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The EU Commission has published redrafted PRIIPs RTS on its website. The amended rules state that KIDs will now contain a fourth "stress scenario". Comprehension alerts are explicitly linked to the MiFID II definitions for complex and non-complex instruments. In drawing up the amended rules, the Commission worked with other EU institutions. This consultation raises the possibility that final RTS could be agreed during a shortened scrutiny period and may allow industry to hope that final implementation work can start in the near future. However, the formal legal procedure has to be respected, and these new RTS could still be rejected by the European Parliament.
Key changes
The redrafted rules have been eagerly awaited by the financial industry. The Commission's announcement relates to two of the most contentious issues, namely calculation methodologies for performance scenarios and the consistent use of comprehension alerts.
1. Performance scenarios
While including performance scenarios in the PRIIP-KID has been the subject of much debate, a fourth performance scenario has been added to address the European Parliament's concerns about performance scenario calculations. This fourth scenario is the so-called "stress scenario", which sets out significant unfavourable impacts of the product not already covered in the unfavourable scenario. The stress scenario shows what a customer may get back in extreme market circumstances (but without "what happens if the manufacturer is unable to pay out").
For industry, this new method will require some implementation effort, for example with regard to measuring volatility based on a certain formula. However, the addition of a stress scenario comes in response to industry concerns that existing scenarios could indicate a positive result even where the investor was at risk of losing capital, and were therefore misleading. Introducing a mandatory stress scenario addresses this issue by making the investor more aware of the risks of capital loss.
The amended guidelines also retain the existing calculation methodologies. This is despite some calls by the fund industry for a UCITS-type approach, where a historical outlook is offered without being used to predict future performance. In the new PRIIPs RTS, future performance scenarios will continue to be calibrated based on past data, although past performance of the product is not itself stated in the KID. Many will interpret this as a clear signal of the regulator's commitment to the calculation methodology as it stands. In the absence of any move towards aligning the PRIIPs model with their existing one, this news may prompt generators familiar with UCITS to reconsider their calculation processes.
2. Comprehension alerts to align with MiFID II
Meanwhile, the consistent use of comprehension alerts has become an increasingly important question as MiFID II and PRIIPs timetables have become aligned. This announcement establishes a common definition of instrument complexity, underlining the extent to which the two regulations overlap and should be considered in a common approach by financial institutions.
3. Further clarification still needed on updating frequency
Some topics are also conspicuous by their absence. The latest guidance does not amend the review and revision articles and, hence, it is still not fully clear when a KID needs to be updated and how such updates must be communicated (although recital 20 remains useful). Updating frequency is a critical topic as firms work to put processes and data in place for investor protection compliance under both regulations. In particular, firms will need to consider how to align data flows for PRIIPs-KIDs and MiFID II pre-trade transparency checks with updating frequency requirements. Clarification on this topic will therefore be needed in the Level 3 guidance.
Disagreement on four areas of the original Level 2 legal guidance led to its rejection by the European Parliament in September 2016. The Commission has been working with the ESAs since November to agree on redrafted RTS, concentrating on the areas disputed by the European Parliament. These refer to the treatment of Multi Option Products (MOPs), changes to performance scenario calculations to make unfavorable scenarios less optimistic, the application of a comprehension alert and the disclosure of insurance costs and benefits, where applicable. The announcement starts a scrutiny period by the Parliament and Council before the revised PRIIPs RTS can be formally established.
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Beaumont Pride folds, looks to community for help
Beaumont's very own Pride festival started in 2014, but the non-profit dissolved last year due to the annual financial burden, according to former volunteer chair Jacqueline Hays.
However, Hays believes that others in the community will step forward to keep Beaumont Pride going.
"I … am expecting to see some movement in April because of Lamar Pride month," she said. "We're sure the community will take it over." She mentioned the LGBT group in Orange as a possibility.
Hays is also the president of Beaumont PFLAG.
Jacqueline Hays helped found Beaumont Pride in 2014 along with Shawn Hare, Jennifer Daniel and Chance Henson.
About 2,500 people attended the first Pride festival, Hays said, but this grew to nearly 4,000 attendees in June 2016.
"Pride operated entirely on community donations and volunteer labor," Hays wrote in an email. "Each year, the costs of the event exceeded the amount of donations collected, leaving the board members to cover the organization's financial obligations.
"After three years of covering the deficit from their personal incomes, it was found that the members of the board could no longer afford to take on the annual financial burdens of the organization."
Several community members have expressed interested in continuing Beaumont Pride, Hays said.
"At this time, however, it is unclear when they will announce their plans to produce the event," she said.
Several past Pride attendees spoke with The Examiner about what the organization means to them and their hopes for the festival to continue.
"It's a chance to show Beaumont how much our community is supported, how close many of us are, raising funds for and awareness of our local advocacy groups like PFLAG, HRC and Legacy," said Amanda Turner, previous attendee and 2016 debutante.
"It would be a great loss to Beaumont, not just the LGBT community, if it didn't survive."
Olivia Busceme has attended and helped organize Beaumont Pride every year. Even if an official Beaumont Pride doesn't happen this year, Busceme believes some festivities will still happen this summer.
"There are still supportive businesses and organizations in town. The Publicity will surely continue hosting their annual White Party and weekly drag shows, PFLAG will continue hosting support group meetings, and human beings will continue showing love even when faced with criticism and prejudice," she said.
"While the Beaumont Pride walk and festival has been extremely impactful in our community, I don't think it will be the end of the world if the festivities get changed up a bit."
"Small towns like Beaumont need this sort of celebration to increase visibility and awareness of our issues to the city at large," said Paul Martin, former Pride volunteer. "It would be absolutely wonderful to see another organization pick up the torch."
"I think it would be a devastating blow to not just the people of Beaumont, but any of the bands, performers, venue owners, and people who travel to experience pride. A lot of people have worked very hard for this," said Tack Somers, past Pride attendee and slam poet.
"I know that no matter what the outcome, the people of the Beaumont community … are strong and resilient. I would hope to see such a wonderful event continue, but pride will never be gone. We may not have a festival, but pride is in our hearts."

