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With the final Harry Potter book coming to the screen this week, the Potter pipeline's about to run dry. Many people have been clamoring for J.K. Rowling to write more Hogwarts epics — but that would be a dreadful mistake.
Rowling stoked the speculation when she told Oprah a while back that she wouldn't rule out an eighth or ninth Potter tome — even though she tacked on an epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, whose only purpose seemed to be closing the door on sequels with a firm slam. It was like ending the last book with, "The End. Really. I MEAN IT. FOR REALZ."
I understand why Hollywood would love to have more plucky young wizard stories to turn into three-hour movies starring underfed British teenagers with improbably nice skin. But why would Rowling want to do that? She doesn't need the money. The only reason would be if she's tried to start another series and just hasn't been able to make it work. Maybe the work of world-building and creating a new hero from scratch, with so much pressure on her to get it right, has proven to be harder than it was when she was an unknown single mom scribbling in obscurity.
But even if that's the case, she should resist the temptation to bring back Harry Potter, or do a new set of books in the Potterverse.
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There's no way Harry Potter book eight (or a new Potterverse series) could be as good as the original seven books. None. Because a huge part of what makes the Potter books so addictive is the fact that they're part of a saga, with a beginning, middle and end — if they'd been open-ended, they wouldn't have been nearly as thrilling. It would have been just an unending stream of "same wizard shit, different day." Plus, you can't do an open-ended series with just one main villain — people will start wondering why Voldemort is still trying to take over the world. ("Oh, he who must not be named, again?")
Here's a wee bit of a personal share. When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, I was fairly determined to wait until a friend finished it, and then borrow their copy. But then I walked past a bookstore on release day, and I was struck with a jolt of temptation, like an impulse-buy lightning bolt to the head. I bought it and got totally sucked into reading it. I was so engrossed in the story, even the dodgy camping bits, I almost missed my bus stop — and I jumped off the bus, leaving my backpack behind. With my laptop computer in it! Containing a ton of not-backed-up files. I freaked out and even begged a friend with a car to come get me, so we could chase that bus — but no use. Despondent, I read the Deathly Hallows in a pizza place, where the counter girl was sad that she couldn't afford a copy and wasn't going to be able to borrow a copy for ages — so I came back the next day and gave her my copy after I was done reading it. Shortly afterwards, I got word that the bus driver had turned in my backpack, with everything still in it, to the lost and found. Proof that magic works! In any case, I wouldn't have been so caught up in the book I forgot my backpack, if it hadn't been the Final Chapter.
People sometimes say that we shouldn't put too much emphasis on endings — who cares how a story ends, if the middle bits are good? But if anything, we don't put enough emphasis on endings. The ending makes the story work, or not. All of the beautiful bits of character and plot and ideas that a story builds up in the middle? They're all being stored up to use in the ending. There are plenty of mediocre endings in the world, and far too many hideously bad endings — I'm not going to mention that show whose name rhymes with "Bossed." When you get a great ending, it should be protected. And I am quite fond of the ending of Deathly Hallows, I think it's a fitting end for a great series.
But wait, I hear you say — who says a continuation has to cheapen a good ending? And it's true — an ending can stand on its own, even if the story picks up again, as Supernatural is proving this season. But that's the exception to the rule — most of the time, you can't carry on a saga without going back and chipping away at the integrity of the ending. Inevitably, characters who got a nice resolution will get stirred up again, ideas that were set to rest will be brought up — and most of all, any supposedly "final" victories will turn out to have been pyrrhic or partial.
We know that's how it works in real life — but we read books like the Harry Potter series precisely because they aren't like real life.
And then there's the question of what an eighth Potter book would be about. There are a few choices:
1) A book that takes place now, or at least before the epilogue, showing how Harry and the gang got to the places where we see them in that final scene. In other words, a story where we already know how it's going to turn out.
2) A book that picks up after the epilogue, with grown-up Harry. Note that this would be set in the near future, since the Potter books take place "now." (Update: Various people have pointed out the books take place in the 1990s, which would put the epilogue in 2016.) Plus, does anybody want to read about a married Harry staring down middle age? All of the qualities that were sort of endearing about young Harry would quickly grate in an older version — and the propensity for self-pity would be intolerable.
3) A fresh start, with a new main character. Maybe Albus Severus or one of the other kids, maybe someone else. The main problem here is that you either have another Chosen One, facing another Ultimate Evil, or you settle for a smaller story about someone who's quite heroic in their own minor way, facing a villain who's no Voldemort but is quite irksome nonetheless. So you either cheapen Harry by making him just one of a handful of Chosen Ones, or you create a more low-key follow-up that will probably be a bit of an appendix.
But this isn't just about what we don't want to see J.K. Rowling do. I'm personally dying to see her create a new world. I bet it would be brilliant. In many ways, the Potterverse is like a starter universe — it's cozy and familiar and cute, wrapped around a metaphor for class oppression (that doesn't prevent you from fantasizing about going to an elite boarding school.) Wouldn't it be cool to see Rowling try her hand at creating another new world, knowing everything she learned from the world-building in the Potter books? She might do something more urban, or a fantastical world more removed from our own. Either way, I'm game.
I'd also quite like to see Rowling develop a new hero who isn't living in the shadow of Harry — and please give us a girl hero this time! I love Hermione to death, but I'd love to see Rowling use her considerable powers of character-development to create a new archetypal female hero who grows into leadership the way Harry does in the Potter books.
And finally, Rowling also has a responsibility to be bold. How many authors are in the position she's in? She could write anything and it would be an instant sensation. Most of us would read her next book, whatever it is. Unlike the majority of authors, who struggle to push a boulder up a hill any time they want to do something genre-defying or unexpected, Rowling is such a brand that she can make anything she wants happen. She owes it to herself — if not to us — to use her power instead of letting it use her. She's already left a legacy, but she can make it much deeper if she goes in a new direction.
Harry Potter helped breathe new life into fantasy books and bring a whole generation to bookstores. Now J.K. Rowling has the chance to do it all over again. Or she could just dwell on her past glories.
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Whether you will be strapping on red pumps for a night out, or staying in, snuggled up in your pink P.J.s, let Valentine's Day be full of fun, and not full of the sniffles!
If You're In the Mood to Go Out…
Chow Down At Your Favorite Restaurant
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With all the sweets you will be eating on Valentine's Day, you will probably want something savory for dinner. Get your best friends together for dinner at your favorite restaurant! Valentine's Day is one of the busiest days of the year, so make sure to call ahead and make a reservation. At dinner, indulge in something you wouldn't usually order, like an appetizer or dessert, and split it with your friends!
Labels or Love? Shopping Always Wins!
Shopping at the mall with your girls can turn any day around, so save up some cash for February 14! Don't want to spend all your hard earned cash at the mall? No problem! Make a shopping trip not-so-average, by getting your friends together to see who can come up with the most extreme Valentine's Day outfit. The more pink, red and white the better! Frills, lace and volume always add a nice touch for the contest. After the outfits are complete, have everyone work it in the dressing room to see who channeled their inner Cupid the best!
Show A Stranger An Act of Kindness
Show love to your community on Valentine's Day! Get your girls together to make cards, assemble goody bags, or bake sweets for a children's hospital, nursing home, or homeless shelter. Head to the location of your choice and spend an hour or two volunteering. Remember, love doesn't have to be shown in gifts—even a hug to a child at a hospital, playing a board game with a resident at a nursing home or serving food to those at a homeless shelter could be the most sincere sign of love.
If You're In the Mood To Stay In…
Pamper Yourself At A Spa Night
After a long day at school it will be nice to kick your feet up and pamper yourself like a princess! Have your besties bring over their favorite nail polish, hair products and facemasks. Try thesepink leopard nail designs for a fun twist! Ask around and see if any of your friends have a heated footbath or paraffin wax machine to refresh your hands and feet! Valentine's Day truly is the perfect day to spoil yourself! Tweet @seventeenmag a picture of your manis, once they're finished!
