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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent offenders on Monday, including 14 who were serving life sentences, saying "their punishments didn't fit the crime."
"These men and women were not hardened criminals," Obama said in a video released by the White House. He said the overwhelming majority of the 46 had been sentenced to at least 20 years.
The move was part of a broader effort by the administration to make the U.S. criminal justice system fairer. Obama has now issued nearly 90 commutations during his presidency, most of them to non-violent offenders sentenced for drug crimes under outdated sentencing guidelines. A commutation leaves the conviction in place, but ends the punishment.
Obama wrote a personal letter to each of the 46 individuals to notify them of their commutation.
In a letter to Jerry Bailey, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to violate laws against crack-cocaine, Obama praised Bailey for showing the potential to turn his life around.
"Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity," Obama wrote in the letter, which was sent to Bailey's address at a federal correctional facility in Georgia,. "It will not be easy," Obama said, "and you will confront many who doubt people with criminal records can change."
Obama's lawyer, White House counsel Neil Eggleston, predicted the president would issue even more commutations before leaving office in early 2017. But he also said that Obama's powers to fix the problem were limited, adding that "clemency alone will not fix decades of overly punitive sentencing policies."
Obama this week is devoting considerable attention to the criminal justice system. He plans to lay out ideas for how to improve the fairness of the system during a speech to the NAACP in Philadelphia on Tuesday. And on Thursday, he is to become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison when he goes to the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside of Oklahoma City. While there, he will meet with law enforcement officials and inmates.
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Ronda Rousey Facing Rumors She's Dating a Married Fighter Accused of Domestic Violence
Ronda Rousey has been rumored to be dating fellow UFC fighter, heavyweight Travis Browne. Under normal circumstances, that's not very interesting, but Browne was recently accused of domestic violence by his ex, fitness model Jenna Renee Webb, and the now-separated couple may still be married. Webb has tweeted about the rumored relationship over the last few days:
This appears to have hit social media this week when a man took a picture of his daughter at Benihana, possibly with the intention of getting a picture of Rousey sitting at a table in the background. Rousey was sitting next to Browne, who appears to be looking at the camera.
Browne joined Glendale Fight Club last fall and has been training at the same gym as Rousey for about a year. A picture of the two of them in the same place at the same is not unheard of and while Browne has posted some pictures of Rousey, they've been from the other side of a TV screen. He could just be cheering for her because they're teammates.
In May, Browne lost to Andrei Arlovski at UFC 187. On July 9th, Browne's ex, Jenna Renee, posted the picture below on Instagram, alleging domestic violence by Browne. The UFC benched Browne while they looked into the alleged incident.
On July 10th, Browne's manager issued the following statement to MMA Junkie:
"If Travis Browne abuses a petite woman, do you think that's what happens?" Fosco told MMAjunkie. "If he's an abuser, you've got to get someone involved – he's a dangerous guy (as a fighter). You go to the police. … Abuse is unacceptable."
"To me, if it's the eve of UFC Fight Week," Fosco said of the annual event, which concludes with UFC 189 on Saturday. "That looks kind of measured. It's kind of bizarre since they haven't seen each other in five weeks. She hasn't said anything about this in five weeks, and I don't know if she's ever gone to make a report."
Now we wait for either party to either confirm or deny a relationship and to see if anything comes of the domestic violence allegations Browne is facing. Rousey has previously been a vocal critic of Floyd Mayweather.

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Tìm từ đồng nghĩa với từ được gạch chân - Trình độ TOEFL, Bài số 341. The daring rescue of those stranded on the mountaintop was truly a creditable deed.
2. The old shack in which the sixteenth president was born is practically falling down, despite the new supports.
3. The most admired annual golf event in America is the Masters Tournament held in Augusta, Georgia.
4. Although some species are native to temperate zones, most orchids grow in damp, hot countries.
5. A monument was erected in memory of those who died in the disaster at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
6. The bus driver left the door slightly open so that returning passengers could reboard after the rest stop.
7. In many states, when someone has an accident while driving a friend's car, both the driver and the owner of the car share the responsibility.
8. John F. Kennedy was born into a well-to-do Massachusetts family in 1917.
9. The oil embargo has not succeeded as can be seen by the number of vehicles on the roads.
10. The salon was the most elegant room Madeline had ever seen, despite its austerity.
11. In the United States 60 percent of the milk is processed into butter, cheese, ice cream, and other dairy products.
12. Sometimes, while living in a foreign country, one craves a special dish from home.
13. Like snakes, many insects grow by throwing away their skin several times.
14. Deterioration in the areas around the center of the city is a common urban problem.
15. The new accounts offered by the bank are compounded semi-annually.
16. Although salamanders are sometimes mistaken for lizards, the two are not related.
17. Three major United States television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, are headquartered in New York City.
18. The first published article on logarithms, complete with tables, appeared in 1614.
19. Although Florida is commonly believed to be the southernmost state in the United States, Hawaii really is.
20. Cowrie shells were once in widespread use as a token of value.


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I've heard that when your opponent is self-destructing, the best thing to do is get out of the way. Unless you're a Republican, in which case, you'll probably want to begin a movement to repeal the 14th amendment. The most likely outcome of that effort according to Linda Chavez is no Hispanic Republicans. She makes her case in a WSJ column. You may need a subscription, but I was able to access the whole thing here. Atlantic Wire has a brief summary here. And Chavez explains in this JWR column.


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It depends on who you ask. If a jurisdiction issues two forms of certificate, then which ever is bigger may be called a long form.
Take for example my state of South Carolina. They offer two types of certificate a "birth card" and a "long form." The South Carolina "long form"1 is a computer-generated abstract containing:
- state file number,
- name of registrant,
- date of birth,
- county of birth,
- place of birth (city),
- father's name (if listed on the original birth certificate),
- father's place of birth,
- mother's maiden name,
- mother's place of birth,
- date record filed, and
- the date issued.
The South Carolina definition is a more modern one, taking in to account that most births are now registered electronically. Other states take a more traditional approach.
Indiana defines the "long form" but then distinguishes between it and a "standard size" birth certificate:
What is a Long Form?
A Long Form is a certified 8.5" X 11" photo copy of the original birth certificate.
What is a standard size birth certificate?
A standard size birth certificate is a certified 8.5" X 5.5" copy of identifying information extracted from the original birth certificate.
Louisiana says its "long form" includes hospital information.
What is the difference between a Short-Form Birth Certificate (Birth Card) and a Long-Form Birth Certificate?
Both certificates are certified copies of birth records and have a raised seal.
Short-form birth certificates (birth cards) are $9.00 and include the name at birth, date of birth, parish of birth, father's initials, mother's last name and first initial, file date and issue date.
Long-form birth certificates are $15.00 and include the name at birth, date of birth, parish of birth, hospital of birth, mother's residence at time of birth, mother and father's full names, parent's place of birth, age of parents at the time of birth, file date and issue date.
The District of Columbia has this definition of a long form:
The long form is a certified copy of the original birth certificate in its entirety.
Tennessee provides a discussion of the question:
What is the difference between the long form birth certificate and the short form birth certificate?
The long form certificate is a printed image of the original certificate of birth. In addition to the child's name and date of birth, it contains information such as the name of the hospital, address of parents, parents' dates of birth, etc. The "short form" certificate is a computer generated extract of the information listed on the original birth certificate. The short form is not available for births prior to 1949. If the date of birth on the certificate is 1976 or later, the information included on the short form is:
- name
- sex
- mother's maiden name
- father's name (if present on long form)
- date of birth
- county of birth
- date issued
- date filed.
The short form certificate does not include parents' names on births prior to 1976. Both short form and long form certificates issued by the Tennessee Vital Records Office contain a raised seal which denotes certification. If the date of birth on the certificate is prior to 1976, you probably want the long form, since the short form does not include parents' names. If you were born in 1976 or later, a short form may be adequate, but would depend on the anticipated use(s) of your certificate.
