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B Hotels & Resorts® today announced the launch of its Monscierge®mobile app, providing guests with personal, cloud-based concierge service for all destinations in its portfolio. B Hotels & Resorts® is one of the first hotel companies to make Monscierge® a brand standard across all of its hotels.
Custom-designed for each B property, the service provides instant access to information about everything from hotel amenities to weather forecasts, flight updates, local tips and more. The free app updates automatically to provide real-time information to guests staying at the hotels or remotely through their iPhones and Android devices. A tablet version is due out this summer.
"We cater to experience-driven, tech savvy guests and providing them with a convenient way to explore and communicate with each hotel is only natural for our innovative brand," explained Allie Weiner, Director of Brand Programs and Communications at B Hotels & Resorts®. "Our new app not only provides hotel and amenity information, but it also includes access to unlimited localized content such as area recommendations, excursions and driving directions, all of which will help guests to enhance their time with us and make their visit however they want it to be."
The user-friendly app allows guests to easily immerse themselves in the local culture by providing 24/7 information on nearby restaurants, shops, nightlife, spas, attractions and local events. Users can also get directions and maps by text or email and post their experiences directly on social media.
In addition to the mobile app, the Monscierge® digital concierge system is available in the form of large touchscreens in each hotel lobby. The system has the same features as the app and also allows guests to print out driving directions and boarding passes.
B Hotels & Resorts® forged their partnership with Monscierge® based on the flexibility that they offer as B hotels expands its portfolio. The touchscreen concierge technology has the capability of providing complete interactive applications and all related content in 12 languages, making it attractive as the company grows, both nationally and globally.
"With its focus on technology, service and innovation, B Hotels & Resorts® is the perfect partner for Monscierge®," said Marcus Robinson, CEO of Monscierge®. "As the brand evolves, this state-of-the-art technology will continue to place B hotels at the forefront of hospitality."
B Hotels & Resorts® plans to roll out more features of the app that will showcase the hotel's Open-Source Hospitality™, a practice that promotes interactive communication between team members and guests. With just a few taps of a finger, guests will be able to connect with the hotel as needed throughout their stay for a more comfortable and customizable travel experience. With the additional components, guests can order room service, call valet, request housekeeping services or extra pillows, and more. This next phase of the app is set to roll out at each hotel later this year.
B Hotels & Resorts® targets experience-driven travelers with its innovative style, lively social spaces and cutting-edge technology. The brand's latest hotel – the 394-room B Resort, located in the Walt Disney World® Resort – opens this summer within easy walking distance to the Downtown Disney® area and close to shopping, dining, nightlife and all Walt Disney World® Resort and Orlando theme parks. The group's first property, the AAA Four Diamond B Ocean Fort Lauderdale, is steps from the beach and a few blocks from upscale shopping and the Intracoastal Waterway. A third property, the chic urban b2 miami downtown, is located within walking distance to American Airlines Arena and offers stunning views of Biscayne Bay and PortMiami. For more information, visit www.bhotelsandresorts.com.
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The dominant evolutionary theory for Earth's most successful creatures, and a proposed influence on human altruism, is under attack.
For decades, selflessness – as exhibited in eusocial insect colonies where workers sacrifice themselves for the greater good – has been explained in terms of genetic relatedness. Called kin selection, it was a neat solution to the conundrum of selflessness in what was supposedly an every-animal-for-itself evolutionary battle.
One early proponent was now-legendary Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, a founder of modern sociobiology. Now Wilson is leading the counterattack.
"For the past four decades kin selection theory … has been the major theoretical attempt to explain the evolution of eusociality," writes Wilson and Harvard theoretical biologists Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita in an Aug. 25 *Nature *paper. "Here we show the limitations of its approach."
According to the standard metric of reproductive fitness, insects that altruistically contribute to their community's welfare but don't themselves reproduce score a zero. They shouldn't exist, except as aberrations – but they're common, and their colonies are fabulously successful. Just 2 percent of insects are eusocial, but they account for two-thirds of all insect biomass.
Kin selection made sense of this by targeting evolution at shared genes, and portraying individuals and groups as mere vessels for those genes. Before long, kin selection was a cornerstone of evolutionary biology. It was invoked to help explain social and cooperative behavior across the animal kingdom, even in humans.
But according to Wilson, Nowak and Tarnita, the great limitation of kin selection is that it simply doesn't fit the data.
At first, eusociality was seen only in insect species whose reproductive biology makes fertilized eggs grow into females, and unfertilized eggs into males. As a result, sisters share more genes with each other than their offspring. Through a kin selection lens, eusociality makes sense in these species: Sisters are driven to work for each other, not their less-related offspring.
But then eusociality was found in other insect species – termites and aphids – along with snapping shrimp and naked mole rats, in which siblings were no more related to each other than to their offspring. The correlation between high genetic relatedness – "inclusive fitness," in the kin selection argot – and eusociality no longer held.
The new study isn't the first to point these flaws out, but it exhaustively models the mathematics of the gap.
"Inclusive fitness theory is almost like a shortcut. It only applies to a small subset of all possible models," said Tarnita. "Outside of that subset, it doesn't work."
The researchers offer their own alternative theory, based on standard natural selection, but with a twist: After starting with a focus on a single founder, selection moves to the level of colony. From this perspective, a worker ant is something like a cell – part of a larger evolutionary unit, not a unit unto itself.
"Our model proves that looking at a worker ant and asking why it is altruistic is the wrong level of analysis," said Tarnita. "The important unit is the colony."
The researchers propose a theoretical narrative that begins with a primordial, solitary ant – perhaps something like the ancient Martialis heureka – that lived near a food source and developed genetic mutations that caused it to feed its offspring, rather than letting them fend for themselves. Called progressive provisioning, such nurture is widespread in insects.
Another mutation could result in offspring that stayed near the nest, rather than leaving. They would "instinctively recognize that certain things need to be done, and do them," said Nowak, describing real-world examples. "Put two normally solitary wasps together, and if one builds a hole, the other puts an egg in it. The other sees the egg, and feeds it."
That would be enough to form a small but real colony – and from there, eusociality could emerge from an accumulation of mutations that led to a hyper-specialization of tasks, limited reproduction to queens alone and favored the colony's success above all else. Within this colony, a queen would be analogous to a human egg or sperm cell – a unit that embodies the whole. Worker self-sacrifice is no more nonsensical than that of a white blood cell.
The researchers called this series of steps a "labyrinth," one that isn't easily navigated. Hence the rareness of eusociality, which is believed to have arisen just 10 to 20 times in history. But their theory explains everything that kin selection does, plus what it doesn't.
"There is no need whatsoever to invoke kin selection or inclusive fitness," said Corina – not in eusociality, not in any cooperative behavior.
The study provoked varying reactions among evolutionary biologists. An article in Cosmos quoted Oxford University's Stuart West describing the paper as "obviously incorrect," and Rice University's David Queller saying the new model "involves, and I suspect requires, close kinship."
