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John Pennay trains for the world barefoot water-ski championships at Helles Park in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Australia wins the men's hockey gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Bike cross. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
A boy scores a try during the All Schools Rugby League Tournament in Cronulla, Sydney, Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
A swimmer takes off from the blocks at the World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
The start of a swimming contest in Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Rugby match in Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Oarsmen crash through the waves during a surfboat competition in Sydney, Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Gymnastics. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
Archery in Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
A competitor takes a tumble during a national surfing contest at Wanda Beach, Sydney, Australia. Australia has a climate conducive to outdoor activities, and a population that considers sports an important part of its culture. On any weekend, a wide variety of sports are being played out across the land. Age and skill may vary, but participants have one thing in common - love of sport and the desire to compete.
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Russian Helicopters, January 19, 2017 - Moscow - Russian Helicopters, part of State Corporation Rostec, has won an international tender and signed a contract with Balochistan provincial government to supply a Mi-171 helicopter.
The helicopter is expected to be delivered in the first part of this year.
The government of Balochistan will use its first Russian civilian Mi-171 for transporting passengers and cargo, sanitation tasks, patrolling and emergency response.
"Our victory in the tender is a natural indication that Russian helicopters are most suitable for use in this region. We expect that the Pakistani authorities will continue to increase the volume of deliveries of Russian rotorcraft in the future. There are preconditions for that already," - said Russian Helicopters Deputy CEO for Marketing and Business Development Alexander Shcherbinin.
The Mi-17-type helicopter was chosen for Balochistan due to its proven reliability and efficiency in a wide variety of climates, ability to store without a hangar, ease of maintenance and operation in areas with limited development of ground infrastructure.
The Mi-17-type helicopters are produced at Russian Helicopters' Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant and Kazan Helicopter Plant. As of 2014, more than 12 thousand units have been made, which is a world record for twin-engine helicopters. They were delivered to more than 100 countries and their total flight time totals about 100 million hours.


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Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to be let go by Cumulus Media
Distribution costs for the popular conservative talk show programs are too high, reports Politico
Prachi Gupta
Cumulus Media is planning to let go of conservative political commentators Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, according a report by Politico. Hannity and Limbaugh host the two most highly-rated talk show hosts in the country, but an inside source says that for Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, distribution costs are too high. According to Politico's source, the media company will not renew the contracts for either host:
The decision comes after negotiations between Cumulus and Premiere Networks, the division of Clear Channel that distributes Limbaugh and Hannity's shows, broke down due to disagreements over the cost of the distribution rights, the source said. Cumulus is known to drive a hard bargain on costs, and Clear Channel is known to seek top dollar for big names.
As industry insiders caution, Cumulus and Clear Channel have come to the brink before during contract negotiations only to resume talks. But the source told POLITICO that Clear Channel was unlikely to reduce the cost for distribution rights to a level that would satisfy Cumulus.
Cumulus declined to comment for this story: "Cumulus is not in a position to comment about negotiations with talent under contract, no matter what the rumor of the day might be," a spokesperson told POLITICO.
If the negotiations are not finalized, then Premiere "is expected to carry Limbaugh and Hannity on stations in many of the markets where they are currently signed with Cumulus," reports Politico.
Prachi Gupta is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on pop culture. Follow her on Twitter at @prachigu or email her at pgupta@salon.com.
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Why is Student Debt so High in New Hampshire?
According to economist Brian Gottlob's report "Why is Student Debt So High in New Hampshire," for every $100 reduction in tuition at New Hampshire public colleges, the average debt of graduates would be lowered by $70 - $78.
For every $1 increase in tuition and fees, average student debt at graduation increases by 23 cents at private colleges and by 55 cents at public colleges.
From the 2001-2002 school year to the 2011-2012 school year, inflation-adjusted tuition and fees increased by 26 percent nationally at private four-year colleges and by 72 percent at public colleges.
The average debt of graduates of New Hampshire's private institutions is almost $4,000 greater than the debt of graduates of private colleges nationally.
About 80 percent of New Hampshire college graduates choose a college or university within New England.
The average need-based grant at New Hampshire public colleges was $4,925, among the lowest in the country.
The average need-based grant for private colleges in New Hampshire was more than $24,000, the highest among private colleges nationally. Need-based grants covered 54 percent of the average cost of attendance at New Hampshire private schools, the third highest rate in the country.
Brian Gottlob, an economist with PolEcon Research, said he recently saw a report that offered one solution to rising college tuitions: reducing administrative staffing levels.
"We don't need another report like that," Gottlob said.
Higher tuition and student debt levels can't be fixed with single solutions. These issues are multi-layered, which Gottlob points out in his latest report, "Why Is Student Debt So High In New Hampshire? (And What Can We Do About It?)," in which he examines the myriad factors that result in New Hampshire students graduating with the nation's highest level of debt. It would be easy to point to high and still increasing tuition rates, and that certainly is the biggest part of the problem, but it's not the only puzzle piece.
Increases in student debt and tuition locally and nationally have gotten to the point where, Gottlob says, families are beginning to question the value of higher education. On average, a New Hampshire college student graduates with $32,440 in debt. That's about $5,000 more than Massachusetts graduates and about $6,000 more than Maine graduates.
Where students go to school, how much financial aid they qualify for, and certainly how expensive and competitive schools are in this region all contribute to the levels of student debt. Additionally, a sizable percentage of New Hampshire families fall in between — they don't earn enough money to be able to just pay tuition bills themselves, but they earn too much to obtain financial aid, he said.
A highly competitive region as far as college goes, New England is probably never going to be a low-cost locale when it comes to college, since highly skilled, well-educated workers are in demand here. Gottlob said he believes private institutions will ultimately get costs under control, as the market will eventually force tuition to a more sustainable rate of growth. He says there is evidence that is beginning to happen. But the market has less impact on public colleges.
The most readily available strategy for families looking for a less-costly option is to attend an in-state, affordable, public college. But Gottlob says students in New Hampshire don't necessarily have that option. In-state tuition and fees at New Hampshire public colleges have jumped to a level that is equal to 20 percent of the state's median household income, and to 30 percent if room and board is included, compared to 16 percent nationally, according to the report. Couple that with students having difficulty obtaining need-based grants to attend public colleges, and you've got a recipe for high debt levels.
In turn, the average debt for a student graduating from one of New Hampshire's public institutions is greater than the national average amount of debt for a student graduating from a private school. In New Hampshire, the average amount of debt for private school graduates is only slightly higher than for public school graduates, according to the report.
With New Hampshire ranking near the bottom nationally in terms of levels of state support for higher education, Gottlob said the legislature could take a more active role in dictating purposes for taxpayer money.
Shannon Reid, director of communications for the Community College System of New Hampshire, pointed out that community colleges in New Hampshire are relatively under-utilized compared to the rest of the country. Nationally, almost half of undergrads attend community colleges, while in New Hampshire about 25 percent of college students attend community college.
Community college officials in New Hampshire have been pushing programs that allow high schools students to take community college courses and obtain college credit, thus reducing the cost of a college education. Officials have also been pushing students to attend community college for a year or two before enrolling at a four-year school to take advantage of the lower cost.