Note that because the parents' names are omitted prior to 1967 the Tennessee short form would not be acceptable to obtain a U. S. Passport.
A certified copy or "long form," the most readily recognizable birth record, is an exact copy of your birth certificate as prepared by the hospital.
Texas provides additional explanation:
- Standard size (short form or abstract): The most commonly issued format because it satisfies most purposes, including registering a child for school or sports, obtaining a passport for a person born after 1963 if born in a hospital and obtaining a driver license in most states. If the birth record is not available in this format or if the state you live in requires the full size for a driver license, a full-size birth certificate will be issued instead.
- Full size (long form): Used most often to obtain a passport for a person born at home and/or before 1964. It's also typically required for purposes of dual citizenship, Indian Registry and immigration. Because this format contains information that can facilitate identify theft, we recommend that you order this format only when it is required.
While the collection, verification and storage of vital statistics is an important function of the civil government, vital statistics agencies are also businesses that fund themselves by selling certificates to the public, something to keep in mind when considering how they label their products.
My conclusion from this exercise is that those states that talk about "long forms" on their web sites (and the list above is all I found) usually mean a photocopy of an original certificate, but not always. Most of the information above is oversimplification, dealing only with hospital births and ignoring what records are available for what range of years. I don't see how one gets a legal definition from what I found. I think any state could reasonably label any certificate a "long form" so long at is contains the information required by the Department of State for a passport.
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An updated series of factsheets by ILGA World and ISHR show that the UN Special Procedures have regularly raised concerns regarding human rights related to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in 2019, including three experts raising these issues for the first time.
An ILGA and ISHR analysis shows that over the past year the thematic UN Special Procedures have consistently pushed for better protection of the human rights of LGBTI persons. The observation follows an update of ILGA & ISHR's series of factsheets, which list the references and recommendations made regarding LGBTI persons and SOGIESC in communications, thematic reports and country visits by mandate holders. In addition to the 34 mandates who had already made progress in terms of addressing SOGIESC since 2011, three new Special Procedures – the Independent Expert on albinism, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Working Group on the use of mercenaries – started to include LGBTI issues in their activities.
Overall, in relation to LGBTI topics, the thematic Special Procedures sent 29 new communications,[1] issued 31 reports on country visits and published 34 thematic reports.
We welcome the ongoing attention that these experts are paying to SOGIESC human rights issues, including particular attention to the situation of LGBTI activists and growing recognition of intersectional problems, such as those of LGBTI migrants/refugees. At the same time, we encourage the mandate holders to strength their analysis of specific populations within LGBTI communities, such as LBQ women, trans or intersex persons, and to look into the situation of LGBTI persons who are not necessarily activists.
Find out more about the trends in 2019 below! You can find the updated factsheets here.
Which experts include LGBTI issues most regularly?
The mandates that made the most regular references to SOGIESC issues were:
2019 SOGIESC thematic reports, country visits and communications by mandates
Which parts of the world are getting most attention?
Geographically, the mandates of Special Procedures cover all the parts of the world, and they made SOGIESC-inclusive communications or country reports on states from all five UN geographical clusters.
Taking into account the local situations and regional trends, this distribution is generally balanced. The highest number of references were made on countries from the Asia-Pacific Group (15 items), followed by the African Group (13 items), the Latin American and Caribbean Group – GRULAC (12 items), the Eastern European Group – EEG (10 items), and then the Western European and Others Group – WEOG with only 8 items.
2019 SOGIESC communications and country visits – According to UN regions
29 new communications on SOGIESC – letters concerning allegations of human rights violations – were sent by thematic mandates for the period from 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2019 and published in three Human Rights Council (HRC) reports in 2019.
The vast majority of the communications (26) were made with the Independent expert on SOGI. The other top three mandates were the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression (16 communications each), and the Working Group on discrimination against women (13 communications). In a welcome advance, five mandates (food, sale of children, counter-terrorism, trafficking, and water and sanitation) made their first communications covering LGBTI topics.
Communications covering SOGIESC issues were sent to 21 states in all regions: Armenia, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritius, Peru, Romania, Russian Federations, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United States of America.
Countries that received communcations
While most of the communications were addressed to states, one was sent to the UN Refugee Agency – UNHCR, and another to the International Association of Athletics Federations – IAAF.
When it comes to specific populations and topics, the vast majority of communications were related to the situation of LGBTI human rights defenders and challenges they face due to their activities. Some communications went beyond this important area, and examined other areas of human rights where LGBTI face challenges.
Only one communication concerned intersex persons specifically. Three communications referred to discrimination and violence against LGBTI migrants or refugees, and two communications raised the problem of criminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts. Four communications addressed limitations on dissemination of SOGIESC-related information, particularly in education.
Country visits
In 31 reports on visits thematic mandates made to 25 different countries, the Special Procedures referred to LGBTI issues.
Country visit reports published
The countries are in all regions: Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Bhutan, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Georgia, Honduras, Ireland, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Malaysia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Uruguay.
Thematic reports
Special Procedures also included SOGIESC elements in their thematic reports to the Human Rights Council and General Assembly. 34 reports (almost 50% of all the thematic reports presented in 2019) mentioned at least some LGBTI topics, with 11 of these reports – set out in the table below – including good or strong references to LGBTI populations.
|Report Topic
|Cultural Rights
|Importance of public spaces for the exercise of cultural rights
|Good references to LGBTI & gender-diverse persons (need for public authorities to ensure protection from shaming, exclusion and abuse in public spaces, including by changing discriminatory attitudes).
|Discrimination against women
|Women deprived of liberty
|Good reference to SGE, SOGI, "sexual and gender non-conforming women", "sexual and gender minorities", transgender women and sexuality (higher risks due to intersectionality; institutionalization and "conversion therapies"; criminalisation and deprivation of liberty, police profiling and targeting of trans sex workers; a recommendation to ban laws and practices policing, targeting, punishing or confining women in relation to consensual sexual behaviour or decisions, including expressions of sexuality).
|Freedom of peaceful assembly and association
|Rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the digital age
|Good reference to LGBTI (risks and different forms of violations faced by LGBTI persons in relation to internet and mobile apps; examples of protective measures adopted by online platforms).
|Human rights defenders
|Impunity for human rights violations against human rights defenders
|Good reference to LGBTI and SOGI (differentiated and intersectional approach recognizing that certain peoples, groups or individuals need different levels of protection owing to specific situations of clear vulnerability).
|Human rights defenders
|Women Human Rights Defenders
|Strong references to LGBTI and SOGI (rise of "gender ideology" concept as posited by religious leaders, politicians and conservative groups; gendered risks faced by women human rights defenders, women human rights defenders working on women's rights, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive rights, including SOGIE).
|Impact of migration on migrant women and girls
|Good reference to LGBTI and SO (Specific challenges faced by migrant women belonging to the LGBTI community).
|Security and surveillance; privacy and gender; health data protection
|Good reference to SOGIESC, LGBTQI, LGB and intersex (SOGI as covered by the concept of privacy in the HRCtee's practice; LGBTQI and internet; surgeries towards intersex children as a privacy intrusion; image-based abused experienced by LGB; reference to YP+10).
|Socio-cultural and economic inclusion
|The whole report
|Data collection and management as a means to create heightened awareness of violence and discrimination based on SOGI
|The whole report
|Relevance of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to domestic violence
|Good reference to SOGIESC and SO ("honour crimes", "conversion therapy", "reparative therapy").
|Water and Sanitation
|Human rights to water and sanitation in spheres of life beyond the household with an emphasis on public spaces
|Strong references to transgender persons, LGBTI and GI (lack of access outside the household leading to economic and social disempowerment of marginalized groups, particularly LGBTI persons, particular experiences of trans persons, considering needs of women and transgender persons in design of water and sanitation facilities in public spaces).
Photo credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten
[1] Communications published in HRC reports in 2019 (which are communications sent between 1 June 2018 and 31 May 2019). The updated factsheets, however, include information on those communications which have been published between January 2011 and October 2019.


