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In advocating on behalf of children with exceptionalities, CEC examines policy issues, develops appropriate responses to those issues and influences local, state, provincial and federal legislation. CEC also monitors and makes recommendations for program regulations and funding. In addition, CEC maintains a network among its state units and special interest divisions for influencing policy.
As the recognized leader for special education professional standards, CEC develops standards, ethics and practices and guidelines to ensure that individuals with exceptionalities have access to well-prepared, career-oriented special educators.
Through the vision and dedication of more than 22,000 members, CEC sets the standard for high quality education for children and youth with exceptionalities. And, CEC is known as THE source for information, resources and professional development for special educators.
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CEC Policy Manual, 1997
Section Three, Professional Policies, Part 1 Chapter 6
Significant nationwide trends, both to reduce the populations of institutions and to improve the services provided for those who are institutionalized, necessitate comprehensive public policies on community-based services. Numerous exceptional children and adults reside in institutions. The quantity and quality of educational and other service programs provided in these facilities vary greatly. Considerable evidence, however, has been collected demonstrating that many institutions for exceptional citizens have failed to meet the needs of their residents. Institutionalization, in many instances, has violated basic individual rights and fostered inhumane deprivation. Rights violated include the opportunity to live in a humane environment and be provided with individual programs of treatment designed to allow each person to develop to the greatest degree possible.
Despite public and professional awareness of deplorable institutional conditions, persons with exceptionalities who could not live in natural homes were routinely placed in institutions. Alternative service arrangements were usually not available and an implicit assumption was made that some persons with disabilities were incapable of growth. The lack of quality services and the stigma of negative attitudes must be changed.
The Council, recognizing the necessity for community-based services, maintains that the human services system must adhere to the principle of normalization to avoid destructive individual and societal consequences and adhere to the following prerequisites:
a.Central to a person's growth and dignity is a right to live within the community, with access to high quality and appropriate services.
b.A legal mandate with fixed responsibility must exist providing community services for all persons, including those now institutionalized.
c.The goal of community services is to assure the greatest developmental gains on the part of the individual through maximum flexibility in all services.
d.The ongoing process of normalizing the service system requires developing a continuum of community-based living environments and the selective use of the full range of services available to the entire community.
e.Multiple and diverse methods of safeguarding program quality are essential at every level of responsibility.
f.All programs provided to exceptional persons must include written standards governing service delivery.
g.When a state restricts an individual's fundamental liberty, it must adhere to the principle of least restrictive environment and, further, absolutely guarantee due process.
A comprehensive community-based service system for exceptional persons should reflect the following characteristics:
a.Services must meet the needs of persons of all ages, must accommodate the problems of individuals possessing all degrees of disabilities, and be available when needed and where needed by the individual.
b.Services must be appropriately located in populous neighborhoods and should be compatible with the surrounding community.
c.Services must be based upon a systematic plan for continuity which interrelates with other established services.
d.Services must have a legally vested authority which enables the fixing of responsibility and accountability with implementation power.
e.Services must be designed to permit the placement of exceptional persons in high quality programs in the least restrictive environment.
f.Services must be economically sound in meeting human development needs.
The Need for Flexibility and Development
Because of rapid changes and developments in the environmental factors that influence the characteristics of children and the conditions of their lives, special education should maintain a flexibility that permits it to adapt to changing requirements.
Some of the events and changes that have had major impact on special education in recent years are the following: a rubella epidemic, discovery of preventatives for retrolental fibroplasia, increasing numbers of premature births, increasing awareness of the deleterious effects of poverty and malnutrition, new techniques in surgical intervention, invention of individual electronic hearing aids, and adaptation of low-vision aids. Changes and developments in public health, medicine, technology, and social programs may have only a small total effect on school systems, but they frequently have major impacts on special education programs. Changes in one aspect of special education quickly are reflected in other aspects of the field as, for example, the rapid development of day school programs for children with exceptionalities which has been reflected in a more severely disabled population in residential schools.
Special educators must seek to be highly flexible in the provision of services and the use of technology and techniques to meet the changing needs of children with exceptionalities.
School administrators and special educators have particular responsibility for sustaining their professional awareness and development as a basis for changing programs to meet changing needs.
Prevention of Handicapping Conditions
Increasing knowledge of the biological and social causes of many handicapping conditions now makes some conditions preventable. The Council believes that appropriate prenatal counseling and care and intervention services could prevent or reduce the severity of many handicapping conditions. Therefore, The Council believes that there should be substantial governmental attention and resources devoted to prevention and the amelioration of the impact of handicapping conditions including:
a.Research and development
b.Public awareness
c.Prenatal services
d.Child- and family-centered early intervention services
e.Family and parenting education and support programs for teenagers and other high-risk populations
f.Reduction of social and environmental factors that cause handicapping conditions.
The Council for Exceptional Children.
(1997). CEC Policy Manual, Section Three (pp. 71--92)
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"Dozens" of gay men have reportedly been arrested in northern Nigeria under an extreme anti-gay law that bans same-sex relationships and membership in pro-gay organizations, according to human rights activists quoted by the Associated Press. The arrested men face sentences of up to 14-years in prison. At least four men say they were tortured.
The arrests happened in northern Bauchi state which is predominately Muslim. The news comes one day after it was confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan signed the bill in secret on January 7.
In Bauchi state, police entrapped four gay men and tortured them into naming others, said Dorothy Aken'Ova, executive director of Nigeria's International Center for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights. She said the police have drawn up a list of 168 wanted gay men, of whom 38 have been arrested in recent weeks.
The chairman of Bauchi state Shariah Commission, Mustapha Baba Ilela, told the AP that 11 men have been arrested in the past two weeks and charged with belonging to a gay organization. He denied anyone had been tortured and said all 11 — 10 Muslims and a non-Muslim — signed confessions that they belonged to a gay organization but that some of them retracted the statements when they were charged by a judge.
An AIDS counsellor told The Associated Press he helped get bail for the men and also said a total of 38 were arrested. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear he would be arrested. Aken'Ova's organization is providing legal services for them.
Sodomy is already outlawed under existing federal law in Africa's most populous nation. Twenty-four of Nigeria's 36 states punish same-sex acts with up to 14 years imprisonment. Twelve Islamic states in northern Nigeria—including Bauchi— have introduced Sharia law that has sentenced several gays to death. However, the death sentences have reportedly never been enforced and the sentences were commuted.
The legislation also bans same sex couples from living together, bans pro-LGBT websites or groups and prosecute their friends or human rights activists. The new law is expected to be extremely "popular" and should help President Jonathan's 2015 re-election campaign, adds The Guardian.
The draconian anti-gay legislation is likely to undermine Nigeria's fight against HIV/AIDS, according to UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The new legislation ... will prevent gay people in the country from accessing essential HIV services, and is likely to spur further hatred of the LGBT community, the two organisations said.
Nigeria had an estimated 3.4 million people living with HIV in 2012, the world's second largest HIV epidemic, they said. In 2010, HIV prevalence in Nigeria was estimated at 4 percent among the general population and 17 percent among men who have sex with men, UNAIDS said.
"The provisions of the new law in Nigeria could lead to increased homophobia, discrimination, denial of HIV services and violence based on real or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity," Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS executive director, said in a statement released on Tuesday.
Previous versions of the bill banned gays from meeting, living together, reading LGBT websites or even going out to dinner. The comprehensive anti-gay legislation was passed unanimously by Nigeria's House of Representatives in late May 2013. It later passed the Senate.
Same-sex acts are currently illegal in at least 38 of 54 African countries. Four nations—Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan—boast the death penalty for gays or same-sex activity. South Africa and Seychelles are the only African nations that protect LGBT rights. South Africa is the only African nation that mandates equal marriage.
