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Experts: Document Jacksonville veteran showed to prove he earned medals is fraudulent
By CLIFFORD DAVIS | The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville | Published: July 12, 2015
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — John James "J.J." Lavoie could've simply taken off his fraudulent and unearned military medals and walked away.
But he didn't.
In fact, he didn't even have to take the medals off. Under the Stolen Valor Act of 2013, it isn't a crime to simply wear unearned medals.
However, after Lavoie was featured in a Florida Times-Union June investigation, "Stolen Valor," he approached the American Legion and at least one local news agency with a military discharge document he says proves he earned the awards.
A Times-Union investigation involving font experts and supervisors at the National Archives has determined that document to be fraudulent.
And now, federal law enforcement agencies are looking into the case involving Lavoie, who has continued to pursue his claim that he fought in Vietnam where he earned a Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor and three Purple Hearts.
The document is as phony as the medals Lavoie wore to local veteran and school functions, the Times-Union found.
It is riddled with apparent tape marks, misspellings, incorrect acronyms and letters written in a font that didn't yet exist at the time the document was supposedly created.
On June 11, the Times-Union detailed in the story, "Stolen Valor," how Jacksonville veteran Bob Adelhelm, himself a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, spotted Lavoie and grew suspicious when he picked out a "V" device for valor that didn't belong on a Silver Star.
When the Times-Union reached out to Lavoie to request proof of his claims in June, he hung up the phone.
He did not respond to requests for comment on this story either.
The American Legion, where Lavoie had once been the Post #88 commander, is carrying out a thorough investigation into the matter, said Tom Gora, who until his term ended in June, was the regional VA commander.
Lavoie reached out to First Coast News on July 1, claiming he had obtained his records that verified his claims.
"My life is crumbled," he told First Coast News reporter Ken Amaro as Lavoie appeared to grow emotional. "I was already guilty until proven innocent."
Amaro noted at the end of the story that the forms didn't match up with Lavoie's records from the National Archives. Though he told the Times-Union on Thursday, "I took them at face value."
The DD 214, a military personnel file that every service member receives upon separation from the military, actually matched up perfectly with the National Archives showing Lavoie's highest award was a Navy Commendation Medal.
What didn't match up was the DD 215, normally used to correct minor mistakes on a DD 214.
The DD 215 is what listed a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Valor, two Purple Hearts and medals associated with service in Vietnam — all, according to the document, were left off his original discharge that service members must sign stating all the information contained on it is correct.
It turns out there is a great reason it didn't match up: The document is a forgery, the Times-Union found.
Amaro took several photos of the DD 215 and sent them to the Times-Union.
The document is dated Feb. 25, 1993.
However, the very characters used on the DD 215 to write the date, as well as list all the medals, were written in a font — Calibri — that didn't even exist until 2004.
Jenn Contois is a font designer for Monotype, a company that has designed fonts for more than a century. The company created New Times Roman for the London Times newspaper in 1930.
"I just heard back from our senior type director," she said. "He said, 'It's 100 percent Calibri.' "
In other words, it's bogus.
The font's creator, Lucas De Groot, was commissioned by Microsoft to design the font when scientific advances made a clearer font possible.
"Lucas finished the design of Calibri by the end of 2004," said LucasFonts spokeswoman Lieselotte Schäfer from the designer's office in Berlin.
Calibri became the standard font for Microsoft Office products beginning with Office 2007.
Besides the font, there are numerous other problems with the document.
For one, Lavoie's name is misspelled as "Lavoe" at the top of the document. As stated, the DD 215 is supposed to correct errors of this kind. A misspelled name would render the form nearly useless if a veteran attempted to use it to obtain veterans benefits like the GI Bill, or Department of Veterans Affairs benefits.
Second, every acronym listing Lavoie's medals is wrong as well.
The Corps, as the saying goes, has a manual for everything and awards are no exception.
The Marine Corps Individual Records Administration Manual, or IRAM, covers proper acronyms.
For example: Lavoie's DD 215 has the Silver Star listed as SST, the Bronze Star listed as BSw/v. The manual lists the Silver Star as SSM and the Bronze Star with Valor as BSMV.
The Vietnam Service Medal, which Lavoie's record has as VMS, should be VSM.
Finally, the font indicates the medals were not on the DD 215 when it was created in 1993. If the Marine Corps had approved Lavoie for all the extra medals after the font was invented, they wouldn't have simply been added to the old form, according to manager Joyce McKiddy at the National Archives.
In fact there's a note at the top of forms like Lavoie's that states, "Any alteration to the shaded area renders this form void."
If Lavoie had been approved for the medals after the font was created in '04, the form would look much different, McKiddy said.
"If we were to get approval from the Marine Corps and issue a new DD 214 today, it would look totally different," McKiddy said. "It would be on the form dated August 2009, not the old 1979 form like his was on.
"Also, the ones now are a full sheet, unlike the old ones like this that were the half-sheet."
Beyond just the document, one man who served with Lavoie is speaking out as well.
Master Sgt. Tony Evans served with Lavoie in the early 1990s at Lavoie's last duty station at Camp Pendleton's 1st Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group.
"We were in the same battalion and we had a good relationship," Evans said. "We were on a first-name basis.
"I called him J.J. and he called me Tony or Big Guy because I was a body builder out in California."
Evans said when he served with him, Lavoie made no grand claims of service in Vietnam, going to Marine Recon school or earning the nation's third-highest award for valor.
"I know he did not have all the Recon, the Silver Star, the Vietnam stuff," Evans said. "He didn't have all that.
"He was just a typical master sergeant."
Like many veterans, Evans said the whole charade angers him.
"I wish I could get ahold of him and confront him myself with this, because I'll call you out on it," Evans said. "I just hate hearing that somebody who didn't earn what they have and then they're wearing it for publicity or notoriety, because he was just an average master sergeant."
For Adelhelm, it is another sad step in a fight he never asked for, but couldn't avoid.
"I was disappointed in his reaction; I expected more from him as a Marine senior noncommissioned officer," Adelhelm said. "He made a mistake and should have been man enough to take his punishment, learn from it and move on.
"But he decided to double down with more lies and create a fraudulent document."
Perhaps, Lavoie himself put it best in his interview with Amaro.
"This never should have happened," he said.
©2015 The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)
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Following my last entry, I had several people ask to see additional exercises that can be performed with a suspension trainer. With that in mind, I put together a short clip showing some of my favorite movements. As you'll see, I included a mix of push, pull, and core exercises. I also added a weighted vest, which isn't necessary, but offers a convenient way to increase the difficulty of any bodyweight exercise.
Suspension Trainer Exercises
As you can see, you don't need an elaborate gym to achieve a quality workout. My suspension trainer is nothing but a pair of cam buckle straps and playground ring handles. And while commercial options do exist (see here), it's important to recognize that you can do quite well with an inexpensive pair like mine. I've used the same straps and handles for many years and they are still as good as new.
Less Is More
Aside from sharing some of my favorite exercises, I believe there is a more important lesson to convey. As I've said before, you don't need an endless list of movements to develop strength. Using the video above as an example, I only needed 60 seconds to demonstrate the majority of suspension training exercises that we perform.
I'm not suggesting that there aren't other useful options available, but instead highlighting the fact that I don't need to perform every exercise in the world to improve. I can do quite well by working with a smaller group of exercises. And while such advice might sound obvious, I believe it is a message that does not get enough attention in today's world.
