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Secure Arkansas Opposes Highway Debt Issue
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.” -James Madison, the Father of the Constitution
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt” – Thomas Jefferson
On November the 8th, Arkansans will be asked to go to the polls and give the Arkansas Highway Commission permission to add $575 million of additional debt unto our backs. While they have dropped many hints about what they “could” spend the money on, the bottom line is that the Highway Commission wants us to approve more debt without much if anything in the way of specific commitment as to what the money will be used for.
Secure Arkansas stands in opposition to this debt plan. The reasons behind this decision are …..
1) The state already has a very high number of road miles for its size. The problem is not a lack of road miles; rather it is that the state’s archaic Highway Commission System is not building them in the right places. Why reward a broken system with a giant pile of our money, especially borrowed money?
Our position is that there should be no new bond money given to the Commission until its structure is reformed. Reforms should include making sure that the road money follows the cars; and insuring projects are selected on a more objective basis. We feel that in its current form, too much leeway is given to the personal preferences of a few powerful citizens who get themselves appointed to the Highway Commission.
2) There is a shocking appearance of impropriety on the part of the Chairman of the State Highway Commission in this matter. The group behind the push to approve this additional debt, “Move Arkansas Forward” has received over half of its funding from entities connected to a single man- the Chairman of the Commission which would get to expend these public funds. Almost all of the rest of the money this group has raised is from contractors who stand to rake in piles of taxpayer money should this proposal pass.
Hear this special audio report on the issue.
3) There is precedent for using GARVEE bond programs in conjunction with other funding sources to tack uneconomical light-rail and bicycle lane projects onto new highway construction. (See Denver’s “T-REX” for example.) Secure Arkansas opposes any co-mingling of funds or construction costs which would have the effect of diverting money from gasoline and diesel taxes to support light rail and bicycle infrastructure.
Mass transit should not be subsidized by automobile users. Mass transit systems should be built only where the free market justifies their costs. Using money from gasoline taxes to fund projects which incorporate light rail leads to a misallocation of resources. By using government intervention to artificially raise the price of operating an automobile and artificially lowering the perceived cost of mass transit, it has the effect of taxing Americans out of their cars and into mass transit.
Secure Arkansas calls on all citizens of the state to oppose any bond issue unless there is written assurance that no light rail projects will be co-implemented with any highway construction project financed by the bonds.
4) The situation now is very different than it was in 1999 when a similar bond issue was passed by the people, and experience since then has shown that front-loading road repairs leads to poorly maintained roads on the back-end of the cycle. The Highway Commission exhausted the previous bond issue’s funding in a few years. That left little for road maintenance or construction for the rest of the 15 year cycle, as too much road money was devoted to paying off the bonds- along with money siphoned off for bond sales commission fees and interest. It is no wonder that some of our roads are in such poor condition. Let’s not make the same mistake again.
We favor a more balanced and stable approach which is less ambitious in new construction and leaves significant funding available for road maintenance in each of the 15 years under consideration. It is also important to note that in 1999 most of us felt sure that the Federal government would fulfill its commitment to turn over highway funds to the states, and this was the major revenue source used to pay off these bonds. Given the ongoing fiscal crisis in our federal government, who among us can be certain that five, eight, or ten years from now, the politicians in D.C. will make the highway payments that they say they will today? If D.C. does not send the money they claim they will, Arkansas taxpayers will be on the hook for it, probably necessitating a tax increase when we can least afford it.
In these times of deceptive posturing, many groups and politicians will claim the mantle of liberty and conservatism, even while they encourage people to allow the government to tax more, to borrow more, and to spend more. But conservative is as conservative does. We trust that you will not be fooled by those who may even be fooling themselves about what a “conservative” vote is in regards to this issuance of public debt.
We hope that you will join us in taking the advice of the Founders in regards to government debt, especially as it applies to this flawed proposal.
Secure Arkansas Advisor on Policy and Strategic Planning
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Posted 5 Oct 2012I just finished reading Nils Lou's book on kilns and firing. In one of the chapters he discusses the fuel efficiency advantages of using ITC coatings on the inside of a kiln, advantages which are widely known (up to 30% reduction in fuel). Not so widely known, he also discusses using ITC on kiln shelves, I will summarize his comments below:
He recommends applying ITC100HT to kiln shelves and firing them twice. He then adds ITC296A as a top coat and fires again. He says that this will upgrade the common cordierite shelf from a rating of 2282F to 2462F and significantly extend its life. The shelf will not warp and it does not require kiln wash.
Has anyone on the forum had successful experience with this approach? If you have, one important detail he leaves out – is he putting the coating on both sides of the shelf and flipping them or does coating one side suffice?
I have sent him an email as well in the hopes he will respond and clear this up for me. It sure sounds promising.
Posted 5 Oct 2012I would be interested to know what electronic tools/software people are using to create announcements and/or invites to open studios, shows and other events. I have had good success with Evite largely because it is ways to use and create simple designs. It also has a great RSVP feature so that you have some idea of attendance and who is responding to your announcement.
What other tools are being used out there?
Posted 29 Sep 2012I wonder if anyone can shed some light on this. I found an old glaze book with some great recipes I remember in it. There were some that do not fit the glaze formula adding up to 100% and the additions normally take it over or are in addition to 100%. The two recipes below are examples of what I mean. They are more like a cake recipe made up of various ingredients in a random fashion, one formula adding up to 112% without additions and the other only 94%. The percentages were not with the recipes, I calculated them because the formula did not look correct.
Is this way of mixing glazes a correct way or is there a calculation you are supposed to use to convert the glazes so that they fit the 100% rule?
Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Chemical % Grams
Kona F-4 54% 1620
Silica 29% 870
EPK 8% 240
Magnesium Carb 8% 240
Bone Ash 13% 390
Sub-Total 112% 3660
RIO 8% 240
Bentonite 2% 60
Totals 122% 3960
Custer Feldspar 45% 1350
Whiting 13% 390
Silica 25% 750
EPK 11% 330
Sub-Total 94% 2820
RIO 8% 240
Bentonite 2% 60
Totals 104% 3120
Sorry for the way this is formatted - I tried 5 different ways and it always turns out a mess. Hopefully you will be able to decipher it.
Posted 12 Sep 2012I wasn't sure which forum to put this on but this one appears to be the most active and I wanted to share it with all of you in the hopes that others will share insights in a similar vein they have gathered and that have positively affected their life and work.
I just finished re-reading Marguerite Wildenhain’s wonderful book for the first time in 25 years. It is an amazing book full of insight and observations on her life as a potter and teacher. She was at the world famous Bauhaus in Germany before the Nazi’s came to power. She escaped to California and established Pond Farm in Sonoma County where she had her studio and summer school. Many renowned and successful potters studied with her.
The book is full of her philosophy on art and pottery, the following one spoke very loudly to me and I thought it was well worth sharing:
“Some days everything seems dark, hopeless and full of negative self-criticism, for nothing, no matter how hard one tries will develop as form – but there are days when an angel seems to have touched you with his wing – life is then radiant, work flows easily out of a mysterious source that is barely of your own making, that carries you way beyond what you could make yesterday, and a beautiful piece of work is born under your trembling soul. Be grateful. It does not happen often. “
Marguerite Wildenhain – Pond Farm, Sonoma, CA 1973
Posted 21 Aug 2012I just finished reading the old thread on potter's who influenced your life, started by Marcia. How about an off-shoot? "The top 5 books on pottery that influenced you the most. I would list mine as:
- Marguerite Wildenhain - The Invisible Core: A Potter's Life and Thoughts
- Bernard Leach - The Potter's Challenge
- Michael Cardew - A Pioneer Potter
- Charles Counts - Pottery Workshop
- Frederick Olsen - The Kiln Book
I am always looking out for new books (or old ones for that matter) on pottery and the philosophy of pottery – so hopefully this will start a thread of us sharing books that have inspired us.
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Hurricane Sandy was, in a word, devastating. Preparing our pantries and hosting refugees may have been exciting, but after the storm cleared we became aware of how much damage some of our neighbors had experienced. Motivated by a desire to help those without electricity, water, or the comfort of home, the Food52 team decided to contribute the best way we knew how -- through food. Monday's workday was dedicated to cooking, and lots of it.
First came the shopping. While the majority of our team cleared the local grocery stores of cream, butter, pasta, and disposable baking sheets, Kristy and Peter headed to Costco to pick up toiletries, flashlights, diapers, and other much needed items.
At the end of the day, we loaded our food into two cars and drove down to Gerritsen Beach. The inspiring team at Robicellis had been tweeting about this Brooklyn neighborhood, still without power but banding together to provide its residents with food, clothing, warmth, and support. Driving through dark streets illuminated by generator lights, we finally saw the realities we had been reading so much about. The work that the Gerritsen Beach community had already done to collect donations and organize themselves was impressive and inspiring. All of the volunteers we met were kind, gracious, and motivated. After dropping off food, we organized clothes, got to know our fellow volunteers, and felt very grateful for the opportunity to help.
There will be a need for volunteers, food, and support long after the national perspective shifts to other topics. We hope that the New York community and the Food52 community alike will continue to rally around those who still feel Sandy's effects. While there are numerous ways to help, below are a few great places to start. Find a way to help that is meaningful to you, and remember your neighbors in need.
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Im not thinking about the end for my glory or wealth at all. I am thinking about how I start or plant the seed. The reason I cant share the whole idea with you all is self explanatory isn't it?
It depends on your objective. If you aim to make money out of it, it is. If you aim to have the game for your child, it is not, imho.
Did I miss an option here? (That is, why would you be so secretative other than for money or glory that you expect to get? I cannot think of another reason. If there is, I'd love to know that!)
I am fine with you not telling us what it is about, I just don't understand your goals, which would help a lot. "start or plant the seed" can mean anything. In other words, I am trying to figure out (and mostly failing) when you'd call the project a success.
I would love to say what type of game it is to get some feed back but how can any one do that with out any copy rights etc. What is a sub-optimal strategy?
If you want help with the concrete design and development, you're going to have to explain the idea at some point.
I was sent here from Crytek a game development company in Nottinghamshire. I don't think I have even thought about the cash it would make. I just thought loads would buy it.
Why do you think they sent you here? Obviously not because they thought your idea was so great they could make a load of money out of it.
I have 3 children, my youngest is a 7 years old little boy. The game was for him originally, then thought I would check to see if there was a game out there. Nope, None so its got to be made even if not by me & like a said earlier it won't be long until there is one out:(.
Any idea of the size of the market segment of games for children < 10? I don't know, but my guess would be it is nothing compared to other game genres.
I have no back ground in game development as you can obviously see although I play a lot of games my self online like world of warcraft, bf3, cod, black ops etc.
Playing gives you some experience, but design and implementation are completely different. The gaming source code I have seen so far is mostly faking the player into believing a game world, it is far less advanced than you may think.
Basically I can see four options for you (with one being non-feasible at this time)
1. Sell the idea to someone
2. Hire someone to develop the idea to a more concrete form
3. Develop it yourself
4. Make it a community project
Option 1 is pretty much impossible I think, unless they know you deliver quality work. You tried this, and you get the excuses like "we are all busy", or "try it elsewhere".
Option 2 will cost lots of money. Someone is only going to work for you when you pay him. I don't know the hourly rate of a developer, but I'd say a 100 dollar/euro an hour. (Others may want to correct this, I am doing random guessing here.) You may want to inform about this with eg a small software development comapny or so.
Option 3 is the best option to start with I think. The first step you need to do is "game design" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design
in fact, you may want to spend a day on reading everything you can find on "game development" / "game desiign".
This gives you several advantages. First of all, the game progresses in development stage. Secondly, options 1 and 2 are much more viable when you have concrete designs rather than abstract ideas. You may want to make a prototype (on paper or on the computer).
Option 4 is only viable after you let go of all ideas of making any money from it, and aim for making the game. To get an idea of how people in such projects think, read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
If you want people to work on it for free, they will not like that you make money out of it. In addition, you have to convince them that it is a good project. You may want to look around for projects aimed at children, and look what they do.
I'd say you need to have a working prototype at least before you make any chance.
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Recently Anita Sarkeesian (one of my tech savvy, feminist heroes) started a Kickstarter for a new series of Feminist Frequency videos focusing on women and tropes in video games. If you don’t know Feminist Frequency go here and watch every single one of her videos, I will wait.
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A few days ago she posted her Kickstarter video on Youtube to help meet a new goal [Giant, Humoungus, Gargantuan Trigger Warning for comments]. Normally she disables comments if they get out of hand but I think she was making a point with this video. Ms. Sarkeesian wrote about the harassment in a recent update to her backers:
The intimidation and harassment effort has included a torrent of misogyny and hate speech on my YouTube video, repeated vandalizing of the Wikipedia page about me, organized efforts to flag my YouTube videos as “terrorism”, as well as many threatening messages sent through Twitter, Facebook, Kickstarter, email and my own website. These messages and comments have included everything from the typical sandwich and kitchen “jokes” to threats of violence, death, sexual assault and rape. All that plus an organized attempt to report this project to Kickstarter and get it banned or defunded. Thankfully, Kickstarter has been incredibly supportive in helping me deal with the harassment on their service.
So this is not news to anyone, right? We have long known that the gamer community harbors a unique and caustic group of trolls (see Fat Ugly or Slutty or recent linkspamed BBC article). For the life of me I cannot get my head around this, they are mad, they have a lot of free time to spend attacking things like Feminist Frequency and it seems that the very sound of women’s voices is an invitation for verbal assault and any criticism of these types of behavior bring out a level of passion akin to Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech or the Declaration of Independence but with much poorer grammar and a lot more use of the word whore.
Okay, so that is all really depressing, but let’s look at the facts. Ms. Sarkeesian’s original goal was $6,000, she made that in under 24 hours! Since then she has set and met three additional goals. At the time I started writing this post she had raised $31,173 from over 1,100 backers. Now, the Feminist Frequency Kickstarter has $32,654 and 1,250 (that’s right, since I started writing this post, this morning, the pledges increased by more than $1000 and 150 backers!). In one week the Kickstarter will be funded afterwards Ms. Sarkeesian is going to make her series, probably buy a new computer, and continue to be an inspiration and a bit of a badass. I’m going to mark that as a win.
UPDATE: Right now the kickstarter is at $40,793 with 5 days to goal. The most recent goal was $26,000. Is it possible that people hate internet trolls that much? I thinks so.
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Four pop-ups and quite some time later, we sat back and surveyed our work. Each of us had assembled a dragon, castle, Frankenstein’s laboratory, and jungle scene -- with mixed success.
Some of our pop-ups worked better…
Following the illustrated step-by-step instructions, we quickly learned that an unclear directive or ambiguous diagram could have disastrous results, as when one dragon's tongue ended up protruding from beneath its jaw. The perforated pieces were so beautifully detailed that we had a hard time punching them out; Irene exclaimed in frustration, "I need tiny fingers!" while at the other end of the table I inadvertently ripped the head off a castle guard. After each pop-up, a “mini master class” invites budding paper engineers to explore the techniques further. Cindy doubted that merely following directions for the four main projects would give enough understanding of the concepts to go entirely DIY. Overall, we thought the pop-ups provided a good rainy afternoon activity for kids about age nine (rather than the suggested seven) and up.
With a minimum of parts, easy-to-follow directions, and a satisfying noisemaker, Frankenstein's lab (featuring monster) was the biggest hit of the four projects.
Candlewick's catalog copy for Pop-Up reads, "Do you delight in seeing an ingenious pop-up 'pop' but feel utterly daunted at the thought of making one yourself?" After spending an enjoyable afternoon with the book, I still feel daunted -- but maybe not utterly so.
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As I sit here at my regular coffee shop, sipping a latte, looking out the window at a spectacle of traditional winter wonderland and contemplate my final Christmas gift purchases, it occurred to me how fortunate I am. My blessings are countless. However, among my greatest blessings is my freedom. This is a blessing to which I owe a great debt of gratitude to our heroes – the men and women of our armed forces.
Contrast our comfort and coziness this season to the dry, dusty, dirty conditions of the middle east. Think about how we enjoy thoughts of sugar plums dancing in our heads, while they are scanning the horizon for terrorists, improvised explosive devices and other threats. While we laugh and mingle with loved ones at holiday parties, they’re working long hours counting on their brother or sister soldier to protect their back.
Even though I’d rather drink party punch and talk about football, each unique questioner deserves a thoughtful answer. At some sincere level, …(people are)… asking for a thoughtful opinion regarding the likelihood of life during a season proclaiming joy to the world weighed against the possibility of death at the hands of mass murders driven by a malignant religious zealotry.
Yes, we owe an incredible debt of gratitude to the men and women of our armed forces. I just took a moment to say thank you, via the USO’s website. I hope you will do the same. You can send a thank you email to our protectors of freedom at the link below. Feel free to copy or use a version of my own note.
USO Holiday Thank You
Please take a moment to say thank you to our military men and women:
Sample Thank You Message
Below is the message I just sent. Please feel free to copy, modify or otherwise reuse this note:
Because I am not in your shoes, I know I will never fully appreciate the sacrifices you make for me, your family, your friends and your country every day. However, I am especially reflective of my gratitude this holiday season. I realize your sacrifice is made even greater during this time away from your loved ones.
It is because of your sacrifices that I am able to enjoy our freedoms. So with a great degree of sincerity and humility, I say simply, “thank you” for all you’ve done and continue to do for me, my family, my friends and our country.
Benjamin S. Lichtenwalner
Thank you, too, for taking the time to say thanks.
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Jury finds Kerns guilty of 2004 slayingThird man pleads in Keese Bare murder case
A Morgan County jury took less than two hours to find Vernon L. Kerns, Jr. guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy on Monday afternoon, following a week-long trial in Morgan County Circuit Court.
The 26-year-old Kerns, also known as "V.J.," was the third person to be convicted in the 2004 murder of Keese Bare. He will be sentenced by Circuit Judge Gina Groh on April 6.
During a break in trial testimony last week, Jerome "B.J." Smith pled guilty to second degree murder in the case.
Smith, 25, faces up to 40 years in prison for the killing and, as a condition of the plea bargain, was required to testify against Kerns. He will be sentenced on May 18.
Last May, Jason M. Payne, 26, was found guilty in a jury trial of second degree murder for his role in the slaying.
Kerns, Smith and Payne are all first cousins, and Prosecuting Attorney Debra McLaughlin stressed their family ties during her opening remarks to the jury.
Another family member – Amanda Kerns Ekatah – was also present when Bare was murdered at a campsite along the Potomac River on September 2, 2004. Bare's body was then burned to avoid detection.
Ekatah, who is Kerns' sister, testified against both Kerns and Payne, but has not yet been charged in the case.
Different accounts of what happened on the night of the killing were the basis of the cases presented by Prosecutor McLaughlin and Defense Attorney Sherman Lambert.
The defense also made an issue of why an informant, John Gue, came forth after 19 months to tell police what happened to Bare, Until then, he was simply thought to be missing.
During the trial, relatives of Bare and Kerns, and at times dozens of Berkeley Springs High School students, were present in the courtroom in the former North Berkeley Elementary School multipurpose room.
As happened during the Payne trial last year, some of the accused persons' relatives apologized to Bare's parents for what took place in 2004.
Keese Bare was last seen on September 2, 2004. At the time he was under investigation for fraudulently using credit cards stolen from mailboxes, which he called "mailbox shopping," according to testimony.
Several witnesses said the motive for the murder was the fear that Bare would tell police about the stolen credit cards, implicating Kerns and perhaps others.
Lt. Tim Stapleton of the Morgan County Sheriff's Department said he talked to Bare early on September 2. They discussed Bare coming in for questioning about the thefts.
Tiffany Munson, who was Bare's girlfriend at the time, said she believed Bare had left the area to avoid arrest and prosecution. She tried to call him repeatedly after September 2, to no avail.
During the investigation, Munson provided Stapleton with bills for the cell phone used by Bare. Throughout the trial, phone records were used as a way of figuring out where Kerns, Bare and Amanda Ekatah were at various times and who was talking to who.
Break in the case
Lt. Stapleton said that he, too, believed Bare had run off until he was contacted by John Gue on April 7, 2006.
Gue told the jury that he had hoped to remain anonymous, but police later informed him that he would have to testify.
Gue, 43, called Kerns "my best friend" as a way of explaining why he waited more than a year and a half to go to the police.
Gue said Kerns originally told him that he had killed Bare a day or two after the murder, but he hadn't believed him.
A few days after that, Kerns asked if he could bring Jerome Smith and Amanda Ekatah to Gue's house to talk about it. Smith, in particular, was having trouble dealing with what had happened, it was said.
Gue said they told him that Smith had cut Bare's throat, Kerns had stabbed him many times and Payne had beat him with a police baton. Then they burned Bare's body in a campfire.
Kerns and Smith returned to the scene the next day with more wood and continued to burn what was left of the body, Gue said.
Gue maintained that he didn't tell anyone because of his close friendship with Kerns. He said that, later, Kerns also threatened him if he told.
He said he called Stapleton in April 2006 because he could no longer live with what he knew.
Defense Attorney Sherman Lambert tried to paint a more sinister picture of why Gue finally broke his silence after 19 months.
Lambert pointedly questioned Gue about drug use. Gue admitted he had shared his prescription pain pills with Kerns and that they sometimes crushed percocet pills and snorted the powder. He denied giving drugs to Kerns' sister.
Gue also denied a sexual affair with Kerns, but when Kerns took the stand in his own defense, he alleged the two were lovers.
Kerns said Gue had told the police about the murder after they had had an argument over drugs and money and were not talking.
Even after that, Gue retained a friendship with Kerns, who did not know that Gue had contacted police.
When Kerns was later in the regional jail, Gue called him several times a day, according to testimony.
Finding the remains
After the tip from Gue, police went to what was referred to as Lot #17 along the Potomac River, near the Hancock Bridge.
The campsite was used by the killers without the knowledge of the family that leased it.
Deputies Stapleton and Tony Link described going through the campfire pit and a nearby ash pile and finding bone fragments, a knife blade, a belt buckle and car keys that turned out to be Bare's.
Later, a second "dig" was conducted by Dr. Douglas W. Owsley, a forensic anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institute.
Dr. Owsley spread out bone fragments to show the jury and described how he had compared fragments with x-rays that had been taken of Bare's head, neck and back in the 1990s.
He said no teeth were found, so he could not match dental work.
Several witnesses testified that Kerns had removed the teeth from the ashes so they could not be matched.
Owsley said he could not be sure of the cause of death, but he had no doubt that the charred remains were Keese Bare's.
Many heard about it
The state presented a string of six witnesses who claimed Kerns had told them in 2005 and 2006 that he had killed Bare, though sometimes the victim's name was not mentioned.
Among them was Dorcey Peacemaker, who had been Kerns' cellmate at the regional jail in mid-2006.
Kerns told him that someone else had slit a guy's throat and that he had taken part in beating the man and burning his body, he said.
Peacemaker, too, gave the motive as Kerns' belief that Bare would "snitch."
He quoted a jailhouse saying, "Snitches end up in ditches."
Amanda Ekatah's version
Three accounts of the murderous night were given by those who were there.
Amanda Kerns Ekatah said her brother woke her up with a phone call on the night of September 2, Kerns said he had been partying with Jerome Smith, Jason Payne and Keese Bare at the river lot and they were too drunk to drive home, she said.
Ekatah, who was nine months pregnant at the time, said she got to Lot #17 after 12:30 a.m. There was a fire burning and loud music playing.
Soon after she arrived, Kerns told her that they were going to kill Bare because of concerns that he would implicate others in the stolen credit card scheme, she said.
She said Kerns and Payne stood alongside Bare while Smith "pulled his head back and pulled the knife across his throat."
Bare fell to the ground, but then got up and started running toward the fire pit. Kerns and Payne ran after him. Kerns stabbed Bare and Payne beat him on the head with the police baton, she said.
Ekatah described Bare pleading for his life and calling out, "Please don't kill me, I have kids." He also promised not to tell anything to the police.
Ekatah maintained there was nothing she could do to stop the killing, but that she did tell Payne to quit beating Bare on the head. She maintained that she had no role in the murder.
"When they were finished, they drug him to the fire,"
Ekatach said she was afraid to tell anyone what had happened because Payne said, "That's what happens to people that snitch and that if I did, he would kill me and the baby."
Jerome Smith's version
Jerome Smith's account of the night began with him being picked up by his cousin Vernon Kerns, who had Keese Bare with him.
They drank whiskey at the river lot for hours and eventually Jason Payne and then Amanda Ekatah showed up.
At one point, Kerns and Payne went off and talked. When they came back, "they handed me a knife and said to me I had to slash Mr. Bare's throat," Smith testified.
He said he only made a superficial cut and that Bare first fell, then got up and ran off with Payne and Kerns following him. Payne hit Bare eight or ten times with a baton and Kerns stabbed him three to five times, Smith said.
Then, Kerns and Payne dragged the body to the fire and piled wooden pallets on top of it.
He agreed that Ekatah did not take part in the attack on Bare, but said she did get lighter fluid out of her car to use on the fire. Ekatah, on the other hand, denied bringing the lighter fluid.
Smith said he did not return to the scene the next day, but that Kerns told him that he was going to go back with more wood for the fire.
Asked by Prosecutor McLaughlin why they had killed Bare, Smith replied, "I don't know why."
Vernon Kerns' version
When Vernon Kerns took the stand, he maintained there was no conspiracy to murder Bare. "There was no discussion about killing anybody," he said.
He said he didn't actually see Jerome Smith cut Bare's throat, but that he saw Bare running away with Jason Payne chasing after him.
Payne beat Bare on the head with a baton until the baton bent. "It had brains and blood on it,"
He claimed Payne then said to him, "Ain't you f–– going to do anything?"
"I picked up the knife and stabbed him a few times," Kerns said, and then they put the body on the fire.
Amanda Ekatah got lighter fluid from her vehicle to fuel the fire, he said.
Payne threatened all of them that he would kill them if they went to the cops, Kerns said.
He said that he was scared, because "I may be the next one to go in the fire."
Payne was still feeding the blaze when the others left, Kerns said.
Kerns said he felt the others had conspired against him.
