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Penn State's costs related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal have crossed $50 million.
Penn State was on the hook for about $50.5 million as of July 31, up $2.8 million from two months earlier, according to a university website posting Monday. The amount covers legal fees, consulting work, fines and other costs.
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The final tab promises to be far higher, as the amount reported by Penn State includes only the first $12 million installment of a $60 million NCAA fine, and excludes the $60 million that Penn State has set aside to pay damages to Sandusky's victims.
The school has said it won't use tuition dollars, state appropriations or donations to pay the tab, and it expects some of the costs to be paid by insurance. Penn State and its insurance carrier are locked in a dispute over the insurer's financial exposure to the Sandusky scandal.
The retired assistant football coach was sentenced to 30-to-60 years in prison last year after being convicted on dozens of counts of sexual abuse.
Sandusky's November 2011 arrest triggered the firing of late coach Joe Paterno, criminal charges against three university administrators and NCAA sanctions against the football program.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Used to post here - looking for my old work from 2001-2002 Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Used to post here - looking for my old work from 2001-2002" Reformationjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Oct 2013Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:27 am Hi guys, some ten years ago I posted my very first attempts at digital painting at this forum under the username buyuu. I even got blessed with a paintover from the all mighty spooge at one point . Unfortunately, almost all of my old work are sadly lost. One of my painting threads still has the picture up though - talk about reliable image hosting!: Anyway, I realize the chances of revovering these lost gems of history are slim but it doesn't hurt to try. Perhaps some crazy guy out there saved every single image in the history of sijun, or there are some alternatives to archive.org that I'm not aware of. A few months ago I was able to recover an image from one of my old threads (http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?p=218406&highlight=#218406) that is no longer active. I don't remember if it was through archive.org or some other way. These are the threads which used to have the pieces I'm looking for: "head study": http://www.sijun.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=172567&sid=65a422ae23dba2017e192dc36e04b045 "candlelight / first post" http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?p=191569&highlight=#191569 "Ha Long Bay, Vietnam": http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?p=159223&highlight=#159223 "Ha Long Bay - update": http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?p=160350&highlight=#160350 Thanks for looking! Back to top SumalethAdministratorMember #Joined: 30 Oct 1999Posts: 2898Location: Australia Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:03 am What was the subject of the image that Spooge painted over?_________________Art Links Archive -- Artists and Tutorials Back to top Reformationjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Oct 2013Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:24 am "Ha Long Bay - update": Actually, now that I revisit the thread and think of it - it is possibly that he was just giving a written crit and that I've somehow reconstructed that in my mind to a full paint over. Oh well I suppose we all idealize our early years Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:10 am Muahahahah! Creative people.. don't live them alone for too long - they'll conjure up a storm. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group

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Construction of stages and tents began this week at the somewhat unusual venue, a tree-lined boulevard in the heart of downtown. It's the first show on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to require paid admission. Rock stalwarts Pearl Jam are co-headliners of the two-day event. Officials said there should be no problem handling the crowd considering the city's long tradition of staging much larger concerts at the same location. "Every year, we have detailed plans for public safety, street access, trash removal and we successfully accommodate 400,000 to 500,000 visitors on the 4th of July," Mayor Michael Nutter said in a statement. For those who can't make the festival on either Sept. 1 or 2, don't worry - filmmaker Ron Howard will be directing a movie about the show. Overall, city officials expect 50,000 paying fans each day for the bill curated by Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. Musicians include Skrillex, Drake, Afrojack, Chris Cornell, Run-DMC and hometown favorite Jill Scott. time Concerts will run from 2-11 p.m. on three stages, one of which will be near the Museum of Art steps made famous in the film "Rocky." "Thirty amazing acts are coming together to perform at one of Philadelphia's most iconic sites," Geoff Gordon, regional president for concert promoter Live Nation, said in a statement Friday. Gary and Kristin Camp of Wilmington, Del., were enticed by the lineup and bought a pair of two-day passes. Though they have some questions about logistics and transportation, Gary Camp said they're prepared for a couple of long days and are looking forward to the show - especially Pearl Jam. "I think it's going to be an exciting event in a unique setting," Camp said. Organizers say the blocks-long site will be enclosed by 8-foot-high double-fencing patrolled by security. Material woven into the chain-link barrier is designed to keep non-paying spectators from seeing the show. It's a big change from previous parkway music events, which have been free. That includes annual Independence Day shows featuring performers like Sheryl Crow and The Roots, as well as the Live 8 concert for African poverty relief in 2005 and a Bruce Springsteen set in 2008. As of Friday, two-day passes for "Made In America" cost $135 each, while a one-day ticket was $75. VIP passes, and travel packages with hotel rooms, ranged from $350 to nearly $2,200. Prices could go up closer to the concert date. Mark Nevins, who lives in the nearby Fairmount neighborhood, is interested in seeing Pearl Jam. But he said sitting through an hourslong festival for one band seemed like a lot of time and effort. "I'm hoping I can hear it from my house, or maybe head down toward the parkway and listen in from the outside," Nevins said. It certainly wouldn't be surprising to see people trying to catch a few free tunes from outside the perimeter. But officials stress that fence-climbers will be prosecuted. Also, Hollywood producers Howard and Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind," ''The Da Vinci Code") have signed on to make a film about the festival. The pair's 2007 movie "American Gangster," about a notorious Harlem drug lord, inspired Jay-Z's album by the same name. "Made In America" is sponsored by Budweiser and will be held rain or shine. It benefits United Way organizations in greater Philadelphia and southern New Jersey; Lancaster, Pa., and New York City.
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The match had impeccable manners. This FA Cup tie did little to distract a crowd from its thoughts of Thierry Henry while he was still on the bench. The long stalemate was just scene-setting. The forward decided this FA Cup tie after a five-year absence from Arsenal and sent the side on to a meeting with Aston Villa in the fourth round.
It was a goal perfectly reminiscent of his great days with the club. Alex Song slipped the ball through in the 78th minute and Henry, on loan from New York Red Bulls, came in from the left to slant a right-footed shot across the Leeds United goalkeeper, Andy Lonergan. The movement and finish were so typical of the scorer that the episode would have been a cliché had it not felt so exhilarating.
There are plenty of cautionary words to be uttered since Leeds are only eighth in the Championship but no one else in Arsenal's ranks had come up with the technique and poise to settle the outcome. The impact of a 34-year-old Henry cannot be taken for granted in, say, the Premier League but adrenaline flooded through this club after Arsène Wenger released him from the bench in the 68th minute.
Henry, too, will be elated after notching a 227th goal for Arsenal. Circumstances will not always be as suitable as they were here, with an admirable Leeds starting to toil after being so composed and efficient for much of the occasion. This evening, however, was a fillip for a club currently outside the top four in the Premier League and keen to ready themselves for the resumption of the Champions League.
It could be that Henry's influence will be short-lived but his presence galvanised Arsenal here. Stern judges could think it an indictment of Wenger that he had to dip into the club's past but the immediate benefit was well worth having, no matter how the forward fares in the weeks to come. The spectators had more to discuss than, for instance, their usual disappointment with, say, Andrey Arshavin and Marouane Chamakh.
This match also had a ring to it even before Henry took the field. While the true aspirations of Leeds are for an eventual re-emergence in the Premier League, the FA Cup came as a break from all that earnestness. Here was an occasion that would excite a team that also understood there was scant risk of recriminations or disgrace.
Arsenal had trouble making a breakthrough, since the visitors were obdurate in their 4-1-4-1 system. Wenger's players attacked but early in the night there was little precision in front of goal. Chamakh was in action prior to joining Morocco at the Africa Cup of Nations but did not make his presence felt when collecting Aaron Ramsey's pass and sending his finish soaring over the bar in the second minute.
Though the Arsenal centre-half Sébastien Squillaci had been wasteful when heading off target from a Mikel Arteta free-kick in the second minute, Simon Grayson's team were generally composed. Their opponents had to cope with exasperation and an injured Francis Coquelin had to make way for Nico Yennaris after half an hour.
It would still have been a distortion to pretend that frustration had seeped into the Emirates, though there may have been a little wistfulness about one absentee. Robin van Persie was excused the game so that he could enjoy a family holiday in Dubai, even though the club often appears dependent on the Dutchman for goals. His name would have begun to be more prominent still in the thoughts of the Arsenal fans when there was a protracted deadlock.