It's much more common for online sources to strive to provide an endless supply of fresh content. From a training standpoint, that often means new and different exercises. Meanwhile, I continue to perform the same movements that I demonstrated many years ago (ex. here and here). Yet, my so-called lack of variety has not hindered me at all. On the contrary, I never spread myself too thin by trying to keep up with every possible movement under the sun.
Beyond Suspension Training
Furthermore, the idea that less can be more is not specific to suspension training. The general premise can be applied to any training modality. For example, suppose one athlete performs 3 barbell lifts for 6 months (squat, bench, deadlift), while another tries to include 50 different barbell exercises over the same period. Who do you think will be stronger?
My money will be on the individual who didn't spread himself too thin, but instead worked hard with a few exercises that have stood the test of time. Once again, less can be more. It is impossible to include every useful exercise in a training program.
Unfortunately, many athletes and coaches struggle to accept this fact. They try to fit everything into a program, and then wonder why they aren't making meaningful progress with any particular exercise. The answer to that question is obvious. Their quest to perform every quality movement doesn't allow them to invest enough time towards improving at any individual task.
Final Thoughts
I may sound like a broken record, but I hope my own example can help some readers to understand that you can do well without constantly changing how you train. Once you find something that works, you can ride it out for as long as you'd like.
Naturally, the time may come when you wish to mix things up to prevent boredom, but doing so doesn't require that you knock everything down and start from scratch. A few subtle adjustments here and there are typically all that's necessary to spice things up without veering off track.
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The Coburg Lions gave fans a glimpse of what is to come this season, after falling short to Collingwood by 11 points in their second practice match at the Holden Centre on Friday night.
Coburg played some great football, and backed it up with accuracy in front of the goals; finishing 8.5 (53) to 8.16 (64).
The Lions may still have some room for improvement, but showed really positive signs and played cohesively as a team for majority of the match.
Considering they lost three of their seven interchanges by the end of the match, Coburg put in a great effort and really took it up to Collingwood.
Strong spoils from all over the ground was just one part of the defensive pressure the Lions brought to the game, surprising the Magpies by even bringing the margin to under a goal at one stage.
A shame to see them come so close, the hope is that this game will only motivate them more for the season ahead, which officially begins on April 8th (vs Casey, Piranha Park).
The match also saw the return of some key players including Tom Goodwin, Nathan Blair, Jesse Corigliano, and Ryan Exon, and their two 2017 VFL Team of the Year representatives in Sean Gregory and Liam Hunt.
Bringing a bit more experience and composure that the Burgers lacked in their first practice match, it was great to see the older players leading the way for some of the new recruits.
Marcus Lentini, a Northern Knight graduate, got his hands on a lot of the footy (29 touches) followed by Hish Kerbatieh (22 touches), and Jesse Corigliano (19 touches).
Special mentions also go to Sam Lowson, who put in second and sometimes third attempts to try and chase down the running Magpies, and Nathan Blair, who did his best to get the ball out of defense quickly.
Coach Leigh 'Patch' Adams told media reporter Brooke Varney there were a lot of positives to take from it, and is ready to use the learnings from this game into the next practice match.
"After [the first quarter] I thought we adjusted pretty well, we ran out of legs a bit towards the end which is probably going to happen and a few blokes got injured but the boys tried really hard to stick to the game plan for most of the day."
"Nearly half the team probably hadn't played (much) VFL footy before, so it will take a bit of time to get used to the conditions and pace of the game, and we've still got a lot of room for improvement."
Adams thought Corigliano was "brilliant [and] marshalled the defenders really well", and gives credit to the backline.
"(Our backline) was under siege, so Ryan Exon, Mark Orr, those guys down there were really good."
"There weren't too many bad blokes so that's also really good, you cant single out too many guys."
The Coach was also impressed by youngster Marcus Lentini, who despite having some things to work on did well considering it was his first attempt at VFL competition.
Coburg will continue their practice match run on Saturday 24th March against North Melbourne at Arden Street Oval at 2pm. Come and cheer on the boys loud and proud to show everyone that #WeAreCoburg.
Coburg 1.0 3.3 5.3 8.5 (53)
Collingwood 4.4 5.8 7.15 8.16 (64)
Goals: Allan 2, Cannolo 2, Svarc, Tilley, Corigliano, Fox.
Best: Corigliano, Blair, Exon, Lentini, Orr.


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Posted by Gabby Mallett on 5 June 2015 at 3:45 pm
I am sure you are already thinking, why tell them anything? The answer is that this may be more disruptive to them than you think. Clearly there will be different implications for the neighbours depending on whether you are doing internal (IWI) or external (EWI) solid wall insulation, but the following may be useful advice for them.
- Parking may be a problem whilst I have my install done
For most insulation there will be a team of at least two tradesmen. They will probably come in the same car or van each morning. That's not the whole story though, because for IWI you may need a plumber, an electrician and a plasterer. I doubt they will have coordinated travel.
EWI won't be much better, the sky or BT man will need to come to move the satellite dish, the gas board may need to visit to move the meter. That's an awful lot of extra vans all searching for parking spaces. All of a sudden your neighbours won't be able to park outside their own home if they don't have their own drive.
- There will be dust and mess around
They won't mean to make a mess, but they will. If you are having IWI then the boards will need to be cut somewhere (unless you are lucky enough to be having a WHISCERS™ installation). If the weather is good enough you will find the installers out in the garden or, where space is limited or it's just generally easier, they will be setting up on the side of the road outside your home and no sooner do they start but all the cars and nearby gardens will be covered in a fine layer of dust.
In and out of the house they will go, dropping little bits of plasterboard, odd screws and bits of wood. Don't get me wrong, of course they will clean up at the end, but just be aware that it won't be the pristine street you were expecting, especially if it's windy and small pieces of insulation have been blown around.
- I'm sorry but it's going to be noisy for a few days
For IWI battens are usually applied to the inside of the outside walls and at least 40cm onto the party walls and then boards are usually mechanically fixed to those. There will be banging, electric screwdrivers, hammer drills and people traipsing up and down stairs all day. If you live in a terraced property your neighbours will definitely want to be warned.
The saving grace tends to be that although your workmen will arrive at around 8am to 8.30am they won't be around in the evenings or weekends as they finish around 4pm. Also, having so many workmen on site means that the job is done quickly – usually within a week for IWI. You should also note that the most of the doors and windows will be open all day as they will be in and out to their vans to get supplies. This means their blaring radio will be clearly heard by the neighbours.
- My home is going to look better than yours
Especially if you are having EWI. Your home will look refreshed and revitalised and all of a sudden your neighbour's property will look comparatively shabby. In many cases it is seeing the transformation achieved by installing EWI on a similar property that makes someone install themselves.
- My bills are going to be lower than yours, and I will be much more comfortable
I know its bragging, but you really will feel the lack of draughts almost immediately. The comfort factor is so noticeable from day one that you are likely to be inviting your neighbours round for tea just to show off how energy efficiency and comfortable your home is. You might even start promoting it wider than just your neighbours!
Finally you might want to tell the neighbours which installer you used, what it cost and what you are saving on your bills and you can tell them about anything that didn't go to plan and then maybe they can avoid those issues.
