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News From the BCCJA Board
In case you were wondering the BCCJA Board Officers are:
- Tim Veresh – President
- Barb Van Vugt– Vice-President
- Bill Turner – Treasurer
- Chris Thompson – Past President
Plans are afoot for the presentation of public forums in the lower mainland this fall. Please watch the BCCJA website for more information.
The Board's work to reshape the association to enable greater involvement of our members has moved closer to fruition with the establishment of the Lower Mainland affiliate. Again watch our web space for updates.
Our Island affiliate, the Vancouver Island Criminal Justice Association (VICJA) members are back sponsoring another year of public forums on criminal and social justice issues. And work is under way to co-sponsor, with the Salvation Army-Victoria ARC, and John Howard-Victoria , a one day public/professional forum titled "Public Safety, Compassion and Community Integration: Meting the Needs of All". The forum is scheduled for February 03, 2017 and will have Dr. Gabor Mate as the principal speaker.
Check the BCCJA website for updates and details: www.bccja.com/vicja
Newsletter Summary of Contents
|Oh Canada (4 items)
|Mental Health (2 items)
|Criminal Justice Policy (5 items)
|Sexual Offenders (1 items)
|Criminal Justice System (6 items)
|Addiction (5 items)
|The Law and Courts (5 items)
|Women and the Criminal Justice System (2 items)
|Law Enforcement (5 items)
|Forensic-Tech-Science (items)
|Children and Youth (2 items)
|International News (3 items)
|Corrections and Community (4 items)
|Related Interest (2 items)
|Criminal Behaviour (1 item)
|National Security (2 Items)
|Victims of Crime (3 items)
|Did You Know? (5 Items)
Upcoming Events
Canadian Conference on Promoting Healthy Relationships for Youth: Breaking Down the Silos in Addressing Mental Health & Violence
February 15 – 17, 2017
London Ontario Convention Centre
Crime Prevention Week: Crime Prevention Week
This is an annual event, taking place November 1 – 7, raising awareness to what community members can do to create safer communities across British Columbia. Learn More
Police Victim Services BC 2016 Symposium
PowerPoint Presentation Slide Decks PowerPoint
Américain Parole and Probation Association
APPA Annual Training Institute 2017
International Track – New York City
The 41st Annual Training Institute ended recently in Cleveland. A great success with 1,272 registrants. Next year the 42nd Annual Training Institute will be held in New York from August 27th to the 30th. Keep an eye on developments and other APPA activities at the following site:
APPA http://www.appa-net.org/eweb/
During deliberations at the association's meetings in Cleveland support was received for including an international track as part of the 2017 program. It is anticipated that the "call for presenters" announcement will be on the association's website in October with a submission deadline of January 2017.
Please give this opportunity serious consideration. If further information, clarification or assistance is required please contact R.E. Bob Brown email@example.com
Oh Canada
The Mounties' New Hijabs
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently gave official permission to female officers to wear hijabs. Read Article
Canadian Jurist Louise Arbour Wins 2016 Tang Prize in Rule of Law
The Tang prize is an international award founded in 2012 by Taiwanese billionaire and philanthropist Samuel Yin, who says he was inspired in part by the Nobel Prize. Story
Canadian Bar Association's BC Branch Honours Top Lawyers
Recipients of this year's Bar Awards honouring outstanding lawyers and an inventive organizations are announced. Article
Calgary Constable Recipient of National Youth Justice Policing Award
Constable recognized for his work with indigenous youth. Read Store
Criminal Justice Policy
Sixth BC Justice Summit
Sixth BC Justice Summit held on June 10th and 11th 2016, focused on "Justice, Mental Health and Substance Use." Full Report
Canada Should 'Tighten Up Tablet Press Controls'
The Canadian government should tighten up controls on the importation and sale of tablet presses in order to help crack down on the trade in counterfeit painkillers, say police. Article
Make Algorithms Accountable
How Prostitution Laws Work in Sweden and Germany and What Canada Can Learn
Criminal Justice at the Front End
Read Article
Criminal Justice System
Think Tank Releases Report Card on Canada's Justice System
Read Report.
How Prostitution Laws Work in Sweden and Germany and What Canada Can Learn
The Early Edition discusses perspectives on prostitution laws Audio
The Animal in You: Animalistic Descriptions of a Violent Crime Increase Punishment of Perpetrator
This article discuss the impact of a violent crime being described in an animalistic versus a non-animalistic way. Abstract
Ian Mulgrew: Do 'Specialized Courts' Have Real purpose, Or Are They Just Well-meaning Band-Aids?
In Downtown Eastside, Jim's Story Shows Holes in Vast Net of Systems and Services: A Tyee Series
Follow Series
Law and Courts
Sentencing that started in Revelstoke ruled on by Supreme Court of Canada BC Read Story
British Columbia civil rights group punches above its weight in national legal disputes Article
Canadian Court Says No Expectation Of Privacy In SMS Messages Residing On Someone Else's Phone Read Article
First prominent case testing Canada's new cyberbullying law begins Read Story
Prosecutor says FedEx ignored drug warning Read Story
Law Enforcement
Canada's efforts to deny safe haven to war criminals wane JP
Internal evaluation finds diminishing resources a factor, and identifies trend to using immigration law to remove war criminals from Canada, not prosecute them or revoke their citizenship. Read Article
Canadian Law Enforcement Admit — And Then Deny — They Own A Stingray Device Read Story
Facial Recognition Solution Lets Users Report Crime, Share Surveillance Data Read Article
Predictive policing practices labeled as 'flawed' by civil rights coalition Read Story
5 Ways Technology Can Boost Campus Security
From apps to wireless access controls, digital solutions help colleges get safer. Read Article
Children & Youth
Sarah Leamon: Very Young Offenders Need Help Sooner Rather Than Later
Read this Opinion piece.
Lord McNally Speech
Lord McNally, Chairman of the Youth Justice Board (YJB), speaks at the Criminal Justice Management 2016 conference in London. Speech
Corrections and Community
A BC Auditor General progress audit looks at whether or not the B.C. Community Corrections Division has fairly and accurately represented its progress against select recommendations made in the Effectiveness of B.C. Community Corrections audit, originally published in December 2011. PDF
Probation and the Limits of Criminal Justice Abstract
Dangerous offender's escape raises questions about security, effectiveness of healing lodges Read Article
An inside look at the Workings of a Private Prison in the USA Read Story
First Step in Shutting Private Prisons Read Article
Restorative Justice
BC Educators to bring Restorative Justice to the classroom Read Story
When Prison Is Not the Answer
At the Orange County Community Court, social services are combined with criminal justice. Article
Making it Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict
In her latest book, Vancouver author Marilee Peters looks closely at the concept of restorative justice. Article
Developing alternative understandings of security and justice through restorative justice approaches in intercultural settings within democratic societies Read Article
Criminal Behaviour
The 5-Step Approach to Evaluation Designing and Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Reoffending PDF
Victims of Crime
Nine things to know about the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women Read Article
Breaking barriers for survivors of domestic violence: The Alberta government has taken a step in the right direction in helping to protect victims of domestic violence Read Story
What Crime Victims Really Think About Prison Sentences Read Article
Mental Health
Stop Blaming Mental illness for Violent Crimes
Mental health problems are often blamed for violent crimes, but this is often just a deflection based on needless prejudice Read Story
Mental Illness, the Scapegoat of Violent Acts in Media Read Story
Sexual Offenders
Will brain science change criminal law?
"In all likelihood, the brain is a causal machine, in the sense that it goes from state to state as a function of antecedent conditions. The implications of this for criminal law are absolutely nil. For one thing, all mammals and birds have circuitry for self-control, which is modified through reinforcement learning (being rewarded for making good choices), especially in a social context. Criminal law is also about public safety and welfare. Even if we could identify circuitry unique to serial child rapists, for example, they could not just be allowed to go free, because they would be apt to repeat. Were we to conclude, regarding, say, Boston priest John Geoghan, who molested some 130 children, 'It's not his fault he has that brain, so let him go home,' the result would undoubtedly be vigilante justice. And when rough justice takes the place of a criminal justice system rooted in years of making fair-minded law, things get very ugly very quickly."
