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Nadine Dorries MP calls to end cyberstalking menace
At the University of Bedfordshire there is a small department investigating a very modern and insidious phenomenon.
The National Centre for Cyberstalking Research is trying to find out more about this very modern crime - its prevalence, the motivation of those who perpetrate it and how best to tackle it. These are all areas where there is currently very little research.
It's different to cyberbullying, which often makes the headlines, but in the mind of the Mid-Bedfordshire MP, Nadine Dorries, it's just as bad.
"Cyberbullying, is a serious, modern-day offence that profoundly affects people, in particular teenagers," she told MPs during a special debate in Parliament on the subject.
Ms Dorries is vice-patron of a cyberbullying campaign organisation and she used the debate to call for greater awareness of the problem.
"Before the mass use of the internet, such people would often operate alone, as one-offs - but through various social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook and other platforms, individuals can now join together and operate almost as a pack and over a sustained period," she said.
"Physical stalkers have become cyberstalkers and cyberstalking has become an epidemic that stretches across the globe.
"We need to get on top of the problem."
'Learning curve'
Ms Dorries was able to quote a variety of worrying statistics.
According to one recent report, some form of technology is used in more than 70% of stalking cases, one in four victims have had false information about them posted online and victims will only feel compelled to go to the police after enduring an average of 100 incidents of cyberstalking.
Anti-stalking legislation was first introduced in 1997 as part of the Protection from Harassment Act which was amended to take in cyberstalking in 2012. But some campaign groups fear that the police don't take the issue seriously enough.
"We need to ensure that people at all levels and in all areas of the justice system are aware of just how skilful cyberstalkers can be, of how significant and far-reaching their impact can be and how prolific they are," said Ms Dorries.
The Home Office minister, Norman Baker, admitted that "we are all on a learning curve", but insisted the government was taking the problem seriously.
"We are committed to tackling cyberstalking," he said.
"If there are good ideas, from wherever they come in the House, we want to look at those ideas. We have an open door as well as an open mind on these matters."
There is now a National Stalking Advocacy Service and three charities trying to raise awareness of the problem. People are starting to be prosecuted.
Ms Dorries says things are moving in the right direction but it will only be when more victims come forward, knowing the law is on their side, that those who carry out cyberbullying will start to think twice.


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In the wake of the abduction, rape and murder of Jetseta Gate, a young girl from Cedar Rapids, state and national politicians are piling the soapboxes high to call for stiffer sentences for sex offenders. Charles Grassley even calls his version of such a bill, "The Jetseta Gage Prevention and Detterence of Crimes Against Children Act."
This is all well and good, if you assume that the prison and parole systems work to begin with.
According to state officials, the man who killed Jetseta Gage WAS sentenced to a considerable stretch. He was turned loose after just half of it was served, despite the fact that he refused treatment or mental evaluations, and slipped through the cracks of the system that is supposed to track offenders.
If the system had worked, he would not have been there to commit the crime.
A good start would be to simply make sure that sex offenders serve the sentences they are given. When did the standard seemingly become serving half of a criminal sentence, even for violent, abusive acts? What happened to the supposed truth in sentencing efforts?
The federal bill seems to focus on longer sentences, but if we read Senator Grassley's intentions correctly, the mandatory sentences would actually be as little as two years in cases of sexual abuse that do not involve murder, kidnap, weapons or a child under 12. That's before the system turns them loose early.
Rehabilitation? Forget about it. A Justice Department study shows that over one in every 20 sex offenders dealt with by the courts will commit another sex crime. And there are 26 in BV County right now. The convicted sex offender has quadruple the likelihood to commit a sex crime than other criminals who have done time in the state prison. In many cases, there just is no reforming them.
The state proposals have been a more shotgun approach - looking at everything from a death penalty to mandatory evaluations to tracking bracelets to a DNA database.
There are several ideas with merit in there, including simply a notification of schools when a convicted offender moves in to their areas.
This is important, since the weak-kneed courts have failed to back up Iowa policy barring offenders from living next to a school. A pack of offenders and their lawyers got together and whined that such a policy isn't fair for them.
How about the rights of children to be safe from abuse? It only makes sense to avoid such temptation, and if it is inconvenient to the housing market for the convicted criminal, well, isn't that a shame.
The proposed Iowa bill has offered mandatory life sentences without parole for those committing a second sexual abuse offense, which may be the only way to stop foolish early releases. Those who refuse treatment would no longer be eligible for early release, which also makes common sense.
A mandatory evaluation, however, is a must. Without it, there will be no way to determine whether an inmate is rehabilitated, or what the risk of re-offense may be. If we truly intend to follow-up and better supervise these people, we need to know what those risks are. We notice that the state registry no longer even lists whether a convicted sex offender is considered a high risk to re-offend. Was that violating their rights too, we wonder?
All of these state and federal proposals, of course, only seek to define what we will do to punish someone once they have sexually abused a child, and can do nothing at all to prevent that first sexual assault from happening.
It is too bad we cannot legislate relationship choices.
How many times have we seen it in these horrible child abuse cases or trials, from Shelby Duis to Jetseta Gage, and in many of the cases of those cut-out kids on the lawn of the courthouse for a candlelight vigil each spring?
The mother takes a live-in, or a boyfriend, or an on-site drug pusher with a violent streak or abusive contacts. The child pays the price. Over and over and over again.
It is frustrating to realize that we can pass all the laws we want, lengthen sentences, apply all the criminology technology we want, and it won't begin to fix that.
Until society comes to recognize the abusers and they are kept out of the homes with children, there will be more battered, kidnapped and missing kids.
We should legislate what we can, but we can't legislate those relationship choices, only educate women to know they and their children deserve better even if they are troubled or lonely or broke, and do a better job of identifying the abusers in our midst who present a risk to do it again.


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Saturday, 12 January 2013
Occam's Razorburn
Stephen Hawking's latest book raises far more questions than it answers. Such as, why hasn't he been reading Thomas Kuhn, and what really is the benefit of unifying theories which don't seem to need unification?
In which we meet yet another first-class scientist who wishes to self-identify as a second-class philosopher and a comedian from the back end of steerage.
Since few will buy A Grand Design for its wit we can forgive Stephen Hawking's appalling attempts to be funny, but it's not so easy to forgive his philosophical ignorance. Certain physical scientists might be better off unacquainted with the modern philosophy of science (though those who know it possess a welcome sense of perspective and humility). But not world-renowned cosmologists. Their field continually bumps up against the boundary of what science even is (and it doesn't have a "no-boundary condition", whatever that might be).
So when Stephen Hawking claims that "philosophy has not kept up with modern science, especially physics" it suggests not only a lack of perspective and humility, but that Hawking has been skipping on some required reading. Especially since, having written off the discipline, Hawking seems barely acquainted with it. He mentions few philosophers more recent than Rene Descartes (d. 1650). So it is hard to know who he thinks hasn't kept up.