Organize A Game Of Secret Cupid
If you have ever participated in Secret Santa, then Secret Cupid will ring a bell. Get your friends together, draw names and exchange gifts. A gift from a BFF can be so much better than a gift from a BF! Once the big day has arrived, set up a time and place to meet to exchange gifts!
Craft Your Heart Out
What better way to spend Valentine's Day than crafting? Bust out your old Seventeen issues, and make a hot guy collage. Staring at eye candy all night sounds more delicious than eating candy! Check out Pinterest for awesome step-by-step DIY's for accessories, clothing and bedroom décor. Have each friend bring supplies to cut down on cost of the party.
What are your alternative ways to celebrate Valentine's Day?

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AXIS 209FD-R Network Camera
Compact, rugged network camera for mobile video surveillance
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Recommended replacement: AXIS P3904-R Mk II
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- Flat design
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For demanding environments
AXIS 209FD-R Network Camera is a compact, rugged network camera designed specifically for the tough environments found in mass transit vehicles. Its durable transparent cover provides excellent protection against dust, humidity and vibrations.
Resistant to vibrations, humidity and dust
AXIS 209FD-R Network Camera is designed to be easy to install, and to remain securely in place over time, withstanding the tough and changing conditions in a bus or train. It ensures a robust construction that can withstand these conditions without premature wear and tear. The rugged casing is built to handle the vibrations and dust typically found in mass transit vehicles. The small built-in heater takes care of any moisture and thereby eliminates condensation on the lens or cover.
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AXIS 209FD-R features a tampering alarm, an intelligent feature incorporated in the camera, further strengthening the benefits of digital IP-based video. The tampering alarm detects if AXIS 209FD-R is moved, obscured, covered or sprayed.
Easy installation
AXIS 209FD-R is quick and easy to install with its design adapted for flexible mounting. Sloping surfaces can be compensated for by tilt and rotation of the lens. The AXIS T8412 Installation Display can be used to quickly and easily view the image from the camera, to check the position.
A typical installation
The interiors of buses and trains are seldom designed with visual surveillance in mind. The curved surfaces and soft padding often found in these vehicles can provide quite a challenge when mounting a camera. Thanks to its small size, the AXIS 209FD-R is ideal for installing in these situations - only a small flat surface is required to mount it.
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You thought it was over, that the Halloween edition brought us to the precipice of Angry Birds gaming and that if we dared to so much as glance over the edge… Well, let's not drudge up what could have been, because Rovio Mobile had the courage to take that leap of faith for us. Abandon all hope, ye who download the new Angry Birds Seasons for iPhone or iPad.
Yes, my poor feathered friends, the pigs are back at it—thus, we are once again called to action. With its new name, Angry Birds Seasons is now positioned to gain themed updates, the first of which features mistletoe and a winter wonderland for the holidays.
Between the previous Halloween edition and the new seasonal additions, Angry Birds Seasons now features 69 levels. If you already bought the Halloween edition, you get Seasons as a free upgrade. Both the iPhone and iPad editions also now integrate with Apple's Game Center network, including support for achievements and leaderboards, as well as sharing via Facebook and Twitter. "A very merry golden egg" surprise is also tucked away somewhere.
Angry Birds Seasons two editions are now available: the iPhone and iPod touch version is $1 and requires iOS 3.0 or later, while the iPad version is $2 and requires iOS 3.2 or later.
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Peter Chianca: Putting the 'do' back in doo-wop
Hear ye, hear ye! I come in praise of the sh-booms! The shu-wops! The bom-diddy-boms! The ring-a-dong-dings! (Well, not so much that last one, but all those others.) I'm talking about doo-wop, that marriage of R&B and early rock 'n' roll that started on city street corners in the 1950s and had doo-wah-diddied its way into the oldies bins by the time the Beatles got here.
I was reminded of my longtime romance with doo-wop by "Acapella," the new album by Kenny Vance and the Planotones, which showed up in my inbox earlier this month. Vance, a founding member of Jay & The Americans, is clearly a man on a mission: He's recorded some of these classics before, but never sans instruments, and his sheer love and appreciation for the songs is palpable — from the first bom-bom-bom of The Cadillacs' "Zoom" to the last "wee-hee-eee" of the Flamingos' gorgeous "I'll Be Home."
In between, Vance and his group go deep on oldies that most people probably haven't heard unless they're among the group that popped the originals onto their turntables 50-plus years ago.
"I felt like it was time to do a tribute to the days when we started," Vance says, and on "Acapella" he nails numbers by such long-forgotten groups as The Charades, The Collegians and The Paragons (not to be confused with The Paradons, who are also represented here with a silky-smooth version of their one hit, "Diamonds and Pearls").
Even though I'm not part of the demographic who heard these songs their first time around — KISS, Queen and Foreigner were on my school-bus soundtrack — I've had a soft spot for doo-wop as long as I can remember. And for that I have to credit my father, who was growing up in the Bronx when Dion DiMucci was just a guy from the neighborhood, not the frontman for The Belmonts.
To hear my dad tell it, pretty much any group of guys with the inclination could (and would) gather on the street corner and form a doo-wop group. He even recalls doing a doo-wop competition with his sister and two friends at Mt. Carmel Church Hall in the Bronx, a gig that he thought went well until the other groups got up — all of them made up of "black kids who sounded like they should have been on the radio," my dad recalls, laughing. "We didn't even stay for the rest of the contest."
Even if his doo-wop career stalled by high school, though, he retained a love of the music that ensured a steady diet of oldies on our family stereo: WCBS-FM in New York was in its heyday, and Sunday nights featured "The Doo Wop Shop with Don K. Reed," played every week in its entirety in our living room.
Even as a kid, there was something that struck me in songs like the Five Satins' "In The Still of the Night" and Vito & the Salutations' souped-up version of "Unchained Melody." First and foremost were of course the tight-knit arrangements of nonsense syllables that made up the backbone of every track. Beyond that, though, was the way the songs captured the simple joy of a bunch of guys singing in a tiny studio (or possibly a bathroom) — the production was simple and the lyrics were almost always of the you-true-blue variety, but that was part of the charm.
"Acapella" is certainly slicker than any of those early records, but Vance — who at 69 somehow manages high notes and harmonies that would be impressive for someone a third that age — captures their heart and soul. True to the originals but not slavishly so, The Planotones imbue songs like the rollicking "Zoom Zoom Zoom" and the smoky "Mio Amore" with sparkling, vibrant personality.
Vance also somehow avoids the Lite-FM vibe of a Manhattan Transfer or the college a cappella group smarm that can neuter these songs' street-corner grittiness. Don't take my word for it, though — here's what my father, the erstwhile doo-wopper, had to say after a few spins through "Acapella":
"As someone who's familiar with most of the original renditions of these songs, I tend to be disappointed when they're covered by another group," he admits. "With this album, I found I enjoyed some of the songs just as much as the originals." When the doo-wop is this good, he points out, you don't miss the instruments.
Dad's favorite from "Acapella" is "You Cheated," which he describes as "unbelievably true" to the 1958 original by The Shields. But the whole package, every track, is true to the doo-wop spirit that helped fuel early rock 'n' roll: Close your eyes and you may even find yourself back shu-bopping on a Belmont Avenue street corner — whether or not you were there in the first place.
For more on Kenny Vance, visit planotones.com. Peter Chianca is the editor in chief for Gatehouse Media's north-of-Boston newspapers and websites and author of "Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Albums." Follow him on Twitter at @pchianca.


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Federal workers furloughed during the 16-day partial government shutdown will be counted as unemployed when the U.S. October jobs report is issued on Nov. 8, the Labor Department said today.
Employees out of work during the week spanning Oct. 6 to Oct. 12 will be reflected in the jobless tally even if they received, or anticipated getting, back pay, the Labor Department said in a statement on its website outlining how the shutdown affected data collection.
About 800,000 federal employees were temporarily dismissed from their jobs on Oct. 1 as lawmakers wrangled over how to avert a U.S. default. The Pentagon recalled about 315,000 the following week, leaving just under 500,000 still jobless during the Labor Department's survey week.
The unemployment rate is derived from a survey of households covering the week that includes the 12th of the month, which was during the partial shutdown.
