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Celebrate good times with food, music and dancing as The Children's Museum of St. Tammany hosts "Celebration: An Evening of Marvels." The sixth annual fundraiser will be held on Feb. 24 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Castine Center, located in Pelican Park in Mandeville, with a patron party beginning at 5 p.m.
"The Children's Museum will be the result of careful planning and project development," said Lisa Barnett, president of the museum's board of trustees. "The funds raised by Celebration are integral in providing resources for development needs such as exhibit and facility planning as well as the launch of our new website cmstkids.org."
"Even big kids like surprises," she said. "Celebration guests will be treated to several key announcements regarding the progress, master plan of the museum, and recent partnerships of the Children's Museum with St. Tammany Parish and the Tammany Trace Foundation."
Margaret Orr will serve as mistress of ceremonies, along with Jim Henderson as master of ceremonies.
Those serving on the event committee include Lori Hosch as chairwoman, along with Tony LeMon, Nancy Nance, Deniz Celestin, Jessica Necaise, Mary Leigh Wolfe, Nicole Gonzales, Theresa Heraty, Katie Brooks, Shelly Scoggins, Suzanne Freret, Jeannie DeBord, Jenna Bulot, Leslie Martin, Rebecca Dougherty, Blaine Moore, Jeanne Betbeze, Stacey Porter and Sheila Dugger.
Also Laura Prisco, Annie Spell, Elvera Pigg, Emilie Smith, Missy Avery, Vanessa Mayfield, Katie Pendergast, Bernie Taylor, Tina Taylor, Phyllis DeStephano, Karen Reisch, Melissa Ritter and Lynette Savoie.
More than 40 area restaurants will contribute a culinary celebration of menu items that include baby lamb bean soup with shrimp and tasso, crawfish and pepperjack soup, corn pudding, mudbugs benedict and chicken quesadillas, eggplant parmesan, Italian cookies and more.
Entertainment will be provided by Soul Revival playing the music of Motown and Memphis, as well as by the St. Paul's Jazz Wolves.
Bidders will feel marvelous if theirs is the top bid on items that will include a weekend getaway to Woodland Plantation in West Pointe a la Hache; a week stay in a three bedroom/three bath condo in Perdido Key, Florida; autographed Saints memorabilia; a Corporate Identity and Brand Development Package, that includes website layout and development of brand design and more; a hand-carved and painted pintail decoy by William Hanemann; paintings by local artists; summer camp sessions; jewelry; home décor; beauty products and more.
Student-artists Camille Ehrhardt, a senior at St. Scholastica Academy, and Elise Viola, a senior at Northlake Christian School will be demonstrating their talents at the event, with their artwork then added to the auction.
The winner of the "Cash or Dash Raffle" will be able to choose either a trip for two for a three-night stay at a luxury hotel in Las Vegas, along with airfare and VIP tickets to see Cirque De Soleil, or $5,000 cash. Raffle tickets are $10 each and the winner need not be present to win.
The Spinnovation Prize Wheel will offer guests the chance to win an assortment of prizes donated by local businesses at $20 per spin. And the Balloon Drop will give one lucky guest the prize of a reserved table for eight at Celebration 2014.
Tickets to "Celebration: An Evening of Marvels" are $100 per person, or $1,200 for a reserved table of eight guests. They can be purchased online at www.cmstkids.org, or at Huntington: Your Tutoring Solution located at 1748A North Causeway Blvd., Mandeville.
For information, contact Hosch at 504.460.3247, email email@example.com, or visit www.cmstkids.org.
The 12,000 square-foot Children's Museum of St. Tammany will be located on five acres just north of I-12 at the Abita Springs exit near the Tammany Trace Koop Drive Trailhead.


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On Monday afternoons, I'm sandwiched (or, as some Steelers fans may say, sangwiched) between PFT Live and NBC SportsTalk, so I rely on the lieutenants to update the site. Now that can take a break from my video work to do some Internet work, I was shocked to see (and hear) the profane reaction of Jets coach Rex Ryan to a fan who yelled out to Rex that Belichick is "better" than Rex.
Last year, Rex drew a $50,000 fine from the Jets for giving the middle finger to Dolphins fans at a public event in South Florida that was completely disconnected from the NFL, after the Jets' season had ended.
This time, it happened in the season, in the team's stadium, and it was directed to a paying customer and easily audible to other paying customers, including possibly some children.
Several years ago, Titans owner Bud Adams received a $250,000 fine for shooting the double-barreled bird toward the Bills sideline from his luxury suite after Tennessee beat the Bills.
The fact that Rex is a repeat offender won't help his case, if the league intends treat coaches who direct obscene gestures or words to fans the same way that the league undoubtedly would treat players who do it.


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GifGear is a useful online tool that allows users to create animations. The best thing about this service is that it does not require users to install any third-party software.
GifGear not only allows animations to be created, but the user is also given the opportunity and features to apply effects to it and even select the size of the animation and the delay of it.
Animations can be created in a few easy steps. The very first and most vital step is that the user is required to insert frames for the animation, which can be done through an online link or uploaded from the PC.
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It's fall again and that means it's time to talk about progress reports. Whether you are talking about LINC learners' progress reports, or the progress reports their children bring home from school, reports often contain a grade and some coinciding comments. However, in my experience, I find most of my students only look at the grades and don't even read the comments. This is a shame because the comments can add helpful information, for both parents who may be learning English in a LINC program and their children. Continue reading
Category Archives: Evaluation
Bending Without Breaking: Error Correction in a Culturally-Sensitive World
I've become accustomed to taking a hatchet to my own writing. I'm a severe editor of my own bad stuff, but that has never bothered me. I keep at it, trying to arrive at what I want to say.
Fifteen odd years of editing and re-editing of my own work (and that of others) has helped me build a semblance of emotional elasticity. But, how am I to communicate this elasticity to the handful of internationally-trained adult English language learners who are now under my guidance? Continue reading
Cans, Wants, and Wills
This activity is meant to be a student's journey to self-regulation (see Schunk & Zimmerman, 1997). The activity can take place at any time during the school term and is meant to awaken in students the desire to achieve their goals one step at a time. Hence, the process to self-regulation is the goal. Continue reading
Student-Led Discussions
During my TESL practicum, I was privileged to work with a wonderful instructor in an EAP class. My practicum supervisor* was great at scaffolding and layering; as the course progressed, each language skill was incorporated into subsequent lesson activities until it all culminated in a final project. The class was in oral skills with the final project being a presentation. Along with using the targeted language from the semester, the presentations also included a focus on appropriate body language, strategies to engage the audience, and the use of technology.
While presentations are common in English language classes, they can be very stressful and time consuming. In order to add variety to the assessments during the course, another activity that was required of the students, and that could easily be adapted for any type of ESL classroom, was leading a discussion group. Not only did we use this in the EAP context, I used the same activity in an EFL class that I taught in Ecuador in which the students were preparing to take the First Cambridge Exam. Here is how I did it!
