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While we're "Regulating farms with certainty" (March 18) as The Sun editorializes, let's be certain that we hold the University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic accountable for their own litigation runoff. It's "outrageous" (your word, not mine) when The Sun suggests that law clinics should be immune from punishment for knowingly representing a frivolous lawsuit. Even Gov. Martin O'Malley registered his concern. In November of 2011 he complained about the "ongoing injustice" of the Environmental Law Clinic pursuing "costly litigation of questionable merit."
Nor is this the only time University of Maryland law clinics have run amok. In the 1980s, Gov. William Donald Schaefer barred those same clinics from using state funds to sue state agencies. And recently, our legislators have asked for an audit of the clinics activities and expenditures. Those clinic expenditures are taxpayers' money. And yet The Sun says, "...requiring taxpayers to foot the bill for a private civil suit is outrageous." You can't have it both ways.
We are all just as endangered as our farmers if the University of Maryland's law school is allowed to persecute citizens with no consequences for their clinic's abuse of power. Maybe the clinic will litigate responsibly when its leadership learns that they are just as affected by the law as their targets are.
Karl Pfrommer, Lutherville


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This is more than likely due to my lack of reading enough Japanese; however, in this sentence the particles と and に are placed together which I haven't seen before.
Is there an underlying reason for the と in this sentence? Would the sentence be the same with removing the second と?

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Eddie Murphy Out as Oscar Show Host
When director Brett Ratner — Eddie Murphy's creative partner for the Academy Awards — resigned his duties as the producer of February's Oscar telecast yesterday it was reasonable to wonder what Oscar host Murphy would do.
He resigned, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. "I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner, Brett Ratner, and we all wish him well," said Academy President Tom Sherak in a statement.
Ratner quit after he created a stir when he used a gay epithet during a Los Angeles screening of his latest "Tower Heist," a comedy starring Murphy and Ben Stiller. Though it's likely had he not left voluntarily the Academy would have asked him to.
In the same statement, Murphy was diplomatic. "First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party's decision with regard to a change of producers for this year's Academy Awards ceremony. I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I'm sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job."


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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, foreigners can buy real estate in Serbia, according to the principle of reciprocity, which means that even Serbian citizens can buy property in their own countries. Serbia has signed an agreement of reciprocity with Australia.
Foreigners in Serbia under applicable law can not be the owners of agricultural land only.
In cooperation with our partners, we offer to all of our customers - a complete legal service when buying or selling a real estate.
Our long term experience combined with our understanding that each purchase or sale is unique - we provide all legal assistance related to:
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• Certificate of Title
• Excerpt from the cadastre
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Registered property may be subject to a mortgage, which means that you can purcahse the desired property, on credit through a bank or financial institution.
Property can be registered only if the all the documentation is absolutely correct (eg. facility has a building permit and use permit). For the specific real estate in the cadastral office, it can be verified exactly who is the owner of a given property, whether real estate has encumbrances (mortgages), and basic data about real estate (land surface area, etc).
Unregistered properties do not depreciate in value, because the legislator has stipulated that there is no difference between registered and unregistered real estate. The ownership of all properties (registered and unregistered) is proven by verified contract of sale in court or other legal order. However, sellers whose property is registered, gain in price, as funding for such property has more potential buyers (cash buyers and/or mortgagors). Therefore, we are advising all sellers to register their property whenever possible.
In order to register a specific real estate (house, apartment, local) the following elements are required:
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Sales tax (tax on transfer of absolute rights) in real estate accounted for 2.5% of the estimated value of the property by authorised body - of the tax department of the municipality where the property is located.
The legal obligation to pay this tax burden falls on the Seller, but is a perennial common practice that the same buyer pays the tax on behalf of the Seller - to give guarantee to the Buyer that the tax will be paid.
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By: Peter Chamberlin
Michael Hayden said the clandestine agency is using Predator missile attacks to "tickle" enemy groups, to provoke a reaction.
"We use military operations to excite the enemy, prompting him to respond."
The agency director was jokingly referring to the policy of committing multiple mass-murders of innocent citizens of Pakistan, as a tactic for provoking retaliation by their relatives.This immoral terrorist act is considered to be a legitimate military strategy by the demented CIA mind.It sees no wrong in committing criminal acts, to cause others to commit further criminal acts, as a rationale for starting a divisive world war for resources, under the guise of "self-defense."The idea that committing acts of war, to cause a greater war is not a war crime itself, is a product of a deranged psychopathic mind.This psychopathic mind personified by the CIA is the scourge of mankind.
The American use of the Israeli terror tactic of "targeted assassinations" to perhaps kill one "wanted" individual (remember no "war" has been declared there), without concern for the attendant civilian death is a war crime.The use of flying terror platforms to fire Hellfire missiles into crowds of innocent people, in a country that you call your "ally" is either pure idiocy or evil of the highest order.The choice to fight a ground war from the air reaps little military gain at the enormous cost of widespread civilian death.
Agency Director Hayden said that the CIA is "working closely with the military…where American troops have fought Sunni insurgents." If the agency was really working with our own military or with military leaders in allied nations then the war might not be at an impasse. In all war theaters the secret war has served to escalate the real war that our troops must fight, for political reasons. The question is, is the CIA a "rogue" agency creating problems for our own military, or is it doing so on White House orders?
Did the agency bother to consult with our allies the Pakistani Army on June 12, when it sent a Predator to kill 11 Pakistani soldiers at Gora Pai Outpost in the Mohmand region?
Hayden said, "Our pilots are targeting not structures, but individuals."
But clearly, after watching the video of the Predator attack, who could believe that it is possible to identify who is being targeted on the ground by these terminator-planes?
Did the CIA bother to consult U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen on the September 18 Predator strike that killed six and wounded three, a mere hours after he personally reassured Pakistan's prime minister of "cooperation and coordination" on security issues?
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was one of those officials who met with Mullen, told reporters that Pakistani officials "were not informed" of the strike beforehand. Asked about Mullen's statement, he said,
"It's a clear, clear commitment to Pakistan to respect Pakistan's sovereignty…and now if having said that there was an attack later in the night, that means there is some sort of an institutional disconnect on their side, and if so, they will have to sort it out," he said.
Here we have evidence from a foreign perspective of the massive disconnect within the government of the United States, in this case, between the Pentagon and the CIA, over the spy agency's running its own separate foreign policy in the war on terror. It is seen coming to a head over the covert military policy of the US spy bureau verses the legitimate policies of the actual military. This policy extends deep within the establishment reflecting the vast moral differences between most of our government and the super-secret spy bureau that flies our flag.
The brutal immoral CIA policies of terrorizing (sorry, I meant "tickling") civilians to create panic and hopefully generate specific controlled reactions is not only the cause of the terror war, but it is the reason that the military cannot achieve anything approaching victory on either of the two other fronts. In Pakistan, as in all the world's frontline states, the secret US policy actually creates terrorist groups to administer the "tickling" on behalf of the agency to the targeted people. This, in turn, make the local fight against insurgencies unwinnable, by any acceptable standards.
In Pakistan, the "local Taliban" (under the command of "public enemy number one," Baitullah Mehsud), which US forces are allegedly targeting, are known among the local population as tools of the US, Indian, Afghan and Israeli secret services. Mehsud's apparent immunity from American retaliation, his detailed knowledge of Pakistani troop movements and his highly-advanced communications equipment and weaponry is cited as proof of foreign sponsorship. In other words, the CIA is creating the justification (bombings in Pakistan and cross-border attacks from there into Afghanistan by CIA proxy fighters) that is providing a sort of legitimacy for military actions.
