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"Below is a list of commonly used trafficking terms:
Advocacy: Efforts to influence public policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. New legislation have been proposed in various states, laws amended and non-governmental organizations formed as part of the advocacy for the end of human trafficking.
Date: The time and place where a prostituted woman or girl is scheduled to meet a man, known as a "john."
Debt-bondage: An illegal practice in which traffickers tell their victims that they owe money (often relating to the victims' living expenses and transport into the country) and that they must pledge their personal services either for labor or commercial sex to repay the debt.
Department of Professional Licensure (DPL): A Massachusetts agency responsible for licensing qualified business owners/operators and service providers in the Commonwealth. It enforces the statutes and regulations of 31 distinct registration boards, recording license violations, expirations and renewals. The DPL charges fines for violations and calls licensees to court hearings if offenses continue.
Human trafficking: The illegal trading, either nationally or internationally, of human beings for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor; a modern-day form of slavery. It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, and second largest, tied with the illegal arms industry and second only to the drug trade.
ICE (US Immigration Customs Enforcement): The largest investigative agency in the US Department of Homeland Security, responsible for upholding public safety by maintaining American border security. In regard to human trafficking, ICE attempts to alter the perception of internationally trafficked women and girls from illegal immigrants to victims in need of help.
Involuntary domestic servitude: Nonconsensual labor exploitation in an informal workplace, often a home and often connected to the victim's off-duty living quarters. Such an environment, which can socially isolate domestic workers, is conducive to nonconsensual exploitation since authorities cannot inspect private property as easily as they can inspect formal workplaces.
John: A slang term for a man who pays for the services of a prostitute.
Labor trafficking: "The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion." (Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000). Victims are forced to work against their will under threat of violence or other punishment. Their freedom is restricted and a degree of ownership is exerted.
Non-governmental organization (NGO): A legally constituted organization created by citizens or companies that operates independently from any government.
Pimp: An agent who manages prostitutes, scheduling their ""dates"" and profiting from their earnings. The relationship between pimps and prostitutes is often psychologically and physically abusive. Prostituted women are sometimes kidnapped off the street by pimps at a young age or lured through the Internet. Pimps are often involved in other illegal industries and activities such as drug dealing or abuse.
The Polaris Project: One of the largest anti-trafficking organizations in the US and Japan, with programs operating at international, national and local levels. The Project is involved in direct outreach and victim identification, social services and transitional housing to victims, and operation of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC). The NHTRC serves as the central hotline on human trafficking in the US.
Prostitute: Contrary to the common belief that a prostitute is a person who voluntarily sells his or her own body, several anti-trafficking NGOs and government agencies view prostitution as an act forced upon individuals in which their bodies or services are sold against their will.
Rhode Island prostitution loophole: Prostitution was decriminalized in Rhode Island in 1980, when the prostitution laws were amended to reduce the act from a felony to a misdemeanor. The amendments left only street solicitation as illegal and, essentially, indoor prostitution was not subject to prosecution. The loophole was closed in Rhode Island in 2009.
Sexual trafficking: Sexual trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18. A "commercial sex act" means any sex act performed for financial gain. Victims of sex trafficking can be women or men, girls or boys, but the majority are women and girls.
Staying in pocket: A slang term for the practice of forbidding prostituted women from observing street or establishment names or general surroundings during ""dates"" in order to keep them isolated.
T visa: A type of visa allowing former victims of human trafficking to remain in the US if they agree to assist law enforcement in testifying against perpetrators. Aside from a willingness to testify, the visa is available to people who would suffer extreme hardship if deported to their native countries."
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Renovated Lahad Datu Terminal To Offer Enhanced Facilities
26 November 2008
Lahad Datu, 26 November 2008 - Lahad Datu Airport now offers enhanced facilities as the renovation works to the terminal has now been completed.
The renovated terminal, which cost RM1.6 million underlines the Sabah and Malaysia Airports' efforts to further improve air travel experience in Sabah.
YB Datuk Seri Panglima Hj. Lajim Hj. Ukin, Deputy Minister of Transport launched the newly renovated terminal today accompanied by YB Datuk Haji Datu Nasrun Bin Haji Datu Mansor, ADUN of Lahad Datu dan Y.Bhg. Dato' Azmi Murad, Senior General Manager Operations Services of Malaysia Airports.
The total floor area of the renovated terminal has been significantly expanded, from the previous 3,305 sq. ft to 6,863 sq. ft, providing ample comfort space for all passengers. The present runway of 1371 meters with two aircraft bays is capable of handling Fokker 50 and the new ATR 72 aircraft on a four times daily scheduled flights.
Airport users can also look forward to an improved air-conditioned public concourse, which now consist of three check-in counters configured with baggage conveyor, two convenience shops and one F&B outlet. VIP lounge and public toilets have also been given a facelift while additional 50 chairs have also been installed and prayer rooms are also available.
The terminal handles an average of 200 passengers and four flights daily. Currently, MAS Wings is the only airline serving this airport.
Dato' Azmi Murad said: "This is our commitment to further boost the passenger movements at Sabah, particularly at Lahad Datu, as well as enhancing the services and facilities at this airport."
"Passengers and airport users at Lahad Datu can now experience a more conducive environment at the airport and Malaysia Airports will continuously monitor all the service aspects of this airport to ensure that it is at its level best," he added.
In 2007, Lahad Datu Airport recorded a total of 77,024 passenger movements and 2,195 commercial aircraft movements.

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OLATHE — The lawyer for the family of a missing northeast Kansas man says a body found Tuesday matches the description of the man, who has been missing since Sunday.
Attorney Henry Cox says Johnson County sheriff's deputies contacted the family of 22-year-old Brad Cook of Olathe on Tuesday to confirm what clothing Cook was wearing when he disappeared. Cox says the clothes on the body found in De Soto match what Cook was wearing.
Cox told The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1h05OEA) that deputies wouldn't say anything about the cause of death. A medical examination will be conducted Wednesday.
Cook left his home in Olathe without his cellphone or wallet. His motorcycle was found a few hours later in a strip mall's parking lot in De Soto.


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With the dogs days of summer upon us, the next seven days offer only a scant number of retail releases, with Atlus' Persona 4 Arena being the most notable. However, on the digital front things are are bit more varied with Hybrid, a exceedingly secretive third-person shooter from consistently creative developer 5th Cell and Commando: Steel Disaster, a portable title which draws undeniably inspiration from the Metal Slug series.
Sound Scapes has my interest, but I doubt it will get my money this week.
Just too broke right now.
Too bad Hybrid isn't $10. Summer of Arcade should offer deals, not just a marketing slogan.


