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The World Bank pioneered global HIV and AIDS financing early in the emergency and remains committed to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment, and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS. Read More » The objective of the Additional Financing for Total War against HIV and AIDS (TOWA) Project is to assist Kenya to expand the coverage of targeted HIV and AIDS prevention... Show More + and mitigation interventions. Negative measures include: dust, air pollution, noise pollution, water pollution, soil erosion, waste management, and borrow pits. Negative measures include: a) locating this site away from residential area in order to avoid dissipation of noxious emissions to the community; b) locating it away from agricultural areas to avoid contamination of food products by effluents. Having it located in a well drained site preferably downhill or away from any water wells. The site can also be drained to avoid stagnation of storm water that can result in to surface pollution or underground pollution; c) locate site at least 50 meters away from any ground water source; and d) plan the layout of the waste disposal area so that the order of utilizing the excavated pits can be determined. Such plans should be able to inform the construction of future new pits at the site since plan drawings are expected to remain in the records of waste disposal units. Show Less - This environmental assessment for Kenya total war against HIV/AIDS project undertakes a situational analysis of health care waste management through assessment of policy,... Show More + legal and administrative framework in relation to health care waste management. The study also assesses the existing technologies, levels and presence of scavenging and recycling; established the cost benefits of public-private partnership in health care waste management, and finally reviews existing training curricula, identifying unmet needs and proposing appropriate and affordable strategies for the training at various levels. Mitigation measures includes: the need to reduce the volume or contaminated and organic waste through shredding, recycling cremation of human body parts, autoclaving. The segregation of material is crucial in order to facilitate hygienic disposal. Proper and adequate facilities for storage of healthcare wastes. Measures will be taken for effective transportation of healthcare wastes. Capacity will be carried out at all levels from generation to disposal through appropriate training, media and other forums. Community awareness and advocacy. Show Less -

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The Mayor walked through the three possible routes and numerous possible future extensions. He broke down how successful systems in cities such as Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma have started with routes similar in length to the proposed for the Milwaukee Streetcar system (2 to 3 miles). The public is invited to attend an open house to review and comment on the proposed routes on October 8th, 2009 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Zeidler Municipal Building at 841 N. Broadway. Keep in mind that this is a starter system, limited by the availability of funds. The plan is that once something is in the ground, expansions will be a lot easier. Mayor Barrett himself describes the plan as a “trojan horse” designed to be expanded. We invite you to vote in the below poll for your favorite route (and leave a message in the comments why), here is some quick food for thought from us. You’re also invited to buy a streetcar t-shirt, and wear it to the event on October 8th to show your support. Alignment #1 This route seems positioned for success because it connects likely riders (urban residents) with jobs. The Third Ward and downtown are filled with “creative class” jobs, and downtown and the lower East Side are filled with “creative class” workers. Likewise this streetcar would connect service industry workers with numerous restaurants, bars, and retail locations, saving money for the people who need it most. The jog up to Brady is more valuable than the jog further south in the Third Ward. Adding access for thousands of residents by connecting to Brady is more desirable than getting to the front door of more jobs in the Third Ward. It seems likely that if riders were dropped off by the iconic Milwaukee Public Market they would likely walk to the jobs located south of St. Paul in the Third Ward. Development potential along this route is good, although secondary to the potential for riders. This is key in this author’s viewpoint for making the starter system successful. Connection to the Intermodal Station is essential for regional transit (Amtrak, KRM, Megabus, Greyhound, etc). The 4th Street jaunt at the west end of the route seems likely to be underutilized, with likely only convention attendees and a few hotel guests using the leg. It might be better waiting until funds are available to make the 4th Street leg go further north. Alignment #2 The Water Street leg seems to pass less housing than Alignment #1 would. On the flip side it would likely pass more jobs, and more bars. It seems that a better balance would yield better ridership for the starter system. The potential Brady Street leg is intriguing, but likely a disappointment in terms of development. The Water Street portion could see more accelerated development, because of the line’s construction (The North End’s development would likely be accelerated). The Brady Street portion would draw riders, however, future growth may be difficult because of neighborhood politics including the East Village Neighborhood Conversation Overlay District that limit heights and thereby inhibits density beyond a certain level. Additionally, Brady Street itself is a historic district, which could limit the possibility of new development as well. Long-term development potential from the line on Brady Street is likely fairly limited (compared to other potential routes). Connection to the Intermodal Station is essential for regional transit (Amtrak, KRM, Megabus, Greyhound, etc). The 4th Street jaunt at the west end of the route seems likely to be underutilized, with likely only convention attendees and a few hotel guests using the leg. It might be better waiting until funds are available to make the 4th Street leg go further north. The alignment is less connected with the Third Ward, a large center of jobs, and is even further disconnected with the growing number of apartments at the east and southern areas of the Third Ward. Alignment #3 The alignment misses a large portion of East Town, the most jobs-dense portion of the city. The alignment serves many major entertainment hubs (Bradley Center, US Cellular Arena, Milwaukee Theater, Turner Hall Ballroom, Midwest Airlines Convention Center), which are likely to generate high ridership, but only on a handful of days. The alignment misses the Third Ward completely, a large jobs center, and an increasingly dense population center. The potential Brady Street leg is intriguing, but likely a disappointment in terms of development. The Water Street portion could see more accelerated development because of the line’s construction (The North End’s development would likely be accelerated). The Brady Street portion would draw riders, however, future growth may be difficult because of neighborhood politics including the East Village Neighborhood Conversation Overlay District that limit heights and thereby inhibit density beyond a certain level. Additionally, Brady Street itself is a historic district, which could limit the possibility of new development as well. Long-term development potential from the line on Brady Street is likely fairly limited (compared to other potential routes). The leg from Ogden to Brady would be important to generate ridership on the route, but it’s hard to imagine many people riding it to work daily. The route has the greatest development potential of the three routes, with all of the Park East covered. Unfortunately, that comes with the trade-off of likely the lowest ridership. If the goal is to build a starter system with the greatest number of riders possible, this is the worst option. 33 thoughts on “Milwaukee Streetcar Routes Unveiled by Mayor Barrett” Seems that the first option would have the highest projected ridership? Gotta go with whatever fetches the highest ridership with the starter system, the purpose of transit is for people to ride it, and that should help with extensions when the time comes. I’d say option 2 would be the best since it is most centrally located in the downtown to serve both east town and west town. Though I read that the streetcar may not have it’s own dedicated lane or have street lights turn green automatically for the streetcar? If that is true then don’t even bother with the system, it’s going to be no different than the bus in that it will get caught in traffic, like a bus, travel and a low average speed, and not run on a set schedule. #1 looks best. Connects intermodal station with U.S. Bank Center (this is critical, it’s the largest office building in the state), NW Mutual HQ, Fed courthouse, Cathedral Square, Third Ward, MSOE, Metromarket, Mil. Public Market, close to 411 E. Wisconsin and Pfister, and connects all of that with densely populated east side. I agree with Nathaniel, If people don’t ride and the system is not immediately successful, it will be crucified by the likes of Talk Radio. A streetcar system has been blocked for years, so it needs to hit the ground running if it comes about. The public must get behind it or it will be shelved for another 15 years. I like #1 for the simple fact that it goes through the central business district, while incorporating some entertainment venues. An even better route would start at the intermodal station, go north on 4th to Wisconsin Avenue, then east along Wisconsin Avenue to Jackson/Van Buren, then north to Ogden, then east to Farwell. Why not run this thing on Wisconsin Avenue, which is downtown’s main street? I think option 1 with the extension would be great, and I would actually trade the extension for the small segment that goes from the station to Wisconsin since that segment will be very underutilized. @Andrew, I think there is a lot of consternation with the BRT folks from the county about having both lines on the same street (which to me seems ridiculous, but it is what it is). Might be a congestion/speed of service issue with Wisconsin too (not sure). Hopefully #1 is what is built, with the extension to Brady. This brings together a nice mix of tourist destinations, jobs, housing, and nightlife. Hopefully if KRM and the county’s BRT plans move forward there will be easy transfers(no extra fees/thoughtful placement). Great news. At a glance, I prefer route number 1, though I agree that the 4th street leg seems unnecessary. You’d be quicker walking the 0.30 miles from the intermodal station to the convention center than waiting for a streetcar. Also, this route passes under 794 via Van Buren and Jackson. It seems this routing would severely limit the potential for tidying up the knot of highway ramps at this location or implementing a surface level boulevard. Perhaps a crossing closer the river would be better in this regard? Is the trade-off worth it? I see many of your arguements for route 1, but remember that we also have a proposed COMET system that would, if built, run norh on Prospect and south on Farewell with stops along that corridor. So, do we want duplication? You need to look at the systems together. Or is this proposal replacing the COMET…I thought it was the new route for the downtown circular streetcar OK, after further review route 1 looks the best option considering the current land use, but 2 could lead to new development along the water street corridor and park east. I am torn….to with what will work now or what could create more growth in a under utilized area of the downtown. regardless of where the route is they MUST have a dedicated lane for the vehicle and they must have the street lights turn green for the vehicle so that it’s movement is not stoped for traffic lights. This mode needs to be significantly quicker than the existing buses and in needs to be on time at stops or it won’t be used. I think option 1 hits the greatest number of commuters and would provide walkable access to all the entertainment destinations available downtown. One question that will hopefully be answered at the meeting is how many cars will run on this line? Personally, I would hope there will be no schedule, instead you can expact that a train will be along every 5-10 mins. Unfortunately, given the length of this starter system, if it has a schedule like our current buses it would probably still be easier to make the 30 min walk downtown rather than wait 30 min for a ride. I voted for #1 as the best of the lot but I think that the first route should definitely include going all the way to UWM period. Otherwise I don’t think it will be successful as it could be. I know that it would take more $ but then an unsuccessful route is wasting what we have and puts a pall on further development. For maximum economic development as well as school/job ridership I would include route north of Brady that would include Downer and Oakland shopping centers, that mirrors the “30” and “15” routes that are the most successful of the present bus routes. This would be the “Dream Route” for a successful first run of the street cars in Milwaukee. I think option #1 is the best of the three but it really needs to run at least North Ave. I really can’t imagine that the streetcar is going to blaze though the short route in a way that will far surpass the bus system. I live a few blocks of North and the 30 only takes 20/25 min for me to get to work (4th & Wis) and the 15 about 5 min less. I know people who live along the proposed route that drive and I really don’t forsee then giving up cars for this. Its the people on the fringes of downtown (less economically well off) who really need quick and fast transit versus people who live in 400k condos or pay 2k a month in rent. I know we have to start somewhere, but I think the starting point needs to be a bit larger. If the line could be extended at least to North Ave, that would capture a large number of UWM students, especially since UWM is running those shuttles between the Kenwood campus and North Ave. Yes, it would require a transfer to get downtown where the 15 and 30 wouldn’t, but unlike the 30 or 15, it would allow you to get to the Intermodal station with luggage. Better would be all the way to UWM. I think what hasn’t been made clear here is that there is only enough money for about 2 miles. Of course it would be great to get to North Avenue or UWM. It would also be great to get to Marquette, Bay View, Bronzeville and many other locations but there is only enough money for 2 miles. I lived on the Eastside (Prospect and Brady area) for many years, in the Third Ward for a year, attended UWM for undergrad and grad school, worked downtown for two years and honestly, I don’t think I would have ever ridden the proposed streetcar. I owned a car but often tried to survive without it by using the 15/30 buses. My thought is that “Milwaukee Urbanites” will adapt to this system if it perhaps connects UWM to Marquette and runs through the Third Ward / Downtown / East Town / Brady / North / probably a few other locations… otherwise the bus seems more convenient. Maybe we’re “building a bridge halfway over the river” because that’s all the money we have? (I know not the best analogy) and I could be totally wrong about this… maybe there are enough people who regularly need to go between East Town and Downtown for this too work. I think Urban Milwaukee staff should create a different poll, such as: if you are a “Milwaukee Urbanite” would you use the streetcar? Y / N Also, I’m wondering if any transportation engineering types have weighed in on this. And one more thing… thank you Urban Milwaukee. Someday I plan to move back to Milwaukee but I feel like I’m not missing anything because of your site. Michael, one of the benefits of a streetcar is that it won’t just attract us urbanites, it will attract almost everyone. There are a lot of people who live on the lower east side who now drive to the Third Ward or downtown. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s true. The bus is not appealing to them for a number of reasons (confusing, infrequency of service, misconceptions, etc.). The beauty of enhanced transit options like a streetcar is that they can help increase transit ridership as a whole, because they appeal to a larger group of potential users. From a transportation engineering standpoint: Granted, never underestimate an American’s willingness to shell out $$ to be moved 4 blocks without walking, but still, this leg doesn’t seem to make much sense. From a political/marketing standpoint: There’s zero chance this thing gets build WITHOUT being paraded around in front of the convention center. And there’s the end of discussion for that leg! In addition to the convention center, it might be important for the streetcar to make an appearance on Downtown’s main drag west of the river. Something else I have been wondering about…I’m assuming the streetcar line and the vehicles themselves will need some sort of maintenance shed. Looking at alternative 1, it seems to me that one of the best places for this building to go would be in the 4th and Clybourn Area. I assumed that was another reason why that particular little jaunt. Any other ideas where it could go? I have to go with the consensus on #1. Simply because of projected ridership and the fact that #3 just leads to sports arenas and a empty and unused mall and #2 seems to follow only nightlife not linking any of the East town residences to third ward and downtown Have you guys (Dave and Jeramey) heard anything more about a locally preferred alternative? I know that milwaukeeconnector.com gave a timetable with a “locally preferred alternative approved” in December 2009 to January 2010. Would the City Common Council be in charge of choosing this alternative? The City engineering department?

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Exclusive: Peugeot board approves outline Dongfeng deal - source Sophie Sassard 3 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - PSA Peugeot Citroen’s (PEUP.PA) board has approved a plan for an alliance with Dongfeng (0489.HK) in which the Chinese carmaker and the French state would buy large minority stakes at a 40 percent discount to Peugeot’s current share price, a source familiar with the matter said. Peugeot employees work on the assembly line at the Dongfeng PSA Peugeot Citroen factory in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province, November 17, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/Stringer The board agreed to enter final negotiations on a 3.5 billion euro ($4.8 billion) share issue that would see France and Dongfeng Motor Group take matching 20 percent holdings, the source said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The capital increase would be priced at below 7 euros per share, and perhaps as low as a 6.85 euro indicative offer from Dongfeng, the source said. Peugeot’s shares closed at 11.50 euros on Wednesday. A spokesman for Peugeot declined to comment on the alliance talks. Dongfeng officials could not be reached after hours in Wuhan, China. The French government also declined to comment. Peugeot, one of the carmakers worst hit by the European market slump, is cutting jobs and plant capacity to try to halt losses within two years. Philippe Varin, Peugeot’s outgoing chief executive, has said the French carmaker is exploring a deeper relationship with Dongfeng, its existing partner in a Chinese joint venture. The two companies have been in talks for months to extend cooperation to other Asian countries after a multibillion-euro share issue in which Dongfeng and the French government would acquire significant stakes, sources have said. The Financial Times reported they plan to transfer some Peugeot technologies to Dongfeng while targeting new markets in southeast Asia. The hefty discount on the proposed deal, approved by Peugeot’s board on Tuesday, reflects worsening conditions and currency headwinds since the company pledged to halve its cash burn to 1.5 billion euros this year, the source said. Under its outline terms, Dongfeng and the French state would each hold about 20 percent of Peugeot after a reserved share sale to the French state and Dongfeng and accompanying rights issue for existing shareholders. The founding Peugeot family would lose control as its stake was diluted from 25 percent to 15 percent even after acquiring some new stock in the rights issue, the source said. The effect would be even more dilutive for 7 percent-shareholder General Motors (GM.N) or any other existing investors that turn down the chance to buy new shares. Peugeot hopes to conclude the deal in January or February, according to the source. In a move that may help secure the new funding from Dongfeng, Peugeot last week named former Renault No.2 Carlos Tavares as its next chief executive.

In my last post, I was delighted to see the TGISVPAlpha & Beta Portfolios continue to expand their level of out-performance vs. their ISEQ benchmark. Particularly pleasing was the sight of my favourite, the Smart Alpha portfolio, far outpacing the others with a 21.1%YTD absolute return. But we’re still only 9 months into the experiment, so clearly we need a far longer horizon to confirm if this performance edgeis sustainable. It also makes me wonder if there’s a lesson to be learned here..? No, not whether value investingout-performs in the long run – I’m fully convinced of that already! [And if you’re not, please please read some of the numerous papers published on the topic]. But whether a mechanicalapproach is perhaps better? Ha! No, I’m certainly not planning on becoming a stock screening convert..! But I wonder: Even if you’re a v competent & disciplined value analyst, even if you’ve conquered much of the fear & greed involved in investing, perhaps that demon mind still trips you up at that v last hurdle, or two..? When you’ve a nice stack of portfolio candidates lined up, why do you then take a shine to some & not to others? Why does one special stock really get your heart racing, far out of proportion to its obvious prospects? Why do you end up triple invested in one stock vs. another, when they both lined up pretty much even-stevens in terms of risk/reward? Yes, even when you have a v disciplined & analytical framework for your investing, there’s still a lot of mystery attached to the end-result: The actual composition of your portfolio. Does that mystery add, or subtract, value?Perhaps a more mechanical portfolio approach, such as the TGISVP Beta (or even Alpha) portfolios, actually adds more value? Perhaps it may even be the logical & ultimate extension to a value investing approach? I really don’t have the answer. Thoughts..?! Anyway, now we’ve got TGISVP performance up-to-date, I thought it would be interesting (and even useful!) for readers to see the latest snapshot of potentialIrish Winner & Loserstocks. For this, I’m using a slightly different version of my TGISVP performance file: – All share prices are as ofSep-30th – The vast majority of target valuations are unchanged** from Q1 – I haven’t seen fit to change them, even for stocks I hold – All FX rates are updated, so this will affect the actual target prices for a significant percentage of stocks As you can see, this mostly boils down to an exercise in ranking stocks based on comparing current share prices vs. my original target valuations. Therefore, it’s only right to warn you to perform your own research & analytical update if any stock(s) happen to catch your eye. Subsequent news flow & results can, on occasion, radically (& abruptly) change the intrinsic value of a company – which is unlikely to be factored into a valuation that dates back to, for example, February. So…why don’t I just update all valuations once a quarter, or so?!Erm, right – because i) I just don’t have the time, we’re talking 70+stocks here, and ii) I really don’t need to – this is a screening/ranking exercise, after all! Broadly speaking, most intrinsic valuations should & do evolve slowly over time. Therefore, once the heavy lifting of the initial valuation phase is done, we then have a framework to quickly & easily keep track of a large number of companies, and the most likely under/over-valued stocks. Even with no input/updates to intrinsic valuation, I think it’s reasonable to expect this exercise to be still making a valuable contribution up to 12-18 months later. Of course, if you’re actually contemplating a fresh purchase (or sale) of one of these stocks, that would obviously demand a deeper dive first. But maybe you disagree with my assertion that most intrinsic valuations only evolve slowly? In your opinion, or experience, perhaps they change much more frequently & violently..?If so, can I make a suggestion (gained from my own long & bitter experience) – take a long, hard look in the mirror, it might be you: i) Do you regularly change intrinsic valuations, sometimes radically, based on exactly the same facts & figures, or on a v incremental change in results or news flow? ii) Do you own too many stocks that actually experience radical changes in their share price and intrinsic valuation, often overnight? If i) is proving a problem, it’s possible you’re being somewhat inconsistent, and/or less than rigorous, in your valuation analyses. You may also be allowing greed & fear to influence you too much. Developing an overall (reasonably rigid) analytical framework & a related set of metrics, and constantly challenging yourself to value large & varied lists of stocks, is a great path to better analytical rigour, and less emotion. If ii) is hurting, you may be picking too many risky and/or difficult stocks. They’re likely to have poor management/governance, a bad/volatile business model, and/or they’re simply over-leveraged (and/or cash-flow negative). Or maybe they’re just outright gambles (‘oh God, if they hit oil…we’re all rich – if they don’t…ah, just shut the fuck up!’). These are exactly the kind of stocks which love to surprise you in the worst way possible… Yeah, sure, difficult stocks might present an intriguing challenge, and pure gambles are so enticing – but really, why bloody bother? You’ve absolutely nothing to prove, to anybody, in your investing! Big talk, and all those usual coulda/woulda/shouldas, just means sweet f***-all… ‘Cos all that matters, in the end, is your actual (long-term) portfolio return. And that matters to you, and nobody else – they don’t get rich if you do, and they definitely don’t care if you lose it all! And I can assure you there’s always far easier & safer stocks to invest in, offering just as much upside potential. OK, perhaps you might have to look a little harder… And sleep a little easier… ;-) And so, let’s begin with the current Bottom 15 in TGISVP: Good God..! Just look at this lot – pretty much a bunch of tawdry junior resource stocks. I imagine buying these would feel like signing up for a daily kick in the bollocks… Any day your tender gonads were miraculously left unmolested would feel like a winner, eh? I’m not suggesting you short any of these losers (if that’s even possible?), but if you own (or are actively buying) any of them, I’d recommend you think v long & hardabout the risks involved. I certainly wouldn’t want to own them… And you could definitely have your money in something better, anyway – what..? Yeah, sure, maybe even lottery tickets..! But failing that, you might even think about truffle hunting in this patch instead – the TGISVP Top 15: Of course, this isn’t an invitation to dive wholesale into these stocks either! While I think the target prices fairly balance the risks/rewards involved, some of these stocks present corporate governance risks/issues. Or they’re simply over-leveraged, which tends to lead to a v binary outcome ultimately (success, and the stock price doubles/triples, or failure, and you get wiped out). Personally I’m happy to see three out of my four Irish holdings on the list, and pretty content with them also! Write-ups here: FBD/Total Produce, and Petroneft. I’m also happy to see my next(well, potentially!) Irish stock lurking on the list. ;-) But I’d probably want to sell/lighten up an existing Irish holding before buying it. That could prove a blessing, I’ve a feeling it might come a little cheaper first… Finally, my other Irish stock, Trinity Biotech (TRIB:US), actually missed the cut. Not exactly a source of complaint though – it’s due to the continued rally in the TRIB share price. In fact, a recent Barron’s article gave it the oomph this week to blow past my latest intrinsic value target of $13.41, and close up +11% this week at $13.99. However, rather unusually, I also specified a secondary price target of $16.69 which still beckons. This was actually surpassed by an $18.50 price target cited by Barron’s, which may prove tempting to many US investors now that TRIB’s finally back on their radar with a good growth story & stock performance. Good luck! And just email me if you want to discuss/compare notes on any of the above stocks, or the implications of any news flow, or results, since my original valuation target. I’m also attaching the relevant Excel file that supports the above tables, for your reference – feel free, of course, to refresh share prices and to revise/completely alter valuations as you see fit for your own analysis.

Hunter Oaks is a sprawling neighborhood located in Waxhaw, NC. Several builders: Ryland, Shea, Zaring, Parker/Orleans and Lillian Floyd – comprised this neighborhood starting back in in 1994 building through 2003. Hunter Oaks is a very social neighborhood with a very active HOA and scheduled group activities. Hunter Oaks is in the Marvin Ridge school cluster with a new elementary school Rea View. Hunter Oaks has a club house, 2 pools, tennis courts and walking trails. The homes vary in size from 4 bedrooms to 6 bedrooms. Smaller homes are about 2500 sq ft and they rang up to approximately 5500 htd sq ft. Uptown Charlotte is about 30 minutes away and accessed by 485 at Rea Road. Nearby shopping at Blakeney and Ballantyne give a buyer the best of both worlds.

Eagles selling Chip Kelly on Michael Vick, Nick Foles It's long been assumed that Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles are set to part ways this offseason, but the potential hiring of Oregon coach Chip Kelly might alter the quarterback's fate. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Sunday the Eagles are selling Kelly on two major factors: First, a roster already stocked with the type of players Kelly recruited at Oregon, including a handful of short, fast wideouts. Second, a pair of in-house signal-callers that loom as a decent fit to operate Kelly's up-tempo, spread attack. Nick Foles and Vick would, indeed, give Kelly a pair of unique quarterbacks to work with. Foles is raw, but promising. Vick's best days have passed, but he's an intriguing fit for Kelly's option scheme and, on paper, a better proposition than Brandon Weeden and Colt McCoy of the Cleveland Browns, the second team competing furiously with the Eagles to hire the innovative coach. Without question, something the Eagles said Saturday clicked with Kelly. Their lunchtime meeting dragged on well into the night and hit the brakes on assumptions the Browns and Kelly are a sure thing. If Philadelphia winds up with the top prize in this coaching derby, Vick's presence -- on a team that seemed ready to wave goodbye just days ago -- might wind up serving as a difference-maker.

Kaseya VSA R9.1 AuthAnvil Module - Release Notes With the release of Kaseya VSA R9.1 new capabilities have been added. Please see this article for the rest of the R9.1 release notes. Kaseya introduces a new addon module with this release, integrating AuthAnvils identity and access management (IAM) solution with the Kaseya VSA. Integration with the VSA comprises three different AuthAnvil services. Live Connect sessions, set independently from other types of remote control sessions Alerts and logging are provided for all two factor authentication activity. Active Directory integration is supported. You can optionally enable endpoints with a "queue" of passcodes to support authentication when endpoints cannot connect to a network, for example laptops out in the field. Password Server The same AuthAnvil module includes integration with Password Server. Password Server is used to configure and store all the credentials VSA administrators are required to work with, on behalf of multiple customers. Password Server includes the ability to set policies for credentials, control user access to each credential using personal, private and shared vaults, schedule password updates, and maintain logs of credentials usage. Password Server supports both SAML-enabled logons that allow immediate access and logons that require a business workflow to complete the logon. Password Server can optionally include the two factor authentication credentials youve created using the Two Factor Authentication service. Single Sign On A credential, with or without two factor authentication, can be added as a "menu app" item to the Single Sign On service. Once the Single Sign On menu is configured, the VSA user only needs to authenticate oncetypically using two factor authenticationto gain access to this menu. Clicking any app in the menu provides instant access to any other resource without having to re-authenticate. The three services, integrated with the VSA, handle all authentications entirely behind the scenes, providing immediate, highly- secure access to all the machines you manage. One of the applications you can add to each VSA user's Single Sign On menu is an app to logon to the VSA. This means the Single Single On menu provides immediate, secure access to the VSA as well as all other resources VSA users require to perform their daily tasks. Agent Procedure Approvals using Two Factor Authentication Instead of signing and then approving agent procedures using two different VSA users, you can now sign and approve agent procedures using your 2FA passcode, if Two Factor Authentication has been enabled for your VSA user. VSA Logon Page The style of the VSA logon page has been updated to emphasize the VSA's new identity and password management capabilities. It also adapts when resizing the window. Installation The AuthAnvil integration addon module for VSA is installed by default at no charge when you upgrade to R91. AuthAnvil is purchased separately. All three AuthAnvil services must be installed on a separate system from the KServer. Usually all three services are installed on the same system, along with the database server used by the AuthAnvil services. If you are not an existing AuthAnvil customer please contact sales@scorpionsoft.com for more information about purchasing AuthAnvil.

Tabata30 A 20:10 (20 seconds of work:10 seconds of recovery) format of training which uses high intensity bursts of exercise with a recovery interval between rounds, within a 4 minute block. Tabata sessions can incorporate body weight, kettlebells, bars, ViPRs, giving you a full body workout. Tabata is also a fantastic metabolism booster!

Judge criticised for 'immigrants exploiting benefits' comment A Crown Court judge has been disciplined for saying that hundreds of thousands of immigrants come to Britain to get benefits. Judge Ian Trigger was given an official rebuke over remarks about the UK's 'completely lax immigration policy', which he made when jailing an illegal immigrant drug dealer for two years. It was one of the last decisions by Labour former justice secretary Jack Straw, who until last week policed judicial behaviour with the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge. Criticised: Judge Ian Trigger, left, was today 'advised' over comments he made about immigration while sentencing a Jamaican drug dealer last year They said Judge Trigger made 'an inappropriate judicial intervention in the political process'. His criticism of immigration policy was 'wholly unrelated' to the case of the Jamaican drug dealer he was sentencing last July. Lucien McClearley came to Britain as a tourist in 2001 and claimed asylum when his visa ran out. The defendant was arrested in October 2002 when the visa ran out but he claimed asylum and was released while it was being processed. This claim was rejected in 2004, but he stayed in Britain without any interference from the authorities until February 2009, when police stopped a car he was driving and smelt cannabis. McClearley admitted taking a vehicle without consent, possessing cannabis and cocaine, possessing a class B drug with intent and two counts of possessing false identity documents. McClearley, who was 31 at the time, was jailed for two years on July 28, 2009. Sentencing him at the time at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Trigger said: ‘Your case illustrates all too clearly the completely lax immigration policy that exists and has existed over recent years. ‘People like you, and there are literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people like you, come to these shores to avail themselves of the generous welfare benefits that exist here. ‘In the past 10 years the national debt of this country has risen to extraordinary heights, largely because central government has wasted billions of pounds. Much of that has been wasted on welfare payments. ‘For every £1 that the decent citizen, who is hard-working, pays in taxes, nearly 10 per cent goes on servicing that national debt. ‘That is twice the amount it was in 1997 when this Government came to power.’ The controversial comments sparked an investigation which resulted in today's criticism. Judge Trigger has 'received formal advice' from Lord Judge, in effect a slap on the wrist. A spokesman for the judiciary said: ‘His Honour Judge Trigger has received formal advice from the Lord Chief Justice following an investigation into comments he made in open court during the sentencing of Lucien McClearley. ‘The investigation found, and the Lord Chief Justice agreed, that Judge Trigger's comments were wholly unrelated to any of the issues which arose for consideration in his sentencing decision, and represented an inappropriate judicial intervention in the political process.’

