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DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of surfers and rowers have honored Hobie Alter's request by paddling out in the Pacific in his memory.
Alter, who died in March at age 80, revolutionized surfing by developing the foam surfboard that was lightweight and maneuverable. He was also credited with bringing masses to the water with his "Hobie Cat" sailboat.
On Friday, the Orange County Register reports (https://bit.ly/1iyTo5C ) his family released bowls filled with soil brought from Hawaii, ocean water and sand from Waikiki Beach and rock salt.
During the Hawaiian paddle-out ceremony, surfers splashed water to the sky. The Orange County Harbor Patrol boat sprayed water, creating a rainbow.
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This Morning on Fox and Friends, Geraldo River gave a "different take" on the Trayvon Martin killing, which has swelled into a national debate about race and justice.
Specifically, Rivera said "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was"
A lot of people think this amounts to blaming the victim.
Here's the clip (transcript below)
And Rivera has even taken to Twitter to reiterate his thinking on the matter, noting that his own son has said he's "ashamed" of his anti-hoodie position.
GERALDO RIVERA: Well, I have a different take, Brian, on that. I believe that George Zimmerman, the overzealous neighbourhood watch captain should be investigated to the fullest extent of the law and if he is criminally liable, he should be prosecuted. But I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.
JULIET HUDDY (guest-host): What do you mean?
RIVERA: When you, when you see a kid walking — Juliet — when you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark skinned kid like my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles. Take that hood off, people look at you and they — what do they think? What's the instant identification, what's the instant association?
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Uh-oh.
RIVERA: It's those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-11, the kid is wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognise that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta, you're gonna be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace. That's what happens. It is an instant reflexive action. Remember Juan Williams, our colleague? Our brilliant colleague? He got in trouble with NPR because he said Muslims in formal garb at the airport conjure a certain reaction in him or response in him? That's an automatic reflex. Juan wasn't defending it. He was explaining that that's what happens when he sees these particular people in that particular place.
When you see a black or Latino youngster, particularly on the street, you walk to the other side of the street. You try to avoid that confrontation. Trayvon Martin's you know, god bless him, he's an innocent kid, a wonderful kid, a box of Skittles in his hand. He didn't deserve to die. But I'll bet you money, if he didn't have that hoodie on, that — that nutty neighbourhood watch guy wouldn't have responded in that violent and aggressive way.
DOOCY: What about the fact that — I mean, the people of New York, a couple of nights ago, they had a "Million Hoodie March." You're not helping.
RIVERA: You can not rehabilitate the hoodie. You're not going to — I understand that the reaction might be overzealous or even irrational in some extent, I mean, when you look at the statistics. It may be. But you're not going to rehabilitate the hoodie. You're not going to —
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The audience in the Crystal Ballroom at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the site of the 17th Annual Prism Awards, hushed as Southland star, Michael Cudlitz, stood at the podium and told how he, in his role of John Cooper, a gay, pain-addicted officer, influenced the life of another very real officer with similar addiction problems. Michael's honest portrayal of the role encouraged the letter writer to seek help. Michael's award was given to him by his fellow Southland star, Ben McKenzie aka Ben Sherman.
This example is just one of the many ways that we as writers, producers, directors and broadcasters educate the public as to the many aspects of mental health - depression, addictions, and other diseases.
Sponsored by the EIC - Entertainment Industries Council, Inc, " We are a resource for the entertainment community to accurately portray mental health issues," says president, co-founder, and CEO, Brian Dyak. "We make it okay to talk about mental health and let people know that help is availabe and effective. We try to show people how to obtain help and guide those who are struggling.
The work that the creative community has put forth this year is a clear sign that "storytelling" about mental health and substance abuse has risen to a level of distinction that is making a difference in the understanding of these complex area of attitude and human behavior. " Some of these subjects include depression, bi polar disorder, animal care and protection, at risk youth, ADHD, Diabetes. Human Trafficking, Homeland security, firearm safety, intellectual disabilities, lung cancer, PTSD, Women's health, smoking and tobacco use, orphan diseases, aging, and many other topics.
Some of the other awards this year went to Nurse Jackie's season 4 for it's multi episode story line on substance abuse; to Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie, to Days of Our Lives for the story line of Alzheimer's, Chicago Fire and Necessary Roughness for their substance abuse stories, to Go On for their Season One multi episode story on mental health. Flight, the movie with Denzel Washington, won for substance abuse, Silver Linings Playbook won for bi-polar disease. Other winners included Mark Harmon, Katey Sagal, Linda Cardellini, American Horror Story, Asylum, Dr. Drew on Call, Rehab with Dr. Drew, Homeland, and Parenthood. Elementary received the EIC's President Award for it's continuing in-depth integration of substance abuse and recovery into its storyline and characters.
Present as either presenters or honorees were Nolan Gould, Alison Haislip, Amanda Righetti, Anna Belknap, Amber Wood, Ashley Romeo, Antwon Tanner, Brett Gelman, Carly Steel, Carlos Calvo, Cassie Jordan, Caterina Scorsone, Charles Hirsch, Danielle Nicolette, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dee Wallace, Danny Arroyo, Ed O'Neill, Ernie Hudson, George Eads, Jacob Diamond, Jeremy London, Jean Smart, Josh Sussman, Julie White, Kate Linder, Kacey Taylor, Katie Cassidy, Lisa Guerrero, Lauren Suthers, Kenya Marche, Lauren Potter, Mackenzie Philips, Mariette Hartley, Mark Valley, Max Burkholder, Mechelle Epps, Pamela Bowens, Reno Wilson, Robert Shapiro, Sufe Bradshaw, Shadoe Stevens, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sophia Linkletter, Sophia Strauss, Stephen Kramer Glickman, Tamala Jones, Timothy Woodward Jr, Tyler James Williams, Valerie Fitzgerald, Victoria Strauss, and Windell Middlebrooks.
The Prism Awards, a one of a kind event, is the only televised award show that addresses the social concerns of the public interest and CalMHSA provides tools for the entertainment industry with guides, and suggestions for complex and authentic stories, which can be a catalyst for change.
The sunflower center pieces, donated by iFred Foundation. "This center for the understanding of depression and suicidal feelings has help many people with the coping of this too often hidden and non spoken disease," says spokeswoman Kathryn Goetzke. "Too many people regard depression as being shameful and refuse to talk about it, or admit they have it, which often causes it to worsen." iFred stands for the International Foundation for Research on Depression. (iFred.org)
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In early February Sonic Solutions finalized an $8.8 million cash deal to acquire InterActual Technologies, the company that brought Web interactivity to Hollywood titles including The Matrix Reloaded, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In addition to integrating InterActual's Internet-enabled DVD playback capability into its CinePlayer software, Sonic will add the technology to its AuthorScript DVD creation engine in bundles with DVD Producer and Scenarist.
"We've been fans of InterActual for some time, and last year we began talking to them about getting together on a more meaningful basis," says Sonic CEO and president Bob Doris. Sonic made a small investment in InterActual in 2000, and already licenses the software for use in its high-end authoring systems. "It helps us go further in two directions we've been moving at once: Continuing with our Hollywood-centric DVD authoring business, and getting more involved with consumer authoring and playback software."
While Doris said that embedding InterActual technology in CinePlayer was a natural fit, he admitted that it's "not necessarily conceivable" that consumers are interested in doing InterActual-based DVD authoring, at least not yet. Sonic's not the only DVD software heavyweight to enter into a partnership with InterActual; InterVideo has licensed InterActual's technology, which is available as an add-on pack for download by users of WinDVD Gold and Platinum 5. Doris describes Sonic's relationship with InterVideo as one of "friendly competition."
Most DVD-ROM features on Hollywood titles are already InterActual-enhanced, says InterActual president Todd Collart, who joined Sonic's staff as a member of the advanced technologies group. All of InterActual's staff is joining Sonic, most on the professional products team, says Doris.
InterActual's technology is designed to let users maximize what they get out of a Hollywood DVD title by "making a better movie experience, not replacing the movie experience," Collart says. He points to the director's commentary feature as one that he feels works better with InterActual than without. "It's tough to sit and watch an entire movie from start to finish just to get 15 minutes of good director's comments," he says. "When InterActual-enabled titles run the commentary, they only run the commentary that's relevant. We script the DVD playback so that it only runs these portions." To do that on a set-top, Collart says, would require a completely separate re-authoring.
