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TeamBreakout-Games is a unique "Live Escape Game" for Groups consisting of 2-8 people. The principle is simple: 1 Team, 1 Room and 60 min to escape.
You will be challenged by solving puzzles, finding real objects, decode messages and combine a series of clues the will enable you to find the way out.
You and your Team-Members will awake in a new environment and got 1 hour to find your way out. By using problem solving skills, creativity, the gift of combination and most of all your ability to work within a Team you need to overcome the challenges, which are presented to you.
Originally this concept was developed for computer based games, but now it can be played in reality and for the first time in the city of Hamburg.
Are you planning an activity with friends or your family and looking for something other than the movies or bowling? How about something new and different, that you won't forget.
Hamburg! Finally you getting to know this beautiful city on the Elb-River. Next to sightseeing, shopping and other activities this city has to offer you may want try something completely different. Whether it rains or the sun is out, TeamBreakout offers you an exciting and adventures activity you can add to your list. Only in Hamburg.
TeamBreakout is the perfect destination for you and your colleges. Whether it is your team at work or the people in your social club, we offer an amazing opportunity to challenge you as a group and bring your team spirit to a whole new level.
Here at Tea Breakout we offer a unique environment where we combine fun and a team-building exercise in one game. Go for a meal and drink after with one of our partners close by.
The Illuminati has surfaced from the shadows to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy… the Catholic Church. The Pope has just died under mysterious circumstances. Can you prove that the Pope was assassinated and escape before the Swiss Guard captures you?
Carelessly driving through the deep, black forest of Oregon, nothing seems to be out of place. And then your vehicle breaks down… The wind howls and blows a bitter chill past the dying trees; The forest seems to never end; tall silhouettes shadowing the ground, birds circling overhead, and screams echoing through the wind. Darkness confines you until your search brings you in front of a hut. A wooden cabin hidden in the woods that seems to be your salvation … or maybe not?Difficulty:
Flashing lights, colorful cables and a Goodbye note? The old professor is trying to prevent the publication of his research work by putting the University into Ruins. And where are you? Locked in the Lab – Great !!!Difficulty:
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Without communication and team play our game is not possible. Everyone needs to be involved. The individual strength of the participants is crucial, but only with team effort you will able to solve the puzzles. There is no pre-experience needed. Once you arrive we will organize the teams, give you a quick run-down, and you are ready to go. Simple as this!
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Since a TeamBreakout booking is legally comparabe with event-tickets (such as in the cinema or theater), a cancellation is not possible.
Should you, however have to cancel for special reasons, we'll try our best to be accomodating. This is usually not a problem, until 2 weeks before the appointment.
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The prices are based on the number of players:
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|2 Players
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|3 Players
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|90.00 €
|4 Players
|25.00 €
|100.00 €
|5 Players
|23.00 €
|115.00 €
|6 Players
|21.00 €
|126.00 €
|7 Players
|20.00 €
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Imagine your Team will be introduced into a story where you will find logical challenges andRiddles. You will need to find hints in the room and with team-effort combine them in order to solve the puzzle and escape the Room. Don't worry, upon arrival we will explain everything and you be set to go. More detail we do not want to give away in order to keep the tension and surprise effect.
Everyone from young to old! Everyone who loves exploring, solving puzzles and playing in a team. The min age is 14 (in combination with at least one adult)
No, don't worry. No pre-experience or preparation is necessary. Basic rules will be explained. Since you work in a team you can always count on your teammates and you will succeed by the end. A game-administrator will follow you via camera and if necessary provide you with Tips.
Not at this stage. Both Rooms have the same level. Its all depending on how well the team works together and how fast you will be able to solve the puzzles. The game-admin is always there to assist you.
In that case the lights switch off in the Room and you should start to pray. No, seriously. No one will be locked in or anything similar. 99% of the teams finish before the time runs out. TeamBreakout ensures you that it is all about fun and playing a game.
You have to be at least 2 players in a group. However we do recommend 3-4 players. You will have more brainpower in the Room but also need to communicate and coordinate very well to solve all the riddles. More people doesn't necessarily mean its gonna be more easy. The team-dynamics will defiantly be fired up and fun is guaranteed.
Fun and a healthy attitude to try new things. Casual wear is recommended. The more comfortable you are the better. Costumes are welcome, so if you wanna get your Sherlock Holmes dress up out, got for it.
No, don't worry. You will be able to sleep after. We do try though to create an adventurous and unique atmosphere, but all within the limits.
No problem. The building has a lift which will bring you to the 3rd Floor, but there a couple of steps at the entrance. Unfortunately our rooms are not set up for wheelchairs. If you scared of closed rooms you need to remember that the game takes 60 min. to finish. If this is a problem, we would suggest not to participate.
We do speak German and English. The rooms are also set up and can be played in these two languages.
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You can pay online in advance of via EC-/credit card or cash when you arrive here.
Fell free to contact us with and questions or concerns on firstname.lastname@example.com
Yes, of course. Simply go to our voucher page, select the amount and complete the ordering process.You can download the voucher afterwards.You can also visit us during our opening times and grab a nice looking voucher by yourself.
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Marijuana conviction brings probation term
A Buffalo woman who was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to three years' probation, including one year electronic monitoring, by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
Jaleesa Findley, 24, was charged after a Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a tip regarding a shipment of parcels containing 200 pounds of marijuana that were due to arrive at a shipping company in Buffalo.
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Apr 09,2009
Lost backcountry snowboarder rescued near Todd Lake
by Bend Weekly News Sources
BEND, Ore. – Hampered by flight conditions so poor a helicopter was forced to abort its search, snow hip-deep in areas, rapidly changing and unpredictable weather, and an inaccurate location provided by the dated technology of a cell phone GPS, search and rescue team members struggled throughout the night for more than nine hours looking for a backcountry snowboarder who was lost and eventually rescued Thursday morning about five miles northwest of Todd Lake.
Mathew Euteneier, 30, of Bend, contacted a family member by cell phone who then, in turn, called 911 about 7:40 p.m., Wednesday, when the man had been trying to find his way back to a trailhead or roadway for more than six hours after he became disoriented during a snowboarding and hiking trip, Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue (SAR) Coordinator Sgt. Scott Shelton reported.
Euteneier was in intermittent contact by cell phone with SAR throughout the night until communication became limited and was eventually lost, Shelton said. Advised to stay put, he was able to provide enough information for search teams to narrow their search to an area of about 28 square miles.
At 9:30 p.m., SAR members and a U.S. Forest Service employee were dispatched to an area near Todd Lake cut-off and Cascade Lakes Highway, and SAR snowmobile, ski and snowshoe teams set off on multiple trails to find the lost man, a news release stated.
At 1:30 a.m., an Air Link helicopter and crew were dispatched to help with the search, but hazardous flying conditions precipitated its return to Bend, the sergeant said. Because of the complexity and length of the search, a decision was made to relieve the exhausted SAR teams if Euteneier was not found by 6 a.m.
Deschutes County Sheriff's deputies, additional SAR team members, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office SAR and U.S.F.S. Law Enforcement officers were readied for deployment, but before they could be activated a SAR snow shoe team found a very tired and cold Euteneier about 5:25 a.m. by following a set of tracks located earlier in the night by a ski team.
"Euteneier was located in the Fall Creek drainage area approximately five miles northwest of Todd Lake and approximately three miles north of Sparks Lake," Sgt. Shelton said. He was reportedly in fair condition and was given food, water and additional clothing. He was then able to walk with SAR to an area where they were met by snowmobiles and transported to a command post that had been established at Dutchmen Flat Sno Park.


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The mission of San Jose Parents Participating Nursery School is to nurture the development of the whole child. Our program supports learning through play, discovery and hands-on experiences. Building a child's self-esteem is central to our program. We provide a child-centered curriculum that focuses on the needs, abilities and interests of the young child. Our inclusive approach allows a child to work at his own pace, free of comparisons to other children. By nurturing the social and emotional development of our students, we create an atmosphere of trust and respect.. Learning occurs when a child feels safe and secure. Children who leave their first classrooms with healthy self-esteems, thirsts for knowledge and respect for their teachers are on the road to being successful, life-long learners.


