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With this build its not about getting the kill its more about making the enemy team think "oh look a squishy" only to find out your not so much. By letting your main tank start the team fight then wading in they will think to change target but you mass heath and life regen from ult, it keeps you alive long enough for you team to clean up while the other team is distracted trying to kill you while you are still pelting them with your spells, you will find you rack up large amounts of assists as your birds are hitting everyone and everything. At the very least its an interesting experiment and works with the right team backing you up :)


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Archive for September, 2012
Hopes for a surge in sales of residential property …… research reports?Written by admin on September 28, 2012 – 7:11 pm
The concensus among private housing data providers is the Australian residential property market is on the mend. Prices are once again rising, after our "mini" housing correction.
But it is hard to find the drivers of this new found confidence.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has today released the August update of its financial aggregates. Month on month growth in housing finance remains stuck on 0.3 per cent for the third consecutive month, the lowest since records exist. This pulled annual housing credit growth to just 4.8 per cent, also the lowest figure since records started 35 years ago. If there is a buying spree in our housing market, buyers are certainly not borrowing money from the bank for these purchases.
On Wednesday, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) reported the number of new homes being built has fallen to 15 year lows and down 7 per cent for the year. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported new housing construction fell 11.5 per cent over the same period.
Last week, research from Digital Finance Analytics showed almost a fifth of first home buyers are in severe mortgage stress and are at risk of losing their homes in the coming months. Most had loaded up on excessive debt encouraged by the First Home Owner Boost and the high cost of living is now pushing these buyers over the edge.
Martin North, Digital Finance Analytics director told News, "Most people don't realise that the average loan size is twice as big as it was in 2005 so many people are still mortgaged to the hilt,"
"The second driver is that overall costs of living are still going up but especially for middle suburban Australians."
» Financial Aggregates – August 2012 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, 28th September 2012.
» Number of new houses drops to 15-year low – The ABC, 26th September 2012.
» First-home buyers in severe mortgage stress – News Limited, 20th September 2012.
» Secret loan deals and discounts revealed – The Sydney Morning Herald, 23rd September 2012.
Posted in Australian Economy, Australian Housing | 5 Comments »
Written Off: Negative GearingWritten by admin on September 25, 2012 – 10:27 pm
Prosper Australia invites you to an presentation on Negative Gearing to be held in Melbourne next Tuesday night (2nd October). Karl Fitzgerald describes the session:
In what promises to be the most extensive research yet into negative gearing, Philip Soos has assembled an extensive array of data to dispute that negative gearing is integral to rental and housing affordability.
Participants in the event will learn just how much this write off has cost tax payers over the last 20 years, how this behaviour has affected housing supply and whether the quarantining of negative gearing 1985 – 87 genuinely affected real rents.
To find out more and RSVP, click here.
Posted in Australian Housing, Negative Gearing | 2 Comments »
Responsible lending an oxymoronWritten by admin on September 12, 2012 – 10:02 pm
After reporting on the low doc loan scandal last month, the 7:30 report has tonight followed up on the allegedly growing fraud within the industry.
Australian Broker magazine surveyed more than 200 mortgage brokers in the wake of a 7.30 expose last month on fraudulent lending. 85 per cent said banks encourage fraud during credit booms.
» Whistleblower claims widespread loan fraud – The ABC, 12th October 2012.
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Budget cash hard fought for
The Maori Affairs Minister says he's managed to keep Te Puni Kokiri's allocation at last year's level, despite pressure across the public sector to make cuts.
Money for his Maori economic taskforce and a new network of whanau advocates will come out of the existing TPK budget.
But Dr Sharples is pointing to gains in his associate portfolios, treaty settlements and education, where there is some new money for trade training and for the te reo education provider Ataarangi.
"Unless you're speaking Maori in the home the language is going to die so Atarangi's got this good project where they move into the homes and teach families instead of just individuals. There's money for that. There's money to keep Maori radio alive, a bit for their running costs. In most areas there's something," Dr Sharples says.
There's also a trade training academy in Auckland and a programme to prepare more Maori secondary schoolers for tertiary study.
Meanwhile, a south Auckland budgeting advisor says yesterday's budget has done nothing to relieve the stress on families or on his organisation.
Daryl Evans says the Mangere Budgeting and Family Support Services is funded to work with about 300 whanau a year, but it is now helping well over a thousand.
Mr Evans says there has been a big increase in working whanau using the service, and a 37 percent increase in the number of families needing food parcels.
Daryl Evans says a Labour-style family tax credit would have immediately put extra money in the pockets of whanau.
Maori public health professionals are keen to develop a more collective approach to lowering Maori smoking rates.
Today's Maori Tobacco Intelligence Summit in Wellington focused on improving existing health promotions and services.
Organiser Riripeti Hareuku says since the last strategic hui more than a decade ago, the rate that young Maori take up smoking has dropped.
But she says more central leadership and active partnership with government was needed.
Tobacco kills between 600 and 800 Maori a year.
The director of an education research project given almost $20 million in yesterday's budget is delighted the government has recognised its importance.
Russell Bishop from Waikato University says the funding means more schools can sign on to Te Kotahitanga, a professional development programme which aims to change the way teachers in mainstream schools interact with Maori pupils.
He says the programme's success lies in its focus on the philosopy of Tino rangatiratanga.
"It's based upon supporting self-determination of schools, of families, of particularly students and teachers to determine the best way forward in partnership with each other and us, and it seems to strike a chord with everybody," Dr Bishop says.
He says the quality of New Zealand's schools is recognised internationally, but in the past Maori students have missed out on the benefits of the system.
Heart heath health group Te Hotu Manawa Maori has developed advice for Maori living in areas where it is difficult to find healthy food.
Its nutrition and physical activity manager, Leonie Matoe, says the second Food Security Among Maori in Aotearoa booklet aims to give whanau ideas about what they can do to improve their food resources.
It includes projects which whanau have successfully put into action, such as a kura planting feijoa trees as a windbreak, and a marae buying fruit wholesale and selling it on to whanau at cost.
Leone Matoe says obesity and food insecurity are linked, as foods that are high in fat and sugar are usually the cheaper option.
As people gear up to celebrate the Maori New Year, a traditional navigation expert says they're going to be a little late.
Official celebrations start when the constellation Matariki or Pliedes rises above the horizon after the next new moon on June 24.
But Jack Thatcher, who steers by the stars on the waka Te Aurere, says his whanau celebrated Matariki on this week's new moon.
Jack Thatcher believes the conditions for Matariki falling in May happen every three to five years.


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Release Day Blast: Spend the Night (The Hotel Collection, Episode 2) by Elizabeth Lee~ Includes Excerpt, Teasers & Giveaway!
