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Her tour company has three subsidiaries - Chesapeake Ghost Tours - a cluster of 11 regional ghost walks on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Thin Places Mystical Tours - annual tours and travel services to mystical/sacred sites in Ireland, and Travel Hag Adventures - a travel club for girlfriends.
Mindie has written six books on regional travel and her writings and photographs have been featured in the Baltimore Sun, CBS News, National Geographic Television Network, the Today Show, Maryland Life Magazine, What's Up Eastern Shore, the National Catholic Reporter, Guideposts, the Vancouver Sun, Metropolitan Magazine and Notre Dame Magazine as well as numerous business and travel websites. Mindie currently runs four blog sites, three focusing on travel and one on opinion - her opinion.
Writing Has Led Her SuccessFormerly the publisher of Trinity Music and The Pastoral Press in Washington, DC, Mindie and her husband, Dan have moved to the rural Eastern Shore of Maryland where she continues to write, craft and guide tours and speak at conferences and events.
Whenever they can make time, they roll along American roads with r-pod in tow, scouting out the best fishing spots, flatwater kayaking trails, historic towns, haunted houses, and friendly people along the way. This makes for interesting writing.
"My writing has driven all of my revenue streams" Mindie states. "Writing about Ireland and the Haunted Eastern Shore created the interest in tours to these places. Then my use of social media to promote my writing and tours led to an interest in training and speaking about the uses of social media platforms, marketing and virtual tours to various destinations.
She readily admits that while she loves the tours and speaking, writing is her passion. It is where all the "newness" happens. Mindie admits that she hates the writing process. "Crafting written work is art. It's making something out of nothing, and that creation is seen only in the reader's imagination. It's hell. But the sense of accomplishment that washes over you when you discover people are actually reading your work and being changed by it is the addictive element that drives you to do it all over again."
Life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
|Fergus, Grainne and Éile
They could have chosen anywhere in the world to live. Dan, who is from central Maine and Mindie, a lifelong Marylander, found that the Eastern Shore of Maryland with its wild landscapes, friendly people and slow pace of life was close enough to visit friends and family, yet far enough away from the hectic pace of suburban life.
They bought a 120 year old Victorian house in a small community that was the southern-most point in Maryland. There they can engage in their passions for gardening, fishing, photography and writing. Because they are close to the beach, family and friends visit often in the summer. The rest of the year they share their lives with three large dogs - Fergus (a Newfoundland) and yellow lab sisters Grainne and Éile and a few dozen free range chickens that produce dozens of fresh, organic eggs.
Full Bio can be found at Visit Mindie's Website - Writing the Vision
More reading about Mindie and Dan:Happy 60th Birthday, Dan Burgoyne
Merry Christmas from the Burgoynes - 2013
The Vance Miles House - My Haunted Domain
The Eastern Shore: Why I Live Where I Live
Dear Tristan: A Grandmother's Message to her Newborn Grandson
WRITER / AUTHOR Mindie is the author of five published books – In addition to Haunted Eastern Shore, published by History Press, she wrote Snow Hill: Images of America and Easton: Then and Now about historic towns on the Eastern Shore of Maryland published by Arcadia Publishing Company. Her next book, Thin Places: Celtic Doorways to the Otherworld, is about mystical places in Ireland – or places where the veil between this world and the eternal world is thin.
Mindie blogs on Travel: The Travel Hag, Thin Places – Doorways to the Eternal World, Thin Places Mystical Tour of Ireland, and Chesapeake Ghost Walks
Mindie's opinion blog: Who Cares What I Think?
Mindie's blog on Marketing & Social Media: Wisecraic
On Travel - Mindie speaks on a variety of travel topics and does "virtual tours" from the podium for travel groups, conferences, community colleges and non-profits associated with travel and outdoor recreation. Subjects include travel to haunted and sacred places, traveling with purpose, and travel for women.
Ocean City Virtual Ghost Walk - Slides
On Social Media and Marketing - Because of her personal success in using social media platforms, Mindie also trains and speaks on the use of Social Media to grow a business or platform. Her client list includes Universities, Colleges, Non-profits, Businesses and Community Organizations. She averages about 50 speaking engagements per year.
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FREE NEWSLETTER - Mindie has free monthly / quarterly e-newsletter called the Travel Hag News. In it she highlights travel, family, business and mystical places.
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"Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy. I had never taken to the streets before; why bother? And for the first block or two I felt odd, walking in a mass of people, holding a stick with a placard..." Michael Brock in John Grisham's The Street Lawyer (Doubleday, 1998).
I've been waiting for three years for Americans to get out in the street and protest the actions that created the Financial Crisis that sparked the Great Contraction. As ng.com frequent commenter Richard Reep put it back at the beginning: "What happened to people's outrage? Where are the torch-bearing citizens marching on Washington?" If some third-world leader had pillaged the national treasury on their way out of town the way Hank Paulson did – with the full and enthusiastic support of New York Fed chief and now Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner – when he convinced Congress to spend $750 billion to bailout the Wall Street banks, there would be angry mobs, riots and possibly UN Peacekeepers.