Particularly when Hawking's first grand pronouncement is "model-dependent reality": the idea that there may be alternative ways to model the same physical situation with fundamentally different elements and concepts. "If [such different models] accurately predict the same events, one cannot be said to be more real than the other." Physics has, apparently, been forced into this gambit following recent failures to get unifying calculations to work themselves out. In any case it isn't quite the neat trick Hawking thinks it is.
Firstly, while model-dependent reality might be news to Stephen Hawking (he seems to think it the fruit of modern physics' womb) the philosophers he hasn't been reading have been talking about it for years, if not centuries, to the constant sound of scientists' excoriations. It is even part of Descartes' philosophical fabric (and, more tellingly, Darwin's, but picking a fight with modern evolutionists, while fun, is a story for another day). That is to say, it sounds like it is the physicists who are finally catching up with the philosophers and not the other way around.
Secondly, in the grand game of philosophers' football that Cosmology has become, the model-dependent reality play is something of a surrender before kick-off. For if it is true that the same phenomenon can be plausibly accounted for in multiple, "incommensurate" (© Thomas Kuhn) ways, then the hard question is not about the truth in itself of any model, but the criteria for determining which of the (potentially infinite) models available we should choose in the first place.
This question is not one for physics, but metaphysics. It necessarily exists outside any given model (© Paul Feyerabend). Here we meet our old friend, Occam's Razor. This isn't a scientific principle at all, but a pragmatic rule of thumb with no intellectual pedigree: all else being equal, take the simplest explanation. Occam's Razor is a favourite instrument for the torture of hapless Christians by grumpy biologists: all your tricksy afterlife wagers and so on fail because evolution is so much less complicated and has so much more explanatory value than the idea that an omniscient, intangible, invisible, omnipotent entity pulling strings we can't see to make the whole thing go.
But, alas, in seeking a grand unification of things that really aren't asking to be unified, cosmology reveals some almighty snags. Unification under Hawking's programme, if it is even possible, involves slaughtering some big old sacred cows. To name a few: causality, the conventional conception of space-time; the idea that scientific theories should be based on observable data and their outcomes testable. It bows to some truly heinous false idols too. For example: seven invisible space-time dimensions, a huge mass of invisible dark matter, an arbitrary cosmological constant, a potentially infinite array of unobservable universes which wink in and out of existence courtesy of a mathematically inferred "vacuum energy"). Hawking doesn't propose solutions to these problems, but seems to think they're a fair price for achieving grand unification.
I'm not so sure: other than intellectual bragging rights, the resulting unified theory has no obvious marginal utility. And it has political drawbacks: believing one's model to be the truth carries potentially unpleasant implications for the suppression of those who don't.
There are practical drawbacks, too. We are asked to reject existing theories, which still have quite a lot of utility, in favour of something that it infinitely harder to understand and work with. The accelerating expansion of the universe without any apparent acting force seems to violate Newton's second law of motion. Without an outrageous end-run, the first nanosecond of the Big Bang (wherein the universe is obliged to expand in size by ten squillion kilometres - i.e. far faster than the speed of light) seems to violate the fundamentals of general relativity. String theory requires seven necessarily unobservable space-time dimensions and/or entirely different universes, and even then doesn't yield a single theory but millions of the blighters, all slightly inconsistent with each other (hence the appeal to "model dependent reality).
From the camp which wielded Occam's Razor so heartily against the Christians, this seems a bit rich. If these are the options, then the razor might slice in favour of the big guy with the beard.
But these aren't the options. We could save a lot of angst, and perhaps could have avoided digging trillion dollar circular tunnel under Geneva, had we employed model dependent reality the way the philosophers saw it and not the scientists (and shouldn't we call a spade a spade and label it cognitive relativism, by the way?). Since it crossed the event horizon of observability modern cosmology has become arcane, stunt-mathematics. If there were a chance that it might deliver time-travel, hyperspace or a tool for locating wormholes to other galaxies or universes then one could see the point in this intellectual onanism. But none of that seems to be allowed. So we should therefore ask the question "but why? What's the point? What progress do you promise that we can't achieve some other way?" No one seems to be able to answer that question.
But if we park it, what's left of Stephen Hawking's latest book is some pretty ropey jokes.
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John Park Gets Teased About Girlfriend On "Please Take Care Of My Refrigerator"
On the recent episode of "Please Take Care Of My Refrigerator," singer John Park guested on the show and fell for the MCs' tricks.
While explaining what is in his fridge, John Park says, "I used to cook steak for my friends or my past girlfriend. I'm pretty confident with cooking steak."
The MCs then tease, "Your girlfriend must come to your house often," but John Park denies it. He clarifies that it was for his past girlfriend.
Ahn Jung Hwan still asks, "So you just go to your girlfriend's house to eat nowadays?"
Later on, while searching John Park's fridge, the MCs find salmon and chicken breast.
So Ahn Jung Hwan asks again, "Is your girlfriend on a diet right now?" and John Park mistakenly answers "Yes."
Everyone laughs and John Park corrects himself saying, "I heard it wrong. I thought you asked if I am on a diet."
However, the MCs continue to poke fun at him and his suspected girlfriend for a while on the show.
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Not only animals and plants, microorganisms and humans change during evolution. Something very different evolves too: Music!
In this game music develops from the musical primordial soup onwards. Due to random mutations each song sounds a bit different and each tune has offspring that sounds various. You decide which musical creature you like and thus you increase its chance of reproduction. The continuous process of listening and rating has a big impact on the direction of development. It will lead you to some very surprising results. This all happens although each single change is just accidental. This is the power of selection.
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My landlord asked me to help her with her computer, so I obliged. I ran a full scan of MalwareBytes and found 3 registry keys: One that disabled notification that the firewall was off, one that disabled notification that antivirus was off, and one that disabled notification that updates were off. I removed them.
The computer is running extremely slow and I suspect that McAfee is the culprit. I think it may be been hijacked and corrupted by a virus on her PC
But here's where it gets weird. The Red M shield icon in the tray does nothing. Clicking, double clicking, right clicking. Nothing happens. When I go into the control panel to add/remove software and try to uninstall it, it hangs for about a munite then a white box appears. Nothing is in it. CLicking it does nothing. The only way to get rid of it is to kill the process.
I have been able to get a little info out of the toolbar in firefox. It says it's running SiteAdvisor Version 184.108.40.206. Last update was 04/24/2011.
I would try to update it, but the computer refuses to allow me to go to any McAfee site, siteadvisor site, etc. Other websites work fine.
I tried looking for a manual uninstall solution, but not knowing what version she has running makes it difficult.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm stumped.
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Try the MCPR removal tool linked under Useful Links at the top of the page. Reboot immediately it finshes. Run again if necessary.
