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In response to more than 350 complaints lodged by Texas consumers, the Consumer Protection Division of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office sought relief from Judge Bonnie Sudderth of the 352nd District Court of Tarrant County, to enjoin Texas DTPA violations by a dietary supplement distributor regarding the sale of an acai berry supplement called Acai Berry Maxx. The Attorney General sought a permanent injunction against what his office described as ongoing deceptive trade practices and requested up to $250,000 in civil penalties to be assessed against the vendor for each separate violation.
The lawsuit primarily focused on a website advertisement which offered a "free trial" sample of the product, which the Attorney General contended was not, in fact, free. In addition, the Attorney General argued that the advertisement itself was deceptive. In large print, Acai Berry Maxx was advertised as the "#1 Recommended Super Food" which would "reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer and premature aging." Yet, the advertisement also contained language in fine print stating that the product was "not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease."
As a part of the sales pitch, online consumers were given four minutes, during which time they were told they could take advantage of a "no obligation," "free trial offer," but after which time the offer would expire. During those four minutes, customers were required to provide a credit card number and agree to three single-spaced pages of various "terms and conditions" in order to receive the "free trial offer." The consumer's credit cards were immediately billed $5.95 for shipping and handling fees, and by agreeing to the terms and conditions, the consumer enrolled in a "continuity plan" which included monthly shipments of the acai berry product for a total of $85.90 per month. (These monthly purchases would be automatically billed to the consumer's credit card unless the subscription was cancelled within 14 days of the initial order.)
Numerous consumer complaints were filed with the Attorney General's Office and the Better Business Bureau as a result of the advertisements and the offer, including allegations that consumers didn't receive the actual trial sample until after the time had passed to cancel the monthly subscription. Other consumers reported that when they attempted to cancel the subscription, their calls to the telephone numbers provided were not answered and their emails to the web addresses provided were not responded to.
Almost immediately upon the filing of the lawsuit, the parties announced to Judge Sudderth that they had agreed to settle the case. The settlement provided that the distributor would stop selling the acai berry product in the State of Texas and would not sell it at any time in the future. In addition, the vendor also agreed to refund all money requested by former customers and to maintain a customer service website to process and fulfill consumer refund requests for a period of at least six months after the order had been signed.
Judge Sudderth quickly signed an order setting forth the terms of the agreement and permanently enjoining the vendor from making any further false or misleading claims. Specifically, the order required the vendor to cease claiming that the acai berry product would diagnose, cure, mitigate or prevent diseases and to remove from its website purported success stories about celebrities Brad Pitt and Rachel Ray's alleged use of the product. Finally, the distributor was ordered by Judge Sudderth to pay $200,000 to the Texas Attorney General's Office as a civil penalty for the deceptive trade practices.
(The Attorney General agreed not to attempt to collect the fine as long as the vendor complied with all other terms of the order, including the permanent injunction against selling acai berry products in the future.)


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Participation in INI programmes is by invitation only. Anyone wishing to apply to participate in the associated workshop(s) should use the relevant workshop application form.
Organisers: MV Berry (Bristol), CJ Howls (Manchester), MD Kruskal (Rutgers), FWJ Olver (Maryland)
Programme Theme
Although quantities which are exponentially small are important and arise frequently in applications, until recently the mathematical literature about them has been sparse. One reason could be Poincare's definition of an asymptotic expansion, which although introducing rigour, did so in a way which was not sufficiently refined to deal with small exponentials. Now there is an upsurge in interest in the subject and a central new concept, resurgence, has emerged which describes how small exponentials are responsible for the divergences of asymptotic series. Resurgence enables the divergent tails to be decoded (for example by resummation) to yield these exponentials. New mathematical techniques are being developed as well as new areas of application, for example pattern formation in fluids, chaos in classical and quantum mechanics, and even philosophy. The aim of the programme is to foster a common culture, based on the recognition that (as with chaos in the 1970s) the problems being studied are essentially the same despite differences of language and approach.
Structure of the Programme
In addition to the research activities of the participants there will be a series of seminars and workshops to widen the appeal to outside visitors. The following meetings are planned:
Hyperasymptotics Wednesday 22nd February
Topics: Hyperasymptotics for integrals and differential equations, practical implementation of the method.
Deadlines: Talk applications 25th January, abstracts and participation 1st February.
Connection Problems and WKB Analysis 14th-16th March
Topics: Physical applications of exponential asymptotics, WKB/Liouville-Green analysis, connection probems, Stokes multipliers, Painleve equations, singular perturbation theory, exact quantum mechanics, perturbation field theory.
Deadlines: Talk applications 14th February, abstracts and participation 28th February.
Asymptotic Analysis 4th-6th April
Topics: Applications of exponential asymptotics, Stokes phenomena, high order expansions, singular perturbation theory, ODEs (linear and nonlinear), integrals, eigenvalues.
Deadlines: Talk applications 7th March, abstracts and participation 21st March.
Resurgence and Non-Standard Asymptotic Analysis 19th-20th April
Topics: Resurgence theory, non-standard asymptotic analysis.
Deadlines: Talk applications 21st March, abstracts and participation 4th April.
- Spitalfields Day 25 April 1995
- Spectral Theory 11th May
Topics: Semiclassical spectra, eigenvalue asymptotics, chaotic systems.
Deadline: Talk applications 13th April, abstracts and participation 27th April.
Summary Meeting week of 19th June
Topics: To be announced
More detailed lists of speakers at these meetings will be confirmed on separate posters. We invite both current and potential participants to submit papers to the organisers via Dr. Chris Howls at the address given below. In addition to a weekly seminar programme, we hope to advertise further lectures in due course.
Stokes Commemoration Meeting
There will be a Stokes Commemoration Meeting on 9-10th June 1995 in Sligo, Ireland. People wishing to attend this event should contact directly Professor A. Wood, Stokes Conference, School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland, phone +353 1 7045293, fax +353 1 7045786.
The following people have been invited to participate during the weeks shown. Financial support is now quite limited. However enquiries are always welcomed, especially from postdoctoral workers and self-supporting participants.
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Technology gets schooled
New programs, functionality, gadgets change higher ed experience
University students across Illinois are taking advantage of cutting-edge technological advances that are changing the way they learn.
In a Northwestern University medical school classroom, a professor placed a heart for dissection onto a document camera that was able to instantly flash its image onto a screen that could be seen by all the students.
Meanwhile, students taking Chinese at DePaul create online presentations with VoiceThread using flash videos to plan a trip to China.
These are just some of the ways schools are incorporating technology into specific classes. "I think students today expect these things," says Sharon Guan, who teaches Chinese at DePaul and is the director of Faculty Instructional Technology Services.
"They are the Facebook generation. Their lives are already enhanced by technology and we have to keep up with that."
Technology break down
Robert Rotenberg, an anthropology professor at DePaul, has divided technology use in university classrooms into three different categories. The first, course management technology -- such as Blackboard, and Desire2Learn -- allows students to log online into a class to look at a syllabus, find links to supplemental class readings, take a practice exam, check out a grade and turn in an assignment.
The second, he calls technologically mediated instruction, such as online teaching or connecting students for group projects via chat room. The third is reinforcing technology, the use of i-clickers, Facebook and Twitter that help students stay engaged in class, but don't convey information.
"Teaching is really, really difficult," he says. " When I find something that helps the student engage in the material, then I'm going to use it. It is never technology for technology's sake."
Cool gadgets like i-clickers, invented by physics professors at Illinois, have become the norm in large classrooms. Professors can take attendance or gauge what students know. For instance, an Illinois food sciences professor used the i-clicker as an ice breaker by asking what she thought was a no-brainer question. Students pushed a button on the device in response to the multiple choice question and their results were displayed in graph form on a screen. "Most of the students got it wrong," says Al Weiss, an E-learning specialist. "She was able to change her teaching right then and there."
Schools from Northwestern to Columbia College to the University of Illinois at Chicago use "smart classrooms" that feature several screens displaying graphs or video or pictures relating to the day's lecture. Often those classrooms use "lecture capture" programs that stream lectures onto laptops, iPods or even smart phones in real time or allow students to go back to them later.
Plans for the future
Experts say they see a future with e-books, less class time and classrooms with online and in-class students working together.