Three years later, all we can muster is a sort of hippy sit-in – but I'll take it! It's better than letting it run over us, drip-by-drip, until there is no middle in our increasingly bifurcated economy.
Let me summarize what 99% of Americans should protest. It started in the early 2000s with good intentioned policies directed toward leveling the playing field by re-designing consumer credit ratings to allow more Americans to own homes. The move was embraced by Mike Milken and his followers as a way to further the cause of The Democratization of Capital – oddly enough, an idea born out of the outrage of the Watts Riots of August 1965.
Republicans and Democrats alike joined in the movement and a great boom in home prices was born. Expanding homeownership opportunities, especially for minorities, was a fundamental aim of the Bush Administration's housing policy, one strongly supported by Democrats in Congress. Then everyone got greedy, including wanna-be real estate moguls who started flipping houses instead of working for their living.
Banks that were writing mortgages soon turned to securitization – bundling mortgages into bonds called mortgage-backed securities – so they could use the proceeds to lend more money to subprime borrowers. The banks were collecting fees at every step. They charged fees for making the mortgage loan and for putting together the bond deal; then they charged commissions for trading the bonds. The interest paid on the bonds was high because the interest charged on the mortgages was high – after all, these were less-than-credit worthy borrowers by traditional standards. The banks wanted to be compensated for taking the risk – even though they were selling the risk to someone else. It was all about making money on money and eventually demand overtook supply. But that didn't stop Brother Banker!
According to a story on PBS (originally aired November 21, 2008), managers at Standard & Poor's credit rating agency were pressured to give mortgage bonds triple-A ratings in the pursuit of ever higher fees. In essence, the banks paid credit rating agencies to get triple-A ratings for their mortgage bonds so that insurance company and pension fund money could be added to the scheme. Insurance companies and pension funds are highly regulated in order to protect investors who rely on them for compensation in disasters and retirement.
If the bank couldn't get the top credit rating for some mortgage bonds, they turned to selling an unregulated kind of insurance called Credit Default Swaps. The swaps became so popular that people who didn't even own the bonds were buying the swaps. Eventually, there were more credit default swaps than there were bonds – and the banks were making fees on top of fees with no incentive to stop. In the end, there was more money to be made in mortgage defaults than mortgage payoffs and some banks even stopped taking mortgage payments to force the defaults. It was a little like the failing businessman who burns down his own shop because he can make more on the insurance than he can trying to sell it.
When the swaps came due, companies like AIG collapsed under the pressure of the payments – and American taxpayers were left holding the bag. Using your insurance and pension benefits to create their bonfire, Wall Street staged a weenie-roast! Two years ago you could have purchased all the common stock of Lennar Homebuilders for $1.2 billion – but if they went bankrupt you could collect $40 billion on the swaps. (The European Union fixed this problem in their markets – the US did not.) Like any Ponzi scheme, this one also required that "new money" continue to flow in so that the early investors could receive payouts – hence the need to get your benefit money invested in these things. When Uncle Sam took 80% ownership of AIG in Hank Paulson's bailout scheme, again approved by our current administration's financial geniuses, the US Treasury in combination with the Federal Reserve provided an unlimited source of new money. THAT is what you should be protesting today because it can – and probably will – happen again.
Critics of the protesters like to equate Wall Street with all the companies that create jobs. This ignores how the stock market works. The only time that a company gets money from its stock is in the initial public offering. Those shares are mostly sold to syndicates, underwriters, and primary dealers, not the general public. What happens day in and day out on Wall Street is simply stirring the pot. When the company's stock goes up, it is the next seller and his broker that make money, not the company. The stock market should have everything to do with jobs. When households have excess earnings – more money than they need for their expenses – they make savings deposits or investments in the stock market through banks. Banks channel savings from households to entrepreneurs and businesses. Entrepreneurs use the money to create new businesses which employ more people, thus increasing the earnings that households have available for savings and investment, which would bring the process fully around the virtuous circle. But Wall Street doesn't exactly do that anymore. It just makes jobs for Wall Street.
The other argument is that the problem isn't Wall Street, it's the government. Anyone who thinks that only one or the other is to blame doesn't understand how politics is financed. According to the MAPLight.org's analysis, Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign received more money in 2007-2008 from Wall Street than anyone else, but it was only $2 million more than the $22,108,926 that went to Senator John McCain.
Blame the government and blame the Wall Street banks that sponsor their political campaigns – they are blaming each other anyway. The occupy protestors - with the possible exception of the violent black band anarchists - are not the perpetrators we need to put in handcuffs.