Other researchers were more supportive. University of British Columbia mathematical zoologist Michael Doebeli said the new theory is better than kin selection at explaining eusociality, and stressed that kin selection is just an idea. "It's not a biological mechanism, it's an accounting technique," and one that misses a lot, he said.
According to David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University, the paper is a culmination of research that "knocks kin selection theory off its perch" – something that should have happened long ago. "Kin selection theory has become so general that it's used to explain anything that evolves by social behavior," ignoring evolution's complexity, he said. "To the average animal researcher studying social behavior, it seems the only thing they need to know is relatedness. That's not unhelpful, but it's not the only factor."
Especially troubling to David Sloan Wilson is how kin selection, with its intuitive appeal to our preference for family over strangers, has been applied to human social life. "The idea that everything nice about human behavior is based on interactions among genetic relatives during the Stone Age, and is now being incorrectly expressed, is pathetic as an explanatory framework," he said.
Tarnita said the new theory of eusociality may be useful in describing how single-celled organisms gave rise to multicellular organisms. Human selflessness and cooperation, however, is of a different sort, also involving the interaction of culture and sentience, not just genetics and environment.
"There are certain things we can learn from ants, but I wouldn't try to draw a parallel," said Tarnita. "It's easier to think about ants, but people are complicated."
Update: The lede originally read, "and a proposed explanation for human altruism." I've since changed to, "a proposed influence." Thanks to commenters for pointing out the oversimplification.
Images: 1) Steve Jurvetson/Flickr. 2) Progressive provisioning in a solitary Synagris cornuta wasp, and a colony of the primitive eusocial wasp Polistes crinitus./Science.
See Also:
- Is Homosexuality an Evolutionary Step Towards the Superorganism ...
- Termite Altruism Might Have Roots in War
- Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes
- Altruism's Bloody Roots
- At 200, Darwin Evolves Beyond Evolution
Citation: "The evolution of eusociality." By Martin A. Nowak, Corina E. Tarnita & Edward O. Wilson. Nature, Vol. 466, No. 7310, August 26, 2010.
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where do you get this informations?Screamo-fan 11:43, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
is there a special movie rasengan in the movie because i think i saw one in the trailer and its not on the rasenngan page--PAIN 03:33, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
- I saw 2 new Rasengan's there. Tornado Rasengan and Guts Rasengan. — DarK 19:53, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Pearl Harbor
Should we add that the attack by the Sky ninja's looks like the one on Pearl Harbor by the IJN during World War II? I'm the one who was trying to put that info in the trivia page, but I'm reverted. I just read Narutopedias rule which I had forgotten to do before and I think that's why I'm being reverted. Could someone find a way to make it non-POV, factual and relevent to the article so that it stays or is it to bothersome? I'm not trying to cause trouble. Starship Troopers (talk) 00:50, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Does every surprise attack involving planes resemble Pearl Harbor? ~SnapperTo 19:19, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
- No of course not. That ain't the point of what I'm trying to say. Watch the Pearl Harbor movie (2001) and then Bonds, the intro of Bonds, the attack is very similar to the attack in Pearl Harbor. The Sky ninja attacks from ships similar to aircraft carriers, the scene with the mountains, the children playing and even the scene with the clothes line. It is very similar. I just thought the similarity between the two films would be good trivia. Starship Troopers (talk) 00:50, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Perhaps that was your problem; you should have said the opening is similar to Pearl Harbor the movie, not the attack on Pear Harbor. I haven't seen either movie, but if indeed there are several matching scenes/camera angles/whatever else then that works better as trivia. ~SnapperTo 23:04, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
- Then I'll try adding the info the way I described it to you. Thanks again. Starship Troopers (talk) 00:50, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
i recognize some of those shinobi fighting of sky ninja they were there when Orochimaru not all but at least some now that they were killed will we not see them again. 18.104.22.168 (talk) 17:32, May 15, 2012 (UTC)
When do the events of this film take place, I mean are they independent of the anime's? thanks 22.214.171.124 (talk) 10:12, March 2, 2013 (UTC)
- The movies doesn't follow the manga/anime timeline. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 12:46, March 2, 2013 (UTC)


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Green Hill Inn is probably the best place to stay in Labuan Bajo if you travel on a budget and want to have everything near.
It has an excellent position right in the center of the village, but at the same time it's situated a bit uphill, out of the noise and the dust of the main street.
Green Hill Boutique Hotel is a guest house with a simple concept. Make you like being in your second home. Our staff come from local residents with unique characteristics and natural hospitality.
We has 9 unit of rooms with minimalist modern design, each room overlooking the beautiful sea. Is equipped with television, shower with hot and cold water, air conditioning, and balconies that allow you to relax in the evening while enjoying the sunset. Indeed a very beautiful experience. Our hotel is located in the center of town, directly overlooking to the harbor.
Part of it has been built recently. The rooms are good-sized, comfortable and very clean, all with air conditioning and unsuited bathrooms with hot water. The view overlooking the bay is great, especially at sunset. The staff is friendly and helpful and there is also a quick laundry service available.
Labuan is the gateway to Flores and the departure point for the islands, and Agustin, the manager is a very nice person, always at your disposal. He can help you to organize Rinca and Komodo tours as well as Lombok and Flores overland tours, arrange further hotel bookings etc. He gives you all information and assistance you need for an unforgettable holiday on the beautiful island of Flores.
Green Hill is a small guest house located in the downtown area of Labuan bajo. It is not a hotel but a place for those who want to stay close enough to the harbor, restaurants and other facilities in this small and bustling town of Labuan bajo.
Within walking distance through steep steps from the main road of Labuan bajo, Green Hill offers beautifully built rooms with hotel standard facilities attached. En-suite bathroom with shower, comfortable bed, air conditioning and each room has a veranda facing the harbor of Labuan bajo.
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- Single Room IDR 600,000
- Double Room IDR 650,000
- Triple Room IDR 750,000
- Rate including taxes and service charges
- Airport Pick up extra cost Rp. 150.000/car max 04 people
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Honeymooners Benefit: Fresh fruit basket upon arrival
Family Plan:
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- Meals 50% off from the adult price
Languages Spoken:
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- Indonesian
Featured in each room, among other amenities, are air conditioning, desk, television, shower, balcony/terrace, complimentary bottled water. The hotel boasts laundry service/dry cleaning, restaurant, room service, hotel/airport transfer, tours as part of its superior facilities and services. The hotel blends expert service with state-of-the-art facilities to provide guests with a memorable stay.


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March was a slow month for CD hunting, I really didn't get out to the record stores that much at all. A part of me wants to save a few bucks and another wants to buy every new release on the market! One rule I decided on was to skip over the new releases I already received from the record company…..I usually go out and buy the albums I like, and I still will, just not right away. I did tap Ebay for a few items along the way but it was still one of my slowest months ever for purchases!
