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* Most motorcycle enthusiasts have surely seen one or two of Richard and Phyllis Milne's pictures of Floyd Emde alllllmost making it to the top of a hillclimb on his Indian in 1948. The whole sequence of photos, though, which The Old Motor published this week, shows how that top topple went d ... Read more
Images courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. If there's one thing executives at the Petersen Automotive Museum insist they will not change with their plans to renovate the museum, it's the mission of the museum. Everything else, though, appeared up for revision, including the museum̵ ... Read more
Photo by Tom Luce. It was just about a year ago, we reckon, when Southern California was racked by a series of abrupt race-track shutdowns. There's been a reversal of sorts under way very recently. The latest news involves the revival of a showplace paved oval that had been most recently know ... Read more
Not a lot of cars in these two pictures we came across over on the Duke University Libraries online photo archive (above, below) – and not a lot of details regarding the when/where both were shot – but they include a number of vehicles we don't typically see in our street scene se ... Read more
Photos courtesy Greg Sharp, NHRA Museum It may not have been the first drag strip, the longest-lived, or the largest, but among many drag racing fans, Lions Drag Strip is the most fondly remembered, and Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen has planned a night dedicated to remembering Lions with th ... Read more
Today's street scene, which we spotted over on Retro World, shows lines upon lines of vehicles waiting at the California-Mexico border in October 1969, which gives us ample carspotting opportunity. Any street scene from that region tends to provide a good variety of vehicles, but this shot in ... Read more
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Southern California gets all of the good events, but we can understand why Deuce Week takes place there. After all, the hot rod culture of Southern California defined the 1932 Ford. Deuce Week will kick off next Monday, February 19, at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles with an open invit ... Read more
While the northern half of the country slaves away in their garages under dim fluorescents and trouble lights, only now and then casting an eye to the snowfall and salted roads outside, thinking the show season waits months away, those hot rodders in Southern California have just a couple of weeks ... Read more
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Access Denied? Preemption Versus Corporate Accountability For Products Which Cause Injuries
What if big corporations didn't have to worry about making safe products because they knew they couldn't be taken to court even if their products caused serious harm? These are the stakes in Wyeth v. Levine, which was argued in front of the Supreme Court on November 3rd, and is one of the most important consumer rights cases to come along in years.

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Two Men Arrested for Stealing From Danville Storage Units
Danville, VA - Two Danville men are behind bars after police say they were caught stealing from storage units.
Officials say at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, a police officer found the two men and a suspicious looking vehicle next to some open storage units at the Econo Storage Facility on Riverside Drive.
Both men, Justin Merritt, 27, and Monsijour Merritt, 30, were arrested and charged with burglary and grand larceny. They are reported to be cousins.
Monsijour was also charged with possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Merritt is currently being held in the Danville City Jail under a $15,000 secured bond. Justin Merritt is currently being held in the Danville City Jail under no bond. The investigation is continuing.


