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“We all have a favourite pair of shoes and they often reveal something about us without us even realising… Alice has a talent for capturing something quite functional to evoke its charm and make an emotional connection.”
– Elle Macpherson
‘Interview with a Shoe’ featured a series of more than twenty portraits of the favourite footwear of high profile names such as Annie Lennox, Elle Macpherson, Cherie Blair, Baroness Neuberger and Alice Temperley. The collaboration between the artist and the owners of the shoes reveals the wearer through their choice of shoe, many of which have intriguing and moving stories.
The paintings are accompanied by a series of personal stories, prompted by the memories attached to each pair of shoes. The Little Church of the West Las Vegas portrays a pair of gold platform sandals worn by Annie Lennox to the Las Vegas wedding of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates. Election Trail depicts the high heeled pink stilettos of Cherie Blair, worn during the election campaign of 2005.
Alongside the shoe portraits, Alice created a vast canvas of the shoes being sorted at the Oxfam Wastesaver Depot, and a selection of exquisite silk screen prints and shoe sculptures. The exhibition also helped to raise funds for the charity Dress for Success London, which helps to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women.
Perhaps most revealing of all are the tan leather brogues and sandals that belong to Nicole Farhi and her husband Sir David Hare. "Nicole's shoes say so much about the harmony of her marriage, and the fact she values things that last," explains Instone. The couple's simple, sturdy shoes painted side by side, run with the caption: "We were meant for each other.”


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The Prime Minister of Canada has been criticised by a top doctor for discriminating against religious people by denying them freedom of conscience.
Justin Trudeau came under fire last year for launching a summer jobs scheme that forces employers to endorse abortion.
Now, in an open letter to the Prime Minister, Dr Robert Walley, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, says that Trudeau’s policies are characteristic of a “totalitarian state”.
Dr Walley said: “Medical students, residents, and physicians have begun to experience discrimination through denial of their right to practice according to their consciences if they do not accept your government’s dictatorial policies with the consequence their recruitment into programs and positions are obstructed, though they equally qualified.
“This situation is more characteristic of a totalitarian state, and therefore has no place in Canadian society.”
The letter also urged the Government to “end the discrimination of religious people and support equality in the workforce”.
The summer jobs scheme requires employers to sign their agreement with “reproductive rights”.
The Government scheme is used by small businesses, non-profit organisations and public sector employers to create summer jobs for students between the age of 15 and 30.

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“Devastated” – FBU issues statement after discovery of body believed to be missing firefighter
The FBU has issued a statement following the discovery of a body believed to be that of missing firefighter Anthony Knott.
Anthony went missing on a work night out in December. He was last seen in Lewes on December 20. Today police officers found a body, believed to be Anthony, at Denton Island in Newhaven harbour.
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: “We are deeply saddened to hear of the reported death of Brother Anthony Knott. While his body has not yet been formally identified, we are thankful for the hard work of the search and rescue crews on the ground.
“This is not the news that FBU members had hoped for in the weeks since his disappearance. It is devastating to see the loss of one of our own and Anthony will be mourned by firefighters across the country. We send our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues at this difficult time.”
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Shaq-Man Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 for you believers... from the palm beach post: Vlady or Javy may be targeted By Joe Capozzi, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Now that Pudge Rodriguez is gone, the Marlins are considering a run at two other top free agents -- outfielder Vladimir Guerrero and catcher Javy Lopez. The Marlins will go into baseball's winter meetings starting Friday in New Orleans and explore the possibility of making an offer for Guerrero or Lopez with money that Rodriguez rejected, according to sources with knowledge of the front office's strategies. Landing a top name like Guerrero would be the kind of splash the Marlins would like to make as they try to win political support for a new ballpark. Guerrero was signed as a 17-year-old amateur in 1993 by Expos scout Fred Ferreira, who now works in Florida's front office. Guerrero, 27, made $11.5 million while batting.330 with 25 homers and 79 RBI for the Montreal Expos last season, despite missing nearly two months with a herniated disk. If the Marlins land the four-time All-Star, he could play right field, with rookie Miguel Cabrera moving to left and Jeff Conine to first base. But he would be out of Florida's price range unless he agreed to what one league source called "a creative contract." Such a deal could be contingent on ballpark construction, such as the four-year, $32 million contract signed by third baseman Mike Lowell last week, or it could include deferred money. On Friday, Guerrero rejected a heavily backloaded five-year contract from the Expos worth more than $70 million. Lopez, who turned 33 last month, made $7 million in 2003 while posting his best offensive season, batting.328 with 43 home runs and 109 RBI for the Atlanta Braves. The native of Puerto Rico is said to be seeking a three- to four-year deal that would pay him $7 million to $8 million a season. Guerrero and Lopez both are being pursued by the Baltimore Orioles, among other teams. But like the Marlins, the Orioles probably can't afford both. With Rodriguez rejecting the team's final contract offer Sunday night, the Marlins are prepared to defend their World Series title with the catching tandem of Ramon Castro and Mike Redmond. Rodriguez, in declining to return to Florida late Sunday night, rejected a deal worth $24 million for three years: $8 million each for two years, plus a vested option for the third year. Florida's initial offer was for $14 million for two years, well shy of the four-year, $40 million that the 10-time All Star was seeking. "We will be looking at a lot of different things,'' General Manager Admin Beinfest said. "We have a lot of balls in the air right now. We're in an ever-changing environment. We'll look at players not offered arbitration and non-tendered after Dec. 20.'' Miami native Rafael Palmeiro, a member of the 500 home-run club, could be on Florida's radar. He made $9 million last season with Texas and is expected to take a pay cut. Palmeiro is 39 but he would provide a left-handed bat and could share time at first base with Hee Seop Choi. Scott Boras, Rodriguez's agent, told the Marlins he had spoken with four other teams interested in offering the catcher a four-year deal. Whether he can get $40 million is another question. The Cubs, A's and Tigers are among teams interested in catchers. But the Cubs may have an eye on Pittsburgh's Jason Kendall if the Pirates pay a portion of the $42 million left on his four-year contract. (The Marlins are not interested in Kendall unless the Pirates paid more than half, something Pittsburgh's financially strapped front office can't afford.) The Dodgers would have a spot for Rodriguez if they can trade Paul LoDuca. Meanwhile, the Marlins' baseball executives are said to be "perplexed" that Rodriguez declined their offer, which amounted to one total year and $2 million a year less than what he wanted to play close to his Miami Beach mansion. The front office also was miffed at a statement released early Monday by Boras and attributed to Rodriguez. "To my knowledge, I'm the only major-leaguer in recent times who won the World Series and received a post-season MVP award, and yet his club did not offer a higher salary,'' said Rodriguez, who signed a one-year, $10 million contract with Florida in 2003. "... It is unfortunate the ownership chose not to keep the club together, as I felt we had the players to repeat as world champions.'' Lowell was in Disney World on Monday with his family and could not be reached. But earlier in the morning he told Miami TV station WFOR that Rodriguez's decision was "definitely disappointing." "You want your team with Pudge as opposed to not having him, but you know, he's a big boy. He makes his decisions and we've got to move on.'' http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/conten...27313000bf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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It appears that WWE recently decided to change the name of its next pay-per-view, Extreme Rules, as suggested in a recently published preview article for one of the scheduled matches at the event.
Although WWE’s preview for Asuka’s upcoming Raw Women’s Championship defense against Sasha Banks is dated June 22, it was only on Thursday evening when wrestling publications, starting with Cageside Seats, first noticed and reported on the apparent name change. It’s not clear whether WWE updated the article sometime after it was originally published, but as quoted below, it looks like Extreme Rules has indeed gotten a slight name tweak weeks before its scheduled airdate.
“Will Banks become a double champion, or will Asuka continue to reign supreme on the red brand? Find out at WWE Extreme Rules: The Horror Show, streaming Sunday, July 19, at 7 ET/4 PT on the award-winning WWE Network!”
As further noted by Cageside Seats, the same pay-per-view name was used in a separate preview article for WWE Champion Drew McIntyre’s title defense against Dolph Ziggler.
As of this writing, it still remains unclear why WWE decided to add the words “The Horror Show” to Extreme Rules. However, a separate report from WrestlingNews.co speculated that this may have something to do with another one of the title matches scheduled for the pay-per-view — Universal Champion Braun Strowman versus challenger Bray Wyatt.
— WWE (@WWE) June 23, 2020
Given Wyatt’s supernatural-themed gimmick of “The Fiend,” it’s possible that WWE could turn his match against Strowman into a cinematic-style encounter — one not unlike the Undertaker vs. AJ Styles “Boneyard Match” at WrestleMania 36 but with a horror theme consistent with Wyatt’s character. These matches, as explained by WrestlingNews.co, have become more prevalent in recent months as WWE wants to make up for the absence of live fans due to the coronavirus pandemic and give viewers at home a “hook that will make them want to tune in.”
Meanwhile, Cageside Seats was critical when it came to the use of “The Horror Show” as a tagline of sorts for this year’s Extreme Rules, referring to it as an “awkward” name and one that somehow seems “very appropriate” due to the recent reports claiming multiple WWE employees have tested positive for COVID-19.
Aside from the aforementioned matches, the card for Extreme Rules: The Horror Show also features a match between Monday Night Raw veterans Randy Orton and Big Show. With three weeks remaining before the event, it’s highly likely more matches will be set up on the episodes of Raw and Friday Night SmackDown leading up to July 19.