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Character Reference Letter To Judge. Sooner or later you or someone you know will run afoul of the law...and when it happens it is supremely
important to have friends, family and acquaintances write reference letters to Judges affirming your many positive qualities to help you avoid harsh sanctions. Unsolicited testimony about how unique, important and valuable a person you are to your family, employer and notable roles they play in the community can be important considerations of a judge's decision.
Will a letter result in lesser sanctions for a guilty person? Sometimes and maybe, but you'll never know unless you submit one. Following is a sample Reference Letter To a Judge to use as a template for writing one specific to your situation. Please modify it as needed.
Honorable [Judge's Full Name]
United States District Judge
3330 Commerce Street
Johnson City, KS 11111
Your Honor,
I'm writing on behalf of my brother, John Williams, who will be appearing before you in court on DUI charges. As his older brother I know firsthand that he has a drinking problem. While I'm not sure if he's an alcoholic or not I do know that when he drinks he becomes mean spirited with seemingly little regard for consequences for his behavior. John acknowledges that he has a drinking problem too and wants to stop.
On the other hand, when he is sober you couldn't find a person with a bigger heart. He volunteers in our local homeless center at least one day a week and is always assisting his neighbors in some way; mowing their lawns when their lawn mowers break down, driving them to the store when their cars won't start, etc. Nor can you find someone who is more responsible. He has been on his same job of 15 years, living in his present home for 20 years and a resident of the county for all his life, 40 years.
This is John's first legal charge and he has expressed much anguish and remorse about it and to his credit has already done what might be considered an appropriate sanction for the law violation, completion of a DUI Course. I think he will continue to do even more positive things to compensate for his lapse of judgement and am confident that this situation is deterrent enough to keep him from repeating the behavior.
Please consider these qualities about him when making your decision about what you will do in his case. You will feel free to call me at 943-345-6435 if you need to verify any of the statements contained in this letter.
Ralph Williams, Brother
839 East West Corridor
Johnson City, KS 11111
Comment: Outstanding Character Reference
Letter to Judge
This letter kept my employee out of jail. Although he broke the law he's basically a good person, who did something stupid. If he'd gone to jail I would have lost a lot of business, so this letter helped me and him. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing! Once again, it goes to show that reference letters written to judges and prosecutors can have a direct impact on sanctions ordered by the courts. Lanard
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I had planned to share one more recipe with you before Christmas, but in the midst of a cleaning frenzy and packing for my trip to Perth, being dosed up on painkillers for my aching shoulder and the finished dessert just generally being all kinds of 'meh', I unfortunately have nothing new for you today!
I did however still want to pop in and wish all of you lovely readers a very very happy Christmas and holiday season. I hope it's filled with love, family and of course good food!
While I'm here I thought I'd shine the spotlight back onto the archives, just in case anyone is still looking for Christmas recipes because there's some pretty awesome stuff hiding back there! Here are a few of my faves…
- Candy Cane Ice Cream Float (Spider) + 12 other candy cane recipes!
- White Wine Sangria
- Pomegranate Sangria
- Spiced Mulled Cider
- Mulled Wine Syrup
- Marmalade and Whisky Glaze for Turkey, Ham or Duck
- Lemon, Garlic & Thyme Roast Chicken
- Baked Macaroni (a staple at our family Christmas feast!)
- Brown Sugar Pavlova
- Chocolate & Muscat Puddings
- Chocolate & PX Brownie Cake
- Fruit Mince Pies
- Gingerbread House
- Gingerbread Men
- Little Figgy Christmas Cakes
- Spiced Baked Muscat Custards
- Sprinkle Bark Cake (imagine how good this would be with candy cane bark!!!)
- Yule Log (Buche de Noel)
I'll be back next week with a roundup of my favourite posts from 2012! xx


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Silk Season
When you think of luxury and tie it in with fashion the fabric that comes straight to mind is silk. Silk is a fantastic fabric to be worn throughout the Spring/Summer as its light and soft on your skin. If you want to add a sense of je ne sais quoi to your shop then adding silk to your range is a must!


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R.I.P. Whitney Houston.
Whitney Houston..what can I say..when she sang live she made back phrasing work..perfect vocal placement. Technically and organically, she was singing perfection. what a beautiful sound. Closed her eyes when she sang , left the microphone in the stand in places that were taboo for us to do,…turned her back to the audience..she did all the things that were hammered into us NOT TO DO in Music Performance class…because "You can't connect with your audience that way." Lol..But..She connected with her audience a truly divine connection. She KNEW how to build a song p e r f e c t l y…Modulations were her signature….Whitney Houston one of the best singers ever… R.I.P.


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As human and economic development in Viet Nam has increased over the nearly three decades of Đổi mới ('Renewal'), people's expectations of governance are also changing. Viet Nam's Constitution and political structure offer opportunities for citizens to participate in governance both directly (through in-person engagement at the local level) and indirectly (through voting for People's Council and National Assembly delegates). These forms of participation can be summarised in the two familiar slogans of 'People know, people discuss, people do, and people monitor', and 'Government of the people, by the people, and for the people'. Yet the implementation of legal rights to participation often lags behind the letter of the law. How can citizens be more actively involved in public decision making?
This research report is the result of collaboration between the international non-governmental organisation, Oxfam and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to examine and analyse citizen participation in policy-making processes and political life. It forms part of a series of UNDP-commissioned studies on Viet Nam's governance and public administration performance conceived on the basis of the wealth of data and information provided by the Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI). The report employs an innovative combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis to compare citizen participation at the national level with in-depth conditions in local communities.
More: Click here to download the Vietnamese version and executive summary
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The UN in Viet Nam has been conducting consultations to reach out to the most vulnerable groups: over 1,300 people were consulted on their vision for the future after 2015. The report "A Million Voices: The World We Want", covering interesting voices from Viet Nam, together with the voices of more than 1 million people worldwide is the culmination of the consultation process.
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Ian Coxhead, Diep Phan, Dinh Vu Trang Ngan and Kim N. B. Ninh
This paper addresses issues related to the mobilization and use of labour in Vietnam and its relation to urbanization processes occurring in the country. Researched and written in tandem with a companion paper entitled 'A robust harvest: strategic choices for agricultural and rural development in Viet Nam' by Ian Coxhead, Kim N.B. Ninh, Vu Thi Thao and Nguyen Thi Phuong Hoa, this paper compares Vietnam's experiences with those of its regional neighbors and evaluates current and potential future policy settings to identify successful strategies and propose means by which the country's existing wealth can be deployed to the greatest benefit of current and future generations.
Michel Sidibé
Executive Director of UNAIDS
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
This World AIDS Day, we are highlighting the importance of the right to health and the challenges that people living with and affected by HIV face in fulfilling that right.
Community spaces design contest for an exciting hanoi
Ha Noi, October 17/10/2017 - Aiming at improving the living environment and bringing culture and art to the community towards a better urban future, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) successfully developed the project "Promote participatory, community-based and youth-led approach in safe, greening public spaces in Hoan Kiem district toward a pro-poor, inclusive and sustainable urban development" (hereinafter called Public Spaces project) under the Block by Block program with Mojang, the makers of the videogame Minecraft.
Deadline for round 1: From 17/10/2017 to 04/11/2017 Extended to 9 November 2017
Harsh punishment for child offenders doesn't prevent further criminality
The age at which a child, can be held criminally liable is a controversial issue around the world. Within Viet Nam, this issue is currently being grappled with in the Penal Code amendments. Some argue that a "get tough on crime" approach is necessary to punish children to prevent further criminality.
However, international research shows that because of their developmental stages, labelling and treating children as criminals at an early age can have serious negative impacts on their development and successful rehabilitation.
New Year Greetings from the United Nations Resident Coordinator a.i. in Viet Nam
On the occasion of New Year 2017, on behalf of the United Nations family in Viet Nam I wish to reiterate our appreciation and express our warmest wishes to our partners and friends throughout the country. We wish our partners and their families in Viet Nam peace, prosperity, good health and happiness in the coming year.
As we enter the second year of the Sustainable Development Goals era, we look forward to continuing our close cooperation for the sake of Viet Nam's future development; one which is inclusive, equitable and sustainable, with no one left behind.
Youssouf Abdel-Jelil
United Nations Resident Coordinator a.i. in Viet Nam
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message for World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December
Thirty-five years since the emergence of AIDS, the international community can look back with some pride. But we must also look ahead with resolve and commitment to reach our goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
There has been real progress in tackling the disease. More people than ever are on treatment. Since 2010, the number of children infected through mother to child transmission has dropped by half. Fewer people die of AIDS related causes each year. And people living with HIV are living longer lives.
The number of people with access to life-saving medicines has doubled over the past five years, now topping 18 million. With the right investments, the world can get on the fast-track to achieve our target of 30 million people on treatment by 2030. Access to HIV medicines to prevent mother to child transmission is now available to more than 75 per cent of those in need.