In Iraq, the same pattern of covert "tickling" was carried-out by shadowy US-connected terror groups, who drove the inter-religious civil war that successfully partitioned most of the country. The harsh attacks carried-out upon fellow Sunnis by these "al Qaida linked" groups pushed the Iraqis into fighting against themselves. The same thing was attempted in Lebanon with Sunni terrorist groups like Fatah al-Islam. In the Palestinian Territories the Security Forces carried-out the same function against the legitimate Hamas government forces. Before that, US-backed Muslim terrorists were brought into Yugoslavia who attacked ("tickled") local Muslims to agitate for international intervention.
Before the demise of the Soviet Union and the creation of the new "Islamic threat" by the CIA, covert "tickling" operations were carried-out by our mercenary forces of right-wing extremist white guys in Europe, like Operation Gladio in Italy.The secret CIA armies there tickled our unfortunate European allies into electing hard-right political parties which supported American aggression.
Throughout all the previous examples, the CIA has followed the same "shock doctrine" of applying terror bombings to targeted populations in order to stimulate planned responses. This form of mind warfare has been developed by government psychologists and behavioralists studying the phenomenon since the fire-bombings of WWII were used to manipulate the German population. The link between political terrorism and democratic reactions was discovered when intensive fire-bombing pushed frightened enraged German citizens to demand government concessions to appease Allied bombers. The science of the "shock doctrine" was developed from these studies, over time, by government scientists, who refined it down to its essence, learning to use smaller shocks to achieve the same reactions.
This same policy of psychological warfare became the principle tool of the CIA, where it was used over many decades upon both friend and foe of the United States, even upon the American people themselves.Provocative "ticklings" of various types were administered to the American people to control social pressures, from the assassinations of our leaders, to the shocks of the destruction of our free press and our national economy. The American people were systematically shocked and demoralized, as we were driven like the cattle that they think we are down the road to the slaughterhouse.
On September 11, 2001, the wholesale slaughter of Americans began. American-allied intelligence agencies, worked in unison to administer the most severe "tickling" of all time, to a peaceful people who were normally slow to rouse to war, in order to start the stampede. Today, the CIA's own war has been sabotaged by the very tactics it has chosen to employ, to the point where our voluntary military force is decimated and our national economy is following suit. The government psychiatrists and schemers overlooked their primary obstacle, they never figured on the depth of the human spirit to resist the great obscenity being cast upon us. Anyone who is given the ability to see automatically begins to fight back.
The CIA war against the people of the world and especially against the American people is one of the greatest tragedies and crimes of our time. Their hostile actions have brought the world to the edge of the cataclysm we now face. Whatever their ulterior reasons are for destroying the country that they have sworn allegiance to, they cannot be allowed to succeed in their terrorist plans. This is the government that must be overthrown, the secret government of the United States.
The CIA must be abolished.Our remaining moral leaders must step forward to de-fund the agency.Our military leaders must follow former Joint Chief Peter Pace's example and refuse to carry-out immoral acts.The terminator planes being used by the CIA must be grounded. The proxy forces that they have created to "Balkanize" Pakistan just as they have done in Iraq must by stopped.Give the government there the help it needs by supporting the decisions it makes without attacking them for it.
Pakistan is not our enemy, but the CIA most definitely is.


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- Placement Location: Phnom Penh
- Requirements: Degree in Journalism or an equivalent level of work experience
- Accomodation: Volunteer apartment or host family
- Length of placement: From 4 weeks
- Start Dates: Flexible
As a journalist in Cambodia, you can get involved with two different placements, focusing on either print or broadcast journalism. This is a great option for recent graduates eager to gain practical experience and those looking to experience a different work culture and demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness to future employers.
If you would like to work at a print placement, you will work for a monthly publication called The Southeast Asia Globe. Launched in January 2007, Southeast Asia Globe is Cambodia's leading comprehensive English-language magazine and is an important source for English-language news in Southeast Asia. The Globe is still growing and is now distributed all over the region.
The magazine is a politically neutral publication, focusing on current affairs, issues, and life in the region, particularly the Mekong area, comprising Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. The editors are innovative, running investigative articles on challenging topics, while delving into the fascinating subcultures and obscure facets of this region.
The Globe team is ambitious and dynamic, working from air-conditioned offices in the heart of Phnom Penh with all the desktop tools an aspiring journalist could need. It is an English-language publication of international standards.
If you choose to participate in broadcast journalism, you will work with our partner organization, the Cambodia Center of Independent Media (CCIM). The CCIM is the only independent and professional media organization in Cambodia that works to promote human rights and responsible journalism through media production and dissemination. The organization also works with the implementation of community projects and advocacy. It remains the only source of independent Khmer-language news in Cambodia. They have over 60 members of permanent staff, who all speak English. Their office has a recording and media studio, and a unit for radio, TV and multimedia.
How can volunteer journalists help in Cambodia?
What will I gain from this project?
What will Projects Abroad provide?
What skills or qualifications do I need?
How can I help?
You can use your knowledge and training to help local staff as a volunteer journalist.
At the Southeast Asia Globe, you can work with the editorial team on tasks such as: researching and writing article and going out into the field to conduct interviews. You will also have the opportunity to pitch stories of your own. The editors you will work with are multitasking media experts with a few publications under their belt, so you could also write for one of their other two major publications in travel and business.
If you are based at the CCIM, you will be working with the radio broadcast team and online departments. You will also be working with local staff to identify newsworthy stories and writing them up in preparation for broadcast through a variety of media outlets.
What will I gain from this project?
You will gain experience of working in a busy newspaper office or media center with fellow professional journalists. You will also have to think on your feet and interview local people in an unfamiliar environment. These kinds of skills show employers that you can get to the heart of a story while being respectful of other cultures.
You will learn about Cambodian culture by interacting with local staff and with your host family. Staff and locals alike will want to hear about your life back home and your family and friends. We call this "cultural exchange" and we think it helps our volunteers gain a new perspective on life.
What will Projects Abroad provide?
We have over 20 years' experience of running volunteer projects. We provide you with the following support to make sure your time in Cambodia is successful and enjoyable:
- Safe accommodation at a shared volunteer apartment or with a Cambodian family close to your project.
- Friendly and dedicated local staff available to help 24 hours a day.
- A friendly member of staff available to meet you on arrival at the airport.
- Comprehensive medical and travel insurance.
What skills or qualifications do I need?
If you have a degree in Journalism or an equivalent level of work experience then you are perfectly suited to this project. You must also commit to a minimum of four weeks on a Broadcasting placement, eight weeks for the media unit placement at the CCIM, and at least twelve weeks on a Print placement.
For working at the Southeast Asia Globe, you must also have computer skills and a strong interest in Southeast Asian affairs. DSLR camera skills are also useful.
At the CCIM, you will need to have a variety of skills:
- Ability to write reports on a wide range of subjects
- Basic knowledge of project management cycles
- Basic skills in communications (writing stories, reporting on ongoing projects)
- Designing documents such as reports, internal guidebooks, etc.
- General coordination skills (you may provide support to project managers when needed on specific tasks or create/update department coordination and planning tools)
- Skills in Excel and/or SPSS (statistical analysis software)
Volunteers seeking a different cultural experience have the option of participating on a more unique project for one week the end of their project. For more information, please visit the Khmer Project in Cambodia page. Our Combinations Page explains how you can combine not only projects, but also destinations.


