market cut corners. "To structure a plus size, you need to start doing it at size 12."
The industry definition starts at size 14.
Almost half the women in America are size 12 are up, yet they have been overlooked by designers and retailers.
"Mostly there are online retailers," Alexander said. "There are few brick and mortar stores where people can actually try things on."
Merchandising is another challenge.
"None of it looks appealing on a hanger, and they don't stock plus-size manikins," Alexander said. "It's kind of a vicious circle."
She got positive feedback when she participated in the 2009 fashionART Runway Show organized by Angelo Grova, which filled the 2,000-seat Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
"When they see plus-size girls on the runway, they go crazy," Alexander said. "People want to see themselves."
Thanks to the Internet, she is getting international exposure, selling in a boutique in Australia and fielding queries from Mexico and Finland.
She hopes a local retailer will carry her styles, noting plus-size shoppers are loyal shoppers.
"I have a lot of followers in Santa Cruz," she said. "If there were a local store that carried me, they would have customers."
WHAT: Fashions for curvy women size 12 and up.
WHERE: Sash Mill, 303 Potrero St., Santa Cruz
OWNER: JIll Alexander
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These clever planters will give your flowers tons of personality.More
Once your kids outgrow their toy, let them help you transform it into something new for you. And if you really want to be an over-achiever, give it a coat of paint that matches the petals it'll hold.
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PARENTS using the council run family support centre on the Mount Estate, Milford Haven have been left dismayed after hearing the 'much needed' centre may be closed in the new year.
One mother, who did not want to give her name, said that she and others could not believe that 'such a vital service' may be lost.
The family centre provides a place for mothers, fathers and families to get support and advice on numerous matters including financial and personal guidance.
"We've been informed by the mother's group that the building's getting suspended and will no longer be in use after Christmas so the support resource centre for us mums is to go too. We're losing everything; we won't have anywhere to go.
"These places are our sort of lifeline and they're being taken away from us. A lot of the mums that attend there are in need, how are they going to cope?
"It's just such a shame. Poverty now is so bad, some mums attend this place as it's all they have got. It's a support network, you can come and chat to other mums or if they need advice there is someone to help, some of the mums are quite vulnerable.
"Poverty is getting worse in Pembrokeshire but resources are stopping. It's phenomenal the amount of children on the Mount, they need something," added the concerned mum.
A Pembrokeshire County Council spokesman said: "We are in the process of reorganising our family support services with the aim of improving services to vulnerable families across the county.
"As part of this work we are reviewing services at all our family centres – including the centre on the Mount Estate. This review is still taking place."
Other family centres listed by Pembrokeshire County Council are in Haverfordwest, Fishguard, Neyland and Pembroke.
When asked if these remained open a spkesman said: "Due to large scale investment (£2 million), we are developing a different approach to our family support services.
"It is anticipated that services will centre on families in their communities, rather than focussing around specific buildings.
"We are developing the Team Around the Family service and also - thanks to significant investment from Welsh Government - developing flying start centres in key areas across the county.
"This has reduced our need to deliver services from specific centres, and instead reach out to families in their own homes.
"As a result of this change of approach, we are currently reviewing the provision of Family Centres."


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Controversial slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night turns 30 this year, and Fright-Rags has commemorated the holiday horror classic with a line of new merchandise. Prepare to be punished! Any horror fan would be elated to find the Silent Night, Deadly Night limited edition box set under their tree this Christmas. Enclosed in a collector's box, the set contains a shirt designed …Read More »
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The Human Race (2013) from director Paul Hough spins a combination of Battle Royale and Saw on its ears creating a terrifying tale that has Santos Ellin Jr. and Vixen singing its praises while Doc and Thomas are far less impressed. Kudos to Eddie McGee for portraying a complex heroic character. "Run or Die!" Doc steps in for Dave this week …Read More »
Film Review: Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ricky is a mentally unstable young man who decides to follow in his psychotic brother's footsteps and go on a killing spree dressed as Santa Claus. REVIEW: It's Christmas, and one of the Martin family's long-standing holiday traditions is to watch Silent Night, Deadly Night (and the original Black Christmas) the Saturday night before X-mas. This …Read More »
Film Review: Silent Night Deadly Night (1984)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Years after witnessing his parents perish at the hands of a burglar disguised as Santa Claus, Billy Chapman dons a Kris Kringle suit of his own and goes on a terrible holiday killing spree, finally returning to the abusive orphanage that raised him. 'Tis the season for yuletide mayhem! Charles E. Sellier Jr. directs this horror …Read More »
Holiday Horrors: Rare Exports and Sint
Doc Rotten shares some Holiday Cheer Fear. From time to time horror film makers point their carnivorous camera lenses at Santa Claus and create holiday horror treats that tear and claw at the world's fascination with jolly old Saint Nick. This season is no different with two European filmmakers putting Santa through the wringer. With both features hearkening back to …Read More »


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Watch Elliott Wilson & B.Dot's Interview on Hot 97's Juan Epstein
Hot 97 met Rap Radar as Elliott "YN" Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller served as guests on the latest episode of Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sound's long-running Juan Episode podcast. The industry vets discussed everything from YN's CRWN interview series and rap blogs, to the best producers in the game and who's next from New York.
Tensions ran high when Hot 97 program director Ebro joined the conversation and squared up to B.Dot over his argument that New York DJs don't break artists like they used to. It was when B.Dot insinuated that radio DJs — Hot 97 employees included — accept payola when Ebro really barked on dude, even telling him he "ain't did s–t in this motherf–king game."
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Wednesday, April 8, 1998 Published at 18:07 GMT 19:07 UK
Britannia given final resting place
Britannia will rest in peace, in the Royal port of Leith
The Royal Yacht Britannia will spend its retirement moored in Leith in Edinburgh.
The government confirmed on Wednesday that the Scottish option had been chosen over a rival bid by Manchester.
The 44-year-old yacht will be the centrepiece of a Ł60m ocean terminal in Leith, on the east coast of Scotland. The town has been a Royal port for more than six centuries.
Donald Anderson, of the Edinburgh and Lothians Tourist Board, said the yacht would help revitalise the area.
In her 44 years of service Britannia has been prominent on the world stage, carrying the Royal Family overseas on state visits.
It has also been used extensively for entertaining foreign dignitaries and has been available for hire for commercial activities.
A total of nine submissions were made for what do with the yacht. These where whittled down to just two - Leith and Manchester.
It was to be part of a Ł42m heritage scheme on the doorstep of the Trafford Centre, soon to open as the largest retail and leisure complex of its kind in Europe.
Defence Secretary George Robertson said the decision between the two options had been "very, very close indeed". Both bids satisfied the criteria laid down by the government for preserving the ship he said.
Currently in Portsmouth, Britannia is expected to be towed north to its final resting place in the next few weeks.
Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar said the choice of Leith was "entirely fitting".
"The Britannia's re-location to Leith will provide further evidence of the standard which the comprehensive redevelopment of Leith is now attaining," said Mr Dewar.
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