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EnergySavingGrants.orgComment left on: 19 May 2017 at 9:08 am
Another important point to consider is that a signed Party Wall Agreement will be required from your neighbour if installing External Wall Insulation on a terraced or semi-detached property.
EnergySavingGrants.orgComment left on: 19 May 2017 at 9:06 am
We agree with the comments below - External Wall Insulation (EWI) is a much better option than Internal Wall Insulation (IWI). We would only advise to have IWI installed if EWI is not possible (eg listed building).
If done correctly then i could recommend EWI, too much is now lashed on by untrained operatives. You only have to walk down the street to find some you wouldn't personaly pay for. All control systems are poorly auditted, if auditted at all. I must also mention the toilet habits of some, soiled trousers left in gardens after the chargehand refuses to let them leave the wall. Most companys have a policy that says don't use the house toilet, but don't provide one on site or any facilitys to wash, or get in out of the rain. Instead they issue a warning of instant dismissal if anyone is caught deficating in the garden. Oh to be a boss with a loo at the end of a corridor.
Thanks for highlighting this issue Passivelogical. We all know that there have been real problems in the past with poor detailing in these areas. Forunately much more thought and development has gone into solid wall insulation over the years and condensation, mould and fungus growth are all high on the list of potential issues which the manufacturers have managed mitigate against.
Without going into huge detail here there are broadly two alternatives when dealing with SWI. One is to ensure that the wall is allowed to breathe, usually by using a wood fiber insulant which can absorb moisture and release it slowly over time. The second is to ensure an air tight seal so that moisture cannot move between the existing substrate and the insulation.
Manufacturers also now treat their materials to resist funcus, solvents and rodents. They also make quite clear specifications about installation methods to be used and won't guarantee installations unless these methods have been adhered to.
PassiveLogicalComment left on: 9 June 2015 at 1:58 am
Please don't install battens on solid walls and then fix insulation boards to the battens. I can't think of a better way to create a damp, unventilated cavity replete with cellulose food - ideal growing conditions for various species of house-destroying wood rot fungi.
Maybe you should ask your neighbour if they are creating this unhealthy condition inside their property if you hear drilling and see the insulation vans outside a neighbour's house but see no evidence of EWI being fitted.
Once established in your neighbours house, the fungus has the ability to travel straight through brickwork for a distance of 30m in every direction until it finds some nice jucy hoist end burried in a wall that it can colonise. And don't believe any guff from the installer about vapour control layers, it is not possible to create a hermetic seal on a building site. Ever.
The only safe insulation for solid wall buildings is EWI. Everything else is just messing about with degrees of risk and margins of error. We will do as much damage to our treasured historic buildings with IWI as we did when we first installed central heating in them in the 1970s and dry rot ran riot.
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Have you ever had the feeling that it wasn't really Christmas until you got to see a certain film? To me and the hubby it's Little Women. Either if it's the older version or this one with Winona Ryder we have to watch it once to really get in the Christmas mood.
Nowadays we don't have the same issues we had when we were children, we can watch it either on Netflix, Apple TV, DVD, video streaming or whatever, whenever we feel like.
Love Actually is also a favourite of ours and I've lost count of how many times I've watched it. It makes me feel hopeful and reminds me that there's still good in people's hearts.
The Nightmare before Christmas gives you a totally different perspective on the holidays and is just a work of art.
The Holiday adds a bit of romance to the Christmas season.
Jack Frost sends a message across: don't let your life go by without spending time with your loved ones while you can.
Maybe too childish for some, I still enjoy watching Tim Allen in The Santa Clause.
We watched New Year's Eve last year for the first time and we agreed on including it in this year's playlist. I like these kinds of movies where many separate stories blend together in the end.
A Christmas Carol: a timeless Christmas story that should never be forgotten: be kind and helpful to others, don't judge without knowing, be respectful and polite, always!
As a bonus I'm sharing with y'all what I like to watch on my last day off before going back to work in January. It can't be categorized as a Christmas movie but for some reason I enjoy binge watching it at the end of the year. I stay in bed that morning and I don't stop until I've watched them all. Funny fact is that I hated the movies when they first came out. I found them tiringly slow and boring but I feel like reading the books afterwards helped me fill in the blanks and understand the characters better as they leave many things unsaid and too much is going on in their heads that doesn't translate to the screen.
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Spiderman going gold this week excited all of the fans waiting to finally play as this legendary Marvel superhero. This is about the time we will start getting video that shows off the hyped game.
In the video below we see Peter Parker as he swings around the city doing some good old exploring. The scene is pretty and is a very realistic build to mimic new york city. In this video below we see Spiderman pulling off some "amazing" Ariel maneuvers that you can chain together which also helps to boost XP and shows some style.
We also get to see some combat as we see Spiderman disarming some mean thugs. The combat system looks to be a mixture of the fighting system of the Batman Arkham series and quick time mechanics. I enjoy this because it looks like like a legit spiderman type fight, Spiderman will not overpower his enemies but he has speed, fast reflexes, & acrobatic prowl.
Near the end of this video, we see a preview of a huge boss fight with Spiderman & Kingpin. Spiderman appears to be the most hyped up game since the God Of War release earlier this year and this video only hypes up the anticipation even more.
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This is how the Rose Garden swatched on size 8's. I love love love it. It's like an abstract meadow of wildflowers. I contacted Karen at Royale Hare and she can dye solid roving for me any of about six solids. I need to do some math and calculate how much I would need to make the Faux Fair Isle from Spin to Knit by Shannon Okey. I would do the lower body in rose or pink.
An article, "What Are You Doing? and Why?", in the Summer issue of Spin Off compares spinning to cooking. Abby Franquemont says "it's rare for people to wonder why someone might cook her own food", when they could just go to a restaurant. Even people who eat out a lot can usually still cook at least a few things. But people don't understand why one would take the time spin their own yarn. She also talks about how evolution of textiles contributes to creating a technologically advanced society.
Kristen's lasagna garden got me thinking more about this. I would go one further and compare spinning and knitting a sweater to making a lasagna. You could make a great lasagna, buying canned sauce and veggies at the market, much like making a sweater out of purchased yarn. But imagine using your own home grown tomatoes in the sauce, and just-picked vegetables and herbs. Maybe even cooking your own noodles. It would be the ultimate.


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A great mixture of marine life comes aboard a prawn trawler off the West Australian coast. Prawns comprise a small percentage of the total weight.
Bob Dyer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dyer
Bob was one of the two great stars of radio, in the 1950's. The other being Jack Davey. Bob and his lovely wife Dolly branched in TV from 1956 and brought to our screen his quiz shows and often fishing clips from his adventures.
When Bob won a Cadillac in a fishing contest in USA he showed film footage of this and his fishing adventures on his quiz show.
Movietone News (a weekly newsreel in cinemas) made a special on Bob's shark fishing. The original footage is probably lost today. A flood in the film vault having destroyed much of the Movietone archive.
I saw a surviving 35mm copy of the shark fishing documentary years ago at the Palm Beach Theatre on the Gold Coast. It was memorable as big sharks were being caught off North Bondi in Sydney. The camera pans – without cuts – to show thousand of swimmers not so far away from all the action.
At the time we were shocked to learn so many sharks were so close. It was a dramatic expose of the sea.
One of the reasons adventurous kids took up spear fishing and later scuba diving.
