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A shooting at an Oceanside park has killed two teenagers and injured two others.
Police say the shooting occurred at around 9 p.m. Wednesday at Libby Lake Park. Two teens died and two were taken to hospitals but are expected to survive.
Authorities haven't released their names or provided a motive for the attack.
Lt. Leonard Cosby tells U-T San Diego ( https://bit.ly/10Q4iwN ) that the victims were found near a memorial to two teenagers who were shot to death, apparently by gang members, in May of 2011.
Fourteen-year-old Sandra Salgado and 16-year-old Felix Solano were killed even though they were not gang members.
In January, a gang member was sentenced to four years in prison for being an accessory to the shooting after the fact. Three others are charged with murder.
Information from: U-T San Diego, https://www.utsandiego.com


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Perhaps someday when I am older and even more follically challenged I will come to fully understand what actually happens when events enter the political realm.
Is there a virus that eventually infects those who enter politics that stimulates some previously unknown gene and causes politicians and bureaucrats to become devious and if not openly dishonest, at least veracity challenged?
Or, more likely, it is directly linked to the irrefutable rule of politics that once you get elected your sole purpose of being in the Halls of Power is to get re-elected. Thus you spend your elected term trying to take credit for everything good that happens and distance yourself from anything that might generate blame or even controversy in the hope that in the next election the electorate will look upon you with favour.
I ask the question because of events that have taken place in the Canadian parliament with respect to getting rid of the long-gun firearms registry; Garry Breitkreuz' private members bill to do just that, the PMOs attempt to cripple that bill and the subsequent presentation of a Senate bill that says it does the same thing but doesn't.
Breitkreuz, the Saskatchewan MP from Yorkton-Melville, has been the linchpin within the federal Conservative party with regards to fulfilling their promise and policy to reform the federal firearms legislation and specifically get rid of the long-gun registry. But the federal Liberals and New Democratic Parties have been just as adamant that the firearms legislation that the Chretien Liberals passed in 1995 will stay to haunt us forever, even though they have numerous rural MPs who would vote for a bill that would eliminate the long-gun registry if they were given a free vote by their party leaders.
Thus the Conservatives had no chance of fulfilling their promise while they were in opposition and have argued that they have had limited opportunity to do so even after they formed a minority government.
But when Breitkreuz tabled his private member's bill there was a glimmer of hope that partisan politics would take a backseat and there would be some honest and (god forbid) intelligent debate on the proposed legislation and at that point the leaders of the opposition parties would allow their members a free vote and let the chips fall where they may.
Unfortunately that appears to have gone by the wayside, with the Prime Minister's office apparently trying to deep-six Bill C-301, firstly by attempting to strong-arm Breitkreuz into amending his bill so it would only retain the section removing the registry and then by tabling Bill S-5 in the Senate, a piece of legislation that purports to eliminate the long-gun registry but in fact devolves the registry to the provinces and the territories so we will end up with 12 de facto registries.
As a point of information, Bill C-301 has six parts to it:
- Elimination of the long-gun registry.
This item speaks for itself.
- Combines the Possession Only (POL) and Possession & Acquisition (PAL) licences.
This is a common sense change. Those persons who opted to apply for a POL rather than a PAL back in 1995 and who currently are still holding POLs have now owned their firearms for 14 consecutive years post C-68 with no threat to public safety. It is pointless to maintain the two separate licence systems and it is time to grandfather the POL holders and convert their licences to PALs.
- Merges the Authorization to Transport for restricted firearms with the owner's licence. Another no-brainer. The fiream's owner is already licenced to own that class of firearm and must now apply for a transport permit (ATT) to take their firearm to a shooting range, plus they have to be renewed every 3 years. As the ATTs are issued automatically to a holder of a firearms licence, it makes little sense to continue them as a separate form.
- Extends the licencing renewal period to 10 years from the current 5 years requirement. This would make even more sense as a lifetime provision, but once licenced initially, there is no need for an individual's status to change unless some breech of the regulations occurs. Changing the renewal period to a 10 year period at least eliminates a significant amount of unnecessary paperwork.
- It changes the grandfathering date for owners of 12/6 firearms which was originally passed with Bill C-10A, but never passed into law. This just reiterates legislation that was previously passed in xxxx through Bill-xxx but never made it into law due to bureaucratic failure.
- Calls for the Auditor General to conduct a cost/benefit analysis on all aspects of the Firearms Program every five years. No comment needed.
Now none of these legislative changes would impact public safety in any manner or form. But this has not stopped organizations such as the Coalition for Gun Control, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police or even spokespersons for the Liberal party from making those hysterical statements to the media. And this hasn't stopped the media from broadcasting those statements without questioning in any way whether they are factual or not.
Other than making some changes that that would be of considerable benefit to Canadian firearm owners, what Bill-301 would do is save the government and taxpayers money. By eliminating the registry, the required issuance of ATTs and changing the license renewal requirements from 5 to 10 year intervals, there would be significant savings in staffing and paperwork.
In difficult financial times wouldn't you think that something that would save the government money, make a large constituency of voters happy, while having no negative impact on public safety be something that federal MPs could support wholeheartedly.
Maybe if they would look at the facts and not the rhetoric they might be so inclined.

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Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2019
Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law
Article 2.5. Warrant for Collection of Tax
Section 7882
7882. Effect. The warrant shall be directed to any sheriff or marshal and shall have the same force and effect as a writ of execution. The warrant shall be levied and sale made pursuant to it in the same manner and with the same force and effect as a levy of and sale pursuant to a writ of execution.
History.—Added by Stats. 1959, p. 2470, in effect September 18, 1959. Stats. 1996, Ch. 872, in effect January 1, 1997, deleted ", constable," after "to any sheriff" in the first sentence.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Roush Fenway Racing began laying off employees Tuesday as it prepares to field fewer cars in 2012.
The team had four Sprint Cup Series teams and three Nationwide Series cars this season. Sponsorship woes likely will lead to the organization closing down the No. 6 Cup team of David Ragan and scale back to only one full-time Nationwide car.
Team spokesman Kevin Woods indicated a second Nationwide car could run on a limited basis, and although talks with sponsors continue, the process of "right-sizing the organization to suit the number of anticipated teams" began Tuesday.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wrapped up the Nationwide title last weekend at Homestead, and Carl Edwards narrowly lost the Cup title to Tony Stewart in Sunday's season finale.


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Gaucho reality
Descendants of Iberian immigrants and Argentina's first nations, gauchos have often been romanticized as free spirits who lead a hard life as cattle farmers on the South American pampas. Argentine photographer Aldo Sessa captured the reality and traditions of gaucho life in powerful images and has now published a book called Cauchos. Icons of Argentina


