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Aboriginal politicians
There are not many Aboriginal politicians in Australia's history. Proportionally Australia should have at least 6 Aboriginal federal parliamentarians.
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Unsurprisingly, there are not many Aboriginal politicians in Australia's history. But their numbers are increasing. Below is a selection of Aboriginal politicians (for a full list check out Wikipedia).
Cynthia Lui – 2017
Cynthia Lui was born on Thursday Island and raised on Yam Island in the Torres Strait. Her grandfather was a community teacher and both he and her father served as Chairperson of Yam Island Community Council.
For more than 12 years Cynthia has worked in health, child protection and family support services throughout far north Queensland. [13] In the Queensland state election in November 2017 she won the seat of Cook (Cape York/North Queensland) for the Australian Labor Party, becoming the first Torres Strait Islander elected to office in Australia.
Linda Burney – 2016
Former New South Wales deputy Labor leader Linda Burney is a Wiradjuri woman who became the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament after winning the southern Sydney seat of Barton in the federal election in 2016. With her win she also became the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives
Before running for Barton, Burney was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Canterbury for the Australian Labor Party from 2003 to 2016. She was also Shadow Minister for Education and Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.
During 2008 and 2009, Burney was National President of the Australian Labor Party. [8]
Yingiya Mark Guyula – 2016
Yingiya Mark Guyula is an independent member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, and was elected at the 2016 Territory election, where he narrowly defeated the Labor member for Nhulunbuy and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Lynne Walker.
Yingiya was born and raised in Mirrngadja, and went to school at Galiwinku. His people are the Liya-dhälinymirr Djambarrpuyŋu of Arnhem Land. He worked in aviation as an aircraft mechanic, and gained his private pilot licence. He also worked as a senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University in its Yolŋu Studies program. [10]
Yingiya is an elder and spokesperson of the Yolŋu Nations Assembly and campaigned for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
Malarndirri McCarthy – 2016
Malarndirri McCarthy is a Yanyuwa woman from Borroloola in the Gulf of Carpentaria. She worked as a senior presenter and journalist for NITV News and host of Week in Review before in July 2016 becoming a Senator for the Northern Territory with the Australian Labor Party.
From 2005–2012, Malarndirri represented the people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory Parliament. She was a Northern Territory Minister in 2008-2012 and held numerous portfolios including Children & Families, Indigenous & Regional Development, Women, Tourism and Local Government.
Malarndirri spent 16 years presenting and reporting for ABC News and Stateline in the Northern Territory, Sydney and Canberra. Malarndirri is passionate about seeing young Aboriginal people stay at school through to Year 12, and on to tertiary study and work. [9]
Leeanne Enoch – 2015
Nunukul-Nughi woman and Labor member Leeanne Enoch became the first Aboriginal woman elected to Queensland Parliament in February 2015.
Before her election she worked with the Queensland Council of Unions on its Indigenous Working Party to develop policy and strategies for Aboriginal people. [5]
Billy Gordon – 2015
Billy Gordon in February 2015 won the far north Queensland seat of Cook, spanning Cape York and Torres Strait.
He was born in Innisfail and describes himself as a longtime local with strong ties to the far north Queensland community. [5]
Nova Peris – 2013
Nova Peris became the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Federal Parliament in September 2013.
The Olympic hockey and running gold medal winner took a place in the Senate representing the Northern Territory for Labor.
She is a traditional owner/descendent of and identifies with the Gija People of the East Kimberley, Yawuru People of the West Kimberley (Broome) and Muran People of West Arnhem land NT.
Nova was born and raised in Darwin and her mother, grandmother and grandfather are all members of the Stolen Generations.
Nova has extensive community experience addressing Aboriginal disadvantage, particularly in the Northern Territory. She helped deliver more than 100 health and education checks across communities Australia-wide and has worked to establish the innovative Nova Peris Girls Academy (NGPA), which focuses on keeping Aboriginal Girls' engaged with education.
I climbed mountains in two different sports. I find in politics, you have to move the mountains that are put in front of you - and that is possible. Stone by stone, you can move a mountain.—Nova Peris [4]
Adam Giles – 2013
Adam Giles became the first Aboriginal person to lead a state or territory government within Australia in March 2013.
Giles was born in the Blue Mountains. After working in real estate he became a social and economic policy adviser for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
He first appeared on the national stage in 2004 when he stood as the Liberal candidate for the safe federal Labor seat of Fraser, then held by Bob McMullan, as one of the few Aboriginal candidates running.
After settling in Alice Springs, Giles stood without success as the Country Liberal Party candidate for Lingiari in 2007 before being elected the MP for Braitling in the 2008 territory election.
Bess Nungarrayi Price – 2012
Bess was elected a member of the Country Liberal Party in 2012. She is a Member for Stuart in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. She lives in Alice Springs in Central Australia with her husband David Price. She was born in Yuendumu, and her first language is Warlpiri. Bess also knows Luritja, Western Arrernte and Anmatyerre.[7]
Bess holds several portfolios: Minister for Local Government and Community Services, Minister for Parks and Wildlife, Minister for Statehood and Minister for Women's Policy (since 2013), Minister for Local Government (since 2014) Minister for Housing (since 2015). [7]
Ken Wyatt – 2010 & 2017
Liberal candidate and Nyoongar man Ken Wyatt became the first ever Aboriginal person in the House of Representatives and the only Aboriginal parliamentarian at federal level after the federal election in August 2010.
Ken Wyatt is only the third Aboriginal Australian to sit in the national parliament. He held his maiden speech draped in a traditional ceremonial cloak of kangaroo hide ("bookha") and wearing the feather of a cockatoo. In a rare moment of Australian political history both sides of politics joined to give him a standing ovation [1].
In January 2017 Ken Wyatt was appointed Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health, making him the first Aboriginal federal minister.
Linda Jean Burney – 2003
Wiradjuri woman Linda Jean Burney is a member of the NSW Legislative Assembly representing Canterbury for the Australian Labor Party since 2003. She became the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament.
During 2008 and 2009, Burney was National President of the Australian Labor Party. In 2014 Burney was the Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party in NSW.
Aden Ridgeway – 1999
Aden Ridgeway was a New South Wales Democrats Senator from 1999 to 2005.
Many of the remote mobile polls and the polling stations in larger centres did not cater for people who could not read or write, or who did not speak English. I witnessed this myself, seeing AEC [Australian Electoral Commission] staff struggling with Aboriginal naming conventions, illiterate voters and those who couldn't speak English.—Deidre Finter, independent candidate for Lingiari [2]
Ernie Bridge – 1996
Ernie Bridge (AM) was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 2001, representing the electorate of Kimberley, first as an Australian Labor Party representative (1980–1996) and then as an independent Member of Parliament (1996–2001).
He was the first Aboriginal Australian to be a cabinet minister in any Australian government. He was married to Mavis Bridge until her death in March 2009 and has 4 children.
Ernie Bridge died on 31 March 2013, aged 76.
He was a stockman and a country music performer before serving in the Labor government of Brian Burke from 1986 as minister for water resources, the North West and Aboriginal affairs. He is survived by his 4 children.
Pat O'Shane AO – 1981
Patricia "Pat" O'Shane was appointed permanent head of the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs in 1981, the first Aboriginal person (and first woman) to become a permanent head of ministry in Australia. She left that position in 1986 when she became a magistrate.
Pat O'Shane was also the first Aboriginal Australian barrister (1976), the first woman to be appointed to the New South Wales Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board (1979), the first Aboriginal teacher in Queensland and the Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate, serving the Local Court in Sydney between 1986 until her retirement in 2013. [6]
Eric Deeral – 1974
Eric Deeral was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to an Australian state parliament, representing the seat of Cook in the Queensland Parliament from December 1974 to November 1977 for the National Party. [12]
Born at Hope Vale Lutheran Mission in 1932, Eric Deeral left school at the age of 13 and held down various jobs as a labourer, bush worker and stockman. In
1957 he became the Chairman of the Hope Vale Mission Community Council and then a liaison officer with the Queensland Aboriginal Affairs Department. In 1973, he was appointed as a consultant to the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.
In 1964 Elders of the Cape York and Torres Strait communities selected him to stand as a candidate for parliament. 10 years later he defeated 6 other candidates to win the state electorate of Cook, representing the National Party.
In parliament, Deeral made it clear he represented all members of his electorate. He pointed out that he considered himself an Australian from Queensland, as the Deerals had lived in the Cook electorate for over 20,000 years.
After losing his seat in the 1977 election, he became the first chairperson of the Aboriginal Coordination Council established in 1985 to advise the government on the wellbeing of Aboriginal people living on communities. He became the Chairman of the Legislation Review Committee that examined Queensland legislation and its impact on Aboriginal land rights during the early 1990s.
In 1995, he directed a project on the positive role Elders could play in reducing the number of Aboriginal people in Queensland prisons and youth detention centres.
In 2012, the Parliament's annual Indigenous Youth Parliament event was renamed in his honour. Shortly afterwards, Eric Deeral passed away on 5 September 2012 in Hope Vale, Queensland at the age of 80.
Neville Bonner – 1971
Neville Thomas Bonner was a Queensland Liberal Senator from 8 September 1971 to 1983, and Australia's first Aboriginal parliamentarian.
He grew up in Queensland's Tweed River area as a man of the Jagera people. Unable to get an education because there was no segregated school nearby, his only schooling was a year at Beaudesert [3].
Bonner won elections in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1980. In 1978 a barmaid refused him service telling him "we don't serve darkies here", for which he demanded an apology.
In 1983 he attempted to run as an independent candidate but was unsuccessful.
The Griffith University of Queensland awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1993.
Bonner died of lung cancer in 1999.
How many Aboriginal politicians should be in Parliament?
The Lower House in Australia's political system is made of 150 politicians while the Senate has 76.
Assuming that Aboriginal people constitute 3% of the population, Australia should have at least 6 Aboriginal federal parliamentarians.
By comparison, New Zealand has 7 dedicated Maori seats in parliament.
However, this simple calculation assumes that Aboriginal politicians represent Aboriginal people, which they do not, as the next section shows.
Who do Aboriginal politicians represent?
This question is trickier than it appears: Aboriginal politicians represent Aboriginal people, don't they?
No, they don't, says Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic.
Australian political parties cannot claim that their Aboriginal members represent Aboriginal people as they do not have an Aboriginal mandate. "They were elected to serve the mandate of the political party of which they are a member," Anderson says, "and to serve the interests of that political party's policies. They are not representatives of their own First Nations and are MPs [Members of Parliament] in the broadest sense and are elected by the mainstream mainly non-Aboriginal vote." [11]
Consequently these Aboriginal politicians cannot affect traditional law. "It does not matter how many First Nations people become MPs in the Westminster parliamentary system in Australia, because they will not and cannot undermine the Continental Common Law held by First Nations under our Law and culture across this continent."