Equipment advertisers (in 1970's dive magazines) used to think sharks were scaring people away from the sea. It may have been frightening for the weak ones, others regarded it as a source of good adventure.
Dive shops of the sixties used to down play the shark hazard. "There has never been an attack on a diver who was scuba diving" was a common quote – until it began happening.
Today the 'experts' speaking on the media say "there is no increase in the shark population" – which may be true. So how come three people were bitten this week? "More people in the water" is one reason given.
I'll add another possible reason, the white pointer sharks are becoming educated (trained) to come closer to boats and divers without hesitations of the past".
Another popular quote I hear all the time and one which we believed in the 1960's to be true, but have since thought a bit deeper and now see how weak it is today:
"The shark made a mistake when it bit the surfer"
Rubbish. Sharks will bite anything and some will swallow anything. To insinuate there is a mistake made when they bite a person…… what's that suppose to mean? That we are their friends and they made a mistake? Or they thought the diver was a sick seal and made a mistake? Knowledge is a lot better today but the quotes from the sixties are still being copied and passed on by today's media experts on the subject.
The media has always beeen in too much of a hurry to check other possibilities. Blame the editors for this.
More on sharks from Peter Bristow in Madeira
Professional game fishing charter captain Peter Bristow does not agree with my point about sharks being trained by cage diving chumming, and writes:
I heard about the Australian shark attacks this week. I have the Oz ABC as my home page when I turn this thing on I get all the news.
Also not so sure about the shark cage (training sharks) theory. I think there are a lot more people in the water nowadays exposing themselves to these dangers. Looking at a surf board from underneath looks very fishy. So does someone in a wet suit look like a seal.
A hungry white is not going to hesitate munching on a fresh seal or anything that looks like it. You might call it live bait for whites.
Sharks have periods of incredible aggressiveness and will bite at anything that moves. I don't know why? The jury is out on that one for me.
Re your comment (in an email) on their eye out of the water. That really happens.
I had one do that to me off Point Lookout (Southern Queensland, Australia) once.
I was snapper fishing off Flat Rock.
On my first drift off The Sevens I had three snapper on. This thing took two of them but I was able to get the third fish away from him. I was able to pull the snapper at high speed as he did not want to stay down there either.
What followed it up just got bigger and bigger.
Then it turned under the boat and looked as long as my 18 foot dory.
I already had a boat full of fish in the pit with their throats cut and bleeding. It lay along side for a moment with its eye out (above water) looking at me. Then it swam off and turned and came back right at me and shook the boat.
I looked around and realized I was absolutely on my own. I knew these things had a reputation of grabbing boats and thought 'Oh shit, this is it'. I jumped into the engine hatch and tried to start the single cylinder engine by strapping the flywheel. I flooded the dam thing. Then the shark came back along side so I hit it with the 3 foot long stick gaff. All that did was piss him off.
He was after the blood source from the boat. He must have hit the boat on the bottom once or twice more and then I realized I must get the engine going. I strapped it for all I was worth with the throttle wide open and finally it went. I threw her into gear and left the shark there. It did not move. It just lay there on top with that great dorsal full out and did not move.
I will never forget that great black eye out of the water looking at me. Not for as long as I live.
Now I have to try and get some sleep.
VIC HISLOP (Queensland Shark Fisherman) SAYS
Mr Hislop said humans are as appealing to sharks as any other marine creature.
"Don't ever believe this rubbish about 'they take a bite; they don't like humans'," he said.
"That is just so wrong. They take a bite and wait for their victim to bleed to death to finish them off. And that's why we escape."
Marine animals bitten by sharks naturally panic, swim around and bleed to death before the shark moves in again to devour them, he explained. (See Catch 22 story below)
Mr Hislop said he believes commercial fishing levels and the fact great white sharks are protected in Australia would result in more attacks on humans.
(NewYork.the full interview): http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/content/view/10299/
Note: At the 2002 Taipei International Shark Conference, after days of presentations and much consideration given to and by some 60 shark experts, the bottom line was: "to have more contact with fishermen and learn from their experiences" (or words to this effect).
In other words the indoor researchers should communicate better and more often with the outdoor researchers (the fishermen).
Ego clash eventually might occur and we end up where we are today. Non 'experts' telling the world a lot of rubbish. Or should we blame the TV news editors who trim video interviews to 10 second 'grabs'.
One guy interviewed this week said "more humans are killed by domestic pets than are killed by sharks". Except what happens to a dog when it kills a child?
The other quote put into the mouths of grieving relatives of a shark victim (and edited out so that just the answer is heard) "Would he want the shark (that ate him) killed"? It's a fashionable question that gets asked all the time, from "the little book journalists questions to ask".
Try asking a grieving parent after a dog has just killed her 3-year old child "Do you want the dog held responsible for what it did"? The police would have already shot it.
So why do sharks suddenly get preferential treatment over man's best friend?
It's the mainstream media's poor choice of people to interview, telling you what to think.
Jan.18 2009: http://thedestinlog.com/news/saw_7647___article.html/most_catch.html
(Very large shark seen biting tail off dolphin, before eating it).


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Visiting entrepreneur program: November 2017
20 November 2017
The visiting entrepreneur program launched on Monday 20 November with a public speaking event at Customs House: The Future is Female: why women entrepreneurs are changing the world.
Visiting entrepreneur Vicki Saunders was joined by a panel of entrepreneurial trailblazers, including Jo Burston of Inspiring Rare Birds, Dr Chelsea Wise of Hyper Anna and host Naomi Simson, founding director of RedBalloon, to explore what's working for women entrepreneurs and what needs to change.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore – Welcome
Vicki Saunders – Keynote speaker
Jo Burston – UN Women's Entrepreneurship Day
Q&A panel discusssion
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Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen
By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 22, 2006; 3:30 PM
Every living veteran is at risk of identity theft after thieves stole an electronic data file this month containing the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee, VA Secretary R. James Nicholson said today.
The theft of the data, which the employee was not authorized to take home, represents one of the most sweeping government losses of sensitive personal information, experts said. The file did not contain medical records, Nicholson said.
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12.15 Wearing Jesus' robe of righteousness
Say this prayer with me:
Heavenly Father,
I thank You that You see me forever righteous in Christ. Lord Jesus, I thank You that on the cross, You became sin so that I may become the righteousness of God in You. Holy Spirit, I thank You for convicting me of my righteousness always. Help me to be always conscious of my new identity in Christ so that I can reign in life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
I want you to visualize yourself wearing Jesus' robe of righteousness (Is 61:10). It is also called the breastplate of righteousness, which is part of the armor of God to be put on (Eph 6:14). This breastplate is important because it protects your heart.
We put it on by being conscious of it. Start by being conscious of the robe of righteousness whenever you enter into worship in church. Put on this robe whenever you feel unrighteous or unworthy. Wear that robe each morning, as you get dressed for work. Over time, extend that consciousness to the rest of the day.
When you live in a perpetual state of righteousness-consciousness, you will also live perpetually in God's presence. It will guard your heart from the accusations of the enemy. It will protect you against sin-consciousness. You will experience being seated with Christ Jesus and you will reign in life as a king.
12.14 Repentance for practicing sin
To repent is to have a change of mind. For an unbeliever, it is to repent for the remission of sins, to receive salvation in Christ (Acts 2:38). For the believer, it is to turn away from practicing sinful deeds to walking in righteousness and holiness (2 Cor 12:21).