We're celebrating the release of SPEND THE NIGHT, Episode 2 by Elizabeth Lee! Check out the excerpt and giveaway below!
Spend the Night: The Hotel Collection Episode #2 by Elizabeth Lee
Adult Contemporary Romance/Suspense
Someone's playing a deadly game…
Two men vying for your attention—seems like every girl's dream come true. For Hannah Wellesley, the dream has become a nightmare. As she continues to navigate her feelings to determine which man she truly belongs with—the first love who's become her current business rival or the enticing new chef who's testing her sexual limits at every turn—a new set of problems presents itself. One that includes a breach in hotel security that has her fearing for her own safety and the reputation of the Wellesley-Crawford.
Soon she finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse that might just cost her everything she's worked for—and maybe even her life.
I was finally going to find out if it was him. I knew it was. It had to be. Everything that had happened with Trent had been a mistake. Carter was the guy I wanted. He was going to take the memories of Trent away.
"Baby..." Carter mumbled against my lips, before removing them and pressing his forehead against mine. "We gotta slow down."
"No," I urged. "We really don't." I pulled his lips back to mine. "I want this. I want you," I pleaded, hearing the desperation in my voice. I needed to know the truth.
"So do I," he assured me before taking a step back. He grabbed my hands and caught his breath. "Really I do, but I think we should slow down. I don't want you to do something you'd regret."
"Never stopped me before," I said with a playful wink. I hadn't let fear or regret stop me in the stairwell. Or in my apartment last night which would have been a good damn time for it to do so.
"Oh, really." He chuckled.
"Really." I stared up into his eyes waiting for him to just admit that it was him the night of the Gala, but he didn't. Instead, he pulled me to my feet and wrapped his arms around my waist. His head fell to my shoulder as he tightened his embrace. "This will happen, Hannah. Just not in my office with the entire staff of my restaurant waiting on the other side of the door. I'll teach you to be patient, sweetheart," he whispered.
Spend the Night: The Hotel Collection Episode #1 by Elizabeth Lee
Adult Contemporary Romance/Suspense
Spend the Night – Episode 1
Welcome to The Wellesley-Crawford...
Hannah Wellesley has spent her entire life running the halls of her family-owned hotel, the infamous and opulent Wellesley-Crawford. Noted as one of the city's richest, most luxurious hotels in Chicago, the WC is what Hannah has devoted her life and career to.
The hotel's Annual Masquerade Gala is the event of the year, but this year Hannah's evening involves more than just handing out masks. After a mysterious rendezvous in a secluded stairwell with an irresistible and unidentifiable man, Hannah becomes consumed with discovering the identity of her masked lover. Just as she's about to give up the search, two men blow back into her life with drastically different intentions. They both have secrets and uncovering them will lead Hannah down a darkly dangerous path.
Drawn to both of the intriguing bachelors, she'll have to determine which one is after her heart and which one plans to do her deadly harm before it's too late.
Spend the Night – Episode 3
All games must eventually come to an end…
Hannah's new reality is that someone is stalking her. Aggressively. The only question now is who. Fingers are pointed and accusations are made as every clue leads to her down another twisted path of questions without answers. Her feelings for both Carter and Trent cloud her judgment as the investigation delves deeper into her personal life and into her heart. Carter's past is a mystery and Trent has every reason to try and make her seem crazy. Her loss would be his gain after all.
Hannah will have to choose, but making the wrong choice will cost much more than a broken heart.
Everyone has a motive.
But only one of them has a plan.
Expect the unexpected in the thrilling conclusion to the Spend the Night series.
Author Bio:
Born and raised in the middle of a Midwestern cornfield (not literally, that would be weird), I've spent my entire life imagining stories. Stories where the right guy always gets the right girl, first kisses are as magical as they are on the big screen and anything is completely possible if you believe.
If I'm not reading, writing, enjoying drinks with my amazing group of girlfriends or chasing around a sarcastically funny kid, I'm probably watching television shows that were created for teenagers, while my husband teases that I'm too old to watch them.
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Bisaldeo temple in 2016 with submerged courtyard
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Bisaldeo temple, also known as Bisaldev temple or Bisal Deoji's temple, is a Hindu temple in Bisalpur, India. It is located beside the Bisalpur Dam on the Banas River, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan state. The temple is dedicated to Gokarneshvara, an aspect of Shiva. A Monument of National Importance, it was commissioned by the 12th century Chahamana ruler Vigraharaja IV, who is also known as Bisal Deo.
The temple is located in Bisalpur or Visalpur, which was also earlier known as Vigrahapura. The town was established by the Chahamana king Vigraharaja IV alias Visala or Bisal Deo (r. c. 1150–1164 CE). The king commissioned the temple that is now known as Bisal Deoji's temple.[1]
The courtyard of the temple is now partly submerged by the waters of the Bisalpur Dam reservoir whenever the water level is high; before the construction of the dam in the 1990s, the temple stood on the top of a hill overlooking the confluence of the Banas and the Dai rivers.[2]
The Archaeological Survey of India has classified the structure as a Monument of National Importance.[3] The organization has also carried out a restoration of the temple.[4]
The architectural plan of the temple measures 22.2 by 15.3 metres (73 by 50 ft). The building comprises a garbhagriha (sanctum), a shikhara (tower), an antarala (vestibule), a square mandapa (hall) with a hemispherical dome, and a portico. It features a pancharatha projection. The sanctum houses a linga (a symbol of Shiva).[1]
The pillars of the temple feature carvings of floral festoons, chain-and-bell and circular medals.[1]
Multiple short inscriptions recording pilgrim visits have been discovered at the site.[1] Two of these are dated to 12th century CE. A 1164–65 CE inscription records the visit of a Kayastha pilgrim. The name of the pilgrim is not clear, but his father's name can be read as Thakkura Shrivatsa. The inscription is dated to 15th day of the Shukla Paksha (fortnight) of the Pausha month of the Vikrama Samvat year 1221. A 1187–88 CE inscription records the donation of two sword handles in the mandapa (hall) of the temple of Śri Gokarṇa. It is dated to the Vikrama Samvat year 1244, which makes it one of the few extant inscriptions issued during the reign of Vigraharaja's nephew Prithviraja III.[5][6]
Besides these, some shorter inscriptions have also been discovered at the site:[7]
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"Pantone, the authority on color, describes emerald green as 'lively, radiant, lush…a color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony'. It sounds perfect for inducing relaxation."
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2013
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Doie Lounge Founder Sara Kirsner commented on the color addition, "Pantone, the authority on color, describes emerald green as 'lively, radiant, lush…a color of elegance and beauty that enhances our sense of well-being, balance and harmony'. It sounds perfect for inducing relaxation."