Some Background ...
Nigerian President Signs Anti-Gay Law
NIGERIA: Katsina Approves Anti-Gay Legislation
NIGERIA: REPORT: Police Arrest "Gay Pastor"
NIGERIA: 3 Gay Men Stripped, Beaten by Mob
NIGERIA: Criticism After Actor Sentenced
Nigerian Actor Sentenced for "Unnatural Offences"
"Daily Sun" Warns "Homosexuals in Trouble"
NIGERIA: Activists Harassed During Testimony
Nigeria Advances Extreme Anti-Gay Bill
NIGERIA: Hearings Begin on Extreme Legislation
Nigerian Village Vows to "Stone Any Homosexual"
EU Considers Suspending Aid to Nigeria
Nigerian Legislators Vote to Ban Gay Marriages
EU: Level of Homophobia in Nigeria "Unacceptable"
Nigerian Mob Attacks Gay Activist
Nigerian Lynch Mob Storms Jail
Nigeria: 18 Gays Face Death Penalty
Nigerian Lesbian In Hiding After Reported Wedding
Nigeria's Homophobia Threatens Bid for Games
Nigeria One Step Closer to Outlawing Gays

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National Insurance, a 100-year old charge on employers and employees, will be renamed "earnings tax", the Chancellor has signalled.
The change, which will be proposed in legislation to be published on Tuesday, is the first step towards merging income tax with National Insurance.
Ben Gummer MP, a rising star Tory backbencher who has been campaigning on tax transparency, will propose the change in a Commons Bill on Tuesday.
The plans have Treasury backing. A source told The Daily Telegraph that George Osborne, the Chancellor, "is attracted to the idea".
Mr Gummer said: "I am very pleased the Government is interested in the idea. They have been very receptive to trying to make the tax system more transparent.
"This would be a really good step forward in making what the Government takes from taxpayers clearer and simpler."
Mr Gummer said he hoped the name change would begin the process of merging National Insurance with Income Tax into one single charge.
He said: "The most important part is changing the name so in the public mind we can begin the two as the same, which they are. This is a first step."
National Insurance, which is charged on top of income tax, was first introduced in the National Insurance Act by Lloyd George in 1913 as a way for workers and employees to contribute towards certain benefits, such as a state pension.
Unlike income tax, MPs are not allowed to vote on whether it should be levied every year. Instead they are only asked to approve level of the charge.
National Insurance rakes in billions every year for the Treasury. Anyone who is employed and earns between £149 and £797 a week pays 12 per cent of their income in National Insurance. A further 2 per cent is paid on all earnings over that level.
People who are self-employed pay National Insurance at a flat rate or as a percentage of the individual's annual taxable profits.
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In my recent post about the Presidential Inauguration and Healthcare, I commented how many times healthcare stays in its closed environment and doesn't learn from the other industries. This is true in many parts of healthcare IT and that needs to change. While healthcare certainly has special needs and requirements, the attitude that healthcare can't learn from other industries needs to be corrected if we want to improve healthcare as we know it.
I saw an example of this when I watched this video that talks about the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. Look at some of the amazing digital signage technology they show in this video and think about how often you've seen them in healthcare.
The sad thing is that many people in healthcare have ignored these technologies with the excuse that they've been distracted by ICD-10, meaningful use, ACOs, etc. Certainly each of these items are big priorities, but many of the digital signage technologies mentioned in the video above could help a hospital or healthcare organization achieve their goals.
For example, one of the crazy ACO changes we're going to see has to do with patient satisfaction. Yes, I know it's crazy, but it's coming. The more satisfied your patients are, the more you're going to get paid. Could a virtual assistant video wall help to increase patient satisfaction? Could an interactive video wall that recognizes gestures provide the wow factor for the patients that visit your hospital? I think it could, but too many people in healthcare don't get out of their office to learn about these technologies.
Near the end of the above video they say, "mobile is the action, the signage is the call to action."
Think about this concept in healthcare. Imagine a video wall in your hospital that takes your hospital's healthcare data and illustrates the challenges and costs of obesity to your health system. Then, alongside that digital illustration you have a call for patients to sign up for your weight loss program. Of course, this same concept could be applied to all of the healthcare initiatives your hospital is working on already.
There are a number of ways digital signage can be used in healthcare. Take a look at Leveraging Digital Signage in Hospitals for a number of examples and a post by Shahid Shah about using digital signage to create real service improvement. It would just be unfortunate if those in healthcare were "too busy" to take advantage of the technology options that are available out there.
I hope that many in healthcare will take part in the Digital Signage Expo (click image below for more details) so we can get some good cross pollination of ideas from what's being done in other industries in healthcare.
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), I would walk up to a booth that I thought had no relation to healthcare. They'd see the words healthcare on my badge and almost every single time they'd say, "Oh, you're in healthcare, this is how our technology applies to healthcare." I expect the same thing will be true at the Digital Signage Expo.
I look forward to the day when healthcare is filled with amazing digital signage that engages patients and healthcare staff well beyond a static ad on the wall. The beautiful part is that the technology is already there. We just need to apply what's being done in other industries to healthcare.


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Colorado therapists, were convicted in April of child abuse in the death of 10-year-old Candace Newmaker. Newmaker died after undergoing "rebirthing" therapy, in which the therapists wrapped her in a flannel sheet and instructed her to struggle out to simulate birth, thus becoming "reborn" to her adoptive mother. Newmaker spent 70 minutes in the blanket and later died of asphyxiation. Ponder and Watkins were sentenced to 16 years in prison.


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An Open Letter to Adobe Translation contributors and subscribers
A few years ago, we envisioned that the Adobe International Community would like to be involved in improving the quality of the products they use. We built the infrastructure that enabled our community to freely contribute feedback, vote on translations, propose new translations, and create new language offerings for some products.
While quality work is never "done", we feel that we have achieved many of our objectives. Now is the right time to reimagine how we should engage with our Adobe community to support international releases in an agile world, where innovation rules.
On 24 February 2016, we closed the Adobe Translation program and took down the site (ref. https://translate.adobe.com/adobe). We would love to receive feedback about your experiences; hear your suggestions for the future; and ideate with you about how to involve the Adobe international community in improving our products.
We give heartfelt thanks to you, our generous international community, for supporting this translation initiative over the years. You have lent your time and talents and shown sincere dedication. For that we are indebted and grateful.
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1. A section or amendment to an international agreement. This can be important in some treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which industrialized countries are called Annex I countries and others are known as non-Annex I countries.
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Published on October 7th, 2017 | by Millennium Magazine Staff0
Medicare Open Enrollment Means More To Boomers Than Ever
Planning for your retirement should include taking medical costs into account. A professional financial adviser can help.
(NAPSI)—Each year, Medicare Open Enrollment begins on October 15 and ends on December 7. It's an important opportunity for eligible individuals to select a Medicare plan that best meets their current and potential health needs, and also offers crucial protection for unexpected costs.
Although it's been 10 years since the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression hit the U.S., most middle-income boomers say they still don't feel their finances have fully recovered. According to a recent study from the Bankers Life Center for a Secure Retirement, today, only 57 percent of middle-income boomers feel confident meeting their daily financial obligations, down from 65 percent before the crisis. Along with their smaller savings accounts, concerns about rising health care costs as they age could be feeding boomers' lack of confidence in their financial futures.