See No Evil, Speak No Evil
I've just come from giving a presentation with a wonderful group of teachers at the TESL Ontario Conference in Toronto. My presentation was on reflective practice and we were all sharing ideas on various ways teachers can reflect on their teaching.
One teacher suggested doing peer observations. I immediately saw looks of uneasiness on a few faces. I don't blame them as I too have had some bad experiences with peer observations, but I have also had many great ones. So, here are some suggestions on how you can, hopefully, have a positive experience with peer observations. Continue reading
The Benefits of Bloom
We all know the expression, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", but is it really true? Art theorists and philosophers would answer "No, of course not!" and here I quote Dennis Dutton, famous art theorist who stated in his 2010 Ted Talk, "…it's deep in our minds. It's a gift handed down from the intelligent skills and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors." In other words, the experience of beauty is not subjective, but quite objective. There are clear guidelines or criteria to what constitutes beauty for all of us, based on our genetic pre-disposition. Continue reading
Is Two Better Than One?
I was looking for something inspirational to write about when I came across this very interesting and thought-provoking article online by Judie Haynes, and felt the need to share it with everyone: http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/cooperative_teaching_two_teach_83908.php. The article discusses co-teaching and begs the question: Is two better than one when applied to ESL classrooms?
Judie breaks it down quite nicely and explains that collaborative teaching can be of great benefit to the learners in the sense that they get better and more individualized attention from the teacher because there would be two teachers in the room.
On the other hand, she believes that an ESL teacher would have some challenges to face, as co-teaching may complicate lesson planning, make it more difficult to effectively deal with learners, or worst of all, one of the teachers being looked at or referred to as a helper instead of the instructor. Judie is of the opinion that the benefits of collaborative teaching outweigh any potential negatives that accompany the practice. She mentions how sharing a classroom would equate to Continue reading


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There are different kinds of input of computers but here we prefer a recent input method of computers. The preferred method is called Virtual Keyboard. Input to small devices are becoming a progressively salient factor in the development for the ever-more secure embedded market. We discuss various Virtual Keyboard and its flexibility and applications. Speech input promises to become a reasonable alternative to insignificant keypads, yet its limited authenticity, robustness, and flexibleness render it inappropriate for certain tasks and/or environments.
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Creamy Crock Pot Corn is THE BEST corn side dish and so simple to make! The slow cooker does all the work. Perfect for the holidays, potlucks, picnics or a treat for a weeknight meal.
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I honestly have no idea how cream corn is made, but it is just not my favorite corn. When I saw this recipe, I knew it would be creamy…it has cream cheese in it…but couldn't resist trying it…it has CREAM CHEESE in it! 😉
Michael has a real bad habit of not telling me that he doesn't like something until I have already made it. I made up a dish one night and asked him before hand if that sounded good. Well, he didn't tell me that he didn't like that particular meal, so I was a bit surprised when he didn't like it. Then he tells me that he just doesn't like that dish period. I just shook my head and went on.
When he tried this corn and said, "Wow! This is really good! And I don't even like cream corn!" I just shook my head again. Gotta love 'em!
The recipe said it would serve 8-10, so I cut it in half for us. However, Mommy, Daddy and Ryder LOVED this recipe. I definitely didn't need to cut it in half! My little guy wanted more and more and more! When your toddler wants to eat his veggies, you remember that recipe!
So I'll share with you the full amounts…you will definitely want them! 🙂
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Cook on low for four hours or high for two.
Stir at least once halfway through.
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Primus Cabernet Sauvignon, Maipo Valley
The Cabernet Sauvignon grapes for this elegant and intense wine come from the Maipo Valley, a region that encircles Santiago. After a rigorous selection of grapes and the fermentation, the wine is aged in French oak barrels for about a year, a quarter of these barrels are new. The nose shows lively aromas of redcurrant, cherry and fig, with notes of sweet vanilla spice. The palate is generous with cherry, raspberry and blueberry fruit, backed by a silky textured finish.
- Type: Red
- Country: Chile
- Region: Casablanca Valley
- Vintage: 2013/2014
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- Primary grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
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Liberal Democrats are today set to agree new rules which will guarantee female candidates in their top five target Scottish seats at the next general election.
The move comes amid growing concern about the lack of diversity among the party's elected representatives.
Given the scale of international challenges, are we better to face these together or alone?Tim Farron
But it means any men hoping to fight key seats which the party does not hold – such as Edinburgh West – will have their ambitions thwarted by all-women shortlists.
Former Edinburgh West MP Mike Crockart, who lost the seat to the SNP at last year's election, said today: "I made it clear at the time that I wasn't going to stand again in 2020."
The former policeman, who is now doing some consultancy work but has not found a full-time post since his defeat, was tipped to fight any by-election in his old seat if new MP Michelle Thomson decided to stand down over her controversial property deals.
But the likelihood of Ms Thomson resigning now seems to have faded.
The new rules – being debated at the Scottish Lib Dem conference in Edinburgh this morning – will also ensure women fight half of the party's most winnable Holyrood seats in 2021 and field a female at the top of its list at the European Parliament elections in 2019.
But the special arrangements will only apply for the next round of elections.
The gender balance came to a head after Alison McInnes, the only woman among the five-strong Lib Dem group at Holyrood, was effectively deselected for this year's elections.
UK Lib Dem leader Tim Farron will tell delegates at the Assembly Rooms in George Street this afternoon that staying in the European Union is a "no-brainer".
He will say: "The decision to remain or to leave is the biggest in generations for our country.
"Given that Europe is the world's biggest market, will we be more prosperous if we remain or leave?
"Given that this is a dangerous and uncertain world, are we safer and more secure by staying alongside our closest friends and neighbours? Or turning our backs on them?
"Given the scale of international challenges of a global economy, climate change and the refugee crisis – are we better to face these together or alone?
"The answers to each of those questions is a no-brainer. If you want a Britain that is prosperous, secure, a Britain that matters then you are voting to keep Britain in Europe."
And he will take a swipe at the leading figures among the Tories arguing for Brexit.
He will say: "Gove, Villiers, Grayling, IDS, Whittingdale and Priti Patel – they're only one lurid blazer away from John Redwood's fantasy cabinet.
"But so far as the Leave side is concerned, they are the sensible wing. I turned on my telly the other day to see Nigel Farage and George Galloway sharing a platform, sharing a joke and sharing prejudices. If that doesn't persuade you to vote, Remain . . ."


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In an effort to manage water use in times of shortage, the Water Utility Bylaw outlines City of Calgary water restrictions. The bylaw outlines four stages of mandatory restrictions based on the severity of the water shortage. The first stage is the least restrictive while the fourth is the most restrictive.
Many factors are taken into consideration when outdoor water restrictions are implemented. These factors include available water, raw water quality, construction and maintenance of infrastructure, reservoir storage and the nature of the emergency.
