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Brown & Welsh, P.C.; Meriden, Connecticut 06450
Attorney, February, 1993 – present
Engaged in the general practice of commercial law, including:
Complex Commercial Litigation : Drafting complaints, applications for contested prejudgment remedies and temporary restraining orders, summary judgment motions, trials and judgment executions. Extensive discovery practice. Areas of litigation include contracts, liquidation of collateral, landlord-tenant, foreclosures, false designation of origin, trademark infringement, trade secrets, computer crimes, piercing the corporate veil, and tax litigation. Small claims commissioner in Hartford Housing Session of Superior Court.
Bankruptcy : Representation of Chapter 7 debtors, Chapter 11 debtors, creditors seeking adequate protection, relief from the automatic stay, motions to convert, priority questions and discharge questions. Acted as Chapter 7 trustee, special counsel to bankruptcy trustees and as class action counsel.
Other areas of practice : Administrative law questions, probate law questions, unfair trade practices questions, and international law.
Tarlow, Levy & Droney, P.C. n/k/a Levy & Droney, P.C.; Farmington, Connecticut 06034
Attorney, September, 1983 – February, 1993
Engaged in the general practice of commercial law, including complex commercial litigation (former Chair of litigation department), bankruptcy, computers and:
Commercial/Corporate : Plan and structure ventures and transactions. Drafting general business agreements, shareholder agreements, articles of incorporation, including extensive anti-takeover provisions, sales agreements, including bulk sales provisions, notes, warranty questions (express and implied), entrusting questions, letters of credit, drafting security agreements and liquidating collateral. Former member of ABA Ad hoc Committee on Payment Systems.
Other areas of practice : Administrative law questions, banking law questions, unfair trade practices questions, and international law.
University of Connecticut School of Law; Hartford, Connecticut 06105.
Lecturer in International Commercial Law and International Commercial Arbitration, Spring 1990-1995; and 1999-2002.
U.S. District Judge William M. Acker, Jr.; Birmingham, Alabama 35203.
Law Clerk, September 1982 – July 1983.
National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Certificate, 1988.
Yale Law School; New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Visiting Scholar 1981 – 1982.
Hague Academy of International Law; The Hague, The Netherlands
Certificate in Private International Law (equivalent to Conflict of Laws), July 1981 and July 1982.
Charles A. Dana Fellow in International and Comparative Law, July 1981.
University of Cambridge; Cambridge, England
Bachelor of Law in International Law with Honors, June 1981; LLM in October 1998.
Courses included: Law of the Sea (Dr. G. Marston), Law of Peace (Judge Sir Robert Y. Jennings), International Institutions (Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and Prof. Clive Parry) and European Economic Community Law (Prof. Kurt Lipstein, P.J. Allott and Mrs. E. Freeman).
Gonzaga University School of Law; Spokane, Washington 99258
Juris Doctor cum laude, May 1980.
Member: Board of Regents (Finance & Audit Committee).
University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut 06268
Master of Business Administration, May 1980.
Pitzer College (a Claremont College); Claremont, California 91711
Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and Psychology, June 1976.
Thesis: Basic Civil Rights of Institutionalized Mental Patients.
Critical Documents Sourcebook Annotated: International Commercial Law and Arbitration, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1991.
American Arbitration Association's Commercial and International Panels of Arbitrators (certified as a large complex case arbitrator and member, Prudential Policyholders Appeals Committee).
American Bar Association (ADR Section [Co-Chair, International Arbitration subcommittee, 1994-2010], International [ABA representative to the United Nations, Council Member 1997-1998], and Science & Technology sections).
American Law Institute (Members consultative committees on Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A-Wire Transfers, Uniform Commercial Code Articles 3 & 4-Bills & Notes, Restatement Third on The United States Law of International Commercial Arbitration, Restatement Third on Trusts, Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes, Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries, ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure, Federal Judicial Code Revision Project, Restatement Third on Agency and Restatement on Suretyship). Currently life member.
American Society of International Law.
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators-Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator (London, England)
Connecticut Bar Association (ADR [Legislative Committee Chair, 1993-1995, 2000, and 2004-2010], Computer Law* [Chair 1991-1993, Vice Chair 1986-1989, Chair 1999-2000, Chair 2001-2002], International Law & World Peace* [Chair 1987-1990, 1994-1997, and 2005-2013, Vice-Chair 1990-1994 and 1997-2005], and Commercial Law & Bankruptcy [Treasurer 1984-86, Executive Committee member 1985-1993, Legislative Committee Chair 1986-1998] sections). [*presently Executive Committee Member]
Connecticut Law Revision Commission's Advisory Committees on Uniform Commercial Code Article II-A (personal property leasing), Uniform Commercial Code Article VI (bulk sales), Connecticut Evidence Code and Connecticut Electronic Record & Signature Act.
eResolution (domain name dispute panel) (2000-2001)
International Law Association (Commercial Arbitration Committee and International Commercial Law Committee [Chair 1990-present]).
London Court of International Arbitration (North American Council member).
National Arbitration Forum (domain name dispute panel).
The Honorable Society of Gray's Inn (London, England).
Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Arbitrators (London, England)
Supreme Court of the United States.
United States Court of Appeals.
United States Claims Court.
United States Tax Court.
United States Court of Military Appeals.
United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut, Eastern District of New York and Southern District of New York.
Member, Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, 1996-present.
Member, North American Law Working Group, United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, 2000-present.
Member, United States International Telecommunication Advisory Committee (ITAC), 1998-present.
American Bar Association representative to United Nations Economic and Social Council, 2002-2004
NGO Observer, 36th UNCITRAL Session, Working Group II (Arbitration), March 2002.
Member, Free Trade Area of the Americas Experts Committee on Electronic Commerce, 2000-2001. Member, United Nations Congress on Public International Law (1995).
Member, UNCITRAL Congress on International Commercial Law in the 21st Century (1992).
Chairman's Award of Merit, CBA Section of International Law & World Peace (1992).
Treaty: Senate advice and consent on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Treaty 103-10: Senate advice and consent on 1974 Limitations Convention and 1980 Protocol.
Treaty: Senate advice and consent on the United Nations Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from being subjected to torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Treaty 99-29: Senate advice and consent on 1973 UNIDROIT Washington Convention on the Form of an International Will.
Treaty 95-2: Senate advice and consent on 1966 United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
P.L. 101-369: An act to implement the 1975 Inter-American Arbitration Convention.
P.A. 87-369: The Uniform International Wills Act.
P.A. 88-39: Uniform Recognition of Foreign-Money Judgments Act.
P.A. 89-134: Uniform Foreign Money Claims Act.
P.A. 89-179: UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.
House Joint Resolution 3 (1990) – International Child Support
P.A. 90-19: Determination of Foreign Law and Judicial Notice of Certain Acts, Regulations and Ordinances.
P.A. 90-202: Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A – Funds Transfer.
P.A. 91-297: Adoption of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.
P.A. 91-304: Act Revising Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code Concerning Negotiable Instruments and Bank Deposits and Collections.
P.A. 91-324: International Obligations and Procedures.
P.A. 92-109: Uniform Transboundry Pollution Reciprocal Access Act.
P.A. 93-107: Repealing Article 6 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning Bulk Transfers.
P.A. 95-248: Enforcement of Certain International Awards.
P.A. 97-86: Post judgment Procedures.
P.A. 02-68: Connecticut Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
P.A. 02-131: Uniform Commercial Code Article 2A-Personal Property Leasing.
P.A. 10-33: Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act
Practice Book §10-3(b) (formerly §109A(b)) Proof of foreign law.
Practice Book §17-44 (formerly §378) Summary judgments.
Practice Book §11-8 (formerly §202A) Orders of Notice directed outside the United States.
Practice Book §13-21 (formerly §236B) Discovery outside the United States.