Today, boomers expect to carry more debt into retirement; only 34 percent expect to retire debt-free. One of the main drivers of debt for this demographic is the nationwide increase in health care costs. Boomers—an estimated 74.9 million Americans aged 53 to 71 in 2017—will likely live to around age 85, on average, according to the Social Security Administration, and unexpected health issues associated with age can drain savings and increase the risk of added debt.
During Medicare Open Enrollment, middle-income boomers can identify health care savings opportunities and prepare for unexpected costs related to illness or injury, with the goal of achieving a more personally satisfying retirement.
Here are four tips to consider as you plan for Medicare Open Enrollment:
1. Create a monthly budget to assist in managing your debt. Boomers are realizing they will not be as financially independent in retirement as they once expected. Examine your monthly financial obligations and create an achievable budget to manage your income and pay down debt.
2. Determine which Medicare coverage plan is right for you. Health needs vary by individual. Evaluate your personal health needs and research each plan to determine the right amount of coverage. For example, Original Medicare supplies beneficiaries with Parts A (hospital insurance) and B (medical insurance). However, some people may need more coverage. Medicare supplement plans are sold by private companies and can help pay some of the health care costs that Original Medicare doesn't cover, such as co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles. Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage, is an alternative to Original Medicare offered by private insurers, and provides Medicare Parts A and B, plus additional coverage to protect you against health care related debt. Knowing your options will help you choose the plan that's right for you.
3. Create a plan for monthly health care payments. Estimate what your financial responsibility is under Medicare including premiums, co-pays, deductibles, and uncovered expenses like long-term care. Earmark a portion of your retirement savings and income to address these out-of-pocket costs.
4. Seek help. Navigating Medicare Open Enrollment can be difficult but you don't have to do it alone. Consult a trusted financial adviser for guidance on which plan is right for your needs and where you can identify savings opportunities.
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2012 – Is the Government Watching and Warring with the Public?
Is there a big brother Media Monitoring Initiative and Situational Awareness Initiative toward the public?
Leaked U.S. Army Document Outlines Plan For Re-Education Camps In America
Is the Government Watching and Warring with the Public?
The NDAA is a World Wide Declaration of War on The People: Indeed the NDAA is a Police State Kill Switch of all justice and civil liberties.
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a "Battlefield" They Define as Being Inside Your Home, Your City, Our Country, Indeed the Entire World
Don't be confused by anyone claiming that the indefinite detention legislation does not apply to American citizens. It does. There is an exemption for American citizens from the 'mandatory' detention requirement (section 1032 of the bill), but no 'exemption' for American citizens from the authorization to use the military to indefinitely detain people without charge or trial (section 1031 of the bill). So, the result is that, under the bill, the military has the power to indefinitely imprison American citizens, but it does not have to use its power unless ordered to do so.
Besides the White House has stated NDAA does not increase or otherwise change any of our (the executive branches) authorities in regard to detention of American citizens. It is simply a restatement of the authorities that were granted to the President in 2001.
The Executive Branch has shown this opinion very specifically. Citizens around the world have been 'disappeared', 'vanished' or 'indefinitely detained', and yes, US citizens have indeed been extra judicially executed; even wars are waged, nations conquered and still occupied today with US violence; all without legislative approval and the constitutionally required declaration of war.
But is this really going to be applied to the American people at home? Are the UN, US military and federal employees being ordered or prepared to do so?
The Government recently censored documents revealing plans to wage war on Americans
The military's blue force tracking technology has been adopted since 2003 in Iraq and used in theaters like Afghanistan to quickly distinguish "Blue" friendlies (including U.S. forces and allies like tribal forces) from "Red" enemies. However, on the U.S. homeland battlefield, it is the American people who will be designated under "red," whereas cleared occupying personnel are tracked as "blue" friendlies by their ID transponder badges. The designation was set-up to reduce "friendly fire" incidents.
Blue Force and other related programs like Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), Continuity Analysis and the Command, Control, Communications and Computing (C4) operations named in the document electronically track and verify the location and clearance of COG-related personnel, the usage of emergency shelter facilities and their components as well as the military's friendly/enemy designations– creating a matrix for live monitoring and control coordinating with DHS Threat Fusion Centers and FEMA databases during martial law or national emergency scenarios.
For instance, FEMA acknowledges in its documents the use of Blue Force tracking systems and other geospatial information systems to monitor the capacity and usage of its facilities under the National Shelter System and other programs. Preparations for the orderly control of the masses have already been put into place.
Click below to read the restored pages of that suppressed document now: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11
This is also in conjunction with RFID/cellular tacking, check points, automotive gps, license plate software, threat fusion integrated camera networks, public microphone lampposts and real time credit card usage.
However this Blue activation of the Homeland is not just in the physical world but virtually in the context of our phone calls, tweets, texts, emails blogs, posts and indeed all media via the 'Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative of 2010' or Media Monitoring Initiative (MMI) under which;
The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS), National Operations Center (NOC), will launch and lead the Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness (Initiative) to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components involved in fulfilling OPS statutory responsibility (Section 515 of the Homeland Security Act (6 U.S.C. § 321d(b)(1)) to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture for the federal government, and for those state, local, and tribal governments, as appropriate. The NOC and participating components1 may also share this de-identified information with international partners and the private sector where necessary and appropriate for coordination.
The NOC will use Internet-based platforms that provide a variety of ways to follow activity related to monitoring publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites, and message boards. Through the use of publicly available search engines and content aggregators2 the NOC will monitor activities on the social media sites listed in Appendix A
Section 7.0 Access, Redress and Correction
The following questions are directed at an individual's ability to ensure the accuracy of the information collected about them.
7.1 What are the procedures that allow individuals to gain access to their information?
Social media are public websites. All users have access to their own information through their user accounts. Individuals should consult the privacy policies of the services they subscribe to for more information.
And in the latest Privacy Compliance Review of the Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative in 2011
Based on OPS/NOC's demonstrated compliance with the June 22, 2010 PIA and consistent with the statutory mission of OPS/NOC, PRIV and OPS/NOC decided to further broaden the program's capability to collect additional information in a limited number of situations in order to respond to the evolving operational needs of DHS and OPS/NOC. PII on the following categories of individuals may be collected when it lends credibility to the report or facilitates coordination with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, foreign, or international government partners:
i. U.S.and foreign individuals in extremis situations involving potential life or death circumstances;
ii. Senior U.S. and foreign government officials who make public statements or provide public updates;
iii.U.S.and foreign government spokespersons who make public statements or provide public updates;
iv. U.S.and foreign private sector officials and spokespersons who make public statements or provide public updates; and
v. Names of anchors, newscasters, or on-scene reporters who are known or identified as reporters in their post or article or who use traditional and /or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.
vi. Current or former public officials who are victims of incidents or activities related to Homeland Security
vii. Known terrorists, drug cartel leaders, or other persons known to have been involved in major crimes or terror of Homeland Security interest who are killed or found dead.
PRIV finds that OPS/NOC SNMC analyst activities are in compliance with the PIA and SORN under review by this PCR. OPS/NOC should continue to train its analysts and follow the detailed handbook provided to all analysts. At the next PCR, PRIV will review the measures taken to expand auditing capabilities.
Do we have our own secret spy police; The Gestapo, the SS, the KGB, the Pinkertons, the OPS/NOC , the DHS, the TSA? Watching, tracking, stopping, searching, stripping, arresting, silencing?
The Homeland's SOPA and NDAA permission to secretly hunt for citizen 'extremists', amongst the peaceful public, are the Enabling Acts of Reichland's permission to hunt for; communists, dissenters, terrorists, Jews, etc., brought to the very halls and hands of the American federal government.