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A bumblebee, visiting the flowers produced by one of my broccoli plants during last year's growing season. A great example of how we can "share the surplus" of our gardens with our pollinator friends.
Ah, permaculture… One of my most favorite topics! For many of you who are reading this, permaculture may be a familiar topic. For many others, it will be a completely new topic. The idea of using permaculture to create sustainable human settlements is simple, but at the same time, the applications are quite broad.
Because permaculture involves so many things, if you were to ask 10 different permaculturists (of which I am also one, since I took a Permaculture Design Course two years ago), you will get 10 different definitions of what permaculture actually is. Today, I will try to define for you what permaculture is from my viewpoint, and I will share why I believe that it is critical for many of the issues that we are currently facing in our world today. By the end of this article, I also hope to spark a love of permaculture in your heart. Okay, I can't make you love permaculture, but hopefully you will at least gain an appreciation for its importance.
At its core, permaculture is a way to live sustainably with the world around us. It first began as a design system intended to create permanent agricultural systems, but has since evolved into a designed permanent culture, including building sustainable communities and social structures, sustainable agriculture and growing systems, sustainable economic systems, sustainable buildings and shelter, and much more. It is a system where we can design the ways that we live to be more in harmony with the environment and with each other. It takes principles found in nature and applies them to our lives and how we live. It provides a blueprint of practical solutions to many of our problems of natural resource depletion and brings us to a place of a more abundant and hopeful future.
I realize that these descriptions sound quite Utopian. However, with permaculture, many practical techniques can be found to solve many of the issues that we are facing in our world today. Natural resource depletion everywhere? Permaculture can help. Loss of soil fertility? Permaculture has answers. Erosion problems? Permaculture has answers. Flooding problems? Permaculture has answers. Got pollution problems and need some remediation? Permaculture can help. Can't grow food anymore on severely degraded land? Permaculture has answers. Too much waste? Permaculture has answers. Water resource limitations? Permaculture has answers. An unsustainable economy? Permaculture has a few principles that can help out with that. Unsustainable agriculture running rampant everywhere? Permaculture was created for times such as this!
While I'm not saying that permaculture will solve every single problem that exists out there, I am saying that it can provide many tools to help us to transition to a much more sustainable future. For much of humanity's history, we have focused on dominating and controlling the landscape, and fighting against nature. Our tendency to do this as a species was not much of an issue when there weren't so many of us living on our planet, and we also didn't have the technologies that we have now to make such negative impacts on the land at such large scales. As we became more and more dominant on the landscape of the Earth and became more efficient in the ways that we did things, we began to isolate ourselves from the land and we forgot how dependent on nature that we really are. The truth is, no matter how many "awesome" things that we invent for ourselves, the realities of natural resource limitations still exist, and we'll never be able to invent our way out of every problem.
Today, we find ourselves at an important crossroad, where humanity must start making some critical decisions about how we are going to live on this planet, and we must begin to work with nature instead of against it. We are currently experiencing the realities of hitting many critical limits of nature. In Ecology, this is known as the carrying capacity, where the existing resources can only supply so much to a growing population of organisms. I certainly don't need to discuss at length how we are experiencing an unprecedented loss of global biodiversity, increased levels of flooding, pollution, extreme weather, drought and famine, and things don't seem to be getting a whole lot better. At the same time, we are experiencing a lot of economic and social problems in the world today. We are isolated from one another, and our families are suffering. And, we keep getting sicker… It is clear that a lot of changes are needed.
A Resilient and Sustainable Future is Possible!
It is true that there are many complicated problems today, and they cannot be solved overnight. However, I do believe that we can start to turn a corner and implement some sustainable solutions that could give everyone a much more abundant and resilient future. It will take a fundamental paradigm shift to see that things can be different than they are now, and that we are actually more personally empowered than we have been led to believe. Permaculture can be a part of that future.
Permaculture is based upon the following three ethics: Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share. These ethics inform everything done in permaculture, and are all considered to be of equal importance. Earth Care is caring for the natural world. People Care incorporates taking care of human needs but in a sustainable manner. Fair Share means that the natural world has its limits, and that available surplus should be shared according to need. Nature is efficient, and everything gets used and recycled. You don't find many "hoarders" in nature, and when you do (squirrels, for instance), the resources do still eventually get recycled back into the system, not thrown away and buried under the ground, never to decompose or cause pollution problems.
So what does permaculture actually look like? It's as varied as the ecosystems on the Earth, and looks different in each place that it is applied, so this makes permaculture applicable pretty much anywhere. Permaculture looks like aquaponics, herb spirals, capturing and storing rainwater, swales, hugelkultur, lasagna gardening, vertical growing systems, lots of organic matter to restore the soil, forest gardens, and an emphasis on perennial plants and growing systems. It looks like local economic systems, community time banks, local currencies, and homeopathic, herbal, and other alternative and holistic forms of medicine. It looks like CSAs and investing in your local economy. It looks like sharing the surplus from your garden or from your fruit trees with those in need. It looks like energy and water efficiency, composting, and reducing and recycling our waste. It looks like reducing our carbon footprint and reducing or eliminating our commute distances, using public transit, and using a bicycle to get from place to place. All of these things are just a start. As you can see, permaculture is very holistic, and can incorporate many things into our lives to make ourselves more sustainable. It gives us a framework to go from just talking about being sustainable to actually doing these things in our lives.
If you are interested in learning more about permaculture, I recommend to you the following books and resources.
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow. A guide to using and applying permaculture in a variety of settings.
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway. A great guide to applying and using permaculture in urban and suburban settings.
Permaculture in a Nutshell by Patrick Whitefield. A short and easy to read book that gives you the basics on permaculture and its applications.
The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane. A practical and comprehensive guide to permaculture design.


Eco aims to create a new global currency that is easier, safer, and faster to use than paper money. In addition, Eco will ensure that the majority of the economic value generated by the platform is fairly distributed to its community to create a more equitable distribution of resources.
Exclusive: Uber Creator Invents New Cryptocurrency-And Wants Your Help Making It RealityUber creator Garrett Camp has devised a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency "Eco" that aims to fix Bitcoin and Ethereum's technical issues.
Introducing Eco: A Global Currency Protocol - Eco - MediumWe are excited to announce Eco, a new global currency protocol. Eco aims to create a new global currency that is easier, safer, and faster to use than paper money. In addition, Eco will ensure that the majority of the economic value generated by the platform is fairly distributed to its community to create a more equitable distribution of resources.
Would you recommend Eco to a friend?
Really interested to see what a community first approach to a cryptocurrency will look like. The design doc pdf outlines their model, and has some real differences from other coins. Specifically, they're tackling energy consumption and dominant mining pools by enacting a forced distribution model across trusted pools. Seems like a promising approach.
Ben has never used this product.
Albert Bechekanov has used this product for one day.
Token Distribution: 10% will be held by the Eco Foundation to fund operations and community grants, and 10% to active contributors and advisors. 10% will be allocated to strategic partners worldwide. This will make those "partners" and "advisers" very very rich.
@ericdiepeveen the very first thing I thought.
It's an interesting concept, and their white paper is pretty short and easy to read. They're building a proof-of-authority network, which means that only a pre-selected group of nodes can participate in validating the blockchain. This makes scalability a lot easier, at the cost of centralization. They aim to eventually grow to "a few hundred nodes, targeting universities across 50+ nations". This would be more decentralized than most PoA cryptocurrencies, and it's much better in this regard than i.e. Ripple, but purists will still be unhappy. I'm a big fan of the 'community-driven' model, and block rewards are distributed to nodes and "qualified users". Overall there is very little technical detail around this project, especially since they claim to achieve 100,000+ tx per second throughput, through a sharding process. We'll have to wait and see what comes from this team.
Big red flag when I made an account, got a confirmation email, and then they asked for my mobile number to "complete registration". You should be very careful of which online businesses you give your mobile number to.
@aaroniclee At this stage numbers are just as primitive as emails. Not a big deal.
As a big fan of my fellow Canuck, Garett Camp, I'm excited to see how Eco does!


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Fu esiliata in un monastero all'inizio del regno di Ivan Asen, dopo aver combinato il suo matrimonio con Anna Maria d'Ungheria. Dal matrimonio con Anna, Ivan Asen ebbe due figli.

Biografia
Il matrimonio di Ivan Asen con Anna risale all'esilio di quest'ultimo nella Rus', il periodo precedente alla sua ascesa con la forza al trono ancestrale di Bulgaria nel 1218. Con ogni probabilità, Anna fu promessa in sposa a Ivan Asen perché potesse ricevere l'assistenza della Rus' per salire al trono. Secondo il resoconto dello storico bizantino Giorgio Acropolita, Anna era una concubina piuttosto che una moglie legittima di Ivan Asen. Ma lo storico bulgaro Ivan Bozhilov, ritiene che questo sia il risultato delle scarse informazioni di Acropolita.