Try the MCPR removal tool linked under Useful Links at the top of the page. Reboot immediately it finshes. Run again if necessary.
On a clean PC I am gettiing "The Document ID you entered was not recognized in our system. Please type the Document ID again, and make sure to use the correct prefix." on the link.
I'm guessing it is temporarily down. Heading back upstairs to my apartment to check on my other PC
Here's the actual download: http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe
Sorry for the delay in replying. No news is good news. The site started working for me and the uninstall worked perfectly. Thanks for the prompt and accurate help!
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Printers are one of the essential parts of any office establishment and as cheap compact printers arrived, they made their ways to homes too. The cost of printing came down a lot as technology advanced, but is still high enough that people always want to know ways to save more with your printer. Let's look at ways that we feel would help you:
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Although writing a biography of John Osborne can't be the most difficult task as Osborne left voluminous and laceratingly honest diaries
Although writing a biography of John Osborne can't be the most difficult task as Osborne left voluminous and laceratingly honest diaries, as well as the two volumes of autobiography, I thought John Heilpern's new book about him, A Patriot for Us, the Book of the Week on Radio Four last week, was quite compelling. Abridged by Robert Evans and read by Gareth Thomas, the book made it clear that Osborne was incapable of self-censorship and that, as Heilpern put it, his life was governed by 'self-disgust and unconquerable clenched fear'. As the playwright wrote, 'It is fear. I cannot rid myself of it, it numbs me. It sterilises me…' It's also become more apparent over the years that his plays are more autobiographical than at first thought. Jimmy Porter's marriage to Alison reflected his own first marriage to Pamela Lane so that when the curtain first went up she inwardly groaned at the sight of the ironing board on stage.
A later play — I think it was The Hotel in Amsterdam — has Paul Scofield satirising the poverty of language to be found in the letters of the not-very-well educated, something Osborne would have been familiar with from his own family experiences. Osborne was a man of extremes and contradictions. Born in Fulham, his childhood more or less shaped him. He blamed his mother, the indomitable Nellie Beatrice, a barmaid, for his father's departure and later death from tuberculosis, and vilified her in print for the rest of his life. And yet he supported her financially, escorted her to the first nights of his plays and took her on family holidays. Heilpern writes that he turned her into a 'cockney grotesque from Dickens'. He was ashamed of her and one can see why. On meeting Paul Robeson, she declared, 'Oh, Mr Robinson, it was such an honour to meet you. My son has always been very sorry for you darkies.' At the Oliviers' house-warming party in Brighton, she tried to dispose of her portion of expensive caviar by grinding it into the carpet with her shoe. As Osborne later wrote, 'Watching this, the Oliviers froze in wounded disbelief.'
He described her thus:
Her face was a flowery dark mask, her eyes were an irritable brown. Her remaining front teeth were large, yellow and strong. Her lips were a scarlet black sliver covered in slime named Tahiti or tattoo which she bought with all her other make-up from Woolworth's.
When she died in 1993 he wrote an article for the Sunday Times with the infamous first line, 'A year in which my mother died can't be all bad.' It was rejected.
His career had its highs and lows. Look Back in Anger, attacked by most reviewers, was saved by Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson, who spotted the talent and energy, but it was only when BBC television broadcast an extract that the young went to see it. They weren't regular theatre-goers on the whole, they tended to watch television. Despite his later success, he was actually booed by, among others, Noël Coward and John Gielgud at the first night of his failure, The World of Paul Slickey, and chased up the Charing Cross Road.
Osborne and the Royal Court's George Devine contributed to the abolition of the Lord Chamberlain's absurd office. I still find it crazy that Britain was the only country in the free world to have a censor of plays and the need for a licence to stage them. The Lord Chamberlain objected to a scene in A Patriot For Me, but Devine refused to take it out. A loophole in the law was that private clubs were exempt, so Devine created a club at the Royal Court and kept the scene in. The Lord Chamberlain's role as a censor ended three years later. Osborne's last marriage, to Helen Dawson, was the happiest of the five but, a diabetic, he died of liver and kidney failure on Christmas Eve in 1994, one of the truly great talents of British theatre in the 20th century, in my opinion.
I didn't see the original newspaper report, based on a leak, revealing the salaries of leading BBC presenters, but listeners complained to Feedback on Radio Four last week (Friday) that they were far too high. It seems Terry Wogan is paid £800,000 a year for his Radio Two show, the absurd Jonathan Ross £530,000 a year for one show a week on Saturdays and Chris Evans £540,000 for his show on the same network. These are ridiculous payments.
Jenny Abramsky, the director of radio and music, appeared on Feedback and justified them by saying they were the 'market rate'. They are not. No independent radio station could afford salaries like that. It's only the licence fee that enables the BBC to be so profligate. The corporation reminds me sometimes of local authorities under a Labour government: keep hiking the council tax and spend, spend, spend. The ludicrous and wasteful decision to move Five Live and sport to Manchester is a case in point. The truth is that the senior management at the BBC is also overpaid, a practice begun by John Birt, who almost quadrupled his own salary when he was director-general.
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Well, it's been a couple of weeks since the first school holidays this year and I was lucky enough to by employed by a number of different councils to run school holiday programs for kids. These works were done at Trott Park, south of Adelaide in a 'pop-up' art space run by Marion Council.
I have done a similar kind of thing before with children where we teach a bit of anatomy of the face and use colour to show emotion.
It's amazing the response you get from kids with this exercise and I really love the results.
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Project name: Strengthening the Future provisions of Public Secondary Education in the inner Sydney area
Client: NSW Department of Education and Communities
Award: This project was Highly Commended in the 2015 IAP2 Core Values Awards (Planning).
Background: The inner city area of Sydney has experienced significant growth in population and this trend is set to continue, with a marked increase in the number of families with school-aged children now living close to or within the CBD. The Department undertook planning for a new primary school in the Ultimo/Pyrmont area in 2013 and in early 2014 the Inner City Schools Working Party (ICSWP) was tasked with determining recommendations to the Government for addressing future high school education needs.
Engagement brief: Straight Talk, and the ICSWP developed a stakeholder and community consultation program to seek community input on options for strengthening the future provision of public secondary education in the inner Sydney area.
Community engagement needed to:
- Provide a range of ways for diverse stakeholder groups (students, teachers, Principals, parents, future students and parents, P&Cs, local Councils, local politicians, community and interest groups and hard to reach groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds) to participate
- Avoid polarising discussion and debate around the relative merits or failings of particular schools and focus on educational needs and strategies for addressing future growth
- Ensure feedback represented the full diversity of views so the Department and Government could have confidence in the outcomes.
Description of engagement:: Straight Talk developed a stakeholder and community consultation program to seek community input on options for addressing high school education needs in the short and longer term.