Recently, InterActual worked with Paul McCartney, who Collart says described InterActual's approach as "organic." "He wanted people who saw him on his last tour to have a keepsake," Collart says. "It was their backstage pass, if you will, to get access to things they weren't able to see at the actual show, with a combination of cool features on the DVD itself and content that was only available online via the disc's Web connectivity."
Doris said that, in addition to building InterActual's technology into DVD Producer and Scenarist, Sonic has plans to integrate it with other products in the future, though he wasn't able to disclose the specifics just yet. "Both Producer and Scenarist are starting to carry more weighty InterActual-enabling software," Doris says. "Obviously, the real elegant treatments of InterActual-enabled discs will be done by the service group that Todd and his guys have built."
"The real beauty of this deal," Collart adds, "is combining our technology with the authoring systems that are actually producing those DVD assets." Collart adds that, while InterActual has traditionally taken aim exclusively at the Hollywood market, the partnership with Sonic opens up the possibility of bringing the capability to prosumer authoring software. "We get requests daily from videographers for our capabilities," he says, adding that wedding and other event video are perfect candidates for InterActual-enabled DVDs. "As a company, we haven't been set up structurally to deal with that level. Sonic has that structure, with its toolsets. We're more of a platform than a toolset."


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Discussion in 'Driving Schools' started by steven s, Jul 29, 2010.
Every driving instructor's nightmare student.
I've had/heard a few conversations quite similar at HPDE events. The video is funny to those of us who understand but for those who don't it may seem like the Speed Pilot is actually being held up by those slow cars...
I have seen Miata drivers harrass, I mean catch... much higher powered cars in the turns and "punish" them for their straight line antics with 500+ HP. There is one driver I see a lot of BMW/PCA events that just embarrasses the GT 3 and Turbo drivers with a stock VW R32 with race rubber. The Porsches have close to double the power and less weight so it's pretty difficult to make excuses.
Flat out
Thats how i drive my '02, flat out.
...Flat Out!
Well that is understandable with a little left foot braking. It's a good thing you don't have a 1001 hp Bugatti Veyron because we'd have to move you up to the fastest run group.
So where does the Veyron SS get put, with ~1200hp? The GOD run-group?
Its a timely reminder for me. Tomorrow I run my 318i at the SCCA's Thunderhill Raceway with a Hooked on Driving Corvette event (me: 140 hp: they: 440 hp).
Your video reminds me to run my own pace; don't compete, don't compare, don't fantasize: just drive. (... and use my rear view mirror.)
Even God can't afford a Veyron SS... Those cars are reserved for the Bill Gates of the world. They have a special profiler run group for those people. The park in the paddock all day and walk around in their designer driver's suit. They aren't actually allowed on track.
Learning and having safe fun is the name of the game. None of the F1 teams are looking for new drivers this week, so it's OK to just have a wonderful time. Vette's can handle well and have a lot of torque/HP by comparison but doing a turn well is what road courses are all about. The drag strip is for power runs.
I've done that instructor thing, but it was with my old Audi 4K Quattro with 110 hp. Sharing the track with some novices (or maybe intermediates?), I watched a pair of Mitsubishi 3000GTs walk away from me up and down Road America's front and back straights. Then, from Five to Fourteen, I caught them ... I think it was in the Carousel. Several laps in a row.
This reminds me of the "old days" of track events. Back in the 1982 at the Walter Mitty Challenge at Road Atlanta, they had open track sessions for non-vintage cars. The Peachtree chapter joined the Ferrari, Maserati, Lambo, and Jaguar clubs and hosted the event. Brian Redman led the driver's meetings. Anyway there was a guy there with a Countach that I caught up to in turn 5 in the first session, first day, and he would not point me by. On the back straight, he would disappear. As you can imagine soon a monster train was forming behind him.
At the end of the session, a number of us went and reported this dude, but in the 2nd session guess what happened? Another huge train formed behind this dude. I was about 4th back when I saw Tom Wyatt coming up behind me. I pointed Tom by, he passed the others in front of me on the straight between turn 5 and 6 and was then pasted to the tail of the Lambo.
Once on the back straight, Tom laid waste to the Countach. When Tom pitted at the end of session, it seemed like everyone there crowed around his car. Tom was the founder of Turbo Tom's in Atlanta in the mid-70's. He was in his baby blue Datsun 510 that day, and the Countach driver couldn't believe how fast he was left in the dust. Tom custom built an incredible turbo engine with his custom suck-through Holley 750 4bbl, pressurized water injection, and a three stage NOS system. The car weighed about 1700lbs and was a wicked street car in its day.
Perhaps the Countach guy would have said that he "let Tom pass since he knew he was going to crash or explode". Of course Tom had a lot of road race experience running in the IMSA RS sedan series early days...
Tom was a great guy and later was big in turbo kit airplane engine world. He built an awesome engine for my Capri in the late 70's. Sadly, he was killed in a wreck on I-285 in Atlanta about five years ago. I'd post some pictures of his 510 but not in this thread.
No such drama in my group although after the first session I tactfully "thanked" one driver who (finally) pointing me by. It was cordial. Many times, I had the" track to myself" so I was holding my own. I ran in an "intermediate" level group. Didn't tire out my left "point by" arm too badly.
Can't say enough good things about Instructors. Asked for a coach for the first session. Was assigned a sponsored, licensed E30 racer who could both teach and knew what my car could do (full throttle through turn turn 4 and 5A??!!!!). Invited him back for as much as he could stand. Made me a much, much more skilled driver. It was amazing.
I don't know your experience level, so how many track days do you have and how many at Thunderhill?
Not enough to go without a coach, but I need to be moved to the fastest group. Second time on Thunderhill.
You can only be moved up if your car has 600+ HP, cost over $100K and you drive flatout.
Are you able to request an instructor (or coach) when registering?
I think this is one of the big differences between for profit 'so called schools' and volunteer based such as CCA.
Glad you didn't have this HOD instructor.
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Actually, my experiences with HOD have been very positive. They do have a lot more emphasis on "making your own judgements" (self-tech'ed cars, convertibles allowed in some groups etc), but they still seem to have a strong emphasis on safety and education. They make the black flag both a stigma and a threat. They visibily monitor individual behavior via spotters with radios. They have good debrief sessions, with an earnest effort to make participants better drivers. These debriefs are equal to those of the CCA.
Regarding requesting an instructor/coach, it was a bit more ad hoc. There was a "comment box" which I indicated I wanted a coach. As you queue in the paddock, the hot pit czar comes by and asks everyone if they want a instructor, so there is a second chance there. Not sure how I got "the perfect match", but it sure clicked. Instructors are compulsory for newbies.
OK, despite the risk of coming across in a similar way to the student in the fictional youtube video (if misunderstood), I will nevertheless make the following comment:
a combination of decent "track skills", especially vision and trajectory, inherited from my motorcycle times, combined to a high HP and very able car ('08 M3) that makes you a better driver than what you really are => it was actually challenging for me to be in the beginners group. Indeed, there was often such a difference of speed with most of the other cars, even during my very first track day, that I often ended up behind either trains of slower cars or drivers who do not give the point by. This led me to having laps where I can only drive at 3 or 4/10th and then, if the track opens, I have a chance to get to 8/10th or more...and that is actually where I really learn and of course I was not smooth... Luckily, all my instructors realized this and without me asking, moved me in the intermediate group where the skills and HP are much more homogeneous... and where I really learned much much more!
Of course the youtube student is a totally different story....
I think I'd prefer to be in the "common sense" group than the...
..."more MONEY than sense group."
Case in point is that my current car is a 296 hp 750iL. Its powertrain is completely stock, and it has extremely impressive performance numbers for a 4200 pound car (0-60 in 7.8 seconds, and an electronically limited top speed of 155 miles an hour). Is it fast? Hell yes. Would it be my first choice for an HPDE event? As a beginner -- Hell NO.
Give me my previous car for that -- my late 1981 320i. This car had 108 hp and a 5-speed manual transmission. Again it's completely stock with no mods. It doesn't have the flash or the speed of my 750, but I can have 100 percent of the same amount of fun as I would in the larger, heavier, faster car.
The smaller 320i would make a much better track car than the 750 with only one third the 750's horsepower and only two thirds of its top speed. 2500 pound 320i vs the 4200 pound 750. The 320i, any day of the week.
If a Chief Instructor doesn't know you, they need to start you somewhere. It is not uncommon to move up or down after a session or two.
I've seen people in my rungroups (A/B) who were moving chicanes. Slower than me in the corners and esses. Uncomfortable with cars closing in but fast in the straights. Probably just overwhelmed with everything going on. Too much HP, not enough skill and confidence.
