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Friday, March 28, 2003
Rams' newly-acquired T Kyle Turley arrived in St. Louis late Thursday evening and spoke with the local media Friday morning. 'Now that I'm playing in St. Louis for the Rams,' said Turley. 'I'm gonna give as much as I ever gave to New Orleans for this city and this team.'
Did you get to meet any of your new teammates today? And if so, what was their reaction?
Yeah, that's the other weird thing. Because it was such a rivalry that we had with St. Louis down there in New Orleans, it's just like I said, sinking in slowly but surely. I ran into Grant (Wistrom) and Leonard Little down there, I'm friends with both of those guys. We all came out in 1998 in the draft. Leonard and I were in the Senior Bowl together, on the same team, and Grant and I trained together down in Florida prior to the draft. We were both saying that we're looking forward to working out together because we were never in as good of shape when we were training together. Ran into Kurt down there in the weightroom it's gonna be a good fit. I'm excited to say the least.
Do you have to change your mind in that old rivalry between the Saints and Rams?
Yeah, that was a great rivalry, it really was. New Orleans and St. Louis, it really was. And that's where you had all the banter, back and forth things being said, and that was in just a complete competitive arena. The Rams were the team to beat in our division. You guys had gone to the Super Bowl and all those different things, and we had a potential team to make it to that level too, so it was a strong fight that we always fought against each other. It was a great rivalry to say the least. But I'm looking forward to playing in the NFC West again, playing the teams on the West coast so then I get to see my daughter a little bit more, my family a little bit more, so it'll be a good experience for me.
Did it impress you that Martz was so excited to get you even though the rivalry was so intense and things were said back and forth?
Yeah, definitely. When I first heard that the Rams were one of the teams at the top of the list of teams wanting to make the trade, I was like 'No, there's no way this could be with all the things that have gone back and forth.' I didn't know how well received I would be up here. But you know what? When I sat down with Coach Martz like I talked about, it was just a great conversation and we both were on the same page. The things that had been said were in a complete competitive nature in that rivalry atmosphere. I can't say that I regret any of the things I said about this organization, because that's when I was playing for New Orleans. Now that I'm playing in St. Louis for the Rams, I'm gonna give as much as I ever gave to New Orleans for this city and this team.
Talk about when you threw the helmet against the New York Jets in 2001:
It was a dramatic moment, obviously. There were things I definitely could have done better, but it was a heat of the moment kind of thing. I do things in life, I go about life with my head on my shoulders feeling that it's in the right place. The event presented itself and I did what I did and I can't take anything back, and I have regrets in certain cases, but the overall motivation behind what happened there, I have no regrets about. The press I received there was a lot of positive, there was a lot of negative, and everybody's gonna make up their own opinion between my tattoos and long hair or what not, but I know one thing. I go out there and I play football. If people want to relate my personality on the field to what's off the field, it's the furthest thing from it. I have a lot of different things to offer the real world other than my combative nature on the football field that is a completely different personality.
Have you thought about the strength of this offensive line with yourself, Orlando Pace, Adam Timmerman, etc.?
Oh yeah. If they can redo Pace (contract) and get those things worked out, it'll be as good as an offensive line that I've ever played on with Willie (Roaf) and myself. It was a tremendous opportunity to play with such a talented offensive line down there, and if we can keep the key guys around here, there should be no reason that Marshall (Faulk) can't get as many yards as he wants and Kurt (Warner) can't throw for as many. So I'm excited about it, I really am. Hopefully they can keep guys like Pace and Ernie Conwell around, and those things that can done. If it presents itself that I must play left tackle, I feel I proved myself to be able play it at a caliber as well as anything in the National Football League last year. But either way, if I'm at right tackle and Pace is at left, that's gonna be quite a tandem.
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In a late night session, the Alabama House of Representatives passed a school safety bill that will allow city and county school systems to hire armed school security officers.
The bill by Republican Sen. Dick Brewbaker of Montgomery was crafted in response to the Sandy Hook school shootings. The House approved it 97-3.
Some schools now have armed officers, but they are supplied by the local sheriff's department or police department. The bill allows school systems to use their own money to hire officers who must be trained for the school setting. There was no budget appropriation for hiring officers.
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The Seahawks will be without wide receiver Sidney Rice this week after Rice tore his ACL in Monday night's narrow victory over the Rams.
They won't have Percy Harvin either. The much anticipated return of Harvin from offseason hip surgery has been put off a little bit longer. Coach Pete Carroll made the announcement during an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio on Thursday.
"Percy won't play this week," Carroll said. "He's getting close but not close enough."
Harvin hasn't practiced this week after reportedly suffering a setback in practice last week. Carroll's comments suggest that there's a chance that Harvin will be able to play in Week 10 against the Falcons, but, then, it looked like he had a good shot of playing against the Buccaneers as well.
With Harvin out, Doug Baldwin and Golden Tate will be the top receivers in the lineup on Sunday with Jermaine Kearse, Bryan Walters and Ricardo Lockette in reserve.


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- Katherine McMillan wanted stylish shoes without the frills, so started making her own
- She's designing for women who blur the line between masculine and feminine
- Tomboy style is no longer a passing fad, "Tomboy Style" blogger says
- Some say the term tomboy is outdated
All Katherine McMillan wanted in a shoe was style and comfort without the frilly bows or flowers.
She's a working mother who tends to buy men's shirts in small sizes and prefers the kinds of casual shoes made for men -- desert boots, moccasins, chukkas. She'll take a pair of shoes or a jacket in olive green or navy blue over lavender or aqua any day.
"I think a lot of my friends would agree that we don't want to look like an Easter egg when we go out," said McMillan, who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm all for feeling like a girly-girl but there are ways to do it without being a French poodle."
Don't get her wrong, she likes high heels and dresses, but not in pink. So when she couldn't find a pair of shoes she liked, she decided to make her own.
Hers are desert boots, moccasins and chukkas made of leather and suede with a kelly green lining to distinguish them from what the guys wear. She launched her made-to-order collection in fall 2011 under the name Mrs. P. Hicks, a nod to Pierrepont Hicks, the successful menswear accessories brand she and her husband, Mark McMillan, created in 2009.
He runs the business while she is the creative force behind Pierrepont Hicks' collection of neckties, pocket squares and bow ties, which has earned a devoted cult following among menswear bloggers and the people who read them. For Mrs. P. Hicks, McMillan is designing for women who blur the line between masculine and feminine, who gravitate toward styles traditionally associated with men: flat shoes with wide lasts, unembellished blouses and button-up shirts, unstructured sweaters and blazers, jeans and pants lacking unnecessary studs, embroidery or whiskering.
"It's tomboy style, but that doesn't mean it's not feminine or sexy," McMillan said. "I think you feel sexy and stylish when you're wearing something you're comfortable in."
These looks have always been around, cycling in and out with the seasons, but the latest signs show they're more than just a momentary fad. Women are looking for shoes, shirts, even neckties that fit them better than their boyfriend's clothes. Also, brands are popping up to meet those demands, from the artisanal approach of Mrs. P. Hicks to mass-market retailers like Madewell and J. Crew, which have been widely credited with giving "tomboy" fashion broad appeal.
It's easy to forget the time before J. Crew or "boyfriend shirts," times when "nice girls" didn't leave home in pants. Katharine Hepburn and Diane Keaton were trailblazers, female fashion icons whose neckties and pants drew stares.
Modern style mavens Alexa Chung and Jenna Lyons show "tomboy chic" is more than a passing fashion, said Lizzie Garrett Mettler, creator of the popular "Tomboy Style" blog. Just as modern American women have won the right to vote and compete for the same jobs as men, it's nothing special for them to dress up in jeans or don a blazer.
A tomboy is more than a girl in boy's clothing, Mettler says in her blog; it's someone with an "inherent sense of confidence, rebelliousness and adventure." It's part style, part substance.
As brands continue to adapt traditionally masculine styles for the female form, "the new statement on tomboy style is that it's here to stay," said Mettler, author of the 2012 book "Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion."
Designer Sadie Beaudet was also drawn to menswear, but she didn't like the boxy fit on her body. She also didn't like how women's fashion was pulled from the racks one season and tossed a few months later, while menswear often had a timeless quality that never fell out of season.
