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01-06-2012 15:54 PLEASE READ BEFORE ASKING! ______ Okay, now to the interesting part! I would really appreciate it, if you read the whole thing. I know that all of the videos I uploaded until now are somehow relatet to cosplay, anime, manga or the otaku culture. But I like making videos in general, so I'm planning to upload also videos that have nothing in common with those things. Just to warn you. I'm not sure yet about what exactly those videos will be, but I have some epic ideas and I already started some projects~ In case I'm changing my mind (what could happen really fast xD) I'll be uploading those videos on my other channel (LilienDust). Just if you're interested, subscrible ;). Maybe I'll do nothing of what I said above and start to vloging on my other channel to improve my english or I don't know... Yeah random. Just for you to know. Thanks for reading, if you made it through! :3 I'm just very confused right now xDD ____________________ There are so many interesting and cool tutorials for steampunk make up and hair, I know, but nothing suits light hair! I've tried everything I could find on the internet and it lookes... cheeeaaap xD (dunno how to say that in english xDD) So I decided to make my own tutorial ^^ I'm a huge steampunk fan and made my own costume... And it won't be the last. I'm already designing a new dress xD music by abney park -Chronofax -Off the Grid -Letter Between A Little Boy And Himself As An Adult -Victorian Vigilante I really love their music *_* It's so ...
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Bill Simmons leads off our Five for Friday with a sentiment that we at HoopIdea strongly endorse.
This edition also includes HoopIdeas from an NBA player and the Wall Street Journal, as well as a new mobile phone app that allows viewers to call out floppers then ranks teams and players by how often they flop -- enjoy!
EMBRACE CHANGE
Here's a good rule in general for all professional sports: If something sucks, you need to make the appropriate rule change so it doesn't suck anymore. This isn't rocket science. -- Bill Simmons on Grantland
WANT TO STOP THE FLOP? THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT!
Flopbuzz is a completely free mobile app, where you can 'slap' a virtual buzzer on your mobile phone, everytime an NBA player 'flops', 'fakes' or 'cheats'. The Flopbuzz app accumulates all the users' buzzes (votes) to elect 'democratically' the most egregious flopper of the month, the season or the Playoffs. -- FlopBuzz.com
COUNT TECHNICAL FOULS AS PERSONALS
If a tech was also counted as a personal foul, might have less techs. -- Cleveland Cavaliers forward Anthony Parker (@_AnthonyPaker) via Twitter)
NO MORE BEAR HUG FOULS
A suggestion to curtail fouls the where the defender wraps up an offensive player without really going for the ball: How about calling these type of 'bear hugging' fouls (when you wrap your arms around a player) for a foul with two free throws and the ball on the side for the attacking player, regardless of what play he was going to make (most probably dunk the ball). -- Arash Kordi on NBA on My Mind
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Interested in self-publishing an e-book? CNET executive editor David Carnoy offers some basic tips for e-book publishing and lays out your best options for publishing quickly and easily.
I begin with one caveat: The whole e-book market is rapidly evolving, and a lot of self-publishing companies are offering e-book deals bundled into their print book publishing packages, which makes them harder to break out and evaluate. It's all quite complicated, and in an effort to sort through the confusion, I've decided to offer a few basic tips and present what I think are some of the best options out there for creating an e-book quickly and easily. As things change -- and they will -- I'll do my best to keep this column up to date.
It's gotta be good: The same rule applies to self-published e-books as it does to print books. You have to start with a good product if you have any hope of selling it.
Create an arresting cover: When it comes to e-books, everything starts with the cover image. Creating an eye-catching, professional-looking cover that also looks good small (it has to stand out as a thumbnail image, since it's being sold online) is easier said than done, but it can really make a difference in terms of sales. Ideally, you should hire a graphic designer who has some experience creating book covers. From a production standpoint, an e-book cover is easier to create than a cover for a print book (you just need a JPEG with decent resolution), but it shouldn't look out of place among traditionally published e-books. I can't tell you how many bad self-published covers are out there.