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The Sovereigns of England, part 1
1 portrait of King Edward IV
© National Portrait Gallery, London
The Sovereigns of England, part 1
by John Carwitham, printed and published by Richard Caldwell, after Unknown artist
mezzotint, circa 1723-1741
14 in. x 10 in. (357 mm x 255 mm) plate size; 15 3/4 in. x 10 1/2 in. (400 mm x 268 mm) paper size
acquired unknown source, 1959
Reference Collection
Artistsback to top
- Richard Caldwell. Artist associated with 3 portraits.
- John Carwitham (active 1723-1741), Engraver and etcher. Artist associated with 15 portraits.
- Unknown artist, Artist. Artist associated with 6558 portraits.
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- King Edward I (1239-1307), Reigned 1272-1307. Sitter associated with 25 portraits. Identify
- King Edward II (1284-1327), Reigned 1307-27. Sitter associated with 26 portraits. Identify
- King Edward III (1312-1377), Reigned 1327-77. Sitter associated with 30 portraits. Identify
- King Edward IV (1442-1483), Reigned 1461-70 and 1471-83. Sitter associated with 37 portraits. Identify
- King Henry I (1068 or 1069-1135), Reigned 1100-35. Sitter associated with 19 portraits. Identify
- King Henry II (1133-1189), Reigned 1154-89. Sitter associated with 22 portraits. Identify
- King Henry III (1207-1272), Reigned 1216-72. Sitter associated with 34 portraits. Identify
- King Henry IV (1367-1413), Reigned 1399-1413. Sitter associated with 30 portraits. Identify
- King Henry V (1387-1422), Reigned 1413-22. Sitter associated with 32 portraits. Identify
- King Henry VI (1421-1471), Reigned 1422-61 and 1470-71. Sitter associated with 39 portraits. Identify
- King John (1167-1216), Reigned 1199-1216. Sitter associated with 30 portraits. Identify
- King Richard I ('the Lionheart') (1157-1199), Reigned 1189-99. Sitter associated with 24 portraits. Identify
- King Richard II (1367-1400), Reigned 1377-99. Sitter associated with 34 portraits. Identify
- King Stephen (circa 1092-1154), Reigned 1135-54. Sitter associated with 22 portraits. Identify
- King William I ('The Conqueror') (1027 or 1028-1087), Reigned 1066-87. Sitter associated with 23 portraits. Identify
- King William II ('Rufus') (circa 1056-1100), Reigned 1087-1100. Sitter associated with 20 portraits. Identify
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- NPG D42354: King William I ('The Conqueror') (from same plate)
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (against Warwick Lane in Newgate Street, London)
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Events of 1723back to top
Current affairsExiled Jacobite leader Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke is pardoned and allowed to return to London from Paris.
Workhouse Test Act under which poor relief claimants have to enter a workhouse.
Black Act makes poaching a capital offence.
Art and scienceArchitect Christopher Wren dies.
Artist Joshua Reynolds is born in Plympton, Devon.
Portrait-painter Godfrey Kneller dies.
Philosopher Bernard de Mandeville republishes his celebrated Fable of the Bees with new essays on charity and the nature of society. They are vigorously combated and made the subject of prosecution in 1729.
InternationalHoly Roman Emperor, Charles VI, agrees that Hungary shall be ruled as a separate kingdom within his empire.
Treaty of Charlottenburg signed between Britain and Prussia, which arranges for George I's grandson to marry a Prussian princess and Prince Frederick of Prussia to marry the Prince of Wales' daughter. It is never enacted.
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Lifetime has picked up Supermarket Superstars, a reality-competition series hosted by Stacy Keibler, the network announced Friday.
The show follows aspiring food-product inventors who pitch their concepts to a panel of industry experts for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to have their creation launched nationally in a major grocery chain.
Check out the rest of today's news
The 10-episode series will be executive-produced by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Meryl Poster, Barbara Schneeweiss, Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman, Rhett Bachner, Rob Sharenow, Gena McCarthy and Stephen H. Schwartz.
Keibler is a former wrestler who gained additional fame as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and guest-starring on Psych, Chuck and How I Met Your Mother. She's recently also gained attention for her high-profile boyfriend: George Clooney.
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molly goldwater, boxed in - sold
molly goldwater, boxed in - sold
boxed in, 2015
screenprint + oil stick on paper
60 x 45cm
80 x 65cm framed
molly goldwater is a painter + printmaker from cardiff. having studied her foundation degree in art + design and BA painting at camberwell college of art, london [2008-12], goldwater gained a masters degree in multidisciplinary printmaking from UWE bristol yn 2015
goldwater had her first solo exhibition at the gallery 'all in between' at the gallery in 2014 which showcased her aesthetic of bold, screenprinted colour overlapped with monochrome print + hand- drawn line. goldwater's work is one of contrasts in both medium + method. the application of cut-outs + loose mark- making celebrate the immediacy of her practice, while the timely construction of form through printed layers sit in-line with traditional printmaking. hinting at the naive, abstract forms of mid-twentieth century british printmakers, goldwater stresses the different qualities achieved through mixing processes
molly goldwater, boxed in
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Kevin Trudeau spent a night in jail last month and then his living expenses were cut off by a judge the following week, so I've decided to share my story. This is how I fell for Kevin Trudeau's lies, how I realized I was being deceived, what I learned from it, and how I use my experience to try to help others. It's not fun admitting you've been had, but not exposing this fraudster wouldn't be great, either.
In 2005, I started experiencing severe pain that persisted even with strong painkillers. It became so bad that I had to quit my job and band, deplete my savings, ruin my credit, and put my life on hold to figure out what was wrong and to get treatment. I had to have several surgeries over the years and I continue to take medication for it to this day.
While I was going through the worst of this ordeal, I became very frustrated with the U.S. healthcare system. It took a long time to even find out what was wrong due to referrals and approvals, among many other issues, and I had some bad doctors, improper medication, and a failed surgery that made my affliction worse. Since my condition made me unable to work, I had to go a year with no income and without a life while I waited in pain. I nearly got evicted, all while creditors were hounding me for bills I could not pay.
I was beyond fed up; I felt hopeless. There seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel. I was optimistic at first, but after this treatment was promised to work and didn't, and that surgery I waited months for made me feel worse, I became scared that this would be my new normal. I felt worthless. My life had previously revolved around my band, and since I was no longer regularly gigging or even working, I felt like I was contributing nothing to society. Many of the friends who were around for the fun concert nights and perks of being "with the band" had vanished. And there were some days the sharp, chronic pain of my illness was so unbearable – even with prescribed morphine – that I considered killing myself just to end the physical suffering. The multiple things I was doing weren't helping and I felt something had to be changed if I was going to survive this.
Then I saw Kevin Trudeau's infomercial for Natural Cures "They Don't Want You to Know About. Listening to him talk helped calm my stress and worries. He knew that there were problems with the medical industry and promised not only to have cures, but ones that were affordable and easy. He hit on many of my problems and concerns and he seemed like a breath of fresh air. I was really curious what these secrets were so I went to the library and checked out his book.
Reading through the initial pages of the book, I felt like I connected with him. He wrote of a personal story from when he was 21 years old and was diagnosed with severe mitral valve prolapse, a valvular heart disease. His doctors in Illinois told him there was no cure. According to the book, he went to an alternative practitioner in Reno, NV who told him about supposed treatments that were banned in the United States but were available in other countries. He traveled to get live cell injections, went back to Illinois to get re-tested, and came up as not having the disease. He writes that he told his doctors that he was cured from the cell injections, to which they replied that couldn't have been possible and he must not have had mitral valve prolapse to begin with, even though they were the ones who tested him and diagnosed him with the disease in the first place. He writes that his American doctors told him a "bold-faced lie". I could believe and understand this story back then. Like me, he was young and did not want to accept what he was told about his health, especially when he had his whole life ahead of him. He was proactive in finding a way out of it and he overcame obstacles, at least according to the book. I found the story inspiring.
