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I like how excellent (13%) is being grouped with good (41%) to come to the conclusion of "highly effective" and an above 50% figure.
SHOCK: Poll shows Americans think TSA is highly effective
Forget what you've heard in the news. According to a new Gallup poll, the majority of Americans think the Transportation Security Administration, which handles security screening at US airports, is doing just fine, "despite recent negative press." The survey, which was published on Wednesday, asked a sample of 1,014 randomly …
Does it really matter what the American public thinks?
The majority of Americans think the Earth is less than 7000 years old and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted.
It's the herd mentality of the above average underachievers.
Re: Does it really matter what the American public thinks?
We have the Comedy Group - called "The Chaser" in Australia who did a number of videos of "stupid Americans" - mostly ad-hoc interviews on the streets with clueless "dumb fucks", who have no idea where Kentucky Fried Chicken comes from, or that Australia is part of George Bush's Axis of Evil... or that something like 2/3rds of American's can't find the USA on a world map.....
But hey - these types are everywhere...... try living in country Australia....
But when a guy from America, does the same subject, based upon stats and general research.... and his more choice input includes comments like "We don't need town hall meetings, we need study hall meetings" etc...
This is a real fucking eye opener.
Real Time With Bill Maher - Americans Are Stupid
Re: Does it really matter what the American public thinks?
which is interesting because the majority of Brits seem to have no idea what the majority of Americans are like - but, hey, that doesn't stop them from opening their ignorant gobs and rattling their tonsils.
Re: Does it really matter what the American public thinks?
Umm ... trust me...if you are watching Bill Maher, you aren't getting a real picture of Americans. Sadly, Maher, and most other media, spend lots of time finding mentally challenged people and then making a big deal of displaying them in public.
Most Americans don't have a great picture of the intricacies of what is occuring in other countries, but then it's rare to have any reasonable media coverage of it, it does not however, mean they are stupid. I travel throughout the world quite a bit and you would be surprised at the warped ideas folks from other countries have about Americans.
Some of us take the time to monitor to monitor worldwide events through print and the Internet, but it's very difficult to have in depth knowledge of every country in the world...at least not and maintain a job, family life and relationships.
So you will always have someone who knows 'more' and will point at the poor stupid fellow who doesn't know the President of Uganda's brother is also the General of the Army and bought 30 million dollars worth of defective helicopters from a former Eastern Bloc nation....getting a huge kickback in the process....or some other detail of some country in the world.
People point to this and trumpet the failings of the American public to be aware of the world around them.
Keep going, though, eventually you will tear us colonials up enough that we'll believe we're inferior.
Results weren't nearly as impressive from people who remember what the word 'freedom' means.
Re: YOUNGER PEOPLE MORE PRONE TO MEDIA MANIPULATION SHOCK!
>who remember what the word 'freedom' means.
Yeah too bad the Baby Boomers who remember are the ones that sold it all away so they could get theirs. Who cares about the grandkids?
I always remember this about my fellow citizens: I know what the stupidity of the average American is and that half of them are dumber than that.
touch my privates stranger
touch them
Re: touch my privates stranger
I am all for chicks in uniforms donning the rubber glove and giving me the "bad boy" rough treatment - of the full body cavity searches.
Elbow length gloves are best.
Praise jesus and god bless America!
Wonderful play
So what they are really saying is that the actors playing in the security theater are good enough to impress the main audience regardless of what the critics think.
@Erik N., what's the joke alert icon for? The next time you're home sick you can see that proof is easy enough to find by turning on the TV in the middle of the day, any channel will do. Cheers, citizen.
Feeling like the devils advocate here, but they must be doing something right otherwise we'd have had repeats of past problems.
There's not yet a shortage of loonies as recent events have shown.
But downvote at will, I'll understand.
Instead of a downvote, an analogy:
Nasrudin was throwing handfuls of crumbs around his house.
"What are you doing?" someone asked him.
"Keeping the tigers away."
"But there are no tigers in these parts."
"That's right. Effective, isn't it?"
You type: "they must be doing something right otherwise we'd have had repeats of past problems.", and then go on to comment: "There's not yet a shortage of loonies as recent events have shown.".
Do you not see the discord in your thoughts?
In the Western World, Security Theater doesn't work. Never has, never will. In a free society, loonies abound (except in Canada, where nutters abound and Loonies are scarce ... ).
"There's not yet a shortage of loonies as recent events have shown."
As 'recent events' include this survey, I agree.
Funny, not clever
There are many jokes about this peculiar form of mental self-delusion. My favourite:
How do elephants hide?
Upside down in bowls of custard.
But I've never seen an elephant upside down in a bowl of custard.
Yes, that proves how well it works!
Uh huh. Remeber when the 100ml liquids malarkey came in? The moment I heard that I said "OK make a high explosive from liquids." which I already knew to be possible.
About 3 years later a program on telly wheeled out that whiskery old explosives bloke to explain so.
Yeah yeah it's all pointless yada yada and sure enough you'd all board flights which had no security screening.
Just stay away from flightpaths where I'm near.
I think the thing is that it's not so much they have been effective, it's that they are always looking for the last terrorist attack, not the next. "No shoes, no underwear, no liquid..."
If it is so good, why have these terrorists not been stopped more often?
Or just decided to cut the middle man out and walk into an airport en-masse with suitcase bombs and detonate them all. Airport goes down for months, thousands of deaths, lots of publicity, total avoidance of any security theatre anyone could throw at them. Here in London the Tube has not been hit since 7/7, there is no extra security that I can detect.
I'll stop typing now.
You forget that most people are honest. The standard internal flight idiocy of having the baggage return outside security by the exit (Atlanta I think does this) shows that. Anyone could walk in, grab a bag on the conveyor, and walk out. Sure, most of the time you'll get dirty underwear, but you may hit the jackpot once. I digress.
There is more of a risk having your bags unzipped so TSA can open them at will once out of sight than the theatre up front. Are we really to say that a minimum wage secure side person would not be able to slip through and plant explosives/drugs in any open bag? If it's so easy to make a bomb from household chemicals, cleaning fluid the like, used by, er cleaners, in the airport - there's your weakest link, surely. Or even, all those open bags, does nobody, ever, have a rummage and nick some aftershave or something? I mentioned my SSS fiasco some time back, I think it was due to being stopped once on the way in to be asked "has anyone interfered with your luggage" and me saying "well, it's had to be unlocked and out of my sight for the past 15 hours, so I have no idea." Which did not go down very well at all.
I fear The Powers that Be prefer you to be scared and grateful than thinking.
I stopped wearing polyester leisure suits in 1974 and we haven't had any nuclear wars....
It isn't that the security screening is pointless but the "new and improved" TSA gland holding style of security security screening that is pointless. Let me ask you this, if it worked why do they keep catching the terrorists on the plane when they go to light their explosive skives? Yeah yeah think of all the folks they caught with nail clippers, knitting needles and other miscellaneous crap they forgot to take out of their luggage when normal everyday items was legal to bring on an airplane. And since you're AC it would be easier for you to stay away when I'm near, but then you'd probably have to be a TSA agent to know... Oh, if you are a TSA agent that puts your second point into much greater clarity, thanks for letting us all know just how you roll.