With her fiance, she started Tradlands, a line of tailored women's shirts that incorporate masculine features, she said. It's a small collection of eight button-up shirts with a higher collar that doesn't necessarily lend itself to an exposed collarbone; the shirts have side gusset detail typically found in the workwear of the 1940s for reinforcement and brass snaps. All of their shirts are made in San Francisco, using denim and cotton sourced from the United States.
"We're trying to walk that line with a dash of feminism in the fit but clearly masculine in the details," she said.
Even the necktie is getting a feminine overhaul. What makes a lady tie? The fabric and the width, naturally, said Nashville designer Otis James.
His hand-stitched ties have earned him nods from publications like GQ and Garden and Gun. When the 29-year-old designer realized that many of his customers were women buying for their significant others, he decided to start creating products they might want for themselves.
"I'm hoping maybe they'll bring in more single women," James said, mostly joking, in an interview in his Marathon Village studio last month. "I think there's definitely a market for them."
Not everybody is comfortable with the word "tomboy." Some say the spirit of progressiveness has rendered the term archaic.
When Carmela Spinelli hears the word "tomboy," a particular look comes to mind: Strong, independent, rebellious. But the chairwoman of the fashion and accessories design department at the Savannah College of Art and Design said the description might need an update.
"To use a term that includes the word 'boy' to describe a state of independence and free-thinking for women seems kind of backward," Spinelli said. "The boundaries have changed. Women are strong and independent and have no sense of preciousness, so why would you use a term like tomboy to describe that?"
Perhaps it's because of the style's close ties to menswear. McMillan's Pierrepont Hicks is better-known, but Mrs. P. Hicks is her passion project. (Plus, she gets to keep the samples, she said.)
From the start, McMillan and her husband decided to keep their products made in the United States. That wasn't hard to do with neckties and pocket square, but it proved much more difficult for women's shoes, because so few manufacturers were equipped to do what she had dreamed up.
McMillan ultimately partnered with Maine-based mens' shoe maker Rancourt and Co., one of few shoemakers in the United States who specialize in classic men's styles similar to the ones she wanted. For her moccasins, she found another family-owned business in rural Minnesota.
With Mrs. P. Hicks approaching the two-year mark, McMillan said she has finally hit a groove and found a market.
"We even get orders from men now," she said. "They say they like the green interior."


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My family deserves a big pat on the back today. Would you like to see what my kitchen table looked like all day? Be prepared for a shocker. I'm talking, like, the ULTIMATE craft mess here. It totally looks like the craft fairy came and vomited all over my kitchen. I've numbered everything I've done at this table today.
1. I sewed throw pillows for the living room makeover I'm in the middle of. Here's a teaser...
3. VINYL!!! My husband FINALLLLY let me get a Silhouette! I can now die happy. So, I made some fun stuff today, but I'll save that for a later post. :)
4. My phone. My family is in Utah for Spring Break. *sniff sniff* Eating at Cafe Rio...and Pizza Factory...and drinking apple beer (it's non alcoholic), going to Downeast, and Tai Pan...and having fun with my brother at BYU without me. So sad. So I talked to my mom a few times today.
5. Mounting tape, for another Silhouette project...which I'll also show later!
It was a FABULOUS day of listening to General Conference sessions (SOOOO GOOOD!), making crafts, bike rides with the kids, watering the lawn, watering my parent's plants (and fake plants...shhhhh!) and baking some chocolate cookies for the Hubbs to eat when he came home from the Preisthood session to lighten the blow of seeing the kitchen table disaster.


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Code & Make with the BBC micro:bit on PC, Mac, Chromebooks, iPad, Android --> https://makecode.microbit.org/, the online editor
The BBC micro:bit is a powerful, fully programmable, computer designed by the BBC and a number of partners to encourage children to get actively involved in writing software and building new things that will be controlled by it.
For Project ideas, Training materials, FAQ: click here >>> to open or close this section (if not working, please refresh the page) 請點擊此>>>開啟或關閉此段落 以登入官網上的 micro:bit 活動, 培訓課程,教學資源, 常問問題等等:
Click links below to immediately access micro:bit projects on the official website:
點擊以下連結至官方網站上現成的micro:bit 活動
** Besides learning from the projects below, you can also share your projects: Once you've made your project, you can save it in the cloud, share it, or embed it on another website. See details here
- Flashing Heart 心大心細 (show LED)
- Smilely Button 笑臉 (on button pressed)
- Love Meter 心靈相通 (on pin pressed, pick random)
- Rock Paper Scissors 包剪揼 (on shake, set variable, pick random, if then else, game score, show number, show string, pause)
- Magic Button Trick 小魔術 (on button pressed, show string, variable, input - magnetic force, logic, if then else, math, radio)
- Coin Flipper 公定字? (on button pressed, pick random true or false, if then else, show string, show number, game score)
Multiplayer Games
- Fireflies 螢火蟲 (radio, forever, if then else, game score, variable)
- Infection 傳開去 (JavaScript code)
- Hot or Cold 冷定熱 (radio, forever, show icon, variable, show number, Led, if then else, arrays, game score)
- Voting Machine 投票機 (radio, on button pressed, show icon , on start)
- Rock Paper Scissors Teams 隊制包剪揼 (radio, on shake, variable, pick random, if then else, show icon, show number, forever,arrays, logic)
- Hack your headphones 耳筒新搞作
- Banana Keyboard 香蕉鍵盤
- Guitar 結他
- Duct Tape Wallet 牛皮膠銀包
- Watch 手錶 (include count down timer)
- Inchworm 寸步而行
- Milk Carton Robot 牛奶盒機械人
- Milky Monster 牛奶盒怪獸
- Railway Crossing 火車交匯處
- Hacked RC car with Motor Driver Board 遙控車改裝
- Datalogging (New!!)
- Timing Gates 計速裝置
- Soil Moisture 泥土濕度量度
- Plant Watering 自動澆水器
- Reaction Time 反應速度
- Sates of Matter 物質狀態
- Lessons from the UK STEM centre:
- Compass 指南針
- Telegraph 電報機
- Karel the LED 藝術燈飾
Fun Stuff : code only
- Blink 閃動
- Name Tag 名字牌
- Rando 隨機閃動燈
- Game of Life
- Football Score Keeper 足球賽計分器
Actuator : code only
Sensors : code only
Link to the Microsoft 14-week micro:bit lessons - Computer Science (CS) course for age 11-14:
This course is also written for teachers who may not have a Computer Science background, or who may be teaching an "Intro to Computer Science" course for the first time.
這個課程除了適合11-14歲的同學, 也是為電腦編程不是本科的老師而編寫的, 十分值得老師們參考.
Each lesson typically includes - overview, unplugged, activity, project.
- Making
(unplugged: design thinking)
- Algorithms
(activity: tour of the MakeCode editor)
- Variables
- Conditionals (if then, else if)
- Iteration (loops)
- Review/Mini-Project
Click links below to learn all about the micro:bit MakeCode block editor from the "reference" and "blocks" tutorial on the official website :
點擊以下連結至官方網站,逐步學習micro:bit 軟件 - "MakeCode block editor"
** you can use the MakeCode block editor WITHOUT the internet in offline mode. Check details here
Reference: Basic, Input, Music, LED, Radio,
Blocks: On Start, Loops, Logic, Variables,
Types: Number, String, Boolean, Array, Function
Advanced: Function, Text, Game (sprites, score, game control), Images, Pins, Serial, Control
JavaScript blocks, Custom blocks
New! Build your own modular "Function" block
There are also lots of example codes embedded inside the MakeCode block editor tutorials per links above, available for immediate download .
細心留意, 你會發現很多有用的 code 在以上學習課程用作示範,及供直接下載, 例如:
Click links below to access Lessons Topics focusing on specific blocks. All lessons are on the official website.
