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Eclectic 1 Bedroom Apartment in Palermo Hollywood
Fitz Roy & Gorriti
This is a bright and beautiful apartment for four with a zebra-themed sitting room and striking modern decor. Along one side there are large French windows allowing the summer sun and breeze to fill the apartment. Outside you'll find a pool with terrace and garden, where barbecues can be enjoyed and guests can lounge whilst soaking up some rays. There is also an onsite gym for those wanting to use some extra energy, and the building features a doorman.
All Oasis Stays In Buenos Aires Include:
1. All taxes, utilities and weekly maid service.
2. 7-day-a-week support from our on-the-ground team.
3. Complimentary access to Oasis Concierge.
4. Exclusive access to The Clubhouse (), Buenos Aires' premier members club.
- Air Conditioning
- Hairdryer
- Gym
- Iron
- Maid Service
- Microwave
- Safe Box
- Telephone
- WiFi
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The ground is warm now, so don’t delay.
Get those dahlia bulbs in the ground so they will be blooming and beautiful for The Highlands Historical Society’s Seventh Annual Dahlia Festival, being held September 14 through 16.
The Festival kicks off with the Patron Party on Thursday evening, September 14, at the campus of The Historical Society, located at 520 North Fourth Street (Highway 64). Denim & Dulcimers will feature a tented casual setting with local musicians. Celebrants will enjoy a delicious dinner, including fried chicken and delicious sides, while touring the museum full of photos and memorabilia that chronicle the town’s story.
Everyone is invited to the Historic Village to attend the dedication ceremony celebrating the acceptance of The Prince House by The National Historic Registry.” For specific information about this event, visit highlandshistory.org.
The Dahlia Flower Show will fill the Highlands Civic Center on Saturday, September 16. Amateur growers from throughout the Highlands Cashiers Plateau will bring their best blooms to compete for numerous awards. Last year’s show included more than 322 entries from 41 growers.
Flowers will be received at the Highlands Civic Center on Friday, September 15, from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M., and on Saturday morning from 8:00 to 10:00 A.M. Registration fee is $15 per exhibitor. Patrons always enjoy the entries from local students, so the society encourages young people to enter.
Beginning at 1:00 P.M. Saturday the show will be open to the public. Admission to the show is $5 per person. Come celebrate with all the growers as we enjoy the beautiful dahlia blooms and see the results of the judging.
Each year, dahlia enthusiasts pack the lecture hall at the Civic Center to hear tips for growing dahlias. HHS is just now finalizing the plans for this event. Check the HHS website for that information when it’s available.
Be sure to pick one of the beautiful flower arrangements to take home to beautify your table or to give as a gift. All funds raised by the Dahlia Festival support the maintenance of the Historic Village and the many philanthropic projects of the Historical Society.
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The Democrat amendment was offered by Max Baucus of Montana, who said his legislation differed from the Republican alternative in how they would “pay for the change.” (Human Events) More > …
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Sphinx
This
Sphinx has a lion's body and a teddy-bear head, plus an Egyptian headdress.
The body is based on the same pattern as the Monster Under the Bed.
This is the fourth of my series of Elemental Cats, representing Earth.(Air, Fire, Water)
I sold it at the 2007 Lunacon Art Show.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
A New White House Kitchen Garden Video
The White House has created a new video that shows how First Lady Michelle Obama's 1,500 square-foot Kitchen Garden began. It combines footage from Friday's White House livestream of the annual Fall garden tour for the public with archival footage from the three-plus years that Mrs. Obama's signature project has been on the South Lawn. Mrs. Obama and Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives Sam Kass are featured..
The White House on Friday also welcomed a group of invited guests for the second-ever #WHGarden Tweetup. After having a private tour before the grounds were opened to the public led by chief groundskeeper Dale Haney, the group had a special session in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. They were give a special "briefing" from Deputy Director of Digital Strategy Katelyn Sabochik; Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses; photographer Sonya N. Hebert, who travels with Mrs. Obama; and Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement.
The very first video the White House created about the Kitchen Garden was released in August of 2009:
Posted by Eddie Gehman Kohan at Friday, October 19, 2012
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Track Title: I'll Be Over You
Album Title: Fahrenheit
Prime Artist: Toto
Background Vocal: Michael McDonald
Producer: Toto
Written by: Randy Goodrum
Written by: Steve Lukather
Lyrics:
Some people live their dreams
Some people close their eyes
Some people's destiny
Passes by
There are no guarantees
There are no alibis
That's how our love must be
Don't ask why
Bridge:
It takes some time
God knows how long
I know that I can forget you
Chorus:
As soon as my heart stops breakin'
Anticipating
As soon as forever is through
I'll be over you
Remembering times gone by
Promises we once made
What are the reasons why
Nothing stays the same
Bridge:
There were the nights holding you close
Someday I'll try to forget them
Someday I'll be over you
Chorus
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Sandi & Family
Sorry to hear of your lost. It's not easy as time goes by think about the good times. You are in my prayers;
Betty
I had the pleasure of working with Don @Lori's Floral Bouquet. I always found him to be the nicest and most optimistic person. My heartfelt condolences go out to his wife and his family.
Don and Peggy were the nicest landlords we could have asked for as newlyweds in the early '90s. So sorry to hear of Don's passing. We send our prayers and condolences. Michelle and Andy Debatis
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family. We are so sorry for your loss.
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Track Title: Pet Names
Album Title: Fush Yu Mang
Prime Artist: Smashmouth
Producer: Eric Valentine
Written by: Smashmouth
Lyrics:
Just when I thought everything would be okay
Just when I started to believe that everything was going my way
Out came the cloud from under my feet
Crashing back down to reality
You used to call me pumpkin now I'm Halloween
Remember when I used to be your jelly bean
You used to call me schnookums and s***
Just when I started to believe that everything was out of sight
You left me with nothing but a scribbled note
That said I would no longer be your love boat
From here on out my pet name would be x
Your x your x your x
It used to be sugar then it turned into salt
I used to rock your world now I'm standing on a fault line
Lying naked in a hail storm in the dark
You're my little tornado and I am your trailer park
You used to call me names too cute to repeat
Like honey bunch hairy bear and piccolo peet
Goochy goochy goo gaga s*** like that
Now you're after me screaming you dirty rat
I don't remember applying for a name change
So why is it you're calling me Mister Deranged
Psycopathic pornographic stinking drunk
Failing fast lying ass worthless punk
You used to call me sweety pie and baby doll
I guess another stud's kicking in my stall
You'll probably call him superman or loverboy
You'll probably disregard him like a broken toy
Just when he thought everything was going his way
Just when he started to believe that everything was hunky dory
He'll look at that cloud that he's standing on
And with an itsy bitsy teeny little almost inaudible squeak
He'll notice
It's gone
From here on out his pet name would be x
Your x your x your x
Sweety pie?
No x
Honey bunch?
No x
Bubble butt?
No x
Pumpkin face?
X
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The Guardian for a video of Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti talking about the appointment of Mr Grayling and the legacy of Kenneth Clarke.
It is to be noted that Clarke continues in the government as Minister without Portfolio and he will steer the Justice and Security Bill through the House of Commons.
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Mr Chris Grayling MP has been appointed as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. His wikipedia entry is here. It seems likely that, politically speaking, this is a move to to the right following the tenure of Kenneth Clarke QC MP. The actual policies which Mr Grayling will embrace remain to be seen but some interesting challenges lie ahead including the prisoner voting issue and full implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. His stance vis-a-vis the European Court of Human Rights will bear watching closely as will any plans which emerge for a British Bill of Rights. Perhaps a speech by Mr Grayling in 2009 points the way ahead?
A very important element of the Lord Chancellor's role is protecting the independence of the judiciary - see 2005 Act section 3
- "The Lord Chancellor, other Ministers of the Crown and all with
responsibility for matters relating to the judiciary or otherwise to the
administration of justice must uphold the continued independence of the
judiciary." Mr Grayling will be required to take the Lord Chancellor's oath:
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Mr Grayling is not a lawyer.
Prior to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 the tradition / convention had grown that the Lord Chancellor has to be a lawyer. In those times, the Lord Chancellor had the right to preside in the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords though Lord Falconer - (Lord Chancellor 2003-7) - denied himself that pleasure! The Lord Chancellor was also Head of the Judiciary, Speaker of the House of Lords and a member of the executive. He was the very antithesis of the separation of powers. The 2005 Act altered things radically. The Supreme Court of the UK was created with its own President. The Lord Chief Justice became Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales. The House of Lords now elects its own Speaker. The Lord Chancellor need not be a lawyer but must be qualified "by experience" - see 2005 Act s.2. In practice, the post holder holds the office of Secretary of State for Justice but also has a number of responsibilities allocated over the years by statute to the Lord Chancellor and there are also some ceremonial duties - e.g. it is the Lord Chancellor who hands the Queen's Speech to Her Majesty at the State Opening of Parliament.
The Lord Chancellorship is an ancient office - see the full list of Office Holders. The tradition of appointing a lawyer to the post dates back to at least the early 18th century though a number of very eminent lawyers held the office before that such as Sir Thomas More (1529-32). The Chancellor immediately before was Cardinal Wolsey (1515-1529) and the appointment of Thomas More was a major change in that for the future Lords Chancellor did not usually come from the clergy and the appointment of lawyers became the norm. Also, historically, a number of very notable Chancellors presided over the Court of Chancery and were instrumental in the development of the branch of English law known as Equity.
Does it matter whether the post holder is a lawyer or not? Whatever the 2005 Act actually states, instinctively one thinks that a legal background is needed for a role so central to the administration of justice. Joshua Rozenberg writing in The Guardian 4th September thinks that there is "scope for mischief" particularly when the post holder is a politician "on the way up." It will certainly be interesting to see what sort of relationships develop between the new Lord Chancellor and the very senior judges such as the Lord Chief Justice.
As for what the non-lawyer Lord Chancellor will wear on formal occasions - watch this space !! I thought that Afua Hisch's report on Kenneth Clarke's swearing in was rather good.
Law Society Gazette - Cameron turns right for new justice secretary Grayling
Legal Week - Clarke replaced by Grayling as Justice Secretary
UK Human Rights Blog - "So long, Ken, noble scourge of imaginary cats and hello Mr Grayling"
Barrister Bagazine - "The legacy of Kenneth Clarke at the Ministry of Justice"
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Hey guys I am Kevin I am 18 just out of High school and is looking into photography as a career. I am very new to this and am hoping to get better The best camera I got is a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H2/H5 I know its not the greatest but I am doing the best with what I got. I have been taking a few pictures and messing around in post. Hope I can learn a whole lot here Examples of work:
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Spain hit with MASSIVE GENERAL STRIKE!
Adbusters Blog
GENERAL STRIKE!
Sp.
As ROAR magazine explains, this is a fight to the finish between the old world and the new: .”
Have a look at the pictures from today’s strike at… and then discuss below what we can learn from all this.
Occupy KC group kicked out of area near federal building Millions mobillize as general strike brings Spain to standstill
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My wife and I have been taking a pictures for a while but have had to start a website to shorten proofing time and what not. I just wanted some no bias feedback on the website, and just our photography in general. Any advice would be great. We havn't been doing this long, so we know we still have a lot to learn, and we would love to learn it here! thanks! -jacobs photographers-
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CAPITALISM IS NOT THE ENEMY Submitted by yannick on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 4:42pm The.Share to: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Digg Delicious Read more about CAPITALISM IS NOT THE ENEMYyannick's blog2 commentsLog in or register to post comments
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Hi all im am new here and i am studying Photography. I was wondering if anyone would be able to give me some advice. I have these questions i am suppose to ask a photographer: Can you please give me a detailed job description of your job? How did you get your job? How long are you there? What was the one thing about you/your experience that you believe got you the job? What are your daily duties? What do you most like about the job? What are the best things it has to offer? What is your professional goal (what would you like to do?) How do you assess the future possibilities in this job? Do you think it will aid you in achieving your ultimate goal? How long do you plan to stay? What is the starting salary for a position like this? What is the "down side" of your job? What kind of person would you hire to replace you if you left? What advice would you give to someone who wants a job like this? If anyone is willing to help me? I would be so grateful to anyone. thank you so much guys. You can send me a private message if you want.
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The effect of CO2 on carbon fluxes in Arctic plankton communities was investigated during the 2010 EPOCA mesocosm study in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard. Nine mesocosms were set up with initial pCO2 levels ranging from 185 to 1420 μatm for 5 weeks. 13C labelled bicarbonate was added at the start of the experiment to follow the transfer of carbon from dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) into phytoplankton, bacteria, total particulate organic carbon (POC), zooplankton, and settling particles. Polar lipid derived fatty acids (PLFA) were used to trace carbon dynamics of phytoplankton and bacteria and allowed distinction of two groups of phytoplankton: phyto I (autotrophs) and phyto II (mixotrophs). Nutrients were added on day 13. A nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton-detritus model amended with 13C dynamics was constructed and fitted to the data to quantify uptake rates and carbon fluxes in the plankton community during the phase prior to nutrient addition (phase 1, days 0–12).
During the first 12 days, a phytoplankton bloom developed that was characterized by high growth rates (0.87 days−1) for phyto I and lower growth rates (0.18 days−1) for phyto II. A large part of the carbon fixed by phytoplankton (~31%) was transferred to bacteria, while mesozooplankton grazed only ~6% of the production. After 6 days, the bloom collapsed and part of the organic matter subsequently settled into the sediment traps. The sedimentation losses of detritus in phase 1 were low (0.008 days−1) and overall export was only ~7% of production. Zooplankton grazing and detritus sinking losses prior to nutrient addition were sensitive to CO2: grazing decreased with increasing CO2, while sinking increased.
Phytoplankton production increased again after nutrient addition on day 13. Although phyto II showed initially higher growth rates with increasing CO2 (days 14–22), the overall production of POC after nutrient addition (phase 2, days 14–29) decreased with increasing CO2. Significant sedimentation occurred towards the end of the experiment (after day 24) and much more material settled down in the sediment traps at low CO2.
de Kluijver A., Soetaert K., Czerny J., Schulz K. G., Boxhammer T., Riebesell U. & Middelburg J. J., 2012. A 13C labelling study on carbon fluxes in Arctic plankton communities under elevated CO2 levels. Biogeosciences Discussions 9: 8571-8610. Article.
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. Hey all, I am new to photography and have just completed my first online college course for photography, however I need some more specific info. I have a Nikon D80 with a few lenses. I mainly use the 50mm f1.8 and a Tamron 28-75mm f2.8. I just purchased a sb800 flash and have not received it yet I want to get into the wedding photography business as I already own a mobile dj business and am doing very well with it. OK, my main question........ what kind of remote strobes would be best for this? I have seen alot of photographers at the weddings I dj and the systems I like are some kind of remote strobe on a tall stand. I have no idea how these things work and will be learning all this as I practice. Whats good is most photographers leave after the formalities are done at the reception, so I have been using that time to practice with my camera. The bride and groom are usually very receptive to getting a supplemental photographer for no charge. This enables me to get them to pose for me and have some control of the pictures I get to take. Please give me some suggestions on what kind of equipment would be best. I dont want the cheapest junk available. I want high quality professional grade equipment. I would also love any kind of reference material you supply links to or actually explain how to use this type of equipment. Thanks in advance for any feedback or input received, -Puma- .
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An ODU Ph.D. Is Latest Stop on Long Educational Journey for Local Grandfather
Mike White has done his postsecondary education on the 35-year plan.
It's a journey that has traversed more than half of his life, taken him around the world, and will lead him across the stage at Old Dominion University's Ted Constant Convocation Center on Saturday, when he receives his Ph.D. in modeling and simulation engineering.
"It's been an amazing experience," said White, 61, a father of four and grandfather of six.
Finishing high school and enlisting in the Army right away, White never intended to live an academic life. But his time in the military afforded him the opportunity to pursue college courses, first by correspondence while stationed in Germany, and continuing part time throughout his active military service.
"I've never actually gone to school full time since 1977," White said. He earned a bachelor's degree in professional aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, based in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1983.
That degree, followed by an M.B.A. (also from Embry-Riddle), paved the way for White's selection for Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga., giving him more academic opportunities, including his first exposure to the psychology methods that would form part of the basis for his dissertation.
After retiring in 1997 and settling in Hampton Roads, White continued to pursue an advanced degree part-time. His work in the transportation field led him to modeling and simulation research, which in turn led him to ODU and its world-renowned Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center.
He started taking modeling and simulation classes in 2002, again part time, while he worked in different careers connected to modeling and simulation. White's professional roles and responsibilities have varied from designing simulations, to writing requirements documents, to participating in live and virtual simulation integration.
"It's actually something I've been interested in since the first M&S class I took back when I was an undergraduate," White said.
His dissertation, "A Framework for Delivering Contextually Appropriate Opportunities for Warfighter Practice," pulls together many of the elements of M&S research he has utilized in his military and post-military career.
White said the research has a foundation of modeling, simulation and visualization engineering through the use of technology to deliver warfighter training. But human-factors concepts provide the backdrop for delivering that training in the conceptual model he built, which reverses the traditional process of how training is delivered, allowing the instruction to become more than merely descriptive
White's adviser through his dissertation process has been Rick McKenzie, professor of modeling, simulation and visualization engineering in ODU's Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology. White said McKenzie helped him put all of his varied research interests into a singular focus. "Dr. McKenzie has been such a help through the entire process," he said.
White currently works as an assistant vice president for Alion Science and Technology, handling a variety of duties ranging from M&S business development to servicing the firm's modeling and simulation clients. He'll go back to work on Monday as a newly minted Ph.D.
"It's not something I planned; it's not something I figured would happen in my life. But once I started, I got interested, and didn't want to stop."
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^ True- especially when traveling with someone (or a group) of people over the distance between shows.
That's been awhile, for me. But I have great memories of it.
Post tour reflections one month out.
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Meet the Team
What inspired you to become a vet?
When I really think about it, nothing inspired me to be a vet, it was just what I was going to be. More like a ‘calling’ than a career or a vocation. I grew up with limited access to animals. I wasn’t allowed them growing up as I was unbelievably allergic to cats and rabbits and spent my childhood wheezing my way through school, but when asked if I would like a baby or a dog, I went for the dog (lovely Benji – my little wire hired fox terrier) and got the little brother too which wasn’t all bad. Despite being allergic to all things furry, I made it work and actually 23 years later I absolutely love what I do. I consider myself one of the lucky ones to be able to do what I love every day.
When you aren't helping fur babies what are you doing?
It took me a while to work out what fills my bucket outside of work. My non-negotiable self-help recipe for personal happiness and joy is a once a week beach walk with Dudley (mainly on the west coast), then home for coffee and pastries with Al and then a night in or out with family or friends – totally priceless! The Pilates and yoga are on this year’s to-do list so watch this space!
Name the three traits your closest friend would use to describe you.
Firstly I asked my husband this question.He started with “intelligent, but annoying” so I ditched him promptly as my “closest friend”. I asked my very dear friend Deb. She came back with compassionate, professional and nurturing (she is now elevated to my closest friend!).
What's one thing you couldn't live without?
Easy peasy! Four legged friends in my life! Humans are a maybe.
If you could have any animal in the world as a pet, what would it be and why?
I really, really like dogs. I read this quote – “I was a dog person until my cat showed me the error of my ways” – and I must admit Ron works his feline magic on me, but as far as finding the ultimate qualities in a being – faithful, kind, caring, joyous, intelligent and unconditionally loving – happiness for me is (the right) canine friend. We are very lucky to coexist with them.
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In the last section, you opened the slide in its own window for a better view. You click the Copy slide to presentation command, also in that window, to open the presentation that you want to add the slide to and copy the slide to it.
You have a couple of choices to make along the way: Keep the source presentation format and Tell me when this slide changes. Click Play to see an animation of this process.
Tip The Copy slide to presentation command is also available in the main library window.
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King &.”
Groos has a broad-based intellectual property practice that includes consultation, implementation and strategic planning for domestic and international trademark and domain name registration and enforcement; trademark clearance, investigation and practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; and problem-solving for business needs in branding, advertising and trademark issues. He has also advised clients in the preparation and implementation of trademark manuals, licenses, internal processes for the capture and creation of intellectual property rights, intra-company agreements and anti-counterfeiting programs.
Groos has been recognized by a wide range of publications and is currently ranked in major industry surveys, including World Trademark Review 1000, Chambers USA, Legal 500 United States and Managing IP. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering science in environmental engineering from the University of Texas in 1981, and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1984.
“I am excited to join a firm that has identified intellectual property as one of its strategic priorities,” said Groos. “I consider the chance to work with partners whose skill sets complement mine—at a firm that will allow and support me to expand my client base and business—a great opportunity.”
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Madhattermya
12-30-2011, 12:19 AM
I have marked this day in the depths of my heart as the sweetest of days; "Separated from the rest of my sad hours I will not say why, for now because that is my secret, I must say; however, the skies are soft and tender, and never before, I know very well, Earth was filled with such splendor.
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10th March
Mother’s Day or rather if accurate it is Mothering Sunday here in England.
It’s snowing outside, wet and cold.
I am craving some sunshine, warmth on my body and soul.
The “piglet” needs walking and I am delaying it as I am reluctant to take this aching body out into the damp. Once wrapped up and outside it will be fine I am sure.
Have decided on a name that I like as a possible domain name.
Letting something surface rather than forcing it always helps particularly if I walk.
I was washing up and “Live and let die” came to mind, though I then remembered that it was the name of the book and film. I want something that is about staying alive and present and also enables people to recognise loss and its affects.
Hence “live and let grieve”
Once on the web page they can then see what else I offer.
Next step is to get the webpage available and hidden so we can add the text content, graphics and all that needs to be thought through.
Spoken with P, the host site and the domain name is currently available.
Logo needs to be simple and convey both life and loss.
Wonder what Theresa will think of the name?
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An occasional look at N.B.A. statistics and the players behind them.
Kobe Bryant has changed his number once in his career, to 24 from 8, but if he were looking to do so again, he might want to think about No. 30.