Defense Attorney Lambert picked up Kerns' themes in his remarks to the jury.
He argued that since the cause of death could not be determined, it was unclear whether Kerns had actually killed Bare when he stabbed him, or whether Bare was already dead.
In the middle of the trial, with the jury out of the room, Lambert even asked Judge Groh to dismiss the case on those grounds.
"The state has not established that the deceased was alive at the time of death," Lambert said.
The judge refused to dismiss the charges.
In her closing remarks, Prosecutor McLaughlin pointed out that Kerns, Smith and Payne all participated in planning and carrying out the murder.
"We'll never know which was the fatal blow, but they all acted together," she said.
She also asked the jury to think hard before returning any verdict that included a provision for mercy.
When they returned their verdict on Monday afternoon, the jury of six men and six women made no suggestion for mercy.
They found Kerns guilty, as charged, of first degree or premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit the crime.
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The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution is pleased to bring you Volume 8, Issue 2 of the Mayhew-Hite Report on Dispute Resolution and the Courts.
In After the Drafting: The Fate of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act, Professor Christopher Fairman discusses the Uniform Collaborative Law Act and its withdrawal from the ABA's consideration. The lead article can be accessed here.
Christopher R. Drahozal and Stephen J. Ware, both professors at the University of Kansas School of Law, have written an interesting article about business use of arbitration clauses in Volume 25, Issue 2 of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution: Why Do Businesses Use (or Not Use) Arbitration Clauses? The article focuses on two empirical studies by Theodore Eisenber, Geoffrey Miller, and Emily Sherwin (Ms. Sherwin was only involved in the more recent study). The 2007 study examined the use of arbitration clauses in a sample of material contracts filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The 2008 study compared the use of arbitration clauses in consumer contracts to the same companies’ material corporate contracts. This article argues that the contracts reviewed are not representative of business or consumer contracts, and the authors conclude that the studies’ findings much be construed narrowly. A detailed summary of this article can be accessed here.
On November 9, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on the case of Safety Nat'l Cas. Corp. v. Certain Underwriters, 587 F.3d 714 (5th Cir. 2009). The court held that the McCarran-Ferguson Act does not allow a state law to reverse preempt a foreign treaty or its implementing legislation. At issue in this case was an arbitration provision in a contract between Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s and the Louisiana Safety Association of Timbermen-Self Insurers Fund, which provided insurance for members’ occupational injuries. A petition for certiorari was filed February 5th, 2010. A detailed summary of the Fifth Circuit’s decision can be accessed here.
In Collaborative Ecosystem Governance: Alternative Dispute Resolution is Reforming Environmental Law, Amanda Fried discusses the relationship of collaborative law and the environment by analyzing collaborative ecosystem governance. Amanda Fried uses the example of the Florida Everglades ecosystem management program throughout in order to illustrate the facets of collaborative ecosystem governance. Her note concludes that decision-makers should adhere to the fundamentals of collaborative law in the environmental law context. The full-text of this paper can be accessed here.
PROGRAM ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION NEWS
Professor Quigley Delivers Lecture in the West Bank on the Arab-Israeli Negotiations:
Professor John Quigley, President’s Club Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, spoke on Palestinian statehood at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank village of the same name on March 22, 2010. In his lecture, Professor Quigley argued that Palestine is a sovereign state under international law, so any negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership should be premised on that fact. Click here for the full story.
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law students competed in two ADR competitions during this academic year, the ABA Negotiation Competition and the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition:
In a field of 24 teams from across the country, Beth Uhrich and Catie Coleman advanced to the semifinal round of the ABA Negotiation Competition before being eliminated. In the Representation in Mediation Competition, Jessica Kim and Beth Uhrich finished in third place, just missing an opportunity to advance to the national competition in San Francisco on April 7. Click here for the full story.
Professor Stulberg Chairs Task Force on Arbitration Fairness Act:
Professor Joseph B. Stulberg, John W. Bricker Professor of Law, with the able assistance of Moritz 2L Janice Kwon, served as chair of the Task Force for the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) that examined the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009. Its 95-page study and recommendation was adopted unanimously by ACR in December 2009, a copy of which is available at www.acrnet.org. Click here for the full story.
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Isiah Deathwatch Update
Earlier this week we reported on Isiah and the Knicks continued woes. Now Marbury has returned to the team and is playing despite the other players' unanimous vote to have him not return and play.
In his first game back, Starbury shot 4-12 with no rebounds and 4 assists in 33 minutes.
Currently the Knicks are 2-6, on a 5 game losing streak and the laughingstock of the L. According to Peter Vecsey, James Dolan has flown to the west coast and Zeke could be fired at any minute. Marbury of course can't be fired, only traded, bought out of his contract, or left on the court to continue to "lead" the Knicks. | <urn:uuid:5b2dba08-c363-4f0d-a9b1-f75fcde58242> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2007/11/isiah-deathwatch-update.html | 2013-05-24T22:35:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974026 | 149 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Dorothy Anna Hron Dorothy Hron passed away peacefully, at the age of 91, at the Hospice House in Baraboo, WI on Jan. 4, 2009, after a battle with Lymphoma. She was born in rural Wagner to Joseph and Anna (Melmer) Payer on Feb. 6, 1917. She was united in marriage to John Hron on Aug. 14, 1934. They lived on a farm south of Wagner for seven years before moving into the town of Wagner and four years later to Ravinia. In 1959, they moved to Vermillion where she worked in the Food Service and Custodial Services for Alpha Delta Sorority, University of South Dakota and the Vermillion Public Schools for a total of 32 years. She was a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church and the Senior Citizens. In 2004, she moved to Baraboo, WI to be near her daughter. She lived in the Meadow Ridge Assisted Living facility until her move to the Hospice House. Dorothy will be remembered by her loving family for the love of her home and her superb cooking, baking, sewing and gardening. Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; daughter, Thelma Sorsensen; three brothers, Adam, Wesley, and Laddie Payer; and three sisters, Mary and Eleanor Payer and Martha Cockerham. She is survived by two daughters, Wilma Leonard of Baraboo, WI and Joan Kniffen of Livermore, CO; one son, Robert (Charlotte) Hron of Virginia Beach, VA; 13 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren; as well as her sister, Ann (Herb) Spry of California City, CA; her brother, Adolph Payer of Omaha, NE; a sister-in-law, Esther Payer and a brother-in-law, Joe Hron, both of Wagner; other relatives and friends. A prayer service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Meadow Ridge Assisted Living in Baraboo with Fr. Larry Bakke officiating. A Memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24, at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Vermillion, with Fr. John Fischer officiating. Burial will follow in the Vermillion Cemetery. The Redlin Funeral Home in Baraboo is assisting the family.
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“Ok, so you’re pretty prolific, get 100 poems together and let’s see if there’s a book amongst them.” Thus began the relationship with my Hagley Writers Institute supervisor, John Dickson.
OOOkay… I gulped and got to work and lo, I pulled it off. I narrowed it down to 47, submitted the manuscript for my final folio and it was short listed in the top seven. From these Anne Rogers, editor at Random House chose the winners of the Margaret Mahy Award. I thought I hadn’t heard correctly when my name was called. I stumbled up to receive the award, and then spent the rest of the evening in a grinning daze. Always remember to prepare a winners face, as well as a losers. I have learned by experience now! Pictures of graduation here.
The manuscript is called, A Machine of Herbs and Flowers. It’s my first collection of poetry. Hagley are now sending it to Auckland University Press and one other publisher yet to be decided to be considered for publishing.
2011 was tough, with some 9,500 aftershocks and quakes in Christchurch and the death of one of my best friends. Hagley held me together and gave me purpose and hope. There’s a lot to look forward to and work towards in 2012. I’m returning to Hagley for year two. This year my tutor is the brilliant Frankie Mcmillan who I know will be able to polish my short fiction writing skills. | <urn:uuid:97c03723-3b87-448e-84c2-77af6f8c1809> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://poetrybymarisa.blogspot.com/2012/01/2011-round-up.html | 2013-05-24T22:28:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955925 | 318 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Solomon Taiwo is willing to fight for a future at Cardiff but admits he may have to look elsewhere for regular first-team football.
The 27-year-old midfielder, who has one year remaining on his contract, was not part of Malky Mackay's plans last season and joined League One side Leyton Orient on loan in January for the rest of the campaign.
Taiwo joined the Bluebirds from Dagenham and Redbridge back in 2009 and although he concedes his time there has been frustrating, he's now focused on making an impact with whoever he plays for next season.
He said: "I would like a future at Cardiff and do well but the most important for me is to play regularly - that's my main drive.
"Any player will tell you playing week in week out is the most important thing and the time when I was producing my best performances was when I was doing that, and getting the feeling that I had contributed.
"Forcing your way into the manager's plans is the challenge of all footballers but it's one I'm well up for trying to overcome.
"But it has been massively frustrating because I would have loved to play more games and I would have preferred the team to be set up a bit more differently for me. But the past is the past and I'm just looking to the future.
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In yesterday's House hearing, the Treasury Inspector-General was asked if he could list which organizations had been targeted by the IRS for delayed approval or harassing questions. He replied that he could not make that...
- Raising Revenue: The Least Worst Options
Raising Revenue: The Least Worst Options
With the fiscal cliff looming, lawmakers are looking for new revenues as a component of any bipartisan deal to reduce the federal deficit. While raising new revenues may be politically necessary to seal a deal, lawmakers must keep in mind that not all revenue raisers are equal. Some will have far more harmful economic consequences than others.
Indeed, after careful study, OECD economists have established a hierarchy of which taxes are most and least harmful for long-term economic growth. They determined that the corporate income tax is the most harmful for long-term economic growth, followed by high personal income taxes. Consumption taxes and property taxes were found to be less harmful to economic growth relative to taxes on capital and income.
Why this hierarchy? It is determined by which factors are most mobile and, thus, most sensitive to high tax rates. Capital is the most mobile factor in the economy and therefore most sensitive to a hike in tax rates. Naturally, land is the least mobile and less sensitive to high tax rates. This is not to say that high taxes won’t affect consumption and property patterns but their impact will simply be less than the impact of taxes on capital and income.
With these rules of thumb in mind, here is a short list of ways to raise new revenues ranking from least harmful to most harmful:
#1 Least Harmful—Economic growth: This may seem obvious, but whether or not we have enough new economic growth to generate more revenues for the Treasury is directly dependent upon some of the policy choices listed below.
#2 Asset sales: The U.S. federal government owns hundreds of billions worth of assets that it can, and should, sell off in order to pay down the national debt. As of 2008, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reported public lands worth $833 billion and loans worth $209 billion. Other state-owned enterprises such as Amtrak, the Power Marketing Administration utilities, and the Tennessee Valley Authority could all generate considerable cash on the open market. The biggest benefit of asset sales is turning tax-subsidized enterprises into tax-generating ones.
#2a: As a second-best option to asset sales, require Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) and federally-owned businesses to pay federal income taxes. TVA, for example, has operating revenues of $11 billion and $47 billion in assets. It should pay federal income taxes.
#3 User fees and leases: Lawmakers could raise billions with no harm to the economy by raising user fees for many of the goods and services it provides (such as flood insurance, inland waterways, National Parks, and loan originations) and opening up more public lands for oil and mineral leasing. In 2008, OMB reported that federal mineral rights were worth $1.062 trillion. They are probably worth more today.
#4 Tax certain non-taxed business activities: There are a number of non-taxed businesses or industries that compete directly with private businesses but have the advantage of not paying federal income taxes. These include: credit unions; rural electric coops; nonprofit hospitals; and certain types of insurance firms. These businesses should be taxed as any for-profit enterprise. The tax benefit to credit unions has been estimated at $2 billion to $3 billion per year.
Moreover, there are a growing number of nonprofit organizations that operate for-profit enterprises. While nonprofits are supposed to pay income tax on their unrelated business income, many receive royalties, rents, and other income that is considered exempt from income taxes on these profits. For example, college sport organizations earn billions in revenues from hosting tournaments and TV and radio rights, but the IRS has exempted these profits from tax. Other nonprofit organizations such as AARP earn hundreds of millions of dollars in income tax-free from royalties and other sources. All of this income should be subject to income tax.
#5 Premium and co-pay increases: Increasing Medicare premiums and co-payments are not likely to be politically popular, but asking seniors to contribute more toward their federal health insurance would be far less harmful to the economy than a broad-based income tax. Even if these policies were means-tested, they might actually add a measure of market forces into a system that has few. According to CBO, increasing the Medicare premium for Part B to 35 percent from 25 percent could raise more than $240 billion over ten years. (Again, Congress’s arcane budget rules count these payments as a reduction in mandatory spending, not new revenues, but the effect is the same.)
#6 Federal employee contributions: As most private employers are now doing, the federal government should ask federal employees to contribute more to their own health care and retirement costs. Currently, federal employees pay 25 percent of the costs of a basic health plan (some pay more for more expensive plans). This share should be increased to at least 30 to 35 percent. (Congress’s arcane budget rules would likely count these contributions as a reduction in mandatory spending, not new revenues, but they are good policy anyway.)
In February 2012, lawmakers increased the amount that new federal employees must contribute to their pensions from 0.8 percent to 3.1 percent of each paycheck. This measure was expected to raise $15 billion toward the cost of extending unemployment insurance. However, current federal employees were exempted from the contribution increase. Lawmakers would do well to extend the 3.1 percent contribution to current employees.
#7 Sales/Excise taxes: Unlike the states, the federal government does not rely much on sales or excise taxes—excise tax revenues amount to about 3 percent of total federal revenues. The largest federal excise taxes are the federal gasoline tax ($38.7 billion), tobacco taxes ($16.5 billion), airport and ticket taxes ($11.6 billion), and alcohol taxes ($9.6 billion). Increasing current excises or creating a new one would not be costless, but less so compared to higher income taxes. For example, according to CBO, increasing the federal gas tax by 25 cents could raise about $30 billion per year.
#8 “Base-broadening”: This is a tricky one because while everyone talks about broadening the tax base and eliminating “spending” in the tax code, the truth is that not all tax preferences are created equal (see discussion about untouchables, below). From an economic perspective, eliminating tax preferences produces less harm than increasing marginal tax rates, but caution is also in order.
- Eliminate industry subsidies, targeted tax preferences, and refundable credits first: Industry subsidies can include such things as the special exemption for credit unions; credits for hybrid vehicles and energy efficient windows; and tax-exempt bonds for private nonprofit educational facilities. The IRS now gives out over $100 billion in refundable credits to taxpayers who have no income tax liability. Limiting those to the neediest could save billions.
- Tax employer-provided health care benefits: This exemption is the single largest tax preference at roughly $128 billion per year. Taxing this currently untaxed employee compensation would be good policy, but should be paired with other market-based reforms.
- Restoring PEP and Pease: Tax Foundation economists have estimated that restoring the phase-outs of personal exemptions and itemized deductions (the PEP and Pease provisions) for taxpayers with more than $250,000 in AGI (joint filers) and $200,000 (single filers) would lower GDP by 0.03 percent over a five to ten year period. These measures typically raise the effective marginal tax rates by about 1 to 4 percent for families of various sizes while their incomes are in the phase-out range, above which rates return to the normal statutory levels.
- Capping deductions: Mitt Romney’s proposal to cap itemized deductions at $17,000 or $25,000 may have been crude tax policy, but it had the political advantage of avoiding a direct fight with powerful interest groups and it gave taxpayers the choice in deciding which deductions were best for their situation.
- Untouchables: For individuals, do not eliminate or scale back broad-based savings vehicles such as 401ks, Roth IRAs, or investment incentives such as the reduced rates on dividends and capital gains. For businesses, do not lengthen depreciation schedules, eliminate business expensing or depletion, or eliminate deferral. These provisions offset double taxation and move the tax system toward a consumption base.
#9 Raising the payroll tax rate and/or raising the wage base to which it applies: The payroll tax raises about $1 trillion per year, about the same as the individual income tax. But because it applies to wages only, and the Social Security portion applies only to the first $110,000 in wages, the payroll tax has little impact on saving, investing, entrepreneurship, and high-productivity labor. Empirically, we find across countries no relationship between the payroll tax and economic growth. This is why the payroll tax holiday, which cut the rate 2 points in 2011 and 2012, has failed to improve the economy or reduce chronic unemployment. It did, however, cost the treasury $125 billion per year, more than 10 percent of the deficit. That’s a bad deal.
#10 Raising the Alternative Minimum Tax and/or a “Buffet Rule”-type minimum tax: The AMT began in the 1960s as a way to ensure high income earners don’t slip through the regular income tax system. Instead, it has become an alternative tax code with its own problematic complexities. Because it has failed to ensure a minimum tax rate, the “Buffet Rule” has been proposed as a minimum tax on millionaires, but there is no reason to expect this to work any better. Minimum taxes merely complicate the code, introduce uncertainty for taxpayers, and invite special interests to lobby for exemption. In the end, they raise little revenue.
#11 Allowing “temporary” expensing to expire: The 2010 tax deal gave businesses full expensing in 2011 and 50 percent expensing in 2012. These temporary measures are considered tax cuts, but in reality they are more like tax shifts. Instead of businesses taking their deductions in future years, they take them now. This timing shift actually produces a long-term revenue loss of nearly zero. The idea behind bonus depreciation is to encourage capital purchases earlier and hopefully encourage the use of that capital to increase production. This is what happened in 2003, leading to an immediate rebound in investment and GDP. But because it was temporary, it mainly borrowed investment from future years when it expired. Full expensing on a permanent basis would permanently shift investment forward, leading to permanently increased production and income. Making full expensing permanent could boost GDP by more than 2.7 percent over the long run, while 50 percent expensing could boost GDP by 1.36 percent.
#12 Raising top individual income tax rates: In an analysis of President Obama’s tax proposals, Tax Foundation economists estimated that increasing the marginal tax rates in the top two tax brackets from 33 percent to 36 percent and from 35 percent to 39.6 percent would lower long-term economic growth by 0.44 percent. Our model also showed that for every $1 such a policy would raise for the treasury, GDP would fall by $2.77. That’s a poor tradeoff.
#13 Raising the tax rate on estates: This ranks worse than raising top individual rates because it is a revenue loser not a revenue gainer. President Obama’s budget proposed increasing the federal estate tax from the current 35 percent top rate with a $5 million exempt amount to the 2009 levels of a 45 percent top rate and a $3.5 million exempt amount. Tax Foundation economists estimated that this policy would lower GDP by 0.23 percent. While this may seem like a small effect, the loss in GDP is nearly five times the amount of new tax revenue gained from this policy.
#14 Raising tax rates on capital gains and dividends: When Tax Foundation economists modeled the long-term effects of increasing the capital gains top rate to 20 percent and letting the tax rate on dividends revert to 39.6 percent for people in the top two brackets, they found that this policy would lower GDP by 2.15 percent and that it would not raise any new tax revenues because of its depressive effects.
#15 Most Harmful—Raising corporate income tax rates: Because the U.S. currently has the highest corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world, no one is proposing to boost the corporate tax rate. However, President Obama’s Framework for Corporate Tax Reform did contain a number of base-broadening measures to offset his proposed reduction in the corporate tax rate. After modeling these proposals, Tax Foundation economists concluded that these measures would more than erase any of the positive economic benefits of cutting the corporate tax rate.
If lawmakers decide that new revenues must be part of any long-term effort to solve the budget crisis, they must choose the least harmful way of raising new revenues or else they risk compounding the crisis by slowing economic growth. The above list of revenue measures is hardly complete, but it should give lawmakers some rules of thumb on how to avoid the most economically harmful revenue options.
See Representative Wally Herger & Representative Dave Reichert, Behind the Veil: The AARP America Doesn’t Know, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Investigative Report (March 2011), http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/aarp_report_final_pdf_3_29_11.pdf.
In his annual budget briefing, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee (I) proposed a reduction of the state’s corporate income tax rate from 9 percent to 7 percent over the next three years....
April 12, 2013
Senator Bernie Sanders
332 Dirksen Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Sanders,
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Do you remember when Florida State Rep Scott Randolph (D-Uterus) said the obscene word “Uterus” in front of all of Florida’s God and Vagina-Fearing Republicans, and all hell broke lose when the leadership declared that this was an inappropriate and obscene word to say on the floor in front of young pages and visiting children? If you don’t remember that, then read That filthy, disgusting and obscene U-word.
Hell, that was nothing. Now women (you know, those creatures that own the vaginas all these legislators want to regulate) dare not mutter the word, “Vagina” on the same legislative floors where men try to regulate vaginas.
Yes that’s right folks. This is happening right here in the USA.
We have Congress and State legislators and other jerkoffs discussing and probing our vaginas practically day and night. We have to listen to them discussing our menstrual periods as well (See Arizona regarding a woman being considered pregnant on the first day of her period, even if she hasn’t had any sex and doesn’t plan to; Just in case!). We’ve watched that dickhead Daryl Issa conduct panel discussions on what to do with women’s reproductive organs while declaring that women are not qualified to testify; And we’ve put up with about all we can take from the Vatican and their obsession with making as many babies as possible to keep women in that kitchen, in between increasing the flock–whether they want to or not. All of this is happening without input from the actual owners of the vaginas being regulated . This doesn’t seem to appear out of place at all to these women-hobbling psychos straight out of a Monty Python skit with actors on steroids.
However, don’t one of you wimminz DARE say Vagina yourselves, you hear? Men will decide what to do with your vagina, ovaries and womb and don’t you dare mention it. Your personal parts and processes belong to your government now. Furthermore don’t you dare discuss Boyz’ body parts or try to make any legislation that regulates them. Regulations are for you subordinate wimminz not those boyz.
Well, Michigan House Rep and obviously Uppity Bitch Lisa Brown got that all wrong. These damned bitches just are so hard to train, who let them in the chambers, dammit.
It seems that Brown…..sputter… referred to her ewwwwwy vagina on the floor and completely forgot that her vagina is not her own. To make matters worse, her co-conspirator, Rep. Barb Byrum, indirectly referred to men’s parts with Brown’s blessings, which is a definite bad thing because men’s body parts belong to men and women’s body parts belong to men. That was two strikes against this obviously audacious and aggressive woman.
As punishment for speaking out of turn and not submitting to their superiors, Reps Brown and Byrum were barred from speaking on the floor on any issue.
A Michigan lawmaker was blocked from speaking on the state House floor as punishment for referencing her private parts in an earlier speech.
In a Wednesday speech on a controversial bill that would further regulate abortions, Rep. Lisa Brown concluded, “Finally Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no,’” according to The Detroit News. A day later, House Republicans refused to allow Brown, a Democrat, to weigh in on a school employee retirement bill.
This gets better.
Here you can see how Rep Brown created her own third strike against herself by supporting Byrum’s attempt at regulating the Sacrament of Vasectomy, which incidentally, has to do with men’s reproductive parts and therefore is neither wimminz’ business nor government business in the same way that vaginas are. So she and Rep Barb Byrum were barred from speaking, a punishment akin to Go Stand In The Corner because you displeased the Principal. (And just wait till your father gets home, bad girl! Now fetch me a beer!).
A spokesman for Michigan Speaker James Bolger released a statement explaining that Brown and fellow Democratic Rep. Barb Byrum “will not be recognized to speak on the House floor today after being gaveled down for their comments and actions yesterday that failed to maintain the decorum of the House of Representatives.” (Byrum had tried to introduce an amendment to ban vasectomies except when one’s required to save a man’s life.)
The obviously insubordinate and fractious Reps. Brown and Byrum got pretty sick and tired of this crap, so they had the audacity to hold a press conference of their own. It also appears that some other citizens showed up to support them. But, coincidentally, unless I missed something in this video, none of the Michigan Legislative boyz are very supportive of the concept that vaginas belong to women and men have no right to Regulate them. I don’t see what appears to be one male State House Democrat in this video. Or maybe they just all had a “prior commitment’ and couldn’t make it to this press conference:
Imagine the nerve of these two broads, fighting back against regulation of their bodies!
I recommend the witch burnings proceed immediately. I suggest they tie bricks on these two wimminz feet, throw them in the river and check to see if they float. But first, let us preview a Committee On What To Do About Women In Our Chambers, led by Michigan House Speaker James Bolger.
Update: Silly me! Now we know the real reason these two little wimminz were barred from speaking. It was a “Temper Tantrum” they had.
Ari Adler, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Jase Bolger (R-Marshall), said the lawmakers were banned from speaking because of their behavior, not because of their word choice. “They behaved in a way that disrupted the decorum of the House,” Adler said. “For Brown, it was not the words she used, but the way she used them that resulted in her being gaveled down.” In Byrum’s case, Adler said, “I hate to put it this way, but she essentially had a temper tantrum on the House floor.”
Sure you “hate to put it that way,” pig. That about sums it up for these pigs. I’m surprised they didn’t say, “Calm down. You wimmins are too emotional and that’s why you shouldn’t be in these jobs”. Because when they lose their temper they are being ‘passionate’. When those little wimminz do it, it’s a “temper tantrum”. | <urn:uuid:f62a9fe2-cdbf-48b6-a0ea-938060af5a17> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/michigan-state-lawmaker-lisa-brown-silenced-for-saying-the-word-vagina/ | 2013-05-24T23:00:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964777 | 1,479 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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BOSTON (Reuters) – A rare 1865 photograph of the Brooklyn Atlantics baseball team, discovered at a Maine yard sale and considered one of the first baseball cards ever, sold for $92,000 at an auction on Wednesday.
A Massachusetts man offered the winning sum in cash after a brief round of bidding at Saco River Auction Co., said Troy Thibodeau, manager and auctioneer at the company in Biddeford, Maine. Thibodeau declined to name the buyer.
The photograph mounted on a card, known as a carte de viste, is the only one of its kind known to exist, though the Library of Congress has a similar image made from a different negative, Thibodeau said before the auction.
“It’s rarer than rare.”
The card shows nine members of the Brooklyn Atlantics, known as the first champions of baseball, and their coach. The team was a founding club of the National Association of Base Ball Players, a forerunner of today’s National League, Thibodeau said.
“It’s more of a piece of photography than a baseball card, but it’s considered by many to be the first baseball card just by the fact that it was distributed by the team,” he said. “It kind of set the stage for baseball cards after that.”