"TSA 4 to Base, Tango down! Threat neutralized. Poor bastard didn't have a chance but he should have known not to bring a loaded safety razor through a flightpath where I'm near!"
If they're doing something right...
How many terrorists have they caught?
What they are doing right
It is all about perception, keeping the threat in your face and keeping the voters placated. In that they are doing very, very well.
"Remeber when the 100ml liquids malarkey came in?"
Is that the one where the defendants were found not guilty (or innocent, I can't remember) by the judiciary, after having been hanged, drawn, and quartered by the media and the official propaganda machine?
"Yeah yeah it's all pointless yada yada and sure enough you'd all board flights which had no security screening"
You may be interested to know that private flights, esp. those from small airfields or carrying VIPs, undergo little to no screening whatsoever, then we proceed to land at major airports.
Or of course, you could just cut the fence and make your way to the runway, amongst a number of other things.
Point being, the actual security is that which you do not see and is mostly done by intelligence work. The primate stealing your water bottles is there just to entertain the audience.
@Eddy Ito: Important clarification point:
In your post you used the ambiguous "they" which could be taken to mean TSA and therefore we might be able to deem them effective. The ambiguous "they" as far as I can recall is not the TSA, but the passengers on the flight, who proceed to hold the perp until the plan lands and TSA and/or FBI can take over. I do believe the most pointed recent case of this would be the pilot* who lost it and was held by the passengers at the co-pilot's request.
*Yes, I know he wasn't a terrorist and his recent behavior in jail points to a severe mental problem which probably needs proper treatment as opposed to jail time. But that actually only reinforces the case that the airlines and TSA aren't truly effective, they are only effective at security theater. Pilots are supposedly screened even better than passengers, at least from the mental health perspective.
Re: If they're doing something right...
I won't necessarily hold not knowing how many they've caught against them. If the managed to nab them quietly before they became headlines, I can see them keeping quiet about it. My concern is more the ones that got through to the plane that we DO know about. Stopped in all instances by non-law enforcement types on the plane (let alone the people allegedly hired to do so). I mean, I don't think we've even had an off duty city beat cop in on one of these captures.
But is there such a thing as a drinkable high explosive? I don't believe so.
I still think that they could safely allow a bottle of water (say up to two litres) provided the passenger takes a drink from it at the security checkpoint. The reason they don't has everything to do with increasing the profits of the air-side vending outlets, and nothing to do with security.
Re: @AC 01:23
> "has anyone interfered with your luggage"?
I use a (coloured and marked) cable-tie so that I can answer that one! It's also a mild disincentive to light-fingered security staff. It doesn't stop security looking inside if they want to (and they don't have to wreck my luggage to do so) but a thief will know for sure that I will notice the intrusion at the baggage claim.
There have been no underwear bombers since they installed the body scanners in response to the first underwear bomber. However if you believe they installed the body scanners in direct response to the underwear bomber you are easily gulled. The underwear bomber cam at a very helpful time, just before the installation of body scanners they had already bought.
If you are controlling both the problem and the solution it's likely you will come out looking good.
Shows constant media scare tactics about terrorism work
People had enough fear drummed into them by the media and government over the past decade that they became willing to submit to anything to feel safe again. Remember how they used to mention the "threat level" all the time on the news? How many times have we heard claims about how many terrorist plots have been stopped, while we have less than a half dozen actual instances, all of which were woefully incompetent morons acting alone with little outside support (shoe bomber, underwear bomber, printer cartridge bomber)
Don't bother pointing out that more Americans die in automobile crashes EVERY MONTH than died on 9/11, the sheep don't care. Don't bother pointing out that the bans on box cutters were stupid because it's trivial to sharpen the edge of a credit card sharp enough to slit ones throat, they'll only eye you suspiciously as a possible terrorist for knowing/thinking about this.
Even the Tea Partiers who think government is incompetant to scratch it's own ass would never think of cutting security spending. They want to cut waste, fraud and abuse, and somehow think there's enough of that to practically balance the budget, but they won't find any of that in the TSA or Homeland Security!
Re: Shows constant media scare tactics about terrorism work
Doug is on the money (I know nothing about Tea Partiers though, being a Brit)
I don't have the stats to hand, but in the aftermath of 9/11 IIRC more extra people died because they chose to go by road over the six months after it, than died in the 9/11 atrocity.
Humans are an odd bunch that don't really understand risk.
Re: Even the Tea Partiers...would never think of cutting security spending.
Yes, we would. But given it's one of the few areas which is explicitly authorized in the Constitution, we'd cut it in a more rational way than knee-jerkers like you who just hate The Man. And, yeah, I'm pretty sure you'd have fit if we could do what we'd like to about security.
Re: Shows constant media scare tactics about terrorism work
Umm ... wrong. I don't claim to be a 'Tea Partier', but I sure agree with most of what they are trying to do. I can assure you, most people who think as I do think the TSA is a huge waste of money and effort, plus the building of a new agency who seems to have almost unlimted power to harass and control the public is a very bad idea.
The TSA has become a force that apparently has no bounds, and is coming to a bus or train station near you. Perhaps ultimately to monitor ingress and egress of the building you work in, after all ... elevators are a form of transportation, and could be used in a terrorist act.
Watch and see.
Flawed sample set
Generally, I trust Gallop polls about as far as I can piss upwind - and I live in Kansas.
People like myself, who care about our privacy and our freedom, have unlisted numbers on the Do Not Call list. Moreover, we have answering machines on our land-lines, and screen our calls, and do not take polling calls. Those with only cell phones are even more likely to screen calls, and thus are not counted in this sort of poll. This poll selected for sheeple.
The TSA is ineffectual at best, and is nothing but security theater at worst. The main steps to secure air travel - locking the flight deck and refusing to deal with hijackers - have already been implemented. The idea that a terrorist is going to be able to make a decent explosive from chemicals that, if commanded at the checkpoint to drink will not cause the terrorist's head to explode immediately, goes against basic chemistry. The best thing they could do to improve air travel safety would be to station 2 armed air marshals - one uniformed, one undercover - on each flight.
Re: Flawed sample set
>nothing but security theater at worst.
At worst it is much worse than just security theatre. The effects of the xray and millimetre wave scanners on human health should be factored in as well as the spread of disease from TSA workers not changing gloves between intimate pat downs. Consider also the economic cost of having your tourism industry destroyed by these procedures or the strong disincentives to frequent business travel (ignoring malware that just goes in and steals products anyway). It may also be that the surrender of freedom that the NSA / CIA / FBI / FEMA / Homeland Security / TSA police state embodies will mean a less confident, less creative America - that is for products people actually want to buy rather than products dropped upon them from 40,000 feet - and that does not augur well for their future - exhibit A: the UK. On the bright side, most of the Western world seems to be heading down this path of oppression and we may all soon find common purpose in the dream of moving to China, Russia or North Korea for the principles of freedom and democracy that they represent.
Flawed sample set? Flawed question!
Given the TSA's brief is to perform in the security theatre, i.e. to make a show to the Americans (and visitors) of how the state cares about keeping them safe, they are doing good or even excellent job. If I was asked this question, that would've been my honest answer.