Biographical Summary: Living his youth in a place called Nauvoo, Illinois, the saints had built a city which at the time was bigger than the city of Chicago. They had also built a temple which was the largest and most expensive building west of Philadelphia. From here they were driven by their enemies to a resting place called Council Bluffs, Iowa. Here, Henry enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, an army of 500 men called to fight in the war with Mexico and help secure California for the U.S. as part of Manifest Destiny. It was and still is, the longest infantry march in U.S. Military history. There is hardly an event that occurred in the American west between 1846 to 1848 that some of the members of this group did not take part in. Henry was probably the second Packard in California. Henry Packard was born May 6, 1825, in Parkman, Geauga, Ohio, the third child of Noah Packard and Sophia Bundy. His parents were some of the early settlers in that town, and when he was seven his family were converts to the Mormon Church. In 1840 the family moved to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, which one year before was nothing more that a marshy bend in the Mississippi River called Commerce, which contained a few log cabins. Their new home being located across the street from the city's founder, mayor and spiritual leader, Joseph Smith. Passers-by were amazed at what the saints had built in such a short time, which shocked their enemies as well. A year and a half after the murder of Joseph Smith, they were driven from the state as both the federal and state governments stood idly by and watched it happen. Henry's father was too ill and too poor to leave Nauvoo that February of 1846 and cross the frozen Mississippi River with Brigham Young, but he at least sent his three oldest sons to help the saints move to their new home in the West. They traveled as far west as Winter Quarters, Nebraska. At Mt. Pisgah (Grand River), Iowa, the saints were met by Captain James Allen, under the command of Colonel Stephen W. Kearny, commander of the U.S. Army of the West stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He brought orders authorizing him to enlist 500 volunteers for a year, in a campaign to secure California in the war with Mexico. On July 20, 1846, the battalion started their march from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Fort Leavenworth. At this time Captain Allen was promoted to Colonel and Kearny was promoted to General. When the battalion reached Fort Leavenworth August 1st, there were 22 officers and 474 enlisted men for a total of 496. There were also 34 women and a number of children. 20 of the women were assigned as laundresses, four to each company. All of the clothing pay allowance was sent back to the church and the families of the men in Council Bluffs to help them cross the plains to the valley of the Salt Lake. The men were each issued a musket, bayonet, scabbard, cartridge box and leather belt. A white belt was the only clothing which they all had in common. They were also each issued a blanket, canteen & knapsack, and each mess group of six was issued cooking pots and a tent. Each of the five companies was allowed to buy a wagon with a four mule team, in which they could carry their gear. On August 13th they started with orders to go to Bent's Fort, Colorado. Colonel Allen was too sick to lead the men and stayed at the fort. Capt. Hunt would be in command until Col. Allen could rejoin the group. On August 26th at Bluff Creek, Kansas, word reached the battalion of Col. Allens death. On the 29th, Lieutenant Andrew Smith and Dr. George Sanderson arrived from the fort to take command of the battalion, with orders to go directly to Santa Fe now that it had been captured by Kearny's advance party. Most of the men wanted Capt. Hunt to continue the command since he out ranked Lt. Smith, but the officers voted to give the command to Lt. Smith since he was a career soilder and West Point graduate. However, Lt. Smith did not like volunteers, let alone Mormon volunteers. Also, because the battalion's re-supplies had been sent ahead to Bent's Fort and they were now ordered to go to Santa Fe, the men were put on half rations. Just after they left the Arkansas River a sick detachment was sent to Pueblo, Colorado, via Bent's Fort. Many of the men were sick from exposure to the elements and Dr. Sanderson (Dr. Death) prescribed a dose of calomel powder and arsenic, no matter what was wrong with them. The men marched sick, under fed and under clothed, from water hole to water hole all the way to Santa Fe, arriving October 12, 1846. At Santa Fe they were given a new commander, Colonel Philip St. George Cooke, who had been with Kearny's advance party, but was sent back to take command after Kearny learned of Allens death. Col. Cooke told the men that they had orders to make a new wagon road to the Pacific along a southern route, something that had never been done. From here another sick detachment left for Pueblo with all of the remaining women except five and all of the remaining children except one boy. On October 18th, they left Santa Fe with 25 government wagons and 60 days rations, 5 company wagons and 12 private family wagons. Upon learning that Gen. Kearny had abandoned his wagons, Col. Cooke also brought along pack saddles for the mules. He also ordered that the men be organized into messes of ten men each. On the 24th they arrived at Albuquerque and exchanged some mules. From here they traveled south down the western side of the Rio Grande River. Just before they left the river they sent another sick detachment back to Pueblo, leaving 335 men in the battalion. On Nov. 13th they left the Rio Grande and began blazing a new wagon trail. Rations to the men were again reduced. From here the men blazed a new road through the southwestern part of New Mexico into Mexico and up into Arizona along the San Pedro River Valley. On December 11th as they were watering the animals, some wild bulls got in with the cattle and were killed by the sheep drovers. Later that day another group of wild bulls charged the men and a short but wild melee ensued. The rampaging bulls charged on and on as they attacked men, mules and wagons. Three men were wounded, three mules were gored to death and several wagons were tipped over. Corporal Frost was charged by a bull from one hundred yards, took aim and fired when it was ten paces from him and it dropped at his feet. Col. Cooke later said of the man, "One of the bravest men he ever saw." It is not known how many bulls were killed in all, but one person reported nine dead in one spot. Many reported over 20 dead in all and maybe three times that many wounded. Just before they arrived at Tucson, the garrison of Mexican soldiers stationed there had fled to the south on hearing of their coming. After a short stay they marched north to the Gila River and the Pima Indian villages. From here they basically followed the southern edge of the Gila River to the Yuma crossing of the Colorado. From there to Mexicali, then north to Palm Springs, following the San Luis River through the Temecula Valley arriving at San Luis Rey January 27, 1847. Much of this route later became known as the Spanish Trail, San Antonio-San Diego Route and the Butterfield Stage Line. On July 31, 1846, a large group of Mormons arrived at El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), later called San Francisco, aboard the ship Brooklyn, under the leadership of Samuel Brannan. This was a month after the Bear Revolt had taken place and soon after Commander Montgomery aboard the USS Portsmouth had taken control of the area for the US without a shot being fired. The local Mexican General at the Presidio and many of the local residents of the bay area having fled to the south. Upon reaching California the battalion learned that it had already been secured from Mexico by Fremont and Kearny, but all was not peaceful. John C. Fremont had been installed Governor of the state by Commodore Stockton. Lt. Col. Fremont along with Commodore Stockton were refusing to take orders from Gen. Kearny, who had been given orders by President Polk to be the Governor of California after it was secured. With the arrival of the battalion loyal to Kearny, he then had more than enough men to enforce his authority. From here the battalion was split with one company going to San Diego and four companies, along with Henry, going to Pueblo de Los Angeles, where they built Fort Moore. At some point during the trip Henry was promoted from Private to Corporal. On May 31, 1847, 15 members of the battalion along with Gen. Kearny and other officers left Monterey with Lt. Col. John C. Fremont, taking him back to Fort Leavenworth for court-martial. This group was the first to discover the remains of the Donner Party at Truckee Lake, other than the original rescue parties. It was a gruesome sight of dismembered bones and body parts! When the battalion was discharged July 16, 1847, at Fort Moore, the government tried to get as many men as possible to re-enlist for another six months. Henry was one of 79 who did, and they spent their time stationed at San Diego. There he was promoted to Sergeant. About 118 of the men headed east to Lake Arrowhead and then later northeast to the valley of the Salt Lake. About 105 other men traveled north to the Coloma area and worked for Captain John A. Sutter at his fort and mill, where gold was discovered January 24, 1848. Six of these men became The California Star Express riders, carrying printed word of the gold discovery back to the east, starting the California gold rush. After the volunteers were released in San Diego on March 14, 1848, half went northeast to Utah and the other half, as well as Henry, traveled north to Yerba Buena and the gold fields. Many of these men left in 1848 and headed back east to Utah. It is not known exactly when Henry left, but we know that he was in Salt Lake City when his parents arrived there September 17, 1850. About 26 members of the battalion died during the the trip and never made it back to their families, though not a single shot was fired in battle, except during the battle with the bulls. The battalion proved the worth of this area which was later to become the Gadsden Purchase. They pioneered the southern emigration route, as well as the Carson Pass route through the Sierra Nevada's. While living for a short time in Salt Lake City and building a mill race for Archibald Gardner with his father and brothers, Henry met and married Mary Mariah Chase January 16, 1851. She was the younger sister of one of his fellow battalion soldiers. Henry and his new bride then moved to Hobble Creek with the rest of his family. I do not know what happened to this marriage, or if there were any children from it. On July 24, 1863, Henry married Almira Mehitabel Meacham, who had eight children from two previous marriages. At some time, probably during the late 1860's, he moved back to northern California with his family and lived in Healdsburg, Sonoma, California, where he died November 17, 1896, leaving no known children that I know of, other than his second wife's.”

Cat Power Playing Culture Room July 13 She of the haunting, breathy voice and unpredictable stage shows is coming to Culture Room on July 13. Cat Power aka Chan Marshall recently announced a new U.S. tour in support of her most recent album Jukebox. If you like this story, consider signing up for our email newsletters. SHOW ME HOW Newsletters SUCCESS! You have successfully signed up for your selected newsletter(s) - please keep an eye on your mailbox, we're movin' in! Just be forewarned if you buy tickets to this show. If she's on, you're in for one of the finest nights of music you'll ever hear. Her voice soars above sparse instrumentation and her crowd interaction is as sweet as it is sincere. It's been said by more than a few fans that this isn't the Cat Power you get at every show: Sometimes she'll end sets very abruptly or mish-mash songs together with little discernible beginnings or endings to them. Still, it's worth the risk as you'll either have a great night's music or a story you can tell for weeks to come. Tickets are on sale now. We use cookies to collect and analyze information on site performance and usage, and to enhance and customize content and advertisements. By clicking 'X' or continuing to use the site, you agree to allow cookies to be placed. To find out more, visit our cookies policy and our privacy policy.

Navegador de artículos Why constraining your sustainability strategy is a smart move Is a commitment to sustainability a real strategic advantage? Or are companies voluntarily tying one hand behind their backs? In recent weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the incentives, and disincentives, implied by an aggressive sustainability strategy. I participated in a great panel discussion focused on the link between innovation and sustainability, describedhere. The panel was moderated by Phil Metz of Singing Dog and featured Mike Biddle from MBA Polymers, Mikhail David from Interface, Beto Lopez from IDEO and myself. We discussed some very interesting concepts, primarily dealing with how effectively innovation processes can deliver social and environmental wins, and conversely, how sustainability can be framed and employed as an opportunity innovation. In one exchange, Beto described the sustainability director’s role as anticipating a future set of operating conditions for a company and making them relevant and actionable in the present tense. I love this description. It focuses on the importance of understanding a wide body of social, environmental, commercial, economic and other inputs, interpreting them into relevant terms for an organization and creating ways to integrate this information into the decision-making process — be it product design, operational, strategic or otherwise. The central question I arrived at was this: If a sustainability director’s job is to effectively understand and communicate a set of future constraints, be they in terms of resource pricing, material choices or operational context, why would any company voluntarily move to a more constrained and likely more costly mode of operations any earlier than required by legislation, scarcity, or other drivers? I think there are five reasons why taking this step makes sense. To start, there is a multi-faceted first mover advantage for the company that enters and defines a new market. The chance to create the ecosystem in which all future competitors will play isn’t a guarantee of success, but it does mean that competition is on your terms. In effect, being there at the start gives a company a role in the decision to go Beta vs VHS. Mike Biddle cautioned on the risk and cost to the first mover’s investment in creating this landscape — in his company’s case, this meant solving many of the technical and market challenges in recovering plastics from a wide range of waste streams. An additional first mover advantage is the increased time an early player has to build capacity and expertise in a new set of conditions. For example, a company that has been building waste reduction goals into their operations for many years — such as DuPont — can rely on efficiency as a source of competitive advantage relative to competitors who don’t develop these abilities. As another example, Method had over five years of experience developing high efficacy phosphate-free auto dish detergents by the time regulation pushed the big players to remove phosphates from their own formulations. When they struggled with performance issues, Method’s product had addressed the technical challenges and its market share grew 40 percent over the year following the regulatory change. Third, and most importantly from Method’s perspective, is finding ways to turn sustainability constraints from limitations into advantages. We aggressively focus on making resource efficiency, materials selection and responsible manufacturing into drivers of better product experience. Method’s8x concentrated laundry detergent is a great example of how an impressive resource savings from a super-concentrated detergent directly leads to an easier and better user experience. Fourth, establishing a reputation for leadership in sustainability can attract partners, collaborators and suppliers interested in social and environmental co-development. This effectively creates a new funnel for innovation to product development activities, potentially bringing a series of new ideas into the pipeline. Method has benefited from a surge in calls from novel green chemistry or low-carbon materials in recent years, largely driven by our ability to get previous such materials to market. Lastly, green product development can offer market differentiation. Truly excellent environmental design is still a rarity. Despite 70 – 80 percent of surveyed U.S. consumers saying that they prefer to buy greener goods, actual purchase rates are at 5 to 10 percent. A part of this “green gap” can be attributed to green products that just don’t deliver what users expect. Companies that can address the technical challenges involved in creating and producing the first truly excellent green offerings in their categories have an amazing upside on their hands. The discerning reader will notice that I have not listed any public or reputational benefits that could derive from a sustainability strategy. Other writers have correctly pointed to upsides in talent attraction and retention, brand value and social license to operate, among others. However, I would argue that many of these benefits could be experienced by companies that have not committed to materially changing their businesses in order to operate within a realistic set of future conditions, but rather have made some select changes, released well-publicized CSR reports, or issued compelling CEO statements while most of the business proceeds as usual. There are clearly upsides and downsides for those companies that do acknowledge and react to their best understanding of future operating conditions. Where the balance between these two lies likely depends on the company’s culture and competitive context. In Method’s case, there is amazing overlap between the opportunities for value creation and the ethical imperative to address social and environmental problems. This overlap has led to the growth of our company so far and will continue to be the basis of how we think about designing better products, operating more efficiently and running our company more effectively. In effect, social and environmental constraints define our opportunities rather than limit them. Sustainability & Business is a blog published by 100SD, a Costa Rican company dedicated to providing planning and execution services of sustainable development projects for companies and investors engaged in economic activities in hospitality, tourism, property development, and industry. The articles published below are intended to offer students, professionals, investors and entrepreneurs a source of updated information that promotes global progress on sustainability.

Two confirmed human cases of West Nile Virus in Colorado KUSA — State health officials confirm two people have tested positive for West Nile virus in Colorado. The cases, out of Weld County and Delta County, are the first reported human cases of the virus in 2018. CDPHE says most humans who contract the virus, about 80 percent, will not have any symptoms. About 20 percent of people will show symptoms, which are similar to the flu. State health officials said about 1 percent of people who test positive for West Nile virus will develop a more serious, potentially deadly illness. Last year, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle was one of the lucky ones. “I never had a symptom, I never felt sick,” said the longtime sheriff of Boulder County. “I go to Bonfils [Blood Center] every six weeks and donate blood and did that, and got a call and they said, you’ve got West Nile!” Because Pelle didn’t have any symptoms or sickness, his recovery was pretty simple. He just had to wait for the virus to pass before he could donate blood again. However, he is extra careful this time of year. “We all live in Colorado for a reason, and I like to do all kind of outdoor activities including fishing and hiking and horseback riding and golf and I’m not going to quit doing that,” he said. “But I got a can of OFF in my golf bag, and I take precautions when I need to when the mosquitos are out.” CDPHE said there were 68 human cases of West Nile virus in 2017, and four of those were fatal. CDPHE also shared the following tips to protect yourself and your home: Use insect repellents when you go outdoors. Repellents containing DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and some oil of lemon eucalyptus and para-menthane-diol products provide the best protection. Follow label instructions. Limit outdoor activities at dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus are most active.

Apple Releases macOS Mojave 10.14.5 Beta to Developers [Download] Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.5 beta 1 to developers for testing. The build number is 18F96h. There are no new features announced yet for 10.14.5 but we'll let you know if we spot any changes! Developers can run the macOS Developer Beta Access Utility to download the latest macOS 10.14 beta. As new macOS betas become available you will receive a notification and can install them from the Software Updates panel in System Preferences. You can download the macOS Developer Beta Access Utility at the link below. Please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or RSS for updates.

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be integrated and reused. Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides a set of service infrastructure components for creating, deploying and managing SOA applications. This process describes how to integrate Siebel Business Applications with Oracle SOA Suite using Java Message Service (JMS) messaging and Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ), the message queuing functionality of the Oracle database.

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Dextr Focuses Your Email Inbox on the People Who Matter Recently, Gmail announced a new way of displaying email that presumably cleans up your inbox and makes you more organized — you can read more about it in Mark Wilson’s review. After using it on both the desktop and my phone, I’ve got to say they’ve done a good job. However, one thing they have not implemented yet is a priority inbox for close family and friends. While the Primary inbox does a nice job of filtering out automatic emails from social networks, shopping sites, and more, there is no way to differentiate work from personal email. That’s where Dextr comes in. The app bills itself as a new mail experience that brings you closer to the people you love. Dextr’s goal is clear: to make it easier for you to communicate with the people you care about the most. Getting Started When you first start up Dextr, you are taken through a few tutorial screens that show you how to use it, as well as help you connect it to your Gmail account. Right now, since Dextr is still in beta, it only supports Gmail. The team is currently taking suggestions on what other services to support. 2 of the 4 tutorial screens You will then have the option to select which contacts from your address book you want to add to your Friends list, which serves as your inbox filter. Dextr will then look at your Gmail inbox and pull out emails from those contacts. Your inbox and Friends list After the initial setup, if you want to add more friends/family, you can simply swipe from right to left to reveal a full contact list and add more friends. Viewing Email To be honest, there isn’t much to say here about viewing email. Select an email from your inbox and you can read the content. When an email comes with attachments, you can view a list of all of them on a separate screen. Supported files will even show up inline. At this point, only images seem to fit the bill. Still, it’s a nice touch. From the email screen you can reply, move a message to the trash, mark as unread, star, or archive. Much like any other inbox, reading an email will not remove it from your list; only deleting or archiving it (either from the app or from Gmail) will remove it. The “Only” Two Other Features As interesting as this might sound, there are only two other features in the entire app: the ability to send email and Settings/Feedback. Send email and Settings While the email in your inbox is limited to only contacts you add to your Friends list, sending email has no such limitations. Simply start typing a contact’s name or email and it will show up in the address box. Compose the email and press Send! Smartly, if you email someone who is not on your Friends list, he or she will not automatically get added to it. This ensures that people can use Dextr as their primary mobile email app: checking only incoming messages from important Contacts while still being able to compose and send messages to everyone else. As far as Settings go, you can see from the screen above that there isn’t too much going on: you can change accounts, change your name, and add a signature. There is also an About and Feedback area. Simple and Beautiful I actually really like that I was table to tell you everything about Dextr in less than 500 words. Granted, it is still in beta and the feature list could grow considerably between now and the “official” release, but that doesn’t seem to be Dextr’s MO. The whole reason for the app is to get a much cleaner version of your inbox based on the people you actually want to communicate with. The developers give you a great app with the best possible way to de-clutter: you create a much smaller list of contacts and only allow messages from those people to reach you. The User Interface is consistent with the idea of simplicity. There is no clutter and it follows the Holo guidelines, as well as the new Cards UI look, really well. When you have email in your inbox from friends, Dextr displays that; when you don’t Dextr suggests starting a conversation and lists three of your friends. There is one button on the bottom to compose; that’s it. It also includes what are becoming common UI interactions for touch screens: pull from the top down to refresh your inbox, swipe side-to-side to reveal extra screens and menus. This is all very consistent with Dextr’s goal: promote simplicity. Using interactions that are already familiar to you means there’s a much lower learning curve. The Future of Dextr I see a lot of potential with Dextr. Right now, it’s strictly another layer on top of GMail to filter your email. However, moving forward I can see it growing to be more than just a Gmail app. In future releases they have promised push notifications and hinted at added support for other email clients, but we communicate through more than just email. I can see Dextr evolving into a full-blown messaging app that combines email, text messaging, and other services — Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts maybe? — into a simple interface while still limiting what gets through to you based on your Friends list. I think this would be a pretty amazing app because it allows you to stay connected to the people you care about without being bothered by work, email lists, and favors unless you are in front of a computer or manually checking those services. Dextr has the potential to make the phone more personal again, and that is a smart approach I can get behind. Dextr Reviewed by Joe Casabona on Jul 9. Dextr is a new mail experience that brings you closer to the people you love. Dextr's goal is clear: to make it easier for you to communicate with the people you care about the most. Rating: 8 out of 10

e-mail this to a friend : Malala Yousafzai awarded the 2013 Sakharov Prize South Asia Pakistan Victim of a Taliban attack in 2012, the young Pakistani activist received the award because she represents "our hope for a better future." : : (*) : : (*) : (*) : (*) See also 10/11/2012 PAKISTAN - GREAT BRITAINMalala Day: a petition to award the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala YousafzaiTens of thousands of people around the world support the initiative to reward the courage of the child activist who defied Taliban madness. 30 days on from the attack on her life , the UN secretary general announces today a world day dedicated to her. Slight improvement in her health conditions. 01/02/2013 PAKISTAN - NORWAYOslo candidates Malala Yousafzai for the Nobel Peace 2013Members of the ruling party presented in an official request. The young Pakistani activist, victim of Taliban violence, conducted a "courageous battle" for "the right to education of girls." She is still undergoing medical treatment for head injuries caused by a shooting attack. Pakistani blogger: "Allah bless and protect you." The European Parliament confirms that the professor, known for his criticism of Chinese policy in Xinjiang Province, is among the five finalists. In September 2014 he was sentenced to life in prison by Beijing for "terrorism" and "inciting subversion": his supporters believe the allegations are "completely false". 10/10/2014 NORWAY - PAKISTAN For Pakistani Christians and Muslims, Nobel Prize to Malala helps fight for human rights in the countryMalala Yousafzai, 17, from Pakistan, Kailash Satyarthi, a child advocate from India, are this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Committee recognised their "struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". For Paul Bhatti, they are a "symbol of hope and an example for everyone in the struggle against fundamentalism." Mgr Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo stressed the importance of education to ensure the future of new generations. The Church is a sign of "unity" in a context "marked by divisions" and a bridge in interfaith dialogue. The situation has gone from euphoria for peace to resignation over permanent conflict. He appeals to Western Christians to come as pilgrims to the Holy Land. The 15-day event is the most important religious celebration in Nepal. Animal rights activists have gone to Hindu temples to raise awareness among believers. The stench of rotting dead animals fills the areas near the places of worship. Police have been deployed to prevent confrontation.

CPAC: Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll - ends Romney's CPAC domination ByJimmy OrrFebruary 20, 2010 Texas Congressman Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll on Saturday with 31 percent of the vote. Mitt Romney came in second with 22 percent and Sarah Palin finished third with a distant seven percent of the vote. The CPAC straw poll comes at the end of the three day conference. Attendees of CPAC, or as Chris Matthewsonce called it a "Star Trek convention," cast their ballots on the third and final day of the conference and Paul was the clear winner with 31 percent of the vote. Mitt Romney was unable to keep a "Vulcan grip" on his three-year reign as CPAC's top vote getter netting 22 percent of the ballots for a solid second place finish. Perhaps rap-loving Republicans were sending a message to Romney that they disapproved of his problem solving skills on that airplane the other night. There may have been some boos, but Paul was by far one of the more popular speakers at CPAC this year," Costa writes. "While Paul mingled with his acolytes, the big guns — Pawlenty, Romney — were often shrouded by aides or mingling backstage," he adds. "Believe me: CPAC folks noticed. And now, thanks to the straw poll, for a moment, Paul’s opening line from his address is true: His 'revolution is alive and well,' at least this weekend." Disclaimer: This doesn't count In case you thought that today's event meant that Paul had actually won the presidency, FOX News offered this helpful reminder: "The straw poll is not binding." And Ben Smith over at Politico notes that the attendees of the conference don't really sync up with the rest of the country.

Culinary Cannabis Shadi has been a plant based chef for over a decade. She fell in love with hemp in 2014 and hasn't looked back ever since. Shadi has been cooking with hemp for the past four years and has immersed herself in the Anthropology of Hemp. Shadi started growing hemp in 2015 on her micro-farm in Hygiene, Colorado. The entire season was an absolute amazing experience. This hemp farm immersion opened up many possibilities and dreams. Shadi learned a lot about hemp, from seed to harvest, that first year. Spending time in a hemp forest was a life changing experience! In 2015, Shadi begain working with hemp on a daily basis as a food source. She has since created recipes that include various parts of the plant; seed, hearts, leaf, hemp seed oil and full-spectrum hemp extract. “Equitable access to organic and non-GMO foods is a human right.” — Shadi Ramey, M.A Shadi is dedicated to organic and non-GMO farming. She is grateful to be connected to the sacred Ganja plant. She believes that all humans can benefit from the powerful and amazing medicinal properties of hemp and cannabis. Shadi is ecstatic to start a female-owned-and-operated medicinal herb farm. Shakti Herb Farm has long been a dream that is coming to fruition in 2018! She is delighted to launch Shakti Herb Farm with a strong team of powerful women on a mission to change the world. In 2017 Shadi created Satya Kama™, the first ever hemp-based intimacy enhancer, and a line of organic, hemp-based moisturizing creams that are good enough to eat. Shadi is dedicated to using her business as a force for good. Satya Kama is one of the first hemp companies to have earned the rigorous pending B-Corp status. Shadi teaches about plant based nutrition, culinary anthropology and and hemp food. She also runs medicinal herb and hemp farm located just outside of Boulder.

John D. Pettineo v. Ge Money Bank IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA March 29, 2011 JOHN D. PETTINEO, PLAINTIFF,v.GE MONEY BANK,DEFENDANT. The opinion of the court was delivered by: Schiller, J. MEMORANDUM Defendant GE Money Bank ("GE") sent Plaintiff John Pettineo a letter denying his application for a credit card. Pettineo alleges that this denial and a disclosure at the bottom of the GE form letter he received violate the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ("ECOA"). GE's motion to dismiss and Pettineo's response are presently before the Court. For the reasons that follow, GE's motion will be granted in part and denied in part. I. BACKGROUND Pettineo tried to use his ShopNBC credit card in October of 2008. (Am. Compl. ¶ 9.) The card was denied. (Id.) Pettineo called ShopNBC and discovered that the card had been canceled for inactivity. (Id.) He could not reopen his account, but had to apply for a new credit card. (Id.) GE underwrote Pettineo's ShopNBC card. (Id.) Pettineo applied over the phone with GE's customer service department for another ShopNBC credit card. (Id. ¶ 10.) He received a written denial from GE on December 23, 2008. (Id. ¶ 11.) In this letter, GE offered three reasons for the denying Pettineo credit: (1) past due bankcards; (2) revolving trades with past due balances; and (3) bank revolving accounts with past due balances. (Am. Compl. Ex. A [GE Letter].) Pettineo alleges he was qualified for credit, but that GE denied his application because he previously sued under various federal statutes, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the ECOA. (Am. Compl. ¶¶ 25-26.) GE's letter to Pettineo features a disclosure reciting non-discrimination policies the ECOA requires creditors to observe. The text of this disclosure reads: ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THIS LETTER IS ADDRESSED: The federal equal credit opportunity act prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the capacity to enter into a binding contract), because all or part of the applicant's income derives from any public assistance program, or because the applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Protection Act. The federal agency that administers compliance with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act for the creditor identified on the front page of this letter is shown below. (GE Letter.) The letter provides contact information for the different government agencies which oversee the ECOA compliance of GE, GE Capital Financial, Inc., and General Electric Capital Corporation. (Id.) A paragraph at the top of the letter states that "[r]equests for a copy of your credit report should be sent to the credit reporting agency listed in the bottom portion of this notice." (Id.) The letter includes contact information for Equifax Credit Information Services, which it identifies as the source of information used by GE in reaching its decision to deny Pettineo credit. (Id.) The disclosure and federal agency contacts are located toward the bottom of the letter, typed in "a type set of eight (8) point or smaller," rendering them "practically illegible" to Pettineo. (Am. Compl. ¶ 18.) Pettineo claims he ultimately had to use "magnification" to read the disclosure. (Id. ¶ 23.) However, at the time he received the letter, he did not read the disclosure because he assumed it was "meaningless print that had no bearing or significance" due to its small size. (Id. ¶ 22.) This section of the letter includes a notice informing Pettineo that he had the right to request a free copy of Equifax's report within sixty days of his receipt of GE's letter. (GE Letter.) Pettineo claims he was unaware of his right to request a free credit report because of the notice's small type. (Am. Compl. ¶ 24.) When he realized he had a right to request a free credit report, the deadline had passed. (Id.) Pettineo also alleges he was "unaware that he was a member of a protected class" under the ECOA because he initially did not read the disclosure. (Id. ¶ 22.) Pettineo seeks over $150,000 to compensate him for "severe anxiety attacks" he suffered due to GE's conduct. (Id. ¶ 45.) He also seeks an injunction barring GE from issuing "any further correspondence which fails to clearly and conspicuously reveal the disclosure language" at issue, punitive damages, and costs. (Id.) Additionally, Pettineo requests "the opportunity to discuss potential class action status, remedy and treatment with competent counsel and [to] amend [his] Complaint accordingly under FRCP 23." (Id.) In addition to the letter Pettineo received from GE in December of 2008, Pettineo attaches a second letter to his Amended Complaint. This letter, dated October 14, 2008, informs Pettineo that GE and Wal-Mart had reduced the available credit on his Wal-Mart account. (Am. Compl. Ex. B. [Wal-Mart Letter].) This letter does not include the disclosures in fine print on its face, but recites them in a uniform font size on its reverse. (Id.) Pettineo asserts that this second letter complies with the ECOA's notice requirement, and speculates that GE's apparent use of compliant and non-compliant form letters simultaneously demonstrates that GE may continue to use letters that do not effectively convey the ECOA disclosure. (Am. Compl. ¶¶ 38, 40-41.) II. STANDARD OF REVIEW The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure mandate dismissal of complaints which fail to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). The Court accepts "as true all of the allegations in the complaint and all reasonable inferences that can be drawn therefrom," viewing them in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. See Phillips v. County of Allegheny, 515 F.3d 224, 233 (3d Cir. 2008); Morse v. Lower Merion Sch. Dist., 132 F.3d 902, 906 (3d Cir. 1997). The Court will construe Pettineo's complaint liberally, as he brings this action pro se. See Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520 (1972); Smith v. Sch. Dist. of Phila., 112 F. Supp. 2d 417, 423 (E.D. Pa. 2000). The Third Circuit applies a two-part analysis to determine whether claims should survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside, 578 F.3d 203, 210-11 (3d Cir. 2009). The Court must first separate the factual and legal elements of each claim, accepting well-pleaded facts as true but disregarding legal conclusions. See id. Second, the Court must determine whether the facts alleged in the complaint are sufficient to show a plausible claim for relief. See id. at 211 (citing Phillips, 515 F.3d at 234-35). If the well-pleaded facts "do not permit the court to infer more than the mere possibility of misconduct," the Court should dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim. See Jones v. ABN Amro Mortg. Grp., 606 F.3d 119, 123 (3d Cir. 2010). Pettineo's First Amended Complaint presents two claims under the ECOA: a discrimination claim and a claim arising from GE's allegedly deficient disclosure notice. Pettineo pleads a plausible discrimination claim under the ECOA. However, the Court will dismiss his claim arising from the small font in GE's letter. A. ECOA Discrimination To establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the ECOA, a plaintiff must establish that: (1) he belongs to a protected class; (2) he applied for credit; (3) he was qualified for credit; and (4) credit was nevertheless denied. Anderson v. Wachovia Mortg. Corp., 621 F.3d 261, 268 n.5 (3d Cir 2010). Pettineo alleges membership in a protected class under § 1691(a)(3), which prohibits discrimination against plaintiffs who have in good faith exercised a right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act ("CCPA"). 15 U.S.C. § 1691(a)(3); see also Lewis v. ACB Bus. Servs., Inc., 135 F.3d 389, 406 (6th Cir. 1998). The parties also do not dispute that Pettineo applied for credit. However, GE argues that Pettineo has failed to allege facts supporting his allegations that he was qualified for credit or that he was denied credit because of his litigation history. (Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss 15.) Pettineo alleges that he was qualified for credit. (Am. Compl. ¶ 26.) He also claims that the information GE used to determine his creditworthiness was inaccurate. (Id.) These allegations satisfy the third element of an ECOA claim for the purposes of a motion to dismiss. Pettineo likewise satisfies the fourth element of this claim by alleging that GE denied him credit due to "previous exercise[s] of his rights" under the statute. (Id. ¶ 25.) The Court will therefore deny GE's motion with respect to Pettineo's ECOA discrimination claim. B. CCPA Disclosure Requirements Pettineo does not take issue with the content of the disclosure in GE's letter. (Pl.'s Resp. to Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss Pl.'s First Am. Compl. [Pl.'s Resp.] 3.) Rather, Pettineo contends that the letter did not effectively convey this disclosure information to him and others similarly situated because the font was too small. (Id.) Specifically, Pettineo asserts that the body of the letter "overshadowed" the disclosure because the disclosure was printed in much smaller type than the rest of the letter. (Id. at 6-7.) Pettineo also argues that GE inhibited consumers from contacting oversight agencies by including oversight information for three separate, similar-sounding GE sister-companies: GE Money Bank, GE Capital Financial, Inc., and General Electric Capital Corporation. (Id. at 19.) Each of these companies has a separate oversight agency contact listed on the letter. (GE Letter.) Pettineo was thus unsure whether GE Money Bank "was either just a self-proclaimed pseudonym for General Electric Company . . . to insulate [it] from any and all wrongdoing . . . or possibly a company merely involved in fraud in the inducement." (Id. at 20.) 1. ECOA notice requirements The ECOA authorizes the Federal Reserve Board to issue regulations implementing the statute, including its notice provisions. 15 U.S.C. § 1691b; see also 12 C.F.R. § 202.1. These regulations, known collectively as Regulation B, mandate that creditors must provide required disclosures "in a clear and conspicuous manner . . . in a form the applicant may retain." 12 C.F.R. § 202.4(d). The Federal Reserve's Official Staff Interpretations clarify that the "clear and conspicuous" standard "requires that disclosures be presented in a reasonably understandable format in a way that does not obscure the required information. No minimum type size is mandated, but the disclosures must be legible, whether typewritten, handwritten, or printed by computer." 12 C.F.R. § 202 Supp. I; see also Williams v. MBNA Am. Bank., N.A., 538 F. Supp. 2d 1015, 1021 (E.D. Mich. 2008). In the absence of other authority, GE urges the Court to adopt the Williams court's conclusion that the "clear and conspicuous" standard requires merely that a creditor provide "visible" disclosures. (Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss 9-10.) This reasoning follows interpretations of a "clear and conspicuous" standard found in the Consumer Leasing Act. Williams, 538 F. Supp. 2d at 1021. The Williams analysis focuses solely on the "mode of presentation, not the degree of comprehension. So long as a disclosure is visible, it has satisfied the clear and conspicuous requirement . . . even if it is incomprehensible to the average consumer." Id. at 1022. Pettineo suggests that the Court look instead to cases involving the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA"), which analyze consumer communications under a "least sophisticated consumer" standard. See Ellis v. Solomon and Solomon, P.C., 591 F.3d 130, 135 (2d Cir. 2010). Pettineo suggests that decisions interpreting the FDCPA offer a better source of authority in ECOA cases than the Consumer Leasing Act does, as the FDCPA and ECOA share a common consumer-protection purpose under the CCPA. (Pl.'s Resp. 5.) Pettineo also contends that the Court may not determine whether GE's notice complies with the ECOA on a motion to dismiss, as this matter is "a question of fact for the jury to determine." (Id. at 4.) GE's notice effectively communicates the required disclosure information. For example, with respect to Pettineo's right to receive a free copy of his credit report, the letter includes directions for obtaining a free copy of his credit report from the credit reporting agency at the top of the page in relatively large font. (See GE Letter.) Pettineo's confusion as to GE's oversight agency likewise does not constitute an actionable ECOA violation. Even a gullible, naive, or unsophisticated consumer could quickly determine which agency administered compliance for which GE company simply by contacting one of the oversight agencies listed. These issues thus do not give rise to a claim for violation of the ECOA's notice provision. Finally, Pettineo's decision that the disclosure information was unimportant because it was printed in relatively small font is inconsistent with the least sophisticated consumer standard's presumption that consumers read such notices with care. See Wilson, 225 F.3d at 354-55. The Court will therefore dismiss Pettineo's claims with respect to the ECOA's disclosure requirements. C. Punitive Damages and Attorneys' Fees Pettineo's Amended Complaint seeks punitive damages under the ECOA. (Am. Comp. ¶ 45.) GE contends that Pettineo's "conclusory allegations of extreme and outrageous conduct" are insufficient to support this punitive damages claim. (Def.'s Mot. to Dismiss 16-17.) The ECOA permits aggrieved applicants to recover punitive damages of $10,000 or less, regardless of proof of actual damages, if the defendant's conduct was wanton, malicious, or oppressive, or if the defendant acted in reckless disregard of the law. 15 U.S.C. § 1691e(b). The Court may fairly infer from Pettineo's Amended Complaint that he alleges GE intentionally denied him credit because he has previously exercised his rights under the CCPA. These allegations are sufficient to sustain Pettineo's punitive damages claim on a motion to dismiss. The Court will grant GE's motion with respect to Pettineo's claims arising from the ECOA's disclosure requirements. Because Pettineo has alleged plausible claims for discrimination and punitive damages, the Court will permit these claims to proceed. An Order consistent with this Memorandum will be docketed separately. Our website includes the main text of the court's opinion but does not include the docket number, case citation or footnotes. 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Business partners Martin Wilcocks and Craig Blackwell have bought 122 Old Hall Street, which is well known to motorists for its curved mirrored glass facade on the corner of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street. The three storey-high building was built in the 1980s by the Moores family for its Littlewoods empire. Today Shop Direct, which now owns the Littlewoods and Very.co.uk brands, still has some operations in the 32,000 sq ft complex. Its new owners say they are now considering plans for the building and adjoining land and will announce their redevelopment plans next year. Mr Blackwell, who runs property investment firm Prospect Capital, said: “It gives us great pleasure to announce the purchase of this iconic site on Old Hall Street. “The site is positioned, as we see it, at the gateway to the central business district of Liverpool city centre. “With outlooks across to the city and the River Mersey this sits in a key position on the city landscape.” Martin Wilcocks, left, and Craig Blackwell outside the mirrored glass building they have bought on the corner of Old Hall Street and Leeds Street

