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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (NNS) -- Team Navy/Coast Guard's archers won the team's first medal in the second day of competition of the 2012 Warrior Games at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. May 2, 2012.
Team Navy/Coast Guard was represented in the individual and team recurve and compound archery events. The recurve team, represented by Navy Culinary Specialist Seamen Judy Boyce, Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class Mike Dayton, and retired Navy Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Joshua Rosenberg, defeated the Air Force team in the bronze medal round of competition. Their performance achieved Team Navy/Coast Guard's first medal of the games and has reaffirmed the spirit of the athletes.
"That we have three members, rise up as a team to earn [a bronze] medal speaks volumes. They watched each others' backs and won as a team," said retired Master Chief Wilson.
Dayton, who narrowly lost the individual recurve bronze event earlier in the day, was excited that it all came together in the team event. "I may not have won an individual medal, but it's all about the team."
That unity extended into the evening competition. In the second day of wheelchair basketball games, Team Navy/Coast Guard defeated Special Operations Command (SOCOM) by a margin of 16-5. With this win, Navy/Coast Guard is in contention for the medal matches on Friday.
Retired Electrician's Mate 3rd Class Henry Sawyer responded "It doesn't matter who we play -- we're gonna win!"
An optimistic attitude and a spirit of commitment have been the essence of Team Navy/Coast Guard at these Warrior Games.
The 35 warrior athletes are participating as Team Navy/Coast Guard, sponsored by Navy Safe Harbor, the Navy and Coast Guard's wounded warrior support program, a key component of the Department of the Navy's 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative. The initiative is meant to maximize Sailor and Marine personal readiness, build resiliency, and hone the most combat-effective force in the history of the Department of the Navy.
The Warrior Games, hosted by the U.S. Olympic Committee's paralympics military program, provides an opportunity for wounded, ill, and injured service members to participate in competitive sports against members of other branches of service.


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Attorney Molly Munger's campaign for her education-funding ballot initiative has been buoyed by an estimated $28 million of her own money.
Proposition 38 is trailing in polls, but Munger says her campaign's recent advertising buys have seen rising support, according to internal polling.
The measure – in competition with Prop. 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's own budget measure meant to benefit education funding – is intended to raise $10 billion per year for K-12 education.
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Prop. 38 does that by raising income taxes on a sliding scale between 2013 and 2024, with most of the burden falling on the wealthy. (See ballot measure here: PDF.)
The money goes to a proposed California Education Trust Fund, which can't be controlled by the governor or the Legislature.
Munger says that independence is crucial.
"The purpose is to be sure this money is not under the control of the political process. It needs to not be available for other needs. It needs to be barricaded from any grabbing that does on in Sacramento," Munger said.
In 1988, voters approved Proposition 98, which requires a minimum level of funding for K-12. It's not enough, Munger said.
"You're got to have 98 plus," she said.