Price your e-book cheaply: You should sell your e-book for $5.99 or less. According to research done by Smashwords, an online e-book publishing and distribution platform for authors, publishers, agents, and readers, $2.99 to $5.99 yields the most profit for self-published authors, and although 99 cents will get you more downloads, it's a poor price point for earning income (see Smashwords' presentation on pricing here). On the other hand, Lulu, one of the bigger online self-publishing operations, says that authors who price their e-books in the 99-cent to $2.99 range "sell more units and earn more revenue than those in any other price range."
It's important to note that Amazon's 70 percent royalty for authors only applies to Kindle books priced between $2.99 and $9.99; otherwise, the rate kicks down to 35 percent). As for going free, well, Smashword data indicates that free e-books get about 100 times more downloads than priced e-books.
Avoid any outfits that don't let you set the price: This is one of the cardinal rules of self-publishing an e-book. You must be able to control the pricing of your e-book. If you want to sell it for $0.99, then you should be able to sell it for $0.99.
Marketing is all about creating awareness for your e-book: I don't have any secret marketing tips to offer, but what I can say is that you can't sell a book if no one knows it exists. Most of book marketing is simply about creating awareness and you need to do that however you can, whether it's through social media or blogging or passing out fliers on a street corner. (I made a business card for my book, which I pass out if someone seems interested in hearing more about it.)
Here are the three big questions to bear in mind with e-book creation: first, what is the easiest and most cost-efficient way to produce an e-book? Second, where will it be distributed? And third, how much of a cut do you get? With those in mind, let's take a look at some of the more high-profile options available currently. I'm limiting it to these options because I want to keep this as simple as possible.
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) This is Amazon's e-book publishing platform and if you think you're going to sell a lot of e-books, you should figure out a way to upload your file (book) directly to KDP and avoid using any sort of middleman or e-book "aggregator" that takes a cut of the profits. If you're a true DIY person, you can create your own cover (though if you're not a professional designer, it's better to hire a pro) and format your e-book from a Word file using free software tools such as Mobipocket eBook Creator or Calibre. Mobipocket Creator allows you to create an e-book with a table of contents and convert it into Amazon's proprietary e-book format, AZW (MOBI, the file output by the program, is the same as AZW). You can start with a Word file, which then gets converted to HTML, then MOBI. (Check out the Mobipocket eBook Creator guide at the company's Web site).
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Your smartphone photos can have hidden data in them, including location data. PhotoInfoEraser can erase the data on Android phones, so you can share them without worry.
Image uploaded to Instagram without location data.
When you upload photos to Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere on the Internet, you may be sharing more information than you know. Your photos can have hidden data in them, like exact location data. If it's a well-known public location, like Disneyland, you might not mind sharing that, but what if it's your home, or where your kids go to school?
The easiest way to avoid sharing location data on your photos is by turning off geotagging in your Android camera's settings. But maybe you've already taken photos that have location data on them. Or maybe you want to keep a copy of the photo with the location data, but share it without the data. In that case, an Android app called PhotoInfoEraser, can help.
Once you've loaded a photo to PhotoInfoEraser, just tap the Tag Delete button to erase all the metadata from your photo. Immediately afterward, you can choose to share the data-less photo to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.
The original photo is kept in your Android gallery and a copy of the photo, without the metadata, is stored in another location (/mnt/sdcard/Yamagoya/PIEraser).
That's it. Keep in mind that PhotoInfoEraser only works on one photo at a time. If you need to remove metadata from multiple photos, you'll probably want to look for a more robust desktop EXIF editor.
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CLEVELAND, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center's Harrington Discovery Institute has launched a new program aimed at supporting physician-scientists seeking to move their research into therapies that will improve patients' lives. Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, formerly at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, has been named the first Harrington Distinguished Scholar (Early Career Award). Dr. Narla's research includes the identification and characterization of key genes and pathways involved in human cancer development and progression, and the development of novel drugs to target these genes in various cancers.
