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PKRA Announces Details for the Upcoming Three Events
The PKRA is thrilled to announce the next three upcoming events for the 2014 World Tour. These include the Dakhla Kiteboarding World Cup, Mondial Du Vent, and the Surf World Cup Podersdorf. After completing the very first World Tour event in Punta Chame, Panama, the scene has been set for incredible action and surprises in these stops to follow, with varied conditions and new challenges awaiting each competitor at every location.
The Dakhla Kiteboarding World Cup will take place in Dakhla, Morrocco, March 18th-23rd and will include a mix of Freestyle and Wave competition. Standing out as the first wave event of the 2014 season, competitors will be treated to a perfect right hand point break along with steady strong winds, and paradise-like surroundings in each discipline. This event is hosted by the Dakhla Attitude Camp Lagoon for the 4th straight year and the freestyle action will, as expected, be the main attraction of the event, drawing in the best riders in the world and local talent of the area.
Next up in April, the Mondial Du Vent will go off yet again as one of the most watched and well-attended events of the season. Enjoying its 18th year, the Mondial Du Vent stands out as the longest running kiteboarding competition in the world – and with good reason. The incredibly strong winds and challenging conditions always provide for an amazing showcase of talent. This event will take place from April 26th – May 1st in La Franqui, Leucate, France and will include Freestyle as the main competition discipline.
Lastly, the Surf World Cup Podersdorf will run May 1st - 4th May in Nordstrand, Podersdorf Neusiedlersee, Austria. This will be the first Slalom stop of the year and, as such, will be a huge attraction for racing fans and competitors alike. This massive festival draws thousands of spectators each year, which will provide for major exposure and large-scale attention for this exciting new discipline.
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"The notification of these hearings has been typically dismal and as such, only around 60 people arrived at this first of three sessions," Outa head Wayne Duvenage said on Wednesday.
"A number of those present only knew about the hearing after seeing this on the Outa … and Facebook site[s]."
He said the handful of people who attended the first meeting held in Kempton Park on Tuesday night voiced absolute rejection of the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) and government's plan to toll Gauteng's freeways.
Duvenage said public sentiment showed that people were not willing to register for e-tags.
"Outa encourages the public to participate and engage when and where it can, thereby sending a clear message to the authorities of their rejection of this inefficient plan, and waste of taxpayer's money."
e-Tolls before Christmas
Last month, the government and Sanral announced new tariffs for e-tolling of Gauteng's freeways.
The announcement, made on October 26, marked the beginning of a 30-day public consultation process.
After this, 14 days would be set aside for Transport Minister Ben Martins to "apply his mind", and another 14 days for the gazetting of the final tariffs.
This would mean e-tolls could come into effect four days before Christmas.
The Sowetan newspaper reported on Wednesday that members of the public walked out of the Kempton Park meeting, as they were not satisfied that their objections to e-tolling would count.
Almost half of the 60 people who had attended complained that government had not consulted them before the toll gantries were erected, the paper reported.
The people disrupted the meeting after they were told that the meeting was not to hear objections but was an information sharing session, the Sowetan reported.
Cosatu disappointed
"We have poor communities who have been registered as indigents by the local municipality. Government should have collected the register from the municipality to see if they should not be exempted from paying," said Russel Baloyi, one of those who attended the meeting.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it was disappointed with the way the meetings were handled.
"Residents at the meeting … were angry that having at last had an opportunity to discuss the tolls, they were told that Cabinet had already agreed to the proposal and that these meetings could not change that decision," said Cosatu's Patrick Craven.
Another public meeting would be held at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria on Thursday. – Sapa


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Tyga feat. Pharrell Williams - Lil Homie
Lil Homie, everybody tryna get with you
They say what don't break a nigga make a nigga
I woke up out my dream, said I gotta get it
This whole city full of thieves, gotta watch my pivot
Cause on the block, niggas never seen good living
Only lived in jail cells or prison
Drive bys, little homies hit the store for liquor
I gotta steer my life different, where to begin with?
Mama told me go back to school, I said I'm finished
There's only one way a nigga gonna learn:
You gotta take risks and do things the hard way
Stole the hall pass, now I'm running through the hallways
Only thing in my memory from those days
You couldn't save a nigga, even on a Sunday
Monday, new day, shit still the same
Gotta switch the rhythm up like Kwame
When things changed, watch people do the same
As I hear a voice sing:
Lil Homie, everybody tryna get with you
Lil Homie, stay focused, got shit to do!
Big boy grown, can't leave the streets alone
Wanna be a king, but you're too young for the throne
Why you riding in the car that you can't afford?
Can't move forward in the 4-door chrome
All that cheap talk I never did
My walk is Billie Jean, my shoes are never slip
Notice how close he is, gold his goals that approachin' him
They can't stop the win losing's not an option
First place locked in, get my trophy ready bitch
Turn your back on me only gon' leave you ?
Fuck that bullshit I got common sense
I'm ready for my limelight put my mic in hand
They'll dissolve when the money's gone
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If you barking in my way you gettin' chewed on
Lil Homie, everybody tryna get with you
Lil Homie, stay focused, got shit to do!
See your friends walking up and down your block
Ain't got a penny-nenny-nenny-nenny
Just picture yourself sittin' there on top
A nigga straight winnin-in-in-in-in-in-in
Nigga straight winnin', you see how I did it
Bottom to the top take 'em back to the beginnin'
All my niggas winnin', you see how we did it
Dreamt it now we live it
Now we all winnin', me and my
Lil Homie, everybody tryna get with you
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Yes, it's true, the prodigal son has returned.
This week, Steve and I get down to business with Technotise, Frozen, the Kindle and BioShock 2! I'm normally pretty ADD, but it was really hard to shoot the show this week. All I wanted to do was kick some ass as a Big Daddy.
Okay, I have to get back to playing BioShock 2.
Oh, and Lev makes his return to the Techland Show next week.


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Renana Raz in We Have Been Called to Go. Photo by Eyal Landesman.
After months of avid concert-going, Renana Raz's evening of work titled Avodah Ivrit (Hebrew Labor) proved to be more than just another enjoyable evening at the Suzanne Dellal Center. The experience of viewing this concert was so significant that I immediately poured my musings into an essay.
Avodah Ivrit contained two dances, and it was the second – We Have Been Called to Go – which stirred my excitement and sparked my writing. Out of the many dances I had viewed up until this point in March 2008, We Have Been Called to Go contained the most overt onstage treatment of Israeli society. As the work employed and played with cultural symbols, and as the audience reacted audibly, I became aware that I was watching this not as an Israeli but as a transplanted Diaspora Jew. I was fascinated not only by the subject matter but also by the perceptions of viewers from different backgrounds.
Nearly a year later, my understanding of Israeli culture has deepened as I have integrated further into this society as an olah hadasha, a new immigrant. By now I have discovered other works which tackle the issues of Israeli identity and cultural codes. Yet We Have Been Called to Go remains one of the most compelling dances to shed light on Israeli society – and to illuminate my own evolving knowledge and spectatorship of Israeli culture.
Below is my initial reflection on Renana Raz's We Have Been Called to Go. I first published "Viewing an Israeli Vision with Diasporic Eyes" on March 17, 2008 in my own blog.
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It's after midnight, and I just opened my Israeli folk dance mix on iTunes to listen to track number 5, the hora that opened Renana Raz's We Have Been Called to Go. My body is nearly jumping out of my desk chair, searching for the right pattern of mayims as the familiar drums quicken, while my mind is picturing the smaller motions of the four performers in tonight's concert.
The bodily sensation I am having right now is the same bodily sensation I experienced in the darkened theater. Here's the amazing thing, though: because Israelis were brought up on folk dance, nearly everyone in that theater had access to the same kinesthetic response.


