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Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Molly Green: The Beauty of Gender Strengths
My article (entitled The Beauty of Gender Strengths) is on pg 9. There are some excellent pieces in this issue, including articles such as Could You Grow Your Own Food in a Crisis? and The Emotions of Butchering.
Really, um, meaty stuff in this issue.
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They had me at "Ricotta: The Gateway Cheese". :)ReplyDelete
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A great article Patrice. I'd like to see an expansion on it to the whole family: how do you apply this division of labor and gender roles/ jobs to kids or extended family in the home? What role do your girls play in preparedness? (and how would it be different if you had boys?)ReplyDelete
Wonderful article. You are preaching to the choir with me, but I'm going to pass this on to all my family and friends. You have a gift of explaining things that even the most hard headed feminists should be able to recognize the validity.ReplyDelete
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I've been meaning to tell you that I too write for Molly Green. It was because of you that I took the leap and started writing for magazines. Thank you Patrice!ReplyDeleteReplies
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- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2015 at 7:57 AM
This looks like an interesting magazine, but I'm curious: is it a totally free subscription, or is the first issue the only freebie? And if there's a subscription fee, how much is it? I'm not able to find it on their site...maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place? And, on another note: congrats Patrice, on your new wood burning cook stove! I'm jealous. ;-) MelissaReplyDeleteReplies
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He just popped the question and now it's time to answer more questions. Thoughts are racing, palms are sweaty, knees are weak, arms are heavy…JK, JK! I won't rap the whole thing for you – haha! But it felt right inserting a part of the lyrics, they rolled off the keyboard so naturally.
Anyway, one of the first big decisions you and your fiancé must make is if you are hiring the help or not. At the beginning of our wedding planning process, I was all in for hiring a wedding planner. This all changed when we visited Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S. (Cabo) to scope out venues, vendors, etc.
Everything I am about to share is based on OUR personal experience. What does this mean? Well, that you could ask another person about their destination wedding planning, specifically in Cabo, and hear a completely different experience. Let's get started!
We visited the wedding destination in October, ten months before the wedding. The trip was planned weeks in advance; vendors were contacted and appointments were scheduled. It was a four day trip and we wanted to make the most of our time there. The only thing I forgot was to pack appropriate outfits but that is a completely different (and semi-hilarious) story.
We sat and met with at least 2 – 3 vendors for each category: flowers, cake, music, catering, etc. It was in our best interest to visit with a variety of vendors because we were still debating on hiring a wedding planner. On our first day we met with the first vendor, Cabo Linens Things & More. If you check out their website, you'll notice they offer many services, including wedding planning. The thought of delegating much of the work to another team was a dream come true, especially with hectic schedules. However, when we first met with the owner, she did not leave us with a positive impression. Do not get me wrong, her designs were impeccable. It had more to do with her personality style. I could foresee all of us (Jose, her and I) clashing in the future. I think it also had a lot to do with the fact that she kept pointing out how expensive it was to have a wedding in Cabo. At the end of our meeting, we felt like changing our destination, or simply not having a destination wedding at all. It was a rough first day.
The next day, Jose took matter into his own hands. After additional research, he found a catering service company, Chef in House, who also offered wedding planning services. We contacted them right away and met with the owner the same day. He was kind enough to meet us at our hotel to review his services and packages. Lo and behold, he turned out to be the guy! We hired Tony, the owner, for his catering, bartending, and wedding coordinating services.
If you don't know much about wedding planning, you are probably wondering what is the difference between a wedding planner and a coordinator. Without getting into too much detail, a wedding planner will run the show from beginning to end and a coordinator will run the show the day of. Hiring a coordinator for the big day was the best decision ever!
If you are stuck in a rut and not sure if you should a hire a wedding planner/coordinator, ask yourself the below questions:
- Do our schedules allow us to contact potential vendors and stay in touch with all of them throughout the process?
- I was blessed with a person who is a Project Manager for a living. He was able to step in and take the wheel whenever I couldn't. We kept the vendors, details, and everything wedding-related organized from beginning to end. If you have similar organizational tendencies, and like to be in control, you may not need a wedding planner either!
- Am I willing to compare vendor pricing and services to ensure our wants and needs are met?
- I know I overlooked my options when it came to selecting a wedding dress seamstress. I wish I would've explored more options instead of choosing the first recommendation. Also, the owner from Cabo Linens Things & More was pretty darn accurate about the cost of getting married in Cabo – it can get pricey. But since we were in control of selecting our vendors, we were able to weave out unnecessary spending.
- Am I able to trust someone to be in charge of one of the most important days of our lives?
- I don't think I can reiterate this enough – hire someone you trust! It's no secret that things don't always go as planned so it's important to hire someone who knows how to solve problems.
If you're still overwhelmed, no worries. If your wedding is still more than at least nine months out, I think there's still enough time to explore your options and select the one that best suits you. At the end of the day, your time, budget and expectations, will drive you to the right decision.
Happy wedding planning!

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Saturday, 17 December 2011
Hello Hannah
5 comments:
- Debbie said...
Cool hanging orniment, just great for our challenge over at Sweet Stampin this week. Debbiexx
- 17 December 2011 at 17:54
- An Occasional Genius said...
Hi Evelina,
What a gorgeous creation, I love all the glitz! Can you clarify if there is any stamping on your project as we do require stamps to be used to be eligible for the prize. Just pop by & leave us a comment on the challenge blog. Thanks for sharing with us & if there is no stamping on here, don't forget you have until December 30th to enter again xx
- 18 December 2011 at 17:47
- Unknown said...
Hi, that's a great, girly hanging. You're right about us all liking glitter :-)
- 19 December 2011 at 11:15
- Dorte said...
For et sødt ophæng du har lavet. Jeg er sikker på det kommer til at vække begejstring. Tak for du deltager hos DDCC denne gang.
klem fra Dorte
- 19 December 2011 at 18:59
- xxxtglxxx said...
What a great wall hanger! :) It looks brilliant and such a fun gift.
Thanks so much for joining us at Sweet Stampin this week,
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Whilst there I had a little looksy at a few things and.....
Those look like nice ones. I never did like the taste of them thoughReplyDelete
I still haven't got round to sowing any radish this year. I usually grow some for my dad as he loves them.ReplyDelete
Nice. My family doesn't care for them either. I wish I did since they grow so quickly.ReplyDelete
Hurrah - first harvests are always the most welcome!ReplyDelete
Dear Tanya, Beautiful!! It is so nice to see the results of all this planting. It is tasty and fun. Blessings dear, Catherine xoReplyDelete
Goodness, Tanya. You must tell me your secret...or share some of your gardening magic with me.
I try every year thinking this will be the year my garden shall flourish...sadly, something always goes wrong. My sugar snaps haven't done so well this year...although they haven't for the past couple of years.
My tomato plants are taking forever, but my moonflowers are doing delightfully well. Since its the first year I've planted moonflowers, I say it's beginners luck...although I haven't had such with my morning glories...hmmm...come to think of it my garden this year is rather pathetic...
And to top it off, I'm covered in poison ivy at the moment....never fails. You think I would learn by now...
My peppers are sprouting but they are sooo tiny....let's see what else did I plant...oh yes, some herbs! Basil is doing great much to my surprise haha...and I have some rosemary, chives, and parsley...they're struggling though. *sigh*
Well, anyway, I'm so happy to see your garden is flourishing...I hope someday to be as good as you!!! And so, I will not give up! :D
I don't have a secret really Tammy, just hope for the best.