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Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse04 February 2014
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Judges imposing their countries' maximum penalties for serious offences such as manipulating the LIBOR benchmark interest rate would have to stipulate at least four years in jail under draft rules approved by the European Parliament on 4 February 2014. These rules, which aim to restore confidence in the EU's financial markets and improve investor protection, now have to be formally approved by EU Member States.
1. Why are criminal sanctions needed for market abuse?
In recent years financial markets have become increasingly global, giving rise to new trading platforms and technologies. This unfortunately has also led to new possibilities to manipulate these markets. During the LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) scandal, serious concerns were raised about the manipulation of benchmarks which can result in significant losses for consumers and investors or distortion of the real economy. As part of its work to make financial markets sounder and more transparent, the European Commission proposed in 2011 (with amendments in 2012) revised legislation to better tackle market abuse. This included a draft Regulation on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) to update and strengthen the existing rules and a draft Directive to ensure minimum criminal sanctions for market abuse.
The new EU rules for dealing with market abuse, consisting of the Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse (adopted by the European Parliament today, together with the Market Abuse Regulation (political agreement endorsed by the European Parliament on 10 September 2013, strengthens and replaces the existing framework, provided by the Market Abuse Directive (2003/6/EC), to ensure market integrity and investor protection.
The new framework will ensure regulation keeps pace with market developments. It will be adapted to the new market reality, notably by extending the scope to include all financial instruments which are traded on organised platforms and over the counter (OTC), and adapting rules to new technology. It will strengthen the fight against market abuse across commodity and related derivative markets, explicitly ban the manipulation of benchmarks, such as EURIBOR and LIBOR, and reinforce the cooperation between financial and commodity regulators. Since the sanctions currently available to supervisors often lack a deterrent effect, sanctions will be tougher and more harmonised.
2. How are criminal offences defined at EU level?
Insider dealing occurs when a person who has price-sensitive inside information trades in related financial instruments. Market manipulation takes place when a person artificially manipulates the price of financial instruments through practices such as the spreading of false or misleading information and conducting trades in related instruments to profit from this. Together these practices are known as market abuse.
Investors who trade on insider information and manipulate markets by spreading false or misleading information can currently avoid sanctions by taking advantage of differences in laws between the EU Member States. Some countries' authorities lack effective sanctioning powers while in others criminal sanctions are not available for certain insider dealing and market manipulation offences. Effective sanctions can have a strong deterrent effect and reinforce the integrity of the EU's financial markets.
This is the first legislative proposal based on the new Article 83 paragraph 2 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which provides for the adoption of common minimum rules on criminal law when this proves essential to ensure the effective implementation of a harmonised EU policy. Current sanction regimes applied in the Member States for market abuse offences have proven not to be sufficiently effective. They do not always use the same definitions of these crimes and are too divergent, allowing perpetrators to benefit from loopholes.
The Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse follows the approach set out in the Commission's Communication "Towards an EU criminal policy - Ensuring the effective implementation of EU policies through criminal law" of 20 September 2011. This included an assessment, based on clear factual evidence, of the national enforcement regimes in place and the added value of common EU minimum criminal law standards, taking into account the principles of necessity, proportionality and subsidiarity.
The Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse is also part of the follow-up to the Commission's Communication on "Reinforcing sanctioning regimes in the financial services sector" of 8 December 2010. This envisaged the introduction of criminal sanctions for the most serious violations of financial services legislation if and where this would prove essential to ensure the effective implementation of such legislation.
3. Why was the existing Market Abuse Directive (MAD) reviewed?
The Market Abuse Directive (2003/6/EC) introduced a framework to harmonise core concepts and rules on market abuse and strengthen cooperation between regulators. However, a number of problems were identified by the Commission and these can be broadly categorised in five groups:
- gaps in regulation of new markets, platforms and over-the-counter (OTC) trading in financial instruments;
- gaps in regulation of commodities and commodity derivatives;
- regulators cannot effectively enforce the MAD;
- lack of legal certainty undermines the effectiveness of the MAD; and
- administrative burdens, especially for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs).
The regulatory framework provided by the original Market Abuse Directive (2003/6/EC) had been outpaced by the growth of new trading platforms, OTC trading and new technology such as high frequency trading (HFT). The new Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and the Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse keep pace with market developments and extend the scope of existing EU legislation to financial instruments only traded on multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), other organised trading facilities (OTFs) and when traded OTC so that trading on all platforms and of all financial instruments which can impact on them will now be covered by market abuse legislation. It also provides an indicative list of HFT strategies which shall be considered as market manipulation, such as placing orders which has the effect of disrupting or delaying the functioning of a trading system ("quote stuffing"). Commodity markets have become increasingly global and interconnected with derivative markets, leading to new possibilities for cross-border and cross-market abuse. The scope of the legislation is therefore extended to market abuse occurring across both commodity and related derivative markets.
4. Why is there a separate Directive on Criminal Sanctions for Market Abuse?
Minimum rules on criminal offences and on criminal sanctions for market abuse are essential for ensuring the effectiveness of the EU policy on market integrity. Criminal sanctions demonstrate social disapproval of a qualitatively different nature compared to administrative sanctions or compensation mechanisms under civil law. Common minimum rules on the definition of criminal offences for the most serious market abuse offences also facilitate the cooperation of law enforcement and judicial authorities in the Union, especially considering that the offences are in many cases committed across borders.
5. Which offences will be subject to criminal sanctions?
The Directive defines the offences: insider dealing, recommending or inducing another person to engage in insider dealing, unlawful disclosure and market manipulation, which should be regarded by Member States as criminal offences at least when they are serious and committed intentionally. In line with the scope of the Market Abuse Regulation, transactions for certain purposes are excluded from the scope: buy-backs and stabilisation programmes, if certain conditions and procedures are complied with, transactions, orders or behaviours carried out in the pursuit of monetary, exchange rate and debt management policy, as well as activities in the pursuit of the Union's Climate Policy, the Union's Common Agricultural and the Union's Common Fisheries Policies.
The market abuse offences shall be deemed serious in cases such as those where the impact on the integrity of the market, the actual or potential profit derived or loss avoided or the level of damage caused to the market is high. Other circumstances that might be taken into account are, for instance, if the offence has been committed within the framework of a criminal organisation or if the person has already committed such an offence before, or, for market manipulation, if the level of alteration of the value of the financial instrument or spot commodity contract or the amount of funds originally used is high or whether the manipulation is performed by a person employed or working in the financial sector or in a supervisory or regulatory authority.
The Directive also requires Member States to criminalise inciting, aiding and abetting insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation, as well as attempts of insider dealing and market manipulation. Liability will also be extended to legal persons, which will be punishable by effective proportionate and dissuasive criminal or non-criminal sanctions.
6. What are the levels and types of criminal sanctions required?
The Directive requires Member States to ensure that the criminal offences defined in the Directive are punishable by criminal penalties and sanctions which are effective, proportionate and dissuasive when they are committed intentionally and at least in serious cases. In order for the sanctions for the offences to be effective and dissuasive, maximum sanction levels of at least four years' imprisonment for market manipulation, insider dealing and recommending or inducing another person to engage in insider dealing and two years for the unlawful disclosure of inside information, are provided.
Legal persons will also be punishable by effective proportionate and dissuasive criminal or non-criminal fines, which may include other sanctions such as exclusion from entitlement to public benefits or aid, temporary or permanent disqualification from carrying out of commercial activities, placing under judicial supervision, judicial winding up or temporary or permanent closure of establishments which have been used for committing the offence.
A review clause requires the Commission to report to the European Parliament and Council, within four years of the Directive's entry into application, on its functioning and, if necessary, on the need to amend it. If appropriate, the report shall be accompanied by a legislative proposal.
7. When would a market abuse offence be sanctioned by criminal law and when by administrative law sanctions?
It is the purpose of the Commission to oblige Member States to have, in their national law, a 'tool-box' for both administrative and criminal sanctions, more harmonised than today. The Market Abuse Regulation provides, e.g., for the offences of insider dealing and market manipulation a maximum fine of €5 million for natural persons, and fines of €1 million and €500 000 for the remaining offences. Member States are free to impose even higher maximum administrative fines.
It is essential that insider dealing and market manipulation is criminalised in all Member States when committed intentionally. A corresponding offence should figure in each national law at least for serious cases as it is now foreseen in the Directive.
Depending on their national law, Member States should then have the possibility to decide which type of sanction to impose, using, for example, the general principle of opportunity.
8. How does the market abuse legislation tackle the abuse of benchmarks, such as LIBOR?
Since March 2011, investigations have been taking place in relation to possible manipulation of the EURIBOR and LIBOR benchmarks for interbank lending rates by a number of banks. The suspicion was that banks had provided estimates of the interest rate at which they would accept offers of funding which were different from the rate they would have accepted in practice. As a result, the integrity of the rates has been called into question – rates which are used as benchmarks for borrowing and as references for the pricing of many financial instruments such as interest rate swaps and consumer contracts such as mortgages, loans and credit cards. Furthermore, the individual contributor banks' estimates provided misleading information to the market about their likely costs of funding.
In order to capture unequivocally the manipulation of benchmarks and in order to ensure that such manipulation of benchmarks is an offence, the Market Abuse Regulation and the Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse explicitly prohibits this and subjects such manipulation to administrative and criminal sanctions.
9. What are benchmarks and how are they dealt with in the directive on criminal sanctions against market abuse?
A benchmark is any rate, index or figure made available to the public or published that is periodically or regularly determined by the application of a formula to, or on the basis of the value of one or more underlying assets, or prices, including estimated prices, actual or estimated interest rates or other values, or surveys and by reference to which the amount payable under a financial instrument or the value of a financial instrument is determined. Underlying assets or prices referenced in benchmarks can include equities (e.g. the FTSE 100 index), bonds (e.g. NASDAQ OMX fixed income), interest rates (e.g. LIBOR or EURIBOR), or commodities such as agricultural products (e.g. cocoa LIFFE London), metals (e.g. Gold COMEX) or oil (e.g. Brent oil ICE). All benchmarks are included in the Directive, provided that these determine the amount payable under a financial instrument. The Directive on criminal sanctions against Market Abuse will, for example, require Member States to provide for sanctions for natural or legal persons transmitting false or misleading information, providing false or misleading inputs, or any action which manipulates the calculation of a benchmark, including the manipulation of benchmarks' methodologies.
10. Why is the manipulation of benchmarks a cause for concern?
Many financial instruments are priced by reference to benchmarks. Any actual or attempted manipulation of important benchmarks can have a serious impact on market confidence and could result in significant losses to investors or distort the real economy. It is therefore essential to prohibit manipulation of benchmarks unequivocally, and to clarify that judicial authorities could impose criminal sanctions for the offence of market manipulation in serious cases. It is also essential that all necessary steps be taken to facilitate the detection of such manipulation by competent authorities so that they can impose sanctions; this is dealt with in the Market Abuse Regulation. A stringent legal framework will act as a credible deterrent to such behaviour, thereby protecting investors and restoring market confidence. As a complement to the Regulation and Directive on market abuse, the Commission adopted in September 2013 a proposal for a Regulation on Benchmarks to ensure that benchmarks are provided in a robust and transparent way based on sufficient and reliable data. This proposal will ensure high standards of governance in the provision of benchmarks, notably by tackling conflicts of interest, to reduce the opportunities and incentives for manipulation.
11. What are the next steps in the adoption of the proposal for a Directive?
The Directive on criminal sanctions for market abuse is subject to revisions by legal linguists and revisers, including where necessary alignment with the final political agreement on the Directive for Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID II). Member States will have two years after the entry into force of the Directive to transpose the Directive on Criminal Sanctions for Market Abuse into national law.
Further information
European Commission - Market Abuse
European Commission - criminal law policy


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Cabbage Rose Quilting & Fabrics has generously sponsored every indie art & craft event Funky Finds has hosted in Fort Worth, Texas. Considering we will be hosting our seventh event in Fort Worth on November 10 & 11, that shows how owner Karen O'Neill is extremely supportive & generous towards the handmade community.
Founded in 1997, Cabbage Rose is a beautiful brick & mortar store located at 3000 Montgomery Street. The store is filled to the brim with gorgeous fabrics ranging from Moda to Benartex. They also offer patterns, kits and books for endless projects to keep your creativity flowing. The large space features a terrific in-shop classroom where they host a variety of workshops, classes and space for sewers to spread out and share their treasures.
Following the Cabbage Rose blog, Cabbage Corner, is a great way to stay informed of new products, store happenings, giveaways & more. And, if you do not live in the Fort Worth area, never fear! Cabbage Rose offers tons of fabrics & other products online! Check out the Cabbage Rose Quilting & Fabrics Facebook page for more info, as well.