An antiques enthusiast bought the card at a yard sale last year in eastern Maine, Thibodeau said. It was in a photo album the buyer purchased along with old Coke bottles and oak chairs for about $100.
The owner mailed the card to Saco River after the auction house set a state record in August by selling an 1888 baseball card of Michael “King” Kelly for about $72,000, Thibodeau said.
It was unclear how many of the cards like the one of the Brooklyn Atlantics team were produced. The ball club had them printed and handed them out to fans and players, even those from opposing teams, because the Atlantics were so good at the time, Thibodeau said.
“It was kind of a sign of bravado,” he said.
Before the auction, Thibodeau said he found it difficult to place a value on the card because it was so unique but estimated bids might range from $40,000 or $50,000 on the low end to as much as $500,000.
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The message ‘helping make dreams come true’ is brilliantly encapsulated in this new spot
You will love Rob Redman’s pick this week. It is 100% CG even though it looks like a cardboard stop-motion piece. Clever and memorable
Art meets science in Stardust, a new short by Dutch film production company PostPanic. Watch it now and find out more about the project in our new issue
Zeitguised used Cinema 4D and V-Ray in tandem to create this seamless spot for Banque Populaire
Fancy dodging work for a couple of minutes? Then check out this fun short by School of Visual Arts students Donia Liechti and Vicky Penzes
This week, we welcome animation lighting artist Greg Jennings who tells us about his break into the CG industry and what it’s like to be a light at Dreamworks…
The latest in the Ice Age series adds action movie mayhem to the cartoon mix. Blue Sky talks to Mark Ramshaw about the sun, the sky and the sea
It’s time for Rob’s Pick of the Week and this week he singles out a clever animation that will draw you in – especially if you turn the volume UP!
Artist Toni Bratincevic modelled objects in 3ds Max and used V-Ray for rendering in this enthralling image
Last week we asked you to submit your 3D work to be critiqued by our expert team. We were really pleased with the response we got and Technical Editor Rob Redman has picked one from many to be put under the spotlight first
The artist wanted to create something that captures the complexity and eclecticism of structural designs. He’s certainly done that, we think!
This image by a 3D World reader contains a few 3D tricks: randomising the books and using the cloth modifier to perfect the blanket and pillow
Andrey Bobir used manual modelling for his image. He spent a lot of time on the textures and we love the results!
Check out this short animation featuring some furry bison, created in Blender 2.66 by artist Nita Ravalji
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Borders will be one of the most crucial issues that will face Syria’s revolution after toppling Assad’s regime.
In the past 40 years, the Syrian regime succeeded in making the border issue an integral part of the country’s politics. It is the border that leaks everything. Borders separate Syria’s sovereignty from the ones of neighboring countries except by the amount needed to protect the Syrian regime.
Porous borders by choice
Through these borders, boogie-trapped cars were sent to Amman in the mid-1970s and 1980s, and through these borders Ocalan infiltrated to Turkey and from it; it was the gate for all “Arab jihadists” to Iraq. Borders with Lebanon, there aren’t enough space now to talk about its functions.
Syria, the tough police state, made a conscious decision to have loose borders.
Around Syria there were civil and cold wars which the regime used to create some kind of safety belt to protect the inside of the country ruled by its iron fist.
In that part of the world, any country that falls or weakens turns its borders into a violence transit station.
This was the case of Iraq a few years ago. Thousands of jihadists were brought by the Syrian regime through Damascus airport, and transited them to Iraq.
Jordan, which was part of the international coalition against terror, didn’t hesitate in facilitating “the migration” of the Jordanian jihadists to Iraq, as it was cheaper to let them do their fights there, even Abou Mossab Al-Zarkawi left Jordan through Amman airport to Pakistan, then Afghanistan, then Iran to Iraq.
From Sanaa airport to Damascus, and from there to the “Iraqi Islamic state” in Al-Anbar, the ease of reaching Iraq reveals that there was a complete system put in place to keep the jihadists busy with the Iraqi violence.
It was a very profitable business to everyone, many benefited from it while Iraq lost, and it might be fair to say that the Americans have lost as well, although they paid a hefty price by toppling Saddam Hussein. The U.S. offered Iraq to their first and foremost enemy in the world, Iran.
Return of jihadists
The jihadists today are returning now, not to their home country, but to the country that facilitated their trips to Iraq: Syria.
The jihadists, who are not loyal to the regime, are now in Syria’s suburbs and cities, where some people know some of them, and others have relatives among them. The Iraqi jihadists reached Syria in scores after their leaders abandoned them after leaving to Egypt and Yemen, while news from the latter confirm that a direct line is operating from Sanaa to the heaven of jihadists, not through Damascus airport but through Ankara airport, and from there to northern Syria.
The regimes benefit from each other’s experience.
The Lebanese government for example is a satellite entity created by the Syrian regime. “The Lebanese brother” is a good choice to facilitate the jihadists’ exit from Tripoli to Syria. This reflects positively to the security of Lebanon, and maybe Lebanon can convince Syria that this is in its favor, by showing the rebels in Syria as a group of terrorist gangs.
Jihadists not a threat to Syrian regime
Of course, the Syrian regime didn’t reach to the point to consider the jihadists as a threat to its existence, that’s why it doesn’t mind having them around, and haphazardly labels rebels as terrorists. The regime’s opponents and allies - alike – deem the Syrian regime as loosening the burden of keeping the jihadists within their borders. The Syrian society too is producing more jihadists as more violence takes its toll on the country.
In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, there is a new generation of hardliner jihadists, aged between 16 and 25, and there is also similar generation at the Libyan Tripoli.
These jihadists went to Syria and joined Al-Nusra Front hardliners and Free Damascus Brigades. While their predecessors were imported by the “non-Allawite regime” to fight the Shiite regime in Iraq, here they are today coming to Syria to fight the “Allawite regime.”
Only the Syrians and their revolution are the ones, who are paying the price of the misery of regimes that are sending their jihadists to Syria, exactly as they are paying today the price of the misery of their own regime.
If societies that live in misery throughout different phases of history are the source of jihadists, then these regimes are the employer and the user within a complete integrated system, that choose the weakest as its next victim. They chose the Iraqis as their victim, and not the occupying U.S. force, and here they are designating their new victim.
Syrians must learn lesson from Iraq
Iraqis were dragged into a trap when they compared between Saddam Hussein’s terror and that of Al-Qaeda, measuring which one was tougher and harder on them. This is exactly what the Syrians need to know as they go on with their revolution. Iraqis didn’t start themselves the revolution to topple Saddam Hussein; the Americans were the ones who executed the revolution, which created the ambiguity between occupation and resistance. This ambiguity in Syria will put the revolution at the edge of comparison, and not the occupation. The regime works hard to label the rebels as terrorists, and there is enough evidence to justify this statement, especially the scores of non-Syrian jihadists who are flooding coupled with some acts perpetrated in areas controlled by the Free Syrian Army.
The Iraqi lesson was tough and painful to the West as the war against Saddam and later against terror. This has resulted in offering Iraq to Iran. And in Syria, the West looks reserved, and it seems that it will distance itself further more as Al-Nasra Front hardliners expand in conflict-ravaged country.
One should be less defensive against the “Arab jihadists,” and there should be a condemnation when female journalists were fired from Sarakeb. Also, there should be a serious investigation about the explosion that targeted Al-Salmiya city, and if the probe shows that the Syrian regime is behind it, then this should be another reason to be cautious from jihadists.
This article first appeared in al-Hayat on Jan. 27, 2013.
(Hazem al-Amin is a Lebanese writer and journalist at al-Hayat. He was a field reporter for the newspaper, and covered wars in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza. He specialized in reporting on Islamists in Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan and Pakistan, and on Muslim affairs in Europe. He has been described by regional media outlets as one of Lebanon's most intelligent observers of Arab and Lebanese politics.) | <urn:uuid:a5d1595e-69eb-4734-b84f-8a9e456c9151> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alarabiya.net/views/2013/01/28/262998.html | 2013-05-24T22:48:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975206 | 1,396 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Location: Klamath Falls, Oregon
Square Footage: 38,000
Completion: Masterplan 2004, Construction 2005/2006
The current Herald and News facility occupies less than one acre of land
in the central business district of Klamath Falls. This facility and its 1967
Goss Urbanite press are antiquated and unable to meet the color and
circulation demands of this growing region.
ArcWest Architects was retained by Pioneer Newspapers and Herald and News to complete the design for their new Office and Production facility, as well as be the Architect of Record. Kevin Anderson was responsible for programming, masterplanning and design of this new facility. As part of
the masterplanning process two locations were evaluated. The first
being an historically significant downtown structure adjacent to the
existing facility. The second site, which was selected, is a 12 acre
Greenfield site with significant topographical challenges.
Building concepts which guided the design were views, light and earth.
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Kevin worked closely with Heidi Wright, Publisher, during the
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A song I wanted to learn after hearing Jim Reed's BHO video.
on “Bells of Saint Mary's”
Monday, July 09, 2012 @1:26:36 PM
Yup... another tune that's right in yer "strike zone" JB... very nice.
Monday, July 09, 2012 @1:29:38 PM
Thanks. You're right about that, Ken. Jim and others play hard ball at over 90 mph, out of my league.
Monday, July 09, 2012 @2:13:39 PM
I love that tender song and it reminds me of my childhood. You played it perfectly !!!!
Monday, July 09, 2012 @3:21:28 PM
You kept it straight and simple ''Janet'', the way it was meant to be, and beaut playing to suit, good onya.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 @8:56:12 AM
Very pretty and mellow version Janet.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 @9:59:51 AM
Thanks, truly, what you say is very encouraging. I hear melody and can't do a whole lot more than that and still feel smooth. I use chords and move around the neck, thanks to a one private lesson I had with Craig Smith.
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Friday, July 13, 2012 @9:19:14 AM
What made you put this in 4? Craig?(monster player!!!) Makes the 8ths speak the melody perfectly at this speed. I woulda NEVER thought of this! Might fine Janet!
Sunday, July 15, 2012 @4:44:35 PM
Beautiful. It makes me feel connected to the past.
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The Montana features a large bright 4" 65k color, TFT dual orientation display with a built-in basemap, and a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix. Plus, all models come standard with a microSD card slot, 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter.
Supports City Navigator, Bluechart g2, Garmin Custom Maps and BirdsEye Satellite Imagery. Receive text-to-speech driving direction when using City Navigator with the optional auto mount. Blue chart g2 is a must-have for saltwater mariners. Garmin Custom Maps allows users to easily transform paper and electronic maps into free, downloadable maps for compatible Garmin devices. BirdsEye Satellite Imagery is a subscription-based service that allows users to see aerial views of their destination.
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The 3-5 delivery time was closer to two weeks.Montana is an upgrade from a Colorado. Like the touch screed and brightness of the display.Not as responsive as I had expected
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The Montana GPS unit is a major advance for Garmin. They have corrected many of the annoying little things on the Oregon unit. All of the screens are customizable and there are many options to set which should please just about anyone. With the larger screen size, entering text is very easy and mistakes are minimized. There is even a shortcut feature to let you go directly to any screen. This is a very well thought out and serious Geocaching GPS unit. Thanks to Garmin for a well done GPS! | <urn:uuid:aa1901e6-4de3-44c8-a661-d9ec31a1310e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beachcamera.com/shop/Product.aspx?sku=GRMONTANA600 | 2013-05-24T22:28:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901843 | 414 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
BIO recently hosted the 15th annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference at the Waldorf Astoria New York, the largest investor conference focused on established and emerging publicly traded and select private biotech companies. This year’s event drew more than 1,200 industry leaders, welcomed over 750 investors and facilitated at least 1,300 One-on-One Partnering meetings. BIO’s successful portfolio of investor conferences includes the BIO Investor Forum taking place in San Francisco later this year.
The signing of FDASIA by President Obama in July reinforces the country's commitment to fostering innovation for rare diseases. With a record 460 medicines in late-stage clinical trials, biopharmaceutical companies have embraced rare disease medicine and are rapidly developing the pipeline with hopes of achieving the ever elusive blockbuster drug.
Fireside Chat with John Milligan, PhD, President and Chief Operating Officer, Gilead Sciences
Despite Low Funding, Biotech Productivity Remains High In 2013
“What I’m seeing at Gilead is very interesting… it’s a real explosion in productivity. We’re seeing great molecules coming through in our HCV portfolio. I think I’ve seen some of the best things that will probably never be drugs come out, because I think the field is moving that fast that we won’t need them.”
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Kurt Woetzel, Global Head of Operations, Technology and Collateral Services, and Nadine Chakar, Executive Vice President, Global Collateral Services, discuss regulations' impact on collateral management in this post-crisis environment.
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I don't mind spending a little more money.
there's no price increase. that $50 is all the hidden fees and stuff we used to have to pay to ticketbastard/frontgay
they're finally being honest about the face price of tickets and we're all freaking out about getting gouged
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You can probably find more than $40 on the ground over the course of 332 days.
What happened to the profit from gouging cold people for hoodies?
Price approximately =120.00 per day. Average bands I can catch on any given day= 10. Actual cost= $12 per show!!!! Fucking SWEEEEEEET!!! It's a screaming deal for the best circus in town!!!
06, 07, 09, 10 , 12...
Is that the guy we gave the 10 dollars, the bottle of booze and the hooker to? That's the one JR....All right...I feel like solid gold already!!!!
I paid almost $400 this year for the shuttle pass combo anyway (didn't get presale, should have). $30-40 raise in 6 years isn't terrible. I can't say that "we haven't raised prices in six years..." makes it any better. Kind of makes it sound like it's just time to raise prices for the heck of it, even though we all know better. I'm just curious to what it's going towards like everyone else I guess.
it's weird how people feel comfortable making shit up because they heard a rumor.
She added the phrase "meany head" to my profile.I hardly think I'm an attention whore.
my total through front gate for last year was $373 so $399 (shuttle and pass) isn't a huge increase, I guess
edit: but I have a serious moral issue with doing presale again after the fucking abysmal sahara tent of last year
Call me a Republican.
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I bet the price increase had more to do with the Trayvon Martin fad than the weather. Hoodies are a pretty hot item.
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Biowarfare, Terror Weapons and the US
[Editors' Note: What follows is the transcript of a faculty lecture given by Professor Boyle at the University of Illinois, followed by a few questions and answers.]
Last fall we saw an anthrax attack on the United States government that obviously was designed to shut the government down at a very critical moment in our history as a republic, that is immediately after September 11 when Congress should have been in session, making very critical decisions on oversight of the executive branch of government. This did not occur because of these anthrax attacks. I am going to work up to what I think really happened then to the extent anything can be figured out at this point in time. But to do that I will have to go through some historical background on the law and policy and science of biological weapons here in the United States.
Origins of BWC
We had at least going back to World War II an extremely aggressive offensive biological warfare program. Finally, Nixon and Kissinger decided to get rid of this offensive biological warfare program. Two grounds. One, it was counterproductive, just militarily, you could not really control these things. Two, we had a massive superiority in nuclear weapons anyway. Bios were the poor man’s atom bomb and we wanted to get rid of them to deprive anyone out there in the third world of a weapon of mass extermination. Nixon unilaterally ordered the termination of our biowarfare program for offensive purposes. Nevertheless the CIA continued anyway despite the President’s order. Eventually we supported and became a party to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 that prohibits research, development, testing of biological weapons, agents, components, etc., except for prophylactic and defensive purposes. And at least after the treaty came into effect we wound down our offensive biological warfare program. There was still a CBW unit there lurking in the Pentagon that had been starved of funds, wanting to come back to life. I am not sure exactly what the CIA was doing.
Then the Reagan administration came to power. And I point out that many of the same people in the Reagan administration dealing with these issues are now back under Bush Jr. The Reagan administration took the position that we were going to exploit our superior technology with respect to weapons across the board. Whether it was nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, space weapons, it did not matter. And they began to pour massive amounts of money, hundreds of millions of dollars, into researching and developing what they said were defensive biological agents.
Now what had happened in the meantime to the technology after Nixon was that DNA genetic engineering had come to the forefront. The technology itself, that is gene splicing. And the Reagan administration decided to exploit it. They engaged in dual-use research and development of biological agents, that is research that could be put to both offensive uses and defensive uses at the same time. The technology is the same.
To have a biological weapon as a weapon you need three things. First you need an agent. Second you need a delivery device. And third you need a vaccine to vaccinate your own troops and your own people. Using a biological agent you are going to send an army in there, they are going to occupy the territory, they need a vaccine.
The way the Reagan administration did this was to say that we are going to go out and investigate every exotic disease you could possibly imagine for the purpose of developing vaccines to deal with them despite the fact that there was no real evidence that anyone else was investigating these things and therefore we fit within the loophole of the Biological Weapons Convention for prophylactic purposes. While of course the technology to get the vaccine, using the DNA gene splicing, is exactly the same technology to get the agent. Indeed you use the DNA gene splicing to get the agent first and then you develop the vaccine. After you have created the agent then you create the vaccine and then you come up with an aerosol delivery device. Then you have a bioweapon.
U of Illinois Contracts
We had two of these contracts here on the University of Illinois campus. I have read these contracts. They were clearly biological warfare contracts and the tip-off on any of these contracts is they call for the development in the contract of an aerosol delivery device. That is how biological warfare agents are delivered, by air. All of this type of research then was being farmed out all over the country to large numbers of life-science researchers. Meanwhile the Reagan administration was cutting back funding for the National Science Foundation, on other hand. So what we had was second and third rate scientists who were no longer able to get money in the life-sciences from NSF had to go to the Pentagon in order to get funding. Now the Council for Responsible Genetics then responded to this by putting out a Pledge saying the signers would not accept any money from the Pentagon for any reason.
You can read these biowarfare contracts. It clearly says "military justification" for this contract. Indeed the ones here on campus, they were gassing pigs and sheep and rabbits over there at VetMed. And the contract said that we picked pigs because they have a circulatory system and respiratory system most akin to human beings. You can read it there in the contract.
CRG Congressional Briefing
Now the other thing the Council for Responsible Genetics did was to have a Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill on September 13, 1985. They asked me to go in there and explain what was going on here, what the Reagan people really were up to and how dangerous this really was. Notice we were deliberately proliferating this technology. We were encouraging these scientists to go out and develop this dual-use technology, we were funding it. It was going out all over the country and indeed around the world.
So I went to Washington and I gave this briefing, I answered questions, went through the whole thing and said we really need domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention to make it a serious felony in order to stop this research because it is too dangerous. You have proliferation of biowarfare technology. Even the safety, if you analyze these contracts, the safety levels were atrocious. You have these dirty little agents out there that could easily escape into the environment.
Bio-Weapons Anti-terrorism Act
So then I was requested by CRG to draft the legislation to deal with this problem and in particular the abuse of DNA genetic engineering technology for biowarfare purposes. I worked in conjunction with the CRG scientists and we also worked with the biotech industry. At that time the biotech industry had no desire to get into biowarfare technology — Monsanto and the others. So they supported our legislation.
What happened? The Reagan administration fought it tooth and nail. They knew full well that my legislation was designed to stop what they were doing at the Pentagon. I made it very clear that research, development, testing of such biowarfare agents would be punished by life in prison. I do not believe in the death penalty for any reason so I did not put it in there. But it is in there now – life in prison.
What we did not know at that time when the Reagan people were fighting us tooth and nail is that they had also authorized at least forty shipments of weapons specific biological agents to Iraq from the American Type Culture Collection, which is a big scientific institute. It has for scientific purposes cultures of every type of exotic disease in the world. You name it, it is there. It was clear the Reagan administration was shipping all this to Iraq knowing full well Iraq was going to develop biological weapons and use them against Iran, and yet they did it anyway. Now at the time my legislation was coming through we did not know this. It came out later. So we got nowhere with the legislation.
Bush Sr. was elected and then the question was whether should we continue under Bush Sr. or just junk the legislation. I took the position: Look, the Reagan administration also developed a new generation of chemical weapons – binaries. It was hotly contested and CRG opposed that too. It came down to a tie vote in the Senate and George Bush as Vice President broke the tie vote in favor of the binary chemical weapons. However, his mother then publicly stated she was very disappointed. I said my guess is that really indicates he is trying to send a message here and that really indicates where he stands. So I argued we should go forward with Bush Sr., maybe we will see a change in policy.
To the credit of Bush Sr., the moment they came into power all opposition to our legislation stopped by the Executive Branch. We were advised, however, that it would help on the Hill if we would repackage it as a piece of legislation designed to deal with biological warfare out there in the Third World. That there were the crazies out there in the Third World who were going to develop biological weapons and our legislation was designed to deal with that. So I said fine, I am concerned about the crazies in the Pentagon and the private sector working with them, but if that is the advice we get from the Hill then fine. So we redid it, we did not change the legislation just repackaged the way we presented it and finally it was adopted unanimously by both Houses of Congress, signed into law by President Bush Sr., and he to his credit, wound down this program.
However to get back to the biological agents shipped to Iraq. As you know in the fall of 1990 as we were going to war against Iraq, Bush and Cheney ordered all U.S. armed forces to take experimental medical vaccines for anthrax and botulin. I had no idea why but the reason why was very simple. It came out later. Under Reagan they had shipped these biological agents to Iraq, Iraq had weaponized them, and we knew full well our troops would be vulnerable. So using some of the same technologies, we put these experimental medical vaccines into our own troops, 500,000 of them. Today they suffer from the Gulf War Syndrome. The Pentagon still denies it, but it is a lie.
Indeed, I worked over in Britain on an expose over there "The Dirty War" a documentary film. Finally the British government admitted there is such a thing as the Gulf War Syndrome. I personally believe they go back to these vaccines. They were experimental medical vaccines in violation of Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation. I argued this point in the court martial proceedings of Captain Doctor Yolanda Huett-Vaughn, who was court martialed in part for refusing to give these vaccines. And later Senator Jay Rockefeller held hearings in which he also accused Bush, Cheney and Powell of committing a Nuremberg crime on our own troops. Today approximately a minimum of 50,000 U.S. military personnel suffer from what is called the Gulf War Syndrome. The tip off here, the French Army rejected the vaccines because they knew they were experimental. They had been burned once before in IndoChina. Of course, there were multiple agents that worked there – depleted uranium, carcinogenic substances in the air, etc.
Then what happened? For some reason, in the last two years of the Clinton administration, Clinton decided to get back into this dual-use biological warfare work. And again began putting hundreds of millions of dollars into the stuff, to again research and develop every known exotic disease one could think of, developing the components that then get turned over to the Pentagon where they could be assembled into weapons. This is going on as we speak now.
Finally, the New York Times broke the story. Yes, the United States government is violating the Biological Weapons Convention. The CIA operation Bacchus. We are developing an immune resistant strain of anthrax with DNA genetic engineering. We have developed super weapons grade anthrax in quantities and strengths that have no legitimate defensive purpose at all. We had a bomb factory down there where we are simulating the production of biological agents. It is very clear that we are now back into the business of research and development of biological agents, in clearcut violation of the Biological Weapons Convention and my statute the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.
That then is why the Bush Jr. administration repudiated the verification protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention. These negotiations had been underway for quite some time. The Convention has no verification provisions. Finally, this Fall all of a sudden out of nowhere, Bush Jr. repudiated the whole thing and tried to kill it. Why? Because it is clear we are involved in this type of work. Whether the Pentagon, the CIA, or their contractors, or all of them.
Now this gets us to the anthrax attacks on the United States government. Obviously it was not clear what was going on, at least to me, until the New York Times published the technology behind the Daschle letter. The technology behind the Daschle letter, later the Leahy letter, was very sophisticated. Trillion spores per gram. That is super-weapons grade. Second, tied in there was a special treatment to eliminate electrostatic charges so it would float in the air. You have to have special equipment, special treatment, special everything. The only people who would have the capability to do this would be individuals who either are currently employed by the Department of Defense or the CIA doing biowarfare work, or had been employed by the Department of Defense or the CIA doing biowarfare work. And would probably have access to one of the government’s biowarfare labs. This stuff is so dangerous. You could not do it unless you were wearing one of these space suits. And there are only a handful of these labs in the country.
That very day I called up a senior official in the FBI who handles terrorism and counter-terrorism, he knows who I am because of the work I have done in this field, and discussed this matter with him. I said: Look there are very few people who have this capability. I have a list of them under the Reagan administration. That is where you have to start to look. I went down the list and I said you know, this person worked with this government lab, that person worked with that government lab, etc., etc. He said, well, we are coordinating our efforts with Ft. Deitrick. I said well, Ft. Deitrick could very well be the problem here. They are one of the few labs with the capability to do something like this. And you could have a Timothy McVeigh type situation where someone who was once on the reservation is now off the reservation. So you need to start looking at this list of these people who have worked with the Pentagon, I do not have a list of the CIA people, and my guess is you are going to find your person. He told me he would pass the information along to the right people.
This was just before I ran the CRG workshop at Harvard on Biowarfare the first weekend in November. There my colleague Jonathan King, Professor of Microbiology at MIT and the head of their electron-microscope lab, publicly stated the same exact conclusion independently of me. He had reached the exact same conclusion that I had. Likewise Dr. Barbara Rosenberg who is now with the Federation of American Scientists, she independently of both King and me later reached the exact same conclusion, that whoever did this was working for the United States government now, in the Pentagon or the CIA or had in the immediate past, and must have had access to a U.S. biowarfare lab. I was interviewed on FOX, I was interviewed on BBC World Service and I was interviewed on Pacific Network in Washington DC.
What happened? Soon thereafter the FBI authorized the destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Iowa. It had been determined that this was Ames-strain anthrax. The FBI authorized the destruction of that entire supply. It is obvious it was a cover-up. If you had access to that supply you could do a genetic reconstruction of the origins of the Daschle letter. If you had access to the Ames collection scientists would be able to do a genetic reconstruction of where the Daschle and Leahy agents originated.
I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind this attack and they have probably concluded that yes, it was someone who was currently involved in illegal and criminal biological warfare research by the United States government. Either the Pentagon or the CIA or one of their private contractors. And for that reason they are not going to apprehend and they are not going to indict him because obviously he would spill the beans on the whole thing and implicate the Pentagon, CIA, whoever is behind this. So this is where we are today, where the FBI says well we are working on it, but of course, that is ridiculous.