Glad we don't suffer with poison ivy over here....at least I don't thin we do...I've never had it anyway!!
My peppers and tomatoes are tiny too but they will grow so just give them the chance.
Weird that your sugar snaps haven't done so well, we live oceans apart and neither have mine...ho bizarre!!
Glad your herbs are doing well though....if nothing else it's great to pick fresh herbs to cook with, adds so much more depth to a dish!
Your garden will give you many wonderful treats before the season is out. Honestly I'm not that good, I just plant a lot and hope for the best.


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Meatless Mondays is a weekly feature where I share my hits and misses with living a meatless life. Many of you know I stopped eating meat about a year ago for personal reasons. While, I haven't had any desire to go back to eating meat, it has been a struggle to find healthy foods to eat.
Everywhere you go, meat is the main dish. Since I was new to this lifestyle, it led me to eating unhealthy options. I'm on a path now to cook healthier options at home without meat. While going meatless is a personal choice for me, you can still save money by having one meatless meal a week.
Will you join me on this journey by preparing one meatless dish every week? There is a movement called MeatlessMonday.com where you can learn more!
Southwest Black Bean Pizza
- Pizza Crust
- 1 can of black beans, drained
- 1/4 c. salsa
- onions
- peppers (I used orange, yellow, and red)
- shredded Mexican Cheese (any variety you like)
- cilantro (optional)
This recipe is so easy and very versatile.
Slice the onions and peppers. Sautee.
While the onion/pepper mix is cooking, combine the beans and around a 1/4 cup of salsa in a blender or food processor. Of course, I used my favorite tool – the Ninja. Add salsa until it is the consistency of regular pizza sauce. I used Rosarita Salsa Verde, which I had leftover from a previous review.
Start with a crust base. Any type will do. I tried this with thin and thick and loved both versions. I buy the pizza crusts at Meijer based on a recommendation from my friend Cherie (Queen of Free). Having these on hand makes it quick and easy for us to throw together a homemade pizza of any sorts. My oldest son is quite the dough maker. When we have more time, he is very good at helping make the pizza dough.
Spread the bean mixture on the crust like you would normally.
Add your toppings. (Chop if you would like for easier eating!)
Top with cheese. I used Kraft Authentic Mexican Style cheese which must be a limited edition and it isn't showing up on their website but it is a blend of queso quesadilla asadero and manchego cheeses. If you are looking for that authentic Mexican style cheese, this is what you want.
Sprinkle a little cilantro.
Cook at 375 degrees until the cheese is melted.
Post Dinner Analysis
I based this recipe on my friend Kelly, Faithful Provisions, Black Bean Pizza recipe. I love this recipe. It combines my two favorite loves – Mexican and pizza into one tidy dish. What I love about this recipe is its versatility. Use whatever items you have in your fridge! I just happened to have a pepper mix (red, orange, yellow) and cilantro in our fridge. You could also chop up tomatoes and put them on top to suit your tastes.
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Freeze the ingredients separately or assemble the pizza and freeze for an easy dinner.
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Use vegan cheese.
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So many times we see and hear people saying Dr. Andrew Wakefield is a fraud. They even say he "made up his whole paper" and has "been in jail"!
These statements are far from the truth, and I hope the information on this page is useful for anyone wanting to understand what has happened.
Below is an infographic about the fraud claim—please share either the graphic or this post. Under it is sources and explanations.
Item 1
In 2010 the General Medical Council in Britain found Dr. Andrew Wakefield guilty of a range of allegations, mostly about a 1998 paper that suggested a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism. He lost his medical license as a result.
This is a statement of established fact. The paper in question was published by the Lancet medical journal in 1998 and retracted in 2010. Find it on the Lancet website here:
Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children
Item 2
Wakefield was never charged with fraud, or altering test results, let alone found guilty of it. He has never faced charges in a court of law, so could never have been in jail.
Please see the list of General Medical Council (GMC) allegations and their findings here:
GMC charge sheet
You will see there is no charge of fraud or manipulating data.
The idea Wakefield has been in jail is totally fanciful. To anyone who believes this, I ask you to provide evidence of a trial in a court of law.
Item 3
The 1998 paper was retracted from the Lancet in 2010, but not because the study's findings were questioned.
The findings of this study were observations of an unusual bowel disease in 12 autistic children. It was also reported that parents of 8 of the 12 children claimed their child's decline into autism started soon after receiving the MMR vaccine. If you would like to read the paper to confirm this, please find the link under item 1.
When the editor of the Lancet retracted the paper on Feb 2 2010, he gave his reasons – you will find a link to the retraction statement on the right hand side of the paper. It reads:
Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation. In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were "consecutively referred" and that investigations were "approved" by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record.
Source: Retraction notice
You will notice the editor only listed two specific concerns, neither of which were about the paper's findings being altered. He had adequate opportunity to list more concerns, but mysteriously referred to "incorrect" elements instead, which suggests he believed these were not substantial enough to mention.
Item 4
The paper concerned, about 12 autistic children with bowel problems, was not written by one person, but by 13 doctors altogether, who stand behind the paper.
Please look at the paper (find link in item 1), and see there are 13 authors, all doctors at the Royal Free hospital. In 2004 the editor of the Lancet asked the authors to retract the suggestion the MMR possibly caused autism. Ten agreed, out of fear for their careers. Paragraph two of their statement supports the paper, saying:
The main thrust of this paper was the first description of an unexpected intestinal lesion in the children reported. Further evidence has been forthcoming in studies from the Royal Free Centre for Paediatric Gastroenterology and other groups to support and extend these findings. While much uncertainty remains about the nature of these changes, we believe it important that such work continues, as autistic children can potentially be helped by recognition and treatment of gastrointestinal problems.
Read the statement:
Retraction of an interpretation
Item 5
Allegations of "fixing results" were first made by a journalist, in the pages of the Sunday Times newspaper, in early 2009. At this time the Times was managed by James Murdoch, who was on the board of GlaxoSmithKline, maker of the MMR vaccine in Britain.
See the following 2 Sunday Times articles published February 8 2009, by part-time freelance journalist Brian Deer:
MMR doctor fixed data on autism
Focus: Hidden records show MMR truth
These articles were written while the GMC hearing was in progress, but shortly after closing testimony from witnesses. Deer's allegations were not included in the charges.
The fact that James Murdoch was on the board of GlaxoSmithKline at that time is on the public record.
Item 6
The journalist raised the allegations again in early 2011, in 3 articles in the BMJ, a British medical journal. The journal's editor wrote that Wakefield's paper was "an elaborate fraud". This was the first time the word "fraud" was used, and 7 months after Wakefield had lost his license.
Here are Brian Deer's 3 articles in the BMJ, early 2011:
How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money
The Lancet's two days to bury bad news
Here is the editorial written by the BMJ's editor Fiona Godlee:
Editorial – Wakefield's article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
These articles, which held more weight than the 2009 Times articles because they were published in a medical journal and endorsed by the journal's editor, were published January 2011. Wakefield lost his license on May 24 2010, so the BMJ articles and editorial were published over 7 months after he lost his license, and nearly 12 months after the GMC findings were announced January 2010. This timing, combined with the fact the GMC did not charge Wakefield with fraud or "fixing results", means Wakefield could not have lost his license to practise medicine "because he was a fraud", as many people claim.
