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Phenols, Salicylates & Additives
Phenols, salicylates, food dyes, and additives are problems that can be addressed after the Gluten-Free/Casein-Free (GFCF) diet has been started. Generally, it is recommended for parents to address foods high in phenols, salicylates, and additives about 2-6 months after starting the GFCF or other similar diet.
Phenols are unique properties that can found in high or low amounts in different foods. High levels of phenols in certain foods seem to affect children with autism and individuals with sensitive digestive and/or immune systems. In addition, salicylates and additives can also have a negative affect the aforementioned individuals and in many cases, need to be avoided altogether.
It is important to note that almost all foods have phenols, but in different amounts. A child with low PST (phenol sulfur transferase) will have trouble processing foods high in phenols, so you will want to reduce or avoid eating foods high in phenols so the child's body does not overload when trying to process the phenols it will ingest anyway.
People who eat large quantities of foods high in phenol or foods containing salicylates and/or additives may experience some of these negative side affects:
- laughing at inappropriate times (at night or when something is not funny)
- strange rashes that appear on the body
- erratic behaviors and moods
- self-stimulatory behaviors
- waking up in the middle of the night
- having a difficult time with their stools (constipation, diarrhea, and/or undigested foods)
- headaches
It is important to note these symptoms can also be due to autism, or other medical issues. It is also common for some to experience some of the issues above and not all. For many families with children on the spectrum, eliminating or greatly reducing ingestion of phenols, salicylates, and additives resulted in much happier child with less issues.
In my son's case, I also found he craved foods high in phenols, salicylates, or those that contained additives. For example, he would crave and eat as many bananas as I would let him eat (up to six a day) or seek foods that caused him to feel poorly and experience many of the negative symptoms above.
The only way to know if phenols, salicylates, or additives affected him was to remove them as much as possible from the diet. Within two weeks of eliminating foods high in phenols and removing foods that contained salicylates and/or additives, my son's symptoms, for the most part, his negative symptoms, went away only to return when there was a forbidden food infraction.
There are hundreds of products that contain high levels of phenols and salicylates, and countless food sources with dyes and additives. The chart is the food list I use to know which foods to keep out of my son's diet as much as possible.
It is important to note that my son was a very limited eater and EVERYTHING he eats now is LOW in sugar (or has no sugar) and is completely gluten-free, casein-free, and soy-, egg-, and yeast-free as well.
Items Eliminated TRY THESE IN THEIR PLACE!
Food dyes................. Avoid, period!
Tomatoes................. Just avoid for a period of 3-6 months!
Apples..................... Pears are a good replacement
Peanuts................... Almonds & cashews instead!
Bananas................... Fresh pineapple, mangos & papaya are good!
Oranges................... *See other fruits!
Cocoa..................... Try GFCF carob
Red grapes............... Try GREEN grapes (eat sparingly)
Vanilla w/ alcohol....... Frontier vanilla without alcohol
Preservatives............ Common preservatives are TBHQ, Nitrates and Nitrites (aka pink salt) BHA and BHT–AVOID!
Natural flavors.......... AVOID! Or verify what those flavors are!
Artificial Flavors ...........AVOID.
*Some other good fruit choices include FRESH: lemons,kiwis, avocados, all melons, mango and cranberries. Canned pineapple (not fresh) is good, but get it "canned" in glass, not metals. Nuts include coconuts.
It Is Important To Note
- Some phenols are concentrated in the skin and the seeds of some foods.
- Roasted nuts, juices, and dehydrated foods can cause a phenolic response. It is best to go for raw alternatives.
- Yeast-based foods such as bananas can cause a negative, but different reaction. It is worthwhile to test yeast levels as well. (For some families, it is not clear if their child has a yeast OR phenol/additive issue. Sometimes they have both issues. Both yeast and phenol/additive issues need to be addressed and monitored in many children.)
- Avoid naturally flavored and processed foods (my rule: anything with more than 10 ingredients DOESN'T make it into my son's stomach!)
- Keep a food and behaviors journal. Track what your child eats and watch for any negative behaviors/reactions (extra hyperactivity, stimmy outbreaks, rashes on face/bottom, violent outbreaks, or night wakenings.) My son used to laugh at night for an hour (scary!), but after I removed bananas from his diet, those episodes disappeared! He now replaces them with PEARS and MANGOS, and doesn't have a problem.
There is some great information on phenols from the Feingold Association of the United States' website, that also includes a description of the Feingold Diet, which advocates awareness and the subsequent avoidance of all additives and chemicals in foods that may affect people's behaviors, including special needs individuals. Please note that this article is not a primer for the Feingold diet but rather basic information about salicylates and phenols in use with people with ASD.
Phenolic & Sulphur Transferase Abnormalities Technical Description
Sulphur Transferase Abnormalities
Waring (1993), encouraged and supported by O'Reilly (1993) and other parents, has published data which convincingly demonstrates deficiencies in the sulphur- transferase capabilities of people with autism. They have demonstrated also that this inadequacy is the consequence not of an absence of the responsible enzyme (sulphur transferase) but of the sulphate ions which are needed if the sulphation is to be accomplished.
If this sulphation process is not functioning satisfactorily there are many possible consequences which may be of relevance in the autistic syndrome. These have been described elsewhere (Waring 1993). It is worth recording that similar deficiencies have been reported in people with migraine, rheumatoid arthritis, jaundice and other allergic conditions all of which are frequently reported as being common in the families of people with autism. I am unaware of any survey which actually demonstrates this and nothing better than anecdotal evidence exists.
Clearly, if there is a deficit of available sulphate in the body attempts can be made to replace it. Unfortunately, sulphate ions are not absorbed from the gut so this route is not a possibility. The main source of free sulphate in the body is the amino acid "cysteine" which is obtained from the breakdown of appropriate protein material and it is this stage which may be faulty in people with autism. Some parents have attempted to combat this by feeding their children with abnormally large doses of cysteine in tablet or powder form but, as far as I am aware, the only result is a high concentration of urinary cysteine. Other parents have introduced other sulphur containing amino-acids to the diet and claim these to be beneficial.
Unfortunately the claims are difficult if not impossible to assess since those parents experimenting with this intervention are likely to be experimenting simultaneously with many others. Interestingly, the sulphur containing amino-acid "Taurine" which may be given to patients for this purpose, is reported as having an anti-opioid effect (Braverman 1987).
