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The formal criminal justice system plays only a very minor role in achieving social control and regulation. Examine this statement in relation to the methods and strategies employed to control and regulate both those who may be considered a threat o
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'The formal criminal justice system plays only a very minor role in achieving social control and regulation'. Examine this statement in relation to the methods and strategies employed to control and regulate both those who may be considered a threat of offending and ordinary members of society. The formal criminal justice system has a range of different methods which are employed to help prevent certain members of society from engaging in deviant activity. One area that has been focused on recently is terrorism. The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and of July 7th 2005, as well as the emergence of new threats such as cyber-terrorism, have lead to a number of new acts and policies being introduced that aim to prevent terrorism (Newburn, 2007, pp. 873-874). Acts, such as the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, provide the state with new powers that can be used to control terrorism suspects. This essay will look at the different ways that the criminal justice system attempts to control offenders, with particular attention being paid to suspects of terrorism. It will look at how effective these methods of social control are as well as how they affect members of the general public.
They support this action as they believe real terrorists pose a threat when control orders are used as they can abscond (Liberty, 2011). The review of control orders found that out of the 48 people issued with control orders, 7 absconded (HM Government, 2011), therefore undermining their effectiveness. Another method of social control that can be exercised by the state is the ability to detain anyone suspected of terrorism without charge for a limited amount of time. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 stated that terror suspects could be detained for 14 days without charge but it was proposed in the Terrorism Act 2006 that this be increased to 90 days, with a letter from Andy Hayman of the Metropolitan Police being sent to the Home Office supporting this (Hayman, 2005). The bill was rejected by the House of Commons because of the proposal of detaining suspects for up to 90 days. The bill was therefore amended to allow suspects to be detained for up to 28 days instead, which passed through the Commons (Crossman, 2008, p. 16). The Labour government was seen to have very little evidence that an extension of this power was necessary (Crossman, 2008, p.
and that there is little evidence that CCTV cameras result in a reduction in crime (Coleman & McCahill, 2011, p. 170). When assessing the roles of the criminal justice system in achieving social control, it can be argued that's its role is minor. The executive seems to be able to exert more control through the use of powers such as asset-freezing and the use of control orders. The CJS still maintains some methods of social control such as the police's power of stop and search and police CCTV schemes; however debate surrounds the way that these powers are used as well as the effectiveness of them. The involvement of private corporations within the field of surveillance can be viewed with scepticism due to the profit driven nature of corporations and issues surrounding data privacy. Overall, all these methods of control infringe on the rights and civil liberties of members of the public; however the duty of the state and CJS to protect the public must also be taken into account. The formal CJS also seems to play less of a role in social regulation than the executive however it does still have influential powers such as the ability to detain suspects of terror for 14 days without charge.
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Lil Wayne Confronted By Crips Gang Member [NSFW VIDEO]
Lil Wayne was verbally harassed by an angry member of the Crips gang after he left the Supper Club in L.A. on July 29.
Lil Wayne was verbally harassed by an angry member of the Crips gang after he left the Supper Club in L.A. on July 29.
Music superstars Pharrell Williams, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Drake and Lil Wayne are set to perform at the 2014 BET Awards later this month.
Lil Wayne was involved in a heated shoving match after the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana bout.
From Weezy F. Baby to hanging with a family dressed in mellow yellow? It looks like Lil Wayne has a new, more mature crew in the music video for 'Senile.'
Busta Rhymes has released another single from his upcoming 'E.L.E. 2 (Extinction Level Event 2)' and it's a good one. 'Thank You' features fellow old-timer Q-Tip, fellow Cash Money member Lil Wayne and Kanye West, and it's a long way from sounding like '#TwerkIt.'
Lil Wayne doesn't do many interviews. But he engaged in a rare sitdown with Katie Couric for the premiere of the second season of her eponymous show (Sept. 9). In this preview clip, Weezy revealed why dropping out of high school was a good thing for him and why it was his own mama who suggested that he do so.
Lil Wayne sparked some controversy in June when a behind-the-scenes clip of his 'God Bless Amerika' video showed him presumedly stomping the American flag. The official visual was released on Monday (July 15) and there appears to be no flag desecration.
UPDATE: Weezy states that the flag trampling was an accident.
Alrighty, get ready for the firestorm to start because Lil Wayne was none too nice to the stars and stripes while he was shooting his video for 'God Bless Amerika' in New Orleans. We have a feeling there is going to be some backlash.
Just a couple of days ago, we learned that Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj were planning to team up at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, and tonight (May 19), they certainly delivered. The duo weren't afraid to get down and dirty onstage — Minaj even treated the New Orleans-based rapper to a lap dance! Watch their entertaining live performance of 'High School' in the video clip above.

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Annette Funicello, who won America's heart as a 12-year-old in Mickey Mouse ears, captivated adolescent baby boomers in slightly spicy beach movies and later championed people with multiple sclerosis, a disease from which she suffered, died Monday in Bakersfield. She was 70.
Her death, from complications of the disease, was announced on the Disney website.
As an adult Funicello described herself as "the queen of teen," and millions around her age agreed. Young males enjoyed watching her blossom into womanhood, while females liked her because she was sweet, forthright and just plain nice. Parents saw her as the perfect daughter.
She was the last of the 24 original Mouseketeers chosen for "The Mickey Mouse Club," which began in 1955, when fewer than two-thirds of American households had television sets. Walt Disney had discovered her at a ballet performance.
Before long, she was getting more than 6,000 fan letters a week, and was known by just her first name in a manner that later defined celebrities such as Cher, Madonna and Prince.
Sometimes called "America's girl next door," she nonetheless managed to be at the center of the action during rock 'n' roll's exuberant emergence. She was the youngest member of Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars tour, which included LaVern Baker, the Drifters, Bobby Rydell, the Coasters and Paul Anka. Anka, her boyfriend, wrote "Puppy Love" for her in her parents' living room.
As a Mouseketeer, she received a steady stream of wristwatches, school rings and even engagement rings from young men, all of which she returned. She wrote in her 1994 autobiography, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," that irate mothers often wrote back to say "how hard Johnny or Tommy had worked to save the money for the gift and how dare I return it?"
She said that if she had charm (she undeniably had modesty), it was partly a result of her shyness.
Disney begged her to call him Uncle Walt, but she could manage only "Mr. Disney." (She could handle "Uncle Makeup" and "Aunt Hairdresser.")
At the height of her stardom, she said, her ambition was to quit show business and have nine children.
With minor exceptions, such as her commercials for Skippy peanut butter, Funicello did become a full-time homemaker after marrying at age 22. One reason, she said, was her reluctance to take parts at odds with her squeaky-clean image. She had three children.
Her cheerfulness was legendary. Her response to learning she had multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease of the central nervous system, was to start a charity to find a cure.
There was no irony, only warm good feeling, in her oft-repeated remark about the world's pre-eminent rodent: "Mickey is more than a mouse to me. I am honored to call him a friend."
Annette Joanne Funicello was born Oct. 22, 1942, in Utica, N.Y., and as the first grandchild on either side of the family was indulged to the point of being, in her own words, a "spoiled brat." At age 2, she learned the words to every song on the hit parade, her favorite being "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive." In 1946, her parents decided to move to Southern California in the hope of doing better economically. They lived in a trailer park until her father, a mechanic, found work. They settled in Studio City and later moved to Encino.
Funicello took dancing lessons, learned to play drums and, at age 9, was named Miss Willow Lake at a poolside beauty contest.
Disney, who wanted amateurs and not professional child actors, discovered her when she danced in "Swan Lake" at a local recital.
"The Mickey Mouse Club" was instantly popular as reflected by orders for 24,000 mouse-eared beanies a day. Annette quickly became the most popular Mouseketeer, and Disney marketed everything from Annette lunchboxes and dolls to mystery novels about her fictionalized adventures.
But she did not receive special treatment. When she lost a pair of felt mouse ears, she was charged $55. It was deducted from her $185 weekly paycheck.
She once decided she wanted to change her last name to something more typically American. She chose Turner. But Disney, whom she considered a second father, convinced her that her own name would be more memorable, once people learned it.
As "The Mickey Mouse Club" was ending its run in 1958, Disney summoned Funicello to his office. She feared she was going to be fired for growing too tall, but instead he offered her a studio contract the only one given to a Mouseketeer.
On Jan. 9, 1965, Funicello married her agent, Jack Gilardi.
She made a few films in the middle and late 1960s, but her attention was focused on her children, Gina, Jack Jr. and Jason Michael. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she appeared occasionally on TV but was known principally for commercials.
In 1987, she and Avalon reunited for a self-mocking beach-party movie. She wore polka dots with matching hair bows, and he portrayed a car salesman who hates the beach. Their fictional son wore punk garb and carried a switchblade.
But Funicello's main concern was being a good mom. Her daughter said in a 1994 interview with In Style magazine: "She was always there for car pools, Hot Dog Day and the PTA."
In 1981 she divorced Gilardi, in part because he was intensely social and she preferred to stay home. She later married Glen Holt, a horse breeder.
Funicello learned she had multiple sclerosis in 1987 but kept her condition secret for five years. She announced the illness after becoming concerned that her unsteadiness would be seen as drunkenness.
She set up the Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Disorders and underwent brain surgery in 1999 in an attempt to control tremors the disease caused.
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Professor Isobel Armstrong
Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Isobel Armstrong
- Qualifications:
- FBA. BA, PhD Leicester
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Location:
- Birkbeck
- Phone:
- 01392 264361
- Email address:
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- Website:
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Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- English Literature
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
To change the way nineteenth-century poetry is read by restoring women's poetry to its prominent place and by attending to the importance of print culture, making the periodical a structural part of research; to rethink the category of the aesthetic in response to a long period in which the hermeneutics of suspicion set aside a range of aesthetic and philosophical questions; glass, technology, and text in the nineteenth century, seeks an alternative to the methods of contemporary cultural theory, speculating on a method for thinking of the way a material enters the world of the text; debates on the Crystal Palace drawn from periodicals and newspapers; poems on glass
- Publication Details
Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-May-2013 'George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions'
A Companion to George Eliot. Ed. Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. 294-308.
01-Jan-2013 Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in honour of Barbara Hardy
Edited Book
Ed, with William Baker. London: Legenda, 2013.
01-Jan-2013 'Abjection and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: When is Human Not a Human?'
Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy. Ed. Isobel Armstrong and William Baker. London: Legenda, 2013. pp. 145-151
02-Aug-2013 Syntax
'Syntax', Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry, ed. Mathew Bevis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 112-129.
01-Jan-2012 'Spaces of the Nineteenth Century'
Kate Flint, ed. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. pp. 757-597.
01-Jan-2012 'The Pre-Raphaelites and Literature'
Elizabeth Prettejohn, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. pp. 15-31
01-Jan-2012 'Sally Ledger'
Research aids
Dictionary of National Biography. May 2012.
01-Jan-2011 'Meter and Meaning'
Jason David Paul, ed. Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Nineteenth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2011. pp. 26-52
01-Jan-2010 Poems
in Infinite Difference, Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, ed. Carrie Etter, Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010, 17-25.
01-Jan-2010 'Harriet Martineau and India: On not writing accusatory history'
Chapter in: Harriet Martineau. Authorship, Society, and Empire, ed. Ella Dzelzainis, Cora Kaplan, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010, 214-30.
01-Jan-2009 'Transatlantic Scholarship in Victorian Literature and Culture'
(Journal article) 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 5, 2009, 1-9.
01-Jan-2009 Review of Herbert Tucker 'Epic'
Victorian Studies, 51, 2 (2009), 387-90.
01-Jan-2009 'Introduction', The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter
'Introduction', The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter. Haydn's Tuneful Voice, ed. Caroline Grigson, Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 56, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009, 1-11.
01-Jan-2008 Victorian Glassworlds. Glass Culture and the Imagination
OUP, 2008. James Russell Lowell Prize, awarded by the Modern Language Association, December, 2009, for the best Book published during 2008
01-Jan-2003 '"Casa Guidi Windows": Spectacle and Politics in 1851'
'"Casa Guidi Windows": Spectacle and Politics in 1851' in Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-century British Women Artists in Italy, ed. by Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler ( Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003)
01-Jan-2000 The Radical Aesthetic
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
01-Jan-2000 Technology and Text: Glass Consciousness and Nineteenth-Century Culture?, Culture, Landscape, and the Environment
ed. Kate Flint, Howard Morphy, Oxford University Press
Introduction to Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy
Ed. Isobel Armstrong and William Baker. London: Legenda, 2013. pg. 2-10
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Johns Hopkins University, Department of English, USA. Public lecture.
13-Mar-2013 'Browning's Modernity and Optical Culture'
INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference), Charlottesville, University of Virginia, USA. Panel.
01-Apr-2013 '1874'
NVSA (Northeast Victorian Studies Association), Boston, USA. Plenary Panel.
01-Jan-2012 'Anna Letitia Barbauld and Joanna Baillie: A Unitarian Poetics?'
Anna Letitia Barbauld in Twenty Hundred and Twelve. Chawton House Library. May 2012.
01-Jan-2012 'Browning's Generic Plenitudes'
Re-assessing the Dramatic Monologue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Royal Holloway University of London, June 2012.
01-Jan-2012 'The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination'
University of Sussex Graduate Lecture. February, 2012.
01-Jan-2012 'George Eliot and Spinoza'
Reading and Reception Studies Seminar. Institute of English Studies, University of London. May, 2012.
15-Jul-2012 'Browning's Generic Plenitudes'
Robert Browning and Victorian Poetry at 200. Royal Holloway, University of London.
15-Nov-2012 'Browning's Modernity and Optical Culture'
Browning Centenary conference. Baylor University, USA.
19-Nov-2012 'The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination'
University of Southampton, Department of English. Lecture.
01-Dec-2012 'The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination'
University of Sheffield, Department of English. Lecture.
15-Dec-2012 'Browning's Modernity and Optical Culture'
Browning Anniversary Seminar. Birkbeck, University of London.
01-Jan-2011 'Many-coloured Glass, Aerial Images and the Work of the Lens: Romantic Poetry and Optical Culture'
Warton Lecture on English Poetry. British Academy. May, 2011.
01-Jan-2011 'The Ninteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination'
Kathleen Banks Lecture. November 2011.
01-Jan-2011 'The traffic in representation: the case of Kipling's Kim'
Commodities and Migration project conference. New York University. December, 2011.
01-Jan-2011 'Reflections on Glass'
What is to become of the Crystal Palace? The Crystal Palace after 1851. University of York. June, 2011.
01-Jan-2011 'Abjection and the Nineteenth-Century Novel'
Re-Imagining the Brontës. University of Warwick with Institute of English Studies. November 2011.
01-Jan-2011 'George Eliot and Spinoza'
Wandering Feelings: The Transmission of Emotion in the Long Nineteenth Century. Queen Mary University of London. November, 2011.
01-Jan-2011 'The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Democratic Imagination'
Conference in Honour of Professor Joanne Shattock. November 2011.
01-Jan-2010 'Many Coloured Glass: Romantic Poetry and Mediation'
Haverford College Mellon Symposium, 'Mediums, Media, and Mediation', March, 2010.
01-Jan-2010 'Optical Media and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century: the Phantasmagoria and the Photograph'
Lisbon University, 2010.
01-Jan-2009 Round Table on Victorian Glassworlds. Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-80,
Journal of Victorian Culture, 14, 1 (Spring 2009). Participants: Clare Pettit, Marcia Pointon, Bruce Robbins, Isobel Armstrong.
01-Jan-2009 'Sense and Sensibility: William James and Henry James and The Golden Bowl'
(Plenary Lecture) Harvard University Cognitive Studies and British Literature Seminars, October, 2009.
01-Jan-2009 'Metre and Meaning: Hegel's Theory of Metre'
(Principal speaker) Rushton Seminar, University of Virginia, November, 2009.
01-Jan-2003 Chair, Eighth British Council Seminar, 'Places and Spaces'
Chair, Eighth British Council Seminar, 'Places and Spaces', Delphi. Greece (September 6-13, 2003)


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Benjamin Franklin's
Secular Soteriology
Franklin's autobiography is divided into four fragments and is,
therefore, not a finished work. Yet it is constructed with a sense of public character in
mind. The first part is addressed to his son, while the others have a more general
public nature. Parts one and two examine his boyhood through his mid-20's and exemplify
the classic virtues for personal and community success that Franklin wishes to pass on for
others' profit. (These parts were written pre-revolutionary war.) Parts three and
four look closer at Franklin's years of activity, then at his triumphant reception in the
60's through the 80's. Yet, in addition to this goal of purblic service, Franklin's
autobiography also helps to create and to reinforce the public's perception of him and his
legacy to history.
The Autobiography is shaped by a Christian metastory of
salvation that has been secularized by the deist Franklin. The Christian understanding of
salvation as justification and sanctification is replaced in Franklin by character
development as a form of public presentation and by public service as a form of public
sanctity. For Franklin, "salvation" is achieved by self-control
which leads to personal autonomy. Public participation or membership is made possible by
temperance, rational consideration, and self-reliance. Franklin's secular soteriology is
that of the fully realized citizen, a view which has its foundation in the social theory
of the republic.
Key Themes
Key Themes
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into
the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little


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Seth Woodard Persily didn't like what he saw in Nathan Deal's TV ads this summer.
So the Atlanta lawyer and public relations specialist has declared a private war on the Republican nominee for governor. Persily is out to sabotage Deal's reputation on the Internet.
There is reason to believe that he is succeeding in his effort to make sure that every time Google sees the words "Nathan Deal," the world-changing search engine offers up the word "ethics."
It may be the first campaign of its kind, one that opens an entire new field of worry for political candidates.
Perhaps more important, it is a low-cost area of activism open to any small group of people with access to a computer, a keyboard and time. Persily insists he is acting as a private citizen, not on behalf of the rival campaigns of Democrat Roy Barnes or of Libertarian John Monds.
The first thing you need to know about Persily is that he is the gay father of two, joined in a Piedmont Park marriage ceremony two years ago to his partner Nathan.
Persily also sits on the board of directors of YouthPride of Atlanta, an organization dedicated to providing a social venue for gay and lesbian teens, and to the prevention of teen suicide.
On Aug. 5, near the end of his bitter primary runoff against former secretary of state Karen Handel, Deal launched a TV spot alleging that Handel at one time supported domestic partnership benefits for gay couples.
The same ad pointed to Handel's support, while on the Fulton County Commission, for funding directed to YouthPride. Deal condemned YouthPride as "a group that promotes homosexuality among teenagers as young as 13."
So Persily had two reasons to be angry.
The second thing you need to know about Persily is that he is the executive vice president of Penn Multimedia, a 2-year-old Atlanta firm that specializes in the relatively new field of reputation management — especially on the Internet.
So when Persily gets angry, he has options.
Usually, he uses his powers for good. Say a company has been forced to issue a recall on a faulty widget — a move that produces a certain amount of bad press and a viral YouTube video.
Making a difference on Google is always the prime target.
"We flood the Internet with positive results so that video or bad review or that column is no longer in the top 10 [search] results," Persily said. "Well over 90 percent of people will never go to the second page of Google. If you can control what's on that first page of Google, it doesn't really matter what people are saying about you anywhere else — because no one will ever see it."
Going after Deal was something new for Persily.
"I've never tried to harm someone's reputation. This is a first for us," he said. "We've always been in the business of cleaning people's reputations up."
What Persily has targeted is not the hyperlinked search results you get after punching the words "Nathan Deal" into Google. Given the search engine's secret algorithms, manipulation of those results is nearly impossible.
Persily has attempted something slightly more subtle.
When you type any search term into Google, the search engine immediately suggests a number of additional words. Whenever "Nathan Deal" is now typed into a Google search panel, the first suggested word is "ethics." Second is "vs. Karen Handel." And third is "bio."
Anyone who accepts Google's first suggestion will be offered page after page of articles about an investigation conducted by the Office of Congressional Ethics into allegations that, as a congressman, Deal pressured state officials to protect a private salvage business in which he was a partner.
Persily makes no claim that he created the Google connection. Only that he has encouraged it — to make sure that "ethics" stays No. 1.
He and a dozen Georgia volunteers have employed two tactics. Across the Internet, they have posted dozens of articles, dozens of times, in dozens of places, that include the words "ethics" and "Nathan Deal."
The articles don't have to be about Deal. They don't even have to be read. They just have to include the name of the north Georgia congressman, and the word "ethics."
Secondly, during spare moments through the day, whether at home or in the office, Persily and his allies go to Google and type "Nathan Deal ethics" time and time again.
This is more than a case of smoke and mirrors.
"It's conceivable. I wouldn't be very surprised if something like this worked," said Guy Lebanon, assistant professor at Georgia Tech with a specialty in machine learning and knowledge management.
The key to manipulating a Google search suggestion, Lebanon said, would be the widespread distribution of Deal-ethics articles across the Web, and to make sure that "Nathan-Deal-ethics" searches arose from many disparate locations rather than a single source.
The Deal campaign said it was aware of Persily's activities, understood the importance of reputation management, and was adopting counter-measures —saturating the Internet with positive articles about the Republican nominee for governor.
"As the frontrunner, we have to expect liberals to attack us. And they have to expect to be attacked in return," said Brian Robinson, spokesman for the Deal campaign.
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September 15th, 2010
6:04 pm
"Persily insists he is acting as a private citizen, not on behalf of the rival campaigns of Democrat Roy Barnes or of Libertarian John …"
Yeah, I believe that. I also believe the sun will rise in the west tomorrow and set in the east. I believe that the check is in the mail and that Santa Claus will come and leave me lots of presents this Christmas. I believe in the Easter Bunny . . .
September 15th, 2010
6:12 pm
He's obviously a democratic hack doing what democrats do, just like Branes' ad's,when they cannot argue the issues the try to demonize their opponent.
Only it does not work anymore, THE DEMS ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE when one candidate is about to be foreclosed on or file bankruptcy BUT STILL LEADS THE DEM candidate by 11%.
Its all over for the libs, the people have had enough of the RULING CLASS ignoring the people!
September 15th, 2010
6:14 pm
Persily should be commended for his efforts. Nobody is more susceptible to corruption than a politician with financial problems. You can't trust a man with a history of ethics violations to not use his office for personal gain. How would it look to the rest of the nation if Georgia would elect an individual that is bankrupt to lead our state?
September 15th, 2010
6:17 pm
As far as polls go, this story just broke. A lot of Republicans are now re-thinking their support for Deal. Deal should step down. Karen Handel may have a fighting chance still.
September 15th, 2010
6:21 pm
Yeah, it's totally a stretch to think that a gay man would appose some one that hates gays and wants to deny them their rights on his own. That would never happen, some one must be paying him. Morons.
September 15th, 2010
6:24 pm
"Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant" The more people know about Deal's ethics, the more likely they won't make the mistake voting for him. Just today we find out that Deal had been doing business with Community Bank & Trust in Cornelia, GA, which was shut down and sold earlier this year for , yeah you guessed it, "Unethical" lending practices.
September 15th, 2010
6:24 pm
*oppose … d@mn-it.
September 15th, 2010
6:30 pm
Fair tactic or not, Rep. Deal is ethically challenged. And, what's up with "[a]s the frontrunner, we have to expect liberals to attack us. And they have to expect to be attacked in return," said Brian Robinson, spokesman for the Deal campaign." The Deal campaign is going after the guy?
September 15th, 2010
6:32 pm
I just love the fact that the guy makes his living "covering up" bad press for companies – like defective products that could/have injured someone, covering up corporate scandals that would affect the company, etc., yet, he thinks that his work is "noble" – BS!
This guy is a corporate hack who makes his living covering up the things that companies don't want the citizenry to see/know…not a big shock that he supports Roy Barnes.
September 15th, 2010
6:43 pm
CB: Birds of a feather, so to speak.
September 15th, 2010
6:43 pm
likely in the pocket of barnes and his camp–for big money!
September 15th, 2010
6:43 pm
Who said he was a Barne's supporter. The article didn't say it. I do assume that he will support Barnes, but that does not appear to be his motive or main motive. He is mad about Deal's stances on gays and the commercials.
September 15th, 2010
6:49 pm
Deal = scumbag.Don't tell me anybody would consider voting for this hypocrite.
September 15th, 2010
6:57 pm
@bushwacker: People are tired of Conservatives as the RULING CLASS ignoring the people.
I love Deal Dweeb, Brian Robinson, his threat, "we have to expect liberals to attack us. And they have to expect to be attacked in return," Boy that's great Brian, very mature but NOT what I want from a leader. I want someone NOT tossing labels out like some junior high bully. Deal has no clue how to lead, he just smears lies and hate…LIBERALLY!
September 15th, 2010
7:05 pm
Nathan, come on up to Alaska and help me keep an eye on the Russians. You can put your shoes under my bed anytime, you sexy thang! You betcha!
September 15th, 2010
7:07 pm
Give em hell Seth!!!!
September 15th, 2010
7:15 pm
Good for him. I am sick and tired of right wing conservatives like Deal preaching personal responsibility while unable to control their own lives. So hypocritical. So pathetic.
September 15th, 2010
7:33 pm
Maybe I'll change my name to "none of the above" so I can win this race.
Seriously, no matter how bad Deal might be, his one redeaming quality is he's not Barnes. The Dems must be feeling pretty silly for having nominated him at this point, as they could have easily won this time had they nominated someone who hasn't already failed.
September 15th, 2010
7:38 pm
I'm so happy to see gay people fighting back. The commercials that Nathan Deal's campaign ran were reprehensible. It was truly sickening the way Deal attacked YouthPride and domestic partnership benefits. Deal is getting EXACTLY what he deserves.
September 15th, 2010
7:50 pm
There are more substantial issues at stake than yet another offended gay rights zealot.
September 15th, 2010
7:52 pm
I guess it is time for me to start typing " Nathan Deal sleaze" into the Google search engine.
Top ten here we come!!
September 15th, 2010
7:53 pm
Does Deal suffer from multiple personality disorder? Why does he constantly use the first-person plural when referring to himself? Is it possible only one of his personalities is ethically challenged?
September 15th, 2010
7:56 pm
It appears that Roy's gubernatorial ambition is altruistic. And Deal's ambition is to get free housing before he's foreclosed upon. And, as a life long Republican, I am sorry to have to vote Democrat to keep this sleaze out of any house…congressional or otherwise.
September 15th, 2010
7:56 pm
I take it from your comments Mr. Broch, that you are not gay.
September 15th, 2010
7:59 pm
And he will do anything, ANYTHING, to get elected. Furthermore, people like Deal, who strike out at gay people, usually have some sort of homosexual issues of their own that they are dealing with.
September 15th, 2010
8:01 pm
Persily is the same kind of public relations guy that BP hires to clean up the internet, plant positive stuff, and then claim the green crown again. Deal is just corrupt, bankrupt and republican. Wait, that's redundant.
September 15th, 2010
8:05 pm
Atlanta has been voted most homo frienly city, more than even San Francisco. Kasim Reed, Coleman of the DeKalb BOE to name a few others that the agenda has bestowed on Atlanta. I'm sure they are in the middle of the APS coup. This is all orchestrated by Attorney Brock and the "for sale" Towery. Its the reason GA remains last in education.
September 15th, 2010
8:06 pm
Hard to say which suggestion will come up first on google now:
Nathan Deal ethics
Nathan Deal bankruptcy
And why would anyone think this is anything other than a family matter?
September 15th, 2010
8:07 pm
Deal is a racist, a bigot, a crook, stupid, unethical, homophobic, and has displayed horrible judgment. He would force your 12 year olds who were raped and impregnated to carry the rapist's baby. He has said he is willing to look at secession. Of course, he'll be elected by the GA voters.
September 15th, 2010
8:15 pm
Can Coach Bobo! Oh wrong blog, anyway, maybe someone should flood the internet with Persily and Homo! Every time you type in Homo you get Persily! Slander at it's best!
September 15th, 2010
8:17 pm
atlanta mom, i'm guessing it'll be a 1-2 punch on google now. and you know what, Deal will still win. the two biggest phrases associated with our next governor are ethics and bankruptcy. you gotta love Georgia.
September 15th, 2010
8:24 pm
My, my, this is a testy bunch!
Michael said, "Deal is just corrupt, bankrupt and republican. Wait, that's redundant."
I think one could safely say that you aren't a Republican.
Bart said, "Deal is a racist, a bigot, a crook, stupid, unethical, homophobic, and has displayed horrible judgment." I think it's safe to say that you will be voting for Barnes.
So, we have two democrats that aren't voting for Deal. What a shock! This is definitely "above the fold front page news"!
Nowm in the privacy of your respective homes, practice saying, "Governor Deal".
September 15th, 2010
8:24 pm
@ethics or bankruptcy
But he feels our pain
September 15th, 2010
8:26 pm
Fantastic! I applaud his efforts! We do not need this crook as our next governor. Eight years of Sonny has just about ruined this state, a Deal administration would finish it off!
September 15th, 2010
8:36 pm
Let's see what else we can say against Nathan Deal. The Democrats are having a field day with our liberal media. Where is Roy????? What are you going to say about him????? probably acolades of some kind.
I support Mr. Deal all the way in November!!!!!!!!
September 15th, 2010
8:43 pm
The Democrats are having a field day with our liberal media. I support Mr. Deal all the way in November!
September 15th, 2010
8:51 pm
Matt D., you are correct. I am a Handel supporter who will hold my nose and vote for Barnes. It is amazing to me that anybody would vote for Deal. He is crooked, shows poor judgement, is a bigot, is unethical, has espoused secession, and is stupid. Why would I vote for Deal?
September 15th, 2010
8:51 pm
@ This is a substantive issue.
My sexual orientation is not relevant. Whether Mr. Barnes or Mr. Deal does or does not pander to gays is not a substantive issue. Among substantive issues are education, taxes, transportation, reducing the size of state government, and dealing with the under-funded state pension system.
September 15th, 2010
8:52 pm
Matt D., you are correct. I am a Handel supporter who will hold my nose and vote for Barnes. It is amazing to me that anybody would vote for Deal. He is crooked, shows poor judgement, is a bigot, is unethical, has espoused secession, and is stupid. Why would I vote for Deal?
September 15th, 2010
9:02 pm
We have got to stop putting country bumpkins in office if Georgia is ever to rise above the Deals and Richardsons that have run this state for WAY too long.
September 15th, 2010
9:03 pm
On one hand we have a man that was trying to help his daughter and son in law have the American dream of being a business owner, company went under and now he has to pay back the loans. On the other hand, we have an ex governor that sued his own state to allow illegals, convicted felons and others not qualified to vote sneak in the polls, vote and mess with the integrity of our election system (while costing the state millions to defend and making a profiting himself).
Barnes has already proven he can not be trusted in his first term by lying to the teachers and to the southern culture movement. I think the choice is clear and the average voting is going to vote for Deal.
September 15th, 2010
9:24 pm
Wow, looks like I'm gonna get lots of overtime pay this evening.
September 15th, 2010
9:27 pm
I'm voting for Deal, and so is everyone I know! The groundswell of support is amazing! Go Governor Deal!!!111!!!!!
September 15th, 2010
9:29 pm
Nathan Deal was a partner in the failed business venture, not just a poor sap for helping out his daughter and son-in-law. His handlers are attempting to put the best spin possible on his business activities, but he was in the deal to make money. For those of you who know how to look up on-line superior court clerk deed records, go to Habersham County Deed Book 839 pages 641-49 and see the transaction details. Nathan and his wife, not his daughter or son-in-law, borrowed $2.4 million on 2-1-2008 for land and building that's now valued at $725,000.Their bank payment was $15,000 a month and they had a rental agreement with the business to pay rent. The business was in the middle of nowhere and sold high-dollar outdoors equipment, clothing, and hunting/fishing supplies. For example, they offered a fancy fly rod and reel for $4,000. I doubt they sold many. Folks in NE Georgia shop at WalMart for these type items. The rich dandies that occassionally come through on their way to Highlands just didn't spend enough dough there. And we want this guy to lead our State out of the Great Recession? Get Real, say NO to Deal.
September 15th, 2010
9:29 pm
Deal really opened up his own can of worms with those absolutely reprehensible ads against Karen Handel. Did he really NEED to throw out the anti-gay agenda to win the primary? Last time I checked, hate is not a family value. And if you hate like that, you deserve a little mud slung back at you. I'm just sorry Handel didn't win so we could hopefully be having a more productive election.
September 15th, 2010
9:41 pm
The gays can take a few days off and rest from their efforts to sabotage the Deal campaign. Seems Deal and the Deal Family Dream, LLC are imploding nicely all on their own, with a little help from the entire GA press corps now, given today's news. I'm sure there is even more to, er, come out (pardon… it just typed-out that way) in these last few weeks before the election too.
This is all soooo much better'n TV!
September 15th, 2010
9:42 pm
September 15th, 2010
10:06 pm
@ Burroughston Broch
For you, your orientation might be irrelevant. However, if you and you family and your friends' families were under attack by the ethically challenged Nathan Deal, it might matter just a little bit more. Deal is a weak, immoral rascal not to mention a bigot. Trust me, I know him. I know him well.
September 15th, 2010
10:08 pm
Hey Matt, I'm thinking you might be right about Nathan Deal serving a term or two. But I don't think "Governor" will be his title. More like "Inmate."
September 15th, 2010
10:09 pm
Can't Deal use some of that $300k/yr he stole from the taxpayer while he was drinking his way through DC?
Idiot makes 'w' look like a rocket scientist…


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The King's College estates records for Northamptonshire refer to College lands in the following manors:
Weedon Bec and Weedon Lois (Pinkney).
From this page you can view images of selected documents from the Northamptonshire records, visit the online catalogue for each estate, provided through Janus, or download a copy of the county catalogue in Microsoft Word format.
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The Hon Tony Burke MP
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Decision made on Savage River Tailings dam wall
20 June 2012
A proposal by Grange Resources to raise the existing Mains Creek tailings dam wall at Savage River Iron Ore Mine in Tasmania can go ahead without further environmental assessment.
Environment Minister Tony Burke said the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has closely considered the proposal and found the action was not likely to impact on threatened species or other matters protected under national environment law.
"Mining has been occurring at this site in Savage River for decades,'' he said.
"Raising the dam wall will not impact on threatened species. Adequately containing tailings is important in protecting the downstream environment.
"I have a number of proposals in the Tarkine region coming before me and each of those decisions will be made on its individual merits.
"I will also carefully consider the cumulative impacts of multiple developments. These are decisions I take with great care.
"Any decision I make will be based on whether the new activities will impact on the nationally protected environment and each decision will be based on careful consideration of the science."
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Der Kartozeichner, on Jun 2 2010, 06:42 PM, said:
I'm just looking for a deeper understanding of the sport, man. Thanks for the help!
Sure thing! In a nutshell, the Autococker was an 'it' gun for a long time, and many people still enjoy shooting them. Like many older markers, it continues to have a niche, and rightfully so. Paintball has a rich history filled with many exceptionally fun markers that are still great to shoot today.
And also one of the best known Brass Eagle guns is an Autococker type. The Rainmaker. Still my favorite electro I own
The Rainmaker is not an Autococker; it's an electronic version of the Air Power Vector. Fun guns, the two of them.
I stand corrected then, I'd always been told they used a 'Cocker type pnuemos.


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The Winnipeg Jets final game of the season was an interesting one at the MTS Centre on Thursday night.
Winnipeg was up 2-1 after the second period, and still alive in the chase for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. By the time they came out to start the third, the chase was over as the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes in overtime and the Ottawa Senators also needed overtime to down the Washington Capitals.
With the Jets trying to maintain their focus under trying circumstances, the Montreal Canadiens scored three goals in the third period for the win.
A subdued Coach Claude Noel addressed the media post game, and as always was candid.
"I thought it was pretty much a two period game," Noel stated. "In the third I don't know what they knew or didn't know. We spent too much time in our zone.
"A lot of stuff in the first period was just silly plays. We never took advantage of power plays, especially early. It was kind of two different games."
The Jets 48 game stretch in 97 days has come to an end, and over the next few days this past season will be revisited, and also a look at what next year's team may look like.
Forward Blake Wheeler finished with 19 goals to lead the team in scoring, and despite the shortened season surpassed last year's goal total by two. Wheeler finished Thursday's game with five shots on goal. Ondrej Pavelec tied a career high with his 13th straight start.
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > Rebel Love Song
Rebel Love Song0 Reviews
My chem and Black veil brides are oon tour what happens though when everything goes wrong.
Black veil brides and My chemical romance where on tour. I couldn't belive it. I'm a huge My Chem fan!
So anyways we where meeting up at the starbucks in New Jersey, as we where doing our first show there. It was Ray's idea to do the first show here.
So a few hours later at about half two we arrived at the starbucks. It was only me and Ashley right now and so we ordered a coffee. Eventually at three o'clock everyone else turned up. Jake, CC, Jinxx, Gerard, Frank, Mikey, Ray and finally Bob. I bought the first round of coffees and we all talked about tonights show.
After about twenty minutes though some fans came up and asked us to sign a few things so we did to be nice. Most people here in Jersey are scared of us so it was a nice change to see we had fans.
So we left the Starbucks at about five and went to set up for the show at eight. We where there opening act for tonight and then they where ours the night after. I couldn't wait to see them. I had never been to there concert even though I was a huge fan. They first did I'm not okay and then went on to Famous last words.
When the show was over we all went back-stage to celebrate. I was just standing in the corner not engageing in the coverstions and stuff when Gerard walked over to me.
"Hey man your alright aren't you? You haven't spoke since we where back in Starbucks." Gerard said to me. I just stood there and stared at him his dark chocolotte brown eyes, shoulder leanth firey black hair, Misfits top and black skinnys with a black denium jacket on. I didn't relise how long I had been staring for until he started waving his hand in my face.
"W...What oh yeah am fine. Jst a little tired is all." I replied quickly.
We then stated talking about random stuff laughing and stuff. I had a really good time!
When I saw Andy for the first time my heart lept. I had always had a secret crush on him, for as long as I can remember. His long jet black hair deep blue eyes and amazing fashion sence. I just got lost in his eyes.
When he opened the show for us I couldn't help but stare at him all the way through it. He looked like he was having so much fun up on stage. He was having the time of his life. They opened us with Rebel love song. I so wanted to just hug him and never let go, and feel his soft lips on mine.
When we went on I couldn't think straight I kept thinking of Andy. Whats was going on I never fall this hard for anyone. Excerpt Frank but we broke up three months ago. Now Frank was with Mikey instead who was bi. I was happy for him but a bit jelouse to. Frank was MINE! I know e isn't anymore but still...
Anyways so yeah I was head over heels for Andy but I knew he didn't feel the same way about me. I knew that when I told Frank I liked him he was shocked. He also then jumped on top of me and kept tight hold of me. He wouldn't let me go. Thats what I hope it will be like if I ever tell him how I feel.
After the show I walked up to him as he was staying hidden in the corner "Hey man your alright aren't you? You haven't spoke since we where back in Starbucks." I asked. He just stood there and stared for a while so I waved m hand in his face. He mumbled the reply and then we started talking for a bit.
I loved talking to Andy. When I got back to the my chem bus I saw Frank crying on the couch. "Whats wrong man?" I asked he just cryed and leaned into me. Then he looked up at me and explained that Mikey had cheated on him. I felt angry at Mikey for cheating on Frank but also a bit confused.
I woke up the next day on our tour bus. When all of a sudden I heard a loud knock coming from the door. When I answered it I saw it was Mikey looking for Ash. "Hey Mikes. What ya doin here."
"Oh am just looking for Ash you seen him this morning?" He said I was just about to shoutAsh when he turned up behind me. After they had left I headed to the My Chem tour bus and knocked on the door. Gerard answered it and I saw Frank crashed out on the couch, dry tears running down his face.
"How come Franks not with Mikey?" I asked Gerard and then he explained to me what had happened. I felt so sorry for Frank it was unfair that he was cheated on. I couldn't belive Mikey would off though.
Then Frank woke up and saw me and Gerard talking in the kitchen. I turned round and saw him upset and walked over to him. I gave him a hug and reasured him that it was all going to be okay.


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Thank you for the light
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Hanson was a pretty, somewhat faded woman of forty, who sold corsets and girdles, travelling out of Chicago. For many years her territory had swung around through Toledo, Lima, Springfield, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Fort Wayne, and her transfer to the Iowa-Kansas-Missouri district was a promotion, for her firm was more strongly entrenched west of the Ohio.
Eastward, she had known her clientele chattily and had often been offered a drink or a cigarette in the buyer's office after business was concluded. But she soon found that in her new district things were different. Not only was she never asked if she would like to smoke but several times her own inquiry as to whether anyone would mind was answered half apologetically with "It's not that I mind, but it has a bad influence on the employees."
"Oh, of course, I understand."
Smoking meant a lot to her sometimes. She worked very hard and it had some ability to rest and relax her psychologically. She was a widow and she had no close relatives to write to in the evenings, and more than one moving picture a week hurt her eyes, so smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
The last week of her first trip on the new circuit found her in Kansas City. It was mid-August and she felt somewhat lonely among all her new contacts, so she was delighted to find at the outer desk of one firm a woman she had known in Chicago. She sat down before having herself announced and in the course of the conversation found out a little about the man she was going to see.
"Will he mind if I smoke?"
"What? My God, yes!" her friend said. "He's given money to support the law against it."
"Oh. Well, I'm grateful for the advice—more than grateful."
"You better watch it everywhere around here," her friend said. "Especially with the men over fifty. The ones who weren't in the war. A man told me that nobody who was in the war would ever object to anyone smoking."
But at her very next stop Mrs. Hanson ran into the exception. He seemed a pleasant young man but his eyes fixed with so much fascination on the cigarette that she was tapping on her thumbnail that she put it away. She was rewarded when he asked her to lunch and during the hour she obtained a considerable order.
Afterward, he insisted on driving her to her next appointment, though she had intended to spot a hotel in the vicinity and take a few puffs in the washroom.
It was one of those days full of waiting—everyone was busy, was late, and it seemed that when the clients did appear they were the sort of hatchet-faced men who did not like other people's self-indulgence, or they were women willingly or unwillingly committed to the ideas of these men.
She hadn't smoked since breakfast and she suddenly realized that that was why she felt a vague dissatisfaction at the end of each call, no matter how successful it had been in a business way.
She would say, "We think we cover a different field. It's all rubber and canvas, of course, but we do manage to put them together in a different way. A thirty-per-cent increase in national advertising in one year tells its own story."
And to herself she was thinking, If I could just get three puffs I could sell old-fashioned whalebone.
She had one more store to visit now but her appointment was not for half an hour. That was just time to go to her hotel but, as there was no taxi in sight, she walked along the street, thinking, Perhaps I ought to give up cigarettes. I'm getting to be a drug fiend.
Before her, she saw the Catholic cathedral. It seemed very tall, and suddenly she had an inspiration: if so much incense had gone up in the spires to God, a little smoke in the vestibule would make no difference. How could the Good Lord care if a tired woman took a few puffs in the vestibule?
Nevertheless, though she was not a Catholic, the thought offended her. Was it so important that she have her cigarette, when it might offend a lot of other people, too?
Still. He wouldn't mind, she thought persistently. In His days, they hadn't even discovered tobacco… .
She went into the church; the vestibule was dark, and she felt for a match in the bag she carried but there weren't any.
I'll go and get a light from one of their candles, she thought.
The darkness of the nave was broken only by a splash of light in one corner. She walked up the aisle toward the white blur, and found that it was not made by candles and, in any case, it was about to go out—an old man was on the point of extinguishing a last oil lamp.
"These are votive offerings," he said. "We put them out at night. We think it means more to the people who give them to save them for next day than it would to keep them burning all night."
"I see."
He struck out the last one. There was no light left in the cathedral now, save an electric chandelier high overhead and the ever-burning lamp in front of the Sacrament.
"Good night," the sexton said.
"Good night."
"I guess you came here to pray."
"Yes, I did."
He went out into the sacristy. Mrs. Hanson knelt down and prayed.
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Recently, I came across an article in the Global Post titled "India: The orphans of HIV" by Hanna Ingber Win, and what made this piece of writing particularly memorable was its focus on the growing number of HIV-positive children that are living beyond their life expectancy.
Win rightfully points out that "[a]s children in India live longer with HIV than was ever expected, Indian society must grapple with new challenges as these orphans transition into adulthood."
When I shared this article with my fellow staff members and volunteers of Tara Children's Project, it elicited a unanimous response – we always expected our children to live a long life, much into their adulthood. This article reinforced/confirmed our collective belief and approach towards working with the children, giving us even greater hope to continue with our work.
As a large number of HIV-positive children in the global community are growing up and requiring their own unique services, and with the number of children 15 years and younger orphaned by AIDS in India estimated to be anywhere between 2 to 4 million this year (UN/USAID), we have an enormous social challenge ahead of us.
The Tara Children's Project, a project of Root Institute for Wisdom Culture, is committed to providing a safe and loving environment where special children learn universal ethics and values based on the Six Basic Guidelines (distilled from the 16 Guidelines): kindness, rejoicing, patience, forgiveness and apology, and courage. In addition, they have access to education, holistic health care and psycho-social support. In short, The Tara Children's Project is their home for life.
Prior to admission, most of the children were neglected by family members and relatives. On top of losing their parents to the disease, many of these children face great discrimination. They are the silent victims of the epidemic. Naushad, who dreams of flying a plane one day, was deserted by his father following his mother's death from HIV/AIDS. Even though we cannot replace everything they've lost, we can give them a chance at a normal life, in a "family" of kind, supportive caregivers, teachers and role models.
As the current volunteer coordinator of the Tara Children's Project and as someone that has seen the immeasurable potential in our children during my 10 months at Root Institute, I started to daydream (a habit nourished by the scorching 45°C [113°F] Bodhgaya heat) that our children were no longer just children, but courageous, confident, compassionate young adult activists at the forefront of this social movement, demanding equal rights and services, and becoming an inspiration for all other marginalized groups.
A strong sense of values, ethics and civic engagement developed through the universal education framework at home, coupled with a broad knowledge and transferrable skills developed through a strong academic preparation will ensure our children success and happiness in any field they choose. In fact, with our oldest child, Arpita, entering adolescence, we are discussing plans to send her to one of the better private schools in the area.
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