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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to fine employers who hire illegal immigrants up to $20,000 for each unauthorized worker, providing teeth to a broad immigration bill before sending it to a final vote later this week.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Employers would have to check Social Security numbers and the immigration status of all new hires within 18 months.
"This is probably the single most important thing we can do in terms of reducing the inflow of undocumented workers, making sure we can enforce in a systematic way rules governing who gets hired," said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
The amendment passed 58-40. Opponents said the verification system would take years to implement and complained that workers deemed illegal could still hold onto jobs until their appeals are exhausted.
Fines between $200 and $600
Employers who don't use the new computerized system could be fined $200 to $600. The system would include information from the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Homeland Security Department.
The $20,000 fines for hiring illegal immigrants once the new screening system is in place would be double the present level.
Repeated violators could be sentenced to prison terms of up to three years.
The House passed a bill in December that would impose fines on employees of undocumented workers ranging from $5,000 to $40,000.
But, unlike the Senate bill, the House measure would require employers to screen all employees — an estimated 140 million people — instead of only new hires.
Test vote Wednesday
Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., scheduled a test vote for Wednesday that sets up the bill's final passage, likely Thursday.
Its most controversial provision would put more than half of the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants on a path toward citizenship without ever having to leave the U.S.
Critics call that amnesty and Republican leaders refused to even allow it to be considered in the bill the House passed in December.
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., who heads a group of 100 conservatives in the House, said Tuesday he plans to offer a bill this week that would let employers rehire illegal workers now on their payrolls after they have returned home and applied for a new "W" visa to return.
"The solution is to set up a system that will encourage illegal workers to self-deport and come back legally as guest workers," said Pence, who earlier voted for the enforcement-only House bill.
More lenient bill rebuffed
The Senate defeated an effort Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would have let all illegal immigrants remain, in contrast to the Senate compromise that would require more than one-third of them to leave.
Several lawmakers who voted against the proposal offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein said they did so reluctantly, but out of necessity to ensure survival of the broader immigration bill. The legislation is expected to win Senate passage Wednesday or Thursday.
"This legislation is on the edge of the ledge as it is," said Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, one of the Republicans supporting a delicate compromise that has kept the bill alive — letting two-thirds of illegal immigrants stay but making the other third leave.
Feinstein's amendment, defeated 61 to 37, would have supplanted the compromise that allows illegal immigrants here five years or more to stay, and work six years and seek legal residency after paying back taxes and fines and showing they were learning English.
Those in the country two to five years under the compromise would have to go to a point of entry, exit and file an application to return as a guest worker. Those here less than two years must leave the country, but could apply from their native country to return as a guest worker and wait in line to get a visa.
"I have come to believe that the three-tiered system is unworkable, that it would create a bureaucratic nightmare and it would lead to substantial fraud," Feinstein said Tuesday.
Feinstein offered the plan just before Frist set the stage for a preliminary vote Wednesday that could quickly bring the bill to a final vote. The bill appears headed for passage.
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Being the Smartest Man in the World is great but there is one drawback. I get ideas about everything and once my mind gets locked on something I think can be fixed I tend to work it through till I have a solution.
This brings me to a few days ago when I mentioned on Twitter that I had been thinking a lot of Department Stores. I was thinking about them because I had spent some time in a few and saw several ways to make them fun and cool again.
From the size alone, Department Stores should be larger than life places where you can find anything you are looking for. The pitch should be that Department Stores can offer you the world all in one location…..but instead it seems like they only offer private label clothing at a discount.
When I was a teenager my family made regular visits to New York City and I was always fascinated by Macy's flagship store. They had boutiques in the store from major labels as well as the place had/has a real electricity that you could feel. The same just can't be said for Canadian Department stores.
So here are a few ideas to change that……and by a few ideas I mean just a few. I have plenty more but I may keep them to myself until I get a call from one of these retailers asking me to help them out!
-Toy Departments should be places that parents can leave there kids while they shop. Toy Manufacturers can have "open" product for kids to play with in a supervised playground area. This would allow the parents to shop "Child Free" and the kids would not only develop a connection with the store but the parents would almost have to purchase something from the toy department since the child will have basically assumed ownership of the toy he/she had been playing with while his/her parents shopped!
-Electronic Departments can host events like Movie Nights in the store. This would be a sponsored, catered event where people can watch a movie (or TV show like a season premiere sponsored by a local network) on a certain brand television. Get caught up in the atmosphere and spectacle of the event. Meet people. Attend with friends and after the event they could receive a discount offer from whatever brand TV hosted the event.
-The Kitchen Ware department should team up with the Appliance department and host free lunches (all sponsored by the manufacturers) for the shoppers. Ovens, Pots, Pans, Dishes, Cutlery, Serving Pieces could all be showcased for people to see "in action" while enjoying a free meal…..and who doesn't like a free meal?
I could keep going on and on but you will see that the main goals of my ideas are not only get people in the stores but to keep them in. The longer they stay, I assume the more they spend.