Each lesson typically includes: activity, quiz, quiz answers, challenges
- Lucky 7 (show number)
- Beautiful Image (show Leds)
- Smiley (show Leds)
- Answering Machine (show string)
- Snowflake Fall (forever)
- Flashing Heart (pause)
- Screen Wipe (clear screen)
- Magic Logo (on logo up)
- Love Meter (on pin pressed)
- Temperature (temperature)
- Zoomer (acceleration)
- Glowing Pendulum (acceleration)
- Charting (acceleration)
- Seismograph (acceleration)
- Looper (for loop)
- Strobe Light (for loop)
- Digi Yoyo (while loop)
- Rotation Animation (while loop)
Logic (if conditionals)
- Counter (variables)
- Catch the Egg (variables)
- Guess the Number (Math - random number)
- Game of Chance (Game)
- Game Counter (Game)
Click links below to learn about the BBC micro:bit hardware : 關於BBC micro:bit 硬件
The micro:bit device (LED screen, buttons, USB connection, Compass, Accelerometer, Pins, Light level, Runtime, powering, serial communication, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Antenna), the pins, the LED screen, Simulator, USB
Important: Click links below to find out steps to transfer your micro:bit file (.hex) from your computer or iPad to the micro:bit
從電腦或iPad將.hex 檔案移至micro:bit 的相關指引
Click this link for full documentation about pairing and flashing the .hex file to the micro:bit from iPad
Download the latest micro:bit App 3.0.1 dated 14 Feb 2018. Significant improvements:
This version now allows the pairing with multiple micro:bits and the storage and management of HEX files within the app.
'Monitor & Control' is a new facility for using Bluetooth services, allowing the monitoring of sensors and the direct transmission of messages to the LEDs and control commands to the output pins
Further Trouble-shooting:
App Inventor 2 IoT + BBC micro:bit
Tutorials on the App Inventor web site:
Links to documentation on App Inventor 2 IoT extension for the BBC micro:bit:
- micro:bit_Accelerometer
- micro:bit_Button
- micro:bit_Io_Pin
- micro:bit_Led
- micro:bit_Magnetometer
- microbit_Temperature
- micro:bit_Uart
Curious about when and how Hong Kong schools started adopting the BBC micro:bit? Wanting to join our BBC micro:bit @ AiTLE-ETC TestBed Programme?
Please click this link
Visit the official BBC micro:bit web site for all support and resources. See BBC micro:bit at school, UK - video clips
Download: BBC micro:bit poster
12 micro:bit models: fischertechnik STEM 2 pack
智能家居/ 社區/ 遊樂場
The BBC micro:bit (2 minutes)
BBC micro:bit at Maker Faire Bay Area
16 minutes interview with CTO and ex-CEO of the micro:bit foundation
The BBC micro:bit , lesson packs and accessories
Gratnells micro:bit SmartCase
Classroom Storage
Storage case to hold 24 BBC micro:bit units,...
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Mobile Cart with Flip out bins - single sided (60 bins)
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Gambling consists of betting on games of chance or uncertain outcomes (like the winner of a sports match or an election). Sometimes the game entails some skill as an attraction, as in poker. Most gambling is informal among friends, as in weekly poker games or in office pools focused on a sports championship.
However the gaming industry is a major tourist-oriented business in Nevada. In recent decades casino gambling has been legalized in many states, in come cases in narrowly specified locales (such as riverboats) or on Indian reservations (which are less subject to state law.)
Lotteries are a common form of gambling, with a small stake being bet for the very low probability of winning a very large amount of money, if the numbers a player chooses are selected by a random number picking device. Lotteries are a major revenue source for governments.
A certain fraction of the population is addicted to gambling and tend to drain family resources on the habit. Stories are common of addicts losing all their money in a single gambling spree. Only Missouri has a gambling loss limit.
In games played against the "house" (for example, in a casino), typically the players will have an expected return of less than 100%. For example, in roulette, in the case of a 0 or 00 result, the money bet goes to the casino. In games against other players (such as poker), the expected return might be 100%, when the players are of equal skill levels (assuming the order of dealing is not important), or certain players might have greater (or lesser) expected returns, if they are better (or worse) players. If all the money stays with the players, then the overall expected return is 100%. If the "house" takes a rake of the money bet, the overall expected return will be less than 100%.
Legality of Gambling
Several times in American history gambling has gone from being illegal, to being legal in many areas, to becoming illegal again. Gambling is typically regulated at the state and local levels, but Congress passed a bill prohibiting internet gambling in 2006.
In 2005, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that "the U.S. had failed to comply with a 2005 final WTO order to change certain laws related to a successful challenge by Antigua of the U.S. ban on Internet gambling. The WTO GATS agreement allows nations to 'take back' service sectors from WTO jurisdiction, but only after compensating trading partners for lost business opportunities."[1]
In response to a request by more than half the states, in 2007 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States gambling sector from jurisdiction under the World Trade Organization, in anticipation of further demands or sanctions by the WTO against American regulation of gambling.[2]
Following passage of UIGEA, former Republican U.S. Senator Al D'Amato joined the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) to lobby for the right of poker players to play online.
Internet gambling
On April 26, 2007, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced HR 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA). The IGREA would modify the UIGEA by providing a provision for licensing of Internet gambling facilities by the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. On June 8, 2007, the House Financial Services Committee, chaired by Rep. Frank, held a hearing entitled, "Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated to Protect Consumers and the Payments System?". Details of the meeting, including the archived webcast, are available on the House Financial Services Committee website[3]. Expert witnesses at the hearing testified that Internet gambling can be effectively regulated for age verification, money laundering issues, facilitation of state and federal tax collection, and for issues relating to compulsive gambling.
On June 7, 2007, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) introduced HR 2610, the Skill Game Protection Act. This act would legalize Internet poker, bridge, mah jong and other games of skill. Also on June 7, 2007, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced H.R. 2607, the Internet Gambling Tax Act. The IGTA would legislate Internet gambling tax collection requirements.
On June 29, 2007, Focus on the Family issued an alert warning[4] of a planned visit to Washington D.C. by a pro-Internet gambling rights group Casino Gambling Web[5]. According to the alert, Casino Gambling Web has collected nearly 5,000 American signatures on their Repeal the Internet Gambling Ban petition, at www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/306149419, and will take this to Washington in July 2007.
Gambling Loss Limit
The Missouri legislature, with the approval of voters, adopted a gambling loss limit in an effort to prevent substantial losses by gambling patrons. The loss limit allows for a loss of no more than $500 every two hours, or $6000 per day. This loss limit does not limit recreational gambling but does clearly help reduce the impact felt from pathological and problem gamblers as well as help prevent illegal money laundering.
Those individuals who would gamble and lose more that $500 ever two hours are most likely to be the pathological and problem gambler. Those individuals are the least able to control their gambling and are the most responsible for the social cost that result from gambling [6]. This loss limit helps to reduce binge gambling because "many problem gamblers have binge activity extending over long hours. If casinos would have closing hours, (or loss limits) even if only for two to four hours an evening, such binge behavior could be temporarily stopped, and a problem gambler could be brought back to reality." [7] In fact, "removing loss limits at gambling establishments will lead to an increase in compulsive gambling and an escalation of the gambling by those individuals in the early throes of addiction." [8]
The $500 loss limit also significantly deters the use of casinos as a means for illegally laundering large sums of money. "The federal government is currently expanding regulation necessary to limit money laundering by drug cartels and terrorist organizations. The federal government has found that existing federal regulation of, and reporting requirements for, casino transactions are not sufficient to limit or reduce money laundering and that additional regulation is needed. News reports indicate that terrorists were using casinos (including Missouri casinos) in the course of the recent terrorist attacks. Thus, in this climate, it is not a time to loosen the regulations o n casinos but a time to -- as the federal government is doing -- consider additional money laundering regulations for casinos and other gambling enterprises. An investigation by the United States General Accounting Office concluded that, 'As the amount of money wagered annually has increased, casinos may have become more vulnerable to individuals who attempt to launder their illegal profits in the fast-paced environment of casino gaming.'" [9] A gambling loss limit provides the regulation necessary to prevent such harmful and illegal money laundering from organized crime syndicates and terrorists alike.
- ↑ http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/
- ↑ Id.
- ↑ http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/ht060807.shtml
- ↑ http://www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/gambling/cog/A000004244.cfm
- ↑ http://www.casinogamblingweb.com/gambling-news/gambling-law/an_internet_gambling_education_for_anti_online_gambling_groups_46698.html
- ↑ http://www.casinowatch.org
- ↑ http://www.casinowatch.org/loss_limit/briefing_points.html
- ↑ http://www.casinowatch.org/loss_limit/lorenz_letter.html
- ↑ http://www.casinowatch.org/terrorists/money_laundering.html


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Another bad breakup and now this? Taylor Swift has reportedly been sued after receiving a $2.5 million payment to headline Capital Hoedown's 2012 music festival, which was canceled by organizers.
