ROWLAND HEIGHTS >> Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is in Southern California for a series of appearances.
He's slated to visit the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley on Thursday to meet with community leaders as well as local and state law enforcement officials to discuss the Department of Homeland Security's ongoing collaboration with these groups on civil rights, civil liberties, among other issues.
On Friday, Johnson is scheduled to speak at a naturalization ceremony in Ontario and to the Pacific Council on International Policy.
He's also set to participate in a panel discussion on national defense at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley on Saturday.


Built in 1812, this elaborate riad— a traditional Moroccan house or palace which features an interior courtyard— has hosted myriad VIPs over the years, including Queen Victoria.
There's a lot of history at this property, located just a few minutes walk from a bustling town square, or the medina (the old city) of Marrakesh. More than 200 years' worth, in fact.
Built in 1812, this elaborate riad—a traditional Moroccan house or palace which features an interior courtyard— has hosted myriad VIPs over the years, including Queen Victoria. In the early 20th century. It was the place of reception for various tribal chiefs during the time of Madani El Glaoui, grand vizier to the sultan Moulay Hafid.
Since 2001, the riad has been used as a guest house, attracting celebrities like Charlotte Rampling and Kate Moss, according to the listing.
Nicole Kidman recently filmed "Queen of the Desert" there, and it has also been a favorite shooting location for fashion photographer Mario Testino.
There are three reception areas, as well as one of the largest courtyards in the area. The outdoor space has a lush garden, full of flowers, orange, olive and cypress trees and even the occasional tortoise poking around the fountain.
The house has 15 bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and is more than 16,000 square feet. The outdoor courtyard has more than 10,000 square feet.
The riad was renovated in 2003, but retains a very traditional feel, according to Alex Peto, a partner at Kensington Luxury Properties Morocco. What the house lacks in modern amenities, it makes up for with its old-world feel. "The charm of the place, plus the location and the garden, is what makes it so special," he said.
There is also a full-size swimming pool, which Mr. Peto said was rare for the area.
Used as a guesthouse for the last several years, each bedroom has its own bathroom and an open, airy feel. The rooms feature intricately tiled walls and ornate ceilings, with richly patterned rugs and tapestries. There's also an art collection that includes work from Picasso, Miro and Warhol, plus a collection of Chinese portraits, said Mr. Peto. These, of course, don't come with the house, but "everything's negotiable," he said.
The riad is located on a quiet street, but is just a short walk to Jemaa el Fna square, where you'll find all the hustle and bustle of the local market and old town.
"There, you are 100% in Africa," Mr. Peto said. "You're in a big, bustling square with the tourists and the locals and the smells and everything else about being in Africa."


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Home news NDDB to Bring Mother Dairy, Other Units Under RTI
NDDB to Bring Mother Dairy, Other Units Under RTI
Editor FMT Magazine July 24, 2019 July 24, 2019 Food News
In a bid to increase transparency, accountability and trust of consumers, the government has advised the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to extend provisions of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 to its subsidiaries, including Mother Dairy Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd (MDFVPL) and NDDB Dairy Services among others.
The Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries recently told the Parliament that as NDDB Dairy Services was set up through a Rs 200 crore contribution from NDDB, it has advised NDDB to
"extend the provisions of the RTI Act, 2005 to its subsidiary companies including NDDB Dairy Services."
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, further told the Parliament that both the Department of Legal Affairs and Ld. Solicitor General have opined that Mother Dairy should qualify in the semi-government, if not a fully government, dairy as all of its shareholding is government-owned and in line with the same it has requested NDDB board to "put the decisions of MDFVPL in public domain in the interest of transparency, accountability and also to increase trust of consumers."
The minister said that the Central Information Commission (CIC) had in its order dated April 15, 2011 given judgment that MDFVPL is a public authority under clause (i) of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act and it will appoint a CPIO and the Appellate Authority as per the mandate of the RTI Act.
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Elon Musk vs Azealia Banks: Inside the strangest celebrity feud
Banks took to social media to share
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Of all the random celebrity feuds to circulate through social media, Elon Musk and Grimes vs. Azealia Banks has to be a fan favorite. The news came from Banks' Instagram Stories while she was staying in the Musk Mansion by herself.
Apparently, Grimes had invited Banks out to Los Angeles to work on a musical collaboration, though Grimes and Musk were nowhere to be seen. "Literally been sitting at Elon Musk's waiting for Grimes to show up and start these sessions," she wrote. "I have no idea when she is coming back. I'm going to wait one more day then I'm going to go home."
In another post, Banks wrote, "Staying at Musk's house is like a real life episode of 'Get Out.'" One could only imagine what it would be like to be a house guest at the Tesla and Space X CEO's mansion.
Clearly very upset about getting stood up by Grimes, Banks continued to share, "waited around all weekend while Grimes coddled her boyfriend," and that "then (Grimes) had the nerve to go ghost and 'book me a first class flight' thru (record label) Roc Nation as if she's big enough to send ME out of LA."
That's when things took a turn for the weird. Banks started suggesting that Grimes and Musk invited her out to Los Angeles for non-musical reasons. She wrote, "should have stayed in NYC. They invited me here to stay and told me I couldn't bring my boyfriend … Lol … it was probably some weird threesome sex s**t to begin with."
Azealia Banks exposing Elon Musk for tweeting while on Acid.. while she was waiting for Grimes at her home ... whewwww lord ???? pic.twitter.com/i9BXWWrLAD
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Since the very public accusations reached Musk, he has followed up by saying "has never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way," according to Gizmodo.
After all of this social media feuding, audiences can pretty much rule out a Banks-Grimes collaboration anytime soon.


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Mike is a founder of SBI a management consulting firm specializing in sales and marketing. He's held a variety of sales and leadership roles for over 25 years at companies like TradEx and EMC. Mike's also served active duty for 8 years in the US Navy and is the father of 8 children.
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Russell Braddon
Australian writer
Russell Reading Braddon
(1921-01-25)25 January 1921
20 March 1995(1995-03-20) (aged 74)
Urunga, New South Wales, Australia
Russell Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, The Naked Island, sold more than a million copies.
Braddon was born in Sydney, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the Thailand-Burma Railway between 1942 and 1945.[1][2] During this time he met Ronald Searle, whose Changi sketches illustrate The Naked Island.[3]
After the war, he went on to study law at University of Sydney. Nevertheless, he failed to obtain a law degree (he maintained that he had lost interest in the subject) and he abandoned undergraduate life in 1948.[4]
In 1949, Braddon moved to England after suffering a mental breakdown and followed by a suicide attempt. Doctors attributed this breakdown to his POW experiences, and urged him to take a year to recuperate. He described his writing career as "beginning by chance". The Naked Island, published in 1952, was one of the first accounts of a Japanese prisoner of war's experience.
Braddon went on to produce a wide range of works, including novels, biographies, histories, TV scripts and newspaper articles. In addition, he was a frequent broadcaster on British radio and television.[5] He died in 1995 at his home in Urunga, New South Wales, having returned to Australia two years before.[6]
Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon by Nigel Starck was published in Australia in 2011.
Works[edit]
Those in Peril (1954)
Out of the Storm (1956)
Gabriel Comes to 24 (1958)
The Proud American Boy (1960)
The Year of the Angry Rabbit (1964)
Committal Chamber (1966)
The Inseparables (1968)
When the Enemy Is Tired (1968)
Will You Walk a Little Faster? (1969)
Prelude and Fugue for Lovers (1971)
Progress of Private Lilyworth (1971)
End Play (1972)
The Thirteenth Trick (1973)
The Finalists (1977)
Funnelweb (1990)
The Piddingtons (1950)
The Naked Island (1952)
Cheshire V.C: A Study of War and Peace (1954)
Woman in Arms: The Story of Nancy Wake (1956)
Nancy Wake: The Story of a Very Brave Woman (1956)
End of a Hate (1958)
Joan Sutherland (1962)
Roy Thomson of Fleet Street (Collins, 1965)
The Siege (1969)
Suez: The Splitting of a Nation (1973)
Hundred Days of Darien (1974)
All the Queen's Men (1977)
Japan Against the World (1983)
The Other Hundred Years War (1983)
Australia Fair? (1984)
Thomas Baines and the North Australian Expedition (1987)
Prisoners of War with Hugh Clarke and Colin Burgess (1988)
BBC The Piddingtons 1950: The Tower of London Broadcast: http://www.thepiddingtons.com/broadcasts.html
^ "Prophet of Doom – but a smiling one" by Julie Kusko, The Australian Women's Weekly, 7 July 1971, p7
^ "Fearless Man of Fighting Words", The Canberra Times, 28 March 1995, p9
^ "The Belles of St. Trinian's: Little Monsters All", The Sun-Herald, 14 February 1954, p22
^ "OBITUARIES Russell Braddon". The Independent. 29 March 1995.
^ IMDB – Russell Braddon (1921–1995)
^ "Russell Braddon, 74, Australian Author". The New York Times. 8 April 1995.
Portrait of Russell Braddon by Paul Fitzgerald
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Thousands of workers converged on Boulder City and they had many needs – among them – the need to worship. In Colossus, Michael Hiltzik talks about how the city built one church and everybody worshiped together – a multi-denominational kind of thing. It didn't seem to last that long – I mean, how could it? I noticed in this handy document, that early on four congregations built their own churches and, of those, two still remain in their original iteration – St. Christopher's Episcopal Church and Grace Community Church. I went to see St. Christopher's and I was looking forward to walking around inside because I really enjoy walking through a quiet church. I tried to poke my head in on a weekday and was surprised it wasn't open. So you might want to check the hours. Believe it or not – there are now eighteen churches in Boulder City.