—Patricia Churchland, professor of philosophy and neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego
Experts question Health Canada claims over W-18 drug
Canada made substance illegal June 1; experts call for more research into chemical behaviour and potency Read Article
What Science Says To Do If Your Loved One Has An Opioid Addiction Article
Study uses geo-mapping to identify 'hot spots' for use of fentanyl and other opiates Article
New drug target could prevent tolerance and addiction to opioids, study finds Article
It's time to stop criminalizing a medical issue. Opinion
Women and the Criminal Justice System
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
Margaret Atwood
New sex-assault trial ordered after a fourth Alberta judge rebuked Read Story
"An Act of Solidarity"
These women are using drones to defy Northern Ireland's draconian anti-abortion laws Read Article
Forensic – Tech – Science
The White House's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology concluded in a report released Tuesday that widely used forensic techniques used in criminal trials in the nation's legal system might not be scientifically valid. Report
Fingerprint forensics has a future despite new technology and the folly of humans Read Article
The discovery that many genes are still working up to 48 hours after death has implications for organ transplants, forensics and our very definition of death Read Article
Can big data and AI fix our criminal-justice crisis? Body cameras and complex algorithms have a lot of potential — and political baggage. Read Article
National Security
Public Safety Canada calls for Submissions on New National Cybersecurity Strategy Read Article
Discipline cases in Canada spy agency hit peak in 2015 – govt data Read Story
International News
Anti-money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Report
A new report by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force finds "Canada's open and stable economy an accessible financial system" makes it vulnerable to money laundering. Read Story Report
Britain to Open Refuges to Support Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
Child houses inspired by Icelandic scheme will tackle 'public health emergency' of abuse and offer young people expert care Read Story
60 Experts to help police deal with women crime victims in Delhi Read Article
Related Interest
Workers Without Borders: Immigration and Canada's Economy
Read this Calgary Herald Special Six-Part Report
Ever wonder how money laundering schemes work?
Here's one variant described as the "Russian Laundromat"
Did You Know?
Forensic Analysis of Pigtails to help Identify Original 'Mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty'
Read Article
Inside the South African Police Service's Forensics Lab
Read story
Drone Laws and Privacy in Canada
Read Article
Canada's Animal Cruelty Shame
This Article discusses loopholes in animal cruelty law.
Making a Killing : The business and politics of selling guns in the United States
Read Story about the gun business in the US


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Singer-songwriter Mike Posner and singer, rapper, and producer Blackbear, came together in 2016 to create the music duo Mansionz. Known for their hip-hop infused electro-pop sound, Mansionz is based out of Los Angeles, California. Both artists are established performers in their own regard but they were looking for an artistic escape. They decided to form a new creative outlet together as a conceptual duo and that is how Mansionz was born.
Mike Posner is a Grammy-nominated singer. He's known for popular songs like "Cooler Than Me," "Please Don't Go," and "I Took A Pill in Ibiza." Mike Posner grew up in Southfield, Michigan. He wrote music as a kid, but didn't pursue it until college. On February 28, 2009, Posner released his mixtape A Matter of Time using iTunes. This provided him with a strong fan base to continue creating music. Later in October that year, he released One Foot Out the Door. Posner released his first full-length album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff on August 10, 2010. Towards the end of 2011, Posner dropped his third mixtape The Layover.
Thrust into stardom, Posner struggled with his celebrity status and depression. He stopped performing music to focus on writing and producing songs. This was the year that Blackbear and Mike Posner met while working on Justin Beiber's song "Boyfriend." During the same time, the two also covered "Stay Schemin" by Rick Ross.
At Night, Alone was the second full-length album Posner released. The album was met with critical success and "I Took A Pill in Ibiza" was an international hit once it was remixed. Posner mentioned in an interview that the album was his most proud out of the roughly 100 songs made in his catalog since his first album. After recording for two years, the artist released his third studio album, A Real Good Kid. The album deals with the themes of loving, losing, and accepting situations and people.
Matthew Musto is a producer, singer, rapper and label-head also known as Blackbear. He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania and moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. This was after a troubling relationship with his drug-addicted father. In high school Musto was a member of the pop-punk band Polaroid. Musto left the band and high school to pursue more music opportunities. He released four EPs over the following years. In 2011, he took the name Blackbear and released the EP Foreplay the following year.
In February 2015, Blackbear released his full-length album Deadroses and the album's lead single, "Idfc" gained millions of streams. In 2016, Blackbear released his second full-length album Help and the Drink Bleach EP, which featured Mike Ponser on the track "Obvious." Blackbear also released Cashmere Noose in August of that year on Soundcloud. Life took a jarring turn when the artist was hospitalized for an extended period of time during 2016. Music written during this time became the content for his third studio album Digital Druglord in the spring of 2017. In the fall of 2017, Blackbear released his fourth studio album Cybersex.
Mansionz became an official collaborative effort when they signed to Island Records in 2016. Posner and Blackbear were known for their bright green hair and careless attitude. "STFU" and "White Girls" were highlight singles. These songs garnered the group many listeners. On March 24, 2017, the duo released their debut album, mansionz. The music expresses thoughts on depression, emotional rollercoasters, and non-conforming mindsets.
Tracks on mansionz have a similar sound to them. The album is in the musical genre of electronic meets pop music. Listeners will hear this on "Dennis Rodman" and "Wicked." Songs like "Strip Club" and "White Linen" present a more acoustic version of the band. It's clear that the album was produced to feel consistent. This is also the case with the lyrical content of songs. The duo discusses relationships, mental health, and drug abuse, in a way that's impactful to them. Listeners will feel the intentions behind the straightforwardness of the lyrics.
Even though Mansionz is a new collaborative group, it was founded by two members that have a long creative history. Mansionz have managed to bring their individual fan bases together for music that is sure to strike a chord. There's sure to be more music in the works from the collaborative duo in the future.
Written By: Carlton Rolle

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Ebook: 99 cents through November 30th ($2.99 after the sale)
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What is URN number and how to find the URN number here we cover the step by step information related to update request number and what is urn number.
Aadhaar is a 12 digit unique identification number given to every citizen by the Indian government
UIDAI collects the data of every citizen by recording the bio metric and demographic details.
URN Number – What is it?
URN means – Update Request Number. It is a 14 digit unique number allocated to users who had updated their aadhar card via aadhar self service update portal.
Without URN number you can't track the status of the update aadhar card.
Note: Your mobile number must be linked with the aadhar card in order to access the self service update portal. If your mobile number is not linked, then you can't make aadhar card updates online.
- How To Check URN Status online?
UIDAI launched a new portal where you can track the status of the updated aadhar card online. Here is the step by step process in order to check the urn status online.
- Visit the Link here – Guide to check URN status online
- Just enter your URN number and aadhar card number
- Also, enter the captcha and click on get status.
- You will get to know the status of the URN number.
Your new aadhar card will be dispatched to your new address which has been submitted while filling out the application form.
How To Update Aadhar Card Details
People can now update their details on aadhaar card. UIDAI has introduced three methods to update details on request. There are 3 methods where aadhar card details can be changed.
- Update Aadhar details by online
- Update Aadhar details by post
- Update at enrollment center
Update Aadhaar details – Online:
The following information here helps you to know about the changes required to update aadhar details via online. Follow the steps below to do so.
Step 1:
Go to the official UIDAI website to update or change your information.
Step 2:
Under Aadhaar online services panel, you'll find Update Aadhaar card details (Online) option. Click on it.
Step 3:
You'll be navigated to a new page where information on Aadhar self-service update portal is given. Read it and Click on Click Here option to proceed further.
Step 4:
A new page is opened where there are 4 stages to update your information. In the first step, you need to enter your aadhar number along with the verification code to get OTP.
Step 5:
Once you get OTP to your registered mobile, use it along with the captcha code to login to the portal.
Step 6:
You are required to select the information to update it. (Note: You can select more than one information to update or change)
Step 7:
Replace and update the old information with the new one. Make sure that you don't make any mistakes while updating. Once the changes are made, it will be verified and be updated on your aadhaar card by UIDAI.
Step 8:
Upload the required documents to support your changes.
Step 9:
In the last step, you have to submit the request to UIDAI service provider. You'll get a URN (Update request number). Save it for future references.