Anti-terrorism and the Effective Death Penalty Act
As for my statute: when it came out that the Reagan administration had authorized the 40 or so shipments of weapons specific agents to Iraq, we never intended to impede legitimate scientific research let alone the biotech industry. So I never in the drafting of this assumed that American Type Culture Collection would be complicit in shipping weapons specific biological agents to Iraq at the behest of the Reagan administration. So when this all came out my statute was amended by the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act to deal with this problem, that is to deal with legitimate scientific institutes like American Type Culture somehow getting involved in biological warfare. So it was amended and it is currently being amended again to deal with the problem that you have so many people out there who are capable of doing this type of work, or at least work not as sophisticated as the Daschle and Leahy letters, but certainly capable of producing a weapon and killing people.
Well, why don’t I take any questions that people might have.
Hijacker and Anthrax in Florida?
The Daschle and Leahy letters were simply to shut the government down, attack the government. There would be very few people who would have the scientific knowledge, capability, expertise and equipment to manufacture the super-grade weapons anthrax behind the Daschle and Leahy letters. Not this hijacker.
Gulf War Syndrome v. Agent Orange?
Well, the Pentagon still lies about Agent Orange and you know it took them years to finally admit that Agent Orange produced cancer and to provide proper medical treatment to those Veterans. They are doing the exact same thing here. One, it is the question of financial liability for these service people in making sure they have proper medical treatment. And two it gets back to the point that if you start getting into this how did Iraq get weapons specific agents and why and who was shipping it over there and clearly it was illegal, it violated the treaty and although not yet the statute. I do not think the Pentagon wants to get into any of that so the cover-up goes on. But as I said the big expose in the UK: UK troops did take the shots, like Americans, the French rejected it, no real Gulf War Syndrome there. And for years the UK also denied it. But the documentary called "The Dirty War" came out and I was a consultant on it, independent station TV 4, came out all over Britain and I was also in it. Finally as a result of that documentary getting front page headlines in Britain, a spokesperson for the British Ministry of Defense admitted that there was such a thing as the Gulf War Syndrome.
Now let me make one more point. The danger of the syndrome is in addition here in the United States it is microbial. In other words it is being conveyed to next of kin, and also to health care workers who treat it. So it can and is slowly spreading through the population. Now the upside is however, there was a private doctor who was denied government funds, it is a government coverup here, nevertheless, with his own resources investigated this stuff and concluded that there was a DNA genetically engineered mycoplasm at work and it could be treated by antibiotics. And so he has been successfully treating some of these people. But as I said the last figure is about 50,000 Gulf War Vets suffer from the Gulf War Syndrome which the government still denies exists.
There are multiple symptoms because there was also the use of depleted uranium as well. And DU is radiological, toxic, and carcinogenic, the government still denies that too. And so you have everyone getting these shots, and all these vaccines were experimental, none had been approved by the FDA for this purpose. It clearly violated the Nuremberg code on medical experimentation. When Dr. Huett-Vaughn refused to give them, she was court-martialed. And there were also bromide tablets for nerve gas attacks that were given out. They had never been tested either for nerve gas. What they did these tablets was interfere with the firing of nerve synapses. So the theory here was that if you got hit with a nerve gas agent take one of these tablets and it would interfere with shutting you down and you would be able to resume what you were doing. None of this had been tested or approved or anything by anyone. Of course in addition you saw the fire and all the oil in the air and you put all this together you have a lot of very sick people out there.
The last time I showed "The Dirty War" here I had Major Doug Rokke in who teaches here on this campus and he handled the DU investigation for the Pentagon. He came in to talk about it, he can verify everything I am telling you. He himself suffers from the Gulf War Syndrome. So you have tens of thousands of Vets out there not getting proper medical treatment because of the government cover-up. Indeed, it used to be you could go to a Veteran’s hospital with the symptoms and they were instructed to say that this was just stress, it’s all in your mind.
I think Scott Ritter has put this out correctly and also Ray Zalinskas. Ray was a biowarfare guy, and an independent biowarfare expert. Part of the insidious nature now of the anthrax investigation is that the FBI is going out and saying to microbiologists, all right we want you involved in the investigation, we are going to give you something to analyze but you have got to sign a pledge of secrecy. So they are running around pledging everyone to secrecy so no one can talk about this and it is being done deliberately.
But to get back to your question, both Ritter and Zalinskas who were UNSCOM inspectors have publicly stated their position that Iraq’s biological weapons capability is dismantled. So if we do go back to war against Iraq, which I certainly hope we do not, I would not think this is going to be a significant problem. A lot of the rest of this is just propaganda, just between you and me. Ritter was just here on campus by the way, saying the same thing. And Zalinskas after he came back, his UNSCOM service was over, he said it is all gone. So I would not anticipate that would be a big problem this time.
But the last time it was. I have reputable sources where generals say yes, we gave Iraq weapons specific biological agents and we knew what we were doing, figuring they were going to use it against Iran. But then they were prepared to use it against us. Now when we blew up some of these factories to do this, it spewed all this stuff in the air and some of our people over there also inhaled this. So you have the vaccine, you have the particles of this stuff in the air, you have chemical weapons in the air, you have depleted uranium. And as I said today 50,000 people suffering from Gulf War Syndrome and it is slowly moving into the population. I have not seen any recent studies on it that but there are cases of it being conveyed to immediate family relatives, and health care workers, which indicates a biological agent at work.
As I said we were the first to raise this issue in the Huett-Vaughn court martial. She refused to go, she was a medical doctor, one of the reasons she said: I do not want to give these vaccines, they are clearly experimental, they violate the Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation, it would be a war crime, and it violates the Hippocratic oath. We defended her in the court martial, she was the highest ranking officer, refused to go, desertion, five years. It would have been the death penalty if it was a formally declared war by Congress. In the Article 32 hearings at Ft. Leonard Wood, there was satellite dish there. I first publicly accused these guys of inflicting a Nuremberg crime upon our own troops. That did go out. Later Senator Jay Rockefeller held hearings and at the end of the hearings, he publicly stated the same thing.
Dr. Huett-Vaughn was convicted after a total kangaroo court proceeding, taken away in chains, to Leavenworth, in medium security. We were able to get her out eight months later. Then they tried to strip her of her medical license. This is a woman who spent her whole life — she first worked in the Bronx — treating poor black people, community medical services. Then she moved down to Kansas City, and there doing the same thing and also she was one of the first doctors to treat AIDS patients. You know, at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic doctors were not even treating them. They tried to strip her of her medical license. I was not involved in that one but she is still practicing medicine in Kansas City. But at the formal court martial itself she was stripped of all of the witnesses but me and then I was shut down.
Loophole in BWC?
Well two things. My legislation was intended to close that loophole. That is why I put life imprisonment in there. We publicized it to scare the hell out of any life science researcher that was going to get involved in this type of stuff. Second, internationally the loophole was to be closed by means of the verification protocol. So that if a government said we are just doing legitimate defensive prophylactic research, you would have qualified experts able to come into that lab, and look at precisely what was going on. That is why Bush Jr. just rejected it in Geneva.
Bios v. Gas in WWI?
On the gas, in 1925 the Geneva Gas Protocol prohibited any use of any chemical weapons except in retaliation. By the way biological weapons too were added. That was generally observed in the European theater in the Second World War. The Nazis did not resort to it, we did develop anthrax, and the British did too. Indeed, a lot of our munitions are still left over here in Terre Haute, Indiana. Fortunately, they are downwind from us. And a lot of that was left over from World War II is still here, they do not know how to get rid of it. They are saying we are going to have a super-incinerator and we are going to burn it and again if you are living downwind, do not worry about it, that will take care of it. But you will have to burn everything and completely incinerate it for it to be safe. They do not know what to do with all this.
So the problem with the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972 then came the technology thereafter, the DNA genetic engineering technology that would give you the capability to develop a brand new agent using DNA genetic engineering as well as the vaccine because the technology is the same. Indeed, if you look at what they are doing now they will say: Oh yes there are all these exotic diseases out there and we have to develop vaccines against them. But if you look at how that happens, of course they develop the offensive agent and then they develop the vaccine and then all you would need is the aerosolization of the product and you have a weapon. We are doing this now.
The Pentagon just laid out a contract to Battelle now to develop anthrax that will be resistant to any type of treatment. Right now fortunately what we are dealing with in Washington can be treated by conventional antibiotics. What we are now developing by the government at Battelle, it is a matter of public record, you can read about it in the Wall Street Journal, anthrax that would be antibiotic resistant.
This then led to the Statement that we released at the Council of Responsible Genetics Workshop at Harvard that was signed by Professor King, Dr. Susan Wright of the University of Michigan, the CRG Executive Director Dr. Martin Teitel and myself opposing this. And we are starting a campaign to try to stop this type of work. There is another organization called the Sunshine Institute that also works against this type of research. And the Federation of American Scientists, Dr. Rosenberg runs that program for them.
So this is very dangerous stuff. You have proliferation of technology and weapons capability that can be turned against the American people and the American government.
Third World v. Pentagon and CIA?
Well sure, but the real problem, it has always been the problem, what about the Pentagon and the CIA? And so far Congress has not been prepared to reign them in and to stop this very dangerous, lethal research. It is still going on as we speak today. That in my opinion, is still the real problem and I believe that type of work is what is behind this recent anthrax attack on our government. It is not some crazy people in the third world, it was far too sophisticated for that. This was not the type of stuff you could put together in a university lab. That is why I do not believe the guys who hijacked the airplanes, had anything at all to do with it. The only people who had that capability, they all worked for the government or have worked for the government in these biowarfare programs.
They are dealing with the problem that the movement of these agents had been unregulated for the most part. As you know there is federal legislation on hazardous materials but this is super-hazardous and it needs very stringent regulation on all these agents for scientific purposes. Now scientists say you cannot interfere with what we are doing. Well I never intended to interfere with legitimate science but it turns out legitimate science can be perverted and so there will have to be more regulation not to stop the science but to regulate where is this agent and what is being done with this agent, and even if we hear from a legitimate lab and we send an agent out to the lab, where is the guarantee that someone out there at that scientific research institute is not going to turn this for weapons purposes? This is the problem they have to deal with now. It is a very big problem.
But we have to distinguish that from the anthrax attack on the government. Clearly this was a deliberate attack designed to shut down Congress, the House and the Senate, which they pretty much did, at a critical time. And it was by people affiliated with Pentagon, CIA. I do not believe that at all was any coincidence. Beyond that I cannot say, I can only go with the facts in the public record. And as I said unfortunately many of the microbiologists who have been given jobs to do by the FBI have now been sworn to secrecy. And the Daschle and the Leahy letters are all at Ft. Deitrick. Which is like putting the foxes in charge of the chicken coop.
Francis Boyle is human rights lawyer and a professor of law at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, recently published by Clarity Press. He can be reached at: FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU
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1. Signum Gloriae (Intro)
2. Cadaver Disposal
3. Let sleeping corpses lie
Genre: Death Metal
CADAVER DISPOSAL was found in 2010 out of the ashes of the German band BRAINDEAD.
"After BRAINDEAD had split up due to some legal issues, the band decided to reform under a different name in order to start again right from the beginning. Due to the fact that the band consists of great musicians (such as the former drummer of BELPHEGOR), they are really looking forward to hit stages everywhere possible.
The songs on 'Signum Gloriae' are the remains of the first album of BRAINDEAD, which was to be released by november 2010, but had to be cancelled due to those legal issues.
The band will enter the studio again in early 2011 to record another album with completely new songs, which will be released by NIHILISTIC EMPIRE RECORDS as soon as possible.
The band is currently working on a new Myspace-Profile and a Homepage. If you want to contact us, feel free to write to
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Fermat Capital captures a structural return from the catastrophe market through a long only portfolio that seeks to offer the maximum risk-adjusted return for an appropriate level of diversification. The aim of Fermat's strategy is to ensure that investors are adequately compensated for accepting the appropriate amount of identifiable risk while avoiding uncompensated risk.
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Patrick Edward Shea, 87, died Thursday, Dec. 25, 2003, at a Havre care center.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at
Church at Pendleton, Ore., with the Rev. Gregory officiating. Entomb-ment will
follow at the Olney Mausoleum. A fellowship luncheon will be held at the Elks Club immediately following the services at the Mausoleum. There will be a memorial vigil service held at the Eagles Manor in Havre at a later date.
Pat was born on Feb. 3, 1916, in Astoria, Ore., to Patrick and Laura (Parker) Shea. He was raised and educated in Astoria and graduated from The Star of the Sea High School. He worked at the state department in Salem, Ore., for the secretary of state.
It was there that he met his future wife Mildred E. Terjeson. The couple made their home in Portland, Ore., where Pat worked as an insurance investigator. He was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in World War II from August 1943 to October 1945 in the Battle of the Buldge in Germany. He served in northern France, Rineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe. He was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant.
After the war, the family lived in Seattle, where Pat worked as a real estate agent. The family moved to Pendleton, Ore., in 1946 and Pat worked for OGW. He then started Shea's Lockers, which he operated for 32 years. After retirement he worked for the Budweiser distributors in Pendleton and on the Terjeson ranch.
Pat enjoyed visiting with people and was always looking for a good joke or story. He also enjoyed dancing, golfing, hunting, bowling and his grandchildren. He was a 53-year member of the Elks Lodge, a member of the Pendleton Country Club, Jaycees, Rotary, a 43-year member of the Pendleton Round Up Association, and a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
Pat was preceded in death by his parents, Patrick and Laura (Parker) Shea; wife, Mildred (Terjeson) Shea in 2001; brothers, Tom, Joe and Francis Shea; and sisters, Mary Shea, Ellen Hannan, Elizabeth Fastebend, Anne Allen, Margaret Wolfgram, Cecelia Kunkel, Kathryn Gives, and June Johnson.
Survivors include his daughters, Karen (Pat) Hoffman of Havre, and Susan (Jim) Self of Salem, Ore.; grandson, Michael (Brandy) Spencer of Ricon, Ga.; granddaughters, Jennifer (Dustin) Kinsella of Havre and Jill Hoffman of Henderson, Nev.; and a very special companion and friend, Annabelle Lambert of Havre.
Memorials in Pat's honor may be made to the Umatilla County Historical Society.
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Human remains found ravaged by one or more brown bears on a southeast Alaska island are likely from a Sitka man overdue on a boating trip, Sitka police said Monday.
Police confirmed the grisly death Sunday and said remains found on Chichagof Island were likely that of Tomas Puerta, 54, who left Sitka in a skiff Thursday on his way to a forestry job site near Peril Strait.
The death was first reported by KCAW-FM.
Sitka is a community of about 9,000 on Baranof Island. Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof islands together are known as the "ABC Islands." They're sparsely populated with humans but heavily populated with bears that Alaska researchers have found are genetically more closely related to polar bears than to other brown bears.
"They have lots of bears, especially up on Chichagof," said Sitka police Lt. Barry Allen. "We have enough here on Baranof Island, but Chichagof has a scad of them."
Puerta was a tree-thinner, Allen said. He was employed in an area that had been logged to cut young trees so others would have less competition and would grow faster.
Puerta had made a grocery run, Allen said, and was returning to the job site with a load of food. The 40- to 50-mile trip on flat, protected water should have taken about two hours Thursday afternoon, Allen said, but Puerta never made it.
"It looks like he had engine problems and he wound up on the beach," Allen said.
He was reported missing Sunday afternoon about the time officers were responding to a report of an unattended skiff at Poison Bay on Chichagof Island.
Passers-by in another boat saw an unsecured skiff and went to shore to investigate. They were met on the beach by a brown bear sow with two cubs. Bears protecting a food cache can be hostile. The sow and cub acted aggressively, Allen said, and the Good Samaritans called emergency officials.
The police department sent its emergency response vessel to investigate. Sitka Mountain Rescue and an Alaska State Troopers also took a boat to the scene.
Puerta was not carrying a tent but officers found a backpack and evidence of a campsite.
"They found where he built a fire on the beach, and some groceries," Allen said.
They also found evidence of a struggle. They followed a trail of disturbed vegetation and articles of clothing to the human remains, which had been partially eaten. The remains had been cached within 50 yards of the beach.
Items found at the scene and information from Puerta's family and friends strongly indicate he was the person attacked. The sow and cubs are the suspects, Allen said.
"Whether or not that's the actual bears, I don't know," he said. "That particular area has lots of bear activity in it."
Allen said he had no indication when the victim was killed.
Police and a Fish and Wildlife trooper returned to the scene Monday to try to determine if a bear connected to death could be found. A bear determined to be responsible for killing a human would be killed.
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I have always been drawn to stories of the human connections that define us, an interest reflected in my work both as a photojournalist and a documentary filmmaker. The death of my mother and the arrival of my AARP card led me to examine the most fundamental human connection of all – to life itself. My natural instinct and my southern California lifestyle demanded more life, longer life, younger life. Somewhere between the hyperbaric chamber and the cryonic pod, I began to fully appreciate the complexity of the issue.
When I set out to make a documentary featuring some of the world's oldest people, I knew that counting on them to do publicity tours three years later might not be too realistic. The recent deaths of Jack LaLanne, age 96, and Britain's oldest working man Buster Martin, age 104, remind us that, for the time being, we can't live forever. I'm so grateful for the time they spent with me, and for the life lessons they gave which I'm able to share with audiences through the film. On the surface, these men were polar opposites -- Jack was a fitness and health food evangelist, Buster was an enthusiastic drinker of beer and unrepentant chain-smoker. At their core, however, they shared an unwavering drive to live life to the fullest, in the moment, each on his own terms.
There was something exquisitely moving about being in the presence of all my elderly subjects. These were people who'd lived through turbulent times and faced great adversity, yet no matter where they were or what their background, they all shared remarkable grace, humor, and resilience. My previous films examined the mysteries of identity, love, and family. Making How To Live Forever allowed me to connect those lessons to the ultimate question of what makes a life truly meaningful.
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It has been a few weeks, since January 8th, that we have talked about the status of a few projects that the GroupWise Engineering team is engaged in. I wanted to give an update on where we are at and what issues we are trying to solve.
GMS on Linux. Public BETA Refresh. We are posting this week - might be there already - a refresh of the Public BETA. GMS on Linux has been in Public BETA since November and we have received very little feedback. We have received some feedback and we have addressed all of those issues. However, we wanted to give this product a little more bake time before we officially released it. We do not have any current outstanding issues that we are pursuing, but we are still taking emails, inquiries and doing internal testing along with our partner Nokia. We do intend to officially release GMS on Linux in a few weeks. Our goal is just before BrainShare. I know that this has been a long time coming and we hope that it will be a product that you will deploy and use.
GroupWise 7.0.3 We are currently in Public BETA with 7.0.3. We entered Public BETA in January and we have had very good feedback and input on the Public BETA. We currently have about 1/2 dozen outstanding issues that we are following up on and we expect to have a GMC (Gold Master Candidate) build this week. Once we have this build, we will run through some final validation and internal rollout of the product and then we will release it to the public. We also expect to release GroupWise 7.0.3 just before BrainShare - in a few weeks. Currently we have run 83% of our test cases and we have passed those test cases at 95%. We will run all 100% of our P1 level test cases before we ship. Internally, our IS&T department has rolled out the agents to several Post Offices, MTAs, WebAccess and GWIA. IS&T is very happy with this release and we are expecting 7.0.3 to be our most solid release of GroupWise 7.x code yet. As it should be!!
One more bit of information, 7.0.3 contains fixes for many different issues. We have contacted over 90% of the customers that reported issues in 7.0.x that were fixed in 7.0.3 and had them help us validate 7.0.3 and their fix specifically. This has been a very effective use of our time and resources. It has involved many of our customers and it has allowed us to communicate effectively about the fixes/updates that customers report and we fix! We expect to continue to involve our customers, partners and support personnel in making sure each release of GroupWise is better than the previous release.
Hope to see/hear from many of you in my new blog home! Responses in the CoolBlogs section has been excellent and I hope that this will continue as Novell moves a lot of our blogging efforts to this new venue.
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The Chicago mayor says “the time is right”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that “the time is right” for Illinois to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, and called for it to be a priority in the state.
The election “continued America’s great history of expanding opportunity and equality,” Emanuel wrote in a letter to the Chicago Sun-Times. “Today, we must take the next step on that journey by affording the opportunity to marry to all Americans — and we can continue that march by quickly enacting marriage equality here in Illinois.”
The Advocate reports:
In Illinois, a marriage equality bill was introduced in February by the state’s three openly gay legislators (there will be a fourth in the next term). Gov. Pat Quinn, also a Democrat, has made it clear he supports such a measure. The Democrats have a majority of seats in both the state Senate and House, and in the next term, beginning in January, will have supermajorities.
All these factors would appear to bode well for the bill, and there has been speculation that a vote on it could come before the end of this year. Emanuel, however, declined to predict when the legislature might take it up or if it would pass. He said he simply wants to ensure marriage equality won’t get lost in the shuffle amid the state’s financial and other challenges, and he thinks it will unless someone makes it a priority.
The Sun-Times reports that Emanuel said marriage equality should be the state’s No. 3 priority — after pension reform and a casino in Chicago — and said he will be “very involved” in pushing for it.
The New York Times reported earlier this week that gay rights groups are targeting Illinois as a potential battleground for legalizing gay marriage, following its success with ballot measures in the election. Delaware, Hawaii and Rhode Island are also potential targets; as is Minnesota, where a ballot measure was defeated this year that would have added a ban on gay marriage to the state constitution; New Jersey, where Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill passed by the state Legislature that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the state; and Oregon, where gay rights groups hope voters will reverse a constitutional ban on gay marriage in 2014.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court pushed back making a decision on Proposition 8 and DOMA cases until Nov. 30. Originally, the Court said it would decide whether to rule on the cases by Nov. 20.
Jillian Rayfield is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on politics. Follow her on Twitter at @jillrayfield or email her at email@example.com. More Jillian Rayfield.
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By Eric Steege
As a coach it is natural to have your "favorite" players. However, the positive and negative expectations you form about players on your team affects not only your own behavior toward them but also the feelings and performance of those players.
Having such an influence on your players' athletic development and experience can be a heavy responsibility. Thus, it is critical that all coaches understand the cyclical relationship between a coach's expectations and player performance. Refer to my last article to see how this process works (How Expectations Affect Performance).
Along with understanding the process, it is important to know how to keep your expectations for players in check to ensure all the players (not just your "favorite" athletes) reach their full potential and maximize their enjoyment of soccer.
The following are helpful hints how to keep your expectations in check.
* Establish an objective approach to evaluate players in the preseason or early season. This provides a more consistent way to form initial expectations for every player.
* Realize that your initial evaluation of an athlete's skill may be inaccurate. Continuously work in opportunities to evaluate every player in a structured manner and be open to revising initial evaluations as the season progresses.
* While in practice, be aware of the amount of time each athlete spends waiting in line. Resist the urge to allow your "favorite" players to participate more than your "non-favorite" players.
* Design practices that provide every athlete the opportunity to improve their skills. Remember, minimize the amount all players are waiting in line and maximize the number of touches every player is getting on the ball.
* Establish a practice environment that allows all individuals the opportunity for peak improvement and respect creativity while focusing on team play. Using positive-reinforcement when you see a player execute a new skill is a great way to increase self-confidence in players and communicate to your team that you define success by individual improvement as opposed to winning.
* Interact frequently with all athletes and value every player's input when asking their opinion and attitudes regarding team rules etc.
In closing, I recently attended a talk by an esteemed college coach. One comment, in particular, inspired me as a coach of youth athletes and it may do the same for you:
"I [the coach] am so average, I'm boring. I'm used to being average and that's OK. Because of this, I feel I have always been able to connect better with the 'average' player. I know there will always be many more of these 'average' players than the gifted athlete. As a result, I see the importance of the 'average' player and I get excited for the opportunity to take this type of player and make them above average."
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Since we lost the old links for BBQ sauces during all the crashes, I did an Internet search and at least found a few of them.
South Beach BBQ Sauce, South Beach Diet Book
This zesty sauce can be quickly made from scratch with a few basic pantry items. Store it in the refrigerator for up to one week.
1 (8-ounce) can Tomato sauce
2 tablespoons White vinegar
2 teaspoons Chopped fresh parsley
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Ground mustard
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon Freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon Garlic powder
Combine tomato sauce, vinegar, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt, pepper, and garlic powder in a resealable plastic container. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Sugar-Free BBQ Sauce
2 strips of thick bacon, chopped fine (or see note)
1 small onion, minced
1 clove garlic, minced or 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 small can (6 oz) tomato paste
1 can (12 oz) diet (sugar-free) cola - Splenda-sweetened preferred
1/4 cup sugar-free catsup, (or see note)
3 T mustard
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 pinch ground cloves
Hot sauce to taste
Note 1: Turkey bacon may work, but If you prefer to leave the bacon out, add 1-3 teaspoons of liquid smoke, to taste, near the end of the cooking. Alternatively, add some smoky flavor using 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika, or chipotle powder to taste. Or, you can just leave it out completely.
Note 2: If you can't find low carb catsup, leave it out, but add about a tablespoon of vinegar and some sweetener, to taste.
Fry the bacon in a saucepan - a 2 qt pan works well. Add the onion and cook over medium until soft - 3-5 minutes. Add garlic at this point if you're using fresh and stir it for half a minute or so. Add the rest of the ingredients, plus about half a cup of water. Stir well. Simmer for 20-30 minutes. It will cook down a bit and flavors will combine. Adjust the seasonings so you have the balance you want - you can add vinegar, artificial sweetener (liquid preferred), or hot sauce. (If it's too hot, adding more sweetener will tone it down.)
The recipe makes approximately 10 servings of 1/4 cup each. Each serving has about 3.5 grams of carbohydrate plus 1 gram of fiber.
Easy BBQ Sauce
Equal parts of:
minced garlic (to taste)
diced onion (to taste)
Sugar-free Barbeque Sauce with diet soda
1 tbsp dried onion flakes
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp onion salt
1 tsp garlic, minced
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
4 tbsp tomato puree
8 ounces cola, diet
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Sudan said on Thursday it would allow UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO) still present in the country to expand their operations, a move that aims to narrow the gap left by expelled aid groups.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had pushed out 13 international aid groups after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest in March on charges of masterminding war crimes in Darfur. Sudan accused the aid groups of helping build the charges against Bashir.