Plans are in the works for Illinois rhetoric students to use a customized e-book that pulls chapters from various books and materials from different publications to tailor the course to what the instructor wants to teach.
Features like e-books and captured lectures will allow for learning to become even more flexible. "Some say convenience is a bad word," says Robert Baird, acting associate director of Illinois' Academic Technology Services Unit. "But it's not.
Technology not only provides convenience, but value." For example, students are known for staying up late into the night. By allowing them to tap into the previous day's lecture at 1 a.m. when they might be at their best adds value, he says.
Columbia College, perhaps, is at the forefront of finding ways to keep students engaged. Dave Gerding, an associate professor, is conducting research to see just how smart a "smart classroom" can become. Using existing technology from lecture capture programs, to speech recognition software that can even detect emotion in speech, to gaze tracking data gathered with facial recognition technology used by the military, Gerding envisions a classroom at the genius level.
Imagine a classroom outfitted with a super computer that pulls together all of that technology and can let a professor know that the right side of the room seems distracted. Better yet, he says it could be so detailed that the computer can notice a specific person isn't paying attention to a lecture that contains material that was flunked the previous week on an exam. An earbud could allow the computer to remind the student to focus on the material.
After the lecture, that same student could pull up the class information online and see a transcript of the entire class including discussion by the students. Next year, Gerding plans to test out the speech recognition software to include student discussions in lectures that have been captured.
While it may sound a little too invasive and big brotherish, Gerding insists technology is about making the classroom more about learning and less about managing the people in it. "We have a lot of paranoia in our culture about robots and technology," he says. "We need to think about the smart application of this kind of stuff. We're using technology to make everyone better at what they do."
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I've posted before about my interest in Apps for youth work here. Due to the changes happening within the Service I haven't been able to pursue my interest as much as I'd like however it's still brewing there in the back of my mind, especially when we continue to have conversations about social and digital media.
A while back Tim Davies pointed me in the direction of Apps for Good . I've come across them again more recently. Have a look at this interesting app that some young people developed through their school.
I think that projects developing apps could work really well in a youth work setting, especially with those groups of young people who are disengaged from schoool. I also think that it brings a different focus to digital / social media work which can work alongside the (what I feel to be) dominance of social networks and facebook.
Unfortunately as I am not techie so I still need to work out how I can make this happen!!! Any thoughts?


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The Taste of Chicago was fortunate to host three of Memphis' premiere rib restaurants on Thursday. Joining Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Memphis Mayor, Willie Herenton, were Corky's, Neely's and The Rendezvous from Memphis and Robinson's #1 Ribs, Sweet Baby Ray's and the Fireplace Inn.
Judges included Chicago food critics Pat Bruno and Phil Vettel and noted actor/director, Harold Ramis. The judges in a tight vote selected the Chicago entrants as the winners. We look forward to the rematch in Memphis with their judges and thank these fine Memphis restaurants for coming to Chicago and offering their barbecue at the Taste.
Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton thanking Mayor Daley and the participants from Chicago and Memphis.
Charlie Robinson, the High Priest of Chicago Barbecue, with Harold Ramis, known for writing Ghost Busters, directing Ground Hog Day and appearing on SCTV.
Jim Law, the Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Special Events, can take pride in the success and continued growth of the Taste of Chicago as well as well as summer long programming like "Stirring It Up Chicago" and the international success of Millennium Park.
The winning Chicago team featured Robinson's, Fire Place Inn and Sweet Baby Ray.
Commercial Appeal
Editorial 07/04: A pig in a poke
July 4, 2005
Last week, three of the best barbecue joints in Memphis — Corky's, Neely's and The Rendezvous — sent representatives to Chicago to compete against three of that city's local restaurants in a cooking showdown.
According to the judges, Memphis lost. To Chicago. In a barbecue contest.
Has the whole world gone mad?
Not that we're bad sports or anything, but we've got our suspicions about this one. Rumor has it that Memphis was leading in the competition until some judges from Chicago's city cemetery cast their ballots.
OK, maybe that didn't happen, but it's worth noting that all of the judges were indeed from Chicago.
Al Capone couldn't have rigged the jury any better.
Mayor Willie Herenton was on hand to witness this swine-eating charade. Since our mayor has never been the shy and retiring type, we're wondering why he didn't raise a protest.
Seriously, the only fair way to settle this is to invite the Chicagoans down to Memphis in May next year for a rematch. Heck, on our home turf, we're guessing we could even outdo their chefs in making "Chicago style" pizza.
Meanwhile, today being the Fourth of July, many people in and around Memphis will be enjoying our great local barbecue.
Some may be entertaining visitors from Chicago. If so, we encourage those visitors to take a few leftovers home.
We know that, deep down, Chicagoans know our barbecue is better.
Chicago has the better BBQ? Ha, in a pig's eye
With friendly ribbing, Memphis comes up short
By Leslie Kelly
July 1, 2005
CHICAGO — Nobody was going to suggest the contest was rigged, but when the biggest names in Memphis barbecue were bested by their Chicago counterparts in a "friendly" competition Thursday afternoon in the Windy City, there was some good-natured grumbling.
"They definitely had the home team advantage," said Patrick Neely, of Neely's Bar-B-Que. "We never really expected to win. Not with all the judges being from Chicago."
Nick Vergos from The Rendezvous suggested next time around "we'll just have to get them to come to Memphis and kick their butts."
The first Memphis vs. Chicago barbecue contest, billed as a "showdown at high noon," was a featured event at the 25th annual Taste of Chicago, one of the nation's largest food festivals. The idea was cooked up by the mayors of the two cities, pitting Corky's, Neely's and The Rendezvous against Chicago's top spots including Robinson's #1 Ribs, Sweet Baby Ray's and the Fireplace Inn.
"I was in Chicago on business and Mayor (Richard M.) Daley invited me to his office," said Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, at Thursday's competition. "He asked if I had heard of Taste of Chicago and suggested that with all the great traditions our cities share in music and good barbecue, that we might want to come and let the people of this great city enjoy some Memphis barbecue."
The Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Memphis Restaurant Association teamed up to help plan and pay for the trip, which involved transporting thousands of pounds of pork, gallons of sauce and dozens of bags of charcoal and hickory chips in a truck, donated by U.S. Food Service, and driving to Chicago.
The day dawned dramatically when an early morning thunderstorm dumped rain on the city. "Shades of Memphis in May," joked Vergos.
But by 6:45 a.m., when the Memphis pitmasters arrived at the sprawling Grant Park, along the shore of Lake Michigan, the sun was shining.
By 7:30, the crews were busy getting organized and had started lighting the fires, though much of the cooking had been done in advance.
"We're finishing off our product here," said longtime Corky's pitmaster Robert Boyd.
Vergos and his brother John Vergos cooked their ribs for the contest from start to finish on the grills set up behind a large tent.
"Hey, Nick, anything you need, help yourself," said Neely, offering up a container of charcoal shovels, mops and tongs.
Neely couldn't help out on one count. "Somehow, our slaw didn't make it on the truck," said John Vergos. "We're FedEx-ing 100 pounds of it. It should be here this morning."
By 11, the slaw was delivered and the contest ribs were ready. The judges, a pair of Chicago newspaper food critics, a renowned Chicago blues singer and filmmaker Harold Ramis, started gnawing on plates of bones in a blind tasting.
The judges were directed to score the ribs on a scale of 1 to 10, based on sauce, tenderness and overall taste. "I've been eating ribs all my life, whenever I can," said Ramis, who starred in the movie "Ghostbusters" with Bill Murray.
After judges filled their plates on several trips through the lineup of ribs, ballots were turned in and scores tabulated.
Before the results were announced, the mayors made short speeches and mugged for photos.
"I'm always watching the Food Network to see what you're doing down there in Memphis," said Daley.
Herenton thanked his Memphis team and Mayor Daley for his "appreciation of good Southern cuisine."
Shortly after Chicago was named champ, the mayors went back to the judges' tent to taste for themselves. And what did they ask to sample?
"They're asking for Memphis barbecue," said Neely.


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The collections highlighted in this exhibition include:
Adams [Fred] / Feraferia Collection (ARC Mss 27)
Barnes [Grover] Papers (CEMA 115)
Bastin [Bruce] / Interstate Music Collection
California Circus Photographs Collection, 1940s-1950s (PA Mss 67) - Click here too see scanned photographs from the collection.