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Argument: Cloning allows gay couples to have children of their own blood
Simon Smith. "The Benefits of Human Cloning". Human Cloning.org - "Gay couples - From one of our readers: "gay couples go through so much...not to mention all the controversy...when they decide that they are ready for a baby. People question their right to bring a child that technically isn't related to them into a lifestyle that falls below societies views of normal.....human cloning could allow two gay men to take 23 chromosomes from each male and put them into a single egg to truly have a baby of their own. also two gay women could use this technology to conceive a child of their own using their individual 23 chromosomes." (To our knowledge the type of reproduction described here has not yet been done, but someday it will probably be possible.)"


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Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
564 U.S. ____ (2011)
Oral arguments are available at: http://www.oyez.org
Vote: 7 (Alito, Ginsburg, Kagan, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor)
2 (Breyer, Thomas)
Opinion of the Court: Scalia
Concurring opinion: Alito
Dissenting opinions: Breyer, Thomas
In 2005 the California Assembly passed Bill 1179, prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors and requiring such games to be appropriately labeled. The act was designed to aid parents in restricting their children’s access to increasingly gruesome video games. The legislative goals were to prevent violent, aggressive, and antisocial behavior, and to prevent psychological or neurological harm to minors who play violent video games. The legislature relied on social scientific studies that reported a link between playing violent video games and an increase in aggressive thoughts and behavior, antisocial behavior, and a desensitization to violence. Violators of the law were subject to a $1,000 fine for each count.
Borrowing directly from the Court’s obscenity precedents, the statute defined violent video games as those games in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being, if those acts are depicted in a manner that a reasonable person, considering the game as a whole, would find appeals to a deviant or morbid interest of minors, that is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the community as to what is suitable for minors, and that causes the game, as a whole to lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors. Also coming under the provisions of this law are games that enable a player virtually to inflict serious injury upon images of human beings or characters with substantially human characteristics in a manner which is especially heinous, cruel, or depraved in that it involves torture or serious physical abuse to the victim.
The Entertainment Merchants Association, a not-for-profit, international trade association dedicated to advancing the interests of the home entertainment industry, filed suit against the state in the name of the governor claiming that Bill 1179 violated the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment. The federal district court struck down the law and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.
JUSTICE SCALIA DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT:
California correctly acknowledges that video games qualify for First Amendment protection. The Free Speech Clause exists principally to protect discourse on public matters, but we have long recognized that it is difficult to distinguish politics from entertainment, and dangerous to try. . . . Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas—and even social messages—through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection. Under our Constitution, “esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature … are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority.” United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. (2000). And whatever the challenges of applying the Constitution to ever-advancing technology, “the basic principles of freedom of speech and the press, like the First Amendment’s command, do not vary” when a new and different medium for communication appears. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952).
The most basic of those principles is this: “[A]s a general matter, … government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.” Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union (2002). There are of course exceptions. “‘From 1791 to the present,’ … the First Amendment has ‘permitted restrictions upon the content of speech in a few limited areas,’ and has never ‘include[d] a freedom to disregard these traditional limitations.’”United States v. Stevens (2010). These limited areas—such as obscenity, Roth v. United States (1957), incitement,Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), and fighting words, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)—represent “well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem.”
Last Term, in Stevens, we held that new categories of unprotected speech may not be added to the list by a legislature that concludes certain speech is too harmful to be tolerated. Stevens concerned a federal statute purporting to criminalize the creation, sale, or possession of certain depictions of animal cruelty. The statute covered depictions “in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed” if that harm to the animal was illegal where the “the creation, sale, or possession t[ook] place.” A saving clause largely borrowed from our obscenity jurisprudence, seeMiller v. California (1973), exempted depictions with “serious religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value.” We held that statute to be an impermissible content-based restriction on speech. There was no American tradition of forbidding the depiction of animal cruelty—though States have long had laws against committingit.
The Government argued in Stevens that lack of a historical warrant did not matter; that it could create new categories of unprotected speech by applying a “simple balancing test” that weighs the value of a particular category of speech against its social costs and then punishes that category of speech if it fails the test. We emphatically rejected that “startling and dangerous” proposition. … [W]ithout persuasive evidence that a novel restriction on content is part of a long (if heretofore unrecognized) tradition of proscription, a legislature may not revise the “judgment [of] the American people,” embodied in the First Amendment, “that the benefits of its restrictions on the Government outweigh the costs.”
That holding controls this case. As in Stevens, California has tried to make violent-speech regulation look like obscenity regulation by appending a saving clause required for the latter. That does not suffice. Our cases have been clear that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment does not cover whatever a legislature finds shocking, but only depictions of “sexual conduct,” Miller. . . .
. . . California . . . wishes to create a wholly new category of content-based regulation that is permissible only for speech directed at children.
That is unprecedented and mistaken. “[M]inors are entitled to a significant measure of First Amendment protection, and only in relatively narrow and well-defined circumstances may government bar public dissemination of protected materials to them.” Erznoznik v. Jacksonville (1975). No doubt a State possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm,Ginsberg [v. New York, 1968], Prince v. Massachusetts (1944), but that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed. “Speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them.” Erznoznik.
California’s argument would fare better if there were a longstanding tradition in this country of specially restricting children’s access to depictions of violence, but there is none. Certainly the books we give children to read—or read to them when they are younger—contain no shortage of gore. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, for example, are grim indeed. As her just deserts for trying to poison Snow White, the wicked queen is made to dance in red hot slippers “till she fell dead on the floor, a sad example of envy and jealousy.” Cinderella’s evil stepsisters have their eyes pecked out by doves. And Hansel and Gretel (children!) kill their captor by baking her in an oven.
High-school reading lists are full of similar fare. Homer’s Odysseus blinds Polyphemus the Cyclops by grinding out his eye with a heated stake. In the Inferno, Dante and Virgil watch corrupt politicians struggle to stay submerged beneath a lake of boiling pitch, lest they be skewered by devils above the surface. And Golding’s Lord of the Flies recounts how a schoolboy called Piggy is savagely murdered by other children while marooned on an island. . . .