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Who We Are
Dementia Caring is a business built on one key foundation – providing affordable dementia support and assisted care to Australia's most in-need, when they need it. Whether you need full meal preparation or the occasional session of respite care, the experienced team at Dementia Caring are equipped to help.
Dementia Caring Australia is 100% focused on delivering excellence in personal home care, house keeping, home maintenance and specialist therapies to those living with Dementia. We understand that caring for a loved one isn't always easy, but our team of dementia care and carer support services are experts in working with the often specific needs that those suffering from dementia have.
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Our team has a proven track record in the home caring and specialist therapy services and is recognised as Australia's only exclusive service provider in the dementia caring field.
We provide excellent dementia care, meal preparation,assisted care, respite services and personal services including house keeping and house maintenance services.
"I am dedicated to the provision of respectful, dignified, and professional dementia support and respite services to those in need in our community"
Xuyen Tang, Dementia Care Specialist
Xuyen Tang's Role at Dementia Caring
Xuyen has over 25 years experience in the delivery and maintenance of high quality, consistent and compassionate in-home care to the aged and disabled.
Bringing a wealth of experience, knowledge and deep understanding to the requirements of those in our aged community, Xuyen has deep empathy for the aged and frail citizens of Australia. She manages our team of high calibre care workers and nurses who share her values and are able to provide expert and efficient home care services like assisted care, home maintenance, meal preparation services when you need them.
Xuyen has a great passion for being a leader and spokesperson within the aged care and dementia support industry in promoting the delivery of higher standards. Her focus at Dementia Caring is to see to ensure our services are provided at the highest quality standard.
She has managed Dementia Day Care Centres and is highly experienced with Validation Therapy, Reminisce Therapy, Doll Therapy and has exception ability to connect with people with dementia and help them have a better life.
Xuyen is diligent, honest and compassionate in her approach and brings a professionalism to the home care and assisted care industry.
We would like to pass on our deepest thanks to coming to our rescue in early January this year by providing caring, reliable, and honest people to work with us. Our high and complicated care has been dealt with great passion, respect, and professionalism and we are very grateful to the staff and yourself.


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Like 25 laminated ads, for starters. Buffed books are in. Ergo, a boomlet in ad schools. "They're cropping up like gas stations," says Norm Grey, president at Creative Circus, Atlanta, and today's crop of young creatives is expanding to fill them. Choosing which to attend has become more complex than ever, especially when creative directors and recruiters complain that it is nearly impossible, by reviewing books, to distinguish one school's grads from another's.
But while it may be hard to tell the books apart, the difference between the approach these schools take has become sharper. When comparing the buff-your-book institutions with the more academic curricula found at the big-campus programs, we find that each has its respective strengths and, in some cases, weaknesses. Herewith, then, is a combination multiple choice/essay question examination on the current state of ad ed.
What kind of school did you go to?
(a) Old standby
(b) Finishing school
(c) Plain old U
(d) New guard
Old standbys like Pasadena's Art Center and New York's School of Visual Arts found successful formulas years ago, and they haven't tinkered much with them. They focus on basics in three- to four-year BFA programs that cost about $7,000 a term. Their strengths include faculty (SVA can rely on Manhattan's working professionals), strong alumni networks and rigorous, demanding programs.
Art Center, for example, selects only highly motivated students, usually older (average age is 24) than most college students. According to advertising department associate chair Paula Goodman, the goal is not to graduate "just art directors, but creative directors who are really going to shape and change the field-not just get a job, but run the shop."
Graduates from old standbys have painstakingly learned the tools of the trade, a lengthy process that some complain the "finishing schools" like Portfolio Center scrimp on. "I don't think anybody can learn design fundamentals and principles in two quarters," says Woody Kaye at Pagano Schenck & Kaye in Providence. "People need either a lot of good schooling or a lot of good experience."
Yet finishing schools have their place. Since Portfolio Center opened in 1978, college graduates have shoved their literature and Roman history degrees in a drawer and gone to Atlanta to learn to create a portfolio. It takes up to eight quarters (about $3,000 each), but they can leave whenever they think their book is ready. This approach has been successful in its own way, judging from the extent to which it is imitated; Portfolio Center has spawned both Creative Circus, which opened in Atlanta in 1995, and the Miami Ad School, launched in 1992 by PC founder Ron Seichrist.
These schools differ little from each other, although Creative Circus claims a "kinder, gentler, more family-structured" culture, says Grey (a former PC teacher), and Miami Ad School prides itself on diversity (30 percent minority enrollment, 20 percent international) and commitment to creating broadcast reels as well as print books, according to Seichrist. All three suffer somewhat from limited faculty options; the pool of working professionals in these cities is small and unable to commit to long periods of uninterrupted time. The schools counter the problem in various ways; Portfolio Center, for example, brings in creative directors for two-week assignment/critique seminars. Miami, meanwhile, has an added incentive with its condo-on-South-Beach accommodations for winter-weary top professionals.
But for many in the business, the polish of a finishing school isn't enough. "I like to see students who haven't just been single-minded about getting a job in advertising," says Anne Bingman, a recruiter at Jerry Fields & Associates in New York. "They should have a voracious appetite for pop culture and shouldn't be ad-focused; they should be life focused." Graduates from plain old universities may be more likely to have these qualities, especially if they come from places whose grads she always makes time for, like the University of Delaware or the University of Texas at Austin.
The latter is home to Texas Creative, where associate professor Deborah Morrison and ad department director Patricia Alvey manage to blend their industry and academic backgrounds in an attempt to train conceptual thinkers. Students here take Portfolio 1, 2 and 3 while also studying French, economics, marketing, etc. "We're kind of a strange beast," says Morrison. This animal evidently thrives; recruiters hover, and last year's grads snagged first jobs at shops like Fallon, Goodby and Kirshenbaum Bond. Here, a well-rounded education plus portfolio sufficed, with no "finishing" required.
The new guard, a designation currently applicable only to Virginia Commonwealth University's Ad Center in Richmond (the University of Colorado is also exploring the concept), marries well-rounded with polished. Students earn a master's degree in the traditional sense, but their advertising training goes beyond what others offer. The VCU program simulates an agency; students have mini-offices and develop campaigns in teams that include account executives and planners. For extra help and an inside look, they can wander over to The Martin Agency, a block away.
"We're working as hard as we can to train leaders," says Diane Cook-Tench, director of the two-year program, which will graduate its first class in 1998. "We're really focusing on careers and foundations for careers. It's a tougher business than it was five or 10 years ago. The industry has higher expectations."
What kind of book do you have?
(a) Polished
(b) Slick
(c) Shiny
(d) All of the above
When Portfolio Center first opened, polished books were a rarity. Now they're not only common among job applicants, they all tend to look alike, which creates several as yet unsolved problems. "We used to get sketches and things," says Bingman. "Now everything is comped to the max, and that tends to get in the way. If the idea is really good, it will work well sketched out on a cocktail napkin." Not only did the idea's merit show in those sketches, but so did the student's individual and distinctive style. Cruder books better described their creators. Now creative directors and recruiters have to discount the polish to find the gem.
Slick books also "make juniors seem more experienced than they are," adds Woody Kaye. They create an illusion that hurts both employers, who expect more than they get, and employees, who find themselves trying to live up to expectations without knowing what they're doing.
Although they may have created professional-looking ads, "art directors haven't been on photo shoots or attended client meetings," concurs Jelly Helm, who teaches at VCU and works as creative supervisor/mentor at The Martin Agency. "They want to come in and do ads right away. But a lot of people are crashing, and they're not getting a lot of support. So many people have spent so much money on education, but one thing they've forgotten is that it's still hard work. Coming up with the idea is only five percent of it. The other 95 percent they have no experience at."
Schools try to counter the polish curse in several ways. At Texas, students must do everything their first quarter by hand, no computers allowed. At Miami Ad School, Seichrist won't allow stock photography or ripomatics. "We've shifted a lot of emphasis onto the concept," he says. But it may be just a matter of time before polished books are out and something else is in. As Helm points out, "The definition of being creative is making something that didn't exist before. You can't really train people to do that."
In the meantime, those on the recruiting end suggest simpler improvement measures for tomorrow's portfolios: Cut the grisly pro-life stuff, and please, no more Nordic Track ads.
Did you do the ads all by yourself?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
To team or not to team is a significant question these days. In an effort to teach students the advertising process, programs like VCU's emphasize working with teams to strategize and develop campaigns. Other schools stress individual work. Or, people may work together informally, as at UT, but their final output is considered to be an individual piece of work. Although their experience may be valuable, those who work in teams may produce books that creative directors question. "Which person did the work?" wonders Richard Wilde, chair at SVA's advertising and graphic design departments. "Are you sure you're getting the right one?"
At Portfolio Center, tea ms take a somewhat different turn. The usual disciplines still work together, but doing each other's tasks; the photographer can't take the photo, the copywriter can't write the headline, and so on. "If you tell someone they're an art director, that's what they're going to become," says Gus Pitsikoulis, who chairs the ad department. "We want to graduate creative thinkers."
Whose job do you want?
(a) Bill Westbrook's
(b) Jeff Goodby's
(c) Mine
One of the major downfalls of hot schools and buffed books is the illusion they create in student's overzealous imaginations. Too much attitude is a widespread malady, report agency execs, and it seldom works. "If they cop a 'tude the minute they come in the door, I deep-six them the minute they go out the door," says Fallon's Luke Sullivan, who has written a book for young creatives due out next year. Adds Bingman: "They've spent so much money on school, they say, 'My book kicks butt. It looks great, and I don't want to work for Grey or Wells. I want to go on the A list.' "
Part of the problem, say the teachers, is the people who choose advertising as a career. In the past, the field had some negative connotations, if it was considered it at all. Now it has a certain glitz and glamour; the relatively recent discovery that one can make a good living in the marketing-idea industry has become widespread.
Schools have begun to screen more carefully, searching for those prospects who have some affinity for the business as well as the motivation to learn it. As Helm puts it, "If they're drawn to it as a cool way to make a living, there is going to be, as they say in stocks and bonds, a correction in the market. They really need to love it."
"We've turned down people with 4.0 averages who are dull as doorknobs," adds Cook-Tench, whose VCU program has only 50 students. "We're looking for entrepreneurs."
It's not about glitz, industry execs repeat; it's about "getting Cheez Whiz off the shelf and into the basket," says Bingman. "It's no more glorious than that. It's not about the One Show." She prefers grads who want to link up with CDs whose work they admire. "That person I can work with," she says. "The others I tell to come back in a few years when the business has taken the edge off them."
If you got the job you want, could you keep it?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
What is becoming apparent is that although yesterday's greats may have stumbled into this profession and made it their own, the chances of doing that today are increasingly unlikely. Cocktail napkins may be perfectly fine vehicles for the stellar idea, but the fact is, an art director has to know Quark and Photoshop and a writer has to know how to create a television commercial. And that's just for starters. It is not uncommon for young creatives to be on the front lines, producing broadcast campaigns within six months of being hired straight out of school. And they better not expect any coddling.
This reality puts great pressure on the schools to not only place students but also to make sure they will be able to survive in an often ruthless and fast-paced industry. Administrators expect that we'll see even more programs operating at higher levels than we've seen in the past. Many point to VCU's graduate school program as a harbinger of education to come. Certainly it has attracted the attention of many industry icons, some of whom are quite willing to help. (Ad Center agency board members include high-powered names like Dan Wieden, Bill Westbrook and Jay Chiat, along with client ad directors like Sony's John Roberts and Coca-Cola's David Wheldon.)
But the necessity for depth and detail is not lost on the other schools, either. "The bottom line is to get a job, and the way to get a job is by having a book," says the Circus' Grey. "But the way to keep a job is by learning enough about advertising so you don't lose your job the minute you get it. We want you to have a bulletproof two or three years."
The best perspective may come from Helm, who entered the profession as a product of today's schools, and who has not only survived but excelled in today's creative environment-he's now teaching today's students. "I thank my lucky stars I went to Portfolio Center," says Helm, who won a One Show pencil for a self-promotion piece he did there that also landed him a job at The Martin Agency. "They did teach me creativity," he claims, but his concerns go beyond the tools of the trade and the polish of the book. "We never talked about ethical issues and social implications, for example," he recalls. "This is a complex business. We want to train not just better creative people, but better people."
The One Club hosted its third annual student exhibition on May 8, and as usual it was standing room only. Work was on view from students currently enrolled at Art Center in Pasadena, Creative Circus in Atlanta, Miami Ad School, Portfolio Center in Atlanta, The Red & Yellow School in Cape Town, South Africa, the School of Visual Arts in New York, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the University of Texas at Austin and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Here's a sampling of the best stuff on display that night. Better call these kids quick, before their salary demands soar.
UT/Austin: Art and copy by Sean LaBounty.
Miami Ad School: Laura Metrano, AD; Eddie Hahn, CW.
Miami Ad School: Marci Bergman, CW; Juan Carlos Gutierrez, AD; Tali Cohen, illustrator.
Creative Circus: Art and copy by Jonathan Cude.
Portfolio Center: Brett Yasko, AD; Mike Roe, CW.
Portfolio Center: Karen Zuckerman, CW; Travis Sharp, AD.
VCU: David Williams, CW; Tom Scharpf, AD.
SVA: Art and copy by Alice Butts.
SVA: Art and copy by Sung-Yoon Lee.
SVA: Art and copy by Donna Betgilan.
Portfolio Center: Jeff Reich, CW; Brett Yasko, AD.
SVA: Art and copy by Cora Flaster and Heather Plansker.