The sad fact is that nothing in Washington, D.C. or Wall Street, NYC has changed since that day in September 2008 when Hank Paulson told Congress that the world would end if they didn't give him $750 billion to spread around Wall Street. For many people, like a Michael Brock, it takes a life-changing event to make you look at the truth all around you. Fixing our broken financial markets requires systemic reform of a great scale.
I think a lot of people who joined the 2008 tea parties – myself included – thought we were mounting a petition against bank bailouts and the misuse of public funds. The U.S. Government Accountability Office audit of the Federal Reserve, released in July 2011, proves that petition failed. Call your Representative, write to your Senator, and show up for the #Occupy or Tea Party events in your city. Like Michael Brock, you may find yourself savoring the exercise in civil protest.
A version of this article appeared in the Omaha World Herald on November 4, 2011.
Susanne Trimbath, Ph.D. is CEO and Chief Economist of STP Advisory Services. She participated in an Infrastructure Index Project Workshop Series throughout 2010. Her training in finance and economics began with editing briefing documents for the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She worked in operations at depository trust and clearing corporations in San Francisco and New York, including Depository Trust Company, a subsidiary of DTCC; formerly, she was a Senior Research Economist studying capital markets at the Milken Institute. Her PhD in economics is from New York University. In addition to teaching economics and finance at New York University and University of Southern California (Marshall School of Business), Trimbath is co-author of Beyond Junk Bonds: Expanding High Yield Markets
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by Charles Leadbeater
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Today, global companies are fascinated by the prospect of what the World Economic Forum calls 'the next billion' – the future consumers of the developing world whose income is rising from around $2 a day to between $5 and $7 a day. Most of these people are recently arrived in rapidly expanding cities, often living in the poorest areas: every month about 5 million people in the developing world move to cities.
If we were to look at these families as parents and learners, what kind of education will they be looking for? Or to put it another way, if we were to design a curriculum with 'the next billion' what would they want?
Having spent much of the last three years visiting a wide variety of education projects in cities across the developing world, it strikes me that the first thing that people want is facility with a global language, usually English, but also in some places Spanish and, in others, Mandarin. They want a language that will give them access to people and jobs linked to global networks and trade – a business hotel, a job in retail, manning a phone in a call centre – rather than confining them to ply their trade in purely local markets.
Next they want a mastery of basic mathematics, the ability to understand numbers and do fairly basic sums, like working out discounts or more complex applications like planning a production schedule. Maths is foundational to much else that people need, and want. to learn.
The third ingredient is digital literacy. People need to be able to work competently and capably with computers, and not just the basics of the Microsoft world of Word and Excel, but increasingly the world of the web and social media, apps and programming. They need to be comfortable with having to learn, and learn again, as technology changes.
None of that, however, is worth very much unless they are skilled at working together with other people. So the fourth thing their education needs to give them is a well-grounded experience in social skills so they know how to respond to customers and work well with their colleagues, to find collaborative solutions to problems. Some of those skills are social and relational, based on empathy and sympathy. But others are more about collaborative self-government, which is why it is so important that education provides children with ample, structured, challenging opportunities to work together, in groups, on projects which they can make their own. As social media spreads so it will open up ever more opportunities for people to find one another and come together to achieve common goals. Citizens will need to learn how to make the most of these technologies, for better government, richer culture and more successful businesses.
All of this needs to be married to entrepreneurial and creative capacity, by which I mean the ability to spot an opportunity, mobilise support to take it, learn how to take risks and recover from setbacks. Most of the 'next billion' will find themselves working in small entrepreneurial companies. Studies of the urban poor show that many have to hold down two or three jobs to survive. Their education needs to help them become micro-entrepreneurs, adaptive and resilient, fleet of foot. Learning to juggle work if, not balls, is a key skill.
The slim core skills set out above might provide the starting point for thinking about the kinds of skills all young people might need in the years ahead, in the developed and the developing world.
Yet that is only at best half the story. Setting out what people should learn is just the starting point. How they learn is almost as important. Effective learning needs to be a structured, well-designed, highly engaging activity which challenges and stretches young people as well as supporting them and building their confidence. It needs to pull people to it, by the laws of attraction. Too much of the time at school it is the other way around: people are pushed into learning they do not really understand and cannot make meaningful.
To be motivating learning needs to be intrinsically satisfying and to offer at least the distant prospect of a pay-off: a better job; a practical skill; a useful way of thinking.
Achieving that will mean that learning will have to become more connected to, if not located in, the real world of work and production. The most impressive and attractive places to learn in future, in the developed and developing world, will give young people ample opportunities to design and make, produce and sell things, with their hands and their heads. They should go to school to learn by working and having fun. They should study by making and building rather than sitting and listening.
Too often education is seen as a pristine preparation for a later career. Work is held at bay for as long as possible. I doubt we can afford that distinction in the future in which education increasingly seems to be losing touch with the real world that young people live in – and the real world seems increasingly unwilling to give them the jobs they crave. We need learning to give young people a real sense of what creative, satisfying, productive work can be, so they can take those standards and expectations into their later working life.
