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Driving holidays in the top of the South Island
Yearning for touring without the traffic jams? Seeking scenery and roads that don't send you to sleep? And want cool cars to cruise in? Read on...
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You know those car ads with the beautiful people driving along an empty road in a 'I want one' car, a backdrop of stunning sea views, enticing sweeping bends, seemingly endless straights, framed by majestic towering mountains, the blazing sunlight glinting off the waves, caressing rolling green fields or peeping through dappled leaves.......that only exists in advertising la la land or some obscure part of the Italian countryside way back in 1957 right?
Wrong. You can experience it all for real in the Top of New Zealand's South Island now, starting with the drive from Nelson to Golden Bay for example. I've taken this road trip many times in all seasons in both RentAClassics 1999 Saab convertible and 1972 MG BGT, and never tire of the sights or the roads that wind their way there.
Touring near Abel Tasman National Park
Leaving Nelson / Richmond on State Highway 60 you can immediately get distracted by the nearby vineyards but press on (!) and take the scenic route off via Mapua and Ruby Bay. There the road for a stretch goes right alongside the sea before climbing the cliffs and swooping back through orchards and fields. The Jester House along here is a charming place to stop and eat outdoors. Re-joining the main highway it gets all coastal again passing over the Moutere Inlet, (look out for the stone messages at low tide), before entering Motueka, where Toad Hall and Up The Garden Path provide fine pitstop fare.
Reaching Riwaka you face a tricky dilemma. You could follow the crowd and turn right for the gorgeous Kaiteriteri and water taxis to the heart of the Abel Tasman. Parking at Stephens Bay and walking in over the cliffs you feel like you've stumbled upon a location from a James Bond movie. Indeed the UK Guardian newspaper named this as one of the top 5 beaches in the world. We can even tell you where to park for just 7 minutes walk to the popular Split Apple Rock beach, with no kayaks necessary!
Takaka Hill - The Road Less Travelled
I'd urge you to turn left however and head for Takaka, fully embracing their "It's just a hill, get over it!" slogan. There's the intriguing Ngarua Caves on the 'Lord of the Rings' marble mountain location, and several signed walks at the top to break the journey. It's a great winding drive, the RentAClassic MG relishing the bends and emitting glorious burbles and blips on the way down, the Saab convertible effortlessly turbocharging up and wondering what all the fuss is about. You'll want to ensure you have its powered top down before you start the descent though, as you'll want to take in as much as you can of the truly panoramic vista of Upper Takaka valley way below backed by mountains - just make sure your passenger is describing the finer detail for you! Once in the valley the road opens up, dipping, diving and stretching out through gently rolling fields and farmland before bringing you into Takaka itself. It was voted No 3 in the Top 10 NZ roads - check out this video to get a taster. Whilst the MG did the climb in summer heat barely breaking into a sweat, I found a dip in Takaka river a great cooling reviver and far more healthy than any coffee break - just don't stay in too long - it's rather bracing....
Golden Bay - Drive, Stay, Play
Golden Bay is a wonderful place - unspoilt, uncommercialised, unstressed and under estimated as a destination. My favourate places? The Village Theatre cinema with its bean bags and sofas, and the WholeMeal or the Brigand Cafe, all in Takaka, or the Labyrinth Rocks Park just outside. Sans Souci accommodation and restaurant in Pohara, and watching for manta rays from the deck of the Jacques Cousteau Pirate Expresso Ship moored nearby. Or driving further along the winding mediterranean like cliff road, to walk to Wainui Falls or into the top of the Abel Tasman park. Or simply watching the sun go down into stunning sunsets from the myriad uncrowded beaches. Heading to Collingwood makes for a very rewarding drive too, (especially if Rosie Glow chocolates is open!), but you've got to go the extra mile to make it to the very special Wharariki Beach. Twenty minutes walk from the car park brings you to a magical sandscape of dunes, caves, seals and wild, windswept sea.
And then you've got the drive back all over again to look forward to. And yes, even in high summer the traffic is pretty light, especially in Golden Bay and hugely so compared to Europe holiday destinations. On several occasions I haven't met any traffic on my side for an hour or more. So all the elements of the car ad are there - with RentAClassic supplying you with the cool, characterful and classy car to do it in. The only thing we can't really promise I guess is the beautiful people part.....but then again, it's not just the outside that counts now is it.....?
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Tofu Recipe Ideas (How To Prepare Tofu)
Whether you're trying to fit in your bikini for the remaining days of the summer, don't like the taste of meat (like my husband Lulu), you have moral concerns or just want to cut down your grocery bills, tofu might be the ingredient to turn to.
If you're a meat lover like me, you might have preconceived notions of what tofu tastes like. When I first met my husband, I was put off by tofu because I felt that it was boring and lacking taste. Well, after seven years of marriage, I can say that I was wrong! Tofu, or soybean curd, is pretty bland by itself, but picture it as a blank canvas upon which you can "paint" whatever flavors you'd like.
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I would like your opinion regarding the risk/benefit of proton beam radiotherapy vs. conventional radiotherapy in a patient with a low-risk cancer status-post radical prostatectomy who now has rising PSA levels (biochemical failure) without any imaging evidence of recurrent tumor- hence, suspected local recurrence. Is there really less morbidity to proton beam therapy, without compromise in efficacy?
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The major advantage of protons is that the area being treated with radiation can be specifically targeted while sparing the surrounding normal tissues, thanks to unique properties of the proton beam. Learn more about the differences between proton therapy and photon therapy (3-D conformal and IMRT Radiation) in this article. Sparing of normal tissue may be important when a tumor is near critical normal tissues that cannot tolerate high doses of radiation. There are ongoing studies evaluating protons for treatment of prostate cancer.
However, in a man who has already had a radical prostatectomy and now has a recurrence, the entire area where the prostate gland was located needs to be treated. Because the bladder and rectum fall into the hole where the prostate gland was previously located, there is no way to spare these structures from radiation by using protons.
There may be a reduced risk of secondary cancers due to radiation when protons are used because they spread less radiation dose to normal tissues. However, this is theoretical, and most models available at present suggest that a special type of proton beam, known as a scanning beam, would be best at reducing dose to normal tissues. Unfortunately, this beam is not yet widely available.
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Here's news, links, and updates – just some of what caught my eye around the net this week (brought to you by my handy Twitter page). It's a bit shorter than normal, because, well, you know . . .
- Al Gore is charging $1,209 to take a picture & shake hands with him at Copenhagen. Not sure how much you pay to not shake hands with him?
- Funeral for Anna Woolf 2pm this Saturday, December 5th, at North Harbour Stadium's function centre.
- Ben Bernanke: financial firefighter or arsonist?:
- ClimateGate Fraud Phil Jones, "the Bernie Madoff of science community," slinks away in disgrace from CRU
- ARC-TV's Featured Selection: "Introduction to #Objectivism" by Leonard Peikoff
- Huffington Post Suffers ClimateGate Panic Attack
- Google trends on "climategate" show public interest increasing - but troubling questions loom:
- From the sell-out files: RT @cjlambert: John Key confirms he will attend Copenhagen climate change conference. FFS!
- New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/yfgvvo6 - Your basic no-brainer: Govt spending is unsustainable
- ClimateGate Professor in "helps police with enquiries" while researchers call for him to be banned http://bit.ly/6fydmw
- New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/ykjjo63 - "Super" city is going to mean super-sized spending
- Get into that Holiday Spirit. The 12 days of globalwarming
- Malcolm Turnbull : the first political victim of Climategate? http://bit.ly/4XTMwL 11:57 AM Dec 1st from TweetDeck
- World's strongest beer launched: Tactical Nuclear Penguin.