Department stores need to partner with their vendors to make changes because they (the stores and the vendors) have the same goals (sell product) and the stores certainly have the real estate to do some super cool events that would make people passionate about Department Stores again.
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MUNSTER could rue teaching Neath a lesson in the Celtic League earlier in the season when they meet them again in Saturday's showpiece final at the Millennium Stadium.
Neath coach Lyn Jones reckoned he learned more from the 80-minute hammering dished out by the men in red at The Gnoll than in any other game in his short, but successful, coaching career.
The Munster men turned on the style to avenge their defeat at the same ground a year earlier and their run of victories over Welsh sides in both the Celtic and Heineken tournaments stands at a proud 13 out of 14 over the past three seasons - with only that blemish against Neath to cloud the record.
But can the men in black repeat their 30-22 triumph of September 2001 over a team that blitzed them 35-19 only a few months ago?
"The Munster game in early October was a watershed as far as our club were concerned," Jones admitted.
"It exposed how poor we were - on and off the field. It exposed our weaknesses in training and preparation as well as match hardness.
"We've worked hard on all aspects of our game since then, and we've made progress. Obviously, we won't know how much until the final.
"Before the Munster game, we thought we were thereabouts in terms of competing in Europe. We got a kick in the teeth that night.
"We were a yard off the pace on the field and we were way behind them off it. I remember looking over to their dug-out on the side of the pitch and seeing it full to overflowing with coaches, physios and technical experts.
"There was just me and the physio on the Neath side. Preparation is a key word in professional sport and that game taught me about attention to detail in everything you do."
The 38-year-old Jones, not long ago a tearaway flanker for Neath, Llanelli and Wales, is a real fan of the Munster side - if only for the sheer mistake-free ruthlessness they show for 80 minutes.
"You just have to watch that Gloucester match where they needed the four tries - they were awesome. The players showed huge commitment - they had a great line-out game, scrum game and kicking game," said Jones.
"They just don't make mistakes. They're a true team - a powerful team. They look like they all go out with a list of statistics and aren't happy until they've reached their totals - it's almost playing by numbers, but it's bloody
So what chance another Neath upset at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday? Well, something has got to give.
Both sides have lost their last three cup finals - three Principality Cup finals in Neath's case and two Heineken Cup finals and last year's Celtic League final for Munster - and they have both lost at the Millennium Stadium.
"No team is unbeatable - there's not a team in the world who are unbeatable. We have a lot of similar strengths to Munster and, if all 15 of us play to our ability, we'll match them in those errors and hopefully force them into Plan B," said Jones.
"It's not rocket science. A cup final is a one-off game, and anything can happen. We can't make mistakes and we can't give the ball away or we're finished.
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ALLEGATIONS that millions of pounds went missing from a charity appeal led by Lord Archer have cost him an open prison place, his wife said yesterday.
Lady Archer, 56, said she was proud of the disgraced Tory peer's work to raise money for Iraqi Kurds and defended his claims to have raised millions for the British Red Cross.
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He said, "The £57m never existed. "The figure arose because BRC staff were asked in the period after the Simple Truth concert how much money had been raised for Kurdish relief and came up with the global figure of £57m."
The Fraud Squad launched an investigation into Baroness Nicholson's complaints within days of Archer being jailed for four years. He was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice in relation to his successful 1987 libel action against the Daily Star, over claims he slept with prostitute Monica Coghlan.


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Hello All , I don't know where to start. I have been crazily reading all sorts of blogs during my 2 week wait. so, I know how much it helps during "this" time. For starters, I'm 33 year old and so is my husband. We conceived 5 years back but were not ready for a baby and so we carried out an abortion. Unfortunately the pill did not work properly and I had to undergo a surgery and it was very traumatic for both of us. Feb 2016, I had a false positive using HPT (Home pregnany test), and after blood test , which came as negative, my periods also started. We weren't trying but not avoiding always. We have been trying since Jan '17 and somehow we thought that it would be immediately pregnant considering how easy it was the 1st time. I started taking Vit D and Folic acid tablets. When after 3 months nothing seemed to work I started going out of my mind and feeling extremely guilty for having an abortion done. I cried myself to sleep many nights and it preyed on my mind most days. To top it off my gynaec (on visiting her in April) diagnosed secondary sterility and referred me to IVF doctors (part of the same clinic)!! After googling like crazy I decided to change the doctor and not go ahead with her suggestion simply because it was nonsense! We had tried only 3 months not 1 yr! Anyways, my usually 28-29 day cycle started getting erratic from Feb onward, 30days, 33days, 27 days, 30 days and my period length shortened considerably to just 2 days with some spotting on 3rd day. I decided to consult another gynecologist due to my shortening period length, I was scared of menopause starting realllly early for me. Trust me I thought the worst for all things possible. I was stressed all the time , weepy, unhappy. Nyhoo in May '17 ,the doctor conducted