This is not about normal believers who fall into sin unintentionally and occasionally. It is about believers who practice sin or who indulge in a lifestyle of sin.
Jesus told the churches of Pergamos and Thyatira to repent for practicing sexual immorality and for eating food offered to idols (Rev 2:14, 20). Paul asked the Corinthian Church to repent of the uncleanness, fornication and lewdness which they PRACTICED.
(2 Cor 12:21)
…lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have SINNED before and have not REPENTED of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have PRACTICED.
In 1 Cor 5:4-5, Paul told the believers to withdraw fellowship from a person living in sexual immorality, so the person gets the message that God does not want him living in sin. After he had repented, Paul asked the believers to reaffirm their love and forgiveness for him, so as not to give any room to Satan (2 Cor 2:6-11).
The Holy Spirit also helps a person to turn back to God by convicting the person of righteousness in Christ (John 16:8, 10), which results in repentance with justification rather than condemnation (Rom 5:1, 8:1). If repentance is motivated by condemnation, the person would remain far from God. He keeps repenting but is unable to overcome. Repentance by a believer should be motivated by the goodness of God. Rom 2:4 says, "The goodness of God leads you to repentance." It restores his fellowship with God.
When a person repents, there is a sense of godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:10). The person is sorry for taking God's grace for granted. He feels even sorrier knowing that God still loves him so much. He embraces the forgiveness that was given on the cross 2000 years ago. When he knows that he has been forgiven much, his response is to love Jesus much (Luke 7:47).
God wants us to come boldly to the throne of grace with no consciousness of sins. The role of the worship leader is to declare to the people that they can come boldly to the throne of grace because Jesus' blood has made them worthy. When we enter boldly into God's presence with righteousness-consciousness, we will enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.
12.13 Living in Christ in the New Covenant
When we walk by faith in the free gift of righteousness, the Holy Spirit is able to work powerfully in us. We bear the fruit of the Spirit and we manifest the Life of Christ. We walk above sin and Satan. We live perpetually in our Father's presence and we enjoy an intimate and loving relationship with Him. We are a joy to His heart and we fulfill our calling in Him.
Rom 5:17 says that the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness will cause us to reign in life.
Comparing the Law vs. Grace Approach to God's Presence
1) The law gives us knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20). But grace points us to Jesus the Lamb of God (Eph 1:7; John 1:29).
2) The law makes us sin-conscious (Heb 10:1-4). Under grace, we become Jesus-conscious and righteousness-conscious (Heb 10:2).
3) Under law, Satan uses the law to accuse us (Col 2:14-15). Under grace, the Holy Spirit convicts us of our righteousness (John 16:8-10).
4) Under law, we constantly and repeatedly confess our sins (Heb 10:1-4). Under grace, we constantly confess our righteousness in Christ (2 Cor 5:21). We confess Jesus as our High Priest.
5) Under law, we feel condemned and unworthy (2 Cor 3:9). Under grace, we receive assurance of justification (Rom 3:24; 5:1).
6) Under law, we fail to enter the throne of grace (Heb 10:19-22). It is more a throne of judgment. Under grace, we can boldly enter the throne of grace and remain there (Heb 4:16).
7) Under law, we experience defeat and death (Rom 7:9; 2 Cor 3:7). Under grace, we reign in life (Rom 5:17).
As we discuss on the topic of worship, it is important to know that we can only experience worship in a fulfilling relationship with God by approaching God on the basis of the finished work of Christ (the grace of Jesus) in the New Covenant.
12.12 Understanding 1 John 1:9
(1 John 1:9)
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Those who believe that this verse is for Christians are saying that forgiveness of sins is received only when they confess their sins. When they fail to confess newly committed sins, these sins are held against them. These could be sins committed in action, thought, attitude or speech. Should they die with any unconfessed sins (big or small), they would be condemned to hell's fire. They would have to confess their sins all the time to maintain their righteousness and salvation.
This verse is inconsistent with Rom 4:8 which says that our sins are not imputed. It is inconsistent with the many other verses we shared earlier on the eternal work of Jesus. Let us now explain this apparent inconsistency. This verse actually refers to the confession of sins for "salvation". It does not refer to the confession of specific sins by a believer.
In 1 John chapter 1, John was dealing with the wrong teachings of Gnosticism that had crept into the Church. Gnostics believed that salvation was by special knowledge (gnosis) rather than faith in Jesus. They denied that their immoral actions were sinful and they denied that they had sin. They also denied that Christ came in the flesh. There were Gnostics among the believers and their teachings were influencing the believers.
John begins his epistle in 1 John 1:1 by telling the Gnostics among the believers that Jesus did come in the flesh. He said that he had seen and touched Jesus. In verse 2, John declares the eternal life of Christ to the Gnostics so that they may believe and have fellowship with the true believers. Then in 1 John 1:8 & 10, John repeats twice to the Gnostics that they were in error by saying that they had no sin, and thus did not need Jesus.
(1 John 1:8-10)
If we SAY WE HAVE NO SIN, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT SINNED, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
He gave them the solution in verse 9 saying, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." John was not dealing with specific acts of sin as he uses the phrase "cleanse us from all unrighteousness", referring to repentance for salvation.
Subsequently, in John 2:1, John directs his letter to true believers, addressed as "my little children", saying, "And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." He points us back to Jesus our High Priest who upholds our righteousness.
12.11 What is our confession in the New Covenant?
The Amplified Bible says that this is the confession of Jesus as our High Priest. What does it mean to confess Jesus as our High priest? In the Old Covenant, the standing of the people is wrapped up in their High Priest. If they performed well on the Day of Atonement, their sins would be covered for another year. But the work of the Old Testament High Priest was never finished. They could never sit down. They were always working.
Then Jesus came as our High Priest. He entered the true Holy of Holies in heaven and presented His own blood as our sacrifice to wash away our eternal sins. Because it was accepted by God the Father, Jesus became the final sacrifice.
Then Jesus did something that none of the High Priests could do. He sat down at the right hand of the Father! Yes, He sat down! The fact that Jesus is seated shows that the work of redemption is finished. Today, God sees us as perfectly righteous in Jesus. For 2,000 years, Jesus has been fulfilling His ministry as our high priest. When the Father sees the nail pierced hands of Jesus, He is constantly reminded that our sins have been washed away.
In the light of this powerful truth, now we can understand what it means to make the confession of Jesus as our high priest who is interceding for us. The confession of the New Covenant believers is that all our sins have been forgiven and we have been made righteous in Christ. It is the confession of our new identity in Christ. It is summarized in one powerful verse:
(2 Cor 5:21)
For He made Him [Christ] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him [Christ].
If you have grown up under the confession of sins, today is the day for your paradigm shift. Today is the day for a change in your confession. You can confess Jesus as your High Priest. You can put your faith in Him who is faithful. You can live on the basis of your new identity.
12.10 Regular confession of sins is a practice under the Covenant of Law
(Heb 10:1-4)
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these SAME SACRIFICES, which they offer CONTINUALLY YEAR BY YEAR, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had NO MORE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SINS. But in those sacrifices there is a REMINDER OF SINS every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
The above verses give a picture of Israel going into a repeated and regular sin-search followed by the confession of sins. This naturally gives rise to sin-consciousness. This is still happening in the Church today because of a lack of revelation of what Christ has already accomplished for us in the New Covenant.