- Climate Change Reconsidered: A scientific conference based on the fact that the scientific debate is NOT over.
http://bit.ly/6mVWAI 11:43 AM Dec 1st from TweetDeck
- Jon Stewart on Climategate:
"Poor Al Gore: global warming completely debunked via the internet you invented."
"Why would you throw out raw data from the eighties? I still have Penthouses from the seventies!
- Phil Jones steps down while ClimateGate inquiry takes place:
- A glimmer of hope in the age of Obama: Prospects for drug reform are better than they've been in decades
- New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/y89sx68 - National's "No!" to Brash a part of their same non-productive pattern
- New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/yket8z2 - "It looks like you're trying to generate a Hockey Stick graph . . . "
Jay Galt has noticed a great deal of climate change in his lifetime. We call it 'weather.'"
- Obama in March 2009: "[M]ake scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
Obama today: Climategate? Whatever.
- New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/ycuokw5 - Anna Woolf, aka Annie Fox 12:29 PM Nov 30th from API
- New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/y87vhee - CLIMATEGATE: When there's more important things to put on your front page
- I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets -
- I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a month of my tweets -
- Peter Schiff Debates Fed Officials: In a rare opportunity to debate Fed officials, Schiff doesn't pull his punches. http://bit.ly/5TbCeW
- ReTweet @HenryKisssinger: Phil Jones ALMOST got away with the perfect scam. Is all about making money (carbon trading) out of thin air - CO2, that is
- Climategate Master Criminal Phil Jones Collected $22.6 Million in Grants
http://bit.ly/8MehtT #fraud 1:57 PM Nov 28th from TweetDeck
- Derek&Clive (aka Peter Cook&Dudley Moore) talk about saving endangered fucking species. Hilarious, if you're not easily offended. http://bit.ly/90W38s
- Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barack Obama's Cap & Trade laws
- #ClimateGate: "Ninety-five percent of the nails were in the coffin prior to this week. Now they are all in"
- Good news: The poor continue to get richer. Steve Horwitz has Census Bureau data at his site:
- Euro MP Godfrey Bloom gets to the nub of the AGW agenda
- Garth George - Another bloody cheerleader for mediocrity!
- "New Zealand doesn't need a taskforce to beat Australia, it actually needs a taskforce to fend off India, China and much more motivated races of people who are climbing out of poverty with more motivation than any New Zealander would ever dream of possessing while remaining in New Zealand."
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- Lindsay Perigo remembers his last great liquid lunch with Anna Woolf – which turned out to be two years before we thought!
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- And finally, you might like to know about this: "Cresswell facing fraud charges." It's not what you think, honest!
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
January 2014 federal polling averages
I finished writing "Tapping into the Pulse" yesterday, and I am going through the final revisions. Then the book will go through the process of being turned into a readable ebook! I hope you'll find it interesting. I have certainly enjoyed writing it. If you haven't already, please consider putting in a pre-order to reserve your copy. You'll get a sneak peek of the first three chapters when the book is released to the Kickstarter backers on or before February 28!
The Greens were up 0.5 points to 5.4%, while the Bloc Québécois was down 1.5 points to 4.9%. Support for other parties stood at 1.5%.
Comparing the four national polls conducted in January to the last time these firms were active within a similar window, we see the New Democrats have made a significant gain from a particular low level.
At the regional levels, the Liberals continued to lead in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada, with the Conservatives ahead in Alberta and the Prairies.
The Liberals gained 0.7 points to reach 36.7% support in Quebec, their best numbers since August 2013. The NDP also reached a high since then, up 3.4 points to 28.8%. The Bloc reached a low since August 2013 with a fall of 3.3 points to 18.5%, while the Conservatives were up 0.4 points to 12.5%. They have been between 12% and 13% for seven months now. The Greens were down 1.5 points to 3%.
The Conservatives were down 1.3 points in the Prairies to 35.6%, while the Liberals dropped for the third consecutive month to 30.2%, a fall of 5.9 points since November. The NDP put up their best numbers since January 2013, with a gain of 5.4 points to 27.8% support. The Greens were up 1.1 points to 5.2%.
In Atlantic Canada, the Liberals were up 5.1 points to 52.5%, while the NDP and Conservatives were both pegged at less than 25% for the third consecutive month. The NDP was down 0.7 points to 21.9% and the Conservatives were down 3.7 points to 21.1%. The Greens slipped 0.7 points to 3.4%.
The Conservatives dropped 5.9 points to 50.6% support in Alberta, their lowest level since May 2013. The Liberals were up 8.4 points to 27.6%, their best since then. The NDP was down four points to 14.5%, while the Greens were up 1.6 points to 5.7%.
And in British Columbia, the Liberals decreased by 4.7 points to 30.4%, followed by the Conservatives at 28.9% (+1.6), the NDP at 27.6% (-1.3), and the Greens at 10.6% (+3).
The Liberals dropped most of their seats in Ontario, falling seven to 53. They were also down two seats in both the Prairies and Quebec. But they were up two seats in Alberta and three in Atlantic Canada.
The Conservative seat gains were in Ontario, where they picked up eight. They were also up one in British Columbia, though they were down one in the Prairies, two in Alberta, and three in Atlantic Canada.
The New Democrats gained 10 seats in Quebec and three in the Prairies, while dropping one in Ontario and two in British Columbia.
January showed a continuation of what we had seen in 2013. The Liberals retain the lead, which they have held now since April 2013. The Conservatives remain below 30% and the NDP is stuck in third. There are some interesting regional contests, though, with a three-way race persisting in British Columbia and Ontario and Quebec hardly decided.
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Éric, to boost your sample size for December you could add Forum's belatedly revealed numbers (shown in their January poll reports), which would make the averages something like LPC 35 CPC 29 NDP 22 and reinforce your narrative about not much changing over the last few months.ReplyDelete
How can the Green party gain a seat in your model when their vote share in the poll average is only slightly above what they got in 2011 and there is no riding they came close to winning in 2011ReplyDeleteReplies
Because of the Victoria by-election (and the fact that going from 7.7 to 10.6 in BC is the equivalent of a boost of more than one-third).Delete
Most of Andrew Weaver's riding lies in the Victoria riding too, suggesting that this wasn't just a blip. The Greens have a lot of organization in Greater Victoria.Delete
By-elections are strange beasts and Weaver won because he was a very star candidate. The Greens have potential to win Victoria but, to do so they will need another star candidate. The "average run-of-the-mill" Green candidate would not be able to pull it off.Delete
If there is one riding where the Greens can recruit a 'star' candidate, it is in Victoria. No where else can they give a candidate a reasonable shot of winning.Delete
Donald Galloway was a pretty solid candidate too. If he decides to run again he's who I would bet on winning.Delete
I'll continue to remain a skeptic the accuracy of pollsters being what they are of late.Delete
I thought that your model was based on the swing from the last general election and didn't include midterm byelection results. I suspect the Greens will be a factor in Victoria next time - but the byelection was their big opportunity and in a general election they will be drowned out by the air war from the major parties.ReplyDeleteReplies
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By-elections are also taken into account. When the result of a by-election was significantly different from the results of the previous general election, the proportional swing is applied to the by-elections results based on how current polling levels differ from where the parties stood in the polls at the time of the by-election.
Conservatives retain ThornhillReplyDelete
NDP captures Niagara Falls.
Why didn't 308 do a profile on the byelections? You did one on other byelections. I hope it wasn't because the results reflected poorly on the Liberals. This site is predominantly filled with good news stories for the Liberals and bad-news stories for the NDP.ReplyDeleteReplies
That is a product of the Liberals doing well in the polls and the NDP doing less well in the polls. When the NDP does better in the polls, I'll write good news stories about them.Delete
I didn't profile the by-elections because I had put off the January federal averages for too long, and I didn't want to write too much about the Forum polls after the misses of November 2013.
