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Recently, brain-based learning, and, more specifically, metacognition, has gotten a lot of attention in the education space. Many studies point to the fact that metacognition – "thinking about one's thinking" – is an effective strategy for helping students achieve academically higher levels and become more motivated by their work. Learn more about how you can use eSpark to create a culture of metacognition in your classroom.
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Voting open for Nail Polish Canada Week 1 Challenge here and place your vote for who you think re-created "snow" the best! If you think it's me, then awesome but no pressure 🙂
Happy Monday! I hope that everyone had a great weekend. Anyone taking advantage of Cyber Monday deals?
This holiday OPI's collection was in collaboration with James Bond and the new movie Skyfall. Instead of "punny" names that OPI usually goes with the names of the nail polishes are the names of the movies. I'm not the biggest James Bond fan, however I have watched a lot of the movies and do like some of the names. I picked up 3 in total, Goldeneye, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Live and Let Die. Today I have for you Live and Let Die.
2 coats of OPI Live and Let Die topped with Cult Nails Wicked Fast:
OPI Live and Let Die is a green nail polish with a hint of gold shimmer. This polish was on the thicker side however I found it very easy to work with. I could have gone with 1 coat but I didn't know how it would show up when I took pictures so I used 2 just in case.
I really LOVE this nail polish. I'm not sure why but I have been pretty hard to please when it comes to some of the new nail polish releases from the major brands lately. They all seems to be dupes of one another and generally uninspired and unoriginal. To me this nail polish is different and I'm really happy with it.
I also layered OPI Man with the Golden Gun over Live and Let Die but I will show all my layering ideas in another post. 🙂
What do you think? Did you pick up anything from OPI Skyfall collection?


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Name: Christine Millar, but most call me Chris.
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Lives: Brisbane, QLD Australia in a typical highset QLD house with my husband, 2 girls and our dog Skip!
Known for: Being over organized,
Being pedantic about how the cushions are arranged on the lounge
Taking far too many photos of my beautiful girls
Being the 'crafty Mum' at school
More often than not I've got a pair of scissors in my hand
And I like to spoil my husband!
Blog: My Blog: http://scissorsista.wordpress.com/
Design for: http://www.aussiescrapsource.typepad.com/
Loves to: Play indoor cricket, tennis and golf
Catch a good movie
Craft with my girls
Hang out with my Mum and sister
Rock out on Sing Star after a few malibu's under my belt!
Loves to create: Gifts for friends and family
Favourite Darkroom Door product: What a hard question – do I have to just say one?
The Venetian Collection – so divinely romantic!
Ok, I'm going to slip another one in – the Journal stamps, everyone has to own a set of journal stamps!
Have you ever been in a darkroom? Way back in grade 11 Art class, we did a term on photography. We had the most enthusiastic art teacher and it was brilliant!
Let's say you've been invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? I've been promising my daughter Shayla to take her disposable camera in to have the film developed that she took on school camp back in early October – so it would have to be that.
Are you afraid of the dark? Only really if I'm in a strange place – at home I walk around in the dark all the time.
Here's the first of Christine's projects...
Together Forever Layout:
Darkroom Door 12x12 Paper: Legato, San Marco, Esplori, Rialto, Ti Amo
Music – Wordstrips
Wildflower - Stamps
Journal - Stamps
Venetian Vol 1 – Filmstrips
Black cardstock
This layout was created by layering the Venetian collection papers onto the Music background paper. The Venetian filmstrip becomes a wonderful accent amongst the layers of paper and photos. I stamped the wildflowers and butterflies directly onto the Esplori paper, cut around them and attached them to the layout making sure to only add a tiny bit of glue to the centre of the butterflies so the wings could then be lifted off the page. The journal stamp was used to document the name and date of the layout and the music word strips were used to create a title and subtitles.
Fab layout Chris! Love the butterflies fluttering about :)
Christine has many more projects to share so pease check back tomorrow to see more of her work!


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Am I able to get financial support to help me out during the process?
There may be financial supports available to you to help you out through this process. They include the following:
Employment Manitoba
Employment Manitoba delivers a full range of employment and training services to residents of Manitoba. Internationally Educated Professionals in need of assistance to re-enter their professions may be eligible for financial supports to help pay for costs such as tuition, books and living expenses. To learn more about these supports and the eligibility requirements, please visit an Employment Manitoba Centre in person.
Go to www.gov.mb.ca/employment/emp_centre_locations to find the Employment Manitoba Centre nearest you.
Recognition Counts
Recognition Counts is a program that provides supports to skilled immigrants wishing to work in their fields of expertise in Manitoba. The program offers career and financial counseling, as well as the opportunity to apply for a loan of up to $10,000, to help with the costs associated with gaining employment in a profession or trade. To learn more visit www.recognitioncounts.ca.
Manitoba Student Aid
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"Defragging" is a process that takes data that has been fragmented into different storage units on your computer and reorganizes them in a more sensible way so your computer will run faster. With today's computers, though, you don't need to do this very often and most of the new operating systems do it for you on a regular basis, says Lifehacker Editor-in-Chief Whitson Gordon.
If you're still using Windows XP, you'll need to defrag your computer yourself—usually about once a week following these steps.
- Open the "Start" menu.
- Click "Run."
- Type "Dfrg.msc" and hit the "Enter" key.
This will take you to the Disk Defragmenter where you can defragment each of your computer's drives.
— Adapted from "What is 'Defragging,' and Do I Need to do It to My Computer?" Whitson Gordon, Lifehacker.


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A Letter from Westminster Abbey
November 2001
Remarkably, Wesley Carr is approaching the end of his fifth year as Dean of Westminster. Despite all the odds and numerous scandals he has clung to office. Much has been written about each. Perhaps now is the moment to draw some of the threads together, to examine the totality of his tenure, and ask how he has managed to engineer his survival when any ordinary mortal who behaved as he has would long ago have resigned or been eased from office.
At the root of Carr's remarkable survival lies one factor - his ability to influence his colleagues and subordinates and either bring them round to his point of view or at least enforce their acquiescence. Given the intellectual calibre and track record of at least some of those people, and the bankruptcy of some of the notions he has sold them, it is a remarkable achievement indeed. Let us recall two examples: hoary old chestnuts they may seem, but they still merit further examination.
First, the Neary affair. Whatever the other rights and wrongs of the business, one fact that can no longer be disputed is that the Nearys' financial involvement with the Choir occurred with the knowledge and acquiescence of the man responsible at the time, the former Canon Treasurer Colin Semper. So how on earth did this not come out at the Jauncey hearing? And why did the then-canons line up at that hearing to condemn the Nearys, with whom they had formerly been friends and colleagues?
Carr's technique was subtle and brilliant. He already knew that Semper was ready to accept responsibility for the whole debacle - the former canon had written to him at the outset. But Semper was a sick man and Carr was ready to exploit every advantage. It would be quite improper, argued his team, sniffing their onions, to subject the ailing Semper to the rigours of a full hearing (in actuality never more than Jauncey, the appellants, the respondents and a handful of lawyers and scribes.) And so it was agreed: Semper would be seen by Jauncey with just the minimum deployment of counsel and court officers, in a less formal setting. The Nearys were advised that it would be inappropriate to attend under such circumstances. Then, at the last minute, Carr played his joker; he insisted on attending, although he certainly had no more reason to do so than the Nearys. The result was as he surely predicted; Semper, with the Nearys absent and Carr monitoring his every nuance in a much more intimate environment than a tribunal room, and frail as he undoubtedly was, became tongue-tied and inarticulate. He allowed himself to be tripped by the Abbey's clever counsel, apparently contradicting himself. Colin Semper, the renowned and silver tongued former broadcaster and raconteur was reduced to an unreliable witness, a sick man whose testimony was confused and inconclusive.
And why did the canons turn against Neary so vehemently? One after another, first in their uncannily similar written statements and then before Jauncey, they declared that they would not accept the organist back whatever the outcome of the appeal. And, of course, that outcome was to become self-fulfilling, for an irreconcilable breakdown of trust was itself grounds for dismissal.
How on earth had such a breakdown occurred before the appeal had even been heard? Quite simple. Carr and one other canon, the bad-tempered Michael Middleton, had conducted the Nearys' disciplinary hearing in private. Carr formed his own conclusions and then presented them in black and white terms to the three remaining members of Chapter for their endorsement: the Nearys were guilty. He omitted to mention Semper's letter or a single word of the Nearys' response. Take this exchange from the appeal transcript, between the Nearys' senior counsel and Canon Donald Gray, referring to Carr's briefing to Chapter following the disciplinary hearing:
Elias: "Did anyone say 'What exactly have the Nearys said about this matter?'"
Gray: "I cannot recall that particular detail. I do not recall that question being asked, no."
Carr, it emerged, had presented Chapter with a bowdlerised report of the proceedings of the hearing against the Nearys but filed a complete version, which would of course be seen by the Nearys, for the court bundle. The Nearys' counsel cross-examines Canon David Hutt, now Sub-Dean:
Q. Were you aware that there were two reports?
A. I am aware that there were two reports, yes.
Q. You are aware now. Were you aware that there were two reports at the time when you made your decision to dismiss?
A. I was not.
Carr blamed his lawyer for this extraordinary subterfuge. Some time after the Jauncey appeal that same lawyer was rewarded with the post of Abbey Legal Secretary, and with it all the trappings of Collegiate membership. The lawyer notwithstanding, the conclusion cannot be avoided: Carr set out not to present even-handed evidence to Chapter and allow them to draw their own conclusions but to persuade them to adopt his point of view and then paint themselves into a corner over the ensuing months.
So to the second example, the Choir School, where the problems continue despite the sacking of the headmaster. In just three years every single member of the teaching staff has resigned or been dismissed, a record that would be dismal in a 'failing' state school; for it to happen in a small prep school full of bright children, class sizes of seven and highly supportive parents should ring major alarm bells.
It is worth recalling that Carr has an unhappy record in his relationship with musicians and in his governance of schools. In his previous incarnation as Dean of Bristol he dismissed the organist/choirmaster for alleged offences that were not publicly revealed, drafting the man's letter of "resignation" for him and then warning other cathedral deans not to employ him. To their credit, another cathedral, having conducted an exhaustive enquiry and finding no case to answer, did eventually employ him and he has enjoyed a distinguished subsequent career. When Carr did the same to the headmaster of Bristol Cathedral School the Headmasters' Conference, Carr having roundly snubbed their emissary, was so incensed it withdrew its recognition of the school. Predictably, Carr persuaded the school governors to endorse both these sackings without proper enquiries; the members of that governing body have been unsurprisingly reticent about their role in such obvious injustice.
The situation at Westminster was different in one important respect. The headmaster was Carr's own appointment, his favoured candidate after he rejected at interview a shortlist chosen by others prior to his arrival in post. The man he chose was an authoritarian in his own image; he unfortunately shared other characteristics with Carr which, where children are involved, are not so easily dismissed as foibles of personal style. When parental complaints began and multiplied during 2000, Carr tried to dismiss them as trivial or even as attempts to undermine him.
What was remarkable was the reaction, or rather lack of reaction, from the school's governors. This secretive body comprises Carr as chairman, the four Canons, and five lay people. Among their number is no less a figure than the Headmaster Elect of Eton College. It must have been evident to them at a very early stage that all was not well, and that events had occurred that were, by any modern standard, entirely unacceptable in a boarding school. They did nothing. Moreover, they appeared to support the Dean, who instigated a risible 'independent' investigation into one major complaint, conducted by his own right hand man, the Receiver General. Even when Carr published his conclusions without consulting the Governors (when challenged on this he hastily corrected the omission after the event by disclosing selected evidence to them) not one publicly disowned him, still yet resigned. The school doctor was made of sterner stuff; when Carr rejected his concerns at the number of pupils with stress-related symptoms and had the gall to question his professional competence he (and his entire practice) resigned without ceremony.
It was only the intervention of the Social Services department, with their statutory powers, that finally persuaded Carr that the game was up. Their report, even after Carr's efforts to dilute its content, unambiguously revealed the headmaster as a serial bully. The headmaster was dismissed. Even then, Carr attempted to dress it up as a voluntary resignation 'for personal reasons' and sought personal vindication by helping the man into a new post. According to a press report, never denied by Carr, the former headmaster's new employer claimed Carr had assured him that the man was not a bully, he had not been sacked, and that the social service report had been wrong. Pity the former headmaster's new pupils and staff.
So, in just two of numerous examples, we have a picture of a man who prevails in the face of all logic and good practice, even in institutions with notional consensus governance. What clues can we find to explain his extraordinary ability to persuade colleagues of apparent intellect and probity to accept courses of action that under other circumstances they would certainly reject out of hand?
One thread in particular demands closer attention; Carr's close links with the Tavistock Institute. This apparently august organisation promotes the psychoanalytical study of groups, a subject in which Carr professes to be an expert and has published prolifically. What is less well known is that the Tavistock Institute is also one of the world's leading repositories of expertise in psychological warfare and the manipulation of opinion for strategic ends. They were pioneers of the technique that became known as brainwashing. This much is fact. Inevitably, in the shady world of the security services it is difficult to probe much further without confusing fact and fantasy - and certainly a wealth of wacky conspiracy theories link Tavistock with sinister plots to create a New World Order that seeks to control all our minds. We can be sure that the spooks relish such nonsense as it makes it easy to dismiss any genuine insight into their work as absurd speculation. What is less easy to dismiss is Carr's undoubted expertise in persuading intelligent people to accept that which, in other circumstances, they would regard as unconscionable. It is chilling that a man who openly specialises in such manipulation also pursues a career as a minister of religion.
It is not only Carr's colleagues who have been subject to his special manipulative skills. Those who have crossed him vouch that he employs similar techniques in dealing with those he views as opponents. There have been numerous reports from abbey employees, volunteers, choir school parents and external professionals of Carr's subtle and intimidatory techniques. He often chooses grandiose formal surroundings such as (at Westminster Abbey) the venerable Jerusalem Chamber or the ancient Chapter Office meeting room, wears full clerical finery when it is patently neither necessary nor appropriate, and sits when possible with his back to the window, with an expanse of table between him and his 'opponents'. Even in less formal circumstances he has been noted choosing a higher chair for himself than for his guests.
Carr is a master at controlling the conversation. He will use a variety of techniques to sidestep uncomfortable questions or topic areas he wishes to avoid - declaring a topic a diversion from the agreed subject of the meeting, disrupting the meeting to summons a colleague, or deploying an arsenal of conversation stoppers: "the matter is closed", "are you doubting my word?", "we made that decision on advice from others", "that decision is for me and me alone", "that is confidential", "it is Chapter policy", and when all else fails "I am not prepared to discuss that". Throughout the past four years, when he has faced many challenges from journalists and others, he has never been prepared to enter into an open-ended polemic about his activities; on the rare occasions he has defended himself publicly he has done so in print or in lectures without taking public questions. His major public lecture "Whence and whither in another millennium" justifying his behaviour over the past few years invited questions - but in writing to his press officer!
Another favoured Carr technique is the ambush. He will choose a time and situation to deliver accusations against a target when they are entirely unsuspecting and unprepared. There will be no advance intimation of his intent, and it allows him to press home his advantage whilst his victim is still in a state of shock. He consolidates that advantage by having a ready-prepared solution: "if I have your immediate resignation this matter need go no further", presenting a mirage of reasonableness and even magnanimity. (A similar technique is practised by crooked timeshare salesmen: "unless you sign now this once-in-a-lifetime special offer will lapse, permanently") He appears still to be at a loss as to why this technique failed with the Nearys, declaring long after the event, apparently without irony, that "�it is a fundamental principle in legal matters to negotiate and the Dean and Chapter affirmed the Christian dimension by negotiating longer than is usual (for three days) in order to allow Dr and Mrs Neary to retire gracefully." As Carr said at the Jauncey hearing: "We expected Dr and Mrs Neary to come back to us on the Monday, having thought about it, and we would then be able to follow things through" That they regarded themselves as innocent and did not want to retire prematurely in disgrace apparently did not enter his calculations.
Carr will sometimes delegate the delivery of such bombshells; if it all goes pear-shaped it makes it much easier to distance himself. It is notable, for instance, that when the time eventually came to sack the headmaster of the choir school Carr left others to do the dirty work for him.
A high-risk, but to date effective, strategy is to reduce disputes to binary terms. The victim makes a claim, Carr rejoins to his colleagues with a very personal, polar contradiction, ensuring that it is impossible to lend credence to the claimant without implicitly accusing the Dean of lying. The notion of 'balance of probability' as a test of the victim's case is thus neutered; any balance that disfavours Carr is tantamount to disloyalty to him and to the Abbey. With the exception of the Neary dispute, where he was left with no option, he has ensured that all disputes have been 'resolved' internally. It is little wonder that Carr has spoken out against the Cameron recommendations with their central proposal for a detached and, one hopes, impartial supervisory body.
But let us return, finally, to Carr's portfolio of techniques in respect of his colleagues and subordinates. One can only speculate whether it is by chance or design that he has appointed a disproportionately high number of people with vulnerable aspects to their characters. It is puzzling, for example, in view of the number of homosexual staff members Carr inherited, that such an uncompromising puritan should appoint (or attempt to appoint - some have turned him down) several more, and particularly in the choir and school departments.
Secrecy is another weapon. After the Neary debacle which, to be charitable to the Abbey, arose out of some of the management not knowing what others were up to, Carr promised a new era of openness. In fact the very opposite has happened. Information on things that matter is strictly controlled; enquiries about Chapter decisions, the reasons for premature departure of staff or even the names of the Choir School Governors and the dates of their meetings are met with refusals or obfuscation. What has increased umpteenfold is the flow of propaganda, such as annual reports peppered with photographs of Carr and 'motivational' bulletins for staff full of self-congratulatory twaddle produced by the grand-sounding "Assistant Receiver General - Communications". (This same man gives seminars to fellow PR practitioners on the brilliance of his handling of the press coverage of the Neary affair; one certainly cannot fault his chutzpah.)
Carr has always been very well aware of the power of knowledge, and is careful to ensure that people are told as much or as little as he deems appropriate. The effect of this is that it makes it very difficult even for his colleagues and senior staff to challenge his decisions; impossible for outsiders. An example was his 'independent investigation' into allegations of bullying against the choir school headmaster. The complainants were never allowed access to first-hand evidence such as interview notes or even the names of witnesses; Carr simply wrote saying that the matter had been investigated most thoroughly and stating his (both specious and libellous) conclusions that the children were at fault. The parents were left with no option but to withdraw their sons, leaving Carr free to claim that he had been vindicated - a strategy which would have succeeded had not the (genuinely independent) social services team fortuitously been inspecting the school shortly after the incidents, revealing the truth.
A useful control mechanism over colleagues is the "painting into a corner" technique mentioned previously, successfully deployed on a number of occasions. It is simple but effective. By giving colleagues an incomplete or subtly distorted account of a set of circumstances, Carr implants a set of suppositions in their minds. He then manoeuvres them into taking a public stand based on those suppositions - in the Neary case, for example, the other members of Chapter wrote to the Times supporting Carr on the basis of what subsequently proved to be a highly partial account of the disciplinary hearing. The success of this technique relies on the colleagues not having the moral fibre to change their publicly-expressed stance once they learn the full story, afraid that to do so would be regarded as disloyalty to the Dean.
In all the above, one theme persists; Carr's astonishing ability to persuade otherwise decent, intelligent, perceptive colleagues that black is white and the world is flat. Ask them to defend themselves? "That matter is closed", "it is Chapter policy�", "you should address that question to our Legal Secretary". They will take on their adversaries at awkward times and places - in the Abbey after a service, for example. They will plead confidentiality, insufficient knowledge or personal non-involvement. As Admiral Fisher put it: "Never explain. Never apologise".
They have learnt well at the feet of their master.
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A Case For The Existence Of Vampires And Other 'supernatural Creatures'
It is quite common in fiction for fantastical creatures to be written about for our entertainment. They give us a break from the monotony of our real lives and allow us to escape into fascinating fantasies. But that is all they are. Or perhaps they are not? This essay will look at a few reasons that vampires and such other creatures may in fact exist.
There continue to be new discoveries
As many species as we have evidence for as humans, there are still many more we have not yet encountered. Every year there is a new discovery of a creature that had only been rumored to exist by small tribes. There have been archaeological digs that yielded bones of hobbit like humans. Such creatures did not just spring from the imaginations of great writers.
There are myths from all over the world
If there were only isolated descriptions of supernatural creatures it might be simple to brush off as a localized superstition but this is far from true. All over the world there are myths that resembles those of cultures with which there was once little or no contact. Dragon images can be found in the ancient cultures of the far east just as easily as those of South America.
There s scientific evidence that we live in a multiverse
The plane of existence that we occupy is only one of many. If that theory holds true, there are infinite other realities in which anything that we can imagine and a few things we cannot exist. If there is any way to cross from one realm to another, it is quite certain that those entities also have made homes in our world.
Some of them are supposed to be able to alter perception
If a vampire is capable of using compulsion or hypnosis of some sort to blur memories, it makes sense that we have no reliable evidence of them. This trait is a very large part of their mythology. They could simply hide their existence from anyone they deemed important and trust that anyone who is unimportant but has evidence will be laughed at or ignored.
There have been entire books written about the fairy realm, how to communicate with angels and other metaphysical subjects. It is a difficult concept to disprove with finality so the question of whether or not there is truth to it remains.


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After reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I realized that I had absolutely nothing to say about it. And yet here, as you see, I have elected to say it anyway, and at great length.
Reading this novel now, at the age of mumble-mumble, is a bit like arriving at the circus after the tents have been packed, the bearded lady has been depilated, and the funnel cake trailers have been hitched to pick-up trucks and captained, like a formidable vending armada, toward the auburn sunset. All the fun has already been used up, and I'm left behind circumnavigating the islands of elephant dung and getting drunk on Robitussin®. Same story, different day.
How exactly did I make it through eight total years of high school and undergraduate studies in English without having read any Mark Twain but a brief (and forgotten) excerpt from Life on the Mississippi? Isn't this illegal by now? I mean, isn't there a clause in the Patriot Act... an eleventh commandment... a dictate from Xenu? Isn't Huckleberry Finn, like Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird, now an unavoidable teenage road bump between rainbow parties and huffing spray paint? Isn't it the role of tedious classic literature to add color and texture to the pettiness of an adolescence circumscribed by status updates, muff shaving, and shooting each other? Or am I old-fashioned?
Let's face it. In the greater social consciousness, there are two stars of this book: (1) the word 'nigger' and (2) the Sherwood Schwartz-style ending in which Tom Sawyer reappears and makes even the most casual reader wonder whether he might not be retarded.
Huckleberry Finn, for all his white trash pedigree, is actually a pretty smart kid -- the kind of dirty-faced boy you see, in his younger years, in a shopping cart at Wal-Mart, being barked at by a monstrously obese mother in wedgied sweatpants and a stalagmite of a father who sweats tobacco juice and thinks the word 'coloreds' is too P.C. Orbiting the cart, filled with generic cigarette cartons, tabloids, and canned meats, are a half-dozen kids, glazed with spittle and howling like Helen Keller over the water pump, but your eyes return to the small, sad boy sitting in the cart. His gaze, imploring, suggestive of a caged intellect, breaks your heart, so you turn and comparison-shop for chewing gum or breath mints. He is condemned to a very dim horizon, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you might as well buy some Altoids and forget about it...
That boy is the spiritual descendant of Huckleberry Finn.
The 'nigger' controversy -- is there still one? -- is terribly inconsequential. It almost seems too obvious to point out that this is (a) firstly a 'period novel,' meaning it that occurs at a very specific historical moment at a specific location and (b) secondly a first-person narrative, which is therefore saddled with the language, perspective, and nascent ideologies of its narrator. Should we expect a mostly uneducated, abused adolescent son of a racist alcoholic who is living in the South before the Civil War to have a respectful, intellectually-enlightened perspective toward black people? Should the character of Huck Finn, in other words, be ahistorical, anachronistic? Certainly not, if we expect any semblance of honesty from our national literature.
Far more troubling to many critics is the ending of Huckleberry Finn, when -- by a freakishly literary coincidence -- Huck Finn is mistaken for Tom Sawyer by Tom's relatives, who happen to be holding Jim (the slave on the run) in hopes of collecting a reward from his owners. There are all sorts of contrivances in this scenario -- the likes of which haven't been seen since the golden age of Three's Company -- which ends with Tom arriving and devising a ridiculously elaborate scheme for rescuing Jim.
All in all, the ending didn't bother me as much as it bothered some essayists I've read. That is, it didn't strike me as especially conspicuous in a novel which relies a great deal on narrative implausibility and coincidence. Sure, Tom Sawyer is something of an idiot, as we discover, but in a novel that includes faked deaths and absurd con jobs, his idiocy seems well-placed.
In the end, I suppose the greatest thing I can say about this novel is that it left me wondering what happened to Huck Finn. Would his intellect and compassion escape from his circumstances or would he become yet another bigoted, abusive father squiring another brood of dirty, doomed children around a fluorescently-lit Wal-Mart?
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Read information about the authorSamuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling.
He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility.
Born during a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature".
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A towering 80 metre tall anemometer will be dwarfed by far larger turbines if planning permission is approved – wind farm protesters fear.
The wind mast, built last Wednesday near Wainfleet, has indicated to its opponents the potential impact on the landscape presented by four 127 meter turbines proposed for the same site.
Wainfleet Windfarm Action Group (WWAG) chairman Melvin Grosvenor said: "If this single structure has already had a massive impact on the landscape, what will the effect of the full turbines be?"
"The Wolds is Lincolnshire's only Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty, people come here for peace and tranquillity but what they will get are vistas surrounded by massive turbines.
"The quiet enjoyment of Lincolnshire must not be obliterated by a mass of industrial wind turbines,"
RWE npower renewables successfully appealed East Lindsey District Council's initial refusal of the energy firm's application to build the anemometer in February.
Data it gathers on wind speeds, direction and turbulence will form part of RWE's planning application to build four turbines at the site.
If built the wind farm could generate enough energy to meet the annual electricity needs of up to 4,900 average UK households.
However WWAG believe the comparatively minor amounts of power generated is 'peanuts' compared with offshore sites.
"It's a massive desecration of the landscape for not a lot of gain and the only people to benefit are the landowners and developers," said Mr Grosvenor.
He also feels the wind farm proposal does not give sufficient time to gather the required data from the anemometer.
He added that by forming an application at this stage it the applicants were 'putting the cart before the horse'.
Renewables developer at RWE Charlotte Healey said: "We are confident the investigations we have carried out at the site are showing us that this is a good site for a wind farm.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) All the attention on quarterback Josh Rosen's health and UCLA's struggles to run have overshadowed what the Bruins have accomplished on defense.
Coach Jim Mora expects that to change this week against No. 19 Utah.
''It's going to be a heck of a defensive battle I hope,'' Mora said. ''That's what I foresee because we're playing pretty well on defense too.''
Rosen seems to be on track to return after missing the 27-21 loss at Washington State with undisclosed injuries, participating in the open portion of practice Wednesday, but Mora does not expect a decision regarding the sophomore's availability to be made before Saturday.
''As much as you want to know, I promise you I want to know,'' Mora said. ''I promise you our team wants to know. We're just like you, hoping and crossing our fingers he is able to go on Saturday.''
Instead of focusing on Rosen's status, Mora has spent the week directing his team to successfully close out games. All four of UCLA's losses this season were decided on the final possession, and have won only one of its last five conference games under such circumstances. The lone victory came against the Utes last season, a 17-9 decision in Salt Lake City.
''Good teams finish, and you have to create that environment in practice and we try to do that all the time but this week we have put an added emphasis on it,'' Mora said. ''Really you get what you emphasize. Hopefully it pays off.''
Those lessons seem to have paid off on defense. Though UCLA ranks in the middle of the Pac-12 in most categories on a per-game basis, their per-play averages hint at an excellent unit that is not getting much help from the offense. Allowing 4.63 yards per play, UCLA trails only Washington and Colorado among conference members and ranks No. 16 nationally. However, the 521 snaps the defense has faced is 116th out of the 128 FBS teams. The pass defense is best in the Pac-12, allowing just 5.2 yards per attempt.
Linebacker Jayon Brown leads the conference in tackles, defensive end Takkarist McKinley ranks second in tackles for loss, and defensive backs Fabian Moreau and Randall Goforth are in the top six in passes defended.
The secondary limited quarterback Luke Falk to 261 yards passing and the Cougars' FBS-best streak of 41 consecutive games with a touchdown pass came to an end.
''We always bill ourselves on being underrated and under-appreciate so we kind of feed off that type of thing, and that's ok by us as long as we keep playing good and put our team into position to win,'' defensive backs coach Demetrice Martin said. ''Once it starts transferring into wins we'll ask for a little bit of love.''
If the ground game can provide any respite for the defense, Mora believes UCLA can salvage its season. That will be a difficult assignment against an always-stout Utah defense.
''If we can have some success against them, then I think that shows we are taking progress in that area, which is the one area of our football team that has held us back,'' Mora said.


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When the foundation that is meant to support
Doesn't, has cracks, shakes and shifts,
Then the house that stands atop it
Can never be as strong as it might have been.
No epoxy applied as an after thought
Can compensate for the earlier structural damage.
So…even as the house appears to be
Holding together, maintaining, resisting the elements,
It feels the quakes, the mud seeping in, the unrelenting weight of life
So much more fully than its less-damaged counterparts.
And though the house may learn to sway and stand
In spite of creaks and moans in its tired old bones,
It's prone to sinking and sagging in strange places, requiring bolstering,
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Music, live art and performances will be bringing clubbers into a whole other world. Or as Ushauïa describes it, 'Who invited you here? No perfect people allowed. I don't know who you are but I need your approval. Be the worst you can be.' Here you can and should be as eccentric as you fancy.
Blending visual and music art, Ushauïa reimagines itself as an outlandish world, with visual curiosities and interactive experiences. New common areas, chill-out spots, adult playgrounds, healing areas, pop-up markets, food trucks and much much more will all transform the luxury venue.
As for the line-up, it will be revealed soon. In the meantime, DYSTOPIA promises to bring in exceptional electronic music acts from the forefront of the scene.
Every Friday from 1 June to 28 September 2018 from 15:30 to midnight, immerse yourself in this brutal, disorientating and surreal world.
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Tribe Card Services is located in the Campus Center, Room 169. Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 am until 4 pm. Here at the Tribe Card Services Office, we unite William & Mary through a secure and reliable single card system that makes it easy for you to access goods and services all over campus. Whether you're looking to check out a book from Swem library or hit one of the treadmills at the W&M Rec Center, make sure you've got your ID card!
Our office will be closed July 4 for Independence Day and all Fridays in July (5, 12,19 and 26).
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Watch Sasural Simar Ka Written Updates Of 8th December 2015 Episode : The makers of the soap opera "Sasural Simar Ka" leaving no stone unturned to make you interested for the show every moment. But despite the show is giving us huge entertainment, but the problem from the life of Simar is not getting abolished. The last night episode of "Sasural Simar Ka" started with Patali Devi's evil plan to harm Simar but Patali Devi's plan didn't worked and nothing happen to Simar. May be Mata Rani protects her and also Simar seen with Mata Rani Locket on her neck.
Sasural Simar Ka 8th December 2015 Episode Written Updates
Actually the thing is that Simar prepare sculpture for Devika but Devika uses her evil magical tricks to make the soil profane. Devika waiting that the profane soil will be harms Simar when Simar will be touching it. But astounding Simar prepares two legs of the Murti (Idol) with the mud.
Patali Devi is form of Devika is waiting to see that Simar is getting harm but Simar didn't get hurt which makes the Patali Devi anger. So Patali Devi performs her Tantra Mantra Sadhna to know the fact eventually a Parchai (Reflection) appear.
The Parchai (Reflection) said that it is actually Khushi who touches the mud and make it sacred so Simar did not get hurt. Parchai (Reflection) asked Patali Devi to follow her and they should be visiting Bharadwaj House to know further details.
So, the Patali Devi and the Parchai (Reflection) takes form of smoke and gets enter in the house of Bharadwaj. With the massive smoke enter Bharadwaj family became astounds and they gets out. After getting out they realized that the actually the smoke is coming from Devika's house.
They knock Devika's house to know what happen and after opening door Devika explain them by chance a cloth get burnt. So, the smoke arises. Simar asked her to take care.
In tonight episode it will be shown that the Patali Devi will be giving warning to Khushi that Khushi should not reveals Patali De vi's fact as well she should help and support her to harm Simar. Khushi is not ready to do so.
But Patali Devi threatened Khushi that if Khushi won't support Patali Devi, then Patali Devi will be killing Khushi's child.


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UPDATE: Monster, Jerry Sandusky Guilty, 'They will never believe you' They 'believed' today, will receive up to 442 years in prison
BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania – Many of the victims (now survivors) of Jerry Sandusky, 68, were told by him "They will never believe you" as he would sexually abuse young boys at his home and in the shower at Penn State University.
Sandusky who was a respected coach for many years was accused of 52 sexual assaults against young boys from 7-17 years-old over a 14 year period. It was finally reduced to 48 charges, and he was found guilty of 45 and not guilty of three, yesterday at a Bellefonte, Pennsylvania court.
In a rather quick trial ( two weeks) for such horrific crimes, Sandusky would show up at court with a smile on his face, but left yesterday, not smiling, as he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. The jury reached the verdict in just 21 hours of deliberations.
The makeup of the jury was seven women and five men and many had connections to Penn State, but it didn't seem to matter.
In total there were 10 victims, but only eight took the stand and the youngest, was just 18 years-old. The abuse continued over a 14 year timeline, and the first accusation was back in 1998 when a mother came forward and accused him of abuse of her son.
Once the verdict was announced, Sandusky's lawyer Joe Amendola came forward to boos and jeers and tried to explain how his client was railroaded, because he was overruled on many occasions by the judge. Throughout his statement he was heckled and someone came down the court-house steps to tell him he had two minutes left, and the crowd cheered in applause. He plans on appealing, but it doesn't seem there are any grounds, and highly unlikely any appeals court will overturn this decision by 12 independent jurors.The states Attorney General Linda Kelly (R) made a campaign statement after the verdict was announced and it seemed to go on forever. She referred to Sandusky as a "serial child predator who committed horrific acts. Now he is being held accountable for his crimes."
One of the victim's mother said, "Nobody wins, we've all lost."One of the victims, (survivor) said after the verdict, "Thanks God he's in jail."Defense Attorney Joe Amendola's last words were, "Essentially, the sentence Jerry will receive will be a life sentence," which drew a huge applause.
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I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference on digital engagement in the arts sector. The conference took place in Brighton and was hosted by Culture24.
Culture24 is a non-profit organisation with a mission "to support the cultural sector in reaching online audiences". The conference was in some sense a launch event for their newest research, in the form of a report titled Let's Get Real 2.
[Quick sidenote: The first Let's Get Real report was released in 2011, and became the starting point for an 11-month research project which brought together 22 cultural organisations to learn about "the practical use of technologies to gather data and how to draw meaningful insights from this". The result of this research is the Let's Get Real 2 report.
The full report can be downloaded from the Culture24 website.]
But what I want to talk about today is how we, as SEOs and digital marketers, can learn from this research coming out of the arts sector and use it to help us do our jobs better. So I've put together a few general takeaways from this conference which resonated with me, and which I'd like to see us SEOs and online marketers thinking about more:
1. your target market is an 'audience'
One of the recurring buzzwords of the day was 'audience'. I know that we as marketers do sometimes use the term 'audience' to describe our target market, but how often do we think about what that word means?
Consumers and customers seek you out in order to satisfy a need for a product or service. This is not engagement, this is purely transactional.
Audiences, however, come to see and hear you because they are interested in what you have to say and/or show to them, and in some sense they want to engage with that. For performing artists, the audience is an active participant in the performance.


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PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - Aug. 25, 2014) - ATCO Australia's partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and renowned Nyoongar artist Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) will continue with a new world-first art project capturing the cultural significance of the Porongurup Ranges, one of the most sacred Indigenous sites in the south-west of Western Australia.
Titled 'Boorongurup', the collection will see the creation of more than a dozen culturally infused contemporary works by Tjyllyungoo which continues his lifelong passion to paint the intangible, spiritual connections and interpretations of traditional Aboriginal Australia. His expressions reignite cultural pride in Aboriginal people, as well as develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal belief systems and custodianship of land care and preservation across all Australians.
"For me personally, this is very important work, as an artist, a cultural expressionist and an elder of my people," Tjyllyungoo said. "It has always been my intention to reconnect our people to culture, as well as promote it to the wider community. I believe there needs to be some form of 'cultural reconciliation' among our people, particularly for our youth. I think cultural pride and identity is a very important strength. I have spoken with many Menang Elders (local) on this project and they are very supportive. I am hoping more of my people will take interest and give input as I do the work. To share and promote our cultural knowledge is to give understanding of the significance of the Boorongurups. I think, once this is truly embraced, there will be a much greater interest, respect and care in the protection and preservation of this sanctuary. I am very grateful for ATCO's ongoing support of Indigenous cultural recognition," added Tjyllyungoo.
Boorongurup continues a strong association between Tjyllyungoo, ATCO Australia and Nomad Two Worlds that began during the 'Portrait of Diversity' exhibition - a key cultural experience commissioned by the Western Australian State Government for the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth. In 2013 ATCO extended this relationship by supporting two new exhibitions, including collaborative works between Tjyllyungoo and renowned West Australian photographer and Nomad Two Worlds founder, Russell James.
"ATCO is pleased to build on its partnership with Nomad Two Worlds and supporting Tjyllyungoo's commitment to the preservation of Aboriginal culture and history," said Wayne Stensby, ATCO Australian Managing Director. "We look forward to seeing this project come to life and the opportunity to learn more about such a significant place in Aboriginal culture. To be able to share this story, not only with our employees, but with the wider community helps to develop an understanding and appreciation of the culture and history where we do business and fosters positive relationships based on mutual trust, respect and common interests."
ATCO Australia acknowledges the importance of the land connection to indigenous peoples and has a deep respect for their cultural diversity and unique histories. The partnership with Nomad Two Worlds is built on the foundation laid by ATCO Group's worldwide operations where proactive and collaborative relationships with indigenous peoples are sought and nurtured for the benefit of those communities now and into the future.
According to tradition, the Porongurups near Albany in Western Australia's Great Southern region is home to the 'Boorongur' (Spiritual elder brother), flora and fauna Totemic spirits of all the Southern Bibbulmun people. It is also home to 'Waugal' the great rainbow serpent, the giver of all Laws, the punisher and rewarder, who resides on top of the Porongorup. Bibbulmun people would never hunt on this 'Winartj' (sacred site) and, if ever passing through, would do so quietly and respectfully. Today, this site remains a sanctuary for all the animals that live there.
Joyce Lanigan, Chief Executive Officer, Nomad Two Worlds commented, "The bond we've developed with ATCO Australia is one that we value extremely highly. Their support of Nomad Two World projects' continues to raise awareness of the rich culture and history of indigenous people and this is central to the Nomad Two Worlds mission."
When the works are completed, they will be exclusively revealed at a special exhibition to be hosted by ATCO Australia in Perth, planned for the end of 2014.
About ATCO Australia
ATCO Australia is part of the ATCO Group of Companies. ATCO Group, with more than 9,000 employees and assets of approximately $17 billion, is a diversified global corporation delivering service excellence and innovative business solutions through leading companies engaged in Structures & Logistics (manufacturing, logistics and noise abatement), Utilities (pipelines, natural gas and electricity transmission and distribution) and Energy (power generation, industrial water infrastructure, natural gas gathering, processing, storage and liquids extraction).
About Nomad Two Worlds
Founded by prominent, Perth born photographer Russell James, Nomad Two Worlds began as a steeply messaged artistic collaborative project between Mr. James and Indigenous artist Clifton Bieundurry. Nomad Two Worlds has since evolved to include Indigenous artists across Western Australia and around the world.
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An Abridgment of the New Broad Sword Exercise
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In 1797, W. Pepper of the Notts Yeomanry Cavalry printed the second edition of his Broad Sword instruction manual. Carefully transcribed from the original text by Kirk Lawson, this manual is intended to train Cavalry recruits in the basics of the horse mounted Military Saber or "Broad Sword." Instruction begins unmounted with details of the basic guards and cuts and ends with detailed cut and parry drills to be directed by the Fleugelman. Pepper provisioned his Saber manual with seven line drawing illustrations, providing both internal decoration and visual instruction. These illustrations, restored with digital precision by Kirk Lawson, offer a treasured window into the exciting history of this historic Western Martial Art.
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text: Digital On The Menu: NYT's Stelter Still Shocked About Cable News' Iran Coverage By Amanda Ernst|June 17, 2009Share By Amanda Ernst|June 17, 2009Share Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu, The New York Times reporter and Twitter phenom Brian Stelter spoke about Twitter's role in the media's coverage of Iran and cable news channels' decisions over the week and in the past few days. "As more and more foreign journalists are forced out of the country, I think we're going to see more and more interesting coverage of the protests in Tehran," he said, noting that Twitter is becoming more important as journalists depart the region. "As more and more journalists have to leave the country because their visas are expiring, I think sites like Twitter are going to become even more important, both for organization of protesters but also for gathering the news." Meanwhile, as Twitter has increased in importance, cable news networks in the U.S. have lagged behind in their coverage, Stelter said. "I'm still kind of shocked that there's not more cable news coverage of these protests," he said. "There is something about rolling live coverage for hours at a time that sends the message 'This is important.' And the fact that the cable news didn't really do that this weekend is a little strange," he added. Also discussed, Stelter's storm chasing experiences, the Associated Press's decision to cut prices, ABC's health care special broadcasting from the White House next week. You can listen to all the past podcasts at BlogTalkRadio.com/mediabistro and call in at 646-929-0321. Share http://adweek.it/2kfiUkt copy Adweek Adweek


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Computational Journalism: Promising scenarios of big data visualization
Transactions on Image Electronics and Visual Computing (invited paper), Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 134-137, December 2014
A nascent framework, called computational journalism, is intended to take the concept of accountability into account so as to suggest a promising direction of computer visualization research and development toward the era of big data. In this article, we strive to identify six central features inherent to computational journalism | super real-time computability, spatiotemporal completeness, visualization provenance management, first-person perspective preservation, audience-driven reporting, and perceptually-allowable deformation | through re-examining practical results obtained in our recent visualization studies. Each of these features indeed contributes to breaking the curse of traditional media, and seeking out the ideal form of journalism.
Volume preserving viscoelastic fluids with large deformations using position-based velocity corrections
The Visual Computer, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 57–66, January 2016 (first online: December 6, 2014) [DOI: 10.1007/s00371-014-1055-x]
We propose a particle-based hybrid method for simulating volume preserving viscoelastic fluids with large deformations. Our method combines smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and position-based dynamics (PBD) to approximate the dynamics of viscoelastic fluids. While preserving their volumes using SPH, we exploit an idea of PBD and correct particle velocities for viscoelastic effects not to negatively affect volume preservation of materials. To correct particle velocities and simulate viscoelastic fluids, we use connections between particles which are adaptively generated and deleted based on the positional relations of the particles. Additionally, we weaken the effect of velocity corrections to address plastic deformations of materials. For one-way and two-way fluid-solid coupling, we incorporate solid boundary particles into our algorithm. Several examples demonstrate that our hybrid method can sufficiently preserve fluid volumes and robustly and plausibly generate a variety of viscoelastic behaviors, such as splitting and merging, large deformations, and Barus effect.
Mood-Learning Public Display: Adapting content design evolutionarily through viewers' involuntary gestures and movements
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E97-D, No. 8, pp. 1991-1999, August 2014 [DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1991]
Due to the recent development of underlying hardware technology and improvement in installing environments, public display has been becoming more common and attracting more attention as a new type of signage. Any signage is required to make its content more attractive to its viewers by evaluating the current attractiveness on the fly, in order to deliver the message from the sender more effectively. However, most previous methods for public display require time to reflect the viewers' evaluations. In this paper, we present a novel system, called Mood-Learning Public Display, which automatically adapts its content design. This system utilizes viewers' involuntary behaviors as a sign of evaluation to make the content design more adapted to local viewers' tastes evolutionarily on site. The system removes the current gap between viewers' expectations and the content actually displayed on the display, and makes efficient mutual transmission of information between the cyberworld and the reality.
Fast simulation of viscous fluids with elasticity and thermal conductivity using position-based dynamics
Computers & Graphics, Vol. 43, pp. 21-30, July 2014 [DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2014.06.002]
In this paper, we propose a novel particle-based Lagrangian method for efficiently simulating viscous fluids by adopting position-based constraints. Our method uses the geometric configuration of particles for the positional constraints to approximate the dynamics of viscous fluids using position-based dynamics; thus the method can plausibly generate their motions while allowing for the use of much larger time steps than those previously adopted in the viscous fluid simulations. We also propose an associated boundary-handling scheme for position-based fluids to precisely specify boundary conditions for the constraints. Additionally, we reproduce elastic deformations of materials by controlling the constraints and incorporate thermal conduction into our framework to simulate resultant changes in particle properties and phase transition in the materials. By adjusting parameters, our method can encompass complex motions of fluids with different properties in a unified framework. Several examples demonstrate the effectiveness as well as versatility of our method.
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The Seattle Municipal Court is the a Limited Jurisdiction Court. All misdemeanor crimes, gross misdemeanor crimes and traffic infractions occurring in the City of Seattle will be adjudicated in the Municipal Court of Seattle. This court is by far the most busy court in the entire State of Washington.
Seven elected judges hear all legal matters brought for prosecution by the Seattle City Attorney's Office. The current judges are:
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We've all had small Birthday get together at restaurants when we've been limited on funds. Well here are four ways to spruce up your special night on a budget! I threw a surprise party for my boyfriend yesterday and used these ideas, and he loved them!
Cool Party Hats
This will bring the guest a nostalgic feeling that will take them back to their school aged parties.
Party Mustaches
This will add some character to your pictures, and will be a conversation piece.
Sparkler Candles
Light up the night with these bad boys.
Table Game
Things can get pretty interesting with this game.


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The ownership of a small portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis that was painted when she was young is being disputed in a federal lawsuit.
The suit, filed on Feb. 8 in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn on behalf of Bouvier Beale Jr., alleges that the painting, by Irwin D. Hoffman, which is now at the Terry Wallace Gallery in East Hampton Village, was the property of Edith Bouvier Beale and remains the property of her estate.
Ms. Beale, known as Little Edie, was the subject, along with her mother, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, of the 1975 documentary "Grey Gardens." The film focused on the two women, once socialites, living at their dilapidated estate on West End Road in East Hampton Village. Mr. Beale is Little Edie's nephew and the executor of her estate; she died in 2002.
According to the suit, the painting was commissioned by the future first lady's father, John Vernou Bouvier III, in 1950. He gave it to his sister, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, before his death in 1957.
The suit claims that the painting was stolen from the Grey Gardens estate sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, and that the theft was never reported because of the combative relationship between the two women and Suffolk County and East Hampton Village officials. The Suffolk Health Department had raided Grey Gardens in 1971 and threatened to evict the two women because of the squalid conditions there, as well as numerous building code violations found by inspectors.
Mr. Wallace's attorney, Todd Wengrovsky, said Monday that the Beales are demanding the painting without showing any proof of their claim of ownership.
"If they walked in here right now and showed me a police report, I would give them the painting," Mr. Wallace, the gallery owner, said on Monday.
Mr. Wallace specializes in the work of East End artists, as well as traditional American paintings, though he does not generally deal in portraiture. He has a huge collection of paintings and rotates them from storage into his gallery. "I would never deal with a stolen painting," he said.
He said that he has consulted with both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the East Hampton Village Police Department on art forgeries and related criminal behavior in the art world.
The suit claims that, before her death in 2002, "Little Edie reminded Beale Jr. and his wife, Eva Beale, that various items had been stolen from Grey Gardens over the years, including a portrait of Jackie."
The suit states that Eva Beale saw the painting on display in Mr. Wallace's gallery in 2004 and asked about it. Mr. Wallace told her that he had purchased it some years earlier from a reputable dealer who had since died, according to the suit prepared by Cahill, Cossu, Noh and Robinson of Manhattan.
Mr. Wallace does not recall meeting Eva Beale in 2004, and said it would have been unusual for him to display a portrait in his gallery.
In July 2016, Eva Beale, the suit claims, saw an issue of Hamptons magazine from 1998 in which there was an article on Mr. Wallace and the painting. It was at that point, the suit says, that Eva and Bouvier Beale, who live in Mill Valley, Calif., decided that the painting was the same one that they believe had been stolen from Grey Gardens. The Beales run a lifestyle brand and line of products inspired by the Grey Gardens film and lingering pop culture mystique.
Mr. Beale wrote Mr. Wallace a letter in 2016 describing the painting as "a possibly misappropriated work." Its value, according to the suit, exceeds $75,000.
Mr. Wallace said that he purchased the painting from an antiques store in East Hampton Village around 1988. He said he saw it hanging there during the previous fall and had offered to buy it, along with another painting in the shop, for $1,500. The owner of the store initially refused.
After that, he would return to the shop every few weeks. Eventually the owner relented, and the paintings were then his. Mr. Wallace said that the portrait was on public display in the antiques store for at least six months before he purchased it, which would have been odd if the painting was indeed stolen.
The painting measures 12 by 14 inches. According to AskArt, an online service that catalogs auction prices for art, paintings by Mr. Hoffman, who died in 1989, are of low monetary value. The AskArt database shows 10 examples of his work being auctioned since 2010, fetching prices ranging from $177 to $850. Half of the 10 works did not sell. None featured a celebrity, however.
Mr. Wallace questioned the value put on the painting in the lawsuit, saying that there are two key factors that decide the value of a portrait: the subject and the artist. He agreed that the subject matter, a childlike Jacqueline Bouvier, would certainly boost the work's value. But the artist's poor track record at auction would argue against the $75,000 valuation.
Megan E. Noh, the attorney who is handling the suit, said in an email Monday that "the estate sees this as a matter of principle." She defended the valuation of the portrait, pointing out prices that were obtained in Sotheby's 1996 auction of the Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis estate, in which "even everyday items sold for large sums."
"The market has repeatedly indicated that the association between Jacqueline Bouvier, members of the Kennedy family, and other iconic American figures results in a significant premium above the intrinsic value of such items particularly where, as here, the items come directly from the family," Ms. Noh said.
Mr. Wallace said that the painting is not for sale, and that it is the responsibility of any art dealer to turn over a work that he knows to be stolen. "I would not jeopardize my reputation by handling a stolen work," he said.


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she's NOT a cookie stealing mammal!!!
what i always do
i always want to make something and end up leaving it half done, and staring another thing. after leaving my workroom unpainted with doodles on it, i moved my gigantic sofa to the other room, and kinda plan to make the giant animal doll to sit on. or, if i'm too lazy, i'll put the sofa back in and cover it with mock up toille and doodle around it.
Posting Lebih Baru
Posting Lama


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As investigators began picking up clues to the cause of the second fatal commuter plane crash in six weeks, Transportation Secretary Federico F. Pena today ordered a safety audit of the nation's airlines, and an accelerated timetable for new, stricter safety rules for commuter airlines.
The rules, which would essentially force commuter airlines to meet the same standards as those for major carriers, were first recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board after an American Eagle ATR-72 crashed in Indiana on Oct. 31, killing 68 people. The crash of an American Eagle Jetstream Super 31 on Tuesday night, killing 15 of the 20 people aboard, increased the pressure for changes.
Mr. Pena also said today that he would soon meet with airline chief executives and safety directors, as well as pilots and manufacturers, to discuss safety issues in an industry recently been plagued by crashes.
A clearer picture of what happened before the crash on Tuesday began to emerge tonight. National Transportation Safety Board officials said at a news briefing that preliminary information from the flight-data and the cockpit-voice recorders showed that there had apparently been an engine flameout as the turboprop plane descended for a landing. A flameout occurs when combustion stops in a jet or turboprop engine, but a Federal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said this model plane should be able to fly on one engine after a flameout.
The cockpit crew also talked about a missed approach on the voice recorder, said James Hall, chairman of the safety board. Fifteen seconds before the crash, the plane accelerated sharply and veered off its heading toward the runway. Then, an intermittant warning, which investigators have not identified, sounded.Continue reading the main story
Officials stressed that this information was preliminary and that they had not ruled out any factors, including the weather, as a possible cause of the crash. The crash occurred at 7 P.M. in rain and fog.
American Eagle, the commuter affiliate of American Airlines, is one of the many short-haul carriers that would be affected by the new safety standards. A preliminary version of the rules was endorsed by the Federal Aviation Administration last week. The proposals -- including more pilot training, fewer pilot flying hours and a requirement that young pilots be paired with more experienced ones -- will be completed within 100 days, Mr. Pena said, but no deadline was set for them to take effect.
Critics of the commuter airlines' safety record, as well as officials of the Regional Airline Association, which represents the carriers, said a quick change in the regulations was unlikely.
Mr. Pena flew here this morning with David Hinson, the Federal Aviation Administrator, to look over the wreckage of American Eagle Flight 3379, which crashed on Tuesday evening, killing 15 people and injuring 5. Inspectors with the National Transportation Safety Board began picking through the debris, looking for clues as to what caused the turboprop Jetstream Super 31 to go down in rain and fog in a wooded area southwest of Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
It was the fifth fatal airline crash this year and the third involving a commuter airliner, and Mr. Pena appeared determined to reassure the passengers of commuter airlines, while sending a signal to the industry that the Government would speed up the usually cumbersome process of changing regulations and safety requirements.
"This string of accidents has caused great concern and by increasing and accelerating the steps we have outlined, we hope to continue the high level of safety in the industry," Mr. Pena said in the morning.
The Secretary promised the most comprehensive review ever of the nation's airlines, one that will examine how every carrier operates. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration recently announced the creation of a new post of safety administrator. The agency is also accelerating the hiring of 300 new inspectors to bring the total to 2,200.
The American Eagle crashes on Tuesday and on Oct. 31 in Roselawn, Ind., have shaken passenger confidence in the smaller aircraft used by commuter airlines, and aviation experts say passengers may be right to worry because such planes can be unsafe in foul weather and at night.
More people have died aboard commuter airliners this year than in any year since at least 1982, the earliest year for which National Transportation Safety Board records are available. Eighty-eight people on commuter planes have died in crashes this year, compared with an average of 31 in each of the previous five years. For all airlines, 257 have died in 1994, more fatalities than in any year since 1987.
At the crash scene today, Federal investigators brought in gravel and heavy equipment to help in removing the bodies, which were recovered by the evening.
The plane carrying 18 passengers and 2 crew members was on the way from Greensboro, N.C., 70 miles west of here, to the Raleigh-Durham Airport when it crashed in evening on its approach about five miles southwest of the airport.
Mr. Hall of the safety board said investigators conducted their first interview with a survivor of the crash, a man whom they did not identify, but who was seated in the rear of the plane and described himself as a knowledgeable frequent flier. The man told the investigators that it was a normal flight until the approach to Raleigh when "with no warning the bottom dropped out." The survivor said he had heard the engines revving up loudly and took that to be part of an attempt by the pilot to regain control of the aircraft. But then, there was a second drop, he said
"When this occurred, he said he had believed the airplane was going to crash, and shortly afterward, it did," Mr. Hall said.
Witnesses said they heard a loud and jarring thud as the plane cut a 100-yard swath through the dense pine forest before hitting the ground.
David Stanley, a 43-year-old engineer who lives less than a mile from the crash site, heard the loud, screaming engines of the Jetstream Super 31 as it passed overhead just above the trees while he was watching the news. It was so loud that he thought it was trying to accelerate. The plane hit the ground with a loud report like a shotgun blast and then there was silence followed nearly a minute later by a loud explosion. He then saw "the reddish, pinkish glow of fires" in the distance and he and a neighbor ran through the dense undergrowth toward the plane.
"The odor of jet fuel was strong, the fuselage had a gaping, eight-foot hole in it, and it looked like it was caving in on itself," he said, of the scene where spotty fires made for eery shadow play among the wreckage. "And then I saw a man walking around and I shined the flashlight in his face and he was just saying, 'I can't find my wife.' " John Ciulla, 31, of Manorville, L.I., survived the crash, while his wife, Kelly, 26, died.
Seven people were taken from the scene to area hospitals where two of them eventually died. Today the medical conditions of the five injured passengers from the American Eagle flight ranged from critical but stable to good. Doctors at Wake County Medical Center, where three of the injured were being treated, said that they were suffering myriad lacerations and broken bones, but none had head injuries and all were expected to survive.
Last week, the F.A.A. issued guidelines prohibiting commuter carriers from flying ATR-42 and ATR-72 propeller-driven planes in icing conditions in part as a result of the crash in October.Continue reading the main story


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Checked-Out at the Library
Finally got my copy of Sever (book 3) from the library. Have two more books to finish before I start but had to let loose some of this excitement. I've been waiting for two months and almost don't wanna start it because eventually it will end...
If you haven't read Wither be sure to check it out. It's amazing dystopian trilogy and each book is out, so no waiting for you... Check out Wither and the Chemical Garden Series on Goodreads.
Has anyone read Sever yet? What did you think?


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Brooklyn Woman Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Participating In $57.3 Million Fraud On Organization That Makes Reparations To Victims Of nazi Persecution
Friday May 25, 2012
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that POLINA BREYTER, a former caseworker and employee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (the "Claims Conference"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to defraud programs administered by the Claims Conference, and established to aid the survivors of Nazi persecution out of more than $57 million. BREYTER was arrested and charged in this scheme in November 2010 as part of an ongoing investigation that has resulted in charges against a total of 31 participants, 10 of whom were former Claims Conference employees, including a former director. She pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: "Polina Breyter is the eleventh person to plead guilty in connection with an elaborate and intricate scheme to steal tens of millions of dollars intended for victims of one of the worst atrocities in history – the Holocaust – and she will now face the justice she deserves. We intend to continue pursuing the charges brought by this Office against the remaining 20 co-conspirators in this brazen and cynical fraud so this case is brought to a just conclusion and they too are punished for their alleged crimes."
According to the Complaints and the Indictment filed in Manhattan federal court:
The Claims Conference, a not-for-profit organization that provides assistance to victims of Nazi persecution, supervises and administers several funds that make reparation payments to victims of the Nazis, including "the Hardship Fund" and "the Article 2 Fund," both of which are funded by the German government. Applications for disbursements through these funds are processed by employees of the Claims Conference's office in Manhattan, and the employees are supposed to confirm that the applicants meet the specific criteria for payments under the funds.
As part of the charged scheme, a web of individuals systematically defrauded the Article 2 Fund and Hardship Fund programs for over a decade. The Claims Conference first suspected the fraud in December 2009, and immediately reported their suspicions to law enforcement, which conducted a wide-reaching investigation.
The Hardship Fund pays a one-time payment of approximately $3,500 to victims of Nazi persecution who evacuated the cities in which they lived and were forced to become refugees. Members of the conspiracy submitted fraudulent applications for people who were not eligible. Many of the recipients of fraudulent funds were born after World War II, and at least one person was not even Jewish. Some conspirators recruited other individuals to provide identification documents, such as passports and birth certificates, which were then fraudulently altered and submitted to corrupt insiders at the Claims Conference, who then processed those applications. When the applicants received their compensation checks, they kept a portion of the money and passed the rest back up the chain.
The Claims Conference has determined that at least 3,839 Hardship Fund applications appear to be fraudulent; to date, these applications resulted in a loss to the Hardship Fund of approximately $12.3 million.
The Article 2 Fund makes monthly payments of approximately $400 to survivors of Nazi persecution who make less than $16,000 per year, and either (1) lived in hiding or under a false identity for at least 18 months; (2) lived in a Jewish ghetto for 18 months; or (3) were incarcerated for six months in a concentration camp or a forced labor camp. The fraud involved doctored identification documents in which the applicant's date and place of birth had been changed. The fraud also involved more sophisticated deception, including altering documents that the Claims Conference obtained from outside sources to verify an applicant's persecution by the Nazis. Some of the detailed descriptions of persecution in the fraudulent Article 2 Fund applications were completely fabricated.
The Claims Conference has determined that at least 1,112 Article 2 Fund cases it processed have been determined to be fraudulent; to date, those cases have resulted in a loss to the Claims Conference of approximately $45 million.
Since 2010, a total of 31 individuals have been charged with participating in the scheme to defraud the Article 2 Fund and Hardship Fund program. BREYTER, a Claims Conference caseworker, was charged with knowingly processing fraudulent applications to both the Hardship and Article 2 Fund programs in return for payments made to her by co-conspirators. BREYTER is the eleventh individual to plead guilty. Charges remain pending against the remaining 20 defendants in the case, who are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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BREYTER, 69, of Brooklyn, New York, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and a maximum fine of $250,000. She is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Griesa on September 27, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.
Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"). He also thanked the Claims Conference for bringing this matter to the FBI's attention and for its extraordinary continued cooperation in this investigation, which he noted is ongoing.
This case is being handled by the Office's Complex Frauds Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher D. Frey is in charge of the prosecution.