There ought also to have been regard for the opposition among those in a sportsmanlike mood. Leeds were composed and there was also a wish to go on the attack, despite the fact that they had not inconvenienced the Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny at that juncture. A bid for promotion can be a treacherous task but Leeds, by the interval, would often have had the impression that, if Arsenal were any guide, the Premier League might not be so intimidating after all.
It was not for sentimental reasons that chants for Henry broke out in the opening moments of the second half. The Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain did show urgency when cutting in from the right before shooting off-target in the 47th minute. Even so, it would have been unjust to write off this fixture as a non-event.
Whatever else happens, this scene, before a crowd of 59,615, should motivate Leeds all the more to persevere in the quest for Premier League status. The focus here was largely on containing the hosts.
That was being done only with difficulty as the second half developed. When Chamakh laid the ball off to Arteta in the 54th minute, the drive was saved by Lonergan. With the win achieved, there is a danger that Arsenal will forget just how they toiled. The night belonged to Henry but, if his team is to prosper, others will have to strive for the standards he has set.


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Translated by Eilat Gordin Levitan Jan Stankovicz lived at the end of Karve Street. He was a carpenter and all his life was spent mingling with the Jews, just like the rest of the Christian neighbors. As soon as the Germans arrived they put him in charge. Immediately he changed his skin and united with the Germans in all their cruelty towards the Jews. He was the one who advised the Germans about the Satanic action near the house. When they took the martyrs to be killed, he stood with his rifle on top of the Church and shot whoever tried to escape. Such an evil man was clearly the first one who we wanted to get revenge on.
Those days we would sit with the rest of the Vishnevan partisans in the forest and talk about the day of the annihilation of the Vishnevo community and the last words of Riva Bashka while she was taken to be burned. She yelled, Brothers, may each one of you who will survive remember to avenge our spilled blood. We made a decision to fulfill her last request. We approached the head of the brigade and he responded positively. He sent a company of 200 people headed by the Vishnevan Jewish partisans with a large amount of weapons, as much as we could carry. We arrived one evening at the outskirts of the town and we sent scouts. Our aim was to first catch Stankovicz and Turinsky alive and bring them to the forest. We put groups of two or three people in different stations surrounding the town and started our action.
I, together with Noah Podbersky and a few other partisans, entered the house of Torinsky at Vilna St., the old house of Elie Yakov Zusman. We checked in all the rooms but couldn't find him, but realized that he must be nearby since the bed where he slept was still warm and his clothes and boots were on a chair by the bed. It was very clear that he just left the house. We looked everywhere in every corner, but couldn't find him. Finally we went to the basement and saw him. He stood with his underwear, hiding at the entrance. We didn't wait. We hit him with the edges of our rifles and he fell to the ground. We started beating him and started getting all the pain that was inside us and we yelled, For the blood of our fathers and dears ones you spilled. Finally when he lay there unconscious, we took him upstairs to the house of Fabish Lieberman where we all gathered. We gave him to the other partisans and returned to Karve St.
I must explain that before we came to town we cut all the telephone lines so the entire town was now in our hands. Now we went to the house of Stankovicz. At first we couldn't find him in his house or his neighbor's house, but finally we found him in the attic, hidden behind a haystack. We took him down and started beating him with our rifles. When he fell unconscious, bleeding from all the beatings, we took him to our central rallying point. The third we wanted was the pharmacist, Pobol, but with him we only beat him, and when he fainted we let go. From his house we took medicine and food and continued. We went through the entire town, which now only had Christians, living there. We took food, cows, flour, bread, potatoes, pigs, and we put it all in the wagons that we took from the yards and returned to the forest. We went to Boktova and there we rested for a day. In the evening we went to Bartinova, a village near the Berzino River in the thick forest where the rest of the partisans were located. There we had a field trial and they all received death sentences and were shot. After we left the area their families came and took their bodies.
But this was not enough. The houses of Vishnevo were still standing and the Christians who hated us and had helped the killing of our dear ones lived there in their houses (taken from the Jews). The need to get revenge burned inside us and didn't let us rest, so we decided to go back to town. This was a few months later. We announced our decision to our officer by the name of Podrin. We let him know that in Vishnevo there was not one Jew and that the Christians took their homes and were collaborating with the Nazis and that their living there endangered partisans. So we wanted to do something about it, and again he agreed with us. After some consultation we organized a brigade of 300 people, and late at night we came to town. First we burned the big synagogue where they now kept their carpentry. We ordered ten people to get out of their homes and to bring hay and all other sorts of kindling and to set fire to all four sides of the town. They did as they were ordered and after two hours the entire town was on fire while all the Christians were running away half-naked. The fire could be seen from afar in the darkness. The German camp in Vojgany could see very clearly what was happening but fearing us they chose to stay in the camp. Once all the houses of the town turned to dust, in some cases along with the residents, we left the place that once was called our hometown. Before we left we took a large amount of food and we turned to the forest.
The people from Vishnevo who took part in this action was Cheina R., B-M Rubin, Zuska Podversky, Noah Podversky, Kokin, Daliyahu Dudman, and Yosef Pushkin from Ravzevich who was second in command to Kodrin. I must say one more thing about fear of the Germans for the partisans: one of our aims was to scare the Polish and Belorussian collaborators who served the Germans and took part in all their missions. We talked to them, and told them that if they did not stop collaborating with the enemy we would take it out on their families. One of these men was in the police in Vishnevo and lived in Vojgany. Many times we warned him. When we saw that he was not listening and continued to endanger the partisans, we decided to do what we said we would do to him, so one summer night we came on horses to Vojgany. We put the horses some distance and came near his house, which was next door to the SS house. We threw a few grenades at the house, and the house was destroyed with all its occupants. In spite of the fact that the Germans saw everything, they didn't move. Only after we finished with the action and started riding our horses back to our camp did they start shooting, but we were already back in the forest.
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Wacky NSA Slide Tells Agents Not To Worry About 'Incidental' Collection Of Info On Americans
from the keep-on-searching... deptThere are so many incredible bits and pieces in Barton Gellman's Washington Post expose on NSA abuse, that we've got a bunch of posts today digging deeper into various parts. For example, Gellman reveals a somewhat wacky presentation slide, complete with a palm tree graphic and with the somewhat folksy title:
Lesson 4: So you got a U.S. Person Information?And then explains what to do about it. They're pretty clear that if you're directly targeting a US person, that's a problem (and it is, because that's illegal). If it's considered "inadvertent," then you also have to stop, write up an incident report and notify people. That sounds reasonable. But... then there's the "incidental" section. Here, incidental is described as:
You targeted a legitimate foreign entity and acquired information/communications to/from/about a U.S. Person in your results.That doesn't seem particularly "incidental" to me. But, here's the kicker. While with all the other forms of collection the NSA is told to stop, when it's "incidental" they're told:
This does not constitute a USSID SP008 violation, so it does not have to be reported in the IG quarterly.Note that the IG report is the one that was revealed, listing all of the abuses. Yet, here they seem to be indicating that these "incidental" collections of information (and note that it's not just "metadata" here, but full "communications" as well) aren't a real problem. They're told to "apply... minimization procedures" to limit the info on US persons, but we've already seen what a joke those minimization procedures can be.
As Gellman also notes in his report, it appears that the info collected "incidentally" here gets added to NSA databases and can be searched freely:
The NSA uses the term "incidental" when it sweeps up the records of an American while targeting a foreigner or a U.S. person who is believed to be involved in terrorism. Official guidelines for NSA personnel say that kind of incident, pervasive under current practices, "does not constitute a . . . violation" and "does not have to be reported" to the NSA inspector general for inclusion in quarterly reports to Congress. Once added to its databases, absent other restrictions, the communications of Americans may be searched freely.Just last week, it was discussed that there's a "loophole" that, according to Senator Wyden, allows for "warrantless searches for the phone calls or emails of law-abiding Americans." Who knows if this is that particular loophole, but it does seem like a fairly large loop. Just say it's "incidental" and boom, search away.