The jump from "doing good job" to being "highly effective" is absolutely unjustified (unless you count "highly effective in stage performance").
If the question has been "is TSA useful for averting the terrorist threat?" then the answer would have been quite different.
Re: Flawed sample set? Flawed question!
oops, to correct myself, there was a separate question about being effective. Jumped to commenting before reading properly. *facepalm*
Re: Flawed sample set? Flawed question!
Not so much flawed, actually, as very carefully designed. For the purpose it was designed to serve, that is.
Self selecting morons?
Hi do you want to talk to me about the folks at the TSA?
..Doh, OK
Re: Self selecting morons?
Reminds me of that south park episode 'Studies show that every 4th american is mentally retarded, there's 4 of us so you must be retarded cartman'
A good citizen is a scared citizen
We will scare you, all the way!
Re: A good citizen is a scared citizen
"We're making air travel a touching experience"
Hold on...
While I tend to agree with the various comments expressed above, I think we also have to remember how this poll was conducted. If you follow the link, the question asked was as follows:
"Thinking now about the TSA, the government agency that handles security screening at U.S. airports, do you think the TSA is doing an excellent, good, only fair or poor job?"
There are multiple ways to interpret that question, and if one interprets it as "how well are they doing the job they've been told to do?", the answer I myself would give would tend to be positive - that is, I believe they are, on balance, doing a good job at following the policies they've been told to follow. I also happen to think that those policies are by and large idiotic, unnecessary, and far more about the appearance of security than actually making us safe (all the while eroding our privacy, wasting our time, exposing us to unnecessary radiation and generally making the whole process far more unpleasant than it needs to be), but they are effectively executing those idiotic policies most of the time, are they not? What they should've done was to ask a question concerning the TSA's policies themselves, not their ability to execute on them.
As to the follow-up:
"How effective do you think the TSA's screening procedures are at preventing acts of terrorism on U.S. airplanes – extremely effective, very effective, somewhat effective, not too effective or not effective at all?"
...the response you see is a direct result of the lack of any successful terrorist attacks via *US* airplane - that's in the question - in the last 11 years. Of course, if you put things in perspective:
...up to that point we had never had a single terrorist attack via US airplane at all; the closest we came were the Lockerbie bombings, since the flight was headed to the US, and we went for 13 years after that (without total panic, I might add) with nothing, in spite of all sorts of bad people being quite unhappy with us all over the world even then. This confirms that we are really, really bad at working out cause and effect - by far the more dismaying answer in my view than the one about whether the TSA is doing a "heckuva job" or not.
Last point, while as I say I agree with the points being made here, I will also say that, having lived in Europe and in the US and traveling internationally quite a lot over the last decade plus, airport security in the UK is even worse than in the US, in my experience. One carry on / no personal item, screened over and over and over again and on and on - ugh. I didn't think that was possible until I experienced it, but I can say now that it is. Not sure why you folks put up with that either, honestly, if we're going to be even-handed here...
Perhaps we should try airport security the French way (at least where CDG is concerned) by making our airports impossible to navigate, doing more to encourage missed connections and losing every third bag - at least 33% less likely to have a bomb on the plane that way, in addition to which the way they handle the bags that do make it at CDG makes me 100% certain that anything even remotely shock sensitive will be detonated well before it gets loaded. I have never seen such violence, such anger, such passion directed towards luggage as the French are able to summon at CDG. It is really quite something, and has made me an expert at repairing luggage.
As a friend said about my hard-sided Samsonite bag - the all plastic clamshell kind and the only thing that's survive the entire period in question (IT angle, I not once but *twice *brought a desktop tower trans-Atlantic inside it - pulled the HDs and put them in my carry-on, then stuffed the inside with packing material - no damage, still using the case) - I've replaced so many of the plastic fittings they've beaten the sh*t out of - stuff that it shouldn't be possible to break (but they did) - with over-engineered metal replacements that it's getting to the point where they are going to have to cut it in half to break it the next time around.
Re: Hold on...
Agree. Since there's been no terrorist attacks, logically it would be hard for many people to claim that the TSA had *not* been effective.
Perhaps if the question asked was "evaluate the following statement: 'the powers the TSA have are necessary to be effective against terrorism' - Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree" the results would be different. OR
"Would the TSA be more effective with decent human beings in their employ, rather than the fuckwits, arseholes and illiterate, braindead morons they currently employ?"
As always, the results the survey gives are determined by the questions asked.
Re: Hold on...
""Would the TSA be more effective with decent human beings in their employ, rather than the fuckwits, arseholes and illiterate, braindead morons they currently employ?""
You appear to think the purpose of the Thieves Support Association is something to do with "security."
Re: Hold on...
I know some people who work for the TSA, and actually in the screening positions. Frankly, they are decent human beings, except when they have to put on the badge and follow TSA policies. And if the TSA policies don't worry you, THAT should.
Survey results don't match my experience
Maybe it is a local bias (live near DC, travel regularly) but I cannot think of anyone that would agree that the TSA is doing a good job. The conversations I hear are more frequently about how it should be disbanded, generally followed by a first or second hand account of obnoxious behavior. I have not had a bad experience myself, other than the general annoyance with the process, but would agree with the "get rid of them" assessment. Enormous waste of time and money, oppressive concept to begin with, and the few terrorist attempts have been thwarted by passengers rather than security.
Re: Survey results don't match my experience
Interesting. Isn't Ronnie Regan International meant to be top of the pile because of those Very Important Politicians (and their associated lackeys/henchmen/high price escorts) that travel with them.
RR is meant to be the gold standard of the TSA.
So you can imagine what the rest of the network is like...


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The Colored Truth
We live in a harsh world and that's the deal.
There is prejudice against blacks and that's for real.
There is no equality and no justice for the youth,
there is only crime and violence,
and to be honest that's the truth.
The wiser keep say, look forward,
keep focus, don't mind the attacks
but how are we supposed to be successful
with all the targets on our backs.
Martin Luther King had a dream of the world that he envisioned
but all that we see is a world that is in division.
We have to keep our hands up so they don't shoot
because there is no mercy on the hoodie they only respect the suit.
And even if the trigger is pulled and blood is spilt,
no justice is served they expect us to sit.
And sometimes it doesn't even matter what you wear.
If you're black and young you should live in fear.
We live in a society that chooses to believe that
we should follow whatever whites decide
and this mentality is going to end in our own genocide.
Never take for granted who you are
and how you look because our ancestors have suffered tremendously
to survive slavery;
they fought for what they wanted and got their liberty.
with our heritage that runs deep within our vein.
So let's stay united and work together
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Class of 2014 | College of Business | Graduate student majoring in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resource Management
Karen Munoz is living proof that you can find strength in the face of difficulties and unfortunate circumstances. No doubt it was her sense of determination that moved her forward to accomplish a journey she started more than 32 years ago.
Karen's college journey began in 1983 at TSU majoring in Architectural Engineering. Three years into her college work, things began to unravel for the young, promising student. Married at the time, with children and a physically and mentally abusive husband, who insisted she seeks full-time employment, she quit school to work with the Metro Public School Harris Hillman as a Para Professional.