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Whitesnake – Forevermore (2011) – $13: If there's one album I was looking forward to in 2011, it was the new Whitesnake! I may not have wanted to go out to the record store but you can sure bet I was outside the door to Newbury Comics 20 minutes before the store opened so I could buy my copy. I still have that old school mentality when it comes to new releases…..I have to be there early. Back 20, 25, even 30 years ago, a new album from a major band made the local record store the center of attention, especially on the day of release. I used to be in those lines to get in to the record store and it was always a good time, it was an event. Not so much in 2011 but there were a 3 or 4 other people waiting in their cars in the parking lot and I noticed a couple picked up this album. There were two different pressings: the regular CD and the special edition with 3 bonus tracks and a bonus DVD…..I splurged and paid the extra money for the limited edition. This was a mandatory purchase and $13 on sale made it that much easier. Saved $7.
Pushking – The World As We Love It (2011) – $10: I'm totally in the dark on this Russian hard Rock band but when I saw the commercial for the album on VH-1 Classic, I figured it was worth checking out. Then I checked online and saw that Paul Stanley (KISS) sang on a couple of tracks so it became a must have purchase! Pushking has been around since 1994 and they have an extensive discography, THE WORLD AS WE LOVE IT is a collection of re-recorded songs with guest stars doing the vocals and guitars. Stars like Paul Stanley, Billy Gibbons, Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Lynn Turner, Glenn Hughes, Alice Cooper and a ton more all perform with Pushking and make this a great introduction to the band's discography. I actually passed on this CD when it came out but I decided to snag it when I found the lone copy on the store the same day I bought the new Whitesnake album. It was still on sale so I saved $4.
Torch – Electrikiss (1984) – $16 used: Finally! After a long and hard search, I finally acquired a vinyl copy of ELECTRIKISS by Torch! It's been a long struggle to find a decent copy on Ebay that was in a good price range, I had featured this album in my WANTED column back in August 2007 and it's taken me over three years to buy it. I was watching this copy all week and went into the final minute before I placed a bid above the $9.99 starting price. All of sudden, I get outbid! I ended up winning this LP in the final seconds with some quick finger tapping and bidding. The jacket is near mint with some creasing due to age but the vinyl inside is flawless, not a scratch. There's a few different styles floating around but the copy I bought was the original red vinyl album. I'm not sure how much I saved on this LP, sometimes is goes for under $20 and sometimes it can reach above $50. Either way, I finally added it to my collection.
Scheepers – s/t (2011) – $13: Here's a case of an album that I received a promotional download from the record company but also an album that I would buy either way. I'm a huge Primal Fear fan so getting lead singer Ralf Scheepers new solo album is a no-brainer…..the only problem is where to buy it? The local record store didn't get a copy and the online shops I like had this as an expensive import. I ended up on Ebay and found a lot of copies floating around the $20+ range (incl. shipping) but I found this CD by spelling Scheepers with one "E". I ended up paying around the same price i would for a Frontiers Records' release on sale at the record store the day it was released so I was happy to pay what I thought was a fair price. If I had bought this at regular price through regular retail channels, i might have paid around $16 so I estimate I saved $3 at auction.
Big Ball – Hotter Than Hell (2010) – $9: here's another album that I received a digital promo for from the record company but I never got around to listening to or buying. I stumbled upon this CD when i was watching another CD and checked out the seller's other items. Turns out the seller spelled the band name Big Ball as "Big Bail" so no one was bidding on it. Just like the Torch LP, I waited until the last minute to bid and then someone counter bid, I ended up snatching this CD up in the last few seconds. Big Ball is your basic AC/DC clone and even the sticker on the front reads "AC/DC style Hard Rock! If you like Krokus, Airbourne & AC/DC, you will love Big Ball!" I've only spun this a couple of times and the sticker is right, this is for AC/DC fans, even the album cover has that simple black & white AC/DC style to it! If I paid regular price it would probably be $15 so I saved $6 at auction.
Barracuda – Keep Me In Your Heart (2003) – $24: This is actually a re-release of the 1989 album OPEN FIRE by Barracuda but even this is a rarity. I've come across both OPEN FIRE and this reissue over the years and both usually command high dollars, especially the original album. I was watching this item and the seller was the same one who sold the Big Ball CD so I actually saved money right away because multiple items qualified for free shipping. Like all the other auctions this month, I ended up going for the CD in the last minute and someone else was watching as well. I ended up in a bidding war with someone and I ended up spending a few extra dollars than I wanted to. Like I mentioned, even this reissue is a rarity so I'm still psyched to get my hands on a copy. I read a lot of rave reviews on this and the original album so I'm looking forward to giving this a spin and now I'm out to find the original pressing of course!
Total = $85
Total (year) = $248
Average Price (per item) = $9.92
Total Savings (month) = $20
Total Savings (year) = $215
Total CDs (year) = 23
Total DVDs (year) = 1
Total Box Sets (year) = 0
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WARNING: Interlink jobs in Saudi Arabia
Posted: 01 Jun 2012, 15:20
Beware this company. They are currently (1st June 2012) advertising for English instructors for their TVTC program in various centers in Saudi Arabia. However, new employees will find that their contracts are not with Interlink but with a Saudi company called English Gate Academy (EGA) who have a contract with TVTC to supply English instructors. And this is where the problems lie. EGA treats teachers with disdain. They send them on visa runs and will not pay expenses. They deduct money for teaching days missed as a consequence of EGA's inefficiencies. They have victimized some individuals for daring to question them. They deduct money for housing unfairly. The company's accountant acts unilaterally and unfairly and deducts money directly from teachers' salaries at a whim. There is no recourse. Also, they will not issue letters of no objection (needed to obtain another job in the kingdom) even though teachers have fully complied with and completed their contracts. They will try to withhold your passports, even though this is contrary to international and Saudi law. Contract renewals are not at the discretion of the site directors (the teachers' line managers) but are issued by EGA admin staff, particularly the accountant whose knowledge of pedagogy and teaching ability is zero!
My advice: stay away from this company.
My advice: stay away from this company.


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Pink Shirt Day - "We RISE by Lifting Others" - February 28, 2018
At Peace River School Division (PRSD) we pride ourselves in our ability to create and foster safe and caring learning environments. There are many people who play a role in this process and I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate their efforts and thank all the students, staff, parents, local partners, and community members who contribute to creating a culture of kindness and respect in our schools.
This year, we are very excited to have our own PRSD branded t-shirt created by Jessica Thomas, grade six student at Red Earth Creek School. Jessica's t-shirt design was chosen among entries from PRSD students during the Pink Shirt Day T-shirt design contest held in February last year. Jessica illustrated a heart shaped earth with people rising from the top with the theme 'We Rise by Lifting Others.' We are very proud and honoured to have this important message displayed and worn by hundreds of students and staff division-wide.
Pink Shirt Day is one day per year where we wear pink in a united stand to support healthy relationships, wellness and diversity. However, the work we do in this regard is on-going through various programs, initiatives and presentations focused on healthy relationships and personal well-being. Examples of such programs and initiatives include the work of our school based Youth Education Support Workers, Success Coaches, student leadership groups, mentorship programs, behaviour support programs, wellness programs, the focus on citizenship division-wide, daily learning incorporated into the curriculum and the important support that comes from community involvement and various agencies.