Rather than using the exact count of the number of government workers on furlough that week, the Labor Department will instead rely on its survey to arrive at a tally, Mary Bowler, an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said today in an interview. The responses in the survey of about 60,000 households are extrapolated nationally using weights based on demographics, said Bowler.
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That implies the number of unemployed will go up by less than 500,000 if federal-worker households are under-represented in the survey, or by more if they make up a larger share. In either case, the shutdown will probably tend to make the jobless rate higher than it would ordinarily be.
"The estimate will be what it will be, but we are not going to control it to some overall federal number," said Bowler. "Presumably we'll catch some federal workers in the sample," she said.
The household survey component of the jobs report reflects respondents' employment situations from Oct. 6 through Oct. 12, when some federal agencies and contractors didn't report to work due to lack of funding. That reference period was unchanged, even as the surveys were delayed to Oct. 20 from Oct. 13.
The unemployment rate at 7.2% is projected to rise to 7.3% in the October report, according to a preliminary median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
Full-time workers who put in fewer than 35 hours during the survey week will be counted as working part-time for economic reasons, the Labor Department also said.
The separate survey of employers will be less affected, according to the Labor Department's statement. That poll is for the pay period that includes the 12th of the month, and anyone receiving pay for any part of the period will be counted as part of the payroll tally, the agency said.
The economy probably added 125,000 jobs this month, down from 148,000 in September, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists.


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These words were spoken on the sidewalk where 12-year-old Sydney Mahkuk died. Community leaders and Sydney's family asked me to bring some kind of meaning and hope to the sidewalk where Sydney had been dumped from a car by the side of the funeral home.
November 4, 2005
Gordon C. Stewart
Executive Director, Legal Rights Center, Inc.
Once upon a time a proud people lived on this land. They called themselves Ojibwe, Anishinabe, Dakota, Lakota, and Winnebago. Occasionally a Menominee would visit. They lived close to the land. They hunted. They fished. They gave thanks to the Great Spirit for every day. They saw themselves as part of nature. They rose with the sun. When the sun went down, they gathered in a circle by the light of the campfire. By the light of the campfire, they listened to the elders, whose stories broke the silence to told the children who they were. The children went to bed in safety.
They were people of great dignity. Their ways were good ways. They respected the land. They respected each other. They honored their elders. They cared for the children. They trained their youth to become adults. They died with dignity. They were buried with honor. Earth was their mother. Gitchi Manitu, Wakan Tonka, the Great Spirit, was the common Grandfather of them all.
Then something terrible happened. A plague came across their land. It took their land. It stole their culture. It laughed at their spiritual practices. It called them names. It tore down their tepees, their longhouses and their sweat lodges. And in their places the plague built big buildings – tall buildings, arrogant buildings, skyscrapers, they called them, that invaded the sky, turning the land into something it is not. The Ojibwe and Dakota who lived here no longer rose with the sun. They no longer gathered around the campfire. They no longer heard the stories of who they were. They knew only what the white plague had taught them – that unless they joined the plague, they were nobody, and that if they challenged it, they would lose. They would die.
And so they lived in grief. A sorrow too hard to bear. A loss too great to carry. And the plague offered them relief to numb the pain – firewater that would make them happy in spite of their despair. Drugs to drive away the memories of who they were. Escapes to make them numb. To numb the pain. Opiates to freeze their tongues.
The elders no longer acted like elders. The parents were numb with grief. There were no aunts. No uncles. No cousins. No grandparents. Nobody dared to be a neighbor. The children were left with no campfire at night – no community to tell them the stories of who they were and who they were not – and so the children and the youth drifted out into the night in search of themselves. Locked in lonely prisons of confusion, the youth no longer knew Mother Earth as their Mother; they no longer knew how to give thanks to the Great Spirit for the day. They no longer went to bed with the sun. They wandered the night in search of the community they had lost and never known. And the gangs and the drugs and the alcohol offered them the promises of a better life that was the kiss of death. Ecstasy was no longer a way of life – it was a pill that would make them higher than the skyscrapers that ruined the once humble landscape. And sometimes the alcohol and the drugs and the gangs that had promised to numb their pain took their lives and they were found in the morning as the sun came up. They were found by strangers.
Then one day a girl named Sidney, a 12 year-old Menominee-Portawatami, was found beside a funeral home on Columbus Avenue. How she got there nobody knew. How she died, nobody knew. But everybody knew why.
The community had unravelled. It had become dry bones in the valley.
But on that day that the people gathered on the sidewalk on Columbus Avenue to mourn her death, there was a sound from heaven – a rattling, the sound of dry bones coming together, a resurrection of the once proud community. And as a result Sidney Mahkuk's tragic death the community came together as it had not come together since the plague had begun.
On the day they gathered on Columbus Avenue – a street named after the European explorer who had not discovered their land – on that day, the community woke from its sleep. It came together – Ojibwe, Dakota, Menominee, Potawatami, Lakota, African-American, Somali, Hispanic, Hmong …and, yes, even the descendants of Columbus. And on that day, because of a little girl's unexplained death, they stood together arm in arm and said "Enough" to the plague. "Enough" to numbness. They said, "No more. No more. No more death on Columbus's Avenue." And it was more than words. They looked up at the sun again and really saw it…as if for the first time. They looked down at Mother Earth and saw it, as if for the first time. And they gave thanks. Then they looked at each other and they said, "We are a proud people. We will take back this land. We will be the people who honor our elders. We will be the people who support the parents and care for the children. We will be the people who guide the youth. We will be a people of hope, not despair. We will be a people of love, not hate. We are all Menominee-Potawatami. We are all grandchildren of one Grandfather. We are the people who care for each other. We are the people who refuse to go numb. We are the people who will teach the children of Columbus – starting right here, right now… on Columbus Avenue – how to live in a good way with Mother Earth, in a good way with Iraq, in a good way with the rivers and the sky, the ozone and the sun. We are the people whose spirituality will help to cure the cancer of the spiritual and economic plague that has left our people in despair.
From that day on, November 4, 2005 at twelve noon, 12 year-old Sidney Mahkuk – our daughter, our granddaughter, our little sister, our friend, our neighbor – would be forever remembered as the one whose deadly silence on this sidewalk spoke so loudly that we could not stay numb. And we took the city back and brought it back to life.
Merciful God – Wakon Tonka, Gitchi Manitu, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Allah, Grandfather, Great Spirit who breathes life into all things and receives all life at the end – Your's is the air we breath, the land on which we walk. Assure us that your love is stronger than every power to divide or hurt us. Receive your child Sidney into your eternal care. Wrap your arms around Glenda, around Sidney's brothers and sisters, around all the defenseless children of the night, around all of us who mourn their plight and mourn Sidney's death. Re-kindle the light of faith and hope. Take from our souls the plague of hate, self-hatred and despair. Take away the numbness and the apathy. Make us a people of healing. A humble and quiet people, but a proud people of love and spiritual strength. A people who are not afraid to feel the pain, who really feel the loss, who feel our feelings and do not fear them. A people who dare to believe that every tear that falls from our eyes flows into the common stream of human suffering that leads into the ocean of community restored. A people secure in the knowledge of your love. Amen.


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(CNNGo) -- Sip a latte, flip through a manga, surf the Internet -- or have a cuddle with a feline friend at one of Tokyo's many cat cafés.
On first glance, these popular hangouts appear to be normal, cozy cafés, with sofas, coffee cups and shelves of magazines.
Look closer, however, and you'll find something curious -- all types of cats ("neko" in Japanese) reclining on top of drink machines, in corner baskets or in the laps of patrons.
At Tokyo's cat cafés, catmosphere comes first, coffee a distant second.
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Recent phenomenon
Neko cafés are a relatively recent development in Japan.
Machida's Neko no Mise (tel. +81 (0) 42 722 0544), which claims to be the oldest in the Kanto area, just turned five.
About 100 neko cafés can be found in Japan, according to the nekocafe map, with a few outliers in South Korea and Taiwan. More than 50 of the cafes are in Tokyo proper, with almost 70 in the greater Tokyo area.
