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Murderous Intent Explodes Forth
Following this, a "crack" sound filled the carriage. The man that had been sitting across from her suddenly disappeared, and Feng Yu Heng's whip strike fiercely hit Xuan Tian Ming's imperial carriage's window frame. The curtain made of smokey silk gauze was completely ruined by her.
Failing to hit her target was not at all unexpected. Xuan Tian Ming's qinggong and physical abilities were even better than those of Ban Zou. Faced with such a fierce attack, it would have been odd if he did not dodge.
Sure enough, just as her whip landed, a voice came from behind her. The warmth of this voice came from just behind her neck, gently saying- "Dear wife, don't stop. Continue!"
"Ah!" Suddenly a shrill scream rang out. It was a girl's voice that was miserable and desperate. "Second sister, your Highness, I am still just a child. I have not yet become of age. Can you make some considerations toward my development?"
Feng Yu Heng facepalmed. Damn, she had forgotten that Xiang Rong was in this imperial carriage. Her cheeks immediately turned hot. This was too shameful.
But Xuan Tian Ming did not think that this was shameful in the slightest. He turned his head slightly and looked at Xiang Rong and sincerely taught her: "Although you have not reached the age of marriage, you are no longer young. Isn't your family's fourth sister already engaged? Some things are best learned a little bit earlier. Like this, you will be able to get closer with your future husband. Your elder sister and brother-in-law are doing this for your own good. If a normal person wanted to learn from us, they would not be able to get lessons."
Xiang Rong was on the verge of bursting into tears, as she used her small hands to cover her eyes. If she grew another pair of arms, she hated that she could not cover her ears right now. Would she still be able to return home?
Fortunately, Feng Yu Heng and Xuan Tian Ming did not go too overboard. After realizing that Xiang Rong was present, they put things aside. Feng Yu Heng put away her whip, and Xuan Tian Ming once again sat down at her side. On the surface, they were no longer messing around, but if one paid close attention, they could still be heard speaking with low voices-
"Dear wife, don't be angry. Husband won't dodge next time."
"How many times have I said it before that we are not married. Who is your wife? Don't keep saying husband this and husband that."
"Beloved consort, this prince will not dodge next time."
A certain person gritted their teeth: "There will not be a second time. This imperial daughter will not whip you again."
"That's fine, the Yu Palace just received a new batch of candles…"
"Xuan Tian Ming, scram!"
"I will not!"
Feng Xiang Rong felt that she truly could not bear to continue remaining inside the carriage, as she practically escaped out of the carriage. She would rather sit next to the driver than return inside the carriage.
Finally, the two imperial carriages stopped outside the Feng manor's entrance. Wang Chuan and Huang Quan got out of Feng Yu Heng's imperial carriage and prepared to receive their young miss. A certain person inside grabbed his wife's sleeve and discussed with her: "I will be heading over to the military camp. How about you come with me!"
Feng Yu Heng felt helpless, "I want to, but the elder madam's coffin will be carried out tomorrow. No matter what is said, I still have the title of daughter of the first wife of the Feng family. It would not be good for me to not be present for such an important matter."
Xuan Tian Ming also knew that there was nothing that could be done, and he immediately began to hate Yu Qian Yin: "Damn, if I knew earlier that that woman was going to cause trouble, I would not have allowed Li Kun to go back. As I see it, 50 million taels of gold is too little. When we have taken care of Qian Zhou, husband will bring you to rob Zong Sui's national treasury."
Feng Yu Heng rolled her eyes and got out of the carriage. Right before leaving, she urged Xuan Tian Ming to allow He Gan and Xi Fang to choose some experts from the Divine Intent Army and have them follow Qian Li to the North.
Only after Xuan Tian Ming's imperial carriage left did Wang Chuan tug at her sleeve and quietly say: "The Feng family members are all kneeling at the entrance."
"Hm?" She was startled and turned to look. Very well, the entire family, starting from the husband, Feng Jin Yuan, to the gatekeeper, everyone was kneeling on the ground.
Seeing Feng Yu Heng finally pay attention to them, Feng Jin Yuan took the initiative to say, leading everyone in the manor: "We welcome imperial daughter Ji An back to the manor."
Only then did she manage to understand. She had been promoted from a standard second rank county princess to a lower first rank imperial daughter. For a humble girl, this was an extremely grand glory. If it was not for the family conducting a funeral, according to the rules, this welcome should have been even grander!
But Feng Yu Heng did not mind these things too much, especially when she saw Feng Jin Yuan's face full of unwillingness and unhappiness, she felt even happier. Since this was a matter to celebrate, she would act as an official when dealing with him.
Feng Yu Heng faced everyone and raised her hand slightly, saying: "You may all rise."
When Feng Jin Yuan heard this, he was the first to stand up and forcefully patted his robe. It was as if he had been humiliated, as he had an unhappy look.
Feng Yu Heng looked at him and found it funny. She then looked at Fen Dai standing behind him. With a consoling voice, she said: "Practising now is also good. In the future, fourth sister will also marry into a palace and must be the official princess of a palace. Father will also need to kneel when greeting her in the future."
These words caused Fen Dai's eyes to light up, and the unhappiness in her heart was reduced by a bit.
Once the rewards from the morning court session were revealed, there were immediately officers that went around the streets posting notices. That was why the Feng family had heard news about Feng Yu Heng before she returned to the manor. Even if Feng Jin Yuan was unhappy, Feng Yu Heng was already clearly an imperial daughter. He had to bring the entire manor's people out to receive her. It was not just Feng Yu Heng. To the current Feng Jin Yuan, he did not even know how to face Xiang Rong. This daughter was originally the weakest in the manor, and she was also the most cowardly. She had neither the beauty and ferocity of Feng Chen Yu nor the ability of Feng Yu Heng. She did not even have the impulsive force of Fen Dai. She was the most cowardly, the least combative and the one with the weakest existence. But what was most troubling, she got along best with Feng Yu Heng.
He originally hoped that he could rely on the daughters of the manor to gain noble statuses. He would then use their power to stage a comeback. But Chen Yu was now dead, and Feng Yu Heng was his enemy. Xiang Rong also received an imperial grace, allowing her to act freely. Looking at things like this, the only one that the Feng family could rely on would be Fen Dai.
Feng Jin Yuan turned his gaze on Fen Dai, and a look of expectation could not be hidden in his eyes. This caused Fen Dai to become emotional.
Having returned with additional titles, courtesy dictated that they pay respects to the matriarch's coffin. Feng Yu Heng brought Xiang Rong over to the mourning hall. The Feng family followed behind them. An shi watched her daughter walk with Feng Yu Heng and began to choke up. She could not control her tears, and they began to fall. This happened to be seen by Feng Jin Yuan, who fiercely glared sideways at her.
But Feng Jin Yuan thought things over again. Three-quarters of Da Shun's military power was under Xuan Tian Ming's control. He had been a prime minister for so many years. If he could not even see this path, he would truly have been a waste at that position! The Emperor was clearly announcing the crown prince through a different method!
As he walked, his feet came to a stop. A thought that had once leaped out but was forcefully repressed suddenly surged forth once more. He recalled a time from many years ago when Taoist Zi Yang had said that someone in the Feng family had the aspect of the phoenix. At that time, Zi Yang had pointed at Chen Yu. With the addition of Chen Yu's beauty, he did not suspect it at all. Even after he found out that Taoist Zi Yang's words could not be disassociated from the Chen family, he still wanted to believe that Chen Yu was the one. Sooner or later, she would rise from the waters and become a phoenix.
But when he thought about it now, if it was about a child in the Feng family that had the aspect of the phoenix, it very clearly was not Chen Yu. Rather, it was…
He turned his gaze on Feng Yu Heng, who was further ahead. With the situation as it was, even he had to admit that the person with the aspect of the phoenix was most likely Feng Yu Heng.
But this was a result that Feng Jin Yuan did not want to accept. If there came a day when the ninth prince was enthroned, Feng Yu Heng would be at the imperial ruler's side. What sort of hope would the Feng family have at that time? Based on the hatred that the child had for the Feng family, would she not take the lives of everyone in this manor?
Feng Jin Yuan's eyes gradually became icy-cold, as he slowed his steps once more. After everyone had entered the mourning hall behind Feng Yu Heng, he suddenly turned around and walked in the direction of Pine courtyard.
Upon stepping into the study, he immediately closed the door tightly behind him, and a fierce anger surfaced.
Feng Yu Heng had to die! This was his final judgment. Only with Feng Yu Heng dying could the Feng family rise once more. His life and glory would then be preserved. Not only did Feng Yu Heng need to die, but Xuan Tian Ming also needed to die. He definitely could not allow Xuan Tian Ming become the Emperor. Otherwise, the Feng family would never rise again.
He still wanted to find a method to take that second daughter's life. There was nothing that he could do when Xuan Tian Ming was in the capital, but as long as he went to the battlefield, swords and blades were emotionless. Dying or becoming injured were all unavoidable. Back in the battle of the Northwest, his legs were injured, thus he believed that as long as the deployment was cautious, it was not impossible to take the lives of the two.
It would be best if Xuan Tian Ming and Feng Yu Heng both died on the battlefield. When that time came, there was no place to assign this debt. The burden of this black pot would be left for the North and Qian Zhou to endure. He could sit idly and enjoy the fruits of others' work. It was also possible that he could set up a plot and push the fifth prince. Fen Dai was a smart child that was capable of thinking for the Feng family. As long as he could push the fifth prince onto the throne, the Feng family and he would potentially be able to regain the position of standard first rank prime minister.
Feng Jin Yuan was so moved by his own thoughts that his eyes could shoot fire. He quickly dove over to his desk and picked up his pen.
The letter was written for Qian Zhou, and it was written using his name as Kang Yi's husband. The reason was clear, and it was making use of their emotions. Not only did it express his unchanging feelings for Kang Yi, but it also expressed his extreme hatred for Feng Yu Heng and Xuan Tian Ming. At the same time, he explicitly stated two of Feng Yu Heng's weaknesses. One was her mother, Yao shi, and the other was her younger brother, Zi Rui.
When this secret letter was handed over to a hidden guard, Feng Jin Yuan was able to see a scene with both his second daughter and the ninth prince dead on the battlefield. This caused him to smile happily. As long as those two could be taken care of, even if he lost a son, what of it? The doctor had already said that Han shi's belly contained a son. The Cheng shi sisters were still young. If he wanted a son, was there any worry that he would not have one?
He urged the hidden guard to quickly head toward the North. He then left Pine courtyard and walked toward the mourning hall. He absolutely had to tell the matriarch about such a moving thing. The matriarch would definitely bless and support him from the heavens.
He increased his pace and moved quickly; however, he heard an odd sound when passing by a garden. It seemed that there was someone speaking there. He then heard a man's voice say: "I have helped you out so much. How should you thank me?"
Feng Jin Yuan's feet stopped moving, as he loudly shouted: "Who is it?"