Update Aadhaar card details – Postal:
Unlike the online mode, you can now fill up the correction form and send it to the main office by post. Following is the information was given to you on how to send the update form by post.
- Go to the official UIDAI website to download the aadhar update/correction form.
- Under the Aadhar online services panel, you'll find Update Aadhar details by post option. Click on it.
- An application form will be downloaded automatically. If the download doesn't start and the pdf is open in another tab then you can directly take a print out.
- You need to take a print out of the update/correction form to fill it up manually on your own.
- Download the correction/update form. Click here
- Fill the update/correction form correctly along with your registered mobile number.
- You must give your address correctly and also your mobile number for verifications.
- Post the following filled form along with the supporting documents in an envelope to the given address below.
Post Box No. 99,
Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad – 500034,
In case of the child, parents/guardian must sign the documents and send their supporting documents along with child documents.
- Make sure that the signature is present in all the papers.
Seal the envelope properly. If any paper is lost, UIDAI is not responsible for it.
- Go through the update/correction form thoroughly before sealing the envelope as you may miss sending related documents.
URN (Update request number) is sent to your registered mobile once the post is delivered. You can check the status in online.
Update aadhaar card details – Enrollment center:
There is another way to update or make changes in your aadhar card such as your name, address, mobile number, Date of birth, email ID etc by visiting the nearest enrollment center.
- If you want to know the nearest aadhaar enrollment center, then you can search from the official website.
- All you need to do is to search the address and visit the enrollment center with aadhar card and registered mobile number.
- Go to the official UIDAI website to search for the nearest enrollment center at your place.
- Under Aadhaar Online services panel, you'll find Update at enrollment option.Click on it.
- A new tab will open with a set of options. Select your search criteria by selecting the required options from the menu.
- Finally, you can get your nearest enrollment centers from the official webiste.
About Aadhar:
The Government has notified that the nationalized banks, telecom industry, other various departments to link aadhaar number as one of the proof.
As the aadhar number is now the official linkage to every official identity, UIDAI has introduced an option for the people to change their details if they are changed.
For Example, if a person has changed his address permanently but now wants to change his details in the aadhaar card then he can follow the steps below to do so.
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by Alexandra Logsdon in consultation with Dr. Ann McDowell, DVM
Most people think that rabbit pellets were especially formulated for their pet rabbit, but this is not the case. Pellets were originally formulated as a convenient and economical way to promote quick growth and weight gain in commercial rabbits raised for food and fur. Our rabbits are our friends and companions and we want them to live long, healthy lives. This is why it is crucial that we learn about and understand their dietary needs.
Rabbits have a unique and delicate digestive system and it is important to take this into consideration when planning their meals. It is a system that is designed to take both energy and nutrients from food that is low in both, so providing a rabbit with a high fat/high protein, low fiber diet (pellets alone, for example) is a sure ticket to bad health and even a shortened life span. A healthy rabbit who is spayed or neutered, gets a proper diet and lives inside the home as a part of the family has a life span of eight to thirteen years.
Rabbit Digestion
Digestion begins in the mouth. The food is mashed up by the teeth and mixed with saliva, which contains proteins that begin breaking down the food. When the food is swallowed it enters the stomach where it is mixed with stomach acid and digestive enzymes, which continue the digestion process. It then moves out of the stomach into the small intestine where nutrients are absorbed into the body, and then it continues on into the large intestine where the food particles are sorted by size. The larger particles of indigestible fiber drive the smaller fragments of digestible fiber backwards into the cecum, which is a large blind-ended sac located at the junction of the small and large intestines. The indigestible particles are then passed out in the fecal pellets (regular poop) and the cecum begins the fermentation process that will produce what is commonly referred to as night feces or cecotropes, which a rabbit will ingest directly from the anus. You can tell the difference between normal feces and cecotrophes by their soft, shiny clumped texture and often more pungent odor.
A rabbit's cecum maintains a delicate mix of protozoa, yeast and good bacteria, which is crucial to keeping your rabbit healthy. If something upsets the delicate bacterial balance (such as stress; some oral antibiotics such as penicillin & related drugs; a high fat, low fiber diet; too many carbohydrates, etc.), bad bacteria will begin to grow. These bad bacteria produce toxins that can be harmful or fatal to your rabbit. On the other hand, the products of good cecal fermentation are crucial to healthy gut flora, because through coprophagy, the oral re-ingestion of the cecal pellets produced by this fermentation process, the rabbit can absorb by normal digestion the special nutrients and vitamins contained in the cecal pellets. Some evidence suggests that bacteria from these [re-ingested] cecal pellets help the food digest while in the stomach (Laura Tessmer, B.Sc. and Susan Smith, Ph.D: Rabbit Nutrition 1998).
The Importance of Fiber and a Proper Diet
When your rabbit is fed an improper diet that is, one that does not contain an adequate amount of [indigestible] fiber or one that is too high in carbohydrates the Gastro-Intestinal (GI) tract cannot function properly and it begins to shut down, causing various degrees of what is called GI stasis. GI stasis, if not taken care of immediately, can cause your rabbit to die a very painful death.
So what is GI stasis really? When the speed with which material moves through the GIT is altered it can affect how quickly the stomach and cecum empty. When this happens we often see a dramatic decrease in the rabbit's appetite for both food and water, which only furthers the problem: The body still needs water to function so it takes it from the stomach and cecum, causing the contents of the entire GI tract (food, hair from grooming, etc.) to become further dehydrated and impacted. The bunny is then unable to pass the mass of food/hair in the stomach, feels full, uncomfortable and often gassy (due to the build-up of the bad bacteria in the cecum), which only adds to his "I don't want to eat" mentality! A rabbit in GI stasis will often stop eating, become anorexic and die. When a rabbit dies from GI stasis and its related problems it is most often due to hepatic lipidosis or Fatty Liver Disease, which is caused by the toxins produced by the bad bacteria in the cecum.
In most cases, especially those caught early-on by observant owners, GI stasis can be reversed with time, patience and good advice from your rabbit vet. But our goal is to prevent it from happening at all.
How Will I Know if My Rabbit is Having Problems?
Check the feces while cleaning the litter box. A rabbit's feces should be plentiful, round like peas and of a uniform size and shape. No feces or a lot fewer than usual, misshapen feces, or those strung together with hair ("pearls") may mean bunny needs to see a vet. If giving your rabbit hairball remedy (malt flavored, the same used for cats) one inch once or twice a day for three days doesn't clear up the problem, or if bunny stops eating or drinking or is in pain consult a vet immediately. If there are no feces for 12-24 hours contact your vet immediately. Never give babies under six months old hairball remedy without first consulting your rabbit vet.
While the use of hairball remedies as preventatives can be helpful, there is some question as to how helpful or harmful it is to administer them to rabbits already in GI stasis. If the intestinal contents are severely dehydrated and brick-hard (yes, we have seen this!), a coating of vaseline-like substance over them may merely impede their re-hydration and make it more difficult for the mass to break up and begin passing. For this reason, it is probably wise to concentrate on re-hydrating the intestinal contents before using petroleum-based laxatives, if they are to be used at all (Krempels, Dana M., PhD and Kelleher, Susan, DVM. GastroIntestinal Stasis, The Silent Killer. 1997.). And again, if your rabbit is experiencing GI stasis s/he needs to be seen by a good rabbit vet right away.
At Zooh Corner, we generally administer one inch of hairball remedy once or twice a week as a preventative measure; during a heavy shed we may offer a rabbit a bit more, and we sometimes increase the daily greens ration a bit and/or rinse the produce directly before serving it in order to get more water into the bunny's system. This, in addition to a proper diet and plenty of fun and exercise, as well as close observation of the litter box and the general behavior and condition of the rabbits goes a long away towards keeping bunny GI tracts healthy and happy.
Please take note: This situation, GI Stasis, is often misdiagnosed as "a hairball." And while the rabbit may indeed have a hair/food mass in his stomach, it is in fact a result of GI stasis, not the cause. Vet intervention is always called for when this sort of situation presents itself. Not all vets know and see rabbits, however, so it is important that you locate a good rabbit vet in your area before an emergency arises. Your rabbit-savvy vet will be able to examine your pet and tell you whether it is indeed GI stasis, or if there is an obstruction of some sort and s/he will then be able to present you with the proper course of action.