These powers only ever destroy the freedom, liberty and lives of the lands, which they promise to protect. Understand…really get this… the methods of evil and tyranny can never be used to destroy, defeat or diminish; evil and tyranny. These new methods serve only to strengthen evils and contribute to their proliferation.
Fight for truth, justice and equity under the law, for all; from kings to carpenters and pharaohs to farmers.
Ring the alarm bell of liberty in defense of personal free agency and individual civil rights.
Resistance to oppression, fraud, tyranny and force is victory for a sovereign mankind.
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2012/01/13 at 5:15 pm
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One can literally ring a bell and carry a sign. What are the useful steps to save one's liberty? What will have effect and affect?
The Daughter of Roland FREEMAN Baird
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with love, passion, patience and purpose…
…spread truth and knowledge
knowledge is power
the truth will set us free
2012/01/14 at 9:18 am


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Analysis There's widespread media panic at moment over the news that French and British nuclear-missile submarines collided beneath the Atlantic earlier this month. But in fact atomic-powered and -armed submarines have been bumping into each other - and sometimes sinking - for decades with no significant effects.
No, seriously. They have. All through the Cold War, the NATO powers - particularly Britain and America - played a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the Soviet navy's Red Banner Northern Fleet submarines in the north Atlantic.
The aim of the game was to try and keep track of the Soviet ballistic-missile subs - to have a US or British boat shadowing every communist one. That way, if the balloon went up and the Soviet boat began preparing to launch its missiles, it could be torpedoed and sunk by its unseen follower.
In the palmy days of the 1970s and early 1980s, the West enjoyed a significant edge in sonar technology and in the art of making submarines quiet. This meant that US and British forces could often locate and track Russian subs as they left their Arctic bases using "passive" sonar, simply listening for the noises they made.
Sometimes the passive sonar would be towed by a frigate on the surface, sometimes it would be part of a seabed array, sometimes it was on a US or UK submarine. But, often, a Western sub skipper would be able to get onto a Soviet boat's tail and follow it. This would be relatively simple while the commie skipper was moving at speed, making a lot of noise.
But once the Soviet sub got to his patrol area, he might very well slow right down and become quieter, meaning that the shadower boat would need to close right up to stay in contact. US subs are said to have often got so close to Soviet ones that they could actually see their quarry through the water, in movie style - some even took photographs.
When multi-thousand-ton* ships manoeuvre in this sort of proximity, especially with one of them unaware of the other, collisions are going to happen - and they did. Bumps and grinds were fairly frequent events. This was made worse by the fact that the Soviets became aware that they were often being shadowed, and would sometimes swing round suddenly so as to get a sonar "look" at the obscured area behind their own props, where the US and British skippers liked to lurk. This was known as a "Crazy Ivan" by the US Navy, and often meant the shadowing captain having to swerve sharply just to avoid a collision, let alone remain undetected. This wasn't always successful.
Then, apart from Western and Soviet boats bumping each other, subs would sometimes crash into especially deep bits of the Arctic ice cap, or into unexpected bits of seabed. This last is still fairly routine, actually - in part because a fully submerged sub never has as good an idea where it is as a surface ship does, because it can't use satnav.
Following the end of the Cold War there are many fewer Russian subs at sea. The US and British fleets deconflict their operations, the two navies trusting one another enough to reveal where all their submarines are. This is a good thing, as modern Western boats are now so quiet that they often can't detect each other at all on passive sonar - especially when moving very slowly and stealthily, as deterrent missile boats do when on patrol.
It would seem that France doesn't trust the Anglosphere enough to routinely disclose the location of its sole deterrent sub, however - perhaps reasonably enough. The whole purpose of putting the missiles on subs, after all, is to keep their location secret.
Hence this most recent bump, just another in a sequence numbering in the scores over the years.
But my god! How can one be so blase? These things have nuclear reactors - and often enough warheads too - on them! Surely the oceans will eventually be wiped clean of life by sunken subs spewing frightful radioactive debris, or even melting down or (gasp) exploding?
Well, no actually. The Soviets and then Russians are thought to have lost eight subs with warheads and/or reactors aboard at sea: the US, two. These losses began more than fifty years ago. And yet the world has not come to an end.
If you're concerned about marine life and ecosystems, about possible oceanic disasters which could affect humanity, there are in all truth many things to worry about: overfishing, pollution, killer jellyfish (though those last are more of a symptom than a cause). Overfishing is probably the biggy; but there are also many other maritime villains more serious than the nuclear sub community. The whole list of sunken subs hasn't done even a medium-size tanker spill's worth of damage to marine ecosystems. This issue isn't even visible in the modern context of ocean eco-problems.
Don't waste your time panicking about nuclear submarine accidents. The current media frenzy is a product of two things: the vociferous anti-nuclear-weapons movement and the fact that the world's media has the institutional collective memory of a goldfish. ®
*The Soviet Akula-class missile boat - known to NATO as "Typhoon" - displaces 26,000 tons. Annoyingly, NATO tagged a different and smaller vessel as "Akula", leading to some confusion.


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Thursday's Special: Traces of the Past Y2-05
Santuario della Beata Vergine Maria delle Grazie; Curtatone
"Traces of the Past" is a recurring photo challenge theme on this blog (one month in colour, other in B&W). You don't have to look far into the past for it. People from "old" continents do not have to have advantage over bloggers from the North American continent. I mostly post old architecture for this event, but please feel free to post anything from the past: be it old letters, chest box, costumes, or something from a recent past, or something that is not man-made at all.
If you want to participate in Thursday's Special challenge, link to this post and leave me links to your entries in the comment section bellow. Yesterday I started a poll where you can vote for your favourite "seascape" entry. The poll will be opened till next Wednesday, 24 August. For further themes and events please consult the Scheduled challenges page. Have a happy and peaceful Thursday!
P.S. For those that need to be reminded of the rules:
I will not enclose links to the entries that are linked to several challenges. (Some people, however, have posts with multiple photos which they intend for several events, and that is fine as long as different photos are used for different challenges).
The idea of contest polls was conceived to enhance interaction between photo bloggers and to present their work, but if you don't want your entry to be entered in such a poll, make sure to let me know (if possible without attacking me).
I will make sure to ban the visitors that do not come in peace, but come attacking, making false assumptions and accusations against me.
P.S.S. As of last week and after three years of absence the "like" button on this blog has been restored. When I removed it years ago, I thought that the lack of the said button (which I originally considered as a shallow interaction option and a lure for people to return "traffic" on others' blogs) would encourage people to leave meaningful comments and incite interesting discussions. However, I have noticed that commenting is time consuming for many people who are still interested in keeping track of others' posts, and that sometimes those bloggers that do have time to comment, use the commenting option to extend conversations to personal stuff and topics completely unrelated to posts which is not what I have expected from them. This has made me rethink the idea of the "like" button so I have reinstated it to allow people that don't have time or a need to talk to let me know that they have been here.
Thank you for reading me.
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We have reached the end of our Anniversary Celebration! Thank you so much for visiting. I really enjoyed hosting and creating a festive experience, I hope for everyone. I think I will have posted 17 posts in one day when this is over. Is 17 in one day a record? I don't know, but I did have fun. Thanks for all your earlier comments and for my new followers. I really appreciate your support on the launch of Live Ever After's second year of incredible posts. Thanks to my husbands secret, guest post of kind words and to my children for interruptions of paint accidentally falling on the light carpet, yells of he hit me, mommy save me, I don't want food for dinner just make me pancakes at 7 pm tonight, etc. I love them. They totally are the life source of this blog.
*Update: Melissa Rheinlander is # 27. Thanks Melissa. Don't forget to email me your address at **** (time has lapsed) for your free gift.