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Now we can finally put to rest those foolish rumors about John Hamm playing Superman.
Henry Cavill, best known for his role on "The Tudors," has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming "Superman" reboot, reported Ain't It Cool News.
"Word is it [sic] that everyone involved in production is thrilled with Cavill's take," wrote Harry Knowles. "That Zack is over the moon for him. They'll begin shooting in 4 months... and the world holds their collective breath."
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"Everyone," of course, includes director Zack Snyder, and Christopher Nolan, who is godfathering the project. We're gonna have to reserve judgment as we just haven't seen enough of Cavill's work to feel strongly, but we are assured that he possesses the requisite hotness in spades, so that's something.
Cavill can be seen later this year in "The Cold Light of Day," as a young man who must rescue his family after they're kidnapped while on vacation, and in "Immortals," director Tarsem Singh's film about Theseus' battle with the Titans of Greek mythology.
Snyder's "Sucker Punch," which he's described as "'Alice in Wonderland' with machine guns," comes out March 25.
Why it is that Nolan keeps casting foreigners as American superheroes is anybody's guess--maybe it's his way of getting revenge for being repeatedly passed over for Best Director nominations by the jerks at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.


text: Brazil unilaterally recognised Palestine in 2010, prompting other South American nations to follow suit [GALLO/GETTY] During Brazil's two decades of military dictatorship, it would have been unthinkable that a female former revolutionary would lead the country in the 21st century. That transition, from autocracy to democracy, might offer some lessons for rebels across the Arab world, Brazil's longest serving foreign minister told a forum organised by the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies in Doha, Qatar. "Who would have thought an intellectual, a metal worker and a kind of revolutionary would follow a military dictatorship?" Celso Amorim, the former foreign minister and career diplomat, told a crowd on Thursday, speaking about Brazil's former and current leaders. "Whatever happens [rebellions across the Arab world] will create a new political situation in the Middle East. This is for certain," he said. And, while he refused to directly give advice to Egyptians, Bahrainis, Tunisians or Libyans, Brazil's experiences appear to have some parallels with the developments underway in the region today.Brazil's dark past In 1964, the Brazilian military launched a coup, toppling a populist democracy led by the leftist president, Joao Goulart. The military closed parliament in 1968 and the generals created a 'democracy' with two legal political parties - Amorim describes them as the parties of "yes" and "yes, sir". The military dissolved student organisations, attacked leaders from the trade union movement, censored the press and tortured or 'disappeared' its opponents. It was the sort state behaviour that many Arabs are all too familiar with. Ceso Amorim, Brazil's former foreign minister, is proud of combatting inequality [Chris Arsenault/AJE] From 1968 to around 1975, Brazil's economy expanded, with GDP growing by 10 per cent some years. But, as is common in top-down governments, the gains were not widely shared. Growth did not trickle down to the poor and inequality ballooned. "During the military government, we had high economic growth, but social inequality increased," Amorim said. "The most important thing Brazil did [during my two terms as foreign minister] was the reduction of inequality." In Hosni Mubarak's Egypt, privitisation and so-called market reforms in 2004 "triggered an impressive acceleration of growth," according to a 2008 International Monetary Fund (IMF) survey. But 40 per cent of the population continued to live on less than two dollars a day, while skyrocketing property prices made apartment ownership almost impossible for many middle class families. The pie may have gotten bigger, but many bakers remained hungry."A society that is very unequal always has the pressure of instability," Amorim said. The chasm between the 'haves' - often those with links to the regime - and the 'have nots' is profound in Egypt. The same is true in Libya and most Arab countries. To tackle inequities, Brazil's government, under President Luiz Ignacio Lula de Silva, a former metal worker and union leader, initiated a series of programmes, including scholarships and income subsidies for the poor, Amorim said. Subsidies are given to poor families under certain conditions: For example, that they send their children to school. Money is given to the female head of the household, rather than the husband. "It doesn't go this way in the Muslim world, [but] in Brazil, if you give the money to the father, they drink it all," Amorim said. Religion and revolution Since becoming democratic, 30 million Brazilians have joined the middle class, with 30 million more leaving abject poverty for less grinding poverty, the former foreign minister said. But the country still has a long to go if the goal is to eliminate vast income disparities. Moves towards democracy in Brazil did not happen overnight; they transpired slowly throughout the 1980s. And religious institutions played a key part in that transition, said Matthew Flynn, a sociology lecturer and Brazil specialist at the University of Texas. "I'd imagine that religious institutions will play a pretty prominent role in [any transition] in the Middle East," Flynn said. The Workers Party (PT), which currently holds power, was formed in 1978 by labour agitators in the country's industrial heart-land, religious activists from the Catholic Church and human rights groups. "They [the PT] were pretty active in forcing elections, along with other independent parties," Flynn said. Dilma Rouseff, Brazil's current president and the country's first female leader, began her political career as a leftist guerrilla, fighting the military dictatorship. Lessons to learn? But violent revolution did not bring down the Junta. "When the military government fell, we didn't immediately write a new constitution," Amorim said. "We elected a committee which spent two years writing a new one" in a process that finished in 1988. After elections in 1989, Brazil was generally believed to be a democracy.Chile, Uruguay and Argentina also threw-off the shackles of military rule, along with most other counties in the region. Mark Katz, a professor of government at George Mason University, believes there is "very good reason to believe the Middle East will go down the path of Latin America". "People were pretty hopeless about it [democracy in Latin America]," Katz said. "But in the end, it has turned out pretty well for the most part. "What is going on in the Middle East is incredibly positive." If Katz is correct, and the uprisings across the Middle East result in more democratic governance, it is likely that ties will increase between Latin America and the Arab world. Business deals The first Arab-South American countries summit took place in Brasilia, Brazil's capital, in 2005, with a follow-up hosted in Doha, Qatar in 2009. For now, trade is the main thrust of the relationship. "The biggest trade surplus Brazil has is with the Arab world," said Amorim. Outside of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) encompassing petroleum rich countries in the Arabian Gulf, Arab economies are not particularly well integrated. "This [regional integration] is a place where we can share our experiences," Amorim said.Founded in 1991, Mercosur, a trade bloc between Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, could provide a model for Arab countries, especially in North Africa, the former ambassador said. And, integration within the Arab world could have benefits beyond increased economic growth, said Jamie de Melo, a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland who studies economic relationships. "Countries that are neighbours and have regional trade agreements, preferential trade agreements, seem to be less likely to go into conflict," de Melo said. Beyond trade, Brazil has weighed into broader issues in the Middle East. South America's largest country unilaterally recognised a Palestinian state in December 2010, prompting other South American countries to follow suit. The country also maintains cordial relations with Israel."In November 2009, we received the presidents of Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Authority," Amorim said. "How many other countries can say that?" SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chris Arsenault Politics Latin America Argentina Brazil Chile