Remember, the IG report also reveals that a "programming error" meant that a ton of phone calls placed from Washington DC were "intercepted" by the NSA (because someone typed in 202, DC's area code, instead of 20, Egypt's country code) -- and that mistake wasn't reported. That doesn't seem "incidental" to me.
Another example:
In dozens of cases, NSA personnel made careless use of the agency's extraordinary powers, according to individual auditing reports. One team of analysts in Hawaii, for example, asked a system called DISHFIRE to find any communications that mentioned both the Swedish manufacturer Ericsson and "radio" or "radar" — a query that could just as easily have collected on people in the United States as on their Pakistani military target.Think about that for a second. Any communication that mentions both Ericsson and "radio" or "radar." Just for the hell of it, I just did a search on my own email account for the terms "Ericsson" and "radio" and it came back with a ton of results, including 47 from just 2013. In just my mailbox. Many of those are from various wireless news letters or PR announcements, but still...
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Getting to hear Tim Keller, Matt Chandler, James Meeks and Andy Stanley speak about preaching was like a preacher's heaven. So good. Here are some notes from each talk:
Tim Keller
- How to persuade unbelievers in a sermon: Learn how to persuade with people's own beliefs, Use people's beliefs against them, You have to solve heart problems with the gospel, You have to demonstrate to the non-Christian that you know what it is like to not believe, to doubt, and Speak to non-Christians directly. Talk about what they are thinking in that moment. By doing this, you communicate that you know they are there and that their doubts matter.
- Postmodern people want to know how the gospel fits.
- If you preach to the heart every week, the non-Christians will hear the gospel every week.
Matt Chandler preached from Luke 15 to show what happens when preaching happens.
- When the gospel is clearly preached, the most heinous sinners are drawn in.
- Gospel preaching deconstructs and then reconstructs at the same time.
- Jesus isn't just after the prodigals, he is after the self-righteous hypocrite as well.
- Don't live vicariously through someone else or books. Don't have other people hanging out with lost people's stories.
- Trust the bible.
- If you move from biblical doctrine, you'll have nothing to save people to because you won't have anything to save them from.
James Meeks
- Whatever you want people to know or do, you must preach that.
- Preach the announcements.
Andy Stanley
- Your approach to preaching is everything.
- Your approach is more important than content.
- If you take the wrong approach in preaching, it won't matter if you have good content.
- If you don't care what people do with what you say, you don't care about people.
- Jesus didn't come to make a point.
- Preachers aren't to make a point or be right, they are to win people.
- The foundation of our faith is not the bible but an event.
- The problem when you say "The bible says" is what else the bible says.
- You take the bible seriously because you take Jesus seriously and Jesus took the Old Testament seriously.
Then they had a panel discussion and here are some tidbits from that:
- Churches that create an environment for outsiders are positive. Churches that don't are negative. Churches that go negatively quickly are inside focused.
- People aren't a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. Preaching needs to start there, embrace the tension people have and then move them to the gospel.
- If the gospel doesn't hit on the redemption of all things, it is hard for people to move forward and see the point of things.
- We need to care about eternal suffering, but also all suffering.
- A preacher needs to be the most sanctified version of himself, not someone else.
- A preacher needs to have fun. If you don't have fun, otherwise people won't have fun.
- When you preach, give non-Christians an out and tell them, "you don't have to do this."
- If you give non-Christians an out in a sermon, they lean in.
- A good critical question for a preacher to ask after a sermon is, "Was the sermon fair in its viewpoint of non-Christians?"
- A preacher should be prepared.
- Don't take yourself too seriously.
- Don't forget that the work of preaching is supernatural.
- Don't have faith in your sermon, have faith in the Holy Spirit.


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No, You Did Not Randomly Win A Vacation From Travelocity
Remember when we told you about the scammers out to trick people into thinking they'd won travel vouchers from the nonexistent (at least in the U.S.) United Airways? Since then we've heard of two apparently separate-but-similar scams using the Travelocity name to deceive unsuspecting consumers.
First we heard from Consumerist reader J., who snapped a photo of the questionable letter he'd received from "Travelocity." It reads:
You will receive 2 round-trip airline tickets on Southwest, Jet Blue, United, or a comparable airline, plus a 3-day/2-night weekend getaway at a hotel such as Marriott, Hyatt and Hilton.
BONUS: Call within 48 hours and you will also receive a $50 Travelocity Hotel Cash Card!
We have attempted contacting you several times. This is our last attempt.
And then provides a phone number and offer code for J. to claim his prize.
In addition to the awkwardly written text of the letter, another huge clue that this letter might not have been sent from Travelocity is that the envelope had a return address sticker, not with the company name or address, but the name of a woman named Mary in Florida.
Out of curiosity, we Google mapped the address on the label, and it's a small private residence. Perhaps it's the Roaming Gnome's winter home?
Then reader S. sent in the following scammy postcard he received from a company claiming to be Travelocity:
The airline and hotel language is identical, but the $50 cash card is now part of the promotion and the bonus for calling within 48 hours is even sweeter — "A 3 DAY RENT-A-CAR PLUS A $100 DINING CARD!!"
The back of the card repeats this text, along with an "RSVP code" for claiming the prize.
But the back of the card also has a fine print disclaimer not seen on the letter sent to J.
It reads:
"This promotion not sponsored by Marriott, Hilton, Travelocity."
S. did some digging online and found a few posts regarding this scam, including this nearly identical one using the name of Southwest, dating back to 2011.
We went directly to Travelocity about these two letters and the company confirmed that it not only knows about it, but that it's trying to put an end to the practice.
"Travelocity is not running these promotions and both the letter and postcard were sent by a third party that is not affiliated with Travelocity, and not authorized to use our trademarks," a company rep tells Consumerist. "We are pursuing legal action against the senders."
Travelocity says that if you get one of the letters seen above, just disregard and toss it in with the recycling.
Bogus prizes and awards were the second-most prevalent type of scam in a recent Federal Trade Commission survey of consumer fraud incidents, with about 2.4 million known incidents in 2011 alone.
You can — and should — file a complaint with the FTC and your state's Attorney General when you come across a scam. Here is a link to the FTC's complaint assistant, and here is a directory of contact information for each state's Attorney General.
Want more consumer news? Visit our parent organization, Consumer Reports, for the latest on scams, recalls, and other consumer issues.


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Contest Source: Estee Lauder
Contest Type: Online
Prize: Estee Lauder Advance Night Repair Beauty Hamper (x5)
Tell them why your best friend has the most interesting and deserving DNA in less than 100 words - u might just win her the above prize. (Win for yourself or win for her? haha...)
Best 5 will win the hampers.
Contest Empire's Rating
Prize worth it or not: 6/10
Winning Chance: Slim


text: Frank Grissel is a hard-knuckled private eye – and a deeply closeted homosexual – set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco. Aided by his long-suffering secretary (and sometime live-in lover) Loretta, Grissel's search for a runaway girl winds up with his becoming a suspect in a string of gruesome murders. The case takes twists and turns through the Golden Gate's greasy underbelly: the beguiling arms of a Chinese shipping heiress (and smuggler); an unexpected reunion with the daughter he abandoned long ago; the loss of Loretta to the sadistic clutches of the high-powered "Colonel"; and finally to the horrifying, gender-bending truth.


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Local authorities
Since the 2014 local elections there are 31 local authorities with a total of 949 members known as councillors. Under the Local Government Reform Act 2014 the town authorities were replaced by a system of 95 municipal districts, integrating town and county governance, and certain local authorities were merged.
There are 26 county councils and they are responsible for local government in 24 geographical counties including the county of Dublin. Dublin county has 3 county councils – South Dublin County Council, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Fingal County Council.
There are 2 city and county councils. They are responsible for local government in Limerick (Limerick City and County Council) and Waterford (Waterford City and County Council).
There are 3 city councils and they are responsible for local government in the cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway.
The number of members that can be elected to a council depends on the size of the county's population. For example, Cork County Council has 55 members and Carlow County Council has only 18. The number of members in each council is set out in Section 15 of the 2014 Act.
The council has jurisdiction or control throughout its administrative area.
Each council has a chief executive, previously known as city or county manager, who is the manager of the local authority.