Good night everyone and I saved the best music video for last. It reminds me of the feelings most women have about themselves and being in love with their significant other. All the best to you, your family and your blogs. Keep bloggin'.
I leave you with Beyonce......
Give Aways. We have almost reached the end of our celebration. 4 more followers need.
Now we are back to our selection of music by Musiq, the Soulchild who sings, in my opinion, some of the most romantic songs. He can be deep so be prepared. The first two videos are disabled from viewing but the last one can be seen. It is my favorite of his songs. Enjoy.
I know. Why don't I put a picture of myself or state a blog name that would better suit my avatar. I was going to post a picture of myself at 20 years old when I was modeling in the Miss Caribbean pageant, but who am I fooling. I am still uncomfortable puting a picture of myself online. I am now 20 years older since the picture was taken, and the most I could do is show the picture below. So this is me. I was sitting in starbucks drinking passion tea (I hate coffee), thinking about the anniversary issue. I just bought these shoes and was meeting my husband later. It was nice to put them on instead of my sneakers. I should have put more lotion on now that I look closer, anyway it is what it is and I am what I am, but for now this is me.
Congratulations honey on the one year anniversary of your blog. I am proud of you. Hang in there and more people will recognize the value of what you're sharing. They will see how much you have to give and offer in terms of valuable, encouraging, and honest advice when it comes to relationships. Not just because you have degrees from college for it but also because you speak from experience and from the heart. Love ya.
Your Hubby
I have more music for you. But first do not forget there are four prizes left for following "Live Ever After". Click to follow on the lower right hand side of blog, then email me your address at ****(time has lapsed).
Here is Anthony and Sara:
You Can't Change Them...or Can You?
This is my post for today. Even if it is the anniversary issue. Changing ones spouse is one of the most popular ideas since the dawn of man. It's funny how we rarely think we should be the ones to change or even the source of the problem. It has to be the other spouse. Well I am not writing about change for ourselves because I think you have heard it all before. I want to focus on the other person for a change. Do I have your attention now? You. the other half is the secret to the change but it is not just about changing your behavior but helping your spouse to be a better them. You saw the best of them, remember? When you were dating and when you were on your honeymoon. You may be saying where has that person gone? Well, I first want to say that it was you who brought the best of them, out of them. How? You were probably much more gracious, patient, romantic, vulnerable, gentle, ambitious, kinder, etc.
They then reciprocate. Your other half is probably saying (about you), "where has that other person gone" as well. Help your other half to be better from the things you did at first. Be more supportive, less critical as you used to see no wrongs, buy or make their favorite desert and wrap it up, the way you used to. Build up their confidence if that is what they need. Study them and apply what they need. Be more consistent in kindness. In some cases do the opposite of what you have been doing. Ex. I used to talk alot around my husband. Now I say much less as I discovered he needs peace. He thrives on quietness. He gets refueled that way. Now I noticed that honestly there was a lot that I just didn't need to say. I was talking just to talk. Now I have more meaningful conversation. Make your own discoveries about your spouse by observation and stillness, then apply what you have learned. You will find that they will be a better them as they have changed, without realizing so have you.
the adviser, MHC
My favorite blogs are listed to the right labeled. "Highlighted Blogs". These are my absolute favorite blogs. I just noticed I did not include the new Lady Jennie as she has become my favorite over the last 6 months. She won a new blog design and was once called Miss Welcome.
Our Trip to Ethiopia is my other favorite blog which encourages philanthropic giving. I love any site that encourages people to help needy persons. Especially children.
My third favorite site is a blog but a photography blog. It is a collection of pictures taken in NYC. I am close friends with the photographer. We used to be neighbors and our children love each other. This is one of her photos of a dancer, taken in the streets of New York.
Lastly, this blog is useful as it is a tutorial. I learned how to make my own button for my blog. Check out Oikology 101. Go grab her button and take some tutorials. She makes it soooo simple.
Give Away Update:
Yeah. The Munoz Family has just won a free gift! Only 4 more friend/followers to go to reach our goal of 30. If you sign someone up and they are the lucky 27, 28, 29 and 30, you will win a free gift, courteous of Live Ever After's Anniversary.
Just email me at ****(time has lapsed) with your PO Box or mailing address. All information is confidential.
Thank you Munoz Family.
#25, LaDonna Rae, still awaiting your confirmation of gift. You still have time, up to 11pm tonight.
Let's continue with some more of my favorite selections: Whitney, Sugarland,
& Brandy
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Even if you are a follower you can still participate in this event. Just get someone else to follow and that is just as good! Then email me at ****(time has lapsed) with your address or PO box.
I am now looking for friend/followers 26-30.
Also LaDonna Rae, #25 don't forget to send me your address as you started following LEA at
12:02 am today.
*All information is confidential*
Justin B, Mya, and Mariah...I'm going to get my hair done for this anniversary event. I'll be back in a few. Until then, these are my other favorites.
Okay, let's get to our give aways. The give aways are based on friends/followers. I wanted to have 6 new followers by the end of today.
Yesterday there were 24 people following and someone joined at 12:02 am. So in all fairness #25, LaDonna Rae, will be getting a prize but she must contact me before 11pm tonight, when the party is over.
So for the next 5 people who follow, Live Ever After, I will be receiving a free gift for their participation. It's a simple goal I had in mind. I think 30 followers by today is doable.
Just email me your address or PO Box to ****(time has lapsed) Please put in the subject: "LEA free gift". That way I know it is you.
Let's continue with some more music, in a few minutes. Also please feel free to make comments. I would love to hear what you have to say. Enjoy.
I was working at my former job and in the office, was myself and another full time employee. There was also two students. We all have a great relationship. Coming to work was always fun and very productive. The other full time worker is a professional Jazz Singer and Songwriter. She would tell us of all her travels and gigs to which we visited a few. She also has her own website and blogs about her adventures. One day she showed us her blog and said how easy it is to create one. That day we all started a blog calling ourselves the "office bloggers". Of course we blogged after work and checked out each others site when we had the opportunity.
One of the students who worked in the office blogged about love and dating from a male perspective. It was very interesting. The other student incorporated her major for advertising with her love for fashion. That one was also a big hit. Mine, took a few days as all the names I wanted for my blog was taken, so I had to be creative; Live Ever After (happily). This was the birth of my blog as a wife and mother. Then there was our songstress, Tessa Souter. She is becoming a sensation is Europe, specifically, Russia. You can find her blog here. You can also visit her website at Tessa Souter. Feel free to buy some of her cd's and check out her latest gig in the states as well as abroad.
*Tessa, darling, thanks for helping me to start this wonderful blog. You are an amazing person and I am very grateful for you. I wish you much success and happiness in you singing career. Lots and lots of love.
Let's check out Sade and Joss...
Today is Live Ever After's 1 year anniversary. I have enjoyed the last year as a blogger. I blog about life with a husband and two children (which is always humorous) with a mental health twist as that is my profession.
There is a lot in store for you today. Live Ever After will be giving away prizes which I will tell you more about, later. For now let's play some music. My selection throughout the day are some of my favorite love songs. Some like Mariah I couldn't show you as this is a family blog ; )Maybe I can dig up something.
Stay tuned for more...
They Make Me Laugh
>> Sunday, October 24, 2010
I love writing about what kids say. My children specifically. They crack me up and sometimes they are so deep you just think, this is proof that they have lived here before. As parents I know you know what I mean.
My oldest is 7 and he is the one I told you about, sometime back, who came to me asking, "Mommy there is a black thing that continually follows me around and it comes out only in the sun". I had to think like a three year old to figure out he was talking about his shadow. Since then he has come up with a lot of great sayings and expressions. I keep thinking, where does he get this stuff? For example:
1. (Dinner almost burned) "Mommy run like the wind"!