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|Bear In Mind:
The Story of the California Grizzly
Through October 8, 2010
Old Orange County Courthouse
211 W. Santa Ana Blvd., Santa Ana
Free admission
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The grizzly bear once roamed freely in Southern California. An estimated 10,000 grizzlies once lived here, making it "perhaps the densest population of brown bears on the continent," according to Orange County Parks. Unfortunately, because of human settlement, the resulting loss of habitat and hunting, the grizzly went extinct around these parts.
All that remains of the California grizzly today are fables and its image on our state flag. As a way to celebrate and educate about the grizzly, the California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA), The Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley and Heyday Books produced Bear In Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly, which opened June 2010 at the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana to delve into the history of this iconic image.
As you walk into the Bear In Mind exhibit, a four-foot grizzly bear stands at the back center of the room, staring back at you. His mouth is open, revealing sharp, ferocious teeth, but his eyes tell a different story: a sad one.
In 1769, the first grizzly bear died of a gunshot wound and a change began taking place in Southern California. While the California grizzly bear once thrived, it was hunted until the point of extinction in less than 75 years. The last known California grizzly bear was spotted in Sequoia National Park in 1924.
Native Southern Californians will tell you that everyone has a bear story. Susan Snyder, the author of Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly, which inspired the exhibit, was on a camping trip in Canada with her husband 10 years ago when a bear approached as her husband stood huddled over the campfire cooking a pot of pinto beans. They dropped the pot of beans into the fire and attempted to scare the bear off. Once the bear retreated, Snyder salvaged their food from the fire and continued to cook the beans. "I wasn't afraid when I saw the bear, I was too fascinated," she says.
The exhibit is filled with pieces of art depicting the importance of the grizzly. The bear served as a source of entertainment, a symbolic image for the state and the subject of folklore. He appears on fruit crate labels for grapes and advertises festivals in San Francisco in the early 1900s. There are posters with large black text announcing "Grizzly Versus a Panther!" and "Grizzly Fights Three Bulls!" Photos of grizzlies performing for carnivals and in parks line the walls, while books about the grizzly, such as True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller and A Boys' Book of Bear Stories (Not for Boys) by Jim Sleeper are proudly arranged in display cases. Grizzly bear bones, fossils and casts are scattered throughout the exhibit.
Here, the California grizzly isn't extinct – he is alive and well.


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WASHINGTON — Key Democratic and Republican senators are pledging to get a wide-ranging immigration bill through the Senate by summer even as they point to numerous pitfalls ahead.
The group of eight senators unveiled proposals Monday to secure the border, allow more guest workers, require tougher verification measures by employers and create a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country.
They expressed optimism they can succeed where numerous past efforts have failed. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said November's election losses show Republicans they need to take steps to win over Latino voters.
But the senators quickly encountered a cool reaction from other lawmakers, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who said immigration legislation is too important to be written in a back room.
President Barack Obama also is committed to enacting comprehensive immigration legislation and will travel to Nevada on Tuesday to lay out his vision, which is expected to overlap in important ways with the Senate effort.
The eight senators endorsing the new principles are Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado; and Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
Several of these lawmakers have worked for years on the issue. McCain collaborated with the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on comprehensive immigration legislation pushed by then-President George W. Bush in 2007, only to see it collapse in the Senate when it couldn't get enough GOP support.
Now, with some Republicans chastened by the November elections which demonstrated the importance of Latino voters and their increasing commitment to Democrats, some in the GOP say this time will be different.
"What's changed, honestly, is that there is a new, I think, appreciation on both sides of the aisle — including maybe more importantly on the Republican side of the aisle — that we have to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill," McCain said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"I think the time is right," McCain said.
The group claims a notable newcomer in Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate whose conservative bona fides may help smooth the way for support among conservatives wary of anything that smacks of amnesty. In an opinion piece published Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rubio wrote that the existing system amounts to "de facto amnesty," and he called for "commonsense reform."
According to documents obtained by The Associated Press, the senators' four goals are:
–Creating a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already here, contingent upon securing the border and better tracking of people here on visas.
–Reforming the legal immigration system, including awarding green cards to immigrants who obtain advanced degrees in science, math, technology or engineering from an American university.
–Creating an effective employment verification system to ensure that employers do not hire illegal immigrants.
–Allowing more low-skill workers into the country and allowing employers to hire immigrants if they can demonstrate they couldn't recruit a U.S. citizen; and establishing an agricultural worker program.


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Shaheen vote on stimulus funding raises questionsStaff Report
June 25. 2014 9:16PM
CONCORD — New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn on Wednesday called on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to fully address unanswered questions about her financial interests in a company that received federal stimulus funding.
Shaheen voted for the $787 billion stimulus program, and her husband works for a prominent lobbying firm that helped clients get some of the federal money. He also worked as an adviser to the firm.
In 2009, Bill Shaheen became an adviser to a Southern California startup, Ultrawave labs, which was developing new technology to screen for breast cancer. Around the same time his firm, Shaheen and Gordon, created a "Stimulus Opportunities Team."
The New Hampshire Democrat also signed letters seeking $150 million to maintain a Defense Department breast cancer research program. Ultrawave eventually received $78,000 in federal stimulus funding.
"Today's report raises very serious ethical questions about Sen. Shaheen's finances and a conflict of interest involving her husband's lobbying firm," said Horn, referring to an article in the Boston Globe. "She has long championed the wasteful stimulus boondoggle, and it's troubling to learn that she financially benefited from a company that received stimulus funding."
A Shaheen campaign spokesman denied that the family benefited from the federal support for Ultrawave, saying Bill Shaheen had stock options in the company, but they were never exercised.
Mike Noonan, managing director and president of Shaheen and Gordon, said the Manchester law firm's Stimulus Opportunities Team existed for a very brief time.
"Mr. Shaheen was not the firm's managing partner at that time and was not a member of the team," he said.
Harrell Kirstein, communications director at the Shaheen campaign office, said the senator's support for breast cancer research had nothing to do with Ultrawave.
"Jeanne Shaheen is proud to be a leader in the fight to improve women's health care and has been for more than 20 years," he said. "Any attempt to use her tireless advocacy for women's health care for political attacks is outrageous. As governor, she signed a law requiring insurers to cover reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy and in the Senate she has been working to expand preventive care, cancer research, and access to family planning resources."
Republicans maintain that Shaheen's vote for the stimulus package was a conflict of interest, given her husband's interest in Ultrawave.
"It absolutely is a concern," Charlton Copeland, former chair of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust and a professor at the University of Miami told the Boston Globe. "It raises questions because so much of the work of this kind of policy-making takes place outside of the specter of the public eye."