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75th stories: From Greece to Kenya – Henry Foy, the Wellcome Trust's first scientific employee
To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, we are publishing a series of 14 features on people who have been significant in the Trust's history. In our fifth piece, writer Henry Nicholls looks at Henry Foy, the Trust's first scientific employee.
On the East coast of Africa, in Kenya's Kilifi district, are the hospital and research laboratories of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. Renowned internationally for its work tackling malaria and other infectious diseases, the Programme was established formally in 1989. But its history goes back to Greece, the earliest days of the Wellcome Trust and the Trust's first scientific employee – Henry Foy.
When the newly formed Wellcome Trust agreed to take on responsibility for a small research laboratory in a Greek hospital in 1937, it marked the start of a long-running support of Henry Foy's research into malaria and nutritional disorders. Displaced by World War II, Foy and long-term collaborator Athena Kondi eventually settled in Kenya. Their success there – research full of "energy, enterprise and scientific imagination", as the Trust commended them on their retirement in 1970 – also paved the way for the Trust's support of similarly small, independent teams around the world with a clearly defined programme of research.
The League of Nations had appointed Foy (1900-1991) to investigate malaria and its control in Greece in 1932. His qualifications for the job are uncertain. He was born in 1900 and went to the University of Oxford at the age of 18, where he studied physiology under Julian Huxley. Upon graduation, he taught biology at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk and at Malvern College, Worcestershire before emigrating to the West Indies to take up a teaching post at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad. From here, Foy became involved in a leper colony in Manaus on the Upper Amazon, sparking his interest in tropical medicine.
In spite of his lack of formal medical training, when the League of Nations posted him to Greece in 1932, Foy showed characteristic confidence. He moved construction of the laboratory, which was to be based in Athens, to Thessaloniki, where the incidence of malaria and other conditions was far higher. The upheavals in the region during World War I, the Graeco-Turkish War and the proximity to the malaria-infested Struma Valley guaranteed Foy a steady stream of interesting cases. And with money provided by a wealthy American, Mrs David Simmons, he established a small laboratory in the grounds of Thessaloniki's Refugee Hospital, an institution that catered for Greeks displaced from Turkey following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire a decade earlier. For the renowned Australian physician Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, who visited the laboratory during this early period, Foy had a perfect set-up, a judgement that influenced the Wellcome Trust's decision to support the laboratory.
For Foy, this support was crucial because by 1937, the League of Nations funding was running out. The British Medical Research Council (MRC) was keen to see Foy's work continue but as a part of the British government it was itself not able to take on responsibility for a laboratory in a foreign country. So members of the MRC's Tropical Medical Research Committee approached Henry Dale, one of the Wellcome Trust's first Trustees. Would this nascent charitable foundation be in a position to provide support to Foy?
Following Henry Wellcome's death less than a year earlier, Dale and the other Trustees had a lot to deal with. For a start, the terms of Wellcome's will had not drawn an adequate line between his business and philanthropic interests. In addition, it took time to value Wellcome's significant estate and calculate the considerable death duties that needed to be paid. However, the amount that Foy needed to keep his laboratory running was not significant and the Trustees were able to agree to cover expenses of £2000 a year. The League of Nations Malaria Laboratory was renamed the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory at Thessaloniki.
Foy followed up this new source of funding with a proposal to expand the laboratory by adding a new wing and an upper floor, which would make room for a small clinic that could admit ten patients for special study. The low cost of materials and labour made this an easy decision: and the Trustees approved Foy's plans and left him to oversee them. But though Dale had Foy pegged as "a real Quaker Enthusiast!", he was also aware of Foy's "unusual and irregular training"; the new clinic would require someone with formal medical qualifications. The answer was Dr Athena Kondi, a Greek national then working at the Refugee Hospital, with whom Foy had already worked on the epidemiology and treatment of malaria and associated blackwater fever in the surrounding region.
From Greece to Kenya
With the outbreak of World War II, Foy and Kondi's research in Thessalonika became increasingly difficult and, when Germany invaded Greece in April 1941, the scientists fled to Istanbul, taking much of their lab equipment with them. From there, they sailed for Cairo, but found it equally inhospitable. So, boxing up their equipment and leaving it in the care of the British GHQ Middle East, they boarded a ship to take them to South Africa, where they worked out the War for the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. The Wellcome Trust, which continued to support them throughout this troubled period, found Foy's proposals "eminently satisfactory" and he and Kondi made the most of their new location, travelling to Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Mozambique to collect data on the incidence of malaria and blood disorders across the wider southern African region.
With the liberation of Greece in 1944, Foy and Kondi embarked on a 4000-mile road trip from Johannesburg to Cairo in a Ford V8. Picking up a steamer on the Nile, they made their way to the Egyptian capital to collect their laboratory equipment from storage. Once back in Greece, they found that the German occupation and looting had left the laboratory and clinic in Thessaloniki in a state of disrepair, but they were soon back at work.
Then, in 1946, Greece fell into a state of civil war. For Foy, writing in 1950, it was this single reason – "the chaos that was reigning in Northern Greece at the time" – that led him to head back to South Africa in 1948. It seems likely, however, that a dramatic decline in the incidence of malaria and other conditions that interested Foy also had an impact on his research ambitions.
Perhaps most notably, the War had seen the Allies investing heavily in pesticides in the ongoing battle against malaria. While efforts to drain the swampy Struma Valley during World War I had failed miserably, the widespread application of DDT across the region in the early 1940s had been a triumph. "This had been so effective that the prevalence of malaria had been reduced to small proportions – a result most heartily to be acclaimed from every point of view, apart from the exceptional opportunities, previously offered by the locality, for a concentrated study of the different aspects and complications of that disease," wrote Dale in the Trust's first 'Report', published in 1957.
On their way to South Africa, Foy and Kondi's ship stopped off in Mombasa on the Kenyan coast and the pair made what they imagined was to be a brief foray inland to Nairobi, to visit the National Hospital (now the Kenyatta National Hospital). But the wealth of interesting cases on its wards – patients with malaria, nutritional anaemias, kwashiorkor, splenomegaly and hepataomegaly – was to keep them there for the rest of their working lives. "Malaria is abundant here," Foy eagerly wrote back to Dale. Furthermore, he noted, "There is a wide spread sickle-cell trait that varies in degree" – a condition that Foy had observed in Greece just after the War. In short, there was an "abundance of material for all kinds of work" and it was "just the place" to build a new programme of research.
Research in Kenya
The Trustees agreed, and so began the Wellcome Trust's involvement with biomedical research in Kenya. It was a shrewd move, with a steady flow of research papers. One early research focus was on megaloblastic anaemia, a condition characterised by the failure of red blood cell division. Foy and Kondi found that it could be treated successfully with penicillin, which through its influence on gut bacteria increased the availability of crucial metabolites – notably vitamin B12 – to the patient. "The high incidence of megaloblastic anaemias in many backward countries may be connected with a high carbohydrate low protein diet that produces an intestinal environment inimical to the synthesis and utilization of B12," they concluded in 'Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene' in 1954.
With Foy and Kondi's professional partnership firmly established, the pair became one in the eyes of those they dealt with, referred to quite simply as 'Foyandkondi'. Their relationship privately is less clear. Foy had been married and was the father of two, though it seems likely he left his wife for Kondi. "We were never quite sure of their relationship," says his granddaughter Nicola Foy. "But they did live and work together for decades."
They travelled widely in Africa – to Tanganyika, the Belgian Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia – all the while collecting epidemiological data on the incidence of megaoloblastic and other anaemias. Their work in Kenya and Sudan, for example, revealed surprising variation in the incidence of sickle-cell trait between and even within different tribes.
In the Trust's 1957 'Report', covering the first 20 years of the organisation, Foy's publication record was paraded in a lengthy appendix. The author of the 'Report', most likely Dale, boasted that "the trustees have every reason to be gratified by the importance and the distinction of the results which have accrued from this, the first medical research enterprise to which they agreed to give financial support in any form". He went on: "This enterprise had an exceptional history in many respects – in the manner of its origin, in the successive interruptions and displacements to which it has been subjected, and in the repeated re-establishment in distant centres and with appropriate realignments of its research objectives." Foy, he acknowledged, had "faced all these unusual difficulties" with "unfailing courage, determination and resourcefulness".
For his part, Foy attributed his success to his relaxed approach to management, giving his staff the freedom to carry out their work "on an individualistic basis with close and informal contact between workers in the field and London". He took pride in the "minimal administration", with activities "not hindered and handicapped by red tape".
"Such an organisation," he wrote, "is in sharp contrast to the vast, impersonal machines that seem to be gaining control in almost every scientific field and whose operation requires armies of clerks, large sums of money and in which the top-heavy administrative machinery results in a rigidity that is frustrating to the field worker and penalises him in favour of the administrator."
It seems likely that the success of Foy's operation inspired the Trustees to invest in other small, independent teams with a focus on tropical medicine. For example, Wellcome labs with clearly defined research programmes sprung up in Vellore, India in 1957; in Belém, Brazil in 1964; and in Bangkok, Thailand in 1979.
Foy and Kondi continued to travel, and often farther afield – to India and Mauritius in 1959 and to the Seychelles in 1961 – collecting data all the while. Their survey work in the Seychelles identified the main cause of anaemia as iron deficiency exacerbated by the prevailing hookwork infection. Once back in Africa, the duo began to conduct simple experiments to explore this link in more detail. A colony of some 150 baboons established in Nairobi gave them further experimental opportunities, probing the causes and treatment of nutritional disorders such as kwashiorkor, marasmus and liver diseases. In a 'Nature' paper published in 1966, for example, they reported the biochemical and histological effects of depriving baboons of riboflavin and pyridoxine. A deficiency in these B vitamins, they speculated, might contribute to the high incidence of liver disease and cancer on the African continent.
By the 1960s, the Trust's interests and influence had broadened to such a degree that there were plenty of opportunities for research collaboration within the Wellcome network. In 1961, the Trust announced its decision to establish the Wellcome Laboratory of Tropical Haematology at the Postgraduate School of Medicine in Hammersmith, London under the leadership of the UK's first professor of haematology, John Vivian Dacie. While some £45 000 was to be spent setting up this lab, £14 000 was put aside to promote co-operation between Dacie's unit and the Trust-funded labs in Singapore, Vellore and Nairobi, with their overlapping interests in megaloblastic anaemia and sprue, a diarrhoeal condition common in Asia and less so in East Africa.
Throughout his long association with the Trust – for more than half of its 75-year history – Foy showed great dedication to his work. On one occasion in the 1930s, the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene had asked Foy for fresh samples of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite then endemic in Greece. Dutifully, Foy ventured out into "a remote district in search of appropriately infected mosquitoes", only to be captured by bandits. He could be frequently found in the lab on a Sunday. "Now," he grumbled to a friend in 1977, "everybody seems to be in the category of 9 to 5 research workers, but of course if you have the washing up, the lawns and the hedges to cut naturally you have to go home in time to get these things done."
By then, Foy was in his late 70s and although he and Athena Kondi had formally retired in 1970 he was still working away as hard as ever. For he believed in "the skills, experience and integrity of the aged compared with the generation brought up in an atmosphere of over tolerance and in a world peopled by people who don't know that they don't know". Youth, he wrote, "is an improving fault". This might explain why he continued to turn up for work at the Nairobi lab right up until his death in 1991.
Find out more about activities marking the Wellcome Trust's 75th anniversary, including links to other features as they are published.
Henry Nicholls is a freelance science writer based in London.


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CAIRO — Egypt's public prosecutor made an unprecedented sweep Wednesday against the top security brass, charging the former interior minister and other officials with aiding the killing and the attempted killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
The charges are the first move by Egypt's military-appointed provisional government to hold former officials accountable for the killings of some 300 demonstrators during mass protests that toppled Mubarak's regime on Feb. 11 after nearly 30 years of rule.
A parliamentary committee recommended Mubarak face similar charges, Egypt's leading newspaper, Al-Ahram, reported Wednesday, but the public prosecutor has so far held back from accusing the former ruler of complicity in the violence surrounding the demonstrations.
The charges are in stark contrast to the almost total freedom that security forces had during Mubarak's reign, when thousands of Egyptians faced humiliations large and small — ranging in severity from torture to paying off police to dodge falsified charges.
Top prosecutor Abdul-Magid Mahmoud said former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, who is in prison on other charges, and the heads of the state, public and central security agencies aided the killing of protesters during the uprising that began in January.
Also charged with aiding the killing were the former heads of security in Cairo, the seaside metropolis of Alexandria and the pyramids neighborhood of Giza, as well as officers and police in 11 Egyptian provinces.
"They killed and wounded a number of citizens as they protested peacefully in these provinces," Mahmoud said in a statement. Some were also charged with corruption.
The charges clear the way for a newer generation of midlevel security officials to assume the top positions.
A court date to hear the charges is expected to be set soon.
Also Wednesday, Egypt's military rulers endorsed a package of constitutional amendments that were adopted in a nationwide referendum, paving the way for parliamentary and presidential elections within months.