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The Russian shtetl in the long-lost, newly reconstructed Yiddish operetta "The Golden Bride" has a dreamy look about it, all latticework and whitewash, like the setting for a garden party. The people here may dream of riches — who doesn't? — but they're doing all right. If they leave this place for America, it's only because an even better life awaits.
A farcical, tuneful romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, "The Golden Bride" ("Di Goldene Kale") is an immigrant fantasy that looks as fondly on Mother Russia as on Uncle Sam. With music by Joseph Rumshinsky, lyrics by Louis Gilrod and a libretto by Frieda Freiman — immigrants all — it was a hit when it opened in 1923.
In a handsome new large-cast production, presented by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, it's still deeply satisfying.
Performed largely in Yiddish, with English and Russian supertitles, the story is simple. Goldele (Rachel Policar), a formerly poor, seemingly motherless young woman raised in the shtetl, is moving to America to claim her millions.
"Long live my dead father, who left me such a large inheritance!" she exults.
Goldele's fortune has transformed her into the shtetl's most sought-after bride, but she is convinced that her mother is alive somewhere. Goldele promises to marry whichever young man can reunite her with her mama. Misha (Cameron Johnson), devoted to Goldele since childhood, is among those who take up the challenge.
I, for one, was rooting for Misha and Goldele as a couple from the first time they sang together, in the love song "My Goldele," if only so we'd get to hear their voices together again. The fine orchestra, conducted by Zalmen Mlotek, imbues the score with warmth, while Ms. Policar and Mr. Johnson supply the show's greatest vocal richness.
When Goldele sings a lullaby she remembers from earliest childhood, Ms. Policar colors it with intensity and pain. When Misha, newly arrived in the United States, sings a nationalistic anthem called "A Greeting From the New Russia," Mr. Johnson hits it out of the park — though the number, which has nothing to do with the plot, made me wonder if Cold War jitters helped to nudge this operetta from the repertoire after 1948.
Directed by Bryna Wasserman and Motl Didner, this streamlined reworking of the show mostly has more frivolous things on its mind. Its funniest moments concern a second pair of lovers, Khanele (Jillian Gottlieb), Misha's sister, and Jerome (Glenn Seven Allen), an American.
The pair have delicious chemistry, and Ms. Gottlieb is a revelation: effervescently daffy like a young Georgia Engel but also sassy and deadpan. The show is not the only discovery here.