Item 7
The main fraud allegation was that Wakefield had altered pathology results. This has been refuted by esteemed pathologists and the BMJ's editor has backed down from saying fraud had been committed here.
Brian Deer first raised these allegations in 2009, then in April 2010, the latter in an article in the BMJ:
Wakefield's "autistic enterocolitis" under the microscope
This article was published 3 months after the GMC had announced their guilty verdicts of the 3 men accused, in January that year.
Deer had gone through a lot of paperwork and found there were different versions of pathology reports on the children's bowel biopsies.
The reason for this was that biopsies were examined first by a duty pathologist, whose expertise may not be bowel disease in children. Then the biopsies were examined again by doctors expert in children's bowel disease, including Professor John Walker-Smith who was a co-author of the paper and the world's leading paediatric gastroenterologist at the time. Results were updated where necessary.
Read more about this here:
How Brian Deer and the BMJ Fixed the Record Over Wakefield Part 3
In November 2011 the Scientific American published an article about the pathology tests:
Discredited Vaccine-Autism Researcher Defended by Whistleblower Group
The article discusses views by various pathologists, and it reports on the response by Fiona Godlee—the BMJ editor who claimed "fraud"—to the discussion. They say:
Fiona Godlee, author of the BMJ editorial, says that the journal's conclusion of fraud was not based on the pathology but on a number of discrepancies between the children's records and the claims in the Lancet paper.
In other words, Godlee was now backing down from the strongest tenet of her fraud claim. Since then she has continued to support her claims in public, but without giving any justification.
Item 8
Another fraud allegation was that some of the children had developmental concerns before the MMR jab. Nonsensical reasoning was given, such as saying a child's ear infection before the jab was evidence of autism.
Deer claimed in his article that
Despite the paper claiming that all 12 children were "previously normal," five had documented pre-existing developmental concerns.
Deer deduced this from seeing the children's private National Health Service records, to which he was given access. Wakefield's team did not have access to these records. Deer has drawn many conclusions from the information, despite having no medical training whatsoever.
In an article by Martin Hewitt, Deer's claims are systematically debunked, with information gathered from the GMC hearing transcripts, which describe each child. The transcripts are available here, if you would like to check these discussions for accuracy.
See Hewitt's article here:
How the BMJ and Brian Deer Fixed the Record to Destroy Andrew Wakefield Part 2
Briefly, the concerns Deer raised were:
Child 4 had wide bridging of his nose and concerns about his development.
Child 8 had a faulty aorta and concerns about her development.
Child 1 had hearing issues, found to be related to ear wax or infection.
Child 5 had febrile convulsions and high fever before the MMR.
In his conclusion, Martin Hewitt says of Deer:
He selects those parts of the transcripts that support the case for Wakefield fixing the data and ignores other parts that undermine the case. He ignores letters, reports and witness statements that show the children developing normally before the MMR. For example, he ignores accounts of child 4's normal development at nine months (apart from the coarctation), and child 8's normal development at 11 months. He does not mention child 4's measles vaccination several years before his MMR. He misses the significance of child 8's convulsions and gastroenteritis immediately after MMR. He sets down false trails that lead nowhere, such as child 4's fragile X gene or child 1's hearing before MMR. He confuses a syndrome associating autism and bowel disease ‒ presented as part of the case series paper ‒ with the 'MMR syndrome'. He oversimplifies the everyday complexities and uncertainties doctors and parents grapple with in reaching an autism diagnosis.
Deer also said Child 11 had symptoms before the MMR, which was recorded on a hospital discharge sheet (but other documents had a different date for symptoms). This child lives in the USA, so was not discussed in the GMC hearing. Deer's claims about this child are debunked here:
An Elaborate Fraud Series Part 7: In Which the BMJ's Prime Example of Wakefield's Alleged Misconduct Proves Flagrantly False
Deer replies to this article on his blog by saying "who can say, years later?", in an extraordinary backdown—see below:
Brian Deer's blog article
Item 9
A third fraud allegation was that the 12 children did not all have autism. This claim came about due to difficulties in diagnosing autism, and varying terminology used in the 1990s. For example, the journalist said Asperger's is not autism.
Deer wrote
But only one—child 2—clearly had regressive autism. Three of nine so described clearly did not. None of these three (children 6, 7 & 12) even had autism diagnoses, either at admission or on discharge from the Royal Free.
See this discussion, about the autism diagnoses of children 6, 7 and 12:
How the British Medical Journal and Brian Deer Fixed the Historical Record to Destroy Andrew Wakefield's Reputation
From the article:
We see clearly how Deer works. First he selects extracts from the transcripts to build up his case, ignoring other extracts that might cast doubt on his case such as the above extracts. Secondly he applies his reasoning rigidly to the evidence as though medical diagnosis is about 100% certainty, for example that there is a clear indisputable difference between autism and Asperger's. On this basis no doctor's practice would survive this standard of certainty.
Item 10
If Wakefield did not commit fraud, what does it say about the observations reported in the 1998 paper?
The allegations of fraud have never been examined in any kind of court, by any judge or jury. They are fanciful, and made solely by a part-time, freelance journalist, and supported by the editor of the BMJ medical journal, who has provided no justification for her support (she said sub-editors had fact-checked Deer's articles, but this turned out to be false).
As the fraud allegations are false, it follows the 1998 paper's findings are valid, that is, that the 12 autistic children examined had an unusual bowel disease, and that the parents of 8 of them reported their child's decline into autism started soon after the MMR jab.
A very strange thing about Deer's articles is he constantly suggests Wakefield manipulated the study results to provide evidence he could use in litigation, for which he was being paid. This is ludicrous, as this type of observational study, with no research protocol or conclusion, could never provide evidence for litigation.
Deer's claim "the study was commissioned and funded for planned litigation" is not true, by the way. The Legal Aid Board funding was for a viral detection study, which Wakefield undertook after the 1998 Lancet study, completing a pilot study for it in 1999 (with the LAB funding declared on it). The funds for this work were not even made available to Wakefield until 7 months after the last child in the 1998 Lancet paper had been seen, and after the paper had been submitted to publishers, so could not have been used for this study.
About Brian Deer
Meet the man behind the fraud claim, Brian Deer. He is a journalist, but has very little work to his name, apart from his Wakefield articles.
Watch this film released in May 2009, towards the end of the GMC hearings. It is about Brian Deer and children from the 1998 Lancet paper, and their parents.
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A controversial tax deal with the United States, under which Canadian banks agree to try to find U.S. citizen clients and report them to the IRS, using the CRA as an intermediary, took effect July 1.
But many dual citizens in southern Ontario aren't waiting to be found – they've decided to shed U.S. citizenship. In the process, they've created a backlog at the U.S. consulate in Toronto that stretches into the third week of January 2015.
Dundas-based tax and immigration lawyer David Lesperance said on Twitter yesterday that he booked 2014's last renunciation appointment at the Toronto consulate for a client on Tuesday.
In an e-mail Tuesday, the Toronto consulate said the earliest date they could book for a renunciation is January 22, 2015.
Until recently, appointments to renounce U.S. citizenship in Toronto could be made within three to six weeks, said Toronto-based cross-border tax accountant Kevyn Nightingale, who specializes in tax advice for people giving up U.S. citizenship.