California claims that video games present special problems because they are “interactive,” in that the player participates in the violent action on screen and determines its outcome. The latter feature is nothing new: Since at least the publication of The Adventures of You: Sugarcane Island in 1969, young readers of choose-your-own-adventure stories have been able to make decisions that determine the plot by following instructions about which page to turn to. As for the argument that video games enable participation in the violent action, that seems to us more a matter of degree than of kind. . . .
Because the Act imposes a restriction on the content of protected speech, it is invalid unless California can demonstrate that it passes strict scrutiny—that is, unless it is justified by a compelling government interest and is narrowly drawn to serve that interest. The State must specifically identify an “actual problem” in need of solving, Playboy, and the curtailment of free speech must be actually necessary to the solution. That is a demanding standard. “It is rare that a regulation restricting speech because of its content will ever be permissible.” Playboy.
California cannot meet that standard. At the outset, it acknowledges that it cannot show a direct causal link between violent video games and harm to minors. Rather, relying upon our decision in Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC(1994), the State claims that it need not produce such proof because the legislature can make a predictive judgment that such a link exists, based on competing psychological studies. But reliance on Turner Broadcasting is misplaced. That decision applied intermediate scrutiny to a content-neutral regulation. California’s burden is much higher, and because it bears the risk of uncertainty, ambiguous proof will not suffice.
The State’s evidence is not compelling. California relies primarily on the research of Dr. Craig Anderson and a few other research psychologists whose studies purport to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children. These studies have been rejected by every court to consider them, and with good reason: They do not prove that violent video games cause minors to act aggressively (which would at least be a beginning). Instead, “[n]early all of the research is based on correlation, not evidence of causation, and most of the studies suffer from significant, admitted flaws in methodology.” They show at best some correlation between exposure to violent entertainment and minuscule real-world effects, such as children’s feeling more aggressive or making louder noises in the few minutes after playing a violent game than after playing a nonviolent game.
Even taking for granted Dr. Anderson’s conclusions that violent video games produce some effect on children’s feelings of aggression, those effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media. . . .
Of course, California has (wisely) declined to restrict Saturday morning cartoons, the sale of games rated for young children, or the distribution of pictures of guns. The consequence is that its regulation is wildly underinclusive when judged against its asserted justification, which in our view is alone enough to defeat it. Underinclusiveness raises serious doubts about whether the government is in fact pursuing the interest it invokes, rather than disfavoring a particular speaker or viewpoint. Here, California has singled out the purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment—at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists, and movie producers—and has given no persuasive reason why.
The Act is also seriously underinclusive in another respect—and a respect that renders irrelevant the contentions of the concurrence and the dissents that video games are qualitatively different from other portrayals of violence. The California Legislature is perfectly willing to leave this dangerous, mind-altering material in the hands of children so long as one parent (or even an aunt or uncle) says it’s OK. And there are not even any requirements as to how this parental or avuncular relationship is to be verified; apparently the child’s or putative parent’s, aunt’s, or uncle’s say-so suffices. That is not how one addresses a serious social problem. . . .
. . . California cannot show that the Act’s restrictions meet a substantial need of parents who wish to restrict their children’s access to violent video games but cannot do so. The video-game industry has in place a voluntary rating system designed to inform consumers about the content of games. . . . This system does much to ensure that minors cannot purchase seriously violent games on their own, and that parents who care about the matter can readily evaluate the games their children bring home. Filling the remaining modest gap in concerned-parents’ control can hardly be a compelling state interest.
And finally, the Act’s purported aid to parental authority is vastly overinclusive. Not all of the children who are forbidden to purchase violent video games on their own have parents who care whether they purchase violent video games. While some of the legislation’s effect may indeed be in support of what some parents of the restricted children actually want, its entire effect is only in support of what the State thinks parents ought to want. This is not the narrow tailoring to “assisting parents” that restriction of First Amendment rights requires.
California’s effort to regulate violent video games is the latest episode in a long series of failed attempts to censor violent entertainment for minors. While we have pointed out above that some of the evidence brought forward to support the harmfulness of video games is unpersuasive, we do not mean to demean or disparage the concerns that underlie the attempt to regulate them—concerns that may and doubtless do prompt a good deal of parental oversight. We have no business passing judgment on the view of the California Legislature that violent video games (or, for that matter, any other forms of speech) corrupt the young or harm their moral development. Our task is only to say whether or not such works constitute a “well-defined and narrowly limited clas[s] of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem,” Chaplinsky, (the answer plainly is no); and if not, whether the regulation of such works is justified by that high degree of necessity we have described as a compelling state interest (it is not). Even where the protection of children is the object, the constitutional limits on governmental action apply. . . .
We affirm the judgment below.
It is so ordered.
JUSTICE ALITO, WITH WHOM THE CHIEF JUSTICE JOINS, CONCURRING IN THE JUDGMENT.
. . . Although the California statute is well intentioned, its terms are not framed with the precision that the Constitution demands, and I therefore agree with the Court that this particular law cannot be sustained.
I disagree, however, with the approach taken in the Court’s opinion. In considering the application of unchanging constitutional principles to new and rapidly evolving technology, this Court should proceed with caution. We should make every effort to understand the new technology. We should take into account the possibility that developing technology may have important societal implications that will become apparent only with time. We should not jump to the conclusion that new technology is fundamentally the same as some older thing with which we are familiar. And we should not hastily dismiss the judgment of legislators, who may be in a better position than we are to assess the implications of new technology. The opinion of the Court exhibits none of this caution. . . .
Respondents in this case, representing the video-game industry, ask us to strike down the California law on two grounds: The broad ground adopted by the Court and the narrower ground that the law’s definition of “violent video game” is impermissibly vague. Because I agree with the latter argument, I see no need to reach the broader First Amendment issues addressed by the Court.
Due process requires that laws give people of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited. The lack of such notice in a law that regulates expression “raises special First Amendment concerns because of its obvious chilling effect on free speech.” Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997). Vague laws force potential speakers to “‘steer far wider of the unlawful zone’ … than if the boundaries of the forbidden areas were clearly marked.” Baggett v. Bullitt (1964). While “perfect clarity and precise guidance have never been required even of regulations that restrict expressive activity,” Ward v. Rock Against Racism (1989), “government may regulate in the area” of First Amendment freedoms “only with narrow specificity,” NAACP v. Button . These principles apply to laws that regulate expression for the purpose of protecting children.
Here, the California law does not define “violent video games” with the “narrow specificity” that the Constitution demands. In an effort to avoid First Amendment problems, the California Legislature modeled its violent video game statute on the New York law that this Court upheld in Ginsberg v. New York (1968) —a law that prohibited the sale of certain sexually related materials to minors. But the California Legislature departed from the Ginsberg model in an important respect, and the legislature overlooked important differences between the materials falling within the scope of the two statutes. . . .