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Only a few years ago I had this idea to have a JSC branded PAC MAN multiplayer game.
Today, I found this via RLammle:
For my amusement I found it rather remarkable to be able to log in with facebook connect and use my tablet to ink a new maze for others to play later.
It would be awesome if a future version of JSC would include a C# project template to create something like this.
What if it would be applied to other simple games? What if actual applications could be extended by crowd sourcing?
Above video by Pavel was found thanks to geeksaresexy.com


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If you purchased Fallout 3 and all of its downloadble content, you've stuffed $110 (or almost £70 if your from the UK, like me) in Bethesda's pockets. To thank you for your generosity, the company is issuing a free premium Xbox 360 dashboard theme.
It certainly seems like a nice gesture (given that the only other way to acquire the theme will be to buy it), but those fans who purchased the Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition package in an effort to consolidate all that excess data are out of luck. According to Bethesda, this theme is only for those truly devoted fans who have forked over the most cash.
Actually, it sounds a lot less sinister coming from Fallout 3 game director Todd Howard. "This is something we've been asked about a lot and we're happy to finally be able to bring it to fans as a small token of our appreciation," he says.
If you're eligible, keep an eye out for a token offering the download beginning October 1.
Personally, I quite like the look of it, not sure what the plans are for PS3/PC owners with all the DLC are though.


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A new academic building and a renovation of the Kresge Business Administration Library are part of a $135 million construction project approved Thursday by the University of Michigan Board of Regents.
To accommodate the new 104,000-square-foot building on the Stephen M. Ross School of Business campus, the Computer and Executive Education building will be demolished.
The new yet unnamed building will have classrooms, study space and faculty and research offices.
Construction timelines and many other project details have not been set because the board must still approve the design as well as bid for contractors, said Rick Fitzgerald, UM's associate director of public affairs.
The project will be paid for by gift funds, including $100 million from Stephen M. Ross, a UM alumnus and New York real estate developer.
The project also includes exterior renovations to Sam Wyly Hall, the Business Administration Executive Dormitory and the Hill Street Parking Structure.
New York City-based architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC will design the project, which is expected to create 155 on-site construction jobs.
Kirk Pinho: (313) 446-0412, [email protected]. Twitter: @kirkpinhoCDB


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The choice of the treatment option depends on the particular cause of the incontinence. However, there are some treatment options that can be applied to more than one type of urinary incontinence, such as using absorbent products. Absorbent pads and urinary catheters are used by patients who have a prolonged incontinence problem.
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Intense Storms Have Become More Common
Part of the Climate Change exhibition.
Rainstorms help sustain life on Earth by bringing much needed water. But there's a big difference between a restorative shower and an intense downpour that causes floods and landslides. As our planet continues to warm, intense and destructive storms are likely to become more and more frequent over many land regions. In fact, they already have.
Why Does a Warmer World Mean Stronger Storms?
Anyone familiar with humid summers will tell you that warm air can hold a lot of moisture. Indeed, warmer temperatures cause more water to evaporate from the oceans, transferring energy and water vapor to the atmosphere. The result is more intense storms that bring heavier rains and snows.
Does a Warmer World Mean A Wetter World?
No, rain will just fall in different places. Warming changes weather patterns, generally bringing more rain to ocean areas and less to land. Also, many land areas are experiencing rainstorms that are less frequent but more powerful and sometimes destructive.
Future Storms, Future Damage
Dense Populations
Myanmar: In 2008, an intense hurricane hit the densely populated coast of Myanmar (formerly Burma), killing tens of thousands of people. More intense storms would put low-lying, densely populated coastal areas, like some parts of Myanmar and its neighbor Bangladesh, at even greater risk of flooding and other damage from storm surges.
Coastal Regions
Gulf Coast, United States: An increase in violent storms would imperil valuable coastal power stations and oil and gas pipelines. Hurricane Ivan, which struck the Gulf Coast in 2004, uprooted underwater oil pipelines, cutting U.S. oil production by more than 40 million barrels over 6 months—the equivalent of almost 10 days of total domestic production.
Hillside Cities
La Paz, Bolivia: After days of heavy rain, hills around the Llojeta district collapsed in 2003, destroying eleven of fourteen local brick factories—linchpins in the local economy. More powerful storms will threaten cities and towns already at risk of land—and mudslides.
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Workers on the platform of the Sagrera subway station, Barcelona, Spain, which was flooded due to heavy rains, October 2005.
Urban Drainage
Barcelona, Spain: Intense bursts of rain are likely to become more common, and subway drainage systems in cities from Barcelona to Beijing may not be able to keep up.
Island Nations
Niue, South Pacific: Small island nations would be particularly vulnerable to more powerful storms. Tropical Cyclones Ofa in 1990 and Heta in 2004, for instance, devastated agricultural production in Niue, turning the food-exporting country into one dependant on imports for several years. Increased intense storms in US map
Storm Tracker
Intense storms became more frequent in much of the United States between 1948 and 2006,. Europe and parts of Asia saw similar increases, but long-term data are not available for much of the rest of the world.
Warming Water
Tropical cyclones—also called hurricanes or typhoons—are the most powerful storms on Earth and feed on warm waters at the ocean surface. Scientists debate whether warming ocean waters affect hurricane frequency and strength. Most experts agree, however, that warming is causing more intense rainstorms, tornados and other unusual weather phenomena.


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A well-educated workforce is crucial to the state's economy.
But business leaders -- with the exception of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce (its president, Gary Toebben, is pictured) -- aren't lining up for Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal, even though school funding is among the top priorities in the document. Over at California Watch, Louis Freedberg looks at why local school districts haven't gotten local business leaders to support the budget.