Apple Store Gift Cards Simple to provide. Fantastic ideas on Mother's Day gifts. So, discovering things to delight her on Christmas, Valentine's Day, birthdays, Mother's Day, or every other day of the year was tough. I really like the time with my family. Gifts that are Horny, Sentimental or Surprise do not fail to impress most Ladies.
Give them an Apple Store Gift Card they usually can get Apple hardware and equipment at any Apple Retailer, at , or by calling 1‑800‑MY‑APPLE. Listed here are 5 highly regarded, Valentine's Day gift items for newlyweds which might be good with personalization.
It´s time once more for us to have a good time Mom´s Day next month and so I believed I have to put in writing something for today. It is easy; return objects by mail or convey them in to a store inside 60 days. Be sure your chocolate gift in proper time, good place, and never low-cost one.
We should always not watch for a big day to say I really like you to our family members. The completed paper flowers look very good and they are much easier to make than I expected. Such invaluable advice and so many beautifully presented concepts and personable selections. Cost Nothing-It's worthwhile to fork out money to buy contemporary flowers.
It's the sort of thing that you simply convey home from the hardware store on a random day just because, as opposed to on a birthday, Christmas, or anniversary. In response to the Huffington Publish, the Globetrotters gave her a reasonably sweet birthday gift: a basketball jersey numbered 109 and a donation of 109 tickets to Globetrotter video games given in her name to native underprivileged youth.


Richard Bugg is the Digital Products Solutions Architect for Meyer Sound Laboratories. Before that he was the Digital Products Technical Support Manager for Level Control Systems (LCS) which became part of Meyer Sound in 2006. For the past 17 years Richard has been working with Digital Audio Show Control and the automation of sound manipulation in support of live theatre. Richard has been a member of the AES since 1976.


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est le neuvième album de Sinéad O'Connor sorti en 2012.

Le premier single extrait est .

Liste des chansons

 4th and Vine
 Reason with Me
 Old Lady
 Take Off Your Shoes
 Back Where You Belong
 The Wolf Is Getting Married
 Queen of Denmark
 Very Far From Home
 I Had a Baby
 V.I.P

Notes

 est une reprise de John Grant.

Album de Sinéad O'Connor
Album musical sorti en 2012
Album publié par One Little Indian Records
Album de musique celtique

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It's peak deer season across Kentucky. That includes mating and hunting, as well as a spike in car accidents involving deer. During 2014, State Police Public Affairs Officer Kendra Wilson says there were more than 3,000 vehicle-deer collisions in Kentucky. She says three people died in those crashes. Wilson says deer are found along all roadways. "It's not limited to interstate travel," she said. "It's not limited to back roads or rural areas. Deer just saturate our areas just about everywhere."
Wilson advises motorists to slow down around dusk and dawn, continually scan along the sides of the road, and wear seatbelts. "Make sure that you are seat belted in because the deaths that usually occur from any kind of collision with animals are usually because the occupant is not seat belted in," added Wilson.


We have 80 vehicles available. In ex release condition. All have a new UK MOT certificate, and all are UK registered. All run and drive and are road worthy.
We have 3 vehicles in PA, these are already imported and titled.
There will be more photos when I visit the yard next week.
Will be able to offer lower prices for bulk.


Качественное строительство коттеджей цены умеренные в Нижнем Новгороде и пригороде Русскими строителями.
Search engine optimization (SEO) has become a necessity for websites looking to increase their market penetration. What makes search engine optimization such a challenging field is that search engines are making changes to their search algorithms on a regular basis. It takes considerable skill for any SEO firm to stay in tune with the latest SEO developments. If you are looking to increase the popularity of your website and want to hire a SEO firm to take care of the search engine optimization of your site, here are a few tips to help you choose a SEO firm. One of the most important aspects of SEO is optimizing content, major search engines like Google and Yahoo are basically content centric. This means a website without optimized content stands a very poor chance of performing well with major search engines. The first thing you should look for in a SEO firm is if it is capable of offering content writing services for SEO. Almost all major SEO firms now offer content centric services like web content writing. Apart from optimizing content, it is also important to look for a SEO firm that can utilize other content centric avenues like article writing and press release writing. Another thing to keep in mind while choosing a SEO firm is the services that are on offer. It pays to work with a SEO firm that can offer a complete portfolio of services from link building to specialized web designing services. SEO firms offer a wide variety of link building packages, depending on the page rank you are targeting you should be able to choose the link building package you want. If you are using a SEO firm for carrying out SEO of your site from the ground up, then the SEO firm will automatically choose the link building package your site needs. It is also important to look at the credentials of the firm you are dealing with, most SEO firms make tall claims but have very little to back up their claims. Before you choose a SEO firm ask them for a website they have optimized, most SEO firms will show you a website they have optimized and the keywords for which it is ranking. In addition, also look at the ranking of the website of the SEO firm itself. If the SEO firm's website is ranking well for popular keywords you can rest assured that your website's optimization is in good hands. Another important aspect to keep in mind is how up to date the services on offer are, if you have no idea which services to look for then a good indicator are services like XHTML validation and XHTML slice. In essence, what you are looking for is a SEO firm that can offer you as many or as few services as you require. In addition, a SEO firm should provide the latest search engine optimizations services in conjunction with tried and trusted search engine optimization services. Finally, it is important to understand your own requirements before you hire a SEO firm. Most webmasters know what they are looking for and know which keywords they would like to rank for. It is important to have a list of keywords you want your website to rank for, it is equally important to understand that not all keywords are viable. For example, there is no point in optimizing a website for the keyword 'water' as beating wikipedia is not an easy task. It is important to be in constant contact with the SEO firm so you can better understand how the firm is working and what steps are being taken to improve your site's ranking. Also be wary of SEO firms that offer overnight success.
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If you've been dreaming of becoming a vet, you might initially view the job through rose-tinted glasses. However, it's important to be aware that you will face some challenges in the veterinary profession, both practically and emotionally. We've highlighted some key things to watch out for, and ways to overcome these challenges.
One of the more common challenges you will face in the veterinary profession is having to handle nervous animals. Many pets are scared of going to the vets and won't respond well to being handled by unfamiliar people. While vets are skilled in the handling of animals, you might still face the odd pet who decides to lash out or make a run for it. Don't panic or be hard on yourself in these situations – it's only natural that this will happen from time to time.
Having to deal with angry or difficult customers is a challenge that occurs in many jobs, and being a vet is one of them. While the majority of people tend to be cool, calm and collected, some pet owners may get angry when told certain things about their pet or learning that they have to get expensive treatment. In these situations, try to remain calm and explain things as clearly as possible.
Being a vet is not a glamorous job, as you can imagine, even though it is extremely rewarding. It's likely that you'll have to deal with blood, urine and faeces on a regular basis in your quest to help pets. However, this is a small price to pay for doing a job you love and, the chances are, you will have been well trained to deal with all sorts of things during your veterinary degree.
On a more serious note, one of the most difficult challenges that veterinarians face is having to end the life of an animal in pain. While this is the right decision for the animal because it helps to ease their suffering, it is still an incredibly emotionally draining and traumatic process to have to perform. It's important to talk to people about these emotions and seek out help if you think it's having an impact on your wellbeing.
Being a veterinarian is a very time-consuming and full-on job which can lead to problems with stress. This is one of the harder problems that you will face as a vet, as it can be difficult to find a quick and easy solution. However, you should make sure you are well supported by colleagues, friends and family, try not to overwork to exhaustion, and always seek professional help if you need it. Communication is key and being a vet is still an incredibly rewarding job if you can find ways to manage stress.
If you're looking for a new challenge in the veterinary profession, why not browse our available jobs?


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Patrizia sells EUR 41 million office building in Helsinki
Photo: JLL
Patrizia Immobilien has sold an office building in central Helsinki for EUR 41 million. The property, located at Itämerenkatu 5 in the Ruohalahti district, was sold to Finnish special investment fund eQ Finnish Real Estate.
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The property was built in 2001 and is a multi-let office building with a total LFA exceeding 8,000 sq.m. Patrizia acquired it in 2016 and since then the property has undergone an extensive asset management programme, according to a press release from JLL which was exclusive adviser to Patrizia in the transaction.
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Modra (en llatí Modra, en grec antic Μόδρα) era una petita ciutat que segons Estrabó estava situada a la Frígia Epicteta a les fonts del riu Gallus a la frontera amb Bitínia.

Estrabó parla de ἐκ Μόδρων, i deixa suposar que no era una ciutat sinó un districte. Però se sap per Constantí Porfirogènit que el districte es deia Modrene i no Modron.