Since free sulphate is not absorbed orally, parents have been experimenting with alternative routes. One route which is increasing in popularity, is the percutaneous one. Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom Salts) are placed in the bath water in the hope that the sulphate will enter the body, if not via the back door, via an alternative route. Many parents have claimed benefits from this therapy and some high functioning adults have tried it for themselves. The majority claim positive changes in behaviour but some of the high functioning people have reported increased irritability (and so stopped using this therapy). Any perceived benefits may, of course, be totally unrelated to the sulphate element of the salts. It could be that the Magnesium (which is often supplied as a supplement to people with autism,) is the significant component.
The question arises as to whether sulphate ions could enter the body in this way but, if so, it could provide an intellectually satisfying explanation for the long history of the use of spas in the treatment of rheumatic conditions.
Sulphur transferase activity is important for many biological reaction in the body and some of these may be of relevance in the aetiology of autism. For example, the system is involved in the breakdown of bilirubin and biliverdin, the breakdown products of haemoglobin which are seen where bruising has occurred. It may be pushing speculation a long way but it is possible that the dark rings so often seen around the eyes of people with autism may be evidence of a lack of activity within this system. This system is also required for the breakdown and removal of phenolic compounds, indeed the tests used for estimation of its activity relies upon the conversion of paracetamol to its sulphate.
An inadequately functioning system will also result in abnormal metabolism of some neurotransmitters. In particular, serotonin, (5-HT) metabolism will be affected and the appearance of unusual metabolites (such as the hallucinogen bufotenin) could be predicted. Such an observation has been reported (Himwich 1972) but its significance is uncertain.
Other Interfering Foodstuffs
As indicated above, an adequately functional sulphur transferase system is a prerequisite for the removal of phenolic compounds from the body. Since the availability of available sulphate ions is finite, the same will apply to the ability of the body to deal with such compounds. Thus when certain foodstuffs with high phenolic content are eaten they will utilise the available sulphur transferase resources of the body and thus exacerbate the problems referred to above.
Many parents have observed that apples, oranges and other citrus fruits, chocolate (possibly on account of the phenol flavouring vanillin) and certain other foods will induce severe deterioration in the behaviour of their children with autism. Interestingly, two parents (who must remain anonymous) have contacted me independently and stated that when this situation arises, they have observed that "Cranberry Juice" will markedly reduce or even eliminate these effects. Whether this due to the sulphur content of the juice or some other mechanism or whether the effects are imaginary remains to be determined.
Some parents have found that there ate other foodstuffs which can cause problems; in particular they have removed all traces of pigment form the diet of the child (Johnson 1995). Since all of these dietary exclusions tend to be in addition to gluten and casein removal, it is difficult to ascertain precisely which elements of the exclusion are of relevance to any reported improvements.
Synthetic Colourings
There has been considerable discussion in the media for many years about the involvement of synthetic pigments, in particular tartrazine, in worsening the symptoms of autism. Considerable anecdotal evidence exists for their role in increasing hyperactivity (where autism is not involved). Parental reports suggest that removal of synthetic pigments from the diet have, in the vast majority of cases, made no difference whatsoever.
Salicylates Technical Summary
Eliminate salicylates, artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.
Salicylates are naturally occurring chemical compounds thought to interfere with the production of several brain chemicals, including norepinephrine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. Foods containing salicylates include: apples, apricots, berries, oranges, nectarines, grapes, peaches, plums, cucumbers, tea, and tomatoes.
Also, eliminate aspirin-containing compounds and perfumes.
Food Dyes and Other Additives: Studies (conducted by Dr. Ben Feingold, Dr. Stephen Lockey, and others) found that food dyes and food additives were responsible for the hyperactivity in many of the hyperactive children the doctors had seen in their practices. In particular, red, orange, and green dyes were the worst offenders. Also, preservatives should be eliminated, especially BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
Monosodium Glutamate(MSG): This is a food additive used to enhance the flavor of food and is commonly found in many popular foods, at the grocery store or in restaurants and fast food chains. However, it is highly suspected of causing behavioral problems among people sensitive to chemicals and additives in their diets and endangering people's health. Symptoms of a bad reaction to MSG may include headaches/painful migraines, nausea, depression, chronic fatigue, sleep disorders, etc.


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Foster Care is now an option for orphaned and vulnerable children living in Peru, a nation where approximately 10,000 children currently dwell in government-run orphanages.
On December 5, the Peruvian congress voted unanimously to add foster care as an official program in Peru.
Research consistently shows that intellectual and emotional outcomes for children are much better when children are placed in family environments, such as foster care, rather than in institutions. To help provide vulnerable children with opportunities for optimal growth, Buckner International–a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to helping orphans, vulnerable children, and families worldwide– has been working to encourage the implementation of foster care programs in Latin American nations, which currently use institutionalization as the primary response to orphans and vulnerable children.
Buckner Peru Director Claudia Leon Vergara began working in 2007 to implement a foster care program in Peru. The program began making foster placements in 2008. Forty-four children have been placed in foster care since that time. Solidifying the foster care program as law will help legitimize and protect the program over time, and Buckner International hopes to significantly increase the number of children placed in foster homes rather than in institutions, where, according to Buckner, the average orphan lives for five years.
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Leona "Jan" Young was born on June 27, 1921, in Tripp, SD, to John and Clara (Heirigs) Janish. She grew up and attended schools in Kimball and graduated from Kimball High School. On July 21, 1943 Jan married Leonard (Bill) Young in San Diego, CA. She was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy having graduated as a R.N. from St. Joseph Nursing School in Mitchell in 1942. Jan worked as an R.N. from 1962-1983 at Brady Memorial Nursing Home in Mitchell.
For Jan, family was number one. She enjoyed feeding the birds, gardening, walking, sewing, doing her puzzles, baking, basketball, the Minnesota Twins, dancing the polka and traveling the world. Our mother will be remembered for her generosity, open mindedness, creativity, humor, adventurous spirit, and heart of gold.
Jan is dearly loved and will be greatly missed by her seven children: Mary Kay (Norm) McNary of Hot Springs, AR; Pat (Kathy) Young of Rochester, MN; Elizabeth (Spence) Zielenski of Sioux Falls, SD; Susan (Tim) Young of New Delhi, India; Michael (Glenda) Young of Santa Maria, CA; Laurie (George) Ellis-Young of KAUST, Saudi Arabia; and Tom (Kim) Young of Mitchell, SD; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one brother, Ray (Doris) Janish of Kimball, SD; two sisters, Margaret Rueland and Clara Wallace McGregor of Kimball, SD. She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Bill in 2005; her parents, two brothers: Albert Janish and Louis Janish and two sisters: Maxine White and Loretta Fuegen.
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River Levels in Colorado Look Good This Year!
