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Arnold Todaro Welch & Foliano
Grier's litigation immersion began with his employment as a staff attorney at the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus. His next position with Earl Warburton & Adams lasted over 25 years. Starting as an associate and working to partner, he was involved with medical negligence litigation from the outset. He began trying cases alone from that point forward. His caseload included a myriad of traumatic injury and wrongful death cases. He has tried products liability and general liability cases for both plaintiffs and defendants, in addition to maintaining a statewide medical litigation caseload representing hospitals, physicians, pharmacists, nurses, extended care facilities and health care service agencies. His federal and state litigation docket also led to an appellate practice where some of his cases were resolved in the Ohio Supreme Court or the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In October 2015, Grier came to Arnold Todaro & Welch, bringing with him his long-standing medical clients.
Grier has over 27 years of experience in all areas of medical litigation, including cardiovascular, neurologic, neurosurgical, radiology, oncology, obstetric-gynecologic and hospital administration issues. He is a requested hospital lecturer as well as a speaker for local medical societies on litigation-related topics. He also serves as a litigation consultant for an interstate hospital system. Since 2002, he has served on the Ohio State Bar Association's Jury Instruction Committee and he was appointed to its editorial board of review in 2010. He was previously appointed to serve with the Ohio Jury Instruction Committee on a special assignment involving development and drafting of specific subject matter civil jury instructions.


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Kitselas Lands Management is responsible for issuing dog licenses. The department also assists the Kitselas Department of Public Works, Infrastructure & Housing with dog control issues.
We have a dog control agreement in place with and work closely with the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine's Dog Control Services on these issues.
Public spaces in Kulspai and Gitaus are regularly patrolled throughout the week to ensure all dogs, and dog owners, are acting responsibly so everyone can enjoy public spaces.
Dog Licenses
As per the Kitselas Dog Control Act, all dogs are required to be licensed with Kitselas Lands Management.
Benefits of dog licenses:
• Form of identification.
• Fastest way to reunite you with your lost dog.
• Mandatory requirement for all dogs; must be displayed at all times.
• Fees help offset costs of operating animal control and shelter services.
• Owners of licensed dogs avoid paying an additional penalty if dog is impounded.
How to license your dog:
• Come to our office in Gitaus or book an appointment for us to come to you.
• Fill out the Dog License application form (link to pdf), available here or at our office
• Pay $15 and receive a dog tag and copy of the license
• Re-new license every January
Looking for Your Dog?
Once a dog is impounded, it will be transported to the Thornhill Animal Shelter and the owner will be notified ASAP. Kitselas Members pay the impoundment fees as listed on the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine's website
To Report a Loose or Roaming Dog
Call 778-634-3517 with details of the dog and location.
To Report an Aggressive Animal or Animal Cruelty
Call BC SPCA at 1-800-622-7722
Provide details such as name of owner, address, date and time.
Evidence such as pictures and videos are helpful.

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The 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama™
3 Vital Questions can help you gauge whether you are moving toward or away from empowered living and healthy relationships with yourself and others.
These questions help awaken your inner observer so you can choose more powerfully and reduce your reactive tendencies.
The 3 Vital Questions to ask yourself in any moment are:
- Where am I putting my focus?
Am I focusing on problems or on outcomes? A focus on problems engages the Victim Orientation. When you upgrade to a Creator Orientation, you focus on outcomes.
- How am I relating (to others, my experience and myself)?
Am I producing or perpetuating drama or am I empowering others and myself to be more resourceful, resilient and innovative? These ways of relating flow from the Orientation you adopt. The Victim Orientation fuels the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT), while a Creator Orientation fosters TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic)®.
- What actions am I taking?
Am I merely reacting to the problems of the moment or am I creating by taking Baby Steps – including the solving of problems – in service to envisioned outcomes? Dynamic Tension provides a powerfully simple framework for planning and taking action toward outcomes – big and small.
3 Vital Questions for Life & Work e-Course
Perfect for Organizations, teams, and individuals who want to choose a more empowered way to live and relate. Digital course lets you learn at your own pace, whenever and wherever you want.
These questions offer a comprehensive context for applying the frameworks and ways of thinking, relating and taking action contained in The Power of TED*. While useful for individuals, the 3 Vital Questions has proven to be profoundly effective for teams and organizations.
Risk & Business Magazine Article
This article, from the Spring 2017 issue of Risk & Business describes how The Power of TED* & 3 Vital Questions have contributed to positive outcomes for two companies.


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The CEISMC Educational Research and Evaluation Group utilize a mixed method approach employing both qualitative and quantitative data sources to determine the impact of numerous PreK-12 programs and interventions; the evaluation of these interventions focuses on measuring student outcomes and teacher professional development impact on classroom practices. CEISMC researchers also assess the impact of educational interventions on students' mastery of 21st-century skills such as collaboration, teamwork, problem-solving, and creativity.
Our Expertise
We provide a wide range of expertise in research and evaluation services.
The evaluation team has a solid background in educational psychology and educational statistics. Our areas of expertise include descriptive and inferential statistics, regression, univariate and multivariate statistics, hierarchical linear modeling, structural equation modeling, factor analysis, and data mining. The team's expertise focuses on creating a variety of survey instruments to measure desired outcomes, pilot test instruments, as well as conducting cognitive interviews, completing factor analysis, and improving items to create valid, reliable instruments for evaluation or research study. Additionally, we do the following:
- Evaluation Planning: developing logic models, creating implementation calendars, and writing evaluation sections of grant proposals
- Survey development deployment, collection, analysis, and reporting(includes deploying online and paper-based surveys)
- Text Analysis: usually used to categorize open-ended survey responses.
- Focus Groups: protocol development, facilitating focused interviews, analyzing comments, and reporting recommendations.
- Student Achievement Analysis: descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of program effects on state-collected student achievement data (CRCT, GHSGT, EOCT, SAT, etc.)
- Classroom Observations: qualitative study and analysis of K-12 classrooms focusing on teaching methods employed and the integration of technology into learning activities.
- IRB submission, approval, and compliance.


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Regional Market Manager- Ohio
Founders Brewing Company
Apply for Job
Works directly with the assigned Founders Brewing Company Territory Regional Director, Sales Representatives, Key Account Team, Wholesaler (s), and their sales staff to promote sales, the Founders brand and achieve target distribution and volume goals. The Market Manager's main job requirements include Wholesaler Annual Business Plans and delivering to those plans, while managing Founders Sales Representatives, and maintaining a budget. The Market Manager must accomplish these goals by adhering to FBC core values, purpose and philosophies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Includes the following but not limited to:
- Supports Founders Brewing Company Core Values, Purpose, and Philosophies.
- Maintains constant communication and positive relationships with the Regional Director, Key Account Team, Distributor sales force, and key retailers.
- Responsible for wholesaler management and planning.
- Inventory management: to include orders, forecasts, allocations and monthly wholesaler warehouse audits.
- POS management.
- Annual Business Planning and conduct monthly/quarterly reviews with wholesalers within identified area.
- Responsible for the selection, onboarding, training and development of new and existing sales representatives
- Manages the performance of existing Sales Representatives, including corrective action if necessary.
- Must be able to analyze and develop sales opportunity from VIP software or other company provided sales software.
- Conducts ongoing brand training with retailers, distributor partners, and consumers.
- Responsible for ensuring execution of chain programming and distribution at retailer and wholesaler level.
- Assists at special events and festivals in the territory.
- Performs assigned administrative, but not limited to (expense reports, monthly work calendar, establishing distribution targets, evaluating discount programs, conducting price surveys).
- Completes assigned "work withs" with direct reports and wholesaler partners.
- Maintains a professional image and demeanor at all times.
- Able to maintain and report an expense budget within the given parameters.
- Able to work both independently and within a team environment.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Live in the market for which the Market Manager is responsible.
- Self-starter/Self-motivated.
- Reliable car and a valid driver's license.
- Able to work a flexible schedule, able to work nights and weekends.
- Excellent organizational, planning, and sales skills.
- Three years' minimum experience working in the three-tier distribution system either with a beer wholesaler or beer supplier.
- Strong knowledge of craft beer, the industry, and its retail consumers.
- Proficient in Microsoft office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Excellent oral, analytical, written, and communication skills.
- Dynamic public speaking and presentation skills.
- Travel is required.
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university; three years' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.


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Today, 8 years ago – a day which will live in infamy….
September 11, 2001.
Never Forget. Never Forgive.
I am a major proponent for forgiveness, especially when I see people that are sincerely sorry for their actions. But what happened 8 years ago should NEVER be forgiven or forgotten.
Thank you to all those that were involved in the rescue efforts, both during and after this tragedy, and to those that are helping to keep our country free! My family and I keep you in our thoughts always! And a sincere love to all those that lost family, friends and co-workers on that fateful day. Our hearts go out to you.