On Tuesday, Feb. 19, E! News obtained a complaint filed in a New York federal court by ticketing company FIRE USA Inc. claiming Swift, 22, accepted the money and refused to "reschedule a new appearance" which "amounted to a breach" of her contract.
According to the report, FIRE decided to take action against Swift after credit card payment process company Evo Merchant Services sued them over the reported $1.8 million they lost in refunding tickets.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the mystery of the Croyde beach carcass has now been solved once and for all. Zoologist Darren Naish, an old friend of the CFZ, who is probably most familiar to the world at large as the author of Tetrapod Zoology, an embarrassingly popular, and very informative blog which kicks everything we do into a cocked hat popularity wise, has delivered his verdict.
"Hi Jon
Many, many thanks for uploading and linking to the pics - they are excellent, and I'm pleased to see that there are some with a scale. The Daily Mail photos made me think that it might be an otariid, but your photos demonstrate without doubt that it is a Grey seal after all. How do I know this? ...
-- In otariids, the nasals only extend to the anterior margin of the orbit: in phocids, the nasals extend much further posteriorly. Furthermore, otariids have bony lumps on the frontals (termed the supraorbital processes) that project over the orbits. Phocids lack these. The Croyd Beach skull has posteriorly extending nasals and no supraorbital processes. It is thus definitely a phocid (= earless seal). I'm very surprised that some 'experts' said that it was not a phocid skull.
-- The nasal bones are unusually short in the specimen (compared to most phocids) and the nasal cavity is very deep, giving the anterior margin of the snout a steep, sawn-off look. Short nasals and a deep nasal cavity are both characteristic of Halichoerus, the grey seal. The skull definitely belongs to that taxon, case closed."
I can also exclusively reveal that the CFZ 3 are not going to get arrested and dragged away into penal servitude. We had a long and extremely cordial conversation with Sgt Jeff Pearce of Braunton police station. He was very pleased to find out what we had done, and we promised him that we would keep him informed as to the progress of the inquiry.
However, he did give us another germ of information which both intrigues and disturbs us. Two national agencies were quoted in various newspapers as having said that the corpse was not that of a grey seal, but when I telephoned both agencies on Friday afternoon, they both insisted that they had told everybody that it was a grey seal. I had assumed that this was the work of an over eager tabloid newspaper reporter, but Sgt Pearce, who came across as an eminently sensible and reliable bloke gave me the names of the people who he had spoken to at of the aforementioned agencies, who had indeed told him that the corpse was not of a grey seal.
From a personal sense of inquisitiveness, and also from a professional point of view, I would love to know why these people, one of whom was quite a high-ranking expert, said what they did. However, it doesn't really matter, and I will not be pursuing the matter purely because I want to be (if I may misquote the Church of England, book of common prayer) in a state of love and charity with my professional neighbours, and these are people with whom it is quite likely that I shall have to work in the future.
So, the story is solved. It was a seal which may have had slightly abnormal nasal cavities. However, we are now on the position to be able to state this as incontrovertible fact. The CFZ went out and got the skull, and will be keeping it in our museum because of the minor position which it will always hold in the history of cryptozoology. We have got a new friend in Sgt Pearce, and have been able to prove, as if any proof is necessary, that the tabloid press is not necessarily the best source of good scientific evidence.
Case closed.
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Sunday, 11 January 2009
And in the end the skulls you take, are equal to the rules you break...
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Bahrain GP 2012
Friday Team Quotes
Red Bull-Renault
Mark Webber (2nd, 1:32.262): "It was quite challenging out on track, trying to get everything together. The tyres were a bit of a surprise for everybody in terms of how they are behaving, they're losing their grip pretty quick, but that's the same for everybody. There are some quick cars out there - of course we don't know which fuel loads people were running, but it looks pretty tight again. Tyres will play a big role on Sunday in the race."
Sebastian Vettel (3rd, 1:33.525): "We did a lot of running today, so that's good. Regarding set-up, I think we got the answers in China that we were looking for and that's helped us here. We now need to see where we are against what everyone else did today. It's very hot here, so the tyres are suffering a little as a result, but it's the same for all teams. I think others are the favourites this weekend, but we are focusing on ourselves and pushing hard. We made a step forward, but we see where we are tomorrow."
Lewis Hamilton (4th, 1:33.747): "Looking after the tyres here is going to be a real challenge. The track surface is extremely hot, and the amount of energy that goes through the tyres under braking is incredible: the temperatures keep on rising until it feels just like driving on an ice-rink. Tyre degradation will be a big issue for everyone around here and the weekend will be all about who can look after the tyres the best. Wind direction also played a huge role today. On one lap, there'd be a headwind going into Turn Four, the next lap, it'd be a tailwind, then a crosswind. And that makes a big difference around the circuit. I think my fastest lap was set half an hour after Nico [Rosberg] set the fastest time of the session, and the wind was very different. In general, Mercedes looks quick. We're there or thereabouts, but we'll know more tomorrow. Overall, a tough day; a tough challenge, but we're all in the same boat."
Jenson Button (6th, 1:34.246): "I had an interesting day trying to find a balance on both types of tyre compound. The car's been acting very differently from how it's been in the first three races. Perhaps we've gone too far with the balance and need to take a step back - there'll be a bit of work needed tonight to get us into a better position. But I'm hopeful of resolving the issues before tomorrow. My times haven't looked great all day - over a single lap, the Mercedes and the Red Bull both look quick. There's a big margin to the front at the moment - but I don't think it will be the same in the race. However, ignoring the times, I just don't feel completely happy with the direction we've chosen. We've started talking about what we can do for tomorrow and there are already some positive comments about which direction to take. It's going to be difficult for all of us out there - it will be all about what tyre we can get to work."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team Principal: "A tricky session here in Bahrain today - in this morning's session, neither Jenson nor Lewis felt completely satisfied with the car's balance, and we spent the afternoon pursuing a number of set-up options in order to establish a clearer direction for the remainder of the weekend. After P2, it's clear that we're still following that path, but, as always, we have plenty of data to sift through overnight. Jenson and Lewis have also provided the team with some excellent feedback, which dovetails nicely: it's now the role of the engineers to assimilate that into a useful set-up direction for tomorrow. While the laptimes don't reflect it, our long-run pace looks reasonably promising, and I'm confident that we'll establish a good baseline for tomorrow's running."
Fernando Alonso (8th, 1:34.449): "Traditionally, I've always gone well at this track, one of the few where I have won three times. And so it's always a pleasure to drive at Sakhir and once again today I had fun. The first day of the Bahrain Grand Prix is always very difficult, because the track conditions are never at their best, mainly because of the sand and wind. On top of that, this track is used only very rarely, which adds to making Friday hard to interpret, maybe more so than other places. That is why, basing all your choices in terms of set-up on what one has seen today is not always the right move, because we need to bear in mind that the track will change a lot between now and Sunday. We tried as best we could to check the tyre behaviour: we have the same ones as in Shanghai, but the temperature is very different. There is still a lot to do, especially on the rear end, to try and find more grip."
Felipe Massa (12th, 1:34.941): "It was a very hot day, on which we concentrated mainly on analysing the behaviour of the Pirelli tyres. From what we could see today, the degradation is very marked with both compounds, more so than at other tracks. It was an important task, especially looking to the race, but also for the session that will decide the grid positions. Without a doubt, we still have a lot of work to do. The fundamental thing will be to put together a car that is consistent in performance terms, to try and slow the rate of tyre degradation."
Pat Fry: "Only the track has changed and the car has remained practically identical, therefore it would be hard for our position relative to the others to be any different. Above all, we are at a track where traction and straight line speed are two key factors in achieving a competitive performance and, currently, the F2012 has shown itself to be particularly lacking in precisely these two areas. Therefore why should we be surprised by our position and the gaps to the quickest? In contrast to Shanghai, the temperatures are much higher here, which has a significant effect on tyre behaviour. Today, we did the usual work, comparing aerodynamic configurations that are slightly different to one another, while also working on the set-up of the two cars. Now it's a case of analysing the data well and putting together the best of what we've got. We can expect qualifying to be very tough tomorrow: there's no denying that getting both cars into Q3 will be very difficult."