As the color of the year, it will no doubt appear in many weddings, which is why Doie Lounge decided to add the Lucie robe to the Trixie and Millie robes that already offer emerald green. Kirsner said, "All three robes have grown in popularity as bridesmaid gifts for upcoming 2013 weddings. Brides world-wide are generously thanking their nearest and dearest with these robes."
The Trixie and Millie robes, a staple in the Doie Lounge collection since the company's inception, are both predominantly emerald green with pops of color—black and white (Trixie) and pink and white (Millie), silk trim. Both robes feature the Doie Lounge exclusive bonsai print, designed by Australian print designer Lara Cameron.
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Avonpark House, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
- Free English breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
- Collect nights
Main amenities
- 7 smoke-free guestrooms
- Terrace
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
- Self-serve laundry
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Luggage storage
- Free English breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Feel at home
- Cots/infant beds (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Garden
- Terrace
- Daily housekeeping
Top spots nearby
Recommended by this property
- Stratford Butterfly Farm (4-minute walk)
- Swan Theatre (6-minute walk)
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre (6-minute walk)
- American Fountain (11-minute walk)
Avonpark House, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdomfrom A$152
- Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed
- Standard Double or Twin Room, 1 Bedroom
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 7 rooms
- Check-in time 1 PM-10 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 21
Travelling with others
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
- No alcohol served onsite
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- Free English breakfast daily
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Digital TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
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This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
This property does not have elevators.Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
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Cribs/Infant beds are available for GBP 10.00 per stay
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around Avonpark House, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Top spots nearby
Recommended by this property
- Stratford Butterfly Farm (4-minute walk)
- Swan Theatre (6-minute walk)
- Royal Shakespeare Theatre (6-minute walk)
- American Fountain (11-minute walk)
Getting around
- Coventry (CVT) - 26 min drive
- Birmingham (BHX) - 39 min drive
- Oxford (OXF) - 52 min drive
- Stratford-Upon-Avon Station - 27 min walk
- Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Station - 11 min drive
- Wilmcote Station - 12 min drive
- Free self parking
Recent reviews
Exceptional 9.4 From 23 reviews
Avonpark staff are so welcoming, the memories of journey there are washed away on arrival
Back downstairs bedroom though dining room a bit dreary
Better than expected very friendly, excellent location. Highly recommended
Very friendly welcome when we arrived and very informative about he local area. Lots of thoughtful extra touches like small jugs of fresh milk to take to the room and a lovely breakfast with plenty of choice. Very convenient for the town centre and the theatre, only about 15 minutes walk.
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Guest Column
Guest Editorial by Brad Linaweaver: Without Kryptonite
Oct 17th
By Brad Linaweaver
J. Neil Schulman and I have had similar careers as libertarian science fiction writers. We won some of the same awards. We wrote for the first Agorist publication, New Libertarian. We spent a lot of time in Hollywood.
We're comrades.
So it was no surprise back in the nineties that both of us would attend a media event in Santa Monica, The Coalition Against PBS Censorship.
Neil and I have been remembering that event because of a firestorm started by Dr. Ben Carson in the wake of murders committed by a madman named Mercer in Oregon. Before Carson inadvertently lit today's media fire, I witnessed Neil do much the same thing at the PBS event.
So, let's set the controls in the nearest TARDIS and take a trip down the timeline. The most memorable aspect of the PBS event was the host.
Christopher Reeve was yet to have his terrible accident. He was every bit the actor we all believed was Superman. But not even super powers helped with the unenviable task of keeping everyone polite and good natured in a gathering certain to provoke controversy.
My contribution to civil discourse was avoiding contact with David Horowitz, someone I've always disliked for bringing SDS tactics to the American right. He was the only celebrity I went out of my way to avoid.
The stars were in alignment for me that day. I had the honor of meeting Reeve, instead. I was introduced to him as a libertarian. I'll never forget what he said:
"You want to combine the NRA with the ACLU."
It was a brilliant insight from an intelligent liberal. It was an insight beyond many of today's liberals and conservatives. I was impressed.
My good luck continued. Naturally, I wanted to discuss movies with Chris Reeve, however briefly. Naturally, the last thing he wanted was another chat about Superman.
But I had recently seen a comedy with Reeve, Noises Off. That was the film I mentioned. Turned out it was one of his favorite films in which he had participated. We talked about it for several minutes. What actor can resist a good movie about the perils of live theater? Things went so well that I joked about not taking out the kryptonite I was keeping in a lead lined pocket.
A wonderful encounter.
Neither of us could know that by the anniversary of the PBS event, the following year, Chris Reeve would have been completely disabled for the rest of his life after being thrown by a horse. If I had known, I wouldn't have made the joke about kryptonite. But in the context of the meeting, where there would soon be a controversy about speeding bullets, Superman might be objective about a weapon that could not harm him.
Neil made a difference at the event.
As libertarians, Neil and I are for the Bill of Rights, not just the First Amendment which was the cause for the meeting. Neil and I have always noticed that the Founding Fathers put a lot of thought into which rights they stressed right at the start.
So, it was not surprising that the Second Amendment would come up. I was the least surprised person at the event after Reeve made his insightful remark to me.
As Carson found out recently, Neil discovered that it was weirdly unpopular to make a common sense observation about how an unpopular minority with guns can stand off a dangerous majority. As a writer of alternate history stories, I did not find anything controversial about Neil's suggestion then, or Carson's suggestion now, that if the Jews inside the Third Reich had been well armed and fought the Nazis inside Germany then history might have taken a different direction.
At the very least, internal resistance at that level would have thrown off Hitler's timetable for the war. Imagine if instead of using howitzers against a civilian population in Poland, Hitler had done that inside his own country. The world would have noticed.
After all, the world noticed the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the history that actually happened.
Alas, most people don't want to think about such things. Many people booed Neil at the PBS event. Chris Reeve defended Neil. After all, the event was about free speech!!!
After the dust settled, Ron Silver shook Neil's hand and thanked him for his courage. Neil thanked Reeve for what he did. Not everyone booed, just far too many.
Why is it controversial to recognize that it's better to die on your feet with a gun in your hand than being rounded up like sheep?
J. Neil Schulman and Ben Carson are vilified for what should not be controversial.
Except it is controversial.
That's the problem.
Inside my fevered brain, libertarian thoughts were clawing at my feeble hold on sanity during Neil's travails at the Coalition Against PBS Censorship.
I thought about the usefulness of guns in private hands during the Hungarian uprising in the fifties. The Soviets had to bring in tanks. The world noticed.
Then I thought about guns in private hands during the Prague Spring in the sixties. The Soviets brought the tanks Into Czechoslovakia. Again, the world noticed.
But then a particularly libertarian thought clawed and clawed until it got my attention. It was a "what if," as Neil had asked a "what if"!