The UH Harrington Discovery Institute, launched in February, is the not-for-profit academic medical engine of the Harrington Discovery and Development Project - a first-of-its kind, $250 million initiative that also includes a mission-aligned for-profit commercialization and development company. Aligning these entities, for the first time at an academic medical center, provides a comprehensive model to advance discoveries into development and create novel drugs and therapies for patient care.
Through the Harrington Distinguished Scholars Program, a physician-scientist is chosen to practice medicine at UH Case Medical Center and to hold a faculty position at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Physician-scientists with potential breakthroughs are able to tap into grant funding and a peer network of innovators and mentors within the UH Harrington Discovery Institute's infrastructure to support their discovery efforts. Over the next decade, the UH Harrington Discovery Institute will recruit 10-20 physician-scientists of outstanding promise and with a determined interest in advancing the treatment of patients.
"We will be bringing physician-scientists with a wide range of experience to UH Case Medical Centerthose who have already made exceptional contributions to their research field and others at the beginnings of their research and patient care careers who show extraordinary promise," said Jonathan S. Stamler, MD, the Institute's Director and Director of the Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine at UH Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Narla's research involves a previously unrecognized signaling network of genes that is disrupted in lung cancer. This network can be turned on by a novel combination of two drugs previously approved by the FDA and that may also help to regulate lung cancer progression. The research has just been published online in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, a prestigious journal for physician-scientists. The work highlights how understanding the basic mechanisms regulating cancer development and progression can lead to new uses for existing FDA approved drugs in the treatment of cancer.
"My training as a physician-scientist did not prepare me to move clinical discoveries from my laboratory toward commercialization," said Dr. Narla, a medical geneticist at UH Case Medical Center who specializes in the care of high risk cancer patients.
"The added guidance and resources that come with being a Harrington Distinguished Scholar will enable me to bring my discoveries to patients more quickly," added Dr. Narla, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Institute of Transformative Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Scholar-Innovator Grants In addition to the Distinguished Scholar program, UH Case Medical Center has recently launched a grant competition to physician-scientists across the country. The Harrington Scholar-Innovator grants will offer to support the translation of research from laboratory to early development stages.
Up to 10 physician-scientists each year will be supported with Harrington Scholar-Innovator grants of up to $200,000 over two years. Guiding the selection of the grant winners are seven prominent physician-scientists who have recently joined the UH Harrington Discovery Institute Scientific Advisory Board, among them Dr. Stamler.
"These grants are intended to ensure that physician-scientists can advance their discoveries and their careers that are dedicated to furthering University Hospitals Case Medical Center's mission: To Heal. To Teach. To Discover," added Dr. Stamler.
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Cleveland, Ohio University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center's Harrington Discovery Institute has launched a new program aimed at supporting physician-scientists seeking to move their research into therapies that will improve patients' lives. Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, formerly at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, has been named the first Harrington Distinguished Scholar (Early Career Award). Dr. Narla's research includes the identification and characterization of key genes and pathways involved in human cancer development and progression, and the development of novel drugs to target these genes in various cancers.
The UH Harrington Discovery Institute, launched in February, is the not-for-profit academic medical engine of the Harrington Discovery and Development Project - a first-of-its kind, $250 million initiative that also includes a mission-aligned for-profit commercialization and development company. Aligning these entities, for the first time at an academic medical center, provides a comprehensive model to advance discoveries into development and create novel drugs and therapies for patient care.
Through the Harrington Distinguished Scholars Program, a physician-scientist is chosen to practice medicine at UH Case Medical Center and to hold a faculty position at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Physician-scientists with potential breakthroughs are able to tap into grant funding and a peer network of innovators and mentors within the UH Harrington Discovery Institute's infrastructure to support their discovery efforts. Over the next decade, the UH Harrington Discovery Institute will recruit 10-20 physician-scientists of outstanding promise and with a determined interest in advancing the treatment of patients.