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As the self-proclaimed expert on all things Southern California, I would like to practice an age-old technique of Hollywood and take ownership of something that is not even remotely ours: Vegas, baby!
But it is hard to own an illusion.
On a recent convention trip to Vegas, I marveled at how the artificial atmosphere piped into the casinos makes it suddenly not seem obscenely grotesque that an 8 oz. steak can cost $280. Or, for that matter, that a bunch of guys in blue paint can get $250 a ticket for a show, when we used to do that for free in the dorms.
Sin City is where the American Dream has been egregiously mutated from "hard work can lead to prosperity and success" to "somebody has to win, so why not me?"
Sometimes Vegas even offers its own warnings about itself: the startling image of immense opulence placed side by side with the impact crater of a fall from grace.
I saw this firsthand when I passed by the little unclaimed part of the strip that houses the crappy souvenir shops, between the themed monstrosities, and saw a familiar face in a small sidewalk storefront window. Is that? Could it be? A barker confirmed that yes, that actually is THE Pete Rose, the greatest hitter in baseball history, and you can go inside and buy his autograph right now while he ignores you and chomps on a Subway sandwich. So I did, of course.
Vegas always seems like such a great idea before going; just the mention of it makes people yell the name inappropriately loud, move ineptly to some sort of inner hip-hop beat, and quote lines from the Vegas commercials like they are threats.
When the time rolls around to leave this giant adult amusement park, however, your whole being feels inundated with a rancid smoky smell that desperately needs to be laundered before setting foot in the house; once again, sucked in by an alluring, empty promise.
Vegas makes me want to shake the shoulders of the chain-smoking couple from Kansas, he in his cargo shorts and fanny pack and she in her perm and parachute pants, and shout, "How do you think they can afford to have beautiful green golf courses in the middle of a desert that even nuclear testing in the 60's avoided? Think for just a second before you slip your credit card into that machine!"
But as I am shouting, you can almost see the thought bubbles rising above their heads saying, "Somebody has to win. Why not me?"
Three in the morning, long after the last turn around the convention floor had ended, and the last speaker had stepped down from the podium thinking to himself, "Yeah, nailed it!" I found myself in the bar. Shocking, I know.
I was amazed at how many ridiculously pretty young women were everywhere. It was like a coed mirage. At 3 a.m. Flirting with guys, getting them to buy them drinks. How could they afford to be there? I know it was Spring Break, but still. When I was in college, I had to take up a collection just to buy a Big Mac as a treat on a date.
I asked my barber about those women and he said they were hookers. I said, "But no, they were pretty young girls trying to work their way through college by dancing at night clubs and . . . ooooohhhhhhh."
So farewell Las Vegas. It sure is pretty to look at in a weird Blade Runner sort of way. But I do like it better in my rear view mirror. I usually have to wait at least three years to go back. It takes that long to shake the image of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Kansas, still wandering the rows of machines after I have slept and had breakfast, their eyes glazed over with nicotine and defeat.
For the record, I beat the system. I went 43 hours without playing any games. No card tables, no slot machines, no wheels. So for the first time ever, I left there ahead.
Maybe I'll play next time I go. After all, somebody has to win…


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THE GUARDIAN: The director began meditating on the set of his debut feature, Eraserhead, back in the 70s and recently wrote a book (Catching the Big Fish) about the influence of TM on his creative process. Ask him about specific films, songs or paintings, and Lynch's responses come swathed in shadow. Shift him on to the subject of transcendental meditation, however, and it's though the lights have come on. It's beautiful, he insists. We're beautiful. Happiness lies within. Enlightenment is our birthright.Is it pedantic to note the obvious paradox here? Fair enough that Lynch, via the magic of TM, has achieved an exalted level of happiness and serenity. And yet out of this blissful state come films (The Straight Story aside) that are black and twisted and reeking of sulphur. Try as I might, I can't square the circle.
"Yep," he concedes. "Sure. But it's not so much what you make; it's the lack of suffering when you make it. There's so much happiness in the dark worlds, or in translating the ideas that come. And if you can get rid of the negativity that restricts your energy, it's as though a load has lifted. Then you can dive into the treasury every day and still more energy comes from that. I mean, you can't control what people are gonna think about a movie or a painting. So you better enjoy the doing."
"But," I begin. "If what you dredge up is the dark sludge of the subconscious …"
"It's not the dark sludge of the sub-conscious," he interrupts. "A cinema idea is simply something that cinema can say and which reflects the world. We live in a pretty dark and troubling world right now. The ideas are triggered by the world." Time to try another tack. What value does he place on firsthand experience; on viewing the "dark world" at eye level? In his days as an art student, for instance, Lynch lived with his first wife (Peggy Reavey) in a run-down area of Philadelphia. He has described this as an intense and uncertain time in an intense and dangerous neighbourhood. The Fairmount district, he says, was an important influence on his art and led directly to the writing of Eraserhead ("my Philadelphia Story"), in which a passive young printer nurses a deformed baby and spies a miniature woman crooning about heaven from the radiator at home. Yet Fairmount, I point out, is now a long way behind him.
Lynch nods. "I know what you're saying. But you do not have to suffer to make a film about suffering. I remember the way I felt inside, when I was living in Philadelphia. But that didn't help me make Eraserhead. That hurt me, you know. And in any case, I didn't write Eraserhead in Philadelphia. I wrote it after I left, and it just came out. I don't even remember the first thing that came, just that next thing I knew I had a 21-page script. The ideas can come along at any time." MORE
RELATED: I've got to find the flaming nipple!" No, it's not a line from a David Lynch script. That's the man himself, reacting to the news last year that missing footage from Blue Velvet had been rediscovered. For years, Lynch-heads and film historians had speculated about the whereabouts of the deleted scenes: footage left on the cutting room floor after Lynch snipped his three-and-a-half-hour rough cut into a two-hour movie. Time passed and everyone – director included – figured it was lost for ever. As for the flaming nipple (nipples, in fact), they belong to a dropped scene. "That's one of my favourite scenes," Lynch said in an interview for the book Lynch on Lynch. Why cut it and (metaphorically speaking) kill his baby? "It was too much of a good thing." MORE
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CBS News reporter Leslie Stahl definitely wasn't born a coal miner's daughter.
On the August 15 edition of '60 Minutes,' Stahl featured a 13-minute segment about coal ash, a byproduct of coal production, and revisited the infamous December 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) spill that was 100 times larger than the Exxon
"Would you say that the industry has done a good job of disposing of the coal ash waste," Stahl asked Jim Rower, an industry lobbyist.
Incidentally, Stahl contradicted herself later in the piece by stating that states regulate coal ash disposition, meaning industries merely comply with government standards.
Stahl didn't let this contradiction stop her crusade against "the industry." Stahl harped on the EPA for not declaring coal ash a hazardous waste and chided EPA Head Lisa Jackson to regulate coal ash immediately.
"Why wouldn't you, right now, this minute, on '60 Minutes,' declare that coal ash is a hazardous waste?" Stahl demanded.
Stahl even conjured up the Bush Administration and magically linked it to leaked coal ash toxins from a recycling process known as beneficial use:
"But the EPA and the Bush Administration endorsed beneficial use and now coal ash is recycled in dozens of ways."
Even when she interviewed a TVA manager, Stahl omitted that the TVA is government-owned and challenged the manager on the disaster.
"Shouldn't the TVA have seen this coming?" Stahl asked.
Essentially: Shouldn't the government have seen this coming?
Stahl saved her strongest bias for her closing interview with Rower, where she shoved all the blame on the coal industry and made no effort to conceal her bias:
"I don't think many people really trust the utility bus -- industry, I'm sorry to tell you."
As the Business & Media Institute reported last year, the media omitted all ties the TVA had to the federal government and instead focused their attacks on the coal industry. In fact, the coal industry is one of the media's favorite punching bags yet the media continue attacking the industry when it's actually failed government regulations that should shoulder the blame.