All innovators succeed by challenging ingrained conventional wisdom. Breaking down the barriers between work and learning will be one of the chief opportunities for educational innovators in the decades to come, especially if they want to meet the needs of the next billion parents and children entering formal education.
Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers around the World
See also: OECD Skills Strategy
Languages in a Global World: Learning for Better Cultural Understanding
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New Foreign Trade Zone Regulations Help U.S. Firms CompeteMarch 6, 2012
Andrew McGilvray is the staff director for the Foreign-Trade Zones Board, an interagency board chaired by the Commerce Department. He has been with the International Trade Administration since 1988.
On February 17, the White House and the International Trade Administration announced new regulations for the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) program. This first overhaul of FTZ procedures in more than 20 years is designed to enable the program to keep pace with businesses and their decision-making processes.
Since use of a FTZ can reduce the cost of U.S. operations, fast and simple access to the program can encourage investment in U.S. facilities. The new procedures accelerate and simplify the application procedures, and promise to further facilitate U.S. companies' use of the program to help them compete internationally.
FTZs are designated locations in the United States where companies can use special customs procedures that help encourage U.S. activity and value added – in competition with foreign alternatives – by allowing delayed or reduced duty payments on foreign merchandise, as well as other savings. Several thousand companies already use the FTZ program, helping to support more than 300,000 jobs and about $30 billion in exports each year.
For example, the Mercury Marine factory in Wisconsin operates under FTZ procedures, employing more than 2,400 American workers and exporting about $125 million in finished marine engines each year.
The new regulations' procedures will now make it much quicker and simpler for individual companies to access the FTZ program – like Mercury Marine did starting in 1999. Dramatically reducing costs and timeframes for access is likely to make the FTZ program an even more crucial tool for U.S. companies and workers to compete in the global marketplace.
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Allegations of coalition hypocrisy over green issues as critics say documents show UK has caved in to fossil fuel lobbyists
The government has been trying to water down key environmental regulations in Brussels despite trumpeting its commitment to green issues at home, leaked documents show.
The papers, seen by the Guardian, reveal British officials repeatedly trying to prevent the adoption of European Union rules on energy efficiency, curtailing the proposals and making them voluntary rather than mandatory in many cases. In addition, the UK has tried repeatedly to ensure that the EU does not adopt a new target for renewable energy generation.
They are significant because they indicate that Ed Davey, the energy secretary since February, has given his blessing to lobbying begun under his predecessor Chris Huhne. These government efforts have the backing of the UK's big six energy firms, according to other documents obtained under freedom of information rules.
Both issues remain key to plans to reduce European greenhouse gas emissions – putting the government's position in Europe at odds with its fanfare over the last few weeks for the proposed "green" energy bill. Ministers have described the bill, the centrepiece of claims to be "the greenest government ever", as likely to generate £110bn in investment in low-carbon and efficient energy infrastructure in the UK in the biggest shakeup of the market since privatisation in the 1980s.
The current EU target for renewables – to generate 20% of energy from sources such as solar and wind – runs out in 2020 and as yet there is nothing to replace it. But having a fixed target is regarded as crucial to create the certainty needed for investors to back technologies such as sun, wind and tide; the current target is credited with spurring a huge rise in renewable generation.
Renewable energy developers and green campaigners fear that without a similar target for 2030, the impetus to invest in renewables will be lost to fossil fuels such as gas.
Fatih Birol, chief economist for the International Energy Agency, told the Guardian: "It would threaten investment in renewables if there is an over-reliance on gas."
In one leaked document, from the Council of the EU on the draft 2050 proposals on energy, the UK has attempted to excise a reference to a potential 30% target for renewables by 2030, replacing it with the far more vague wording of "a significantly increased share for renewable in the energy mix". At another point in the document, which is dated 23 April 2012, the UK has tried to remove the word "urgent".
The document shows that Davey, a Liberal Democrat, has opposed a new EU target on renewable energy since taking office in early February. A previous document showing attempts by the government to water down the EU renewable energy target – revealed by the Guardian in March – was largely prepared under his predecessor, Chris Huhne.
Fatih Birol, chief economist for the International Energy Agency, told the Guardian that a renewed focus on gas was bad news for renewables. "It would threaten investment in renewables, if there is an over-reliance on gas," he said.
The UK wants Europe to toughen its commitment on cutting carbon, from a goal of reductions of 20% by 2020, compared with 1990 levels, to a far stiffer cut of 30% by the same date. But that position has been undermined by a rebellion by Tory MEPs, many of whom have rejected the tougher target.
On energy efficiency – for which the European Commission is trying to draw up a new directive – the UK is proposing measures that would water down the obligations of businesses and the public sector to cut the amount of wasted energy.