The decision to start and stop outdoor water restrictions is made using the judgment and expertise of Water Services professionals. Each day, we assess our ability to meet the watering needs of all our customers.
When water restrictions are activated, you can find out what stage of water restrictions are in place information will be made available online or by calling 311.
Outdoor water restrictions are announced a number of different ways. Information will be made available online, in the local media and via social media. You can also find additional information by calling 311 (or 403.268.2489 outside Alberta).
As the situation changes, we will update this information, and once the water shortage has passed, we'll make a similar announcement in the media notifying citizens that water restrictions are done.
We use four stages of water restrictions to reduce demand for water, while minimizing the impact to customers. If the current stage of restriction does not decrease water demand, the next restrictive stage is implemented.
All City of Calgary Water Customers, including City operations, must comply with watering restrictions according to the bylaw.
Yes. In times of water shortage, the treated water from your tap is as safe to drink as usual. When a water shortage is announced, we are experiencing difficulties producing the volume of water necessary to meet all of Calgary's needs. It does not indicate that your water quality has deteriorated in any way.
There are a variety of reasons why Calgary could experience a water shortage. These include regional drought, poor river quality (raw water), infrastructure maintenance, repairs or upgrades, high demand due to short-term, hot, dry weather or other unpredictable events.
In some situations, critical water main flushing activities may take place in order to restore water services to customers.
After a repair has been done to a water main, the pipes must be flushed out to remove any sediment and contaminants in the pipes. This is to ensure the water meets all water quality requirements and legislation.
The water coming from the hydrants is carefully monitored and controlled to ensure that only the minimal amount of water needed is used. All City crews are aware of any outdoor water restrictions and do their best to limit water use.
Outdoor water restrictions are enforced under the Water Utility Bylaw. The Bylaw outlines the penalties, and possible fines, for violations of water use depending on the stage of outdoor water restriction.
Yes, please see the Water Utility Bylaw for a list of exemptions.
Information about outdoor water restrictions is located in the Water Utility Bylaw.
If you know your neighbour, you may want to make them aware of the outdoor water restrictions. Otherwise, call 311 to report violations to Bylaw Services.
This applies to other citizens, businesses or The City of Calgary operations that may not be complying with outdoor water restrictions.
No, Stage 1 through 4 water restrictions apply to the outdoor use of water only. You are not required to restrict the amount of water used indoors; however, The City encourages all Calgarians to voluntarily take action on reducing their indoor use by doing the following:
We make every effort to reduce non-essential water use across The City during this time, and are committed to doing as much as we can to play our part. The following are some of the reductions in water use we put in place:
City Parks: All City owned parks and cemeteries stop watering lawns, gardens, trees and shrubs with City supplied treated water. Manually controlled irrigation systems will not be turned on. Adopt-a-Park volunteers have been asked to stop watering their park.
City Parks: (like all customers) with new plantings are permitted to water. Some parks irrigate with untreated water. Bowness Park and Prince's Island Park use water from lagoons, whereas the Valleyridge and Inverness parks use water from storm ponds. The City's tree nursery (near Heritage Park) uses untreated water from the Glenmore Reservoir.
Golf courses: Only one City golf course, Richmond Green, uses treated water. On this course we will discontinue watering. It is important to note that most of the City-owned golf courses use untreated water and don't need to restrict watering. This includes Shaganappi, Confederation, Maple Ridge, McCall Lake and Lakeview.
City Vehicles: Washing of City vehicles and buses will be limited to health and safety concerns
City Buildings: Irrigation systems at City owned and operated buildings will be turned off.
During an outdoor watering restriction, licensed commercial vehicle washes may still operate. But unless you need to wash your vehicle for health and safety reasons, we may ask you to postpone washing your vehicle, especially during level four restrictions.
As for washing your car by hand on the street, it is a Bylaw violation to let soap and detergent enter the storm drainage system. The water from commercial vehicle washes, on the other hand, gets treated by The City's sanitary system.
If the washing of outdoor surfaces is required for health and safety regulations, then it is allowed. This would apply to businesses like child care facilities, food and beverage establishments, kennels or animal care facilities.
Yes, you can hire a licensed window washer to manually wash your windows.
Licensed power washing businesses may continue to operate where they provide exterior power washing services to customers for health and safety purposes. These customers would include child care facilities, food and beverage establishments, kennels or animal care facilities.
At certain stages of outdoor water restrictions, some activities such as filling of outdoor hot tubs, swimming, wading pools, outdoor snow or ice making, and pesticide or fertilizer application is not allowed. However, exemptions may be permitted by the Director of Water Resources for these specific activities in certain cases. Applications for special consideration or exemptions can be submitted by contacting 311. Your request will be sent to the proper staff for investigation and if required you may be contacted for further information. Once the information is reviewed, you will be advised of any decisions.


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I. Introduction. This will address 2 situations:
1. Under the ADA, can a plan limit certain types of treatment?
2. Under the ADA, can a TPA/insurer administer/insure that plan?
HYPOTHETICAL: Employer wants to limit AIDS treatment to $25,000 lifetime. All other benefits are subject to a $1 million lifetime limit.
A. The ADA prohibits Employers from discrimination against a "Qualified Individual With a Disability." (QUIDs)
1. Employer -- 15 or more employees and any agent of an employer.
2. Qualified -- individual who, with or without "reasonable accommodations" can perform the essential functions of a job.
3. Disability -- a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a Major Life Activity; or a record of having an impairment or being regarded as having an impairment.
So, in the first instance, we are only concerned if this limitation affects a QUID; if not qualified or if not disabled, no problem.
B. The ADA prohibits discrimination against QUIDs with respect to the terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including fringe benefits.
C. There is a safe-harbor for health benefit plans: The ADA does not prohibit a person (including an insurer and TPA) from:
"underwriting risks, classifying risks, or administering such risks that are . . . not inconsistent with State law; or . . .
"establishing, sponsoring, observing or administering the terms of a bona fide benefit plan" whether the plan is or is not subject to State insurance law. (If the plan is subject to state insurance law, that law must be followed.)
However, this cannot be used as a "subterfuge" to evade the purposes of the ADA.
A. Assume that a person with AIDS/HIV is a QUID. Clearly, the employer cannot exclude that person from the plan or cut off benefits for non-AIDS/HIV conditions after the $25,000 has been exhausted. What about the $25,000 limit?
B. There seem to be two views:
1. EEOC suggests it might be, or at the very least, the burden is on the employer to prove compliance with the safe harbor.
In June 1993, the EEOC issued to its investigators a policy statement entitled, "Interim Guidance on Application of ADA to Health Insurance" which adopts a two step test:
a. Does the challenged provision result in a "disability-based distinction"? It does if it singles out:
--A particular disability (e.g. AIDS);
--A discrete group of disabilities (e.g. cancers);
--Disabilities in general; or
--A procedure or treatment of a particular disability or group of disabilities (e.g. AZT to treat AIDS).