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This one is not an easy go. It is NOT a horror film. It is a psycho-sexual character study. . Dafoe and Pattinson are both amazing. The look of the film is like visual poetry. This is an art film surrounding a spiral of madness.
If you're a big fan of Marvel/Disney/DC movies, don't see this.
While The Lighthouse didn't hit me as deeply or as sharply as The Witch, the fact that such a strange feature can still be produced with so few concessions to the mainstream, and that it's coming to theaters, feels like a breath of fresh air — albeit one cut with at least a few Willem Dafoe farts.
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Many people have helped me since 2010 to touch lives over and over again.
I had posted this tintype picture in March 2012 with this post.
Carl J. Archambeault Sr., who is Frank's brother, found my blog before his brother did and he wrote me this e-mail.
I just came across this blog…
Where are you located?
Philip Archambeault (whose obituary is listed above) is my father. I'm the baby of 11 children of Philip and Elizabeth Archambeault.
He had that tintype picture and he said it was probably taken around 1880.
It was Jean-Baptiste Archambeault aka John Shambo, aka John Shambeau…
I thought I had recognized his son William Archambeault on that picture, but Frank set me straight about his grandfather on that picture.
It was taken before William's birth in 1873!
Furthermore that person was a she…
She had breasts!
Since then, I have gathered more information about the Archambeault family thanks to Frank.
Slowly but surely Frank and I are on the road to identify more people…
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UVANGA will be at the Festival Internacional de CIne de Guadalajara, Mexico in the Quebec, Guest of Honor selection. The festival takes place from March 21 until 30. The film will be in good company with about 15 other features from Quebec and a number of documentaries.
Uvanga is competing in the prestigious FOCUS section of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma which features Quebecois and Canadian films that reflect the richness of emerging new cinema.
The film will later screen in Toronto at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Closing Night Gala October 20th.
Uvanga opened the 7th annual Yellownkife International Film Festival on October 1st with a screening at the Northern Arts and Culture Cenre.
Uvanga was honered with the Best Feature award at the festival's first ever award ceremony held October 6th!
Uvanga screened on September 21th to an exited home town crowd in Igloolik! Much fun was had and reviews were positive!
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Principal photography began July 9, 2012 on Uvanga. The film is co-directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and will be shot entirely on location in Igloolik, Nunavut over the next 25 days.
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UNH recognized for its role as steward of 3,800-acre forest
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) � The University of New Hampshire has been recognized by the state for its role in managing 3,800 acres of working forests.
The New Hampshire Tree Farm Committee recently recognized UNH for its efforts to educate the public on sustainable forestry. The award goes to an outstanding tree farm owned by a town, school or other organization.
Almost half of the working forest is in Durham, nearly half in Carroll County, and the rest in several other properties scattered across the state. Every year there are on average 5,000 educational visits to the woodlands and research on areas including the growth and health of white pine trees, climate impacts on forest ecosystems, and air quality monitoring.


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The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to law enforcement agencies now can be considered an identified flying object.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday the fireball was a natural phenomenon -- not flying space junk -- and a North Texas astronomer said more specifically that it was probably a pickup truck-sized meteor with the consistency of concrete.
A spokesperson for NORAD (The North American Aerospace Defense Command) Sgt. Claudette Hutchinson said the fireball was, "probably a natural occurrence, not any space debris."
The object was visible Sunday morning from Austin to Dallas and into East Texas.
In Central Texas, the Williamson County sheriff's office received so many emergency calls that it sent a helicopter aloft to look for debris from a plane crash.
The FAA backed off its weekend claim that the fireball was caused by falling debris from colliding satellites plummeting into earth's atmosphere.
"There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and those reports of re-entry," said Maj. Regina Winchester, official spokesman for the U.S. Strategic Command, which includes the Air Force Space Command that monitors satellites.
Jim Orberg, space program expert and NBC contributor, explained that officials at Strategic Command came to that conclusion by noting the orientation in space of the belt of debris formed from the remains of both satellites, and that Texas was not passing through the belts of debris at the time of the sightings.
Dr. Mark Matney, a scientist in the orbital debris program at Johnson Space Center, confirms any debris that might be falling into the atmosphere would be so small that the burn-up flares would be brief and dim. The bigger pieces, those big enough to generate a fireball like the one actually seen on Sunday, characteristically stay closer to the original orbit of the parent satellites, 500 miles in space.
Numerous people across Texas reported seeing fireballs in the air Sunday morning. People in Richardson, Plano, Burleson and near Corsicana reported seeing the streaks in the skies.
Kenneth and Jacqueline Terry said they saw fireballs in the sky as they were leaving church services at the Potter's House in Dallas.
The latest news from around North Texas.
"It was definitely five streaks of burning debris that lasted for about five seconds, and then it disappeared and then the white smoke stayed and it just started to go with the wind," Kenneth Terry said.
"It was really amazing," Jacqueline Terry said.
Air traffic controllers at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport also received several reports from pilots of a streak of light in the sky. Some pilots said it looked like something re-entering the atmosphere, an air traffic source said. Controllers also saw what looked like a vapor trail in the sky far to the south of the airport.
The FAA said some Texas law enforcement agencies have found debris, but it was not immediately clear which agencies reported finding pieces. The FAA said people who find pieces of debris should not touch them and should contact law enforcement.
The satellite collision involved an Iridium commercial satellite, which was launched in 1997, and a Russian satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be non-functioning. The two satellites collided nearly 500 miles over Siberia in what NASA officials said was the first high-speed impact between two intact spacecraft.
On Monday, the FAA also canceled a warning about space junk, the agency had issued to pilots after two satellites recently collided in space
The chief of Russia's Mission Control said clouds of debris from the collision will circle Earth for thousands of years and threaten numerous satellites.