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Under the banner of UnderToneAudio, Valentine and his team of techs have taken these creations out of the basement and made them a viable commodity for anyone interested in great recording equipment. In honor of the new relationship between Vintage King and UnderTone, Eric Valentine sat down for a chat with VK and talked all things recording.
Did you start recording music or working on gear first?
I definitely got interested in recording when I was young. I sort of pieced together home recording setups with tape decks, Radio Shack mixers and that sort of stuff. My father was an electrical engineer, he worked in aerospace, so I grew up with electronics and there was just a lot of that stuff around. I didn't really intentionally get into it until later on. I always wired my own studios and felt comfortable soldering, all that sort of stuff, but I didn't really get into it until about ten years ago.
Which is roughly around the time that you formed UnderToneAudio?
Yeah. It started when I was faced with this issue that nobody was building a recording console that was going to work for me. I had owned a procession of Neve consoles over the years. The first one was a vintage 8038 with 32 1081s in it and it was just a beautiful console. It was great for tracking, but not that extraordinary for mixing.
After that I got an 8128 and I really loved that console, but it was just falling apart and I was just tired of replacing buttons and having things disappear in the middle of a mix. I just couldn't rely on it anymore. So then I bought a new Neve console, which is amazing, but it just wasn't right for me. It was too big, too much to use and insanely expensive. I just needed to have a console that fit into my workflow.
I was fortunate enough to meet this guy, Larry Jasper, who is hands down the most brilliant studio tech and audio design person I've ever met in my life. It was really because of the relationship with him that I felt comfortable moving forward and designing a console. He's the guy that does the heavy lifting of the design at the circuit level. He and I, together, developed the circuitry for the two consoles we built that were for my recording facilities.
At the end of the process, a lot of people were very interested and it seemed like people would be into owning the equalizer and circuitry that we came up with. There was something about it that was really unique and had never been done before. That's when we decided to go ahead and pursue it as a product.
When you're starting from scratch with a console, what are your first thoughts?
The two main things that I needed were to have a console that had the sound quality of the vintage Neve, but with a much more flexible equalizer. That's the thing. It just didn't exist. It was a Class A vintage circuit with an equalizer that could get really surgical. With all the consoles I had been using, there was always this point where I was like "I'm going to have to go to an outboard equalizer to make this sound right." If I have a console that has 50 to 60 equalizers in it, I want that to be my first choice, at least 90% of the time. Those were the main goals for me, so that's what we did.
There are some things designed into the UnderTone circuitry that are really meant to address some of that. Larry has some very specific concepts about the liabilities of digital recording. There can be some pretty nasty artifacts in the extended high frequency range, above where the anti-aliasing filter is, so the UnderTone circuitry has additional filtering up in that range. This happens in particular with the 96k sample frequency.
The sample frequency that has artifacts left over can be very similar in range to the oscillator frequency on a tape machine. So, if you're playing something off a computer, and putting it on a tape, there will be an interaction that can throw off the biasing on the tape machine. This is very finite, theoretical stuff, but this is the kind of stuff we considered during the design.
The other side of that is the console, and all audio gear in general, needs to have a low catch filter that is filtering out any possible interference from RF signals. All sorts of gear has done it different ways, some of the older gear was more aggressive about it, especially the EMI gear, the TGI series stuff, it has an incredibly aggressive low pass filter. So much so that it caused a phase shift in the high frequencies. On a TGI series console, you can't really do parallel anything on that console because if you have one signal that shows up in a channel and then come outs and goes into another channel, the high frequencies will cancel out.
On the UnderTone stuff, we put a lot of effort into filtering in a way that would not cause a phase shift in the high frequencies. There is a linear phase design, which is a three phase filter that does it on the UnderTone console.
In Part 2 of our discussion with Eric Valentine, talk turns to UnderToneAudio's famed MPEQ-1, which is now available through Vintage King. Learn how this mic pre/equalizer evolved over time and has become the backbone of Eric's recording techniques.
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Hi Friends,
It is very difficult to share what God allowed me to do for Him for 5 weeks in Kenya, Uganda and Hungary. Any stories or comments that I share are only because of God, not me. I was only willing to be obedient to God's calling to go and share His Good News.
Thank you to those of you who financially support our family and ministry and those who pray for us.
Every trip, anywhere, is difficult when you are going to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of you know this from your ministries or mission trips you have taken. But God is in control.
"So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:11
Pastors Conference: I taught 2 days at a conference outside of Kisumu. 20–30 pastors traveled to be at this conference. Many traveled up to 150 km to come. Some walked, others rode their bicycles. Only God knew what these pastors needed to hear and it is only through His guidance that I was able to share and to serve.
"I have received more knowledge and useful teaching in these 2 days, than I heard from other visiting pastors. Thank you."
— Pastor, Kenya
"Five pastors have called me to tell me how much your teaching and messages had impacted them and it was what they needed to hear."
— Pastor John, Kisumu
Evangelistic Crusade Outreach: I preached 3 evenings in a very poor section of Kisumu. Several people repented and gave their lives to Jesus Christ.
Orphanages: I visited one of the orphanages that our ministry has been able to support for the past 2 years. I was also blessed to lay the 'cornerstone' for Pastor John's new orphanage and school.
Prison: I shared my testimony and proclaimed the Gospel to many prisoners. When I asked them to pray with me and to repent of their sins and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, about 50 raised their hands.
Schools: One day we drove through the interior for over an hour looking for a school that had invited me to visit. We located a school and drove in. After speaking with the Headmaster and teacher, Pastor John realized that this was the wrong school. They asked me to speak with the children since we were there. I shared some of my life and made them laugh a few times. I then shared how Jesus changed my life and allows me to travel to many places to tell people about Him. I gave the Gospel message and asked them to pray with me if they wanted to know Jesus. All I heard was a chorus of voices asking Jesus into their lives. God obviously had planned for us to visit this school. PTL!
We then drove some more and walked to the next village and found the correct school. I again shared some of my life and made them laugh, then shared how Jesus changed my life and allows me to travel to many places to tell people about Him. I gave the Gospel message and asked them to pray with me if they wanted to know Jesus. All I heard again was a chorus of voices asking Jesus into their lives. A few of the children were wiping away tears after we prayed. God is awesome.
Churches: I preached and taught at 5 church services during my 10 days in the Kampala area. Several people that had given their lives to Jesus at the crusade in Entebbe, came to the local church the following Sunday to join.
Bibles: We provided for the church in Entebbe to purchase several Bibles in the local language. The people were so excited for this blessing.
School: I visited the school that Pastor Ben operates. Our ministry has been able to help support several children and also help purchase the land for the school.
Evangelistic Crusade Outreach: I preached 4 evenings in a village in Entebbe. This was in an area where there was a 'witch temple' and strong muslim influence. God gave me the messages that He wanted me to share each night and many people repented and gave their lives to Jesus. This was a difficult week and when I shared with my good friend Pastor Benjamin how exhausted I was, he said, "You've been in a battle brother. You preached against false religions and brought people to Jesus and Satan didn't want you to do this. But God is powerful." Amen.
I was in several areas close to Budapest and Debrecen.
Youth Groups: I spoke at 2 youth meetings of 15–23 year olds. I shared about the work that God has called me to and where my family and I have been able to serve. I challenged them to stand up for their faith in Jesus Christ, no matter the consequences. I encouraged them to use the talents, skills and gifts that God has given each of them to bring Him Glory. It was awesome to see many young people excited about their faith and wanting to serve Jesus. In both meetings I received comments from individuals on how my message had brought them closer to God.
Concerts: I was very busy with evangelistic concerts in many places.
Churches: Many churches hosted an evening concert and advertised in their community that I would be there to share music and my life. Many unbelievers came to these. I played several styles of music for about 1 1/2 hours and shared a message and proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The pastors were very pleased that many came and heard the Gospel. Eastern Europe is still a very difficult place to share the Gospel. Only about 1% of the people have committed their lives to Jesus.
