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"From New France, to Canada, to the nation within a nation of today, I am a part of this story, with its triumphs of coexistence and tolerance, and its tragedies of colonialism and oppression. I am a Canadian, and I claim the term, unhyphenated and unapologetically. Wherever my journey takes me, it will take me there as a Canadian, linked to its past and hopeful in its future."
Idil is a 34-year-old writer living in Montreal, Quebec. She told me her proudest accomplishment is her writing, no matter what else she does in her life. Even when she is advocating for people's rights, or travelling in beautiful locations for work, her writing is what ties everything she does together. She continued to say, "Being able to express myself and my innermost thoughts, feelings, and creativity is a gift that I am endlessly thankful for. Communicating through art, writing, speech, or other means is a way that we reach out and touch each other's lives, it's how we catch sight of each other's souls." When she is not writing or advocating, Idil loves reading, hiking, and swimming. As a past swim instructor and lifeguard, she still loves diving into cold bodies of water and enjoying herself as a "creature of the water." When I asked Idil what's most important to her she told me, "the most important thing to me is the heart; love. I think that there is so much that happens in this world, a lot of which is disturbing and distressing. Love is not a negation of hate, it's a higher order. Love has reality whereas hatred is an absence, a negation. Love is from Allah, and it can heal the world. Love has informed all of the material, intellectual, and formal aspects of my life. When you read an angry op-ed I've written about the rights of Muslim women, it's because of love. When you see me advocating for the inclusion of black people in a space of power, it's because of love. When you witness me taking up space in a traditionally white boardroom, it's because of love. Love is an equalizer; it is magnanimous because it has stores of wealth that cannot be exhausted. It is forbearing because it is powerful."
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What is your favourite quality about yourself?
"My favourite quality is my endurance and forbearance. I've been through a lot of emotional and mental trauma in my life, and yet, through my faith and trust in Allah, I've been able to survive and maybe even thrive. Grace has gotten me through and has shown me so many blessings."
Where is your favourite place to find yourself?
"In nature. Canada is blessed with such beautiful scenery, and it's a joy to discover it. Hiking, cross-country skiing allow me to enjoy what makes Canada unique and worth living in. There are too many places to name specifically… any national park in Canada is worth visiting. I've been to the beaches of Mauritius and the island of Zanzibar, but there's nothing like home."


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Five Ways to Decompress During Market
Finding time to relax and rejuvenate in your daily life is hard enough, but finding time during market can seem downright impossible. Nearly 80% of all workers in the United States report that they feel stressed daily in the workplace, which is far too high in our opinion! So, to celebrate almost reaching the midway point for the S/S '18 season, we've put together a list of our favorite quick, easy, and affordable ways to beat stress. Here's to a successful season!
1. Breathe in, breathe out.
Deep breathing is proven to help combat anxiety, depression, and a myriad of other not so fun things that weigh us down. Try listening to some white noise on YouTube while inhaling your favorite essential oil. Or, if you need something a little more active, try an alternate breathing technique to center and energize yourself!
Leaving the booth and the ball and chain that is your inbox for a few minutes every day is essential to clear your head and find your focus again! Whether it's taking a brisk walk around your neighborhood or fitting in a quick outdoor yoga class, fresh air and a change of scenery are essential to staying calm and productive during market! Plus, it's absolutely free.
3. try something you've never done before
According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, the key to making free time feel longer is to create positive, lasting memories. The trick to doing this? Trying something new! Force yourself out of the office and into a new environment, especially when you're on the road for market.
4. visualize yourself on a beach (and throw in a margarita)
Visualization exercises might sound a bit crunchy granola to you, but according to recent studies it's no joke. This technique is ideal for those times when you can't physically leave your work space, but need to escape for a few moments. Making yourself as comfortable as possible and visualizing a peaceful scene lowers your heart rate and distracts your mind from stressors, making you biologically and mentally calmer. Who knew?
5. talk to a real live person about anything but business
During market it seems like all we do is talk all day, every day. Whether it's in person, on the phone, or over email we're always communicating with someone. Talking is actually healthy and has been clinically proven to calm stress, but our minds need separation between professional and personal conversation. For a quick break, call up a friend or go to a business-free lunch with a co-worker!
What are your tips for de-stressing during market? Let us know in the comments and stay zen out there!

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Portraits under the oak trees are a must for a Lowcountry wedding. For their pink and purple wedding, Kate and Matt choose the dazzlingly gorgeous Sea Pines resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, which offers up plenty of those show-stopping oak trees for the ultimate in romantic venues.
Their color scheme of rich violet and blush pink tied the elements of their wedding together, and created an elegant, sophisticated feel for their guests.
The couple exchanged vows in the Holy Family Catholic Church (we're in awe of the colorful stained glass features there!), then headed to Sea Pines for photos and dancing. They ended the night with a fireworks show and a sparkler send off.
Ceremony venue: Holy Family Catholic Church, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Reception venue: Sea Pines Country Club, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Photography: Vitor Lindo Photo and Video
Florals: A Floral Affair
Rentals: Amazing Event Rentals
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Although it's still orchid time here in Dordogne, there are many other interesting plants to go in search of. One appeared almost on my front door step the other day. It's flowering just across the road from our driveway on a grassy roadside bank (that's our white VW minibus in the background!). The plant in question is the Field Gladiolus, a rather more luxuriant version of the Wild Gladiolus I've seen at various places on Faux Plateau at the edge of arable fields, which also has its flowers all facing in the same direction. The other species in Dordogne is the Italian Gladiolus but in that species the flowers point in various directions.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Learn how to get the most out of available library resources with this series of free classes offered by the University Libraries. Register online for the classes.
Library Research Basics
Learn how to find books, articles and other materials in your research area or major by using the libraries' online databases. You will also discover library services that can help streamline your research process. Individuals not affiliated with Penn State can register by calling 814-865-9257. Both classes will be held in W315 Pattee Library.
Class dates:
2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21
10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research library, collaborate with others online and discover other relevant papers based on what you are reading. Both classes will be held in 302 Paterno Library.
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EndNote can be used to search online bibliographic databases, organize references, images and PDFs in any language and create bibliographies and figure lists instantly. Attend one of these seminars to learn how to get the most out of EndNote. One class will be held form 10 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 2, in W23 Pattee.
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Pontiac Aztek Tailgate Lock Cylinder Replacement Cost
Know what price you should pay to get your vehicle fixed.
What is a Tailgate Lock Cylinder?
A tailgate lock cylinder is usually located in the tailgate latch handle assembly. It is used to lock or unlock the tailgate on a truck manually with a key. It may also be integrated into the vehicle's central locking system. Often the lock cylinder will have a sensor attached as part of the Anti Theft system to read the key, ensuring it is being unlocked by the proper key.
How do Tailgate Lock Cylinders work?
The tailgate lock cylinder is "coded" to the vehicle's key and it turns when the key is inserted and rotated, just like any other lock. But inside the tailgate, the lock cylinder moves a lever to enable or disable the latch handle. When the tailgate is locked, the handle is disconnected from the latch linkage. When it is unlocked, the latch handle engages the linkage and allows the tailgate to be opened. On some trucks, the lock cylinder also actuates the rest of the locks in the central locking system through the Body Control Module.
What are the symptoms of a bad Tailgate Lock Cylinder?
Most often, the symptom of a faulty tailgate lock cylinder is that the key will not turn or will not even insert into the hole at all. Sometimes the key gets stuck in one position or another, or it is difficult to remove. Occasionally a key is broken off inside the lock cylinder and cannot be removed. Electrical problems with the locking system are likely caused by the failure of other components.
Can I drive with a bad Tailgate Lock Cylinder?
A bad tailgate lock cylinder is less of a concern for driving and more of an inconvenience, especially if the tailgate is locked shut. A truck can still be driven with a bad lock cylinder. How soon the problem should be corrected is more of a personal concern and need for a tailgate lock. However, if the tailgate lock is connected to the central locking system - if it is activated with a remote key fob - symptoms of a bad lock cylinder could be related to other components, such as a faulty actuator or latch. Because components in the locking system are interrelated, a problem with one lock could affect the other locks.
How often do Tailgate Lock Cylinders need replacement?
The lock cylinders on a vehicle are designed to last the lifetime of the vehicle. But, because today's vehicles are more often locked and unlocked with a remote key fob, with the lock buttons on the door panel, or automatically when shifting into gear, the lock cylinder gets little to no use. This state of disuse often causes a lock cylinder to seize up. The tiny tumblers inside the cylinder can no longer move freely and respond to the key. Most complaints about faulty lock cylinders are caused by this situation.
How are Tailgate Lock Cylinder issues diagnosed?
To diagnose a bad tailgate lock cylinder, a technician will attempt to insert and turn the key. If the key is difficult to insert or does not turn freely, the technician may try to lubricate the cylinder and get it to free up. If this is not possible, the technician will remove the latch handle assembly from the tailgate to access the cylinder, the inside of the latch, and the connecting linkage. The goal is to rule out any other components as the cause of the problem. The lock cylinder may be removed from the latch handle assembly to observe how it operates on its own. If the rest of the system is operating properly, the lock cylinder is replaced.
How are Tailgate Lock Cylinders replaced?
To replace a tailgate lock cylinder, a technician will need to remove the latch handle assembly that houses the cylinder. This may require removal of any panels or closures on the inside of the tailgate, which can present a challenge if an aftermarket protective lining has been applied to the truck bed and tailgate. The lock cylinder is removed from the handle assembly. A new lock cylinder needs to be "coded" by the dealer to fit the key before it is installed.
RepairPal Recommendations for Tailgate Lock Cylinder issues
On today's cars, trucks, and SUVs, it is easy to neglect the lock cylinders on a vehicle, especially the one in the tailgate. But, should the battery die for some reason, a key is the only way to unlock the vehicle. RepairPal recommends that the lock cylinders, whether in the tailgate or in the doors, be operated with the key periodically as part of routine vehicle maintenance. This will help to prevent the cylinders from seizing up and failing prematurely.
What to look out for when dealing with Tailgate Lock Cylinder issues
Many truck owners have a sprayed-on coating, or bed liner, applied to protect the paint finish from abrasion. This coating also covers the inside of the tailgate. On some vehicles, gaining access to the inside of the tailgate or to the mounting hardware for the latch handle is more difficult because of the bed liner. It may be necessary to cut through the coating to remove hardware or closure panels. In these cases, the bedliner will need to be resprayed over the bolts to maintain the original appearance.
Can I replace the Tailgate Lock Cylinder myself?
Replacement of the tailgate lock cylinder can usually be performed by someone with an intermediate level of DIY experience. It will be necessary to have the new lock cylinder "coded" to the key for the vehicle by the dealer or a qualified locksmith.
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A US family is using their touching story of adoption to encourage others going through the emotionally taxing process to never give up.
After the trauma of four miscarriages, Anita and Jim Bojan decided to give adoption a chance, and their daughter Avi the younger sibling she always wanted.
Four years ago, the couple were slated to adopt a pregnant woman's baby but the adoption heartbreakingly fell through when the baby's birth mother had a change of heart after breastfeeding the child.
"I was the one to cut the umbilical cord, first to hold her and Jim and I went through jaundice with her," Ms Bojan said.
The sadness of the event was compacted when they had to break the news to their five-year-old daughter.
When the family took a second chance at adoption in March 2013, with a baby called Aerie, they were left heartbroken once more when the child's mother said she wanted her back.
After three days of caring for Aerie as their own, they were forced to hand her back, along with her clothes, books and toys.
However, in a twist of fate three months later, Ms Bojan received a text from Aerie's mother saying that the baby had fallen ill and she had lost her job trying to care for her, and signed over her parental rights to the Bojans.
"Aerie has added so much to our family," Ms Bojan told LittleThings.
"Dad calls her 'Sweet Potato' and I call her 'My Little Pistol.'"
"When Avi is dropped off at dance class, Aerie is continuously asking, 'Where is Avi?' When dance is over and she comes to the door, Aerie runs over to her so excited to see her. Their friendship keeps growing daily."
Avi's reaction to the news she was getting a little sister was posted on YouTube, with Avi heard saying "Yes, I got a sister!"
Despite the roller-coaster journey, the Bojan's have offered valuable advice to other family's hoping to adopt.
"Develop a thick skin and do not let anyone convince you to stop pursuing your dream.
"Agencies will try to have you stop after a certain time frame, families will say this is too hard for you and friends will try to add their thoughts, too. If you want it bad enough, it will happen," Ms Bojan said.


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(CNN) - Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Sunday defended her handling of the Clinton email investigation, saying in a statement that she "never hesitated to make the hard decisions."
The statement comes hours before ABC News airs a highly anticipated interview with former FBI Director James Comey to promote his forthcoming memoir, "A Higher Loyalty," his first televised sit-down interview since he was fired by President Donald Trump last year.
Comey writes in the book that he found evidence which he felt could cast "serious doubt" on Lynch's independence.
"Had it become public, the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general's independence in connection with the Clinton investigation," Comey writes. He calls the material a "development still unknown to the American public to this day."
Congressional investigators have raised questions about about any conversations Lynch had with Clinton staffer Amanda Renteria or former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz about the email investigation.
In response Sunday, Lynch said: "At no time did I ever discuss any aspect of the investigation with anyone from the Clinton campaign or the DNC."
In the book, Comey also says Lynch asked him to call the Clinton email probe "a matter" instead of an investigation, which to him seemed to align with the Clinton campaigns use of euphemisms to avoid using the word "investigation," he wrote.
In her statement, Lynch defended her approach, saying that in her decades as a federal prosecutor, "I have never hesitated to make the hard decisions, guided by the Department of Justice's core principles of integrity, independence and above all, always doing the right thing.
"The Justice Department's handling of the Clinton email investigation under my leadership was no exception," she said. "It was led by a team of non-partisan career prosecutors whose integrity cannot be overstated and whom I trusted to assess the facts and make a recommendation -- one that I ultimately accepted because I thought the evidence and law warranted it."
Lynch, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, told NBC News last week that Comey didn't appear concerned by the decision to call Clinton investigation a "matter," saying that meeting was "like any other we had where we talked about the issues. We had a full and open discussion about it," and Comey never raised concerns.
After being fired by Trump last year, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and discussed his interaction with Lynch.
Lynch told NBC her first response to the testimony was: "What is the issue here?"
"This was a very sensitive investigation, as everyone knew. And the issue when he and I sat down at that time, which I think was early in the fall of 2015, was whether or not we were ready as a department to confirm an investigation going on," Lynch said. "We typically do not confirm or deny investigations into anything, with rare exceptions."
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My family isn't big on traditions. It's not that we are anti-tradition, there simply aren't many to be had. There is, however, one thing that is an important aspect of our family, "The Haley Special."
A Haley Special is vanilla ice cream (the best you can get your hands on) dry roasted peanuts (full salt and preferably Planters…..although my Grandma used to swear that H.E.B. brand was better) and Hershey's syrup. OMG—SO GOOD! Every summer at my Grandma's house on South Padre Island in TX, we would eat these lovely things from pink Tupperware bowls sitting on the back deck watching the wind have it's way with the sea oats. Those bowls are long gone and the open field behind my grandparents old house is now a sea of condos. But last night, eating it out of my pink fiestaware bowl, it was almost like I was a kid again.
I guess if you're not going to have many traditions, make the ones you have count. If I ever have a restaurant–this will SO be on the menu 🙂


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Crushing It
You've got to get it before it gets you.
Oh the pressures of deadlines. Thankfully some of them have been made and I was not crushed by the weight of them.
Here is a quote about deadlines and musings from one muse for you to ponder:
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
-Rita Mae Brown
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Old Motifator threads are available in the Archive.
| YamahaDJEX
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I'm looking at a few keyboards I'm interested in purchasing. The MoxF8 really caught my eye for those classic Motif sounds very beautiful sounding synth. What really has me interested though is the idea of loading in custom sound libraries. I'm aware that MOXF uses flash and you can load them via a flash drive. With the GB expansions once you load the sounds to the Keyboard are they there permanently as new sound banks Or do you have to load them up every time you want to use them? Does the Memory store the samples?
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Welcome to the Forum.
There will be no new "sound banks". There are existing VOICE USER BANKS in the machine, where the actual custom VOICES you create will be STORED.
There is an optional Flash Board, which can be purchased and installed in the machine, that will in fact STORE new sample data for VOICES that use that data.
Once your audio samples are LOADED to the optional Flash Board, they will remain there, intact until you choose to remove them.
Only the sample data is STORED on the Flash Board.
The VOICE itself is STORED within the machine in USER BANKS, and remains until you choose to overwrite it with a different VOICE.
There are also many 3rd party libraries which use only the native samples within the machine, and no optional Flash Board is required to LOAD and play such VOICES.
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Forgive me for adding to cmayhle's more detailed explanation but the short answer to your question is 'yes.' Motif instruments (including the MOXF) have their own precise and rather uncompromising terminology that you will have to get used to. Not crazily complex but unless you do understand what various types of data are called and where they're stored, it can be frustrating.
It's all part of their 'charm' :)


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Nominations for this year's 5 To Watch Sports Business Awards are now open. The annual awards are handed out to the Canada's brightest young minds in the business of sport.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the selection of Annyston Pennington of Amarillo, who attends Amarillo High School, as a 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar.
Pennington is one of 141 outstanding American high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship, service and contribution to school and community. The U.S. Presidential Scholars will be honored for their accomplishments in Washington D.C., from June 15 to 18.
The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, appointed by President Barack Obama, selects honored scholars annually based on their academic success, artistic excellence, essays, school evaluations and transcripts, as well as evidence of community service, leadership and demonstrated commitment to high ideals.
Of the 3 million students expected to graduate from high school this year, more than 3,800 candidates qualified for the 2013 awards determined by outstanding performance on the College Board SAT and ACT exams, and through nominations made by chief state school officers or the National
YoungArts Foundation.
Each distinguished teacher is honored with a personal letter from the secretary of education. The teacher chosen for recognition by Pennington was Janita Hopkins of Amarillo High School.
Source: U.S. Presidential Scholars
STEPHENVILLE - The Tarleton State University chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the oldest freshman academic national honor society, inducted 124 new members during its annual induction ceremony on April 15. Phi Eta Sigma, with chapters on more than 350 college campuses across the nation, encourages and rewards academic excellence achieved by students during their freshman year in institutions of higher learning.
Among the most recent members inducted into the Tarleton chapter of Phi Eta Sigma is Ashlee Birkenfeld of Amarillo.
To be eligible, students must have earned a minimum 3.5 grade point average (on a 4.0 GPA scale) in a program leading to a bachelor's degree during their freshmen semesters.
Source: Tarleton State University
BATON ROUGE, La. - The following local residents were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.
� Darcy Castleberry of Amarillo and Reid Ragsdale of Canyon were initiated at Oklahoma State University.
� Joshua Yokum of Amarillo was initiated at Texas Tech University.
For more information, visit www.phikappaphi.org.
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STILLWATER, Okla. - Rachel Steinman of Amarillo was among 92 students obtaining a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Oklahoma State University's Center for Veterinary Health Sciences during convocation and hooding exercises May 4 in Gallagher Iba arena. Previously, Steinman received two honors at the veterinary center's awards banquet - Elizabeth Ann Cochran Memorial Endowed Scholarship and a Robert G. and Karen F. Beach Scholarship. She is the daughter of Steve and Jennifer Steinman of Amarillo.
Source: Oklahoma State University
LINCOLN, Neb. - Alvan-Bidal Timothy Sanchez of Amarillo was among more than 2,750 students who received degrees from University of Nebraska-Lincoln at commencement exercises May 3 and 4.
Sanchez received a Bachelor of Science in design degree with distinction from the college of architecture.
The graduates are from 44 states and 36 countries.
Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
LEXINGTON, Va.- Catherine Buckthal of Amarillo, a member of the class of 2013 at Washington and Lee University, has earned honor roll status for the recently ended winter term 2013.
Honor roll status at Washington and Lee represents a term grade-average of at least 3.75 on a 4.0 scale.
The following students have obtained dean's list status for the term: Buckthal and Andrew Roberts, both of Amarillo.
Dean's list status represents a term grade-average of at least 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.
Source: Washington and Lee University
Nine Ascension Academy students are honored with 17 Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Academic All-State Awards in five sports this year. Those students were honored at the athletic awards banquet May 14 at Ascension Academy.
Junior Casey Crosson joined the Academic All-State team for track; junior Erin Fraser for cross country, basketball and track; junior Adam Huebner for cross country, basketball and track; senior Ben Huebner for cross country and track; senior Emily Koetting for volleyball and basketball; junior Colleen Nair for swimming and track; senior Payson Puckett for swimming; junior Melanie VanWinkle for cross country and track; and senior Kelsey Wagner for volleyball.
According to the TAPPS constitution, coaches may nominate students for the academic all-state team until the Thursday following the state competition for each sport. Qualifying students are juniors or seniors in their schools, have a grade-point average of 90 or better, and they have achieved first-team all-district status in basketball or volleyball; placed in the top 15 in TAPPS State for cross country; qualified for state as an individual or relay team member in swimming; and qualified for state as an individual or relay team member in track and field.
Ascension Academy offers a college preparatory education for sixth- through 12th-graders in a faith-affirming learning environment. The Academy is the only school in the Texas Panhandle that is dually accredited by Southern Association of Independent Schools and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Ascension is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. For more information, visit www.ascension academy.org
Source: Ascension Academy
ABILENE - Catherine Couzzourt of Canyon has been named to the spring 2013 dean's list at McMurry University in Abilene.
To be eligible for the dean's list, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade-point average while taking 12 or more credit hours.
Source: McMurry University
IRVING - Matthew DeGrood of Amarillo was one of 35 University of Dallas senior English majors to present his capstone project, commonly referred to as "Senior Novel." These presentations are the culmination of intensive research and writing on a major English-language novel and are required of all senior English majors in order to satisfy degree requirements. DeGrood's presentation was on Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov's "Lolita."
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Source: University of Dallas
SEARCY, Ark. -The following residents are among more than 1,000 Harding University students included on the dean's list for grades achieved during the spring 2013 semester: Hayden Johnson of Canyon and Austin McCoy, Samantha McKeever, Tamara Rhodes and Trey Savage, all of Amarillo.
The dean's list is published each semester by Larry Long, university provost, honoring those who have achieved high scholarship. To be eligible, a student must be carrying 12 or more hours with a 3.65 or higher grade-point average and no incompletes.
For more information on the university, visit www.harding.edu.
Source: Harding University
BROWNWOOD - Howard Payne University honored 66 students for academic achievements during the 2012-13 academic year. The honors were conferred at the annual academic awards convocation ceremony held on HPU's campus.
Anna McCay of Canyon, a May 2013 graduate, received the Outstanding Student in Cross-Cultural Studies award.
Source: Howard Payne University
GEORGETOWN-The following local students received degrees in May from Southwestern University in Georgetown.
Alexandra Bryan of Canyon graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in music education. She also was inducted into the Alpha Chi national honor society.
Erin Weber of Amarillo graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in music performance. She also was inducted into the Alpha Chi national honor society.
For more information on Southwestern, visit www
Source: Southwestern University
Randall High School's One-Act Play traveled to Austin and competed in the state championship May 21.
Canyon ISD is honored to announced that the One-Act Play won the honors of state championship.
Ian Abbott, a junior, and Brandon Dawson,a senior, were named to the Honorable Mention All-Star cast. Tucker Carver, a senior, was named to the All-Star Cast and Clay LeGrand, a senior, was named Outstanding Technician.
The play was direct by Cy Scroggins. This is Randall's second time to compete at state. Two years ago, Randall finished third.
Source: Randall High School
STEPHENVILLE - Tarleton State University has released its honor roll list for the spring 2013 semester. Students listed have a 4.0 grade-point average on the 4.0 system and are taking a minimum of 12 credit hours.
Students making the list include Danielle Barker and Ashlee Birkenfeld, both of Amarillo.
Source: Tarleton State University
STEPHENVILLE - Tarleton State University has released the distinguished students list for the spring 2013 semester. Students on the list include freshman and sophomore students who have a minimum 3.25 grade-point average and no grade lower than a C and juniors and seniors who have a minimum 3.5 GPA with no grade lower than a C. All must be in good standing with the university.
Students making the list include Emily Klein, April Downing and Audrey Harrell, all of Amarillo, and Jonathan Lindsey and Luke Rohrbach, both of Canyon.
Source: Tarleton State University
ABILENE - The following students were named to the President's List at Hardin-
Simmons University for the spring 2013 semester: Michele Norman and Tristen Tellman, both of Canyon, and Kelton Weller of Amarillo.
The president's list is composed of students carrying 12 or more semester credits who have grades of A on all courses for the semester.
Source: Hardin-Simmons University
ABILENE - The following students were named to the dean's list at Hardin-Simmons University for the spring 2013 semester: Kristen Brockman of Amarillo and Christopher Matthews of Canyon.
The Dean's List is composed of students carrying 12 or more semester credits who have a grade point average of 3.75 to 3.99 for the semester.
Source: Hardin-Simmons University
ABILENE - McMurry University is proud to announce its Academic Honors Award recipients for the 2012-13 academic year.
Spencer Smith of Amarillo received the Academic All Conference award.
Source: McMurry University
PLAINVIEW - Angela K. Lichtie and Libby Marie Saultz, both of Amarillo, graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wayland Baptist University on May 11.
Lichtie received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/language arts education, and is the daughter of Raymond and Gaye Lichtie of Amarillo. The ceremony was held at the Hutcherson Center on the Wayland campus in Plainview.
Saultz received a Bachelor of Science degree in molecular biology, and is the daughter of David and Sharon Saultz of Amarillo. The ceremony was held at the Hutcherson Center on the Wayland campus in Plainview.
Source: Wayland Baptist University
ABILENE - The following students were among those awarded degrees at McMurry University's commencement May 12 in the Hunt P.E. Center.
Catherine Couzzourt of Canyon has been awarded a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree in Christian ministry/
psychology/early childhood.
Spencer Smith of Amarillo has been awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing.
Source: McMurry University
COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M University has named its honor students for the spring semester, recognizing them for outstanding academic performance.
The dean's honor roll recognizes students taking at least 15 semester hours during the spring semester who have maintained a 3.75 or higher grade point average out of a possible 4.0.
A second designation, distinguished student, recognizes those who earned a 3.5 to 3.74 GPA while taking at least 15 hours for the spring semester.
Among those recognized for the dean's honor roll were Alexander S. Allen, Jordan R. Batson, Jack A. Biggs, Kristen R. Coffman, Alexa L. Gervasi, Kelton F. Johnson, Michael A. Ripperger, Lindsay A. Sames and Delton T. Tatum, all of Amarillo.
Among those recognized as distinguished were Adrianna E. Hernandez, Natalie M. Merki and Hannah S. Owen, all of Amarillo.
Source: Texas A&M University


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Inside of my constantly overthinking mind, art and science have somehow learned to coexist. My artwork is a series of experiments in finding new ways to think about everything around me. Some pieces have clearly defined subject matters that are carefully planned out, others are a flurry of colors and movement chosen purely by emotion. My ultimate goal is to show the viewer that science is beautiful and that you don't need a degree in it to understand and appreciate it. Through my work, I hope to create pieces that bring delight and curiosity to the viewer. This website is the record of my progress in working towards my goal. I love chatting about art and science, feel free to drop me a line!
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Coming Out on Top gets lots of love from me for using Pansy Division's Luv Luv Luv in its opening screen. Forget Riverdale: this song is how the true masters do a cynical version of Archie and the Bunkers. Embrace the happy sunshine while cheering about how love is actually sex and blah blah blah – ooh, that hits the spot so nice.
Okay, this one. It's a dating simulation game, and yes, it's gay. Pornographically so. But take note that this is not a harem game – you don't get to collect boyfriends and live vicariously as the gay stud of the block. Instead, you play through one main story as Mark Matthews, an annoyingly cute clean-cut final year college student, comes out to his roommates Penny and Ian, and subsequently, the adventure opens up various possible routes that lead to love with one of a passel of gay male tropes present here. Choosing to commit to one guy closes off opportunities to score with other guys, so no, there is no chance of cheating or boyfriend collecting here.
Wait, there may be a bit of all that. This game also offers an option of "side quests" called dates, which allows you as Mark to embark on ten different short "dates" that, if you do things right, will get you a happy ending in every sense of that word. If you are romantic at heart, though, you can play these side quests as some kind of alternate reality thing, I suppose.
But let's talk about the main boys that you can score with first. That's what we're here for, aren't we? Well, say hello to the boys:
The beefy bear at the far most left is Amos. His story is most eye-rolling one: if you want to take his big beefy salami into your wholemeal buns you need to grit your teeth and agree with him on everything and anything, don't do anything that he won't like, and generally be his nodding bobblehead. When he is revealed to be with some flaws, you can't say sod it and yell at him for being a hypocritical control freak – you have to nod and go, aww baby, you're the best. Frankly, he can sod off. I mean, the "rewards" are just some third-tier version of pornographic Tom of Finland-style twink-mounts-bear picture sets that are… oh, okay, they're pretty hot, and once I've unlocked them, I consider my duty done and I will never play that romance route again. Amos is such a boring douchebag.
Next to him is Phil. He's a black guy, and since this is a politically correct era, that means he has no flaws or sense of humor (don't want anyone to get offended by presumed racism or anything, after all) and hence this guy is as dull as dishwater left out in the open for five weeks. He is also a judgmental ass, although this is of course never played up as a flaw, and Mark needs to go "But you're still cute!" and go down on him after he's been a stick-in-the-ass bore all day, if you want to unlock the happy ending and some boring pornographic scenes that feel as dull as that guy, especially when compared to some of the other guys' offerings here.
Next up is Ian. Ah yes, he's the meat in everyone's favorite "womanizing hot room mate who turns out to be secretly gay only for you" story. Okay, Ian is very easy on the eyes, I have to admit, and there is something about the way the artist draws that fellow's adorable facial expressions… ahem. Ian's story is also one of the most sexually explicit ones here, culminating in a scene in which you can do anything you want to a blindfolded Ian. This fellow is also one of the more well developed – I mean… oh, you know what I mean, come on – meats in this game: he's not the brightest bulb at times, but it's pretty obvious that he's a solid buddy who sticks by Mark and Penny no matter what. Also, even if you as Mark romance other guys, he sometimes shows jealousy at those guys, which is too cute. On the downside, this story route utilizes the tired "females as plot devices to advance a gay romance" tropes that feel contrived in an otherwise adorable story.
The guy in the middle is Mark. Seriously, look at him, he's so cute. Like all the guys here, you can decide whether he should have body hair or beard, but that's the extent of the customization. Oh, and you can change his name too, but I personally can't be bothered. I'm just here for the dirty scenes, er, romantic story arcs.
After Mark is Brad, the football jock who is just starting college. Yes, that stereotype. Okay, Brad is very nice to look at, and the naughty scenes get two thumbs up from me. His story is a twofer: the quintessential nerd and jock romance smashed up with the gay nerd and the straight-acting jock coupling. If you can overlook the rather implausible fact of how Brad manages to stay in the closet and avoid having sex with the girls who keep throwing themselves at him, without anyone else talking and speculating, this one is also an adorable story route to go into. You can opt to be the naughty nerd who abets Brad's lazy-ass ways and get very little out of it (not even raunchy moments), or you can work a bit more as the stern nerd who gently pushes Brad into having faith about his own ability to study well and pass exams. Of course, he has a nice reward for Mark for all that hard work the guy puts into tutoring our football beefcake here.
Jed is the guy standing to the right of Brad. He's the "edgy" type: he's in a punk band and your first meeting with him can culminate in a nice raunchy moment. Interestingly, the story gets less raunchy and more conventional if you choose the right options: as you can guess, Jed has some nice and sweet side to him, underneath that edgy "I'm a screw-up, yeah? So FUCK YOU GRANDMA!" façade. Sadly, I like the early version of Jed better, and the Jed Mark gets in the happy ending has me rolling up my eyes. Oh, and the anti-corporate "We don't sell out to the big wigs SO FUCK YOU GRANDMA!" message gets an especially big eye roll from me, as this is another one of those stories where the anti-capitalists pooh-pooh on the rest of the world while miraculously never seeming to lack money to get those equipment and such after their epiphany. I'm here for the sexy times, not the Tumblr-level social justice gobbledygook moments, so whatever.
The blond guy is Alex, the token hot professor. Okay, I love looking at this guy the most, especially when he's wearing glasses and sporting sexy professor gear like those form-fitting "lecture time" slacks, but alas, his story is actually the least romantic and sexually explicit. Okay, there is a memorable dream sequence that gets my inner bara fangirl squeeing in a most embarrassing manner, but that's the problem here: Alex wants to keep things professional, so there are few romantic interactions here. Getting the romantic happy ending is frustrating because if you have Mark say screw it and seduce Alex anyway to get the hot scenes, you get locked out of the romantic happy ending (or so in my attempts anyway). It seems like Mark has to keep his pants zipped to finally kiss Alex for real in that grand climactic declaration of love, ugh. And come on, they barely interact, how am I supposed to believe that the love is real?
The bonus for all the forced celibacy is a scene of these two cuddling in bed – you get to see Mark's bare bum, so I guess that's… worth it? – and these two bathing Alex's cat. Compare that to happy endings such as Brad kissing Mark in front of everyone in the stadium, or Ian and Mark getting married, or hell, Amos and Mark enjoying the peace and quiet of an European countryside, and Alex's story as well as happy ending is a letdown. He's the hottest guy of the bunch to me, and his story is like swimming in ice cold water just to touch the lifeguard's hand. Buster, after all that work, I deserve better.
The dates are all a mixed bag, but there are some really cute ones – that weird construction dude who is so shy, but if you're patient, you get a very sweet moment of him being a devoted daddy to his son as well as an explicit yet tender happy ending sequence (ahem), that cop who practically rapes Mark in such a hot manner, the twin paramedics who extract the goldfish out of Mark's rear end in ways that I wholeheartedly approve. Really, why isn't that construction dude the meat in one of the main stories? I'd take him over boring-ass Phil or Amos anytime. The rest are forgettable. The dates can also be ridiculous in how Mark turns into a big Mary Sue type here, wielding a pee-pee or po-po that can miraculously give his more problematic dates a magical epiphany to become a better person. Sex is great, but come on, it ain't that great.
If I have one complaint, it's that the extent of choices in this game is an illusion. If you want to get the happy ending, you have to take certain options. This can be exasperating sometimes when the right choice is defined solely by the writer's personal whim, and this means forcing you to agree with the meat's every whim and prejudices if you want to get into that meat's pants. The implication of this is unfortunate, but more unfortunate is the fact that you are forced to do this for some character whose whims and principles you may disagree with. Jed, Phil, and Amos are especially annoying meats – if you want them to put a ring on your finger, you have to agree with everything they say and do even when they're being jackasses. Jed's story route will likely make you feel like he's just using Mark, but have Mark say this out loud and it's bye bye happy ending. Sure, you can just ignore these Z-tier twats to focus on A-grade beef like Ian and Brad, but if you are a completionist and you want to unlock all the "rewards" (choice scenes in every romantic route), you will have to let them treat you like their personal marionette.
So, Coming Out on Top. It's not exactly top tier stuff if you ask me, but this is also like a few short gay romances in one game, with the bonus of letting you feel like you're behind the wheel, directing Mark into the pants of the meat of your choice. My advice: boff the room mate and the football jock, maybe the hot professor, but save the rest for really long rainy days. Oh, and enjoy the song.


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Grammy to Fragrance
Well we decided to do a little celebrating for Mom's 70th birthday, and get her out on the trails! After a couple recent trips to get her hooked up with some adequate hiking gear it was time.
Fragrance Lake is a great hike in the Chuckanut range that's a bit more than an easy stroll on a flat trail. It's what I would call a beginner/intermediate-beginner hike if that makes any sense. It's not a technical trail at all, but does switch back up the hill and really gets the blood flowing in the quads for a new hiker. At 5.5miles and about 1,000ft of elevation gain I figured it would be pushing her a bit, but my gut said she'd be able to make it if we took our time.
Lo and behold my guess was right and we all made it! After some short stops for rests, water, and general chat we dropped down into the quiet little lake nestled in the hills. I couldn't be more proud of mom for making it! I know Auden sure was proud of his Grammy :)


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'I'm here to investigate the murder. Gentlemen, please drop your trousers so I can see who the guilty party is'
You want sexism? This is incredibly sexist, and just, well, wrong: A new emoji being rolled out this year is a hand doing a pinching motion to depict a 'small penis' to mock modestly endowed men. Perhaps this emoji was … Continue reading →


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A Fairtrade Easter?
With Easter just around the corner, whether you're a church leader well into your Easter Service planning or a frantic mum and dad looking for Easter holiday opportunities, no doubt some form of chocolate consumption will be on the activity list. And why not? God created cocoa, and it's great! However, when it comes to the Global Goals, if we're passionate about ending poverty by 2030, then Easter provides a great starting point. Check out Global Goal 8 & Global Goal 12, two goals that focus specifically on responsible consumption and decent work for all. What's this have to do with Easter?
Well, it's estimated that over 2.1 million children in West Africa are employed on cocoa plantations performing backbreaking and hazardous jobs for the production of our chocolate. Some are even trafficked to bring us this pleasure. In a world where we're so far removed from such realities it can be easy to miss or ignore this injustice.
However, let's just imagine for a minute that we aren't removed. What would our response be if children from our own parish were facing this reality? If we were the pastor dealing with the grief of a parent who'd lost their child to such a trade. What would our response be if it were children in our own Sunday Schools dropping out of their school to work, or worse still, go missing? When we start to picture it in personal terms, it becomes a far more significant issue. That's why through out scripture we hear God's voice time and time again on such issues. Why? Because God's not removed. These are His children.
Here's a few examples that are worth reflecting on in the coming weeks...
Deuteronomy 24:14-15, 'You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.'
Leviticus 15:14, 'And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.'
James 5:4, 'Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.'
Easter is a wonderful opportunity for us to declare the hope, freedom and joy of the resurrection. But, if we're to take these verses seriously, then it's critical that we declare Gods hope for new life, not only through the words we speak and the songs we sing, but by the choices we make. Choices that can usher in the resurrection reality for those we buy from. Fortunately there are lots of Fair-trade options now which seek to stand against child labour and bring Easter hope. Groups like our Goal 12 Contributors, Traidcraft. Check them out: www.traidcraft.co.uk
If this comes as a shock, or perhaps you're feeling like you've fallen short in this area and feeling guilty, it's important we start by bringing these emotions to the foot of the cross and seek Gods forgiveness. Our pursuit for justice around these issues shouldn't be driven by a sense of condemnation, but rather a passionate desire to see others know the same freedom we've experienced at the cross through Jesus. A freedom that gives life to the full. As we celebrate that reality this Easter lets do all we can to enable others around the world to celebrate this truth, not just in word, but also in deed.


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I wrote this when I lived in England sometime around 2010 and wanted to re-release it because it is always good to be reminded of such a relentless and all consuming love freely accessible to us today. Be blessed with a fresh baptism of the Father's love...
This is a picture of my friend Craig holding his newborn baby who came into the world just 5 days before this shot was taken. For me this is such a beautiful reminder for Christmas on two different levels. First, it reminds me how Jesus obediently chose to leave the perfect union He had with the Father for the sole purpose of living a life He knew would be filled with suffering. Regardless of the risks He would have to take, Jesus chose to come, not as the victorious King, but rather as a completely vulnerable and dependent baby. He did this because of such an intense and amazing love for each one of us.
Can you believe that someone would knowingly engage in a life that would be filled with suffering all because of the joy that would one day be set before Him? This joy of knowing us and loving us was greater than the pain (Hebrews 12). I am awe struck at Jesus' relentless passion and pursuit of our hearts at any cost, in fact, at all costs. Such perfect love pursues us today, even when we feel lonely and rejected and unwanted. Let us remember the extreme and ultimate journey Jesus embarked on in our behalf, for the purpose of knowing us and inviting us into the immense measure of love found in Him.
On the other level, this picture also reminds me of God the Father's love. It is easy to see that in the father's eyes, his son can do no wrong. He is loved perfectly exactly how he is. Not only did God the Father send His son as a baby into this world, but He did it so that we could have relationship with Him. And the beautiful thing is, just as my friend Craig is adoring his baby, so God the Father adores us, exactly as we are. We don't have to do a thing to earn His love. We don't have to be good enough, pure enough, righteous enough, or do enough good works, but He loves us just exactly the way we are here and now, today in this moment. And the beautiful thing is, this will never change. I know many of us already know these facts but I also understand that sometimes it is the hardest thing to simply receive this great big love.
Let us take even 5 minutes today to stop and picture ourselves as the child in the Father's arms and simply receive the acceptance, delight, and joy that emanates from His face onto us, His beloved children. May the Holy Spirit still our lives and open our hearts to receive an increased measure of the Father's love. May each one of us be blessed this Christmas season and be reminded of the intense, persistent, and passionate love that has been demonstrated on our behalf.
For those hungrier still, there is another gift that is also freely available to those who want to open and receive it…Check out "A New kind of Christmas Present"to learn more.
Much love and peace to each of you during this season,


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A novel by Peggy Darty
When Tracy went to Atlanta, it was to cover the Olympics for the Associated press-not to report on the kidnapping of a well-known socialite. But after the disappearance of Jackie DeRidder, wife of a major benefactor to the Olympic Games, that's exactly what she finds herself doing.
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This article is not for the attention-span-challenged or the legalese-illiterate. It is the most rigorous legal analysis written to explain why complaints filed against judges, such as those filed with state judicial oversight agencies, should be made public. If you make it through the entire piece, you will know more about judicial oversight than 99.9% of the population and can proclaim that social media hasn't completely destroyed your attention span. Plus, you won't want to miss the giphy at the end.
Public demand for more accountability is forcing increased transparency in government, but most of our courts still operate in the dark with abuses of power, miscarriages of justice, incompetence, and misconduct running rampant, especially in county courts where there is the least transparency.
The only fix is more sunlight. Publicly disclosing complaints against judges is the easiest place to start. It should have been done long ago, but in 1960, California formed the first judge oversight agency and adopted bad confidentiality practices and the rest of the country followed their lead. It's time to amend the half-century-old rules and bring more light into the judicial branch.
This 4000-word piece lays out a brief history of judicial oversight, the main point of contention in the ongoing and unprecedented Commission on Judicial Performance v. State Auditor lawsuit, and a novel analysis of the interests to be balanced in deciding if complaints against judges should be disclosed.
1. History of Judicial Oversight
In 1960, California became the first state in the country to establish an independent judicial oversight agency, called the Commission on Judicial Qualifications.[1] It was later renamed the Commission on Judicial Performance (CJP). Branded into the California constitution, the commission's mandate was to enforce rigorous standards of judicial conduct and maintain public confidence in the integrity and independence of the judicial system.[2]
The CJP performs its function by scouring complaints for potential violations of the California Code of Judicial Ethics, to which all judges are beholden, and investigates and disciplines misconduct. The CJP is not a law enforcement agency and cannot charge or prosecute crimes; however, it may refer criminal activity to law enforcement and discipline crimes as violations of ethics.
The purpose of establishing the CJP was to create "an effective and expeditious method for the removal of a judge who is unable or unwilling to perform his duties. Impeachment, recall and other existing methods are too cumbersome and expensive to be workable."[3] Plus, neither impeachment nor recall provided for intermediary discipline for lesser ethics violations.
By 1981, due to the strains placed on state legislatures by growing populations, all States had followed California's lead and established their own independent judicial oversight agencies. Like California, some states codified their commissions into state constitutions, while others enacted through statute or handed control of the agency to the state's highest court; all copied the basic structure and operating provisions of California's commission.[4]
The idea of establishing tough, independent oversight agencies was well-intentioned, but problems have emerged. First, the commissions were autonomous and did not have to answer to or share information with the legislative or executive branches. While the separation was meant to keep politics out of judicial discipline, it also stripped the branches of important check and balance powers over the judiciary.
Theoretically, impeachment remains a remedy. But in practice, only two judges have been impeached in California — one in 1862 and one in 1929 — because impeachment is both cumbersome and wastefully expensive, demanding the time and energies of both houses of the legislature, the Attorney General and/or special prosecutors for extended periods.[5]
Prior to the recall of Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky on June 6, 2018, the only other successful recall of a judge in California occurred in 1932 when three Los Angeles County judges were recalled after being charged with appointing acquaintances to lucrative receiverships and ordering unduly large fee awards, among other alleged misconduct.[6] The high cost and burdensome signature requirement necessary to initiate a recall makes the option untenable without a massive, well-funded, and organized effort.
Second, most commissions were permitted to write their own rules, keep complaints and records confidential, and issue private disciplines. Such policies have caused the public to cry "Star Chamber"— a closed-door agency that selectively investigates and disciplines judges. The main point of contention in Commission on Judicial Performance v. State Auditor is the CJP's claim the agency doesn't have to disclose complaints or investigative records to the public or even to the State Auditor in order for a performance audit to be conducted.
Third, the commissions were majority judges. California's original commission had nine members, five of whom were judges. While some commissions, including California, have altered their makeup over time to reduce the influence of judges (California's commission is currently three judges, two lawyers, and six laypeople), many commissions remain judge heavy, which may pose a conflict of interest. Additionally, judge and attorney members may exert influence over laypeople members overwhelmed by legal reading required of commission proceedings.
The half-century-old judicial oversight mechanism is now bowing under the strain of public demand for increased transparency and accountability in government. Since California created the nation's mechanism, it is perhaps ironic that CJP v. State Auditor is the first major challenge to the independence of a state commission, pitting the investigative power of the state legislature against the tiny agency.
2. Commission on Judicial Performance v. State Auditor
Not by explicit legislative intent, the Commission on Judicial Performance has skirted all California public record laws, including Article 1 § 3(b) of the California Constitution, the California Public Records Act (Government Code section 6250 et. seq.), Bagley-Keane Act (Government Code section 11120 et. seq.), Ralph M. Brown Act (Government Code section 54950 et. seq.), and California Rules of Court, rule 10.500, which give Californians broad public access to government records and meetings.
Outsourcing its check and balance power over judicial officers sixty years ago, and not expressly including the constitutionally-created CJP in public records legislation, is now causing the California legislature its own oversight problems. In August 2016, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, a bicameral and bipartisan committee, voted unanimously to audit the CJP for the first time in the CJP's history.[7]
In response, the CJP filed a lawsuit against State Auditor, Elaine Howle, and her office, seeking a writ of mandate to restrain the Auditor's office from reviewing any files it deemed confidential, including complaints, investigative files, notes, memoranda, and staff recommendations to commission members regarding complaint dispositions.
Center stage in the lawsuit is Article VI, section 18(i)(1) of the California Constitution, which reads:
"The commission shall make rules for the investigation of judges. The commission may provide for the confidentiality of complaints to and investigations by the commission."[8]
Under this provision, the CJP may keep complaints and investigations confidential, but it is not required to do so. The CJP's self-written Rule 102 of the Rules of the Commission on Judicial Performance, seal the agency's files:
"Except as provided in this rule, all papers filed with and proceedings before the commission shall be confidential . . ."[9]
The CJP could amend its rules to disclose records to the public or solely to the Auditor. But to date the agency has instead invoked its constitutional provision in tandem with Rule 102 to block access. However, under tremendous public pressure, the CJP is now considering an amendment to give the Auditor access to its records. The trial court ruled in favor of the CJP, granting a writ to protect its records, and the case is now fully briefed before the Court of Appeal.
Rather than parse the respective arguments of the CJP and Auditor in the ongoing litigation, this article instead analyzes the correctness of the CJP's policy to withhold complaints in the first place. In order to decide if the CJP's sealing policy deserves more scrutiny, it is appropriate to first consider the agency's discipline statistics.
3. Complaint & Discipline Statistics
According to the CJP's Annual Reports, the agency has issued 107 public disciplines from 18,305 complaints received from 2001 to 2017, or 0.58 percent. The commission issued private disciplines and private advisory letters in another 2.6 percent of cases, in which the judge's name was not publicly disclosed. Ninety-seven percent of complaints were dismissed without action. Approximately 90 percent were dismissed with no inquiry or investigation.[10]
CJP Statistics 2001-2017
Thus, the CJP classifies only 1 in 200 complaints to contain information that justifies public disclosure. Approximately 80 percent of issued disciplines are either private admonishments or private advisory letters — a judge violated the Code of Judicial Ethics but the CJP determined the misconduct was not significant enough to warrant public disclosure.
The public has decried the CJP for low investigation, discipline, and disclosure rates, while judges complain of harshness and lack of due process. With problems alleged by both sides, a thorough audit would likely provide needed conclusions.
California's 2,000 judges oversee more than six million cases annually[11] and decide matters of the utmost importance, from the interpretation of public policy to issuing sentences in criminal cases to determining child custody in family law and juvenile cases. The public has a strong interest in ensuring its judges are performing their duties with the highest integrity and are exercising their broad discretion without bias or ulterior motive.
Judges are held to high ethical standards because when bias, prejudice, or misconduct exist in a judicial decision, it violates an individual's rights to equal protection and due process. Acting with bias or prejudice is a violation of ethics.[12] Because complaints may expose bias, prejudice, and other types of misconduct, the government should have a compelling interest to justify withholding complaints, details of misconduct subject of private disciplines, and even allegations of misconduct contained in dismissed complaints.
What interests might justify confidentiality and do they outweigh those countervailing?
4. U.S. Department of Justice Justification for Confidentiality: Privacy
In a 2016 lawsuit, American Immigration Lawyers Association v. Department of Justice,[13](hereafter AILA), the D.C. Circuit Court performed a novel legal analysis of the competing interests in disclosing judicial complaints.
AILA filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a division of the Department of Justice, asking for complaints filed against federal immigration judges. The DOJ responded by producing complaints with judges' names and other information redacted. AILA filed suit demanding unredacted production on the basis it would provide information of public interest, including whether a specific judge had been accused of bias or engaged in other misconduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, and the frequency of that alleged misconduct. In defense, the DOJ argued judges had a privacy interest in redacting complaints that outweighed public disclosure.
In balancing, the court found that the public's interest in learning about the actions of specific judges would prevail over privacy interests in most circumstances because the information would "enlighten the public about 'what their government is up to.'"[14] The court wrote, in pertinent part:
"The interests on both sides of the . . . balancing test might vary in substantial measure with respect to different immigration judges (and perhaps different complaints) . . . [T]he public interest likely would be more pronounced in the case of a sitting immigration judge, who continues to make decisions as an employee of the Department of Justice, than in the case of a former judge. Additionally, disclosing the name of an immigration judge subject to numerous and/or serious substantiated complaints might shed considerable light on matters of public interest, whereas disclosing the name of an immigration judge subject to a single, unsubstantiated complaint might not. For instance, in the case of a sitting judge with a substantial number of serious and substantiated complaints, knowledge of her identity would enable the public to examine her official actions (including decisions), both past and future, and to assess any possible implications of those complaints for the conduct of her official responsibilities."[15]
The circuit court reasoned there was a public interest in examining the actions of individual judges and assessing the implications of their conduct. Not all judges are equally professional, competent, and unbiased. Scrutinizing the conduct of individual judges would enable the public to correct the behavior of jurists who acted outside the bounds of ethics. Disclosure would also credit judges with clean records and ensure the best traverse the ranks of the judiciary.
But even the circuit court's logic was flawed with regard to possible separation of judges and complaints into different categories when deciding disclosure — retired versus sitting; multiple, substantiated complaints versus a single, frivolous complaint, etc.
First, divvying up complaints into categories involving number, retirement status, merit, importance, etc., would create a legal nightmare, with judges jockeying to have their complaints categorized to evade public scrutiny.
Second, complaints and their dispositions would provide valuable information about the efficacy of the judicial grievance process. In this instance, the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge decides complaints — the judge presiding over the immigration bench decides if her colleagues should be disciplined. It is bad government to allow decision makers to perform important jobs in darkness where conflicts of interest are present and few safeguards exist to protect against the undue influence of those interests.
The U.S. Supreme Court has gone so far as to declare a qualified First Amendment right of access to criminal court proceedings, in part, because it "gave assurance that the proceedings were conducted fairly to all concerned,"[16] and provided an "'opportunity both for understanding the system in general and its workings in a particular case' thereby enhancing public confidence in the judicial system."[17]
Just as the fairness of court proceedings are enhanced by public observation, so too would be the judicial complaint resolution process. California courts have long recognized the role that public access plays in improving the judiciary.[18] There would be no reason to suspect disclosure of decided complaints and their dispositions would not similarly improve the mechanism of judicial oversight. The CJP's confidentiality policies all but eradicate the public's primary tool for analyzing and making improvements to the oversight system.
California has an even more compelling interest in disclosure of complaints than in AILA v. DOJ because, unlike federal immigration judges, California judges are subject to reelection. The CJP's policy of withholding information relevant to judicial elections interferes with the public's foremost duty — to be an informed electorate and to wield its power to remove wayward judges from the bench where necessary.
Californians intended for judicial reelections to balance accountability and independence.[19] Complaints contain allegations of misconduct and their disclosure would not compromise judicial independence unless clear patterns of bias or other misconduct emerged over time. In that case, intervention would be needed, not continued independence.
5. CJP Justification for Confidentiality: Unfairness
The CJP generally cites two reasons for keeping records confidential: (1) it would be unfair to judges to disclose complaints that may be unwarranted, and (2) confidentiality prevents retaliation by the complained judge.
The 1960 ballot proposition creating the CJP established the "unfairness" doctrine:
"To avoid the unfairness of publicly disclosing complaints of merely disgruntled litigants, proceedings before the commission will not be public, unless and until it recommends to the Supreme Court the removal or retirement of the judge."[20]
In Mosk v. Superior Court (1979) 25 Cal.3d 474, a case involving a motion to quash a subpoena on a California Supreme Court justice ordered to appear as a witness in a public hearing before the CJP in a case involving alleged misconduct of other Supreme Court justices, the California Supreme Court opined on the unfairness doctrine in quashing the subpoena:
"Confidentiality protects judges from injury which might result from publication of unexamined and unwarranted complaints by disgruntled litigants or their attorneys, or by political adversaries. Confidentiality of investigations by the Commission preserves confidence in the judiciary as an institution by avoiding premature announcement of groundless claims of judicial misconduct or disability."
Preserving the confidentiality of ongoing investigations is justified, standard practice among virtually all government agencies. But applying the unfairness doctrine to adjudicated complaints deserves more scrutiny.
On its face, "unfairness" is not a cognizable government interest. In AILA, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't even present such an argument to justify the redaction of complaints against immigration judges because they would have been laughed out of federal court.
In a May 2017 hearing before Senate Budget Subcommittee 5, Richard Simpson, a retired political staffer and then-public member of the CJP, further explained the unfairness argument, stating:
"We have judges who have received complaints that were baseless . . . if those pursuant to a public records request would become public . . . judges who were running for reelection would have unfounded allegations available to, out in the public."[21]
CJP Chair & Judge Member Erica Yew @ 4:15
CJP Public Member Richard Simpson @ 7:30
CJP Director Victoria Henley @ 10:20
Simpson implied that disclosing complaints might unfairly influence judicial reelections, thereby harming the independence of the judiciary. But this justification is misplaced for a few reasons.
First, it implies the public cannot be trusted to distinguish between baseless and meritorious complaints. As the late Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals opined in finding unconstitutional the government's blanket closure of immigration hearings due to national security interests, "When government begins closing its doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation. The framers of the First Amendment 'did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us.'"[22]
The public should be allowed to sort information for itself. Judicial complaints do not contain information of national security import; rather, they contain allegations of misconduct by public officials. In issuing private disciplines, wherein actual misconduct was found by the CJP, the agency is sealing information about judges' actual violations of ethics. Such information is worthy of public disclosure regardless of the severity of the offense.
Even dismissed complaints may still contain information of public interest. For example, one complaint might not demonstrate bias against a particular class of person, but ten might. Disclosure allows construction of a record.
Second, there is a distinction between ongoing investigations and adjudicated complaints. Because the commission will have acted upon complaints it deemed worthy of investigation and dismissed those without merit, the potential injury caused by disclosing "unexamined and unwarranted complaints of disgruntled litigants or their attorneys" would be minimal. The public could observe why the complaint was dismissed and investigations were closed.
There is a precedent for publicly disclosing complaints. Since 2006, Arizona's commission has provided online, public access to dismissed complaints, orders of dismissal with comments, and the entire record for public disciplines.[23]
The change was made by the Arizona Supreme Court, which writes the state commission's rules, after an angry district attorney filed a petition demanding the commission publicly disclose complaints because it was sweeping misconduct under the rug. Without issuing an opinion on the matter, the Arizona Supreme Court amended the rules to require adjudicated complaints to be made publicly available, albeit with judges' names redacted.
Third, the unfairness argument implies it is the CJP's job to ensure "fair" judicial elections. But that is beyond the scope of the agency. Its mandate is to protect the public against bad judges and to preserve public confidence in the judiciary. Transparency increases confidence because then the public can see what its government is up to.
Judges are public officials and must have a tolerance for public scrutiny. In a 1999 CJP case involving disclosure of votes of commission members in disciplinary actions, Recorder v. Commission on Judicial Performance[24], the Court of Appeal ordered disclosure, writing:
"[W]e fail to see the merit of a system in which public officials, sitting in judgment of other public officials regarding charges of official misconduct, are allowed to hide behind a veil of secrecy when making the "tough calls" necessary to any adjudicatory regime. A certain amount of courage and a "thick skin" are essential attributes for anyone who purports to perform "judicial" functions. We should expect, and accept, no less from members of the commission." Recorder at 280.
The same could be said of judges, who are even more public of figures than CJP members. If the CJP is weighing the maintenance of a judge's tidy reputation against the public interest of having access to information about their job performance, the former must give way.
6. CJP Justification for Confidentiality: Retaliation
In Mosk, the California Supreme Court also raised the CJP's retaliation argument, writing:
"The confidentiality of investigations and hearings by the Commission is based on sound public policy. Confidentiality encourages the filing of complaints and the willing participation of citizens and witnesses by providing protection against possible retaliation or recrimination. [Citations.][25]"
Here again, there is a distinction between ongoing investigations and adjudicated complaints. In the aforementioned May 2017 Senate hearing, then-CJP Chair, Judge Erica Yew further expounded on the retaliation defense, stating that judges would retaliate against court staff who had filed a complaint, and then provided this reason for why that was bad:
"Because if a clerk doesn't have a judge, they don't have a place to put their purse, they don't have a place to have lunch, they're bereft of a lot of things. We don't want to have to violate the confidentiality of those complainants…"[26]
Presumably, Judge Yew meant that a judge would bar a clerk from keeping her purse or having lunch in judges' chambers.
Judges are required to uphold a higher standard of conduct than the rest of us. It is surprising that Yew, a judge herself, would even raise such an argument as a policy defense. Vindictive judges should be further disciplined or removed from the bench and court staff would be protected under whistleblower laws. It is a separate violation of ethics for a judge to retaliate:
"A judge shall not retaliate, directly or indirectly, against a person known or suspected to have assisted or cooperated with an investigation of a judge or a lawyer."[27]
Possible retaliation does not justify shielding judges from public scrutiny and it rewards bad behavior. It would be akin to saying "Officer, if you give me a ticket, then I'm going to get really mad and speed again." In fact, if complaints were disclosed, judges would be less likely to retaliate because that retaliation might also become public in a subsequent complaint.
Further, according to the CJP's annual reports, only 1 percent of complaints arise from judges or court staff. Not being able to store a purse or have lunch in judges' chambers is an absurd justification for confidentiality and a policy should not be written for the 1 percent.
7. Conclusion
In Recorder, the Court of Appeal ordered the CJP to disclose votes of Commission members when public disciplines were issued, reasoning:
"[T]he primary purposes of Proposition 190 were to eliminate secrecy in the commission's formal disciplinary proceedings and to ensure public accountability of the commission for its disciplinary determinations. The proponents of Proposition 190 could not have been more clear about this, as stated in their ballot argument: 'Proposition 190 is an important and timely reform measure. Judges are public servants and play a critical role in our society. The public must have confidence and trust in those holding judicial office...CALIFORNIA MUST ELIMINATE SECRECY AND ENSURE INTEGRITY IN THE DISCIPLINARY PROCESS . . ."' (Uppercase and italics in original.)[28]
The same logic would apply to the disclosure of adjudicated complaints. Privacy, unfairness, and retaliation arguments must give way to the public interest in having information that is or even might be, relevant to the job performance of public officials, especially when it is the declared intent of the People to check the performance of jurists through judicial reelections.
It is shameful that the judiciary is using faulty and legally invalid justifications to shield judges from scrutiny, prioritizing the maintenance of tidy reputations over tremendous public interests in disclosure. California's commission could greatly improve the mechanism of judicial oversight by disclosing complaints. If it did so, the rest of the country would likely follow its lead, again.
[1] 1960 Ballot Proposition No. 10. Administration of Justice. Sen. Const. Amend. No. 14 (1959-1960 Reg. Sess.)
[2] Commission on Judicial Performance Homepage. https://cjp.ca.gov
[3] 1960 Ballot Proposition No. 10, supra note, 1
[4] Jonathan Abel, Testing Three Commonsense Intuitions About Judicial Conduct Commissions, (2012) 65 Stan. L. R.1021.
[5] Wilbank J. Roche. Judicial Discipline in California: A Critical Re-Evaluation. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. 12-1-1976.
[6] Ibid.
[7] See e.g. Whitney L. Clegg, California Takes Step towards Improving Judicial Accountability, Reveal News, (Aug. 11, 2016)
[8] Cal. Const. art. VI, Section 18(i)(1).
[9] Rules Comm. Jud. Perform., Rule 102
[10] See, e.g., Comm. Jud. Perform., Annual Reports, (2001-20017) available at https://cjp.ca.gov/annual_reports/
[11] See, e.g., California Courts, Court Statistics Report, http://www.courts.ca.gov/13421.htm
[12] Canon 3(B)(5) of the California Code of Judicial Ethics.
[13] American Immigration Lawyers Association v. Executive Office for Immigration Review, et al., (D.C.Cir. 2016) No. 1:13-cv-00840
[14] Ibid.
[15] AILA, (D.C. Cir. 2016) No. 1:13-cv-00840.
[16] Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia(1980) 448 U.S. 555, at p. 569.
[17] Id.at p. 572.
[18] See e.g. San Bernardino County Dept. of Public Social Services v. Superior Court (1991) 232 Cal.App.3d 188
[19] California Constitution Center, What Does California's Experience with Recall of Judges Teach Us, SCOCAblog (Nov. 10, 2016) available at http://scocablog.com/what-does-californias-experience-with-recall-of-judges-teach-us/
[20] 1960 Ballot Proposition No. 10, supranote, 1
[21] Hearings before Sen. Budget Subcom. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety and the Judiciary, May 8, 2017, available at http://senate.ca.gov/media-archive?title=&startdate=05%2F01%2F2017&enddate=05%2F31%2F2017
[22] Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft, (6th Cir. Apr. 19, 2002)
[23] Arizona Rules of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, rule 9(a)(1) and (2) available at http://www.azcourts.gov/azcjc/Public-Decisions[§ 2:21 California Style Manual]
[24] Recorder v. Commission on Judicial Performance, (1999) at 274
[25] McCartney v. Commission on Judicial Qualifications,(1974) at 521; Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia, (1978)
[26] Hearings before Sen. Budget Subcom. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety and the Judiciary, May 8, 2017, available at http://senate.ca.gov/media-archive?title=&startdate=05%2F01%2F2017&enddate=05%2F31%2F2017
[27] Canon 3(D)(5) of the California Code of Judicial Ethics.
[28] Recorder, (1999) at 274.


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To determine if rhinitis in early childhood is an independent predictor of wheezing between the ages of 5 and 13 years.
The study followed 1314 healthy children, from birth to the age of 13 years, as part of the German Multicenter Allergy Study.
This was a prospective, multicenter birth-cohort study that used standardized questionnaires, interviews, and objective sensitization methods. To better characterize the association between sensitization and rhinitis on the incidence of wheeze, 4 rhinitis phenotypes were defined: (1) allergic rhinitis (rhinitis plus sensitization); (2) nonallergic rhinitis (rhinitis without sensitization); (3) atopy without rhinitis (sensitization only); and (4) none (control group). The occurrence of rhinitis, wheezing, and sensitization was assessed over time through the age of 13 years. Airway hyperresponsiveness was assessed at the age of 7 years, and specific allergen immunoglobulin E (IgE) was measured yearly.
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Allergic rhinitis in the preschool age group was shown to be associated with the onset of wheezing after the age of 5 years.
On the basis of findings from this study, preschool-aged children with rhinitis might benefit from early assessment of allergic sensitization to identify those who are at high risk of wheezing. Furthermore, identification of these children could lead to targeted treatment and early intervention to prevent asthma in school-aged children.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Examining Lawyer-Mediator Ethics Opinions in Washington and Other States
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12:00 PM Presentation: 'Examining Lawyer-Mediator Ethics Opinions in Washington and Other States', by Liz Silvestrini, Sarah Armstrong, Page Garcia, Donna Lurie, Lori Buchsbaum.
Join the KCBA ADR Section at our December meeting for an interactive discussion about mediator ethics opinions issued in Washington by the WSBA Committee on Professional Ethics. We will also be exploring select opinions from other states made available through the ABA National Clearinghouse for Mediator Ethics Opinions. The discussion will involve role-plays (no acting necessary!) to stimulate productive conversation about common ethical dilemmas arising in every day practice.
Opinions to be explored include:
· WSBA Opinion 1671 (IOLTA Accounts for Lawyer-Mediators)
· WSBA Opinion 904 (Marketing Brochures for Lawyer-Mediators)
· WSBA Opinions 1551 and 2078 (Navigating Our Lawyer-Mediator Role in Divorce Case)
· WSBA Opinion 1422 and 1374 (Operating a Mediation Service with Non-Lawyers)
· Georgia Opinion 4 (Representation of Mediation Party Years After Mediation Concluded)
· New York Opinion 2009-01 (Conflict Checks and Confidentiality for Lawyer-Mediators)
· North Carolina Opinion 13-23 (Mediator Facilitating Unauthorized Practice of Law)
· Oregon Opinion 2005-167 (Concealment of Assets in Divorce Mediation)
Questions for each opinion include:
· How would you approach this situation?
· What ethical dilemmas does it pose?
· Which RPCs are implicated?
· What do the Model Standards for Conduct for Mediators offer for addressing this situation?
· How was the ethical dilemma solved by the WSBA Committee on Professional Ethics or other state ethics authority?