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Out of the open doorway and an open second-story window thin curls of smoke came without propulsion to fade in the air. Above, a child's face—a young face held over the sill with a suggestion of standing tiptoe—was flat against the glass of a window on the third floor. The face held puzzlement without fear. The man on Earl Parish's left saw it first.
"Look!" he exclaimed, pointing. "There's a kid up there!"
The others tilted their faces and repeated, "There's a kid up there."
"Did anybody turn in the alarm yet?" a man who had just arrived asked.
"Yes," several voices assured him, one adding, "The engines ought to be here any minute now."
"He's all right, that kid," the man who had first seen the child praised his discovery. "Ain't crying or nothing."
"Most likely he don't even know what's going on."
"The firemen will be here in a second. Ain't much use of us trying to do anything. They can get him out with their hook 'n' ladders quicker than we could."
Feet shuffled on the sidewalk and gazes left the upper window to fasten on the smoking doorway. No one answered the man who had spoken last. After a moment, his face reddened. Earl Parish found his own cheeks warm. Looking out of the corners of his eyes at the faces around him, he saw more color than before. His glance met another man's. Both looked quickly across the street again.
A woman's voice came from a house behind the men.
"Somebody ought to get that child out of there! Even if it ain't burnt up, it's liable to get scared into convulsions or something."
Earl Parish tried to take his gaze away from the upstairs window, and failed. It was terrible, and it held him: a stupid flat face into which panic must come each instant—and did not. If the child had cried and beat the pane with its hands there would have been pain in looking at it, but not horror. A frightened child is a definite thing. The face at the window held its blankness over the men in the street like a poised club, racking them with the threat of a blow that did not fall.
Earl Parish wet his lips and thought of words he did not say. The child was not in real danger. No great heat was behind the smoke that came from the house. To leave these men and bring the child down from its window would seem a flaunting of inexpensive courage. To suggest a rescue—if he could have explained his wish to save the child from consciousness of danger, rather than from danger itself, he would have spoken. But he distrusted his ability to make the distinction clear.
"The engines ought to be here any minute now," the man who had made that prediction twice before was repeating. He scowled up and down the red brick street. "Where in the hell are them engines?" he demanded.
The man who had discovered the face at the window cleared his throat, his eyes focussed somewhat rigidly on the window.
"Maybe she's right," he said. "The kid's liable to be scared into fits. I had a nephew that got scared into St. Vitus's dance just by having a cat jump up on him."
"Is that so?" the Fire Department's herald asked with extraordinary interest.
"Maybe we better—" Earl Parish suggested.
"Maybe we better."
The group swayed indecisively. Then eight men crossed the street, their pace quickening as they approached the smoking doorway. Going up the four wooden steps they jostled one another, each trying to get ahead of the others. All were going into the house: such risk as attended them would be shared. But he who went first would bring the child down: the others would constitute a not especially important chorus.
Inside the door, a gust of smoke blew on them, shutting out the light, scorching eyes and throats. Gongs and sirens clamored in the street.
"There's the engines now!" their prophet cried. "They'll have the kid down in no time!"
Out of sight, the suspended blow in the child's face was without power. Seven men went back into the street with nothing apologetic in the manner of their going. Earl Parish remained in the house.
Through the smoke that clouded but did not fill the hallway, brass lines gleamed on a flight of steps. He hesitated. He wanted to climb those steps and either bring the child down or stay with it until the fire had been extinguished. But to do so seemed a breach of faith with the men who had gone back to the street. Had he told them he was going through with the venture, they would have accompanied him. Having stayed silently behind, if he came out now with the child, or was found upstairs with it when the fire had been put out, they would think he had tricked them so he might pose as one who had gone alone through something that had daunted them.
He took a step toward the street, and stopped. To go out without the child now would be no better. The men in the street, who no doubt had missed him by this time, would think he had lost courage after breaking faith with them.
Earl Parish went up the brass-striped steps. The smoke thickened as he mounted, but was never dense enough to make advance difficult. He saw no flames. On the third floor a rickety door barred him from the front of the building until he remembered that this was an unusual occasion, an emergency, strictly speaking. He thrust the door in with his shoulder.
He found little smoke in the room with the child, though a thin fog came in with him. The child came to him.
"Moke," it pronounced gravely.
"You're all right now, sonny," Earl Parish said, picking the child up. "I'll have you out of here in a jiffy."
He draped a red-and-green cloth from the table lightly about its head, leaving a corner loose for his own possible use. He took pains not to show himself at the window, and went down the way he had come up.
In the street again, someone took the child. He was faintly giddy from the smoke, the effort of groping his way down with the child, and the excitement that had grown in him as he descended—the nervousness that is inseparable from even the most orderly of retreats. He stood very erect, avoiding curious stares. The eyes of the seven men who had crossed the street with him reproached him from twenty paces.
He walked away, down the street with a stiff affectation of nonchalance: a short, sturdy man of thirty or so in a well-pressed double-breasted coat that made him as rectangular as a shoebox standing on end.
At his desk the next morning Earl Parish searched the day's papers. In the Morning Post, he found an inch and a half of simple news that a fire of unknown origin had been subdued with slight damage after a child was carried to safety by Earl Parish. He folded the account into the center of the newspaper and put it out of sight.
Between the departure of No. 131, southbound, and the arrival of No. 22, a train announcer came to Earl Parish's window and grinned at him over the sign that said "Information."
"Where's the medal?" the train announcer asked.
Earl Parish grinned foolishly back, blood came into his face, he perspired.
The news went around the station: Earl Parish had rescued a child from a blazing building—two children. The station employees with whom he was intimate joked about his deed. The more important employees—baggage master, stationmaster, chief dispatcher—congratulated him solemnly, as if on behalf of the company. At noon, the general passenger agent himself, on his way to a convention in St. Louis, stopped to commend Earl Parish's bravery. Earl Parish listened to his words, answered his questions, kept his gaze fixed on the general passenger agent's watch chain, and perspired. The general passenger agent's train was finally announced. He shook Earl Parish's hand and went away.
Earl Parish did his day's work in an emotional muddle, avoiding eyes, mopping his moist face incessantly with his handkerchief. Looking up to find the most casual glance turned in his direction, he would feel his face go crimson, and a desire to drop on his knees out of sight below the window would come to him. Between the necessary contacts with fellow-employees and inquiring travellers, he pretended business with guidebooks and folders in the rear of his cubbyhole, and there was exaltation in him. That night, he lay for a long while across his bed, studying the printed inch and a half he had cut from the Morning Post. There had been nothing heroic—except perhaps in a negative way—about his going into the smoking building: he had brought the child down not as one would snatch it from peril but as one would protect it from awareness of peril. Nevertheless, it was pleasant to lie across his bed knowing that people throughout the city had read of what he had done, that his acquaintances thought of him as a man of courage and perhaps were mildly boasting that they knew this Earl Parish.
Lying across the bed, he found these things pleasant. To listen to praise, even if thickly overlaid with banter, was not pleasant. It was embarrassing to be studied by eyes that tried to estimate the familiar Earl Parish in terms of the new development. But that was his self-consciousness, his shyness, and would pass. It was a transient annoyance. The joy that had come to him out of this affair would not wear away: that was a fixed thing in him.
He went rosy-faced to work the next morning, creeping out of the house to avoid his suddenly too tender landlady. The day was less uncomfortable than the previous one. To the same extent that he was becoming accustomed to his new position among his fellows, he was drifting back to last week's position. The ticket sellers, opposite his window, still threw jests through their grilles: "The next time you save any women and children, save me a blonde!" But now he could smile back at them without perspiring.
Occasionally he met acquaintances who had seen the Post story and spoke of it. He blushed and was uncomfortable at these times, but he enjoyed the later thoughts of them. He never went into the street without a wish for one of these meetings. The next issue of the railroad company's Employees' Magazine contained his photograph and an elaborated account of his feat.
Then the fire was as if it had never happened.
No one ever mentioned it. He brought it casually into his talk once or twice, but no one showed any interest. At first, he thought this coldness sprang from boredom. Later, he decided envy was truly responsible.
He began to keep to himself. After all, what had he in common with the people around him? An uninteresting lot: the lesser inhabitants of the world, unimportant cogs in not especially important machines. He himself was a cog, true enough, but with the difference that on occasion he could be an identity. The last drop of ancestral venturesomeness had not been distilled from his blood. He experimented with this thought, evolving a sentence he liked: "All their ancestral courage has been distilled by industrialism out of their veins." He would look at the world over his sign that said "Information" and repeat the sentence to himself.
People who passed his window or brought their questions to it were sorted. Did they retain some part of their ancestral courage? Or did they not? The first class was small.
Complaints went uptown to the general offices: the man at the information window had been unobliging, had been rude, had been insulting. Earl Parish received a formal letter, calling his attention to a number of these complaints and to the purple slogan on the company's advertising matter: Courtesy All-Ways. Such important departments as the information bureau, the letter insisted, had great influence on the public's attitude toward the company, and on that attitude depended not only the railroad's income but also its success in securing favorable legislation.
Earl Parish did not like this letter. With a pencil and a pad of paper he began framing a reply, not such a reply as might be expected of a cog. A testy old man came to his window with an unanswerable question. The Earl Parish of a while ago would have led the old man around to a point where the answer to an altogether different question would have satisfied him. The Earl Parish who was busy with the draft of his reply to the general offices told the old man point-blank that his question was silly. The testy old man was a personage of some sort. The next day Earl Parish was given two weeks' notice. He left within ten minutes.
Ten days later, he found a place in a steamship agency. A month later, he was looking for work again. He had sat dreaming over his desk one afternoon and his employer, a little fat man with a fat sneering mouth, had asked him if he was afraid of work. Had asked him—a little fat man who would have buried his face in his arms at the first sign of danger. He had told the little fat man exactly what he was afraid of and exactly what not, and in the end had found himself walking down the street with his wages in his pocket.
His next position was in the basement of a wholesale-drug house, but he quit this place after two weeks. He was done with working at a desk. He had reasoned things out. Desk jobs were well enough for a man who could not rise above them. But nowadays there was a scarcity of—hence must be a demand for—men whose ancestral courage had not been distilled out of their veins. He meant to find and fill such an opening.
Three months of searching exhausted his savings and persuaded him he had been mistaken. It seemed there was no place for venturesomeness in the modern world. Courage was the one thing for which business had no use—not only could not use it but did not want to have it around. If your employer learned you were not a sheep or a worm—a timid, docile sheep or worm—he immediately got rid of you.
Earl Parish was working temporarily in a soap factory when he read one day in a newspaper that the city Fire Department was dangerously undermanned. He deserted the soap factory at once, amazed that he had needed the newspaper to point out his path: the city Fire Department was so obviously the one place in the world for him!
He submitted his application and a doctor surveyed his body. Days passed, and he was told he had failed the physical examination—a matter of defective kidneys. In the office of a fire commissioner that same afternoon, Earl Parish created a diversion. An inch and a half of cut newspaper was brandished before the commissioner's eyes. The commissioner was called an old fool. Presently Earl Parish was hustled to the sidewalk.
He went then to the offices of the Morning Post, where he found someone to listen to his story. The Post happened to be an opposition paper at the time. It gave half a column to the tale of the man who once had "dashed into a blazing building to rescue a little child," and who now, unable to find other employment, was barred from the Fire Department by "the same red tape which is responsible for the department's inability to get and keep an adequate force."
Out of this advertisement Earl Parish got—besides a new clipping—employment as night watchman in a packing plant. He was paid four dollars a night and soon learned that two men who had divided the work had been discharged to make a place for him. It was the watchman's duty to make a tour of the building once an hour, registering at fifteen little boxes hung on the walls. After the first week, Earl Parish began to skip boxes, those in distant corners. There were complaints, of course, but he ignored them. He had been hired, he reasoned, because of his known courage, and he trusted that to overbalance minor irregularities. He was mistaken. He was discharged at the end of the third week.
Returning to the Post, he could find no one to listen to his story. The other papers were as indifferent. He found several positions within the next few months. Sometimes he resigned, sometimes he was discharged. He earned enough to pay for meals and a place to sleep. He spent much time in a public square just out of the business district. Sitting on a bench, or sprawling on the grass, he would sort passersby according to his habit. Fewer and fewer were those whose ancestral courage had not been distilled by industrialism out of their veins. Now and then, he would write a letter to the Post's Open Forum, commenting bitterly on this failing of the race.
Sometimes he would go down to the waterfront, pretending he was going to make his way to some virile land where the courageous still prospered and sheep were eaten. He never put his foot on a deck, never asked a question that could lead to a place aboard a boat. The periods of halfhearted search for work grew longer. The intervals of employment shrank. Some days, he was hungry.
One of these days, he went to the house from which he had carried the child. The child's family had moved from the neighborhood to nobody knew where. Another morning when hunger was a hard lump in his stomach he walked the streets, studying the faces of the people he passed, classifying them, but not in his familiar fashion. He sought now to pick out the probably liberal from the probably not liberal.
Three times, he approached faces that bespoke generosity. Three times, last-minute timidity and the too near presence of others in the street kept him silent, sent him hurrying on as if a pressing engagement awaited him at the end of the street. The fourth face that attracted him was very old, and years had washed it clean of all color, of all expression save a meek friendliness. Its owner walked alone and slowly, with the help of a silver-knobbed cane. His shoes were black mirrors.
Earl Parish turned around and followed the old man. Other pedestrians passed and repassed them. Earl Parish kept half a block behind his man, and as he walked he took his three finger-worn clippings out of their envelope and put them loose in his pocket, where they would be readily available if his request for "a dime or so" needed documentary bolstering.
Presently the old man turned in to a street where people were few. Earl Parish quickened his pace and the distance between them shrank. Hurrying thus, he came to a corner where a bare-headed man was breaking the glass front of a fire-alarm box with a fist wrapped in a handkerchief.
Earl Parish forgot his kindly faced quarry.
"Where is it?" he asked the bare-headed man in a curt professional tone.
"Around in the back street."
Earl Parish ran around the corner. Three men were converging on the opening of a narrow street that split the block. He hurried after them. From a red-and-white house in the middle of the block spongy smoke rolled out to the gray street.
In front of the house, a man tried to grab Earl Parish's arm. He struck aside the interfering hand and sprang up the front steps.
"Hey! Come out o' there, you!" the man called after him.
Earl Parish pushed open the front door and plunged into the murky interior. A blow to his chest stopped him, jarred him back on his heels, emptied his lungs of the clean air they had carried in from the street. Smoke stung his throat, chest. His hands found the thing that had struck him—a newel. He clung to it while he closed his eyes against the scorching smoke and coughed.
A foot found the bottom of a flight of steps. He went up, one hand fumbling along the railing, the other clenched over nose and mouth. The platform of an interfloor landing came under his feet. His hand on the rail guided him around the turning in the stairs. He started to climb again.
A boiling hiss, the beat of hotness on his face jerked his eyes open. In front of him nimble red blades of fire poked up at the ceiling.
Earl Parish cried out—a smoke-garbled protest against this trickery, this betrayal. In that other house had been no visible fire. Nothing had been there but smoke, and a child to be carried out. Here was live flame and—he was a fool!—perhaps nobody to be carried out. How did he know anyone was upstairs? Was it likely?
A limber bright sword bent down at him. He turned and scurried down the stairs. The landing tripped him with its break in the step-after-step descent, tumbled him down on hands and knees. Red light sizzled down the rail after him. Its flare was mauve on a small piece of paper that lay close under his nose as he huddled there.
He stared at the paper with curious intentness. It was somehow familiar, this small rectangle of soiled wood pulp, so altogether unimportant, so trivial a thing here in a burning house. And when he recognized the paper he continued to stare, seeing now for the first time in its true size his cherished clipping from last year's Post: an inch and a half of simple news that a fire of unknown origin had been subdued with slight damage after a child had been carried to safety by Earl Parish.
Seeing the clipping truly, he saw its significance and he saw other things: he saw himself with a clearness that mottled his face beyond power of smoke and fire. He stood up on the landing and faced upstairs with the bit of paper crumpled in his fist.
"I had my fun, you—" he personified the clipping in a compound invective and flung the clipping to the fire. "Now I'm going to earn it!"
Smoke swirled in the stairs, red light sizzled, and living flame blades poked up at the ceiling. Earl Parish went through them to the second floor. Not all of him went through. Some hair, a patch of one hand's skin, and parts of his clothing that were frayed into ready kindling disappeared. The rest of Earl Parish gained the second story, slammed a door between him and the stairs, and beat out the points of light that dotted his clothes.
On the other side of the door fire seethed and crackled. He laughed at the noise as well as he could with smoke strangling him, and began to explore the fumid gloom.
He found no one in the room with him, nor in the other rooms that made up the house's top story. He swayed as he walked back to the first room. His head was hollow and buoyant, and he breathed in choking gulps. He staggered toward the front window.
A small sneeze came out of a corner.
Earl Parish dropped down on hands and knees and peered under the chair there. A cinnamon kitten stopped rubbing paws on nose to sneeze again. Earl Parish laughed hoarsely as he scooped the kitten out of its retreat and stuffed it into a coat pocket.
He had trouble getting himself erect again, but managed it fully. The window slid up easily, to create a draft that swung open the room's door and swept in flame bulky out of all semblance to sword blades.
Earl Parish clambered up on the windowsill and looked into the upturned faces down in the street.
A policeman waved an arm.
"Stick it out, brother," he called. "Here's the wagons now!"
"Look out!" Earl Parish yelled back, and jumped.
There was a shock, but not of the expected hard pavement. He was on a sort of blue cushion: the policeman had run to stand under him. Men dragged them out of the arriving firemen's way, helped them to their feet. The policeman's face was bleeding.
"You're a lunatic!" he said.
Earl Parish was busy with his coat pocket, disentangling the cinnamon kitten from the torn lining. Someone took the kitten. Voices said things, asked things. One of the questions had to do with Earl Parish's name and address.
"Earl—" He coughed violently to cover up the halt, and repeated, "Earl—John W. Earl," and gave a street and number, hoping they didn't belong to any of the people around him.
He was insisting that he was all right, that he didn't need medical attention. He was sneaking through the crowd. He was hurrying away from the fire, down an alley. He turned three corners before he stopped. Out of his pocket he took two clippings—one from a railroad employees' magazine, the other from a newspaper.
He tore them into very small bits and tossed them up in a flurry of artificial snow.
In Howard Street, sandwiched between a secondhand-clothing store and a lunch counter, there is an establishment whose large front room is bare and unfurnished except for a shabby desk, a chair, a table behind a battered counter in the rear, and a blackboard that occupies one sidewall. You will find listed in chalk on this board such items as "Laborers, company, country, $3.75; Wood Choppers, 4 ft. and stove wood, $2.50-4.50 cord; Choremen, country, $45-65, fd.; Lead Burner, company, $8." Beneath some of these items "Fare paid" will appear.
Into this establishment one afternoon came a short, sturdy man of thirty or so, inordinately dirty-faced and shabby. He had no hat, and some of his hair seemed to have been eaten off. A smudge was where one eyebrow should have been. He walked unsteadily. His red eyes had the inward hilarity of a drunken philosopher. But he did not smell of alcohol—rather, of fresh wood smoke. He leaned over the battered counter and grinned jovially at the establishment's proprietor.
"I want," he said, "a job. Any kind of job you've got, if only it'll get me away from town before the morning papers come out." ♦