Or it was a conspiracy.
Also, I seem to recall a lot of good news stories I wrote here last year about the BC NDP.Delete
Eric - I don't suppose you have numbers for the new Delta riding handy do you? My riding association's founding meeting is Saturday, would love to be able to tell folks where we stand.ReplyDeleteReplies
You know it wouldn't be accurate to present it that way, though.Delete
It gives a decent idea of the big picture. Obviously we'll do our own internal polling down the line, but it'd be interesting information to say the least.Delete
As long as you explain the caveats. For that riding, the model spit out:Delete
Now, be sure to share the results of your internal polling with all of us when you have them.Delete
I'll do my best :)Delete
Is it possible to know what those numbers would be like under the old 308 map? I have built my own simulator and would like to know how it fares compared to yours. Using the 2011 map with the regional numbers of the 5 polls average, I have a seat count that looks like:ReplyDelete
I get my numbers by using the trend for every riding compared to the regional trend for the past 4 elections, using the differential of the last election only and adding the result to the regional numbers. I'm still a bit unsure about the "last election trend", but my numbers seem better with it than without it (if I take a look at my Québec seat count, since that's where I live and have a better feel of how things are playing out).
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I bought the nuwave oven thinking I'd use it every now and then but I actually use it everyday several times a day! If your a mom this is such a convenient and time saving way to cook for kids. I use this 10 times more than my stove or microwave. If it broke today I would definitely have to replace it. The summers here are very hot so I don't like to use my oven due to the heat. The nuwave lets out little heat and makes cooking more enjoyable. The only thing I wish I had known was ordering it from here would give me all the gadgets that are extra if you buy it from the store. Other than that I would recommend it to anyone. Makes the best burgers I've ever had. Actually I hardly cook on my grill because this makes food so much better. So if you are wondering whether to purchase it...DO IT!!! It's the best kitchen appliance EVER!!! I've had it for months and not one problem....Pros: Cooks from frozen, Saves time, Conserves energy, Meals are healthier, Foods tastes better, Doesn't require pre-heating, Less heat it the kitchen, Clean up is easy, I can take it anywhere!
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Freezing Temperatures in California Threaten Citrus Crop
(LOS ANGELES) -- A deep freeze in California is imperiling the state's $1 billion citrus crop, the LA Times reports.
The National Weather Service said that many San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley areas recorded temperatures in the high 20s to low 30s overnight, while Lancaster and Palmdale recorded 16-degree lows. Long Beach, on the coast, even hit temperatures in the low 30s. A meteorologist with the NWS said it isn't unusual for California to get cold snaps at this time of year, but they haven't had one this cold in a while, the paper says.
Although the state's citrus farmers were off to a good start -- selling up to $300 million in citrus already -- the cold temperatures are causing concern, with $1 billion in oranges, lemons, tangerines and grapefruit still on trees, according to the LA Times.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Comic 457:
It took me a long time to get the joke here, believe it or not. I sort of saw the joke - but it felt wrong, like I was looking at it in a mirror or underwater or something. It didn't make me laugh, and I suspect most people would be hard pressed to say what the joke actually is - is it a comment on the difficulty of bra un-hookings? Is it an idea for a devilish, nerd-friendly product? Is it a nerdy fantasy, "if only I could understand women by going online and reading some tutorials! Tutorials with Java!"
I eventually came to the conclusion that it's basically just a comment along the lines of "bras are a puzzle just like any other one", and, perhaps on a deeper level, that nerds see only the physical puzzle and not the social and psychological one required to get there.
In any case I think it fails because it's too hard to see the point (and again, if you don't think that's the point of the comic, please tell me what is). Rubik's cubes are generally played with as physical objects, but they are entirely mathematical puzzles. That's why they can be done entirely on computers and solved by algorithm. It's really no different than if the cube in the comic were a series of addition problems.
I think he should have taken an actual physical puzzle - something like one of these bad dudes:
That would have been a much closer analogy and made a bit more sense. I mean, those puzzles are supposed to come apart in the end - even when you solve a rubik's cube you are left with the cube in one piece, and so it's not going to help you when you are getting laid. It's just going to be uncomfortable.
And the deal with the wordless comics is this - in this case, it's not a comic. Not by any stretch., It's just a flitter of an idea - something that popped into Randall's head. Most people would take this potentially funny idea and work with it, develop it into more than just a "hey what if this existed" joke - but apparently randall thinks it's fine to post as is, and hey, let's take off for the weekend.
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Another great opportunity for just One More Panel!ReplyDelete
In this case, Panel One would be a guy and girl sitting at a cafe, with the guy looking up at an elaborate dialog tree and thinking hard at it.
Panel Two: he bedded her! But the puzzles aren't over. Damn.
Or two kids in middle school - one is a jock who is hitting on girls, one is a nerd practicing his Cubing (guess which one I was...). Then flash forward 10 years - they are each in bed with a girl and lo and behold, they are each confronted with a rubik's cube as seen in the comic. The jock tries to solve it for a minute, gives up, and leaves, annoyed. The nerd just smiles and starts solving.ReplyDelete
"It took me a long time to get the joke here, believe it or not. I sort of saw the joke - but it felt wrong, like I was looking at it in a mirror or underwater or something. It didn't make me laugh, and I suspect most people would be hard pressed to say what the joke actually is"ReplyDelete
By the way, until this post actually mentioned the bra, I thought it was about 458, which is also unfunny, not a joke, and confusing as to what the punchline is (quick, everyone kiss everyone else! no regrets!).
Except, of course, that I still don't get the joke on Regrets. And also I don't expect to find one.ReplyDelete
hey, i don't know if you ever read a softer world, (not quite everywhere enough to be overrated) but they just posted their rendition of an xkcd comic as a flattering gesture. it'd be cool to know what you think.ReplyDelete
A few people have sent me that comic; I think I'll post on it in the near future.ReplyDelete
That's a completely mathematical problem solved with the field of topology that deals with loops and toruqs and knots and whatnot*. :-pReplyDelete
* I am stupid.
Bah, topology! is what I say. But you know what I mean - it's a totally different kind of puzzle, one that is not fundamentally different to solve on the computer (where the turns are just like in real life, as opposed to the 'physical' puzzle where you can't really play around with it as needed on the computer).ReplyDelete
Comic still sucks, and several months later no one can explain why it's supposed to be funny.


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Bioshock Infinite available for pre-order, $59.99 for X-box, PS3 and PC
The new year has come. New being the key term here. How often does one hear the words "new"and "innovation" when speaking of technology? Every day? Probably. The video game industry thrives on creating the illusion of innovation, when in actuality most new titles borrow a little bit here, reference a little bit there; in other words, it's hard to find true innovation. Leave it to Ken Levine — creative director of Irrational Games — to revert the oft-hijacked-for-marketing term back to its original meaning. In Bioshock Infinite, Levine has reinvented the way games are played.
You may recall, way back in the last decade, Bioshock was the first-person action/role-playing game that allowed you to skirt the boundaries of Rapture with its Ayn Randian concept — an underwater city built on libertarian ideals months after it fell apart. Bioshock was such a different game that it spawned countless clones and became part of the gaming narrative: Is it possible to strike a balance between story and game play in such a way that neither affects the other negatively?
Levine taught us that, yes, it is possible. Not only is it possible, it's possible to do so while making a very good and successful game. It was such a good game, in fact, that Levine refused to work on Bioshock 2, a move that saw the sequel made by an entirely different team. No surprise that it fell short of its predecessor and missed the point entirely by adding an unneeded multiplayer aspect.
