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MADISON, Wis. — An independent audit said high staff turnover, poor record keeping and a lack of basic accounting controls all contributed to problems in the first year of Wisconsin's premiere job-creation agency.
The draft audit released Monday looked at the first year of operations of the semi-private Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
The agency has been beset with a series of problems, including not properly tracking $56 million in loans to businesses. Borrowers have fallen behind on payments on loans now worth more than $12 million.
The audit by Schneck SC said basic internal accounting controls over the loans were not in place. It also said loan agreements did not always contain approved staff or performance reviews.
WEDC officials said steps are being taken to improve operations.
WEDC, in announcing the hiring of independent auditors, blamed some mistakes on a loss of personnel. The auditors agreed that was a factor.
"This isn't what we hoped to find, but it's not unexpected when you go from 300 employees to 50 as a new agency," said WEDC interim CEO Reed Hall. "We're all looking to make sure this is corrected so we can go on to write new chapters of history at the agency."Audit finds faults with state job-creation agency
Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said the audit shows that the decision to transform the state Department of Commerce into WEDC "without any real planning is a huge problem."
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Framed: Talking bedroom set-up blues
If you wanted to chisel a set of Consumer Commandments on a tablet of stone but only had room for two, I would suggest making "communicate clearly" the first and "don't get towed" the second.
Lack of communication was at the root of this week's contretemps– as it so often is– and the upshot was an expensive lesson for Hank Jones.
Jones bought a queen-sized bed frame from Mattress King on May 14. He paid $52.50 for the frame and $45 for what he described as "delivery and installation" in a letter he wrote the store on May 23, in which he pronounced himself "very disappointed" with Mattress King's performance.
"I have a problem with my shoulder," he wrote, and "[am] unable to lift heavy objects like headboards and frames, so I did opt to pay extra for your installation (set up) service." Jones wasn't home when the frame was delivered to his residence in Boyd Tavern on May 21, but someone was there to oversee the operation.
Except there was nothing to oversee. Instead, Jones claims, he got a phone call in which he was told that the truck had arrived, but the men "would not remove the old headboard from the existing bed frame." The reason given, he says, was that "customer equipment" such as headboards cannot be removed and reinstalled as part of setting up a new frame due to "the danger to employees."
"I called the store for clarification," he wrote, "and depending on who I was talking to, the non-removal policy is due to [either] 'danger to employees' or 'liability for damage to the headboard.' Make up your mind– which is it? Either way, for a bedding concern, the policy seems absurd. When I paid extra for delivery and installation, there was no mention of store policy one way or another."
Had the "headboard-policy restriction" been explained, Jones wrote, he could have either removed the headboard himself before delivery or taken his business to a store "that offers a set-up service based in sanity."
When I spoke with Jones, he said that he would be satisfied if Mattress King would allow him to return the frame (which never even made it out of the box) for a full refund of $92.50.
Anne Weaver, who took over as manager of the Charlottesville store on June 1, said that that wouldn't be possible. The $45 fee, she explained, was for delivery alone and did not include set-up– though in most situations, the delivery men are willing to put the frame together and transfer a mattress and box springs.
They didn't do that in this case, she claims, because Jones didn't have a place to put it– but clearing enough space for the new frame may have been dependent on removing the old headboard first.
In any case, she said, Jones probably could have struck a deal with the men; his mistake was in assuming that the $45 fee included additional labor. What surprised Weaver most about the situation, she added, was that anyone would pay $45 for delivery of a $50 item, especially one as light as the frame in question (which is just two L-shaped pieces of metal that slot together).
"I carry them around here all day," she claimed; "two or three at a time."
If Jones decides to return the frame, she said, the $45 cannot be refunded; that's because the delivery men are independent contractors and not Mattress King employees. Also, a 25 percent restocking fee will be deducted from the price of the frame. Jones rejected that option, saying that he's "really irritated" with Mattress King.
"It never dawned on me," he says, to ask what the $45 did and didn't cover– and that, of course, says it all.
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Civic activists win fight over eyesore condos
Early afternoon Monday, the roar of a bulldozer will prompt a celebration in an Alief neighborhood whose residents have waged a four-year battle to get rid of an abandoned, burned-out condominium complex. The machinery, which will demolish the public nuisance known as the Winfield I, represents a triumph of civic activism.
Will champagne corks pop? I asked neighborhood activist Beryl Hogshead. "We'll have lemonade and cookies," she said in an excited voice. "And we're going to fly an American flag."
It's been almost a year since I wrote about Winfield I, after being contacted by neighbors whose patience was wearing thin. Years of complaining to city hall hadn't produced any results. The 1980-vintage complex deteriorated over the years as absentee landlords took over and the residents became more transient. Then, a July 2007 fire gutted part of the building, leading the fire marshal to declare the complex a safety hazard in 2008. Over time, it became a garbage dump and magnet for crime.
The Metropolitan Organization of Houston, along with determined neighbors, thought the disintegrating structure was so dangerous that the city of Houston should spend money to bulldoze the darn thing, but legal and budgetary impediments precluded quick action.
Meanwhile, the shabby structure in their midst continued to draw criminal activity. One year, two dead bodies had turned up within a block of the complex, no doubt connected to the furtive prostitution and drug-dealing conducted behind its boarded-up, spray-paint-defaced doors.
"It's been a long haul," said Hogshead said of the road to demolition of Winfield I. "It's a victory for people who endure and persevere. When there is blight, you keep your shoulder to the wheel and it will go down."
Cutting red tape
Last year, neighbors were particularly frustrated that city officials cited budgetary constraints as reason not to demolish the property. As I wrote then, the complex was "a malignancy on a neighborhood, threatening to invade surrounding condos and apartment communities as the ugliness metastasizes and property values decline."
TMO representative Franklin Olson argued it was "penny-wise and pound-foolish" not to move forward, given destructive impact that an abandoned property has on a neighborhood.
But Olson and Hogshead now credit Council Member Mike Laster and city hall employees for cutting through legal red tape.
They doggedly tracked down condo owners, all of whom left the complex years ago when a fire marshal declared it uninhabitable.
After all, a city can't just demolish private property: owners have to be notified first. That presented a giant hurdle, since many Winfield I owners live overseas.
"It's been a challenge," said Leah Olive-Nishioka, communications director for the councilman.
Laster had been on the job only a month when the concerned neighbors told them they had a problem that had been festering for too long.
"My position was we should tear this down as soon as possible," he said. "It's been a long time coming. My office has been pushing and pushing and pushing ever since."
In conversations with the attorney for the condo association, Laster argued the owners would have a more marketable property if they razed the lot. It didn't hurt that the city's legal department, working with the Houston Police Department and the city's neighborhood department, found "creative solutions."
"It's fair to say there was a threat of enforcement," Laster said. Rather than face possible fines and legal action, he said the "conscientious" condo association agreed to bear the cost of demolition.