Speaking after meeting UN humanitarian chief John Holmes, US special envoy Scott Gration and other officials, Sudanese Humanitarian Assistance Minister Haroun Lual Ruun said Khartoum would be “allowing the remaining UN and NGOs to expand their existing operations.”
“We have also agreed to further improve the NGOs operating environment by easing travel and visas restrictions, by reviewing the need for individual technical agreements for NGOs,” he said.
About 4.7 million people rely on humanitarian aid in Darfur, a conflict in which UN officials say as many as 300,000 people have died in almost six years of ethnic and political violence. Khartoum says 10,000 have died.
After the expulsion Sudan said that Sudanese groups had been filling the gaps left by expelled groups and there was no problem with aid distribution, but foreign agencies have disputed that.
Ruun also said the Sudanese government invited new international NGOs to begin operations in Sudan. Holmes reiterated that while the UN’s preference would be for the expulsion decision to be revoked: “I think what we’re hearing ... is that new NGOs with new names, new logos, if necessary, can come in. That means there’s an opportunity to exploit some of that expertise and experience that is there and I think that is a welcome degree of flexibility about how it might happen in the future.”
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STEM - You're hired!
With the announcement of 40,000 new apprenticeships in the recent Budget, this once-maligned career path is making a comeback, finds Georgia Laird
'If college and uni aren't for you, then apprenticeships are perfect," used to be the perceived wisdom. Perhaps this is why Britain continues to see apprenticeships as a "cop out". However, this route suits many, particularly those keen to get into the STEM sector.
"I always loved cars," says Mark Jefferson, (pictured), 18, an apprentice mechanic for Rockingham Cars in Northamptonshire. "My dad used to build them when I was younger. Qualifications weren't my cup of tea; I wasn't interested in A-levels, so when I got the opportunity to do an apprenticeship I jumped at the chance."
When Mark was in Year 9 his school, Uppingham Community College, offered a mechanics apprenticeship level 1 course in Year 10, and level two in Year 11. Leaving school with level 2 under his belt, along with three GCSEs, Mark joined Rockingham Cars and in 2009 won the national Young Apprentice of the Year award - a happy ending to a difficult few years. "When I was 15, my dad passed away," he says. "It wasn't one of the best things but I decided to make a good thing of the situation."
When Mark qualifies he will become a professional mechanic and has the ambition to open his own garage one day. "It's a good thing that the Government is creating more apprenticeships because there are so many people out there like me who aren't academic, but benefit from the hands-on approach."
Chancellor George Osborne's Budget review in March revealed that the Government plans to invest a further £180 million in apprenticeship places over the next four years, on top of £1.4 million already invested. Apprentices, it seems, are going up in the world - and that's without a weekly visit to Lord Sugar's boardroom.
Perhaps business secretary Vince Cable's speech in February's Apprenticeship Week prompted this extra cash. "Some of the most prestigious companies in England, large and small, public and private, employ apprentices and benefit from doing so," he said at the time.
The UK currently boasts 190 different types of apprenticeships, and the "Prancing Horse", aka Ferrari North Europe, is the latest STEM programme to jump aboard. With the engineering and science industry turning over £257 billion per year and engineering alone accounting for 37 per cent of UK exports, more businesses are investing in the sector as it increasingly defines the industrial landscape.
Sa'ad Medhat is the founding chief executive of the New Engineering Foundation, a charity that works to develop vocational education. He says: "Today we are witnessing a number of new industries, low-carbon areas, sustainability and manufacturing. What is good about the apprenticeship approach is that it allows learners to understand technology from a professional point of view. Being a part of it helps solidify understanding."
Professor Medhat followed the apprentice route himself, before doing his PhD and becoming an IBM professor of concurrent engineering: proof that an apprenticeship doesn't mean a "backbench" career.
But research by the Learning and Skills Council in 2009 found that schools largely promoted a more traditional route of learning, via A-levels and university, adding to the perception that it was those with the lowest grades who were given the option to do an apprenticeship.
"We seem to create a stigma in this country with vocational skills," says Professor Medhat. "If you look at Germany, they develop apprenticeship programmes up to Masters level and beyond. That's something we must learn from."
Some big companies in the UK are already on the case. Jaguar Land Rover actively works with the community and in the past 18 months has made 300 school visits. The company has joined forces with BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to "go digital". With the help of business psychologists at Mendas, the trio has launched an Engineering Apprenticeship Career Matching Tool for people to use to assess their suitability for an apprenticeship scheme.
"Many people don't realise they would make good apprentices," says Ian Eva, apprentice manager at Jaguar Land Rover. "This means we miss out on really good people."
Now, with extra funding, companies hope this will change. Employers' organisation the CBI says the Government's latest action is fundamental in giving people the skills they need to start careers. "It is really good news," says a spokesperson for the organisation. "(Apprenticeships) provide practical, business-focused training that boosts productivity.
"The Government also needs to cut bureaucracy to encourage more employers to be involved - half of employers say reducing red-tape would give a real boost to apprenticeship numbers."
The Government's recent budget offers funding to stimulate the development of 10,000 higher-level apprenticeship places in small and medium-sized enterprises. On top of that, another 40,000 new apprenticeship places have been targeted at young people not in education or training. This emphasises how apprenticeships can benefit everyone, regardless of their academic ability.
In fact, the apprenticeship scheme is so appealing that some school leavers choose it over university, proving that the route is not for school drop-outs. Rolls-Royce's latest apprentice to qualify, Cassie Leicester (pictured), 22, ditched her university offer for a place on their apprenticeship programme.
"My design and technology teacher spent 20 years in the engineering industry. I loved hearing his tales and stories; it gave me great insight into the industry, so I became an engineering apprentice."
Cassie was first wooed by Rolls-Royce at a GCSE school careers fair, where she made contacts. She continued to do her A-levels while securing herself both a place at university and a place on the Rolls-Royce apprenticeship scheme.
"I decided that degrees were expensive; you have got to fund yourself through it and there's no guarantee of a job," she says. "However, an apprenticeship offers hands-on experience, shadowing experts to learn the trade. You can also get funding to be educated to degree level, and there's a job at the end. It's win-win."
More than 30 per cent of Rolls-Royce apprentices have progressed to senior management roles, a fact that Mr Cable likes to quote. Cassie was one of six apprentices nationwide to take part in an Assembly & Manufacturing Leadership Development - Pre Scheme, which identifies potential leaders for the future.
"I was really chuffed," she says. "I really enjoy working with people, motivating them. The responsibility of a leadership role is something I would love in the future."
In 2007/08, only 8.7 per cent of all NVQ/SVQ awards given in engineering and manufacturing technologies were to women. Cassie works hard with Rolls-Royce to recruit more apprentices, especially female. She is also a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee.
"Personally I don't feel any different to my colleagues," she says. "There definitely need to be more women in STEM. People think engineering is an oily, greasy environment but it's not."
The future looks bright for many apprentices. But whether STEM apprenticeships have won the heart of the next generation is yet to be seen. Skills minister John Hayes is committed to dispelling the myth of the inferiority of apprenticeships and aims to put them on an equal footing with university degrees. "Our ultimate goal remains to see apprentices achieve equivalent esteem and status to university graduates, so that an apprenticeship scheme is as valued as one at university," he says.
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SPEAK UP AND GET NOTICED!
The ability to communicate professionally is one of the most sought after skills for today's business professional. Speaking, whether before your team or in a public venue, requires both skill and confidence. Do it well, and your career will reflect the success good speaking skills bring.
Public speaking is the number one fear among most people! The ability to speak clearly and intelligently in front of your manager, your peers and industry requires a combination of business acumen, good writing skills and a mastery of the spoken word. You can conquer this fear with training and practice. The ability to pull together your thoughts and present them in a professional manner will give you a step up and enhance your career.
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Same day, 11 o'clock P. M.Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight. We had a lovely walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us. I believe we forgot everything, except of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start. We had a capital severe tea' at Robin Hood's Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand. I believe we should have shocked the New Woman' with our appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless them! Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to rest, and with our hearts full of a constant dread of wild bulls.
Lucy was really tired, and we intended to creep off to bed as soon as we could. The young curate came in, however, and Mrs. Westenra asked him to stay for supper. Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller. I know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite heroic. I think that some day the bishops must get together and see about breeding up a new class of curates, who don't take supper, no matter how hard they may be pressed to, and who will know when girls are tired.
Lucy is asleep and breathing softly. She has more colour in her cheeks than usual, and looks, oh so sweet. If Mr. Holmwood fell in love with her seeing her only in the drawing room, I wonder what he would say if he saw her now. Some of the New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman' won't condescend in future to accept. She will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it too! There's some consolation in that. I am so happy tonight, because dear Lucy seems better. I really believe she has turned the corner, and that we are over her troubles with dreaming. I should be quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan ... God bless and keep him.
11 August.Diary again. No sleep now, so I may as well write. I am too agitated to sleep. We have had such an adventure, such an agonizing experience. I fell asleep as soon as I had closed my diary ... Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense of fear upon me, and of some feeling of emptiness around me. The room was dark, so I could not see Lucy's bed. I stole across and felt for her. The bed was empty. I lit a match and found that she was not in the room. The door was shut, but not locked, as I had left it. I feared to wake her mother, who has been more than usually ill lately, so threw on some clothes and got ready to look for her. As I was leaving the room it struck me that the clothes she wore might give me some clue to her dreaming intention. Dressing-gown would mean house, dress outside. Dressing-gown and dress were both in their places. Thank God, I said to myself, she cannot be far, as she is only in her nightdress.
I ran downstairs and looked in the sitting room. Not there! Then I looked in all the other rooms of the house, with an ever-growing fear chilling my heart. Finally, I came to the hall door and found it open. It was not wide open, but the catch of the lock had not caught. The people of the house are careful to lock the door every night, so I feared that Lucy must have gone out as she was. There was no time to think of what might happen. A vague over-mastering fear obscured all details.
I took a big, heavy shawl and ran out. The clock was striking one as I was in the Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight. I ran along the North Terrace, but could see no sign of the white figure which I expected. At the edge of the West Cliff above the pier I looked across the harbour to the East Cliff, in the hope or fear, I don't know which, of seeing Lucy in our favourite seat.
There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade as they sailed across. For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary's Church and all around it. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view, and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible. Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white. The coming of the cloud was too quick for me to see much, for shadow shut down on light almost immediately, but it seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.
I did not wait to catch another glance, but flew down the steep steps to the pier and along by the fish-market to the bridge, which was the only way to reach the East Cliff. The town seemed as dead, for not a soul did I see. I rejoiced that it was so, for I wanted no witness of poor Lucy's condition. The time and distance seemed endless, and my knees trembled and my breath came laboured as I toiled up the endless steps to the abbey. I must have gone fast, and yet it seemed to me as if my feet were weighted with lead, and as though every joint in my body were rusty.
When I got almost to the top I could see the seat and the white figure, for I was now close enough to distinguish it even through the spells of shadow. There was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, Lucy! Lucy! and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes.
Lucy did not answer, and I ran on to the entrance of the churchyard. As I entered, the church was between me and the seat, and for a minute or so I lost sight of her. When I came in view again the cloud had passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly that I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back of the seat. She was quite alone, and there was not a sign of any living thing about.
When I bent over her I could see that she was still asleep. Her lips were parted, and she was breathing, not softly as usual with her, but in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every breath. As I came close, she put up her hand in her sleep and pulled the collar of her nightdress close around her, as though she felt the cold. I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight around her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was. I feared to wake her all at once, so, in order to have my hands free to help her, I fastened the shawl at her throat with a big safety pin. But I must have been clumsy in my anxiety and pinched or pricked her with it, for by-and-by, when her breathing became quieter, she put her hand to her throat again and moaned. When I had her carefully wrapped up I put my shoes on her feet, and then began very gently to wake her.
At first she did not respond, but gradually she became more and more uneasy in her sleep, moaning and sighing occasionally. At last, as time was passing fast, and for many other reasons, I wished to get her home at once, I shook her forcibly, till finally she opened her eyes and awoke. She did not seem surprised to see me, as, of course, she did not realize all at once where she was.
Lucy always wakes prettily, and even at such a time, when her body must have been chilled with cold, and her mind somewhat appalled at waking unclad in a churchyard at night, she did not lose her grace. She trembled a little, and clung to me. When I told her to come at once with me home, she rose without a word, with the obedience of a child. As we passed along, the gravel hurt my feet, and Lucy noticed me wince. She stopped and wanted to insist upon my taking my shoes, but I would not. However, when we got to the pathway outside the churchyard, where there was a puddle of water, remaining from the storm, I daubed my feet with mud, using each foot in turn on the other, so that as we went home, no one, in case we should meet any one, should notice my bare feet.
Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us. But we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland. My heart beat so loud all the time sometimes I thought I should faint. I was filled with anxiety about Lucy, not only for her health, lest she should suffer from the exposure, but for her reputation in case the story should get wind. When we got in, and had washed our feet, and had said a prayer of thankfulness together, I tucked her into bed. Before falling asleep she asked, even implored, me not to say a word to any one, even her mother, about her sleep-walking adventure.
I hesitated at first, to promise, but on thinking of the state of her mother's health, and how the knowledge of such a thing would fret her, and think too, of how such a story might become distorted, nay, infallibly would, in case it should leak out, I thought it wiser to do so. I hope I did right. I have locked the door, and the key is tied to my wrist, so perhaps I shall not be again disturbed. Lucy is sleeping soundly. The reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea ...
Same day, noon.All goes well. Lucy slept till I woke her and seemed not to have even changed her side. The adventure of the night does not seem to have harmed her, on the contrary, it has benefited her, for she looks better this morning than she has done for weeks. I was sorry to notice that my clumsiness with the safety-pin hurt her. Indeed, it might have been serious, for the skin of her throat was pierced. I must have pinched up a piece of loose skin and have transfixed it, for there are two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her nightdress was a drop of blood. When I apologised and was concerned about it, she laughed and petted me, and said she did not even feel it. Fortunately it cannot leave a scar, as it is so tiny.
Same day, night.We passed a happy day. The air was clear, and the sun bright, and there was a cool breeze. We took our lunch to Mulgrave Woods, Mrs. Westenra driving by the road and Lucy and I walking by the cliff-path and joining her at the gate. I felt a little sad myself, for I could not but feel how absolutely happy it would have been had Jonathan been with me. But there! I must only be patient. In the evening we strolled in the Casino Terrace, and heard some good music by Spohr and Mackenzie, and went to bed early. Lucy seems more restful than she has been for some time, and fell asleep at once. I shall lock the door and secure the key the same as before, though I do not expect any trouble tonight.
12 August.My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I was wakened by Lucy trying to get out. She seemed, even in her sleep, to be a little impatient at finding the door shut, and went back to bed under a sort of protest. I woke with the dawn, and heard the birds chirping outside of the window. Lucy woke, too, and I was glad to see, was even better than on the previous morning. All her old gaiety of manner seemed to have come back, and she came and snuggled in beside me and told me all about Arthur. I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.
13 August.Another quiet day, and to bed with the key on my wrist as before. Again I awoke in the night, and found Lucy sitting up in bed, still asleep, pointing to the window. I got up quietly, and pulling aside the blind, looked out. It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light over the sea and sky, merged together in one great silent mystery, was beautiful beyond words. Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles. Once or twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose, frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the harbour towards the abbey. When I came back from the window Lucy had lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully. She did not stir again all night.
14 August.On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day. Lucy seems to have become as much in love with the spot as I am, and it is hard to get her away from it when it is time to come home for lunch or tea or dinner. This afternoon she made a funny remark. We were coming home for dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and stopped to look at the view, as we generally do. The setting sun, low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness. The red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow. We were silent for a while, and suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself ...
His red eyes again! They are just the same. It was such an odd expression, coming apropos of nothing, that it quite startled me. I slewed round a little, so as to see Lucy well without seeming to stare at her, and saw that she was in a half dreamy state, with an odd look on her face that I could not quite make out, so I said nothing, but followed her eyes. She appeared to be looking over at our own seat, whereon was a dark figure seated alone. I was quite a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames, but a second look dispelled the illusion. The red sunlight was shining on the windows of St. Mary's Church behind our seat, and as the sun dipped there was just sufficient change in the refraction and reflection to make it appear as if the light moved. I called Lucy's attention to the peculiar effect, and she became herself with a start, but she looked sad all the same. It may have been that she was thinking of that terrible night up there. We never refer to it, so I said nothing, and we went home to dinner. Lucy had a headache and went early to bed. I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself.
I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan. When coming home, it was then bright moonlight, so bright that, though the front of our part of the Crescent was in shadow, everything could be well seen, I threw a glance up at our window, and saw Lucy's head leaning out. I opened my handkerchief and waved it. She did not notice or make any movement whatever. Just then, the moonlight crept round an angle of the building, and the light fell on the window. There distinctly was Lucy with her head lying up against the side of the window sill and her eyes shut. She was fast asleep, and by her, seated on the window sill, was something that looked like a good-sized bird. I was afraid she might get a chill, so I ran upstairs, but as I came into the room she was moving back to her bed, fast asleep, and breathing heavily. She was holding her hand to her throat, as though to protect if from the cold.
I did not wake her, but tucked her up warmly. I have taken care that the door is locked and the window securely fastened.
She looks so sweet as she sleeps, but she is paler than is her wont, and there is a drawn, haggard look under her eyes which I do not like. I fear she is fretting about something. I wish I could find out what it is.
15 August.Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and slept on after we had been called. We had a happy surprise at breakfast. Arthur's father is better, and wants the marriage to come off soon. Lucy is full of quiet joy, and her mother is glad and sorry at once. Later on in the day she told me the cause. She is grieved to lose Lucy as her very own, but she is rejoiced that she is soon to have some one to protect her. Poor dear, sweet lady! She confided to me that she has got her death warrant. She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy. Her doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for her heart is weakening. At any time, even now, a sudden shock would be almost sure to kill her. Ah, we were wise to keep from her the affair of the dreadful night of Lucy's sleep-walking.
17 August.No diary for two whole days. I have not had the heart to write. Some sort of shadowy pall seems to be coming over our happiness. No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker, whilst her mother's hours are numbering to a close. I do not understand Lucy's fading away as she is doing. She eats well and sleeps well, and enjoys the fresh air, but all the time the roses in her cheeks are fading, and she gets weaker and more languid day by day. At night I hear her gasping as if for air.
I keep the key of our door always fastened to my wrist at night, but she gets up and walks about the room, and sits at the open window. Last night I found her leaning out when I woke up, and when I tried to wake her I could not.
She was in a faint. When I managed to restore her, she was weak as water, and cried silently between long, painful struggles for breath. When I asked her how she came to be at the window she shook her head and turned away.
I trust her feeling ill may not be from that unlucky prick of the safety-pin. I looked at her throat just now as she lay asleep, and the tiny wounds seem not to have healed. They are still open, and, if anything, larger than before, and the edges of them are faintly white. They are like little white dots with red centres. Unless they heal within a day or two, I shall insist on the doctor seeing about them.
Dear Sirs,Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great Northern Railway. Same are to be delivered at Carfax, near Purfleet, immediately on receipt at goods station King's Cross. The house is at present empty, but enclosed please find keys, all of which are labelled.
You will please deposit the boxes, fifty in number, which form the consignment, in the partially ruined building forming part of the house and marked A' on rough diagrams enclosed. Your agent will easily recognize the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion. The goods leave by the train at 9:30 tonight, and will be due at King's Cross at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. As our client wishes the delivery made as soon as possible, we shall be obliged by your having teams ready at King's Cross at the time named and forthwith conveying the goods to destination. In order to obviate any delays possible through any routine requirements as to payment in your departments, we enclose cheque herewith for ten pounds, receipt of which please acknowledge. Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance, if greater, we shall at once send cheque for difference on hearing from you. You are to leave the keys on coming away in the main hall of the house, where the proprietor may get them on his entering the house by means of his duplicate key.
Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.
We are, dear Sirs, Faithfully yours,Samuel F. Billington & Son
Dear Sirs,We beg to acknowledge 10 pounds received and to return cheque of 1 pound, 17s, 9d, amount of overplus, as shown in receipted account herewith. Goods are delivered in exact accordance with instructions, and keys left in parcel in main hall, as directed.
We are, dear Sirs, Yours respectfully, Pro Carter, Paterson & Co.
18 August.I am happy today, and write sitting on the seat in the churchyard. Lucy is ever so much better. Last night she slept well all night, and did not disturb me once.
The roses seem coming back already to her cheeks, though she is still sadly pale and wan-looking. If she were in any way anemic I could understand it, but she is not. She is in gay spirits and full of life and cheerfulness. All the morbid reticence seems to have passed from her, and she has just reminded me, as if I needed any reminding, of that night, and that it was here, on this very seat, I found her asleep.
As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said, My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up Geordie.
As she was in such a communicative humour, I asked her if she had dreamed at all that night.
Before she answered, that sweet, puckered look came into her forehead, which Arthur, I call him Arthur from her habit, says he loves, and indeed, I don't wonder that he does. Then she went on in a half-dreaming kind of way, as if trying to recall it to herself.
I didn't quite dream, but it all seemed to be real. I only wanted to be here in this spot. I don't know why, for I was afraid of something, I don't know what. I remember, though I suppose I was asleep, passing through the streets and over the bridge. A fish leaped as I went by, and I leaned over to look at it, and I heard a lot of dogs howling. The whole town seemed as if it must be full of dogs all howling at once, as I went up the steps. Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very sweet and very bitter all around me at once. And then I seemed sinking into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have heard there is to drowning men, and then everything seemed passing away from me. My soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the air. I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me, and then there was a sort of agonizing feeling, as if I were in an earthquake, and I came back and found you shaking my body. I saw you do it before I felt you.
Then she began to laugh. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly. I did not quite like it, and thought it better not to keep her mind on the subject, so we drifted on to another subject, and Lucy was like her old self again. When we got home the fresh breeze had braced her up, and her pale cheeks were really more rosy. Her mother rejoiced when she saw her, and we all spent a very happy evening together.
19 August.Joy, joy, joy! Although not all joy. At last, news of Jonathan. The dear fellow has been ill, that is why he did not write. I am not afraid to think it or to say it, now that I know. Mr. Hawkins sent me on the letter, and wrote himself, oh so kindly. I am to leave in the morning and go over to Jonathan, and to help to nurse him if necessary, and to bring him home. Mr. Hawkins says it would not be a bad thing if we were to be married out there. I have cried over the good Sister's letter till I can feel it wet against my bosom, where it lies. It is of Jonathan, and must be near my heart, for he is in my heart. My journey is all mapped out, and my luggage ready. I am only taking one change of dress. Lucy will bring my trunk to London and keep it till I send for it, for it may be that ... I must write no more. I must keep it to say to Jonathan, my husband. The letter that he has seen and touched must comfort me till we meet.
Dear Madam. I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary. He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever. He wishes me to convey his love, and to say that by this post I write for him to Mr. Peter Hawkins, Exeter, to say, with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry for his delay, and that all of his work is completed. He will require some few weeks' rest in our sanatorium in the hills, but will then return. He wishes me to say that he has not sufficient money with him, and that he would like to pay for his staying here, so that others who need shall not be wanting for help.Believe me, Yours, with sympathy and all blessings. Sister Agatha
P. S.My patient being asleep, I open this to let you know something more. He has told me all about you, and that you are shortly to be his wife. All blessings to you both! He has had some fearful shock, so says our doctor, and in his delirium his ravings have been dreadful, of wolves and poison and blood, of ghosts and demons, and I fear to say of what. Be careful of him always that there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to come. The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard was told by the station master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a ticket for home. Seeing from his violent demeanor that he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached. Be assured that he is well cared for. He has won all hearts by his sweetness and gentleness. He is truly getting on well, and I have no doubt will in a few weeks be all himself. But be careful of him for safety's sake. There are, I pray God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary, many, many, happy years for you both.
19 Agust.Strange and sudden change in Renfield last night. About eight o'clock he began to get excited and sniff about as a dog does when setting. The attendant was struck by his manner, and knowing my interest in him, encouraged him to talk. He is usually respectful to the attendant and at times servile, but tonight, the man tells me, he was quite haughty. Would not condescend to talk with him at all.
All he would say was, I don't want to talk to you. You don't count now. The master is at hand.
The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one.
At nine o'clock I visited him myself. His attitude to me was the same as that to the attendant. In his sublime self-feeling the difference between myself and the attendant seemed to him as nothing. It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!
For half an hour or more Renfield kept getting excited in greater and greater degree. I did not pretend to be watching him, but I kept strict observation all the same. All at once that shifty look came into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to know so well. He became quite quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack-luster eyes.
I thought I would find out if his apathy were real or only assumed, and tried to lead him to talk of his pets, a theme which had never failed to excite his attention.
At first he made no reply, but at length said testily, Bother them all! I don't care a pin about them.
What? I said. You don't mean to tell me you don't care about spiders? (Spiders at present are his hobby and the notebook is filling up with columns of small figures.)
To this he answered enigmatically, The Bride maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride. But when the bride draweth nigh, then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled.
He would not explain himself, but remained obstinately seated on his bed all the time I remained with him.
I am weary tonight and low in spirits. I cannot but think of Lucy, and how different things might have been. If I don't sleep at once, chloral, the modern Morpheus! I must be careful not to let it grow into a habit. No, I shall take none tonight! I have thought of Lucy, and I shall not dishonour her by mixing the two. If need by, tonight shall be sleepless.
Later.Glad I made the resolution, gladder that I kept to it. I had lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the night watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield had escaped. I threw on my clothes and ran down at once. My patient is too dangerous a person to be roaming about. Those ideas of his might work out dangerously with strangers.
The attendant was waiting for me. He said he had seen him not ten minutes before, seemingly asleep in his bed, when he had looked through the observation trap in the door. His attention was called by the sound of the window being wrenched out. He ran back and saw his feet disappear through the window, and had at once sent up for me. He was only in his night gear, and cannot be far off.