Il periodo effettivo di Anna come imperatrice fu piuttosto breve. Non molto tempo dopo essere salito al trono nel 1218, Ivan Asen organizzò il suo matrimonio per motivi politici con la principessa ungherese Anna Maria, figlia del re Andrea II (r. 1205-1235). Ivan Asen pretese il matrimonio proibendo ad Andrea e alle sue forze di attraversare il territorio bulgaro di ritorno dalla Quinta Crociata. Dopo aver stabilito il futuro matrimonio di Ivan Asen e Anna Maria, la prima moglie Anna si ritirò in un monastero e divenne monaca con il nome di Anisia. In un successivo testo ortodosso bulgaro, viene elogiata come imperatrice ortodossa di Bulgaria. Ivan Asen sposò Anna Maria tre anni dopo, nel 1221, perché il matrimonio richiedeva l'approvazione personale del Papa. Come accade spesso alle ex consorti, la prima moglie di Ivan Asen finì la sua vita esiliata in un monastero.

Discendenza
Dal matrimonio con Ivan Asen, Anna diede alla luce due figlie. La maggiore, Maria Asanina Comnena, fu moglie di Manuele Comneno Ducas, sovrano di Tessalonica dal 1230 al 1237. Un'altra figlia di Anna, nota provvisoriamente come Beloslava, fu sposata al re serbo Stefano Vladislav I (r. 1234-1243).

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Production of Monoclonal Antibodies Specific for the Microgametocytes of Eimeria tenella
Marc A. Laxer, Utah State University
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The objective of this study was to produce a monoclonal antibody specific for the microgametocytes of Eimeria tenella, examine the site and stage specificity of the antibody, and investigate the immunopotency of the antibody. BALB/c mice were immunized with antigen containing Eimeria tenella microgametocytes isolated from in vitro systems. After three intraperitoneal immunizations with the antigen and one booster immunization administered by tail vein injection, the mice were sacrificed and their spleen cells fused with SP2/0 mouse myeloma cells using polyethylene glycol as a fusing agent. Resultant hybridomas were screened by immunoelectrophoresis, indirect immunofluorescent antibody assay, and immunoelectron microscopy to determine the isotype, subisotype, site and stages pecificity of the antibody. Of four 96 well plates seeded with fusion products, four hybridomas were found to be producing anti body specific for the target antigen. Only the most strongly positive of these hybridomas, clone T1A3B9, was used for the study. The antibody produced by this hybridoma was found to be of sub isotype IgG2b.
T1A389 monoclonal antibody was introduced into Eimeria tenella infected cell cultures on days four, five, and six post-infection. At seven days post-infection, oocyst production was assayed by fixing, staining, and counting the resultant oocysts. Results of the in vitro experiments showed a greater than 50X reduction in oocyst product ion in experimental cultures over controls. Statistical significance of the data were confirmed by a Mann-Whitney U Test. These results indicate that the monoclonal a ntibod y was exert ing an inhibitory effect on the fertilization process.
T1A3B9 monoclonal antibody was incubated with Eimeria tenella infected cecal scrapings and cell culture material, immunolabeled with colloidal gold conjugates, and observed by electron microscopy. Results showed that the antibody was binding to the microgametocytes and to no other life cycle stages of the parasite, nor was it binding to host tissue. This indicates that the antibody is stage specific. Additionally, the antibody was seen to bind only to areas in close proximity to the budding flagella of developing microgametes, thus indicating distinct site specificity.
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Burgo closes Avezzano fine paper mill
After switching production from coated to uncoated fine paper at the beginning of the year, Burgo has now completely shut down production at its Avezzano mill in Italy.
Burgo has permanently shut down its Italian Avezzano mill with a capacity of 180,000 tpy of uncoated woodfree paper. A union spokesman said that production had been down since the end of July when machines had been halted for market-related reasons. The stoppage was followed by the usual two-week downtime in the summer. Production should have restarted on 26 August, but employees had been informed in a meeting the previous day that operations would not be resumed, the spokesman explained.
Burgo confirmed the closure but did not provide further details, saying these were yet to be published.
Only at the beginning of the year, Burgo had switched production on the PM 2 at Avezzano from coated to uncoated woodfree paper. The spokesman said that the number of days of production had been increasing steadily since then, starting at 7 days in January and climbing as high as 20 days in recent months.
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Barclays lists commodity-index ETF on the NYSE
By John Spence
Published: July 21, 2006 9:42 a.m. ET
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BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- The New York Stock Exchange on Friday said Barclays Global Investors has listed an exchange-traded fund tracking a broad commodity index. The iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust GSG, +0.38% follows a Goldman Sachs production-weighted index of the prices of a diversified group of futures contracts on physical commodities, according to a press release. The ETF tracks the 24 commodities including six energy products, five industrial metals, eight agricultural products, three livestock products and two precious metals.
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BERN A bizarre case has Swiss and foreigners alike scratching their heads. A hapless German pensioner recently visiting his daughter in Switzerland drove his son-in-law's Swiss-registered car across the border to go to his daughter's holiday home in Austria. Stopped at customs, and unable to provide appropriate documentation, Dieter Johann von der Heide was hit with a whopping fine of CHF 17,900 – 10% of the value of the car in customs costs and 19% import tax.
Fines are calculated as 10% of the value of the car in customs costs and 19% import tax.
Apparently, there is an EU regulation stating that anyone domiciled in the EU must apply for a customs clearance and registration document before entering the EU with a car that does not have an EU registration. It is a cautionary tale for anyone residing in Switzerland who might wish to allow a friend or relative visiting from the EU to drive their Swiss-registered car across the border – even for a day trip.
There is an exception that allows residents living in Switzerland to enter the country twelve times a year with a foreign-registered car. That may not be much comfort for frontaliers who must rely on the fact that the law is honoured more in the breach than in the observance. A similar Swiss law states that "Persons resident in Switzerland are generally not entitled to use a foreign matriculated vehicle in Switzerland," although there are exceptions for rental and professional use. Walter Pavel, the communications officer for the Federal Customs Office (AFD) in Bern, said the rationale behind the law is to control automobile smugglers and those trying to avoid paying import duty on a new car.
Since ignorance of the law is no defence, the question remains, who has the obligation to inform car owners residing in Switzerland about the problem of allowing friends or relatives to drive their Swiss-registered car across the border? Representatives of the Swiss Touring Club (TCS) and the Cantonal Service of Automobiles would only say that, if asked, they advise customers to check with the country in question.
I read your very interesting piece on driving across borders with foreign-registered cars in the current Le News. These kinds of problems are not new: I worked in the EU's Press and Information Office in Paris 30 years ago and one day I got a call from a man who had just driven the expensive BMW which he had just bought in Belgium over the border into France – without declaring it at the border – and now wanted to register it. But he had not owned it for 6 months and could not bring it in as a used personal import and had not declared it at the frontier so it was an illegal import which also could not be returned to Belgium. I had to tell the unhappy man that he was now the owner of one of the most expensive pieces of scrap iron in Europe. I just remember him starting to shout, and shout and shout and shout …. in the end I gently put the phone down.
In fact, this whole area (driving licences and car registrations) is a complete legal minefield, with the potential for large numbers of people to be caught breaking laws they are unaware of. Decades of freedom of movement legislation and jurisprudence in Europe have not resolved issues like those outlined in your article. In some respects, matters are getting legally worse – the EU Driving Licence Directive, although not fully in force in most countries, may have standardised the licenses quite prettily but has made explicitly clear that stupidities like being unable to drive a foreign-registered car even temporarily (athough there are exemptions for hire cars) in your country of residence (for fear of tax evaders exploiting the possibility) is indeed the law.
Vast numbers of frontaliers are probably breaking this rule all over Europe but instead of legalising this sensible use of cars, we get the Austrian Customs (and others) applying the strict rule of law on the very occasional unfortunates they choose to make examples of. A friend who lives in Ferney continues to use his UK licence as the Directive allows, but is regularly stopped by the French police who are entirely unaware of it and its provisions (in this case, good ones). He did once go to the Mairie and try to change his UK licence to avoid all the hassle but was told that because it was no longer a 'must do' legally-required activity, the relevant office in Bourg en Bresse would only process the transfer request if he had committed a traffic offence and so HAD to exchange his licence. So the advice was that unless he didn't want to see his licence again for several years, he should just forget it and carry on as now.
When I worked in Paris, I could not drive our UK-registered car in France so my wife, who works in the UK and hates driving, had to drive from Calais. Now that I am in Geneva, I can't drive at all because I am not going to exchange an EU driving licence for a Swiss one while uncertainties about Switzerland's relationship with the EU exist after the recent referendum. So now I can drive from Calais to Ferney but my wife has to drive the last couple of kilometres into Geneva! But most people don't know about any of these things, as the ignorance on the blogs shows, and seem to equate not getting caught – sometimes for decades – with being legal, which they are not. If ever there was a case for greater European integration – including with Switzerland – then surely driving laws should be an area for far greater harmonisation so that common-sense activities, like that of poor Herr von der Heide, are not criminalised.
Switzerland is such a trial these days. I have the distinct impression that they are trying to make up lost illicit banking revenue by bleeding dry everybody they possibly can.
The new law about hefty fines for getting on a train without a ticket also came as quite a shock, given that you could always buy a ticket from a conductor when you had a short connection, at least since, oh, forever.
Combined with the ridiculous exchange rates these days, I can't see why anybody bothers to go there at all–just meet your Swiss friends in France or Italy.
Where did you read this? I'm trying to look for the actual piece of legislation to show the border guard next time they stop me!
Concerning your rather sensational front page story…I wonder how many people would let their 73 year old father-in-law drive their CHF 179,000 car, anywhere? Maybe they got off lightly with the 10% fine!
That, if I may say so, is completely besides the point!
So, where exactly would one apply for such a document???
This is precisely the problem. The best suggestion we can offer is to contact customs, either at a border post, or phone their offices (see website: http://www.ezv.admin.ch/index.html?lang=fr) For the EU side, I would do the same with any French, German, Italian or Austrian customs offices.
Sincerely yours, Edward Girardet, Editor.
When I was going on an overseas holiday last year, my Douvaine-resident brother asked if he could borrow my car while his was being extensively serviced. Having vaguely heard that there might be a legal impediment, I decided to check with the French authorities.
The customs office referred me to the police station. The police station referred me to my car insurance company. My car insurance company referred me to the customs office. No one had any idea what the "appropriate documentation" was or how to procure it.