Paying money to hang out with cats (the average cost is about ¥1,000 an hour, or about $12) may seem like a strange concept best suited to batty old ladies with frizzy hair and multiple scarves, but customers tell a different story.
On a recent Sunday, Neko no Mise's clientele was made up mostly of couples in their twenties and thirties, with a few singles mixed in. There wasn't a pair of bedazzled spectacles or a hand-knit sweater in sight.
Dating spots
The popularity of neko cafés as date spots is corroborated by a visit to Shimokitazawa's Cateriam (tel +81 (0) 3 3468 8114), where lace-skirted young women and their mohawked men ooh and ahh over the kitty antics.
At Nekobukuro (tel +81 (0) 3 3980 6111), on the top floor of the craft store Tokyu Hands in Ikebukuro, a couples discount is offered.
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"We have more couples on weekends, and more singles during the week," says a Neko no Mise staffer. "All kinds of people come to the café."
A gaggle of girlfriends squeal and shoot pictures with their mobile phones nearby. Several people sport hefty digital SLRs with big lenses.
Cat bloggers
The cat café boom has spawned countless blogs documenting cat café stars. Some cats even have their own mixi profiles.
One blogger, a Japanese amateur photographer who calls himself Jack, says he goes to cat cafés because he likes watching his favorite cats grow up.
"Cat cafés make me feel nostalgic because I had cats in my childhood," he says. "My hobby is photography -- I think the cat is one of the best subjects."
Neko cafés aren't for everyone.
"My sister wanted to go so badly, she took me to one," says a young woman named Yuko. "It was weird, I thought. People just hanging out there with the cats, but you're not allowed to wake them up or pick them up, they were just watching the cats and smiling and stuff ... it was a little scary."
With cat cafés proliferating around Japan, you can decide for yourself. Get your kitty fix, down some caffeine and maybe meet another cat-crazy single to snuggle up to.
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The 2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata will celebrate its 20-year anniversary, making a North American debut at next month's Chicago Auto Show.
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IRVINE, Calif. - Mazda's timeless roadster, the MX-5 Miata, races into the 2009 Chicago Auto Show with a refreshed exterior, enhanced performance and improved fuel efficiency. Mazda will showcase the 2009 MX-5 along with a historical collection of early model-year Miatas and the all-new 2010 MAZDA3 four-door sedan and five-door models.
Launched in 1989 as a 1990 model, the MX-5 Miata was conceived as a small two-seat roadster that was spirited, fun-to-drive and unlike anything else available at the time. Since then, competitors have come and gone, but none have lasted. Twenty years later, and with more than 800,000 models sold so far around the world, the MX-5 Miata is the world's best-selling two-seat roadster.
"The MX-5 Miata has been true to Mazda's Zoom-Zoom philosophy since rolling off the assembly line 20 years ago," said Tim Barnes, director, Product Development. "Long before Zoom-Zoom became one of the most recognizable slogans around, Mazda designed Miata to epitomize the 'emotion of motion' concept on which Zoom-Zoom is based, and our worldwide sales are a real testament to Miata's DNA and spirit."
The 2009 MX-5 produces 167-hp from a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. Perfect balance has always been a hallmark of the car, and the new model's suspension revisions make it an even better mountain road dance partner. In addition, updates to front and rear fascias, interior enhancements, package changes and new interior and exterior colors keep MX-5 as fresh today as it was 20 years ago.
On display alongside the MX-5 will be the all-new MAZDA3. Aimed at the young at heart, who love to drive and are technologically aware, the MAZDA3 remains the most engaging car in its class. Both the four-door and five-door versions feature top-class environmental and safety performance, and offer evolved sporty driving dynamics, eye-catching styling elements and a high-quality interior.
The all-new MAZDA3 is available with key features typically not seen in its class including:
* Bluetooth hands-free phone and audio
* Adaptive Front-lighting System and Bi-Xenon headlights with auto leveling
* Advanced keyless entry system
* Push-button start
One of every three Mazdas sold worldwide is a MAZDA3. That success drove the production of the two-millionth MAZDA3 in October 2008. The all-new 2010 MAZDA3 will go on sale in North America in the first quarter of 2009.
The balance of Mazda's full 2009 lineup also will be on display at the show, including CX-9, CX-7, MAZDA5, RX-8, Tribute and the all-new 2009 MAZDA6 sports sedan. The Chicago Auto Show is open to the public February 13-22, 2009, at the McCormick Place, Chicago.
Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Mazda North American Operations oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States, Canada and Mexico through nearly 900 dealers. Operations in Canada are managed by Mazda Canada, Inc., located in Ontario, Canada, and in Mexico by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City.


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The permanent injunction that a federal district court issued in March 2012 enjoining Colorado from enforcing its Amazon law requiring remote sellers to report sales in the state has been dismissed by an appeals court. The Tenth Circuit held on Tuesday that the Tax Injunction Act (TIA, 28 U.S.C. § 1341) precludes federal jurisdiction over the Direct Marketing Association's claim that Colorado's law requiring out-of-state retailers to report information about customers' purchases to each customer and to the Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR) violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution ( Direct Marketing Ass'n v. Brohl, No. 12-1175 (10th Cir. 8/20/13).
As a result, the Tenth Circuit remanded the case to the district court to dismiss the Commerce Clause claims and lift the permanent injunction the lower court had imposed prohibiting the DOR from enforcing the law (Direct Marketing Ass'n v. Huber, No. 1:10-CV-01546-REB-CBS (D. Colo. 3/30/12)). Any further proceedings in the case must begin in Colorado's courts or administrative agencies.
The Colorado law (Colo. Rev. Stat. §39-21-112(3.5)) and related regulations require any retailer that sells $100,000 or more of products to customers in Colorado, but does not collect and remit sales taxes on those products, to:
- Notify the purchaser that the retailer does not collect Colorado sales tax and that the purchaser is therefore obligated to self-report and pay use tax.
- Provide each customer who purchases more than $500/year from the retailer with an annual report of the prior calendar year's purchases and inform the customer that the retailer is required to file an annual purchase summary reporting the customer's name and total purchases to the Colorado DOR.
- Provide the DOR with an annual customer information report stating the name, billing and shipping address, and total purchases for each of its Colorado customers.
Retailers can avoid the reporting requirements by voluntarily collecting tax from customers in Colorado.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the plaintiff in the case, is an association of direct marketers that sell products through catalogs, magazine and newspaper advertisements, broadcast media, and the internet. The DMA had earlier in the litigation persuaded the district court to issue an injunction to prevent the law from being enforced. The district court later made the injunction permanent.
The district court found that the law violated the "dormant Commerce Clause" (the constitutional theory that prohibits state actions that interfere with interstate commerce) because it discriminates against out-of-state retailers by treating them differently from in-state retailers and was therefore invalid on its face. The court further held that the DOR had failed to overcome this finding of facial invalidity because it failed to prove that the law advances a legitimate local purpose that could not be served by "reasonable nondiscriminatory alternatives."
Tax-Injunction Act: A broad jurisdictional barrier
The TIA states that "district courts shall not enjoin, suspend or restrain the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State" (Direct Marketing Ass'n v. Brohl, quoting 28 U.S.C. §1341). The Tenth Circuit characterized it as a broad jurisdictional barrier that prevents federal courts from interfering with the important state concern of collecting taxes.
First, the appeals court addressed the issue whether DMA sought to enjoin, suspend, or restrain the assessment, levy, or collection of any tax under state law. The law prohibits federal courts from interfering with state tax collection through declaratory relief, injunctive relief, or damage awards. The DMA argued that the TIA did not apply because it was not a taxpayer seeking to avoid a tax and it was challenging the notice and reporting requirements of the law, not a tax assessment. Nonetheless, the circuit court cited precedent in which the TIA applied to suits brought by third parties attempting to disrupt state tax collection. The central question is whether the plaintiff is attempting to prevent a state from exercising its sovereign taxing power.