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These dense, chewy fruitcake bars are a fresh version of the kind passed around at holiday parties. We love raisins and dried cherries in this recipe, but use your favorite combinations.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 325°. Line bottom and sides of an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper, allowing 2 inches to extend over sides; lightly grease with cooking spray.
Stir together flour and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl; add sugar and next 3 ingredients, tossing to break up any clusters of dried fruit. Add egg, stirring until blended. Press batter into prepared pan.
Bake at 325° for 35 to 40 minutes or until set. Cool in pan 20 minutes. Lift fruitcake from pan, using parchment paper sides as handles, and cool completely on a wire rack (about 1 hour).
Stir together butter and bourbon in a small bowl. Whisk in powdered sugar; drizzle glaze over cooled fruitcake. Let stand 20 minutes or until glaze is set. Cut into 1 1/2-inch squares.


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Our two pound lobster feast is certainly a feast! Each person has their very own succulent two pound lobster to crack into and enjoy. These lobsters certainly fill your plate just as well as your belly. Yet, the two pound lobster is not where the meal ends, with your choice of shell fish and soup, this will be a meal to remember.
How long can I keep my Maine lobsters alive?
It is strongly recommend that you cook and enjoy your fresh Lobsters the day they arrive. Upon arrival we suggest you immediately refrigerate contents or place the entire box in a cool environment. If you are unable to cook the lobsters the day that they arrive, you may partially cook them. To partially cook the lobsters, blanch lobsters by boiling for one third of the suggested cooking time listed in the cooking guide. Refrigerate the blanched lobsters for up to 48 hours. When you are ready to serve, place the blanched lobsters back in boiling water for the remaining two thirds time specified.
Lobster Handling Do's and Don'ts
1. Follow the suggested cooking times – overcooking can toughen the meat
2. Cook live lobsters the day they arrive
1. Place the lobsters in fresh water or cover with ice cubes, this will kill them within minutes!
2. Freeze live lobsters
3. Remove bands from the lobster claws while alive
4. Expect your lobsters to arrive red, they will turn red after cooking
5. Consume uncooked clams or mussels
About Our Lobsters
All of our lobsters are hand selected hard-shell and wild caught in Maine daily and are antibiotic free. Once the lobsters have been selected and graded, we keep them healthy by holding them in large tanks that have constant recirculation of cold Maine ocean water. Once it is time for your lobsters to be shipped, they are packed in a cooler with some seaweed (when available) and ice packs to ensure they arrive alive and fresh to your doorstep, within 24 hours. To learn more about Maine Lobster Direct, take a look at our about us page.


text: A New Look for the Cinema Squad Posted on April 18, 2016 by seanwathen in News // 0 Comments The Cinema Squad is playing with its appearance! Check out some fun creations of our Cinema Squad Team: Sean Wathen Skye Wathen Lee Perez Joshua Dobkin This is your Cinema Squad! Be sure to follow us, catch up on the previous podcasts, and look for new ones every Sunday! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading... Related


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It turns out that the official time of the internship has past! Actually, The internship ended a month ago but I kept on working on my project, something that I am planning to continue doing for the next couple of months.
Until now, I have succeeded to build a prototype for my project. That is, I designed a few functions that read a specific revision's text, discussion page or edit summaries, to search characteristics (using mostly regular expressions) that indicate that this page was translated from another language. As for this moment, I'm still working on detecting Hebrew pages that were translated from English. I'm planning to build a few more functions for better detection, the most important one will compare the interlinks within the Hebrew revision page and the English counterpart. The interlinks are themselves connected in the langlinks table. I can use this information to "understand" the text without translation the words.
Before focusing on these functions, I built a few tools that filter the pages that are potentially a translation. By querying the database, I extracted pages (by their title and id) that were created after the English page. Then, using another query I also found the last version in English that could have used as basis for the translation (i.e., the last version in English before the Hebrew one was created). I'm using two different methods to find the Hebrew version. The "dirty" method, also using querying, returns the last version which was created by the user who created the page, that is, until another editor has edited the page (ignoring bots). I consider this as dirty because sometimes the query returns a version that can be a few months after the creation date of the page, and sometimes it returns a version that is too immature, and the author is still working on the page to bring it to a first steady version. The "clean" and more complicated method will use the data from the dumps (that is, all of it). We wish "compress" the data and consider a series of edits by the same editor as one large edit, and save the information of the starting time, ending time, all of the edit ids that underline the new edit, and number of bites at the start and end of the edit. The dumps are organized in a serial way so this is straightforward to do. That way, it will be easy to filter the bots, small edits that are meaningless, and also detect the right edit version for the translation comparison. The new edit version is yet to be perfect as we will still need to put a timing variable to make sure that distant edits will not become the same edit version. As you can understand, this is not an easy task, at least not for me.
My biggest bottleneck, which I have been working on for a while now, is to build the infrastructure that can support the data structure and the Wikipedia text. Specifically, a script that reads all of the information from the dumps and saves only the relevant revisions and discussion versions in an easy to use way. I hope that I will have something ready in the next week (no promises) and then i will be able to start working with the whole data! I'm working to fully understand the best way to build this script as it should run on the English Wikipedia, and that is not negligible amount of data (unlike the hebrew one). So this is where I'm at.
I hope I will continue writing and putting my progress here as well as on GitHub.
This summary post is also a great opportunity to say a few words about the internship. I had a great experience overall, and I think being part of the Gnome program is an amazing way for getting to know the open source world. Specifically, having a mentor that I can regularly nudge and talk to, who also directed and taught me how to navigate this rich and complex world was the most important part of the experience. It was also helpful to know that the learning process I am going through, and the frustrated feelings that sometimes arouse where not exclusively mine. Nevertheless, on hindsight, I thing that I could have used the supportive network the platform offers: emails, IRC channel, Phabricator page and other mediums, more than I did. Of course, this is just another thing that I still need to learn. I also feel really lucky to be given the opportunity to work on a project that allowed me to do things that were in the beginning beyond my current expertise in order to learn and improve my skills.
As I wrote in previously, this is just the middle of this project and I hope that in a month I will have a new post updating about our new and exciting developments.
More information and updates can be found here:
- Thoughts and practical directions about how to detect translated articles.
- My weekly progress report.
- The project's GitHub where you can also find further documentation and basic results.
- Results for calculating similarity of Wikipedia languages.


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Not flossing enough Just brushing your teeth isn't good enough when it comes to dental hygiene. You also need to make flossing a regular habit. Plaque stuck between your teeth can not only lead to oral problems, but if the bacteria goes into your blood stream, it can cause chronic inflammation and increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and even cancer. Thus, flossing is recommended at least once a day to avoid teeth being weakened by plaque.
Lugging around a heavy handbag While big handbags and totes may be fashionable, what most women don't realise is that keeping a big bag almost always leads to dumping unnecessary things in it. And carrying this weight around everywhere inevitably leads to back, neck and shoulder pain. Experts say that heavy handbags can cause back spasms, disc degeneration, neck problems, arthritis, and poor posture. Make it a habit to empty out your handbag (and wallet) at least once a week. Carry only the very essential items and discard the rest.
Not eating breakfast This, by far, is one of the biggest mistakes we commit unknowingly. Skipping your breakfast means you're starting your day by being low on energy. You'll feel sluggish by the time it is noon, and staying hungry will only cause health woes as your body will store up more fat to use as fuel through the rest of the day.
Over-exercising While exercising to stay healthy and in shape is alright, if you're going overboard with the hours in the gym, you need to slow down. Being very hard on your body can lead to hormonal changes, which could further lead to weight gain, weaken your immune system, damage your muscles and cause knee or back problems. Know your body and its limits.
Source : TOI Health News


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Early days post Bone Marrow Transplant
Its a week or so after my bone marrow transplant & my body feels completely wiped out l am still sleeping most of the time. The eating/food remains a problem something l need to sort out quickly if l want things to improve.
The next step is getting out of bed & moving around.


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Forty years and going strong
In 1977, Apple Computers became an incorporated business, naturally-occurring smallpox was officially eradicated, Australia's first 7-eleven store opened in Melbourne, and Dianne and Phil started their careers with the South Australian Housing Trust (SAHT).
It was a time before computers, when staff could smoke at their desks, pay packets were given in cash, and tea ladies roamed offices twice-daily, with the tinkling sounds of the china cups of tea and coffee signalling their arrival.
Dianne (who claims she was a mere three-years-old when she joined SAHT) started in the Property division, and Phil as a storeman at the Torrensville Depot.
Both worked with a number of different teams, from a number of offices, and enjoyed many different work experiences.
Dianne's highlight was working with the Asset Systems Project Team from 1998, building all mainframe property systems into Huron from IDMSP (they were specialist data management systems – we looked them up). From there, she spent time with Maintenance Strategic Programs and Planning, before moving to her current role in the Quality and Compliance area in 2009.
Phil has provided vital administration support to Land Development, Horticultural Supplies, and a number of maintenance teams. In his time, he's been a part of the construction of transportable homes all around the state, construction of storm water drains and new roads, and has looked after sleep-out placement across South Australia. In 2003, he moved to his current role in the Maintenance Contracts team.
Dianne and Phil, thank you for 40 years of dedication and your ongoing contribution to Housing SA.