Mercedes GP
Nico Rosberg (1st, 1:32.816): "That was a good start to the weekend, and whilst it's nice to be quickest today, we know that doesn't count. The most important thing still is to improve our race pace. For the moment, it looks reasonable but we need to analyse where we are on high fuel levels compared to our competitors and draw our conclusions. The conditions are really tough out there, so the race will be quite demanding from the tyre perspective."
Michael Schumacher (5th, 1:33.862): "We started well today, and our long runs are satisfying as well as our overall times. Unfortunately I could not complete my fast lap properly due to traffic. We will have to see what the outcome will be tomorrow and on Sunday as the tyres go away very quickly. You really have to stay within the limit of them, that's going to be the main issue. Let's see what we can make out of it but the start of the weekend has definitely not been too bad for us."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal: "We had a very solid day of practice here today, completing some good work on both low and high fuel. We made some progress over the day with the set-up of the car, there were no issues and, all in all, it was a very reasonable day. We've done our homework and know what our priorities are, so that should enable us to work out what we want to tomorrow."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "We had a pretty good first day learning quite a lot about the big challenge of how to use the tyres in the best possible way and make them last during the necessary number of laps in the race. There was more grip in the second session which helped. We still have room for improvement but I think our team has a good understanding of what will be required here on Sunday. Having said that, it is much too early to judge where we are compared to our competitors."
Romain Grosjean (9th, 1:34.615): "This season so far we've been from quite cool temperatures in Australia to hot weather in Malaysia, reasonably cool in China and then hot again here in Bahrain. This variation makes it difficult for the team to set up the car, as you're working with different conditions and therefore spend most of the practice sessions adjusting things to match. We now have a much better idea of how the car behaves and hopefully this will lead to a good performance in qualifying tomorrow. I think we can be quite happy with our day's work; we ran through the full programme as planned and got some decent mileage under our belts. We've made a big improvement from where we were this time last week in China; I'm feeling confident on long runs and tomorrow we'll be pushing hard to get the best single lap pace as well."
Kimi Raikkonen (13th, 1:35.183): "The soft tyres felt better today but we have to work out which tyre will work best over a stint duration. It's too early to draw any conclusion and we have to look at the data. At the moment, it doesn't look like the difference will be night and day. The track conditions were surprisingly good straight away in first practice today, and it didn't feel like a massive difference in the second session. Hopefully the wind does not get up overnight and blow sand on to the track. Tyre degradation should be interesting. There are things you can do as a driver to minimise this, but you can do more with the set-up of the car. I hope we find a good solution."
James Allison, Technical Director: "There's a pattern emerging over the first four races where it seems that the programme we run on a Friday is different from that run by other teams, so you can't draw too many conclusions merely from looking at our position on the timing monitors. The key for this weekend's race will be making the tyres work in the heat and we're encouraged by our pace using both tyres with both cars on high fuel today. We ran comparisons of our upgrade components and we have plenty of data to make an assessment."
Force India-Mercedes
Paul di Resta (23rd, No Time): "The track was very green and dusty to begin with, but we got on with the programme quickly and did the usual balance work, cooling checks and got a feel for both the medium and the soft tyres. The baseline set-up was not a long way off, but our focus for tomorrow is to improve our performance in the low-speed corners."
Nico Hulkenberg (24th, No Time): "It was a different approach to FP1 today and we made sure we ran all three sets of tyres to get the data we need for the race. The session went okay and the car felt quite good out of the box, although there is still some fine-tuning to do in FP3."
Jakob Andreasen, Chief Engineer: "A very busy morning programme with a lot to get through considering we haven't raced in Bahrain for a couple of years. After the initial balance checks we looked at our brake and engine cooling solutions and dialled the cars into the circuit with some mechanical and aero set-up work. We have pretty much used up our tyre allocation this morning, which has given us all the data we need heading into tomorrow when we can hopefully deliver a strong qualifying performance."
Kamui Kobayashi (7th, 1:34.411): "Technically we had no incidents but we are struggling on tyre temperatures. The lap times on the soft tyres in the short run didn't look too bad, but for qualifying there is still some work to do. Even more improvement is necessary for the long runs and for me this goes for both tyre compounds, soft and medium. We will evaluate the data now and see what we can do better for tomorrow."
Sergio Perez (10th, 1:34.893): "To me this was a very positive day. I am happy about having had a good Friday and I am very satisfied with the work we have done. We have learnt a lot and we managed the tyre degradation on the rear, which everybody has problems with, quite well. We still need to sort out a few set-up issues for qualifying, but I am very confident for tomorrow."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "The two sessions were okay for us. We were able to complete the whole programme with both cars. As we expected, the heat makes it difficult to keep the tyres consistent, but this seems to be a common issue for most of the cars. There we have some work to do. Apart from that we found a reasonable balance. Now we have to work for the race."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Daniel Ricciardo (11th, 1:34.895): "Importantly, we made progress through the day, after the first session did not go too well. We couldn't get the tyres to work properly, wheel spinning on the Prime, which overheated it, so we lacked grip. We knew what we needed to do, but it did not work out on track. The second session went better, as can be seen from the fact we moved up the time sheet. More important is the fact I've now got a better feeling with the car. We still need to make more progress and in terms of what we do to the car for tomorrow, we have a couple of options to choose from. We got a first impression of the tyres and I'd say the Option is better and seems to cope well with the hot conditions. Let's say I don't think anyone will do a one stop on Sunday and looking after the rear tyres will be a priority."
Jean-Eric Vergne (14th, 1:35.229): "A very busy day for me and my mechanics. We started off the first practice session with me running an older car specification, based on the one I had in Shanghai, while Daniel ran the newer one. His worked better, so we switched to that for the afternoon session. It was definitely an improvement and we have made a good step forward, although we need to improve the balance still further for tomorrow. If we can make even more progress for FP3 then we will be in good shape. The tyres overheat very easily, so managing them is quite difficult and will be one of the keys to having a good race."
Laurent Mekies, Chief Engineer: "Overall, this was an intensive day's work for us as we had a few bits and pieces to evaluate. We are reasonably happy with what we achieved, made possible by the fact that both cars ran without any problems, completing a high number of laps. We were able to scan a few car configurations and set-up options for Sunday's race. Having such a productive Friday was therefore a good start to the weekend and we now need to convert that into an increase in our pace tomorrow."
Pastor Maldonado (15th, 1:35.459): "It was a busy day but we completed our programme. We were concentrating more on our race pace, but I feel happy as overall the car is looking consistent. I'm looking forward to getting into qualifying tomorrow."
Bruno Senna (18th, 1:36.169): "Today was quite a difficult day with tough track conditions. We found a good direction for the car though and our long runs this afternoon looked consistent. We just need to keep chipping away to ensure an optimum set-up for the race."
Valterri Bottas: "It was pretty warm out there but it's not as humid as it was in Malaysia. We got all the data we needed this morning so it was a productive session. It was also good for me to get more mileage on another new track, completing some consistent runs. Overall, I am happy with how it went and I think we will see a good race on Sunday."
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: "As will be the case at the majority of races this season, Valtteri drove in the morning session alongside Pastor, with Bruno getting back into his car for the afternoon. Unfortunately Bruno's track time was compromised by a small electrical problem which was quickly diagnosed and resolved. Both sessions were dominated by the performance of the medium and soft tyres as we worked to optimise the set-ups to balance the car for the difficult track conditions. We improved both cars from the morning session to the afternoon, but still have work to do to improve things further ahead of qualifying and the race."
Vitaly Petrov (16th, 1:35.913): "It's been a good day for us. We completed a decent number of laps in both sessions and I've been happy with the car all day. It's going to be tough on the tyres on Sunday, on both compounds, but we looked pretty good on the softs on the performance run and we have a couple of changes we can try tomorrow to get the most out of the primes, so I think we're looking good. It's clear that degradation is going to be the biggest talking point on Sunday and I think we'll see a lot of stops right across the field. That'll bring strategy and pitstops into play in a big way so whatever happens it's going to be an exciting race for the fans."
Heikki Kovalainen (17th, 1:35.968): "A good day for us in terms of the mileage we've covered and the amount of data we've collated. This morning the track wasn't as dusty as we'd feared, so the grip levels were ok. That meant we could take a proper look at the degradation levels on the prime tyres in FP1 and it was immediately clear that the heat and the nature of this track will mean managing wear rates is going to be crucial on Sunday. Rear grip is an area we'll have to pay particular attention to and we tried a few setup changes to try and manage that, but I think it'll be the same for everyone."