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Medal Of Honor Warfighter Gets Military Special Edition, Project Honor Is A Go
For troops fighting overseas, it takes an unrivaled amount of bravery to serve on the front line, our job back home is to support those fighting the fight. Electronic Arts is playing their part, teaming up with GovX and announcing a new initiative called Project Honor, which will see a special military edition of Medal Of Honor Warfighter available only to members of the U.S. military.
The military edition will sell exclusively through GovX Inc and will included many in-game items, as well as uniforms only exclusive to this version. And to help out those affected by the theater of war, a certain amount of proceeds will go to military outlets, GovX states:
A portion of GovX's proceeds from Medal of Honor Warfighter Military Edition game sales will be donated to GovX military foundation partners, including the Air Force Association and AFA Veteran Benefits Association, Marine Corps Association & Foundation, and National Association for Uniformed Services, among others. In partnership with Electronic Arts, GovX will also contribute to the Navy SEAL Foundation and Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
Tony Farwell, President and a founder of GovX also had a few things to say about the team up with Electronic Arts on Warfighter, saying, "This is a uniquely exceptional video game, precisely the kind of game to lead the industry with a privileged Military Edition." Medal Of Honor: Warfighter is heavy on the military camaraderie side and it makes sense to give back to the soldiers who gave to the development process of the game, for that Electronic Arts deserves a massive Hooah!
Medal Of Honor Warfighter Military Edition will be available to buy exclusively through the GovX website on October 23,2012, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.


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Fill Your Stephen Colbert Void With the Amazing Tumbleweeds
Featuring Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris.
Miss Stephen Colbert? Thanks to the folks at Splitsider and the Second City Network, you can quench your thirst with this throwback clip of him, Paul Dinello, and Amy Sedaris playing an amazing tumbling trio — aptly named the Tumbleweeds. The clip comes from 1992, during Sedaris's final show at Second City Northwest. They do this thing called "One More Leap for the Road"; it's actually a few leaps, and it's all pretty incredible. (Colbert kind of defies gravity a couple of times.)