That fortuitous result can't be counted on in most situations involving abandoned building.
But Mayor Annise Parker says the bond proposal on the ballot Nov. 6 will help the city eradicate urban blight by providing funds to raze other buildings that, like Winfield I, are a serious nuisance to surrounding residents.
'A positive affirmation'
The bonds "include $15 million for the removal of blighted properties," Parker said. "It's a housing bond referendum, but the money will all go toward demolishing dangerous and abandoned buildings like the Winfield Condos to make way for new affordable housing."
For Franklin, Monday's demolition should be an inspiration to people turned off by the tenor of political discourse. "The political atmosphere we are experiencing, nobody wants to give an inch or come up with solutions," he observed. "It's a positive affirmation that people can pull together and make a difference."


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If you aren't involved with one, but rather just know ABOUT one, please let me know, because there are so many, there's no way I know about even 1% of them yet.
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My first one! (Which is really weird since I've known how to crochet since I was six!)
My Mom told me these are her favorite things to make since they're "so fun and a perfect way to use up scraps". Sadly she doesn't have the time to make them herself, so I guess she will just have to live vicariously through me!
I'm probably going to give this soon-to-be blanket to her. She doesn't know it yet… Thank goodness she's not tech savvy…
Random fact: As I said, I learned to crochet way back when I was six. Granted I could only chain, but it was something! I remember one of my first projects was a bag with pink yarn. She made the bag part, and I made the strap. I asked her if I could tell people I made the whole thing, and she said yes–At the time I thought I was so stinkin' sneaky.


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"City Island" stars Andy Garcia as Vince Rizzo, a corrections officer and patriarch of a Bronx family. All the Rizzo's tie themselves in knots keeping secrets from each, and the tension reaches untenable heights with the arrival of someone who is, unbeknownst to most of them, a fellow family member.
Garcia brings an uncommon -- for him -- likability to his turn as Vince Rizzo, who in addition to working as prison guard, secretly aspires to be an actor. Garcia's been doing good work for two decades, but he's never really someone you want to root for. Yet his Vince is a believable, likable blue-collar mope chasing a dream.
Garcia and Julianna Margulies do a nice job of striking a balance in their relationship as husband and wife. Yes, they yell at each and there's plenty of anger, but they manage to not let the characters fall into the tired trapped of marital combatants. They still love each other and fight for their marriage. As good as Margulies is, her Joyce Rizzo draws the short straw in this film. She alone has no real interior life, her one big secret being a covert cigarette habit. It's too bad, as she feels a bit wasted in this film.
There are a pair of secondary plot lines that ultimately disappoint, but for very different reasons. The deep dark secret that Emily Mortimer's Molly carries with her comes off as way beyond the scope of her character's place in the film -- it's too deep and to dark. Then there's Ezra Miller as Vince Jr., who in addition to some run-of-the-mill teenage vices, indulges in a fetish involving overweight women. It's a bizarre and fascinating predilection that is approached with a humor and sincerity instead of devolving into voyeurism.
If the film has one glaring weakness, it's the score by Jan Kaczmarek, or more specifically, its deployment. It's played too often, at too high a volume and sounds too much like the theme from "The Godfather." The similarity is no doubt intentional, and would've been appropriate at certain moments. Sadly, it's all over the film.
The end very nearly falls apart as writer-director Ray De Felitta scrambles to bring all his characters together for the inevitable climactic scene. While much of the mounting drama requires Vince to be a bit dense, the cast does a nice job of keeping the whole thing from turning into a mess.
After winning the Audience Award at last year's Tribeca FIlm Festival, it took "City Island" nearly a year to get released, and once it arrived, it had trouble finding an audience. It's easy to see why -- no big-name star, no special effects, no hook -- which is a shame. Fortunately, "City Island" is exactly the kind of film -- a small, intimate comedy -- that stands up perfectly well to home viewing. And like any good indie, it's got a hilarious cameo from Alan Arkin.
DVD Review: "City Island" an Overlooked Indie Comedy
"City Island" stars Andy Garcia as Vince Rizzo, a corrections officer and patriarch of a Bronx family. All the Rizzo's tie themselves in knots keeping secrets from each, and the tension reaches untenable heights with the arrival of someone who is, unbeknownst to most of them, a fellow family member.


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3.V.1 - Oversight
Proposed text on oversight, beta 1.
62A. We recognize that the existing mechanisms for the governance of the Internet have been working well, but that, at the same time, their continued evolution is necessary, to address the technical and social changes caused by the ongoing development of the Internet, and to ensure full and global participation by all stakeholders in its governance. Source: New text
63A. We recognize that any organizational forms for the governance of the Internet should adhere to the following principles:
- No single Government or other stakeholder should have a pre-eminent role in relation to international Internet governance.
- The organizational forms for the governance function should be based on multi-stakeholder structures that are transparent and democratic, with the full involvement of Governments, the private sector, civil society and international organizations.
- The organizational forms for the governance function should involve all stakeholders and relevant intergovernmental and international organizations.
*Source: WGIG Report, para 48 + changes: added "or other stakeholder" in first bullet; changed "form" into "forms"; changed "multilateral" into "multi-stakeholder"*
63B. We recognize that these principles should be implemented in an evolutionary manner, ensuring the stability and security of the Internet. We also recognize that different governance structures should be considered, and different roles should be assigned to the various stakeholders, according to the specific issue to be addressed. We commit to discussing any future arrangements on Internet governance issues in the open multi-stakeholder Forum setting described in paras ... . Source: New text
64A. We recognize that the issue of oversight over the Internet logical infrastructure – the Domain Name System and the IP addressing system – deserves immediate and special consideration. In this regard, we agree that ICANN, after appropriate reforms as detailed below, shall become the final venue for the global coordination of Internet identifiers, and that no single government or group of governments should have the authority to block or unilaterally control ICANN's decisions, neither in principle nor in practice. Source: New text
Note by vb: this 64B is Adam's proposal; I think these points are already covered elsewhere in the current text, i.e. first bullet => paras 48 and 55; second bullet => para 51; perhaps we should turn this into a proposal for a revision of those paras?
- We seek to ensure fair and equitable access to IP addressing resources. In this regard, we call for support of the specialised regional Internet resource management institutions to enhance each region's self-determination in management of Internet resources, while maintaining global coordination in this area.
- We recognize the importance of the root server system as a critical infrastructure essential to the security, stability and global operation and availability of the Internet. In this regard, we call for support of the root server operators, and encourage them to adapt and adopt their operational practises commensurate with their position as stewards critical global infrastructure. Furthermore, we encourage and support the continued internationalization of the root server system through "Anycast" implementations of root servers.
- something about ICANN in same tone/effect?