Providing safe and caring learning environments for students is very important to us. We understand that in order for students to learn, flourish and reach their full potential, they need to feel safe, happy and cared for in a positive learning environment.
Thank you so much for your involvement and support and we invite you to join us on February 28, 2018 for Pink Shirt Day when PRSD students and staff will wear pink in support of healthy relationships, wellness, and diversity.
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Michelle's ski trip marks 16 Obama vacations (costing millions of dollars)
You know, I think we're all grown-ups here, and I don't think any of us begrudge the leader of the free world and his family a little time off now and then. I'm even willing to suggest that, despite our rough-n-tumble anti-aristocratic roots, we are more than willing to allow the Commander In Chief to engage in a certain amount of pomp and ceremony as part of the Presidential milieu.
The problem comes when you have a man so completely devoted to fomenting class warfare, so completely dedicated to painting the current socio-political/economic environment as a case of "Us v. Them", clearly painting himself with an "Us" colored brush, who then turns around and flagrantly engages in such oppulent self-indulgence. There's taking some well-deserved time off (time which fewer and fewer of us can afford to take these days), and then there's soaking the US Taxpayer for millions of dollars to support your whimsical flights of fancy for you and 24 of your family and friends on a junket to Rio, or Hawaii, or Indonesia or Vail or…shall I continue?
You can't point to G.W. Bush and say, "Yes, but HE did it too, and worse!" if you ran on a platform of being everything Bush wasn't, and not being everything he WAS. If Obama made his case to the American people as being their advocate, by promising to "Change" all the selfish, destructive and wastefully expensive things G.W. is supposed to have done, then HOW does B.O. justify the lavish, jet-setting lifestyle he and his family are maintaining?
He doesn't justify it. Because he doesn't think he needs to. He thinks he's entitled to it because he's the President, and the "Magical Negro" who can be both the voice of the downtrodden minority AND the darling of the gilded Hollywood millionaires, all with no appearance of contradiction or cognitive dissonance. Why? Just because, that's why. And don't ask me again. Hater.
There is a strange sort of fugue or delirium which seems to have dropped across the eyes of so many of America's voters, who seem fundamentally unable to ascribe anything but the noblest of intentions to Mr. Obama, forgiving any misstep or mistake, chuckling with a smirkish disregard and a dismissive, "Oh that silly thing? Pshaa. He gave us Health Care, didn't he?!" This guy is more President Teflon than Bill Clinton was.
Even as we head into the meat of the 2012 election season, there is almost no talk of any Democrat trying to run against him. He's the presumptive nominee, who apparently still enjoys the annointing of the media and political elites who can envision nothing more ideal than four more years of his regal beneficence and royal patronage. Despite all the actual evidence of policies and conduct bordering on malfeasance, Obama still seems surrounded by this glimmering shield which protects him from any criticism, stigma, or potential responsibility for the calamaties he is surely bringing about.
Pres. Obama is quoted as saying, "I think at some point, you've made enough money." Well perhaps, Mr. President, we should amend this to say, "I think at some point, you've gone on enough vacations."
Or, you know, fundraisers sandwiched conviently between a couple of meet-and-greets so that he can justify using taxpayer funds to support his campaining, in likely violation of campaign finance laws.
But hey. It's good to be King.


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Hypotension (HI-po-TEN-shun) is abnormally low blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps out blood.
Blood pressure is measured as systolic (sis-TOL-ik) and diastolic (di-a-STOL-ik) pressures. "Systolic" refers to blood pressure when the heart beats while pumping blood. "Diastolic" refers to blood pressure when the heart is at rest between beats.
You most often will see blood pressure numbers written with the systolic number above or before the diastolic number, such as 120/80 mmHg. (The mmHg is millimeters of mercury—the units used to measure blood pressure.)
Normal blood pressure in adults is lower than 120/80 mmHg. Hypotension is blood pressure that's lower than 90/60 mmHg.
Blood pressure doesn't stay the same all the time. It lowers as you sleep and rises when you wake up. Blood pressure also rises when you're excited, nervous, or active.
Your body is very sensitive to changes in blood pressure. For example, if you stand up quickly, your blood pressure may drop for a short time. Your body adjusts your blood pressure to make sure enough blood and oxygen are flowing to your brain, kidneys, and other vital organs.
Most forms of hypotension happen because your body can't bring blood pressure back to normal or can't do it fast enough.
Some people have low blood pressure all the time. They have no signs or symptoms, and their low blood pressure is normal for them.
In other people, certain conditions or factors cause abnormally low blood pressure. As a result, less blood and oxygen flow to the body's organs.
For the most part, hypotension is a medical concern only if it causes signs or symptoms or is linked to a serious condition, such as heart disease. Signs and symptoms of hypotension may include dizziness, fainting, cold and sweaty skin, fatigue (tiredness), blurred vision, or nausea (feeling sick to your stomach).
In extreme cases, hypotension can lead to shock.
In a healthy person, low blood pressure without signs or symptoms usually isn't a problem and needs no treatment. If it causes signs or symptoms, your doctor will try to find and treat the condition that's causing it.
Hypotension can be dangerous. It can make you fall because of dizziness or fainting. Shock, a severe form of hypotension, is a condition that's often fatal if not treated right away. With prompt and proper treatment, shock can be successfully treated.
Clinical trials are research studies that explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. To find clinical trials that are currently underway for Hypotension, visit www.clinicaltrials.gov.
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Chicken, Chicken meal, Turkey, Cracked Pearled Barley, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Millet, Peas, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Tomato Pomace, Potatoes, Duck, Salmon, Egg Product, Flaxseed, Natural Chicken Flavor, Salmon Oil (a source of DHA), Salmon Meal, Choline Chloride, Dried Chicory Root, Kelp, Carrots, Apples, Tomatoes, Blueberries, Spinach, Dried Skim Milk, Cranberry Powder, Rosemary Extract, Parsley Flake, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Green Tea Extract, Barley Grass Extract, L-Carnitine, Enterococcus Faecieum, Lactobacillus Casei, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Saccharomyces Cerevesiae Fermentation Solubles, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (vitamin B6), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Vitamin D Supplement , Folic acid.
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Omega-6 Fatty Acids, min.* 2.2%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, min.* 0.4%
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First three ingredients are named meat products, generally good quality ingredients
The first three ingredients in this food are all named meat products. Two of these are meat inclusive of water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that these ingredients would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight). However, since the second ingredient is a meat meal, our confidence in the level of meat content of the food is not greatly affected. There are further meat ingredients 12th and 13th on the list. The latter of these this is too far down to make up a substantive portion of the food. That is fish meal, a source of Omega 6 and Omega 3 essential fatty acids.