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ROCHESTER — New Hampshire's labor force grew by almost 6,000 people between January 2012 and January 2013, the impact of which has been to push the unadjusted unemployment rate from 5.9 percent to 6.5 percent over the year. While economists regard people returning to the labor pool to seek work as an indication of growing optimism in the economy, job growth has not kept pace. Less than 1,000 jobs have been created in the same 12-month period.
In January 2012, there were 737,350 people in the labor force, and those who held jobs numbered 693,750, leaving 43,600 people actively seeking, but unable to find, work.
In January 2013, there were 743,030 people in the labor force, and those who held jobs numbered 694,600, now leaving 48,430 people actively seeking, but unable to find, work.
This pattern of labor force growth coupled with the near stagnation of job creation, and thus a higher unemployment rate, holds true in most of the counties, cities and towns across the state.
County, town and city rates
The counties of southeastern New Hampshire recorded the following unadjusted jobless rate in January 2013: Belknap County posted an unadjusted jobless rate of 6.8 percent, Carroll County was at 6.5 percent, Rockingham County was at 7.1 percent and Strafford County stood at 6.3 percent.
The communities in the Foster's Daily Democrat area posted January jobless rates as follows: Alton — 7.0 ; Barrington — 6.2; Brookfield — 6.4; Dover — 5.2; Durham — 5.2; Epping — 7.6; Exeter — 7.1; Farmington — 8.2; Greenland — 4.9; Hampton — 7.4; Hampton Falls — 7.8; Kingston — 9.5; Lee — 5.4; Madbury — 4.6; Middleton — 8.4; Milton — 7.2; New Castle — 4.0; New Durham — 8.6; Newington — 6.9; Newmarket — 5.3; North Hampton — 5.8; Northwood — 5.9; Nottingham — 5.6; Ossipee — 9.6; Portsmouth — 5.2; Raymond — 7.0; Rochester — 7.4; Rollinsford — 6.3; Rye — 6.5; Seabrook — 10.6; Somersworth — 6.4; Strafford — 5.6; Wakefield — 7.7; and Wolfeboro — 6.2 percent.
Rochester is typical of many communities in having to go back to early 2010 to find a higher jobless rate than in January 2013. In 2010, the rate was above 8 percent January through March, with an estimated 1,400 people out of work. This year, the estimate is just over 1,200 people. Back in 2010, though, there were actually more Rochester people holding jobs than currently, as the labor force was calculated to be above 17,000.
During this prolonged recession, many unemployed workers have become "discouraged" — the official word for people who have not actively sought work in the past four weeks. These folks, along with many others working part-time jobs who would like full-time jobs, are picked up in the state's U-6 rate which is released every three months, and should be available for the first quarter of 2013 in mid to late April.
The U-6 rate has tended to be more than double the official U-3 rate, but if more "discouraged" workers are returning to the labor force, the expectation would be that the U-3/U-6 gap will narrow, somewhat.
On March 18, NHES also released the state unemployment rankings for January. The unadjusted table shows New Hampshire lying 12th, behind North Dakota (4.3), Nebraska (4.5), South Dakota (5.0), Vermont (5.4) and seven other (mainly Western) states. At the misery end of the unadjusted unemployment rate table, seven states have slipped back into double digits — Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nevada, California, Rhode Island and, at the foot, Mississippi with 10.7 percent. Puerto Rico languishes with a January jobless rate of 14.8 percent.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A photograph of a New York City police officer crouching by a shoeless panhandler to give him a new pair of boots on a cold night in Times Square has drawn a deluge of praise after it was published on the police department's Facebook page this week.
By Thursday afternoon, nearly 394,000 people had clicked a button on the department's Facebook page to indicate that they "liked" the photograph. Tens of thousands left comments, most praising Officer Lawrence DePrimo for his charitable deed.
The photograph was snapped by Jennifer Foster, an employee of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in Florence, Arizona, during a trip to New York this month, according to police.
She took the picture shortly after she noticed the man asking passersby for money.
"Right when I was about to approach, one of your officers came up behind him," Foster wrote in an email to the New York Police Department accompanying the snapshot, according to the picture caption on the department's Facebook page. She said she was some distance away, and the officer did not know he was being photographed.
"The officer said, 'I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let's put them on and take care of you.' The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man."
DePrimo and Foster could not be reached for comment on Thursday, and the police department did not respond to queries about the photograph.
DePrimo, 25, joined the force in 2010 and lives with his parents on Long Island, according to The New York Times. He paid $75 for the boots from a nearby Skechers store after an employee there gave him a 25 percent discount upon learning they were to be donated to a man in need.
"I wish more cops were like this guy," one person wrote on the department's Facebook page. Others suggested there were plenty of good-hearted police officers about, even if their good deeds were not photographed or touted on Facebook.
Editing by Paul Thomasch and Stacey Joyce


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There were 192 U.S.-traded ETFs/ETNs with a positive total return through the year-to-date at the end of October, including about nine ETFs that were up more than 10%, according to equity analyst Tom Graves, CFA, of S&P Capital IQ in a report released Friday. In comparison, 402 had a negative total return, 186 of which were down more than 10%.
Also though the year-to-date, S&P Capital IQ's MarketScope Advisor (MSA) database shows 163 domestic ETFs/ETNs with positive total returns, while 155 were in negative territory. In comparison, there were only 20 international or global ETFs/ETNS with a total return above 0%, while 234 had a negative return, according to Graves.
Furthermore, among the 275 ETFs/ETNs with a 12-month yield of more than 2%, only about 28% of them had a positive total return, the analyst says.
Among the year's nine top-performing ETFs, three were in the utilities sector, two in health care, two in financials, one in consumers staples, and one in consumer discretionary.
The largest of the top-ranked ETFs (based on market capitalization), was the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), at $4.6 billion, and the smallest was PowerShares Active U.S. Real Estate Fund (PSR), at $18 million.
Four of the top-performing ETFs had a 12-month trailing yield of at least 3.4%, but two of them had a yield of less than 2%, according to S&P Capital IQ.
Based on S&P Capital IQ Equity Research's proprietary ETF rankings, two of 2011′s top performing equity ETFs — XLU and iShares Dow Jones U.S. Pharmaceuticals Index Fund (IHE) — currently have an overall ranking of Overweight.
S&P Capital IQ explains that year to date, these two ETFs had positive total returns of 15% and 11% respectively.
The seven other top-performing ETFs in the first 10 months of 2011 include the following ETFs with a Marketweight ranking are: Vanguard Utilities Sector Index Fund (VPU); iShares Dow Jones US Utilities Sector Index Fund (IDU); iShares FTSE NAREIT Residential Plus Capped Index Fund (REZ); PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio (PJP); and First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDex Fund (FXG).
The two Underweights are PowerShares Dynamic Retail Portfolio (PMR) and PSR.