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Full Trailer For ANNIE Remake Starring Quvenzhane Wallis & Jamie Foxx
A first look at the upcoming big screen movie musical remake of beloved orphan-themed musical ANNIE starring Quvenzhane Wallis and Jamie Foxx is now available to view.
ANNIE is written and directed by Will Gluck from a script originally by Emma Thompson and Aline Brosh McKenna, starring Quvenzhane Wallis as Annie, Jamie Foxx as Benjamin Stacks (aka Daddy Warbucks), Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan along with Rose Byrne as Grace Farrell and Bobby Cannavale in a new role penned for the remake.
The starry roster of producers for the film include Will Smith and Jay Z, who also serves as music supervisor. Jay Z famously had a Top Ten hit with a rap version of the show's famous orphan theme "It's A Hard Knock Life" called "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)".
ANNIE is reportedly a modern-day adaptation of the stage musical, set in contemporary New York City.
Historically, the property was previously first filmed by famed director John Huston in 1982, starring Aileen Quinn as Annie and Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, as well as lensed by CHICAGO helmer Rob Marshall in 1999, starring Alicia Morton and Victor Garber.
The original stage musical of ANNIE was based on Harold Gray's 1924 comic strip LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE and was directed by Martin Charnin, featuring music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Charnin and a book by Thomas Meehan. Subsequently, the musical has been revived on Broadway twice, with the most recent revival playing at the Palace Theatre, directed by James Lapine and starring Lilla Crawford in the title role.
The official description of the ANNIE remake is as follows: "A Broadway classic that has delighted audiences for generations comes to the big screen with a new, contemporary vision in Columbia Pictures' comedy, Annie. Director/Producer/Screenwriter Will Gluck teams with producers James Lassiter, Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith, and Shawn "JAY Z" Carter, Laurence "Jay" Brown, and Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith with a modern telling that captures the magic of the classic characters and original show that won seven Tony Awards. Celia Costas serves as Executive Producer. The screenplay is by Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the musical stage play "Annie," book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and on "Little Orphan Annie," © and ® Tribune Media Services, Inc. Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around."
The big screen remake of ANNIE is set to be released in December 2014.
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Nice writeup in today's NY Times about Brennan & Carr's, the anachronistic Hot Roast Beef stand on Avenue U in Brooklyn. I haven't been in a few years, but a few people have told me it seems to have gone a little downhill lately. Not according to the Times:
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2012/01/15 20:53:47
I don't know how I missed that place when I was living up north.
great looking food & all of the front line people wearing ties, thats a throwback.
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2012/01/16 09:06:48
There's another in Rockville Centre. Used to be an outpost of the one in Brooklyn.
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2012/01/17 20:00:27
The roast beef sandwiches here are really, really good. Get it dipped in the broth, messy but so good. If you go be advised it's cash only.
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2012/01/18 12:36:44
I went there with ayersian (Chris & Amy) back in April 2011 and loved it. Though we did just stand by the counter and share one sandwich, dipped in broth as we had numerous other stops that day. I think next time I'll go and sit at a table to savor it more and get the full dining experience!
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I spent a couple of hours yesterday researching an issue on Health Care Reform by reading sections of the Senate Bill and the House Reconciliation Bill. I didn't get a definitive answer and because I am not a lawyer and don't want to take 40+ hours for further research, I would welcome a knowledgeable comment on this.
The question concerns the individual mandate. The penalty starts for an individual at $695 or 2.5% of AGI, whichever is greater. I was trying to determine if the maximum penalty was capped. I couldn't find where it was. The significance is that this would pretty much mandate that very high earners that may self-insure currently join the system and purchase insurance ( $8,000/yr for a cheap policy vs. 2.5% of $20MM). This may not seem like a big deal now, but down the road it could be huge. Great Britain doesn't allow people in the health care system to pay for private care outside the system in the UK. They have to leave the country.
It really wouldn't surprise me if the penalty wasn't capped. There seems to be a certain amount of glee from the Progressives that pushed this bill; not only do they want to "spread the wealth" from the "rich" to the "poor", but they want to eliminate any advantages in treatment one could receive by paying cash for it. Yes, that's right. They feel that reducing the current high quality of care some now receive to be a worthy achievement.


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By States News Service
Published: November 16, 1986
WASHINGTON— JUVENILE-JUSTICE workers say that a bill pending in the New Jersey Assembly that would let judges sentence juvenile offenders to adult jails for terms up to 18 months reflects a pervasive ''get tough'' tone established by the Reagan Administration.
This ''get tough'' policy, they say, makes politicians look good but does little to help juvenile delinquents.
Thomas F. Lynch, the state Corrections Department's assistant commissioner in charge of the Division of Juvenile Services, called the proposal ''a lot of political rhetoric by people who don't know anything, but want to sound tough on crime.''
''What they are doing is probably more likely to cause crime,'' he said.
According to Mr. Lynch, studies have shown that juveniles housed with adults are eight times more likely to commit suicide than those incarcerated with their peers. Juveniles also are prime targets for physical and sexual abuse when imprisoned with adults, he said.
Added to this, Mr. Lynch said, is the real possibility that those juveniles will become career criminals.
The bill, A. 2590, was sponsored by Assemblyman Thomas H. Paterniti, Democrat of the 18th District (part of Middlesex County), following a number of cemetery disfigurements. It is awaiting a floor vote. There is no corresponding State Senate measure.
Several graveyards in his county have been vandalized this year, Mr. Paterniti said in a recent telephone interview, including a Jewish cemetery in Woodbridge Township and a nearby Catholic cemetery. At one cemetery, he said, youths ''took bones and ripped them apart.''
He said that sentencing cemetery vandals to jail as adults would serve as an example and show juveniles that they would be severely punished.
As the bill stands, anyone 14 or older charged with cemetery, church or synagogue vandalism that caused less than $500 damage could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
If the damage exceeded $500, the offender could face up to 18 months in jail and a $7,500 fine, said Barbara Hutcheon, a lawyer with the Assembly Judiciary Committee, which voted out the Paterniti bill.
The legislation originally provided for mandatory imprisonment, she said, but was amended to give judges discretion.
Opponents of the bill say that the punishment does not fit the crime. Also, they argue, it is unfair to automatically place youths with adult criminals because the juvenile-justice system handles youths in a variety of ways, including placing them in detention centers.
''Disfiguring religious grounds is morally reprehensible, as opposed to something that can be categorized as a serious crime,'' said a House of Representatives committee staff member who asked not to be identified.
The bill appears to be singular to New Jersey, he said, adding that most states try juveniles in adult courts only for cases involving heinous crimes, such as murder, aggravated assault and rape.
The staff member said that the trend toward treating juvenile offenders as adults had been ''fueled'' by the Reagan Administration, and that this was evident in the newly drafted juvenile justice code the Administration has urged states to adopt.
The code seeks to fix penalties for juveniles convicted of crimes, thus limiting the discretion of judges and parole authorities.
Other critics of the get-tough policy point to the efforts of the former Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the Justice Department.
The Administrator, Alfred Regnery, who headed the program from 1983 to last May, is remembered for stanchly supporting the President's policy to phase out the Federal office, which was established in 1975 to keep juvenile offenders out of adult jails.
The office distributes about $43 million a year to the states to help with programs that separate juvenile offenders from adults. This year, New Jersey got more than $1.1 million.
Those states that place youths under 18 with adult prisoners could lose their financing, said Anne R. Voigt, a spokesman for the office. However, once a juvenile is tried in an adult court, he loses juvenile status, Ms. Voigt said.
The impact of the New Jersey bill could be muted because judges are reluctant to treat juveniles like adults, said Allen Breed, chairman of the San Francisco-based National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a private, nonprofit group that works to keep juvenile offenders separated from adults.
Mr. Breed said that most juveniles in adult courts received lighter sentencing because a judge was less inclined to place a youth with adults.
And adult-court judges, Mr. Lynch said, will most likely be reluctant to sentence youths who vandalize cemeteries to prison when they can send them to reformatories instead.
''I'm not sure there are many people who want to see kids put on Devil's Island,'' Mr. Lynch said. ''I think they just don't want to see them running wild.''