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AliBababa News Agency (10.30 am Mekka/ 10am GMT) –
"Londonistan in Flames – People overpower Bourgeois Police State."
Londonistan – The bourgeois minority regime of Cameron, Clegg and Crony has been shaken by widespread People Power demonstrations across Britain for a third night running. Summertime protests have sent a chill wind of hope through Britain's long repressed people. "Fear of the police has gone," dissident youth leaders claim. "It's a free for all society now or never."
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has broken his silence by warning the regime not permit rioting to reach Saudi sovereign territory in the Mayfair district of the British capital and to introduce reforms at once. Other world leaders have joined the chorus of condemnation of the increasingly isolated Cameron clique. The Syrian foreign minister, Walid Haged, has welcomed the joint condemnation of Cameron's regime by the Arab League and African Union and suggested the UN Security Council should authorise all necessary means to stop repression by regime thugs of the street protests. Analysts expect the ban on heroin exports to Britain announced jointly by Afghanistan and Burma could add to the pressure-cooker atmosphere in Britain which is 100% dependent on narcotics imports.
The regime has pinned its hopes for international legitimacy on next year's Londonistan Olympic Games which were controversially awarded to bourgeois Britain despite signs that its economy was overheating and popular anger against the regime rising. Threats of a boycott by the highly-regarded Omani-burka clad beach volley ball team could be a humiliation too far for Cameron's clique.
Reports of foreign interference in the British crisis have been rejected by expert analysts. Instead domestic tensions are seen as the only cause .The Yemeni professor of protestology, Bahce Kewi, explains "The ruling Consumerist Party finds that thirty years of its strict ideological dominance has not bred a docile youth. Young people are aware of a cyber-world beyond Britain where values like free access to the internet are normal. They can't wait to join the cashless society and get their hands on stuff for nothing."
Rejecting the empty slogans "You Can't Buck the Market" and "There is No Alternative," indignant youth across Britain have stormed the ruling regime's local headquarters setting fire to symbols of Consumerist dominance and removing telecommunications and internet monitoring equipment from branches of the feared Curry's organization in towns across the country.
With unverifiable but plausible reports of more than a thousand deaths in the Arsenal district of north Londonistan where a crowd estimated at a million strong overwhelmed the hated Met riot squads to occupy the Consumer Electronic Outlets Center, its seems likely that the popular protests could spread from the simmering suburbs even to previously loyal uptown areas like Kensington and Cholsey where many regime supporters have their luxurious barricaded villas.
Recognising the growing unrest, the secular Consumerist regime has tried to ban the traditional hoodie and mask outfit worn by the nation's discontented youth as a rejection of the tie-less suit-wearing "official" style. This has only inflamed the mood of desperation in the capital's teeming suburbs like Cronydon, where uncollected garbage is piled up for two weeks at a time.
AliBaba's reporters are not allowed into Britain but using social networking sights and videophone images uploaded via MagiKarpit internet portal, our team of experienced journalists supported by expert analysts have put together a clear picture of the crisis in Britain.
Analysts report that the British regime's claim to democratic legitimacy masks the reality that it is drawn from the minority bourgeois tribe, and especially from the Etonian clan with its headquarters west of London overlooking the country's main airport at Heathrow.
Dissidents inside Britain as well as reform-advocates outside the country at the Damascus-based British Underground Liberty League have provided international media with 24/7 updates via Foxglove and the Gaggle-website Rumors with an exhilarating insight into a popular uprising by brave young people in their millions who have exposed the hollowness of the Consumerist ideology.
The regime's own media like the Bourgeois Broadcasting Corporation try to portray the popular protests as outbursts of criminality and refer to the occupations of Consumerist branches as looting, AliBaba's satellite channel has been able to contact one Twitteringham resident via Blackberry outside a "liberated" shopping center. To protect his identity, Alibaba is calling him "The Finger." Using a brand-new handset to outwit secret police surveillance, The Finger told Alibaba that "We ain't dun nuffin wrong. The doors was open and we are protecting the property in our own way."
This kind of spontaneous organisation at grass-roots level has baffled the previously all-powerful Consumerist regime. Unable to rely on the Army for crowd control because of the large Oik majority in the ranks, the bourgeois regime is floundering as its levers of power no longer react to commands.
Desperate measures are being used in some areas according to reliable tweets. The sinister silence of veteran bloggers like the Mosside community organiser, The Spliff, shows the extremism of the hardliners according to human rights observers who are increasingly concerned that Manchester's failure to rise in revolt alongside nearby Liverpool suggests that the regime's widely-reported use of chemical weapons there is true.
Expert analysts suggest that deep-seated socio-economic resentments are at the root of the protest movement as a tiny elite is suspected is ripping off state revenues to fund lavish lifestyles at the expense of the People. Corrupt bourgeois-run banks have been bailed out with billions taken from the country's oil revenues while queues of the unemployed waiting for famine relief outside hospitals wait for months on an end for the chance of a drip-feed.
Fears of a sectarian split in Britain have also been voiced by some foreign academic observers. They point out that shops owned by the widely-hated bourgeois minority were attacked across the country and fear that if the Cameron regime fell, then isolated bourgeois communities could face copy-cat revenge attacks for their decades of profiteering at the expense of the long-suffering people.
Signs of internal dissent within the Consumerists have been detected. Defections from the regime have been reported. The finance vizier, George Osborne, has been sighted in California where Alibaba's internet sources suggest he has stashed the regime's gold reserves. Meanwhile Defence Minister, Liam Fox, is in Spain, though the regime insists that he remains loyal and "is directing operations from his hotel." However, the fact that the Prime Minister's own wife, Samantha and children have been flown to safety in Italy suggests that David Cameron himself is not confident of the regime's survival.
Increasingly isolated, Cameron and his fellow Etonian clan member, Boris Johnson, who runs the City, have turned to the snakeheads of the regime, the so-called COBRA group. [COBRA = Coordinating Bourgeois Reaction Army – AliBaba editorial] Along with the Specials, a bourgeois militia who form the regime's Reactionary Guards, COBRA are threatening to flood the streets of Britain's cities with merciless politically-correctional "volunteers."
With the stock-market in free fall and international sanctions in the offing, the economic basis of the Consumerists' ability to buy off protest and pay off loyalist thugs masquerading as policemen and Specials is waning fast.
Banning popular sports like soccer threatens to put more youth onto the streets while formerly regime-backing footballers like David Beckham have gone into exile in Los Angeles rather than play the beautiful game in a Wembley stadium converted into a make-shift prison.
If Consumerism falls in Britain how long can it last in its hardline center, the United States, is a question being asked by analysts. Despite its clandestine nuclear weapons programme and mercenary militias called Contractors, even Washington's hold over its own long-suffering people looks shaky. With flash mobs reported in Philadelphia and Newark, the ayatollahs of Wall Street are having to devote all their security resources to protecting the bourgeois heartland.
This leaves Cameron's dictatorship desperately exposed. The British regime's only hope to keep the masses off the streets for a fourth night of protests is the weather forecast. Loyalists are praying for a rain of terror to come in from the Atlantic coast and keep the people power movement indoors. God-willing the cloud of Consumerism will be lifted from the long-suffering Britons before the end of Ramadan.
AliBaba Breaking News - Britain's puppet-parliament recalled for emergency session. After decades of docility rumors of a Westminster Palace putsch are spreading as are reports of a new tough state security law. Cameron says Olympic Games to go ahead over dead bodies.


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About 3 weeks ago I arrived in Burkina Faso, ready and excited to work with Micro Start, Kiva's first partner in the west African country. Micro Start has an amazing mission "to improve families' living conditions in general, and that of women in particular, by facilitating access to financial and non-financial services" and a conscientious staff who start working at 7:30am to carry it out. This is Micro Start's Kiva Coordinator (KC) and I at the office during one my first days:
Although I've been here only a few short weeks, I've already had the opportunity to experience quite a bit of awesome Burkinabe culture. One if its defining characteristics is the emphasis on strong familial bonds. As Micro Start's KC said when I arrived: "We're a very poor country that's very rich in culture." It is a perfect summary of my experiences here thus far. In Burkina Faso, taking care of your children, significant other, and parents is a top priority. A great example of this is mothers who always carry their babies on their back, facilitating a close relationship. At 24 years old, I'm obviously way too old to start having babies, but if I ever get around to it, I've been requested to bring this tradition to the States. We won't have any more angst-ridden teenagers I'm told. It is also unheard of to send parents to a nursing home. As parents age, its is the responsibility of the children to provide for them: food, housing, and healthcare. While this makes for a beautiful culture, it creates some interesting complexities when it comes to a short-term view of poverty alleviation.
Here is a collection of traditional Burkinabe homes I saw while visiting borrowers; they keep extended families close together:
Just about every profile sheet that comes to Micro Start's Kiva Coordinator from the loan officers lists "helping my husband," "helping my children," or "helping my parents" under the borrower's aspirations. I'm an advocate for supporting family members and sending children to school, so I had taken for granted that these aspirations facilitated quick poverty alleviation. What Micro Start's KC mentioned, and what I had failed to consider, is that extra income is often used to pay for the needs of parents, children, or significant others. This means there often isn't an immediate visible improvement in diet or housing, and the path out of poverty is long.
In the end, I think it's a valuable trade-off: sacrificing the immediate results of donor-based aid for the sake of sustainable development with dignity. Once the children finish school and have a world of opportunities in front of them, it will pay off immeasurably. Once the money that went into the husband's business helps expand it significantly, we will see the improvements in a lender's living situation. As Westerners, we often want to see the results here and now, but sometimes culture is more complicated. And sometimes the best results take a little patience.
These are some excited borrowers I had the chance to meet this week:
They were wonderfully friendly and showed us some fabulous Burkinabe love by leaving us the food in the picture for lunch. It was delicious and vegetarian, which made for one happy Kiva Fellow! Taken from their loan profile, the group president's aspirations are to "take care of the family and her children's schooling. Her ambition is to open a large restaurant." This is the beauty of microfinance: future potential and opportunity for sustainable growth.
To come alongside one of Kiva's newest partners, check out Micro Start's partner page, and lend to a Burkinabe borrower!
Allison Moomey is a Kiva Fellow (KF 16) working with Micro Start in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. To learn more, please visit Micro Start's partner page, join the Friends of Micro Start/AFD lending team, and lend to Burkinabe borrowers.