"We will be bringing physician-scientists with a wide range of experience to UH Case Medical Centerthose who have already made exceptional contributions to their research field and others at the beginnings of their research and patient care careers who show extraordinary promise," said Jonathan S. Stamler, MD, the Institute's Director and Director of the Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine at UH Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Dr. Narla's research involves a previously unrecognized signaling network of genes that is disrupted in lung cancer. This network can be turned on by a novel combination of two drugs previously approved by the FDA and that may also help to regulate lung cancer progression. The research has just been published online in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, a prestigious journal for physician-scientists. The work highlights how understanding the basic mechanisms regulating cancer development and progression can lead to new uses for existing FDA approved drugs in the treatment of cancer.
"My training as a physician-scientist did not prepare me to move clinical discoveries from my laboratory toward commercialization," said Dr. Narla, a medical geneticist at UH Case Medical Center who specializes in the care of high risk cancer patients.
"The added guidance and resources that come with being a Harrington Distinguished Scholar will enable me to bring my discoveries to patients more quickly," added Dr. Narla, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Institute of Transformative Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
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There appear to be two different sets of criteria for admission to the different medical schools at the University of British Columbia, according to documents obtained by CBC News.
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(From left to right) Dr. Michael Richards, Dr. Robert Churchill, Dr. Kenneth Rall
COLUMBIA, MO -- Updated, 1:25 p.m.: Possible billing fraud in the Department of Radiology in the University of Missouri School of Medicine prompted the university to hire an outside law firm to investigate in November of last year. The U.S. Attorneys Office in Kansas City had told the university that a federal investigation was underway.
Harold A. Williamson Jr., M.D., vice chancellor of the University of Missouri Health System, announced Friday that health system officials are making substantive changes in the School of Medicines Department of Radiology as the result of an internal university investigation.
In addition, Williamson announced that Robert Churchill, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine, has officially announced his plans to retire and will leave the university in October.
"As the result of our investigation, we believe that two radiologists, Dr. Kenneth Rall and Dr. Michael Richards, violated Medicare and hospital rules by certifying that they had performed services that were actually performed by resident physicians," Williamson said.
"We were shocked and disappointed to learn about this, because any kind of fraud is entirely inconsistent with our health systems values, our mission, and our commitment to patient care," said Williamson, who has served as a physician at MU for 30 years, including 10 years as chair of MUs nationally recognized Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Williamson said the top concern of health system officials throughout the investigation was the possible impact on patients.
"Although we are in the early stages of the investigation, we have reviewed millions of lines of computer data and conducted lengthy interviews with many medical professionals. Thus far we have found no evidence that patient care was compromised," Williamson said.
Health system officials made the preliminary findings public today because "the finding of fraudulent billings was troubling enough that we felt we needed to act immediately," Williamson said.
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The Indiana Fever and New York Liberty have for the most part been regular participants in the Eastern Conference playoffs over the last several years.
While Indiana is hoping to finally realize its championship aspirations, New York likely needs to turn things around quickly if it plans to contend.
In a rematch of last season's conference semifinals, the unbeaten Fever look to match their best start in franchise history Saturday night against the visiting Liberty, who try to avoid opening 0-5 for the first time in the opener of this home-and-home set.
Coming off its seventh consecutive postseason appearance, Indiana (3-0) looks primed to make a deep run in 2012. Led by reigning league MVP Tamika Catchings, the Fever are enjoying their best start since winning their first four games in both 2006 and 2007.
"I want to win a championship," she said. "For me, every single game, every single practice is about trying to help this team get better and get closer to our final goal."
While Indiana has its sights set on winning it all, New York is just hoping to get in the win column.
After making the playoffs six of the last eight years, it's safe to say the Liberty have their work cut out. New York was blown out 100-74 at Atlanta on May 25, matching their 0-4 start from 2006 when they went a franchise-worst 11-23.