an ultrasound and as always she said all was OK, uterus & Fallopian tubes look good n clear, follicles developing well and plenty of eggs for many years. She conducted blood tests n pap smear also and then suggested me and my husband to take an antibiotic Doxycycline for 14 days as ureaplasm was found in my pap smear. I read later that ureaplasm may cause infertility in women and has no outward symptoms at all! And now 2nd month I got pregnant! I can't still believe, I guess I won't till I meet my doctor 10 days later. :) cd 6 , 10, 12, 14, 15, 17 : BD (babydance) :) cd 20 : drank 2 glass wine & scared cd 21 : light cm (cervical mucus) cd 22 : slightly gassy, bloated, tender breasts (or was it in my head) cd 23 : tingle near bellybutton on right, sleepy in aft., gassy n bloated cd 24 : insomnia (really odd coz i can sleep anytime anywhere), slight constipation (very unlike me) , light cm cd 25 : light cramps, cm. Hungry, anxious, craving salty food cd 26 : little yellow cm cd 27 : no cm, slight pain in overall tummy cd 28 : metallic taste , very little white cm, headache cd 29 : little white cm, backache, headache, tired to bones, irritable & moody cd 30 : insomnia (slept for 3 hours), heartburn, bloated tummy, light cramps in overall tummy, unbalanced, tired, slight constipation cd 31 : hot at night insomnia again but slept well in afternoon, heightened sense of smell, light body-ache, slight constipation. BUt just felt calm somehow, like I knew. cd 32 : Took HPT , came +ve just as I dreamed tonight. My blood test came +ve too. :) So you know there is hope for all of us. Things work in funny manner up in the heaven. What did I do differently : 1. Got blood tests and pap smear done to find any lurking hidden issues. 2. Prayed to God silently every night (my husband is atheist and I am nonpracticing ) 3. Drank little alcohol but did not abstain completely 4. Dissipated stress, did breathing exercises incessantly All the best to all of you. Keep trying , au naturale works. Just try very hard to give yourself hope every time there is a setback.
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It may be time to bring back our old Pump Patrol message board from a few years ago.
Gas prices are currently averaging $3.79 per gallon in the Metroplex, and many experts expect that average to be closer to $4 per gallon this summer.
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Tour De Suisse: Izagirre finished 4th in the ITT
Tour de Suisse – Stage 9 Schaffhausen-Schaffhausen ITT 28.6 km
Schaffhausen, June 18th – Ion Izagirre takes 4th in the closing time-trial of the Tour de Suisse. The Spanish Champion moves to 6th in the GC. Good performance of BAHRAIN MERIDA Team in the 9 days race.
The Tour de Suisse ends today with a Time-Trial around Schaffausen, from the old town to the LIPO Park. A 28.6 km course with the first part up and down and a 4 km climb at 5% in the finale, before a fast downhill towards the finish. Team BAHRAIN MERIDA leader Ion Izagirre started as one of the favourite, seen that time-trial is his specialty and also because he won the final TT here last year. The performance of the Spanish Champion was indeed good, but not enough to take one of the three best time. He finished 4th, 51" down the winner Rohan Dennis (36'30"). Thanks to this result he moved from 8th to 6th in the General Classification (+3'51" down the leader Spilak).
Despite he was looking for a stage win, Ion Izagirre is satisfied of his Tour de Suisse: "Today I can't win, but I feel good and now I'm looking ahead for the Tour de France. Before I have the Spanish Championships too and I think I can do well there. I'm very motivated to try to get good results. Here at the Tour de Suisse I finished in the top ten with good feelings".
Sports Director Harald Morscher is satisfied as well: "We did a very good job this week and also we took some good results, with Ion and Bonifazio in the sprints. Today it was bad that we lost the podium for 4 seconds, because Ion did a really good time trial and he risked a lot in the downhill. We were very surprised that he went so fast and we're vey happy about this. He had a bad day some days ago, so he can't fight for the overall win, but I think we have to be happy about our Tour de Suisse".
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Con Edison is making steady progress to restore power to customers who lost it as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Restorations in the south side occurred throughout the night as well as in areas of the north side. Power to 88% of the city, service was restored to 4,500 customers yesterday with 2,511 still awaiting restoration. Today restoration will be focused in specific areas within the Fleetwood Loop by 5 bucket trucks consisting of 4 restoration crews made up of 18 workers.
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Hats off to Mike Butcher: he runs a great event. London Web Summit, held yesterday at The Brewery, this time brought together with Paddy Cosgrave of Dublin Web Summit, drew a wide range of entrepreneurs, investors and 'glue' people in a day packed full with panels, interviews, discussions and startup presentations. There was a 'coding dojo' for kids. There was even a band, just like on The Tonight Show. The networking was excellent – there was a matching platform for surfing the delegates and booking meetings in advance. In terms of rallying the startup ecosystem, to quote the song, "nobody does it better"…
Content-wise, there was lots on cool new ideas, and, as ever, much focus on getting VC funding and whether there is enough of it, and a session on exits. I couldn't help feeling though that the bit in the middle – i.e. building and scaling the business – was completely glossed over. Finding out from practitioners the answers to questions like "How are you changing your organisation as it grows?", "How have you created a scalable model and what did you need to learn before you were ready to scale?" and "How are you structuring your sales and marketing efforts to ensure you deliver your growth milestones?" can only be instructive and thought-provoking to anyone going on the same journey.