The appeals court also concluded that the TIA applies even though
DMA was not challenging a tax assessment because the broad language of
"enjoin, suspend or restrain" encompassed the challenge DMA
was raising. The suit DMA was bringing had the potential to restrain
Colorado's ability to collect sales and use tax, which is sufficient
to trigger the jurisdictional bar. The fact that the injunction would
restrain Colorado's ability to collect the tax indirectly rather than
directly did not mean the TIA did not apply.
The second part of a TIA claim requires consideration of whether "a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State." According to the appeals court, this means that Colorado law must provide a full hearing and judicial determination whether the law should apply. To satisfy this requirement, a state must meet certain minimal procedural criteria against illegal tax collection. It does not have to be the "best or speediest remedy" (emphasis in the original). Apparently, the DMA did not challenge the law using the process available to it in Colorado, and the appeals court also noted that the state had considered Commerce Clause challenges to tax laws before.
Nonetheless, to meet the TIA requirement, there must be a specific remedy available for DMA. The court found that specific remedies are available. One remedy is that DMA or a remote retailer it represents can file a lawsuit in state court similar to the one dismissed here seeking injunctive and declaratory relief from the law. Another remedy involves a remote retailer's paying the tax, which is the alternative to complying with the reporting requirements, and filing for a refund claim in which the retailer claims it is unconstitutional to make it choose between collecting the tax and reporting its Colorado sales. A final option is for a remote retailer to not comply with the law and then challenge any penalties imposed. (Most of these remedies involve remote retailers, not DMA, filing suit; there may be a standing issue if DMA pursues these claims in state court.)
In remanding the case, the appeals court noted that because the TIA
divested the district court of jurisdiction over the Commerce Clause
claims in the case, it was also precluded from considering the issue
on appeal.
— Sally P. Schreiber ( email@example.com ) is a JofA senior editor.


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Mullen assured of his place in history
Mullen was given the Ireland captaincy in 1948, when still only 21 years old
History favours OConnell for Lions captaincy
France offer parting shot to England
The age in whichKarl Mullenplayed may now be at the outer ages of living memory, but it had striking similarities to our own.
Mullen, who died earlier this week aged 82, played in a time when Wales and Ireland dominated European rugby. Between them they were outright champions in five of his six international seasons, claiming three Grand Slams and four Triple Crowns as well as 22 of the 30 places - a similar proportion to the 27 out of 37 in the party soon to depart for South Africa - in the 1950 Lions team that Mullen led to New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon.
Mullen was among the defining players in what, until the last few years produced a competitor, was undoubtedly Irish rugbys Golden Age. He was one of those players who emerges fully-formed at an early age - a talent whose precocity led to a first selection for Ireland against the British Army in December 1945, only a few weeks after his nineteenth birthday. It was Irelands fifth clash with the Army and their first victory, by 19-3.
Mullens team mates includedJack Kyle. They differed in many respects - Kyle was a Northern Protestant and outside-half while Mullen was a Southern Catholic and hooker - but shared a trade as medical students, continuing the remarkable tradition of rugby-playing Irish doctors, and would be linked as the presiding spirits of Irelands post-war run of success.
Mullen became captain in 1948, when still only 21. It was, as Edmund van Esbeck has written, A time when the tactics adapted by the Irish side were very much a matter for the captain. He was no dictator - regarding it as a matter of principle that every man should have his say in pre-match discussions - but was rapidly recognised a fine leader and astute tactician whose formula was neatly encapsulated by thePlayfair Welsh Rugby Annualin 1949, The best scrummage in support of the best hooker, Karl Mullen, and the best stand-off in Jack Kyle.
It was not always terribly pretty, but it made remarkably effective use of Irelands limited resources. The Grand Slam was won in 1948 and a Triple Crown the following year. What became known as Triple Crown rugby influenced other nations withJohn GwilliamsWales paying what van Esbeck describes as the compliment of imitation in the controlled tactics that brought them a Grand Slam in 1950.
Once it became known that Gwilliam was not available for the Lions tour, there was little doubt it would be led by Mullen. His selection was a breakthough for the concept of British and Irish, as the first Southern Catholic and citizen of the Irish Republic to lead a Lions team. Mullen many years later recalled of the selection committee that, I think people were scared that I might have been a Fenian. I assured them of course that I was not, and promised there would be no politics.
Mullen may be the only Lions captain to have been approached by a hotel manager with the words, Can you please tell me how the horse got into room 406?
He inaugurated another Lions tradition - that of Irish hooker captains in New Zealand, later emulated byRonnie Dawson(1959) andCiaran Fitzgerald(1983). Like them, he faced suggestions that he might be keeping a superior team-mate out of the Test XV. The case against Mullen was not nearly as strong as that against his successors, but deputy David Davies played the final two Tests. Mullen had twisted a knee in training but New Zealand journalist Terry McLean recalled being told by him in 1953 that he was fit enough to have played at least the final Test.
His team were happy - they have been immortalised in documentary film as The Singing Lions - and popular. They enjoyed themselves without breaking the limits, although Mullen may be the only Lions captain to have been approached by a hotel manager with the words, Can you please tell me how the horse got into room 406?
TheRugby Almanack of New Zealandreckoned Mullen a great leader. All Black fullback Bob Scott, an astute analyst of opponents, noted a man with a well-trained and subtle mind; he also had a voice as soft as down and a brogue that slew his audiences and saw him as a very fine player whose leadership could arose hero-worship among his men.
Still only 23 - younger than all but three of the initial squad of 30, including all the other forwards - he was in sole charge on the playing side. Manager Ginger Osborne was popular and highly competent, but did not intervene in playing matters. Scott reckoned that Mullen had lonely times in the absence of the man outside the team who might have acted as confidant and adviser.
The Lions, though fondly recalled in New Zealand for their attacking play, culminating in Ken Joness brilliant try in the final Test, went down 3-0 in the four match series against an All Black team who put ferocious Otago-style forward play into ruthless action. While loaded with responsibility Mullen did not have complete power and was instructed before the tour that the Lions should play an open game. He later recalled, If I had had my way we might have played differentlyI was used to Irish rugby and that meant playing it tight. Here we were committed to a type of stuff which the Barbarians produce. It was very popular, but I feel that it cost us the series, or at least the share of the spoils.
Playing it tight produced another Irish title - the third in four seasons - in 1951, but Mullen lost the captaincy to Des OBrien for the following season and was dropped for the last match of the 1952 campaign. Not long 25, and with the same number of caps, that was it for his international career as medicine - specialising in gynaecology - took him to England for a while.
Irelands second Grand Slam, 61 years after the first, and the selection of yet another Irishman as Lions captain brought his name back into the media in the final weeks of his life. Some life indeed, and one that deserves to be long remembered.
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Are you familiar with the coonhound Maddie? She stands on things. That's all. She's famous because she stands on things. But not just any things, but more like everything. She stands between two refrigerator doors, she stands on a basketball hoop (!!), she stands on the McDonald's "M", and sometimes she just sleeps…and looks totally adorable while doing so. I might be a little obsessed. Just a little.
I realized this yesterday when I was walking, talking and gushing to a friend all about Maddie…like I knew her. I'm totally emotionally invested in this creature I've never petted, seen or met in real life. The internet is SO WEIRD. So weird…and kewl.
I urge you to hop over to Maddie's world and just stare at how awesome she is. And then come back because I have burrata which is–in my opinion–just as obsession-worthy as Maddie.
I loooove eating appetizers for a main meal.
These are a recreation of what I had the other day at my favorite LA coffee shop, Coffee Commissary. I literally changed nothing because the crostini was absolutely perfect.
I mean…there's burrata. The end.
These crostinis are super easy, obvi, but there are a few steps like charring and then roasting the peppers. Super easy and it doesn't take long. Then there's the balsamic reduction, which just needs to heat up a bit to thicken. And the toasting of the pine nuts. So necessary. And the toasting of the bread. Double necessary.
The crunchy toasted bread acts is so lovely with the soft, rich burrata. And the roasted, slightly charred red peppers…whoa! I know pine nuts are expensive/annoying so I urge you to take a trip to Whole Foods where you can buy them in the bulk bin. You might spend $1 versus the usual $12 they are for a bag. This recipe is a good amount of little steps. But all so so worth it.