There is a critical difference . . . between obscenity laws and laws regulating violence in entertainment. By the time of this Court’s landmark obscenity cases in the 1960’s, obscenity had long been prohibited, see Roth, and this experience had helped to shape certain generally accepted norms concerning expression related to sex.
There is no similar history regarding expression related to violence. As the Court notes, classic literature contains descriptions of great violence, and even children’s stories sometimes depict very violent scenes.
Although our society does not generally regard all depictions of violence as suitable for children or adolescents, the prevalence of violent depictions in children’s literature and entertainment creates numerous opportunities for reasonable people to disagree about which depictions may excite “deviant” or “morbid” impulses.
Finally, the difficulty of ascertaining the community standards incorporated into the California law is compounded by the legislature’s decision to lump all minors together. The California law draws no distinction between young children and adolescents who are nearing the age of majority. . . .
For these reasons, I conclude that the California violent video game law fails to provide the fair notice that the Constitution requires. And I would go no further. I would not express any view on whether a properly drawn statute would or would not survive First Amendment scrutiny. We should address that question only if and when it is necessary to do so.
JUSTICE THOMAS, DISSENTING.
The Court’s decision today does not comport with the original public understanding of the First Amendment. The majority strikes down, as facially unconstitutional, a state law that prohibits the direct sale or rental of certain video games to minors because the law “abridg[es] the freedom of speech.” But I do not think the First Amendment stretches that far. The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that “the freedom of speech,” as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors’ parents or guardians. I would hold that the law at issue is not facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and reverse and remand for further proceedings.
I respectfully dissent.
JUSTICE BREYER, DISSENTING.
California’s law imposes no more than a modest restriction on expression. The statute prevents no one from playing a video game, it prevents no adult from buying a video game, and it prevents no child or adolescent from obtaining a game provided a parent is willing to help. All it prevents is a child or adolescent from buying, without a parent’s assistance, a gruesomely violent video game of a kind that the industry itself tells us it wants to keep out of the hands of those under the age of 17.
Nor is the statute, if upheld, likely to create a precedent that would adversely affect other media, say films, or videos, or books. A typical video game involves a significant amount of physical activity. And pushing buttons that achieve an interactive, virtual form of target practice (using images of human beings as targets), while containing an expressive component, is not just like watching a typical movie.
The interest that California advances in support of the statute is compelling. As this Court has previously described that interest, it consists of both (1) the “basic” parental claim “to authority in their own household to direct the rearing of their children,” which makes it proper to enact “laws designed to aid discharge of [parental] responsibility,” and (2) the State’s “independent interest in the well-being of its youth.” Ginsberg. And where these interests work in tandem, it is not fatally “underinclusive” for a State to advance its interests in protecting children against the special harms present in an interactive video game medium through a default rule that still allows parents to provide their children with what their parents wish.
Both interests are present here. As to the need to help parents guide their children, the Court noted in 1968 that “‘parental control or guidance cannot always be provided.’” Today, 5.3 million grade-school-age children of working parents are routinely home alone. Thus, it has, if anything, become more important to supplement parents’ authority to guide their children’s development. . . .
At the same time, there is considerable evidence that California’s statute significantly furthers this compelling interest. That is, in part, because video games are excellent teaching tools. . .
. . . In particular, extremely violent games can harm children by rewarding them for being violently aggressive in play, and thereby often teaching them to be violently aggressive in life. And video games can cause more harm in this respect than can typically passive media, such as books or films or television programs.
There are many scientific studies that support California’s views. Social scientists, for example, have found causalevidence that playing these games results in harm. Longitudinal studies, which measure changes over time, have found that increased exposure to violent video games causes an increase in aggression over the same period. . . .
And “meta-analyses,” i.e. , studies of all the studies, have concluded that exposure to violent video games “was positively associated with aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, and aggressive affect,” and that “playing violent video games is a causal risk factor for long-term harmful outcomes.” Anderson et al., Violent Video Game Effects on Aggression, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior in Eastern and Western Countries: A Meta-Analytic Review, 136 Psychological Bulletin (2010).
Some of these studies take care to explain in a common-sense way why video games are potentially more harmful than, say, films or books or television. In essence, they say that the closer a child’s behavior comes, not to watching, but toacting out horrific violence, the greater the potential psychological harm. . . .
Unlike the majority, I would find sufficient grounds in these studies and expert opinions for this Court to defer to an elected legislature’s conclusion that the video games in question are particularly likely to harm children. This Court has always thought it owed an elected legislature some degree of deference in respect to legislative facts of this kind, particularly when they involve technical matters that are beyond our competence, and even in First Amendment cases. The majority, in reaching its own, opposite conclusion about the validity of the relevant studies, grants the legislature no deference at all. . . .
The upshot is that California’s statute, as applied to its heartland of applications (i.e., buyers under 17; extremely violent, realistic video games), imposes a restriction on speech that is modest at most. That restriction is justified by a compelling interest (supplementing parents’ efforts to prevent their children from purchasing potentially harmful violent, interactive material). And there is no equally effective, less restrictive alternative. California’s statute is consequently constitutional on its face—though litigants remain free to challenge the statute as applied in particular instances, including any effort by the State to apply it to minors aged 17.
I add that the majority’s different conclusion creates a serious anomaly in First Amendment law. Ginsberg makes clear that a State can prohibit the sale to minors of depictions of nudity; today the Court makes clear that a State cannot prohibit the sale to minors of the most violent interactive video games. But what sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her? What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restricting sales of that extremely violent video game only when the woman—bound, gagged, tortured, and killed—is also topless?
This anomaly is not compelled by the First Amendment. It disappears once one recognizes that extreme violence, where interactive, and without literary, artistic, or similar justification, can prove at least as, if not more, harmful to children as photographs of nudity. And the record here is more than adequate to support such a view. That is why I believe thatGinsberg controls the outcome here a fortiori. And it is why I believe California’s law is constitutional on its face.
. . . Sometimes, children need to learn by making choices for themselves. Other times, choices are made for children—by their parents, by their teachers, and by the people acting democratically through their governments. In my view, the First Amendment does not disable government from helping parents make such a choice here—a choice not to have their children buy extremely violent, interactive video games, which they more than reasonably fear pose only the risk of harm to those children.
For these reasons, I respectfully dissent.