However, distinctions which apply to a multitude of dissimilar conditions or which limit/exclude benefits to disabled and non-disabled are generally allowed even if they have a greater impact on the disabled. Thus, eye care, mental/nervous conditions and experimental treatments can be limited.
b. The Employer must then prove both that: the plan is bona fide and that the limitation is not a subterfuge to evade the ADA.
i. A plan is bona fide if it exists, pays benefits, and has been accurately communicated to eligible employees (e.g. through an SPD.).
ii. According to the EEOC, the distinction is not a subterfuge to evade the ADA if it is justified by the risks or costs associated with the disability. Unfortunately, the Guidance gives four non-exclusive but difficult ways of demonstrating this:
1. The distinction is justified by actuarial data or actual/reasonably expected experience and that conditions with similar data are treated similarly; or
2. The distinction is necessary and required to avoid the insolvency of the plan and no other change could be made to avoid the insolvency; or
3. The distinction is necessary and required to avoid a change in coverage or premium so drastic so as to make the plan effectively unavailable, create significant adverse selection, or destroy the employer's ability to compete in recruiting/maintaining its workforce; or
4. The treatment has no medical value and the plan does not cover other treatments without medical value.
The EEOC claims that it intends to issue further guidance "sometime next year."
2. A second view is that the limit would not violate the ADA. This view is based on the ADA's legislative history and the US Supreme Court's opinion in Ohio v. Betts, 492 U.S. 158 (1989).
a. The ADA's legislative history supports allowing coverage limitations. For example, the House Committee report says:
"it is permissible for an employer to offer insurance policies that limit coverage for certain procedures or treatment. . . that limitation must apply to persons with or without disabilities.
"The Committee does not intend that any provision of this legislation should affect the way the insurance industry does business in accordance with the State laws and regulations under which it is regulated."
B. Betts involved interpreted "subterfuge" language in the ADEA in a way so as to make it almost meaningless.
Although there are not many reported cases, the Eighth Circuit seemed to adopt the EEOC view in Henderson v. Bodine Aluminum, Inc., F.3d , 1995 WL 566954 (8th Cir. 1995). (There is a district court decision going the other way, however.)
If the limit does not violate ADA, no problem. If the limit does violate ADA, still probably no problem.
A. Although ADA defines "Employer" as including an agent of the employer, a TPA (or insurer) probably is not an agent. But cf. Carparts Distribution Center v. Automotive Wholesaler's Assoc. of New England, Inc., 37 F.3d 12 (1st Cir. 1994).
B. TPAs and insurers are also protected by the Safe Harbor.
C. The ADA also prohibits discrimination by "public accommodations."
"No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodations by any person who owns, leases. . . or operates a place of public accommodation."
1. A public accommodations includes an "office of an accountant or lawyer, pharmacy, insurance office, professional office of a health care provider, hospital, or other service establishment."
2. At least one decision has held that this prohibition is not limited to the physical dimension. Carparts.
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After 20 children were gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school, President Obama pledged swift action to curtail mass shootings. And, after reportssurfaced that Bashar al-Assad had gassed his own people, the president vowed swift retaliation. And finally, after Republicans threatened to shutter the government over health care, Obama warned that "one faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election."
There are as many AR-15s on the street today as there ever were, no Syrian targets have felt the brunt of an American missile, and the federal government has closed down for the first time in 17 years. So you would be forgiven for believing, as many do, that Barack Obama is a weak, ineffectual, even impotent leader. But move past the banner headlines and you'll see that Obama, by force of will and wielding of pen, is on track to be recorded as one of the most powerful presidents the country has known.
Full stop. No caveat is coming here. On the biggest, most significant issues affecting America and its place among global powers, this White House has aggressively forced its agenda from concept to implementation — ignoring congressional opposition — by assuming powers and authorities that previous administrations have only dreamt of invoking.
This aggressiveness is perhaps most clearly seen in national security, where Obama's embrace of government surveillance and a death-by-drone program ballooned beyond all known bounds despite a jaw-dropping lack of evidence against hundreds of the targets, Americans included. But he hasn't stopped there.
On immigration, Obama unilaterally granted to undocumented children brought here illegally by their parents the right to stay, study, and work. After Congress refused to act.
On climate, he has single-handedly choreographed the demise of the industry that spews the most greenhouse gas into the air. After Republicans said, no.
Even on health care and guns, the two most controversial and politically divisive issues of his presidency, Obama has used his executive authority to put into practice policies that Congress has specifically and emphatically declined to endorse.
"I don't think you can argue that the Congress is a coequal branch of government anymore," said Lee Hamilton, a former House Democrat whose work on multiple bipartisan panels puts him among the leading voices of governing and policy. "Power is now driving to the executive. It's a worrisome trend. How far down this road of increasing presidential power can you go and still have a representative democracy?"
Obama's supporters say he didn't want to do this, but Congress's refusal to negotiate on any issues — from housing reform and student loans to government funding and the debt limit — forced him into a do-it-yourself presidency. "It's gotten so bad that the president feels compelled to act with executive authority, and is doing so without compunction," said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate adviser and now a senior fellow on energy and climate at the German Marshall Fund. "In the first term he did so with reluctance. Now he's embracing it."
Current and former Obama aides offer evidence that this president, the former constitutional law professor, would have preferred a more cooperative Congress similar to the one he had during his first two years in office. It was the chief executive himself, according to White House aides, who came up with the "We Can't Wait" phrase to talk (in an election year) about all the things Republicans were refusing to advance on Capitol Hill. This summer, in fact, Obama defended unilateral action on implementing the health care law by saying: "Where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative steps that I can in order to do right by the American people."
Certainly, Obama is not the first president to take the powers he wanted and the actions he determined necessary when Congress refused to act. Indeed, every president for the last 30 years has used the regulatory rule-making process, executive orders, or signing statements to craft policies that ran counter to congressional intent. Some have gone too far, abusing their authority — recall Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who interned American citizens of Japanese descent; George W. Bush, who authorized U.S. agents to torture prisoners, violating the Geneva Conventions; Richard Nixon, who "¦ well, you know.
But at no time, perhaps since the years after the Civil War, has a president faced a Congress so divided and unwilling to do anything on substantive policy issues. And at no time, perhaps since FDR, has a Congress faced a president so willing to do it himself.
While Obama has of late liberally employed the power of his office, he didn't always start from a place of assumed authority. His opening gambit typically was a request to lawmakers.
On climate change, for example, he gamely tried to push a "cap-and-trade" bill through Congress. The bill, which would have forced industrial polluters — chiefly coal-fired power plants — to buy government-issued permits to pollute, passed the House in 2009 (then run by Democrats) but crashed in the Senate. In the wake of its failure, Republicans, the coal industry, and tea-party groups turned the phrase "cap-and-trade" into a toxic political weapon, attacking Obama and congressional Democrats for trying to slap an energy tax on Americans. After Republicans took over the House in 2010, it was clear any further efforts to pass global-warming legislation were doomed.