Section 1 girls basketball scores and statistics for Monday, Dec. 17.
Hackley 58, Rye Country Day 51: In a battle between of the top Independent school teams, Jordan Wade scored 25 points in the win. Sofia Graziano added 18 points, 11 rebounds and four steals for the Hornets. Katie Lefever led the Wildcats with 15 points in the loss. Alana Jones added 14 points, seven assists and five rebounds for RCDS.
Alexa Wanderman, Solomon Schechter: The senior poured in a game-high 20 points during a 57-46 win over Riverside, shooting 6-for-8 from behind the arc in the process.
Pearl River 66, Roosevelt 26: Sarah Lindquist and Jenna Daly each scored 9 points in the win.
Lakeland 66, Lincoln 29: Alexa Cole had 12 points and seven rebounds in the win.
Sleepy Hollow 51, Gorton 19: Sara Clarke led all scorers with 18 points. AJ Davis-Sumter added 14 points for the Horsemen. Nastajah Write paced the Wolves with 14 points in the loss.
Blind Brook 50, Hamilton 26: Kaitlyn Tangney scored 17 points in the win. Alexa Charles paced the Red Raiders with 16 points in the loss.
Solomon Schechter 57, Riverside 46: Alexa Wanderman scored 20 points and was 6-for-8 from behind the arc in the win. Maya Kremins added 18 points for the Lions.


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#define DALI_DRAWABLE_ACTOR_H

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#include <dali/public-api/actors/actor.h>
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Hugo Riehmann (* 10. November 1873 in Sülzenbrücken; † 20. November 1938 ebenda) war ein deutscher Landwirt und Politiker (Thüringer Landbund).

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Riehmann war evangelisch-lutherischer Konfession. Er machte eine Lehre als Schmied und lebte als Schmiedemeister und Landwirt in Sülzenbrücken.

Nach der Novemberrevolution schloss er sich dem Thüringer Landbund an. Bei den vorgezogenen Neuwahlen zu Landesversammlung des Freistaates Gotha am 30. Mai 1919 wurde er in die Landesversammlung gewählt. Er gehörte dieser auch nach der Umwandelung in eine Gebietsvertretung bis 1923 an. Er wurde für seine Partei und den Wahlkreis Sachsen-Gotha in den Thüringer Landtag gewählt, dem er bis 1923 angehörte. Von 1909 bis 1921 war er Schultheiß (Bürgermeister) und  Gemeindevorstand von Sülzenbrücken.

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 Thüringer Landtag: Die Abgeordneten des 1. Thüringer Landtags 1920 – Eine biographische Ausstellung, Hugo Riehmann