The attendant thought it would be more useful to watch where he should go than to follow him, as he might lose sight of him whilst getting out of the building by the door. He is a bulky man, and couldn't get through the window.
I am thin, so, with his aid, I got out, but feet foremost, and as we were only a few feet above ground landed unhurt.
The attendant told me the patient had gone to the left, and had taken a straight line, so I ran as quickly as I could. As I got through the belt of trees I saw a white figure scale the high wall which separates our grounds from those of the deserted house.
I ran back at once, told the watchman to get three or four men immediately and follow me into the grounds of Carfax, in case our friend might be dangerous. I got a ladder myself, and crossing the wall, dropped down on the other side. I could see Renfield's figure just disappearing behind the angle of the house, so I ran after him. On the far side of the house I found him pressed close against the old iron-bound oak door of the chapel.
He was talking, apparently to some one, but I was afraid to go near enough to hear what he was saying, lest I might frighten him, and he should run off.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him! After a few minutes, however, I could see that he did not take note of anything around him, and so ventured to draw nearer to him, the more so as my men had now crossed the wall and were closing him in. I heard him say ...
I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped you long and afar off. Now that you are near, I await your commands, and you will not pass me by, will you, dear Master, in your distribution of good things?
He is a selfish old beggar anyhow. He thinks of the loaves and fishes even when he believes his is in a real Presence. His manias make a startling combination. When we closed in on him he fought like a tiger. He is immensely strong, for he was more like a wild beast than a man.
I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before, and I hope I shall not again. It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he might have done wild work before he was caged.
He is safe now, at any rate. Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free from the strait waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained to the wall in the padded room.
His cries are at times awful, but the silences that follow are more deadly still, for he means murder in every turn and movement.
Just now he spoke coherent words for the first time. I shall be patient, Master. It is coming, coming, coming!
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I was 16, also had to memorize it for chemistry in 10th grade.
I also had to memorize the entire fucking gettysburg address in 8th grade, and sadly I still remember a good portion of it.
Good times, good times....
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6 February 2001
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Item 12(a) of the provisional agenda
INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE:
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Written statement*/ submitted by the Romanian Independent Society of Human Rights, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status
The Secretary-General has received the following written statement which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31.
[9 January 2001]
1. SIRDO's main objective is the protection and the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms. As early as its establishment, in the year 1990, the programmes of the organisation have been mainly focused on the assistance, the juridical counselling and the support offered to the disfavoured categories: victims of the infringement of human rights during the penal process, victims of torture, victims of domestic violence, persons deprived of freedom who are in the police lock-ups or in penitentiaries, foreigners, refugees, migrants etc.;
2. By this report we request the attention and the intervention of the Commission on Human Rights as regards three situations in which women in Romania are submitted to acts of violence, namely: a) domestic violence; b) violence and the practice of torture in police lock-ups; c) violence and ignoring the right to health in penitentiaries.
a) Women who are submitted to acts of violence do not rejoice total protection from the state in the case of domestic violence.
An important chapter is the programme "Genesis", focused on actions of monitoring Romania's respect for the pledges regarding the revision of legislation and the practice of state institutions on the basis of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the implementation of the Beijing Platform on the integration of women's fundamental rights in the gender perspective. Among SIRDO's activities, an important position is held by the juridical counselling of the victims of domestic violence.
In the year 1999, SIRDO presented to the Commission on Human Rights on its 56th session, a written statement (E/CN.4/NGO/42, Item 12 (a) of the provisional agenda) referring, among other things, to the necessity to harmonise the national legal framework to the international standards, so that it should allow efficient actions from the state institutions, especially Police and Justice.
· By Law no. 197 for the modification and completion of provisions from the Penal Code, issued in the Official Monitor on 15 November 2000, the Parliament of Romania adopted measures that sanction the acts of violence within the family and place the victims who are usually women and children under protection. By the decision of the Prime Minister of Romania, appointed after the elections in November-December 2000, starting with 4 January 2001 the law application was suspended and thus the main reform measure for the protection of victims of domestic violence was implicitly annulled, alongside with the mechanism for the settlement of the institutional policies and programmes of intervention and support.
In our opinion, the Commission on Human Rights, together with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women should establish the monitoring of the manner in which the state institutions respect the pledges that devolve from the internal and international human rights norms. We also request the intervention of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, who received from Romania requests from the victims to be supported. We consider that the mutual radical intervention that these organisms must have should take the following landmarks into consideration:
· the monitoring of the concrete actions of the Romanian government regarding the harmonisation of the internal legislation with the international standards with a view to a well-grounded reconsideration of the role of Law no. 197/2000, as well as the law's application by annulling the measure of suspending its application
· the respect for the provisions of the Governmental Decision no. 852/23.09.1996, by means of which the Pilot Centre for the Protection and Assistance of Victims of Domestic Violence was established; support for the development of a national network of centres and the improvement of equipment and conditions that are necessary for the development of assistance of victims of domestic violence;
· the initiation of programmes meant for the education and training of public servants, of police officers and magistrates on activities of assistance, representation and intervention in cases of domestic violence and on notions on equality and gender;
· concrete support for women who are victims of domestic violence by means of free juridical assistance in order to accomplish their access to national and international justice;
· the removal of the Division for the Equality of Opportunity, the General Division for the Coordination of Women's Rights and the Division of Elaboration of Family Policies from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and their establishment under a unique name as a State Secretariat for the promotion of gender policies and their special involvement for doing away with the phenomenon of violence against women;
b) Another phenomenon that we wish to submit to the attention of the Commission on Human Rights is violence against women when the state is the main persecution agent. We can appeal to numerous reports received from women who are in police lock-ups or in penitentiaries. These reports look in detail into the manner in which the police officers submit women in police lock-ups to torture, inhuman or degrading treatments - which many times have sexual implications also.
Having in view the fact that the national legal system contains clear provisions as regards the interdiction of acts of torture - the Constitution (art. 22, par. 2) the Penal Code (art. 267, par. 1), the Code of Penal Procedure (art. 5, par. 1) - and that Romania ratified in 1994 the Convention against Torture and has the obligation to respect the international and regional norms that stipulate the rights and obligations of persons deprived of freedom, we insistently request the intervention of the Commission for establishing the following measures:
- to put a stop and prevent the acts of violence against women, happening in police lock-ups;
- priority of women victims of torture to justice;
- punishment against the guilty people;
- the respect of the right to an effective remedy.
Consequently we request that the Commission should include in its mechanisms the Committee against Torture, the Committee on the Discrimination against Women, and use the competence of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and of the Special Rapporteur on Torture who until now have received a number of approximately 40 cases from Romania.
c) Women have also informed us by means of their reports - that they have signed and dated - that the right to health is ignored in the penitentiaries in Romania, including cases where pregnant women do not benefit of appropriate food or competent medical care.
Many times the gender principles are not respected, and quite often the chiefs of the women sections in penitentiaries are men who often behave in a violent manner.
By this report, we request the support of the Commission, the Committee on the Discrimination against Women and the UN Rapporteurs on Torture and Violence against Women who have received cases from Romania dealing with these issues, for:
· the establishment of positive measures with a view to organising a penitentiary area where the treatment of women deprived of freedom should be adapted to international standards;
· women in penitentiaries should have access to justice and they should be supported for building their defence;
· punishment against the persons who are guilty of acts of torture or violence;
· the cancellation of SIPA - Independent Unit for Protection and Anti-Corruption - a descendant of the former security service, which is guilty of acts of diversion and instigation of women detainees one against the other and against the penitentiary staff, and whose attributions overlap those of the penitentiary staff, the latter being also responsible for creating an environment dominated by diversion and suspicion.;
· counselling and support for taking the measure of demilitarising the police and the staff of the penitentiaries, who, under the cover of the military orders, hinders the possibility of an independent administration control in the detention areas
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Resources and Planning
Educational Resource Packs and Teaching Aids
The underwater world supports learning accross various subject headings within the curriculum, including Science, Geography and Art and provides a fantastic opportunity for cross curricular learning in an inspiring environment.
Our brand new, fresh, fun and interactive resource packs provide teacher guidelines and pupil worksheets that follow the Key Stage 1 and 2 Curriculum.
To support these packs download our classroom teaching aids. These Powerpoint slides aim to inform, encourage discussion and develop your pupils natural interest in the underwater world.
All of our educational materials are based on activities and projects that your class can do before, during and after your visit to make the most of your pupil’s new found knowledge and enthusiasm.
Key Stage One
KS1 Teacher Work Pack
KS1 Pupil Worksheets
Key Stage 1 Classroom Teaching Aids
Classification and Variation
Caring for animals and their environments
Key Stage Two
KS2 Teacher Workbook
KS2 Pupil Work Book
Key Stage 2 Classroom Teaching Aids
Our NEW and FREE downloadable Activity Packs have been designed for children up to the age of 14 enabling them to get even more fun and enjoyment out of their visit. There are lots of additional activities for before during and after your visit.
Activity pack 6-8 yrs
Activity Pack 9 - 11 yrs
Activity Pack 12 - 14 yrs
Planning Your Visit
We'd like to provide you with some additional information to help you with your planning and ensure eveything runs smoothly.
Planning – download these documents to make your SEA LIFE trip run smoothly
Risk assessment for schools and groups
SEA LIFE Information Sheet for Schools
Conservation is at the heart at everything we do here at SEA LIFE. We are pioneers of marine animal rescue, marine breeding programmes and petitioning governments to ensure the amazing underwater world is protected for future generations to enjoy. During your visit to SEA LIFE we strive to inform your pupils of our conservation efforts, encourage them to ask questions and carry out independent study. We believe this knowledge empowers students to make a difference.
The Greek island Zakynthos has been one of the main nesting locations for Mediterranean loggerhead turtles for thousands of years. Sadly, due to the tourism boom in the area, nesting adult females are being disturbed, eggs are being accidentally destroyed, and new hatchlings become confused by the lights and sounds of hotels and bars on the beaches. We are currently campaigning to build a turtle rescue facility and sanctuary in Laganas, Zakynthos.
So far, the SOS SEA LIFE Turtle Project has raised 150,000 Euros for the sanctuary and building work is continuing with assistance from volunteer electricians and carpenters from England.
To find out more about this project, download our Turtle Conservation Pack which is filled with activities, competitions and information for your class.
Turtle Conservation and Activity Pack
Turtle Fact Pack
SEA LIFE has developed our existing relationship with WDCS to provide an education initiative that encourages children to learn about whales and to take an active part in their conservation.
The Whale Diploma is a fun, curriculum-linked education pack teaching children about the world of whales, whilst encouraging them to get actively involved in whale protection. Suitable for use in schools and at home. Aimed at 8-12 year olds but can be tailored to suit other ages.
Download our WDCS Whale Diploma to support your classes. The password can be found on your visit booking confirmation.
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Welcome at Voel je Mens!
Voel je Mens is an assortment of affordable and high quality nutritional supplements. Recently there has been increasing attention to support people in a better quality of life, welfare and wellbeing. Voel je Mens has bundled this in a package containing all essential vital nutrients. This product is not expensive and easy to use.
For years Voel je Mens has treated people with supplements, but high quality nutritional supplements are very expensive. Take for example the multi-natal from Bonusan €23, EPA Max from Orthica €28.25, astaxanthin from Plantina €32.70 or resveratrol from AOV €30.90.
Voel je Mens can offer the same high quality nutritional supplements for a quarter to a third of the price in comparison to the vital nutrients where most complementary caregivers work with now. This is the reason why Voel je Mens was developed, because high quality nutritional supplements should be accessible to everyone, what because of the high price is not the case. Read more ... | <urn:uuid:ae333b66-497d-4e4d-a015-6bf8e5dbb864> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.voeljemens.nl/en/voeljemens/voel-je-mens | 2013-05-24T22:50:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931331 | 211 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Slow Cooker Chicken Vindaloo (Serves 8)
The sweetness of onions and the spicy heat of chili peppers and ginger combine to make this a flavorful dish. I puree only a portion of the onions to make the Vindaloo sauce, so this is not a traditional recipe, but it is good.
Prep time: 30-45 minutes
Cook time: 7 hours
8 large yellow or red onions
6-10 chili peppers (mine were jalapenos, but you could use others)
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1 8-inch pieces of fresh ginger (peeled) or 4 tablespoons ground ginger
20 cloves garlic (peeled)
1 tablespoon turmeric
1 tablespoon ground coriander
1 tablespoon garam masala
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 heaping teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon mustard powder
4 pounds of chicken (boneless and skinless is best, but you can cut up a whole chicken)
Directions: Peel onions. Cut 3.5 onions into chunks and make into a puree in food processor. Remove seeds from chili peppers and add flesh to food processor. Add 1/3 cup of apple cider vinegar to food processor. Add 4 tablespoons of ground ginger. Add garlic cloves, turmeric, coriander, garam masala, cinnamon, black pepper, salt, and mustard powder. Run food processor to mix spices and chilies with onion puree. Add chicken to slow cooker and pour puree from food processor over chicken. Cut remaining 4.5 onions into thin slices and arrange over chicken. Place cover on slow cooker. Set temperature to slow cook (200 degrees on my unit) and time to 7 hours. When time on slow cooker is near its end, prepare a vegetable side dish to go with Chicken Vindaloo. When done, transfer food to plates and enjoy!
Notes: Many veggie side dishes go well with Chicken Vindaloo. I I like to roast veggies with spices and coconut oil in a covered cast iron skillet at 400 degrees for 30 minutes to prepare sides. Skillet roasted broccoli is pictured here under Slow Cooker Chicken Vindaloo.
Cutting a whole chicken into pieces is easy with heavy-duty poultry shears. Check out the OXO brand I use in my online Store.
My slow cooker is a Cuisinart Multi Cooker that I picked up at Williams-Sonoma because my local store had one in stock and I wanted to start cooking right away. Amazon sells the Cuisinart, but seems to be out of stock frequently. The Breville Stainless-Steel 7-Quart Slow Cooker with EasySear Insert on display in my Store is similar. Check them out by clicking on the Store link in the upper right hand corner of this site. The Cuisinart has a see-through top and the Breville has a stainless steel top. I like being able to see inside without opening the lid, but the Breville sells for $75 less than the Cuisinart.
Anupy Singla’s Chicken Vindaloo recipe in The Indian Slow Cooker inspired my recipe, but I made a fair number of changes, so don’t blame her if my version does not taste like the best Chicken Vindaloo you’ve ever had. Check out her book in my Store.
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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 topped the sales charts again in February.
Market research company NPD released its latest sales figures on Thursday. Despite a temporary slip in December (due to shortages), Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has dominated the charts for 9 months. The Xbox 360 outsold both the Wii and Sony PlayStation 3 in February with 535,000 units. The sales figures are up 27% from the same period last year. “It’s a great month for us,” Xbox spokesman David Dennis told seattlepi.com, noting that Feburary 2011 was the Xbox’s biggest ever non-holiday month. “I think you can attribute the numbers to pent-up demand from the holidays for Kinect, particularly with the supply-chain issues we had.”
Microsoft’s latest sales figures come exactly 11 years after Bill Gates unveiled the original Xbox project at GDC on March 10, 2000.
Microsoft’s Kinect accessory is the likely reason the Xbox sold well in January and February. The company experienced some shipment issues in December which meant it failed to secure the top spot. Microsoft launched its controller-less console accessory for the Xbox 360 across the world in November. The Kinect sensor is a horizontal bar that sits at the base of your TV. The device has an RGB camera, depth sensor and multi-array microphone which runs proprietary software. Kinect allows for full-body 3D motion capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition. Owners will be able to interact with games titles using just their body. Pausing TV and fast forwarding movies can be achieved using a mix of hand movements and voice control.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console dominated U.S. charts in 2010. Microsoft revealed at CES in January that the company has sold over 50 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide since launch. Microsoft also has 30 million active Xbox LIVE members and has sold 10 million Kinect sensors in just 60 days on the market.
Microsoft is planning to introduce Hulu Plus for U.S. Xbox LIVE subscribers in Spring this year. The software giant will also push out a Spring dashboard update that will include support for the recently announced Avatar Kinect. Microsoft also has the massive Gears of War 3 title on the horizon for 2011 which is likely to set sales records. | <urn:uuid:da5cd3d4-075b-4f35-8f7f-841db19962d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.winrumors.com/npd-xbox-360-tops-console-sales-in-february/ | 2013-05-24T22:50:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948309 | 466 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Matt Kemp and Luis Cruz each hit a two-run
home run as the Los Angeles Dodgers capped a three-game sweep of the Colorado
Rockies with a 7-1 win.
The victory helped Los Angeles keep pace for the final wild card spot in the
National League as the team remains two games back of the St. Louis Cardinals,
who defeated Washington on Sunday.
A.J. Ellis added a solo home run while Shane Victorino went 3-for-5 and scored
twice for the Dodgers, who have won five straight. Josh Beckett (2-3) gave up
just one run on six hits with three walks and five strikeouts over six
Andrew Brown's solo home run was the only score of the game for the Rockies,
who had won four straight coming into the series. Jorge De La Rosa (0-2) went
just four innings in the start and gave up four runs on five hits.
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A 21st Century Education. Say Yes to Teaching the Way Kids Really Learn
Students need flexible learning spaces that support the way they really learn (not sitting in a desk in one position facing one direction all day). The bond was created with a vision of creating spaces that support learning and creativity exploration.
The bond will allow us to:
- Modernize aging facilities that need reinvestment to be designed for the learning & teaching needs of today and tomorrow
- Provide more flexible instructional spaces that allow for different kinds of teaching throughout the day – activities like individual work, break-out projects and in-class multi-modal learning activities
- Provide Elementary resource spaces that are flexible and dispersed throughout schools, creating multiple learning environments for students and appropriate collaboration/office space for teachers
- Provide elementary special education spaces that enable sensory learning activities and are equipped with restrooms and adequate storage
- Enable teachers to better engage students, differentiate instruction and meet individual student needs with content and skills taught with relevance and practical application
- Expand access to technology in schools, finally bringing USD 497 into the 21st century
- Support the teaching of in-depth critical thinking and the ways it connects to technology
- Prepare a generation of kids who are digital natives to thrive in a changing world
Students learn best in flexible learning spaces. Helps us provide them.
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Advice to Prospective Students:
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Ontario folk-rock trio Timber Timbre released the video for Black Water — the second video from their second album, Creep On Creepin’ On, which came out on April 5 — on Tuesday. Timber Timbre’s previous, self-titled album was long-listed for the Polaris Prize, and their brand of eerie folk remains a captivating presence on Creep On. The video for Black Water is both buoyant and haunting, matching singer Taylor Kirk’s low and lilting voice both in tone and in ambience.
The video was directed by Exploding Motor Car, otherwise known as Brett Long and Winston Hacking. We caught up with the Toronto-based duo on Tuesday to talk about how the video was shot and how to turn found objects into sea creatures.
Q What was the concept for the video?
Winston Hacking We talked to Taylor [Kirk] and we wanted to do a video for him and then he said, ‘Make it underwater.’ So we did. I think Brett had an idea kicking around. He wanted to do an underwater video with puppets. … It was going to start off as an animated video and then we realized we didn’t have enough time or resources to make that happen. So we decided to make it puppeteered in slow motion.
Q So how did you go about building everything?
Brett Long I guess we just looked around and found old scraps of anything that we really could for, I don’t know, kept things on the lower budget.
W.H. We went to Value Village. We usually work with a lot of found objects, so we just found things. Like, the jellyfish are made out of two baby parasols and the crabs are made out of some gardening gloves and papier-mâché. So, a lot of found objects that could function like underwater sea life when filmed in slow motion.
B.L. The mask was actually a cracked pot lid that Winston cracked open.
W.H. So lots of just finding things around the house and then on the street and what have you, and then turning it into something else.
Q How did you simulate the underwater feel?
W.H. We were given a gift from some friends in Japan of this Casio video camera that shoots slow motion. And Brett had this really ingenious idea to flip the camera upside down. And when you flip the camera upside down you kind of get the idea, or the effect of weightlessness. So the idea just kind of evolved from there and we realized we could make a lot of things look like they were floating in water when really, they’re just in a black studio space.
B.L. Yeah, the camera that we had was just a little consumer pocket camera — I don’t think it’s on the market here in North America yet, but we got out hands on one and it allowed us to shoot at a high frame rate. So it gave us the effect of underwater when we shot it in slow-mo.
W.H. The real trick with that, the camera only shoots in a really small resolution, like something smaller than what you would watch on the Internet. So I kind of figured we could take the video and then transfer it to 16-millimetre film, which is kind of something you don’t do any more because people don’t really want to work with film. But we transfered it to film and then we got the film scanned at HD, so we ended up with a final HD movie but it started off on a little tiny consumer camera. That’s why it’s so kind of grainy and manipulated that way.
Q It sounds pretty time-intensive.
W.H. Yeah. It took us about two months from start to finish. But I’d say it was a fairly smooth shoot. The hardest thing was actually just molding Taylor’s face because the performer in the video is just a mask, it’s a puppet we had made. So we had to cast his face and it actually took about three tries before we got something that looked like him and could be used as a puppet.
Q What’s the story in Black Water?
B.L. I think it’s a fairly simple story of a guy who’s been underwater for a really long time and the sea creatures surround him and help bring him back to the story.
W.H. There’s not usually a lot of time in music videos to tell elaborate narratives, so we kind of, we always try and think of a simple concept that we can wrap in this environment and really sell people on a mood and an environment and that’s probably more what we focus on when we’re working on a music video, is to try and creat something that fits the song and also creates a world that’s believable. And then the narrative can be anything, really. | <urn:uuid:2baff96d-2ac6-4b56-a095-61fcc12138ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/05/18/qa-brett-long-and-winston-hacking-on-directing-timber-timbres-black-water/ | 2013-06-19T12:31:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97414 | 1,040 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Oregon’s men held steady at No. 3 after a strong showing in Saturday’s Pacific-10 Conference cross country championships in Seattle, while the Ducks’ women slipped five spots to No. 7 in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll released Wednesday.
Oklahoma State took over the top spot in the men’s poll, while Stanford fell to No. 2, followed by Oregon, Iona and Wisconsin.
In the women’s poll, Villanova retained the top spot, while Florida State climbed one spot to replace Oregon at No. 2, Texas Tech moved up one position to No. 3, and Stanford leaped five spots to No. 4. Georgetown remained at No. 5 with Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, Syracuse and New Mexico rounding out the top 10.
Luke Puskedra finished fourth overall to pace Oregon’s men to a second-place finish behind Stanford at Saturday’s Pac-10 championships, while Jordan Hasay captured top individual honors for the fourth-place Ducks in the women’s race at Seattle’s Jefferson Park Golf Course.
The Ducks return to action Nov. 13 when they host the NCAA West Regional cross country championships at Springfield Country Club with both teams hoping to qualify for the Nov. 22 NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind.
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Nidra Poller on the Charlie Hebdo bombing: it's no joke
Nidra Poller has a piece on the Charlie Hebdo bombing in Paris well worth considering. The incident itself was a classic example of the effort to spread sharia to the West, especially in the form of showing “respect” for the Prophet Mohammed. This began in earnest when, ten years into his millennial project of the “Islamic Republic of Iran,” Khoumeini put out a fatwa condemning Salman Rushie to death for his blasphemous Satanic Verses (which neither Khoumeini nor his advisors had read). The next major event in this campaign came in 2005-6 when Muslims objected vigorously to the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed, another attempt to extend to infidels what in principle only applies to (some) Muslim – not depicting the prophet’s face.
Comments added to bring out some of the implications.
Auto da fe in Paris: it’s no joke, Paris, November 3, 2011 Nidra Poller
The brand new— and deliberately unmarked – offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in the 20th arrondissement of Paris were destroyed by arson hours before a special issue, renamed Charia Hebdo, hit the newsstands on November 2nd. All 75,000 copies were sold out by noon (a rerun went on sale two days later, bringing total sales to 200,000). One or more firebombs aimed precisely at the IT department wiped out the satirical magazine’s nerve center. Charlie Hebdo’s Facebook page had been bombarded with threats, insults, and Koranic verses since it pre-released the front page with a caricature of guest editor Mohammed promising 100 lashes to anyone who doesn’t die laughing. As the offices went up in flames, the hacked website was plastered with a photo of Mecca packed with pilgrims, and the declaration, in English, “No god but Allah/Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah.”
This shocking attack on press freedom inspired a rush of near-unanimous solidarity in French society. Unambiguously labeling the act an “attentat,” meaning “terrorist attack,” Interior Minister Claude Guéant promised to find and severely punish the perpetrator(s). Various Muslim authorities condemned “all violence,” reiterated their disapproval of caricatures of Mohammed and other insults to Islam, and vowed to defend their religion as law-abiding citizens, in the courts.
Editorial director Charb posed meekly in front of the smoking ruins of his offices, displaying the front page that provoked those devouring flames. Interviewed by Rue89 he said that real Muslims don’t burn newspapers. Elsewhere his colleague, Pelloux, opined: “As far as I know, there is no Koranic law against laughter.”
But there is a Sharia law against laughing at Mohammed or his religion, something that Mohammed himself enforced quite vigorously in his own day.
Charlie Hebdo collaborators cannot declare often enough that they have nothing against Islam. In fact, Charia Hebdo was inspired by solidarity with kindred souls, the Facebook-Twitter generation whose Arab Spring struggle for democracy is now jeopardised by Islamists determined to replace the dictatorship of strongmen with the tyranny of sharia. Forty per cent of newly liberated Tunisians — including expatriates who voted in France – chose Nhada!
Another group fallen victim to the fantasy purveyed by the mainstream news media that this was the dawn of a new (21st century) generation of Arabs ready for the real thing. That 40 per cent of French Tunisians (normally considered a “moderate” country) voted for the Islamist candidate is important data: it’s considerably higher than the proportion of French Muslims who say they want sharia for France.
The Hebdo staff’s dismay at the torching of their offices suggests they may have underestimated the dangers of sentencing sharia to a thousand satirical lashes. Hassen Chalgoumi — the Franco-Tunisian imam mercilessly targeted by the extreme-extremist-Islamist Sheikh Yassin Brigade — warns Europe against the dangers of political Islam. “Why do the Americans rejoice in the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, why did France play into the hands of al-Qaeda in Libya…?”