2. His teacher emailed me saying she received a good laugh in class after he made a mistake in a math problem he belted out "Ah, fiddlesticks".
3. During bedtime my husband called him to clean up a mess he made (as he is one sloppy kid at this age). I stated to my son, "You are already in bed. I'll clean it up". After 3 minutes, he looked up at me and said, "Are you an alien?" I did not understand. He asked again. Then he asked, "What planet are you from?" Again I was aloof. He finally said, "If you were really my mother you would have sent me to clean up". Oh my goodness I broke out into one of those deep laughs that you seem not to be breathing, as it is almost silent and within one exhaling breath. I might have done two of those while stated "oh, oh, wooo". That was a good one.
4. Another time, interesting at bedtime again, he said "Mom, what was I like as a baby again?" I told him how sweet he was and out of the blue he says "Are there milk in those things?" I said "no!" He said, "Well I think there is chocolate in them." with a confident expression and shaking of the head in mini yes movements.
My youngest is 5 and he can say some shocking things as well. When he 4 we were looking at the Funniest Videos television series. Someone fell out off of their bike and out of nowhere he says, "That's gotta hurt". Here are some more of his sayings:
1. When putting him to bed one night, "He said you know, you should really give ____(name of my older son) A spanking when he..........He needs it. I then said not everything deserves a spanking. Sometimes you can talk with people as I do with you. He then says "Yeah, but he needs for you to talk to him and then spank him".
2. We were eating at a restaurant when he was 3 years old. Three adults, two male and one female walked through the door. My son looked up at the first man to walk in, pointed at him and said "Teacher". I couldn't resist upon our leaving to tell the gentleman what my son said. He looked at my son and said, "You are right. I am a Professor at a university". (I do not know what this is suppose to mean, but he looked nothing like a Professor). My son said nothing then I reintegrated what the Professor said. My son looked at me and said "I know". (I am the one that told you. Can we leave now?)
3. (He was in the back seat of the car three days ago when he said this. I had to write it down). Both of my boys were having their usual play and conversation in the back seat when they started talking about God. They were both saying some good things that I could not correct nor interrupt. My husband was listening as well. Then my youngest son said, "I love God. He is helpful and friendly. He makes good choices". (My husband and I did a sharp look at each other).
Unconditional Love-Finale
>> Tuesday, October 19, 2010
We have come to the end of our series on Unconditional love. It has been lots of fun having interviews, hosting guest bloggers, writing about love of self, being young and in love, reporting about headline news of a hero and a baby who died and came back to life after two hours of being held by his mother. It has been a great journey. Even better than my last series on Jealousy.
In writing each post I tried to present a variety of interesting topics on the subject matter. This is one topic I did not present-Spirituality. Although this is a humorous blog on family with a mental health twist, I don't usually write directly on spiritual health. Unconditional love is also about your plug in to Source/God. As there are four states to every human being; Mental, Emotional, Physical and Spiritual, I saved the best for last. Whether you are spiritual or not these scriptures will enlighten and encourage you. They are my favorite uplifting scriptures I have read in the bible. They are motivational and inspiring. I read them when I need a quick pick me up and when I become thankful for all that I have. I like to ponder them, allowing me to be confident and giving towards others. It helps me to also give love due to reading about unconditional love being given to me. I hope you will like them as much as do. Enjoy.
In the New International Version (NIV): Book, Chapter:Verse
Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him
(God works for our good. He is not out to harm us as I used to believe).
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
(God wants us to succeed but there are always other forces at work as well).
1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
(I Love this).
Psalm 116: 5-8 The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The LORD protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me. Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.
(This one really encourages me).
Psalm 34: 17-18 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all
(Righteous: those who do good or try to do what's right..Please deliver me from my troubles & I have been broken hearted a few times so it's nice to know he is close to me).
Matthew 6:25-27 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life.
(It's comforting to know that I am being taken care of by the Creator and author of Life. This helps me not to worry).
Hebrews 1:14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
(There are really angels looking out for us)!
James 1: 2-5 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
(Good reminder that problems are not all bad but they help to build good character).
Philippians 4:4-7 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things
(I love this when it comes to setting my mind as I can be a worry wart).
Hebrews 5:7 During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
(Sometimes we need to pray and cry or both. Even Jesus felt the need to pray and cry. That always blows my mind).
Romans 12:9-21 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay, says the Lord. On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head". Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
(One of the ultimate scriptures on true love, which can be a bit challenging)
1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(The other famous scripture on love. It doesn't matter what my talent is or how smart I am, to love like this (unconditionally) is the most important thing I can do).
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Unconditional Love-By Lynn G.
>> Friday, October 15, 2010
What is Unconditional Love
We all have some concept of unconditional love. Maybe it's the romantic unconditional love often seen in movies or in music, or maybe it's the pure unconditional love between a parent and child.
As I was thinking what I wanted to write today, I did a quick Google search to get an idea of the most common definition of unconditional love. The general consensus was that unconditional love is the kind you give without requiring anything in return. One quote in particular I stumbled upon stuck in my mind: Unconditional love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be (Chris Moore).
But what does it really mean? We say we love our husbands and our children unconditionally, and that love is real in our hearts. But often, we let our daily lives and other emotions get in the way. We experience anger, we become frustrated, we get into petty squabbles – and when we lose ourselves in those moments, we forget to show that unconditional love. This leads to the appearance of imagined love – when love is shown only when something good is done, or as a reward.
Unconditional love is all the time. It's kindness. It's respect. It's appreciation. It doesn't go away when you're fighting with your spouse or disciplining your children. And you can manage these things while still showing love.
This is something I struggle with a lot. I have a very defensive side, and I tend to lash back at critical comments without thinking first. I love my husband more than words can describe, but unfortunately he is the most frequent victim to this and at times our relationship has suffered because of it. That is not how unconditional love is expressed. I don't intend to treat my husband that way, and I don't want my son growing up thinking that is appropriate. I do want to show them the love I carry for them in my heart, and I do want to set a good example of true, unconditional love.
Unconditional love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be. Despite the ups and downs of everyday life, we should all aspire to remember that quote, and to practice it in our daily lives.
*Lynn G. is also a SITS member (The Secret to Success is Support). Please stop by and visit Lynn G.'s blog site for more insights at www.lostandholdinghands.blogspot.com you can also follower her on twitter/getlostwithlynnRead more...


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Author: Jason Gonsalves, Head of Strategy, BBH London
Our first ad for The Guardian broke on Wednesday night. It's basically a product demo taken to epic proportions, re-telling and shedding new light on the classic story of the 3 Little Pigs. If you haven't seen it already check it out and see what you think. Then below I've shared the thinking behind the work for anyone interested in hearing a little more.
Readers of this blog need little convincing of the merits of citizen journalism, crowd-sourcing and open platform collaboration. Nowadays eye witness accounts are shared instantly with the world through Twitter, whilst Google Alerts or new destinations like Gawker and Huffpo offer an alternative to traditional news brands. What's more, we all know the broader Newspaper industry is struggling. Print circulations and revenues keep falling, and for most the business model simply isn't working. Add to that mass criminality and corruption, and the long-term diagnosis looks terminal.
All this starts to beg the question, where does that leave a newspaper like The Guardian? It has to continue to be far more than simply an aggregator of opinion and comment. It's an innovation business almost two centuries old, one looking to lead the global news agenda and set an example for how modern brands should behave.
Our brief was to help cut through preconceptions, engage new readers by bringing to life The Guardian's remarkable transformation over the last 10 years from a left-wing, British newspaper to a global digital news hub.