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By the early 1990s, it had become axiomatic among mainstream Democratic pundits and politicians that liberalism had collapsed as the result of the supposed excesses of the 1960s. A slew of influential pundits–among them Jim Sleeper, Stanley Greenberg, Fred Siegel and Thomas and Mary Edsall, along with others who found themselves in the orbit of Bill Clinton–looked back wistfully to the days when the Democrats held electoral majorities by fashioning a big-tent politics that included working-class Catholics and Jews, blacks, Southern whites and even establishment intellectuals. In their telling, so oft-repeated that it became conventional wisdom, the big tent's ropes and stays began to give way in the mid-1960s. Democrats, the story goes, alienated their core voters–white working-class men–by pandering to race-conscious minorities, defending the out-of-control welfare state that enabled them and giving the reins of power to so-called "limousine liberals" who condescended to blue-collar whites and forced an agenda of acid, amnesty, abortion, gay rights and multiculturalism to the center of Democratic Party politics.
Like all jeremiads–calls for redemption in the form of narratives of decline–the story of the unraveling of liberalism contained within it the prescription for a Democratic revival. A new breed of Democratic operatives set their sights on a small band of the electorate–the so-called Reagan Democrats and their latter-day descendants, NASCAR dads. Winning back these defectors required a new manly, nationalistic liberalism, one that offered "tough love" toward the indigent, weaned the poor from welfare "dependency" and reinvigorated the Democratic Party's commitment to the "traditional values" of hard work and self-discipline. Above all, it required the rejection of "identity politics" and its pernicious spawn–affirmative action, minority set-asides, bilingual education and multiculturalism. In this zero-sum approach to politics, any program that benefited minorities was inherently suspect: aid to cities alienated suburbanites; racial "quotas" took jobs and admissions slots from deserving whites and gave them to undeserving minorities; weak-kneed liberals squandered hard-earned tax dollars to subsidize illegitimate mothers, coddle criminals and engage in social engineering like "forced busing" to desegregate schools.
And like all jeremiads, the new Democratic orthodoxy evoked a wholly fictitious American past. The Democrats needed to turn the clock back to the antediluvian moment–that is, before 1968–and restore the economic opportunity, colorblindness, family values, law and order, and personal responsibility that supposedly reigned before hippies, rioters, anti-American activists and multiculturalists took over. In so doing they tapped an unacknowledged white-identity politics, one that celebrated such virtues as discipline and self-sufficiency while ignoring the fact that for most of the twentieth century, whites were the prime beneficiaries of government largesse–supposedly universalistic government programs like Social Security, the GI Bill and federal homeownership initiatives, which systematically excluded minorities for much of their history.
Over the past decade, a whole generation of historians and political scientists have systematically dismantled the myth of a liberal consensus. The notion that there was a Democratic "big tent" that included Southern whites, Northern urban ethnics and black workers has come apart in a slew of case studies of grassroots politics in the post-New Deal years. Political scientists like Rogers Smith, Philip Klinkner and Ira Katznelson, and historians (I count myself among them) such as Arnold Hirsch, Robert Self, David Freund and Kim Phillips-Fein have found that antiliberalism was deeply rooted, even among nominal Democrats in the supposed heyday of the New Deal order. Whites–both Northern and Southern–punished Democratic officials who were too "pro-Negro" well before the civil rights and black power struggles of the 1960s. White suburbanites long embraced the antitax politics that would be a defining issue for the right. And anticommunist politics drove many voters away from pink-tainted liberals toward the right.


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Today, Barack Obama accused those who don't want him to raise their taxes of "selfishness:"
This is a classic inversion of the truth, liberal style. It is not selfish to want to keep money that you earned. What is selfish is to try to steal someone else's money, whether that is done by breaking into his house or by voting for Barack Obama and other Democrats.
Another index of selfishness is how much one gives of one's own resources–not someone else's–to help others. Democrats are notoriously cheap in this regard, and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are not exceptions. This chart, courtesy of BizzyBlog, dramatically illustrates what selfishness looks like:
Obama's record of charitable giving, as recorded in his tax returns, is pathetic. Until he started gearing up to run for President, his charitable contributions averaged around one percent of his adjusted gross income. Now that he is a multimillionaire and knows his tax returns will be made public, he has picked up the pace slightly. But how many people do you know who earn over $250,000 a year whose total charitable contributions add up to $1,050? That was Obama in 2002. It's a wonder Jeremiah Wright wasn't after him to pull his weight.
And that's before we even get to how Obama treats his relatives.
So, Barack: if you want to see what selfishness looks like, look in the mirror.
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Servlet 3.0 Tutorial: Uploading filesThursday, October 22nd, 2009
The Internet is becoming more and more about sharing data, and, uploading files had become nearly universal requirement for a web application. Prior to Servlet 3.0, implementing file upload successfully required external libraries or tedious input processing. Version 3.0 of the spec goes a long way towards providing us with a solution to the problem in a generic and portable way.


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Patterned jumpers have been, to use the parlance, on trend since about 2010, but this year they finally hit the mainstream and every high street store had a range. Even the BBC noted the fashion and published a very sweet article examining the reasons why it is now de rigeur for a bloke to liven up at least one Christmas party with knitwear festooned with reindeers and santas.
Bizarrely metal bands got in on the trend. One of Brandish's most popular posts this winter was the story about Slayer offering their own xmas jumper and the fact that it sold out within a few hours of it hitting their site.
So Christmas jumpers are great. But are they the contemporary version of the Homer Simpson tie? Great for a festive gathering too but destined for the back of wardrobe once the Brussels Sprouts have gone hard?
Well much depends on your definition of Christmas jumper. If we are being fundamentalist about it Christmas jumpers should be fairly lurid, think bright green and red, or an odd shade of blue and should have at the very least an image of Santa, a reindeer or two or a sprig of mistletoe. It should be a serious chunky knit too – preferably home made by an elderly relative who has spent half a year creating it. Think the natty threads so wonderfully sported by Colin Firth in The Bridget Jones first movie.
In reality though many so called Christmas Jumpers are actually just patterned jumpers or Fairisle jumpers or even Nordic influenced jumpers and it is these that have been all over the stores recently.
So why have we suddenly got crazy about patterned knitwear. Part of it stems from the fact that the first people wearing patterned jumpers were hipsters who may have been wearing them in a (sighs) ironic way. What better item to team up with your yellow twisty chinos than a bright patterned jumper? It pretty much says that you are so cool you really can wear what you like. This might work for 20 something Dalston-ites but if you are approaching your 30s and beyond you might want to think twice about what exactly constitutes a statement jumper.
Fortunately you are in luck for as time has gone by there has also been a revival in Fairisle jumpers and our current obsession with Scandi TV has heightened the profile of Nordic jumpers.
So here then is a quick guide to patterned jumpers. I'd leave the reindeer at home, but most patterned jumpers are great for all winter long.