When Levine returned to Irrational Games, he brought years of study with him. One rarely thinks of politics or philosophy in the same sentence as a video game (though now is the golden age of such), but Levine does. Bioshock Infinite shows us how Levine's years of study have paid off in a morality play similar to the fairy tale Rapunzel.
In Bioshock Infinite, you play as Booker DeWitt sent on a mission to rescue a missing girl by the name of Elizabeth. The city you're sent to is Columbia — a not-so-subtle reference to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbia Exposition. Unlike its real-life counterpart, the city of Columbia floats in the sky as a flying island of sorts. The setting is steam-punk meets posh, with a bit of Les Misérables thrown in for good measure.
Unlike many nameless characters one plays in the vast number of first-person action titles available, Booker DeWitt is his own person, acting as a lens through which to experience Columbia. His choices might not be the ones you'd make, and you may disagree with him. In other words, the character is not you. A novel idea for a genre plagued with John Everyman types.
Expect battles similar in style to Bioshock, in which you incorporate heavy weaponry with supernatural powers. Enemies are larger than life and based on historical figures. Motorized Patriots, as they're referred to, are puppets from your Disneyland nightmares, George Washington with machine guns. "Four score and I'll blow your head off," he says. But not really; I'm unsure what he says. He should say that, though.
You might ask yourself, is it possible for a video game to overstate its intentions? Does Bioshock Infinite reek of being a little too much? For all of the complaints gamers get about their medium not being able to stand up against a book or a film, it's high time that critics pay attention to the true innovators; the Ken Levine's of the world who, despite the cry for redundant video gaming (Call of Duty will be in its 20th sequel by the time Infinite is released), ignore the siren call and choose to release an action title based on philosophy and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
We've been promised innovation before (cough, Fable, cough). This time it comes with delivery confirmation.
Chris O'Neal is waiting for his chance to visit the Chicago World's Fair. Follow him on Twitter @agentoneal.


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Go to the Dog Park in Katy, Texas for a Ruff-ericous Experience
The Katy Dog Park
5414 Franz Road
Katy, Texas
First of all, what is a dog park?
The Houston Dog Park Association (www.houstondogpark.org) states that, "Houston Dog Parks are public parks designated and built specifically for you and your dog to socialize and exercise safely and off-leash."
The Katy Dog Park consists of 14 acres of grass, shade trees, a paved walking trail, water fountains, benches, agility equipment, a doggie wading pool, and a dog washing area. It was opened in March 2007, and is managed by the City of Katy. Dogs of all sizes are welcome to walk off-the-leash seven days a week from dawn until dusk. Events such as HOWL-o-WEEN and PAWS in the Park Easter Egg Hunt, among others, are held yearly.
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APPEALING A SMALL CLAIMS, COMMERCIAL CLAIM, SUMMARY PROCEEDING or CIVIL COURT DECISION
(§1703 UCCA; § 5515 CPLR, § 210.38 Uniform Rules)
If either party to a Small Claim, Commercial Claim, Summary Proceeding or Civil action believes that a Plattsburgh City Court decision is legally incorrect, he/she may appeal to a Judge of the Clinton County Court. You should read the following in its entirety before proceeding with an appeal.
Scope of Appeal
Before deciding to appeal the decision, you should consider:
You may be permitted to "proceed as a poor person" and have the filing fee waived or have the transcripts paid for by the county and/or for assignment of an attorney for the appeal:
To request that the costs of the filing fee or of the transcripts be paid by the county and/or for assignment of an attorney, you will need to file a "poor person" application with the County Court pursuant to CPLR sec. 1101. If granted by the County Court, you will need to supply the City Court with the Order from the County Court.
Notice of Appeal
This is the form to use for the short, written statement to the Court stating that you are appealing. Filing the Notice of Appeal with the City Court is the first step, but is not the appeal itself. You will have an opportunity to provide the County Court with your written arguments only after the transcript of the City Court proceedings has been prepared and the City Court has filed the Return on Appeal (the City Court file) with the County Court. The specific procedures for an appeal are listed below.
Time Limits
There are strict time limits for filing a Notice of Appeal and "perfecting" or completing the appeal.
1. Appellant prepares an original and three copies of the Notice of Appeal
2. Appellant serves respondent with one copy of the Notice of Appeal. (CPLR 5515.1).
3. Appellant completes an Affidavit of Service.
4. Appellant files the original plus one copy of the Notice of Appeal and the Affidavit of Service with the City Court. Appellant pays the filing fee at City Court by cash, certified check or money order (UCCA 1911(a)(6). If Poor Person status is requested, no filing fees will be collected now. The Appellant will be required to take a stamped copy of the Notice of Appeal AND their Application for Poor Person Status to the County Court for filing. County Court will decide poor person status and notify City Court. If your application is denied, you will be required to pay the filing fee if you wish to proceed with your Appeal.
5. Appellant completes the "Request for Copy of Recorded Proceeding" indicating which transcriptionist he/she wishes to use and submits the Request with a blank compact disk.
6. City Court copies the digital recording onto the compact disk and forwards the recording to the transcriptionist with cover letter. It is the appellant's responsibility to contact the transcriptionist and arrange for payment.
7. Upon receipt of the typed transcript from the transcriptionist, City Court sends a letter to Appellant advising that they have 15 days from the date the transcript was received to review the transcript and advise of any proposed amendments to it. UCCA 1704(a)
8. Appellant must forward a copy of the transcript and any proposed amendments to the Respondent within the 15 days, with an Affidavit of Service to the City Court. The proposed amendments are alleged errors in the accuracy of the transcript, not your argument on the Appeal.
10. If both the Appellant and the Respondent agree with the Transcript, and there are no proposed amendments, the parties may stipulate that the transcript and all other documents are correct.
11. If the parties do not agree on the wording of the transcript, the Court Clerk must schedule, with at least 4 days notice, an appearance with the City Court Judge. The purpose of this appearance is for the parties and the Judge to resolve any differences concerning the transcript or to the amendments. Judge will "settle" the record and sign the Return within 5 days.
12. City Court Clerk files the Return (City Court file) with the County Court Clerk.
13. At this point, the appeal will be decided by the County Court. If you wish to file additional documentation or written arguments in support of the appeal with the County Court, you should contact the County Court Clerk's office at 137 Margaret Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901 for information on the procedure and time frames for submitting additional documents. Anything which you provide to the County Court must always also be provided to the opposing party.
14. If, after you have started an appeal, you change your mind and wish to discontinue or withdraw the appeal, you must notify both the City Court and the County Court, in writing. You should also notify the opposing party that you will not be proceeding with the appeal. You will still be responsible for any costs associated with the appeal up to that point, including payment to the transcriptionist for any portion of the transcript which has already been prepared.
15. After the appeal has been decided by the County Court, a copy of that decision will be mailed to you at the most recent address on file with the County Court.
NOTE: You may visit the Supreme Court Library located in your county for legal references on the filing of a civil appeal. Court personnel cannot provide legal advice. The Clinton County Supreme Court Law Library is located at 72 Clinton Street, Plattsburgh, NY 12901.