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Hello to the IWC. I've seen a few Wrestlemainia Cards on the Blogs here so thought I would try one of my own. I am a first time blogger, but intend to do some more in the future so any feedback is welcome. This is how I would run my Wrestlemania 28 in Miami.
Enrique Englesias to sing 'America the Beautiful'
Stay with me, I know its cheesy, but he's a Miami boy and WWE lap that stuff up. It gets better, honest.
Kane vs Christian
Christian fueds with Kane after he costs him the Heavyweight title against Orton in a last man standing match, culminating in a match at Wrestlemania. A traditional 'curtain jerker' from 2 established and solid performers. I personally didn't like the WHC match at the start of last years PPV. Although the match was good with an unexpected ending, I felt it de-valued the belt. Even match but Christian edges it with a few dirty tricks.
Winner - Christian - pinfall
Undisputed Diva championship match
Don't care. Never have, Never will.
I would get this shit over and done with as soon as possible and merge those pox ridden belts in the process. For the record, I would have Gail Kim win the thing but feel free to enter your own names. Not that it matters.
US and Intercontinental Unification match
Kofi Kingston (c) vs Cody Rhodes (c)
Maybe Rhodes takes the title from Jackson, maybe from someone else. Same with Kofi's title. What matters is they are both champions and would put on a hell of a match. Merge the belt, make it duel brand and worth something again.I miss that old Intercontinental title. I wanna see mid-to-high card matches like Hart vs Perfect or Steamboat vs Savage. As far a result goes, I love Kofi's work, but I would have to put the big belt on Rhodes
Winner - Cody Rhodes - Roll-up
WWE Tag team titles match - TLC
Alberto Del Rio/Rey Mysterio (c) vs The Miz/R-Truth vs John Morrison/Alex Riley
I miss the tag division too. The best WWE do now is to have respective heel/face tag main events on Raw. So we must make do with what we have. To be fair, there are some great combinations there, they just have to be given a chance, not chopped and changed every 2 weeks.
Mysterio is still a babyface btw. I had Del Rio trade his MITB briefcase for Mysterio's WWE contract instad of a title shot. Alberto then forced Rey into teaming for a run on the tag titles. Kinda like the HBK-JBL thing a few years back.
Del Rio is just about to grab the belts after a brutal match, when Mysterio snaps, takes him off the ladder and through a table, R-Truth has surrendered to the voices and left the Miz fighting Morrison, leaving Alex Riley to climb the ladder and snag the belts.
Winners and NEW WWE Tag Team Champions - John Morrison and Alex Riley
Losing Manager leaves WWE
Vickie Guererro with Dolph Ziggler, Wade Barrett, Mark Henry, Jack Swagger
Stephanie McMahon with Ezekiel Jackson, Drew Mcintyre, Mason Ryan, Zack Ryder
Hmmmmmmmmm. No MITB match. Lots of wrestlers with nothing to do, and in some cases, awful in singles action. I Know! Lets have an 8 man Tag match where Vickie gets fired or maybe shaved bald!
Maybe get Edge involved as a special guest referee and we are set. No Big Show, there is no place for you.
HHH brings Steph in to keep an eye on Smackdown where she inevitably feuds with Vickie, turns McIntrye face, and has him roll up Ziggler at Wrestlemania to Terminate Vickie's contract! (She will be back though. She gets great heat as a heel manager)
Winners - Team McMahon
World Heavyweight Championship Triple Threat match
Sheamus (c) vs Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton
Randy finally gets the title from a slippery Christian, down to some interference from Kane, but soon drops it to Sheamus. Sheamus performs a semi-face turn, defending the belt against Mark Henry and others, until Daniel Bryan cashes in his briefcase for his Wrestlemania shot. Randy comes out and invokes his re-match clause (He was busy with a certain Royal Rumble winner) and the triple threat is on.
I feel these three would compliment each other well and deliver a really good match. Lets have Orton punt Sheamus unconcious, only to be reversed into the Lebell lock with no chance of rescue....
Winner and NEW World Heavyweight Champion - Daniel Bryan - Submission
The Rock Vs John Cena
I hope they don't put this on last. And I hope Cena wins. Don't get me wrong, I hate Cena, but if he loses Rusty McRingrust, from Fast and Furious, after wrestling week in, week out, for championships, then it just makes a mockery of all the bullshit we have had to swallow over the last few years.
I expect style over substance, 'Peoples elbow' vs '5 Knuckle Shuffle' and general posing over wrestling. It won't be Rock/Hogan, but it won't be terrible either.
Winner - John Cena - 5 moves of doom
"Best in the World" WWE Championship match - Best of 3 falls
CM Punk (c) VS Chris Jericho
I think this match will happen regardless of whether Punk has the belt or not. The twittering has already started and the 'best in the world' tag adds extra weight.
Jericho returns at the Royal Rumble and wins, eliminating Randy Orton last, the man who put him out of action. He then turns his attention to Punk and his 'Best in the World' claim. He challenges him for his title at Wrestlemania, to which Punk adds the stipulation of 'Best of 3 falls.' Jericho accepts but, after a magnificent match, goes down 2-1 to a GTS.
Winner, Still WWE Champion and "The best in the world" CM Punk-2-1-GTS
The Streak 20-0?
Undertaker vs Mankind/Cactus Jack
Look, I HAVE really thought this through. Taker is just NOT going to be able to produce what he has in the past few years and I wouldn't want him to try. You have to put him in there with someone that can take the bumps for him, make him look powerful, work their ass off and resonate with the fans. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Mick Foley.
Now I have no idea what sort of physical condition Mick is in, or even if he is allowed inside a ring, but if he was given the chance to put Undertaker over in his last Wrestlemania match? He would jump at it, I am sure.
Honorable mentions go to Sting (past his prime, probably wouldn't be a great match), Brock Lesnar, Goldberg (Neither of whom would want to put him over. Its not about ending it boys!) and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
No, after much thought, It has to be Mick.
Foley would come out initially as Mankind but he has a Cactus shirt underneath and the mask comes off halfway through. Undertaker performs as the dead man for one last time and plants Cactus Jack for the final Tombstone, a 1-2-3 and 20-0 at Wrestlemania.
Winner and STILL undefeated at Wrestlemania - Undertaker - Tombstone
Afterwards, Taker helps Mick up, they embrace and the locker room empties of Superstars, past and present, all paying their respects to Undertaker. Finally they all form a guard of honor as Taker slowly walks back, turns one last time to drop to one knee, roll his eyes back and reach out to a huge clap of thunder.
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Two Olympic gold medals are enough.
It may not be a shock to many curling followers, but yesterday's news conference in Sweden still managed to draw gasps of surprise as it marked the official end of the road for one of the greatest women's curling teams in history.
Team Anette Norberg, twice world champions and also Olympic champions in 2006 and 2010, have called it quits. Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl (Norberg's sister) and Anna Le Moine announced their retirement, and only skip Norberg will soldier on, although possibly in an off-ice role.
The decision came following the return of the athletes to everyday life with their families and careers.
"It takes too much energy to be on top" a teary-eyed Lund told the assembled media in Stockholm. "The energy it takes to stay on top does not seem reasonable to spend right now."
"It's been a very difficult decision to make," said Le Moine, who left the door open for a future return to competition. "Right now it feels like I've quit, but it is possible that I can come back in the future."
Norberg herself will continue with the sport, but she was vague on whether she would be assembling a new team or moving into a coaching role.
"I will continue to work with curling, and helping young talent," Norberg said. She added that the age gaps in the sport are a concern to her, and the idea is to help assemble a future team which can continue on without her.
Lund and Le Moine also expressed interest in sharing the knowledge they have gained over the years. Among other things, they want to show young women who, in other sports, usually stop competing after their twenties – that it is possible to combine curling with career and family responsibilities.
As The Curling News Twitter feed revealed last week, Swiss rival Mirjam Ott and her team are not retiring, and will continue on, and target a berth at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Ott lost the gold to Norberg four years ago in Turin, and just missed a rematch with the Swedes in Vancouver when she missed her final shot of her Olympic semifinal against Canada's Cheryl Bernard.
Lund spoke exclusively to The Curling News shortly after Monday's news conference.
"It was a hard decision, but the right one for me," Lund said.
"I am very grateful that I have so many favourite curling memories. Of course the two Olympic gold medals, just the fact that it is the Olympics and due to the long, and sometimes tough journey the team had along the way to get there. On top of the podium, I almost can't believe it.
"The Continental Cup is the most fun of it all. Best teams, best ice, best format to play in. Skins… wow, we like it. And for me personally, playing mixed doubles with Paal Trulsen was so much fun. I admire him for his skills as skip.
"To all my friends from the other teams and the 'curling family'… I will miss you all. You will always have a special place in my heart."
Swedish readers can see a news story here, and also view video interviews with Norberg (here), Lund (here) and Le Moine (here).
Be sure to catch the next print edition of The Curling News, scheduled for late October 2010, for an in-depth review of Team Norberg's decorated career, and their place in the pantheon of world curling and the Olympic movement. Subscribe here.
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President Barack Obama campaigns in Denver and Columbus, Ohio.
YANGON _ Aung San Suu Kyi returns from U.S. trip.
MOROCCO _ International activists on a Dutch ship come to Morocco to campaign for safe access to abortion.
GWALIOR _ Thousands of India's rural landless poor march to New Delhi.
KASHMIR _ Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi visits.
RAMALLAH, West Bank _ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets with the Jordanian Prime Minister.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip _ Islamic Jihad mark anniversary of their founding and the death of their leader.
BUDAPEST, Hungary _ British Foreign Secretary William Hague meets with Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi in Parliament. News conference at 0935 GMT.