You can find your local authority's details on the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) website.
Municipal districts
Under the 2014 Act each council administrative area, apart from the 3 Dublin county councils and the 3 city councils, has a system of municipal districts based on electoral areas. Each council has at least two municipal districts. For example, Kilkenny County Council has 3 municipal districts.
The local authority members elected from these municipal districts take certain decisions in relation to the districts. Certain municipal districts may be known as metropolitan districts or borough districts.
The councils in Dublin and the city councils may establish area committees, but they do not have the same functions as municipal districts.


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Komodo and XDebugSubmitted by robin on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:52am
I spent a little time setting up Komodo and Xdebug yesterday. It wasn't hard to do and there was just one little issue that I thought others would like to know about.
* Komodo's help documentation
* Komodo's blog which pointed me to the next item
* Robert Douglass's recent article: http://robshouse.net/article/xdebug-komodo-and-acquia-drupal-stack-insta...
* this video: http://kentbye_tech.blip.tv/file/229420/
The help documentation was the best. I just found myself slightly influenced by Robert Douglass's article as I tried to determine where to put xdebug.so. The video was not very helpful either except that he showed using the debugger configuration wizard (which I skipped initially).
I setup xdebug.so in /usr/lib (because I think if I have file standardization right that's where I should install my own libs (vs. what Linux installs in /var/lib).
After making all of the configuration changes and restarting Apache, everything looked correct.
php -m
returned information about xdebug. Komodo in Edit -Preferences - Debugger said it was configured to work correctly. I added:
to the end of the URL of one of my local sites, but the page loaded and Komodo did not start debugging.
This made me sad. I went through the configuration steps again. Tried it again. Still not working. I looked at the Debug - Listener Status. It was showing an unexpected port number. I had actually looked at it earlier and thought to myself: that doesn't seem right, but it's the default...it should be right. As it turned out, Komodo was using a system provided free port. This is not good. Everything else I had setup was assuming port 9000.
I went to Edit - Preferences - Debugger - Connection:
Komodo should listen for debugging connections on:
* system provided free port
* a specific port: 9000
I chose a specific port and set it to 9000, et voila! Komodo started debugging properly.
Drupal Summit Talk: CCK Configuration in CodeSubmitted by robin on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 1:24pm
Features Slides From Pacific Northwest Drupal SummitSubmitted by robin on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 2:45pm
I gave a talk introducing Featues (and Context). My slides are pretty minimal, because of most of the talk is a demonstration.
Still, who am I to judge...slides attached!
West Coast Drupal EventsSubmitted by robin on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 11:46am
Last weekend, I attended the Portland DrupalCamp. I gave a presentation about using Features and Context. It was great to connect with the Drupal community outside of Seattle.
This weekend I am in Berkeley, CA attending BADCamp which is mind blowing. From Josh Koenig's talk about Drupal in the Cloud to Ryan Szrama's talk about Ubercore, it is clear that folks are taking chances and working hard to take Drupal to the next level. Plus Chris and Steph of Top Notch Themes provide a glimpse of how a company can work with the community and still carve their own niche in the marketplace. I am in awe!
Next weekend is the Drupal Summit in Seattle. It is a regional conference for Drupal professionals. I will be chatting about Features again plus a new talk about CCK in code. I need to get working on that!
Upcoming Drupal EventsSubmitted by robin on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 11:48am
It's great to see Drupal events coming together in Seattle and Portland in October.
The Drupal Clinic is a one day introduction to Drupal happening on October 2nd. People signed up quickly and currently there is a waiting list. It's going to be good clean fun and I can't wait to help out new folks in the afternoon session. If you have even a little Drupal knowledge, you can volunteer too.
If you did not make it into the Clinic, Portland's Drupal User Group is offering a DrupalCamp on October 9-10. I am heading there for both days. It will be great to reconnect with Portland folks!
Back in Seattle, SEADUG is hosting the first ever Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit. I am definitely presenting at this 2 day event. Lots of folks have proposed great sessions. There's still room, so sign up now! I won't be surprised when it fills just like the Clinic.


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For Shame! Public Shaming Sentences on the Rise
From Prison Legal News/ by David M. Reutter
Punishments intended to shame offenders for wrongdoing, popular throughout history, are once again on the rise – particularly as penalties imposed by judges who enjoy seeing their names in the newspaper or on television due to their "creative" sentencing practices.
Whether judges hand down sentences that humiliate defendants for the purpose of entertainment, self-aggrandizement or as a unique way of deterring crime with a "punishment that fits" is subject to debate. The only certainty is that most sanctions designed to shame offenders are legal, so long as judges do not go too far.
Shaming criminals has long been an integral part of America's criminal justice system, and public whipping and the stocks were commonly used in Puritan and colonial times. During that era, imprisonment was reserved for debtors and those awaiting trial; upon conviction, a judge could order an offender to be executed, flogged, banished or shamed. (more…)


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A crying 5-month old girl was found under a bed at a northwest Houston apartment where two people were shot to death, police said. A third person shot is in critical condition at a hospital.
Houston police officers were sent to investigate suspicious circumstances inside a unit at the Pine Lakes apartments, 1325 Greens Parkway.
Friends of a man went to the apartment about 6 p.m. on Wednesday because he hasn't shown up for work, Houston police said.
"They heard a baby crying and called police," said Lt. John Zitzmann, of the Houston police homicide division.
The officers found three people who had been shot inside the bedroom.
A man was dead on the floor while a woman was on the bed, also dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Police found a second man inside the bedroom who had been shot in the head. He was taken to an area hospital in critical condition, police said.
The officers looked under the bed and found the baby.
She was taken to the hospital for an examination but appeared healthy, police said.
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"Maybe somebody realized there was a terrible assault about to take place and wanted to hide the baby," Zitzmann said.
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Phelps uses $1 million Speedo bonus to create charitable foundation
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, will use the $1 million bonus he earned from Speedo for tying Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals to start his own foundation.
Appearing on TODAY, Phelps announced that the Michael Phelps Foundation will distribute his prize money to various charitable programs to promote water safety and encourage youth swimming.
"Now, my goals reach beyond the pool, to helping others realize their dreams, and continuing to grow the sport I love so much," Phelps said in a statement.
"I feel it's only appropriate that I continue the momentum that Speedo helped to create by committing my bonus to the establishment of the Michael Phelps Foundation, which I hope will help me inspire others to achieve their dreams, and give back to the sport that has given me so much."
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Hendriks gets win as Blue Jays beat Athletics
TORONTO (AP) A more aggressive style is paying off for pitcher Liam Hendriks.
Hendriks won his season debut, Steve Tolleson hit a two-run home run and the Toronto Blue Jays were victorious for the ninth time in 11 games with a 3-2 defeat of the Oakland Athletics on Friday night.
Promoted from Triple-A to face the Athletics, who came in with the best record in the majors, Hendriks (1-0) allowed one run and three hits in 5 2-3 innings. The right-hander walked three and struck out three.
After going 2-13 with a 6.06 ERA in 30 games over three seasons with Minnesota, Hendriks said the chance to pitch for the Blue Jays was ''huge.''
''I was given opportunities in Minnesota and didn't capitalize on them,'' the Australian right-hander said. ''Now I've got a different mindset coming into the season, getting aggressive and getting after guys early and it's paying dividends already.''
Hendriks was 5-0 with a 1.48 ERA at Triple-A before being promoted, and Blue Jays manager John Gibbons is willing to see how long the unbeaten streak can last.
''I would definitely say he's earned another start,'' Gibbons said.
Hendriks came in 0-1 with a 5.51 ERA in three career games against the Athletics, but was able to keep the AL West leaders in check.
''He was able to move his fastball around and elevate it,'' Oakland's Jed Lowrie said. ''It looked like he kept guys just a little bit off balance.''
Brandon Moss homered for the seventh time in 18 games for the Athletics, who lost their second straight following a five-game winning streak. Oakland's loss was just its third in the past 14 games overall.
''We did the things that it takes to win a game, it just didn't happen,'' Moss said.
Toronto evened its home record at 11-11 and beat Oakland for the fourth time in 12 meetings north of the border.