The main grains are rice, oats and barley. All are whole grains and good quality sources of carbohydrates and additional protein. Millet is a further good quality grain in the food. The food contains a range of fresh fruits and vegetables, though we note that whole eggs have been replaced by egg product in this formulation. Flaxseed is a good quality source of Omega 6 and Omega 3 essential fatty acids, and the food contains a range of probiotics.
Overall, this is appears to be a good quality food with a reasonable amount of meat and that uses high quality ingredients throughout. We do note, however, that the previous formula of this food appeared to have a higher meat content and are disappointed with the reduction in meat meal ingredients heading the ingredient list in this product. The food retains its 5* rating, but would no longer be considered amongst the best in this category.
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Kantakari Solanum xanthocarpum
Like Bruhati, Katakari belongs to the nightshade family along with potatoes, aubergines (one common name of Bruhati is the 'African eggplant'), and tomatoes.
Also like Bruhati, Katakari is known locally as a wild 'eggplant', with a long traditional use as both food and medicine in Ayurveda which uses its root, fruits, and juice.
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The Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree is sought by those who seek graduate level understanding, research and analytical capability, and practical application in the corporate world of the theory and practice of business marketing, management, finance, law, information systems, and strategy.
Developed to provide advanced business knowledge and know-how as a foundation for the corporate executive or entrepreneur, the MBA also dovetails with several University specialties so that students can specifically concentrate in areas of professional or personal interest, to include entrepreneurship, global business management, information technology management, accounting, finance, nonprofit management, and homeland security resource allocation.
Please view our website for the specific admission requirements to our MBA programs. All students in this MBA option MUST take BUSN698 as their final course, even though it does not award credit.
In addition to the institutional and degree level learning outcome objectives, the Master of Business Administration also seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates. Graduates in this degree program will be able to do the following:
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Each university in the Unites States of America sets its own admission standards so there isn't the same criteria for all the students and the university can decide which applicants meet those standards. The fee for each application is between $35 to $100.
After the selections of the universities you want to attend, the best of all would be to contact each university for an application form and more admission information for the international students. Moreover, for a graduate or postgraduate program it's necessary to verify the admission requirements. Some programs require that you send your application directly to their department.
Admissions decisions are based on students's academic record and different test scores, such as TOEFL, the SAT or ACT (for undergraduate programs) and GRE or GMAT (for graduate programs). Admission decision is based on your academic results and motivation.
International applicants are required to pay each course in full using a U.S. credit card or money order. The Automatic Debit Plan (ADP) payment option is available when used with a credit card drawn from a U.S. institution.
Suggestions for international students seeking financial assistance to fund their studies at APUS:
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American Public University is part of the American Public University System (APUS), which is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The HLC accredits degree-granting institutions located in a 19-state region, and is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
ED formally recognizes accrediting commissions that meet all federal standards, and CHEA extends recognition to accrediting bodies and their institutions that meet these established standards. Accreditation should be important to you because it determines a schools eligibility for federal and state financial aid, and may influence acceptance of transfer credits and admission to accredited graduate schools.
In addition to our HLC accreditation, our B.S. in Nursing program, as well as many of our business programs, have obtained specialized accreditation from external accrediting organizations in these specific disciplines.
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This level of accreditation requires a significant amount of self-study and presentation of evidence to satisfy the demanding requirements of accrediting organizations. Obtaining accreditation with HLC demonstrates our focus on providing academic excellence and the best possible experience for our students.
As an accredited institution, our university is eligible to participate in federal educational entitlement programs such as military tuition assistance, government tuition reimbursement programs, the Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill, and many corporate education assistance programs. In addition, APUS has been granted approval by the Department of Education to participate in Title IV Federal Student Aid Programs.
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The B.A. and M.A. in Reverse Logistics Management and the B.A. and M.A. in Entrepreneurship programs within the School of Business are not accredited by ACBSP. They will be eligible for accreditation once they have been standing for a minimum of two years and each has at least one graduate.
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon is a book by philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which he advocates studying religion like any other human endeavor.
Belief in Belief[edit]
One of the central ideas in Breaking the Spell is that of "belief in belief". That is, that most people believe not so much in God, but in the desirability of believing in God.
Dennett summarizes chapter 8, which deals with this, as follows:
- "The belief that belief in God is so important that it must not be subjected to the risks of disconfirmation or serious criticism has led the devout to "save" their beliefs by making them incomprehensible even to themselves. The result is that even the professors don't really know what they are professing. This makes the goal of either proving or disproving God's existence a quixotic quest—but also for that very reason not very important."


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Americans spend $10 billion annually on plastic surgery, and a few billion more on porn, which accounts for 30% of all Internet traffic, suggesting that both appearances and sex are pretty high on our culture's list of interests. Accordingly, this year's Tribeca Film Festival includes three films that explore the economic and emotional dynamics at play in this market of female sexuality. Things look pretty grim.
Lauren Greenfield has been chronicling the life of women and girls in America for a number of years, as a photographer, writer and documentarian. Her latest film, "Beauty CULTure," started out as a photography exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography, who then commissioned Greenfield to parlay it into a short documentary. The film includes interviews with models, make-up artists, plastic surgeons, journalists, and academics, looking, in Greenfield's words, "at the 360 degrees of our cultural obsession with beauty."
Greenfield admits that much of what's touched on in her film has long been part of the dialog about women and sexuality. What's striking about her film, however, is that so many people who are involved in creating the unattainable beauty ideals that haunt so many women today are wholly aware of what they are doing.
Photographer Gilles Ben Simon talks about how he's always loved full-figured women, but the fashion industry won't let him shoot them, while the renowned make-up artist Tyen acknowledges that many women are made to feel fat. To her credit, Greenfield is honest enough to recognize the part she plays in the industry.
"And I'd put myself in that category, too. I'm a photographer that works on magazines. I think that, in a way, that's why this is an interesting project for me--it's also about photography and the role of photography. And whether that's the makeup artist, Tyen, or the photographer, like Gilles… Everybody is complicit."
But Greenfield also feels she and her colleagues are also, in some way, simply cogs in a machine.
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"And also in some strange way, you know, everybody's kind of not to blame, too, because it's kind of a bigger--it's kind of a perfect storm of all these things that are not necessarily in the individual player's control. But definitely, I would say that the people in the film, especially the industry people, kind of both play by these rules and then also, you know, some of them push the envelope or reject it in certain ways but are definitely part of it."
"Sexy Baby," from journalists Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus, tackles many of the same issue, but in a deeper and more personal way. It's a documentary triptych that follows Winnie, a 12-year-old girl growing up in New York City; Laura, a 22-year-old assistant teacher who's determined to have her labia surgically trimmed back, a response to comments from an ex-boyfriend; and Nikita Kash, a 32-year-old former porn star who makes a living teaching regular women how to pole dance.
Watch the trailer for "Sexy Baby."
Watching the film, you can imagine you're witnessing simultaneously three different stages in the life of a single women. Winnie is struggling to find her place in the fast approaching marketplace of sexuality. Laura is deep in it, and in response to being told she doesn't measure up, decides to take on a second job to pay for a surgery that offers zero medical benefit and "fixes" a part of her body that very few people see. And Nikita having gone through the wars, wondering about the choices she's made, especially as she tries to become a mother.