All excellent questions which Barry Rubin is asking about the USA.
French participation in the NATO operation in Libya was, surprisingly enough, approved by a broad bipartisan majority in France. The peace marches of 2003 are long forgotten. No voices were raised to deplore the use of force and insist on a political solution. Guttural cries of allahu akhbar (Allah is the greatest), summary executions, the destruction of Sirte, and the savage murder of Mouamar Gaddafi did not visibly disturb the peace of French society.
Poller is here referring to the “moral” opposition to American intervention in Iraq, which somehow switched sides when it was a question of French intervention. Asked if her opposition to globalisation was because it was a bad idea, or because it was American-led, and were it French-led she’d approve, a Science-po friend of mine readily admitted the latter. For an analysis of the “disgace of the anti-war movement,” see Nick Cohen.
The term “Islamist” was coined to distinguish “radicals” from a “harmless” mainstream Islam that has every right to prosper in the bosom of our democratic societies. Then the aggregate term “moderate Islamists” was crafted to deny that Turkey is on a slippery backward slope. Quickly resigned to the inevitable domination of the Nhada party in Tunisia, commentators served up another dose of “moderate Islamists.” Now we have “extremist Islamists” throwing firebombs at a French weekly. And moderate Muslims promising to plead their anti-blasphemy case in court.
Instead of reflecting any reality, such designations serve political ends, largely to depress any opposition from the West to developments. It’s okay, maybe even good, if Islamists take over, as long as they’re moderate. And if they’re not? M0st of our political language – right-left, moderate-radical, imperialist oppressor-post-colonial victim – has become not just useless, but disorienting, indeed dangerous. Rethinking… there’s a project. Nidra’ concluding paragraphs explain the dilemma:
We saw the same configuration in 2006 when Charlie Hebdo reproduced the Mohamed cartoons published by Denmark’s Jyllands Posten that provoked mayhem and murder worldwide. The weekly was acquitted in a case brought against it by the Grande Mosquée de Paris and the UOIF (French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood) but the judgment specified that the right to publish the “admittedly offensive” turban bomb image in the context of a worldwide controversy should not be construed as license to disregard religious sensitivies.
This time around, French media, including the newspaper of record, Le Monde, have amply reproduced and displayed material from Charia Hebdo. Not so the BBC’s Paris correspondent Charles Chazan, who explicitly rolled up the front page to show the banner while hiding the offensive image.
“A hundred lashes if you don’t die laughing.”
Note that in Germany, the story received so little coverage that most people I speak with here don’t even know about it. Der Spiegel also didn’t show the cover.
A half dozen publications offered refuge to the homeless editorial staff. They chose the left wing daily Libération where they were welcomed with juvenile excitement and given free reign to do the front page and a double spread in the next day’s paper. This week’s issue of Charlie Hebdo, we are promised, will appear on schedule and, we expect, will respond forcefully to those who think they can silence the free press in France.
Last spring, anti-shari’a authors extensively cited in the Manifesto posted by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik were accused in some quarters of inspiring his hateful crime. Today, in virtue of solidarity with the endangered freedom-loving democrats of the Arab Spring countries, it is permissible to expose the dangers of shari’a without being labeled Islamophobe. And, says Charlie Hebdo, we can make fun of shari’a with all the vulgarity we exercise on any subject that tickles our minds. Perhaps. But it would be wise to go to those anti-shari’a authors and find out whether there is, in fact, a koranic law against laughter.
Because the day might come when newspaper offices have to be protected by the police in France, like synagogues, Jewish community centers, and day schools.
Precisely. The “progressive” West has no idea what it’s dealing with, and its thinking is so deeply confused by unacknowledged agendas in the narcissistic wars of small differences, that we can’t even begin to think straight about so serious a problem.
Islamism is winning the cognitive war – thanks to manipulative and gullible journalists
April 4th, 2013 14:30
Pallywood and the pornography of death: the Western media suckered again
November 19th, 2012 12:40
How the West is losing the cognitive war with Islamism and its death cults
September 17th, 2012 11:08
Muslim anti-Semitism, Israel and the dynamics of self-destructive scapegoating
December 1st, 2011 14:44
Nazis, Islamism and so-called 'honour culture'
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5 An Analysis of the Audit Framework Focusing on Inherent Risk and the Role of Statistical Sampling in Compliance Testing Donald A. Leslie Clarkson Gordon Auditors are a loyal brotherhood of arithmetic wizards who when their profession starts to go down the pipe . . . band together and disagree with one another. with apologies to J. Hart The highly competitive professional environment that has developed in the U.S. over the past 10 years has spread like a cancer throughout most of the world. As a result, meaningful professional standards are currently more important to the profession's survival than at any time in its relatively short existence. Competition can and should be healthy for a profession, ensuring that users of the professional services receive "value for their money" and that the profession keeps "abreast of modern technology." Unfortunately, far too many users of accounting services are tending to treat them as simple commodities that can be purchased like "groceries on a shelf." Some observers are of the opinion that "the standard audit is increasingly viewed as a simple commodity item" and that "a lot of companies are starting to treat their accountants the way they treat their janitorial service."1 Extracts from a recent interview with Ralph Walters on the subject of accounting regulation and competition in the profession in the U.S. are set out in the Appendix. The purpose of this paper is to assist the profession in establishing a common audit objective.* In order to ensure that readers do not misinterpret my intent, I should make it clear at the outset that I do not believe that it is necessary for all auditors to carry out their audits in exactly the same manner in similar situations. Rather, it is important that the work that every auditor carries out achieves a clearly established and well understood audit objective. Specific audit strategies, audit techniques, and levels of staff expertise and competence (used to achieve the audit objective) will vary, and it is this variation that will provide proper, healthy competition for users of accounting and auditing services. * Some might argue that current professional pronouncements in Canada and the U.S. provide for a common audit framework. Others (myself included) would respond with "current practice certainly does not support this view." 89
Analysis of the audit framework focusing on inherent risk and the role of statistical sampling in compliance testing
Leslie, Donald A.
Stettler, Howard, ed.
Ford, N. Allen, ed.
Auditing -- Statistical Methods
Risk assessment -- United States -- Auditing
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I create a new blog called dearblog.wordpress.com, but it says that site already exists. When the URL is typed into a browser, it returns "dearblog.wordpress.com has not been activated yet". Does this mean that this URL has been previously owned or deleted? In which case, I would need to contact the owner to ask for permission to use the URL, but the owner or status of the URL is both unclear.
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News Release For Immediate Release
Weird Worlds Soundtrack Lands On Your iPod!
Take An Aural Trip Through The Purple Void!
Hampstead, NC, 02 June 2008
Whether it's relaxing after a long day of work, driving through the countryside on a fine
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Okay so to all of those who wanted to see my new look here are the before and after pictures!!!! More pictures will be posted next week after I have gotten myself a new wardrobe purchased!!!
Here is the Old Me:
And the New Me:
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|Hoodlum From Hoboken|
We remember The Voice
Hoodlum From Hoboken
By: Jeff Booth
My thoughts on Sinatra, in my opinion, the greatest entertainer of all time. What couldn't he do?? First, let me say that it was a friend turning me on to Frankie years ago that sparked my interest in all things swing related, especially in the 40's....the music, the clothing, etc. As you've probably figured out, the Frank that I like most is the 1940's Frank.
Let me say first, that I am biased. After he suffered a vocal hemmorage in the early 50's, I think his voice became a bit raspy and his phrasing changed a bit, which I didn't like nearly as much. I also favor his arrangements from the 40's, mostly courtesy of Axel Stordahl. My favorite examples of his voice are the four songs he did for his first movie, Higher and Higher ("I Saw You First", "The Music Stopped", "A Lovely Way To Spend an Evening", and "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"). I also think that the two albums "The Voice", and "Put Your Dreams Away" are absolutely brilliant. His voice was so smooth then and nobody before or since has been able to come close to the wonderful phrasing he had back then. My favorite movies are probably Step Lively and On The Town.
Something else that people often neglect to mention about Sinatra is the fact that in the 40's he was a crusader for racial and religious tolerance. He was given a special Academy Award in '45 for his short film The House I Live In on that subject, and toured around speaking at schools about those issues.
A little thing that I think sums up the Frank that we all know and love was an incident that took place in the mid '40's in a small club where Cozy Cole was performing. As two guys stood in front of his table, obstructing his view, Frank asked them politely to move, and they made some rude remarks about Negroes and those who considered them as friends. Frank promptly knocked one to the floor and the other ran!
As for what we're left with now that he's gone..... We have a
lifetime of great music, movies, and my personal definition of
cool. Also, for you hardcore Sinatra fans, there is a recording
from '35 and '36 of the Hoboken Four, his first singing group,
and a five record set of his famous 1943 Hollywood Bowl concert
that it is rumored that only he owned copies of. Maybe these
will come to light sometime in the near future. If anyone finds
out, let me know.
Sinatra and Trudeau
By: Frank Morra
In the early 1980s, Garry Trudeau, author of the Doonesbury comic strip, used to run a series that was highly critical of Frank Sinatra. The emphasis was on Sinatra's supposed gangland connections. This pushed two of my "hot buttons" --- Italians are inordinately sensitive on two subjects, Sinatra and the Mob
My response was to write a very polite letter to the Editor explaining that Trudeau was confusing Frank Sinatra with the "Johnny Fontaine" character in the Godfather book. Almost every professional entertainer in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s had to have some dealings with organized crime, because these were the people who owned the entertainment industry. From what we know of the Cotton Club, the Stork Club and New York nightlife in general, it is a certainty that all entertainers had to have some gangland connections.
There has never been any serious evidence produced that Sinatra had mob connections of any serious or formal nature.
The Post dutifuly printed my letters and Trudeau kept hammering at Sinatra. (Mike Henry actually managed to find them, so they will appear here soon) My third letter was sent in the summer of 1985. Some weeks later, I received a letter from Frank Sinatra. It just says:"Thank you for your kind words.
--- Frank Sinatra
Needless to say, this is one of my prized possessions...
Being an Italian-American male, born in 1944, I am often asked "Was your mother crazy about Frank Sinatra?" My response is "No -- my mom was crazy about Perry Como, and I am named after my dad (Frank Sr.) and he was named after Frank D'Annunzio the man who got my grandfather out of digging ditches for the IRT Subway and into the railroad business."
On the other hand, my youth was spent in an Italian neighborhood where Sinatra's photograph was displayed along with pictures of the saints. I actually thought that St. Francis was the guy who sang "The Way You Wear Your Hair" and that St. Joseph played for the Yankees and got a hit in 54 straight games.
Sinatra and DiMaggio were living proof that Italians could make it in American society --- what was more American than Baseball and Pop Music? And, Sinatra was a sex-symbol to boot! All of those pretty little blonde girls fainting at his feet did wonders for my self image. My parents had a great fear of "American People" --- when I got razzed by the kids when we moved to the suburbs, I always thought of Sinatra.
I sort of wish I had been named after him. I can always be thankful that I was not named after Pierino (Perry) Como.
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Windows To The Soul
Posted by Shayla Simmons — 12 Sep 2012
Many say the eyes are windows to the soul and while that may be just a saying, the eyes do convey messages; messages of sadness, anger, love or even loneliness, any of which can be seen in an instant and be gone the next. A person's body language and words say a lot about what a person is thinking, but in their eyes may be the real truth staring back at you. There were many great JPG images of eyes that told a particular story; we found many great examples of anger, loneliness, sadness, happiness, and some with a little mischief.
Look through my eyes by Heaven Man
Blue eyed in Black & White by erin perkins
looking through the eyes by zaldz cayanan
henry, 2009. by Caitlin Worthington
my Sarah.... by federico erra
i am angry with u by Jacquie Tappia
Anger by irfan intekhab
Tears of happiness..No Regrets!! by Fahad Abro
Out of the Darkness by Christina Santiago
No Tears by Cary Silverman
tears... by Nikola Matovina
In My Daughter's Eyes by Stephanie Hammer
dry your tears by Dine Lao
Purity by Yueshi Zhang
Take a look around JPG and make a collection of your favorite images with the focus on eyes and post the link to your collection in the comment area below. If you have any photographs of eyes in your own personal arsenal of images please upload them and share the links below, too!
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last night, due to a lucky hand in poker from the night prior, i was treated to a date night! it's rare that we both have the same night off and extra cash to throw around (especially during the holidays!) so it was a nice mid-week treat to say the least. we went to keystone down in newport for some of their PERFECT mac & cheese. they have a special menu list dedicated to only gourmet mac & cheese dishes, all with names of bands and musical artists. a BB King for jon, and Buffalo Springfield for me. i swear, one bowl and you feel like you could roll out of there. it's amazing. it was fun to get out of northside for the night and, it's just my opinion, but i think kentucky is lucky to have the absolute best view of cincinnati. aren't we pretty?!? | <urn:uuid:1230f329-76d0-4785-8dc2-15b886029855> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lovejamiedawn.blogspot.com/2012/12/mac-cheese-please.html | 2013-06-19T12:25:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982401 | 182 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
MANKATO — Taryn Juberien is the Waseca girls hockey team’s all-time leading scorer, so if anyone was going to take over Thursday evening’s nonconference game against Mankato West, she’d be the easy pick.
Sure enough, the senior forward scored the last four goals in a 7-4 victory at All Seasons Arena.
“I wouldn’t say I tried to take over,” Juberien said. “I’d say I tried to keep the team together and keep it going. We wanted that game a lot.”
Waseca had seen a 3-1 lead turn into a 4-3 deficit in the second period, but Juberien turned the tide.
Her impressive zone-to-zone rush through the defense for a goal tied the game with 66 seconds remaining in the second, and her rebound goal on the power-play just 40 seconds into the third, changed the momentum. A 4-on-4 goal and an empty-netter gave her the natural hat trick plus one.
“She started slow but gained momentum as the game went on,” Bluejays coach Kyle Collins said.
Juberien now has 140 career points.
Waseca survived the penalty-plagued game that included three major penalties against West. Of the 11 total goals, seven came on special teams.
That included the Scarlets’ first goal, a short-hander by Callie Looft late in the first period. Waseca tied it up less than two minutes later on Katelyn Miller’s power-play goal.
The Bluejays went up by two goals 6 1/2 minutes into the second on scores by Maddy Knoll and Olivia McIntosh, but West responded with three straight scores, including the last two on the power play. Macenzie Hays, Bre Black and Julia Snelson gave West the 4-3 lead with 2:15 remaining in the second.
“We let them back in the game,” Collins said. “But it was nice to see us tie it up.”
Which Juberien did a little more than a minute later.
“We really picked it up in the second period,” she said. “We came out strong and kept going. We did a nice job passing on all of those penalties.”
Alicia Knoll finished with three assists for Waseca, and Mackenzie Jorgenson had two.
For West, Snelson led the way with a goal and two assists. Hays and Black each added an assist to their totals.
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Random sowing of spinach in a medium sized green container.
Rooftop Terrace garden [Archived]
nic's Spinach 'Merlo Nero' Care Instructions
Ensure a rough distance of 3.12 inches (8.0 cm) between seeds when sowing - look to sow at a depth of approximately 0.49 inches (1.25 cm) when sowing directly.
Spinach 'Merlo Nero' normally tends to reach to a mature height of 60.0 cm [imperial: 1.95 feet] so ensure you have enough space in your garden for this plant.
Your garden is in partial sun light: Spinach 'Merlo Nero' likes a position of full sun.
Try to apply water fairly sparingly.
Your garden's USDA Hardiness Zone (8) is within the ideal range for Spinach 'Merlo Nero'. The recommended range is between Zone 6 and 9.
Spinach 'Merlo Nero' requires a soil ph of 6.0 - 7.0 meaning it does best in acidic to neutral soil.
More information about Spinach 'Merlo Nero' is available in the Folia gardener's wiki. All Spinach 'Merlo Nero' Care Instructions have been kindly provided by our members. | <urn:uuid:78ac8115-c4a5-46dc-a06d-bb7749c43851> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://myfolia.com/plantings/31634-spinach-merlo-nero-spinacia-oleracea | 2013-06-19T12:47:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.839637 | 263 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Established in 2010, the Public Interest Center supports
and builds on St. John's Vincentian
mission by offering programs and inititives that promote
lawyers’ professional obligation to serve those most in need.
Rachel D. Andron, the Center aims to increase
the public interest ethos at the law school and create and expand
public interest opportunities for students.
To meet these objectives, in addition to developing new
offerings, the Center is assuming administrative responsibilities
for various public interest efforts previously coordinated by the
Law School's Office of Career Services and various faculty
members. These endeavors will be enhanced and augmented under
the auspices of the Center.
Here are just some of the exciting
intiatives the Center is overseeing for the 2011-2012
- Orientation Service Day
- Public Interest Center Reception
- Speaker Series
- Pro Bono Service Project
- Public Interest Auction
- Public Interest Fellowship Program
contact us for more information on the Public Interest Center,
our programs and other Center initiatives. To support the Center
and its initiatives, please visit the Law School's online giving page or
contact the Office of Alumni Relations and Development at email@example.com
or (718) 990-5792. | <urn:uuid:89bc8f0d-ea12-4ea8-b4dc-cbe7c4bd2f71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://new.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/law/academics/centers/publicinterest | 2013-06-19T12:33:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898797 | 264 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Self-deprecation and estimates of body size in women
Lewis, V. and Donaghue, N. (1999) Self-deprecation and estimates of body size in women. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 89 (1). pp. 165-171.(Request a copy)
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The subject of body image in women has received considerable attention particularly with concern about its relationship to behaviours such as dieting. This study investigated the reported tendency of women to see thinness as desirable and to perceive themselves as fatter than others do. This tendency is inconsistent with the general findings on self-enhancement that show that people (including women) generally overestimate the extent to which they possess desirable characteristics. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether the tendency for women to report themselves as fatter than others perceive them is part of a general tendency to deprecate themselves on socially desirable qualities or whether this deprecation is restricted to body size. To investigate this, 29 female undergraduates in psychology participated in a study comparing own and others' perceptions of body size, attractiveness, sexiness, intelligence, and friendliness. Compared with the ratings of them given by others, women tended to make self-enhancing judgements of their attractiveness, sexiness, intelligence, and friendliness. This was not found for body size, however, for which self-ratings tended to be the same as those made by others. The failure to find self-enhancing judgements of body size is discussed in terms of the relatively unvarying standards presented to women concerning ideal body size compared to the more subjective standards used to evaluate other qualities.
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Old TP holders are often missing their rollers. The “chrome” ones in stores and online are almost always chrome over plastic. Yuck. I found a real chrome over steel replacement roller at the local Ferguson Enterprises plumbing supply house (where the professional plumbers go). They looked it up in their catalog and ordered it. Cost was well under $10. Part number appears to be CSI3CH and the description on the invoice says “contw paper roller plstc chr”, which implies plastic, but it isn’t plastic.
Readers, I typed the part number into google and came up with:: “Moen CSI3CH paper roll”. Can you bear how exciting this blog gets sometimes? | <urn:uuid:697203a2-c89a-4abc-b2a0-888cdb1ac529> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://retrorenovation.com/2011/03/31/a-chrome-over-steel-toilet-paper-roll-holder/ | 2013-06-19T12:25:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944112 | 153 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
|Watching Aikido Doshu, Moriteru Ueshiba, Melbourne, 2006|
I don't know how other people's brains work (or don't!), and I have no great interest in finding out either. I have no problem with people writing to me, it's interesting sometimes; but please, use common sense. As I said at the start of this post (it's a rant...it's a rant!), I choose how people treat me, so I won't accept inappropriate behavior. If you write to me, Mr is good, Clarke sensei if you have to, or Mike if we know each other...but nothing else. Save the title of Master for those karate instructors who believe they deserve it...there are plenty of them out there! | <urn:uuid:215bc510-377a-4318-9cd1-d51c3f2981da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shinseidokandojo.blogspot.jp/2012/09/okthis-has-got-to-stop.html | 2013-06-19T12:46:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95489 | 159 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
by Ludwig Bemelmans Illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans
Reviewed by Kristal R. (age 7)
Kristal R. is a member in Page Turners After School Program / Rauschenbusch Center's Respectful Cheetahs (2005-2006)
The little girls were in two straight lines and broke their bread and brushed their teeth and went to bed. Ms. Clavel said, something is not right! And she went to the girls? room and Madeline was crying because she had a pain in her stomach. She got a scar from taking her appendix out! Then the girls went back home and Ms. Clavel said something is not right, again, and all the girls were crying because they wanted to take their appendix out too! Ms. Clavel said to them to sleep and they did. So she turned out the light and closed the door? and that?s all there is, there isn?t any more!
My favorite part was when Madeline?s dad gave her toys and candy because it was special. My least favorite part was when the girls left their house. They were sad! I like this book because it was a little sad and a little happy.
I will recommend it to kids in the hospital because it will make them be happy and brave. I will also recommend it to my friends. | <urn:uuid:1dd136bf-33b3-478a-a116-9c6b9bfc79a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spaghettibookclub.org/review.php?review_id=8411 | 2013-06-19T12:53:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990779 | 277 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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If you're an American citizen living abroad, you have the right to vote. It doesn't matter how long you've lived here, or where your last residence was. (Unless you're a convicted felon, and then some states won't let you vote. But I doubt that applies to you.)
Go to VoteFromAbroad.org and follow the instructions. (If it doesn't work in Safari, use FireFox.) Then print out the form and mail it to the address they provide, which is different for each state.
You don't have to be a member of Democrats Abroad to use this site, though they did create it. They don't keep track of your info unless you join Dems Abroad at the same time, and then only your contact details.
If you are a member of the Armed Forces, you can use this site, even if you live in the U.S.
If you think you are registered, but aren't sure, apply again—you will not get in trouble for trying to re-register, and many states weed out voters who haven't voted in the last two years. You can go to CanI Vote.org to find out if you're registered.
Do it soon. The deadlines for each state for applying for a ballot and sending your ballot back are here. (pdf)
If you don't receive your ballot in time, send in a Federal Write-in Ballot. (pdf)
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I'm a web designer and entrepreneur from Itajubá (MG), Brasil. I love writing about obscure topics and doing some cool stuff. And also I do some FREE stuff, check it out: http://www.roch.com.br/
It’s time to get back to our funny project, 1stWebdesigner’s Life. We’ve received such great feedback from our first and second web comic that we’ve decided to make it a really cool bi-monthly series to brighten your Sundays. We’re back with Webster brought live by Jamie Sale!
Today we’ll talk about clients that think we can read their minds, and misunderstandings about what your job is and what it isn’t but your client may think it is. So let’s go through them.
Frequently Asked Questions is a good section to have in your website. They give users a chance to figure out things by themselves instead of wasting resources (both yours and theirs) with a 1-to-1 conversation (chat, Skype, messenger and so on).
But FAQ’s are a different type of content. Just like search and sitemap, it has its own particularities and things that you can do to improve user experience. You have to keep in mind, for instance, that users don’t go to FAQ pages, you have to lead them there.
Here we’ll see a couple of thoughts about it, good practices, inspiration and tools.
So, let’s rock!Read More
So are you ready for doing awesome things (remember, this year can be the last one)? And which things do you want to do? When are you doing them? How will you know by the end of 2012 that you’ve done all that you wanted to?
There is a simple tool to help you keeping tracks of you accomplishments: write down your new year’s resolutions.
I see a lot of people talking about nerdy things, like “learn a new programming language” or “write more about what you know” but the truth is if you aren’t satisfied with your personal life you won’t get better results at work. You need to improve yourself in both sides so you’ll be a better you.
Well, what we’ll see here is a kind of “new year’s resolutions template,” with a lot of ideas that you can steal and we’ll see how to keep track of them.
Don’t forget to check 20 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Become Better at Your Career!Read More
Oh, Christmas. The magic time when you spend all the money you’ve been saving the whole year. Oh, and we have all that Christmas Spirit, of course.
Now, you probably want to spend a lot on your soul mate’s gift, to show her how deep is your love.
Yeah, money can buy cool things, but guess what: almost every year I make my own gifts for my girlfriend (but I always have to buy something else anyway). And I feel that she just loves when I do something by myself instead of just buying it (unless shoes, she wouldn’t like if I made her a shoe). So I’ll show you, dear Padawan, how to make a cool one-page-gift for anybody that you like.
Our goal here is to do a simple “slider”, where a lot of messages and pictures that you like are shown. In the meantime you’ll learn a little bit about design, jQuery and CSS3.
So, let’s rock!Read More
Probably at some point you wanted to customize things in WordPress instead of using the “default” for every page. Like a pretty image gallery in a few posts, a syntax highlighter for your tutorial category or a demo page for your tutorials.
Well all those things break the standard, so people will see it as “impossible” to change. Should you put the following scripts on every page? No. That would be a waste of resources, since you’ll load a lot of useful things many times. Should you put them directly in your content (dear lord, please, don’t ever do this)? This would be really hard to maintain, since every simple change would be a big waste of time because you would have to make those changes post by post.
Let’s see a couple of ways to get this easily working.Read More
The mobile market is getting bigger and bigger. A lot of people are spending much more time mobile browsing than desktop. Sometimes I feel like developers aren’t paying proper attention to mobile interfaces. Maybe because we don’t have enough tools to do it, right? No, actually it isn’t.
Despite cool things like Safari Mobile that makes any (non-flash) website “browsable” it’s easy to see that conversion rates are much higher on interfaces design for mobile viewing.
So be ready to see A LOT of tools to help you create cool things for mobile with just what we know (HTML, CSS, JS).Read More
Clients always have a lot of questions, don’t they? They ask a lot of questions because they just don’t know how things work on this “Internet thing”. They just want their pretty site online and with Comics Sans, please.
So, guess who will have to tell them the bad news, and teach them the basics? Yeah, I’m looking at you.
We, at 1stwebdesigner, are nice guys so we’ll help you with a few common things that clients don’t understand, but they really need to, because when they do, everything will be much easier and more pleasant to do.