So, at the beginning of his second term, Obama told Congress he planned to take climate change into his own hands, warning: "If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will."
And he is. Obama this year bypassed Congress by announcing a series of regulations that will freeze construction of new coal-fired power plants — the nation's biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions — and, eventually lead to the closure of existing coal plants. The rules are unprecedented in their scope, ambition, and potential economic and environmental impact. They are also unwieldy, politically controversial, and legally vulnerable. Privately, White House officials concede that using the executive authority of EPA regulations was the last, least-popular policy option for pursuing a climate-change agenda. But, in the end, they say it was the only choice Obama had left.
His route was similar on immigration. In fact, before the president took reform into his own hands, he spent two years saying he couldn't do what he was about to do. Since Obama was elected in 2008, advocates have insisted that the administration has tremendous flexibility under the immigration law, particularly in terms of deportations. They say that the president can, without consulting Congress, decide where his enforcement priorities are. He can go as far as saying that the United States will not, under any circumstances, deport certain types of people. He can relax asylum and waiver laws. In short, he can make undocumented immigrants' lives easy or hard with the stroke of a pen.
Publicly, Obama denied this. "This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is not true," he told a Hispanic roundtable in 2011. He and his top aides repeatedly blamed congressional Republicans for walking away from the problem.
But in June 2012, Obama stepped out on his own. He stated he would not deport young undocumented foreigners who were brought to the United States by their parents. Today, the Homeland Security Department has approved more than 430,000 applications from those children of illegal immigrants. They are not citizens, nor do they have the chance to become citizens under the program, but they are free to get jobs or driver's licenses, go to college, or join the military. In short, they can behave like any other typical American.
Immigration groups are pushing Obama to expand the program even further, to include all 11 million undocumented immigrants who have not committed crimes. Obama insists he doesn't have the legal authority to do so, but he made the same argument two years ago right before he deferred deportations for young people. The retaliatory forces have not come raining down on him because of it.
By the time Obama got to guns, he had some experience with recalcitrant Republicans and wouldn't wait as long to respond to congressional inaction. In the wake of the horrifying shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Obama asked Congress for many things, none of which he would receive. That included universal background checks, limits on high-capacity ammunition, an assault-weapons ban, and increased criminal penalties for people who buy guns legally to sell on the black market.
So the president put in motion a host of administrative actions throughout the year that don't require lawmakers' approval. One was a memorandum in January laying out the Justice Department's path toward improving the information in the national database that firearms sellers use when conducting background checks. Most recently, Obama banned a practice in which military-style weapons that were sold to foreign countries could be reimported to the United States. None of the executive actions alone can match the power of expanding background checks. But taken together, they are a big step toward a more regulated firearm environment, something that gun owners will chafe at.
Obama's tactics on other issues differed, but the result was a no less dramatic exercise of presidential power. On health care, a desire to protect his signature domestic achievement from Republican attack meant the president has largely avoided seeking approval from Congress on changes, adjustments, or fixes needed during implementation. Instead, when the administration has sought changes to the ever-controversial Affordable Care Act, it has gone ahead and made them — all by itself.
Perhaps most contentious of the tweaks, delays, and changes over the past three years was the White House's decision in July to delay by one year the law's requirement that large businesses provide health coverage to their employees. Obama cited the business community's concerns over compliance with the provision in time for its Jan. 1 effective date. While the change aligned with the GOP's aim to delay Obamacare, Republicans feigned fury that the administration had the nerve to announce its decision in a Treasury Department blog post and questioned whether the president had the authority to make that move without lawmakers' approval. The administration did it again in September, delaying small businesses' online enrollment until November.
The Congressional Research Service recently compiled a list of the administrative delays — undertaken without congressional involvement — in Affordable Care Act implementation. It came up with seven, including the employer mandate.
Obama's decision to sidestep the legislative process in implementing health reforms is practical, said Timothy Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University. In the face of repeated congressional attempts to defund the program and force the program's managers to testify before lawmakers, it's also just triage, he said.
A federal court has already ruled invalid the president's tactics in another area where Congress refused to act. In 2012, during the Senate holiday break, Obama appointed three members to the then-paralyzed National Labor Relations Board, bypassing GOP attempts to block them. The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declared the appointments unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is to hear the case during this upcoming term. The justices have stepped in before in recent cases of presidential overreach, most notably when George W. Bush attempted to establish military tribunals to try terrorism suspects without congressional authorization.
It is in the national security arena where this president — like his predecessor — has so broadly interpreted wartime authority that his team has been ordered to create guidelines aimed in no small part at restricting future presidents' use of the authorities Obama has snatched for himself.
The shift in decision-making on security and defense issues from Congress to the Oval Office did not start with Obama; it has been steadily advancing for decades. But Obama's conclusion that he could so drastically expand the scope of a program that kills people at will, including Americans overseas, under a process that remains secret is unprecedented.
As with other power grabs, members of Obama's inner circle cast his national security decisions as an effort to discreetly get the job done, with the best tools available. Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman, blames the inertia of government — a massive and complex national security apparatus — for making it difficult for the president to implement what Obama says is a personal desire for more transparency.
But Obama and his advisers appear to know they have pushed too far. Indeed, that is why they are creating what people in national security call the "playbook," which secretly details how the administration approaches operations to capture or use lethal force against terrorist targets outside the U.S. "We needed to codify certain practices and procedures to constrain this president or any president that came after "¦ to try to further limit the use of certain kinetic tools, so they were only used as a last resort," Vietor said.
It is also why, in May, Obama called for Congress to narrow — and ultimately repeal — the 12-year-old Authorization for Use of Military Force, which was passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to target terrorists and is still used today to justify military action well beyond Afghanistan. The president believes the sweeping provision encourages perpetual war and grants the White House too much power. Not only was Obama criticized by hawkish Republican senators, including John McCain and Kelly Ayotte, but legislative efforts to act on this front, notably by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, were blocked in the House the following month.
Similarly, Obama has assumed more power than he's willing to allow future commanders in chief in his continued use of Guantanamo Bay. He has kept the military prison there open, despite his promise to close it, but has not added another detainee to the prison; the handful of accused terrorists the administration has been able to capture have entered the criminal-justice system for prosecution. "When Obama talked about the indefinite detention policy, he said, 'I'm not comfortable with this, I'm not comfortable with how these powers could be used by presidents who come after me,' " said Daniel Klaidman, author of Kill or Capture on Obama's war on terrorism. "I think he was comfortable with his own ability to handle a policy like that responsibly, but he didn't feel comfortable with how a future president would."
That's the opposite of how many presidents think about presidential power, according to Klaidman, who said previous administrations considered it their institutional obligation to not only maintain the powers of the presidency but increase those powers as well.