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Porsche Unveils The New Electric Boxster E
Porsche unveiled a new Boxster variant this week, the all electric Boxster E is a "mobile laboratory" for testing Porsche's future electric drivetrain technology. There are currently 3 identical Boxster E's being tested on the roads of Stuttgart, near the Porsche factory in Germany.
With 240hp and AWD the Boxster E makes the 0-60 dash in 5.3 seconds, it uses twin electric motors and has a 29 kWh battery system mounted behind the seats, offering ideal weight distribution. Porsche hasn't revealed the top speed, range or charge time specifications for the car as Porsche is staying tight lipped about it, not uncommon when it comes to test-bed cars.
Most industry insiders are suggesting that this will be the first all electric offering from Porsche and may hit showrooms as early as 2012 with 2013 being offered as a slightly more realistic shipping date.
The Boxster is the smallest and lightest car in Porsche's current model line up, making it ideal for an electric car conversion. Porsche has been making serious inroads into the electric and hybrid vehicle space in the past 12 months with the introduction of both the 918 RSR and the 911 GT3 Hybrid.
More updates will follow as news and information comes in from Porsche.There's no word on when consumers will be able to get their hands on an all-electric version of the Boxster, and other details on the guts of the car are fairly sparse.
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ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AGAIN – Mervyn Wheatley and Tamarind
By Jill Southwood
On New Years Eve before the stroke of midnight and the beginning of 2013 Mervyn and his wife Penny agreed that he would attempt his 4th OSTAR. From his home port of the River Yealm, near Plymouth, England, Mervyn's meticulous planning began, which would pay off over and again for this enormous challenge.
Having owned Tamarind for 15 years and covered some 110,000 miles, many singlehanded, the boat was well set up to cross the Atlantic again.
A superb start saw Mervyn first across the line accompanied by the music of The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines at full volume!
Inspite of winds against him, and poor weather conditions most of the way, Mervyn's race was going very well until he approached the dreaded Grand Banks. Both the wind vane and his autopilot stopped working. Thirteen years earlier, during the 2000 OSTAR, a similar problem occurred. Mervyn hand-steered Tamarind for 13 days until he arrived at the finish having lost 28 pounds in body weight. This was not an experience he wished to repeat.
There was a chance of putting into St. John's, Newfoundland but, with still 1000 miles to reach the Newport finish line, it could have made more sense to turn back across the Atlantic for home. Eventually he managed to reach Halifax, Nova Scotia, for repairs and a very warm and helpful welcome. Unfortunately, he had a nasty accident on the way, falling and breaking his nose. No repairs carried out on that apart from mopping up blood in the cockpit! After 24 hours, he was able to set off again having also bought a new CD player – no music aboard was unthinkable. His surprise ration packs, prepared by Penny, kept him going throughout his hardships.
The most desolate part of the journey was crossing the Grand Banks. It was very cold and wet with dense fog for four days. He experienced variable winds from all directions. One morning they started from the east at dawn, veered through 360 degrees, and become easterly again by evening. It was impossible to see anything, no land, no ship, no human being – just thick fog. If they hit something, they would hit it and so be it.
At last with about 10 miles to go the wind shifted giving Mervyn a very good run to the finish line after 30 days, 4 hours and 59 minutes. Royal Marines are very rugged but this race is extremely tough mentally. You may not see another human for over a month. You probably don't know where the other competitors are. You are very, very alone on a vast and seemingly endless ocean.
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Jon Bon Jovi's ``pay-what-you-can'' charity restaurant in New Jersey is open for business.
The rocker says Soul Kitchen is designed to help the hungry without the stigma of a soup kitchen. There are no prices on the menu. Diners pay whatever they're able to. Those without money can still eat provided they're willing to work in the restaurant or perform some community service.
Bon Jovi tells The Associated Press he's heavily involved in the operation, including rolling up his sleeves behind the scenes to wash dishes. But Bon Jovi says ``he can't cook a lick.''
The restaurant operates out of a former auto body shop near the Red Bank train station. The rocker's charitable foundation is subsidizing it.