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The snowpack in the upper Colorado River system that provides another large complement of Denver's delivery has swelled to 116 percent of normal and should be much higher by this weekend where two to three Feet of snow is expected...Fisherman you better bring your snowshoes!!!
This means the agency will pull a large volume through the Roberts Tunnel, a relief for the mainstream Platte. Flows on the Blue River are projected at up to 110 percent of normal.
• More good news for those who fish the Platte below Cheesman Reservoir in the vicinity of Deckers. Divers will work throughout most of the summer to prepare valves. Dam releases will range from 200-400 cubic feet per second, nearly perfect for fishing and recruitment of young trout.
• An ample snowpack in the Fryingpan-Arkansas system will enable Aurora Water to fill Spinney Reservoir by early June, another boon to angling.
"We're pushing hard to fill," said Greg Baker, manager of public relations for Aurora Water. Baker said this scenario bodes well for good flows downstream from Spinney Dam.
At the same time, April precipitation has boosted snowpacks across virtually the entire state, which translates to healthy rivers and bulging reservoirs.


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It's been very cold since we arrived last Sunday—yes, even for Canada. For the past few days, temperatures have been hovering around -25°C, -40°C with the windchill.
If you've never experienced this kind of weather, let me explains how it feels. First, you step out. You take a deep breath and think "that's not so bad." Then, within sixty seconds, you lose whatever body heat you had stored. Your hands are burning, your joints get stiff, any exposed skin feels painful, your nostrils stick together every breath you take.
It's unbearable.
I went out wearing a pair of socks, leggings and a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, a sweater, my jacket, a hat, my hood, a scarf covering my face and gloves and I still couldn't last more than ten minutes in the cold.
There isn't much to do when it's that cold. Frankly, you just don't want to go out. Even driving isn't fun because you have to warm up the car, roads aren't great and you freeze to death walking from the parking lot to whatever place you're going to.
Repairing the damages this kind of weather does to your body is a necessity. My hands are dry and the skin is chapped and cracked. I spend my time putting hand cream and Vaseline at night. I put on moisturizing cream all over my body after my shower, and I switched to a richer face cream. I never go out without my stick of Burt's Bee lip balm. And that's the bare minimum. Honestly, I think the Canadian government should give all citizens a "surviving winter" allowance for beauty products.
Fun fact#1: The Rideau Canal is open for skating but I only spotted one brave soul on the ice. No kidding.
Fun fact#2: We are expecting a lot of snow this Sunday.
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Consumers Reports pulls Microsoft laptop recommendation
Consumer Reports is pulling its recommendation of four Microsoft laptops after one of its surveys found that users were complaining about problems with the devices.
The consumer advocacy group said Thursday that it can no longer recommend Microsoft laptops or tablets because of poor reliability compared to other brands. Microsoft said the findings don't accurately reflect Surface owners' "true experiences."
The consumer group says Microsoft machines have performed well in laboratory testing. But a subscriber survey found start-up and freezing problems. The devices losing their "recommended" status are the Surface Laptop (128GB and 256GB versions) and Surface Book (128GB and 512GB versions).
Consumer Reports last pulled laptop recommendations in 2015, when ratings were removed for two Hewlett-Packard laptops and one made by Lenovo.
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CHICAGO -- While Sprint and AT&T have been clashing for months over the latter's proposed merger with T-Mobile, they can surely still agree on the value of spectrum auctions, right?
Well, not necessarily. While speaking during a panel discussion at 4G World Monday, Sprint Director of Government Affairs Trey Hanbury downplayed the need for new spectrum auctions that could help its rivals acquire even more prime spectrum for deploying LTE services. Instead he took an indirect dig at rival AT&T, which has come under criticism from Sprint and other opponents of the T-Mobile merger for not efficiently using the spectrum it already has licensed.
"There's no impending [spectrum] crisis," Hanbury said. "If there's any crisis, it's a spectrum planning crisis."
BACKGROUND: AT&T pleads spectrum poverty despite vast holdings
Hanbury also said that "every carrier has a responsibility to use the spectrum they have and to be good stewards of the spectrum they have, otherwise it's difficult for carriers to lobby for more."
Hanbury said that while Sprint supported incentive spectrum auctions, he thought that the FCC and policymakers should also be looking at how to carry out auctions in ways that will maintain competitive balance in the wireless industry. In the 2008 auction of the 700MHz band, AT&T and Verizon gobbled up spectrum that they're now using for their LTE networks (their combined bids of $16 billion accounted for more than 80% of the $19.6 billion in total bids).
Panelist Joan Marsh, who serves as AT&T's vice president of federal regulatory affairs, unsurprisingly didn't share Hanbury's perspective on spectrum management and said that the FCC was right to insist that more spectrum be made available for auction in the near future. In particular, Marsh said that AT&T had made significant investments in its nationwide Wi-Fi hotspot program, which now contains an estimated 30,000 hotspots. Marsh also noted that the political process in Washington, D.C., has traditionally moved slowly on spectrum issues and she said that it was important to start looking at potential mobile data spectrum right now to avoid hitting a shortage in coming years.
"Wi-Fi can work great when you're in your hotel room, but when you leave the hotel to go to dinner that Wi-Fi solution will not be there for you," she said. "At the end of the day the industry will need more spectrum."
Marsh found a sympathetic voice in a subsequent panel on reallocating the 2GHz band for mobile broadband use, as Verizon Spectrum Policy Director Donald Brittingham said there was no question that the industry would need more spectrum in the near future to meet the demand for mobile data.
"We don't need more spectrum tomorrow or next year but we agree that we need more spectrum in the long term," he said. "If you don't believe me, ask the president, ask Congress, ask the FCC or the tens of thousands of police officers who want more spectrum for a public safety broadband network."
Although AT&T has the most spectrum of any single U.S. carrier, the company has maintained that its current spectrum holdings lack 20MHz of contiguous unused spectrum that it needs to deploy a nationwide LTE network. Earlier this year AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said his company needed to purchase T-Mobile to have enough "spectrum depth" to launch its upcoming 4G LTE network in many rural areas in the United States, such as parts of West Virginia.
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More from news02:37Purchasers snap up every residence in the $40 million Siarn Palm Beach North4 hours ago02:37International architect Desmond Brooks selling luxury beach villa1 day ago38 Jaguar Drive, Bundall sold for $1.8 million.It is described as "perfect for children and pets with plenty of grass on the 800sq m block.There is also an outdoor entertaining area with kitchen that overlooks the pool and waterfront.The luxury master suite has a parent's retreat, his and hers walk-in wardrobes and an ensuite.Genc & Co agents Isaac and Maria Genc handled the sale. Fancy a swim? 38 Jaguar Drive, Bundall has changed hands for $1.8 million.A RENOVATED Gold Coast property has changed hands for a cool $1.8 million.The waterfront residence in a sought-after cul-de-sac in Bundall features four bedrooms, several living areas and a self-contained granny flat. 38 Jaguar Drive, Bundall.Property records show it is the fourth highest sale on the street.The property last changed hands for $1.265 million in 2007. 38 Jaguar Drive, Bundall.