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We have received a proposal below for a new newsgroup, URODELES/bionet.organisms.urodeles This announcement marks the end of the six month "prototype newsgroup" period for the URODELES group at net.bio.net. Either the group now moves on through the voting process to full newsgroup status, i.e., a USENET newsgroup in addition to a mailing list, or else it will be shut down. This message will also be posted to the urodeles list. Discussion on the following proposal will now be open through 19 June on BIOFORUM/bionet.general (*not* on BIONEWS/bionet.announce). For those who are not on the BIOFORUM/bionet.general newsgroup currently, either read bionet.general on USENET or contact one of the following biosci addresses to sign up by e-mail: Subscription Address Location -------------------- -------- biosci at daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia biosci at net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim One warning, however: BIOFORUM/bionet.general is a "chatty" newsgroup and many other items will be discussed there besides this newsgroup proposal. USENET news access is definitely better than e-mail if you want to monitor only this discussion. Discussion Guidelines --------------------- Please do not post one-line messages saying things like "I am in favor of such a newsgroup". We will collect votes later. The discussion period is an opportunity for anyone to bring up reservations about the proposed charter below and to propose modifications prior to the vote. If the charter is perfect as is, then there is no need for anyone to say anything!!! The newsgroup discussion leader may submit a revised proposal in light of the discussion, and the new charter would be included in the call for votes which will go out on 20 June (Newsgroup Discussion leaders - please note this deadline - if no revisions are received before the deadline, the original charter will be voted on.). Please be aware that only one vote is counted per e-mail address, so it is necessary to have your own account in order to vote. Multiple votes from the same address are not accepted. If you are interested in the following newsgroup, but do not have an e-mail address of your own, please obtain one from your computer center before the call for votes is issued. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal to establish URODELES/bionet.organisms.urodeles Proposed USENET name: bionet.organisms.urodeles Proposed mailing list name: URODELES Proposed e-mail addresses: urodeles at net.bio.net urodeles at daresbury.ac.uk Discussion leaders: Susan Duhon duhon at ucs.indiana.edu Anthony Mescher mescher at ucs.indiana.edu Newsgroup character: Bionet.organisms.urodeles is a forum for scientific discussions and a source of information for the community of biologists interested in any aspect of urodele amphibian biology. The name URODELES was chosen to reflect the common interest among scientists working with axolotls, salamanders, and newts. Functions of the newsgroup: The newsgroup will facilitate rapid communication among research scientists and educators using urodele amphibians in any biological field, including but not limited to developmental biology, genetics, physiology, immunology, ecology, taxonomy, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc. and will thereby allow more rapid progress in research involving urodeles. The newsgroup will provide a forum for discussions of problems, old and new ideas, journal publications, and recent developments in amphibian research. The newsgroup will also provide sources of practical advice, methodologies, answers to frequently asked questions concerning amphibian husbandry and techniques used in urodele research, and availability of unique reagents for research with urodeles (e.g., antibodies, cDNAs, primers and gene sequences, DNA libraries, mutants, etc.). Finally, the newsgroup will serve as a bulletin board for announcements of meetings, conferences, job opportunities, and funding sources of interest to biologists studying urodeles. Subscribers are welcome from universities or any academic institutions, government agencies, hospitals and other medical institutions, and industrial or commercial organizations. Contributions within the functions outlined above are encouraged. The newsgroup is expected to run in an unmoderated fashion and we are willing to act as current coordinators. Susan Duhon Associate Director, Indiana University Axolotl Colony Anthony Mescher Professor of Anatomy, Indiana University School of Medicine ----------------------------------------------------------------------


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Pass-through authentication (PTA) is a mechanism by which bind requests are filtered by bind DN. One Directory Server (the delegator) receives the bind request and, based on the filter, can consult another Directory Server (the delegate) to authenticate bind requests. As part of this functionality, the PTA plug-in enables the delegator Directory Server to accept simple password-based bind operations for entries that are not necessarily stored in its local database.
The PTA plug-in is also used by DSCC for private communication with the server. When a server instance is registered in DSCC, the PTA plug-in is enabled and the DSCC URL is added as an argument.
$ dsconf get-plugin-prop -h host -p port "Pass Through Authentication" argument : ldap://dscc_host:3998/cn=dscc depends-on-named : depends-on-type : desc : pass through authentication plugin enabled : on feature : passthruauth init-func : passthruauth_init lib-path : install-path/lib/passthru-plugin.so type : preoperation vendor : Sun Microsystems, Inc. version : 22.214.171.124.0
If your server is registered in DSCC and you need to use PTA, you must preserve the following settings while modifying the PTA plug-in.
Keep the enabled property on.
Keep the DSCC URL in the argument, although you can add other values to the argument property.
If the PTA plug-in is disabled or the DSCC URL is removed from the argument, the server instance will appear as inaccessible in DSCC. If this happens, DSCC will automatically give you the option of resetting the PTA plug-in.
You can also fix this problem by unregistering and registering the Directory Server instance into DSCC. To perform these operations, you can use either DSCC or the dsccreg remove-server and dsccreg add-server commands. For more information about the dsccreg command, see dsccreg(1M).
PTA plug-in configuration information is specified in the cn=Pass Through Authentication,cn=plugins,cn=config entry on the PTA server.
The PTA plug-in is a system plug-in, which is disabled by default. It can be enabled and setup using the dsconf command or using DSCC.
Run the following dsconf commands:
$ dsconf enable-plugin -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication" $ dsconf set-plugin-prop -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication" \ argument:"ldap[s]://authenticatingHost[:port]/PTAsubtree options"
The plug-in argument specifies the LDAP URL identifying the hostname of the authenticating directory server, an optional port, and the PTA subtree. If no port is specified, the default port is 389 with LDAP and 636 with LDAPS. You may also set the optional connection parameters described in the following sections. If the PTAsubtree exists in the PTAhost, the plug-in will not pass the bind request to the authenticatingHost, and the bind will be processed locally without any pass-through.
Restart the server as described in Starting, Stopping, and Restarting a Directory Server Instance.
Because the PTA plug-in must send bind credentials including the password to the authenticating directory, we recommend using a secure connection. To configure the PTA directory to communicate with the authenticating directory over SSL:
Configure and enable SSL in both the PTA and authenticating directories, as described in Chapter 5, Directory Server Security.
Create or modify the PTA plug-in configuration to use LDAPS and the secure port in the LDAP URL, for example:
The PTA plug-in arguments accept a set of optional connection parameters after the LDAP URL:
http[s]://host:port/subtree [maxconns,maxops,timeout,ldapver,connlife]
The parameters must be given in the order shown. Although these parameters are optional, if you specify one of them, you must specify them all. If you do not want to customize all parameters, specify their default values given below. Make sure there is a space between the subtree parameter and the optional parameters.
You can configure the following optional parameters for each LDAP URL:
maxconns - The maximum number of connections the PTA server can open simultaneously to the authenticating server. This parameter limits the number of simultaneous binds that can be passed-through to the authenticating server. The default value is 3.
maxops - The maximum number of bind requests the PTA directory server can send simultaneously to the authenticating directory server within a single connection. This parameter further limits the number of simultaneous pass-through authentications. The default is value is 5.
timeout - The maximum delay in seconds that you want the PTA server to wait for a response from the authenticating server. The default value is 300 seconds (five minutes).
ldapver - The version of the LDAP protocol you want the PTA server to use when connecting to the authenticating server. The allowed values are 2 for LDAPv2 and 3 for LDAPv3. The default value is 3.
connlife - The time limit in seconds within which the PTA server will reuse a connection to the authenticating server. If a bind in the PTA subtree is requested by a client after this time has expired, the server closes the PTA connection and opens a new one. The server will not close the connection unless a bind request is initiated and the server determines the timeout has been exceeded. If you do not specify this option, or if only one authenticating server is listed in the LDAP URL, no time limit will be enforced. If two or more hosts are listed, the default is 300 seconds (five minutes).
While setting the argument property using the dsconf command, put the value in double quotes to protect spaces. For example:
dsconf set-plugin-prop -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication"\ argument:"ldaps://eastbak.example.com/ou=East,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com\ 3,5,300,3,300"
You may configure the PTA plug-in with multiple arguments to specify multiple authenticating servers, multiple PTA subtrees, or both. Each argument contains one LDAP URL and may have its own set of connection options.