So, let’s rock.Read More
I hope you liked our very first strip about flash banners and introducing our characters. We’ve got a lot of cool names suggestions, and one that our team really enjoyed is “Webster”, by Laurel G. We have some other cool variations (like Coddy Webber) but we’re still open to more suggestions if you have a better idea :)
Today we’ll be talking about 2 funny situations that I think you may have experienced. So let’s go through them.Read More | <urn:uuid:2c158337-b19f-4e2e-893e-cc7ae50bf1f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/author/rochester/page/2/ | 2013-06-19T12:46:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943188 | 1,367 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Elementary school kids help hand out tickets to Langley speeders
If you were caught speeding through the school zone at James Kennedy Elementary last Wednesday (April 4), you might have been given a ticket by a Grade 6 student.
With hand-drawn signs asking drivers to slow down, several Grade 5 and 6 students worked with the police to hand out speeding tickets for the day.
“We wanted to remind the public that we are still stepping up enforcement around school zones and with the children here, it reminds drivers why driving safe is so important,” said Langley RCMP Const. Steven Braid.
“The children are our future.”
Braid came up with the idea because he thought it was important to remind drivers who speeding and careless driving can impact.
And the students get an opportunity to work with the police and learn lessons around speeding.
The students were eager to hand out tickets, and they even got to sit in the patrol car and find out what goes into writing up a speeding ticket.
One of the first victims of the day was a young man in a sports car, with a radar detector on the dash.
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Various Artists: Ziriguiboom: The Now Sound of Brazil 2 (2005)
The music on this compilation is as mysterious, romantic, and fashionable as the continent from which it comes, a roadmap through Ziriguiboom's exotic Brazilian jungle overgrown with cross-pollinated classic and contemporary music; as the packaging says, "from electronic to bossa to samba soul.
Brazil 2 traverses three more or less equal, colorful territories: Traditional acoustic instrument-based vocal ballads presented by Bebel Gilberto, Cibelle, and Celco Fonseca; modern, electronic-based club music by DJ Dolores and the fun-loving Bossacucanova (who sound like Brazil's answer to Canada's reigning musical pranksters, the Barenaked Ladies); plus other contemporary Brazilian sounds that sort of writhe between and around such categories.
Bebel Gilberto strikes the set's most compelling figure with her haunting voice. Remix producer Tom Middleton's new electronic sounds in "Simplesmente truly complement her exquisite vocal, electric keyboards tempering her warm voice with cool chill. The remix of "Cada Beijo by production wizards Thievery Corporation works the same, as new electronics and rhythms luxuriate underneath the cover of her voice. (Jazzheads might recognize Thievery Corporation from their production on the first installment of the Verve Remixed jazz/hip-hop series.) So strongly has Gilberto established her own star presence that one feels almost apologetic for wishing to mention her lineage; she is daughter of bossa nova founding father João Gilberto and stepdaughter to Astrud Gilberto, who breathed that timeless voice into "The Girl From Ipanema.
In the deceptively casual "Por acaso pela tarde, balladeer Celso Fonseca strums his acoustic guitar in a manner so relaxedso Brazilianin its ringing rhythm and tones.
From the clubs, Bossacucanova team up with Zuco 103 for "Samba da minha terra, and with samba preservationist/reconstructionist Simoninha for "Essa moca tá diferente, two irresistible rhythms that simply couldn't groove more tight and funky, the "Samba bass line in particular resembling one long flirtatious wink tossed from a beautiful young woman in passing.
Reports from the popular "other precinct include Apollo Nove's ballad "Inexplicata, which opens with African percussion, slides down Hawaiian and Spanish guitars, even whistles the hook to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, all at a quite leisurely pace; and Zuco 103's "Love is Queen Omega, where dub forefather Lee "Scratch Perry blends into Brazilia the sound of the Caribbean isles and throaty exhortations to "Shake, shake shake!
Track Listing: Simplesmente (Tom Middleton Balearic remix); Samba da minha terra; Inexplicata; Esplendor; Por acaso pela tarde; Trancelim de marfim; Eu nasci no Brasil; Cada Beijo; Love is Queen Omega; 86; Meu amor; Essa moca ta diferente; Atlantico; Trancelim de marfim.
Personnel: Bebel Gilberto; Bossacucanova with Zuco 103; Apollo Nove featuring Ceu; Celso Fonseca; DJ Dolores featuring Isaar; Zuco 103; Bebel Gilberto; Zuco 103 featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry; Apollo Nove; Cibelle; Bossacucanova; Celco Fonseca; DJ Dolores. | <urn:uuid:4df20de1-eb3f-4b0f-a3f0-bdef65236701> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21529 | 2013-06-19T12:27:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874869 | 781 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
25 April 2010. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study, reported in the April 14 Journal of Neuroscience, links reduced hippocampal volume and memory decline in older adults with lower serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). The finding supports the claim that waning hippocampal BDNF expression, as noted in Alzheimer disease (see Murray et al., 1994), is an important factor in neurodegeneration, and that shoring up BDNF signaling might make for a therapy one day. On that score, a paper in the April 19 Journal of Clinical Investigation offers a glimmer of hope. Small molecules that mimic the trophic effects of BDNF prevent neurodegeneration in rodents, according to researchers led by Frank Longo, Stanford University, California. Alzforum previously reported on this data when Longo presented it at last February’s Keystone Symposium, “Alzheimer’s Disease Beyond Aβ.” (see ARF related news story).
The MRI study, led by first author Kirk Erickson at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois, Urbana, imaged 142 cognitively normal adults between the ages of 59 and 81 (mean age 66.5 years). Three quarters of the study participants were women. As with earlier studies, serum BDNF levels declined with age, as did volume of the left and right hippocampus. Spatial memory (participants had to remember the location of one, two, or three black dots briefly flashed on a computer screen) also faltered with age.
To test how these different parameters interact, the researchers carried out mediation analysis. Briefly, this looks to see how one parameter, for example, serum BDNF, influences how an independent variable (e.g., age) affects a dependent variable (e.g., hippocampal volume). Erickson and colleagues discovered that serum BDNF mediated age and hippocampal volume decline, mostly of the left hemisphere. The mediation of the right hippocampus was marginal. In turn, hippocampal volume, particularly the left hippocampus, mediated the effect of age on spatial memory performance—both response time and accuracy. Finally, left hippocampal volume mediated the association between BDNF and spatial memory performance—both response time and accuracy.
Although several studies have shown positive correlations between blood and brain BDNF, the authors note that it is debatable to what extent the former reflects the latter. “Our results build on these previous studies and demonstrate that serum BDNF levels are correlated with measurements of hippocampal volume, an important link that suggests some association between BDNF in the blood and measures of brain integrity,” they write. However, the real litmus test for how BDNF mediates hippocampal volume loss and memory will be a longitudinal study. “Nonetheless, our cross-sectional findings highlight the importance of BDNF as a factor associated with age-related hippocampal volume decay,” write the authors.
If preventing age-related decline in brain BDNF can protect the hippocampus, then the approach taken by Longo and colleagues may prove fruitful. Longo founded a start-up company, PharmatrophiX, to develop small molecules that mimic regions of BDNF involved in activation of the neurotrophin receptor tropomyosin-related kinase B (TrkB). As first author Stephen Massa and colleagues report, this approach has yielded prototypes with promising properties. The compounds specifically bind and activate TrkB in hippocampal cells in culture, in the process inducing pro-survival factors such as the kinases Akt and ERK. In vitro, LM22A-4 protects hippocampal cells against Aβ42, neuroblastoma cells against MPTP (a toxin that leads to parkinsonism), and striatal cells against quinilinic acid, often used to model Huntington disease. Given intranasally for a week, the compound LM22A-4 activates Akt and ERK in mouse hippocampus and striatum; given over two weeks by the same route, the compound restored motor performance in mice lost to traumatic brain injury (for more see ARF related news story).—Tom Fagan.
Erickson KI, Prakash RS, Voss MW, Chaddock L, Heo S, McLaren M, Pence BD, Martin SA, Vieira VJ, Woods JA, McAuley E, Kramer AF. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is associated with age-related decline in hippocampal volume. Journal of Neuroscience 2010 April 14; 30:5368-5375. Abstract
Massa SM, Yang T, Xie Y, Shi J, Bilgen M, Joyce JN, Nehama D, Rajadas J, Longo FM. Small molecule BDNF mimetics activate TrkB signaling and prevent neuronal degeneration in rodents. Journal of Clinical Investigation 2010 April 19. Abstract | <urn:uuid:109d30a4-ad76-4243-8d62-1f5ace000814> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alzforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=2428 | 2013-06-19T12:48:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899444 | 993 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Chille Family History
Chille Surname History
This page is a hub for the complete history of the Chille family name, Chille etymology, and stories of Chille ancestors. Chille family history has rich origins of which the particulars are beginning to be understood by Chille family researchers. The Chille family name is an old lineage that has migrated all across the world for many generations, and as the Chille family has migrated, it has evolved making its etymology tricky to unearth.
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The evolution of Chille starts at it's earliest origins. Even in the early generations of a name there have been variations in that single name simply because last names were infrequently written down that long ago.
It was commonplace for a surname to change as it enters a new country or language. As families, tribes, and clans emigrated between countries, the Chille name may have changed with them. Chille family members have migrated across various regions all throughout history.
Chille country of origin
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The nationality of Chille may be complicated to determine in cases which country boundaries change over time, leaving the original nationality a mystery. The original ethnicity of Chille may be in dispute depending on whether the family name came about organically and independently in different locales; e.g. in the case of names that come from a craft, which can crop up in multiple regions independently (such as the family name "Brewster" which refers to a female brewer).
Meaning of the last name Chille
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The meaning of Chille come may come from a profession, such as the name "Fisher" which was given to fishermen. Many of these craft-based surnames can be a profession in some other language. For this reason it is important to understand the country of origin of a name, and the languages spoken by its progenitors. Many western names like Chille originate from religious texts such as the Bhagavadgītā, the Quran, the Bible, etc. Often these family names are shortened versions of a religious sentiment such as "Grace of God".
- Giuseppina Chille 1890 - 1987
- Rita Chille 1917 - 1987
- Rose Chille 1923 - 2002
- Joseph Chille 1925 - 1990
- Alfred Chille 1912 - 1981
- Peter Chille 1917 - 1998
- Fannette Economou Chille 1923 - 2006
- Maria Chille 1904 - 1994
- Josephine Chille 1919 - 2008
- Mary Ann Chille 1930 - 2009
- Natale Chille 1896 - 1972
- Mary Chille 1880 - 1970
- Joseph Chille 1899 - 1985
- Pasquale Chille 1889 - 1965
- Ralph A Chille 1929 - 2011
- Carmine Chille 1930 - 2008
- Mary Chille 1887 - 1975
- Catherine M Chille 1913 - 1990
- Nicholas Chille 1918 - 2011
- Grede Chille 1907 - 2004
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Nationality and Ethnicity of Chille
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We do not have a record of the primary ethnicity of the name Chille. Many surnames travel around the world throughout the ages, making their original nationality and ethnicity difficult to trace.
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Chille spelling variations
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In the past, when few people knew how to write, names such as Chille were transcribed based on their pronunciation when people's names were written in official records. This could have resulted in misspellings of Chille. Understanding misspellings and alternate spellings of the Chille name are important to understanding the possible origins of the name. Family names like Chille change in their pronunciation and spelling as they travel across tribes, family branches, and languages over generations. | <urn:uuid:c4348e62-88ba-4b59-91d8-69db3210d3b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancientfaces.com/surname/chille-family-history/357937 | 2013-06-19T12:47:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924513 | 973 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
May 9, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APS Releases New Technical Assessment: Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals
Direct Air Capture of CO2
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Physical Society has released a new assessment — Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals — to better inform the scientific community on the technical aspects of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
In systems achieving direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO2), ambient air flows over a chemical sorbent, either liquid or solid, that selectively removes the CO2. The CO2 is then released as a concentrated stream for disposal or reuse, while the sorbent is regenerated and the CO2-depleted air is returned to the atmosphere. DAC is now included in discussions of climate change policy because it is among the few strategies that might lower the atmospheric concentration of CO2 to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. However, the intent of this assessment is not to make specific policy recommendations.
The assessment is the outcome of a two-year study conducted by a 13-member committee whose members work in industry, academia, and national and government laboratories. It concludes that DAC would play a very limited role in a coherent CO2 mitigation strategy for many decades. Deployment of DAC would not be pursued aggressively until the world has largely eliminated centralized sources of CO2 emissions, especially at coal and natural gas power plants, either by substitution of non-fossil alternatives or by capture of nearly all of their CO2 emissions. For example, it makes little sense to ignore the emissions of CO2 in the flue gas from a coal power plant while removing CO2 from ambient air where it is 300 times more dilute.
The assessment estimates that removing CO2 from the flue gas of a coal power plant would be seven or more times less expensive, relative to a benchmark DAC system that, in the assessment committee’s judgment, is well enough described in the published literature that its costs can be estimated today. The benchmark system removes 1 MtCO2/yr from the atmosphere. Applying a simplified costing methodology used in industry for early-stage projects, its avoided cost is estimated to be at least $600/tCO2. Using the same methodology, the estimated avoided cost for “post-combustion capture” of CO2 from the flue gas of a reference coal power plant is about $80/tCO2.
A variety of science and engineering issues will determine the ultimate feasibility and competitiveness of DAC. If DAC were to ever have a substantial role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere, it would need to be much less costly than the benchmark system considered in the report. Today, few relevant experimental results have been published, and no demonstration or pilot-scale DAC system has yet been deployed. Improved designs would involve alternative strategies for bringing air into contact with chemicals, new chemistries for sorption and regeneration, materials that can operate effectively and efficiently over thousands of consecutive cycles, and low-carbon energy sources for power and heat in order to avoid emitting more than one CO2 molecule into the atmosphere for each CO2 molecule captured. From what is now known, it would not be wise to delay dealing with climate change on the grounds that at some future time DAC could be available as a significant compensating strategy.
Robert Socolow (Princeton University) served as a co-chair of the DAC study.
The American Physical Society (www.aps.org) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy and international activities. APS represents over 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington, DC. | <urn:uuid:b872edd7-a342-46ea-bd74-aa477f4073ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/dac11.cfm?renderforprint=1 | 2013-06-19T12:40:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951524 | 796 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The authors investigate the anatomy of the dorsal cutaneous branch of the ulnar nerve in 32 cadaveric upper limbs. The sensory branch originated on average 5.1 + 1.4 cm proximal to the ulnar styloid process and 1.9 + 0.6 cm radial to the subcutaneous border of the ulna. The nerve crossed the subcutaneous border of the ulnar from volar to dorsal on average 0.2 + 1.1 cm proximal to the ulnar styloid process.
Previous studies have investigated the course of the dorsal cutaneous branch of the ulnar nerve (Botte et al, JHS Am 1990; Grossman et al., Ann Chir Main 1998; Tindall et al. JHS Br 2006). The findings from this study underscore the need for careful dissection when exposing the distal ulna and careful portal placement when performing arthroscopic wrist procedures. | <urn:uuid:24d34f15-dacc-4c7a-959f-cf2170cb976c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.assh.org/Professionals/ProdsSvcs/journalclub/Pages/Dorsal_Cutaneous__Ulnar_Nerve.aspx | 2013-06-19T12:46:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.815362 | 189 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Lost parakeet tells police his address
A pet parakeet was returned to its owner Wednesday after the lost bird told police its home address near Tokyo.
The male bird had escaped early Sunday morning from its owner's home in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, and remained at large before perching on the shoulder of a guest staying in a nearby hotel.
Handed over to local police, the bird did not speak until Tuesday evening, when it blurted out the names of the city and district where its owner's house is located, said a spokesman for the north Sagamihara police station.
It then produced the home's block and street number as a trio of astonished police officers listened to the now talkative bird.
The bird's owner, a 64-year-old woman, once lost another parakeet after it flew away and was determined to prevent a repeat, the spokesman said.
"So the owner decided to teach the address to this parakeet after she bought it at a pet shop two years ago," he said.
"The bird's name was found to be Piko-chan as it said, 'You're pretty, Piko-chan'." | <urn:uuid:33b0f21a-6dff-48a8-bc1b-0b1ae1d65fc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/animals/lost-parakeet-tells-police-his-address-20120507-1y8ie.html | 2013-06-19T12:48:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986219 | 246 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Peter is a new edition to the staff. Peter, because he hates being called “Pete”, will report on all things Poker related. He is a freelance writer and loves making short films…I think the films are short because his attention span is just that.
Peter came to us as a guest blogger and we liked him so much we thought he was a great addition, so we kept him to stir things up around here. His only other vice is he thinks he really is Peter Berg, we try to tell him just because he sorta kinda looks like the guy, it doesn’t make him a big time Hollywood producer/director!
In Peter’s spare time he enjoys jogging with his chocolate lab “Layla” and losing his shirt playing Texas Hold’em online.
Oh yeah, Peter told us not to forget to mention he likes making his own beer and grilling steaks!
How Maggie describes Peter: “Way to serious, his poker face makes him look mean!”
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Hagon replacement dampers for your pride and joy, a treatment which removes rust from the petrol tank and a gas heater to keep you and your workshop toasty...
• Hagon dazzlers
As suspension units are sealed they tend to be forgotten until they go wrong, but when this happens they remind you of their existence very quickly. These particular ones are intended for the OBM Triumph and are the scrambles variation with 100mm stroke rather than the 80mm roadster damper rod movement. They’re also slightly longer than the standard dampers, being 13½in rather than 12½in. Why? Well the OBM Triumph has been fitted with a 21in front wheel for duty on scrambles and that’s lifted the front up an inch, a slightly longer rear suspension will restore the equilibrium and add to the ground clearance. As they are without shrouds they’re also slightly lighter than standard units.
The shock absorbers come in a range of sizes and spring rates too numerous to list here so contact Hagon for your needs.
Cost will depend on specification, length and spring rate, give them a call.
Contact Hagon Products, tel 0208 502 6222. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
• Get rid of rust
They are two rust treatments that will remove all corrosion from inside of fuel tanks and get them ready for coating with a tank sealant. The FeDox is a powder that has to be mixed up at a certain temperature and then left to pickle the rust away. This typically takes 12 hours or so at room temperature. All the rust is removed and the bare metal left is sound ready for stage two of the treatment – Fertan. This is a bit belt and braces really but if you’re going to sort your tank out then given the cost of refinishing it makes sense to sort it properly. It’s water based, biodegradable and inert once used.
The Fertan costs £11 for a 250ml bottle but the FeDox was too new for Villiers Services to give us the latest price.
For more info email: Contact@VilliersServices.co.uk Tel: 01384 265797
• Hot stuff
What is it? It’s a heater that fits on to a propane bottle and will make the ambient temperature of your workshop much more bearable. Its 9200 to 17,000 btu output is a great boost for those of us with a less-than-warm workspace.
Naturally as it’s a gas heater any workshop needs to be well ventilated and it has to be kept away from any flammable substances... so no spray painting or mixing two-stroke while it’s on. The heater is supplied with a sturdy frame and a long hose so can be easily moved around the workspace for best effect. It complies with all safety regulations regarding gas bottles and will greatly enhance the restoration experience. Oh, we’d recommend you have a fire extinguisher in your workshop too, just in case.
List price is £64.95 plus VAT but we’re advised by Sealey its stockists will have deals.
More info from your Sealey stockist or go to www.sealey.co.uk and click on the dealer locator. Tel 01284 757500.
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Forlan set to remain at Inter
Diego Forlan is set to stay at Inter Milan next season, despite reports linking him with a move away from the San Siro.
The Uruguayan struggled with form and injuries in his first season at the club, after moving from Atletico Madrid on a two-year deal last summer.
The 32-year-old scored just twice in 18 games for the Serie A giants and has recently been linked with a move to Atletico Mineiro in Brazil, though the player's father has indicated that his son is set to stay at Inter for the 2012/13 season.
"For the time being there is no negotiation with any club," Forlan senior told www.fcinternews.it. "As it is now, he will remain at Inter. He has one year left on his contract with the Nerazzurri." | <urn:uuid:99a29090-8fc5-4a99-b06e-dfa164213e5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.clubcall.com/serie-a/forlan-set-to-remain-at-inter-1438468.html | 2013-06-19T12:19:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978569 | 179 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tobacco-free zones: Govt to crack whip on schools
The State government has finally decided to crack down on the sale of tobacco products in the vicinity of educational institutions, especially schools.
Following several orders from the Supreme Court and the High Court of Karnataka for the prosecution of educational institutions which do not comply with Section 6 of the Control of Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003, prohibiting sale of tobacco products within 100 yards of such institutions, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), has set up a mechanism to implement the ban.
One of the major actions under the mechanism is generation of a monthly report on implementation of the COTPA rules, like display of tobacco prohibition boards, ensuring ban on sales, and also conducting awareness programmes in classrooms.
The first such report (for September) generated by the DPI on COTPA implementation around schools is in possession of Deccan Herald and statistics reveal that the State has a long way to go in safeguarding children from the cloud of cigarettes, gutka and other tobacco products.
While the BEOs across the 34 educational districts have visited 18,198 schools, they have found only 12,348 schools displaying tobacco prohibition boards.
“As many as 5,850 schools are yet to comply with the COTPA rules. However, the reporting is just a beginning and we have instructed defaulters about severe action if the COTPA rules are not implemented. In the coming months, we will visit more schools and within a few months, the situation is expected to improve,” he said.
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According to a recent Penn State study that uses a new way to calculate time-telling precision, the CsF2 cesium-based atomic clock at the UK's National Physical Laboratory is almost twice as accurate as originally thought -- meaning it will only gain or lose one single second over the course of 138 million years. This atomic clock isn't the only competitor for best-in-show, as researchers at the University of Tokyo have also announced a new record, claiming their optical lattice atomic clock observes atoms a million times faster than a traditional atomic clock -- achieving accuracy up to 18 digits in a one second measurement. Although researchers say the technology would gain or lose a second significantly faster than the cesium-based variety (31.7 million years), it could change the way scientists perceive time and space, giving us new insights into fundamental constants of physics.
"Until now, clocks have been thought of as tools for sharing common time. But with clocks like this, conversely, we can understand that time passes at different speeds, depending on the time and place a clock is at," said Hidetoshi Katori of the University of Tokyo. Of course, both atomic clocks can help us stay timely, but they also have practical applications for everything from deep-space networking, to predicting earthquakes and GPS navigation. With this type of accuracy, looks like none of us will be getting away with showing up late to work anymore. Check out a video about the optical lattice clock after the break. | <urn:uuid:fe3fc1ee-84a4-4f31-b3b9-10d12c0ab32b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/29/new-developments-in-atomic-clock-technology-beat-accuracy-record/ | 2013-06-19T12:46:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954664 | 305 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
yield: Makes 16 "gummies"
active time: 20 minutes
total time: 2 1/2 hours
- 1 cup fruit juice (pure juice-not a fruit-flavored drink) or nectar, such as Goya, Mott's, or Kern's, chilled or at room temperature
- 1 1/4-ounce package gelatin
1. Lightly coat 16 tartlet molds or mini-muffin tins with oil.
2. Place 1/4 cup of the juice in a medium bowl and sprinkle in the gelatin. Let sit for 1 minute.
3. Meanwhile, in a small pan, bring the remaining juice to a boil. Add it to the gelatin mixture, stirring until the gelatin is dissolved.
4. Spoon the mixture into the molds. Chill in the refrigerator until set, 2 hours.
5. Pop the tartlets out. Serve them cold or at room temperature within 2 hours, or store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Tip You can buy plastic or metal tartlet molds ($1.50 and up each, surlatable.com). An 8-by-8-inch baking dish also works-once the whole thing is set, just cut it into squares with a knife, or into shapes with a cookie cutter.add your own note | <urn:uuid:d9bbbbd6-00cb-4f76-94e4-2021cb592e2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Fruit-Juice-Gummies-240066 | 2013-06-19T12:47:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862073 | 279 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
With the growing popularity of the Google Plus Network, its only natural that the subscriber numbers have reached over a million users. With so many people using Google Plus you should be able to connect with your friends, niche related contacts, and new social media friends. But with the limited options Google gives to make those searches, its actually can be hard to find people on Google. To help with this issue, someone stepped up to the plate and helped us out.
The person or I should say a company created a site called Google Plus Directory to help Google Plus users to quickly and easily find other Google Plus Users.
Google Plus Directory Helps You Find Users
The Google Plus Directory makes it easy to find people on Google Plus Network. The easiest way to find someone to is use the search field. You can search by name, location or profession. If you are not sure who you are looking for, you can use the sidebar on the right. It offers search links that will look pull up users by country, state, city, profession and a variety of other ways.
I have been using Google Plus Directory for about a day and so far it works great. I did some searches for designers in my state and city. I was able to find quite a few new contacts on there. I also tried several other searches and they gave useful results as well. However, I did notice that when I looked at several quick views of user profiles the stats were off compared to what the actual profiles displays. Other than that, I haven’t any other cons to using this site. | <urn:uuid:17847aca-1604-492c-8f5d-660ad8d0ea0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.evolutionarydesigns.net/blog/2011/07/15/quicktip-how-to-quickly-search-and-find-people-on-google-plus/ | 2013-06-19T12:26:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96274 | 318 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
More than a year after introducing its Cloud Player streaming music service, Amazon is finally bringing the application to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, enabling consumers to access and download music stored in the cloud to their iOS device.
Earlier this year, Juniper Research forecast that music consumed on mobile devices will bring in $5.5 billion in 2015 , an increase of $3.1 billion from 2010. Mobile music might be the savior that
Amazon expanded its Cloud Player for Web streaming music service to Apple's ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) iPad, enabling tablet users to play back music stored in the cloud anywhere and anytime. Also new: Unlimited
SAN FRANCISCO-- Google ( NASDAQ:GOOG ) will formally unveil its long-awaited cloud-based music player service later today here at the company's annual I/O developer conference. Dubbed Music Beta by
Checking in with the digital firms vying for supremacy of the fast-growing cloud music segment. Article | <urn:uuid:ef91b066-06ae-45b9-99cf-164e8f8278ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/tags/cloud-music | 2013-06-19T12:18:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894745 | 199 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |