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The Shocking Facts - Why Opponents Call for A Ban on ECT
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 16:56
by Marian B. Goldstein
Leonard Roy Frank is a survivor and activist. One of the most prominent personalities in the movement against ECT. He has been exposed to ECT-treatment himself, he has written a book on the history of electroshock and witnessed at hearings.
"This was the most painful and humiliating experience of my life", he says about his experience with ECT. "My memory for the three preceding years was gone. (...)my high school and college education was effectively destroyed. I felt that every part of me was less than what it had been."
Earlier this year a study was published, among others by Harold Sackeim, one of the most pronounced proponents of ECT in the US, which shows irreversible memory loss and persistantly reduced cognitive abilities in individuals exposed to, especially but not exclusively, bilateral ECT. The study concludes, that bilateral ECT therefor should be replaced by unilateral ECT, which, according to the results, does not have these side-effects to the same extent.
US-psychiatrist Peter Breggin objects, saying that unilateral ECT mostly affects those areas in the brain which relate to emotions. Consequently, the damage is not as measurable as reduced cognitive abilities are, and the individual him- or herself does not necessarily pay a greater attention to it and may very well have difficulty expressing the loss. Which, anyway, does not make the loss itself less important.
The results of the study support and make topical what the opponents of ECT have been pointing out for decades: That ECT "works" because it causes brain damage. Scans and MRIs following ECT show haemorrhages in the brain, and the often observed euphoria as well as seizures and memory loss are identical to the symptoms of severe head injury.
Furthermore, psychologist and activist John Breeding reports that the mortality rate with 1 out of 200 is high, that ECT may cause heart problems and sometimes epilepsy, that the effectiveness of real ECT is no better than that of sham-ECT, and that the suicide rate for individuals who were exposed to ECT is no lower than that for individuals who have not been exposed to this treatment.
Indeed, studies show that ECT sometimes increases suicidality during and right after treatment. "I only wish to die", my friend wrote in a letter to me while she was hospitalized, receiving ECT.
This increased suicidality may be related to the effect ECT according to its opponents really aims to have: The effect of "a trauma on top of a trauma", as Dianne at Freedom Center's Bed Push '07 commented on psychiatry in general. That of a trauma which exceeds the original trauma that lead to crisis, and thus forces it into the background.
"Fear for life and body renders psychotic fear superfluous", German psychiatrist Klaus Dörner thus states. ECT, especially when administered forcibly, places the exposed individual in the position of the victim, helplessly and passively dependent and subjected to the professionals' conditions.
According to its opponents, ECT therefor "works" on the same principles as torture: By creating strong feelings of fear, shame and complete helplessness, it subverts any kind of resistance. Psychiatric "symptoms" do imply an aspect of resistance, US-neurologist John M. Friedberg points out. And he continues: "Can resistance be overcome by torture? Obviously."
Under any other circumstances than psychiatric ones, it is a human rights violation, it is torture, to expose an individual to electric shock. ECT, along with every other psychiatric treatment method, is a punishment disguised as "help", a "social control weapon" as Don Weitz, Canadian survivor and activist, puts it. What is controlled and punished becomes clear when one looks at statistics showing that both women and the elderly are far more often psychiatrized, medicalized and shocked than men: Deviant, inconvenient behavior.
Summing up, one can say that the opponents arguments are that ECT neither is a lenient nor life-saving treatment. On the contrary. Apart from the considerable, psychologically degrading and dehumanizing effect, especially of ECT administered forcibly, ECT implies an unproportionally high risk to health. Information about this risk is insufficient. As certain comments at Outsideren's debate as well as a tour through the Danish mainstream-websites shows, sometimes there are even told lies and/or information is suppressed. "Informed consent" thus cannot be said to be a reality in today's Denmark.
Memories, also and not least emotional ones, and even painful memories, are which makes us personalities. My own experience is that emotional crises are a result of recalling memories has become too painful. Psychiatry's answer to this pain is to erase the memories. Directly, by inflicting brain damage with memory loss as a result, or indirectly, by surpassing the original trauma with a new one. This answer is directly connected to society's development towards a preference for the quick and easy solutions. Quick and easy solutions which inevitably will backfire, sooner or later.
In my opinion, psychiatry's answer to the pain reflects a view of human nature that leaves only little room to the complexity of the human mind. It reduces me to my neurotransmitters and genes, and, in worst case, irrevocably takes away those memories, which would make it possible for me to discover my true being in here and now, my personality. This, my own, personal insight, has been motivation enough for me to join the opponents in their efforts.
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MSU Information Technology provides the MSU community with network and wired and wireless Internet access on campus and in outlying MSU research centers. MSU IT also manages the MSUnet campus backbone and IP network resources.
Wired network connections are provided in offices, residence halls, lecture halls, and computer labs, as well as in common meeting areas such as libraries, study lounges, and athletic areas.
Wi-Fi access is available in academic buildings on much of campus (including the south campus farms) to support the mobility of faculty, staff, and students.
Campus Backbone
In 2014, IT Services upgraded the campus backbone from 10 Gigabits 20Gb to meet increasing bandwidth needs on campus.
The previous 2010 campus backbone upgrade, added two carrier-class 10Gb routers in order to plan for network growth and offer new security options to departments on campus, like customized firewalls.
The campus backbone network affects network speed and continuity during outages or disasters.
Projects & Partnerships
During the summer 2016, the wired network in the residence halls was upgraded. In addition, MSU IT is working on a Network Assessment and Planning project as part of a multi-year plan to expand the wired and wireless networks across MSU
MSU IT also works with units across MSU and beyond in building their network infrastructure. Some of these joint projects have included:
- 180,000-square-foot Secchia Center medical building in Grand Rapids for the MSU College of Human Medicine.
- 22,000-square-foot MSU Detroit Center.
- Community Music School Detroit.
- Headquarters for College of Education teaching interns.
MSU also partners in several external network and data connectivity projects with other universities and organizations.
The Michigan LambdaRail (MiLR) is a high-speed network built jointly by Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University, and operated by the Merit Network. MiLR provides 10Gbps Ethernet connections between researchers at the three universities and national and international connection points in Chicago.
MSU is also part of OmniPoP, which is a fiber optic network collaboration between the participating Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions that connects them to each other and to research hubs worldwide with 10Gbps connectivity.

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text: Step Closer (P.S.Novel) : Emily, a young Canadian living in Spain, watches the 2004 tsunami unfold. Though she is safe with her partner, Sam, in Santiago de Compostela, the crisis in Southeast Asia provides a backdrop for her turbulent thoughts. Emily is still struggling to make sense of a tragedy involving two friends, Gavin and Marcus, that occurred five years earlier. But as she recreates her friends' actions of that summer, and delves into a shared secret in their past, she must come to terms with her own role in the tragedy and the secrets that remain - even at the risk of enormous personal loss.


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Because I'm running out of my favourite Project Life page protectors and I had pictures I wanted to print, I decided to go full scale with a 6x12":
I've yet to put the journaling in, but I'm focussing on putting labels and stickers into this one, with journaling kept to a minimum. You can get the stamps pictured from Kelly Purkey's shop here. The great thing about 6x12" photos like these are the colours. I admit, it would've been better if taken from an actual camera, rather than my iPhone, but it does the trick. Pick a picture you like for the week, blow it up and you've got all you need. Experiment with different photo sizes in your Project Life and it will give some variety to your spreads.


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When this century began, the great Russian empire extended from the Pacific Ocean in the east, across the vast Siberian expanse and the Ural Mountains, and pushed up to the borders of the Austro-Hungarian and German empires in the west.
As the 20th Century ends, however, Russia's global and regional influence has noticeably declined. But lost in some of the recent headlines--the rift over spies and Western criticism of Russia's use of force in Chechnya--is a deeper and more problematic issue.


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Barns would just look weird if they were any other color than red.
New England settlers didn't have money to paint their barns so they mixed skimmed milk, lime, and red iron oxide to make a red plastic-like coating to protect their barn's wood.
According to a Business Insider video, "Red absorbed more of the sun's rays than plain wood and was the cheapest at the time. The coating protected the wood and kept it warmer in the winter." Once manufacturers started making paint with chemical pigments red was still the cheapest, so farmers just stuck with the color red.
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I am of Cherokee/Choctaw descent and wish to share the lessons I have learned from our Earth Teachers and the old ones who have patiently instructed me in the honoring of our Earth Mother and all our relations who do not speak with a human voice. Without the natural world, the human world would not exist. As nations continue to grow in population and expand their cities, our natural world is seldom given consideration and they have no voice which the governments understand.
It is an honor for me to write on their behalf, to be a small voice in the wilderness of humanity that others might understand our interdependence on animals, birds, fish, and all things natural. I do not speak for any Native Nation, nor any Native American
person. I write from the heart, from things my relations have spoken that I might make their voices heard.
All that is natural seeks balance and nothing natural needs a human to make this happen.
We need them.
3 Hawks
I am the largest land animal in North America and my picture often symbolizes the American West during the time of settlers, wagon trains, Cowboys and Indians, and you will even see my image on some of your money.
You likely know me as the American Buffalo, although in technical terms some of you refer to me as Bison. By what name I am known to you is not as important as the role we have played throughout life history.
When the explorer Columbus landed on Turtle Island in the late 1400's, my family population was estimated at nearly 60,000,000 and our home range was the majority of what is now called the United States, with some of our Wood Bison cousins living in the area of Canada. By 1890, our estimated population was around one thousand as we neared total extinction from being hunted by settlers, and slaughtered by others to starve out the 'Indians'.
Although some of your ancestors of that time raised concerns about this slaughter, nothing was actually done to bring it to an end as the government encouraged this killing to meet their goal of containing the Plains Indians. Sadly, this apathy among your kind continues to this day as cattle ranchers have taken land once ours to range their cattle for profit. This may not raise alarm with some of you concerning us, but consider that the greatest slaughter of my family took place between 1850 and 1890, and if we were to be killed at the rate of 1000 per day, it would take 164 of your years to complete this cycle, and yet, humans were able to achieve this in less than 40 years. This gives you an idea of what my family endured at the hands of humans.
This demonstrates the mindset of those whose life quest was based on greed for land and genocide of a native people; those who lived in harmony with their surroundings knowing that how they treated the earth and her inhabitants would come back full circle to their way of life.
Native Americans had great respect for my family members and took what they needed without killing an entire herd. We were honored with song and dance and our spirits were respected with the ensuing hunt. Our numbers were not greatly affected by their hunting as we were prolific and maintained our ability to do our part in keeping the natural world in balance.
There are many things you can learn about yourself from my family as we all share this small planet together. Native People looked to nature for lessons, warmth and livelihood and realized that all natural things are teachers and speak to us if only we take time to listen.
The males in my family can grow to around 2000 pounds and nearly 6 feet high at the shoulders, and although we may seem to be slow and cumbersome, we can run to speeds of 35 miles per hour. This is good to remember when meeting others of your species so that you don't assume one thing about that person when something entirely different may be the case. When we graze, we continue to move so we do not lay waste to the land and our hooves loosen the earth as we walk, run, or wallow which in turn makes it easier for grasses to grow and critters to dig. This is a reminder to you that there will be times you must move quickly and times to move more at ease, but whatever your pace, be considerate of what you are doing to our Earth Mother and not destroy or disrespect what is around you.
Our great strength is needed to walk this journey we have been given and will teach you that there will be times in your own life that you will need great strength to continue on your path and reach your goals. When the snow is heavy and food is scarce, we will use our massive heads to push snow aside and find grasses lying underneath. Keep in mind that as we do this, so you also can use your head in stressful situations rather than giving in to panic. Look at the whole situation, use your head (emotions don't move snow very well) and keep going until you resolve the situation or find the grass you are looking for. The cold winds of change will figuratively blow through your life from time to time and emotional winters can be endured with the right type of insulation. Our heavy winter hair is a reminder to you of this and just as you see us shed this heavy coat in the spring, so you are reminded that there will come the day you can shed the concerns you had during that winter time that settled upon your path.
Native Americans wasted nothing we had to offer. Our bones were tools and weapons, our hides clothing and shelter, our bladders water and boiling bags, and even our tails made good fly swatters. They understood, and many still understand, that taking a life is a serious thing and when this must be done, honor should be a large part of the process leaving little to zero waste. Here I would ask you humans to think about how much waste is created on your earth walk as you eat and build homes, buy new things or just get tired of what you have had for a time. Settlers and hunters were known to kill us, take our tongues and hides and leave the rest to rot on the plains. Waste created by greed and lack of respect. We Buffalo had no need for landfills nor did we bury toxic waste beneath the skin of our Earth Mother. All worked in a beautiful cycle from our birth to our fertilizing the ground in our death and in feeding others.
If you see our story in some of your films, you will learn that we are very protective of our young and our herd works together for survival. Humans have much to learn here where difference seems to divide rather than bring together.
We have long been a celebrated part of nature with Native America and still hold that place with many who honor the respectful ways passed to them by the ones who have gone before them.
Where we once roamed free as was our birth right, now we are few in numbers and except for some of my family in your Yellowstone Park, most of us are in protected areas...fenced in and no longer free. In Yellowstone, your species still have issues with us and often ranchers will lure my family members outside of the Park and kill us the minute we cross some invisible line that has been drawn, all in the name of raising cattle on land once ours. Interestingly, our meat is much healthier than cattle but your species has a way of using the media to circumvent these truths. We have been accused of carrying a disease called 'brucellosis' which causes cattle to abort, and it has been shown with your science this is of low occurrence in my family but much higher among our Elk cousins; but still we are destroyed on our lands out of a fear that is without foundation.
I hope you will think of these things when you next see some of my family whether it be from a picture or in person, and remember that all of nature has something to say if only one would take time to listen.
My family and I appreciate those of you who work hard to help us survive and it is because of these caring humans and their efforts that our population is slowly coming back in these times.
Chief Dan George said in part,...'what we don't know, we fear...what we fear...we destroy' and I can only hope you will learn more about my family and the role we play in keeping things in balance. We do our part...may you do the same!
Once, we were a great nation
And our Buffalo People were many
Now, we are but a few
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, we were able to roam with freedom
To each horizon we could see our home
Today, we are always fenced in
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, we knew a great peace
Living was good
Our days are now filled with fear
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, we were greatly honored
Our native relations used us well
Now we must be protected
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, we gave of ourselves that others might live
But from the east, a White Cloud swarmed our land
Today, we are simply murdered that cattle may grow
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, we fed on the great prairies of life
Our bellies were always full
Now it is cattle and sheep that roam our plains
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, we gave birth on fertile lands
Our young nursed in peace
Today, our land has been laid waste
The White Cloud has made it so
Once, the White Cloud thought they owned Mother Earth
They felt themselves to be very wise
Soon, the White Cloud will destroy their own
Buffalo spirit will make it so
3 Hawks
(on behalf of those who do not speak the human language)
© 3 Hawks
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Like most, I would rather purchase an iPad 2 at the Apple Store than at Best Buy.
Think about it. If the purchase is just about the product, then any old store will do. Hell, I could pick my iPad up at the check out window at McDonalds and still be happy. Right?
The retail gurus at Apple know that the Apple Store offers the experience needed to fully appreciate Apple products. Presentation, service, and ambiance are essential to making the product shine.
Guess what?
The same goes for your blog.
Are You Too Content Focused?
People like me have been exhorting you to focus on content. We've sung the praises of content marketing and pounded the podium shouting "Content is King!"
The problem, though, is that the blogosphere is clogged with good content served up in generic, nondescript, fast-food trays.
Readers show up and immediately bounce away without ever reading the content.
If you asked them why they left, they would say:
"The blog didn't seem right for me." That's the reader's way of saying that your blog's design, presentation, and ambiance sucks.
Fix the presentation and the product will matter. That's why I think you should take the next 30 days to make sure you have a blog that looks as good as the content it houses.
Let's look at Apple Stores for a few pointers:
Apple Stores (Much More than the Product)
First Impressions Count:
The 5th Avenue Apple Store is absolutely breathtaking.
The wild part is that there isn't a product in sight, just a logo and a crystal-clear promise – "Your shopping experience will be as magical as the product".
The first impression is a statement that hypnotically pulls the visitor into the store promising more to come.
Apple puts this level of thought into every single retail location. Every store is designed to make a statement. Even the store in the mall looks radically different than every other store front.
Your blog needs to do the same. I'll give you some suggestions in a moment…
Package Your Product
In an Apple Store, you "approach" their products. This is subtle nuance. You see, in most stores, you stumble into products. You search through shelves. You rearrange and dig for inventory.
This is not the case at Apple.
You enter the store, spot your product, and walk up to an open table where your desired product is ready and waiting. You pick it up and begin selling yourself on why you want it.
Every iPod has headphones. iPads are opened to GarageBand. MacBooks are showing off resolution-popping HD graphics.
Think about your blog.
- How much time do you spend on headlines?
- How about photos that amplify your post's main idea?
- What about those subheadlines? Are they an afterthought?
Your blog should make your posts shine. Fail here and it won't matter how good your content is.
Hustle and Bustle
I suspect that every Apple Store is wrapped in glass to make sure that everyone can see people in the stores.
There's something irresistible about a packed store. You are drawn in to see what all the excitement is about. You get the same feeling when you see a packed restaurant or a line outside a hot new club.
This is why top blogs focus attention on the hustle and bustle around their blog. Mashable prominently shows how many people are following certain topics. The Huffington Post makes it easy for you to fan specific authors and commenters.
By the way, these blogs grew their gargantuan reader base because they used these "social proof" strategies from the beginning.
New blogs can show hustle and bustle by maintaining an active Twitter feed and displaying it on their blog. You can thank retweeters, engage with Facebook fans (and show your activity via the Facebook widget), and reply to as many comments as you can.
Stellar and Visible Customer Service
The Genius Bar and happy knowledgeable Apple employees are prominent reminders that Apple is ready to serve you. Customer service seems like an obvious prerequisite for any retail establishment, but after waiting 5 minutes for an order of fries at McDonalds, I'm reminded that great customer service isn't all that common.
Apple has made customer service an integral part of its experience. If you look closely, you can see how your blog has the same responsibility.
For example:
Do you follow-up with people who use your Contact Form?
A recent reader reminded me that I shouldn't have a contact form if I wasn't going to answer the emails – Ouch! I will do better. Maybe you should too.
Answering Comments
I believe in answering comments whenever my answer adds to the conversation.
Although I'm not in the "answer every single comment" camp, I believe that you should hang out in your comments section as much as possible. Your readers will enjoy and appreciate your follow-up comments on your posts and answers to questions.
Twitter @ mentions:
Don't hesitate to answer comments on Twitter or Facebook. This allows your extended audience to benefit from your feedback. Commenting systems like LiveFyre make this simple for you and your readers.
The Easiest Way to Get Started
Warning – I'm about to deliver a little tough love.
Here it is:
There's absolutely no excuse for having a busted and broken blog. So if your blog looks like it's an exile from the clipart refugee camp, then you only have yourself to blame.
I'll go one step further and say that if you are struggling to gather an audience after 6 months of blogging, then you should change your blog design. It's that important.
The quickest way to fix a coyote ugly blog is to get a professional theme.
Yes. It will cost you money about $80 for a theme that looks stunning. If you can't scrape together $80 to make sure the time you've invested in your blog isn't wasted, then blogging may not be your best strategy.
Ok, enough for the tough stuff. 😉
I'm a big fan of StudioPress because the people who run the company are bloggers themselves (@copyblogger) and understand what it takes to publish a fantastic blog platform.
The folks at Headway, Woo Themes, and Thesis have some good options too.
So take a critical look at your blog and decide your next step.
Tell Me
What's your next move? What area needs improvement on your blog? Talk to me, and I'll talk right back ☺


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PARIS (Reuters) - Authorities and volunteers in Nice have removed thousands of mementoes laid out for victims of last summer's truck rampage as the city readies for its annual carnival,its biggest public event since the Islamist attack that killed 86 people.
Authorities plan to preserve some of the poems, photos and other objects draped over the bandstand at the city's seafront Promenade des Anglais and move others online as a permanent memorial.
Relatives of the victims helped clear the bandstand on the eve of the 133th carnival. Last year's event attracted 240,000 visitors.
"Being from Nice, being in solidarity with my town, and having two cousins who survived the tragedy, I just had to be there to preserve everything that was placed," Nice resident and volunteer Annie Piveteau told Reuters.
City archivist Marin Duvigneau said the form that preservation would take was still under discussion.
"We're going to partly digitize the objects, poems and photos with perhaps the idea in mind of creating a website, perhaps the idea of dedicating a publication," she said.
Christian Estrosi, head of the Riviera regional government that has responsibility for Nice, said on his Twitter feed that exceptional security measures would be in place for this year's carnival.
(Reporting by Reuters TV, writing by Maya Nikolaeva; editing by John Stonestreet)


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September 7, 2011
Tom Fool are We? The third innovation born from the collaborative efforts of designer Lindsey Thornburg, photographer/director Olivia Malone and director/editor Crystal Moselle follows two mischievous "clowns" as they gallivant through the countryside. The films inspiration comes from French new wave films and psychedelic directors such as Jean Rollin and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Keeping true to their family style team ethics Moselle's father Charles Moselle, joined the team to write the score for the film. The movie stars Cailin Hill from Ford for models and Marianna Rothen from Fusion.
Olivia Malone has shot for Elle, Dossier Journal, Bullett, Dirty Durty Diary, Nylon and Foam magazines. Crystal Moselle has collaborated with Spike Jonze, shown at the Whitney Museum and has worked with editorials such as NYtimes, V and Nowness.
Lindsey Thornburg was raised in Aspen Colorado and went on to study philosophy in Santa Barbara. While attending design school in Los Angeles she began creating her first dress collection titled Fabric. Lindsey Thornburg moved to New York in 2003 and continued to devise dresses under this monkier. In 2006, after returning from a trip to the Peruvian highlands of Machu Picchu, with much inspiration from the indigenous attire and her vast collection of Pendleton blankets she started to create her cloak collection.
In addition to the Cloaks, Fall Winter 2010 Lindsey released her first full ready to wear collection. Seasonally continues to add a selection of unique pieces growing her collection.
Her collections has received accolades from such publication as New York Times Sunday Styles, Elle, Vogue China, Teen Vogue, Style.com, The Satorialist, V magazine, Dazed and Confused


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Ossen Innovation Appoints new CFO
Feb 25, 2013, 04:05 EST
SHANGHAI, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ossen Innovation Co., Ltd. ("Ossen" or the "Company") (NASDAQ : OSN), a China-based manufacturer of an array of plain surface, rare earth and zinc coated pre-stressed steel materials, today announced that Mr. Feng Peng will assume the position as Ossen's Chief Financial Officer effective March 1, 2013, replacing Mr. Alan Jin, the Company's current CFO, who has decided to leave the company and pursue other interest. Mr. Jin will serve as a consultant to Ossen during the transition period, helping the company complete its 2012 audit and annual report.
Mr. Peng has almost a decade of experience in the financial services industry, including extensive capital markets experience in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining Ossen, he was a Senior Vice President at MZ Group, where he worked with over a dozen U.S.-listed companies and several pre-IPO companies to provide strategic communication and advisory services. He also maintained strong relationships with many U.S. and Asia investment banks, analysts and institutional investors, with a special emphasis on Asia based institutional investors. Prior to that, Mr. Peng served at various capacities at Thomson Financial and Citigroup. Mr. Peng earned a bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Master of Science degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
About Ossen Innovation Co., Ltd.
Ossen Innovation Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells a wide variety of plain surface pre-stressed steel materials and rare earth coated and zinc coated pre-stressed steel materials. The Company's products are mainly used in the construction of bridges, as well as in highways and other infrastructure projects. Ossen has two manufacturing facilities located in Maanshan, Anhui Province, and Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province.
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Spiroflow Systems Inc. of Monroe doesn't talk about what its next acquisition will be, only that it's almost certain.
The 30-employee company, which makes equipment to move bulk materials, is on a growth track. And buying other companies is its chosen method of expanding.
"We grow through acquisitions," says Carolynn Sarver, Spiroflow director of marketing. In the latest deal, the company bought the assets of Control & Metering of Mississauga, Ontario, last year after the Canadian company had filed for bankruptcy.
Three key people and some patented processes came to Spiroflow's facility in Monroe with that purchase, Sarver says. Sarver believes employment growth will follow as Spiroflow buys more companies. But those details are closely held.
Jeffrey Dudas is CEO at Spiroflow. The company has operated in the Charlotte area since 1991.
In 2013, the privately held company moved into the much larger 109,000-square-foot building at 1609 Airport Road in Monroe, relocating from another Union County building.
The company's engineers design materials-handling systems and conveyor products that move items ranging from sugar at a commercial bakery to peanuts in a processing center. The systems are then assembled at the Monroe site.
Customers include companies such as Golden Grove Candy Co. of Warsaw, N.C., which recently bought a bulk bag-filling system from Spiroflow. That new system allows the company to fill 300 huge bulk bags of peanuts a day, up from 20 a day using hand-filling methods.
"The automated filling system eliminated all operator contact with the product, which significantly reduced possible product contamination," Sarver states in a case study of Golden Grove. Spiroflow's study of Golden Grove on Spiroflow's website presents some interesting details about the two companies.
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Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog on promoting the use of telemetry when anti-malware testers compile their set of malware to run tests. I thought it might be time to give people an update.
Basically, changing testers habits is like the proverbial turning of a battleship. Testers use tried and true methodology. And its important for the consumers of the test results to have consistent methodology to compare past results with present ones to build a pattern of progress. So, even to improve the tests, it has to be done delicately and with broad support, and sound reason.
I believe I gave sound reason in the presentation last year. Fundamentally, lets make tests more meaningful for the average consumer. And our initiative would be through telemetry because thats what Microsoft would be best able to provide.
The broad support from industry came in the form of an IEEE effort resulting in the release of a standard for the sharing of malware metadata. At the same time, a large percentage of the industry banded to form the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). AMTSO also works towards bettering tests. Microsoft was a member at inception. But it became clear that Microsofts objective of improving tests would be better served if we concentrated on one singular message (telemetry in testing) than to spread our voice behind the many efforts that AMTSO and its members would endeavor to accomplish. (We respect the efforts and messages undertaken by AMTSO and will try to join its membership again at a reasonable time in the future.)
So, we were down to helping the testers.
Also around this time, Virus Bulletin (VB) was introducing a new component of their bimonthly testing called RAP tests (Reactive and Proactive). In this test, VB would collect four weekly sets of malware samples to use in the test. Tony Lee and I worked with John Hawes (VBs Technical Consultant & Test Team Director) to show him the kind of data Microsoft could provide, and offered ways to interpret the data so more contributors could be engaged with similar data, so Microsoft would not bias the test by being the sole or dominant provider of such information. John wrote:
We plan to do some prioritization of our own, aligning our sample selection processes with the prevalence data we gather from a range of sources the aim being to include the most significant items... We continue to seek more and better prevalence data to add to our incoming feeds.- http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/vb200902-RAP-tests
AV-Comparatives.org is an Austrian non-profit testing organization. Starting with their February 2010 tests, they wrote:
You will notice that this time the test-set is smaller This is because we are now trying to include in the test-set mainly prevalent real-world malware To build the test-set we consulted metadata and telemetry data collected and shared within AV industry Malware we see on user PCs are automatically considered as important. - http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report25.pdf
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We tried to include in the test-set only prevalent real-world malware that has not been seen before the 10th February 2010 by consulting telemetry / cloud data collected and shared within the AV industry. Consulting that data was quite interesting for us, as it showed that, while some vendors had seen some malware already many months or even years ago, the same malware hashes appeared in some other vendors clouds only recently. - http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report26.pdf
Microsoft is one of the companies helping AV-Comparatives. I presume the other participants in the IEEE metadata telemetry effort are also involved, as having only one telemetry source is not sufficiently meaningful. For, there is a saying in the field of telemetry gathering, You can only see what youre looking for. So, its important that telemetry be gathered from multiple sources. Unfortunately, as yet there are still not a very large number of companies providing actionable telemetry to testers. As a result, current telemetry primarily provides a negative use, rather than a positive one. (Not negative-as-in-bad / positive-as-in-good; negative as in the telemetry is used to eliminate samples, not so much to assert samples as important. Which is why AV-Comparatives makes the statement that malware they see on user PCs are what they deem to be important.)
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 2, 2015) - Khan Resources Inc. ("Khan" or the "Company") (CSE:KRI) announces that an international arbitration tribunal, constituted under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, has determined an award of approximately US$100 Million (including interest and costs). The award is given as compensation to Khan for the Government of Mongolia's actions in relation to the cancellation of Khan's uranium licenses in 2009. The award is final and binding and is now due from the Government of Mongolia and Monatom LLC. If settlement is not forthcoming, the Company will initiate collection procedures pursuant to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (1958), a multilateral treaty to which Mongolia is a signatory.
The award was rendered by an internationally respected Tribunal, chaired by Mr. David A. R. Williams Q.C. (New Zealand) and including Mr. L. Yves Fortier Q.C (Canada) and Mr. Bernard Hanotiau (Belgium). The arbitration was administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, located in The Hague, Netherlands. The international arbitration was initiated in January, 2011 pursuant to the Founding Agreement for the joint venture, the Energy Charter Treaty and the Foreign Investment Law of Mongolia. Hearings were held on jurisdictional matters at the International Chamber of Commerce Hearing Centre in Paris in May 2012. The Tribunal's decision on jurisdiction in July 2012 dismissed all of Mongolia's objections to the continuance of the arbitral claim. As a consequence, a full hearing was held in November 2013 again at the ICC Hearing Centre, on the merits of the claim and the damages suffered by Khan. Crowell & Moring LLP, skillfully led by Ian Laird, acted as counsel for Khan in the arbitration.
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In determining the damages to Khan, the Tribunal stated that the Net Present Value approach used in Khan's Feasibility Study and the Company's expert reports was not appropriate. The Tribunal's determination of damages relied primarily on previous offers made for the Dornod asset, the most important of which the Tribunal stated was the offer by CNNC to purchase Khan in February 2010. As a result, the Tribunal stated that the level of damages suffered at July, 2009 (the time of the expropriation) was limited to US$80 Million, plus interest from the time of the award until payment at LIBOR plus 2% (compounded annually). The Tribunal also made a full award of arbitration and counsel costs of US$9.1 Million in favour of Khan.
Mr. Grant Edey, President and CEO of Khan, commented, "We are very pleased with the Tribunal's ruling that the expropriation of the Dornod asset violated Mongolian law. A former Mongolian government illegally expropriated Khan's uranium property without any compensation which is contrary to the rule of law. And while the current Government of Mongolia has taken certain progressive action to diminish the harmful acts of former regimes, western investors and governments will scrutinize the Mongolian government's action in this matter as the rule of law also dictates prompt payment of compensation. Khan intends to continue our vigorous pursuit of obtaining value for our shareholders."
The number of Khan shares on a fully diluted basis stands at 83.3 million or US$1.20 per share. Using the March 2, 2015 US$-Cdn$ exchange rate of 1.2535, the award translates into approximately Cdn$1.50 per share.
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It is important to note that we provide live-in care only – as distinct, that is, from visiting care, a distinction we make because by comparison, visiting care is generally at best patchy and at worst chronically unreliable – and is usually inflicted on those who have no say in the matter as borne out by the periodic exposes about same in the media.
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There was universal praise for carers and they were described as, "wonderful", and "outstanding".
#25. CQC inspection 2015
We are profoundly grateful that we found out about the existence of Care at Home.
#7. Close relative of a client in Birmingham
Your carer improved my mother's quality of life with her wonderful sense of humour and loving care beyond anything we had seen before.
#4. Son of a client in Leicestershire
We were very pleased with the care you provided and we would highly recommend your carer for her conscientious and caring attitude towards my mother.
#6. Son of a client in Bedfordshire
The District Nurse Supervisor actually rang me to say the nurses were so impressed by the level of personal care given to my father.
#1. Daughter of a client in Stourbridge
May I take the opportunity to thank you and all your staff for your wonderful service and care extended to both my parents over the past six years.
#2. Son of clients in Chelmsford
The quality of life [of my parents] would have been significantly impaired if I had not been able to rely on such kind, professional and empathetic care provided by your organisation.
#3. Son of clients in Chelmsford
Your carer was truly amazing and dedicated and put my mother's needs first at all times.
#5. Son of a client in Leicester
I was impressed at the way the various agencies – doctors, district nurses, the PCT and yourselves – worked together to ensure an effective and seamless high level of care and medical attention.
#8. Close relative of a client in Birmingham
I am so, so, so happy with the support my aunt has been given. Her carer is excellent & fantastic.
#9. Niece of client in Beccles, Suffolk
Everyone seems very happy that [your carer] is bringing order and warmth to what had been a pretty chaotic situation.
#10. Sister of client in Maldon, Essex
I am so relieved that my sister and brother-in-law are being looked after so capably.
#11. Sister of clients in Essex
I have to say mum's main carer has been fantastic, having become a good friend to mum and the rest of the family.
#12: Son of client in Diss, Norfolk
Mum's life over the last 20 months has definitely been enhanced by your carer's presence.
#13: Son of client in Norfolk
There is no doubt that Mum, my wife and I will all miss [the carer] and she will be a great asset to her next client.
#14: Son of client in Norfolk
Please pass on our appreciation as a family for [the carer's] high level of care and her stalwart cheerfulness.
#15: Son of client in Stock, Essex
I look forward to meeting [the carer] soon – though such is her warmth and friendliness, I sometimes feel as if I already have.
#16: Son of client in Essex
I should like to put on record my deeply felt thanks to you, your company and especially the carers that have looked after mum.
#17: Son of a client in Nottingham
It is such a relief to know that mum is well cared for in her own home.
#18: Son of a client in Nottingham
Every one of the carers has been so kind, cheerful and helpful despite the duress that mum puts them under!
#19: Son of a client in Nottingham
I have nothing but admiration for your carers, because I know that I would be unable to cope [with my mum].
#20: Son of a client in Nottingham
Your staff selection is excellent. Once again, thank you.
#21: Son of a client in Nottingham
I would like to thank your company and your marvellous carer who looked after my father and allowed him to achieve his wish of staying in his own home.
#22: Son of client in Sturmer, Essex
I love working for Care at Home and I feel as if they are a part of my family.
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People felt safe and had good relationships with their carers.
#24. CQC inspection 2015
Carers were described as intuitive, caring and going beyond the call of duty.
#26. CQC inspection 2015
People told us the care was personalised and responsive to their needs.
#27. CQC inspection 2015
We saw that people were consulted about their care and support needs.
#28. CQC inspection 2015
[Care] staff were well-supported by the manager and office staff.
#29. CQC inspection 2015
Staff were caring and supported people to maintain their independence and their interests.
#30. CQC inspection 2015
One relative said the agency was "friendly and approachable".
#32. CQC inspection 2015
Care at Home were very responsive to our initial enquiries and were able to provide answers to all our queries at a very anxious time.
#33. Daughter of client featured above
His current carers are warm and friendly and have an excellent relationship with us all, especially my father.
#34. Daughter of a client in Enfield
I'm always confident that my father's current carers have his best interest at heart, providing him with essential companionship and practical support.
#35. Daughter of a client in Enfield
My father's current carers are thoughtful, conscientious and competent.
#36. Daughter of a client in Enfield
I have had no hesitation in recommending Care at Home to friends.
#37. Daughter of the client featured above
Branka's care was exceptional and we were so lucky to have her looking after Don for the last year of his life, and helping to make him as calm and comfortable as possible'.
#38 Clients daughter in law in Hertfordshire.
Thank you Sarah for all your help and support over the year, please also pass on my thanks to Olivia, Jane and Annette all of whom have been so lovely to deal with and always been so thorough and professional in their approach.
#39 Clients daughter in law in Hertfordshire.
Dorcas and Binta were both very perceptive and caring and were able to very quickly understand my father and his needs.
#40 Clients daughter in law in Hertfordshire.
I think Nadeem is doing a very good job in extremely difficult circumstances. He is a lovely, genuine man who I like very much – he has taken a huge burden off my shoulders which after six exhausting years caring for both my father and my terminally ill sister is a relief.
#41 Daughter of a client in Ipswich
I would like to compliment our new carer, Dorcas who is kind, calm and competent. Anna has been a good replacement carer – warm & friendly kept to routine and interested
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I initially chose Care at Home because it was a local company supplying 24/7 care but after meeting Sarah and realizing there was an historical connections and common acquaintances I had great confidence that the care would be what we wanted for my aunt
#43 Niece of client in Essex
I would just like to say thanks to all the staff for their friendliness and support. No one expected my aunt to still be here 17 months after her hospital discharge and we know it is down to the great care she receives and the fact that she is so happy all the time
#44 Niece of client in Essex
I would like to thank Agy for being so very patient to my mum who could be difficult at times and for providing good care over the 2 months before my mum passed away. Sarah was also very kind and sympathetic
#45 Daughter of client in Harlow
I would like to thank Agy for being so very patient to my mum who could be difficult at times and for providing good care over the 2 months before my mum passed away. Sarah was also very kind and sympathetic
#46 Daughter of client in Harlow
I found Care at Home through an Internet search and was impressed with the info and the tone of their website and initial responsiveness and energy. Angela is very caring and compassionate and Sarah is very efficient and professional. Agy was very kind to dad and he responded well to her. Josephine ditto and she was better able to manage mum. Great care from both of them THANKS!
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Ana is hardworking and meticulous in the care she gives my father. I have total confidence in her ability to deal with any eventually she is just like a professional extension to our family
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Byredo, fragrance brand from Sweden, held a special event in New York in U.S.A. to announce launch of their new products on 4th November 2016, inviting many journalist and VIP customers .
To celebrate an incense-themed collection, this event included incense ceremony performance by Japanese incense master and we Nippon Kodo supported it.
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Chore (Roar Parody)
The Peterson Farm Bros are back with another song parody (or as they call this one, a "perrydy") rewritten about the life of a farmer. They previously did songs by PSY, LMFAO, and even Will Smith, and now they spoof Katy Perry's hit song "Roar" with their own version called "Chore." As usual, it's about farmers and what they do. The lyrics are posted at the YouTube page. -via Viral Viral Videos


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JC Haze is a non-union professional voice actor known for his "Friendly" sound, with natural-sounding narrations. He can be your PERFECT voice for corporate narrations, podcasts, You Tube videos, power point presentations, radio & TV commercials, online tutorials, and website audio.
With 5-STAR Feedback, and many return clients...you can TRUST JC to do the job right!
***PLUS: JC is Faaassssst! Many times, you can get your project voiced in under 24 hours!***
Some of JC's Credits include: Scholastic Audio books for Children, including: Clifford the Big Red Dog, Clifford's Good Deeds (and many other "Clifford" Books), I Spy A Butterfly (And other "I Spy" books), Itchy Itchy Chicken Pox... and many more. JC's voice is perfect for radio commercials, TV commercials, training videos, cartoons, children's programming, kids books, video games...the list goes on and on! Experienced, truly professional...and his only objection is to give you the best voice over experience! You can hear many of JC's demos right here on voices.com, just click on "DEMOS" above. NEED IMPERSONATIONS? Here are some JC can do well: Ed Sullivan, Rod Serling, Rodney Dangerfield, Don Pardo, Ted Knight(Baxter), and more! *Please save me on your FAVORITES list at VOICES.COM for easy access for future voice work, just click on the "heart"!
English (North American), English
Italian, Italian American, North American, US New England (Boston, Providence)
Middle Aged, Senior, Young Adult
Special Skills
Animation, Audiobooks, Business, Documentaries, Educational, Internet Video, Movie Trailers, Podcasting, Radio, Telephone, Television, Videogames
JC has over 20 years of experience as a broadcaster, voiceover artist, and voice actor.
DON"T FORGET TO SAVE ME TO YOUR FAVORITES (using the "heart" icon) SO YOU CAN FIND ME WHEN YOU NEED ME!
-Dunkin' Donuts
-99 Restaurants
-Denta Quest/Delta Dental
-American Cancer Society
-Scholastic Books(for Children); Clifford The Big Red Dog, and others from the "Clifford' series. Also, Tyrannoclaus, Funny Farm, Alphabet Rescue, Alphabet Mystery and Alphabet Adventure. I am continuing to record DOZENS of books for Scholastic!
-TV Commercial for SMUBBLES and BALLZOONS (Kids toys from Australian company "MOOSE")
-Tim Cahill for Governor- Boston MA
-Bellwether Community Credit Union
-Werner Mazda, Manchester NH
-Banks Chevrolet, (Radio & TV)Concord NH
-Manchester Monarchs/Autofair Honda (on-camera video)
-Canadian Measurement Metrology (Corporate Narrations)
-Sarah Silverman & Friends In Concert!(radio commercials)
-NH Peterbilt (Phone Messaging/On-hold)
-Maine/Vermont Lottery(on-camera)
(Website hidden) (Animation-Character)
(Website hidden) (phone blast)
-Concord (NH)Hospital
-Pike Industries(industrial narration)
-NH Lottery (on-camera AND voice over)
-Prestige Auto Body (radio commercial & telephone on-hold messaging)
-BWCU (Boeing-Wichita Credit Union)(Radio & TV Commercial)
-Eye On Creative (Religious Videos/DVDs)
-MYTV (TV Commercials)
-Advanced Spa & Pool (TV Commercial) (Website hidden)(phone blast)
-WMUR-TV 9- Country Woods Furniture and others
-Drake Essman Films(movie trailer)
(Website hidden) (phone blast)
-Showtime Computers (TV Commercial)
-And..JC is also the official voice of "(Website hidden)"
Bachelor of Fine Arts /Communication Arts, NY Institute of Technology, Old Westbury NY
Voice Over Training:
-Voice Acting Classes with Maura Tighe/Boston
-New Hampshire Voice Over Workshops (Phone hidden)
-Joan Baker "Secrets to Voice Over Success" Seminar- July 2009
-Guest Instructor/Teacher at Lau Lapides Voice/Acting Coach
NEUMANN U89i, Electro-Voice RE-20
Computer & Software
PC, Intel Pentium4, M-Audio Interface
Special Equipment
Audacity, DBX 286a Mic Processor, Behringer Sound Board/Mixer
Delivery Methods
However you'd LIKE it to be delivered: MP3, Wav, Aiff...all via Email. Also CD/DVD mailing, and upload to your FTP.
Turnaround Time
Turnaround for most projects is SUPER FAST! Within an HOUR if necessary! All projects are recorded in JC's digital studio
Service Description
Here is what I offer YOU...
-Straight Voice Over
-Voice Over with music
-Voice Over with Sound Effects
-Voice Over with multiple voices
-COMPLETE mixing and editing capabilities for any of your projects! I offer FULL production services, all recorded from my digital studio.
-Copy writing & editing (Script writing) Can offer edits to your script, if needed.
All featuring 24 hour turnaround(or LESS) on many projects...
All with reasonable, competitive fees!
*You can monitor and direct your recording session via a simple phone patch into my studio.
;-) Oh, also...be sure to "HEART" me to your favorites list for easy future access!!
JC is the on-hold voice for NH Peterbilt in Bow, NHNH Peterbilt
Paul Wynn, casting agent at Eye On Creative, has used JC numerous times for voice overs on RELIGIOUS DVD's and VideosEye On Creative
Working with JC on this job was amazingly easy! He was incredibly professional to work with and most importantly he nailed the job perfectly! I would highly recommend JC for your next job!Moose Toy Company, Australia
-Keir Houghton
Moose Toy Enterprises
I find myself calling on JC more and more because I know he can deliver a VO that meets all of my and my clients needs. He possesses a great vocal tone and can truly command it whether doing a straight read or character voices. He always gives me a skillful read that consistently reflects the character and feel that I heard when I wrote the copy. And he always provides a reliably quick turnaround at a fair price. JC is truly a professional in every sense of the word.WMUR-TV 9 / Reynolds Multi Media
-Gary Reynolds
Owner Reynolds Multi-media
As a director of musical theater for over 25 years, I have run into some pretty amazing talent, JC is definitley one of the BEST! I was in need of an ED SULLIVAN voice over for our production of BYE BYE BIRDIE, and Joe nailed it!Portland, Maine Theater Group
Voice Over Clients
-Moose toys (TV)
-Bellweather Community Credit Union
-Bailey/Donovan Agency (Documentary narrations)
-WMUR-TV, ABC-9 (various commercial vo's)
-Eagle Mountain Casino (TV/Radio commericals)
-Scholastic Books (childrens audio books)
-Werner Mazda
-Manchester Monarchs/Autofair Honda (on-camera video)
-Sarah Silverman & Friends In Concert!(radio commercials)
-Banks Chevrolet (TV/Radio ads)
-NH Peterbilt (Phone Messaging/On-hold)
-Maine/Vermont Lottery(on-camera)
(Website hidden) (Animation-Character)
(Website hidden) (phone blast)
(Website hidden) (phone)
-Concord Hospital
-Pike Industries(industrial narration)
-NH Lottery (on-camera AND voice-over)
-Prestige Auto Body (radio commercial & telephone on-hold messaging)
-BWCU (Boeing-Wichita Credit Union)(Radio & TV Commercial)
-American Cancer Society
-Eye On Creative (Religious Videos/DVD's)
-MYTV, Derry, NH (TV Commercials)
-Advanced Spa & Pool (TV Commercial)
-1964: Beatles Tribute (Radio Commercial)
-Drake Essman Films(movie trailer)
-Banks Chevrolet (TV Commercial. On-camera)
-Showtime Computers (TV Commercial)
-Bedford (NH) Youth Performing Center (TV)
-And...JC is the official voice of "(Website hidden)"
Payment Terms
Payment to JC Haze is made through Voices.com SurePay®, our escrow service that guarantees your project is completed to your satisfaction. Pay securely by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal through Voices.com and when your work is done, simply download the final files, and release funds to JC Haze.
Learn more about SurePay® here.
Next Steps
To invite JC Haze to audition for your project, simply invite them to a job. Share your project details to quickly and easily receive a quote.
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Canadian Measurement - Metrology Inc. for Job #164775 CMM Company Introduction Video Thank you,
That is great, much appreciated.
Until next timeNov 25, 2015
MediaSource for Job #46890 Dispatch Holiday Subscription Very prompt, thorough and easy to work with.Dec 9, 2011
Keir Houghton for Job #45481 30sec Childrens Toy Commerical Working with JC on this job was amazingly easy! He was incredibly professional to work with and most importantly he nailed the job perfectly! I would highly recommend JC for your next job! Thanks again JC!Nov 29, 2011
Keir Houghton for Job #45891 Smubbles Working the JC has been an ABSOLUTE pleasure! He was incredibly professional, replying quickly to any questions I had. But most importantly the work he produced we love! Thanks JC!Nov 29, 2011
Hank Studios for Job #31333 Hank Studios Promo JC is awesome! Thanks for the great read and quick turnaround!Feb 8, 2011
EyeOn Creative for Job #26698 CA 101010 JC is always great to work with and a great voice.Oct 18, 2010
EyeOn Creative for Job #22649 IMO JC is a great voice and he went to heroic efforts to helpme get my narration as quickly as I needed it.Jul 8, 2010
Despark for Job #20540 Elayers (internet product) concept explanation video voiceover Really helpful, friendly, professional and quick! Highly recommended!Apr 22, 2010
South Portland High School for Job #18217 Ed Sullivan intro for Bye Bye Birdie I am very happy with the talent. A great Ed Sullivan impersonation. More costly than I was prepared for.Jan 20, 2010
Canadian Measurement - Metrology Inc. for Job #17011 Measurement Services Video JC was a pleasure to work with. This was our first voice requirment. JC asked the necessary questions to help us create a voice file that was exactly what we wanted. We will definately use JC and voices.com again.Dec 11, 2009
EyeOn Creative for Job #13804 IMO Evaul We have worked with JC a number of times. He is always does a great job, and is easy to work with.Jun 30, 2009
Heroic Productions, Inc. for Job #10457 Make Me Smile video demo Outstanding--thank you!Nov 13, 2008


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There are few things we love more than Bill Cosby's appearances on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," and by the looks of it, there are few things that Fallon himself loves more.
After making his entrance and walking out into the audience to sit next to a guy who kinda, sorta looks like Fallon, Cosby made his way back to the stage to chat with The Roots about his eventual funeral. Apparently, they played a tune earlier that would be just perfect for the occasion, so Cosby wanted to give it a trial run.
Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out. But the good news is that means Bill Cosby gets to live forever, right?
Watch the ridiculous clip above.
Jimmy Fallon!


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|Agasha Sanami
|Four un-named sisters,
Four un-named brothers
Agasha Sanami was a fire shugenja and courtier of the Phoenix Clan.
Early Years Edit
The youngest five sisters, and having four younger brothers, Sanami did not see much a of a chance to achieve much within her family alone. Thus, she sought out to be trained as a shugenja, and learning the ways of the courts. She excelled and found that she had achieved her goals of esteem in her own right. [1]
Demeanor Edit
Sanami was conservative, traditional, and contemplative, much more different from the other Agasha. [2]
In the Ikoma courts Edit
After the withdraw of their forces from Toshi Ranbo, the Phoenix sought to maintain their political influence. As such, they sought to send out functionaries to every court possible. Sanami was quick to volunteer for the duties. She soon found herself representing her clan in the courts of the Ikoma, a prestigious assignment. There she became quite close to Ikoma Yasuko.
But something else began then. Nightmares wracked her dreams, dreams of a man of fire. She soon recognized that she was seeing her father's cousin, Tamori Chosai, the Dark Oracle of Fire. Realizing that the only way to free herself of these dreams, she began to research a way to defeat the exiled Dark Oracle. The Ikoma were happy to repay her gifts of magical knowledge with what they learned facing the Dark Oracle of Water. This had helped, but as the knowledge had been centered on that one Dark Oracle.
Sanami hoped that she might one day find the Dark Covenant of Water, and perhaps defeat the Dark Oracle of Water. With that skill, she hoped that it might give her the strength to defeat Chosai himself. [1]
Bandits Edit
Bandits that had escaped a Dragon purge of their southern provinces fled to the Phoenix lands, attacking a village. Sanami and her yojimbo Shiba Morihiko had been en route to the Isawa provinces, and saw the bandit attack. They were contacted by Togashi Chiko, who was hunting down the outlaws from his homeland. Sanami had never been in battle before, but the three took care of them. [3]
See also Edit
External Links Edit
- Agasha Sanami (Words and Deeds)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Masters of Magic, pp. 104-105
- ↑ Agasha Sanami (Words and Deeds flavor)
- ↑ Attack from the North (Imperial Herald v3 #Special)
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St. Anthony's ready for a $15 million renovation
There are days when some San Franciscans wonder if it is a good idea to offer free food to every person who walks into the Tenderloin's St. Anthony Dining Room.
This is not one of those days.
With heartfelt stories, a few tears, and a meal of chicken and mashed potatoes, the dining room served its final meal (organizers resisted the urge to call it the last supper) Wednesday afternoon.
It isn't closing, of course. In over 61 years, they've never missed a single day, serving over 38 million meals to the men and women they call "guests." The dining room will move across the street for the next two years while the original structure is demolished and a 10-story replacement is built.
The new building will feature 90 units of affordable senior housing, a larger dining room, and even a place for the people in the food lines to stay off the sidewalk.
It will certainly look nothing like the current location, which has all the charm of an auto body shop - which it was before the Franciscan Friars took it over in 1950.
"It's a funky old building," said Father John Hardin, the St. Anthony Foundation's executive director through 2009. "I'm going to miss that."
He wasn't kidding. When he took the microphone, Hardin joked that we should start the clock to see how long it took him to puddle up. By my watch it was 30 seconds.
Certainly only the stoniest Grinch would have raised some of the concerns the dining room has caused. Are the free meals a lure to dependent men and women from all over the country? Shouldn't St. Anthony's provide a 24-hour supervised restroom, since it is creating the need for facilities by offering free food and drinks?
But when a former volunteer turned meal recipient like Kathy Mills took the stage, it was clear those were questions for another day.
"I have been coming to St. Anthony's for 35 years," Mills said, "I came here to volunteer. Then I got lucky and became a donor. And then I got unlucky and became a guest."
Mills says she has two college degrees and was making a nice living working in marketing when she was struck with multiple sclerosis. As her health spiraled down, so did her quality of life. Today she lives in public housing and eats meals at St. Anthony's.
"I have episodic MS," she said. "Which means I can wake up paralyzed or blind. So every day I wake up able to see and move is a good day."
In many ways St. Anthony's epitomizes San Francisco. It is sprawling, a little messy, but clearly well-intentioned. There are times when the mission is mixed, but there isn't any doubt the heart is in the right place. The $15 million funding drive still needs another $5 million - the Foundation does not take any government money - but executive director Shari Roeseler was serenely confident that people would reach out to help.
After all, Roeseler said, consider the efforts of the 10,000 volunteers each year, "men and women who come in every day to serve guests."
Less known than the food service is the Foundation's Father Alfred Center, a year-long treatment program for men struggling with drug and alcohol addictions. The first six months are spent in food preparation and serving, and the second half of the year is work on life skills and job training.
When Keith Lindsay, a lean, clean-cut guy with piercing blue eyes, took the podium, he began by introducing himself by saying, "I'm 37 and I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict."
As Lindsay said, he didn't look like someone who needed a place like St. Anthony's. But that's now. You should have seen him before. In his time in the program, he says he's learned two things:
"We all deserve love. We all deserve hope."
C.W. Nevius' column appears Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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Katy Perry admits she would rather live with crooked teeth than get braces
American singer Katy Perry has admitted that she would rather leave her crooked teeth as they are instead of getting braces to straighten them out. The 31-year-old showed her crowded bottom teeth while she was being interviewed for In Style magazine and said that she would not be able to 'commit' to having braces.
Katy told the magazine that she would like to have perfect teeth on the top and bottom but didn't feel that she would be able to commit to having orthodontic work as an adult, especially when she has never had braces in her life before. She called her lower teeth 'the bane' of her 'beauty existence', saying 'it's like the Rocky Mountains in there!' She bared her lower teeth to show them perfectly white but crooked and crowded towards the front of her mouth.
Instead of getting braces, the singer is happy to distract from her crooked teeth by experimenting with her hair, make-up and costumes both on and off the stage. As part of her latest tour, Katy changed into hundreds of different costumes and she is currently on a break from performing in what she calls 'a period of absorbing, of research, and development' before she hits the studio to start making music again.
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After a two month cliff-hanger from episode 2, Wizards of the East Coast, the second half of the story comes in like a wrecking ball. (Sorry, I had to.)
Check out the latest and greatest episode of Indie Van Game Jam, "Wreckingball Run." In this episode, the mystery producer from Episode 2 asks us to make them a branded game that has them look "cool," "hip," and "with it." We take the task head on as we take the detour to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This episode features Pixel Dash Studios, who just released Road Redemption on Steam Early Access.
Head over to IndieVanGameJam.com to see the episode and download the game.


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