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All month long, Shruti's highlighting a color and shade represented by a Bella Solid fabric and asking her readers to share inspiration photos that somehow feature that color. In addition, there are contests, giveaways, quilt-alongs, and more from Shruti with support from the generous folks at Moda and the Fat Quarter Shop. You can see more here.
One of the other activities is to show fabric bundles that are built around each color to showcase the (sometimes very) different ways in which a particular color can be used. Each bundle is comprised of 3 additional solids and 3 prints to complement the day's color. I was thrilled when Shruti invited me to participate in her "Expert's Pick" series to create some of those fabric combinations.
(I know, I thought the same thing you're thinking right now: me? An expert?!)
Over the next several days, I'm going to share my fabric combinations both on Shruti's blog and also here with you. I'd love to hear what you think of each, or any other prints that you might add in to the mix. These posts will be auto-scheduled to go live while I'm at market too, and I can't wait to check in with you all when I'm back!
Before showing my first fabric combo, let me share a brief intro that I wrote for Shruti highlighting my thought process when putting these together:
Hi! My name is John Adams and I blog at QuiltDad.com. I am also a founding member of Fat Quarterly, a popular e-magazine written by and for modern sewists. Come learn more about us and our magazine on our blog, which always has fresh, fun content about the modern quilting community. I live in Cary, North Carolina, with my wife, 6 year-old twin daughters, 5 year-old son, and dog named Tula (named after one of my fabric designers, Tula Pink!)--
I've been sewing and quilting now for about 4 years, and one thing has become clear to me in that time: my absolute favorite part of the entire quilting process is selecting my palette of colors and prints for my projects. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy making small project like pillows, mini quilts, and mug rugs so much -- I can scratch that creative itch and try out new fabric combinations on quick & easy projects. I love Shruti's Bella Solids Parade project and I jumped at the chance to submit my expert's picks!
Shruti's challenge was a bit, well, challenging for me. When pulling fabrics together for a new quilt or project, I typically start with an inspirational print or two. I then draw complementary prints and colors, including solids from that starting point. However, here I was asked to start with a solid, which is a bit different than my usual approach. What I found is that each focus solid would still lead me to a "focus" print or patterned fabric, from which I drew the rest of my palette.
This challenge was GREAT fun, and I hope you like my fabric bundles as much as I do! For those who read my blog, you know that I often have a hard time editing myself, so for a few of my bundles I couldn't help but throw in an extra print or solid or 2. Now I am inspired and already planning projects with each of my new bundles!
Thanks for the opportunity, Shruti!
And now, on to the parade! Today's inspiration color is Sunshine:
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How 'Springing Forward' Affects Sleep
This weekend marked the beginning of daylight saving time| when we jump forward an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday| March 8. The good news is that we have a day to acclimate to the change before the start of the workweek| but the bad news is that our internal clocks may not be as easy to reset as the ones on our computers and phones. In fact| many sleep experts say that losing that hour of sleep because of DST can affect us for around 48 hours| meaning come Monday| you may be dreaming of resting your head on your keyboard for a quick nap. To prevent a groggy| irritable start to the week| here are some tips for dealing with DST.
Time to change your habits: A post-DST hangover-like feeling can be all you need to realize that your sleeping habits in general need a change. Things like establishing a bedtime routine and regular bedtime and not using the snooze button can all help you get more quality sleep. Here are more expert ways to change your sleep habits for the better.Start preparing: Going to sleep and waking up 30 minutes earlier over the weekend and taking a nap on Sunday can both prepare you for that early morning jolt come Monday. Once you wake up over the weekend| try to get some sunlight as soon as possible for extra energy| says sleep expert Nicholas Rummo.Take a hot shower at night: Try taking a hot shower before bed and then getting into a cool bed. That ritual will mimic the day-to-night process| which may help guide you to sleep.Image Source: Thinkstock


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I recently came across a round of spammed instant messages that arrived via my Yahoo! Messenger account. These messages were supposedly sent from my cousin's account, and used the following format and were sent to everyone on her friends list:
The familiar message format told me that I was chatting with a bot that wanted me to click the link in the message. Checking where the link went to led me to the following page:
The IQ test had 11 questions that eventually led to a "results" page that asked me to sign up and enter my mobile phone number to get the quiz results:
One may ask why the site would need a mobile phone number just to send IQ test results. Will they use this information to spam me through my mobile phone? Nor is it clear if the answers to the questions actually matter to the IQ "score" given to the user, if they actually receive one.
That may well be the case but the cybercriminals have a more direct approach to earn money. The Summary of Terms at the bottom of the page says that by giving the quiz's creators one's mobile phone number means signing up for "mobile content subscription." Of course, this is not free, as the subscription fee ranges from US$9.99–$19.99 a month. This is stated in the site's terms and conditions, which are located at the bottom of the page:
This gave me enough reason to close the browser tab and leave the website. The URL of the said "IQ test" is now blocked by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network™.


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Turn Your World Into Vibrant Comic Life
Dec 10, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Comic Life by Plasq Software is available for US$29.95 at the Mac App Store.
Comic Life's latest incarnation has some really useful new additions. They include a script editor, new filters, a background knockout feature and some new fill options.
With great new features, though, come greater complexity and greater demands on screen real estate, which can make the software more difficult to use for newbies and challenging to manage on Macs with smaller screens, like a MacBook Air or a 13-inch MacBook.
If you're new to Comic Life or want to become proficient in its new features more quickly, a quick read of its 20-page documentation will be well worth your time.
Amazing Integration
Among the software's new features, the addition of script editing is truly amazing in the way it integrates the creation of script and comic.
When you're in Comic Life's script editor, the software is constantly on the lookout for keywords that tip it off that a comic element is being added to the script. Those elements include panels, titles, sound effects, captions and dialogue.
As you enter a keyword -- for example, "Title:" -- an icon for that element appears beside the keyword in your script's left margin. That element can then be inserted into your comic by grabbing the icon and dragging it onto a page.
Once the element is on the page, you can modify it. You can move it around, resize it and apply a style to it. For example, you can stretch a title to cover the width of a page and choose from a number of display font types.
To help in placing elements on the page, Comic Life includes rulers, as well as alignment and spacing guides.
Winging It
The integration of script and comic in Comic Life greatly enhances the creative process because it removes the tedious steps of transforming what's on the script page to the comic page.
If you're unfamiliar with comic scripting, Comic Life includes a sample script, as well as easy-to-understand explanations of script basics.
While starting with a script is one way to create a comic in Comic Life, it's not the only way. You can wing it by choosing panel layouts and templates from the software's libraries, as well as drag elements into panels from the program's Element Well located at the bottom of its interface.
Indeed, when working with a personal photo library, it may be easier to work without a script and make up your narrative as you drag images into your comic.
Photos can be dragged onto a comic page from any location -- from a Finder window, from Comic Life's photo library, even from a Web page.
Photo Magic
Once you bring an image into a panel, you can reposition it, zoom in or out on portions of it, and rotate it within the panel.
You can also choose from a number of filters to make the photo look as if it were drawn in a number of comic book and other artistic styles.
With this edition of Comic Life, Plasq has added 18 new parametric filters, which seem to produce better results than the old filters, which are still included with the software.
Among the new filters in version 3.0 of the app are several "hatching" filters for both color and black and white comics; filters for giving a panel a painted look; a filter for rendering a panel in classic pen and ink; color and black and white "retro" filters that have large dot patterns similar to the pop art of Andy Warhol; and "rotoscoping," a technique used to give photos or film a cartoon appearance -- along the lines of what Schwab did in a series of TV ads a few years ago.
Busy Interface
Plasq also added an Instant Alpha feature to the latest version of Comic Life. It gives you an easy way to knock out the background of a photo. It's not the most precise tool in the world, but it should meet the needs of many Comic Life users.
After knocking out a background, you can fill it in with some of the software's new halftones and textures. You can also add speedlines to add a sense of motion to objects in a panel or give the panel an explosive look.
Although Comic Life has modest minimum requirements -- OS X 10.6.5 or higher, 1 GHz Intel processor, a gigabyte of RAM and 300 MB of disk space -- as with most graphic apps, more is always better than less.
That's especially true of display size. There are so many palettes and panes that can be displayed in Comic Life's interface that it can be challenging to work with it on the 13-inch displays found on some of Apple's notebooks.
Current Comic Life for Mac users can upgrade to version 3.0 for $14.99, and new users can give the program a 30-day spin free of charge before deciding whether or not to buy it for $29.95. Whether you're upgrading or trying out the program for the first time, this latest edition of Comic Life is a keeper.


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Digital SeriesMarvel's Top 10 Animal-Themed Villains
Marvel's stable of Super Villains are a wild, wild bunch!
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See some of the best of the Marvel Universe come together for the decade's best crossover comic events!
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It was a big decade for big heroes with even bigger hair!
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We'd follow (almost all) of these team leaders into battle!