He seemed to really be compassionate and a consumer advocate. That sounds silly if you have prior knowledge of his history, but I had never heard of him before I saw the infomercial and I could no longer afford internet access. And, in my state of mind and based on my experiences, he hit on things that were true. He did talk about valid problems with the healthcare system, but what I didn't realize at the time is that he then used that to make claims that were false or connect dots that were unrelated. But, to me, he was someone who got it. When I would explain certain real-life situations to friends, many of them were puzzled, since they'd never gone through it themselves and were not aware these things happened. He felt like a smart, compassionate friend who not only knew my struggles, but had even more information about them.
So he emotionally sets up his readers that he's on their side and is just as angry as they are about being mistreated. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" is in there a lot. I experienced real problems with the healthcare system, but I think they are largely due to mismanagement or unintended consequences of how it all works. I believe it's most likely that the majority of healthcare workers want to help and don't have bad motives. But he explains that things are actually set up intentionally by different corporations and government agencies that are working together to keep us down. He claims that's the reason why it's illegal to sell certain natural remedies, and that the legal consequences he's faced with his previous infomercials are a result of that. It makes him seem like he is this fearless advocate who is willing to go to jail to spread the truth to the public. And I bought that hogwash completely. I equated him to civil rights leaders who technically broke laws and went to jail, but were doing the moral thing and history has shown what they did was right and very brave. Boy, do I feel stupid now. The things many of the civil rights leaders did were valid and the law was wrong. In Trudeau's case, the laws are actually out there for good reason and for our protection, not to harm us. But I didn't realize that then.
This is how Kevin's followers can still believe him with all these legal troubles. He has already addressed this in a way that has convinced his fans that these court proceedings are actually proof that what he's saying is true. He said that the government is suppressing information and that he's not afraid of them because he wants to help, so his time in jail is just confirmation to them that he was right and it garners him deep admiration for having the guts to do it, damn the consequences. They believe he's doing it for the greater good. This is why his supporters can get defensive of personal attacks on him. This may come across as crazy to skeptics. I don't think they are insane; they believe his critics don't realize he's making these sacrifices to help all of us, even those who don't believe him.
He comes right out in Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About that he is a convicted felon for credit card fraud. He admits he was guilty and writes that he used that experience to better himself and that those days are far in the past. It was actually because of his bad days that he fights for the greater good because he learned a deep moral lesson and wanted to turn his life around for the better. In More Natural "Cures" Revealed, he says that he was part of a secret group and that he actually took the fall for these unnamed persons, making him seem like he was brave.
When most people look at all the information out there on him that shows he's dishonest, it understandably puzzles them how others can believe him. But, when I heard his side of the story first, then saw the news reports from the "mainstream media" on him later, it all just seemed like confirmation that Trudeau was right, especially since they happened to be from networks that had commercials from drug companies. He seems to have an answer for everything and knows which arguments will come up later and prepares his readers for that, all while appealing to their emotions and bringing up valid concerns and stretching them into unfounded conspiracies.
Here's an example of how he appealed to me. The number of medications I was taking was increasing exponentially. I was prescribed a couple, then a few more. Then I had to take additional types of pills because my body was building up tolerance. Then I had to take a whole host of others to combat all the serious side effects of the other pills. I was on so many different drugs that, when I filled out questionnaires for doctors, there weren't enough lines to list all the medications I was taking. He talked about this problem and showed how it's proof that medical companies are working together to make you sick so that you need to keep taking more and more. He based something that was real to then make an unfounded statement. I now realize the truth is that medicine isn't perfect but it's constantly improving. And imperfection doesn't mean the answer is to take medicine that doesn't work at all just because it's natural. But it seemed to make sense to me during my ordeal. I was angry and exhausted, and he was telling me who to blame, so I took that anger out on "Big Pharma".
I did see some red flags while reading the book, but he ended up addressing those and eased those worries for me. For example, it felt weird that he was totally against all medications that were not all-natural. While I wanted to reduce the number of pills I was taking, I didn't think they were all invalid. After all, my painkillers had multiple serious side effects, but they certainly helped reduce pain. He boldly stated that all medications were scams. I was raised in a household that believed to only take medicine when absolutely necessary and that natural remedies were better, which is part of why it was even easier for me to believe his book. I realize now that this is the "appeal to nature" fallacy, but even back then I believed in complementary medicine – using both conventional and alternative medicine – which is still invalid, but I didn't completely dismiss modern medicine altogether. But then Trudeau eased those concerns by saying that he would use conventional medicine for extreme cases, such as a car accident, then falsely claimed that this is what the medical facilities are supposed to be for. That's actually terrible advice and can lead to people not getting preventative care, but perhaps he just says that so if he is ever admitted to a real medical facility, he can claim he's not being a hypocrite.
I started following much of his advice. I bought all my food only from the natural and organic food stores. It was hard because of how much more expensive it was but I thought it was worth it to improve my health. It didn't. And I did the cleanses he mentioned. They made me sick, but you're told that the sickness is the "toxins" leaving your body and proof that it's actually working. He had an answer for everything ahead of time, so things that would make you otherwise realize it's quackery actually just strengthened his credibility.
I then saw an infomercial for More Natural "Cures" Revealed. I called and ordered the book. I was offered some other products and services by the rep, all of which I declined. It is not uncommon for phone sales reps or store cashiers to try to sell other products, but it seemed like an excessive amount of offers, even with that in mind. And some of these were from other large companies – the kind he seemed to be against. But I shrugged it off as just being the way marketing and selling were heading.
The book took longer than promised to arrive at my doorstep. I read it and didn't think that much of it. It mostly piggybacked off the other Natural Cures book, while adding a few other "tips", like drinking castor oil mixed with beer for digestive health or the claim that eating coconut oil would make you lose so much weight so quickly, your pants would be falling off within days. I took his coconut oil advice, despite my dislike for coconut taste and knowing how high in fat it was. He wrote that the fat was fine and went on about how we've been lied to about nutrition and to just trust him and you would lose the weight. I did what he said and it didn't work. I started to really wonder about him.
Not long after, I saw another charge on my credit card bill from one of his companies. I did order his book, which I paid for, but that was all I ever bought from him. I called and asked what this new charge was for. They said it was a subscription to his newsletter. I told them I never ordered that. They apologized and said it would be reversed and my subscription would be canceled. The next month, I got another charge for the newsletter. I called and the same thing happened.
I did eventually receive a newsletter. He promoted some of his other services and there was an opportunity to be part of a new business he was starting. Then I read an article he wrote in the newsletter that I knew was factually inaccurate. It claimed that the spinach recall that happened in 2006 was a wakeup call that we need to have only organic farming. But the cause of the e.coli contamination was not whether or not the produce was organic; it was linked to manure. And some of the spinach recalled was organic.
I decided to go to the library to look him up on the internet. I came across sites like Quackwatch, which debunked his claims. And then I came across consumer sites, such as this, which had stories similar to mine of being charged for products never bought and never refunded. Some people tried to fight tooth and nail for a long time, and eventually just changed credit card numbers to avoid recurring charges. So I did the same, especially since my credit card company said they couldn't really help. When I first saw Trudeau's infomercials, I was in such financial trouble that I no longer had internet service. If I had, I'm pretty sure I would've done a search and come across this information before the damage had been done, but I was glad to have found out later rather than never.