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Van Gaal vents after lacklustre win
Van Gaal said "too many" of his players underperformed, but refused to point any fingers. "I think that not only the goals are telling something about Robin Van Persie, I think also his performance: he was one of only three players on the pitch of Manchester United who were good, or maybe very good," said Van Gaal. "He had a great influence on the result. Until now that is his best performance. "Too many players were not good. "There was a range of course between good and bad, but they were not good. "Normally you have six, seven, eight who are good and three in that other range. "But today there were too many players in that range who were not good, I believe." Saints levelled through Graziano Pelle, but slipped to their third consecutive defeat, leaving manager Koeman furious "the better team" lost. Van Gaal offered a thinly-veiled barb at his long-term adversary, taking first blood in the Premier League battle against his former friend. Van Gaal once mentored Koeman into coaching at Barcelona, but the pair's feud has now lasted 10 years. "Of course if you are the better team you deserve more, but believe me it is always the goals that are counting," said Van Gaal. "When we played the first six or seven matches, we never won and we were always the better team. "In that time I didn't say anything about that. You have to learn that also." Koeman was left to rue another defeat against high-profile opponents, after the 3-0 home loss to Manchester City and 1-0 reverse at Arsenal. The former Holland full-back refused to address Van Gaal or United directly, but admitted "everything is s*** because we lost". "We did everything, we created chances, but we made mistakes as well," said Koeman. "Maybe they made more mistakes than us, but they have players who handle those kinds of mistakes, and that was the difference. "Because on football and chances, I think we deserved more. "It's easy in my opinion, we did not lose against Man United tonight, we lost by ourselves. "Of course it's always difficult, because you're the better team, and again you have to fight against 1-2 down. "After that moment I think we didn't play well, but that's the difference. "At this level, detail makes the difference in football. "The score is 1-2 and you can talk much longer about who played football, which team pressed, but everything is s*** because we lost." The Old Trafford boss questioned former United defender Neville's credentials in claiming the Red Devils "got away with murder" with a scrappy victory at St Mary's. Robin van Persie's double edged United home, with Van Gaal only satisfied with three of his stars' performances. Neville condemned United's patchy performance on social media and on Sky Sports, claiming Sunday's Premier League clash with Liverpool could be "like The Dog and Duck versus The Red Lion". "The former player of United?" asked Van Gaal when quizzed on England coach Neville's comments. "That's an English expression? Hmm: maybe (United got away with murder). "He can say everything because he is an ex-legend, but as an ex-legend, or a legend, you have to know what you are saying. "You can interpret: make an interpretation of that. "It's not so difficult to make an interpretation, when I say he has to pay attention to his words." Van Gaal claimed Van Persie's "best performance" in his short managerial stint at United sealed a victory his side barely deserved. The former Barcelona boss hauled off youngster Paddy McNair in the 39th minute and was forced to rearrange his side with Saints pressing continuously. Press Association Louis van Gaal launched a three-pronged attack on Gary Neville, his own players and long-term foe Ronald Koeman after Manchester United's 2-1 win at Southampton.


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Your phone constantly tracks and records its location and transmits the information to your wireless carrier. Most phone companies keep that data — known as "cell site location information" — for up to five years. And until last week, it was pretty much available to the government for the asking.
Think for a moment what that means. If you went to a psychiatrist, a divorce lawyer, an AA meeting, a yoga class, or a 1980s dance party in the last five years, any policeman in the country could find out about it just by asking the phone company where your phone was at a given moment in time. It is as though the government placed permanent tracking devices on all of us. True, under federal law, the police had to ask for a court order under the Stored Communications Act based on a showing that the cell site data was "relevant and material to an ongoing investigation." But that is a ridiculously low standard: pretty much anything an investigator wants to see can be tied to an investigation one way or another. Orders under 18 U.S.C. Section 2703(d) were, in practice, routinely granted by both state and federal courts.
All that changed last Friday when a fractured Supreme Court ruled in Carpenter v. U.S. that grabbing cell site data constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. That means that use of cell site data must be reasonable. For police investigations, a search is only reasonable if it is based on a search warrant supported by probable cause. Probable cause, the Court explained, is something more than the low standard in Sec. 2703(d): "relevant and material" just means cell site evidence "might be pertinent to an ongoing investigation," whereas probable cause requires a "quantum of individualized suspicion" before police can start rummaging. So a Section 2703(d) subpoena is not enough to support obtaining cell site data. Mr. Carpenter's conviction, based in part on cell site location data showing his phone was near several stores at the time they were robbed, was thrown out.
But the Court was sharply divided. The 23-page majority decision by Chief Justice John Roberts was a straightforward application of the chestnut Fourth Amendment case Katz v. United States, which held that the Constitution protects "people, not places" and that where a person has a "reasonable expectation of privacy," police need a warrant to search (in Katz, the issue was whether police could eavesdrop on a public phone booth; it was public after all). Nearly 100 pages of dissents followed, arguing variously that Katz should be overruled (Justice Thomas), that the "third party doctrine" should apply since Mr. Carpenter "voluntarily" provided his data to his phone carrier (Justice Kennedy), that seizing the phone records by subpoena or court order is not a Fourth Amendment "search" (Justice Alito), and that the judgment should be affirmed because Mr. Carpenter failed to assert a property right in the phone company data (Justice Gorsuch). The dissents demonstrated various levels of concern for — and understanding of — how deeply the exposure of cell site data invades individual privacy.
Justice Gorsuch was the most solicitous of individual rights and skeptical of law enforcement. His dissent urged litigants to press a property theory that would better fit the plain language of the Fourth Amendment than the "reasonable expectation of privacy" approach formulated long ago in Katz. In other words, Justice Gorsuch suggests that the defendant might be able to show that the cell site date consisted of his own "papers and effects," just as a letter placed in the mail is entitled to privacy even though it is in the hands of a third party.
The majority decision also suggests that the government may need a warrant to seize other kinds of records held by third parties. After Carpenter, the government can no longer claim that records gathered by a third party are categorically denied Fourth Amendment protection. In cases where the government seeks information that implicates privacy concerns at least as great as cell-site location information – a comprehensive and retrospective catalog of an individual's movements – the government should need a warrant to seize that information, even if it is held by a third party. Both the majority and the dissenting justices suggested that emails, despite being held by third parties like Google and Yahoo!, are one category of information that can only be obtained with a warrant after Carpenter.