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Hey Cantabrians!
Welcome to the Canterbury 360 Heart Stopper Challenge 2020!
Our refreshing signature event has been running all around the country for well over 10 years. Thousands of warmhearted people over the last decade have put their brave face on and taken the plunge to help little kiwi kids born with heart defects.
The 360 Heart Stopper Challenge is a simple, fun event where you can challenge yourself and do a lot of good at the same time.
Simply grab a team of 4-6 people, think of an ice/water/hearty type of team name, set yourself up a team page, share your fundraising page with your friends, family and networks to raise as many dollars as you can for kids with broken hearts.
Finally, come along to the event and take your turn with many other adventurous plungers to sit in a pool of water nicely chilled to 10° for 360 seconds. It's really cool!
Yes, it's a challenge, but we know you can do it and you'll be able to say that your warm heart has helped so many little hearts that need support.
Heart Kids NZ has been around for over 30 years helping the 12 babies born every week with heart defects. We provide support for families while they spend extended periods of time in the National Children's Hospital and when they are back at home in their local community.
Click on the 'Join in' button now to set up your page or to support a plunger,find their team on the leaderboard below or click on the 'Sponsor a plunger' tab above.
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The TOWNHOUSE at 857 Carroll Street, A Park Slope Masterpiece
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The fact that Porter and I get to wake up and peek inside some of New York's most beautiful buildings and homes...and then, in the best cases, fill them with furniture and art we love...requires almost daily I-must-be-dreaming pinches. And when the Harkov Lewis Team (Porter's team at Halstead) brought us in to help prepare a 1901 Romanesque Revival mansion for sale, our jaws practically dropped. This was no small undertaking: 4,300 square feet. Ten rooms (not including the garden apartment). Three floors...and a patio.
The woodwork and floors alone are fit for kings. The furniture had to honor that, but also bring the home into the 21st century. For us, that meant lots of copper and metals, jewel tones, Chinoiserie touches and mid-century Italian dream pieces. We also asked our friends to help with the art...and our minds are just blown with how seamlessly they all work in the space and with each other.
We love pretending that we're decorating for a real family when we stage. In this case, the family included an Italian zoologist father who has a music-loving teenage daughter from his first marriage. Together with his second wife, a French botanist, he has two twin eight year old boys who love astronomy and cars and a new baby girl who enjoys Frank Gehry pop-up books. They chose to live at 857 Carroll because of the proximity to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden where the wife headed up tropical plants, but they're now leaving Brooklyn so she can finally write her book about the jungles of Costa Rica. You know, one of those families.
Here's the full tour of the house. Stay tuned for a special invitation and event that will let you really step inside!
Tommaso Barbi's 1960s burled wood and brass backgammon table is our newest pride and joy. We thought it would be fun to add some purple neon to the mix, too.
A large-scale photo from Ian Tong's Feathers and Fur series looks over the front parlor. The images of Scandinavian taxidermy are part of a larger documentary project, 'Artifice,' which explores man's endeavors to duplicate reality. Images from this series have been selected to appear in the prestigious American Photography annual #27 and were taking in Stockholm in 2009.
C.T. Bray's sculptures line the parlor fireplace mantle. The French, 19th century fireplace screen is hand-painted. The sectional is designed after Vladamir Kagan.
Our HOVEY DESIGN DIY leaf lamp (after Tommaso Barbi) illuminates one of my paintings. Tom Dixon's coffee set serves as the centerpiece in the dining room.
Bradford Robotham's Architectural Abstractions I-III hang in the master suite reading room where we added Persian rugs, a Le Corbusier lounge and our favorite tortoise shell floor lamps of all time.
Margaux Ogden's Mass Sext (acrylic on canvas, 2015) hangs over the bed in the master bedroom. She just had a big show in LA and we could not be more excited for her success - and to have THREE of her works in the house.
Her work, Not Long Now (acrylic on canvas, 2015), hangs over vintage club chairs in the master bedroom.
We transformed Ikea's Fjellse beds into glamorous tortoise shell with some stain and Q-Tips. Porter created a wonderful space scene in chalk.
Kirkland Bray's collages give life to the teenager's room. His Smooch hangs over the fireplace.


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Congressional Republicans have shifted from attacking Obamacare for being a socialist tyranny that, in its spare time, manages to be the "biggest job killer in the country" to attacking Obamacare for delivering a substandard user experience on the Internet. Bad faith comes in mini as well as maxi sizes.
Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers recently wrote that Republicans would be in much better political shape if they had a legislative agenda or at least something generally positive to propose for the country.
The talk about the demise of the Republican Party and the wounds the party has sustained as a result of the recent showdown over the budget/Obamacare/debt/whatever else is overstated, but we still need to be for something realistic and offer plausible solutions. We have no shortage of challenges. Now would be a perfect time to introduce a unified GOP alternative to Obamacare. Not stray random ideas or piecemeal retreads, but a real solution.
Ramesh Ponnuru, writing in Bloomberg View, interviewed a Republican senator who is "in the middle" of Senate Republicans ideologically. This politician has a slightly deeper concern: "He doesn't think that his party is ready to govern the country."
The two problems are related. While Democrats are fighting to protect the gains of President Barack Obama's first term, Republicans continue to define themselves by what they're against. The results are mixed at best, with surveys showing voters view congressional Republicans as obstructionists.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman became the spokesman for Republican anomie during the government shutdown when he said Republicans would not tolerate being disrespected. "We have to get something out of this," he said. "And I don't know what that even is."
The quote rang a bell. Last winter, when Republicans collectively decided to embrace the sequestration cuts they had previously decried, Republican operative Ralph Reed made a similarly aimless point to The New York Times. "The sequester and winning that fight � however you define what winning means � is critical for the party," Reed said.
How critical can a goal be if you can't even identify it?
There will be no real "winning" for Republicans in Washington until there is something approximating realistic Republican policy. The party budget blueprint, created by Rep. Paul Ryan, was so unfeasible it collapsed before getting out of the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, the conflict between standard conservatives and tea partyers is less about policy than nostalgia. The first group views tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation for business as the route back to 1980s prosperity. The second wants to repeal the New Deal on the way to a Jeffersonian republic.
Curiously, neither 19th-century nor 1980s policy is well suited to the moment. With 50 million Americans lacking health insurance, Republicans offer no plausible means of expanding either insurance or access to health care. With the middle class under duress and inequality high and rising, they offer tax cuts for the wealthy and reduced subsidies for the poor and unemployed. Their response to climate change is another helping of coal.
Ronald Reagan lived in a different world, when 80 percent of the nation was white and zero percent was connected to the World Wide Web. Federal tax receipts as a percentage of gross domestic product are lower today than they were after Reagan's big tax cuts. Employment in manufacturing has shrunk by more than a third. Global trade, in total dollars, has increased about tenfold. Long-term unemployment is grueling.
Democrats are at a loss navigating some 21st-century challenges. But rightly or wrongly, Obamacare and cap-and-trade � both derived from conservative roots � target real-time problems. Immigration reform, along with subsidies for the poor and alternative energy, do likewise. That's not the same as producing a dynamic economy full of high-paying jobs, but as both a governing agenda and a political program, it beats nostalgia.
Republican governors are not all as hapless as their D.C. brethren. Governors in Florida and Texas, for example, have recognized that access to college is a serious problem, and they're trying to do something about it. But evidence of congressional Republicans offering similarly constructive proposals is scarce. Perhaps after another round of attacks on the health care law, they might carve out some time to think about that.