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The Oculomotor Nerve (CN III)
The oculomotor nerve is the third cranial nerve (CNIII). It offers motor and parasympathetic innervation to many of the ocular structures.
In this article we shall look at the anatomical course, functions and clinical correlations of the oculomotor nerve.
Motor: Innervates a number of the extraocular muscles.
Parasympathetic: Supplies the sphincter pupillae and the ciliary muscles of the eye.
Sympathetic: No direct function, but sympathetic fibres run with the oculomotor nerve to innervate the superior tarsal muscle (helps to raise the eyelid).
Anatomical Course
The oculomotor nerve originates from the anterior aspect of the midbrain. It moves anteriorly, passing below the posterior cerebral artery, and above the superior cerebellar artery. The nerve pierces the dura mater and enters the lateral aspect of the cavernous sinus. Within the cavernous sinus, it receives sympathetic branches from the internal carotid plexus. These fibres do not combine with the oculomotor nerve – they merely travel within its sheath.
The nerve leaves the cranial cavity via the superior orbital fissure. At this point, it divides into superior and inferior branches. Once within the orbital cavity, both branches innervate accessory structures of the eye:
- Superior branch: Motor innervation to the superior rectus and levator palpabrae superioris. Sympathetic fibres run with the superior branch to innervate the superior tarsal muscle.
- Inferior branch: Motor innervation to the inferior rectus, medial rectus and inferior oblique. Parasympathetic fibres to the ciliary ganglion, which ultimately innervates the sphincter pupillae and ciliary muscles.
Motor Functions
The oculomotor nerve innervates the majority of the extra-ocular muscles. These muscles move the eyeball and upper eyelid.
Superior branch:
- Superior rectus – Elevates the eyeball
- Levator palpabrae superioris – Raises the upper eyelid.
There are sympathetic fibres that run with the superior branch of the oculomotor nerve. They innervate the superior tarsal muscle, which acts to keep the eyelid elevated after the levator palpabrae superioris has raised it.
Inferior branch:
- Inferior rectus – Depresses the eyeball
- Medial rectus – Adducts the eyeball
- Inferior oblique – Elevates, abducts and laterally rotates the eyeball
Parasympathetic Functions
There are two structures in the eye that receive parasympathetic innervation from the oculomotor nerve:
- Sphincter pupillae – constricts the pupil, reducing the amount of light entering the eye.
- Ciliary muscles – contracts, causes the lens to become more spherical, and thus more adapted to short range vision.
The parasympathetic fibres travel in the inferior branch of the oculomotor nerve. Within the orbit, they branch off and synapse in the ciliary ganglion. The fibres are carried from the ganglion to the eye via the short ciliary nerves.
Clinical Relevance: Oculomotor Nerve Lesion
There are three main anatomical causes of an oculomotor nerve lesion:
- Increasing intracranial pressure – this compresses the nerve against the temporal bone.
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- Cavernous sinus infection or trauma.
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- Ptosis (drooping upper eyelid) – due to paralysis of the levator palpabrae superioris.
- Eyeball resting in the 'down and out' location – due to the paralysis of the superior, inferior and medial rectus, and the inferior oblique. The patient is unable to elevate, depress or adduct the eye.
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Here's a glance at the opponents the Patriots will see from now 'til the end of the regular season on New Year's Eve.
FOXBORO – The degree of difficulty is about to increase.
The cumulative record of the eight teams the Patriots have played to date is currently 31-29. The cumulative record of the teams the Patriots will play the final eight games of the regular season is currently 33-26.
Here's a look at the schedule the 6-2 Patriots will play the rest of the way:
Nov. 12 at Denver (3-4) – The Patriots will return from this week's bye to play the Broncos in a Sunday night game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
It's never a good thing when a team's executive vice president of football operations and general manager is a better quarterback than the guys on his coach's depth chart, but that's the case in Denver where John Elway has been sitting upstairs in his perch looking down as Trevor Siemian misguides a turnover-plagued offense (17, second-most in the league; five in Monday night's 29-19 loss at Kansas City).
In the aftermath of that, the Broncos' third straight loss, coach Vance Joseph is turning to Brock Osweiler for this Sunday's game at Philadelphia.
There is the matter of that Denver defense (ranked first overall, second against the run and sixth against the pass), though, not to mention the problems Tom Brady habitually encounters in the Mile High City (where he is 3-7 all time).
Nov. 19 at Oakland (3-5) – At Mexico City, actually, as the Raiders play host to the Patriots at Azteca Stadium.
An injury to franchise quarterback Derek Carr early in the season certainly didn't help the situation, but even with that factored into the equation the Raiders have underachieved.
Since winning the first two games of the season, a one-point victory over Kansas City in a game extended by penalties is all that stands between the Raiders and a six-game losing streak.
Nov. 26 vs. Miami (4-3) – The Patriots' lone game at Gillette Stadium between now and Christmas Eve.
I always thought the decision to lure Jay Cutler out of retirement after Ryan Tannehill went down for the season with a left knee injury was a mistake, my feeling being that he is a mediocre quarterback with an attitude that's worse.
That hasn't changed, but after seeing Matt Moore, whom I felt would have better served the Dolphins all along, perform in last Thursday night's humiliating 40-0 loss at Baltimore I'm not sure where this team turns.
Not to Jay Ajayi.
On Tuesday, the Dolphins dealt their leading rusher to the Philadelphia Eagles for a fourth-round draft pick.
Dec. 3 at Buffalo (5-2) – Do you believe in miracles?
Could the Bills make the playoffs for the first time in the 21st century?
Some of the numbers aren't particularly good – with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback, the Bills are ranked 25th in the league in total offense and 29th in passing; on the flip side they're 22nd in total defense and 28th in defending the pass – but rookie head coach Sean McDermott's team is unbeaten at home (4-0) and is a league-best plus-14 in the turnover department.
The fact that the Bills sent a couple of draft picks to Carolina to acquire wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin in a trade deadline deal on Tuesday confirmed that the Bills are serious about this year.
Dec. 11 at Miami (4-3) – A Monday night game at Hard Rock Stadium marks the AFC East rivals' second meeting in three weeks after they don't see each other until Game 11.
Dec. 17 at Pittsburgh (6-2) – With the Steelers currently tied with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Patriots for the best record in the AFC, this trip to Heinz Field figures to have some serious playoff seeding implications.
The season's been a soap opera – between Ben Roethlisberger's "woe is me" attitude following a five-interception performance against Jacksonville, the antics of diva receivers Antonio Brown (sideline tantrum) and Martavis Bryant (letting it be known he wouldn't mind being traded and taking to Instagram to diss teammate JuJu Smith-Schuster) and running back Le'Veon Bell's second guessing (questioning the game plan) – but the Steelers still sit atop their customary perch in the AFC North.
Dec. 24 vs. Buffalo (5-2) – The teams' second meeting in four games after the division rivals don't meet until Game 12.
Dec. 31 vs. New York Jets (3-5) – The Patriots wrap up the regular season against a team that gave them all they could handle in a 24-17 decision at MetLife Stadium on Oct. 15, but one that figures to be taking a "wait 'til next year" approach by New Year's Eve.
Following a three-game win streak, the Jets are back on track, losing three games in a row.