What if Japanese Americans had been better armed than they were, and put up resistance in Roosevelt's America as the Jews might have put up resistance in Hitler's Germany? After all, the Nisei had as little to do with Pearl Harbor as the German Jews had to do with calumnies Hitler was trying to put on them.
It could be argued that the Nisei were not being sent to death camps, but they had no way of knowing that. As was the case with Jews in the Reich, the Japanese Americans were having property and money stolen at the point of a gun, and were being marched off to relocation camps.
Years after the PBS event, but before 9-11, a magazine published by Jessie Lilley ran the first installment of a series I was doing about movie censorship. The magazine was Worldly Remains. (Amusingly enough, Jessie later became the editor of Mondo Cult, on which I'm the publisher.)
The series was "Unconditional Surrender," and the first installment was about how American movies were censored in World War Two. A lot of it had to do with how Japs (and I'm using the word deliberately) were portrayed in American films as the enemy race, the way Jews were portrayed as the enemy race in German films.
When writing the article for WR, perhaps I was flashing back to that PBS event where Neil argued for human rights.
Would most of the Nisei have been killed if they tried to defend themselves against FDR? Or would they have caught the conscience of a country still reeling from Pearl Harbor? Now that we live in an America after 9-11, these questions are probably Thought Crimes.
I don't pretend to know.
But individuals have a Natural Law right to self defense, regardless of victory or defeat.
There is one thing I know for certain.
Sometimes America needs Superman.
Guest Commentary by Renard Blanc: Revisions for U.S. History Course Curriculum in Jeffco School District
Oct 3rd
Renard Blanc is a Colorado resident who has worked in college libraries and the computer industry.
Dear Jeffco Board of Education Members,
With regard to the current controversy concerning emphasizing patriotism and minimizing civil disobedience in the teaching of History classes in the Jeffco School District, may I first state that I totally support you in your understanding that patriotism is an integral and very important part of teaching United States History.
However, you are very incorrect attempting to down-play the importance of civil disobedience by either minimizing or not teaching it at all as a part of the curriculum of classes on American History.
Denver school board refuses to drop curriculum review that promotes patriotism
Why does the curriculum of American History classes have to include either patriotism or civil disobedience, exclusive of one another? Both patriotism and civil disobedience are critical aspects of the history of the United States, and both are inherent in our freedoms as documented in the Constitution.
May I remind you, since you seem to have forgotten, if it wasn't for civil disobedience, which led to the Declaration of Independence and ultimately the American Revolution, the quintessential acts of civil disobedience to this day, we wouldn't be the United States of America but still subjects of the monarch of Great Britain. You cannot teach the tenets of the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, and the Constitution of the United States, without fully addressing the importance of these acts of civil disobedience as being ultimate acts of patriotism, up to and including giving our lives for the right to live free.
Being a patriot must include the right of protest and civil disobedience. You cannot have one without the other. To minimize teaching the historical and present acts of civil disobedience in the United States is to be profoundly unpatriotic. To imply that civil disobedience is un-American and unpatriotic is not only plainly and simply wrong, it is a complete misunderstanding of what the founding fathers intended for the newly formed United States and its continued health as a free nation, ensuring the rights of individual freedoms of its citizens going into the future in perpetuity.
Attached is a copy of the Declaration of Independence which I suggest you re-read (assuming you have read it since you claim to be patriots) as a reminder of what a patriot really is and how civil disobedience was the very first patriotic act in the formation of the United States of America.
An additional "reminder" for you with regard to civil disobedience is the 1st Amendment of the Bill of Rights (emphasis mine):
Amendment 1 (Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Just a little bit of research will turn up mountains of evidence on the importance of civil disobedience that led to our independence from Great Britain, and our continued struggle as a nation to retain and maintain our rights to freedom and to protest, here and now, today, in the United States of America. Without civil disobedience, would we have had the landmark decisions to have equal educational opportunities available to all races, creeds, and religions, for both men and women?
You obviously see the protest of the students and teachers against changing the history curriculum as a consequence of the current curriculum of promoting liberal ideology, brainwashing and indoctrination in the classroom. And, I would have to agree with you that these influences are definitely present here and that the protestors are seeing only the part that supports their agenda of what they want to be taught in history classes. But, even though I agree that teaching a liberal agenda which emphasizes civil disobedience and minimizes patriotism, or doesn't teach patriotism at all in history classes, is wrong, the opposite is equally egregious. You must teach both in their proper context, emphasizing neither, or you are simply promoting an alternative political agenda and not teaching the truth of our freedoms and what it means to be a patriot in our country.
Your current curriculum change to minimize (replace?) teaching about civil disobedience and emphasize (replace it) instead with teaching about patriotism due to your claiming to be patriots belies your true intent. You do not intend nor desire to teach the truth in your history classes on the United States, nor of current events. You intend to propagandize a political agenda. Politics should only be taught in history classes to bring to light all the differing aspects, philosophies and attitudes of the different parties throughout our history and present day, most importantly, without presenting a bias towards one or another or propagandizing for or against one or another. To do otherwise is a political agenda which has no place in the classroom.
Our founding fathers are turning in their graves over your decision. I accuse you of being just what you claim to be against. You are the ones who are unpatriotic!
Thank you for your attention and hopefully, consideration, of these thoughts.
To True Patriotism…
Renard Blanc
Guest Commentary by Brad Linaweaver: Things That Make No Sense
Sep 3rd
Few libertarians have as many noteworthy accomplishments as my friend Brad Linaweaver, or as many other admirers who have granted him iconic praise. His first novel, Moon of Ice, carries endorsements from Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and William F. Buckley, Jr.
Ronald Reagan once devoted an entire radio show praising one of Brad's articles written when Brad was a college student.
Brad's published credits as a short-story writer, film commentator, novelist, journalist, essayist, interviewer, and screenwriter would take up pages. That doesn't even list his work as a magazine editor and publisher (Mondo Cult), public speaker, and film professional. And I can't tell you how many times Brad's informal analysis of politics and world affairs is far more penetrating than any talking heads you'll find on cable-news or talk radio.
Brad Linaweaver is the man behind The Silicon Assassin.
With Silicon Assassin writer/producer Brad Linaweaver from photo left: Vicki Marie Taylor as Lady Twilight, Victoria Plumb as Deadly Tween, and Paula Labaredas as Bubble Blonde Girl
Earlier today Brad called to say how impressed he is with Kurdistan's offer to do the boots on the ground solution to ISIS if we give them the military equipment.
Quoting Linaweaver: "Neil, you and I want the United States to offer diplomatic recognition to Kurdistan. The time has come. The Kurds will not abandon what America gives them on the battlefield. But if the lawyers won't allow a deal with the Kurds, my little article suggests other solutions than sending American troops back into the same old mess."