The animal sacrifices are a reminder of sins to point us to Jesus, the perfect sacrifice. Then Jesus came and gave Himself as one perfect sacrifice to remove sins forever (Heb 10:5-14). Because the work was finished and there would be no more sacrifices for sins, Jesus sat down. The believer has been perfected in his standing in Christ. Today, there is no longer an offering for sin and the worshiper should have no more consciousness of sins.
(Heb 9:11-12; 10:11-14, 18, 2)
But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with HIS OWN BLOOD He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained ETERNAL REDEMPTION.
And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS FOREVER, SAT DOWN at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Now where there is remission of these, there is NO LONGER AN OFFERING FOR SIN…
For the worshipers, once purified, would have had NO MORE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SINS.
We have received the perfect solution that the Old Covenant believers never had. We have received righteousness in Christ that the law could not give them. We have the perfect blood of Jesus while they only had the blood of animals. We have crossed into a better covenant in the dispensation of grace.
12.9 Confession of sins vs. Confession of Christ
Paul's letters are significant because the revelation of the gospel was given to him for the Church. Study the letters that Paul wrote to the churches and see how he called even the believers in the Corinthian Church (the most carnal of the churches) saints. He focused on who we are "in Christ". The word "in Christ" or "in Him" appears 109 times in Paul's Epistles. The word "confess" appears 8 times in his Epistles. All 8 times refer to the "confession of Christ" while there is no reference to confession of sins at all.
The reason is because sin was not imputed (Rom 4:8) and righteousness was imputed apart from works (Rom 4:6). Grace abounded to cover every sin (Rom 5:20). Our righteousness came from Jesus' righteousness as a free gift (Rom 5:17).
From Acts to Revelation, the word "confess" appears 22 times, of which 18 times refer to the confession of Christ. Only in 1 instance does it refer to confession of sins to God for forgiveness. This is in 1 John 1:9, a favorite verse used to promote the regular confession of sins for forgiveness. I will explain as you read on, that 1 John 1:9 actually refers to confession of sins by unbelievers (Gnostics) for salvation.
There is not a single verse in the Bible after Christ had died on the cross which tells believers that their act of confession of sins is the condition for forgiveness to be dispensed by God. I searched the Epistles but I could not find any such verse. I also did a corresponding search for verses that talk about forgiveness of sins by God to believers. I found that the Bible talks about the forgiveness of sins in the past tense for the New Covenant believer because eternal forgiveness had been given on the cross 2,000 years ago.
(Eph 4:32)
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ FORGAVE you.
God really meant it when He says that Christ has offered one sacrifice for sins forever (Heb 10:12), forgiven all our trespasses (Col 2:13) and He will remember our sins no more (Heb 8:12). He has obtained eternal redemption (Heb 9:12), given us everlasting righteousness (Dan 9:24), and perfected forever those who are being sanctified (Heb 10:14).
2 Cor 5:21 says that we have become the righteousness of God in Christ. It is permanent and unchanging. John 14:16 says that the Holy Spirit will abide with us forever. All our sins have been imputed to Him and all His righteousness has been imputed to us (Rom 4:6-8).
12.8 The Holy Spirit convicts us of righteousness, not of sin
(John 16:8-11)
And when He has come, He will CONVICT the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of SIN, because they DO NOT BELIEVE IN ME; of RIGHTEOUSNESS, because I GO TO MY FATHER and you see Me no more; of JUDGMENT, because the RULER OF THIS WORLD is judged.
Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will convict the world of only one sin – not believing in Him. He has already paid the price for all the sins of the world and people are condemned for only one sin – failing to receive forgiveness. When the gospel is preached and unbelievers are convicted of sin, they will respond to the call to receive Jesus.
Now that we have received Jesus as our Savior, the Holy Spirit lives in us to convict us of righteousness because Jesus is interceding for us at the Father's side. When the Father sees Jesus' pierced hands, He declares we are righteous. The Holy Spirit's job is to convince us of our new identity in Christ so that we can come boldly to the throne of grace to commune with the Father.
Traditional thinking tells us that conviction of sins is the solution to turn a believer from sin to righteousness. In fact, conviction of sins by the law causes a believer to feel condemned and far from God. The law says, "You have failed God again, you are not worthy." When the believer feels condemned, far from God, helpless, alone and depressed, he will end up in greater sin.
But when the Holy Spirit convicts a believer of righteousness, it brings about repentance, and empowers the believer to walk in righteousness. The Holy Spirit says, "You are the child of God. You are righteous. Why are you eating filthy food when Jesus is serving wholesome food at home? Let me lead you home!" It makes the person want to run back to God, and to eat from His table.
Conviction of righteousness is the key to reigning in life (Rom 5:17). Let me give a natural illustration. Imagine you are an athlete who competes in the Olympics. Would you succeed with a coach who keeps telling you, "You are not good enough, you keep falling short, you are a loser and you are not worthy to compete in the Olympics," or a coach who keeps giving encouragement saying, "Your father was an Olympic champion, the champion is in you, I believe you can make it and I know you are a winner." The answer is obvious.
What about conviction of judgment? The judgment referred to by Jesus is for Satan and not for us. Our judgment has been borne by Jesus and it makes us want to treasure and love Him even more.
12.7 Sin-consciousness prevents us from entering God's presence
Today, sin-consciousness is still prevalent because many people have unknowingly placed the law and self-performance as the key to the Christian walk instead of the grace of Christ. The law which gives the knowledge of sin is the cause of sin-consciousness (Rom 3:20).
In order to be righteousness-conscious, we should always declare that "we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus" at all times; especially when we enter into worship. There is no need to deliberately enter into a sin-search followed by confession of sins. They are all covered by the grace of Jesus and your sins are not imputed to you (Rom 4:6, 8). It was imputed to Jesus on the cross. Your righteousness is based on Jesus' performance. Eph 1:6 says that God has made us accepted in the Beloved (Christ).
Heb 10:2 says, "For the worshipers, once purified, would have had NO MORE consciousness of sins." We have been purified by the perfect sacrifice of Jesus. The issue that remains is whether we really believe what He has accomplished for us. That is why Christianity is a walk of faith. Heb 10:14 says, "For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." The subsequent verses say:
(Heb 10:19-22)
Therefore, brethren, having BOLDNESS to enter the HOLIEST by the BLOOD OF JESUS, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true HEART in FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, having our hearts SPRINKLED from an EVIL CONSCIENCE and our bodies washed with pure water.
Satan wants you to be sin-conscious because it keeps you far from God but we must look at Jesus' blood to receive full assurance of faith. Faith in His blood removes all consciousness of sins (called an evil conscience) and gives us complete consciousness of righteousness, in order to have boldness to enter the Father's presence.
Righteousness-consciousness allows us to enjoy an intimate fellowship with our heavenly Father. He wants us to enter His presence completely relaxed, as a child enters the presence of his loving father to commune with him. Would you want your child to be afraid to come to your presence, or would you want your child to run to you when he sees you, and be close to you? Your obvious answer is the desire of our Father.
12.6 Living at the throne of Grace & what prevents us from entering
When Jesus entered heaven, the true Holy of Holies, He sat down at the Father's right hand (Heb 10:12). Jesus is on the throne of grace. Eph 2:6 says that God "raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…" Today, we are seated in the Holy of Holies in Christ.