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FarmRaiser Party! Beekeeping, dinner & music!
Come to the Runamuk apiary on October 1st for a crash course in beekeeping and stay for dinner and live music at the historic Hilton barn in Starks! As part of the Runamuk FarmRaiser: a Bee-Friendly Farm gofundme campaign, I've organized this 2-part event that I'm really excited to share. Beekeeping 101 Sign up early to participate in my Beekeeping… Read more »


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Happening Now
Surface Transportation Reauthorization
With sharply increased appropriations in Fiscal 2018 and Fiscal 2019, Congress is demonstrating a willingness to make sensible investments in the future of mobility in the United States. This reflects the reality that much of the American public is demanding more and better trains. It in this environment that we're now preparing for the re-authorization of the American passenger rail system next year.
What Does an Authorizing Act Do?
- Establishes or continues one or more Federal agencies or programs, establishes the terms and conditions under which they operate, authorizes the enactment of appropriations, and specifies how appropriated funds are to be used
- Authorization bills create, modify, and/or extend agencies, programs
- Are Limited in duration: the current Surface Transportation Act, which includes policy and appropriations for Amtrak expire in 2020
Rail Passengers' Document Library
- Surface Transportation Reauthorization Blueprint - Discussion Draft (September 2019)
- Reauthorization One-Pager: a simple outline of Rail Passengers' policy priorities for the FAST Act replacement.
- Reauthorization Presentation: quick and easy guide to how reauthorization works
- Fiscal Year 2020 Legislative Ask: a summary of the funding requests and main policy recommendations for the upcoming fiscal year (Spring 2019)
- Map of Underinvestment: What does half a century of underinvestment in passenger rail look like? (Spring 2019)
- Rural Mobility: Rural America's transportation gap profoundly hurts rural Americans. Amtrak connects millions with access to essential public transportation services. (Spring 2019)
- Northeast Corridor's Gateway Project: Outlines critical passenger rail infrastructure investments along the NEC, with a focus on the Gateway Project (Spring 2019)
- State of Good Repair: America needs to be rebuilt and modernized. Investing in our nation's transportation infrastructure will improve our ability to compete in a global economy. (Spring 2019)
- On-Time Performance: outlines Amtrak's OTP by the numbers, and provides key policy solutions to get the trains running on time again (Spring 2019)
- High-Speed Rail: HSR is a proven mode of transportation that can efficiently move a large number of people quickly along densely developed corridors... but the U.S. is falling behid the rest of the world. (Spring 2019)
Our Vision for the Reauthorization
Outlined in Rail Passengers President & CEO Jim Mathew's open letter to Amtrak Management, we see a future with:
- More Trains: Move aggressively on your new growth vision, with more frequencies in dense corridors, new rolling stock and modern safety measures, while eliminating, once and for all, the folly of services operating less than daily.
- Better Trains: Fully and enthusiastically embrace a customer-centric view of passenger service, ensuring that trains' basic services are reliable and sound while improving the experience for each and every traveler.
- Commitment To Infrastructure Investment: Engage creatively and transparently with local communities, state partners, and private industry to find ways to say "Yes" to new service; engage in an open conversation with host railroads and regulatorsabout better, less-contentious approaches to shared-use corridors—while continuing to defend the rights of paying passengers to on-time service by pressing for a private right-of-action to hold host railroads accountable.
We want to hear from you!
Support This Work Directly
We will work to make sure that the voices of train passengers are heard during this upcoming process, but it all costs money. Donate Today to make sure rail passengers are heard!
"When [NARP] comes to Washington, you help embolden us in our efforts to continue the progress for passenger rail. And not just on the Northeast Corridor. All over America! High-speed rail, passenger rail is coming to America, thanks to a lot of your efforts! We're partners in this. ... You are the ones that are going to make this happen. Do not be dissuaded by the naysayers. There are thousands of people all over America who are for passenger rail and you represent the best of what America is about!"
Secretary Ray LaHood, U.S. Department of Transportation
2012 NARP Spring Council Meeting


text: Esther Vivas is an activist in a variety of social movements in Barcelona. She has participated in anti-globalization campaigns, campaigns against external debt, in favour of food sovereignty and critical consumption, against climate change, and in various editions of the World Social Forum and the European Social Forum. She is a member of the Centre for Studies on Social Movements (CEMS) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Publications include En pie contra la deuda externa (Stand Up against external debt), El Viejo Topo, 2008, (as co-coordinator) of books in Spanish Supermarkets, No Thanks and Where is Fair Trade headed? and others , as contributor to the CIP Americas Program www.cipamericas.org, (with Josep Maria Antentas) Planeta indignado. Ocupando el futuro (Ed. Sequitur). She is also a member of the editorial board of Viento Sur.


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We've all been guilty of applying a little lipstick or checking for food in our teeth while driving. Pulling down the sun visor and taking a quick peek in the vanity mirror is harmless, right? Wrong. According to drivesteady.com, getting pretty in the car is one of the 7 worst distractions while driving. Some of the others are: Texting, talking on a cell phone, talking to other drivers in the car, and looking at a GPS.
Not only does SafeAuto Insurance spokesperson Norm Macdonald agree that paying attention to your vanity mirror instead of the road can be dangerous, he also has some other thoughts about this common driving distraction.
To see what Norm thinks about vanity mirrors, check out his latest installment of Street Smarts!


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NIFA criticizes Nassau debt-buy plan
Several members of a state fiscal control board Monday denounced a plan by Nassau County to allow a private investor to buy $20 million in debt from residential tax protest firms that won property tax refunds last year.
Under the plan, the private investor would pay some 18,000 homeowners who have been waiting a year for their tax refunds, while the county would pay back the investor over time from operating revenue.
Democrats have blocked county borrowing to pay tax refunds in a dispute over an unrelated redistricting proposal.
Three members of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state panel that controls the county's finances, Monday called the deal another form of borrowing. The board has six members, five of whom attended Monday's public meeting.
Board member Chris Wright likened it to going to a grocery store with a credit card. "You take home the groceries and the credit card company pays the store," he said. "You owe the credit card company the money with interest."
NIFA member George Marlin called the plan "another scheme to evade the approval process to borrow money."
Both agreed that if the county doesn't abandon the plan, NIFA should issue an order at its next meeting directing the county to give NIFA the agreement for review.
County Attorney John Ciampoli has said the deal does not need approval from either the legislature or NIFA because the county already is obligated to pay the refunds and each refund would be settled by order of a State Supreme Court judge.
He said Monday in response to the NIFA board members comments: "It is not a borrowing. No money comes into the county as is the case with a bonding." He said he regrets "the profound misunderstanding" and said his office would be happy to brief board members about the plan.
Also Monday, the NIFA board approved refinancing up to $313 million in county debt as a way to save as much as $30 million over the next four years.
NIFA staff said they had reviewed $1.53 billion in debt the agency had borrowed on Nassau's behalf and found it could save interest by refinancing as much as $313 million, depending upon market conditions on the day of the sale. NIFA, which has a AAA credit rating, issued county bonds during the past decade because it had a better credit rating than Nassau and could get lower interest costs. NIFA borrowing is paid back through county sales tax revenues.
"Benchmark rates for municipal bonds have reached close to historical lows," NIFA counsel Jeremy Wise told board members.
The refinancing is scheduled for next week. The county already has incorporated the savings into next year's budget and multiyear financial plan, with about $6.5 million in 2013.
NIFA also agreed to accept about $520,000 from UBS as part of a national $63.3 million settlement between the international Swiss bank and attorneys general of several states. The attorneys general alleged that UBS gained improper profits through "illegal schemes with other brokers and providers with whom they had relationships," NIFA staff said.
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*One of my dogs hit my stand for filming and I didn't think anything of it until I went to edit. Sorry the top of my head it missing. I thought about re-filming but that's too much effort at this time.*
Weekly update where I talk about goals from last week, set new goals this week, what you can expect content wise, misc ramblings, book to TV series, my health, and book cons!!
Plus I give you two small booktubers to look into!!
Small Booktuber Recommendations:
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And once again for those that haven't checked him out yet and the place I find so many talented booktubers-
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Announcing the SBA Music Academy
Saint Basil Academy is pleased and proud to present a new program starting in the 2015-2016 school year – the SBA Music Academy. The Saint Basil Music Academy, with its foundation in the strong academic program of this all-girls college-preparatory Academy, is an outgrowth of the music studies that have been in place at the Academy since its inception.
Saint Basil Academy values study of the arts, for to be fully human includes the ability to respond to our innate creativity and to the beauty of the world around us. Music allows the spirit to feel what mere words cannot express.
The Music Academy is an intensive major that will give the student who wishes to excel either in vocal, instrumental, or piano studies the instruction and practicum needed to present oneself as a true musician. While all SBA students are invited to participate in our traditional performing groups, the Music Academy will give participants additional opportunities to practice their musical skills, as well as steep themselves in studies of music theory and related subjects, music history, technology, and applied classes, including chamber ensembles and master classes.
Students completing the Music Academy will be awarded special certification in addition to the Saint Basil Academy diploma. The program will prepare them to continue further studies in university and conservatory programs. The SBA Music Academy is pleased to welcome eight young ladies into the inaugural class.