–J. Neil Schulman
I always like to celebrate surviving another birthday (9-1) by thinking about something that makes no sense.
So, I'm a year older. The year is 2014, and the current example of nonsense has to do with ISIS (or ISIL, or the Islamic State).
Not only frantic Republicans, but a fair smattering of Democrats and nervous Brits insist that this latest tentacle of Radical Islam is the whole octopus.
It's here at last, an existential threat.
Maybe even a metaphysical threat.
It is the beginning of the dread Caliphate!!!!
The Prime Minister of the UK talks about it as a greater threat than Hitler's Nazis, Stalinist Commies, Imperial Japanese, eternal China, pedophile priests and Injuns on the warpath.
He also gives the impression that ISIS may be worse than cancer, yellow fever, tuberculosis, Ebola, and the Black Plague, combined.
Meanwhile, in the exception that is America, our pathetic President Obama (curses be upon his golf clubs) is lazy, crazy (as in psychological problems), and doing nothing about ISIS, despite the explosives he seems to be exploding in the desert areas where ISIS seems to be festering.
Most Americans would not know that the USA is killing ISIS members if not for the censored terrorist videos where the killer complains about American policy right before he decapitates captured American correspondents.
You'd think from Fox News and talk radio that Obama is an agent of ISIS. Since the President refuses to use the powers he has from the two Patriot Acts to silence his lying critics (which he could do even without a declaration of war) many Americans believe the President is doing nothing.
Obama sucks at being a dictator. FDR would be ashamed of him.
But it's not just the Tea Party lunatics boiling in America who are ill informed.
Many right wing Israelis also believe any old nonsense spewed out about Obama.
Which brings me to an obvious point.
If ISIS is truly an existential threat, then it does more than threaten, say, Londoners and New Yorkers. It is a more immediate threat to Israel. Look at a map.
Israel must have a few weapons left over after its incursion (i.e., lopsided war) into/with Gaza. Israeli casualties were low, especially considering the civilians protected by Iron Dome, provided by the always popular Obama administration.
If ISIS is only 17,000 killers (give or take a few thou) then why doesn't Israel act in concert with the USA? It's just not that many people to kill in a military situation.
ISIS, the greatest threat of all time, couldn't hold onto that one dam in Mosul which would have actually constituted a lasting threat. I believe the Turks helped rescue the dam.
What I'm trying to say is that the usual arguments ring hollow about the need for Israeli non-engagement in this peculiar situation.
The tiredest argument is that Israel will make Arabs, Turks, Persians, genies out of magic lamps, and other members of the unchosen unite against the Jews.
Not this time.
Not when ISIS is hated by Al Qaeda, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the lovable leader of Syria, the generals in Egypt, and maybe Allah Himself.
Not all Sunnis love ISIS. Shocking, but true.
Then there's the idea that Israel cannot act without permission of the United States. Been hearing that cliché for years.
Israel just acted in Gaza without American permission. They act without American permission a lot. Remember Lebanon?
There is only one pertinent question:
Is Israel a real country, or a pretend country?
If right wing assholes are telling the truth about ISIS, then it is potentially a greater threat to Israel than Hamas.
Why does Israel seem more reticent than Obama to take on ISIS?
(Another mystery is why any member of Likud cares if Americans hate Hamas as much as ISIS. Seems like a waste of everyone's time.)
Israel just made a bad impression on the world stage. But many critics would downplay Gaza if Israel publicly took on ISIS in a big way.
Spy stuff (always valuable) to one side, it did not take a lot of courage to pull off what Israel did in Gaza. American soldiers took greater risks to limit civilian casualties, fighting block to block in Iraq, then Israeli soldiers did with their blockbusting tactics in Gaza.
Israel looked bad.
Normal humans might start thinking, "Have we been exaggerating the martial courage of Israel in recent times? Perhaps their brave days are behind them?"
There is a simple way to defend the honor of Israel, of course. It is simply to agree with Obama that ISIS is not an existential threat. ISIS can be destroyed without a war.
But how can that be true? That would mean we're being lied to by the King of Saudi Arabia, as well as retired military blowhards on every American cable news channel.
There you have my radical thought for 2014.
Either we're being fed a bucket of camel shit, or Israel has lost its nerve. The latter seems unlikely.
Next year, around this time, the new threat will be OSIRIS.
— Brad Linaweaver
Tom Woods: "Books Are Good, But People Watch Movies"
Nov 20th
Blogged by Tom Woods on November 20th, 2010
Tom Woods
The libertarian world has been doing a good job writing and publishing in economics, history, and philosophy. But to reach a wider audience, we need to go where the people are. For one thing, people read much more fiction than nonfiction. J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night is an excellent example of the possibilities for libertarian fiction. And now there's a move to get his book adapted into a motion picture. Fiction writing and the movies are two areas where we are getting killed. We're not even putting up a fight. A project like this can change that.
Alongside Night, with major endorsements from Ron Paul and Milton Friedman, its libertarian awards and rave reviews, and the intention of Free to Choose media to use the film in its teaching modules distributed to high schools, is an extremely rare opportunity to make inroads into the mass entertainment media. It would be great to see people of means get behind this important project.
About Tom Woods
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books. A senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Woods holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and his master's, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Read More.
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Guest Editorial by L. Neil Smith: Little Criminals — The Context of Consent
Jul 19th
L. Neil Smith is the First Initial Middle-Name-"Neil" Last-Name-Begins-With-"S" Prometheus-Award-Winning Libertarian-Science-Fiction-Author Gun-Writer Singer/Songwriter" who is not me. Now here's something else we agree about.
Little Criminals — The Context of Consent
Have you ever noticed — in movies, books, or real life — that when a mugger attacks someone, he never says "Give me your money!" but usually says "Give me the money!" or even "Give me my money!" instead?
There seems to be a basic human drive to justify one's actions, no matter how heinous they might actually be. Sometimes it's a matter of self-deception — "I'm doing this for your own good!" — sometimes it's a matter of propaganda: "We had to destroy the village to save it." It's the basis on which millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others were stripped of their perceived humanity in the 1940s and
I was probably only eight years old when I realized that socialism is nothing more than a fancied-up excuse for stealing other people's property and killing them if they resist, that collectivism is just a shabby attempt to make theft and murder appear respectable. Later on, I came to understand that this is true of all "philosophies" of government.
We all live in a kleptocracy.
Lately, we have witnessed the rise of a movement — a thuggish crusade wrapped in the tattered robes of academic "respectability" against "Intellectual Property Rights" — dedicated to stripping creative individuals of whatever they create, to expropriate it for some imagined "greater good," and to attack the creators viciously and defame them if they should be so gauche as to object to being stolen from.