So I put my Kevin Trudeau days behind me and continued my fight in a much better way than what he suggested. I was right when I felt that I needed to make a big change, but that change wasn't to give up on the health system and modern medicine. I eventually found a highly credible doctor at a respected hospital who took my concerns seriously. He reviewed my previous treatment and explained how it was actually counterproductive and he reviewed my surgery records and found that my previous doctor had botched my surgery. He put me on different medications, monitored my progress and adjusted my treatment based on that, and performed a much better surgery than my former doctor. When I faced problems with the healthcare system, he would make the phone calls or sign the letters necessary to override issues. He was truly a fighter and advocate for me, unlike Kevin Trudeau, and he helped improve my life, which I am eternally grateful for. The other cracks in the healthcare system were valid problems, but the fact that it has huge flaws does not mean that junk science alternative medicine is the answer.
I eventually started working again and later enrolled in college. Things were different, and I didn't just snap back to the life I had before, but I was starting to feel like a productive member of the world again. And I no longer felt hopeless. I was still dealing with health issues but they were increasingly getting better and more manageable, so I was able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I then started getting weird mail. One claimed that they knew who I was and that I was special, so I could be part of a secret elite group if I responded. I have posted the bizarre letter here. I knew it was a scam, so I didn't fall for it. It was obnoxious that I still had to deal with him, even after I realized he was a phony.
I think a big part of why Trudeau convinces people is that he gets people in need while they are in bad situations. Sometimes people tell me they are very surprised that someone like me fell for this. I think there's this misconception that only the dumb fall for fakery and so they get what they deserve. Heck, when I look back, I'm sometimes surprised and embarrassed of myself. But, it seems that Trudeau, whom I believe knows he is selling false information, is so successful at convincing people because he gets many of them at a bad time when they are grateful for any "help" they can get and may be less skeptical, and plays upon people's emotions. And, when people are struggling and feel alone, I think it's easier to appeal to their emotions. While I don't admire Mr. Trudeau, he is very good at what he does on so many levels, all while exploiting loopholes in the legal system to mostly get away with what he has done. He's a con man, but a thorough and intelligent one at that.
While I take responsibility for falling for his lies, when I see Trudeau and others like him exploiting others, my goal isn't to ridicule the followers but to focus on the actions of the deceiver. Seeing him in the news has made me angry all over again about what I experienced, but I realize I have used this as a huge lesson and turned it into positive things. I am now skeptical of extraordinary claims and make sure to fact check from credible sources.
Looking him up and searching alternative medicine led me to some skeptic sites, such as the aforementioned Quackwatch, along with Skepdic, What's the Harm, Science-Based Medicine, and videos of James Randi. While they didn't convince me immediately – mostly due to my strong belief in conspiracies - they made me do a lot of questioning and they eventually helped me find skeptic communities. I was reached out to by skeptical activists while I was a true believer and they didn't even know it, so I use that experience to remember that my audience isn't just other skeptics, it's the general public. It's the scammed. It's the people about to be tricked but aren't because of information they found. And I use my knowledge of how I was convinced of lies to put myself in others' shoes who are being victimized by other scams. I try to look at what happened to me as a positive thing that can help me assist others because I can understand some of their points of views. And it keeps my fire going to fight the fakers, because, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!".


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Syndicates Woo Newspapers With New Features, Package Deals
By: Rob Tornoe
The syndication business has seen many ups and downs in its more than 150-year history, but at no other point have the stakes been greater, and the waters choppier, than they are today.
The Internet — and subsequent diversification of news sources — not only threatens the traditional business of newspapers, but is also cause for concern for the national syndicates that have developed a business model of supplying those newspapers with content to fill their pages.
Nowhere else is this shift more evident than in the development of new comic strips, which have long been one of the primary sources of revenue for syndicates. In years past, syndicate companies would have in production many new strips to offer, but this year only one syndicate, Washington Post News Media Services (WPNMS), is launching a new comic.
In many markets, editors are reluctant to make changes to their comics page for fear of losing longtime readers. But to many, including WPNMS chief executive officer and editorial director Alan Shearer, fear to embrace change is what got newspapers in their current situation.
"I just wish more newspaper editors could see the value of reader engagement," said Shearer, who points to papers such as the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune that engage readers for input prior to making changes. "If you make a change, and you get an intense reaction, that's good! It shouldn't be treated as a complication."
Over the years, this reluctance to change has prevented new comics that have greater appeal among young readers from entering the market. This in turn has caused an increase in the age of comics readers, similar to the comic book industry. In an oversimplification of the problem, the same people are reading comics today who did 10 to 20 years ago, essentially aging alongside a feature that is supposed to lock in new, younger readers.
Stephan Pastis, creator of the popular comic strip "Pearls Before Swine," realized something was wrong when he visited schools and talked to young readers across the country. "Based on my informal conversations, maybe one out of 10 people in what would be my target demographic actually knew about 'Pearls,'" Pastis said.
So what's the solution? For Pastis, it was developing an iPad app to reach the 20-somethings who never pick up a newspaper. "I figured I had to get in front of those kids, so if I could be exposed to two out of 10, I would double my audience," he said.
Syndicates have also begun to trek down the mobile app road, but results have been mixed.
At King Features, the solution is DailyINK, an all-inclusive subscription service that allows readers to pay for unlimited access to all King content. The mobile product, originally conceived as a complement to the subscription services, has been surprisingly successful at bringing in new users as well.
Cagle Cartoons also has a robust set of popular mobile apps, displaying political cartoons by topic as well as author. Cagle's partnership with msnbc.com has allowed the syndicate to market its apps to a broad audience and generate significant traffic and exposure for cartoonists.
The apps, which include the highly popular "msnbc.com Cartoons," are free to download and use, with ads providing the revenue. However, Cagle Cartoons owner Daryl Cagle cautions that syndicates shouldn't expect to replace lost print revenue with the money derived from apps.
"Our experience is you get 100 people to download a free app vs. one to buy it," Cagle said. "We're in the same boat as the rest of journalism, trying to get people to pay for our content."
Over at Universal Uclick, the approach to apps has been tentative due to past experiences. "We were big into mobile apps in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and frankly we took a bath, so we're a little skittish," said John Glynn, vice president of rights and acquisitions. "We're a content provider; we don't develop software."
WPNMS is also hesitant about launching a stand-alone app for its content and has decided instead to include columns and features as part of the Washington Post's new iPad app, which Shearer promises will be "spectacular."
Content providers
While the Internet may be creating a dramatic shift in the business model of newspapers, which affects the bottom line of all syndicates, it also offers new opportunities for syndicates to promote their content and create new revenue streams for their creators.
After last year's takeover of United Media, Universal Uclick merged United's homepage comics.com into Universal's gocomics.com homepage. According to Glynn, the results have been beneficial.
"We are head over heels about the success of gocomics.com," Glynn said. "The overall readership has more than doubled and is currently about 25 percent higher than the combined sites were before the merge." It helps to have big brands such as "Garfield" and "Dilbert" to draw readers in, but the popularity of the combined site is making it a destination for comics fans. The fact that it's free doesn't hurt, either.
Comics, offered seven days a week, have a built-in appeal to bring readers back to the site every day. Web statistics have shown that most people visit the same 10 websites every day, and Glynn said a large part of Universal's success is in making gocomics.com one of those 10 websites for a large number of readers.