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Beech 19 Sun Shield Set. Each set of sun shields is built for the specific year, make and model of aircraft.
Beech 19 Engine Inlet Plug Set guards against birds and other pests that may nest in the cowling, which could result in a fire. Set includes two plugs for the left and right inlets. Plugs are connected with one inch webbing.


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Ethanol plant regains compliance following EPA violations, fine
Yuma Ethanol LLC has agreed to pay a $5,850 civil penalty and correct violations relating to the storage and use of toxic and flammable substances at its ethanol plant in Yuma, Colo. An EPA inspection of the plant in October 2011 found the company had violated Risk Management Program regulations under the Clean Air Act. By agreeing to the settlement announced August 6, the company has certified that the facility is now in compliance with these regulations.
"These requirements ensure that facilities have up-to-date procedures in place to prevent and respond to releases of toxic chemicals used on-site," said Mike Gaydosh, EPA's Enforcement Director in Denver. "Failure to comply with these requirements can leave the public and environment at risk from accidental releases."
Under the Clean Air Act, the Yuma Ethanol facility was required to maintain a risk management plan because it exceeded the 10,000-pound storage threshold for anhydrous ammonia, an extremely hazardous chemical, and natural gasoline, a flammable substance used to denature ethanol. Yuma Ethanol was storing approximately 97,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia at the time of the EPA inspection.
This enforcement action will benefit the community, which includes minority and low-income areas. Minority populations comprise nearly half of the residents within a five-mile radius of the facility and 45 percent are below poverty level. Approximately 35 percent of the area's population is Hispanic.
EPA enforces the Risk Management Program regulations of the Clean Air Act with the goal of preventing accidental chemical releases and minimizing the impact of releases or other accidents that may occur. The establishment of effective risk management plans helps companies, industries and municipalities operate responsibly, assists emergency responders by providing vital information necessary to address accidents and other incidents, protects the environment by preventing and minimizing damage from accidental releases, and keeps communities safer.
For more information on the Clean Air Act and risk management requirements, please visit the EPA website.


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The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon has posted a message to fans regarding expectations, Bruce Springsteen comparisons, and the band's evolving artistic focus going forward.
In his message, Fallon expresses a desire to "go away from the press," stating he has "nothing left to say until we find what that next chapter of our band is." In addition, he urges fans to accept The Gaslight Anthem for who they are, not for who they are compared to or associated with.
See the full letter here: http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/the_ ... isnt_bruce


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by Tom Utescher
It was a good day for the "17" jersey. Five of the six total goals in last Saturday's girls' soccer clash came from players wearing that number, with both of host Springside Chestnut Hill's markers coming from freshman Meghan McCool, while Lawrenceville School's "17," senior Kristen Gatti, registered a hat trick in the visitors' 4-2 victory.
SCH (0-2) tied the match at 1-1 about 15 minutes in, fell behind 3-1 by halftime, then came back within one point early in the second period before Gatti netted her third goal of the day for Lawrenceville, which was seeing its first action of the 2012 campaign.
Lions head coach Jerry Hartey was not dissatisfied with his team's effort, regarding Lawrenceville as a stronger opponent than a Friends Central squad that had drubbed the local booters, 5-1, in the season opener two days before.
McCool's ninth-grade classmate, Lisa Burckhardt, scored the goal that saved the Lions from a shut-out against FC, and the offensive output from varsity rookies is certainly welcome as SCH looks to replace some points lost by the graduation of the high-scoring Kelsey Chapman.
Last year's starting goalie, Alexis Giovinazzo, was also a senior, and in the early weeks of the 2012 season three different keepers have seen action for Springside Chestnut Hill. Last weekend one of them, freshman Elsa Rall, was sidelined with a short-term injury. Junior Madi Sehn started against Lawrenceville, and senior Meredith Spann came in to play the second half.
On a transition counterattack five minutes into the game, Gatti gave the Lady Larries the opening goal of the day, but the early lead only held up for five minutes. In a race to the 18 yard line at the visitors' end, a hard-charging McCool was able to get off a successful shot for the Lions just before Lawrenceville defender Alan Cook reached her.
The visitors went ahead for good with 22:30 left in the opening half, when junior Nelly Spigner nudged the Lady Larries ahead, 2-1. In the Lions' cage, Sehn had to make a diving save to deny Gatti a second goal (at least for the time being), and at the opposite end a promising corner kick for SCH was headed out of danger by the defenders.
With six ticks to go in the first frame, Gatti carried the ball into the middle of the box, dribbled towards the left post to draw Sehn over, and then shot the ball across into the right side of the cage. In the final seconds a short corner play by the Lions didn't produce a shot, and the count was still 3-1 at the interlude.
Apparently energized by Coach Hartey's halftime talk, the Lions came out and cut their deficit to a single goal six minutes into the new period, with McCool once more doing the honors.
Lawrenceville came back down the field to earn a corner kick from the left side, but SCH sophomore midfielder Sinead Brierley got to the ball and cleared it out of the box. The Lady Larries' quest for an insurance goal succeeded with 23 minutes remaining in the match, and Gatti came away with a hat trick for the afternoon.
As the game entered its final 15 minutes, Lions junior Katelyn Jackson attacked into the left side of the box, but her shot was saved by visiting goalie Sophia Lattanzio, a sophomore who later tipped another SCH shot wide of the cage. Springside Chestnut Hill's last best hope came on a corner kick from the right put in play by junior Julia Schumacher. The Lady Larries headed that ball out of the box, though, helping preserve their two-goal edge.