According to the leaked documents, the UK is trying to prevent the EU's target of improving energy efficiency by 20% by 2020 from being made legally binding. British officials are also saying no to mandatory audits of efficiency, which the European Commission argues are needed to ensure the targets are being met. The UK also opposes some renovations of public buildings on the basis that they could compromise public safety, although this argument is widely disputed. The key document is from the Council of the EU dated 30 May.
Dave Timms, of Friends of the Earth, said: "[Energy and climate change secretary] Ed Davey came into office loudly broadcasting his personal commitment to energy efficiency and its many benefits, but so far he has been unwilling or unable to back tough action to save energy. A strong directive including a binding energy-saving target would be a big boost to economic growth but [if the changes are made] it will be weak, unambitious and full of holes. The UK has played a significant role in this disappointing situation."
The UK's proposed changes, which green campaigners say would fatally weaken the energy efficiency plans, chime with the opinions of the big six suppliers, as recorded in their responses to an informal consultation held by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, obtained by Greenpeace under the Freedom of Information Act.
For instance, Eon opposed "an obligation-based approach", in favour of incentives to consumers to improve their efficiency, and rejected a proposal to make power generation more efficient by stipulating that the waste heat from new plants should be recycled to heat buildings. Other companies, including SSE, RWE npower, Centrica and EDF, were equally opposed to rules on reusing heat, although Scottish Power suggested the proposal could be adapted so as to exclude sites where it would be ineffective or unviable. Most companies were also unwilling to countenance mandatory obligations to cut energy wastage.
According to an analysis by the European Commission, such sweeping changes will render the directive ineffective and it will not achieve the energy reductions needed – even though these reductions would save Europe tens of billions or more from its annual €500bn (£404bn) bill for importing energy.
Joss Garman, senior energy campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "These documents are proof that [Davey] has caved in to fossil fuel industry lobbyists fighting to increase our dependence on burning imported and polluting gas to generate power."
"With rocketing gas prices hitting families' energy bills and the wider economy, now is exactly the time ministers should be backing clean energy to provide secure power at stable prices. This is a government that has a too cosy relationship with powerful special interests – and Britain's bill payers will pick up the tab."
On the 2030 renewables target, a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: "We are clear that long-term carbon reduction targets are more likely to be met cost-effectively if the exact mix of technologies is left for each member state to determine for itself. He added: "The UK has been taking a lead role in trying to get agreement on the energy efficiency directive. We want it to be ambitious but it needs to be something that will be deliverable here in the UK and across the rest of the EU."
Source: The Guardian 3/6/12


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LEBLANC, dit Le Maigre, JOSEPH, farmer, trader, and Acadian patriot; b. 12 March 1697 at Les Mines (near Wolfville, N.S.), son of Antoine Leblanc and Marie Bourgeois; m. 13 Feb. 1719 Anne, daughter of Alexandre Bourg*, dit Belle-Humeur, and Marguerite Melanson, dit La Verdure; d. 19 Oct. 1772 at Kervaux, in the parish of Le Palais, Belle-Île, France.
So little is known of Joseph Leblanc's early life that it is difficult to explain what prompted him to side with successive French efforts to reconquer Acadia in the 1740s. He was one of only a dozen patriots who actively supported the French at this time, and the pattern of his collaboration closely follows that of his contemporary, Joseph-Nicolas Gautier, dit Bellair.
Leblanc made a notable contribution to the expedition led by François Du Pont* Duvivier against Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, in the late summer of 1744. For Leblanc this expedition was primarily a commercial venture: in a petition, drafted some years later, he claimed that it had cost him 4,500 livres though the extant accounts total only 1,200 livres. Leblanc's figures may well have been inflated to include expenses incurred in carrying Duvivier's dispatches to Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), during the siege of Annapolis Royal in September. On the 22nd of that month Duvivier ordered him to go to Louisbourg post-haste, "on pain of being handed over to the mercy of the savages." It was 18 October before Leblanc reported back, and by that time Duvivier was at Beaubassin (near Amherst, N.S.), having lifted the siege. Duvivier's threat notwithstanding, Leblanc had seized the opportunity to take a number of sheep and black cattle to sell in Louisbourg.
In the aftermath of the expedition, the Nova Scotia authorities sought out those Acadians who had collaborated with the French. Leblanc at first refused to appear before the Nova Scotia Council, "as so many things were falsely Imputed to him which made him afraid." When he was finally persuaded to come forth he pleaded ignorance of any wrongdoing, "not being enlightened enough to distinguish between a time of war and a time of untroubled peace." However implausible, his explanations appear to have satisfied the council for he was asked to do nothing more than post £100 as a bond of good behaviour.