The engagement process recognised that public secondary education is something that potentially affects all of us at some point in time. The comprehensive engagement process ensured that there were multiple opportunities for stakeholders and the community to be involved, and that these methods took into account how individuals wanted to get involved so no one was left out (i.e. whether that be with a group of strangers at a workshop/focus group, group of friends through the Kitchen Table Discussion Guide or individually via the online discussion forum).
Engagement also took into account different levels of literacy and styles of learning. Each activity was tailored to the target group; this resulted in 18 individually tailored processes running at the same time. For instance, some of the differences in focus group structures included:
- Primary school children were asked to draw what their ideal secondary school might look like.
- 'Future parents' were asked to explain the key factors taken into consideration when selecting a public secondary school.
- Culturally and linguistically diverse parents were asked if there were any specialist offerings they look for in a public secondary school.
Another critical success factor in ensuring those who were affected were involved was that the invitation to be involved came from both the Department, through its website, social media, advertisements and media releases, and the schools themselves. Emails and newsletters were deliberately 'trickled down' from Principals to P&Cs and from P&Cs to their community.
Engagement activities included online, focus groups, workshops, self-directed Kitchen Table Discussion Guides, briefings and regular newsletters and email updates.
Over 4,500 people were involved in the process with over 600 people from a large and diverse range of inner Sydney school communities actively participating in workshops, focus groups, Kitchen Table Discussions and/or the online forum as part of the consultation.
The final decision, a new high school, was announced on 16 February 2015 and the site, the existing Intensive English High School at the old Cleveland Street Boys High School site, was one that had been identified through engagement. In addition, ideas for how the Intensive English High School could be relocated to existing CBD commercial premises, for example, were also identified during the engagement process.
The high degree of transparency about the process and its outcomes contributed to improved relationships between the Department and key stakeholders including inner city parents, and has allowed a greater depth of press coverage to illustrate the complexities of forward planning for public education facilities in rapidly changing urban environments.
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"I thought the focus groups functioned well with a diverse group of people"
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Rest in peace, Aaron
Thursday, those same pastures again were green when his family, friends and community members gathered as the young man many call an "American Hero" returned home to be laid to rest.
Many people and many tears filled the picturesque, countryside St. Joseph Catholic Church for the funeral service for Elandt, a Cavalry Scout in the First Armored Division of the U.S. Army who was killed May 30 in Iraq.
News of the young soldier's death shook the community and those who knew him. But there was little mention during the service of how Elandt was killed when his Humvee struck a land mine just south of Baghdad. On Thursday morning there were only words regarding the young man who enjoyed the simple things in life, such as fishing and spending time with the family and friends he cherished most.
He is survived by his parents Paul and Linda Elandt of Port Hope and adult siblings Steve, Matt and Paula. They were joined Thursday by people who know what it means to serve their country and to have lost one of their own. Those veterans from various posts throughout the county looked on, peering in from outside the church doors in uniforms with flags in hand.
Before the service was over the Elandt family was presented with the Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal in honor of their loved one's heroism while fighting the war in Iraq.
According to the military, the Purple Heart is an American decoration - the oldest military decoration in the world in present use - and the first American honor made available to the common soldier.
This honor is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who are wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy. In the case of a soldier's death it's given to the next of kin in the name of those who are killed in action or die of wounds received in action. It is specifically a combat decoration.
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the U.S. Army after Dec. 6 1941, distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service in connection with military operations against an armed enemy or while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing armed force.
Throughout the service, Fr. James Carlson shared remembrances of the 23-year-old who received word he was coming home from Iraq on several occasions only to have his 14-month stay extended.
Carlson said the "American Hero" he knew didn't like much fuss made about him and that it was through Elandt's leadership ability that he quickly rose to the rank of Sergeant.
Elandt's mother Linda said in an earlier interview with the Tribune that her son graduated from Harbor Beach High School in 1999 and joined the Army in 2000. He served at Camp Garry Owen in Korea and returned back to the U.S. shortly before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He then went to Fort Hood, Texas, where he served for just over a year. From there, he was assigned to Germany, and after a few months, he was sent to Baghdad. He'd been there for a little more than one year.
Elandt was deployed in the 1st Battalion 6th Infantry Scout Platoon of the 1st Armored Division. According to a military website, cavalry scouts serve as the commander's eyes and ears on the battlefield. When information about the enemy is needed, they call on the cavalry scouts. They engage the enemy with anti-armor weapons and scout vehicles in the field, track and report enemy movement and activities, and direct the employment of various weapon systems onto the enemy.
Some of Elandt's duties included securing and preparing ammunition on scout vehicles, performing navigation during combat, loading, clearing and firing individual and crew-served weapons, gathering and reporting information on terrain, weather, and enemy disposition and equipment, collecting data to classify routes, tunnels and bridges and other tasks. Cavalry scouts must be in top physical and mental shape and must be ready to accept challenges and face danger.
Following the touching funeral service, family, friends, veterans and active members of the armed forces followed the casket, proudly draped with the American flag, out of the church. They continued to walk beside the hearse that carried the Port Hope native to the nearby church cemetery for burial as they bid farewell to their loved one, their friend, their American hero.


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Again, the purpose of a website is not to just to be there and hope people drop by and read, it is to offer relevant information to your customers. Specifically thinking of their needs will help you target your marketing to those who are most interested in buying from you. When you have good information on your site it will help you build trust and establish expertise in your field.
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Omokoroa Boat Club 15km Run
This is a new event in 2018 for those wanting a bit more of a challenge or something to push themselves for.
The course will be the 5km route then the 10km route. We had hoped that the next stage of the Omokoroa Cycle Path would be open in time for our event but sadly it is still closed. Keep an eye out for next year's route though as it will definately be open by then!!!
There is not a walk option for this distance.
Place getter prizes for this event are generously donated by the Omokoroa Boat Club.
Omokoroa General Carriers 10km Run/Walk
Omokoroa Gerneral Carriers 10km Run/Walk
Participants will be taken on a scenic adventure around our stunning peninsular.
The course incorporates the walkways around our coastline, the cycleway and some residential streets, giving participants a great appreciation of Omokoroa's beauty. The terrain includes grass, boardwalk, footpath, and gravel walkway. The route is undulating with a couple of good hills and there is one set of stairs that you will need to go down.
All prizes in this event are generously donated by Omokoroa General Carriers
Lynley Park 5km Run/Walk
Lynley Park 5km Run/Walk
This is a shorter loop around the peninsula which also includes a stretch of the stunning cycleway.
Like the 10km route, the terrain is a mix of grass, boardwalk, gravel walkway and footpaths. There are no stairs in this route but there are a couple of decent hills so make sure you get in some hill training.
This year we have two age-related prize categories - 13 years and under, and 14 years and over – to ensure that our younger runners who run their hearts out also get rewarded.