Senior Home: I shared music, pictures from Africa and gave the Gospel. Many thanked me for coming to be with them.
Jail for delinquent teenage boys: I gave a concert to about 100 boys in this place. I presented the Gospel and challenged them to give their lives to Jesus Christ. Afterward, one boy came up and thanked me for coming to be with them and for the message.
Culture House: This is the main facility for events and concerts in many European cities. A brass band from the local Baptist Church performed before I started. Over 100 people came to hear the music and they also heard the Gospel. Many were guests and not Christians.
Art Gallery: A new church plant hosted an outreach concert in a Art Gallery in their city. Many guests came as well as a reporter from the local newspaper.
Coffee Club: A beautiful Christian Coffee House in Debrecen invited me to be with them. Many guests came as well. One of the organizers said to the crowd afterwards, "We have many guests come to speak to us and challenge our thinking, but tonight, Scott came and touched our hearts."
Church Services and Bible Study: I preached in Sunday morning services and also taught an evening lesson at a local church Bible study.
Online News site: I was interviewed for an online news site.
It is hard to put into words what God allowed me to do for Him.
Kenya and Uganda are very poor countries. An average income would be maybe $1 per day. Yet the people are open to hearing about the True God, Jesus Christ. Close to 50% of the people follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
"You are correct in saying that we are blessed with many Christians. Africans only have God to depend on, not jobs, not money, not material things as in the USA or Europe."
— Bishop, Kenya
Hungary, like other countries we serve in Eastern Europe, is very difficult ground to plant God's seed. But God's Word does not return to Him void. An average income would be about $500 per month. The people and churches are struggling with economic challenges as well.
"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects him who sent me." Luke 10:16
I have invitations to return to these countries next year. There is much work to be done to stand with and work next to the local churches and pastors. There are great men and women of God in these places that are my very good and dear friends. Please pray for them.
Thank you for being a partner with our ministry. Please pray about becoming one of our monthly supporters. Our family can not follow God's calling in our lives without you.
"And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'" Romans 10:15
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We're back in the mountains … the drive yesterday wasn't bad and Finn slept through most of it but he was excited as we got close to the house. Ready to be out of the car I'm sure after 9 hours!
I was afraid that the Autumn leaves would all be gone when we returned especially since Zeta came through the area with tropical storm force winds last week but there's still plenty of color which makes me very happy and I need some "happy" right now.
The front yard
The back
Another view of the front coming around the side of the house.
It's a gorgeous day today and I had my lunch outside on the porch and even crocheted a bit. I started a linen stitch Afghan last night with the Mandala Ombré yarn in blues and greens. It's a mess downstairs since they started on finishing the future longarm room … I wished they'd put up some plastic and shut doors because the drywall dust has gone everywhere but I'll be happy when it's done.
It will have a drop ceiling like the rest of the terrace level. It's only got one window but I'll have good overhead light and the longarm will be placed near the window. I'll also have my desk and files in the room as well as a bunch of shelving units lining the walls. Of course, those are future plans for when we move here permanently and in the meantime I'll use it as an extra guest room.
It's hard not to be discouraged by the election news but I'm hoping that when all the votes are counted the result will be what I want – a return to a better, kinder, more compassionate America. In the meantime, while the vote counting continues, I'm making more masks and will layer and start hand quilting one of the doll quilts the rest of this week. Next week I'll start a new quilt.


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Khan taps fund for new enterprise
Byline: Geoff Kirbyson
It's hard to imagine Obby Khan as the poster child for anything.
Yet, as incredulous as it might seem, the former Winnipeg Blue Bomber was trotted out at an event hosted by the Canadian Youth Business Foundation Tuesday morning.
The 33-year-old former offensive lineman and proprietor of Shawarma Khan restaurant has just received a second round of funding from the CYBF to open up another eatery.
A yet-to-be named juice bar is currently under construction in Osborne Village.
Khan said without the kick-start from CYBF, which provides business resources, financing and mentoring for entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 39, it would have been much more difficult and taken longer for him to open up his Exchange District eatery.
"It's a lot easier when somebody like CYBF is opening doors for you," he said.
Joelle Foster, CYBF director for Manitoba, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, wants to encourage soon-to-be graduates to consider entrepreneurship as a career and to base their operations out of Manitoba.
Since hanging up the CYBF shingle three years ago, Foster has funded 94 entrepreneurs, including 11 restaurants, with a success rate of 95 per cent.
Would-be business owners can get $15,000 without any collateral, $30,000 through a combination of CYBF and the Business Development Bank of Canada and another $30,000 through a business startup program at the Royal Bank. "I can get somebody $75,000 no problem," she said.
Scott MacAulay, entrepreneurship practicum course leader at Red River College, said textbook entrepreneurialism doesn't work. But if you show would-be business owners the right things to do, you can "activate" them.
For years, he would work with young people in building a sophisticated business plan, but when it came time to go and get the financing, which was sometimes into six figures, they'd balk.
Now he uses the "small cliffs theory," which espouses taking many smaller steps to get something off the ground.
"Make one sale, get your business registered or go sell your product at a card table at a farmers market," he said.
"If you do something too big or too sophisticated, it's overload. You need to have lots of little steps."
In a little more than a year, Khan will have created 25 jobs, including 10 at the new juice bar. He has no intention of slowing down, either.
"The Khan empire is growing. There's something else in the works, but I can't mention it yet. Hopefully, CYBF gives me another $75,000 and we'll open another venture in a year," he said.
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So last year we posted about Galimatias saying that it was only a matter of time 'til he got his much deserved recognition. He got signed to Ultra Records and released his debut EP with them last week!!
His sound always manages to bring me back down to earth, but it could just be the combo of Alina's incredibly soothing vocals. 'Unfold' was saved for the complete EP release, and it embodies everything I love about the pair working together. Check the single and EP below.
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at the santa monica pier
Stacey is writing letters to God now. Uh-huh. Sam calls her the little prophet. My little prophet, he calls her. Because she talks to God. Funny, right? Every day after school she goes upstairs and lies down under her bed—yes, under it, with a flashlight—and writes these letters. At first I told myself, all right, she's being quiet, she's writing, for Pete's sake, who cares what about? But it made me nervous. What does an eight-year-old have to say to God that she can't say to her mother? I remember when she was born. They brought her to me and all I could think about was how ugly she looked, like a blowfish, with these tiny wriggling limbs—and I remember thinking, Please don't let her stay ugly. Sam wants to cut her hair because it gets so tangled and she sheds all over the place, but it's such pretty hair, so thick—a man can't appreciate that. I mean, he appreciates it when he sees it, but he doesn't connect things. They don't know that beauty is work, that it's hard. So he wants to cut her hair. I said no. And now she's writing letters to God. Once I took her to the Santa Monica Pier. She was six, or five. I don't remember. We drove all the way to Santa Monica. It was a clear, bright day and she was an angel through all the traffic, just sat in the car seat with her back straight and her hands in her lap, like a little Buddha. She smiled. Then we got there, and the second we get out of the car, she starts wailing. I said, Look, honey, look at the Ferris Wheel. Don't you want to ride the Ferris Wheel? People looking at us. I swear, the second we got out of the car. I took her hand and tried to get her walking, but she went completely limp and fell to her knees. Sobbing now. The look on her face—it looked like sadness, like real sadness. Like she'd just felt the hurt of something a long time coming. What does a six-year-old know about sadness? And now she's writing letters to God. I couldn't pick her up, the way she was thrashing around, and she wouldn't even let me kneel next to her, so I stood there saying, Stacey, stop, please stop. Stacey, what's wrong? Won't you tell Mommy what's wrong? People looking at us. She pounded her fists into the pavement. Her dress—I'd bought her this little blue sun dress—ruined. And then, just like that, she stops. She stands up and looks at me and says, All right, let's go on the Ferris Wheel. Well, at that point, I wasn't having it. You're supposed to put your foot down in these kinds of situations—right? I mean, you have to teach them some way—right? I said, Young lady, you've missed your window, and she said, What? She didn't know the expression. Of course she didn't. She was six, or five. I decided, Fine, we won't go home now, but we won't go to the boardwalk either. I figured I'd take her to the beach, fair compromise. I like the beach. I like the way you have to squint. I like how the ocean sounds like radio static. We didn't have towels or swimsuits so I just stripped her down to her underwear and got my book out of the car—it was To the Lighthouse, I don't know how I remember that—and I sat in the sand, half watching her, half reading. You know when you try to do two things at once and you wind up doing neither of them? It was like that. Just the white noise of the ocean and the hot sand sticking to my legs. The smell of salt. Palm trees waving. I got to the part of the book where Mr. Ramsey reaches out for Mrs. Ramsey, but she's already gone. I was only paying half-attention, as I said, and I was annoyed with myself because that part of the book is supposed to give you chills. Mrs. Ramsey. Now there's a mother. Anyway, I was staring at the passage, trying to take it in, and Stacey comes up and gives me a sand dollar. She said, Here, Mom, I found this for you. That look again, that same sadness. I'm imagining this. I must have been imagining this. I always wanted to be a mother. It wasn't that I didn't have ambitions—I was going to be a marine biologist too, so much for that—but I always wanted to be a mother. My scrapbooks. Who else would ever be interested in my scrapbooks? I have these old Pogo comic books somewhere in the garage—I bought them for a dime apiece when I was her age—and I wanted someone to give those to. Look, I have to tell you something. I read the letters—the ones to God, I mean. I knew it was wrong, but she gives them to me to mail—I have no idea where she thinks I'm going to send them—and I've been keeping them in my dresser drawer. One day, when she was at school, I sat down and read them all. You know what they are? They're lists of things she wants. Like, she mixed up God and Santa Claus. Dear God, please give me a Razor scooter. That kind of stuff. I love her. Of course I love her. It's just that sometimes I don't know what to do. You think it's going to be one way, but then you have a kid and all they do is grow away from you. That's all they do.