Bryant, the longtime Los Angeles Lakers star, has had a continuing flirtation with the big three-oh this year. His 40-point effort on Wednesday night in Denver was only the second outing of 30 or more points an opponent logged against the Nuggets at home this season (the other one came courtesy of another venerable 30-something, Tim Duncan, who scored 31 on Dec. 18.)
The performance gave Bryant 10 consecutive games with 30 points or more, his longest such streak since 16 in a row in January and February 2003.
Of course, the biggest 30 of Bryant’s season came with three more zeros — on Dec. 5, in the second quarter of a game against the Hornets, Bryant became the fifth N.B.A. player to score 30,000 points in his career, joining the Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain.
At 34 years 104 days, Bryant was the youngest player to reach the vaunted 30,000. At the time of this post, he is sitting pretty at 30,360, a number which, you may have noticed, is divisible by 30.
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Happy New Year from all of us at The Tippler & Co! Thanks for making it such an awesome year and we wish you a safe, happy and healthy year ahead. We have lots of exciting plans for 2015 and we can’t wait to share them with you. We’re taking some time off over the next few weeks (1st – 20th January), and will be reopening on Wednesday 21st January. We look forward to seeing you then!
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I've been my families personal go to chef since I've arrived. I'm pretty sure they are kinda loving it (understatement). My mom is obsessed with my soups and sauces (OBSESSED). Which is wonderful for me, because those are my favorite things to make. The other night she asked me to please make some red sauce for dinner (for the next day), and she would buy some fresh pasta to eat (fresh store bought pasta has eggs-- a no no for me and M). I told her that was fine, but M and I would eat dry pasta, or of course: I could make fresh pasta, then obviously, I offered: "Or I can make you raviolis?" I knew what the answer would be, my mom loves a good ravioli dish (don't we all?). I spent much of sunday: making sauce, creating a filling, making dough, and having everyone run in and out of the kitchen as I made cute little handmade imperfect raviolis. The night before, I had made a lemon herb garlic sauce, which turned out perfect for cooking shrimp in, and voila: dinner. Yummy, yummy dinner.
You know, I don't love cooking meat, but I've done it, and do it. I did it on the truck, and well, I'll end up doing it in the future. It's part of working in kitchens, but luckily, less likely to happen on the cold side of kitchens. I have certain things I won't do when it comes to cooking meat, which might sound crazy to some, but everyone has their own limits to what they are comfortable making. Sure, many vegans can argue against eating animals, and I think most, if not all, arguments are valid. In my ideal world, we'd all be non meat eating, soup loving fools, but since we're not, I'm okay cooking most other things, to make other people happy.
There are a lot of big things going on over here, more things than I even thought were possible. I can't wait to share them all with you as they unfold. It really is the summer of possibilities!
OM NOM NOM!
Beautiful. I suspect my mother would feel similarly were I to go back home ... actually, she tells me as such ALL THE TIME (ie "you should move back up here and cook for me") so ... yeah.
This all looks delish!
Yum. Those ravis look delish. Yummy yummy.
Homemade ravs are my favorite--yours look like they came out amazing!
-Alyssa
The Glossy Life
I love your imperfecect raviolis! They look delish!
You're a damn wizard!
This really makes me want to get out my pasta press (that I have NEVER used) and make some raviolis.
It looks delisious!
You are such an inspiration!
How lucky is your family?? Hooray for the summer of possibilities! Can't wait to hear all about it.
You are such a talented chef!! You completely inspire me to cook more and less meat!
Aren't little imperfect raviolis the absolutely best kind? They look wonderful!
Those raviolis are the cutest I've ever seen.
You're amazing! I used to cook meat for others too. Now I'm shacked up with a vegan (yay) and I've slid back to vegetarian he teases me about eating cheese but still will add it to my side of the pizza or whatever. It's nice you don't mind, I never have either but I completely understand when my vegan friends find it offensive/gross to be around meat.
Mmmmm! Honestly, you are such an inspiration, this all looks amazing! I'm silly excited to hear all about the things going on this summer for you! Have fun x
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The final curriculum for an optional class on firearms safety to be taught in Virginia public schools has been approved. It has some serious flaws. For starters, in talking about firearms safety, it raises the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. What does the targeted murder of a political figure have to do with gun safety? That would be like a driver’s education class talking about how car bombs are used by terrorists to blow up innocent men, women, and children! For kindergarten . . .
the curriculum talks about people who legitimately have guns. You know, “Helpers who may use a gun.”
Students will learn to identify individuals in the community who safely carry guns as a part of their job. Activity one entails discussing with students the duties of community helpers and why they would or would not carry a gun. The Code of Virginia § 18.2-308, personal protection; carrying concealed weapons; when lawful to carry, states that those who can carry a gun for their occupation or recreation include law-enforcement officers, licensed security guards, and military personnel in the performance of their lawful duties, or any person having a valid
concealed handgun permit or to any person engaged in lawful hunting or lawful recreational shooting activities at an established shooting range or shooting contest.
That’s fine and dandy, but there’s NOTHING in the actual course material about mommy and daddy having a gun for protecting the family. Only “government officials” have guns for a good purpose.
In higher grades, the course becomes “People who use guns to protect.” You guessed it, ONLY government officials are shown. No way a parent would have a gun to protect. They do acknowledge that someone might own a gun for hunting, target shooting, or acting in in a movie.
Click here for a pdf of the course curriculum, supposedly based on the NRA’s “Eddy the Eagle” program. It reads like a watered down, PC version.
The NRA’s wording of the main rules is clearly superior to the VA course material, especially when dealing with children. The NRA teaches gun safety by using short non-verbose and direct commands, like “Don’t touch” vs. “Leave it alone” and “Tell an adult” (vs. “Let an adult know”). Eddy the Eagle becomes Finnegan the Fox.
As part of the program, the course asks this true/false question:
“4. Hunting and sport shooting are responsible reasons for an adult to have a gun. True False”
Again, there is no mention of self-defense as a responsible reason for owning a firearm. How are these children going to look at their parents if they own guns, but don’t hunt or target shoot? Sounds like the answer is “irresponsible.”
The gun safety course course is based on a publication developed by RJK and Associates. Here’s some information on their website:
RJK + Associates was founded by Robert J. Kipper, a native of the Virginia Peninsula and retired Newport News police officer. Robert is a leading expert in community crime and violence reduction with over thirty years of public safety experience.
National Corporate Clients
- United States Justice Department
- International Association of Chiefs of Police
- Institute of Police Technology and Management
- Chicago Police Department
- Broward County Florida Sheriff’s Office
- DARE America
At least three of those clients are heavily biased against the individual right to keep and bear arms. Besides, what specific credentials or experience does RJK and Associates have in firearms safety training? Why didn’t Virginia Department of Education go to an actual Virginia-based authority on gun safety – the NRA – to draft this curriculum?
Looking at other sources used for the curriculum, many are either hostile towards civilian gun ownership, discourage gun ownership, or they deal with unrelated issues like crime and violence. Some examples:
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [PVC: Bloomberg? You know you just can’t make this stuff up!]
The Center for Disease Control
Virginia Department of Education: Discipline, Crime, and Violence Annual Report
University of Michigan Health System
THIS CURRICULUM IS UNACCEPTABLE. It’s written as much for government indoctrination as it is for firearms safety. I will be contacting the Governor’s Office about this on Monday and I will let you know what actions they plan on taking to fix this flawed curriculum.
If you would like to send an email to Dr. Patricia Wright, the Superintendent of Public Education for the Virginia Department of Education, here is her email: [email protected]
You should be polite, but firm, saying that you oppose this curriculum for its skewed, unbalanced agenda, and for implying that murders and assassinations are somehow connected with “gun safety.”
Ask why parents aren’t listed as people who use guns to protect instead of just government employees. Ask why a firm which specializes in community violence was chosen to create a curriculum on gun safety, something that is totally unrelated to community violence.
The curriculum was supposed to be centered around the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program; ask why the NRA was not asked to write the curriculum instead.
Thanks to Alan W. Rose for bringing this to VCDL’s attention.
What about “community organizers?”
“someone might own a gun for hunting, target shooting, or acting in in a movie.”
Acting in a movie?
I think all that means is that you need to have a camera rolling when you’re subject to a home invasion.
Sacred Cows Lincoln, Kennedy, and King really need a good barbecuing…
If they really cared about gun safety they’d work something out with the NRA and use the Eddie Eagle program.
We should all respect PC. It was invented as a test of our muzzle discipline.
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Netcrime has risen due to the increasing availability and strength of the internet. Scammers pull phishing and 419 schemes. Hacking and DDOSes target websites of various groups and organizations.
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- Scammers pull phishing and 419 schemes, examples of netcrime.
- Websites fall victim to common forms of netcrime, like Hacking and DDOSing.
- The most tragic examples of netcrime are child pornography and propaganda videos posted by terrorists, particularly beheading videos.
- Mexican drug cartels commit netcrime by posting propaganda execution videos.
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Restaurant Week Has Returned To Boston From August 14-19 & 21-26
The end of summer is fast approaching, and that can mean only one thing: Restaurant Week in Boston has returned. From August 14th to 19th, and the 21st to 26th, food lovers will enjoy selected examples of the best of what the Hub’s chefs have to offer, all at a fixed price.
At Serafina Boston, located at 10 High Street, corporate chef Brendan Burke has put together a three course meal sure to please any lover of southern European cuisine. A first course of gazpacho, arugula salad, or Maine lobster salad is followed by an entree of cavatelli, chicken breast paillard, or grilled salmon.
The cavatelli comes with duck confit, peas, and pepitas, while the organic chicken breast paillard is served alongside arugula and tomatoes. For seafood fans, apricot quinoa, radicchio, haricot verts, and salsa verde adorns the the grilled salmon. To top it off, a choice of tiramisu’ or chocolate mousse is offered for dessert. Diners will have to come out at night, as this is a dinner menu only.
Atlantic Wharf’s Smith and Wollensky has both lunch and dinner options available. The lunch begins with mini iceberg wedges, rib eye carpaccio, or the soup of the day. For the main course, diners select from either the mushroom demi-glace, the Wollensky’s Butcher Burger, or the chicken paillard. Before heading back to the office, customers will feast on either the New York cheesecake or a slice of the chocolate layer cake.
Return after dark, and a fixed dinner menu awaits. As it is earlier in the day, mini iceberg wedges, rib eye carpaccio, and the soup of the day make up the appetizer options. There are four options for a main course, however. The bacon wrapped filet tournedos, mushroom demi-glace, salmon steak, and roasted chicken breast are each available before dessert. The cheesecake and the layer cake are again offered.
Executive Chef Kyle Ketchum is offering a menu at the Bostonia Public House at 131 State Street that begins with either smoked beef tongue carpaccio, six minute coddled egg, or yellow sweet corn and crab bisque. The dinner continues with sautéed rock shrimp, sumac spiced Berkshire pork loin, or naturally raised chicken breast. The final course provides an option of either an artisanal cheese plate with house made accouterments and pressed bread, or a plate of strawberry basil shortcake.
Blu has both lunch and dinner menus for those who can’t get enough at 4 Avery Street. The lunch has a choice of fish tacos, chicken and quinoa meatballs, or a field greens salad as an appetizer. The main course offers a choice between surf and turf: blackened cod, fried oyster sliders, or a grilled flat iron steak. The choice of desserts consists of either coppa crema amarena or a chocolate pyramid.
Come dinner time, the menu changes to seafood bruschetta, chicken and quinoa meatballs, or roasted brussel sprouts and bacon as options for the first course. Entree choices include shrimp and scallops bucatini pasta, grilled bone-in prime pork chop, and grilled hanger steak. The final course of the meal is again the coppa crema amarena or a chocolate pyramid.
If you can’t get a table at one of these downtown restaurants, scores of establishments across downtown and the entire city are offering fares at three pricing tiers. For lunch, gourmands can expect to pay $15, $20 or $25, and dinner will set you back $28, $33 or $38. No matter the price, you are assured of a great meal.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that Andrew J. “Buddy” Donohue, former director of the agency’s Division of Investment Management, will rejoin the agency as its chief of staff to help craft its fiduciary rule.
Donohue replaces Lona Nallengara, who will leave the agency in June. As chief of staff, Donohue will be a senior advisor to SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White on all policy, management and regulatory issues.
“I am thrilled that Buddy will be returning to the SEC to provide his extensive knowledge and expertise to the agency,” White said in a statement. “Buddy is a seasoned professional whose previous SEC and private sector experience will be invaluable in advancing all aspects of the agency’s mission. His deep knowledge of asset management will be especially useful as the Commission advances its rulemaking agenda for addressing potential risks in asset management and considers a uniform fiduciary standard.”
Donohue served as director of the agency’s Division of Investment Management from May 2006 to November 2010, and is credited with being instrumental in developing regulations governing the asset management industry and was also responsible for policy and oversight affecting registered investment advisors as well as investment companies and the investment company industry.
“It is an honor to return to the SEC to work with Chair White, the Commission, and the extremely talented and hardworking staff,” Donohue said in the statement. “I look forward to serving in this new role with a deep commitment to the protection of our nation’s investors and all of the agency’s core missions.”
But Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, said the SEC's hiring of Donohue, a former Goldman Sachs executive, to be the SEC chairwoman’s "very powerful, very influential chief of staff is an affront to the tens of millions of American families who suffered through the 2008 financial crash and are still struggling to recover today," and reflects the ongoing revolving door of hiring Wall Street executives to SEC posts. "Adding insult to injury," Kelleher said, Donohue "also previously worked at the SEC when the agency was missing in action in the years leading up to the worst financial crash since the Great Crash of 1929."
Since leaving the commission, Donohue has been managing director, associate general counsel and investment company general counsel at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where he was primarily responsible for legal matters related to its registered investment companies.
From March 2011 to October 2012, he was a partner in the Investment Management Practice Group at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in New York, and served from May 2003 to May 2006 as global general counsel at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in New Jersey.
He has also served as executive vice president, general counsel, director, and as a member of the executive committee of the investment fund subsidiary of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., OppenheimerFunds Inc.
Donohue earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1975 and his B.A., cum laude, with honors in Economics from Hofstra University in 1972.
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Pointing out a truth nobody seems to see.We are evolved mutated primates, product of a massive Star that exploded who create a ZombieGod Belief to cope with Death.
The bizarre metamagical beliefs at the root of all religions are also at the root of schizophrenia and other neurological disorders, making BOTH Religious Faith Belief & those produced by neurological disorders which are based on CRAZY BULLSHIT a malfunction of the BRAIN.
People of Faith are simply people of Schizophrenia.
Religious Folks are Brain sick people.
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Yes, it’s been ages since I’ve posted any updates here, but hey, I’ve been busy. And it hasn’t exactly been downhilling weather.
To see what I’m up to now, head on over to pumptrackproject.com I’m jazzed about being able to take my love of biking and do something for a community that lives on a lot less than most of us can fathom.
Also, don’t forget to register for the 2nd annual Mayhem Enduro! Last year was mint!
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Licensing Committee - 29 November 2006
Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House29th November 2006
LICENSING COMMITTEE
NOTICE AND AGENDA
For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, on Wednesday, 29 November 2006 at 7.30pm.
Members of the Committee:-
Tony Beirne, Director of Strategic Services
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Will Smith Got it Right
Today's top celebrity news story was about Will Smith's comments regarding Hitler. Here's the quote:
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There Are No "Bad Guys"
While it is hard to imagine anyone doing anything worse than the methodical torture and slaughter of six million people. But the truth is that he really thought he was helping the world. His fouled up ideology meant that the world needed to be rid of an entire race of human beings. But he loved dogs and was a vegetarian.
He was not born evil. He was not, in fact, purely evil, in spite of having ordered many evil deeds done. But he was like all of us in some ways, a human being trying hard to make the world a better place.
Our Human Nature
It is our human nature to look at people and events with an eye toward discovering who is to blame. We expect to find some kind of closure, some kind of understanding of what has happened by finding a culprit. It helps us reach a kind of conclusion about what happened. "Oh, this happened because of this" ends the discussion on a topic.
What If Things are Not that Simple?
Hitler had to be stopped, no question about that. What he was doing was horrid. And if he had survived to have faced the music, the international tribunals would undoubtedly have chosen to put him to death. Somehow the idea of justice comes with the concept of punishing those who have done evil. I can't see how killing a man for killing six million people is justice. Seems to me therapy would have helped him discover the wrongness of his deeds and then the remainder of his life he would have to live with the consequences of his actions.
But most of us are no Hitlers. While many of us do things that are horrible and must be stopped by someone if we can't stop it ourselves, it doesn't make us evil. Like Hitler we didn't wake up one morning and say, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' We do what we think is right at the time and then have to live with the outcomes. Sometimes we are right they are good, sometimes not so much.
What do you think?
Is a person evil if they do evil things? Are we good at core led to bad decsions by our life experiences?
Regrets
My daughters were home for the past week or so. My oldest just married in August and she and her husband have been talking a lot about the ideas of having kids. In that process my oldest talked to me about her own upbringing and the many mistakes I made along the way. It was hard to hear. I know logically that it's impossible to raise our kids without wounding them, but hearing exactly how we did it is painful. More than anything, I regret that I was unable to put her needs ahead of mine. I was so focused on getting what I needed that I subjected her to circumstances that injured her. Listening to her talk I felt such enourmous empathy for what she had been through and deeply regretted putting her in those situations.
Empathy for Myself
Enough of my clients have dealt with parents unable to hear how they had damaged their children that I know my merely being able to hear how I wounded her was healing. The hard part was letting it in that even though I did things that hurt her, I was doing the best I could at the time. My wounding from my childhood had set me up to behave as I did. The entire time my children were growing up I was going to therapy and doing what I could to become a better mom and to make better choices. I am still working on making myself a better person. I'd like to be able to continue to parent with more wisdom and self understanding than I have had in the past. That I could not be more when I was younger is not my fault. I've done the best I can to be what my kids needed me to be.
That Doesn't Mean it Doesn't Hurt
My grief over the pain I have caused my kids is immeasurable, not because I feel guilty, but because I wish it had been different for them. They are so amazingly beautiful, brilliant and kind. What more could a mother ask for in a child? Yes, they have their flaws and work they will have to do on themselves, but I can't wait to see what they will become. Even though it hurts to know the pain they have been through, I trust them to go through their process of healing and do the best they can with what they were given, just like I did. Of course it hurts to know the pain they went through and that I had something to do with it. Yet, their path is their path. I know they are strong enough to work through what they need to work through.
I Can Be Here For Them
The beauty of having worked through so much stuff myself, is that now I can be there for them. I can listen to their pain and be available to hear their anger without blaming myself. Whew, it's hard work, but they are so worth it. Having forgiven myself for my mistakes and knowing that I did the best I could I can listen to how my mistakes affected them. I can apologize and offer them support for their pain.
I Can Be Proud of Myself
It makes me proud to know that I can be for them what most parents cannot do for their children. I can validate their pain and I can let them know that it was not okay that they were hurt the way they were. I can let them know what happened to them was not their fault and that I should have been able to protect them better. I can do that without blaming myself, because blaming myself would only focus on me and not focus on helping them deal with what occurred.
Can You Hear Your Kids Pain?
What can you do to get yourself in a place to be able to hear the damage you did to your kids? Ouch. It really hurts, but believe me when I tell you the rewards for doing the work are worth it. Let me know what is going on with you, how you managed to hear your kids or if it was too painful and you rejected what they had to say. I can understand that, too.
Merry Christmas!
There is nothing better than being with family. The memories together, the fun times when every one is laughing and joking around. But there is also nothing more stressful. My daughters and I have been talking about what it is that makes it so stressful.
Expectations
During the holidasy all of us have expectations about what it will be like when we are together. We all want it to be loving, fun and "miraculous". I know how excited I was to have my kids all together under the same roof for the first time in a long while. And it was a lot of fun. Of course, it's gotten very complicated. My oldest daughter has to spend time with her husband's family. MY twins have to spend time with their Dad and his family at their various get togethers. My step children are all obliged to be with thier other family, too. Then of course there is my parents and siblings, and my husbands family and siblings. It gets even more complex when you add in OUR step parents.
During all those get togethers the expectations is that every one will be happy and everyone will get along. Luckily, mostly they do in my family. Too much time together can make it ugly, but the amount of time we end up spending with each of the above groups tends to go smoothly.
Realities
The realities freqently end up quite different than our expectations. And, just becauase of the expectations, we tend to be on edge, trying to control everything to make sure it lives up to those expecations. Attempts at control, however generally lead to disaster since insistance on control is an addiction to a fantasy.
My kids love each other butu don't always communicate that well. I laugh at this since I am supposed to be a communicator, but I have brought up children that don't know how. Communication requires being willing to face inconvienient or unwelcome differences of opinions. My daughters tend to avoid these. Hmmmm, wonder where they got that.
Anger
Being willing to listen to another's anger is a gift few of us are capable of giving, yet the bottom line of good communication and good relationships.
Not letting ourselves listen to another's anger is one of the ways we think we are "protecting ourselves".
Jenna and Doug
Jenna was really unhappy with the way Doug was acting when he went to her parents home. Their 3 year old son had gotten in an altercation with his younger cousin, who was about 17 months old. The younger child had taken something from their son and Doug was furions. He could not understand why Jenna's parents didn't jump up and punish the 17 month old for this behavior. Doug was sure that this, like many other instances he could recall, just validated his belief that Jenna's parents favored the 17month old cousin over their 3 year old son.
Jenna could not understand why Doug was so unhappy. She continually told him that he was wrong for feeling the way he did, and expecting unreasonable behavior out of the 17month old.
Then Doug got to what was underneath. Doug had been feeling left out of Jenna's family for a long time. He felt that they had never quite accepted him and he felt hurt and alone at family get togethers.
The consequences of holding back truth
Jenna gave him the best gift he could have recieved for Chrismas that year. Listening to his wounding and holding bach her reactivity long enough to listen to him allowed her to present a precious gift to him. She gave him compassion.