You just described my everyday commute. I was rather hoping that HPDEs would be better.
At least the whole beverage/telecommunication/entertainment/personal grooming category of impediments to smooth driving is absent on the track...isn't it?
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LITTLE ROCK — Proposed abortion restrictions currently moving through the Legislature likely would run afoul of the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent if they become law, according to a law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Theresa Beiner disputed testimony by the bills' supporters before legislative committee's last week that the nation's highest court has cleared the way for banning an abortion after as few as 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Opponents insisted in testimony before lawmakers the measures would not pass constitutional muster because the Supreme Court has ruled states cannot ban abortions before a fetus becomes viable, or able to live outside the womb.
Addressing the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee on Thursday, Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, asserted that his Senate Bill 134 is constitutional. As amended last week, the bill would require a woman seeking an abortion at 12 weeks or more into a pregnancy to undergo a test for a fetal heartbeat, and if a heartbeat is detected an abortion could not be performed unless the mother's life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
An earlier version of the bill did not contain the 12-week limit and therefore would have banned abortions as early as five or six weeks.
Doctors generally consider a fetus to be viable at 23 or 24 weeks. No state currently bans abortions as early as 12 weeks, but Rapert told the House committee that if Arkansas were to adopt such a ban, it would withstand a court challenge.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed states to prohibit abortions before viability," Rapert told the panel.
He said his bill was "vetted by legal scholars" but did not name them.
Beiner, who teaches constitutional law at UALR, said the court has never issued such a ruling.
"This all comes from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, where viability became the touchstone of when you could begin to prohibit abortions," she said. "That doesn't mean you can't regulate abortions before viability, but it's going to be regulation, it's not going to be prohibition."
In that 1992 decision, the high court said a woman has a right "to choose to have an abortion before fetal viability and to obtain it without undue interference from the state, whose pre-viability interests are not strong enough to support an abortion prohibition or the imposition of substantial obstacles to the woman's effective right to elect the procedure."
Beiner said states can impose limited restrictions on abortions before viability, but the high court has established that states cannot impose an undue burden on a woman's right to an abortion before viability.
"An entire prohibition is an undue burden, by definition," she said.
Rapert has argued that in a more recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, 2007's Gonzales v. Carhart, the high court upheld a ban on so-called partial birth abortion regardless of whether they are performed before or after viability.
Beiner called the argument is "sort of specious."
"Those are later-term abortions, when that procedure is used. Earlier abortions don't use what is termed partial-birth," she said.
Gov. Mike Beebe has said he believes Rapert's bill is unconstitutional but has not said whether he would veto it. A veto could be overridden with a 51 percent majority vote in the House and Senate.
Meanwhile, House Bill 1037 by Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, would ban abortions at 20 weeks — the point at which the bill contends a fetus can feel pain — except to save the mother from death or severe physical impairment. It contains no exception for rape or incest.
Mayberry has noted that a federal judge has upheld a 20-week ban on abortions in Arizona. The case is on appeal.
"It's before the (U.S. Circuit) Court of Appeals, No. 1, and No. 2, the Supreme Court hasn't changed the standard yet," Beiner said. "It could well be this judge is going to get overturned. It's a lower-court decision; it's not even binding in this jurisdiction."
Asked if there is any reason for supporters of the bills to hope that the Supreme Court will change its standard in the near future, Beiner said there doesn't appear to be.
"They had an opportunity in the Carhart case, and they didn't. They could have overturned Roe v. Wade and prohibited abortion across the board in that case," she said. "I didn't happen, so my guess would be that they're not going to overturn the right to terminate a pregnancy pre-viability."
The court is no more conservative now that it was in 2007, Beiner said.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood have said they will sue the state if the bills become law.
The Christian conservative Family Council supports both bills. Jerry Cox, the group's president, said Friday the group has been getting legal opinions from lawyers and said he hoped to have them by Monday. He declined to name the lawyers.
Rapert did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Friday.
Mayberry's bill is part of the legislative package of Arkansas Right to Life, which has not taken a position on Rapert's bill. Rose Mimms, the group's executive director, on Friday referred questions about the constitutionality of its bill to National Right to Life Committee attorney Marcy Balch of Washington, D.C., who did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
If either or both of the bills were to become law and be struck down, it would not be the first time an Arkansas abortion law has been overturned. In 1999, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's ruling overturning an Arkansas law banning so-called partial-birth abortions, finding that the law was vague, overly broad and could have a chilling effect on other procedures.
A ban on the procedure that the Legislature passed in 2009 is still on the books.
Rapert's bill previously passed the Senate and cleared the House Public Health Committee on Thursday. It is expected to be on the House floor sometime this week.
Mayberry's bill previously passed the House and is expected to be taken up by the Senate Public Health Committee on Wednesday.


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Restaurant Equipment Needed to Open a Steak House
You have always dreamed of owning your very own steakhouse and now that it is almost a reality, you are looking at a very long list of restaurant equipment needed for this big project. Breaking it down into manageable pieces will make the process much less intimidating. The supplies and restaurant equipment that will be required include:
Dining Room Furnishings
A steakhouse is usually fairly rustic, so heavy wooden tables and chairs may be exactly what is needed. Galvanized steel bar stools and a long wooden bar would also be a nice touch. A built-in salad bar with a sneeze guard can also be constructed for easy dining.
Large Kitchen Equipment
The most important piece of cooking equipment in a steakhouse is the grill. It should have plenty of space to handle several steaks at a time. A fryer should also be a kitchen staple. It is perfect for those spicy fries and crispy onion rings. Coolers, ovens, broilers, and walk-in freezers and refrigerators are also necessary pieces of kitchen equipment. Dish washing equipment is also a must.
Kitchen Small Wares
The number of smaller items needed for this type of operation is virtually unlimited. Pots, pans, utensils, sheet pans, racks, cutting boards, cleaning supplies, coffee and tea machines, blenders, food processors, mixers, and more will all be very small but vital pieces of the operation.
Dishes, Flatware, and Glasses
Platters should be the norm at a steakhouse. They should be large enough to hold the biggest and best piece of meat. The dishes should be thick and serviceable. Glassware should be chunky and sturdy. A high quality plastic glass for dining would not be out of the question, but bar glasses should be of glass. Beer mugs should be a standard.
Service Needs
The dining room will need extra supplies to keep it in smooth operating condition. Aprons, trays, bus tubs, sweepers, registers, carts, and many more items will be necessary for top-of-the-line service.
A steak house doesn't necessarily need a lot of linen. A good quality napkin may be in order, but tables should be of a quality that tablecloths are not necessary. A few pieces of good skirting should be kept on hand for special events and impromptu buffets.
Bar Supplies
Most steakhouses have some type of bar or drink service. A good beer tap system is always a plus. Bar mats, pourers, ice bins, margarita machines, bartender supplies, and a strong inventory system will help this area run efficiently and smoothly.
As you can see, opening a steakhouse is no small task, but if it is your dream, you will make it happen. Build up your restaurant equipment Toronto and supplies slowly and possibly even expand into catering after your reputation and your sales increase.


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Hi Jim, so I've let NHP run for a couple hours, but while it's found Yahoo, posting and Elite proxies, there's been no Google proxies found.
So, what I did was for the secondary proxies in NHS I've set it to Yahoo for now. When I started up NHP I just set it to the one click NHS button...did I do something wrong?
Are there plans for an updated video or two on using NHP, NHS, NHI, and NHPing for a full campaign (end to end so to speak), or updated settings for link building in 2017?
And...are there plans for other software?


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igHome Offers Cozy Abode for iGoogle Orphans
Nov 5, 2013 5:00 AM PT
igHome is available for free.
It was also the time of the portal wars. Online titans like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google vied for eyeballs and the mantle of most visited Internet destination.
Personal portals emerged from that competition. Sure, a general portal could attract traffic, but even more traffic could be drawn to a website if Web wayfarers could customize their portals.
As we all know, technology marches onward. Portals have become a quaint anachronism. Personal portals have been replaced by Twitter and Facebook feeds.
That's prodded Google to scrap its personal portal app iGoogle. However, just as another Searchzilla casualty, Google Reader, had its stalwarts, iGoogle has a loyal following, too, who will be looking for a replacement now that iGoogle has gone dark. One such replacement is igHome.
Narrowing the Field
After an initial search for an iGoogle replacement, I narrowed the field to three: My Yahoo, Igoogle Portal and igHome.