BUSAN, South Korea _ Asia's largest film festival kicks off.
PHILADELPHIA _ Barbra Streisand launches U.S. tour.
RIO DE JANEIRO _ Athina Onassis, granddaughter of Aristotle, opens one of the world's premier equestrian events in Rio this week, attracting the globe's top riders.
MADRID _ Spain's Treasury tests investor appetite with an auction of bonds maturing in 2014, 2015 and 2017. The sale is the first since last week's announcement of tough new austerity measures and the results of bank stress tests aimed at convincing markets and Europe Union authorities that Spain is serious about managing its finances.
FRANKFURT _ ECB meets in Lubijana, Slovenia for its policy setting meeting. No change in its benchmark rate expected.
LONDON _ Bank of England meets to set its interest rate and decide on any further expansion of its quantitative easing.
?Friday, Oct. 5:
President Barack Obama campaigns in Cleveland.
WARSAW, Poland _ Thousands of nurses and health care employees from Poland and other European Union nations march in Warsaw and camp before the prime minister's office to demand more funds for the sector and to protest plans for privatizing health care centers and turn them into commercial units.
AMMAN, Jordan _ Jordanian opposition groups, led by the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, stage a pro-reform rally following Friday noon prayers, defying government calls for dialogue and participation in upcoming parliamentary elections.
GENEVA _ U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres brief reporters after high-level meeting. Subjects likely to include Syria, Somalia, Myanmar.
HAVANA _ Trial in Cuba of Spaniard Angel Carromero on homicide charges in death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya and another man.
ISLAMABAD _ Government expected to produce draft of letter demanded by the Supreme Court to send to Swiss authorities asking them to reopen corruption case against the president. NEW YORK _ Magician David Blaine begins three-day stunt standing in the middle of a million volts of electric current streamed by coils at Pier 54.
CHARLESTON, West Virginia _ The International Chili Society begins its 46th world championship cook-off.
PRAGUE _ Prague's Ruzyne International Airport to be renamed after late President Vaclav Havel.
SEOUL _ Samsung electronic announces earnings results.
?Saturday, Oct. 6:
MADRID _ Spanish civil servants hit with another freeze on their wages for next year hold a protest, and Portuguese upset with high unemployment march in a demonstration in the southern Algarve region.
SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, Pakistan _ Pakistani cricket star turned politician scheduled to begin 2-day peace march to protest drones.
TRIPOLI _ Deadline for Bani Walid to turn in the perpetrators and militia that kidnapped Omran Shaaban. They are still holding three Misratans.
RIO DE JANEIRO _ With his Shakespearean delivery and aristocratic good looks, Jeremy Irons is known for his lofty, patrician performances. But the British actor gets down to earth with his latest project, the documentary "Trashed," which he produced and narrates, about the world's ever-escalating garbage epidemic.
RIO DE JANEIRO _ Ivaldo dos Santos is the mayor of the city of Japeri, on the outskirts of Rio. He was in a tight race for re-election _ until his rival was shot dead. Police say Santos ordered the murder, which he denies. It's not an unheard of case of political violence, but a new measure taking effect for the first time in Sunday's nationwide municipal elections aims to stamp it out. Brazil's "Ficha Limpa" _or Clean Record _ law states that candidates for political office cannot take power if they've been convicted of crimes.
WASHINGTON _ Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart square off in a mock debate.
SEOUL _ About 30,000 people dance South Korean rapper Psy's "Gangnam Style" on a street.
?Sunday, Oct. 7:
President Barack Obama is in Los Angeles for fundraising events.
CARACAS, Venezuela _ Venezuela's presidential election.
KABUL _ Afghanistan marks the 11th anniversary of the war that drove the Taliban from power and lasted far longer than was imagined. As all U.S. combat troops prepare to leave by the end of next year, concerns are mounting over the possibility of a civil war breaking out. All formats preparing for coverage.
HONG KONG _ China's biggest auction house, Guardian, and global rival Sotheby's are stepping up competition for the world's biggest art market as the fall auction season kicks off in Hong Kong.
CAIRO _ Trial of stock manipulation for Gamal and Alaa Mubarak takes place.
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President Barack Obama is in San Francisco for fundraising events.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands _ Burkina Faso and Niger ask judges at the U.N.'s highest court to help them set the border between the two African neighbors.
BELGRADE, Serbia _ The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz to visit Serbia where authorities have said they want to discuss a testimony by an alleged witness to organ harvesting during Kosovo war.
STOCKHOLM _ The 2012 Nobel Prize announcements kick off with the award in medicine or physiology.
ROSWELL, New Mexico _ Austrian Felix Baumgartner attempts the highest, fastest free fall in history, from an altitude of 23 miles (37 kilometers), and tries to become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
YANGON, Myanmar _ Aung San Suu Kyi to give press conference about her return from a United States tour.
SEOUL _ Myanmar President Thein Sein visits South Korea. Through Tuesday.
RIO DE JANEIRO _ Marina Abramovic is present at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. The famed Serbian performance artist, best known for her 736-hour-long, silent piece "The Artist is Present" during which she sat unmoving in the atrium of New York's MoMA Museum, is in the Marvelous City to promote not one but two documentaries about her three-decade-long career.
MEXICO CITY _ Opening of the first Mariachi school.
?Tuesday, Oct. 9:
PARIS _ French unions plan protests as parliament votes on European fiscal pact.
STOCKHOLM _ The 2012 Nobel Prize in physics is announced.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands _ Libya challenges the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction to try one of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons.
CAIRO _ Egyptian administrative Court will look into five different cases calling for the Muslim Brotherhood group to be dissolved because it is not registered.
WASHINGTON _ U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments and issues orders.
LONDON _ An Apple-1 computer dating back to 1976, Captain Robert Scott's marching compass, and a signed thermometer made by 18th century scientist Daniel Fahrenheit are among the items offered up for sale by Christie's. The science, travel and natural history-themed auction also includes an example of the German Enigma cypher machines used to scramble Nazi codes during World War II and an 18th century ivory microscope set.
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AUSTIN, Texas _ Former House Majority Leader Tom De Lay and his attorney make their case to the Court of Appeals to overturn his conviction on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for helping illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
PRAGUE _ German President Joachim Gauck meets Czech leaders.
WASHINGTON _ Supreme Court hears arguments.
RIO DE JANEIRO _ The state of Rio has committed to planting 34 million trees before 2016. The idea, says the state secretary of the environment, is to offset the greenhouse gases generated by hosting the mega-events on Rio's calendar for the next few years, chief among them the World Cup and the Olympics.
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British Airways has removed a shot of Virgin Atlantic boss Sir Richard Branson from the in-flight version of the James Bond movie Casino Royale.
Sir Richard was seen briefly in the original film, passing through an airport security scanner, but can only be seen from behind in the new edit.
"Many films are edited in some way on board," said a BA spokesman.
Daniel Craig's debut last year as 007 became the most successful Bond movie at the worldwide box office.
Sir Richard was given a cameo after supplying a plane for use in the film.
The British Airways edit also obscures the tail fin of a Virgin plane that was seen in the original.
BA's entertainment team vets films and television shows for flights on grounds of taste and suitability.
"We do reserve the right to edit films, and many films are edited in some way on board," said a spokesman.
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Think about how this team is set up, both in regards to player type and budget. Tippett loves veterans, so there's really little point to drafting a guy for his NHL readiness. Veterans can be signed cheaply and represent little risk. They are arguably a better fit for a team coached by Tippett than some homegrown talent. I think this is doubly true for D. You can assemble a pretty solid group, and so long as they stick to the system they will be relatively successful.
So I say swing for the fences on the forwards wherever possible. If it doesn't work out, no loss. You've got far fewer spots open anyways. This is not a team looking to plug holes in 1-2 years with draft picks. Just draft a boatload of talent, let it marinade and see what you end up with. As good as Henrik Samuelsson is, his ceiling isn't that high. Safe picks are boring. Collberg or Aberg would have been more exciting. Swedes almost never end up totally useless.
I don't think our drafts are going to be very exciting under Knickle.
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Hello again Shakeyimages:
Is the pie static or dynamic? I changed the words 80% to 20% but the pie looks the same. Is there a calculation code in the source file that needs to be integrated into Admin?
Please advice as how to have the pie change with the percentage entered.
ps. #1, #2, #4 and #6 was not for you, there were for my developer. He is fixing those and #7 above. Sorry for the confusion.
Please refer to the documentation and this message thread. All answers are covered.
Thanks for your response. I absolutely love your product! I have one favor to ask you to pass to the person I hired to install your component.
My site is http://welcome.aakika.com. See how the words and numbers do not show for the countdown. What does the provider need to do?
Also can you please either send me a screen shot or list all Admin categories. To not give away your design, I'll just list here what I see under Manage Content, only 3 entries:
1. COMING SOON ! 2 . % Complete text area here I can change the text, how do I change the pie shape to match the %? 3 . Bottom Icons shows 4 boxes, but where do I enter the links/url
So I will really appreciate if you can list for me, all that should show in Admin. That way I can demand the provider do the work he was hired for.
Thanks for your attention.
Sheba1 – again this is covered in the instructions.
You need to:

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TOO ! The default reads:

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And change the percentage in the class listed below to the same percentage amount you wrote in the other section – see here:
You can change the pie chart in 10% increments by simply the class of the div in line 68 in the code. The default is set to 80% and the code reads as such:
<div id="chart" class="eighty"
Simply change the class name to whatever percentage you need as follows: 10% – class="ten"
It is all in the instructions.txt
I love this coming soon template… I just wanted to share with you what I created using your files (which are great by the way!) Check it out at http://dailypromocode.dreamhosters.com/
Hey Shakey, great template, thanks. 5 stars for you.
@davibela, great job on your modifications of the file!
Hi Shakey,
Hope you're still helping out buyers of this template. It's absolutely great!
However, it seems that 2 things dont work:
1. The countdown. I did exactly what you said but it's not working, its just empty.
2. I replaced my email with the default one in the code but I'm not receiving any email.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks a lot.
Alright I fixed the countdown by copying the code from your page.
Just the email has to work now
Hi Guy,
Glad you like the template! All you should have to do to get the email form working is replace your email as it looks like you already have.
The only issue I've seen is with some folks' hosting provider…if you can't get the form to work you may want to contact them. For instance, I know some people have had issues getting this to work with GoDaddy's free hosting.
Thanks! Rick
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i love the pie chart, it is really well designed
Thanks cooledition!
Hi Shakeyimages, I have a problem opening the logo.psd in my (very old) edition of Photoshop (v.6 – newer versions too expensive for me!). I get a 'not enough RAM error' message and it fails to open. I am Techy and know this is not a problem (laptop newer than Photoshop!)Had a Google and appears that might be because .psd file created in newer edition of Photoshop. The other .psd opens OK which is weird. Is there anyway you could send me a different .logo.psd file – not sure if this is possible??
Many thanks
Hi myriadp,
The oldest version of Photoshop I have is CS2 , which is v9. I've re-saved the logo.psd file out of that version but i'm not sure if it will help or not. Here's a link to download the .psd:
If that doesn't work it should be fairly easy to re-create the file by creating a 300px x 130px document and then copying the layer style for the logo from the other .psd that is working for you.
Good Luck! Rick
Hello Shakey…..
Just a little thing ime stuck with the countdown timer…
how do i set it to countdown to a certain daye thanks
Change lines 26-34 in "index.php" to:

This seems to be the most reliable way to change the date.
Hi Rick, first of all I wanna say your design is really great and I'll use it for sure for lots of my clients construction pages. Said that, I am a designer and not a really great coder. I used other "under construction" templates, but this seem not to work as others. I tried opening index.php with chrome but nothing happens, I then uploaded to a "test" folder on my site bt nothing changed again. I am sure I am a dumbass and I am missing something "basic" knowledge. Can you please help me installing it please? Thank you very much, Marco.
Hi Marco,
PHP files need to be on a server so you won't be able to just open the file from your desktop in Chrome. You should be able to just upload everything to your server and it will work. If you're having problems I would recommend contacting your hosting provider. I haven't had any issues with this and I've used it with several different hosting providers.
You could also download MAMP or WAMP to get it to work on your computer.
Thanks! Rick
I'm among the 0.0001% that use a 2048px wide resolution, so many websites having a background show vertical bars on the sides due to designers throwing in a 1920px wide picture.
However yours is 2000px so I suggest adding the extra 48px to please another screen resolution.
I might consider buying this if you fix the background!
Cheers and keep up the good work!
My issue is sorted
Thanks! From time of download to http://bit.ly/pgJvaH in 30 min flat.
For some reason I am getting this error when I upload: Warning: fopen(/home/user/public_html/site.com/wp-content/themes/neotericthe-ultimate-under-construction-page2/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/user/public_html/site.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4339
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Then I click activate and it reverts back to the default theme. Please help. Thank you
Hey body. great work. I want to send my details with private. How could I send to you? thanks.
very poorly documented. out of more than 20 purchases at themeforest, by far the worst documentation.
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Speaking of Sonny, he continues to make advances toward Carly, and she continues to fend them off. But Carly finally agrees to give Sonny 24-hours to change his mind, and allows him to therefore successfully spark her interest.
At the same time, Rick paves the way for Scott's promotion to District Attorney. However, Scott is quick to remind Rick that their connection is due to their shared past, and does not involve friendship in any way. Later, Luke prepares to press Scott for answers, while Laura confronts Rick about why he was in the attic.
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The predominant teaching method is by using case examples to highlight how laboratory ordering should proceed. Instructors are from teh departments of Internal medicine, Laboratory medicine (clinical pathology), and obstetrics/gynecology.
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Tindall disappointed not to win
Jason Tindall was disappointed Burnley could not beat 10-man Crystal Palace, while Dougie Freedman wants protection for Wilfried Zaha.
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Jason Tindall was disappointed Burnley could not beat 10-man Crystal Palace, while Dougie Freedman wants protection for Wilfried Zaha.
Burnley assistant Tindall stepped in for the grieving Eddie Howe following the sudden death of his mother Annie.
Howe missed the game at Turf Moor and the players wore black armbands as a mark of respect as well as observing a minute's silence.
Darren Ambrose's second-half penalty earned Palace a point to cancel out Jay Rodriguez's early spot-kick with Zaha seeing red for the visitors for kicking out at David Edgar off the ball.
Tindall was disappointed Burnley could not get the win for Howe.
Tough day"
"It was a tough day for everybody, no-one more so than Eddie obviously," said Tindall.
"We are just disappointed that we couldn't get the win for him and his family.
"We had a great start and for the first 25 minutes were the better team.
"I thought we were unlucky not to extend our lead but we didn't test their goalkeeper as much as we would have liked to.
"I don't think the penalty for Palace was the right decision and I am disappointed the referee has given it.
"We want to win every game, but we wanted to win this one especially for the manager.
"The main thing is we have stopped the little rot we have been on and got something out of it."
Freedman had no complaints with Zaha's dismissal, but wants officials to give more protection to the tricky winger.
"I think a draw is a fair result and I am very happy with that point because we didn't start very well," said Freedman.
"Our character shone through in the end, but by getting back on level terms and holding on to that point after going down to 10 men.
"I felt the referee made the right decision not to send Jonathan Parr off when he gave away the early penalty because I felt we had a covering player, and I also felt the red card he showed to Wilfried Zaha was the right decision too.
"He has clipped a player's heels out of frustration but I think he has been dealt a rough deal in that he has been chopped down by the opposition four or five times before that.
"The referee didn't protect him and we need to ask referees to do that because there is no substitute for skill, and Wilfried showed plenty leading up to our penalty.
"I am disappointed by the treatment he received on the pitch."