Mark Smith, Technical Director: "The conditions here give us some interesting challenges for us from a technical perspective. Today our main priority has been assessing the tyre degradation rates and how we can manage those on differing fuel loads. It looks like rear tyre degradation is going to play a critical role on Sunday so the mileage we have completed today gives us a good chance to make sure we know what to expect on race day. We have also been looking at how we maximise the brake cooling and how we deal with brake wear. The Bahrain circuit is hard on the brakes so we need to make sure the drivers have consistent performance from the braking system, both in qualifying and on race day. Overall I am pleased with what we have achieved today. It is too early to tell where we are in relation to the cars ahead but I think we have got back to where we should be in relation to the cars ahead and I am confident we are in good shape for the weekend ahead."
Thierry Salvi, Renault: "The Bahrain International Circuit presents us with an interesting challenge in two main areas: how we deal with the physical conditions of the track, and how we maximise the performance of the car over the whole lap. The ambient temperatures and sandy atmosphere mean we have to work closely with the team to ensure we have the optimum cooling package on the bodywork, but the sand isn't actually a major issue for us. We use filters that are based on our experience in desert rallying and they are the same for the whole season. We cannot change them race by race, so we have accounted for the conditions here many months before the season starts. Performance-wise, we have another track that requires us to have good top speed down the main straight from T14 down to T1, and make sure the drivers have good traction throughout the whole lap. We have to pay particular attention to how we configure seventh gear for the main straight as the wind direction can change between tail and head winds and that has a relatively high effect on what ratios we use. From what we have seen today I think we can be happy with the plans we have activated here, and we have more performance to come tomorrow, so it looks like this could be a good weekend for the team."
Pedro de la Rosa (21st, 1:37.812): "We can say we met our target for the day which was none other than to check that the changes we've made to the cooling of the car worked very well, which reassures us because it means we can face the weekend with guarantees. Leaving that aside, we suffered quite a bit of degradation to the rear tyres, but I think everyone faced that. That is due to the heat and the type of track. We tested soft and medium tyres and for the long run we divided our work with Narain, him on mediums and myself on softs, to cover both options and see which one is best. We improved the car's balance as the day wore on and I'm satisfied but tomorrow we should be able to fine-tune things a bit more."
Narain Karthikeyan (22nd, 1:39.649): "Today we tried out a lot of different options to save the tyres because it's very hot out there and they degrade quickly. And we worked on that objective in these two practice sessions. Apart from the work with both Pirelli options, we covered a lot of laps to see if the car is overheating, but it seems to be doing fine. Tomorrow we will change things a bit and adapt the car for the race and, although the weather conditions are a bit extreme, it responded well today, and hopefully we can keep that going for the rest of the weekend."
Luis Perez-Sala, Team Principal: "It was a positive day because we were able to make the most of the whole day to work on the set-up. And also because it looks like the solution we brought to this Grand Prix to improve the cooling is working well. This is one of the most demanding circuits for the engine and it was important to fix it. We're still progressing and working with much more coordination. Every day we have more rhythm, both the car and the team, and that makes us come closer to our objective with every day that passes."
Timo Glock (19th, 1:36.587): ºA very difficult day today, especially in FP2. This morning we had a fairly normal programme developing and monitoring the new parts to help move the car forward. We completed a lot of aero work so we were getting good data and numbers out of the car, but it was looking ahead rather than specific to this weekend. FP2 was difficult with the tyres. They were dropping quickly and affecting the rear stability on the long run. The car is still a bit too difficult to drive at the moment, so we have to find a way to make it better. In general not the best start so far; in the last few races we have had better Fridays. Theres still a lot of work to do overnight to make improvements on the car for tomorrow.¹
Charles Pic (20th, 1:37.803): ºToday I have been focusing on what we need to do to prepare for the race, evaluating the tyre options with fuel and looking at what we can do to manage the brakes and the tyre wear. By splitting the programme it means we have a lot of data to look at tonight but I think everyone up and down the field has the same challenge.¹
John Booth, Team Principal: ºIt has been an interesting start to the weekend and it is already clear that the race, and the preparation for it, is going to pose an interesting challenge. As always here we are trying to manage brake wear and tyre degradation caused by the combination of the circuit characteristics, the track temperature and the track surface. Things are less than straightforward and the rest of the weekend will be about assessing the track evolution and tyre improvement between now and Sundays race. Our focus so far has not been on the people around us as weve been concentrating very much on our programme, so our true performance level here will only become clear tomorrow.¹


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A segment on the morning news caught my attention today. A representative from one of those office supply companies came into a local television station to help one of the regular reporters clean and organize his desk.
I did not have time to watch the segment, having a deadline staring me full in the face and a blank screen mirroring that pitiful image. But I "Tivo'd" it. I can't believe I wrote that. Tivo should not be a verb, no more so than impact (Look it up.) and my machine isn't a Tivo anyway but whatever the local satellite people install so I can record stuff that's vitally important to my understanding of the world, such as foolproof ways to clean up one's desk.
Mine's a mess. Always has been, probably always will be. Something in me rebels against a pristine surface with every paper clip, piece of paper and pencil placed precisely where one can reach (find) it. As the 20th Century philosopher Jimmy Buffett said: "I don't want that much organization in my life. Whatever happened to Junior Mints?"
I'll admit that the stacks of correspondence, jumble of business cards and scramble of ballpoint pens, pencils and vari-hued Hi-Liters occasionally create moments of near panic when a note I desperately need for a story that's due two hours ago fails to materialize with my initial thrashing around among the detritus of weeks of accumulating. I do have a system, of sorts.
I have organizational boxes: You know the in-box, the out-box and the file box. The problem is, all three seem to be in-boxes and can't make the transition to other functions. I put things in the out-box but they don't leave. They accumulate. Perhaps they breed.
Once in a while, usually when I've torn the top of my desk apart several times in vain search for a notebook that includes information necessary for a story I'm working on and have come up empty, I methodically clean my desk. I take every pencil, every paper clip, every piece of paper and examine it to be certain the notebook is not hiding beneath it. I throw all this stuff on the floor in neat piles until the desktop is naked and then I remember that I left the notebook in my camera bag.
Most of the stuff on the floor goes into the garbage and I begin the process again. It takes about three days, whether I'm in the office or not, to accumulate enough new stuff to create another environmental hazard on my desk.
I've vowed to do better, hundreds of times. I used to hire my daughter, an organizational genius, to clean my office about twice a year. It was a good investment. But she grew up, married, had children and now keeps herself, her husband and two little boys well organized. I miss her!
But I have new incentive. My wife, from whom my daughter inherited her organization genes and who occasionally looks at my desk and throws up her hands, bought me a book for Christmas that should help. It's something along the lines of organization for dummies.
And I intend to put it to good use. Just as soon as I remember where I put it.
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WASHINGTON � First they came for the drones.
No, not the unmanned kind that kill strangers from a safe distance but the sort who sit in meeting rooms and repeat slogans until they absorb the proper way of thinking. The killers, figuratively speaking, are the diversity trainers who numb the human mind with slogans and rote instruction on emotional correctness.
Would that it were unnecessary to say �figuratively speaking,� but in an era when fundamentalist literalism is on the rise, it is always necessary to be perfectly, perfectly clear. Signal: The following may include exaggerations, sarcasm and, possibly, snark, all intended to make life somewhat more bearable.
Then again, hyperbole is superfluous when real life is so absurdly over the top. Thanks to Judicial Watch, the conservative-leaning watchdog group, and The Daily Caller, we recently have learned about the United States Department of Agriculture�s magical diversity training programs, i.e. �professional development opportunities,� wherein employees learn how they ought really to �think� about things. Lessons include such angst-inspiring tropes as the U.S. has destroyed other nations, we all commit sins of discrimination, and America should repent and stop being so proud of itself.
More or less.
One does not have to be a flag-waving, uber-patriot to find this sort of mind-training repugnant, though watching clips of the USDA sessions might help one better understand the recent rush to collect ammunition. (Ahem: I am merely making an observation here, not suggesting behaviors that some might find troubling or offensive; one wishes it were unnecessary to say.)