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Difficulty: Medium
Servings: 1-2
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 45 mins
1. Tart
- Pour in butter and flour into the mixer bowl of the Bosch kitchen machine, turn to low speed. Add a pinch of salt and sugar then increase the speed slightly.
- Next add in the eggs slowly.Then add in the milk and increase the speed. Mix until a dough is formed.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and lightly knead it into a ball. Dust it with a little bit of flour while kneading. Next,wrap the dough with a cling film and let it rest in the fridge for at least half a day or overnight.
- With a rolling pin, flatten the dough to 1.5cm thickness. Layer the dough over the baking tray.Trim any excess dough.
- Poke the sides and the bottom of the dough with a fork to allow it to 'breathe'. Also hold the dough down with baking stones or beans while baking it in the oven.
- Bake it at 180˚C for 30 minutes until a golden brown texture is achieved.
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- Next, cut the onions, zucchini and the carrots into small chunks and shred them with the disc cutter.
- Heat up a pan and add some olive oil. Add in the onions and lightly toss it. Next, put in the carrots and the zucchini with some minced garlic. Cook the vegetables until they are slightly soft. Pour in some white wine and let the vegetables braise for a while.
- Allow the alcohol to evaporate. Season the vegetables with rock salt,pepper and sugar. Put it aside to cool.
- Next layer the vegetables onto the tart base that was baked earlier. Avoid scooping up too much of the vegetable juices. Include the filling mixture. Sprinkle cheese on top and garnish it with the mushrooms.
- Send it to bake for a second time into a preheated oven of 180˚C for 15 minutes.
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China's Tencent Is Now Bigger Than Intel
Tencent Holdings isn't yet a household name in the U.S., but it should be.
With a market cap now slightly above $150 billion, the Chinese social networking and gaming firm is already larger than staid U.S. tech giants like Intel, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard.
And given Tencent's shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange are up more than 25% since Jan. 1, if it keeps up the momentum, it could soon eclipse AT&T, which had a market cap at close Monday of $169 billion.
Though few outside of China use Tencent's services, the company's increasingly massive value shows it pays to be one of the kings of the Chinese Internet, which now has more Web and smartphone users than any other market in the world. The company's scale, combined with its increasing ambitions abroad also serve as a reminder that those who ignore the company do so at their own peril.
The most recent example of this came Tuesday in the form of a CLSA report valuing Tencent's messaging application WeChat at $64 billion, or about three times the amount Facebook paid for WhatsApp. Though app developers outside Asia have said they see the many features in Asian chat apps as potential annoyances to users, CLSA analyst Elinor Leung argues games, advertisements, and e-commerce options mean Tencent has the ability to make around $3 per WeChat user, compared with the $1-per-user fee WhatsApp charges.
Though it remains to be seen just how much Tencent can make from WeChat, it has already begun adding mobile games, an online-payment tool, features that help users flag taxis or buy movie tickets, and even a platform for investing into a money-market-like fund.
If those features start bringing in money over the next year—and Ms. Leung points out in her report that one Tencent-created game promoted on WeChat is reportedly making 200 million yuan ($32.6 million) per month—that could start to change the calculus for others like Facebook and WhatsApp.
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Hundreds of thousands of people migrate to Mexico from across Central America, Africa and other regions, dreaming of opportunity or fleeing violence in their communities. When they arrive, many face harassment in the streets, assaults from organized crime, and abuse at the hands of police and government officials. Sin Fronteras protects, supports, and advocates for the rights of migrants and refugees who come to Mexico in search of a better life.
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Elizabeth Crowley has worked diligently for the areas of western Queens since she has been in office, representing the area in the City Council since January 2009. In that short time, she has brought attention to the development of schools, keeping firehouses open, and earned a reputation as a tireless worker for preserving the infrastructure of the community.
Union endorsements might not be as significant this year as they usually are in this type of race, but Crowley, although not endorsed by the Queens County Democratic Party, has gotten endorsements from a few unions and Associations that would normally go with the preferred county Democrat.
Along with a host of others, the PBA, Uniformed Fire Officers, Teamsters and City Sanitation Workers Union have all endorsed Crowley.
When you get down to what makes her a better candidate, we see Crowley as able to deliver more dollars to New York through Congress. We like the way she has spent her time in office, fighting for more police, fire services and not being afraid of challenging the City Council speaker on more than a few issues when her constituents counted on her to represent their interests.
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First off, please take my advice and refrain from overuse of phrases like, strawman, red herrings, argumentum ad hominem, tu quoque, etc Using these frequently doesn't help prove that you're a sophisticated strong debater who's winning the debate, in fact, if anything, it weakens your arguments. So try not to hide a lot behind them.
Talk about having a twisted mind! Instead of thinking "well, maybe I shouldn't use logical fallacies", he accuses Khalil of hiding behind the pointing out of these logical fallacies and says that pointing them out in fact weakens his argument. I thought spewing logical fallacies in a debate weakens the arguments, but what do I know?


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Release Notes for Clozure CL 1.6
Supported Platforms
Clozure CL 1.6 runs on the following platforms:
- Mac OS X 10.5 and later (x86, x86-64, ppc32, ppc64)
- Linux (x86, x86-64, ppc32, ppc64, armv7l)
- FreeBSD 6.x and later (x86, x86-64)
- Solaris (x86, x86-64)
- Microsoft Windows XP and later (x86, x86-64)
The preferred way to get Clozure CL is via Subversion. For example, to get CCL for Mac OS X on x86, one would run the following command from a shell prompt:
$ svn co http://svn.clozure.com/publicsvn/openmcl/release/1.6/darwinx86/ccl
Versions for other platforms are available by changing the darwinx86 to one of linuxx86, freebsdx86, solarisx86, windows, darwinppc, linuxppc, or linuxarm.
Both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries are included with all versions (except for ARM, which is 32-bit only).
See also http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl/wiki/SystemRequirements.
Reporting Bugs
Please use the Trac instance at http://trac.clozure.com/ccl to review existing bug reports and to submit new ones.
Platform Notes
The 32-bit Windows lisp still doesn't run on 64-bit Windows.
Setting up a build environment for the 64-bit Windows lisp is more trouble than it ought to be. The WindowsNotes wiki topic outlines how to do it, but newer versions of the mingw-ww64 toolchain appear to have incompatibly changed, and can no longer build the lisp kernel. The win64 toolchain in ftp://ftp.clozure.com/pub/mingw-w64-bin_i686-cygwin-1.5.25-15_4.4.1a.tar.bz2 is known to work.
Several serious bugs in the Windows ports have been fixed since the 1.5 release.
Linux x86
The distributed binaries were built on a Debian 5.0 system. Most distributions should be able to run this binary without any trouble. It's possible that on some (presumably very old) systems, you may get a message like this:
lx86cl: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by lx86cl)
To solve this problem, recompile the lisp kernel binary on your own system:
$ cd ccl/lisp-kernel/linuxx8632 # or linuxx8664, as appropriate $ make
Linux PPC
Some (usually larger) PowerPC-based systems use a page size of 64K. The lisp won't run on those systems; it currently expects a page size of 4K.
Linux ARM
The ARM port is brand new. It is probably fair to call it beta quality; it can (usually) compile itself, but there are still some bugs.
The port targets the "ARMv6t2" architecture and later. It is often not immediately apparent which ARM cores implement which architecture revision. The chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARM_cores may help.
It's intended to run under an ARM Linux distribution that runs in little-endian mode ("armel"), supports the "embedded ABI" ("eabi", sometimes "gnueabi") and "soft-float" FP conventions (where C functions pass floating-point arguments and return floating-point results in general-purpose registers).
The lisp has primarily been run on a few Freescale i.MX515 machines running Ubuntu 9.04,9.10, and 10.04. (See https://www.genesi-usa.com/products, for example.) The Nokia N900 has also seen some use.
The FreeBSD binaries were built on a FreeBSD 8.1 system. If you are running 6.x or 7.x, you should be able recompile the lisp kernel on your own system and run the lisp without any further trouble:
$ cd ccl/lisp-kernel/freebsdx8632 # or freebsdx8664, as appropriate $ make
New exported symbols
The following symbols are now exported from the CCL package:
- delete-directory
- get-gc-notification-threshold, set-gc-notification-threshold
- *pending-gc-notification-hook*
- wait-for-signal
- object-direct-size
- add-feature, remove-feature
The function ccl:delete-directory deletes a directory and all its contents. (Note: versions of cl-fad prior to version 0.6.4 define a conflicting ccl:delete-directory; see ticket:771.)
A new pre-gc notification mechanism is available on the x86 and x86-64 ports. When the heap is a configurable threshold value away from being full enough for a gc, the function of no arguments in ccl:*pending-gc-notification-hook* will be called.
The function ccl:wait-for-signal takes two arguments: a signal number, and a duration in seconds. It will wait until the signal is received, or until the specified number of seconds has passed. If the signal number is one that is used by the lisp internally, an error will be signaled. An error will always be signaled on Windows.
The function ccl:object-direct-size returns the size of a heap-allocated lisp object in bytes, including any headers and alignment overhead. If you squint, it's sort of like C's sizeof operator.
The functions ccl:add-feature and ccl:remove-feature operate on *features* in a thread-safe way.
Cocoa IDE
Background Listener Processes
(gui:background-process-run-function name thunk)
executes the 0-argument function THUNK in a lisp process named NAME with the standard stream variables effectively bound to a stream which references a listener window (with associated Hemlock buffer and infrastructure.) The window is invisible (it's actually created on demand) unless/until an I/O operation is performed on this stream.
When the process is runing, the window's close button (and command-W/the Close menu item) hides the window but doesn't deallocate its resources or kill the process; subsequent I/O operations to the stream cause the window to become visible again.
If a background listener window is visible when the associated process exits, it stays visible (so that its contents can be saved via "Save To..." or otherwise manipulated).
When the window is visible and the process is in a break loop, it behaves like other listener windows/processes: the backtrace and restarts dialogs can be used, and the listener window/process can be used to evaluate selections from editor windows when the listener window is the frontmost listener window.
Other IDE Changes
If the shift key is held down when the IDE application is launched, no init files (neither ccl-init.lisp nor ccl-ide-init.lisp) will be loaded.
The bundled ASDF is now version 2.010.
cl:load uses a primitive built-in http client so that it can load files from a url, e.g., (load "http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp")
The defstruct macro does more careful type checking.
The way floating-point exceptions are detected in foreign code has changed. (r13952)
On Darwin, ccl:open-shared-library now loads shared libraries in the initial thread by default. See r14155.
Code-coverage improvements.
The Objective-C bridge allows the user to define Objective-C classes that include lisp slots. The bridge is usually able to arrange for these slots to be removed at #/dealloc time. Sometimes classes will need override the new method objc:remove-lisp-slots; user-defined #/dealloc methods should call objc:remove-lisp-slots as well as calling the next method, after doing class-specific cleanup. See r14202.
Some recent Linux kernels distributed by Ubuntu (at least), including 2.6.32-24.41 and probably others, appear to contain a bug that causes mmap to return an unmapped address in certain cases where the MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap option is used (see ticket:731). This made ccl crash on startup. It turns out that MAP_GROWSDOWN doesn't do what we thought it did in any case, so we no longer use it, and these crashes no longer happen.
Many other minor bug fixes.
Fee-based support for Clozure CL is available from Clozure Associates on a per-incident or contract basis. Please send mail to business@… for more information.