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In the Valley of the Shadow of Death
October 1999By Joseph Collison
Joseph Collison is the Director of the Office of Pro-Life Activities for the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, and Chairman of the Board of Caring Families Pregnancy Services. He also writes for the Four County Catholic, the diocesan newspaper of Norwich.
We have made a covenant with death, and with Hell we have made a pact. -- Isaiah 28:15
In 1993 Jane Fonda, baby-boomer America's leading authority on foreign policy, addressed the UN General Assembly (really!) on today's overpopulated world. "In the nine years since 1984," she lamented, "grain output was only expanded one percent a year, falling behind population and leading to a per capita decline of one percent a year."
"Overpopulation" is a cherished anxiety of our chattering classes a kind of New-Age version of the Yellow Peril. It is a fact so ungainsayable that the mere assertion of it can turn a Hollywood actress into an international demographer. And yet it is not a fact. It is, as Betsy Hartman wrote in Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, "one of the most pervasive myths in Western society, so deeply ingrained in the culture that it profoundly shapes the culture's world view."
Our culture's fixation on "population control," with mass sterilizations and abortions, had its origins in Thomas Malthus's 1798 Essay on Population. Malthus wrote that increasing population would eventually overtake the world's food supply and mass famine would result. (He later changed his mind and retracted this assertion, but his later writings are conveniently ignored.)
So-called Malthusian Doctrine grew in the universities throughout the 19th century and finally blossomed in the 1920s in the Eugenics Society and the Birth Control League. These merchandisers of death fulminated against "the weeds overrunning the human garden" (as Margaret Sanger described the less fortunate of her day). When the Birth Control League was criticized for its admiration of Nazi eugenics programs, it was renamed inappropriately Planned Parenthood.
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The Essential Elements In Marriage
( Originally Published 1936 )
THERE are three essential elements in every normal marriage: the gratification of the sexual impulse, the relation between husband and wife apart from it, and procreation. The comparative importance attached to these factors has varied considerably. The primary object of marriage has always been sexual union, as sexual desire is obviously the primary motive of relations between the sexes among animals, even when these relations last beyond the pairing season till after the birth of the offspring. But among existing savages the aspect of procreation also plays a very important role. The desire for offspring is very strong among them. A woman is valued not only as a wife but also as a mother; and the respect in which she is held is often proportionate to her fecundity, a barren wife being despised as an unnatural and useless being. Prenuptial relations frequently have the character of a trial by which the lover ascertains that the woman will gratify his desire for offspring, and in such a case marriage is not concluded before the birth of a child or until there are signs of pregnancy. A very frequent cause of divorce among simple peoples is barrenness in the wife; and it is so not only where the husband may repudiate his wife at will, but also where his right of divorcing her is restricted. A man without offspring is an unfortunate being under savage conditions of life, where individual safety and welfare depend upon family ties, and the old have to be supported by the young. The childless man may even have to suffer after his death for lack of offspring, there being nobody to make offerings to his ghost.
For a similar reason procreation has assumed an extraordinary importance among the peoples of archaic civilization. According to Chinese ideas it is one of the greatest misfortunes that could befall a man, and at the same time an offence against the whole line of ancestors, to die without leaving a son to perpetuate the family cult; for it would doom father, mother, and all the ancestry in the Nether-world to a pitiable existence without descendants enough to serve them properly. Among the Semites we meet with the idea that a dead man who has no children will miss something in Sheol through not receiving that kind of worship which ancestors in early times appear to have received. Among the Israelites procreation was the chief goal of marriage. According to the Talmud " every Jew who does not occupy himself with generation is on a par with one who is guilty of bloodshed "; and all Jews desire to have a son who after his father's death can say the prayer on his behalf. The ancient Indo-European nations believed that a man's happiness in the next world depended upon his having a continuous line of male descendants, whose duty it would be to make the periodical offerings for the repose of his soul. The old idea still survives in India: " a Hindu man must marry and beget children to perform his funeral rites, lest his spirit wander uneasily in the waste places of the earth ". In the Zoroastrian books we likewise meet with the idea that a man should marry and get progeny; the man without a son cannot enter paradise because there is nobody to pay him the family worship. Plato remarks that every individual is bound to provide for a continuance of representatives to succeed himself as ministers of the Divinity; and Isaeus says: " All those who think their end approaching look forward with a prudent care that their houses may not become desolate, but that there may be some person to attend to their funeral rites and to perform the legal ceremonies at their tombs". The ordinary Greek feeling on the object of marriage is no doubt expressed in the oration against Neaera, ascribed to Demosthenes, where it is said: " We keep mistresses for our pleasures, concubines for constant attendance, and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be our faithful housekeepers".
A very different view of marriage was introduced into Europe by Christianity. It was permitted to man as a restraint, however imperfect, on the sinful licentiousness of the sexual impulse. Said St. Paul: " It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband " He said nothing about procreation. But the Church also admitted marriage as a necessary expedient for the continuance of the human species, and at the same time pronounced this to be the only legitimate object of sexual intercourse even between husband and wife. The procreation of children was said to be the measure of a Christian's indulgence in appetite, just as the husbandman throwing the seed into the ground awaits the harvest, not sowing more upon it. The Pope's encyclical of 31st December 1930 forbids the use of contraceptives on the ground that " the connubial act is naturally designed to evoke new life "
Among orthodox Christians of other confessions we also find, to some extent, the theory that sexual intercourse is justifiable only as a means of generation; but it is certainly on the wane. Some interesting information on this point comes from America. Dr. Katharine B. Davis, who carried out a study on a thousand educated married women and about a thousand unmarried college women, put to them the question, " Are married people justified having intercourse except for the purpose of having children? " Only a small minority (15.3 per cent.) of those answering definitely this question replied negatively. Dr. G. V. Hamilton put a similar question to one hundred married men and an equal number of married women, most of whom were well under forty years of age, residents of New York City, and classifiable as having attained a relatively high level of culture. He formulated it thus: " Do you believe that it is right to have the sex act for any other purpose than to bring children into the world? " Eighty-five men and 81 women replied, " Yes, it is right "; and 11 men and 12 women, " Formerly believed it to be wrong, now believes it to be right ". Again, the question whether it is right to use methods for preventing pregnancy was answered in the affirmative by 89.7 per cent. of more than 1000 women belonging to the Davis group, and in the negative only by 10.2 per cent. The enormous frequency of the use of contraceptives also bears testimony to people's feelings concerning it. The leader in the movement has been France, a largely Catholic country, where it started in the middle of the last century in the great cities and in the fertile districts of the south; and the proportion of Catholic women who apply for advice at Margaret Sanger's clinic in New York is only one percentage lower than the proportion of Protestant women. So far as England is concerned, Dr. A. W. Thomas wrote in 1906: " From my experience as a general practitioner, I have no hesitation in saying that 90 per cent. of young married couples of the comfortably-off classes use preventives "; and this rough estimate does not seem to be over the mark. In Germany birth control was very prevalent before the War,' and has greatly increased afterwards. In the United States 74.1 I per cent. of the 985 married women who answered Dr. Davis' question referring to the use of contraceptives admitted it, and 87 of the women belonging to the Hamilton group did the same. At the same time contraception has still many opponents also in Protestant countries, and not only on political grounds as lowering the birth-rate; in Denmark there seems to be quite a widespread feeling against it.
The use of contraceptives by a married couple does not, of course, mean that no children are wanted: it only implies a desire to control the appearance of children, their number, and the times when they are to be born. An American writer triumphantly exclaims: " For the younger generation, fecundity is out of the question. The new gospel is one of frank fun and happy-go-lucky pleasure seeking. . . . Reproduction has become a mere episode in the relations of the sexes. Procreation is not taken too seriously ". This is hardly in agreement with certain answers given to questionnaires submitted to young people in his own country. In the replies of a number of male students at the University of Mississippi " willingness to rear a family " takes a very prominent place, being put above mere looks, wealth, or housekeeping ability; and answers given by students at Ohio State University mention among the essential mental qualifications in a wife a desire for and a love of children. Dr. Hamilton's question, " Do you wish to have children? " elicited the answer " No " from only 14 men and 4 women belonging to his group of one hundred married men and one hundred married women, and the answer " No " with reservations from 6 men and no woman; while his question, " Does your spouse wish to have children? " was answered in the negative by 10 men and 18 women, and in the negative with reservations by 2 men and 3 women.
These answers are substantially concordant with popular notions, as well as with views expressed by eminent students of the psychology of sex. According to Havelock Ellis, " most people, certainly most women, feel at moments, or at some period in their lives, a desire for children " ; and in women the longing for a child " may become so urgent and imperative that we may regard it as scarcely less imperative than the sexual impulse ". Van de Velde writes: " To be a woman means to have the desire to become a mother both physically and mentally ". He admits that " there are women, and presumably always have been women, although their number may be relatively very small, who feel such a strong antagonism to motherhood that they refuse to marry for this reason "; but he adds: " The absence of the maternal instinct in the modern woman is really nothing but a pose. The maternal instinct exists in spite of this, although there may be only one child. . . . Where it really is repressed, because some women think it fashionable, or because of decadence, or love of pleasure, it will also be seen that such repression has its revenge sooner or later. A more than temporary repression of the mother instinct is, practically speaking, impossible ". It may be that Bertrand Russell was deceived by that pose when he made the contrary suggestion that so long as women were in subjection they did not dare to be honest about their own emotions, but professed those which were pleasing to the male, and that consequently, until very recently, all decent women were supposed to desire children, because many men were shocked by those who frankly admitted that they did not desire any. He thinks that the desire for children is commoner among men than among women, and that in a very large number of modern marriages the children are a concession on the part of the woman to the man's desires. He even writes: " It is for this reason, rather than for the sake of sex, that men marry, for it is not difficult to obtain sexual satisfaction without marriage ".3 He seems then to forget that marriage has other advantages to offer a man than the prospect of fatherhood and the gratification of the sexual impulse. But it is quite possible that though the desire for children does not play such an important part in the thoughts of men as it does with most women, nevertheless, as Popenoe observes, " the number of men to whom this aspect of marriage appeals strongly is far greater than is often realised ". Among European peasantry it is certainly a powerful motive. The so-called Probeheiraten, or trial marriages, in some districts of Bavaria and the brutkoste of the Dutch plainsmen have in a large measure the purpose of testifying the woman's capacity for bearing children.
We now come to the third essential element in marriage: the relation between husband and wife apart from the gratification of the sexual impulse and procreation. If my theory of the origin of marriage is correct, this relation has from the beginning contained some degree of affection. In a species where the male remains with the female and takes care of her even after the pairing season has passed, it must be a feeling of this sort that accounts for it. We may assume that the tendency to feel some attachment to a being who has been the cause of pleasure, in this case sexual pleasure, is at the bottom of the marital instinct, and that the need of the species is the ultimate cause of the association between the sexual desire and affection, which is the essence of conjugal love. At the lower stages of human development conjugal affection seems to be considerably inferior to the tender feelings with which parents embrace their children, but we must not be misled by statements to the effect that among some savages love between husband and wife is unknown. However different the love of a savage may be from that of a civilised man, we discover in it traces of the same ingredients. I have elsewhere given a long list of primitive peoples who are by no means strangers to conjugal love, and among these we find even the Australian aborigines, who generally have the reputation of being the greatest oppressors of women on earth; many authorities attest that married people among them are often much attached to each other, and continue to be so even when they grow old.
Advancement in civilization has not at every step been favourable to the development of conjugal love. In a book containing the cream of the moral writings of the Chinese, and intended chiefly for children, we read: "A wife is like one's clothes; when clothes are worn out, we can substitute those that are new ". While the Vedic singers knew no more tender relation than that between the husband and his willing, loving wife, who was praised as " his home, the darling abode and bliss in his house ",it is said that sincere mutual friendship is rarely met with in the families of the modern Hindus. Among the Arabs, Burckhardt writes, " the passion of love is, indeed, much talked of by the inhabitants of towns; but I doubt whether anything is meant by them more than the grossest animal desire ". In Greece in the historic age the man recognised in the woman no other end than to minister to his pleasure or to become the mother of his children; 5 the love of women was only the offspring of the common Aphrodite, who " is of the body rather than the soul ". Both in the East and in Greece progress in civilization widened the gulf between the sexes and tended to alienate husband and wife, because the higher culture became almost exclusively the prerogative of the men. Yet Europeans are apt to be somewhat mistaken when judging of the conjugal relations of Orientals. A factor which should be taken into account is their ideas of decency. In Morocco it is considered indecent to show any affection for one's wife; in the eyes of the outside world the husband should treat her with the greatest indifference. But this by no means implies that he is devoid of tender feelings towards her.
Many students of the psychology of sex have emphasised the unity and transfusion of the spiritual and the bodily elements in sexual love among ourselves. Havelock Ellis writes: " Love, in the sexual sense, is, summarily considered, a synthesis of lust (in the primitive and uncoloured sense of sexual emotion) and friendship. . . . There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been so irradiated as to affect other parts of the psychic organism�at the least the affections and the social feelings�it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love ". " In human beings ", says Dr. Beale, " the physical union of real lovers becomes the vehicle and symbol of a spiritual union which cannot in any other way be so completely effected or expressed. From the bodily coalescence of lover and beloved, from the thrill and ecstasy kindled and rekindled in that close embrace, the full mutual surrender and uttermost delight in one another, there spring emotions and sympathies that are quite unattainable save in this manner ".3 Bertrand Russell remarks that the sexual instinct " is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. . . . Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven ". Female writers also point out that the sex communion between husband and wife should be " a true union of souls, not merely a physical function for the momentary relief of the sexual organs and that the complete act of union symbolises and actually enhances the spiritual union.
Dr. Loewenfeld observes that sexual love is a complex emotional state which in its well-developed or, as one may say, higher form is composed of three elements: first, such as appertain to the sexual instinct, or, at least, instinctive elements originating in the sexual sphere; secondly, feelings of affection and sympathy for some individual; and thirdly, feelings of esteem, ranging from simple esteem to veneration, admiration, or even idealising. He adds that the feelings of the last-mentioned group, if very strongly developed, tend rather to diminish the sensual desire, and may easily lead to a feeling that the beloved object is debased by any attempt at satisfying the latter. This takes us to the important fact that sexual love does not necessarily aim at the supreme satisfaction of the sexual impulse. This impulse is an urge to sexual activity which has its seat and its irradiations in the whole body and the whole psychic personality, being largely dependent not only on the external secretions of the sex glands (sperm and egg cells), but especially on their internal secretions or hormones. And it may lead to tenderness, affection, admiration, or idealisation in regard to the individual by whom it is aroused to such a degree that it is itself pushed into the background. In a young person's first love the desire for sexual intercourse is often completely absent, indeed the thought of it may fill him with reluctance; and if he has a desire for such an act, it is directed to another person than the beloved one. On the other hand, when the sensual attraction has ceased to be felt, its spiritual effect may still remain unabated, as is the case in long and happy marriages where husband and wife are united by lasting ties of mutual love and tenderness.
Though love is frequently considered the only justifiable basis for marriage, material aspects have always played a very prominent part in it. Marriage is a community of life with everything that is implied in it, with common interests bodily and mental; as the marriage service of the Church of England states, it exists for " the mutual society, help and comfort that the one ought to have of the other ", as well as for the procreation of children. In early civilization a man will have a female companion who takes care of his house, who procures wood and water, lights and attends to the fire, prepares the food, dresses skins, makes clothes, gathers roots and berries, and among agricultural peoples very frequently cultivates the soil; and a woman wants to have a protector and supporter. The various occupations of life are divided between the sexes according to rules, the formation of which has no doubt been more or less influenced by the selfishness of the stronger sex, but which on the whole are in general conformity with the indications given by nature; and so they have always, in a large measure, remained. Among ourselves, also, the desire to enhance one's own comfort and to have a home of one's own with a companion to look after one's interests, is an important motive for marriage. Love enthusiasts are apt to look down upon so prosaic a motive, and even declare that marriages should be continued only so long as love remains. But there is sufficient evidence that love offers no sufficient guarantee for a happy married life.
Economic considerations are certainly of great importance at the conclusion of a marriage. Poverty may cause much hardship to the couple, and may prevent them from having children, or if they have any, from giving them a proper education. Even some amount of wealth is not to be despised. It may increase the enjoyment of life in various ways; it may give the spouses leisure for some useful kind of work�scientific, literary, artistic, or social�which yields no pecuniary gain; and it may enable them to accomplish the education of their children. No wonder, then, that economic circumstances influence very largely the choice of a partner. Iwan Bloch observes that the economic question is the main determining influence among the classes who feel it their duty to keep up a particular kind of appearance, namely, the aristocracy, the upper middle classes, and the officers in the army, and that the predominance of mercenary marriages among the Jews is a well-known fact. But he also asks: " Where are money marriages more frequent than they are among our sturdy German peasants, with whom everything conventional has freest possible play? " Among the peasantry both of Germany and other European countries 3 economic equality between the parties is considered an essential condition for the conclusion of a marriage; in the West of Ireland, for instance, " a man never thinks of a girl who has not sufficient money to be his equal ".
It would be unfair to include such marriages in the censure by which some eminent writers on sex pass upon marriages of convenience. Havelock Ellis writes: " A man who marries for money or for ambition is departing from the biological moral ends of marriage. A woman who sells herself for life is morally on the same level as one who sells herself for a night ". It would seem that wealth is better fitted than poverty for the biological purposes of procreation and the rearing of children, and, as Maranon remarks, a man's money is among ourselves a biological substitute for his physical ability in early times as a means of supporting his family. And how do the severe strictures upon mercenary marriages square with the statements that the community has no right to interest itself in the sexual behaviour of its members until a child is born or conceived, and that " it is an impertinence, if not an outrage, to seek to inquire into it "? Why, then, should anybody have a right to pass a moral judgment on the motives that induce a man and a woman to marry, whatever his opinion about those motives may be? These are often very complex, and monetary considerations by no means exclude other reasons; they are not quite incompatible even with love. Olga Knopf remarks: " No choice is ever all for love or all for convenience.... Even in love we under-stand that there is a valuation of the partner and beneath the blindness of love there is often much calculation ". Dr. Hamilton quotes the cynical saying that " almost any woman can love almost any man if he has plenty of money and a disposition to spend it for her benefit " and adds that his own findings " do not wholly refute this adage ".
The three essential elements in marriage are all sources of much happiness. The gratification of the sexual impulse not only gives intense momentary pleasure, but exercises also a wholesome influence on body and mind, and may lay the foundation of that exalted feeling of love which is the chief condition for a happy marriage. The community of life between husband and wife may in various ways be a blessing to both. It offers many advantages that are denied solitary men and women. It is a safeguard against loneliness; it is apt to be conducive not only to material comfort but to spiritual edification, to intensified life, to fulfilment of personality. Children increase the happiness of married life both as objects of parental affection and as binding links of love between husband and wife. Their presence may even induce the parents to carry on their marriage when personal feelings between them would not do so. Divorces are considerably more frequent in cases where there are no children or only one child. In England, during the period 1899-1930, never less than 6o per cent. of divorce petitions concerned families with no child or one only, while between 38 and 43 per cent. came from childless families. In the United States almost two-thirds of the divorces are recruited from the 17 per cent. childless marriages, and an additional 20 per cent. of the divorces, or the majority of the remainder, come from that comparatively small category, the one-child marriage.' In Switzerland, two-fifths of the total number of divorces are said by Glasson to take place between married people who have no children, though the sterile marriages only amount to one-fifth of the number of marriages.
But while those factors which we have now considered�the sexual impulse, the community of life, and the presence of children�may be conducive to much happiness in married life, they may also be quite the reverse. And it is the unhappy marriages that have in particular impressed those who nowadays speak of the decay of marriage and the disintegration of the family.