When there are multiple authenticating servers for the same PTA subtree, they act as failover servers. The plug-in will establish connections to them in the order listed whenever a PTA connection reaches the timeout limit. If all connections time out, the authentication fails.
When there are multiple PTA subtrees defined, the plug-in will pass-through the authentication request to the corresponding server according to the bind DN. The following example shows four PTA plug-in arguments that define two PTA subtrees, each with a failover server for authentication and server-specific connection parameters:
$ dsconf set-plugin-prop -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication"\ argument:"ldaps://configdir.example.com/o=example.com\ 10,10,60,3,300" $ dsconf set-plugin-prop -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication"\ argument+:"ldaps://configbak.example.com/o=example.com\ 10,10,60,3,300" $ dsconf set-plugin-prop -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication"\ argument+:"ldaps://east.example.com/ou=East,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com\ 10,10,60,3,300" $ dsconf set-plugin-prop -h PTAhost -p port "Pass Through Authentication"\ argument+:"ldaps://eastbak.example.com/ou=East,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com\ 10,10,60,3,300"


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text: I've voted in every election in which I was eligible. We have 4 a year here in Wisconsin, for various state and local seats, and then of course the "big" one. I've supported some in a variety of ways, and did it wholeheartedly...only to have them lose. it was devastating. I was hurt, embarrassed. But only for a day. And then I just got going on the rest of business of life. I always felt like the opposition candidate at lease was a decent person, had good intentions, had some knowledge of basic things like the constitution, bill of rights, rule of law, separation of church and state, I've always felt, for the most part, that the opposition candidate was basically a good person, was moral, had values, just that they were different from mine. But not THIS time. Trump exhibits none of the above characteristics. Yes, I am devastated. And frightened. And appalled. And determined that this can't happen again.


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15 oz of fresh pureed pumpkin or 1 can canned pumpkin puree
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon ginger
1 (18.25 ounce) spice cake mix or package yellow cake mix with pudding add double the spices above it using yellow cake mix
1/2 cup oil
2/3 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a bundt pan. Mix all ingredients till well blended. Place half the batter into greased pan (batter will be extremely thick) add chocolate chip below mixture on top, then more batter. Bake at 350 till center is firm and toothpick test is clean, around 45 minutes. Cool cake completely then frost or leave plain cake is awesome either way
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cup chocolate chips or chunks ( I realized after I made this I should have added the whole bag!)
1/2 cup chopped nuts optional
2 tablespoon flour
mix together set aside.
Cream Cheese Frosting
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 (3 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
mini chocolate chips
Beat all together except for mini chips, frost cooled cake and sprinkle the top with mini chips
OR The Adult Version!
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup Bacardi dark rum
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boil 5 minutes in a heavy duty pan,. Place baked bundt cake on a deep pan to absorb this mixture. Poke holes in warm cake, throughout cake evenly with a fork, pour mixtures over the top of warm cake.... Cool completely.
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1. There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a city bus. Don't. It will not be beautiful. It will not be brave. It will be selfish. It will be broken. Your mother will cry.
2. Don't write for him. Write for you. Write for others like you. Write so the girl that thinks about stepping in front of public transportation doesn't. Don't be selfish.
3. When you will yourself to sleep and it doesn't come- get up. It doesn't matter that it's 3 am. There will be other 3 am's. Take a shower. Take two. Wash him out of your hair. Write a poem. Read the same book you've read 202 times again. The 203rd time might tell you something different. Don't stay in bed- you will think about the bus again.
4. Don't kiss him because he's broken. Don't kiss him because his laughter never reaches his eyes. Don't try and fix him. Fix yourself first. Be selfish. He can't save you.
5. Date yourself. Take yourself out to eat. Don't share your popcorn at the movies with anyone. Stroll around an art museum alone. Fall in love with canvases. Fall in love with yourself.
6. Dress up and wear red lipstick and party with your friends. They're the ones that will pick you up. Don't kiss him. Or him. Don't fall asleep on strange couches with strange boys. When his hand slides up your dress, walk away. Don't kiss him. He can't save you.
7. Get another tattoo. Get five more. Get another hole in your ear. Don't listen to your dad. You will still be able to get a job. Did you really want to be employed by someone like your father? Haven't you had enough of judgmental old men anyway?
8. When you feel the yearning for a new city- start over. Take 200 bucks and a three suitcases. Work anywhere that will have you. Meet strange people and forget your name. Call yourself Ruby. No one will know the difference. Remember to call your mother. Don't be selfish. Come home. Always come home.
9. Don't whisper evil things into your own ear. Other people are going to shout them at you. Be your own hero.
10. Don't step in front of a city bus. It will not be beautiful. Live. Stay up all night with a boy that promises you everything and means it. Live. See crappy local bands with a friend. Wear a different band's t-shirt. No one will care. Live. Have a baby girl with tiny fingers and tiny toes someday. Pour love into her until it's overflowing. Live. Wake up. Staying in bed all day is not poetic.
Live. Live.
Do you hear that? It's me. It's your life. Wake up.
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FLOOD-HIT Oxford residents were given a helping hand from an unlikely source yesterday.
About 100 people travelled all the way from Manchester to help people affected by floods, with clear-up work.
The team was part of the voluntary department of the World Mission Society Church of God and soon set about visiting the worst hit areas of the city such as Binsey Lane.


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Vizio's been in the sound bar game for a while now and it shows. The VHT215 is the company's latest sound bar and it bests its predecessors in just about every way. It's the first Vizio sound bar that actually looks good, with a slim, sleek cabinet and a glossy finish that doesn't look cheap. The included remote is one of the best we've used and it's packed with connectivity options, including two HDMI inputs. Sound quality is great out of the box, plus it's endlessly tweakable, with separate controls for bass, treble, and subwoofer volume. There's really little to complain about with the VHT215, except the fact that the
Design: Thin with a truly great remote
The VHT215 looks considerably more refined than Vizio's previous sound bars. The front panel is dominated by a dark-gray speaker grille, with the rest of the cabinet sporting a glossy black finish. From the side, you can see the VHT215 is seriously slim at 1.9 inches deep. Metal feet jut out at an angle on the bottom, giving it an interesting look and, more importantly, providing a pretty solid base for the unit. There's a front-panel display (which not every sound bar has) and it gives helpful feedback like how loud the volume is or what input you're on. Overall, the Vizio VHT215 doesn't look quite as slick as the ultraslim Haier SBEV40-SLIM, but it's not far behind.
The wireless subwoofer has the same glossy black finish as the sound bar, although it looks a little tackier on the sub. It's reasonably compact and the wireless connectivity means you can place it pretty much anywhere in your living room, although it will typically sound best within 5 to 6 feet of the sound bar.
The included remote on the VHT215 is a real winner. Its minimalist design offers up buttons only for volume up/down, power, and mute. Even better, you can slide out a panel on the bottom to get a few more controls for adjusting the bass, treble, and subwoofer levels, plus select an input or choose a sound-processing mode like SRS TruSurround. It's really the perfect sound bar remote, although the build quality could be better.
Setup and features: Packed with jacks
The VHT215 is packed with connectivity for a sound bar, with two HDMI inputs, two digital audio inputs (coaxial and optical), and an analog minijack input. Even if you're planning to use your TV as a switcher, those extra inputs on the sound bar are nice in case you run out of inputs on your TV. The VHT215 also supports ARC (audio return channel), which means you can possibly simplify your cabling needs down to a single HDMI cable if your TV also supports ARC.


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SPARKS, NV - You may have walked by it without even realizing its value, or its history. But for longtime patrons and employees, the Golden Rooster was a visible part of what made the Nugget in Sparks John Ascuaga's Nugget. They fear its removal Wednesday night is among the first of many changes that will be unwelcome.