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Nepal (114th) has seen an improvement of 13 ranks in education as a result of reforms to the country's education system. Enrolment rates for both primary and secondary education have increased and now stand at 96% and 62% respectively.
Ranked 126th of 167
126 th on the Legatum
Safety & Security 61st
Personal Freedom 72nd
Social Capital 159th
Investment Environment 138th
Enterprise Conditions 73rd
Market Access & Infrastructure 136th
Living Conditions 146th
Health 147th
Education 143rd
Natural Environment 123rd
Benin is 126th in the overall Prosperity Index rankings. Since 2010, Benin has moved up the rankings table by 2 places.
Benin performs most strongly in Safety & Security and Personal Freedom but is weakest in Social Capital. The biggest improvement compared to a decade ago came in Enterprise Conditions.
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Middle East and North Africa: Slow progress over the past decade
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Third most improved region for prosperity since 2010
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Depending on which corner of the world you live in, you might be looking for fall (autumn) bujo themes or summer bullet journal setup ideas.
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Here, you will find everything from weekly November spread theme ideas and monthly autumn spreads to November title and cover page inspiration.
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For those sweater season lovers out there, this one is for you. Items used to create the ombre autumn theme here include Tombow dual brush pens, zebra Sarasa porous pens, and of course the iconic leuchtturm1917 journal.
Check out these falling leaves theme for your next bullet journal cover page. The color scheme on this page is the perfect start to the month of November.
If you loved the autumn leaves color palette on the cover page you just saw, you can follow up with the same theme for your weekly spread.
Each leaf has the date in it and adds a nice touch to the weekly setup.
Or you can try this minimalist October or November weekly spread to keep things really simple and easy too. Look at that vibrant orange!
As someone who loves to use stickers and decorative washi tapes to save time, this November bujo setup really stands out for me. Don't forget to click on the image above (it will take you to the original post) then flip to the next page to see the video posted by Erika. She shows you a few more pages she set up for this month.
Deck out your bullet journal and add extra an touch to any page with these fall themed bujo stickers, washi tapes (and more) we absolutely adore!
I love this method of doing habit tracking simply because it's so easy and anyone can do it. Each habit you want to work to build is allocated its own box.
This is a great way to set up your habit tracker if you have multiple habits you're trying to work on (don't we all?).
So this month, why not make time to do the things that make you feel better in the long term (welcome those good habits) and yes, I'm talking about self-care too!
This is another simple layout and a great way to track mood for the autumn months. I like the idea of using a lighter color around the border of the leaf to create a 3D effect.
Once complete, it would be a really nice way to look back and reflect on how the month went for you, and super easy to see any trends in your mood based on the days and what you had going on.
Cute Harry Potter theme mood tracker.
Do you enjoy practicing hand lettering? Use your Koi brush pen to create this calligraphy for your monthly cover page. Whether it's hello November or hello any-month-of-the-year, this modern calligraphy looks stunning.
This autumn calligraphy is probably a little easier to do than the previous one. Perfect if you are a beginner practicing hand lettering and brush calligraphy. Try using two shades of the same color from your set of Koi pens as you can see in this IG post.
Something a little different – geometric bujo cover page design idea.
Try this weekly spread with fall decor elements on both sides of the entire spread, and add your snapshot calendar to the top corner of the page. You can also use these stickers to decorate instead of doodling.
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The Micron Pen 0.5 and these set of Tombow brush pens definitely make doodling this piece easier, especially for beginners.
Bujo setup idea for November with a page for music to listen to (or books to read, movies to watch, pumpkin recipes to enjoy). You can put pretty much anything you want to do more of in autumn.
This is so cute. Especially if you love candles.
This is a sweet idea! Why not doodle all of your favorite things about fall?
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Avatar Derangement Syndrome Watch
Topic: Horowitz
I felt empty when "Avatar" ended. It was as if I had witnessed an angry man's vision of the world, a man who fails to see joy in a child's smile, but who sees conspiracies around every corner. He is a man who sees his fellow neighbor as evil personified.
"Avatar" proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Cameron is not much of a man. He is a child on a never-ending temper tantrum. Like all members of his extreme political faith, he lives in a fairy tale world, and so it causes rage when that carefully constructed vision of how things should be doesn't translate into reality. Perhaps this explains why he's known to be a tyrant himself and why he's had four failed marriages.
When all is said and done, "Avatar" is more about a man projecting his own self-hatred and self-loathing onto the screen than anything else. It's all about Cameron, the man who doesn't trust corporations, who claims that Western culture is ugly, racist and greedy. Yet, at the same time, Cameron is the man behind "Avatar's" stunning box office records and its release on DVD and Blu Ray which made him even richer than he already was.
As an aside, there is a reason why the DVD has no special features and why the Blu Ray, while slightly better, only has the bare minimum: they are planning to release a special edition of "Avatar" shortly before Christmas. This edition will have all the features we missed the first time around. And Cameron, corporations' main critic, knows full well that fans of his films will buy this second edition as well, which means he will make double his profit. In other words, if he wants a conspiracy, he should look in the mirror.
-- Peter Sheldrick, May 5 FrontPageMag article
(See more Avatar Derangement Syndrome here.)
Posted by Terry K. at 11:37 AM EDT
Sheppard Smears Gore Again
Topic: NewsBusters
NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard has a habit of smearing Al Gore, and he cranks up the sleaze again in a May 3 post falsely suggesting Gore misused the money of his non-profit corportation to buy "a $9 million mansion in the luxurious hills of Montecito, California."
Media Matters' Jamison Foser has more.
Posted by Terry K. at 8:30 AM EDT
Updated: Thursday, May 6, 2010 12:17 AM EDT
Newsmax's Ruddy Goes After Beck For Teddy-Trashing
Topic: Newsmax
First it was WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah abandoning Glenn Beck for his ridicule of birthers (like Farah). Now Newsmax's Christopher Ruddy is taking issue with Beck.
In his May 3 column, Ruddy takes issue with Beck's bashing of Theodore Roosevelt as an avatar of progressivism. Ruddy loves his Teddy it appears:
A few words of disclosure here: I am an ardent Theodore Roosevelt devotee and have been a longtime member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (the membership roster has me listed after another TRA member, Karl Rove).
And my brother, Daniel Ruddy, a historian, is the author of a new book called "Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States" (published by Harper Collins). It draws upon TR's own words to construct a unique history of the United States based on Roosevelt's colorful insights and provocative views.
Self-interest and a book plug! Still, Ruddy does have an informed opinion to share on the subject (unlike, say, Beck). He continues (with a little gratuitous hit on Barack Obama for good measure):
Roosevelt embraced a progressive agenda, one that called for establishing a "progressive" income tax, giving women the right to vote, creating laws banning child labor, instituting anti-monopoly regulations, and other programs. Many of his positions are accepted by most reasonable Americans today.
The policies advocated by TR were not those of some social engineer who wanted to remake the United States based on a Saul Alinsky radical model.
Remember that TR's generation was dominated by ruthless "robber barons" who did not hesitate to use devious means to eliminate competition.
While TR wanted sensible reform, he was no socialist. In an excerpt from my brother's book, TR said: "To say that the thriftless, the lazy, the vicious, the incapable, ought to have the reward given to those who are farsighted, capable, and upright, is to say what is not true and cannot be true. Let us try to level up, but let us beware the evil of leveling down."
It is difficult to imagine Barack Obama uttering such sentiments.
We'll give the victory in this round to Ruddy since he, unlike Beck, has done his research.
Updated: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 8:31 AM EDT
Meanwhile, In Aaron Klein's Book...
Topic: WorldNetDaily
We're helping Media Matters take a look at Aaron Klein's new book, "The Manchurian President." We note that Andrew Breitbart, who has criticized birthers, lends a blurb to the book, which devotes an entire chapter to "Issues of Eligibility" and rehashes discredited birther arguments regarding the definition of "natural born citizen." And Simon Maloy looks at the first chapter of Klein's book, which rehashes Klein's previous desperate, thinly sourced claim that "Obama tied to Bill Ayers... at age 11!"
Posted by Terry K. at 10:40 PM EDT
WND Ignores Wacky, Hateful Prayers At Porter's Rally
A May 3 WorldNetDaily article by Kathleen Farah (Joseph Farah's daughter) reportted on Janet Porter's "May Day: A Cry to God for a Nation in Distress" this past weekend. As expected, it's a fawning, uncritical account in which Porter is permitted to ponderously explain what the event was all about.
Missing from Farah's article: anything anyone actually said during the event.
Right Wing Watch, however, did the job WND wouldn't and captured some of the prayers -- none of which apparently involved Porter repenting the lies and hate she's spewed at President Obama.
Instead, we get WND columnist Ted Baehr repenting for the movie "The Runaways" and Porter praying again that Christians will gain control over the entertainment industry and take dominion until Christ returns. We also get a healthy dose of anti-gay venom from Peter LaBarbera.
We can't understand why WND wouldn't want to see any of that appear on its website.
P.S. Right Wing Watch also reports that not only did attendance at Porter's rally fall way short of expectations, forcing speakers to beg for money from the audience to defray the cost of staging the shindig, the evangelical Christian ministry that had been offering production and transmission services for Porter's radio show has pulled the plug, due to Porter's embrace of Christian dominionism (as illustrated by her prayer to take over the entertainment industry for Christ).
Betcha WND won't report on that, either.
Posted by Terry K. at 6:02 PM EDT
LeBoutillier: Health Care Vote 'Dirty,' 'Rigged'
John LeBoutillier wrote in his May 3 WorldNetDaily column:
But the change was not the change people thought they were getting. The trillions spent on corporate bailouts and a useless stimulus, plus the dirty way the healthcare vote was rigged actually have increased the level of despair.
LeBoutillier offers no evidence to back up his claim that the vote was "dirty" and "rigged."
Man With Gun Near Obama Read WND
Joseph Sean McVey -- the man who was arrested last week after being found armed and impersonating a police officer at the Asheville, N.C., airport from which Presdient Obama's plane was taking off -- had more than a passing acquiantance with WorldNetDaily.
The Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette reports:
Joseph Sean McVey posted items on his Facebook page in 2009 that were highly critical of President Barack Obama, including a link to a story that says the president must be stopped "or the United States of America is going to cease to exist."
In addition to the screen captures -- an image of whatever is on a computer screen at a given time -- another individual with access to McVey's full Facebook profile said it was common knowledge that McVey was not a fan of Obama. This person indicated the posts in question have been removed from public view.
The screen captures show that on Feb. 24, 2009, McVey provided a link to a story on worldnetdaily.com titled "Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist."
In the story, conservative activist Alan Keyes -- whom Obama defeated for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004 -- promotes the widely discredited notion that Obama was born in Kenya and thus is ineligible to be president. Keyes also is quoted as saying, "He is going to destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist."
The story cited in the article is a Feb. 21, 2009, article by Drew Zahn repeating Keyes' statements in a Nebraska appearance:
"Obama is a radical communist, and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it's true," said Keyes, who ran unsuccessfully against Obama for the state's open Senate seat in 2004. "He is going to destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist."
Keyes also reasserted his belief that unless the question of Obama's eligibility to serve as president is answered definitively, America may face the startling crisis of an executive branch run by a "usurper."
"I'm not sure he's even president of the United States," Keyes continued, "neither are many of our military people now who are now going to court to ask the question, 'Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the constitution?' We are in the midst of the greatest crisis this nation has ever seen, and if we don't stop laughing about it and deal with it, we're going to find ourselves in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war."
Keyes, who stated he refuses even to refer to Obama as president, labeled the man in the Oval Office as "somebody who is kind of an alleged usurper, who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so."
Congratulations, Alan Keyes and WND! It appears you've helped inspire someone with a loaded weapon to approach the president of the United States. Are you proud?
For Graham, Protesting Ariz. Immigration Law = 'Pro-Amnesty'
Topic: Media Research Center
An April 30 TimesWatch post by Tim Graham expressed dispproval that the New York Times covered "another tiny left-wing protest of 'dozens' against Arizona's new immigration law." That's not surprising. But the headline is: "Hyping 'Dozens' of Pro-Amnesty Protesters - At a Chicago Cubs Game."
Huh? How does protesting a law critics say could lead to racial profiling equate to being "pro-amnesty"? Graham doesn't explain -- heck, he doesn't even mention the word "amnesty" in his item outside the headline.
We know "amnesty" is being tossed around by right-wingers to frighten people about all those brown people, but sheesh, Tim, try to focus the scare tactics a bit, would ya?
Do WND Columnists Want Return of Prohibition?
We noted earlier WorldNetDaily columnist Ellis Washington's citing of the repeal of Prohibition as a "progressive" idea that leads to the "promotion of excessive drinking," apparently another "progressive" idea. But strangely, Washington is not the only WND columnist who is apparently longing for the return of Prohibition.
Dave Welch uses his May 1 column to display that he learned the wrong lesson from Prohibition. He likened immigration laws to Prohibition, claiming both have been inadequately enforced:
Rewind the clock with me to 1923, Washington, D.C., at an event named the Citizenship Conference. The conference included delegates from Congress, federal law enforcement, national movement leaders and clergy. The topic: lack of enforcement of the 18th Amendment, otherwise known as Prohibition.
What we now know that they did not was that it was indeed soon to be repealed. Prohibition has been much maligned and the victim of historical revisionism, but that entirely aside, there are some fascinating principles we can learn from the speeches given at the conference. They were printed in a book titled, "Law vs. Lawlessness" (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1924).
Welch goes on to quote "federal prohibition commissioner" as saying, "The 18th Amendment was the result of a great moral and religious fervor. The spirit which actuated the sponsors of this law certainly must be kept alive after the law has been written into the statute."
It seems the only lesson Welch learned from Prohibition is that it would have been a success had it been totally enforced. Given the large numbers of Americans who violated Prohibition by consuming alcohol despite its illegality, total enforcement would have resulted in the creation of a police state. Because Prohibition didn't stop demand for alcohol, it led to the rise of organized crime and gangsters like Al Capone.
Welch then lectures: "The fundamental issue in the breakdown of law starts in the heart of the individual as we either conform to or reject the laws of God as given us through His creation and his revealed, written word." But Welch offers no evidence that Prohibition was divinely inspired; in fact, it can be argued that the opposite is true.
McCain, Ruddy Falsely Suggest Obama Will Let All Bush Tax Cuts Expire
In an April 29 interview, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy joined Sen. John McCain in falsely suggesting that President Obama will allow all of the Bush tax cuts to expire this year.
In the posted clip, Ruddy said that the expiration of the tax cuts means "an automatic rise in taxes for almost every bracket by about 10 percent," asking McCain if there is any hope in Congress of "keeping the Bush tax cuts, at least getting the Democrats to compromise and keep them for a while longer?" McCain responded that "it appears as if we are going to see dramatic increases in taxes on most of the, quote, Bush tax cuts."
In fact, Obama's proposed fiscal year 2011 budget keeps the Bush tax cuts for all except those making more than $250,000 a year.
McCain also baselessly asserted that "There's some $60 billion in new taxes on lower-income Americans just as a result of Obamacare." Neither the clip nor the accompanying article notes McCain providing any evidence to back up his claim.
Bozell's Movie Money Fallacy
Brent Bozell makes the mistake of equating a movie's popularity with its quality in his May 1 column trashing the film "Kick-Ass."
Bozell cites positive reviews of the film claiming it would be a hit, then adds:
The "shrewd" people took a super-beating. The shock merchants ended up shocked. On the first weekend, it finished barely ahead of the family cartoon "How to Train Your Dragon," and then by the second weekend, it finished a distant fifth, behind the smash-hit dragon cartoon.
John Q. Public's reaction? The movie is pure junk.
Bozell then mocks one review who claimed that despite the disappointing box office, "Kick-Ass" "was a 'genuine success story' because the movie was produced and financed independently when no studio would touch it, and it would eventually turn a profit. This is like predicting the Dodgers would win the World Series, and when they don't, they're still successful because they didn't finish in last place."
The problem is that a movie's quality has no relationship whatsoever to its box office take. As we pointed out when MRC NewsBuster P.J. Gladnick embraced the same fallacy, "Citizen Kane" did not make a profit on its initial release, and nobody's calling that film "pure junk."
Updated: Monday, May 3, 2010 4:02 PM EDT
Ponte Falsely Smears MEChA
In defending the new Arizona anti-immigration law in his April 29 Newsmax column, Lowell Ponte falsely claimed that the Hispanic group MEChA "advocates Mexico's re-conquest of the Southwest."
In fact, MEChA leaders have pointed out that the group has never advocated "a separate nation," and described the MEChA founding documents' reference to "Aztlan," mythical Aztec homeland, are a spiritual and not literal concept.
Ponte also goes on a weird attack of Los Angeles Catholic Bishop Roger Mahony:
The Roman Catholic Cardinal of Los Angeles Roger Mahony, whose flock is 70 percent Hispanic, denounced Arizona's law as a path to "German Nazi and Russian communist techniques" of police harassment.
A cynic might ask, If the millions of illegal aliens flooding across our borders were Protestants who threatened to change the balance of power in a majority-Catholic United States, would Cardinal Mahony passionately defend Protestant illegals with the same fervor?
Ponte concluded his column by ominously declaring, "We have entered the post-constitutional, Demo-repressionist Orwellian twilight of American history."
Ellis Washington's Strange Concept of 'Progressive' Ideas
Ellis Washington's May 1 column is a sequel to last week's column in which he bashed Franklin Roosevelt for, among other things, "turn[ing] legalized thievery into art form under the Marxist guise of 'redistribution of wealth,' fair-share egalitarianism and social justice. It's not surprising to see that Washington ups the crazy quotient by going far beyond labeling FDR a Marxist.
Washington begins by ranting that Americans must "Obama's fascist policies, which are designed to become FDR's welfare state, part 2." He goes on to list "the extremist ideas created or exploited by the progressive movement to create this welfare state":
1. The creation of racism offenses. (Jim Crow discrimination; President Woodrow Wilson used the State Department to purge all black people from federal government; NAACP, Al Sharpton, La Raza)
2. Continual change to create confusion. (Trotsky's "Perpetual Revolution"; Alinsky, Ayers, Obama's "Change We Can Believe In")
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children. (Freud; Alfred Kinsey; the 1960s Sexual Revolution; The Stonewall Riots of 1969)
4. The undermining of schools' and teachers' authority. ("Separation of church and state")
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity. (GWB's amnesty policies of 2006; Obama's desire to give amnesty to 30 million illegal aliens)
6. The promotion of excessive drinking. (FDR's repeal of Prohibition)
7. Emptying of churches. (Marx called religion "the opiate of the masses"; LBJ's 501(c)3 churches)
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime. (About 1900 Positive Law replaced Natural Law jurisprudence; Incorporation Doctrine; Living Constitution; "social justice" replaces "equal justice")
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits. (FDR's New Deal; LBJ's Great Society)
10. Control and dumbing down of education and media. (Progressives' creation of the public schools; advent of the state-controlled media)
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family. (Progressivism, feminism, communism, no-fault divorce, countercultural revolution, gangs, drugs, abortion, pornography, pathology, etc.)
This is such a muddled mess we're not even sure where to begin. Regarding the first item: Is Washington saying that racism is progressive, or that laws against racism are? The examples he cites, of Jim Crow and the NAACP, are competely contradictory.
Identifying "Huge immigration to destroy identity" as a progressive concept is also contradictory, since the severe limits on immigration enacted in the 1920s -- which essentially barred immigration to the U.S. from anywhere but northern Europe -- was motivated in no small part by eugenics, which has also been described as a "progressive" idea.
"The promotion of excessive drinking," as exemplified by "FDR's repeal of Prohibition," is completely bizarre -- so much so we'll have more on this in a future post.
"Emptying of churches" is similarly bizarre, since nobody's forcibly blocking anyone from going to church, something neither Marx's calling religion "the opiate of the masses" or a federal law that costs churches their tax-exempt status for making political endorsements from the pulpit (which is what Washington's reference to "LBJ's 501(c)3 churches" is referring to) does.
Washington's illogic, however, doesn't keep him from engaging in the de rigeur wild smear of Obama:
Obama's mentor and likely author of his memoirs, the terrorist Bill Ayers, to this day brags about destroying America by any means necessary. As predicted, President Obama is quickly codifying Ayers' terrorism megalomania into public policy, which even many liberals are beginning to see is unsustainable on every level.
If "Continual change to create confusion" is a bad thing, then we can take comfort that Washington is reliably crazy, hateful and wrong.
Updated: Sunday, May 2, 2010 10:22 PM EDT
NewsBusters Eager to Blame Obama for Oil Spill
NewsBusters is suspiciously eager to blame President Obama for the massive oil spill off Louisiana -- as opposed to, say, the oil company that operated the drilling rig that exploded.
In an April 30 post, Noel Sheppard repeated a claim by right-wing radio host Mark Levin that "it took the Obama administration eight days to do anything about this oil spill," adding, "why AREN'T so-called journalists asking WHY it took the Obama administration so long to respond to this environmental crisis?"
But Sheppard and Levin are lying. In fact, not only did federal officials, led by the Coast Guard, take a leading role in the initial emergency response to the explosion, as early as April 23 the Coast Guard was "focused on mitigating the impact of the product currently in the water." Complicating things was the fact that BP, the oil company that operated the rig, underplayed the extent of the spill -- due to "a self-policing system that trusted a commercial operator to take care of its own mishap even as it grew into a menace imperiling Gulf Coast nature and livelihoods from Florida to Texas" -- leading to an initial limited response to it by the government. Once the extent of the spill was clear, the feds moved in with full force.
Nevertheless, Sheppard -- eager to portray this as "Obama's Katrina" -- highlighted a New York Times editorial that was, in Sheppard's words, "pointing a finger straight at Barack Obama." Sheppard overlook the fact that the editorial also stated that BP "seems to have been slow to ask for help." That suggests to us that if the Obama administration had moved swiftly and taken control of the cleanup operation from BP early on, Sheppard would be portraying it as a socialist takeover of the oil company.
Sheppard went on to whine that Obama's weekly media address was about something other than the spill: "Wow! Our nation is facing possibly its worst oil-related disaster in history, and our President is concerned about campaign finances." Sheppard later sneered, 'Obama is currently speaking at a commencement address to the University of Michigan. Is that also more important than dealing with this crisis?"
In none of these posts does Sheppard address the culpability of BP in the spill.
Meanwhile, Rich Noyes also repeated the Times editorial, adding that "The last time a major disaster threatened the U.S. Gulf Coast, journalists dropped any pretense of objectivity and openly scorned what they saw as the ineffective response of the Bush administration to Hurricane Katrina." Noyes ignores that, unlike the oil spill, the impact of Katrina was immediately clear, and there wasn't an oil company trying to hid the full extent of the disaster from the government, hindering a full federal response.
WND Hides Facts on 'Riot Police' Incident
An April 29 WorldNetDaily article by Chelsea Schilling misleads about an incident in which "riot police" were called in to deal with protesters at a speech by President Obama in Quincy, Ill. Schilling writes:
After Obama's motorcade arrived, a Secret Service agent instructed protesters to move across the street. The crowd began singing "God Bless, America" and the National Anthem. Quincy Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer ordered police in full riot gear to march up the street and stand between the tea partiers and the civic center.
Snipers were also spotted on the rooftop of the building.
The tea partiers complied when they were told to move across the street, behind a sidewalk and into a parking lot.
Except that's not quite how it went down. From the local newspaper, the Quincy Herald-Whig, which was in a much better position to know the facts than Schilling (key section emphasized, via Dave Weigel):
There were a few tense moments when the crowd moved west down York toward Third Street after the president's motorcade arrived. A Secret Service agent asked the crowd to move back across the street to the north side.
When the crowd didn't move and began singing "God Bless, America" and the national anthem, Quincy Deputy Police Chief Ron Dreyer called for members of the Mobile Field Force to walk up the street.
The officers, mainly from Metro East departments near St. Louis and dressed in full body armor, marched from the east and stood on the south side of York facing the protesters.
Schilling falsely suggested that the protesters immediately complied with the police to move. In fact, they didn't, thus necessitating the show of force with the police in riot gear.
Of course, any public event involving the president involves a significant presence of law enforcement, whether or not the crowd is made up of, as the headline of Schilling's article states, "tea-party grandmas." After all, the makeup of a crowd can't be completely determined in advance.
Why doesn't WND want the president of the United States to have adequate security?