My Yahoo was the slickest of the three candidates. Since I already had a Yahoo account, that was one less step I needed to take to get rolling with the service. What's more, Yahoo was my personal portal of choice before moving to iGoogle.
What bothered me about My Yahoo, though, was its limited content selections. It had a meager selection of widgets -- portal apps like calculators, calendars, clocks and such. Its news sources for the feeds on the portal page were also underwhelming.
I also got the sense that My Yahoo was pushing Yahoo services at me -- a suspicion fortified by the mysterious switch in the default search engine for my browser from Google to Yahoo.
If I had to move away from one Internet titan, why should I jump into the lap of another? I felt an iGoogle alternative that operated outside the sphere of the behemoths might be in order.
Flawed Import
Igoogle Portal fit the independent bill. It had a good assortment of widgets and a nice offering of news sources. Better yet, I could add RSS feeds to my portal page, and it allowed me to import my iGoogle settings. Exporting those settings was recommended by Google before it shuttered iGoogle.
As I found when importing settings from another Google reject -- Google Reader -- the process was severely flawed. Of the dozen or so items I had on my iGoogle page, less than a handful made it into the Igoogle Portal.
igHome also had an import from iGoogle feature, too. It didn't work any better than Igoogle Portal's.
Among the settings ignored by the iGoogle alternatives was one for a Google Calendar widget. However, igHome had its own widget for that purpose. Unlike the iGoogle one, though, it only lets you see the calendar. You can't add items to it from within the widget.
Better Google Links
Eventually, I settled on igHome for my iGoogle alternative. Since the import feature didn't work, I had to build the facsimile iGoogle page from scratch. It was a little easier to do that with igHome. The finished page looked better, too.
In addition, igHome had better integration with Google. A row of buttons on the igHome page title bar provides direct access to often-used services such as Gmail, Calendar, YouTube and Drive.
There's also a button on the bar for Feedly, which has become the Google Reader alternative for millions of orphans of that program. A Feedly widget is also offered by igHome, but its lack of display options make it difficult to use.
If you're still looking for an iGoogle replacement, igHome offers you an alternative that will help ease any pangs of abandonment you may feel from Google's actions.
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Simplenote, by Automattic, is available for free.
True to its name, the free app is as simple as it gets in a notepad, but the software isn't about fancy features. It's about cross-platform synchronization.
There are versions of Simplenote not only for the Mac, but also for iOS, Android devices and Amazon's Kindle hardware.
There's also a Web app, although the developers are still ironing out snags in running that app in all browsers. I used the app in Google Chrome, and it worked fine in that browser.
Simplenote's cross-platform chops, coupled with its automatic synchronization capabilities, allow you to create and modify notes anywhere and have those changes occur almost immediately on all your other devices -- as long as you create a free account at Simplenote's website.
The program has a typical three-pane interface. One pane lets you filter your notes by tags and check out notes you've trashed. Another lists your notes. Each list item contains a title -- the first line in the note -- and about the first 80 characters of text in the note. When you select an item in the list, its full text will appear in the third pane.
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Text in notes are limited to a single sans serif font. Styling text isn't available -- although you can use smart quotes and dashes, and Markdown extensions are supported -- and links pasted into a note from another source are clickable, although you can't select text and turn it into a link in a note.
In addition to tagging notes, you can search through them. Searches are dynamic. Results constantly change as you type the characters in your search term.
Common Mac functions -- spelling, grammar, speech and such -- are supported in toolbar menus. There's also a pulldown menu on the program's interface.
The pulldown menu displays the number of words in the item's listing information and item itself. It also lets you pin an item to the top of the listing pane for quick access, collaborate with others on the note by adding their email address on the note's tag line and view a history of the note with the ability to restore it to a previous version.
You can also publish the note to a Web page, although how that feature functioned was a mystery to me.
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FAYETTEVILLE — LSU did its best to ruin Arkansas' Final Four celebration Saturday, scoring seven straight points to take its first lead in the second half.
Arkansas forward Alandise Harris made sure the Tigers didn't ruin the party.
Or end the Razorbacks' hopes of climbing into the NCAA Tournament conversation.
Harris' driving one-handed dunk over LSU forward Johnny O'Bryant ignited a late Arkansas run, helping the Razorbacks roll to an 81-70 win against in front of 18,904 in Bud Walton Arena.
The thundering basket keyed a 27-10 stretch to close the game, energizing the Razorbacks and a season-high crowd that included former U.S. President Bill Clinton, former coaches Eddie Sutton and Nolan Richardson, and a host of former players in town to celebrate Arkansas' six Final Four teams.
"You always talk about momentum, and you never know when it's going to take place," Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said about Harris' key play.
"It was good to see him kind of unleash the beast in him. That's what we needed at that point and time, and it just went through our basketball team."
It helped Arkansas — two days removed from a last-second loss at Missouri — continue its stretch of strong performances in the second half of conference play.
Guard Ky Madden finished with a game-high 21 points, while Coty Clarke added 16 — all in the second half — to lead four Arkansas players in double figures. The Razorbacks (16-9, 5-7 Southeastern Conference) avenged their loss at LSU (15-9, 6-6) earlier this season and won for the third time in the past four games.
"They started a good run and we needed something just to settle us down and Alandise came out with a big dunk," Madden said. "He made a big play and that started the run, gave us the energy we needed to finish the game."
Harris' dunk put an end to what had been a sluggish second half for Arkansas.
The Razorbacks — who jumped out to an early 14-4 lead behind some sharp shooting behind the 3-point line — led LSU for the first 30 minutes Saturday. But they trailed for the first time when LSU guard Andre Stringer made a 3-pointer with 11 minutes left.
The deficit grew to 57-54 on an O'Bryant dunk.
Harris responded on Arkansas' next possession. He got the ball on the right wing, slashed by O'Bryant and threw the ball through the rim. The dunk came with Clinton, Richardson and Sutton sitting in courtside seats a few feet away.
"He's always trying to get Showtime, so he Show-Timed and he was happy about that," Clarke said. "It just turned up the intensity on the defensive end, so we were able to make plays on the defensive end and rebound and lead to easy points."
Arkansas took the lead on its next possession when Bobby Portis, who had 15 points and eight rebounds, made a layup to make it 58-57. The Razorbacks never trailed again.
"They made some big shots when they needed to," O'Bryant said. "(Harris) guy stepped up and hit a big shot on us. That's the advantage of playing at home. You hit big shots when you need to."
Harris finished with eight points, four rebounds and three blocks Saturday, turning in a well-rounded effort off the bench. It was needed with Arkansas short-handed in the frontcourt. Moses Kingsley didn't play after suffering a hip injury at Missouri.
Clarke played a key role, too, after fighting through first-half foul trouble. The senior scored 16 points in the second half, went 3-for-4 behind the 3-point line, and grabbed a team-high nine rebounds.
The duo — along with Portis and his 35-minute effort Saturday — helped Arkansas turn in a better performance against LSU's frontcourt of O'Bryant (20 points, 16 rebounds), Jordan Mickey (eight points, 10 rebounds) and Jarell Martin (eight points, four rebounds) than the 88-74 loss in Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 1.
The three combined for 60 points two weeks ago, but were limited to 36 points Saturday.
"I thought our defense, they were guessing where we were coming from," Anderson said. "We did a lot of double-teaming on O'Bryant at times and those guys were the recipients of the last time we played of just diving to the hole like they did in the first two plays where they scored dunks.
"We made the adjustment and made them skip the ball out and made them shoot jump shots. We did a good job of attacking them and getting into foul trouble, and they had to be careful as they were playing."
Madden's confident performance was critical once again.
The guard scored 13 of his 21 points in the second half, went 12-for-14 from the free-throw line and handed out five assists.
He showed some flair, too, that capped off the memorable night. After an LSU turnover, Madden caught a long outlet pass from guard Mardracus Wade, flipped a behind the back pass into the air for Portis, who caught it for a layup.
The basket gave Arkansas a 75-66 lead with 3:19 left.
"That was my first time ever doing that," Madden said. "I just threw it and just trusted him enough to go and get it. It was a four-on-one, so I knew if it was a little dude defending him, I knew if I got it by the rim there was a good chance that one of my players was going to get it."
It helped capped a memorable day in which Arkansas honored its six Final Four teams — and Clinton — during a halftime ceremony. Richardson addressed the crowd and presented Clinton with a framed No. 42 jersey. Clinton spoke as well, then wrapped up the ceremony by leading a Hog Call.
Anderson said it played a big part in what he described as an "electric atmosphere" in Bud Walton Arena. One Harris, Madden and the Razorbacks wouldn't waste.