The sessions recently highlighted are not new. Most corporate employees � and all American students � have been exposed to this wee-minded busy-ness. More than a decade ago, I wrote that the demise of newspapers was owing more to the Human Resources Department than to the explosion of the Internet. The �tidy-desk memo mentality� of management bean-counters began killing newspapers long before pajama-clad bloggers began mastering hyperlinks.
Once you kill the spirit, the rest is a matter of decomposition.
Exhibit A this go-round is sensitivity trainer Samuel Betances of Souder, Betances and Associates, who appears in clips culled from a 3.5-hour �Cultural Sensitivity Training� session that have been featured prominently in conservative media in recent days. As detailed by Caroline May at The Daily Caller, Betances leads a group through a process of self-enlightenment. (See sarcasm note above.)
�I want you to say: �If we work for a federal agency.� Say that. (Audience repeats) �We have discriminated in the past.� (Audience repeats) Say: �Every federal agency,� (Audience repeats) �has discriminated against African-Americans,� (Audience repeats) �Hispanics,� (Audience repeats) �Native American Indians,� (Audience repeats) �and other groups� (Audience repeats),� Betances preaches.
In other clips, Betances regales his audience with a little history lesson. Not only did the U.S. steal the lands that are increasingly being populated by illegal immigrants (Texas, California, Arizona) � hence, implicitly, they have a right to re-occupy � but America�s founding fathers took their governing cues from Native Americans. Oh, and they stole their symbol, too � the bald eagle.
Well, gosh, I feel so bad about all this that I�d like to cede the lower U.S. to Mexico and adopt the chicken as the national symbol. There�s no end to the ways by which nations can make recompense to those whose fates were altered by history. Shouldn�t we all just pack up and return whence we came?
This is, of course, emotional extortion designed to engineer behavior while enriching people who have invented an industry around the notion that people can be numbed into niceness and, therefore, more easily managed. It is helpful to recall that drones are also stingless bees.
There was a time when such lessons, otherwise known as manners, were taught in every American home. Said homes were not privileged in most cases but they were occupied by a mother and father who, though they perhaps did not adore each other every waking moment, were at least committed to the mutual task of rearing thoughtful, well-behaved children.
Sensitivity training, alas, is one of the many legacies of our sundering of the family, which has led necessarily to greater dependence on third parties to instruct and order. We are unlikely to hear much about that in the next government diversity seminar and, soon enough, there will be none left to recognize that there is something wrong with this picture.
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Kontact Touch is an email and groupware client for touch screen devices, like smartphones, netbooks or tablets. It is a sister product to Kontact Desktop based on the same backend, a full featured Kolab Groupware Client and providing end-to-end email security. Kontact Touch is based on the KDE Platform and produced by the KDE PIM and KDE Mobile initiatives. Here are the about dialog and some screenshots and videos.
Kontact Touch is a usable application since February 2011. Your experience will depend a lot on the packaging and platform integration for your device, though. Feedback and help is always appreciated.
Use the instructions for your device,
After installation you will find five new icons on your phone that open the mail, calendar, addressbook, notes and tasks frontends to Kontact Touch.
Touch one of these and it will start. Note that the first start of any of these applications will take a long time, as it has to initialise the backend. Expect an initial waiting time around a minute.
Experts: You can start everything from the command line if you like, but then check the notes for your platform for the right executable names.
First thing you would want to do is set up a new email account. To do this you start mail, pull the flapon the Homepage out, press , and then follow the instructions.
|you cannot do this from all frontends at the moment - but for email it works fine. If you should have a Kolab Server, all other applications will access the data from your server too.
You may change the following settings, by choosing the account and use :
|Kontact Touch uses several process to send and fetch data. By default it will try to encrypt them all. If something called KWallet comes up: use it! It will save your password, so you do not have to retype it each time.
Several server authentification warnings might appear for the different connections, because the SSL or TLS connection certificates are not known to the system. Both kwallet and multiple authentification warnings indicate that your platform integration is suboptimal.
Navigate through your folders by our flatten tree view. You can also choose to see multiple folders at once, when you click onon the homepage.
Actions can be accessed through what we call flaps. You have to pull them out, in order to not mix interaction up with clicking through your accounts and folders.
We hope the other ideas are straight forward and discoverable. If you have any question please feel free to ask us.
One of the core features of Kontact Touch is the ability to communicate safely using S/MIME or OpenPGP. We advise you to first set up your personal certificate and secret key on a desktop computer, e.g. by using Kleopatra. Then transfer it to the device and import everything using Kleopatra. Check out the platform specific installation instructions for more hints.
The overall stability of the product is good. It can be trusted will real data and offers a lot of useful functions, because Kontact Touch shares the backend with the desktop client. Still as of July 2012: There are a number of known issues and often there is little platform integration and suboptimal packaging.
Consider doing an update to the latest version available for your platform before reporting a problem. Maybe it has already been solved.
Please report any problems to our issue tracker.
When posting a report, please add some information, so we can efficiently fix any bugs:
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Ready Made Outfit: Preppy Rockstar | Men's Edition
As promised, I present to you the Style Intelligence Report's first foray into the Wide World of Men's Fashion.
I bring to you the look of the season for men that's nearest and dearest to my heart: the Preppy Rockstar.
The foundation of the look consists of a good quality jean and a casual-to semiformal top…or two. Pictured are American Eagle's Eagle Stripe Pique Polo ($29.50), and Armani Exchange's Boot Cut Jean ($105).
Eagle Stripe Pique Polo ($29.50)
Photo Courtesy of American Eagle Outfitters.
Boot Cut Jean ($105).
Photo Courtesy of Armani Exchange.
Photo courtesy of Kenneth Cole.
1. A Blazer: To mix things up a bit, try one in an unusual fabric. The blazer pictured below ($89 at Urban Outfitters), for example, is made of Velvet.
Signature Blazer ($89)
Photo courtesy of Urban Outfitters.
2. A Biker or Motocross Jacket: Very attractive on a wide variety of body types. The Cotton Biker Jacket pictured below goes for $145 at Armani Exchange.
Cotton Biker Jacket ($149)
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They Went There: Right-Wing Media Invoke Nazi Parallels To Attack Obama On Gun Policy
Research ››› ››› ANDY NEWBOLD & THOMAS BISHOP
Following reports that President Obama was considering proposals to strengthen U.S. gun laws, right-wing media figures likened the Obama administration to Nazi Germany and compared Obama to dictators like Hitler and Stalin.
Right-Wing Media Figures Invoke Hitler, Stalin To Reject Proposals For Stronger Gun Laws
Drudge Links Potential Obama Executive Order On Guns To Hitler, Stalin. The Drudge Report highlighted an article on the possibility that President Obama might issue an executive order to strengthen gun laws by displaying images of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. From the Drudge Report:
[Drudge Report, 1/9/13, via Media Matters]
Fox's Napolitano Cites Stalin And Hitler To Attack Proposals For Stronger Gun Laws. In a January 10 op-ed against stronger gun measures, Fox News' senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano pointed to 20th century examples like Stalin, Hitler, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, and Mao to argue for "the near universal historical acceptance of the individual possession" of the right to own firearms:
There have been practical historical reasons for the near universal historical acceptance of the individual possession of this right. The dictators and monsters of the 20th century -- from Stalin to Hitler, from Castro to Pol Pot, from Mao to Assad -- have disarmed their people, and only because some of those people resisted the disarming were all eventually enabled to fight the dictators for freedom.
If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had had the firepower and ammunition that the Nazis did, some of Poland might have stayed free and more persons would have survived the Holocaust. [Foxnews.com, 1/10/13]
Fox Guest Lars Larson Compares Mandating Assault Weapon Registration To "Nazi Germany" Asking, "Your Papers, Please." During the January 9 edition of Fox News' America Live, Fox guest and radio host Lars Larson compared a proposal to track firearm sales to " 'your papers, please,' like Nazi Germany":
MEGYN KELLY (host): Then they say they want to track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database. What does that mean?