Within months, in the summer of 1745, Leblanc was busily engaged in assisting a new French effort led by Paul Marin de La Malgue. He was captured, charged, convicted, and incarcerated for six months at Annapolis Royal "in a frightful dungeon, laden with chains." In February 1746 he managed to escape, just in time to assist the huge French fleet commanded by the Duc d'Anville [La Rochefoucauld] which had been sent to recapture both Acadia and Île Royale. At Minas Leblanc assembled 230 head of livestock to provision the fleet. By the time his herds arrived at Annapolis Royal, however, the ill-fated expedition had come to its inauspicious end. Having lost 2,000 livres in his abortive speculation, and now at the mercy of the British authorities, Leblanc abandoned his assets at Minas and fled to the remote Beaubassin region.
When Île Royale was restored to France in 1749, Leblanc settled with his family at Port-Toulouse (St Peters). Late in 1750, Jacques Prévost* de La Croix, the financial commissary of the colony, described him as being "reduced to begging." He was given crown rations for three years; in 1752 he could claim only one small boat, 25 cattle, and 16 fowl.
After the fall of Louisbourg in 1758 Leblanc fled to Miquelon. Shortly after his wife died on 13 July 1766 he moved to Belle-Île-en-Mer (dept. of Morbihan), France, settling with his family among other Acadian refugees in the village of Kervaux. It is likely that he remained in France until his death there in 1772.
AD, Morbihan (Vannes), État civil, Le Palais, 20 oct. 1772. AN, Col., C11B, 29, ff.211–12v, 180v; C11D, 8, ff.109–11v, 283–84; E, 169 (dossier Du Pont Duvivier); Section Outre-Mer, G1, 413/A (4 juill. 1766). PAC, MG 9, B8, 12 (13 févr. 1719). Coll. doc. inédits Canada et Amérique, II, 170, 175. N.S. Archives, IV, 50, 52, 55, 56–60, 62–64, 76, 78. PAC Report, 1905, II, pt.i, 22. Arsenault, Hist. et généal. des Acadiens, 673.
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Resilience thinking and optimization are often viewed as opposites, but resilience thinking is more critical of how optimization is frequently applied rather than the technique per-se. A new paper in TREE Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation (doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.020) by Joern Fischer and others, including myself, attempt to integrate resilience thinking and optimization. We propose that by actively embedding optimisation analyses within a resilience-thinking framework ecosystem management could draw on the complementary strengths of both, thereby promoting cost-effective and enduring conservation outcomes.
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- EclipseCon 2007 Short Talk - Slides from "What is MDT?" short talk at EclipseCon 2007.
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Child Raped-Take a Stand!
I plead before you today with a heavy heart. On Thursday, December 21,2006 my daughter was brutally raped by two boys who attend a Chicago Public High School. As she screamed out hysterically for help, one boy sat on the side of the bed and played a hand held game. I respectfully request, that by signing this petition, you join me in demanding the termination of the contracts of all three administrative members of this high school, that perpetrated nothing less than what my daughter\'s rapists did - they took her ability to trust others, they extinguished the gleam in her eyes, they halted the luster to her step, and my friends,they vandalized her innocence. Allow me to share her story. I present to you my daughter, *** a name that my husband and I chose for her, that defines her character and her internal oomph to survive. She holds the name of her great-grandfather, a man who refused to allow anyone or anything to penetrate the love he had for his 12 children. He never fell. She holds the name of her grandmother, my mother. A woman who believed in justice, who believed that it was our responsibility as adults to protect ALL children - at whatever cost. Finally, she holds the name of her father. A man who is dying on the inside because he\'s trying to keep his hands above the waters...to follow the path that we have taught our children all of their lives - do the right thing. I have provided my girls with the armor from the very beginning of their lives, to be advocates for themselves when faced with a wrong. I have encouraged them to not just be advocates for themselves, but also for others who are perhaps afraid to have their own voices heard. I have heartened my daughters to help others help themselves. More importantly friends, I have intellectually persuaded them that they cannot demand respect, to be quite honest, anyone can do that with a weapon of physical choice or verbal attack. I have given them the confidence that every person deserves to be respected, and most of all, to be heard.. We inculcate and direct our children if they are ever in danger, to find an adult in the school to seek refuge. My daughter followed the rules. My daughter, along with a friend, told a key administrative staff member of the assault. She was told to tell her parents. My daughter was never brought to a quiet place by this adult to inquire if she needed help. My daughter was then approached by another key administrative staff member, and told to forgive her rapist-he\'s a good boy. Her last attempt to seek help, a key administrative member told her to tell her parents, and then leaned in and whispered, that if she told, she would be transferred to *** [another high school with low performance, per teachers.] My daughter internalized her pain for the following two weeks, not telling me her mother, out of fear that I would do exactly what I am doing now, fight for her voice to be heard, and justice to be served. Until the day came that, she could no longer suffer the pain in silence of the bragging at the hands of her perpetrators in the school halls. She wrote all day in a journal, crying for help until someone ultimately heard her voice and took action. I was not notified by school administration that my daughter had been sexually assaulted until Friday, January 26, 2007 an astounding two weeks after she approached them beseeching help. School administration, albeit they are mandated by law, and duty-bound by their Chicago Board of Education Discipline Code, never contacted the Chicago Police Department, nor filed charges of this assault. They propelled my child home from their offices, her life at risk, without even a phone call to me. Threats on the internet have surfaced against her life, by students that attend this school, because she told the truth. As of Monday, January 29, 2007 when we met with several key administrative members, they repudiated our request to remove the boys from school to ensure my daughter\'s safety, even though charges of Criminal Sexual Assault were filed with CPD. My daughter was instructed by administration that she should just turn her head if she saw her perpetrators in the hallway. Anonymously, there has been a pronouncement that my daughter was not the first child at this high school to be sexually assaulted, and she will not be the last if we do not take action NOW. An attempt has been made to disguise and obscure the facts, but you know my dear friends, everything done in the dark always comes to light. These girls are faceless and nameless to me - but as adults, we must take a dais and enforce the manifesto that is in place to safeguard their innocence. It has been exactly one week since I became aware of this injustice. I have placed in excess of ten phone calls to the Chicago Board of Education, and multiple attempts to contact the high school administration - I have been ignored. I beg of you to join me as one voice in not allowing these adults to suffocate our right to be heard, and to not allow my child\'s pain be in vain. Thank you.