Although Karen eventually walked out of her marriage, having to care for her children alone, a series of unfortunate events soon began to unfold that would change the course of her life forever.
In spite of multiple surgeries and operations to repair a crushed vertebrae, head injuries and a broken neck and back, that left her in constant pain and in a state of severe depressive disorder and anxiety, the Fort Hood, Texas, native will receive her college degree when Tennessee State University hold its spring commencement May 10.
"I live by trying to improvise as my father told me," Karen said about how she was able to maintain a near 3.0 GPA, despite her disorder, which has left her unable to fully concentrate, think or remember "as others."
"I had to study twice as hard as the average person to concentrate and retain," said Karen, who keeps sticky notes "everywhere" to help her remember.
As if fate had an unfinished business with Karen, while recovering from one injury, she was in a car accident that left her with a broken back and neck.
"I was in a concussion that lasted two years," she said. "My vertebrae had to be fused from the top to the bottom through a process called spinal track titanium fusion. That's the only thing that's holding my head up. I do not have any peripheral view because I cannot move my head side to side. I can only look ahead."
For Karen, being able to cope through all her pain and suffering have not come without a good sense of humor.
"I am the ultimate bionic woman," she said. "If you move all of the titanium from my body I will never move again. My condition is irreversible."
Karen decided to return to school after she found out that she could reenroll as a senior and finish her course work. "I decided I would pursue my degree in the hopes of changing my circumstances. I studied twice as hard, using my sleeplessness to my advantage to take in as much as I could," she said.
Even at that, Karen, whose father is also a TSU graduate, said many times she wanted to quit, having been out of school for nearly 32 years, but a sign on the Business Information board at the Avon Williams campus that read, "You are never too old to achieve your goal," inspired her to press on.
"It was at that moment that I went full steam ahead stopping at nothing to achieve this goal which I had dreamed of all these years," she said.
So at 48-years old, this "Bionic Woman," will finish what she started so many years ago, with hopes of continuing her graduate education and eventually opening a preparatory school in El Salvador for underprivileged high school students.
"This is my lifelong dream. This is what God has sent me forth to do, and I intend to improvise in anyway possible to accomplish that...screws, nuts, bolts or not."
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Retailer closings and bankruptcies began to take their toll in the second quarter as vacancy rates jumped significantly at neighborhood and community centers and at regional malls, according to the latest data from New York City-based Reis, Inc.
During the quarter, the vacancy rate for U.S. neighborhood and community shopping centers jumped 50 basis points from the first quarter and now stands at 8.2 percent. That's the highest level since 1995. The jump is also larger than the previous quarter when vacancy rates rose 20 basis points. Overall, the vacancy rate on neighborhood and community shopping centers is up 90 basis points over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, asking-rent growth at neighborhood and community shopping centers dropped to 0.4 percent in the second quarter from 0.5 percent in the first quarter and 0.8 percent a year earlier.
Meanwhile, vacancy rates at regional and superregional malls increased 40 basis points during the quarter, to 6.3 percent. That's the highest level for regional malls since 2002, according to Reis.


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Samsung's newest Galaxy S4 smartphone is a revamped version of its top-selling S3 phone with a bigger screen and a few software gimmicks, reviewers said.
"The Galaxy is still a beautiful, high-horsepower Android phone," columnist David Pogue wrote in The New York Times.
"But basically, it's an updated Galaxy S3. If this were Apple, who adds the letter S to denote a slightly upgraded model ("iPhone 4S," for example), Samsung might have called this phone the Galaxy S3S," he wrote.
The S4 features a 5-inch screen, 1.9 GHz quad-core processor and a 13 megapixel camera. It runs on Google's Android platform. The S3 came with a 4.8-inch screen, a 1.4 GHz quad core processor and an 8 megapixel camera.
Samsung has sold more than 40 million S3 smartphones, rivaling sales of Apple iPhones.
The S4 "looks for all the world like the Galaxy S3—despite having a bigger screen and more horsepower, at 7.9mm and 4.6 ounces, it's actually imperceptibly thinner and lighter than the S3," David Pierce wrote in The Verge. "But copying the S3 wasn't a good idea."
Walt Mossberg at AllThingsD said the S4 is a good but not a great phone, and he urged readers to consider the more polished-looking and quite capable HTC One rather than defaulting to Samsung's latest offering.
"It's an evolution of the prior model, and despite some improvements it still is especially weak in the software Samsung adds to basic Android. I found Samsung's software often gimmicky, duplicative of standard Android apps, or, in some cases, only intermittently functional," Mossberg said.
Galaxy S4 will roll out over the next week on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks in the United States.
"This isn't a phone that's going to convert an iPhone user, and current Galaxy S3 owners aren't going to miss out on a whole lot as far as features go," CNN's Adrian Covert said.
"I don't like holding this phone, and I can't overstate how much that informs the experience of using it. It makes an awful first impression, slippery and slimy and simply unpleasant in your hand," Covert said.
The Galaxy S4 is so complicated that Samsung has given it an "Easy Mode" for less savvy mobile users, Dan Rowinski pointed out on technology blog ReadWriteWeb.
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"After spending about a week with the Galaxy S4, I feel it is not only the best Galaxy product to date—it's one of my favorite Android smartphones ever," she said.


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Life-Like Art Week
Life-Like Art Week will be June 26th - June 30th
This week will be a lot of fun! We will focus on create classic works of Art such as portraits, landscapes, vessels, still life and perspective.
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Agents Seize Arsenal of Rifles and Bomb-Making Material in ArizonaMilitia Inquiry
By JAMES BROOKE
Published: July 3, 1996
PHOENIX, July 2— With residential streets cordoned off for fear of an accidental explosion, Federal agents today seized about 90 high-powered rifles and hundreds of pounds of a bomb-making compound from the shabby bungalow of a man whom officials identified as the ordnance specialist of a local paramilitary group.
The seizures followed the arrest on Monday of that suspect, Gary C. Bauer, and 11 other people on charges of conspiring to blow up Government buildings in Phoenix.
Janet A. Napolitano, the United States Attorney for Arizona, said today that the dozen people under arrest were the entire membership of the paramilitary cell, the Viper Militia.
Proceeding gingerly, even stopping work once so that the local bomb squad could be consulted, the Federal agents removed from Mr. Bauer's house, in the city's northern reaches, almost a ton of ammonium nitrate, about half the amount used to build the bomb that destroyed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City last year and took 168 lives. Law-enforcement officials exploded much of the confiscated compound at an abandoned Air Force base in the desert west of here.
"Had it gone off in the city, the destruction would have been phenomenal," said Joseph Roy Jr., director of the Militia Task Force, an organization that tracks paramilitary activities around the country from its base in Alabama. "This is one of the largest hits ever on an underground organized cell."
But the ammonium nitrate and dozens of rifles were not all that was seized. From Mr. Bauer's house the agents also took away a truckload of ammunition, and from the homes of half a dozen other suspects they seized blasting cord, blasting caps, gas masks, bulletproof vests and camouflage uniforms with the insignia of a viper.