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Happy Mother's Day and a Dollhouse
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Susan - I know it will be a hard day for you, but I can still wish you a happy day! Anxious to see how easily that dollhouse goes together. Then, I'll know if I want to start on mine or not!ReplyDelete
Blessings and prayers for you on this day.
I feel the same way, Susan. Keeping you in my prayers today. xoReplyDelete
Susan, we are kindred spirits today. Thinking about you and wish you happiness. Have fun putting the house together. Hope it goes smoothly and easily. Hugs~ Sarah and SadieReplyDelete
Thinking of you today, Susan. You've been in my thoughts all day as I know you are going through the same emotions that I am - both of us so recently bereft. I'm glad you're working on your dollhouse, my friend.ReplyDelete
Susan, I've had you and Claudia on my mind today. Both of you losing your Mother's so recently. I'm hoping that putting the doll house together will give you some joy. Big hugs!ReplyDelete
Susan, I know it's hard this Mothers Day just loosing your mother, but she is in heaven with your daddy and she is smiling down on you today and watching over you.ReplyDelete
I think putting the Dollhouse together is a perfect day today.
Your Bentley's mama! I'm not a mother either... In the real sense of the word...my pregnancies never came to be and there was much heartbreak. So we made our fur babies our "kids" so every year we celebrate mothers day and fathers day...this year my husband and "kids" bought me a necklace from Kay jewelers which has the open heart pendants by Jane Seymour...Jane made one with a black paw print with silver hearts and the pawprint is made of black tiny diamonds. I know it is a sad day for you but make it a day of loving rememberence, your mother wouldn't want you to be sad. Remember all the beautiful things about your mother...when my grandmother passed away, I inherited all her cat figurines, I add a new figurine every now and again. Maybe you could take something your mother loved and every mothers day add a piece to it that you think she would like.ReplyDelete
Yes, you are Bentley's mommy. Thinking of you. Yeah for working on the doll house.ReplyDelete
Cute little dollhouse. I received a kit for one the Christmas right before I lost my Dad. He passed the January after in 1993. I lost all desire to assemble my lovely dollhouse & put it under my bed for almost a year. I shouldn't have grieved that long, but everybody has their own pace for grieving. I am happy for you that you have the spirit to grieve your mother's loss & yet continue to live life. Have fun building that darling little house & know that it would make your mother very happy to see you enjoying doing it. God bless you friend.ReplyDelete
Susan, you are in my prayers.ReplyDelete
Yes, Susan, Mother's Day is always hard when we lose our own Moms. But you were with yours and helped her til the very end so you can feel very, very good about that.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see the "new" dollhouse! I'm sure it will be absolutely adorable. Susan
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Thinking of you and sending hugs your way.
I have that very dollhouse kit still in its box too that I still have to construct, some day. With my other three I really don't have any where to put another one right now. It really is a cute one though with great potential! I'm looking forward to seeing the progress.
Have a great week,
I love that little cottage, and I know you are gonna fix it up so stinkin cute!!! I'm with you today.....I worked in the garden, my mom adored flowers...everywhere!!! Don't feel bad honey, I have children and haven't heard from them going on 8 years now. There are many kinds of heart aches. Blessings to you....xoxoxoReplyDelete
Mother's Day is bitter sweet for me too. My sweet Mom has been gone for 23 long years and I am not a mother either. I try to remember the good times and reflect on the good man who has treated me like a Queen for over 40 years. You will carry on because that is what we all have to do when our love ones pass on. Have fun with your doll house (I've always wanted one too), kiss your sweetheart and hug Bently.ReplyDelete
Your little cottage doll's house is so pretty, Susan. I hope you have fun putting it together. It must be a bittersweet day for you, so close to losing your mother.ReplyDelete
Sending love and hugs.
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I built a dollhouse similar to this in my early 20's & loved it. Then life got busy for me & I got rid of it eventually. I'd love to do another one. I hope you'll show pictures of your progress.ReplyDelete


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First-time foraging: How to eat from the wild
Since a child growing up in South Africa, Marie Viljoen has loved and been inspired by plants. Now, a professional writer, forager and cook, she shares the essentials of gathering your food from the earth around you. Rather than relying on supermarkets, follow Marie´s tips to learn to live off the land:
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Effective October 1, 2011 I changed my California Certified Public Accounting license from "Active" to "Inactive". What does that mean to you?
It means I won't be able to be your "Paid Preparer" on income tax returns. The IRS and California Franchise Tax Boards have become much more demanding of all of us over the past couple of years. I'm tired of the shackles they are binding to CPAs and the ever-increasing complexity of income tax regulations. I'm bowing out of the Paid Tax Preparer market for now. That's basically it. Even though I was an Active CPA last year and entitled to perform certain functions that only Active CPAs with a Type A licenses can do, it has been years since I have done any of those functions – both in private and public accounting. There are steps I can take and time I can waste to bring it back to "Active" status but at this moment I do not see any reason to do so.