Bauer, 48, says that part of what makes Laura's desire to undergo her surgery so incredible is that it is not unheard for today's 20- and 30-somethings. Gradus, 34, says men she dates know all about it, while Bauer says her contemporaries do not.
While it's easy to be heartbroken and/or repulsed watching Laura's surgery (it's rather graphic), there's something to be said for the peace of mind it brought her.
"Yes, she is [happy]," asserts Gradus. "And we actually went back to her a couple of times, thinking something would be revealed, like she's realized … but to her it was a very face-value thing. She wasn't happy with (her body), she got it fixed and she's fixed."
Clearly the filmmakers are troubled by the lengths to which women are going to compete sexually, but they are not anti-sex.
"I've never been a staunch feminist," says Bauer. "I have some feminist ideas, but I think, you can look sexy and act sexy and be sexy and I think that's great. And I think that's what we as women want to do. But there's all these other layers, and (sexy) can't be all there is."
The duo had to watch a fair amount of porn (incurring staggering fees which they fought successfully), and while Bauer was concerned about its effects on intimacy between couples, what upset Gradus—aside from the horrendous plots ("Have one or don't!")--was the tone.
"I was more shocked and offended by how mean-spirited porn is…that to me is shocking. I just couldn't get over it. I'm not anti-porn, in any way. It's not even about, 'Oh, women are objectified in porn.' Comparatively, (being objectified) is like nice fluffy kittens--like happy porn. Seriously… the way it is now, not only are you an object, but you're an object that I'm gonna laugh at and be mean to and rough on. I'm going to do things, actively, to humiliate you and make you my object."
Pushing the boundaries of the conversation further still is Polish writer-director Malgoska Szumowska's new French-language film, "Elles," (Rated NC-17) which stars Juliette Binoche as Anne, a Parisian journalist, wife and mother working on an article about prostitution, for which she interviews with two young women, Charlotte (Anaïs Demoustier) and Alicja (Joanna Kulig), who have been plying their trade voluntarily for some time now.
Working late hours, constantly at odds with her two sons and husband, Anne is forced to reconsider her feelings on the world's oldest profession. At first saddened and judgmental by what Charlotte and Alicja do for a living, she comes to in some ways envy their freedom. But at the same time, she begins to see all men—even her husband—as their potential clients.
"The film is also about getting old, (Anne) is getting old but she is confronted by the girls, their youth. It's about age and youth," says Szumowska. "I was at the airport, here (in New York), I saw, I don't know who it was, but it was a woman from a television show, a kind of celebrity, she looked like she was close to 50, but with her face she's pretending she's 25—it's pathetic. This is disgusting."
Szumowska's doesn't just try to open a dialog about age, beauty, marriage and prostitution, but confronts our refusal to have that dialog.
"Some women are also rejecting the film," admits Szumowska. "Why? Because it's not comfortable to say to them, 'OK, I'm, sexually frustrated, I'm getting old, I have no relation with my husband, my older son is fighting with me, and the younger one pissed me of because he's playing video games.' People want to keep the illusion, because it's comfortable. And it's a catastrophe if you are keeping the illusion too long."
Szumowska spoke to a number of prostitutes as part of her research for writing "Elles," and dismisses the common notion, originally shared by Binoche's character, that these women are all tragic or miserable. In doing extensive research talking to young women in the trade, Szumowska found they were mostly well-adjusted.
"They are cool, they are not ashamed of what they are doing," insists Szumowska. "I'm not saying (prostitution) is something good, just that it's something."
Though she makes a point of stopping short of making a value judgment about prostitution, Szumowska thinks it can be beneficial, but only if women are doing it voluntarily.
"It can help, yes, of course. If a woman doesn't sleep with her husband, which is often… like after they become a mother, a lot of women don't want to have a sexual relationship, and she is rejecting (her husband). What can the poor man do? He has sex with a prostitute—I think it's more fair than having sex wife a friend of his wife."
Women—and men—have long been adorning themselves in an effort to attract a mate, hold onto their youth, bolster their self-esteem or just keep up. After 200,000 years, it seems unlikely this will stop, and Greenfield, Bauer, Gradus and Szumowska are all smart enough to recognize that, but they clearly see a problem desperately in need of answers. They are also smart enough and nuanced enough not to call for the banning plastic surgery, porn or prostitution
The French artist Orlan spent much of the '90s exploring through her work plastic surgery, going so far as to have cheek implants put in her temples. As outlandish or extreme as her messaging may be at times, it's during a moment in "Beauty CULTure" that Orlan hits upon a starting point.
"You need a dose of narcissism, a dose of exhibitionism, to survive, The important thing is to not get lost in your reflection."
The Tribeca Film Festival is showing "Sexy Baby" on Friday and Sunday, "Beauty CULTure" on Wednesday and Sunday, and "Elles" on Wednesday.


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February 26, 2013 "The Gibson Girl's America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson" Exhibition Opens at Library of Congress on March 30
Press Contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639
Public Contact: Martha Kennedy (202) 707-9115
Contact: View the exhibition online. | Images available in online pressroom at www.loc.gov/pressroom/
In the 1890s, illustrator Charles Dana Gibson created the "Gibson Girl," a vibrant, new feminine ideal—a young woman who pursued higher education, romance, marriage, physical well-being and individuality with unprecedented independence. Until World War I, the Gibson Girl set the standard for beauty, fashion and manners.
The Library of Congress announces a new exhibition, "The Gibson Girl's America: Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson," which opens Saturday, March 30 in the Graphic Arts Galleries on the ground level of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C., and runs through Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. The exhibition is free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
"The Gibson Girl's America" presents 24 works, primarily drawings. The exhibition highlights the rise of the Gibson Girl from the 1890s through the first two decades of the 20th century. It also illuminates how women's increasing presence in the public sphere contributed to the social fabric of turn-of-the-20th-century America.
The items on display trace the arc of the artist's career. Gibson (1867-1944) came of age when women's roles were expanding and social mobility was increasing. He trained at the Art Students League in New York City and also in Europe. The artist created satirical illustrations based on his observations of upper-middle-class life for such mainstream magazines as Life, Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Scribner's and Century.
Through creation and development of the Gibson Girl, the artist, an acclaimed master of pen-and-ink drawings, experienced unrivaled professional and popular success. Gibson's skills and prolific output meshed with the high-volume demand at the time for magazine illustrations. His bold style and virtuoso technique exerted enormous influence on his peers and succeeding generations of illustrators.
The exhibition will be organized into five sections: Creating an Ideal, The Gibson Girl as the "New Woman," Social Relations Between the Sexes, High Society Scenes and Political Cartoonist. The exhibition presents a selection of Gibson's lesser-known political images, spotlighting the concerns he addressed in his later work.
The items in the exhibition are drawn from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, which holds the premier public collection of original drawings by Gibson.