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Prenatal Tests More Informative Using Microarray Technology Than Microscope Analysis, Find Two Researchers at George Washington University
Elizabeth Thom and Julia Zachary Co-Author Research in the New England Journal of Medicine Exploring the Benefits of New Technology in Genetic Testing
December 06, 2012
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WASHINGTON – A new method for detecting abnormalities in unborn children is providing physicians with more information to analyze the results than conventional, microscopic testing, according to two George Washington University researchers.
Elizabeth Thom, research professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and Julia Zachary, senior research scientist, are co-authors of the lead article appearing in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine showing that microarray technology provides a more comprehensive result from genetic testing during prenatal care of women than the current method of testing, called karyotyping, which relies on visual analysis of the fetal chromosomes.
"Microarray analysis of blood is now standard of care when children or adults present with undiagnosed neurodevelopmental problems since there are a number of serious syndromes that involve small changes on chromosomes which are not seen through a microscope," explained Dr. Thom. "It is a natural extension to want to identify these syndromes prenatally, but research into how to interpret the data is essential."
The GW Biostatistics Center in Rockville, Md. where Dr. Thom and Ms. Zachary are both based was the coordinating center for the multi-site trial. The research was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and led by Columbia University Medical Center.
The trial involved 4,400 patients at 29 centers nationwide and the data took more than four years to compile. The trial's cohort consisted of women over the age of 18 but predominantly over 30, whose fetuses were shown in early screenings to be at a heightened risk for Down syndrome or to have structural abnormalities found through an ultrasound.
The trial found that microarray analysis performed as well as karyotyping in identifying common outcomes involving an abnormal number of chromosomes, which can cause genetic or developmental disorders. It also identified additional abnormalities that were completely undetected by karyotyping.
"Particularly when a prenatal ultrasound has shown anomalies it becomes very important for parents to have an explanation. When the karyotype is normal, microarray analysis will provide additional information in 6 percent of cases. This diagnosis allows parents to plan for early intervention, especially in the case of autism spectrum and other neurodevelopmental disorders," said Ms. Zachary.
Use of microarray for analysis of prenatal samples has only been done in a few laboratories in the U.S. until recently, primarily because of high cost, the difficulty in developing protocols which achieve reliable success rates in DNA extraction from uncultured prenatal samples and the limited experience by genetic counselors and physicians in interpreting the results.
Dr. Thom is a research faculty member at the School of Public Health and Health Services. The Biostatistics Center is a research facility under the Office of the Vice President for Research and serves as a coordinating center for large scale multi-center clinical trials and epidemiologic studies. Its researchers participate in major medical research programs of national and international scope, frequently leading to major medical advances.
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Twenty-five countries around the world out of 41 countries surveyed block or filter Internet content, indicating a global trend towards Internet censorship, according to the first year of a global survey of Internet filtering techniques by governments released today by the OpenNet Initiative, a partnership among groups at four leading global universities: Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Toronto, funded by MacArthur.
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Jericoacoara is a small fishing village, mecca of windsurfing and kitesurfing, in Ceará, Brazil. Located around 300 km west of Fortaleza. Jeri, as it is better known, is the kind of idyllic place where many travelers end up deciding to stay for longer than they had originally planned.
Jericoacoara is a place removed from the hurried modern world of screeching sirens, maniac deadlines, traffic jams and endless lineups. A place where streets are paved with sand, where beaches stretch as far as the eye can see and where warm water marries with palm swaying breezes. Until about 20 years ago, Jericoacoara was still a secluded and simple fishing village. There were no roads, no electricity, no phones, no TV's, no newspapers, and money was rarely used.
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Hospice social workers are essential members of the interdisciplinary team that provide biopsychosocial and spiritual care to terminally ill patients and their significant others during the last 6 months of life. Hospice philosophy emphasizes symptom control, quality of life, patient self-determination, and death with dignity. Hospice social workers must be skilled in providing evidence-based interventions including direct client services; collaboration with the interdisciplinary team; community outreach; developing culturally competent services; and advocating for policy change on the organizational, local, and national levels.