Michael Brantley also homered and had three hits for Cleveland, which won at Yankee Stadium for the first time in eight games. Ramirez hit a two-run drive in the second inning and had three hits. Derek Jeter had an infield single in the sixth inning to pass Honus Wagner for sixth on the career list with No. 3,431. But New York was 0 for 9 with six strikeouts with runners in scoring position in losing for just the second time in eight games. Kluber (13-6) did not allow a hit until Jacoby Ellsbury doubled with one out in the fourth. He struck out 10 to beat New York for the first time in three tries. The right-hander has allowed only one earned run since the ninth inning of a win against Detroit on July 19. He has won five straight decisions. Before the game, the Yankees honored Paul O'Neill with a plaque to be placed in Monument Park. O'Neill was humbled to know that his plaque will be among the many Yankees greats feted in Monument Park beyond the center field wall at Yankee Stadium. In nine years with the Yankees, the right fielder hit .303 with 185 homers and 858 RBIs. He helped New York win four World Series titles and five AL pennants from 1996-2001. O'Neill won the 1994 AL batting title. Also prior to the game, the Yankees placed catcher Brian McCann on the seven-day concussion list less than a day after he was hit in the facemask by a foul ball and gave second baseman Brian Roberts his unconditional release. Roberts was hitting .237 with five homers and 21 RBIs when he was cut on Aug. 1 to make room for infielder Stephen Drew. Blue Jays 3, Tigers 2: Nolan Reimold hit a game-winning double in the 10th inning as host Toronto spoiled Max Scherzer's bid to become the first 14-game winner in the American League. Danny Valencia singled off Joba Chamberlain to begin the 10th, and Reimold followed with a double to the wall in left-center as Valencia scored without a play. Scherzer allowed one run and four hits in eight innings. He walked none and struck out 11, two shy of his season high. Chamberlain (1-5) came on to start the 10th after Joakim Soria, who finished the ninth, appeared to suffer a back injury while warming up before the inning. Aaron Loup (4-3) worked one inning for the victory. Toronto trailed, 2-1, through eight innings but Jose Reyes singled off Tigers closer Joe Nathan to begin the ninth, then stole second before advancing to third on Melky Cabrera's fly ball to right. Jose Bautista was intentionally walked to bring up Dioner Navarro, who grounded a tying single past a diving Miguel Cabrera at first base. A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third before Colby Rasmus walked to load the bases, bringing Soria out of the bullpen to replace Nathan, who blew his sixth save in 30 chances. Soria sent it to extra innings by getting Juan Francisco to pop up on the first pitch, then retiring Munenori Kawasaki on a ground ball. Soria came back out to start the 10th but appeared to suffer an injury before throwing his first pitch, forcing manager Brad Ausmus to turn to Chamberlain. Orioles 10, Cardinals 3: Caleb Joseph homered in his fifth consecutive game, Nelson Cruz hit his 30th, and Delmon Young also went deep for host Baltimore. All three home runs came with a man on against John Lackey (1-1), making his second start since coming from Boston in a July 31 trade. The right-hander gave up nine runs and 13 hits in five-plus innings to fall to 14-8 lifetime against Baltimore. The Orioles have hit nine homers in winning the first two games of the three-game set by a collective 22-5 score. Baltimore has won seven straight series and leads the AL East by six games, its largest margin since September 1997. Joseph, a rookie, had three homers in first 48 games before his recent power surge. The club record for homers in successive games is six, by Reggie Jackson and Chris Davis. Rays 4, Cubs 0: Jake Odorizzi struck out nine in six scoreless innings and combined with two relievers on a five-hitter for visiting Tampa Bay. Evan Longoria drove in a run and scored two. Yunel Escobar added two hits and three RBIs. Ben Zobrist had two hits and scored twice for the Rays, who improved to a major league-best 15-6 since July 12. They will try to complete the three-game sweep today. Odorizzi (8-9) gave up three hits and didn't walk anyone. The right-hander came within two strikeouts of his career high after getting hit hard in a loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday. Chicago starter Edwin Jackson (6-12) allowed four runs — three earned — and five hits in six innings. He is 1-5 in his past nine starts. Royals 5, Giants 0: James Shields threw a four-hitter and Alex Gordon homered as host Kansas City won its sixth straight. The Royals have won nine of 10 to move with 1½ games of AL Central-leading Detroit. The Royals, who have not made the playoffs since beating St. Louis in the 1985 World Series, are in second place in the AL wild card standings. Shields (11-6) gave up three singles in the first four innings. He allowed only two Giants to reach second base. He walked Joe Panik in the fifth and he moved to second on a wild pitch with two outs, but was stranded. Panik doubled in the eighth. Brewers 4, Dodgers 1: Mike Fiers held the Los Angeles Dodgers to three hits in his first big league start in more than a year, and Khris Davis and Carlos Gomez homered for host Milwaukee. Fiers (1-1) struck out five in eight strong innings, filling in for injured veteran Matt Garza. The Dodgers mustered only a solo homer by Adrian Gonzalez into the second deck in right field. Fiers outdueled former Brewers pitcher Zack Greinke (12-8), who gave up Gomez's homer off the left-field foul pole that made it 3-1 leading off the sixth. Padres 2, Pirates 1: Eric Stults got his first road win of the season, going 6 innings for San Diego. Stults (5-13) gave up one run and seven hits, struck out six and walked none. He entered the game with an 0-9 record away from Petco Park. The Padres scored both runs in the first inning off Francisco Liriano (3-8). Penny back with Marlins: Right-hander Brad Penny was called up Saturday by the Miami Marlins, reuniting him with his former team and former catcher 10 years later. The Marlins picked Penny to start the second game of a series against the Cincinnati Reds. He swapped roster spots with left-hander Edgar Olmos, who was optioned to Triple-A New Orleans. The 36-year-old pitcher has played for the Marlins, Dodgers, Red Sox, Giants, Cardinals and Tigers. He signed a minor league deal in June. Penny went 48-42 with a 4.04 ERA with the Marlins from 2000-04, when Mike Redmond — the Marlins manager — was his catcher. He won 14 games on the Marlins team that won the World Series in 2003. His last start for the Marlins was July 28, 2004. Penny hasn't played in the majors since 2012, when he made 22 relief appearances for the Giants. It was the first time in his career that he didn't make at least one start during a season. His last start in the majors was Sept. 25, 2011 for the Tigers.

Next steps uncertain for women with dense breasts LAURAN NEERGAARD Dec. 08, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — More women are learning their breasts are so dense that it's more difficult for mammograms to spot cancer. But new research suggests automatically giving them an extra test isn't necessarily the solution. Screening isn't the only concern. Women whose breast tissue is very dense have a greater risk of developing breast cancer than women whose breasts contain more fatty tissue. Laws in 19 states require women to be told if they have dense breasts after a mammogram, with Missouri's and Massachusetts' requirements taking effect in January. Similar legislation has been introduced in Congress. What's not clear is what a woman who's told her breasts are dense should do next, if anything. Some of the laws suggest extra screening may be in order. Not so fast, a team of scientists reported Monday. They modeled what would happen if women with dense breasts routinely received an ultrasound exam after every mammogram, and calculated such a policy would cost a lot, in extra tests and false alarms, for a small benefit. For every 10,000 women who got supplemental screening between the ages of 50 and 74, three to four breast cancer deaths would be prevented — but 3,500 cancer-free women would undergo needless biopsies, the study concluded. "Not everybody with dense breasts is going to get cancer. There are people with dense breasts that are not at high risk," explained study co-author Dr. Karla Kerlikowske of the University of California, San Francisco, who has long studied density. Among the questions: How to tell which women really are at high risk, and how to better examine that group. "We need to investigate alternative screening strategies for women with dense breasts," added epidemiologist Brian Sprague of the University of Vermont Cancer Center, who led the research published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Topping that list: Scientists are beginning to study if a newer tool, 3-D mammograms, might get around the density problem by essentially viewing breast tissue from more angles. Meanwhile, Sprague said his study could help women consider the trade-offs as they decide for themselves whether to pursue an ultrasound. Mammogram reports to doctors have long included information about breast density. But it wasn't routinely shared with women until some cancer survivors, outraged at not knowing, began spurring state disclosure laws starting in Connecticut in 2009. The advocacy group that started the movement tracks the laws at http://www.areyoudense.org . What's a woman to make of the information? Monday's study "reaffirms that we don't know exactly what the right thing to do is when a woman has dense breasts," said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists doesn't recommend routine additional testing in women who have no symptoms or other risk factors. UCSF's Kerlikowske said the real issue in deciding whether any woman needs extra screening — from an ultrasound to a more expensive MRI — is her overall risk of breast cancer. Her team helped create an online risk calculator — https://tools.bcsc-scc.org/BC5yearRisk/ . Plug in age, breast density, if a close relative had breast cancer and a few other details. Putting the risk in perspective, the calculator compares the woman's chance of developing breast cancer over the next five years with that of an average woman the same age. But to answer, you have to know just how dense your breasts are. Radiologists divide density levels into four categories: Almost completely fatty, scattered areas of density, fairly widespread density and the less common extremely dense. There's no standard way to measure, cautioned the cancer society's Brawley. And those mailed notifications don't always give the woman's category, even though the cancer risk is highest for extremely dense tissue. Density tends to decrease with age, so a woman's risk will change over time, Kerlikowske said. It also can reflect some other long-known risk factors, she added. Someone who had children very young probably will have fattier breasts by mammography age than a woman whose first birth was in her 30s.

Solar electricity isn't the only renewable energy whipping boy out there. Wind power has also taken more than its share of lumps, frequently saddled with a reputation for excessive noise and energy inefficiency. Plus, if some of the rumors are true, wind harvesters of the world have steadily been turning the planet's bird population into an airborne puree of blood and feathers. To be fair, wind turbines do kill birds -- but so do vehicles, skyscrapers, pollution and the introduction of invasive species into their habitats. Humans have had bird blood on their hands for ages, and as daunting as a field of wind turbines may look, they're responsible for statistically few bird deaths -- less than 1 in every 30,000 [source: U.S. Department of Energy]. But even without the death cries of a thousand birds, aren't wind turbines a noise nuisance? Actually, modern turbine technology renders them relatively silent -- essentially no more than the soft, steady whine of wind through the blades. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, if you stand 750 feet (229 meters) away from a wind farm of multiple turbines, the noise would be no more than that of a working kitchen refrigerator. These aren't helicopter blades, after all. The Ontario Ministry of Environment breaks it down like this: If 0 decibels is the threshold of hearing and 140 is the threshold of pain, then a typical wind farm scores between 35 and 45, sandwiched between a quiet bedroom (35) and a 40-mile-per-hour (64-kilometer-per-hour) car (55). Finally, there's the issue of cost. Like any energy production facility, there are plenty of upfront costs to harvesting wind energy, but research indicates that the average wind farm pays back the energy used in its manufacture within three to five months of operation [source: BWEA]. Since wind farms depend on variable weather patterns, day-to-day operating costs tend to run higher. Simply put, the wind isn't going to blow at top speed year-round. If it did, a wind turbine would produce its maximum theoretical power. In reality, a turbine only produces 30 percent of this amount, though it produces different levels of electricity 70 to 85 percent of the time [source: BWEA]. This means that wind power requires back-up power from an alternative source, but this is common in energy production. Wind power demonstrates tremendous promise for the future -- and not just for the environment, but for the pocketbook as well. In 2005, the state of New York determined that a 10 percent addition of wind generation would reduce customer payments by $305 million in one year.

Satmar Rabbi in Kiryas Joel – Speaking in Code Satmar Rabbi Aaron Teitlebaum Speaking in Riddles to His Followers… Reporting to Civil Authorities Will Lead to Excommunication May 22, 2016 This past Saturday, May 21, 2016, Rabbi Aaron Teitlebaum, the Satmar Rabbi of Kiryas Joel, called an urgent meeting of members of his community (the men) to discuss the events surrounding the death of Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenberg (zl). During that meeting Rabbi Teitlebaum acknowledged that he had been, and will be again paid a visit by the FBI. He in riddles but in very certain terms stated that these visits are based upon outlandish ‘tales’ told by members of his community and then misconstrued by social media and the press. Rabbi Teitlebaum held the meeting on Shabbat; but was very cognizant that perhaps there was someone in his own ‘Kehilah’ (community) who might be taping something. This is, as he acknowledged, despite a religious prohibition against the use of electronics. The tone was one of mistrust; and his comments were tempered and encoded to provide his community, his children, with a clear warning: “I do not trust you.” Rabbi Teitlebaum commented that everything they say eventually winds up reaching the press; and sent a stern warning to members of his community not to speak with outsiders. He levied threats. He postulated that whomever it is in his Satmar community who might be taping his speech (informants), and who may be speaking to the FBI or otherwise ‘telling tales,’ would no longer be welcomed in the community. Rabbi Teitlebaum wanted his community to be clear that any member who chooses to involve the civil authorities in personal Satmar events would be ex-communicated, at best, [and something more nefarious at worst]. We have posted a partial translation of his speech from Yiddish to Hebrew, which was posted in a Hebrew Newspaper name, loosely translated, the “Secret Rooms.” bhol.co.il We will not even begin to try and translate the Hebrew into English because it would be an effort in futility, even for a speaker of all three of the languages. It is clear from the timing of the speech, from the references to certain passages in the bible and from the underlying riddles and tone that this was not a discussion to be taken lightly. 3 thoughts on “Satmar Rabbi in Kiryas Joel – Speaking in Code” Your reporting here is incoherent. What exactly did he say or not say? What is he afraid of? That a principal did some semi-molestation seen on the video? No skin off his back? He must be afraid of some real corruption, totaling in the tens of millions, that he squirreled away in Swiss Banks… and like Al Capone, that could be the only thing they’ll ever get him as the omerta in KJ all these years was airtight. Only now are cracks appearing…

“This,” said New York Times media writer David Carr, interviewing actor Oliver Platt, “is like a little baby bird of a film festival.” The metaphor was apt. Opening on the very day the well-known 11th Tribeca Film Festival wrapped, the fledgling Montclair Film Festival, which has been discussed and organized and dreamed about for two years, finally cracked open its shell. The opening night crowd of 500 seemed almost like parents at a piano recital — anxious to laugh at every joke and applaud every speaker and let all the organizers know that yes, they had done a very good job. “The Oranges,” directed by Julian Farino, and boasting an ensemble cast that included Hugh Laurie and Allison Janney in addition to Oliver Platt, is a comedy set in West Orange, N.J. about two close families that implode over an extramarital affair. Janney is especially hilarious as a controlling middle-aged mom. If the audience was disappointed that, aside from an opening shot of a West Orange sign, the other locations seemed off (the Essex Fells Motel? Puh-leeze!), they mostly kept their disappointment in check. Although the film turned out to have been shot in New Rochelle, Carr did his best in the Q&A afterwards to keep it local by asking Platt which tunnel he’d taken to get from Manhattan to Montclair (Lincoln), and festival programmer Thom Powers — before dismissing the audience to the reception — reminded filmgoers their parking tickets would be validated, “something we love in New Jersey.” Photo by Michael Reitman Celebrities included rocker Dave Matthews, whose film company ATO Pictures distributed “The Oranges,” Stephen Colbert, who got off from work too late to make the film but managed to get there in time for the party, and of course Platt. Evelyn Colbert was a driving force behind the festival. When fellow baristas Georgette Gilmore, Kristen Kemp and I cornered Colbert, he made gracious small talk, told us he was a reader (!) and mentioned how important it was to grow up in a town with an arts festival. Then he quipped, “You’ll know it’s a real film festival when the filmmakers start having affairs with each other.” Late in the reception, Bob Feinberg, the festival’s founder, told me the opening night was almost exactly as he’d pictured it. “I thought about a banner across Bloomfield Avenue and I thought about all the signs and about doing an opening night in this theater,” Feinberg said. “I didn’t think about Dave Matthews, but that’s a nice plus.” The six-day festival will run 49 events altogether and utilize the services of 263 volunteers. Eighteen events are already sold out. Tickets are still available for Wednesday night’s tribute to film star Kathleen Turner. Featured Comment Bare bones is a good description of the Aldi. It follows a Costco model of not usually carrying competing brands, so there's usually just one choice for any product type. But it does have good prices, and it accepts WIC transactions.

Queen of Mean” Michelle Obama has forced out another White House staffer – the First FamilyÂ’s personal chef! Kitchen magician Sam Kass got fed up with MichelleÂ’s snippy comments and told the Obamas to take his apron and shove it, insiders told The 
National ENQUIRER. “He just couldnÂ’t take it – the relentless nitpicking, over petty little details that drove him insane. She thinks sheÂ’s Marie Antoinette!” a White House insider told The ENQUIRER. “It has nothing to do with SamÂ’s cooking, which is superb. But you could be Wolfgang Puck and Michelle wouldnÂ’t be happy. SheÂ’ll find some reason... The executive pastry chef has given notice that he's leaving the White House in June after more than seven years of dessert-making. He plans to move to New York to teach about eating healthier, and join his husband... Yosses has said he was dubbed "The Crust Master" by President Barack Obama, who had a weakness for just about any fruit pie the chef turned out. Last Thanksgiving, for example, the Obama family and guests had their choice of six varieties of Yosses' pies - huckleberry, pecan, chocolate cream, sweet potato, banana cream or coconut cream. At Christmas, the roughly 300-pound... <p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p> The president continues his working vacation in Crawford, Texas, with the esteemed Mrs. Bush. I haven't found new photos of them for today, but there are a few of other administration officials and employees. A new White House Chef has been hired: Chef Cristeta 'Cris' Comerford from the Philippines, who was hired to "give the White House menus a lighter, more American flair." Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is in Latin America for three days; he is in Paraguay for two days. Welcome to Sanity Island! WACO, Texas - Kitchen duties may have traditionally been viewed as women's work, but not at the White House. Until now: Cristeta Comerford has been named executive chief. After an extensive six-month search, first lady Laura Bush announced Sunday that Comerford was chosen from hundreds of applicants to head the executive kitchen. A naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines, she will be the first woman and first minority to hold the post. The 42-year-old Comerford has been an assistant chef at the White House for 10 years. She worked under former executive chef Walter Scheib III, who resigned in February. Hail to the chef: Former White House pastry guru shares his sweet secretsImagine spending almost 25 years in the White House pastry kitchen as the executive pastry chef for five presidents and first families, doing your work surrounded by pounds of butter, chocolate, cream, fresh fruits and sugar. While the job may sound like a dessert lover's dream, it's not always as sweet as it seems. Just ask French-born patissier Roland R. Mesnier, who retired last July. Lately he's been traveling throughout the country promoting his first cookbook, "Dessert University" (Simon & Schuster; $40), which took four years to write... If there's one thing Americans won't abide in a White House chef, it's rude behavior. And acting snooty with First Lady Laura Bush over her tastes is just about as rude as it gets. "We've been trying to find a way to satisfy the first lady's stylistic requirements, and it has been difficult. Basically, I was not successful in my attempt," Walter Scheib III was quoted as saying, snootily, just after he was fired. Scheib Three said he would soon get a new job. "I'm not going to be running the local pancake house," he said, his nose in the... Fancy state dinners aren't all the new White House chef will need to do -- the Bushes are looking for someone who knows barbecue and other good old American fare. Laura Bush told Newsweek she doesn't expect that any of the celebrity chefs with books or television shows will be interested in becoming head chef at the presidential home. But she's looking to fill the job with someone who "can really showcase American foods." The previous White House chef, Walter Scheib III, has left to pursue new opportunities after nearly 11 years of cooking for two presidents, and the first... WASHINGTON - Fancy state dinners aren't all the new White House chef will need to do — the Bushes are looking for someone who knows barbecue and other good old American fare. Laura Bush told Newsweek she doesn't expect that any of the celebrity chefs with books or television shows will be interested in becoming head chef at the presidential home. But she's looking to fill the job with someone who "can really showcase American foods." The previous White House chef, Walter Scheib III, has left to pursue new opportunities after nearly 11 years of cooking for two presidents, and... Job constraints, politics make White House unappetizing to many Bay Area food stars - The White House is shopping for a new chef. But despite the Bay Area's national status as a culinary capital, no one really expects the search to focus here. "I don't think they'll be calling,'' says renowned chef Nancy Oakes of Boulevard in San Francisco. "I think my name is on a list of fund-raisers for John Kerry.'' Even food, it seems, comes in red and blue. The idea of going to the White House drew guffaws from many local chefs, staunch Democrats who say they...

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Schizophrenia: A byproduct of the brain’s complex evolution? New genetic evidence, published in the journal Schizophrenia, suggests that the condition is an “unwanted side effect” of the evolution of the complex human brain. The human brain is complex, and in its equally complex evolution, schizophrenia may have come up as ‘an unwanted side effect.’ More and more studies have been illuminating the genetic components of schizophrenia, a condition that affects about 1 percent of the world’s population. The largest twin study of schizophrenia put 79 percent of the risk of the condition down to genes, while another believed that genetic mutations in the brain’s glial cells may be responsible for the disorder. Now, a new study conducted by three researchers from the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health in Parkville, Australia, finds genetic changes in a frontal brain area commonly linked with schizophrenia traits, supporting the theory that the condition may be an undesired side effect of the human brain’s evolution. Prof. Brian Dean, of Swinburne University’s Centre for Mental Health in Hawthorne, Australia, as well as the Florey Institute, is the new study’s corresponding author. Altered gene expression found in frontal pole Prof. Dean and colleagues conducted a postmortem examination of the brains of 15 people who had schizophrenia and 15 who did not. The scientists measured the levels of messenger RNA (mRNA) in the frontal pole of the brain, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and the cingulate cortex. Using mRNA levels, the researchers predicted genetic pathways “that would be affected by the changes in gene expression.” Schizophrenia risk gene plays key role in early brain development Scientists identify a risk gene for the condition. In the brains of people who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, the researchers found 566 instances of changes in genetic expression in the frontal pole of the brain and surrounding areas, which are regions known to be involved in schizophrenia-related traits. As the study authors explain, “The frontal pole is critical in maintaining the cognitive flexibility that underpins human reasoning and planning abilities,” which are two functions “that are impaired in individuals with [schizophrenia].” New genetic pathway uncovered The study also uncovered a genetic pathway in the brain’s so-called Brodmann area that comprised interactions between 97 genes. “A better understanding of changes in this pathway could suggest new drugs to treat the disorder,” says Prof. Dean. He goes on to explain the findings, saying, “It’s thought that schizophrenia occurs when environmental factors trigger changes in gene expression in the human brain.” Such potential environmental triggers for epigenetic changes include pregnancy and delivery complications, as well as psychosocial stressors such as growing up in a dysfunctional family. “Though this is not fully understood,” adds Prof. Dean, “our data suggest the frontal area of the brain is severely affected by such changes.” “There is the argument that schizophrenia is an unwanted side effect of developing a complex human brain and our findings seem to support that argument.” Prof. Brian Dean “A major finding of this study,” the authors continue, “is that […] no gene had altered levels of expression in all three regions of the cortex from subjects with [schizophrenia].” According to them, this means that in terms of gene expression, schizophrenia-related molecular changes are not uniform across the cortex. “These data also raise the possibility that the symptoms of [schizophrenia] that are thought to result from the dysfunction of different cortical regions could be due to changes in gene expression specific to the cortical region thought to be central to the genesis of a symptom,” they say.

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Kanye West, born Kanye Omari West, is a genius lyricist and rapper and self-proclaimed "voice of a generation". He attended Chicago State University, but dropped out, stating that college was too easy for a genius of his caliber. When asked about his performance in high school, he responded by saying "Have you ever had sex with a Pharaoh? I put the pussy in a sarcophagus." Like all other rappers, he became famous due to someone more famous and talented, Jay-Z in this case. West was involved in a near-fatal car crash in 2002, when, on his was home, a phoenix fell from the sky and crashed into his car. In November, 2010, West released a documentary about the car crash called "Runaway". On an interview discussing the documentary, Kanye mentioned that becoming the greatest rapper ever was on his "bucket list" Rise to Yeast Kayne was named after Mae West as he had an inflated opinion of himself. Kanye was a producer for many no-names in the late 90's, most of whom are not even worth mentioning. We could sit here and list Kanye's small-time producing in this time period, but you've never heard of any of these people, we promise. So let's save both our time by fast forwarding to 2000. Kanye became famous through meeting Jay-Z, who quickly noticed Kanye's ass-kissing talent. Kanye always idolized Jay-Z, and told him how much he wanted to be just like him. Jay-Z, although already successful and famous, felt drawn in by Kanye's ass-kissing, which did wonders for Jay's ego. After all, who wouldn't want someone following them around telling them how great they are? This lead to Jay signing Kanye as a producer. Kanye has ever since felt that Jay-Z was his Big Brother. Kanye West's first career productions came on Jay-Z's 2001 debut album The Blueprint, released on September 11, 2001. West produced some of the greatest hits on that album, such as Heart of the City and I.Z.Z.O. Kanye also thought he was “the shit” (but nobody knew of him yet) and starting “smoking them miracle herbs” and developed an addiction to them. Kanye documents his rise to fame in a 13-hour interview named "Last Call" on his 2004 Album The College Dropout. Throughout the course of the interview, he frequently interrupts his story to yell "This is the last call for alcohol!!!", hence the title. < Fiamce Kanye was a producer for many no-names in the late 90's, most of whom are not even worth mentioning. We could sit here and list Kanye's small-time producing in this time period, but you've never heard of any of these people, we promise. So let's save both our time by fast forwarding to 2000. Kanye became famous through meeting Jay-Z, who quickly noticed Kanye's ass-kissing talent. Kanye always idolized Jay-Z, and told him how much he wanted to be just like him. Jay-Z, although already successful and famous, felt drawn in by Kanye's ass-kissing, which did wonders for Jay's ego. After all, who wouldn't want someone following them around telling them how great they are? This lead to Jay signing Kanye as a producer. Kanye has ever since felt that Jay-Z was his Big Brother. Kanye West's first career productions came on Jay-Z's 2001 debut album The Blueprint, released on September 11, 2001. West produced some of the greatest hits on that album, such as Heart of the City and I.Z.Z.O. Kanye also thought he was “the shit” (but nobody knew of him yet) and starting “smoking them miracle herbs” and developed an addiction to them. Kanye documents his rise to fame in a 13-hour interview named "Last Call" on his 2004 Album The College Dropout. Throughout the course of the interview, he frequently interrupts his story to yell "This is the last call for alcohol!!!", hence the title. Controversy What happened? In the midst of Hurricane Katrina, there was a well publicized event in which Kayne West accused the president of hating black people. This was untrue. However rumor has it that fellow actor (and rising rap starlet) Hurricane Katrina Jones professed to Kayne West that he does in fact hate the way black people are sometimes treated, and Mexicans, and Jews, and Arabs. The President later responded to West's comments with a note he wrote all by himself, and in early 2006 publicly asked Kanye if he would stop burning crosses on the White House lawn. Since December of 2006, no one knows if they even still talk to each other, which is sad, since they used to call each other every day.

Deputies said the woman can be seen removing a large amount of silver necklaces from a spinning display rack and then concealing them in her purse. An inventory check revealed a total of 20 necklaces missing from the store, worth $504.80, deputies said. Authorities said the loss prevention employee told deputies copies of video from the Wells Road, Oakleaf and Ortega Target stores show the same woman stealing merchandise and leaving the store. Deputies described the woman as in her early 20s with a slim build, brown hair and wearing a black shirt and skirt with dark boots. Deputies said she was seen carrying two purses, one of which is large and gray with a black lower bottom portion. The store said she carried that bag when she was in the other Target stores as well, deputies said. She left the store's parking lot in a silver four-door car that had a missing hubcap on the front, deputies said. Anyone with information about the woman's identity is asked to contact the Clay County Sheriff's Office. Copyright 2012 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

LAUSD parents, teachers fight mainstreaming of disabled kids Protesters line Balboa Boulevard in front of the office of LAUSD board member Tamar Galatzan, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Parents and Teachers United for Action picketed to oppose the district's transitioning of special education students to regular education campuses. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) LAKE BALBOA - Waving signs and chanting "Our kids, our choice," scores of Los Angeles Unified parents and teachers protested the looming transfer of hundreds of disabled students from special-education centers to traditional schools, as the district complies with laws to integrate students who have physical and developmental challenges. The protesters oppose the merger of four special-education centers with nearby traditional schools, a move that will affect about 300 disabled youngsters when school starts next month. Opponents of the plan say the district will be segregating rather than integrating their kids by putting them in unsafe situations and setting them up for teasing or bullying. They say they want it to be their choice, not the district's, to transfer their kids to a traditional campus. "They are celebrated at special-education centers for their abilities, not their inabilities," said Rhonda Berrios of West Hills, whose 19-year-old son, Michael, is profoundly autistic. "They have dances, and basketball and baseball teams and cheerleading squads ... The district wants to throw them into a one-size-fits-all environment, and that would be a travesty if this happens." Advertisement Michael is now enrolled at Leichman Special Education Center in Reseda, which under the district's plan will begin shifting high school students to traditional campuses in 2014. Berrios and others demonstrated for about 90 minutes in the sweltering heat on behalf of their children and those who might lose what they see as the advantages of a protected environment. Tom Williamson of North Hills said his son Blair, who has Down syndrome, learned self-confidence and life skills during the years he spent at Leichman. Blair, now a 34-year-old actor, has credits that include roles on "CSI" and "Scrubs." "He learned to go from classroom to classroom, and to the cafeteria," Williamson said. "He was given freedom and independence that he wouldn't have had at a general education campus." The 100-or-so demonstrators targeted the office of school board member Tamar Galatzan, saying four of the district's 14 special-ed centers are located in her west San Fernando Valley district. Her office is also next door to the shuttered West Valley Special Ed Center, a building that now houses Daniel Pearl High. Protesters complained that Galatzan did nothing to block the closure of West Valley, although that was never a board decision. Galatzan was working at her full-time job as a city prosecutor on Wednesday and was not at her LAUSD office, a spokeswoman said. Questions were referred to Sharyn Howell, executive director of LAUSD's Special Education Division, which serves about 83,000 students.Howell noted that the district is bound by federal and state law, as well as a federal consent decree, to mainstream more special-education students and give handicapped youngsters more opportunities to interact with kids at traditional campuses. "We're talking about physical education, arts types of programs, computer labs and library time," she said. "This is a chance to get the students with their siblings, cousins and neighborhood kids at a general-education site." They will continue to have classroom lessons that are appropriate for their level of learning, along with the aides, nurses, therapists and other supports they've had in the past, she added. Los Angeles Unified spends nearly $1.5 billion annually on special-education programs, which have shifted over the years from stand-alone centers to mainstream classrooms. Beginning last year, preschoolers who might previously have been enrolled in special-ed centers started their education at a traditional school.Several demonstrators say they believe district officials are trying to whittle down the enrollment so they can eventually close all of the centers -- a move that Howell has previously denied.The district currently operates 14 special-ed centers, which last year served 2,190 students. Under the plan set to take effect in August, Miller Special Ed Center in Reseda will transfer about 100 students to Cleveland High but will continue to provide its career-training program for ages 18-22. About two dozen youngsters from Lull Special Education Center in Encino will enroll in Reseda High, the first step in transforming the facility to one for elementary students only. Next year, middle schoolers will go to Madison.Fifty kids at McBride School in Venice will go to Grand View Elementary, and Banneker School, near downtown L.A., will send 60 youngsters to Avalon Gardens.The Frances Blend School will merge with Van Ness Elementary in the Larchmont area, affecting about 40 blind and visually impaired students. This story has been updated to correct the district's plan for Leichman Special Education Center.