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The Briefing – Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)
By Scott Hervey on July 9, 2021
In this week's episode, Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith). They provide a recap of last week's episode, which covers the Second Circuit decision in favor of Goldsmith, the photographer whose image Warhol used to create the Prince Portraits, and the holding that Warhol's renditions were not transformative enough to be fair use. That decision overturned a lower court decision in favor of the Warhol Foundation.
This week, Scott and Josh discuss the possible impact of the Supreme Court fair use decision in Google LLC v Oracle America, Inc., including the Andy Warhol Foundation's petition to the Second Circuit for review of the Goldsmith decision.
Watch the episode on YouTube at this link.
An audio version of this episode can be found on "The Briefing from the IP Law Blog" podcast, available on Apple/Spotify/Sticher/Google platforms or online here:
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States consider the problem of implicit race bias in jury selection
On behalf of Spellman Law, P.C. posted in Criminal Defense on Friday, May 15, 2020.
For a jury to be of "your peers," shouldn't it more or less reflect the ethic makeup of the community you live in?
The U.S. Supreme Court case of Swain v. Alabama held that prosecutors cannot intentionally exclude African-Americans from juries without violating the Equal Protection Clause. In Batson v. Kentucky, it went further and said that prosecutors could not use preemptory strikes (a thumbs down to a juror without cause) in order to intentionally exclude African-American jurors.
Since Batson, it has become common for the defense to challenge the prosecution's use of preemptory strikes if they appear to be made on the basis of race. However, these "Batson challenges" are not always successful. Many African-American defendants are still convicted by all-white juries here in Iowa and in other states.
This is because, under Batson, the prosecution doesn't have to prove that they were not acting on the basis of race. Instead, they only need to point to any race-neutral reason for the preemptory strike. Over time, the courts have watered this down further so that the prosecution doesn't even have to present a race-neutral reason that makes sense; anything will do.
This can be pernicious. For example, in one case in Georgia, all the Black jurors were excluded. One was "too close in age" to the defendant. (She was 34; he was 19). Another juror had a son who was convicted of "basically the same thing." (It was stealing hubcaps; the case was murder.) Yet judges allowed those pretexts to stand until the U.S. Supreme Court reversed them.
But many times, prosecutors vigorously deny any intention to be racist. And, there is significant evidence to indicate that many times the prosecutor is not intentionally being racist. Instead, the problem may be implicit bias against African-Americans.
Several states are currently considering how to reduce the impact of implicit bias on jury selection. Currently, the Supreme Court of North Carolina has a case before it where implicit bias appears to have affected the jury selection process.
A 2012 study of North Carolina death penalty cases found that African-Americans were excluded from juries at greater than twice the rate of others.
The states of Washington, Connecticut and California are also working to address the issue. All three have found that Batson fails to sufficiently protect the Equal Protection rights of African-Americans and added new rules to confront situations where the prosecution's race-neutral reason is not convincing.
Last year, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that defendants can bring in evidence of systemic exclusion of certain jurors in order to bring a Batson challenge.
Is that enough to make the Batson challenge effective?
Tags: Criminal Defense, Juries, Racial Profiling
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You are right, the description is not particularly appealing. They should just get you to write all book summaries!
I would not have read that story based on the summary, but I will based on your review.
I read a Woolf story this week.
I agree with Barb, you should write all the summaries.
Barbara: If they want to pay me to do that, I want to let them.
Loni: I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
I read it last night. I loved the first line. It was a really great story. The blurb does nothing for it, it even makes it seem unappealing. They need to hire better blurb writers.


Gold Box Office Collection Day 12 : Gold starring Akshay Kumar , Mouni , Kunal Kapoor ,Amit Sadh ,Vineet Kumar Singh ,Sunny Kaushal and Nikita Dutta had hit the cinema on the occasion of Independence Day( August 15, 2018.Which is directed by Reema Kagti, Story – Indian hockey team's first Olympic win in 1948 .. The film also had clashed with John Abraham-starrer Satyamev Jayate at the box office. After getting Blockbuster Opening of 25cr+ .. but it fails down on thursday .. Bigg drop .. it collects around 9cr(approx) on thursday .. on fri. it gets good response in many circuits so it easily bounce back .. on friday trend akki is back in form and gets good opening in delhi , mumbai circuits .. Night shows are also very good for gold movie .. and sat akshay kumar is back in action it collects 13cr approx .. on sunday it takes big opening approx 15cr . monday test pass by gold and collect approx 6cr .. On Tuesday it can get 5cr aproxx ( we will update every hour ) .. Wen. It collects 6cr .. thursday was bigg drop day for gold and 2nd friday takes good opening at morning shows .. saturday opened well ..
2nd Friday Clash With SMJ And new movies release can't Stop gold success .. it is opened with good note today .. as expected .. and 2 saturday opening is also good ..


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Zespół przyrodniczo-krajobrazowy "Jezierzyce" – zespół przyrodniczo-krajobrazowy w Szczecinie (Jezierzyce, Prawobrzeże) o powierzchni 106,71 ha. W jego skład wchodzą m.in. meandry Płoni oraz stawy Klasztorny i Cysterski.

Powołany został Uchwałą Rady Miejskiej w Szczecinie nr L/708/94 z 16 maja 1994 roku. Powstał w strefie ochrony SzPK "Puszcza Bukowa" celem zachowania i odtwarzania walorów przyrodniczych i krajobrazowych kompleksu roślinności typowej dla doliny rzecznej oraz łąk i muraw (grążel żółty, szuwary z trzciną pospolitą i pałką wąskolistną, turzycowiska, łąki kaczeńcowe, murawy piaskowe, wikliny nadrzeczne, łozowiska, łęg wierzbowy czy ols porzeczkowy).

Przez obszar zespołu prowadzi  Szlak Rekowski.