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Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
A call for a sustainable policy responseErnesto Cortés Amador & Pien MetaalTransnational Institute (TNI)
March 2020
The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expansion: from constituting a rather localized and isolated habit in the Andean region in the 1970s, its reach has extended in all directions, throughout North and South-America, including the Caribbean and Central American regions. Societies in the Americas have coexisted with smokable cocaines for over four decades, but - surprisingly - there is a dearth of research on the development of the market, or much first-hand evidence of how this substance is actually commercialized and used by millions of people in the region.
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Consolidating system-wide coherenceMartin JelsmaBriefing paper
December 2019
In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the 'UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy through effective inter-agency collaboration', expressing the shared drug policy principles of all UN organisations and committing them to speak with one voice. The CEB is the highest-level coordination forum of the UN system, convening biannual meetings of the heads of all UN agencies, programmes and related institutions, chaired by the UN Secretary General.
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Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty SystemJohn Walsh & Martin JelsmaJournal of Illicit Economies and Development, 1(3), pp.266–271
November 2019
There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Regulated cannabis and coca markets are already a reality in several countries, with more likely to follow. But ignoring or denying that such policy shifts contravene certain obligations under the UN drug control treaties is untenable and risks undermining basic principles of international law. States enacting cannabis regulation must find a way to align their reforms with their international obligations.READ MORE...
The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia
A look at small - and medium - scale growersNicolás Martínez RiveraDrug Policy Briefing Nr. 52
September 2019
In July 2016, the Colombian government enacted Law 1787, which regulates the use of medicinal cannabis and its trade in the country. With this decision and a series of subsequent resolutions, Colombia joined the more than a dozen countries that have put into practice different types of regulation to explore the advantages of this plant as an alternative pharmaceutical. Even though the law stipulates that 10 per cent of production should come from small- and medium- scale growers, the reality is that most of the business has been dominated by large local and foreign investors.
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Cannabis regulation and local authorities in Europe
Bottom-up policy reform for cannabis regulationTransnational Institute (TNI)
March 2019
Local and regional authorities across Europe are confronted with the negative consequences of a persisting illicit cannabis market. Increasingly, local and regional authorities, non-governmental pressure groups and grassroots movements are advocating a regulation of the recreational cannabis market. The Transnational Institute (TNI) analysed possible cannabis market regulation models (in Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands) to allow local authorities to share best practices and improve the understanding of drug markets as a means to reduce the negative consequences of illicit drug markets on individuals and society.READ MORE...
Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis MarketMartin Jelsma, Sylvia Kay & David Bewley-TaylorCannabis Innovate
Policy Report 1, March 2019
Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in medical markets, but following policy shifts in several jurisdictions a growing number of countries are also preparing for legal regulation of non-medical use. Such moves look set to bring a clear range of benefits in terms of health and human rights. As this groundbreaking Report, highlights, however, there are also serious concerns about the unfolding market dynamics.
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The WHO's First-Ever Critical Review of Cannabis
A Mixture of Obvious Recommendations Deserving Support and Dubious Methods and Outcomes Requiring ScrutinyTransnational Institute (TNI), Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO-Swansea University) & Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
March 2019
The World Health Organization's (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD or Expert Committee) released in January 2019 the outcomes of the first-ever critical review of cannabis, recommending a series of changes in the current scheduling of cannabis-related substances under the UN drug control conventions. Eagerly awaited, the ECDD recommendations contain some clearly positive points, such as acknowledging the medicinal usefulness of cannabis by removing it from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotics Drugs; clarifying that cannabidiol (CBD) is not under international control; and addressing some long-standing scheduling inconsistencies.
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A Distortion of Reality
Drugs, Conflict and the UNODC's 2018 Myanmar Opium SurveyTransnational Institute (TNI)
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
After decades of fighting between the central government and various ethnic armed organisations in Myanmar, the links between drugs and conflict have spiraled into a complex chain reaction. The roots of the conflict are political, but very few of the conflict parties in drugs-producing areas can claim to have clean hands when it comes to the narcotics trade. The recently-released "Myanmar Opium Survey 2018" by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) entails specific accusations against several of the conflict actors and distorts, rather than reflects, the complex realities in Myanmar. A neutral and factual survey that promotes accuracy about the realities on the ground could bring peoples together and serve as a basis for discussion, understanding and national reconciliation. But a biased and one-sided survey will only create further divisions and greater obstacles for mutual cooperation in the future.READ MORE...
Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harmsRenaud Cachia & Thura Myint LwinDrug Policy Briefing Nr. 50
February 2019
Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with individuals who use methamphetamine, this briefing sheds light on the importance of promoting an environment that reinforces, rather than undermines, the ability of people who use methamphetamine to regulate their drug use, preserve their health and adopt safer practices.
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Connecting the dots...
Human rights, illicit cultivation and alternative developmentMartin JelsmaTransnational Institue (TN)
October 2018
How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states' human rights obligations? The international human rights framework clearly establishes that, in the event of conflicts between obligations under the UN Charter and other international agreements, human rights obligations take precedence. As legally regulated cannabis markets start to grow, now is the time to secure a legitimate place for small farmers using alternative development, human rights and fair trade principles.
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Red Hook Street Vendors' Solber Pupusas, serving up pupusas, a hot corn tortilla filled with meat (or cheese).
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CRESTVIEW � Just months ago, the Sasquatch Zoo was an overgrown, dilapidated ghost town.
CRESTVIEW � Just months ago, the Sasquatch Zoo was an overgrown, dilapidated ghost town.
Exotic animals were tucked in cages where they ate and slept, cared for by an exhausted but committed 62-year-old woman who struggled to keep up with the more than 100 animals she had amassed since opening the zoo 23 years ago.
Underbrush encroached on pathways through the 10-acre park. The wooden structures were rotting and close to falling down.
Visitors were few and far between.
On Saturday, after months of clean-up and renovations, the zoo reopened under the direction of the nonprofit Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge. Dozens of people were lined up before the doors opened to check it out.
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�The community and volunteers have really come out to support us, and we have been able to make a lot of changes in a very short time,� said Amanda Wilkerson, director of the new Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Zoological Park.
All the structures had to be rebuilt. All that could be salvaged were the four-by-fours, Wilkerson said.
A lot of landscaping had to be done, such as clearing brush that had reached more than 5 feet tall.
A local veterinarian who is donating her services came twice a week to get the animals� health back on track. Most of them were at healthy weights and in good condition, but some of the older animals needed extra care, Wilkerson said.
The exhibits were revamped to add materials that give the animals more to do. Lemurs now have tree limbs to swing from and the lion and tiger have tubes to climb through.
Several exhibits were completely rebuilt, including the home of Albert the black bear, the zoo�s oldest resident. The 500-pound bear�s new home is outfitted with black fencing, which is less harsh on his eyes, and a pool that he can soak in.
The former circus bear seemed content. He danced for the crowd Saturday.
Wilkerson said all the animals at the zoo are friendly and gregarious, which was one draw for taking it over. She said they are just as happy to have people around as the visitors are to be there.
Debbie Mattox, the one-woman show at the former Sasquatch Zoo, decided to sell it the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge last year.
She struggled for years to keep it going, but had been overwhelmed.
�She was caring for over 100 animals every day by herself,� Wilkerson said. �By taking this on, we�re rescuing the animals but we�re also rescuing her.�
Mattox bought her first exotic animal, a rescued monkey, in 1987.
State regulators showed up at her property and said she couldn�t have the monkey without the proper permits. She couldn�t part with her new pet, so she went to classes and got certified to keep it. While she was at it, she figured she might as well add a big cat or two.
One thing led to another and Mattox had a zoo on her hands, and the community loved it.
But as the years went on it became harder to manage by herself. She struggled to keep up with changing regulations and wasn�t making enough money to keep it up.
She knew she was going to have to stop, but she didn�t know how.
�I knew I was going to have to shut it down because I wasn�t capable of doing it anymore,� she said at the opening Saturday.
Tears welled in her eyes as she looked around at the place.
�I�m just so glad to be able to see my animals like this,� she said.
She said it would be hard to let go after so many years, but that her tears were also of joy.
She could have sold the animals off piecemeal and made more money, but she said she was very happy with her decision to hand over the reins to the wildlife refuge and to see the place reopened to the community.
Mattox will stay on as a consultant for three years.
Albert�s old chain-link enclosure stands at the rear of the property as an example of how much zoos have evolved since Mattox opened Sasquatch.
Wilkerson said that today, not only would Albert�s old enclosure be unacceptable from a regulatory standpoint, the public wouldn�t stand for it.
�Before, zoos were more like roadside menageries of different animals,� Wilkerson said. �Now it�s more what I like to call living museums.�
When the work began to update the zoo months ago, Wilkerson wasn�t sure how they were going to pull it off.
On the first volunteer work day she wondered if anyone would show up. When she arrived there were about 50 people waiting for her, she said.
With about 200 volunteers and $30,000, they were able to get the park ready for the public, Wilkerson said.
A grant from a private foundation provided funds to buy the property. It costs about $1,500 a month to feed the animals, and that�s with all their meat and vegetables donated.
Six full-time staff members who care for the animals were on hand Saturday to make presentations and answer questions.
�We are all so happy to have a venue to bring people in on a daily basis and teach them the importance not only of our local wildlife, but also the exotics and show them ways they can respect and conserve animals across the world,� Wilkerson said.
She said she wanted to have more done when the park opened, but that it�s coming along.
The refuge hopes to redo every exhibit at the zoo as money and time allow. Several exhibits, including the ones for the sloth and the lion, are considered priorities. Plans also call for building an Asian and African animal section.
�We still have years of hard work ahead of us,� she said.
The Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Zoological Park is at 5262 Deer Springs Drive in Crestview. It is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The last entry is at 4 p.m. The cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children 2 to 10. For more information, call 650-1880. Find more information about the park on their Facebook page.