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I go to gym almost all days. For every workout I use to weight train one muscular zone and run about 50 minutes (at low rates, about 130/140 bpm). My target is to burn as most fat as I can (I'm male, so my fat is particularly on belly). Sometimes if I haven't time, I prefear running session (always at low rates, and always about 50 minutes) to the weight train. I'm 28 and my body is athletic, and I always do some sports in my life. The question is:
What should I eat before the workout? What should I eat if i'm going to just run? What should I eat if i'm going to make both weight train and running session? How much time before the workout? Is weight train on empty stomach unuseful or at worse bad for muscles?
Best Regards


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Kids' Snacks To Watch Out For
Clever marketing and confusing ingredient lists make processed junk look like a healthy choice for your kids. Get the facts about these healthy imposters.
These squeezable sacks of suckable fruit and veggie concoctions promise mess-less nutrition but you might be getting more sugar than produce – many are sweetened with fruit juice concentrates (check labels). Even if your favorite brand's recipe does only contain mashed fruits and vegetables, this process will destroy some of the nutrients and fiber. Plus, sucking food out of a pouch doesn't exactly foster healthy easting habits as far as I'm concerned. Handing off the occasional pouch is fine but these sacs should not become a replacement for good old fruits and veggies.
Not much fruit to be found in these chewy treats – many contain more than 1 ½ tablespoons of sugar per serving. The truest healthy tip: try making your own.
This kiddie favorite can go either way. Many kid-friendly brands do a good job at providing calcium and protein packed dairy in their yogurt, while others focus more heavily on sugar and artificial colors. Check labels carefully and choose brands with the simplest ingredients lists.
We launched a full out taste test to make sense of the smartest drinkable options – see the results.
Don't be fooled by cutesy commercials! These pastries aren't breakfast, they're dessert in disguise. Look at the ingredient lists on these babies; they're as long as you arm! Not exactly the best way to start your day. A better (and just as easy) choice – a PB&J or one of our picks for breakfast bars.
Parents might wish their kids would munch on carrot sticks like potato chips but these faux veggies won't do the job. One ounce (only a small handful) has almost 150 calories and 7 grams of fat. They're made from highly-processed ingredients like vegetable flours and purees, plus high doses of oil -- not exactly farm fresh!
The bars marketed to little ones tend to be the worst culprits! Choose a bar where whole grains and nuts out-rank sugar and other junk.


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Late adds to Lei Chic's guide to the weekend's best events
Weekend Picks - Saturday, May 11, 2013
Shorts Story
What: Consider this an addendum to the keiki collection roundup we posted the other week – Ava Sky just released adorable mini pom pom shorts in sweet tie-dyed pastels, the perfect companion to its signature tunics and dresses. The label's keiki line was named HONOLULU Magazine's Best Kids' Fashion back in March. $26 each, available at Fighting Eel Downtown, 1133 Bethel St., and Kailua, 629 Kailua Rd., Suite 130.
|Photo courtesy: Our Kakaako
Down the Road
What: If you'd like a glimpse of future Kakaako, take a stroll (or bike) down Cooke St. today. The area will be temporarily outfitted with greenery, parklets, seats, bike bump outs and roundabouts – a real-life preview of Kamehameha Schools' master plan for a pedestrian- and bike-friendly neighborhood. Don't forget to admire the paint job. Local artists have slowly been transforming walls and buildings into large stunning works of art.