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Gaunt opened discussion of the presentation at the 11/10 RUL faculty meeting on MIS v. MLS by Kay Vandergrift and Claire McInerney from SCILS. She distributed copies from their PowerPoint slides comparing the two types of degree programs. While it is clear that there are similarities, the context is different. The Committee asked for clarification about the Management of Information Science degree–could this refer to an undergraduate degree also? Weber responded that the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Line Use was specifically referring to the ALA-accredited MIS (Master's in Information Systems) degree in their report. The MIS degree is more quantifiable and relies on financial data, while the Management of Information Science degree has more of a content basis like the MLS. In the MIS program outcomes are measurable, but this is not generally so for the MLS program. Womack attended UNC when their MIS program was just getting started; although the MIS courses were not the same as the MLS program (more computer context in MIS), they were parallel. Some concern was voiced that the MLS curriculum was being incorporated into the MIS program, and the result would be that many librarians would not be trained to do the things we need. Currently there are only two schools (UNC and Indiana) that have ALA-accredited MIS programs. SCILS is in the process of revising their curriculum to put more emphasis on the modern technological environment. They are changing their degree to a Master's in Library and Information Science. Not all current RUL librarians have actual MLS degrees, but have similar titles and are ALA-accredited. The committee agreed that ALA accreditation should be the standard (since this should imply a library orientation) and that RUL should accept any library/information science master's degree that has ALA accreditation. PPAAC will notify the Human Resources Office to make this change in future position postings.
Research Leave Review Committee (Tipton): RLRC is meeting in early December to review the Program Reinvention Opportunity Project (PROP) and its possible relationship to the SRA program. PROP was suggested by the Public Services Council as a way to provide release time for librarians in order to pursue projects that contribute toward the development of the digital library. Cabinet has made some revisions in the original proposal, and Gaunt will distribute latest draft to Coordinating Committee. Au is working on a special project to develop a library module on e-College; this was not a PROP but is a good example of the type of project that might be considered. Should we develop a systematized structure for PROP? RLRC will review and bring recommendations back to the committee at next meeting.
Personnel Policy and Affirmative Action Committee (Marker): Committee has begun work on revising library personnel documents. They are working on two forms: Procedures for Filling Open and Newly Created Library Positions (RUL document) and the Library Faculty Position Review Form (from Gaunt). The committee had some confusion regarding the various bodies that review positions–do these reviews happen concurrently or sequentially, and if sequentially who goes first? The current official procedure when a vacancy occurs is for the University Librarian, Faculty Coordinator, Chair of Planning Committee, Libraries Personnel Officer, and Unit Librarian to meet to discuss the location/relocation/revamping of the open line and budget implications. In actual practice the Unit Librarian works with the unit faculty to create the APP. This is sent to the University Librarian, who refers it to the Planning Committee and the Faculty Coordinator for review (within 5 days) before making a final decision. Gaunt stated that what she needs to know early-on is whether the appropriate people have been consulted and that there is justification for the position as written. There was general agreement that the Planning Committee should be involved at an earlier stage in this process. They should be looking at overall current and future needs of the faculty–what changes we may need and what lines and activities we should preserve. They should continue to review open lines and judge their allocation against these overall needs. It may be unnecessary for the Faculty Coordinator and the Planning Committee to do separate reviews, especially considering the short turnaround time required. PPAAC will incorporate this feedback into their review of the documents and will report back to the Coordinating Committee. Gaunt will remind the Human Resources Office to notify Planning Committee within 10 days of a faculty resignation.
Scholarly and Professional Activity Committee (Womack): Have begun working with tenured faculty to solicit input on mentoring activities. Committee will meet soon to discuss.
Public Services Council (Weber): Last meeting was 10/26. Montanaro showed samples of cataloging records from Early English Books Online. Smulewitz will attend 11/30 meeting to make presentation on MARC holdings.
Newark Campus (Au): Sixth Annual Book Arts Symposium was a success. Holding book and record sale at end of month.
Technical Services Council (TSC): The 96,000 records from Early English Books Online will be loaded in late November/early December. Cataloging for Showalter collection is completed. Montanaro announced she needs to replace 500 PCs. Held discussion on emerging standards of metadata.
Research Leave Review Committee (Tipton): Beginning the busy season for applications (SRA and FASP). Meeting in December to discuss PROP.
Scholarly and Professional Activities Committee (Womack): Will hold a forum on exhibits sometime in December.
New Brunswick Campus (Hancock, Wilson): NBL is holding one-day retreat in January. Theme is "Putting the User at the Center." In preparation, faculty are working in groups to create possible responses to various scenarios.
Camden Campus (Haynes): Camden's response to book sales has been to hold these spontaneously when there are too many gift books.
There is a new entity called the New Jersey Coastal Communiversity being developed. The idea was proposed and is being managed by Brookdale Community College. It would be housed at a site in Monmouth County where New Jersey colleges and universities could offer distance education courses as part of degree programs. There are still many issues to be resolved–for example, if credits are offered through the participating institutions, whose students are they? If students are taking Rutgers courses, what type of library services should they be entitled to? More on this as it develops.
V.Calderhead attended a conference on e-books in Washington and has agreed to do a brown bag lunch. Date and time to be announced.
Respectfully submitted,
Penny Page


