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These are just a few of my favorite shots from The Frontier Club on the 9th of November. I realize the quality is terrible, but I did what I could to fix them. This was a really fun night and we are so looking forward to playing there again.
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"After the dance and after the last bow, the dancers gathered at the foot of the stage at Jacob's Pillow. They sat there and took questions from the audience when I noticed that one pair of legs was still dancing." —Sylvia Plachy
Sylvia Plachy, the first photographer assigned to shoot the opening photograph of the legendary Goings On About Town section of The New Yorker, explores in her work the city's dynamics from the inside out, from the Mermaid Parade to camels walking through town on the way to the circus, and sometimes farther afield, as in the case of this beautiful limited-edition photograph After the Dance, Jacob's Pillow 2005, which was included in her latest Aperture book, Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker (co-published with The New Yorker, 2007).
Here the artist captures a lush glimpse of dancers after a performance, with an eye and composition that is quintessentially Sylvia Plachy. Plachy's particular humor and her way of looking made the artist perfectly suited for the assignments she undertook, and the resulting color photographs offer up a joyful feast for all who behold them. This is a a wonderful opportunity to own a work of art created by one of the medium's most respected practitioners. Photographer Richard Avedon perhaps summed it up best when he said of Sylvia Plachy: "She makes me laugh and she breaks my heart. She is moral. She is everything a photographer should be."
Sylvia Plachy's (born 1943, Budapest) photo-essays and portraits have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Village Voice, Granta, Artforum, Fortune, and other publications, and have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Berlin, Paris, Budapest, and Tokyo. Plachy's most recent book, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home (Aperture, 2004), a personal history of central Europe in photographs and text, received a 2004 Golden Light award for best book, and in spring 2007, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, featured a retrospective exhibition of her work.
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No machinery required except for a hand mixer and you could always just use a whisk instead. The condensed milk creates a very smooth texture.
This is very rich so a small slice should be enough to make everyone happy.
1 1/2 cups (375 mL) chocolate cookie crumbs
6 tbsp. (80 mL) unsalted butter, melted
1 500 gram (1 lb.) container mascarpone cheese
1 300 mL (10 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
a pinch of sea salt
1/2 tsp. (2 mL) mint extract, or more to taste
few drops of green food colouring
1 cup (250 mL) whipping cream
1/4 cup (60 mL) whipping cream
4 oz. (115 g) bittersweet chocolate chips, approximately 3/4 cup (180 mL)
Line the bottom of a deep, 9-inch pie pan with a circle of parchment paper.
Combine the chocolate crumbs and butter together until well combined. Press into the pie pan evenly along the bottom and sides and refrigerate.
With a mixer on low speed, beat the mascarpone to smooth it out. Still on low speed, slowly beat in the condensed milk, salt, mint extract and food colouring, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Beat the 1 cup (250 mL) cream to medium peaks and fold into the mascarpone mixture. Pour into the pie shell. Freeze for at least 4 hours or until firm.
In a medium sized pot, heat the 1/4 cup (60 mL) whipping cream to a simmer. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate, stirring until smooth. Let cool slightly. Spread the chocolate mixture evenly over the top of the frozen pie and return to the freezer. The pie can be frozen for a week before serving. Wrap securely in plastic wrap after the chocolate topping has set.
When ready to serve, place the pie in the fridge for 15-20 minutes to soften it for easier cutting. Cut, using a knife dipped into hot water, dipping and drying the knife blade between each cut. Serve immediately.
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Samsung Galaxy Camera Headed to Verizon Dec. 13
Verizon announced today it will offer the Samsung Galaxy Camera starting on Dec. 13 for $550. Like the AT&T version, the Android-based digital camera offers a 16-megapixel lens, 21X optical zoom and a 4.8-inch touchscreen. Users will be able to post photos to their social networks over Verizon's 4G LTE network, but it does require a data plan. For a limited time, Verizon is allowing customers to add the device to a Shared Everything plan for $5 per month.


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*Get information from the most reliable sources: peer-reviewed journals, not government agencies.PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH ON CHILDREN AND COVID-19
March 20, 2020: Two days ago Kids First sent an open letter to the prime minister and all premiers calling for closure of all daycare settings.March 18, 2020 Kids First Media Release: OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND PREMIERS: CLOSE DAYCARES NOW TO REDUCE CONTAGION
An expert witness in hundreds of family cases put children at risk & broke up families, even judges complained but his professional regulatory body let him off with retirement. Parents say they have been, "...let down again by a regulatory system that fails to put the public interest first when health professionals are accused of wrongdoing."
1993 Boland case in Tax Court of Canada
INSPIRING VIDEO - LET CHILDREN OUT UNSUPERVISED - parents & academics say it's good and laws need to allow it 2019 September - video - UBC Media relations - Running Free: Children's Independent Mobility
March 2020 letter the editor Vancouver Sun: "Motherhood is a valuable, and undervalued, vocation" by Kids First board member
2 supportive replies from dads suggest "parenthood" is undervalued
February 2020 Vancouver Sun article: "Too young to ride the bus alone? Vancouver dad disagrees"February 2020: Who decides when children are old enough to be alone: parents or social workers? The 2015 Terrace BC 'home alone' case set the precedent that no child under 10 can be alone anywhere ever. It all started with a neighbour who works for Ministry of Child and Family Development getting angry at a mum over a parking issue. October 2015 Kids First media release includes letter by the mother BR to Premier describing what happened.
February 2020: Kids First discussion article - MATURE MINOR CONSENT LAWS. Mature minor consent laws undermine parents' and children's rights.
Legal fight against BC Ministry of Child and Family Development apprehension of Metis children
October 2019 New York Times article: Stay at Home Parents Work Hard: Should They Be Paid?
FAMILY VS STATE: Scottish families defeat Orwellian state intervention mega-project. September 2019 article from the BBC - "Named person scheme scrapped by Scottish government"
August 2019: The Escalating Power Imbalance Between Parents and the State - Foundation for Economic Education (USA) article "How Government Programs Ruin Childhood: Childhood is being ruined and parents are the only ones who can save it"
Breast milk kills viruses: 2010 peer reviewed research - Breast milk fights viruses contained in rotovirus vaccines so vaccines do not work as well in countries with more breastfeeding.
OUR KIDS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SLEEP ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE Canada's 2018 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children & Youth
March 2019 Report by UK Play Industry: A Movement for Movement Screen time, physical activity and sleep: a new integrated approach for children
June 2019: What is daycare and all day kindergarten really like for children and staff? Listening to an Early Childhood Educator's Eye Witness Account of All-day Kindergarten Pilot Project
Harvard study shows earlier kindergarten associated with 30% higher ADHD diagnosis. Oct 2018 Harvard Gazette article: When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
PARENTS' RIGHTS IN CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN BC: BC Law Society's pamphlet of advice for BC parents about parents rights in child protection issues.
NOTE: parents' and children's Charter rights and freedoms, and the Principles of Fundamental Justice seem to be ignored in these laws. The laws do not recognize the long record of harm caused by government intervention in families, and so there is no 'balancing' of rights or risks.Feb 2019 - PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN 0-4 IN DIFFERENT CHILD CARE TYPES: Canada-wide: 14.8% in daycare centres, 47% in parental care during "regular working hours".
Mothers' & fathers' paid work grossly over-stated by daycare proponents: Less than 1/2 of mothers and 2/3 of fathers do paid work on an average day
February 2019 Statistics Canada article - "Changes in parents' participation in domestic tasks and care for children from 1986 to 2015"Jan 2019 Kids First Media Release - Parents warned: privacy rights violated in school data collection by UBCThe percentage of mothers who had done paid work or looked for work, on an average day, increased from 36% in 1986 to 47% in 2015. In contrast, this proportion decreased for fathers, from 69% in 1986 to 64% in 2015." - partnered parents with children 12 and under
Jan 2019: Creating Positive Child Care Policy.
January 2019 - GOOGLE APPS FOR KIDS are accused of:
Sign the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood petitionGOVERNMENT LYING AGAIN TO PARENTS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF DAYCARE
The federal government is again claiming that it funds "HIGH QUALITY" early learning and child care. However the evidence from studies of daycare quality conducted by daycare advocates, and from peer-reviewed empirical studies shows that the majority of licensed daycare in Canada is of "minimal to mediocre" quality, not high quality. Inadequate staff:child ratios are the primary reason for inadequate quality. The ratio problem cannot be fixed by unionization, higher wages, or more training.VAST POWER IMBALANCE BETWEEN PARENTS AND THE STATE RECOGNIZED: November 2018, Tyee article, In BC Odds Stacked Against Parents Fighting the Children's Ministry
Nov 2018 BC Government news releaseCan we trust child protection services? The government is accused of not even following its own rules.
November 2018, Vancouver Sun article: Social worker accused of stealing from & abusing vulnerable first nations children in care of BC Ministry Of Children & Family DevelopmentINADEQUATE DAYCARE QUALITY
2008 Canadian Paediatric Society position statement - Health implications of children in child care centres Part A: Canadian trends in child care, behaviour and developmental outcomesNEGATIVE HEALTH EFFECTS OF DAYCARE
2009/16 Canadian Paediatric Society position statement - Health implications of children in child care centres Part B: Injuries and infectionsSeptember 2018 Financial Post article: CANADIAN TAX COURT AFFIRMS PARENTAL DISCRETION OVER NON-PARENTAL CHILD CARE DECISIONS AND AGE OF CHILDREN HOME ALONE.