Russia puts sweeping ban on U.S., E.U. food imports Russia retaliated against western sanctions with a sweeping ban on food imports, marking a new low point in relations between the two since the end of the Cold War. Under instructions from President Vladimir Putin, the government said it would ban for a year all imports of meat and poultry, seafood, milk and dairy products including cheese, fruit, vegetables and vegetable oil-based products from the U.S., E.U., Australia and Norway–all of whom have imposed sanctions of their own on Russia for the annexation of Crimea and its perceived role in stoking the violent uprising in eastern Ukraine. There was no action to restrict the crucial flow of oil and gas exports, which are vital for the E.U. economy and for the Russian budget. Nor did the government announce any ban on overflight of Siberian airspace, although it did consider it. Even so, the step signals a radical departure from Russia’s previous policy of trying to avoid harm to its own economy, which has never recovered its pre-crisis rates of growth, and which stagnated in the first half of this year. “We hoped until the last minute that our colleagues would understand that sanctions are a blind alley that do no-one any good. But they didn’t understand and…we were forced to take reciprocal measures,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told cabinet in a televised meeting. The move is extraordinary, in as much as Russia has found it much easier, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, to buy food than to produce it. It currently imports some 40% of its food, and the E.U. is its biggest trading partner, buying €3.3 billion ($4.4 billion) of fruit and vegetables last year and another €3.3 billion in meat and dairy products. The U.S. shipped $1.3 billion of food products to Russia last year, according to the USDA. But the ban seems likely to rebound on Russian consumers too, despite comments Wednesday by Putin urging the need to avoid that. Russia’s domestic producers are hardly in a position to replace all the items that will be lost over the next year (documented with curious delight here by state news agency Itar-Tass). Even if imports can be substituted, they will likelier be more expensive than what they have replaced, which is in itself a development that will hit ordinary Russians, who have grown used to Italian Mozzarella cheese and Norwegian shrimp. Inflation is already running above target at 7.5% and food accounts for 29% of the basket of goods and services tracked by statistics office Rosstat. The government claimed that the measures would be an opportunity for domestic producers, but such claims met with scorn by critics. “Those who think sanctions will help Russian producers – remember the car industry. They’ve been ‘helping’ it with duties for 20 years,” Alexei Navalny, an opposition blogger and politician, said via his Twitter account. Whatever else happens, there is a large chance that the sanctions could be undermined by either an unwillingness or an inability to enforce them. For example, there is little to stop Belarus–which sits between Poland and Russia–from re-exporting Polish fruit and vegetables to Russia, possibly by passing them off as its own. Neither Belarus nor Kazakhstan, which are both in a customs union with Russia, have announced any sanctions, and Belarus in particular is in such a parlous economic state that it can ill afford to pass up opportunities to make a fast buck with such tricks. The news agency RIA Novosti reported that Russian officials would meet with their counterparts in Belarus August 12 to discuss the matter.

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The Path of Denominationalism: Authority in the Church Previously we examined the concept of a denomination as being an institution, or an organizational structure that exists independently of any individuals. We saw from the Scriptures that the church that Christ established was not to resemble such institutions but ought to remain simply the collective of Christians that exist (the “church universal”) or a collective of Christians that live in a specific geographical level (the “church local”). Let us now continue the discussion of the path of denomination where we left off and discuss the ways that authority is viewed within denominations and, if necessary, how to avoid such perceptions. All denominations will certainly claim that their authority is derived from the Scriptures and that they are the church that is presented in them; the truth of the matter, however, is more often than not much different. They may use the Scriptures and quote Scriptures to demonstrate their belief, but are their beliefs actually from the Bible or are they placed upon the Bible by the ideas of men? In practice, we may see that many denominations will use one of two different sources for authority: for simplicity’s sake, let us call these two sources a “cult of personality” and “collective determination.” We may define a “cult of personality” as the belief in the words of an individual or a collective of individuals that are believed to possess authority through an understanding that they may have received of through power supposedly granted by virtue of a position held. We see the first kind of a “cult of personality,” one or more who have received some form of understanding, in many groups that were founded by an individual or a group of individuals because of such ideas, like the Lutheran church or the many Calvinist churches that exist today. The members of these churches say that the Scriptures are their sole authority in their lives, yet the Lutherans consider the Book of Concord as authoritative, for example, and the Calvinists will often refer to the works of Calvin or other men like him for their belief system. The second kind of a “cult of personality,” involving power that supposedly is derived from a position held, is seen most clearly in groups with an “ecclesiastical hierarchy,” such as the Roman Catholic church and the Church of England. The “bishops” and other figures in these churches are seen as figures of authority, supposedly given the authority that was vested in Peter in Matthew 16:19: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.” Therefore, the members of these denominations look up to these individuals as those holding keys of authority and will believe and do whatever these individuals tell them to do. We may define “collective determination” as the belief in the authority of a decision made when reached by a collective of individuals that represent the members of a denomination. This is seen especially in many Protestant denominations today, with “synods” of the “pastors” and other such individuals in a denomination meeting to make decisions and statements that are binding upon the whole denomination. Often times it will be said that these are not meetings of the denomination necessarily, but a meeting of the heads of individual “churches” that meet to determine what is truth, supposedly similar to the events of Acts 15. In reality, a meeting of the heads of various churches of a denomination to determine what is truth and a meeting of the heads of churches for the same reason is the exact same idea and really the exact same thing. Now that we have examined our terms, do we see that the church ought to place its authority in a “cult of personality” or in a “collective determination?” Let us see if it is so. Many may appeal to the account in Acts 15 about the meeting of the elders of Jerusalem and of the Apostles, yet this meeting was nothing like what goes on today: in Jerusalem, only the church of Jerusalem had representatives, and the decisions made in that meeting were not of the volition of the elders or the Apostles but of the Holy Spirit. Others may point to 1 Timothy 3:15, especially in defense of “collective determination”: but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. It is argued that since the church is the pillar and support of the truth, the decisions made by the church are the truth. This verse says no such thing, however– it simply states that the church, the true collective of Christians that follow Christ and are known to Him, are the pillar and support of the truth. They do not receive the truth by being a part of the church, but are a part of the church because they have learned the truth and rejoice in it. The Scriptures teach in Colossians 3:17 where the authority for the Christian lay: Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. We are told further about where the authority for the Christian’s actions are in 2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. These truths are further exemplified by the attitude of Luke toward the Bereans in Acts 17:11: Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. We have seen that the Scriptures have spoken: we must not do any action while on Earth unless it is done by the authority of the Lord Jesus. We read about His will and desire for us in the Scriptures, and we must examine the Scriptures to confirm the words that we shall hear. Unfortunately, Christians are always in danger of following after either a “cult of personality” or a “collective determination.” Many times we will look back and consider certain preachers or such men from the past with high esteem and will use his words almost as if they are authoritative because that individual spoke them. Some may even do this with individuals yet living, believing that a preacher or an elder perhaps is such a great Christian that whatever he says must be true. I have seen many times that Christians believe that a practice is justifiable because the elders of their local congregation have approved the action and therefore it must be okay. It is also very possible for Christians to believe something to be true or to believe that a practice ought not be done because every other Christian in their local area believes it. Brethren, we must constantly make sure that we do not walk down the path of denominationalism by following after the beliefs of an individual or believing something because everyone else believes it– if we are going to believe that something is true and right in the sight of God, we must do so because we have searched the Scriptures to see if it is so, and that we may perform the action in confidence that it is done properly in the name of our Lord. Goodreads Meta Today’s Scripture And God’s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of YHWH placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him (Numbers 22:22). Today’s Meditation “Satan” conjures up a picture of a red satyr-like figure with horns and a trident. “Satan” is a Hebrew word meaning “adversary”; it is used to refer to the angel of YHWH who stood opposed to Balaam. It is also used to refer to human opponents. Satan is thus to be understood as our adversary.

The 2012 Reds Hall of Fame Induction Weekend honored the first baseman Sean Casey, Dan Driessen and the late John Reilly, the members of the Class of 2012 with a host of activities and events including meet and greet sessions, a block party, an on-field question and answer program starring Big Red Machine Hall of Famers, an on-field induction ceremony and an extravagant Induction Gala. The weekend's event's kicked off on Friday night as the new inductees were joined by 15 returning Hall of Fame members for a meet and greet session in the museum. A second session took place Saturday morning. In total, close to 1,500 fans packed the museum for the two sessions. As the Saturday meet and greet session was underway, the second game day block party of the year featuring live music and refreshments was in full swing with thousands of fans gathering on the west side of the ballpark to enjoy the festivities. The loudest cheer from the crowd went to Sean Casey who made a brief appearance on stage to thank the fans for being there. With the block party moving along at full tilt, ballpark gates opened and the sold out crowd filed in, the first 25,000 receiving a commemorative Sean Casey bobblehead. The capacity crowd was treated to the official induction of Casey, Driessen and Reilly in a pre-game ceremony during which Driessen and Casey addressed the crowd and received their Hall of Fame plaques. The weekend was capped off by the Hall of Fame Induction Gala presented by cincyfavorites.com at the Duke Energy Convention Center. A sold-out audience of over 1,400 was treated to an elegant dinner and a memory and humor-filled program that brought the Reds past and present together like never before. Moving speeches from Driessen and Casey highlighted the evening which ended with the traditional red jacket presentation as the new inductees donned their jackets for the first time, surrounded by the other members of the Reds Hall of Fame fraternity. The audience stood as one as the red-jacketed assemblage of Hall of Famers smiled and waved, acknowledging the cheers that celebrated not only the triumphant end to the Gala and the weekend but much more so, the accomplishments of the men in the red jackets who have brought so much joy to generations of Reds fans. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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The Art of Making Pickles When Brian Crane (BA ’73) married Diana Long (BS ’73), she gave him the best possible dowry: her parents. Bud and Ardella Long, of Pocatello, Idaho, unintentionally became the models for Earl and Opal Pickles, the beloved stars of Crane’s nationally syndicated cartoon strip, Pickles. “As I started drawing Pickles, I began to recognize my in-laws’ personalities in Earl and Opal,” Crane explains. “They bicker back and forth but are totally devoted to each other and depend on each other for their happiness. They are always doing things that find their way into the strip.” His in-laws, for instance, once started wearing magnetic bracelets for their health, but whenever they ate, their silverware stuck to the bracelets. “It was hilarious and so typical,” Crane says. “Configurations of their magnetic adventure made it into 30 of my strips.” Another incident took place at the Long’s cabin. Bud discovered he hadn’t brought along any shaving cream, so he lathered his face with toothpaste. Opal: What were you doing in the bathroom for so long? Earl: Shaving. Opal: Is that a new aftershave you’re wearing? Earl: No. I was out of shaving cream, so I used toothpaste instead. Opal: Ah . . . That would explain why you smell so minty fresh. Decent Folks “I like his characters,” says Drabble cartoonist Kevin Fagan. “What I really like about Brian’s work is that he is funny and uplifting at the same time. You feel good about these characters. They are decent folks.” In the foreword to the first of Crane’s five Pickles books, legendary Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz reflected the same sentiment: “I think it would be very comforting to have Earl and Opal for neighbors.” Schulz also correctly predicted the comic strip’s longevity.Pickles premiered in 1990 and 21 years later remains a popular feature nationwide. According to Crane’s editor, Amy Lago of the Washington Post Writers Group, Pickles ranks in the top 10 in almost every market in which it appears and, more usually, in the top three, often coming in first. Pickles is found in nearly 800 markets, making it one of the most widely syndicated comic strips today. An Impossible Dream Crane’s success with the strip fulfills a childhood dream. He grew up reading and loving comic strips. His favorites were Al Capp’s Li’l Abner and Pogo by Walt Kelly. “They were really funny,” he says, “and as I got older, I liked them on a second level, where I could appreciate their brilliant political and social satire. I still think they are two of the greatest comic strips of all time.” He cannot remember a time when he did not want to join their ranks. “I broke my arm when I was 12, and the doctor tried to distract me by asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. The first answer out of my mouth was ‘comic strip artist,’ but even as I said it, it seemed like an impossible dream.” Crane’s first drawings were for his own amusement, often funny faces drawn in the margins of his school papers. Around fifth grade, he showed a drawing to a friend who laughed so hard milk spurted from his nose. “That was probably the greatest single encouragement I ever got to pursue a career in cartooning,” Crane says. Earl: The phone company called to say our payment was declined. Opal: What?! Earl: The credit card company closed my account. They say according to their records, I’m deceased. Opal: Deceased? Really? Earl: Yeah, can you believe that? Opal: Well, you have to admit that’s an easy mistake to make. Launching the Pickles Family Crane’s fortunes began to change when a job creating greeting cards convinced him he had a talent for funny ideas. “I had never thought of myself as a writer,” Crane says, “but I actually enjoyed doing that as much or more than the artwork.” That pleasure, and his growing disillusionment with doing ads for companies and products in which he didn’t believe, made Crane reconsider his old dream of cartooning. “I was almost 40 and thought if I didn’t try now, I probably never would,” he says. Crane began to learn the process of getting syndicated by reading the autobiography of Mort Walker, known for the strip Beetle Bailey. As he read about making samples, sending submissions, trying to get a syndicate’s attention, and finding a market, he thought he would have better odds at the lottery. And he was right, says his editor. “The odds of being picked up for syndication are about 5,000 to 3,” Lago explains. “And being successful enough to make a nice living is like winning the Mega Millions.” Crane decided to give it a shot anyway, since the cost would be nothing more than a little ink and paper. “I figured it was a better midlife option than buying a red Ferrari,” he says. First he had to create his characters. “Trying to decide who I was going to write about was a major decision,” he says. “It’s not like writing a book with a set of characters you can leave behind after you’re finished. In a comic strip, you could be writing about these characters the rest of your life, so it’s important they have legs that can inspire you for a long time. I have always liked older people, because they remind me of grandparents. I drew an older lady and my personal lightbulb went on.” The first characters were more crotchety than Opal and Earl have become, and he tried to find a name, like Crabtree, that would depict a cranky old couple. Nothing seemed right until he watched a football game in which one of the players had the last name of Pickles. Thus the Pickles family was born. Crane sent samples of his cartoons to three major syndicates. The first rejected him. The second rejected him. “The third rejection really hurt his feelings,” says his wife, Diana, “because it felt so personal.” “It wasn’t a case of the third time is a charm. It was three strikes, you’re out,” he says. Crane was ready to abandon his dream, but his wife insisted he try again. “It’s really great to be married to someone who has more faith in your abilities than you do,” Crane says. “So I sent some examples to the Washington Post Writers Group.” The syndicate liked his work and sent samples to newspaper contacts nationwide for evaluation. Then he waited. “It takes considerable manpower to promote you, and there are many others from which to choose,” he says. “It’s a big commitment, and I wasn’t surprised when, after several months, I had not heard from the Washington Post group.” When the call finally came telling him they wanted him to sign a contract, Crane felt a combination of euphoria and uncertainty. He asked himself, “Can I really do this? Do I have the ideas to do this for a month, let alone years and years? I think I was having the art world’s version of writer’s block, but I was smart enough to portray a confidence I didn’t really feel.” Earl: So you’re saying that married men live about 10 years longer than unmarried men. . . . Therefore, in all likelihood I’d probably be dead now if it weren’t for you. Opal: Correct. Earl: Hmm. Opal: I believe the phrase you’re searching for is “thank you.” The Graying of America Crane believes he found a niche for the graying of America, and the editors saw the marketing potential for it. He was cautioned not to quit his day job, however, and when he asked an editor how many papers would run his strip, she said probably about 50. That would get them enough return on their investment, but not enough to ensure his security. He took their advice. Crane would work all day at the advertising agency, have dinner with his family, and head to an improvised studio in his garage, where he worked on the strip for four hours. When Pickles reached 60 papers, he cut his day job down to four days a week, and five years later he became a cartoonist full-time. Joining the ranks of professional cartoonists, Crane began meeting his new colleagues—at comic strip conventions and elsewhere. Among them was the late Charles Schulz. “He was very encouraging to me,” says Crane. “He used to have a Christmas ice-skating show in Santa Rosa [California], and he always had one night just for cartoonists. . . . He was generous and seemed surprised by his success.” “Brian is a gentle guy and very quiet,” says Schulz’ widow, Jean, who runs the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa. Crane often loans original strips to the museum, and he has taught master classes and served as a cartoonist-in-residence at the center. “He does not possess a huge ego,” says Jean Schulz, “something that often happens with artists who become as successful as Brian.” Crane, born among the first wave of baby boomers, is also starting to get insights from the man in the mirror. “I inspire myself a lot, including a day I walked my dog in the park. After some time, I looked down and noticed I was holding an empty leash. My dog had slipped out of her collar without me noticing and was off sniffing a tree somewhere. Meanwhile, I was greeting others and holding an empty leash. People must have thought I was crackers.” Every morning Crane awakes ready to live his dream. He does not always know what the day will bring, but more than two decades of strips give him the confidence that his next idea is about to emerge. “I hope I can do this until I die,” he says. “I’m still pinching myself after 20 years. I would like nothing better than someday dropping dead into a bottle of ink.”

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Claire Zulkey (Zulkey.com) joins Stephen, Andrew, Leonard and RJ to discuss tinned fish, the films of Peter Watkins and folk music. They then all complain about cellular smart-tele-phones like old people. 2011, EVERYONE! Oh – also, the show will now be produced every other week.

I finished season three of Breaking Bad last night. Chris, I certainly wanted it to keep going and resolve some stuff, but I'm okay with waiting. I was still engaged through the season as a whole. Now I'm onto Mad Men. I just watched the BD version of FOTR. My overall impression was that it looked pretty good and noticeably better than the DVD version in some scenes. In the scenes I’ve demoed a lot I could tell that the audio was remixed so the voices weren’t drowned out by the music however, there were still several scenes where that still happened. There were only a couple scenes that looked abnormally blue mainly in the snow and in a few dark scenes. But otherwise it wasn’t distracting even though I was looking for it. OTOH the image sharpness seemed very inconsistent. Some scenes look crystal clear while the next one might look a little soft or hazy. IMO this was far more noticeable than any blue tinting. I felt it was downright distracting at times. Afterwards I popped the DVD version in my other Oppo and chaptered through doing an A/B comparison. For picture quality there is no comparison, the BD strikingly superior in every way both on my 134” screen and 46” HDTV, more noticeable on the screen of course. OTOH I didn’t notice nearly the same improvement in the audio quality. LFE and surround sound seemed the same. As I already noted there were some scenes where the music was toned down a bit on the BD version so that it didn’t overpower everything else but there were still a few places where it did. So based on what I saw and heard I would certainly upgrade for the picture quality alone but don’t do it if you’re looking only for a better audio experience. I've only watched select scenes from Fellowship so far, but they were enough to remind me how much the movies annoy me. I think I'm regretting my purchase. Ha ha. I finished season 4 of Mad Men. There sure are some compelling TV series these days. It's getting harder and harder to sit through movies when it feels so much more rewarding to watch shows that have the opportunity to develop the characters that much more. I can't remember what show I was going to work on next. Hmm.... I got my friend to start watching Friday Night Lights and Curb Your Enthusiasm with me, so it will be nice to revisit those. It's nice to be able to alternate between Larry David being a dork and the amped up drama of Friday Night Lights. I watched "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" last night. I was very impressed with the quality of this movie. The reviews had said that this movie had the best quality ever seen in both video and audio. I was a little reluctant to buy it because others had said that the story sucked, but I disagree. The story wasn't bad at all. I got this movie yesterday for $9.66 after store discount and using $10 worth of BB rewards coupons. I saw that "Falling Skies" was on after "Leverage". I didn't check it out yet, but I'll give it a shot and report back. EDIT: I'll tack on here. Has any anime fan watched either The Girl Who Leapt through Time, or Summer Wars? I'm thinking about give each of them a rent. I've watched both and like them both. The Girl Who Leapt through Time is funny at the beginning but a little bit sad in the end while Summer Wars is about family and love. Neither of them is for children. Highly recommended if you like Japanese anime. Talking about animes, I used to love them when I was younger but then haven't watched any in like 10 years. So a couple of weeks ago I decided to look on the net for a few recommendations. I ended up buying Evangelion 1.11 and Afro Samurai. I watched both this weekend. I really liked Afro Samurai. I's a 5 episodes movie that lasts about 2 hours. The story is very good with the development of both the main character and the plot so are the video and audio. As for Evangelion, I was expecting more. While the Video and Audio are top notch (a little more LFE wouldn't hurt), I found the story a bit confusing and not that rich. Given that I am not familiar with the older show, I might not understand everything and it seems that the whole story will be developed throughout 5 movies. I will most definitely buy Afro Samurai Resurrection and will probably download Evangelion 2.22 before buying it. Another that I just bought on Ebay is Paprika, supposedly a good scifi anime, I'll let you know.

The reason that I was quite silent during the last days is called WACK. It is something that my colleague Manfred Weber and me here at coma2 are working on. We think that it might be quite useful. WACK means "Window Application Control Kit" and does what it says: Windows. But we think that it will do that quite well and flexible. It will be a component, it will be free and it will be available soon on quasimondo.com. Unfortunately I have to leave in a hurry, so here is something I quickly hacked together... Comments are welcome indeed. You guys might be interested in checking out my application framework for ideas and inspiration. I am currently building FlashOS2, which includes a set of flash RAD "modules", including: the OS (basically a resource and settings loading, initializing and management system), windows, menus, tooltips, content panes, debugger, screen manager, and more - all built around documented APIs. You will be able to view information on it within the next day or two at my site http://gskinner.com/ (which should be going live today or tomorrow - it's late by a few days *grin*). FlashOS2 is a complete re-write, and re-think of my FlashOS1 project (Flash 5), which is still accessible at http://zeroera.com/ This isn't meant to be a personal plug. Just thought you might be interested to see a similar project. Of course I know FlashOS - who doesn't? It's great and I guess that we will not get close to what you have already accomplished. I already wondered when you would release the MX version of it. I'm looking forward to see how you solved certain things... Finally got the new gskinner.com site up (though missing a lot of content). Has some limited info on FlashOS2, including some early screen shots, descriptions, and an older entity map. The new site is actually built in FlashOS2 - though it only uses a few of it's resources. I'll also be open-sourcing a lot of FlashOS1 (much to my own embarassment - it's not the best code on earth) in the near future, along with some of my other past projects. btw: your site isn't displaying properly today in IE5.2 for MacOS10.2. Can send you a screen grab if you'd like. I am going to be looking over both projects as we need this for a RAD template engine we need for an e-learning project. I have been watching closely FlashOS X :) but I would love to hear more on WACK.

South Korean ladies' soccer dynamo Park Eun-Seon is good at her sport. Real good. Like, man good. At least, according to a cabal of her fellow women's soccer league players, who have threatened to stop playing unless the league subjects Park to a humiliating gender test and releases the results to the public. »11/08/13 3:10pm 11/08/13 3:10pm

Florida Department of CorrectionsJulie L. Jones, Secretary Average Sentence Length of Admissions: 4.7 Years Most (56.7%) of those admitted to prison this fiscal year were sentenced to three years or less. The average sentence for everyone admitted to prison this fiscal year was 4.7 years. For calculation purposes, those sentenced to 50 years or longer, life or death was coded as 50-year sentences. Men who received death sentences are housed on death row at either Union C. I. or Florida State Prison. Women on death row are located at Lowell Annex. Anyone sentenced to prison today for a crime committed on or after October 1, 1995 will have served 85% of their sentence or more by the time they are released. Sentence Length for Current Commitment Sentence Length White Males White Females Black Males Black Females Other Males Other Females Total Percent Cumulative Percent Gt 1 To 2 Years 6,447 1,480 5,971 751 497 48 15,194 39.2% 39.2% Gt 2 To 3 Years 2,936 496 2,791 287 221 23 6,754 17.4% 566% Gt 3 To 5 Years 3,179 428 3,275 213 273 11 7,379 19.0% 75.6% Gt 5 To 10 Years 2,137 220 2,283 135 192 11 4,978 12.8% 88.5% Gt 10 To 20 Years 1,160 91 1,298 64 119 5 2,737 7.1% 95.6% Gt 20 Years Or More 692 22 892 24 63 0 1,693 4.4% 100.0% Data Unavailable 282 64 201 39 32 1 619 Total 16,833 2,801 16,711 1,513 1,397 99 39,354 100.0% Average** 4.6 2.7 5.2 3.1 5.0 2.8 4.7 Median** 2.2 1.7 2.5 1.9 2.5 2.0 2.2 * GT - Greater than, LE - less than or equal to. ** Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages and medians. Sentence lengths for Whites remained about the same in FY 2008-09. The same measure increased slightly for Blacks. The average sentence lengths of "Others" such as Chinese, Native American, Japanese and those of Latin descent were the lowest this last fiscal year than any other year in the five year comparison.