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Excerpt from our Windows 8 in Education eBook.
Windows 8 comes with a number of Apps as standard, but you can also download a growing selection of Apps from the Windows Store. Remember that as long as you have logged in, your Apps will follow you around to whichever device you use.
Key Apps that come built into Windows 8 include:
Internet Explorer 10:
Internet Explorer 10 is a new browser, built for Windows 8, that is fast and fluid and perfect for touch.
This helps you manage your contacts (and classes). It links duplicate contacts and also allows you to quickly see your contacts updates on Twitter and Facebook. For the educators building personal learning and support networks on services such as Twitter, this can be a great support for CPD.
Messaging provides a powerful unified communications tool that links seamlessly to Windows Live Messenger and Facebook, and offers teachers and lecturers an easy way to collaborate. Students, of course, will take to it like ducks to water!
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Reviews of the new Stephen Spielberg-Daniel Day Lewis supermovie "Lincoln" have been mixed, ranging from "best movie of the year" to "I fell asleep while Sally Field was doing her impersonation of Sally Field playing Mary Todd Lincoln in a high school production of 'Lincoln.'"
Admittedly, the film was riddled with Spielbergian schmaltz and lesser actors were getting blown off the screen by the heavy hitters of Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones, but I'm still coming down on the side of not loving, but really liking "Lincoln."
As many have noted, it should really be called "The Thirteenth Amendment" because that's all it covers (also, that title sucks). However, this method of focusing laser-like on one particular moment in the life of the central character is a far preferable biopic method. No one wants to sit through the obligatory scene of little Abey Lincoln seeing a slave as a child and saying with his eyes, "I'm going to do something about that someday."
More interesting than the particulars of the performances or narrative structure was the implicit commentary on the democratic promise. Far from standing up righteously against a clear moral wrong, this Abe Lincoln and his cabinet spend the movie buying votes, cajoling reluctant members of the House of Representatives, and wheedling every last angle they can find in order to pass the amendment that ends slavery. I've mentioned this before: we so often see history as destiny when it's really more a collection of near-misses, murmurs, and the occasional stubborn individual who can see around the curve.
In the end, the fiery abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Jones) holsters his opinions about racial equality in order to win support from fence-fitters. It's an interesting lesson about how part of progress in a democracy usually involves not only compromise but unappealing sausage-making. The Democrats shook down savings from medical providers with the promise of keeping a public option out of the health care bill. Lyndon Johnson basically threatened to scalp members of his own party to get Civil Rights legislation over the finish line. Social Security began as a sliver of its current incarnation and failed to cover many women and minority groups. Imperfect democracy, "Lincoln" concludes, is still the best thing we've got. The process is messy, and we cut deals in order to move things forward bit by incremental bit.
Of course, there is a flip side to that message, which is what happened after the film ends. Andrew Johnson, one of America's worst presidents, did everything in his power to stifle the progress of Reconstruction. By the election of 1876, just over a decade after Lincoln's assassination, the Republicans found themselves in a close-call election and agreed to end Reconstruction if their man Rutherford Hayes got the top office. The result was dooming the American South to 80-plus years of apartheid, racial terror, and enforced poverty for blacks. It took the original sin of slavery and gave it a rebirth as a permanent campaign of violence and racism. Now, 135 years after the end of Reconstruction, our politics are still largely driven by that same racial divide as voters organize themselves according to where their ancestors likely stood in the 1860s or the 1960s.
So you never know: when Thaddeus Stevens tells Abraham Lincoln that they should confiscate all the land and property of the Southern gentry and redistribute it among freedman, maybe he was exactly right and we've been living in the long hangover of that mistake ever since. Occasionally, the radicals are just the prescient.