His clients are driven to divorce Uncle Sam less because of actual U.S. taxes and more because of the costly demands of the tax bureaucracy, he says:
"Almost none of them have to pay any tax – it's just the hassle and expense of dealing with the paperwork."
Nightingale says he charges $1,000-$1,500 for "very simple" U.S. returns.
"Filing U.S. tax returns is complex, and the reason is that everything that happens to a U.S. citizen in Canada is foreign. People who are able to do their Canadian tax returns easily and relatively cheaply, once you add the foreign layer on to it, ordinary people have problems that need to be dealt with sophisticated tax people."
Earlier in August, two dual citizens sued the federal government, arguing that the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) to implement the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in Canada violated the Charter.
For U.S. diplomats, people renouncing citizenship are a lot of work compared to other consular tasks, Lesperance points out:
"They are, from a consular officer's point of view, a fairly labour-intensive exercise. It doesn't take the four minutes that it takes to register your child as a birth abroad."
Until recently, U.S. officials required people wanting to renounce to visit the consulate twice – after the first meeting, would-be ex-citizens would be sent away to reflect.
In 2011, the Toronto consulate held the first meeting in a group format to cope with demand.
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The process has since been simplified to one meeting. "I think it's just pressure of numbers," Lesperance says.
Update, 4pm: "With the increase in the number of persons wishing to renounce, wait times have at times increased at some posts," a U.S. State Department official wrote in an e-mailed response. "Some posts in Canada are currently experiencing wait times of five months or longer to execute the Oath of Renunciation."
Pushing the appointment into next year doesn't just frustrate the impatient, however – it adds an entire year to U.S. tax reporting. Someone making an appointment now to renounce in Toronto in January wouldn't be able to log out of the U.S. tax system until June 2016.
However, people can work the phones and find a U.S. consulate that can give them an earlier appointment, Nightingale says:
"If Toronto is booked up, you can go somewhere else. You can go to the Montreal consulate; you can go to the embassy in Ottawa."
The U.S. State Department estimates that about a million people considered American under U.S. law (who may also be Canadian citizens) live here. In theory, all of them, unless their income falls under minimum levels, are supposed to file tax returns with the IRS, and report their bank accounts to an arm of the U.S. Treasury Department called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, on pain of heavy fines.
In practice, few did until recently.
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"The U.S. has always had citizenship-based taxation on the books, but the compliance rate with that was always one hundred per cent voluntary on the part of the person who took it upon themselves to comply," explains McGill University law professor Allison Christians.
"We know for sure that residence-based taxation is enforceable, and citizenship-based taxation is not enforceable unilaterally. You cannot do it unless the other country steps up to say, 'We agree. We are going to find people in our country who are of your nationality, and we are going to show you where they are, and we're going to point you to their accounts.' That's what Canada has done with the IGA."
Canada's 2006 census found about 300,000 people in Canada self-identifying as U.S. citizens. (The difference may be accounted for by Canadians who were born in the United States, or who have an American parent, but don't consider themselves American.)
In the meantime, Nightingale warns, the tax side of renouncing U.S. citizenship can be expensive:
"If somebody comes to us and says, 'I'm a U.S. citizen, I've never filed tax returns, I've got a pretty ordinary life, but I've got an RRSP, an RESP, a TFSA and some mutual funds, and can you prepare all my returns and get me ready for expatriation?', by the time we do all that, it's not hard to spend $15,000 or $20,000 for a fairly ordinary person."


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By Anna Von Reitz
It is a strange fact that those who win wars wind up paying for all the destruction they cause. That is by international agreement and so, guess who got the bill for World War II? We did.
We were the only ones who could rebuild the world.
Obviously, the Germans were not in any position to pay anyone back for anything. They were too busy clearing their own streets of rubble.
The Brits were in similar condition, hanging on by threads.
So when it came time to rebuild Europe, Japan, and places as far-flung as Burma, who picked up the tab?
Mom and Pop back home in Des Moines.
This was accomplished by the Marshall Plan, yet another stroke of genius drummed up by our military, which should be permanently barred from having anything to do with accounting or finance.
Any organization that can lose trillions of dollars off their books, and turn around and find even more trillions of dollars of credit on their books that they can't account for, needs to be relieved of accounting duty.
Am I wrong?
This same organization is perfectly aware of the exact date and time that World War II officially ended, yet didn't bother to release millions of Americans from paying "Victory Taxes", either.
They are dropping their jaws and going, "What? What?"
So tell the General Accounting Office that military accounts are their responsibility again, and we are returning to carriage accounting, because "Double Accrual Accounting" leads to too much temptation and too many opportunities for guile.
Anyway, on to the Marshall Plan.....
The recovering nations were allowed to place debilitating tariffs against American goods and services, and to profit their own governments on those tariffs. The resulting income was more than sufficient to pay for rebuilding all the war-time damage to Europe, a process that was complete by 1970.
These same nations were protected by the American Armed Forces at little (we are talking 1- 4% percent) or no cost to them, so virtually all the burden of their national defense was footed by the Americans, too.
Good Old Joe.
All of that should have come to a conclusion around 1970-75, at most. The tariffs against American goods and services should have been quietly removed by all the various recipient governments and our own manufacturing and productive sectors of our economy should have been set free to thrive.
Read that --- The Rust Belt should not exist. Detroit should be thriving. Millions upon millions of American manufacturing and service jobs should have been cranking out a good future for millions of American families for the past fifty years.
Should have been.
But we have been letting the Pope and the Queen manipulate our government processes and promote their corporate elections while suppressing our lawful government and unlawfully usurping upon us in Gross Breach of Trust.
They happily sold us and our best interests down the river and continued to glut themselves for an additional fifty years--- and all in breach of International Treaties, in Breach of Trust, in violation of their commercial contracts.
Fifty years. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter.... traitors all.
It's only now that the facts about The Marshal Plan and its gross mis-administration are coming to the attention of the American People and they are beginning to understand just how terribly they and their country have been mistreated.
Donald Trump is the first American President in all these years to have sense and guts enough to call a halt to it.
Of course, those who have been sucking us dry are disappointed.
It's important for the Pope and the Queen and all the other World Leaders who have been acting as leeches to understand that Donald Trump isn't the only American who has had enough.
There are, in fact, millions of us. Not everyone knows the details yet, but all our backs are up, simply because of the level of suffering and injustice we've endured without relief for fifty additional years of enslavement and taxation and tariffs under "wartime" mobilization.
We are not willing to be killed off in yet another mercenary war, just so they can avoid paying their debts back to us, either.
If we go, they go. For sure. That's the hidden double meaning of "WWG1WGA". And it doesn't depend just on Trump.
This message is for the American Military as much as it is for anyone else. You have been used, abused, sacrificed, lied to, and cheated by these same criminal European powers, betrayed by politically-motivated Generals, and ironically, have been used as the excuse for these abuses and also the muscle to impose them.
Ever heard of shooting yourself in the foot? That's what you do when you follow any "order" to harm any American in any way--- including economic harm.
"Harm" doesn't just happen in terms of blood. It happens in economic losses, in terms of lost time and quality of life, lost security and prosperity, lost rights and freedoms.
You are supposed to be protecting all of us from all of that, and you have failed your mission for fifty years. That's why Americans are suffering, including veterans.
You have been misdirected by foreign powers acting in Gross Breach of Trust and violation of their commercial contracts. And you have followed their Orders like so many ducks marching in order.