This change has been driven by Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian's editor and is built on a belief that in the modern world no single organisation can possibly claim to be sole arbiter of truth, with experts journalists working in isolation to pass down the day's news to the masses. Instead, for The Guardian, modern news is a dynamic, participative and open dialogue in which the public and other news sources enrich and expand stories, inviting response and opinion. It's open and mutual rather than closed and didactic. It's iterative and alive rather than final and definitive. It's multi-platform and digital first.
- Whilst most newspapers jealously guard the stories they are planning to cover, The Guardian now publish their news lists online daily, encouraging both public and experts to get in touch with their journalists if they feel the have something to contribute, advise on or just to have their say.
- When the MPs Expenses Scandal exploded, The Guardian swiftly built an app that enabled the public to get involved, sift through receipts and flag anything they decided was worthy of investigation.
- During Arab Spring, in addition to providing content from its journalists in the field, The Guardian invited Arab commentators to share their views and blog, in Arabic, on the Guardian's platform.
- The Guardian's open platform enables anyone to access data collected by the Guardian as well as providing a search tool so that users can search for government information from around the world. It also encourages readers to upload their own data visualisations or share their favourites.
Whilst The Guardian represents open news, it remains a brand with a point of view, with a role and purpose that is more, not less, important in today's world. Rather than benefiting shareholders or a proprietor, the Guardian is owned by the Scott Trust which ensures that profits are reinvested to sustain journalism that is free from commercial or political interference. The trust, which was formed in 1936, and is named after CP Scott (Editor between 1872 and 1929) protects the Guardian's commitment to a set of values that can be summarised as honesty, cleanness (today interpreted as integrity) courage, fairness and a sense of duty to reader and the community. Scott's famous words "Comment is free, but facts are sacred" remind us of the importance of accuracy and truth in a world where information and opinion is ubiquitous. Relentless inquiry is the responsibility of organisations that want to set the news agenda, they must stop at nothing to get the bottom of the stories that matter. Nick Davies did just this – he was the Guardian journalist who spent 5 years finding and checking evidence and withstanding threats to uncover the truth behind the 'phone hacking at the News of the World.
If you couldn't tell already, I'll admit personally to being a huge fan. But I believe as digital innovators, creative pioneers, and champions of civil liberty and reform The Guardian is a rare and precious thing that deserves support. The story of the newspaper industry as we know is unlikely to conclude with a fairy-tale ending, but the Guardian is definitely painting an exciting vision of things to come.
Client Credits – The Guardian
David Pemsel, Marketing Consultant
Richard Furness, Head of Sales and Marketing, The Guardian
Anna Hayman, Marketing Manager, The Guardian
Media Buying Agency – PHD
Toby Nettle, Media Planner
Creative Agency – BBH
TV Credits
BBH Creative Director: David Kolbusz
BBH Creative Team: Matt Fitch & Mark Lewis
BBH Producer: Davud Karbassioun
BBH Production Assistant: Genevieve Sheppard
BBH Head of Strategy: Jason Gonsalves
BBH Team Director: Ngaio Pardon
BBH Team Manager: Alex Monger
BBH Team Assistant: Katie Burkes
Print credits
BBH Creative Team (Print): Carl Broadhurst and Peter Reid
BBH Head of Art: Mark Reddy
BBH Designer: James Townsend
BBH Print Producer: Sally Green
BBH Creative Director: David Kolbusz
BBH Head of Strategy: Jason Gonsalves
BBH Team Director: Ngaio Pardon
BBH Team Manager: Alex Monger
BBH Team Assistant: Katie Burkes
Production credits
Production Company – Rattling Stick
Director: Ringan Ledwidge
Producer: Chris Harrison
DoP: Franz Lustig
Editor/Editing House: Richard Orrick (Work post)
Post Production (Graphics + CGI effects): The Mill London
Sound Design: Will Cohen & Sam Brock
Music: Phil Kay (Woodwork Music)


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Peavey ReValver 4.0.6687 Build 15.04.06 (x64)
Peavey ReValver 4.0.6687 Build 15.04.06 (x64) | 272.64 MB
Introducing Peavey ReValver® 4 - Redesigned from the ground up, ReValver 4 - the latest version of Peavey's award-winning ReValver modeling software - contains revolutionary amp modeling capabilities that capture the true characteristics of real tube amplifiers.
Running Stand Alone or as an AAX/VST or AU plug-in on Mac or PC, ReValver is renowned for its industry-leading amp modeling accuracy which is achieved by modeling an amplifier down to the component level. Now Peavey has updated and improved the modeling engine in ReValver 4, taking amp modeling to a whole new level of realistic tone-shaping possibilities. ReValver 4 also incorporates a GUI and UX redesign and the ability to run on a Windows® tablet, plus other high-level features including GIG mode, ACT™ (Audio Cloning Technology) and RIR 2 cabinet modeling.
Based on feedback from the extensive ReValver user community, the application's redesign has been done so to improve user experience and workflow. The GUI now separates pedal board, amps/cabs and effects into their own views, thus minimizing the amount of vertical scrolling needed to navigate the application.
GIG mode further expands ReValver's power as a live performance solution by allowing the user to load 8 presets into memory and seamlessly switch between them. Using a MIDI controller allows the switching of patches along with control of effects within presets, making ReValver 4 a powerhouse live rig.
Peavey's ReValver 4 also features ACT (Audio Cloning Technology) modules that allow the user to mold and shape the guitar sound at both the input (before amp modeling) and output (after modeling). At the input, ACT turns ReValver into an instrument modeler by altering the incoming guitar signal to mimic the sound and characteristics of other instruments, such as acoustics, folk instruments, and even other electric guitar and pickup combinations. At the output, ACT allows the user to load presets that sculpt the signal to fit in a recording mix or mimic the sonic characteristics of famous guitar rigs.
With improved Impulse Responses, ReValver 4's RIR 2 feature takes cabinet modeling to a whole new level of accuracy and realism by giving the user independent control of speaker configuration, microphone, and mic placement, allowing for almost endless tone shaping options. Also, the electrical features or the cabinet that alter the response of the amp have been captured, allowing for even greater realism and dynamics. The new Pedal Board feature provides a familiar environment to build and edit an effects chain before the amplifier whilst the effects rack sits post amp for all your delay, reverb and modulation needs.
ReValver 4 also comes with the introduction of the Amp Store, allowing users to purchase new amps, stompboxes, effects, and ACT content through in-app purchases. Users can begin with downloading ReValver 4 which is FREE (included modules listed below) and then simply purchase the additional content they desire. ReValver 4 supports the powerful new AAX plug-in format for Pro Tools® running as a 64 bit plug-in. As always, the software can also be used as a stand-alone virtual amplifier.