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Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works and Kasper Holten's production of Król Roger received nods alongside the best of British arts and culture.
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Alito to Change High Court's Configuration
Alito to Change High Court's Configuration
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's first day on the bench will be when the court reconvenes on Feb. 21. He won't be able to participate in any case in which he hasn't heard arguments, which means an eight-member court will issue some decisions.
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Justice Alito's first day on the bench will be when the Supreme Court reconvenes on February 21st. NPR's Nina Totenberg joins us to talk about the court's new configuration. Welcome, Nina.
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BLOCK: Justice Alito will be joining in the middle of the term. What happens to the cases that have already been argued where opinions have not yet been issued?
TOTENBERG: They will be issued in the due course of time without his participation. He will have nothing to do with any case that's already been argued, because he's not eligible to participate in those cases, unless they need to be reargued because the court is tied and they want him to break the tie. But I don't think there are very many of those if any because the court seems to have gone out of its way to try to scoop up all of the most closely contested cases and dispose of them before Justice O'Conner left.
BLOCK: So they arranged the calendar in such a way that those would be taken care of first?
TOTENBERG: I'm not sure that they arranged the calendar. For example, they decided the New Hampshire parental notification case on abortion very, very quickly. They decided it unanimously and they got it out of the way, but it was a matter of weeks before that was decided. I don't think the calendar was rigged. I think they tried to get the work done, made a concerted effort to get the closely contested cases done.
BLOCK: And who decides, or how is it decided if cases are to be reargued?
TOTENBERG: Well, it's up to the court and there's no reason to reargue any of these decisions unless there's an equally divided court, four to four, and they need Alito to break the tie. In that case it would be reargued. The only alternative is to affirm the lower court judgment by an equally divided court, and that of course would mean that it has no value for other courts, it's just sort of maintaining the status quo.
BLOCK: The lower court decision stands?
TOTENBERG: Yes.
BLOCK: What about cases that are still to come that the Justice Alito will be hearing?
TOTENBERG: Well, he's already sworn in, so he's participating in the work of the court, the behind the scenes work of the court, studying, trying to get up to snuff. And there are a lot of interesting cases coming up, the Texas redistricting case on whether partisan gerrymandering can ever be unconstitutional, there's a national security case involving whether the courts have any role in setting standards for a military tribunal when there's no congressional action. There are a number of very interesting cases that he will be participating in.
BLOCK: And also cases that the courthouse to decide whether or not to hear?
TOTENBERG: Yes, and there are a number of those cases that have been sort of hanging in limbo with no court action, a case testing the constitutionality of the federal ban of so-called partial birth abortion, another national security case, the Padilla case, testing whether an American citizen captured on American soil can be held indefinitely incommunicado without charge.
BLOCK: Let's talk about the new dynamic that Justice Alito brings to the Court replacing Justice Sandra Day O'Conner who was considered the key swing vote. Now a lot of talk about the swing vote, Justice Kennedy.
TOTENBERG: That's right. Justice Kennedy is a good deal more conservative than Justice O'Conner, and just to restate the obvious, he's also not a woman and if you think that a woman's perspective has any effect at all on, for example, discrimination cases, particularly gender discrimination cases, I think it's fair to say he may not bring quite the same sensibility. We all, those of us who cover the court, expect it to get very dramatically more conservative, but at the moment anyway Justice Kennedy will be the swing vote who could hold it back from a total swing in a conservative direction on some issues.
BLOCK: And on what issues might those be?
TOTENBERG: Well, probably not state's rights, although you never can be sure. Both Justice O'Conner and Justice Kennedy were advocates of state's rights, but in the last analysis she was willing to give a little to the idea of national standards on some things in areas that Justice Kennedy was not. Justice Kennedy on the other hand was the swing vote already in striking down the juvenile death penalty. And there are other cases like that. The two of them were swing votes on abortion, he more conservative than she. He actually very rarely has found a burden on the right to abortion that he felt was undue.
BLOCK: NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg. Nina, thanks very much.
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In 2016 The Flowers of War project held a series of concerts and conversations throughout the year in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and France. Beautiful and rarely played songs, an elegy, musical compositions and pipe tunes were all connected with WW1's Battle of the Somme.... they were performed in a concert called Sacrifice - The Lost Songbirds of the Somme to commemorate the 100th anniversary of that battle. This deeply moving event was a special way of honouring 12 musicians from 6 Allied and Axis nations (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain, Germany and France) who composed music there, until they died. Thus the concert presented music composed in the trenches or hospital, and pieces written just before the composers joined up. In the French villages that were devastated by the artillery bombardments of both sides, including Pozieres and Fromelles, the 2016 concerts were performed in churches.
Because nations normally consider only the economic and material costs of battles, Christopher Latham, director of Flowers of War, aimed to measure the cultural costs of WW1. Humanity lost so many brilliant composers and musicians in WWI that Latham produced Three Treasures – The Rediscovered Music of Three Lost World War I Composers. We lose culture in war, he said. We lost the works they would have composed, the students they would have taught, the regeneration that would have occurred. European culture was at its absolute zenith in 1913… then within a short time, it was not.