Aaron Loup pitched 1 1-3 innings, Steve Delabar got one out in the eighth and Brett Cecil got the final two, striking out Derek Norris to strand runners at first and second.
Casey Janssen finished for his sixth save in six chances, stranding Coco Crisp at third as Lowrie grounded out.
Tolleson hit Toronto's ML-leading 68th home run when he connected off left-hander Scott Kazmir (5-2) in the second, his first of the year. The drive also scored Brett Lawrie, who reached on a fielder's choice.
A throwing error by Kazmir helped the Blue Jays extend their lead in the third. Kevin Pillar hit a leadoff double and went to third when Kazmir wheeled and made a pickoff attempt even though shortstop Lowrie wasn't at the base. Jose Reyes followed with an RBI grounder.
''I should have held on to it,'' Kazmir said. ''It ended up being the difference-maker in the game.''
Kazmir allowed three runs and five hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out two.
Oakland used a single, a hit batter and a walk to load the bases with two outs in the fifth, but Hendriks got Lowrie to fly out to the warning track.
Josh Donaldson walked to open the sixth and Moss followed with a fly ball to the warning track. After Donaldson was erased on a fielder's choice grounder by Yoenis Cespedes, Loup came on and retired Josh Reddick on a diving stop by first baseman Edwin Encarnacion.
Pinch-hitting for Reddick, Alberto Callaspo cut it to 3-2 with a two-out RBI single in the eighth, but Cecil fanned Norris to keep the Blue Jays ahead.
Moss had homered in the fourth inning to make it 3-1.
NOTES: Toronto designated RH Esmil Rogers for assignment to clear a spot for Hendriks. ... Oakland's ML-best road record dropped to 18-8. ... Bench coach Chip Hale managed the Athletics while Bob Melvin attended his daughter's college graduation in New York City. Melvin will rejoin the team Saturday. ... Oakland's John Jaso was scratched from the starting lineup after complaining of soreness following three games on Tampa Bay's artificial turf. Jaso is scheduled to catch Saturday. Kyle Blanks replaced Jaso at DH. ... Hale said 2B Nick Punto (left calf) is unlikely to play Saturday. ... Toronto RH R.A. Dickey (4-4) faces Athletics RH Jesse Chavez (4-1) on Saturday.


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If you've ever claimed to have invented a word, only to find it on Urban Dictionary (damn you, nonversation!), you may benefit from Michael Adams's new book, Slang: The People's Poetry.
Reviewed in Salon, the book calls slang "a casual language of being." It can make speech more exciting — when readers encounter Shakespeare's wordplay, their brain activity jumps, as though "awakened from linguistic boredom." It can identify the speaker as hip or young. And it can be a simple source of fun. One of Adams's star slangsters is Homer Simpson. He writes,
Saxamaphone [is] Homer's loving wordplay with his daughter, Lisa, and 'pantomamime' and 'macamadamia' are examples of fun words made more fun to say because the infix [here, the added syllable 'ma'] also duplicates the preceding syllable — which is to say that it constructs a sort of rhyme within those words. There's plenty of phonetic pleasure in saying these words, and the pleasure is in the poetry.
Of course, slang can also be exclusive, marking out a select group with its own special language. If you're not in the group, that language can be pretty annoying. But it can also be contagious. When I moved to Northern California from Los Angeles, I swore I'd never say "hella." Within six months, I was dropping the h-bomb basically every other word. What modern slang terms do you wish would die? And what old ones would you like to see resumarrected?
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For the first time in its 43-year history, a group of four undergraduates and three faculty mentors from Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus participated in a much anticipated annual research conference sponsored by Indiana University.
The 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, held November 22 in the Indiana University Memorial Union, was open to student scholars from any IU campus around the state. To be selected, students were required to submit abstracts for poster, oral, or paper presentations. The budding scholars also participated in roundtable sessions to discuss their research projects, procedures, and findings.
"This event showcased an array of original student research, scholarship, learning outcomes, and creative achievement in all fields of study," said Dr. Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, director of IUPUC's Office of Student Research (OSR).
According to Goodspeed-Chadwick, the IUPUC research focused on education, liberal arts, and science. "The participating students are among the most exceptional not only in Columbus but within the entire IU system." Both students and mentors devoted substantial time and energy above and beyond their regular class work to complete the work and promote their findings, she added.
Over the past four years, IUPUC has made a significant commitment to fostering student research, investing about $40,000 in funded grants for individual students working under the direction of faculty mentors.
The university established the OSR in 2010 and appointed Goodspeed-Chadwick to oversee the proposal, review, and selection process and to distribute funding. OSR also hosts an exhibition of funded student work in Columbus each April.
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This little ghost story caught my attention because I so loved The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Boyne has written a number of novels for young readers, this is one of his eight novels for adults.
Written in Dickensian prose, this classic nineteenth-century spooky story made me wonder if it was all written 'tongue in cheek' since the opening line is "I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father." But is that meant to set the tone for the entire novel? I never did figure that out, despite a few other references to Dickens, but it really doesn't matter, it can be enjoyed either way.
Eliza Caine is led mysteriously to Gaudlin Hall in county Norfolk by a curious offer of a job as governess to two young children. But when she arrives there is no one about except for her young charges. Added to her concern, is not only the near accident upon her arrival at the train station, but also a number of strange things that continue to happen within the walls of Gaudlin Hall. As Eliza investigates she uncovers secrets that threaten not only her stay, but her very life.
With all the spooky Victorian clichés intact (isolated mansion, bare-foot orphan in nightwear, wind and fog, strange servants, cripple in the attic), the book can either leave you with a tingling spine (if you believe in ghosts) or with a delicious sense of entertainment (if you don't). For me it was clearly the latter. It's not that I denounce all possibility of such paranormal apparitions, it's just that I haven't met any myself yet. So I am safe in enjoying the story for just what it is – a nice atmospheric ghost story. Boyne is a good writer and he allowed me to revel in fear and fog while sitting by a crackling fire on a dark and stormy night. I had hoped for an original modern twist in the end but Boyne remained true to his gothic genre. The ending was exactly as it should have been – cue the creepy organ music.


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Welcome to The Sugar Bowl Challenge 111, where this time we have the theme "FAIRIES" for you to follow **but please use a Sugar Nellie image!** for the chance to win 4 Sugar Nellie stamps.
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Shareology's favorite accessories store has just moved to a new location near 494 and Lyndale. Next time you're at Best Buy, head east in the center to Our Little Secret; it's just around the corner from the mattress store.
Shareology spotted the absence of activity at Our Little Secret's previous location across from Bachman's and did a quick turn to check out the situation. The sign above meant she was off to 494 and Lyndale on opening day; after all, it is her favorite earrings store. (and bags and necklaces and all thing marvelous, marvelously priced….)
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The global fuel ethanol market is experiencing tremendous growth due to the increasing use of ethanol in the end-use market. Its usage is being encouraged due to the ban on gasoline in most of the countries. It is replacing other vehicular fuels and also being used as an additive along with petroleum products. Incredible hike in crude oil prices, and increased green house gas emissions are encouraging governments to promote consumption of ethanol.
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Description: This next tutorial is a design that I wanted to draw because of something I seen while I was out one night. I will be showing you "how to draw a shooting star step by step". The shooting star that you will be getting a lesson on is a cool design that can be used as a tattoo or just as something you can draw out and color for fun. I drew a trail of tribal flames in back of the shooting star because I wanted the star to have some form of character instead of being plain and typical. The background is that of a big full moon with a bright night sky. To make the shooting star stand out, I colored it in purple and gave it a face using yellow shades to match the color of the moon. I think that this drawing came out really pretty and bright, and it reminds me of the day that I saw a shooting star when I was going for a walk last week. The shooting star I seen was beautiful and mysterious, leaving me with a burnt image of the falling star in my brain. Well I have to get going because there is still two more tutorials that need my attention. To keep yourself busy, try out this lesson on "how to draw a shooting star step by step". If you would like to read further on exactly what a shooting star is you can visit this website that tells you all about shooting and falling stars. You can get there very easy by clicking here. I will be back momentarily with more drawing fun. Peace out folks and happy drawing. Who knows, maybe you will see a shooting star tonight!