Indeed, there is some evidence that Obama regrets how far he has taken his do-it-yourself presidency. This is perhaps no better illustrated than in his handling of the near-crisis with Syria. Obama insinuated publicly that he had the authority to launch a strike meant to punish the government in Damascus for using chemical weapons against its own people. And, in fact, after decades of Congress abdicating such power to the White House on matters of war and peace, he likely did. (It was certainly a course of action he followed with the U.S. intervention in Libya.) But then Obama backpedaled, asking for the support of the American people as expressed by a vote in Congress. "He's a former constitutional lawyer; he understands precedents pretty well," Klaidman says.
But barring more coming-to-the-Constitution moments for Barack Obama, there is little anyone, including members of Congress, can do to pull back the authority this president has assumed for himself. And those members do indeed find it infuriating.
"Between elections he has made himself a dictator," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., one of this administration's chief foes in Congress. "I'm using that term deliberately. He's ignoring the laws and doing what he wants to do." The chairman of the House Oversight Committee had damning commentary, as is his wont, even comparing an executive order that Obama signed on immigration to the death march forced on Cherokees by Andrew Jackson. "It's very similar to murdering Indians on the Trail of Tears," Issa said. "It's maybe less fatal. But you do have gang members, 18 to 31, who now have work permits rather than a ticket home."
Anger and blatant hyperbole is all Issa and other indignant lawmakers have to work with, though.
On immigration, Republicans have ferociously protested the program that allows children of illegal immigrants to stay in the country, calling it proof that they cannot trust Obama in any kind of negotiation. "Why do you think you can do business with a man who has consistently proven that he will defy his own oath of office?" asked Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a staunch opponent of legalizing people without papers, in an interview.
On climate, Republicans are trying to turn the rules into political fodder with a barrage of new ads attacking Obama — and by extension, Democratic congressional candidates — for waging a "war on coal." Yet there's not much Congress can do to stop the policy from moving forward. Members' main hope is that polluting industries can find loopholes in the rules, but administration lawyers are working to guard against that.
"The administration is getting better at this," said Bledsoe, the former Clinton adviser. "Their legacy on climate and other issues is going to be tied to their abilities on rule-making and the ability to withstand legal challenges, which is very different from persuading members of Congress to vote for a bill."
Now, with the government shuttered and little hope that kamikaze conservatives who appear to control House Speaker John Boehner will ever agree to a debt-ceiling increase, a growing number of people (from President Clinton to Wall Street worriers) think it's time for Obama to act unilaterally one more time. The White House has said repeatedly that it would not lift the borrowing cap on its own, as some suggest the 14th Amendment allows. But time and again this president has taken matters into his own hands. And those issues, arguably every one of them, were less important than protecting the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
Should the president go ahead and do so, he'll hear cries about a power grab that may dwarf anything that has come before.
This story was reported by Coral Davenport, Catherine Hollander, Fawn Johnson, Sara Sorcher, and Ben Terris, and was written by Kristin Roberts.


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Other musical acts joining Joplin in the 2013 class are Jane's Addiction, late R&B singer Luther Vandross and pop stars Jennifer Hudson, Usher Raymond, Thalia, the Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block.
"The Walk of Fame committee is proud to announce next year's honorees whose additions to the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame will bring everlasting memories of their star power, talent, and popularity," said a statement from the committee, who have yet to provide a date for the ceremonies.
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Join us on June 28 between 7-10pm for the opening reception of our 3rd annual Pride exhibition That's So Gay. Exploring notions of queer gender identity and objectification through many diverse lenses, here's a look at Johnny Forever whose work is featured at That's So Gay on the 3rd and 4th floors.
Johnny Forever is a Johnny of all trades. A self-described drag queen, writer, graphic/video/performance artist, fledgling art historian, and porn enthusiast, Johnny Forever crafts overtly feminine, lip synching personas. As a performer Forever explores technology, the human body, and identity, while the writer enlists the voices of several stock characters and the artist warps our associations of family photos through graphite representations. Johnny Forever is based in Montreal.


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Next week many Americans will be paying careful attention to the answers given by Judge John Roberts during his Senate confirmation hearings. This is to be expected, given the importance of the Supreme Court in the contemporary political constellation.
Jews are no exception. The list of subjects of interest to the Jewish community on the high court's docket is a long one: church-state issues (aid to parochial schools, prayer in the schools, faith-based initiatives), religious liberty, abortion, international law (Holocaust survivors' rights and international human rights), etc.
To help the Senate Judiciary Committee carry out its "advice and consent" function in connection with the nomination, many Jewish organizations (including my organization, the American Jewish Congress) are offering advice of their own, suggesting various lines of inquiry. Some of the suggestions are very specific: Do you support (or would you overrule) Roe v. Wade? What are your views on school prayer? Some are broader: To what extent would you bind yourself to existing court decisions? It is only natural that Jewish groups would seek to learn Roberts's views on these subjects and want reassurance that he, as a Supreme Court justice, would not disappoint them, given that competing interest groups are doing the same.
When such inquiries are made in a sober manner, they have the beneficial effect of educating the public about constitutional law, its methods, certainties and uncertainties. Unfortunately, as a whole, the process is anything but sober. Even the matter of what questions it is appropriate for senators to ask a nominee has become the subject of fierce debate.
Interest groups from all points on the political spectrum are feverishly scouring Roberts's record for even the smallest hint of how he might rule in some case or another, exaggerating the hint's significance out of all proportion. Often this is done, not in the interest of honest inquiry, but rather to score political points or advance a group's narrow agenda.
The consternation among some religious conservatives when it was disclosed that Roberts had once helped litigate a gay rights case involving the constitutional limits on the referendum process — not gay rights as such — is one example of this phenomenon. Another is the now-infamous television commercial from NARAL Pro-Choice America accusing Roberts of supporting violence against abortion clinics simply because he filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that a particular Reconstruction-era statute banning class-based violence — a statute with a long and convoluted history — could not be invoked against violent abortion protesters. The ad confused the cause of abortion rights with the scope of a particular statute.
Herein lies the dilemma of the confirmation process. It is a political process.
Lately conservatives have been calling for a de-politicization of the confirmation process. Rather than ask about a judge's views on particular issues, they say, senators should focus on the nominee's technical competence. But this cannot be the whole story either. First, so long as one of their own is in the White House, they are not calling for a de-politicization of the nomination process. Second, the president would not and should not appoint, and the Senate should not now confirm, a person who thought the Constitution did not bar racial segregation or that it privileged one faith over another. But if these are permissible inquiries, why not others, including abortion or gay rights, which for many are equally fundamental issues?
Still, demands that judicial nominees toe a certain line on particular issues also come with a high price. Elected officials can run on platforms of "read my lips"— no tax increases, no abandonment of Roe v. Wade, no foreign wars or no tolerance for terrorism. The very purpose of elections is so that the public can choose which policies the nation should follow.