My Fox 4 Interview
My interview aired on Fox 4 news Tuesday, Dec. 18th. The poll they took online had to have been way off of reality. EVERY single person I have spoken with about this agrees that intimidating children through fear (of removing their Christmas joy) is a really bad thing and teaches children all the wrong things.
Children believe what they are told. They believe that Santa can see everything they do and will judge them for it. Granted there are still people out there that believe in a condemning God that will judge us on everything we do. A forgiving God who let our sins go with Jesus, of course let Christians, off the hook. Isn’t this what Christmas is supposed to be celebrating? But kids, don’t get let off so easily. Scared Straight Santa does not forgive.
Responses I have gotten from people who saw the interview:
“Okay, I have one more thing. I think the parents of the kids who got calls should REALLY not get presents under the tree. Desperate measures are necessary at times.
Now I am done!”
“Good for You! “
“I saw this at 5pm. I agree with you - very damaging. Its sad that parents feel like that is the only way they can get the behavior they want out of kids.”
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“Melody, I watched your interview on line at work and showed our play therapists who work with traumatized children every day. They were totally supportive of you and said they planned to go home and both "vote" and write to the station.
Kudos to you for stepping out on that limb. It is astonishing what people will do for entertainment. “
“It was a thrill to see you in the news segment of Channel 4.(they ran
it several times I think) what I loved about it is how well it was done-- and how you really shone as a beacon - for the advocacy of children.
First, the setting was wonderful- in your home-- with your 3 daughters there-- gave you credibility as a Mom.
Plus, it was relaxed and real.
Then the reporter did a great job of giving you professional credibility-- with you book sitting up on the table and her saying you have written several books in this field.
Next, it was so natural the way you heard the radio segment and reacted to it. Eventually turning it off because of the way it affected the children on the phone- and then being such an advocate for those children that you stepped up and made a point to challenge what the DJ (Scary Santa) was doing every year. It was that old model of getting children to mind their parents by having "Scary Santa" threaten them with no toys for Christmas. And his defense of the premise was that they have done it as a "fun" segment for several years and no one has every complained.
Anyway, you looked gorgeous, you spoke with passion, conviction and reason and you made you point. Plus, you came across as a professional with key points for parents to consider and as a loving mom who cares about her children and all children.
I was so proud of you -- and of the station for featuring that segment -- you made a statement as a COACH about the value and worth of children. “
“I, too, saw the segment and you were awesome: Ginger pinpointed things that
I noticed, too. You made such a good presence and I liked having your family around, too. Thanks for standing up for children. My granddaughter (21) and
I saw it together and she was impressed by your stepping out to express your opinion. “
“You looked good and sounded credible. The risk on these kinds of things is that they edit away and broadcast something out of context making the interviewee look like an idiot. I guess everything you said was on target and there was no choice but to make you a credible professional. They even "summarized" your comments at the end quite well I thought. Good job for speaking out on something that meant a lot to you. “
“You got my vote, Melody! “
“You got my vote! I totally agree with you . . . unfortunately, we live in a society uneducated about the paralyzing effects of our emotional fears that are often formed before we even start school. Then we each continue to stuff our emotional baggage that shows up in every relationship we have: work, play, family, friends. Thank you for raising awareness! “
“I watched the interview and whole heartily agree with you. The fact that the radio station and Zazza think it's ok, does not mean that the act of scaring or threatening children is appropriate behavior for adults. You presented your side with strength and authority. I hope lots of people notified Fox 4 with support for you thinking, as I did. “
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I would like to start a campaign to end this nonsense throughout the country. It’s a very bad idea and kids need to think of Christmas as a time of love and forgiveness, not condemnation
Why all the uproar?
I've read in the paper that the Catholics are up in arms over the release of the movie version of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, a children's fantasy book. I wonder if any of them have read the book? I read it a couple of years ago and found it to be a delightful adventure story full of powerful metaphors.
The possibility of the "Magisterium" an authoritarian organisation which restricts freedoms in order to impose its own systems of belief upon the populace representing the Catholic Church is what the uproar is about. But why? If you have read the book and are Catholic, how could you see a church you love as having these qualities? The authoritarian air of the "Magisterium" can represent any organization that has the goal or limiting personal freedoms.
Besides, there are many other movies and stories that specifically target the Catholic church much more directly. How about the Three Musketeers? Or, Joan of Arc? Or, Shogun? Or The Thornbirds? Perhaps it is just because the book and movie has children as it's primary audience?
The story revolves around Lyra a young girl of about 12 that was raised at what appears to be some sort of monastary. She is then captured by an illegal group of perverse individuals whose goal is to separate children from their souls (represented by a "daemon" animal that lives outside their bodies). The adventure ensues as Lyra escapes and works at rescuing the other chiildren in the grips of this group.
The Metaphors
Over the past twenty years I have worked with adults and adolescents that have been abused by parents and other authority figures that have done their level best to remove their souls. As children, they were subjected to all kinds of authoritarian rituals that reduceds them to soulless fractions of the self they were born into.
Through emotional and physical coercive techniques, authoritative parents and organizations of all sorts have required children to give up their SELF in order to not be beaten or even merely rejected. This is what the "Magisterium" represents, not the Catholic (or any other) Church.
I remember sitting in a doctors office waiting room when my kids were small. One mother had a two year old little boy who was sitting next to her. Every time this child wiggled, not misbehaved, but merely wiggled, the woman slapped his arm or his thigh. The little boy had obviously already lost his soul because he didn't even wimper or protest in any way.
Another mother I witnessed in grocery store. She had four children with her ranging in ages from about three to twelve. They were standing quietly all in a line behind her at the check out. I smiled at them and asked their mother how she did that (get her kids to be so cooperative). She looked at me with a steely, dead serious expression and said "You have to break their spirit." The woman appeared normal enough, but the comment sent chills down my spine.
That's what The Golden Compass is about. It's not about the Church. It's about any person or group of people who would attempt to force children (and of course, any of us) into losing our spirit.
Who are the "Bad Guys"?
The authoritarian figures in the story, and in our lives, are the real losers in the book and in life. They have lost their souls so completely as to not care about the emotional and spiritual life of human beings. One can only guess at the horrors that these people must have experienced to have lost their souls so completely.
Believing that there is no one who cares about us or that there is no value to our SELF is what causes us to lose our souls. Any of us who are subjected to these conditions over long enough a period, will lose our souls.
What does it mean to "lose our souls"?
Losing our souls is when we lose connection with our emotional and spiritual life. How much or our life requires us to give up our SELF?
The good news is that we can re-connect with our lost souls. We can re-connnect with our emotions and our spirit. It's not easy, but it is not only possible, its necessary for us to experience joy in our lives.
How do we re-connect with our souls?
Try the following for a few days and notice how different you feel about yourself and your life when you spend this time with your SELF
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Sewall Wright's powerful metaphor of rugged adaptive landscapes has formed the basis for discussing evolution and speciation for more than 60 years. However, this metaphor with its emphasis on adaptive peaks and valleys is to a large degree a reflection of our three-dimensional experience. Both genotypes and phenotypes of biological organisms differ in numerous characteristics, and, thus, the dimension of `real' adaptive landscapes is much larger than three. Properties of multidimensional adaptive landscapes are very different from those of low dimension. Consequently, something that is seen as a theoretical challenge in a low-dimensional case might be a trivial problem in a multidimensional context and vice versa. In particular the problem of how a population crosses an adaptive valley on its way from one adaptive peak to another, which Wright attempted to solve with his shifting balance theory, may be non-existent. A new framework is emerging for deepening our understanding of evolution and speciation, which provides a plausible multidimensional alternative to the conventional view of rugged adaptive landscapes.
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Shock Treatment, Brain Damage, and Memory Loss: A Neurological Perspective
John M. Friedberg, M.D.
American Journal of Psychiatry 134:9,
September 1977. pp: 1010-1013..
A 32 year old woman who had received 21 ECT treatments stated 5 years later.
"One of the results of the whole thing is that I have no memory of what happened in the year to year and a half prior to my shock treatments. The doctor assured me that it was going to come back and it never has. I don't remember a bloody thing. I couldn't even find my way around the town I lived in for three years. If I walked into a building I didn't even know where I was. I could barely find my way around my own house. I could sew and knit before. but afterward I could no more comprehend a pattern to sew than the man in the moon." (1. p. 22)
By 1928, 10 years before the introduction of electroconvulsive therapy, it was known that accidental death by cardiac arrest could result from as little as 70 to 80 milliamperes in the human (2). it was also known in this early period that voltage applied to the head, as in legal electrocution, produced hemorrhage and rupture of cranial contents. Ugo Cerletti (3) demonstrated that electricity in the range of 100 volts and 200 milliamperes is rarely fatal when the current path is confined to the head. but does evoke a grand mal seizure marked by a stereotyped succession of events. A tetanic muscular contraction, the "electric spasm,'' is followed after a latency of seconds by unconsciousness. a high voltage paroxysmal spike and sharp-wave discharge, and a clonic convulsion. Upon recovery of consciousness the subject is left with a transient acute brain syndrome. a high likelihood of permanent brain damage, and greater retrograde amnesia than is seen in any other form of head injury.
BRAIN DAMAGE IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS
Before examining the premise that ECT damages human brains. a brief discussion of the lesions produced in animals by electrically induced convulsions is worthwhile. The many reports on this subject indicate that petechial hemorrhages scattered throughout both white and gray matter and concentrated in the path of the current are the most consistent finding. If animals are sacrificed after a delay of days or weeks following a convulsive series, hemosiderin pigment in phagocytes remains as evidence of vascular insult. Proliferation of glial cells. neuronal changes. and drop-out are also commonly reported.
In 1938, the year of the first use of ECT on a human being, Lucio Bini, Cerletti's collaborator. reported "widespread and severe ' brain damage in dogs with mouth to rectum electrode placement (4). At least seven subsequent animal studies employing conventional cranial electrodes supported his findings (5-11). These culminated in the exhaustive controlled experiment by Hans Hartelius in 1952 ( 12). This researcher found discernible vascular, glial. and neuronal changes in cats subjected to a maximum of 16 shocks. The animals were not paralyzed but were protected from physical injury during the seizure. Damage was slight but consistent. and the author concluded:
"The question of whether or not irreversible damage to the nerve cells may occur in association with ECT must therefore be answered in the affirmative.''
Furthermore, by examination of unlabeled slides alone Hartelius was able to correctly recognize 8 of 8 slides from shocked animals as well as 8 of 8 controls. Although he considered many of the vascular and glial changes to be reversible, there was no mistaking the brain of a shocked animal for that of a control.
Since that time, ECT in humans has been modified through the use of oxygen and muscle paralysis to reduce the incidence of bone fractures. Although it is believed that these modifications also reduce brain damage. there are no animal studies to support this idea. On the contrary recent work in England by Meldrum and associates (13. 14) on status epilepticus in pnmates suggests that the overexcited neuron by itself may be an important factor in seizure damage, especially in the hippocampus.
HUMAN BRAIN DAMAGE
Let us turn now to the neuropathological findings in humans who died during or shortly after ECT. As in lower animals. bleeding is the most frequent non- specific tissue response to injury and the one seen most often after electric shock. The first autopsy study in this country revealed brain damage identical to that seen in experimental animals. Alpers and Hughes (15) described the brains of 2 women who had received 62 and 6 shocks, respectively. The first woman's seizures had been suppressed by curare. Both brains showed hemorrhagic lesions around small blood vessels, rare- faction of tissue, and gliosis.
Throughout the 1940s similar reports continued to call attention to brain changes after ECT. including cases in which oxygen and curare had been administered (16). In 1948 Riese (17) added 2 more autopsy studies to the growing list and commented, "In all observations of sudden death after electric shock reported so far, petechial hemorrhages, cellular changes and some glial proliferation stand out prominently. as an almost constant whole."
Pathologists were especially interested in cases that discriminated between the direct effect of electricity and the mechanical and hypoxia effects secondary to convulsive motor activity. In 1953 Larsen reported on a 45-year old man who had been given 4 electroshocks in the course of 5 days. The ECT did not induce any convulsions. The subject died from pneumonia 36 hours after the fourth electroshock. At autopsy fresh subarachnoid hemorrhage was found in the upper part of the left motor region...."at the site where an electrode had been applied."(18)
In 1957 Impastato summarized 254 electroshock fatalities. Brain damage was the leading cause of death in persons under 40 years of age, and nearly one-fifth of all cerebral deaths were hemorrhagic (19).
Some physicians were alarmed by the evidence of human brain damage. In 1959 Allen reported 18 cases in which he had found signs and symptoms of neurological sequelae following ECT. He concluded, "It is probable that some damage, which may be reversible but is often irreversible, is inseparable from this form of treatment," and called for "more serious consideration of the entire procedure."(20)
In 1963, McKegney and associates (21) reported the case of a 23 year old man who became comatose 15 minutes after a single shock. The significance of this case was twofold: first, a complete physical and neurolgical examination was reportedly normal pnor to ECT, and seconded the ECT technique was contemporary and impeccable. The patient had received .6 mg of atropine, 16 mg of succinylcholine (Anectine), and forced oxygenation pre- and post-shock. ECT parameters were conventional. i.e.. 130 volts for .3 seconds. Four days later a brain biopsy showed diffuse degeneration of neurons with hyperplasia of astrocytes. The young man never regained consciousness and at autopsy 2 months later evidence of old hemorrhage was found in the brain. This was the last detailed report in the English-language literature.
The damaging effects of ECT on the brain are thoroughly documented. All told, there have been 21 reports of neuropathology in humans (22-36). it is interesting that, despite the importance of a negative finding there has not been a single detailed report of a normal human brain after shock.
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC EFFECTS OF ECT
Like other insults to the brain, ECT produces EEG abnormalities. Diffuse slowing in the delta and theta range, increased voltage. and dysrhythmic activity are seen in all patients immediately following a series of bilateral ECT and, according to Blaurock and associates (37), may persist more than 6 months in 30 per cent of the cases. Such slowing suggests damage to the thalamus.
Sutherland and associates (38) showed that the side of the brain shocked with unilateral ECT could be predicted by double-blind assessment of EEG tracings.
The seizure thresholds of the hippocampus and other temporal lobe structures are the lowest in the brain; considerable interest has centered recently around "kindling'', or seizure induction by subthreshold stimulation of these areas in animals (39). The induction of a permanent epileptic disorder following ECT in humans was first reported in 1942 and other reports followed (40).
MEMORY LOSS
ECT is a common cause of severe retrograde amnesia, i.e.. destruction of memories of events prior to an injury. The potency of ECT as an amnestic exceeds that of severe closed head injury with coma. It is surpassed only by prolonged deficiency of thiamine pyrophosphate. bilateral temporal lobectomy, unavailable the victim may never know for sure the extent of memory loss.Unless sensitive tests for spontaneous recall of personal preshock data are employed no one else will know either.
The memory loss following ECT generally follows Ribot's law for all pathological amnesias: the new dies before the old. This, of course, is the opposite of normal forgetting. Squire, however, has shown that the loss may extend to items learned more than 30 years before (41).
The effect of ECT on memory was common knowledge within a few years of its introduction. There were reports of persons who forgot they had children (42. 43), although most amnesias involved humbler matters. such as the woman who forgot how to cook familiar dishes (44) and another who couldn't remember her own clothing and demanded to know who had put the unfamiliar dresses in her closet (45). Some doctors dismissed these sequelae as trivial or transient, although one psychiatrist remarked that psychotherapy was useless in patients undergoing ECT because they couldn't remember "'either the analyst or the content of the analytic sessions from one day to the next.'' (46).
Numerous such case reports finally led to a definitive study of the effects of ECT on memory by Irving Janis in 1950 (47). He found that all 19 subjects in a controlled prospective investigation had significant memory loss 4 weeks after ECT, compared to negligible losses among control subjects. He also noted that these losses may involve events of early childhood dating back 20 to 40 years, with the more recently en- coded memories being the most vulnerable. Patient E. for example. a 38-year-old woman, had told Janis in an interview prior to ECT that thyroid medication had caused heart palpitations and panic which led to her admission to the psychiatric hospital. When asked after a course of 10 shocks if she had ever taken thyroid she responded: "I don't think so."
In the late 1940s. when the enthusiasm for ECT seemed to have passed its peak (48). Lancaster and associates (49) advocated the use of unilateral non-dominant ECT in treating patients who earn their livelihood with retained knowledge. In this variant the current path and most of the damage is confined to the nonverbal side of the brain, usually the right hemisphere. This exploits the well-known neurological phenomenon of anosognosia. or denial. that is associated with right-hemisphere lesions - victims can't verbalize their difficulties. They complain less. Cohen and associates (50). however. using design-completion tests. proved that shock to the right hemisphere produces its own kind of memory loss: visual and spatial. Inglis found in 1970 (51) that the effects of unilateral ECT were comparable to those of right and left temporal lobectomy, with identical impairment of memory and learning.
Recently there has been a good deal of human experimentation in a futile effort to find electrode placements that eliminate amnesia. As the use of ECT has shifted from state hospitals to private practice, the literature has focused more and more on memory loss.
Although some studies have purported to show provement of learning ability after ECT, not one u sham ECT as a control and few used any controls at all.(1)
In regard to more general intellectual ability, a study in 1973 (54) showed that the performance on the Bender Gestalt perceptual motor test of 20 institutionalized subjects who had received 50 or more ECT treatments 10 to 15 years before testing was significantly impaired compared to the performance of 20 carefully matched control subjects who had not received ECT. The authors inferred that ECT had caused permanent be damage.
MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ECT
The mechanism of action of ECT can now be summarized on the basis of evidence accumulated since introduction. Penfield and Perot showed in the 1950's that memory traces may be evoked by direct electrical stimulation of the temporal lobe cortex. and nowhere else (55). Scoville and Milner (56) discovered that bilateral hippocampal resection utterly abolished ability to remember any new material. resulting in a catastrophic inability to learn. From numerous studies of the neuropathology of the amnestic-confabulatory syndrome of Korsakoff it is known that the mammillary bodies. the dorsal median nuclei of the thalamus and the gray matter surrounding the third ventricle a aqueduct are essential to the general memory process. All of these critical brain structures are just beneath the thin squamous plate of the temporal bone. with seven centimeters of the electrodes. in the direct path and highest density of the current during ECT.
CONCLUSIONS
>From a neurological point of view ECT is a method of producing amnesia by selectively damaging the temporal lobes and the structures within them. When it was first introduced it was only one of several methods of producing brain damage employed in psychiatry, including insulin coma (1927)* camphor and Pentylenetetrazol (Metrazol) injections (1933). and prefrontal lobotomy (1935), it is the only such method from that era still used on a large scale. It is highly unlikely that ECT, if critically examined, would be found acceptable by today's standards of safety.
>From a neurological point of view ECT produces form of brain disease. with an estimated incidence new cases in the range of 100.000 per year (57). Many psychiatrists are unaware that ECT causes brain damage and memory loss because numerous authorities and a leading psychiatric textbook (58) deny these facts.
Others, who know of its effects argue that the interruption of unpleasant states of mind is worth the damage. Some are beginning to give the client a truly informed choice, although state laws still allow ECT to be imposed if the doctor feels that ''good cause'' exists.
Assuming free and fully informed Consent, it is well to reaffirm the individual's right to pursue happiness through brain damage if he or she so chooses. But we might ask ourselves whether we, as doctors sworn to the Hippocratic Oath, should be offering it.
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19. Impastato D: Prevention of fatalities in electroshock therapy. Dis Nerv Syst 18:34-75, 1957. (author's comment: Impastato, himself a shock doctor, estimated a DEATH RATE of 1/200 in this paper. Dr. Max Fink has recently alchemized this figure into 1/200 memory loss but the state of Texas reported a 1/200 death rate in 1994.)
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40. Parfitt D: Persisting epilepsy following shock therapy. Br Med 2:514. 1942
41. Squire L: A thirty-year retrograde amnesia following electroconvulsive therapy in depressed patients. Presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego.1973
42. Tyler B. Lowenbach H: Polydiurnal electric shock treatment in mental disorders. NC Med J 8:577-582. 1947
43. Medlicott R: Convulsive therapy. Results and complications in four hundred cases. NZ Med J 47:338. 1948
44. Brody M: Prolonged memory defects following electrotherapy. J Ment Sci 90 779. 1944
45. Zubin J: Objective studies of disordered persons. in Methods of Psychology. Edited by Andrews T. New York. John Wiley and Sons. 1948. pp 595-623
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47. Janis 1: Psychologic effects of electric convulsive treatments. Part 1: post-treatment amnesias. J Nerv Ment Dis 3:359-382. 1950
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*Sham ECT, an essential control technique has been employed in only two studies which were tests of efficacy, not tests of memory. Neither study showed any superiority of ECT over controls.
Revised version of a paper presented at the 129th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Miami Beach. Fla. May 1W 14. 1976.
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The Kovalchick Convention & Athletic Complex is the multi-purpose sports and event facilty for Indiana University Of Pennsylvania.
Indiana University Of Pennsylvania (IUP) is recognized for its combination of academic excellence with affordable prices. IUP provides an intellectually challenging experience to nearly 14,000 students at the university's three campuses, all easily accessible from Pittsburgh and the Middle Atlantic region.
The 148,500-square-foot facility offers multi-use adaptable space in the 5,000-seat Ed Fry Arena (named after a former IUP track coach) and the 630-seat Toretti Auditorium (named after local businesswoman Christine Toretti). The 17,000-square-foot state of the art conference center has multiple breakout rooms, including a 6,000-square-foot corporate training and executive conference center. It a fully equipped E-Conference Room with videoconferencing as well as teleconferencing capability.
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Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences Lennex Walker pulls ahead to win the 2016 TSSAA Track and Field Tennessee State Championships 100-meter hurdle event at MTSU in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on May 26, 2016.
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Lennex Walker was so fast Monday she couldn't even slow down to celebrate.