This is a picture of the New Covenant believer who not only enters, but also lives perpetually in God's presence. Psalm 91:1 says, "He who DWELLS in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty…" We can experience dwelling in His presence by living a life of worship.
A Common Mistake that Prevents Us from Entering
There is a common mistake which many worship leaders commit, including myself in the past. We have a tendency to start off a worship service being sin-conscious and feeling unworthy to enter God's presence. We see ourselves in tattered clothes instead of His robe of righteousness.
Unknowingly, some churches officially address themselves as "poor sinners" in the opening prayer, or they may enter into a sin-search which results in condemnation. We were sinners before we received Jesus, but now He has made us saints.
This is the identity problem in believers. Some of us still see ourselves in Adam instead of Christ. We become fearful to come before God as we see Him as a judge instead of our loving father. When we start off on that wrong footing, carrying the burden of condemnation, the rest of the worship service will be dampened.
If we see ourselves as unworthy sinners, we will still be sitting at the outer gate. We will not have the boldness to enter, or to remain in His presence. Beloved, have you experienced going through the motions in worship but felt like you did not contact Father God at the throne of grace? Sin-consciousness prevents us from entering God's presence.
12.5 Entering boldly to the throne of grace
Today, the Bible calls God's throne the "throne of grace". It used to be called the "mercy seat" in the Old Covenant. It was thus named because it was the place where God showed mercy to the people, with the sprinkling of the blood of animals to cover their sins. Mercy was shown when God withheld the judgment that they deserved for their sins. It was a fearful experience to enter God's presence – like coming before a judge to plead for mercy.
How was the mercy seat transformed into the throne of grace? How did a place of judgment become a place of receiving undeserved favor? How was the image of God as a judge transformed into the image of a loving father? The Bible says that we are to boldly enter the throne of grace to receive grace in addition to mercy.
(Heb 4:16)
Let us therefore COME BOLDLY to the THRONE OF GRACE, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Why boldly? It is due to Jesus' finished work on the cross. We do not enter on our own merit. Our standing is wrapped up in Jesus' blood and perfect work. Because the judgment for all our sins has been exhausted on the body of Jesus, today God is no longer a judge to us but a loving Father. Jesus has also fulfilled all righteousness on our behalf and given us the free gift of righteousness. Therefore, today we have the legal right to come boldly to the throne of grace without condemnation.
Let us give an illustration on the gift of righteousness. Imagine you are the bride of a royal wedding but you cannot attend your wedding because you do not have a wedding gown. The prince of the kingdom hears you crying about your unworthiness and your tattered clothes. He buys you the most beautiful white wedding gown and adorns you with diamonds. Now you are dressed for the occasion and you can boldly be part of the royal wedding ceremony. All the guests arise and admire your beauty and grace.
(Is 61:10)
For He has clothed me with the GARMENTS OF SALVATION,
He has covered me with the ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a BRIDE adorns herself with her JEWELS.
Jesus is the bridegroom and we are the "bride of Christ". Today, we are worthy to boldly enter the throne of grace because we are dressed in Jesus' garment of salvation and robe of righteousness. Jesus has paid for this privilege. The angels of heaven are all looking at the glory of Christ in us. In addition, He has adorned us with precious gifts – the gifts of the Spirit.
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The Ambassador Program is a PARC leadership and pre-employment program. It includes 8 PARC members who serve a 2 year non-renewable term. The focus of Ambassador work is improving quality of life, using advocacy and leadership activity to support equity and access for marginalized people in the Parkdale community.
The first Ambassadors team was created in 2007 to increase public awareness and endorsement of our Edmond Place supportive housing development. In 2013 a renewed Ambassadors Team was created – to engage the increasing food insecurity and unemployment confronting people who experience poverty, mental health, addictions and homelessness issues- and work to change these barriers. Now in 2019 advocacy remains a core element of the program however we have added an employment training component whereby Ambassadors rotate work placements at PARC.
Mission Statement
The PARC Ambassador Team mission is to represent PARC to the community at large; to advocate and educate about oppression in Parkdale in a non-judgmental and inclusive manner. Ambassadors foster a dialogue about how to effect change and inspire trust and respect through their own lived experiences.
Vision Statement
We envision a community where poverty and oppression no longer exist; human rights are respected and everyone lives with dignity, respect, safety and enough resources to achieve their potential.
|Laura Lesser has been a member of PARC since 2005. She was introduced to PARC by the Late Teador Flor (may she rest in peace). She started working in the kitchen as a volunteer for the OW subsidy. She became interested in the activities at PARC and joined the first Knowledge is Power group, and successfully completed it. She joined the Board of Directors in 2009 and completed three terms stepping down in 2018. In 2009 Laura also became a PARC Ambassador, spreading the word about Edmond Place to the Parkdale Neighbourhood. Currently Laura is in Nursing School pursuing a career as an RN. She loves music day on Wednesdays, and Making Room (arts and crafts), writing workshop, and movie night on Fridays.
|William LeBlanc is a PARC Ambassador. He started as a volunteer 7 years ago in PARC's kitchen. From there he moved up to his first job in the 'dish pit' as a dishwasher. He was then offered an opportunity to take a PARC course called 'Knowledge is Power.' One year after his graduation from 'Knowledge is Power,' he applied for and was successfully engaged as a PARC Ambassador. In January 2019, he was accepted to the George Brown Culinary Arts program to become a chef. One of William's goals is to return to PARC as a chef after graduating from George Brown. He is currently engaged in tenant organizing and community benefits organizing through the Ambassador program. He continues to volunteer in the kitchen when the opportunity presents itself. William also supports the Parkdale People's Economy with their website design.
|Lisa Visconti is a proud Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre member! She has lived at Edmond Place (supportive living) since it opened and cooks for residences frequently. Lisa is a former Trans Formative Justice Conflict Facilitator working with PARC members by supporting them with their mental illness, addictions and poverty. Lisa is currently a part of the caucus and is a PARC board member. Her greatest joy is being a PARC ambassador where she can go out in the community to promote PARC services!!!
|Ann Lapenna is a Parkdale Activity Recreation Center (PARC) member for over 18 years. She is a former director on the PARC Board, former Caucus Member and an Ambassador. Ann is a Peer Support Trainer for type 2 Diabetes at the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Center (PQWCHC). Ann holds Early Child Education (E.C.E.), Health Care Aide and Food Handler certificates and recently graduated from the Local Champions Leadership Program. She is a member of the Co-op Cred program for 4 plus years. She loves volunteering, knitting and dogs.
|Rick Froude has been a PARC member for 25 years and a Parkdale resident for more than 35 years. He has worked in a maintenance position and has volunteered in the kitchen at PARC. He was a PARC Board Assistant for a year where he took meeting minutes, wrote agendas, and posted information about the meeting. Rick then joined the PARC Board of Directors for 9 years and had the privilege of Co-chairing for 3 years. Rick graduated from 'Knowledge is Power,' an anti –oppression training program offered at PARC, and has been a PARC Ambassador for the past 7 years where he participates in rooming house tenant organizing and community benefit organizing. Rick also supports the Parkdale People's Economy with outreach at their community working group meetings.
|Beryl-Ann Mark has recently graduated from the Knowledge is Power program. She is an Ambassador at Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre. Beryl-Ann is a Social Service Worker, a member of Parkdale Women's Leadership Group, the coordinator of Parkdale Free School and was on the board of directors at Parkdale Community Legal Services and More Than Child's Play. She received an award from Parkdale Community Legal Services for her selfless contribution to the wellbeing of the community of Parkdale. Beryl-Ann is passionate about helping people with their well-being.
|Dave Langley is a proud Parkdalian who has been an active PARC member for over 4 years. He is a graduate of the Transformative Justice training program and practices conflict resolution in the PARC drop-in. Dave is a graduate of the Knowledge is Power training. Dave is actively engaged in the PARC music program. He sits on two PARC committees supporting advocacy on issues related to homelessness and mental health.