RPC §7.4A(d)(5) Bankruptcy attorney specialization
Member, Connecticut Evidence Code drafting committee


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Located in: Plumas County (see below)
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Housing Units:<6> 15,566
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Loads of you emailed us with your top tips. According to Amanda from Belfast you should eat lots of tuna the week before an exam can help your brain.
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Fourteen-year-old Rachel, who emailed all the way from New York, says her teacher gets her class to do yoga on the day of a test to help them calm down.
Jade from Altrincham says it's all down to treats - for every subject you revise, you get to read a whole chapter of your favourite book as a reward.
Revise with mates
But Stu,14, from Southend reckons taking a lucky charm into your test could be your ticket to a good grade.
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Friday, 27 April 2012
Happy Birthday RGCD!
Exactly one year ago, the former discmag RGCD was relaunched as a retro gaming news site and publisher - and to mark the occasion our friends Trevor 'Smila' Storey and Jason 'Kenz' MacKenzie (of Psytronik Software) have kindly allowed us to offer their FULL version of the official PC remake of the classic C64 shoot 'em up Armalyte for FREE download (for the next 24 hours only).
In addition to this, Trevor has also sent in three signed copies of the boxed version of Armalyte as prizes for our 2012 C64 16KB Cartridge Competition, making the jackpot even more attractive to potential entrants!
Right, I'm off to grab a celebratory beer. Thanks to everyone whose contributed, commented, linked and shared our news and reviews over the past year - you guys are awesome!
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Former NBA all-star Allen Iverson's divorce has been getting progressively more nasty for months, but this newest legal motion features far and away the biggest accusation. If you take it from Iverson, he headed over to Asia to play basketball and do an appearance a few weeks ago, but when he arrived back at his place, a ton of his possessions were gone. From art to furniture to cold hard cash, it all made its way out the door while he was MIA, and he knows exactly who took it.
According to TMZ, Iverson asked his soon-to-be ex-wife to return his things, but now that she hasn't, he wants her thrown in jail immediately. He'd also like an order preventing her from ever entering his home again and of course, all his property returned immediately. Tawanna already tried to get AI slapped with a restraining order earlier this month, but as for the new charges, she hasn't yet responded.
If she really did take the stuff as a sort of preemptive strike to get a portion of the marital property, it's definitely in her best interests to return all of it immediately. There's no way a judge would take kindly to her selling off merchandise prior any agreed upon settlement. Playing dirty might be rewarded in court but only a certain kind of dirty which doesn't include felony burglary.
We'll keep you updated as this mess spirals further out of control in the coming weeks and months.


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Now you see it, now you don't.
What seemed last week to be a done deal on a Shelby County budget for fiscal 2003/4 came undone this week as the county commission, meeting in full session, plucked seven cents from the provisional 32-cent property-tax rate increase proposed last Wednesday by the commission's budget committee.
Missing in action after Monday's commission meeting were: a four-cent component to cover additional operating costs for the city and county schools; and three cents from what had been a 21-cent proposed increase in the county's general fund. Left intact were an additional seven cents for service of the county debt and -- for non-Memphis residents only -- another five cents to cover the costs of rural school bonds to build a new Arlington school and renovate several other county schools.
As things stand, the general county tax rate will rise by a total of 25 cents, bringing it to $4.04 per $100 of assessed value. County property-owners outside Memphis proper would find their rate up another nickel's worth, to $4.09. The Memphis owner of a homestead evaluated at $150,000 would pay an annual county property-tax rate of $1,515, up $94 from the current assessment of $1,421. A similar homestead outside the city limits would cost its owner $1,534 annually, up by $113. (See "City Beat,"page 9.) But county taxpayers are well advised to keep their wallets holstered and their household budgets on hold. None of this is certain. The changes made Monday may well be amended before the commission meets again in two weeks to take up its scheduled third and final reading of a budget that is already overdue.
County government meanwhile chugs along on a continuation budget at last year's spending levels. But the elected officials and other department administrators have made it abundantly clear that they prefer that state of affairs to what is coming. Most of them, in hearings conducted by the commission over the past several months, predicted results bordering on catastrophic if seriously deep cuts ended up being required of them. (See sidebars.)
The commission itself is in a state of tenuous balance. On one side of the debate are such hold-the-tax-line commissioners as Bruce Thompson and David Lillard, both still in their first year of service and both determined to bring a new outlook and a new stricter methodology to the county's budgeting process. On the other side are the commission's Democrats, who maintain that their constituencies would be harder hit by severe budget cuts affecting county services.
An important side issue has been that of the rural school bonds, a departure from past practice whereby capital expenditures for new schools in Shelby County have been appropriated at a 3-to-1 ratio favoring city schools over county schools, in conformity with a state average-daily-attendance (ADA) formula. The rural school bonds would, in effect, do an end run around that formula by assessing only county taxpayers to pay for them.
In general, Democratic commissioners have opposed the rural school bonds precedent while Republicans, most of whom represent the affected suburban communities, favor it. In practice, the issue has been made part of the complicated on-again, off-again budget negotiations.
A primary broker of the provisional deal reached last week was budget chairman Cleo Kirk, a Democrat. He and other commission Democrats -- chairman Walter Bailey, in particular -- have made it clear that their acquiescence in the bond issue (which they continue to vote against) was contingent on an acceptable tax rate.
Kirk and the other Democrats -- all save Bailey -- remain on board for a compromise solution after this week's excision of seven cents from last week's tax-increase proposal. It was Bailey who proposed the four-cent item for school operating expenditures, and he remains committed to it. "I'm going to take a stand," he told Kirk after Monday's meeting. "I may vote against the tax rate without that money for the schools."
If he does, and is not assuaged by concessions and add-backs elsewhere, and if there aren't enough votes to force an agreement on a new tax rate, the county rate will remain at the current rate of $3.79 per $100 of assessed value.
Some hearts might be broken by that outcome, but they wouldn't be those of Thompson and Lillard, who have been insisting on annual zero-based budgeting procedures -- i.e., ones requiring that all appropriations be justified anew -- begun early in the fiscal years preceding approval of a new budget. And they would not be those of the chorus of homeowners and conservative activists who, like Shelby County Republican chairman Kemp Conrad, bombarded commission members with complaints after the apparent cutting of a deal last week.
One commission member in particular was hot-boxed: Tom Moss, a homebuilder whose outer-county district -- shared with Lillard and Joyce Avery -- is the site of the proposed new Arlington high school and of the other school renovations that rural school bonds would finance.
It was Moss' decision to break ranks with his fellow Republicans that led to last week's apparent budget deal, and it was Moss, too, who took the initiative in trimming back portions of that deal this week.
"There ain't any formation," was Moss's heated response last week to complaints from colleagues Thompson, Lillard, and GOP chairman Conrad that he had dropped out of the Republican formation.
Said Moss of his commission critics: "They're immature as politicians and immature as commissioners. We've got some social obligations in county government, whatever they are. There's no point in playing games and asking questions without offering conclusions. We can't do all the budget reform this year. It's like Jell-O. You squish down here and it squishes out over there. The bottom line is, we're saddled with [former county mayor] Jim Rout's refinancing. It's come home to roost. We started out there. Then you've got [county trustee] Bob Patterson's situation, underestimating -- and I don't fault him for it -- what the property-tax appeals would be, and we're $15 million under expectations there. And then we've got obligations, certain functions we've got to fulfill."
Moss pointed out, "As far as party solidarity goes, what do you make of the fact that all of the elected officials we've heard from, with one or two exceptions, are Republicans? They're saying they can't live with the kinds of cuts some want to make."
As Moss sees it, something had to give in budget negotiations. The bottom line for him was the rural school bonds issue, which had been stymied for months. "You want to come away with something in your hand, whether it's future budget procedures or something tangible like a school. I came away from it with Millington High School reconstructed, the elementary school reconstructed, Lucy School redone, and the school at Arlington. They're all in my district."
Anyhow, said Moss about his decision to break ranks, "We've had too much of this partisan crap. You've got to look out for your district. You've got to look out for your constituency."