Prevention is Definitely Worth a Pound of Cure: The Basic Rabbit Diet
Pellets and Hay: For rabbits under one year old free feed (as much as they want) a fresh, plain, high fiber (18-20%), mid-range protein (14% - 16%) pellet. Adult rabbits should get 1/4 cup of low protein (10% or lower), high fiber pellets PER DAY, per five (5) pounds of optimum* body weight. If you have a rabbit that is difficult to keep weight on or off, consult your vet. Do not feed your rabbit any of the many commercial pellet mixes that contain seeds, dried fruit or colored cereals. These commercial treat foods are geared to look pleasing to us humans, but they are definitely not in the best health interests of your pet rabbit. Rabbits are not seed, fruit or cereal eaters by nature and these types of junk foods are high in sugars and carbohydrates, which as we talked about earlier can lead to an overgrowth of bad bacteria.
Hay is the most important factor in your rabbit's diet. It is his prime source of fiber, which is instrumental in keeping the gut in good working order. Hay has the added benefits of being good entertainment for your bunny, they love to rearrange it, dig it up and place it "just so," as well as a great source of chewing material which is necessary to keeping the teeth healthy. A rabbit's teeth grow continuously throughout his life and it is essential that we provide them with safe chewing materials such as hay and wooden chew toys to help keep them filed down. A rabbit with tooth problems is a rabbit on his way to having GI problems as well. Fresh timothy, oat and other grass hays should be available to all bunnies all the time. Alfalfa hay, which is higher in calories as well as calcium (which can cause kidney or bladder problems(sludge) in older rabbits) is okay to feed to physically fit bunnies under the age of one, but should be avoided for the average healthy, mature house rabbit. On the other hand, feeding alfalfa to younger bunnies may make it more difficult to switch over to the lower protein/calcium grass hays when they get older. We start all bunnies off with the grass hays; as they are getting a healthy alfalfa-based pellet, we don't feel the alfalfa hay is needed. Some rabbits have higher protein needs (older or sick rabbits, angoras, etc.) and may also need the alfalfa hay. Again, consult your vet with all special dietary questions. At Zooh Corner we feed a mixture of oat and timothy hay, as well as orchard grass and our seasonal "ZoohMix" (a blend of oat, wheat and barley hays) to bunnies of all ages, unless they are on special, vet prescribed diets. We feel that a variety of tastes encourages the bunnies to eat more hay, and the variety of nutrients may be beneficial. Certainly no harm is done! Anything to encourage more fiber consumption!
It is best to avoid purchasing pellets and hays from grocery stores and pet store chains, as the feed can sit on the shelves or in storage for months, which makes it stale and lacking in proper nutrient values. You can usually purchase good quality pellets (OxBow, Purina High Fiber…) and hays from local feed stores, or online from our store. Some rabbit vets also sell high quality pellets, and often, local rabbit rescues will sell hays and pellets to help supplement the high costs of rescue (what we do).
Vegetables and Fruit: It is important to feed your rabbit a daily variety of fresh vegetables to help balance out the nutritional needs in his diet. Feed two to four cups of fresh vegetables for each five pounds of optimum body weight. All vegetables should be fresh, washed and organic whenever possible. (Note: Carrot tops & radish tops should be organic. Humans do not generally consume the tops of these vegetables, so little consideration is given to what pesticides are sprayed on them and they could be very dangerous or fatal to your rabbit.) To make sure your rabbit gets the necessary nutrients offer him at least three different vegetables daily (from our list of vegetables and fruits at the bottom of this page) and make sure one or more contain Vitamin A (noted with *).
While you may occasionally feed your rabbit a bit of fruit, it is extremely important that you limit their intake to no more than one or two tablespoons of high fiber fruits (pears, apples, tomatoes...) per five pounds of optimum body weight, one or two times a week . Never give fruit to dieting bunnies. Too much sugar can make your bunny fat, because excess energy (a by-product of sugar consumption) is converted to - fat!
Feeding your rabbit a limited amount of high fiber pellets, abundant fresh grass hays and a daily assortment of fresh vegetables is a key factor in keeping your rabbit healthy. Keep in mind that time balance is just as important to your rabbit's diet as is nutritional balance. It is important to divide the pellets and vegetables between the morning and evening meals, while having hay and fresh water available at all times. And remember, exercise is just as important as diet in keeping the rabbit [gut] functioning and healthy. A rabbit should get a minimum of 3 - 5 hours out of cage exercise every day. Take all dietary changes slowly. Quick changes to the diet can cause diarrhea or an overgrowth of that bad bacteria in the gut. Also keep in mind that different rabbits have different dietary needs. Younger rabbits, elderly rabbits, smaller breeds such as the Netherlands Dwarf, large breeds like the Flemish Giant and long haired rabbits all have different needs and you should consult your Rabbit Vet for more specific information.
*Optimum body weight is how much your rabbit should weigh, not always how much she does weigh.
NOTE: At least three different vegetables a day are recommended - any combination of lettuces counts as ONE veggie for that day)
Alfalfa, Radish And Clover Sprouts
NOTE: Feed only once or twice a week in small amounts - NO seeds or pits! Sugary fruits, such as bananas and grapes should be fed only as occasional treats, and NO fruit should be fed to rabbits who are overweight.
NO GRAINS, LEGUMES OR NUTS! These are not natural foods for rabbits and they can be very dangerous to gut function.
1 Good source of vitamin A, feed at least one daily
2 Some bunnies may find this a rather "gassy" veggie. If diarrhea occurs, remove from diet.
3 These veggies are higher in calcium, use sparingly, once or twice a week. For older buns, or those with bladder or kidney problems, avoid, unless otherwise directed by your rabbit vet.
4 High in either oxalates or goitrogens, which can cause or exacerbate sludging, and other calcium/kidney problems. Use sparingly!
- Cheeke, Peter R. Rabbit Feeding and Nutrition. Orlando: Academic Press, 1987.
- Jenkins, Jeffrey R., DVM. Feeding Recommendations for the House Rabbit. The Veterinary Clinics of North America, 1999.
- Krempels, Dana M., PhD. GastroIntestinal Stasis, The Silent Killer. 1997.
- Brown, Susan, DVM. Sluggish Motility in the Gastrointestinal Tract. Hand-out. Midwest Bird and Exotic Animal Hospital, Westchester, Ill.
I would also like to thank the House Rabbit Society for their invaluable contributions to rabbit veterinary medicine, as well as for their endless information on general rabbit care.


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Video evidence preservation is one of my first focuses after being hired to represent a criminal defendant. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know the importance of obtaining the appropriate discovery order, issuing and delivering the proper subpoenas, and getting out timely demands to prosecutors and police to preserve video, film, photographic and audio evidence.
Fairfax criminal attorney on videotape evidence being worth thousands of words
A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video can be worth more words than that. Numerous times video evidence has enabled me, as a Fairfax criminal lawyer, to obtain an acquittal where a conviction otherwise was likely. So much can happen in even a few seconds of activity that even the most meticulously honest, observant, keen and intelligent observer can miss and mis-state what happened, let alone what happens when the observer is less scrupulous, less observant, less focused, less intelligent, and let alone the observer's inability to see and hear every single essential detail of the events.
White House's banning of CNN's Jim Acosta underlines how video can return us to vital reality, says Virginia criminal lawyer
This being a criminal defense blog rather than a political blog, I have repeatedly spoken out on social media rather than on my blog about my belief that Donald Trump is a grave danger to our civil liberties (for instance through his judicial appointments), a lightning rod for bigots , and a feeder into mob mentality (for instance his repeated claims about "fake news" "enemies of the people"), and a major impediment to diplomacy (not only because he is undiplomatic, but because he well earns international ridicule, when ridicule does not serve diplomacy).
Fairfax criminal lawyer recognizes how video shows Jim Acosta did nothing wrong physically
One's political views, though, do not need to cloud recognizing the wrongheadedness of the White House's suspending CNN's Jim Acosta's White House press pass. More to the point of today's blog entry, video of Acosta's behavior during this week's press conference was vital in countering White House press secretary Sarah Sanders's mischaracterization that Acosta's moving away the intern's arm represented intolerable mistreatment of a woman rather than what we really see in the video, which is a reporter nonviolently not yielding over the microphone, regardless of the gender or race of the White House intern.