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Ferris Bueller's Last Stand
One aim of this blog is to pick out unnoticed and interesting strands in the work of some of the world's great dead thinkers. I've already touched on Plato, Lincoln, Einstein, and, in my last post Kafka; so, as you might expect, there's no way I could avoid getting to John Hughes and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
In the era of Judd Apatow and Owen Wilson, we've had a procession of sad sack comic heros. The more banana peels the movie's slips on, the deeper his self loathing and the more intractable his hangups, the better. The comedy of the moment is one in which the main character is not only human, all too human, but virtually super human in his imperfections.These heros are the modern descendants of Charlie Chaplin's tramp and we love them for their hard won victories over themselves.
Except that, really, we don't. Or, at any rate, I don't. The thing about the Apatow school is that no matter how much sympathy you can muster for the main character, you'll never want to be him. You might, if you're nice, make a point of sitting down with him in the school cafeteria, but only if you're really secure about your own place in the pecking order.
Contrast this with the narrative style of Ferris Bueller, or the other great 1980s teen comedies. In Apatow world, the jokes always come at the expense of the hero. In John Hughes world, they never do. The Apatow hero muddles through in a hard evolution to self-knowledge. In the comedies of the eighties, on the other hand, the question is never how the hero will adapt, or (oh God, so much worse) "reform." It's about how the protagonist will get over, get even, and, yeah, get laid. The hero's impossibly cool (Ferris Bueller) or impossibly smart (Winona Ryder's Veronica Sawyer in Heathers, the most clever nihilistic of those 80s movies). And always there's a scene—in Risky Business, much of the movie—where the hero's wearing dark glasses, the way of saying in a movie, "I see and know you, you don't see or know me."
There's one thing that doesn't happen in all these movies. The lead character barely changes, sometimes not at all. Yes, by the end of Heathers Veronica does conclude that while's it's fine to kill some of the idiots, it's not okay to kill all all of them (if you've never had a moment when this was your overall appraisal of life, you're just not human). So the tired old question of Screenwriting 101—"How does the main character develop?"--is totally irrelevant. The answer, is that he (or in the case of Veronica Sawyer, she) doesn't.
This basic mode, in which the hero is always the one who is in the know and the joke is always on everyone around him, sums up the comedy I want. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the most unapologetic of these, but its variations span a huge range of comedy. All of Bill Murray's career is devoted to exploring the hero who never changes; the whole point of Groundhog Day is having Murray's deadpan act demolish the central conceit that it's a story about a man who has to change. Or, in a different vein, there's Hawkeye in MASH—a TV show that works because Alan Alda never swerves from playing him as a classic romantic lead. Why should he ever change? He is perfect from the start.
There are lots of ways to be perfect in a comedy--the idiot savant, a la Austen Powers or Peter Sellars' Inspector Clouseau are in their way the sine qua non of comic perfection--but they all come down to this: you have to always be right. In the comedy I like, the hero's dignity remains not only intact, but unassaulted. Ferris Bueller World is the opposite of Apatow World, where the geeks are always okay, the imperfect is sympathetic, the uncool get their shot. This is the world in which the wimp can win if he tries enough and awkwardness is a virtue. It's supposed to appeal to those of us who've felt befuddled, woebegone, and unpopular.
Well, screw that. Yes, I can recognize the skill of Apatow, or of Seinfeld, whose talent is in always being his own straight man. But I won't ever really like like it. Give me Ferris Bueller, or for that matter Juno, any day. Skip the awkward mumblers and give me the wise alecks. Those are the comic heros I really empathize with, the ones who are not sympathetic, but admirable. Because you know what? Take it from a guy who was the biggest nerd in the school: we dorks really do think we have all the answers.
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Back to Expert Advice
Genetic Testing for Alzheimer's Disease
James M. Ellison, MD, MPH
Swank Center for Memory Care and Geriatric Consultation, ChristianaCare
Learn about the most common genes associated with the early- and late-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease, and the current recommendations for genetic testing.
Can Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia be passed along in the genes we inherit?
This is a very common question people ask, and the answer is not the same for all kinds of dementia. In this article we will focus on Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Genes: A Brief Background
The genes inherited from our parents and encoded in our DNA affect many aspects of our health. They guide the construction, operation, and repair of our bodies throughout life. Our parents have two "alleles" (pronounced uh-leels) or versions of each gene, and we inherit one allele for each gene site from each of our parents. This is why siblings have unique characteristics unless they are identical twins.
Specific alleles that are passed down through a family can affect the likelihood of resisting or developing many diseases. Another way in which alleles may increase the likelihood of developing a disease is the occurrence of spontaneous changes in the structure of an allele, called a mutation. A small chemical change in an allele can have profound effects on a person's health. An altered gene may produce an altered protein that creates havoc in the body.
Genes and Alzheimer's Disease
Most Cases of Alzheimer's are Not Caused by a Single Gene
The good news is that most cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are not passed along by a single gene. Among the millions of people in the world affected by AD, those known to have developed the disease due to the inheritance of a single gene account for a very small percentage.
The bad news is that even without inheriting one of the genes that are known to transmit AD, the disease is still a significant health risk for any older adult.
Early-Onset Alzheimer's
About one in twenty people with AD have the early-onset form of the disease (EOAD), defined as beginning before age 60. In only a minority of cases is EOAD attributable to the inheritance of at least one gene allele that is linked with the disease.
At three specific gene locations, we know of mutated or duplicated alleles that make the development of AD likely, whether the allele is abnormal through inheritance or mutation. The harmful allele linked with the first of these genes, the gene for amyloid precursor protein (APP), increases APP's affinity for an enzyme that promotes the creation of a toxic protein, called beta amyloid. The other two important alleles linked with EOAD also increase the production of beta amyloid. They are called presenilin 1 (PSEN1) and presenilin 2 (PSEN2).
Late-Onset Alzheimer's
The inheritance of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), which is a far more common type of AD, has not been linked with any single gene. The risk of developing LOAD, however, is affected by various genetic profiles.
The most studied genetic risk factor for LOAD is the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, which can occur in any combination of three possible alleles: ε2, ε3, and ε4. Each of your parents contributed one of these alleles to your genome.
If you have one ε4 allele, your risk for developing LOAD is increased by a factor of 2 or 3. If you have two of the ε4 alleles, your risk increased by a factor of 8. On the other hand, the ε2 allele may be protective.
Because the risk for LOAD is affected by multiple genetic and environmental factors, inheritance is not clear-cut.
Alzheimer's Genetic Testing: Understanding the Pros and Cons
A person with EOAD and a family history that includes 3 or more generations of EOAD genetic relatives is a good candidate for testing of PSEN1, PSEN2, and APP and is more likely than not to show a positive result. That information can be useful in confirming an EOAD diagnosis or in providing genetic counseling about the risk of passing along AD to the next generation. A positive test becomes less likely with a later age of onset and/or a smaller number of affected relatives.
With LOAD, the additional question of whether to test for the APOE allele is raised. Carrying one or two ε4 alleles is an AD risk factor and also can increase the damaging effect of various environmental factors such as smoking or head injury. Yet up to 75 percent of people with one ε4 allele remain free of the disease and up to half of people with AD do not carry the ε4 allele at all.
A positive or negative APOE test could, therefore, provide confusing or even misleading information to an individual interested in assessing his or her risk of developing or passing along AD. APOE testing, therefore, is not generally recommended.
What do we make of this? Presently, genetic testing's role is limited. If the goal of testing is the assessment of risk, there are other less costly, more practical approaches to risk assessment.
While scientists are working to develop blood tests for assessing risk, what we can do immediately, however, is to monitor measures of health such as blood pressure, sleep quality, exercise frequency, glucose metabolism, and lipid profile. These will provide useful information regarding dementia risk. More importantly, these measures will point toward lifestyle changes that are risk-reducing!
Alzheimer's Disease Toolkit (Helpful Information to Understand and Manage Alzheimer's Disease)
Expert Information on Alzheimer's Disease (Articles)
What Is Your Risk?—Heredity and Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease (Article)
Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease (Article)
Decreasing Your Risk of Alzheimer's Disease (Article)
Is Alzheimer's a Genetic Disease? (Article)
Understanding Alzheimer's Disease: It's Not Just Forgetfulness (Publication)
Farrer LA, Brin MF, Elsas L, et al. American College of Medical Genetics/American Society of Human Genetics Working Group on APOE and Alzheimer's Disease: statement on use of apolipoprotein E testing for Alzheimer's disease. JAMA 1995;274:1627-9.
Lleo A, Blesa R, Queralt R, et al. Frequency of mutations in the presenilin and amyloid precursor protein genes in early-onset Alzheimer disease in Spain. Arch Neurol 2002:59:1759-63.
Loy CT, Schofield PR, Turner AM, et al. Genetics of dementia. Lancet 2014;383: 828-40.
Pihlstrom L, Wiethoff S, Houlden H. Chapter 22. Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases: an overview. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Vol 145. 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-802395-2.00022-5
Verheijen J, Sleegers K. Understanding Alzheimer Disease at the interface between genetics and transcriptomics. Trends in Genetics 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2018.02.007
James Ellison, MD received his medical degree from UCSF in 1978 and trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1979-1982).
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Yesterday, we did our weekly ritual of stocking up our refrigerator. We were at Godrej Nature's Basket picking up vegetables when I noticed neatly stacked packets of unusually fat red chilies.
Out of curiosity, I took a closer look and I was pleasantly surprised to see those fat and weird shaped chilies were the Bhut Jolokia chillies. The chili is a native of the North East and is a critical ingredient in Naga cuisine! The Bhut Jolokia are one of the hottest chili peppers available. They had been certified as nearly 401.5 times hotter than Tabasco sauce, by the Guinness Book of World Records! I understand that the "hotness" of chilies is measured on the Scoville scale, i.e. Scoville Heat Units (SHU), which quantifies the concentration of capsaicin in the chili! Capsaicin stimulates the nerve endings in skin and mucous membranes causing a burning sensation.
While capsicums and bell peppers rank in single-digits on the Scoville scale, jalpenos and Tabasco sauce have a rating ranging between 3,500 to 8,000 SHUs. Now, "hotness" is a cultural factor. While Westerners sweat their guts out with jalpenos and Tabasco sauce, they are fairly mild for us!
The Indian standard for "hotness" is defined by Andhra cuisine which is sure to blow anyone's brains! The Guntur chilli which gives Andhra cuisine its distinctive spicy flavor is ranked at 50,000 SHUs! But the for "hotness" of the Bhut Jolokia is at a million SHUs! Now that is incredibly hot indeed!
As my quest for the exotic in food is never ending and insatiable, with a dash of excitement, I picked up the pack.
When I told her what was special about it, pat came a disclaimer "Be careful, if you want it! But I am certainly not having it, count me out!"
"Okay" I said with a plain face and I proceeded with the purchase.
The excitement climaxed today morning. Sunday breakfasts are usually egg breakfasts with eggs in various forms - omelettes, sunny-sides up, hard-boileds, scrambled eggs, etc.
Today, my imagination raced at the speed of light when we were deciding on what to have. I concocted the "recipe" of a Bhut Jolokia omelette. But the excitement was a bit mellowed by the thought of a million capsaicin molecules burning and tingling my taste buds. To avoid an "accident" I decided to tone it down, albeit, a bit - a block of finely chopped cheese was added to the beaten eggs - lactose is said to moderate the "hotness"!
Then it was done - the fat Jolokia was thinly chopped and thrown into the beaten eggs, with salt, ground pepper, oregano and cilantro. The mix went into the pan generously smeared with olive oil. In a few moments it was all ready.
The omelette tasted heavenly with toast and ketchup. But "hotness" came in piercing through the sweetness of the ketchup, though it was tolerable to begin with. After all the morsels of the unique omelette were downed, the real effect showed up. The tingling on the tongue intensified, my nose started running and my scalp started sweating profusely. No wonder the Defence Research Development Organisation is developing non-lethal weapons out of the Jolokia.
But the Jolokia really had me! It would be fun to try more of them, and hopefully one day in traditional Naga cuisine!