The Prints and Photographs Division also includes approximately 14.4 million photographs, drawings and prints from the 15th century to the present day. International in scope, these visual collections represent a uniquely rich array of human experience, knowledge, creativity and achievement, touching on almost every realm of endeavor: science, art, invention, government and political struggle, and the recording of history. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/rr/print/.
The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library serves the U.S. Congress and the nation both on-site in its reading rooms on Capitol Hill and through its award-winning website at www.loc.gov.


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Why would Obi-Wan be included though? He had no interaction with this thing..
It should be pointed out that if Jeff's getting bonus points, then Darby won the game outright. He actually posted that he was hinted at strongly that the MTT would be this year's big vehicle, back in early January, and he mentioned it to me right after NYCC actually.http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=21308.msg528104#msg528104Good scoop for him. I'm honestly a little surprised, but at the same time, it has that dual value in fitting in with CW ala the way the AT-AT did, and then also fitting into the basic line and TPM focus of course. Cool stuff.
Good point...I do the LEGO sets so perhaps Hasbro is finally taking a hint from them, plus ya adding a hero type guy to this would likely sway parents to buy one for lil Jimmy.
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The second day of the historic trial against Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik began with an ideologically charged testimony in defense of last summer's twin terror attacks and the surprise removal of one of the nonprofessional judges.
Breivik defended killing 77 people last July as a preventive attempt to protect indigenous Norwegians from the civil war that would ensue from multiculturalists' promotion of Muslim immigration to Europe.
In his hour-long opening speech, Breivik compared his actions to the World War II commanders' bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to save millions of lives and Sitting Bull's fight for Native Americans.
"Were they [Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse] terrorists for fighting for their indigenous culture … or were they heroes?" he said. "My acts are based on goodness, not evil," he added. "If anyone is vicious it is the Socialists."
Breivik was allowed to continue reading aloud his 13-page prepared text, despite exceeding his 30-minute limit and amid protests from the legal counsel for the victims, whose clients were offended.
After resuming, Brevik went on to call the Labor party parliamentarians and pro-multicultural political elite insane, contending that "it is irrational to deconstruct one's own group," and insisting he had acted on the "principle of necessity."
"If what I am saying is true, how can what I have done been illegal?" he said. "How can it be illegal to show armed resistance to these groups?"
Breivik is charged for terrorist attacks and pre-meditated murder after planting a car bomb outside the government's main office buildings in Oslo and going on a shooting spree at the ruling Labor party's summer youth camp on the nearby island of Utøya.
His testimony over the next five days is expected to be central in this historic trial, which is now focused on Breivik's sanity after two conflicting forensic reports.
The first report in November concluded the 33-year old was paranoid schizophrenic, and hence criminally not punishable for his actions. The second set of psychiatrists announced last week they found Brevik sane, which makes prison time possible for Norway's most notorious killer in modern times.
The prosecutors' indictment – issued in March, when only the report finding Breivik insane was out – recommends he be transferred to compulsory mental care for having committed the acts in a psychotic state. However, it allows for changing to a 21 years' sentence of imprisonment or preventive detention during the course of the trial if they feel the evidence instead shows him to be sane.
Geir Lippestad, Breivik's defense attorney, said yesterday in a press conference that his client's testimony over the next days would be the most important piece of evidence presented to the court in determining his client's sanity. Mr. Lippestad said last week that his client felt it was important to be considered sane so that his ideology would "stand stronger."
The trial began today with Breivik flashing a clenched-fist salute. Shortly thereafter, Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen recommending that Thomas Indrebø, one of the three lay judges in this case, withdraw immediately from the case for having posted on Facebook, "The death penalty is the only just thing to do in this case!" on the day after the attack. In Norwegian courts, two professional judges and three lay judges – in this case ordinary Oslo residents – determine a judgement in the case.
The replacement marks the second in this high-profile case after one of the original three lay judges was forced to step down prior to the trial because of his ties to the Labor party, the target of Breivik's attacks. The situation poses no technical problem for the case as there are two reserve lay judges. However it highlights the problem of ensuring an unbiased judgement in a small country of five million where most people know someone who was affected by the attack.
Breivik began his trial yesterday by denouncing the legitimacy of the court and pleading not guilty. He remained stoic during most of the prosecutors' hours-long opening statement, even during the reading of graphic descriptions of death from the indictment and an emergency phone call from a terrified teenager hiding in a bathroom on Utøya with repeated rounds of gunfire in the background.
His only moment of emotion was when he was moved to tears during the viewing of his 12-minute propaganda movie trailer Knights Templar 2083, which he released online shortly before his shooting spree.
"It was a very touching film," Breivik said today during cross-examination by Inga Bejer Engh, Oslo public prosecutor, when asked about his unexpected reaction in court. "I thought, 'My country and my ethnic group are dying.' "
Engh focused her cross-examination today on establishing who gave Breivik the authority to carry out his attacks. He argued that his killing spree was justified based on the "universal human right" of defending indigenous people against ethnic cleansing, but underlined that no sovereign state or organization had given him the authority.
"I see this as an unliveable injustice," said Breivik, referring to the attacks. "But it was my own choice."


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(a) No dentist may induce central nervous system anesthesia without first having obtained an anesthesia permit for the level of anesthesia being induced.
(b) The applicant for an anesthesia permit shall pay the appropriate permit fees and renewal fees, submit a completed board-approved application and consent to an office evaluation.
(c) Permits shall be renewed annually by June 30.
(d) Permit holders shall report the names and qualifications of each qualified monitor providing services to that permit holder. A qualified monitor may not perform the functions and responsibilities specified in this article for any level of anesthesia, other than relative analgesia/minimal sedation, without certification by the board. Qualified monitors shall apply for certification and pay the appropriate application fees and renewal fees. Qualified monitors are required to renew annually by the June 30. To be certified as a qualified monitor, the applicant must meet the following minimum qualifications:
(1) Possess a current health care provider BLS/CPR certification;
(2) For monitoring, conscious sedation/moderate sedation or general anesthesia/deep conscious sedation procedures, successful completion of an AAOMS or AAPD anesthesia assistants certification program; and
(3) For monitoring a nitrous oxide unit, successful completion of a board-approved course in nitrous oxide monitoring.
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Yet another accolade for Todd Phillips' instant Vegas classic, "The Hangover."
An industry survey found that it is the most popular on-demand film in the delivery system's history. Shockingly, the film took the title just ahead of "Twilight" and its rabid fan base
Chalk it up to the outrageous premise, the adorable sunglass-wearing baby, or maybe even the film re-emergence of Mike Tyson in the best cameo of 2009. Or maybe it's the fact that truly hung over people across America just wanted to see others share their throbbing head pain on Saturday morning.
The results are taken from more than 14 million homes and definitely favor new films -- since the on-demand numbers drop off dramatically once the movie's DVD is released.
Hopefully they can keep the laughs and the accolades coming in the much-awaited sequel.