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Fair Workplace Policies, Paternity Leave and More in Weekly Blog Roundup
"The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize." These words are attributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas. Empathy is just one of the big topics covered in the MomsRising blog posts this past week. Check out the top five blogs posts, comment on the stories and share them with your friends and family.
#RADIO Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
The guests were on fire this week! And no wonder--the topics they discussed are headline news. We heard experts on health insurance for children in Texas, the child tax credit and Moral Mondays in North Carolina. Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and the founder of Define American; Dr. Laura Guerra-Cardus, Texas office of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF); Reverend Curtis Everette Gatewood, North Carolina NAACP; Wendy Cervantes, Vice President of Immigration and Child Rights Policy for First Focus were the expert guests.
LISTEN: In the DC and other areas, as well as anytime on iTunes or TuneIn--and on the Progressive Voices Channel: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/momsrising-radio-kristin-rowe/id533519537
A Chance to Be Part of History and Help Get Texas Covered
The Lone Star State has over four million uninsured Texans who are eligible for heath coverage through the health insurance marketplace. Mimi Garcia, Texas State Director of Get Covered America, highlights the impact of the Affordable Care Art for Texans and the need for outreach to get everyone who's eligible enrolled in this post.
#DoubleBooked: Reflections On My Working Father
Rachel Laser, Deputy Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, sees the Family and Medical Leave Act as a step in the right direction. She writes about paternity leave in this post and the importance of a supportive partner for working moms.
Anticipation: Snow Day and Fair Workplace Policies
Fair workplace policies were highlighted in the president's State of the Union and in the fifth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Even though some progress has been made, there is still work to be done on the fair pay front. Odile Fredericks, a mom and web editor for CarolinaParent.com, encourages the president and Congress to work together to solve this particular issue in a post for MomsRising.
My Buddha Daughter and Her Emotional Mother
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I'm single. I'm gay. I'm living with HIV. I want my own reality show. Someone from the BRAVO television network, or even VH-1, should call me. Seriously. These are the people who gave us Project Runway (temperamental wannabe fashion designers are judged by haughty experts) and Breaking Bonaduce ('70s Partridge Family child star Danny spectacularly abandons sobriety, undermines his marriage and shoots up steroids in a show with all the subtlety of an AMTRAK derailment). I want to be the star of TV's first HIV-related dating reality program.
Here's the concept: cameras follow me on dates. That's it. I don't eat bugs and nobody gets a makeover. I don't dance or skate with any celebrities and no one gets to be my boyfriend just by winning an immunity challenge. No, instead, I just meet potential partners for coffee and stuff. Now, I know you're probably thinking it would be more interesting if I were trapped on an island or confined to a mansion with two-dozen guys and had to pick and eliminate, but it's already been done, people. I'm telling you, just turn the camera on and follow me; you won't be disappointed.
I mostly meet guys online through personal ads. Placing a personal ad -- or responding to one -- used to be considered an act of desperation. Not so much anymore. Now, Hollywood makes cute movies about it and there are all kinds of popular online dating and relationship sites. The leader, Match.com, welcomes gays and lesbians looking for love; upstart eHarmony.com does not -- founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren has stated publicly there's no reason to match gays and lesbians since the United States does not legally recognize our unions. For my part, I recognize that, credentials aside, Neil Clark is probably just a run-of-the-mill homophobe who thinks queer love is sinful and icky.
I've been single four years now. That's like, twelve, in gay years. And I'm fortysomething. That's like, dead, in gay years. Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but being gay, single and HIV-positive in your 40s is not for sissies. You might think (or at least I did) that dating would be easier and come more naturally with age. After all, don't I have a better sense of who I am and what I really want and need now than when I was younger? I've approached dating pragmatically, with a kind of healthy self-awareness. I've placed my personal ad on about a dozen websites. I've been honest about height, weight, age and HIV status. I've been witty and specific in describing my interests and my life. I've used current photos. I've even confessed to having a kinky streak and a weakness for big, hairy guys who look damn fine in a baseball cap.
I've really put myself out there. But I'm still single. So I recently asked two people -- a therapist and an old friend -- what I might be doing wrong. The therapist said, "It sounds like you aren't willing to settle and that means you just have to kiss a lot of frogs." My old friend said, "Your problem is that you have too many dealbreakers." Dealbreakers? That mental checklist we keep, the one with all the reasons why not to get involved. Apparently my list is way too long. And according to my friend I'm never going to find a partner as long as I reject young guys, smokers, cat owners, liars, HIV-negative guys, slobs, men who can't kiss or the ones who love their trucks too much. Frankly, I don't think it's such a long list, and I did go out with a 31-year-old, HIV-negative smoker not long ago. He said my HIV didn't bother him. That sounded less magnanimous when I found out he had no money to pay for his own dinner and drinks. If I had my own reality show you would have already seen me out there with a variety of men. There was Always-Been-Gay-But-Got-Married-To-A-Woman-Anyway Guy. Didn't work out for him. Let's call that Brokeback Mountain Syndrome. There was the guy who freaked out when he thought the man who infected him with HIV was in the same restaurant where we were having dinner. I quit seeing him and he got involved -- I'm not kidding -- with Always-Been-Gay-But-Got-Married-To-A-Woman-Anyway Guy. I also went out with Posed-Nude-For-Gay-Magazine Guy ... and he probably ought to stop using those pics in his personal ad now since they're ten years old.
Painfully-Quiet-But-Hot-Computer-Geek Guy was a looker, not a talker. Over the course of an hour and a half, I tried to get him to converse about something, but ran out of questions and finally asked "Which do you like better, those Star Wars movies or the Lord of the Rings trilogy?" He couldn't decide, though, not surprisingly, he owns them all on DVD. Private-School-Teacher Guy double-booked our date and a tutoring session -- guess who got stood up? I think everyone needs to know how that feels at least once. Then there was I'm-Negative-And-Immune-To-HIV Guy. Yes, he assured me he'd been exposed to HIV repeatedly over the years and never tested positive so it was okay for us to have bareback sex. Oh, and has anyone else out there ever dated Too-Much-Information Guy? A first date might be a little soon to reveal that you're adopted, dyslexic and your mother killed your father with a shoe.
I joke about a lot of this -- God knows a sense of humor is mandatory for dating -- but some dates these last few years have left me very disheartened. About two years ago I got a response to an ad I'd placed on an Internet site designed specifically for HIV-positive individuals. He sent me a photo, we chatted on the phone and finally scheduled dinner. At the restaurant he was barely recognizable from the "recent" photograph he'd sent me. HIV and combination therapy had ravaged his face and body. I could not help but wonder what version of himself he saw when he looked in a mirror. And would that be me someday?
I had another date not long ago that left me feeling sad. I met this fair-haired fellow for coffee and soon learned why he was so accepting of my HIV status: he had tested positive himself barely four weeks earlier. And eventually, right there in the Starbuck's, he confessed that he hadn't wanted to date me; he just wanted someone to talk to about having HIV in his body. It wasn't a date at all, but rather a peer counseling session. Poignant, funny and sometimes harsh ... that's the reality of dating with HIV.
Americans have been exposed to about 300 reality TV programs since 2000, but the last time any relevant depiction of the virus occurred was way back in the 1994 season of MTV's The Real World featuring HIV-positive housemate Pedro Zamora. The application for CBS's Survivor asks potential contestants to list physical illnesses and medications -- how far do you think you get in that process if the answers include HIV and Viramune?
Just imagine how much more Americans might learn about HIV or other STDs if pozzies were given a reality show. So once again, I'll say it: I want to be the star of TV's first HIV-related dating reality program. Let people see it all -- the high school melodrama, the rejection, and my dealbreakers (like guys who kiss their dogs on the mouth). I wish cameras had been there last summer when my date blurted that he was getting over a bout of syphilis and asked me if I knew you could get it from oral sex, as he had. Yeah, dude, I knew that ... though it might have been very educational for viewers who didn't.
David Salyer is an HIV+ journalist, educator and activist living in Atlanta, Georgia. He leads Conscious Sex presentations for men and women and has facilitated workshops for people living with HIV since 1994. Reach him by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hopefully by now you have seen all the gorgeous Fair Isle projects in Cathedral. I know I am itching to cast-on for some of these projects. Especially the Bishop of Aberdeen scarf that is on the cover. And then it hit me....we should have a giveaway. Honestly, who doesn't love a giveaway?
The winner will receive a kit to make the Bishop of Aberdeen Scarf. That's 10 balls of Liberty Wool Light (solid colors), and a pdf copy of the Cathedral book.
To enter the giveaway, simply fill out the form below and click submit. It's that easy! Please enter no later than 5 PM Eastern Time on Monday December 23, 2013.
One entry per person. The winner will be drawn at random. The giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only and is void where prohibited by law. Winner will be contacted via email.