Further, Carpenter affirms that individuals have a privacy interest in the "whole of their physical movements" despite the fact that they reveal their movements to others when they move through public space. Carpenter thus calls into question other mass methods of tracking people in public, such as license plate scanning and facial recognition software.
For now, though, a majority has held that orders under the Stored Communications Act are no good. If you have a case where the government obtained cell site information to help prove you were at the scene of a crime, that information probably cannot be used against you after the decision in Carpenter — unless the government got a warrant. Move to suppress it under the Fourth Amendment, and, just in case, don't forget to argue that its use not only invades your privacy, but also that the private records belong to you.


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When Birdie was just a baby, her father, detective Robert Gaux, was killed in the line of duty while working on a case with the New Orleans police department. When multiple break-ins occur (including Birdie's house), a mysterious woman and a suspicious man by the name of Vin Pardo appear. Clues start pointing back to the murdered detective. It is up to Bowser, Birdie's faithful dog, to assist Birdie in unraveling the mysterious happenings of St. Roch.
I enjoyed how the author made Bowser such a humourous, loyal dog, and how he was portrayed without a care in the world. I also liked how the novel was written in Bowser's point of view. It included his thoughts and feelings about the problems he and his owner faced; it really makes you have another view on how a dog might think. I enjoyed how this book was made into a thrilling mystery with twists and turns at every chapter. I would recommend this book for teens that are in grades 5-8 who are looking for an intriguing read to savour.
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I realize I've been silent for nearly a month, uncommon for me. It's been due to a total shut down caused by extreme stress and I can now just start to recover.
Started off great - got home November 12th from awesome trip to Japan, very tired & severely jet lagged but happy. Crash and sleep.
November 13th – took Megabus up to NYC with my friend Jennifer to catch AFI and the Gallows at Roseland, had an awesome time, then we took the 1:30 AM Megabus home & slept on the bus & woke up back in DC in time to wait for the metro to open.
November 14th – too pooped to see the Gallows at DC9 and still kicking myself but catch up on sleep, still very disoriented due to 14 hour time difference in Japan and waking/sleepig weird hours.
November 16-17-18 endured training class for work on new travel system.
November 19th finally made it back to work for first time in 3 weeks and was relieved there was not as much backed up as I was afraid there would be. Hooray!
November 20th – got off work early to head down to Anime USA at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City (stopping for a most awesome bite at Ray's Hell Burger on the way down), met up with scarydavedc & hung out, then was joined by kisarazumama & got some awesome shots of the Clockwork Dolls who headlined the Steampunk Gearmaster's Ball - their singer is his lovely wife heleneotroy. Enjoyed the rest of the weekend there & caught attractive technodance karaoke act Kaya and a fun jrock band called Quaff who wanted to be Hanoi Rocks so bad it hurt (even had their own very cute Mike Monroe clone). Splurged & ought myself the ultimate hat I'd been searching many years for which in my case turned out to be a handmade leather top hat adorned with a huge hat pin holding down black ostrich plumes & some peacock feathers.
Then here's where the shitstorm started….
We returned home from the convention late on the afternoon of the 22nd to find a letter from the apartment management slid under door dated Friday stating that we had failed some undefined property inspection and were in violation of fire codes and had 72 hours from that Friday to rectify said situation or they would start eviction proceedings. What the fuck? (Its hard not to believe they waited until they saw me load my suitcases into the car and drive off to run that upstairs being as our apartment is directly over their office)
We freaked out Sunday night & got no sleep. On Monday kisarazumama called in sick to work to stay home and meet with them & got vague answers. I freaked out more, got to work & got wound up to where I ended up coming home, dragged the property managers upstairs to explain and show me the problems. (I was wound up and angry and may have come off as a tad unstable which I think scared them a bit which is probably to our advantage)
They suddenly had decided that the sofa that had been in our apartment for oh, about 20 years, was in violation of the fire code as it blocked the exit to the balcony and was not three feet from breakfast bar (I measured and it was 37"). Oh and by the way those bookcases behind the sofa have to go, and the DVD rack next to my desk has to go, and there must be at least 3 foot aisles in the bedrooms (including I must move out my King Doublebass) and we will come back to reinspect.
(If you are only allowed to place furniture in certain places and prohibited from putting it in other places then WHY THE FUCK DON'T THEY TELL YOU WHEN YOU MOVE IN or when these rules are instituted and not 22 years after the fact???)
Even though all of the above furniture had been in place for years and every 2 years the city inspects every apartment in Gaithersburg and there had been no issues, suddenly these property managers had a huge problem as history apparently begins and ends on their watch and no precedents count.
They remind me of the absolute worst narrow minded sorts of bureaucrats. I'm sure there are ulterior motives – perhaps as simple as if they can root out the long term tenants they can renovate their spaces and charge higher rents, or it might be a little sneakier – much of the lower cost housing in Gaithersburg has already been taken over via eminent domain seizure and torn down for redevelopment and I know that at least one site the owners had to make major payouts to long term residents to displace them so they may be trying to drive them to save $$$. (We've had other incidents with this new management as well but this is long enough as is but just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you) I can see the $400K townhouses going up across the street and read the writing on the walls, its just a matter of time before those folks don't want the crappy old apartments near them.
kisarazumama and I had already decided we want to move out as the neighborhood has gone to hell and we are sick of living in a gangwar zone ghetto (Crips, Bloods and MS 13, oh my!) with shootings, stabbings, arson, burglary etc & have our eyes set on some sites much closer to our respective work sites and within walking distance of lots of stuff that will give us a far shorter commuting time and higher quality of life even at higher rent.
Total meltdown/shutdown/major depression ensues. I break out the credit card, buy dozens of big plastic packing tubs at Home Depot and start shoving everything I own into tubs and rent a large indoor climate controlled storage room (on first floor at higher cost to save even more hauling up/down elevators like in our other storage unit at a different site, arrange insurance coverage on storage yada yada…. We spend most of Thanksgiving hauling stuff to storage and eventually collapse into a booth at Bugaboo Creek and order the turkey special, gee good thing neither of us had plans to go visit relatives or have company, right? Stir up lots of dust moving stuff and end up in Kaiser's Urgent Care/Emergency Room late at night with an asthma attack & respiratory infection that lands me back on antibiotics and prednisone.