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Plant-Based Meal Solutions to Help Families Power through the Busy Back-to-School Season
Posted: August 12, 2019 | Word Count: 834
Ready or not, it's that time of year when the kids go back to school and life seems to be busier than ever. Whether you're rushing off to work, scurrying to get kids out the door, or simply trying to keep track of your family's complex schedule — every parent could use a little help, especially in the kitchen. Here are some tips to help families power through the season, thanks to the wide variety of plant-based options now available:
1. Make-ahead breakfasts
Experts say there's nothing more important than a hearty, nutritious breakfast. It allows our body to refuel for the busy day ahead, which is especially important for growing children. The best breakfasts are those rich in protein, fiber, whole grains and minimal sugar. Since mornings can be one of the busiest times of the day, consider meal prepping a week's worth of overnight oats for kids to eat at home or take on-the-go. All it takes is a few simple ingredients: fruit, oats and your favorite plant-based milk. Consider using a flavorful plantmilk to add taste to the oats with no added sugar, like Mooala kid-approved Coconut Oatmilk and Bananamilk. Mix all the ingredients, top with fruit, leave in the fridge overnight and voila — a better-for-you breakfast parents and kids will love.
2. Feel-good lunchbox finds
Studies show that eating well-balanced meals can positively affect students' thinking skills, behavior and academic performance. However, when students find themselves hungry in the middle of a jam-packed school day it can be easy for them to gravitate toward quick options in vending machines and the cafeteria. Instead, set your child up for success by packing their lunchboxes with well-balanced, tasty snacks while choosing plant-based versions of lunchtime classics for the main course. Your kiddos won't miss dairy with Daiya Slices. They offer the same incredible melt as dairy-based cheese and are a good source of calcium. Try adding them to veggie wraps or have your kids help make these grilled cheese roll-ups the night before school to save time in the mornings.
3. Afterschool munchies
If there's one thing you can bet on, it's that your little ones will be racing to the kitchen for a pick-me-up after a long day of learning. An afternoon snack is a great way to add valuable nutrients into your child's day while managing their hunger until dinner is ready. A tried-and-true snack that will perk up and please any kid's taste buds is apple slices with their choice of nut butter. No longer does peanut butter reign supreme, with options ranging from allergy-friendly sunflower seed butter to lower calorie coconut butter. You can even elevate this classic snack by creating apple slice cookies, where the slices are placed on sticks for dipping into various sauces, or by creating apple slice nachos with your kiddo's favorite toppings. Inviting your children to help create this "custom" apple slice snack also provides a great way to bond with them after school activities and before homework takes over.
4. Beat-the-clock dinners
Photo courtesy of Melissa Baswell Williams of Bubby & Bean
Back-to-school time brings about big evening appetites and tight schedules, which means easy dinners are a must. The key to creating fast — yet, still nutritious — meals is to identify healthy shortcuts. Cut down meal prep time by picking up precut vegetables at the supermarket or jumpstart your next meal with these registered dietician-approved Plant-Based Protein Meal Starters. Offering quick heat-and-eat convenience, Loma Linda meals can be prepared in 60 seconds for a healthy and affordable solution to kickstart a sustainable dinner. Or next time you're in need of a family-friendly 15-minute dinner, simply heat up some Loma Linda Taco Filling and serve with your favorite taco shell (or salad) and toppings. This recipe gets extra points for its protein content to help sustain your family through band or sports practice and homework. With the right recipes and products, it is possible to whip up a healthy and delicious dinner much quicker than even the fastest restaurant could deliver to your door.
5. Curb late-night cravings
Kids and parents deserve a little treat after a hard day of spelling tests, coloring inside the lines and traffic. One way to indulge your sweet tooth without crashing from too much sugar is DIY "Nice Cream." Nice Cream is made from frozen fruits blended together for at-home, dairy-free ice cream without added sugar! All it takes is a food processor and your favorite frozen fruits — the flavor combinations are endless. Toss in a frozen banana, pineapple chunks, a few strawberries and before you know it you've created a velvety, guilt-free soft-serve! The next time you run to the grocery store, grab some frozen fruit to keep handy for when the cravings kick in.
Try these five tips for your busy family and you'll be able to provide delicious, nutritious options the whole family will enjoy — from their early-morning meal to their late-night snack.


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As we make the transition from 2008 to 2009, people are filled with trepidation and anxiety about the economy. People in their 20s, 30s and even their 40s have never worried about the economy. It is a new emotional experience for them.
Another year has ended and a new one begins.
However, as we make the transition from 2008 to 2009, people are filled with trepidation and anxiety about the economy. People in their 20s, 30s and even their 40s have never worried about the economy. It is a new emotional experience for them.For many, the possibility of not having a job, or not being able to get one, has never been a part of their mind set. But today, being unemployed, if not reality, is a realistic concern. The prospect of not having any income can be terrifying. Mortgages and car loans need to be paid as do food and clothing for the family. And what about the cost of health insurance? All of these worries can have a deleterious impact on a person's physical and emotional health. These are realistic concerns and, unfortunately, there are no easy solutions. Even though you may encounter many road blocks, it's important that you continue to seek some type of employment. Available opportunities are limited and may not be what you really want, but it may have to do for the time being. Don't lose faith in your abilities. If you worked hard and did your best, you are not responsible for the predicament that you are presently experiencing. It is a time when you may need the support of family and friends and to not be embarrassed or reluctant to accept this help. During these difficult times, it is essential that you maintain your good health. This means getting the necessary amount of sleep so you are better able to face the next day. Difficulty sleeping is associated with being overwhelmed with worry. Becoming depressed is also a concern. It is essential to overcome this because depression can sap you of the energy you need to get you back on your feet. Short term anti-depression medications can be helpful in accomplishing this. And remember, in the past this country has faced and overcome similar economic difficulties, and, although it may not be easy, we will do it again. Dr. Murray Feingold is the physician in chief of the National Birth Defects Center, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio, and president of the Genesis Fund. The Genesis Fund is a nonprofit organization that funds the care of children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.


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Packers looking for shovelers to clear Lambeau
600 workers needed
GREEN BAY, Wis. — With the Green Bay area expected to receive 10 inches or more of snow, the Packers are looking for several hundred people to shovel snow at Lambeau Field.
The team put out the call Thursday for up to 600 shovelers. Workers need to be at least 15 years old and they'll be paid $10 per hour. The team provides the shovels, and the work will start Friday at 8 a.m. and continue as needed.
The shoveling ritual can be a frequent occurrence at Lambeau, an outdoor stadium that can get heavy snowfall in a short time. Heating coils under the field help keep the playing surface snow-free, but snow can pile up pretty quickly in the stands.
Green Bay hosts the Tennessee Titans at noon Sunday.