An indictment of the suspects, returned by a Federal grand jury here last Thursday but not disclosed until all were in custody on Monday, alleges four counts of unlawful possession of automatic weapons and three of conspiracy. In one, six of the defendants are charged with conspiracy to furnish instructions in the use of explosive devices as a way of promoting civil disorder.
Ms. Napolitano, the United States Attorney, said the Viper Militia had no known connection to two recent terrorist attacks in the region: the Oklahoma City bombing 15 months ago and the derailment by sabotage of an Amtrak train outside Phoenix last October.
Nonetheless the discovery of the large cache of explosives and weapons unsettled this city.
"We're scared to go to work," Barbara Washington, manager of an office supply shop, said as she looked across the street at the marble-adorned Federal Building, one of seven Federal, state and local government buildings that prosecutors say were identified on a Viper Militia videotape as potential targets. "You don't know who your neighbor is."
In the suburban community of Peoria, where two of the suspects live, Becky Nelson gazed across West Shangri-La Road at a white bungalow where, Federal prosecutors say, Dean C. Pleasant, one of those now jailed, was the host at weekly meetings of the Viper Militia.
"I've never left my children with a baby sitter who wasn't a member of our family," Mrs. Nelson said as her two small sons played at her feet. "I don't even send them to school -- I teach them at home. But now I have to be afraid of the neighbor next door, that he might blow us off the face of the earth."
Reflections on what might have been were evident too in Washington, where President Clinton saluted "the law-enforcement officers who made the arrests in Arizona yesterday to avert a terrible terrorist attack."
"Their dedication and hard work over the last six months," the President said, "may have saved many lives."
Although the Viper Militia had apparently been training with explosives and firearms for two years, it came to the attention of Federal agents only last November, when a deer hunter complained that a heavily armed band of men dressed in camouflage had threatened him and a group of Boy Scouts in a remote section of Tonto National Park, about 100 miles northeast of Phoenix.
The 12 suspects are to appear next in public at a detention hearing in Federal District Court here on Friday. Other than Mr. Bauer, 50, and Mr. Pleasant, 27, they are Randy L. Nelson, 32; Finis H. Walker, 41; David W. Belliveau and his wife, Ellen, both 27; Charles F. Knight, 47; Scott J. Shero, 30; Walter E. Sanville, 37; Henry A. Overturf, 37; Donna S. Williams, 44, and Christopher A. Floyd, 21. All are residents of Phoenix or the suburban towns of Peoria, Glendale and Scottsdale.
In an affidavit filed with the court, Jose T. Wall, an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, painted a picture of the Viper Militia as a tightknit group obsessed with bombs and guns. Mr. Wall said one member, Mr. Nelson, lovingly referred to his Browning automatic weapon as Shirley.
Members swore an oath to "enter into mortal combat against enemies of the U.S. Constitution" and to kill anyone trying to infiltrate the group, said Mr. Wall, whose affidavit was based largely on the account of an undercover Arizona law-enforcement officer, still unidentified, who did succeed in penetrating the group last December.
To weed out informers, one member of the cell, Mrs. Belliveau, who worked for a long-distance telephone company, scanned phone records of prospective members for calls to law-enforcement agencies, the affidavit said.
Despite this vigilance, it said, the undercover officer was able to join the group and to record, on either videotape or audiotape, about 20 meetings, including a weekend session in which explosives and illegal automatic weapons were tested around an abandoned mine in cactus desert 50 miles northwest of here.
Traveling on such outings, their cars loaded with illegal weapons and explosives, the members would take care to inspect their vehicles for broken taillights or license-plate irregularities, so as to avoid attracting the attention of the police, the affidavit said.
Dedicated to resisting the "new world order," the Viper Militia this spring started preparing a computer database of the home addresses of local and national law-enforcement officials, the affidavit charged. Two years ago, it said, three members of the group -- Mr. Pleasant and the Belliveaus -- videotaped seven Federal, state and local government buildings here.
"The video," the indictment says, "contains instructions for the placement of explosive devices, illegal entry, control and destruction of the targeted buildings."
Today, on the wall of the immaculate garden apartment where the Belliveaus live in Glendale, hung a sign that said, "I love my country, but I fear my government." A huge safe, five feet tall and perhaps two feet wide, sat just inside the front door.
Sherry McEwen, the manager of the apartment complex, Union Hills Estates, said Mr. Belliveau had worked there as a maintenance man for the last three years. And for the last six years, she said, another of those indicted, Mr. Shero, has also worked on the four-man maintenance team and been a resident.
Ms. McEwen said she was stunned by the arrests.
So were other residents. "It was the maintenance man!" said Lisa Babb, a neighbor who has two small children, is six months pregnant and on Monday experienced what she described today as not one close call, but two: Ten minutes after she had left the small office building where she works for a tree surgeon, the authorities raided the yard behind the building and found explosives. The landlord there, Ms. Babb said, is the father of one of the suspects, Mr. Nelson.
In another neighborhood, meanwhile, residents said they had not thought it strange that a camouflage-painted jeep had often been parked in the driveway of Mr. Bauer, an Army veteran who, Agent Wall's affidavit said, was named the Viper Militia's "research and development specialist" in April.
In yet another subdivision, Chris Terracino, interviewed by The Arizona Republic, said he had frequently seen his next-door neighbor, Mr. Walker, wear Viper patches on his clothes. According to the affidavit, Mr. Walker, a father of three, was the "captain" of the group.
The Viper Militia is not without its defenders here, one of whom, Ernest Hancock, said in an interview today that the videotape cited by the Government was purely "educational."
Mr. Hancock, a Libertarian Party candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives, said he was a friend of two of the group's leaders -- Mr. Pleasant and Mr. Walker. "There isn't any criminal activity here," he said. "They aren't going out bombing anything, or planning to do so. Their crime is educating other people.
"It's almost a hobby for these guys. They go out and blow up rocks in the desert and shoot their guns. They have been doing this for years. This is no secret."
Others here did not have so benign a view of the suspects.
"I got the impression he got a couple of screws loose," John Kaites said of a coffee-shop encounter between himself and Mr. Pleasant in 1994, when they were running against each other in a State Senate election that Mr. Kaites ultimately won.
Mr. Pleasant, who was the Libertarian Party candidate, "sat down," Senator Kaites recalled today, "and then pulled from behind his back a .45-caliber handgun and laid it on the table. That began our conversation.
"I stated that in Arizona you need a permit to carry one of those," said Senator Kaites, who describes himself as a Reagan Republican. "He replied that was why he was running against me. I convinced him to put the weapon away so the waitress would come."
Of the 12 suspects, 4 are either members or supporters of the Libertarian Party, which advocates radical reduction in the power of government. The party has tripled its size in Arizona during the last three years, although its statewide membership remains modest, at 19,330.
Libertarians said today that their party required members to pledge not to engage in violence. Speaking from Washington, where the party's national convention opens on Thursday, John A. Buttrick, the Libertarian candidate for governor of Arizona in 1994, said, "If they were national party members, and if they were involved in a plot to blow up somebody or somebody's property, that would be a violation of an oath they took on joining."
Outside Mr. Bauer's raided home here today, Lawrence Robertson, a member of another paramilitary group, the U.S. Constitutional Rangers, talked to reporters and maintained that the Viper Militia was simply an educational group.