Cagle Cartoons has operated a successful editorial business for more than 10 years. Cagle.com, its flagship Web destination, has been the most popular online destination for political cartoons. Also popular is politicalcartoons.com, Cagle's growing e-commerce site that sells reprint rights to book publishers, newspapers, and individuals.
"We're seeing a lot of growth in sales to publishers, education books, and individuals for presentations," said Cari Bartley, Cagle Cartoons executive editor and marketing director. She attributes much of the site's success to a highly effective search engine and high Google search ranking.
Creators is making a move into this space and is hard at work on a new website called Alpha Comedy that Jack Newcombe, president and chief operating officer, hopes will not only revolutionize the highly competitive humor niche, but will create a new revenue stream for the syndicate and its creators.
"Right now, we're focusing on the site starting off really cool, and creating a unique user-friendly interface so people can consume our terrific content and interact directly with the creators," Newcombe said.
The opinion page
With newspapers cutting days out of their print schedule, there is an obvious impact on the sale of daily features such as comic strips. Often overlooked, however, is the effect on features purchased for the newspapers' opinion page, namely political cartoons and columns.
There are many financial aspects at play in the shrinking hole for syndicated products. A large one is the move to more local content, often at little or no cost, in an effort to remain relevant to readers. But Shearer said he thinks that's a shortsighted move that will only hurt newspapers' appeal.
"We had one person here who used to quip that editors have become reluctant to purchase new features because local is what they cover, and as long as they're covering local, they keep their jobs," Shearer said. "That's pretty darn cynical."
Instead, he suggests that if newspapers, especially the hard-hit metro dailies, go completely local, they will struggle to keep readers who are interested in reading the best mix of content — both local and national.
Another pressure point is the dwindling resources that newspapers are devoting to their op-ed page. Numerous newsrooms have downsized their op-ed staff dramatically in an effort to save money. Stretched for time, editors often look for the simplest solution to filling their needs.
This is where Bartley said Cagle Cartoons has an advantage. She believes that focusing on content specific to the editorial page, and making the website easy to navigate and the archives completely searchable is a great help to editors with not enough time to find content.
"In our quest to give people more options, we have more balanced daily options for editors to make it easy for them to use our products," Bartley said.
Cutbacks in opinion page budgets and new business models have made package deals such as Cagle Cartoons, as well as Universal Uclick's NEA package and King Features' Weekly Service, appealing to editors for one-stop shopping. However, Glynn fears the potentially negative effect these packages could have on compensation for artists.
"The problem with packaging content is you drive the cost down on the bottom line, and it becomes an exercise in quantity over quality," Glynn said.
The choice between package deals vs. individual sales is a hotly debated topic among editorial cartoonists. Conservative cartoonist Mike Lester left Cagle Cartoons' package to join WPNMS, in part because he wanted it to be sold individually.
"I wanted the opportunity to participate financially in the success or failure of my work," Lester said.
This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning, Matt Wuerker, joined Universal Uclick in March 2011. Wuerker was a freelancer for more than 20 years before joining Politico as staff cartoonist. His cartoons are sold individually to newspapers nationwide, but so far he's been disappointed with the results.
"The traditional syndicate model of sales to newspapers is giving way to being about distribution on the Web through Uclick," Wuerker said. "I think my work is certainly getting in front of more eyeballs, but in terms of getting paid for the wider distribution, it's been disappointing."
Rick McKee, staff cartoonist for the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, left King Features last November to join Cagle Cartoons' package, and he said the move has paid off, both in terms of compensation and in the popularity of his work.
"It seemed that my previous syndicate, while they are wonderful people, focused more on promoting their comic strips," McKee said. "My cartoons have gotten much more exposure with Cagle Cartoons through a bigger client list and a lot more reprint requests."
Cagle Cartoons
Back in November, Cagle Cartoons added the work of Rick McKee, staff cartoonist for the Augusta Chronicle, to its already-sizable package of U.S. and world cartoonists. McKee's conservative take on politics adds even more political balance to Cagle Cartoons' existing mix of left- and right-leaning cartoons.
"I've been a fan of Rick's cartoons for years," said Cari Bartley, Cagle Cartoons executive editor and marketing director. "As soon as we added him to our package, I got lots of comments from editors who really like his cartoons."
Creators Syndicate
Enjoying success out of the gate in a difficult market, "Dogs of C-Kennel" captures the hilarity of dogs and the hearts of their owners. The strip is produced by brothers Mick and Mason Mastroianni, grandsons of legendary cartoonist Johnny Hart. Jack Newcombe, president and chief operating officer of Creators, said the comic's early success can be attributed to the artists' talent and long development process, not to mention the great characters.
"I'm a dog-lover, and my favorite character is a bird, Wheeler," Newcombe said.
King Features
King may not have a new strip to showcase to editors, but it does have "Dustin," one of the biggest success stories on the funny pages in recent years. Created by two well-known editorial cartoonists, Steve Kelley of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Jeff Parker of Florida Today, "Dustin" is the story of a 20-something college graduate who moves back into his parents' house, and can be seen in more than 300 newspapers nationwide.
"The subject matter and timing of 'Dustin' allowed it to tap into something happening in our society," said Claudia Smith, director of advertising and public relations at King Features. "In a humorous way, it touches on how our society has been affected by the recession."
Universal Uclick
Due to its merger with United Media last year, and the subsequent doubling of its features inventory, Universal Uclick chose to skip launching a new comic strip this year. But it does have this year's Reuben Award winner for best newspaper comic strip, "The Duplex." Produced by political cartoonist Glenn McCoy, "The Duplex" features a young bachelor and his dog. Their ultra-macho lifestyle is turned upside-down when a young girl and her poodle move into the other half of the building.
"'The Duplex' is ridiculously funny," said John Glynn, vice president of rights and acquisitions. "It's the whole package: great characters, superb art, and punch lines that make me stomp my feet and make weird snorting noises."
Washington Post News Media Services
WPNMS's greatest brag is "Mike Du Jour," a gag-a-day comic strip produced by hard-hitting political cartoonist Mike Lester. A long-term cartooning goal for the conservative ink slinger, "Mike Du Jour" has been waiting in Lester's studio for years for the right time and opportunity to launch.
"To me, this feature is different. It looks different, and its voice is different," said WPNMS comics editor Amy Lago. "It's also laugh-out-loud funny, which rarely happens, and accessible to readers of all ages."


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Recent News
November 15, 2013
Income guidelines set for child and adult day care food program
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced the new income guidelines for free and reduced-price meals served at child and adult day care centers in Missouri.
The income guidelines are used to determine eligibility for free and reduced-price meals at:
- Child care facilities and family child care homes that serve meals to children from birth through 12 years of age;
- Adult day care programs.
The health department reimburses the facilities for meals provided to participants who meet the income guidelines. More than 3,000 facilities in Missouri participate in the program every year.
Approximately $53 million will be paid to participating facilities in Missouri in 2014.
Participants must meet the following guidelines for free or reduced price meal eligibility:
- The family's income must be at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level. Specific income guidelines for July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014, can be found at http://www.health.mo.gov/living/dnhs_pdfs/R_CACFP_IEGbook_child.pdf
- The household receives benefits through Temporary Assistance or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP.
- The participant is enrolled in an adult care facility and receives assistance through SNAP, Medicaid or Supplemental Security Income, also known as SSI.
Application forms for free or reduced-price meals can be obtained at aparticipating facility. Individuals can contact their child or adult day care facility or a family child care home sponsor in their area to find out whether it participates in the program.