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I have three new UNESCO places from China today, and one place that I am not sure if it is a UNESCO or not. First is one of the Fujian Tulou:
This is the Eryi tulou, of the Dadi tulou cluster at Zhangzhou City. This building was built in 1770. The tulou are a type of rural dwelling of the Hakka people. They are built like castles, but are ring shaped. They are made out of compacted earth and are built for defense. On this card you can see the gun holes at the top of the building along the roof, as well as the structure's only outer door. These buildings typically housed many generations of a single family clan. This card was sent by shiny3 from China. Thanks!
Next is this card from Jiangxi province, sent by Hanna. It shows Mount Lushan, in Lushan National Park:
Lushan National Park has been on the UNESCO list since 1996. The highest peak is 1,474 meters above sea level. This card shows the Dragon Head Cliff. As well as being a beautiful landscape, Mount Lushan is actually inscribed for cultural criteria. It is the founding site of Pure Land Buddhism and was the home and inspiration of many Chinese poets.
The second card from Hanna is also a mountain, this one is Mount Huangshan in Anhui province.
Both Mount Lushan and Mount Huangshan are covered in clouds for more than 200 days of the year. Mount Huangshan is a combined cultural and natural site. It is a beautiful landscape and home to many endangered and rare species. It is also the inspiration for many poets and artists and the growing region for some unique teas.
Nearby, also in Anhui, is the village of Guanlu. I am not sure if this is included in the site Ancient Villages of Southern Anhui, or if it is only the nearby and very similar villages of Hongcun and Xidi.
This card comes from Kolly. The village dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasties. I'm learning so much about Chinese history from my postcard collecting!


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Pure Grace by Philosophy - Hot Salt Scrub Review*
I was contacted by someone from Talented Talkers (@TalentedTalkers) recently who asked if I'd like to review the hot salt scrub 'Pure Grace' by Philosophy. If you haven't heard of Talented Talkers, they are a group of cool and hip people who get bloggers participating in reviews for a whole host of brands. Exciting stuff! Anyway, enough about those guys, and more about the product... In the words of Paddy McGuiness - "Let the scrub see the skin!"
Last night I thought I'd treat myself to a bath (get me, pushing the boat out), and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to use the hot salt scrub. I'm not usually a big exfoliater kind of person, I know you're meant to exfoliate regularly but I never seem to have time to do it unless I'm going for a spray tan or something - so this is kind of a big deal for me!
My skin is usually pretty dry and I have to admit, it's been looking a bit dull since winter has hit. My tan from holiday has slowly faded and I've been left with pale, slightly dry, dull looking skin. Delicious! I used the Pure Grace hot salt scrub on the majority of my body yesterday - legs, arms, stomach, ankles and elbows, neck - why not ay? The texture of the scrub is really nice with a creamy smooth feel at first, followed by a slightly abrasive texture from the salt. It's not too harsh either - I've found before that some exfoliants can be a bit too scratchy - but this was quite gentle and left my skin feeling super soft and smooth!
Pure Grace by Philosophy (RRP - £20.50) is a little bit of luxury in a lovely tub. There's something about how beauty product packaging is designed that's a big deal for me - I like something that I can leave out in the bathroom which will go with the interior! And the black and white, simplistic design of Pure Grace does just that. The tub holds 625g of the stuff so you get quite a lot of bang for your buck too. Overall I'm really pleased with the hot salt scrub and I'm hoping to try using it regularly to get rid of this dull, wintry skin I seem to be sporting just lately.
Have you tried Philosophy before? What did you think? Link me to your reviews in the comments section :)


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Vermont Mozart Festival – Schedule
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Vermont Mozart Festival is in full swing, after its Grand Opening, last Sunday night (see our posting).
Quite unique in its format with 16 concerts (plus 3 for families and kids), over 3 weeks from July 13 to August 3, in various locations throughout Vermont! Great music, wonderful scenery, many opportunities for a nice outdoor picnic before the concert. And to make it even more special, several of these venues are actually taking place in historic sites: such as the West Monitor Barn, St. Anne's Shrine, Middlebury Hall Town Theater, Barre Opera House and of course the Inn at Shelburne Farms.
We have the complete schedule of concerts with artists and locations for you on our Event Calendar page (easier to glance at than the official website, we believe)!
Link to Vermont Mozart Festival official website for bookings.


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REGINA — A man who struck and killed a conservation officer on a Saskatchewan highway says the court didn't properly consider his background of poverty, abuse in a residential school and struggle with alcohol when he was sentenced.
Blaine Taypotat was given 9 1/2 years for running down Justin Knackstedt in May 2013.
Taypotat's appeal of his sentence is to be heard Thursday in Regina.
Documents filed by Taypotat's lawyer argue the trial judge misapplied the Gladue factor, a sentencing principle which requires courts to take into account an indigenous offender's background.
"The environment Mr. Taypotat grew up with was fraught with alcohol-induced violence," wrote Josephine de Whytell.
She said Taypotat's biological parents couldn't care for him due to alcoholism and he was mistreated by his adoptive family. Alcohol became "the coping mechanism."
"Mr. Taypotat was given his first beer when he was six or seven years old by an older brother who had just been released from jail," she wrote.
De Whytell said Taypotat, 38, was abused at a residential school where he spent eight years and that the collision happened shortly after he had received compensation. It brought back memories that were fresh in his mind at the time he hit Knackstedt, she said. He was also heading to the funeral for a cousin who had been murdered.
The sentence "is demonstrably unfit" and should be eight years, de Whytell will argue.
Knackstedt, 23, was helping police direct traffic at a road block set up after a crash south of Saskatoon.
Documents filed by the Crown say the conservation officer was hit from behind and thrown 41 metres. His body slid another 38 metres before ending up in a ditch.
The Crown said Taypotat sped past the roadblock and drove down the middle of the two-lane highway while being pursued by police. That's when he struck Knackstedt.
"Rather than stop to see if he could help, the appellant sped away toward Saskatoon, only stopping when he rolled his vehicle and it burst into flames," wrote prosecutor Andrew Davis.
A police officer and a bystander crawled into the burning vehicle to cut Taypotat loose and drag him to safety.
Court documents show his blood alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit.
Taypotat pleaded guilty in December 2014 to manslaughter and impaired driving causing death and was sentenced last year.
The Crown noted that a Gladue report was prepared by a PhD candidate from the University of Saskatchewan history department, whom the trial judge found was unqualified to give expert opinion evidence. She had not prepared such reports before nor had she reviewed any prepared by anyone else.
The Crown didn't challenge the admissibility of the report, but did indicate that not everything in the report was corroborated.
Davis said the judge did not make a mistake. He said the sentence was "an appropriate response to this egregious crime."
"The consequences of the appellant's actions could hardly be more serious or tragic," said Davis.
"His culpability in the offence is extremely high. The sentence was fit and it was in keeping with recent countrywide trends in sentencing similar offenders who commit similar crimes."
Jennifer Graham, The Canadian Press


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I had the MRI as planned last week. They had to redo a portion of it because I was moving, but I was in so much pain I couldn't be still. My back was just so sore, being flat. Somehow this is affecting my back, and this pain is the worst pain. It almost affects me more than anything.
I played with makeup for a couple of days. It was tons of fun, but a bit of shadow kept falling in my eyes, as i had to do it lying on my back. I'm resting today. I haven't seen my husband since yesterday morning because I have been asleep. I was awake all weekend, so I need it.
I am so weak yet so hungry. My body is gearing up for something.
I may be a bit less frequent than usual. I don't have much energy these days. I only seem to have enough to buy scented candles. And makeup. But that's not hard. I'm going to try going on a no buy tomorrow for the rest of the month. We shall see.


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Home > Learn About CCHC > Press Room > News > VNA of Cape Cod Ranked Among Top 500 in U.S.
Published on November 15, 2013
November 2013
Cape Cod Healthcare is pleased to announce that the Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod has been named to the 2013 HomeCare Elite™ list of top 500 agencies in the U.S. for the eighth consecutive year. The annual list is a compilation of the top performing home health agencies in the country.
Now in its eighth year, the HomeCare Elite reviews close to 10,000 home health agencies around the country and identifies the top 25 percent. It further highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies.
Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures, including:
The HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home health profession. It is co-sponsored by National Research Corporation, the leading provider of cross-continuum healthcare metrics and analytics, and by DecisionHealth, the publisher of the industry's most respected independent newsletter, Home Health Line.
"The 2013 HomeCare Elite winners demonstrate a commitment to providing patient-centered care and serving as leaders in the home health community," said Mary Oakes, Senior Vice President of Post Acute at National Resarch. "Their success is a tribute that managing healthcare data and utilizing it for improvement initiatives lead to high quality care."
The VNA of Cape Cod, a member of Cape Cod Healthcare, serves patients from Provincetown to Pembroke. VNA nurses, therapists, home health aides and staff provide more than 300,000 home health and hospice care visits annually, and also offers screenings, immunizations and wellness programs through their public health department.
"We are extremely pleased that the VNA has once again been recognized as one of the top 500 home health agencies in America," said Michael Lauf, President and CEO of Cape Cod Healthcare. "Our VNA team demonstrates their commitment to our community daily by providing patient-centered, top-quality, compassionate care. To have received this honor every year since the program began is a remarkable achievement."
All media inquiries should be directed to Robin Lord, Director of Communications.
Phone: 774-470-5504
Cell: 774-236-9602
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A national group looking to expose voter fraud announced Tuesday that it has unearthed more than 30 cases of absentee ballot fraud in Florida and New York. True the Vote, an advocacy group seeking to "restore integrity" in the U.S. electoral process, affirmed that it provided state and federal election officials with more than 31 cases detailing how individuals cast votes in two separate states in the same federal election.
True the Vote is a Tea Party-inspired voter watchdog group that has aggressively pursued fraud reports while training and mobilizing individuals who are dedicated to eliminating fraud in the U.S. electoral system. In doing so, the group has, according to its website, "deconstructed the entire process, focusing on educating voters, examining the registry, recruiting, training and mobilizing election workers and poll watchers, training how to collect data all along the way, then use the data to shape government action and legislative agendas to support desperately needed election code reform."
Both Florida and New York have provisions that require residents to cast ballots that correspond with their primary home addresses. Naturally, federal law states that voters are forbidden to cast votes in two separate states, and doing so is a felony.
Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for True the Vote, told Fox News that the group analyzed Florida's entire voter registration roll and evaluated it against 10 percent of New York's voter roll. In its study, the organization pinpointed 1,700 people with voter registrations in both states. Of those people, 31 purportedly cast ballots in both states during the same election cycle.
Chris Cate, a spokesman for the Florida Department of State, indicated that the state had received the information provided by the watchdog group. "Florida takes seriously its commitment to ensuring the accuracy of its voter rolls and the integrity of the election system and we will carefully review the information and any future information provided that suggests a violation of the state's elections laws," he asserted.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Catherine Engelbrech, president of True the Vote, suggested. "This is further evidence of just how susceptible our election system is to voter fraud. Earlier this year, Pew Research found more than 2.75 million people nationwide are registered to vote in more than one state. These early findings put a name, face and potential motivation behind that startling statistic. True The Vote calls on Florida, New York and federal officials to investigate and confirm our citizen research."
Of course, this isn't the first time a watchdog group or state, federal, or local government has identified "double-voting" fraud in an election. Writing for the Human Events blog, John Hayward explains:
Something similar happened in Arizona, where nine cases of double voting were discovered in the 2008 election. All of these discoveries highlight one of the reasons it's time to sweep aside the foolish and disingenuous arguments from critics of voter identification, and use all of our Information Age resources to clean up our voter registrations rolls, and properly identify all voters at the time ballots are cast: it takes a long time to catch these false votes after the fact, and it doesn't make much difference when they're discovered months and years later.
Back in 2008, WHIO News in Ohio identified 3,000 deceased people registered to vote, and "approximately 22 of them voted from beyond the grave."
"Amazingly, until May of this year, Ohio only had access to the records of people who died in Ohio for the purposes of purging the dead from its rolls," Hayward noted. "Whatever zombie voters remain in the system are about to get absentee ballot request forms, which they can fill out while snowbird double voters soar through the crisp autumn skies overhead."
Some government officials and electoral experts have called voter fraud a real problem, especially in tightly contested precincts where elections can be decided by only hundreds of votes. The problem is, without stricter election rules — such as voter identification laws — such fraud is difficult to combat before the election is decided.
"If an election ever came down to someone [winning] by one or two votes, and we could find that someone had voted multiple times — it would be hard to imagine that we could find those things fast enough to make a difference in that election," asserted Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett. "Which is why we want to make sure that people know that we're checking for this, and that we don't want them voting twice in this upcoming election."
Fortunately, watchdog groups like True the Vote have dedicated their assets to exposing such flagrant cases of fraud, which could manipulate the result of an election. Refusing to address this problem, some critics affirm, is undemocratic, as voter fraud skews election results and undermines the ballots of legal voters. Meanwhile, America's elected officials continue to condone these acts by refusing to enact laws designed to root out such fraud.


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Controversial Charles Street Plans Backed by Council Committee
(Updated 10:11am 10th October 2012)
6:18pm 9th October 2012
(Updated 10:11am 10th October 2012)
An executive council committee has backed plans to overhaul the Charles Street Development and spend an extra 2 million pounds.
West Dorset Leaders agreed to scrap a planned hotel in favour for flats and to build a deck of car parking on top of the Fairfield Market site outside the Town Centre.
They'll also spend £2M on relocating Dorchester's Family Church and securing land.
A FINAL decision on Phase 2 of the controversial development will be made by full council later this month.
A number of changes were made to the recommendations outlined in a report drawn up by developers Simons.
See the District Council's outline for Phase 2 of Charles Street in the paragraph below.
9.3 The second option would be for the Council to agree to the developer amending the current scheme to make it viable. This could be achieved by substituting higher value uses for low value uses in the scheme and by removing some of the more expensive elements of the scheme without reducing its quality. Simons have proposed a number of changes to achieve this. They propose substituting the hotel, which had a relatively low value, with 24 market flats. This could be achieved within the proposed building envelope and would make a positive contribution to viability. They also propose that the lower basement car park be omitted and substituted by a single deck of car parking on Fairfield, the total meeting the 484 spaces required by the Council. Deleting the lower basement would lead to a considerable saving in building cost due to the need to avoid expensive excavation and would avoid penetrating the layer of roman archaeology leading to a reduction in cost and reducing the time for excavation work. The current proposal is for 305 spaces on one floor with 179 spaces on a single deck on Fairfield. On market days the ground floor could be available as a covered market area. Development of the Fairfield site would require the agreement of the trustees of the market under the terms of the lease for this site. In addition to ensure adequate short stay parking in and close to the Charles Street site the developer has requested that the Council agrees to retain the Wollaston Fields car park as a short stay car park for the period of 25 years. This site already has a covenant on it restricting its use to car parking dating from when the site was acquired from the County Council. The developer is keen to progress the scheme and is reducing his costs by nearly £2m.
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LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 28, 2017) – Trainer Buff Bradley and Carl Hurst's The Player wore down Neolithic in the stretch and pulled away to a three-length victory in the 60thrunning of $200,000 Hagyard Fayette (G2) before 14,310 fans on closing day of Keeneland's 17-day Fall Meet.
Ridden by Calvin Borel, The Player covered the 1 1/8 miles on a sloppy sealed track in 1:48.16 to record the first stakes win of his career. The performance gave Borel his third victory in the race following Midway Road in 2004 and Alumni Hall in 2005 and his first stakes win at Keeneland since he rode Daisy Devine to win the 2011 Pin Oak Valley View (G3).
Neolithic took command of the lead soon after the start of the Hagyard Fayette and led the field of six through early fractions of :24.22, :47.47 and 1:11.27 while The Player raced in second.
Rounding the final turn, The Player began to challenge for the lead. He caught Neolithic with three-sixteenths of a mile to run, shook off his rival and drew away for the win. Finishing 10 lengths behind in third was McCraken, making his first start against older horses. Giuseppe the Great was fourth and was followed by Malibu Pro and favored Honorable Duty. Fear the Cowboy was scratched.
The Player, a 4-year-old son of Street Hero out of the Gilded Time mare Hour Queen, was bred in Kentucky by Bradley and Hurst along with Bradley's late father, Fred Bradley. The colt earned $120,000 for the victory to improve his record to four wins in 10 starts and earnings of $345,085.
Sent off at odds of 8-1, The Player returned $19.60, $6.80 and $3.40. Neolithic, ridden by Robby Albarado, paid $3.80 and $2.60. McCraken, ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr., returned $3.


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1. Demented Aggression
2. Sarcophagic Frenzy
3. Scourge of Iron
4. Encased in Concrete
5. As Deep As the Knife Will Go
6. Intestinal Crank
7. Followed Home Then Killed
8. The Strangulation Chair
9. Caged...Contorted
10. Crucifier Avenged
11. Rabid
12. Torn Through
"Returning with the ceaselessly hostile Torture, Cannibal Corpse prove that when it comes to combining unrestrained maliciousness, involving song writing and technical precision they still have no equal, once again fortifying their position at the forefront of death metal. The twelfth full-length of their inspiring twenty-four year career, the Floridian quintet have never sounded so vital, the album building upon the wealth of powerful, dark, and memorable songs comprising 2006's Kill and 2009's Evisceration Plague and pointedly upping the ante at every turn. While this marks the latest progression in the band's sound, Torture also witnesses a return to what drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz accurately terms "the frenzied attack of Butchered At Birth (1991) or Tomb Of The Mutilated (1992)", infusing the band's advanced musicianship with the raw savagery that haunted their earlier releases, and in the process conceiving the definitive Cannibal Corpse record.
In 2012, Cannibal Corpse have ensured that the twelve songs comprising Torture are the very best and therefore cohere to make the best possible album, though they are not content to rest upon their laurels and they are as hungry as ever to unleash their distinctive breed of aural horror upon heaving mosh pits. "I haven't been this excited about a release in a long time," enthuses Mazurkiewicz. "We worked so hard at it and we hope that the fans feel the same way we do. Being out there and getting to play these songs live will once again prove to people we're not going anywhere. We're not going through the motions, we're really trying to be the best band we can be, and we're just getting better."
This album is the first time I have listened to Cannibal Corpse in quite some time. After hearing the first riff on the album, I knew I was going to enjoy it the whole way through, which I did. This album is unlike and other Cannibal Corpse album I have ever heard. It seems to me like their heaviest and most technical album yet and it was an incredible listen. The guitar was mind blowing with fast, technical riffs the whole way through. Some tracks had a slower pace to them and Scourge of Iron may be the slowest track by Cannibal Corpse yet, but it was still an awesome song. About half way through the album you notice the bass as Alex Webster slappadabass so heavily that he overtakes the whole band and there is also a small bass solo in The Strangulation Chair, but its just the same notes over and over. George Fisher continues to pump out gut wrenching vocals and proves his voice is still capable. The track names are brutal and disgustingly tasty such as Encased in Concrete, Intestinal Crank, and the already mentioned The Strangulation Chair. This album is unlike anything Cannibal Corpse has ever released and they kept as unique as possible. My favourite tracks are Demented Agression, Scourge of Iron, and Intestinal Crank. This is by far one of my favourite albums that Cannibal Corpse has ever released and you should definitely pick it up!


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Do you know a lollipop lady who goes the extra mile? Or someone who runs a walking school bus?
These people and others who are promoting road safety can be recognised for their hard work at the Hertfordshire County Council 2014 School Travel Awards.
Nominations will be judged in school travel – for encouraging safe, green and active travel – road safety, school crossing patrol of the year, walking bus champion, walking and cycling champion and school council innovation.
Cabinet member for highways and transport Terry Douris said: "These awards are an opportunity to thank people around the county who have played a role in promoting road safety and for getting involved in their community. They're also a great way to encourage schools to promote sustainable transport to their students, as well as sharing their best practice."
Nominations can be made online at www.hertsdirect.org/schooltravel. The closing date is February 7, and winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Hertford on March 25.


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These shops' signature Italian-made walking shoes are light and durable and come in lots of colors. Can't resist them? Some styles come in adult sizes for Mom, too.Shoes, Women and Men
In an ideal world, you'd buy Prada, but for now, snap up cheap-beyond-belief footwear for a trendy fix, instant blister relief, or throwaway dyeables. The no-frills shops are literally stacked to the rafters with everything from canvas tennies to conservative black pumps.


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Which Former President Would You Rather Have On Your Side?
Well the answer is pretty evident from where the Presidents Clinton and W. Bush spent their weeks. Clinton was campaigning for the President and Bush? (h/t Steve Benen)
Bush, on the other hand, will spend Thursday in the Cayman Islands, delivering the keynote address at the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit. As Romney struggles to convince voters that he understands their economic struggles, having the previous Republican president reminding them of the questions surrounding Romney's financial dealings in the Caymans is beyond unhelpful.
Actually I think this is quite appropriate. President Obama would continue his first term approach of sound Clintonian economics (with a bit more progressivism tossed in). Governor Romney would continue the Bush policies of favoring the wealthy and possibly instigating a war.Click here for reuse options!
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text: Okay, so I just decided to do a comparison on Motorola's website on some of their recent phones. One thing I've noticed that bothers me about reviewers who post specs is a lot of the time, the specs (at least some of them) are flat out wrong (saying it does or doesn't have a feature inaccurately, for instance), which makes me doubt the veracity of the entire review. I was hoping that the stats that Moto posted about their own phones would be totally accurate; they aren't. Some of the things that were glaringly obvious were that it listed the Bionic as not coming with a speakerphone, voice commands or a touch interface, and though it mentioned the RAZR having Firefox with webtop, it didn't mention that with the Bionic (I don't have one myself, but I understand that it is included when you dock to webtop/lapdock). It also said that the Droid 3 does not have a qwerty slider. So, how can we trust anything in their official specs? I can't very much make any decisions based on them, as if I did, I would have passed over the Bionic (I'm not doing without a speakerphone, and how the hell would I control it without touch controls?). Anyway, short rant, for whatever it's worth.


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Having attended my first National Cowboy Poetry Gathering this year, I discovered first-hand just how amazing and unique this event is and why it's been happening for 31 years. From the incredible variety of poets and musicians, the dances which left me breathless, and the exhibits and education, this event is as rare as the […]
Feb 12 2015
Elko's Cowboy Poetry gets a national stage
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On the Road to Cowboy Poetry
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Taking the roads less traveled in Nevada offers a special view of the state. BY SARAH DECKER NING I was insistent upon driving to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko this year. Having lived in Nevada since 1997 and in Las Vegas since 1998, I knew I was missing out on the unique history […]


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Thursday, April 07, 2011
Crap Blogging
Life advice: the way to rid yourself of an intestinal-tract bug is most emphatically not to get on an airplane two days after onset and take a 500-mile business trip. Just thought I'd let you know I did that science for you. Y'know, in case you were wondering.
I know that you are very happy to read this news, and I'm pleased to report that I'm not even tempted to simply leave this post at a single graf on the state of my bowels. Things happen even while I'm moaning, and many of them cry out for acknowledgment and validation:
-Awesome evening last night at the Plex, where United and the Phunions (TM) played a reserve game that also passed for a US Open Cup match. United won on penalties, having failed to assert a lingering lead after getting the high-school officiating crew to toss a Philly player (he deserved it, as did three Phunions who weren't tossed; we pass no judgment on whether Saint Piotr Nowak deserved to be shown red after Philly scored a tying goal as extra time waned, because we were on the other side of the field and don't know what magic words Saint Piotr said--presumably in pidgin English, as is his wont--to the incompetent boob of a ginger referee who very clearly had a short-man complex).
The Sons of Ben who showed up were fun--I shared smoke breaks with a few of them, a rare pleasure at the Plex, where stormtrooper poe-leece are not usually given to looking the other way over minor infractions--and they were sane, for a limited range of sanity that includes MLS partisans. It was touching that, in defeat, miles from home, they serenaded us with a few bars of "We All Hate Red Bull." It wasn't as much fun as when they were taunting us with "You're Moving To Baltimore" and I replied with "You live in Chester," but still and all, another unifying fan experience that demonstrates that we needn't all be lime-green retard barista-humpers.
Yeah, the game itself pretty much sucked--it looked mostly like an English Sunday pub league, and that may be an insult to pub leagues. But the weather was fantastic (Ilse will tell you her toes froze) and the company was magnificent--Himself, the Hamster, the much-beloved and too-long-unseen Planet, along with Ilse and Databoy, who actually spent long stretches of the game shutting the fuck up.
-On the topic of Planet, I don't recall mentioning this, but she made the right choice and will attend a small liberal arts college that I once half dropped out of (and half got tossed from). I applaud her good sense, good taste, and general sanity. I thought it might be the night that I'd finally start peeling off twenties to reward the kid for a public display of pottymouth, but no such love. I will not abandon my quest, though I suspect that I'll suspend it for our likely next encounter (her high school graduation), out of respect for her mother and her grandparents.
-I may or may not have a week off approaching, depending on how this week's round of congressional taunting and hyperbolizing and blame-shifting and other masturbatory activity turns out. The whole thing is appalling, though a good thing has emerged: Representative Paul Ryan's fiscal year 2012 budget proposal. You wonder why it's a good thing? They finally came out of the closet, for reals. There is no backing away for the Republicans now. Ryan's outlandish rapestand proposal, embraced by certain completely retarded alleged moderates as "courageous," makes it clear that the Republicans are angling for no less than the repeal of all domestic support programs and the total subjugation of the poor to the idea that greater wealth disparity is not only nonproblematic but desirable. The math is clear, and there's no further argument about this. If you support Ryan's proposal and refuse to admit that it's about making the poor more so, you're a lying motherfucker, full stop. And if you can read about Ryan's proposal and continue to believe, for real, that there's no difference in the flavors, then you're a whole lot of things I won't go into, because I have a feeling my BFF is one of those deluded Tinkerbell-lovers, and honestly? I can't even begin to fathom their reasoning here, after months of committed attempts to decipher the sophistry.
-On the shutdown itself, it's more of the same. A minority is asserting itself as the true rulers and insisting that anything short of their way is unacceptable disrespect to a fantasy mandate. Fuck 'em. The appropriate way for this to be handled is thus: punch them in the nose. When they whine, punch them in the nose and tell them that it's their fault that God made you punch them. Repeat as necessary.
What? It's how they're treating you.
4 comments:
- Sasha said...
I completely and totally agree on the Ryan thing. I couldn't be happier. Except that, you know, the stuff he made public really is nicer than what he actually has in mind. And the fact that he is clearly Eddie Munster is such a bonus.
Glad you're mending. When we are in aural communication I'll tell you a government contractor study that would curl your hair if it were longer.
Today my official job is to make sure I don't leave a ham sandwich in the fridge during the shutdown. That is the job of all of us who are non-essential. And those 'essential' folks who are required to work without pay -- how do they get to insist on that? -- are way unhappy.
Hope you are happier.
- Jack Crow said...
Dittoing Sasha. Fine work, this.
- E7 said...
I reckon y'all lazy highfalutin' city slickers don't deserve no money anyways. Keep yer grimy rev'nooer hands off'n my still and don't tred on me. And commence to startin' a'pollutin' and wimmins don't need no rites anyhows. I gots me a shotgun too.
Teebillies ferever!
- Tara Lindsay Hall said...
Adoring this post. Let the punching commence.


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After facing repeated protests over his resistance to raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo relented on Tuesday, striking a deal with legislators that will boost state revenues by $1.9 billion while simultaneously dropping the middle class tax rate to the lowest it has been in 58 years.
Members of "Occupy Wall Street" have for months been pressuring elected officials to raise taxes on wealthy Americans and lighten the burden on the poor and middle class. This very issue is what activist and author Naomi Wolf was arrested over in October, outside a Huffington Post event where Cuomo was being honored for his support of marriage equality.
At the time, he was opposed to renewing or replacing the state's "millionaire's tax," which expires at the end of the year. But instead of doubling back on the "millionaire's tax," Cuomo's deal will create a series of new tax brackets, according to The New York Times.
New York citizens earning $20,000 per year or more are currently taxed at a rate of 6.85 percent, as are married couples earning more than $40,000 per year. The new tax brackets would drop tax rates for the lowest incomes to 6.45 percent, while increasing the rates for higher earners. Couples with incomes between $150,000 and $300,000 will pay 6.65 percent; households that earn $300,000 to $2 million will pay 6.85 percent; and incomes over $2 million will be taxed at 8.82 percent, the Times noted.
The change represents the lowest middle class tax rate New Yorkers have seen in 58 years, Cuomo said in a prepared statement.
The arrangement represents a significant turn for the governor, who had adamantly opposed raising taxes on his wealthiest constituents. His position on the issue flew in the face of fellow Democrats and allied labor unions, which pressured the governor to fill the gap left in state revenue when the "millionaire's tax" expires.
It also flew in the face of public opinion: not only do most New York voters support keeping the tax, a huge majority of Americans and even a majority of Republicans support higher taxes for top earners.
The state is expected to face a budget deficit of at least $2.4 billion this fiscal year, although the Times estimated that it could grow to $3.5 billion.
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The Romance Of The Flowers
When people think about romance, they think about candlelit dinners, chocolates and of course flowers. Flowers mean many different things. Some use them as an apology, thank you, get well or even a final goodbye to the deceased. However flowers are more commonly thought of as a romantic gesture. Plus as they're used in wedding ceremonies it stands to reason that flowers are for the romantic at heart.
What some people may not know, though perhaps many already do, is that each flower has a different meaning. Thus making some flowers a bit less romantic when one stops to consider the meaning behind a particular flower and its color.
What's Important About Choosing The Right Flower?
What's important, is selecting not only they type of flower, but also the color. Every flower and every color has an individual meaning. When choosing a flower or a bouquet of various flowers one should really stop to consider the meaning.
Some people may not be aware of the meaning, but just in case they are. The individual who the recipient of said flowers could also look up the meanings. Thus it's best to plan ahead in the selection of the flowers. That way one can avoid a possible disaster. Not everyone will get upset of course when they discover the meaning, but that doesn't mean they're not thinking about it. That's where the 10 most romantic flowers comes in.
Flowers You Can't Go Wrong With
Red Rose
Credit: Wikimedia Commons First place goes to the red rose, for everyone is aware of this particular flowers meaning. It means love, not just any love, but passionate love. Not one Valentine's Day has seen no red roses given to a lover at all. There's always at least one person purchasing half a dozen, a dozen, perhaps even two or three dozen red roses for their beloved. Perhaps it is their color which led to their romantic meaning as the heart is red. The heart represents feelings, like that of love. Making the red rose the symbol of those feelings of love straight from the heart.
Red Tulip
Credit: Wikimedia commons After the red rose, people generally decide to purchases flowers that their beloved prefer. Yet there are other flowers with romantic meanings. One of those other flowers is red, but it isn't a rose. It's a tulip. This is because what the red tulip represents is the declaration of love.
Some people find it difficult to speak the words, but that doesn't mean they don't love the person they're with. One who is having trouble might want to consider purchasing a red tulip or more, or maybe planting an entire bed of red tulips. Then once they've done that, give their beloved a website to go to that says what red tulips mean. It's a silent declaration of love, but its still a declaration. Whether a person has difficulty declaring their feelings, red tulips are still romantic and may be a cheaper alternative to the roses. Of course mixing them together never hurt.
Yellow Tulip
Credit: Wikimedia Commons There's another tulip with a romantic meaning behind it. That is the yellow tulip, for it means the giver is hopelessly in love with the recipient. Although if the person giving the flower to their sweetheart, or anyone else doesn't know the meaning, then who knows what it means. Not only are yellow tulips romantic, they help to brighten up a room.
Giving someone a yellow tulip is a wonderful romantic gesture. Whether its ones first silent declaration of love, or a ten year anniversary gesture of those feelings still continuing. A wife, or husband for that matter who receives a yellow tulip will have them smiling, particularly if they know the meaning behind the flower.
Ambrosia too is a romantic flower with its silent statement telling the recipient that their love is returned by the one they love. Someone with an ambrosia flower ready can hand it to the one who declares their love for them. In fact it might be quite interesting if one person were to give the other a red tulip and they receive back an ambrosia flower.
Recall that the red tulip is a declaration of love, the ambrosia flower would be the most romantic of silent answers. It'd probably work well for those who understand a little bit about the language of flowers, for not all flowers given are a romantic gesture. At least not when one stops to consider their message.
The arbutus flower's romantic message is that the giver is stating that the only one they love, is the recipient of the arbutus. It is a sweet message, silent though it may be. Some prefer to keep their messages hidden from others and may hope that the recipient knows not of the language of flowers. Not that, that information isn't available to anyone willing and able to look it up online. Dependent on of course the village, town, city or country in which a person may live. It doesn't make the arbutus any less meaningful, but it would be sad for someone to be given an arbutus and not know what it represents.
Credit: wikimedia commons A forget-me-not can also be romantic, although depending on the situation, it could also have a tragic feel to it. The meaning of a forget-me-not is that the giver hopes that they'll not be forgot by the one they love. Perhaps its after a date, or given to a loved one before work. The flower also represents true love.
True love is rare, so that it may allow the forget-me-not to jump ahead of the other romantic flowers, even ahead of the red rose. Once one has found their true love, its no wonder they would like to not be forgotten, come what may. Life is always full of surprises and forget-me-nots are also sometimes left on graves. Perhaps in hopes that the ones left behind on Earth are not forgotten by their true love who has gone beyond their reach. Sometimes, the most romantic of romances are those which end in tragedy.


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