Turns out there is a very simple and understandable reason the rooster is gone. It is the personal property of the Ascuaga Family, and will not be sold along with the rest of the resort.
The sudden departure may also have been hastened by a mechanical problem with the turntable in the display case.
Either way the rooster and other mementos, valuable or otherwise, will be going home with the family that hosted many of us over the years.
When discussing the empty case, a Nugget spokesperson stressed that this does not mean wholesale changes overnight, and there is every reason to believe the potential new owners when they say they want to build on the legacy of the Nugget, not just demolish everything and start over.
Here is the Nugget's tale of the rooster:
The Story of the Nugget's Golden Rooster
It was May 1958. The Nugget was preparing to open a new restaurant, The Golden Rooster Room. But one question remained unanswered: what could be done to give specific identity to the new facility. The Nugget's other dining rooms had their own insignia, themes and menus and so should it be for the Golden Rooster Room.
Management scheduled a "think tank" session and an idea was soon born: make a solid gold statue of a rooster, regal and beautiful; one that could be classified as a masterpiece of art, one that could be displayed and admired by all Nugget guests.
Permission was quickly granted by the San Francisco Mint to make the Golden Rooster, Newman's Silver Shop of Reno and Shreve's of San Francisco were commissioned to fashion the objet d'art from a model created by sculptor - artist Frank Polk.
Within four months the 18-karat gold statue was completed, transported under guard to Reno and placed in a custom made glass case near the entrance to the Golden Rooster Room. The beauty of the sculpture, the uniqueness of the work and its value as a precious metal combined to give the Rooster immediate status as a "must see" attraction for local residents as well as tourists.
Seven months after being on exhibit, the Golden Rooster attracted the attention of the United States Treasury Department, with officials charging that the Nugget was in violation of the Gold Reserve Act which makes it unlawful for a private individual to have more than 50 ounces of gold in possession unless it is in the form of an object of art. The Rooster would have to be confiscated.
The Nugget pleaded its case, informing Treasury representatives that permission had been granted through Shreve's by the U.S. Mint. Following verification of the facts by the Treasury, the matter was dropped for 18 months.
In July 1960 the Nugget was again visited by officers of the Treasury, this time to present the Nugget with a complaint entitled "United States of America vs. One Solid Gold Object in the Form of a Rooster." The Rooster was confiscated and would have to go to jail. the Nugget's attempt to "put up bail" was denied.
After "serving" two years and after two trial postponements, the Golden Rooster was to have his day in court. The decision would center on one question: was the Golden Rooster an object of art. The Nugget contended the Rooster was a customary and artistic use of gold. The government disagreed.
At a jury trial in march 1962 the government was unable to sway the testimony of art critics, all of whom agreed with the Nugget. And so did the jury of ten men and two women. The Rooster was freed. Newspapers and wire services throughout the nation carried the story. News headlines shouted: "Solid Gold Bird Liberated."
Amid much display of public approval, the Golden Rooster was returned to the Nugget and its special perch at the entrance to the Golden Rooster Room."


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After escalating provocations on the Korean peninsula in 2010, inter-Korean relations remained at a stalemate for the first half of 2011. While bilateral talks resumed in February, attempts at dialogue were largely unsuccessful. Criticism of President Lee's hardline stance against North Korea and on other key domestic issues weakened his influence and that of the ruling Grand National Party. The opposition Democratic Party made key gains in both the April and October by-elections, including winning the mayoral seat of Seoul.
The Republic of Korea (ROK) was established on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula in 1948, three years after the Allied victory in World War II ended Japan's 35-year occupation. U.S. and Soviet forces had divided the peninsula between them, initially to accept the surrender of the Japanese army. The subsequent Korean War (1950–53) pitted the U.S.- and UN-backed ROK, or South Korea, against the Soviet- and Chinese-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea, and left some three million Koreans dead or wounded. In the decades following the 1953 armistice, South Korea's mainly military rulers crushed dissent and maintained tight control over society in response to the continuing threat from the North. During this period, South Korea implemented an export-led industrialization drive that transformed the poor, agrarian country into one of the world's leading economies.
South Korea began its democratic transition in 1987, when military strongman Chun Doo-hwan acceded to widespread protests, allowing his successor to be chosen in a direct presidential election. In the December balloting, Chun's ally and fellow general Roh Tae-woo defeated the country's two best-known dissidents, Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung.
After joining the ruling party in 1990, Kim Young-sam defeated Kim Dae-jung in the 1992 presidential election, becoming South Korea's first civilian president since 1961. He sacked hard-line military officers, curbed domestic security services, and successfully prosecuted former presidents Chun and Roh for corruption and treason. However, the government's inability to mitigate a regional financial crisis led South Koreans to elect Kim Dae-jung as president in 1997.
Kim Dae-jung's efforts to reach out to North Korea culminated in a historic Inter-Korean summit in 2000 with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Roh Moo-hyun, a human rights lawyer and former cabinet minister who won the 2002 presidential election on the ruling liberal party's ticket, took office in February 2003 facing an economic slowdown, an opposition-led parliament, and North Korea's revival of its nuclear weapons program. Former Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak of the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) won the 2007 presidential election. The GNP also won the majority of seats in the 2008 parliamentary elections, while the opposition Democratic Party (DP) and four smaller parties and independents accounted for the remainder.
Lee's foreign policy has focused on strengthening relations with the United States while taking a hardline stance against North Korea. However, the president and his party have been heavily criticized for their alleged "authoritarian style" of governance, business-friendly reform agenda, and other deviations from previous presidential policies. Nevertheless, with aggressive fiscal intervention and heavy spending, the Lee administration was able to stabilize the financial sector, save the job market from massive layoffs, and steer the economy toward recovery after being hit by the 2008 global financial crisis.
Relations with North Korea grew tense in April 2009 after Pyongyang announced its withdrawal from the multilateral Six-Party Talks on its nuclear weapons program and proceeded to test a long-range missile. It then conducted its second nuclear weapons test in May. The UN Security Council responded by tightening sanctions on the North.
North Korea denied involvement in the March 2010 sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan, which killed 46 crew members. An international group of experts—which did not include members from North Korea, China, or Russia—concluded that the ship had been struck by a North Korean torpedo. South Korea vowed retaliation and demanded that Pyongyang apologize and prosecute the officers responsible. Pyongyang proclaimed that it would not engage in dialogue with the South until after Lee left office.
In June 2010, South Korea brought its case against North Korea to the UN Security Council, and in July the council issued a presidential statement to condemn the attack, without explicitly naming North Korea as the attacker. However, in response to joint U.S.–South Korean live-fire naval exercises in November, North Korea launched a surprise attack on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island on November 23. The South mounted a counterattack, with the entire exchange lasting an hour and causing a number of South Korean casualties, including the first civilian deaths since the Korean War.
North Korea also revealed to the international community in November 2010 that it had built a modern uranium enrichment facility, heightening fears that it would produce weapons grade uranium. This revelation sparked public debate in the South whether it should reintroduce U.S. tactical nuclear weapons or pursue a nuclear weapons program of its own.
Inter-Korean talks resumed again in February 2011, though there was little progress. Lee's hardline stance against the North, insisting on preconditions to meaningful engagement, continued to attract domestic and international criticism.
The DP made important gains in the April 2011 by-elections, in which three parliamentary seats, one provincial governor and several local councilor seats were contested. In August, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon of the GNP resigned from office after losing a referendum to reduce free school lunches in the city's school system—a referendum that was at the center of an emerging debate on public welfare. DP candidate Park Won-soon defeated the GNP's Na Kyung-won for Seoul's mayoral seat in October.