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Thursday, July 10, 2008
A token post
Michael Clarke got an award.
It went well. Five-nil in fact. Sound familiar? But this is only one dayers. Imagine a Test five-nil whitewash. Imagine that. Can you? Go on.
So in the ICC Test rankings, England are only third to India by 1 point.
This worries me. If England are ranked second at the end of the year I will have to humiliate myself in some fashion.
So, I'm going to say something I never dreamt I would... I'm relying on South Africa not to let me down. Go South Africa!
Right now they are playing England.
Unfortunately, England are 0-71. Yuck. And like, wtf South Africa?
Also, David Lloyd has a particularly annoying voice. I wish he would stop talking. But no.
Graeme Smith is still single.
11 comments:
- Rob said...
Do you consider your life a success if you have to support South Africa?
They bowled crap, simple as that.
- July 10, 2008 at 8:26 PM
- Oomby Dave said...
Maybe Smith is gay...
- July 10, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- Suave said...
No slating Bumble our kid, he's a national treasure, funny, knowledgeable and loves a beer and a chat with the fans.
Can you imagine any of the channel 9 team doing that?
- July 10, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- Jrod said...
a token comment
she slated bumble, of all commentators, listening to shaun pollock makes me want to kill myself, moments after i have killed him.
- July 11, 2008 at 12:03 AM
- Suave said...
You should be very grateful that you didn't have to listen to Bob Fucking Willis.
That's like listening to a droning monotonous jet engine for eight hours.
I've got to go along with Jrod too, Shaun Pollock is so fucking boring, he'd cure the world of insomnia.
- July 11, 2008 at 3:32 AM
- Miss Field said...
I'll support South Africa over England, but to be honest I'd rather the aliens took them all away.
Smith maybe gay, but he's still single. No girlfriend OR boyfriend.
Suave... for some reason, I have no doubt he is a national treasure. ;)
- July 11, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- Rob said...
National Treasure, more like national figure of fun. To be fair to him he has tried hard to cultivate the 'idiot' look. I think he sees it as his niche -- class clown.
Bob Willis, ouch. Watch him talking on the TV he doesn't know whether to look at the camera or the interviewer, so he moves his head all the time. If you watch carefully you can see the puppet strings moving him.
- July 11, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- Wicket Maiden said...
Hey, Miss Field, We LOVE Bumble!! He's the most entertaining commentator on the team!
And for those who are are slating Polly, leave him alone! I love Shaun Pollock!! (no matter if he's boring or not)
I have to agree with the Bob Willis comments though, now HE really could cure the world of insomnia.
- July 11, 2008 at 5:22 PM
- Spigot said...
Just realised what *that* look on Bob Willis' face is. It's the face of someone who has paid a 3 figure sum to a lady of at least half his age to put a clean new nappy on him and say he's been a naughty boy.
- July 11, 2008 at 9:41 PM
- Miss Field said...
"To be fair to him he has tried hard to cultivate the 'idiot' look. I think he sees it as his niche -- class clown." love it
Wicket Maiden, well, love away, I'm sure he's... charming... but his voice... ugh.
Spigot, four figures at least.
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@umbra21 - Often when people talk about how they want to get rid of back fat or fat from some other specific part of the body it makes me think they need to work on their self esteem a little bit anyway. There are some things you can change about your body and some things you can't and people should definitely try to be healthier and fitter if they can, but focusing on a particular body part isn't healthy.
There's just no way to know whether you are going to end up with a body you'll be happy to look at in the mirror at the end of all your exercising and dieting unless you make sure you love it at the beginning as well.
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@pastanaga - Working on your core is definitely a good thing, but overall toning is also important and just doing stomach exercises alone isn't going to make that much difference to the appearance.
I would recommend that people do a full body exercise routine, like Pilates or yoga and then pair that with cardiovascular exercise to get the heart pumping and burn off calories.
The article author is definitely right that you can't just target a particular area of the body and try to improve it in isolation. Everything is connected and everything should be improved together for the best results.
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Posture is particularly important if you're concerned about the appearance of your back (and in general) so it's something I would work on if it's not already good. Often what people need is to strengthen their core muscle groups in order to get better posture and doing this is basically good for almost every other aspect of health and well-being as well.
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text: In this month's Perceptive Travel book review, I take a look at three new titles: Chuck Thompson's follow–up to Smile When You're Lying, a bizarre collection by Andrew Zimmern, and an epic, long–gone journey written to a lost son by Bill Raney. I laughed the most during Thompson's To Hellholes and Back, in which the author marches out to single-handedly combat the "pussification of America" (and I cheered him on as I read, scratched my belly, and sipped a beer)…. Enjoy->