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How Apple Watch will increase adoption of AI?
Humans want to master technology with as little effort and interruption of their lives as possible. Therefore the ultimate expression of technology is invisibility.
When technology first enters a space, it's all about finding out whether technology can do anything useful. Proving the concept.
In a given space, once it's been proven that technology can improve a space, the second major expression of tech is all about rolling out tools and features to every problem/need/want facing the space. It's like a gold rush. Everyone wants to be the first to market to solve each little problem.
After space is saturated with point solutions, and things begin to shake out a bit (usually by a combining of those point solutions via acquisition or merger), the final expression of technology in a space is for that technology to become invisible.
For a space that is ready to make the leap from point solutions to invisibility, one of the challenges for a paradigm shift is proof. People wonder, "If I don't spend all day interacting with technology, how do I know it's there?" Proof is required, either in hard data results or via social proof.
Luckily for any spaces teetering on the edge of that final expression of technology, Apple, the £485,000,000,000.00 gorilla in the tech world, has just lent AI a gigantic bit of social proof via Apple Watch. Having already made hundreds of millions of people (74.5 Million, just last quarter) comfortable speaking directly to their technology as if it were an assistant, Apple again pushes AI a giant step closer to reality. This time not by changing the human-software interface, but instead by changing human-software expectations.
As any loyal Android user will confirm, many Android phones do far more things than iPhones do. They are faster, have more features, and simply do much, much, more. Furthermore, not only do they do more, but their users expect that each product does even more. That expansion of capability is expected.
If this is all true, and the iPhone 6 has similar features to a Samsung phone that came out 3 years ago. Then why are Apple products dominating the market?
Great marketing? Sheeple consumers? Mind control?
I posit that this reason is that Apple sees the forest and the trees. Apple realizes that the ultimate expression isn't a phone with 1 TB of storage, 2B apps to choose from, the biggest screen, and the fastest processor, it's a world where we forget these things are even powering our seamless augmented-life experience. Apple has us ready for mass adoption of mostly or entirely invisible technology.


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Diesel Adventures
Beard Growing Tips with Boobs & Diesel Trucks of Course
Need Beard Growing Tips? Well I like to think of myself as a manly man. I may be a skinny lil turd that can't gain weight to save my life. But I come from Montana where men are men…. and sheep are scared! Haha!
But seriously, I love hunting, fishing, hiking, shooting, snowboarding and my hot ass wife. I want to take a minute to talk about beards and a few growing beard tips. I grow my beard out a couple times a year and usually get rid of it when my wife will no longer kiss me. As much as I have tried to convince her that beards are sexy…. well let's just say she ain't buyin' it. She hates my beard and my growing beard tips.
Just last week I was starting to feel as though my "Man Card" was possibly wavering so I decided to start another beard. I had never thought about this before, but about 5 days in I realized… there are good beards and bad beards just the same as there are good diesel trucks and bad diesel trucks. By day number 5 my face just hurt! It itched like crazy, I couldn't sleep, this was a very bad beard! I found myself getting out of bed in the middle of the night, floundering around for the sheep sheers in the dark. I couldn't carve this mess off my face fast enough.
FINALLY! Sleep came, I slept like a baby and woke up in the morning to find that my reflection told a different story of my midnight adventure. You know those $5 an hour guys that kinda mow the grass in front of gas stations? But instead it looks more like someone tried cutting the grass with a couple of dull butter knives swinging around on a chain! Well that's what my face looked like, fuzzy patches were the itching wasn't and bald bleeding patches where I attempted to cure the itching with a rusty razor and a handful of shaving cream, some of which was still dried and crusty on my ears. I looked a mess.
I had to do some serious work to make myself look presentable enough to show my face at work that morning. This is when I decided the diesel community needed to know the difference between a good beard and a bad beard. I love diesel trucks and go fast goodies. I try very hard to write good reviews of the parts we install here at Lead Foot Diesel Performance. I write these reviews, not because I love spending hours of my personal time typing on a laptop… I do these reviews because I consider everyone that loves and drives a diesel truck, my brother and friend. I don't want ya'll to be blindly buying parts I know are junk. So I take the time to write a review on things to encourage you to purchase what is best for your truck.
Likewise I care about your beards. They are a thing of pride and we love them even though our significant others may not appreciate them. I think of my beard as the muscles I will never have. God blessed/cursed me with a nitrous oxide injected metabolism. I can eat like a horse and it changes nothing. I can go to the gym and pump iron for hours and it changes nothing. So I grow beards, I try to change it up with each beard. Sometimes a nice straight beard with a handlebar mustache, maybe a big ol bushy mountain man beard now and then. I think this time I am going for the Spartan style, keep it trimmed to the shape of my jaw line but long off the chin.
The bottom line here guys, if you feel the need to grow out another beard, make damned sure she's a good beard. If it's itchy and scratchy a couple days in, don't be afraid to knock off those couple days worth and lotion up and start over. Gillette makes an excellent aftershave lotion that has turned many a bad beard into a good beard for me.
Here are a few different beards I have tried over the years. I loved them all but you can tell there is only one style that my wife likes….[three]


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The best email signup headlines
By now, you know the power of email marketing and having an email list. And you've probably spent a decent amount of time figuring out the best ways to grow your email list. But what are the best headlines to encourage new email signups? At Privy, our platform helps marketers grow their email list. Across our user base, we analyzed all the email signup headlines and broke them out into three different groups based on the type of headline.
3 types of email signup headlines
"Simple" headline: This is a crisp headline that is quick to read and clear on call to action. Sample headlines in this group include "Subscribe" and "Join My List."
"Descriptive" headline: This headline type is a bit more nuanced and descriptive. We determined that any headline with more than 15 characters falls into this group. Example headlines include "Never miss a review or giveaway" and "Join our newsletter for the latest tips and tricks."
"Offer-driven" headline: This headline type has a signup incentive (with conversion tracking). Coupons or free items are provided in return for subscribing to a list. For example, a restaurant may say "Free Chips or Drink with your Next Order," or an eCommerce site may say "Get 20% off your first order when you join our list."
Email signup headline performance
We then looked at email list signup performance by type of headline. Here are the results:
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What does this mean for you? The data shows that web users have a short attention span! So if you can offer something in return for subscribing, that will drive the most list growth. But if you don't want to run an offer, it's better to be clear and concise, and that will perform better than a longer, more descriptive signup prompt.
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Can not enter apple id because of dead spots
I have two questions...First I can't turn or toggle off my " Find My Phone " because I can't enter my Apple ID due to dead spots where the little globe is....
How do you think I can disengage the find my phone on the device. I tried on iCloud.com and there doesn't seem to be a place to do it.
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When i tried to turn on my printer, it shows error code 0x9A. Please help.
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The printer didn't recognize the black ink cartridge so i removed that and reset. Still didn't recognize so i took out again and reset all cartridges. then 9A error came up so i reset cartridges again now none of the 4 cartridges are recognized. Ready to "office space this piece o'junk" PS worked great for 2-3 years.


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Shirley A. Shive, 84, died April 27, 2018 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland.
Funeral services were Sunday at the Stricklin-King Funeral Home Chapel with Vivian Gooch officiating. Burial followed at Glenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Shive was born Sept. 18, 1933 in Sunflower County to Travis and Carrie Mixon Gorrell. She worked as a clerk for Ratner's Department Store and was a member of the Yazoo City Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Shive.
Survivors include two daughters, Vivian Gooch (Johnny) of Madison and Sharon Swayze (Steve) of Yazoo City; two sons, Larry Shive of Yazoo City and David Shive of Hernando; two sisters, Joyce Webb and Rachel Tackett of Clarksdale; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.


text: Koshi River basin, which lies in the Central Himalayas with an area of 71,500 km2, is an important trans-boundary river basin shared by China, Nepal and India. Yet, landslide-prone areas are all located in China and Nepal, imposing alarming risks of widespread damages to property and loss of human life in both countries. Against this backdrop, this research, by utilizing remote sensing images and topographic maps, has identified a total number of 6877 landslides for the past 23 years and further examined their distribution, characteristics and causes. Analysis shows that the two-step topography in the Himalayan region has a considerable effect on the distribution of landslides in this area. Dense distribution of landslides falls into two regions: the Lesser Himalaya (mostly small and medium size landslides in east-west direction) and the Transition Belt (mostly large and medium size landslides along the river in north-south direction). Landslides decrease against the elevation while the southern slopes of the Himalayas have more landslides than its northern side. Change analysis was carried out by comparing landslide distribution data of 1992, 2010 and 2015 in the Koshi River basin. The rainfall-induced landslides, usually small and shallow and occurring more frequently in regions with an elevation lower than 1000m, are common in the south and south-east slopes due to heavy precipitation in the region, and are more prone to the slope gradient of 20°~30°. Most of them are distributed in Proterozoic stratum (Pt3e, Pt3 and Pt2-3) and Quaternary stratum. While for earthquake-induced landslides, they are more prone to higher elevations (2000~3000 m) and steeper slopes (40°~50°).