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At 17, Vera Zasulich defied her relatives' plans to turn her into a governess—the only decent profession for an impoverished young noblewoman—and moved to St. Petersburg. She hoped to emulate another Vera, Vera Pavlova, the heroine of Chernyshevsky's novel What Is To Be Done? Following her idol, Vera helped establish a sewing cooperative and came into with Russia's most infamous and influential revolutionary, Sergei Nechaev. Her relationship with him had a profound effect on her life.
Nechaev was a charismatic psychopath. The model for Dostoevsky's character Peter Verkhovensky in The Possessed, he believed anything—lies, violence, murder—could be justified in the name of the 'cause.' Picked up for questioning by the police in January 1869, he decided to leave Russia. He wanted Vera to join him. He loved her, he said. He needed her. Vera hesitated—and then refused.
Nechaev left but every letter sent back to Russia, every letter to friends and supporters, asked for news of Vera. Nechaev knew the police would read these letters yet he made no effort to protect her identity. Stupidity? Hardly. Revenge? Possibly. Nechaev was not used to hearing 'no.' Vera was picked up for questioning and in April 1869, arrested.
She was imprisoned in the Lithuanian Castle, one of Russia's worst prisons. Death and disease ran rampant. Rotted floorboards gave way beneath her feet and prisoners were afraid to touch the walls lest the slime that grew there come off on their hands and clothes. Covered in damp and mildew, the prison stank so badly visitors, literally, could not stomach it.
Vera wasn't interrogated nor was she charged. She was simply left alone. Kept in a cell, by herself, for over a year, she had no human contact and no reading materials. Her mother complained to authorities that she'd been allowed only one short visit with her daughter. The 19-year-old Vera struggled to stay sane.
Conditions improved when she was transferred to the Peter and Paul Fortress. Here, at least, her cell had windows, the food was edible and she was allowed to read any book she could get her hands on. And then, in March 1871, she was released. The government decided the evidence against her was too weak to get a conviction.
She was arrested again ten days later. Again, no charges were pressed. With only one ruble in her pocket and the light dress and shawl she was arrested in, Vera was exiled to Novgorod. A sympathetic guard, afraid she would freeze, literally gave her the coat off his back. For months, she survived on the charity of villagers and their local church. She was returned to St. Petersburg in June. The government wanted her to testimony.
Nechaev had killed one of his followers. He had escaped abroad but over a hundred of his supporters had been rounded up and put on trial. Why the government wanted Vera's testimony can only be guessed at. She was incarcerated when the murder occurred. In any case, she was less than cooperative. "I don't know" or "I don't recall" were her most usual replies. Others were more outspoken, blaming everything on Nechaev. Among those convicted was Peter Uspensky, Vera's brother in law. Sentenced to 15 years hard labor, he was murdered in his cell, suspected of being a police informant.
Nechaev was finally arrested and extradited to Russia in 1872. Tried and convicted, his hold on the Russian revolutionary movement collapsed. By then, Vera had no illusions about him. But, for her, the damage was done. Her sole goal was the overthrow the autocracy. The 1870's were marked by years of exile and increasingly radical activity.
It all came to a head in January 1878. In the mid-1870's, Russia had witnessed a remarkable movement, 'going to the people.' Young men and women left their homes and universities to work among the peasants or take jobs in factories, hoping to foment change. Arrested by the hundreds, many, like Vera, were held for months, then years, without trial.
One of those prisoners was Arkhip Bogoliubov. He was not a remarkable man. He didn't head any movement nor were his 'crimes' any worse than anyone else's. His only mistake was to be standing in the prison courtyard , talking to friends, when General Feodor Trepov, Governor of St. Petersburg, made an unannounced visit. Already outraged by what he saw as the breakdown of discipline in the prison, Trepov snapped when Bogoliubov refused to remove his cap. Trepov struck the young man and ordered him flogged.
It was a stupid, petty show of tyranny and that was exactly how the press portrayed it. Vera waited to see what would happen. Surely the government wouldn't get away with something so vile. Trepov had to be punished. He wasn't. Taking matters into her own hands, Vera returned to St. Petersburg. On the morning of January 24, 1878, she hid a revolver under her shawl and joined the other petitioners lined up to see the Governor. When Trepov approached her, Vera fired twice.
That she didn't kill him was a miracle. Arrested and put on trial, Vera expected to hang. But neither she nor the prosecutor recognized the mood in the country had changed. Educated society was disgusted with Trepov. Far from condemning the quiet, unassuming Vera, they admired her. She had done what men had feared to do. She'd said 'enough.' Then her attorney, Peter Alexandrov, turned the court on its head. He defended Vera—and attacked the government.
The jury deliberated only 30 minutes before Vera was acquitted on all charges. People came to their feet and cheered. Amid rumors the government planned to re-arrest her, Vera was spirited away. Friends convinced her to leave Russia.
A reluctant heroine, Vera continued her revolutionary activities abroad but came to disavow terrorsim. She opposed the October Revolution of 1917 and attacked Lening openly, seeing too much of Nechaev in the man. She predicted what Lenin's brand of Communism would do to Russia. She died in 1919.
(For further reading, Ana Siljak's Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World offers great insights into the event and turbulent period of pre-revolutionary Russia. )


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Dairy Welfare, Handling, Lameness by Marcia Endres
By Marcia Endres, University of Minnesota Extension Dairy Scientist
Two recent conferences in the upper Midwest focused on the topic of dairy welfare: the I-29 Dairy Conference in Sioux Falls and the Wisconsin Dairy and Beef Animal Husbandry Conference. We have been hearing more and more about dairy welfare in our industry. This is a societal issue that is here to stay.
Lameness was on the agenda at the I-29 conference. Jan Shearer, extension veterinarian at Iowa State, indicated that lameness is today the most costly disorder in dairy herds surpassing mastitis. It reduces milk production, impairs reproduction, and can result in premature culling and death. In the context of the three areas that comprise welfare – animal health and functioning, natural behavior, and affective states (pain, distress) suggested by Fraser (animal welfare expert at the University of British Columbia) – lameness fails in every one of them. A lame cow has impaired performance, can't walk naturally and interact with her peers, and is certainly in a lot of pain. Therefore, the most important economic disorder in our dairy farms is also on the top of dairy welfare concerns.
It is possible to achieve low prevalence of lameness on farms. Our studies at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated that the average prevalence of lameness can vary from 6.5 to 30% depending on the housing system evaluated. On an individual farm basis, lameness prevalence ranged from 0% (yes, 0%) to 60%. It is not acceptable to be at that higher end of the scale. It is possible to have less than 10% of severe lame cows, preferably less than 5%. To achieve this goal we have to work on many aspects of the dairy operation as lameness is a multi-factorial disorder.
Cow handling has been identified as one of the factors that can contribute to lameness in cattle. Handling cattle in a quiet and slow manner doesn't cost anything. There is no capital investment. Improving cattle handling will not solve the lameness problem by itself, but ways must be found to improve the situation.
Temple Grandin, animal welfare expert at Colorado State, talked about the relationship between fear and milk production in dairy cows at the I-29 conference. If cows are fearful of humans, milk production can be reduced by 10%. Grandin said that cows do not recognize human faces; they recognize places, smells, voices, distinctive clothing, and certain objects. Cows have long term memory, so it is important for a heifer to have a good experience the first time she enters a milking parlor. Something new can be both scary and attractive to cattle depending on how it is presented. If cattle are allowed to voluntarily approach something new (not forced), they will not be scared and will become accustomed to the object. One of the first signs of stress in cattle is when we can see the whites of their eyes. Another sign would be tail swishing when no flies are present. Grandin suggested that it could even be beneficial to hire someone to pet and handle calves. At a minimum, the person taking care of calves should be calm and nurturing. As the heifers get older, a person could walk in their pens every day to calm them further. This person could wear the same clothing as the milkers do (for example, a yellow apron). Then the heifers will associate milker clothing with a good experience so when they go to the milking parlor for the first time, they can be calmed by the sight of a familiar, nice, safe person.
At the Wisconsin conference, Naomi Botheras, animal welfare extension specialist at Ohio State, talked about the relationship between animal handling and productivity. She indicated that consistent negative relationships have been found between fear of humans and productivity in dairy, swine and poultry operations. High levels of fear of humans can result in animals fleeing, panicking, packing together or resisting, resulting in difficult sorting, increased likelihood of slips and falls, with consequent problems such as increased lameness prevalence and premature culling. At the same conference, Curt Pate, National Cattlemen's Association, gave a live cattle handling demonstration. He made it look so easy, but it takes practice and understanding of cattle behavior to calmly move and sort animals like he did. We don't need to use our arms, or yell, or be frantic, only understand flight zones and pressure points to move cattle.
Two take-home messages from these conferences: 1. Even though progress has been made, lameness continues to be one of the most important economic and welfare issues on dairy farms today. We need to continue to work on reducing risk factors for lameness. 2. Negative animal handling can have important consequences on productivity and well-being. We need to work with cattle in a calm and quiet manner. Good handling doesn't cost anything. Let's do it!