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This is a book of realistic contemporary ya fiction, with a twist.
The twist is that the main character, London, has a memory of the future, but not of the past. And at some point every night, her memory resets. Everything is erased, everything is forgotten.
She gets by with notes that she writes down for herself every night and with the help of her best friend -and her mother.
But of course, this memory-related disability, makes for an interesting love-life when she falls in love with the new boy in her school. And then secrets from the past she can't remember start resurfacing, and generally everything in her precariously balanced life starts to change.
I loved this story of coming-of-age, and falling in love and finding yourself.
The greatest part of it for me was the love story. It was surprisingly mature, not as in explicit content, not at all, it was a very clean romance, but in the way they acted, and they bonded with one another. You also have to love a romance where they have to fall in love every day all over again, because she simply doesn't remember him.... That aspect of the book was absolutely delicious.
There is also a slight mystery waiting to be solved, which gave a bit of a dark twist to the whole story and I enjoyed the suspence very much.
It is also a stand-alone, as far as I can tell, which I appreciated to no end, with all these endless series that are going on everywhere and that tend to drag and drag forever...
I think there was a depth in this book that is absent from many other in this genre, about relationships between friends and between parents and their children and between a boy and a girl. Also, the book deals subtly with the matter of a disability, although London's is not one you meet everyday, and with the theme of sorrow, of grieving and of loss.
Rating: 4.5/5


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Don't hate, get upset, disgruntled or walk away from God because of the troubles you face everyday …..Leaving CHRIST should be the VERY last thing on your mind – Trouble don't last always – even when it FEELS like it – I feel it too!
However, the Bible said that you will have troubles , but your Heavenly and lovely Father Jesus promised that He will never leave you lost in them . He is with you . Believe that God is faithful , and if you lost something , HE WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING BETTER . I can say this with every part of me because I lost not many but dear things to me , and God didn't betray me . I gained the double ..
Why are you too sad ?The Lord said " I will repay you" in His Bible . He also said that whatever comes out from His mouth must be done . Believe in Him and put all your trust in Him because He is not like the people you meet , who say "will do" but never do .
Life can get REALLY hard…things happen and you wonder why AND how long – trust me I know ….I get it… sometimes you want to throw your hands up and it is "okay"…..just don't walk away from all the hard work that you ALREADY put in….. This is a time for your trials and tribulations NOT to become in vain..
God bless you!!!!
P.S. Know that this 5 minute random was for me too!


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I have never seen such a disconnect between the will of the American people and Congress. The American people have had it with our broken immigration system. Across the ideological spectrum, no one is happy with the status quo. In the dozens of community forums and town hall meetings I have held across Colorado, I have yet to meet a single person who is satisfied with the way things currently are. States like Arizona are frustrated to the point of diverting their police officers to enforce immigration laws.
Unless Congress acts, more states, counties, and cities will likely pass thuggish and spiteful laws that scare and scapegoat American citizens of certain ethnic heritages.
Unlike the health care debate, which had a deep ideological divide, both conservatives and liberals agree that we can do better when it comes to our broken immigration system. Yet, Congress seems deaf to these cries.
Thankfully, Sens. Harry Reid, Charles Schumer and Robert Menendez recently released a conceptual proposal for immigration reform with a simple theme: If you obey our laws, learn our language and pay our taxes, we will welcome you to America. We can find out who stands in the way of fixing our broken immigration system by turning the Senate proposal into a bill, bringing it to the floor, and seeing which members of Congress dare to oppose it.
Similarly, in the House, I am working to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would secure our borders, restore the rule of law to our country, create jobs for Americans, and prevent illegal immigration from occurring in our country. I was recently appointed to the Judiciary Committee in the House (which has jurisdiction over immigration) to push Congress to address this issue. One of my proposals, which has been included in the House Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill (HR 4321) as well as in the Senate outline, would create jobs by allowing investors and entrepreneurs to come here if they create jobs for Americans.
While the Senate outline isn't perfect, it's the best available. There are parts that I am skeptical about. I don't see why it should take five years to implement a fraud-proof Social Security card, or six years until businesses are required to scan them. I also prefer the House approach of a fixed fine for those who have worked here illegally rather than a much more vague and hard-to- measure calculation of back taxes.
But as Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who studies immigration, has said, the Senate proposal "shows how far the Democrats have moved in terms of tougher and tougher enforcement" and that "across the board you see language that would be very comfortable in a proposal written by Republicans."
Why does this disconnect persist? Should we blame the xenophobes who scream "amnesty" at any reform effort? Or the civil libertarians who oppose any real type of verification of employment status? To find out, we must turn the Senate proposal into a bill and bring it to the floor. Anyone opposing or delaying immigration reform will be seen as directly responsible for making the problem worse. Without swift and bold action like the Senate plan, we will likely have twice as many immigrants living and working illegally within our borders in 10 years.
Strangely, this is precisely where we could be headed. Despite the cry from Main Street, politicians and political consultants still consider it difficult to pass immigration reform.
Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall have both showed leadership in calling upon Senate Majority Leader Reid to fix our immigration system this year. And I am proud that Reps. Ed Perlmutter, Diana DeGette and John Salazar have joined me as co-sponsors of HR 4321.
People shouldn't be able to cross the border without being checked, or to overstay their visas, and businesses shouldn't be able to exploit cheap labor off the books. We must stop playing politics with a problem that we should have fixed long ago.
So let's not replay this Republican vs. Democrat game with immigration. Good ideas and solutions transcend party. This issue is too important, and it's time for us to get behind a plan to replace our broken system with one that works.
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is a Democrat from Boulder.