Non-parental child care expenses incurred so parents can "work" can be deducted for children age 0-15. Expenses include 'camps' and boarding school. This case broadens what can be called 'child care' and affirms parents right to determine the form of child care based on children's needs.
QUOTES from the JudgementSept 2018 CBC article: Parents take BC government to court over tragic death of their toddler son in daycare
The case raises government violation of the child's Charter right to security of person. Daycare regulations are inadequate to provide "adequate" care to the majority of children according to peer-reviewed empirical research on staff:child ratios and group size, and according to research that states the majority of licensed daycare in Canada is of minimal to mediocre quality.July 2018 - WORSENING GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Federal-provincial Early Learning and Child Care agreements exclude parental child care from any funding.Breastfeeding Under Attack Again
July 2018 New York Times article: U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health OfficialsJune 2018: Conflict of G7 Gender Equity Interest? Why is motherhood unmentionable? Canada's G7 Gender Equity Council wants more money for daycare. Maya Roy, CEO of Canada's YWCA is on the Council. The Y is the biggest provider of daycare "spaces" in Canada. No mention of being a "mother" in any of the Council bios.
May 2018: Breastfeeding research: more immune cells found in mums' milk
Daycare Pays Well for Some: 2017 Remuneration of Leading Daycare Lobbyists
Paul Kershaw - head of GenSqueeze lobby group funded by UBC's H.E.L.P.Apr 16, 2018: Maclean's article - How did good parenting become a crime?
April 2018 article by former KidsFirst President, Beverley Smith, in Policy Options, the magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy: All child care should be valued and funded. Bev's successful complaint to the UN in 1997 launched the Federal Finance Committee's Sub-Committee on Tax Equity for Families With Dependent Children. Their Final Report in 1999 called for the government to be neutral regarding child care preferences. Report available here.
March 8, 2018 Media release: International Women's Day complaint to federal government: end discrimination against mothers caring for their kids
March 8, 2018 - International Women's Day
Our government thinks maternal child care is bad for women and children and the economy. Our leaders want to "GET MOTHERS BACK TO WORK" and get our children into full time LICENSED DAYCARE so we can be "PRODUCTIVE" in the name of "GENDER EQUITY."March 2018: Response to CBC's The House biased coverage of "child care" in federal budget.
February 2018: Child care speech in BC Legislature by MLA Laurie Throness: Does a political party finally recognize that child care is the care of a child? Helen Ward: The new Liberal budget will send money for 'children' right to the wealthy and the bureaucrats" (Note: this was written in response to the 2017 budget)
January 2018: Does it work? Public Funding for Child-rearing through EI Benefits - only about two-thirds of mothers receive any EI benefits
December 2017 Press Release: BC Daycare 30% Vacancy Rate as Government Plans 3800 More Spaces
Dec 2017 Toronto Star letter by Kids First President, Helen Ward: Fund child care, not daycare spaces
Dec 15, 2017 Vancouver Sun editorial by Kids First President, Helen Ward, & Andrea Mrozek:
What child care do parents really want?
Dec 5, 2017: REPORT by Kids First and Cardus Inst: 30% vacancy rate in BC daycare while government plans $33 million for new spaces
BC Daycare Vacancies - 2001 Provincial Child Care Survey
Sept 2017: Globe editorial: B.C. to parents: Please lock up your kids
Sep 2017: Very Superstitious: How Fact-Free Parenting Policies Rob Our Kids of Independence by Adrian Crook
August 2017: Cardus op-ed by Helen Ward: The Daycare Lobby's Misogyny. Regarding government and corporate schemes to bully mothers away from our kids and into full time jobs we ask: With feminist like this, who needs patriarchy?
Daycare Staff:Child Ratios and Group-Size Laws Harm Kids
April 2017: CBC Cross Country Check-up discusses daycare
April 2017: Article by Cardus about the 4,500 vacant daycare spaces in Toronto Daycares have increasing VACANCY rates but this data is hidden from public. This is a follow up from 2015 research by Kids First President, Helen Ward, exposing the high but hidden vacancy rates in daycare.
Quebec Daycare System Results: Negative Social Behaviour, Increased Youth Crime
Sept 2015 working academic research paper by economists Milligan, Baker, Gruber showing long term negative impact of Quebec daycare system: "Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes: The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program"
Mar 2017: National Post article by Kids First President, Helen Ward, on Federal Budget promise of more daycare funding. Funding families not "spaces" is fair and better for children's well-being.
Stanford study finds delaying kindergarten 1 year reduces hyperactivity and improves attention at age 11, but Canada has for pushed earlier and longer kindergarten.
Aug 2016: Financial Post article, Exploiting women through childcare. The Federal government is considering a $500M "child care" subsidy program in order to increase mothers' employment. Is this what women want? Does cheap daycare increase mothers' labour force participation?
Aug 2016: CBC radio interview - Vanier Institute for the Family CEO, Nora Spinks, confirms that daycare waitlists are meaningless, though the daycare lobby has used them for years to claim there is a shortage of daycare spaces, yet she pushes for a $10/day daycare system. Ms Spinks advised Statistics Canada that it should not ask for parents' preferences in child care during a consultation last year. Kids First seeks inclusion of parental preference as fundamental in family policy data in our democracy.
April 2016: Are Child Protection Services Violating our Rights?
April 2016: Trusting Strangers and Risks to Children
Feb 2016 Derby Telegraph article: University of Derby: Children in touch with nature do better in SATs
Jan 2016: Research on infant learning shows 'educational' electronic toys don't help
Jan 2016, New York Times article: Unpaid care work - Finland announces Universal Basic Income for all adults. It?s Payback Time for Women
Nov 2015: EVER HEARD OF DEFAMILIALIZATION? WHAT IT IS, WHO CREATED IT, HOW IT AFFECTS OUR LIVES. This research essay by Kids First President, Helen Ward, exposes defamilialism, the ideology that has led to a massive global policy shift, driven by elites on the left and right, that has radically reduced welfare state support for family care work in order to fund state support for institutional, non-parental child care.
Oct 2015: Tycoon dragon blasts daycare: "anti family" "incentivizing parents" Business News Network interview - Bucking the international business sector promotion of tax-subsidized daycare, Kevin O'Leary, Canadian tycoon featured on CBC TV's "Dragon's Den", took time during this interview to blast proposals for a national daycare program. He said he is most concerned about the impact on children and correctly said it "incentives" parents to not look after their own children, calling it "anti family", "unCanadian", "horrific".
What are the dollar costs of a Unidaycare Centre System?
Kids First info sheet Costs?Daycare, Preschool, All-Day Kindergarten compiled a few years ago gives actual costs reported by different governments in Quebec, BC, Sweden and US. EXAMPLE: Nearly $16,000/yr for centre operating costs alone for infant care in Quebec in 2001 - with 1 baby for 1 staff person.The Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family say parents have the right to decide when their child is OK to be alone. Read more in this CBC article: B.C. Supreme Court rules 8 is too young to be left home alone
Media Release, October 6th, 2015: Mother of Home Alone 8-year-old to BC Premier: ?I Felt Bullied?
Sept 11, 2015: Why walking to school is better than driving for your kids
Sept 2015: Do Social Workers have too much power? The Nation explores the question in "Has Child Protective Services Gone Too Far? A debate sparked by the free-range parenting movement has drawn attention to the threats and intrusions poor, minority families have long endured"
Sept 2015: Global TV video and article - WHO DECIDES, PARENTS OR SOCIAL WORKERS? BC case of 8 year old home alone--interviews with the child's mother and Kids First President, Helen Ward
Sept 21, 2015: Universal Child Care Outcomes Questioned In New Study. This study is a follow up from a previous study by the same 3 economists that was published in a top peer-reviewed journal, Political Economy, and won the 2008 Purvis Prize. In addition to negative outcomes for kids and parents, they found increased maternal employment that produced more taxes that covered only 40% of the program costs. The other study mentioned by Pierre Fortin in 2012 is NOT peer reviewed, even by 2015, but has been cited by CCPA etc as proof that daycare produces benefits over costs.
Sept 2015, OPEN SEASON ON PARENTS--BC Supreme Court decides social workers trump parents: all children under 10 must have 24/7/365 supervision
Daycare Lobbyist Awards Human Rights Abuser
Aug 11, 2015 National Post commentary: The folly of universal childcare
Sarah Godoy's response to opinion piece in The Province: Child care money is just more Tory sexism
Top tax-funded daycare lobbyist, Gen-squeeze head & UBC HELP staff PAUL KERSHAW on how the state should reshape us and our families. 2010 Human Early Learning Partnership publication: The just commodification of women, equal care obligations for men, and autonomous households: Gendering the comparative analysis of welfare states in 20 OECD countries
McD's, Disney, Hasbro lost vs Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood: June 2015 Boston Globe article
"Gen Squeeze" says its a "lobby" group. It demands $10/day daycare and opposes funding families equitably.FUND CHILDREN NOT SPACES
April 28, 2015 report by Kids First President, Helen Ward, published by the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada: "Is there really a daycare shortage? - A Toronto case study shows vacancies despite waiting lists and subsidies"
April 2015, CBC news: Low income parents spend wisely
Funding for parental child care vs daycare in Sweden, Finland, Norway
Finland has the largest cash benefit for parental care and lowest use of daycare, and also has the best outcomes in the world for high school academic results on OECD PISA tests.