"I felt like we were going to win this game no matter what," Madden said. "It didn't matter if they were going to be here or not. I just felt we needed the win and our team was going to come out and do it."


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So maybe it's time to think about a more creative way to waste your vote . . . .
It's pretty simple math:
2008: Obama 62% McCain 37%
2004: Kerry 53% Bush 46%
2000: Gore 55% Bush 42%
1996: Clinton 52% Dole 37% Perot 11%
1992: Clinton 42% Bush 36% Perot 22%
The very best that a GOP Presidential candidate has done in Delaware over the past five elections is to get within 6%--and that hasn't been done since 1992. Pretty much every organization doing predictions places Delaware in the "safe" column for President Obama.
Not the least reason for expecting the President to capture at least 58-60% of the vote again this year is the state of dissarray in the Delaware GOP.
As kavips recently put it, in Delaware if you want your vote to count toward the Electoral College results, you need to switch your registration to Democrat.
On the other hand, the strong Perot finishes in 1992 and 1996 suggests that at least in the past there have been a lot of folks willing to desert the two major parties, at least for a protest vote.
Which brings me to Gary Johnson, the presumptive Libertarian candidate for President, and the opportunity to put a dent in the two-party system.
I know all the Nader-type arguments (he cost Gore Florida and therefore the election), but they aren't in play here. There is literally nothing that the Delaware GOP could do this year to put this state into play for Mitt Romney, given that only 16% of registered Republicans turned out to vote in the recent primary.
So now would be a great time for all the Moderate Republicans, Libertarians, and Progressive Democrats to contemplate a vote that might make sense, not in electing a President, but in nudging the two-party system a little closer to functionality if not reform.
Vote for Gary Johnson. The two-term former Governor of New Mexico is not, I will admit, the most charismatic of political leaders we have ever seen, but he is actually a pretty good amalgam of the types of positions that many people actually hold yet cannot find a candidate to represent them.
His foreign policy views capture, quite honestly, the ambivalence that most Americans feel toward the rest of the world, and toward military interventionism. He'd like to take the Defense budget back to 2003 levels, get out of Afghanistan, pull most of our troops out of Europe, and prefers diplomacy over saber-rattling with Iran. On the other hand, he's not blanket against military interventionism (supporting operations against Joseph Kony, and agreeing he'd continue the drone war against Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Yemen even though there are collateral costs), would leave bases behind in Afghanistan if possible, believes the US must maintain a military presence in the Middle East for strategic purposes, and allows for the possibility of humanitarian intervention.
Thomas Mullen called these views "disastrous," and the Daily Caller ridiculed them as "strange," but the reality is that Johnson talks about world affairs with more nuance and less saber-rattling than either Obama or Romney these days.
Fiscally, Johnson is a conservative, but not the to point of extremes. Observes Mullen (who clearly isn't happy that Johnson didn't promise to slash all government agencies not thought of in 1787):
Gary Johnson has stated that he believes that all government policies should be formulated using a "cost-benefit analysis" . . . What are we spending our money on and what are we getting in return?Even his critics admit that he left New Mexico with a surplus, and that his administration was far less corrupt, and fare less bloated than the Bill Richardson regime that followed him.
As for his other views, Johnson is an interesting, eclectic mix: he's pro-marijuana legalization, pro-abortion rights, pro-gay marriage, pro gun rights, and generally mirrors the concerns of the woman who said,
"I want the Democrats out of my pocketbook and the Republicans out of my bedroom."The only third-party candidates to get into double-digits nationwide during my lifetime have been Ross Perot (19% in 1992; only 8% in 1996) and George Wallace (14% in 1968 and the only third-party candidate in my life to win any electoral votes).
I don't think Johnson has the slightest chance of garnering those numbers on election day, but I do think it is conceivable that he could break double figures in some states that are "safe" or "lean" Obama, including Delaware, Maryland, and New Mexico (where some early polls now show him at 15%).
In this case a Johnson "protest" vote would not be a vote in protest of President Obama and Governor Romney, but a vote of protest against a system that only gives us two choices, both of them often quite flawed.
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Flash: Berkeley Commission Turns Down "Dharma Way"
The City of Berkeley will not be renaming the 99-year-old Harold Way in Downtown Berkeley "Dharma Way" if a recommendation made by the Public Works Commission stands.
After hearing testimony from a half dozen members of the public (including this writer) and having a lengthy follow-up discussion of its own onThursday, October 4, 2012, the Commission voted 6-0 to advise the City Council not to approve the name change. (One commissioner was absent, and another resigned on the eve of the meeting, leaving the Commission with seven voting members and six present.)
Representatives of the network of affiliated Tibetan Buddhist businesses and institutions that have moved onto the west side of the block under the umbrella of "Berkeley Dharma Way", and proposed the name change, spoke, arguing that they thought they were the "only stakeholders" when it came to choosing a new name for the street, and that "Dharma" should not be construed as a religious term.
Critics of the proposed re-naming (including this writer) argued that the term "Dharma" did have religious connotations, including in the literature of the organizations themselves, that adopting it would be a violation of separation of Church and State, that City policy discourages the changing of historic street names except under extraordinary circumstances, and that the proposal was a form of "branding" and privatizing the public street name for the benefit of private institutions and businesses.
It was the latter argument that seemed to sway a majority of commissioners who, in a variety of ways, expressed skepticism that the proposal coincided with the City's naming guidelines or would be appropriate for a Berkeley street.
"When you connect an existing business with a public facility (including street names)…that same precedent could be done for a number of things across the City", worried Commissioner Ray Yep. One Commissioner compared the proposal to a hypothetical instance of Safeway asking to name a street in front of one of their stores for the business.
Most Commissioners did demur on the issues of whether they should officially decide if the proposed name was religious or not, or the relative historic significance of Harold Way.
Instead, they said they were conforming to the City naming policy which most felt emphasized keeping street names in a steady state, and preferring names of places, people, or natural features to names that expressed 'concepts' as one Commissioner put it.
In the end, they unanimously adopted a short motion that "we will be voting to deny the application, and revising and approving our final recommendation to Council at the next meeting." That recommendation will come in the form of a summary of the meeting discussion and issues from City staff, which will appear in draft form on the Commission agenda in November.
As time permits, I'll write a much more extensive account of the meeting, for a future issue of the Planet.
(Disclosure: the author is the president of the Berkeley Historical Society, whose Board resolved to oppose the "Dharma Way" naming proposal. He has written letters and spoken against the proposal.)


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February 25, 2013
The Obama administration-backed, torture advocating propaganda film Zero Dark Thirty flopped at the Oscars last night, failing to pick up any major awards in what critics said was a backlash against the movie's politically-driven narrative.
"The film, which has sparked outrage among both Democrats and Republicans in Washington over its depiction of torture, and allegations that the Obama administration leaked classified intelligence to help the making of the film, won no major Oscars on Sunday and only one award overall," reports Reuters.
The movie, which is a dramatization of the alleged assassination of Osama Bin Laden, was castigated by lawmakers, including torture victim John McCain, as "grossly inaccurate and misleading" for its suggestion that torture aided in the discovery of Bin Laden's compound.
Promotional material for the movie began circulating before last year's presidential election, leading some to accuse the Obama administration, which had worked closely with film makers, of trying to regurgitate the Bin Laden assassination for political points scoring.
The CIA directly authorized the movie's writer Mark Boal to conduct interviews with CIA officers, military officers, and White House officials about the raid during which Boal was allegedly given classified information, "apparently in the belief that the public would appreciate the movie that resulted." While constantly citing "national security threats" as a justification to become more and more secretive, the CIA was apparently carefree about handing out sensitive intelligence to a movie writer as part of a PR coup for the agency.
Despite advocating torture, many on the left praised the film, including MIchael Moore, who claimed that the movie did not in fact advocate torture, an assertion debunked by the fact that the characters who carried it out in the film are not punished and are in fact venerated in the storyline.
Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal claimed they based the movie "on first hand accounts of actual events," which is dubious given that the narrative surrounding the Bin Laden raid has changed numerous times. Earlier this month, the Navy SEAL who claims he shot Bin Laden said the terror leader did use his "wife" as a human shield, despite the White House acknowledging that the woman was not Osama's wife and was not used by him as a human shield.
Numerous other inconsistencies surrounding the event, including the inability of Obama and Hillary Clinton to have watched the raid "live," as the infamous situation room photos depicted, also emerged in the days following the announcement of Bin Laden's demise.
