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For Chad Mendes, being in Los Angeles suits him just fine.
For Jose Aldo, he doesn't have a problem with it either. Just not this week.
Aldo will have to watch his native Brazil kick off the World Cup from thousands of miles away Thursday, but he promises to be in better form Aug. 2 when he defends his featherweight championship against Mendes at UFC 176 at Staples Center.
Both 145-pounders were in Los Angeles on Wednesday to promote their main-event rematch at UFC 176, for which tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
Mendes had an easy trip from Sacramento and knows he'll have another one in seven weeks, when he'll have plenty of support in the arena.
The good news for Aldo is it looks like his schedule might be cleared Thursday in Los Angeles in order to allow him to watch the World Cup opening match between Brazil and Croatia.
Aldo said it's been a childhood dream to attend and watch the World Cup games in Brazil.
"If they were in Rio, it would be easy for me. If Brazil is playing in the finals, it might be more complicated," said the 27-year-old champion, who counts several Brazilian players among his personal friends. "I have to keep training and the training doesn't allow me to travel freely."
Aldo contends, however, that while he is rooting for his country to reach the finals, the World Cup won't distract him from his training.
"No, no no … first comes my job, and second place comes the Brazilian team," Aldo said.
Aldo (24-1) is making his sixth title defense after he was awarded the UFC's first 145-pound championship belt in November 2010. A year before, he had won the WEC featherweight championship against Mike Brown with a second-round TKO. Upon the companies merging, Aldo was declared the UFC champion.
He has won 17 consecutive fights — his only loss coming in 2005 against Luciano Azevedo at Jungle Fight 5.
Mendes, 29, also has only one loss, yet that came against Aldo. At UFC 142 in January 2012, Aldo delivered a flying knee that knocked out Mendes with one second left in the first round in Aldo's hometown of Rio de Janeiro.
"We normally direct our training for that specific fight and I believe the fight went exactly the way we planned," Aldo said. "Everything was within the plan."
Mendes (16-1) has since rattled off five consecutive victories — four by KO/TKO and the latest a three-round unanimous-decision win over Nik Lentz in December.
But he and the other Team Alpha Male members have been buoyed by teammate T.J. Dillashaw, who captured the UFC bantamweight title with a shocking yet dominant TKO victory over Renan Barao — a teammate of Aldo's at Nova Uniao — less than three weeks ago.
"I knew, being a Team Alpha Male member, we had the ability to win those belts," said Mendes, who is being trained by Duane Ludwig and Martin Kampmann. "I think it finally just happened because we were able to crack the code on Barao. And now it's my time to go out there and get that belt against Jose Aldo."
Mendes said he and his Team Alpha Male teammates are always driven, but Dillashaw's incredible triumph has provided further inspiration.
"It's just motivating to see a guy like T.J. just go out there and completely tear apart a guy like Barao, who fights very similar to Aldo," said Mendes, who wrestled at Cal Poly. "And now I feel like we have the game plan, the blueprint to beat these guys. I have the athletic ability. T.J. has the athletic ability.
"It's all about getting in there and implementing it and executing it to its fullest. T.J. was a prime example of that and now it's my time."
Also Wednesday, the UFC added another fight to the card. Danny Castillo (17-6), Mendes' Team Alpha Male teammate, will take on Tony Ferguson (16-3) of Ventura in a lightweight bout.
Other fights on the UFC 176 card:
Lightweights — No. 10 Gray Maynard (12-4-1, 1 NC) vs. Fabricio Camoes (14-8-1)
Lightweights — No. 13 Bobby Green (22-5) of Fontana vs. Abel Trujillo (12-5, 1 NC)
Flyweights — No. 6 Jussier Formiga (16-3) vs. No. 9 Zach Makovsky (17-4)
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There's an app for this. It's called Google Maps.
At the moment, I am swearing a blue streak at Google Maps on my, uh, dumb phone.
After nearly 45 minutes of driving, Google Maps led me here: A mucky, dead-end somewhere between Sherwood Park and Chicago.
Google Maps smugly points to this spot as the GPS co-ordinates for Don and Cheryl Becker's home. It appears not to be Don and Cheryl Becker's home, unless Don and Cheryl Becker live at the end of a mud road.
In a pond.
Sigh. I call Cheryl for directions. Cheryl is a psychologist. So she calmly talks me down, turns me around and guides me to the Becker home in one piece.
"GPS doesn't seem to work perfectly out here," she says, to make me feel better.
Cheryl and Don both do this drive, back and forth to their offices in Edmonton. Don's office, at Stantec downtown, is 49 kilometres away.
But then, Don is the one who always dreamed of living on an acreage.
The couple's first home was in Groat Estates. Then they moved to Rio Terrace, where they lived for 14 years. Once the kids were mostly raised, they started plotting Don's country dream.
They purchased 2.5 hectares of treed land out here - wherever the heck "here" happens to be - and Don, a senior associate at Stantec, started designing the home. Most weekends he travelled the 45 minutes to clear trees and stumps to make just enough room for the house, deck and driveway.
They wanted to live in a for-est. Now they do.
The couple's design goal was to create a house that was wide open and yet would flow from one room to the next. They didn't want a big house, just one where all the space was usable.
Thus, no attic and no basement. No walk-in closets. And only one hallway in the 2,500 square feet of space.
The home, with its heated concrete floors, high-efficiency boiler, LED lighting and high-performance-glass windows, is energy-efficient.
Even the yard is "green" as the landscaping is absent a lawn to water, spray or cut.
"No maintenance," Don says with a smile.
The windows are perhaps the home's most striking feature. First, there are many of them. Second, they aren't covered with draperies - even in the master bedroom. But, you know, forest creatures tend not to peep.
In the living room the windows stretch from floor to ceiling. The view is all forest, all the time.
In the entryway, high windows are framed to make them seem like landscape paintings of a poplar forest.
The kitchen, dining area, living room and family room are all open to each other. A friend of Don's described the feel of the place as "a Manhattan apartment in the boreal forest."
The master bedroom, down one wing, is modest in size. Down the other wing is a hall with rooms behind sliding "barn" doors.
Behind one is 16-year-old Nicky's room. At the far end is a guest suite that doubles as a room for when Sam, 22, visits.
The kitchen feels particularly open and inviting. Partly that's because of the raised ceiling - or clerestory - with high windows.
The kitchen features matching granite-topped islands. The dining area is just off the kitchen and enjoys more abundant natural light.
The Beckers have seen deer and moose, bats and hummingbirds outside.
Don has already cut a walking trail through the forest and up to the backyard, with its firepit, hot tub and Don's handmade benches.
"We love the quiet," Cheryl says. "The quiet is amazing.
"I think I move a little slower out here. I'm a little more relaxed."
The house was partly a project and adventure. They see themselves returning to the city one day.
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MIDWAY | Days after Nancy Harvey of Midway was found dead at her used car sales lot in Lexington, neighbors of the woman remained stunned concerning her death.
MIDWAY | Days after Nancy Harvey of Midway was found dead at her used car sales lot in Lexington, neighbors of the woman remained stunned concerning her death.
The Davidson County Sheriff's Office confirmed Monday the 52-year-old Harvey, the owner of Atlanta Car Co. at 1834 Old U.S. Highway 52, was the homicide victim. Sheriff David Grice said in a news release that Harvey's body was discovered just before 9 a.m. Friday by other employees.
It remains unclear how she died or whether the DCSO has a suspect. Grice, however, requested in the news release that anyone who may have seen suspicious activity at Atlanta Car Co. between 6 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. Friday call the sheriff's office at 242-2105 and ask for Lt. Kevin Johnson, Capt. Mitch Kepley, Lt. Dewayne Miller or Grice. Lexington Area Crimestoppers may also be called at 243-2400.
Shocked by the woman's death, Jasper Nifong, like many of Harvey's Hickory Tree Road neighbors, are trying to figure out why someone killed Harvey.
Nifong said he watched Harvey's residence all the time since her husband Larry Ronald Harvey died in April 2010 of a massive heart attack. He said the 68-year-old Harvey was exiting Hickory Tree Road onto the ramp to take U.S. Highway 52 South, when he had the medical problem and crashed a vehicle. An obituary in The Dispatch stated that Harvey died unexpectedly on April 28, 2010, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Nifong said he mowed Harvey's yard and would talk to her when he saw her outside. He would also see her leave around 7 a.m. each work day and arrive home late at night from work. Thursday night was a day in which Nifong did not see Harvey come home.
"It just knocked my feet from under me," he said of learning of Nancy Harvey's death.
Nifong said it killed him when Larry Harvey died as he was one of his best friends. He said the Harveys both had previously lived in Texas and Larry Harvey insisted on giving Nifong's grandson a truck for his first vehicle.
"She was just as nice," Nifong said of Nancy Harvey.
Nifong said he thought Harvey was doing good running the business after losing her husband.
"She was probably stricter than her husband," he said. "He was the type of fella that he would give you his shirt off his back."
Jasper Nifong's wife, Patricia, agreed with her husband.
"I just hope they catch whoever did it," she said. "That was a dirty trick as good as that woman was."
David Putnam, another neighbor, said he really didn't know Nancy Harvey but he wanted to know what happened. On the occasions he did come in contact with her she seemed to be really nice, he said.
"She worked, it seemed like from daylight to dark, and weekends and everything," Putnam said. "She had people out of town. She traveled a whole lot, and was gone sometimes for a couple weeks at a time."
He did not recall seeing anything unusual at the residence.
"It was a shock that it happened, but I didn't know her," said Otis Southern, who lives a couple houses down from Harvey. "I never met her, and I met Nifong there and Putnam. But the other neighbors, I just throw my hand up when I see them."
Neighbors of Harvey, Southern said, would like to know what happened to the woman.
David Chisholm, a co-owner of Northside Produce, located adjacent to Harvey's business, said a car ran into his business a couple years ago.
"Her and her employees helped us clean up," Chisholm said. "They were as nice as a bunch of people as they could be. She didn't deserve whatever happened to her."
Family members declined an interview with The Dispatch.
The sheriff said in the news release that the sheriff's office and the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation are investigating Harvey's death. Grice said Monday morning that he wasn't commenting further regarding the case.
A search warrant executed at Atlanta Car Co. has been sealed by Chief District Court Judge Wayne L. Michael.
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I've been traveling a lot for work, which often means a bad night's sleep.
For complicated reasons involving hotel no-vacancies, my only room option last week was on the other side of the machinery at the top of the elevator shaft. If you can imagine the sound of enormous carts rolling across bumpy pavement every ten to twenty seconds, you'll have an idea of what it sounded like.
But it was either than or hump over to another hotel at at 11 p.m., so I took the room. I even fell asleep at a decent hour.
Then I woke up. It was about 3:30 a.m. The elevators were pretty quiet, but a green light was flashing from overhead every five seconds or so.
And I was hot. I tried to adjust the thermostat, but every single knob was missing. Luckily, I guess, it was preset for a decent temperature. I flipped back the fancy down comforter, which would have kept Nanook warm in the north, and went with a complicated thermal solution that involved wearing a long sleeve t-shirt under the sheet.
And then the elevators started to rumble again. I lay in bed for a while, then remembered I had a solution for the sound:
Those things that look like bullets are actually foam ear plugs. I'd forgotten I had them, but necessity is apparently a great spur for your memory. I put the ear plugs in, and there was much rejoicing. You can buy them at any drugstore. They pencil out to about 10 cents apiece. Trust me: a pair of those in your suitcase is money well spent.
But there was still a flashing green light above my head, and I needed a fix for it. A piece of tape would have been perfect, but I didn't have tape (I am not, you know MacGuyver). I took a look at the light sources, which was a smoke alarm of some sort.
After some casting about for suitable material, I realized the cardboard key sleeve that the hotel provides could be shimmed into the alarm on either side of the light, creating a barrier. Even better, the sleeve was printed in a dark color on one side, letting less light through.
I was proud of that hack … and it was probably for the best I didn't see the mold around the smoke alarm (yeesh!) until I downloaded my photo a few days later.
So I managed to outwit the elevator, the balky air conditioner, and the green light — yet I still lost out on sleep, because I had to do major surgery on the hotel room in the middle of the night.
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Class Correspondent: Zena
Kayla Mohs Fioravanti BA and her husband sold their company, Essential Wholesale, and moved to Franklin, Tennessee. She now devotes her time to writing and has published four books in the past year: When I was Young I Flew the Sun Like a Kite (a book of poetry); The Art, Science, and Business of Aromatherapy; How to Make Melt & Pour Soap Base from Scratch; and DIY Kitchen Chemistry. Her books are available in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon and via other online booksellers.
Class Correspondent: Laura Mundt
Michael Healey BA, an employment and personal injury attorney, lives in Minneapolis and works across the river in St. Paul. He and his wife, Karina Milosovich, have two daughters: Harriet, 6, and Lucy, 2. He writes, "I was thrilled to come out to Portland last April to give warm wishes to recently retired Professor of Theatre Stephanie Arnold and to catch up with a number of great friends from Lewis & Clark. The memories, friends, skills, and education the Lewis & Clark community gave to me are immeasurable. Hope to be back soon for another visit!"
Paul Stamnes JD was promoted to vice president of Plum Creek Timber's tax department in Seattle. He oversees tax planning, legislative affairs, and compliance functions.
Nicole Wirth BS has been a social worker for the past 20 years and was recently promoted to associate program director of the Oregon State Hospital's Portland campus program.
Barry Needleman JD was named Concord's Lawyer of the Year 2013 for Environmental Law by The Best Lawyers in America. He is an attorney with McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton in Concord, New Hampshire. Needleman currently represents Irving Oil, defending claims brought by the State of New Hampshire regarding methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) contamination.
Beth Anne Pratt BA and her family moved back to Kampala, Uganda, after six years in Zambia.
Davina Pujari JD was named a 2012 Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine. She is a partner with Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp in San Francisco. Pujari also has been named cochair of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section White-Collar Crime Committee's Northern California Regional Subcommittee.
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Class Correspondents: Erik Thorin and Marcye Mokler
Jacquelyn Crace-Murray BA lives in Colorado and works as an English acquisition instructor at two elementary schools for the Poudre School District. She is applying to a PhD program at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, where she will study the language of initial literacy instruction and dual-language instruction as well as their effect on native language preservation. Her research will focus on the Yup'ik Eskimo peoples of southwest Alaska and the dual-language instruction program of the Lower Kuskokwim School District and possibly some rural native groups on the isles of Hawai'i.
In addition, Crace-Murray started TREK 49, an excursion company that offers tundra-level, local-flavor summer excursions around Alaska. This summer is its pilot year. "All in all, life is good and I am very thankful—especially for my children, Jake and Betsy (11 and 9), and my husband, Steve, who light up every day!"
Geoff Hooker BS and his wife, Nicky, have two children: Zoe, 5, and Zac, 3. Although retired since 2004, Nicky retains the Australian record for open women's triple jump. Hooker notes, "My baseball team, the Perth Heat, has been national champions four of the last five years. Life is good." He enjoys living in his hometown of Perth but is concerned "it's getting too crowded here."
Gregory Moawad JD is the president of the Multnomah Bar Association. He is the director of public safety at Oregon Health & Science University and was formerly a Multnomah County deputy district attorney.
Steven Shropshire JD is serving a three-year term as a board director for the Multnomah Bar Association. He is a shareholder with Jordan Ramis in Portland.
Stephen Pidgeon JD wrote a new book, The Obama Error. He is an author of both fiction and nonfiction, the founder of several technology companies, an inventor, a student of theology and philosophy, a pianist, a guitarist, a vocalist, and a composer of music. Pidgeon is also the founder and director of DecaLogos International, and has written numerous treatises on the Midrash Halakha and what he calls "the Torah Redeemed." He practices law in the state of Washington.
Katherine Somervell JD was named an Oregon 2012 Super Lawyer by Oregon Super Lawyers Magazine. She is a shareholder at Bullivant Houser Bailey.
Scott Kerin JD received the Prosecutor of the Year award from the Federal Law Enforcement Officer Association of Oregon in recognition of his support, dedication, and contributions to federal law enforcement in the District of Oregon. He is the award's first recipient.
Doug Morris JD was elected to Ater Wynne's management committee. He is a partner with the firm.
James Neu JD was elected to the Roaring Fork Business Resource Center's board of directors in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. An attorney and partner of Karp Neu Hanlon, he has more than 15 years of experience in the legal industry.
Joshua Sasaki J.D was named to the 2013 Best Lawyers in America List. He is a partner in Miller Nash's business litigation practice group in Portland.
Zeke Smith BA was recognized as one of Portland Business Journal's 40 under the age of 40 for 2013. Smith works as the chief impact officer at the United Way. Melia Tichenor BA '07, a program manager with Hands On Greater Portland noted: "Zeke is my department head at United Way and has earned my respect as a charismatic, thoughtful, and inspiring leader since my organization merged with the United Way's Community Impact department back in October of last year. He's an awesome fellow."
Rachel Gernat JD was appointed by Alaska Governor Sean Parnell to the state's Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. The council provides planning and coordination of services to victims of domestic violence or sexual assault and their families, as well as to perpetrators, and provides crisis intervention and prevention programs. Gernat is an associate attorney with the law offices of Kenneth Goldman.
Class Correspondents: Nicole Miranda and Mike Skrzynski
Brett Egusa JD was named deputy associate chief counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He is responsible for managing the newly minted Procurement and Fiscal Law Division. He has been heavily involved in supporting Hurricane Sandy operations.
Kimberley McGair JD was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Ski Areas Association for her contributions to the ski resort industry. McGair, a member of the Association of Ski Defense Attorneys, is a shareholder with Farleigh Wada Witt in Portland.
Michele Stone JD was recognized as a 2012 Rising Star in Oregon Super Lawyers. She is of counsel with Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf.
Nathan Fey BA recently received the Partner in Conservation Award from U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his work assisting the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study. Fey and his staff developed a quantitative metric for assessing impacts on riverbased recreation, from projected imbalances in water supply and demand in the seven-state Colorado River basin.
Heather Guthrie JD was named to the 2012 Five-Star Professional List in Estate Planning by Portland Monthly. She is a partner with Dunn Carney.
Miel Hendrickson BA lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, James. She travels often to Africa and beyond. She was recently promoted to development innovations specialist with International Medical Corps.
Joshua Husbands JD was elected fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Council. He is a partner in the Portland office of Holland & Knight.
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16/10/2003- On 14-15 October, the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency hosted a meeting of the OECD Global Forum on Taxation. The meeting brought together representatives of 40 OECD and non-OECD governments that are committed to the principles of transparency and effective exchange of information for tax purposes. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of the Cook Islands, the Honourable Dr. Terepai Maoate, and Mr Gabriel Makhlouf, Chair of the OECD's Committee on Fiscal Affairs. The focus of the meeting was on how to achieve a global level playing field and how to improve further the process by which this initiative can be taken forward based on the widely accepted principles of equity and shared responsibility.
Virtually all participants reaffirmed their commitments to the principles underlying the exchange of information standard and acknowledged the need to continue their discussions to establish bi-lateral mechanisms for effective exchange of information. They agreed that the level playing field is fundamentally about fairness. Participants acknowledged that progress had been made but recognised that a global level playing field does not yet exist and that further progress could and should be made to achieve it, so that all countries can reach the high standards which the participants wish to see achieved. In particular, they agreed that ways should be explored to involve significant financial centres that are not currently participating in the Global Forum process. An important part of the process would be to review what standards financial centres currently apply and where further progress might be required.
Participants agreed to work intensively over the coming months to progress the global level playing field issue and the broader question of improving the process by which this work can be accomplished. A small group of participants will be established to develop proposals for consideration by the Global Forum for achieving a global level playing field and a process by which this work could be taken forward. The group would first develop for approval by the Global Forum a draft terms of reference for its work which would cover all of the issues raised in the meeting (see attached agenda). Once this is agreed upon by the participating partners the group would begin its work with the aim of reporting back to the Global Forum in April 2004. The Commonwealth Secretariat offered to host the first meeting of this new group.
Participants noted that the Joint Ad Hoc Group on Accounts established in the Cayman Islands would continue with its work with the aim of reporting to the next meeting of the Global Forum.
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Pistacia terebinthus subsp. terebinthus
(Terebinth Tree)
Pistacia terebinthus
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Pistacia terebinthus subsp. terebinthus
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Nomenclature and Basic Information
Species name :
Pistacia terebinthus
Published in
Sp. Pl. 1025 (1753).
Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.)
Lentiscus terebinthus
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Catalogue of Life
Plant Family :
(The Pistachio Family)
species from the Anacardiaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands.
English name(s) :
Terebinth Tree, Turpentine Tree, Cyprus Terebinth Tree
Maltese name(s) :
Skornabekk, Siġra tat-turpentina, Siġra tat-Trementina
Status for Malta :
Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man
Frequency :
Very Common Common Frequent Scarce
Very rare Extinct
Growth form :
Raunkiaer lifeform [
]: Macro-Phanerophyte (high trees usually over 10m )
Germination [
]: Dicotyledon
Legal Protection [
Protected by law: schedule I of LN200/2011 AND schedule III of LN311/2006. (Strictly protected tree species)
Red List (1989) :
Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands
Flowering Time :
Colour of Flowers:
Inconspicuous or Red
Species Description and Distribution
Habitat in Europe:
Dry, open woods and rocky maquis, usually calcareous slopes
Preferred habitat in Malta:
Scattered on sheltered rocky ground at valley sides and abandoned fields close by forming a maquis-like habitat
Botanical Description:
Small deciduous tree or shrub up to 5 m. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets usually 2-8.5-1 x 3.5 cm, 3-9, ovate to obovate or oblong, mucronate, coriaceous; rhachis not winged; petioles glabrous. Inflorescence with long branches. Flowers brownish. Drupe 5-7 x 4-6 mm obovoid, compressed, apiculate, at first reddish, becoming brown.
Distributional range:
Mediterranean region and Portugal
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993)
Albania, the Balaeric Islands, Bulgaria, Corse, Crete, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Greece, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Turkey (European part)
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017)
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Dear Lauren,
I feel bad and I don't know what to do. My father just doesn't seem interested in me. I think he doesn't like me. He's always on his phone, texting or talking or checking his emails, and he just ignores me. I read your article on emotional abuse, and it's not like that – he's not mean to me like that – he just doesn't seem to notice I'm around. I'd appreciate some advice, if you have any.
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You really hit the nail on the head, didn't you? Unfortunately, I think most kids today are experiencing what you describe. Unfortunately, I think parents today have become so attached to their cell phones and computers that they've forgotten to live.
I heard a song on the radio today. The lyrics caught my attention, because I had just read your question. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it: "We should stare at the stars and not just the screens/ You should hear what I'm saying and know what it means/ We're scared of drowning, flying and shooters/ But we're all slowly dying in front of computers."
All of us – parents and kids alike – are absorbed in the worlds on our screens. Our big TV screens, our computer screens, the screens of our handheld devices. We all need to look up more often, in my opinion, to see the stars, the trees, the faces of our loved ones and dear ones and friends and neighbors.
A rabbi we know well said to us: "Do you want to hear a great story?" "Sure!" we replied, waiting for a relatively long and involved tale. This was his story: "Today my daughter said to me: 'Dad, do you want to take a walk together?' Isn't that a beautiful story?"
It's actually one of the most beautiful stories I've ever heard.
This is the problem: we parents are only human. And we are imperfect. And we make mistakes. And we forget to do the right thing. It's not (always) because we're bad or mean or rotten. It's just because we need reminders now and then from you guys.
I suggest you tell your father how you feel. This would be a good script: "Dad, I love spending time with you. [Notice how you start by saying the positive, so he knows this conversation is about how much you love him. That always helps keep the other person non-defensive.] I feel we don't spend as much time together as I would like. [Notice that I didn't say, "I feel we never spend time together." That could result in his saying, "Of course we spend time together!" But if you say, "I feel we don't spend as much time together as I would like," he can't say "Yes, we do!" to that, because you're just stating your opinion.] Could we make a time to be together and take a walk/go fishing/go bowling/roller blade/ go for coffee, and make it a no-phones zone? I miss you!" [Notice that the suggestion is a concrete outing, instead of a commitment on his part to not look at his cell phone ever when you're together. This is a good portal to the next part…]
First I would let him respond. I'm sure he'll agree to spend time with you on an outing. Make sure to set a definite time and day. I would make the outing an hour long. Then you can continue: "You know, I like spending time with you. It would mean a lot to me if you paid more attention to me when we're together. I feel like maybe your cell phone is more interesting to you than I am, and that makes me sad." [Notice I snuck the word "maybe" into that sentence. Again, this script is designed to tell your dad how you feel without making him defensive.]
I would give him a chance to respond. Then I would ask your really important question that you posed to me: "Dad, I want to ask you something, and I want you to please tell me the truth. [Wait for him to say he'll be honest with you.] Do you like me, or is there something about me that makes you not want to be with me? Am I boring to you?"
That question will be the hardest one for both of you: it will be really tough for you to ask it, and it will be really hard for your dad to hear it. You may both cry. But it's a really effective way to remind your dad that he's paying too much attention to his voicemails, emails, texts, and everything else on his cell phone, and not enough attention to his child.
"Let go of your cell phone and live!"
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If, when you ask him, your father says, "Yes, there are things I don't like about you," maybe suggest that the two of you talk with a therapist so you can work out the kinks in your relationship so you can be closer.
I love the book Always Kiss Me Goodnight: Instructions on Raising the Perfect Parent – by 147 Kids Who Know. It's written by J.S. Salt, who interviewed kids and wrote their answers as that book. He asked them to finish the sentence: "If I could tell my parents how to raise me, I'd tell them..."
What I love about it is how many of the kids wrote about wanting more attention from their parents, just doing everyday things together. They wrote about just sitting and talking, having dinner together, having a family game night, going fishing together. Most didn't want big trips or fancy presents. They just wanted simple face-to-face time with their moms and dads.
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Research projects on topics ranging from microscopic gene-cell interaction to the effects of globalization will be featured during the seventh annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance at Hope College on Friday, March 28, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse.
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The British. government has asked Germany to lease their Auschwitz concentration camp along with other WW II internment camps, as part of their final solution to the Irish problem. One German official has said off the record, "We have these camps sitting empty since the 40′s, so we may as well put them to use. They may take a bit of refurbishing but, there is no question we can get them up and running quickly." With the breakdown of the peace process in Ireland following British non-compliance, Auschwitz with its gas chambers has now being agreed by Furhrer Fuhrer Paterson with his unelected fellow Englsih Reichsführer-SS PSNI Matthew Baggoas as their final solution, to liquidate the Irish problem in Occupied Ireland.
Auschwitz concentration camp a network of concentration and extermination camps, used by the Third Reich was annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. The largest of the German concentration camps, Auschwitz has now being designated by Owen Paterson the British successor of Ghengis Khan for occupied-Ireland and his fellow englishman, the Reichsführer-SS PSNI Matthew Baggot from London, as the place for the "final solution of the Irish question in British Occupied Ireland". Friendly SS PSNI staff will were there to assist the Irish holidaymakers according to Baggot's press secretary from London who has assured the public that all SS PSNI staff will be very busy, working hard to ensure the camp experience is as enjoyable as possible for the Irish.
The British plan helicopters and transport trains via the port of Dun Laoghaire, with the compliance of the other British neo-colony in Dublin to deliver the Irish to the internment camp's gas chambers from all over occupied-Ireland. Presently there are quite a few Irishmen interned without trial by the British, along with a woman called Marian Price who has been tortured in solitary confinement for almost a year now without trial.There are also some Irish in British prisons who after interrogation at the PSNI Gestapo headquarters are now imprisoned in British Nazi camps for political prisoners, for years waiting vainly for some sort of a trial even without a jury, with a chance to plead their case. They are also discussions with the Government in the south to operate a form of compulsory emigration on all of the island, to get rid of the dole queues, those on disability and some of the younger old age pensioners, to give these excess Irish some work experience, after they pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei "work makes free."
The Irish will initially have to work in the associated munitions factories, except on Sundays, which are reserved for cleaning and prayers. The harsh work requirements, combined with poor nutrition and hygiene may lead to some collateral damage or deaths among the prisoners prior to gassing after they are past their sell by date. Within Auschwitz there is a "prison within the prison", where dissident Irish will be punished by being forced to spend their nights in "standing cells" which are similar to Marian Price's current cell, where they will be forced to dance a few jigs and then work with other prisoners during the day. The "starvation cells" in the basement is where prisoners will get neither food nor water until they are dead, as opposed to the force feeding last time of Marian Price for 200 days on hunger strike.
The basement also has "dark cells"; with just a small tiny window and solid door, where the Irish will be placed in cells to slowly suffocate to prevent any further waste of Britain's free, precious, dwindling, oxygen supply in Ireland. Some of the unrepentant Irish fenians, will be hung with their hands behind backs for days, occasionally dislocating some of their joints, similar to the effects of torture treatment for which Britain was already found guilty by the European Court of human rights in Strasburg. It is understood that Fuehrer Paterson has already given the order for the final solution of the Irish problem to his fellow englishman, the the Reichsführer of the SS PSNI, to carry out the order.
Later on the British plan to use Zyklon B for extermination at Auschwitz in its gas chambers with a state of the art crematorium to burn all evidence of the Irish off the face of the earth, as the previous British Holocaust engineered by the British famine while killing over 6 million was unsuccessful in eradicating all of them.The extermination camp, is designed to hold several categories of Irish political prisoners ultimately being an extermination camp, after they get a bit of work out of them. The first gas chamber will be called, "The Little Green House," a luxurious gassing facility, so named because the smoke will be green with fhe fine dust of their mortal Irish bodies, ascending to heaven, as a tribute to their centuries of suffering in their vale of tears in Ireland, where it is planned to exterminate all of the remaining Irish, with the exception of Martin McGuinness who has given it the nod in Stormont, accepting in the interest of cross community co-operation, the extent of the cold-blooded slaughter, based on the sheer scale of the menace posed by the Irish, which threatens the free world at this time.
Fuhrer Paterson has fully committed the British to this final solution, to exterminate all of the Irish no later than Easter 2016, as an extension of the existing part of Britain's peace process of internment without trial. The British have decided to increase considerably the gassing capacity, along with the mortuary, morgues in the basement with ground-level furnaces converted into a slaughter house for the Irish, with gas-tight doors in the morgues with Zyklon B gas. The camp will be staffed by prison warders selected from Maghaberry prison, along with some Loyalist convicts. The staff will be supervised by members of the SS PSNI, hiring about another 6,000 SS PSNI members to work at Auschwitz. Due to the large size of the British Nazi genocide project for the Irish at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, personnel from Sinn Fein will be offered some power sharing areas of responsibility modules with generous remuneration. Unfortunately because some dissidents perceive current British policy in occupied Ireland by the english Fuhrer and his Reichsführer-SS PSNI as fascist. it has produced the return of politically incorrect humour which Paterson plans to exterminate. The story below is an example which will probably be censored or interned without trial
During the last war preceding the next one, a Scottish, an English and an Irish soldier were captured by an S.S. officer, who says," Before du go in to die concentration camp, I vill give each of you vone hundert lashes , but since yous have vought bravely I vill give you one vish each." He turns to the Scot and asks him,"Vhat is your vish ? " The scottish soldier replies, "I would like one of your wee S.S. jackets to put on me when you are whipping me ""Your vish is granted," says the S.S. officer and he gets a leather S.S. jacket to put on the Scot and when he has it on, he gives him one hundred lashes with his whip, then the Scottish soldier crawls into the concentration camp.
Next the S.S. officer says to the English soldier, "Du have vought bravely also, Vhat ist your vish?"The English soldier replies, "I would like a mattress to put across my back, old boy!" The S.S. officer putsts a mattress across the English soldier's back and gives him one hundred lashes who then crawls into the concentration camp. Then the S.S. officer goes to the Irish soldier and says, "Du have also vought bravely , even more bravely than sie other two , for this I vill give du two vishes " Immediately the Irish soldier replies, " Arragh, I would like two hundred lashes!" The S.S. officer replies, "Are du sure?" "Yes I am!" replies the Irish soldier. The S.S. officer then says, "Fair enough, then vhat vould your second vish be??"
The Irish soldier then replies, "Put that english bastard on my back!!!"
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Long before the shitshow of 2016, AJJ tried to warn us about what lurked beneath American civility. Abusers. Nazis. "Politicians too." Since 2004, the folk/punk (not folk-punk) band has been a sort of desert prophet, emerging regularly from the 120° Arizona heat to take America to task for all the hypocrisies it won't admit. White privilege, violent impulses, religious madness. All the colors of the flag.
Over the last 15 years, AJJ have achieved incredible success solely on the back of their songwriting, and the uncompromising clarity of their lyrics. At the end of 2017 they celebrated the 10 year anniversary of 2007's People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World with more than 50 sold out shows across the U.S., Canada, UK, and Europe.
And while that album remains a high water mark in the folk-punk genre, the band has grown considerably in the last decade. After two diverse full lengths for SideOneDummy (two of their best yet), AJJ now bring us Ugly Spiral: Lost Works 2012-2016, a collection which sheds light on the band's expanding sound between People and now. A number of unreleased studio cuts (like opener "Space and Time," and the incendiary "Blood, Hatred, Money, and Rage") find their place alongside live favorites like "Now That I'm At the Top of My Game," songs previously only available on vinyl, and alternate takes of album highlights.
With most tracks culled from sessions with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Cloud Nothings), and legendary Mesa, AZ producer jalipaz nelson, Ugly Spiral is a surprising and robust album, offering new listeners a compelling overview of one of America's great DIY bands, with plenty of new gems for the hungry fan.
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Two Officers with Ties to the North Country Hard at Work on Both CampusesWednesday, July 10th, 2013
SUNY Canton has selected Alan P. Mulkin as Deputy Chief of University Police and SUNY Potsdam has chosen Timothy M. Ashley II, to work in the same capacity.
Mulkin is the former Chief of the Canton Village Police Department. Ashley has been with SUNY Potsdam's University Police force since 2009. Both will report to Chief John Kaplan, a 1982 SUNY Potsdam graduate, who oversees the University Police departments at both institutions. The new deputy chiefs will work together to share expertise with officers at both campuses.
"I've been fortunate to work with both Tim and Alan in many capacities in the past," Kaplan said. "They are exceptionally reliable and dependable. They understand the unique dynamics of both colleges and the surrounding communities. They will work closely with officers from both campuses and other surrounding agencies."
Alan P. Mulkin originally hails from Potsdam and now resides in Canton. He served at the Canton Village Police Department for 18 years, and is a former instructor in SUNY Canton's criminal justice program. He's also been an instructor at the David Sullivan – St. Lawrence County Law Enforcement Academy at SUNY Canton. He is a 1985 graduate of Corning Community College, where he earned an associate of applied science in criminal justice. Mulkin is a 1996 graduate of SUNY Potsdam, and attended the FBI National Academy at the University of Virginia in Quantico.
An Ogdensburg native, Timothy M. Ashley II attended SUNY Canton, where he served as a resident assistant and interned with the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Department, graduating in 1993 with an associate degree in criminal justice. From 1994 to 2001, Ashley worked as a corrections officer in Sing Sing, Fishkill and Riverview correctional facilities. He also attended SUNY Plattsburgh and Empire State College, earning his bachelor's degree in human and community services in 1997.
In 2001, Ashley joined the University Police force at SUNY Canton, where he served as a field training officer and earned a Meritorious Service Award in 2007 for saving the life of a fellow officer. In 2009, he joined SUNY Potsdam's University Police, becoming a Lieutenant a year later. He is currently a graduate student in St. Lawrence University's educational leadership master's program.
For more information about SUNY Canton's University Police Department, please visit http://www.canton.edu/university_police.
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In an unusual display of fiscal rectitude for Washington, the can that politicians are always kicking down the road may finally be kicking back with the launch of a campaign to push for honest numbers in government budgeting.
It's not just the bipartisan legislation that Sens. John Thune, R-N.D., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced two weeks ago in the Senate but the campaign surrounding it, including a veritable torch and pitchfork-wielding mob of prominent economists and former government officials endorsing the bill.
"You never see 11 Nobel economists endorse something—never, never, never, never, never," Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff (left) told ThinkAdvisor in an interview.
The busy academic, who has supplemented his teaching, book and academic journal writing with a maverick presidential campaign last year, drafted the aptly named Intergenerational Financial Obligations Reform (INFORM) Act. U.C. Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach edited the bill's language.
The legislation would mandate detailed cost analyses of congressional and presidential spending initiatives. Specifically, it would institute what is known in economics as fiscal gap and generational accounting, which include future financial obligations that are currently off the books.
"Have you seen those greenish-yellow Social Security checks your mother gets every month?" Kotlikoff asked. "Well not a penny of it is recorded as official debt."
The Boston University economist has been writing for 30 years on the problems attendant on government commitments which are mostly off the books. "Official debt is only one-twentieth of our true obligations," he warns, calculating our true debt today weighs in at $222 trillion.
If the current generation does not accept higher taxes or reduced benefits, they will be in effect shifting the cost of their living standards onto a less affluent younger generation.
Kotlikoff's Inform Act website has tabs for Nobel Prize-winning economists such as Kenneth Arrow and William Sharpe, former government officials like George Shultz and Michael Boskin, hundreds of economists and finance professors like Jeffrey Sachs and Kent Smetters and other supporters such as columnist Scott Burns and broker-dealer executive and ThinkAdvisor contributor Bob Seawright.
The purple-colored website—Kotlikoff's intent is to move beyond red (Republican) or blue (Democrat)—seeks citizen endorsers as well, prior to a full-page New York Times ad to run some time next month.
Kotlikoff is optimistic about the measure's chance of passage, saying a co-sponsor from each party will soon be introducing a House version of the Senate bill.
"The government has spent six decades lying about the deficit," Kotlikoff says, referring to promises backed by words but not deeds.
"No matter what labeling convention you use, economics is about real things and linguistics is about words," he says. "This [bill] is the economics profession speaking with almost one voice," he adds, citing the large number of economics profession endorsers.
Kotlikoff says there a number of technical issues—involving how the U.S. will account for future expenses—that will complicate implementation of the bill. These expenses will be "very difficult to measure but we have to try."
The Boston University economist credits a nonpartisan grass roots group of young Americans called The Can Kicks Back, which—"with no money" initially— started lobbying for generational equity starting in November of last year.
Some nonpartisan philanthropists kicked in funds, brought Kotlikoff in to draft a bill ("It took months to get the language right") and the group attracted the interest of "Senators who really care about the country," Kotlikoff says, adding "this is democracy in action."
If passed, the Inform Act would substitute the current convention of looking at the budgetary impact of spending over 10 years with a 75-year and "infinite horizon" fiscal gap and generational accounting analysis.
Such analyses were performed in the first Bush and Clinton administrations, but were then nixed, though the Social Security Trustees Report and the IMF still utilize this approach to show how liabilities are transferred intergenerationally.


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A U.S. rights group and a global commercial satellite photography company have teamed up to closely monitor North Korea's political prison camps in a bid to prevent the hard-line state from destroying any evidence of alleged torture and other abuses in the camps.
In their first project, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), a Washington-based nongovernmental organization, and Colorado-based DigitalGlobe focused on North Korea's Camp No. 22, rejecting reports that the notorious political penal labor facility had been shut down or abandoned.
An analysis of DigitalGlobe images over the last two years, "does not support reports that Camp 22 was shut down or abandoned during 2012," the two groups said in a report responding to recent suggestions that the camp in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, was closed in June.
A North Korean source had told RFA's Korean service in September that North Korean authorities have been working in extreme secrecy to close the site since mid-March last year.
Another source from North Hamgyong Province had told RFA that some guards from Camp 22 were left behind until the end of August to destroy all traces of monitoring and detention facilities.
North Korean authorities, meanwhile, have organized a new cooperative farm at the site with newly transferred people and are busy building regular "family houses," the source said.
The HRNK-DigitalGlobe study however shows continuing harvesting of crops and coal production in the area, making it possible that North Korean authorities have been transferring small sections of prisoners out of Camp 22 and replacing them with a regular workforce from other locations.
The satellite imagery showed the razing of a building that defectors identify as an interrogation center, but "the camp remains operational," the groups said in a joint report entitled "North Korea's Camp No. 22."
'Clear picture'
The report is the first step in a collaborative effort by HRNK and DigitalGlobe "to create a clear picture of the evolution and current state of North Korea's political prison camps."
Under the joint endeavor, DigitalGlobe will provide imagery together with analyses to HRNK, which had put North Korea's penal labor colonies on the map by publishing "Hidden Gulag" in 2003 and "Hidden Gulag Second Edition" in 2012.
The two organizations "will closely monitor North Korea's political prison camps so that any attempts to distort the harsh reality of the camps by destroying evidence will not go unnoticed," the report said.
North Korean state security agency officials who defected to South Korea estimate that the prison camp system holds between 150,000 and 200,000 people, including whole families, for so-called "political crimes."
"The North Korean regime's hiding and distorting the harsh reality of North Korea's unforgiving political prisoner camp system is no longer an option," said Greg Scarlatoiu, HRNK's executive director.
"With constant satellite imagery, we can maintain a watch over these camps even if no outside entry is allowed."
More than 120 states in the United Nations General Assembly expressed "serious concern" in 2011 about "the existence of a large number of prison camps and the extensive use of forced labor" in North Korea, he said.
"If North Korea is trying to make a Potemkin Village out of Camp 22, the world should know," Scarlatoiu said, using a Russian idiom often cited for moves to deceive people into thinking that something is better than it actually is.
Scarlatoiu cautioned however that satellite imagery would not be able to provide views of everything that's happening at the prison camps at any given moment.
"Very often, due to the fact that information coming into and getting out of North Korea is so restricted, sometimes we have to rely on a relatively limited number of sources. It's always very useful to corroborate defector accounts with testimony from those who are still inside the country and with satellite imagery."
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