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Everything You Need to Know About Commercial Construction Dewatering
Commercial construction dewatering is a crucial way of preserving and cleaning water and providing environmental remediation while allowing construction to go on. Groundwater contamination is a serious environmental and health issues, and commercial construction dewatering helps to preserve that 1% of Earth's water that is actually drinkable. Since our ground water is 95% of the fresh water resources we have available to us, the situation could not be more serious.
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At its most basic, this is a type of dirty water treatment that helps protect ground water from contamination. When used together, primary waste treatments and secondary ones like commercial construction dewatering are able to remove between 85% and 95% of contaminants before water is released back into waterways and the ground


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Big finale at the Berlinale. I already got tickets for the competition movie "Gigante" before the first good reviews came out and before it won the special "Grand prize of the jury" at the awards ceremony yesterday. It is a very good, funny and unusual as well as intelligent movie about a security guard at a supermarket watching and falling in love with a woman from the cleaning staff. Unusual because a lot of things happening in the movie are presented in the view that the main actor watches them occur – on the monitor of the security camera screen and unusual too due to its sparse dialogue but witty situations that do not need long explanations or a lot of talking.
After the movie, director Adrian Beniez as well as main actors Horacio Camandule and actress Leonor Svarcas were ready to answer questions of the audience. Due to the fact that the present Berlinale person was not able to translate english -> spanish -> german or vice versa Leonor Svarcas had to jump in, Horicio Camandule was not really able to answer anything anymore since he obviously had some big celebrations going on after the award ceremony.
This movie fulfilled my expectations completely.