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The partying Labradoodle
By Kissy Dugan| 2018-03-21T18:49:20+01:00	May 8th, 2012|Lifestyle Archive|
I wanted Unicorns or Smurfs or a live band (The Go Go's in fifth grade).
hen I was young, my mother would say, "Birthdays should be for mothers. After all, we did all the work." She would continue, "For that reason, I don't really do birthdays."
She didn't do sick people, sports or breakfast either. She knew her strengths. She was good on a shopping spree, liberal with at home hair treatments, and she could make a mean batch of tollhouse cookies. (My mother once dyed my sister's hair platinum blonde. She was 11. She also gave me a perm in the hopes that I would look just like Barbra Streisand in "A Star is Born." My sister looked like a streetwalker and I looked more like a Labradoodle, as we sat chomping on chocolate chip goodies.)
My sisters and I knew that if we found ourselves feverish, or had a game scheduled, or were looking for the most important meal of the day… we had to look to my father. My mother would not participate. But she couldn't really get around the birthday parties. Like the conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War, she was drafted to the festive front lines. It's just that she chose a passive or menial role to play. The planning and execution was really up to the Birthday Girl.
I never really liked this about my mother. When I was young, I wanted her to revel in the glory that was my birthday. I wanted my every wish to be her command. I wanted Unicorns or Smurfs or a live band (The Go Go's in fifth grade).
When I became a mother, I vowed that I'd pull out all the stops for my offsprings' birthdays.
This week, my older son turned five and we partied like it was 1999, though with much less booze, bumping and grinding than The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (or once formerly known as Prince) would have liked. Okay, there was no booze or grinding but there were bumper cars.
I had high hopes for this event. We would hold it a local amusement-type-park — which is so ghetto it is almost Coney Island Cool. The theme of the party would be swanky and British (Read: "Thomas the Tank Engine" — the most expensive imported-to-Italy toy we could find). The cuisine would be Mediterranean (we ordered pizza). And the cake was to be brought in by an exclusive American baker lady (me). Like any good party, there would be swag (goody bags). The bags would be full of cavity inducing candy and an assortment of carcinogenic-based plastic doodads and some of that environmentally non-friendly neon colored stringy spray all purchased from the 99-cent Chinese Store. The party was going to be great!
Then the RSVP's started rolling in. No. No. No. No.
What the? The party planner (me) was perplexed. She (I) had never thrown a party without guests. How could this be happening to us?
"It's a ponte," said my husband Marco. A ponte is a bridge. And though Italians are not exactly efficient when it comes to producing anything… they can build a bridge faster than you can sing Madonna's "Celebrate." A bridge is a day (Monday or Friday) that occurs between a weekend and a bank holiday. So, if a bank holiday falls on a Tuesday… they build a bridge over Monday thus giving everyone a four-day weekend. It's genius really.
Last week, I scheduled my son's festivities on a bridge holiday thus ensuring a miniscule guest list. I tried to reschedule but the venue was already booked. I freaked for a second but then thought, "This is not a Quinceañera or a Bar Mitvah. It's a party for preschoolers."
The part of my brain that's occasionally sane and still has memory like synaptic activity remembered the sage words uttered on ABC's "The View" by the always honest and usually right Joy Behar, "The number of guests at a birthday party should correspond with the age of the child." Leo would be five and he would have seven guests and a whole lot of cake left over to eat. It would be fine.
The party was small but sweaty. The seven kids ran around like lunatics and ate themselves silly. Leo had everyone he wanted — a few friends, a Thomas Cake, and a small pile of presents. Does any five year old really need 30 guests each with a gift in hand? I mean, really? Isn't this birthday business a bit much? With expectations so high, where do our kids go from here? Hookers and cocaine?
I finished the last piece of cake today and decided that my mom was partly right. A woman should be celebrated on the day she brought another life in to this world. Yes, it was my son's birthday but it was also my fifth anniversary of motherhood. I should celebrate myself. What does one buy oneself for five years of parenting? I looked it up. Traditionally, a fifth anniversary is marked by a gift of wood. Wood? Should I buy a new pair of salad tongs or whittle something nice for myself? Maybe I'll wait for my younger son to turn three in July. Three years is leather. I see a Miu Miu bag in my future.
About the Author: Kissy Dugan
Kissy Dugan's "Parenthood" column ran from 2007 through 2016.


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Giveaway: The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman
September 24, 2021 lindasbookbag
I've been taking a small blogging break this week as I recharge my batteries but I can think of no better way to return to blogging than by hosting a giveaway for Hannah Beckerman's brand new book, The Impossible Truths of Love.
My enormous thanks to Kealey Rigden Senior Communications Manager at FMcM Associates for affording me this opportunity. I have three paperback copies of The Impossible Truths of Love to give away to three lucky UK readers. You'll find details of how to enter below.
The Impossible Truths of Love will be published by Lake Union on 5th October 2021 and is available for pre-order here.
The Impossible Truths of Love
From bestselling author Hannah Beckerman comes a moving story about memory, secrets, and what it really means to feel that you're one of the family.
When Nell's father makes a deathbed declaration that hints at a long-held secret, it reignites feelings of isolation that have plagued her for years. Her suspicions about the family's past only deepen when her mother, Annie, who is losing her memories to dementia, starts making cryptic comments of her own.
Thirty-five years earlier, Annie's life was upended by a series of traumas―one shock after another that she buried deep in her heart. The decisions she made at the time were motivated by love, but she knew even then that nobody could ever understand―let alone forgive―what she did.
As the two women's stories unravel, a generation apart, Nell finally discovers the devastating truth about her mother's past, and her own.
In this beautifully observed and emotionally powerful story of identity, memory and the nature of family, Hannah Beckerman asks: To what lengths would you go to protect the ones you love?
Doesn't that sound utterly wonderful? Why not enter the giveaway?
For your chance to win one of three paperback copies of The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman, click here.
Giveaway closes at UK midnight on Monday 4th October 2021 and is open to those with a UK postal address. FMcM Associates will send winners their copies of The Impossible Truths of Love directly. Any data gathered will only be retained until prizes have been awarded.
About Hannah Beckerman
Hannah Beckerman is a bestselling author and journalist whose novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. She is a book critic and features writer for a range of publications including The Observer and the FT Weekend Magazine, and has appeared as a book pundit on BBC Radio 2 and Times Radio. She chairs literary events across the UK, interviewing authors and celebrities, and has judged numerous book prizes including the Costa Book Awards. Prior to writing her first novel, Hannah was a television producer and commissioning editor for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel, and for two years lived in Bangladesh, running a TV project for the BBC. She now lives in London where she writes full-time.
For further information, visit Hannah's website, follow her on Twitter @hannahbeckerman and Instagram or find her on Facebook.


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 - Changed the readme (added a last step that I forgot to mention but it was detailed in the example 'How does it look'

### 5/7/14
 - Can now temp ban after x amount of kicks within x defined of time.
 - Client detection based on ip now instead of socket.id (This is how we keep track of amount kicks and ban accordingly)

# How does it look?

![socketspam.gif](https://bitbucket.org/repo/kR4677/images/1013607973-socketspam.gif)

	// Everyone has this line already when using socket-anti-spam
	var io = require('socket.io').listen(8080,{ log: false });

	// Needed for socket-anti-spam to work correctly
	var antiSpam = require('./antispam');
	var antiSpam = new antiSpam({
		spamCheckInterval: 3000,
		spamMinusPointsPerInterval: 3,
		spamMaxPointsBeforeKick: 9,
		spamEnableTempBan: true,
		spamKicksBeforeTempBan: 3,
		spamTempBanInMinutes: 10,
		removeKickCountAfter: 1,
		debug: false
	});

	 // Everyone has this line already when using socket-anti-spam
	io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
		antiSpam.onConnect(socket); // Needed for socket-anti-spam to work correctly
	});

## And now you are safe from people repeatedly spamming your sockets!

#  How do I use it?

## 1. Start by installing the package:
    npm install socket-anti-spam

## 2. Put this in your server side file AFTER you have defined socket.io variable:
	var antiSpam = require('socket-anti-spam');
	var antiSpam = new antiSpam({
		spamCheckInterval: 3000, // define in how much miliseconds the antispam script gives a minus spamscore point
		spamMinusPointsPerInterval: 3, // how many minus spamscore points after x miliseconds?
		spamMaxPointsBeforeKick: 9, // needed points before kick
		spamEnableTempBan: true, // Enable the temp ban system (temp ban users after x amount of kicks within x amount of time)
		spamKicksBeforeTempBan: 3, // This many kicks needed for a temp ban
		spamTempBanInMinutes: 10, // This many minutes temp ban will be active
		removeKickCountAfter: 1, // This many minutes until the kick counter is decreasing with 1 for the user
		debug: false // debug? not needed
	});

## 3. Put this inbetween the socket.on connection @ server side
	io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
		antiSpam.onConnect(socket);
	});

Now all sockets will be individually checked if they spam your socket.emits and if they do they will be disconnected.