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Mushroom Cloud
Ominous Mushroom Cloud seen from Hoboken
Was checking out Pier 13 along the Hudson River the other day – and spotted this very eerie looking cloud to the north. Look like a massive atomic bomb mushroom cloud.
Thankfully for us, it was not.
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Packers placed WR Randall Cobb (broken leg) on injured reserve/designated to return.
Bears waived WR Tanner Gentry.
The Chicago Tribune reports ex-Bears and Panthers CB Charles "Peanut" Tillman is training to join the FBI.
James Harrison has played just four snaps through the Steelers' first two games.
Panthers placed TE Greg Olsen on injured reserve with a broken foot.
Rashard Higgins is listed as a starter on the Browns' unofficial depth chart.
Jerry Jones said Dak Prescott (ankle) will be ready for Week 3.
Redskins coach Jay Gruden said the team has to be "careful" with Chris Thompson.
Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal reports Corey Coleman (broken hand) is expected to be placed on injured reserve.
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports Jordy Nelson (quad) is "50-50" for Week 3 against the Bengals.
Brandon Marshall caught 1-of-5 targets for 17 yards in the Giants' Week 2 loss to the Lions.
Ameer Abdullah rushed 17 times for 86 yards in the Lions' Week 2 win over the Giants.


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A COUNCILLOR and housing reps rolled up their sleeves to clear fly-tipped rubbish from a derelict Braithwaite pub.
The public-spirited trio delved into a pile of bin bags that included household drugs and insulin needles.
Coun Jan Smithies led the impromptu clean-up after the entire contents of a house were dumped outside the Braithwaite Tavern.
She was joined by Incommunities manager James Quigley because the housing body is the biggest landlord in Braithwaite.
The pair were helped by resident Darren Baines who serves as a volunteer on the Incommunities management board.
Cllr Smithies said the contents of the bin bags revealed someone had systematically gutted a house room by room.
She said: "Residents had been ringing me non-stop for three weeks about this rubbish.
"It was a public health hazard. It was dumped right opposite the school.
"It looked like someone had done a flit from a house. There was kids' stuff, adults' stuff, whole cupboards of food.
"Worryingly we found prescription drugs and things for injecting insulin. Children were going into the bags."
The Braithwaite Tavern, formerly the Timothy Taylor, has been closed for about eight years and has become a magnet for dumping and vandalism.
Bradford Council owns the land the pub stands on, and a private company owns the building itself.
District councillors who represent Keighley West ward have made efforts in recent months to bring the site back into use, and the pub was put back on the market.
Coun Smithies said: "The council is very open to suggestions how the site should be used. They want something to be done with it.
"We really want pub to be sold, so it can be used for the community.
"In the meantime, the building is deteriorating and is a prime site for dumping."
Coun Smithies said the pub owners were looking for someone to clean the site fully, and planned measures to stop fly-tippers getting into the car park with their vehicles.
Coun Smithies added that blocking the pub entrance might not be popular with parents who use the former car park while taking children to and from nearby Merlin Top and Phoenix primary schools.
Coun Smithies paid tribute to the involvement of Incommunities, which manages the former council housing on the Braithwaite and Guard House estate.
She said: "They have no responsibility to get involved, but did it as a goodwill gesture because their residents were affected."


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Crate and Barrel has announced that it is partnering with Italian designer, architect, art director and interior designer Paola Navone on exclusive housewares collections that include tabletop, textiles, decorative accessories, lighting, rugs, dining tables and seating.
The first of three planned collections designed by Navone will consist of more than 140 items across the multiple categories.
"Every project begins with a meeting, be it a master, a craftsman, an artist or a business owner. Each meeting is the beginning of a beautiful adventure," said Navone. "My first meeting with Marta Calle was the spark that ignited this dynamic collaboration with Crate and Barrel. Many people from different cultures and parts of the world helped contribute to the Paola Navone Collection Only at Crate and Barrel. We all come away feeling enriched from this experience."
Each piece in the collection incorporates Navone's personal entertaining style, according to Crate and Barrel. At its heart are three distinct tabletop offerings, designed exclusively for Crate and Barrel, including a selection of ceramic dinnerware, flatware, hand-blown glassware, serving pieces, plus table linens and accessories. The collection also offers a wide array of dining furniture, including eleven dining table options complemented by nine different seating alternatives.
With her first collection with Crate and Barrel, Navone draws upon her lifetime of travel and passion for global culture and design.
"Paola draws influence from many cultures, which she blends effortlessly into her designs, her homes and her personal style," said Marta Calle, Crate and Barrel President and Chief Merchant. "We are thrilled to collaborate with Paola on this exclusive, affordably-priced collection, which reflects our shared values of casual elegance in entertaining and everyday living."


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Florida Boy Survives Being Sucked into Drain Pipe
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(FORT MYERS, Fla.) — A 5-year-old Florida boy survived being sucked into a drain pipe Thursday and carried several hundred yards to a nearby river.
The boy, who was not identified by police, was playing with other children in a ditch filled with water Thursday afternoon in Fort Myers, Fla., when he was suddenly pulled into the drain pipe.
One of the two other children playing in the ditch with the boy ran inside to tell adults, who then ran into the ditch to look for him, according to authorities.
The boy was only in the drain pipe for a few minutes, according to reports, before being dumped into the Caloosahatchee River. He was rescued from the river by the adults and first responders looking for him.
The boy was taken to a local hospital and is expected to be fine, according to authorities.
Further north, in Georgia, flash floods were so severe that two camp counselors found themselves stranded when their car was washed downstream while they tried to cross a small stream. The two counselors were unharmed and were pulled ashore by a water rescue team.
Another road nearby was completely washed out by the floods, leaving residents stranded on the other side.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (JTA) – The distinction of being the first European to visit China almost went to a Jew. Publisher Little, Brown and Company was set to publish a book claiming that an Italian Jewish trader, Jacob d'Ancona, traveled to China in 1270 – four years before Marco Polo, the Italian merchant who is traditionally given credit for establishing the first contact by a European with China. But the New York-based publishing house announced this week that it was postponing publication of the book, "The City of Light," after scholars raised doubts about its authenticity. The book, which was featured in a front-page article in the Sept. 21 edition of The New York Times, was written by British author David Selbourne, who said it was based on a 13th-century manuscript written by d'Ancona. Selbourne, who said he translated and edited the manuscript after he found it in Italy, continues to vouch for its authenticity.
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Is it safe to have microdermabrasion or chemical peel done a week before going through Active FX or Deep FX? I read something that said this would be beneficial prior to treatment and I did not do it (I'll have the treatment in 3 days).
Microdermabrasion or Chemical Peel a Week Before Active FX or Deep FX?
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Pretreatment for Active FX
It is unnecessary to have microdermabrasion or a peel before active fx, unless you doctor is doing a very superficial Active FX and feels you otherwise won't see much change. What you don't want is to have peel and not tell your doctor so he can adjust the settings accordingly- otherwise you may end up with prolonged healing .
Microdermabrasion or Chemical Peel before Active FX or Deep FX
I think that anything that you can do to improve your skin condition before and ActiveFX or any other type of laser to the skin will improve the final outcome of the procedure. Be always sure to notify your physician about what "on the side" skin programs you are doing.
Chemical peel before laser procedure
There is nothing wrong with having a microdermabrasion or chemical peel done before the Active FX or Deep FX laser procedure. However, since the Active FX and Deep FX laser procedures, in essence, are a type of peel, there is nothing to be gained by doing the microdermabrasion or chemical peel prior to the laser procedure.
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Stay away from significant procedures 2-4 weeks before Active or Deep FX
There are different degrees that you can carry out microdermabrasion and chemical peels prior to Active FX or CO2 laser resurfacing. Depending on the depth, this could effect your laser treatment. If done deeper, the CO2 laser will then be more aggressive than the doctor had anticipated and could lead to complications such as scarring and pigmentation problems. I would not do any significant procedure such as the microderm and chemical peel for 2-4 weeks before the procedure to be safe.
Consulting a Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon would be something that I would recommend. We specialize in the face and are highly qualified to help you with this.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Our Foundational Course offers four levels of instruction designed to bring you to the high conversation level. It is a preparatory course for total immersion which will take you to the fluid level. The combination of the course-work and the recommended hours of practice with the native speakers will develop your skills. You will learn to read, write, speak, and understand Spanish while having fun! If you are busy, no problem; the weekly level-specific class and minimal homework allows quick learning even with a full schedule!