Virginia criminal attorney on the necessity of video, particularly where Trump has hinted that more White House press passes might be suspended
My devotion to civil liberties and to my clients, and my love of fighting on the side of the angels heavily provide me the steam for battling in criminal court. This same devotion to civil liberties feeds my outrage that Trump has barred CNN reporter Jim Acosta for such a mischaracterization of his actions, wakes me up when Trump today hinted that other reporters are not safe from Acosta's same fate (see video minute 18:15), and makes me thank the reporters from other news organizations who have rallied to Acosta's side. Absent video evidence of Acosta's actual actions with this White House intern trying to retrieve his microphone, fewer Americans would have joined me in this outrage.
Praised be the inventors of video technology, which technology must be used widely by the police.
Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan L. Katz advocates widespread use of video technology by police with their suspects. To discuss your case with Jon Katz, please call his staff at 703-383-1100 to schedule a confidential consultation.


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I am a Cap woman with Cancer moon. Cap mercury and Cap mars, Sag venus.
My love interest is an Aquarius man , Aquarius mercury and Aquarius mars, and Sag venus. The thing is he can either be an Aquarius or Pisces moon. Not sure if he's an evening birth.
If not longevity, what can [one] expect from this coupling?
Capricorn and Aquarius do not good bedfellows make. You may be a woman, but you represent The Man: authority, restrictions, rules. For Aquarius, rules are made to be broken. Your love interest is a revolutionary, not a suit-and-tie.
If you're of the Uranus-in-Libra generation (circa 1968-1975), the ruler of Aquarius may be squaring some or all of your Capricorn/Cancer planets. This aspect would give you an Uranian vibe to counteract your more conservative CapCance nature. You would have your own internal conflict between the need to be unconventional versus the need to strive towards material success. How else could one explain your attraction to the Water Bearer?
In general, any two consecutive signs in the zodiac are as different as can be. They share neither element nor quality. There is scant likelihood of compatibility unless there are other chart factors to account for the attraction. If you're not Uranian, then your Aquarius must be Saturnian, familiar with the heaviness of your Sun sign.
The good news? Both of you are adventurous in love (with Venus in Sag), so ski trips and flights to Burma may keep the fire burning bright, as long as your dry disposition doesn't extinguish the flame.


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The Hermitage collections comprise over three million items and include the largest collection of paintings in the world, so it's hardly surprising that only a small percentage are on permanent display. They occupy a large complex consisting of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russia's emperors. Other buildings include the Menshikov Palace, the Museum of Porcelain and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building.
Five of these buildings are open to the public, and although entrance tickets are more expensive for foreign tourists than Russian citizens, entry is free on the first Thursday of every month for everyone, with free daily access for students and children.
Please note: the museum is closed on Mondays. You'll find the entrance for individual visitors in the Winter Palace itself, accessible from the Courtyard.
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The long awaited patch has finally made it to the live realms, with a whole lot for people to explore over the coming months. Although 4.3 is packed full of new features, being that we're a site dedicated to WoW gear, we've focused primarily on the details of item additions and alterations, a short break-down of which can be found below.
You can also check out our 4.3 Gear FAQ, which tackles a few questions we've received regarding the patch.
Probably the defining feature of the patch, Transmogrification offers players a way to change their appearance whilst still retaining the stats of their more powerful equipment. Yes, gone are the days of masquerading as a nightmarish clown whilst levelling in Outland, of hideous transitions between distinctly different tier armor looks (hooray – speaking as a priest who had to mix turquoise T11 and orange T12 for a while).
'Mogging can be conducted at one of two Ethereals, one in Stormwind and one in Orgrimmar, for a small fee. No doubt these vendors will be almost inaccessible for the next week as people gather around them and try to figure out what to wear.
Check our Transmogrification Rules post for detailed information on what can and cannot be transmogrified.
Dragon Soul Raid Instance
Dragon Soul is a brand new raid instance featuring 8 encounters, culminating in a double-length showdown with Deathwing himself. Interestingly, the raid also comes with a new, third difficulty mode, Raid Finder. On top of the usual Normal and Heroic modes that have been used thus far in Cataclysm, the Raid Finder is a 25-player only, cross-realm version of Dragon Soul, which has been toned down to be easier than the Normal difficulty setting. This addition means that there are three different level brackets for instance drops and Tier 13 pieces; item levels 384, 397 and 410, each of which have different colourations.
Class Specific Additions
As mentioned above, there are three different tier set colourations in Patch 4.3. Unlike the previous Cataclysm editions, all Tier 13 pieces will be purchased using tokens dropping within a raid instance (Dragon Soul), rather than having certain pieces available for Valor Points. However, the new Baradin Hold boss, Alizabal, will continue to drop tier legs and gloves, like her fellow inmates have in earlier patches. Some matching off-set pieces for the tier sets can be found within the Dragon Soul raid, but there are also many items available for Valor Points which copy or fit the item level 397 appearances, including BoE bracers and boots.
Season 11 'Cataclysmic Gladitor' sets are also inbound with this patch, most likely on December 6th, although no official announcement has been made.
The following pictures represent the Normal-mode iLvl 397 versions of Tier 13, the rest of the sets are to follow soon:
Darkmoon Faire
The Faire will be keeping its usual time schedule, one week per month, but this time they've upscaled their event to take over an entire island, rather than just a few tents outside a city. There will be games aplenty and new mounts and pets to get your hands on, but also the addition of the first 'Replica' items to the game. Visual copies of Dungeon Sets 1 & 2 will be available for purchase with Darkmoon Prize tickets. Note that they are purely for appearance and have no combat stats at all.
Read more about the festivities and the new outfits on our article: Prepare for Darkmoon Faire.
Five-Player Dungeons
4.3 introduces three new five-player dungeons to the mix, acting as a prelude to the Dragon Soul raid, à la Icecrown Citadel. Located in the Caverns of Time, the three instances, Well of Eternity, Hour of Twilight and End Time, are a past, future and present journey towards the final face-off with Deathwing… with some new loot along the way. Over one hundred items of 378 iLevel are being added, split between the three dungeons. Expect to see some articles about these outfits soon!
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Looking at the three Places we've already covered, a straight(ish) line can be discerned connecting them, passing from Italy through France to England. That's pure coincidence, but warming to the idea that our Strange Flowers are pointing the way I herewith add another daisy to that string in Ireland (and unless I can find something in Greenland to write about, that's as far as it goes).
French writer, theatre director and actor Antonin Artaud was, in the words of Susan Sontag, "one of the last great exemplars of the heroic period of literary modernism". His harrowing writing forms a dark, precarious monument teetering at, and sometimes over, the edge of sanity. Like Nietzsche, his conception of what art could and should do for society and the individual started where most artists' ended; like Nietzsche, as well, he would spend the last decade or so of his life in pitiful psychic disarray.
It was in the mid-1930s that the mental instability which had accompanied Artaud for much of his life, aggravated by drug usage, started to overwhelm him. "He didn't laugh, was never puerile and although he didn't say very much," reported Georges Bataille, "there was something emotionally eloquent in his rather grave silence and terrible edginess." Artaud's efforts to bring his theatrical vision to skeptical Parisian audiences and horror of compromising his work had exhausted his neural reserves. Having acted in films since 1917 he played his last role in 1935. He abandoned an opium cure, and instead underwent gruelling abstinence on a boat to Mexico in early 1936 (taking part in a Voodoo ceremony in Haiti en route).
Once in Mexico, Artaud's hope of finding some revolutionary spirit there to echo his own revolt against society was disappointed and his stay was marked by terrible drug withdrawals (although his experience of peyote was, he claimed, "the happiest three days of my existence").
Back in Paris, Artaud's mental and material decline accelerated and he was reduced to begging and sleeping on the streets, haunted by the threat of imminent apocalypse whose minutely timetabled progress he predicted. One day the wife of an artist with whom Artaud was acquainted gave him a cane, claiming it had once belonged to Saint Patrick. It was a dangerous thing to tell someone like Antonin Artaud. He was overtaken by a need to "return" "Patrick's" staff to Ireland, whose population he hoped were more apt to rebel than the Mexicans. He arrived at the port of Cobh in August 1937, made his way to Galway and from there to the Aran Islands.