That's why our borders are being overrun. That's why American children are being snatched and killed by perverts. That's why American children are going hungry. That's why veterans can't find work to support themselves and their families. That's why this country sucks.
It all comes back to the military and being lousy accountants is really the least of your sins and errors. This country has been run as a military protectorate since 1863, so when the chips are down, who else is there to blame?
Fifty "extra" years-worth of The Marshall Plan? An extra 75 years of Victory Taxes?
DOD is responsible by its own admission for providing Americans with proper ID.
Instead, "the Brass" have been trying to set up our civilian population for identity theft and mis-characterization, depriving us of our rights, railroading us through Kangaroo Municipal COURTS. Using us as slave labor to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Genociding us on paper, while taking their paychecks out of our pockets. Trampling every standard of "honor".
Everyone from here to Bangkok is wondering what your claim to fame is?
Not being worth your salt? Nothing but criminal mercenaries? Idiots? Clucks? Clods? Shills? Accomplices? Treasonous worthless bastards?
Words fail to describe what has gone on here in "the land of the free and the home of the brave".
Millions of Americans have been robbed of their homes --- literally --- on your watch. Millions have suffered needlessly for the past 150 years, because you have failed your duty to us and failed to assist the actual civilian government of this country to assemble and reconstruct the Federal Government we are owed.
Entire generations of Americans have paid for your protection and instead have suffered as your prey.
Well, fellas, the tale is told. What are you going to do about it?
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Trump's Syria Conundrum, Part II
Despite the wag-the-dog appearance of President Trump's about-face on Syria—that is, the possibility that his primary motivation has more to do with his desire to distract attention from his growing domestic problems than with a genuine concern for Syrian babies—the President's action last week has opened a small and narrow window that, with the proper political vision, could help end the conflict in Syria and with it, the suffering of the Syrian people.
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Despite the wag-the-dog appearance of President Trump's about-face on Syria—that is, the possibility that his primary motivation has more to do with his desire to distract attention from his growing domestic problems than with a genuine concern for Syrian babies—the President's action last week has opened a small and narrow window that, with the proper political vision, could help end the conflict in Syria and with it, the suffering of the Syrian people.
Trump was right in deciding to take on Assad, and his decision was hailed by both Republicans and Democrats. As a Syrian-American who has urged action against the regime for years, I am not going to ask too many questions, legitimate though they may be, about how and why Trump came to represent action, rather than standing by while beautiful babies get killed.
But the afterglow of credibility, legitimacy and strength in which Trump is currently basking will prove all too ephemeral unless he backs it up with a strong plan for Syria. The fact that the airport the U.S. targeted in central Syria was back in use mere hours after the strike took place comes as clear indication that a limited, one-off strike will not do the trick, and constitutes a serious test of the administration's resolve, especially in light of U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's assertion that the U.S. is "prepared to do more."
Without a clear strategy in place, one that includes a political vision for an endgame, the administration could stumble from one strike to another, making a bad situation worse both for the Syrians and for itself.
No political plan can sidestep the Russians and their interests at this stage, not only in Syria but perhaps also in Ukraine and elsewhere. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, seems to have always seen these fronts as interlinked. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson must have learned few things in this regard following his two-hour meeting with Putin, not to mention his meetings with Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Having already accused the Russians of being either "complicit" or "incompetent" in regard to the chemical attack, it's not surprising that he spoke of "a low level of trust" between the two countries during his concluding press conference. It's also not surprising to hear Lavrov reassert his country's commitment to Syria's genocidaire, Bashar Al-Assad, albeit rather obliquely, by noting that his removal was not on the agenda. Indeed, as Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute has repeatedly noted, Putin's attachment to Assad involves certain domestic calculations as well. That is,
Having staked enormous political capital on the recovery of at least some of the main geopolitical assets lost in the Soviet Union's demise, Putin will defend Assad until the domestic political costs become too high to bear.
As such and irrespective of the nature of his primary motivation, be it a cynical attempt at manipulating the news or a genuine concern for the children of Syria, Trump needs to get serious and develop a better understanding soon of the complexities of the gambit he just embarked upon, for there are a variety of ways with which his decision to get involved could come back to haunt him, both at home and abroad.
For instance, should Assad—backed by his Russian and Iranian buddies—decide to escalate his strikes against the civilian population over the next few weeks, producing more images of suffering and dying children, what would Trump do? Continued defiance by Assad at this stage, even without the use of chemical weapons, could easily transform Trump's show of strength into a running joke. Buoyed as he is by Russian and Iranian backing, including recourse to the use of internationally banned incendiary weapons, Assad has every reason to be defiant, and every reason to escalate. By targeting the same town mere hours after he sustained the American strike, he, in fact, did exactly that.
Standing up to America will help Assad patch up his fraying support base at home at a time when members of his supposedly loyalist militias seem to have become more beholden to Iran and Russia than to him. As such, if his ability to carry out major attacks against the civilian population, whether by using chemical weapons or by any other means, is not seriously curtailed by American strikes, Assad will emerge as a victor, and his position among his supporters will be strengthened and re-legitimated. And Moscow will even more reasons to back him. In fact, and while some note that the recent battlefield losses incurred by pro-Assad troops in central Syria as being the primary motive behind the recent chemical attack, achieving this might be more to the point.
In a way, then, rather than gaining leverage, Trump might have just entrusted his political future to the whims and calculations of a mass murderer—unless, that is, he comes up with a credible plan soon. Trump risks looking ridiculous, and "a man in his position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous," to quote a tragic character from The Godfather (which seems strangely appropriate, considering the protagonists involved on all sides).
By now, three things should be clear: one limited strike is insufficient to deliver the message to a desperate killer like Assad, yet strikes without an overall strategy for follow-through risks major blowback, while a narrow focus on the use of chemical weapons seems quite meaningless if the killing is allowed to go on by other means. In other words, now that a major chemical attack by the Assad regime has finally triggered an American response against it, that response cannot be limited to the issue of chemical weapons; otherwise, we're back where President Barack Obama left us in 2013, which is to say washing our hands of the whole thing.
Second, this is no time for improvisation and for stumbling along. Trump now needs to avail himself of the rare show of bipartisanship in the wake of the attack to encourage his national security team to work in cooperation with supporters in Congress to craft a comprehensive strategy that can move us in the right direction. This strategy must involve more intense strikes targeting vital assets controlled by the Assad regime and greater support to rebel groups fighting against it, coupled with a strong diplomatic push meant to revive and reinvigorate the Geneva peace process as well as a continuous media campaign highlighting Assad's war crimes so that the world never forgets why President Trump recently called him "an animal."
Moreover, the White House should seriously consider imposing additional sanctions on Russia related to their use of incendiary weapons in Syria and their involvement in covering up Assad's mounting war crimes there. As strange as this may sound, the costs of Putin's Syria campaign has been quite low so far, perhaps when this is no longer the case or when he realizes that he now risks facing increasing costs, he might become more pliable.
Finally, it's not just Trump's persona credibility that's on the line here; it's America's. And America's credibility has already been dealt too many blows over the last few years because of incoherent policy on Syria. It's time to rectify that. More than 50,000 children have died throughout the course of this conflict. If Trump was truly motivated to act by his concern for Syria's children, then he needs to make ending the conflict there a foreign policy priority for his administration.