There was a good deal of speculation in Republican circles, not all of it flattering, about Moss' motives in joining with commission Democrats to make a budget deal possible. Some of his GOP colleagues wondered if he hadn't made an arrangement similar to the alleged one involving his vote as a newly appointed commissioner to make Shep Wilbun Juvenile Court clerk back in 2000. "No," said fellow GOP commissioner Linda Rendtorff in her colleague's defense. "Any deal Tom made with the Democrats was paid off then and there."
And there was an argument, pressed by Channel 13 reporter Allison Triarsi in a confrontation with Moss after Monday's commission meeting, that the commissioner might have been unduly influenced by the fact of his owning some 30-odd lots in the vicinity of the proposed new Arlington school.
"That's pretty lame," said Moss, who responded that he was representing his constituents' interests, not his own, and maintained that the proposed Arlington school boundaries would not necessarily include his lots.
There was no doubt, however, that Moss was subjected to enormous pressure after last week's committee vote -- technically ending with a 6-6 tie since Democratic commissioner Julian Bolton, assumed to favor a higher tax rate, was absent.
So on Monday he got together with two Democrats -- Joe Ford, who has been swing voter on many partisan-inflected issues, and Deidre Malone, who, like Moss, was said to have received pressure from constituents to make further reductions. They agreed on the seven cents worth of reductions in the proposed tax increase.
In opening the budget discussion Monday, Malone said she had been moved by "conscience" and constituents, and, wishing to avoid a "major mistake," promptly moved to subtract the four-cent school component. Moss quickly seconded and her motion passed, Bailey objecting.
After some more parliamentary back-and-forth, Moss introduced his own proposal to subtract another three cents across the board, and it, too, with Bailey and Kirk objecting, would pass.
Things weren't really that straightforward, of course. To grasp the general air of confusion that accompanied the by-the-seat-of-the-pants negotiations on Monday, you just -- as the saying goes -- had to be there.
There was, for example, a resolution from Bolton, who proposed separating the two components of the amended budget deal. For differing reasons, enough commissioners on both sides of the budget issue sided with him to force separate votes on the tax-rate question and the rural school bonds issue. That led to one of the more bizarre moments of a bizarre and frenzied day when Thompson and Moss, whose rhetoric concerning each other had bordered on the ballistic, came together briefly after the meeting to commiserate.
This was over their shared anxiety about Bolton's actions, which they feared might endanger prospects for rural school bonds, the one issue they concurred on. Chairman Bailey, no friend of rural school bonds, had ruled that the votes at a third and decisive reading would follow the order of tax-rate first, bond issue second. That was the sequence at Monday's second reading when the votes had been on hand to approve both the newly configured tax rate and rural school bonds.
Thompson, especially, nursed suspicions concerning Bolton's motives and a fear of potential deal-breaking by the commission's Democrats -- all of whom were on record as preferring to keep the traditional state-established Average Daily Attendance (ADA) formula by which capital construction funds were allocated to city and county school districts in a three-to-one ratio favoring the Memphis schools.
"Once they get the tax rate they want, what's to prevent their voting their convictions on rural school bonds and killing them?" Thompson wondered out loud after the meeting. In practical terms, the question related to Commissioners Malone and Ford, Democrats who voted Monday for rural school bonds. (So did Michael Hooks, but Hooks switched his vote to no for the record when the outcome was certain.)
Concern over separating the tax-rate and school-bond issues was initially shared by others, including County Mayor A C Wharton, who worriedly asked Chairman Walter Bailey later whether the rural school bonds issue might come to him separately and in advance of a third reading on the tax rate.
"No," said Bailey, "because we didn't pass an authorizing resolution to go with it."
The rural school bond issue seemed to be over the hump -- though it could be endangered if Bailey follows through on his discontent about the loss of the four-cent component for operating expenses for city and county schools. That appropriation, amounting to some $5 million, would be allocated according to the ADA formula. Though both city school superintendent Johnnie B. Watson and county school superintendent Bobby Webb beseeched the commission on behalf of the four-cent component, Webb's objections were conspicuously more pro forma than those of Watson, who spoke of "agonizing" choices that would be forced upon him if the item were not restored.
Webb and county school board president David Pickler, both of whom have insistently lobbied the commission for months on behalf of the rural school bonds issue and, in particular, on behalf of the proposed new Arlington school, seemed satisfied with the half-loaf that was apparently within their reach on Monday -- the five cents, to be assessed on non-Memphis residents only, tentatively approved by the commission.
The fact is that the four-cent component for the school systems' operating expenses was conjured up only last week by Bailey, who dropped it into the provisional agreement at a budget-committee hearing.
"That's more or less the way we've been doing business in all areas. We start out with a high figure, which is then subject to negotiation downward," said Thompson, who pointedly noted that he did not doubt the sincerity of Bailey's motives -- nor the seriousness of the chairman's threat to withhold his assent from a tax-rate formula that did not include the four-cent item, or some major fraction of it.
Not all of the cleavage on the commission concerns partisan differences. Some of it is nuanced according to even racial/social lines. At one point, when Lillard was holding forth on the issue of closing down the beleaguered Oakville Sanitarium, Kirk responded angrily, "When it's a matter of where poor people or black people are, that's what gets cut." And he challenged the good faith of Lillard, Thompson, and others wanting to hold the tax line. "You're not going to vote for anything anyway. I wasn't born this morning."
Nor was potential discord among the commission's Republicans limited to that between Moss and the GOP majority. Republican Commissioner Joyce Avery made a point of publicly embracing Moss after Monday's meeting. Avery, a supporter of full funding for the county Health Department and Oakville vigorously nodded when Moss suggested she might have been the victim of a "stab in the back."
That was a reference to several actions directed at Oakville Monday by Lillard, who -- supported by Thompson -- disparaged the institution's viability and quality of care for residents, suggested it should be closed, and moved unsuccessfully to make Moss's proposed across-the-board three-cent cut apply only to the mayor's component of the budget.
Negotiations for the current fiscal year lasted through last August, and it may be that this year's budget is destined for a similar course. Then again, Bailey, Thompson, Lillard, and others may find enough reason to suppress their doubts about the emerging compromise and pass something like the jerry-built formula arrived at Monday.
On the evidence of the turbulence manifested so far, however, there is a fair degree of certainty that the great fussbudget battle of 2003 will get even fussier -- perhaps even dramatically so -- before it is finally resolved.
Last week's provisional budget agreement on the county commission seemed to afford the Memphis/Shelby County Health Department a reprieve, reducing the department's proposed budget by a little more than $117,000 but insulating the department from the outright cuts that the commission had mandated for other departments of county government.
But with the scuttling this week of that prior deal and the call for dropping 3 cents from the county's general budget, the Health Department will also have to do some trimming. Director Yvonne Madlock has indicated her department might be able to cut operating costs by as much as 5 percent.
But that's only part of her concern. As with many county divisions, the local budget provides only one source of the total Health Department budget, which was approximately $55 million last year. At stake in any reduction formula are matching funds from city, state, and federal sources.
"I am certainly grateful for the acknowledgement of the commitment of public health that the Commission has made in supporting our budgets to the extent that they did," said Madlock. "But remember that 80 percent of our budget dollars are spent on providing services, so if you have cuts the only way to absorb them is through reductions in staff."
Tightened federal and state revenues and tough economic times have already resulted in staff and program cuts in Madlock's division. When Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen mandated a 9 percent across-the-board cut for all state departments this year, the Tennessee Department of Health passed on a $450,000 cut to the Memphis/Shelby County Health Department. As a result, nine employees and four programs were lost: an adolescent pregnancy program; Parents Encouraging Parents, a support program for families of developmentally disabled children; alcohol and drug intake and case management; and a family outreach program geared toward Hispanic families. A syphilis elimination program and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) resources for low-income mothers have both been on the receiving end of federal cuts.
"When people hear that our budget is the same as it was last year, it is and it isn't," said Madlock last week, before the specter of new cuts reared itself. "Not that our situation is unique in county government, but ours is exacerbated by expansion, increased service level, and the mandate of providing health services." One of those contractual obligations which has increased costs for the department is the agreement to provide health services at the county jails. A contract of $5.9 million for services for next year (which was deferred by the County Commission last week) includes funds for increased staffing levels and medication costs. Budget cuts will not affect jail services, but will have to be accounted for with service reductions in other areas.
Already the department has phased out an estimated 45 to 60 vacant positions. The county's nursing staff has decreased from 117 nurses last year to 96 this year. Given the local budget proposal, some 15 to 20 more positions will be lost, all in the service delivery area. "I think the public will be aware of the cuts because every one of them is providing some kind of direct service and if you remove that level of staff from the workforce I think the value of their work goes away. These are not easy decisions and we will try to minimize the effect on the public, but we cannot say there will be no impact," said Madlock.
Just how bad could the situation get? Madlock doesn't know. Luckily, phase one of smallpox vaccinations has been completed, with a large number of nurses, doctors, and administrators prepared in case of an outbreak, and local cuts do not affect other immunization efforts. But with health emergencies -- like the West Nile virus crisis of last year -- always a possibility, a reduction in services could force administrators to petition all levels of government for more funding.
"We probably are at a point where some things that we've come to expect as routine services just won't be there," said Madlock. "These are adult decisions that we as an adult community have to live with." -- Janel Davis
When Mark Luttrell ran for sheriff, his platform included overhauling the department into a lean and mean operation. Little did he know how lean it was going to get.
Under the provisional county budget proposed last week, the sheriff's department stood to take an almost $8.5 million hit, a hit that Luttrell said would have a significant impact on the department.
"I am concerned," Luttrell said last week of the cuts. "When we submitted our budget in the spring, we did it in good faith. We cut $19 million and 500 positions and now they're asking us to come up with another $8.4 million."
And that prognosis, dire as it was, did not even include the impact of new cuts that the loss of three cents from last week's anticipated tax-rate increase will force.
The department remains one of the most expensive items on the county's budget, but it also suffered a higher percentage of reductions from its original original budget. Even at the $123 million figure that was proposed last week, Luttrell faced a struggle.
He said the additional monies will have to come from cuts to personnel or operations, the bricks and mortar that help the division run effectively.
"It will be bread and butter type things that will have to be sacrificed," said Luttrell. Things like not updating the department's fleet of vehicles or its weapons. Luttrell says he already feels that the department doesn't have all the equipment it needs in its patrol cars to make it as efficient as it could be.
"If we start cutting people," said Luttrell, "it will cut back on our response time. It will cut down how much we can deal with drug issues and gang activity. We have officers in all the high schools in Shelby County. All those areas will be impacted."
In a statement to the county commission last week, Luttrell said that with fewer deputy sheriffs, patrols would become more reactionary. More of the deputies' time would be spent answering service calls rather than looking for people breaking the law.
"We've seen significant problems in the area of criminal behavior," he said.
As an elected official, Luttrell could file a salary petition to have the court sanction the amount of staff he needs, but he says he probably won't do so. "If we see our manpower decrease to the point that we can't carry out our duties, we have that recourse. It's an option. I want to avoid that if we can."
One area that's seemingly safe, so to speak, is the beleaguered Shelby County jail at 210 Poplar. Because of a mandate stemming from a 1996 federal court case, Luttrell had to go before federal court judge Jon McCalla before cutting personnel positions inside the jail last March. Both McCalla and the attorneys for the inmates agreed to the staffing reduction, but deputy jailers said it would make the jail more dangerous for staff.
"If we make any more cuts at the jail, it would unravel the sensitive arrangement we have with the federal court and I'm not willing to do that," said Luttrell. "It would be financially catastrophic for the county."
The sheriff hopes to get to a point where the jail and the department are running so efficiently that he can make additional cuts, but stresses that he's not there yet. "In two or three years, if we stay on the plan, we'll become more efficient and still meet the mandates of that court. To do that," he said, "we need more training and better management. Cutting $8 million will not fix the problem. -- Mary Cashiola
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I have loved every minute of planning this baby shower for my sister. I wanted everything to be absolutely perfect. I wanted to find the perfect favors that would match her theme. I knew I wanted favor bags, I looked for Muslin favor bags with an anchor on them, and I kept seeing them but they had blue anchors and none with pink available. So I started searching Etsy and I just couldn't seem to find what I was looking for until I stumbled upon Dazzling Expressions. And after messaging back and forth I was able to get exactly what I was looking for, for a reasonable price, and I was able to get them on very short notice. They were custom made with a pink anchor, my sister's name, and the date of the shower. They came out perfect…
I then went to Party City and bought mini pink plastic pacifiers to attach to the drawstring. My aunt then went out and bought baby tags, and fillers. She bought pink nail polish, body wash sponges, nail files and mints.
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COS – Pleated Skirt (similar here & here) & Jumper / &OTHERSTORIES – Bag / ZARA – Pumps (similar here)/ FILIPPA K – Sunnies
Be prepared for the return of the pleats because it's gonna be a big one!! Sooner or later they will be everywhere and this happens for a reason: The pleated skirt is no longer the boring schoolmate, it has transformed to a versatile, airy whizzkid! I've misjudged you, little pleated buddy! 'm so ready to pair it with oversized sweaters, tanktops, leather jackets, another skirt, slip-on trainers… the list is endless. Pleats, please!
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So... This allows us to make indie games based on HPL1?
Frictional Games' HPL1 engine used to create the Penumbra series.
The engine that made the Penumbra Series. Reading through the TODO file for various known things that should be cleaned up or fixed is recommended. Included are project files for Xcode, Visual Studio 2003 and Cmake (for Linux).
So... This allows us to make indie games based on HPL1?
My question is... How the hell am I suppoused to install this? In the Penumbra game? Or What? Plz Help!
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welcome to Rossi!! (at last)
Nice bio Rufus!
Good to have some logic behind seemingly random or uexplained behaviour.
yes well Rufus, deadly? debateable, only _sligtly _mad? really? and what is an Owl neck and why have you got one? More info please. Your GM demands answers !!
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This mission style clock was a beautiful piece of quarter-sawn red oak that was in the bargain bin at The Workbench. I made two matching ones and gave the other one to my Dad. The face buttons are inlaid ebony. This was the first project with my Kreg pocket hole jig. I had to plow a little recess in the back because the stem on the movement was still a bit short.
-- Matt CueBall Rosendaul. I don't think I've ever had a cup of coffee that didn't have cat hair or sawdust in it.
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#1 posted 07-31-2012 01:04 AM
That is just an awesome idea. Looks like a Greene & Greene.
-- It is always the right time, to do the right thing.
#2 posted 07-31-2012 01:17 AM
thanks. Super simple to make. I used a trick I saw in FWW to make the ebony pegs. I cut them square, drilled round holes, then used a cutoff screwdriver to punch the round holes into square holes. The movement is just a $3 quartz AA battery movement. I really liked the minimalist look. Thanks for looking.
-- Matt CueBall Rosendaul. I don't think I've ever had a cup of coffee that didn't have cat hair or sawdust in it.
#3 posted 07-31-2012 09:27 AM
Cool little clock, nice work.
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
#4 posted 07-31-2012 02:37 PM
Very nice looking clock – Well done
Thanks for sharing
-- Scotty - aka... SgtSnafu - Randleman NC
#5 posted 07-31-2012 02:45 PM
#6 posted 09-22-2012 04:51 AM
Very nice clock!
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ANXIETY UK guide to Anxiety Disorders
For more detailed information on any of the anxiety conditions summarised below, see our range of factsheets.
Simple or Specific Phobias
A phobia is an irrational fear of an object/situation etc. that would not normally trouble most people. As the name suggests, simple/specific phobias are phobias that are about specific objects, situations etc. They can be quite distinct in nature and easily identified. For example, fear of spiders, fear of thunderstorms, fear of heights. Any phobia may produce a state of panic when the sufferer is confronted with the phobic object/situation. A wide variety of physical symptoms are experienced such as nausea, increased heartbeat and jelly legs. For this reason, many people with simple or specific phobias enter into a pattern of avoidance which can vary enormously in severity from someone who would not want to touch a spider, to someone who cannot even look at a picture of a spider in magazines, and therefore has to vet everything they come into contact with. The latter demonstrates just how debilitating even a simple phobia can be.
Agoraphobia is a very complex phobia usually manifesting itself as a collection of inter-linked phobias. For example many agoraphobics also fear being left alone (monophobia), dislike being in any situation where they feel trapped (exhibiting claustrophobia type tendencies) and fear travelling away from their 'safe' place, usually the home. Some agoraphobics find they can travel more easily if they have a trusted friend or family member accompanying them, however this can quickly lead to dependency on their carer. The severity of agoraphobia varies enormously between sufferers from those who are housebound, even room-bound, to those who can travel specific distances within a defined boundary.
Social Phobia
Social or public situations of any kind may induce this disorder which is often expressed as a fear of being the centre of attention, or of others noticing the sufferer's anxious behaviour. Social phobia can also be classed as 'specific social phobia' i.e. when there is social phobia only in specific social situations, e.g. public speaking. The fear of behaving in an embarrassing or humiliating way can lead to a complete withdrawal from social contact, as well as avoidance of specific social situations such as public toilets, eating out etc. The physical manifestations of this phobia include blushing, shaking and sweating etc.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
This can be defined as a disorder in which the sufferer feels in a constant state of high anxiety. The anxiety experienced is not as a result of any specific trigger, but those with this condition feel that they are on edge all the time for no specific reason. GAD is often accompanied by depression. GAD is sometimes called 'free-floating' anxiety condition.
Panic Disorder
The common thread between most anxiety disorders is the panic attack. However, when panic attacks are experienced out of the blue without an apparent trigger, this is classified as panic disorder. Sufferers of panic disorder often feel fine one minute, and yet the next may feel totally out of control and in the grips of a panic attack. Panic attacks produce very real physical symptoms from a rapid increase in heartbeat to a churning stomach sensation. These physical symptoms are naturally unpleasant and the accompanying psychological thoughts of terror can make a panic attack a very scary experience. For this reason, sufferers start to dread the next attack, and quickly enter into a cycle of living 'in fear of fear'.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This disorder can be looked at in two parts; obsessions – these are repetitive, obtrusive, unwanted thoughts that are experienced and result in unreasonable fears, and compulsions – acts or rituals carried out in response to fears generated by obsessions. The classic OCD condition is that of compulsive hand washing in response to an irrational fear of germs/contamination. Sufferers of this disorder feel less anxious once they have carried out a compulsion. It is possible to experience obsessive thoughts only and not have the desire to carry out a compulsion. Examples of compulsions are excessive cleaning, counting, checking, measuring, and repeating tasks or actions. Trichotillomania (compulsive hair-pulling) may also be classified under the general umbrella of OCD. Examples of obsessions are worrying excessively about death, germs, illness – usually AIDS, cancer, etc. (this can also be classified as an 'Illness phobia',) having undesirable sexual thoughts, fearing causing harm to others.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) / Dysmorphophobia
This disorder has also been nicknamed 'Imagined Ugliness Syndrome' for sufferers of the condition have an irrational preoccupation with a perceived body defect, either present in themselves or in others; the latter being dysmorphophobia by proxy. BDD sufferers cannot accept that their fears of their perceived body defect are out of all proportion, and frequently seek plastic surgery/other measures in an attempt to rectify the perceived problem.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is an anxiety disorder which may develop following exposure to any one of a variety of traumatic events that involve actual or threatened death, or serious injury. The event may be witnessed rather than directly experienced, and even learning about it may be sufficient if the persons involved are family members or close friends. Sufferers may experience flashbacks, panic attacks and heightened awareness.


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Chapter Registration accomplished
Date:14 Jan 2011
Hello all,
We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011.
We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramarathnam, Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for over two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation.
We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated.
We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 events happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement to greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian community in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English.
With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role in enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks, you will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list email@example.com
Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for further updates.
On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee,
Arjuna Rao Chavala
PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by not sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same on wikimedia.in announcement discussion pages.
- Congrats to all . Wikimedia India chapter is now a reality. Don't know how to thank all those who have worked tirelessly for this for years & months. - Tinucherian 02:19, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Tinu: Good thought to keep the comments below. Thanks for your contribution in spreading the movement..Arjunaraoc 02:31, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- You are welcome. All for Wikipedia and Wikipedia for ALL :) - Tinucherian 06:48, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Tinu: Good thought to keep the comments below. Thanks for your contribution in spreading the movement..Arjunaraoc 02:31, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Yes, it is quite a relief that this formal exercise to get registered is done. Now we can all focus fully on the community connect and the initiatives. Thanks to everyone for their patience during the registration exercise. Best regards Arunram 02:29, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Congrats to all and special thanks to all EC members in going through the process for a prolonged period persistently to make this happen. I hope with a Chapter we could do much more things than as a group of individuals. Looking forward to hearing more from Chapter. Regards, Logicwiki 03:23, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Perfect timing. Congrats for all who worked for this. Looking forward to chapter's iniatives--Ravidreams 06:32, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Just adding links to History of Wikimedia India Chapter formation and Memorandum of Association for reference - Tinucherian 06:48, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Congratulations! Kudos to the founding team for the perseverance. Ganeshk 08:17, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Really brilliant news. Proud that you were able to do this with integrity and honesty - there's no excuse for the hoops you were put through to get registered, but hey, now that it's been done, looking forward to seeing you go! --aprabhala 09:10, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Congratulations! Today is a red letter day that will be remembered by generations to come. AroundTheGlobe 10:49, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Congratulations from Hyderabad! అభినందనలు! — Veeven 11:17, 14 January 2011 (EST)
- Congratulations from Bhubaneswar! Looking forward in future to come up with individual chapters from India chapter for multiple Indian languages ଜଗଦୀଶ ଉତ୍ତରକବାଟ 10:27, 18 January 2011 (IST)
- Congratulations from Kolkata! and also Bengali Wikipedia.Jayantanth 23:13, 29 January 2011 (EST)


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After a month or so of not posting or publishing here and also after a month or so of not checking/opening my emails, it's only now for the first time that I listen to Justin Bieber's Overboard song and it's also now for the first time that I read for a few times its lyrics. There are more than 1,001 reasons under the sun why I'm now listening to this song and why I read its lyrics. It's cool, cool eustress, sweet, romantic, and for true love :-). I'm not a Justin Bieber fun but it really makes sense to listen to this song over and over again.Embed from Getty Images
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It's somehow luck, chance, funny, and cool because I only find now at first glance and first search this picture/photo of Justin Bieber in those terms, at the same time the first game of my basketball team High Hoops took place only many hours ago. I'm the basketball team consultant and co-team-manager of the basketball team High Hoops. That's why I decided to choose these pictures/photos of Justin Bieber. It's also because for a good cause/charity event wherein Justin Bieber is involved. I love so much good cause/charity events.
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Latrigg is a messenger style bag knitted seamlessly in one piece. Rustic or heavy yarns work best to provide the stucture needed to make this textured, bobbled and striped bag. You will need 160g/260m for the main colour and 50g/80m in each of two contrasting colours.
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Seduced And Abandoned (2013)
Critic Consensus: Although Seduced and Abandoned highlights the frustrating side of the movie business, Alec Baldwin and James Toback's comedic chemistry ensures that its darker moments are leavened with a lighter touch.
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Baldwin and Toback make a snappy comic duo, and half of their talks with a line-up of luminaries focus on the art of filmmaking rather than the business.
A fun, larky travel essay and commentary on the film biz, an exquisite wallow in the most rarefied sort of first-world problems.
Ironically, the failure of the financing mission gives [it] a sharper edge. But in the end, that edge will probably be of more interest to Baldwin, Toback and the film biz than to a civilian, who mostly wants to know why she can't find a decent rom-com.
Toback's directorial intuition proves to be spot-on: their self-revealing brave face on humiliation and despair is deeply cinematic.
This one seems to effortlessly breathe on its own as a buddy/buddy "road picture" with scenic pathways, a few dead ends and refreshing breezes throughout.
The fact that it is so funny eventually becomes strangely sad, which makes the film thoroughly enjoyable but also irresistibly provocative.
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Sometimes I put together outfits and think I look pretty decent. I've looked in my mirror and assessed that I don't look half bad. But then some a-hole snaps a picture of me and then I get to see the outside view of my outfit. And sweet baby jesus, it is bad.
An outfit that will not ever be repeated? This.
I've always refered to my green bermuda shorts as "mom" shorts but I didn't realize just how unflattering they are on me.
And pairing the unflatting shorts with a nursing tank top with no support and a cardigan just aren't cutting it anymore.
The only thing I like about this outfit is my sunglasses.
This picture was sent to me on the heels of my declarations of…
- I'm at my super fit summer weight!
- My boobs increased a cup size!
- I fit into all of my prepregnancy clothes!
Now all I see is that I need better shorts and support for my boobs.
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USB over current problem
Hi, i have a MacBook Air early 2008 and the problem with it is that the USB port always shows over current status even when nothing is plugged in, also the laptop doesn't go to sleep mode when I close the lid it just turns of the display.
I did reset the SMC and it worked fine for about half an hour or so but then started to fail again.
I Think I may have to replace the logic board and if that's the case, could I replace the logic board with the one for the a1304? which can be upgraded to yosemite and is of a similar price.
Update (06/21/2015)
Usually is only usb sticks and maybe the iphone, but sometimes the popup comes even without anything connected to the mac at boot, also when installing Mac OS from a shared optical drive over wifi on verbose mode i can see that there is over current on the port, this happens with or without the charger.
Here is the screenshot that you requested.
Is this a good question?
I do not understand "shows over current status", could you elaborate on this?
yes of course, a popup keeps showing that says "some usb device is using too much current and had to be disabled" or something like that, if i have a usb stick connected it just stops working and it makes it impossible for me to install Mac OS X from usb or use bootcamp.
Did you spill something into your system or sit it down on a wet surface? It might be some corrosion on the logic board around the USB ports.
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A progressive and generational drift towards English language threatens the survival of indigenous Nigerian languages, writes CHUX OHAI
A few weeks ago, award-winning Nigerian novelist and Belgium-based academic, Dr. Chika Unigwe, visited Enugu, the capital of Enugu State, otherwise called the Coal City. She made a discovery that shocked her.
During a brief interaction with some local children whose ages were between four and 12 years, she found that most of them could not speak their native Igbo language.
"I noticed – to my dismay – that many of the children (at least the ones I saw), sadly, do not speak Igbo. They are being raised monolingual, which means they only speak English. I asked this random kid (who looked about six years old) her name in Igbo. She responded in English. I asked how old she was in Igbo. She stared at me. I asked it in English, she responded, 'How old I am is one years old (sic).' Apparently, this girl cannot speak any language correctly at all," Unigwe wrote on her Facebook page.
Predictably, the writer's statement drew the attention of many of her friends on the new media and, then, ignited a lengthy debate on her wall. Judging by the nature of the comments that trailed Unigwe's observation, many of those who responded to it were unaware of the syndrome that is currently threatening the continued survival of indigenous languages in Nigeria. While experts are fast losing hope on elite kids, even many of those (children) in the rural areas can no longer speak their mother tongue.
In her last comment, Unigwe said, "It is ridiculous to see kids growing up without speaking their mother tongues, while living in that culture. Don't kids in Nigeria pick up English at school anymore? Hopefully, the schools do a better job than some parents who teach their kids grammar."
•'Daddy, they are speaking rubbish'
A Lagos-based teacher ate the humble pie during the 2012 Eid-el-Kabir. He, alongside his wife and their two children, had travelled to Ila Orangun, Osun State, his home town, where they chose to celebrate the Islamic festival with his parents.
As many kids love to do, Idiat, the teacher's four-year old daughter, was eager to mix and play with other children in the relatively large extended family. So, from the first evening, Idiat preferred to join her mates in the passage or outside the house, while her parents sat in the sitting room.
But hardly had the little girl joined them that she returned to the father and mother. Crying bitterly, she said, "Daddy, they are speaking rubbish."
The problem was that Idiat could not understand Yoruba, which was the tongue in which the kids were conversing. Because she had not been exposed to the mother tongue, the language the innocent folks were speaking was not only an empty noise to her, it was also utter rubbish. What compounded the issue was the fact that the other kids were speaking Igbomina, a Yoruba dialect, and not the variant regarded as the standard.
Anyway, Idiat's parents pet her and urged her to go back to her hosts. Yet, incessant quarrels, complaints and the 'rubbish refrain' were the order of the day throughout the days that the teacher stayed in Ila Orangun.
"Honestly, I felt ashamed of myself," the teacher says. "It was there it dawned on my wife and I that we had not been fair to our children, ourselves and our cultural root by not teaching the kids Yoruba, or speaking it to them."
Experts are agitated that if a child cannot speak his or her mother tongue today, that child's own children, say in the next 20 or 25 years, will know little or nothing about the language. After all, the dad or mum cannot teach what he or she does not know. The implication is that in the next 50 years or so, the fate of Nigerian languages would have become so dicey that they would not be far from extinction.
The situation seems worsened by the fact that the ministries of education, which are in a position to enforce the propagation of the languages, are not serious about doing so. This is evident in a recent policy of the Federal Ministry of Education, which makes the study of at least one of Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo languages optional in the Senior Secondary School, as against the initial regime that made it compulsory.
•Mixed marriage factor
Stella Johnson, a female undergraduate of a Nigerian university, speaks Yoruba quite fluently, even though it is not her mother tongue.
"I was born in Lagos and I picked up Yoruba from primary school," she says.
Although Stella's parents hail from Delta State, they belong to different tribes. Her father, an Ika Igbo, speaks the language fluently, her mother is also proficient in her native Isoko language.
Unfortunately, none of both parents has deemed it necessary to teach her how to speak and communicate effectively in either of the mother tongues. To make matters worse, only English language is spoken in their home.
Stella speaks Yoruba only when she is with her friends. "Ever since I was a child, I have been speaking English at home. None of my parents understands each other's language. So, they speak English at home. In fact, English is the mother tongue in our home," she says.
The young woman, who turned 20 a few weeks ago, wishes she could hold a conversation in either Isoko or Ika lgbo languages, just as she does in English and Yoruba. She feels there is a vacuum in her life that can be filled only when she finds someone who will be willing to teach her how to speak both languages fluently.
Even regular visits by Stella's uncles, aunts and cousins to her home have not been of much help.
"Nobody has ever bothered to teach me Isoko or Ika Igbo. Whenever my parents' relatives visit us, all they ever do is ask why I can't speak both languages. Honestly, I feel very embarrassed. I wish that I could find somebody who will teach me one of them, at least," she tells our correspondent.
Nowadays, more Nigerians seem to be getting married across ethnic barriers. Many of them, like Stella's parents, may end up denying their children the opportunity and the advantage of learning their mother tongues.
Investigation has shown that in some cases, spouses that belong to the same ethnic group communicate only in English because one of them cannot speak the mother tongue. For example, although they are both Ishan, Reginald Osaro, who lives in the Alagbado area of Lagos, can only discuss with his wife, Adesuwa, in English.
"My wife does not understand Ishan. But she speaks Igbo fluently because she grew up in her maternal grandmother's home in Imo State. My wife's mother is Igbo," Reginald says.
Aware of the peculiar language situation in the country, one day, the Osaros decided to expose their son, who is barely two years old, to Ishan before he celebrates his fourth birthday.
"My wife came up with the suggestion and I felt it was a good idea. I would introduce our son to Ishan, which is his mother tongue, anyway, and she will ensure that he learns to speak good English. By the time the boy clocks four years, I am sure he will be able to speak both languages," Reginald says.
Also, a public relations consultant, Adeola Odunowo, and his wife have devised a similar strategy to ensure that their two children become proficient in Yoruba.
"Already, my five year-old daughter speaks Yoruba well, thanks to my wife who has undertaken the task of teaching the children the language. I can't teach them myself because I'm not proficient in Yoruba," Odunowo says.
Odunowo blames his inability to speak his native language on the environment where he grew up.
"I grew up in the old 1004 flats on Victoria Island. My neighbours were mainly expatriates and a few Nigerian families. I never heard indigenous Nigerian languages being spoken on the estate when I was there. The language spoken in my home at that time was English. My parents never spoke to us in Yoruba. But, somehow, I managed to pick up the language from the streets," he says.
•Blaming parents
Further investigation by our correspondent shows that many Nigerian children, even adults, across the country cannot communicate effectively in their native languages and the situation is attributed to various factors.
A former Head of the Department of English at the University of Lagos, Prof. Akachi Ezeigbo, blames Nigerian parents for failing to introduce their children to the mother tongue at an early age.
"Our indigenous languages are dying and I hold parents responsible for this. Parents make the error of thinking that if they expose a child to English, instead of his native language, he would learn well. But this is not true. The child will grow up being neither competent in the mother tongue nor English language," she says.
Also, part of the blame, she adds, goes to 'cultural imperialists' for leading a campaign to label everything European – from food to language and clothes – as good and acceptable, while anything African is portrayed as bad and unacceptable.
Ezeigbo says early exposure to Nigerian languages will help improve a child's cognitive development. Using her own children's performances in the West African School Certificate Examination as an illustration, she notes that children have a better chance of learning other languages if they are exposed to the mother tongue early enough.
"I believe so much in children speaking the mother tongue. It helps them to master any other language. It is easier for children to speak all languages when you expose them to the mother tongue at the age of three. More important, it helps them to improve in their academic work," she says.
Ezeigbo thinks it is 'criminal' for a parent not to teach his children the mother tongue. She says children that are exposed to Nigerian languages early enough are able to communicate ideas effectively in English language.
The award-winning novelist and poet wonders why the products of inter-tribal marriages are often unable to speak the native languages of their parents, saying that it is primarily the responsibility of the female spouse to introduce the children to the mother tongue at an early age.
"When students come into my office, the first thing I ask them is if they speak their native languages. What they tell me is that their parents never spoke it to them at home. I think this is shocking," she says.
•Inferiority complex
One of those who commented on Unigwe's Facebook wall, a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Roehampton in the United Kingdom, named Tope Omoniyi, blamed the current shift from the mother tongue on the poor attitude of the Nigerian elite toward indigenous languages.
Omoniyi said, "It is a shame that those who ought to know better in our society do not know at all. UNESCO and various other studies have shown, time and again, that children who have mother tongue medium of instruction and learnt English as a subject experience higher cognitive development than those who are instructed in English.
"Yet, many still see being monolingual in English as indicative of membership of an elite class. Unfortunately, it is increasingly a mark of growing stupidity on the part of parents who still cling to that warped value. That's the message I'm taking to the West African Linguistic Society Conference at the University of Ibadan, holding between July 29 and August 2."
Also, another commentator, Joe Okafor, described the situation as the result of inferiority complex.
"This issue is borne out of inferiority complex on the part of the parents, especially the uneducated and the half-educated. I was overjoyed, the other day, when a friend and his kids from the USA got chatting in flawless Igbo. The pretty kids dazzled me with American English and Igbo Owerri dialect," he said.
Perhaps, speaking the minds of some Nigerians who feel that the family, as a major socialising agency for the child, deserves a large chunk of the blame, one Oburubata Nnachor said, "I live in Onitsha and I have observed that parents in the town try very hard to teach their wards English, to the detriment of their mother tongue. If you must teach your children English language at home, then what are you sending them to school to learn? Igbo?
"I think the problem is not that they teach their wards English; the problem is that they make it a rule that English should be the only acceptable form of communication in their homes. When you do that, you are invariably selling your mother tongue short and ingraining it in the mind of the child that English is superior and the mother tongue is worthless."
•Eight Nigerian languages now extinct
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has listed four categories of endangered languages. They are the vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered and the critically endangered languages.
In the first category, most children speak the language, which may be restricted to certain domains, while the second group refers to languages that are no longer learnt as mother tongue in the home.
It is safe to conclude that if the current trend in Nigeria continues and more children are gradually denied the opportunity to learn and master their mother tongues, indigenous Nigerian languages stand the risk of being classified as definitely endangered.
In a statement posted on the website of its Endangered Languages Programme, UNESCO warns that if nothing is done, about half of 6,000 plus languages spoken in the world today will disappear by the end of the 21st century. Some Nigerian languages are among the endangered species.
The organisation added that with the disappearance of unwritten and undocumented languages, humanity would lose not only a cultural wealth, but also important ancestral knowledge embedded, in particular, in indigenous languages.
So far, about eight Nigerian mother tongues have been listed as extinct. They are the Ajawa (Bauchi State); Auyokawa (Jigawa State); Basa-Gumna(Niger and Nasarawa states); Gamo-Ningi (Ningi Local Government, Bauchi State); Kpati, Kubi, Mawa (Bauchi State) and Teshenawa (Jigawa State) languages. As concerned experts, including Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola, have noted, there are indications that many more will follow in due course.
•Connection to failure in English language
In August 2012, the West African Examinations Council released the results of the May/June 2012 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination.
While announcing the results, the then Head, National Office of the Council, Dr. Iyi Uwadie, noted that a total of 1,545,004 candidates had their results fully released, while 150,874 others, representing 8.90 per cent of the total figure, had a few of their subjects still being processed due to some errors committed by the candidates at the point of entry.
Out of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination, a total of 771,731 candidates, representing 46.14 per cent, obtained six credits and above; 952,156 candidates, representing 56,93 per cent, obtained five credits and above; while 1,107,747, representing 66.24 per cent, obtained credits in four subjects.
However, a total of 649,156 candidates, representing 38.81 per cent, obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.
Interestingly, Uwadie said, the results showed a marked improvement in the candidates' performance in the 2010 and 2011 examinations.
But the figures clearly reflect a serious decline in the ability of the Nigerian school child to express himself in English. Ezeigbo blames this on the lack of exposure of the child to the mother tongue. "This is what we get for not exposing our children to the mother tongue. None of my children had less than an A in the WASSCE. It was because my husband and I exposed them to Igbo language when they were very young. At three years, the sound system of the mother tongue seeps into the child and he is able to master any other language easily in future," she says.
It is feared that the Nigerian child may end up losing his mother tongue if nothing is done to check this trend and urgently, too. Parents, said to be the real culprits, are daily accused of sowing the seed of confusion by neglecting this all-important language need of their children or teaching them to despise the mother tongue. This may result, experts say, in the total loss of our cultural heritage.
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Hiring has always been a game of odds; particularly in the law profession. We see a candidate's resume, check references and do a face-to-face. Then most of us reach a decision based on a slightly educated hunch. The data on lawyer retention makes it clear how much of a crapshoot hiring really is.
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Swedish women warned 'don't go out at night' amid migrant sex attacks
From The Express:
Officers in picturesque Östersund issued the astonishing warning after gangs of "foreign" men went on the rampage, attempting to rape women in the street and even groping a group of 10-year-old girls at a bus stop.
The shocking announcement will heighten concerns around the effects of mass migration on Sweden, which has been struggling to integrate more then 150,000 predominantly Muslim migrants.
Women in the tiny lakeside town of Östersund, in central Sweden, have been terrorised by sex attacks with six such incidents being recorded in the last two weeks.
In all of the cases the male attackers, often acting in gangs, were described as being "of foreign appearance".
The attacks come as Swedish authorities have begun sending increasing numbers of migrants to a refugee reception centre in the small town because all accommodation further south has already been filled.
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iOS 7.1.2 was the last update before iOS 8 was released. Many users have got as far as 7.1.2 and gone no further, partly because of the jailbreak and partly because they wanted to wait for the problems on iOS 8 to be resolved first.
Image : iOS 7.1.2 Download
The update was not a big one, mainly to fix a mail encryption bug and a lock screen bug, along with an issue with third party accessories and iBeacon. The mail bug appeared when iOS 7 was first released in September 2013 but for some reason it took Apple a while to fix it. To start with, the jailbreak community came to the rescue, providing a fix but now, for those who didn't jailbreak, it has at long last been sorted by Apple.
Download & Install iOS 7.1.2 :
As with all iOS firmware updates, there are three ways to download and install iOS 7.1.2 firmware on your iOS device . Follow the steps as explained below and use the one that suit your needs .
Method 1 – OTA
The smallest of the three methods, this one should not be used by anyone who is intending to jailbreak afterwards.
- Open the Settings app on your iOS device
- Tap on General
- Tap Software Update
- Your iOS device will now look for the update
- Tap on Download and Install on the pop-up message and allow your device to update
Method 2 – iTunes
This is one of the preferred methods for jailbreakers to use.
- Using the correct cable, attach your device to your computer
- Launch iTunes
- Click Device Summary for the device you are using
- Click Check for Updates
- When the pop-up message appears, click on Download and Install
- Allow iTunes to update your device to iOS 7.1.2
Method 3 – iTunes with IPSW
This is the most preferred method, ideal for those who wish to jailbreak:
- Download the iOS 7.1.2 IPSW that corresponds with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch – see links below
- Remember where you save it
- Connect your device to your PC and open iTunes
- Click Device Summary
- Hold down the SHIFT or OPTION key (Windows or Mac) and simultaneously click on Check for Updates in iTunes
- Navigate to the iOS 7.1.2 IPSW you downloaded and click on it
- Leave iTunes to do its work updating to iOS 7.1.2.
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Scattered Forest: Project Response to Destroyed Community Garden
January 17, 2014, 5:40 pm
Filed under: Events, Food Forest, Pod updates, The Gardens, Uncategorized | Tags: Community Gardens, east vancouver, food sovereignty, food trees, fruit trees, youth gardens
Filed under: Events, Food Forest, Pod updates, The Gardens, Uncategorized | Tags: Community Gardens, east vancouver, food sovereignty, food trees, fruit trees, youth gardens
The Purple Thistle Gardeners are stoked to let you know about our new Food Tree initiative starting this winter. As most of you are aware, our Food Forest was destroyed by a neighboring property owner. Most of our plants were cut down and chopped up. This is really sad, especially in that we had really close relationships to those plants. However, the folks who tore out the gardens had the heart to save all of our trees by transplanting them into paint buckets, which we drilled holes into so they wouldn't drown. Now we have 41 food trees, mostly fruit and some nut trees, that need new homes so they can survive and thrive.
This is where the Scattered Forest Project comes in. The city has asked us not to work on the Food Forest site for the time being, and the gardeners are focused primarily on saving those trees. We got together and figured out how we would like to do that, while keeping them accessible within the community!
We are looking for folks in the East Van neighborhood to act as community hosts and caretakers for the trees. Our Food Forest was a project to create a self-sustaining permaculture garden completely open to the public. All of the food we grew was for everyone in the community. Even as we separate the trees and find them new homes, we wish to keep those values.
So here is what we are looking for:
-Folks with space accessible to people walking by (front yards, back yards)
-Folks available to care for the trees, with an idea of how to keep caring for them as time goes on (long-term strategy to keep the trees in the community)
-Folks willing to try growing their trees using permaculture techniques (planting guilds to create biodiversity and symbiotic relationships)
-Folks willing to share their resources, knowledge, experience with others so we can learn from and help each other grow clean food, and build solid community with our neighbors.
The trees will be given out in mid-February. We will be setting up a workshop for hosts to learn tree-pruning, and organize a meet-up/potluck date for the hosts to meet each other, so we can create a system of support within the community. In March, when all of the trees are planted, we will be organizing a community bike tour, where the public will be brought to each site and can meet the trees with their hosts. We will also be giving participants of the bike tour a community map that shows each site of the Scattered Forest.
We are in the planning stages of this project. If you are interested in helping organize with us, we have weekly meetings Tuesday at 6pm at the Purple Thistle 975 Vernon Dr. If you are interested in being a host, please send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Mulch Love!!
Scattered Forest Folk


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WEST CHESTER, Ohio -- Even though Jordan Hicks has lived in Ohio for seven years, when it came time yesterday to name his college choice, the linebacker from Lakota West High School looked deep into his heart, slapped on a Longhorns cap and declared his commitment to Texas.
WEST CHESTER, Ohio -- Even though Jordan Hicks has lived in Ohio for seven years, when it came time yesterday to name his college choice, the linebacker from Lakota West High School looked deep into his heart, slapped on a Longhorns cap and declared his commitment to Texas.
"It was just in my heart," Hicks said. "That's where I felt most comfortable."
The news no doubt came to the dismay of Ohio State fans. When asked whether he felt he was turning his back on his home-state school, Hicks had a quick response.
"I wasn't born here; I moved here in the sixth grade," Hicks said.
That brought a long and loud cheer from the crowd of teammates and students on hand, even if it was the same school that produced current Buckeyes player Solomon Thomas and former lineman Steve Rehring. Hicks, the consensus top linebacker prospect nationally, was never considered to be in the Buckeyes' back pocket.
But losing out on Hicks had to sting, recruiting analyst Bill Kurelic of Bucknuts said.
"As far as being high profile, this is similar to Charles Woodson when he went to Michigan many years ago," Kurelic said. "But the Buckeyes never really had a shot at Woodson. Hicks at least looked and gave them a chance."
His final three were Texas, Ohio State and Florida, and he was targeted as must-get by all three. Ohio State coach Jim Tressel even handled the majority of the Hicks recruitment, according to Lakota West coach Larry Cox.
Texas had an inside connection, though -- its strength coach, Jeff Madden, whom Hicks' mother, Kelly Justice, had worked with at Colorado years ago.
"All three were excellent schools," Justice said, "so it sort of came down to the small differences. One of the things Texas had was we already had a connection there, and I felt we'd be able to move there and feel like family. For example, I know the strength coach will watch out for him like he's a son, because we have that kind of relationship."
Justice plans to move with her two daughters to the Austin area to be near Hicks the next few years.
Hicks said he admired Tressel and the Ohio State program, but he talked more about the relationship he had developed with Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who two years ago was named the eventual successor to Mack Brown. In contrast, Florida coach Urban Meyer announced first in late December that he was stepping away from the game, then said he was taking a leave of absence, and most recently said he plans to coach almost uninterrupted.
"Honestly, that affected it a lot. It showed how much more stable Texas was, it seemed like, than Florida," Hicks said. "It had a big effect on my decision. � In the end, how do we know what's true?"
What Ohio State knows is it was snubbed by the top prospect in its home state as it now turns its attention to blue-chip linemen Seantrel Henderson, of St. Paul, Minn., and Matt James of Cincinnati St. Xavier. Both are expected to wait until Wednesday, the first day that national letters of intent may be signed, to announce. The Buckeyes also are in the running for offensive lineman Morgan Moses of Fork Union (Va.) Military Academy.