The torture-advocating narrative of the film contradicts the exhaustively documented fact that torture does not work and in fact harms terror investigations by producing false leads.
"The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world," Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair said in 2009. "The damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security."
In addition, former US Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander warns that torture creates more terrorists.
"When we torture somebody, it hardens their resolve," Alexander explained. "The information that you get is unreliable. … And even if you do get reliable information, you're able to stop a terrorist attack, al Qaeda's then going to use the fact that we torture people to recruit new members,"said Alexander.
Numerous other political and academic experts have publicly attacked torture methods as ineffective, counter-productive and dangerous.
The rejection of Zero Dark Thirty at the Oscars last night will hopefully go some way to solidifying the view that torture is a method reserved for barbaric dictatorships and is completely abhorrent to the very principles on which the United States of America was founded.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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TULSA (AP) — A Tulsa megachurch has settled a lawsuit brought by a mother whose then-13-year-old daughter was raped last year in a ministry stairwell by a janitor.
TULSA (AP) — A Tulsa megachurch has settled a lawsuit brought by a mother whose then-13-year-old daughter was raped last year in a ministry stairwell by a janitor.
Details of the settlement between the 17,000-member Victory Christian Center and the mother — approved Tuesday by a judge — were confidential, and a church spokesman declined to comment further on the case Thursday.
"We want to give it time for things to settle down out of respect for everyone involved," said spokesman Justin Johnson. "And at a later point, there may be more opportunity to speak to this."
Michael Atkinson, an attorney for the mother, said the settlement represented "a positive resolution of a bad situation for the child and her mother."
Malinda Matlock, an attorney for the ministry, said the agreement was reached after the parties met last month to negotiate.
"All the parties are pleased that a mutual agreement could be reached," she said.
The ex-janitor, who pleaded guilty to raping the teenager, was sentenced in December to 55 years in prison.
Five Victory employees — including the son and daughter-in-law of ministry co-founder and head pastor Sharon Daugherty — were charged because they waited two weeks before reporting the girl's rape to authorities.
The mother accused the church in the lawsuit of caring more about doing damage control than about what happened to her daughter. Until the settlement, the church had repeatedly denied that claim. The Associated Press generally does not name victims of sexual assault and is not identifying the mother so as to not identify her daughter.
Another former janitor at the church was sentenced last month to 18 months in prison for a sex crime unrelated to the rape.
The scandals roiled the large evangelical church, which is across the street from Oral Roberts University in south Tulsa. This summer, Victory leaders said the church had reached out to two state agencies to help update its child abuse and neglect manual and ramped up security measures across its sprawling campus.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — As people across the globe struggle to stick to their weight-loss resolutions, some are reporting success turning to a time-sensitive diet.
One way to shed those pounds, according to a new diet book, is to keep track of time. It's called "The 8-Hour Diet."
"This book changed my life and I'm never going back," said Peter Moore.
Moore is the editor of Men's Health Magazine, and along with David Zinczenko, a co-author of the book.
"This could not be a more simple diet. You eat for eight hours. Fast for 16. That's all you need to know," said Moore.
Moore says our modern lifestyle — where we eat all day and night and stay up by artificial lights — has thrown our bodies and metabolism out of whack, making us fat and unhealthy.
The antidote is to confine our eating to eight hours a day, at least three times a week. The goal: to go back to the way our bodies have evolved to eat and sleep.
For example, have your first meal at 12 noon. Then for an eight hour period, eat to your heart's content. But once the clock strikes the end of that eight hour period, begin fasting for 16 hours.
When you wake up, in the morning, start moving, and drink at least two glasses of water. Get in some exercise. If you get hungry before your first meal at noon, drink a hot, low-cal beverage.
"In the beginning, I'll admit it, it was difficult because I was used to eating all the time," said Moore. "But as I got better at it, I realized I didn't need all that much food all day long."
Moore says this plan will help reset your body's natural eat and sleep clocks.
He lost 15 pounds with little effort. However, one Bay Area nutritionist had some questions about the plan.
"Fasting for 16 [hours]. Think about that," marveled registered dietician Jo Ann Hattner.
Hattner, author of "Gut Insight," said intermittent fasting may burn fat, but it could also affect your mood, especially in women.
She says if you want to try it, test it out when you're not working, taking care of kids or operating heavy machinery.
"I certainly wouldn't want to be driving a car," said Hattner.
The plan is based on work done by scientists at the Salk Institute. The research involved mice, but the co-authors analyzed how the diet worked in a few thousand web followers. And while the diet has not been subjected to clinical testing, Moore said it works and he's never felt better.
Moore said the research shows how the eight-hour diet works on a cellular level, by triggering a person's body to selectively burn fat for energy.
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By Gregory Branch
KAMPALA, Uganda — Even as Uganda's parliament considers the Anti-Homosexuality Bill — which calls for the death penalty for some gay acts — a group of about 100 Ugandan gays and lesbians held a secret meeting to determine how to stand up for their rights.
The clandestine conference was held a hotel function room in downtown Kampala last week and was titled "Standing on the side of Love, Re-imagining Valentine's Day."
Organized by the Rev. Mark Kiyimba of the Ugandan Unitarian Universalist Church, and financially supported by the Austria Foundation, the meeting was a strategy session to discuss how to respond to the bill. The participants resolved to petition the Ugandan Speaker of Parliament to scrap the bill and to instead move to decriminalize homosexuality.
"Our conference showed that religion does not need to be an enemy to the cause of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] concerns," said Kiyimba, who declares himself a married bi-sexual. "What is at stake here is religious freedom, human rights and minority protections."
Kiyimba said the conference is "a kick-off or starting point for us, against this bill." He said in March he will take his petition to various countries, including the U.S., to galvanize international support for Uganda's gays.
Most of the participants wore bright red T-shirts with a heart showing the "gay pride" rainbow colors in the center.
"This was different from other conferences," said one gay man attending the meeting, who declined to be named, fearing reprisal. "Gay banners and flags, no pretense, it was very straightforward."
Two Americans attended the meeting. Gay-rights activist and Episcopal minister Rev. Patricia Ackerman of New York City as well as the Rev. Marlin Lavanhar of the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Tulsa, Okla.
No sooner had the meeting taken place than a newspaper report highlighted how dangerous it was. Kampala's inspector of police, Major General Kale Kayihura, said he was unaware of the gay conference but vowed to arrest participants if he found them, according to a report in the Kampala Daily Monitor.
However, Kayihura also showed that he is not completely on the side of the anti-gay campaigners. Kayihura denied a permit to anti-gay activist the Rev. Martin Ssempa who had planned to hold a "Million Man March" against homosexuality.
Ssempa, chairman of the National Pastors Task Force against Homosexuality, and David Bahati, member of parliament and author of the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill," are at the forefront of Uganda's current anti-gay movement.
Ssempa responded by moving his march from Kampala to Jinja — about an hour's drive from Kampala and famous for containing the source of the Nile River. About 2,000 Ugandans marched against homosexuality there.
In Kampala, instead of a mass march, Ssempa held a "Million Prayers Vigil" at a local church. He said, "this will kick-off 40 days of prayer against homosexuality, to correspond with Lent."
At the vigil, attended by about 300 Ugandans, including children, Ssempa performed homosexual exorcisms and showed slides of graphic gay porn to drive home his stance against homosexuality.
Bahati also gave a brief address where he admitted that there might be some changes to his bill, but that there would be a vote. After his speech, he was invited to kneel on the floor where several pastors placed their hands upon his head and prayed that Bahati be used to "deliver us from sodomy!"
The anti-gay bill, currently being debated in the legal and parliamentary affairs committee, must pass the speaker of the parliament before going to the Ugandan parliament floor for a vote. Many speculate that a full vote might take place in early March.
Since Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni distanced himself from the bill in January it is not certain whether the bill will pass, be rejected or amended to remove the harsher punishments including the death penalty, according to some political analysts in Kampala.
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Assisi, Italy, Oct 4, 2013 / 10:49 am MT ().- In a meeting with priests and religious during his visit to Assisi, Pope Francis urged the professed to listen and be receptive to the Lord, as well as be missionaries who accompany their people.
"It's not enough to read the scriptures, we must hear Jesus speaking in them, we have to be antennas that receive, tuned to the word of God, to be transmitting antennas!"
The Holy Father directed his Oct. 4 comments to the priests and religious during his visit to the town of Assisi in honor of the feast day of his patron, St. Francis of Assisi.
In his address, Pope Francis affirmed those present in many aspects of their vocations, giving special emphasis to "the most important ones."