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The Shoes of Rochester
Discover the "Shoes of Rochester" from now through Sept. 26
Take a stroll this summer in historic downtown Rochester and be surprised!
Art Esprit, a non-profit organization of visual and literary artists, created an exciting public art project celebrating the arts and Rochester's history of shoemaking.
Eleven unique giant shoes have been sculpted by New Hampshire artist Adam Pearson. They are made from earth-friendly materials and located throughout the downtown area. A team of local visual artists and poets collaborated on each shoe to tell its unique story.
Art Esprit selected a shoe theme as the first major art project to celebrate Rochester's heritage though a public art exhibition. From the early 1700s to the mid 1900s Rochester had a long history in shoe manufacturing. As factories moved overseas, the shoemaking industry disappeared and is now part of the town's past.
Art Esprit looks to acknowledge that past while enhancing the present with this summer's "Shoes of Rochester" project.


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The Big Picture
So how does helping individual kids fit into the big picture? Of course, we don't claim that we're solving all the problems of the inner city here at Help This Kid. But we do know at least three important ways that we're improving life on a larger scale.
– What we do to improve graduation rates for disabled students.
– What we do for individuals can lead to real improvements at the troubled school that our clients leave.
– What we do to help kids with discipline problems is supported by state-of-the-art research on alternatives to school suspensions and expulsions.
Increasing Graduation Rates for Students with Disabilities
One of the goal's of our work, as illustrated by the infographic below, is to improve the chances of graduation with a regular diploma for students of disabilities. In Florida and other states the number of minority students with disabilities who graduate with a diploma, as opposed to just a certificate, is pitifully low. Here's how we're trying to change that.
Improving Troubled Schools
The school which our clients choose to leave often receive reforms when we go in to help a kid there. Ironic, isn't it?
Let me give you an example. Imani, the girl in the video below, went to a chronically failing school. And when I say chronically, I mean decades of academic underachievement, a culture of widespread recurring suspensions, and fighting on school grounds on almost a daily basis. In fact, that school where Imani was suspended on a weekly basis for pretty run-of-the-mill bad behavior like cutting class was dominated by a Dean of Discipline who everyone called "sergeant."
Because of the attention the school got at the highest levels of the district when our top-notch team went in to advocate for her, the school has undergone a renaissance of sorts since. Don't think we're naive – we can only hope that the change there will last – but it's a start.
New Approaches to School Discipline
In the past few years many nationwide leaders have called for disciplinary strategies other than suspensions and expulsions that allow students to stay in school and not miss valuable learning time. It's a fact that minority students and those with disabilities receive a disproportionate share of suspensions. And according to the latest research, 22 states and DC, including Florida, have completely revamped their approaches to discipline to "limit the use of exclusionary discipline practices; implement supportive (that is, non-punitive) discipline strategies that rely on behavioral interventions; and provide support services such as counseling, dropout prevention, and guidance services for at-risk students." That's exactly the kind of services we were able to secure for Imani in the video below.
Help This Kid's unique approach to advocacy for inner city kids with behavior problems fits right in with the newest research.


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October 26, 2015
Release # 20151026-01
SOUTHWEST ASIA — On Oct. 25, coalition military forces continued to attack ISIL
terrorists in Syria and Iraq. In Iraq, coalition military forces
conducted 15 strikes coordinated with and in support of the Government
of Iraq using fighter, attack, bomber, ground attack, and remotely
piloted aircraft against ISIL targets.
The following is a summary of the strikes conducted against ISIL since the last press release:
Near Bayji, one strike struck a large ISIL tactical unit and destroyed
four ISIL fighting positions, three ISIL mortar positions, an ISIL heavy
machine gun, and an ISIL cave entrance.
* Near Habbaniyah, two strikes suppressed two ISIL mortar positions.
* Near Kisik, one strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
* Near Mosul, one strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
Near Ramadi, five strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed
two ISIL fighting positions, two ISIL weapon caches, an ISIL command and
control node, an ISIL building, and denied ISIL access to terrain.
* Near Sinjar, three strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed 18 ISIL fighting positions and two ISIL vehicles.
* Near Sultan Abdallah, one strike suppressed an ISIL sniper position.
* Near Tal Afar, one strike destroyed an ISIL fighting position.
Additionally, on 22 Oct., in conjunction with an operation to free 70 hostages, the following targets were struck in Iraq:
* Near Al Huwayjah, two strikes destroyed an ISIL prison camp and denied ISIL forces an avenue of approach.
Strike assessments are based on initial reports. All aircraft returned to base safely.
strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the
operation to eliminate the ISIL terrorist group and the threat they pose
to Iraq, Syria, and the wider international community.
destruction of ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq further limits the group's
ability to project terror and conduct operations. Coalition nations
which have conducted strikes in Iraq include Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, France, Jordan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United
States. Coalition nations which have conducted strikes in Syria include
Australia, Bahrain, Canada, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United
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Yes, I'm telling you about something that happened this summer, but #throwbackthursday mmkay? 🙂
For five years now, I've been attending the Karitos Christian creative arts conference in the greater Chicago area. This year it was in Streator IL, closer than ever to my house as it's usually much further north.
(I'm pictured with author Olivia J. Bennett and flagger/author Kim Kouski. Check out Olivia's book A Cactus in the Valley and Kim's fantasy novel Hidden Secrets (those are affiliate links – I may receive a portion of sales).
I've written past posts about Karitos and what I'm learning there, but here's overall what keeps bringing me back:
- a gathering of creatives
- creating together in all art forms
- worshipping God and figuring out how their art fits into that
You can find that first one a number of places. The other 2 are harder to come by. If you can find a place that combines the things you love, go.
You can find a thousand writers conferences, but one that includes dancers and visual artists and actors and filmmakers and musicians and…. All those together feed off of each other into an amazing creative experience.
And, while I don't write within the Christian genre, it's beautiful to find a place where my giftings can contribute to my faith community and my worship.
And now, a couple exciting milestones of mine with this year's event:
A couple amazing things happened for me personally this year.
The past 3 years I've been assisting with the Literary Arts department, and as of last year, I'm the department head for Literary Arts. This was my first Karitos that I was responsible for making Literary Arts workshops happen, and it was a delight to see it all turn out. To be able to step into ministry in a way that uses my passion and giftings is such a privilege.
And the other thing: Last year's Karitos, I took Angel's selfpublishing workshop. This year, my book was in the Karitos bookstore alongside hers. We got a photo to document our excitement…
So that was my experience at this year's Karitos. And we're already on to planning the next! Maybe Karitos 2020 will have you in it? 😉


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Themes: Ridicule, Insult, Perspective, Anger, Belonging, Hate, Perseverance, Quitting, Carpe Diem
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Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods: Learning from Past Samples
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are now an indispensable tool in scientific computing. This book discusses recent developments of MCMC methods with an emphasis on those making use of past sample information during simulations. The application examples are drawn from diverse fields such as bioinformatics, machine learning, social science, combinatorial optimization, and computational physics. Key Features: Expanded coverage of the stochastic approximation Monte Carlo and dynamic weighting algorithms that are essentially immune to local trap problems. A detailed discussion of the Monte Carlo Metropolis-Hastings algorithm that can be used for sampling from distributions with intractable normalizing constants. Up-to-date accounts of recent developments of the Gibbs sampler. Comprehensive overviews of the population-based MCMC algorithms and the MCMC algorithms with adaptive proposals. This book can be used as a textbook or a reference book for a one-semester graduate course in statistics, computational biology, engineering, and computer sciences. Applied or theoretical researchers will also find this book beneficial.