LARSON: I think it's scary. If you look at Feinstein's bill, which I think is the model for the president. And if he does executive orders he's becoming more like Hugo Chavez all the time. Under Feinstein's bill, which has been introduced, if the president does it that way, everybody in America who owns one of the guns on the list will be required to go in and give fingerprints, mug shot, be entered into a database. It will be "your papers, please" like Nazi Germany. We're going to register everybody. Then you won't be allowed to transfer that gun. [Fox News, America Live, 1/9/13, via Media Matters]
Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Invokes Hitler, Stalin, Mao In CNN Gun Rant. In an appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones attacked proposals for stronger gun laws by invoking dictators such as Stalin, Hitler and Castro. From the show:
JONES: The answer is -- wait a minute, I have FBI crime statistics that come out of a year late, 2011, 20-plus percent crime drop in the last nine years, real violent crime because more guns means less crime. Britain took the guns 15, 16 years ago. Tripling of your overall violent crime. True, we have a higher gun violence level, but overall, muggings, stabbing, deaths -- those men raped that woman to India to death with an iron rod 4 feet long. You can't ban the iron rods. The guns, the iron rods, Piers, didn't do it, the tyrants did it.
Hitler took the guns Stalin took the guns, Mao took the guns, Fidel Castro took the guns, Hugo Chavez took the guns, and I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms! It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there in the street begging for them to have their guns taken. We will not relinquish them. Do you understand? [CNN, Piers Morgan Tonight, 1/7/13, via Real Clear Politics]
Fox Guest Compares Gun Laws To Nazi Policies. On the January 7 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy suggested to former Marine Joshua Boston that people "are worried that the federal government will come after your guns." Boston responded that similar policies were implemented with "Stalin, in Cambodia, and then of course the Third Reich."
DOOCY: I think you, like a lot of people, Joshua, are worried that the federal government is going to come after our guns.
BOSTON: It's something we've seen happen time and time again in history, with Stalin. It happened in Cambodia, and then of course the Third Reich. No one saw that coming until it was too late. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 1/7/13]
Right-Wing Media Have Previously Compared Liberals to Nazis, Dictators
Beck: The "End Of The Progressive Road" Is "Nazis Or Communists" Or White Supremacists. On the March 1, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck suggested that progressive policies could lead to "Nazis or communists" having control over individuals' rights:
BECK: I know it sounds like crazy talk to talk about communists, because, I mean, you've got to be kidding me. It's not about communists. It never has been about communists either. Never has been. That guy is a lunatic fringe, just like white supremacists on the other side. Right here.
This side, up and down, communist and fascist. Those people are crazy. This is about progressivism. And most people - they are in here. When they say they're progressives, they don't think they're headed here. But progress, baby steps - you are moving toward something. You're moving toward one of these.
This is why they called George Bush a fascist, because progressives know what is at the end of the progressive road. Whether it's Nazis or communists, someone has to control your life. Someone will be at the controls. Communists would like it to be them. Nazis are rooting for their side.
I'm not rooting for any side. I'm rooting for this side. Wrong side of the scale, guys. This is a war for your rights, you free agency, your free agency to choose for yourself. [Fox News,Glenn Beck, 3/01/10, transcript via Nexis]
Beck On People Who Say Hitler's Atrocities Couldn't Happen Here: "Well, Did The Germans Think That It Could?" On the September 24, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck, Beck suggested that people who think atrocities couldn't be repeated today were like Germans who didn't think Hitler's atrocities could happen:
BECK: The key is socialism. One never thinks or imagines that this can happen again. No one thinks it could happen here. Well, did the Germans think that it could? Did they -- did the Germans sit there at night and go, "You know, that Hitler thing -- that could end in concentration camps and the liquidation of the Jews." Did they really think that? Or did people say all along the way, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, this isn't going well. This isn't -- no, this isn't -- no, this isn't us. We shouldn't go down this way."
And then they were told they were conspiracy theorists. They were told that it was wrong -- that -- they would even speak out. And then the beatings started. And then executions started. And then that argument just went away. [Glenn Beck, Fox News, 9/24/10]
Beck Warned Of Impending "National Socialism." On February 6, 2009, Beck claimed that "We are really truly stepping beyond socialism and starting to look at fascism." Then, purporting to "explain what happened in Nazi Germany," Beck claimed that "we're talking now about nationalizing the banks," which he called "national socialism." Beck said that "at first, all the big companies and the big capitalists in Germany said, 'Oh, thank goodness there's a savior. OK, great, we'll do that. Yes.' It didn't take too long before, like here in America now -- Goldman Sachs -- they started to see the writing on the wall and ... they couldn't get out of it fast enough." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 02/06/09]
On Fox & Friends, Hank Williams Jr. Compared Obama Playing Golf With Boehner To "Hitler Playing Golf With Netanyahu." On the October 3 edition of Fox New's Fox & Friends, co-hosts Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlson hosted musician Hank Williams Jr. who compared Obama playing golf with Speaker of the House John Boehner to "Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/3/2011]
Hannity: Using Quran For Swearing-In Is Same As Using A "Nazi Bible." On the November 30, 2006, edition of Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity said that Rep. Keith Ellison using a copy of the Quran during his swearing-in ceremony "will embolden Islamic extremists and make new ones" and is comparable to using "Hitler's Mein Kampf ... the Nazis' bible." [Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, 11/30/06]
O'Reilly Said Liberals Who Support Stronger Gun Laws Are "Totalitarians," Compared Them To Hitler. On March 2, 2010, O'Reilly said liberals who support stronger gun laws are "today's totalitarians," adding that in the past, people like "Hitler and Mussolini" held such positions in favor of "state control." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 3/2/10]
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UAE. As many as 801 construction projects with a combined estimated value of US$32 billion (Dh117.44 billion) are currently in tendering state in the GCC's urban construction sector which will serve as a strong pipeline of projects to be awarded in the near future, according to BNC Network, the largest and most comprehensive project research and intelligence provider in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
By the end of the year 2017, the combined total value of urban construction contracts is estimated to reach US$50.9 billion (Dh186.8 billion). While this is lower than the peaks seen in prior years, the volume of construction contracts is still tremendous, making Dubai one of the most active construction markets in the region.
BNC forecasting model suggests that there would be an increase of 29 per cent in the total value of contract awards to US$65.6 billion in the urban construction sector in the GCC in 2018 followed by another 1 per cent growth to reach US$66 billion in 2019.
The latest BNC Intelligence report shows 292 contracts with a combined estimated value of US$9.5 billion (Dh34.87 billion) were awarded in the second quarter of 2017, within the GCC's urban construction sector that includes commercial and residential buildings, hospitality, healthcare, retail, education, religious buildings, leisure and recreation and mega urban developments.
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1. The total estimated value of urban construction contracts to reach Dh186.8 billion (US$50.9 billion) by the end of 2017
2. Around 801 construction projects worth US$32 billion are being tendered across the GCC in 2017
3. Around 292 construction projects worth Dh34.87 billion were awarded in the second quarter of 2017
4. Urban construction contracts likely to grow 29 per cent in 2018
5. BNC Network tracks 25,324 live projects worth Dh26.4 trillion across the GCC
Some major contract awards in the second quarter of 2017 includes Deira Islands Mall project in Deira Island, Dubai, City Centre - Al Zahia in Sharjah, Yas Acres (Phase 1) in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi and Danat Al Lawzi in Bahrain.
The urban construction contracts constitute 80 per cent of the contracts awarded for all sectors in GCC and in dollar terms this translates to 49 per cent of the total contracts awarded.
"Events like Dubai Expo 2020 along with stabilisation of the oil price and the drive of the various GCC countries to achieve economic diversification and increase in the living standards will play a vital role in the construction industry contract awards," Avin Gidwani, Chief Executive Officer of BNC Network, says.
"As the economic growth is expected to pick up pace next year, we expect an increased construction activity across the board in 2018. New project announcements by major developers that have taken place from 2016 till now – will go into tender next year and trigger increased construction activities across the GCC."
BNC, the largest project intelligence provider in the MENA region, tracks 25,324 live construction projects with a value exceeding $7.2 trillion (Dh26.4 trillion). It publishes more than 250 project updates that are distributed amongst 73,000 executives and professionals every day.
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BNC, the largest project intelligence provider in the MENA region, tracks 25,324 live construction projects with a value exceeding $7.2 trillion (Dh26.4 trillion). It publishes more than 250 project updates that are distributed amongst 73,000 executives and professionals every day.
It is used by thousands of business leaders and construction industry professionals around the world to track developments, gain insight on projects and do business in the construction industry. BNC covers construction projects, across all sectors including urban construction, mega developments, transportation, utilities, industrial developments and oil and gas and publishes over 2,000 construction analytics annually based on extensive research and analysis.