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interestingggg. Jims favorite number being 23 and all. and..I'M 23! I smell a conspiracy!
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The Number 23, why is it so important?
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The Number 23, why is it so important?
interestingggg. Jims favorite number being 23 and all. and..I'M 23! I smell a conspiracy!
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Looks very interesting.
I can see him doing a thriller...he did Once Bitten-
By the way, I think a 23year old girl is way too young for Jim-no offense-
Bah hum bug!!!!
he likes them for them.....................if they are 23 great..........if they are 33 great............settle down kiddies.......lol...........his women have been diverse..............if he only liked one type of girl he'd be like Rod Stewart or Hugh Hefner...........
You sell him short by saying he only likes 23 year olds............he's a clever man...........he'll need his match or he'll get bored...........
I will be 23 in October, it's a sign!
Now really, I like the idea of Jim Carrey in a thriller. I can see him do a role like Michael Douglas in 'The Game' or something like that. Just a guy that becomes obsessed with that 23-thing... I see it.
But why does it have to be Joel Shumacher ? His films are always in the middle or 'good, but nothing more than that'. His 'Phone Booth' was good, but by letting know that the killer was SPOILER! Sutherland, he ruined the ending. And such stupid 'mistakes' you can find in every Joel-film. He also doesn't know what 'sphere' means. And his movies aren't exactly what you can name 'intelligent'.
If I want to see Jim Carrey in a psychological-thriller I want it to be directed by the best! Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Michael Mann, Jonathan Demme, maybe even Brad Anderson. That guy did amazing things with 'The Machinist'. But not Joel.
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Sam Tanenhaus ... is writing a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., who died Wednesday. Q: What is the most surprising discovery you've made while working on this biography of William F. Buckley Jr.? ... A: There were two. First, he would rather talk about almost anything other than politics — literature, music, sailing, music. He once told me, 'I only talk about politics when someone pays me to do it.' Second, I never heard him make a personally disparaging remark about anyone, even adversaries like Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Gore Vidal. He might describe something they did or the style in which they did it, but never in an insulting or even critical way. He had a large sense of the human comedy... Q: What was Buckley's view of the current Bush administration? A: He was most distressed by it and once said if the United States had a parliamentary system, President Bush would be subject to a "no confidence" vote. He was highly critical of the war in Iraq and wrote eloquent columns on the subject in his last years." READ MORE >
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Another View: The protections of our Constitution have held up very wellBY ALEX ROSE
February 19. 2013 4:57PM
Editor's note: The commentary below is one in a continuing series that addresses the question: "How Does the Constitution Keep Up with the Times?" The author, 11th grader Alex Rose, is president of Exeter High School's chapter of the YMCA Youth and Government Club. His essay is part of Constitutionally Speaking, an initiative aimed at educating New Hampshire citizens young and old about constitutional issues and promoting the reintroduction of meaningful civics education into classrooms. The yearlong pilot project is a collaboration of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and the UNH School of Law. For more information, go to www.constitutionallyspeakingnh.com.
There is no document more relevant to our political health, our democratic system and our existence as a beacon of liberty than our Constitution of 1787. Although stained by the lingering vestiges of prejudice and ironic inequality, at its core our Constitution is both relevant and vital. Our Constitution is still, and shall remain into the future, the skeleton of our nation because it remains both steeped in tradition but flexible to the winds of change through the amendment process and judicial interpretation.
Twenty-seven times in the history of our nation our Congress has amended our founding document and the states have ratified these changes. Since the ratification of the Bill of Rights, we have found it necessary to amend our Constitution only 17 times in more than 200 years. Such shows the potency of our Constitution that a document more than 200 years old still serves, largely unchanged, as a foundation for our country.
The amendment process was designed to be fair, not easy. As the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, additions to it should only be with the full and unreserved support of the state and national legislatures. Such amendments as the first, to protect our freedom of speech, and the second, to protect our right to bear arms, are essential additions to the original document, and to this day are supported overwhelmingly by the American population.
In 1992, an amendment was adopted that had been sent to the states for ratification two centuries before. The 27th amendment limiting the powers of Congress to change its own compensation is a pristine example of a living and flexible outline of laws. This, combined with the numerous Supreme Court decisions over the years to interpret the Constitution with respect for both rule of law, contemporary understanding and an abundance of educated discourse, completes the two prongs of constitutional relevancy through flexibility. Only with continual changes and additions can an archaic document remain applicable to our society in the present day.
Our Constitution is essential to our well-being, as it is the most important tool with which to condemn and electorally strike down politicians who attempt to subvert the people. With it, we keep ourselves informed of the pillars of freedom upon which our government was founded, and which must remain sacrosanct beyond the overreach of government. Like a military regulation or a manual for the play of football, the Constitution has and will continue to provide the rulebook by which a society can govern itself with liberty and justice for all.
Yes, the original document was interpreted to allow protection of the doctrine of separate but equal, and slavery, and gender discrimination, but the same document has supported the decisions and actions that overcame those injustices. Our constitution serves as a foundation of our nation and the protector of its freedoms. Although it is unfortunately disregarded rather often, the Constitution serves as a bulwark of personal independence. Without it, the national slide into tyranny and ruin would be a simple tumble off the proverbial cliff.
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Baruch College Welcomes Wall Street Veteran and Author Larry Doyle for Presentation
"In Bed With Wall Street"
NEW YORK, NY- February 6, 2014 -The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business will host a presentation by author Larry Doyle on his new book, "In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy." The event is co-sponsored by The New York Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.
Mr. Doyle will present his view on Wall Street, politicians and regulators and how they have failed to protect investors, consumers and the American taxpayer. He will give insight into the lack of trust in the system, given the recent multi-billion dollar trading losses at JP Morgan Chase, the manipulation of interest rates via the LIBOR scandal, and money laundering with North American cartels. He will also discuss reforms that big banks are avoiding, which would protect the economy.
Mr. Doyle has held senior trading positions at First Boston, Bear Stearns and UBS, primarily in the mortgage-backed securities business, as well as senior sales positions at Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase. In January 2009, he launched his blog, Sense on Cents, to give insights and perspectives on the economy, markets and global finance.
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By David Klepper Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it's the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time. "I get the looks," said the 31-year-old Providence man, squinting because he recently lost his glasses in a fight that also left him with stiches on his forehead. "It's the same hassle everywhere. Happens every day. There's nothing you can do. You speak up and you get in trouble." Vega had just finished a bologna sandwich at a weekly soup kitchen set up in the Rhode Island Statehouse, where lawmakers are now considering first-of-its kind legislation that would create a "Homeless Bill of Rights" intended to give people like Vega greater protection from discrimination. The bill would specifically prohibit law enforcement, health care workers, potential landlords or employers from treating homeless people unfairly because of their housing status. The measure's sponsor, Sen. John Tassoni, said most Americans probably aren't aware of the daily discrimination faced by homeless people. "Nobody decides one day they want to be homeless," said the Smithfield Democrat. "And nobody deserves to put up with the stuff these people have to deal with every day. It's time we did something to stop the appalling things that go on." Tassoni said he's heard stories about homeless people being kicked out of libraries even though they had library cards, rejected for jobs or apartments, or told to leave a public park just because they were homeless. He said he sponsored the bill to make it clear that homeless people must be treated just like anyone else. The bill passed the Senate earlier this month and now awaits a vote in the House, where some lawmakers are concerned about how the proposal would be implemented and enforced. Would police face lawsuits if they asked a homeless person to stop loitering in an area? Would librarians have to think twice before asking a disruptive homeless person to leave? "There are issues with this bill's unintended consequences," said House Majority Leader Nicholas Mattiello. "That bill has the potential for causing significant problems for our municipalities." Supporters worry such concerns could scuttle the legislation this year. No vote on the measure is scheduled in the House. Mattiello said he couldn't say for sure whether the measure would come up before lawmakers adjourn for the year, probably next month. But if municipal leaders or police chiefs oppose the bill, they're doing so quietly. Daniel Beardsley, executive director of the Rhode Island League of Cities and Towns said he hasn't heard any objections to the legislation. Tassoni said he hasn't been contacted by any mayors or police chiefs with concerns either. Advocates for the homeless said the Bill of Rights shouldn't pose a burden to cities or police departments _ unless they are actively discriminating against the homeless now. Many kinds of discrimination against the homeless are already illegal under state or federal laws. Homeless people cannot be turned away at the polls, for instance, and it's illegal for hospitals to refuse them emergency medical treatment. But while state law already prohibits discrimination based on characteristics such as a person's religion, gender, race or disability, there is no formal, specific protection for the homeless. Rhode Island would be the first state to pass legislation to protect the homeless in such a comprehensive manner, according to Neil Donovan, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. "Ideally we wouldn't have to have something like this," Donovan said. The idea behind the legislation is to make it clear _ to the homeless as well as law enforcement, local officials and potential landlords and employers _ that discrimination isn't legal. It's also designed to be enforceable, so homeless people who believe they've faced discrimination have grounds to sue. "It's not about giving individuals who are homeless extra rights, it's about leveling the playing field," said Megan Smith, a homeless advocate who co-wrote the bill of rights. At its extreme, discrimination against the homeless can become violent. Since 1999 there have been 1,184 cases of violence in the U.S. against homeless people attributed to bias, according to a compilation by Donovan's organization. More than 300 of those cases involved the death of a homeless person. Rhode Island lawmakers passed a law in 2010 making it a hate crime to commit a crime against someone because they are homeless. But most of the discrimination facing the homeless is much more subtle, according to several homeless people interviewed by The Associated Press. Fern Wante said he is routinely questioned by police when walking, sitting in a park or waiting for a bus. He said store clerks will ask him to leave before he can even make a purchase. Restaurants won't serve him. Twice recently he was waiting at a bus stop, he said, only to see the bus drive past. One driver even waved at him, he said. In many cases, discrimination makes it harder for the homeless to find permanent housing or a job, according to Frank Nolan, who was homeless for several months last year after his appendix burst and he lacked insurance to pay for treatment. Nolan, who now lives in an apartment, has lobbied lawmakers to pass the Bill of Rights. "They're trying to get off the street but they can't get an apartment because they put a shelter down as their previous address," he said. "The same thing happens when you apply for a job. They see a shelter on there and that's it." Copyright 2012 Associated Press
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A weekend strike by dockworkers from Maine to Texas was averted Friday after union and management negotiators settled a major sticking point and extended the contract deadline until Feb. 6 to hammer out the rest of a long-term deal.
The announcement came from federal mediator George Cohen, who entered talks between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance in the fall.
"While some significant issues remain in contention, I am cautiously optimistic that they can be resolved," he said.
The port of Baltimore, which has about 1,200 longshoremen, had been preparing for a strike with extended hours at its marine terminals to move cargo.
"This will ensure that normal cargo operations at the port of Baltimore will proceed business as usual during that time period," said Jim White, executive director of the Maryland Port Administration. "We hope that both sides use this extended time wisely and continue to talk in order to make progress toward a new agreement. It is within everyone's best interests to do so."
A strike would have disrupted 40 percent of the nation's container traffic, including activity at Baltimore's Seagirt and Dundalk marine terminals. Bulk cargo, such as coal, salt and paper products, and automobiles would not have been affected.
Baltimore's public marine terminals are on their way to a banner year. Container traffic through October was up 6 percent over the same period in 2011.
The ILA, which represents 14,500 dockworkers, and the maritime alliance, which represents shipping companies and terminal operators at 14 ports, said they would not comment on negotiations. But a longshoreman who answered the phone at the office of ILA 333, the Baltimore local, expressed relief.
"Everybody's always worried about not working. Nobody wants to strike. This deal sounds good to me," said the worker, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak for the local.
As the clock ticked toward the possibility of a Sunday coastwide strike — the first in 35 years — the union and management agreed to terms on the biggest hurdle: a container royalty payment system that has been in existence since the early 1960s. The payment was established to help workers make the transition to handling cargo in containers, which required less manpower.
Management wanted to cap payments at 2011 levels, an average of $15,000 annually for each worker. It also wanted to eliminate payments for new hires. The union said the issue was not negotiable.
Cohen said resolving the royalty issue was "a major positive step toward achieving an overall collective bargaining agreement."
The terms of the royalty agreement will not be released until the talks conclude, he said. The date of the extension was initially set at Jan. 28 but was changed later Friday to give the parties a full 30 days to continue negotiating.
Still on the bargaining table are wage increases, health care benefits, work schedules and staffing levels, and updating the drug and alcohol testing policy.
The announcement was greeted with relief by the business community and civic leaders.
"This looks promising," said Nick Patronik, owner of Patron Service Inc., a freight forwarding business on Light Street. "Everybody I know is feeling much better. This is a great way to start the new year."
Gov. Martin O'Malley expressed his gratitude to the mediators and labor and management negotiators for their efforts to avoid a work stoppage.
"The Port of Baltimore continues to be a major part of our state's economic strength, generating and supporting thousands of jobs," O'Malley said in a statement. "During this extended period, we hope that a long-term resolution can be reached for the well-being of Maryland's hardworking families who depend on jobs and commerce linked to the Port of Baltimore."
The port is directly responsible for about 14,630 jobs and supports 108,000 related jobs. It generates $3 billion in wages and salary and more than $300 million in state and local taxes, according to the most recent figures.
National Retail Federation President and CEO Matthew Shay said in a statement that while an extension does not generate the kind of certainty that a completed contract would, "it is a much better result than an East and Gulf Coast port strike."
He added, "This extension is a welcomed sign to the entire supply chain community — from manufacturers to retailers — that the two sides understand the risks of a shutdown and are listening to the concerns of the shipping community."