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Take a guess where I found him....??
VENEZIA....I can't get enough of her charms...there are always mysteries to reveal. I've been traveling to Venice for years...I'm an artist and photographer. I love to wander down every calle and into every osteria, church, bar, shop, gallery..... Here's a link to my other blog.... Bailey Zimmerman
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
A stern fellow.....
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I would take a guess at the Giardini Pubblici, Linda. Though I haven't seen the chap in your photo, there is a bust of another airman - Pier Luigi Penzo.ReplyDelete
Bert....I took this photo in San Michele. I will definitely return in November...and get all the info re: this airman!ReplyDelete
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"Spinning" - "Slip-Cast" - "Spincast"
From the pages of the January 1948 issue of Outdoor Life comes this advertisement for the "new Ashaway Slip-Cast Reel." To today's angler the Ashaway Slip-Cast reel looks at first glance like an open face spinning reel that has been mounted upside down on a bait casting rod. Close observation will show that once the bail was opened the line was controlled by use of a lever pushed by one's thumb which raised ("teeter-toter" fashion) a mechanical finger to block or release line from the spool.
In many ways this reel was the predecessor of so-called "spincast" reels that were closed faced and sat upright on older bait casting rods. The whole idea of "spinning" as a fishing method was so new at this time that many folks just didn't know what to make of it. Magazines contained regular articles and many books were published explaining "spinning" to the public as if it were too mysterious for the average person to figure out it on their own. The Term "slip-cast fishing" was occasionally used by fishing writers of the day along with term "thread-line fishing." I am unaware of any tackle company using the "Slip Cast" nomenclature other than Ashaway.
The portion of this ad entitled "NOTE THESE FEATURES" alludes to two aspects of the arrival of spinning that seem lost in today's memory. The first is the feature "right hand" crank. Unless you were there, it is hard to impress on today's fisherman just how foreign the left hand crank on most spinning reels seemed to those of us who grew up with the standard bait casting reel. Ashaway was obviously trying to cash in on this prejudice among older fishermen. It also points out that the reel is "mounted on top of the rod" where it had always been and where many baitcasters felt that it still belonged. This feature also meant that it would work on that bait casting rod which Ashaway presumed you already owned.
Ashaway was of course, a line company first and foremost. One of the problems with the early use of spinning reels was that braided line was the only option until monofilament (of an acceptable quality) became available. Most lines that were used for "spinning" at that time were thin braided nylon that usually tested somewhere between 4 and 8 pounds. The following pictures show two seemingly identical spools of 5 pound test line. I cannot detect the slightest difference in the line itself, but when we look on the other side of the spools, one is labeled "Slip-Casting Line for use on Slip-Casting reels" and the other is labeled "Spinning Line for use on Spinning Reels."
Both these spools were shown in the 1951 catalog (compliments of John Etchieson). Only braided "spinning" line is listed in 1955. My thoughts are that this was an attempt to corner the "Slip-Cast" market while also selling to those who chose "spinning" reels. Eventually Ashaway deferred to the term "spinning" when it became obvious that would be the name which was, in the end, accepted by the fishing public.
-- Bill Sonnett


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by Amy, mom to Naomi from China with cleft lip and gumline, Hep B and an abundance of joy
Our adoption journey started in 2002. My first born son was just 2 years old. We were at an Easter party when a friend stopped by with her brand new daughter from China. She did not get out of the car because her new little one was screaming. I peeked into the back seat of the car and saw the cutest, saddest, maddest, sweetest little China doll. It was from that moment that I knew I had to have a daughter from China.
Several years later the same friend was in the process of adopting her second little one from China. She was looking at the agency's SN list and saw a little one with Hep B. She works for a GI doc who happens to be Chinese, so she asked him to take a look at a SN little girl with Hep B. His response was, "looks good, but what is the special need?" Her Doctor/boss did not view Hep B as a SN and told her to "go for it" as Hep B was most often very manageable. That little story got tucked away deep in my memory bank.
Fast forward a couple of years to December 2003 when my second son was born. We now enjoyed two wonderful boys yet we still wanted a daughter. Because of the overwhelming number of boys in my husband's family, he figured a girl wasn't in the cards. I brought up adoption often, but he just felt done. We had our two great kids and he did not want to be out numbered. There were a many nights I went to bed sad. I so desperately wanted my daughter from China but knew that we both had to want her. I finally dropped it… I was not going to talk about China anymore.
Out of no where, in December 2006 I was sitting on the couch, Pete on the floor when he looked up at me and said " I want a daughter- let's adopt". We selected our agency (the same agency that brought my inspiration home to be with her momma) and got going on the mountains of paperwork. We had a LID of June 4, 2007 for a NSN child. After waiting almost a year and figuring we would be waiting at least another 5, we decided to switch to SN. Our son has Noonan syndrome so we knew we could handle some special needs, as he is a joy and a blessing. His milestones brought so much joy to us. When it came time for us to fill out our SN checklist, Hep B seemed like an obvious choice. Several others however, were much more difficult.
We started looking at the SN list and I became a bit obsessed. The looking, losing, locking and sometimes dismissing of files was absolutely draining. We found the selection process completely unnatural and when we did not agree on the child for one reason or another, had to keep in mind that we must both agree 100% before saying yes. Information from China is often incomplete or inaccurate so we sought out help from several universities on the medical information. We each had our hearts broken and sometimes questioned ourselves for having the ability to ever say no to a child in need, no matter how severely it may impact our family. This part of the journey I would not wish upon my worst enemy. It was very hard and painful.
August 13, 2008 I had a dream that I woke up looked out our bedroom window and saw a beautiful blue sky with a Cherry blossom tree blooming . . . That very morning we got "the call" at 7:15. Myriam told us we had an 11 month old baby girl with a cleft lip and palate with Hep B. I immediately fell in love and the excitement was indescribable. Pete was a little hesitant but gave the go-ahead. He was a little weirded out by her lip in the photo even though he knew this was "supposed" to be manageable. We received an update from Ladybugsnlove.com in September. Our daughter was in foster care and her lip had been repaired. What a surprise. We later found out that Love without Boundaries did the repair. We are so grateful.