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Restoring the Integrity of Medicine
The Catholic Medical Association will be meeting in Seattle to discuss life under Obamacare.
SEATTLE — The initial inspiration for the 79th Educational Conference of the Catholic Medical Association comes from Psalm 8: "What is man that you are mindful of him?"
"'What is man?' [is a question that] should be answered before any student or practitioner of medicine approaches a patient," according to Dr. Jan Hemstad, the president-elect for the association.
He is overseeing CMA's annual gathering, held in Seattle this year Oct. 28-31. Its theme is "Restoring the Integrity of Medicine: An Imperative for a Christian Anthropology."
"Our primary focus for these conferences is always the proper formation of physicians, the topics [arising] from the critical issues of the day," he explained.
This year there is an added incentive in discussing the ethical practice of medicine, given the passage earlier this year of the massive health-care reform bill, according to Hemstad.
"President Obama's direction has exacerbated these issues for us, by choosing a course almost diametrically opposed to an authentic Christian model," Hemstad remarked. "Obamacare is looming over us as a dark cloud — a very dark cloud," he suggested.
"Now, more than ever, there is as an absolute imperative for our profession to first answer this question [What is man?]" from a proper Christian anthropology based in truth, he explained.
Without knowing that truth about man, we cannot "practice an authentic vocation as physicians. We must re-integrate these first principles into our way of thinking and knowing," Hemstad emphasized.
Bishop Robert Vasa, episcopal adviser for the CMA, agrees. He told the Register: "Being a Catholic physician requires proper information, but it also requires proper formation, and it requires a support system to help assure that the mission of Christ, who healed body and soul, continues."
The original Catholic physician guild system, begun cooperatively by clergy and physicians in this country 98 years ago, was established for that very purpose.
Educating Physicians
In 1912, Archbishop William O'Connell of Boston founded the first Catholic Physicians Guild in that city, educating physicians in Church doctrine related to the practice of medicine.
Fifteen years later, a guild began in New York City, holding an Ignatian retreat for physicians. Gradually, Catholic physician guilds began to spread throughout the eastern United States.
By 1932, the National Federation of Catholic Physicians Guilds (NFCPG) was formed in New York City. Guilds met for the celebration of the Mass, spiritual retreats and seminars dealing with medical ethics. The feast of St. Luke, patron saint of physicians, became a focal point of the new organization, introducing the celebration of a "White Mass" (referring to the physician's white coat).
The Linacre Quarterly, a medical journal of the NFCPG, was initiated to inform physicians about how Catholic principles are applied to pertinent medical and scientific issues. It is named after Thomas Linacre, a Catholic priest and physician to King Henry VIII who also founded the Royal College of Physicians in England. The quarterly journal is a part of the ongoing educational effort by the Catholic Medical Association.
Gradually, the NFCPG increased in 1960 to 6,110 members in 92 member guilds established in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, growing to more than 10,000 members by 1967.
But the growth of the organization halted following the publication of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae, on July 25, 1968, with its teaching on morally appropriate means for regulating fertility, which became a very divisive issue among Catholics. It also became "a major turning point for the NFCPG at the time," according to former CMA President Dr. Thomas Pitre.
Reform and Growth
The organization supported the encyclical, causing many members of the National Federation to leave, with only a small core group remaining, Pitre explained.
At this same time, Pitre was seeking like-minded physicians who "brought their faith into their personal practice of medicine" as he opened a practice in Oregon. But Oregon was also becoming "the first jurisdiction in the world to allow assisted suicide," he recalled.
He decided to develop a Catholic physician's group on the West Coast, particularly the Pacific Northwest. When he sought help from the national organization, he realized that it was so diminished "that it didn't have the administrative resources to do very much," Pitre recalled.
Cardinal Francis George, who was archbishop of Portland, Ore., at that time, encouraged the formation of a Catholic physicians' organization in the state, urging Pitre and his wife, Dr. Lynne Bissonnette-Pitre, to get involved nationally.
As board members of the NFCPG, the Pitres helped to reconfigure the organization, its administration, bylaws, and everything necessary "to build the organization to a point where it could grow," Pitre stated.
Newly ordained Bishop Robert Vasa of the Baker Diocese in eastern Oregon became episcopal advisor for the National Federation. "Bishop Vasa has become an incredibly powerful and encouraging influence," Pitre said.
In 1997, the guild's name was changed to the Catholic Medical Association, reflecting a membership consisting more of individuals than guilds.
Since 2006, with more than 50 new guilds created, the CMA has developed a closer working relationship with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. They have increased the staff and have a full-time director and medical ethicist, John Brehany.
Brehany explained that the CMA national office provides consultation on ethical topics to CMA members and tools that allow members to contact and support one another. Many of the guilds sponsor educational programs on a local basis, he said.
"The CMA strives to create a culture of life in health care by helping physicians and others to grow in their relationship to God, to learn and to teach Catholic medical ethics, and by finding new ways to serve the Church, the medical profession and society," Brehany said.
It has become "a more significant influence in presenting Catholic health-care perspectives, keeping the debate front and center," Pitre added. The CMA also tries to work with other Catholic organizations, including the National Catholic Bioethics Center, the Catholic Health Association and others.
"The well-formed and conscientious Catholic physician literally brings the healing ministry of Christ to the workplace," said Bishop Vasa. "Whether he or she works in a Catholic setting or in secular employment, they give witness to Christ and the values and virtues of the Church. I believe that these Catholic physicians … are the heart of Catholic health care. It is not possible for institutions to be Catholic unless the men and women who serve in them have at heart a commitment to something greater than the physical health of the patients entrusted to their care."
So, besides the need for excellence in medical skill, Bishop Vasa stated, there must also be "a firm conviction about the value of the immortal soul and the inherent dignity of the human person."
Without this conviction, "the care may be excellent, but if it does not ultimately benefit the soul of the suffering person, then something tremendously important has been lost," he stressed. "The Catholic Church exists to bring people to Christ, to evangelize. This too is the ultimate purpose of Catholic institutions."
Elenor Schoen writes
from Shoreline, Washington.
For more information on the CMA's annual educational conference, visit: http://cathmed.org
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ISHPEMING, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan teen put together one sweet prom dress, thanks to the help of classmates who collected thousands of Starburst wrappers for her.
Diane McNease tells WLUC-TV (http://bit.ly/IUqMEU ) that she came up with the idea of making her prom dress out of candy wrappers when she saw a friend folding some. She estimates it took about 18,000 Starburst wrappers to make the corset of her dress, as well as matching hair bands and a purse.
The Ishpeming High School student wore the dress to Saturday's prom in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The top half of the dress is made out of folded wrappers and the bottom looks more like a traditional gown. It took about five months to make, with help from family and friends.
Information from: WLUC-TV, http://www.wluctv6.com


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KINARD, FL - Zulma (Poupee') Ogan Crocker went to be with Jesus on Monday, the 22nd of October 2012, at the home of her daughter, Edith "DeeDee" Hice, in Monroe, Georgia.
Poupee', as she was known, was born on the 29th of July, 1915, in Fray Bentos, Urugua,y to Perceval Ogan and Maria Pesce. She was a lifelong Methodist. Serving was the call on her life and her love language. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother, living life with an open door policy and never meeting a stranger. Her life can be summed up as, "It can be done and, yes, I will."
Through her desire to help children she volunteered as the first librarian at the Kinard Public Library when funds for that position were not available. She also volunteered at Carr School. Her time and heart were invested into the children, the PreK program, literacy program and helping the immigrants learn English.
She was greatly humbled when her extended family at Carr School and the Calhoun Public Library petitioned the Jefferson Awards Nominating Committee to honor her for her community service and then again when she became a recipient of that award.
She was preceded in death by her best friend and great love of her life, her husband, E. Osborne Crocker, and her son, Eric Crocker.
Survivors include her daughter, Elaine, and her husband, Dr. James Hamilton, of Wilmore, Kentucky; son, Michael, and wife, Beverly (Soluri), of Wewahitchka, Florida; daughter, Edith, and husband, Dr. Jody Hice, of Monroe, Georgia; and son, John, and wife, Crystal (Pitts), of Kinard, Florida; and Jean Ann (Robertson) Crocker, of Coyuca de Benitez, Mexico, wife of her late son, Eric. She was also survived by 13 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be given to her beloved Kinard Library and Carr School.