"They were teaching people where to hit and when to hit," he said. "That's all."
Photo: Gary C. Bauer, one of 12 Viper Militia suspects, in a photo fromhis Arizona driver's license. (Associated Press)


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The Administrator shall ensure that the individual assigned the disaster planning function of the Administration has adequate resources to carry out the duties under this section.
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Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.
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This section should give you a general understanding of how
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To get started with SYPMarks, you need to set
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There are two types of folders in SYPMarks:
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Please be aware, the private/public status are not inherited
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A new folder is added by clicking add folder
item in left menu. To create a new folder, you will have to type a
name (mandatory) and a description (optional). Furthermore, you should
select your parent folder, i.e. the folder in which this new folder
will be created and you have to select, if your folder should be a
private (this is default) or a public folder. When you have filled
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Favorites are added in a similar fashion. You click
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which folder you add your favorite. If it's added in a private folder,
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How to Child and Pet Proof Your Cables
It's easy for the average adult to be oblivious to household cables, but small children and pets often find them fascinating enough to chew on, tug at or wrap around their necks. At CableOrganizer.com, we receive a lot of inquiries from customers who want to know how they can child and pet proof household cables, in order to prevent them from becoming electrocution and strangling hazards. With a little creativity and a few smart products, CableOrganizer.com would like to help you take some preventive measures that will protect your kids, pets, and your cables.
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Time Required: 1/2 hour - 2 hours
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A stunning view of Bangkok at dusk. Taken from Ratchadamnern avenue.
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May 17
Be prepared for a late night movie with a bowl of homemade popcorn topped with Lindt chocolate and honey.
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Green tea latte float at Buttercup, Amari Residences Bangkok.
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May 15
Chilling by the sea at Hua Hin beach.
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May 13
Lotus pond lies along the road to Hua Hin.
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Rocket, apple, and meatloaf ham homemade salad.
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Warm whipped butter & maple syrup waffle at Café Kaldi.
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Now queuing for a bowl of noodle as my quick lunch at faculty of dentistry, Mahidol university.
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A cohort of people on BTS sky train heading north of Bangkok.
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I believe in stupidity.
Of course, it would be a rare person who does not believe in stupidity; given how often one encounters it in daily life: driving to work, standing in the grocery checkout line, or reading the police blotter for any given Saturday night. But despite stupidity's pervasiveness, I find that most people approach stupidity as a casual religion, giving lip service (often of the four letter variety) but ignoring its role in the important aspects of their lives, even denying, sometimes bizarrely, its existence in the critical history shaping events of the world.
The problem with stupidity is that we crave order and logic in our lives, and stupidity plays havoc with our carefully constructed worldviews. Most baby boomers would rather ignore the evidence and believe in bizarrely complicated and impossibly secretive JFK assassination conspiracy theories than accept the idea that a crucial event in their young lives could have been the result of the stupid plans of a lone failed communist loser. More recently, 911 conspiracy theorists are willing to bend the very fabric of space and time to avoid believing that stupidly twisted hatred and stupid bureaucratic bungling could combine to wreak such havoc. At the personal level, most people, when encountering the peak of their professional careers, will construct complex scenarios of backstabbing and executive maneuvering to explain their stationary station in life, never acknowledging the possible role of stupidity in their bosses' decisions, much less their own performance.
However, I believe stupidity can be a liberating rather than frightening ideology. Stupidity brings with it consequences, and the unequal distribution of these consequences is society's imperfect but quantitatively most important first line of defense against empowered incompetence. Stupidity is not however just for stupid people. Like the rain that falls on the just and unjust, no one in the world can escape the effects of stupidity: they're own or others. Forest Gump, who knew a thing or two about stupidity understood: it happens. Stupidity is the final limiting factor in the plans of the overly ambitious. Stupidity is why no one will ever corner the market, take over the world, or manage a powerful secret society with more than 3 people for longer than two weeks.
I believe that while stupidity has always been with us, we are now in stupidity's golden age. Our population density, information age communications, and talk radio insures our daily dose of stupidity. Meanwhile, high stakes disaster scenarios face us almost continuously, and our responses thus far have been… well, stupid. It is not that I am calling for more stupidity, but that I believe we should quit trying so hard to attribute contrary and counterproductive actions to anything other than stupidity in its many flavors: blind, ignorant, arrogant, evil, or greedy. Only then can we go forward, not ready for combat with a nonexistent foe, but with the realistic impatience one should reserve for stupidity.
Of course, you are free to disagree with me about stupidity; it does not bother me, for I will believe you are just being stupid.
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Paella is that great signature dish from Spain, which usually has its origin in Valencia, although it is consumed in several Spanish regions. Made with rice, broth, fish, meat or vegetables, there are a lot of types of paellas, all of them delicious. If you have questions about what kind of wine goes best with paella, we give some recommendations.
Seafood and fish paella goes perfect with a white or rosé wine. For example, some wines from Ribera del Duero and DO Galicia, which often pair well with fish dishes. Whites from Alicante, Valencia and Penedès are also recommended. They must be very fruity and fresh wines, being a dish that is preferably consumed in summer.
White wines with aromas of flowers and fruits also pair well, while introducing aromatic and citrus notes. The ones from chardonnay variety are also highly recommended. Pedro Ximenez wines have delicate and sweet flavours. In this case, sparkling wines can also be at the table when we eat paella. While white, rosé and sparkling wines, also pair well with paellas with vegetables and legumes.
For seafood paella, one of the most widespread, Rueda, Verdejo and, of course, the Galician Albariños are also recommended.
Paella can be elaborated with meat, such as chicken, beef, rabbit or duck, mixed with some vegetables such as artichokes or peppers. In this case, rosé wines will pair exceptionally, and also young and rather soft reds. Merlot and Monastrell reds, showing hints of red fruits and spices, intensify the flavour of the rice. Other wines that are recommended for this kind of paella are the "crianzas".
Mar de Frades 2013
Mar de Frades 2013: a white wine with Rias Baixas DO from Mar de Frades cellar made with albariño of 2013 and with an alcoholic strength of 12.5º.
Minuty Prestige Rosé 2014
Minuty Prestige Rosé 2014, a rosé wine from Côtes De Provence DO of Château Minuty cellar based on the top of tibouren and syrah from 2014 vintage and with an alcoholic strength of 13º.
Enate 2009
Enate 2009 is a Somontano from the Enate cellar with the best bunches of 2009 merlot and has a volume of alcohol of 14º.


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This exquisite shop is the place to head for when you're looking for the very best of all things chocolate - especially for gifts, as the packaging is as special as the chocolates themselves.
Made with the very best of chocolate (up to 85%) and in and dozens of flavours, selections may be hard to decide on but whatever you choose is sure to delight.
Also a stunning range of related items including spreads and pastes, candied fruit and coated nuts, beautiful macarons - and top quality cooking chocolate and other ingredients for when you want to make your own delicious chocolate confections.


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Specifications: 20cm chain length, 0.5cm width. Custom lengths can be ordered. Please note this product cannot be exchanged or returned once custom sized.