I traveled to China with my dad and sister and an amazing group of people. My husband wanted to stay with our boys because he felt uncomfortable leaving them for so long. What a wonderful journey it was. I loved our trip and the country. I brought home the best souvenir a family could have asked for… little Mei Mei (Naomi).
Our daughter has been home with us for a couple of months. We have seen the gastroenterologist/hepatologist for her Hep B. We will go back in 6 months so they can check her levels again. So far the doctor thinks she is a classic case and probably won't need any treatment for a very very long time. We had an appointment with the cleft team they say her lip looks good and she does not have a cleft palate. Good news!!! She will need her gum line repaired as well as a nose and lip revision when she is around 5 or 6.
Our daughter is an absolute joy. Her brothers adore her as she does them. Last night as my husband laid Naomi in her bed he told her he loved her and she made his dreams of having a daughter come true. Sometimes my husband and I just look at her and know she is clearly our little girl. She makes everyone laugh. I am constantly amazed by her, she is beautiful inside and out. God truly gave us the perfect little girl. I am in Love all over again. I can't explain how much this little girl has brought to our family, so much love and joy and a little chaos too. And it has been so fun to have a little pink in our house. I would do this all over again in a heart beat.
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With a dislocated his hip, #Broncos defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson will miss at least six weeks, per @AdamSchefter.
— Jon Heath (@JonHeathNFL) November 26, 2013
Can you name the number of injuries the Broncos have had to their defensive front at this point? I sure can't. This one hurts because the big man along with Terrance Knighton has helped the Broncos front 7 become one of the stingiest units against the run.
As far as who would replace him, look for Sylvester Williams to gain an increased role.
Next man up--we still have reserves???


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Like most cultures, Australians have their own set of songs which are special to their hearts. And like other cultures in which alcohol plays a large part, a lot of those songs do revolve around the amber nectar.
But for a sneak preview of a traditional song, click here to bring a tear to your eye.
|An Aussie belting out one of his favourite songs
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This song is popular whenever hoards of drunken Australians get together. It could be heard at the footy, on a pub crawl, at a barbie or even down at your local pub. It's easy to remember and a cack to sing.
More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer
More beer, more beer, more beer,
More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer
More beer, more beer, more beer.
An Australian was teaching this cracker to a Canadian in London, Canada in 1998. After hearing the first verse the Canadian shook his head in wonder before saying, "You know here we call it Auld lang syne". Same tune, different words.
Aussie Aussie Aussie
This little beauty is generally heard at sporting events. With any luck it will get some coverage in the Olympics in 2000 (UPDATE: indeed it did). Generally one person takes over the very demanding Aussie! role, with the rest of the crowd following with the oy! oy! oy! People who claim we don't have a culture should go to a sporting crowd and start this and see if they respond. Bloody oath they will. Because they are Australians.
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
oy! oy! oy!
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
oy! oy! oy!
The VB Song
You can get it jumpin'
You can get it pumpin'
You can get it pressin' a suit
A hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer
And the best cold beer's VIC
You can get it liftin'
You can get it shiftin'
You can get it any old how
Matter o' fact, I got it now
Fourex Song
Here's to Wally Lewis
For lacing on a boot
Some times he plays it rugged
Some times he plays it cute
When he's carving through the backline
Like a stradbroke Island shark
There's glue on all his fingers
He's the emperor of Lang Park
And when the blues come up here
To try and make a show
They'll go back scratching their heads
Saying which way did he go?
The next time he goes over there
to educate the poms
Perhaps he'll teach a few to sing:
I can feel a fourex coming on
I can feel a fourex coming on
I can feel a fourex coming on.
Got the taste for it
Just can't wait for it
I can feel a fourex coming on.
Waltzing Matilda
Here is one version of the song that is closer to our collective national hearts than any other:
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boilled,
Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me?
Waltzing matilda Waltzing matilda
Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me?
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boilled,
Who'll come a waltzing matilda with me?
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker-bag,
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.
Up came the squatter riding his thoroughbred,
Up came the troopers - one, two and three,
Whose is that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag,
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.
The swagman he up and he jumped in the billabong,
Drowning himself by the coolibah tree,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.
No it is not our national anthem, despite what the rest of the world thinks. Although perhaps it should be. You only have to look at the number of links in the song to see how Australian it is. Although sadly, a lot of Australians wouldn't even know what waltzing matilda even means. This doesn't mean that the song isn't special to them. They just don't know why!
There is actually a lot of history behind the song. It isn't just about some bloke who tops himself because he gets caught having flogged a sheep. It is all about the political strife of the 1890s, and the shearer's strike at that time, and about the fine old Australian tradition of resisting authority.
Click here for a great instrumental from www.waltzingmatilda.com. The site also has much more information on Australia's only folk song.
Take a break from drinking like the author of this article did - Read why and how in his book Between Drinks: Escape the Rout


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#defyhatenow South Sudan Theatre for peacebuilding
The video introduces #defyhatenow workshops, street theatre and dance performances in Juba, with voices from citizens of South Sudan concerning the impact of online hate speech and incitement to violence in their communities.
In November 2016, Adama Dieng, the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide warned of the potential for genocide in South Sudan, noting how social media is contributing to the conflict. Report at UN Security Council on 17th November and Media Briefing by Mr. Adama Dieng on his visit to South Sudan.
#DefyHateNow is an urgent community peacebuilding, training and conflict reconciliation project that aims to strengthen the voices and support the actions of emergent & youth oriented civil society organizations in South Sudan.
Thanks to the South Sudan Theatre Organisation (SSTO) and Aggrey Jaden Cultural Centre. The street drama was developed around issues of hate speech online and incitement to violence offline. Performances at #peacejam, September 21st; Juba Girls Secondary School and PoC sites.
#defyhatenow responds to South Sudan's ongoing civil crisis by addressing the roles played by a wide range of social media users in exacerbating or helping to mitigate these issues, particularly since the eruption of conflicts on December 15, 2013 and July 2016. The initiative aims to raise awareness of and develop means to counter social media based hate speech, conflict rhetoric and directed online incitement to violence.
Use the power of social media to promote peace; bring friends and communities in South Sudan and around the world together.
#defyhatenow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and your favourite apps to become a social media peace mobilizer!
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Very comfy set in beige .
Perfect for every day . Made from light fabric perfect for spring days out.
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The right glider for the right reasons. Able to adapt to all conditions with minimum risk. The perfect balance between ambition and passion with a safe and pleasant glider to fly with. BACK COUNTRY
With the Ikuma no one can stop you to fly the skies at will, and discover new feelings along the way. Immerse yourself into new adventures full of intense emotions in each flight while following the most remote routes.
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Designed to cover a broad range of pilot needs in a new category we have named Back Country, a definition explaining a new flying style rather than defining it by a certification code. The Ikuma meets the criteria demanded by all pilots with various expectations, offering them performance and safety in this new glider.
Tenacity and persistence to always skillfully reach for the next big achievement was the catalyst for Niviuk to design the Ikuma. As with the most precious diamonds found deep in the Earth's surface, our engineers, lead by Olivier Nef, brought the wing to life. Serene, precise and fun to fly, it is the perfect glider to those most passionate and ambitious pilots.
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| MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. - MDA.t is a global communications and information company providing operational solutions to commercial and government organizations worldwide.
MDA's well-established global customer base is served by more than 4,500 employees operating from 11 locations in the United States, Canada and internationally.
On December 16, 2014 the company released News
"Richmond, BC - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company") (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has signed a contract amendment with the Canadian Space Agency for CA$17.7 million extending funding for ongoing support of the Mobile Servicing System on the International Space Station (ISS) through March 2016.
The Mobile Servicing System is comprised of Canadarm2, the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator known as "Dextre," and the Mobile Base System. These three robotic systems perform a variety of operations ranging from resupply, maintenance, servicing tasks, and utilization on the space station that are critical to the on-going operations of the ISS.