Roasted Red Pepper Burrata Crostini
1 red bell pepper
1 yellow bell pepper
Salt and Pepper
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
1 loaf of French bread, sliced into 1 1/2-inch pieces
6 ounces burrata
1 bunch fresh Italian basil, sliced (a.k.a. chiffoned)
1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted in a pan for 1-2 minutes
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Place the red and yellow pepper on the grates of your gas stove. Turn the flame on medium, rotating the peppers every few 30 seconds or so, until the peppers are lightly charred. Carefully transfer the peppers to a cutting board, and using a knife, cut them into strips, discarding the membrane and stem. Place the pepper strips on a lined baking sheet and season with salt and pepper. Transfer peppers to the oven for 15 minutes, until the strips are slightly soft.
2. Meanwhile, add the balsamic vinegar to a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 5-7 minutes, and until it begins to thicken. Take off the heat and transfer to a small bowl–it'll thicken a bit more as it sits.
3. Heat a grill pan over high heat and brush it liberally with olive oil. (If you don't have a grill pan, you can simply use a skillet–the bread will still toast.) When hot, add the bread and toast on each side for about 1 minute or so, pressing each side down onto the grill in order to achieve those pretty grill marks.
4. To assemble crostinis, rub each piece of bread vigorously with garlic, top with a teaspoon of burrata, add two pieces of bell pepper, a few slices of basil, a few toasted pine nuts and lastly, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar reduction. Repeat until all of the crostinis are assembled. Serve right away, obvi.


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Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
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A warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, which serves a diverse multicultural demographic. Unraveling the financial, ethical, technological, sociological, and cultural challenges encountered every day, bestselling author Julie Salamon tracks the individuals who make this complex hospital run - from doctors, patients, and administrators to nurses, ambulance drivers, cooks, and cleaners. Drawing on her skills as an award-winning interviewer, observer, and social critic, Salamon reveals the dynamic universe of small and large concerns and personalities that, taken together, determine the nature of care in America.
Published Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 363
Size: 8.46" l x 5.48" w x 0.91" h
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Super filmi week: Rishi Kapoor's page-turning debut!
Read about Rishi Kapoor's page-turning debut, SRK's shrewd turn in Raees, Sridevi as a potential Dhoom vamp, Sanjay Dutt's contribution to Andaz Apna Apna and more in my super-filmi week. Monday Week after week, in a process that is terribly mechanical and monotonous, movie stars dash from one … Continue reading


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Gawker's uncovered a pretty devious plan of Anonymous to wage war in its Megaupload retaliation—tricking Twitter users into firing the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. But what the hell is that? Giz explains.
Our Gawker brother Adrian Chen explains:
Anonymous members are distributing a link that ropes internet users into an illegal DDoS attack against these websites simply by clicking it.
The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic.
The result? You're helping Anonymous take down sites. And how did the original LOIC work?
LOIC basically turns your computer's network connection into a firehose of garbage requests, directed towards a target web server. On its own, one computer rarely generates enough TCP, UDP, or HTTP requests at once to overwhelm a web server-garbage requests can easily ignored while legit requests for web pages are responded to as normal.
But when thousands of users run LOIC at once, the wave of requests become overwhelming, often shutting a web server (or one of its connected machines, like a database server) down completely, or preventing legitimate requests from being answered.
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La Casa Senior Center
1120 Cameo St., Clovis
Monday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities quilting and sewing
Tuesday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities quilting and sewing; 10:30 a.m., Indoor exercise; 1 p.m., Bingo and refreshments.
Wednesday: 8-10:30 a.m., Free blood sugar and blood pressure check; 10:30 a.m., indoor exercise; 1 p.m., Bingo and refreshments.
Thursday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities; 10:30 a.m., Indoor exercise; 1 p.m., lotteria and refreshments.
Friday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily activities; 1 p.m., Music jam, La Casa Senior Center.
Daily activities: Daily coffee and socializing, exercise equipment, 8-ball, 9-ball, computer and Internet, craft, ceramics, quilting, embroidery, puzzles, card games, board games and massage therapy chairs.
Friendship Senior Center
901 West 13th St., Clovis
Sunday: 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Randy and company Spanish Dance, bring a finger food.Monday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards/crafts, 8-ball pool; 1 p.m. pinochle.
Tuesday: 8 a.m. Hobbs trip; 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards/crafts; 8-ball pool
Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. garage sale; 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards/crafts, 8-ball pool; 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Mexican Train
Thursday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee klatch, ceramics, cards/crafts , 8-ball pool.
Friday: 9-11 a.m., Coffee Klatch, ceramics/cards; 1-3 p.m., Bingo.
Daily: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Pool.
Baxter Curren Senior Center
908 Hickory, Clovis
Monday: 10 a.m. jewelry pals, exercise equipment; 1 p.m. line dance, 8-ball pool; 5 p.m. social night.
Tuesday: 8 a.m., quilting; 8-5 p.m., exercise equipment; 1 p.m. pinochle, 8-ball pool; 6 p.m., jam session.
Wednesday: 8-5 p.m., Exercise equipment, 9 a.m., Tai Chi; 10 a.m., Crafts; 8-ball pool
Thursday: Blood pressure checks; 8 a.m., Breakfast: Bacon and pancakes. $2; 8:45 a.m. board meeting 1 p.m., bingo; 1-5 p.m.; 8-ball pool; 6 p.m., Line dance.
Friday: 9 a.m., Tai-Chi; 10 a.m., Needle gang; 1 p.m. commission for the blind; 7-9:30 p.m., Friday Night Dance.
Community Services Center
1100 Community Way, Portales
Monday: Baked ham, spinach, sweet potato, cornbread and margarine, cottage cheese and pineapple.
Tuesday: Taco soup, salad and dressing, flour tortilla and salsa, gelatin, apricots.
Wednesday: Baked fish, parsley potatoes, creamy coleslaw, wheat bread, chocolate pudding with toppings.
Thursday: Chicken and rice, broccoli, peas and carrots, potluck roll and margarine and oatmeal cookie.
Friday: Salmon patty, baked potato and margarine, hominy/spinach, wheat bread and chocolate pie.
Portales Senior Center
421 N. Industrial Dr., Portales
Monday: 8 a.m.-9 a.m., Exercise; 9 a.m. to noon crafts/ceramics; 6 p.m., Twisted Sisters; Games all day.
Tuesday: 9 a.m.-noon, quilting; 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.bridge; 7 p.m. Starlight Square Dancers; games all day.
Wednesday: 8-9 a.m. exercise; Games all day; 1-2 p.m., line dancing.
Thursday: Noon potluck — build your own tacos; Games all day.
Friday: 8 a.m. exercise, games all day; 9 a.m. Clovis bus trip — $3.
Saturday: 7 p.m. -10 p.m., Dance to a live band.
Daily: Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. with games (cards, Mexican trains, dominoes, etc.); Free high-speed Internet; free library; ceramics.


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Manila, August 2, 2016 – Pursuant to Section 5 of Republic Act No. 8981, otherwise known as the "PRC Modernization Act of 2000", Section 7(a) of Republic Act No. 8981 and Resolution No. 2013-774, Series of 2013 entitled "Revised Guidelines on the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program for all Registered and Licensed Professional, the Professional Regulation Commission, after a series of consultations and meetings, amended some of the provisions of the said guidelines in order to strengthen and enhance its implementation of effective August 5, 2016.
Amendment to the Revised Guidelines on the CPD Program includes the following:
Section 5 of Section 2: Creation and Composition of CPD Council - Every CPDC shall be composed of a Chairperson and two (2) members. The Chairperson of the CPDC shall be the Chairperson or a member of the PRC so chosen by the PRC concerned to sit in The CPDC. The first member shall be the president or any representative duly authorized by the Accredited Integrated Professional Organization (AIPO). The second member shall be the president or any representative duly authorized by the organization of deans or department heads of schools, colleges or universities offering the course requiring licensure examination.