Mention my problems to scarydavedc and am rescued by the Steampunk cavalry as he recruits the Clockwork Dolls to help move stuff if I can rent a truck and that Sunday in several hours about a third of our apartment is emptied out and the cavalry will only accept Jerry's pizza as payment and a raincheck for a movie as all are too pooped to hit Ninja Assassin. kisarazumama and I are eternally grateful!
So the apartment Nazis have been back and we are assured we will not be evicted now – they seemed a bit shocked that we'd moved the furniture out after they told us it violated the code WTF? So now we need to try and see if we can renegotiate the lease we signed under a bit of duress (management couldn't get off their butts in time to draw up renewal due before we left for Japan so we technically were not covered – we gave them a letter stating exactly when we were out of the country and while gone they slid it under door wanting it signed and returned back while we are gone, they claim they can't keep track of when people are not there or not but it didn't help my paranoia). This was before the "violations" so gawd only knows why they renewed it only to immediately start harassing us with crazy shit, now I hope we can somehow redo this so we are not trapped in a half empty apartment sitting on the floor for a year. Ideally I would like several months to find a place we like and get together the $$ to hire some movers so we have a safe, comfortable landing but at least we don't have to worry about being homeless in the middle of the winter.
At least after they left last night we were able to breathe a huge sigh of relief (and back to Bugaboo Creek to celebrate!) and I finally feel like I can move on with my life a bit as pretty much everything has been on hold until I knew if I had to move immediately or what!
Meanwhile I feel overwhelmed by stuff. I have too much, I must pare down. I am working on selling off a ton of my horse figurine collection so I won't have to move them – sadly they have badly devalued the last few years since I got out of that hobby with the rest of the economy so I'll try sell the ones that have held better value or I don't really care about rather than choice pieces at fire sale prices. Have at least sold off a batch in the last week. Doing so will help me pay down/off existing bills/credit cards so I can better handle higher housing cost elsewhere & save up for moving costs (and gee, maybe a few extras like getting my sofa reupholstered, a new TV and possibly more shelves?) I think I have like 20 storage tubs of black band T shirts. Almost all of my CDs and DVDs are now in storage, at least most of my music also resides on a one TB hard drive that takes up only a few inches of room. I need to downsize. I hate that I can't find anything, it started snowing the other day & I realize my snow boots are packed SOMEWHERE. It was just easier to order more from zappos.com than try and begin searching, I had to stuff things in boxes so fast I have no clue where most stuff is. I can't even find my eyeliner.
I almost feel bad complaining about my problems since almost everybody I know is going through something worse – just in the last week I've heard of one friend loosing their job, another's husband has cancer, another's car got totaled, its making me think the whole universe is in retrograde or something)
(scarydavedc inherited the giant Alienware Area 51 Tower paperweight and hopefully can get some use out of it as no way will I return to Microsoft windows now – it is Mac or nothing!!)
(strangemuses- I still have a perfectly good small bl/wh laser printer for you if you want it! I think I can make the color laser wireless to connect to all the computers now with Apple Airport Express)
Now, breathe deep and repeat after me, 2010 will be better than 2009…..


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Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Groups deliver CDEM through its executives, planners and operational staff of the many agencies involved in CDEM.
Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups (CDEM Groups) can be viewed as a consortium of the local authorities in a region working in partnership with emergency services, lifeline utilities and government departments, amongst other things, to:
- Identify and understand hazards and risks
- Prepare CDEM Group plans and manage hazards and risks in accordance with the 4Rs (reduction, readiness, response and recovery)
- Provide for the planning, organisation, coordination, and implementation of comprehensive civil defence emergency management within their CDEM Group and their respective local authority areas.
CDEM Groups and each member of the CDEM Group, are to:
- Identify the hazards and risks in its group area that may result in an emergency
- Undertake, where practicable, any actions to reduce hazards and risks in its group area
- Establish the means within its group area, in line with national guidelines and in collaboration with its supporting agencies, to provide timely warning of hazards, and public information about them
- Develop, maintain, and regularly review its capability for reduction, readiness, response, and recovery within its group area, and take part in relevant exercises under the National CDEM Exercise Programme
- Appoint, develop, and maintain key operational positions, including Local Controllers and CDEM Group Controllers, Recovery Managers, Public Information Managers, Welfare Managers, Lifeline Utility Co-ordinators, and operations, intelligence, planning, and logistics staff
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Vikram starrer "10 Endrathukulla" (10 Enradhukulla) might have got a good opening at the box office, but the Tamil movie has failed to beat the record of Vijay's "Puli".
"10 Endrathukulla" has done a business close to Rs 5 crore on the release day in Tamil Nadu. However, it could not surpass the business of Vijay starrer "Puli", which had grossed Rs 10.75 crore on the first day in the state.
Nonetheless, the figures raked in by "10 Endrathukulla" on the opening day is highly appreciable as it was a working day. While Vikram's movie has raked in Rs 6.5 crore from India on the opening day, "Puli" has earned Rs 15.5 crore on the release day in India.
"10 Endrathukulla" had a good pre-talk and the response for the advance booking has been good, which has helped the movie put a good total at the collection centres on the first day. As Vikram is returning after the success of his hit film "I", people had pinned high hopes on the flick and this ensured that the movie has a good turnout on the opening day.
As per trade tracker Sreedhar Pillai, this is Vikram's second best opening after "I". He tweeted," #10Endrathukkula takes a grand opening - 6.5 Cr gross on day 1 across India. Strong nearly Rs 5Cr from TN. #Vikram's best ever after #I." The Shankar directorial had minted close to Rs 7.4 crore (gross Rs 9.6 crore) on the opening day.
"10 Endrathukulla" stars Vikram and Samantha in the lead roles. The road movie is written and directed by Vijay Milton.
Meanwhile, "10 Endrathukulla" has opened to mixed reviews from the audience and critics. The movie is expected to perform well in the next few days due to Dasara holiday weekend.


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jQuery is a brief and speedy JavaScript library used to simplify HTML document traversing, event handling, Ajax interactions and animation for rapid website development. It also simplifies the HTML's client-side scripting has developed to animations. Most of the web developers has knowledge and experience with Flash which tells how its keyframe animation engine runs. But nowadays several jQuery animation plugins and tools are there which can perform to generate numerous animations. Such as progress bars, text, image, scroll, parallax, SVG, etc for your websites. These plugins permits you to animate your web content in an easy way. It also provides pleasant moments to your eyes. So, listed here are 15 best jQuery animation plugins for 2017.
15 Best jQuery Animation Plugins for 2017:
1. mFancyTitle:
mFancyTitle is a wonderful jQuery animation plugins which is used to animate the document title in an expressing way. It designed easily with a lovely style.