When and Where: Today on Cooke St., between Halekauwila St. and Ala Moana Blvd.
Wardrobe (and Other) Updates
- Warning: The Great Gatsby can trigger an obsession with show-stopping dresses dripping in rich fabrics, glittering jewels and light-scattering crystals. Find out how you can channel the decade's lavish style in this month's issue of HONOLULU Magazine.
- Seven for All Mankind just released its new jewelry collaboration with actress Nikki Reed. Reed says the five-piece capsule collection, which includes honeycomb column earrings, a gunmetal spiked star necklace, and mixed metal bangles, is inspired by love. Shop it here.
- Is Anne Hathaway better as a blond? Did Kim Kardashian wear her grandmother's couch? Is Madonna allergic to pants? Click through all the photos from Monday's Met Gala and decide for yourself.
- We can't wait to see Target's next designer collaboration with… wait for it… Phillip Lim. The line will consist of men's and women's clothes and accessories when it hits stores September 15.
Who: San Lorenzo Mothers & Keiki, 120 Kaiulani Ave., Shop B6
Deal: Storewide Mother's Day sale with up to 50 percent off women's full coverage bikinis, up to 30 percent off women's apparel, up to 30 percent off keiki bikinis and apparel, and free gift with purchases over $75.
When: Through tomorrow with in-store refreshments and activities between 4-7 p.m. tonight.
Who: Roberta Oaks, 19 N. Pauahi St.
Deal: 15 percent off all Insight 51 for women, and 10 percent off all jewelry, Roberta Oaks dresses, Kai fragrances, and Will Leather Goods totes (like the one featured in our last-minute Mother's Day gift guide!).
When: Through tomorrow.
Who: 7 for All Mankind
Deal: 25 percent off everything online with the code 7FAMFF2513.


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Often supplementation is taken without consideration for the amount of calcium in the diet both from food sources and from water (some tap and mineral waters). Many people, especially those consuming dairy products, have high-calcium diets. This can lead to a greater amount of unabsorbed calcium unopposed by magnesium.
The commonly accepted ratio of 2:1 calcium to magnesium found in many cal-mag supplements traces back to the French scientist Dr. Jean Durlach, who stipulated the 2:1 ratio as an outermost not-to-be-exceeded level when considering calcium intake from all sources (food, water and supplements). This has been largely misunderstood and has been taken instead as an outright recommendation.
The fact that most people do not get their minimum daily requirement of magnesium exacerbates the situation. The high calcium–low magnesium diet of most Americans when coupled with calcium supplementation can give a Ca to Mg imbalance of 4: or 5:1 or higher, which constitutes a walking time bomb of impaired bone health, compromised muscles and nerves, and heart disease.
Magnesium is a "safer" product than calcium because it is excreted more completely and doesn't build up in the body. Most people can supplement with magnesium citrate powder orally and get positive results. The easily obtainable Natural Calm is the one I recommend. Building up to 300 mg twice a day is a good treatment dose, and sipping it in water throughout the day keeps it from causing any laxative effects.
The only people who should avoid self-administering of magnesium are those with heart block (the type that requires a pacemaker), myasthenia gravis (because their muscles are already too relaxed), bowel obstruction, and people on kidney dialysis.
For more critical information on the subject of magnesium, visit the nonprofit educational resource site at www.nutritionalmagnesium.org.
Taking Calcium without Magnesium is a Health Risk
In 2011 the NIH reported that approximately 43% of the U.S. population (including almost 70% of older women) use dietary supplements containing calcium. What's not said is that without balancing their calcium with proper amounts of magnesium, they may be at risk.
There is a growing amount of scientific evidence pointing to high calcium–low magnesium intake leading to calcification, or hardening, of arteries (atherosclerosis—the number one cause of death in the US), osteoporosis and osteoporotic bone fractures. A 2011 British Medical Journal study showed a higher risk of heart disease and stroke in women taking calcium supplements.
Most people, and the majority of MDs, do not understand certain key facts about calcium and its sister mineral, magnesium:
• Typically, less than half of calcium intake is actually absorbed in the gut. Of the remainder, some is excreted (but causes constipation on the way out), and the rest helps to form kidney stones, gallstones, heel spurs, atherosclerotic plaque in artery walls, and breast calcifications.
• Magnesium stimulates the hormone calcitonin, which helps to preserve bone structure and draws calcium out of the blood and soft tissues back into the bones, all the while lowering the likelihood of osteoporosis, some forms of arthritis, heart attack and kidney stones.
• Adequate levels of magnesium are essential for the absorption and metabolism of calcium and vitamin D. Magnesium actually converts vitamin D into its active form.
• Recommendations for calcium intake vary greatly. In the United States, adults are told to take 1,000 mg per day and women over 50 are told to take up to 1,500 mg. In the United Kingdom, the RDA is 700 mg daily, while the World Health Organization recommends only 400–500 mg.