All prizes for BOTH prize categories in this event are generously donated by Lynley Park. You will go through their beautiful subdivision as part of your run/walk - check out the views on your way - there are still a few sections for sale!
Tremains 2km Kids Dash
Tremains Omokoroa 2km Kids Dash
This option is aimed at children wanting to give it a go.
Lots of parents enjoy completing this event with their children and you are very welcome to do this even if you are also competing in one of the other events.
The course for this is two laps of the Sports Fields to ensure the safety of the children and for ease of watching by their supporters.
You can run or walk it – or a bit of both!
This year we are only awarding prizes to those in the 4-9 year old age group to ensure that this group get a fair chance at winning the top prizes, and to also encourage the bigger kids to give the 5km a go. Last year we were so impressed with the 9-year olds who completed the 5km distance, proving that with the right attitude, this distance is perfectly achievable for 9+ year olds!"
This event will NOT be electronically timed due to the age of some of the participants and the impracticalities of them using a timing device. We will have a judge at the finish line recording the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place holders.
All prizes for this race are proudly donated by Tremains, Omokoroa.


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|UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (director/writer: Harry Pollard; screenwriters: from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe/Harvey Thew/A.P. Younger; cinematographer: Charles Stumar/Jacob Kull; editors: Daniel Mandell/Byron Robinson/Gilmore Walker; music: Erno Rapee/Hugo Riesenfeld; cast: James B. Lowe (Uncle Tom), Virginia Grey (Eva), George Siegmann (Simon Legree), Margarita Fischer (Eliza), Eulalie Jensen (Cassie), Skipper Zeliff (Edward Harris, a slaveowner), Arthur Edmund Carewe (George Harris, a slave), Adolph Milar (Haley), Mona Ray (Topsy), John Roche (Augustus St. Clare), Lucien Littlefield (Lawyer Marks), J. Gordon Russell (Tom Loker), Aileen Manning (Miss Ophelia), Jack Mower (Mr. Shelby), Vivian Oakland (Mrs. Shelby), Gertrude Howard (Aunt Chloe/Uncle Tom's Wife), Nelson McDowell (Phineas Fletcher); Runtime: 141; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Harry Pollard/Carl Laemmle; Universal Pictures; 1927-silent)
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was slavery, but still has a faulty
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Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A version that takes some liberties with abolitionist's Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slave novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (the escape scene over the ice wasn't in the book, but comes from its stage versions), but still impresses with its sympathetic portrayal of the blacks being oppressed by slavery. It's directed by studio veteran Harry Pollard after it was turned down by D. W. Griffith. The director's white wife Margarita Fischer plays the starring role as the mulatto slave Eliza. The role of Uncle Tom, who has come to be thought of in a derogatory way as a stereotyped good Negro, one who is submissive and a defender of the white man's system, is played by the Negro James B. Lowe in a role traditionally played by a white man in blackface. Tom's character is given some depth in the film, and the negativity attributed to his character is really taken from how he was portrayed in the theater. The big-budget film (an astounding $2 million for that time frame) only did fair at the box office at home, but did much better in England.
Warning: spoiler in the next paragraph.
The story starts off in 1856 on the idyllic Kentucky plantation of the Shelbys (Jack Mower & Vivian Oakland), depicted as the kindly slave owners of their beloved Tom and Eliza--trusted and treated with privilege. The pic tells us this is the rule not the exception, though there are a few mean-spirited masters. When two mulatto slaves, Eliza and George Harris (Arthur Edmund Carewe), owned by mean-spirited neighboring slave owner Edward Harris (Skipper Zeliff), get married formally as arranged by the Shelbys without Edward's consent the overseer takes George back by force. George on a snowy winter night a few years later tells Eliza that he's escaping to Canada and will try to raise money to buy her and their son Harry's freedom. Later that same evening it's learned that Shelby is in debt to money lender Haley (Adolph Milar), who agrees to stop foreclosure if he sells him Tom and Harry. Overhearing that, Eliza flees with her son from pursuing bloodhounds across a half frozen river by stepping over a number of ice floes and avoiding a dangerous waterfalls to arrive at the free state of Ohio (originally filmed on the Saranac River near Plattsburg, New York, but when they didn't get enough footage the studio heads refused to return there and instead filmed it from scratch in the back lot with artificial snow). Aided by Quaker Phineas Fletcher in a daring rescue from a tree limb, Eliza and son are taken into his loving home. But the next day she's taken by the authorities and returned to slimy lawyer Marks (Lucien Littlefield) and his bully companion Loker (J. Gordon Russell), hired by the slave owner to retrieve the runaways, as the Dred Scott decision states that runaway slaves can be returned even from free states. Eliza, Harry and Tom are on the same riverboat heading down river; also aboard as a stoker is George, who doesn't know the others are there. Haley spots George and this forces him to jump ship near port in Louisville rather be returned by Haley. Meanwhile the crooked Marks sells Harry to another overseer, and Eliza is torn to near self-destruction that she'll never see her child again. In New Orleans, she's sold at a slave auction. Augustus St. Claire (John Roche), a kindly plantation owner in New Orleans, buys Tom when his cute little daughter Eva (Virginia Grey) is befriended by the kindly older slave aboard the riverboat. In New Orleans, Tom and Eva form a happy relationship with Tom being protective of the sickly child. Eva also forms a lasting friendship with a naughty black girl named Topsy (Mona Ray), who becomes her servant. Eva dies and soon after her father dies, as Tom is then sold to the ruthless northerner Simon Legree. He also buys Eliza. It's soon learned that Cassie (Eulalie Jensen), an older mulatto slave, is Eliza's mom. Telling of her abuses under Legree, mother and daughter plan to escape and end up hiding in the attic. Tom is beaten to death by Legree rather than reveal their hiding place. Eventually a drunk and belligerent Legree finds them but is rocked by guilt over the murder of the gentle Tom and fear of the oncoming soldiers, and the tyrant thereby falls to his death from the attic. It concludes in an overwrought manner as George emerges from a passing band of ragtag travelers with a rescued Harry by his side, and the loving couple reunite as a family.
There were at least ten versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin during the silent era. It was also done often on the stage. It's a story that obviously has captured the American imagination and needs retelling; it's one of the more well-known classic stories. The film version was effective in showing how evil was slavery, but still has a faulty paternalistic attitude to its subjects. To enjoy it, one must also get past the "overemphatic screen acting of the silent era."
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Girls: Age 13 - 19
By audition.
Mondays, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Start Date: January14th, 2019
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Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church
les étoiles is the young women's advanced ensemble for teenage girls. Naming themselves back in 1997, they continue to hold true to their French name, "the stars," as they shine for audiences everywhere. Standards of performance are at the highest level, and a commitment to achieving excellence is expected. Membership is by audition. Call 415.383.3712 to schedule an appointment.