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- 1. SB1455 Resurrected by Sen. Carlyle Begay. Please Help Get it Scheduled for Another Vote!
Wait! Didn't you say SB1455 had been hijacked? Then you said it was back on the right track? Now you say it's been resurrected? Yes, Yes, and Yes.
After being placed on the "right track," it failed in the Senate on March 7 by a vote of 18 Nays; 11 Ayes; 1 Not Voting. Shortly after, Sen. Carlyle Begay brought it up again. (Only senators who voted Nay can do that, which is why Sen. Begay voted Nay.)
So, it can be Reconsidered. The problem is this: Is there anybody who can turn some of those Nays into Ayes?
YES! YOU! See below for the names and contact information of Senators who voted Nay, followed by some Truths that YOU must convey to them, in order to convince them to change their vote.
Click HERE for the Excel File of Senators who Voted Nay. (Sen. Miranda did not vote.) Please contact them via Phone, Facebook, Email, In Person, and Twitter. If you cannot open the file, please send me an email at email@example.com, and I will send it to you.
The Truth About Why You Should Support SB1455. (These are prioritized based on the most common objections voiced by senators, and are not necessarily in order of your or my priority.)
1. Standardized tests, including AzMERIT, are not the only assessments given to students throughout the year. In fact, Standardized tests are unreliable in assessing a student's educational progress. AzMERIT has never been validated or proven to be an indicator of a student's progress. AzMERIT doesn't tell us anything about third-grade promotion. AzMERIT is given in the Spring, but the results aren't available until November, which is three months after the next school year begins! Teachers have no input into Standardized Tests. Teachers aren't allowed to see the tests. Teachers don't see their students' tests, even after they've been graded by third parties. Parents don't see the graded tests. Students don't see the graded tests. Nobody has any idea what answers were right, and which were wrong!
Better methods of evaluating student needs and progress already exist. Careful observations and documentation of student work and behaviors by trained teachers is more helpful than a one-time test. Assessment based on student performance on real learning tasks is more useful for measuring achievement and provides more information for teaching than multiple-choice achievement tests. Parents working with teachers, term grades, homework performance--these and other indicators are far better than AzMERIT. See How Standardized Testing Damages Education.Click here to read more
- 2. I'm Sorry, Students
What does this video have to do with Arizona? This teacher is talking about the same kind of High Stakes Tests that are given to children here in Arizona as young as 8 years old. AzMERIT is forced upon students, beginning in the third grade, and every year through high school. In Arizona, it's AzMERIT; in Utah, it's SAGE; in Florida it's the FSA. All of these states, including Ohio and others, have paid $Millions to American Institutes for Research, one of the world's largest behavioral and social science research and evaluation organizations to create these tests.
As a parent, have you stood up for your child and opted out of AzMERIT? Have you stood firm in the face of opposition from teachers, principals, school administrators, and the State? If not, learn more by clicking HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.Click here to read more
Dear Sen. Allen,
Like you, this has been an especially stressful session for me, too. SB1416 (previously SB1313 previously SB1416 previously HB2184) is not what I planned to fight this session.
I planned to do all possible to help parents protect their children from politicians and corporations that are using and abusing them, under the guise of "assessing their academic progress." AzMERIT by any name is an abomination brought to us by the Governor-appointed personalities on the State Board of Education (SBE). In fact, it was the SBE that brought us AIMS, PARCC, and every other useless standardized test that has literally accomplished nothing in improving student achievement in Arizona.
It was the State Board of Education (SBE) that agreed to Common Core in Jan. 2010, before it was even written. The SBE fell into lockstep to do what Governor Brewer required of them. It was also the SBE that formally approved, in June 2010, the implementation of Common Core after a Dog and Pony Show put on by Dr. William McCallum, one of the lead math writers. In fact, I didn't find any evidence in the Minutes that the SBE reviewed the standards. Not that it mattered. The Governor wanted them, because she blindly believed the experts, plus she saw a chance at the $250 million jackpot called Race To The Top. Even the "vetting" that went on within Arizona when teachers were brought in for their "opinions" of draft standards was nothing more than a publicity stunt on the part of the Common Core Team headed by David Coleman, who is well known as the chief architect. The "fix" was in from start to finish. The SBE didn't do any independent "vetting" of their own.
Common Core Standards didn't take years to put into place. They were literally dumped on teachers, kids, and parents, as witnessed by the revolt that occurred all across America, including the revolt of the grassroots in Arizona who did the vetting.
I could go on with many more examples of the wasteful, incompetent, downright dangerous performance of the Governor-appointed State Board of Education and why they need less, not more, powers and duties. But that's for another day.
You have stated that SB1416 is "the most misunderstood bill of the session with the most misinformation circulating among the grassroots organizations mostly fueled by their support of the Superintendent."
We aren't alone. Many Arizona senators and representatives join us in our precise understanding of the negative effects of this bill.
If SB1416 is approved, this is what the people who voted for Diane Douglas will know:Click here to read more
- 4. House Ed. Committee Poised to Stifle Voice of Voters: SB1313
The first effort to strip our duly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) of powers was during the Legislature's last session. Thankfully, HB2184 was held in the House. The second whack at our eleted SPI was brought forward this session by Sen. Jeff Dial, via SB1416.
SB1416 has been held by Speaker of the House David Gowan, until very recently, when he caved under pressure from Governor Ducey. Gowan is currently running as a "conservative" for U.S. Representative in CD1. Is "caving under pressure" a trait you seek in a U.S. Congressman?
SB1416 has now morphed into an even uglier SB1313, championed by Rep. Paul Boyer, known for his disdain for parental authority in matters relating to the education of their children. See Rep. Paul Boyer Won't Allow Parental "Opt Out" Bill to be Heard! , Boyer Blocking Parental Choice, Privacy Bills , and Boyer Tries To Dodge Public On SB1313, Education Overhaul
See below for a Summary of SB1313 by Vicki Alger, Ph.D.
Very simply, THIS BILL MUST BE STOPPED!
The House Education Committee will meet on Wednesday, March 16, at 2:00 PM, to vote on SB1313. Click HERE for the agenda. Please call, visit, use the RTS (virtual Request to Speak), email the following Committee members as soon as possible!Click here to read more
- 5. Sick Days are No Cure for the Assessment Opt-Out Blues
By Vicki Alger, Ph.D.
Author of a forthcoming book on the history of the U.S. Department of Education
Arizona parents are one step closer to having their assessment opt-out rights affirmed, thanks to Senate Education Committee Chairman Senator Sylvia Allen's sponsorship of the amended SB 1455.
But affirming parents' opt-out rights could be sidelined because some senators think it's unnecessary. "Just keep children home 'sick' during the test day. What's the big deal?"
Testing today isn't what it used to be some years ago. We'd show up at school, spend a couple of hours filling in bubbles, and go home. The biggest worry back then was making sure we brought enough number two pencils with us.
These days, parents and students are lucky if they're even informed about the testing dates far enough in advance to stay home "sick," since assessment periods can span as much as 6 weeks. So there's no practical way for parents to simply opt-out in absentia.
But here's the really big deal based on what parents and children endured last spring when a similar opt-out protection bill failed in the Senate by one vote.
Many parents were told that if they kept their children home, their children wouldn't be allowed back into their classes until they took the assessment.Click here to read more
- 6. SB 1455 Parental Opt Out Bill Back on Track! Call Senators NOW to vote YES
SB 1455 will be voted on by Arizona Senators on Monday, March 7, during the "Third Read" at 1:30 pm. This bill, sponsored by Sen. Sylvia Allen, gives parents the legal authority to opt their children out of the statewide assessment adopted by the State Board of Education, including AzMERIT, with no penalty to the child, school, or school district.
Please call your and other Senators' offices beginning now and leave a voicemail message. Follow up again Monday morning. Ask them to please vote YES to SB 1455 during the Third Read on Monday. See list of senators, with phone numbers and email addresses, by clicking on this article titled Opt Out Bill Hearing Today (UPDATE).
Last session, a similar bill failed by ONE VOTE. This session, all senators are under extreme pressure by special interests that stand to gain money, power, school rankings, human cogs in the corporate machine, and private student data by keeping both Common Core and standardized testing in place. It's an election year for these senators. Click HERE for the live proceedings and watch how they vote!
During last Thursday's COW (Committee of the Whole), Senator Allen supported SB1455 by citing ARS 1-601, which declares the "fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, health care and mental health of their children is a fundamental right." She also cited ESSA provisions that allow states and parents to opt students out of standardized testing.
Statewide assessments are among the most controversial and least effective methods of assessing a child's educational progress. If parents across the country are opting their children out of statewide assessments, there's a good reason.
For those who are interested in knowing more about why parents despise AzMERIT and standardized testing, keep reading.Click here to read more
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Tiff Needell, who you might recognize from Fifth Gear, presents an in-your-face four episode Land Rover commercial slated to air this weekend on Fox Sports 1.
Top Gear-esque quick-cuts, ominous quotes, and a dramatic soundscape provide a perfect stage for some shameless showing off of the Green Oval.
It's Land Rover doing what Land Rover does best: Making a lot of noise about how awesome they are. Er, I mean, driving off-road.
A pair of Range Rover Sports will "compete" at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Nevada's Mint 400 desert off-road race, Pike's Peak, and Daytona International Speedway to burn fuel and throw clouds of dust around in slow-motion.
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This weekend, the Tech Museum of Innovation here begins showcasing "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination," an exhibit that has been traveling the country for the last eight years and is now making its final stop, almost in George Lucas' backyard.
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We have been travelling for a week now; meeting my partner's relatives, visiting shrines and temples and of course eating well. We have been spoiled rotten with the politeness and kindness of the Japanese people, the superb public transport and the overflowing amount of exciting new flavours we've been fortunate to try everywhere. Needless to say we are in love with Japan.
We've been eating so many different dishes and I've taken countless photos so it will be very difficult to decide what to share with you guys. Undoubtedly this will be just one of many Japan posts to follow so please bare with me as I share my excitement with what we've experienced during our trip.
We have realised that it is almost impossible to have a bad meal here no matter if you eat in a Japanese style fast food chain or a fancy restaurant enjoying a special kaiseki type meal (which I will share with you later). Food is diverse, fresh and delicious and there is much more to Japanese cuisine than noodles and sushi. Having said that both sushi and noodles are so much tastier here than anywhere else outside Japan.
In this first post I'll share with you some of our food moments we experienced during our first days in Tokyo.
I know how this little boy feels trying to decide what to eat
Snacking in Asakusa
Sweet potato snack
Deli Japanese style
Nasu Dengaku from a deli in Asakusa
I have been enjoying natto almost every day during our trip, this is just one way of serving it
Sashimi salad
Yakitori with various parts of a chicken including heart and liver
Sashimi here is just fantastic
One of the latest trends is to serve tempura with flavoured salts instead of a dipping sauce
Shabu Shabu was delicious with fresh ingredients and umeboshi paste
More ingredients go in to the pot
This is ingenius: Risotto Japanese way - once all the meat and vegetables have been eaten, cooked rice is added to the broth followed by a raw egg. Delicious!
Japanese desserts are often small and simple, like this delicious apple sorbet