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U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/77/D/893/1999
Communication No. 893/1999
28 March 2003
human rights committee
|77th Session
|17 March – 4 April 2003
Mohammed Sahid
New Zealand
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1. The author of the communication, dated 28
August 1998, is Mohammed Sahid, a Fijian national, born 24 October 1945. He
brings the communication on his own behalf, and on behalf of his daughter
Jamila, a Fijian national resident in New Zealand, and his grandson Robert,
born in New Zealand on 14 February 1989. [FN1] He alleges violations by New
Zealand of articles 23, paragraph 1, and 24, paragraph 1, of the Covenant in
the event of his removal to Fiji from New Zealand. He is represented by
counsel. The Optional Protocol entered into force for New Zealand on 26
August 1989.
[FN1] The author, acting on his own, provides no authorization or other justification for bringing the communication on behalf of the two latter individuals: see further paragraph 7.3.
2.1 In July 1988, the author arrived in New Zealand on a temporary visitor's visa to visit his adult daughter, Jamila, and her husband. His wife and four other children remained in Fiji. In February 1989, a son, Robert, was born to Jamila, and in March 1989 he applied for residence in New Zealand for himself, his wife and four children in Fiji. In June 1989, the application for residence was denied. After a series of extensions, the author's final temporary permit expired on 7 June 1991; from that point, he was unlawfully in New Zealand. In May 1992, his daughter and her husband divorced. On 30 November 1992, the author was served with a removal order under the Immigration Act. On 24 December 1992, the author appealed his deportation order to the Removal Review Authority ("the Authority"). In 1995, the author's daughter remarried, divorced, and then remarried again.
2.2 On 31 May 1996, following various exchanges in the intervening period with the author's representative, the Authority dismissed the author's appeal. On 14 April 1997, the High Court, on further appeal, remitted the matter to the Authority for a rehearing. On 6 May 1997, Jamila's ex-husband died. On 18 September 1997, the Authority again dismissed the author's appeal against the removal order. On 29 April 1998, the High Court dismissed the author's appeal against the Authority's second decision. On 22 July 1998, the High Court denied the author's application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal. While these proceedings were continuing, the Minister of Immigration dismissed several appeals for special intervention on the basis of the matter being sub judice.
2.3 On 27 July 1998, the author's representative sought a special direction from the Minister of Immigration, exceptionally to allow him to remain in New Zealand. On 28 August 1998, the author petitioned the Human Rights Committee. On 9 September 1998, the Minister of Immigration declined the request for a special direction for lack of substance. On 9 June 1999, the author was arrested with a view to removal. On 10 June 1999, the High Court, on an application for interim relief to stay removal, directed that the author be released on bail while interviews would be undertaken. On 16 June 1999, following a humanitarian assessment, the authorities decided to proceed with removal. On 1 July 1999, the High Court dismissed the application for interim relief. On 2 July 1999, the author was removed to Fiji.
2.4 On 3 July 2000, the Minister of Immigration cancelled the author's removal order, which would allow him to apply in the usual fashion for a temporary or residence visa without waiting out the usual five year period following removal.
3.1 The author contends that his removal to Fiji would violate the rights of the alleged victims to the protection of the family, guaranteed in article 23, paragraph 1. He contends that he, his daughter and her son constituted a "family" for the purposes of article 23. He states that they have been living together for many years, and that the extended family is culturally important to him. He argues that protection of the grandson's rights implies that the author should stay with him in New Zealand, as international human rights law aims at maintaining the family unit and giving highest priority to the child's rights. He relies for these propositions on a decision of admissibility of the European Court of Human Rights [FN2] under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [FN3] and a report of the Australian Human Rights Commission. [FN4]
[FN2] Uppal v. United Kingdom 3 EHRR 391 (1979) held admissible, and subsequently resolved by friendly settlement.
[FN3] Article 8 of the Convention provides: "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence".
[FN4] Human Rights Commission Report No. 10: "The human rights of Australian-born children: a report on the complaint of Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Au Yeung" (January 1985). The Commission found it "inconsistent with and contrary to human rights" to deport two parents, who being unlawfully present in Australia had a year earlier had a child born to them, in circumstances where the child, an Australian national by virtue of birth there, had no option but to leave with the parents.
3.2 The author contends that at no time did he intend to evade the authorities and that during his time in New Zealand he was pursuing the remedies available to him under New Zealand's immigration legislation. It is stated that his daughter Jamila suffers from "a number of physical and emotional disabilities" and has a close emotional tie with her father. Further, it is stated that the author has, in recent years, developed a heart condition which has on occasion necessitated hospitalization.
3.3 As to article 24, paragraph 1, the author submits that his grandson, who has New Zealand nationality by virtue of his birth in New Zealand, is entitled to the same measures of protection as other New Zealand children. To expel the author, who is alleged to be a primary caregiver, on the basis of his lack of New Zealand nationality discriminates against the grandchild and violates his rights to be treated without discrimination as to race, national or social origin, or birth. In support of this argument, the author supplied a family therapist's report describing him as exercising an important parental influence over his grandson in view of the death of his biological father, and that therefore his removal should be reconsidered "on humanitarian and on economic grounds". [FN5]
[FN5] Report dated 13 January 1999, by Julie Patterson, Senior Family Therapist.
4.1 By submissions of 10 November 2000, the State party disputes both the admissibility and the merits of the communication.
4.2 As to admissibility, the State party contends that there are domestic remedies still available to the author, that the communication invokes a right not covered by the Covenant, and that the communication is insufficiently substantiated, for purposes of admissibility.
4.3 As to exhaustion of domestic remedies, the State party notes that the author has been given leave to apply for visitor's and resident's permits (from Fiji) and has applied for the former. Should he be unsuccessful in applying for residence, rights of appeal and review would be available to him.
4.4 Secondly, the State party argues that the author's essential claim is that the author "should have been granted residence in New Zealand because one of his five adult children and a grandchild reside in New Zealand. In other words, the author is purporting to find, within the Covenant, a derivative right of non-nationals to permanent residence in a foreign country where family members are residents or citizens of that country". The State party argues that neither the Committee's previous jurisprudence, [FN6] nor analogous reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights, [FN7] place such a broad interpretation on articles 23, paragraph 1, and 24, paragraph 1. Accordingly, as the right relied upon does not exist within the Covenant, the claim should be dismissed as inadmissible ratione materiae.
[FN6] Stewart v. Canada (Case No. 538/1993, Views adopted on 1 November 1996).
[FN7] In Abdulaziz v. United Kingdom (1995) EHRR 471, the Court held, at paragraph 68: "The duty imposed by article 8 [of the Convention] cannot be considered as extending to a general obligation on the part of a contracting State to respect the choice by married couples for the country of their matrimonial residence and to accept the non-national spouses for settlement in that country."
4.5 Finally, the State party notes that the communication "baldly asserts [the author's] right to family life and the right of his grandchild to his care" and does not establish a breach of either right. It "states" that there is a violation of article 23, paragraph 1, while providing no evidence that the State party is failing to protect the rights of family or children, either generally or in the specific instance. Accordingly, to the State party, the claims have been insufficiently substantiated.
4.6 On the merits, the State party rejects a violation of either article 23, paragraph 1, or article 24, paragraph 1.
4.7 The State party notes that the obligation under article 23, paragraph 1, is an "institutional guarantee", [FN8] whereby the State is obliged within broad discretion to protect positively the family unit. The State party lists numerous areas of its law where the family is institutionally recognized and protected. It notes that while there is no single definition of "family" under New Zealand law, the greatest protection is accorded to "nuclear" or "immediate" family groups comprising one or more adults, and any dependent children. The State party notes that this kind of family group, rather than the present group, was at issue in the Yeung report. [FN9]
[FN8] Nowak, M.: CCPR Commentary (Engel, 1993), at 290 and 402.
[FN9] See footnote 4, supra.
4.8 In the immigration context, the State party observes that its law and policy provides extensive recognition and protection for family groups: (i) residence policy has a specific "family" category for foreign family members, (ii) overseas family members may be granted visitor permits, (iii) residence policy has a "humanitarian" category applicable to family members, (iv) family considerations are relevant to the issue of exceptional permits, (v) family and welfare considerations are assessed in appeals against removal order, and before a removal order is executed.
4.9 The State party points out that different forms of family relationship are protected to differing degrees, so that, for example, couples or adults with dependent children are accorded greater protection than family relations between adult children and their parents, or between adult siblings. These differences reflect objective assessments of the degree of interdependence in different family relationships. Thus, for example, as aged parents are more likely to be dependent on adult children for support, it is easier for a parent to join an adult child in New Zealand than for another adult sibling of the child to do so. These policy distinctions are consistent with the broad requirements of article 23, are justified by objective criteria, and are in line with the State party's discretion as to how best to protect and promote the family unit.
4.10 The State party notes that the author's application for residence and subsequent appeal against removal have both been considered in accordance with its law and policy. His family circumstances, including the interests of his daughter and grandson, as well as those of his wife and four children resident in Fiji, were given extensive and repeated consideration. [FN10]
[FN10] The State party notes that between July 1989 and July 1999, the author pursued or was accorded more than 20 opportunities to make further submissions on these matters and to seek review of the decisions to deny him residence and to remove him. His requests for residence and/or appeal against removal were considered three times by the Immigration Service, twice by the Removal Review Authority, once by the Ombudsmen, six times by the Minister, and four times by the High Court.
4.11 The State party submits that the obligation to afford institutional protection does not give rise to an overriding obligation to protect all "families", however defined, in all circumstances. Rather the obligation must be balanced against other considerations, including, in this instance, the author's other family relationships. The situation is thus similar to that considered in Stewart v. Canada, where the Committee held:
[T]he interference with Mr. Stewart's family relations that will be the inevitable outcome of his deportation cannot be regarded as either unlawful or arbitrary when the deportation order was made under law in furtherance of a legitimate State interest and due consideration was given in the deportation proceedings to the deportee's family connections. There is therefore no violation of articles 17 and 23 of the Covenant. [FN11]
[FN11] Op.cit, at para. 12.10.
4.12 The communication thus fails to demonstrate how New Zealand law falls short of the general obligation in article 23, paragraph 1, to protect and promote a family unit in New Zealand society.
4.13 The State party observes that it is unclear why the author's counsel has not expressly referred to article 17, paragraph 1, of the Covenant. Should article 17 nonetheless be considered relevant in the circumstances, the State party argues that article 17 prohibits "unlawful" or "arbitrary" interference with the family, accordingly not absolutely banning any interference but requiring that it be according to law, reasonable, proportionate and consistent with the Covenant. [FN12] In the context of immigration, therefore, the State party refers to the Committee's jurisprudence that there can be no overall obligation on a State party to respect the choice by a family of a particular country of residence. [FN13] The jurisprudence of the European Court has also held, consistently, that there is no general obligation to respect the choice by married couples of the country of their matrimonial residence, [FN14] and that States are entitled to balance family interests against their legitimate interests in controlling their borders. [FN15]