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Occupy Wall Street - Has May Day Made a Difference?
Occupy Wall Street panel: has May Day made a difference?
As Occupy regroups after May Day protests across the
country, our activist experts weigh in on what it
Rinku Sen, Janet Byrne, Tom Hayden, Billy Talen, Hannah
Appel and Manissa McCleave Maharawal
Guardian (UK)
May 2, 2012
Janet Byrne: 'Occupy Wall Street is not a dog-and-pony show
If one were attempting to mummify Occupy Wall Street by
reducing it to a greatest hits list of accomplishments, the
kinds of questions asked Tuesday by many mainstream news
outlets would be a good start:
"What about the street presence? Isn't that Occupy's
single greatest strength? Is there anything left if
that's gone?"
With the May Day march down Broadway, protesters effectively
put an end to any such efforts to Facebook-timeline the
First, the march was too big to allow Occupy Wall Street to
continue to be reduced to a dog-and-pony show. Four police
officers I spoke with at about 8pm near Trinity Church, at
Wall Street and Broadway, estimated the crowd at 25,000, and
Occupy Wall Street organizers put it variously at
10,000-15,000 and at 50,000. The office of the Deputy
Commissioner of Public Affairs at the NYPD explained on the
morning of 2 May that the NYPD "does not give out crowd
estimates. Ask the organizers." The New York Civil Liberties
Union put the number at 30,000.
Second, it included too many factions for Occupy Wall Street
to be considered homogeneous anymore. Among the groups
chanting "We are the 99%" were the National Alliance for
Filipino Concerns, construction worker union LIUNA Local 78,
the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and the AFL-CIO.
The movement is proving not to be as instantly archivable as
some may have wished. It is a complex organism. It is
forming new alliances and severing old ones. Street protest
is colorful and quantifiable, but it is by no means the
movement's only avenue.
[Janet Byrne is editor of The Occupy Handbook]
Reverend Billy Talen: 'The future lies in reinventing
protest form'
Occupy is a new form of protest comprised of ordinary
living, strategically placed. It electrified us last fall
when, in Liberty Square, we lived simply in the open, fed
each other, made our own media and security, created new
hand signaling for a start-over democracy.
We had tried to find a new kind of protest for decades -
accused so often of recycling protest clichés, the rally and
the march, the signs and shouts. Then we found it right in
front of us, living life in ordinary terms on islands of
public space, all in the shadows of the financial dark lords
vacuum-wrapped in their reflective glass.
This proved transfixing theatre. The play had a long run.
The police were flummoxed by the invasion of pup tents and
pots of soup and crucially sincere discussions.
Finally, in the US, led by uniformed thugs in Oakland and
New York City, the first amendment to the US constitution
was amended to allow police violence. In a matter of weeks
in November, coordinated by terror professionals in
Washington, we were ousted from public space. The security
state, often financed openly by big banks (in New York, JP
Morgan Chase paid $4.6m) - finally figured out our magic.
Now what?
Lots of revolutions hide in the camouflage of the
population, although that is more identified with Cuba in
the 1950s or South Africa in the 1980s or Syria now. Pre-
Occupy, how many tens of thousands were there on New York
streets? Tuesday, there was a huge May Day show of marching,
but it was completely ignored by such papers as the New York
Times and New York Daily News, resembling once again a
traditional protest. But under sunshine, with so many
families, it was an exhilarating hello within our culture.
The number of cops and helicopters was almost breathtaking,
and added to the reminder that we are a threat to the 1%.
Clearly, the future lies in again inventing a protest form.
Our evolution makes the revolution. There are ways to open
up the seams of society and once again emerge powerfully,
communicating with the larger world in unstoppable ways.
[Reverend Billy Talen is the leader of the activist
performance group the Church of Stop Shopping]
Hannah Appel: 'May Day felt like a celebration of renewed
May Day started with 99 pickets headed out into the
Manhattan drizzle. In front of Citigroup's world
headquarters, protesters chanted their critiques through the
now-famous people's microphone: $10bn profit in 2010 alone,
zero dollars federal taxes for five years running.
Elsewhere, an Immigrant Worker Justice Tour led protesters
from Wells Fargo to Chipotle, to the Capital Grille, setting
up a picket at each to highlight the forms of workplace
discrimination particular to immigrant workers. In each of
the picket lines, one could see signs of Occupy Wall Street
- puppets, the use of the people's microphone - side by side
with community organizations (New York Communities for
Change, the Immokalee Workers), and unions including the
Teamsters Local 814 and the UFCW Local 1500.
In short, May Day 2012 indexed a time of surprising
political possibility. Thinking back to the summer of 2011,
the intractable political argument in the US was whether or
not to raise the debt ceiling. But as Occupy Wall Street
burst into downtown Manhattan's privately-owned public
spaces, questions of inequality catapulted to the front
pages, as did a renewed focus on the financial industry's
role in an economic crisis that seemed to pass systemic risk
to tax payers and systemic reward to the top.
May Day felt, in many ways, like a celebration of renewed
possibilities: critiques of the foreclosure crisis, student
debt, or investment banks' ongoing role in the European debt
crisis were sharper; coalitions that would've been
unimaginable only a few months ago - between immigrant
workers and unions, for example - took their first public
The drizzle cleared to sunshine, and a free university
unfolded in Madison Square Park with people crowding around
teach-ins and discussions. In one - "Weapons of Math
Destruction" - a former hedge-fund quantitative analyst, now
an organizer with Occupy Wall Street's Alternative Banking
group, talked to a growing crowd about the abuse of
mathematical modeling in the financial industry. Eventually
a "guitarmy" of musicians swept those gathered in Madison
Square Park into a march that stopped first to rally in
Union Square, and then proceeded down Broadway, where else
but to Wall Street, where the movement started nine months
ago, and where May Day 2012 ended in an impromptu dance
party and public assembly.
[Hannah Appel is an economic anthropologist, active
participant in Occupy Wall Street's alternative banking and
thinktank working groups]
Tom Hayden: 'We need a new generation of Robin Hoods'
The measure of a genuine uprising, as distinct from a
political campaign or mobilization, is the degree of its
"newness", in the phrase of the New England
Transcendentalists like Emerson and Thoreau. By that
standard, the broad Occupy movement is a genuinely new force
in the world, one which has unhinged "the predictable".
Tuesday, there were hundreds of spirited protests as
Occupiers ended their winter. There were protests against
Iraq a decade ago, but these are defined by their youthful
leadership, courage, and geographic breadth. The tactics in
some places deserves discussion. But instead of being
critical spectators on the sideline, we all can demand that
our leaders not mechanically defend the status quo with
police and empty promises.
The Occupy movement, and kindred spirits from the Middle
East to China, is driven by young people who feel
unrepresented by the institutions, disenfranchised
economically, and threatened by an environmental
The direct action movement of the early 1960s was similar in
nature. Young black students, lacking the vote and facing a
Jim Crow future, became Freedom Riders and occupied
segregated lunch counters. Students who could not vote but
could be drafted for Vietnam took up resistance. Our elders
utterly failed in their duty to nurture the young. Mounting
catastrophes were the result, until the Vietnam war was
ended, Richard Nixon deposed, and democratic reforms
Now that we have an African-American president and normal
relations with Vietnam, one wonders why the crises of the
sixties really were necessary. Power seems to yield only
stubbornly, always leaving a trickle of blood to warn
against future defiance.
Will today's establishment yield or not? It appears that
Merkel's stark vision of austerity is being rejected, that
Labour is rising in the UK, that the Socialists may win in
Paris. The popular tide is running against privatization and
repression, as it has in the US since 2008, where the Tea
Party is losing support.
But will new political leaders, benefiting from rage against
the City of London and Wall Street, deliver anything of real
value, such as a Robin Hood tax? And if not, then what?
This is the 50th anniversary of the Port Huron Statement,
the founding document of the American New Left. Despite the
great democratic reforms our generation did achieve, one
mountain remained untouched. The 1962 statement noted that
1% of Americans controlled 80% of all corporate wealth, and
that the disparity was changed since the 1920s, despite the
Keynesian reforms of the New Deal.