Brace yourselves, Thanksgiving travelers: This turkey season promises to be one of the busiest yet. "We expect to be breaking into some top ten travel days in the history of TSA," Transportation Security Administration spokesperson Lisa Farbstein tells TPG, adding that she believes the booming economy and the preponderance of budget airlines are to thank. For the busy folk of the TSA, that means more people than ever may try to smuggle the contents of their Thanksgiving dinner in their carry-on this year.
"People bring turkeys—big turkeys," Farbstein says. "At Christmastime, people bring ham. People bring fish." Basically, she's seen it all, and the TSA has rules for every single morsel.
Curious about what will and won't clear security? Here's everything you need to know.
You can breathe a sigh of relief, because your signature pumpkin pie will pass muster with airport security. There's no special packaging required — even your baking pie tin is good to go. "We do consider cakes and pies to be solids," says Farbstein. Keep in mind, though, that your goodies may be subject to extra scrutiny from security. "We'll do extra testing, probably. They'll swab the box that the pie came in," checking for explosive residue.
…once you do anything to those taters, they cease to be a solid by TSA standards. They'll have to go in your checked luggage. There is one way to get around this rule, however….
…and that's to freeze them solid. This exception also applies to normally non-solid foodstuffs like cranberry sauce, gravy, chicken soup, creamy spreads and so on. But freeze at your own peril. "By the time you drive to the airport, find a place to park, go to the restroom and stand in the checkpoint line, it could melt," Farbstein warns. Then you'd be out of luck, even if the meltage is minimal. "Soup is probably best in your checked bag," she adds.
We're not sure why you would want to carry this super-heavy piece of kitchen hardware in the first place, but it doesn't matter, because they're definitely not allowed in your carry-on. If you're serious about lugging this thing around, throw it in your checked suitcase.
If you need to peel a stack of apples IMMEDIATELY upon landing and only your favorite peeler will do, you're in luck, because they're allowed in your carry-on.
That little bit of water means your goods are totally-100-percent-absolutely-for-sure not a solid, which also means they're subject to the same TSA rules that apply to other liquids. If you're dead set on bringing these things in your carry-on, they'll have to be packaged in containers 3.4 ounces or less and fit inside a single quart-sized bag.
Raw or frozen, there's no restriction. Seriously, though, major respect to the brave soul willing to haul a Thanksgiving turkey around in their carry-on. Think about it this way: If a frozen turkey takes five hours to defrost, and you have a five-hour flight, then it'll be ready to cook on arrival! Best life hack ever or best life hack ever? Just keep in mind that more unusual items, like Thanksgiving turkeys, may be subject to additional screening. "The whole idea is that we don't want people to conceal things [in the cavity] that don't belong there," Farbstein says.
This one should be obvious: You can't bring knives on planes in 2018. But! Your grandma's vintage silver pie server is permissible, assuming it doesn't have any sharp or serrated edges.
Green bean casseroles and big containers of cornbread stuffing — they're both considered solids and cleared for takeoff. But Farbstein recommends that you pack them extra carefully, if only to make your own life easier. "It's a good idea to put it in a plastic tub, and I've seen people throw some duct tape over it," she says. After all, there's no faster way to ruin your Thanksgiving (and your seatmate's Thanksgiving, for that matter) than by spilling a whole pan of mac-and-cheese in your aisle.
If you're still not sure about what will and what won't pass muster with TSA, not to worry: Farbstein sent along this handy dandy cheat sheet. And if you still have questions? You can also download the free MyTSA app or use the "What can I bring?" tool on TSA's website. If all else fails, tweet your query to the @AskTSA account, which is manned by a team of 11 people who will turn around an answer to you in less than an hour.