One of the three treasures was Frederick Septimus Kelly (1881-1916), an Australian child from a large Sydney family who made a comfortable living from the wool trade. After grammar school in Australia, Frederick and his five brothers were sent to Eton in 1893, then he went up to Baliol College Oxford in 1909.
War Composers said that music had always been his passion; he had apparently memorised Mozart piano sonatas by 5, and began composing soon after. Sensibly his parents dissuaded him from leaving Eton to attend a conservatoire too early, and Frederick found a substitute in sporting pursuits - especially rowing.
Frederick was internationally famous as a young rower, winning the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley 1903 and 1905, and a gold medal at the 1908 London Olympics in the men's eight. And as a single sculler.
Oxford had given him the opportunity to mix with like-minded individuals and after his parents' deaths he recommenced a more serious study of music. From 1903, for 5 years, he attended the Hochschule Konservatorium in Frankfurt to study piano and composition. Was this choice influenced by the attendance there of another Australian, Percy Grainger, a man Kelly had already met.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, Kelly was quick to volunteer, joining up in September 1914 with his friend, the poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915). Kelly sailed towards the Dardanelles in the eastern Mediterranean. After the ensuing battles at Gallipoli, Kelly was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for great bravery during the evacuation in January 1916. He was one of the last three officers to be evacuated from Gallipoli.
Throughout the war years, Kelly continued to write music. Brooke's tragic 1915 midnight burial, on the Isle of Skyros among the olive groves, was moving and famous. While recuperating from Gallipoli, Kelly composed his Elegy for strings and harp "in memoriam for Rupert Brooke", one of the few works by Kelly to have been recorded.
The composer was next posted to the Somme. On 13th November 1916, while leading a suicidal attack on a German machine-gun position at Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, Kelly was shot dead. He was 35.
Like most Australians, I did not even recognise Kelly's name before seeing the Flowers of War project. But that might change. While he was a celebrated musician and Olympic sportsman, Kelly was also a great diarist whose writings were published after the war. Only his last diary, recording his final days on the battle field, had been lost. However even this last diary was recently discovered in an English bookshop, totally by accident. This volume will eventually form the final chapter of Kelly's published life.


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Trigger warning for discussion of suicide and anxiety attacks
Recently, I was triggered by something I saw in a seminar. This occurrence made me aware of the misunderstandings surrounding the words 'trigger' and 'trigger warning.' I'll endeavor to shed some light on them for you today. What happened was this:
For a module on affect studies we examined some examples of shame in popular culture. An obvious example was the 2011 film Shame directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. There was a scene towards the end of the movie that triggered an anxiety attack in me.
From here on out, this blog post contains spoilers for the film Shame.
In the film, Fassbender plays a sex-addict, and Mulligan plays his sister who is starved for affection. The atmosphere of the entire film is gloomy and depressing, full of emotionless, robotic sex scenes that seem hollow and sad. Towards the end of the film, the sister attempts suicide. She cuts her wrists, and Fassbender finds her. The scene is intended to shock: he opens the bathroom door, she's smudged the shiny white tiles of the floor with the bright red blood gushing from her slashed wrists. He screams and clutches her limp body. The sister survives, but it's a close call.
It's worth mentioning that I feel personally sympathetic towards Carey Mulligan. In her 2009 film An Education I identified with her character greatly. I loved her performance in The Great Gatsby. When she recorded a number of songs with my favorite band Belle & Sebastian for their album Write About Love, I was awed and envious in equal measure. In Shame, her character is a young woman with mental health issues struggling to make a living as an artist. The parallels are obvious.
So when I saw her enact a graphic suicide attempt, no matter how fictional, I freaked out. It was like time stopped for a moment. Oxygen left the room. I looked around me, but no one else appeared disturbed. I couldn't move and so I didn't. As soon as the scene was over I left the classroom. I don't remember cycling home, but I'm sure I did, because as soon as I was through the front door, the panic attack set in. I'm not describing a panic attack to you in detail because I can't, but there's crying and hyperventilating involved and it feels like you're dying. In other words: not fun.
My dad came down the stairs to calm me, and eventually he did. Afterwards, I was completely exhausted. The weird amounts of oxygen I'd been breathing and the dehydration from the crying had given me a headache. I slept for the rest of the afternoon, and for over twelve hours during the night. The next day, I skipped class in order to recuperate. Recuperate is a word that here means: "lounge around in my pj's, pet the pets and watch a bunch of Disney movies." All in all, I missed two and a half classes because of this incident, and when I went back to class on Thursday I was still feeling shaky.
Trigger warnings in academia have been a hotly debated issue for quite some time now: if we put trigger warnings on things that are potentially upsetting, don't we risk making people complacent? Won't it hinder critical thinking if no one is ever confronted with things that may offend or shock them? Are trigger warnings an infringement on freedom of speech? No. And this is where the broccoli metaphor comes into play.