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When Andre Roberson announced in April he would skip his senior season at Colorado and enter the NBA draft, some thought he was crazy.
Several mock drafts projected him to be a second-round pick. Others had him going undrafted.
On Thursday night, no outside opinions or mock drafts mattered. Roberson wound up going earlier than expected when the Minnesota Timberwolves selected him late in the first around, 26th overall.
Roberson was later traded to the Golden State Warriors and then dealt to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Regardless of his destination, it was huge for Roberson to go in the first round, because it means he will get a guaranteed contract. Second rounders are not assured of a guaranteed deal.
A 6-foot-7 forward, Roberson is the second Buff drafted in the past three years, joining Alec Burks, who was the No. 12 pick, by the Utah Jazz, in 2011. He is just the seventh CU player selected since the NBA reduced the draft to two rounds in 1989.
About an hour after he was picked, Roberson tweeted, "Wanted to thank CU for the best 3 years of my life! Most importantly the CUint and the community as we helped build it back up. #ForeverBuff"
Roberson became a fan favorite in Boulder and provided plenty of memorable moments in a CU jersey, helping the Buffs to 69 wins in his three seasons.
Last season as a junior, Roberson was named the Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year. He averaged 10.9 points and 11.2 rebounds per game for the Buffs (21-12), helping them to reach the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. He ranked second nationally in rebounds per game last year after ranking third in 2011-12 (11.1 per game).
During his three seasons in Boulder, Roberson scored 1,012 points and pulled down 1,045 rebounds – just nine shy of the program record, held by Stephane Pelle (1,054 from 1999-03).
Although he came up short of Pelle's record, Roberson is the only player in CU history to accumulate at least 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 150 blocks (150), 150 steals (164) and 100 assists (119). Roberson is also the only player in CU history to lead the team in rebounds, steals and blocksthree years in a row.
In Oklahoma City, Roberson will join one of the elite teams in the NBA. Led by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, the Thunder had the best record in the Western Conference this past season and played in the 2012 NBA Finals.
Although many pundits believe Roberson is limited offensively, his exceptional skills in rebounding and defense have been considered top notch. ESPN analysts Jay Bilas and Chad Ford said this week that rebounding is a skill that translates to the NBA better than other skills, which made Roberson a talent many teams wanted.
"All the statistical analysis says he should be a really good NBA player," Ford said.
Roberson is the eighth CU player in history to be taken in the first round of the NBA draft. … This is the first time CU has had two players drafted in a three-year span since Donnie Boyce (1995) and Chauncey Billups (1997). … Roberson is just the fourth player in CU history to leave early for the NBA, along with Billups, David Harrison (2004) and Burks. All four went in the first round.
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I know it's a little wordy, but I would love this quote by NDT to appear on my tombstone:
"I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime."
What do you want on yours?
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Floating in a huge vat of formaldehyde with others bound for the dissection table at a medical center research campus would be problematic for an epitath. I will never forget the first time I saw that vat, what a rush.
"Rottin' & Rollin'"
Please stop - I'm tearing up!
"Wake me up in three days"
He had many labels,
Waged against many others,
But he wanted to be only human
You sound like god!
How about, shhhh, I'm digging, I'll send you a postcard from Australia
And a multimedia headstone could play the soundtrack from The Great Escape. (Which, to remind some people, is the movie about tunneling out of a POW camp.)
I'd just as soon be creamated and scattered, but my husband really wants a stone, and since he'll probably outlive me, we'll probably have some sort of stone. I want my name, dates and a QR code that would take people to my Website.
My stepson doesn't want people to be sad when they go to the cemetery, so he wants a headstone that can "high five" you. Hopefully I will never have to do it, but I think with a counterbalance, it would work.
A friend of mine wanted to be freeze dried, treated with epoxy as a cast, then mounted on the OSU-Oregon campus mall. Of course there was some expectation of an inappropriate hand sign!
I don't need that much social commentary for my remains, but expect to be cremated. After I am 'dead', it seems rather unimportant as to what is done with the remains, but I would rather not clog any culverts. I think it might be nice, in forsight, to have my ashes spread along the shore of Pyramid Lake Nevada, east side. A very beautiful place to rest among the old fish bones, extinct shells, and tulfa. Maybe even just outside one of the palio-indian rock shelters, taking my place along with the rest of history.
Now months latter, one divorce, one business shutdown, and partial unemployment, I have wondered how much closer is this 'end'?
Sadly now, someone would need to send my ash remains to the indian reservation parks person for the spreading, but I feel it to be premature for such a plan.
A new spring, new flowers, a new love, and a deeper soul, maybe I still have time to get my mortality right?


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Fordham Conversations: Spiritual Sleepers and Hidden...
11.02.13 7:00am
A Fordham professor looks into the spiritual side of popular music.
You probably never thought the Harlem Shake craze has a deeper spiritual meaning, but Fordham University Theology Professor Thomas Beaudoin says it's a "Spiritual Sleeper," a song with a hidden meaning. This week on Fordham Conversations, Professor Beaudoin talks about other Spiritual Sleepers and the Rock and Theology project.
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A rumored storyline for The Avengers is debunked. Jake Gyllenhaal talks Source Code, plus set photos for Real Steel and the motherlode of V videos. Spoilers right now!
The Avengers
Anyone hoping the Albuquerque Journal somehow had acquired the inside information that this movie will be about a Kree-Skrull war...well, prepare to be disappointed. That information, as you might expect, did not come from Marvel Studios, and was in fact just a research error on the part of the newspaper, accidentally reporting one rumored plot as the movie's actual storyline. It should be pointed out that Marvel hasn't actually denied the basic facts of the original report, so it's not impossible that this might end up being true after all... but there isn't a shred of hard evidence to back that up. [Superhero Hype]
Source Code
Here's an interview with star Jake Gyllenhaal in which he discusses Moon director Duncan Jones's upcoming movie about a time looped marine:
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He also reveals there are no plans for Prince of Persia 2, although he says he's up for it if such a project materializes. [Multipleverses Vault]
Real Steel
Here are some set photos and promo pics from Hugh Jackman's robot boxing movie: [Multipleverses]
Here's a short summary for episode 11, "Chuck vs. the Balcony": [SpoilerTV]
Chuck tries to create a romantic getaway for Sarah while tracking down a nano-chip at a French vineyard; Lester asks Big Mike for love advice.
No Ordinary Family
Here's a promo for the show's January premiere, "No Ordinary Friends": [SpoilerTV]
The Event
NBC has released three deleted scenes from the first half of the season that I can only imagine tie up all loose ends and make everything make perfect sense. Show creator Nick Wauters explains the scenes:
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Actor Scott Wolf hosts ABC's video podcast about season 2, complete with many members of the cast and crew previewing what's ahead: [KSiteTV]
Here's a joint interview with the three generations of V queens — Jane Badler, Morena Baccarin, and Laura Vandervoort — in which they explain what's ahead. There's also a few more interviews at the link with a temporarily blonde Morena Baccarin. [SpoilerTV]
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WASHINGTON, DC — PE4life presented its Excellence in Advocacy-Education award to Randy Nichols, an assistant professor of health and physical education at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, during the National PE Day Awards Dinner in Washington, DC. The award is presented to individuals or organizations that have worked to advance the cause of physical education in the field of education on a local, state or national level. Nichols was honored for developing innovative, fitness-based physical education classes and projects at Slippery Rock.
"Randy Nichols' teaching values exemplify PE4life values," said Anne Flannery, president and CEO of PE4life. "Randy has incorporated the PE4life Training Manual as a required text for his graduate-level classes and created a class on the use of technology in physical education, including pedometers, heart rate monitors and fitness assessment programs. He ideally represents what we need to achieve our mission: College faculty members who are committed to teaching the next generation of physical educators a health-and-wellness approach to physical education."
Nichols developed the Make a Change project in which he challenged his students to increase the amount of physical education that kindergarten through 12th grade students receive in his students' home school districts. The project required his students to identify barriers, locate grant sources, write a grant application and develop community-based partnerships.


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Two years ago, the avex produced band GIRL NEXT DOOR, nicknamed Garuneku released their debut single in September 2008. This band of three members center around Chisa, the vocalist, who originally was a dancer in the Kansai area. She attracted the attention of avex trax, was encouraged to go to Tokyo and enter Avex Artist Academy on a scholarship. There she met Suzuki Daisuke who composed tracks for other artists. Together they started working on demo tracks and they caught the attention of Max Matsuura. Shortly afterwards Inoue Yuji joined them as guitarist and they started preparing for their debut. avex packaged this band as their 20th anniversary product. Since it was a 20th anniversary project it was quite a challenge to reproduce the signature sound of avex and bring forward something new…