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An unusual vulnerability has surfaced involving both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Fingers are being pointed at each, and both products need fixing.
The attack, publicized by veteran browser security researcher Thor Larholm, uses Internet Explorer to execute Firefox with malicious parameters.
When it is installed, Firefox registers a "URL protocol handler" for "Firefox:" so that IE and any other apps that support these handlers can pass on the arguments. IE passes on the entire firefox:// URL with no validation of parameters. Larholm argues that IE should filter the arguments. This is identical to one of the recent vulnerabilities reported for the Safari for Windows beta.
But others disagree that IE is at fault here. Secunia wrote the problem up as a Firefox bug (and, typically, overstated it as "Highly Critical"). Microsoft's official response was that IE was not at fault, although the company did not say that they would not issue a patch. (I expect they are working on one, but not all that urgently.) Mozilla has announced that they will issue a patch.
In the meantime, if you want to work around the bug, Windows security expert Jesper Johansson has detailed how in his blog.
I agree with the emerging consensus: even if Microsoft isn't technically to blame, they should fix it and relatively soon. As a general matter, they probably ought not to be modifying requests passed on to protocol handlers registered by third parties. This case is different.


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The new deal would strike a major blow to City's hopes of signing the attacking midfielder, with reports in Spain claiming he will commit to Malaga until June 2018, with a buyout clause of €35million (£30m) included in the contract.
Isco, whose full name is Francisco Roman Alarcon Suarez, is believed to have a €21m (£17m) release clause in his current deal.
The 20-year-old has been linked with a host of top European clubs including City and Serie A giants Juventus.
Malaga director of football Mario Husillos: "Isco's contract renewal is in its advanced stages and should be signed shortly.
"We will be here presenting Isco very soon. We will be here shortly to announce the renewal of his contract.
"It's not renewed as yet, but I think it will be very shortly. We understand it is virtually a done deal.
"There are no sure things in football. Everything can change in an instant.
"The club's intention and what Isco has stated is that he is going to stay here; he's going to renew his contract.
"Life can also throw up a lot of surprises. That is the most conclusive statement that the club can make on the issue.
"Isco has really taken off. He's a great player and they want him at a number of clubs.
"He's a Spanish international. We intend to keep him at Málaga for as long as possible.
"Everyone wants to improve and if he continues growing like this, he'll have to go to a legendary European club. That's understandable."


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Apr 12, 2019
Great course even for non-professionals. Helped understand unknown reason health conditions when doctors struggled to make a diagnosis or even find any particular reason for current health conditions.
Dec 13, 2017
Very informative course! I didn't know Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever existed until I took this course. Although it would make more sense if more diseases were covered like scarlet fever, asthma etc.
創建者 Dr. M H•
Nov 19, 2018
fantastic clinical based microbiology course
創建者 Shi C•
Jan 03, 2019
Great course, quite a bit information, clear explanation easy to follow. However I feel like the questions are a bit less challenging as I can complete most of them without going through all the details of the course materials. Would recommend to anyone who already has some understanding/background/experience with this field.
創建者 seham a e•
Feb 03, 2019
Thank you for this amazing course.
創建者 Kosar S•
Nov 09, 2018
I love the idea of storytellling!!!!
創建者 Ryan K•
Nov 26, 2018
This is an amazing course if you're going into nursing, pa school, medical school.
創建者 Janice G A•
Nov 10, 2018
Gained Knowledge in some common diseases that mostly occur to humans. Flexible tutoring and reading materials.
創建者 Rowena E R•
Nov 11, 2018
I love this course! It was very helpful in learning primary medical microbiology. Thanks very much.
創建者 Frederick A R•
Nov 29, 2018
I found the lecture videos to be marvelously interesting and easy to follow. The narrator's voice is pleasant and her delivery was mostly consistent and effective. The video illustrations introduced medical lingo and written abbreviations that helped improve my own health-care literacy. The quizzes were maybe too east to pass, and didn't really do much to challenge my understanding...but, I'm being too critical. Thank you!
創建者 Clara L•
Nov 29, 2018
I loved this course so much. Microbiology can be incredibly dense, especially if you're reading from a textbook. The story-based structure of each episode made learning about the biology of different pathogens very enjoyable, and I looked forward to the conclusion of every chapter. Even without meticulously studying the minutiae of every pathogen's infectious process, I ended up retaining quite a lot of the information (likely because it was presented in such an engaging way!). This course is an excellent way to familiarize yourself with the broad patterns of infectious diseases, and be introduced to the general development of specific conditions.
創建者 nadia a•
Feb 11, 2019
La présentation du cours est parfaite, le contenu très intéressant.
J'apprécie vraiment de suivre ce mooc.
創建者 Jessica B•
Feb 17, 2019
I have several degrees and currently pursuing a masters in public health and this was by far one of the best classes I have ever taken. It was extremely thorough yet taught in a story telling/case study manner that made it incredibly interesting and easier to remember. The information was high level but explained in a way to make it understandable for people who may not have a lot of experience in the health/medical world yet. I would recommend this course to anyone with an interest in disease transmission.
創建者 Rita B d•
Feb 26, 2019
This course gave me a very good rehearesal of some infectious diseases on a very enjoyable way. I would like to do more courses like that on infectious diseases, on vaccination, or on immunological backgrond in the future. Congratulations! All the presentations were excellent!
創建者 Islam M M M•
Mar 10, 2019
Very helpful and interesting course
創建者 Ranganathan P•
Mar 13, 2019
Excellent. For a non-medical person like me, this illustration and presentation with graphics were brilliant. And the speed of speech delivery was just right (not slow like many others), compelling you to stay alert. I sincerely thank the instructors and Stanford University for this course
創建者 Katherine L•
Mar 15, 2019
This class was so enjoyable to take. I really enjoyed the illustrated lecture, case study, and learning about the various infectious diseases that exists. For someone that has no background in the sciences, I found it easy to follow, and very informative. I definitely recommend taking this course.
創建者 Victor J M•
Dec 27, 2018
I learned so much from this course and I am extremely grateful that it's free!
創建者 Cynthia C•
Nov 30, 2018
Great information and teachers. Thanks!
創建者 Rafael M d S•
Nov 30, 2018
Incredible content! I loved this course!
創建者 Harry A H•
Mar 21, 2019
wish i had such a course as a student
創建者 Camila F R C•
Jul 30, 2018
Excelente curso, bastante completo, entrega datos específicos de cada patología presentada que son imprescindibles para su diagnóstico, por lo demás es un curso muy didáctico relatando las historias de infecciones reales y sobre todo el uso de TICS es lo que más destaca, así como también por supuesto la claridad de la instructora.
創建者 basem m s•
Jul 30, 2018
it was a very good and well organized and magnificent course
創建者 Alejandro L•
Aug 13, 2018
If you like microbiology, immunology, and infectious diseases, I would definitely recommend :)
Sep 01, 2018
This course was very informative and helpful.Many thank to the course providers for there great effort .
創建者 Chee Y•
Aug 27, 2018
I am a 1st year medical student and took this course for fun and slightly prepare for my Immunology/Microbiology class. I liked that the material was presented in very simple manner. Attaching a real story to each disease made me enjoy the lectures even more. It almost felt like I was watching a new movie. I learned a lot and vividly remember the material probably thanks to the cartoons presented in the lectures. Well above my expectations!!
創建者 reena•
Aug 27, 2018
This is a great course.I recommend it to anyone who is willing to appreciate and enrich their knowledge of infections.This course is created in a simple easy to understand language.As a medical student preparing for the USMLE I found all the information accurate.i even found some updated information that i had not learned in medical school years ago.The creators of the course are truly passionate about educating the public and increasing awareness in public health issues.This is an uplifting thought.thank you! looking forward for more courses like this!i loved most of all the integration of illustration while lecture is being played.Very interactive and engaging to any student.


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