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Amendment changes the remedy for soil and groundwater contamination at 10th Street Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 has issued an amendment to the Record of Decision (ROD) for the 10th Street Superfund Site in Columbus, Neb. EPA signed the ROD for the site in February 1995 to address groundwater contamination. The selected remedy for the 1995 ROD was sampling of municipal and monitoring wells and institutional controls to limit exposure to contamination from the site.
Site activities in 2000 and 2001 led to a final ROD issued in 2005. The final ROD selected the following remedies:
- Continued operation of the air sparge/soil vapor extraction and groundwater extraction and treatment (GET) systems;
- In-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) in the upgradient portion of the groundwater contaminant plume; and
- Institutional controls in all three source areas.
The new ROD amendment changes the selected remedy for the soil and groundwater contamination at the 10th Street Site. The selected amended remedy for the contaminated source area soils is building demolition, excavation of soil and offsite disposal at all three source areas, the former One Hour Martinizing dry cleaner, the former Jackson Services and the former Liberty Cleaners. The area of the excavated soil will be backfilled with non-contaminated soil.
The selected amended remedy to address contaminated groundwater at the former Jackson Services and former Liberty Cleaners source areas includes continued operation of the GET system and limited ISCO. The selected remedy for the contaminated groundwater at the former One Hour Martinizing dry cleaner is ISCO and/or biological remediation.
The contaminants of concern at the 10th Street Superfund Site are tetrachloroethene (PCE) and tricloroethene (TCE). PCE and TCE are commonly used in dry cleaning operations and also as industrial degreasers. The site was added to the National Priorities List in August 1990.


text: DVDAZE 2013 January 24 - 27 Furnace Creek Campground BYOB DIY book your own camp site bring your own firewood bring the rain gear and large gas tanks OBVIOUSLY, BUT IT HAS TO BE SAID........... ONLY RIDE LEGAL TRAILS AND ROADS IN DEATH VALLEY AND NEVER EVER RIDE ON CLOSED TRAILS OR "OFF ROAD". Disclaimer: This is not an "Official" list of riders, participants, or people. This is a list of names of "people" who are apparently going to be at some place at nearly the same time as some other "people". Some of these "people" may ride motorcycles, however it's not known if that is a fact or rumor. Very few, if any, of these "people" actually know each other and, in fact, may not even like each other. As far as I know there is no event planned in any National Park where any of these "people" may, or may not, be destined. Remember ride or don't at your own risk, your mileage may vary, professional rider on a closed course, Member FDIC. Riding motorcycles can cause considerable risk to your health and safety, you could even be killed or maimed. Just sayin.... If you end up in a National Park and a ranger asks you what group you are with, please know the correct answer or pretend to be mute, or deaf. I did not write the above disclaimer I have no affiliation with any group or non-group, I don't know how this disclaimer ended up on this post and will delete it as soon as I see it. here is a copy and paste of a previous post on the other thread....... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the gathering is on and around the dates of..... Thursday January 24 - Sunday January 27 (some of us stay until Monday morning) this is all low key. you make you own reservations. the date is a suggestion, if you wanna make it a week long trip (some have) then do it. and there is NO organized rides. you meet up with like minded ADV'rs and ride. nobodies holding your hand. there are some veterans of riding Death Valley, find them if you are unfamiliar and ride with them. as for rides being NOOB or not.... the whole park is pretty much drivable by a mid 80's FORD Mustang. there are some routes that are not NOOB friendly ie; Goler Wash/Megel Pass (but doable with help or if you are a superNOOB) and Echo Cyn. both of these routes have "steps" or walls you need to pop the front up to make it over. but with the help from others, you can do it. all the other routes.... Chloride Cliffs, Ubehebe Crater, Teakettle Junction, even Lippencot isn't that bad. there are also A LOT of pavement. so you can see the park without doing much off roading. some ADV'rs have brought street bikes and rode pavement all day. google map or google earth the park and see what's there. also, go on GPSxchange.com http://www.gpsxchange.com/ and half way down the page is "countdown" (he is a ADV rider/AMA rider) that has FREE GPS tracks. click on his tracks and the Death Valley tracks and load your GPS before this ride and go for a stroll around the park. you will need to sign up to gpsxchange but it's FREE! also, i shouldn't have to stress this, but BRING YOUR OWN TOOLS AND TUBES AND TIRE PUMP AND WATER. your buddies or ppl you are riding with should NOT have to change your tire or give you a tube or give you tools when you should have your own.


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I have 2 files , one zip file and one more txt file.I want to find out the password of the zip file with the help of txt file.In txt file I have some words and one of them is the right password.The problem is here , when I put the right word at first the programm works but when i put it everywhere else it doesn't work. Also I use the Arcmexer jar for my program.I suspect that the problem is here:
while ((entry = r.nextEntry())!= null && (line = br.readLine())!= null)
Here I saw you my programm.
So if anyone knows something , help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The password is "12345678" and is in txt file.
import java.io.*; import com.javamex.arcmexer.*; public class Decryption{ public static void main(String[] args) { //String pw = "12345678"; String line = null; //int recCount = 0; int count = 0; String x = null; try { FileInputStream f = new FileInputStream("C://ReadZip.zip"); ArchiveReader r = ArchiveReader.getReader(f); ArchiveEntry entry ; FileReader fr = new FileReader("C://test.txt"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr); while ((entry = r.nextEntry())!= null && (line = br.readLine())!= null) { String filename = entry.getFilename(); System.out.println("What is the password of " + filename + "?"); if (entry.isProbablyCorrectPassword(line)){ System.out.println("Password found: " + line); count++; if (count==1) x = "st" ; else if (count==2) x="nd"; else x="th"; System.out.println("We found the password with the: " + count + x + " trial"); }else{ System.out.println("That password isn't the correct.Try again"); } } } catch (Exception e){ System.out.println("Exception raised!"); e.printStackTrace(); } } }