Their principal "argument" seems to be, now that almost everything is digitized and can be duplicated, manipulated, and transported by means of electronics, that this somehow removes the moral obligation of civilized beings to respect the rights of others and honor their propriety. It's fundamentally the same argument that victim disarmament advocates make when they claim — ignoring the principle involved — that the authors of the Second Amendment couldn't possibly anticipate machine guns.
Even more, it's like a rapist saying afterward, "Hey, if you were a virgin, at least that's taken care of now. And if you weren't, then you haven't really lost anything, have you? True, I have benefited from your sexuality, but you still have it, don't you? And if you didn't want to get raped, you had no business going out in public and spraying pheromones all over. In fact, I think I'm the real victim, here."
I am currently thinking these thoughts, and many more besides, because, when they thought I wasn't looking, a small handful of literary muggers and rapists have taken something that I am fairly famous for having written — my "Covenant of Unanimous Consent" — inflicted alterations on it which they falsely claim makes it a different document, and then fraudulently passed it off as their own work.
Which means any signatures it gathered were obtained fraudulently, too. They would want me to mention who they are and give you their URL.
I've seen plagiarism before. In ninth grade, I won a short story contest because the guy who "beat" me had typed up something by Robert Sheckley or Richard Matheson and passed it off as his own. I'm not the one who turned him in, although I had immediately recognized the story. The idiot had to get on the PA system and confess to his crime. Whether it ruined his life forever or was the making of him, I have no way of knowing. I had no sympathy for him because what he did is a crime, in the legal sense but more importantly, in the moral sense, as well.
Back to the present.
In time, several individuals warned me about what had happened, and I contacted the plagiarists directly, myself. Imagine my surprise when, instead of apologizing humbly and abjectly, as they ought to have done, and sought to make restitution, they became obnoxious and aggressive, so that, in the end, I was considered the villain of the piece, and called names, simply for having defended my own work from theft.
You will be interested to learn — and falling-down amused, if you know me or my work at all well — that I am, officially, a "statist asshole." In part, this is because I politely informed them I was sharing our correspondence with my attorney, to whom I had started blind-copying everything. My attorney is also among my very closest friends, and I had decided to blind-copy him to keep his Inbox clear of the heady liquid excrement (ever see the uncut final sequence of The Magic Christian?) I was having to wade through to protect my rights.
Never forget that I am a statist asshole.
Please note: I had never said that I was planning to sue this gang of little criminals, only that I was blind-copying my correspondence with them to my attorney. It was they who jumped to the conclusion that I wanted to sue them. Even when I told them that I wasn't planning to sue them, and instead mentioned private adjudication — a process, I assume, that can legitimately involve attorneys — they childishly went on calling me a statist, not because it was true, but because it was such a swell smelly ball of excrement to smear on the wall.
This is not unlike the way, whenever they sensed dimly that they were losing the argument at hand, my grandmother Mabel and my wife's grandmother Bertha (no, I am not kidding), both of whom were Roosevelt Democrats with minds so narrow they could look through a keyhole with both eyes, would resort to calling anyone who disagreed with them a communist.
Thus I am a statist asshole.
I have a small bet with myself that if I had informed these opponents of common, civilized behavior that I consider that what they have done amounts to an act of initiated force against me — with all of the consequences that entails — intervention on their behalf by the State, most likely in the form of badged and uniformed policemen who could prevent me from dealing with them directly, myself, would suddenly, miraculously appear a whole lot more attractive and morally acceptable.
But, statist asshole that I am, I have digressed.
At some point, I realized that the topic of intellectual property rights (about which I have never before been particularly interested) would have to be dealt with in Where We Stand, the volume I'm currently writing on libertarian policy, and that if I were to write an article about this little flapette for my editorial journal The Libertarian Enterprise, it might be suitable for the book. I conveyed that idea to the plagiarists as politely as I could, and put off any further argument with them until the article could be written and published.
The very next thing I knew, I was being defamed, by the leader of these scavengers and parasites, to all sixteen of the listeners to his Internet radio show, and all over the Internet. But, of course, had I decided to sue the guy for libel, slander, and defamation, in addition to his plagiarism, that would have made me a statist asshole all over again.
A double statist asshole.
Ever hear a mugger or rapist complain bitterly when it turns out his victim is armed and can defend him- or herself? I have. He sounds exactly like a left wing anti-gun politician. He also sounds exactly like the second-handers whole stole my work and offered it as their own.
Like many another pack of thieves, the Hole-In-The-Head Gang (to borrow a phrase) had an ideology with which to alibi themselves. The first tenet is that there is a distinction between physical property and what some — especially its creators — claim to be "intellectual property."
They informed me, loftily, that just because I think of an idea, that doesn't mean it belongs to me. That if I don't want something I created stolen, then I shouldn't communicate it to the world. Fine — and if everybody followed this "advice," these creeps wouldn't have any opposition to their thievery, and no stories or books would ever be published, no songs would ever be written, no music would ever be composed.
What a swell world that would be.
Believe it or not, one of these scavengers defended his crime by asserting that the Covenant of Unanimous Consent did not appear on one of the more prominent pages of my website. That's exactly like ordering me to turn in my Yves Saint Laurent suit (believe it or not, I own one, and a nice Calvin Klein, too) because I don't wear it very often. True, I had backed off pressing the Covenant as it became more and more obvious to me the movement had deteriorated so badly that the Zero Aggression Principle was now considered controversial, and even oppressive.
"You are a dinosaur and your assertion [presumably of my personal property rights] is invalid," another of them informed me grandly. He, too, would want me to mention his name. "Innovation is impossible under your worldview."
As an individualist, I'm not generally interested in Utilitarian arguments. However, it is worth noting that the past 300 years have seen the greatest progress in human history, and it's exactly the same era in which copyright has been respected and stringently enforced. In this connection it's worth asking, since there is no actual difference between intellectual property and physical property, when some self-appointed committee of sticky-fingered little rodents will "discover" that fact, and decide that you don't really need your wallet, your car, your house, or especially your guns. It's been done everywhere else, during the last couple of centuries, all over the world. Why not here?
Only we'll call it libertarianism.
As I say, I had pretty much ignored the issue of intellectual property rights, even though arguments about it had been raging all over my blog at BigHeadPress.com, and in the virtual pages of my opinion journal, The Libertarian Enterprise. For the most part, I had been too busy creating more intellectual property, notably my vampire novel, Sweeter Than Wine and the policy guide, Where We Stand. Now I was going to have to think about it and say something coherent.
My first observation is that, in a moral context, there is no discernible difference between physical property and intellectual property. As I first learned at the age of thirteen from the pages of Jack Finney's 1959 novel Assault on a Queen, virtually everything we have, we have purchased at the price of little bits of our lives which we dedicate to fulfilling some employer's interests rather than our own. We trade the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and eventually the years of our lives for our homes, cars, and everything else.