Does the state require parents to provide 24/7/365 child supervision until age 13? April 2015 Washington Post article: "Child protection agency seizes children walking home alone from park, doesn?t tell distraught parents for two hours"
April 8th, 2015 Media Release: Harper Fiscal Accountability Fail: Billions Omitted in PBO Child Care Report
Global News: How the Family Tax Cut works and who benefits from it
March 2015 Salon article: Police harass kids and parents for walking and biking in safe neighbourhood. Result? The kids are now afraid to go out alone.Time to push back.
Daycare lobby propaganda strategy for eliminating "resistance" to "paradigm shift" spelled out
Adolescent Health - protective and risk factors: Findings from the US Add Health Study, the largest ever done, seems to be ignored in current discussions.
Parent and Child Rights Documents:
March 2015: Barbie Big Brother: Join the campaign to stop Mattel doll that records your conversations
How Many Children can one Person Care for all Day?
Government makes ratios and group size worse. See BC Child:Staff ratio laws
BC Court says mums in prison can keep babies. The right to security of person includes breastfeeding and attachment. Dec 2013 Globe and Mail article: Babies can stay with jailed moms
Jan 2015: Maryland parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone from park
Feb 2012, Huffington Post article: Dad arrested and strip searched because 4 year old drew a picture of a gun. Ontario Premier approves and school officials say they "co-parent"
Ontario's then-Deputy Education Minister charged with child porn crimes opposed police background checks for volunteers working with school kids. July 2013, Toronto Star article: Benjamin Levin criticized background checks for youth workers: The high-profile educator arrested on child porn charges described police checks as a barrier to school-community partnerships
Dec 2014 article from Home Renaissance Foundation UK says unwaged work to be counted: Unpaid GDP and the Wealth of Work in the Home
July 2011, Maclean's Magazine article by John Geddes: "Is subsidized daycare bad for kids? A surprising new study says Quebec?s $7-a-day daycare is leaving children worse off"
An article about research by Quebec economists LeFebvre, Merrrigan, and Haeck discusses the impact of cheap daycare on children and paid work by mothers. Note the comments about "quality" by HELP's Goelman and Kershaw are disingenuous as they have authored research stating that the quality of daycare in Quebec is minimal and inadequate.Lawyers recognize the dollar value of unpaid work - house work and child care - and have calculated it carefully based on Statistics Canada data: BC - $15.46/hr., Alberta - $15.35/hr, Ontario - $16.22/hr, NWT - $27.46/hr
July/Aug 2011 - Brown's Economic Damages Newsletter - "Housekeeping Claims: Time Use Data from Statistics Canada? s 2010 General Social Survey (GSS), cycle 24" see chart p. 8
Nov 2014, Iowa student refuses to be weighed by school In BC we have the "Daily Physical Activity" DPA reporting requirement which has schools requiring students to report and electronically record at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day. Just say no. Is it the schools' business what students/families do in their off-school time? Does this requirement induce mass lying by students? Are education and government personnel required to demonstrate physical fitness as a job requirement?
Nov 2014, CBC News: 3 issues that pit Canadian parents against the state Discipline, medical procedures and sex education continue to stir controversy in Canadian courtrooms
Nov 2014, CBC News: B.C. child-care spaces could increase by 13,000 over 8 years Minister says the budget is set for 2,000 spaces so far
Supreme Court of Canada rules birth-mothers are different than other parents. West Coast LEAF lawyer publicly congratulates and supports Kids First goal of challenging definitions of "child care" and "work" that discriminate against the work of parental child care. Hear more about it on this CBC Radio podcast from Nov 13, 2014. Kids First President, Helen Ward, calls in at 21:44: BC Almanac interview
FULL EQUALITY FOR WOMEN: Funding for family care work embraced by economists and lawyers "every mother is a working mother"
Sign petition: AT&T marketing BabyFirstTV with not one but 2 screens
Appeal court upholds ruling: Employers must accommodate parents child care obligations
Kids First is working towards a human rights complaint about the definitions of "child care" and "work" that say that child care is not done by parents and is not work if it is done by parents.Transcript from 1999 Federal Finance Committee referring to the SCC case and the Boland cases relating to exploitation of parental child care providers. Check out the contempt for parents by MP Dr Carolyn Bennett and others and check out Ms Gardner's presentation.
Child Care Human Rights Case: Does government discriminate against parents? The federal court ruled that "child care" obligations are part of family status last year - this is being appealed. Kids First is planning a human rights complaint against government definitions of "child care" that exclude parental child care.
Mar 2014 UK Telegraph article: Scottish ministers threatened with legal action over 'state guardian' plans
Jan 2013 CBC report: Daycare inspections hide crucial information
Gordon Neufeld on roles of the family and state
Family and Home Network is a US sister-organization to Kids First. Here is their excellent paper on Campaign for Inclusive Family Policies
Ontario Government Misrepresents All-Day Kindergarten Research
Oct 2013 Globe and Mail column: All Day Kindergarten "No Magic Bullet"Daycare Promoted by Elite Feminists in Bed with Neo-Liberals and Neo-Conservatives. Articles by Rianne Mahon, leading daycare theorist, from Carleton University in Ottawa:
Nov 2013 article: "Britain pays mothers to breastfeed in pilot program designed to reduce stigma in poor communities"
2011 article in PNAS (scholarly journal) "Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behavior in rhesus monkeys"
Oct 2010: Ontario Ministry of Education memo from Assistant Deputy Minster shows they EXPECTED "UNFUNDED COMMITMENTS" for all-day Kindergarten. What do they do? Shove more kids into too few rooms? This CALLOUS LACK OF REGARD FOR CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING means that any results for the first year or two would only get worse as more children are placed in the ever-worsening program.
Ontario eliminated grade 13, which reduced post-secondary time and costs but then they added 2 years of full-day kindergarten many say to provide jobs despite declining student enrolment. Read about the government's DECLINING ENROLMENT WORKING GROUP.
Aug 2013 Globe and Mail article: All Day K in Ontario put in despite lack of facilities and school board objections
SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE: Quebec daycare economists promote the Quebec daycare system because it increases labour supply and thus lowers wages which increases business profits. They also endorse neo-liberal/neo-conservative "trickle down theory" asserting that "eventually" this benefits "all components".
"What are the consequences for the economy of several tens of thousands of women entering the Quebec labour force? More people looking for work exercises downward pressure on wages, which induces firms to employ more women.... The slower rate of wage growth increases business profitability? .... All components of domestic income eventually benefit from the arrival of new workers."
Oct 2013 Waterloo Record article by Maclean's editor: How full-day kindergarten makes things worse for kids. This article exposes the lies told by the Ontario government about their studies of all-day kindergarten
Swedish response to Globe and Mail article praising Swedish daycare system: Swedish daycare is VERY costly at $27,000/yr/child age 1-5 and very undemocratic. TAXES to pay for it are so high that almost no parents cannot afford to look after their own children. Taxes average 70% of income for the average city worker. Income tax of 30% starts at an income of only $3,000. VAT (GST) is 25%, and groceries are taxed at 12%. And QUALITY of care is a "problem".
UN report on women?s unpaid care work as a human rights issue
October 21 posting at Critical Legal Thinking: second-wave feminism critiqued by feminists who honour unwaged family care work: Kids First has long been aware that the elite feminists who dominate our government women's and family policy making reject and marginalize our stance on daycare and children's well-being.
October 2013 article in The Guardian: How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it. A movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase
Oct 10, 2013 Media release: Child Care Poll: Parents? Group Calls for Fair Democratic Child Care Funding
Sept 2013 Hamilton Spectator article ? Kids First quoted ? Full-Day kindergarten is merely glorified babysitting
Sept 2013: The Telegraph newspaper ? UK coalition says ?The Government should stop intervening in early education? ? letter signed by many experts says evidence supports more play and later formal schooling
Sept 3, 2013: More All-Day Kindergarten Propaganda Packaged as Research
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School, a Slate article by Alison Gopnik
July 2013, Economists Listen Up: New Zealand Mum feeds family of ELEVEN with meal that costs $NZ10 (CDN$8.25)
Early Development Instrument (EDI): Not everyone accepts it as reliable "evidence"
June 2013 - Violating parental consent with "passive consent": kids used as junk science research subjects by UBC's HELP
May 2013, Advancing "SHARED RESPONSIBILITY" between parents and the state for child-rearing: Scotland plans massive state surveillance of families with one "named person" per child. Read more in this BBC article and this Scottish Express article: SNP bill to spy on parents is criticized by families
May 2013, Maclean's Magazine article: Why full-day kindergarten doesn?t work. The article highlights the lack of concern for children's well-being in the education ministries and their total refusal to accept the findings of peer reviewed research. Note: the article incorrectly states that BC has all day junior and senior K. BC has no junior K; however the original proposal from UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership was for all-day K for ages 3-5 (this would have included 2 year olds born after August).