The Arts & Sciences senior became the first Chattanooga-area athlete to earn a state championship at this year's Spring Fling, winning the Class A/AA pentathlon title early Monday afternoon.
But soon after being awarded the first-place medal at Middle Tennessee State University's track, Walker and her mom were back on the road, headed home.
"It really didn't feel like a competition day because we dropped my sister off at school, came to Murfreesboro and then after I competed, we came right back home," Walker said with a laugh. "We didn't even stop to eat, just got Wendy's drive-thru because all I wanted to do was get home and rest."
Walker had good reason to rush home and begin resting. She will compete in four individual events at Thursday's state track and field meet, also at MTSU. She is the top qualifier in each of those events, setting herself up potentially to become only the second female track athlete to win five state titles in the same season.
After failing to win the pentathlon the past two years, Walker easily claimed the title Monday, finishing with 3,306 points, while Unicoi County's Stephanie Wisse finished second with 2,816. Walker won the 100-meter hurdles and long jump and tied for first in the shot put before taking third in the high jump. Before her final event, the 800, she had just one question.
"I asked my coach what's the slowest I can run and still win," Walker said. "I wanted to conserve as much energy as possible since I have to compete in four more events later this week.
"I just went out and put myself in the best position I could early on, and it's very exciting to know that I've reached one of my goals I set a long time ago. I had been close and the last couple of years were heartbreaking, but today I got it done and it feels great."
Signal Mountain's Emma Johnson finished sixth in the A/AA pentathlon, followed by Chattanooga Christian's Laura Beth Turner.
McCallie junior Hakim McMorris leads the Division II decathlon after the first day with 3,275 points, which is 110 more than second-place Daniel Tell of Briarcrest Christian at the halfway mark. McMorris won the 100 meters, triple jump, discus and 400 meters Monday and has traditionally excelled in three of the five remaining events.
"He's in good shape heading into the second day," McCallie coach Mike Wood said. "He had a really good day. Hakim loves this competition and has the perfect temperament to be a decathlete, because he just rolls with whatever happens."
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Early Monday, Masao Kumada allegedly slashed the neck of his wife, 61-year-old Masako, at the residence. Officers arriving at the scene found Masako collapsed and bleeding. She was confirmed dead at the scene.
Kumada, who served as his wife’s nurse as she battled an illness, was subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder. “I was anxious about our future as a married couple,” the suspect told the Otawara Police Station in admitting to the allegations.
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My demands are the following: ______, for these reasons: _______.
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WHO: YOU! Student, Faculty, Staff, Seattle U community member!
WHAT: Letter to the Spectator for the “Community Forum” issue (300-400 words)
WHEN: Submissions due Saturday, April 6th! Email [email protected].
…WHY?
Together we will challenge Seattle University to address systemic issues associated with privilege, oppression, and marginalization by engaging in courageous conversation. Today you have the opportunity to take further actions and amplify your voice!
STEPS TO TAKE:
Letter to the President of Seattle University. Today and tomorrow DEEP members will be tabling in Pigott and C-Street from 11:30am-1:00pm. They will provide paper and pens and will help deliver your messages. You can also send the letters yourself or drop them off at OMA in Student Center 320.
Letter to the Editor of the Spectator: E-mail your letter [email protected] by April 6th. You can also write your letter at the DEEP table today and/or send OMA your letter to be posted on our networks and sent to the editor if you wish. Learn more directly from the editor here:
Tumblr: We will post your letters, your experiences, and upcoming event information on the OMA Tumblr at. Email submissions for the Tumblr to [email protected] and re-blog our posts!
OppressionSUcks Facebook Group: DEEP created this group to process and coordinate some future steps to help improve the SU campus climate for marginalized and oppressed communities.. In addition to the OppressionSUcks group, you can also stay up to date on upcoming events and discussions via the OMA Facebook
JOIN OMA FOR THE NEXT PLANNING MEETING:
On April 17th at 7:00pm in STCN 130, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Diversity and Equity Education Program (DEEP) will organize and hold space for you to lead the conversations about the SU community’s next steps and demands. It is vital that all members of the campus community are at the table to ensure that we do not leave each other behind in our movement forward. We will use this time to develop demands for the institution and structure committees that will be making the change happen on campus in ways that everyone can contribute.
Nor·mal·i·za·tion: a “colonization of the mind” whereby the oppressed subject comes to believe that the oppressor’s reality is the only “normal” reality.
Normalization applies to relationships that convey a misleading or deceptive image of normalcy, symmetry, or parity despite a patently abnormal and asymmetric relationship of colonial oppression and apartheid.
By Joanna Huang, APIASF Scholar
During my freshman year in college, I experienced what true community meant. In response to the recent racial incidents and hate crimes surrounding the Compton Cookout events along with other subsequent incidents, students collaborated with one another,…
I don’t normally veer from the regular awkward programming here but I think this effort is especially important. People (students, staff, faculty) at Reed are not always merely awkward. Sometime they say or do things that are just plain not okay and this impacts the climate for many folks at Reed. And, sometimes Reed is a magical and beautiful world that shines like the morning sun during an Oregon winter. Regardless of your experience at Reed you MUST take this survey. The results of this survey are 100% confidential and will have a real impact on the growth and future of campus.
Take the survey. Fight the apathy. Add your voice. Be heard. Love Reed.
I’m reblogging this is something we need at seattle university.
Thanks, P H-B!
No one is free when others are oppressed
What do Atheists, LGBT, and Women all have in common?
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So there has been some negative response to this post. Let me make something clear: I am in no way equating the oppression that atheists get to those of LGBT and women, but rather I am stating the simple fact that atheist are oppressed. Simple as that.
From first hand experience, I have been on the receiving end of discrimination and oppression more as an atheist than as a member of the LGBT community. That is not to say that every person has experienced it in the same way, but that is the way I have experienced it.
Furthermore, for those who doubt that there is really any true oppression of atheists, let me leave you with a link to an article and a quote:—nH8wHGc9IW4c7jSipOQ*SN12SQIBOZF2FJ2khkY/WhatYouDidWithAtheists.png?width=391&height=600
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How dare you take what I say spin it into something it didn’t say and attack the your misconstrued version of it. I did not equate the level of oppression as being equal nor did I compare the levels of oppression, but to discount the fact that all three groups have been oppressed historically and currently makes you ignorant of the realities of world.
The first time I learned that I was ‘oppressed’ was when I arrived as a freshman at Stanford University. University was the first time I met like-minded ‘activists’ and we began to organize around our collective ‘disempowerment.’ I learned how to construct a narrative of my own oppression – as a…
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OSAKA (TR) – Law enforcement here on Friday revealed the arrest of a garbage collector over the cultivation of marijuana in Higashiyodogawa Ward, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 20).
According to the Kinki Narcotics Control Department, Satoshi Ohashi, the 35, was found to be in possession of 212 grams of marijuana — with a street value of about 1.2 million yen — and 21 hemp plants at his residence in September.
According to police, Ohashi began researching on the internet how to cultivate marijuana with minimal space — the seized plants were under 40 centimeters in height, roughly half of what is typical — about five years ago.
Ohashi also specifically raised the plants such that the content of the chemical that creates a hallucinatory sensation was very high, police said.
“I cultivated it for my own use,” Ohashi was quoted by police. “Up until now, the cannabis I raised was the best ever.” Ohashi was sent to prosecutors at the Osaka District Court on Friday.
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App in the store
The windows 8 app is now in the store, just search for Omega Ra and you will find it. Took a few minor tweaks, but it is passed cert and ready to go. I hope you all enjoy.
The windows 8 app is now in the store, just search for Omega Ra and you will find it. Took a few minor tweaks, but it is passed cert and ready to go. I hope you all enjoy.
My Windows 8/RT app is taking a little bit longer than I expected. Weird little issues are cropping up during certification. So hopefully it will go through this time, but we’ll see. Again, it is nothing special, just an app so you can follow my blog, but it does have a live tile and is easy to navigate. So I will post again when it definitely hits the store. Until then Adios.
So with a little help I finally got my Windows Phone app updated and the issue with the light theme fixed. Though now the ads don’t work…it never ends, but that is a trivial thing. For an added bonus I am working on a Windows 8 app as well that will allow you to follow my blog on a PC as well. Whereas these are not exciting apps, they are a starting point at least. I still have a great idea for a game, but just don’t have the time to learn how to code it as I am busy with studying for certification test for work. But hopefully I can get it out there at some point. Either way enjoy the apps and I will try to blog more often to make them of some use
Ra
EDIT: apparently there is still a minor issue with the initial listbox not updating properly. I do not see the new post there, but if I click on a category it is there…another bug to look at.
This is a blog post I made on my other site and thought I would put it here. I know I had this before, but I had to rebuild me site
From turning on a firewall to having a strong password there are a few simple things anyone can do to make their computer more secure. First let’s talk about passwords.
Everyone knows that they need a password to protect their login, but what most people consider a good password is anything but. If you are using a common word or string of numbers, that is not good at all. Most people want to make the password easy to remember, so they make it their kids name or a birthday. These are the worst type of password as they have a direct connection to you and can easily be figured out. What you want to do is make the password as random as possible. It should be at least 8 characters long and have a mix of lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters. But remember 8 should be the minimum, the longer the better. One thing you can do is replace letters with numbers, so the password can look sort of like a word, or purposely misspell words, for example; 3x@mP73z, that could be read as Examples. The 3 is a backward E the @ is an a, and use a z instead of an s at the end. This makes it a little easier to remember for the individual who’s password it is, but harder to crack as it has a nice mix of characters. Another thing to consider is to make it a string of words instead of just a single word. So for examples you could make “Thisisanexample” ThI5iS@n3XaMPl3. By making it multiple words strung together is makes it harder for a program to figure it out by just using every word in the dictionary. This is only one example of course, feel free to get creative, but remember try to keep it unrelated to you and as random as possible, the weirder it looks the harder it is to crack.
One of the next important things to securing your computer is Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware. There are many different programs out there that you can choose, and most cost money. But why pay for something that you can get for free. I always install two programs that take care of all my needs as far as Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware. My anti-virus program of choice is Microsoft Security Essentials a free program from Microsoft that is a small quick install, doesn’t use a lot of system resources and is very effective, plus it gets updated automatically through Windows Update, which is built into Windows. As for Anti-Malware, I use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, again a fast small software that is free that can find things that no other software seems to find. I love this program and use it on every computer I have, there is even a paid version that has some upgrades that some people may want, but the free scanner works amazingly well on its own.
There are two more things I want to talk about briefly, your firewall and wireless network security. These are to very simple things to implement and both have a big impact on security. Turning on the firewall that is built into windows is a simple matter of going to Start>Control Panel>Windows Firewall and clicking on. A firewall monitors the incoming and outgoing traffic through the network and determines if it should be there, so it can find malicious programs trying to send out your keystrokes (which include passwords) to a nefarious person. So obviously you want this option turned on. And for router security, when you set the router up it probably turned it on for you, but if not, log into the router and look for wireless security settings. Turn on WPA2 with TKIP/AES encryption. That is the strongest wireless security there is currently and make sure you make a strong password for your network. This will prevent anyone within wireless range from connecting to your network and either snooping around in your files or just using your bandwidth and slowing your connection down.
Doing these basic steps will put you a long way toward having a more secure pc and home network, will it make it 100% secure? No. There is no such thing as a 100% secure network, but this will make it hard enough for a person to get through that they are unlikely to bother trying. Plus it will help keep viruses out of your system and make things run smoothly as well.
It looks like all those people were right about the logo redesign after all. Though I am not sure why it was needed it appears Microsoft is actually redesigning the Windows logo to be more inline with the new Metro style they are going for with Windows 8. It seems a little on the bland side, but who knows, maybe others will like it. What do you guys think?
image courtesy of Microsoft
Source: Redesigning the Windows Logo.
In our homes these days there are more and more devices that can connect to the internet. Where most of us simply have a wireless router to give this connection to our devices, it can be more beneficial (albeit more expensive) to run physical wires throughout your home. This can make for faster data transfer within the home network, and with the inclusion of a home server, you can have you own personal cloud for music and other media storage, plus back up of all your connected PC’s for fast disaster recovery.
I am going to be setting up my home with this kind of network and will take you all along as I assemble my network step-by-step. I will detail the routers and other hardware I use and explain why I decided to do it in this fashion. Hopefully you all find this information helpful and possibly might want to set up a home network in a similar manner.
Before taking on a project like this you need to assess what kind of equipment you need and whether running Ethernet Cable throughout the house is even possible to do on your own. If you have a basement like me and most of your computers and various internet enabled hardware are on the first floor, then this doesn’t pose too big of a problem, but if you don’t have a basement, then running the cabling through the walls and attic could be problematic. So it is best to make an assessment, because if you want Ethernet you may need professional help running it.
The Details: Equipment
The things I will be adding to my network are as follows:
Initial Steps:
The hardest part of this entire install is running the cable and attaching the connectors. Once you have accessed that you are going to do this yourself, having the proper tools is important. Get yourself the needed tools to make the connections, they are available all over including Home Depot. If you are not running new coaxial like I did then all you will need is the Ethernet cable, connectors and a crimper, and if you choose to do a clean install the wall jacks and a punch down tool. These can be bought online or at Home depot. One such online retailer is Microbarn. I recommend the keystone wall jacks and plates, plus they have the cable and tools you need.
When running the cable it is a good practice to label the wires at the switch so you know where they go (i.e. living room, den, etc.) so if a problem arises you can easily find which port you are on to make sure connections and cable are tight and not frayed or cracked. Plus keeping the cables together and nicely and neatly run will make trouble shooting simpler as well, plus keep the area of the router/switch less chaotic.
When wiring up your connectors for the Ethernet cable you have to be sure all the colors are in the correct order. The order that is most commonly used is 568-B: White/Orange, Orange, White/Green, Blue, White/Blue, Green, White/Brown, Brown. (fig 1) Doing this on both ends of the cable make a straight-through or patch cable, which is what you will be using mostly, as the a lot of switches these days have auto-sensing ports, which means the need for cross-over cables is lessened. Though in some instances (usually connecting your cable modem to the router) you do need a cross-over cable. To make one of those you do one end of the cable with the 568-B, and the other with 568-A (fig 2), this is accomplished by switching the Orange and Green wire sets. So the 568-A would be white/green, green, white/orange, blue, white/blue, orange, white/brown, brown. Though as I said it is unlikely that you will need to make a cross-over cable, as when you get a modem they usually supply the needed cable.
These are the initial steps you should take to get things going, next time I will get into hooking up the switch and router and how to configure your wireless security. Until then I hope this was helpful.
See you next time.
Ra
Hello all out there in the ether. I have a great idea for a game for the Windows Phone platform. Though I am loathe to put too much detail out there for fear someone with more coding and game building knowledge will take it and run with the idea. I have next to no programming knowledge, so I am not sure how to begin. I have drawn up some sketches of the general screen UI and an overall world map. But how I go about turning those into 3D awesomeness escapes me. I know I would need all sorts of 3D models and landscapes to pull this off and obviously would have to get animations and such as well. I have looked at the apphub and even downloaded a couple bits of code from the free resources that are available, but how do I string them together? If anyone out there can help me get going to point me in the right direction that would be awesome, as I am sure that if I can get this game together, people will love it and MAYBE I can try to get it the coveted Xbox LIVE and put in some fun achievements. Well, that is all for now. Feel free to drop me a line or just say hey on Twitter.
See you around,
Ra
So, I caved and decided to switch to At&t to get the Samsung Focus. I have had it since Sunday and must say that I am loving it every bit as much as I thought I would.
This phone is a work of art. That being said, I wanted the NoDo update. So I went to the trusty XDA site and found the now well known method using a VPN yo Hungary. All went smoothly and I am now enjoying my Focus with improved market search and faster loading. Copy and paste is a non-issue for me, but I am glad it is there all the same.
I have also installed a 32GB SD card into the phone to see how all things SD card related are going. The initial install of the card was fine, I just had to do the “three fingered salute” format for it to be recognized. I know that for the lost part issues don’t arise until there is a large amount of info on the card. So in that vein I went to sync 20GB of music to my phone last night and left it until this morning. Here is where the issues pop up. When I awoke this morning I find an error code up on the screen. C000D124D to be precise. Only about 4GB synced to my phone, and now with it plugged in via USB I can’t seem to sync at all, I just get this error. Looking it up online mentions reinstalling Zune, so I tried that yo no avail. Unfortunately, I then had to head out the door to work (where I am writing this) and was not able to further troubleshoot. I am however able to manually drag and drop music to the phone while plugged in. So it is only a syncing issue while wired up, from what I understand (though I haven’t tested it yet) the wireless sync option still works.
On XDA there are a few other members reporting similar results with the Focus + SD card, so those who are considering this option (SD card that is) you might want to take this into account before buying the card.
Other than this foible, I am truly enjoying my Samsung Focus immensely and am having a great time playing a few choice games and showing it off to family and friends. I will continue posting with my thoughts as things develop and more updates and info become available. Perhaps I will even rate a few games and/or apps, we’ll see. Until then, good day my friends and have a great time.
Ra
A Verizon customer and Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7, the new OS on the block. There have been many reviews for this new opus from Microsoft, so I will not go into a review such as that. Merely I will speak of the overall frustration that I and other CDMA (especially Verizon) customers are feeling at being thus far left out of the new fun.
I know that I am truly frustrated as I have been following this OS since it’s announcement last February, and have been waiting with baited breathe for it to be released. When November came and it was released to the US public, I was excited, though by this point I knew that it was not to be available on the Verizon network. But I couldn’t imagine that it would be very long until it was released, being that Verizon is one of, if not the, largest carriers in the US. Sadly, I was mistaken.
It is now 4 months since the release of WP7 here in the US and only today have we heard anything about CDMA phones. Sprint is announcing the Arrive (7 pro formerly) but there is still no word from Verizon. So my question, and I am sure many others as well, is…do I stay or do I go? I am considering switching to AT&T because Verizon clearly seems to be dragging their feet when it comes to windows phone. Now that the first update is around the corner and the bigger mango update is due later this year, I would like to be in the mix so to speak when these updates come around.
Whatever my decision ends up being, I will be giving updates as to how things progress once I do get my phone. So if you are interested on one person’s observations and ruminations on Windows Phone and all of it’s glory or folly. Feel free to subscribe.
EDIT:
Decision is made, for better or worse. I have decided to wait on Verizon since there has been some rumor about it coming out by the end of March. If the ETF wasn’t so high I would be an AT&T customer however.
December 24th Christmas Eve and also a dear friends Birthday. The Shopping is done, the presents are wrapped, it is all down to having a lovely dinner and making sure the birthday goes well.
The holidays are a rough time, always feeling like there is something else that needs to be done, something else that needs to be bought, wrapped, or handled in some way. We feel like we never get a break and it can be very stressful. But when things like this happen we have to remember that it isn’t really all about the presents, it is about being with those we love and enjoying the time together, reminiscing and just enjoying each others company.
So when the world and the season start to get you down, just stop and take a deep breath and remember all is well and that it isn’t the end of the world if the gifts don’t get wrapped, or even bought. The world will continue to revolve.
Happy Holidays to all and Have a safe and prosperous New Year.
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Justin Bieber (WireImage)Justin Bieber is having a drama-filled year ... and we’re only a week into 2013.
After the “Beauty and a Beat” singer was caught on camera holding what appeared to be marijuana, pranksters started a disturbing ad campaign called “Cut for Bieber,” urging young female fans of the 18-year-old singer to self-harm in protest of his alleged drug use.
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The disgusting prank all started with a post on a message board. "Let's start a cut yourself for bieber campaign,” a twisted user posted on 4chan. “Tweet a bunch of pics of people cutting themselves and claim we did it because bieber was smoking weed. See if we can get some little girls to cut themselves."
Purported “fans” of the singer then uploaded photos of slashed wrists (some real, some fake) and the campaign went viral. They also created fake Twitter accounts, pretending to be young girls who had harmed themselves to stop Bieber’s drug use. By Monday afternoon it was trending on Twitter with the hashtags #CutForBieber and #CuttingForBieber.
The backlash was immediate and Miley Cyrus was one of the ones to blast the sick joke, retweeting a post that said, “#cutforbieber? Cutting is NOT something to joke about. There are people who are actually suffering from self-harm, this is so disrespectful.”.
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For now, Bieber can throw himself into his work. On Wednesday, he heads back out on tour for the rest of the month. He also hinted on Twitter that an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is in his future, teasing, “Maybe im hosting and performing on SNL...maybe. :)”
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It is so important, and our individual responsibility frankly, to stay informed, as it is the only way that we can effectively spark change, and fight for the betterment of our world and everyone living in it. Get your Netflix queue and your tissues, and get ready to be inspired.
A PATH APPEARS
With the help of the likes of Jennifer Garner, Blake Lively, and Eva Longoria, this story takes us to the U.S., Columbia, Kenya and Haiti to spotlight the personal stories of those living through some of the most serious women's issues, including teen pregnancy, sex-trafficking, poverty, violence and sexism. What I love about this one is that we also get to learn effective ways to make a real change.
GLORIA: IN HER OWN WORDS
This is Gloria Steinem's story through the eyes and words of the feminist icon herself. The story begins with Gloria as a young journalist who wore the famous bunny costume for an expose about the harsh working conditions at a Playboy Club. It continues with how she came to feminism in NY, helped found Ms Magazine and became one of the icons of the women's movement.
THE HUNTING GROUND
This story surrounding campus sexual assault sheds light on victim-blaming and just how little universities do to prevent ever prevalent sexual assault, or protect and help their students who have been victims of it.
MISS REPRESENTATION
This film talks about the injustices created by gender stereotypes and all the ways the media fails to portray women in a human way, and instead sells the idea that a woman's power lies within her sexuality, beauty and youth, as opposed to her character, intelligence or ambition.
IT'S A GIRL
Every year, India and China abort, kill or abandon more baby girls than are born in the United States. In this film, experts, activists, and those with firsthand experience discuss the causes and impacts of female infanticide.