2. ProgressBarWars.js:
ProgressBarWars.js is one of the tiny and lovely jQuery animation plugins. It shows an animated horizontal progress meter.
3. Popmotion:
Popmotion is a plugin which is easy to use and also flexible. This is one of the lightweight JavaScript motion engine. It has some features such as physics, user input tracking and tweening.
4. jQuery.scrollable:
jQuery.scrollable is one of the best jQuery animation plugins. It also useful for animated scrolling in iframes, scrollable elements and windows.
5. HoverEx:
HoverEx is an excellent plugin or tool for picture hover animations. It has 18 templates and 36 animations and also supports for slider effect and image zoom.
6. Marquee Animation:
Marquee animation is one of the excellent jQuery animation plugins. It supports images and text used as a part of animation. This permits the developer to customize the marquee animation.
7. CircletPreloader:
CircletPreloader is a best plugin or tool used in animations. It helps to generate circular preloader animation.
8. Revolver:
Revolver is one of the wonderful jQuery animation plugins. It helps to form the full screen sliding websites. This plugin turns into a website template. It has some features such as Ajax support, forward buttons support, cross browser compatible, scroll bar support and easy to customize.
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jQlouds has some of the options to customize plugin. This is a plugin which is use to form clouds on the fly.
10. fakeLoader.js:
fakeLoader.js is one of the wonderful jQuery animation plugins. It also has lightweight and used to make an animated spinner.
11. LetterFX:
LetterFX is use to apply visual effects to letters, animated, words or also some other text pattern. It is based on CSS classes.
12. Livlcons:
First of all, Livlcons is one of the jQuery animation plugins and its main goal is to bring more interactivity and also individuality to client's websites. This is powered by JavaScript and based on SVG.
13. Digital Write:
Digital Write is a tool which writes characters on a 5*5 matrix with size, color and animations. This is also used in invitation messages, loaders, etc.
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First of all, animateClick is an amazing jQuery animation plugins that permits you to process animations on mouse click. These plugins are also helpful in animations to define the size and color.
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bringins displays a content as an animated page on websites. It permits you to choose from 3 animated introductions such as animate the page on right, center or left of webpage.


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Panoramic sea view villa in Bodrum for sale. Located on a hillside in Yalikavak with private gardens and pool. Ideal Bodrum investment with rental guarantee
Turkey Homes are very pleased to present this impressive sea view villa in Bodrum for sale, situated on a hillside in the stunning and elite marina town of Yalikavak, perfectly positioned to enjoy the fabulous Bodrum sunsets.
Home to the recently renovated famous Palmarina attracting celebrities from the film, music and sporting scene, high-powered business tycoons and royalty, often sailing in on luxurious yachts as they tour the Aegean and Mediterranean coastline of Turkey.
With such high-profile visitors, Yalikavak has become the hotspot for Bodrum property investment, seeing the development of some exclusive luxury villas in the area, often secluded on the local hillsides with breathtaking views of the bay and the marina, all commanding extremely high rental yields providing excellent rental incomes for investors and stunning homes for those that live in the year-round resort.
Yalikavak boasts an array of beaches, all very clean with crystal clear waters, two of which have been awarded the Blue Flag for cleanliness. The beaches are all busy in the daytime and also in the evening too as tourists stroll to the beaches to view the glorious sunsets at dusk or enjoying water front dining down at the marina that offers a selection of fine dining restaurants.
Villa Location and Details
This very well-presented modern villa for sale in Yalikavak is found rather tranquilly on the outskirts of the town between Yalikavak and Gumusluk, with a short 10-12 minutes drive to reach the centre of both resort areas.
The immediate area offers a scattered selection of convenience stores and restaurants, with the nearest supermarket around 1km away and the nearby resorts both offering a larger selection, Yalikavak being a vibrant resort and Gumusluk rather peaceful and much more traditional.
The tranquil hillside location offers a downhill walk of around 15-minutes to the nearest beach, though there is a local bus service running a regular route to the beaches and the centre of both resorts, a great area to explore the history of Gumusluk and enjoy a touch of the exclusive Marina lifestyle in Yalikavak.
The villa is one of many scattered across the hillside, enjoying a sizeable private plot that is accessed from a quite rear street with gates opening to a private driveway for secure parking and a small rear garden area.
The front gardens are beautifully landscaped and quite secluded with rear and side walled providing ample screening whilst the front wall is a line of clear glass railings so not to spoil the breathtaking panoramic views across the Aegean Sea, local islands as well as the lush green hillsides.
To one side of the villa is a private multi-depth swimming pool and ample sunbathing terrace, whilst the other side offers a large slightly raised stone terrace with a pergola style roof, a perfect shaded lounge or barbecue area, along with a wide travertine terrace running between the outdoor lounge and the pool area fronted by a vast velvet green lawn stretching to the glass railings.
The 3 bedroom villa is built over two floors, entered from the rear garden area via steel door that opens to the open-plan living area on the first-floor, a very spacious area with full sea views, set out in an L-shape with a slight nautical theme, providing a fully fitted modern kitchen to the rear, decked out with a range of clean white units topped with black granite work surfaces and slate grey art stone splash backs, along with a white marble breakfast bar for casual dining and a side garden and pool view window positioned over the sink.
The comfy lounge sits to the front of the kitchen, with a set of wide patio doors opening to a wooden French balcony to take in the views from your armchair and allow a cool summer sea breeze into the villa.
A wide, open doorway to the side of the lounge takes you through to the landing area with a further seating and patio doors that open to a large wooden shaded balcony for alfresco sea view dining along with a handy travertine tiled guest WC off the landing area.
Completing the first floor, located off the landing area, you have bedroom 1, a large double room with doors opening to another wooden French balcony with full sea views and the privacy of a travertine tiled en-suite shower room.
Stairs from the landing then take you down to the ground floor, here you find the final 2 bedrooms located off a hallway, one large double and one equal-sized twin, both with sea views and direct access out to the gardens and swimming pool, both enjoying the privacy of en-suite facilities.
Offered to the Bodrum real estate market fully furnished and equipped to a very good standard and in a very good clean condition throughout, all inclusive of all white goods and air conditioning units with the added benefit of a rental guarantee if buying for investment in Bodrum
Overall, considering the location and views this Yalikavak property offers great value for money, ideal for family holidays, year-round living or an ideal investment in Bodrum to achieve a high rental income, close to local amenities, easy access to two resort centres and truly amazing sea, sunset and nature views.
Contact Turkey Homes today for more details and our friendly team of Bodrum property advisors will answer all your Turkey real estate questions, offer you comprehensive advice and will be on hand at all times to guide you through the Turkey property buying process.