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Still, the idea stayed in my head. The fact that the windsurfer who mentioned, Roo, it had helped develop the "standard" GPS unit (the GT-31), helped keeping it there - as did the fact that Roo managed to get an average speed rating of 40.2 knots in the Gorge, and is currently listed as the 3rd fastest windsurfer in the US on gps-speedsurfing.com. I actually got a little "Speed Talker" app for my iPhone that announces GPS speeds - but when I tested it while driving around, I noticed a 5-10 second delay between speed changes and the announcement of the new speed by the app. It seems like the app uses too much dampening to eliminate spikes in the GPS data. After that, I gave up on the idea for the time being.
But two weeks ago in Hatteras, I needed to buy a new waterproof armband for an extra GPS that I had brought along. I got lucky at Wind-NC, where Andy had a DryCase waterproof armband for $40, about the same cost as the the AquaPac armband I had been using. Here's an image:
So for a GPS-loving windsurfing geek, the rest of the story is pretty predictable. I used the bag once or twice with my iPhone (which I had wrapped into a ziplock bag for extra safety). It worked, but I found the delay between actual speed changes and the announcements too irritating. Imaging having just fallen into the water, and the Speed Talker app tells you that you are still going at 20 knots!
So I did a bit of research for alternative apps, and discovered GPS Speed Talker. The great thing about this app is that it was developed by a speed surfer for GPS speed surfing. However, it is only available for android phones. But then, if you are really concerned about using an "officially approved" GPS unit, the app can actually tell you the speed that a GT-31 unit with bluetooth (a BGT-31) measures!
The next stop was to the local Best Buy. In the "No Contract" section, they had Android phones with GPS starting at $89.99. I opted for an LG Optimus V for $129.99 because the provider (Virgin Mobile) offered a cheaper plan ($35/months for including web, messaging, and 300 minutes talk time). I don't have plans to activate the phone right away, but I might just do so in the future (and save about $30 per month compared to my current iPhone plan). Note that the phone is about $20 cheaper than a GT-31!
I tried the setup yesterday in a cold and rainy Nor'easter. Before going out, I had tied a piece of bright foam to the arm band - I have had arm band come off while sailing before, and the bag without any air in it would sink (or at least it did sink when I tried it in the kitchen sink). It worked quite well at first. But later, the wind picked up, and I had a number of falls, sometimes loosing the ear buds. It got pretty loud, too, between the wind, the small waves hitting the board, and the rain. After a while, I did not hear the announcements anymore, perhaps because some water had gotten into the earbuds. A bit later during a swim or waterstart, my arm caught the wire, and pulled the earbuds out of my ear, and the connector out of the housing. I just stuffed the ear phones into my neoprene hood, sailed to shore, and then put them into my dry suit. The ear buds I had used where also from DryCase ("DryBUDS", $29.99), because that't what Wind-NC had in store. They come with 3 different sizes of ear buds; one of these fit well enough on land, but eventually came out. I think I'll have to try different kinds of waterproof headphones - there are many available on amazon.com, starting at $15, and the reviews from swimmers seem helpful.
When I got home, I wanted to compare the tracks from the GPS Speed Talker app with the tracks from the GT-31. However, I discovered that I had forgotten to press the "Start logging" button in the application, so there was nothing to be exported. I guess I am just to used to the GT-31, which automatically starts logging when you turn it on.
So yesterday's test of the GPS Speed Talker / android phone setup was only a mixed success. The conditions where at first too gusty, and then changed too quickly to survival-mode sailing, to allow me to try what I wanted to do: see how small changes in stance, angle, etc. would affect speed, with instant feedback. How crazy did it get yesterday? Well, let's see how the various members of the Fogland Speed Surfers team fared:
- Nina went out on a 77 l board with a 4.5. At first underpowered in lulls and overpowered in gusts, then mostly overpowered. Had the smarts to stop before things got out of hand. Never made it all the way to the far shore where the water was flattest, so she did not get any good top speeds.
- Dani had the bad luck of trying my 5.0 GPS sail, which I had rigged on a mast that just did not work for the sail. The sail was way too twitchy. Without a dry suit, Dani was quickly too cold and overpowered and stopped sailing.
- I made it to the other shore and did some speed runs in the flat water there. However, it was quite gusty close to shore, and the wind direction was a bit wrong - as the tide went out, the wind was partially blowing against the current, so it was not flat enough. When sailing away from shore, the swell/chop got bigger very quickly, so downwind runs were not really an option, either. My top speed was about 28 knots, which I found quite disappointing for the conditions. My nautical mile average of 24.17 knots was ok, though (my second-best ever). I later did a few runs on Dani's iSonic 86 with the GPS 5.0 sail, but with the wrong mast, it was harder to sail than the GPS 6.6, and I got nowhere close to getting near top speed on the board.
- Dean is the fastest sailor in our little group, and often hits 35 knots if the conditions are right. He started late using his 6.7 m sail, but stayed out until dusk. He did not find any flat water for downwind runs, and was way overpowered towards the end, with half-frozen fingers since he had ditched his gloves early on. He did not reach any speeds that he found worthwhile posting.
- Nikita is the second-fastest surfer in our group, and by far the best freestyler. He came even later, and rigged a beautiful 5.5 m GPS sail. Seeing his sail rigged made it very clear how badly the mast worked for my 5.0! Nikita is about 20% lighter than Dean and I are, so he was overpowered on the 5.5. He used gloves, which however killed his forearms in no time. He also did not reach speeds he found worthwhile posting.
- Graham was the one windsurfer from our group that always seemed fully in control on water. He was out on 4.4 at first, and later switched down to 4.0. He looked quite fast, but he was working on freestyle, and was not wearing a GPS.
Recently, we got what we wished for - we wanted lots of wind, and got so much that even the best windsurfers in our groups were a bit overwhelmed. So maybe we have to formulate our wishes a bit more clearly: wind in the upper 20s, gusting into mid-30s, from NE or SW, without rain and with air temperatures above 50. Please?


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You have applauded them this season in Tosca (Puccini), the children of the Children's Chorus come back Sunday 2nd June for a playful and family concert, under the direction of Véronique Tollet!
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New York, N.Y – ESCC placed as a finalist in Security Sales & Integration (SS&I) Magazine's 23rd Annual Sammy Awards in the category of "Integrated Installation of the Year". This prestigious honor was featured in SS&I Magazine's July 2018 "Best of the Best edition. In it, ESCC was showcased among the top security and communications companies in the nation on the merits of our recent completion of the 352-Unit student housing campus called "The House" at Cornell Tech – the tallest certified Passive House development in the United States. Says Robert Horowitz, President of ESCC, "It is truly an honor to be ranked in SSI's "Best of the Best issue among some of the premier integrated installations in the country. Our staff is committed to excellence in our work and this designation is indicative of this commitment."
ABOUT ESCC ESCC has led the way in integrated security and communications applications for commercial properties, high-end residential properties, and new development projects for over 30 years. As a full-service security and communications provider, ESCC offers a powerful combination of design, engineering and installation services as well as post-installation support to meet today's on-going security and communications challenges.


text: Many of Shakespeare's plays make mention of a pox, which was one of many nasty afflictions plaguing people in 16th-century London. The original publication of Romeo and Juliet (called the First Quarto) finds fatally wounded Mercutio damning his murderer with, "A pox o' your houses." The line later became, "A plague o' both of your houses." The pox — or plague — that Shakespeare was threatening in his dialogue was the venereal disease syphilis, a disgusting and deadly ailment that spread rapidly throughout the Elizabethan population. In those days, the sexually transmitted bacterial disease usually became a full-blown infection, affecting its sufferers with intense fevers (also known as "burnt blood"), oozing skin lesions, agonizing aches and pains, massive organ damage, and ultimately insanity. (Now, there's an ad for abstinence!)


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