Norm Solomon on the Green Party’s Presidential Campaign The 2004 Presidential Race: Green Dreams The Green Party and the ’04 Presidential Campaign The Green Party makes no secret that it is different and radical: a multi-decade effort to bring justice and fairness into politics and into every facet of society. Norm Solomon simply won’t admit that the Green Party is unique, growing in a new paradigm that the old decaying parties refuse to acknowledge — and missing out on this truth leads Solomon to make mistakes in his views about the Greens. by Norman Solomon Activists have plenty of good reasons to challenge the liberal Democratic Party operatives who focus on election strategy while routinely betraying progressive ideals. Unfortunately, the national Green Party now shows appreciable signs of the flip side — focusing on admirable ideals without plausible strategy. Running Ralph Nader for president is on the verge of becoming a kind of habitual crutch — used even when the effect is more damaging than helpful. The Progress Report — Ralph Nader has run for president less often than Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., or Richard Nixon. So what? Is there a rule that says Nader is not allowed to run? It’s impossible to know whether the vote margin between Bush and his Democratic challenger will be narrow or wide in November 2004. I’ve never heard a credible argument that a Nader campaign might help to defeat Bush next year. A Nader campaign might have no significant effect on Bush’s chances — or it could turn out to help Bush win. With so much at stake, do we really want to roll the dice this way? The Progress Report — Who is this “we” that is rolling the dice? Each political party nominates a candidate for president. That’s their business. If you want to participate, join a party and be active. We’re told that another Nader campaign will help to build the Green Party. But Nader’s prospects of coming near his nationwide 2000 vote total of 2.8 million are very slim; much more probable is that a 2004 campaign would win far fewer votes — hardly an indicator of, or contributor to, a growing national party. The Progress Report — That is a reasonable point against nominating Nader, and Green Party members are taking it into consideration. Nader is not currently a Green Party member, and his selection as that party’s nominee for president is not at all certain. It appears to me that the entire project of running a Green presidential candidate in 2004 is counter-productive. Some faithful will be energized, with a number of predictably uplifting “super rallies” along the way, but many past and potential Green voters are likely to consciously drift away. Such a campaign will generate much alienation and bitterness from natural constituencies. Ironically, the current Green party-building agenda looks like a scenario for actually damaging the party. The Progress Report — How does Norm Solomon reach this conclusion? He does not say. Green organizers often insist that another presidential run is necessary so that the party can energize itself and stay on the ballot in various states. But it would be much better to find other ways to retain ballot access while running stronger Green campaigns in selected local races. Overall, I don’t believe that a Green Party presidential campaign in 2004 will help build a viable political alternative from below. Some activists contend that the Greens will maintain leverage over the Democratic Party by conveying a firm intention to run a presidential candidate. I think that’s basically an illusion. The prospect of a Green presidential campaign is having very little effect on the Democratic nomination contest, and there’s no reason to expect that to change. The Democrats are almost certain to nominate a “moderate” corporate flack (in which category Howard Dean should be included). A few years ago, Nader and some others articulated the theory that throwing a scare into the Democrats would move them in a more progressive direction. That theory was disproved after November 2000. As a whole, congressional Democrats have not become more progressive since then. The Progress Report — True, the Democrats have not indicated that they have learned much of anything from the 2000 or the 2002 elections. That is a rather telling point against the Democrats, not the Greens. There has been a disturbing tendency among some Greens to conflate the Democratic and Republican parties. Yes, the agendas of the two major parties overlap. But they also diverge. And in some important respects, any of the Democratic presidential contenders would be clearly better than Bush (with the exception of Joseph Lieberman, whose nomination appears to be quite unlikely). For the left to be “above the fray” would be a big mistake. It should be a matter of great concern — not indifference or mild interest — as to whether the Bush gang returns to power for four more years. I’m not suggesting that progressives mute their voices about issues. The imperative remains to keep speaking out and organizing. As Martin Luther King Jr. said on April 30, 1967: “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.” The left should continue to denounce all destructive policies and proposals, whether being promoted by Republicans or Democrats. At the same time, we should not gloss over the reality that the Bush team has neared some elements of fascism in its day-to-day operations — and forces inside the Bush administration would be well-positioned to move it even farther to the right after 2004. We don’t want to find out how fascistic a second term of George W. Bush’s presidency could become. The current dire circumstances should bring us up short and cause us to re-evaluate approaches to ’04. The left has a responsibility to contribute toward a broad coalition to defeat Bush next year. The Progress Report — This talk about “right versus left” merely serves to divide people when they should be united. The old right-left distinction ceased to be meaningful long ago. As the Green Party of Ontario says, “Rather than Left-Right, the new axis can be described as a green-grey spectrum. Green values include decentralization, sustainability, community-control, and diversity, while grey values are centralization, unsustainable industrial processes, trans- national control, and monoculture.” There are some Green Party proposals for a “safe states” strategy, with the party’s presidential nominee concentrating on states that seem sure to go for either Bush or the Democrat. But it’s not always clear whether a state is “safe” (for instance, how about California?). And the very act of a Green campaign focusing on some “safe states” might render a few of those states more susceptible to a Bush upset win. An additional factor is that presidential campaigns are largely nationwide. In 2000, despite unfair exclusion from the debates and the vast majority of campaign news coverage, Nader did appear on national radio and TV to a significant extent. And of course, more than ever, the Internet is teeming with progressive websites, listservs and e-mail forwarding. It doesn’t seem very practical to run as a national candidate while effectively urging people in some states not to vote for you when they see your name on the ballot — even if the candidate is inclined toward such a strategy. And that’s a big “if.” For all its talk of democratic accountability, the Green Party is hooked into the old-fashioned notion that a candidate, once nominated, decides how and where to campaign. It’s ironic that the party is likely to end up with a presidential candidate who will conduct the campaign exactly as he chooses, with no built-in post-nomination accountability to any constituency or group decision-making. Kind of sounds like the major parties in that respect; choose the candidate and the candidate does whatever he wants from that point forward. The Progress Report — Whether Norm Solomon likes it or not, candidates’ campaigns are not mere puppets controlled by a centralized party. We concur that the “safe states” strategy is a pack of nonsense — no political party should have to tie itself in knots just to be seen as nice by other political parties. Why should the Green Party cut down its own campaigns just to help the Democrats? Remember, please — the Democrats in New Mexico attempted to ban the Green Party. The Democrats in Maine attampted to ban the Green Party. You can’t get much less friendly than that. What national Democrats have deplored those attempts? No doubt, too many Democratic Party officials have been arrogant toward Green Party supporters. “Democrats have to face reality and understand that if they move too far to the right, millions of voters will defect or vote for third-party candidates,” Tom Hayden pointed out in a recent article . “Democrats have to swallow hard and accept the right of the Green Party and Ralph Nader to exist and compete.” At the same time, Hayden added cogently, “Nader and the Greens need a reality check. The notion that the two major parties are somehow identical may be a rationale for building a third party, but it insults the intelligence of millions of blacks, Latinos, women, gays, environmentalists and trade unionists who can’t afford the indulgence of Republican rule.” The Progress Report — Norm Solomon cannot have it both ways. Sometimes he indicates that the Green Party is a trivial band of naive idealists, but at other times he implies that it has terrific power to determine the outcome of the 2004 election. Let’s be consistent, shall we? The presidency of George W. Bush is not a garden-variety Republican administration. By unleashing its policies in this country and elsewhere in the world, the Bush gang has greatly raised the stakes of the next election. The incumbent regime’s blend of extreme militarism and repressive domestic policy should cause the left to take responsibility for helping to oust this far-right administration — rather than deferring to dubious scenarios for Green party-building. The Progress Report — Again with this left-right trap. Greens have said it a thousand times — the Green Party is neither left nor right, but out in front. Norm Solomon’s descriptions and criticisms are off the mark, because the Greens do not fit into his left-right paradigm. Greens have recognized the new paradigm where “grey versus green” makes sense, not “left versus right.” When Norm Solomon finally gets his hands around this concept (and he will), his remarks will be sharper and clearer. In an August essay, Michael Albert of Z Magazine wrote: “One post election result we want is Bush retired. However bad his replacement may turn out, replacing Bush will improve the subsequent mood of the world and its prospects of survival. Bush represents not the whole ruling class and political elite, but a pretty small sector of it. That sector, however, is trying to reorder events so that the world is run as a U.S. empire, and so that social programs and relations that have been won over the past century in the U.S. are rolled back as well. What these parallel international and domestic aims have in common is to further enrich and empower the already super rich and super powerful.” Albert pointed out some of the foreseeable consequences of another Bush term: “Seeking international Empire means war and more war — or at least violent coercion. Seeking domestic redistribution upward of wealth and power, most likely means assaulting the economy via cutbacks and deficits, and then entreating the public that the only way to restore functionality is to terminate government programs that serve sectors other than the rich, cutting health care, social services, education, etc.” And Albert added: “These twin scenarios will not be pursued so violently or aggressively by Democrats due to their historic constituency. More, the mere removal of Bush will mark a step toward their reversal.” Looking past the election, Albert is also on target: “We want to have whatever administration is in power after Election Day saddled by a fired up movement of opposition that is not content with merely slowing Armageddon, but that instead seeks innovative and aggressive social gains. We want a post election movement to have more awareness, more hope, more infrastructure, and better organization by virtue of the approach it takes to the election process.” I’m skeptical that the Green Party’s leadership is open to rigorously pursue a thoroughgoing safe-states approach along the lines that Albert has suggested in his essay . Few of the prominent Green organizers seem sufficiently flexible. For instance, one Green Party leader who advocates “a Strategic States Plan” for 2004 has gone only so far as to say that “most” of the party’s resources should be focused on states “where the Electoral College votes are not ‘in play.’” Generally the proposals coming from inside the Green Party seem equivocal, indicating that most party leaders are unwilling to really let go of traditional notions of running a national presidential campaign. I’m a green. But these days, in the battle for the presidency, I’m not a Green. The Progress Report — Sorry, Norm Solomon, you are not a green or a Green, because you insist on seeing Greens as just a bunch of forward-thinking sincere Democrats. You need to open up a new space in your mind where the Greens fit. It is not convenient nor easy to do this, but more and more Americans are doing it each day. Here in the United States, the Green Party is dealing with an electoral structure that’s very different from the parliamentary systems that have provided fertile ground for Green parties in Europe. We’re up against the winner-take-all U.S. electoral system. Yes, there are efforts to implement “instant runoff voting,” but those efforts will not transform the electoral landscape in this decade. And we should focus on this decade precisely because it will lead the way to the next ones. By now it’s an open secret that Ralph Nader is almost certain to run for president again next year. Nader has been a brilliant and inspirational progressive for several decades. I supported his presidential campaigns in 1996 and 2000. I won’t in 2004. The reasons are not about the past but about the future. _____________________ Norman Solomon is co-author of “Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You.” For an excerpt and other information, go to: www.contextbooks.com/new.html#target We are Hanno Beck, Lindy Davies, Fred Foldvary, Mike O'Mara, Jeff Smith, and assorted volunteers, all dedicated to bringing you the news and views that make a difference in our species struggle to win justice, prosperity, and eco-librium. I think that Ralph Nader should run again. I mean there’s a chance that it might take away votes from the democratic party and give more to George Bush. But even the democrats have taken actions against the greens. Norm Solomon shouldn’t think of greens as naive, he is not a green, so he should just accept the greens as not being just another democratic party but a party of their own. Solomon is right. We can’t afford a Bush victory in 2004. There is a time for plurality, and there is a time for concensus. If Bush wins the next election, all HELL is liable to break loose before 2008. It is imperative that we (and here Fred, I am referring to moderates, liberals, and progressives alike) temporarily abandon our differences, and unite to GET BUSH OUT OF POWER. If we don’t, we and the whole rest of the world are in for big trouble. The leaders of the Green Party know this, or at least they should know it. I don’t see how they can in good conscience run a candidate in competition with Bush’s opposition, no matter how unsatisfactory that opposition might be. The Greens are long on ideals, and short on strategy. Good strategy for them at this point, would be to endorse wholeheartedly the Democrats’ Kucinich; to publicly avail Kucinich of all the Greens’ considerable resources of PR and enthusiasm. To make a Kucinich nomination the condition for Green support of the Democrats. This would put both Kucinich AND the Greens in the media spotlight, which is exactly where they both need to be. Also, it would exert considerable pressure on the Democratic nominating process. Then, even if Kucinich loses the nomination to Dean or Kerry (which he probably would), a broad and ideologically cogent coalition will have been formed. And the Greens would still be free to, at the last moment, urge their supporters to vote for WHOEVER is opposing George Bush. I like your call for unity and consensus. You remark that the Greens don’t seem to be very interested in that, but my question is, are the Democrats? The Democrats have a much larger political party, and so far, there has been no “unity” talk emanating from them to the Greens — instead there has been continued scolding, threats, inaction on issues such as instant runoff voting, and — worst of all — attempts to ban the Green Party outright. Dennis Kucinich is the best member of Congress and the best of the announced Democratic candidates for president. It would be very reasonable for Green Party members to support his campaign, except for one thing. The Green Party is a political party, not a pressure group. Can you name some occasions when the Democratic Party officially endorsed a non-Democrat? Or when the Republican Party officially endorsed a non-Republican? Each of those parties has had more than 100 years to set such precedents. But, whether we like it or not, the business of a political party is to promote its own candidates. If the Green Party has the right to exist at all, then it has the right to nominate a Green for president. More than a right, in fact — an obligation, to its own members and to the future of the world. If the Democrats want a different arrangement, they’d better change their behavior and sit down at the bargaining table. But I don’t expect that. Advertise here. Arts & Letters Geonomics is … a POV that Spain’s president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he’d see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now. shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we’ll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy. the study of the money we spend on the nature we use. When we pay that money to private owners, we reward both speculation and over-extraction. Robert Kiyosaki’s bestseller, Rich Dad’s Prophecy, says, “One of the reasons McDonald’s is such a rich company is not because it sells a lot of burgers but because it owns the land at some of the best intersections in the world. The main reason Kim and I invest in such properties is to own the land at the corner of the intersection. (p 200) My real estate advisor states that the rich either made their money in real estate or hold their money in real estate.” (p 141, via Greg Young) When government recovers the rents for natural advantages for everyone, it can save citizens millions. Ben Sevack, Montreal steel manufacturer, tells us (August 12) that Alberta, by leasing oil & gas fields, recovers enough revenue to be the only province in Canada to get by without a sales tax and to levy a flat provincial income tax. While running for re-election, provincial Premier Ralph Klein proposes to abolish their income tax and promises to eliminate medical insurance premiums and use resource revenue to pay for all medical expense for seniors. After all this planned tax-cutting and greater expense, they still expect a large budget surplus. Even places without oil and gas have high site values in their downtowns, and high values in their utility franchises. Recover the values of locations and privileges, displace the harmful taxes on sales, salaries, and structures, then use the revenue to fund basic government and pay residents a dividend, and you have geonomics in action. close to the policy of the Garden Cities in England. Founded by Ebenezer Howard over a century ago, residents own the land in common and run the town as a business. Letchworth, the oldest of the model towns, serves residents grandly from bucketfuls of collected land rent (as does the Canadian Province of Alberta from oil royalty). A geonomic town would pay the rent to residents, letting them freely choose personalized services, and also ax taxes. Both geonomics and Howard were inspired by American proto-geonomist Henry George. The movement launched by Howard today in the UK advances the shift of taxes from buildings to locations. A recent report from the Town and Country Planning Association proposes this Property Tax Shift and their journal published research in the potential of land value taxation by Tony Vickers (Vol. 69, Part 5, 2000). (Thanks to James Robertson) a new field of study offered in place of economics, as astronomy replaced astrology and chemistry replaced alchemy. Conventional economics, in which GNP can do well while people suffer, is a bit too superstitious for my renaissance upbringing. If I’m to propitiate unseen forces, it won’t be inflation or “the market”; let it be theEgyptian cat goddess. At least then we’d have fewer rats. Meanwhile, believing in reason leads to a new policy, also christened geonomics. That’s the proposal to share (a kind of management, the “nomics” part) the worth of Mother Earth (the “geo” part). If our economies are to work right, people need to see prices that tell the truth. Now taxes and subsidies distort prices, tricking people into squandering the planet. Using land dues and rent dividends instead lets prices be precise, guiding people to get more from less and thereby shrink their workweek. More free time ought to make us happy enough to evolve beyond economics, except when nostalgic for superstition. of interest to Dave Lakhani, President Bold Approach (Mar 8) and Matt Ozga (Jan 29): “I write for the Washington Square News, the student run newspaper out of New York University. Geonomics seems like it has great significance, especially in this area. When was geonomics developed, and by whom?” About 1982 I began. Two years later, Chilean Dr Manfred Max-Neef offered the term geonomics for Earth-friendly economics. In the mid-80s, a millionaire founded a Geonomics Institute on Middlebury College campus in Vermont re global trade. In the 1990s, CNBC cablecast a show, Geonomics, on world trade as it benefits world traders. My version of geonomics draws heavily from the American Henry George who wrote Progress & Poverty (1879) and won the mayoralty of New York but was denied his victory by Tammany Hall (1886). He in turn got lots from Brits David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and the French physiocrats of the 1700s. My version differs by focusing not on taxation but on the flow of rents for sites, resources, sinks, and government-granted privileges. Forgoing these trillions, we instead tax and subsidize, making waste cheap and sustainability expensive. To quit distorting price, replace taxes with “land dues” and replace subsidies with a Citizens Dividend. Matt: “This idea of sharing rents sounds, if not explicitly socialist, at least at odds with some capitalist values (only the strong survive & prosper, etc). Is it fair to say that geonomics has some basis in socialist theory?” A closer descriptor would be Christian. Beyond ethics into praxis, Alaska shares oil rent with residents, and they’re more libertarian than socialist. While individuals provide labor and capital, no one provides land while society generates its value. Rent is not private property but public property. Sharing Rent is predistribution, sharing it before an elite or state has a chance to get and misspend it, like a public REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) paying dividends to its stakeholders – a perfectly capitalist model. What we should leave untaxed are our sales, salaries, and structures, things we do produce. more transformation than reform; it’s a step ahead. Harvard economics students this year did petition to change the curriculum, in the wake of the English who caught the dissension from across The Channel. French reformers, who fault conventional economics for conjuring mathematical models of little empirical relevance and being closed to critical and reflective thought, reject this “autism” – or detachment from reality – and dub their offering “post-autistic economics”. Not a bad name, but again, academics define themselves by what they’re not, not by what they are, unlike geonomists. We track rent – the money we spend on the nature we use – and watch it pull all the other economic indicators in its wake. We see economies as part and parcel of the ecosystem, similarly following natural patterns and able to self-regulate more so than allowed, once we quit distorting prices. To align people and planet, we’d replace taxes and subsidies with recovering and sharing rents. an economic policy based on the earth’s natural patterns. Eco-systems self-regulate by using feedback loops to keep balance. Can economies do likewise? Why don’t they now produce efficiently and distribute fairly? The answers lie in the money we spend on the earth we use. To attain people/planet harmony, that financial flow from sites and resources must visit each of us. Our agent, government, must collect this natural rent via fees and disburse the collected revenue via dividends. And, it must forgo taxes on homes and earnings, and quit subsidies of either the needy or the greedy. As our steward, government must also collect Ecology Security Deposits, require Restoration Insurance, and auction off the occasional Emissions Permit. And that’s about it – were nature our model. a manual. The world did not come without a way for people to prosper, and the planet to heal and stay well; that way is geonomics. Economies are part of the ecosystem. Both generate surpluses and follow self-regulating feedback loops. A cycle like the Law of Supply and Demand is one of the economy’s on/off loops. Our spending for land and resources – things that nobody made and everybody needs – constitutes our society’s surplus. Those profits without production (remember, nobody produced Earth) can become our commonwealth. To share it, we could pay land dues in to the public treasury (wouldn’t oil companies love that?) and get rent dividends back, a la Alaska’s oil dividend. Doing so let’s us axe taxes and jettison subsidies. Taxes and subsidies distort price (the DNA of exchange), violate quid pro quo by benefiting the well-connected more than anyone else, reinforce hierarchy of state over citizen, and are costly to administer (you don’t really need so much bureaucracy, do you?). Conversely, land dues motivate people to not waste sites, resources, and the ecosystem while rent dividends motivate people to not waste themselves. Receiving this income supplement – a Citizens Dividend – people can invest in their favorite technology or outgrow being “economan” and shrink their overbearing workweek in order to enjoy more time with family, friends, community, and nature. Then in all that free time, maybe we could figure out just what we are here for. a discipline that, compared to economics, is as obscure as Warren Buffett’s investment strategy, compared to conventional investment theory, about which Buffett said, “You couldn’t advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat.” (The New York Times, Oct 29). The writer wondered, “But why? If it works, why don’t more investors use it?” Good question. Geonomics works, too. Every place that has used it has prospered while conserving resources. Yet it remains off the radar of many wanna-be reformers. Gradually, tho’, that’s changing. More are becoming aware of what geonomics studies – all the money we spend on the nature we use. Geonomics (1) as an alternative worldview to the anthropocentric, sees human economies as part of the embracing ecosystem with natural feedback loops seeking balance in both systems. (2) As an alternative to worker vs. investor, it sees our need for sites and resources making those who own land into landlords. (3)As an alternative to economics, it tracks the trillions of “rent” as it drives the “housing” bubble and all other indicators. And (4) as an alternative to left or right, it suggests we not tax ourselves then subsidize our favorites but recover and share society’s surplus, paying in land dues and getting back “rent” dividends, a la Alaska’s oil dividend. Letting rent go to the wrong pockets wreaks havoc, while redirecting it to everyone would solve our economic ills and the ills downstream from them. People must learn to stop whining so much and feel enough self-esteem to demand a fair share of rent, society’s surplus, the commonwealth.

Share this post Link to post Question: do all users have to apply the fix specifically, or delete the file manually? Or is this going to be sorted out automatically for most people - if not it's true that it will put people off this product. do all users have to apply the fix specifically, or delete the file manually? Or is this going to be sorted out automatically for most people - if not it's true that it will put people off this product. You can either delete the file manually or use the utiility - the action will be the same. Unfortunately it is not going to be solved by itself for those, who updated from the bad updates. Share this post Link to post Sorry but I cant find any option labelled "self defense" Might it have any other label? I was not able to update and three times I have received the windows XP error notification and then Kaspersky has shut down. This is not just during updating but when the computer has not been connected to the internet. I have run the attachment on this forum and can now update but could the other 'shut downs' when not connected be related to this. Edited November 22, 2006 by macdaithi Share this post Link to post Sorry but I cant find any option labelled "self defense" Might it have any other label? I was not able to update and three times I have received the windows XP error notification and then Kaspersky has shut down. This is not just during updating but when the computer has not been connected to the internet. I have run the attachment on this forum and can now update but could the other 'shut downs' when not connected be related to this. 2. Make a folder called Kav 6.0 on the desktop and unzip KisKavRemove into this,, then uninstall Kaspersky, reboot into safemode and run the tool (doubleclick on "avp_remove.cmd" for the 6.0 tool). Only works if installed in the default c:\ location with windows! Link to post It gives me waring that some protection components failed to start, and i think its somthing about Web Anti-Virus. am attaching a pic so u can see wat am exactly meaning and i hope i can got a solution. Share this post Link to post Hi, I'm running KIS version 300 with b,c,d,e updates and have had no problems updateing at all today, my question is even though I have not had a problem do I still need to run the CleanupUpdCfg.zip posted earlier to prevent any further issues arrising later, also do I need to uncheck the Self-Defense box in services or do I just leave everything well alone if KIS is running OK. Important Information We use cookies to make your experience of our websites better. By using and further navigating this website you accept this. Detailed information about the use of cookies on this website is available by clicking on more information.

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Tag: Prince Harry Two years of marriage in and the rest of a lifetime to go for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. The famous pair officially rang in their second wedding anniversary on Wednesday while fans recalled their world-famous nuptials inside St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on that picturesque day in May 2018. And, as royal enthusiasts well know, a lot has happened since the two officially tied the knot and became husband and wife, notably their first child, Archie Harrison, and more recently, their headline-making exit from life as senior royals. The family of three has since relocated to Calif., reportedly staying in a mansion owned by Tyler Perry. While it’s unclear whether they’re guests or renting the property for the time-being, the two have been keeping a low profile in recent months—particularly after retiring their @SussexRoyal Instagram account in late March—save for occasional glimpses of their ongoing virtual work with their patronages and charitable endeavors. Considering the nature of life right now amid the coronavirus pandemic, it’s no surprise the couple kept their anniversary celebrations fuss-free. “They are just powering down,” a royal insider told E! News. “No calls, no Zoom meetings, no work. Just hanging out as a family. Keeping things simple.” However, that doesn’t mean their anniversary went without gifts. David Fisher/Shutterstock “They generally follow traditional anniversary gift giving,” a source shared. “The second year is cotton and they each put their own spin on it. They are very thoughtful and romantic gift givers.” Cotton material is said to symbolize both comfort and strength and inspires the metaphor of married pairs becoming more woven together over time. The couple commemorated their first wedding anniversary publicly last year by sharing never-before-seen photos of their milestone day. “Thank you for all of the love and support from so many of you around the world,” they said in a joint statement on Instagram at the time. “Each of you made this day even more meaningful.” Prince William and Kate Middleton change their names on social media accounts – and it's praised by fans “This year, they both gave each other gifts based on cotton,” the insider told People. “Undoubtedly, it was a very creative and romantic gesture as all their gifts are to one another. “They love to do their own take on traditional wedding gifts,” the insider added. Archie's best moments as Prince Harry and Meghan celebrate his first birthday “The first anniversary was paper, and Meghan wrote out the wedding speech and had it framed for him.” According to wedding lifestyle website The Knot, cotton represents how close and interconnected a married couple will be in the beginning of their marriage and demonstrates how husbands and wives can become more flexible as they grow. Paper, meanwhile, represents the fragile beginnings of a marriage, but, if protected, can survive for “a lifetime”. It comes after reports that the couple are living in a £14.5million home owned by producer and actor Tyler Perry in Los Angeles. The eight bedroom house in Beverly Hills is owned by Diary Of A Mad Black Woman star Tyler Perry and is believed to cost $18million. Although Harry and Meghan have never been seen with Tyler, they are thought to have connected with him through their mutual friend Oprah Winfrey. Read More Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'took… Meghan Markle 'baked strawberries an… Loose Women stars slam Meghan Markle… Prince Harry feels 'rudderless' afte… A source said: "Meghan and Harry have been extremely cautious to keep their base in LA under wraps. "Their team helped them choose the location for their transition to Los Angeles wisely. Inside Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's £14.7m LA house they are rumoured to be staying in owned by Tyler Perry Meghan Markle and Prince Harry set to face huge challenge that'll put their marriage to the test "Beverly Ridge has its own guarded gate and Tyler's property has a gate of its own which is watched by their security team. "Beverly Ridge is an excellent place to keep out of view. The neighbours are mostly old money and mega rich business types rather than show business gossips. "It goes without saying that the location is stunning – just one of the most beautiful and desirable areas in LA," the insider continued to tell Daily Mail TV. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have just marked their second wedding anniversary and if last year is anything to go by, Prince Harry was in for a sweet surprise from wife Meghan. Much was said last year about Harry’s gift to his wife – an eternity ring – but Meghan’s gift was kept a secret, until now. Prince Harry and Meghan celebrated their second wedding anniversary in Los Angeles According to PEOPLE, Meghan, who has impeccable handwriting and was once a freelance calligrapher, wrote out their wedding speech and framed it for Harry – what a way to mark their paper wedding anniversary! Last year was definitely an anniversary to remember, not only was it their first but just weeks before they had welcomed their first child into the world – Archie Harrison. To mark his birth and their anniversary, Harry gifted Meghan an eternity ring, which she first wore when introducing their son to the world in Windsor Castle. The couple introduced their first child to the world weeks before their first anniversary New mum Meghan wore her sparkling accessory next to her Welsh gold wedding band and her three-stone diamond engagement ring. Eternity rings symbolize everlasting love and are usually given by a spouse to their wife to commemorate a milestone wedding anniversary or to celebrate the welcoming of a new child. The ring is also typically covered in diamonds in an infinite loop around the band. This year, the pair celebrated their seconf wedding anniversary in Los Angeles, where they are self-isolating with Archie since moving there from Canada in mid-March. The couple are residing at a £15million mansion owned by Tyler Perry in the Beverly Ridge Estate of LA and have been given small sneak peek’s inside. Most recently, Harry and Meghan showed off one of the mansion’s rooms during a video call with the Crisis Text Line team. Attendee Ricky Neil shared a picture on Instagram of the call and it showed Meghan and Harry sitting next to each other with two large black lamps visible from behind. A large painting could also be seen, as well as wooden panelling on the walls. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are thought to be living in luxury inside the Beverly Hills mega-mansion owned by film tycoon Tyler Perry. It was reported recently that the couple, who relocated to Los Angeles when they stepped down from senior royal duties, have been staying in the Tuscan-style villa that is worth £14.7m ($18m). Along with eight bedrooms and 12 bathrooms, a glimpse inside the lavish abode provided by the film studio owner's Instagram page reveals that Harry and Meghan could be enjoying such features like a sunken bath, a separate chapel, a nursery and the sweeping views of the LA skyline. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK's daily newsletter. You can sign up at the top of the page. Tyler's property sits within a 22-acre plot of land in the ultra-exclusive Beverly Ridge Estates guard-gated community. And scrolling back through the 50-year-old's feed reveals an incredible insight into the sprawling home that Meghan, 38, and Harry, 35, may possibly have been staying during the coronavirus lockdown. Back in 2016 when celebrating his son Aman's christening, Tyler welcomed famous faces including his pal Oprah who is his son's godmother, to his specially built chapel. Meghan Markle's dazzling wedding day jewellery and how she may not be able to borrow from the Queen again The ceremony took place inside the building which sits within the 22 acres of his property and is a replica of a church his mother attended as a child. As well as that, there's an enormous pool which has stunning views of the city and surrounding hills. There's also plenty of space to host a soiree with restaurant style seating and umbrellas to protect guests from the LA sunshine. In another snap of the view, Tyler shared a picture from a terrace area he calls the "back deck" in 2013 of storm clouds gathered above. In the same year, the film studio owner also proved he had taste when it came to bathing in style, as he took a dip in a sunken bath. Situated in the middle of one of the 12 bathrooms the circular basin sits in the middle with a huge chandelier hanging above. There's also a nursery elsewhere in the property, that could be perfect as Archie's room, as it was once set up for Tyler's now 5-year-old son Aman who he shares with wife Gelila Bekele. Tyler proudly posted about his back garden which was overflowing with flowers and greenery, overlooking LA. And there's more than space to take his dogs on a long walk without ever leaving the property, which proves perfect for Meghan who has her two pet pooches. Download OK! magazine's FREE app and get all the latest gossip straight to your phone Get celebrity exclusives, at home tours, fashion and beauty news and clever cleaning hacks straight to your inbox! Despite being in lockdown there would be plenty of space to hold a party, as Tyler proved when he invited several of his famous friends round to celebrate his 45th birthday – and had Stevie Wonder play at his piano in his living room. Meanwhile the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have the option of several cosy nooks in Tyler's property, including a spacious room where the Diary Of A Mad Black Woman star puts up his Christmas tree. There's the huge kitchen with a centre island that would be the ideal spot for Meghan and Harry to whip up some family dinners. Especially as it goes largely unused by Tyler, who confessed he needed some cooking lessons when it came to making Thanksgiving dinner. And when Meghan and Harry are making phone calls as part of their remaining duties to raise spirits during the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a study for them which boasts incredible mahogany furniture and comfy leather chairs. Although Harry and Meghan have never been seen with Tyler and they have not confirmed they are living there, they are thought to have connected with him through their mutual friend Oprah Winfrey. A source said: "Meghan and Harry have been extremely cautious to keep their base in LA under wraps. Their team helped them choose the location for their transition to Los Angeles wisely. "Beverly Ridge has its own guarded gate and Tyler's property has a gate of its own which is watched by their security team. It is an excellent place to keep out of view. The neighbours are mostly old money and mega rich business types rather than show business gossips. "It goes without saying that the location is stunning – just one of the most beautiful and desirable areas in LA," the insider continued to tell Daily Mail TV. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been secretly volunteering at L.A. based charity Project Angel Food. Here’s how they’re helping the city’s most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, April 15, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out to deliver meals — and a smile — to some Los Angeles residents living with critical illnesses. But it wasn’t the first time they’ve volunteered at Project Angel Food, a non-profit charity that cooks, prepares and delivers meals to people in need. “The Duke and Duchess wanted to be of service on Easter, and they decided to volunteer at Project Angel Food and give our drivers a break that day,” Richard Ayoub, Project Angel Food’s executive director, told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “They loved the experience so much that they came back on Wednesday, and did more deliveries.” “I think their whole goal was to be of service,” Richard explained to HL. “That was their main goal, their secondary goal was to relieve our drivers of some of their workload, because our drivers delivered to 50 to 60, people a day. Ant their third goal was to hopefully give someone a smile.” Richard, who was there to give Meghan and Harry the tour, called the couple “totally down to earth” and told HL that it was all a big surprise. “It was very surprising and really pretty spectacular that this is the first organization, not only in L.A., but in the United States, that they wanted to work with, and that happened to be Project Angel Food.” “I greeted them on Easter Sunday. It’s the best Easter Sunday I’ve ever had. And I gave them a tour of the kitchen. And they talked to our chefs. And they were very, very highly engaged. They asked questions, they asked about the meal production, about the medically tailored meals, about how many we do a week, who are the clients, and what are they going through. And then they talked to chefs and asked the chefs how long they had worked with us. They were really spectacular.” “One of the first questions I asked them, before we went into the kitchen, was how would you like to be referred to as Duke and Duchess? And they immediately interrupted me and said no, as Harry and Meghan.” Not only were they interested in learning all about the charity, they were also very hands on. “They drove in their own vehicle,” Richard told HL. “They took our food, a week’s worth of food delivered to each client. And they also took non perishable food, because we’re delivering it to every client, just in case of emergency and we can’t get to them, that they have food.” “I think that Meghan wants to show Harry L.A. through the eyes of philanthropy and through the eyes of Project Angel Food. They really are concerned about vulnerable people. You know, especially with COVID. Our clients are the ones who are most prone to get the virus. And if they get it. They may die because most are over the age of 60, and they have heart disease, lung disease, diabetes. And Meghan and Harry, they were really interested in meeting the clients and talking to them and seeing how they were doing.” Although Meghan was already familiar with Project Angel Food, Richard told HL that it was her mother, Doria Ragland, that suggested they help out at the highly respected charity. “Meghan says that because she lived in L.A. she knew about Project Angel Food. And they wanted to do something to volunteer on Easter, and she was talking to her mother and her mother said Project Angel Food needs help.” Richard told HL that helping out during COVID-19 is a big concern for the couple. “They really care about people and about making the world a better place. And COVID is going on, and so, I think they thought Project Angel Food takes care of these people, let’s go see some of them. And they were really impressed with the gratitude that they received on behalf of Project Angel Food, people were just gushing about how this service is so important to them right now. “When they came to see us they didn’t take any pictures or do anything for publicity. I think they just did it because those are the kinds of people they are, that’s what they do. Harry’s whole life has been service and that’s just who they are.” Although Meghan and Harry didn’t bring their 11-month-old son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor, along for their volunteering, as soon as they were done they back to playing with there beloved baby. “After Easter they called me and said well we did all our deliveries and we’re gonna go play with Archie now,” Richard told HL. Since it’s inception in 1989, Project Angel Food as served over 12 million meals to more than 20,000 people. But with COVID-19 the need is even greater. “Right now we’re feeding 1,600 people a day but we are going to be adding 400 more people this month,” Richard told HL, “so we’re really in need of donations right now.” This website uses cookies to improve your user experience and to provide you with advertisements that are relevant to your interests. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.Ok

The Alameda County Historical Society was founded in 1965 "to foster and encourage interest in the history of Alameda County; to publish and to aid in the publication of materials designed to preserve historical data and to increase the general knowledge of the history of the county; to provide opportunities for sociability among members of the Society; and to encourage coordination and cooperation with other history organizations." ACHS is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3), a tax-exempt, non-profit organization. Hosting quarterly dinners with guest speakers on aspects of Alameda County history. Field trips to historically significant sites and communities in Alameda County, such as Mission San Jose, the USS Potomac, and Ardenwood Farm. Producing keepsake publications that are made available free to ACHS members. Keepsake booklets have included The Chinese Laborers of Lake Chabot and The Peraltas and Their Houses. Placing plaques at important Alameda County historic sites. ACHS plaques have been installed at several locations, including the Peralta houses in Oakland and San Leandro and at the Alameda County Courthouse. Assisting in the preservation of the Joaquin Miller Abbey, a National Historic Landmark located in the Oakland Hills. The Historical Society does not currently maintain a research library or archives. Any questions concerning original research should be directed to other, collecting institutions within Alameda County such as the Oakland History Room at the Oakland Public Library or the Berkeley Historical Society. Likewise, if you want to donate historical documents, photographs, or artifacts to an institution, your local historical society or museum can help you identify an appropriate repository for your donation.

WiFi Headache New research has refuted ideas that individuals who grew up with cats are at larger risk of psychological illness. Study why preservatives and additives in food like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are bad on your health as well as find out how to avoid it in your weight loss program. Our section on mental health has info on where to go for help and support, and what you can do to take care of good psychological health. Topics introduced include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care. All adults aged forty-74 should be supplied an NHS Health Test every 5 years, which incorporates an assessment of your diabetes threat. America lives in a continuing Yellow Alert standing or worse, while different nations in the world undergo day by day assaults from terrorists. Schooling is a superb device for managing and even preventing illness and damage by serving to the affected person and family perceive the risk elements of community health points and the right way to cut back them. The CDC estimates that 25 p.c of people ages sixty five and older reside with diabetes, a major senior health risk. In the event of excess mucous buildup there are two elements that must be taken care of and rapidly: Your current health state of affairs needs to be gotten underneath management, and it needs to be discovered why things went so drastically improper, so that a distinct set of preventative measures will be put in place to cease it from occurring again. Once this has been established the abuser can then use the strong evidence of an official analysis and prescribed treatment to prove that they were telling the reality about their sufferer all alongside, when if truth be told they are clearly the one who has psychological health issues and probably wants medicine or professional help. This text appears to be like at some global features of health issues, such as the affect of poverty and inequality, the nature of patent rules on the WTO, pharmaceutical company interests, in addition to some global health initiatives and the changing nature of the global health issues being faced.

Jimmy Joe has been driving a school bus, and creating music with the kids to make the ride fun and entertaining, since 1998. His wife Chrissie wrote her very first songs when her son Kieran was born and continues to write children's songs, even though Kieran is now a grumpy teen-ager. For over seven years they dreamed of making a children's CD together. The recording became a reality in 2016 after a successful crowdsourcing campaign. They are thrilled to be sharing these songs with the world, to the delight of children (and adults) everywhere.