I hate broccoli. I think it is bitter and the texture is gross and it ruins any dish it's involved in. But I was raised with the awareness that vegetables are good for you and so I'll occasionally eat broccoli with only a bare minimum of complaint. The things that offend you are like broccoli. Freud is like broccoli: his phallocentrism annoys me to no end, but I am aware that reading Freud is an integral part of an education in critical theory, and so I'll read him with only a minimum of complaint. Although the sexist implications of his writings bother me, they do not trigger me.
Now imagine if I was allergic to peanuts. If I ate a peanut I would go into shock and without medical attention I would die. If Freud is like broccoli, like a minor inconvenience, then triggers are like peanuts: potentially lethal. But, you say, peanuts are a central ingredient in the Indonesian cuisine: how can you eat sate without peanut-sauce? I do that because I don't have a choice: the consequences of diversity and well-roundedness, in this case, would be disastrous. Because personally I think missing almost two days of classes is a pretty nasty price to pay.
Furthermore, I am not triggered by depictions of suicide because they are outside the realm of the imaginable for me. I'm not having an averse reaction to something because it is so alien to me. I'm having an intensely averse reaction because suicidal ideation, for me, is so intensely familiar. When I saw Carey Mulligan crumpled on the floor, my first thought was that that looked nice and peaceful. I remembered being depressed enough to desire death, and that thought is what upset me.
The trigger also did not occur because I have failed to deal with my depression. I am no longer in the midst of a mental illness, and it is not a weakness on my part that this has such a huge impact on me. Any cultural object, be it film, TV or writing, attempts to invoke a feeling of understanding in its audience. I'm especially susceptible to this identification by nature, because I'm very empathic, sometimes even too empathic. I'm especially susceptible to sympathizing with suicidal ideation because I have personal experience with it. A certain setting (in this case, a viewing of Shame in a public setting) bring the depressive side of me to the surface. And I'm not ashamed of trying to avoid that kind of needless suffering. That's why I'm advocating trigger warnings.
Please note that the title of this blogpost was not meant to make light of trigger warnings, only to catch your attention and introduce the comparison I made. And hey, if you made it all the way down to this note at the bottom, that must have worked.


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Yahoo Revamps Local Search
"The future of local search lies not only in offering highly comprehensive and relevant local search results, but in combining those results with community generated content, and Yahoo leads the field in the integration of these efforts," Yahoo Local General Manager Paul Levine said in a statement.
The redesign will have a strong focus on community, asking Yahoo's 181 million registered members to give their opinion about local businesses and services.
"We will continue to bring the human element to local search, leveraging community knowledge to give users more depth and social context in their local online experience," Levine said.
The new search will also provide real-time updates on events and other information. Users can subscribe to receive user recommendation updates directly to My Yahoo or through an RSS feed reader. In addition, the new search will recommend suggestions based on search history and recently viewed listings, along with top-rated local community listings.
"Yahoo is thinking broadly and creatively about both sets of interests and has established a leadership position in the arena," said Greg Sterling, program director for The Kelsey Group.
The past year has seen a series of search engines attempting to outshine one another with a series of new local search features. In March, Google enhanced its local search tool with Google Maps, and in February, America Online launched its own version of a local search, which allows users to personalize their experience by a combination of location and local search history.
Local search is also going mobile. In April, Google announced that mobile users could utilize localized searching, along with maps and driving directions.
In a previous interview, Georges Harik, Google's director of product management said that company is committed to putting more resources into mobile because, "the devices have been getting better and more people are signing up for data plans, so there are more people that will benefit."
The year before that, Yahoo took its local search mobile, and recently, AOL been working to expand its wireless search options as well. Ask Jeeves.com announced that it plans to get into the local search game later this year as well.
"As both users and advertisers turn to the Internet to find one another, local becomes increasingly significant," Sterling said.


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Cyber-Proof Your Business
Security of software, data and IT systems has become important for everyone who uses computers and stores data. It is especially important for businesses, companies, commercial entities, educational institutions, organisations and government departments. Companies collecting and storing data of their customers and clients have to comply with the new GDPR rules. It ensures a safe environment for everyone. Companies can avoid penalties for breach of data. penetration testing can be done to identify the vulnerabilities of the systems used to store data and programs. Owners of businesses and organisations must realise the importance of data security.
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Why Is Keeping Your Software Secure so Important in Business?
When you collect data from your users, they expect you will store their data safely and securely. When your data storage system is breached, your users lose confidence in your capability to protect their data. It affects your reputation. Your brand receives negative publicity. Failure to protect data can lead to penalties from the government departments that regulate businesses. Similar to the data, your software programs are also vulnerable to hacks, viruses and other security risks. Take appropriate measures before any security breach damages your business.
Why is Keeping Data Secure so Important Now?
It has become necessary for all organisations to comply with the GDPR rules. These rules have been devised to ensure a safe and secure environment for everyone who uses digital contents and network4. It is your responsibility to keep the data you collect in a safe and secure way. Organisations that have failed to comply with these rules have been served heavy GDPR fines. Some companies are able to recover but many others are forced to close their business because of heavy penalties. If you collect or process the data of your users, make sure you comply with the GDPR regulations.