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A combined vision by the owners of five blocks of Maori owned land in south Taranaki, to see young people with no farming skills trained so they can take up farming as a career, has taken the first step to becoming a reality.
On Monday, eight young people from all over Taranaki sat down in a classroom in Hawera, for the start of both written and practical instruction in all aspects of dairying.
The course is being run by the Landbased Training Centre in collaboration with Te Rua o Te Moko which owns a large dairy farm in Taranaki.
Director Doug Brooks, who is also a trustee for one of the five blocks of land, said Maori land owners want to create more than just wealth for themselves.
He said they want to get as many young people as possible back on the land which will provide benefits in the future to all whanau in the rohe.


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Falling in love is a natural phenomenon. But what do you do when cupid strikes you at the workplace and the subject of your affection is none other than your BOSS? Yes -- that formidable looking person that wrecks your life, upsets your schedules and makes you work overtime -- actually starts becoming likeable. Your heart skips a beat when you see him and you actually scout for opportunities to go and have a tete-a tete with the boss.
Well, join the gang. Office romances are increasingly becoming commonplace. And why not? After all, most of your waking hours are spent at the workplace in close proximity with colleagues - male and female. So a fling between a boss and his secretary or a manager with his subordinate is but natural.An office romance is certainly recommended as it has its advantages. Here are some:
Don't all these reasons inspire you to have an office romance? Remember to have a blast while it lasts. Familiarity does breed contempt, but when you're working long hours and don't have much of a social life outside of your workplace, it might also encourage a let's-go-for-it attitude. And what the hell? Your office life will pep up and give you that much- needed zing to work with greater zeal and enthusiasm.


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Getting Health Professionals to Work Together: There's More to Collaboration Than Simply Working Side by Side
Davies, Celia
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UFC lightweight Yancy Medeiros' UFC Fight Night 31 (UFC Fight for the Troops 3) victory over Yves Edwards has been overturned following a positive drug test. The Hawaiian fighter saw his victory overturned by the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Authority after testing positive for marijuana metabolites. MMAJunkie was first to report the failed test.
The UFC released a statement on the matter earlier today:
"UFC lightweight Yancy Medeiros tested positive for marijuana metabolites following his bout against Yves Edwards at UFC Fight for the Troops 3. He was informed that his positive test violated the UFC Fighter Conduct Policy and Promotional Agreement with Zuffa, LLC.He agreed to and served a 90-day suspension retroactive to the event, and must pass a drug test before receiving clearance to compete again."
Medeiros is now still in search of his first UFC victory when he faces Joe Ellenberger at UFC 172. The positive test will not affect the upcoming bout as Medeiros will have served his 90-day prior to the April 26 pay-per-view card. The Hawaiian is the second fighter to test positive for marijuana after Jessica Eye tested for marijuana following UFC 166.


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"Being an ally isn't an option, it is a way of life. I recall my mother, a white Jewish woman saying to us when we were little girls, 'It is absolutely the responsibility of those in positions of power and privilege – the oppressors (whatever form that takes) to be actively engaged in the liberation of those who are being oppressed.' I believe that as human beings, we are inextricably bound and responsible for one another."
With a passion for social justice, a rich legacy of civil rights, and the ability to inspire and engage, Chevara Orrin conceptualized and co-created, We Are Straight Allies in direct response to the August 2012 Jacksonville City Council vote rejecting Bill 2012-296, better known as the Human Rights Ordinance (HRO) which would have added sexual orientation to the current non-discrimination policy.
Chevara has worked in the profit and higher education sectors for more than 20 years and has served as a community advocate for more than 40 years. She is a creative consultant, writer and public speaker. Her earliest memory of activism was as a three-year old, sleeping in concrete building tubes across the street from the White House in support of the Bangladesh Liberation War and protesting famine in Pakistan.
She is the daughter of a white, Jewish civil & human rights, social justice, and women's liberation activist and a Black father who served as a "fiery top lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr." and a force behind many of the pivotal civil rights campaigns of the 1960s, including the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, 1965 Selma to Montgomery March and the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement.
It is this legacy and her personal journey of survivorship (poverty, domestic violence, fatherlessness, incest, single motherhood) that have led Chevara to champion for the marginalized.
While serving as an administrator at a university in North Carolina, Chevara co-founded the first-ever Gay-Straight Student Alliance. Seven months later, the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to add "sexual orientation" to the university's non-discrimination policy. A first in the history of the campus. This trailblazing work caught the attention of the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Chevara has collaborated with numerous LGBT organizations, including the Campaign for Southern Equality, PFLAG, and Equality Florida.
As a "soul connector," Chevara's personal mission is to engage and mobilize communities around issues of race, gender, justice, health, education and economic disparity. Because of her tireless efforts, Chevara has been recognized by the White House and Human Rights Campaign as an emerging leader, advocate and ally for the LGBT community. She also has become an outspoken advocate for raising awareness of, and helping to eradicate sexual violence against women and girls. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her unwavering commitment to community.
Chevara has been an official Floridian since August 2012. Although new to Jacksonville, she has woven her thread into the fabric of the community and is actively involved with numerous nonprofit organizations. She serves as a member of the WJCT board of trustees, the Cultural Service Grants Council and was appointed to the Times-Union Editorial Board.
Chevara is also a popular and regular panelist and host/emcee for many nonprofit organizations and has been featured as a TEDx Jacksonville speaker.
Chevara has been featured in articles in The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Free Press, Arbus Magazine, The Washington Post, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Winston-Salem Chronicle, skirt! Magazine, Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem Monthly, and John Blake's powerful, painful glimpse into the heart and soul of the Freedom Movement of the Sixties through the lens of some of its children, Children of the Movement.
Chevara was born in Washington, DC and raised in Memphis, TN. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication from the University of Memphis. Chevara is married to Marlon Hubbard and has two sons, Michael and William, and a cat named Nala.