What exactly happened on his route through Ireland is difficult to determine, much of it pieced together from scant evidence and Artaud's later testimony which frequently careened into incoherence. Like the fate of Arthur Cravan, it is a largely undocumented void which fiction has attempted to fill.
Patrice Trigano's 2010 novelised account of Artaud's life, La canne de Saint Patrick, imagines the writer's erratic progress. Artaud, "vagabond of the absolute, exile from life", obsessively counts each footstep, terrified that some disaster will befall him or the entire world if he should stop. "He trusts in the stick which accompanies him, because it's the stick of Saint Patrick and of Jesus Christ […] he, Artaud, King of the world, Artaud-become-God, will finally be able to reveal the derided truth."
Irish artist Patrick Jolley explores his own conception of this delirious pilgrimage in the 2011 super 8 feature The Door Ajar. The text is drawn exclusively from Artaud's own text, or as much as the director could "bear to read". According to its creator, The Door Ajar "describes an adventure that is in part black joke, solitary performance, Mephistophelean pact, creative quantum leap, act of faith, calculated self martyrdom, and catastrophic delusion."
September 1937 found Artaud in Dublin. He called on a publisher who concluded that his visitor "was travelling light in the upper storey" (just one of the moments of surreal comedy from the Irish Department of External Affairs' Artaud file, as quoted in The Dublin Review). Artaud attempted to gain admission to the Milltown Institute, a Jesuit college; the police were called and in the ensuing mêlée his cherished staff went missing, much to his distress. He wandered the streets of the city and three days later he was arrested in Phoenix Park as a vagrant.
Comprising a huge green swathe of West Dublin, Phoenix Park was established in 1662 as a royal hunting ground on land which once belonged to the Knights Templar, its name having nothing to do with the mythical bird, rather a corruption of the Irish term for "clear water". Successive powers have left their traces, from a viceregal residence to an obelisk dedicated to Wellington to the more recent giant cross marking a visit by Pope John Paul II.
The park appears frequently in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a book whose long gestation was coming to a close at the time of Artaud's arrest. Joyce draws extensively on the park's long history and illustrious associations in the book. During 1937 Joyce was also making regular visits to his daughter, Lucia, who was being treated for schizophrenia in Paris by a certain Dr Achille Delmas, whose written works included Pathological Psychology of Suicide. Just two years earlier she had been found wandering the streets of Dublin, filthy and manic, just like Artaud.
Declared "a destitute and undesirable alien", Artaud was deported to France where he began a grueling ordeal of asylums and therapy which would include primitive shock treatment. His most sympathetic carer turned out to be the same Dr Delmas in the same Paris clinic as Joyce's hapless daughter.
Dr Delmas's death in 1947 signalled the start of Artaud's own terminal decline. The following year he died alone in the clinic, holding a shoe. He had been taking huge doses of chloral, but it is unclear if he deliberately killed himself.
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This historical tour of Shepherd University's Campus is a great way to experience the long and rich history of Shepherd University. Shepherd University opened its doors in September of 1871 with 42 students and one building and today has about 4300 students and 36 buildings.
Shepherd University's campus is comprised of east campus and west campus. You can take a tour of the whole campus or just east or west campus. Each tour is in chronogical order of when the building was built or became part of Shepherd University.
Along with the historic tour, you can read about the legends of Shepherd University's campus. With all the history that surrounds Shepherd University, chances are there would be a few legends floating around.
There is also a gallery full of photos and maps of campus and its buildings.
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My name is Rebecka McMillan!
I am the 5th/6th grade Self-contained academic teacher here at BSIC. I graduated from GCCC in 2013 with an AS degree in Elementary Education. I continued on to Newman University where I graduated with a BS in Elementary Education K-6. I joined the BSIC family in 2015 and have made it my home.
I have a passion for teaching and I absolutely LOVE inspiring the minds of my students to achieve success in whatever they do!


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Super sculpture
Artist proposes bicentennial statue
By KIRK SWAUGER
As a boy growing up in Kernville, Peter Calaboyias would pedal his bicycle to the inclined Plane, ride up the side of the. mountain to Westmont and stare into the Conemaugh Valley below.
Nearly half a century later, the images of the hills surrounding the city of Johnstown, the Stonycreek and Conemaugh rivers where little boys could not play, and the smokestacks still dance in his head.
Now an internationally acclaimed sculptor living in Pittsburgh, Calabooses is proposing to forge his boyhood memories of Johnstown into a statue for the. cityĺs bicentennial legacy.
The city will celebrate its bicentennial next year, culminating with its birthday on Nov. 3.
"This," said Calaboyias, creator of the bronze sculpture in Atlantaĺs Centennial Olympic Park, "is probably my most personal statue."
Civic leaders and historical planners are trying to secure a sponsorship and donations of some materials and labor for the statue, which will cost more than $100,000 just to cast its five tons of bronze, Calaboyias estimated.
"Itĺs the kind of thing people will really like. It's a really moving piece of art," said Richard Burkert, executive director of Johnstown Area Heritage Association.
"Plus," Burkert added, "it does stuff."
Imagine 22 slabs of bronze, arranged in two offset semicircles around a 4-foot-wide dish of water. The patinaed bronze plates, descending from 11 feet to 1 foot to symbolize the mountains surrounding the Flood City, depict subtle images of Johnstown its steel mills, railroads, architecture and culture.
Water will cascade behind the plates, gently flowing to the top of the bronze before dropping back to the ground. Rays of light will shoot from between the plates at night.
The two semicircles will be arranged to draw spectators closer to the water, which will lap the statueĺs brick foundation, Calaboyias said. It is like the seashore with no distinct separation between the water and ground.
Where the statue would be placed downtown remains uncertain, although Calaboyias and others involved in the project mentioned the small parklet across from Morleyĺs Dog at the corner of Market and Main streets as a prime location.
"Itĺs not your traditional sculpture," Calaboyias said in a telephone interview from his studio in
the Shadyside section of Pittsburgh. " This is participatory,"
Calaboyias, whose father operated Franklin Lunch across from Central Park, lived in Johnstown for 12 years before graduating from Johnstown High School in 1958. After graduating from Penn State, he moved to Pittsburgh, where he has lived since.
Calaboosesĺ sculptures can be found the world over. His aluminum wall relief hangs at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. He has pieces on university campuses and in public parks, shopping malls and private collections in the United States, Greece and Germany.
His most famous statue was commissioned for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the modern games. Three runners, each 9 feet tall, stand inside a huge arc that rests on a stone that was quarried on Mount Olympia, where the Olympics originated.
The Atlanta sculpture, titled "Tribute," was scratched by shrapnel by the bomb blast that killed a woman and injured 100 others during the games. The damage was not repaired.
"I want the slight damage left there because they are marks of history now," Calaboyias said then.
Calaboyias and his family came to Johnstown in 1946 by way of the Greek island of Icaria and the Belgian Congo, where they lived until the end of World War II.
He said Johnstown and Icaria are two places where heĺd most like to see his statues. He recently traveled to Icaria to discuss placing a statue by the harbor.
Calaboylas met with Johnstown officials to discuss his proposal last week. His presentation at Crown American Corp. headquarters was cut short by a bomb threat outside nearby USBancorp.
The idea came about when Calaboyias was showing some of his sculptures at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center, 411 Third Ave. in Cambria City. While there, he said heĺd like to do a statue for Johnstown, recalled Rosemary Parlously, the art centerĺs board president.
"Here is a man whoĺs artistry is appreciated around the world, who wants to do something to reflect life in Johnstown," Parlously said.
"Itĺs a very exciting conception. It has some great artistic components, and itĺs a personal statement some of his boyhood memories."
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Wow, it's been just under two years since my previous post. I've had a couple of people ask about my blog, and why I've not posted. The good news is, I'm still around, and still working hard. It's been a busy couple of years, but the highlights have included:
- Organising SQL Saturday Melbourne (#296) in 2014
- Organising and speaking at SQL Saturday Melbourne (#65) in 2015
- Speaking at SQL Saturday Auckland (#186) – I can now claim to be an international speaker!