Have you ever received an invitation from your friends to play Candy Crush or Candy Crush Saga? Candy Crush is a “puzzle adventure” where you “switch and match your way through hundreds of levels.” (king.com) I have and still get invitations to play this game. At first I tried to be annoyed, as tradition expects, but I couldn’t be for long because these requests came from my very good friends and family. I also realized that I do much the same thing. I may not have shared Candy Crush or similar games, but I have shared other things that I’ve enjoyed and valued — often urging others to take a look and try them out. Such as, for example, books. Besides that, I was curious. Not about Candy Crush itself, but about whether I could play a different game; one that wasn’t about taking a break or switching off from everyday chores (as I do when reading fiction or playing board games, and on a rare occasion some simple online ones), but could I have as much fun (or perhaps even more) as people do playing games, with the various projects I wanted to pursue? Yes, I was contemplating gamification — even before I knew what it meant. Sometime later I discovered that when you gamify your life you extract “the fun and addicting elements found in games” (Yu-kai Chou). That was exactly what I wanted! I wanted to make progress with activities I was passionate about, and make time for them. We all allow ourselves a bit of time to play, don’t we? So why not combine the projects I was excited about with the fun elements of a game? Could I play at “writing a book?" At the same time, I wondered if I could make the tasks I thought I didn’t enjoy but had to do (like applying for a new passport or cleaning and tidying our house), if not enjoyable, then at least a little bit fun by gamifying them. It’s now been more than two years since I started a continuous gamification of my life. I’ve learned a lot along the way, including the fact that in addition to gamification there are other essential skills and approaches that can help make life, and what it brings along the way, fun and doable. These discoveries, and the reactions of people to the experiences I’ve shared with them, have motivated me to write a book, and to follow a friend’s advice to turn it into a crowd-funding project. Why this project is unique: This book is not about gamifying just one activity and bringing elements of games into parts of our lives. It is about bringing game design, and the fun connected with it, to all areas of our lives, as well as gamifying project, time, and life-management. The book will also have an emphasis on game design. By understanding how games and gamification frameworks function, you will be able to create your own, or use and combine the models of others to create multiple fun project designs of your own. As a byproduct it will help you take your attention off what you want to avoid, or don’t like, and instead focus on what you want to achieve. And to do so in a continuously gameful manner. How it is different to other books on gamification: There are many brilliant books on gamification, some of them written by scholars and gamification pioneers. This book does not compete with them. This book will complement them. It will add to the existing literature because gamification is not considered on its own here — it is supported by two other vital approaches, which result in the following skills when applied: the ability to be here, to live in the moment, and the ability to identify the next smallest step to be taken, which is an integral part of kaizen, “a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiency, etc.” (oxforddictionaries.com) By combining living in the moment, kaizen, and gamification to manage your projects — and your life — this book will be the first of its kind, enabling you to turn any activity into a fun, effortless, and successful game. And there is another difference: I am not a gamer. That is, I rarely play games. I play board games from time to time with my family, and of all the online games, I only play Minesweeper, and even that less than a handful of times a year. The most popular books on gamification are written by gamers who are also game designers, often of video games. I am neither a gamer nor a game designer. I last played a video game probably twenty years ago, and I don’t feel compelled to play one anytime soon. I would play if someone invited me, but only to enjoy their company, rather than from a keenness to play games. And even upon the repeated requests mentioned above, I’ve never wanted to play Candy Crush, although I do enjoy its bright colors and cheerful design, occasionally stopping to watch my son playing it. So this book also has a unique perspective. It is written by someone with no great passion for games themselves, but who is keen to play games and have fun with everything else there is to do: both things to get excited about, and those one might find tedious. How you can help me shape my book: The book will show how various activities can be gamified and my lessons learned from them. So far, the notes I’ve made and articles I’ve written have concentrated on the projects from my gamified life as a writer, consultant, business owner, mother, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. So far I’ve addressed and plan to address writing, dealing with edits and feedback from someone else, self-editing, editing and revising someone else’s work, household, attending to family matters, structuring and managing a project, learning languages, helping a child gamify and complete his homework assignment, and more. You as a reader can help me by identifying other topics to address, providing more ideas for gamification using the approach shown in the book (which in the spirit of Candy Crush I’ve started to think of as “Project Crush”). About the author: Victoria Ichizli-Bartels is a writer and specialist in business development, information technology, semiconductor physics, and electronic engineering. She is the founder of Optimist Writer, a writing, publishing and consulting business. She grew up in Moldova, lived in Germany for twelve years, and now lives in Aalborg, Denmark, with her husband and two children. Since 2015 Victoria has published an array of books, both fiction and non-fiction. Before that she authored a Ph.D. thesis and many other scientific and technical publications. Victoria published her first book on gamification in 2016 (even before she’d heard of the concept), entitled 5 Minute Perseverance Game: Play Daily for a Month and Become the Ultimate Procrastination Breaker. The book was judged “outstanding" in all categories and received a remarkable review in the 25th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, 2017.

John Ruppert's striking composite photos of Icelandic terrain on display at Grimaldis Gallery C. Grimaldis Gallery C. Grimaldis Gallery Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun For most of John Ruppert's career, metal sculpture has been a major focus, but he has added photography to his pursuits lately. Some of the results can be sampled and savored in an exhibit at C. Grimaldis Gallery titled "The Iceland Project." The Massachusetts-born artist, who has a studio in Druid Hill, was one of the first winners of the $25,000 Baker Prize in 2009. He has been a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1987 and chair of its art department for the past 15 years. Ruppert spent a month in Iceland and took a large number of shots that he subsequently fused to create "multiple image composites" of the stark, often sculptural terrain. The manipulative process is evident not just in the strangely colored skies, but also in subtle nuances that reveal themselves on closer inspection. In a few of the works, the presence of human culture can be barely detected — a low fence winding through a desolate hilltop, for example, in "Laki Ridge," a work that jolts with its avocado green sky. Another such jolt is delivered by "Black Lake, Orange Sky/Kleifarvatn." This 40-by-40-inch print is 95 percent sky; at the bottom of the print, the placid lake creates a striking horizon line. Ruppert has spoken of choosing "turbulent" hues for the skies as a way to suggest how things might have looked when Iceland was formed. And since that North Atlantic country remains very much geologically alive, the vibrancy in such photos becomes all the more telling. Even in pieces without surprising celestial hues, there are unusual elements to be found. A horizontal view of a sea wall takes on the quality of a bold abstract canvas, with rock edges where brusque brush strokes would be. A vertical image of a waterfall is separated into sections, like a splice of movie film, and seems to roll like one, too. One of the most impressive works, "Hekla," is a long panoramic view (20x1091/2 inches) that captures Iceland's most active volcano in the distance with rolling, lunar-like hills in the foreground. A bank of white clouds hovers around the peak, complementing the blankets of snow running along the mountainside. But not everything in the sky seems naturally cumulus. It looks as if bits of snow have peeled off the earth and floated up to meet the clouds. Another compelling composite, "Inside Crater/Laki," is a landscape in rich colors and shades. There's a painterly aspect to this — think late-Monet — right down to the bits of blurring where different photos have been gently meshed. Ruppert's methods can be more upfront. In "Glacier Crevasse/Svinafellsjokull," the beautifully composed image of weather-beaten snowpacks and bits of earth suddenly gains an extra edge when you spot the serrated side of a photo used to create one side of a hill. The digital manipulation in these works does not make them less real, but, in a way, more personal. You sense an artist trying to encompass not just everything he saw in this wildly interesting place, but everything he felt, everything he wanted to grasp. A few of the pieces that were in the exhibit when it opened are in Florida with the Grimaldis booth at the Art Miami fair, but are due back next week. Even without them, "The Iceland Project" provides an absorbing journey.

Translations Muhsin Khan Pickthall Yusuf Ali Quran Project Do you not see [i.e., know] that to Allāh prostrates whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth and the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the moving creatures and many of the people? But upon many the punishment has been justified. And he whom Allāh humiliates – for him there is no bestower of honour. Indeed, Allāh does what He wills. Muhsin Khan See you not that to Allah prostrates whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the mountains, and the trees, and Ad-Dawab (moving living creatures, beasts, etc.), and many of mankind? But there are many (men) on whom the punishment is justified. And whomsoever Allah disgraces, none can honour him. Verily! Allah does what He wills. Pickthall Hast thou not seen that unto Allah payeth adoration whosoever is in the heavens and whosoever is in the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the hills, and the trees, and the beasts, and many of mankind, while there are many unto whom the doom is justly due. He whom Allah scorneth, there is none to give him honour. Lo! Allah doeth what He will. Yusuf Ali Seest thou not that to Allah bow down in worship all things that are in the heavens and on earth,- the sun, the moon, the stars; the hills, the trees, the animals; and a great number among mankind? But a great number are (also) such as are fit for Punishment: and such as Allah shall disgrace,- None can raise to honour: for Allah carries out all that He wills. 1. Lessons/Guidance/Reflections/Gems When we reflect on this verse we find countless creatures, some of which we know and some we do not; and we glance at an infinite number of worlds, many of which we do not begin to know; as also an endless variety of mountains, trees and beasts that live on earth, man’s abode. All these, without exception, join a single procession that prostrates itself in humble submission to God, addressing its worship, in perfect harmony, to Him alone. And out of all these creatures, man alone has a special case, as people diverge: “a great number of human beings [bow down in worship], but a great number also will inevitably have to suffer punishment,” because of their rejection of the truth. Thus, man stands out on his own, unique in that great, harmonious procession. The verse concludes with a statement making clear that whoever deserves punishment will inevitably be humbled and disgraced: “He whom God shall disgrace will have none who could bestow honour on him.” How could such a person be honoured when all honour and respect are granted by God. In other words, anyone who submits to any being other than God Almighty, to whom the entire universe willingly submits, will be disgraced. 6. Frequency of the word 7. Period of Revelation As this Surah contains the characteristics of both the Makkan and the MadÄ«nan Surahs the commentators have differed as to its period of revelation but in the light of its style and themes we are of the opinion that a part of it (v. 1-24) was sent down in the last stage of the Makkan life of the Prophet a little before migration and the rest (v. 25-78) during the first stage of his Madinah life. That is why this Surah combines the characteristics of both the Makkan and the Madinah Surahs. According to Ibn Abbas, Mujahid, Qatadah and other great commentators, v. 39 is the first verse that grants the Muslims permission to wage war. Collections of hadith and books on the life of the Prophet confirm that after this permission actual preparations for war were started and the first expedition was sent to the coast of the Red Sea in Safar 2 A.H. which is known as the Expedition of Waddan or Al-Abwa.