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRYThis is a documentary about the birth of the women's liberation movement in the 1960s and the brilliant women who founded it. The film film recounts the stories of women who fought for their own equality and the future of women, and in the process created a world-wide revolution. It will do nothing less than inspire women and men alike to fight for feminism and human rights.
GIRL RISING
Selena Gomez, Kerry Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Freida Pinto and Meryl Streep lend their voices to the stories of nine young women from impoverished and developing countries who are fighting for an education, which proves to be difficult considering issues of poverty, forced labor, sexist cultural and religious norms and a lack of schools.
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2014 Annual Tourette Syndrome Charity Golf Day 31st October
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The 2014 Charity Golf Day, the second such event for Tourette Syndrome was held at the Glenmore Heritage Valley golf course at Mulgoa. Terry Kim and his team at GHV were fantastic in the lead up to this event, even providing a large sign which was approximately 10 x 2 metres, to help promote the event.
This year we had 84 competitors (21 teams) competing for the Thomas Hampton Cup. We also had a second trophy this year, that was for the best mixed team, this was called the Willow Hampton Cup, and represents the family members of a child with TS, in particular the siblings. We all know that a child with TS has a lot to manage but we often forget about the siblings and how it affects their well being, so this was our way to say to those kids, we see you too and understand the sacrifices they often make in order to make life easier for the person with TS. We had 5 mixed teams in all this year, which was fantastic to see more ladies get along to the event. Hopefully next year, we will get even more ladies involved.
After the breakfast at 7am, the rules were read out and all players headed off to their nominated holes for tee off (Shotgun Start). At 8am, play began and the day started off with a bang. The Glenmore heritage drinks cart was run ragged, due to the temperature heading into the high 30’s, and by lunch time, we had a number of winners to announce, including both Cup winners, 2 longest drive winners and two nearest to the pin winners.
Glenmore Heritage Valley threw on a great lunch for us and afterwards, we proceeded with the Auction, but not before Panthers Legend Royce Simmons gave us some great stories and insight to rugby league and followed up with a game of heads and tails, the winner receiving a fully signed Bound for Glory book (story of Panthers first Grand Final win + a limited edition framed and signed print of another Panthers Legend Brad Fittler). Items donated by LG electronics, Heartland Holden, ATP Concrete Solutions, IFly, Five Star Quality Roofing, Pro Frame Design, Koori Kicks Art, Sydney Kings, Grey Gums Hotel, Telstra and Adam Docker helped raise $1000’s of dollars.
After the day of golf was finished many of the sponsors and participants headed back to Grey Gums Hotel for a final raffle, more food and plenty of drinks to celebrate a great day. Grey Gums even gave us the Friday night meat raffles to sell, and make a few more dollars for TSAA. Although final figures are still being counted, the golf day was a great success with funds raised looking to be over $12000 for the TSAA. This was further boosted by the Great Walk Foundation who generously donated $5000 to the TSAA as a part of the golf day. Trent Baker, owner of Nepean Podiatry, is heavily involved with the Great Walk Foundation and assisted in securing this substantial donation to bring the event’s total funds raised to an amazing $17,000.
This event would not have been possible without all of our players, volunteers, sponsors and donors: Pro Frame Design, Heartland Holden, LG electronics, Time & People, ATP Concrete Solutions, PPG Industries, Five Star Quality Roofing, Gulf Western Oil, Koori Kicks Art, PI Sports, Telstra, Nepean Podiatry, UpHire, Airpak Sheetmetal, Sydney Kings, Grey Gums Hotel, Penrith Air Supply, Click Media, Royce Simmons & Adam Docker. Special mention to Glenmore Heritage Valley for providing such a great course, Click Media for providing the Hole Sponsor signs and game day booklet and PI Sports for providing the hats and shirts.
Our first Annual Tourette Syndrome Charity Golf Day was held in 2013.
Member Lee Hampton and friends put together a very successful event. An Amazing Charity Golf Day!
Lee & Thomas Hampton
Friday the 13th September 2013 was a very lucky day for TSAA! Those of us who attended the first Annual Golf Day at Mulgoa had a fabulous day. The sun shone and we managed to sink a few balls in between laughs. The figure raised surpassed all expectations making it a huge success as a fundraiser as well as a day to spread awareness and understanding of TS in the community. We raised over $21,000 for TSAA.
The generosity and spirit shown by all those who supported the day was incredible. Whether you were a sponsor, player, auction donor/buyer or enthusiastic participant, from all of us at TSAA — THANK YOU.
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I can't lie. There's just no point, because basically even if I try, it's written boldly across my face. So here it is. I am about to cheat. Yes CHEAT.
Fact is, I have failed in my New Years Resolution to post a blog every day.
And so, on this Sunday night, currently not having posted since Wednesday, I'm going to post them all now, tweak the dates and fill the gaps to reinstate my status as daily blogger, even though technically it isn't really true. And I could say I've been busy, and I could make all sorts of excuses, but what's the point.
Let me prove it to you instead...
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Just because you haven't managed one in every 24h period, doesn't mean you can't edit your resolution to be "366 posts this year" :) That way you can make multiple posts on a day to make up for lost time.
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Published on : Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Karen Elgersma, a well-known television journalist for long time and former manager at Tourism Victoria has been appointed as the new executive director for Tourism Cowichan.
Few days back, Karen was working as a host and producer of Go Island, a program telecasted in Shaw TV. She was also an award-winning journalist for Shaw Media for close to two decades before getting associated with the communications team of Tourism Victoria.
“I am thrilled to be part of Tourism Cowichan — and to be marketing such a magical destination to the world,” said Elgersma. “I love the Cowichan Valley, and I have always had an authentic passion for sharing the stories of this incredible place with locals and potential visitors.”
Elgersma will take over the responsibilities from Shelly Knott who was appointed as the executive director previous November.
She will carry a great blend of experience, education and all-inclusive industry viewpoint gathered from her media experience. “There are so many amazing stories in the Valley to tell – the farms, wineries, distilleries, craft beer and cider,” said Elgersma. “But it doesn’t end there, there is also an incredible art, music and performing arts scene. Add in the beautiful trails, world class marinas, and natural beauty and you have a destination that is unlike no other in Canada.”
“We are so excited to have Karen join our team at Tourism Cowichan,” said President Janet Docherty. “We are confident she will play a key role helping us attract media coverage, and create events and opportunities that will increase tourism year round, including our shoulder season, and help tell the stories of our stakeholders to the world.”
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
I made it through Orientation at Coral Desert.
I had my orientation yesterday at my NEW job. Yes, yes I'm excited. I'm glad I had something else to distract my thoughts because after I spilled Dr. Pepper on my netbook on Monday, I've been kinda freaking out. No worries anymore though. It might be able to get fixed. And if it can't, I just need to propose how we are gonna afford another netbook. (Get the money gathered and tell my husband.)
MY husband is the type that likes to do all this research before he buys a computer. I've been searching online, and believe me I think Wal-mart has the best deal right now. 200 bucks for a netbook. EBAY has somewhat less, but you get less RAM on your hard drive.
My work schedule for this coming week is Saturday/Sunday at Kolob...THEN on Monday morning bright and EARLY I work a day shift 6AM-6PM. Off Tuesday. Work Wed and Thurs. 12 hour shifts. (But I'm orientating these days, following another CNA around getting the hang of where everything is and what not.)
The following week I train orient for nights. 6P-6A. Ahh. Dr.Pepper will get me through. And the fact that I will sleep during the day as well.
Hubby has been working 12-13 hour days construction. This is good because we got expenses here people.:)
One more thing, this here Cluttered Brain has got Financial Aid (pell grant)to finish up her AAS degree. I need one more class. And guess what it is? It's a computer class. haha. Funny right? I will be taking that and another class, probably online, so I can finish up my associate's. Then I will dig right in and take ALL my nursing pre requisites classes again. Then I WILL apply to a nursing program. And I WILL get into a nursing program. I WILL be a nurse. Count on that.
And this my tale is done. Things are looking up. I'm not getting swindled anymore by peeps trying to sell me the wrong kind of dryer. My netbook might be able to be fixed, if not, I will seek a replacement.
And the best part of it all?
I get to see my family at the end of June. My sweet brother is getting married. I'm EXCITED. (I'm the only one flying out though. Airplane tickets for the WHOLE family would be nice but is just not in the budget right now.)
SO I will be busier than a one armed paper hanger in the next following weeks. But I will still update ya. don't you worry. Cuz I love blogging and vlogging. It might be a curse. bwahahaha.
Peace out y'all.
Posted by Cluttered Brain at 6:58 AM
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Doing the happy dance for ya hun woot wootttt
one step at a time... but isn't it nice when you know your steps are leading in the right direction?
Yay for jobs! And yay for financial aid! (Will your associates be through SUU?)
Congrats! Looks like things are looking up. Glad you got financial aid for your class. Work hours are a good thing to have. (I could use some more here...) Love you!
Happy for you! Praying your netbook is easily fixed or replaced! And keep the Dr Pepper away from the work computers.
You WILL be a nurse!
Yay for financial aid!
I'm so happy for you that you are going after your goals. And congrats on the up and coming new sister-in-law! :)
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Earl Edward "Pete" Burton, Sr., 99, a resident at Brighton Gardens, passed away in the comfort of his home on May 22, 2017. Born on July 29, 1917 in Danville, Virginia; he was the son of the late Joseph Max Burton and Mary Etta Nash Burton. He grew up in Spencer, NC. After attending Elon University, he took a job with IBM and received his electrical engineering degree from Bliss Electrical School. He married the love of his life, Ruby Harrison, with whom he shared 70 blessed years of a wonderful marriage.
They moved with IBM to Raleigh and then to Greensboro, NC. There, he was Customer Engineering Manager for about 20 years before being transferred back to Raleigh where he finished his long career with IBM.
Pete was a longtime member and usher at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.
He is survived by his children: Dr. E. Edward Burton, Jr. and wife Jayne Carter Burton, of Raleigh, Michael Harrison Burton and wife Sallie Beard Burton, of Atlantic Beach, NC; daughter: Mary Anne "Jerri" Burton Hicks, of Raleigh; grandchildren: Edward (Cindy) Burton, Cooper (Amy) Burton, Shannon (Steve) Read, Deanna (Chuck) Leake, Lauren Burton and Allison Burton; and great-grandchildren: Edward and Bentley Burton, Avery and Beck Burton, Sawyer and Sullivan Read and Colton and Craven Leake.
Pete was the last of the Burton and Harrison Families; preceded in death by his wife, Ruby Harrison Burton in November of 2009 and by his siblings: Joseph "Goaty" Burton, Jr., Ann Ramsey and Mary Etta Nash.
The Burton Family would like to give special thanks to the entire Staff at Brighton Gardens for their loving care these past seven years.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 29, 2017 at 1:30 pm at St. Giles Presbyterian Church, with a reception to follow.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Transitions LifeCare - 250 Hospice Circle - Raleigh, NC 27607 or to St. Giles Presbyterian Church - 5101 Oak Park Road - Raleigh, NC 27612 or Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church - 2718 Overbrook Drive - Raleigh, NC 27608.
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I believe that part of my responsibility, as a parent, is to teach my children about happiness. The other day, I was shopping and saw this sign on the wall that said, “Happiness Is Not A Destination, It’s A Way Of Life.” Yes, YES! That is so true. I want my kids to understand that life will be hard, many times, but they have the ability to rise above their troubles and maintain their happiness. Most of the time, happiness can be found right where you are, you just have to make some attitude adjustments, and put real effort into it…because, no matter where you run to, life will never be a cake-walk.
I think I shared this with you a long time ago, but I’m bringing it up again…one of my most valued things that my wise father taught me was the importance of being well-rounded. He taught me to regularly analyze my life and see where I was falling short. Wherever I was falling short, would likely be a source of my unhappiness. He said to set goals and to see to it that I am always a well-rounded person, and then I could be happy. My dad is a major goal-setter. It always made me smile (and feel so comforted) when I would stumble on his notes with his goals scribbled down. I loved knowing that he had goals to take my mom on more dates. I loved knowing that he was going to try and exercise every day, before work. It felt good to see he wanted to try and read his scriptures daily…and many more things. As a child, it made me feel so secure, knowing that my dad was only focused on making his life even better, RIGHT WHERE HE WAS AT. He didn’t focus on what other people needed to do, just on what he could do. Happiness is his way of life.
So, when I reflect on MY life, these are the things I consider:
1. How am I doing physically? Am I exercising and eating appropriately?
2. How am I doing emotionally? Am I getting the alone time I need to sort out my thoughts? Am I communicating well with those I love?
3. How am I doing in my responsibilities? Am I giving my spouse and my children the quantity of my time and quality time? Am I giving them the best of me and showing my love for them? Am I a good sister, daughter, and friend?
4. How am I doing spiritually? Do I live the way that God wants me to? Do I set aside time to learn more of Him? Am I recognizing the many blessing that I have and am I truly thankful for them? Can I acknowledge my weaknesses and strive to improve them?
5. How am I doing educationally? Am I keeping my mind sharp and furthering my education? Am I developing my talents?
6. Am I serving others? Do I have a compassionate heart and am I setting aside time to help others?
On a side note, I recently read an interesting article in the news about how simple counting your blessings can dramatically increase your happiness…
“Research has proven the pull of an upward spiral to be just as powerful as a downward spiral. Using the “three good things” intervention, the father of positive psychology Martin Seligman helped 94 percent of his depressed participants rise from the level of severely depressed to either moderately or mildly depressed in only 15 days. Considering that this was the only intervention used in the study and that it takes only a few minutes a day, the results are nothing short of miraculous.”
Anyway, I feel most happy when I am balanced in each of those above-mentioned areas. My dad’s advice has been so valuable to me, in my life, that I want to share it with my children.
Enter…Family Night. Truth be told, my church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) asks us to have Family Night once a week. Sometimes we call it Family Night, sometimes we call it Family Home Evening (or FHE). But whether you are “LDS”, or not, I believe Family Night is beneficial for every family. It’s time, set aside, to teach your children some of the most valuable truths in the world…things they most likely won’t learn in school, in their extra-curricular activities, from their friends, or anywhere else. Some things just have to be taught in the home. So, that’s what we do…we gather the kids in the family room, have a little lesson, play some sort of game, and have treats afterwards. The kids love it, and I believe it gives them the same comforting feeling, that I mentioned earlier. Sometimes we are slackers and miss a week, but it is our goal, as a couple, to do our best.
Family Night: Being Happy
Lesson:
- Ask the children what they think this quote means…”Happiness is not a destination, it’s a way of life.”
- Share your personal feelings on happiness.
- Explain the method of analyzing your life, gauging how well-rounded you are, as a means to identifying your source of unhappiness.
- Teach them to set goals with themselves, to bring any shortage up to level.
Application Project:
I went to the Land of Marbles, and bought a big box of standard marbles. I then got a mason jar for each one of the kids and put the first letter of their name on top, nothing fancy. I told them that the empty jars represent them and the marbles represent happiness. I gave them a list of things that they can do to earn marbles, to fill up their jar. Each of the requirements is something that I believe will help them to be well-rounded, happy individuals. I’m hoping this will help develop some good habits, as well as teach them to take responsibility for their happiness, and find it where they are.
Earning Marbles:
Doing a kind deed (one that took real effort)
Reading their scriptures
Praying daily
Writing in their journals
Exercising
Reading a novel
Work on developing talents
Accomplishing their personal goal (to keep their room clean, not fight with their sister, etc.)
Eating no junk food all day
Get “caught being awesome” by Mom or Dad
Make a list of 10 things that made them happy throughout the day (or things they are thankful for)
Who knows, I may come up with a few more. But, anyway…their jar slowly starts to fill up with lots of marbles, and when it overflows, they get a *bonus* date with mom or dad. We already rotate through the kids and take them on dates, hence the *bonus* date. They’re way excited about it, and it has been a way easy program to implement. I have let them be in charge of filling their jars, and all I do is randomly encourage them. It also helps to have some cool marbles….they love digging through the big marble jar for their favorites.
Treat:
Instead of a treat, this time, we just did a fun dinner. In the summer, we go up to mountains, and make tin foil dinners, pretty regularly. The kids love it…so, since the mountains are still snowy and cold right now, we just did tin foil dinners right in the oven. I now have constant requests to make them again! It’s such an easy dinner…and, way good.
All I did was get some lean ground beef, form it into a patty, and lay it on a large sheet of tinfoil. I sprinkled the patty with hamburger seasoning, and topped it with whatever veggies we liked…sliced onions, carrots, potatoes, and mushrooms. I wrapped the meal up in the tin foil, then wrapped it again with another sheet (to prevent the juices from leaking out). I baked them at 350 for maybe 50 minutes, then checked them to make sure the meat was cooked and the veggies were soft. Serve with ketchup!
Make it a good day (another great thing my dad says!),
For more Family Night ideas, check out these links:
Family Night: Loving Nature
Family Night: Forgiving Others
Family Night: Love at Home
Family Night: Honesty
(…even more ideas on the Family Night link, on the “Categories” page!)
Great ideas! Thanks!
The review of your life reminds me of Richard and Linda Eyre’s 5-facet review they do/did for their children. I’m reading a fabulous book right now by them that goes directly with your post: 5 Spiritual Solutions for Everyday Parenting Challenges. Thanks for sharing your ideas, they are very uplifting.
I’ll have to check out that book. Thanks for commenting!
I love those reflections. I may need to print them out and put them on my mirror.
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Pima Community College has created an Office of Dispute Resolution to address complaints and grievances from students, PCC employees and the community, Chancellor Lee D. Lambert announced at last night’s PCC Governing Board meeting.
The Office of Dispute Resolution will be central to the intake, triage, investigation, tracking and analysis of complaints and grievances, as well as to the identification of process improvements. PCC’s phone- and web-based compliance and ethics hotline will be expanded for use by all constituents as the primary intake point..
In placing PCC on probation in April 2013, the Higher Learning Commission, the College’s accreditor, determined that PCC was out of conformity with HLC Assumed Practice A.4, “The institution provides clear information regarding its procedures for receiving complaints and grievances from students and other constituencies, responds to them in a timely manner, and analyzes them to improve its processes.”
The HLC directed the College to write a Monitoring Report outlining its plans to conform with Assumed Practice A.4. In the report, PCC recommended that the College “research the efficacy of and, if deemed appropriate, create a Dispute Management Office or Compliance and Ethics Office . . . for consistent oversight and tracking of complaints, grievances and feedback from all constituent groups.” The HLC endorsed the Monitoring Report in Aug.
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Career Moves: Accountants & Auditors
Highlights.
Job Outlook
Accountants and auditors are expected to experience much faster than average employment growth from 2008-18. Job opportunities should be favorable; accountants and auditors who have a professional certification, especially CPAs, should have the best prospects..
Earnings
Median annual wages of wage and salary accountants and auditors were $59,430 in May 2008. The middle half of the occupation earned between $45,900 and $78,210. The bottom 10 percent earned less than $36,720, and the top 10 percent earned more than $102,380.
Your Education
Most accountants and auditors need at least a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field. Many accountants and auditors choose to obtain certification to help advance their careers, such as becoming a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Most accountant and auditor positions require at least a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field. Some employers prefer applicants with a master's degree in accounting, or with a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting.
Source
Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-2011 Edition
For more information on this career track, visit the BLS website.
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SYTYCD's Nigel Lythgoe talks DWTS and fat dancers.02:37 — Erin Fox interviews So You Think You Can Dance's Nigel Lythgoe about former contestant Lacie on Dancing With The Stars and criticism of her being 'ove (more…)
SYTYCD's Nigel Lythgoe wants more dance styles next season.01:23 — Matt Mitovich interviews So You Think You Can Dance's Nigel Lythgoe at the TV Guide Emmy After Party 2008.|So You Think You Can Dance|Nigel Lythgoe|Ma (more…)
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Nigel Lythgoe reveals new Superstars of Dance.01:25 — Erin Fox interviews So You Think You Can Dance's Nigel Lythgoe about his new idea for a dance Olympics.|So You Think You Can Dance|Superstars of Dance (more…)
SYTYCD's Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy talk what's new this season!03:10 — So You Think You Can Dance's Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy talk funky new moves, styles, and more Sex!|So You Think You Can Dance|Nigel Lythgoe|Mary M (more…)
Kherington & Gev sound off on SYTYCD.02:41 — We interview Kherington, Gev, Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe from So You Think You Can Dance.|So You Think You Can Dance|Mary Murphy|Nigel Lythgoe|
SYTYCD's Nigel Lythgoe says dancers get pushed to their limits.01:44 — Anna Dimond interviews So You Think You Can Dance's Nigel Lythgoe about the final four contestants and how pushing dancers is part of the system.|So Y (more…)
Lex & Travis Wall's Performance01:54 — Lex & Travis Wall perform to "Tear, Part 1" by Son Lux.
Koine & Marko's Contemporary Performance01:43 — Koine & Marko perform to "You're The Last Thing On My Mind" by Aron Wright.
Top 10 & All-Stars Performance02:04 — Top 10 & All-Stars perform to "Dancing On The Ceiling" by Nick Wells.
Lex & Gaby's Hip-Hop Performance01:46 — Lex & Gaby perform to "Humble." by Kendrick Lamar.
Koine, Kiki, Taylor, & Mark's Performance01:45 — Koine, Kiki, Taylor, Mark perform to "Still I Rise (Maya Angelou)" by Alexis Henry.
Koine & Lex's Broadway Performance01:45 — Koine & Lex perform to "L-O-V-E" by Nat King Cole.
Taylor & Robert's Contemporary Performance01:45 — Taylor & Robert perform to "To Make You Feel My Love" by Mick McAuley & Winifred Horan.
Taylor & Lex's Jazz Performance01:44 — Taylor & Lex perform to "An American In Paris" by James Levine & Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Koine Iwasaki's Solo Performance00:31 — Koine Iwasaki's solo routine to "The Truth" by Audiomachine.
So You Think You Can Dance: Top 6 Perform Trailer00:20 — Each dancer has another opportunity to impress the judges and fight for the nation's vote before some are cut.
So You Think You Can Dance: Top 7 Perform Trailer01:48 — The top seven dancers perform.
The All-Star Group's Jazz Performance from "Top 7 Perform"02:00 — All-Stars' jazz routine to "Derniére Danse" by Indila.
Mark & Comfort's Hip Hop Performance from "Top 7 Perform"01:50 — Mark & Comfort's hip hop performance to "No Twerk" by Apashe & Panther x Odalisk.
Mark Villaver's Solo Performance from "Top 7 Perform"00:39 — Mark Villaver's solo routine to "Funkytown" by Lipps, Inc.
Logan & Allison's African Jazz Performance from "Top 7 Perform"01:46 — Logan & Allison's african jazz performance to "Kabila" by Lord KraVen.
Koine Iwasaki's Solo Performance from "Top 7 Perform"00:38 — Koine Iwasaki's solo routine to "Performance" by The XX.
Taylor, Koine, Kiki & Mark's Group Performance from "Top 7 Perform"01:53 — "Taylor, Koine, Kiki & Mark's group routine to "Still I Rise (Maya Angelou)" by Alexis Henry.
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By JONATHAN CHENG on all 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy was a major victory for the Justice Department and, by extension, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Rajaratnam was at the center of a sprawling government investigation that regulators have made a showcase for their enforcement efforts.
Yet while some investors have praised the government's recent efforts, many say they still feel at a disadvantage in a market dominated by large Wall Street firms and hedge funds.
"I'm certainly happy with the verdict, and I hope it empowers the investigators and prosecutors to go much deeper in trying to solve some of what I consider the systemic problems with the markets," says Steve Borsher, a retired computer programmer who trades stocks and futures from his home in North Easton, Mass.
Yet he says the government's efforts are still more reactive than proactive, comparing them to anti-terrorism measures at airport security check-ins.
"Someone carries on a liquid to make a bomb, then suddenly all liquids are denied on the plane," the 64-year-old Mr. Borsher says.
"The problem is to solve the systemic dishonesty at the root level, but all this chopping off troublemakers at the top, it's like Whac-A-Mole," he said.
Audrey Lewak, a retired Merrill Lynch sales associate in Berkeley, Calif., is convinced that stocks are driven by a small circle of knowledgeable insiders—"somebody with a lot of money and skill, banding together with other people to make a movement up or down."
Far from capitulating, though, investors like Ms. Lewak, 72, are deciding that, if they can't beat the big boys, they're going to join them.
Ms. Lewak took a technical-analysis class at a local university to hone her techniques, trying to mimic the moves of hedge funds and other players that may be privy to insider information. "I don't care if you don't know why [they have the information], as long as you can piggyback off them," she says.
Galleon's Web
Criminal complaints and developing disclosures in the Galleon insider trading case allege a far-reaching and complex scheme. Here, the known and alleged relationships.
There has been no shortage of fodder for stock-market cynics in recent years: the collapse of overhyped dot-com stocks at the turn of the century, malfeasance at Enron and WorldCom, a housing bubble, the near-implosion of Wall Street and the "flash crash" of 2010.
Since the stock market bottomed in March 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surged 95% as of Tuesday's close.
But many ordinary investors have missed that historic rebound, paralyzed by reluctance to jump back into a market they fear is tilted against them.
Instead, many people have simply abandoned stocks. Investors in the U.S. pulled $280 billion from stock mutual funds between 2008 and 2010, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade group based in Washington. At the same time, they have poured their money into bond mutual funds, which have attracted $645 billion in the same period, as well as commodities and currencies.
"There's a general sense that there are people on Wall Street profiting in ways that aren't available to the average investor," says Charles Rotblut, vice president of the Chicago-based American Association of Individual Investors, who urges small investors not to flee the stock market. "Over the history of the financial markets, there has always been some malfeasance going on, but individual investors have still been able to profit while playing by the rules," he says.
Jeevan Anand, 62, a semiretired utilities manager in Los Angeles who has been investing for more than two decades, says he no longer trades individual stocks after concluding that price movements were being driven too much by insider trading. And, he says, no high-profile convictions are likely to change that.
Not all investors are so jaded. Mark Booker, 46, a computer technician in Louisville, Ky., is resigned to the divisions between institutional and individual, but he takes a relative view. "There's always going to be the Wall Street big guys, and they're always going to be able to make more money than me, the little guy, but I'm going to be able to make money as well."
Write to Jonathan Cheng at [email protected]
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During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, comedienne/actress Kathy Griffin announced she has taken on a serious role as an embattled mother enduring a midlife crisis on NBC. A middle-aged nurse desperately demanding to be noticed, pediatric nurse Kate is saddled with a philandering husband and a mob of children. Cameras and gossip lead the harried mother to set aside her career and family life in pursuit of becoming a dance sensation on a reality TV platform and explore the limelight. Kathy Griffin declared this dramatic piece "is my Malcolm X".
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Originating in friendly competitor TV By The Numbers's comments section in 2013, she generated humor with her tart, crass remarks and wordplay. She also earned the notorious reputation for feuding, as she inflated comments sections fighting with unruly posters, earning her a permanent ban from TVBTN. Rather than lie defeated, Smoo brought her unorthodox marketing and biting words to help launch TVRG as a mainstay. Her methods of satire and plugging adjacent sites' comment boards delivered record high net traffic in 2015. Appearances are sporadic, but Smoo is bound to return in some form to bring color to TVRG.
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By SAM MAMUDI
The dollars invested in exchange-traded funds still amount to only about 5% of the total in traditional mutual funds. But more and more individual investors are buying ETFs, which trade on exchanges like individual stocks. And as they do so, they are looking for advice about these newer vehicles.
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Regular mutual funds have been around for more than 80 years, but the first U.S. ETF only launched in 1993; there's much less common knowledge about these instruments.
With ETFs, as with virtually any other topic, many people are turning to the Web. Online resources range from the ETF section of Morningstar .com, a site already popular for its coverage of traditional mutual funds, to sites launched by individual financial advisers and ETF investors. Here's a selection of sites worth a look, all of which offer at least some of their information free of charge.
MORNINGSTAR
morningstar.com/goto/etfs
The ETF section on Morningstar.com is perhaps the most comprehensive ETF resource on the Internet. It offers familiar Morningstar features, such as star ratings and performance data. A free ETF screening tool allows a user to find all the funds that meet his or her criteria, including fees, performance and risk, among others. Extensive commentary on the ETF field, geared to both experienced and novice ETF investors, also is free.
Other ETF resources require premium membership on Morningstar.com, which costs $174 a year or $18.95 a month.
For instance, the ETF Valuation Quickrank tool helps users judge whether an ETF is fairly priced relative to the business prospects of its holdings. Morningstar aggregates and weights the fair-value calls made by its 90 stock analysts on an ETF's underlying stocks. As long as two-thirds of an ETF's holdings are covered by Morningstar analysts, the ETF will receive a value rating—undervalued, fairly valued or overvalued—along with a comparison of the ETF's market price and Morningstar's fair-value estimate.
"It's the fundamental valuation of an ETF," says Scott Burns, director of ETF analysis at Morningstar.
Premium subscribers can also access research reports on more than 300 individual ETFs by Morningstar's five ETF analysts, who not only judge the funds but also suggest alternatives—typically other ETFs but sometimes, such as for heavily concentrated portfolios, simply individual stocks.
Yahoo Finance provides a range of options for investors keen to find out more about ETFs.
Its ETF Education section features pages on topics such as how ETFs work, their tax advantages, the role of ETFs in an investor's asset allocation, and frequently asked questions about these funds. There's also a glossary and aggregated news from a number of other Web sites.
The free site also has data tables, where ETFs can be sorted according to performance, category, trading volume and even risk. One can find, for instance, the Japanese-stock ETF with the highest three-month average trading volume, or the emerging-markets ETF that was the most volatile over the past three years, or the U.S. large-value ETF with the lowest portfolio price/earnings ratio.
MARKETWATCH
marketwatch.com/tools/etfs/html-home.asp
The ETF offerings at MarketWatch include the ETF Top 5—a snapshot of the day's biggest gainers, losers and most actively traded ETFs. The ETF Advanced Screener allows users to search for ETFs using criteria including dividend yield, historical performance, asset class, P/E ratio, portfolio turnover and expense ratio, among others. (MarketWatch is an offering of News Corp., which also publishes The Wall Street Journal.)
The free MarketWatch site also offers ETF profiles that include details on each fund's fees, performance and holdings, among other things. Coverage also includes breaking news and personal-finance features.
INDEX UNIVERSE
Index Universe offers a mix of research, analysis and breaking news.
The site is geared more toward financial advisers and sophisticated investors than it is toward first-time ETF buyers. The free site does, however, have handy feature articles, such as advice on building a portfolio of ETFs with fees totaling less than 0.14% of assets a year. It also has a screening tool and discussion boards, and occasionally hosts podcasts and webinars.
As its name implies, Index Universe offers more than just ETF coverage, with articles covering a range of index-related investment strategies.
ETF TRENDS
Tom Lydon is one of the better-known figures in the ETF world. He started this site in 2005 as a way to help investors and financial advisers get ETF information.
While the site was initially a side project for his investment firm, Global Trends Investments, it now has a full-time editorial staffer, and Mr. Lydon plans to offer a subscription service early next year that will suggest specific asset-allocation strategies and active-trading portfolios.
For now, the site generates eight to 10 articles a day, with a mix of ETF basics and news from the ETF sectors and the broader financial markets. It also has an ETF Education section that features dozens of articles such as "Why size is important when it comes to ETFs," "Three ETF investing pitfalls and how to avoid them" and "How to use ETFs to minimize taxes."
Mr. Lydon's ETF investing strategy is based on so-called trend investing. He generally suggests owning an ETF when its price is above its 200-day moving average and selling when its price drops 8% from a high or slips below that trend line. "We're big proponents of trend following," he says.
ETF GUIDE
Launched in 2003 by former financial advisers Ron DeLegge and Simon Maierhofer, ETFguide provides news, commentary and research for free. It also offers a free database, ETF education center and directory of ETF providers.
The site also has six recommended portfolios that subscribers, paying $14.99 to $24.99 a month, can access. A separate plan for $149 a year offers a monthly newsletter with proprietary data and weekly picks and pans. Mr. DeLegge says the site's approach is based on analyzing the fundamental prospects of different types of stocks, although it also uses technical analysis based on market data and price charts.
ETF DATABASE
One of the newest ETF sites, ETF Database was launched in April. In addition to news and commentary, the site offers a screener that can help users whittle their options down to a single ETF by choosing one criterion at a time.
For instance, if a user selects the commodity asset class, the screen shows that the number of matching ETFs is 87. Selecting agriculture next lowers that number to eight. A request for any of those with a market capitalization of more than $1 billion yields one result, the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund.
Later this month, the site will add 65 category reports and 12 model portfolios. While some reports and portfolios will be free, full access will cost $19.95 a month or $199 a year. Michael Johnston, senior analyst at the site, says the reports and portfolios will cater to a range of do-it-yourself investors, from long-term buy-and-hold types to active [email protected].
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By RUTH BLOOMFIELD
For more than a century, Bishops Avenue—a street lined with gracious Arts and Crafts houses close to London's Hampstead Heath—has maintained a reputation as the address of choice for some of the wealthiest people in Europe.
But recently, the street nicknamed "Billionaire's Row" has become known for something else: shiny new megamansions packed with toys like spa complexes and movie theaters. Trevor Abrahmsohn, managing director of Glentree International, who has been selling homes on the avenue for 38 years, estimates that half of the original houses on the street—once home to residents like Billy Butlin, founder of an eponymous chain of vacation resorts, and sugar magnate Abram Lyle—have been razed and replaced with such edifices in recent years.
Photos: Making Room for Megamansions
One home on the avenue, known as Jersey House, had a discreetly colonnaded entrance when it was first built on a prime plot close to the heath in 1929. It was recently torn down and replaced with a 20,000-square-foot behemoth; the selling agent estimates the original home at around 6,500 square feet. The new home has a double-height lobby, a double staircase that would not have looked out of place in a Southern plantation house and a décor heavy on marble, wood paneling and silk wallpaper. A new basement-level houses a pool, gym, sauna and massage salon. Built on spec by a property developer called Fitzroy Group, the house is on the market for nearly £40 million, or about $63.4 million.
The same scenario is being played out in other expensive London neighborhoods like St. John's Wood, as well as semirural enclaves in the counties that surround London; upscale seaside resorts like Poole in Dorset; and in parts of Cheshire, near Manchester, thanks to the enthusiasm of local soccer stars for modern mansions. Wayne Rooney, who plays for Manchester United, and his wife, Coleen, for example, have replaced a more modest 1930s house in Prestbury, one of the grandest pockets of the country, with a neo-Georgian mansion complete with a private sports stadium and highly elaborate statue garden.
The trend was already gathering pace in the 1990s but has been greatly amplified since the start of the recession, when an influx of wealthy overseas buyers converged on London real estate as a haven for their money. Armed with buckets of cash, these buyers tend to favor newly built homes over historic properties, and need plenty of space.
The acceleration of the knockdown trend has naturally caused concern among conservationists. But London has a wealth of historic homes for developers to choose from—and the city's strict building codes don't protect all of them. It's estimated that English Heritage, the body that advises the government and planning authorities, protects 20,000 to 30,000 buildings in London, which means that the loss of a few less important properties has failed to excite serious controversy, aside from an occasional complaint from a neighbor.
"If a property does not have listed-building status, then it is not protected," says Martin Bagshaw, director and head of planning at development consulting company John Martin. "The planning system is about enabling development, and if a building is not significant enough to have been listed, then the local [council] has no case to restrict the property being removed." London is divided into 32 local councils, each made up of elected and paid officials. So long as the proposed new house is well designed and does not overlook nor block light to neighboring homes, it is likely that permission to demolish will be granted, Mr. Bagshaw adds.
Angus McQuhae, a director of Octagon Developments, specializes in building mansions that he has sold to soccer stars, members of the Dubai and Abu Dhabi royal families and international businessmen. He says demand is greatest in London and the most expensive surrounding counties: Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. He says he recently sold a home in the village of Windlesham, Surrey, to a Russian buyer for about $43 million.
Mr. McQuhae says that for these new homes, custom furniture and "smart" programmable lighting systems are very much in vogue. Environmentally friendly features like solar panels are also popular.
In prime central London, teardowns are more difficult to achieve, because many homes are protected from demolition, gardens tend to be too small to allow for homes with larger footprints and the proximity of neighbors means construction is more likely to prompt angry complaints. But where there is the potential for profit, developers will find a way.
"What buyers in these areas really want is really large apartments and brand-new homes—that is the absolute Holy Grail," says Ed Mead, a director of Douglas & Gordon estate agents. In order to achieve this, developers buy up two or three adjacent houses, keep their historic facades intact to satisfy the local planning authorities and tear down the rest of the property behind them.
Teardowns are also thriving in low-tax economies like the Isle of Man, a ruggedly beautiful outcrop in the Irish Sea. Its independent status means no capital-gains tax, wealth tax, Stamp Duty (compared with a levy of up to 7% imposed on mainland property purchases) or inheritance tax. All that, combined with a top rate of income tax of 20%, makes the area attractive to the very wealthy.
Jim Brookman, managing director of Richmond Square, a property developer, has spent the last four years carving out a niche developing properties like Oakhill Mansion, 16 miles to the south of Douglas, the island's capital. He says he sold the six-bedroom property, equipped with extras like a nightclub and equestrian facilities, last year for more than $31 million to a 30-something British entrepreneur and his wife.
"I think that this sector of the market has been driven by the emergence of boutique hotels, which were really special and really luxurious," says Mr. Brookman. "People who can afford to live like that realized they could experience that level of quality and lifestyle 24-7."
Oakhill Mansion replaced Ballacomish, an island farmhouse which Mr. Brookman dismisses as "hideously ugly." The farm, plus 26 acres of land, cost him less than $4.8 million.
There's also lots of activity in the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive gated development in Surrey that's currently home to Eddie Jordan, the former Formula One team owner, golfer Ernie Els and Ron Dennis, chairman of the McLaren Group. Built around the famed Wentworth golf course, the development's grandest properties are those in the "main island," the nickname for the streets closest to the golf course.
James Cleland, a director of Knight Frank estate agents, estimates that half of the original homes on the main island have been torn down and replaced with much larger, swankier models over the last decade.
Of course the big question is what happens if international buyers—who currently represent 70% to 80% of the £5 million-plus market, according to Knight Frank—lose interest in Britain, leaving behind them a legacy of enclaves of overpriced property far out of reach of the local market.
"If the international buyers decided that they didn't want to come to London and its surroundings, then it would have a huge impact, because there are not enough British buyers for this sort of property," says Mr. Cleland. "But there is absolutely no sign at the moment that these buyers will switch off from London."
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This week, we are hosting the lovely Beth Fantaskey. You've seen her name on the blog before because both Lili and Stéphanie have discussed her books. Keep reading to see what Beth does when she's not busy writing!
As recently as maybe three years ago, I was the World’s Worst Cook. That is no exaggeration. I was TRULY TERRIBLE. The kind of person who couldn’t even boil an egg. (They would always come out strangely gummy on the outside, with rock-hard yolks.)
The problem was, I am also a mother, with three children who insist upon eating, usually several times a day. And they demand decent food. Food that doesn’t taste burnt, or raw, or like somebody accidentally used salt when the recipe called for sugar – which has actually happened in my house.
Clearly, something had to change. And one day, mulling it over, I realized that the problem wasn’t necessarily my skills, but rather my attitude.
I had always told myself that I hated cooking – probably dating back to my horrific days in middle school home economics, where I ruined a vanilla pudding by adding the cornstarch wrong, so it clumped up in disgusting balls. My teacher made me eat it, anyhow. Have you ever chewed cornstarch? It’s not pleasant.
But one day, in my forties, I thought, “What if I decided I LIKE cooking? What if I look at it not as a chore, but as a creative outlet, and a way of showing my family that I love them enough to NOT rely on Lean Cuisine every day?”
I swear, from that moment on, I found my inner Iron Chef. Apparently, years of watching Paula Deen, Emeril and Bobby Flay on Food Network while I ate hideous microwave meals had left me with this incredible body of untapped knowledge, which suddenly came pouring out.
I’d be standing at the stove, cooking chicken, and all of the sudden I’d think, “I should deglaze the pan with white wine.” Or, “Some chanterelle mushrooms would be nice with this.” Sometimes I’d actually look around the kitchen, like, “Who said that?” Only to realize that it was ME. My inner voice.
These days, I consider cooking a hobby. I squealed with delight this Christmas when I unwrapped my new immersion blender. And I really look forward to the moment, at the end of most work days, when I shut down my computer, put on my fuzzy, old slippers, and head to the kitchen to start creating. (Trust me, my kids are happier, too.)
I guess it’s a lesson in not only the power of changing one’s attitude, but that the poor, often maligned TV can sometimes teach us something, too. Thank you, Paula Deen!
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Thanks for stopping by, Beth, and sharing a bit of your non-writing life! I'm jealous of your cooking skills because I'm terrible at it. :)
For more information about Beth and her books, check out her website or follow her on Facebook.
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nice guest post! I never knew Beth didn't like to cook..before. but good for you Beth, cooking is really fun! :)
Thanks for the fun post and congrats to Beth on the new release! Ok... I fully admit that I don't like to cook and I've gotten out of cooking b/c mine is terrible. Don't have kids so I'm safe from changing but we'll see for the future!
I cook all the time. Crown roast of Pork is one of my favs. I coat the pork in olive oil, 10 cloves chopped garlic, sage, rosemary, thyme, sea salt and pepper. Slow roast for about 3 to 4 hours. That's it - nice and easy yet yummy!
Cooking is not my favorite thing, but I discovered a great way to make pot roast in the crock pot and it's my go to whenever I want to cook something good. It's just a pack of Lipton Onion Soup, a cup of water, a nice pot roast, some potatoes, carrots (and I add mushrooms too) and you're good to go. This weekend I used sweet potatoes, took them out and mashed them up, they were yummy.
I am not a prolific cook by any means, so I love simple recipes, like mixing Italian seasonings, olive oil, and red wine vinegar into a marinade, using it to marinate some boneless, skinless chicken in the fridge for a few hours, and then baking it. Also works with Jack Daniels Barbeque sauce (yum!).
Thanks for the guest post and giveaway!
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I admit I'm not a great cook. I'm more the easy canned soup, salads, eggs, pizzas (frozen) of course etc...
Great post! This post reminded me that I have the first book in paperback sitting on my tbr shelf. I gotta add the second one to my wish list. Thank you for the chance to win!
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I love this book. Really, much better than Twilight.
I'm not a fancy cook by any means! But I make this really good tortilla soup that everyone eats up :)
I'm not much of a cook. If it has more than 5 ingredients and 5 steps I'm not interested lol. My husband is the cook in the house.
My favorite recipe is any thing that you can put in a crock pot.
My family loves chicken spaghetti:
Mix together
1 can rotel(your favorite flavor)
1 can or bag of corn
shredded chicken (cooked)
Cooked pasta
cover with shredded cheese
Place in preheated oven (325) for 20 minutes!
I love my crock pot so I use that a ton!
Roast, Dry onion soup mix and a can of cream of mushroom soup.
Roast on the bottom of the crock pot, put the mix on top of the roast then add the mushroom soup on top of that. Cook on low for 8 hours. It's a family favorite!
I'm not a cook. I tried cooking something in a crock pot once but my kids said, "Mom, that's really gross. Can we go get something to eat at g-ma's?" :-D
I love the Food Network. The original Iron Chef was one of my favorite shows. I am myself a pretty good cook, kind of an amateur gourmet. When the first season of 'Next FoodNetwork Star' was looking for video tape entries, my friends and family tried so hard to get me to submit an entry. I chickened out, of course.