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By Marielle McGregor
What are the components of a healthy relationship?
This is no small question. In fact, there are entire books (like "Safe People") and websites (such as
loveisrespect.org) that tackle how to be in a healthy relationship. Today we'll examine a few of the key pieces to a healthy relationship based on student thoughts.
During fall back-to-school parties, students surveyed said to you must be sincere, flexible, loving and safe to be in a healthy relationship, and that these qualities are required by
both parties.
Healthy relationships are built on trust. Communication between two individuals stays open because the dialogue is sincere, and over time, it's evident that one's words match up with one's actions. So mean what you say. If you promise you'll be somewhere, be there. If you say you'll do something, do it. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. Trust comes from both individuals being reliable and true to their word.
Do you have a friend or family member you feel you can trust?
Of course, there will be exceptions where we as humans fall short. We are fallible. Sometimes we break promises. We say we'll be somewhere, and then we get sick. Or a tire blows out. Or we have to work late (or study late). But we do our best, and when it's not enough, we openly communicate with one another that our best try isn't going to cut it. We are going to forget a birthday. Or break a treasured item we borrow. We might even say something awful when we are angry. But in a healthy relationship that's built on trust, we make allowances for being human, and support one another. We ask for forgiveness rather than defend ourselves or create excuses. We don't hold grudges against a friend who lets us down. We're
flexible. We adapt to the current situation and move forward. Imperfections and all.
Perhaps the hardest part of being in a healthy relationship is the call to love one another. And we're not talking about love as in a physical attraction or a warm feeling like butterflies. We are talking about love as an action. Being patient. Being kind. Show love to one another even when your heart doesn't feel like it.
Part of this ability to be loving comes from being able to trust that we as friends (or as family) truly care and want the best for one another. Even when it seems like the other person is just "being mean."
To be loving requires, well … love. And
a lot of it.
Have you ever heard the saying "follow your heart"?
How about the saying "guard your heart"?
These two expressions sound contradictory. But you can have both in relationships if you set healthy boundaries. By healthy boundaries right now we're talking about healthy emotional boundaries (although healthy physical boundaries are equally as important).
As you become closer to friends, a boyfriend or girlfriend, or family members, your intimacy grows with that person. And there is deep power in connecting with someone emotionally. In the right context it can be beautiful, but without healthy boundaries it can be harmful. It's important to set boundaries and voice your needs to the other person so they can respect those boundaries.
Do you have any emotional boundaries? Are the people you are in relationships with aware of those boundaries?
To be in a healthy relationship, remember relationships are a journey of building trust. Counselor and author Debra K. Fileta summarized this idea well in recent blog post for Relevant Magazine.
"You build a little at a time. You give a little at a time," she explained. "Be real, be genuine, be honest, but never without the anchor of healthy boundaries and the weight of wisdom."
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A botnet of servers used for the popular gaming title Call of Duty have been hijacked and used in a 10 gigabit distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The attack bombarded a small unnamed business with a UDP flood by exploiting a flaw that is still present in thousands of game servers.
The flaw meant that servers did not require a valid player session in order to process replies.
This allowed attackers to write code to send UDP packets to the victim by spoofing the IP address.
European anti-DDoS vendor VistNet, which moved to block the attack, said thousands of vulnerable sites could be found with a "quick Google search".
Administrators could apply a patch to fix the flaw, which rate limited reply packets to a given IP address.
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Mitt Romney's Strategist: We'd Have Won, Except for That Pesky 47%
Stuart Stevens was the Big Kahuna for the Mitt Romney campaign, and his opinion piece today in the Washington Post is a fitting epitaph, demonstrating again the absolutely tone deaf nature of Romney's pitch: Mitt Romney: A Good Man. the Right Fight.
Stevens is mainly concerned with shoring up his reputation, as the guy who lost. But the most telling part of the column is when he casually dismisses as unimportant all the voters who make less than $50,000 a year.
On Nov. 6, Romney carried the majority of every economic group except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income. That means he carried the majority of middle-class voters. While John McCain lost white voters younger than 30 by 10 points, Romney won those voters by seven points, a 17-point shift. Obama received 4½ million fewer voters in 2012 than 2008, and Romney got more votes than McCain.
I'm pretty sure there are quite a few Americans who make $50K a year and still consider themselves "middle class," but even apart from that, Stevens is basically reiterating the infamous Romney "47%" line, and brushing off half the nation.
Oh… and of course, it wouldn't be a right wing apologia if he didn't infer that Obama won because he's black.
There was a time not so long ago when the problems of the Democratic Party revolved around being too liberal and too dependent on minorities. Obama turned those problems into advantages and rode that strategy to victory. But he was a charismatic African American president with a billion dollars, no primary and media that often felt morally conflicted about being critical. How easy is that to replicate?


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