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ADVA Optical Networking CEO Brian Protiva To Address Network Transformation At OFC/NFOEC 2013 Plenary Session
Brian Protiva, CEO and co-founder of ADVA Optical Networking, a global telecommunications company headquartered in Munich, Germany, will give a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the 2013 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), being held March 17 – 21, 2013 in Anaheim, Calif. Protiva's presentation, titled "Capitalizing on Network Transformation in the Age of Programmable, Multi-Layer Infrastructures," will take place March 19, from 8 – 11 a.m. in the Anaheim Convention Center.
Protiva will discuss how component and system providers can make inroads into new markets and tap new sources of revenue with optical communications technologies resulting from the ever-increasing bandwidth demand. He will highlight both key opportunities and the challenges that arise when building multi-layer programmable infrastructures for carriers, Internet service providers and enterprise users, including next generation backhaul for LTE and LTE Advanced.
Protiva co-founded ADVA Optical Networking in 1994 initially focusing on creating the company's marketing, sales and growth strategy. Under his leadership, ADVA Optical Networking has steadily grown to become a global market leader in Ethernet access devices and Metropolitan Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) systems. To date, ADVA Optical Networking's innovative Optical and Ethernet solutions have been deployed at more than 10,000 enterprises and 250 carriers around the world. Prior to co-founding ADVA Optical Networking, Protiva was a managing director at AMS Technologies (now the EGORA Group), which he joined in 1987. Protiva earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he says he developed his entrepreneurial spirit.
"Hearing from an industry leader like Brian will be a conference highlight for OFC/NFOEC attendees, as his company has been instrumental in the creation of platforms with some of the fastest, highest-capacity and most agile networks available today," said OFC/NFOEC 2013 General Co-Chair Vishnu Shukla of Verizon Labs. "His pivotal keynote will take a much-needed look at how the industry can address the coming transformation of global 24/7 communications networks."
The widely-attended plenary session will include talks from distinguished speakers on some of the hottest topics facing the industry today—high-speed broadband deployment, software-defined networks, and network infrastructure. Protiva joins other plenary session speakers Caio Bonilha, president of Telebras in Brazil and Nick McKeown, professor of engineering and computer science at Stanford University.
OFC/NFOEC brings together industry professionals for discussion and dissemination of cutting-edge research on a diverse set of topics including optical network design and optimization, cloud and datacenter networking, flexible grid networks, ultra-high-bandwidth technologies, broadband access to the home, high-speed photonic integration and advanced networks for mobile and wireline services. The event hosts the world's largest exposition of optical communications, fiber optic networking products and systems.
About OFC/NFOEC
For more than 35 years, the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) has been the premier destination for converging breakthrough research and innovation in telecommunications, optical networking, fiber optics and, recently, datacom and computing. Consistently ranked in the top 200 tradeshows in the United States, and named one of the Fastest Growing Trade Shows in 2012 by TSNN, OFC/NFOEC unites service providers, systems companies, enterprise customers, IT businesses, and component manufacturers, with researchers, engineers, and development teams from around the world. OFC/NFOEC includes dynamic business programming, an exposition of more than 550 companies, and cutting-edge peer-reviewed research that, combined, showcase the trends and pulse of the entire optical communications industry.
OFC/NFOEC is managed by the Optical Society (OSA) and co-sponsored by OSA, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Communications Society (IEEE/ComSoc), and the IEEE Photonics Society. Visit www.ofcnfoec.org.
Source: OFC/NFOEC


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BOURNEMOUTH (Reuters) - British banks that fail to shield their day-to-day banking from risky investment activities could be broken up, Chancellor George Osborne said on Monday, bowing to political pressure to come down harder on reckless lenders.
European countries are retooling their financial systems to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crash, trying to strike a balance between popular calls for banks to be reined in and warnings that too tight a leash will choke off recovery.
With Britain's banks buffeted by scandal and part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) set to be fined up to 500 million pounds this week for interest rate rigging, Osborne decided to "electrify" the ring-fence around banks' core retail activities with the threat of break-up.
"Our country has paid a higher price than any other major economy for what went so badly wrong in our banking system. The anger people feel is very real," Osborne said in a speech ahead of the publication of the banking reform legislation.
"Let's turn that anger from a force of destruction into a force for change," he said, speaking at the offices of U.S. bank JP Morgan in Bournemouth, southern England.
London's structural reforms go further than France and Germany, which, like the United States, are only demanding that banks separate out their proprietary trading, where they invest the banks' own funds, from the rest of their businesses.
Germany is however considering a new law that would see executives jailed for up to five years if found guilty of reckless behaviour that jeopardises their bank, a move described by a senior government source in Berlin as a signal to Europe, which is seen as not moving fast enough on the issue.
Osborne said Britain could ban directors of failed banks from working in the industry.
In the absence of international agreement, national regulators are increasingly pursing their own banking rules, to the dismay of industry insiders.
"We should not create unnecessary obstacles to pan-European rules with a zig-zag approach. A crisis does not stop at the national border. We need a coordinated approach in this area," said Michael Kemmer, managing director of the German banking association.
All the major British banks, including Barclays, HSBC and RBS, will be affected by the UK legislation, and the industry has warned it will put them at a disadvantage against continental rivals such as Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas.
"This will create uncertainty for investors, making it more difficult for banks to raise capital, which will ultimately mean that banks will have less money to lend to businesses," the British Bankers' Association said in a statement.
But a source close to one of Britain's biggest lenders was more sanguine, saying that with banks already under intense scrutiny, Osborne's decision was a longer term move designed to prevent banks letting standards drop when attention is less focused on the industry.
Fitch ratings agency said the legislation could improve the credit profile of Britain's retail banks.
Under the new rules, the Bank of England will monitor whether banks' investment banking arms, which trade complex securities, are endangering their retail operations.
If the central bank finds a breach, the government will decide whether to flick the switch on the electric fence, forcing the bank to sell one of the two arms.
"Banks require discouragement from gaming the rules. They will always try to do so unless strong disincentives are put in place," said Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the parliamentary commission that had demanded the break-up threat.
Britain's finance ministry confirmed it would stick to rules on limits to a bank's leverage that have been set at the global level. Leverage will be capped at 33 times a bank's capital, weaker than an original proposal for a maximum of 25 times.
In December, a cross-party group of lawmakers reviewing the plans said it was "not persuaded by the government's relaxation" of the leverage rule and added that the Bank of England should set the leverage cap.
RBS is expected to be fined this week for its role in a global interest-rate-fixing scandal, and Osborne repeated his call for the settlement with U.S. and UK regulators to be paid out of bankers' bonuses, saying it would cause "enormous public anger" if the taxpayer footed the bill.
The UK has spent over $100 billion (63.4 billion pounds) propping up its over-leveraged banking system, much of it poured into RBS.
Asked whether there should be resignations at RBS as a result of the bank's imminent fine, Osborne said it was "quite well known that RBS are thinking about changes" amongst the investment bank's senior management.
"It is right that those who are responsible - not just those who are directly responsible, but also those who were dong the supervising - must also bear a level of responsibility," he said.
RBS is expected to part company with the head of its investment bank, John Hourican, when the settlement is announced later this week.
Additional reporting by David Milliken, Steve Slater and Alistair Smout in London, Gernot Heller in Berlin and Edward Taylor in Frankfurt.; Writing by Carmel Crimmins; Editing by David Stamp and Will Waterman


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Commissioner Chandler Woodcock won a key vote yesterday in his long march to protect Maine's remaining wild and native brook trout. The nearly unanimous vote of the Fish and Wildlife Advisory Council to ban the use of live fish as bait on 9 wild brook trout waters was also a significant victory for John Boland, DIF&W's Resource Bureau Director, and Mike Brown, Fisheries Division Director.
The proposal received strong criticism from some Maine bait dealers and at least one sporting camp owner. Other sporting camp owners supported the measure that got many positive comments at public hearings and in written comments submitted by individuals and organizations including the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine and Maine Audubon.
Chandler took the unusual step at the Council meeting of reading a prepared statement that explained his agency's initiatives including changes to the lengthy list of fishing rule proposals on the Council's agenda for final action.
Because many have indicated an interest in what he said, I am including his remarks in this post.
You can also read my report, written at the Council meeting, that was posted yesterday on my website: www.georgesmithmaine.com.
Commissioner Chandler Woodcock's Statement
December 20, 2012
The proposals included in this packet are varied in nature. They attempt to address several important management objectives for the fisheries of Maine. The proposals include, but are not limited to:
Protecting and enhancing the important Smallmouth Bass fishery in several Washington County lakes by encouraging the removal of the invasively introduced Largemouth Bass population while continuing a "catch and release" provision for Smallmouth Bass. This fishery has historically represented a vital enhancement for the area's economy and we feel that the Smallmouth Bass needs protection.
Protecting the Atlantic Salmon and reducing the probability of unintentional violations in a few coastal Hancock county waters by setting the maximum length limit for Landlocked Salmon and Brown Trout at 25 inches, which is the standard for "grilse." Identifying LLS, BT and "grilse" can often be challenging and Atlantic Salmon are a federally protected species.
Promoting the increase of smelt and the potential for growth of Landlocked Salmon by allowing a more liberal Togue harvest on specific waters.
Increasing opportunity for anglers, with a focus on youth, in the Moose River. This proposal extends the time period of the "no special terminal tackle restrictions" rule by an additional 16 days, until August 31.
Increasing opportunity for ice fishing on a couple bodies of water by allowing 5 lines instead of the current regulation of 2.
Allowing the use of live fish as bait in Attean Lake. We continue to re-examine the lakes and ponds on the "B" list of Brook Trout waters to validate that important list.
Instituting "No Live Fish As Bait" regulations on specific lakes and ponds which will be managed for protection of wild Brook Trout, Maine's "Heritage" fish species. The biological concerns relating to "competing fish species" have been expressed by researchers in Maine since 1939. The focus on protecting wild Brook Trout emphasizes both the biologic and economic perspectives. If we are able to successfully protect this unique lake and pond fishery, we will be investing in the future of Maine's natural resources and our sporting heritage. (96% of the remaining wild Brook Trout in America's lakes and ponds exists here in Maine.)
The proposal being brought forward today has been arrived at after much consideration of and conversation about the many offerings made during the public comment period. (A special note: two bodies of water, Carr Pond and Fish River Lake, have been removed from the proposal by me in order to maintain the integrity of a comment which I made prior to the proposal being submitted. No other consideration was given to those two waters.)We have heard from, and listened to, sporting camp owners with a vested interest in these resources, fishermen who prefer varying modes of tackle and pursuit, camp owners with ownership of property on one of the specific bodies of water and citizens who simply value Maine's outdoors. Several important opportunities have come out of the discussions.
IF+W will be cooperating with sporting camp owners, the Bureau of Parks and Lands and others on a survey of ice fishing participants in the Allagash on Chamberlain, Eagle, Churchill and Telos lakes. This survey will assist MDIF+W with evaluating fishing regulations for those critically and historically important waters.
A discussion has been initiated which will hopefully assist in resolving many of the important issues involving the commercial and recreational use of bait. We will form a bait focus group which will address and work toward a better understanding of differing perspectives. The primary goal for the group will be to revise bait regulations in Maine.
IF+W will continue to re-examine the lakes and ponds currently on the "B" list of Brook Trout waters.
We want to thank all who have contributed to this process. It has been of significant value to MDIF+W and we remain respectful of the many viewpoints. The proposal before you is meant to protect our resources and offer the most viable opportunities for future generations.


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Affectation is attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real.
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- Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
- John Locke, On Education, Section 66, Affectation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 11.
- Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
- Horace Mann, Thoughts (1867).
- There Affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.
- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto 4.


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Minnie Driver has been cast as a hippie mom in the TV reworking of Hugh Grant's 2002 movie ABOUT A BOY.
Perfect Couples star David Walton will take on Grant's character Will, while Driver's Fiona was portrayed by Australian actress Toni Collette on the big screen.
The movie was former child star Nicholas Hoult's first major role - he played Fiona's son Marcus.
The TV series will be set in San Francisco and top U.S. TV screenwriter Jason Katims will pen the pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Robert De Niro are among the executive producers and Iron Man's Jon Favreau is reportedly on board to direct the pilot.


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Posts Tagged 'solidairy'
Tell me about youth resources you know and love!
Hey everybody,
Do you know of an awesome organization or program that directly services youth?
I am working on a comprehensive guide/zine of youth resources for youth to be distributed within Youth Empowerment and Solidarity (YES!), the Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Program I work for, and in the newly revised roadmap we're making for Rock'n'Roll Camp for Girls. I want to make sure this guide really helps youth get connected with what they need for both their emotional and physical well-being, it would help especially to hear about any resources in the Mall 205 area for my YES/SUN students, but I want to hear about anything in the Portland and greater Portland areas. I am also especially interested in youth-led recources and groups like the Multnomah Youth Commission because I think that youth working with each other in solidarity is important.
If you can provide a small description, that would help my process if I am unfamiliar with the organization or program because I am including brief descriptions in the guide. Please also help signal boost this and share it far and wide! Thanks in advance! You can email me the suggestions if you'd like. lovemotionstory at gmail of course.
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The Dr. Phil House: Teen Intervention Follow-Up
Alex was an out-of-control 14-year-old who was stealing, running away, doing drugs and prostituting herself to older men when her family asked Dr. Phil to intervene. Catch up on what you missed and see exclusive footage from inside The Dr. Phil House!
After a tumultuous stay in The Dr. Phil House, Alex comes to terms with having to leave immediately for the Academy of the Sierras, a therapeutic school where she can focus on getting healthy.
"It's not just about Alex; it's about all of us."
Six weeks have passed since Alex left for the academy, and her family returned home without her. How is she adjusting to a new structured environment?
Fifteen pounds lighter and a new attitude.
Separate Ways
While Alex has been away, her family has been trying to make changes so that her home life is healthier when she returns. Have Kim, Jeanette and Enza put aside their angry accusations and come together once and for all?
"I don't think she can be trusted."
Family Reunion
Kim and Jeanette have been struggling to live under the same roof. Kim has resentments from her childhood that she can't let go of, and Jeanette feels disrespected.
Dr. Phil tells them what needs to happen when Alex returns.
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Mother Poetry.
A mother (Mom or mum) is a woman who gives birth to a child and then raises that child. A mother is a symbol of sacrifice and has a challenging role in the life of every child. This page (Mother Poetry) is dedicated to all the mothers and contains a collection of heart touching poems about mothers. These poems about mothers are very inspiring.
No trouble anticipated till your Mother is alive
'Phooloun ki Khushboo' is Maa
Azeem Maa (Great Mother)
Maa aik baar Muskara day tou Janat mill jaye
Maa kay Qaddam
Maa ki Dua Zindagi banaa day gi
Maa kay Bicharnay kay Baad
Meri Waraasat, Meri Maa
Yaad aa Jaati Hai Maa
Pyar aur Mamta
Aik Muddat say meri Maa nahi soye Tabish. Read the complete Ghazal………
Maa Kabhi Lote Kay Nahi Aati
Payari Maa mujhko teri Dua Chahiye
Meri Maa ki Duaaen
A Mother's Dua is Not Rejected
Hifazat ki Lakeerain
Maa Jinn Ki Zinda Hoti Hai, Woh Bohat Khushnaseeb Hotay Hain
Maa kabhi bad-dua nahi deti
Effect of Mother's 'Dua'
Saari Zindagi Maa Kay Naam Karta Hoon
Mother Poetry: Waqt-e-Rukhsat mathay pay Duaa
Mother Poetry: Mother's Heart
Mother Poetry: "Maa Kay Naam", Poem on Mother by Wasi Shah
Dear Mother, My Win is Because of You
'Azeem Maa'
Aye Maa Mujhay Neend Nahi Aati
Pyari Maa Mujhko Teri Dua Chahiye. Ones who truly love their mothers, will listen to this poem with teary eyes.
Maa Kay Naam. A poem about mother.
Mother-My Life, My Happiness, My Love
To a Mother
A Mother's Heart
Maa Tum Kahan Ho,Ttumhain Dhoondta Hoon
Related Pages:
Mother's Day
Poetry on Mother (Punjabi)
Photos of Mothers
Quotes about Mother
Songs about Mother
Poems for Mothers (in English)
Editor's Note: If you have liked this Post, Mother Poetry, please write your brief comment to depict your love for you dear mother at the end of this page under the heading "Leave a Reply here".
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with a surprise. It seems that a substitution was made for one of my choices. Can you guess which fabric above was not in my order but was sent as a replacement? It's pretty, but I won't be using it for this project.
No time to delay, I've already got these new additions pre-washed and once they're finished drying I'll be pressing and cutting and stitching. I'll be as busy as our local beaver seems to have been....
Check out what he's been making. Our mild temperatures and mostly snow-free winter has allowed him to keep up his construction efforts, it appears.
I'm going to follow his example and see if I can get this quilt top re-worked. The seam ripper has already seen some action as you can see below and there's more un-stitching to come. ;o)
I'm looking forward to getting this jumble of blocks into a finished top! So I best stop blathering and get sewing. ;o)


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Today I finished the first tin ceiling. I wanted to get the one in the hallway done first because our carpenter neighbor (Vince) is doing some reno work for us. The 2x10s that I was using for staging were destined to be a carrying beam in the dining room. the span across the dining room is 18 feet and the second floor joists are 2x8s.
I have two more tin ceilings partially done. Both have their coat of metal primer. The ceiling in the lower picture now has two coats of white on about 2/3 of it. The remaining 1/3 has one coat. The third ceiling looks pretty much like the lower picture except there is a ceiling fan in the center of the room.
The good news is that the latex paint goes on much faster than the metal primer. So much faster that two coats of the latex takes less time to apply than the coat of primer does. I'm hoping that by the end of next weekend I'll have primer on a fourth ceiling and the other two ceilings completely done.


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Old Medicine In A New Bottle
Before the president's speech we noted a few hopeful objectives: It must allay the uncertainty that many fear — that a sweeping reform will tug the health insurance rug from under their feet. It must convince us that Obama's reforms can achieve the two conflicting objectives that Democrats have emphasized — to extend health insurance to the uninsured and to reduce health care cost growth. We hoped that it would contain a new initiative or two that could bridge the wide chasm separating supporters and opponents of the president's approach. Unfortunately, despite its soaring rhetoric, it did none of the above.
The key to making effective health care policies is to get the economics right: Unfortunately, several areas of the president's approach get the economics wrong.
Insurance companies are in the health‐insurance business to make a profit. Kill their profitability and the capital they employ will migrate elsewhere, creating exactly the opposite outcome: higher insurance costs and even more uninsured individuals.
But under the mantle of "greater stability" for the already insured, the president rattled off a series of stricter regulatory measures concerning coverage for pre‐existing health conditions, preventive treatments, the use of health ratings, continuation of coverage upon losing or changing jobs, limits on out of pocket expenses and so on.
Sure, insurance companies attempt to improve their risk pools by basing premiums and coverage on health conditions. But this encourages people to live healthier lives for lower premiums, costing the system less. Imposing more stringent regulations will only induce higher premiums and fewer people will be able to afford private coverage, whether individually or through their employers.
For the uninsured, the president offers insurance coverage at competitive prices through new health‐insurance exchanges — including a publicly funded option. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the per‐capita subsidy for this would equal $4,600 in 2014, rising to $6,000 by 2019. Multiply those numbers by the 30 million or so uninsured citizens and we're talking about rather massive increases in annual deficits.
The president claimed that the subsidies and the public plan option offered to the uninsured would be paid for out of premiums, cost savings from eliminating fraud and abuse and new taxes on insurance and drug companies and expensive health plans. New taxes on individuals would not be used. However, the president offered no concrete solution or mechanism to achieve cost savings. Moreover, the public insurance agency's "not‐for‐profit" operation will render private insurance companies uncompetitive — with the (un)intended consequence of driving them out of business rather than increasing competition. Indeed, evidence from expansions of Medicaid coverage shows that take‐up by the uninsured — those whom the expansion targets — is small, but the shift by those already insured from private to public insurance is very large.
Then there's the canard that the young impose costs on others by opting out of health insurance. In fact, the likelihood of requiring health insurance is extremely low for those younger than age 45. Their choice to forgo health insurance reflects a reasonable assumption of risk. If they fall sick, they can access the emergency room at a cost to others. But this cost source is small, contrary to the president's claim. A recent study by Jonathan Gruber of MIT shows that for physicians' services, about two‐thirds of the uninsured pay list prices whereas the insured pay much lower prices. Indeed, even accounting for those uninsured people who don't pay, the uninsured as a whole do not impose net costs on the rest.
If the young were forced to purchase insurance, they would be charged a premium based on the population's average probability of falling sick, and the average cost of treatment (given sickness) for the general population — both of which are much larger than the average likelihood and cost for the young alone. Thus, the premiums that young uninsured people would have to pay would be much larger than those reflecting their actuarially fair costs of coverage. In effect, they would be paying the fair premium plus a hidden tax. Meaning the young would be taxed to pay for care services to the old, the nonsmokers for the smokers, the salad‐eaters for the Big Mac eaters and so on.
The president strongly and correctly criticized the use of the term "death panels." We believe that term to be a misnomer for a necessary mechanism — to make choices about public funding for treatments under specific conditions, rationally considering the health benefits that would result from the costs incurred. But the president trotted out the same mechanism to achieve this goal — a medical advisory panel — that the Congressional Budget Office has declared would be ineffective.
The one item we agree about with the president is that Medicare and Medicaid costs are rising too rapidly. Unchecked soon, they could drive out other public services or cause taxes to rise to economically destructive levels. Without an effective mechanism to reduce health care cost growth — especially in the government's large entitlement programs — we will eventually be forced to adopt what really would be appropriately named "death panels": Limits on public coverage and treatment determined not rationally, but arbitrarily.
It's clear that reining in "auto‐pilot" entitlement expenditures is the key to sustaining balanced future provision of public services and ensuring a robust economy. Unfortunately, the president's speech provides yet another example of politicians adopting soaring rhetoric designed to soothe us into accepting half measures, hidden taxes and un‐needed programs. Rather than cutting existing and overextended budget commitments, the president's approach would dig a deeper fiscal hole.


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I was researching an Anti Obama conspiracy theorist named Andy Martin and I noticed that Citizen Wells placed him prominently in his blog. But as usual you don't seem to get the whole truth from Citizen Wells. Citizen Wells describes Andy Martin in this way:
"Andy Martin, a journalist, writer and investigator, has been in Hawaii
for several days and has filed a request with the Hawaii Supreme Court to access Obama's birth records."
The case Andy Martin filed was THROWN OUT.
Some of the things Citizen Wells fails to tell people about Andy Martin include:
"He is a law school graduate, but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of "moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character."
"The CBS News program "48 Hours" in 1993 devoted an hourlong program, "See You in Court; Civil War, Anthony Martin Clogs Legal System with Frivolous Lawsuits," to what it called his prolific filings. (Mr. Martin has also been known as Anthony Martin-Trigona.) He has filed so many lawsuits that a judge barred him from doing so in any federal court without preliminary approval."
"A motion he filed in a 1983 bankruptcy case called the judge "a crooked, slimy Jew who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race."
"In another motion, filed in 1983, Mr. Martin wrote, "I am able to understand how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less sorry that it did."
"An examination of legal documents and election filings, along with interviews with his acquaintances, revealed Mr. Martin, 62, to be a man with a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years."


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As stated in the first post, the purpose of this blog is to serve as a log or journal of my family history research. Before I describe the first few encouraging steps I have taken on my genealogical quest for knowledge, I feel the need to detail the background information I have gathered informally over time. I guess that should be expected from someone who is interested in researching her family history – how can I tell you about where I am without describing the events that brought me here?
In the 8th grade one of my teachers arranged a potluck in which each student was to bring in a dish from their culture and explain where it came from. When I asked my mom why our Panamanian family eats fried plantains (pronounced plantin' NOT plantanes, thank you), she talked about how everyone in Panama eats plantain. As some sort of afterthought she mentioned that that her grandparents, who were from St. Lucia and Martinique, and my father's grandparents, who were from Barbados and Jamaica, came from countries where plantain was also widely consumed.
This was the first time I had ever heard of most of these places in any context, let alone in my own family tree! St. Lucia? Martinique? Jamaica? Barbados? HUH? Once I digested this new information, it made total sense. So that's why all the Panamanians we knew, like us, did not have Spanish surnames. That's why my friends would assume that my dad was from Jamaica (they thought he talked like a West Indian, mon). That's why, unlike many of my Latino friends, I was able to comfortably communicate with my grandparents in English. That's why we called meat turnovers empanadas one moment, patties the next. That's why the DJs at the Panamanian gatherings I grew up going to would play salsa and merengue, then calypso, soca, and reggae, then some old school soul jams. That's why!
Now all of this is probably a bit more obvious to people who live outside my head, but I had never questioned any of this because that's just the way things were. All I knew was that for me all of these things, including being black, were wrapped up in that one lovely word – Panamanian. Clearly, the story behind all of this is more complicated, nuanced, and layered than any single word could ever capture, which is why it is so important to me to learn more about my great-grandparents, those who came before them, and where they all came from.
The following are a couple of clues that I have been able to pick up over the last few years for both sides of my family:
Paternal (Thomas-Lewis) Family: Remember how my mom told me that my father's grandparents were from Jamaica and Barbados? Well, it turns out she was half right. About a year or two ago, when looking for my own birth certificate, I found that my father had copies of his parents' birth certificates as well. I made copies for myself, knowing they would be useful when I did finally get serious about conducting family research. My grandfather Kenneth's birth certificate confirmed that his parents were from Barbados. But it turns out my grandmother Daisy's parents were also from Barbados. Good to know!
Maternal (Vallee-Columb) Family: Just last month Ann Marie called to tell me about a surprising – and initially confusing – finding. Judy had gotten ahold of Tio Alfonso's birth certificate after his recent passing (may he rest in peace). His parents, who we have always known as Josephine and Simon, were listed as Adele and Francois on the certificate. Who were these people?! Well, after getting over the shock, we reasoned that Josephine and Simon must have been nicknames used by Adele and Francois. Given the history of some our family members being known more by their nicknames than their official names, this is not a crazy conclusion to jump to at all. Tia Claire later confirmed that these were her parents' real names. I presume she never volunteered this information before because she thought of them as everyone else did, as Josephine and Simon.
Both of these findings illustrate how useful birth certificates can be in conducting genealogical research. I was also able to use Kenneth and Daisy's birth certificates to estimate their parents' years of birth since their ages at the time of the birth were captured on the certificates. Moving forward, one of my homework assignments for myself is to continue to gather birth certificates for my grandparents' siblings. The information that is captured on birth certificates likely varies by place and time of issuance, thus some may provide useful data that is absent from others. Taken together all of this information will help me to track down documents related to previous generations.


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DescriptionThe story of Advanced V.G. follows a similar template as those of the previous Variable Geo games: the strongest young women in the country hold a tournament, which is sponsored by various restaurant chains, which in turn ask the competing girls to pose as waitresses working in said restaurants, for promotional purposes. The girls of the Jahana group who starred in the previous games return, with the new main protagonist being the young martial artist Yuka Takeuchi, who has been training in a secluded forest area before joining the competition.
Like its predecessors, Advanced V.G. is a fighting game, with the basic "kick" and "punch" moves, while the various special attacks are executed by pressing combinations of buttons. There are three modes in the game, "Normal", "Vs.", and "Story". The normal mode is basically training matches between the player character and an AI-controlled girl. Vs. mode allows two-player mode, as well as demo "computer vs. computer" gameplay, with the possibility to choose any of the stages. Any of the nine heroines is available as a playable character in these modes (Yuka Takeuchi, Chiho Masuda, Jun Kubota, Manami Kusunoki. Kaori Yanase, Reimi Jahana, Satomi Yajima, Ayako Yūki, and Erina Goldsmith). The story mode, on the other hand, allows the player to control Yuka Takeuchi only, and follow her story. Cut scenes advance the story between matches.
The SNES received a stripped-down version, Super V.G., without the Story Mode and all explicit hentai elements. Hybrids (pair of bosses in Advanced V.G.) were also removed.
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Found this on tumblr and it made me laugh & smile!
"We're so bad at sex and then we wonder why women aren't like, really aggressive about sex. We think it's cause they don't have as much desire as we do. That's how stupid men are, that we think 'they're just weird, women are like fucked up in the head cause they don't wanna just fuck all the time. If I was a women, I'd just fuck everybody. Why don't they wanna fuck all the time? I do'. Of course you do, cause when you fuck, you get to fuck a woman! When she fucks, she has to fuck a guy! Wildly different experiences. For a man, 100% of the time, it's the greatest thing that ever happened in his entire life. For a woman, about 40% of the time, when she's being fucked by a guy, she's thinking 'I'll get over this in a week. It's not the worst thing. I'm not gonna cry this time'
"Another thing that proves how bad men are at sex is that after sex, you're looking at two very different people. The man just wants to lay there, be cool and the woman wants to cuddle…'Why is she so NEEDY?' She's not needy you idiot, she's horny, because you did nothing for her. YOU DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. HER PUSSY IS ON FIRE BECAUSE IT'S GONE UNFUCKED COMPLETELY. Of course you're fine, you climbed on and went "KFHGSKG" and rolled off. And she's on you because she's like 'WH-at SOMETHING ELSE HAS TO HAPPEN, THIS IS BULLSHIT!!" If you fuck a woman well, she will LEAVE YOU ALONE. 'Thanks a lot buddy, zzzzz'"


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EurWORK European Observatory of Working Life
EU-level developments
Complementing its reporting on topics such as employment relations, working time, skills and pay based on reports from correspondents at national level, EurWORK also charts developments at the EU level. This coverage includes quarterly updates on EU-level developments, including actions and decisions by the European Commission, Parliament Council, key committees and the European-level social partners.
European citizens and workers have benefited in recent decades from decisions taken at the EU level in such areas as health and safety at work, social protection and equality of opportunity. Faced with new challenges, European institutions and the social partners now confront policy issues that include fostering opportunities for young people, helping older workers remain in the workforce, ensuring coherence between economic and employment/social policies and the movement of workers between Member States.
By charting the debates taking place and the decisions and agreements made from quarter to quarter at EU level, EurWORK can link developments across topic and countries to their Europe-wide policy context.
Read: Eurofound (2017) - Developments in working life in Europe: EurWORK annual review 2016
Developments in Working Life in Europe is part of a series of annual reviews published by Eurofound and provides an overview of the latest developments in industrial relations and working conditions across the EU and Norway. The annual review collates information based on reports from Eurofound's network of European correspondents throughout 2016, complemented by recent research findings, including data from Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS).
Read: Eurofound (2018) - Involvement of the national social partners in the European Semester 2017: Social dialogue practices
This report looks at the different social dialogue practices across Member States and at the role played by the national authorities in enabling the involvement of employer organisations and trade unions in policy reforms. While some improvements have been reported, the problems and limitations faced, including lack of time allotted for consultation and scant visibility, need to be addressed in order to enhance the effective participation of social partners in the European Semester.
Read: Eurofound (2017) - Involvement of the social partners in the European Semester: 2016 update
This report provides an update on the role of national social partners in the European Semester process over the period 2015–2016, describing the main developments and changes compared with a previous Eurofound study on their involvement during the period 2011–2014. It examines the social partners' involvement in the elaboration of the National Reform Programmes and to what extent they are heard and their views taken into account with regard to social and labour policies. Overall, the involvement of social partners in most Member States is carried out in a relatively smooth way.
Read: Eurofound (2016) - Role of the social partners in the European Semester
This report explores the involvement of peak social partners in the European Semester at EU and national level during the period 2011 to 2014. While their role in the European Semester is not set out in the European economic governance provisions (the so-called 'Six-Pack'), the European institutional bodies view the two sides of industry as being key to the development of the Semester, and have called for their closer involvement. This report assesses the degree to which the social partners are involved in the different stages of the European Semester procedure on matters regarding employment and social policy issues and how their involvement could be enhanced.


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SAS lauds US Supreme Court rulings in landmark patent and intellectual property cases
Court majority agrees that US Patent and Trademark Office must render decisions on any challenged claim
The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of analytics company SAS in a major patent and intellectual property case, SAS Institute v. Iancu. The Court found that the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) must issue complete final decisions in a patent review process known as Inter Partes Review (IPR). In a parallel case, the court also upheld the constitutionality of the IPR process.
The 2011 America Invents Act established IPR, a process for petitioning the PTO to cancel patent claims that should not have been granted, often in lieu of more expensive district court proceedings. Before the court's ruling, the PTO could conduct partial reviews, excluding some challenged patent claims from an IPR while letting others proceed. The court's ruling assures the PTO must issue complete and appealable final decisions rather than partial ones.
"We are very pleased the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the IPR process and further agreed with our assertion that when IPR is used, all claims should be reviewed and have a decision issued," said John Boswell, Chief Legal Counsel for SAS. "The court's rulings are a great win for companies battling frivolous patent litigation."
Earlier in this case, SAS petitioned the PTO, challenging the validity of a patent's claims. The PTO decided that some of the claims were likely invalid and should proceed to trial to determine their validity. Others were not allowed to proceed to a final decision. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals stood behind the decision of the PTO, so SAS was forced to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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In ranking of worst U.S. traffic, Austin is up with N.Y. and L.A.
Austin has captured the world spotlight with its bountiful arts, educational excellence, exciting nightlife and political prestige, but it all comes with a cost: increased congestion.
The 2012-13 INRIX Traffic Scorecard Annual Report ranks Austin as one of Top 10 Worst Cities for Traffic in America, based on an examination of 2012 driving.
The Scorecard ranked Austin the fourth worst traffic city, with motorists wasting 38 hours each year in traffic -- the equivalent of a week of vacation.
Los Angeles came in first, with 59 hours wasted in traffic; Honolulu is second (50 hours wasted); and San Francisco came in third (49 hours wasted).
Rounding out the Top 10 Worst Cities for Traffic are: New York (50 hours wasted); Bridgeport, Conn. (39 hours wasted); San Jose, Ca. (31 hours wasted); Seattle, Wash. (35 hours wasted); Washington, D.C. (41 hours wasted); and Boston, Mass. (31 hours wasted in traffic).
Of the 15 countries analyzed worldwide, the U.S. is only one of three that has experienced increased congestion in 2013, along with Luxembourg and Ireland.
Other 2012-2013 Scorecard findings include:
-Traffic is back on the rise in 2013, at least in the U.S. "When comparing the INRIX Index during the first three months of the year, data shows that traffic congestion in 2013 is already higher than during the same time period in 2012," the report states. "The INRIX Index for January through March 2013 was 6.7 - 4 percent higher than the same period in 2012."
-The 2013 increase follows another decrease in 2012. "The uptick in traffic congestion in 2013 follows a 22 percent decrease in 2012. The 'stop n go' nature of the results indicate an overall economic climate that has not yet returned to pre-recession levels in many areas, including total jobs and unemployment rates," according to the report.
-Not all congestion in created equal: "In 2012, the worst travel corridors in the U.S. can cost drivers 62 hours a year from sitting idle in gridlock, almost twice the national average (38 hours).
-Traffic as an indicator of economic health: "When examined with employment data from 2012 and 2013, the Scorecard shows how observed shifts in traffic congestion serve as a key indicator of economic health.


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Sometimes we must make concessions to modernity
I've been way busy: so not much to report, lots of new blog stuff on the horizon, and some neat new kit to review. In sad news for kit-Tarts everywhere: horror of horrors, due to a strict one-in-one-out policy, I have to chop-in one of my packs in the 80l class to make way for a new arrival. Dreading it.


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I wish I'd thought of it. Not that I can write as well as novelist Paul Doiron, but it sure would have been fun to try.
And I'd have had a leg up, given that the foundation of Paul's fourth and best novel, Massacre Pond published this month by Minotaur Books, is constructed on two issues with which I am very familiar: the wasteful and wanton slaughter of nine moose and two deer in Soldiertown in 2000, and a proposal to create a new national park on the eastern boundary of Baxter State Park.
Five years after the worst wildlife crime in the state's history, Roberta Scruggs published the story in a three-part series on her website. Scruggs was the state's top outdoor news reporter during much of my time at the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine. She wrote for the Maine Sunday Telegram initially, then moved to the Lewiston Sun Journal, before launching her own website.
In the category that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, I urge you to read Roberta's Soldiertown stories. The hero of that story is warden Mike Favreau, who, working on his own without the support of his superiors, identified the culprits, unfortunately too late for prosecution.
The hero of Doiron's novels is warden Mike Bowditch, and he also solves the moose massacre case, but not before a good dose of murder and mayhem, all of which is required these days for a popular novel.
But Doiron's clever linkage of the moose slaughter to the national park proposal really hooked me, seeming not all that farfetched. I swept through the 300-page novel quickly, unable to put it down, eager to see what was going to happen in the next chapter. It is well written and compelling.
Read More (You can read more about Doiron's new novel and Roberta's stories in the outdoor news blog on my website, and gain access to Roberta's stories).


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The Spanish Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) leads the South GRI, whose long-term goal is to integrate France, Portugal and Spain into a single regional gas market.
This region has an annual gas consumption of around 70 bcm/year, covering 17% of the EU's gas market. The South region hosts important LNG entry points, which contribute to the diversification of the EU gas supply.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As more breast cancers are diagnosed at an earlier stage, patients and doctors are faced with a growing challenge: How to effectively treat the cancer without overtreating the patient and causing unnecessary side effects and quality of life problems.
A new $13.6 million program award from the National Cancer Institute awarded to a national team of researchers centered at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center will examine how patients make treatment decisions, how doctors make treatment recommendations and how to improve the process for better outcomes.
"Many women diagnosed with breast cancer have a favorable prognosis, and these women are particularly vulnerable to harm if treatment is too aggressive. We can't optimally improve women's health unless we address the challenges of individualizing cancer treatments," says Steven J. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., principal investigator of the new program grant.
"This program is about helping patients and their doctors avoid doing more harm than good on the journey from treatment to recovery from a diagnosis of breast cancer," says Katz, professor of internal medicine and of health management and policy at the University of Michigan, and co-director of the socio-behavioral program at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The number of women diagnosed with the earliest stages of breast cancer has nearly tripled in the last 20 years. These early diagnoses tend to have good prognoses, with up to 95 percent of women surviving.
But these women face complicated decisions about how aggressively to treat the disease. Answers can vary based on each patient's specific tumor, family history or lifestyle.
"What's important is that treatment decisions are based on an accurate understanding of the options, risks and benefits, and that the choice is consistent with the patient's underlying values," says Sarah Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H., a program lead investigator, associate professor of internal medicine at U-M, and research investigator at the Ann Arbor VA Center of Excellence in Clinical Care Management Research.
As part of the grant, the researchers will survey patients and doctors about the use of MRI in diagnosing and assessing breast cancer, testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, and the use of a 21-gene assay that can help determine the benefit of chemotherapy. In addition, the researchers will develop an online decision tool to help improve the quality of patients' decision-making. The decision aid will be tested in a randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess its effectiveness.
"The findings from this research hold the promise of improving care for women with breast cancer and can serve as a model for the approach to evaluating and improving the individualization of treatment for other cancer and non-cancer conditions," says Jennifer Griggs, M.D., M.P.H, a program lead investigator and professor of internal medicine and of health management and policy at U-M.
The program grant will be led by investigators in the Cancer Surveillance and Outcomes Research Team, a research group from multiple institutions nationwide focused on quality of cancer care and outcomes.
"I regard this program award as a signature accomplishment for the CanSORT investigators and one of the most important that we've funded over the past few years," says Robert T. Croyle, Ph.D., director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute.
Breast cancer statistics: 229,060 Americans will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year and 39,920 will die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society
Additional investigators: Reshma Jagsi, Nancy Janz, Larry An, Timothy Hofer, Yun Li, Angela Fagerlin, Christopher Friese, Ken Resnicow, all from U-M; Ann Hamilton from the University of Southern California; Kevin Ward and Sheryl Gabram-Mendola from Emory University; Monica Morrow, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Terrance Albrecht, from Wayne State University
Reference: National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute, grant #1P01CA163233-01A1
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