The role of a judge, on the other hand, is not primarily that of a policy-maker. Though judges do make policy at the margins, their primary responsibility is to decide individual cases, with all their complexities, in accordance with the law. Law may not always be easy to discern, but neither is it infinitely flexible. A confirmation practice that makes judicial candidates behave like political candidates confuses the very different roles of elected officials and judges. No litigant should have his or her case decided by judges who are already publicly committed to some position or another relevant to the case at hand.
That's why we need to return the process of judicial selection to its proper scope. But this cannot be done unilaterally and instantaneously. The federal judiciary as it exists now has been shaped, even distorted, by hardball political tactics. To return to a less politicized judiciary, both political parties, as well as the executive branch and the Senate, must change their ways. When presidents are less rigidly ideological in their nominations, the Senate, too, should be less ideological in its questioning of nominees.
A less ideological Senate would focus on broad theories and fundamental issues. The broad theories are matters of judicial methodology: Is the Constitution to be read only according to the intent of its drafters or by its broader purposes? What, broadly speaking, is the Supreme Court's role in maintaining the separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch? What role is there for the courts in protecting individual rights against democratic majorities? As for fundamental issues, these include a fundamental commitment to equality (but not necessarily to every claim invoking the principle of equality), and general approaches, but not specifics, on fundamental issues such as abortion.
This, though, is all for the future, and for some better political world. For the moment, we must brace for an ugly and uninformative partisan squabble. It is not likely to be pretty.
Marc Stern is general counsel at the American Jewish Congress.


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This week on The Money Revolution By Wela, Matt and Eddie share some scary news. Today there are more unhappy retirees than ever before and a big reason for this might be that there's also more retirees with mortgages than ever before. The guys dig into the reasoning behind this, as well as the calculation you should run to decide if you're ready to pay off your mortgage today. There has been a market first this year, and it's impacting investors' money and mindsets. Matt and Eddie share how it could be impacting you, and how this news ties into a Vanguard study on how financial advisors provide a 3% increase in value to investors' portfolios over time.
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07 August 2008
With the coffee wars heating up in Bridders you won't be able to turn round without getting foam from a skinnylartymockachino on your elbow or suffering a nasty graze from those biscotti (Italian for biscuit (which is French for dried cake)). Costa coffee have now joined the fray while Starbucks have had a setback to their bid to take over a nice family run concern in Bucky Doo Square after planners decided that it was more a trianglyoblong and would therefore have to re-zone it as set aside arable land.
Bridport coffee cartels have allegedly been involved in the "cutting" of coffee supplied to some new businesses with dried silage, unrepentant Cartel kingpin Frank Combine who refused to be named said
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|Ai Yori Aoshi Volume 4 Truly Yours
Episodes 16-20
Actors: Tony Pope, Karen Strassman, Soichiro Hoshi, Ayako Kawasumi, Akiko Hiramatsu
Director: Masami Shimoda
Genres: Comedy, Television, Anime & Manga, Animation
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Gee, I so hate to put a damper on the fanservice episodes :)
Courtland J. Carpenter | Fort Wayne, Indiana United States | 11/03/2003
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Ok, it looks like they decided to put the obligatory (for light weight anime) beach episodes, and the festival episodes pretty close together. They even managed to slip in something about watermelons, which seem to be somewhat of a Japanese focus for fun food in anime, because they are so expensive in Japan. I'm not going to go into much detail here. Fans, who like to see their favorite anime characters is swimsuits, won't be disappointed, but this hardly holds up very well to the early series promise. As you can see from the editorial review, there are several predictable, but funny moments.The beach and the festival episodes seem to adhere to a basic formula for "situation comedy", punctuated at the end, by a few tender moments between Aoi and Kaoru. I guess this is a common formula for many series, (anime or live) to sustain a romantic theme between two characters without spoiling it, and taking away the romantic tension. What really doesn't make much sense is the apparent clueless approach of the supporting characters. It should be painfully obvious to all who Kaoru and Aoi really love.My major complaint was stated in my first review of this series on DVD one. I thought it had the makings of a classic based on the first three or four episodes. The comedy seemed to come easily, even when the plot seemed more serious. The relationship between Aoi and Kaoru, given its consequences, seemed to have ample substance to sustain a serious series for 26 episodes, and perhaps more. Why then, did the creators choose to revert to the light humor of a Love Hina, or Tenchi Muyo type of anime?Ai Yori Aoshi overall, is not a bad series. Overall, I rated it four stars (only three for this set of episodes). It just could have been much better, but stay tuned. Things do get better again soon, as the conflict and the depth of the romance will grow anew."
We're a Family...
Bryan Weber | San Angelo, TX | 08/26/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Vol. 4 of Ai Yori Aoshi introduces us to the final girl to enter the series, Chika. The hyper-enegetic cousin of live-in housekeeper Taeko, Chika immediately gets the wrong idea about her shy cousin and Kaorou.
Her efforts at trying to play matchmaker are hilarious. But the moments between Kaorou and Aoi are as tender and heartfelt as possible. Aoi feels too shy to wear a swimsuit in public, but the ever observant Miyabi sees the problem, and arranges a late night trip to a secluded part of the beach for the young lovers. There, Aoi remembers that Kaorou also has his own reasons not to be seen bare in public, the horrid scars given to him by his grandfather. But they're perfectly fine being seen by one another.
Tina Foster, the brash but lovable American in the series decides to send the photo club on a tour of the zoo to see a set of rare golden monkies. Unfortunately, Kaorou is the only one who comes, and the two of them are stranded in a heavy downpour with no way home. They're forced to seek shelter in one of Japan's infamous "Love" hotels. Tension and temptation are overcome, and the two manage to enter and leave as friends.
Then Chika comes for a visit. She's looking for help with her homework, but more importantly, she's looking for what it means to be a family. She finds both in the tenents of the Sakuraba house.
Finally, the Photo Club is looking for the perfect way to earn money during the School Festival, and they find the answer in Aoi-chan's skills with the tea ceremony. Pulling together as a team, they manage to make the booth work to their advantage, but Kaorou and Aoi find it difficult to spend time together without giving away the secret of their relationship.
This is my favorite romantic series. I watch it with my wife, and guys, it's the sort of thing she'll love you for."
And then there's Chika...
Daniel J. Hamlow | Narita, Japan | 08/31/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The fourth DVD volume of Ai Yori Aoshi introduces my second favourite character in the series (after Aoi-chan, of course). I refer to the cute, hard-working, capable, and spirited Chika Minazuki, who is Taeko's 14 year-old cousin. The usual gang, including Mayu, are invited to the beach house of Taeko's grandmother, where they meet Chika. Mayu is dead set on making this "a sweet yet hot summer story" between her and Kaoru. Miyabi-san's idea of summer is that Japanese pastime of "suikawari," or splitting watermelons with a bat and not cavorting on the beach.