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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) to move today from the North Arabian Sea into the Arabian Gulf.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus visited Romania June 10—11 to reinforce the relationship between the United States Navy and Marine Corps and their NATO ally.
Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III laid a wreath at the tomb of the Army's first commander-in-chief, President George Washington, and presented Purple Hearts to two Soldiers, at Washington's Mt. Vernon estate in Alexandria, Va., June 13, 2014.
Deputy Chief of Mission Kristen Bauer, U.S. Embassy Jakarta, joined U.S. and Indonesian navy divers on board the USNS Safeguard (T—ARS 50) to lay a wreath at the site of the USS Houston (CA 30), June 11.
The Chief of Naval Personnel discussed manpower issues with crew members from two Los Angeles—class submarines during a pierside all—hands call June 11, which wrapped up a two—day visit to Groton, Conn.
Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, completed a five day visit in France this weekend with the Chief of Staff of the French Navy Adm. Bernard Rogel.
More than 60 seriously wounded, ill and injured Navy and Coast Guard athletes, as well as their families and friends, gathered for the closing ceremony for the Wounded Warrior Team Navy Trials in Norfolk, Va., June 7.
Sailors from Navy Recruiting District (NRD) San Antonio, Navy Information Operations Command—Texas, Navy Special Operations teams, Navy STEM tour, and a social media team made their presence known at the Summer X—Games held at the Circuit of the Americas, June 5—8.
USS Coronado (LCS 4) successfully completed final contract trials (FCT) June 6.
The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) transferred 277 persons in distress to the Armed Forces of Malta offshore patrol vessel P61, and another five persons were medically evacuated to Malta, June 7.
The Japan Maritime Self—Defense Force Osumi—Class JS Kunisaki (LST 4003), carrying a multinational crew of U.S., Australian and Japanese personnel arrived in Da Nang June 6 for Pacific Partnership, beginning nine days of collaborative medical and engineering activities with the People of Vietnam.
Sailors assigned to guided—missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) stood alongside veterans and dignitaries at a Navy memorial ceremony overlooking Utah Beach in France, June 5.
In a training evolution to be conducted as part of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2014 exercise series, U.S. Navy divers, assisted by personnel from the Indonesian navy, will survey the World War II wreck of the cruiser USS Houston (CA 30) in June.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert joined Chief of Staff of the French navy, Adm. Bernard Rogel, veterans and leaders from the United States, France and other countries to commemorate the 70th anniversaries of D—Day and Battle of Normandy this week.
President Barack Obama and French President François Hollande spoke to more than 10,000 attendees at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-Sur-Mer, France, June 6, 2014, commemorating the memory of the Soldiers who gave their lives 70 years ago fighting to end the Nazi reign over Europe.
The Army's schoolhouse learning model is evolving. Fading are images of instructors standing at podiums and distributing information via computer slideshows; practices that emphasize muscle memory as the chief means to learning; and classrooms bound by walls.
A mishap involving a Training Air Wing FIVE TH—57 Sea Ranger helicopter occurred at approximately 10:15 a.m. CDT on June 5 at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field's Navy Outlying Landing Field Spencer in Pace, Fla.
The Ticonderoga—class guided—missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) welcomed aboard U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during a scheduled port visit to Constanta, Romania, June 5.
A U.S. Navy F/A—18E Super Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Va., impacted the water during an approach to USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) at approximately 10 p.m. PST on June 4 while operating off the coast of southern California.
An important aspect of leader development not learned in a classroom setting is the importance of seeking out good mentors, explained the Army Vice Chief of Staff to a meeting of the Asian American Government Executives Network, June 5, 2014, in Arlington, Va.