Traditionally in civilized property theory, "mingling your labor with the land," the concepts of "sweat equity," and of "selling little bits of your life" in order to acquire whatever you need or want, abolishes any meaningful difference between physical and intellectual property. The farmer begins with a tree-covered lot that he must clear and plow and plant, and the writer with a damnedly blank page or screen.
Property is property and theft is theft. Or as my wife Cathy, who can be refreshingly straightforward, puts it, unless you can go out in a field somewhere and pee me a bicycle without reflecting on it, all property is intellectual property. Somebody had to think of it. Somebody had to build it. And somebody had to use his mind to earn the money "or other valuable consideration" that was exchanged for the bicycle.
When I first went to college as a freshly-fledged "admirer of Ayn Rand," I was informed — by leftists deeply involved in what was billed as the "Civil Rights Movement" — that there are human rights and then there are property rights; only the former existed in reality and are legitimate. Some of them asserted mockingly that property couldn't have rights, others that defending property rights is somehow reprehensible and evil. Doomed never to be popular at school, I disagreed. It had been my experience that those who disparage property rights most vociferously usually do it because they want your property themselves.
Almost to a man (if that's not giving these poor creatures too much credit; I have noticed that none of these would-be looters seem to be female, perhaps because women are the ultimate creators and the fiercest guardians of that which evolution has put in their charge) these illiterati seem to be very poorly educated where history in general — and the history of the libertarian movement in particular — are concerned. One of them actually quotes one of the original ideological expropriationists for the common good, collectivist anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in his messages: "Property is theft."
That's like a Jew leaning on Adolf Eichmann for support.
They seem a little unendowed in the imagination department, too. I have spent my entire adult life writing novels about how the mechanics of civilization can be re-engineered to exclude the very concept of government.
I hereby sentence them to read The Probability Broach, Pallas, and especially Forge of the Elders. Just because the state has protected intellectual property rights in the past, that doesn't mean intellectual property rights don't have to be protected. Just because it's difficult to imagine how, that doesn't relieve us of the moral burden.
Copyright © 2010 L. Neil Smith. All rights reserved. Used by permission. For reprint rights email L. Neil Smith.
My own writings on "IP" are in previous columns here on J. Neil Schulman @ Rational Review:
Informational Property — Logorights
Copying Is Not Theft? How About Identity Theft?
Copying Is Not Theft? How About Forgery? Counterfeiting? Plagiarism?
–J. Neil Schulman
J. Neil Schulman (Photo Left)
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July, 1998


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AVG has about 143 million active users globally who benefit from the group's products and expertise to simplify and secure their internet activity.
Further will work with the group's technical, content and social media teams to increase online visibility and search performance. The work will span AVG's consumer and small business operations in Europe and North America.
Ricardo Adame, AVG's Corporate Vice-President (Corporate Communications), said: "I'm delighted with the work from Further this year. They have been working closely with my team on a number of key initiatives and projects. Further's clear understanding of our news agenda is already proving to be of strategic value to our global communication efforts."
Lou Mann, Further's Client Services Director, said: "AVG is a fantastic client to work with. We've enjoyed engaging with their technical and content teams and look forward to working with them on the opportunities ahead."


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Report NEP-MFD-2011-11-01This is the archive for NEP-MFD, a report on new working papers in the area of Microfinance. Olivier Dagnelie issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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Other reports in NEP-MFD
The following items were announced in this report:
- Marie Briere & Ariane Szafarz, 2011. "Investment in Microfinance Equity: Risk, Return, and Diversification Benefits," Working Papers CEB 11-050, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
- Olga Biosca & Pamela Lenton & Paul Mosley, 2011. "Microfinance Non-Financial Services: A Key for Poverty Alleviation? Lessons from Mexico," Working Papers 2011021, The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics.
- Chattopadhyay, Sadhan Kumar, 2011. "Financial Inclusion in India: A case-study of West Bengal," MPRA Paper 34269, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2011.
- Daniel J. Clarke, 2011. "Reinsuring the Poor: Group Microinsurance Design and Costly State Verification," Economics Series Working Papers 573, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
- Andreas Madestam, 2011. "The Social Cost of a Credit Monopoly," Working Papers 422, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.


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Brewer SABMiller rejected a $104 billion offer from Belgian-Brazilian giant AB InBev on Wednesday. That would have ranked it among the top 10 takeovers of all time, according to data provider Dealogic.
This offer followed SABMiller's rejections of two previous lower bids by AB InBev.
CCTV's Richard Bestic reports from London.


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Ryan Gosling Will Beat Down Any Trick Who Calls Eva Mendes "Baby"
Page Six says that at the Bowery Hotel in NYC on Good Friday night, Ryan Gosling's Canadian hipster coolness evaporated when he turned into an overreacting, raging, jealous dick bag after a fashion photographer said "Hey, baby!" to his piece Eva Mendes. Don't you just hate it when a crazy, jealous boyfriend kills your Janet Jackson moment by interrupting you before you can answer "No, my first name ain't Baby" to a fashion photographer who just called you baby?
A witness type told Page Six that the fashion photographer recently shot Eva for something and Ryan Gosling must've not known that, because he went wild on a ho. The witness put it like this:
"Ryan got in the guy's face and said, 'Who are you calling baby?' Eva had to jump in and calm everyone down before it came to fisticuffs. Ryan then made nice and shook the guy's hand."
Note to self: If I want Ryan Gosling to invade my personal space, breathe hot air into my face and spit all over me as he curses me out and threatens to fist me where it counts, just call Eva Mendes "baby." So what I'm saying is that if I ever see Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling out in the wild, I'm going to call her "baby" over and over again and I'm going to make sure I'm all Crisco'd up before I do it.
Here's Ryan in a velvet suit and Eva in Endora's cotillion dress at The Place Beyond the Pines premiere in NYC last week.


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As an urgent care center, Geisinger Careworks Walk-in Clinic provides non-emergent medical care most typically referred to as urgent care services. This category of medicine includes the treatment of allergies, asthma, broken bones and sprains, burns, cold and flu symptoms, ear, sinus and respiratory infections, insect and animal bites, stomach viruses, skin rashes and most other non-life threatening injuries, illnesses and conditions. Additionally common health assessments are typical service offerings including annual and school physicals and Wilkes Barre. While this urgent care does offer assistance with immediate health care needs, if you are suffering from a true medical emergency, go to the emergency room in Wilkes Barre, PA or call 911 immediately.
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The Plot to Kill Harry Truman --
and the Shoot-Out That Stopped It
By Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge Jr.