But the battle between Tina and Mayu extends to the battle of the bathing suits, with Tina preferring those with an adult charm, while Mayu goes for those that are cuter and elegant, not obscene. Aoi herself buys a tasteful one-piece, but is too embarrassed to show so much bare skin in front of others, a sentiment I deeply share, and becomes the wallflower, watching Tina, Mayu, Taeko, and her fiancé Kaoru play on the beach.
There, Taeko's feelings about Kaoru, her university senpai (senior), are aroused. "Senpai is kind, easy to speak to and he helps me out in times of need. Perhaps my feelings are..." However, the precocious Chika decides to play Cupid and conspires to get Kaoru and Taeko together. A success? Put it this way, the best type of comedy is a matter of timing, and that happens. In introspection, Taeko realizes the strengths of her friends: Aoi is someone who can do anything, Miyabi-san someone strong-willed, Tina someone bright, and Mayu someone honest to herself. If she could be just like all of them, she'll be so much better.
Chika later repays the visit to the gang's mansion, where she asks them to let her stay so she can finish her summer homework, something she didn't do because she wanted to help her grandmother. The others are more than welcome to help her if she needs it, but Chika proves capable. In return, she helps out around the mansion, dressed in a cute maid's outfit similar to her cousin's. She impresses everyone, even Miyabi-san, who is astounded at Chika's putting away her files without asking her everytime! And get a load of her kicking Tina's pants in a fighting video game! Although fond of everyone, she has lots of affection for Kaoru, calling him "oniichan" or "big brother."
For Chika, an only child, she is all to delighted when Aoi says we're your family, eating together, sleeping under the same roof, and sharing fun and sad times. Indeed, she has some big sisters, one who's a good cook (Aoi), one full of energy (Tina), one who does her best (Taeko), one who works very efficiently (Miyabi), and a very kind brother (Kaoru). This is one of my favourite episodes for its tenderness. And, as Miyabi prophetically says after Chika says goodbye, "Perhaps we'll have another tenant soon."
An outing to an animal park turns into an overnight stay for Kaoru and Tina, when flooding disrupts the train lines. The hidden feelings Tina has for Kaoru surface. She says something interesting when asked why she loves animals so much. "Because snimals can't talk, people have to understand how animals feel. Of course, people can talk, but they don't really say how they really feel all that much." Ironically, that describes her to a tee. The end of this story has Satsuki Yukino, Tina's voice actress, doing a special ending theme song, "I'll Be Home."
The photo club's tea shop, originally in manga #2, finally makes its appearance here, though with Mayu and Chika's appearance, something not in the manga. The photo club's cosplay animal café for the 3-day university festival is a disaster when Tina's idea of cute animals include certain members of the family Reptilia. However, sometimes simpler is better, and Aoi-chan's deliciously brewed green tea leads to the traditional Japanese Café Aoi, named by photo club president Suzuki. This is a great moment for Aoi, who's in her element, but she clearly has fun working hard with things. But at the sight of Kaoru's ridiculous bunny costume, she bursts out laughing loud, surprising Miyabi-san. Another of my favourite episodes.
There is no such thing as too much Chika. Her appearance lights up the already tender-hearted series.
Beach episodes with heart
Thomas Lent | Hayward, CA United States | 04/07/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Before watching this DVD I was quite annoyed at the idea of another harem series with the (...) girls going to the requisite trip to the beach. But, here, we have a twist. The most important girl in the series is too shy to wear a swimsuit. Most of the frolic occurs off-screen. So, instead of being completely about the male character falling head over heels for all the bikini clad girls. We get Kaoru just being his good old self and still wanting to spend time with his one interest, Aoi.The new girl here is Taeko's cousin, Chika. Upon meeting Kaoru she proceeds to play matchmaker with her cousin and her 'boyfriend', uh 'husband', uh... wait a minute...Tina gets another moment alone with Kaoru and this time it happens away from the mansion, not to mention at a romantic suites hotel. The tension between the two is expressed so well that it almost seems like they can't avoid each other for much longer. I'm still left wondering; How long can they stay friends? and What does Tina actually think about herself?The character development flys with leaps and bounds throughout this disk. This is a rare case where beach and festival episodes are more than just filler and skinfest. Look out though. The nudity does arise quite often in and around these episodes and there is a brief moment of underage exposure."


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I saw this excellent summary of recent events earlier that focuses admirably on Schillings:
Here's a new proposal for a case study for Schillings' prospectus:
The problem
Our client was a lardy foreign oligarch looking to take over a leading British football club. The former British Ambassador to his country had published allegations about him which he considered to be false and defamatory.
The solution
We put the frighteners on the former Ambassador's webhost to such an extent that it shut down not only his blog, but also other high profile blogs which had nothing to do with it, including that of the Conservative candidate for London mayor, and others in elected office. The allegations then spread around the internet and the mainstream media like wildfire.
I need more summaries. Impassioned or neutral, and maybe a bit in bewteen.
A useful summary could focus on Alisher Usmanov, Arsenal, Schillings, Fasthosts, the law etc.
A more useful summary would rope it all in and tell people why they need to care about this issue in general, because that's where we're headed.
(I'm trying to do the same myself, but am cutting it straight to video, which can be helpful but time-consuming. I also tend to get impossibly long-winded when I'm mired in detail as I am right now.)
I'll set a limit you can regard to be soft if you like; 10-20 word introduction paragraph, 200 words maximum.
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Luigi has left Mario, and gone out to prove he himself. With the help of Dimentio, Geminiman and Void; will his dreams of recognition come to fruition, or is he doomed to being second banana? Either way, we can be sure that it will be very silly. Currently on hiatus. Epilogue should be up eventually.
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In 2009, after taking care of a terminally ill parent, I lost my home and income and became homeless and destitute. I then had to rely on local civic groups and state safety net programs in order to survive. Below is an excerpt from my story as it appears on my website: http://www.32beachproductions.com/odyssey.html
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It's almost the most romantic day in every body's life. It's none other than the wedding day!
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ALEX Salmond insists he will fight on as First Minister if his dream for Scottish independence ends in failure.
The SNP leader says he will contest the next Holyrood election in 2016 even if there is a No vote in the September 18 referendum.
Salmond said: "I intend to stand again in 2016. Whatever the political circumstances, there will be an election in 2016 and the people will choose the First Minister.
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"It will be for the people of Scotland to decide in any circumstances whether I will be First Minister.
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The firm pledge to stand again in 2016 whatever the outcome of the referendum will shock observers at Holyrood.
Many had expected Salmond to make way for his deputy Nicola Sturgeon, in the event of a No vote.
Earlier this year, she admitted she has ambitions to be Scotland's first female First Minister one day.
In March, Sturgeon said: "Anybody in any walk of life – if they are ambitious – wants to get to the pinnacle of their profession.
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