On October 12, 2011, the United States Congress ratified the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA), which was first signed by the two countries in June 2007, and renegotiated in December 2010. While ratification of the agreement was met with heated debate in the Korean National Assembly, it was approved on November 22, and KORUS FTA is expected to go into force in early 2012.
In November, South Korea, Japan, and the United States held trilateral strategy coordination talks and reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate in their dealings with North Korea. Inter-Korean relations are expected to improve, as South Korea made plans to resume humanitarian aid to the North through third party organizations at year's end.
South Korea is an electoral democracy. The 1988 constitution vests executive power in a directly elected president, who is limited to a single five-year term. Of the unicameral National Assembly's 299 members, 245 are elected in single-member districts and 54 are chosen through proportional representation, all for four-year terms.
Political pluralism is robust, with multiple parties competing for power. The two largest parties have been the conservative GNP and the liberal DP, which merged with the Citizens Unity Party in December 2011 to become the Democratic United Party.
Despite the overall health of the political system, bribery, influence peddling, and extortion have not been eradicated from politics, business, and everyday life. South Korea was ranked 43 out of 183 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
The news media are free and competitive. Newspapers are privately owned and report fairly aggressively on government policies and alleged official and corporate wrongdoing. Although media censorship is illegal, official censorship has increased under the administration of Lee Myung-bak, particularly of online content. The government has also attempted to influence the news of media outlets and interfered with the management of major broadcast media. The National Security Law stipulates that South Koreans may not listen to North Korean radio, though no effective measures are in place to block access to North Korean broadcasts.
The constitution provides for freedom of religion. However, Buddhist groups have accused the Lee government of religious bias. On January 10, 2011, some 230 monks and lay staff from the Jogye Order staged a three-hour peaceful protest at Chonggye Plaza in Seoul, intensifying criticism of the ruling GNP for budget cuts affecting social welfare and Buddhist activities. Academic freedom is unrestricted, with the exception of limits on statements of support for the North Korean regime or communism, in accordance with the National Security Law. This law is applied selectively and only rarely.
The government generally respects citizens' right to privacy. An Anti-Wiretap Law sets the conditions under which the government can monitor telephone calls, mail, and e-mail. Nevertheless, political and business elites often carry two mobile phones and change their numbers frequently to evade what they perceive as intrusive government eavesdropping. In June 2011, a Korean Broadcasting System reporter was investigated on allegations of illegal wiretapping of the DP chief's office. However, the police investigation ended in November for lack of evidence. Travel both within South Korea and abroad is unrestricted. The only exception is travel to North Korea, for which government approval is required.
South Korea respects freedom of assembly. The law requires that police be informed in advance of all demonstrations and that assemblies not undermine public order. Local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have alleged that while protesters are convicted under this law, police have not been equally penalized for mistreating demonstrators. Anti-military and environmental activists staged ongoing protests since construction began of a ROK naval base at Gangjeong (on Jeju Island) in January 2011. Protests intensified in August and September, and police detained 35 protestors for illegally obstructing a government project. Thousands of students also participated in protests in Seoul throughout the year to demand that the government fulfill its promise to reduce college tuition fees. In September, police used water cannons to disperse student protesters for what authorities considered to be illegal demonstrations; 49 protesters were taken into custody. Water cannons were also used by the authorities in response to mass protests that took place in Seoul in November over the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Human rights groups, social welfare organizations, and other NGOs are active and for the most part operate freely. The country's independent labor unions advocate workers' interests, organizing high-profile strikes and demonstrations that sometimes lead to arrests. However, labor unions in general have been diminishing in strength and popularity, especially amid the economic downturn. In December 2010, Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction cut 400 jobs from its Busan shipyard. Kim Jin-suk, a member of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, waged a solitary protest in a crane bed 35 meters in the air that lasted 309 days. After an 11-month deadlock, Hanjin reached an agreement with labor activists to reinstate 94 of the laid-off workers within one year. Kim was arrested at the end of her protest for trespassing and disturbing business.
South Korea's judiciary is generally considered to be independent. There is no trial by jury; judges render verdicts in all cases. Police occasionally engage in verbal and physical abuse of detainees. While South Korea's prisons lack certain amenities, such as hot water in the winter, there have been few reports of beatings or intimidation by guards.
The country's few ethnic minorities face legal and societal discrimination. Residents who are not ethnic Koreans face extreme difficulties obtaining citizenship, which is based on parentage rather than place of birth. Lack of citizenship bars them from the civil service and limits job opportunities at some major corporations. In April 2011, the National Assembly approved revisions to the Korean Nationality Law, allowing dual citizenship to be granted to certain populations, including foreigners married to Koreans and Koreans who gained foreign nationality through marriage or adoption. Excluded from eligibility were Chinese residents, causing some controversy.
Although women in South Korea enjoy legal equality, they face discrimination in practice, with men enjoying more social privileges and better employment opportunities. However, a 2005 Supreme Court ruling granted married women equal rights with respect to inheritance. Women continue to be underrepresented in government following the 2008 elections, comprising just 14 percent of National Assembly seats. South Korea is one of the few countries outside the Muslim world where adultery is a criminal offense.


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Engaging youth voices in the HIV & AIDS response
Advocates for youth supports young people across the country who are transforming the way the world sees HIV & AIDS on National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) — According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 26 percent of all new HIV infections occur among young people ages 13 to 24-years-old. Of those new infections, African-American youth and young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are most at risk: nearly 60 percent of new infections in young people are among African Americans, while 87 percent of infections among young males are in YMSM. Many of these youth are at higher risk due to factors they have little control over, including lack of access to health care and sexuality education that does not address their needs.
"Society has a responsibility to provide young people with all the tools to safeguard their sexual health," said Angel Brown, Senior Program Manager, LGBTQ Health and Rights at Advocates for Youth. "Young people can make heal-thy decisions regarding their sexual health when they have the proper support, resources, skills, and guidance they need."
At the root of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) is the belief in youth activism, and young people's ability to not just transform their own lives, but the lives of their peers and the world. After a nationwide search, 10 Youth Ambassadors were selected to represent NYHAAD in their communities. On April 10 and beyond, this year's Ambassadors will share their experiences of how young people are uniquely impacted by HIV; the barriers they face in HIV prevention, testing, and care; and how best to translate these experiences into action for an AIDS-free generation.
To get to an "AIDS-free Generation" we must commit to programs and policies which prepare and empower all young people, but especially youth of color and young men who have sex with men, to protect themselves from HIV.
Young people need and deserve culturally appropriate, LGBT inclusive sex education, safe environments, and access to youth friendly sexual and reproductive services that meet their unique needs.
And we must dismantle the structural barriers like poverty, racism, and homophobia, which put them at greater risk.
Calling on his peers to engage in the HIV & AIDS response, NYHAAD Youth Ambassador Ignacio Cruz said,
"It all starts with a call to action—people to fight for justice, voices to scream and raise hell, and the courage to do what is right. It all starts with young people just like me and you."
Created in 2012 by 12 founding partners, National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) is now officially recognized by AIDS.gov. NYHAAD is observed annually on April 10 and celebrated by several organizations across the U.S.
Additionally, on NYHAAD and beyond, young people across the country will host movie screenings, speak out at church meetings, host poetry slams and testing events to educate other young people and society about the necessity of engaging young people on the topic of HIV & AIDS.
It is more important than ever to recommit to the fight against HIV and AIDS by investing in young people.
Young people must be brought to the table not only as partners, but as leaders that can truly change the tide of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Only by fully investing in young people – in their health, their education, and their leadership – can we reach an AIDS-free generation.
For more information on NYHAAD follow @YouthAIDSDay on Twitter and Instagram, like National Youth HIV & AIDS Day on Facebook, and online at www.youthaidsday.org


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It would have been easy to not trust Miles Austin, after a series of drops in the second half.
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