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ELLENSBURG--A Central Washington University student is dead after falling through the skylight of a building Thursday.
Alisha Sivey has no idea what her husband, Gary, was doing on the roof of the Kelleher Motor Company. He worked for Cascade-1 in the tech support department.
A first responder to the scene said Sivey may not have seen the skylight and stepped through it. He fell 35 feet to the concrete below.
Gary and Alisha Sivey married on August 20, 2006. They have been together since 2001, when they were both students at Eastmont High School.
Gary will be sorely missed.
"He was a treasure," Alisha said. "He was a perfect guy, he's got hundreds of friends. Everybody's gonna miss him, everybody loved him."
Sivey's also survived by his parents, Gary, Sr. and Kathy, and his older sister Erica.
Alisha Sivey said Gary's an organ donor and will help dozens of people in death. Gary was a junior at CWU studying to be in construction management. He was 24 years old.
The Department of Labor and Industries is investigating the accident.


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It's about time.
Mayor Bloomberg launched a frontal assault yesterday on the prime contractor of the CityTime payroll system, demanding the return of the entire $600 million it received over the past decade on a project prosecutors charge was rife with corruption on an epic scale.
"While we have received a working system that will advance our management ability . . . because the project was apparently tainted by fraud and kickback schemes, the city must be made whole," Bloomberg notified Walter Havenstein, CEO of Science Applications International Corp.
He called for a full refund — plus "the cost of investigating and remediating this matter."
The mayor pointed out that SAIC, as early as 2005, received a whistleblower complaint about possible mismanagement and alleged kickbacks to its lead project manager, Gerard Denault, who has since been indicted for fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
"It is unclear what SAIC did at that time to investigate these serious allegations," the mayor said.
The end of Bloomberg's blunt, four-paragraph letter gave SAIC something more to think about.
"I am forwarding this correspondence to the United States Attorney so that the city's position as a victim can be taken into consideration," the mayor said.
US Attorney Preet Bharara has indicted 11 individuals and one corporation in the scandal, which involves hundreds of contractors, systemic overbilling and an international money-laundering conspiracy. He has seized more than $38 million from 100 bank accounts.
One of the nation's largest defense contractors, SAIC immediately offered to discuss an "appropriate resolution."
"SAIC understands and shares the outrage expressed by the city at the fraud alleged on the part of our employees and subcontractors on the CityTime program," a company statement read.
City Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Brooklyn), one of the earliest critics of CityTime, applauded Bloomberg for making "the right decision demanding a refunding for this thief's buffet."
"I regret that he did not move to address CityTime corruption when it first became apparent," she said.
When James held hearings in 2008 and 2009, administration officials vigorously defended the mounting bills for CityTime that could reach $760 million.
Even after the first wave of indictments last December, the mayor emphasized that the system — unlike some other major software overhauls — actually worked and would put 163,000 of the city's 300,000 employees on computerized time sheets.
Last Friday, on his radio show, Bloomberg noted that one reason costs escalated was "mission creep," a reference to agencies that kept asking for upgrades along the way.
Comptroller John Liu, another early critic, was conciliatory.
"The mayor is spot on this time," he said. "It's time to recoup the money for our taxpayers."
Management of the completed system is being transferred from outside consultants to city employees.


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Zwilling Aurora 5-ply Stainless Steel Sauce Pan
Zwilling Aurora 5-ply Stainless Steel Sauce Pan
This saucepan is a kitchen workhorse. You'll use it every day for making soups, simmering pasta sauces, and cooking beans, grains and vegetables. A helper handle makes it easy to lift the pan, even when filled with food.
The ZWILLING Aurora 5-Ply stainless-steel saucepan was developed by ZWILLING J.A. Henckels, the German company that sets the standard for exceptional cutlery worldwide. We know that top-quality knives and cookware are the most important investments home cooks can make, so it's only natural that we launched our new line of premium cookware, ZWILLING Aurora 5-Ply stainless steel.
Produced in Belgium, the cookware is constructed of five layers: a stainless-steel interior and exterior plus a three-layer aluminum core. Pans heat up quickly, distribute heat evenly and retain it well, with no hot or cold spots, so you'll enjoy perfect searing and browning—and delicious meals. Thanks to our proprietary technology, the pans have a flat, stable base that won't bulge when heated, ensuring even cooking. You won't find this with any other cookware on the market.
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Traveller Driver Guidelines
There are some requirements, which must be met in order to drive for Traveller. These guidelines have been set by our counsel and insurance companies. We cannot deviate from them.
The following standards apple to drivers of the Traveller vehicles:
- Comply with the motor vehicle laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Do not accept passengers beyond the capacity of the vehicle.
- Instruct passengers to wear seat belts.
- Do not permit anyone to bring alcohol and/or illegal drugs into the vehicle.
- Drivers may not have friends ride along for company, with the exception of planned training.
- Always yield to pedestrians.
- Do not operate a vehicle under the influence of any medicine (whether prescribed or over-the-counter) with side effects that could cause drowsiness or otherwise impair driving ability.
- Limit cellular phone use to the services required by the Traveller program.
- Adhere to the following protocols:
- The driver should transport to the student health center if necessary.
- Call 911 in extreme and necessary circumstances. The student should then be transported to the Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital Emergency Department.
Medical Assessment:
- Call University Student Health Services at 458-8401.
Maintenance Issue:
- In the event of a maintenance problem call Public Safety at 458-8999.
Motor Vehicle Violation or Accident:
- In the event of a motor vehicle violation or accident call Public Safety at 458-8999.
- If off campus, also notify the local jurisdiction (Lexington/Rockbridge Police Departments).
Drivers are instructed to not take any verbal abuse from passengers with all student safety being paramount. (Drivers are authorized to contact local law enforcement or campus Public Safety for assistance if necessary)


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Controversy Over Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Certified to New York Appeals Court
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When I use the Image Frame shortcode it all my content disappears, all I have is my header menu, everything below disappears even my footer.
I am using WP ver 3.9.2 and Alora ver 2.5.0.
I use have tried both the shortcode GUI and typing it in manually and get the same result.
I have tried on a page with no other content and still it doesn't work.
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Helping OSEP's funded network of Parent Centers address administrative/management challenges and increase their capacities to provide information and training to families of children with disabilities.
The 6 Regional Parent Technical Assistance Centers (RPTACs)
Region 1 CT, ME, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT
Region 2 DC, DE, KY, MD, NC, SC, TN, VA, and WV
Region 3 AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, OK, Puerto Rico, TX, and US Virgin Islands
Region 4 IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, OH, and WI
Region 5 AZ, CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, NM, SD, UT, and WY
Region 6 AK, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, WA, the outlying areas of the Pacific Basin, and the Freely Associated States*
Some of the Technical Assistance (TA) Services
RPTACs provide to Parent Centers
• One-to-one consultations • Training/Webinars
• Training for non-profit board training members
• Help with needs assessment • Peer-to-peer mentoring
• TA using technology to enhance programs and services
• Regional meetings and conferences • Site visits
• Non-profit management tools • Newsletters
* The USA has Parent Centers with three jurisdictions in the Pacific Basin (American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands), two in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and three independent nations in the Pacific Basin/"Freely Associated States" (the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Federated States of Micronesia—comprised of Yap, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Kosrae). The Territories and outlying areas of the Pacific Basin are served by Region 6; Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are served by Region 3.
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Get your On Board Units
Satellic's OBUs are provided against a €135 deposit. This is refunded once the OBU, as well as the cable, the battery and the suction cups of the OBU, are returned in good order. You can pay the deposit using a credit card (Visa and MasterCard), a fuel card, a debit card or you can pay by bank transfer if you order multiple OBUs.
Single orders are accepted as well as multiple orders.
When you order a single OBU, we ship it immediately. The OBU is also automatically coupled to the vehicle, and at the same time you have to select a payment method for the toll payments.
If you order multiple OBUs, you can choose a shipping date. This date must be at least 10 days after the order is placed. The deposit must be paid before the chosen shipping date, using bank transfer only. Once you have received your OBUs, you need to couple them to your vehicles on the Road User Portal and define a payment method per OBU for paying the toll.