# Contact
    You can contact me at specamps@gmail.com


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Institute of Race Relations
Written by: Terence Corrigan
The 18th century French philosopher Voltaire once memorably wrote that "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." Today, the vehicle through which the Almighty evidently does so is often the satirical cartoonist.
They are a special breed. They combine a grasp of societies' dynamics, an appetite for the daily news, a quick wit and a good dose of artistic talent. It is their job not so much to hold a mirror up to society as to filter its view of itself through lenses of humour, absurdity and rebuke.
So it is with Jeremy Nell – better known as 'Jerm', cartoonist by profession (South Africa's 39th best, in his own estimation), and a satirist by inclination. His work is biting, with an artistic style that mirrors the discordant nature of the reality he lampoons.
Jerm recently attracted some unwelcome attention when a Twitter account @ex_post_facto (it's not clear who is behind it) scolded the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) for their relationship with him. Jerm was accused of being a white supremacist, of promoting 'far right' ideas and of running a racist 'platform'.
OUTA promptly terminated his services and issued an apology. "OUTA was not aware of this cartoonist's affiliation/links to racist individuals or platforms. Jerm was asked to compile occasional cartoons to drive our messages in our fight against corruption. Now that this has come to our attention, we will no longer use his services."
As we at the IRR said at the time, this was "cowardly and disgraceful". A sad crumbling before the online remarks of persons unknown. We have a long-standing relationship with Jerm; we consulted the evidence and discussed it with him. We were satisfied that the allegations lacked merit. As we head into 2019, we are happy to have him draw for us.
Indeed, there is more at stake here than the services of a cartoonist. It says something fundamental about the state of our political culture, and of the freedom we enjoy. Satire thrives in conditions of freedom, and it is the job of satirists to prod, poke and provoke, constantly knocking the venerated off their pedestals, and to make all us look at some of our fondest assumptions anew. There is something profoundly democratic about this.
But perhaps we are tending towards an environment in which the ability to do this is falling away. This was a danger recognised two decades ago by the late legal academic Etienne Mureinik. Writing in the Mail & Guardian in 1996, he remarked that "we inhabit an environment in which the subtler forms of communication may no longer be viable. They who use wit, or irony, or metaphor, now risk being taken at face value."
Witness the Jerm cartoon that supposedly demonstrates his racism, his supposed endorsement of "far right race and IQ theories". It depicts a white and a black character asking why it should be taboo to discuss a link between race and IQ. "Because it might suggest that some groups of people can achieve more than others", says one of them. To which a character off on the right – labelled 'Asian' – responds "… and why's that Taboo?!?"
As it happens, Jerm had already addressed this, in a piece published online long before the twitter outrage. "The cartoon," he said, "itself merely lampoons the unscientific idea of multiple human races. In other words, there is one human race and the differences found between humans are consequences of climate, environment, culture, and so on."
This should have been obvious to anyone with any media or cultural literacy. Although race as a determinant of intelligence has long been discredited, discernible differences in educational attainment, income levels and so on persist – certainly in the American context where this has been most closely studied. Attempts to assign this to the consequences of past or present racism seem unconvincing when the experience of Asians is factored in. Despite having little political power, being numerical minorities and having historically often been victims of racism themselves, Americans of Asian extraction perform disproportionately well in that society. This is a well-remarked upon phenomenon – and lately one central to controversies around racially differentiated university admission requirements in that country.
There is no small irony that while Jerm is pilloried for holding opinions that he does not, race and supposed racial attributes have become central to the worldview of many 'progressive' thinkers. Ayesha Fakie, head of Sustained Dialogues at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, damned Braai Day (the alter ego of Heritage Day) for its supposed capture by white people and 'whiteness'. The 'white' presence in history has been a venal and destructive one, she wrote, and so it remains today. Writer Haji Mohamed Dawjee recently commented that white people have "an inherent, biological entitlement to dominance". Racial biological determinism? Surely we've heard that before, and not in a context one would like to repeat. There is no indication that any of this was in jest.
OUTA's own Makhosi Khoza ventured into the same racial territory by disparaging Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane's 'blackness'. Apparently drinking umqombothi wasn't an appropriate expression of the idea. She had better ones: "one of the earliest Ethiopian philosophers, Zera Yacob & Amilcar Cabral, a deep thinker living ahead of his time." (To her credit, she later apologised for this.)
This is important, not because it suggests double standards (though it does), but because it shows the desperate need to engage and debate. Some appalling ideas have become almost respectable again, adapted, repurposed and relabelled progressive. We need more discussion, more interrogation, and the ability to appreciate subtlety and nuance. Satire, properly deployed, is an excellent and necessary tool for a free and democratic society – a necessary antidote to the prostration before the grim, granite, sacrifice-hungry graven images that ideological high priests demand. Jerm again: "a topic being taboo is quite a good reason to poke fun at it."
Otherwise, we as a society risk a fate far worse than ridicule.
* Terence Corrigan is a project manager at the Institute of Race Relations. Readers who agree with what they have read are invited to join the IRR by sending an SMS to 32823 (SMSes cost R1, Ts and Cs apply).
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Audio files are external files. So are bitmaps and vector files. They all come into Flash the same way, through File>Import. The import menu command has three different options. First is File>Import>Import to stage. This command will allow you to import external files directly to the stage. Once imported, the file is automatically added to the library of the resident Flash file. If the imported file is deleted from the stage, the file still remains in the library and can be used repeatedly.
The next menu command is File>Import>Import to Library. This command brings the file directly into the library, bypassing placement on the stage. This command is effective when you are beginning your Flash movie and need to gather your assets into Flash. If all the files were imported to the stage it may get confusing sorting through them all. You would need to delete most of them from the stage in order to get some structure.
The final import choice is File>Import>Open External Library. When choosing a library file, simply click on the FLA file and only the file's library will open. This menu command allows you to use library file of other flash movies current movie. All symbols and assets in the library can be dragged into your current movie. You can mix symbols in movies easily.
This provides some production shortcuts for you once you begin creating other projects in Flash. You could reuse a button that you liked from a previous movie. To import the sound file you would use the File>Import>Import to Library command. Now that the file is in the library, we can begin to make our on/off audio switch. Once the switch is made, we can place the switch and the splash_intro.swf file together on the index page and we will have a nice simple text animation with audio and an interactive on/off audio switch.
Now we will move forward into the realm of interactive multimedia and create a sound control button that will turn an audio clip on or off. This audio toggle switch is great for adding voice overs and music to any Web page. The switch sits independently in a layer anywhere on the Web page. You can change the background color and typeface of the audio switch in Flash to adapt it to the visual design of the other pages. As your skills and ambition grow, you can use the building blocks of the design to enhance the switch to include more than one soundtrack or voice over. The switch can evolve into a Flash Jukebox of sorts. Lets get started making a soundtrack switch for our Web portfolio.
Button Text On the actions layer, we will be placing stop actions in the first two frames of the movie. Each stopped frame will have purpose in the interactivity. By isolating the actions on a layer, we can quickly reference our frame actions for editing.
Repeat the stop() action for Frame 2.
We will be using labels and an invisible button in this exercise. Both items are great for making interactive objects in Flash. A label is a reference point in the Flash timeline. Using labels allows you the freedom of naming points in the timeline descriptively, thus making references in ActionScript a bit more intuitive to program. For instance, you can make ActionScript take the play head to a certain frame in the timeline. Or you can have the play head go to a label point such as Start or Play.
Maybe Stop or Repeat? Labels can be any name you like; the point is that they provide a higher level of control than frame numbers when programming an interactive movie. On the labels layer you will see red flags appear in the timeline at the label points. Don't worry, the flags are only markers to show where the labels are in the timeline. We will have two labels: Play and Stop.
On the Labels Layer, go to Frame 1 add a keyframe if the frame is empty(F6). On the Properties Inspector, under the word Frame, click in the field and type Play. This label is not seen on the timeline because the frames are so close together. If you roll over the frame slowly you will see the hint box appear with the label name. In the future, you can expand the frames out without changing the animation.
Then you would see the label names in full view.
On the Labels Layer, go to Frame 2 add a keyframe if the frame is empty(F6). On the Properties Inspector, under the word Frame, click in the field and type Stop. We will use these labels for navigating the interactivity of our audio switch.


Tottenham v Arsenal: Will Arsenal's away woes continue?
Betting News > Football > Premier League > Tottenham v Arsenal: Will Arsenal's away woes continue?
There are always fireworks in the North London derby. And Saturday's early kick-off between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal will be no different.
As always, local pride will be at stake. But both sides also need three points to close the gap on the Champions League spots.
Mauricio Pochettino has a full squad to choose from. Toby Alderweireld made his comeback in Spurs' FA Cup win over Newport County in midweek but may not be ready for this yet.
Arsene Wenger may have to pick David Ospina in goal, with Petr Cech a doubt. The rest of his squad is available, bar long-term absentee Santi Cazorla.
Tottenham were dominant in their 2-0 win against Manchester United last week. They followed that with Sunday's 2-2 draw against Liverpool, before a weakened side progressed in the cup against Newport. They're unbeaten in 11 games in all competitions.
Arsenal have been very impressive at home this season. But it's a different story on the road. The Gunners have only won three of 13 away league matches.
However, they've got have a superb record at Wembley. They've won nine consecutive games at the national stadium (including penalties), a run that's seen them lift the FA Cup in three of the last four years.
Arsenal produced a sensational display in their 2-0 win at the Emirates in November. But they hadn't won any of the six previous league NLDs before that.
Pochettino's tactics have generally been successful against his neighbours.
Arsenal have found it tough to get their passing game going against Spurs in recent years. They turned it around earlier this season by pressing high and winning the ball in dangerous areas. Will they be able to play those tactics away from home?
Harry Kane loves taking on Arsenal. The England star has scored six goals in six appearances against them.
Arsenal looked very slick in their 5-1 win against Everton on Saturday. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang may be the club's new record signing, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan could be more important in this game.
His technique and skill could help new team to evade Spurs' pressure and open up space for Mesut Ozil to pull the strings.
Arsenal's away form could cost them here. But there should be plenty of drama throughout the 90 minutes. Both sides have scored in 34 top-flight meetings – more than any other fixture in the Premier League.
It's all set up for a cracker. And whoever wins will get a huge boost heading into the final few months of the season.