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One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War. For me, the really fascinating questions about black slave-owning are how many black “masters” were involved, how many slaves did they own and why did they own slaves? The answers to these questions are complex, and historians have been arguing for some time over whether free blacks purchased family members as slaves in order to protect them—motivated, on the one hand, by benevolence and philanthropy, as historian Carter G. Woodson put it, or whether, on the other hand, they purchased other black people “as an act of exploitation,” primarily to exploit their free labor for profit, just as white slave owners did. The evidence shows that, unfortunately, both things are true. {snip} In a fascinating essay reviewing this controversy, R. Halliburton shows that free black people have owned slaves “in each of the thirteen original states and later in every state that countenanced slavery,” at least since Anthony Johnson and his wife Mary went to court in Virginia in 1654 to obtain the services of their indentured servant, a black man, John Castor, for life. And for a time, free black people could even “own” the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler “regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade,” Halliburton wrote. Perhaps the most insidious or desperate attempt to defend the right of black people to own slaves was the statement made on the eve of the Civil War by a group of free people of color in New Orleans, offering their services to the Confederacy, in part because they were fearful for their own enslavement: “The free colored population [native] of Louisiana … own slaves, and they are dearly attached to their native land … and they are ready to shed their blood for her defense. They have no sympathy for abolitionism; no love for the North, but they have plenty for Louisiana … They will fight for her in 1861 as they fought [to defend New Orleans from the British] in 1814-1815.” These guys were, to put it bluntly, opportunists par excellence: As Noah Andre Trudeau and James G. Hollandsworth Jr. explain, once the war broke out, some of these same black men formed 14 companies of a militia composed of 440 men and were organized by the governor in May 1861 into “the Native Guards, Louisiana,” swearing to fight to defend the Confederacy. Although given no combat role, the Guards—reaching a peak of 1,000 volunteers—became the first Civil War unit to appoint black officers. When New Orleans fell in late April 1862 to the Union, about 10 percent of these men, not missing a beat, now formed the Native Guard/Corps d’Afrique to defend the Union. {snip} {snip} So what do the actual numbers of black slave owners and their slaves tell us? In 1830, the year most carefully studied by Carter G. Woodson, about 13.7 percent (319,599) of the black population was free. Of these, 3,776 free Negroes owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States, so the numbers of slaves owned by black people over all was quite small by comparison with the number owned by white people. {snip} {snip} So why did these free black people own these slaves? It is reasonable to assume that the 42 percent of the free black slave owners who owned just one slave probably owned a family member to protect that person, as did many of the other black slave owners who owned only slightly larger numbers of slaves. {snip} {sni} {snip} Halliburton concludes, after examining the evidence, that “it would be a serious mistake to automatically assume that free blacks owned their spouse or children only for benevolent purposes.” {snip} In other words, most black slave owners probably owned family members to protect them, but far too many turned to slavery to exploit the labor of other black people for profit. {snip} If we were compiling a “Rogues Gallery of Black History,” the following free black slaveholders would be in it: John Carruthers Stanly—born a slave in Craven County, N.C., the son of an Igbo mother and her master, John Wright Stanly—became an extraordinarily successful barber and speculator in real estate in New Bern. As Loren Schweninger points out in Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915, by the early 1820s, Stanly owned three plantations and 163 slaves, and even hired three white overseers to manage his property! He fathered six children with a slave woman named Kitty, and he eventually freed them. Stanly lost his estate when a loan for $14,962 he had co-signed with his white half brother, John, came due. After his brother’s stroke, the loan was Stanly’s sole responsibility, and he was unable to pay it. {snip} Antoine Dubuclet and his wife Claire Pollard owned more than 70 slaves in Iberville Parish when they married. According to Thomas Clarkin, by 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, they owned 100 slaves, worth $94,700. During Reconstruction, he became the state’s first black treasurer, serving between 1868 and 1878. Andrew Durnford was a sugar planter and a physician who owned the St. Rosalie plantation, 33 miles south of New Orleans. In the late 1820s, David O. Whitten tells us, he paid $7,000 for seven male slaves, five females and two children. He traveled all the way to Virginia in the 1830s and purchased 24 more. Eventually, he would own 77 slaves. When a fellow Creole slave owner liberated 85 of his slaves and shipped them off to Liberia, Durnford commented that he couldn’t do that, because “self interest is too strongly rooted in the bosom of all that breathes the American atmosphere.” {snip} Most of us will find the news that some black people bought and sold other black people for profit quite distressing, as well we should. But given the long history of class divisions in the black community, which Martin R. Delany as early as the 1850s described as “a nation within a nation,” and given the role of African elites in the long history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, perhaps we should not be surprised that we can find examples throughout black history of just about every sort of human behavior, from the most noble to the most heinous, that we find in any other people’s history. The good news, scholars agree, is that by 1860 the number of free blacks owning slaves had markedly decreased from 1830. In fact, Loren Schweninger concludes that by the eve of the Civil War, “the phenomenon of free blacks owning slaves had nearly disappeared” in the Upper South, even if it had not in places such as Louisiana in the Lower South. {snip} Share This We welcome comments that add information or perspective, and we encourage polite debate. If you log in with a social media account, your comment should appear immediately. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you may comment as a guest, using a name and an e-mail address of convenience. Your comment will be moderated. Owning a black slave is useless. It took three of them to do the work of one person. The biggest mistake in world history: bringing Africans to the western hempishere. AutomaticSlim Agreed. And we’ve been paying for that mistake it ever since. Like an albatross around our necks. Jedi Mind Tricks And to think the only thing they’d know is the jungle if the White man, and the Arab never took them out of it. YngveKlezmer Exactly. Cannibalism is practiced to this very day in the Congo. We will never take the jungle out of them. As Jared Taylor so candidly observed after Hurricane Katrina, the jungle returns very quickly in our absence. Participated would be a better word. Where there is money to be made, you will find them. Formerly_Known_as_Whiteplight Uh no; some Jews took part, naturally, as they were the most involved ethnic group in merchandizing in Western Europe since Roman times. They sure taught the Dutch how to do it, and it was the Dutch that brought the first slaves to the American Colonies when New York was still New Amsterdam. The Dutch were the first and first most successful non-Jewish international traders, founding and settling South Africa because it was on their route to India and points East. But the funniest thing about this article is the idea that we ought to be surprised that blacks sold blacks. Whites have sold whites, Chinese sold Chinese, etc. This idea of projecting PC attitude retrospectively is about as nonobjective and unscholarly possible. MarkLuger I have a list of 15 slave ships owned by Jews. I also have a dvd of Professor Tony Martin explaining how Dutch jews ran the slave trade. Before they got involved with black slaves; jews kidnapped white girls from Europe and sold them to the Middle East. What is the obsession with black slaves? The slaves lived longer than the orphans yanks placed in coal mines and textile mills until 1900; and the slaves were better off than people in Africa are right now. Thanks for the email; have you seen David duke’s website? How about http://www.theneworder.org Katherine McChesney According to my brother-in-law from Holland, the Dutch originated the black slave trade. MarkLuger According to professor Tony Martin from Boston college Dutch Jews ran the black slave trade. Did you know there are over 300,000 girls used as sex slaves in America right now. The sex slave industry starts in Hollywood and Las Vegas and operates in the biggest cities in Amercia. I have alist of 15 slave ships owned by jews, would you like to see it? Formerly_Known_as_Whiteplight I have a list of even more white Europeans who not only had slave ships, but in earlier days sold other white Europeans to North Africans; it’s called “well known history,” opposed to your cadre of David Duke’s mythologizing obsession with Jews and Israel. MarkLuger David Duke did not bankrupt this nation; DD did not run Hollywood for the last 50 years like your heroes the smoes; Adolf Hitler did more for this world than all the smoes in the last 2000 combined. Daisy You have an obsession with mythologizing jews and Israel. HamletsGhost Dutch Jews. Formerly_Known_as_Whiteplight I have Dutch friends, too. They said the Jews were only financiers at first because only Jews had the money because Christians were forbidden to handle money early on and the Jews had always been traders. These David Duke guys manufacture phoney data without missing a beat. I have several books on the history of slave trade that tell the story, quite different from David Duke and his minions. HamletsGhost I’m not a minion of David Duke, but if he speaks the truth, you should pay more attention to him than to your Dutch friends. Is it phoney to note that the first synagogue in the United States was founded not in New York, but in Newport, R.I., a major port for the trianglular slave-sugar-rum trade? The fact that so many people reflexively jump to the Jews’ defense even without hearing the charge evokes the same reactions of people who vehemently insist that Jews don’t control Hollywood, although spending 5 minutes watching the credits roll after every flick should make that question a no-brainer. In the 90s, a British journalist by the name of Cash noted exactly that, and the flurry of threats disguised as criticism wrought an apology and an admission from him that yes, the Emperor’s new clothes are indeed magnificent. Le Gaulois You’re absolutely correct and Duke’s data is actually well documented and backed up by Jewish sources in most cases. Incidentally, he has easily exposed the well known FACT that the Jews indeed control Hollywood by simply quoting Joel Stein who bragged all about it in his L.A Times column: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, guess what ? Daisy Try reading An Empire of Their Own; How the Jews Invented Hollywood if you’re interested in the history of it. A Gentile While there are Jews involved, they are NOT at the top of the pyramid, so to speak. Jews back in Jesus’ time said “We have no king but Caesar.” Today it’s “we have no king but the pope.” Seriously. The Vatican has long had a policy of anti-Semitism (even HITLER admitted this). Jews are just a front. Sadly so many are willing to sell out. Why do you think the Rothschilds are known as the pope’s bankers? What better way to stir up fury against the Jews (thus setting the stage for the Great Tribulation, known as JACOB’S Trouble) than to make them your scapegoats? HamletsGhost Seriously? What Jews proclaim they have “no king but the pope”. Can you even name one? Seriously you need to put away the Jeeboo juice. Seriously. saxonsun Ah, and it’s also the other way around: Many condemn the Jews because they hate them for being Jews. HamletsGhost Spoken like a true gliberal. I suppose you condemn blacks because you hate them for being black. Daisy The jews, the Lobby, and their minions manufacture phoney data without missing a beat. Neither side of the conflict you’re commenting on is innocent of this. “According to my brother-in-law from Holland, the Dutch originated the black slave trade.” If that verifiable or is that just the prevailing white self-hatred confession taught in the schools there from early childhood? saxonsun The first slave ship to come here was a Dutch slaver in 1619; that’s been my understanding. Dyrewulf That is not true. The blacks in Africa that captured and sold other blacks were muslims. josh Dont forget the jews YngveKlezmer The lyrics of the song “Jet to Jet”, by the 80’s metal band Alcatrazz, express it best: “Black man’s burden is well on his shoulders, keeps him well in his place. 200 pounds worth of N*&^*r weight, it smacks him in the face. There’s no way he should stand for this”–Graham Bonnett, an Englishman, was the lyricist, telling the truth about Black-White race relations in this great song. We have been laboring under the burden of their laziness, ineptitude, and sociopathy for far too long, and we Whites are the ones bearing an albatross. guest We could fix this mistake if we ever make up our minds to do it. MikeS More like a shock collar on each of our necks that is activated by a button issued by the NAACP to all blacks upon birth. StillModerated Africans: the cement overshoes of civilization. fakeemail Again, the cheap labor. saxonsun Cheap labor? They don’t work that much. MBlanc46 The work of Robert Fogel at least puts your claim in serious doubt. Sherman_McCoy “Time on the Cross” was an interesting book, though I don’t see why if it’s claims that blacks were as valuable chattel relatively well treated and worked less than did Northern industrial workers are violently objected to, should be seen as more believable than his widely accepted claim of black productivity. In any case, it appears that blacks WERE obviously more useful as slaves than they are as welfare parasites and murderous, rapacious thugs. josh A Univ of Chicago economist,with a Nobel in his pants, GaryBecker,claims that the back slaves ate a better diet than the white immigrants up North.The slaves were well treated. The Latin American slaves,OTOH,OY VEY!!!!! MBlanc46 Also, “Without Consent or Contract”, c. 1990, which is a smoother read than “TotC”. YngveKlezmer Biggest mistake indeed. Slackin’ is what they do best. Our type of work ethic is just not in their temperament. Even the well educated ones have the same desire to slack off as much as possible. Take a White supervisor out of the equation, especially, and next to nothing is accomplished, regardless of the task at hand. LastBastionOfHope I always wonder what the reaction of our forefathers would be if they could see that blacks now hold whites hostage in their own country. They would probably be absolutely shocked and reinstate slavery. josh As everyone here knows by now,slaves were often easily procured by offering payment in desired goods to the African chiefs,who would gladly sell off their own subjects. I think something similar is happening RIGHT NOW. I call it The Grand Bargain. Its simple. The black leadership knows immigration is a disaster fior blacks.Yet they happily-even slavishly,heh heh– go along. Obama is crazy for immigration. He knows damn well that a huge segment of the black populace is literally finished. their is no place for them. NONE. They will live in EBT depravity forever,devolving into a nation of Shitaviouses. Yet blacks go along and say NOTHING,as long as they get theirs. saxonsun This is why we keep black males in prison as long as possible. Can you imagine the nightmare if they were on our streets? refocus Was it not the King of England and those support that institution who forced the slaves into the new world? Did the Founders; Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, try to get rid of slavery but could not as the monied interests would not support manumission and repatriation along with the revolution? Northerner Whether or not that’s actually true, the more important part to slave owners was that they didn’t have to pay them. slaves were never needed That is exactly why African slavery was such a major misguided mistake from the gitgo in the newly opened western hemisphere and total economic insanity not to mention the massive costs and upkeep that bankrupted 50% of large plantations. Hired help paid wages and sharecropping was by far a more eco superior system. Obviously slavery was also a white labor force killer and a major reason non-elite whites lived in such rural poverty in the south as opposed to the north where industrialization jobs were plentiful It was a bad system and never needed. The major blame goes on the African tribal chiefs who not only cashed in off slavery to the west but killed 2 birds with one stones by cleansing their rejects and undesirables. saxonsun And no one speaks about the poor white problem in this country and how released slaves greatly contributed to it. jay11 You’ll NEVER see this information taught in a class on ‘Afro-American Studies’. MBlanc46 It’s in many of the standard works on slavery, e.g., Stampp and Genovese. The only people don’t know it are those who don’t look for it. panjoomby blacks must’ve been better behaved back then – b/c who on god’s green earth would want to own one today? yuck. YngveKlezmer I doubt it. On those farms where a White family only had several Blacks on hand as slaves, the same thing happened as happens now. When one, or just a few Blacks are amongst a large number of Whites, and we vastly outnumber them, the strength of our European culture positively influences them, and their behavior improves. It is like when you have one or two Blacks in a room with 10 Whites. Those Blacks start to act a lot more White because our culture is the dominant force. Remove 8 of those Whites, though, and replace them with 8 Blacks in the same room, and those Blacks that had acted so nicely around us beginning acting like the other Blacks, and Black culture prevails. The Whites end up leaving the room by choice, and primitve Black culture returns. Tom Iron Everything with them is an imitation. When, as you say, they’re acting right, it’s only because they’re outnumbered, not because of any in depth concept of proper behavior. Jss Well what makes blacks owning slaves less terrible then Whites owning slaves is blacks at least weren’t racist against there slaves. It’s like when blacks rape and murder Whites. It’s not as bad as what happened to Tanya Brawley and Traybon because at least when Blacks are killing and raping us it isn’t racist. pcmustgo Blacks always break out this apples and oranges argument when I mention islamic enslavement of blacks…. “Well, at least the muslims didn’t force them to lose their culture…” Really? Whatever, Jss, the point is don’t blame us all when 99% of us aren’t descended from slave owners. Maybe you could spend some time learning about different European cultures- Germans, French, Italians, Spaniards, Norwegians, Russians, Polish… We’re not just “white”. I won’t hold my breath JDInSanDiego The muslims castrated them. How’s that for preserving their culture? ladyL I don’t know what your race/ethnicity is, but as a Descendant of African American Slaves I say that this is not true. If anyone of a race commits a crime against someone of another race and their motives are based on that person being different it is racism. For a Black person to treat a White person ( or one that “appears” to be so) with ignorance and disrespect it is NO different when it is done to them. This a lie that is bought and sold and adds to “the white man owes me all he has and ever will have simply because my people were brought here on a ship, made to work 16 hour days in the hot sun for free, beaten and hung…….” This is not correct behavior. I nor my husband were raised to act this way and nor will my children. I apologize if you were treated badly by people of my race. Tom Iron Well, slavery had its day. But that day is long over. What would anyone want a black for a slave for nowadays? They can’t do any productive work in this society that exists today. They’re just here hanging out and carrying on until we finally get tired of putting up with their antics and finally get rid of them, one way or another. Luca Actually, slavery is alive and well in that wonderful continent of Africa. They like to tout that Africa is known as the birthplace of Man, but it seems it’s the birthplace of slavery too. They always forget to mention that. Nathanwartooth It’s also still useful there because they aren’t out of the stone age yet. The more advanced the civilization the less use they have for slaves. Katherine McChesney NOT out of Africa. Don’t fall for their story that ‘Yacov’ separated us from the blacks because we were ‘crazy’. This ‘Out of Africa’ lie/myth promotes all their believes that they are the superior race. Their grandiosity knows no bounds. TeutonicKnight67 …and the birthplace of AIDS. StillModerated And ebola virus. ultimate penal colony Africa was the birthplace of slavery not man but there are plenty of dead ape skulls that evolutionist atheists refer to as early first humans that is total BS unless they were from the original single human race who washed down there from Mesopotamia during the great flood 4500 yrs ago according to the ancient jew Book. Africa was nothing more than the original ultimate penal colony for wild animals and the wild Ham race similar to penal colonies in Australia where the worse criminals were dropped off permanently by the British Empire. Maybe they got the idea from the Torah. The US military uses Guantanamo Naval base in south Cuba as its proxy penal colony for muslim nutbags but needs to begin sending its own convicted urban criminal murdering thugs there to save billions who would quickly become meek lmice plus cure any fag activity or risk beheadment using sharp objects. If they thought bringing back the death penalty would help prevent capital crime in America they never tried Gitgo. Katherine McChesney I think blacks are just like children, immature, lazy by nature, like to play, demanding, attracted to junk, excitable, mean-spirited when they don’t get their way, manipulative, insecure…well, you get the picture. They’re stuck in a permanent childhood. Torshammar Yes. They lack control of their own emotions. They act on impulse. They are like children. And we keep paying for them. Let’s stop doing that permanently and live together as Whites. As one without the other. joegoofinoff Yes, I’m reading a book published in 1901 written by a black guy entitled, “The American Negro,” authors name, William Hannibal Thomas. If he lived today, he’d be right there with Mr. Taylor. His condemnation of black behavior is total. There was never a Klansman who ever said anything more harsh than this black man about black people. Also, he condemns to the high heavens those Whites (liberals of his time) who think they were helping blacks but in reality are hurting them worse than the worst racist. “From the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by free men comes cheaper in the end than the work performed by slaves. Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.” MBlanc46 That’s probably not the case when the work is cotton culture on the gang system. MBlanc46 Or sugar production in Louisiana. Nathanwartooth Why have slaves when you can import millions of non natives to drive down the labor costs? Oh the people here wont work for 2 dollars an hour? Time to offshore or import people. Luca A surprisingly honest piece from Prof Gates, who was most famously dishonest and wrong when dealing with the Cambridge police in 2009. Of course it became much more dishonest when the Idiot in Chief announced that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly”. In this piece Gates asserts that some blacks bought family members as an at of benevolence to free them and this is true; some did. But what would have been nice and a bit more balanced is if he also had stated that far more white abolishionists and religious organizations, did this and on a far greater scale. Most of the blacks who owned slaves, especially in Louisiana, were not altogether black per se but mulatto, quadroon or further miscegenated. African Americans are very conscious of skin tone and percentage of white blood and the lighter ones have frequently felt superior to their darker brethren. Turns out blacks are racist toward other (darker) blacks too. AutomaticSlim Not so sure I would refer to him as a professor. I wouldn’t give much credit to anyone whose field of “expertise” ends in the word “studies”. MBlanc46 His PhD is in English literature from Cambridge. AutomaticSlim Perhaps, but his wikipedia page states that he was a lecturer in “afro-american studies” at Yale and Duke prior to joining Harvard as a “professor of English”. And then if you scroll down to the books he has written, you will notice that none of them have anything to do with English Literature, but rather are the typical black-studies kind of garbage you would expect from a guy like this. Books with titles such as “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man”. Katherine McChesney and he probably promotes Afrocentrism. MBlanc46 His earlier books were lit crit, focusing on Afro-American literature. He’s become something of a public figure and television celebrity and his more recent work has been directed at the more general audience. His PhD is a real one (his first book is basically his dissertation), he’s a real scholar, and not an Afro-Centrist. AutomaticSlim All of the titles I saw had something to do with blacks, in one way or another. He even had a book with the word “monkey” in the title. Is he an actual PhD, or like so many “Professors”, Black and White, “Ph.D. (cand)?” To me, the title “Professor” refers to a professor who does not have a doctorate. fred He be studyin’ dat ole willy shakespeare? To be oh not to be,dass da question!! Sherman_McCoy To be fair, he doesn’t look to be much more than a quarter black. though the victim mentality is obviously strong in him. Luca I had to deal with a fool like him at work who accused me of not dealing fairly with blacks. This guy looked Egyptian but had an English name, he must have been 1/16th black; he was probably Creole.. I told him I didn’t even know he was black. I guess I neglected to give him special treatment. You know that ol’ one drop rule, they’ll wear that race card out even if they can only claim 1/16th of it. torshammar I’ve experienced the same on numerous occasions. Let’s put an end to it. Luca He should have studied law. That Cambridge cop was right to call him outside and he was wrong to rant and rave. No one ever mentions this, but if a cop thinks someone broke into your home and you are the homeowner, you could have a perp hiding in the closet or somewhere else, so it’s wise to ask the homeowner to come outside while the cops search the home. Someone should have mentioned this to him and the Kenyan, but then it would have shattered the narrative the media was trying to portray. And I am still promulgating the theory that Gates planned this in advance because he wanted an incident with a cop. That’s because he wanted the publicity, as he was becoming yesterday’s news in the universe of black studies talking heads. He just never expected actually to be arrested. AutomaticSlim That’s a very reasonable theory given all the hoaxes these “black studies” types undertake on college campuses. Also reasonable considering that blacks have a world class reputation for engaging in cheap stunts and theater in order to get people to pay attention to them. Luca Al except Rev. Al Sharptongue, he is a true man of principle and morals. (gag) Daisy From the start I thought that it was intentional but I never considered ‘planned.’ I assumed the Obama presidency profoundly disconcerted africanistas; no longer could they exploit black victimology. Plus, it was so displacing in terms of attention, glory, power and so I sensed, given the timing particularly, intent to provoke. If he planned it, though, he would have needed to get arrested to actually make news. I don’t think he necessarily needed to be arrested, but he wanted and in fact needed to be accosted. From then, open trap, and there would come running the Boston media and soon after the national media. pcmustgo ditto in caribbean, mulatto elite YngveKlezmer Because they know that White genes mean better intellect and behavior, and this is why Black men who are climbing the socioeconomic ladder love to miscegenate with White women. We Whites should all be repulsed by this, as the White party involved in miscegenation is literally throwing their heritage in the garbage. The result will not only not be in the likeness of the White parent, but will surely have an inferior intellect to what would be possible with a racially pure White child. Even if the White parent is not the sharpest tool in the shed, the roll of the dice of genetics means that the odds are against the Mulatto having a stronger intellect. This is why miscegenation used to be against the law, and still should be. Nathanwartooth Well to be fair the subtext of the article was that many Blacks bought slaves to help people but Whites did not. You can’t hide the past but you can change how it is presented. Daisy Gates says it would be ‘fair to assume’ that 43% of the black slaveholders bought family members as that was the percentage of black owners having one or just a few slaves. I don’t know that asserting that all of that 43% were benevolent is justified; many whites owned just one or a couple slaves. “If you love someone, set them free.” If these black owners really loved their slaves they wouldn’t have ‘owned’ them but would have simply freed them. He also makes another sketchy conclusion, asserting that it was an act of progress that fewer blacks owned slaves over time, but it seems obvious this may have been due to whites increasingly refusing to sell to them as the Civil War loomed. sbuffalonative This article is why Mr. Gates is persona non-grata in the black community. Sometimes he tells the truth and blacks appreciate only the truths that fit their black-and-white agenda. In other words, most black slave owners probably owned family members to protect them, but far too many turned to slavery to exploit the labor of other black people for profit. So blacks exploited black labor for their own benefit. This isn’t shocking. What’s surprising is how blacks have managed to keep this quiet for this long. Blacks have been enslaving blacks for centuries. They’re still doing it today. In some black nations, it’s not even questioned. YngveKlezmer Mr. Gates is either lying, or expressing self-serving bias with this. I am inclined to believe that he is engaging in the former. Blacks do not have the same reverence for the truth that we do, and education does not change this in them. sbuffalonative When it comes to black history which places blacks an unfavorable light, blacks turn to the idea of ‘nuanced’ history. It works like this: While whites are evil incarnate, blacks can be forgiven and excused for their past sins because their are always reasons for their actions. Blacks are, by nature, good and kind people who have been forced to do bad things because ‘the (blue eyed) devil made them do it’. This is nothing more than Mr. Gates’ attempt to blunt an historical fact that portrays blacks in a bad light anarchyst “Nuanced” history also applies to those of the “tribe” that STILL make excuses for their “invention”–communism. They still state that communism is viable “if properly applied”. Communism eventually “turned” on its “inventors . . . StillModerated Whenever I talk philosophy with a “freed slave” I always get Marx and Engels. A clever black man is usually a college indoctrinated parrot. Pelagian This proves that slavery has/had nothing to do with racism? Next argument, please …. shawnmer What it “proves” is that it wasn’t an exclusively white sin, even here at ground zero for supposed white evil, pre-Civil War America. You know, you’d almost think that, to your mind, the “racism” you want to morally preen over was a greater misdeed than the slavery itself. MBlanc46 “What it “proves” is that it wasn’t an exclusively white sin”. Well said. Jss You are taking a simplistic view of slavery. While black on black slavery was unfortunate it was less relevant in the historical context because only White on black slavery was racist and White racism is the only thing past or present that is wrong in the world. Do you think what happened to Shannon Newsom was as bad as what happened to Crystal whatever from the duke lacrosse case? If you do you are a racist, white supremacist, neo nazi Klansman. You see if you stop looking through the post neo colonial, social pan optical, social dialectic of patriarchal economic matrix’s you will see that anytime blacks do something wrong its just a construct of White oppression. So in the name of racial justice and healing we racist Whites need to pay all blacks on the planet reparations for black on black slavery. I swear hear in Brooklyn, we attract a lot of these sociologist types who move into black neighborhoods and then whine about other whites moving in and gentrifying them. Many whites have a “Dancing with Wolves”, “I’m here to Rescue the Blacks/Oppressed Non-White People martyr complex”. YngveKlezmer If we pay them back for slavery, than we are paying them back for former injustices committed. If we pay them back for injustices, the right and just thing would be for them to pay us back for the injustices committed against us. This would mean that they owe millions of us for having worked harder than we need to at our jobs while Black co-workers slack off and are not punished due to their race, and they owe millions of us for bullying us just for being White in school, and for acting of savage violence committed against us just because we are White. A prime example is the present conditions in South Africa. Whites are the victims of a genocide campaign. Should not every BLack who has hurt a killed a White in that country be required to pay reparations to that WHite, or to their family?? libertarian 1234 These people live, breath, sleep and eat slavery and racism 24/7 to the exclusion, ALMOST, of everything else. And everything they do wrong, everything they fail in, every pathology within their group, is blamed on these two things…..perpetrated by whitey of course. They do as they do, because they’re basically arrogant and have a delusionally inflated image of themselves, so they need to blame their failures on something besides their own incompetence. The only other alternative they have is to admit they can’t cut it in a first world society, and they’re not about to admit that. Besides the perks they get from the radicals on the left and their status as privileged subjects of the empire are too good to give up. Notice that this Gates, or Farrakhan, or Jesse or Al, or Tavist Smiley, or Cornel West or Michael Dyson, et al, never mention that blacks in other societies outside of the US, whose ancestors were never slaves, don’t do any better than US blacks. I’m wondering what kind of excuses they would give in response to that? It would be interesting to hear, if for no other reason than to get a good laugh. These people live, breathe, sleep and eat slavery and racism 24/7 to the exclusion, ALMOST, of everything else. Me to NAACP executive: “Look at this. I have a time machine. I’m going to get into it, go back in time, and totally stop black slavery.” NAACP to me: “Noooooooo! Don’t do that! I’m making too good of a living!” As he takes a baseball bat to my flex capacitor. pcmustgo They’re also (dangerously) dumb enough to believe all their afro-centrist and left-wing fairy tales. Luis Even the Bantus playing professional sports and getting paid millions of dollars to do it, never lose that “slave” and ‘plantation” mentality. Never. Case in point: During the last NBA lockout, Commissioner David Stern was accused of acting like he was holding Bantus down on the plantation. Such simple people getting paid at the very least hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions, when there is absolutely nothing else that they could be doing which gives them a minimum salary which puts them clearly in the Top 1% of income earners (and usually more)…then the big bad commissioner locks them out…what else are they to think? Don’t expect their wee little brains to grok first world nuances about organized labor disputes. YngveKlezmer Actually, Blacks in their native Africa have a far worse standard of living than they do in our country. Even Blacks in Detroit or Gary are far better off than they would be in Africa. Gates, Tavis Smiley, Farrakhan, Obama, and all of the rest of the high profile Blacks who play these race games know this. They are race hustlers, and are willful in what they are doing. Their intent is to steal as much as they can from our European societies, Ross Kardon Muhammed Ali said this about American slavery “I’m glad my ancestors were on that boat!” KevinPhillipsBong “I’m wondering what kind of excuses they would give in response to that? It would be interesting to hear, if for no other reason than to get a good laugh.” I can tell you what they’d say. They’d say its because Africans cannot repay the billions in loans made to them by Western nations, therefore modern Africans are living in a sort of continental debtor’s prison. How can the poor starving sub-Saharans attain first world status when they start out so far in debt? In other words, they’d say its whitey’s fault. guest This info will never make it in the “revisioned” history books. Those who try to distort history aim to keep it anti-white, and they won’t want this info about black slave-owners come to light. They want us to be blind and deceived into believing what they want us to see as factual and to never question them. pcmustgo This is why I want CONTROL OF THE HISTORY BOOKS ARE CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT WITH as number one priority for Tea Party people and people concerned about the plight of Euro-Americans. This is the number one issue to seize on. We have millions of people being brainwashed to hate whites. AutomaticSlim I do not mind so much that they hate me. My problem is that way too many of my kind do not accept the reality of the situation. MBlanc46 I don’t know whether Stampp and Genovese count as “revisioned” but you’ll find it there. Paleoconn White countries were the first ones to abolish slavery. Only 2% of Whites owned slaves in the USA. Many Whites were indentured servants or slaves or serfs through history. See Jim Goad’s Redneck Manifesto and another book he references They Were White And They Were Slaves. The Cherokee also owned black slaves. Also, 95% of trans-Atlantic slave trade was not for the USA. And finally black slaves traders pleaded with England to not abolish slavery in the early 1800s. But keep believing what they teach in school that all Whites owned all the blacks as slaves, and no blacks were slave-owners and no Whites were slaves. eduard They were white and they were slaves – written by Michael Hoffman II, and well worth reading. pcmustgo That’s why I want our number cause and goal to be to create a movement to get textbook writers and teachers to embrace and teach what you just said. You forgot the 1,000 year muslim slave trade part though…And the african tribal slavers enslaving other tribes. And that it still exists there. Paleoconn Agreed, and the fact that slavery among these peoples go on to this very day, but do-gooder liberals like to moralize on White man’s past transgressions rather than focus on the evil present in the here and now. It is why we will continue to hear about how bad Apartheid was (even though millions of black Africans moved there under the Apartheid regime), but we won’t hear a peep about the shithole the country is degenerating to each day under bantu rule. Again, like I mentioned, attempting to save face after his anti-white, racist personal attack against that innocent white cop. The__Bobster Freed slaves had a great rate of slave ownership than did Whites. And the lead rabble rouser on the Amistad, Cinque, became a slave trader himself. Snowhitey And Henry Louis Gates has also admitted on “The Root” website that it was only 378,000 Africans that were brought to what is now the United States as slaves. Liberals refuse to believe this and state it was anywhere from several million to as many as 20 million over several centuries. I believe South America received more than North American, far more. You see, the figure 378,000, which turned into about 42,000,000 today, just doesn’t seem as horrific so they change it without any consequences. Our history is not distorted by the revisionists, it is completely and totally changed. pcmustgo Gates has been writing these articles almost as an apology to white folk after the gates-gate incident where he falsely accused a cop of racism. Throwing us a bone, atoning, at least to save public face. He wrote another great article a bit after that about how the myth blacks push about “africans not knowing how cruel the slave trade was to their fellow africans” as joke given that the children of African chiefs would ride aboard these ships to get an education in europe. And not in the cargo section, like the rest of the slaves. And they had to have seen the poor treatment. Gates does this as if to say, “I’m not a Black Racist after all!” But I guess whites have to be happy anytime Blacks “throw us a bone”. They’re never very fair minded to the rest of the time. MBlanc46 I don’t know which liberals you’re talking about, but c. 400,000 is the generally accepted figure in the literature on the subject. Snowhitey No one mentioned literature although I am quite confident there are thousands of books that distort the actual figures. Here’s a good place to start. The liberal website “The Stranger.” “During the period of slavery the slave population in the slave states was around 25%. According to shipping records in London over 12 million slaves passed through London on their way to america until slavery was outlawed in England in 1810. London was only one of several major ports of “export”. France outlawed it earlier in 1789, the USA not until after the Civil War, free labor was good for business. The total number of slaves imported into the US has been reliably estimated as being around 20 to 30 million during the approximate 300 years we had slavery.” The way blacks breed, we’d have about 300,000,000 of them in this country alone. Although it often seems there are that many. The Internet is filled with comments like this one. Time to take off the paper bag. MBlanc46 I tend to read real books rather than Internet sites. The information is very much better. I’m talking about the major researchers researchers of the last fifty years such as Stampp, Fogel, and Genovese. You mention “thousands of books that distort the actual figure”, but you don’t give a single citation. MikeofAges The United States banned the importation of slaves in 1808. Maybe 60,000 were imported illegally between then and 1860. Maybe about 250,000 imported during the first 20 years under the constitution. About 400,000 between 1600 and the 1787. The rest went elsewhere in the Americas, to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies primarily. sbuffalonative This is why Gates is hated by blacks. While he tries to frame historical issues in terms of black suffering, he does try to stick with factual data; ie. the true number of blacks slaves was lower than blacks want to believe and blacks did own slaves. He was vilified by blacks for his PBS series, Wonders of the African worldhttp://www.pbs.org/wonders/ because he interviewed African descendants involved in the slave trade. He tried to get them to apologies but they wouldn’t. He gave a lecture that was broadcast on c-span and after he was almost lynched by the angry black mob. YngveKlezmer Of course they owned other Blacks as slaves, and of course their motivations were not altruistic, as Sharpton, Jackson, and Farrakhan would love for us White follks to believe. The primary reason Blacks became slaves was that Africa was, and still is, in a constant state of tribal warfare. When the European ships first arrived in the African ports, Europeans were offered African slaves for sale. These slaves had been held in bondage by rival African tribes in interior areas, and had been treated far worse by their fellow Africans than they would be by their White purchasers. In comparison, in fact, White Southerners were downright humane in their treatment of their slaves when compared to treatment at the hands of their fellow Africans. In keeping with their European cultural heritage, White Southerners, by and large, treated Blacks as people, fed them well and made sure they had good living quarters, and only expected what was reasonable, that their slaves would be good workers. Interviews of former Black slaves, done around 1900, in fact, reflected that at least 70% of then former slaves had nothing but good memories of their White masters. They had been fed and clothed well, and treated with respect and kindness. Many, in fact, chose not to leave the White families they had worked for after the Emancipation Proclamation freed them, because they had had a good life in slave days, and obviously feared having to make their own way in the world. How much better a testimony could one ask for to the benevolence of European Americans?? We racial realists who have been around Blacks know their temperament, and how difficult they are. My suspicion is that, most often, the White slave master was far too kind to his Black slaves, and that the slaves tended to slack off as much as possible, and were actually a burden on the farming operation. When slaves were beaten, most likely it was the case of a good man who lost his temper, and for good reason. Work simply had not been done despite a first rate meal, massive amounts of food or goods had been stolen, a Wife or Daughter had been harassed or even sexually violated, etc. In the case of the Black slave masters mentioned in this article, my suspicion is that true slavery was probably the rule with their slavery, with daily beatings, a rudimentary diet, sexual slavery of the young women, etc. After all, this has always been, and always will be the way society operates in Africa. In Liberia, where most former American slaves lived upon resettlement in Africa after Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was shamefully brutal, not even comparable to the good old American South. Athling One can imagine the fun had blacks been in a position to own whites as slaves. Bill Dietyl Somehow I dont think Whites would have been treated very well. The women would have been sexual toys and the men used for target practise. Northerner Blacks may have had black slaves, and African leaders may have been involved in the slave trade sending blacks to America… but at the end of the day, the degree / magnitude of interracial slavery by white slave owners of blacks is the only thing people care about. The kicker is that this isn’t ancient history; It happened in a time when clear records were kept and is close enough to the present that people still remember. When England merchant banker Rothchilde came up with the idea to finance slavery he knew it was not needed and a terrible economic idea and a death knell to the entire western hemisphere but saw an opportunity to scam elite landowners looking for cheap labor while charging as high as 50,000 in todays prices for each slave from Africa. Noone knows what tribal chiefs sold them off for who were usually their captives in warfare or rejects of the tribes, but it was probably very little. Clearly there was a mass sales market over 250 yrs that European nations bought these rejects off the chieftains involving tens of millions as tribal leaders purged and cleansed their African continent of their undesirables and hocked them off to plague the western nations creating a boondoggle of immense size that has only gotten worse and allowed the introduction of the scavenger Marx and his peasant tool Lincoln who never attended a day of school or college in his life and posed as a fake lawyer only after being discharged from the Mex American war by US Military Academy grads Gen Robert E Lee and Gen Jefferson Davis after only a few months going AWOL in cowardly fashion in 1848. Lincoln then went to Springfield IL to try his hand at politics since politics and religion are the last refuge of the scoundrel. America was doomed. Thor Bonham So they actually should be paying themselves reparations, eh ? 5Sardonicus Of course, blacks owned slaves in the ante-bellum South. Blacks were complicit in the slave trade in Africa, which couldn’t exist without their cooperation. I suspect that slavery is still practiced in some African backwaters. Whites are foolish to feel guilty for historical slavery. Particularly, as it was universally practiced and was eliminated by Europeans before most other countries. Daisy Whites don’t feel internal guilt so much as they are shamed by the powers-that-be for not feeling it. bigone4u I doubt that even one in a hundred college students knows that blacks owned and still own slaves. Spread this info around and cite the source of the original article, which appears to be a pro-black website. If you cite Amren as the source, you will be dismissed by many liberals. sbuffalonative Yes, always use original source material. In this case, The Roots article by [black] academic Henry Louis Gates Jr. If you cite AR, they’ll dismiss your arguments as racist. If you cite a black author, then they have to debate you. donkey butt arrogant Gates Gates is a jackass arrogant pos who thinks he is above the law and should have been arrested and thrown in jail by the cops for disorderly conduct and impersonating a human being. Their biggest problem is arrogance and cockiness these days. What a joke they are. Of course they owned slaves. They are lying hypocrites if they say otherwise. Indians were big time slave owners too especially the Cherokee tribes. the real root Did black people own slaves by Root? The real “root” was white slave traders bought tens of millions of black slaves off African tribal chiefs. Where did Gates mention that? And thank G-d for white slave traders as otherwise there would not be a single black in the west had it not been for them and the slave owning chiefs selling their rejects. josh I wonder,do black pimps own white hookers to “exploit” them or to protect them? Katherine McChesney To disgrace them. Daisy Good point. Free Travel For blacks WE DO OWE BLACKS FOR BRINGING THEM HERE: We need to do the right thing. We need to offer EVERY black who feels mistreated in America a FREE one way ticket back to Africa along with $25,000 cash money. All they need to do to qualify is Renounce Their U.S. Citizenship which they do not seem to appriciate and sign documents that they will never return to the USA, with very serious consequences if they do, not free housing, health care and welfare like we give our “South of The Border invaders (sic) but serious time on a Chain Gang before Deportation. At $25,000 each we will be coming our billions of dollars ahead. Few people know it costs $50,000 a year to keep a black incarcerated in prison. Dede Anderson You Do Realize That You are also Not native to America. Hence the Word Native Americans or The Indigenous People of America. Just as Africans were brought here, So were Europeans although most came. Which would mean Technically You do not OWN or have any rights to America, only the Native/Indigenous People that were here way before Columbus So Called Discovered it, Would have the so Called rights to America. So if your giving out tickets to Africa, Give yourself one as well and head back to Europe. HamletsGhost This information will remain buried like all other instances of blacks’ true nature, because it doesn’t fit the bill of “Blacks good, whites bad” that young people have drummed into their heads daily. I read about blacks’ ownership of slaves a long time ago and also heard the excuse that they did it to “protect” their family members from whites. But on closer inspection, it doesn’t really hold up. If slaves were freed legally, they could enjoy the same legal protection that their equally free family members already enjoyed. What law worked for one would also protect the other. More likely is the fact that by owning their family, blacks could more easily control them. Looking at black family dynamics today, there seems to be a surfeit of controlling behavior, jealousy, and physical abuse. What better way for a black man to keep his woman from leaving him and his children obedient than to legally own them and have the right to whip them or sell them if they got too “uppity”. There was a book published on this subject in the early 1990s, before it became so political, or at least as tainted as the subject is now called “Black Masters.” I kick myself for not getting a copy back then. MarkLuger Who cares if black guys had to work and live with black women 100’s of years ago/? My race dropped napalm on Dresden for no reason, does anyone cry about that?? All we hear is waaaa, I’s had to work and libs wif a black woman, waaaa. My feeling is that the whole history of slavery is one that is very problematic to understand or right about. Think about it this way…100 years from now, if there are still people around to document our times, they will no doubt see that many black people were in prison. And they will wonder…those people were so racist, so evil, so cruel, so barbaric as to have these enormous prisons, and people kept in them! And they will have museums where people will go and you and the kids can take a picture where you are “behind bars” or something like that. But of course, from our perspective, we know the truth. We lock up rapists and murderers and drug dealers! And black people happen to be those things! It’s like when you hear about lynchings, and everybody today, in our “enlightened” age thinks it was horrific and those poor blacks and those evil southerners, etc. But many of those lynchings were for criminal, violent activity! The townspeople were actually just protecting themselves, keeping themselves safe. It’s sort of the same with slavery. No doubt many aspects of it were bad. But, also, alot of those blacks had it much better than they would have had it belonging to some tribe in Africa. Ross Kardon Why did free blacks own slaves? To work in their fields, plantations, mines, factories, workshops, and other purposes, just like any white slave owner. How would the public, both blacks and whites, react if a mainstream movie, or prime time TV mini-series about American slavery were made, in which the “massa” himself is a free black man? For example, I remember back in 1977, the release of the TV mini-series “Roots” caused serious racial problems. It was not until recently, I learned that “Roots” was plagiarized by Alex Haley from the Harold Courtlander novel “The African”. Of course, most people do not study history on their own like I do for a hobby, and are very prone to believing about history what they have learned in school, see in movies, and on TV dramas, which is often historically inaccurate. It was black Africans themselves who originated the black slave trade. Simply put, one tribe would raid the village of an enemy tribe and sell the people they caught to white merchant ship captains off the coast of Africa. After 1808, slave trading from the United States was technically illegal, but there were still slave smuggling ships from the United States up until the Civil War, because of the money to be made. Unfortunately, slavery is still going on today, Now it is called, human trafficking. Organizations like Free the Slaves, and other human rights groups, are modern-day abolitionists who are now fighting it. But this makes me wonder, what if a benefit fundraiser to fight human trafficking was held at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC? slavery a bad economic system Africans were the original slave owners. Sneaky tribal chief con artists sold tens of millions of their rejects most who were captives or inferiors in the tribe. Otherwise they would have been cannibalized. Foolish white slaves trader merchants sucked into the gimmick shipped them west and of course the western elite were gullible to fall for this trick when slaves were needed like a hole in the head and the worst of economy systems. These white Shem race Europeans could have enslaved the migrant Asian mongoloid Japheth race who had crossed over the Bering ice bridge 1000 yrs earlier but were tricked into going to Africa and buying the Ham servant race as they were called in the Torah’s Genesis. It was a heb Rothchilde trick. Since his parents were missionarys to Japan where he got hooked on the yellow mongoloid pagans Amren’s Taylor was obviously a rebel like all offspring of these types. The preachers daughter or son was always the wild child when unchained. This is why he rejects any white man religion controvery discussion and protects so called hebs who have a disconnect with WMR although missionary’s all have a superiority complex when it comes to their belief system.. In the end slavery was the worst eco system and opened the door to Marx and his tool Lincoln. The rest is bloody history and inferior genetics. G. Carter Woodson is such a BSer on this point. To “own” someone as a matter of “benevolence” toward your kinfolk. Pure crap! If one were “benevolent” one would buy and then immediately release and free forever (“emancipate”) one’s family member. The fact that the kept them as slaves long enough to have them listed on a decennial census puts the lie to that. Black americans bought and sold slaves for the same reasons black africans always have: to make money! Black in Haiti keep slaves to this very day for the same reason: they are cheap exploitable labor. Google “restavek”. Sherman_McCoy If blacks were treated as they deserve, in terms of criminal prosecutions, television depictions, report of their inferior IQ’s, the real reasons they cannot keep up with whites in school, then I would not hate them nearly as much as I do. The denial of reality is what turns people into extremists, not fair treatment. ladyL I am interested to know examples of the treatment blacks deserve. I am also interested as to why. Thank you! gates is a pos Gates is one useless lying arrogant pos who unquestionably came from one of the worst rejected inferior lines in Africa who were the first to be sold and board the western bound ship by tribal chiefs snickering and trying to hold back their laughter while signing a big relief to have his kind purged completely. Clearly Gates was the original Kunte Kinte but not the Hollywood fiction and only a wimpy runt bed wetter. guest Did blacks own black slaves 150+ years ago? YES. Do blacks own black slaves in the United States, right now, today? ALSO YES! When visiting Louisiana years ago I took a tour of an old plantation and was surprised to find out that the slave owner was a brown skinned woman. She was Creole, which is a mixture of African, Indian, and European, in some cases. If you ask ten Louisianans what a Creole is, you will get ten different answers. In either case, Laura looks Indian. Some of the family members are of French descent, so apparently they were not against intermarriage between the races. Well, I’ll be darned. Black people exploiting other Buh-lacks. Hey, wait a minute. Aren’t 99% of pimps and heroin dealers in and to the Schwartz menschen Black? Oh, honky Whitey made me do it, somehow connected with slavery and past exploitation. Patrick Boyle Slavery of course was a universal economic strategy. It is not just restricted to humans much less just whites. Social insects also raid other colonies and steal slaves. Human slavery began probably with the neolithic revolution. Hunter-gatherers can’t take slaves out on hunting parties but slaves are valuable as soon as you invent agriculture. So the black activist Gates chooses to state that blacks owned slaves in the US, implying that they only did so because they were imbeded in a white slave culture. But blacks also had slavery back in Africa. They probably got slavery later than Europeans because they got agriculture later. Gates wants to associate whiteness with slave owning but it is more true to say that whiteness is associated with ending slavery. Gates is a bigot. Pelagian Is there a good history of slavery going back to biblical times that offers a defense of 19th century American slavery? Or at least a good contextualization of it? I want to read-up. Thanks. slavery was a bad mistake Slavery was a catastrophic mistake and needed like a hole in the head. Did the slave traders and slave buyers really and truly think this whole thing out before they jumped into it head first getting suckered by the tribal chiefs getting rid of their rejects conning them off on the white man who paid as much as 50,000 in todays dollars for every single slave to do incredibly easy soft labor 8-12 months out of the year picking cotten or cleaning house while getting everything paid for and the biggest part getting out of that god awful wretched hellhole jungle 3rd world existence? Clearly they were happy to get away from the stench of the jungle otherwise they would have all returned to that wretched hellhole Africa in 1821 with Liberia or in 1865 or other times. Blacks in America need to get on ther hands and knees and kiss the feet of the white elite for taking out of hellish African savage misery and bringing them into the light and same for the Europeans who colonized the African jungles and upgraded their lives. No wonder the free slaves in 1865 showed their affection and eternal appreciation keeping the last names of their former owners and even gong to work for them for wages. They certainly never returned to Africa where they were not wanted. Dont believe all the revisionist lies about abuse of slaves as they were treated with respect and dignity otherwise not a single reparation lawsuit was ever filed by an ex-slave and they still carry the surnames of their master to this day in 2013. Why do they give the tribal chiefs a free pass who sold them off and of course they owned slaves. Ever heard of white slavery? White slaves built and maintained Europe for thousands of years. That should have never ended. Whites never needed black slaves for anything. It was the worst of the worst economic systems and opened the door for satanic Marx. Had blacks remained in Africa they would be happy. Ignorance is bliss. MikeofAges Nobody want to remember that human beings once lived in the real world. You ate what you grew, raised, gathered or hunted. Or didn’t eat at all. Anything you had that was made was made by someone you could see with your own eyes, or at someone like the people you could see in your daily world. People want to believe things that are not real because they want to live in a mental world which is not real, but want to believe that it is real. If you want to believe in a false present and false future, then you need a false past to go with it. If people wanted to live in the real world, they’d be yelling for job, any reasonable job, and a paycheck at the end of the week. Then, again, in the world today, maybe it makes more sense to yell for a bigger handout. Worldwide, the economic system seems incapable of creating jobs. Johnwharl I’ll like to own a few white people. Ella You never hear about slavery of White Europeans along the Barbary Coast (North Africa). Sex slave trade for White women does not leave enough shock to these PC scholars. White males were shipped off to the quarries if captured through raids. So-called scholars claim it’s not racism since Whites only have the power to oppress non-Whites. They must assume that all Europeans were rich from stolen wealth. saxonsun Yes, the Arabs took about a million whites into slavery–they devastated many parts of Europe. You never hear about it. Also, whites were considered stupid by the Arabs and less valuable. Talk about racism. candidhandle Forgive me, but here are the facts: afroids, negroid sub saharan africans by any name, were, pay attention, LIVE STOCK, not members of civilized society. negroes sold negroes, and played on the morality of whites to create a parasite on the body social, the afroid negro. Lincoln wanted to send them back to africa, but the militant blackoids murdered him, and now the beastial negro is polluting the body politic. may obama and his ilk reap what they sow. the gated communties will be happy hunting grounds for the underclass that voted the demons in office. ha, the last laugh will be so sweet. 7 shots for a drunk affirmative action hire means 8 shots missed and the elite will have their asses in a bind. have to use pencils to fight with. ha. American Patriot Lets not forget that the vast bulk of the slave catchers & sellers in Africa were African……and that slavery when finally stamped out in Africa by the Brits returned full force after 1960 once the White Man put his burden of civilizing the uncivilisable down. BTW, slavery has never left the areas ruled by moslems. gates tells the truth for once Shhh .. keep it quiet ok? Tribal chiefs who sold off all the slaves to the white man owned a billion slaves too and still do … Joseph If these benevolent black slave owners kept black slaves “to protect that person”, what would prevent them from emancipating them voluntarily even if they stayed with the family. This is the usual noise from the left; “If we do it it is not the same”. Alexandra Isn’t this the guy that had the beer summit with Obama? Fed Up I would like to recommend a few good books for AmRen people to read: >”48 Liberal Lies about American History” by Larry Schweikart. “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War” by H. W. Crocker III. Also “Death By Liberalism”, by J. R. Dunn. These books, as a number of others in this genre will certainly open your mind and refocus your thinking. (No, I am not selling them, nor have a financial interest — I am just tired of the liberal lying we get from all directions in today’s politically correct [NOT] world!) Fed Up What neither liberals nor Blacks will admit: Slavery would have ended by the beginning of the 20th Century. If only for the simple reason slavery stacked the deck against Whites who did not own slaves of their own. Because a White worker could not compete effectively wage-wise against a slave doing the same job. saxonsun He had an article–can’t remember where–that castigated blacks for refusing to see the truth about their precious ancestors selling them. JD Read the book , the politically incorrect guide to the south and why it will rise again, The author makes a lot of good points on slavery. Such as, the first person to ever legally own a slave in America was a black man named Anthony Johnson, some of the largest slave owners were blacks, whites did not mistreat their slaves, just like they dont mistreat there property today. They were only whipped or hung if they had commited a crime, just like they do still today, in Africa. lugnut Freed black slaves mostly in La and the north had to pay to buy their relatives and others from white slave owners. Many people mistakenly assume black people owned slaves, because they found their names on bills of sale. Just because their names of people whose freedom they purchased were found on bills of sale, doesn’t mean they were slave owners, or they treated them as slaves.. Where do you think all these “black slave owners” would live anyway? There were only 135 free black people in the entire south at different times and they were mostly the offspring of their owners, their white fathers. Most were freed by their white fathers leading up to the civil war. Many wills would states, if they died, their mixed children would be freed. Blacks couldn’t own anything in the south during slavery. It wasn’t until after around 1880 before blacks could have the land left to them by their white fathers. I may be among the few who actually spent many hours talking to a former slave and i learned through her the real truth. She was one of them. lugnut Oh, this is a kluxer confederate revisionist article. Your forefathers brought slaves here, because there couldn’t do the jobs themselves. Everything you have, even today, slaves did that, slaves built the foundation of this country and without my ancestors, you’d still be dirt poor. And the fact is, your ancestors were child molesters. When i did my DNA and African American research, nearly all of the little black girls were around the age of 13 when they gave birth to the owner’s babies. That means, the owners started messing with them earlier than 13. The average age of bed wenches ( just an excuse to get a small child in their beds) was from 8 to 13 years old. By the end of the civil war, most of what was the black slaves, had white in them. Some southern heritage huh? jtrose As a slave owner once said,’ I got more out of my ex slave paying him, then I did when I own him”