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– WWE NXT star Bray Wyatt continues to tease a RAW appearance. He tweeted last night:
"#RAW Ville De Lafayette Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock"
– The next WWE NXT live event will take place this Friday night from the Largo Minnreg Hall in Largo, Florida. It will be interesting to see what they do with NXT Champion Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns now that they are on RAW as The Shield. 3MB's Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre will be appearing at Friday's show.
– Mick Foley, who had the online feud with Dean Ambrose earlier this year, had the following to say about Ambrose on Twitter during last night's RAW:
"You have no idea how relieved I am to see @TheDeanAmbrose on #RAW. He's going to be a major player in @WWE for a long time to come."


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I'm sorry that D.dev is a bit late, but I have been *really* busy with work, despite doing my best to get it closer to being complete whenever I have some free time. Just last night, I managed to make the code completion algorithm able to recursively fetch inherited or aliased members from the symbols tree, which, for me, was quite a nice breakthrough, if you ask me. :) Now, if only my hand-made minimalistic code parser was running decently… but it will soon, trust me.
Now, more to the point. As you probably already noticed in the video and screenshots, this is the stand-in logo I've been using for D.dev.
Well, it's very much inspired by the old simple logos for the D language that I have seen a few years ago during D1 development, and thought it would be nice. What I'm wondering is, maybe I could use something a bit more trendy and modern. Something more in line with the logos most IDEs today have. If it could have some degree of consistency with the Tango icon library, even better.
I'm accepting suggestions (preferably in the form of 256x256 png files ;). The best proposal would replace this logo and the author would be given full credit, of course. Oh, and those involved might get to test D.dev early ;). If you're interested, please send your proposals here.
Any questions or suggestions regarding the actual program, features, and status are welcome in comments section. Or by email too, why not.