Urging them to listen and to pay attention to the word of God, he noted that the Church is "the community that listens with faith and with love to the Lord who speaks."
"I think we can all improve a bit on this aspect: all become more listeners the word of God, to be less rich in our words and more rich in the word," said the Pope, citing both priests and parents as examples of listening in order to teach.
"How can he preach until he has heard, in silence, with the heart," he asked in reference to the priest, and of parents he reflected: "how can they educate if their conscience is not enlightened by the word of God, if their way of thinking and acting is not guided by the word, as an example they can give to their children?"
"The Spirit of God that makes the scriptures come alive, makes us understand in depth, in their true and full meaning," he said urging those present to ask themselves "what place does the word of God have in my life, the life of every day? Are they tuned to God, or to the popular ways of speech or myself?"
Pope Francis also noted the special importance of "journeying," which he revealed is one of his "favorite words when I think of the Christian and the Church."
"This is really the most beautiful experience that we live: to be part of a people in their journey through history, together with their Lord, who walks among us!"
The Pope said that we are not alone in our journey, but rather walk as part of the "flock of Christ," emphasizing that there is nothing more beautiful than supporting and encouraging one another in community.
"How important is this! Walk together, without leaping forward, without nostalgia for the past. And during this walk, talking, getting to know one another, recounting to each other, we grow in being family."
Along with the elements of listening and journeying, the Pope also stressed the importance of being a missionary who announces the Gospel "up to the peripheries."
"What are your peripheries? Let's try to think about it. Let us ask ourselves what are the peripheries in this diocese."
They are, he said, the areas of the diocese which "risk being on the margins," but they are also "people, human realities who are marginalized, despised. They are people who maybe are physically located near the 'center,' but spiritually are far away."
"Do not be afraid to go out and meet these people, to these situations," said the Pope, "Do not let yourselves be blocked by prejudices, by habits, by a mental or pastoral rigidity," or by the common excuse that "it has always been this way."
"You can go to the peripheries only if you bring the word of God in your heart and you walk with the Church, like St. Francis."
Later on, the Holy Father also met with a group of cloistered sisters without prepared remarks, stressing the importance of remaining close to Jesus in contemplative prayer, and maintaining a joyful life in community.
"When a sister in the cloister consecrates her whole life to the Lord," he said, "a transformation happens" which is not easily understood.
The Pope emphasized to them that in the cloister, the sister has God "at the center of our life."
"I am sad when I find sisters who are not joyful," who maybe smile, but with "a smile sustained by the will" rather than a heart full of happiness at serving God, he told them – saying that "this is our reality, the reality of Jesus Christ," which is "not an abstract idea."
He stressed to them that many come to the convent seeking prayers and advice, and that a sister may not "say something extraordinary," but because she speaks "from the heart of contemplation of Jesus Christ" she becomes "an expert in humanity. Pope Francis ended his visit to the sisters with his frequent request: "please, don't forget to pray for me."
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HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder
See the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder
Disclaimer: This module is provided only for backwards compatibility with earlier versions of this library. New code should not use this module, and should really use the HTML::Parser and HTML::TreeBuilder modules directly, instead.
HTML::Parse module provides functions to parse HTML documents. There are two functions exported by this module:
- parse_html($html) or parse_html($html, $obj)
This function is really just a synonym for $obj->parse($html) and $obj is assumed to be a subclass of
HTML::Parser. Refer to HTML::Parser for more documentation.
If $obj is not specified, the $obj will default to an internally created new
HTML::TreeBuilderobject configured with strict_comment() turned on. That class implements a parser that builds (and is) a HTML syntax tree with HTML::Element objects as nodes.
The return value from parse_html() is $obj.
- parse_htmlfile($file, [$obj])
Same as parse_html(), but pulls the HTML to parse, from the named file.
undefif the file could not be opened, or $obj otherwise.
When a
HTML::TreeBuilder object is created, the following variables control how parsing takes place:
- $HTML::Parse::IMPLICIT_TAGS
Setting this variable to true will instruct the parser to try to deduce implicit elements and implicit end tags. If this variable is false you get a parse tree that just reflects the text as it stands. Might be useful for quick & dirty parsing. Default is true.
Implicit elements have the implicit() attribute set.
- $HTML::Parse::IGNORE_UNKNOWN
This variable contols whether unknow tags should be represented as elements in the parse tree. Default is true.
- $HTML::Parse::IGNORE_TEXT
Do not represent the text content of elements. This saves space if all you want is to examine the structure of the document. Default is false.
- $HTML::Parse::WARN
Call warn() with an apropriate message for syntax errors. Default is false.
HTML::TreeBuilder objects should be explicitly destroyed when you're finished with them. See HTML::TreeBuilder.
HTML::Parser, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element
Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
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Doris Ellen Howard, 81, Wabash, died at 1:33 p.m., Friday, Jan. 10, at the Wabash County Hospital. She was born June 21, 1932 in Evarts, Ky. to Edward Jackson and Birdie May (Jones) Lands.
Doris married Robert McCoy Howard in Kenvir, Ky. on May 14, 1949; he died March 6, 1992. She retired from Kroger Egg Company in Wabash after 17 years. She was a member of the Wabash Southside Freewill Baptist Church on Columbus Street. She enjoyed doing crafts, quilting, and reading.
She is survived by seven children, Robert E. "Bob" Howard, Vancouver, Wash., Danny L. (Janet) Howard, Carolyn A. (Jeff) Monce, Kathy A. (Steven) Weidner, Sonia "Gail" Howard, and Jerry W. Howard, all of Wabash, and Roger D. (Amanda) Howard, Waco, Texas; 22 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a sister, Judy Bolmeyer, North Madison, Ohio, and her brother, Samuel Jackson (Beverly) Lands, Fostoria, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter, one brother, one sister, and her grandson.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with Rev. Tim Webb officiating. Entombment will be in Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Marion. Friends may call 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is Southside Freewill Baptist Church on Columbus Street.
The memorial guest book for Doris may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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It is a pet peeve of mine that most people think the Civil War ended at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General U. S. Grant.
It didn't.
|Brigadier General Stand Waite
But here's another little-known fact related to the end of the war that seems to me should be as widely known as the events at Appomattox: The last Confederate general in the field to surrender was Brigadier General Stand Watie, who did not lay down his weapons until June 23, 1865.
Why is this significant? Because Stand Watie was a member of the Cherokee Nation. He commanded the First Indian Brigade of the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi.
It's a stretch to say that Indians were at the heart of the American Civil War, but it's not at all a stretch to say that the West was. Eastern Americans from the North and the South fought to control the economic system the nation would impose on the West. Easterners had lived with slavery in their midst since the very beginnings of European settlement on the Atlantic coast; it was only when the slave system threatened to spread across the lands of the old Louisiana Purchase that the inhabitants of the two eastern regions came to blows.
|Indian Frontier to 1890 (from Bedford St. Martin's). Click to enlarge.
When Stand Watie took for himself the status of being the last Confederate general to surrender, he claimed the historical significance of the West and of Indians in the American Civil War.
That, it seems to me, is worth noting in the same breath that we use to talk about what happened at Appomattox.


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Nestled at the foot of Mount Cooroora, Pomona is a relaxed country town with some pleasant easy walking tracks around delightful parks. Pomona was first settled in the late 1880s and the railway that arrived in 1891 started the expansion of the agricultural industries. Originally known as Pinbarren Siding, the name was changed in 1906 to Pomona, named after the Roman goddess of fruit and orchards. From 1909 until 1980 Pomona was the administrative centre for the former Noosa Shire Council.
Pomona is also the home of the Majestic Cinema, the oldest continuously running silent movie cinema in the world. Built as the Majestic Hall in 1921, it was originally used for social and sporting events and silent movies. 'Talkies' were introduced briefly in 1931, but the cinema reverted back to silent movies and today shows The Son of the Sheik, starring Rudolf Valentino, every Thursday, as well as a host of other events throughout the year.
Discover stories and artefacts that reveal the area's local history at the Noosa Shire Museum. Located in the old Shire Chambers, the displays include photographs of important moments in Pomona's history; a Post Office Exhibit, and a room dedicated to the original inhabitants of the area, the Gubbi Gubbi people.
Pomona is located about 25 minutes from Noosa, just beyond Cooroy and can be experienced as part of an beautiful drive which may include the towns of Cooran, Kin Kin and Boreen Point.
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April 6, 2016, 5:52 pm
Kobe Bryant is expected to play 28 minutes tonight against the Clippers.