Ko Hosoya has been a Parkdale resident for 14 years. She is passionate about accessibility issues and recognizes various physical barriers that affect those in her community. In response, she advocates for the improvement of the community to allow for safer access by all.
She is a member of Parkdale Women's Leadership Group, Community Health Group, and is a Local Champion Alumni. Ko is curious and open to learning new things.


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People may think that when they are enrolling for a course or educational program they are just doing some paperwork and they will get a certificate in return to the theory they will study and the skills they will show in completing their work. But it is not true, rather, you can see the everlasting effects of your training programs in your life. And daily tasks when you work on them.
In Australia there are many training institutes and diploma offers in the form of Diploma of Counselling, Certificate II in Business, Diploma of Community Services and Certificate III in Information Digital Media and Technology in which you will be given lots of theoretical information along with real time training in real settings. The training given in the real settings is the best part because you will have a chance to compare the various scenarios and apply your knowledge to see what impact you can see and how you can handle the emerging situation in a productive manner.
In addition to that, if we can see that the Aged Care Courses, Aged Care Traineeships, Child Care Certification or the Warehousing Courses are always practice based. During these training courses the trainee always has to stay in the real life situation to learn about the needs and demands of the people from various age groups and culture.
Due to the wide range of situations and scenarios, you will have to work beyond your responsibilities and due to which you will get to know the broad spectrum of the responsibilities and possibilities you will have to manage when you actually get to your work.
To get the most out of these courses, you may opt to get multiple short courses. In case you need financial help, you can ask for VET Fee Help as well.


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Analyst: 'Free' Strategy Could Boost comScore Vs. Nielsen
comScore's decision to offer viewability measurement for free could help it in its battle against Nielsen, according to one industry analyst.
In a report, Brian Wieser of Pivotal Research notes that in addition to competing to provide TV ratings, where Nielsen is dominant, comScore's verified Campaign Essentials product squared off against Nielsen's Digital Ad Rating in measuring online ads, including streaming video.
"While we are still assessing the implications from this news, our immediate reaction is that, at minimum, this will probably help comScore take market share away from Nielsen," Wieser said. "Whether or not Nielsen's DAR product is of higher quality than vCE is less relevant than the price, as long as the audience measurement product is sufficiently good. Given marketer interests in reducing costs across their digital supply chains, making viewability a free product is compelling."
Weiser thinks Nielsen might decide to discount the price it charges for DAR in the near term. Or it could buy either ISA or DoubleVerify, which also provide viewability metric, although he notes that would be an expensive way to go.
"For digital media owners, the news is also important as it suggests that before long, more digital advertising will be bought using viewability metrics than at the present time," Wieser said. "Our guess is that this would benefit premium content owners or other media owners with longer-form or other high quality content, whether video, text or other formats."
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Astellas has crystallised its activities in the emerging field of regenerative medicine with the creation of a dedicated research unit.
The new division was unveiled last year but officially started operations this week and will spearhead Astellas' efforts in cell-based therapies, focusing initially on developing a platform technology for the company. A recruitment drive will shortly get underway to assemble a team both from within Astellas and outside the company, it said.
The move is part of Astellas' plans to shift from developing products for mass medicine to 'precision' medicine, in other words therapies for defined patient populations based on "molecular targeting and precise diagnosis".
The company has been working in regenerative medicine for a few years - signing a deal with Cytori Therapeutics of the US to look at the potential therapeutic use of adipose-derived stem cells - but accelerated its plans after scoring some research successes in a project with Kyoto University focusing on the development of stem cells that could be used to regenerate the kidneys.
Last year, scientists at the two organisations reported they had developed a technique to identify, harvest and expand the population of nephron progenitor cells within the kidney, which could be a source of cells for treating chronic renal failure and other refractory kidney disease.
In a statement, the company said it was now embarked on a "full-fledged effort in … cell therapy, in addition to the discovery R&D of conventional pharmaceuticals for regenerative medicine".
Like a number of other top Japanese drugmakers, Astellas has been revamping its approach to R&D, scaling back some traditional research areas and accelerating its shift into biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, while also increasing its emphasis on external collaborations.
Earlier this year the Japanese company formed a strategic collaboration with Switzerland's ClearPath Development to help advance its vaccine plans.
The latest shift into regenerative medicine comes in the wake of the Japanese government's decision this fiscal year to commit more than $1bn in funding for research into stem cells, and set up a national institute for health research, that will improve the governance and funding of Japan's fragmented national research groups.
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Saw this video of [what I think is an iguana?] playing this game on a phone. My first thought was that it was going to ace the game. Didn't do exactly that, but nonetheless played pretty well 🙂
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Knudsen must wait to stake World Cup claim as he remains on bench as Denmark beat Panama
PUBLISHED: 10:44 23 March 2018 | UPDATED: 10:55 23 March 2018
Jonas Knudsen was an unused substitute as Denmark beat Panama 1-0 in Copenhagen last night.
Pione Sisto scored the only goal of the game as the Dane's emerged victorious from the game played at Brondby, with Knudsen having to make do with a place on the bench.
The Ipswich defender has won two Denmark caps previously but is looking to make his mark ahead of the World Cup in Russia this summer. His next chance for action will come on Tuesday when the Danes host Chile in a friendly.
Elsewhere yesterday, goalkeeper Michael Crowe was also an unused substitute as Wales beat China 6-0 at the China Cup.
Kevin Bru, who is set to depart this summer, scored the winning goal as he captained Mauritius to victory over Macau in Taipa.
Bartosz Bialkowski could make his Poland debut this evening, when his side take on Nigeria in a friendly in Wroclaw.


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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Posted by Unknown at 8:00 AM
Labels: entry way, randomness
8 comments:
- Unknown said...
Happy New Year!
- December 31, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- karen@fitnessjourney said...
I could see all of those spaces in one house. I love the light fixture and I'm a total sucker for horizontal stripes. I have them in my dining room and a half bath.
- December 31, 2009 at 11:04 AM
- carlee {deliciously organized} said...
Love the stripes! Happy New Year!
- December 31, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Shannon Phillips said...
I REALLY want those dining chairs from West Elm in your first photo. Oh man!
- January 1, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- FROM THE RIGHT BANK said...
Hi, Jesse! I'm loving that gray wall in the second pic too. I'm actually having a couple of rooms painted a light gray right now. :) Happy new year!
- January 1, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- A Wedding Story said...
Love the light fixture! Happy New Year!
- January 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Mise said...
I love this chandelier (it reminds me of a fishing net) but I especially like your new blog design, and am glad you managed to incorporate that feet photo so beautifully.
- January 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Rhiannon Bosse said...
I adore your blog! I am new but def a follower. I love everything here! yay :) Happy New Year!! xx
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