Capps [Walter H.] Papers (UArch FacP 47)
Dorbin [Sanford] Papers (Mss 21) - Recent donation primarily of poetry journals and other magazines in which Charles Bukowski poems appear
Eagleton [George D.] Stereoview Collection, ca. 1860s-2004 (Mss 255) - Click here to see scanned images of select stereoviews from the collection
Heath [Richard A.] / Early Lockheed History Collection, ca. 1880s-2005 (SBHC Mss 76) - Gift of Norene Sullivan, daughter of R.A. Heath
Hoffberg [Judith] Collection (Printers Mss 62)
Marvin [Frances] Mexico Scrapbook, ca. 1945-1947 (Wyles Mss 158)
O'Brien [Neil] Papers (PA Mss 70) - Minstrel Show Poster from the group Lew Kockstader and His Minstrels, ca. 1909
Schmidt [Oswin] Polar / Arctic Travel Album, 1912 (Bernath Mss 311)
Romaine [Lawrence B.] Trade Catalog Collection (Mss 107) - New acquisitions purchased with George and May Sheirs Endowment funds
Sheinbaum [Stanley K.] Papers. Pentagon Series. (Mss 217)
New acquisitions to the cylinder collection.
Highlights from the Oral History Collection, including the oral histories of George Leonard, Leo Limon, and Lou Cannon.
Rare books donated by Sarah Miller McCune, featuring six volumes of natural history with illustrations, including the illustration featured on our exhibit poster.
Artist books purchased with Skofield Endowment funds.


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Bondi Cigars
Bad Weather Blues2007
It's been a long time since a fully blown blues album by an Aussie band has made the national charts. This seems sure to change with the release of Bad Weather Blues by the Bondi Cigars. Out now on Larrikin, the Cigars have unleashed a scorching set of blues and rock numbers that more than match the white blues bands coming out of the USA on such famous labels as Alligator, Rounder and Black Top.
Most of the album tracks are Pacey/Karski compositions, rather than tired old covers that most blues acts seem to rely on. Les Karski's guitar work confirms his status as one of this country's very best - smoky on the slow numbers and full of fire on the rockers. The opening track Booze Blues, a driving rocker, sets the tone for the album; but the Cigars also show they're adept at bluesy ballads with track three, Lies and Tenderness. BLACK'S BEAT, THE DAILY PLAN-IT (Dan Black)
1 Booze Blues
2 You're a Mystery
3 Lies and Tenderness
4 Path Is Clear
5 Medley (Old Grey Mare/killing Floor)
6 Bad Weather Blues
7 You Get That
8 Calling Card
9 Let Me Rubber Glove You
10 The Pain
11 Problem
12 All I Want Is Everything
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I have a problem with chilly notes in perfume, I can't tell you why, it is, like it is. For me a perfume is something very sensual and even a well-done Cologne can be sensual, in a way. I am a woman and I want to feel like a woman. Maybe for a man, but my boyfriend didn't seem to be very impressed of L'Eau Froide although he is mad about incense scents.
L'Eau Froide gives me the same effect I've already had with Craft by Andrea Maack, M/Mink by Byredo and the whole Blood Concept line. Chilly metallic notes make me feel sick.
To give you a short impression of what's inside the bottle nevertheless: L'Eau Froide is a variation on a theme. While L'Eau was a burst of Ambroxan and smelled very clean and synthetic, L'Eau Froide is L'Eau plus incense and an aquatic accord. Crisp with a mint note and yes, maybe comparable to smoking a menthol cigarette outside in the snow. It's chilly, but for me it isn't inherently consistent. The mixture of incense with aquatic notes is really strange.
I am not a cold-blooded creature, that's for sure. And I prefer the warm, woody, spicy or sunny incense scents like Ouarzazate by Comme des Garçons or Louanges Profanes by Parfumerie Générale.
L'Eau Froide will be on sale world-wide in March. At the Palais Royal in Paris it is already available.
Please tell me if you disagree! How do you like chilly scents? And on which occasion do you wear them?
Category: unisex
Perfumer: Christopher Sheldrake
Year: 2011
Notes: lavender, aquatic accord, musk, vetiver, mint, Somalian incense
Photo: Nirrimi Hakanson


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This may seem like a strange topic to post so close to the holidays, but it deals with some information that I have just recently found. It was on my mind, so I decided to post it now rather than later.
For the most part my ancestors and their relatives led very normal, ordinary lives. Most of them were law-abiding, upstanding citizens. Not to say they were perfect. Naturally, there were some scandalous behaviors and skeletons in the closets. There were children who were born (or at least conceived) out-of-wedlock. There was also the 2x great uncle who died of exposure when he fell down drunk coming home late one cold winter night and was not found until morning! Tragic, but not criminal.
Every once and a while, however, I actually do come across someone in my extended family tree who finds themselves on the wrong side of the law. My latest discovery happened just a few days ago. I was looking through an online newspaper collection for obituaries from the late 1940's when a headline about a murder arrest caught my eye. I was pretty sure the person being arrested was in my database, and sure enough he was. He was my Dad's second cousin! Continue reading


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Order of presentation for 2014 NHL AwardsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
LAS VEGAS -- The National Hockey League announced today the order of the presentation for tonight's 2014 NHL Awards. Hosted by renowned television and radio broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos, the 2014 NHL Awards will broadcast live from the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas at 7:00 p.m. ET on NBCSN in the U.S. and on CBC in Canada.
The scheduled order of award presentations is as follows (subject to change):
Ted Lindsay Award (most outstanding player as voted by the players)
Presenters: Ted Lindsay and Eric Stonestreet
Selke Trophy (forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game)
Presenters: Michael Peca and David Walton
Masterton Trophy (perseverance and dedication to hockey)
Presenters: Rich Peverley and George Stroumboulopoulos
Calder Trophy (top rookie)
Presenters: Retta and Luc Robitaille
Art Ross Trophy (scoring champion)
Presenter: George Stroumboulopoulos
Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy (goal-scoring leader)
Presenter: George Stroumboulopoulos
King Clancy Memorial Trophy (for leadership on and off the ice and noteworthy humanitarian contribution to community)
Presenters: Adam Graves and Cuba Gooding Jr.
NHL Foundation Player Award (community service)
Presenters: Adam Graves and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award presented by Bridgestone
Presenters: Cuba Gooding Jr., Mark Messier and George Stroumboulopoulos
EA NHL 15 Cover Vote Winner
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Editor's Note: The following text is from GlobalPost, which provides excellent coverage of world news – important, moving and just odd.
By Jocelyn Edwards, GlobalPost
Kony 2012 may have received more than 73 million hits on YouTube since its release on the internet on March 5. But in Uganda it is a flop. Top Ugandan officials denounce the video — created to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army operating in central Africa — as false. Kony's LRA, they say, has not operated in Uganda for years.
Other Ugandans slam the video as the work of privileged young foreigners. Critics around the world have been vociferous, too. But most Ugandans have not even seen the Kony 2012 video, produced by the American NGO Invisible Children, because the internet is not widely accessible.
Among those who haven't seen it, but are still outspokenly critical is Pius Bigirimana, who is in charge of the reconstruction of northern Uganda from the devastation of the LRA.
"Anybody portraying Uganda to still have insecurity is a sadist. That person is a liar and is peddling falsehoods," said Bigirimana.
More from GlobalPost: Out of nowhere, Kony 2012 goes viral
In Uganda, Kony "is of no consequence. He is a peripheral issue," said Bigirimana, the permanent secretary in the prime minister's office. "It's some of these people from outside who get excited over these things."
Many have criticized the campaign for misrepresenting the situation in Uganda, implying that conflict with the LRA is still being fought.
President Yoweri Museveni's government urged "that any awareness campaign fully takes into consideration the current realities of the situation."
"Misinterpretations of media content may lead some people to believe that the LRA is currently active in Uganda. It must be clarified that at present the LRA is not active in any part of Uganda," said the government statement.
The Lord's Resistance Army was expelled from Uganda six years ago and has been reduced to a force of about 300 fighters now operating in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and the Central African Republic (CAR), the government statement said.
