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How do I exit our joint bond?
Hi, my partner and I took out a joint bond and bought a place together for +-R400,000. We have been living together for about four years.
I am not sure about our relationship and I am considering moving out. I would like to know the following:
- I am considering moving out and letting her keep the place. Would it be wise in this day and age to sell my half to her? I ask this because I always read about the price of properties increasing and young people hardly being able to afford getting a house of their own. We both earn pretty average salaries and got a place on the Cape Flats.
- Also, if I sell my share, how do funds work for me? Do I get my full half portion? For example, R200,000 or would there be fees that need to be paid in the transfer?
- Could I put this on another bond?
- What are the other options? Selling and splitting the profits, renting? – Kim
Hi Kim, the solution will depend on the type of bond: direct or indemnity. Direct bonds allow endorsements, while indemnity bonds would need to be cancelled and re-registered.
The best solution would be for the bond holders to contact their financial institution, which would then conduct a full credit and affordability assessment to ascertain whether one of the bond holders may be released. Once they have completed their assessment they will either approve or decline the request.
My personal opinion is to try and release yourself if you are no longer together; anything could happen in the future and the longer the situation is left the more that can go wrong. One partner stops contributing, circumstances change etc. Rather put the money into another property, but you will need to apply for a new bond with new fees to register.
If both parties agree to sell and split any profits then that is also a simple solution. Renting out the property still brings up the same issues mentioned above. Who gets paid the rent? What happens if one party doesn't pay their portion of the bond?
You will need to find out what the settlement is on the bond first before you know if there will be any balance due to you.
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text: ROHIT BAL is planning to launch India's first ever line of designer children's wear under his own Bal Bacche label. Often referred to as the enfant terrible of Indian fashion, Bal sees huge potential in his new client base, since 32 per cent of India's one billion population is under the age of 14. "Children are a major consumer class nowadays," he told YAHOO.COM. "They are very conscious of how they look and what they wear. So it is natural that people want to cater to their needs. There is great opportunity in this segment." Where not long ago, children were mainly wearing miniature versions of adult wear, the Indian market is rapidly changing into one in which children are making active choices about what to wear. But, claims Bal, it is not all to do with making money. "Apart from the business, there's a wonderful joy in working with children and creating things for them," he says. (October 28 2004, AM)


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Did anyone see the new show on Sundance - "THE GREEN"?
I am always interested in seeing how much information and innovation will be generated by the current attention. Any new technologies or information we can use now? What more can we as a family do. My husband and I also like knowing about the science of things. So my tivo was set as soon as I heard about this new show.
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One of the most interesting creation stories of the automotive world has certainly been the German manufacturer, Audi. "Horch & Cie", the mechanical engineers that played a major role in technological advancements, were precisely the ones who had been involved when the company was founded in 1899. Namely, August Horch had to leave the company after serious disagreements with the Board of the former corporation of a Saxony-based company. Only the name of "August Horch Automobile Werke GmbH" the resourceful engineer was met with little enthusiasm and an alternative was needed. These circumstances ultimately led to a witty word play and the company was renamed "Audi Automobile Works Zwickau GmbH", the Latin equivalent of the imperative of the company Horch first made.
In 1910, the first automobile left the production halls and it was followed by many more. In 1928, under the auspices of DKW, it was another four years until it became an integral part of the Auto Union. The history of Audi was exciting. Dissolved in the postwar years, was produced at the plant in Zwickau P70 of the EEZ, and was unified with the former factory of the company Horch at the Trabant. In the West German locations came the foundation of the "Auto Union GmbH." In mid-1960s, they put out the first Audi model. After the merger with NSU, the seat of the "Audi NSU Auto Union AG" first moved to Neckarsulm, then finally settled at Ingolstadt. Today, the brand Audi, whose models are focused on sporting dynamics and powerful technique, make cars for the Volkswagen Group.
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Musing Mondays is a weekly Meme by Mizb @ Should Be Reading
This weeks musing asks...Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself/someone else, and why you chose that/those books.
I actually received a book I pre-ordered last year just a couple of days ago - Underworld by Meg Cabot. I read Abandon, the first novel in this series, late last year and I absolutely loved it, so last year at Christmas when I got some money from family and decided to use a portion to buy some books, I pre-ordered Underworld. I really hope this is a good follow-up to Abandon - I really enjoyed the twist on the Persephone and Hades myth, and where the second book was heading was established pretty well at the end of book one - it'll be interesting to see how it goes.
What about you? Do you have any exciting pre-orders that you're anticipating the release of?


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Paul de Man (b. 1919–d. 1983) was one of the most influential literary theorists of the second half of the 20th century. He is most commonly associated with the so-called Yale School of criticism, which included his colleagues J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom, and Jacques Derrida. De Man spent his formative years in Belgium before immigrating to the United States after World War II in 1948. After some time working as a teacher of French, freelance writer, and in clerical jobs, he gained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1960 with an audacious dissertation titled "Mallarmé, Yeats and the Post-Romantic Predicament." He taught at Cornell University between 1960 and 1969. In the late 1960s he also held a post at the University of Zurich and from 1968 to 1970 he was a professor of humanities at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. He then moved to Yale, where in 1979 he was made Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature and French. During his life de Man published two groundbreaking books, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (1971, revised edition 1983) and Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (1979). The collaboration and friendship of the Yale School is captured in the co-edited collection Deconstruction and Criticism (1979). Other volumes of de Man's essays were published after his untimely death from cancer in 1983. The Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984) and Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism: The Gauss Seminar and Other Papers (1993) chart his substantial contribution to the theoretical study of European romanticism. The Resistance to Theory (1986) and Aesthetic Ideology (1996) contain some of de Man's major essays on literary theory and some of his most powerful readings of Romantic and Modernist literature. The volume Critical Writings, 1953–1978, published in 1989, collects together most of de Man's pre-Yale criticism, charting his intellectual formation in the United States. In 1987 while under taking doctoral research at the University of Leuven, the scholar Ortwin de Graef rediscovered de Man's writing as a young journalist during his time in occupied Belgium. De Man had written hundreds of articles in French and Flemish for several newspapers between 1941 and 1942. The discovery caused an immediate sensation, known as the de Man affair, when a number of the articles were deemed to be sympathetic to the occupying power. One in particular, "The Jews in Contemporary Literature," from March 1941, was seen to be explicitly anti-Semitic in tone. It has taken over two decades for de Man's theoretical reputation to begin to recover from this episode. More recently, his Harvard PhD has been published as The Post-romantic Predicament (2012) and the volume The Paul de Man Notebooks appeared in 2014. Other publications based on de Man's unpublished writing held in the Critical Theory Archive at the University of California, Irvine, have been made available online. Today de Man's understanding of figurative language and materiality is being rediscovered as an indispensable tool in the deconstruction of ideology and onto-theology.
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I want to make sure I'm getting enough protein. So I'm going to start tracking that and making it a focus in my meals. I'm just going to plan ahead and make sure I choose some protein at every meal. The first day I tracked I got at least 114 grams in, so not bad! 100 grams will be the minimum.
I want to drink more water, or at least make sure I'm drinking a good amount every day. So I'm going to use my water bottle instead of grabbing cups at work and at least try to drink 2 of them daily. That's 48 ounces.
I'm going to get serious about the lean habits again. So I'm starting over with eat 3-4 meals a day. I'll go for two weeks and then add the next habit.
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Just had to post this video clip of a group of Norfolk Southern locomotive going past a level grade crossing in the dark. Can you spot the problem? Video clip by unknown.
This site was started so I could share my collection of railway images I have been taking for the past few years. All photos are my own work unless otherwise noted. From time to time I travel and try to take photos in different locations. I will post mostly images shot in Prince Rupert but not limited to here.
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Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?
Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribers consistently.
Is there anything you can do about it? Any way to efficiently attract more RSS subscribers?
Sure there is. Many people wrote about this topic in the past, but I wanted to give my take on the issue too. I wrote those 50 ideas as they were coming to my head, as briefly as possible. Enjoy.
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New video games not only provide fun and excitement for the player but also provide certain advantages. With advanced technology taking center stage, the gaming industry has grown rapidly over the years. The video games come in different categories, which we explore today to help you choose the right category.
This is fast paced and contains many graphic scenes of violence and more. These aren't perfect for children and usually, come rated M for mature.
These games aren't as graphic and take the player into a land of fantasy and surrealism. Though they might also contain some violence, it isn't as intense and graphic as action games.
This is one of the most common video games at the moment. This is the game where you see the action from the eyes of the character you are representing and involves the use of weapons to kill the enemy. It usually involves shooting, and you have the task of shooting first or being shot first. Due to the graphic nature and the violence, these kinds of games aren't suitable for kids.
Construction and Management Simulation (CMS)
Under this game, you are supposed to construct and come up with a project in a community using the resources you have been given. The faster you finish the project, the more points you achieve.
The aim of the game bases on strategy as compared to violence. The games are not fast-paced, just slow to give you the time to think strategically. Most don't have any violence. Due to the level of thinking expected of the user, the games aren't suitable for children.
You get to simulate real-world scenarios. You can simulate racing, flying and many more scenarios. They are suitable for children and adults as well. These games have become common and are a major source of excitement and fun.
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These games consist of moving from one platform to the next. The platforms are of varying heights, some being obstacles.
These are class games that require you to solve a puzzle. This is ideal for children who learn through these puzzles.
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Dumbest & Most Frustrating Modern Invention Contest Winner Announced!
It's about time, too. Sorry for the delay. Been toodling around my land of birth and staying as far from the computer as possible.
On 11 August I initiated the Dumbest & Most Frustrating Modern Invention contest, the winner to receive The Coffee Cup of the Stars! Today, the monumentally anticipated, sensational denouement!
Master of Ceremonies, may I have the honourable mentions, please? Those entries that hewed closest to the spirit of the contest. There was no Car Alarm entry, surprisingly, but there were some close competitors. Here they are in the order they were received.
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X PC/MS — DOS and MS-Windows by Paul Murphy.
Windows, when it came out, copied Apple copying Xerox — but what is less well known is that people at UCB had Unix windowing systems running at about the same time and that products like SunView first, and NEWS later, provided solid multi-tasking windowing in the early 1980s — as functional, but more reliable, than Windows 2000/XP 20 years later.
Which is why sensible people prefer the penguin—Linux, that is.
X NO-FEE TV, i.e., Commercial Television by Michael Dowd.
How does one pay for NO FEE TV? By the willingness to subject oneself to the number, intrusiveness, and the often revolting content of the commercials.
The number of commercials on any given program continues to be raised to the maximum pain level and their content often reminds us of various bodily functions we would rather not think about.
That's why God invented books, Michael.
X Industrial Wind Turbines by John B().
Even though five hundred foot abstract sculptures would look good anywhere, anytime, their use on grid is not improved nor made appropriate by the increase in "economies of scale". Ten or a hundred or a thousand times worthless is that much more worthless (if scales of worthlessness is possible).
Electricity generated by torrents of hot air was naturally appealing to Congress.
X Cat Toys by Gary.
According to the 2015-2016 APPA National Pet Owners Survey, owners spend an average of $28/year on cat toys. With almost 43 million households having cats, that comes to over a billion dollars. You don't have to be a cat-lover to realize these dumb inventions are really meant to attract the owner rather than the cat.
X Mission Statements by Joseph Moore.
Does a tiger have a mission statement? Turn tasty prey animals into baby tigers and tiger poop, while terrorizing everything in my territory? No, it does not! Because – follow this closely – it knows what it is doing! A mission statement is conclusive proof that the statemented unit does NOT know what it is doing.
My mission is to convert the world to the Third Way.
X Email by Jay Bhattacharya.
Lowering the real price of placing tasks, information, and solicitations of dubious value on the agenda of busy people was a good idea why exactly? Combine that with the crazy social norm that emails must be answered right away, and it is clear that emails are a step backward from the snail mail they displaced.
It's tempting to award Jay the prize (recall the rules).
X Automated touch-tone response systems by K Buerck.
No other invention has wasted more time for businesses or consumers. Why do I have to "press 1 for English", wait for response, listen to a list of 8 possible reasons I have called, then press 9 to hear the list again? It might have been spawned by the lack of qualified receptionists, but maybe we could start a 4 year degree program to train a few.
I suspect all paths lead to the same person.
X JavaScript by Milton Hathaway.
The Internet could have been a magical hyper-linked wonderland that ushered one into a brave new world of interesting unfamiliar content with each new mouse click, with the 'surfer' firmly ensconced in the driver's seat. Then along came JavaScript and shat lumps of sadistic user hostility droppings everywhere, making everything ten times harder and generally stinking up the place beyond all toleration.
X Self Checkout Systems by Dan W.
Good idea, bad implementation. The cause of failure is the system logic that weighs the customer's purchase to detect theft. Invariably this check fails, the system balks and the Self Checkout System loses the "Self" adjective as a supervisor must intervene.
One of the many benefits of the minimum wage.
The Runners Up
And now for the court, the three entries, in order, that made the contest into a nail biter…
4 The Reality Show by Sander van der Wal.
The most pointless TV program in existence. Replace the Telly with a mirror and you can look at a complete idiot for free.
And have just the same frisson of delight, too.
3 Peer Review Process by Terry Colon.
Euphemism for the system of suppressing dissent in science. Science is now safely in the hands of the experts who became experts by not dissenting from previous experts. A perfect circle to produce perfectly circular science.
We'll see what your fellow entrants have to say about that, Terry.
2 Air Blowing Hand Driers by James.
If you've pondered, perhaps like Dyson, "Does a 120 dB scream from a little metal box really dry my hands faster?" and managed to sell this product before any testing, congratulations! In addition, thanks to the energy 'savings' of needing 3 or 4 dozen passes, soon these devices will be highly regulated by the EPA. Remember, if you don't leave the bathroom with a couple wet handprints on your clothes, then you aren't saving the world.
And now we know why mother always told us to hold it until we got home.
And now the moment the entire Internet has been waiting for
May I have a drum roll, please…
Ladies and gentleman—and you, too, Sylvain—here is the…
WINNING ENTRY Human Resources by Wood.
So-called "Human Resources" is a non-human non-resource destructive spider that seeks our ultimate annihilation. It is the soul snatching nanny-state next door. Annihilation by protection: quite possibly the defining characteristic of all things modern. Flexing its smug muscle, human resources "protects" us from all forms of harassment and discrimination by institutionalizing modernist approved harassment and discrimination. Its highest goal is to ensure, for our happiness and well-being of course, that our daily work of filing papers and answering the phone is in reality just the set props of the most important point of our work: reifying Sesame Street. And as we reify, human resources extracts (by direct draft for convenience) a portion of the fleetingly tangible fruits of our labor to fund things that we "need" but are too dumb to find if left to our own devices. This taxation without representation it smilingly refers to as BENEFITS.
Wood won in a romp, which shouldn't be too surprising since one of the impetuses of the contest was, as I said in its announcement, the execrable Comprehensive, Employee-Written Performance Review. I have suffered these in the past, and know people who now must go through them. Think: the system was designed and intended to hurl vast stretches of time into an empty black chasm. Reviews also encourage the bastardization of English by enforcing a pseudo-language prose style designed to say nothing using a maximum of words.
Congratulations, Wood! Here is what your prize will look like.
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Self Checkout Systems by DAV.
Ummm …. pretty sure that wasn't me. I submitted the electric fork and the submission did not meet submission requirements. Besides, I have nothing against self-checkout systems. I just checked myself out and am not displeased with the results.
You are clearly a closet selfie hater. The selfies you post are obviously protective cover.
I'm really pleased with how I did, especially since the first place is well-deserved.
I got many laughs out of all the entries, too. Fun stuff.
Everything the "Human Resources" department does in a corporation would still have to be done even if you called it something else. It used to be called Personnel.
"Flexing its smug muscle, human resources "protects" us from all forms of harassment and discrimination"
No, it is protecting the business from lawsuits and / or government regulatory action over harassment and discrimination. You can thank the government for this and again, even if you eliminated the Human Resources department, the corporation would need to have someone doing this.
"human resources extracts (by direct draft for convenience) a portion of the fleetingly tangible fruits of our labor to fund things that we "need" but are too dumb to find if left to our own devices. This taxation without representation it smilingly refers to as BENEFITS. "
Again, you can thank the government for this, and it all goes back to a time before the term "Human Resources" was invented. During WWII, a period of tight labor markets domestically (thanks to the war effort consuming a large percentage of the available labor pool), the government in its infinite wisdom (NOT) imposed wage caps (Yes, a maximum wage).
This left companies scrambling for ways to compete for scarce labor. Enter indirect and deferred compensation, employer paid healthcare and pensions.
And of course, once the war was over and the wage caps were lifted, the government in its infinite wisdom (NOT) gave these new forms of indirect and deferred compensation favored tax treatment to insure their continued existence.
All of what you say is true … but corporations still don't have to put lipstick on the pig …
I'd supported Paul's rant on Bill Gates … a pig with very bad makeup
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"but corporations still don't have to put lipstick on the pig"
What you have to understand is that the lipstick isn't for the sake of the general workers, its for the sake of the people stuck with doing these tasks.
The fact that we refer to a person as a resource has been getting worse. Here in consulting the sales guys love to talk about assigning a resource to that, and the project managers ask for "3 QA resources".
"Personnel" is one thing; "HR" is another. One wants a "seat at the table" and the ability to be "impactful"; one is content to be what they are.
What's even sillier than Michael Dowd's "no-fee tv" lots of commercials?
How about big-fee tv with LOTS of commercials? (TVLand, NFL Network, MLB Network, Big10 network, all the ESPNs, TBS, TNT).
@John M ,
Actually, except for the premium move channels, none of the cable networks are getting a significant chunk of what you pay your local cable company.
Yep, I generally detest HR too. Way to go!
Define "significant".
While I have no doubt that cable companies make a good margin, especially considering the outrageous monthly charges for equipment, etc., that doesn't take away from the fact that if you have even basic cable, you are paying huge amounts to watch commercials, regardless of who gets the money.
I finally stripped down my cable service, but unfortunately, I live in an area where I can't get over-the-air network stations, so I can't completely go pure internet/phone.
What particularly galled me was stations like TVLand, which went to adding 10 minutes of commercials to what was nominally half hour programming. I refuse to pay even a nickel a month for that kind of garbage.
I know it's too late to enter, but I wonder if "the Corporation" itself might indeed be a better entry than just the HR department. HR is just a symptom of the fact that a nation of mostly agricultural entrepreneurs has, over the course of a century or so, become a nation of "employees" who need HR departments (for example) to manage most of the economic decisions in our lives.


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Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas Announces Recipients of 16th Annual Women's Advocacy Awards
Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas (Legal Aid) has announced the recipients of its 16th Annual Women's Advocacy Awards to be presented on July 12 in Dallas. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas will receive the Business Leadership Award; Rev. Larry James and CitySquare will receive the Nonprofit Leadership Award; Paul Zoltan will receive the Louise Raggio Women's Legal Advocate Award; and Randy Johnston will receive the Champion of Justice Award.
The Women's Advocacy Awards (WAA) supports civil legal aid for victims of domestic violence. Each year, the WAA recognizes exceptional advocacy on behalf of women living in poverty. This year's event will be held at 6 p.m., July 12, 2016, in Arlington Hall at Lee Park.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) has a long history of working to advance opportunities for women and children in Texas. BCBSTX has provided numerous grants through its "Healthy Kids, Healthy Families" initiative, partnering with nonprofits to offer sustainable programs to underserved communities and provides safe environments for growth. Notable among these are partnerships with the Caring for Children Foundation, which provides immunizations to uninsured children through its Care Van fleet, and the Texas Women's Empowerment Foundation, which provides urban gardens along with healthy cooking demonstrations and mentoring provided to residents in need, as well as "Kids Meals," a Meals-on-Wheels-style summer program that helps feed young children who may not otherwise have regular meals outside the school year due to limited economic and transportation resources.
BCBSTX also created the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas STEM Scholarship, which provides $20,000 scholarships to underprivileged high school seniors seeking college study in a STEM-related field. In a related effort, BCBSTX's WISE group (Women Improving the Strength of the Enterprise) hosts Dallas Girl Scouts at its state-of-the-art facility, providing a full day of STEM-related activities for young girls. In addition, leadership within BCBSTX actively demonstrates its support through the encouragement of executives to hold Board seats with organizations including Texas CASA, REAL School Gardens, and It's Time Texas. The organization also promotes advancement of women from within and encourages female leadership to participate in programs such as the Leading Women's Executive program.
Larry James
Larry James has been involved in developing and implementing holistic, justice-focused approaches to congregational and community service and outreach throughout his career. Since 1994, James has provided executive leadership for CitySquare (formerly Central Dallas Ministries), a faith-based, human and community development corporation that battles poverty and its various related expressions in several inner city neighborhoods in Dallas and beyond. First serving as Executive Director and then President and CEO, James began his CEO role with a vision for CitySquare's future fund development and external community endeavors. CitySquare offers a variety of services to its clients: legal services, youth and children's ministry, affordable workforce housing, initiatives related to work force development and technology training, housing interventions for homeless persons, and spiritual development to neighbors living in the communities of East and South Dallas.
James, a native of Richardson, Texas, is married to Brenda Erwin. The couple, who reside in one of the neighborhoods CitySquare serves, have two grown daughters.
Paul Zoltan
Paul Zoltan is a long-time pro bono attorney volunteer specializing in immigration law. In 2014, inspired to do more when the influx of Central American women and children to Texas soared, Zoltan launched a pro se asylum workshop model that would multiply the representation provided to these refugees. In the last two years, more than 150 asylum applications for women and children have been completed at and submitted through these workshops. Through this project, Zoltan is credited with saving the lives of immigrant women and children who fled horrific and violent circumstances in their home countries.
Zoltan also mentors other attorneys, and works closely with the Catholic Charities team of AmeriCorps lawyers, whose caseloads number as high as 250 individuals and families. He helped the organization start its own legal program for immigrant children, training and mentoring staff in their representation of children in immigration court. He is a passionate advocate who fights against poor attorney practices in the field of immigration law, and is an inspiration not only to immigration lawyers, but also to those who practice in the area of public service law.
Randy Johnston
Randy Johnston has been a great supporter of women's causes and legal aid for the poor for many years. Johnston, whose law practice focuses on the professional and ethical practice of law, is known both as "the lawyer with a ponytail" and the attorney who will sue other lawyers for malpractice and client abandonment. A founding supporter of the Dallas Bar Association's Law Jam, a musical fundraising for the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP), a joint program of the Dallas Bar Association and Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas. During Law Jam 2, Johnston auctioned off the right for the winning bidder to cut off his ponytail following the performance of his blues band, Blue Collar Crime. Two groups paid $7,000 each for the right to cut off his ponytail, and all of the proceeds went to DVAP. Randy was awarded a Presidential Citation by the Dallas Bar Association for his efforts to aid the poor.
He is a highly sought after speaker, presenting more than 100 speeches designed to educate other lawyers on how to avoid client problems while complying with the ethical rules and standards of professionalism. Johnston is proud to practice law with Robert Tobey, Chad Baruch, and his son, Coyt. He is married and the proud father of eight children, five of whom are strong, independent women.
Ramona's Story
Ramona's husband tried to kill her in front of a crowd of bystanders when he lifted her off of the ground by the throat. Before bystanders could intervene, Ramona was thrown onto the concrete sidewalk and she lost consciousness. A witness called police, but the abuser had fled the scene and his family and friends refused to cooperate with authorities or share the husband's location.
With her husband on the run, Ramona, the mother of two children, filed for divorce pro se. Unsure how to proceed on her own, she applied for help at Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas (Legal Aid). With the assistance of the Legal Aid attorney, Ramona amended the petition for divorce, and located and served her husband, who was in jail. Legal Aid assisted Ramona in finalizing the divorce, where she obtained sole managing conservatorship of her children, permanent injunctions against further abuse by or contact from her ex-husband, and no visitation of the children by their father.
The Women's Advocacy Awards event helps provide critical civil legal aid for women like Ramona. This year's WAA event takes place from 6-8 pm on Tuesday, July 12 in Arlington Hall at Lee Park in Dallas. Additional information is available on the 16th Annual Women's Advocacy Awards Facebook event page, https://www.facebook.com/events/1572399809724590/permalink/1580695462228358, or by contacting Sam Prince at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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GARFIELD, N.J. – Five iLearn Schools employees in Passaic and Garfield were honored Friday with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve's Patriot Award.
The events were at the Passaic Arts and Science Primary School and the Bergen Arts and Science Middle School in Garfield.
Recipients of this year's Patriot Award include Nihat Guvercin, CEO, iLearn Schools; Durim Memedi, director, Passaic Arts and Science Primary School; Yunus Kul, director, Bergen Arts and Science Middle School; Sam Giovia, security supervisor; and Chris Cherubino, security supervisor.
iLearn Schools also have been nominated for the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.
This year's iLearn Schools Patriot Award recipients were nominated by the school's three active National Guardsmen: Sgt. Jessica Hunter, Sgt. Paris Glover and SP4. Matthew Barrington. The Patriot Award is awarded to bosses, supervisors or employers who support the employment and military service of members of the National Guard and reserves.
"iLearn Schools make it a specific focus to hire current and former members of the military," Guvercin said. "While I am honored to receive the Patriot Award, the real honor is to work alongside our nation's bravest soldiers."
The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve is a Department of Defense office that develops and promotes supportive work environments for service members in the reserves through outreach, recognition and educational opportunities that increase awareness of applicable laws and resolves employer conflicts between service members and their employers. The Patriot Award reflects the efforts made to support Citizen Warriors through flexible schedules, time off prior to and after deployment, caring for families and granting leaves of absence if needed.
iLearn Schools (formerly North Jersey Arts and Science Charter Schools) is a non-profit Charter Management Organization that provides specialized educational and management services, including operational and administrative support, for schools.
Bergen, Passaic, Paterson and Hudson Arts and Science Charter Schools are four separate charter school districts operating under iLearn Schools.
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So yesterday (damn…feels like more than just a day) I posted a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to share with y'all but never got around to thanks to GRAD SCHOOL. -__-;;; One of the things I posted about was K-dramas and I just so happened to watch this video by Fung Brothers that also mentioned K-dramas so…I just had to share it. ^o^ I'm no longer an Asian American teen *sobs*, but I think these all totally apply to 20-something year old Asian Americans as well.
Also…if you liked this video…you'll probably like this one:
After my friends and I watched this video we were proud and sorta embarrassed at the same time because we seriously frequent 80% of the places in the video. The other 20% we always talk about hitting up but never do since we're at one of our regular spots. >.< (Sidenote: Totally went to Factory Tea Bar a few days in a row during my finals week….V(^o^)V)
Definitely check out the rest of their stuff!
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In response to "Brill, Mote, and Beam": Much of the criticism of the "Pressgate" piece and the magazine in general has been from people in the mainstream media who were clearly part of the system I was writing about and, thus, responded accordingly. Because Slate and Jacob Weisberg don't in any way fall into that category and deserve to be taken seriously, I thought I should try to respond seriously to some of the factual stuff. (I'll let readers decide for themselves if the magazine is "boring," a knock that reminds me of lawyers' wishful thinking when I started the American Lawyer.)
First, I didn't "leak" the piece to the New York Times--a semi-important point for a magazine like ours. We blast faxed the piece to every major (and minor, I think) press organization, after first faxing it to Kenneth Starr. Everybody got it at the same time. So, the Times' decision to put it on the front page was not based on having any kind of exclusive.
Now to take Jacob's points in order:
l) Whether I prove Starr leaked grand jury information depends on one's definition of grand jury information. I used the one used by the relevant court with jurisdiction. Starr disagrees with that. No mistakes? How about the stained dress? Or the president testifying that he never was alone with Lewinsky? (I never say the Times made mistakes, by the way.)
2) Yes, Sue Schmidt disputes that quote. That happens with reporters a lot. But, interestingly, she didn't dispute it the first time she was asked about the story--by Howie Kurtz for his first story. My notes have her saying exactly that and then saying it again later on in our interview (at the Madison Hotel coffee shop) in almost the same language.
3) No self-contradiction here. She volunteered that item about Jordan and where she had got the story in the course of narrating that first weekend of the "scandal." When I later asked her directly about sources for her first-day story (and stories beyond that) she declined to comment.
4) My point was that Lewinsky's "No" answer was the thing that stood out the most to Mike Isikoff when I talked with him about the tapes. And it's a big part of why Newsweek held the story. I simply pointed out that this is something Newsweek might have remembered to put in and quote when it went online with its first story. In retrospect, though, it would have been fairer and fuller to note that Newsweek did, indeed, say the evidence was not at all clear that the president had instructed her to lie. Nonetheless, I think Newsweek should have included this important quote if it had wanted to be fair.
5) To take one example, let's look at the first-day reports from the networks.
What did I know? a) Starr's top deputy had spent "much of the day" briefing these people. Starr told me that, and Bennett confirmed it but would not tell me specifics. b) The network reports included material from tapes that could only be the tapes that Starr's people had made (because these tapes allegedly have Lewinsky saying that Jordan and the president told her to lie--which was not on the tapes Newsweek heard, and Newsweek had supposedly heard the most incriminating tapes). Neither Tripp's lawyers nor anyone else (even Tripp, though she might obviously remember what was on them--but she was not accessible to the press at this point) could have heard those tapes or briefed reporters about them. So I don't think it's "intellectually dishonest" to say that this information must have come from Starr's office. Remember: He says his guy briefed them for these reports, and the crux of the reports was what was supposedly on these tapes.
By the way, this criticism is kind of refreshing in the sense that it's so different from the "everyone knows prosecutors leak" criticism that I've got.
6) Jacob is just plain wrong. There are no court decisions in the relevant jurisdiction that support Starr on the notion that leaking what people tell investigators before they testify about what they will testify to is OK. Sure, there are some from other courts elsewhere, but they are few and far between, and Starr really wouldn't be able to cite them properly in a brief in the District of Columbia.
7) Oops, forget my last paragraph under Point 5.
8) My point about anonymous quotes is made by Jacob. I'm against totally blind uses of phrases such as "sources" that don't say how many sources or what ax they might have to grind. (Example: Jackie Judd's citing of "several sources" to substantiate her witnesses-interrupted-the-president-and-Lewinsky "scoop.") When a source can't be named, enough identification should be supplied so that the reader knows the source's potential bias. This clearly worked here; Jacob can see that I'm using a Times person as the source and correctly identifies the potential bias. Now, go back and read my description of all the truly blind "sources" in the article, and see if you can tell the difference.
9) Conflict: Yes, I should have disclosed that in 1995 I gave 1,000 bucks to the Clinton campaign. (I've also given money to Republicans, like Rudy.) But how could I prohibit anyone, even myself, retroactively from making contributions? That was 1995; this is 1998, and since I sent out the initial direct mail for this magazine (which I knew would cover political stuff and politicians), I haven't made any contributions to anyone, let alone the president (to whom, again, I made one contribution in 1995). The only "political" writing or editing I did around the time of that Clinton contribution was the Paula Jones piece by Stuart Taylor in the American Lawyer, which I instigated and edited and proudly published--and which, as you know, made the case against the president.
I'm proud of our magazine and proud of this piece. Prouder, in fact, now than when we published it, because nearly two weeks later everyone who could take a shot at it has, and so far I can see that I've misspelled one name, screwed up one sequence (the Journal decided not to wait for comment from the White House on its incorrect steward-witness story after hearing the White House wanted a half-hour to comment, not before), and included two or three gratuitous adjectives that I now wouldn't. There may be more, and if there is I will be the first to concede it. But I hope my willingness to admit mistakes isn't misread as being so much more fallible than others--but only being more willing to admit it.
--Steve BrillBrill's ContentNew York City
Jacob Weisberg responds: I appreciate the tone of Brill's letter, which is nicer than my piece was. Several of his points, however, demand a reply.
1(a) My criticism stands. The only thing that's clearly illegal is leaking out of the grand jury room. Brill doesn't prove that Starr has done that.
1(b) I didn't say there were "no mistakes." I wrote that Brill didn't document any significant error of fact by the Post, Times, Time, or Newsweek. He doesn't.
2) If Brill used a tape recorder, we'd know whether he misquoted Susan Schmidt or not. He doesn't respond to the complaint that he misquoted Jonah Goldberg.
3) Still a contradiction in the article. It would have been consistent if Brill had written that Schmidt declined comment on her sources except for the one she revealed.
4) This is now a point of supernuance, not a major criticism of Newsweek's journalistic integrity, which was how it was billed in the story.
5) I strongly suspect that Starr was the source for stories about what various witnesses have said. But there's at least a plausible alternative explanation for where much of this information could have come from. As I say, it would have been only fair to mention it.
6) This whole argument about the "relevant jurisdiction" is new since Brill's article. Eventually the question of what's illegal is likely to be settled by the Supreme Court, which will consider lower court precedents from various jurisdictions.
7) Brill concedes, I think.
8) Weisberg concedes.
9) Brill concedes.
10) Brill concedes.
Right Back at Ya
The June 23 "Chatterbox" claims that "a kind of machinery" is at work on the right "that doesn't exist on the left today." Actually, similar machinery has existed on the left for years. It runs from the liberals in Congress to the liberals in the statehouse to the liberals on the bench to the liberals on the nightly news. President Clinton plugged into the machinery the moment he was elected.
Examples include the universal use of accepted terms such as "extreme right" to describe any given idea that emanates from the conservative end of the spectrum. It includes broad opposition to the slightest bit of reform that might impact the access of trial lawyers to the money machine of our tort system. It includes attack dog opposition to any and all school reform that does not result in massive amounts of additional money for the teachers' unions. And so on and so on.
The left has for years started opposing things in tandem the moment the handwriting appeared on the wall. Their opposition has always included near uniformity, right down to verbiage. The Sotomayor nomination is an isolated example of conservatives employing this often successful tool perfected by the left.
--David C. KlugHarrisburg, Pa.
Remember Who Lost the World Cup!
I read with interest "Hegemon and Proud of It," by Strobe Talbott. However--and you may choose to call me a smug foreigner who is also sensitive to "smugness" on the part of the superpower--I thought it self-congratulatory, ill-considered, and decidedly anecdotal.
It is certainly true that the United States is the most powerful country in the world. It is also true that its erstwhile rival has collapsed rather utterly. However, even the merest glance at the history books will reveal that Talbott's dominate-but-cooperate scenario has been played out over hundreds of years: The wars were always the exceptions. It is also worth pointing out that the United States has actually declined in relative economic importance since World War II.
In 1950, the United States was responsible for nearly half the gross world product. However, today, even though the United States is far and away the No. 1 economy, the European Union, with its 15 member states, actually has a bigger share of the gross world product. Never mind Japan and Asia, who aren't exactly inconsequential. Then there's the rest of the world.
It seems to me that the world as a whole is an awful lot more interdependent than it ever has been. And I think that's a good thing. So, like, get over the American omnipotence thing.
--Alan McGintyLondon
Fictional Journalism 101
Hats off to Michael Kinsley for "Fictional Journalism for Dummies." Only I would have gone a bit further. Based on the available evidence so far, this abortion of a CNN/Time piece was not just overreaching but a shining example of sheer intellectual dishonesty and reporting at its shabbiest.
--Jim WolfNational security correspondent, ReutersWashington
Cheap Is Good
Regarding Jodie T. Allen's "Living in a Second-Best World": Five years ago, I paid between 20 cents and 40 cents a minute for long-distance service, depending on the time of day. Now I pay 9.9 cents per minute, day or night. In real terms, average airline coach fares are about half what they were 20 years ago, before deregulation.
I own a business that spends several thousand dollars a year on long-distance phone service and airline travel. Sure, finding the lowest rates/fares is more of a hassle now than it once was, and the service may or may not be better, but to me, this is easily worth putting up with to get the cost saving.
Allen may be in a financial position to pay more to eliminate the hassle, but I'm not.
--Ken GrahamDayton, Wash.
Knifepoint Humor
I read Atul Gawande's "Manning the Hospital Barricades" with interest. I understand his premise that we should get along, but my comments as a "meddie" will be much more parochial.
I agree that surgeons generally work very hard. (The question of whether a lot of what they do is really necessary or appropriate is debatable, as it is for all specialties.) The "virtue" and responsibility aspect are more problematic. There is the common ritual of "medical clearance for surgery," where the "meddie" basically blesses the operation and is allowed to share responsibility, despite the fact that the note is rarely read and the recommendations are often ignored.
A less than virtuous practice that is not unheard of is to hustle the patient of a failing operation out of the OR to avoid "dying on the table."
I have a couple of additions for your medical jokes (not original). How do you hide something from an internist (meddie)? Put it under a bandage. How do you hide something from a surgeon? Put it in the patient's chart.
Some of my best friends are surgeons.
--Andrew W. March, M.D.
Flying High
About Kathy Molina's "Diary": It's great that Slate readers are getting some exposure to a segment of society of which few people are aware. Across the nation (and, to a lesser extent, around the world) are a handful of people whose passion for birds in particular, and the magnificence of living things in general, holds them apart from the rest of society. They surrender to years of poverty. They don't watch much television. And the study of animals demands that they go where the animals live and put up with what the animals put up with. (To Molina's list of bugs, sun, and windblown salt, I add cold; rain; thorns; poisonous plants; days or weeks without showers; steep, rugged terrain; snakes; lack of roads; lack of water ...)
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Report on armed resistance from Turkey/Kurdistan
We reprint a report from Red Dawn August 2018, the information bulletin of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) Turkey/Kurdistan on the guerrilla resistance to the Turkish Erdogan dictatorship (aka the AKP/Palace regime). The fighters of the MLKP army are testimony to the logic of history, namely, that oppression breeds resistance, and that it is right to rebel against reactionaries.
MLKP/FESK (Armed Forces of the Poor and Oppressed) guerrillas announced that they participated a reportin the resistance to defend the lands of Southern Kurdistan against the attacks of AKP/Palace regime.
Just before taking off to war fronts where the occupation attacks continue, in the names of MLKP/FESK guerrillas, Erdal Tîrêj and Dicle Awaz spoke at the ceremony convened in the lands of Southern Kurdistan: "We will not let the free mountains besmeared. Just like in Kobanê, Nusaybin, Afrin, we will defend every inch of Kurdistan land."
MLKP/KKÖ fighter Dicle Awaz continued her words: "We, as MLKP guerrillas, are taking our places at the war fronts along with our comrades-in-arm against occupation attacks of the colonialist Turkish army to Başurê Kurdistan. We gave martyrs in these Southern Kurdistan lands where we have been for years. Today, we will not let the fascist colonialist occupier Turkish army besmear our free areas where each one of our martyrs walked on, where Özgür Renas shed blood, where Roza Renas fell martyr during the preparation for war. We will not yield to neither the colonialist forces nor their collaborators to pass by these lands where thousands of martyrs freed with their blood."
Emphasizing that women MLKP fighters are part of the resistance in the Medya Defense Zones, just as they took part in the self-governance resistances and defended the Rojava women's revolution, Awaz stated that: "We will uphold the sacrifice spirit which Arin and Sarya raised in Kobanê, the flag of Berçem and Ekin comrades who created the sacrifice troop at the defense of their military base, even higher here at the Medaya Defece Zones today. We will defend every inch of its land until the last drop of our blood, the last bullet of our weapons. We will not let neither Rojava women's revolution nor our free zones besmeared and our revolution strangled by the fascist occupiers."
Calling all the peoples and the youth from the war fronts, Awaz added that: "This is our call from here to the peoples and especially to the youth. Take your part at the war fronts against the occupation attacks. Don't let the free mountains besmeared. Medya Defense Zones, for decades, fed the struggle of four parts of Kurdistan and created commanders. Here in Kandil, Xakurke and Bradost today, just as Arins and Sibels did in Kobanê; just as Avesta Xaburs did in Afrin, we will raise the struggle up high with the spirit of Berçem Renas and head off the occupation attacks of the fascist Turkish state."
Recording that they will not stand still against the attacks of Turkish state, Erdal Tîrêj, one of the MLKP guerrillas, said: "Our party MLKP will never stay as audience to the attacks against the Kurdish liberation movement, Kurdish people. We are fighters who believe that Kurdish people living under the colonialist yoke must be free no matter what in order for Turkish people to get freed."
Underscoring that AKP/Palace regime is preparing for occupation of Kandil, Tîrêj also stated that: "We, as MLKP fighters, starting from today, take on our weapons in Metina, Zap, Xinere, Xakurkê and in Bradost to defend the Southern Kurdistan lands inch by inch.
Together with the comrades-in-arms from HPG and YJA-Star, we defend these lands at the cost of our blood and lives. We say to those fascist occupier Turkish army, you may dare to come here, but you will suffer too."
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