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Richard Linklater's Houston-set 'Apollo 10 1/2' to debut at SXSW
The animated film is based on the director's childhood growing up in Space City at the time of Apollo 11.
Cary Darling February 3, 2022Updated: February 4, 2022, 9:35 am
Director Richard Linklater on the set of his new film, "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space-Age Childhood" which is set in Houston.
Photo: Matt Lankes
Richard Linklater's Houston-set film, "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood," based loosely on his growing up in Space City, will make its world debut at South by Southwest next month. The film has already been sold to Netflix.
SXSW runs March 11-20 and will be largely in physical venues after going online in 2021 and canceling altogether in 2020.
The largely animated "Apollo 10 1/2" — which utilizes the rotoscoping technique Linklater employed in "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly" — is described this way on the SXSW site: "A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing."
The cast includes Jack Black, Zachary Levi, Glen Powell, Josh Wiggins, Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L'Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman and Danielle Guilbot.
In a release quoted in Variety, Linklater says, "It struck me years ago that this was my film to make, from both a chronological and proximity level - I was there, going into 3rd grade. Our unique animation style allows both the conjuring of a world long gone, and the flowing, playful expression of memory and imagination. It's been a fun, creative journey to incorporate things like 3D graphics into a live action shoot to help bring this story to life."
Unfortunately, none of the film was shot in Houston but instead at Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios in Austin.
Other anticipated titles making their debuts at SXSW include: episodes from the third season of Donald Glover's TV series "Atlanta"; Aaron and Adam Nee's "The Lost City" with Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum; Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All At Once" starring Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis; Tom Gormican's "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" starring Nicolas Cage as himself, Tiffany Haddish, Pedro Pascal, Neil Patrick Harris and Ike Barinholtz; and "Césaria Évora," a documentary about the late singer from Cape Verde and her journey from poverty to global stardom.
For more information, go to sxsw.com.
cary.darling@chron.com
Cary Darling
Cary Darling joined the Houston Chronicle in 2017 where he writes about arts, entertainment and pop culture, with an emphasis on film and media. Originally from Los Angeles and a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, he has been a features reporter or editor at the Orange County Register, Miami Herald, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In addition, he has freelanced for a number of publications including the Los Angeles Times and Dallas Morning News.
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Front: Jörg Strehler from Switzerland with his 75ccm built 1953, back: Andy Wagner and his 100ccm built 1956. Photo shooting for a motorcycle magazine.
Laverda won the first 12 places of the Milano-Taranto long distance races all through Italy.
Even then the disc brake was operated via cable pull. One of these machines is owned by Laverda-Paradies.
I had this model once. One might not like the appearance, but this machine ran for years without problems.
On the left the white bike built 1976 on the right the green bike built 1974. The adjustable steering head is only one of this bike's great details. Owner: Laverda-Paradies.
On the left Thorsten's 50 ccm scooter, Laverda-Paradies' 60 ccm scooter on the right hand side. This was for a scooter magazine's photo shooting.
Within two weeks of hard work we restored this extremely run down scooter for a scooter magazine's photo session. Ever since it's been in regular use at Laverda Paradies.