It's the Mamba's second last home game so he'll lace up the sneakers a few more times before he hangs them up for good. Unfortunately his ride his coming to an end. He will look to produce tonight but temper your expectations as you have been all year.
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June 6, 2020, 9:40 pmTrae YoungPG, Atlanta Hawks
The eight NBA teams left out of the remainder of the season proposed to play a summer league with televised games to help the development of younger players.
The teams are concerned that the extended time off from playing organized basketball for their young players. Hawks owner, Tony Ressler told Ramon Shelburne that "Nine months is too long without organized basketball. I think the league has heard that loud and clear. We are pushing to remain competitive. That's what our players want. We were desperate to have something that helps us to stay competitive." It's encouraging that the eight NBA teams seem to be on the same page with playing games before the start of the 2020-2021 season. This would likely only include younger players, so it would be an interesting opportunity to monitor emerging prospects.
Source: ESPN
June 6, 2020, 9:20 pmZach LaVineSG, Chicago Bulls
Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun Times reported that the Sixers' assistant coach, Ime Udoka, is the front-runner to be hired as the Bulls' new head coach.
New president Arturas Karnisovas and GM Marc Eversley are looking to part ways with current head coach Jim Boylen. This will likely be a positive for younger players on the Bulls' roster as Boylen seemed to have a disconnect with them. Raptors' assistant coach Adrian Griffin is also in consideration to be the Bulls' coach.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
June 6, 2020, 9:08 pmMeyers LeonardC, Miami Heat
Erik Spoelstra said that Meyers Leonard (sprained left ankle) is "feeling great".
Leonard has been steadily recovering given the extra time off with the season being suspended. It was reported by Sports Illustrated back in April that he would be ready to return when the NBA season resumes and it appears that is still the case with Spoelstra's latest comment. Leonard will be a role player for the Heat with limited minutes, which makes him unreliable for fantasy.
Source: Miami Herald
June 6, 2020, 7:13 pmAl-Farouq AminuPF, Orlando Magic
Al-Farouq Aminu (right torn meniscus), "most likely will not be healthy enough to return," when the season resumes according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Aminu had season-ending surgery in early January and shed his brace in March. There some some speculation he could return due to the extra time off but in an interview this week, Magic president Jeff Weltman didn't give any indication Aminu was close to a return saying, "Not a whole lot of news there. As always, we're going to wait and see how they respond to rehab." With Jonathan Isaac in the same boat as Aminu, expect Khem Birch and James Ennis to continue splitting the frontcourt minutes opposite Aaron Gordon.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
June 5, 2020, 10:31 pmKyrie IrvingPG, Brooklyn Nets
According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Kyrie Irving (right shoulder) could conceivably join his Nets' teammates in Orlando when they return to play later this summer, albeit as an inactive player.
There was really never much of a possibility that Irving would return to action in 2019-20 unless the season got pushed back severely. After the arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder in late February, the Nets tentatively said they expected to have him back in time for preseason workouts in the fall (which will now likely take place in November or later). That still seems like the likely scenario, even given the long pause the league was forced to undergo. Caris LeVert had shown flashes of brilliance again this season after he returned from injury, so he and Spencer Dinwiddie will evidently be shouldering the ball-handling duties when the Nets take the floor in Orlando.
Source: Adrian Wojnarowksi on Twitter
June 5, 2020, 10:09 pmKevin DurantSF, Brooklyn Nets
Kevin Durant (right Achilles) confirmed on Friday that he will not take the court for the Nets when they return to play in Orlando in late July and early August when they close out the 2019-20 season.
Given the extended pause to the current season due to the COVID-19 outbreak, there were many who believed the Nets could plausibly try to bring back both Durant and Kyrie Irving from their respective injuries in order to make a push for a championship later this summer. Evidently, Durant will remain out of the equation for the Nets as they look to close out the season on a high note. "My season is over," Durant said. The Nets currently sit in seventh place in the Eastern Conference and will have to maintain that position in order to avoid the planned play-in bracket to decide the eighth seed after the initial eight final "regular season" games. Durant has never seemed likely to play, even with the pandemic disrupting the season, and it seems as though he won't be playing for the Nets in Orlando. Much crazier things have happened, though.
Source: The Undefeated
June 5, 2020, 9:38 pmKelly Oubre Jr.SF, Phoenix Suns
Kelly Oubre Jr. (torn right meniscus) will be able to take the floor for the Suns when the NBA returns to play in Orlando on July 31, the team's owner Robert Sarver said on Friday.
This is phenomenal news for the Suns, as Oubre had really been having a breakout season for the Suns (18.7 PTS, 6.4 REB, 1.5 AST, 1.3 STL, 0.7 BLK and 1.9 threes per game in 34.5 minutes) prior to going down with a torn meniscus in late February. He was originally expected to miss the rest of the 2019-20 season, but due to the pandemic he has recovered and will evidently be fully functional for a team that currently sits in 13th place in the Western Conference. They will have quite the uphill battle to force their way into the playoff field in August, as there will only be eight regular season games played before the playoffs are set.
Source: Arizona Sports
June 5, 2020, 9:22 pmJonathan IsaacPF, Orlando Magic
The President of Basketball Operations for the Magic, Jeff Weltman, said Friday that the team does not expect Jonathan Isaac (left knee) to return when league play resumes, but that they will also be letting his rehab program dictate his timetable.
Isaac has been sidelined since the beginning of January after a serious injury to his left knee.
He was scheduled to be re-evaluated in 8-10 weeks but the impact of the coronavirus has muddled things up with many players, Isaac included. The Magic don't want to risk Isaac's immediate future, as he is under contract for one more season and is eligible for a qualifying offer prior to the 2021-22 season. With the Magic sitting in eighth place in the East and looking a (potential) fight for the right to face Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs as the eighth seed in August, the Magic brass may opt to keep Isaac out until the beginning of next season. That seems likely, at least.
Source: 96.9 The Game on Twitter
June 5, 2020, 5:37 pmKawhi LeonardSF, Los Angeles Clippers
Marc Stein is reporting that the NBPA has agreed to continue negotiations with the league for a 22-team restart to the season.
Stein also noted that not everything is settled at this point, and more items need to be agreed upon before the NBPA is ready to sign and proceed forward with the resumption of games. It sounds like we're still on a path to an agreement, but the NBPA still has a few points to clarify before it is all said and done. Stay tuned.
Source: Marc Stein on Twitter
June 5, 2020, 5:29 pmLeBron JamesSF, Los Angeles Lakers
Shams Charania is reporting that the NBPA informed players that they will be tested on a nightly basis for COVID-19 and a positive test will result in quarantine for a minimum of seven days.
The resumption of play will also include 2-3 preseason games and a bubble of 1600 total people. Players will not have tracking devices on them but they are expected to stay in the bubble for the entire period. Everything is gradually coming together and the schedule for the return to play is becoming more and more clear for all parties.
Source: Shams Charania on Twitter


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Stephen Langridge's new production of Wagner's powerful psychodrama Parsifal opens on 30 November. The production features a star-studded cast, including Gerald Finley, Simon O'Neill, René Pape and Angela Denoke.
Gerald will sing the role of Amfortas, a troubled king condemned to suffer for the sin of being seduced.
'The role encompasses lots of wonderful, complicated, moral issues that Wagner wanted to explore', says Gerald. 'Amfortas's story is a metaphor for the challenges of society: if you have failed in an honourable position, how do you get redemption from those who are less than you?'
Parsifal had its premiere at Bayreuth in 1882. Wagner's final great masterpiece, it is an epic and transcendental work that explores sensual temptation and spiritual redemption.
'For me, Parsifal is about being thrilled by the music and the idea of people striving. I want people to feel moved and astonished that this beautiful music and slightly prosaic story touches them.'
Gerald made his main-stage debut in Covent Garden as a Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo in 1989. This Season, in addition to Amfortas, he will sing the role of Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and will make his 100th performance with The Royal Opera.
Parsifal runs from 30 November to 18 December 2013. Tickets are still available. It will be screened live in cinemas on 18 December. Find out full details of a screening near you.
Parsifal is staged with generous philanthropic support from The Metherell Family, Roland & Sophie Rudd, Dr and Mrs Michael West, Marina Hobson MBE, Ian and Helen Andrews, Peter and Fiona Espenhahn, Annie Frankel, Malcolm Herring, Dr L Mikheev and N Mikheev, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson, The Wagner Circle and The Parsifal Production Syndicate and generously supported in memory of Simon Tullah.