Included modules:
Amps/Cabs - Peavey 6505®, Peavey 6505+, Herr Demon, Basic 100, Fox AC30, BluesMaker '62, Budda® Superdrive™ 18 II, Budda Superdrive V-20, Michael ACM 900, Redhot AD30TC, Peavey Classic 30, Peavey Triple XXX® II, Peavey Masterpiece 50, Peavey 3120, Flathill Dual, Peavey Sensation 20, Peavey ValveKing® MKII, Custom Lite 20W, RIR 2 Cabinet Modeler (including: 1960A 4x12, 430A 4x12, 6505 4x12, 6505 Prototype 4x12, Bluesmaker 2x12 open back, Budda 1x12 open back, Budda V-20 1x12 open back, California Twin 2x12, Classic 30 1x12 open back, Classic 4x12, Delta Blues 1x15, Delta Blues 2x10, Flathill 4x12, Fox AC30 2x12 open back, Jarnmalm 4x12 (with 4 speaker positions), Redhot PPC212, Redhot PPC 412, Sensation 20 1x12 open back, ValveKing 1x12 combo, ValveKing 4x12 (with four speaker positions) Windsor 4x12 straight), RIR Cabinet Modeler (including over 700 IRs), RIR2 Lite Cabinet Modeler
C-verb, Chorus CE2, Analog Flanger, PRESSOR, Lite Green, Tremolo, Digital Flanger, M104 Analog Delay, Treble Booster, Audio Stream Splitter, Square-Phase, K8;ften, Slammer compressor, Greener TS808, C-verb Lite, Sher'ff, 3rd party plugin (VST, AU), World-Wide-Verb, Budda Budwah, Wham!, Again Delay
Input/Output Modules and ACT™ Content:
VU Meters, Noisegate, Tuner, Multiple Chains, Parametric EQ, Compressor, ACT Input (including: LP Std, S-Caster, Peavey HP Signature Select, Peavey JD Omniac bundles, Nylon and Takemine Tasters), ACT Output (including: 4 x Output Profiles)
What's new in Peavey ReValver 4:
- Over $250 of modules!
- Redesigned ReValver 4 engine
- Improved tone, GUI / UI
- More in depth tweaking of modules
- Dual signal chains for multiple rigs
- All equivalent amp/stomp/effects/RIR Cab modules from III.V (listed below)
- **NEW** RIR 2 Cabinet Module plus 21 included cabs and all mics (over 650 combinations)
- **NEW** World Wide Verb, "Again" Delay, K8;ften Noise Gate, Square Phase, Digital/Analog Flanger Modules
- **NEW** Input and Output Modules including ACT™ (Audio Cloning Technology), Noise Gate, Tuner, Compressor, Parametric EQs, Multiple Chains Blending/Panning, VU Meter with Input Normalisation
- Additional ACT™ Content (S-Caster and LP Standard Bundles)
- Pedal Board for Stomp Boxes
- GIG Mode for seamless rig switching via MIDI
- AAX Plug in support (along with VST/AU and Stand Alone Operation)
- Access to the Amp Store for an ever growing selection of new modules, cabinets and ACT Content


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An extra £1 billion a year could be spent on fixing potholes and other road maintenance if the Government invested two pence per litre of existing fuel duty, the body that represents councils has suggested.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said investing fuel duty back into road maintenance would allow councils to bring the country's crumbling highways up to scratch within a decade.
The LGA, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, said that although the Government recently responded to calls for extra funding to repair roads with a multimillion-pound pledge it was "simply not enough", with local authorities only being able to "patch up" problems rather than carry out longer-term preventative work.
It said the damage done to roads by recent harsh winters and decades of underfunding has seen the national backlog of road repairs rise to £12 billion - up £1.5 billion in the past year alone.
Last month the Government announced it had set aside £168 million to mend the nation's broken roads, spread across 148 councils.
The Department for Transport said more than three million potholes will be filled in by March next year as part of the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s.
Councillor Peter Box, chairman of the LGA's Economy and Transport Board, said councils were "trapped in an endless cycle of patching up our deteriorating network".
"Our roads are in such disrepair that it will now take more than a decade and £12 billion to bring them up to scratch," he added.
"Tackling this ever-growing national repair bill must be a priority and the Government can do this by injecting an extra £1 billion a year into roads maintenance - funded by investing two pence a litre from existing fuel duty.
"Motorists pay billions to the Treasury each year in fuel duty when they fill up their car at the pumps only to then have to drive on roads that are decaying after decades of underfunding. They deserve roads fit for the 21st century."


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Jordan, born a slave in rural Tennessee in 1847, enlisted at age 19 in the 38th Infantry based in Nashville. In January 1870, as a corporal, he re-enlisted in the 9th Cavalry.
About 10 years later -- on May 13, 1880 -- while escorting a wagon train through the New Mexico Territory, he was asked by a messenger from an abandoned Army outpost to save women and children in the settlement from imminent attack by the Apache warrior Victorio.
According to Army history accounts, Jordan rallied his men, marched them at night to the outpost -- Fort Tularosa -- and established perimeter defenses and guard posts.
"That evening, Victorio and his warriors attacked the outpost. Although outnumbered by 4-to-1, the Buffalo Soldiers were so well-trained and prepared for battle that there was not a single casualty from either the settlers or the Buffalo Soldiers," one Army history record says.
The Buffalo Soldiers were so nicknamed by the American Indians they encountered. The name reflected bravery and valor despite the inferior supplies they were given.
Jordan's commander immediately recommended him for the Medal of Honor, which he did not officially receive until May 7, 1890, and only after another act of bravery the year following Victorio's attack.
That was at Carrizo Canyon, N.M., while commanding 19 men. According to his medal of honor citation, Jordan "stubbornly held his ground in an extremely exposed position and gallantly forced back a much superior number of the enemy, preventing them from surrounding the command."
After 31 years of what Army historians describe as "selfless service," Jordan, by then a first sergeant, retired in 1897. After his death, he was buried with full military honors at Fort Robinson, Neb.


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Womens DC Court Graffik Skate Shoe - Black / Splatter
Style #: 96352480
Kickflip into the season with the new Court Graffik Skate Shoe from DC! The DC Court Graffik Skate Shoe has you covered, sporting a smooth nubuck upper with cupsole construction so you can comfortably land on all four wheels. Available online at Journeys.com!
- Smooth nubuck upper with breathable mesh lining
- Paint splatter logo patch on quarter
- Lace closure offers a secure fit
- Padded tongue and collar for superior comfort
- Cupsole construction for durability and impact resistance
- Durable rubber outsole with DC's signature "Pill-Pattern" tread for flexible grip and traction
Founded with a fearless attitude and an innovative mind, DC Shoes has continued to evolve skate style since 1994. DC is a lifestyle brand that amplifies street and skate culture. We leverage signature brand elements that utilize our unique heritage and progress skateboarding and snowboarding through our new products and designs.


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Twitter for Windows Phone is one of those apps that was available at launch, but it has seen very few updates over the past 2 years. The most important feature that was missing was notifications. In the latest update, the app finally received the ability to receive notifications.
Not only are notifications well implemented (they use a push notifications server vs. generic background agents), they are fast. Very fast. I see toasts almost instantaneously. The "other fixes" in this update seem to have made the app generally faster to refresh tweets, a common problem with all twitter clients on Windows Phone. If the app receives the ability to reply all on tweets, this may become my go-to twitter client on Windows Phone. That is huge, considering I had actually uninstalled the app from my phone because I had zero hope of it getting any meaningful updates!
Here are some screenshots of the settings added in this update, related to notifications. I also noticed they have added the ability to pin lists to the Start Screen and manage list membership, which I am not sure was possible before this update.
Twitter for Windows Phone Notifications Settings Screen
Twitter for Windows Phone Notifications Settings For Mentions
Twitter for Windows Phone Notifications Settings For Favorites
Twitter for Windows Phone Notifications Settings For Retweets
Twitter for Windows Phone Toast Notification
Twitter for Windows Phone – Pinning Lists to Start Screen
Twitter for Windows Phone – Manage List Membership
Don't get me wrong. The app is not complete. Besides the reply-all feature that I mentioned above, there are some other features in apps like Rowi, Carbon and Mehdoh that I like to see in a twitter client, least of which is Tweet Marker support so read status of tweets is sync-ed across multiple apps and platforms. Regardless, I am now not ashamed to recommend Twitter for Windows Phone as a twitter client for the platform.


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