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Published on June 27th, 2013 | by Daniel Perlman0
William James Hartwell And 8 Women Arrested In Arizona Prostitution Cover-Up
At least nine people could be charged after authorities raided a Phoenix studio on Thursday that investigators say used pornography as a front for prostitution, ostensibly luring clients who want to star in their own adult films.
The Arizona Republic reports that studio owner William James Hartwell, 52, and eight women were taken into custody Thursday following the raid of the business near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Officers quickly made entry into the business, operated by New Media Studios, and immediately began escorting women out. Some wore dresses and jeans, one woman had leopard-print pajamas, and another was visibly pregnant and told officers she was weeks away from giving birth, officials said.
According to court documents, operators would check customers for sexually transmitted diseases by requiring them to drop their pants and expose themselves.
Investigators believe this was as much an attempt to screen for law-enforcement officers, who might be prohibited from exposing themselves, than it was to check for diseases.
Then a customer would meet with a woman in a private room where photos were taken. The women told clients that they made money taking photos and "whatever else happens, happens," according to records.
There is no sign outside the beige block building alluding to the business or its trade, but the company frequently placed ads in the adult-services sections of popular websites, including some posted Thursday asking for models and promoting services for new clients.
And a website affiliated with the company details the legal theory that some believed made the business legitimate.
"Most porn is constitutionally protected as free speech," the site states. "While at the studio you are paying for equipment and studio rental only and may not engage in any illegal or unsafe activities. … If you come to make amateur porn, you are welcome at the studio."
Police say the raid comes after a six-month investigation.
Whether the studio was making pornography or serving as a prostitution front will be the crucial question for prosecutors.
Arizona law prohibits the production and sale of obscene material, but proving a violation of obscenity statutes typically requires proof that someone ran afoul of community standards with material that had no legal, artistic or scientific value.
Investigators said Hartwell told an arresting officer that he was not surprised police showed up at his company's door. "We've been expecting you guys for a long time," Hartwell said as he was escorted to a police car. "We run a safe, legal business."
It was unclear if he had an attorney.
If you have been arrested for a Criminal Offense the Law Offices of Daniel R. Perlman can help. Please contact a Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney today to have your case reviewed.
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The 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race will take place in 2014-2015 after Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Group on October 29 reaffirmed their long-term commitment to the world's premier offshore sailing event.
Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad announced the broad timetable just as the fleet prepared for the opening in-port race in the 2011-12 edition, starting in Alicante, Spain.
Flanked by Volvo Car Corporation CEO Stefan Jacoby and Volvo Group CEO Olof Persson, Frostad said the next race would begin in the autumn of 2014 in Alicante, where the race has been based since 2010.
"Volvo Cars and Volvo Group have pledged their long-term support for the event," said Frostad, a four-time veteran of the race and CEO since 2008. "They trust us and we trust them.
"At a time when many sports events are struggling to survive in one of the toughest economic climates in living memory, the future of the Volvo Ocean Race is looking very healthy.
"A large part of the secret of our success is that the event is owned by Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Group and forms a central part in both companies' marketing strategy."
Persson said the race showcased important values for the two companies.
"There are many reasons for being the owner of the Volvo Ocean Race," Persson said. "The adventure, technology, teamwork and the constant pursuit of perfection - it all reflects the work we do within Volvo Group and Volvo Car Corporation.
"Equally important is the opportunity to meet customers at the different stopovers. Here we have the time to really sit down and discuss their business and future needs."
Volvo Car Corporation President and CEO Jacoby said: "Volvo Ocean Race is an important tool in our marketing strategy, aiming to build our brand attraction and consideration to buy.
"The global reach of the Volvo Ocean Race makes it a fantastic commercial platform to build close customer relations. The race gives us extremely good return on investment in terms of media exposure, increased brand awareness and incremental sales."
Six teams are contesting the 2011-12 race, which is widely expected to be the closest in its 38-year history.
Frostad's announcement came after the Volvo Ocean Race revealed that a record 66 broadcasters around the world have so far signed up to follow the 11th edition, reaching 550 million households.
"Right now, I'm concentrating on 2011-12 which I believe will be the most thrilling we've ever had," Frostad said. "I'm just excited that this race just keeps getting better and better in every aspect.
"We intend to bring the drama of a race which stretches its competitors to breaking point day in, day out to a far bigger audience than ever before. We believe we will win new converts to this great sport of ours with our coverage."
The first offshore leg of the 2011-12 race begins on November 5, when the fleet sets off for Cape Town in South Africa. The six teams will visit Abu Dhabi (UAE), Sanya (China), Auckland (New Zealand), Itajaí (Brazil), Miami (United States), Lisbon (Portugal) and Lorient (France) before finishing in Galway (Ireland) in July 2012.
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Hetepu (Peace & Blessing) Family.
I recently received an email asking that I explain the difference between the subconscious and superconscious, and how it relates to Kamitic spirituality, so I thought this might benefit others as well.
When we are born, our mind (subconscious and superconscious) is like an empty slate. Besides the normal subconscious programming which is used to regulate our heart, digest food, etc., we have no programming until our parents begin to tell us what to and not to do. As we grow, our subconscious mind is given a list of do's and don'ts, which it associates with certain emotional experiences. We learn not to put our hands on the hot stove because we will burn ourselves and to look both ways before crossing the street, and all of these rules that we learned from our parents, grandparents, etc. are stored in our subconscious. We also have rules that we have created ourselves based upon our preferences. For instance, if you do not like Brussel sprouts, this becomes a rule that you tell yourself every time you see this vegetable. There are also other rules that are stored in your subconscious based upon your experience. For instance, if you were bitten by a dog, then you create the subconscious rule that all dogs are bad animals. If you saw your parents fighting, then you create the subconscious rule that parents are supposed to fight, and so on.
All of these rules basically become the programs that run your life, which you mistakenly identify as "You." So you tell people things like, "I don't do dogs" only because you had a negative experience. You may say, "All men are dogs" or "All women are gold diggers," etc. due to your experience, which steers you away from dating certain people. You may have been told when you were a child by your parents "I don't have any money for that. Money doesn't grow on trees." So the subconscious rule is created where you think that in order for you to make any money. You have to struggle and work hard, which prevents you from starting a multi-billion dollar business.
So, you have all of these rules that exist in your subconscious like writings on a chalkboard, which dictate to you what you should and should not do. You believe you can and cannot achieve a particular goal because you have never experienced it or have seen anyone in your immediate circle achieve it. Let me say that again, everything you tell yourself that you can or cannot do is only because your subconscious mind does not remember any of your family members, friends, people in the community, etc. achieving this same goal. Therefore you tell yourself: "I will never be in shape" because you grew up in a household of people who were simply trying to survive so they ate unhealthy foods and lived unhealthy lifestyles. You may say, "I'll never be wealthy" or "I will never get out of the hood" because your subconscious reminds you of your parent saying, "Money doesn't grow on trees" and it does not remember anyone being wealthy, so it tells you it is impossible.
For the most part, you believe everything your subconscious tells you because it has been telling you what to do all of your life. Your subconscious is responsible for you living thus far, so it rationalizes with you by asking "Why would I tell you wrong?" You therefore succumb to your subconscious and believe everything it tells you can and cannot do because your subconscious is like a slate with a bunch of information and doodles on it.
Then something happens. One day you cross paths with someone who used to be in the same situation you are presently in but they changed. This could be anyone who overcame an addiction to someone who escaped the streets and is now a millionaire. It could be someone recovering from an illness, etc. Whatever the case, you read or hear about people who changed their lives and this offers a glimpse of hope. Because what it means is that if they did it, you can too. Since your subconscious does not have the ability to reason, it will tell you that it is impossible to do what these people have done. Or it will rationalize with you by saying that you have to have special talent, be born with a certain gift, luck, etc. in order to get ahead but when you read about these people's lives you learn they are ordinary people with similar struggles as you.
A more in-depth study into these peoples' lives reveals that these people tapped into the mind beyond their subconscious, or their superconscious mind. The superconscious mind is like the clean slate you were born with in the very beginning. It is the preconditioned, preprogrammed and pre-habitual mind you had when you were born. Think of this way. This was the initial state of your mind before you learned all of the rules that dictate to you how you are supposed to live now. In other words, before you were told what you "can" or "can't" do. Said another way, the superconscious can be thought of as before someone started writing on your "Wall."
Anyway, people who managed to change their lives and do so over a long period of time simply learned how to return to that blank slate, the superconscious and give their mind a new rule.
How does the superconscious work? Well, trying to change a subconscious programming is an ongoing battle because as stated earlier, your subconscious is old and it will rationalize (argue) with you until you yield. If you think of the chalkboard or a dry-erase board analogy, you know that sometimes if you write on the board and do not erase it immediately. The previous writing stays on the board and is hard to get rid of. It stains the board. Let me give you an example. Once upon a time, I wanted to do some capoeira conditioning in the morning because I wanted to lose a little weight, plus it helped with agility and would not require a lot of time. Not to mention that capoeira is fun, but as soon as I said, I want to do it. My subconscious gave me this whole list of reasons why I shouldn't do it, like 'It is going to be hard. You're too old. You might break something. You got bad knees. You don't really want to get up early to exercise,' etc. You see, your subconscious knows what you like and do not like because it has been recording your memories since birth. But, I had to remind myself that there were capoeiristas doing capoeira in their 70s and 80s. In fact, Anthony Bourdain went to Bahia and interviewed a mestre who was well in his 60s (or older). This meant it is possible to do any martial arts but my subconscious has never seen it so, it tried to convince me that it was impossible. So, you see the argument and excuses our subconscious gives us. It will tell you anything to convince you to go in the other direction.
What's the solution?
BYPASS it!
Instead of wasting time arguing with your subconscious, simply bypass it and go to the superconscious. When I bypassed my subconscious and tapped into my superconscious, I simply focused on imagining how cool it would be to do handstands, flips or a role' (cartwheel). I imagined what it would be like to meet some capoeiristas (players) and engage in a friendly game (jogo) of Capoeira. Now, I didn't just visualize this and it happened because the subconscious governs our everyday life or what people call normal consciousness or beta state. I had to plant this seed when the subconscious was at its lowest and most vulnerable point, which is during twilight and in the evening. These are the times when your mind naturally enters into alpha state. Once I did it, I found myself waking up every morning with a new habit of doing capoeira conditioning. It continued do it until I decided I wanted to do something different.
I cannot tell you exactly what I did when I was in alpha state because what worked for me may not necessarily work for you. What I can tell you is that there are numerous methods that anyone can use that will plant a seed in their superconscious like using autosuggestions, sigils, meditation, repetition, symbols, etc. and these are only a few ways but there are a number of ways to bypass the subconscious. That the uninitiated refers to as magic but it is simply occult science or what "mystery school teachings."
The point of this post is that spirituality is all about reprogramming your mind and the most effective way I have found to accomplish this feat is bypassing the subconscious and tapping into your superconscious. Why argue with your subconscious on overcoming a habit when you start new by giving it a new rule?
How does this relate to Kamitic spirituality? Well, if you think about how our subconscious is adamant to change and will try its best to convince us to do everything that is contrary to what we want. It is a great adversary, which is the reason the subconscious is symbolized as the Kamitic devil Set (Please do not make the error of thinking the subconscious is evil. Remember we need it survive. It simply lacks the ability to reason properly). Those who are familiar with Kamitic mythology will now understand why Set (or the devil) is consider the author (or god) of confusion, chaos and war.
The superconscious is symbolized as Osar (Asar, Ausar or Osiris) and it should now become clear that the reason Osar was so highly exalted was because he was the original redeemer that wiped one's slate clean.
Therefore, metaphorically speaking, to bring about any change in our life we simply need to be like Hru (Heru, Hrw, Horus) and connect with our Osar.
So What Is Kamitic Spirituality?
I keep posting this question because people keep getting it twisted and bringing subconscious dogmatic religious, good versus evil or god versus the devil programming into the Kamitic mix. Thereby jeopardizing their ability to make some real strides spiritually. So I must say again, true Kamitic Spirituality is not about having a colorful name change, eating a particular diet and dressing in African attire, etc. None of this is going to make you more spiritual if you cannot control your mind.
It is not even about learning the history of the Kamitic people. Again, it is great and it helps if you know it but it is not necessary to practice Kamitic spirituality. It is not about trying to figure out why your enemy does what "he" or "she" does. And last but not least, yet most importantly, Kamitic Spirituality is not about following anyone or joining a group.
If you're looking for someone to follow, try following your Higher Self (Superconscious/Osar).
This is what Kamitic Spirituality is all about. This is Kamitic Spirituality 101.
Hope that helps.