64C: We recognize that the time has come for a change in the political oversight of the Internet logical infrastructure. In this regard we call for the following changes with regard to ICANN to be implemented within a reasonable time frame:
a)The US Government should recommit to renouncing to its pre-eminent role of stewardship in relation to ICANN and the DNS root and should agree to a road map for this process.
b)ICANN must ensure full and balanced multi-stakeholder participation, in appropriate ways throughout its policy development structures, of the three stakeholder groups:
- national governments, including intergovernmental organizations;
- the private sector, including the technical community;
- civil society, including the community of individual Internet users, non-profit organizations and the academic community.
In particular, the current dominance of the ICANN Board and decision-making processes by Western business representatives should be balanced by an equal representation of the global community of individual users and civil society organizations.
c)Each of these stakeholder groups should freely select its representatives and organizational forms through open, transparent and democratic processes.
d)ICANN must ensure that it establishes policy development processes that are predictable in timing and procedure, transparent and rule-driven, commensurate with international norms and principles for fair administrative decision-making to provide for predictable policy outcomes.
e)There should be a process for extraordinary appeal of ICANN's decisions in the form of an independent multi-stakeholder review commission invoked on a case-by-case basis.
f)Appropriate formal commitments by the government of the country that hosts ICANN should provide privileges and immunities to ICANN to ensure that it is able to provide global service in accordance with its bylaws and mission, being careful to retain those aspects of its current articles of incorporation that enhance its accountability to the global Internet user community.
g)ICANN's decisions, and any agreement with its host nation, must comply with public policy requirements negotiated through international treaties in regard to, inter alia, human rights treaties, privacy rights, gender agreements and trade rules.
h)Governments, individuals, and international organizations, including NGOs?, would have the right and responsibility of bringing violations of these requirements to the attention of ICANN and if satisfactory resolution cannot be reached using ICANN internal processes, should have the right to invoke the binding appeals process.
i)Once all of the above conditions are met, the US Government shall transfer the IANA function to ICANN.
j)It is expected that the international multi-stakeholder community will take part in the process through participation in the ICANN process. It is also expected that the multi-stakeholder community will observe and comment on the progress made in this process through the proposed Forum.
Source: Caucus statement at PrepCom?-3 with some revisions
Small revision --wdrake, Sun, 06 Nov 2005 15:48:08 -0600 reply
Hi, Could we make the introductory sentence less sweeping? It appears to have been drafted with logical infrastructure in mind; obviously the larger range of gov mechanisms are not working just fine. Also, even if narrowly focused, I'd prefer that the statement say they generally work fine, quite obviously there are exceptions. So please say instead, "62A. We recognize that the existing mechanisms for the governance of the Internet's LOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE GENERALLY have been working well, but that, at the same time, their continued evolution is necessary, to address the technical and social changes caused by the ongoing development of the Internet, and to ensure full and global participation by all stakeholders in its governance."


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Los Angeles, CA (March 7, 2013) - Outfest, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media, has announced its lineup for the 2013 Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fusion is the only multicultural LGBT film festival of its kind.
The festival will include world premieres and LA premieres of short films and feature films and a gala party that highlights and celebrates the diversity of the LGBT community. Fusion 2013 will be held March 22nd – 23rd at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood and REDCAT downtown, and is presented by HBO and NBCUniversal.
Writer/director/producer Angela Robinson (True Blood, The L Word, Hung, D.E.B.S) will receive the 2013 Fusion Achievement Award.
"In the past decade Outfest Fusion has grown from a festival that showcases the best in LGBT films highlighting people of color, to a full fledged program that works to nurture emerging artists through projects like OutSet, InFusion and Fusion Lab," says Kirsten Schaffer, Executive Director of Outfest. "We are proud of all of the artists who have participated in Fusion, and we are thrilled to be honoring Angela Robinson whose film and television work have inspired so many."
The award will be presented to Robinson prior to the Fusion Gala Shorts program on Saturday, March 23.
Following its hugely successful introduction last year, Fusion will also unveil the world premiere of the latest work of OutSet: The Young Filmmakers Project from LifeWorks and Outfest, created to empower and educate LGBT youth to tell their stories through film. Last year's OutSet graduate Janella Lacson not only won an audience award for her short, The First Date, at 2012 Outfest Los Angeles LBGT Film Festival, but also received two scholarships and entry into NYU film school.
In addition to the world and LA premieres, Fusion 2013 will also screen highlights from last year's Outfest Film festival, including Mosquita Y Mari, My Brother the Devil, White Frog, Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years and Homeboy.
Outfest recently announced its first ever Fusion Lab – a micro-cinema and media lab that will exist in a storefront in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park throughout the month of March. Supported by a grant from the Irvine Foundation, Fusion Lab will host screenings of short films, filmmaking workshops taught by Outfest alumni, and workstations with cameras and editing software. The pop-up shop will be at 5503 N. Figueroa St, 90042.
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No matter how good a manufacturer, or supplier of food is, there will be occasions when something goes wrong and the food sold is not acceptable to the customer.
The Food Safety Team receives many complaints relating to food each year. Foreign objects in food are one type of complaint, however not all pose a health risk
What food complaints do the Food Safety Team will deal with?
The Food Safety Team will deal with complaints that pose a public health risk.
Please note the Food & Safety Team will not get involved in any compensation claims. Compensation claims are a civil matter that you must take up with the manufacturer and, if necessary, through the courts.
Our team will deal with:
· food that is not safe to eat or actually makes you ill
· food that is so contaminated that it could not reasonably be eaten (such as a mouldy pie)
· food that contains a foreign object (such as a fragment of glass in a loaf of bread)
· chemical contamination of food and improper use of additives
The following complaints are dealt with by our colleagues in the Trading Standards Department at Staffordshire Council who can be contacted at https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ or tel 03454 04 05 06
· composition of food (such as sausages containing less than the minimum percentage of meat)
· adulteration of foods
· labelling offences and misleading claims
· quality and nature of food (such as pollock being sold as cod)
In order for the Food Safety Team to take formal action there will have to be:
· a public health risk
· a good chain of evidence (such as details of where the food was bought, any relevant packaging)
· evidence that the company concerned has not taken all reasonable steps to prevent the problem
Any formal action must also comply with the Council's Enforcement Policy.
Our team can be contacted on 01543 462621
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Johnson's Mental Health Complex roommate speaks out
Fred Williams fails to testify in court
The roommate of a man who died at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex was a no-show in court on Monday.
Fred Williams' testimony was supposed to be part of the inquest hearing into Brandon Johnson's death.
"I was kind of sad for him because that was a harsh way to die," said Williams.
Williams, who shared a room with Johnson for two days, seems still affected by his former roommate's death. Johnson died in the Mental Health Complex in October after suffering a broken neck that caused blood clots. Williams said Johnson was paralyzed.
"When he was asking them for stuff, they wasn't really helping him or nothing like that," Williams said. "They kept telling him he could help himself, that he could get up out the wheelchair, but he wouldn't because he couldn't walk."
Williams said the night before Johnson died, Johnson asked for a nurse to help him to bed.
"It was two lady nurses, but they said they couldn't help him get into bed because they wasn't able to pick him up," said Williams. "When they brung him out to eat breakfast, he just collapsed, and that was it."
Williams was supposed to share all of this at the John Doe proceeding to determine if anyone should be criminally charged in the case but he never showed up.
"I didn't have a way to get there," said Williams.
Detectives said they couldn't find him and read his original statement instead. WISN 12 News found him at home. He said he later called the district attorney's office.
"They just told me they didn't really need me. If they would've needed me, they would have called me and let me know," said Williams.
The DA's office told WISN 12 News that Williams' statement to detectives was sufficient, but the Johnson family's attorney, Jon Safran, strongly disagrees.
"I think there is additional follow-up testimony that could be asked and, depending upon answers to certain questions, that very well may lead to additional questions and answers," said Safran.


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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Look who is ONE!!
7 comments:
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman said...
Please relay the message to LC that Charlie is NOT happy she is growing up so fast. I know she HAS to, but really, this is all going too fast for me. ;)
- January 23, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Leanne said...
Oh, that girl!! She never ceases to amaze me with her radiance.
Just wait, Devin. You think this year has gone by fast?? Oh friend, buckle up!!!
She's amazing. And I'm so, so, SO glad that you have a girl too, so that you can pour your amazing self into her. It's so fun to have girls!
- January 23, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Rachel said...
She is TUTU Cute! Love the picture that outfit is adorable but the baby makes it!!! Hope you had a fun day celebrating your girl.
- January 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM
- Karie said...
She is the cutest thing ever.
Reese says she loves her skirt, leggings & her shirt, so I guess, the whole package, lol.
Callen says he only likes her legging, haha!
- January 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- Jenny said...
And what an adorable one year old she is too!!!!
- January 25, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Amanda Hoyt said...
Soooooooooooo cute!!
She's not walking yet, is she??? I hope I didn't miss that news! I guess she's just standing on her own here, right?
Can't believe she's one, either!!
- January 25, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Its A Corny Life... said...
Dev - Thanks for the prayers. I hope Lola had an awesome birthday. I wish I could figure out how to respond to comments via email, but I'm just not that smart. Oh well. Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks.
- January 25, 2011 at 11:07 PM


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Volunteer Opportunities
Immediate Needs
Fundraising Committee
The Fundraising Committee shall serve to identify, organize, foster and promote opportunities by which the Irondale Youth Hockey Association ("IYHA") may profit financially in order to ease the cost burden of its membership, provide assistance to members requiring assistance and meeting prescribed assistance guidelines and to promote the association and attract new members. The committee meets as needed.
Coordinator of Player/Team Pictures
Work with the ice coordinator to choose a night or 2 nights that will work best with all the teams
Tournament Committee
Work with a team of volunteers on organizing the January tournament.
Meet at least once a month.
Committee meets more often as the Tournament get closer
Ongoing Needs
District 10 Positions
Board - *Filled* Thank YOU!!
District Tournament Positions - IYHA is required to provide volunteers for the District playoffs. These positions are the typical clock/penalty box/scorekeeper positions. We need someone to collect the volunteers from IYHA and assign times/positions. This happens at the end of the season (February/March)
Volunteer Hours Policy
Tournament Volunteers - go to the Tournaments Tab along the top of the website
Other Volunteer Positions Needed:
Are you organized and willing to serve in a capacity that will help the Association grow? Consider being a volunteer coordinator! Looking at the list above, we could use the help. Contact the
The following is a partial list of volunteer opportunities:
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Checking for STDs while peeing into your cell phone? There's an app for that.
A mysterious missile was launched over the Pacific Ocean.
If someone cuts you off, don't toss yogurt on their car.
Turban frisking must be stopped!
San Francisco plans to create droves of unhappy children in their quest to ban Happy Meals.
Who says gambling can't be profitable? This poker player took home $8.9 million.
This priest stole $83,000 to cover porn-related debt.
Obama's Indonesia trip gets cut short by the onset of volcanic ash.
Dubya defends the controversial "waterboarding" interrogation technique in his memoir.
Conan O'Brien's new show debuted on TBS last night.


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sift through the box marked "Too Small" in your closet
(let's face it, after two kids and more birthday cake than you'd like to admit, they will never fit again)
You're about to turn a t-shirt that is too small,
too old,
too stained,
or just too darn ugly,
into something fantastic.
Something that will fit no matter how many chocolate chip cookies you ate for breakfast.
What you need:
adult t-shirt at least size M with 8-10 inches of solid below any images
matching thread
I discovered this little gem in a bag of kids clothing that was Freecycled to me.Adult Size M.
Why anyone ever got rid of it, I will never understand.
Thankfully, when my project is complete, there will be one less Liger shirt in the world.
You're welcome.
Measure out 8-10 inches below the image on your t-shirt and cut.
If you'd like to get fancy and use a rotary cutting and mat, be my guest, but it is not necessary.
Cut off the bottom seam of the shirt as well.
It's just ugly.
You should have a big long tube.
Cut it in half so that you have two long tubes.
Before we move on to the 5 minutes of sewing that this project requires, let me tell you a thing or two about knit fabrics.
Raw edges are okay because knit doesn't fray.
Knit ruffles VERY easily.
So, we won't be creating hems or pulling on a basting stitch.
Instead we will be messing with the stitch length and tension on your machine.
Every sewing machine is different, so you may want to practice on some scrap knit
(cut off the t-shirt sleeves or something).
On my machine, I changed the tension to 9 and made the stitch length as long as possible.
But yours may be different.
You'll know you have the right settings when your knit fabric goes in flat on one side of your needle and comes out ruffled on the other.
Like so:Once you have adjusted your machine settings, you want to take that long strip of fabric and fold the end in thirds. Place a pin where each third is divided.Begin sewing where the pin was placed to divide into thirds.
Sew all the way down the long strip, ruffling all the way.Starting at the other pin, stitch all the way down the strip of fabric.We want the scarf to be extra ruffly so that when we take the basting stitch out at the end, the ruffle will remain. So, using the basting stitch, stitch over both seams that you just made.
Extra ruffles.
Now you need to adjust all of your settings back to normal.
Make sure you change the tension AND the stitch length.
With a regular stitch, go back over the basting stitches that you sewed. You only need to do this once on each side.
Remove the basting stitches with a seam ripper.
And you're done!
What once was an awful castaway is now a ruffle scarf perfect for pairing with your favorite coat!***Reminder: All proceeds from pattern orders in the shop this week will be donated to Haiti Relief!***


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Sidney Charles Miedema
March 4, 1930 - February 12, 2010
Dad, you will be greatly missed. Your battle with Alzheimer is finally over.
I will always remember you by your smiles and hugs.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Remembering Dad
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December 27, 2010
Holiday Cheer
The family had a white Christmas in Chicago. I got the sweetest voicemail from Nicky on Christmas Eve after the UPS-man dropped off his gift.
"I want to call you for thank you for my Christmas present... You didn't call me. Merry Christmas. Love You... Can you please call me back? Please I want to call".
That boy melts my heart. His cuteness continued on Christmas morning, when he woke up and saw that Santa came, he squealed, "Santa came and he didn't leave coal in my stocking". His excitement grew with each gift opened "holy guacamole" "kazam" and other similar combinations. I hear it was caught on video and I look forward to seeing the footage. I would love to share a holiday with them, but traveling during the holiday is costly and hectic. If I did go for a holiday weekend, it'd be such a chaotic whirlwind, I'd never be in one place long enough to enjoy it.
Plus, 60-degrees and sunny is my kind of Christmas. I'm all about those warm holiday wishes. It was beautiful here in Las Vegas, and I was finally feeling better on Friday, too. Just in time to welcome Bob and Hugh. They were staying at Aria while Hugh was visiting. I'm not a fan of Aria's casino, but the hotel? Wow. The rooms are gorgeous. I was very impressed by all the little details, decor and stunning view. We visited and all that jazz to pass time until our meal at Estiatorio Milos. Pete joined us, as well. The five of us enjoyed a Greek Christmas. We had a fantastic meal, but I'm going to make y'all await the details. After dinner, we hung around the Cosmo and gambled. So far, I'm a fan of the property - we toured more spaces: the other pools, Scarpetta, No Name Pizza Kitchen, STK, among others, but the casino games are cruel. 5 for 5 we were all unlucky. After our beating, we thought we grab coffee and a sweet bite, but the Caffe had already closed. It was 10:15 on a Saturday night, wtf? We went to Comme Ca, instead. We had coffee and dessert in the bar.
Cardamom Creme Chantilly
Valrona Chocolate, Caramel Creme, Orizaba Praline Feuilletine
Neither of the desserts were worth their $9 price tags. Two lattes were $10 and served luke warm. The waitress did bring two fresh hot lattes after a mention of how chilled the first ones were. I realize this isn't a fair representation of the restaurant itself, but I certainly hope their dining fares better. We were unimpressed.
Christmas day was fairly quiet. We spent much of the day relaxing at home. Meanwhile, Bob and Hugh saw Red Rock and casino hopped. They came by afterwards. We had margaritas (Bob replenished our Patron supply) and played cards while we waited for dinner to cook. I prepared us a tasty meal of gouda stuffed pork chops, brussels sprouts and my grandma's potatoes. Dessert was oreo truffles and nutter butter truffles. Afterwards, we went out to old Henderson to low roll and show them the Water St. casinos. We mainly played at El Dorado for 10-cent roulette and $2 blackjack, but we also stopped at Rainbow and Emerald Isle. No wins, but a good time was had.
Sunday was all about football. Frank usually catches the games at work, but since he's on PTO he ordered the day pass for the NFL Sunday Ticket. How I've missed the Red Zone Channel! It's the only way I can enjoy football all day long, it's non-stop action and no commercials. Hugh caught a flight back to Kentucky last night, but Bob is staying with us until Wednesday -- more good eats to be had. We took him to Sushi Mon last night. He loved it. Frank asked asked him to rate it on a scale of 1-10 based on his experiences including his time in Japan, he said it was an 8. Nice that to know Frank and I can recognize something good despite not having lengthy experience with Sushi/Japanese. After stuffing ourselves silly we went home, played Mille Bornes until the hot tub heated, and then soaked the rest of the night and tossed back a few beers.
Not quite a traditional Christmas, but it was merry and filled with cheer.
5 comments:
- Hoya said...
I love Milles Bornes! My stepmom had that when I was little - I used to love visiting her & my dad and playing that. I've never seen anyone else who plays it or has even heard of it. Maybe it's an Illinois thing?
All this food is making me hungry, you horrible woman! Glad you had fun with your visitors!
- Kellee said...
It might be? It was a game Frank and I both grew up playing, but it wasn't until my mom inherited my grandma's set that we remembered it. We were playing at my mom's house for some time, and then we bought our own set on Amazon. It's good fun.
- Jay said...
What an awesome Christmas! You didn't mention any Christmas present exchange between you and Frank...tell me the guy got his favorite gal a gift? ;o)
Was Aria busy? Or more like a ghost town?
Thanks for the great post.
- Kellee said...
Frank and I don't exchange gifts in the traditional sense, we put the money aside for weekend getaways or staycation. This year funds are going towards a weekend in San Diego next month.
Aria's casino was pretty dead, but the public areas were busy. In fact, all of Vegas has been really busy this last week. I couldn't get over the crowds at MGM on Monday or those last night at Mandalay Bay.
- Jay said...
Makes sense - great idea re: the getaways.
I just wonder how long these gigantic places can stay open without the gamblers donating their paychecks. Oh well!


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Report to Gen. Shepley on Rebel activities, Norfolk, Va., 1864
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Maine Historical Society
When Louisiana elected a civilian government loyal to the Union, Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley was assigned to the Department of Eastern Virginia, again serving under Gen. Benjamin Butler.
Many of the same issues followed him.
In July 1864, H. Lockman wrote to Shepley, now commander of the Union department of Norfolk and Portsmouth, about activities of Rebel sympathizers, who, he said, trusted him and thus allowed him to get information.
He reported what the Rebel sympathizers said about Gen. Ulysses Grant and his Army of the Potomac and what Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee planned to do.
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Date: c.1950
Country: USA
Credit: Gift from the Heirs of Teresa Lambert Ireland
The deep blue jacket of the U.S. Army can be traced to the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War. During the twentieth century, the army began issuing "olive drab" combat uniforms, reserving blue strictly for dress uniforms. "Dress blues," as they became known, retained other historic details, including the gold stripes on the leg.
Object Number: 95.102.2


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We know Romney lost. But so did 10 of the 12 Senate candidates and four of the nine House contenders the Rove groups backed. Bloomberg News reported.
Which brings me to John Hood's column today reviewing (among other things) the tenor of the presidential campaign. It included this gem:
Because the Republicans relied heavily on independent expenditures to make up for President Obama's advantage in hard money, they were forced to make less-efficient advertising buys. Under federal law, the campaigns themselves are entitled to preferential rates from broadcast stations. But independent groups buying time to boost their favorite candidates or criticize others buy their ad time at higher rates. Want to see the difference? During the last week in October, the Romney campaign spent $12.9 million to air about 20,000 ads while a pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, spent $13.4 million to air about 11,000 ads.So the much-reviled (by the Left, anyway) Citizens United Supreme Court decision may have allowed a lot more money to flow into political races, but the evil geniuses on the Right weren't able to transform those dollars into wins. At least not uniformly.
"Given the stiff competition for airtime in battleground states, and the resulting rise in the prices that outside group sponsors are paying, it is starting to dawn on political contributors that sending their money to these groups may not be the most efficient way to get their favored candidates elected," said Travis Ridout, co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project. "I suspect that contributors may reevaluate their giving patterns before 2016 rolls around."
As John suggested, political donors may well look to those relics of a bygone era, political parties, to handle their campaign contributions over the next election cycle or two. The parties offer a tangible benefit: more ads for fewer dollars; and an intangible one: none of the stigma attached to the "shadowy" independent groups.
So the political parties, which allegedly have been pushing up the daisies since David Broder wrote their obituary in 1972, may just have been pining for the fjords after all.


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The Threat to Next Year's Tax Refunds
How to protect your pocketbook NOW — by adjusting your withholding.
How would you like to have to wait more than a year to get your income tax refund? It's possible if a crook gets to your refund before you do ... by stealing your identity and filing a phony tax return. If someone files a return with your Social Security number before you do, your legitimate return will be stopped in its tracks. You'll be lucky to get things sorted out within 12 months.
Unfortunately, such ID theft tax fraud is a booming business. A U.S. Treasury official told Congress in May that the IRS could issue $26 billion in fraudulent tax refunds resulting from identity theft over the next five years. The IRS says that figure is too high, in part because the agency is stepping up its efforts to detect phony returns before checks are issued.
That's the sort of good news. The certain bad news is that those efforts are likely to delay legitimate tax refunds owed to honest taxpayers.
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is an attempt to make the oft described 'most important intellectual in America' more accessible to the public. Naturally, this is a Canadian show. Chomsky is the most ignored sage of our times, and is vilified by the Right as an unrepentant radical. Nobody seems to care that the messages he delivers are apolitical Truths. Public access to information, he claims, is regulated and skewed by the mass media to hide the real economic and political reasons behind governmental decisions.
When 9/11 happened last year, Noam Chomsky's immediate response was to dryly say that the loathsome attack was a gift to American right-wing conservatives, who would now have license to promote their partisan policies. Chomsky has a habit of saying what he thinks regardless of how easy a target it makes him for political bullies and acid-throwers. It's a policy that has made him a dog in the manger of the American political mainstream. He's been rendered invisible by an almost total exclusion from normal media outlets. We see him gathering large audiences on college campuses, and traveling to small-town radio stations to explain his ideas (which he does with extreme patience), but he's ignored by the news shows like Nightline, who invite a steady diet of pundits and experts without a fraction of Chomsky's expertise.
Why? Chomsky's detractors pigeonhole him as a crackpot whose ideas make no sense. They see no cause and effect chain of events to support his claims that the Media is the puppet of corporate interests.
Chomsky says his arguments are based on relational analysis, of the kind he once used to build new theories of how the human mind generates language skills. In debate after debate, his attackers ask him to provide smoking-gun proof for phenomena that he says cannot be explained in a twenty-second sound bite, or softened to be palatable to ideologues closed to alternative thinking.
More than one debate turns into a dogfight where Chomsky's opponent refuses to let him state his case while hectoring the microphone with slanderous insults. A military spokesman attacks Chomsky with meaningless noise, making sure he can't say anything until time runs out. Then, as the show cuts to a commercial, Chomsky sits there with a smile on his face, perhaps reflecting on the way the TV format gives the advantage to the bullies. In a later controversy over a French crackpot's claim that the Holocaust never happened, nobody seems to be able to separate Chomsky's defense of free speech, from the hot-button topic. He's vilified by people who hear only his detractors' claims that he's an anti-semitic monster.
This is a man that doesn't need the extra notoriety. When pushed, Chomsky comes out with simple statements that nobody wants to hear. Four examples: "America exports exactly the same kind of Terrorism that it accuses others of fomenting." "If the Nuremburg accords were enforced, every post-war American President would have been hung." "The News Media colluded with the government to make sure we didn't hear about the genocidal invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in 1975." "A vicious hatemonger who says the Nazis never used gas chambers to run extermination camps, should be allowed to publish his views."
Chomsky goes against every rule of smart political behavior. His ideas require intelligence and sometimes research from the reader to understand, and he takes nothing for granted - especially messages from our own government. Naturally he's an easy target for what he calls marginalization.
Chomsky's analysis shouldn't be unfamiliar. His case is that a small number of conglomerate companies own all of the news media, and can therefore manipulate what we see and hear for the benefit of powered interests in the same way that mass marketers create a desired response through controlled advertising. Right-wingers claim a liberal conspiracy and Left-wingers cry conservative conspiracy, but Chomsky says that there is no conspiracy per se, simply a system owned by a power elite that serves the purposes of its owners. East Timor was allowed to fall at the hands of oppressors armed and encouraged by the U.S., because American interests wanted it so. The public is left in the dark, because their presumed role is to stay silent and let the 'experts' handle public policy.
The main theory in this show is the increasingly narrow view of our mass media outlets - newspapers and television news. The media, according to Chomsky, are naturally inclined to provide only information and points of view that do not oppose the status quo. In mainstream elections, for example, all those candidates seen only on a voting ballot are never given the chance to bring their views to a wide audience. They've been marginalized, pushed off to the side because they get in the way of the 'real', officially sanctioned candidates of the major parties.
Chomsky's arguments claim no conspiracy, only a natural process, and that's why there's no trail of evidence. His claim is that there can be no democracy with such a misinformed public. The intelligentsia is encouraged to accept a narrow viewpoint on every issue of importance, and the rest of the public is fed entertainment and diversion (sports, etc.) to keep them happy, quiet and completely out of the picture.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media openly advocates the Professor's ideas. It does a good job of presenting Chomsky as an honest man who refuses to court media celebrity, even more than did Ralph Nader, another counterculture hero that the mainstream couldn't smear but effectively 'marginalized'.
The show encourages investigation. The shocking East Timor story (even more relevant now that the country has recently gained its independence) shows President Jimmy Carter signing a bill to fund the Indonesian mass murderers. As this is inconsistent with my image of Carter, I want to know more. Chomsky never speaks in terms of our constipated political spectrum, but takes each incident and issue as a simple collection of facts.
Chomsky considers himself an Anarcho-Syndicalist. True to his honest nature, he defines himself with a word his detractors can exploit to make him sound like a rabble-rousing nutcase. People readily accept the most meaningless definitions of Democracy and Freedom and Terrorism; it all depends on who is saying them.
Chomsky's poor treatment by the media happens because the media is an informal defender of the status quo, and he rocks the boat. The odds are all in favor of Chomsky's opponents, the formal defenders of the status quo - all people with something to gain from their points of view - position, power, or money. Chomsky is difficult to discredit because his approach is scientific, not political. He can't be linked with evil ulterior motives, so they simply ignore him or shout him down. Naturally, a country needs consensus to operate, but alternative ideas and dissent over any basic issue is strongly discouraged. To really speak one's mind about what we see and hear, can easily put one's livelihood at risk. Chomsky remains the darling of cautious, isolated intellectuals, while the rest of the population probably perceives him as a seditious troublemaker. That's what being 'marginalized' is.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a well-produced DVD with some good extras. The show itself is divided into two hefty parts, and keeps moving between visual mediums (video, film, graphs, montages) to maintain interest. The picture is fine overall, but part two looks as if a few intermittent flaws in the video master were carried over without correction - fast 'video hits' indicating damage to the tape. None of them interrupt the show.
For extras, there are the usual bios and notes, plus three interesting short films. One is a 1971 discussion with Michel Foucault, who disagrees with Chomsky. They nevertheless carry on a lively, positive debate that presents both of their points of view. For contrast, there are some extended excerpts from Chomsky's 1969 debate with William F. Buckley on Firing Line. Here's the exact opposite, a debate that falls to the lowest level because Buckley interrupts and attacks Chomsky constantly, usually with emotional retorts and condescending tricks, trying to get the Professor's goat while scoring slick, sophomoric debate points. Buckley is the sneering, dishonest debate equivalent of an attack dog, distinguished from the boorish Army officer seen in the docu only by his intelligence, and his self-presumed superiority on every issue.
Finally, Chomsky reflects on the film ten years after it was made, in a rather poorly taped interview in his office where his quiet voice is never on mike. He starts to evaluate the show and its impact, but doesn't follow through, and instead makes his familiar points over again, like a college Professor with one last chance to get through to his students. It's not the disc's best feature.
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Choo to have season-ending elbow surgery
SEATTLE -- Rangers outfielder Shin-Soo Choo is expected to undergo surgery to have a bone spur removed from his left elbow as early as Friday and will not play again this season. The Rangers called up outfielder Michael Choice from Triple-A Round Rock to replace him.
Choo has been bothered by elbow problems since Spring Training although he has been trying to play through both that and a sprained right ankle. The Rangers were planning to shut him down at the beginning of September but moved that up a week because he came down with the flu this past weekend and has been running a fever. He did not travel with the Rangers to Seattle.
The Rangers want him to get the elbow cleaned up because the recovery time is two months. They want him back at full strength by Nov. 1 so he can go through a full, normal offseason conditioning program. That's why they had targeted Sept. 1 as the shutdown date.
"It cleared up for the most part after Spring Training," general manager Jon Daniels said. "It bothered him on long throws and hard throws. He was aware of it. We want to get it completely cleaned up."
Choo, who signed a seven-year, $130 million contract as a free agent this offseason, finished his first season with the Rangers hitting .242 with 58 runs scored, 13 home runs, 40 RBIs, a .340 on-base percentage and a .374 slugging percentage. All batting, slugging and on-base percentages were his lowest since he began playing regularly in 2008.
"More than anything, the ankle played a big part early," manager Ron Washington said. "Once that got rolling, he couldn't stop it. In this game when things go south, it's hard to correct."
Washington still suggested that in some ways, Choo had a "strong" first season with the Rangers.
"With all the adversity, he didn't shut it down," Washington said. "He kept fighting. I admire the way he went about his business through all the adversity. It was tough but he didn't complain."


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text: CaptainHowdy 0 Posted November 14, 2017 On 5/15/2011 at 10:35 PM, Younes said: God tests people to see who wants to be guided and worship Him as He has commanded, to test our thankfulness, to differentiate the believers from the disbelievers, to see who is the best in deed etc On 5/8/2013 at 1:33 AM, infogirl said: He tests your IMAAN (means how much you believe in Him). For example, you are a very religious Muslim and you are a small textile merchant and one day if your shop catches on fire, you lose profit. You start to lose the belief in God and think I prayed to Him 5 times and this is what I get. In this case, Allah is testing you. I have a few counters for God Testing tbh . If you could please take time to read and answer them uwu 1. Many children die in the wombs. Would they go to Heaven or Hell? Many say they go to Heaven because they never did anything wrong in their lives. Now my question is "Did they even have an option to do anything wrong?" Is God not being partial by clearing one candidate even without starting his examination, and another one has to keep giving test after test continuously for 100 years! 2. Many children die young before they reach maturity. Even the wrong acts they do are not out of willful desire to do something wrong but out of innocence. Would they reach Heaven or Hell? If they reach Heaven, then why does God not kill everyone in their childhood and ensure a seat in Heaven for them? Is God not being unjust and imperfect? If they reach Hell, what was their fault? Say twins were born. Both lived same innocent life for first 3 years. Then one died. He will go straight to Heaven. The other remained innocent for next few years, then got into bad company and died at age of 60. Now he would go to Hell simply because God decided to test him instead of his brother whom God killed as a child.. Is this not God's crime that he made him live for 60 years and not his brother? Had he killed both at same age of 3 years, both would have gone to Heaven! So if there is one life and permanent Heaven/Hell, it proves God is unjust. 3. A person is born insane. His mental faculties have not developed beyond say, age of five. But he lives a long life. Will he go to Hell or Heaven? Again the same questions as above rise. And result in either God being unjust or concept of one life as test to enter Heaven/Hell being wrong. 4. Different people are born and nurtured in different religions. But each religion says that only followers of their religion will go to Heaven. Others will go to Hell irrespective of their deeds. So who will go where? What is my fault if I was born and brought up in a different religion? Why has God planned my stay in Hell from advance? 5. People say that children are innocent and hence they will go in Heaven, if they die young. Suppose a person takes this view seriously and resolves to gift heaven to all children. As a noble example of self-sacrifice, he starts killing children. His logic is that, even if I have to burn in Hell forever, I should do my best to ensure that these innocent children get reservation for Paradise! Thus he is doing a selfless social service. Will he go to Heaven or Hell? If he goes to Heaven, then God is setting a wrong example for people to follow. If he goes to Hell, then selflessness is bad. Further, since no one will actually know who will go where until doomsday comes, it means God has already spread enough confusion to motivate many innocent selfless social workers to follow the path of infanticide and killing! 6. An unbiased testing environment will demand that – first the topic be taught to everyone with same facilities and attention under same conditions, – then they should be evaluated under same testing environment. Accordingly, God should have first imbibed true religion and its scriptures in hearts of all people, then given them birth in same types of family, allowed them to grow up in same place and in same conditions, and only then should have conducted the test. But in this world, we find the testing environment to be as diverse as one can possibly imagine. And yet God is claimed to be perfect, just and kind! Most religious scholars answer this paradox by saying that God knows how to decide the fate by whatever acts people have done in their respective lives based on whatever environment they had to live in. This seems to be like God having something like the Duckworth-Lewis formula which is used to decide winner of an interrupted cricket match. Now this raises few doubts: One, if indeed God is perfect and He has such a great scoring formula, why did he create the entire drama and wasted so many years? He should have used the formula in the very beginning and directly sent everyone to either Heaven or Hell! Two, If the formula works on a stillborn child or a fetus, why did he unnecessarily bias against certain folks and had them face troubles of long lives? After all He had created everyone equal to start with! Three, The test seems to have binary results. Either you get Heaven or Hell. There seems to be no concept of variation of results as per deeds. Some books do talk of several varieties of Heaven, but these merely increase a binary solution to a finite number solution (Instead of one Heaven and one Hell, there are now say 10 Heavens and 10 Hells). But still there is no continuous gradation. It is like a continuous function equation is giving a non-zero discrete answer, which is mathematically improbable. 7. People seem to be retaining their youthful bodies in Heaven. Now will they be able to change their looks if they want to? What about children and fetus who go to Heaven? Will they go as adults? Will they receive a training in the language which is supposed to be the language of Heaven? If indeed so, why did God not make the same language as that of Heaven the lingua-franca on earth also? 8. What about animals – reptiles, insects, mammals and other creatures? Will they go to Heaven or Hell? The earlier belief was that animals do not have souls. But now that it has been amply proved that at least the higher animals feel pain and pleasure like humans, the opinion is divided. Some claim that they will also go to Heaven. Others say that God knows the best! In case they go to Heaven, why did God bias against others and not gave them birth as ####roaches and goats? That way they too would have got straight passport to Heaven! In case they go to Hell, what was their fault? Also, will they live like ####roaches and goats, or will they get human body? Will their intelligence be enhanced? Or they remain equally dumb as in earth? 9. Heaven and Hell seem to be permanent. It will continue forever, as per these religions. Now if that be so, God's injustice becomes even more prominent in light of above points. Based on one single test, God put certain people directly in Heaven without testing them at all! Others he tested for so many years. Some he gave birth in homes of Apostates. Is this not gravest cheating? God is the most unjust and biggest cheater in these stories of there being one single exam and Heaven/Hell forever be true. A corollary: What would happen if people start fighting or cheating or adultery in Heaven? Will they be shifted to Hell? Or will they be permitted to do whatever they want and yet remain in Heaven? 10. Recently there was news that a 2 month old baby was raped. Now who is being tested? The victim or the rapist? If its test of victim, is it in a position to respond? If its test of the rapist, why the hell did God make the poor little baby as a scapegoat? God seems nothing more than a crazy, stupid, psychopathic dictator if these stories be true. 11. Almost all books of Eastern philosophies refute the concept of one birth. They believe in life being a continuous cycle not interrupted by death. Its broadly termed the Theory of Karma. Now if this were not true, why did God confuse minds of people who were born in Eastern part of the globe, from very childhood. God has done great miracles in past including burning entire towns and villages, and giving birth to Jesus without need of a human father. If He can do so much, why did he not burn these books of East forever? After all He himself laid the criteria that those who refuse to believe in Jesus or Muhammad will go to Hell! Ideally he should have stopped the creation of these Eastern books in the first place! 12. What about terrorists who were brainwashed from very childhood to do Jehad? Will people like Kasab who killed many in Mumbai attack go to Heaven or Hell? They were simply brainwashed by fanatics to take up arms to seek God! 13. People say that God forgives the sins of one who accepts the true path of God! This means that regardless of whatever you have done, if finally you say sorry, you will go scot-free in Heaven! And if you have been a devout believer but at last moment you say, "I refuse to believe", he will give you ticket to Hell. This raises further doubts: One, Does it not render the entire life and all its multi-dimensionality and complexity wasteful? The entire life, its efforts, its studies all go for a toss, and what remains is a final yes or no. Is this not against nature? We all know anger is bad. But still we succumb to anger at times, due to limits of our understanding and our neural programming. So if someone has been a believer throughout but out of confusion, in last few days of his life, became an apostate, why should he be punished so severely? And another one, who was apostate forever, why should he be rewarded Heaven despite all the nonsense he thought and did for decades? No decision is without confusion. The only way to take a right decision without confusion is to know everything and be able to analyze everything. This is impossible for any human. Thus no decision of human can be considered reliable and final. Thus regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with message of God, the decision is full of confusion and based on extremely limited knowledge. Is God not crazy then to curse one to Hell and another one to Heaven forever, based on a momentary decision which was taken out of ignorance? Is God not unjust to have designed such a faulty testing mechanism that relies on ignorance of people which will decide the fate of all souls forever? Two, Does it not provide an inbuilt incentive mechanism in the system to keep doing all sorts of nonsense throughout the life and say sorry at the end? We thus, see many becoming saint-like as old age comes to say sorry and go to Heaven. More careful ones do the nonsense, and then confess the same, and go scot-free! Three, Why does nature work opposite to God's method then? Was nature designed by God when he was imperfect? Because in nature, if you commit a mistake, you cannot go scot-free without paying the price. If you eat lots of sugars and get diabetic, you do not get cured by saying Sorry! You need to undergo the entire treatment process and even then perfect cure is not guaranteed. We do not get strong by saying, Sorry! We do not get back our teeth by saying, Sorry! We do not become scholars by saying, Sorry! We do not master skills by saying, Sorry! On contrary, in nature, everything happens in a continuous process as per definite laws. There is simply no escape from it. Why does God suddenly become so dismally and so confusingly discrete then! God must be crazy! 14. If God is just and kind, why does He demand belief in things we can neither see, hear, analyze or feel, for booking our permanent future? Neither we see God, nor see Him doing the kind of miracles, nor we witness any special divine people around, nor we have seen even trailer of Heaven/ Hell. Yet belief in each of these is necessary to book a seat in Heaven! And if we do not, we are doomed to Hell forever! On top of it, God gave us the intelligence to be able to test what is fraud and what is right. In this world, we respect those people more who have more of this intelligence. But in God's kingdom, this intelligence is the greatest cause of sin. Only the blinds will enter the Heaven. Rest shall burn in Hell! The God's world is indeed very confusing. Is he crazy? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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How automatic cuts to budget would affect Maine
White House releases report
A report from the White House shows that education and defense would be among the biggest losers in Maine in automatic cuts to the federal budget set to take hold this week.
According to the White House, Maine would lose $2.7 7 million in funding for primary and secondary education, which translates to roughly 40 teacher and aide jobs, and $2.6 million for about 30 teachers, aides and staff who help children with disabilities.
The report said about 7,000 civilian Department of Defense workers would be furloughed.
According to the report, Maine would also lose $167,000 in job assistance and placement program funding.
Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King have called on President Barack Obama to work with congressional leaders to reach an agreement to prevent the cuts and reduce the national debt, citing a major contributor to Maine's economy. They say failure to avert such an outcome could have severe ramifications for the nation's shipbuilding industrial base, including Bath Iron Works in Maine.
The White House compiled the numbers from federal agencies and its own budget office. The numbers are based only on the $85 billion in cuts for this fiscal year, from March to September, that were set to take effect Friday.