Safeway Inc, the nation's third-largest supermarket chain, plans to close 26 Randalls/Tom Thumb stores in Texas in order to revitalize its operations in the state.
Safeway's profit dropped in the 2005 third quarter to $122.5 million, compared with $159.2 million a year earlier. The company had third quarter 2005 sales of $8.95 billion, a 7.3% gain from $8.34 billion in the same quarter of 2004.
"This is a necessary step toward a healthier Randalls/Tom Thumb," said Steve Frisby, division president, Steve Frisby. "We are committed to improving our business in Texas. Closing these underperforming stores will enable us to execute a more focused and productive Lifestyle store remodel program." He described the new Lifestyle format as having more perishables and a large selection of natural and organic foods, full-service meat counters and bakeries, floral design centers, as well as sushi bars and olive bars.
The stores — 16 in the Houston market, nine in Dallas/Fort Worth, and one in Austin — are expected to close by the end of 2005. After these closures, Randalls/Tom Thumb will continue to operate 62 stores in Dallas, 36 in Houston, and 14 in Austin.
Randalls/Tom Thumb said many of the affected employees would be eligible for severance benefits and outplacement services.


Medical drama starring Edna Bright and Charles Schaefer. 30 goddamn minutes of constant hell.
30 minutes of your life that you won't want back filmed by wire around Los Angeles.
You got it stuck in there, you get it out has been running for 1 season, running from 2016 to 2019, where not even the writers know what's going to happen next.
Next showing: Season 1, Episode 1	on iTelevision, on 23rd April 2019, 23:30 Episode synopsis: It occurs to Kevin that sickening is probably not for the best. Is there time to change things?


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LoKal Burgers and Beer opened up to much fanfare and burger hype from the usual folks. I'll be honest I was kinda turned off to checking this joint out because of that. Kush, the owner is a big proponent of purchasing ingredients that are sustainable and locally sourced. His passion for it convinced me that I should give it the old college try.
Pretty much everything in the place is recycled from the LoKal sign made from cork board, the cassette tape wrapped bar to the wooden pallet tables. There's even a little area selling great locally made products like Copperpot's Jams & Jellies (which I love).
The Fresh Alligator Strips were calling my name but the New Mexico Chili had my attention the minute I looked at the menu. The chili which is topped with Monterrey Jack Cheese and diced Onions was riveting. I almost channeled my inner Johnny Depp (Once Upon a Time in Mexico style) and went back to the kitchen to take care of the chef. It was so good I was eating as if someone was going to take it away from me. The next thing I knew it was good and I still kinda miss it to this day.
It's clearly stated that Kush's Favorite is LoKal's version of a Frita topped with Guava Jelly, Melted Gruyere, Stuffed with Potato Sticks, Crispy Bacon, their Lokal Sauce and then pressed and cut in half. I will normally go for either the house specialty or just the restaurant's straight up regular burger, in this case, the Classic. But…I chose the 50/50 (50% Florida ground beef & 50% Florida ground Bacon, served w/ Mayo, Monterrey Jack Cheese, Tomato and a Sweet Onion Marmalade). It's served with 50% sweet potato fries, 50% french fries and homemade Ketchup and Honey Mustard dipping sauces.
Take your pick, you won't go wrong with either the regular or sweet potato fries. That honey mustard dipping sauce is pretty stupendous. The burger was everything you might expect and more. What really got me was the smokey taste that ran throughout the burger and how fresh it was. The Sweet Onion Marmalade added a nice sugary component that cut through slightly and complimented the meat. I'm sold and I'm looking forward to some more Chili and a Classic Burger. Or maybe the Alligator Strips and the Royale with Cheese? I'll figure it out.
My pal Vane on the Street hit up The LoKal for dessert, check it out aqui.
Happy you enjoyed it, their chili is awesome. Did you get a chance to try the Miami Heat burger? It's amazing.


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In other places in the Scriptures, Jesus tells us the parable of the Ten Virgins who were awaiting the arrival of the Bridegroom as well as the parable of the man who filled new barns for himself only to have God show up and say, "This day your soul will be required of you." And again, Jesus remarks that the people he lived among knew how judge what type of weather was coming but didn't know how to read the signs of the times. And again, He tells us that if the homeowner knew when the thief was coming, he'd lie in wait. And again, He reminds us that our end will come with the suddenness of a woman going into labor and, yet again, that the measure that we use to measure others will be the measure that's used to measure us.
So we cannot say we were not warned. It doesn't take a prophet to discern the fact that our lives–our faith lives, our family lives, our business lives–will be significantly changed during the coming year or two. This fact is being driven by economic and political forces which were also, to some extent, driven by our (read: Christians') ennui, enthusiasm for entertainment and entrapment in the 'cares of this life.' The changes that confront us are also a testimony to the fact that we follow a Crucified Christ and so we know that the way He was treated is the way we will be treated.
This Advent, Jesus asks us to "See what I see and treasure what I treasure." By a simple whispered prayer to the Holy Spirit everyday, the 'eye of our hearts' can be purified (that is, opened) to use Christ's own sight to navigate in this world that is rapidly passing away. He is here. He wants to help us. All we have to do is ask.


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St. Stephen of Hungary
AKA: Istvan, Vaik (birthname)
Feast Day: There seems to be a consensus on August 16; however, the Catholic Encyclopedia says September 2 except in Hungary, where it's August 20. *
Really Existed? Definitely.
Timeframe: c. 975 - 1038.
Place: Hungary.
Credentials: Canonized by Gregory VII in 1083.
Martyrdom: None.
Patron Saint of: Hungary.
Symbolism: "In art," says one source, "Saint Stephen is dressed in royal regalia with a sword and banner of the cross. He may also be shown (1) offering the regalia to the Virgin; (2) on horseback; (3) with his son, Saint Emeric; (4) holding a church in his hand; or (5) holding a standard with the figure of the Blessed Virgin on it." Since all of these except the unhelpful point (3) are very common saintly postures, however, they are unlikely to be of much help in identification.
Everybody who knows the first thing about Hungarian history, which is to say Hungarians, knows that the Magyar peoples coalesced into a more or less unified polity in the late ninth and early tenth centuries. Originally from the eastern part of the modern Russian heartland, they became the dominant power in the Carpathian Basin under Árpád, a leader sometimes referred to as a "Duke" in the English-language literature. A few Dukes later came Géza, a Christian convert who actively sought ties with Rome and Western Europe. When Géza died, control of Hungary was contested between his non-Christian brother Koppány and his Christian son Stephen. Stephen won, consolidated royal power and the emerging Hungarian state, and introduced a feudal system of government, frowned on today but reasonably progressive 1000 years ago.
I have mentioned before that much internet hagiography is taken more or less verbatim from nineteenth century lives of the saints. Sometimes that results in coverage that is extremely learned but fairly turgid to wade through. Other times, it's not very learned at all, and indeed can at times seem absurdly naïve. Here's a case in point:
When he was fifteen years old, his father gave him the commandment of his armies, seeing his virtue and Christian ardor. Already Stephen was beginning to root out idolatry and transform the pagan customs still existing among the people. At twenty years of age, he succeeded his good father, who died in 997. He suppressed a rebellion of his pagan subjects, and founded monasteries and churches all over the land. He sent to Pope Sylvester, begging him to appoint bishops to the eleven sees he had endowed, and to bestow on him, for the greater success of his work, the title of king. The Pope granted his requests, and sent him a cross to be borne before him, saying that he regarded him as the true apostle of his people.
Now, I'm happy to report that most of the major saint sites are a little more nuanced in their take on all this. There is clearly some discomfort that such a high-profile saint – for all his importance, apparent sincerity of belief, and personal piety – isn't a little more compatible with our contemporary notions of basic human rights. After all, "rooting out idolatry" and "suppressing a rebellion of pagan subjects" are two ways of saying "killing people who don't agree with you." And probably the reason they don't agree with you is because you are "transforming the pagan customs still existing among the people," which is to say subjecting them to the humiliation of having to say and do things they find objectionable out of fear for their lives and property. Inviting in foreign missionaries to speed up the conversion may not have played too well in the villages either.
Having established a pretty good public cash flow, Stephen was indeed able to endow those religious institutions, at least one of which is still in good working order. The above account is at pains to claim that Stephen didn't only supervise the ecclesiastical division of his kingdom, but begged Pope Sylvester II to choose the bishops. Later in the account, we're told that
When Saint Stephen was about to die, he summoned the bishops and nobles, and told them to choose his successor. He urged them to nurture and cherish the Catholic Church, which was still a tender plant in Hungary, to follow justice, humility, and charity, to be obedient to the laws, and to show at all times a reverent submission to the Holy See.
From the perspective of Rome, then, Stephen was a profoundly Good secular ruler – not only did he advocate Church control of the appointment of bishops, but even brought the bishops in on selection of a new king! But you don't have to be especially cynical to note a bit of quid pro quo going on behind his "reverent submission to the Holy See." It was the Holy See, after all, that credentialed his elevation to kingship, thus hugely enhancing his personal and political credibility within Europe and essentially granting Hungary independence from the Holy Roman Empire. For this kind of endorsement, letting someone else pick your bishops would have been a small price to pay.
Well, that's life in the Middle Ages for you. Hungarians traditionally admire Saint Stephen as one of the fathers of their nation, and indeed who's to say that aggregate human happiness wasn't, in balance, greatly increased by this capable, effective, and by all extant accounts well-intended statesman. "His incorrupt right hand," says the Catholic Encylopedia, with that venerable work's trademark straight-faced delivery, "is treasured as the most sacred relic in Hungary."
* This apparently has to do with a reorganization of the Calendar of the Saints after Vatican II. I'm going to need to learn more about that if I'm going to grow as an amateur hagiographer.
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said...
That guy is one helluva shot-putter!
Yeah, and on the stamp he looks like he could probably handle a javelin too.
I wonder if that's "the regalia," as in "offering the regalia to the Virgin"???"
(Turns out it is, more or less)