1.) Section 12 of Section 3: Operational Protocol
1. Specific date/s of regular monthly meeting/s.
2. Provide a list of additional requirements for accreditation as CPD provider and CPD program which are necessary for the development of their profession but not stated in the CPD guidelines.
3. Provide guidelines for crediting various types of self – directed and/or lifelong learning activities.
2.) Section 14 of Section 4: Qualifications for Accreditation of CPD Providers
A. Local CPD Provider
1. Individual/Sole Proprietor
1.1 A registered and licensed professional of good standing.
1.2 Non – conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude.
1.3 Registered entity with the Department of Trade and Industry and the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
1.4 As may be required by the CPD Council.
2. Firms/Partnership/Corporation
2.1 A duly registered partnership, corporation, institution or organization.
2.2 The Articles of Incorporation/ Partnership includes as one of its purposes the training and development of professional.
2.3 Duly registered with the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or other pertinent government bodies.
2.4 As may be required by the CPD Council.
3. Government Institutions/ Agencies
3.1 Any government institution/ agency with mandate or program on CPD for professionals.
3.2 As may be required by the CPD Council.
B. Foreign CPD Providers
1. Foreign Entity/ Firm/ Association
1.1 A duly registered entity, firm or association in the country/ state of the applicant which intends to provide CPD program.
1.2 Articles of Incorporation/Partnership/Creation or its equivalent, which includes as one of its purposes, the training and development of professionals.
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For those of you who grew up with such classics as Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears A Who, these World War II editorial cartoons by Theodor Geisel may take you by surprise. This wasn't a dalliance for Seuss either — the illustrator was a prolific newspaper contributor during the early 1940s.
One does not expect to see the whimsical style of Dr. Seuss applied to real wartime figures. Indeed, you will never see Joseph Stalin's bear robot and Adolf Hitler's flying dachshund receive their own Christmas specials or starring songs in Seussical.
The University of California, San Diego's Dr. Seuss Collection contains a wealth of obscure work and ephemera doodled by the Cat in the Hat author throughout his career, such as his advertising artwork. (This spot for Standard Oil is mildly chilling.) Another collection at UCSD catalogs the artist's prodigious wartime output:
Because of the fame of his children's books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist. But for two years, 1941-1943, he was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM (1940-1948), and for that journal he drew over 400 editorial cartoons.
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Why Immigration Reform Won't Help the GOP Win Over Hispanic Voters
Republican skepticism of government overall, not the party's stance on borders, alienates the growing demographic.
Leading Republicans are jumping on the immigration reform bandwagon, hoping that taking the issue off the table will give them a second chance to make inroads with Hispanic voters. But even with a bipartisan deal looking within reach, the Republican party may not benefit as much as strategists expect.
Indeed, there's evidence that Hispanic resistance to the Republican Party is as rooted in the GOP's skeptical view of government, as it is their disagreement with GOP hardliners on immigration. The Republican Party calls for smaller government, but many Latinos look to government assistance as a necessity. Forty-two percent of Hispanic voters say that a government job offers the best chance of gaining career success, compared to only one-third of white voters, according to a June Allstate/National Journal/Heartland Monitor poll.
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"Our argument about limited government is always harder to sell than a government program," Florida Senator Marco Rubio told Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday. "It always has been. It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to someone, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government."
That's the argument Republicans are banking on. Texas Senator Ted Cruz made a similar pitch this weekend, saying that Hispanic voters should be a natural constituency for Republicans because 2.3 million of them own small businesses, and polls show that the economy, not immigration, is their top concern.
But attitudes about the government are not the only area where the GOP and Hispanics diverge. Asked whether they trusted President Obama and Democrats or Mitt Romney and Republicans on the economy, 71 percent of Latino voters preferred the president, according to a November Latino Decisions poll. The president polled similarly well on a host of questions, including women's issues and foreign policy.
"I think Republicans are going to have to come up with a comprehensive plan for appealing to Hispanic voters," said one former GOP leadership aide. "Immigration is not going to solve the issue for them, but it will help."
So far that plan consists of talking about messaging. While Republicans acknowledge there's a communications gap with Hispanic voters, the strategy for repairing it remains murky. Many conservatives say it's time to retire language that could be viewed as nativist or racially insensitive. A document released Tuesday by the Hispanic Leadership Network, a Republican outreach group, offers advice to conservatives in how to talk about immigration without using language that may inadvertently offend Hispanics.
"I think there are some in the movement who portray immigration as a potential threat to the fabric of the culture," said former Democratic representative-turned-Republican Artur Davis in an interview. "A Latino hears that. That doesn't sound the way you want it to sound and it raises all kinds of red flags."
Given the longstanding divide between Hispanics and the GOP on immigration, it's hard to imagine all the damage will be resolved with one bipartisan reform bill. In California, Republicans did irreparable damage to their relationship with the state's sizable Hispanic population after former GOP Gov. Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187 in 1994 that prohibited illegal immigrants from using government services.
"If the only time you talked to your wife was on an issue you disagreed about how good would your relationship be?" asked California Republican party chairman Tom Del Beccaro said. "Republicans need to talk to them about all the issues they care about."


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What do you think is easier to hack? The DNC or a homebrewn secret server stored in a bathroom closet that doesn't even have any damn security???
The phrase "no brainer" ought to come to mind.
Just remember, the Russians didn't get their hands on the Republican National Convention emails; they got their hands on the Democrats. And the Democrats are actually trying to blame their stunning incompetence on Donald TRUMP???
The DNC has been handled in a stunningly and embarrassingly incompetent manner for the last year and a half. And they have been revealed to be so beyond corrupt it is beyond unreal. And that stunningly embarrassing incompetence and that staggering corruption just got EXPOSED.
It was a joke to watch DNC Chairwoman Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz get BOOED by her OWN FLORIDA DELEGATION.
And that kind of disgusting failure to do a damn thing right ought to be rewarded: so Hillary is actually giving Debbie a JOB in her crooked and corrupt campaign. Because staggering incompetent and corrupt birds flock together.
You want to talk about two hideously overrated individuals; the ONLY thing EITHER of them is good at is incompetence and corruption.
The Democrat Party just got proven to be the party of incompetence and corruption just as Hillary just recently got proven to be the candidate of incompetence and corruption.
Just wanting to make sure you understand: the same Wikileaks that is leacking the DNC emails HAS HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAILS.
The question is what came first, the corrupt Hillary chicken or the corrupt Hillary egg??? Hey, dumbasses, the SAME Wikileaks that hacked Hillary's secret server is the SAME Wikileaks that hacked Hillary's DNC. And the common denominator to both hacks is named "Hillary":
WikiLeaks Promises More Email Dumps Featuring Hillary Clinton
Katie Pavlich
Posted: Jul 25, 2016 12:30 PM
We're just hours away from the gaveling in of the 2016 Democrat Convention in Philadelphia and the Democrat Party is in chaos after WikiLeaks exposed DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for anti-Bernie Sanders bias during the primary. Wasserman-Schultz announced yesterday she will resign from her post as the head of the DNC when the convention ends Thursday and will promptly join the Clinton campaign.
But the damage WikiLeaks has done to Democrats so far isn't over. According to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the website will publish more hacked emails and this time, they'll be about Hillary Clinton and her ongoing private email server scandal.
Julian Assange has made an incredible statement in an interview with ITV. Assange says that Wikileaks, the infamous whistle-blowing website, will soon be publishing documents that contain "enough evidence" for the Department of Justice to indict Hillary Clinton, the expected Democratic nominee.
Team Clinton and the DNC have been in damage control for more than 24 hours now and are blaming the WikiLeaks hack on the Russians, saying it was an attack from President Vladimer Putin on Hillary Clinton in an effort to sabotage her campaign.
[Katie Pavlich left it this way, tweeting:]
So, the Russians hacked the DNC emails and team Hillary wants us to believe they didn't do the same with her private server? LOL #DNCinPHL
The Hillary line is that Russia did this to help Donald Trump. Because Hillary is the next term of Obama, and everybody knows that Obama has just mopped the floor with Russia. Oh, wait, it's the other way around and Putin has so mopped planet earth with Barack Obama's face it's beyond pathetic kind of the way that Pluto is beyond Earth in the solar system. The simple fact that all intelligent life understands is that the Russians would have gleefully done this to any idiot fool enough to install an unauthorized secret server and not bother to install security on it and then put all kinds of THE most classified material imaginable on it and then use that same system the Russians obviously hacked to email the bigwigs of that idiot's national convention.