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Sonny Rollins's concert at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night was billed as the 50th anniversary of his first performance there. More significant, it was the first time since 1958 — nearly a 50th anniversary — that he's played with Roy Haynes. The greatest living tenor saxophone player, teamed again with arguably the greatest living drummer — now that's historic.
The concert's first half, when the two were joined by the young bassist Christian McBride, lived up to the fanfare, in unexpected ways. The high points of Mr. Rollins's concerts are usually the extended solos: sinuous improvisations, going on for dozens of choruses, no two alike, in which he explores every chord, theme or counterpoint a song seems to offer, then taps some uncharted crevice and digs or soars on to blow more. This set wasn't like that. Perhaps because he was playing with peers (a rarity in recent decades), he held back, simmered where he usually boiled, and played as one of three equals.
The unlikely highlight was "Some Enchanted Evening," which Mr. Rollins opened by reciting the melody with his lush and husky tone, while Mr. Haynes flapped brushes in triple time, and Mr. McBride plucked whole notes that anchored the chords without confining his band mates. When they got to the part where most musicians take solos, Mr. Rollins instead tossed out a fragment of the melody, then Mr. Haynes filled in the rest, and on the interplay went, bar after bar, the two sometimes overlapping, sometimes not.
It felt like an ambling, elegant conversation between old friends, which in fact it was. It set off a goose-bump sensation, a shared intimacy one rarely encounters in a jazz concert. And the full house gave it the night's lustiest applause.
For the set's closer, "Mack the Knife," Mr. Rollins drew on a gruffer tone, full of fleet triplets and arpeggios, but Mr. McBride took the star turn with a solo that possessed a horn's articulate fluency and a master's insouciant assurance, despite the age gap that might have marked him as an apprentice. (He's 35, while Mr. Rollins is 77 and Mr. Haynes is — unbelievably — 82.)
After intermission Mr. Rollins brought out his regular sextet, which includes electric guitar, electric bass, trombone, drums and congas (but, alas, no Mr. Haynes or Mr. McBride). This is a band whose function is to support the leader, and it performs that task adequately. But Carnegie Hall's acoustics, often troublesome with amplified music, muddied the works, and Mr. Rollins's notes were often buried in the mix. The engineers turned up the volume when Clifton Anderson's trombone started out too low, but didn't extend the courtesy to the headliner.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Rollins never broke through the stratosphere. Still, he played with customary verve, especially during the two calypsos, when he strutted to the front of the stage, thrusting his horn to the rhythm while ripping through the scales, finally uncorking a stream of thunderous low notes like a foghorn guiding the way. He does this at the end of nearly all his concerts, and it never fails to delight.Continue reading the main story


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My daughter is only 2 1/2 and I have already passed on my shopaholic ways down to her. Every day when she wakes up and when she gets home from school she will ask to go to the store. She knows about money and understands the concept of not having enough. To make things worse. She has been swiping my debit card for at least a year now...I've created a
Well when I finally woke up this morning she immediately told me that she wanted to go to the store. She grabs both her purses puts on her shoes and sunglasses. Lets not forget her computer and her cellphone (not a real one of course). She stood there by the door telling me that she was ready to go.
After finally talking her out of going to the store we decide to go out side so she could ride her bike. As soon as we get outside she starts walking to the truck.
Me: Kyla where are you going?
Kyla: Kyla (yes, she speaks about herself in 3rd person) go to the store.
Me: Baby, we're not going to the store today.
Kyla: Kyla wants to go to the store.
Me: Baby, mommy doesn't have any money to go to the store
Kyla: Mommy no have money?
Me: No, mommy doesn't have any money
Kyla :*reaches in her pocket* Here mommy.... *hands me a quarter*
Me: No baby, that is your money.
Kyla: No, mommy can have it cause mommy no have money.
Awww...I thought this was the sweetest thing ever. I wanted to take her to the store and buy her three new toys just for being so sweet. It is moments like thing that give me a ray of hope of making it through the terrible-twos.
Oh did I mention that I was 15 minutes late for work that day because she put my keys in her purse?


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Announced this story back in august last year, and it took me over 5 months to finish. I actually started writing on the story in october, and put it aside on november. It was a bad choice of mine, because when I decided to tackle this story again in february I found myself struggling to start writing on it. This story will likely serve as a reminder to me that I should stay focused on my work, and to not take any long breaks from it.
Anyway, brief teaser below:
- Mickey Mouse is going to the grocery shop to buy food for himself for the coming weekend. Minnie Mouse is also in the same store, and her shopping bag is so full that several things fall out of it. Mickey sees this and proceeds to bring the dropped things back to Minnie, but during the run he ends up bumping himself into a nearby store shelf, causing it to fall down on him. A little while later Mickey wakes up from his blackout, and is shocked to find himself in the house of Minnie, and being shrunk as well. Despite this he decides to explore around in her house, and from this point on Mickey has little idea of what things will be awaiting him.
This will also be the last story of mine to take place in the Mickey Mouse Works universe, at least as far as the style of humor is concerned. Most of the writing and scenes are also my own work, and no elements were borrowed from any of the original episodes of the show (at least what I'm currently aware of).
I also reviewed the story multiple times (from start to end) to make sure no spelling mistakes or such slipped by. By now there shouldn't really be any, but if I happen to find any more after the story has already been made available on the site, I think I'll just leave it the way it is. It has taken me very long to finish anyway, and I want to start writing on the new stories I currently have on mind.


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A good friend of mine has just completed an interesting and opportune book: 'Being Conservative from A to Z. An Anthology and Guide for Busy Conservative-Minded People' (Amazon).
No matter one's political sympathies, intellectual honesty is essential, and history always eventually ends up as an undeniable record of facts.
Thanks to years of being subjected to the hypocritical circus of political correctness, or as the French also say 'la pensée unique' (the only admitted way of thinking) the word 'conservatism' has been systematically demeaned by disparaging connotations.
In fact when one seeks synonyms of 'conservatism' via Internet, one is swamped with a panoply of pejorative words that underline this phenomenon. Here are a few, mostly American examples:
blimpish, buttoned-up, fusty, standpat (prenominal), unprogressive, nonprogressive, hidebound, traditionalist, tending to favour established ideas, conditions, or institutions, eg. (conservative baseball fans consider the new ballpark too modern-looking and plain ugly), brassbound, button-down (or buttoned-down), die-hard, hidebound, mossbacked, old-fashioned, old-line, old-school, orthodox, paleoconservative, reactionary, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, etc.
One might therefore be led to imagine a tweedy, cynical, absent minded, shortsighted, elderly, back bench minister or member of the House of Lords snoring during a séance. A hoary old Tory has-been, belonging to another age with one gouty foot already in the grave.