[FN12] General Comment 16 on article 17.
[FN13] Aumeeruddy-Cziffra v. Mauritius (Case No. 35/1978, Views adopted on 9 April 1981).
[FN14] Abudulaziz, op. cit, at 497-498, Gul v. Switzerland (1986) 22 EHRR 93, at 114, and Jaramillo v. United Kingdom (Appln. 24865/94).
[FN15] Bouchelkia v. France (1997) 25 EHRR 686, at 707.
4.14 This concept of balance has been recognized by the State party's courts, which have emphasized the need to give due consideration to the interests of families and children in accordance with the Covenant. [FN16] The State party's residence policy, under which the author applied, provides for a wide range of circumstances in which strong family ties in New Zealand give rise to residence entitlement. The State party's law and policy recognize however the necessity, respected under international law, of retaining some limitations on entry and residence. In determining this policy, the State party observes it is entitled to distinguish amongst family relationships it regards as most compelling on the basis of objective factors.
[FN16] See, for example, Puli'uvea v. Removal Review Authority (1996) 2 HRNZ 510 (Court of Appeal).
4.15 Turning to the specific case in terms of article 17, the State party first observes that the author is a member of a variety of family groupings, including his relationship with his daughter Jamila and his grandson. The State party submits that his own primary family unit properly comprises, in addition to himself, his wife, son and three daughters in Fiji. While he clearly has an important relationship with his daughter, it must be recognized that she is an adult woman, who left Fiji, and has established a new life in New Zealand, having married, had a child, and now remarried. Her marriage is also strongly relevant to any consideration of the author's relationship with her and her child. As noted above, the State party submits it may accord the relationship between the author and his daughter, her husband and son a more limited weight than that between the author and his wife and other four children.
4.16 Secondly, the State party contends that the author has not demonstrated how any State action has interfered with his family life. While his family members are now spread between Fiji and New Zealand, that was the result of his daughter's decision to leave and establish herself in New Zealand. While he may have become closer to his daughter and grandson in New Zealand, it should be recalled that his initial purpose was to visit his daughter briefly, and that much of his subsequent stay there was permitted to allow him to exercise appeal rights. Throughout that time, all but one member of his immediate family remained in Fiji and his primary family relationship must be taken as being there. Further, regular contact with his New Zealand family remains possible. Aside from the possibility of a visitor permit for him to visit New Zealand, and of mail and telephone, they may return to or visit him in Fiji. While this contact may be more intermittent than the author may wish, it does not fall to the State party to reconstruct a family relationship disrupted by his daughter's decision to leave Fiji.
4.17 Even if the Committee considered that there had been interference with the author's family within the meaning of article 17, the State party submits that it was justified, being lawful and reasonable. There is no question that the decisions to decline his residence application and appeals against removal were taken according to applicable law and policy. Within these processes, extensive consideration was given to family/humanitarian circumstances.
4.18 The author's initial residence application was considered under the family and humanitarian categories. The denial was twice confirmed by the Minister, who invited him by interview to raise further circumstances. Once his temporary permits expired, the Authority considered whether there were "exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian nature" warranting cancellation of the removal order.
4.19 The Authority found, as to the medical condition of his daughter Jamila, there were facilities both in New Zealand and Fiji providing good treatment, and, if she returned to Fiji, there would be "greater family support" for her. While some emotional distress would occur upon separation, there was no serious resulting physical harm. As to her threat to commit suicide if the author was removed, this was accepted as evidence of her emotional vulnerability and need for support, and she was urged to seek counselling. As it was open to her to travel to Fiji with her husband, however, this could not of itself justify the author remaining in New Zealand.
4.20 The Authority also found, as to the author's allegations of delay in resolving the author's applications and appeals, the delays were principally due to the author's exercise of all available rights of appeal. Further, in the context of certain political and economic marginalization of Indians in Fiji, the author eight years earlier had had a window broken and Jamila suffered a theft. While unpleasant and worthy of sympathy, these instances did not show he would personally be at risk of harm, discrimination or marginalization in the event of removal. [FN17] Finally, accepting that family support was important in determining the best interests of the child and its development, the primary responsibility lay with the parents. This was not a case where a child was being involuntarily separated from its parents.
[FN17] The State party notes that this assessment took place before the recent internal dissension in Fiji, the facts of which could be advanced by the author in lodging a new application for a permit.
4.21 On appeal to the High Court, the author challenged these conclusions and the Authority's failure to consider a letter detailing his medical condition received two days before the decision was delivered. The Court considered the Authority had properly interpreted the facts and the law, and that, while the Authority had been unable to consider the letter, it had addressed the question of the author's health. It further noted that the author could not complain that the Authority had not considered the letter when he had had the best part of a year to place the information in question before the Authority. Thereafter, upon an application for judicial review against the Immigration Service for the decision to deport him, the High Court held that the Service had fully and properly considered the various humanitarian matters arising.
4.22 The State party observes that the decision to remove the author was fully consistent with the aims and objectives of the Covenant. The decision makers at each level, including the Immigration Service, the Authority, the High Court and the Minister independently considered relevant international instruments, as the domestic courts have emphasized must occur. [FN18] According to the State party, as the Committee has recognized, human rights principles must be balanced against rights of States, recognized under international law, to exclude aliens, admit aliens subject to conditions, or expel aliens. [FN19] To the extent that the author seeks to challenge the application of its immigration law and policy, the State party invites the Committee to follow its previous jurisprudence that it will not entertain reconsideration of domestic law unless there are indications of bad faith or abuse of power, neither of which have been suggested in the present case. [FN20]
[FN18] See, Puli'uvea op.cit., Tavita v. Minister of Immigration [1994] 2 NZLR 257 (Court of Appeal), Schier v. Removal Review Authority [1999] 1 NZLR 703 (Court of Appeal).
[FN19] The State party refers to General Comment 15 "The position of aliens under the Covenant".
[FN20] De Groot v. The Netherlands (Case No. 578/1994, Decision adopted on 14 July 1995), Maroufidou v. Sweden (Case No. 58/1979, Views adopted on 9 April 1981).
4.23 As to the claim under article 24, paragraph 1, the State party notes that this provision imposes a comprehensive duty to guarantee measures of special protection to children within its jurisdiction, within a broad discretion as to how this is implemented by the State. The State party refers to extensive protection of children, both generally, and in the immigration context, where children's interests are considered at all stages of proceedings.
4.24 As to the contention that the grandson has suffered discrimination, the State party observes that the claim appears to be that the complaint is that the grandfather, not his grandson, has been treated differently on the basis of national or social origin. In any case, issuance of a removal order occurred because of the application of ordinary immigration criteria, applicable to all persons in such a situation, regardless of nationality.
4.25 Further, if it were directed against the grandson, the discrimination prohibited by article 24 would have to refer to differentiation on the basis of a child's own characteristics. As a New Zealand citizen, Robert is entitled to the protection of the law regardless of his national or social origin. Nor was he discriminated against in comparison to other children whose grandparents, who were not New Zealand residents, have not been removed. In those cases, exceptional factors militating against removal were present, which factors were found not present in the instant case. In particular, the circumstances in the Yeung case cited by the author are significantly different. [FN21] The relationship there between an infant child and his parents is quite different to the relationship between a child and a grandparent. In any event, the concerns raised by the Commission in that case were in fact taken into account in the present proceedings. Finally, any differentiation the Committee may find would be justified by objective, reasonable and proportionate grounds - as already described, the denial of residence to the author reflected a careful balancing of family circumstances.
[FN21] See footnote 4, supra.
5.1 By letter of 7 December 2000, the author rejects a number of the State party's arguments on admissibility and merits. He emphasizes that, at the point of submission of the communication, all domestic remedies were exhausted and indeed he was removed shortly thereafter. As to subsequent events, while the author was given leave to apply for a visitor's permit, this was then denied. No appeal lies against denial of a visitor's permit. As to admissibility ratione materiae, the author argues that his claims relate specifically to articles 23 and 24 of the Covenant. He contends that his allegations are properly substantiated.
5.2 As to the merits, the author argues under article 23, paragraph 1, that the interference in question was not reasonable and proportionate, for New Zealand immigration law and policy did not provide for the author's migration to New Zealand even though he had a daughter and grandson there. Accordingly, it provides little if any recognition to extended family relationships common in cultures such as his own, which "raises a preliminary question whether those policies are discriminatory on the basis of race or ethnic origins". The author regards it as "simplistic" to reduce his situation to a father, daughter, grandson relationship, as this does not consider Jamila's "isolation" in New Zealand, nor the rights of New Zealand citizens. The author suggests that relocation to Fiji is "unrealistic".
5.3 The author argues that with his removal "strong family bonds have been severed and this has had a greatly adverse effect on Robert". He attaches reports by a family therapist dated 29 June 2000 and 1 September 2000, on behavioural problems caused, in the therapist's opinion, by immigration decisions concerning the author. [FN22]
[FN22] Reports by Julie Patterson, Senior Family Therapist, Capital Coast Health.
5.4 As to proceedings in the domestic courts, the author argues that his appeal was in terms of whether exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian nature existed. According to the author, the courts have consistently held that normal family ties cannot be considered exceptional circumstances. He argues that while the concept of balance has been judicially recognized, there is no developed doctrine of proportionality under New Zealand law. While the author accepts that immigration procedures now require the consideration of international conventions, he rejects the Authority's decision in his case as unreasonable. He further contends that superior courts do not enter into the merits of a humanitarian appeal, but confine themselves to an assessment of law and are "almost illusionary" [sic] remedies.
5.5 As to article 24, paragraph 1, the author argues that his function as a primary caregiver was of little consequence under the family/humanitarian aspects of the State party's residence policy, as his application was denied. As to alleged discrimination, he considers the basis for the differentiated treatment is the author's national or social origin.
6.1 By submission of 16 July 2001, the State party provided supplementary submissions. The author's application for a visitor visa had been declined because of a high risk of non-compliance with visa conditions. He has however not yet applied for a residence visa despite being invited to do so. The author's wife has been issued an eight week temporary visa to allow her to assist her daughter following medical treatment.
6.2 As to the author's claim advanced in his comments on the State party's submissions that its immigration policy may be discriminatory, the State party regards it "plainly inappropriate" to advance such an allegation not addressed in the communication. Nonetheless, the author's failure to acquire residence reflects the application of residence policy to his case rather than any deficiency in the policy. Further, immigration policy does make provision for extended relationships, and, to the extent that there are differentiations between various forms of family relationship, such distinction is consistent with the Covenant.