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Take part in ESA's Cool Comet Campaign
Do you use Twitter? Are you as intrigued by comets as we are? Then tell us 'Why comets are cool' and you might win a trip to ESA's operations centre in Germany on 15 June to celebrate 25 years of cometary science at ESA.
If you're fascinated by comets, you're not alone. For millennia, philosophers, poets, astronomers and kings have gazed up — sometimes in terror, always in awe — as comets streak across the heavens, appearing, it seemed, out of nowhere.
They've been called harbingers of doom and messengers of hope, but today, we know that comets are loose collections of ice, dust and small rocky particles, ranging from a few hundred metres to tens of kilometres across. They are immensely ancient, and bear witness to the formation of our Solar System.
Europe has been at the forefront of comet research for over a quarter century. In 1986, ESA's Giotto probe met up with comet Halley; its images found the first evidence of organic material in a comet.
ESA's next comet mission, Rosetta, is now on a ten-year journey to rendezvous with comet 67-P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, when it will become the first spacecraft to undertake the long-term exploration of a comet at close quarters.
In June, at almost four times farther from Earth than the Sun, Rosetta will enter hibernation until January 2014, when it will wake for final approach to its target.
Cool Comet Campaign via Twitter
On 15 June, ESA will mark a quarter-century of comet science and say (temporarily) 'good night' to Rosetta with a special event at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany. One talented Twitter user will be selected to join us as our guest at the event.
Between now and 9 June, you're invited to tell us, via Twitter, why comets are cool.
To take part, simply tweet your entry. It must include the "#coolcomet" hashtag, leaving you a mere 130 characters, so brevity is important.
Your tweet may also include a single URL, or weblink, that links to a 'non-text' submission, such as a picture, image, photo, animation, video, audio file or any other sort of digital content. Maybe you can sing a song about comets, and submit a link to a video of you singing in YouTube? (The judges will look unfavourably on any content that takes longer than 3 minutes to view).
We'll review all submissions and our expert judging panel will grade tweets for clarity, wit, humour, scientific accuracy and originality (and, yes, spelling counts).
We'll also publish all submissions in the Rosetta blog.
And remember...
Only one entry will be accepted from each participant; the campaign closes 9 June; the winner will be announced on 10 June.
Full campaign rules, regulations and other small print are available here — please read for full details before tweeting. Judges' decisions are final.
And keep an eye on the sky — you never know what fantastic things you'll see!
More information
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Willie Alexander hailed
Family, friends, and longtime fans of Willie Alexander (above) threw the pioneering Boston rocker a surprise birthday bash Saturday that featured ecstatic performances by the likes of Mission of Burma, the Neighborhoods, Peter Wolf, and Alexander's own Boom Boom Band. The party at the Davis Square Theatre, organized and curated by Willie's wife, Anne Rearick, attracted a who's who from the local music scene, all there to celebrate Alexander's remarkable career. Still spry and smiling, as always, beneath a tuft of teased silver hair, Alexander joined several of the acts as they played songs he wrote, in some cases, four decades ago. (Alexander, who turns 70 this month, began making music in the 1960s with the Lost, followed by Bagatelle, the Grass Menagerie, the Velvet Underground, and, finally, the great Boom Boom Band, which we were lucky enough to see open for Elvis Costello in 1978.) Other performers Saturday included the Nervous Eaters, the Bags, Preacher Jack, Randy Black, Dennis Brennan, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Barrence Whitfield, John Powhida, and Reddy Teddy. Before launching into a frantic cover of "Melinda,'' Neighborhoods frontman Dave Minehan credited Alexander with inspiring a whole generation of rock 'n' rollers. "This is like the Kennedy Center or something,'' replied Alexander. (Governor Deval Patrick wasn't present but he did issue a proclamation congratulating Willie on "the joyous occasion.'') Among others spotted on stage or in the crowd were Asa Brebner, Rick Harte of Ace of Hearts Records, former Rat owner Jim Harold, Andrea Gillis, Cal Cali, Mark Kates, the Upper Crust's Ted Widmer, Greg "Skeggy'' Kendall, photographer Jon Strymish, Ed "Moose'' Savage, and Noise magazine publisher T Max.
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Posted by Editor on 06/18/98
Women's World Cup - Montreal
The race has just started with 93 racers participating. The day is overcast, slight wind with the occasional raindrop but, so far anyway, the rain is holding off.
Rob spoke with Linda Jackson earlier who, like nearly all of the rest of the field (we speculate that the only one of the top riders who has ever raced this course before is Catherine Marsal), appears a bit uneasy about predicting the outcome of the race. The difficulty of this course is well known to everyone in the pack.
So it can go either of 2 ways. Either the stronger riders will force the pace hoping to shed as much of the pack as possible and then battle it out at the finish, or the whole pack can ride cautiously together, waiting for someone else to make a move.
The predictions are that the group that will contest the final sprint will contain: Jackson, Watt, Longo, Marsal, Heeb, Schuster, Demet, the Polikeviciute sisters and Zabirova.
At the end of the first Lap
The start of the race was delayed for over half an hour to remove illegally parked cars from the course. The first lap was pretty uneventful. The pack is staying together, though Barbara Heeb is beginning to push the pace and she won the first mountain sprint. The speed climbing Mount Royal was 30 kmph. It has just begun to rain.
end of lap 3
At the end of the Third Lap there is a break of 3 - 20 seconds off the front.
Barbara HEEB (SUI) and Edita POCINSKAITE (LTU) went away together to contest the mountain sprint (Heeb won and has won all 3 so far). The pack chased with Linda Jackson (CAN) in the lead, but Longo attacked at the top of the climb got away alone and caught the two leaders. The three now have a strong break and are 20 seconds free of the pack. The rain has reamained and the road is beginning to get slick. there has been one crash already at the back of the pack.
(There is a lot of crowd and announcer noise in the background, so I hope that I heard the name of the Lithuanian rider correctly)
end of lap 5
At the end of the fifth Lap the break of 3 has extended the lead to 55 seconds
Lap 4, at the top of the climb, the 3 leaders, Heeb, Longo and Pocinskaite had 39 seconds. The pack chased to the top of the climb and then backed off. At the beginning of lap 5 (at the base of the climb) the 3 had 46 seconds, but this was shortened to 40 by the top of the climb because the pack decided to chase again on the climb. At the end of lap 5 and starting lap 6 the leaders have 55 seconds on the pack and it appears Longo is doing most of the work, with the Lithuanian sitting in.
Eighth lap starts
At the end of lap 7 the group of 3 still had a good lead of 47 seconds on the pack. Diana Zilute of Lithuania (currently 2nd in the UCI World Cup Rankings) went away from the pack during lap 7 and was within 22 seconds of the leaders by the end of the lap. At the base of the climb she caught the leaders. By the top of the climb on lap 8 the now group of 4 have put a distance of 1:25 on the pack.
Lap 9
Lithuanians setting the pace in Lap 9 with one lap to go
The two riders from Lithuania (Zilute and Pocinskaite) have taken over control of the break and are setting the pace. They are alternately jumping and forcing Longo or Heeb to chase. This will be hard on both Longo and Heeb as they have done most of the work for 8 laps with Pocinscaite sitting in, staying fresh. The lead is now 1:10 and the pack is not chasing.
Lap 10
Pocinskaite had broken free and had a near 10 second lead on Longo, Heeb and Zilute at the beginning of the lap. Longo chased hard with Zilute glued to her wheel, but seemed to be not making much time. Longo then launched a massive attack on the hill and caught Pocinskate dragging Heeb and Zilute with her, at which point Zilute went, taking Longo with her and dropping Heeb and Pocinskaite.The pack seemed to have gotten it's head around the fact that this is the last lap and launched an attack on the final climb lead by Linda Jackson and decreased the lead to 50 seconds
June 13 3:45 pm EDT - Lithuanian Zilute Wins Montreal Women's World Cup Zilute gets the best of Longo
It was going to be Longo or Zilute and Longo gave it her all, but just couldn't shake Zilute. Longo tried to go with 1 km to go, but Zilute was on her wheel. Then with 30 meters to go Zilute went hard to the opposite side of the rode and went for the win. Longo had nothing left and took second.
Pocinscate takes 3rd with Heeb in 4th. This should move Zilute into the lead of the Women's World Cup points.
Final Results
1. ZILIUTE, Diana LTU 02:29:00
2. LONGO-CIPRELLI, Jeannie FRA Longo/Ebly @ :02
3. HEEB, Barbara QT/AT SUI @ :23
4. POCINSKAITE, Edita LTU Vittorio/Venetto @st
5.WILSON, Anna AUS @1:15
6. CRISTOFOLI, Nada ITA
7. PRYDE, Susy Saeco-Timex NZL
8. MELCHERS, Mirjam NED
9. MARSAL, Catherine Vittorio/Venetto FRA
10. VAN DE VIJVER, Heidi QT/AT BE all s.t.
13. HOBSON, Leigh QT/AT CAN
24. BESSETTE, Lynn CAN
26. JACKSON, Linda Saeco-Timex CAN all s.t.
39. DI GUISTINI, Cybil Elita CAN @ 5:38
50. MILLER, Kathleen ON CAN @ 14:09
52. SAMPLONIUS, Anne QT/AT CAN
53. COLE, Heather CAN .
54. NADEAU, Melanie Elita CAN
55 DORIAN, Melanie Elita CAN
56. ST JACQUES, Sophie Elita CAN
60. GERVAIS, Marie-José QT/AT CAN
62. GARIEPY, Annie Elita CAN
63. LANGTON, Kimberly Elita CAN all @s.t.
World Cup Standings:
1.1. ZILIUTE, Diana LTU 131pts
2. DEMET, Deirdre USA 96
3. ROSSNER, Petra GER 75
Only Canadian Listed:
25. HOBSON, Leigh 15
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Under the most normal of circumstances, a president's selection of a new defense secretary is a significant decision. Overseeing the nation's military is, after all, a monumental task.
Ideally, presidents want someone running the Pentagon who understands the military's purposes and traditions but also comprehends the concept of civilian oversight and values political and diplomatic solutions as much as military ones.
But these are anything but normal circumstances. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who exhibits many of the ideal qualities listed above, is planning to leave office early next year. The Monterey Democrat was a stellar member of Congress for many years before becoming director of the CIA and then defense secretary. That résumé offers a background and credibility that will be difficult to replace.
However, we are pleased to hear that President Barack Obama has placed former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel at the top of the list of possible replacements.
The 66-year-old Hagel would bring much to the table.
As a decorated and wounded Vietnam combat veteran, Hagel possesses the necessary military understanding and credibility to handle the post.
As a former U.S. senator who was intimately involved in foreign policy, he clearly understands the political realities that can sometimes shape decisions affecting the military.
And as a moderate Republican who has earned a reputation for independent thinking and being exceptionally candid, Hagel would offer a perspective similar to that of Robert Gates, who served admirably under President George W. Bush and Obama.
Finally, Hagel has an established and friendly relationship with his former Senate colleague who now occupies the White House. While Hagel and Obama did not always agree, they did forge a friendship by working and traveling overseas together. It is that kind of trusting relationship that helps a president put his full faith in a Defense secretary.
Hagel initially supported the war in Iraq. But as a senator, Hagel made routine trips to Iraq and Afghanistan and became a significant critic of Bush's war policies because he felt they relied far too much on nation-building.
While Hagel would probably find strong support from his former colleagues in the Senate, he would probably be opposed by more conservative Jewish groups because Hagel has criticized the often discussed notion of a military strike by either the U.S. or Israel against Iran. He also has backed efforts to bring Iran to the table for talks on future peace in Afghanistan.
The next defense secretary will have to preside over the withdrawing of troops from Afghanistan and make some serious decisions about restructuring a pared-down military, all while keeping an eye on Iran, North Korea and Syria as well as Africa and the Pacific.
In short, the job of defense secretary is going to be even tougher than usual in the next few years. While we may not always agree with him — and we most certainly don't — we don't find his view of the world extreme or scary. In fact, we believe Chuck Hagel would be a solid choice to replace Panetta.


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