If such is conservatism, how can one apply any of the above synonyms or such a quaint caricature to Abraham Lincoln, for one example? "Unprogressive"? The man who abolished slavery in the USA? And if George Washington had any tendency "to favour established ideas" then perhaps there would never have been the American war of Independence. He would have favoured the established idea of America continuing to be ruled by mad King George III of England.
As for Margaret Thatcher, she would have favoured the established idea of continuing to allow miners the right to dig for coal that no one wanted. Or maybe she would have respected another interpretation of traditionalism by allowing Argentina the right to reclaim the Falkland Islands despite the majority wish of the island's inhabitants. And what about Winston Churchill? If he was so attached to tradition he would have dismissed radar as worthless, modern junk and opted for tactics and technology worthy of the First World War, if not the Napoleonic Wars. (It's to be noted that Napoleon, who has been ousted from the politically correct French social club and is no longer spoken of, understandably caused such an impact in his day and age that the French army's main military tactics manual still faithfully adhered to up until, and even during, the First World War, was uniquely Napoleonic. To some extent this might account for why the French soldiers were issued with bright red trousers at the outset of WW1 to wear for going into battle to dazzle and put fear into the hearts of the German machine gunners.
It's true that conservatives refer to history. But they do so out of sincere interest, respect and in order to advance positively by steering clear of the obstacle of repeating past errors, whereas if ideologists refer to history at all, they do so either selectively, or with the intention of negating or deforming it. In their view history has to comply with the requirements of their ideology. Indeed the French revolutionists went as far as to try to cancel out or decapitate all pre-revolutionary French history in order to vainly try to start over anew. Their absurd, short-lived attempt to reestablish a new calendar and even new seasons, with oblivious women frolicking around wearing back to nature, revamped, traditional antique Greek costumes, seems to reveal how ridiculously unrealistic and pretentious their doctrine was. Yet even today, for the sake of the Republic, one continues to extol the French Revolution, this in spite of the rife havoc and murderous destruction it caused.
Ironically many of the French like to identify with the Royal family of Great Britain. They avidly follow royal events, as much, it seems, if not more so than the British themselves. Couldn't this be regarded as a natural way of trying to compensate for having irrevocably eliminated their own monarchy?
The Taliban's attempt to demolish the Buddhas of Bamiyan is a similar example of brainless vanity in trying to make history conform to what are considered ideological requirements. Religion doesn't really come into it, for in principle there's no difference between the blind action of destroying a sacred, ancient monument hued out of solid rock, or rabidly burning down Catholic Churches for whatever ideological cause.
Are we thus to take it that those who accuse conservatism as being unprogressive and old fashioned would approve of relentless, destructive, ideological madness?
But what is ideology? It is an established creed, doctrine or religion that is anchored or imprisoned to the past, to its original source. This is why we use the word fundamentalism. It is so fixed that it cannot evolve or readapt in any natural way, and is never required to do so. Socialism can also be regarded as a form of fundamentalism because there is no possibility of it evolving without virtually cancelling itself out.
Most apolitical thinkers and philosophers would agree that an ideology is established when the ideologue stops thinking. In this case how can anyone who defends an ideology pretend to represent progress? In any case an ideologue denies any form of progress that would challenge or even question his ideology.
Conservatives defend traditional values not because of vague sentiments of nostalgia or any old fashioned quirks, but simply out of respect for custom and identity. They are aware that such values have withstood the rigours of time. There is a very good reason for this which could also be considered as being preciously essential if not mystic. These values are deeply embedded. They are our historic foundations. They represent a nucleus or source of national identity.
We therefore arrive at the logical conclusion that if man is capable of reaching the stars, of creating and continually improving upon fabulous means of communication, of finding remedies to cure the most serious illnesses and diseases, of devising means to solve the world's many problems in all aspects, and of continually creating art throughout history since the fabulous Lascaux renderings, it is not due to ideologues or to any ideology. It is due to those who would never allow themselves to be restricted by dogma. Call them what you will, or better still, take time out to trace the progress of civilisation in thought and deed throughout history.
History is forged positively by free individuals and not by fettered ideologues. If history has been effected by the latter, it has only been so in a relatively temporary, always negative and often destructive way.
The greatest leaders the world has known have always been free individuals who defend liberty and individuality. If they ever needed to pigeonhole themselves, more often than not they would consider themselves as being conservative. But in the final analysis, 'conservative' is only a word, with no strings attached.
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Living in the northeast we expect a winter with snow. This year we have had more than our fair share of snow. It seems like we are clearing the driveway every other day. We finally get down to the blacktop and then Mother Nature decides to dump another round of snow on us. We are running out places to put the snow.
Our sweet dog Lucy who loves going outside has been reduced to running through her habitrail. We dug out a series of channels for her to run in.
And since Lucy is a mostly white dog it's often difficult to see her because the snow is so high and she gets hidden in her habitrail. Can you see her in this picture?
January is usually the month that stuff is made for upcoming Spring shows. Mother Nature has decided that time is better spent outside in the snow! We are thankful that we have a snow thrower to help out with the 350 foot driveway.
It sure is pretty, but now we are done! We are more than ready for Spring flowers. Assuming that Mother Nature cooperates we will make our way to Baltimore for the American Craft Council Show on February 24-27.


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In reading a Sawtooth Software article, The Basics of Interpreting Conjoint Utilities, it said, "When summarizing attribute importances for groups, it is best to compute importances for respondents individually and then average them, rather than computing importances using average utilities." I would like to understand the implications from the two procedures. I tried to calculate in both ways and found that, at least in my example, the most important and the least important attributes are the same from both procedures; however, the remaining attributes in-between have different scores and rank orders. Mathematically, it seems to me both procedures are valid, but I am not sure how to interpret the differences in the results and why one would be better than the other.
Imagine that you do a study that has two attributes: Brand and Price. Imagine the two brands are Coke and Pepsi, and the two prices are $1.00 and $2.00. Imagine that brand is critical to the respondents (more so than price) and that half the respondents love Coke and the other half love Pepsi.
Now, if you compute the importance scores based on average utilities, the average utilities for Coke and Pepsi are tied, so the importance of price will be shown to be 100% and brand 0%. This is obviously wrong, as differences in opinion regarding brand across the sample have caused the signal for brand to wash out in the average.
If utilities are computed at the individual level and the importance scores are computed at the individual level, then it will clearly capture the fact for each respondent that brand is critical (despite the differences in opinion).


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Yep, Disney has joined forces with Similac, to put together pediatric kits to be sent out to OB/GYN offices across america. These kits will of course contain samples of infant formula and baby bottles and coupons and some sort of Disney promotional paraphernalia. Over 2 million of these kits are heading out to mothers leaving the hospital with their new babies.
When I read this article I just about had a conniption. I"m not a Disney fan at the best of times, but now that they've joined forces with Similac, I've just discovered a new company to boycott!!!