The LRA is currently being pursued by the Ugandan army with the support of 100 US military advisors deployed late last year. US President Barack Obama sent the team last year to help hunt Kony and the LRA to achieve stability in the volatile region. Commitment by Ugandan and Congo militaries is crucial to stopping Kony's mobile militias, according to the International Crisis Group.
Betty Ocan, a member of parliament for the town of Gulu, where Invisible Children bases its operations in Uganda, said she had only seen a short clip of the film on international television news.
The LRA is no longer high on her constituents' agenda, she said.
"For the people of northern Uganda, it's not so much a priority," Ocan said. "Most of the time, the people will say, 'The most pressing thing for us right now is that we want our children to go to school.'"
More from GlobalPost: 4 things you can do to stop Joseph Kony
Ugandans displaced by the war against Kony's LRA are also worried about resettlement and getting compensation from the government for property lost, Ocan said.
For the people of northern Uganda who suffered because of the LRA's violence, the film is a historical document, according to Ocan.
"The people of northern Uganda know that this was just a documentary which was taken during the bad times," said the member of parliament. "Some people say that it reminds them of the past, so they do not like it so much."
"If (Westerners) watch it, they should think about the impact (of the war). They are watching something that is past. Kony has not made it back to Uganda since 2006."
Despite the fact that Kony is no longer a factor in Uganda, Ocan added that the people of northern Uganda remain concerned for the welfare of populations where the militia is still active.
"We feel bad if the people of (other countries) are suffering because of Kony. We don't want people to suffer."
The film, which features extensive footage of Invisible Children's founder and other — mostly white — activists campaigning against the LRA in the United States, has also been criticized as neo-colonialist.
More from GlobalPost: Designers of Kony 2012 campaign respond to criticism
"If a film comes along and successfully empowers foreigners, many of them young people, to claim the right to do as they please in Africa — whether it is worthy or not — I can see why (Africans) would take offense," said Angelo Izama, an award-winning journalist and Ugandan political analyst.
"It's an unvarnished reminder that outsiders still have more power to change things if they choose," Izama said.
Invisible Children has posted a statement in reply to critics on its website. In response to the charge that the film suggests the war is still ongoing in Uganda the group emphasizes its work in countries where the LRA is currently active.
"Since the LRA left Uganda in 2006, Invisible Children has been publicly denouncing their atrocities in DR Congo, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic (CAR), while continuing to work with now-peaceful communities in post-conflict northern Uganda," reads the statement.
"KONY 2012 portrays, in no uncertain terms, the image of a madman who manipulates children spiritually for his own tactical gains," the group's website states. "In a 30-minute film, however, many nuances of the 26-year conflict are admittedly lost or overlooked."
Point to me where Uganda on the map of Africa to those so informed and know it all.
I can point to it on a map, thank you very much. I couldn't before this campaign, but I can now. That's one of the reasons I like Invisible Children, they are inspiring people, including myself, to become aware and informed of important world issues. I never used to frequent CNN.com, but I do now because I've realised it's actually very interesting to know about what's going on in the world. I used to think politics were boring.
I am so glad about your desire to read up more Jess! That is excellent. The thing is for so many of us who have been aware of this issue from the beginning are disgusted an organization would use old footage to try to get people to join a campaign that was resolved in 2006. They even used false numbers regarding the size of the LRA which is truly 300 scattered ex child soldiers. The countries mentioned are now in the stage of recovering and attention and money needs to be given to organizations directly working with these people. BBC is also a great world news resource.
why kony is still alive why why why
The purpose behind the video may be genuine,but the facts of what they want to portray are out of sync with the reality on ground. Thus, i would advise anybody else who wants to make videos that wish to highlight social issues should make sure that what they say is what is happening in prime time!!
kony2012 is misleading govt backed and sponsored lies, kony hasn't been in uganda for years and recently they found massive oil reserves in uganda rivaling those of saudi arabia. govt knows they cant use no more bs excuses to occupy and invade other countries so they have turned into manipulation and mind washing of dumbed down american public which does not use reason but emotions to make decisions.
It's just an internet meme and a troll tactic now, no one cares
That would be incorrect, a lot of people care. and that's a good thing. I'd rather people care about something like this, than care about how big Kim Kardashian's butt looks in that dress.
I don't know on what evidence some of you base your claim that this is a scan or a money-making endeavor: The organization's budget is available for examination online, and less than 16% of its revenue goes to salaries and that sort of thing. In other words, 84% goes toward the organization's programs, and the largest chunk of that 84% goes toward programs in Central Africa.
People are just looking for reasons to be pessimistic. nothing more.
Or we could be people who worked for years on the issue trying to shed some truth to IC's campaign.
It was an internet fad to start with and that's all anyone should treat it as. At least the Ugandans know what it really is.
Bravo!!! Make KONY famous! Keep talking, even if you hate the idea, thats exactly what the video wants. Wether you want to become part of the movement or not, you are. It starts with a video, creates a controversy, and brings KONY to the forefront. Basically KONY needs to be stopped and made to pay for his crimes against humanity! It's just like a nagging bill collector, eventually you have to go bankrupt or pay it. It doesn't disappear, and neither will this issue! The more we talk about him, the higher the likelyhood that the governments of this world will catch him, or kill him, just to shut us up! So keep talking! Not only is it entertaining, but also productive! Peace!
The talk is good because people will hopefully learn to research organizations, read the news, and know what is happening in our world so when false campaigns like this rise again, people will not be misled.
Too bad AMERICOM' propaganda wasn't bought by the masses, looks like people are not as dumb as govts think. Good for you Africans, protect that oil for as long as you can. (amongst other resources)
i think that cnn should give daily or weekly updates on whats happening with kony.most people dont know him but ounce we make him famous he will be known by the middle of the year and be arrested before 2013.what he starts to move to where we live and takes kids?well thankyou.
On April 20, I am going to get naked, jacked up on drugs and masterbate in public like the creator of PHONEY 2012. Can you give me money?
I'm sick of how people are so ignorant that they latch on to some MEDIA "Issue of the week" and act like they are doing something by sharing it on Facebook, then posting comments like they are awesome "couch" activists. Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday in Africa. Get off of your butts and do something about THAT!
Go ahead and post this video, keep people aware, but for God's sake, don't give this SCAM charity a DIME (unless you want to buy a tee shirt to show what an awesome GIVER you are) – it's funding their party lifestyles, you idiots. Give the money to charities that actually DO SOMETHING!!!!
Anybody who posts an OPINION on how important this thing is needs to be strapped down and forced to watch a video of an Ethiopian child dying of hunger. Of course, if it doesn't fit the "look at how involved I am" tee shirt to prove how awesome I am club, you probably will forget about it the moment you are let up.
Bunch of posers and phonies you faketivists are.
With the money that bankers and and politicians have been making or stealing however you want to look at it, could have fed and educated every man, woman and child. There is no reason for anyone to be living in poverty. It is orchestrated that way, Poor to middle class is govt enemy #1. It's called Eugenics and you are all expendable in the eyes of your govts, and monarchs. That is why they test on you, because you allow it, and because PUBLIC LAW allows them too. LOL What a world we live in.
the afgani investigation and the international lab proved now that 15 usa soldiers was involved of killing more than 16 children and women, and that 15 soldiers ra pe 2 afgani ladies young ladies ra pe them repeatdley and then shot them dead and burned there bodies , exactley as it happened in iraq when usa soldiers ra ped 14 years old girl then shot her and shot her parents and brothers and burned there bodies ...usa did that in vitnam ,korea and many other places they are murderous thugs ra piest killers and OBAMA say soyy all the time!!?/while leaving evil iranians and evil syrian bashar al asad killing more civilians obama is a cowered president if obama want to fix this problem he must attack syria now and remove bashar al asad to show to the muslim world that he mean it, remove the evil in syria now and prove your point OBAMA.......why you are silent...SILENCE IS A CRIME.
America! Africa wants investment , a level economic playing field, and respect, more than aid and charity these days. They are increasingly tired of negative headlines that has to do with them. In Africa America is still well admired, but our focus on their failures and lack there of when there is success is pushing them into the friendship with Asia instead of America. We will lose an entire region of allies if they feel it will forever cost them their image to be our friend. I bet know body knows there is a middle income country with relative success just to the north of South Africa. By the way South Africa isn't too bad either.
Just watch, those Kony wristbands will end up being the mark of the devil. Thank god I didn't fall for this ponzi scheme.
I understand all of your frustration. But what good is it to sit around complain about the video? Have you guys done anything to help Uganda or stop Kony from spreading more evil? I think the video is a good start to helping spread awareness on the issue. I don't think the video would have been made if Kony was no longer a problem or threat to Uganda. There are some questionable things about the money that has gone into it.. but money is also needed in order to advertise for something. Try and see the good in the organization and the video it put out.
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Hey Bob, I'm tired of seeing that moose when I go to your home page
Ok, I've moved it down. Enjoy this picture until the urge to blog returns.
Hey Bob, I'm tired of seeing that moose when I go to your home page
Ok, I've moved it down. Enjoy this picture until the urge to blog returns.
Yup. I'll be joining forces with my old friend Mark as we co-keynote at Northern Voice 2013!
(Isn't that the cutest social-media-conference-canadian-animal-mascot ever?)
I've been wanting to go to Northern Voice ever since I heard of it. People who've attended both tell me the NV and PAB vibes are very similar, and knowing some of the organizers behind NV, I can't see not enjoying this event. With this year being the first PAB-less year since 2006, I jumped at a chance to go, it'd been far too long since I'd been to Vancouver!
Mark and I will co-present about some key learning around 7 years of PAB in a session called "Social-nuclear dynamics and creativity". I won't give more infomation about it here (yet), but strongly suggest you check out the Northern Voice site for more information, and even better, to register!!
I can't wait for this great event, and for a chance for the Mark & Bob team to fly once again — See you in Vancouver!
One of the things I always disliked about (audio) podcasting was having to link each episode to a blog post. I understood that podcasting grew out of blogging to a certain extent, but it bugged me to have to create blog posts, and make show notes or whatever.
Video, somehow escaped this with sites like youtube. You just put the video there with the title "Man gets football in groin" , no need to walk through the different aspects of the video in the description. Meanwhile, back in audio-land, the "gurus" were telling us we had to have detailed show notes, so search engines would pick up on these, and spread the word etc …etc… blah..blah.
What a pain in the ass show notes are. I'll blog if want to, but I'd prefer to create audio and be done with it. So for my new podcasting adventure, I've gone back to how I did it in 2004, using a php script called dircaster which is still being maintained after all these years. It makes life so simple:
RSS creation is automatic, there's even a quick and dirty webpage example in there. That's all you (I) really need.
I'm not completely insensitive to those who want to read a blog, so I've added additional automation with IFTTT, and it takes whatever the hell shows up in the RSS and creates a post on the podcast blog. Commenting space if it's ever needed 🙂 … If this holds up everything will happen with a simple file transfer.
So I record and upload with Bossjock Studio on my iThing, and that's it. Blogging not required. This is what I always wanted. Let's see how this goes..
The show blog is here : bobstuph.blogspot.ca
A cool thing happened recently, I was asked to join the cast of "Best Episode Ever" for this season.
Other than a way for me to get back into podcasting, its also been a crap-load of fun to hang with Anthony Marco and Dave Brodbeck; 2 of the "good peeps" I've met in my podcasting life.
I'm having tons of fun recording it, hopefully you'll have tons of fun listening and commenting on it.. Here's the about page to show it's real…
It's a whack o' fun, and it's got me back into podcasting… What's next. Catfish show, or Bob and AJ?
Hmmm. For now, listen to Best Episode Ever. and enjoy the fun I'm having
The PAB2012 family picture
It's done. PAB2012 was this past June, and it was the final instalment in the adventure that began 7 years ago.
It's a rare privilege to be able to decide when a long term project ends. There are plenty of examples of projects that were cut short by external forces, or even worse, allowed to run too long. Although part of me is sad the event is over, there's a strong sense that this was the right time to end PAB, and I'm left with a great sense of satisfaction at what we accomplished from 2006-2012.
I find it interesting now to step back and look at PAB as a body of work, as opposed to a string of individual events. There's a whole lot I'm proud of about what we did with PAB, and thankfully, there's nothing I regret, though there are things from which I learned.
One of the things I'm most proud about PAB is the content evolution it took. Podcasting is what brought the group together initially, but it stopped being about podcasting once the how-to information became easily accessible. We could have gone the easy route, and become an event about social media and online interaction. Somehow, while we couldn't put our finger on it, we knew that this wasn't the place to go with this group of people. Good stories and being human is what created the connections, and we did our best to grow from that.
Of course when the core aims of a project don't include 'make money', it allows us to be bigger risk takers, and choose speakers/directions that weren't all based on google-juice. I won't name any here, for fear of leaving someone out. Suffice to say almost everyone who ever presented at PAB enriched me as a person.
PAB wouldn't have happened at all without Mark Blevis, I've told the story many times, and will again for a beer 🙂 , Mark took an idea for a camping meetup, added the conference framework around it, and helped make it reality. Neither of us had ever organized a conference before, and somehow, we did rather well if I do say so myself. Through the ups and downs of this project, we were fortunate to have the other up when one of us was down. We were an incredible team, and I hope we get to do it somewhere again. It's a good thing we used our powers for good. 🙂
The biggest lesson Mark taught me is that you need to give people a chance to say 'No'. If you want to ask someone for something, don't assume that 'no' will be their answer and not ask them. Make sure you give them the opportunity (in some cases, multiple opportunities, hehe) to say no. You just might be surprised, and get a "Yes" instead.
I purposefully didn't blog pre-PAB this year, I didn't want to build hype or anything, I wanted PAB to be PAB. If someone didn't get it by now, they never would, and that's ok.
In seven years, PAB could have evolved to become a lot of different things. Now, as I look back, I realize that PAB was, exactly, what it was meant to be.
If you've been online for any amount of time, chances are you have some dead online projects. It could be an old blog, podcast, the website of your wedding x-years ago, whatever.
You may have used a tool like WordPress or Joomla to create the site initially, nice themes, easy content creation, up and running SUPER quick – canoefuls of awesomeness, until the project is over.
When it's over, you now have a site to maintain or take offline. Yup, hackers and evil-doers find new ways to break into things all the time, and the software creators are usually a step or two behind them. So you need to keep these sites updated to keep them from being hacked.
Like a lot of us, I use a shared hosting package, where a lot of my sites are hosted on the same account. So this past weekend, when an old blog (or maybe an old plugin on a newer blog) fell victim to a hack, it was successful infecting pretty much all the sites I had hosted there.
Crap. Not a fun way to spend time, this delayed my finding the answer to life, the universe and everything. (I know it's 42, but I wanted to do the math myself).
I won't bore you with the technical details, but let's just say I'm happy this was on a unix box, grep and sed continue to be good friends of mine.
I'm at the point now where the "active" projects are back online, and I need to do something about the dead projects. I'm looking at tools that convert WordPress sites into static html, and get all the database and php out of the way. A static site, while not easily updatable, is a great way to treat your dead, but not quite offline, projects. I'd like to keep the Bob and AJ site up a while longer, but not invest the time maintaining it.
So there's your warning, even if your project is dead, keep the software and plugins updated, or look into converting to static to save yourself some headaches.
Photo credit : George Erwss
I've always looked at my iPad as more of a media consumption device than a creation tool. Sure in a pinch I'll hammer out something in GarageBand or Ideas, but my creative pursuits still happen away from the iPad.
So, really, it's used as an ereader/email/reddit client, with its most frequent use I didn't expect – radio.
It seems like every media outlet wants you to install their app (to see their ads, I guess).. Having an app for each stream is idiotic to me, it's like having to use a new browser for every site..
I like having one app to listen to all the streams :
Tunein seems to do the job really well. Plays all the streams, and even lets you record which is handy for those time in the airplanes when you're just not feeling it for "Air Canada presents Anne Murray" …
When I'm working, it's streaming pretty much all day.. To the point where I don't fire up iTunes much anymore..
Current favourite streams of mine include:
Classic Hits Auckland 94.7 (ok, I like the accents)
Lots of the 181.fm streams
CBC streams
a few GotRadio Streams
You listening to any good streams lately?
I know! I was surprised too!
I was reading a comment thread about the new iBooks that (obviously) degenerated into the usual Pro/Anti Apple slop between haters and fanboys..
I left the discussion before they mentioned Hitler, but did catch a link to an (open) interesting project I hadn't seen before….
openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e is a Linux distribution assembled for education. Check out the software list (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e#Educational) – seems very interesting.
Nice to know that while some people react only to what Cupertino wants them to react to, others are creating tools that can help further knowledge – for free.
Downloading it now, looking forward to this
Somewhere, as social networking expanded online, the masses lost the ability to dislike stuff.
I know, it's because existing online is a wonderful kumbaya everyone loves everything everywhere kind of place, right?!
It isn't.
I can think of countless examples of sites, opinions, people I dislike. I'm sure you can think of quite a few as well. There needs to be a way to dislike something without having to join Anonymous.
Some sites seem to come close – If you look at reddit for example, you can vote an item up (or like it), and you can vote items down. It's one of the reasons reddit seems to work well, there's a community filter in effect, and to be honest, it's usually quite good. The thing about this approach though, is that the more down votes an item has, the less chance it has to be seen. I think this opens up the possibility of down voting masses attacking a particular idea, so it won't get seen.
There are times when people should be allowed to show they disagree with something, without that affecting how many people see that item. Just because I happen to dislike something, I shouldn't affect other people's exposure to it.
facebook and Google+ don't want to see the other side of the coin. They only let you "like" or "+1" something. The least reaction is no positives, that's not how life works.
I think Google could leap ahead of facebook by introducing this:
It wouldn't affect where an item shows up in the stream, or even generate extra SEO to it. Don't make it too attractive to try to get -1's, just allow people to show that they dislike or don't approve.
While we're adding buttons, maybe even add a "0", to say "I've read this, and it leaves me indifferent." Seems like it'd be easy to do… and would generate valuable information.
You can learn a lot about a person by paying attention to what they like, you can learn even MORE by paying attention to what they don't like.
What do you think?
What a year. Went by in a blink didn't it? I do hope it was good for you.
I have no personal complaints about 2011, other than it did seem to go by faster than 2010 (which in turn went by faster than 2009, and so on…). I have a great life, loving family, and we're all healthy and happy enough to meet 2012 head on. I'm not sure what else I could ask for, anything else would seem petty or selfish.
Work wise, it was another successful year for me. I was involved in some great projects with smart people and was able to recognize and also be recognized for great work. I look forward to the new projects 2012 will bring.
It was a year of changing friendships. New bonds were created, older ones strained, and a few lost completely to death at an unreasonably young age. For the new year, I hope to build on the new bonds, repair the strained ones, and never forget the ones I've lost.
There's a "3 word meme" going around again this year. I believe one is supposed to pick three words that will define 2012 for you, blog about it, and then somehow account for meeting or not meeting those goals later on. I first noticed it last year, and brushed it off as more social media crap. I'll participate this time though and share my three words with you. I'm not the first to use them, but 2011 was a good reminder of my priorities. I hope I can stay true to my goals for 2012:
Live, Love, Laugh.
I won't post an update as to how I did, if you know me, you'll know. If you don't know me, it doesn't matter, does it?
I wish these three things to you for 2012, don't lose sight of the important stuff.
see you in 2012!


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Didio gets win No. 100 as Oneida tops Camden
CAMDEN -- Trailing by a point after a see-saw first half that saw three ties and 10 lead changes, visiting Oneida turned up the pressure and dominated the second half rolling to a 71-47 victory over Camden's boys basketball team Friday night.
The win was the 100th for Oneida coach Jeff Didio. He is now 100-100 in his 10th season.
"It's all about the players. I've had a lot of good players over the years," said Didio. "I've had a lot of support from their parents and families also."
The Blue Devils kept the game close in the first half behind their standout guard Ryan McCarthy. Camden led most of the opening period until a Lucas Durant 3-pointer gave Oneida its first lead of the game, 13-12, at the 1:20 mark of the first. Oneida held the lead the rest of the quarter.
The teams traded baskets in the second period with the biggest lead a 21-16 Oneida advantage early before McCarthy and Marc Snow led Camden on an 8-1 run to take a 24-22 lead. Matt Carinci quickly hit a three to regain the lead for Oneida. Carinci paced Oneida in the first half, scoring 12 of his 15 points.
Ryan Jones hit one of two foul shots with 10 seconds left in the second period to give Camden a 29-28 lead going into the locker room.
Whatever adjustments Didio made at halftime worked perfectly as the visitors came out on fire in the third quarter. Oneida used a 13-3 run to open play with Lucas Durant scoring eight points during the run. Durant was the catalyst in the visitors' big second half, scoring 19 of his game-high 25 after intermission.
"We knew we had to pick up the intensity in the second half," Durant said. "Coach also told the seniors it was our last game here and not to let up."
Oneida outscored the hosts 24-7 in the third to take a 52-36 lead and Camden never got closer than 12 points the rest of the way.
Oneida hit 11 3-pointers in the game with Durant getting six of them and Carinci adding four.
Didio's son Brendan played a role in the milestone win.
"We knew he was going for it, but no one talked about it beforehand," BRendan Didio said. "We were pretty superstitious about it."
"Brendan played a great floor game tonight, getting the ball to Durant, Carinci and Peck for open looks, especially in our big second half," said the coach who also hadmore than 100 wins as Oneida's girls coach many years ago.
Durant led all scorers with 25 points while Carinci and Kyle Peck each had 15. Ryan McCarthy led the Blue Devils with 21 and sophomore forward Ryan Jones had a big night with 14 points and 10 rebounds, including six off the offensive glass. The Blue Devils outrebounded Oneida 37-31, including 20 on offense. Marc Snow also finished with a double double for Camden with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Oneida 15 13 24 19 - 71
Camden14 15 7 11 - 47
Oneida (7-5): Kyle Peck 15, Brendan Didio 2, Canyon Hicks 2, Lucas Durant 25, Matt Carinci 15, Mitch Cavanagh 2, Drew Mallinder 2, Bryan Inman 2, Tyler Kuhn 4, Matt Hood 2.
Camden (5-7): Ryan McCarthy 21, Marc Snow 10, Jimmy Henry 2, Ryan Jones 14.


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Talk about a major oops! A Stonington, Conn., first selectman is being blamed for free pornography that was available on the town's Web site.
In an effort to meet and talk with residents, town leader Ed Haberek turns to social networking sites, including Tagged, and that's what caused the problem, according to the Day of New London.
Like the more popular Facebook, Tagged allows others to post links to their pages by becoming someone's "friend."
U.S. & World
Haberek's "friend," Bonita L., who describes herself as a 26-year-old bisexual from Beech Grove, Ky., had some raunchy stuff on her page, including graphic images and video of couples having sex, the Day reports. Since she and Haberek were Tagged friends, her posts were connected to him.
"I couldn't believe this was on the Town of Stonington's Web site that kids have access to. I was absolutely shocked," Selectman William Brown told the Day.
Brown also told the paper a local woman whose daughter saw the images called him about it on Sunday. Brown wants Haberek to be held accountable for allowing the images to be accessed on the town Web site.
Haberek apologized for the faux pas and said his intention was not to offend anyone. He also added that he was not aware of the images and he did not know Bonita. He said the town removed its Tagged account from the town Web site Sunday night.


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I am researching the surname BRENGETTSY. I researched the origin but came up with nothing. I also looked on ancestry.com and I found that the first Brengettsy (Frank), recorded on the census was born in Switzerland. Below are some of my findings and support from others.
? It may be of British or Italian origin. British based on sy or cy ending.The Italian has some etymologic support -- there are names with a similar based BRENGHETTO, BRENGETTO, and BRENGHEZZI which sounds very much like the ts and could be an original version of the name, as many immigrants anglicized their names.
? On the 1860 Census the birth of Joseph BRINGETSY was 1823 from Switzerland.
? On the 1870 Census the birth of a Joseph WINGETSEY was 1831 from South Carolina.
? On the 1880 Census the Birth of Joseph BRINGETRY was 1830 from German.
? It could be a Prussian name
? It?s possible the spelling of the name was change. Family members I?ve met so far spell their names BRENGETTSY, BRENGETTSEY, BRENGETTCY, and BRENGETCY
With my findings I am more accepted to the fact that BRENGETTSY is a German (Old Prussian) name more so than an Italian name. Any other possibilities I am very much opened to review. Thank you in advance for your input.
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You may want to reconsider your morning bowl of cereal — and baby's too.
A new test by Consumer Reports found that rice products, including organic rice baby cereal, rice breakfast cereals, brown rice, white rice, contain arsenic and could cause some health issues. Following a January test that checked for arsenic in juices, Consumer Reports tested more than 200 samples of rice products for the same element. The company found significant levels of inorganic arsenic and organic arsenic, two substances believed to be cancer causing. Consumer Reports also found that some infant rice cereals, which are often a baby's first solid food, had levels of inorganic arsenic at least five times greater than the levels they found in some alternatives such as oatmeal.
The research, however, did not stop with the products. Consumer Reports also analyzed health data of rice and non-rice consumers. It found that those who consumed rice had arsenic levels that averaged 44 percent higher than those who don't.
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Coast Guard rescues 5 from boat off San Diego
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Five people were rescued from a pleasure boat that took on water and lost power about 17 miles off the coast of San Diego.
The Coast Guard says the 30-foot vessel, the PMS Escape II, sent out a distress call Saturday evening.
The Coast Guard station in San Diego dispatched a helicopter, a cutter, and 45-foot response boat.
Another private boat, the Jawbreaker, had also heard the call and was assisting when the Coast Guard arrived.
Four adults and a 15-year-old boy were rescued. No injuries were reported.
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Iron mine could help rail service push in Northwoods
Submitted: 11/22/2013
- A group representing more than a dozen northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan counties would love to see increased rail service in their areas.The Northwoods Rail Transit Commission believes an iron ore mine in the Penokee Hills would dramatically help their efforts.The Commission formed last year to push for better freight rail service in the North.Service by rail companies has slowed or stopped in many areas of the Northwoods. Rail companies often say there's not enough freight to make service profitable for them.An operating iron ore mine would increase freight traffic heavily."You can see what happened with frac sand mining in the Chippewa (Falls) area. If that mine becomes operational and starts shipping ore, a lot of that could come east toward the port in Escanaba. That will help give reason and volume to reopen that Highway 8 line that we're talking about," says Northwoods Rail Transit Commission Chair Wendy Gehlhoff at a meeting of the Commission Friday in Rhinelander.Most of the rail line that hugs Highway 8 from Ladysmith to Pembine currently sits unused.The Canadian National railway shut down service, saying it wasn't profitable.The director of Michigan Tech University's Rail Transportation Program addressed the Commission Friday.He stressed that for a rail company to operate, it needs to see a way to make money on carrying freight in a certain area."If we have high volumes, low value, long distance - if you don't look at rail or intermodal, you're absolutely nuts. It has to be in the equation, or you're not going to be able to compete with the other regions of this nation or other nations," said Dr. Pasi Lautala.The Commission's next task is to get better information from companies on how they would use rail service, if it was available.
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In the United States, homes without a security system are three times more likely to be burglarized. That's because burglars want to get in and out with your valuables with as little hassle as possible—why risk getting caught by a security system when they could just move onto the next house without one? If you protect your home with a security system, it sends a message to burglars that your home is not to be trifled with. To take your safety to the next level, protect your home with a security system.
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Keep up to date on the happenings in your home whether you?re sitting on your sofa, or out running errands. With the home automation features available today—like remote activation of your security system, control of your lighting and appliances, as well as live video streaming to your phone—it's easier than ever to monitor your home from anywhere.
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Don't forget to take care of the obvious when you're making sure your home is locked up. A locked door is useless if you leave a spare key in an easily accessible location like under a flower pot or door mat. It's much safer to leave a spare key with a friend or neighbor. And don't forget about the windows. Leaving a window open even a crack can be an open invitation to a burglar. Clear the way of hedges and bushes lining the front or side of your home, these can quickly turn into aids for the hiding thief. Outside lighting is also crucial—eliminating dark perimeters and driveways can be one of your best deterrents for burglars.
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|If even Frankie says "relax", it must be true.
So, indulge me for a moment and stop worrying about how far or fast you swim; go back to the basics and you will not be sorry. By basics, I refer to floating and sinking exercises which will get you more attuned to the water and yourself in it. Before I show you a great floating and sinking exercise, let me break a myth about how you should move in the water. Above I noted that many swimmers think the following: "How am I supposed to relax if I am using every muscle in my body to stay afloat and to go forward?" This is actually a bogus question and an excuse because the majority of us float in water just by taking a breath into our lungs. So it is not really about using all your muscles to stay afloat, it is more about using the right muscles to keep your body in a correct horizontal swimming position. If you think of swimming in terms of the swimmer's body going through the water as opposed to swimming on top of the water, you will realize that your body suddenly behaves in a totally different way, you can relax more and focus all your energy on going forward instead of floating.
Now to the actual floating and sinking exercise. I already explained that to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the water, a swimmer needs to maintain a proper body positioning while swimming, so I will not go into details here. However, in order for you to maintain such positioning and balance, you need to relax and control your movements. You can reap the the benefits of the wonderful feeling of relaxation in the water if you work on getting aware of your water environment while moving through the water. The best way to start on your way to total relaxation is to perform a series of sinking and floating exercises where you work on consciously relaxing most of the major muscle groups in your body and only engaging the muscles that matter.
The sinking and floating exercise that I like to teach maintain the body in a prone position at all times, so you will need to engage your core body muscles to keep yourself straight and learn to trust the buoyancy of your body in the water. Let's begin.
1) Stand up in a pool where the water reaches at least to the middle of your chest (the higher towards the neck the better though).
2) Put your arms alongside your body like a soldier and straighten your neck, so there are no wrinkles. Eyes look straight in front of you.
3) Now, take a breath and slowly start shifting your body weight forward keeping your feet planted on the bottom of the pool. The toes and heels of your feet (depending on what direction you are sinking in) do not leave the bottom of the pool at any stage of this sinking/floating exercise).
4) When you are slowly falling forward, start exhaling bubbles out of your mouth. After you hit the water, you will float for a while as there is too much air in your lungs. However, after a few seconds of bubbles, you'll notice your upper body sinking towards the bottom. When you reach this negative buoyancy, stop blowing bubbles to preserve the air in your lungs and just enjoy the free fall down.
5) When you sink all the way to the bottom, just lay there for a moment, relaxed and take in all the noises and water disturbance around you. When you have had enough or you run out of breath, just slowly stand up (no jerky movements - think relaxation)
Repeat the exercise and each time work on relaxing one more muscle in your body. You can repeat this sinking/floating exercise until there is no fear of falling into the unknown and you feel like you can relax while sinking. When you are comfortable with the forward sinking exercise, try shifting your weight backwards, so you go back first into the water. In this exercise, you might want to either hold your nose with your hand (don't forget to relax the arm though) or employ the natural nose clip technique to keep water from going up into your nose.
You can create your own variations of this exercise, sinking sideways (not dropping your hip first) etc. After you are a relaxation master and can sink without a muscle twitch or fear of being under water, then you are ready to go on to the next stage and learn to balance yourself in the water.


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Professor makes long list for National Book Awards
September 17, 2013
Mary Szybist, associate professor of English, has made the long list for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry with her latest collection, Incarnadine. She joins nine of the country's preeminent writers of contemporary poetry, which include a National Book Award Finalist and two Pulitzer Prize finalists.
Szybist's first poetry collection, Granted, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writing Award, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.
Her latest collection, Incarnadine, explores religious iconography and was inspired by time spent in the art museums of Italy. "I was struck by how relatively few scenes—nearly all of them religious—were the subjects of most of the paintings," Szybist told the Oregonian. "On the one hand, I felt relief that artists are no longer confined to such narrow subject matter. On the other hand, so many astonishing paintings emerged from those confines. To what extent had those limitations enabled the art?"
Read more Incarnadine coverage:
- NPR: Guns, God, and a Reggae Beat: A 2013 Poetry Preview
- Slate: Updates on Mary
- Oregonian: Q&A with Mary Szybist, Portland Poet and Lewis & Clark College Professor
- OPB Radio's Think Out Loud: Mary Szybist Discusses Incarnadine
- Willamette Week: Mary Szybist, Incarnadine
The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 16, and the winners will be named at a gala dinner and ceremony in New York on November 20.


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Eine neue kanadische Fernsehserie im Stil von Buffy. Als ich in Vancouver war, hab ich einiges an Werbung und Vorschauen gesehen und ich würde mir wünschen, die Serie käme auch zu uns, mal abwarten Lost Girl on Showcase
Introducing Bo- The Lost Girl
"You can't hide forever especially from yourself"
"They don't own me and i'm not good at being obedient"
Beauty with a body count, Bo is a succubus on the run: from the dark hungers she can't control, and the mysterious "Fae", a strange supernatural people hiding the secrets of her origin and fighting to claim her as their own...
Meet Dyson - The unorthodox detective
Dyson is an ancient wolf warrior who has recently returned from going rogue.
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Powerful, Stubborn, working undercover for his fellow Fae as a "Human" police detective, Dyson already has his hands full when Bo stumbles into town, adding to his troubles and complicating his life in ways he can't begin to imagine.
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Emmanuelle Vaugier (Supernatural - Madison in der Episode 02.17 "Heart") revealed on her facebook that she is playing The Morrigan on Lost Girl which according to wikipedia:
The Morrígan ("phantom queen") or Mórrígan ("great queen") (also known as Morrígu, Morríghan, Mor-Ríoghain, sometimes given in the plural as Morrígna) is a figure from Irish mythology who appears to have once been a goddess.
The Morrigan is a goddess of battle, strife, and fertility . She sometimes appears in the form of a crow, flying above the warriors, and in the Ulster cycle she also takes the form of an eel, a wolf, and a cow. She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with cattle also suggests a role connected with fertility, wealth, and the land.
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On a cool, crisp fall day, I found Langley.
There wasn't much left of this once vibrant stop in the road.
Only a few homes dot the once bustling main drags, which are separated by an overgrown railroad bed. A woman works around her mailbox and barking dogs greet the few passing cars.Down a dirt road, at what would have been the outskirts to town, is the cemetery.I stopped by Marquette's hardware store, where owner Max Buffington recalled� to me his first trip to the elevator hauling a pickup truckload of grain in the early 1950s.�I was 9 years old,� Buffington said, noting he was a little small to drive a truck, but the elevator man helped him get stopped.Langley is no longer the vibrant town of his childhood, he said, nor is it even a fragment of its size when his great-grandfather, George Buffington, first settled the area in 1898, establishing a cattle ranch.
Pappy Helms' old store. It was used in a scene for the movie Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies filmed in the 1970s starring Cliff Robertson.
The 1880s were a prosperous time in Kansas history as more pioneers moved west and towns began to form along the unplowed landscape. Langley was like many prairie towns. The Missouri Pacific Railroad was building thousands of miles of track through Kansas and needed water stations or tank stops every 10 miles for the engines.A man named Langley and another man named McCracken decided to invest in land, hoping to cash in on the area they thought might someday be a important shipping point.They formed Langley on 38 acres of land purchased from area farmer Job Fowler, a homesteader who had first come to the country in 1873.According to one account documented at the Ellsworth County Historical Society, Langley soon realized he wasn�t going to get rich quick. He learned the railroad, the Union Pacific, was going to go through Kanopolis instead.�All they got out of it was to have a town named after them,� Langley�s daughter, Jane Langley Board, wrote in a letter to the Langley City Council in the 1950s or 1960s, although the town was never incorporated or had a city council.Langley, however, would become a train pit stop, forming about 1886 when the Missouri Pacific Railroad passed through southeast Ellsworth County, according to an article by Judy Lily for a local newspaper.At first, the town was just a depot and two dugouts. A post office was established in April 1887 with Joseph Byrne as the first postmaster, according to the Kansas State Historical Society.The town soon began to grow. There was a general store owned by J.R. Adams. It was destroyed by fire in 1902, according to a transcript of a talk given by John Hughes in 1984, a man who was raised in the Langley area.Hughes reported that Job Fowler then built a large two-story building with an upstairs hall for entertainment, as well as groceries. A locker plant was later added on the building.Phillip Fredrick operated a hardware and lumber store, which also had a full line of cured meats, coal, farm machinery, along with lumber and hardware, Hughes said.The Methodist Church was built in 1894 and a cemetery was established. There also were stockyards and a blacksmith. A milling company in Marquette had an elevator.Another historical account from the Ellsworth Historical Society states Langley had a hotel, two garages, a livery stable, creamery and barber shop.Buffington said he remembers a man named Pappy Helms running a small grocery and filling station on the northeast edge of town.And, while unincorporated, Langley, at one time, had more than 300 residents, according to the county historical society documentation.
The Langley Cemetery still reminds folks the name of the area.
A few stone remnants - not sure what was once in this location.
A view from one of the main streets of Langley. A few homes are on the left side of the photo. To the right is the old railroad bed.
Max Buffington holds wood from the old Langley hardware and lumber.
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Racine mother defends herself against accusations she kept son in basement
Mother said she locked son in basement because he was violent toward her
A Racine mother is defending herself against accusations she kept her son locked in a basement and mistreated him.
The son, 23-year-old James Allen, who has special needs, now lives with his grandmother, Lauren Allen.
Allen called police to report what she said were abusive living conditions at he grandson's home.
"They were feeding him through a hole in the wall or the ceiling, I don't know what, but there were hundreds of nails in a certain area where they didn't want him escaping," she said.
In a criminal complaint, Allen told police her grandson was also shocked with a dog collar.
In an interview with police, James Allen said when he wanted to wash his face or brush his teeth, he had to knock on the basement door to be let out.
Police said the basement, which had no way out, had a bucket instead of a toilet and a dirty mattress where he slept.
James' mother, Teri Allen, said the accusations are not true. "He would sleep down there, but he wasn't a prisoner. He'd come upstairs for his meals and go to the bathroom," she said.
James' mother also said because of her son's disabilities, he sometimes became violent toward her, which is why she locked him in her basement overnight.
His grandmother said the only reason he would act out is because of the abusive environment he lived in.
Teri Allen said she plans on fighting the charges against her and has a court appearance next week.
If convicted, she faces three years in prison.


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There is now talk in the "friendly" and "bought" media that a LPC caucus revolt may become a reality and speculation on who should lead.Interesting times...
We've talked a lot about positive alternatives to Sheer. Who would be the best alternative to Trudeau? And please don't say ANYONE; I'm legitimately asking who are the real component and confident senior leadership types in the LPC. (And again, don't say NO ONE). Freeland? Goodale? Morneau?I know these people by their names and positions, but I don't really know if they would make strong PMs.
Are you asking who might have the means and motive to successfully pull off a cabinet revolt or are you asking if, in a hypothetical world where Trudeau decided tomorrow to resign because he really enjoys teaching high school spending more time with the family more than being PM who would be the best candidate to replace him until the next election?
..... )JWR) is relatively inexperienced.....
Remius: What experience (Life, business/political) did Mr. Trudeau have before becoming the PM?JWR was a, has got a law degree (which she utilized, called to the bar in 2000), became a Crown Prosecutor (2000–2003), and is apparently a QC.
I'd like to see Rona Ambrose run against Jody Wilson-Raybould… and I don't even think I'm a feminist!
Goodale is <edited> and it will show. Garneau has managed to stay out of the shitshow so far and appears to be the "wise elder" in the background. He may not be able to win, but he would likley be good for the healing process.
This is an especially dicey time for the boy-wonder from the Great White North. Not only does he have the SNC scandal to answer for but now the economy is sagging. On Friday, the Financial Post reported that Canada's economy practically came to a halt in the final three months of 2018 in a much deeper-than-expected slowdown. The country's economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, for an annualized pace of 0.4 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday.
Rebellion. Maybe JT will be forced out over this. I can't see how he can survive much more of his cabinet resigning. Now what? Kick her out too?
Given the current rate of change, we must amend "A week is a long time in politics" to read "A day is a long time in politics."
Maybe milnews, but pressure just intensified and likely derailed an already derailed plan.
And the government slowly disintegrateshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/philpott-resignation-trudeau-snc-lavalin-1.5042411
.... This won't sink the government...
As the government falls apart.


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