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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Summer reading suggestions
You read all this past year, textbooks, research for papers you were writing and so on, now it is summer, and hopefully you have some time to read simply for your own personal pleasure! Here are some lists of possible good reads.
Good Reads is a popular reader site, and these are some suggested titles from them.

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Isa Ha’ani Long made an outstanding debut in the world of bodybuilding by finishing second and taking two third place trophies in the 2022 California OCB Bay Area Amatuer Bikini Bodybuilding Championships held last July 23 at the San Leandro Arts Center in San Leandro, California.
The co-valedictorian of the Tinian High School Class of 2022 finished second in the novice class, third in the debut class, and third again in the open class.
Considering it’s her first bodybuilding competition ever, Long was understandably thrilled by her achievement.
“After taking second in novice and third in open as well as third in debut, I was shocked and really happy. Since this was my first competition I wasn’t expecting much, considering I was competing in the States and I was the youngest competitor. However, I was really happy with the results,” she told Saipan Tribune.
Long said placing in her first bodybuilding competition wasn’t a piece of cake. In fact, she said it took a lot of sacrifice and commitment on her part.
“I spent some months building muscle then went into preparation for 16 weeks leading up to my competition. I have been going to the gym for around three years now and I decided to take up bodybuilding to form a better relationship with my nutrition and challenge myself both mentally and physically,” she said.
Her father, Tinian Chamber of Commerce president Philip Mendiola-Long, said he and his wife are mighty proud of their daughter’s latest achievement.
“As parents, Arley and I are immensely proud of Isa for her dedication and commitment to the sport of women’s natural bodybuilding. Both her twin sister Cielo and her wake up at 6am to work out and then again in the evening. Doing this all while on a strict diet while the rest of us in the house eat what we want,” he said.
Mendiola-Long said Isa has always been go-getter so it doesn’t surprise them anymore what she’s become at a very young age.
“Isa has been a driven individual since she was little. Very competitive and always seeks to push herself. Her recent placement in the California OCB Bay Area Amateur Bodybuilding Championships has proven that even a 17-year-old island girl from Tinian can compete at the national level and place.”
Long’s father said the family expects bigger things coming from Isa as she transitions to college with her twin sister.
“We can’t wait to see what levels Isa pushes herself to next. She has already stated she will be competing again in Massachusetts while attending Harvard. Not only will she be the youngest, but most likely the only competitor currently attending Harvard, unless of course her sister Cielo decides to join as well. As parents, you can probably imagine how proud we are of Isa,” he said.
A week before Isa’s triumph in San Leandro, Cielo finished third in the 2022 California WNBF Muscle Mayhem Bodybuilding Competition in Sacramento.
She was the first of the Long twins to make her debut in the sport when she won the bikini competition of the 2021 Dee Clayton Classic at the Saipan World Resort in November last year.


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Stephen McDonnell is the CEO and president of Applegate, the country's leading producer of natural and organic meats and cheeses. McDonnell can discuss the growth of the organic foods industry as well as sustainable farming and antibiotic-free animal farming. He founded Citizens Against Superbugs, which educates consumers about the dangers of antibiotic overuse in food animal production. All of Applegate's products are antibiotic and hormone free -- a standard above the USDA's definition of "natural." McDonnell regularly contributes on Twitter through @ApplegateCEO.
Blog/Web site: www.applegate.com
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Regularly interviewed about food labeling, organic food industry. CNN, Forbes.com, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Food Safety News.
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Montevizija 2019, the national selection of Montenegro
Montenegro will choose their song for Eurovision 2019 this week in theit public national selection, Montevizija. Five acts are in the competition: D-mol, Andrea Demirović, Monika Knezović, Ivana Popović Martinović and Nina Petković. All five competing songs are now out, and you can listen to them on the site of the Monenegrin broadcaster, RTCG. Montevizija2019 will be held next Saturday, 9th of February, at 21:00 CET.


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Gov. Oyetola Reverses Aregbesola’s Education Policies In Osun State
The Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, on Monday approved the reversal of the single school uniform, ‘reclassification’ of the public school system and the abolition of single-sex schools introduced in 2013 by his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola.These reversals were approved during the state executive council…
Under Cover Report: Interior Minister Commended The Cable, Fisayo Soyombo
For revealing the rot and deep corruption in the Nigerian prison system, Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, has commended The Cable as well as the reporter, Fisayo Soyombo. It would be recalled that Fisayo Soyombo, undercover journalist and former editor of TheCable, had undertaken an investigation exposing…
I Am The Godfather Of Osun Politics – Aregbesola Boasts
The former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola on Saturday night said with his feat of successfully handing over the mantle of power to a successor of his wish, he has emerged as the godfather of Osun politics. He made this assertion at a victory…
APC Fixes Anambra Governorship Forms At N22.5m, Announces Date For Primaries
Medaner said that the party would start the sales of expression of interest and nomination forms for the election at the party’s national secretariat from April 15 to June 8.
Gov. Akeredolu Renews Fight With Former Deputy, Calls Police To Retrieve Vehicles
To this end, the Governor has enlisted the help of the state Commissioner of Police, CP Bolaji Salami, to recover the vehicles.
Why Lead Africa Is Supporting Africa’s Startup Businesses-Olanrewaju
Olanrewaju stated this on Tuesday during interactions with journalists in Lagos at the StartUp Afrika event in partnership with State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Only Corrupt PDP Chiefs That Are Defecting To APC – Tambuwal
They reiterated their commitment to the electronic transmission of election results, urging the National Assembly to amend the Electoral Act to reflect the critical electoral reform.