Yalikavak is a busy yachting area on the Bodrum peninsula, sitting approximately 18km from the centre of Bodrum. The area has a huge marina which has recently undergone renovation, to make it one of the most elite marinas on the southern coast of Turkey.
Port Palmarina (Yalikavak marina) can moor up to 800 luxury yachts, many of which fly flags from all around the world. Attracting the rich and famous arriving in their luxury vessels on their tours around the Mediterranean. The Marina also houses a very elite shopping centre with chic boutiques and fine dining restaurants.
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When speaking about creativity and novel ideas, it is really often that people are enthusiastic and proactive. But are we lacking of good ideas?
Don't fear to lack of ideas. You will always have tons of « good » ideas
Having creative and novel ideas is not an issue. Put 10 people in a room for 1 day with a good methodology (stay tuned on INNOWEO for that 😉 ) and I guaranty that they will come out with at least 5 to 10 concepts that worth to look closer.
Every brainstorming session will end with a few good ideas.
Why so few see the light of the day?
The main reason why so few ideas come to reality is the lack of empowerment and the lack of responsability.
Really often at the end of a brainstorming seesion, all team members goes back in their office and nothing happens. If no one is ready to take risks for the idea, it is quite normal that very few are actually realized.
As Innovation manager it is key for us to inverse this curve and make more ideas a reality. Don't mess you up. It means that the organisation has to support your game.
Here are my tips to guaranty that ideas are at least studied and some be saved from the dark night they are heading to.
My 5 tips
- Find ambassadors or champions (who will drive and support the projects, from top exec to project managers, via technicians.., your champs can be everywhere in your organisation).
- Have team members (of your creativity workshop) engaged by setting a list of actions for each of them
- Prove the value by communicating on good results
- increase the number of participating people: the more people involved in saving ideas, the more ideas saved
- Train your execs. Focus on value added and value creation to explain your execs how wonderful new ideas are. If you are successful, no more budget and resources issues 😉
Do you have more tips? Share it with us!


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I was remember when i was playing Diablo 2 , the graphics and the game play is awesome the way you kill monster just to make a new level and hunt to get items and the most exciting is when you are going to kill monster and drop a rare items that the one thing i remember when i was playing Diablo. but then the good news is the release of Diablo 3. when you are enjoying playing Diablo II your going to more like this game for the new look and more exciting game play with a good and upgraded visual and awesome effects. Diablo 3 is a dark fantasy with a horror theme made by Blizzard Entertainment. many players in the world going to play this awesome game but then this game was fully release Europe, Latin America and North America this May 15, 2012 and soon they are going to release in Russia on June 7, 2012.
This game was one of the top trending and in demand game to order like in amazon and other website. that's why this game is one huge big deal going to full blast. try to play this game to experience new look and awesome graphics, fell also the fury while you are going to PVP or Player vs. Player and i think this game is not yet avaible to download for free because it need time to freely expose in the internet. so what are you waiting grab your own Diablo III and add to your precious game. this game is surely one of the trending and one of the people's choice.
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What is being hailed as possibly the greenest house ever built in Canada is nearing completion in Vancouver, and it's blowing past the net-zero home program limits promoted by the federal government and residential building associations.
The house on West 42nd Avenue is a Living Building Challenge project – the only one in B.C. and one of only a handful in North America.
It will generate five to seven times the energy it needs to operate, estimates architect Jay Lin of Vancouver's HCMA Architecture + Design, who is working on the project with builder Arthur Lo, an engineer and president of Insightful Healthy Homes Inc.
The Living Building Challenge, from the Seattle-based International Living Future Institute (ILFI), is the world's most rigorous, proven performance standards for buildings. A key aspect is that the building is self-sustaining.
Only one other project in Vancouver, an addition to the VanDusen Botanical Garden, has attempted to meet the Living Building Challenge, but it failed to achieve registration.
Two other projects, both on Vancouver Island, also fell short of the challenge, according to Michael Berrisford, editor-in-chief of Ecotone Publishing, the ILFI's publications division.
The Insightful house, once completed, will be monitored to see if it qualifies as Canada's first privately built Living Building Challenge house.
An energy-efficient house in North Vancouver built by Insightful received a Georgie Award from the Canadian Home Builders' Association of BC this year for best environmental initiative, but Lo said his Vancouver creation takes sustainable residential construction to a new level.
The house of more than 5,000 square feet in Vancouver's Southlands neighbourhood easily surpasses the net-zero energy standards of Natural Resources Canada, which requires a home to use less energy than it produces, Lo said.
It is equipped with 36 rooftop photovoltaic solar panels, solar-heated water, heat-recovery ventilators and drain-water heat recovery systems.


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Vicky Ras is a 30-something chronicler of life as experienced in measures of beauty, pain, victories, failures and passions. A former wannabe and an ex-teenage escape artist, she is a force of nature with a chronic case of the 'elsewheres'. She loves rarely but when she does – like now – she does it enormously, boundlessly, and in overflowing measures. Not too far removed from the way she takes her pleasures and offers it back to the world. This blog is dedicated to people who like to give it all they've got – living life supersized, leaving room for the unexpected and the rest, as they say, is fate's free-for-all. Cheers!
Shroud me with optimism. Let me never metamorphose into the hard cynic I have started to manifest. Send me strength, courage and love that will linger even long after I've had close encounters with all my demons. Let me not unleash my bullheadedness, my unpredictable moods and shiftiness, my brutal honesty to those who couldn't handle it. May I remain coquettish at the right time, for all time if possible. Teach me how to embrace and rejoice in being the vague, structured-one-minute-spontaneous-the-next, obsessive girl I am.
Remind me that I can always stretch farther than my short arms and legs can reach. Never tire of jogging my memory that I am responsible wholly and completely for my every move. Hearten my belief that my joy is supersized and wrapped up in pretty shiny ribbons of silence, solitude and eating chips and dark almond chocolates just as much as in thought-provoking conversation, sex, books, sex, independence and more sex. Yes, exactly in that order. Permit me the freedom to say merde to those who try to direct me, no matter how well-meaning they may be. By the same token, shower me with humility to take being told "go to hell" with a smile and a little toss of my hair.
Teach me to be good to myself, to take flight and be carefree soon and as often as I can afford it! Show me how dangerous it is for a woman, or for anyone, to be too wrapped-up in the "all about me" world. Let me be as melodramatic as I wish but at the same time be conscious of the fact that my melodrama is starting to cause detriment to myself and my relationships with people.
Most of all help me to be grateful without thinking myself indebted for life, to live without compromising on what is most important to me and to dream with a little more courage each day.