"To be honest, tonight might have been one of the worst performances of my career, but I am staying positive," said Cappie Pondexter, who scored a team-high 18 points. "I am upset inside and I need to do a personal assessment, but we have (a few) days off to come back with a new mindset."
The Fever split four regular-season matchups with the Liberty last season before knocking them out of the playoffs and ultimately falling to Atlanta in the conference finals. Indiana, though, posted its second win over the Dream this season Sunday by 78-62 score.
Catchings had a game-high 25 points to go along with 12 rebounds and Katie Douglas scored 16 for the Fever, who had to battle back from an early 11-point deficit. Although Indiana had little issue the rest of the way, Catchings knows her team needs to bring it from the opening tip.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire -06/01/12)- Liberty Silver Corp. (LSL.TO)(LBSV) ("Liberty Silver" or the "Company") announces that it has issued 650,000 common shares in satisfaction of a previously disclosed contractual obligation. Further to its press release dated December 21, 2011 announcing the closing of an equity financing that included the issuance by the Company of 6,500,000 subscription receipts ("Subscription Receipts"), Liberty Silver granted to holders of Subscription Receipts certain U.S. registration rights whereby the Company agreed to issue one additional common share for each ten (10) Subscription Receipts in the event that the Company had not registered the securities underlying the Subscription Receipts by May 31, 2012.
About Liberty Silver Corp.
Liberty Silver Corp. is focused on exploring and developing mineral properties located in North America. A skilled, experienced, management team and board of directors with significant experience managing exploration, development and mining projects lead the Company. The Company is committed to creating value for its shareholders by advancing its current projects utilizing its mitigated risk approach to production, developing new resources on its current properties, and by acquiring new properties that have the potential to increase their resource base. The Trinity Silver project, located in Pershing County, Nevada is the Company's flagship project. Liberty Silver has the right to earn a joint venture interest in the 10,476 acre Trinity property from Renaissance Gold Inc. ("Renaissance") pursuant to the terms of an Earn-In Agreement. Renaissance acquired its rights to the Trinity property from Newmont USA Limited, a Delaware corporation, doing business in Nevada as Newmont Mining Corporation ("Newmont"), and the Company is indirectly subject to the rights and obligations of Renaissance under its agreement with Newmont.
This press release is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sales of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful.
Forward-Looking Statements
This News Release includes certain "forward-looking statements". These statements are based on information currently available to the Company and the Company provides no assurance that actual results will meet management's expectations. Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements that describe the Company's future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward-looking statements may be identified by such terms as "believes", "anticipates", "expects", "estimates", "may", "could", "would", "will", or "plan". Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results relating to, among other things, results of exploration, project development, reclamation and capital costs of the Company's mineral properties, and the Company's financial condition and prospects, could differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements for many reasons such as: changes in general economic conditions and conditions in the financial markets; changes in demand and prices for minerals; litigation, legislative, environmental and other judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments; technological and operational difficulties encountered in connection with the activities of the Company; and other matters discussed in this news release. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company's forward-looking statements. These and other factors should be considered carefully and readers should not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by the Company or on its behalf, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
The Toronto Stock Exchange does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.
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Theres a whiff of liberal fascism coming out of the Land of the Free. The Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, has announced plans to outlaw the sale of large fizzy or sugary drinks in an effort to cut down to size his citys obesity problem. Itll affect about 20,000 establishments; even the humble street cart will have to comply. No longer will New Yorkers be able to cry Super-size that! as a litre of pure diabetes is poured into a paper cup. It might be political correctness gone mad, but London is sure to follow suit.
To be fair to Bloomberg, New York does have an obesity problem. A trip on the subway at rush hour can feel like a ride in a Mini with a sumo team. Statistics show that 58 per cent of New York Citys adults and nearly 40 per cent of its public school students are overweight. That compares unfavourably with a national obesity rate of roughly one third.