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Lea Michele's Cory Monteith Tribute 'If You Say So' Full Song & Lyrics - Listen Now
Check out this first listen of Lea Michele's touching song "If You Say So," which is a tribute to her late boyfriend Cory Monteith.
"It's the only song that no one's heard. I can't talk about it until people hear it. I just feel like people should hear it and I don't know if I'm ever going to talk about it. It's just one of those things where I understand what it means and you can take it or leave it. That song is for me," the 27-year-old actress said about the song to V magazine, which is on her album Louder.
"I check my phone and wait to hear from you in a crowded room," Lea sings in the ballad, "I thought we would grow old/Mirrors in the smoke/Left me here to choke."
Listen to the song below, and read the heart breaking lyrics inside.
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Razzamataz is founded by a passionate director, ran by brilliant individuals and supported by great partnerships.
First Choice
Since 2008, Razzamataz has been supplying teachers to First Choice Holiday Villages, where youngsters on holiday get to learn singing, dancing and acting skills as well as getting to perform on the main stage to their family and friends. After they complete the course, they all get a free Razzamataz t-shirt and certificate and details about their nearest school in the UK.Class details
Children's University
Razzamataz has signed up to the Children's University (CU) Trust offering 7 to 14 year olds (and 5 to 6 year olds with their families) exciting and innovative learning activities and experiences outside school hours. Children that attend Razzamataz use Passports To Learning in which they record the number of hours of completed CU validated learning activities. Children are encouraged to progress through the national certification scheme, based on the number of hours of attendance throughout their involvement with the Children's University. Theatre and performing arts is one of a range of validated learning activities in which children can participate in order to gain awards from the Children's University. Bronze, silver and gold certificates are awarded at CU Undergraduate, CU Postgraduate and CU Doctorate levels. Upon completion, certificates are presented at a graduation ceremony, so children can be really proud of their achievement.
The Stage
Razzamataz Theatre Schools has been working with The Stage newspaper since 2010 to offer prestigious scholarships to students. Razzamataz was selected as the first part-time stage school to work with The Stage and all schools across the UK are invited to take part.
The Stage is a very respected national newspaper for the performing arts industry and this is an enormous benefit for a youngster to be able to say that they were awarded a Razzamataz scholarship in association with The Stage. The scholarships have been created to give more children the opportunity to participate in the performing arts and are part of Razzamataz's dedication to make performance training accessible to young people all over the country. Contact your local school for more information.
Arts Award
Working to support young people throughout their performing arts training is a passion for Razzamataz Theatre Schools. As part of the theatre school's commitment to their students, they are delighted to announce a partnership with Arts Award, an accredited qualification for young people aged 5 to 25. Arts Award is offered at Discover, Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold. Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold are on the Regulated Qualifications Framework and Gold Arts Award has UCAS tariff points attached. At each level, young people are assessed on their planning and review skills and can explore any of the art forms including performing arts, visual arts, literature, media and multimedia. Contact your local school for details.
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For the second time, Razzamataz schools has teamed up with Universal Pictures (UK) to create The Barbie™ Singing Academy, a free singing workshop for children aged 3 – 8 to help launch the latest DVD releases from Barbie™. The Academy was designed to help children discover the magic of singing as they learn how to develop their voice and perform songs from the new films.
The Love Cravendale promotion was one of the largest on-pack promotions in the UK for 2013, and Razzamataz was one of the major partners, promoting the brand as well as individual Razzamataz schools in the local area.
Razzamataz works in association with Bannatyne Health Clubs offering performing arts sessions for children within the centres. Duncan Bannatyne was also a Razzamataz shareholder for over seven years and is still a keen supporter he recently said "When Razzamataz first came to the Den, I could spot the potential of the business, with hard work, dedication and attracting some top class franchisees, Razzamataz has grown throughout the recession and I'm proud to be part of their story."
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Once you are a member you will get access to a whole host of features to grant your child or teen the best start in the performing arts industry.
We have an exciting new partnership for 2017 with Eurocamp. We are delighted we will be delivering our services with Cote D'Azur and Brittany from May 2017!


text: The article "The Thinning Ranks of the Thick Skinned," Oct. 25, presents only part of the story of this vanishing treasure.Omitted is the great injustice meted out to wild animals in captivity. Many people view animals as ours to use and destroy. Captive animals suffer severely - especially when chained by the feet as shown in the photo. Suzanne J. Bradley, New York Letters are welcome. Only a selection can be published, subject to condensation, and none acknowledged. Please address them to "Readers Write," One Norway St., Boston, MA 02115.


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TRIPOLI, Libya, June 27 (UPI) -- The Sudanese embassy in Tripoli, Libya, was attacked Friday by unknown gunmen.
Armed militants damaged the main gate of the embassy with a rocket-propelled grenade, a diplomatic source said.
There were no reported casualties, and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Libya's interim government has had limited success in establishing control of the country, and foreign officials are often targeted. There have been several diplomatic kidnappings in the past three months in Tripoli, the capital.
Militants abducted two Tunisian diplomats, still missing, in January.


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MILWAUKEE — American provided a little angst early for Wisconsin fans who drove from all around the state to watch the Badgers' opening game of the N.C.A.A. tournament here.
Then the most efficient offensive team of Coach Bo Ryan's tenure began making shots, and any notion of a No. 15 seed beating a No. 2 in the West Region drifted away. Wisconsin, after trailing by 7 points early, routed the Patriots, 75-35, at the Bradley Center — the most one-sided N.C.A.A. tournament victory in team history by far.
Traevon Jackson had 18 points and Ben Brust 17 for Wisconsin (27-7), which faces the winner of Oregon and Brigham Young in the next round Saturday. The Badgers are 11-2 in opening games in Ryan's 13 seasons. Milwaukee is about an hour's drive from the Wisconsin campus in Madison, and the crowd of about 18,000 was awash in the Badgers' Cardinal and White.
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"I wish we could have made it a better game," the first-year American Coach Mike Brennan said. "Wisconsin has dismantled some really good teams this year. They're a No. 2 seed for a reason."
Tony Wroblicky and John Schoof scored 11 points for American (20-13), which made three field goals after halftime in 19 attempts. The Badgers shot 57.7 percent in the second half.
Guarding American's Princeton-style offense concerned Ryan, but his team's poor shooting proved the bigger issue early. With Wisconsin going scoreless for nearly seven minutes, American built a 17-10 lead before the Badgers began hitting from the perimeter. Brust and Jackson hit 3-pointers to spark a 19-3 closing run that put Wisconsin ahead, 33-22, at the half, enlivening the crowd.
"It was good to get the building loud," Brust said. "I heard them when we were down in the first half. We were like, 'They're up, we better wake up.' We started hitting some shots and got going."
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The Badgers kept rolling in the second half, opening 7 for 10 from the field and extending the lead to 53-25.
From just past the midway point of the first half to the middle of the second, Wisconsin outscored American, 40-6. The lead became so great that Ryan began emptying his bench with about five and a half minutes to play. Wisconsin converted 17 American turnovers into 16 points while committing only seven turnovers.