How Can Businesses Protect Themselves from Cyber Attacks and Solidify Their Cyber Security?
There are various ways businesses can protect themselves from cyber attacks. The first option is to use data backup solutions. The data should be stored in a safe and secure environment. It is advisable to store the backup data at a different location than the place where the main data is stored. It ensures data security even in case of physical damage to the data storage system at the main site. Various security systems must be in place to keep the data protected from hackers who use a variety of ways to hack the data and accounts. Additionally, you have to deploy protective barriers with the help of antivirus software. This type of program will protect your software, data and systems from viruses, worms, trojans and other forms of digital security threats. Cyber security risks are present in other forms like system access denial, ransomware and others.
For small businesses, basic data backup and antivirus software solutions are sufficient for the purpose. However, large businesses that store lots of data in enterprise servers have to use more robust solutions. They have to take help of professional security experts to protect the data of their users, customers, clients, suppliers, employees and other business partners. Use robust data security solutions to protect your company's brand reputation and avoid penalties.


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During 2019, "live trailer" previews for Romance Is Such A Funny Thing will be presented at the Vernon Hills Barbara's Bookstores location (720 Hawthorn Center) on these dates:
Live Trailer #1 (Sweetest Day edition)
Saturday, October 19, 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday, October 20, 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featuring: Terry Breen, show creator, and cast members Tamara Kist and Jim Sullivan, singing songs and doing scene snippets from the show, and providing a "teaser" synopsis.
Live Trailer #2
Saturday, November 2, 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday, November 3, 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featuring: Terry Breen, show creator, providing a "teaser" synopsis, and singing "love advice songs" from the show.
Live Trailer #3
Saturday, November 16, 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday, November 17, 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featuring: Terry Breen, show creator, appearing
with cast members.
Live Trailer #4
Saturday, November 30, 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Sunday, December 1, 3 p.m.-4 p.m.
Featuring: Terry Breen, show creator, appearing
with cast members.
The show is about a team of musicians and singers presenting a low-budget self-help seminar on romance that uses songs to make its key points about "romantic success" (and is thus referred to as a "songinar").
The action involves a particular seminar session that goes haywire. It falls apart and reassembles itself before the eyes and ears of a comically shocked audience, which empathizes with and roots for the songinar host, who turns out to be the unlikely hero of the play.
The show's songs vary in style from vaudeville-style comic tunes, to tender folk-rock numbers, to modern hybrid songs that mix rock, folk, and jazz influences.
All about the show
Romantic love is such a baffling force that the best way to discuss it is through humor. But my lighthearted look at love has a serious message—that love stays fresh and healthy only through understanding, kindness, and good communication.
The show's songs include tips for kindling the coals of romance. The show is sort of a love advice column set to music. For example, one song is a humorous script to use to persuade your beloved to return home after a lover's quarrel—and another song is a comical request for forgiveness.
The show makes the point that the best words to use to keep love alive are honest and heartfelt. But it never hurts to season those words with a little humor.
Romance Is Such A Funny Thing is the latest project in my career in music and entertainment.
I have three song-collection CDs on the market: Something About Love, A Near-Life Experience and The Millennium Bugs Me. Several of my songs have hit the radio and TV airwaves. A comic song about the Y2K computer situation, "The Millennium Bug," won a National Public Radio award. Also receiving wide airplay is the comic song, "Blame It On El Nino."
I'm also a composer, primarily of melodic piano instrumentals. I perform these soothing, uplifting pieces, featured on my CD Piano Prayers, at concerts throughout the Chicago area.
Beyond music, I've been active in the world of comedy and theater. I wrote and appeared in the cable TV comedy special, Prewitness News, and was a member of the comedy troupe Three Comics, No Waiting. I wrote the script and music score for The Extraordinary Mr. Ordinary, a play produced in Chicago at the Royal George Theater and the Raven Theater.
I also composed the music for a video, A Cup Of Joe, and a Transient Theater production of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
My work as a singer-songwriter, composer, and performer jibes with work as a business communication consultant and as a business writing instructor (at Northwestern University).
Meanwhile, I'm still active as a journalist, specializing in articles about music, technology, and travel. I'm a fiction writer, too. My comic novel, Words On Vacation, is available at Amazon.com. Check out excerpts here.
Musical Notes
"Echoes of ragtime, jazz, and classical music floating above a steady modern beat"—this describes Terry Breen's original piano music.
One fan says that it "sounds like J. S. Bach playing Scott Joplin." Get samples.
Meanwhile, Terry's song, "In My Heart It's Always Summer," is available for download on iTunes.


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People that have passed PSPO I and achieved certification demonstrate a fundamental understanding of how to maximize return on investment, optimize the total cost of ownership of products and systems, and the drivers for delivering value, while working as part of a self-organizing, cross-functional team within the Scrum framework.. more
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