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Hypertension Management Program (HMP) Toolkit
The Hypertension Management Program (HMP) toolkit is an online interactive training for a team-based, patient-centered, integrated care model. The goal of the HMP is to improve the quality of patient care and decrease the number of patients with uncontrolled hypertension to improve each patient’s overall health and wellbeing. Evaluations have shown the HMP to be effective in the promotion of hypertension control among patients in healthcare settings that serve populations who bear a disproportionate risk of hypertension (including those without health insurance).
This toolkit was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) to provide healthcare organizations, including those in resource-constrained settings, with the information and resources to implement the HMP and improve hypertension control among their patients. CDC DHDSP developed an online toolkit that consists of interactive e-learning modules that are designed to guide learners through the key features of the ten HMP components and prepare them for implementation at their health system. The online e-learning modules are accompanied by a PDF toolkit document that can be used as an additional resource for users.
The purposes of this toolkit and the associated online e-learning modules are to provide healthcare organizations:
- An overview of the HMP, its ten core components, and suggestions for implementing the HMP in clinical settings.
- Guidance to staff, administrators, and other healthcare professionals on how to implement and adapt the HMP for their unique clinical setting.
This section provides the ten modules of the Online Interactive HMPToolkit.
|Module Title||Description of Content|
|Overview||In this module, we’ll introduce you to the Hypertension Management Program Implementation Toolkit. The toolkit provides healthcare organizations with the information and resources needed to implement the program and improve hypertension control among their patients.|
Integrated Care Team
|In this module, we’ll examine the roles of the integrated care team and the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to utilize the integrated care team to educate patients about managing their blood pressure, identify risk factors for hypertension, prescribe and modify treatments for hypertension, and maintain an ongoing dialogue with patients about their health and care.|
Patient Registries and Outreach Lists in the EHR
|In this module, we’ll examine patient registries and the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to understand them and their use in conducting outreach for the Hypertension Management Program.|
No-Copayment Walk-in/Scheduled Blood Pressure Checks
|In this module, we’ll explore the implementation of blood pressure checks that do not require a copayment.|
EHR Alerts for Blood Pressure Re-check
|In this module, we’ll examine the implementation of electronic health record alerts for blood pressure re-checks, including the knowledge, skills, and tools the Information Technology staff need to create the alerts and that the clinical staff need to effectively use the alerts.|
Education for Nurses and Other Staff on Blood Pressure Measurement Technique
|In this module, we’ll explore the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to select a measurement technique for your health system and the staff education needed to implement this technique consistently.|
Promote Use of Combination Medications to Treat High Blood Pressure
|In this module, we’ll examine the use of combination medications to treat high blood pressure and the knowledge, skills, and tools needed by physicians and the clinical staff to effectively promote the use of combination medications for high blood pressure.|
Hypertension Management Visits
|In this module, we’ll examine hypertension management visits and the knowledge, skills, and tools needed by the clinical staff to effectively implement these visits.|
Promotion of Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring
|In this module, we’ll explore the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to create a self-measured blood pressure monitoring program and to develop a process for communicating results to providers in your health system or clinic.|
Specialty Department Blood Pressure Measurements with Referral to Primary Care When Needed
|In this module, we’ll explore specialty department blood pressure measurements with referrals to primary care when needed.|
Incentives, Rewards, and Recognition
|In this module, we’ll examine the activities and considerations for incentivizing high-performing providers, staff, and teams, and the knowledge, skills, and tools needed by the leadership and human resources staff to effectively implement these incentives.|
The Hypertension Management Program (HMP) aims to improve the quality and management of patient care, and decrease the number of patients with uncontrolled hypertension. This evaluation summary describes a mixed-methods evaluation to assess program implementation, facilitators and barriers, hypertension outcomes, and program implementation costs.

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If you are concerned about using up too much water to keep your garden plants alive, then here is perfect solution.
Grab a couple of 5 gallon pails or similar. Drill a small hole in the bottom of each one - 8th inch is fine. Place each pail next to the plant that you want to water. Best to rotate the pail until the hole you drilled is closest to the plant. Fill a bucket with water. Dump the bucket of water into the 5 gallon pail. The water will trickle out fairly slowly, ensuring that the maximum amount of water penetrates the soil, minimizing run off and evaporation. Without a hose running continuaously your water consumption is also tiny. Repeat for each plant, cycling through them as often as you feel necessary. This is especially useful in a new garden with newly planted or fruit bearing shrubs.

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Voice Over Internet Services Battle At Capitol
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
A fight is underway at the California Capitol over the possible regulation of voice over internet services, or VoIP The state’s Public Utilities Commission doesn’t regulate such communications providers and Democratic State Senator Alex Padilla wants to make sure it doesn’t start. He’s pushing a bill that’s sponsored by companies like AT&T and Verizon. It would prohibit the PUC from regulating VoIP and was approved by a legislative committee today.
Padilla says the internet economy has flourished in the state: “California is uniquely poised to continue to foster that innovation and consumer benefit and this is part of doing so.”
Some consumer groups strongly oppose the bill. Mark Toney is with The Utility Reform Network. He says V-O-I-P customers would suffer. “Those are the customers who will lose all protections and ability to go complain to the California Public Utilities Commission.
But Senator Padilla says no consumer protections would be lost under the bill.
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I had told myself I wasn't going to do any more performance mods to the car until my warranty was up, but recently I keep thinking I would like to put a header on to compliment my exhaust and intake mods. However, I have a few concerns. One is that the headers I have seen all involve removing the catalytic converter. Are there headers that incoporate the OEM cat? I have to e-check my car here in Ohio every other year. I don't know if the car would pass without the cat on. Also, I have heard that you can actually lose low end on the MC by removing the cat. I have also heard it is illegal to remove the cat. Any comments about these concerns or this mod would be appreciated!


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Minnesota Pheasant Print, 999/3685, James Killen, 1985, W Signed Stamp, Unframed.. Mint print in original folder. James Killen, has come a very long way, Minn Pheasant winner in 1985,, who knows how many paintings designs , he has done! A very creative artist in Minnesota. He sorta started painting other scenes after winning this Pheasant Print, to my view, but his creative ideas live on! This Artist has really made a impression on Wildlife art with this design in Minn Pheasant stamp print history. Title: Minnesota Pheasant Stamp design. Unframed: Yes (Print & stamp). Notes: See my E. The item “Minnesota Pheasant Print, 999/3685, James Killen 1985, S Stamp. Mint Condition” is in sale since Saturday, January 16, 2021. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “artsellerusa” and is located in Titusville, Florida. This item can be shipped to United States.
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The Chili Peppers are bringing the Beach to Shepherd Stadium tonight! Your drinks will have umbrellas, there will be tiki torches, beach balls, leis and more! If you LOVE Beach Music, you do not want to miss tonight – the music will play pre-game and in-game even a live steel drum performance! Wait until you see the players – they will be playing the entire game in SHORT GRASS SKIRTS! WOW!