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Only credits from formal PPD sessions will be recorded on e:Vision automatically. Development experience outside formal courses is also credited, and should be noted on your Annual Progress Review. The Training and Development Form is a spreadsheet that will help you calculate the credit values of these activities and includes a Training Credits Equivalents table. Please note that the form also has space for School research seminar attendance.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — winless also was 10 under after a 69.. I feel great with the putter.”
Many players wore green clothing as part of title sponsor Waste Management’s green-out at TPC Scottsdale. Rickie Fowler was one of the greenest, dressing in matching dark green shirt, pants, shoes and a green and white hat. Levin didn’t follow the crowd, wearing a white shirt, visor and shoes and black pants.
After opening with rounds of 65 and 63, Levin got off to a good start Saturday with birdies on the third and fourth holes. He got up and down from the back fringe on the par-5 third, and made a 16-foot birdie putt on par-3 fourth.
He followed with eight straight pars, most tap-in putts after birdie misses, before two-putted for birdie on the par-5 13th to reach 17 under.
He bogeyed the par-5 15th after hooking his drive and having the ball bounce into the water that runs the length of the hole. Coupled with Simpson’s birdie on the hole in the group ahead, that cut Levin’s lead to four strokes.
then was asked about playing with a big lead for the first time in his PGA Tour career.
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The start of play was delayed 15 minutes because of front after hour delays the first two days. Last year, frost and frozen greens delayed play nine hours during the week, forcing a Monday finish.
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Chelsea FC have completed the signing of West Ham United FC's England Under-21 defender Glen Johnson for a fee of €8.5m.
Five-year contract
The 18-year-old is the first new arrival at Stamford Bridge since Russian businessman Roman Abramovich bought the club at the start of the month. Johnson has signed a five-year contract and will now fly out to Italy to join his new team-mates for their pre-season preparations.
Looking ahead
Speaking to Chelsea's official TV station, Johnson said: "They are a great club. There are lots of internationals here and
I can't wait to play with all the players. I just want to get out there and to get to know everybody."
Rave reviews
Johnson only broke into the West Ham first team last season, after a short loan spell at Millwall FC, and made just 14 starts. Despite his excellent form, the right-back was unable to help the club avoid relegation from the Premiership. It remains to be seen who else will join him at Chelsea as the club has been linked with a number of big-name stars.
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Paul Edward Eisner Sr., 55, of 264 Swann Road, died Thursday, April 25, 2002.
A native of Boston, Mass., Mr. Eisner was a son of Roy Eisner Sr., Lawrenceville, and the late Rita Mahoney Eisner. He was the owner and operator of Arcade Paint and Body Shop and was of the Catholic faith.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. William Whitfield officiating. Burial will be in Woodbine Cemetery.
Survivors, in addition to his father, include a daughter, Teri Morris, Medway, Mass.; a son, Paul Eisner Jr., Jefferson; a sister, Shelley Toothill, Grayson; three brothers, Frederick Eisner, Suwanee, Roy Eisner Jr., Holden, Mass. and Timothy Eisner, Laconia, N.H.; and two grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 4-7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to a cancer foundation of one's choice.
Athens Banner-Herald, Saturday, April 27, 2002
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Saturday, April 27, 2002.
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Sharrow Bay is open daily to non-residents for morning coffee, lunch and light snacks, traditional afternoon tea and dinner.. It also offers an unbeatable value ‘Sharrow Through the Ages’ 3 course lunch, which takes a nostalgic visit to past classic dishes, reworked for contemporary tastes.:
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Political Naturalism and State Authority
Article first published online: 15 MAR 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2012.01551.x
© 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Journal of Social Philosophy
Volume 43, Issue 1, pages 64–77, Spring 2012
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Song, E. (2012), Political Naturalism and State Authority. Journal of Social Philosophy, 43: 64–77. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2012.01551.x
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Spiritualized Announce 20th Anniversary “Ladies and Gentlemen…” Show, Plan New Album for 2017
Show at the Barbican Town Hall in London This November
Sep 29, 2016
Photography by Wendy Lynch Redfern (for Under the Radar)
If you've never seen Spiritualized live before then you're missing out on one of the greatest live bands of the last two decades, especially when Jason Pierce and whoever is in the band at the time is accompanied by a gospel choir and a string section. 2017 sees the 20th anniversary of the band's finest recorded achievement, their 1997 masterpiece Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, but Pierce isn't waiting until next year to celebrate the anniversary. Instead he's announced a show this November 7 at the Barbican Hall in London where the band plays the album in its entirety, yes, with a string section and gospel choir. British fans are in for a treat and us American fans can only hope Spiritualized also perform the album again in at least New York and Los Angeles, although that's probably unlikely. Oh, and the reason the band aren't doing the anniversary show on the actual year of the anniversary? That's because they have a new album due out in 2017 and they didn't want it to compete with the anniversary. How exciting!
The band issued a statement about the whole thing on Facebook:
"It's the 20th anniversary of 'Ladies and gentlemen...' next year so we figured we should be playing a celebratory concert to coincide. Fortunately the new album is also due next year... twenty years to the day since 'Ladies and gentlemen...' and so as they don't compete, we decided to run an anniversary show this year and leave some clear space for the new album. I just didn't wanna pass on the opportunity to perform 'Ladies."
Whether that means that the new album will be due out on the exact anniversary of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space remains to be confirmed. But Ladies and Gentlemen did come out on June 16, 1997 and June 16, 2017 does fall on a Friday.
Below is the Facebook post and the videos for Ladies and Gentlemen singles "Come Together" and "Electricity." Also, this year is the 15th anniversary of another great Spiritualized album, 2001's Let It Come.
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Obama Pledges Economic Equality In SOTU Speech: US President Barack Obama has. Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Tough questions are being asked about the dynamics of legalising cannabis as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) seeks to repeal the ruling that permits use of the herb. Should people be allowed to smoke cannabis in the privacy of their homes? If yes, how will they be protected from being targeted by police officers when they procure the cannabis? These are some questions Constitutional Court justices had to contend with yesterday about the use of cannabis for cultural, religious, medical and recreational purposes.
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24.10.17
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Sponsor: BRESLIN / Committee: FINANCE
Law Section: Resolutions, Legislative
J2887-2011 Actions
- Jan 6, 2012: REFERRED TO FINANCE
J2887-2011 Text
LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Liberteks Technology Services to be celebrated on January 26, 2012 WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to recognize the mile stones of those small businesses within the State of New York which contribute to the economic health and vitality of the communities they serve; and WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and in full accord with its long standing traditions, this Legislative Body is justly proud to commem orate the 20th Anniversary of Liberteks Technology Services to be cele brated on January 26, 2012; and WHEREAS, Liberteks Technology Services was established in 1991 by founder and President Larry A. Zimbler; and WHEREAS, Since its inception, Liberteks has flourished, providing technology services and a wide range of consulting services with the emphasis on incorporating technology into business operations; moreover, it has employed numerous individuals and contributed greatly to the Capital Region community; and WHEREAS, In addition to a wide range of software, hardware and network services, Libertek's business clients receive Managed Services, a wide range of comprehensive services providing customized service and support, which is proactively monitored and managed on a 24/7 basis; and WHEREAS, Liberteks Technology Services is a strong supporter of local businesses and has been a long time backer of the Capital District Local Firs, BNI, the Social Media for Business Meet Up, the Guilderland Cham ber of Commerce, to name a few; it has also lent its support to the Regional Food Bank, the humane society groups and a variety of churches and synagogues in the Albany area; and WHEREAS, Further highlighting Libertek's community support is Presi dent Larry Zimbler's creation of smAlbany, an expo event to spotlight small businesses throughout the Capital Region and beyond; and WHEREAS, Now in its sixth year, smAlbany is attended by hundreds of local businesses in the area, in an effort to make them more technolog ically savvy and more efficient, effective and profitable; and WHEREAS, Over the years, Liberteks Technology Services has positively impacted the industry it represents and has become an invaluable asset to the community it so generously serves; commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Liberteks Technology Services to be celebrated on January 26, 2012; and be it further RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be tran smitted to Larry Zimbler, Liberteks Technology Services, 1648 Western Avenue, Albany, New York 12203.
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"Voices for Darfur" DVD released in United Kingdom
EMI today released the DVD of last year's concert to raise funds in support of UNHCR's work in Darfur and Chad. The DVD features exclusive songs by Sade, David Gray and Franz Ferdinand, as well as backstage footage from the concert.
LONDON, September 5 (UNHCR) - Nine months ago, a group of artists got together to sing and raise funds for the victims of the Darfur crisis. Today, they've released a DVD featuring the concert as well as exclusive songs and images in support of UNHCR's work in the region.
The new DVD, "Voices for Darfur", was released by EMI today in the United Kingdom. It features artists who took part in the December 8 concert in London, including Yusuf Islam, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Hucknall, Nicole Russo of the Brand New Heavies, Moloko singer Roisin Murphy, Ruthie Henshall, Sir Willard White, and UNHCR's longest-serving Goodwill Ambassador, Barbara Hendricks.
"I hope this will once again show that music has the power to make a difference and save lives," said Antony Costa of Blue, who sang "Moondance" on the DVD. also contributed generously.
The DVD includes additional backstage footage of all artists expressing their views on the Darfur conflict and explaining their decision to perform for free.
"The crisis in Darfur is the worst I've seen," said the concert's patron, Robin Millar of Whitfield Street Studios. "This DVD continues our efforts for a global campaign to help as best as we can."
Now in stores in the UK, the DVD will be released in the coming weeks in Europe, Australia, the United States and Japan. As with the concert, proceeds from the DVD will go towards helping the displaced people and refugees in Darfur and Chad.
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If people in a country have realistic options in terms of countries they can migrate to, this puts pressure on their political leaders to maintain a better political and economic climate:
- If nothing else, at least the specific people who do manage to escape bad political and economic systems can benefit.
- Human rights abuses, particularly the persecution of unpopular minorities, can be better kept in check.
- Even if there are restrictions on freedom of speech within a country, emigrants from the country can speak more openly about various issues.
- When people “vote with their feet” to specific other countries, political leaders get a signal to consider learning from these other countries. For more on the idea of voting with one’s feet, read about Tiebout mechanisms of political competition.
The effect is similar to the way that enhanced capital mobility in recent years has forced countries to reform their financial, regulatory, and tax systems and helped people diversify their assets to safeguard themselves against rampant money printing by their national governments.
Some related material on this website:
- Emigration: escaping communism, and the role that emigration played in ending tyrannical communist regimes across the world.
Other writings related to exit and competitive government in the context of freedom of travel and migration
- Foot Voting, Federalism, and Political Freedom by Ilya Somin.
- Immigration and Political Freedom (appears as part of this Forum Report, Pages 38-43) by Ilya Somin.
- Freedom to Travel — Let’s maximize Liberty argues that reducing barriers to travel between Eastern and Western Europe will help build popular support for the protection of civil liberties in Eat European countries.
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342 F.2d 531
144 U.S.P.Q. 555
Einard NYYSSONEN, Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
BENDIX CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.
No. 6189.
United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.
March 3, 1965.
Robert H. Rines, Boston, Mass., with whom David Rines and Rines & Rines, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.
Morris Relson, New York City, with whom Floyd H. Crews and Robert R. Keegan, New York City, were on brief, for appellee.
Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and HARTIGAN and ALDRICH, Circuit judges.
WOODBURY, Senior Circuit Judge (by designation).
We are concerned on this appeal with two patents issued to the plaintiff-appellant on the same day, April 23, 1957. One, No. 2,790,098, is for a Polyphase Synchronous Machine; the other, No. 2,790,131, is for a Polyphase Transformer System.1 In issue are claims 1 and 10 of the 098 patent and claim 1 of the 131 patent. The court below found all three claims both invalid and not infringed, and entered a judgment dismissing the plaintiff's complaint from which he has taken this appeal.2
The patents are long. One consists of 11 pages of drawings (26 figures) and almost 50 columns of text, and the other 9 pages of drawings (21 figures) and almost 44 columns of text. Both are highly technical in the fields of advanced mathematics and electrical engineering in which no member of this court can profess any competence. We can say with the court below that this case presents great difficulties to judges like ourselves who have only the most elementary training in science and mathematics and little experience with modern technological developments.
The court below in recognition of its avowed limitations rested its decision basically on its evaluation of the relative credibility of opposing expert witnesses. In view of the extreme technicality of the subject matter and the serious risk of making scientific and technological errors, the court invited each party to submit draft findings of fact. Then, concluding on the basis of observation at the trial and rereading the transcript that the defendant's expert was the clearer, more credible and more expert, it adopted the defendant's draft. It did not do so as a matter of rote, however. It said:
'Defendant's draft, as appears from supporting citations, rests, in the places where the issues are sharpest, upon Dr. Frazier's testimony and upon admissions by plaintiff's counsel and plaintiff's own expert. My own findings of fact are in most respects verbatim copies of this draft, but these findings do reflect my independent and meticulous check of the record itself.'
The plaintiff-appellant complains of the District Court's technique of decision asserting that it deprives him of due process of law. We do not agree.
Counsel are certainly entitled to file proposed findings of fact on their own initiative and we see nothing whatever in any way irregular for a court to ask them to do so, particularly in a highly technical and complicated case like the present. Nor is there any reason why counsel should not cast their requests in a form which if approved could be adopted by the court as its findings. Hazeltine Research, Inc., v. Admiral Corp., 183 F.2d 953 (C.A. 7, 1950), cert. denied, 340 U.S. 896, 71 S.Ct. 239, 95 L.Ed. 650. Ordinarily we think it the better practice for the trial court to prepare its own findings with such help as it may derive from counsels' requests. But this is no ordinary case. In a case of this difficulty we think the court below was fully justified in avoiding the risk of slipping inadvertently into serious scientific error by relying heavily upon counsel for technical findings based upon highly technical evidence. The question is whether the findings are supported by the evidence. United States v. Crescent Amusement Co., 323 U.S. 173, 184-185, 65 S.Ct. 254, 89 L.Ed. 160 (1944).
We turn now to the patents themselves.
A synchronous machine such as is covered in the 098 patent is defined by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in its Standard Definitions as '* * * one in which the average speed of normal operation is exactly proportional to the frequency of the system to which it is connected.' These machines consist, as we understand it, either of a synchronous generator, defined on the same authority as '* * * a synchronous alternating current machine which transforms mechanical power into electrical power' or a synchronous motor defined as '* * * a synchronous machine which transforms electric power from an alternating current system into mechanical power.' The purpose of these machines operating together in a synchronous system is to transmit synchronized rotary motion over a distance by means of electricity. An electric clock is an example.
Almost all electric power produced in this country is 60-cycle alternating current. This means that the current reverses in direction from positive to negative and from negative back to positive again 120 times per second. Each cycle includes current in one direction for 1/120 of a second and current in the opposite direction for the next 1/120 of a second. The current is maintained at this frequency of alternation by running the synchronous generator which produces the current at constant speed, the frequency of the current being in direct proportion to the speed of rotation of the rotor of the generator. An electric clock uses a synchronous motor and keeps accurate time for two reasons. The first is that the generator is maintained at constant speed to produce a constant 60-cycle frequency. The second is that the synchronous motor in the clock runs at a speed directly proportional to the frequency of the current supplied to it. The hands move 1/60 of a second for each full cycle of current.
The art of synchronous machines is not new. They have been known and used at least since about the turn of the century as appears from the reference to such machines in Patent No. 785,995 issued to Alexanderson on March 28, 1905. Nyyssonen's claimed contribution to the art is smaller size and greater accuracy, which he says he attained by novel means. The defendant-appellee disputes Nyyssonen's claimed contributions, denies the novelty of his means and asserts that the accused devices it manufactures do not infringe even if Nyyssonen's patents are valid. The court below resolved these issues against the plaintiff. It held all claims in issue invalid in view of the prior art, claim 1 of the 131 patent also invalid for double patenting, and none of the claims infringed.
The testimony of the defendant's expert witness, whom the court below found clear, credible and skilled and upon whom it relied, provides ample evidentiary support for this finding. But plaintiff's counsel contends that no question of this witness's credibility is involved because his testimony is demonstrably mistaken, wherefore the findings based thereon are 'clearly erroneous.'
Resolution of this contention takes us into the construction and operation of generators and motors in general and then leads on into technical details many of which we find beyond our comprehension, for the plaintiff's patents are not only voluminous but are couched in a technical vocabulary with which we are wholly unfamiliar. We frankly admit that we cannot read them intelligently. We quote claim 10 of the 098 patent in the margin to illustrate our difficulty.3 Moreover, we have great difficulty in understanding, even in a general way, the technical testimony of the experts and the discussion of that testimony by counsel orally and in their briefs. However, we must do the best we can.
Generators and motors are structurally very similar. Both operate by systems of electro-magnets and both have two main components, a stator, which is a stationary part and a rotor, which is a rotating part. All such machines have a field member and an armature, either one of which may be the rotor while the other is then the stator. For present purposes the rotor will be deemed the field member.
All rotating electric machines are provided with a pre-determined number of electro-magnetic poles arranged alternately north and south, or positive and negative, around the periphery of the rotor. The number of pole pairs determines the speed of the machine, be it a generator or a motor. We see no need to elaborate further on this feature of electric generators and motors. The stators of these machines, regarded as the armatures, consist of electro-magnets equiangularly spaced around the periphery facing the magnets of the rotor. These magnets are separated by apertures called slots in which are disposed electric conductors in the form of wires. The movement of the rotor field winding electro-magnetically induces voltages in these conductors and these voltages are the output electricity of the generator.
The total slots in the stator of the machine covered by the 098 patent are divided into 'collections' or 'sets' and the number of slots per 'collection' differs from the number of rotor poles per 'collection' by one. No specific number of slots is specified in the patent. Nyyssonen's primary example is 9 slots and 8 poles but his patent is general enough to cover any number. While 'collections' or 'sets,' sometimes called 'repeatable groups,' of slots are identical,4 the number of conductors or wires in each slot of each group is not, but varies from one slot to the next. The court below found, and as we understand the case, the gist of Nyyssonen's patents lies in the numbers of conductors in each slot and in their inter-connection called the conductor distribution.
Nyyssonen's conductor distribution is called a 'sine distribution' which means that the number of conductors in any one slot for one phase winding is in proportion to the trigonometric sine function of an angle associated with the particular slot called in the patent the 'phase-sequence angle.'5 The basic bone of contention on the issue of validity is whether the sine distribution was new with Nyyssonen, the court below held it was not, and whether the defendant used that distribution in its accused devices or used instead an earlier distinctly different one called the Glass distribution, as the court below held.
Solution of this issue requires discussion of the accused machines which are not synchronous machines but synchros regarded by the plaintiff's expert as a sub-class of synchronous machines but by the defendant's expert as in a separate category. Synchros like synchronous machines consist of a stator and a rotor but they are not designed or intended, although they might perhaps be used, for synchronous continuous rotary motion. Synchros are remote positioning devices designed for the transmission of angular values to a distance by electricity, either through wires or by radio.
A synchro system consists of two snychros, a transmitter and a receiver. When such a system is electrically energized the rotor of the receiver will align itself with respect to its stator with the alignment of the rotor of the transmitter with respect to its stator. Thereafter when the rotor of the transmitter is turned the rotor of the receiver will move in the same direction to the same extent. They are used among other places on submarines to indicate deviation of the vessel from its level. A gyro on a submarine tells which way is 'up.' When the vessel tilts, its angle with respect to 'up' changes. Thus if a gyro is appropriately attached to the rotor of a transmitter synchro, the rotor will be moved with the vessel's tilt and an electrically connected receiver synchro in an indicator will show the direction and extent of the tilt.
The conductors in the slots of the stators of the accused devices vary in number from slot to slot as in Nyyssonen. But the defendant contends that it does not use a sine distribution but a Glass distribution, that is to say, a distribution based upon the disclosure of patent No. 2,488,771 issued to its assignor and research man, John P. Glass, Jr., in 1949 on a 1944 application for 'Induction Devices Having a Substantially Pure Sine Relation Between the Coupling and the Relative Displacement of Its Elements.' The plaintiff concedes, as he must to escape anticipation, that the defendant indeed originally used a Glass distribution which was not Nyyssonen's distribution. But he contends that after Nyyssonen showed his patent to the defendant it changed its devices to his distribution, indeed, brazenly pirated his invention. The defendant admits its change of design. But it asserts that its change was not to Nyyssonen's distribution and owed nothing whatever to his teaching but resulted entirely from its independent research in developing the Glass distribution in the light of the prior art. The plaintiff admits that the defendant indeed used the old Glass techniques in its new accused synchros but he asserts that it uses his novel sine distribution in them as well.
The Glass distribution and the sine distribution are similar in some respects but differ in others. The opposing expert witnesses disagree as to their similarities and differences. We frankly admit that we cannot understand the difference between the two types of distribution well enough to say with any assurance which expert was correct.
One basic contention of counsel for the plaintiff-appellant with respect to infringement, however, we at least think we understand. Wherefore we decide this case on that issue alone.6 This is his assertion that the defendant infringes because it uses in the rotor of its accused machines a 'stationary magnetic field' new to the art with Nyyssonen.
We start with consideration of the meaning in Nyyssonen's patents of a 'stationary magnetic field.' This is necessary because magnetic fields may be either stationary in time or stationary in space with reference to a magnet. (Of course, if a magnet is physically moved its field, i.e., the space near the magnet in which its magnetic forces are sensible, will of necessity move with it.) A magnetic field is stationary in time when its polarity does not change, as is the case with a permanent magnet or an electro-magnet energized by a direct current of electricity. In such magnets the north pole is always the north pole and the south pole is always the south pole. An electro-magnet energized by an alternating current of electricity, however, changes its polarity with the frequency of the current. Its field, therefore, is not stationary but alternating in time.