If there is any chance at all that our elected governments
can bring the unelected financial oligarchs to heel, it will
take a new generation of Robin Hoods, burdened by debt from
the modern Crusades, along with feminists and
environmentalists (Maid Marions), and a radical spirituality
(Friar Tuck). Or a new dark ages will descend.
[Tom Hayden is a founding member of Students for a
Democratic Society, and is the founder and director of the
Peace and Justice Resource Center]
Manissa McCleave Maharawal: 'These months of planning have
changed the Occupy movement'
May Day in New York City was beautiful. From the "99
pickets" protest in the morning targeting corporate
headquarters in midtown, to the Bryant Park pop-up
occupation, to the Free University in Madison Square Park
where students and educators went on strike by holding their
classes outside, to the joyous, fair-like atmosphere of
Union Square and, finally, with the energetic march with
tens of thousands of people, chanting, singing, dancing all
the way to Wall Street, the city felt re-imagined and re-
invigorated. The entire day was inspiring and powerful.
I had been anxious about the day for months, anxious that
the multiple-hour-long planning meetings, the outreach
strategies, the banner-making parties, the coalition
meetings and the coordinating meetings would all be for
nothing. Anxious that months and months of planning that
went into May Day would have been spent in vain. Anxious
that it would rain, that no one would come, that it would be
a failure. And while it rained a little, the day was a huge
success with tens of thousands of people on the streets
standing and acting together.
These months of planning have changed the Occupy movement.
Through alliance-building and working with unions, community
groups, immigrant rights groups and the burgeoning student
movement, Occupy has had to learn from the longer history of
organizing and activism in New York. It has had to learn
what it means to listen to groups and people from diverse
places and with diverse experiences and to work with them.
It has had to understand itself better through this
listening, and it has had to convince other groups that it
is a serious movement, not just some kids who camped in a
park for a few months.
The success and beauty of Tuesday was a testament to how
important these alliances and this work have been. But it
was also a testament to the ways that we must understand, as
we chanted on the streets, that all our grievances are
connected. The lesson of May Day is that we are powerful
when we do more than just say this, but when we enact it in
our activism.
[Manissa McCleave Maharawal is a doctoral student at the
CUNY Graduate Center, a founding member of the editorial
collective In Front and Center]
Rinku Sen: 'We can smile our way through the fights we pick,
but pick them we must'
Someone asked me recently what was the best way to convince
administrators to address racial inequities with systemic
changes on her college campus. How can we convince the
powers that be to change their ways? Embedded in that
question was an abiding assumption that the people who
already enjoy positional power must agree with an idea in
order to implement it.
While many people running key institutions are doing their
best to close racial, economic and gender gaps across the
world, in my experience, there are many more whose chief
concern is maintaining the status quo. If "convincing" such
leaders to do the right thing only required presenting
compelling evidence, then we could make all sorts of change
simply by producing research reports and hosting
And that's why I love May Day. The protests tie us to a
tradition of righteous collective action, and remind us that
profound changes require actual fighting; that not
everything can be achieved through consensus; and that the
pathway to change is in building and channeling the power of
the people who need the change. It's not about convincing
the recalcitrant or the blind, nor about asking nicely. The
project of progressive social change requires aggregating
enough power to make a demand and have it stick.
The original May Day took place in the middle of a 50-year
struggle to establish the eight-hour workday. The titans of
industry resisted violently, not just because the new rule
would cut into their profits, but also because it opened the
door to regulation in general. Many of our current agenda
items will require similar timelines because they will, in
fact, reduce the money and power that elites have.
Today's elites aren't going to give up those assets any more
easily than yesterday's. Racial, economic, and gender
justice are all possible to achieve. An optimistic tone and
solutions orientation take us a long way in recruiting
allies. We can smile our way through the fights we pick, but
pick them we must.
[Rinku Sen is executive director and president of the
Applied Research Center, and the publisher of
Additional biographical information:
Janet Byrne is an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-
winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, and
leading political figures, financial journalists, academics,
and bestselling authors. She is the editor of The Occupy
Reverend Billy (aka Billy Talen) is the leader of the
activist performance group the Church of Life After
Shopping, based in New York City.
Dr. Hannah Appel is an economic anthropologist, currently
serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's
Committee on Global Thought. She has been an active
participant in Occupy Wall Street's Alternative Banking and
Think Tank working groups.
Tom Hayden has over fifty years experience in activism,
politics and writing. Hayden served 18 years in the
California legislature and is a founding member of Students
for a Democratic Society, and is the founder and director of
the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City, CA. He
is also the author of 19 books, including The Lost Gospel of
the Earth, Ending the War in Iraq and The Long Sixties.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal is a writer, activist and
doctoral student in the Anthropology department at the CUNY
Graduate Center. She is a founding member of the editorial
collective In Front and Center and has been involved with
various working groups of Occupy Wall Street since September
Rinku Sen is a leading figure in the racial justice movement
with expertise in community organizing and journalism around
economic justice, feminism, and immigration. She is the
executive director and president of the Applied Research
Center, and the publisher of Colorlines.com. She is the
author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and
The Accidental American. http://colorlines.com/
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The only downside to my vacation (and this will give you an indication of what a hopeless nerd I am) were a few pen problems. First of all, though we packed virtually everything in the house into our car for the trip, I left my trusty Rotring Rapidoliner in my bedside table drawer. The only reason for such an oversight is that I had just begin to use a device called the Rotring Art Pen — a sort of fountain pen that Richard Bell uses all the time and seems to swear by. I have been interested in drawing with a fountain pen of late because I like the more variable line it gives (I love my Rapidoliner because it flows so smoothly but the line can seem a little mechanical and rigid at time) and so I have been two-timing the Rapidoliner with this long, black stranger.
The Art Pen has one obvious design flaw, the back end tapers to a near point which mean that when you take off the cap, you can't snap it onto the back and have to lay it down somewhere and then be mildly distracted about whether or not you've left it behind which may effect your drawing in a sort of stone-in-your-shoe sort of way.
Then, poolside, I discovered a more significant problem.
The Art Pen comes with a half dozen little prefilled plastic ink cartridges. The ink, I discovered after laboriously drawing this geezery couple and then beginning to slather on the old water color, is not waterproof. The ink began to branch out into spidery tendrils and my lines became fuzzy.
Fortunately I had bought a special bladder, the "Piston Fill Ink Converter", that allows me to fill the pen manually and later I tossed out the feeble cartridge and pumped in some India Ink.
Another minor problem arose which is that the bladder, which is a sort of syringe that you advance and withdraw by rotating a little stick at the end, doesn't seem to draw entirely of its own accord and one must ocasionally recrank it up and refill the nib. If you don't do this very carefully, big drops of ink fall onto your drawing.
All that having been said, I continue to use the Art Pen but plan to send Richard a nasty note.
I'll admit, I am a fickle pen owner. I search for years, find perfection, but my eyes keep roaming. Another pen I keep on the side is called the Grumbacher Artist Pen (there's not alot of creativity in the pen naming community, it would seem) which has the teeniest needle point and the same pointed-end, cap-losing design as the Art Pen.
It is not refillable but the line is so fine it seems to last forever anyway. I did a drawing or two with it on my trip and still quite like it but for optimal performance, use very smooth paper.
Finally, the Art-Pal Creative pen — a very groovy-looking, gold pen with a brush nib that you fill with the ink of your choice. Looks, however, are horribly deceiving. It is a piece of junk. I filled it, used it briefly twice, and the nib sort of crumbled and the tip broke off. It might be possible to replace the nib but the pen came from Jerrys Artarama with no instructions and no way to buy new nibs. I've written to them for explanation but so far they have been mute.
And finally, I am determined to pick up some gouache today. I tried working with watercolor and no line drawing but the results felt wishy-washy. I need to be able to add a layer that is more defined and sharp and bright on top of watercolor and I have resorted to white ink put on with a dip pen and then tinted the ink with watercolor which works okay but is fiddly and hard to control.
I'm sure if I paid better attention to my lessons from Roz I wouldn't have this dilemma but it seems easier to just buy more art supplies.


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