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It's a good idea that won't pass
Last week, a bi-partisan commission created by President Obama to explore ways of cutting the federal deficit submitted its report -- and it's probably doomed from the start.
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, which included Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, worked hard and diligently to identify areas to "fix" the federal budget and the crushing national debt that has been created over the last ten years.
Having had a chance to read the report summary, it appears that this is a very good effort -- with more than $4 trillion in cuts proposed.
If adopted as a complete package, it might actually have a chance of working.
The problem is, it won't be adopted as a complete package. It will be nitpicked to death until all the hard work of this commission is destroyed.
It calls for some very tough decisions by Congress, and spreads the grief around. For example, it calls for cuts in Social Security (mainly by stopping cost-of-living increases for a while) and elimination of a large number of farm subsidies. Tobacco growers in the east and sugar beet growers in the west are major recipients of federal subsidies.
It also calls for major cuts in the military.
The Commission's members will now review the first draft proposal and continue to meet and make modifications over the coming weeks, in expectation of a vote on final recommendations by Dec. 1.
But once the completed final package goes before Congress we know what will happen. Each special interest group, such as senior citizen advocates and tobacco company lobbyists, will fight to keep their program alive. Congressmen will do enough horse trading among each other to protect each others' pet programs in their own districts that the entire package will become so watered down as to become useless.
That's too bad. Obama wanted a blueprint and the commission gave him one. But we would be enormously surprised if Congress, as a whole, suddenly grows a spine, bites the bullet, and adopts it.
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With all the bickering that has been going on here, I thought I should remind people what's really important to me and should be important to them. Any thoughts on this?
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We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
Written with a pen (originally). Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.


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In order to evaluate the impact of homologous recombination on bacteria phylogeny and demography, we used pruned sequences in which recombinant nucleotides were recoded as "N". The identification of recombinant nucleotides was based on the assignments to ancestral gene pools by the linkage model of STRUCTURE. Up to 30% of the polymorphic nucleotides were removed from the concatenated sequences depending on the strain.
To determine whether serosensitive or seroresistant populations underwent recent population expansions, we calculated mismatch distributions and compared these to predicted distributions from models of population expansion (
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Mismatch analysis cannot account for missing data. We therefore also investigated the historical demography of each M. catarrhalis population by using generalized skyline plots ( Strimmer and Pybus 2001 ), a graphical nonparametric estimate of effective population size, and evaluated alternative parametric demographic models by using GENIE (Version 3.0) ( Pybus and Rambaut 2002 ). The input topology consisted of ML genealogies. The age of the evolutionary events was calculated based on a molecular clock rate of 7.6 × 10 −10 /yr ( Wirth et al. 2006 ). This clock rate is based on a divergence of 21.3% between the concatenated sequences of E. coli and Salmonella enterica , which diverged around 140 Mya ( Ochman and Wilson 1987 ).
Pairwise nucleotide diversity (π) and the number of segregating sites (Watterson's θ) were calculated with DnaSP, version 4.10 ( Rozas et al. 2003 ). Three tests for selection were performed: Tajima's D , Fu's F S , and the K a / K s ratio test.
We used the linkage model in STRUCTURE ( Falush et al. 2003a ) to identify groups with distinct allele frequencies ( Falush et al. 2003b ). This procedure assigns a probability of ancestry for each polymorphic nucleotide for a given number of groups, K , and also estimates q , the combined probability of ancestry from each of the K groups for each individual isolate. We chose two groups for this report because repeated analyses (20,000 iterations, following a burn-in period of 10,000 iterations) with K between 1 and 7 showed that the model probability increased dramatically between K = 1 and K = 2 and only slowly at higher values.
A smartphone is a cellular telephone with an integrated computer and other features not originally associated with telephones, such as an operating system, web browsing and the ability to run software applications.
Experts provide best practices for mobile application delivery and management to help deal with the flood of mobile devices, new applications and data security demands.
The first smartphone was IBM's Simon, which was presented as a concept device -- rather than a consumer device -- at the 1992 COMDEX computer trade show. It was capable of sending emails and faxes, as well as keeping a calendar of events for the user, as opposed to simply making calls and sending messages.
Consumer smartphones evolved away from personal digital assistants () around the turn of the 21 st century when devices such as the PalmPilot began to include wireless connectivity. Several manufacturers, including Nokia and Hewlett Packard, released devices in 1996 that were combinations of PDAs and typical cellphones that included early operating systems (OSes) and web browsing capabilities. BlackBerry released its first smartphones in the mid-2000s, and they became very popular with consumers and in the enterprise.
Many of these early smartphones featured physical keyboards.
In 2007, LG released the Prada and Apple released the iPhone, the first smartphones to feature a touchscreen. HTC released its Dream smartphone a year later, which was the first to include Google's Android OS.
Other major advancements in the history of smartphones include Sony's release of the Xperia Z5 Premium phone with a 4K resolution screen in 2015. Networking advancements in Wi-Fi and have also progressed over the years, improving the connectivity of smartphones for faster use.
A cellphone is simply a telephone that doesn't need a landline connection. It enables the user to make and receive phone calls. Some cellphones also offer text messaging.
A smartphone has more advanced features, including web browsing, software applications and a mobile OS. In turn, a smartphone also offers capabilities such as support for biometrics, video chatting, digital assistants and much more.
Still, there is no standard definition that clearly delineates a smartphone; many devices marketed simply as cellphones offer similar features to those marketed as smartphones.
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"...primary executive branch service provider for background investigations..." ~Executive Order 13467, as amended
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Today we take a moment to step away from our busy lives to remember the life and sacrifices of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It's a day for the nation to honor the legacy and spirit of this civil rights giant.
In his proclamation designating Jan. 20 as the MLK Federal holiday, President Obama urges Americans to come together for a day of service.
"By volunteering our time and energy, we can build stronger, healthier, more resilient communities. Today, let us put aside our narrow ambitions, lift up one another, and march a little closer to the Nation Dr. King envisioned," the president said in his proclamation.
I hope all Federal employees, each in our own way, will celebrate Dr. King's life through an act of service to neighbors, friends and people in their communities who are in need of a helping hand. This is what Federal workers do: serve the people of this great country.
Enjoy this holiday. And make it a "day on" not just a day off.
Every January, Americans celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by stepping up and spending the holiday named to honor him by performing service in their communities. This year we will pay tribute to this great civil rights leader's vision and accomplishments on Monday, January 20.
The MLK Day of Service is a way for us to do our part to create Dr. King's "Beloved Community." Each of us in our own way can reflect on his life by reaching out to those who need our help. We can do our part to carry on Dr. King's dream of justice, equality and human rights for all Americans.
Federal workers serve this great country each and every day. And on this special holiday we can showcase our involvement and investment in our communities. The MLK Day of Service is a part of United We Serve, the President's national call to service initiative. It asks all Americans to participate in our nation's recovery and renewal by serving their communities in ways large and small.
I ask you to visit www.MLKDay.gov to find a project you would like to participate in. Also, if you have your own project in mind, the website provides toolkits that will help you with your effort.
And please, let's not limit our community service to this one day. Let your service on this Federal holiday be a springboard for coming to the aid of your neighbors all through the year.
The MLK Day of Service is a time when you can honor Dr. King's legacy through service. Remember, this is not a day off, but a day on.
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The Bulldogs have been boosted just a few days ahead of their Grand Final qualifier against Brisbane with Kiwi international Roy Asotasi passed fit to play along with Reni Maitua. Asotasi injured his knee against the Broncos back in round 24 and at first analysis was ruled out until the Grand Final, but will play off the bench against Brisbane. Maitua also injured his knee but against the Panthers in round 26 and missed the side?s Qualifying Final victory over the Canberra Raiders. These two are the side?s only two changes while the team will have to overcome poor recent form against the Broncos with two losses this season to them 25-6 at Suncorp Stadium and 30-0 back in Sydney.
Broncos coach Wayne Bennett has name an unchanged line up for his side?s first visit to a Preliminary Final since 2002 when they were beaten by the Roosters who eventually went on to win the Grand Final. Although playing the whole game at fullback against the Knights last weekend, Karmichael Hunt has been named on the wing with Justin Hodges reverting to in the custodial role.
St George Illawarra welcome back Australian centre Mark Gasnier for their Preliminary Final showdown with the Melbourne Storm on Saturday evening. Daryl Millard has been relegated back to an extended interchange and it is most likely he will play in Premier League against Newtown in the curtain raiser to the First Grade. While it is likely coach Nathan Brown will opt for the same side who were big victors against Manly last weekend, alongside Millard on the extended bench are Michael Henderson and Sam Isemonger who will most likely drop back to reserve grade.
The Dragons will be eager to forget their last Grand Final appearance which was against the Storm in 1999 when the Dragons led all match before losing by two points on the back of a penalty try. Trent Barrett and Nathan Brown played halfback and hooker respectively that day whilst Shaun Timmins was in the centres.
Melbourne, who had the week off last weekend, will welcome rookies Greg Inglis and Brett White back from injury for their match with the Dragons at Telstra Stadium on Saturday. Like opposite coach Nathan Brown, Storm coach Craig Bellamy has also named a three man bench with Jake Webster, Jeremy Smith and Adam Blair likely to drop off this unless Inglis and White do not make it through late fitness tests. The match will be the Storm?s first Preliminary Final since 1999 when they defeated Parramatta at Aussie Stadium before going on to win the premiership.
Onto the officials as we head into the penultimate weekend starting on Friday night. Referees boss Robert Finch has kept with the same two who did their job last weekend in Paul Simpkins and Steve Clark. In fact, the only omission from last weekend, including touch judges and video referees, is Steve Nash who comes into the box this Friday night as he replaces Graeme West.
The Preliminary Finals kick off on Friday night at Aussie Stadium with Paul Simpkins in control of the Bulldogs and Broncos fixture. The last time Paul officiated in a Preliminary Final was in 2004 when the Roosters met the Cowboys at Telstra Stadium. He missed out on another one the year after his blunder in the first Semi Final ruling a try to Melbourne centre Steve Bell when he clearly knocked the ball on in front of the referee.
The Broncos and Bulldogs have met twice this season, although Steve Clark refereed both games, Simpkins has been given the match and one of the reasons for this could be that if Simpkins had have been awarded the Dragons and Storm match, it would have been his third straight time in charge of St George Illawarra.
Paul?s touch judges are Steve Carrall and Rod Lawrence with Bill Harrigan and Steve Nash being in the box. Shayne Hayne is on standby with Matt Cecchin the standby sideline official.
Steven Clark is just one step away from refereeing his first ever Grand Final, as he has been appointed to the Dragons and Storm match at Telstra Stadium on Saturday evening. Just seven years ago, Clark was at the helm at this very ground in 1999 as the Dragons progressed through to the Grand Final against local rivals Cronulla-Sutherland.
Last year Clark had the Preliminary Final between the Eels and Cowboys, where the Minor Premiers were heavily defeated 29-0. Clark?s touch judges on the night will be Russell Turner who is alongside Steve Chiddy. The two video referees are Chris Ward and Phil Cooley with the standby referee being Tony Archer and Paul Holland as the standby sideline official.