- Working as an Oracle DBA. Although there was a pretty solid learning curve, Oracle and SQL Server are similar, and I find I enjoy both, although SQL Server still holds my heart.
- Volunteering in the Victorian State Emergency service. While not technical, working as a storm, flood and rescue worker has been intensely rewarding.
My list of blog post ideas is currently sitting at 51 items, so there's no shortage of content to come!


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Football games, school plays, doctors appointments: When both Mom and Dad work, time off can be priceless. But for some parents, overtime work and the cash it brings are a matter of survival.
It's those competing needs - and business interests, too - that Congress and President Clinton must balance as they get set to reconsider making comp time, or earned time off, an alternative to overtime pay.The idea, supporters say, is that with a choice between cash and time off, every worker could get what he or she most needs.
The risk, caution labor unions and other detractors, is that profit-driven firms would be tempted to exploit the availability of cheaper overtime labor.
"We'd be entering a huge unknown," said Martin Malin, director of the Institute of Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law. "This is an area that offers a lot of promise, but the concerns raised . . . should be taken seriously."
About 67 percent of American workers are now covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guarantees one-and-a-half times regular wages for every hour worked beyond a 40-hour week. Most blue-collar factory, food service, construction and clerical workers are covered, along with less obvious folks such as computer analysts.
Such workers currently can't waive their right to overtime pay, or trade it for another benefit, such as paid vacation. If a worker needs emergency time off to take a child to the doctor, the employer can only grant a furlough. Companies can also require an employee to take unpaid leave to wipe out the cash value of overtime work during the same pay period - usually restricting any flexiblity to a two-week period.
The case is much different for professionals, managers and administrative employees who exercise independent judgment on the job. Because they are exempt from the law, they earn a fixed annual salary and don't get paid extra for long hours. But firms can offer them an increasingly popular benefit: flexible work schedules.
About 22 percent of such professionals are allowed to vary their hours, according to Labor Department figures. Some work long days early in the week and take Friday off. Others pull a marathon stretch of work, then take a vacation.
A bill near the top of the Republican congressional agenda would allow companies to offer more of that scheduling flexibility to hourly workers, too.
"It seems to me that to allow working people to be good Moms and Dads is a laudable objective," said Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., the bill's author.
Although he vetoed a similar bill last year, Clinton promised during last fall's campaign to do something to help overworked Americans in his second term.
Ashcroft's bill would allow, but not require, companies to offer compensatory time off as an alternative to overtime pay. Workers would earn comp time at a rate of 11/2 hours for every hour of overtime work, and could "bank" up to 30 days a year. Use of banked comp time would be at the worker's discretion, unless an absence would "unduly disrupt the operations of the employer." Banked comp time also could be traded for cash.
Ashcroft says stiff penalties would discourage firms from coercing workers to take comp time instead of overtime pay. And big and small companies, and their trade groups, are lobbying hard for the bill.
But labor unions worry that making overtime work cheaper will help nothing but corporate profits.
"We don't think in practice in the real world this is going to be voluntary," said Alan Reuther, legislative director for the United Auto Workers. "Not when an employer is sitting there getting to decide what job you do and whether you get a raise."
The fear is that companies, to save money, would assign most overtime hours to people who want comp time, Reuther said. Workers who depend on overtime cash would be out of luck. In a recent AFL-CIO poll, 64 percent of workers said they need money more than time off.
The experience of government workers, who've had the comp time option since 1985, provides some insight into the pros and cons.
Lonnie Golden, a Penn State economics professor, said there's no doubt comp time is popular with public sector workers, but it has tended to put them in awkward positions.


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Yes FINALLY! I can't tell you how frustrating it has been for me since the day Google Maps arrived. I always wanted to hold down the shift key (like every other modern mapping API) and draw a box to zoom in. With Google you had to use your mouse wheel and really who has a mouse wheel anymore with our notebooks and touch mice. Something had to be done.
Enter Google Maps Labs. You should now see that little green beaker in the upper right hand corner of your Google Maps screen.
Clicking on that icon you are presented with some new features:
A two of note:
Drag 'n' Zoom
Now this was the one I was most excited about until I saw its implementation.
See that little square below the zoom bar? You are supposed to click on that if you want to zoom in. You can't do what is completely obvious to everyone, hold down the shift key. I wouldn't mind if they had both, but not adding the shift key to enable is totally baffling. But even worse, you can't use the escape key to get out of the Drag 'n' Zoom. You have to move your mouse all the way back over to the left and turn it off.
Aerial Imagery
I don't agree with what Google calls this because I'm sure there is "Aerial Imagery" in their "Satellite" images, but they've got 50 Billion in cash and I'm under water on my mortgage. So what do I know? Anyway this is the Google oblique imagery we've read about. It is only available in some small areas, but we can now see them outside of the Google Maps API. When you zoom to an area that has supported oblique imagery, you'll see the new oblique aerials button that turns it on. You can use the Drag 'n' Zoom to quickly get into an area you wish.
The Others
The rest aren't in my opinion that newsworthy but address probably small needs of users. I think this is a good way for Google to get some new features into Maps quicker than their normal release schedule. I just wish they'd get on board with existing UI and naming conventions.
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Governor Rod Blagojevich may officially be out of politics, but the man is still a power player in Illinois.
Just ask recently declared senate candidate Cheryle Jackson.
Not one week passed since the Chicago Urban League chief announced her intention to seek the seat that once belonged to Barack Obama before she was linked to Blago in a shady deal with the Loop Lab School, according to an article in the Sun-Times.
In January 2006 Governor Rod made a televised promise to give $1 million to Pilgrim Baptist Church, a fire damaged landmark in Bronzeville. But instead of helping out the beleaguered church, the money went to a private school with political connections that rented space from the church a Sun-Time investigation found.
At the time, Jackson, who once served as Blagojevich's communications deputy chief, was no longer on staff, but a Sun-Times investigation of intra-staff emails reveals that she was still very much involved in the deal.
"Cheryle Jackson ... indicated that Loop Lab School -- an entity that leased space from the Church -- would be the actual recipient" of the money, then-Blagojevich deputy chief of staff Kristin Richards wrote, the Sun-Times reports.
Jackson denies her involvement and says Richards made up the assertion.
"I did not direct the grant to Loop Lab School," Jackson told the Sun-Times. "It's not true … It's either a faulty kind of remembrance, or it's a self-serving recollection of what really happened. You have to remember, by the time these statements were made by Kristin, it was after I left the administration.
"I was probably the most high-profile Democrat who opposed the gross-receipts tax, which was a centerpiece of the administration's [budget] proposal. And I sued the governor with the education lawsuit. It doesn't surprise me that someone could have made up a story about me and others who left the administration, particularly to serve their own interests."
Regardless of the veracity of the emails, Jackson has been linked to a shady Blago deal right out of the political gates. She could be yet another politician who can't wash away the stink of Blagojevich.
Roland Burris is currently dealing with said odor. The man who was appointed as a U.S. Senator amid the cash-for-favors deal can't even contemplate an actual run at the seat because no one will donate to his tainted campaign.
Jesse Jackson Jr., once a political meteor who should have been able to challenge for the senate seat in 2010 will have to sit it out while his ties to Blagojevich simmer down. Jackson Jr. was listed as candidate No. 5 in the Blagojevich criminal complaint that accused politicians of ponying up cash for the chance at a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Chicago multimillionaire Blair Hull was also implicated in the cash for senate seat flap.
The list goes on, and it will likely continue to prosecutors beef up the case against Blago over the next few months.
Will Jackson be able to distance herself from her former boss long enough to last in the race? Only time will tell.


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Home for the Holidays
During this season of bustle, busy shoppers and helpful storekeepers are all trying to accomplish one thing: delivering the holiday goods.
According to Liz Mugford, operator of the General Store of Minnetonka in Minnesota, two words make holiday shopping easy and successful: Frasier Fir.
"Frasier Fir has been the best-selling scent we've had," she says. "We sell a ton of it. You can't go wrong with Frasier Fir. Everyone just loves it."
Both Thymes and the General Store of Minnetonka are based in Minnesota, the epicenter of Frasier Fir's storybook Northwoods inspiration.
A perfect fragrance for any season, Frasier Fir embodies the aromatic snap of crisp Siberian fir needles, heartening cedarwood and relaxing sandalwood forms a refreshing bed of crisp, just-cut forest fragrance. Undertones of rich floral musk deepen and soften the resinous woody notes, for a scent that's mountain fresh, yet cozy and comforting.
Frasier Fir candles of any type are "go-to" gift choices for holiday host or hostesses and for employee or coworker presents, Liz says. Frasier Fir bar soap, botanical ornaments and votives make fantastic stocking stuffers. And Frasier Fir reed diffusers, pomanders and wooden-wick candles, which emit a fireside crackle, are gifts lucky recipients can't wait to use.
When it comes to festive décor, Frasier Fir also plays a feature role at the General Store of Minnetonka. "We change our floor display to give different ideas of how to use candles for centerpieces or mantel display," Liz says.
Liz likes to combine Frasier Fir with a seasonal splash of red, white or silver. "What I think is fun is to pair a Frasier Fir candle with faux evergreens, redwood bowls and trays filled with pinecones or mercury glass ornaments," she says, describing the popular "vintage" silver ornaments.
Of course, certain customers only have a nose for their favorite scents—beyond Frasier Fir. "Especially Lavender and Goldleaf," Liz says, "We sell a lot of them during the Christmas season for people who want to replenish" their supplies—or a loved one's.
Home fragrance makes a thoughtful gift for a couple reasons. First, it gets used, then used up. So it doesn't take up space year after year or demand ongoing polishing or attention. Better yet, nobody has to remember to it pull out—like, say, that doll-shaped vase your aunt found at the local craft sale—before holiday gatherings.
Also, Thymes homes fragrance products give an impression of luxury at a reasonable price. "Thymes is a quality gift," Liz says.
Look for more gift ideas at General Store of Minnetonka or your local specialty retailer.


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Social Media. It has been forced into our lives through the sheer virtue of its popularity. More often than not (especially with younger generations) the question of whether or not a business is good or bad does not depend on the quality of its products or services, but rather how many "likes" it has on Facebook or followers on Twitter.
As the social media phenomenon has affected our personal lives, it has also infiltrated our work lives. Employees using their computers to go on Facebook while at work or receiving updates from Instagram via their smart phone; it is simply a fact of life. This has caused a multitude of questions. How far and to what degree can employers curb their employee's social media activities at work? To what degree do employers have access to employees' social media accounts? Can the employee be fired for posting something on social media that the employer finds objectionable?
Connecticut Public Act 15-6, entitled "An Act Concerning Employee Online Privacy," was signed into law by Governor Malloy on May 19, 2015. Under the law your employer cannot: require you to give out your user name and password for the account; require that you access your account at work while your boss watches; or require that you accept your boss's "friend request" or otherwise invite your boss to have remote access to your account via his account. So, for example, your boss cannot, as a condition of your employment, order you to accept his friend request on Facebook.
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Cathy Harris sang this song, "Breath of Heaven," today – the first Sunday after Easter. Generally, this song is sung at Christmas time because it is about Mary and her feelings as she found out she was to become the mother of the Son of God.
It reflects her wonderings and questions and her turning to the breath of heaven for strength, for faith, and for understanding. Cathy explained before she sang the song that Carrie Copenhaver had suggested that Mary's searching would have been intensified again as she stood at the foot of the cross and then witnessed the resurrection. Mary did not waiver, but she did not understand the whole picture either. She could only turn to God – the breath of heaven – and leave her life in His hands. There is evidence that she did that throughout the time she was Mother to the earthly Jesus and the rest of her life.
This song was an inspiration to all of us and led us right into the sermon. The sermon title for the day was: "Jesus, Teach Me to See You More Clearly," and the scripture reading was from the second half of John 20 – the resurrected Jesus appearing to the disciples on Easter evening. Jesus said to them: "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." (John 20:21-22) The disciples had been hiding in fear of the authorities who killed Jesus and perhaps hiding in fear of Jesus himself once they heard he had been raised from the dead. They had deserted Jesus, they said they never knew him, and they ran from the whole situation. They did this because they did not understand the arrest and the crucifixion. They did not remember what Jesus had said to them earlier. Jesus, however, came to them gently and in peace. He commissioned them to carry on his work – "just as the Father sent me, I am sending you." He sealed that commission by breathing on them so they could receive the Holy Spirit. Just as God had breathed the breath of life into Adam in Genesis 2:7, Jesus breathed his power of the Holy Spirit into his followers' lives.
We are much like Mary, the disciples, and many others in scripture. Many times we are confused about what God wants, what he is doing, and how we can be strong enough to get through our circumstances. God invites us to turn to his breath, his presence, and his power to find hope and joy. This commission is for us today – God sent Jesus and Jesus sends us. He does not ask us to walk this path alone, however, he offers his very own breath to give us new life and new hope each day.
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David loves being with people and greatly enjoys serving as co-pastor of Spiceland Friends Church. He and his wife, Linda, enjoy spending time with their three grown children and their grandchildren. David is also a full-time attorney. David likes to say that his job description is simple - it is like a pizza delivery person - deliver a hot, fresh sermon each week in LESS THAN 20 MINUTES! Actually, he does a few more things at the church, but his focus on the pastoral team is preparing a Sunday morning message that makes the scripture relevant and applicable to our lives.


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In a dark world, it is important to let your light shine, so now is the time to make church ministries visible on Google and Facebook. Online Church marketing is a very beneficial way to inform your community of your ministries, such as your energetic youth ministry, fruitful marriage ministry, and an active missionary ministry. In today's internet-driven culture, some of the best forms of online church outreach occur through organic optimization and paid advertising campaigns on Google, and also on Facebook.
Make Church Ministries Visible on Google and Facebook with Organic Optimization
Through proper website optimization, it's possible to reach people without paid advertising campaigns. Effectively optimized church websites appear organically on the first page of Google's search results, and as a result, internet users are most likely to view these pages. According to Hubspot, 75 % of search engine users never scroll past the first page of search results. If it doesn't show up on page one, it's likely that prospective attendees won't see your church's page at all.
There are a number of ways to achieve organic optimization on Google. Firstly, organic optimization occurs when your church website has interesting and relevant content. Your organic optimization can also get a boost when others share links to your website's content. Finally, you can boost your organic rankings by optimizing your web page's meta tags, description tags and so on.
When both search engines and website visitors notice that your church website has high-quality and relevant content, then your church website is effectively optimized. To raise the profile of a website in the eyes of Google, organic optimization is a vital long term strategy.
Facebook's Audience Optimization tool is an organic targeting feature that helps with marketing your church on Facebook. It allows churches to reach targeted audiences, and also to improve post engagement without payment.
Here are some examples of common ministries that are often found in the church:
|Ministry Outreach
|Marriage Ministry
|Preschool Ministry
|Care Ministry
|Art's Ministry
|Parenting Ministry
|Kids Ministry
|Divorce Care Ministry
|Sports Ministry Ministry
|Singles Ministry
|Students Ministry
|Post Abortion Ministry
|Relationship Ministry
|Adult Ministry
|Mental Health Ministry
|Life Group Ministry
|Senior Ministry
|Recovery Ministry
|Prayer Ministry
|Men's Ministry
|Counseling Ministry
|Bible Study Ministry
|Women's Ministry
|Chronic Illness Ministry
|Financial Ministry
|Visitation Ministry
Make Church Ministries Visible on Google and Facebook with Paid Advertising
Community members should be informed of all of a church's flourishing ministries. Paid advertising on Church Facebook Ads and Church Google AdWords notifies the people who will benefit the most from your ministries. It's possible to rapidly increase the traffic a church website receives through paid advertising.
On Google, your church's website will be advertised to thousands of people who search relevant issues. Church Facebook Ads displays your ad in the Facebook news feeds for thousands of prospective attendees and supporters. Both Church Facebook Ads and Church Google AdWords can link prospective church partners to your church's website, which will help them learn more about your church and encourage them to attend. It's important to keep people informed of the church's efforts. If they are not, they could miss out on the opportunity to benefit and grow spiritually from its ministry.
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Missional Marketing is a dedicated Christian communications firm working with Christian Churches and Organizations across the country, and we are also a Top 5% Certified Google Partner. So get in touch today, and we can get you started.