..... Similac's latest conniving plan to interfere with breastfeeding mothers. I'm so mad.
I strongly suggest that we start a writing campaign to Disney. Unfortunately, after 30 minutes of searching, this is the ONLY way I've been able to discover to contact them in any way: https://register.go.com/disney/corporate/corporatecitizenship/index
In their 2010 Corporate Citizenship Report, on the topic of "Human Rights" Disney says:
In implementing our human rights commitments, we will focus on the following four areas.
- Policy Statement:Our policy statement is a first step in articulating our commitment. Our priority over the next year is to communicate this policy more widely within the Company and further engage our employees in upholding and implementing it.
- Assessment:We are enhancing our assessment of potential human rights impacts in targeted areas including our workplace practices, labor conditions in the supply chains making Disney-branded products and our role in promoting the well-being of children. Over the next year, we will refine our assessment process to ensure we are continuing to focus on the areas of greatest importance to our business.
- Implementation:We seek to identify ways in which we can adopt best practices and new approaches that enable us to enhance human rights considerations.
- Reporting:We will continue to share our progress in our biennial citizenship report.
I think that we can agree that jumping into bed with Similac pretty much goes
against their "role in promoting the well-being of children".
I think that "Jenn's World" gives a great run down of all that's wrong with this whole mess.
Disney and Similac Team Up to Undermine Breastfeeding for Moms
Reading this, I am absolutely horrified. First of all, the so called "Pediatric Kits" are nothing more than items designed to undermine breastfeeding. These kits are given out with coupons and formula and bottles so that mothers have them within ready access. If something is difficult with breastfeeding and the mom does not have the help they need to breastfeed, these "kits" come in handy. The middle of the night desperation is exactly what the formula companies are banking on.
The partnership idea is particularly gross to me because these companies add something else to the kit – something that is appealing to an even wider group. Breastfeeding mothers who would otherwise refuse the kit, may take it because of cereal, clothing, or Disney coupons or samples (things that have nothing to do with breastfeeding). Once that kit is in the house, the undermining of breastfeeding happens.
Finally, it is clear that this is all revenue driven because the release discusses the money that they are making! These kits are not about helping out new moms, they are about selling a product. The only way to sell formula is if people are not breastfeeding. A way to stop people from breastfeeding is to market formula in sneaky and underhanded ways like giving out "pediatric kits" in hospitals full of formula and coupons to Disney.


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I was unaware that this record even existed until a year ago when I eagerly fished it out of the 99-cent bin at Willimantic Records, even though the cover was emblazoned with the WFCS call letters (hence the 'found' images here) and the vinyl itself was pretty thrashed. Everything else I've owned by these guys is pretty fucking nifty, so I had no problems with the condition-- see, now you can't blame me if the rips aren't perfect-- plus it's something that every one of you should do someday, meaning go to Willimantic Records and buy something, because they've got lots of cool stuff that hasn't surfaced in ages and most of it isn't even in the 99 cent bin.
Hollow Heyday existed from around the late '80s into the early '90s and occupied roughly the same space as Honor Role, creating hefty art-damaged rock under a variety of different names (Hostile Heyday, Hollow Heyday, Headless Heyday). Their record sleeves were always full of mis-directions-- intentionally incorrect song lengths, mis-spelled band member names, made-up song titles, erroneous discography information, and other total bullshit-- which, along with their constantly evolving band name, probably worked as a huge kiss-off to anyone who wasn't paying attention, a concept that I can wholeheartedly support. The two songs on the a-side are both solid winners, and seem to have been intended to be part of an LP ("Grate") which I'm not sure was ever released, though I would love to hear the tapes in any case. "Messy Black Hog" sounds like it's playing at the wrong speed at first, until you realize that's just how the guy's voice sounds, while the guitar riff to "Tussle" sounds darn close to something you'd find on "Rictus". The two songs that make up the b-side are supposedly from "Hollow Heyday's first seven-inch", and you know what, you can't find that one on Discogs either, though who knows who puts those things together (probably Marc Masters when he isn't busy writing A Wicked Tumblr). "Resolve to Reserve" could almost be considered shitty, until you focus on the neat little synth part bubbling underneath, and then it becomes awesome. "Stop It" is probably the closest that Hollow Heyday ever came to writing a catchy-sounding pop song and also appears in a different version on 1989's "Abandoned" LP, which actually does exist and is worth way more than a moderate amount of effort to track down.
"Messy Black Hog"
"Stop It"
"Resolve to Reserve"


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Lazar scores twice as the Oil Kings eliminate the IceNHL.com @NHLdotcom
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oil Kings eliminated the Kootenay Ice from the first round of the post-season for the second year in a row with a 4-1 victory Friday night in Western Hockey League playoff action.
The Oil Kings took the best-of-seven series 4-1, outscoring the Ice 25-4 and blanking them on two occasions.
Curtis Lazar scored the game winner at 11:35 of the second period, streaking in on the left wing and putting a backhand shot over the blocker of Kootenay netminder Mackenzie Skapski.
Luke Bertolucci and Stephane Legault also scored for the Oil Kings while Lazar added an empty-net goal with less than two minutes remaining in regulation time.
"I thought we were a bit loose on the defensive zone coverage but at the end of the day I thought our guys did a really good job in the third period," said Edmonton's head coach Derek Laxdal. "It shows you how tough it is to finish that fourth game."
Jakub Prochazka had the lone goal for the Ice.
Laurent Brossoit turned aside 24 shots in net for Edmonton as Skapski stopped 32 for Kootenay.
Bertolucci scored the only goal of the first period after walking out from the corner at 13:07 and snapping the puck into the top corner.
Prochazka tied the game up at one apiece 2:51 into the second period, taking a feed off the wing from Jaedon Descheneau and tipping the puck in over the right pad of Brossoit.
The Ice came within inches of taking the lead on two separate plays with less than five minutes remaining in second, but couldn't take advantage of their opportunities. Jordyn Boyd snapped a shot on the odd-man rush just wide, then Sam Reinhart barely missed on a partial breakaway moments later.
"(It) doesn't matter what the series was at, we focused on one shift at a time," said Kootenay's head coach Ryan McGill. "The opportunity was there for us and we couldn't capitalize. You have to give credit to their goaltender and the experience on their team."
After Lazar put the Oil Kings ahead 2-1, Legault buried the insurance goal at 16:52 of the third period after tucking home a rebound on the backhand behind Skapski's outstretched left pad.
Edmonton failed to score on three chances with the power play while Kootenay went 0 for 4.
The Oil Kings move on to face the Medicine Hat Tigers in the second round. Edmonton took the regular-season series against the Tigers 5-1, with three contests decided by two goals or less and one needing overtime.
"A lot of credit to Kootenay, they had a great year and a great second half. We'll take a couple days and get ready for Medicine Hat," added Laxdal.