Child and adult care facilities interested in participating in the program can contact the health department's Bureau of Community Food and Nutrition Assistance toll-free at 800-733-6251.


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DI Men's Basketball Player of the Week - No. 6
By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Brandon Davis of LSU Shreveport (La.) has been named the NAIA National Division I Men's Basketball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Davis was selected based on his performances from Feb. 4 - 10 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Davis earned his first Player of the Week accolades Jan. 8.
Davis, a 6-foot-3 junior forward from Pomona, Calif., posted two 20 point-10 rebound games in a pair of wins for the Pilots. Davis recorded his first triple-double of the year in the 105-97 victory against Texas College Feb. 7. He finished with 28 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists and three steals as he became the fifth different player in Division I to record a triple-double this year.
In the 97-77 triumph over Huston-Tillotson (Texas) Feb. 9, he went for 22 points and 16 boards for his 10th double-double of the season.
For the week, he put up averages of 25.0 points, 15.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 2.0 steals and shot 45 percent (18-of-40) from the field.
The next Player of the Week announcement will be on Feb. 19. For the complete Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Vernon Payne, Campbellsville (Ky.); Talib Uqdah, Arizona Christian; Antonio Davis, Mid-Continent (Ky.); Phillip Wood, Talladega (Ala.); Daniel Armah, William Woods (Mo.); Jacob Champoux, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Derrick Williams, Peru State (Neb.); David Rawlinson, West Virginia Tech; D. Stephens, Brewton-Parker (Ga.); Eli Baker, Lubbock Christian (Texas).
2012-13 Division I Men's Basketball Player of the Week
Week 1 (Jan. 8): Brandon Davis, LSU Shreveport (La.)
Week 2 (Jan. 15): Marcel Towns, Great Falls (Mont.)
Week 3 (Jan. 22): Anthony Dorsey, Truett-McConnell (Ga.)
Week 4 (Jan. 29): Jeremy Rodgers, Martin Methodist (Tenn.)
Week 5 (Feb. 5): Bryan Bock, Montana Tech
Week 6 (Feb. 13): Brandon Davis, LSU Shreveport (La.)


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Nutrition Facts
Ingredients and Preparation
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Is anyone sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the Church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick man; and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sins he will be forgiven." James 5.
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is the anointing which is given by a priest to those who are seriously ill. A priest of our parish is available at any hour of day or night in the event of an emergency or danger of death to celebrate this sacrament. You are also welcome to schedule a time for a priest to celebrate this sacrament at a hospital, nursing home, someone's home, or even at the church.
Parish Office: 845-782-8510 or after hours at 845-238-0767
Sacrament of Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick
As to Anointing by conferring the Holy Spirit completes the sacrament of baptism, so extreme unction is the complement and completion of penance. Penance restores the justification lost by sin, extreme unction takes away the infirmity left by sin; it 'removes that state which might be an obstacle to the clothing with glory of the resurrection'; and, as every sacrament makes us men in some respect like Christ, 'so we become by extreme unction like the risen Christ because it will be given to the dying as a sign of the glory to come in which everything mortal will be stripped from the elect' (Albertus Magnus). According to the teaching of great theologians, the holy anointing makes the man who stands at the threshold of eternity and loyally cooperates with the grace of the sacrament ready to enter directly upon the Beatific Vision.
That this sacrament was provided for the sick to strengthen them and prepare them for a happy passage to the hereafter was for centuries an undisputed part of tradition. The ancient prayers accompanying the anointing of the sick are evidence of this. The Church only had to concern herself officially with the doctrinal side of it when particular questions cropped up or errors appeared. For this reason the earliest documents deal more with the question of the minister and the external rites. It was not until the Reformation denied the sacramentality of extreme unction and its institution by Christ that a more exact exposition was demanded of the Council of Trent.
The Church Teaches
Extreme Unction is a true sacrament instituted by Christ and proclaimed by St. James. It is administered by anointing with blessed oil accompanied by prayer. Only a priest can validly administer it. It can be received by any baptized person who has reached the age of reason and is on account of sickness or age or in danger of death. Its effect is the strengthening of the soul, often of the body as well, and in the necessary conditions remission of sins.


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This week in fashion law: the good, the bad, and the thoroughly unsurprising
No fashion law developments this week warranted an entire post, but there are a number of interesting items to catch up on, in case you missed them the first time around:
The Good
- The humble writer behind LAW OF FASHION was interviewed by Professionelle about fashion law, entrepreneurship, and why intellectual property isn't just for lawyers anymore. Legal industry hub Above The Law graciously took an interest in the story.
- Forbes and ShePosts.com each did profiles on the blogger behind criticism and commentary site WTForever21.com, Rachel Kane, who is represented by Charles Colman Law, PLLC, in her dispute with Forever 21. Though initially taken aback by Forever 21's claims about the website's alleged trademark and copyright infringement, Rachel is now fighting the company's legally baseless threats.
- The Hangover 2 "copyrighted tattoo" case settles, and the DVD will be released as planned. Wait, on second thought, intellectual property attorneys were dying to see how the courts would rule on the novel issues in this case. Move this one to "The Bad."
The Bad
- John Galliano stood trial for the crime of "public insult based on origin, religious affiliation, race, or ethnicity." His defense hinged on a "triple addiction," for which he is still receiving treatment. Galliano denied holding anti-Semitic beliefs, despite the pro-Hitler outburst on which the trial centered, of which Galliano claims to have no memory. No word on whether he remembers a separate October 2010 encounter with another witness that Galliano allegedly called a "f-----g ugly Jewish bitch." The verdict has not yet been announced, but Galliano faces possible prison time (albeit rare for the crime at issue), a fine of $14,300 from the government, and damages of up to $314,200 to one of the people involved in the cafe incident, whom Galliano allegedly threatened to kill. Galliano's final statement before the court adjourned was a "rambling paean to cultural diversity," including an assertion that he has "friends who are Shaolin monks" -- or as Jezebel called it, the "little-known Shaolin Monk Defense."
- The Internet media freaks out over a Nevada court's dictum that in some circumstances, duplication of an entire article may constitute fair use.
- A Maryland man sues his nail salon for charging men $1 more for manicures. The plaintiff's attorney likens his client to Rosa Parks. Cringe.
The Winklevoss twins finally throw in the towel in their battle with facebook .The Winklevoss twins are back for more!
The Thoroughly Unsurprising
The trademark (and trademark-ey) lawsuits just keep on a-comin':
- The Marlon Brando Estate continues its IP rampage, following up a lawsuit against Harley-Davidson for HD's "Brando" boots with a new case against Ashley Furniture for its line of "Brando" sofas and ottomans. Time to revisit LOF's post on "tributes"?
- A judge denies Target's requested temporary injunction against a Canadian company that has been operating "Target Apparel" stores since 2005. Pesky territoriality principles!
- Katy Perry files a preemptive lawsuit in Detroit to keep unauthorized merchandise vendors away from her concert there next week. The vendors have been following her from venue to venue, but is this an adequate basis for filing a lawsuit seeking to prevent something that hasn't happened yet?
- Chicago takes hot dogs really seriously. Vienna Beef sues a rival for either stealing its 118-year-old recipe OR lying to customers by claiming to be using it. (FYI, this is called "pleading in the alternative," a/k/a, "I'm not sure exactly what you did, but I know it's something BAD!")