"Fortunately for us, we felt defensively we could do a decent job against the Princeton offense because of the Northwestern teams of old. That helped us," Ryan said. Northwestern ran the Princeton offense for years under the former Princeton Coach Bill Carmody, who was fired after last season and replaced by Chris Collins. Most of Ryan's players remembered the concepts.
Before Thursday, Wisconsin's largest winning margin in an N.C.A.A. tournament game had been 24 points, in a 73-49 victory over Montana two years ago.


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Some of the Yankees wear T-shirts under their jerseys with a three-word slogan — more like an exhortation — on the back: DO YOUR JOB! Carlos Beltran wore his on Wednesday. Like most of the hitters, though, he has not answered the demand.
Things were different on Wednesday, when the Yankees scored five runs off the junior varsity of the Boston Red Sox while rapping 11 hits in a 5-1 victory in the Bronx. Brian McCann had four hits, including a homer, but his on-base percentage is still below .300.
"There's a month left, and we're fighting for a playoff spot," McCann said. "Stats are out the window at this point."
True enough, and if the Yankees continue to outplay their run differential and somehow reach the playoffs, it may soothe the sting of their offensive troubles. Still, the final numbers will probably be the team's sickliest in years, and Kevin Long, the hitting coach, bares the daily burden of trying to improve them.
Promoted from the Class AAA job for the 2007 season, Long guided offenses that ranked first, seventh, first, first, second and second in the American League in runs in his first six seasons. Last year, devastated by injuries, the Yankees slipped to 10th. Now they are worse — 12th in the 15-team A.L. entering Wednesday, at 3.96 runs per game — and it gnaws at Long constantly.
"I can give them routines, I can help them with some flaws, we can work and work and work, and yeah, when you don't see results, it wears on you," Long said before the game. "There's some sleepless nights. There's some nights when you feel like you're not doing everything you can. And at the end of the day, I know that I am."
Yet he questions himself on those long and restless nights because he cannot just give up. Something is bound to work.
"I try to come up with more ideas, try to be more proactive," Long said. "And sometimes it's a matter of backing off the throttle. Do I not give them as much information? There's all different things that spin through your head. Are you more forceful as a coach? Do you scream? Do you yell? Do you tell them, 'Enough's enough'?
"There's different avenues, and this year I've exhausted quite a few of those," he added. "A lot more than usual."
The last time the Yankees finished a season ranked this low in runs scored was 1991, when Bernie Williams was a rookie and Derek Jeter played for Kalamazoo Central High School in Michigan. That year, the Yankees' offense also ranked 12th, out of 14 A.L. teams, but it still scored more runs than this season's squad, 4.16 per game.
The last Yankees team to average less? It was the year before, 1990, when the Yankees scored 3.72 runs a game and finished last in the league. Stump Merrill finished that season as manager, and the Mets — remember them? — led the majors in scoring.
The names of his hitters suggest they should produce. But that is the problem with the Yankees' lineup, as currently constructed. Having not gotten impact position players from the farm system in recent seasons, it is a collection of impressive and familiar names designed to lure fans to the ballpark and the television — even though most of the players are past their primes.
This year was supposed to be different, if only because the main free-agent additions — Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury and McCann — were coming off strong seasons. (So was the former Yankee Robinson Cano, who has continued to produce in Seattle, but signing Cano for 10 years never made sense.)
Ellsbury has been good. Beltran, bothered by an elbow injury, has had his worst season since 2000. McCann is having his worst full season. So are Jeter and Mark Teixeira. Alfonso Soriano was having his worst season, too, until he was released in July.
Long cited the increased defensive shifting as a reason hitting was harder now than it was in the recent past. McCann bunted for a single against the shift on Tuesday — "It feels like there's 12 guys out there," McCann said of the shift — but that strategy goes only so far.
"It's one way to combat it, but if anything, it's just going to move the third baseman over," Long said. "It's not going to move the rest of the infield over."
Long has tracked hard-hit balls for years as a way of measuring hitters' true offensive performance. Lately, he said, a disproportionate number of hard-hit balls have turned into outs. As a whole, though, the Yankees cannot cite bad luck. For the second year in a row, they have a winning record despite allowing more runs than they score.
Long does not have a dedicated assistant hitting coach, as many teams do, but he said that other coaches helped and that the players had plenty of eyes on them. With a playoff berth perhaps slipping out of reach, he is not dwelling on his job status.
"Someday I won't be here, and they'll be going after another guy doing the same job," Long said. "It's going to happen; it's part of the business. You've got to have thick skin. I've been here long enough to know you're going to go through some good times and bad times. I guess a player will always say this, too: I'm going to keep grinding."


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Review: Clive Barker's 'Next Testament' #1
A combination of dark fantasy and horror, Next Testament #1 will sneak inside your head and get your heart racing. Smart, edgy, and frightening – this is exactly what you expect to come from the mind of Clive Barker, one of the greatest horror storytellers of our time (kudos also goes to his writing partner Mark Miller). Definitely get your hands on "Next Testament" because this comic is going to be epic.
Written By: Clive Barker and Mark Miller
Art By: Haemi Jang
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Price: $3.99
Release: May 29, 2013
Following a vision he dreamed about, Julian Demond, a wealthy and eccentric old man, walks across the endless desert. Could this crazy old man actually be a chosen prophet? Or, is he just another religious nut? There is something to be frightened about Julian because he truly believes he is being guided by a higher power. Julian suddenly sees something buried in the sand and is compelled to dig it up. What he unearths is a powerful god, who may or may not bring about the apocalypse.
Barker and co-writer Mark Miller ask themselves, "What if God returned to Earth?" But, this God that Barker and Miller are writing about is from the Old Testament. This god is neither compassionate, nor forgiving as a bloody war is waged upon humanity. The religious themed premise is quite broad and grand in scope, but the writers find a way to centralize the idea through their characters. The narrative is also about a prodigal son trying to reconnect with a father he abandoned years ago.
Having read the novella, "The Last Illusion," I am really happy that Barker has brought in his wicked sense of humor. Tristan Demond and his wife, Elspeth, have such a snappy and hilarious banter between them. The issue really stands out because of the quirky dialogue between the two as they search for clues about Julian's whereabouts. Readers will instantly like these protagonists and wonder if something bad is going to happen to them.
Artist Haemi Jang has an interesting character design for the powerful god that Julian unearths. A mishmash of primary colors, the heavenly figure looks like a walking and talking stained glass window. In wide shots, Jang captures the isolation and scorching heat of the desert landscape. Notice Julian's facial expressions after he finally meets his personal god. Jang depicts Julian as if he has had found inner pace and meaning in his life.
Because of their pseudo-detective story, Jang portrays Tristan and Elspeth as if they are "The Thin Man" couple, Nick and Nora. During the couple's scenes, Jang plays around with the film noir aspects, such as the crooked and high angle shots. Jang always keeps Tristan and Elspeth together in the same panel. The pair have their eyes looking at each other, as if their minds are in sync.
Horror fans are going to want to get their hands on this one. "Next Testament" #1 hooks its readers with an interesting and foreboding premise. If you haven't read any of Clive Barker's works (really?!?), then this is the perfect place to start.
4/5 Skulls
Reviewed by – Jorge Solis