Ranjith Pappachan, PhD, worked as Lecturer in Department of Business Management and also officiated as Principal in United College of Arts and Science, Port Blair, South Andaman. In the year 2006, he shifted to Mahatma Gandhi Government College (MGGC), Mayabunder, North Andaman as Guest Faculty in Cooperative Management Department. In the year 2011, Ranjith was appointed as Programme Officer in the biggest project of India, that is, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with Andaman and Nicobar Administration. He also occupied an honorable position in top NGOs in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The idea for this book is derived from nearly ten years of his teaching experience in cooperative management, commerce and management courses to undergraduate students.
World's business decisions depend on business environment, which is highly dynamic. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the core topics that are central to the business environment. Each topic is presented in a very systematic way aimed to develop the reader's ability in understanding and analyzing the internal and external environmental factors that affect the business environment. The subsequent factors, that is, Economy Systems, Economic Environment, Industrial Environment, Technological Environment, Social Environment, Political Environment, International Environment, Legal Environment, Natural Environment and Demographic Environment, and their roles in business decisions are discussed elaborately in this book.
The book is divided into seven units and each unit is again divided into different sections. It provides a strong conceptual framework for the study and understanding of the various aspects of business environment. The recent policy changes are also incorporated in the appropriate sections.
This book is designed to keep the standard requirement of business management, commerce and economics students at graduate and postgraduate levels.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › Courts of Appeals › Ninth Circuit › 1968 › Luis Soto Padilla, Appellant, v. Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of the State of California, John...
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Luis Soto Padilla, Appellant, v. Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General of the State of California, John Doe, Chairman of the Adult Authority, Arthur L. Oliver, Warden of Folsom State Penitentiary, Appellees, 398 F.2d 481 (9th Cir. 1968)
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 398 F.2d 481 (9th Cir. 1968) July 22, 1968
Luis Soto Padilla, in pro. per.
Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen., Edward P. O'Brien, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.
Before CHAMBERS and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and* BELLONI, District Judge.
BELLONI, District Judge.
Appellant contends that he has been denied equal protection, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, because the California Adult Authority denied him a parole.
The appeal is from the district court's dismissal of his complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.
The complaint, brought pursuant to the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the Declaratory Judgments Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, alleged that he and a co-defendant were given the same sentence (six to ten years indeterminate) and both had "uneventful but productive confinement." Yet the co-defendant was granted a parole after three and one-half years, while after seven and one-half years appellant remains in penal custody. In a conclusory allegation he states that the reason he was denied his parole was that he refused to divulge information about criminal activities of his fellow prisoners. The complaint prayed for
1) a declaratory judgment that he be "paroled or shown probable cause why such parole is denied,"
2) a declaratory judgment that the Adult Authority must comply with the Fourteenth Amendment and
3) an injunction against further discrimination by the Adult Authority.
The Attorney General of California and the Warden of Folsom Prison are joined because they are alleged to have "conspired to and did deprive plaintiff of the equal protection of the laws."
In order to state a valid claim under Sec. 1983,1 the complaint must allege facts which, if true, would show that the defendants, while acting under color of State law, subjected the plaintiff to the deprivation of a constitutional right. DeWitt v. Pail, 366 F.2d 682 (9th Cir. 1966); Cohen v. Norris, 300 F.2d 24 (9th Cir. 1962). We agree with the district court that Padilla's complaint fails to meet that test.
Parole is a form of custody. Jones v. Cunningham, 371 U.S. 236, 83 S. Ct. 373, 9 L. Ed. 2d 285 (1962). Thus, the gist of the complaint is that the authorities have refused to transfer him from one form of custody to another. This is not sufficient to state a claim under the Civil Rights Act, because it does not allege a violation of a right secured by the Constitution or statutes of the United States. Stiltner v. Rhay, 322 F.2d 314 (9th Cir. 1963).
BROWNING, Circuit Judge, (dissenting):
On its face the order of the district court dismissed only the complaint, not the action. However, since the district court issued a certificate of probable cause and granted leave to appeal in forma pauperis, it is clear that the court "determined that the action could not be saved by amending the complaint, and that the order dismissing the complaint was, in effect, one dismissing the action." DeWitt v. Pail, 366 F.2d 682, 685 (9th Cir. 1966).
The dismissal of the action without affording an opportunity to amend can be affirmed only if it appears from the allegations of the complaint that there was an insuperable bar to relief. Corsican Productions v. Pitchess, 338 F.2d 441, 442-443 (9th Cir. 1964). See also Breier v. Northern California Bowling Proprietors' Ass'n, 316 F.2d 787 (9th Cir. 1963).
The majority holds that such a bar was present in this case. The reasoning appears to be that since parole like incarceration "is a form of custody," nothing of significance occurs when a change from one to the other is granted or refused, and therefore the denial of parole to plaintiff in this case could not have violated any of his constitutional rights thereby giving rise to a claim under the Civil Rights Act.
In the real world incarceration and parole are vastly different conditions.* The parolee's status, whatever its limitations, has far more in common with liberty than with imprisonment. When the State grants, denies, or revokes parole it takes action which directly and significantly affects the personal freedom of the accused, and the State violates the Fourteenth Amendment whenever that action is arbitrary, basically unfair, or invidiously discriminatory. Sturm v. California Adult Authority, 395 F.2d 446, 449 (9th Cir. 1968) (concurring opinion). Cf. Eason v. Dickson, 390 F.2d 585, 589 n. 4 (9th Cir. 1968). No one would contend that officers of the State could grant, deny, or revoke parole on the basis of the accused's color or religion, for example, without offending the Constitution and exposing themselves to liability under the Civil Rights Act.
Dismissal of appellant's complaint was justified because its allegations of denial of due process and equal protection lacked the factual specificity that is required in these cases (Stiltner v. Rhay, 322 F.2d 314, 316 n. 4 (9th Cir. 1963); Williams v. Dunbar, 377 F.2d 505, 506 (9th Cir. 1967)), but dismissal of the action is improper.
The judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded to allow appellant an opportunity to amend his complaint.
Honorable Robert C. Belloni, United States District Judge, District of Oregon, sitting by designation
For the purposes of this opinion we have assumed, but not expressly decided, that 42 U.S.C. § 1983 authorizes an action against these defendants. Appellees claimed immunity from civil liability arising out of official discretionary functions. Since we have decided that the dismissal was proper, we do not reach the immunity contention
"All others can see and understand this. How can we properly shut our minds to it?" Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co. (Child Labor Tax Case), 259 U.S. 20, 37, 42 S. Ct. 449, 450, 66 L. Ed. 817 (1922). "There comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men." Watts v. State of Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52, 69 S. Ct. 1347, 1349, 93 L. Ed. 1801 (1949)
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(US Army) The U.S. Army Europe counterintelligence division has officially released a new smartphone application to facilitate the "if you see something, say something" reporting process for service members, civilians, contractors and Family members in Europe.
"iReport was developed to take advantage of today's smartphone culture. It is an application that we want everyone to have on their smartphone so they can quickly and easily report suspicious behavior," said Bryan Eisenhardt, a U.S. Army Europe counterintelligence coordinator.
Eisenhardt also explained that the application can be used for reporting low-level suspicious activity that authorities may want to know about.
The homepage for the application offers two ways of reporting suspicious activity.
Counterintelligence personal additionally state that if you see immediate and escalating incidents, these incidents should be reported to local and military police immediately, which can also be done on the application or by simply calling the local authorities.
"The U.S. Army Europe iReport application is available for free download and we encourage everyone to download it for the Apple [application] Store, Google Play, or Microsoft Store," Eisenhardt said.


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