Polls Consistently Show Large Majority Prefer Parental Child Care
May 2013 Global News report: Early childhood care overhaul needed: poll
May 2013 Poll: Large Majority Wants Parental Child Care & Funding for Families, Not Daycare
Tax-Funded Daycare Lobbying
Join the Movement for Family-Friendly Policy -- A Much Needed Policy Document
Economist Marilyn Waring on the need to recognize women's unpaid work. Videos: Making Women's Work Count -- a short interview, and -- a full length film by Canada's National Film Board
Paul Kershaw of the tax-funded daycare lobby at the Human Early Learning Partnership is critiqued for his neo-liberalism by a fellow academic in the Feb 2012 Rabble article, Generational conflict: Neo-liberalism's new bait-and-switch ploy
Who is Responsible for Children? on Corus radio's April 14, 2013 Roy Green Show: Kids First President Helen Ward discusses the claim that children belong to the community "collective" and are not the "private" responsibility of their parents as described by US pundit Melissa Harris-Parry in this recent MSNBC ad
Fund Children not Space: Over $3,800/yr+++ = Tax Subsidy for Each Daycare Space
1 in 3 Canadian mothers do not receive any EI maternity/parental benefits.
In 2011, 68% of mothers with children 12 months and under received these benefits. 76.6% had insurable employment and 88% of those got benefits. See the Statistics Canada Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2011Mar 17, 2013: UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish colleague, Jonas Himmelstrand, Long days at nursery or with childminders 'raising a generation of school tearaways'. Research says that bad behaviour is linked to hours spent without parents. Jonas Himmelstrand is presenting his report to MPs this week.
March 8, 2013 International Women's Day - UK Guardian article by Selma James, founder of Wages for Housework, and Nina Lopez of Argentina, founder of Legal Action for Women and joint co-ordinator of the Global Women's Strike: Hugo Ch?vez knew that his revolution depended on women. The authors describe Hugo Chavez's formal recognition of care work as productive work: "[Women] work so hard raising their children, ironing, washing, preparing food ? giving [their children] an orientation ? This was never recognised as work yet it is such hard work! ... Now the revolution puts you first, you too are workers, you housewives, workers in the home."
Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the "Gender Equity Rankings" report by the World Economic Forum (gender equity is not about women's empowerment), HELP's Dr Paul Kershaw, and BC's $10/day daycare push
Feb 28, 2013: Vancouver Co-op radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the Early Development Instrument, daycare, all-day Kindergarten and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
Feb 26, 2013: Tyee article Stress is Killing Gender Equality in Canada
2012: World Economic Forum "The Gender Gap Report"
Feb 2013: Landmark Human Rights Case for Families
Feb 2013: Top Daycare Lobbyist Leaves a Troubling Legacy: Dr Clyde Hertzman
TVO Parents Videos: In The Importance of Attachment, Gordon Neufeld explains his opposition to all-day kindergarten. He says, "the state should not be commissioned to take care of our children" and "to hand the child over to the state: the state is only too eager to say, 'We are better for your child than you are', 'We can train our people to take care of...' but it's not about the training."
Also check out the TVO Parents videos from The Child Development and Community Conference. Topics include bullying, attachment, digital age, peer-orientation, and parental stress.
Nov 2012: Report on bullying policy by Institute for Family & Marriage Canada "Family responses to bullying: Why governments won't stop bullying until families step up." This report applies attachment theory and Dr Gordon Neufeld's work to the issue of bullying and recommends policies that build attachment rather relying on children to police each other.
Quebec daycare kids more likely to be obese: Nov 2012: Study published in Journal of Pediatrics finds daycare linked to obesity (head author: Marie-Claude Geoffroy)
CBC article: "Obesity odds may be higher for children in daycare?
"Gender equity" style parenting resulted in more mental health problems for kids
March 2012: Study published in International Journal for Equity in Health of ?gender equity? parenting (both parents spending equal amounts of time at jobs and doing child care) in Sweden finds children have more mental health problems with gender equal parents.Data Mining Canadian Kids: A document authored by Dr Clyde Hertzman of HELP, Canada's leading guru pushing privacy-violating data mining and institutional child care, outlines "5 Year Plan".
Here is the 2009 document prepared by the Monitoring Committee of the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre The World's Best Infrastructure for Child Development Statistics in Canada: Strategies for Federal-Provincial-Territorial Collaboration
Feb 2012: Ottawa Citizen article "All work and no play . . . Is not good for the developing brain, says psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld." Neufeld says, "The only resistance I get is from policy-makers."
More bad news for Sweden's mothers & economy: Full-time job + kids = disability = pension
May 2012: British Medical Journal article - "Disability pension among young women in Sweden, with special emphasis on family structure: a dynamic cohort study"
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Today, Apple has sent out an email notifying former MobileMe customers regarding their free 25 GB of iCloud storage. The email is a reminder that their free 25 GB iCloud accounts will be reduced to 5 GB as of September 30. Apple offers free 5 GB of iCloud storage of storage for free, but MobileMe customers received an additional 20 GB for free when iCloud was first introduced. The offer was initially valid through June 30, 2012, but Apple later extended the offer through the end of September.
Additional information for those wishing to keep their iCloud storage needs below 5 GB can be found in an Apple support document. Users that are interested in upgrading their storage by purchasing additional storage space can do so through their iOS device iCloud settings, System Preferences on a Mac, or iCloud Control Panel on a PC. Apple offers 10 GB for $20, 20 GB for $40, and 50 GB for $100 and all purchased amounts are added to the base 5 GB storage capacity.


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Donovan Ricketts has been a solid presence in goal for the Galaxy all season. With 10 shutouts, he is tied for second in the league behind only RSL's Nick Rimando. Ricketts almost suffered a Robert Green moment against D.C. United, but recovered nicely and was not at fault for Andy Najar's goal. Still, the Galaxy have not recorded a clean sheet in more than a month. Their last one? Aug. 14 against the Red Bulls.
Bouna Coundoul is one of the top four 'keepers in the league but is also a volatile presence in goal. His oft-maligned goal kicks will have the Red Bulls tearing their hair out in light of Pat Onstad's gaffes against the Wizards on Wednesday. Coundoul can be a shutdown goalkeeper, but he will have to be at his very best to keep Buddle and Donovan in check.
Yes, it's true: The last shutout the Galaxy recorded was against the Red Bulls. Since then, things have gotten iffy. Defensive miscues have abounded, and even their last two victories have been blemished by easily preventable goals. The suspension of Omar Gonzalez due to yellow-card accumulation is a serious concern against NY's dangerous offense, though Yohance Marshall filled in decently in his debut last week.
The Red Bulls have had a defensive renaissance this year with the emergence of Tim Ream. But Ream looked badly at fault on a goal by FC Dallas' Milton Rodríguez last week. An injury to Chris Albright may force recent acquisition Carey Talley to make his RBNY debut. Can he shore up a defense that has allowed the second most shots on goal this season?
Dema Kovalenko's return from injury has been a massive boost for the Galaxy. The Ukrainian scored a rare goal against Columbus, but has impressed mostly with his typical hard play and positioning alongside the more dynamic Juninho. The addition of David Beckham will also provide dangerous crosses from a wide position. Oh, and there's Landon Donovan. Enough said.
The emergence of Rafa Márquez as a playmaker has been a welcome surprise, but the tenacious Mexican is no stranger to hard tackles if the need arises. Joel Lindpere has improved of late in linking with the strikers. Dane Richards' speed could be the key to the match—can he get behind Todd Dunivant, and how often?
LA's strike tandem is a curious one. Edson Buddle is, of course, leading the league in goals, and he scored the only goal of these two teams' last meeting when he slipped in behind the defense. But recent starter Jovan Kirovski has had a resurgence as a target forward. Or LA could go with Donovan up top so his pace and passing can open up space for Buddle. Either way, it's potent.
Thierry Henry's absence may take some of the star power away from this matchup, but Juan Pablo Angel's return provides a bright punch. With Márquez, Richards and Lindpere feeding him service, he'll get chances. But how will the chemistry be between him and recent acquisition Mehdi Ballouchy, whose arrival caused Ángel's benching last time out?
LA's defense is stretched a little thin in the absence of Gonzalez and Gregg Berhalter, who has not played a league game since the Galaxy last played the Red Bulls. But Mike Magee and Chris Birchall give manager Bruce Arena some options in the midfield, and young speedster Tristen Bowen could be a late-game spark.
Midfielder Carl Robinson makes his return to the team after a leave of absence to visit his dying father in Wales. Manager Hans Backe has talked about Salou Ibrahim possibly starting, though more likely he will come on in the second half to give the Red Bulls a more power-oriented attacking look.
After a white-hot start to the season, July and August saw LA lose some momentum. But back-to-back victories have restored confidence in Carson, and it will be up to Bruce Arena to keep them on track. He's coached in marquee matchups many times, so the glare of the spotlight won't get in the way of getting things done.
Ángel was visibly upset when asked about his benching earlier this week, and Hans Backe will have to manage that before kickoff—and beyond. Backe has cobbled together a good team and built their confidence slowly over the season, but, as he readily admits, the Red Bulls have not done well against MLS' top teams. He needs to be the one to change that.