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Hi everyone! Just want to share this fun and sweet goodies to you all! My kids and I made a batch of rudolf pops and choco truffles. These are all no bake sweets so it is less stressful. I also have no troubles in melting the candy discs in making this cute goodies!
As for the Rudolf pops, I used nutter butter cookies, M&M’s, pretzels and white pearl candy sprinkles. And for the choco truffles, I just used a pack of ground oreos and cream cheese. You have to melt candy discs to coat them. When you melt the candy, you just need a hot water in bowl and put another clean, dry bowl on top of it where you do the melting. Keep stirring so the candy stays thin and easy to coat on pops and truffles. The truffles are a little bit tricky to coat because they need to be frozen for 25 minutes before you do the candy coating. Make sure you lay them in a wax paper so that they will easy to dry and won’t stick. As for designing the truffles, you put the thin and melted candy inside a small ziplock bag and cut a very tiny hole on the tip for easy writing. I also have a version of coating no bake truffles with dessicated coconut which is much easier than coating candy. I love how this batch turned out and everyone in my family and our friends enjoyed them. There are so many fun ideas you can do with coating nutter butter cookies and truffles. You can find lots of images in Google and in Pinterest. How about you, have you done rudolf pops and choco truffles too? If this is your first time, let me know how yours turned out, ok? Enjoy!


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1996-12-09 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA -- A major Pacific storm barely brushed the Bay Area early Monday but it dumped almost a foot of rain in northwest California and Oregon, sending mountain streams over their banks and closing roads with mud and rock slides.
But a new storm was enroute, promising more rain for the Bay Area, even heavier rain in the Central Valley and more snow for the mountains. A strong low pressure system in the Pacific Ocean off the Central California coast Monday was helping to pump in moisture from the subtropical regions near Hawaii.
In the Sierra Nevada, foul weather forced suspension of the search for the downed plane of San Rafael businessman Tom Rygh Sunday and the Placer County Sheriff's Department said it would not be resumed until the weather improves, probably no sooner than Tuesday.
A winter storm warning was in effect for the entire Sierra and the National Weather Service said up to 3 feet of snow could fall in the higher mountains by Wednesday morning.
The weather service said as much as 3 inches of rain could fall in the Sierra foothills, with lesser amounts in the Central Valley and Bay Area.
In southern Oregon, mudslides shoved homes from their foundations, forcing rescues of trapped residents, and high water and slides closed various roads.
While rainfall was modest in the Bay Area - San Rafael recorded 0.21 inches in the 24 hours ending at 4 a.m. Monday - it was prodigious farther north. Honeydew, near the coast in west central Humboldt County, was drenched with 9.4 inches in the 24 hours through 6 p.m. Sunday. Other sites in Humboldt and Del Norte counties reported more than 7 inches in the same period.
It was still raining hard in those areas Monday morning with some places getting another inch or two overnight and awaiting at least another inch before Monday afternoon when the rain was expected to taper off as the new storm passed to the south.
Urban and small stream flood warnings were in effect in both counties through Monday.
Schools were closed in Eureka, Ferndale and several smaller communities. College of the Redwoods also closed after parts of U.S. 101 flooded.
The National Weather Service office in Eureka said that 4.86 inches fell Sunday, beating the old record of 2.41 inches set for the date in 1939.
All major rivers were at warning stage, the weather service reported, but are expected to recede before reaching flood stage.
Mud and rock slides blocked or closed highways in both counties, including Highways 199 and 197 in Del Norte and Highway 96 in Humboldt.
The big storm was moving southeastward, producing heavy rains and gusty winds. A wind advisory was in effect for much of the northern part of the state through Monday morning, with gusts expected to top 30 mph.
A flash flood warning was issued for areas in San Diego, Los Angeles and Ventura counties burned last summer by wildfires.
A high wind advisory also was posted for the Tehachapi mountains and for Kern County deserts for Monday afternoon and night.<

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The Lamborghini company is a famous Italian manufacturer of high-performance, stylish mid-engine supercars. The brand is known for the luxury it offers, and many of its cars cost over $200,000, but the Lamborghini company is much more than just a car. It sells an experience and lifestyle that customers crave. Here are some reasons to buy a Lamborghini. Read on to learn more.
Lamborghini is an Italian manufacturer of exotic mid-engine supercars
The Lamborghini Miura is an ultra-exotic production car that was made by the company in their spare time. Its body is low, wide, and long, and it was one of the fastest production cars ever made. It was designed by three engineers in their spare time and was the first Lamborghini car to bear the new company shield, which features a bull. The company’s name comes from its founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini, who himself was a Taurus.
Though the Lamborghini brand is a part of the Volkswagen Group, it continues to make its cars in Italy. The company’s headquarters is in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy. Founded in 1963 by Ferruccio Lamborghini, the company initially focused on making GT cars. While early Lamborghini models used a front-engine layout, later models would incorporate a mid-engine design. The Miura has been the ultimate supercar ever made.
In 1966, the Lamborghini Miura made its debut. Unlike previous vehicles, the Lamborghini Miura’s engine and transaxle were mounted transversely. The engine had separate oil reservoirs and had a low-profile design. The Miura’s introduction to the world of mid-engine supercars made Ferruccio Lamborghini the first to join the revolution. Ferrari’s Dino 206 GT came along a year later.
It sells a high-end car that typically costs at least $200,000
If you’re looking to buy a high-end car that costs over $200,000, you’ll be happy to hear that Lamborghini is selling a version of its latest supercar, the Huracan, for less than that price. The car’s performance capabilities are truly outrageous. It can reach a top speed of 217 mph electronically. The car was built by Lamborghini’s Ad Personam customization division. The company did not specify exactly what customizations customers can expect but said they offer the widest variety of options. The exterior can be custom-painted, with fully exposed carbon fiber.
The cost of a Lamborghini varies, but the base Huracan runs around $200,000. It’s usually worth more than $200,000 if you want an extra-special model, such as a one-of-a-kind one. However, you can find cheaper Lamborghini models, too – some go for less than $100,000. Even better, you can find an early-2000s Gallardo for under $100k if you’re willing to put in the maintenance required to keep it running properly. A rarer model, however, can cost upwards of $1 million.
Although a Lamborghini may be a dream car for some people, the expense of owning one is more than likely prohibitive. You’ll have to pay for gas, maintenance, and repairs for several years, so you’ll need a lot of money. But, if you’re not ready to pay this much up front, you can lease a Lamborghini instead and use it for as little as $1600 per month. It also gives you peace of mind if it breaks down.