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Budget Niagara Falls hotel in Clifton Hill location with many dissatisfied guests
- Free outdoor parking and free local calls
- Indoor heated swimming pool, sundeck, and tour desk
- A number of guests said this hotel was reasonably priced
- Many guests were pleased with the hotel's close location to the Falls
- A number of guests said their rooms needed to be renovated
- Several guests were displeased with the unexpected room deposit
- A few guests mentioned that the pool temperature was too cold
- Many guests said the staff were rude and unaccommodating
- Some guests complained of smoke and mildew odours in the rooms
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Editor's Review
Updated Oct 19, 2014
This 57 guest room hotel is located approximately 2km west of the Falls and Clifton Hill is about a 3 minute walk southeast. The accommodation features an indoor heated swimming pool, a sundeck, and a tour desk. Smoking and non-smoking rooms are available and all units are equipped with cable televisions while some rooms also have balconies. Outdoor parking and local calls are included with the room rates and this hotel also offers cold weather hook ups.more
Although there isn't an on-site restaurant at this hotel there are several eateries within walking distance or a short car ride such as Jacks Italian Restaurant (66m), Lotus Garden Chinese Restaurant (75m), Beef Baron Restaurant (110m), and Montana's Cookhouse and Bar (200m).
Several tourist attractions are also nearby and some of these include the Niagara SkyWheel (300m), Rainbow Bridge (2.1km), Queen Victoria Park (1.8km), Maid of the Mist (1.8km), and Fallsview Casino (1.4km). For guests that would like to shop the Niagara Square Shopping Mall is approximately 8.1km away, or a 13 minute drive southwest depending on traffic. All distances: Google Maps.
The Good
Guest reviews for this hotel were mixed but those that were positive typically mentioned the convenient location, the reasonably priced room rates, and the friendly staff.more
Many guests said that this hotel's location was convenient as it was located close to the Falls as well as several tourist attractions which could be easily accessed by car.
A number of guests felt that this hotel was reasonably priced and ideal for those traveling on a budget. Some of these guests mentioned that they did not mind the basic room interiors as they found the rooms met their needs for the money they spent.
Several guests were pleased with the customer service at this hotel and some guests described the hotel staff as friendly.
The Bad
Negative guest reviews for this hotel typically spoke of the unclean and dated room interiors, the unexpected room deposits, the smell of smoke in the hallways, and the indoor swimming pool temperature.more
Many guests complained of their unclean room interiors saying their bathrooms were dirty and mouldy, their mattresses were badly stained, and that their towels needed to be replaced. Some guests felt their rooms needed to be renovated and a few guests also mentioned issues with the television reception.
A number of guests were surprised when they learned that they needed to pay a room deposit as they said this was not mentioned at the time of booking. Some guests mentioned a $100 deposit, while other guests said they were asked for a $200 room deposit.
A few guests said they could smell smoke in the hotel hallways which irritated guests that booked a non-smoking room. Some guests also mentioned that the indoor swimming pool temperature was too cold.
A number of guests were disappointed with this hotel and felt there were better options within the area.
SourcesTripAdvisor.com guest reviews ranked this hotel #90 of 137 and scored it 3 out of 5 from 28 reviews.
CanadianHotelGuide.com guest reviews ranked this hotel #42 of 61 and scored it 6.2 out of 10 from 10 reviews.
Hotels.com guest reviews scored this hotel 3.4 out of 5 from 11 reviews.
Orbitz.com scored this hotel 3.5 out of 5 with 90% of guests recommending it to others from 20 reviews.
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"Bodak Yellow" is blowing up radio and the Billboard charts and has made Cardi B this summer's breakout success (at least to non-Love & Hip Hop fans). But even though she's one of the hottest rappers out right now, don't call Cardi B an overnight success.
In an Instagram rant on Sunday (Aug. 20), Cardi wanted fans and haters alike to know that she's worked hard to get where she is right now. "Y'all think that, 'Oh, Bodak Yellow came out and boom, it was just that easy," she said. "I've been really hustling for my career since I was 21 my n***a."
Cardi then reflected on her not-so-easy road to chart-topping success. The now 24-year-old revealed she would appear on several unknown podcasts to get her name out, would beg radio stations and DJs to play her music (who would laugh at her), and would perform at any ratchet club to grow her fan base.
She also faced obstacles on the business side. Cardi says labels refused to sign her or would offer cheap deals. And she revealed she was rejected by her favorite artist and no one would let her do a feature on their songs.
"I've been really hustling for this motherf**kin' sh*t! This sh*t wasn't given to me bitch!" she ended.
"Bodak Yellow" cracked the top 10 on Billboard Hot 100 last week, landing at No. 8. This made Cardi the highest charting (solo) female rapper since Nicki Minaj in 2014.


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Ronald Mincy Joins Advisory Board of The Economic Mobility Project New Initiative Explores Economic Mobility of Americans
For Immediate Release
March 6, 2007
New York, NY – Dr. Ronald Mincy, the Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at the Columbia University School of Social Work, has joined the advisory board of The Economic Mobility Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. The new initiative was launched to forge consensus across the political spectrum about the extent to which Americans can move up the economic ladder in their lifetimes and from one generation to the next.
While 80 percent of Americans believe that it is possible to start out poor, work hard, and become rich, 54 percent think that the American Dream has become impossible for most people to achieve. The Economic Mobility Project draws on the expertise of leaders at four leading policy institutes – American Enterprise Institute, The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, and the Urban Institute – to expand public knowledge about the ability of Americans to work hard, progress economically and establish a safe and secure life for their families. Through research and dialogue, the nonpartisan project will provide objective information about the status of U.S. economic mobility as well as address factors like income and education that influence one's economic prospects.
Other members of the advisory board include nationally-recognized economists, social scientists, and policy experts from Harvard University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Princeton University, Syracuse University, University of Michigan, and the Russell Sage Foundation. For more information, please visit http://www.economicmobility.org or contact Jeannie Hii at 212-851-2327 or email@example.com.


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This is a Lookout Point signature dish made with prosciutto, eggs, and English muffins. Huevos Trifecta was named by our guests, during horse racing season in Hot Springs. It goes well with steamed asparagus, or topped with fresh spinach or chopped kale.
Huevos TrifectaBy Kristie Rosset
- 4 eggs
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/2 cup cream
- dash of cayenne
- 2 tablespoons grated cheddar cheese
- 4 English muffins, halved and toasted
- 4 cooked sausage links
- 4 thinly sliced prosciutto
- dash of Mediterranean sea salt
- sliced tomato (for garnish)
- rosemary (for garnish)
In a 10- inch skillet, melt butter over high heat and immediately add cream.
Slide eggs into butter and cream.
When egg whites begin to set, flip eggs over.
Add dash of cayenne pepper.
Sprinkle with cheese.
Finish cooking until desired level of egg yolk doneness.
Place prosciutto atop toasted English muffin halves.
Slide eggs on muffin halves with some of the hot cream and butter.
Place sausage links on the sides.
Sprinkle Mediterranean sea salt on the eggs.
Garnish with a slice of tomato and rosemary.