The magnets in the rotor of Nyyssonen's machines are activated by direct current and so their magnetic fields are stationary in time as well as, necessarily, stationary in space with respect to their magnets. The magnets in the rotors of the defendant's accused devices, however, are activated by alternating current. Wherefore their fields are not stationary in time, although, of course, their fields are stationary with reference to their magnets as in Nyyssonen and everywhere else. There being no doubt that Nyyssonen activated the magnets in his rotor by direct current and there being equally no doubt that the defendant activated the magnets in its rotors by alternating current, claim 10 of the 098 patent can be made to read on the accused devices only if 'stationary' means space, not time. Indeed, the plaintiff's expert made it clear that stationary had to read in a spatial sense to make claim 10 read on the defendant's synchros.
The defendant's expert, however, took the view that 'stationary' in the Nyyssonen patents referred to time insofar as the magnets in the rotors of his devices were concerned. He testified:
'Q. Does the Nyyssonen machine as described in the Nyyssonen patent have a stationary field for the rotor?
'A. It has a stationary field with respect to the rotor.
'Q. Do the accused structures have a stationary field?
'A. The accused structures do not have a stationary field with respect to the rotor.
'Q. In what sense is the field of the accused structures not stationary?
'A. It is alternating.'
The court below took the defendant's expert witness' view of the patent. It found that claim 10 of the 098 patent did not read on the accused synchros because: 'The rotor field is not stationary, but varies by alternating. As used in the Nyyssonen patent 'stationary' means a direct current excited field, absent from the accused synchros.' Thus the issue turns upon whether 'stationary' as used in the patents means stationary in time or stationary in space.
In resolving this issue the court below relied upon the defendant's expert witness. This was quite proper, for a patent speaks to its art and what it says can be told in complicated cases like this only by one skilled in the art. In B.F. Sturtevant Co. v. Massachusetts Hair & Felt Co., 122 F.2d 900, 908 (C.A.1, 1941), cert. denied, 315 U.S. 823, 62 S.Ct. 917, 86 L.Ed. 219 (1942), this court held that an expert witness might testify that a patented invention was not disclosed in the prior art. By the same token we think an admitted expert may say what a complicated patent covers and discloses to its art. The question is the credibility of the witness and that primarily is for the trial court under Rule 52(a). Indeed, as the Court pointed out in Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co., 336 U.S. 271, 274, 69 S.Ct. 535, 537, 93 L.Ed. 672 (1949), to no type of case is the admonition to give due regard to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of witnesses more appropriately applicable than to cases like the present '* * * where the evidence is largely the testimony of experts as to which a trial court may be enlightened by scientific demonstrations.' We think the trial court's interpretation of the patent in the respect under consideration is clearly correct and from this it follows that the conclusion of non- infringement is also correct.
So far we have only mentioned but not considered claim 1 of the 131 patent for a Polyphase Transformer System, a device which has no moving parts. This is because the parties have laid little stress on this claim apparently being almost in agreement that it stands or falls with claim 10 of the 098 patent. Plaintiff's counsel, however, contends that it is possible to find claim 1 infringed 'if this court should hold (as we do) that the magnetic field of the rotor of the accused multipolar synchro is not stationary, because it is alternating.' Without more illumination than we get from the plaintiff's brief we cannot pass intelligently on this assertion. We need not invite further brief and argument, however, even if we should be disposed to allow plaintiff's counsel another bite at the cherry when his brief is 147 pages and his reply brief adds 25 pages, because we think it clear that claim 1 is invalid for double patenting over claim 10 of the 098 patent by merely using the word 'circuits' in place of the word 'slots.'
In deciding this appeal only on the issue of infringement we are not unmindful of the desirability of disposing of patents as a whole to the end that invalid patents 'should not remain in the art as a scarecrow,' to quote the late Judge Learned Hand in Bresnick v. United States Vitamin Corp., 139 F.2d 239, 242 (C.A.2, 1943). See this court's discussion in Hale v. General Motors Corp., 147 F.2d 383, 388 (C.A.1, 1945). The reason for our limiting our consideration to the issue of infringement in this case is that we cannot say with any assurance that Nyyssonen's patents are indeed invalid and we think it would be unwise in this situation to run the risk of mistaking a scarecrow for a farmer leaning on his hoe, to carry on Judge Hand's picturesque simile.
This, however, does not imply any criticism whatever of the court below for deciding both validity and infringement. The court below took the proper course to avoid remand and perhaps retrial, should its decision of but one of the issues be reversed on appeal.
The disposition we make of this appeal renders unnecessary any consideration of the appellant's other contentions. His appeals from the denial of his motions under Rules 52(b) and 59(a) relate to the issue of validity.
Judgment will be entered affirming the judgment of the District Court insofar as it rests upon the issue of infringement.
He also appealed from orders denying motions under Rule 52(b) and 59(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
A synchronous machine having, in combination, stator and rotor elements, one of the elements having a magnetizable core provided with an assembly, stationary with respect to the said one element, of substantially equiangularly spaced slots comprising one or more collections each of substantially the same number of slots, a polyphase winding comprising a plurality of phase windings each having a number of conductor groups substantially equal to the number of slots, a conductor group of each phase winding being disposed substantially in each slot, the numbers of conductors of the conductor groups of each phase winding varying substantially as the absolute values of the sine over a total range substantially equal to 180 degrees multiplied by the number of collections of slots at angular increments each substantially equal to the said total range divided by the number of slots, the respective total ranges being displaced with respect to one another an angular amount substantially equal to the phase displacement of the phase windings, the directions of winding of the conductors of the conductor groups of each phase winding changing alternately with, and with the negative of, the sign of the said sine, the conductor groups of the respective phase windings being connected in series along the said directions of winding, and the other element having means for producing a magnetic field, stationary with respect to the said other element, of substantially equiangularly spaced poles of alternately opposite polarity equal in number to the number of slots plus or minus the number of collections of slots
We are not impressed by the appellant's argument that this is not so because patent 098 is not limited to the same number of stator slots in each collection. All he seems to have in support of his contention is lack of specific language in the patent and Fig. 22 showing collections the mirror images of one another. Anyway we do not consider resolution of this dispute dispositive of the case
Additionally the patent describes an alternate opposite direction of winding of the conductor groups of each phase winding. This means that when the slots are arranged in a particular sequence the current in the conductors is in one direction in one slot and in the opposite direction in the next slot of the sequence. However, the court below, clearly on adequate evidence, found alternately opposite direction of winding to be inherent in all synchronous machines and not a distinguishing characteristic of Nyyssonen. We need give this feature no further consideration
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Debates of Oct. 5th, 2000
House of Commons Hansard #127 of the 36th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was health.
Employment Insurance Act
Government Orders
4:45 p.m.
NDP
Gordon Earle Halifax West, NS.
Employment Insurance Act
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4:50 p.m.
NDP
Michelle Dockrill Bras D'Or, NS.
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Stéphan Tremblay Lac-Saint-Jean, Q.
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NDP
Michelle Dockrill Bras D'Or, NS.
Employment Insurance Act
Government Orders
5 p.m.
Progressive Conservative
Norman E. Doyle St. John's East, NL
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5:05 p.m.
Glengarry—Prescott—Russell
Ontario
Liberal
Don Boudria Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.
Business Of The House
Government Orders
5:05 p.m.
The Acting Speaker (Mr. McClelland)
The House has heard the motion as presented by the government House leader. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
(Motion agreed to)
The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-44, an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act, be read the second time and referred to a committee.
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Jim Pankiw Saskatoon—Humboldt, SK
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The hon. member knows that the member for Calgary—Nose Hill clarified what her remarks were. He is deliberately misrepresenting—
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That is not a point of order. That is debate.
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A message from His Excellency the Governor General transmitting supplementary estimates (C) for the financial year ending March 31, 2013 was presented by the President of the Treasury Board and read by the Speaker to the House.
A message from His Excellency the Governor General transmitting estimates for the financial year ending March 31, 2013 was presented by the President of the Treasury Board and read by the Speaker to the House.
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Alex Atamanenko British Columbia Southern Interior, BC
Mr. Speaker, I have four sets of petitions.
The first petition deals with foreign affairs. The petitioners from my area of Castlegar and Nelson and from Victoria in British Columbia state that the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War states that there is no medical response to nuclear war. The UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has proposed a summit on nuclear disarmament. In 2010, the Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed a motion that encouraged the Government of Canada to deploy a major worldwide Canadian diplomatic initiative in support of preventing nuclear proliferation and increasing the rate of nuclear disarmament.
Therefore, the petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to issue an invitation for all states to gather in Canada to begin discussions needed for a global legal ban on nuclear weapons.
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10:05 a.m.
NDP
Alex Atamanenko British Columbia Southern Interior, BC
Mr. Speaker, the other three petitions I have are in support of my Bill C-322. They come from Ontario, with over 140 names from Quebec, Alberta, Calgary, for example Airdrie, Winnipeg and Regina.
The petitioners state that horses are ordinarily kept and treated as sport and companion animals and are not raised primarily as food processing animals; that they are commonly administered drugs that are strictly prohibited from being used at any time in other food processing animals destined for the human food supply; and that Canadian horsemeat products that are currently being sold for human consumption in domestic and international markets are likely to contain prohibited substances.
The petitioners call upon the House of Commons to adopt into legislation Bill C-322, An Act to amend the Health of Animals Act and the Meat Inspection Act , thus prohibiting the importation or exportation of horses for slaughter for human consumption, as well as horsemeat products for human consumption.
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Harold Albrecht Kitchener—Conestoga, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to table a number of petitions signed by over 200 residents from the Waterloo region, Toronto, Manitoba, northern Ontario and British Columbia.
The petitioners are calling on the government to meet the public health challenges posed by suicide by adopting legislation that would recognize suicide as a public health issue, provide guidelines for suicide prevention, promote collaboration and knowledge exchange regarding suicide and promote evidence-based solutions to prevent suicide and its aftermath.
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Rathika Sitsabaiesan Scarborough—Rouge River, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to present petitions signed by members from southern Ontario supporting Bill C-322.
The petitioners state that horses are ordinarily kept and treated as sport and companion animals and are not raised primarily as food-producing animals here in Canada; that they are commonly administered drugs that are strictly prohibited from being used at any time in all other food-producing animals destined for the human food supply; and that Canadian horsemeat products that are currently being sold for human consumption in domestic and international markets are likely to contain these
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Elizabeth May Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to present three petitions. The first is signed by residents of my constituency, particularly from Salt Spring Island, Galiano Island and Pender Island.
The petitioners call on this House to review and enact the targets that were set forth in the legislation passed by the previous Parliament that climate change action is required now, that reductions in greenhouse gases must be met to the level of 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
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Elizabeth May Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, the second petition I wish to present is from residents of Edmonton, Alberta, and the Jasper area.
The petitioners call on this House to protect the ecological integrity of national parks. Given that these petitions speak to rejecting the request for a private sector development in Jasper, which the minister has now approved, I think the petitioners would appreciate it if I were to ask this House to urge the Minister of the Environment to review and alter the decision that has been made. It is not in the interest of protecting our national parks.
The Environment
Petitions
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Green
Elizabeth May Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, the last petition is signed by residents from throughout southern Ontario.
The petitioners call on the government to cease and desist from acting as a public relations arm of the oil industry, to treat the Enbridge supertanker scheme as one that requires study and not lobbying, and to allow the process to take place before taking a position on the issue.
High-Speed Internet
Petitions
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Liberal
Scott Andrews Avalon, NL
Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise in this House today and present a petition on behalf of my constituents of Admirals Beach, O'Donnells and St. Joseph's.
The petitioners would like to see high-speed Internet in their community. It is essential for rural areas of Canada and, in particular, in my area of St. Mary's Bay. They do not have access to high-speed Internet and they feel this is a necessity and a way of life that we now need to provide to them.
The petitioners are calling upon the government to take the necessary actions to have communities linked up to the high-speed Internet.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Saskatchewan
Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I ask that the remaining questions be allowed to stand.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
The Speaker
Is that agreed?
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.
Opposition Motion—Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Business of Supply
Government Orders
10:10 a.m.
Liberal
Bob Rae Toronto Centre, ON
moved:.
I appreciate the chance to discuss this important question in the House. I think we would all agree that the introduction of Bill C-30 has caused a powerful reaction around the country. It is important for members, in discussing this issue, to engage not only each other but also the public in a serious discussion of what the issues in this legislation really are and why it is important that we in the House indicate our understanding and support for the principles in the charter, for the role of the courts in asserting the role of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and in our understanding that there may well be objections to the legislation as it is currently drafted. Those objections need to be treated with respect and civility and not with simply a curt dismissal that somehow they represent a lobby on behalf of criminal activity in the country.
I will begin by reading into the record the words of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in a recent case, the Gomboc decision. That case dealt with the question of the access by police to information with respect to the use of electricity in a particular place because of the suspicion that the house was being used as a grow op. The reason for reading this into the record is not that it says anything about that particular case but that it is a reminder to all of us as to the importance of the issues that we are discussing.
Chief Justice McLachlin stated:.
The issues that are raised in the legislation are significant. I want to state for the record, because we all need to be clear on this issue, that the purpose of the legislation is to extend the investigatory power of the police over methods of communication in the Criminal Code of Canada. It is not only about child pornography. The short title of the act is, candidly, a misnomer. It is not really what the act is all about. Yes, it covers child pornography but it also covers any kind of criminal activity. Indeed, it covers activity that is covered by the Anti-terrorism Act and the Competition Act, as examples. This really has to do with extending the power of investigation and intrusion into very extensive matters covering all methods and means of communication.
Let us be clear. Under the current provisions of the Criminal Code, which has the support of all members of the House, we grant to our police officers and our security officials under the CSIS Act the power to watch what people are doing. If they then feel that there is criminal activity under way, we grant them the power to ask a judge whether it is possible to, in the case of the current Criminal Code, intercept phone calls and other forms of communication. No one on this side of the House is suggesting for a moment that it is inappropriate, in circumstances where there are clear and probable grounds to believe that a criminal act is either being performed or is about to be performed, for the police to ask for the powers to look at what is happening. That is not inappropriate.
We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the charter this spring. It has set out some of the protections for privacy and some of the concerns that the House of Commons and the Senate had with respect to entrenching certain critical individual rights. It is important for us to recognize that the charter simply expresses and codifies what, in effect, has been the law of Canada and indeed the common law throughout countries that follow the common law, and the Criminal Code, which applies to all jurisdictions in Canada and has been our jurisprudence for hundreds of years, which contains limits on the powers of the state to intrude into the privacy of people's homes. If we are to break through that line and cross over that frontier, we have to have the approval of the courts before we can do so.
The issue which is raised most directly by Bill C-30 is really the issue contained in clauses 16 and 17. These provisions pertain to, in clause 16, written requests, and, in clause 17, oral requests.
Clause 16 states:
On written request by a person designated...every telecommunications service provider must provide the person.
Section 17 allows not just any authorized person but any police officer, if he or she has reason to believe on reasonable grounds that the urgency requires the information right away, to get that information simply by making a phone call and saying, “We need this information right away”.
There is room surely for a legitimate debate about whether or not obtaining that information is in fact a breach of privacy.
We have the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but before the charter, there was a principle underlying our legal system, what I would call a basic right, that the state cannot intervene in the private affairs of individuals without the authorization of a judge. That is clear. That is the problem we have with this bill. We see the need for a civil debate in which all participants clearly acknowledge people's right to privacy. In addition, with sections 7 and 8 of the charter, it must be clear that the law specifically protects individual rights and privacy.
The debate today can go in many different directions. I think it is very important for the House to treat the views of those people who are concerned about this legislation with a degree of understanding and respect.
We on this side would never say that we do not believe there are grounds, times and ways in which the police and other investigating officers have a right to access information which is held by a service provider. In the same way, a telephone company would have to allow for interception of a telephone call. As well, if criminal activity is taking place on the Internet, or by means of a cell communication, or by some other digital means, of course, it is reasonable for the police to have access to that information in order to know what is going on.
The key issue is whether the House is prepared to say to Canadians that it can happen, but it cannot happen without prior judicial authorization. It is really a very specific issue. However, when we look at all the other provisions of the bill, it is complicated. It is a long piece of legislation.
We welcome the fact that, in response to this literally unprecedented wave of objection to the bill, the government has decided to put it into committee before calling it for second reading. I think that is a good idea. I would argue that would be a good idea for a lot of other legislation as well. We would be glad to see that done on other occasions. I say to the government that we think it is important to do this.
On our side, we are strongly committed to having this discussion, at least to recognize that there is a legitimate basis for concern on the privacy argument. If we were to simply reject that right to privacy, we would be flying in the face not only of the charter, but of the charter as it has been interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada in literally dozens of decisions it has taken since the House voted on the charter in 1981.
I hesitate to even mention this point, but I happen to be sitting not very far from where I was standing when I voted in favour of the charter and the patriation of the Constitution. I am not going to quote my own words from that time, but I invite the member opposite to read the speech. I recommend it to him in terms of his level of enlightenment.
I have heard members sitting in this House criticize the charter. When those people say that the charter is something which works on behalf of criminal activity but not on behalf of others, that is simply not true. When we are arguing on behalf of privacy we are not arguing on behalf of criminal activity. We are arguing about the boundaries of the distinction between what is private and what the state has reasonable grounds to have access to. What are the tests that the state has to meet in order to cross that line?
The courts have said there are tests that people have to meet. The courts do insist that the police follow these sets of rules and regulations. Yes, in circumstances they can be difficult and onerous. Yes, if the steps are not followed properly then there are decisions that are made, in effect, to say that there has to be a new trial because the rules were broken with respect to what was admissible as evidence. There is a name for that in our society. It is called the rule of law.
We did not give the courts some sort of new role that they did not have before in the charter. The courts always had the role and the responsibility of saying that when legislators go too far, or when legislators are unwise in how they proceed, then there needs to be a step back. There have been lots of times in Canadian history, long before the charter, when the courts said we could do this, but not do that.
Perhaps there are some members opposite who remember the infamous Alberta press bill, where the legislature under the intellectually precedent government of the one opposite, the Social Credit Party of Alberta, said the press had to give the government side of every story they were running. The press had to provide for the alternative official position in order to allow for balanced reporting. The Supreme Court of Canada said there was no way they could demand that, as it was an infringement of the freedom of the press and an infringement of freedom of speech.
In Quebec, long before the charter, Premier Duplessis personally said that Mr. Roncarelli, because of his association with the Jehovah's Witnesses, could have a restaurant but the restaurant could not have a liquor licence. The Supreme Court, in a very famous judgment, said he could not do that. He could not use a completely irrelevant argument in order to stop somebody from pursuing his legal rights.
What the charter was intended to do, and I believe on balance what it has done, is essentially entrench and formalize the rights we have always known were there. The charter is an effective guarantor. Frankly, Parliament has to be a guarantor as well.
It is important for us in the House to understand what is at stake in these discussions. It has to do with our common commitment to the rule of law, our common commitment as a Parliament to the law of Canada, which includes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and our common commitment to civility in how we treat the people who are on the other side.
There is no reason why the government should be voting against this motion. There is no reason for anyone in the House to vote against it. It states in a very balanced way the principles of the charter, the issues that are at stake here, and why it is so important for us as Canadians to deal with this issue in an intelligent way.
The police have to be able to do their job. We need to be able to deal with acts of violence, acts of terrorism, child predators and crimes inflicted on children. However, we need to do it in a way that fully conforms with the rule of law in our country.
Of course we will be following this debate with great interest. But as I have said, today's motion is clear: yes to private rights, yes to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and yes to the important concept that we can all agree to a necessary balance, the necessary role of the courts, respect for individuals and a civil debate on this issue.
There has been a lot of emotion around this debate. It is important for us to understand where some of that emotion comes from. We need to be able to deal with these issues with mutual respect and to study the bill carefully. I can assure the government we in the Liberal Party, in our role in the opposition, are going to be doing that in a responsible way. We will continue to work for a criminal code and a working police force, and the protection of Canadians that also guarantees the rights that all of us have to privacy and the rule of law.
Opposition Motion—Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Business of Supply
Government Orders
10:30 a.m.
Conservative
Mike Wallace Burlington, ON
Madam Speaker, I have a practical question and I will try to remove the rhetoric from it. It is an important point--
Opposition Motion—Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Business of Supply
Government Orders
10:30 a.m.
Liberal
Scott Brison Kings—Hants, NS
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Salt Lake City, Utah – Actor Dave Bresnahan has been selected for a supporting role in the feature film Gulag Barashevo, directed by Michael Kingsbury. Filming takes place in February and early March 2015 in the snowy mountains of California.
“This is the first feature length USSR Gulag-genre film made entirely in the U.S. A Russian dissident in the USSR is arrested and sent to the Gulags. This film is about the Marxist USSR persecution of people of Faith,” explained Kingsbury.
Bresnahan said he spent a full week studying the history of the Soviet Gulag system, and worked on his Russian accent. He said he wanted to enter the mind of a Gulag commissar so that he could properly portray the role he was auditioning for. The audition was placed on video in Utah and sent to Kingsbury along with many others from across the country.
Bresnahan has a long list of films to his credit. His film credits and other work as a filmmaker can be found at. He is a former gymnast and coach, journalist, book author, business owner, and volunteers as a community service EMT teaching first aid and CPR.
“We received video auditions from many actors, and Dave Bresnahan stood out among them all. His eye expression is outstanding. The entire performance, accent, face is perfect. This will be very magnetic for the audience. Thanks Dave for that fantastic video performance of the Commissar. It is extremely gripping, I can’t stop looking at your character,” said Kingsbury about his selection of Bresnahan for the role.
According to Wikipedia.org, during the greatest genocide of the 20th Century, over 50 million people and their entire families, were exterminated in the Marxist USSR Gulags from 1917 to 1991. The independent-thinkers were a threat to the Marxist system, and Christians were high on the list of people who were targeted.
“The leaders of the Communist Party considered repression the way to control the people. The Gulag system was introduced to isolate and eliminate people of faith and those who were socially dangerous, disruptive, suspicious, because their deeds and thoughts were not contributing to the strengthening of the dictatorship of the proletariat,” explained Bresnahan. “I am honored to be a part of this film that preserves history and tells a story that will be lost to the current and future generations if not preserved. We need to progress as humans, and we cannot do that unless we learn from our past,” he added.
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