text: Einar Bjarni Halldórsson wrote: > Hi, > > I finally got my hands on a DVB card, and have started what is becoming > a very interesting proccess of getting it to work. Had to jump through a > couple of hoops to get the dst module to recognize it as a DVB-T and not > a DVB-S (the default KnoppMyth R5A16 install wouldn't budge on this > issue). Since then I've tried kernels 2.6.10 , 220.127.116.11 and 2.6.12-rc5 > with the CVS version of dvb-kernel, but with similar results. The card > get's recognized as a DVB-T and the CI module is recognized, but when I > try to get dvbscan to do it's thing, I get "tuning failed" and a bunch > of error messages in dmesg. > > I've seen people have similar problems in the mailing list archives, but > I was wondering if there is any progress in finding a solution. > > Regards, > > Einar > > dmesg output (using kernel 2.6.10 I get an error when I try to modprobe > dvb-bt8xx. Had to remove snd_bt8xx and bt878 before modprobe'ing it > again): > ==================================================== > bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:02:08.0, irq: 17, latency: 64, mmio: > 0xfc001000 > bttv0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T [card=113], PCI subsystem ID > is 1822:0001 > bttv0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected] > bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f500fd [init] > bttv0: using tuner=4 > bttv0: add subdevice "dvb0" > bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded > dvb_bt8xx: unable to determine DMA core of card 0, > dvb_bt8xx: if you have the ALSA bt87x audio driver installed, try > removing it. > dvb-bt8xx: probe of dvb0 failed with error -14 > dvb_bt8xx: unable to determine DMA core of card 0, > dvb_bt8xx: if you have the ALSA bt87x audio driver installed, try > removing it. > dvb-bt8xx: probe of dvb0 failed with error -14 > bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded > bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0). > bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 02:08.1, irq: 17, latency: 64, memory: > 0xfc000000 > DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0). > dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DTT-CI] Which card model do you have ? > DST type : terrestrial > DST type flags : 0x2 ts204 0x10 firmware version = 2 > DVB: registering frontend 0 (DST DVB-T)... > . > . > . > read_dst: read_dst error (err == -5, len == 0x01, b0 == 0xdc) > dst_error_recovery: Trying to return from previous errors... > read_dst: read_dst error (err == -5, len == 0x01, b0 == 0xdc) > dst_error_recovery: Trying to return from previous errors... > dst_error_bailout: Trying to bailout from previous error... > dst_write_tuna: read verify not successful. Your card has tuning problems due to i2c communication problems. This has bee fixed with the bttv patch i posted a while back.. Please do test it out whether it solves your communication problems.. This patch can be applied against the bttv in 2.6.11.x. Changelog: Attached is a patch to bttv which fixes the following problems. Affected cards and problems: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o VP-1020 (200103A) Tuning problems, device detection. o VP-1020 (DST-MOT) Errors during tuning, device detection fails in a while. o VP-1030 (DST-CI) Tuning sometimes fails after CI commands. o VP-2031 (DCT-CI) Tuning problems The timeout happens before the actual timeout occured in the MCU on the board, and hence the problems. Changes: (bttv-i2c.diff) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Changed the custom wait queue to wait_event_interruptible_timeout() - Suggestion by Johannes Stezenbach. o Fixed the wait queue timeout problem - This fixes the timeout problem on various cards. - This problem was visible as many * Cannot tune to channels, when signal levels are very low. * app_info does not work in some conditions for CI based cards - Smaller values worked good for newer cards, but the older cards suffered, settled down to the worst case values that could happen in any eventuality. Please do test it out and let know which card model you have also.. Manu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: bttv-i2c.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 940 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20050611/8e1630b5/bttv-i2c.bin


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Has The German Pirate Party Lost Its Way?
from the harder-than-it-looks dept
For the last year, it seemed like the German Pirate Party could do no wrong. In November 2011, it won 9% of the vote in the Berlin parliamentary elections, then 7.4% in Saarland in March, 8.2% of the vote in Schleswig-Holstein in May, and a similar level in North Rhine-Westphalia shortly afterwards. There was a little pushback from copyright maximalists, but after ACTA's defeat in July, you might have expected the Pirates to be riding even higher in the public's favor. A recent article in the German news magazine Der Spiegel reveals that's far from the case:
a new opinion poll by the German public broadcaster ZDF put support for the party at just 6 percent, its lowest level since March. Another survey recently conducted by the Forsa research institute found that the Pirates only enjoyed 7 percent of the electorate's support, down from 9 percent in July. Indeed, it would seem that the up-and-comers are losing a bit of their magic.
As Der Spiegel points out, this is largely the Pirates' own fault. Brutal in-fighting, made all-the-more evident because of the party's laudable belief that internal discussions should be conducted in the open, is undermining the party's credibility as a serious political player:
What other party streams the meetings of its national committee live on the Internet or allows people to watch sessions of its parliamentary groups? Is there another party where it's possible to find its members' cell-phone numbers via a Google search? But the constant chatter of the crowd also has negative consequences: It makes it difficult for the party to be taken seriously as a political actor.
Equally serious has been an inability to set any overall sense of political direction:
it is still unclear where this journey is leading, and the party can't answer the relevant questions. "A unified strategy is not observable," Klaus-Peter Schäppner of the Emnid opinion-research institute told SPIEGEL ONLINE.
It is perhaps understandable that a party that coalesced around a small number of digital issues -- absurdly harsh punishments for unauthorized file sharing, or the increasing invasion of privacy by governments through the use of online surveillance -- should find it harder to arrive at a consensus on more traditional ones, like economic and social policy. But it was widely assumed that in the field of copyright, at least, it would be able to make radical and concrete proposals that set it apart.
A recent policy document on the subject, drawn up by the Pirate Party in Berlin (pdf, in German), disappoints those expectations. Where the German Pirate Party's page on copyright boldly calls for the legalization of copying for non-commercial purposes, the rejection of DRM as "immoral", and "a drastic reduction of copyright periods, far below the periods specified in the TRIPS agreement," the Berlin Pirates' paper is content to produce a series of meek observations about ways in which small improvements could be made without rocking the boat. These include the wider use of Creative Commons licenses, making court rulings freely available, and more transparency for negotiations with the German performance rights organization GEMA. None of these are bad ideas, but they're hardly the significant reform proposals that helped get the party so much attention in the first place.
Maybe the Pirate Party wants to prove its rigor and seriousness by starting from the current position, rather than seeking to overturn it; perhaps it is trying to work with the mainstream parties, and doesn't want to frighten them with radical proposals; or perhaps it has simply lost its way and ended up being assimilated by the system.
Whatever the cause, the consequences of this lack of vision could be serious. As Der Spiegel notes:
polling experts say the party is in freefall and that it may struggle to get the 5 percent of the vote it needs to win seats in the German parliament, the Bundestag, in the 2013 national election.
That's by no means inevitable, but the German Pirates certainly face a huge task if they want to avoid becoming a textbook example of how quickly a new political party's fortunes can wax and wane.
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