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A voice for creative leadership
Since August, Deborah Borda has been a Hauser Leader-in-Residence at the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School, where she has been sharing her passion for the arts and imparting life lessons to leaders-in-training.
The mystery of Mahler
American audiences quickly embraced the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler when he moved to the United States, and to a surprising degree, lecturer Federico Cortese told an Ed Portal audience.
GSAS student joins worldwide discussion
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Matthew Mugmon will be one of seven panelists convened by the New York Philharmonic for a worldwide, online discussion on Harvard alumni Leonard Bernstein's groundbreaking tours to the former Soviet Union, Japan, Europe, and South America.
Symphonies and salsa
In late May and early June the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra traveled to Cuba for a series of concerts in Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, and Havana.
Child prodigies, maybe
Study suggests our assumptions about natural talent can influence our judgments, overlooking and undervaluing the impact of hard work.


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Dean Johnson Cited in Public Radio Report on 'Mexican Repatriation'
An article by Dean Kevin R. Johnson on "The Forgotten 'Repatriation' of Persons of Mexican Ancestry and Lessons for the 'War on Terror'" is quoted extensively in a report by Southern California Public Radio station KPCC on the Depression-era push by the federal government to "repatriate" Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to Mexico. Tens of thousands were sent to Mexico from the Los Angeles area, where a monument to the victims of the "Mexican Repatriation" recently was unveiled.
Dean Johnson's article, published in Pace Law Review in 2005, notes that many of those deported were United States citizens. "Although 'repatriation' is the term often used to refer to the campaign to remove hundreds of thousands of persons of Mexican ancestry from the United States in the 1930s, it is not entirely accurate," wrote Dean Johnson. "Federal, state, and local governments worked together to involuntarily remove many U.S. citizens of Mexican ancestry, many of whom were born in the United States. These citizens cannot be said to have been 'repatriated' to their native land."
Kevin R. Johnson is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o studies at UC Davis School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.
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"The Forgotten 'Repatriation' of Persons of Mexican Ancestry and Lessons for the 'War on Terror'"


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Washington's Blog [1]
October 25, 2013
Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives.
The NSA not only spied on the leaders of Germany [2], Brazil [3] and Mexico [4], but on at least 35 world leaders [5].
The Guardian reports [5]:
One unnamed US official handed over 200 numbers, including those of the 35 world leaders, none of whom is named. These were immediately "tasked" for monitoring by the NSA.
That's just one incident we know about. The NSA also spies on the European Union [6], the European Parliament [7], the G20 summit [8] and other allies.
The NSA asked [5] government agencies to share their Rolodexes, so the NSA would have phone numbers for top foreign political and military leaders.
A confidential government memo admits [5] that the spying didn't help prevent terrorism:
The memo acknowledges that eavesdropping on the numbers had produced "little reportable intelligence".
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Because the leaders of allies such as Germany, Brazil, Mexico, the EU and G-20 have no ties to Al Qaeda terrorists, the spying was obviously done for other purposes.
The NSA conducts widespread industrial espionage [9] on our allies. That has nothing to do with terrorism, either.
Indeed, there is no evidence that mass surveillance has prevented a single terrorist attack [10]. On the contrary, top counter-terror experts say that mass spying actually hurts U.S. counter-terror efforts [11](more here [12] and here [13]).
If NSA spying were really focused on terrorism, our allies and companies wouldn't be fighting back so hard [14] against it.
And even the argument that 9/11 changed everything holds no water. Spying [15] started before 9/11 [16] … andvarious excuses have been used to spy on Americans over the years [17]. Even NSA's industrial espionage has been going on for many decades [9]. And the NSA was already spying on American Senators more than40 years ago [18].
Governments who spy on their own population always do it to crush dissent [19]. (Why do you think that the NSA is doing exactly the same thing which King George did to the American colonists … which led to the Revolutionary War [20]?)
Of course, if even half of what a NSA whistleblower Russel Tice says – that the NSA is spying on – andblackmailing – top American government officials and military officers [21] (and see this [22]) – then things are really out of whack.


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Interview with 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Paul C. Lauterbur, 11 December 2003. The interviewer is Peter Sylwan, science writer.
Professor Lauterbur talks about his experiences during the Nobel week; the discovery of magnetic resonance imaging and how it was received (3:21); his previous research in chemistry (12:08); and prospects for the future (13:52).
Try to save some patients and learn about human blood types!
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Renger van der Zande shows potential with Team Lotus
The track of Spa-Francorchamps has a range of highs and lows. And the same can be said for the Lotus LMP2 Team with Renger van der Zande. Things went up and down for the swift Dutch driver, who was making his debut in this class. Although Renger was pushed off the track in the final leg, he and the team handed in a fine performance during the six-hour WEC race.
Francorchamps, 6 May 2012
The Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps for the World Championship for Le Mans Prototypes came off to a wet start. Occasionally, the rain turned into a downpour – something of a handicap for the Lotus LMP2 team, which had had limited track time, and on a dry track besides. Renger van der Zande handled the start for the team, lining up at the fifth position on the grid. He was more than able to hold his ground in this phase and play it safe. He was putting in some good times, and when he handed the wheel to his team mate Holzer after 90 minutes, Lotus was still on P5 and the fastest Lola behind two Oreca/Nissans and twee Morgan/Judds. The weather had since cleared up and Holzer also drove a fine stint. Around 6, Schultis took over, but unfortunately, he sustained some damage during a spin at the back of the circuit. Still, the team managed to get the car back on the road fairly quickly, although by now, Lotus had slipped back to eighth. At 7:30, Renger got back in the seat for the final offensive. He delivered a tight performance, chalking up better times with each new lap. But in Lap 124, 45 minutes before the end of the race, there was a mishap. After overtaking the car in front of him, Van der Zande's car was clipped at the heels and ended in the barrier. This ended the race for Team #31. Right before the finish, Lotus 'hit the wall', as runners would put it. Nevertheless, the team felt they had put in a good performance with this race.
Renger: 'Well, that rounds off an exciting weekend… with ups and downs. With only ten laps for training on Thursday and two qualifying laps on Friday, I got to start the day on a wet track. It went well though, and I was settling into a solid rhythm. The track was incredibly busy, with over 40 cars, including the faster LMP1 types and the slower GTs, so I needed to drive extremely clearly. The many overtaking manoeuvres you end up in eventually involve some tight steering. The team worked hard to get the job done and were able to quickly resolve a damage halfway-through. I consider it a big compliment that Lotus asked me to handle the final offensive. Which made it all the worse when it was me of all people who ended up in the Armco. It was going really well, but then I was tapped by the car behind me after I had passed it. That ended the race for me, robbed of an illusion and with a load of damage to the car besides. But nevertheless, we presented our calling card as Team Lotus LMP2.'