- Former "Biggest Loser" contestant Jennifer Eisenbarth is the big winner this time around -- or at least, the big settler. This week, she inked a settlement with the last of a dozen companies that used her name and likeness without permission in connection with diet products sold online. Remember that whole "right of publicity" thing LOF talked about back in December? Me either. God, December was a long time ago.
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It said for the longest time that the release date was Sept. 12th, so to hear this news is disappointing since I've been looking forward to a new game for a few months now. This release date is going to be a lot more revolved around the Wii now, so hopefully I still pay a lot of attention to it.
once again, you're free to post news stories as you see them rather than waiting for someone else to post them just so you can be all UR LAET LOL IM DA NEWSMASTA
arent they gonna make 8 for DS? ?_?
The funny thing is (besides th interesting conversation above me here), is the fact that While Square is saying November 14th, Gamestop and Game crazy are saying that the game will be on the shelves November 1st and Mid October (Respectivly).
woot 39 days
why would they make 8 for DS? :S
Doesnt matter when it comes out, im buying it ASAP.


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But Leigh, who would have been 101 years old today (she was born Nov. 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India), also endured hellish hardships during her too-short life. She suffered from bipolar disorder, threw herself into calamitous extramarital affairs and died of tuberculosis—from which she had suffered for years when she finally succumbed to the disease, at just 53 years old, in 1967.
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Her second Best Actress Academy Award, for her incarnation as Blanche DuBois in the 1951 Elia Kazan classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, honored a performance that, for many movie fans, was far and away more powerful than her turn as Scarlett. Leigh herself, however, later reportedly said that playing the alcoholic, idealistic, profoundly damaged Blanche "tipped [her] over into madness."
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from the I-was-absolutely-not-watching-porn,-officer deptWe've talked for years about how while distracted driving laws may be well-intentioned, they often present a new variety of problems. Requiring that touch screens are locked while the car is in motion, for example, ignores the fact that other people might be in the passenger seat and interested in using the technology. Banning some behaviors can also cause people to try to hide the fact they're doing them, which has the potential to be more dangerous. While there's absolutely no doubt that distracted driving is a serious, significant problem (especially texting behind the wheel), the regulatory fixes proposed can often bring up a laundry list of unintentional new issues a politician with a fleeting understand of tech (and a limited imagination) might not be sensitive to.
Efforts to ban Google Glass while driving are similarly complicated. Reuters this week reported that Google lobbyists have been busy trying to shut down distracted laws in a handful of states, including Illinois, Delaware, and Missouri. The laws, also being proposed in New York, Maryland and West Virginia (among others), would in many cases ban outright the use of wearable computing devices. While there's no mistaking that Google's lobbying efforts are about protecting revenues first and foremost, there does seem to be a salient point being made in the midst of the discussion:
"While Glass is currently in the hands of a small group of Explorers," the company said, "we find that when people try it for themselves they better understand the underlying principle that it's not meant to distract but rather connect people more with the world around them."In my mind, Google Glass is effectively just a heads up display. It's an early, clunky plastic version of what's to come, but it's just a HUD. As any military pilot (or hey, the terminator) could probably attest, there could very well be useful functionality embedded in such devices that provides the driver with additional information that could actually make them safer or a better driver. Blind spot monitoring and improved-view HUD cameras, traffic congestion warnings in the corner of your eye, subtle alerts about dangerous upcoming road conditions (think a crowd-sourced Waze or some variant with a HUD) -- are they all bad? They're all to be banned?
That's not to say Glass and future variations of the concept won't be abused; people who aren't bright will certainly try to watch YouTube videos while driving eighty miles an hour on the Long Island Expressway. But people are either dumb, or they aren't. Your fellow highway dwellers are either entirely awful at operating motor vehicles -- or they aren't. If they're simply bad at it, a bevy of new regulations or rules won't protect them (or you) from them being distracted by pretty much everything -- including chickens, a dropped cigarette, signs, loud noises, other people, farts, or their own thoughts.
Enforcement also seems like a tricky proposition here. As Glass naturally evolves and other companies jump on board, it's going to move from an obvious piece of wearable plastic computing, to contacts, eyeglasses or implants that aren't really distinguishable from normal human features. How does a police officer prove you were using this technology for distracting purposes, versus using it to help drive? They don't: as with current texting rules they just doltishly ban you from doing everything on a phone, even if you're just updating GPS settings. How would law enforcement confirm what you're doing on your retina's HUD without violating your privacy? I'd imagine they won't.
Not to make a habit of siding with lobbyists too often, but it seems like outright bans on what is effectively heads up displays is a bridge too far. I'm not sure tech-challenged DC can effectively and intelligently navigate the transhumanist concerns of tomorrow when they're not even capable of understanding the simple technology issues of today. That said, I'm all for other, more ingenious ways of getting nitwits off the road if anybody has some.
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like the European champions. It is the best zombie film this century. It is arguably the best zombie film since Dawn of the Dead 1978. The opposite corner of the argument is Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters 1979 - every bit the equal in bombast and verve. Spain
There are a number of reasons why a sequel is filmed. The obvious is exploitative, the best is narrative, a third is popularity - the audience demands it. [●Rec] had such impact the remake was released in
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[●Rec] is a self contained story which is problematic for a sequel. James Cameron faced the same issue with Aliens 1986. His solution was to change lanes. The story he wrote was different albeit based on the same premise. [●Rec]2 writes itself into a corner by continuing the original story with no narrative interlude.
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are the writer-directors. They clearly love their monsters the way Mary Shelly loved hers. They've tried to renew the story whilst retaining the familiar boxed-in location. Halloween 2 1981 did not take place in Laurie Strode's house but even so that film had its narrative inconsistencies: Michael Myers changed from stalker-slasher (in the original) to inventive killer all in the course of one night. Paco Plaza
[●Rec]2 suffers from the absence of actress Manuela Velasco the emotional core of the first film - a Final Girl tour de force. In her stead is a paramilitary police unit. Their mission is to escort a government technician into the quarantined building to investigate the goings on. SWAT-type cops do not a final girl make. The horror is action packed portrayed but the din of buff men persistently and repetitively yelling the same fear at each other becomes grating.
The filmmakers employ a non-linear narrative to tell two concurrent stories before they merge. Indeed the timeline of the kids would begin near the start of the first film. These are not
Hollywood kids. They are neither coquettish nor cute. They are profane, impudent and inquisitive. The only sympathetic characteristic they have is their youth. That is more than enough.
Their introduction is a welcome lull in the mayhem. It affords time to catch breath and survey the story landscape. The Hitchcock ploy of the ticking bomb under the restaurant table of oblivious diners is utilised to optimum devastation. The pace reverts to DEFCON 1 - and then the dénouement.
[●Rec]2 narrative inconsistency is enough to turn the audience against it. Remember the first time you saw The Crying Game 1992? The reveal was shocking enough to induce walkouts. The opposite happened - the audience flocked to it. With [●Rec]2 the audience may well desert it in droves. I was initially infuriated at the swerve. Then I accepted it. It's the result of goodwill.
The point-of-view gimmick is retained which does not detract from the story though it is a gimmick and no more. The acting is compact and fine tuned especially in the second story strand. The zombies have increased intent – they seemed to have sussed the layout of the building. There are additional undead hitherto unseen in the first film. These are enough ingredients for a feast of horror. [●Rec]2 can stand alone but as a sequel it falls dead on its face - due to that narrative swerve.
I forgive them. Film opens 28th May in the
UK (9th July in the ). Due to its popularity on DVD most of the patrons will have seen the first one. The casual fan won't forgive them. No one will care for [●Rec]3. US
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