But New York, like the rest of America, is a land of extremes. On the streets youll see plenty of overweight folks hogging down hot dogs. But youll also spot a number of scarily thin people sipping tomato juice. The difference between these groups is measured in race and wealth.
According to 2010 national statistics from the US Department of Health and Human Services, African-Americans are 1.4 times as likely to be obese as non-Hispanic whites and, shockingly, four out of five African-American women are overweight. Higher-income women are less likely to be obese than low-income women, and theres a correlation between better education and lower weight.
Therefore, the problem Bloomberg is tackling is often one suffered by poor people. By cutting into the potential profits of fast-food eateries, hell not only be denying poor folks their sugary fix, but he could also cause outlets to close losing them jobs, too.
Bloombergs goal has always been to turn New York into a city better suited to the lifestyles of liberal rich whites. He has also banned the use of trans fats in restaurant foods and outlawed smoking in public. This obsession with other peoples health is un-American. The USA is a country founded on the principle of individual liberty, and inherent within liberty is the freedom to make mistakes. Yet Bloombergs effort to create a more aesthetically pleasing populace poses a challenge to the American libertarianism. One paradoxical outcome is that in a few months time, it might be legal to buy a gun in Manhattan but illegal to buy a large cup of Coke.
Bloombergs campaign feels more European than American, and thats why it probably wont be long before we see it introduced to London. The city also has a problem with obesity 36 per cent of 11-year-olds are overweight and Boris Johnson is also committed to creating a leaner, fitter London. British campaigners have leapt on the Bloomberg plan and pressure on Johnson will grow to follow suit just as Britain copied the US public smoking ban in 2007.
The problem is that no matter how conservative a politician might be, give them a little bit of power and the temptation is too great not to use it. Whereas time could be spent promoting healthy, voluntary choices, its usually poured into oppressive new laws instead. Given that government expands as fast and as unpleasantly as the average New Yorkers waistline, it wont be long before the Brits lose their right to super-size, too.
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Chances are you and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson are in agreement on several issues. In fact, I can almost guarantee it.
If youre a pothead, Johnson says you should be able to consume as much hemp as your body can handle.
Think its about time we stop sending troops into the mountains of Afghanistan? Johnsons your guy.
Want to spend six days a week in your moms basement gambling online? Knock yourself out, says GJ.
Johnson will not wake up on a cold morning in late January 2013 as the new president of the United States, but if things break right the only candidate enthusiastically in support of our right to gamble on sports and bet online can make things uncomfortable for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a few states.
I wouldnt be doing this if I didnt think I could have an impact, Johnson told Covers.com in a recent interview. And I think I can win if I can get into the debates.
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Getting banned from the Republican debates last winter basically slammed the door shut on his bid to win the GOP nomination, so in late December the former two-term governor of New Mexico did the only honorable thing he up and quit. A little more than four months later Johnsons break with the Republican Party became irrevocable when Libertarians nominated him for president at their convention at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas.
Its no surprise that Republicans treated Johnson like a picnic skunk. He thinks that if the GOP wants government out of the hair of business, then it also has no business snooping into peoples bedrooms.
There is a certain Republican dogma I cant accept, says Johnson. Homophobia is one of those issues.
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A serious property rights violation. (Joe Raedle - GETTY IMAGES) Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western University, has been writing a very interesting series of posts at The Atlantic on conservative approaches to various environmental problems. Here he lays out the libertarian case for tackling climate change:
Policy-wise, Adler explains, a small-government approach to global warming might include things like: a revenue-neutral carbon tax that replaced income taxes, public prizes for innovation, and the stripping away of regulations that inhibit the adoption of cleaner energy. (Ive written a fair bit elsewhere on electric-utility regulations that might be worth a peek.)