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On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Ohio, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
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Children and young people aged four to 18 years are being challenged to make their own picture book on and around World Book Day with the launch of the ReadingZone WBD Picture Book Competition 2016. The competition is running in homes, schools and libraries until Friday 22nd April and the winners will be announced in June 2016.
Author and illustrator Mick Inkpen (creator of Kipper) will select the winning entries across three Categories. These include: Young Creators (ages four to six years); Primary (ages seven years plus) and Secondary (ages 11 years plus). One overall winner will be chosen. There is an additional Achievement Award for the most enthusiastic 'behind the scenes' activities that have gone into making picture book entries, such as the whole school getting involved.
Picture books entered for the award can be made by individuals and groups and any media can be used. Each picture book can be up to 24 A4 pages.
Each winning individual, school or library will receive 50 printed copies of their picture book; a selection of picture books or fiction titles, and a free author / illustrator visit will be given to the overall winner. The Guardian children's books website will also feature the winning picture book. Visit www.Readingzone.com for further tips, guidelines and entry details.
Last year's picture book competition attracted over 1,300 picture book entries and we have estimated that some 13,000 children took part in creating a picture book during the course of the competition.
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The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is one of the nation's most diverse public research universities. As a federally designated Minority Serving Institution, we are a living, learning, and working community that embraces our diversity.
The aim of the Office of Diversity is to ensure that neither difference nor disadvantage impede the intellectual and professional achievement of our campus community. Every day we welcome students, staff, and faculty from a variety of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities to achieve this aim. At UIC, diversity is not an end in itself, but a vehicle for advancing access, equity, and inclusion.
To promote an organizational culture and structure that honors diversity through integration of the principles of access, equity, and inclusion.
To be nationally recognized as a diverse learning community where human differences are embraced and where neither difference nor disadvantage stands in the way of intellectual and professional achievement.
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Revitalizing Alfa, Take Three
By Christopher A. Sawyer
The relaunch of Alfa will take more than just product. However, it is what form that product will take that has the industry talking. About the time you read this, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne will be ready to outline his new industrial plan for the company. It promises to be a very different report than the one he delivered in 2010.
At that time, Marchionne peddled an "affordable premium" strategy built around front-drive platforms used throughout the Fiat empire. In 2012, the refreshed MiTo hatchback would be joined by a five-door model that would be sold in the U.S. A new Alfa Spider would launch that same year on a variant of that platform, and a new Giulia sedan, station wagon and SUV would join the global product mix. This SUV, which was to be smaller than the 2014 Cherokee, would be shared with Jeep. Two years later, the Giulietta sedan (on which the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 are based) was to be heavily modified, and spawn a D-class SUV.


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It's not easy.
Sometime couples choose to go the extra mile for their wedding photography. Literally. They spend a hefty sum having their wedding photography in a far off land. Some even decide to go multinational, hoping from one country to another. In reality, this is a great idea for your wedding photography. Difference places means different sceneries which would make your wedding photos stand out. Doing a destination wedding photography is definitely worth the small dent in your wallet. However, when doing this type of wedding photography isn't as easy as hoping on a plane. There are some key reminders you must know and understand in order for your destination photography to be a success.
Number one is to knowing the culture of your destination.
This is a must when you are thinking your wedding photography. You and your destination wedding photographer must do extensive research on the customs and traditions of the place you are visiting. This is to make sure you don't commit a social blunder and offend the locals. You also need to what are the taboos of the culture. Disrespecting a culture can get you kicked out of the place or worse, in jail. Check out what are socially acceptable costumes and props. If you can, try and learn the local language. Miscommunication and misinterpretation is something you want to avoid in destination photography. You also need to know the terrain of the location so you can know what to bring and expect for the trip. The best way to do this is to do your own research on place beforehand.
Number two is to reservations.
You cannot just arrive in a location and expect that everything to be smooth sailing from there. You need to plan and book places in advance for the wedding photography shoot. If the place where you will shoot the wedding photography is famous, expect to find lots of people there. This will make it hard for you to do the wedding photography. Some locations have special requirements that need to be taken care of in advance. They may require you to pre-book for your wedding photography. You also need to set reservations with your destination wedding photographer. You cannot expect to hire a photographer on the spot and expect them to say yes. Always makes to set reservations for in order to avoid wasting time in your destination wedding photography.
Number three have all the necessary gears wedding.
Your destination wedding photographer cannot prepare for the trip alone. He needs your help in the preparation stage. How well you prepare for the trip will affect the outcome of the pictures. This is why there is a stress on doing background research on the location. The information will aide when you a packing for the trip. Bring costumes and props that are appropriate for the location where you will be doing your shoot. Pack your international plugs and power transformers. These can help you when you are in a pinch. You should also think of bringing the correct footwear for journey towards the destination. The technique is to make a list of things needed from information you researched so you won't forget anything important. Follow these reminders for a successful wedding photography.


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Here we are in the sixth year of President Obama's tenure, and as he prepares to deliver yet another State of the Union address, people are paying attention to the White House's recent messaging shifts.
In the lead-up to the State of the Union speech, the Obama White House and its liberal allies have pushed the issue of "income inequality," only to be cowed by a slew of poll data showing that Americans aren't interested in their divisive rhetoric.
Now, an Associated Press report reveals that the president is once again attempting to shift his message -- this time away from "inequality" and toward a more optimistic tone of "opportunity" and "mobility ladders." These are themes he is borrowing from conservatives, who understand that growth and opportunity are what make for middle-class prosperity.
But this upbeat theme does not fit the president's dismal economic record. His failed, liberal policies have left millions of American families worse off. And even though President Obama may be changing his words, his policies are still cut from the same old cloth.
Americans know better than to fall for the White House's cynical rebranding effort. And as we prepare to hear what the president has to say for himself, it's important to distinguish between his liberal agenda and the true economic priorities of the American people.
In last year's State of the Union, President Obama correctly noted that "prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class," has been the source of our economic progress.
The president is right that the middle class must be the focus of economic policy. However, poll after poll shows that most Americans don't believe Obama's "pen and phone" gimmicks are going to be helpful in their daily lives.
In fact, just "37 percent say they have either a good amount or a great deal of confidence in the president to make the right decisions for the country's future," according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. It's definitely not a good sign for the president's agenda when two out of three people tuning in tonight don't have confidence that he can make the right decisions.
Helping people out of poverty and into the middle class is as important as any policy struggle we face today, but the president's credibility on this issue is compromised by the fact that seven million more people are in poverty today than in 2008.
For these and millions of other Americans, President Obama's economic decisions aren't working. Senator Tim Scott is correct when he says that the results of the Obama Administration's policy decisions, rather than their motives, "are worthy of challenge."
Tonight, President Obama's divisive overtures on his failed economic priorities likely will not change the public's mind on the economy, because the middle class isn't built with rhetorical sleights of hand or by patchwork policy borrowed from a shortsighted liberal platform.
On the contrary, what people are really looking for is sustained economic growth that will help all Americans. A new YG Network survey reveals that by more than a two-to-one margin (64 percent to 33 percent), respondents "say that expanding economic growth for everyone is more important than narrowing gap between rich and poor." No doubt that's part of the reason the president is switching his rhetoric.
But he should also move away from his liberal agenda. When asked to choose between specific policies for the economy, 55 percent of YG Network poll participants said it was more important to grow the economy through policies like lowering energy costs, lowering taxes on small businesses, and reducing the burden of regulations than to focus on policies that address income inequality. Only 39 percent took the opposite view.
When addressing the minimum wage question directly, 42 percent of respondents say that increasing the minimum wage would cause more low-wage workers to lose their jobs, while only 33 percent believe more jobs will be created.
Knee-jerk policy decisions stemming from Washington won't jump-start this economy. Conservatives must continue to make the case that broad-based economic growth is the most effective way to get people working again. (And at higher wages than they're seeing in this current economy.) The American people understand that this route will work, because it has in the past, and it can work again if crafted thoughtfully.