6.3 The State party rejects the author's claim that the superior courts only review questions of law and therefore provide "almost illusory" remedies. It notes that the author's case has been considered repeatedly in accordance with legislation and policy that is mindful of, and consistent with, international obligations. While the courts may be generally reluctant to reconsider findings of fact made in such decisions, such review gives careful consideration to compliance with law and policy, including consideration of international obligations.
6.4 The State party observes that the issue of the mental health of the grandson and the psychological reports were first raised in the author's comments on the State party's submissions, and were not drawn to the attention of any domestic authority. It would be open to the author to seek entry to New Zealand on humanitarian grounds by reference to the mental health of his grandchild.
6.5 The State party observes that the author's assertion that he was his grandchild's primary caregiver was not accepted as a matter of fact by the domestic authorities. The author's remarks on this and other questions of fact seek to revisit factual questions already considered by the domestic authorities.
6.6 Finally, as to the author's contention that there is no statutory requirement to consider the importance of the family or the Covenant, the State party observes that this overlooks the legally binding requirements, established by immigration policy as well as judicial precedent, for officials, tribunals and courts to take into account family circumstances and international human rights obligations.
6.7 By letter of 15 August 2001, the author stated that he has no further comments to make. On 20 December 2001, he forwarded a therapist's letter recommending the grant of a temporary visa to any family member able to make a brief visit to New Zealand in order to assist with Robert. [FN23]
[FN23] Letter, dated 19 December 2001, by Julie Patterson, Senior Family Therapist, Capital Coast Health.
7.1 Before considering any claim contained in a communication, the Human Rights Committee must, in accordance with rule 87 of its Rules of Procedure, decide whether or not the complaint is admissible under the Optional Protocol to the Covenant.
7.2 As to the admissibility of the claims brought by the author on behalf of his adult daughter and grandson, the Committee refers to its consistent jurisprudence that an individual must show compelling grounds for bringing a communication on behalf of another in the absence of authorization. [FN24] The Committee notes that the author has not supplied any authorization from his adult daughter, or otherwise demonstrated why it would be appropriate to act on her behalf. It follows that the author does not have standing, in terms of article 1 of the Optional Protocol, to present a claim under article 23, paragraph 1, on behalf of his adult daughter, Jamila. As to the claim on behalf of his grandson Robert under article 24, paragraph 1, the Committee considers that, in the absence of special circumstances not demonstrated in the present case, it is inappropriate for the author to bring a claim on behalf of his grandson without expression of assent to such a course by a custodial parent. [FN25] Accordingly, the Committee considers that the author does not have standing in terms of article 1 of the Optional Protocol in respect of his daughter and his grandson, and these claims are inadmissible.
[FN24] See, for example, F (on behalf of C) v. Australia (Case No. 832/1998, Decision adopted on 25 July 2001).
[FN25] See, by contrast, the approach taken in the special circumstances of Laureano v. Peru Case No. 540/1993, Views adopted on 25 March 1996, where the State party was found in violation of, inter alia, articles 6, 7 and 9 of the Covenant.
7.3 As to the author's own claim, the Committee notes the State party's arguments with respect to exhaustion of domestic remedies that it had become open to the author, after his removal, to apply for a residence permit which would enable him to return to New Zealand, and that he had not done so. The Committee observes that this opportunity only became available as a result of the (purely discretionary) decision of the Minister to cancel the removal order, after the author's removal had in fact taken place, and further that the author's application for a visitor's permit which also became possible after the Minister's decision has been declined. In the circumstances, the Committee does not regard the remedy advanced by the State party as being demonstrably effective, such as would preclude the Committee by article 5, paragraph 2 (b), of the Optional Protocol from considering the communication.
7.4 As to the State party's argument that the communication is insufficiently substantiated and/or outside the scope of the Covenant, the Committee refers to its previous jurisprudence [FN26] that issues of removal of persons to another jurisdiction in the immigration context may arise under the articles pleaded by the author. The Committee accordingly finds that there is sufficient information before it raising an arguable claim concerning the author in terms of article 23, paragraph 1, of the Covenant.
[FN26] Winata v. Australia Case No. 930/2000, Views adopted on 26 July 2001.
7.5 In the absence of any further obstacles to admissibility, therefore, the Committee finds the communication admissible insofar as the alleged violation of the author's right under article 23, paragraph 1, of the Covenant is concerned.
8.1 The Human Rights Committee has considered the present communication in the light of all the information made available to it by the parties, as provided in article 5, paragraph 1 of the Optional Protocol.
8.2 As to the admissible claims under article 23, paragraph 1, the Committee notes its earlier decision in Winata v. Australia, [FN27] that, in extraordinary circumstances, a State party must demonstrate factors justifying the removal of persons within its jurisdiction that go beyond a simple enforcement of its immigration law in order to avoid a characterization of arbitrariness. In Winata, the extraordinary circumstance was the State party's intention to remove the parents of a minor, born in the State party, who had become a naturalized citizen after the required 10 years' residence in that country. In the present case, the author's removal has left his grandson with his mother and her husband in New Zealand. As a result, in the absence of exceptional factors, such as those noted in Winata, the Committee finds that the State party's removal of the author was not contrary to his right under article 23, paragraph 1, of the Covenant.
[FN27] Ibid.
9. The Human Rights Committee, acting under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is of the view that the facts before it do not reveal a breach of any of the articles of the Covenant.
[Adopted in English, French and Spanish, the English text being the original version. Subsequently to be issued in Arabic, Chinese and Russian as part of the Committee's annual report to the General Assembly.]
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You need to fill out the registration form and submit a $300 NON-REFUNDABLE Deposit to reserve your required date. You will need to send in the BALANCE 45 DAYS PRIOR to your retreat weekend. Your check or other payment, it MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE the 45 days prior.
To keep from raising our rates for the WHOLE place rental, we wanted to provide you with Options. We realize that the average size group is about 14 people. To keep up with those of you that have larger groups, we have decided that to help with the additional costs of running the inn for more people, we need to charge $50.00 each additional person and or bed used from 15-18 guests. This is a nominal charge and just offsets our costs. For 19-22 the Granny flat will be required at a flat rate of $250.00 additional cost.
We are happy to offer the inn to groups up to 22 people now.
Yes there is, we have a limited amount of internet available, and due to the remote location is NOT always guaranteed. To make internet available for all scrappers (web browsing and Digital scrappers) The following is NOT encouraged:
STREAMING - Will just slow the Internet down or cause it to shut down till the load is reduced by users
NO DROPBOX - If you need to access your pictures from this process, please download them to a file on your computer so it is a managable size. What happens with DROPBOX, is that if you open your pictures and unbeknownst to you it is in a large file, the whole dropbox gets downloaded at once and will use up our monthly allotment in minutes. I am sure you understand that this isn't a good thing. So please organize your photos BEFORE you arrive.
With these limits in place, you might be able to browse the internet as you like and also do some Digital Scrapping.
But again, as our location is so remote we have no control over how much internet is being used by whom and when... the evenings are peak hours so access is usually very limited if even possible. Therefore we can't guarantee the use of internet.
We encourage you to use your personal data or your hot spots as we can not promise how fast or slow the internt maybe. So plan accordingly. Remember each guests usually has 2-4 personal devices, if you've been to the Inn you will connect automatically, so turn off any & all devices NOT being used so others can have access.
No. Flexibility is our middle name. Eat when you want. Scrap all night long, and sleep the day away if you would like.
We have a supply of Close To My Heart products available for purchase for those groups that choose to access it. For hostesses that prefer to sell their own product, we do not announce it available to her guests. For those who prefer a larger selection, or the perfect shade of green cardstock, there are several scrapbooking stores within a 30-minute radius.
We also have a lot of Ink pads, markers, rubber stamps, punches etc that our guests can borrow -just check out our tool room!
We can only rent the house as a complete rental, but if you are by yourself or just a small group, and can't afford the whole place rental, you can put your name on our wait list, and we will contact hostesses coming around the time you're interested, to see if they are looking for more people to join their groups. They frequently are!
We can sometimes allow day croppers to come during the week or on weekends when the house is not rented. Contact us, and we will try to accommodate you.
Well, there are muliple beds in each room, check out our accommodations page for a look. So to answer your question ... yes, but each guest has her own bed, and if you decide to stay up all night scrapbooking, then you can sleep all day instead, and then you could have the room to yourself :) With 22 twin beds in five bedrooms (and a giant closet!), we believe there is a comfortable room for everyone's tastes.
Due to insurance regulations, we can not provide transportation. However, we can definitely provide travel help and directions to make your experience more enjoyable.
We currently have beds for 22 in five bedrooms (and a closet!). There are 22 6-foot tables that fit comfortably in the cropping area. There is now extra cropping area in the dining room, perhaps for day croppers. Or, the tables can be used for dining, make-n-takes, or product displays. Please note there is a $65 person charge for groups greater than 14-18
The check in time is 10:00am on Friday or later. The check-out time is Sunday at 4:00pm, promptly! For mid-week retreats, the check-in time on Monday is 1:00PM, and check-out is Noon on Wednesday or Thursday.
Absolutely! We are geared toward the cropping crowd, but can accommodate other crafters as well, and quilters and sewers- just contact us directly for most appropriate set up.
San Diego Scrap Inn does the cleaning for you. We do ask that upon check-out you strip the linens off your bed, put one load in the washing machine and start it & one load at least in the dryer. Load, run & put away ALL the dishes and gather the garbage from the house and take the trash out to the street. There is a check out sheet upon arrival so please see it for detailed directions & additional check out procedures. And it MUST be checked off, signed & dated... and left on the kitchen counter for our review.
We are trying to protect the privacy of our guests. We specifically do not put our physical address out there, because we don't want people just dropping in to check it out when we have guests. We can tell you it is 7 minutes off I-15 in Fallbrook, and if you would be interested in coming by to see the house, we would love to show it to you. Just send us an email or give us a call to set up an appointment. Also, we promise you will be given the address and full directions about a week before you check in.
No we don't. Starting 2018 so as to not raise prices we have stopped supplying drinks and snacks.
NO, The Granny Flat is only available to larger groups, 19 guests or more. If you have 14 or less, the Granny Flat is NOT available to you. We will charge an extra $250.00 if you use it.
If you have 15-18 guests there is an additional $50.00 per person.
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Check out procedures are mandatory. Please complete the items on the check out procedures list- there will be one on the kitchen counter top when you arrive. It must be signed, checked off, dated and left on the kitchen counter. All hostesses are responsible for the check out procedures in order to receive their refund.
At least one load of laundry not completed: $50.00 charge
Trash bins not taken out to the street: $150.00 charge
Leaving either of the two thermostats on: $250.00 charge
Leaving any doors unlocked: $250.00 charge
Leaving any windows open: $250.00 charge
Leaving dishes in the dishwasher and/or on the counter: $50.00 charge
Any furniture moved and not returned to original location: $50.00 charge
Beds moved will be -per bed: $100.00 charge
Clogging/over flowing toliets where a plumber needs to be called: $150.00 charge
Leaving excess food in the refrigerator that your group brought in and not taken: $50.00 charge
Check out is Sunday at 4:00pm. Any overage time beyond 4:00pm will be charged $25.00 per 15-minute intervals.
Refunds will be returned within approx. 7 business days.