Adler also has a post on how property rights in fisheries could help reduce overfishing: The creation of property rights in the underlying resource aligns the incentives of those who work in the fishery with the health of the fishery, he writes. As owners of a share in the catch year-after-year, the fishers have a stake in ensuring there are more fish tomorrow than there are today. Iceland and New Zealand already employ systems along these lines, although theyve been slower to spread to the United States with a few exceptions in places like Alaska and parts of southern California.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has visited three tiny disputed islands in the Gulf, state television reported on Friday, in a move likely to anger the United Arab Emirates which also claims sovereignty over them. Tensions rose in April between the two countries following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Abu Musa, one of the three islands near important ...
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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were thankful to Ilija Nestorovski in Torshavn as the second-half substitute scored four minutes after entering the fray to earn a draw against the Faroe Islands.
It was cruel on the hosts, who seemed to heading for a first win in the group, but the point means FYROM's fate still lies in their own hands. If they win their final three games all away from home, against Denmark, Northern Ireland and Serbia they will top UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying Group 4.
It seemed like that chance had been blown when Kirce Ristevski turned past Filip Gacevski and into his own goal with 54 minutes on the clock. Boban Babunski's men responded, and with the introduction of Nestrovski the tide turned. With 13 minutes to play the forward, who replaced Flamur Tairi, showed his talent, firing a first-time effort into the far corner from the left side of the box.
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It makes perfect sense to rename the Toronto Island ferry terminal after Jack Layton. The late NDP leader and former city councillor fought for the right of island residents to stay in their homes. He married Olivia Chow on the islands, bicycled on their car-free paths and took his kids on island excursions. The islands held such a special meaning for him that some of his ashes were scattered there last summer.
Councillor Pam McConnell, who was part of the group that chose the terminal to be named after Mr. Layton, says the ferries were a bridge between the busy urban living that Jack loved and the tranquillity and peacefulness of the islands. For us it was a perfect a-ha moment because it embraced those two diversities that Jack loved.
The trouble is that the ferry terminal is a rather awful place. Ive been going through it for decades on trips to the islands to picnic, swim or sail and it has always struck me as dingy and depressing.
The terminal is wedged behind the Westin Harbour Castle hotel and the residential Harbour Square towers. These ugly concrete slabs, constructed by developer Robert Campeau before the collapse of his real estate empire, are a blot on the Toronto waterfront.
They block all view of the water. Standing at Bay and Queens Quay, the approach to the ferry docks, you could just as easily be at Portage and Main. Cars charge out of the underground parking lot and over the sidewalk on the south side, while, on the northeast corner, the squat bunker of the conference centre looms over the intersection. A less friendly environment for pedestrians approaching the docks is hard to imagine.
The ferry terminal itself is an asphalt slab surrounded by concrete walls and barred gates that make it feel like a cattle pen. With no roof over most of it, you stand exposed to the sun on a hot summer day, crammed together with the rest of the hordes heading to Centre, Wards or Hanlans. Getting to the lovely islands through this grim portal is like travelling to Narnia through a public washroom. What a way to welcome tourists to one of the citys main attractions.
To its credit, the city made some improvements to the terminal last year, adding new ticket booths, a canopy for shade and some new fencing. It also did over the washrooms inside. More improvements are on the way this year and next, including new benches, better lighting and a canopy for the Centre Island dock.
But, in the end, these are Band-Aids on what is a disappointing and inadequate facility, a perfect example of the sort of good-enough attitude that has often led to mediocrity in the citys public spaces.
The terminal looks especially bad considering all the great changes going on all around it. Two brilliantly designed new waterfront spaces, Sugar Beach and Sherbourne Common, lie just to the east. To the west, Waterfront Toronto is redoing York Quay near the foot of York Street by replacing a surface-level parking lot with an underground one, freeing up valuable public space. Waterfront Toronto is also about to embark on a massive redesign of Queens Quay from Spadina to Bay. Sadly, the agency says that while a better ferry terminal is on its wish list, it doesnt have the money.
But Councillor McConnell believes that naming the terminal after Mr. Layton will be a catalyst for change. I think this is just the beginning of a great transformation of the ferry docks, and thats exactly what Jack would want, she says.
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