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Stars With Tax Problems California tax authorities said Anderson owes $524,241 in personal income taxes. The Franchise Tax Board included the “Baywatch” star on a list of the state’s 500 biggest income-tax delinquents posted Friday. A call to Anderson’s tax attorney, Robert Leonard, wasn’t immediately returned. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images According to E! Online, Richie owes the federal government $1.1 million in unpaid taxes and that a lien has been issued warning that the singers’ assets may be seized if he doesn’t pay up in a timely manner. A message seeking comments from Richie’s publicist wasn’t immediately returned Saturday. Stars With Rax Problems Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images “Girls Gone Wild” founder, Joe Francis owes $794,000 in taxes. Francis also spent 10 months in jail in 2007 for tax evasion. The plea deal also required him to make restitution. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Gospel Music Association “This Is How We Do It” singer Montell Jordan insists he’s no deadbeat taxpayer — telling TMZ, he’s already paid his $617,000 tax bill … the money just hasn’t made its way into the pockets of the IRS … yet. TMZ broke the story, the IRS filed a Federal Tax Lien against Jordan recently, claiming the singer still owes $617,987.06 in back taxes from 1999-2001. But it’s not so cut and dry. Montell tells TMZ he paid the debt years ago by selling his music catalog, but the money’s been sitting frozen in an account administered by the U.S. Trustee Program, a division of the Department of Justice that oversees bankruptcy cases. Montell filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and says he’s still disputing some of the IRS penalties he’s incurred. He expects the money to be released to the IRS in a few weeks when he settles negotiations over the penalties, at which point the case will be closed. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Heart Truth NEW YORK (CBS SF/AP) – Records show supermodel Christie Brinkley owes $531,000 in back taxes, and the IRS has filed a lien against her. The Daily News of New York reports that the tax lien was filed Nov. 21 on a mansion in Bridgehampton on New York’s Long Island, where she lives. A spokeswoman for Brinkley says the star was surprised to hear the lien had been filed. Spokeswoman Claire Mercuri says: “Christie Brinkley … has instructed her team to resolve the matter immediately.” Brinkley says in a statement the lien was a “result of an error” and pledges it will be paid in full by Wednesday, December 6th. Brinkley says she regrets not paying more attention to her accounting. She says she’s been focused on her parents, who are dealing with “serious health issues.” Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Overture Films Actor Wesley Snipes, seen at the premiere of “Brooklyn’s Finest” in New York on March 2, 2010, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 for failing to file Federal income tax returns. Free while appealing the conviction, he has yet to serve time. Stars With Tax Problems Photo credit should read Scott Nelson/AFP/Getty Images Richard Hatch, the very first winner of CBS’ “Survivor” reality TV show, spent several years in prison after being convicted by a Rhode Island jury of evading taxes on his “Survivor” winnings, other appearance fees and rentals from property he owns. Stars With Tax Problems Scott Nelson/AFP/Getty Images Paul Hogan in “Crocodile Dundee,” was prevented from leaving his native Australia for two weeks this summer over a long-simmering tax problem that still is to be resolved. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Pete Rose, pictured at a book signing Jan. 8, 2004, in Ridgewood, N.J., spent five months in jail in the 1990s for failure to report income he received from selling autographs and memorabilia, and from horse racing winnings. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley, seen April 27, 2004 in New York, was convicted of tax evasion in 1989 and spent 18 months in prison. When she died in 2007, she left behind an estate of $4 billion, part of which went to her dog. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Actor Sean Connery is in hot water in Spain over the sale of a beach home. On Oct. 15, 2010, the 80-year-old actor claimed his age and ill health prevented him from attending a hearing at which Spanish magistrates are investigating allegations of tax evasion and money-laundering involving the sale of the Costa del Sol property. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images Willie Nelson, pictured at the Glastonbury Festival on June 25, 2010, was told by the IRS in 1990 that he owed $32 million in back taxes, penalties and interest. He paid it off in three years by selling most of his assets, borrowing from friends and turning over to the IRS all proceeds from his next album “The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories:?” He later sued his management team. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images In August of 2010, the IRS reportedly filed a tax lien against British model Naomi Campbell, claiming she owes $63,487 for taxes assessed in 2009. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Singer Marc Anthony, accused of failing to file tax returns for five years, agreed to pay $2.5 million in back taxes, interest and penalties in 2007. He blamed the failure on his financial management team, which included his own brother. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images Singer and former Haitian presidential candidate Wyclef Jean, pictured here on Aug. 19, 2010, owes the IRS $2.1 million, according to The Smoking Gun, which claims the government filed tax liens against Jean for income not reported in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage has sold off some of his homes in an effort to pay taxes he owes the U.S. Government. Cage has blamed his tax problems on a former business manager against whom he has filed a filed a $20 million civil lawsuit. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Race car driver Helio Castroneves, seen winning the IndyCar Series’ Grand Prix of Sonoma auto race,Aug. 24, 2008. The fall 2007 winner of “Dancing With The Stars” was acquitted last year of charges that he used offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes on the income he earned from a $15 million Penske licensing deal. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images Actor Chris Tucker allegedly owes a boatload of money to the IRS: more than $11 million in unpaid taxes, according to a celebrity website. According to TMZ, officials at the Internal Revenue Service filed documents with the Los Angeles County Recorder’s Office stating Tucker owes $11,571,909.26 in federal tax debts for the years 2001, 2002 and 2004 through 2006. It’s not the first time the Rush Hour star had issues with the IRS. TMZ previously reported that Tucker had a $3.5 million lien filed against him by California state tax authorities in 2009. Stars With Tax Problems Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Overture Films Rapper Ja Rule admitted Tuesday that he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income, pleading guilty to tax evasion in federal court in New Jersey. The platinum-selling rapper earned the money between 2004 and 2006 while he lived in Saddle River, an upscale community in northern New Jersey.

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Section 91H of the NSW Crimes Act makes it an offence to possess, produce or disseminate child abuse material. The offence carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment in the District Court or 2 years in the Local Court. ‘Child abuse material’ is material that depicts or describes, in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being offensive: a child victim of torture, a child apparently engaged in sexual activity or a sexual pose, or in the presence of another engaged in sexual activity or a sexual pose, or a child’s genitalia. Pleading Not Guilty If you don’t agree with the allegations, it is important for your lawyer to fight for the case to be dropped as early as possible. This can be achieved by: Obtaining any statements and materials that support your case, Writing and advising the prosecution of any inconsistencies or other weaknesses in the case against you, Advising that the material cannot be described as child abuse material because it is not contrary to accepted moral standards, or that the material is for a literary, artistic, educational, journalistic, medical, legal or scientific purposes, Advising that you have a valid defence, and Pressing for the withdrawal of the case. If the prosecution refuses, your criminal lawyer should be experienced at winning child abuse material cases similar to yours. Defences Your lawyer can advise you if any of the following defences apply: Innocent Possession, Production or Dissemination It a defence if you did not know, and could not be reasonably expected to have known, that you possessed, produced or disseminated the material. Removing the Material It is a defence if you got rid of the material as soon as you became aware it was there. Classified Material It is a defence if the material was given a rating such as M, MA or R. Public Benefit and Law Enforcement It is a defence if the material was possessed, produced or disseminated for the benefit of the public. Conduct is for the public benefit if necessary for the enforcement of laws or administration of justice. Approved Research It is a defence if approval was obtained from the Attorney General and he material did not go beyond that approval. Duress This is when you are forced to possess, produce or disseminate child abuse material under a threat of physical violence or death. Pleading Guilty If you wish to plead guilty to a child abuse material charge, any of the following penalties may apply: Non Conviction Order This means that you are guilty but the court does not impose a criminal conviction upon you. The court will look a range of matters when deciding whether to grant a ‘section 10 dismissal or conditional release order’ – including the incident itself, the lead-up to the incident, your general character and your personal circumstances. Good behaviour bond This means that you cannot commit any further offences for the duration of the bond. The bond may have additional conditions, such as seeing a Community Corrections officer and complying with their directions. Community service order This means that you must undertake a specific number of hours of unpaid work over a 12 month period. The maximum is 500 hours. Community service orders are not available to all defendants or for all ‘sex offences’. Your lawyer will be able to advise whether community service is available to you. Intensive correction order This means that you come under the supervision of the Department of Corrections and are required to undertake 32 hours of community service work per month. You may also be required to undertake rehabilitation programs, attend conferences and be subjected to urinalysis and monitoring. Intensive correction orders can last up to 2 years. Intensive correction orders are not available to all defendants or for all ‘sex offences’. Your lawyer will be able to advise whether an intensive correction order is available to you. Home detention This means that you must generally stay at home for the duration of your sentence, subject to exclusions such as approved work or attending medical appointments or counselling. Home detention orders can last up to 18 months. Home detention orders are not available to all defendants or for all ‘sex offences’. Your lawyer will be able to advise whether home detention is available to you. Suspended sentence This is when you are sentenced to a period of imprisonment, but are not actually sent to prison as long you comply with any conditions and do not commit any further offences. Suspended sentences can last up to 2 years. Full time prison This is when you are sent to gaol. Full time imprisonment can only be imposed if no other alternative is appropriate in the circumstances. Call our experienced criminal lawyers today for a free first appointment where we can discuss your child abuse material case and advise you of the best way forward.

December 02, 2015 THE HEART OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL What is it with logos and rebrands? They cause such unnecessary stress. Some poor, pleasant bloke with a beard and a massive pair of headphones quietly arranges a few artwork files, adds some copy and reveals it to the world – it triggers the default seven day hysteria zone of anger, debate and piss-taking in social media. At first glance it appeared that the English Defence League had re-branded under the leadership of Michael Dawson and Stephen Warnock, but having put that to bed, there is a lot to be intrigued by the move. Now that the hysteria window has closed, I think it’s time to give the lads at Futurebrand a break. The English domestic game is in rude financial health, and the EFL should take great pride in developing a league with the fourth largest attendance in the world. There is talk in the press release about global identity, stakeholders, focus groups, having meetings with Johnstone’s Paints about it – but the heart of it is the opening quote. "The new EFL name rightly emphasises the central role our clubs play at the heart of English professional football,” says Shaun Harvey. Quite right too. We like leaving our houses and watching football in the fresh air with our own eyes. Can we do it at Rochdale on a Tuesday night? Unequivocally yes. Football clubs are at the heart of local communities, supported by local people. There is pride, a shared identity, a warmth from simply being together in the English Football League that is to be cherished. The heart of English professional football is a lovely, and accurate turn of phrase. Of course though, it’s hard not to discuss the English Football League without bringing the Barclays Premier League into the fold. As a Queens Park Rangers fan, I feel highly qualified to comment on the club’s relationship with both. Here we have a club with a fanbase essentially stretching in a thin strip from Ladbroke Grove to Heathrow, and a crowd of 18,000. Fans of the club are at their happiest when the team is passing the ball, playing attacking attractive football, the players are smiling and the shirt has a clear, broad blue hoop. That is it. With that approach they won the Championship in 2011, and that strip of West London smiled. A local joyful experience that had nationwide moment in the sun. Yet the promised-land is the global multinational Barclays Premier League, where clubs are owned by oligarchs, sovereign funds and betting firms that happen to be located in Leicester or Stoke. As those clubs become global commodities, they risk a fraying of ties between fans and communities, something the Premier League are acutely aware of. The more money gets made selling shirts in Malaysia, the more disingenuous the ‘clubs in the community’ initiatives can appear. Without depth and graft, they have all the faux-empathy of a community pinboard in your local, global conglomerate, Starbucks. Roughly 35 chairmen will use the phrase “take our rightful place in the Barclays Premier League,” in their programme notes; mistakenly thinking fans only care about success. We want to win. We want to be on Match of the Day each weekend. It’s nice to have the grandeur and the status. But it is not as important as the shared identity and love of the club, wherever it finds itself. But you can’t fall deeply in love without the highs and lows. The heart of English football pumping vigorously through the English Football League makes all of football’s vital organs function better – so flat caps off to them, and good luck.

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Bollywood Fashion Focus at IIFA Many Bollywood stars are set to prowl the catwalk at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Fashion Extravaganza in Bangkok on June 7th. Vidya Balan will promote Sabyasachi’s fashion line whilst Kareena Kapoor will front the designs of Manish Malhotra. Ayesha Takia, Aftab Shivdasani, and Riteish Deshmukh co-stars in the movie De Taali will be seen in the creations of Vikram Phadnis and Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja, who next will be seen in Love Story 2050 will model for Rohit Bal. Shriya Saran and Shweta Bharadwaj, along with Zayed Khan and Vivek Oberoi from Mission Instanbul will also be promoting the movie on the ramp. Plus the cast of the upcoming Acid Factory will strut their stuff as well. Proceeds of the event will go to the IIFA foundation, a charity set up by the academy to support families of the film industry workers who are facing difficulties. The IIFA will also be launching IIFA Bling at the event. This is a new fashion line produced in association with BIBA, which will have clothes designed in the style worn by the stars in Bollywood movies. “The brand is a wonderful way for movie fans to experience stardom. While IIFA is providing a platform, BIBA is providing a distribution network,” said Sabas Joseph, the Director of Wizcraft International Entertainment Ltd. (the organisers of IIFA).

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Why I Can't Wait for Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black's Book When was the last time you saw Democrats and Republicans uniting in the name of comedy? Sarah Palin on SNL? (That was awkward.) Stephen Colbert at Bush’s White House Press Correspondents’ dinner? (Very, very awkward.) It doesn’t usually work…until maybe now. Conservative blogger and author Meghan McCain is teaming up with lefty comedian Michael Ian Black to write a book called Stupid for America. Fer real. It’s going to be a road trip across the country—of course!—to talk to everyday Americans about why the system is “f-ed up.” Their publisher likens the duo to “Chelsea Handler and Hunter S. Thompson.” Don’t really get the Hunter comparison, but whatever—sounds hilarious! Really, though, I’m weirdly excited for this book. Not because I want to see the two sides “find common ground” to bring back “civil discourse.” Not even because I’m a huge fan of either author—although I think it’s bad-ass that McCain has been on Maddow a few times, and I did love Black on “Adult Swim.” It’s more that this book signals a kind of generational shift—younger people understand that political conversations can be playful, adventurous, and not always knee-jerk. More cynically: when it comes to politics, our culture of celebreality is the ultimate peacemaker. Comedians have been ribbing the other side since forever, but they usually don’t have the balls to crack jokes to each other’s faces. Perhaps this is our moment? Out of the two, McCain particularly fascinates me. People have called her a RINO (Republican In Name Only). And given her stances on everything from gay rights to feminism, she may very well break with a party that has trouble supporting her social beliefs. But her work—and especially this pairing—serves as a reminder that the loudest GOP voices nowadays are, well, old. And stubborn. And super-serious. And pretty damn extreme. From the House of Reps to the Tea Party, conservative twentysomethings get ignored, especially ones with senses of humor. Granted, there are armies of young evangelical Christians—we heard that loud and clear in "Jesus Camp" and books like Lauren Sandler's Righteous. But there are also a lot of conservative young people, regardless of political affiliation, who aren’t zealots. Our generation, both on the left or right, simply skews more socially liberal when it comes to things like immigration, gay marriage, and balanced parenting. Salon’s Rebecca Traister said this when defending Tina Fey: "Ideology and political purity are frequently the enemies of all that is hilarious in the world.” Something tells me that Meghan and Michael get that.

Scientists have proved that even the most seemingly innocent chat with a woman can be enough to send male sex hormones soaring. A team from the University of Chicago paid students to come into their lab under the pretence of testing their saliva chemistry. While there, the students got to chat to a young female research assistant. Saliva tests showed the brief interaction was enough to raise testosterone levels by as much as 30%. The more a man's hormone level shot up, the more attractive he later admitted to finding the research assistant. And perhaps more tellingly, the research assistant herself was able to identify those men who found her attractive. The men who she judged to be doing the most to try to impress her proved to be those who registered the biggest jump in testosterone levels. However, little or no change was detected in the saliva of students who chatted with other men. Animal reaction Testosterone has long been closely linked with the male libido. The researchers say their work is the first time that hard evidence has been produced in this way. It is known that the release of testosterone in animals can embolden them, triggering courtship or aggressive behaviour. The Chicago team believe the same may be true in humans. However, lead researcher Dr James Roney said it was also possible that the release of the hormone was stimulated by a stress reaction. Dr Roney told BBC News Online: "The findings are consistent with the existence of brain mechanisms that are specialised for the regulation of courtship behaviour and thus respond to cues from potential mates with coordinated behavioural and hormonal reactions. "One might call these reactions components of a "mating response" which, if confirmed by future research, could be as basic and significant as, say, the well-known "fight or flight" reaction." Dr Nick Neave, of the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at Northumbria University, said the study was "very interesting". "Other researchers have found changes in male hormone levels after watching erotic movies but this seems to be the first that has attempted to assess hormone changes when males meet women on a more 'normal' level." Dr Benjamin Campbell, an expert in anthropology at Boston University, said it was possible that testosterone made men more bold by suppressing activity in an area of the brain called the amygdala, which controls the stress reaction. Testosterone levels peak in a man by his early twenties, and then gradually diminish. Men who are married or in long-term relationships have lower testosterone levels than those still playing the field. The research is published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

What we learned from Thursday's preseason games Week 2 of the NFL preseason kicked off with a trio of interesting games that provided more developments in the three-way Jets quarterback race, Tom Brady's debut and an injury to the reigning Super Bowl MVP. Thursday's games also featured the second chapter in the Packers' backup QB duel, Mason Rudolph's first start and more injuries to the Redskins' running back corps. 1. Tom Brady showed midseason form, leading the offense to 20 points in the first half while completing 19 of 26 passes for 172 yards, two touchdowns and a 116.2 passer rating. James White garnered the majority of the playing time at running back, with Phillip Dorsett, Cordarrelle Patterson and Eric Decker mixing in as complements to Julian Edelman and Chris Hogan at wide receiver. If there's a problem area on the offensive line, it's right tackle. Filling in for injured veteran Marcus Cannon, first-round rookie Isaiah Wynn was forced out of the game with a left ankle injury of his own. On the other side of the ball, rookie linebacker Ja'Whaun Bentley stood out for the second consecutive week. The fifth-round pick has a chance to enter the season as a starter next to Dont'a Hightower. 2. Nick Foles' 2018 preseason debut didn't exactly go as scripted. The reigning Super Bowl MVP was knocked out of the game with a strained shoulder, sustained on a strip sack that went for a Patriots touchdown early in the second quarter. A rusty Foles took three sacks and showed scattershot accuracy in his 18 minutes of action. He's expected to undergo further testing Friday on the shoulder. It will be interesting to see which quarterback is under center for next week's regular-season audition versus the Browns. 3. The Jets not only have the league's most captivating quarterback battle, but also quite the conundrum for Week 1. Sam Darnold entered Thursday night's game with a tailwind of momentum, the future of the franchise riding a wave of optimism after a promising preseason debut. By the start of the fourth quarter, however, it had become harder and harder to ignore the fact that Teddy Bridgewater has outplayed him for two straight weeks. Meanwhile, incumbent starter Josh McCown has played just one series this preseason, leaving his role a mystery. There might not be a more impactful preseason bout than next week's crosstown showdown between the Jets and Giants. 4. Slimmed-down running back Rob Kelley has a new lease on life after entering training camp in a fight for a roster spot. After losing rookie Derrius Guice to an ACL tear last week, the Redskins saw power back Samaje Perine go down with an ankle injury Thursday night. Meanwhile, Kelley has started both preseason games and was the focal point of the first-team offense versus the Jets, touching the ball eight times before exiting. Don't sleep on undrafted wide receiver Cam Sims, who led the team with 75 receiving yards in the preseason opener. Sims had an up-and-down performance Thursday night, but showed tantalizing playmaking ability at 6-foot-5. 5. Mason Rudolph didn't have to wait long for his welcome to the NFL moment against the Packers. The rookie quarterback threw a pick-six on his first passing attempt of the game -- a pass Packers cornerback Tramon Williams probably saw coming even before it left Rudolph's hand. Rudolph's only response was a rueful grin as he helplessly watched Williams zip 25 yards to the end zone. After a solid debut last week, reality hit hard for the former Oklahoma State standout. Rudolph struggled to find rhythm and was hampered by inconsistent offensive line play. Outside of a 19-yard pass to Justin Hunter, Rudolph's 5 of 12 passing for 47 yards was mostly of the dink-and-dunk variety. He's still a contender for the Steelers backup QB spot (Mike Tomlin gave Landry Jones the night off), but Pittsburgh probably wants to see a lot more from its third-round pick next week. Joshua Dobbs had a better overall game than Rudolph against the Packers' second- and third-level defense. He completed 12 of 18 passes for 192 yards, 2 TDs and an interception. 6. Packers linebacker Reggie Gilbert put in quite a performance in his bid for more playing time in 2018. The third-year linebacker, who spent most of last season on Green Bay's practice squad before a late-season promotion, tried to do his best one-man wrecking crew impersonation. Gilbert terrorized Rudolph for 2.5 sacks and recorded three tackles. He'll need similar stat lines in order to challenge for regular-season snaps, but he's looking very good to retain his roster spot. 7. How about those Packers tight ends? We got a demitasse-sized taste of what the Aaron Rodgers-Jimmy Graham combination will look like on a 8-yard TD pass, but there were a slew of other encouraging performances. Lance Kendricks caught a pair of passes for 28 yards, Robert Tonyan had two catches for 15 yards and a TD and Marcedes Lewis made a 23-yard catch. NFC North defensive coordinators, you've been warned.

In a news release, IR-2019-144, the IRS announced on August 14 that it will automatically waive estimated tax penalties for eligible taxpayers who have already filed their 2018 federal income tax returns The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act brought about many changes for multinational businesses. One of the more significant changes was the application of Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income to foreign subsidiaries. The TCJA was signed into law in December 2017, and since then, tax advisors, attorneys and other professionals spent the winter scrambling to learn the details of the new code and how it impacts their clients. Since the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017 and the subsequent release of the first round of proposed regulations in October 2018, many taxpayers and practitioners have been puzzling over ... The Pass-Through Entity Tax Equity Act of 2019, HB 2665, signed by Oklahoma Governor Stitt on April 29, 2019, allows an electing pass-through entity to pay the Oklahoma income tax at the entity level in exchange for ...

Kenny Shiels leaves Kilmarnock managers post 11 June 2013 01:55 Kenny Shiels has left Kilmarnock with immediate effect by mutual consent, the Scottish Premier League club have confirmed. The departure of the 57-year-old Northern Irishman comes as no surprise following days of speculation about his future. Killie finished ninth in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League but a four-match ban handed to Shiels last week following outspoken media comments - two of which were suspended - was also taken into consideration by the club. The statement read: "The Club thanks Kenny for his service over the last three years, firstly as assistant to Mixu Paatelainen, thereafter as interim manager and subsequently as manager. "His tenure as manager was marked most notably by the Club's League Cup success in March, 2012 and his place in the Club's history is thereby assured. Back to back victories over Rangers in season 2011-12 and a historic win at Celtic Park in season 2012-13 will live on in the memory of the Club's supporters. "Kenny's work ethic and his determination to introduce young players into the first team were evident throughout his time with the Club. "Unfortunately season 2012-13 saw the Club exit the League Cup at the first hurdle and go on to record our poorest home record since season 1980-81, culminating in seven matches without a victory at Rugby Park to exit the Scottish Cup and miss out on the 'top six' and then drop to ninth place with five defeats in our final six SPL fixtures. "A difficult relationship with the Scottish F.A. resulted in several touch-line bans and recent comments regarding a fellow SPL club and the Scottish F.A. Judicial Panel incurred a further suspension which would have seen Kenny commence next season in the stand, rather than the dug-out. As a result, the Club was also prosecuted by the Judicial Panel's Compliance Officer at a hearing on June 6 and will discover the penalty to be imposed on June 21. "For these reasons, both footballing and regulatory, it was mutually agreed that his contract as manager should end. The Club wishes Kenny every success in the future and thanks him for delivering the League Cup to Rugby Park in 2012." Shiels landed himself in trouble after claiming Celtic were "the monster of Scottish football" following a spat with Neil Lennon, after the Celtic boss bemoaned the fact none of his players had been nominated for the PFA Scotland player of the year award.

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New Video: "Interview with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein" 01 June 2012 In this eight-minute video, Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant talks with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein about his plans to help connect researchers with library collections and services using Wikipedia. Max Klein began working as the OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence last week. OCLC Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt created this three-month position to explore opportunities between libraries and Wikipedia, including working with OCLC staff and libraries to help foster a broader understanding of Wikipedia's practices as well as helping to connect library collections and services to Wikipedia.

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Now this is PFFTable if ever anything was. I had to come in to work today, a Saturday, because my department and another department in our building are moving to another floor. This is a totally new floor so nothing was set up yet. Fortunately, they didn't snag us to actually move anything (we're computer professionals, we don't do manual labor!) but we have to plug all the computers back together and make sure they can get on the network. I don't mind any of that. Even patching the offices into the network, which I hate doing, isn't so bad because it's a new floor and the wiring closet isn't a mess yet. Unfortunately, somebody forgot to coordinate with the movers because all they moved yesterday were people's boxes, which we are not touching. They aren't moving the computers until this morning, and that sucks! We've got nothing to do for the next couple of hours while they start doing that. It's a good thing everyone in my department moved all our stuff yesterday afternoon so we wouldn't have to wait for the movers, and I can type in this editorial from my workstation. PFFT! to being at work on the weekends, not doing anything, but not allowed to leave either. Published: November 4, 2000 Editor: stacy All submissions remain the intellectual property of the author. Copying is prohibited unless permission is granted by the author. All stories containing offensive language or content are classified as such. If you do not want to see this material, do not choose anything in the Offensive category. Read at your own risks. You have been warned.

Illegal Alien Gang Member Wanted For Murder Caught In Va. WOODBRIDGE, VA (Newsweek) – After a long manhunt of an alleged MS-13 gang member, FBI officials announced Saturday they had finally apprehended Walter Yovany Gomez. Gomez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, had been listed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in connection to the 2011 murder of a fellow MS-13 member. Authorities found Gomez living in Woodbridge, Virginia, about 20 miles away from Washington D.C., and arrested him on Friday following a well-coordinated investigation and help from the public. Following his capture, Special Agent Timothy Gallagher, who heads the FBI’s Newark Office, said in a statement that Gomez will stand trial for his “alleged involvement in a brutal murder which took a young man from his family,” according to Fox News. Walter Yovany Gomez is wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of a man in Plainfield, New Jersey, in May 2011. The victim was suspected of socializing with a rival gang and had been ordered to be killed by MS-13 leaders. It is alleged that Gomez and another gang member, after an evening of socializing with the victim, attacked him. The victim was struck in the head numerous times, had his throat cut, and was stabbed 17 times in the back. “The apprehension of Walter Yovany Gomez is a prime example of the close coordination between the vigilant public and the hard working men and women of law enforcement,” Gallagher said. Gomez was first put on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list back in April, with the department offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to his arrest. Now that Gomez has been apprehended, Gallagher said he faces extradition to New Jersey for his role in the death of Julio Matute. Gomez, who had been reported at a party in Plainfield that Matute also attended the night of his death, was accused of beating the man with a baseball bat, stabbing him 17 times with a knife and then slitting his throat with a screwdriver. Gomez had almost been caught by authorities back in 2011 during a police chase following Matute’s death. However, he managed to get away after jumping out of a second story window.

Share this: Pete Frates spent four years leading Boston College baseball on the field, and now he does the same thing off the field. Frates, who is battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig‘s disease), now serves as the university’s president of baseball operations. There he can impart the wisdom he acquired playing for the Eagles from 2004 to 2007, and serve as an inspiration during his brave battle. On Thursday, with BC taking on the Red Sox in Fort Myers, Frates was wheeled to the pitcher’s mound by former teammate and current Sox prospect Terry Doyle to hand the game ball to John Farrell. Check out the nice moment in the video above.

Blocked Drains Show reporter’s name Reported in the Roads/highways category by Tony Parfitt at 10:18, Tue 17 October 2017 Sent to Bath and North East Somerset Council 2 minutes later This problem was reported to Fix My Street in September 2016 and nothing has been done about it. The Drain and now several more farther up the road are completely blocked with silt, so that when it rains the water comes out a drain higher up the road and flows down the road and floods. Updates Still open, via questionnaire, 11:59, Tue 14 November 2017 This drain and several others have been blocked for over a year when it was first reported on fix my street ,and no action was taken then. I also reported it to Council Connect in October and still no action. Posted by Tony Parfitt at 11:59, Tue 14 November 2017 The problem of the one drain was fixed but the bigger issue is that most of the drains farther up the hill are also totally blocked as they have been for the past year. The action at this present time that has been worked on has only helped to stop flooding in this area, water still flows down the hill on the surface of the road , this is not going to be safe when it freezes, my concern is that this is the rout for the local school coaches. State changed to: Fixed Posted by Tony Parfitt at 16:15, Tue 12 December 2017 Provide an update Please note that updates are not sent to the council. Your information will only be used in accordance with our privacy policy Photo PhotoPhoto UpdateYour email Now to submit your update… Do you have a FixMyStreet password? Yes I have a password Yes I have a password Keep me signed in on this computer Forgotten your password? Confirm by email instead, providing a new password at that point. When you confirm, your password will be updated. No Let me confirm my update by email Name Show my name publicly Alert me to future updates Password (optional) Providing a password is optional, but doing so will allow you to more easily report problems, leave updates and manage your reports.

Bob P July 17, 2007Don started his major league career with the Yankees in 1934, spending four seasons in the Bronx as a utility player. He was traded to the St. Louis Browns before the 1938 season and was a regular in St. Louis for four seasons, mainly at second base and sometimes at shortstop. He also had brief stops with the Philadelphia A's and Detroit Tigers. Heffner was a successful minor league manager for about ten years starting in 1947, then joined the Kansas City A's as a coach in 1958. He moved to Detroit as a coach in 1961, then went back to managing in the minors the next two seasons. Don was hired by the Mets and was their third base coach in 1964 and 1965. Right after the 1965 season, having seen Wes Westrum succeed Casey Stengel, Don accepted the managerial job with the Cincinnati Reds. The 1966 season was the first season for the Reds after they had traded Frank Robinson to Baltimore for Milt Pappas. The Reds stumbled along through the first half of the season, and Heffner was fired at the All-Star break with a record of 37-46. It was to be his only taste of managing in the majors.

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How do you burn leaves? (A serious question!) Riding through Wray castle yesterday I saw several piles of fallen leaves, slowly burning themselves to ashes. I've got hundreds and thousands of leaves here and I thought that burning them would be a good idea. Only problem is how to do it. Any one know? They only smoulder, probably because they are dampish, but how do you start the fire off, and then keep it going? Perfectly true, but leaves take a minimum of 12 months to rot down, quite often longer, and in the meantime they have got to be stored somewhere. Can't leave them on the garden because that way environmentally unfriendly pests and diseases can be harboured. The ash contains lots of phosphates which helps to promote growth if mixed in with the compost heap. We put ours in any old bin or fertiliser bags we have lying around. Pop a couple of holes in the side of the bags and tuck them away in a corner of the garden to be used as mulch or compost next year. The tomatoes came up a treat in it this summer. We put ours in any old bin or fertiliser bags we have lying around. Pop a couple of holes in the side of the bags and tuck them away in a corner of the garden to be used as mulch or compost next year. The tomatoes came up a treat in it this summer. you need a proper fire first, no leaves. when its burnt down and there are some good embers, pile on the leaves, really pile them on the heavier and damper the better. the embers will then smoulder for days from the inside producing minimal smoke. Thanks SOO...I'm trying to clear leaves from 10 full grown horse chestnuts, two sycamores and three oak trees. So you can see that piling them up is not reasonable. I'm going to need a large trailer to take them to the tip, or 325,761 black bags to store them in. Burning seems the most practical solution. If you have that many tress that size I'd just get them all in a corner somewhere and leave them to rot down - you clearly have more than enough space to do this and it woudl be entirely reasonable, imo. If you have that many tress that size I'd just get them all in a corner somewhere and leave them to rot down - you clearly have more than enough space to do this and it woudl be entirely reasonable, imo. Ski, Unfortunately the set up works against that. Most of the area under the trees is planted with evergreen shrubs/low growing conifers. Instructions are to keep them clear of fallen leaves. Not much room to stow leaves underneath. Some I do mow, and lawn cuttings mixed with chopped leaves do rot down quite quickly, and make a good mulch. Even if I mow the leaves there is still the storage issue, and as leaves on their own take more than a year to become serviceable compost, I need a lot of spare space which isn't available. So, burning seems a good option. I know the townies and beardies don't understand, but that's life. If your horse chestnuts are suffering from leaf miner (brown yellow tinge towards the end of the leaves from the middle of summer) the best thing for the trees health is to burn the leaves as it will reduce the infestation next year. Otherwise I would advocate composting, you could save yourself a fortune on bark mulch. My big horse chesnut has leaf miner - seems to cause it no problems whatsoever, masses of conkers this year! Each autumn I take about 10 bags of leaves to the tip, If I leave the on the lawn they kill the grass. My next door neighbour leaves the lot where they fall hence leaf miner back again by July...