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The long awaited video of the Moleskine Limited Edition Mickey Mouse notebook has finally arrived. A fast-paced journey from initial sketch to fully-formed character, it zooms in on the creative process, seizing the pen and infiltrating the page.
Beginning with hand-drawn sketches in stop-motion animation, the narrative unfolds as the forms develop. A few lines become fingers, and then ears, legs and finally the rest of Mickey Mouse's body and features become visible.
The sketching switches to a digital technique, in much the same way that Mickey Mouse has travelled from page to screen. Produced by Milan-based studio SVPERBE Creative Visionaries, with Vando Studio and Superexpresso, the sketch of Mickey Mouse is captured, and finally, enhanced in digital form.
The notebook comes with a tutorial booklet on how to draw Mickey Mouse like an actual Disney artist and features a custom debossing on its cover. Celebrate the art of sketching and storytelling with this pop culture icon and comic strip hero.
Watch the embed above or on YouTube to see how a simple sketch on paper can evolve into so much more.
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GTR Evolution takes GT and WTCC Extreme cars to the legendary Nordschleife, the holy grail of racing.
In GTR Evolution gamers will experience the modern version of the monumental track of Nürburgring Nordschleife along with the Nürburgring GP layout. Infamous for its incredible difficulty, the track is revered and feared as the most treacherous track ever built.
GTR Evolution for PC comes with 22 GT car models in 3 different classes plus a selection of exclusive production cars. Beyond this SimBin adds WTCC Extreme; tuned concept cars based on the FIA WTCC cars.
GTR Evolution will be available as a stand alone game including all RACE 07 content, all in all 49 unique cars in 12 classes with over 500 variations and 19 tracks in over 40 different layouts including the new and legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife. A GTR Evolution expansion pack for existing owners of RACE 07 will also be available.
Scheduled for launch in Q3 2008, GTR Evolution will be available as a stand alone game and also as an expansion pack for Race 07.
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