The opportunity to journey through the wilderness is a sacred invitation from God. The wilderness brings us to the humble path. It reminds us of the great charge to take up our cross and follow Jesus (Mark 8:34).
As you grow in your giftedness; as more and more doors of opportunity open, the temptations of your enemy will increase. Your only hope, Natasha, to remain a good steward, is to embrace your cross and take that downward path we so often talked about; the pathetic path brings death to you, but life to others (2 Cor. 4:12). In this way, you will become more and more like Jesus; the life that you'll live is the life of Christ Jesus.
There is nothing glamorous about the teachings of the wilderness. In solitude and isolation, we learn how to do the internal work, how to surrender to God. And he teaches us how to lead ourselves so we can effectively lead others on the sacred way. Growing in humility gives us proper perspective. We soon realize that reconciliation and redemption are not ours to bring about; that's God's responsibility. If we respond in obedience to his invitation, we may experience the miraculous goodness and grace of his transformation in our own lives. Then he can make us his ambassadors of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:20).
Maya Angelou's famous advice—"When people show you who they are, believe them"—resonates with many. At one point it seemed logical to me as well. When I looked at the history of the United States, my personal history, or even my leadership and ministry journey, I saw people who were sometimes hateful, selfish, greedy, or insensitive, and thus I concluded that's exactly who they were.
The problem with this life philosophy is that it is only partially true, and it was not helpful for those I observed or for me. My limited perspective may describe a person, but it does not define their full identity. I have learned as an idealist that sometimes I just need to lower my expectations.
I'm so thankful for Bryan Stevenson's humble reminder in Just Mercy that "each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. … If someone tells a lie, that person is not just a liar. If you take something that doesn't belong to you, you are not just a thief. Even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer." By God's grace, these same people can learn to tell the truth, to work so they do not lack, and to love instead of hate. We all need compassion and mercy. Our fallenness is a humble reminder of the power of God's grace, and that is our greatest hope.
While it is not our responsibility as leaders to shepherd everyone through all of their life and learning transitions, we do have a duty to speak truth, extend grace, exercise humility, love well, and allow time for people to grow—if we believe that God is still in the life transformation business. We are all broken, imperfect people called to serve broken, imperfect people.
The truth of Stevenson's words can help us get over ourselves. Each of us has our own mess to confess. When we see only the flaws people show us and incorrectly conclude that's all there is to know about them, we have given up the blessed hope of understanding, learning, or seeking reconciliation. We have turned down Jesus' invitation to cultivate the intimate relationships that could change us and them. We have taken a pass on the possibility that they will be any different, that we will be any different—and so we lose confidence that we will ever learn to truly love each other. The work to overcome our misperceptions requires an extension of grace, and it requires humility from each of us.
We learn from Moses the same thing that we learn from Jesus: The secret to humility is praying and waiting for the Father's instruction. It's no surprise that Moses became a prayer warrior in the wilderness.
In Back to Virtue, Peter Kreeft writes that prayer "is a kind of death, a rehearsal for death. In praying we die to ourselves, our wills, our ordinary consciousness and desires and concerns, even our ordinary world, and enter God's world, aligning our minds and wills with God's. We die to our time, we sacrifice our loaves and fishes to him. And he multiplies them." Prayer is how Moses conditioned himself to respond to a holy God.
Moses teaches us about cultivating a relationship with the Lord through prayer. In A Work of Heart, Reggie McNeal writes that Moses "would come to find his greatest sense of belonging in his communion with the God of the burning bush. His constant sense of being an alien among those he lived with and served had carved out in his heart a huge place for God to inhabit." In prayer, God provided perspective and perseverance for the journey.
Pray, and don't give up on people. I've had to kill the thoughts that people don't want to commit to deep change and that I can't trust or depend on anybody. These are lies from our common enemy, Satan, to get me off the humble path or to keep me isolated. These lies can keep me from seeking or asking for help. They can keep me from trusting and building relationships and a better future with diverse people from all walks of life. Humility teaches us that our earthly suffering is for one purpose only: that we might come to rely on God and not on ourselves. This is a critical lesson we learn in the wilderness.
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is the author of A Sojourner's Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World (InterVarsity Press) and the founder of the nonprofit, Leadership LINKS, Inc. Learn more at NatashaSRobinson.com. Adapted from A Sojourner's Truth by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson. ©2018 by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson. Used by permission of InteVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove IL 60515-1426. www.ivpress.com.
Recognizing what we want allows us to stand exposed before God.


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