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About an hour into being in the chat last night, the chat that I typed out wasn't showing up in the combination chat/video that we were using to watch the show last night. It seems to show up in the chat that's on the front page, but I asked specifically if anyone was seeing my chat and no one answered. How can I fix this? It really messed up my time last night.


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UC Berkeley Football Team Will Play 2011 Games at AT&T Park
The University of California at Berkeley has reached an agreement with the San Francisco Giants for Cal's football team to play their home games in 2011 at AT&T Park in San Francisco while its own stadium is being retrofitted and renovated.
Cal's Memorial Stadium, which opened in 1923, is located on top of the Hayward earthquake fault and is being upgraded so it will be more seismically safe. The work is expected to cost $321 million and is scheduled to be completed in 2012. Cal's football team will be able to play its home games at Memorial Stadium this fall but has been looking for an alternate site for 2011.
Cal said its 2011 schedule is not complete and will be released later. The team said it will make a collaborative effort with the San Francisco Giants and Major League Baseball to accommodate both teams' playing requirements during September and October of 2011.
Cal coach Jeff Tedford said in a statement, "We are thrilled to be playing our 2011 home games at AT&T Park."
Tedford said, "The facility is one of the finest sports venues in the world and is located in a nearby and desirable location in San Francisco. It is a terrific setting for college football and our team and fans had a fantastic experience there during the 2008 Emerald Bowl victory against the University of Miami."
He said, "We look forward to our fans helping us create a tremendous home field advantage at AT&T Park in 2011 while enjoying amenities on par with what the renovated Memorial Stadium will feature when we return in 2012."
Cal Athletic Director Sandy Barbour said, "While our own Memorial Stadium is undergoing much-needed improvements, I believe we have selected the best possible location to support the needs of our players, coaches and fans. Both Cal Athletics and the staff at AT&T Park are committed to work together to make the stadium feel like a true home away from home for the Golden Bears."
Cal officials said one of the advantages of AT&T Park is its proximity to public transportation, as that's an important factor for the football team's fans in the East Bay. Cal Athletics will also provide bus service for Cal students to attend games to help ensure their continued support for the Bears.
The university said sideline bleachers will be added in the baseball outfield and an adjusted field alignment will allow for team benches to be on opposite sides of the field, as opposed to the bowl games, when both teams were on the same side of the field. The capacity for Cal football games at AT&T Park will be just over 45,000.
San Francisco Giants President and Chief Operating Officer Larry Baer said in a statement, "The Giants are honored to welcome Cal football to AT&T Park for the Bears' 2011 season."
Baer said, "The opportunity to have two of the Bay Area's most storied institutions share the same playing field is really exciting and will provide a unique experience for both Giants and Cal fans."
University officials said the retrofit and renovation of Memorial Stadium will create a restored facility that will address existing seismic safety issues, modernize game-day facilities and services and upgrade access for the disabled.
They said preliminary construction activities will begin this summer, which will include moving the football office and athletic training and weight training facilities to temporary quarters adjacent to Witter Rugby Field.


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A couple of students over at MIT apparently took this picture with a rig that cost them less than $150 total:
The two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a cheap Canon A470 compact camera. Instant hand warmers kept things from freezing up and made sure the batteries stayed warm enough to work.
Of course, all this would be pointless if the guys couldn't find the rig when it landed, so they dropped a prepaid GPS-equipped cellphone inside the box for tracking. Total cost, including duct tape? $148.
Ridiculous. So that shot above, what's the deal with that?
The picture you see above was shot from around 93,000 feet, just shy of 18 miles high. To give you an idea of how high that is, when the balloon burst, the beer-cooler took forty minutes to come back to Earth.
And just in case you want to try this at home, they will be posting instructions here.
Amazing. Who needs NASA anyway?


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BEVERLY — In 2008, when the economy plunged into recession, North Shore InnoVentures launched a business technology incubator to stimulate growth in the emerging life sciences and clean technology sectors.
It was a risky move. Biotech and clean energy firms require big dollars and brain capital. Banks are reluctant to lend money to start-ups without a proven track record of sales. With biotech incubators popping up in Boston and Cambridge, competition was intense to lure enterprising scientists and engineers.
But leaders of the North Shore Technology Council, which created the nonprofit incubator, thought the region had more to lose if it did not try to catch the Bay State's tech wave.
"We had to be proactive," said Martha Farmer, a founder and chief executive of InnoVentures, located at the Cummings Center in Beverly. "We didn't have any idea how well we'd do. We thought if we created 50 local jobs, we'd be quite successful."
The incubator has taken more than baby steps. A total of 23 early-stage companies so far have been nurtured in its spacious office and laboratory space. Entrepreneurs are researching drugs to cure cancer, developing medical devices to calm nerve tremors, and testing energy conservation measures.
In the last two years, nine firms have raised a total of $25 million in private equity, mostly through individual investors, venture capital firms, or government and private grants.
A total of 115 jobs have been created across the companies, Farmer said. "That's pretty good for our little operation."
The progress comes as life sciences looms larger on the regional employment horizon. The North Shore Workforce Investment Board is surveying local firms to determine what skills are required to land a job in the promising field.
"It's an industry that's a mystery to many people," said Mary Sarris, executive director of the workforce board. "We're trying to determine if there are any issues, in terms of training and skills, that we should address, so that we can help people break into the field."
Sarris worked with North Shore InnoVentures to find consultants qualified to conduct the survey. So far, 12 companies have been interviewed. Scientists and engineers, positions which often require advanced degrees, are most in demand. But there are some lab jobs available for people with associate's degrees, she added.
"It really depends on the type of work the company is doing," she said. "It will be interesting to find out the results."
Farmer said the incubator is glad to collaborate with the employment board.
"Our success is measured by the jobs we create, the successful companies we graduate, and the funding these companies raise," she said.
In the last year, two clean-tech companies raised more than $13 million in equity financing. 7AC Technologies, the first company to move into the incubator in 2008, raised $5 million, while Arctic Sand Technologies raised $8 million, company executives said.
The goal at 7AC Technologies is to develop a high-efficiency air-conditioning system that reduces energy consumption by 50 to 70 percent. The system, now in the testing phase, should hit the market in mid-2013.
Half of the equity raised this year came from 3M, the industrial giant whose glue is used in 7AC's design.
"They came over to see what we were working on," Peter Vandermeulen, the company founder and chief executive officer, said of 3M. "They said, 'This is really interesting.' They made a first investment."
Vandermeulen said 3M will invest another $2.5 million in January. With 16employees, 7AC recently moved from Cummings Park in Woburn to the Cummings Center in Beverly, where it will be closer to the incubator.
"We're getting a much bigger space," Vandermeulen said. "A lot of our engineers live on the North Shore. It makes sense to move there."
Arctic Sand Technologies of Cambridge makes microchips that convert power inside laptops, cellphones, and other equipment and has raised $8 million. The firm, started at MIT, operated at North Shore InnoVentures for five months after winning a cash prize from the US Department of Energy to lease incubator space.
"We needed a place to showcase our technology," said Nadia Shalaby, a founder and the chief executive officer of Arctic Sand. "We needed a reception area, a conference room to set up our electronics equipment lab to [demonstrate] the technology to customers."
The incubator operates on a $500,000 annual budget, funded by a mix of state and federal grants, corporate sponsors, and a $2,000 monthly fee for members. There are currently 16 members, and three more are expected to join in early 2013.
"We expect companies to stay two or three years, but some have gone faster than that," Farmer said.
Deb Moshinsky, president and chief executive of Cell Assay Technologies, a drug research start-up, said that the incubator provides good value.
"It has reasonable rates," said Moshinsky, standing in the biotech lab at the Cummings Center. "It's enabled us to stay on budget. . . . It's really nice space."
Moshinky's firm is researching the effectiveness of potential new drug therapies on cancer cells. "Our mission is to help pharmaceutical firms bring better drugs to the public," she said.
Companies may opt to take space in the incubator or participate virtually. Members that maintain operations elsewhere travel to Beverly for seminars, business counseling, and other special events. Membership also includes up to $10,000 of free advice from accountants, lawyers, marketing specialists, and other corporate sponsors.
They are also assigned a mentor, who helps guide and advise them on business issues.
"I got valuable feedback," said Vandermeulen, who used the assistance to write a business plan. "That support is helpful and necessary when you are out there, by yourself, trying to start your company."
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Park School: New Center for Indie Media
Renowned media critic Jeff Cohen leads venture. by Karin Fleming '09
"Journalism is not [just found in] newspapers," says Dianne Lynch, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. "If we were starting journalism today and deciding the best way to deliver dynamic, interactive, breaking information relevant to communities, we wouldn't put it on paper and drop it off on somebody's porch once a day."
The media landscape is undeniably changing -- constantly. Corporate-owned media are no longer the sole gatekeepers of information, as more and more journalists produce their own content and distribute it directly through the Internet.
This new environment prompted the creation of the Park Center for Independent Media, which Lynch hopes will become a national think tank on the changing media ecology and its potential implications for students. "The most important public service the academy can provide," notes Lynch, "is the opportunity for people to come together to develop new visions." Besides providing a place for national discourse, the center will help the Park School tailor its curricula, internships, and events. "This is not a substitute for [mainstream media]," says Lynch, "but an addition to it. I don't expect mass media to go away. We just have another option we should be exploring." The Park School's longstanding relationships with media corporations, such as ESPN, Disney, and Clear Channel, will remain intact.