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Nokia Corp. is getting ready to launch its first smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system. It is most likely that the company will show the handset at its Nokia World event in late October and will start selling it towards the end of the year. The company has already started to prepare ads for its Nokia 800.
Keeping in mind that the first WP 7.5 "Mango" is generally a rush project at Nokia, which only made decision to adopt Windows Phone as its primary operating system for smartphones earlier this year, the information that is circulating about it is not completely clear in many ways, but it is widely believed that it shares a lot of technologies with the Meego-based N9 flagship, but fully complies with system and minimum equipment list of Windows Phone operating system.
What we do possibly know about the first Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango"-based smartphone from Nokia – the Nokia 800 – is that it sports a curved 3.7″ AMOLED multi-touch display with unknown resolution and does not sport any hardware buttons on the front side. The handset is presumably powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 (up to 1GHz Scorpion ARM Cortex-A8 core, Adreno 200 graphics processing unit, 720p video, up to 12MP camera, integrated 3G, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA support and so on) system on-chip, sports 8MP camera, GPS navigation and other innovations.
Pocketnow.com web-site has managed to obtain the first Nokia 800 ads* that depict the smartphone itself and show off the Windows Phone 7-style pattern that looks more like a disco-style one. The two ads obtained by the media resource emphasize broad set of capabilities amid high responsiveness of the handset. It is unknown, though, whether the banners are the legitimate and final since the handsets on both have differences.
Based on unofficial information, Nokia is preparing several smartphones, including code-named Sun (presumably with with 12MP camera and dual-core SoC), Saber (single-core SoC, 8MP camera), Sea Ray/Searay (with multi-touch screen) and something featuring a QWERTY keypad smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" operating system for the "initial" lineup release.
In total, there are twelve Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices planned to be released in 2012. All of them are likely to somewhat resemble Symbian-based products, but should naturally offer clear advantages over the platform that is fading away.
The actual code-name of the Nokia 800 is unknown. Based on unofficial specifications and design, it is clearly not the Sea Ray handset shown back in June, 2011, but is likely the Saber.
Nokia World 2011 event takes place in London, the UK, in October 26-27, 2011.
Nokia and Microsoft did not comment on the news-story.
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Endeavour is scheduled to dock with the station at 8:32 a.m. Saturday although the crews will not greet each other until early Monday. In preparation for tomorrow's rendezvous and docking, Hadfield and Parazynski checked out the tools and hardware that will be used during Endeavour's approach to the station, and Commander Kent Rominger and Pilot Jeff Ashby installed a center-line camera in the orbiter docking system.
Rominger, Ashby and Flight Engineer John Phillips performed another in a series of engine firings to refine Endeavour's approach to the Station. As of 5 p.m., Endeavour was approximately 1,400 miles behind and below the station, and closing that distance at the rate of about 171 miles every orbit of the Earth. Hadfield and Parazynski also verified the operation of the spacesuits they will wear on two scheduled space walks to install and activate the new Canadarm2 robotic arm.
European Space Agency astronaut Umberto Guidoni began preparations for the transfer of hardware and material from Endeavour to the station and worked with Ashby in checking out the shuttle's robotic arm to verify its operation. Yuri Lonchakov of Rosaviakosmos worked on the middeck and filled two large water containers for later transfer to the station.
Endeavour's astronauts will go to sleep at 5:41 p.m. today, awakening at 1:41 a.m. Saturday. They will quickly begin the final stages of their chase of the International Space Station. The final intercept burn is scheduled for 6:13 a.m., with docking at 8:32 a.m., as the two spacecraft fly overhead the Southeast coast of China, northeast of Victoria, Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, on the space station, Expedition 2 Commander Yury Usachev and Flight Engineers Susan Helms and Jim Voss continued packing return items and making sure their orbiting home is ready for the crew's first visitors. Flight controllers report that the Russian segment's carbon dioxide removal system is not working at its highest rate, probably due to a clogged filter screen. The situation poses no problems for the upcoming shuttle visit, but could lead to increased use of backup lithium hydroxide removal systems after the shuttle undocks and additional crew members arrive on a Soyuz taxi flight. The station crew may be asked do some repairs on the unit on Saturday.
Otherwise, all major systems aboard Endeavour and the International Space Station continue to function well. The next status report will be issued Saturday morning after the crew is awake, or as events warrant.
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Use simple trigonometry to calculate the distance along the flight path from London to Sydney.
What is the shortest distance through the middle of a dodecahedron between the centres of two opposite faces?
Can you prove that the sum of the distances of any point inside a square from its sides is always equal (half the perimeter)? Can you prove it to be true for a rectangle or a hexagon?
Four vehicles travelled on a road. What can you deduce from the times that they met?
The Earth is further from the Sun than Venus, but how much further? Twice as far? Ten times?
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
Swimmers in opposite directions cross at 20m and at 30m from each end of a swimming pool. How long is the pool ?
From the information you are asked to work out where the picture was taken. Is there too much information? How accurate can your answer be?
Four vehicles travel along a road one afternoon. Can you make sense of the graphs showing their motion?
Can you choose your units so that a cube has the same numerical value for it volume, surface area and total edge length?
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Spring 2011 New York Fashion Week: Proenza Schouler
Proenza Schouler Goes Lady-Like — But With Tie Dye and Neon — for Spring 2011
>> After last season's school girl-inspired kicky mini skirts, thigh highs, and varsity jackets, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez were ready to do "something a little more polished, maybe grown-up in a way, but our way," the latter explained. "We'd gone as short as we could, and as body-conscious as we could . . . So we took all these feminine codes — the embroideries, the flowers — and mixed them up in our own way."
Welcome the pink tweedy suits, the salmon matte croc coat, the ladylike pumps — no platforms — and the lingerie done in collaboration with Jean Yu (who also worked with Rag & Bone this season), allowing for a little covering up, a novel thought in this season of sheer. Also a surprise: flats on the Proenza Schouler runway, in sandal and knee-high gladiator form. But it wouldn't be a Proenza collection of late without a little fluoro — and it came aplenty, in acid green, pink, orange, and cobalt. Textures were complex in this collection — the first few pieces to come out had what Cathy Horyn termed the texture of "a freshly clipped poodle; no, a cauliflower; no, finer!" — and the label's trademark tie dye was reimagined this time with the ancient form of Japanese shibori.
Interesting to note: Victoria Traina was indeed listed as creative consultant on this collection, and Theory's Andrew Rosen — who was rumored earlier this year to be circling an investment in Proenza — was front row, just as rumors resurface that Rosen is looking to buy the brand from European private equity fund Permira.