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|Charlie Haden (1937-2014)
I discovered Coleman and Haden in my late teens, long after the revolution in sound that Coleman had begun in the 1950s had been won, or at least fought to a standstill. Moldy figs—a group that, in Coleman's case, included such unlikely counter-revolutionaries as Miles Davis—no longer called the man a charlatan who was most likely insane, at least not out loud, where people could hear them. At the time, I didn't know anything about jazz, old or new, and lacked easy access to the stuff. For myself and a lot of other people like me, who were into wild, abrasive rock, the electricity and crazy force of Coleman's music, and the music of such disciples as the guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer and the late drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, provided the clearest gateway into the music. Both those guys would drop massive, album-length statements—in particular, Ulmer's Odyssey (1983) and Jackson's Red Warrior (1991)—that mesmerized listeners at the nexus point between rock and jazz like the Monolith from 2001. But neither demonstrated the range of interests and abilities that Haden displayed over the course of his career, until his shadow loomed almost as large as Coleman's own. (Haden's own connections to rock were also familial: he had four children, musicians all, including Petra and Rachel Haden of the great lost '90s indie band That Dog. Petra also recorded an awesomely weird "a cappella" version of the single greatest rock album of all time, The Who Sell Out.)
My first inkling that Haden was a great big deal all by himself came through his fusing of music with revolutionary politics. He debuted his Liberation Music Orchestra with a self-titled album in 1969, which included Coleman's "War Orphans," interstitial compositions by Carla Bley, and a Haden original called "Song for Che." Amazingly, the music isn't covered with dust now; it's still alive and kicking, because Haden was committed to communicating through feeling and beauty. In 1982, he revived the LMO handle for The Ballad of the Fallen, an achingly beautiful album dedicated to the spirit of the Spanish Civil War, and to the angry, rueful feelings inspired by American policies in Latin America during Ronald Reagan's first presidential term. (Haden's willingness to put his money where his mouth was extended beyond releasing music meant to express anti-imperialist sentiments at a moment when there was no market for it; in the early '70s, he was briefly jailed for playing "Song for Che" and dedicating it to anti-colonialist guerrilla forces while touring Portugal with Coleman.)
Fred Kaplan's words, "play a gorgeous song." Haunted Heart, which begins with an "ouer feature presentation will now begin" fanfare, includes songs by Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Cole Porter, Glenn Miller, and Howard Dietz, along with movie themes and new songs by Broadbent named for Raymond Chandler novels ("The Long Goodbye," "Lady in the Lake").
It also seamlessly incorporates vocals by singers from the '40s and '50s: Billie Holiday, Jo Stafford, and Jeri Southern—not as a show of technological gimmickery, as in the "duets" that Natalie Cole and Hank Williams, Jr. released with their famous fathers, but for the bluesy aesthetic quality the old voices bestow upon the neo-noir feel of the music, almost as collaborators. The sound is very far away from the jagged, wild rhythms of Coleman's early work, but it's as alive as the thousandth showing of Double Indemnity or The Big Sleep on Turner Classic Movies. It's one of the best movies you will ever hear.
– Phil Dyess-Nugent is a freelance writer living in Texas. He has contributed to The A.V. Club, HitFlix, Nerve, HiLobrow, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, among other publications.


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Coleman's campaign calls first witnesses in recount trial
4:45 p.m.
The Coleman campaign attempted to introduce into evidence copies of envelopes that had contained absentee ballots. The Franken campaign objected, saying that in some cases, the Coleman campaign had either written on the copies or removed information from the copies.
The three-judge panel agreed with Franken's objection, leaving the Coleman campaign to announce that it would subpoena county officials around the state to provide the original envelopes.
Court adjourned at approximately 4:30 p.m., and resumes tomorrow at 9 a.m.
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3:55 p.m.
Coleman's attorneys have begun calling witnesses to the stand. The first witness was Christine Fuzer, 27, who works for the Coleman campaign. The second was Gloria Sonnen, who works at the St. Paul law firm of Dorsey & Whitney.
Coleman's team is now trying to submit new ballot envelopes as evidence, but Franken's attorney Marc Elias says he wasn't privy to this evidence before the beginning of today's trial.
The three-judge panel has not yet determined whether to admit these ballots as evidence.
2:25 p.m.
Seattle attorney Kevin Hamilton is now making his opening statement on behalf of Al Franken.
Addressing the issue of rejected absentee ballots, Hamilton said: "Evidence will show that the vast majority of these ballots were rejected because they should have been."
It "will show that certainly there were some mistakes in this election," but not enough to overturn the outcome of the State Canvassing Board, Hamilton said.
Franken's attorneys also include former Minneapolis U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug, Seattle attorney David Burman, who worked on Washington state's gubernatorial recount in 2004; and Marc Elias, who was general counsel for the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign.
Hamilton said Coleman's attorneys are "cherry-picking," and looking for ways to eliminate votes from predominantly Franken areas, while expanding the votes in his favor from other areas.
"This claim, simply put, cannot sustain serious scrutiny," Hamilton said.
Coleman is behind Franken by 225 votes.
1:53 p.m.
Rejected absentee ballots are at the heart of the case, said Minneapolis criminal defense attorney Joe Friedberg in his opening statements on behalf of former Senator Norm Coleman.
Friedberg is asking the three-judge panel to review 5,000 ballots -- the ones Coleman's attorneys are saying were wrongly-rejected.
"We don't have a clue who these people voted for. These unopened absentee ballots are still with election judges," Friedberg said.
"Nobody, Mr. Franken's side, Norm Coleman's side, we don't know what's in there," Friedberg said. "For all I know I'm trying to get you to count ballots that favor Mr. Franken."
Friedberg added: "This is going to be extremely tedious and extremely boring but it's got to go ballot by ballot. I don't know any other way to do it."
Attorney Kevin Hamilton will soon begin his opening statements on behalf on Al Franken.
Coleman appeared in court Monday afternoon. His legal bullpen also includes Ben Ginsberg, one of former President George W. Bush's attorneys in the 2000 recount; former state Senator and assistant majority leader Fritz Knaak; and Tony Trimble, who represented Mark Kennedy in the congressional recount of 2000.
Just how many ballots the panel will reconsider is still up to the three judges. Coleman's attorneys would like to expand the list to 12,000.
Coleman is specifically challenging whether the recount properly included and counted legally cast votes in three major categories.
They have to prove by a preponderance of the evidence -- that is, that it's more likely than not -- that: officials wrongly rejected absentee ballots; that they double-counted other ballots; and third, that 133 missing ballots from Minneapolis should not be counted.
"We are litigating the issue of whether or not the original ballots should have been, and should now be counted," Friedberg said in his opening statement.
Al Franken has not appeared in court this afternoon.


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Reader comment on item: A Democratic Islam?
Submitted by leo solomon (Israel), Apr 17, 2008 at 17:39
Militant islam IS the reformation. It is an attempt to erase the impact the Judeo-Christian West has had upon the muslim East(including concepts of democracy). it is an attempt to return to the pure stream that had conquered and prevailed over most of the known world .
The Christian reformation's return to religeous purity led to a spirit that conquered the world economically and militarilly.The islamists,dreaming of past glories, through the economic gift the west has given them and,as they had before with the sword, wish to emulate that success .Their desire is to restore the Caliphate to the lands they lost and to have Islam prevail everywhere else as well.With these achievements they will have regained -what is most important of all to them- their lost honour.
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