The center was launched with a speaker series kicked off by filmmaker Rory Kennedy (see online special). After a nationwide search, Jeff Cohen, founder of the media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and a prominent media critic and author, was named the center's inaugural director and associate professor of journalism. "I come," says Cohen, "as someone who has been inside the corporate media structure and who saw its inadequacies." For example, Cohen says, that the invasion and occupation of Iraq "will go down as one of the low points in the history of mainstream media" at the same time indie media were getting a lot of things right. Although independent media don't yet have the clout to help prevent foreign policy disasters, their influence, he believes, is rising.
"It's an exciting time for independent media and maverick journalists," Cohen points out. "And it's thrilling that a communications school will be giving independent media their due."


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Rapid Response. Quality Care.
The mission of Montclair State University Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is to provide rapid response and quality emergency medical care to members of the campus and surrounding communities.
Montclair State University EMS is operated by volunteer students, faculty and staff. We provide 24 hour/7 day coverage throughout the year. In addition, we participate in campus events and promote community awareness and support. Montclair State University EMS is also the official stadium medical provider for Yogi Berra Stadium during all New Jersey Jackals Games and special events.


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It's a familiar setting for the Florida softball team as the No. 6 Gators prepare for Saturday's Super Regional matchup with No. 8 Washington.
It's a familiar setting for the Florida softball team as the No. 6 Gators prepare for Saturday's Super Regional matchup with No. 8 Washington.
And so far it has worked pretty well for coach Tim Walton.
Florida has faced Pac-12 teams in four of the last five Super Regionals and has found success in each one. On Saturday at 1 p.m., it's the Huskies who will have to battle a talented Florida team in a different time zone under the oppressive Florida sun.
But don't think Walton is taking anything for granted.
"This is probably as good a team as we've ever faced in a Super Regional," Walton said. "I've watched a ton of video and they're really good. They're coming into their own."
Florida (48-11) has won 10 consecutive Super Regional games under Walton over a span of six years, and if these Gators can win two more they'll be headed to the Women's College World Series for the second straight year and sixth time in seven years.
Florida lost its first Super Regional at Texas A&M in 2007 in three games, but hasn't lost a game, let alone a series, since then.
"There are a number of reasons," Walton said. "Part of it is that we've been a national seed each time. That has something to do with it. At times, it has been the matchup. At times, we've been the better team. At times, we've had the better pitching.
"We play a complete schedule and that's part of it. We play in a lot of close games in the conference and non-conference. I can't say it has been maturity because last year we were one of the youngest teams in the nation."
Playing at home is an advantage in any sport and Walton is hoping the combination of heat, humidity and crowd noise will be a factor this weekend.
Temperatures are expected to be in the low 90s for each of the games.
"The weather is the biggest advantage," Walton said. "The time zone (difference) is an advantage as well. But we want it hot. You can't prepare for the heat. I had a hard time getting used to it when I took the job. It took me a year to get used to it.
"And our crowd can be loud and intimidating. Not with any antics, just with the noise."
The two teams are almost mirror images of each other.
Florida, the fifth national seed, won the Gainesville Regional by a combined score of 29-0. Washington, the 12th seed, won the Seattle Regional by a combined 26-0.
Florida finished in a tie for third in the SEC, while Washington was fourth in the Pac-12. Both teams went through struggles in the middle of their seasons. Washington (36-13) lost 10 of 16 games before finishing with 12 wins in its last 13.
Florida has Kelsey Stewart (.430 average, 33 stolen bases). Washington has Victoria Hayward (.426, 28 steals). Washington counters UF's Lauren Haeger (19 homers, 64 RBIs) with a slugger of its own in Kylee Lahners, who has 17 homers and 61 RBIs.
Florida was second in the SEC in fielding, while Washington led the Pac-12. Florida has three potential starting pitchers in Hannah Rogers, Delanie Gourley and Haeger. Washington has Bryana Walker and Kaitlin Inglesby, who have combined for a 34-12 record.
Another advantage for Florida is power throughout the lineup, as the Gators have 80 homers to Washington's 48. Of course, the ball carries better in the Florida humidity.
"Washington was a team that I had in my preseason top five," Walton said. "This is a (Women's) College World Series type of matchup."
Which is where the winner will be heading.
Florida has won 10 consecutive NCAA Super Regional games, all at home, over the past six seasons under Tim Walton.
Year UF Seed Beat Scores
2011 5 Oregon 9-1 (5), 7-0
2010 4 Arizona St. 8-0, 5-2
2009 1 Cal 2-0, 2-1
2008 1 Cal 4-3, 4-3 (9)


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There Will Be Brawl: Episode Nine
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What happened to Ike? (and the other one) I preasume his conditions gotten worst, but his brother would be avenging him, if he died...
Hope this story comes back
Private dick? Should have had an undersized shadow and maybe a fat man. A lot of them could really be G. Very nice episode, keep liking this more and more.
I am in complete awe right now...completely speechless...
DVD please...
Amazing, definitely got me with those plot twists. Must say I love the song at the end. Any hope of a full length song mp3?
This one was Dark, Whoever the butcher is he must be old.
This=Simply exellent. The ending, Was so fucking amazing. You have no idea how much I love this series.
AH!!!!! Is this almost over? I don't want it to end! Its too fantastically acted, the costumes are wonderful, everything about the show is leagues above anything I have seen on the internet.
Great, great episode. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, but hopefully you guys have had time to think of a new project that will be here on the Escapist. Well, i hope Waluigi is in the last episode. In my opinion he is the best interpretation of a character. I know all the others are great, but Wal just seems to make sense!
That was the longest, and probably the best, episode of the series so far. Bowser had the coolest voice ever! It sounded like a mix between Darth Vader and Rorschach.
I personally think that the "person" behind all of the murders is Master Hand, turning all his kills into trophies (stuffing them and leaving their intestines...) I've thought this for a while, and before Bowser died he said something like "He'll be back, he has a prize to collect"
Seeing as this series has stuck pretty much exclusively to characters who've appeared in Smash Bros. in some way shape or form, I'd imagine "oldest demons" to mean the very oldest Nintendo characters.
Their first big success was Donkey Kong in 1981, all the characters in which have been shown already, but Nintendo has about a decade's worth of forgotten Arcade games from before that. That's not counting all the forgotten 1983 and 1984 NES/Famicom games.
DAMNIT! NOT RED!!! He was the best charecter! i almost cried when he died. But at the same time i started laughing with the soft rock pokemon theme. Amazing episode, i really hope there will be a dvd, ill buy it withen a minute!
And i think the next good idea would be Soul Caliber.
Who were the characters at the end at the PT's funeral?
Brothers? Wow, you completely missed the dynamic they were going for there.
Remember how Zelda said something about needing a stronger man, since Link's not a hero anymore? Well, Ganon's stronger...
I just lol'd at the end. i don't know why but acting deaths makes me laugh. (i laughed when rorshach died just how nite owl went NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!)
Edit: i dont remember samus being this hot
-Looks like the bandit king's gone soft
Haha, classic.
"Well excuuuse me, Princess."
I wondered how they would make Bowser look and I was very impressed. He died fighting. RIP King Koopa.
The ending *sniff* was excellent. Using the original (and TRUE) Pokemon theme as a sad song for the ending was a mixture of nostalgia and sadness.
Okay lets see whose died Dedede, Mewtwo, Bowser, Kirby/Meta Knight?, Ike, Yoshi, Red the Pokemon Trainer, Pichu, JigglyPuff, Roy, Donkey Kong, Wolf, and Falco.
If this doesn't get a DVD release then I don't understand why they wouldn't want to make money.
Can't wait for the finale! :)
Red the Pokemon Trainer will be sorely missed. He was definitely my favorite character. :'(
Not cool guys...not cool....i actually cried a little for the pkmn trainers death
Well, Sugar. When you have been running for days from the cops, are enemies of the state and just had the crap kicked outta ya by a group of thugs .. you probably would look different too. ;)
Thanks for watching. Lookin' forward to what Episode 10 will bring.
RIP P.T. You will always be close to my heart ...
Wow...That was phenomenal. Way to stick to the theme, guys. Bowser becoming a Buddhist (or Buddhist-analog)? The oldest Nintendo characters exacting revenge on the New? Luigi being tied to Red's demise under Ganon's orders?I love the following of little tidbits throughout Nintendo history, like Zelda saying she wants a stronger man, and who's stronger than the one wielding the Triforce of Power? Not to mention all the love towards the ancillary characters from Brawl...
What's next? Angry Samus re-dons her Varia suit, charges beam and kicks ass? Mario and Luigi get together to kick ass? Link--well, there's a few options--Fairy/Red Potion/Heart Container to life, or death by Zelda (that Bitch!).
Almost thought we'd see Red take out Ganon with Triple Beam Finsh...
*Lightbulb* Oh Mama Mia, it all makes perfect sense. He can appear out of nowhere, has a personal arsenal of finger missles & lasers, and he can fly.
Master Hand is the Master Mind to this entire plan.
Master Hand commands the army of Mr.Game&Watch. He manipulated Ganondorf with promises of ruling the Mushroom Kingdom. Ganondorf then manipulated Zelda with false promises of power. Ganondorf used Olimar the Spaceman to create the explosive pills. Ganondorf said they would be used to "take care of the competition" and he used one to blow up Red's house. Why? Simple, because Red's a Pokemon Trainer and a Pokemon trainer basically commands powerful monsters. Red collected so many Pokemon that they would have been helpful to fight the army of MR.G&W's. Master Hand wanted to crush any possible threats.
Master Hand will be the one to truly control the Mushroom Kingdom. Ganondorf and Zelda don't know they are nothing but puppets; Master Hand is literally the HAND pulling the strings!
O_o.....Mama Mia.
OMG i need the next episode now! it was just so addicting i have continually watched it sence it was released today until now. i need to know if link is dead or alive. him crawling at the end was so epic i thought he was so super owned there for a sec. but there is still hope, link! lol bowser was frichen a-fucking-mazing. i damn near broke down and cried every time i saw red's death. i always pick the final villian(ganondorf), the person with an epic super death(red), the whore(samus), and the douchebag(link) as my favorites in every series some how. i juust have that inate ability
SkullCap, think about brawl! there is one character thet they have left out completely. sonic! he is the butcher, like kirby is the canabal. he has the speed and skill to do all the killing.
That was so twisted it was awesome!!
I loved "Your princess is in another castle". It made me lol. :D
For some reason, I have the feeling that Link has a fairy on him. Anyway, great work on this episode guys, wonderful story as always, and I really enjoy the way you portrayed Bowser. May I ask how much work went into that costume? It looked quite professional =D.
Sonic is a wheelcar, and I doubt he could or would be the butcher.
My prediction: Link will live, at least through this backstab. Remember, he does have some of that Maxim Tomato stuff that he used on Luigi, and he said he had enough for himself.
Or he could just knock boots with a fairy.
"Because that's like throwing a hotdog down a extremely tiny hallway."
It wasn't sonic, he and snake are seen in the immigrant place in like episode 2 or 3.
On another note, epic series and I have questions for Samus!
You are great at this, plus after 9 episodes it is still unclear who the butcher is, you should go on to make mystery TV shows........with Tom Selleck!
I smiled like a doofus when Link whipped out the old "excuuuuuuse me" line.
I love this series, man.
Shit. I put my money on the "army" being the Brawl campaigns Subspace Army. I was close, seeing as shadow bugs(what Subspace soldiers are built from) are extracted from Mr.GW, but I wish it would somehow tie in the whole Tabuu/subspace thing. Other than that, I can only say DAMN YOU FOR BEING SO SUSPENSEFUL! TWBB, we barely knew ye, and shall regret thy passing.
Man, I knew about Red's death but I still got misty-eyed while watching that. I love being a part of this show and I love that you guys keep watching it. Thanks so much for all your support. :)
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So the other night I had gotten off late from work and being quite tired and looking forward to unwinding in front of some DVR'ed PBS material, took Alvis on an only-because-it-was-convenient-and-we-were-exhausted McD's carryout run.
Back a the house after probably consuming enough calories and sodium to take care of a Roman legion, I was ridding the kitchen of the evidence, and a super-sytro cup was next to the sink.
"Hey Alvis, you done with this drink?"
Alvis, hovering nearby as my late-night/early-morning project schedule had kept me from seeing her for the past two days all the while working her mobile phone continuing a SMS discussion with one of her BFF's responded (very airily).
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Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation with Mr. Larry Greenfield - US politician and TV host and Mr. David Spady-Executive Director of Salem Communications (A9 TV, April 20th, 2013)
From Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Interview on A9TV dated April 20th 2013
SADUN ENGİN: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we have guests from the United States insha'Allah. Let me first start by introducing them. Omar Mohseni; he is a businessman and lives in San Francisco. David Spady; he serves as the Executive Director of a company named Salem Communications. This company owns around 100 radio stations in the US. In addition to this, it provides content for 2,400 affiliated radios stations. Salem Communications makes religious and political broadcasts. The other gentleman, Mr. Larry Greenfield is a politician; he is Jewish and lives in US, California. He is engaged in international politics and is the anchorman and program host at a Jewish TV channel that is about to start broadcasting in the US. Please you go on Master.
ADNAN OKTAR: Well, welcome, you've brought us grace. You honor us by coming. You have been our guests for some time. Are we able to host you well? How did you find Turkey? Could you inform us briefly, please?
LARRY GREENFIELD: Thank you so much for the hospitality and graciousness. We are very happy to be here. We are learning a lot and we are trying to help the cause.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Allah. Let us learn about your views as well.
DAVID SPADY: It is a wonderful experience. This is my first time in Turkey. It has exceeded all of my expectations. The hospitality has been beyond what I could have expected. And I am very, very pleased to be here and honored to make your acquaintance and be joining you today.
ADNAN OKTAR: Thank you. First of all, your being our guests is a great honor for us, you have graced us with your presence. Insha'Allah, we will go on with this later on, we will be each other's guests mutually and visit one another. Omar is our friend, he has been our brother for a long time, so I am not asking him any questions. But our these brothers here are the real guests today.
Insha'Allah, I believe that America, Turkey and Israel will play a great role in the establishment of peace in the Middle East and throughout the world. I also believe that with the love of Allah, and the sincere feelings you possess in your hearts and with the love of humanity you have in you, you will carry out amazing services. Already you have come here and made nice statements, contacted many people and institutions. You have spoken beautifully. One can feel the zeal and enthusiasm in your heart. One can feel that you will render great services in building peace in the world and putting an end to war and terror. I want to have your opinion about this issue as well. Yes please.
LARRY GREENFIELD: Yes Sir, with your leadership and friendship, I feel inspired to learn more about the ways America can connect with the world because I come from the conservative side in United States politics. I believe I have more credibility and probably more opportunity to be a peacemaker because I understand American history and struggle and wars and conflicts and so instead of only pretend and imagination, this is after having served in US military and having read American history, that I feel confident to reach out and connect and learn and grow and then inspire others to do the same thing.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Allah. It is obvious from your face. Your face reveals the cleanliness of your thoughts and heart. It is already obvious from your visage that your constant pursuit is love, goodness and kindness. Your courtesy and respect also confirm this. As of the issue of "leadership", of course I am your brother. We are all leaders. We all make effort in the path of Islam. We all work for goodness, kindness and faith. But surely I cannot assert a claim on leadership. I can only assert a claim on being a servant. I am a servant of good people, of beautiful honest people. That is my duty. Masha'Allah. I would also want to have your views about it. Yes please.
DAVID SPADY: There is no doubt that Turkey, the United States and Israel are key to Middle East peace. Not just in a political sense, but in a spiritual sense and with leaders from within the spiritual communities joining together to bring that peace through the idea of love. In the Christian faith, which I am part of in our Book, the Bible, in Romans it says that '..as much as you can, live at peace with all men.' It is a command that we have in the Christian faith. And so all of our faiths speak about this idea of love and of brotherhood. And We need to use what we are taught in a spiritual sense to try to bring this peace that is necessary to the Middle East.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Allah, this means that the followers of Prophet Jesus (pbuh), the followers of Prophet Moses (pbuh) and the followers of Prophet Mohammad (saas) have gathered all together. They have adopted a course of action for Allah, for love and brotherhood. Allah making us meet here is a manifestation, a beautiful consequence of it. By the will of Allah, we will have more fruitful, more successful initiatives. Radical, cruel, pro-violence views will be eliminated from the world. We will transform the world into a place like Heaven, insha'Allah. The world will be an abode of peace. It will be like a fairground. No one will harbor any doubts about anyone. No one will have fear of any other. There will be no conflicts, borders will be removed. Of course national states will continue to exist, but borders will be removed. I mean there will not be any need for passports and visas. We will enter everywhere freely. We will only hear children's shouts of joy. We will join people's friendly meetings and conversations. Every religion will be free within itself. Jews will worship in their synagogues, Christians in their churches and Muslims in their mosques. But as a common attribute, everyone will speak of Allah and the fervor one feels for Allah will prevail all over the world. We can see this. The reason why I love Americans very much is that they love Allah very much and they are very kind, very polite. They are respectful. That is why I love Americans very much. We have some friends who had been to America, they had told me when they were back. They say that they have never seen such kindness in any other part of the world. You see that kindness everywhere, even in traffic. They say that they are very attentive; for instance when the traffic lights turn to red, they certainly stop, even if the road is empty. When they meet someone, they say, they certainly say something kind. They say that they ask about you, they try to help out and this is the case throughout America, without any exception. This becomes possible by the blessing of Prophet Jesus (pbuh), by the blessing of Prophet Moses (pbuh), insha'Allah. Prophet Jesus' words full of love shine in the hearts of Christians with exuberance. The peaceful style of Prophet Moses shines fervently in the hearts of Jews. The model of love peculiar to the time of the Companions of our Prophet (saas), which is far removed from radicalism, which is based purely on the Qur'an and experienced by the Companions, manifests itself in our hearts. But to sustain this, those who are pro-peace, pro-love must be very resolute, very determined. They may try to dissuade us, try to push us aside from our path. We will proceed with commitment and resolution. For instance, evil forces try to hinder the love between Jews and Muslims. We have broken this. We said, "No matter what you do, we love Jews very much and vice versa." Indeed they could not hinder us. They tried to break our love for Christians. We said, "No, we love our Christian brothers very much and so do the Christians." We also stopped this. We have also put an end to this erroneous attitude. They even attempted to set Alawites against Sunnis. We said, "Alawites are very dear to us. We love Shias very dearly and we love Wahabis very dearly." We said, we will not let anyone speak against them, and we also overturned that logic. There is a new path and new progress every day with this determination. But I found it very interesting when you said you felt a metaphysical power in Istanbul. What would you say of this? When we were talking upstairs, you told that you felt that there was a milieu of contentment, comfort and security in Istanbul.
LARRY GREENFIELD: Yes, Istanbul is obviously the meeting of East and West. It's the joining together of cultures. The people here are very wise. They are very strategic, they live in a complicated neighborhood. It made them very smart and sophisticated. By the way, one more thought about the United States. I want to make sure to invite you to be our guest in the United States. And you are right, we are a loving people and respect all the different religions. My great hero is President Ronald Reagan who was a beloved American leader. And he taught us peace through strength. What I'm hearing from you, I'd like to give as a new expression that we need to be determined as we seek to be pluralistic, tolerant and loving. So we need to have love through strength.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Allah.. Yes, Ronald Reagan was really a very lovable person who reflected American culture very well. We loved him very much and we still love him. He was outstanding with his joyful, warm attitude then. He is a typical American with a loving, compassionate, joyful personality and handsome appearance. He was full of life, and brought colors to life. He was a beautiful face of the modern world and this is what we see throughout the United States. We want America to be strong and we would never desire it to collapse. We want America to remain upright until the Day of Judgment, for America is a country which is very determined in spreading goodness, freedom and humaneness to the world. This is very amazing. Freedom, democracy, love, sincerity without any compromise, they demand. This is a spirit derived from the Bible. A spirit they feel through the blessing of the Bible and the blessing of the Torah. These are very beautiful and American Muslims also experience this spirit. American Muslims are quite modern as well. But of course there are the radical ones; there are weird people but those siding with evil will always lose. Those who are on the path of Allah will always win. We believe that those who are on the path of Allah will win in this century. We believe that the walls surrounding Israel will be removed, and the Masjeed of Prophet Solomon (pbuh) will be reconstructed. We believe that Moshiach, that is, King Messiah, has already come. We believe that the Mahdi has come. We believe that Prophet Jesus has already come and we believe that Prophet Jesus is carrying out his activities with his followers in a concealed manner at this very moment. This abundance, this brilliance has no other explanation. In all corners of the world earthquakes occur, incidents happen and there is disorder prevalent. These are the portents of the coming of Prophet Jesus Messiah (pbuh). In the Bible, Prophet Jesus says this. It is explicitly stated that before his advent, there would be disorder and great wars in the world. Prophet Jesus also says that he will come suddenly, like a thief in the night and in our opinion, he has come all of a sudden and he is carrying out his activities. We are also the followers of Jesus Messiah, the followers of Hazrat Mahdi, followers of King Moshiach. We are the sons of Prophet Moses, the sons of Prophet Abraham and Prophet Jacob (peace be upon them all). We will surely love one another. We will transform this world into a modern, high-quality, pleasant, affectionate place like a fairground. We will put an end to conflicts and disorder insha'Allah.
May I have your thoughts on that, Mr. David?
DAVID SPADY: Well, around the world there are forces of hate that cause division amongst peoples. And the radical elements of Islam have created a lot of fear in America and in the West and even within Islamic countries. I think I am very hopeful that what I see here in Turkey, what I see with what you are attempting to do, is a movement because we have seen a movement of radicalism over the last decade. I see this is the beginning of a movement towards peace and towards a peaceful version of Islam. But a movement that is promoting that not just here in Turkey, but promoting that all around the globe in the same way that the radicals have promoted their version of Islam around the globe. It is something that is very necessary and not something that we can do in America, it is something that the people of Turkey and religious leaders within Islam must do. Christians come from a standpoint of love. Love is the most important commandment that we have. Our Bible says that '...there is no greater love than that a man lay down his life for his friend.' So we are commanded to go so far as to lay down our life for our friends. And that is the kind of love that we want to project across the world through what we do as Americans living our faith.
ADNAN OKTAR: It is not right to call people instigating violence as Muslims, because those ones who are in support of this ruthless system, this satanic system are indeed pagans. This means they are members of a pagan religion, since no Muslim would ever act like that. Muslims abide by the Qur'an, the commandments in the Qur'an are clear. Allah wants us to behave with compassion, mercy and forgiveness and have a loving kindness to all of humanity. Look, even for the idolaters, even for the pagans, in the Qur'an Allah asks us to ensure their security of life. In the verse, Allah says even for those idolaters, while you are taking them from a place they are to another place, do so in safety, even if it means to sacrifice your life and let no harm come to them. But these ones are killing Muslims, Christians and Jews; they are enemies of everyone. They are against you, me. They are enemies to everything and everyone. Allah does not approve of this and He does not consider such people as Muslims, they are idolaters. They are idolaters belonging to the pagan religion. They do not embrace the Qur'an as the basis. We tell them that this is the command of Allah.. For instance, Allah tells us that we can marry People of the Book, marry Christian and Jewish women, and what does marriage indicate; compassion, mercy, love, friendship and trust. And these ones are talking about killing them. Allah tells us that we can get married to them and they talk about murder. Allah says that we can eat their food, visit their houses and become familiar with them, which means you become friends, eat and act together, while they are talking about killing. Why is that? Because they do not abide by the Qur'an, they act based on their polytheistic religion, according to that religion of idolatry, paganism. Consequently presenting them as Muslims would not be right. We can call them idolaters or pagans. Muslims who have faith in Allah would never do such a thing. True believers in Allah would be compassionate towards Christians, Jews and, towards atheists they would feel mercy, they would approach them with compassion. This means they have no intention to destroy them or oppress them, because Allah informs us – I seek refuge in Allah from the satan – "Say; You have your religion and I have my religion." So He tells us not to intervene in any other person's religion and Allah says that there is no compulsion in religion. Allah teaches us that forcing someone in religion is unlawful. Allah has forbidden that. And these people try to convert a person into Islam by force, or if a Muslim reverts from religion they attempt to kill him. They attempt to kill anyone who does not perform prayers or who does not grow a beard. I mean, their list is rather long. The list of those things that deserve to be punished with death reaches a thousand things. They want to kill everything; they want to kill life itself. Then we ask who these people are, and they reply, "They are Muslims". They are not Muslims, they are idolaters, pagans. Therefore those who genuinely have faith in Allah have started to reveal their power within Islam at a great pace, and indeed this is the will of Allah. This reveals that Moshiach and Hazrat Mahdi (q.up) has already come. It reveals that Prophet Jesus (pbuh) has descended as well. Also, there is no other time. We are in the last times of the Day of Judgment. Jesus Messiah says, "There will be great wars and after a generation, I will be coming." WWI and WWII took place, a generation passed by, and as it is said in the Gospel after one generation the Prophet Jesus will be coming; but it is said that he would be coming in a sudden manner. Of course this is faith. According to our faith, Prophet Jesus has already come and Moshiach has appeared as well and those who love Allah will reign throughout the world. This is what I believe in and there is a rapid progress in this respect. Insha'Allah, with the contribution of you, of us, of all of us, we will attain such an end. Let me have your views for the last time and then I will end the program, insha'Allah. Yes please.
LARRY GREENFIELD: Yes thank you very much. So, after September 11, after 9/11, 2001 the American people were very concerned, upset, nervous and questioning who will step forward to be the leader of peace and understanding and tolerance from the Muslim World. By coming here and visiting with you and meeting and learning and making friends in Turkey and the Muslim World we will go back to America and we can say we found (those people); we found the truth, we found the leaders, we found the brothers in the Muslim World. The American people are going to be very happy to see peaceful and loving with Muslims who want that also. So, thank you for that gift.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Allah. I am a servant, I am a servant of good people. I am their gate keeper, I have no other attribute. But thank you for your beautiful views. Yes please, let's also hear you.
DAVID SPADY: Thank you again for your kind invitation to join you on this program. The United States was founded on a constitution that believes that the rights we have as a country in America were given to us by God, not by men, or by government, but by God. And so our country was founded on religious principles and on a belief in God and that has been something that has helped our society be a moral, upright and a free country. And it has helped us show love toward the world through things we have done with humanitarian causes. America has attempted to be in many ways a friend to the world and a friend to the idea of liberty and allowing everybody to live in peace because of the liberties that are granted not by governments, but by God.
ADNAN OKTAR: Masha'Alllah. Very nice. Allah is on the side of the good ones, Allah is on our side, insha'Allah. He has brought us together here and that is again a sign of this. This was destined that this gathering took place. Insha'Allah, this will go on later. May Allah give you health, goodness, beauty, joy, power, and all means. May Allah give us strength so that, insha'Allah, peace, love, modernity, democracy, liberty, and all things beautiful such as love, affection and everything that Allah is pleased of will prevail. I thank you very much. Insha'Allah, we will meet again. Insha'Allah.
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