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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tombstone Tuesday - Cornier at McLeans Cemetery
Leo J
on side - Book of Life
buried in McLeans Cemetery on Holland - Sydenham line in Grey County, Ontario. It is a beautiful country cemetery.
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- dustbunny8 said...
What a fabulous headstone!It sums it all up pretty well.I wonder if he was a reader?Thanks for sharing it!
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Birthplace of the the evolutionnist Charles Darwin, the town of Orpington is also a place where the charms of Kent will get you. Before tea time, be sure to have a look at the "All Saints" Parish church whose origin stem from the pre-Norman era.
Then there's the priory and the old hospital, that are highlights of Orpington. A town whose fame also resides in diverse species of chicken and ducks. There, you will find a pretty pastoral touch, only a couple of minutes away from London.
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Why Pakistan will win the World Cup
Because they have 12 awesome dudes to do it. Including a hustler, a mentalist, a sniper and a cockroach
Imran Yusuf
January 13, 2011
Why Pakistan will win the World CupI had originally thought of writing a snarkfest on the inquiry in Doha. But on full reflection that comedy of stitch-ups can be dismissed with the swiftness of a Sehwag innings in South Africa. For, once again, the ICC have bungled it.
This little trial, with its officialdom and orderly calm, has had just the one plus point: the chance for three sportsmen to wear suits. (I am convinced sports stars don the two-piece and collar and tie at the first opportunity, to convince their mothers they have proper jobs.)
The ICC's main man, Michael Beloff, is fully deserving of his QC status, but this is like sending the world's best hostage negotiator to ask a six-year-old to return a McDonalds Happy Meal toy to his younger brother. This is playing with a straight bat when you need a reverse sweep over short third man for six. This is keeping it un-deceptively simple, and this is not going to work.
You want the truth from the fumbling, fudging, fibbing trio of Butt, Amir and Asif? Try this: put them in a room, one after the other, with Imran Khan. No one-way mirror, no lawyers, no Holy Quran for them to swear on. Just a table and two chairs. Let Imran ask the questions, flanked on one side by Javed Miandad, dressed in prison-guard uniform, and on the other, firmly in front of the exit door, Inzamam-ul-Haq, wielding one of those illegally wide tape-ball bats. The truth shall not just prevail but burst forth from the accuseds' lips like they were on Mount Olympus faced with the wrath of all the gods.
Having brushed aside legal minutiae with a sweep as easy and quick as Alastair Cook against whoever it was that bowled spin for the Aussies these past few weeks, let me tell you why Pakistan are going to win the World Cup.
Never before has this nation been so cornered and so gagging for sharp-toothed tigers. With this team, however, I think Pakistan, so often heralded as the unpredictables, but this time totally unfancied, will go all the way. These are my 11 men to snatch the cup from an unsuspecting world:
Kamran Akmal
Has hustled the entire world into thinking he is either a cheat or incompetent or both. It is all part of a four-and-a-half year masterstroke by the PCB and Kamran himself. For he is still there and he will make the World Cup and he will remind the world just how good we thought he was going to be back in early 2006.
Mohammad Hafeez
This man has survived a torrential storm of abuse from Shahid Afridi and come out alive. That takes some spunk, so no wonder he is now Pakistan's most reliable batsman. For those who don't get the reference, and who are over 18, type "afridi hafeez" in Youtube.
Younis Khan
This Khan is just pissed off that the best cricketer called Khan in the world right now is, apparently, an Indian. Oh dear, cricket world. You've said it now. Younis is a nice man, a wonderful man, the best of men, but some things cannot be forgiven.
This spot might ultimately be taken by one of the young guns - perhaps Asad Shafiq or Azhar Ali. But I want to see Misbah there. The Quiet Man of Pakistani cricket just broke his voice with the Test captaincy. No more last-ball scoop-sweeps. It'll be over well before then as Misbah combines MBA-trained calculation with straight drives over long-off. Inshallah.
Umar Akmal
I once thought him the new Viv Richards. I still do. Maybe I shouldn't drink so much and listen to all that psychedelic reggae.
Shahid Afridi
This mentalist plays well in India. Maybe it's the flat tracks, maybe the Indian actresses in the hotel lobbies, maybe it's the water and how it poofs his hair just right. Who cares? In India he is going to clear up because he always does.
Abdur Razzaq
Razzaq is the sniper of Pakistan cricket. He waits and waits (and we wait and wait) and then suddenly he kills the enemy general and wins the war. Opposition teams, with your plans and strategies and laptops, tell me this: what can you do about the killer you don't even see till he finishes you with a lethal blow?
Abdur Rehman
A year ago everyone (at least all my cousins) said Saeed Ajmal was the best limited-overs spinner in the world. Now Rehman takes the slot. Oh, how much can change in a year. Admittedly Mike Hussey is the main reason for this changeover, but Rehman does look pretty decent.
Wahab Riaz
Lahore has a new lion. Look at this guy prowl around, whether with bat or ball in hand. He has no discernible talent, and judging from the News of the World story, he is not a particularly discerning judge of character. It matters not. This man will be the star of the World Cup. You heard it here first. (You also must have heard that Page 2 is satire.)
Umar Gul
I have to say I do not understand Gul. He takes this Pakistani thing of swaying from great to godawful to extreme lengths. So if it's the latter, Pakistan can bring in Sohail Tanvir, the man who is such a big swinger he should've been born in the sixties.
Shoaib Akhtar
Like a cockroach, he never dies. Like a cockroach, he will crawl all over the subcontinent, making tough men back away like little girls, and then he will scamper around in limb-stretched celebration.
12th Man. Asad Shafiq
I have it on good authority that Shafiq is the most promising water-carrier since Didier Deschamps. In a hot subcontinental March, this will be the difference between dry-lipped gazes at the cup from a distance and drinking from it greedily, tasting the sweet nectar of victory, and awaking fresh from a five-year nightmare.
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What you see here is the Dallas Mavericks' Ivan Johnson getting tossed from a summer league game against the Charlotte Hornets for
the crime of looking staring at an official and saying "Really, motherfucker?" after having fallen to the floor.
Johnson appeared to trip or be pushed in the back on the play. After the ball went out of bounds, Johnson simply stared at the official, and that was apparently enough for an ejection. Update: As has been pointed out, Johnson also said "Really, motherfucker?" to the official. I had watched it in a Vine (with sound on) and didn't catch it. I apologize for not hearing the "motherfucker."
Somewhat related: Earlier this week, Johnson said that his way of getting back in the league would be to "fuck anybody that's in front me." Keep fucking anybody in front of you, Ivan, because the NBA would be much more fun with you in it again.