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Earlier this semester in my Multivariable Calculus course we were discussing the second derivative test. Recall the pesky condition that if is a critical point and , then the test fails.
A student emailed me after class and asked the following question. Suppose a function has a critical point at and . Moreover, suppose that as we approach along we have when and when . Is that enough to say that the critical point is a not a maximum or a minimum? His thought process was that if we look at slices we get curves that are concave up when and curves that are concave down when —surely that could not happen at a maximum or minimum.
I understood his intuition, but I was skeptical. Indeed, after a little playing around I came up with the following counterexample. The function is
The first partial derivatives are
Clearly is a critical point. The second partial derivatives are
Thus . So the second derivative test fails. But observe that when we have
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The Big Thompson River has become a new beast since the September floods, and with the changes and devastation to property in the floodplain, a coalition has formed to assess the damage and come up with a master plan for restoration.
The Big Thompson River Restoration Coalition, sponsored and headed by Wildlands Restoration Volunteers along with various nonprofits, government agencies and community members, held an informational meeting Sunday evening at the Thompson School District Administration Building, with around 50 landowners and interested parties in attendance.
"We were asked a few weeks back to bring together residents, nonprofits, government agencies to work together. We have had experience with the High Park fire and other restoration projects," said the coalition's coordinator, John Giordanengo of Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, to the gathered landowners.
When asked at the meeting what the coalition's definition of "restoration" is and what it would mean to the property owners, he explained the necessity of protecting infrastructures like bridges, roads and buildings both from current and future conditions.
He also suggested it eventually would be defined by the landowners themselves.
The coalition seeks to figure out the needs of the people and the ecology affected by the river and to bring that information to organizations that will make restorative efforts based on the data gathered and the wishes of the citizens affected.
The issues at hand include: fishing and the fish population, riverbank protection, habitat restoration, infrastructure, ditches and diversions, access for recreation and businesses and individual property.
"It's hard to take one element of this discussion without addressing the rest of them, which mostly has to do with the fluid, dynamic nature of rivers," Giordanengo said. "Anything you do on your property affects your neighbors upstream and downstream."
There are permits and procedures that must be followed in order for property owners or contractors, whether hired privately, by the city or the coalition, to make physical changes to the river.
To do an assessment within the legal guidelines the coalition will need permission to go onto private property and Giordanengo encouraged landowners to file a consent form.
"We would like to have the rapid assessment done in two weeks, he said, stressing a non-invasive policy. "But we cannot make one more step until we get your permission."
"The permissions do not require landowners to do anything, it simply allows for a coordinated effort for restoration," he added.
Some landowners had concerns about any rights they might be giving up with the permission form, but were assured no property rights are being waived. There is also a questionnaire to see what concerns the landowners have, with special attention paid to those with first-hand experience with the 1976 flooding.
"It's not moving fast enough," said Debbie Tesoriero, who said her property on Westridge Drive, west of Loveland, sustained significant damage. "It's still early in the process and it won't happen when we want it to."
Tesoriero and her neighbor Jodette Collins attended the meeting and both relayed this sentiment, but said they have confidence in the coalition and its efforts to expedite the recovery process.
Zack Shelley of the Big Thompson Watershed Forum said they are "shooting to get out in the field on Saturday" to begin assessment of water quality. With resources running scarce, trained volunteers will do much of the data gathering.
Step one in the coalition's vision will be the short-term restoration of important infrastructure. Step two is to form a master plan, which according to Giordanengo, could take as long as six months.
The current stage in the coalition's process is mainly information gathering, coordination and fund-raising.
The partners of the coalition have been working to put together a budget and apply for grants from federal and state entities such as Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assess the damage and future risks and make plans for restoration.
Since the budget has yet to be finalized, Giordanengo was unable to give an exact figure of the grants whose deadlines are as early as Wednesday, but offered an approximation of more than $250,000.
"We're working on a very short timeline for grants. … There is a tremendous amount of resources needed for restoration," Giordanengo said. "We're going to need funding beyond the grants that are available."
Chris Carlson, civil engineer for the Public Works Department for the city of Loveland, listed the agencies the city contacted to see where the responsibility of returning property, both private and public, to its original state lies.
"Actually doing the work, getting the permits … that's up to us," Carlson said, adding she hopes some of the agencies like FEMA will be able to offer resources. "Recovery is challenging. We need to work together to get things back where we want them."
There will continue to be shareholder meetings with landowners as well as meetings between the coalition partners. For details, contact Giordanengo at 493-2075 or .
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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Atlantic Coast Conference has filed a lawsuit against Maryland seeking full payment of the $50 million exit fee for announcing a move to the Big Ten.
The Guilford County Superior Court clerk's office said the lawsuit was filed there Monday.
In a statement, Commissioner John Swofford says the ACC's council of presidents unanimously decided "to file legal action to ensure enforcement of this obligation."
The league raised its exit fee to $50 million in September after adding Notre Dame in all sports except football. Maryland was one of two schools that voted against the increased exit fee.


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Menzel, Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von ä´dôlf frē´drĭkh ĕrt´män fən mĕn´tsəl [key], 1815–1905, German painter and illustrator. Self-taught, Menzel made lithographic illustrations for Goethe's Künstlers Erdenwallen, which attracted attention. His 400 designs for woodblocks illustrating Kugler's History of Frederick the Great (1840–42) established his reputation and gave a stimulus to German wood engraving. While best known for historical paintings, he sketched scenes from nature related to impressionism in style. His work is best represented in museums in Berlin, London, and Cambridge, Mass.
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In response to the growing behavioral health crisis facing Pierce County, Councilmembers Connie Ladenburg and Derek Young have introduced a resolution calling for an audit of the County's mental health resources.
"We know that we have a mental health crisis in our community that is not currently being addressed by existing efforts. An audit would allow the Council to determine its role in responding to this crisis and to make informed decisions about a comprehensive approach to providing needed services," said Ladenburg, who represents the 4th Council District. "The County has to stop ignoring this problem and blaming others for not stepping up. It is all of our responsibility to care for those who are least able to care for themselves."
R2015-91 calls for a comprehensive audit of Pierce County's behavioral health system in order to identify gaps in service, where investments would be appropriate and what success should look like.
"Everyone I've spoken with in either the health care or law enforcement fields agrees that something needs to be done to get the problem under control. This is the first step toward reaching a solution that will ultimately save lives," said Young, who represents the County's 7th Council District. "I believe we have a moral obligation to help people suffering from mental illness, but it's also in the County's financial best interest. This crisis is straining public and private resources from hospitals, social services and even the jail."
"When I took this job, I made a commitment to find solutions to this crisis," Young added, "and by spring I intend to have a plan ready for action."
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I was just browsing Google Zeitgeist 2011, and noticed that 7 out of top 10 movie searches in Turkey were sequels. I thought, "ah, shame on the Turks, for not rewarding originality". Then I made my way to the list top grossing movies globally, and immediately apologized from my fellow Turks: All but two of the global list are sequels. In fact, the top seven are all sequels!
Thinking of this phenomenon reminded to a popular topic in internet ventures. In our industry, adaptation of successful, proven business models, in new markets or verticals is often scorned. Entrepreneurs are chastised for their lack of originality and innovation.
I think there's a key difference between sequels and internet clones. Film is a creative industry. Formulaic churning of unoriginal content in a creative industry may very well be a strategic business choice by content companies, and while it may make business sense, it certainly erodes value from the "creative" industry.
In my opinion, internet businesses have no obligation to be creative. Their objective is value creation: preferably, defensible, sustainable, "thick" value. There may be a thousand eBay clones around the world, but if each marketplace is reducing commercial friction among buyers and sellers, then each of the one thousand clones is creating value.
Anyway, food for thought…
Here's the sappy Google Zeitgeist clip: