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Global Environment and Resources
Students who pursue a certificate in Global Environment and Resources will examine the ways in which the causes and effects of environmental degradation are at once local and global. Global common pool challenges such as climate change now link many domestic policy decisions to global consequences. As global urbanization and development, resource use is increasing. Major global migrations are driven by environmental degradation. Students must be able to think critically and communicate effectively about how to address global environmental issues and processes.
Students are also encouraged to look into the campus-wide Leaders in Sustainability certificate (LIS). LIS provides students who are interested in sustainability issues the opportunity to collaborate with students from different fields across UCLA. Some of you may want to pursue BOTH a certificate in Global Environment and Resources AND a Leaders in Sustainability certificate, as certain courses fulfill both certificate requirements.
Faculty Certificate Leaders
Stephen ComminsGlobal Public Affairs
Susanna HechtGlobal Public Affairs
Certificate Courses
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Urban Planning 269: Special Topics in Environmental Analysis and Policy: Climate Change and Everyday Fragility
1. Register for this certificate here
2. Take any 3 classes listed above during your grad studies at Luskin.
3. Follow the GPA policies to obtain your Certificate in Global Public Affairs.
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2013 policy priorities for sustainable and responsible investors
The Sustainable Shareholder
2013 policy priorities for sustainable and responsible investors
The inauguration of President Obama for a second term provides an important moment to assess the nation's level of policy effectiveness in areas of concern to investors who care about financial responsibility and sustainability as criteria for making sound investment decisions.
The fragility and volatility of the global economy -- highlighted by the collapse of major financial institutions in the United States and the loss of nearly $13 trillion of investor assets -- has shaken investor confidence since the vulnerability of large banks, investment firms and insurance companies was shown to be caused by excessive risk-taking and poor or nonexistent regulatory oversight. According to the Chicago Booth/Kellogg Financial Trust Index, 79 percent of investors have no trust in the financial system. Sixty-four percent of Americans believe, according to The 2012 Ethics and Action Survey: Voices Carry, that corporate misconduct was a significant factor in bringing about the current economic crisis.
Four years ago, the receptivity of the President's transition team to these issues gave reason for hope among sustainable and responsible investors that systemic financial reforms would be put into place and that the business risks associated with climate change would be viewed as material to the financial bottom line. But financial institutions (and the power they wield over Congress) has delayed the implementation of important financial reform laws and regulations since 2009.
Let's check on the progress of the path to reform:
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Although the lack of regulatory oversight was partially responsible for the Great Recession of this generation, Congress continues to fail to provide the SEC with the budget and staff necessary to monitor, investigate and hold accountable those individuals and institutions that put the American people at risk through negligence or abuse. Unfortunately, the SEC only has 10 examiners for every trillion dollars in investment advisor assets under management (it was 19 back in 2005).
Its $1.3 billion annual budget and 5100 staff must oversee:
- 10,000 investment advisers
- 9,700 funds
- 4,500 broker-dealers with more than 160,000 branch offices
- 9,100 reporting companies' disclosures and financial statements
- 450 transfer agents
- 5 national securities exchanges
- 8 active clearing agencies
- 9 nationally recognized statistical rating organizations
- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
- The Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
By comparison, the FDIC has a $2.7 billion budget and over 8,000 employees to monitor, as well as 7,700 financial institutions, which reflects how the SEC is severely under-resourced.
And then came the Dodd-Frank legislation.
Next page: More about the SEC
The rulemaking related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Financial Reform and Consumer Protection Act continues to be upheld by the sheer volume of rules to be drafted as well as lawsuit threats from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups. Success has been achieved on several fronts:
- a proxy access rule gives shareholders the right to nominate directors to corporate boards and have those nominees appear in the proxy statements that publicly-traded companies must send to all shareholders;
- the SEC no longer automatically issues "no action" letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, meaning the SEC now considers ESG issues as material to financial performance;
- publicly traded companies now must disclose their use of minerals sourced from "conflict" nations as well as disclose any payments made by resource extraction companies to other governments; and
- an SEC Investor Advisory Committee was established to allow investors to provide direct input on existing and proposed regulations. The related Office of Investor Advocate is expected to be created soon.
Other SEC policy priorities currently in progress include:
- disclosure by publicly traded companies of ESG-related risks, a long sought-after requirement that would inform investors of non-financial factors that can affect financial performance and therefore shareholder value;
- disclosure of corporate political contributions, which are a potential reputational risk since most people believe that the democratic and accountable functioning of society is compromised when access to decision makers and the policy making process favors corporate interests; and
- disclosure of executive compensation in relation to that of average employees (a pay disparity issue of great concern), particularly considering the high unemployment rate and the trend of shipping jobs overseas.
Next page: Other factors
Financial reform
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created and funded with strong protections for citizens in areas of mortgage and credit card fee disclosure; and
- Increased federal support for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) was garnered, including extension of the New Markets Tax Credit.
Environment and climate change
- The sustainable, responsible and impact investment industry believes the strong authority and funding levels of the Environmental Protection Agency is necessary to require business to adequately respond to climate change, which is a direct threat to profitability and the U.S. economy, among others; and
- The EPA's Utility Mercury and Air Toxic Standard must be enforced to reduce harmful emissions and provide incentives for power producers to explore renewable sources of energy to power the grid.
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East Texas Cheap Eats
We were talking just the other day in the lunch room here at the radio station about how much food prices have gone up lately. There was a time not too long ago when you could spend $5 on lunch. Now you're lucky to get out for much less than $10. Any decent combo meal at McDonald's or Whataburger is going to run you at least $7 after tax. I have made a list of some of my favorite places to eat that are a little easier on the wallet. The list after the jump.
1) Taqueria El Lugar - With 4 locations now in the Tyler area, there is probably one near you. Not only are the prices VERY reasonable, but the authentic Mexican food is the best you'll find north of the border.
2) Taco Bell - You can't beat Taco Bell for a cheap taco. The original crunchy taco or bean burrito for .89 cents is decent, and fills you up fast. Throw in a soft taco or tostada and you can get out for around $4 if you skip buying a drink.
3) Jumbo Seafood - This hole-in-the-wall restaurant doesn't look like much from the outside, but the service and seafood inside will blow your mind. Located inside an old Hot Biscuit restaurant at Highway 69 and the Loop in Tyler, the only thing better than their food is the prices. They have lunch specials starting at $5.50 that include my favorite, fried catfish. The portions are generous, and the size of the fish fillets are big. I love their fries, hush puppies, but my favorite is the tarter sauce. I'm not sure what they put in it, but I could drink it straight out of the bottle. Don't let the outside looks of the restaurant or the location fool you. The best seafood in town is Jumbo Seafood.
Obviously I love Mexican food! Two of my top 3 cheap eats restaurants serve Mexican food. If you live in East Texas there's a Mexican food restaurant on every corner, so you better like it!
What are some of your favorite cheap eats? Comment below!


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This is a very easy and a super yummy recipe.
We love this hot toast at Sunday brunches.
Hot, spicy and DELICIOUS.
Step 1: Ingredients
4 Eggs- I calculate 2 egg per baguette
Pickled jalapeños.........................1/2 cup
Grated cheese (mainly cheddar)...1Cup
salt .................................................1tsp
White flour.......................................1TBS
garlic.................................................1 clove
Step 2: Proceedure
Cut the baguettes horizontally into thick slices.
Beat the eggs in a bowl.
Add in all the remaining ingredients to the bowl, except for the baguette, and mix up thoroughly.
To this liquid mixture add the baguette slices.
Allow the mixture to stand for 5 mins.
Step 3:
Heat the pan on a medium heat, add on a blob of butter.
Spread the butter evenly.
Place the soaked slices on the pan and cover the pan.
Turn the slices over when the bottom is golden brown.
Step 4:
When the other side is golden brown the jalapeño cheese toast is ready to tickle your taste buds.
Bon appetite.
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I might give this a try sometime. Thanks for sharing~
This looks super tasty! Thanks for sharing!
Most welcome, hope you try it out sometime.


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Welcome to Showcase Sunday, hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea. The aim of this event is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed form the libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. For more information about how this feature works and to join in, click here.
This is what I got this week...
For review (from the authors, respectively):
Duplicity (Spellbound #2) by Nikki Jefford
The Mine by John A. Heldt
And I got this one for FREE on Amazon (Make sure you check it out, it will only be free TODAY):
Guardian (Creepy Hollow #1) by Rachel Morgan
Also, I already have this next one, but I thought you should know that this one will also be FREE only TODAY on Amazon! Go get it! It's AWESOME!
*Entangled (Spellbound #1) by Nikki Jefford
What books did you get this week?? Leave me a link and I'll go check them out :)


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Murder at the Marathon. Aired 7-8p ET.
Aired May 10, 2015 - 19:00 ET
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN HOST: This is what they did in Boston. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my God. (CROSSTALK) FEYERICK: But where did they go? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Less than half an hour after they did this they're agreeing about what kind of milk they'll buy. FEYERICK: Who we're they really? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was always happy and peaceful. There was nothing malicious about him. FEYERICK: And what drove them to kill? You saw the victim that's grieving and broken. Now the side of the story you didn't see. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my goodness. Officer down. Officer down. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get on it. FEYERICK: Tonight, Murder at the Marathon. April 15th 2013, Patriots Day, a Massachusetts tradition. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you talk to anyone from Boston, they'll talk about Patriots Day as the day, the week entity in Boston, it's our signature day, it's the week of Boston. FEYERICK: The centerpiece of the day is the City's world famous marathon. STEVE SILVA, BOSTON.COM REPORTER: It was a chilly morning, 30 degrees unlike when it was 80 degrees so we're like, oh the weather is not going to be the story this year, what's going to be the story? FEYERICK: Journalist Steve Silva is covering the event for Boston.com. SYDNEY CORCORAN, BOSTON BOMBING SURVIVOR: It was a normal day and it was a good day. FEYERICK: Sydney Corcoran along with her mom and dad are among the 1 million spectators enjoying the day. CORCORAN: My family and I have gone to Boston, we got to (inaudible) and we made our way down to the finish line. FEYERICK: 30,000 runners have spent months preparing to cross this line. Opposite Boston across the Charles River, two brothers are also preparing for the marathon in a much more sinister way. Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar live in an unremarkable house on an unremarkable street. They've been working hard on a recipe from an online magazine; it's called "Inspire", the English language terror guide created by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The recipe, make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. The ingredients are surprisingly simple, ordinary objects you can buy in everyday stores, like pressure cookers, the kind you might use to make dinner. Records indicate pressure cookers are bought here at this Macy's in Saugus, Massachusetts. It's a middle-class community, about 13 miles from the Tsarnaev's home. In late March just two weeks before the attack on the Marathon, one of the bombers comes to this home depot just north of Cambridge to buy a soldering gun. A soldering gun is used to heat metal and connect wires. The brothers also buy fireworks to extract the explosive powder inside. That goes into the pressure cooker along with BB pellets and nails. Homemade shrapnel intended to tear flesh and shatter bone. It's 2:37 P.M., about 4.5 hours since the start of the race. It's when a majority of runners are finishing. It's also go time for the brothers who round the corner unto the marathon route. Their attack is timed to cause maximum damage. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I always think of the families that just lined in that finish line, sometimes 10 deep and it's difficult to get by. FEYERICK: That's where Tamerlan positioned himself, high school student Sydney Corcoran is to his left. CORCORAN: It was a great vibe. Everyone was just being nice and cheering them on, "You can do it. Keep going." FEYERICK: Dzhokhar stops behind several families with small children including the Richards with 11-year-old Henry, 6-year-old Jane and 8- year-old Martin. It's not 2:50 P.M. Dzhokhar raises a phone to his ear [21:05:02] The plan is now in motion. (OFF-MIKE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What the hell was that? FEYERICK: Tamerlan detonates the first bomb. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my God, something blew up. FEYERICK: In the ensuing chaos Dzhokhar walks quickly away from his backpack. He leaves it on the ground right near 8-year-old Martin Richard. Behind the Richards in a blue sweeter is 23-year-old Lindsay Liu. ALYSHA PALUMBO, NECN CORRESPONDENT: She walks into frame right before that first bomb goes off. You see Lindsay Liu turned to look towards the finish line where that first bomb went off. Then you see Lindsay Liu continuing to walk across the frame and then the second bomb goes off. FEYERICK: The blast levels spectators and separates families. PALUMBO: My mind always goes to the Richard Family, Bill Richard who saw the first bomb go off and thought, I need to get my family out of here, trying to jump over the fence when the second bomb went off right behind his family. You see him grab his grab his oldest son Henry, and then you see Jane and she gets up not realizing that she doesn't have a leg and her father grabs her and frees her to -- the pavement and road where -- he was able to find someone who could help him, one of the emergency personnel, and then you see him run back to where his wife and his son are. He said it was one of those situations where he had to tell himself, Martin is gone, I need to focus on Jane. Jane needs my help right now. It's going to be the worst decision any parent has to make. FEYERICK: And this picture of Lindsay Liu is the last one of her alive. A piece of metal from the pressure cooker slices her leg open. She bleeds to death on the sidewalk. CORCORAN: I don't remember going down on the ground but I remember coming to and seeing everyone around me and I remember the massive amount of pressure being put on my leg and it was very painful. FEYERICK: Like Lindsay Liu, bomb parts have severed a main artery in Sydney's right tight, she's loosing blood fast. Near Sydney, 29-year-old Krystal Campbell is also bleeding profusely. My legs hurt she tells her friend Karen McWatters. They're the last words Krystal will ever speak. KEVIN CULLEN, BOSTON GLOBE: Karen McWatters, she lost her leg and fell (ph) with her friend Krystal Campbell, she kind of inched towards Krystal and placed their faces almost next to each other and then put her hand in Krystal. So, the last sensation that Krystal would have felt besides the searing pain in her legs from the bomb would have been the warmth of Karen's face and the embrace of her hand. FEYERICK: One friend lives, the other dies. Hundreds are left struggling to survive. And authorities are already trying to figure out who did this, how many are out there and where are they now? Coming up, a cold-hearted killer seemingly without a care in the world. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [21:10:00] FEYERICK: The marathon bombs kill three people, 29-year-old Krystal Campbell described by her brother as the heart of her family, Lindsay Liu, a Chinese exchange student who originally plans to stay home to study, and 8-year-old 3rd grader Martin Richard who loves sports including running. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Something blew up. Oh my God, something happened. FEYERICK: More than 250 people are shredded and broken, lives hang in the balance. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sorry about that OK? (OFF-MIKE) FEYERICK: One of them is Sydney Corcoran. CORCORAN: I remember feeling the blood just like come out of my leg and it was warm all over, and I thought like, I'm bleeding out, I'm not going to make it at the hospital. (CROSSTALK) FEYERICK: As doctors rushed to save lives, at least one of the bombers is here. That's 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev casually shopping at the Whole Foods in Cambridge. It's 3:14 P.M., just 24 minutes after the bombing. CULLEN: He goes in (inaudible) half a gallon of milk, then the video shows him go back into the parking lot. The milk wasn't the right milk so he gets out -- this is less than half an hour after they killed three people, he's back in exchanging the milk because apparently it wasn't the right milk. It was an extraordinary thing to watch. FEYERICK: It also appears perfectly normal, which is how friends who know Dzhokhar from before bombing describe him. ERIC MERCADO, HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND OF DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV: He was definitely a normal kid. You know, carry on a conversation and make you laugh. He was fun, he was happy go lucky... FEYERICK: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrives in the United States in 2002, an 8-year-old speaking little English. [21:15:00] His family is Chechen, an ethnic minority long persecuted in Russia. MARET TSARNAEVA, AUNT: First, parents came, mother and father and Dzhokhar when he was little. Three kids we're back home in Kazakhstan. FEYERICK: By the time older sibling Bella, Ailina and Tamerlan arrived the following the year, Dzhokhar is fitting into American culture. By high school, he's a popular guy. CULLEN: He had a big cross-section of friends, most of them we're shocked when this came out that he was charged with the Boston Marathon bombing. FEYERICK: Including these young men from his high school wrestling team who asked not to be identified. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With the wrestling, he is a really nice kid, you know. He was the kind of kid that would push me harder, I mean I was new to wrestling so he really helped me like -- he would push me all the time. FEYERICK: By senior year he's a wrestling captain, he's also working as a lifeguard at Harvard. He's getting solid grades, and he speaks English perfectly with no accent. If he's harboring any anti-American feeling his friends don't have a clue. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He never hated America -- trying to be a typical American boy. FEYERICK: A typical American boy who smoked a lot of pot. CULLEN: I was talking to some kids (inaudible) at least two of them mentioned that likes to smoke a blunt (ph). Is that unusual in American high school kids? Probably not, particularly in city like, you know, Kansas. FEYERICK: Brother Tamerlan, seven years older than Dzhokhar is having a harder time adjusting, but he is trying to find his place. LUIS VASQUEZ, TAMERLAN TSARNAEV FRIEND: He love boxing, it was hi passion, it was his outlet (ph). Clearly he wanted to be a world champion one day. FEYERICK: Tamerlan's high school buddy Luis Vasquez says his friend's ambitions caused some of his problems. VASQUEZ: He can be intimidating because people knew he was a boxer and he had more of a reserved personality to him but if you went up to him he talks you right back. FEYERICK: Ahead, what would cause an aspiring boxer and a popular high school wrestler to do this, and this, and this? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my goodness. All units respond. Officer down. Officer down. All units. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get on it. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [21:20:00] FEYERICK: This is where Tamerlan Tsarnaev feels most at home, in the boxing ring, his dominance, imposing, successful. John Allan owns the gym where Tamerlan trains. How do you describe Tamerlan's skill as a fighter? JOHN ALLAN, GYM OWNER: Very good. Very good, he is a proficient boxer who is very talented. FEYERICK: So talented he wins the New England Golden Gloves heavyweight championship twice, a step closer to his dream of fighting at the international level. ALLAN: It was his life choice to use boxing to try to get to nationalized citizen, to compete in the Olympics. FEYERICK: But then a sharp blow. He's barred from national competition because Tamerlan Tsarnaev is not an American citizen. CULLEN: That would have just been one more box for him to check off in his sense of grievance. FEYERICK: For Tamerlan, it's a familiar message. He is an outsider. That same year, he tells a local photo journalist, "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them." ALI SOUFAN, FORMER SUPERVISORY SPECAIL AGENT: The older brother had a lot of problems. He wasn't able to assimilate to the U.S. culture like his little brother. FEYERICK: His little brother Dzhokhar. ROBERT MCFADDEN, SR. REP. DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, NCIS: Very well adapted, very personable, very popular within his school. FEYERICK: He seems to be doing well. MCFADDEN: He received a scholarship to go to college, talented wrestler, all those kind of things. FEYERICK: But the rest of the Tsarnaev is struggling, the sisters with failed marriages, the parents with earning a living. CULLEN: They had all sorts of opportunity in this country but by any measure they seem to have not, you know, fulfilled certainly what their expectations were. FEYERICK: Money is tight and the family relies on welfare to get by. THOMAS DE WAAL, SR. ASSOC. CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INT'L PEACE: They have what's the common experience to many Chechens, living as a kind of alienated minority in foreign societies. FEYERICK: The families homeland is Chechnya, its history violent, its citizens scattered. Many like the Tsarnaevs living far from home. And that can create issues. SOUFAN: Issue of nationalism, Chechnya (ph), Issue of Turkestan and the Shaadi groups over there, issues that have to do with assimilation and with the sense of belonging. FEYERICK: Tamerlan begins to find a sense of belonging in radical Islam. ALLAN: He definitely started to talk about religion more. He would engage with people in the gym, talk about Jewish conspiracy and grew his beard for a while. FEYERICK: In 2011, the FBI interviews Tamerlan and his mother after receiving a vague and unusual warning. Russian counterparts say they are "adherents of radical Islam." But the case is later closed for lack of evidence. By January 2012, the parents' marriage has fallen apart. CULLEN: Like a metaphor for the whole family, collapsed in just -- under its own weight, under all sorts of dysfunction and anger. FEYERICK: As both parents separately moved back to Dagestan, Dzhokhar is left to send for himself at UMass Dartmouth. CULLEN: While Tamerlan was becoming all devout, Dzhokhar was still hanging out with his buds talking about girls on Facebook. FEYERICK: On Facebook and also in his Tweets, "Sleep after breakfast is so much sweeter." [21:25:00] "I want to study abroad or two." "I'm doing laundry at this time?" hash tag college. He is also smoking and dealing plenty of pot. CULLEN: Everybody knew this kid. Had -- he came with a funny name. He always had pot. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar's grades are now plummeting as brother Tamerlan takes a long trip to Dagestan. Like neighboring Chechnya, Dagestan is torn by ethnic violence and extremism. It is here that something in Tamerlan seems to click. SOUFAN: There's something that happened during that trip. There are people that he met. There were mosques that he attended. There's training camps possibly that he went to and he probably received some training. FEYERICK: Tamerlan seems eager to share what he is learning. E- mailing Dzhokhar video links and writing, "Watch this, it's interesting" or ideas " Those who help Allah's cause, Allah will help them" or articles to read like this one about Osama bin Laden's martyrdom. Six months later when Tamerlan returns to Cambridge, he is radically different. CULLEN: Even among mainstream Muslims in the Cambridge area, you know, he stood out as somebody who is a little more radicalized, a little more angry. FEYERICK: Brother Dzhokhar becomes a U.S. citizen on September 11th 2012. Still he has strong ties to his Chechen roots. SOUFAN: It seems that the fact that both of them believed that they are from Chechnya not to, you know, the United States where they lived. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar and Tamerlan are spending more time together and listening to radical Islamist messages. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The way you should see it as a Muslim, you should see it that I'm one year closer to my best. Did I compare myself for it? A Muslim cannot afford to waste anytime. FEYERICK: Three days before the marathon, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar stopped at this mosque to pray. Then go from worship to workout at John Allan's gym. We're surprised at his demeanor, 72 hours before his bombs... ALLAN: Unbelievable... FEYERICK: ... on the marathon? ALLAN: I mean just him entering the ring, I mean, you know, like jumping over both legs, feet at his shoulder height clear in the ring, hopping in, jumping rope like, yeah, like he was on top of the world. FEYERICK: On top of the world, and ready to act. That same week Dzhokhar Tweets, "If you have the knowledge and the inspiration, all that's left is to take action." April 15th 2013, Marathon Monday, the two brothers take their respective positions. Set of two bombs on Boylston Street and calmly walked away. Coming up next, brothers on the run, an extraordinary manhunt in the City of Boston. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just saw the spark from the bomb and that's when I immediately hit the ground. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [21:30:00] FEYERICK: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth on the campus a day later everyone is talking about what happened at the marathon. ZACH BETTENCOURT, DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV's CLASSMATE: We talked about the bombing for like about 5 minutes. FEYERICK: Everyone including Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and classmate Zach Bettencourt BETTENCOURT: He seemed very natural, didn't seem like nervous or anything. He said, yes I've been doing wrestling (ph) lately so I decided to come to gym. FEYERICK: As Dzhokhar heads to the gym, Copley Square has become a crime scene, a forensic team sifts through the debris. They find pieces of the pressure cookers, remnants of the bag packs and a twisted fuse. FBI analysts are also pouring over surveillance footage. RICHARD DESLAURIERS, RETIRED FBI: We watch that video hundreds and hundreds of times to detect any anomalies and try to detect any suspicious activity. FEYERICK: Anomalies like this, the man in the white hat who after the first blast doesn't even flinch. So it was the absence of reaction. STEPHANIE DOUGLAS, FMR. EXEC. ASST. DIRECTOR, FBI: Your normal reaction right? If you hear a loud noise you automatically will shift your head toward the direction of that loud noise he didn't do that. He was unfazed and that was the thing that really stood out. FEYERICK: A crucial lead to follow. DOUGLAS: We start retracing, back this up do we see him with any one else? And then we do we do see him with (inaudible) wearing a black cap. FEYERICK: Investigators believe they have identified their suspect but they don't have their names. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are releasing photos of these two suspects they are identified as suspect one and suspect two. FEYERICK: The two brothers are now the most wanted fugitives in America. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They knew that if they put their photos out there they're going to be identified quickly. FEYERICK: After months of carefully planning their attack the Tsarnaev brothers have failed to plan their escape. ROBERT MCFADDEN, U.S. FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: Was obvious that the two brothers had little idea and little planning as to what they were going to do next. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar text his friend, "If you want you can go to my room and take what's there." As reality hits his friends grab Dzhokhar's laptop and bag pack with fire works which later turned up in a land fill. DOUGLAS: I think honestly with just the videos and photos they could have successfully fled immediately following the bombing. FEYERICK: But they are definitely running now. MCFADDEN: So within days of the act they're actually committing other criminal acts to just essentially make their getaway. FEYERICK: The brothers only have one gun in search of another they confront MIT police officer Sean Collier. CULLEN: You could see that Collier drives up into his cruiser parks there and you see these two images in dark and they come walking quite deliberately down this pathway. [00:05:01] FEYERICK: After a struggle Collier shot multiple times at close range, the brothers run from the scene. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All units respond. Officer down. Officer down. CULLEN: They killed him, murdered him in cold blood and then tried to take his weapon but his holster was designed to prevent people from stealing a weapon particularly in a struggle or something like that. FEYERICK: Across the Charles River a few miles away the Tsarnaev brothers come upon in idling SUV and decide to cardiac the vehicle and it's driver, 26--year-old chinese app developer Dun Meng. CULLEN: Tamerlan Tsarnaev said to him, you know, what the Boston marathon bomb he said, yes, I did that. I just killed a police man so don't do anything stupid. FEYERICK: The brother's question may about New York City, uses bank card to withdraw $800 in cash and stopped for gas. Dzhokhar heads into the store for snacks. CULLEN: They went inside the Shell gas station shows some getting of a bunch of Doritos and Red Bull which you get for a road trip. FEYERICK: Alone in the car with Tamerlan, Dun Meng knows it's now or never. In a single motion he slips off his seat belt and opens the door bolting across the street to a gas station to call 911. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What happened when they took the car? DAN MANG, CARJACKED BY THE TSARNAEVS: They are the suspects of the marathon explosion. FEYERICK: The plan is unraveling Tamerlan races to get his brother. Meng escaped gives investigators the break they desperately need. CULLEN: The one thing that Dun Meng did which was actually quite brilliant, when Tamerlan asked if he had a GPS in there he said no but in fact he did. FEYERICK: The police tracked the car to Watertown and the brothers engaged them in a massive fire fight. ANDREW KITZENBERG, WATERTOWN RESIDENT: I hear pops outside and as I run in the window I just saw two shooters behind a vehicle, behind an SUV. FEYERICK: And Andrew Kitzenberg takes these photos from his upstairs bedroom. CULLEN: While Tamerlan was firing at them they could see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev throw bombs and them, and then they saw him grab what turned out to be another pressure cooker bomb, like the ones that they left on Boylston Street, at the marathon, but this one (inaudible) with quite a bit of effort because it was so heavy. KITZENBERG: I just saw a spark from the bomb and that's when I immediately hit the ground. I could feel it shake the house. FEYERICK: Police are in a fight for their lives. KITZENBERG: At that point one of the shooters actually starting charging the officers running down the streets still firing his weapon. ED DEVEAU, WATERTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT: And they're literally about 10 feet away from each other exchanging gun fire, and then he runs out of ammunition, the bad guy. FEYERICK: The bad guy, Tamerlan throws his empty gun at officers who then tackled him to the ground. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When Dzhokhar saw what was going on with his brother he jumps into the Mercedes SUV and comes back at the cops who are on top of his brother. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar aims the car straight at the officers. DEVEAU: Somebody at the last minute, you know, get out of the way and they dove out of the way. FEYERICK: Instead he runs over his brother. CULLEN: Fatal injuries on Tamerlan Tsarnaev inflicted by his brother Dzhokhar who run him over. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev makes his escape. He is wounded and bleeding and looking for a place to hide. Coming up next, a city on lockdown. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're asking the people to shelter in place, in other words to stay indoors with their doors locked. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [21:40:00] FEYERICK: Boston, a city attacked and left wounded and bleeding is now a city on lockdown. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Move, move, move. You got to get out here. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're telling everybody to get off the street... FEYERICK: After a vicious fire fight with police in Watertown, one brother is dead, the other is on the run. There is a big concern because he's got explosives on him. If this guy comes out then he may come out and he may go down in a blaze of glory. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is a massive manhunt underway. We're asking people to shelter in place to stay indoors. FEYERICK: This stolen SUV is found abandoned blocks from the shootout, inside it, an important clue. DEVEAU: We knew as we had hit him because there was blood in that vehicle. When we started the grid search, we found some blood behind the house so we knew he was wounded. FEYERICK: But his bloody trail vanishes. Tactical teams set up a 20 block search radius, terrified residents are hold up in their homes as police search block by block, house by house. DEVEAU: We had reason to believe that he was still in the area but we never were 100 percent sure of that. FEYERICK: Hours passed with no lead. Where is he? Is he alive? Will he kill again? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We didn't know whether we we're going to be able to apprehend him. But we were going to continue looking until we found him. FEYERICK: At 6:00 Friday evening, the 12 hour long lockdown is temporarily lifted. People cautiously leave their homes. David Henneberry goes into this backyard to secure a loose flap on the tarp covering his boat. DAVID HENNEBERRY, BOAT OWNER: When I looked in the boat over here and on the floor and I see blood. [21:45:00] CULLEN: Very quickly, that boat in that whole general area was surrounded by heavily armed police. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, you hear those gunshots and we're seeing a lot of activity. FEYERICK: You have hundreds of law enforcement officers who had zeroed in on the man they believe is the suspect. Police surrounding the boat briefly opened fire. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were able to get state police helicopter over that fold and with the infrared they were able to give such great information like, -- moving his left arm, his right leg is moving. FEYERICK: At 8:30 p.m., Dzhokhar is cornered during a tense stand off, as hostage negotiators try coaxing him out. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just come out. Just come out. FEYERICK: At 8:45 P.M. Dzhokhar bleeding and shaking surrenders, a red laser from a snipers riffle trained between his eyes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We had every reason believed that he was on the riffle (ph). What was he going try to do? FEYERICK: With both hands raised, Dzhokhar is finally taken down ending one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history. Gravely wounded by gunshots, Dzhokhar is taken to a Boston hospital. EDWARD DAVIS, COMMISIONE BOSTON PD: The suspect is in critical but stable condition. He is not in the condition to be interrogated at this point in time. FEYERICK: The motive behind the horrific bombing comes into focus, when a bomb technician searching for explosives finds a crude note, scrolled on the inside of the boat, now riddled with bullets and stained with blood is Dzhokhar's manifesto. "The U.S. government is killing our innocent civilians. I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished." This is political? This is against the Americans because of what they did in Iraq. It's against the Americans because of what they did in Afghanistan. It has nothing to do with religion it seems. MCFADDEN: In his young mind, he probably thinks it has everything to do with the religion. So you have this really mixed up notions about what's going on in the different conflicts around the world combined with a really superficial knowledge of his own religious doctrine and dogma. FEYERICK: He writes, "We Muslims are one body, you hurt one, you hurt us all." CULLEN: All you have to do is read the note that he left on the boat where he was captured and it was pretty clear that wherever he got this information, he internalized it to such a point he could lie in a boat badly wounded and write a lengthy script (ph) in which he regurgitate the ideas and the language and the rhetoric of the Jihadist all over the world. COOPER: Earlier today, the suspect only managing head nod and a single word of the federal charges were read to him in his hospital room. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be charged with 30 federal counts including conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. 17 of the charges carry a possible death sentence. He will plead not guilty. Up next, survivors finally come face to face with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [21:50:00] FEYERICK: In the months after the bombing, still recovering from his wounds, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains defiant. In his jail cell before his arraignment, he taunts U.S. marshals. When his trial begins two years later, Judy Clarke will lead the defense team. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Judy Clarke is a legend in American Criminal Defense. This is a woman who is famous for taking impossible cases and not getting acquittals but getting life sentences as oppose to death sentences which is not an easy thing. DESLAURIERS: As he was led into court, he was glancing over his right shoulder and smiling and smirking and (inaudible) is behind him. I found that absolutely gulling and reprehensible. CULLEN: Judy Clarke got up there in the opening statement of the trial and said, "It was him." Those are her words, "It was him." This was obviously very strategic on the part of the defense. FEYERICK: Clarke's strategy, don't fight the charges, fight the death penalty. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The defense is trying to show mitigation. Yes, he is guilty but consider the following about him, consider his alienation from American society, consider the malevolent influence of his older brother which led him inexorably to this crime. FEYERICK: But the prosecution team isn't buying it. CULLEN: (Inaudible) prosecutor said they were equal partners. If you put bombs down on a street, and shred the legs of innocent men, women and children, and then go into a store a half hour later and buy a half gallon of milk, can you really blame that on your brother? PALUMBO: There was just so much evidence. They actually showed the jury and what these bombs potentially look like. [21:55:03] They brought pressure court room, they let them actually handle these pressure cookers and see what was inside. FEYERICK: Inside, nails and BBs designed to inflict maximum carnage. The blast destroyed both of Jessica Kensky's legs. CULLEN: Jessica Kensky rolled by in her wheelchair with her service dog looking for some kind of betrayal of human emotion, some sort of reaction to what was taking place around him and we never saw it (ph). FEYERICK: Dzhokhar seems disengaged, disinterested and unaffected just as he was the day at the bombings. CULLEN: You see Dzhokhar go in front of The Forum Restaurant and he stops very specifically back of the bunch of kids who were lined up against the barriers. I think, the most effective things that the prosecution said during its case is that, Dzhokhar was there four minutes. So, in those four minutes, he could survey everything that was around him and he left the bomb there and walked away. PALUMBO: It was really difficult to watch for anyone who was in that court room. There were tears with the jury. There were tears with the survivors who were in there, and there were tears in the media section because you see these people ringing cowbells, cheering on the marathon, standing just feet from the runners. It's just elation. And in a moment, you just see the bomb go off. FEYERICK: The jury also sees the bloody, bullet riddled message from inside the boat. Dzhokhar writes, "I do not mourn because Tamerlan's soul is very much alive." UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It speaks to that death cult kind of ethos where, if I die or those closest to me die fighting for the cause, then they're considered martyrs and they go to heaven. FEYERICK: After presenting only four witnesses, the defense rest. The prosecutor closed by saying they've thought they were soldiers, they've thought they were going to bring the battle to Boston. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. They absolutely do. Although overwhelmingly, those of that faith would say what they're doing is abhorring (ph), in their minds, in their hearts, they feel what they're doing is completely about their religion. FEYERICK: After a month of emotional testimony from more than 90 witnesses, the jury takes just 11.5 hours to reach a verdict. PALUMBO: It was so quiet in that courtroom. You could feel the tension. You could feel the nerves. FEYERICK: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts. CULLEN: It took 20 minutes to read the verdict. And I don't remember hearing any noise. I didn't hear any sniffles. I didn't hear any shouts. I heard nothing. FEYERICK: Now, Defense Attorney Judy Clarke will try to convince the jury, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's life is worth saving. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It takes 12 votes for death sentence. So, all the defense has to do is persuade one juror that death sentence is not appropriate. CULLEN: There were jurors wrestling on their head whether they could do it. And not only whether they could do it, whether they could sentence someone to death. Whether they actually thought that was the worst thing they could do to somebody. FEYERICK: As the trial moves forward, the stories of pain, loss and resilience are not easily forgotten. PALUMBO: Bill Richard's testimony just talking about his family and what a perfect day it was and how they went to get ice cream and looked at me when he said, I could tell you the flavors that they had. I remember everything. You just think back to that day as a parent. You think those are the moments you remember little details. You cannot forget back that perfect moment when they -- they're eating ice cream and all three of your children were alive, now three of your children had their legs -- it was a tough moment.


text: Fatima, a middle school student, was initially a little nervous to participate in Spark, but was excited by the prospect of getting to know someone she could look up to. Fatima was paired with Mike, Hulu's Internal Communications – Tech Solutions Manager. The pair bonded quickly — even creating a signature back-to-back pose so everyone would remember the " Mike and Fatima crew at Hulu!" Fatima admired that Mike would "…always work hard wherever he was and would show [her] what his daily life at Hulu was like." Mike taught Fatima to be proud of who she is and to follow her dreams of becoming a pediatric surgeon. Since completing Spark, the pair has remained in contact with Mike attending Fatima's graduation and the pair being featured in NBC's series about philanthropy, GIVE. Of her Spark experience, Fatima says, " I learned that any idea you have can be possible – it is often the crazy ideas that make a difference – and not to worry about what others say or think."


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So I wasn't sold on this book from day 1. The premise is the main character is pulled from her real life, into what appears to be a real life video game, where she has to eliminate an alien life form. Basically, kind of Hunger Games meets Books of Valor - so I was half sold, but half leery because this will either end fantastically, or in a slightly painful tug of war.
So the thing is Silver pulls it off. RUSH is a lot of fun - Miki is clueless, frustrated and terrified because there are aliens and what is going on because guys, aliens, but if you die in the game, you die in real life. Her teammates try and fill her in, but when she goes back to real life (I'm old, so I kept having Matrix flashbacks) she tries to find out what's going on but that's harder than she expected. Miki is a pretty great character - she knows how to fight and despite her being confused she picks up quickly - strong young female characters I'm generally a fan of, especially when authors don't fall into cliche's. I will say that this is the first of a series, and does end with a cliffhanger. We've discussed that this drives me insane. I get why authors do it, I think they have to do it, but you know. Insane.
I think generally this is a book that teens can grab on to - first person shooter games, anime, MMO are all aspects that will grab the reader's interest. The originality of the book is also a draw - I certainly haven't read a book with a similar plot and I read a lot. I've recently been on a young adult specific book kick, and this one's plot stuck out (in a good way) when it comes to originality. I liked it because the book started out a bit slow, but that makes sense because the reader grows and learns with Miki - the pacing actually ended up being fantastic. I would basically throw this book at any teenage reader - it's a refreshing change from the outright supernatural (even though I admittedly do love the supernatural).
**I recieved an ARC copy at OLA Super Conference.


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It's inevitable, right? Books don't make their first release date...
Until the book comes out, the ebook is FREE. I wanted to make it free on all venues, but Amazon and Barnes and Noble won't accept it as free UNLESS they are price matching. SO, you can get it free here: Smashwords or Kobo. Or you can try to price-match it on Amazon.com.
Whatever you do, you can't lose! I want to give away as many as I can so spread the word to your friends!
I'll post information about the blog tour soon!
Friday, March 1, 2013
Inevitable Delays
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- Russell said...
Congrats on the release of this new book. I spoke with a gentleman in Chicago this morning who has a 12 yr. old daughter who loves writing. I told him about you and sent the link to your web site. Hopefully, your success in writing will inspire this young girl to follow the same path.
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Jump ahead 10-15 years. I'm in Hungary as a missionary. I wake up one morning and my eye is sealed shut with disgusting gunk. Doctors thought I might have cancer and wanted to run a million tests. What?! It's only pink eye! But, I don't know how to say "conjunctivitis" and so I use my best Hungarian and say, quite literally, "rosza szem" -- Pink Eye. They have no idea what I'm talking about. After blood tests, an investigator of ours who also happened to be a pharmacist, tells me what to buy and where to get it. Nice. After a week, it's gone.
Since then, I seem to get pink eye all the time. And I hate it. I hate wearing glasses and it's all together inconvenient.
On Saturday I woke up with a little gunk in my right eye. I didn't think much of it. As the day progressed, I noticed my right eye was looking gradually more and more pink and was starting to get scratchy. I knew exactly where this was headed. It was quickly getting worse. By the end of the day, I was looking bad. I had taken out my contacts and was rockin' for the 4 eyes, but still, I really did NOT want pink eye while I'm doing intensive therapy with Samantha.
|This isn't my eye, just a googled picture, but mine looked similar to this (maybe a little pinker) with gunk in the corner...constantly having to clean it out.
doTERRA. hm The thought crossed my mind. I looked up what the suggested protocol would be. I had brought some of my oils with me and thought I'd give it a try.
For the rest of the night, I'd use lavender and melaleuca and put it around my eye socket. Melaleuca has natural disinfectant and anti-viral properties while lavender has natural antibiotic, antiseptic qualities. Melaleuca is stronger, so I just used that around my eye socket...under my eye, just below the eyebrow, etc. The lavender, however, is more gentle, and so in addition to putting it around my eye socket, but put it on my eye lid and through my eye lashes. I applied this over and over again: before and after dinner, throughout watching the Olympics, etc.
No joke. Next morning. So. Much. Better. It still looked like my eye was pink, but it was a "you-had-a-long-night-huh?" kind of pink...in only the right eye. By the end of the church, it was back to normal.
I talked to Marcus on the phone and he doesn't believe me. He doesn't believe that an oil can be stronger and better than eye drops you get from a doctor. And as much as I want him to believe me, he doesn't believe it. But let me just tell you something....it worked. And now, the next time I get pink eye (because I will again...), I know exactly what I'm going to do.


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Client assets at Charles Stanley tumbled 8.8% over the last three months of 2018 as risk assets slumped, falling from £25 billion at the end of September to £22.8 billion at year end.
That compared with a 7.9% falling in the MSCI WMA Private index and a 10.4% loss on the FTSE 100. Assets in 'every service type were negatively impacted by the challenging market conditions', it said.
By late morning shares in the business were down 6.7% to a November 2016 low of 250p. Broker Peel Hunt reiterated its hold following the update as it cut its target price from 340p to 280p, taking the median analyst valuation to 307p.
The size of the fall also came despite the cushion of ongoing inflows, with clients in the premium discretionary service adding around £200 million in funds over the period, a 6.1% rate of growth.
Following an increase on fees charged on its Charles Stanley Direct fund broker platform, assets were flat over the three months.
That increase helped to deliver a 27.3% increase in income from the division, which alongside a 26.7% increase in planning revenues helped grow total fee income 1.9%.
Charles Stanley chief executive Paul Abberley (pictured) said: 'Despite difficult market conditions in Q3, which have had a significant negative impact on headline funds under management and administration, I am pleased to report that we continued to win new discretionary mandates and that financial planning and Charles Stanley Direct delivered strong increases in revenues.
'We will continue to invest in scaling these divisions as part of our holistic wealth management proposition.'
Total revenue across the group year-to-date rose 3.4%, from £113 million to £115 million.
Charles Stanley reported pre-tax profit from its core business of £5.7 million over the six months to the end of September, up from £5.4 million year-on-year.
Revenue rose 5% to £77.7 million as funds under management and administration also increased by 5% to £25 billion, while costs fell slightly from £73 million to £72.4 million. Discretionary funds were up from £12.1 billion to £13.2 billion.


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Title: NONTRADITIONAL CREDIT
Number: R-5
Date of Inception: May 1, 1996
Purpose: To establish the number of nontraditional credit hours that may be used toward earning a degree from CSU. Nontraditional credit at CSU includes CLEP Subject Tests, DANTES Subject Standardized Tests, Advanced Placement, CSU Challenge Exams, and credit from military and police experience. The amount of credit accepted falls under the limitation in Policy R 32.
1. CSU Challenge Exams, CLEP and DANTES Subject examinations: (30 credit hours maximum) Scores must be sent directly from the examiner.To determine if a course can be challenged check the course description in the Academic Catalog.
2. Military Credit: (30 credit hours maximum for general experience)
Must be documented by submission of any of the following:DD-295 form, DD-214 form, Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) transcript, Army/ACE Registry Transcript Service (AARTS), and Field Training Reports
3. Advanced Placement (AP): Credit for Advanced Placement will be awarded according to the current listing maintained by the Office of the Registrar. The list will be revised and updated as needed by the Registrar with the approval of the appropriate academic department chairperson(s). No limit has been set for the maximum number of hours CSU will accept from AP credit. CSU accepts for exemption and credit the scores of 3 or higher on tests taken in approved subject areas in the AP Program. The grade of P (Pass) will be assigned to all AP credit accepted for credit. No grade points will be assigned.
4. Credit for Certified Police Officers: Police officers who are certified by the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy (Class 1) and are currently employed with municipal, county, or state agencies are eligible to apply for six (6) hours of undergraduate or three (3) hours of graduate credit. The student is required to submit documentation and application to the Registrars Office for approval within two semesters of enrolling as a Criminal Justice major/minor at Charleston Southern University. Federal law enforcement officers may also be eligible to apply for Nontraditional Credit. Contact the Chair of the Criminal Justice Department for additional information and required forms.
By action of the Faculty Senate. Revised by Faculty Senate on October12, 1998, January 24, 2012, and November 27, 2012.
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Did you ever have that stamp set that you buy because you love it, and yet it sits in your craft room unopened? Sheepishly, I confess I have a bunch of those. So when I got the new paper Wood Textures, I thought it was time to pull one of them out! I just love the boots in this set. I don't know if it is because they remind me of my daughters boots from when she worked with the horses at a local camp or I just love the look of weathered boots. But when I saw the paper, I thought of this stamp.
I used the dry brush water color technique to color them. I really like how it turned out.
I used a different color of the same paper for the chair in this card. I love the distressed look it gives it. This also uses another new paper stack called Color Theory. I just love all the new paper that has come out! Of course, I admit, I am a paper hoarder!
Thanks for stopping by to look! And may all your tomorrows be as happy as today. Have a great weekend.
- Color Theory Designer Series Paper Stack [144193] $10.00
- Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack [144177] $10.00
- Country Livin' Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141925] $15.00
- Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Bundle [145348] $54.00
- Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $9.00
- Marina Mist 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119682] $8.00
- Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [126974] $6.50
- High Tide Photopolymer Stamp Set [143006] $26.00
- Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944] $6.50
- Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $8.00
- Dapper Denim 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141414] $8.00
- Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $8.00


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Craigslist Killer Death Shocks Former Friend
"I was surprised to hear it, even though he tried it before in the past," Houston, a friend of Markoff in their days as students at the State University of New York at Albany, told "Early Show" co-anchor Erica Hill Monday. "I just assumed that it was behind him. I had mixed emotions about the whole thing. At one point he was a friend."
Markoff, the Boston University medical student who was arrested in April, was accused of killing one woman who advertised erotic services on Craigslist and robbing another.
CBS News's John Bentley reported that the Markoff case has prompted calls for Craigslist to drop its adult services advertising, but the company has refused, claiming it monitors the site for any illegal activity. Bentley said adult ads constitute more than one-third of Craigslist's revenue, according to one Internet monitor.
Markoff was being held at the Nashua Street Jail in Boston. A statement released by Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said Markoff "was alone in his cell and all evidence collected thus far indicates that he took his own life."
Houston recalled a night when the two went out drinking with some friends, and Markoff allegedly got physically aggressive toward her when they were going home.
"At the entrance to the dorm, he shoved me up against the wall and tried kissing me," Houston said. "I couldn't physically overpower him to get him off. It was really scary because I was fighting against him and saying, no, Phil, what are you doing? And thankfully one of our other friends came up and had to pull him off of me."
Houston, who was speaking from Philadelphia, said, "That's not the guy I knew. It was a totally different side. I just blamed it on the alcohol. I thought, well, this isn't normally him. Yes, he can be awkward but he wouldn't do something like this.
"When I knew him, I didn't really see any tendencies towards this."
Asked whether there was anything that could have led Markoff to the crimes he's suspected of, Houston said she was at a lost. "Who knows. I wish he had maybe left something behind saying what happened."
Markoff pleaded not guilty in the April 2009 fatal shooting of Julissa Brisman, of New York City, and the armed robbery of a Las Vegas woman, both at Boston hotels.
Markoff was arrested days after his image was shown on surveillance video at the hotels.
Shortly after his arrest in 2009, Markoff was put on suicide watch after shoelace marks were found on his neck, reports CBS News station WBZ in Boston.
CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" producer Paul LaRosa, who wrote a book about Markoff called "Seven Days of Rage," said Markoff had tried to kill himself twice.
John Salsberg, who was Markoff's lawyer, said he was shocked by his client's death. At the time of the earlier suicide attempt, Salsberg said Markoff was having difficulty transitioning "from being free to being incarcerated."
Markoff's trial was expected in March.


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Frum retires as VNC director
Bonnie Frum, the operations director at the Garden of the Gods Visitor & Nature
Center since 1997, will retire Sept. 28.
Age 67, she'd once planned on working till she was 70. "But I started thinking, 'Will I still be walking then? So it feels like the right time."
No replacement has been announced, although Frum said the Garden of the Gods Foundation, which owns the center, sees this as an "opportunity to reevaluate all the positions." In the meantime Linda Carter, a long-time part of the center's management, will take over her responsibilities, Frum explained.
"I'm excited to have less money and more time," she said, noting that one of her main goals is to spend more time with her five children and five grandchildren (the last of whom was just born).
But she did say she will miss her job and co-workers. "It can get crazy and bizarre with visitors, but it's been great fun too… It's been much more than a job; it's been a passion for me. It's a neat thing to have a job with a sense of a mission."
She's not leaving the Garden totally behind, saying she will be a volunteer greeter for the Rocky Mountain Field Institute (RMFI) restoration workdays this fall. And, John Demmon, president of the volunteer group, Friends of Garden of the Gods (FOGG), announced happily that Frum has agreed to be on the FOGG board next year.
Frum moved to this area in 1967 to work for Young Life, then stepped back to raise her family. She started with the Visitor & Nature Center in 1994, when it was still being run out of a remodeled private house off Juniper Way Loop.
As operations director, Frum worked most of her career for Lyda Hill, who built the new center in 1995 across 30th Street from the Garden of the Gods at 30th Street and Gateway Road. Hill set it up so that the center donates a percentage of its retail earnings to City Parks for Garden preservation. Hill gave the center to the foundation late last year.
"Bonnie was invaluable as we opened the Visitor Center in 1995 since she had worked at the old Visitor Center in the Garden," Hill said in an e-mail. "She has done a wonderful job of developing the volunteer program to almost 150 volunteers today. Likewise she is a marvelous advocate for our city as she handles hundreds of motor coach tours. We will all miss her dedication and love of the Garden."
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I've finally (sort of) gotten over my sadness of Valentine's Day being over – basically exclusively because I ate all the leftover candy, but regardless – and I'm ready to tackle the next holiday on our party calendar: St. Patrick's Day! I've talked a bit in the past about how celebrating St. Pat's has changed in the last few years. Gone are the days where we started drinking at 8am and spent hours wearing ridiculous hats in the streets of our college town. For me anyways. I'm still about the alcohol (it IS an Irish holiday after all) but now I'm classing it up a bit. You're welcome.
Today's post is partly inspired by my love affair for the mini bottles at the checkout at LCBO. They're so adorable, and they're usually inexpensive – the perfect way to gift alcohol without breaking the bank!
This St. Patrick's Day favour idea works with any kind of mini bottle, but why not keep things in the [Irish] family with Bailey's Irish Cream? Spoiler alert, also heavily featured in every post involved food coming your way the next couple weeks.
Get our printables to add some Irish luck to your bottles – keep it simple with "Happy St. Patrick's Day" or get a little cheeky with "It's Your Lucky Day" Or print them double sided and do both. Do what feels right 😉
They're sure to please, and look hella cute (if I do say so myself!).
Are you jacked for St. Pat's yet? What are your traditions?


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Hike Mount Lassen
Back at the end of August, the scout troop I am involved with hiked to the top of Mount Lassen in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Our group had been building up in the months prior with more and more challenging hikes. We started with local trails around a nearby lake and then stepped it up with a 7 mile hike in the coastal Samuel P Taylor State Park. I did extra work because I was out of shape, including mountain biking and starting a running program.
We went up on a Thursday and started to acclimate to the elevation. We took a brisk three mile hike. What I soon found was the elevation had a big impact on how I felt on the trail. Our pace was moderate, but it felt strenuous for the majority of the hike. Our hike lead to a ridge where we could see Lassen peak in the distance. I was tired but I was not going to come all that distance to not climb the mountain the next day.
As usually happens with a group of teenagers, we didn't exactly get off to an early start. But it was still early enough in the day when we arrived at the park. When we entered the park we were greeted by an almost immediate shift in the scenery and landscape; We transitioned from dense pine forest into rocky spans dotted by trees. Within a few turns we were greeted by smell of sulfur from Bumpass Hell and a sulfur vent near the road. The parking lot for Lassen was a few miles away. One of the biggest surprises were the piles of snow in the parking lot.
Right out of the parking lot we got a taste of what the extra elevation was going to do for us. The first hill left me reconsidering my decision to hike this mountain. We gathered on the first hill and split into ability groups. I happily went with the slower group and we started our trek up the mountain. As you wind up the mountain you are able to use nearby Brokeoff mountain and surrounding lakes for reference points on distance and elevation. There were a lot of people on the trail that day with someone passing or coming down every few minutes.
As we ascended the became more and more frequent. The grade was getting steeper and the elevation was adding to the fatigue. At one point the switch backs became even more dramatic and we were reminded that Lassen was still to be respected. We started to stop at the end of every switch back. Our water was being consumed quickly. Soon we were stopping in the middle of each switchback. Then at one point I had the overwhelming feeling to stop. Even though I was perhaps 1/4 of a mile from the top, I felt like I had had enough. I sat down and tried to collect myself. The other group was surely waiting at the top. An adult friend in my group encouraged me to go on. The two 13 year old scouts in our group also encouraged me along. They were with me every step of the way. I gained a tremendous amount of respect for those three that day. With their encouragement I pressed on.
At last I reached the peak. I was overcome with emotion and relieved that I didn't quit, that I finished what I cam there to do. The summit was beautiful. When I gained my composure I could clearly see Shasta off in the distance. Will that be in the future? Perhaps, but I also knew that I would need to make a large increase in my fitness preparations, and perhaps a few more mountains in the mean time 🙂 I am delighted to have hiked Lassen. It is etched in my memory as a wonderful place.


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On DVD and Digital HD this week from director Martin Rosete and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is the quandary and intensity of dealing with "Money."
Mark (Kellan Lutz) and Sean (Jesse Williams) are two businessmen who live an expensive lifestyle. Mark lives with wife Sylvia (Jess Weixler) and they are enjoying the success. Sean brings Christina (Lucia Guerrero) to have dinner with Mark and Sylvia as the four enjoy their evening.
A knock comes at the door and Sylvia meets John (Jamie Bamber), a charming man who introduces himself as a new neighbor. Inviting him to meet everyone else, John sits himself at the table and they begin chatting it up.
That is until John begins to get serious, he makes the four at the table very uncomfortable. Finally the stranger makes it clear that he isn't there for entertainment – John is there for money.
He tells Sylvia and Christina that the two men they are dining with have taken millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical company they work for. Mark and Sean both claim to have no idea what John is talking about and that is the beginning of their mistakes.
A night of terror, realizations, truths and consequences begin that is about to last longer than John had anticipated. Mark tries to talk his way out of giving any of the money away and Sean pokes at John until he pokes back! Sylvia watches as she learns more and more about the husband she thought she knew.
Money can be a powerful truth serum!
Lutz as Mark seems a confident businessman who isn't about to let a stranger come into his home and take what he thinks is rightfully his. Putting his wife and friend in danger isn't about to change that either. Lutz comes off self assured until John gives him reason not to be so.
Williams as Sean also isn't going to give up easily the money he believes is rightfully his. When he constantly irritates their captors, Williams' fear is more based on losing the cash than losing his life.
Weixler as Sylvia is a classy wife who fits right into their expensive home wearing her equally expensive clothing. When the question of 'why?' comes up, hubby Mark makes it clear that her need for the good life comes with a price tag and someone has to pay the bill. Guerro as Christina is disgusted by what is happening but stays in the background more so than the other characters. She doesn't understand what has pushed Sean to steal but she isn't about to confront him with John doing most of that already.
The crazy winner here is Bamber as John, seriously! From the moment Sylvia opens the door and he flashes his big grin it is clear he is trouble. His dialogue is smooth and filled with threat yet his demeanor is disarming (which is the point really). I found myself laughing at some of his threats in a nervous way and even when Mark and Sean think they have the upper hand, all I could think was "yea, keep thinking that guys!"
Other cast include Fredric Lehne as Carl, Joe Lanza as a Detective, Gonzalo Bouza as Officer Vitale, Illya Konstatin as David, and Denia Brache as Maria.
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The DVD of "Money" also includes the special feature of "'Money:' Behind the Scenes."
That's what makes "Money" riveting to watch. The cast of five are the story and there is nothing else in the way of the plot. Having the entire cast responsible for most of the 85 minutes, it is the ending that will have shaking your head in disbelief. Have to love plot twists.
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The director of PeopleTalk addressed the NUIG Literary and Debating Society last night on the subject of 'social entrepreneurship.' He is not happy with that term but it seems to be the best available. Here's a summary of what he said:
Social entrepreneurship is like a disease. You catch it. When you have it, you develop clearly recognisable symptoms. And then you can infect others. One thought-provoking example of social entrepreneurship occurred during a time of tyranny and shame when millions of people throughout Europe were being driven into death camps. People can only catch the disease of 'social entrepreneurship' if they come face to face with a troubling situation such as the holocaust. To be infected, however, it does not have to be so extreme. Those, who catch the disease, know that they have to do something. Doing nothing is simply not an option. The people who helped to hide their Jewish neighbours during the holocaust, when asked why they did what they did, often replied by saying 'We did what we had to do.' Or 'What else could we have done?' Of course, they could have played safe and kept their heads down and yet.... they couldn't.
The first symptom of 'social entrepreneurship' is that you begin to look for practical solutions to a daunting problem. The people in the holocaust would have asked questions like 'How do you hide a family and keep them fed and clean and healthy without drawing attention to what you are doing?' The second symptom is ingenuity. Really difficult problems are made difficult by powerful forces who stand in the way of s straightforward solution either because of indifference or hostility.. Without ingenuity this opposition to progress cannot be outmanoeuvred. The third symptom is persistence. As long as the problem remains unresolved, the 'social entrepreneur' will continue to look for practical solutions. They will not be deterred by failure. They are never satisfied with partial success.
The daunting nature of the task which social entrepreneurs undertake means that they have no option but to seek allies - people 'infected' like themselves. One way of doing this is to set out to infect others. They might ask a friend to help out in small way hoping that, having taken one step on the road, they might continue on that road with growing enthusiasm. The initiative and ingenuity and determination of the social entrepreneur give hope and courage to others and, without these virtues, civilisation cannot survive. The term, 'social entrepreneur' does not do justice to what is at stake when people decide that they must do something in the face of a painful situation. It's not about business or management but giving human solidarity a presence in the every-day world. 'Social entrepreneurs' are the gate-keepers of solidarity. Without them everyone would retreat into their own cynical little world.


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About Moremi Wildlife ReserveMoremi Wildlife Reserve is situated in Botswana. Moremi is one of Africa's best game parks, and Moremi Wildlife Reserve budget travel is guaranteed to be one of the top travel experiences to be enjoyed in Africa.
Moremi Wildlife Reserve airports include: • Sir Seretse Khama International - Gaborone Airport • Maun International Airport
As one of Africa's top game reserves, it is no wonder that Moremi Wildlife Reserve birdlife is incredibly rich and diverse. Birds you will encounter include endangered wattled cranes, Pel's fishing owls, red-billed quelea, white-backed night heron, swamp boubou, storks, ibises, spoonbills, flamingos, honeyguides, hammerkop, white-backed vulture, cape griffon, secretary-bird, blue crane, gray go-away-bird, malachite kingfisher, blue-cheeked bee-eater and peach-faced lovebird.
As one of the country's leading game parks, Moremi Wildlife Reserve conservation plays a key role in maintaining Botwana's track record for solid conservation efforts. The reserve is a haven to large numbers of elephant and other game, with the lush oasis of the Okavango providing a crucial ecosystem for a number of plant, bird and animal species.
The following malaria medication can be taken when visiting Moremi Wildlife Reserve: • Mefloquine (Lariam) • Atovaquone/proguanil (Malarone) • Doxycycline
Moremi Wildlife Reserve money and baking info includes: • The nearest large city is Maun which has a number of banks and ATMs • Travellers cheques may be able to be exchanged at the larger camps, however it is best to come prepared with local currency • US Dollars are sometimes accepted at large camps but not always • Credit cards are only accepted at the larger camps
Moremi Wildlife Reserve plant life and vegetation is rich and diverse, and includes key ecosystems such as the Okavango's papyrus-lined waterways, floodplains, water-lily lagoons, shady forest glades and rich savanna grasslands. With the Kalahari Desert and the rich Okavango Delta providing a stark contrast in landscapes, Moremi offers some of the most amazing scenery in Botswana.
Safety Tips
• Lodges and camps are generally unfenced, so don't attempt to sleep outside your tent as there may well be dangerous wild animals prowling the area • Do not ever attempt to feed or touch any wildlife you see - many species could be dangerous and human interference is not permitted • Stay in your car during game drives and follow your guide's instructions at all times to ensure safety • While most camps are free of crime, it is best to keep valuables in the safe and do not leave anything lying around which could be too tempting to resist • The water is generally not safe for swimming, and crocodiles or hippos may be lurking within the banks
Travel Books
Moremi Wildlife Reserve recommended travel books include: • Ecological Reconnaissance of the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Botswana. by K.L. Tinley • Birds Recorded in the Moremi wildlife Reserve, Botswana by Warwick Fraser • Moremi: Africa Calling by Editors of Umberto Allemandi • Prides: The Lions of Moremi by Pieter W. Kat and Chris Harvey • Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura and William Riley
Moremi Wildlife Reserve wildlife is in abundant supply, with elephant, lion, leopard, rhino, many species of antelope, hippo and many other species to be seen. Game drives and safari offer a thrilling glimpse of this popular game area's wildlife, excellent photo opportunities abound.
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Callie Franklin doesn't do one night stands.
She's far too responsible and focused on her career to ever let herself give in to temptation. But, on the eve of her best friend's wedding, she meets that temptation...and his name is Devin McAllister.
Devin, on the other hand, has no problem with meaningless hookups. The very last thing he needs - or wants - is a relationship. Relationships come with strings. Relationships come with heartbreak.
A late-night encounter in the hotel's piano bar finds the two unable to resist each other. With her angelic voice and bright blue eyes, Devin's sure he's never met anyone as beautiful as his Songbird.
Six weeks later, when two pink lines confirm Callie's worst fears, she and Devin have to face the consequences of their wild weekend. And they have to deal with each other - whether they like it or not.
With a love story that's far from traditional, Callie and Devin begin to wonder if their one-night stand could turn into something neither of them anticipated.
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Car sales rocket in October
* New car sales up 32% * Scrappage and VAT drive sales * Biggest leap for 10 years...
New car registrations for October have increased 32% compared with the same period last year.
The Government's scrappage scheme has been credited with being behind the boost in sales, although year-to-date registrations show car sales are down 12% on 2008 figures.
Paul Everitt, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), said: 'October has had this year's biggest monthly increase in registrations, with the successful scrappage scheme accounting for over 20% of them.
'We have seen additional demand created by the extension of the scrappage scheme and customers wanting to avoid the VAT increase planned for January.
'Encouragingly, there has also been an increase in demand in the fleet and business sectors, which will be critical in sustaining recovery next year.'
A word of caution
However, a note of caution has been raised by Graham Bushby, head of motor business advisers Baker Tilly.
He said: 'The October 2009 registrations are skewed by the drag of registrations intended for September into October that couldn't be achieved due to a shortage of entry-level models.
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The World Travel Awards 2002; A Simply Grande Affair!
The prestigious 9th Annual World Travel Awards Ceremony, the most exhilarating event in the travel calendar, will make its debut visit to the stunning location of Simply Beautiful St. Lucia, on 25 October 2002. The unique ceremony will be held in the luxurious surroundings of the new all-inclusive Sandals Grande St. Lucian Spa & Beach Resort. This Four Diamond resort, set on its own peninsula surrounded by the sea on both sides, makes it the ultimate setting for the 9th Annual World Travel Awards Ceremony.
The World Travel Awards was set up in 1993 to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world?fs travel and tourism industry. Now in its ninth year, travel professionals and discerning travellers alike have come to regard the World Travel Awards as the best endorsement that any travel product could hope to receive.
Nominees for the World Travel Awards are determined by the number of votes received from the previous year. Travel agents from across the globe are then invited to select their favorite across a range of 152 different categories. The worldwide voting campaign launches on 10 September 2002 and closes on 20 October 2002 and can be accessed by visiting the World Travel Awards voting website at http://www.worldtravelawards.com/vote
For the first time, World Travel Awards has created national categories for travel professionals to vote for their preferred choice within their own country. This initiative adds a new national dimension to the world`s most comprehensive travel awards ceremony with trophies awarded across the whole spectrum of the industry. To ensure global participation, this year the voting forms will be made available in 12 different languages.
The 2001 World Travel Awards received unanimous approval from the leading lights of the travel industry. Virgin Airline`s Richard Branson stepped into World Travel Awards` Hall of Fame as "Travel Personality of the Year". British Airways, Sandals Hotels & Resorts, the Burj Al Arab, Air Jamaica, and Cathay Pacific were also amongst World Travel Award winners.
As the host of this year`s event, Peter Hilary Modeste, Director of Tourism for St. Lucia commented: "The St. Lucia Tourist Board is proud to host the World Travel Awards 2002. Our cultural diversity and St. Lucia`s stunning physical beauty together with its friendly population will provide our visitors with an enjoyable and memorable experience".
He added: "We expect the hosting of this prestigious event in St. Lucia will provide the destination with additional international exposure and give us the opportunity to host some of the world`s leading travel executives. We feel that this event will expose St. Lucia not only as a tourism destination to participants of this event, but also expose the island to potential investors in the travel industry".
Graham Cooke, President of the World Travel Awards expressed his excitement; "We are thrilled to bring the World Travel Awards 2002 to St. Lucia. We could not think of a more idyllic location to host this year`s event, than that of the Simply Beautiful St. Lucia, the World`s Leading Honeymoon Destination.
"This year`s event will be more technologically evolved, including a live webcam and virtual tours of the Ceremony, up-to-the-minute news and information on the each of the winners posted online on the very night of the event. Our enhanced online voting system provides us with a secure and accurate system to manage this global and complex operation".
Since it`s inception, the World Travel Awards has established itself as a forum that brings together all areas of travel and tourism in celebration and recognition of their achievements. The event also provides a formal and informal networking opportunity for leading decision makers and thought leaders in the travel industry.
World Travel Awards web site is available at http://www.worldtravelawards.com