Simon & Schuster. 368 pp. $26.95
One of the stranger news stories of a strange year was last spring's report that the authorities in Tbilisi had foiled an assassination bid against President Bush during his brief visit to Georgia. And yet our history is so littered with attacks on the commander in chief that we barely blink when we read the latest delusional plan to take out the world's most public person. It's a savage paradox at the heart of our democracy: We expect our presidents to embody both the power of the state and the accessibility of our democratic system. That contradiction has led to a spectacularly bad record at keeping our leaders alive over the past 216 years.
Since Andrew Jackson, there have been at least 12 attempts to murder the chief executive, four of which have been successful (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy). One of the nearest misses was the attempt on Harry S. Truman's life as he lay napping in his underwear at Blair House, around 2:20 p.m. on Nov. 1, 1950. The two assailants were Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, who tried to shoot their way into the president's temporary residence (the White House was being renovated). That they failed was due to extraordinary heroism on the part of the Secret Service and some good luck to boot. But still, the attack was lethal enough. Roughly 30 shots were fired in a brutal exchange that lasted about 38 seconds. One member of Truman's protective detail was gunned down, as was one of the would-be assassins. It was a horrifying way to begin a decade that we naively remember as a time of coonskin caps and hula hoops.
The definitive history of this attempted murder has now been written by Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge Jr. True to their topic, theirs is an unlikely conspiracy: Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for this newspaper and Bainbridge a journalist and former legal writer in Baltimore. It's a bit unclear what drew them to each other or to this topic, but they attack it with verve.
Truman's near-killing is a good subject for many reasons, including its disappearance into the black hole of our amnesia. The authors begin with a list of commonly held beliefs -- that the assassins were deranged, that the Secret Service fended them off with ease, that Truman was never in danger -- and then flatly state that "every single one of them is wrong." Hooked, the reader begins a journey that weaves a bit drunkenly across the lives of all of the protagonists, pulled by fate toward the bloody confrontation. The authors have clearly worked hard to get inside the minds of the shooters. There are extensive recreations of long-vanished domestic moments, idle conversations between spouses, thoughts about cars (Secret Service guys liked Buicks 84) and other quotidian insights that deepen our feeling for the obscure gunmen who fought out this battle at the high noon of the 20th century.
These scenes are endearing and bring back a distant Washington, just after the war, when young couples streamed into the capital for the chance to start a better life. Hunter and Bainbridge pay close attention to "blue-collar, hardworking Washington." In many ways, this is a local book, and it evokes nostalgia for the more open city that used to exist before episodes like this made it impossible for presidents to mingle with ordinary citizens. All of the men shooting at each other that day were from small towns, and the authors skillfully recreate each participant's trajectory toward Blair House, going back to innocent high school football games and whispered sweet nothings -- the kinds of encounters that change lives forever. Surprisingly, the would-be assassins grew up seemingly normal and happy on their island paradise, with very similar concerns.
The book is especially strong on the culture of the Secret Service -- the internal codes and rituals, the combination of action and tedium and some of the false assumptions that allowed two ordinary gunmen to get much closer to the president than they ever should have. (In retrospect, the house was too close to a busy road -- on Pennsylvania Avenue, just across from the White House; moreover, the agents were not all armed with the right weapons and were too easily surprised by a disorganized attack.)
It is more difficult to revivify the Puerto Rican assailants and their motives, but Hunter and Bainbridge make a strong effort. They forage deep into the anti-Americanism that festered in the decades following the Spanish-American War and the U.S. occupation of Puerto Rico, ultimately finding focus in Pedro Albizu Campos, a charismatic nationalist. Both Collazo and Torresola fell helplessly under his sway. The book's biggest piece of news -- that Albizu Campos almost certainly commanded the attempt on Truman's life -- is important but gets lost near the end.
The book interweaves chapters on the Puerto Ricans and the Americans, like a film cutting back and forth between competing story lines. But this montage becomes dizzying, and that points to another shortcoming. Throughout, a breathless potboiler tone prevails, adding a Raymond Chandleresque voice-over that is distracting and in many ways self-defeating. The assassination reenactment is a genre that begs exactitude -- and the imagined interior monologues of the book's actors often strain credulity. When the assassins meet on a bridge in New York, the authors imagine that one of them looked at the Empire State Building to "locate a symbol of his pain, in the form of the lights of a spire clawing to the sky." The account of the actual gun battle includes the stream of consciousness of agents getting into position: "Grrrrrr Donald the bear feels the heat as he's on the worst damn job on the shift standing there by the stairway in his hot uniform in this hot weather all by himself for an hour his legs hurt his feet hurt he's not young anymore and maybe CLICK the noise comes. . . ." Gertrude Stein might have liked this, but it's out of place in a story based, as this story must be, on the facts.
That said, American Gunfight is well worth reading for a journey into a Washington that no longer exists. The same stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue where the battle unfolded -- then barely defended -- must now be one of the most closely surveilled places on Earth, with cameras hanging like gargoyles off every roof. Hunter and Bainbridge are correct to bring back a day worth remembering. Still, their argument would have been stronger if the compelling facts had been allowed to speak for themselves. *
Ted Widmer is director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.


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Le Printemps, one of Paris's oldest luxury department stores, underwent a large-scale refurbishment in 2012. Wonderwall was involved in redesigning the 3rd, 4th and 6th floors of the women's store. The 3rd and 4th floors house the more casual brands; the concept for the space was 'open unification' and 'self liberation'. An Anglepoise® Giant 1227™ floor lamp was installed at "Le Denim" on the 4th Floor, its playful, individual style perfectly reflecting the informality of "Le Denim" collections.


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Zinn in the Classroom
Greetings all - I recently conducted an informal poll on the usual social media sites asking for your general thoughts on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. I asked because I am assigning it to my 10th grade advanced US history students next year as a counterpoint to more traditional history texts typical in advanced studies in the classroom. If you haven't already come clean on Zinn elsewhere, please feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section below. So far, the (near) consensus is that the book is useful but not particularly great. I tend to agree - Zinn's obvious and admitted bias boarders on polemics. But such one-sided disputation notwithstanding, I think it is important that students become familiar with Zinn's position. At the very least, the readings should both challenge students and inspire some lively debate. And, to Zinn's credit, his work avoids top-loaded esoteric language and dense academic nitwittery. It is a very accessible book...written about regular people for, I suppose, regular people. For this, I applaud him.
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Jan Eker went to Fort Hays State University and graduated with a BA degree in art in 1971. She later studied Graphic and Fine Art from the Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design in Denver , CO . Though the last twenty-some years of her life have been dominated by her family, Jan finally returned to her artwork in recent years. Jan works primarily in pencil, watercolor pencil and acrylic. She often does portraits, but she also enjoys landscapes, abstracts, still life…anything she sees that inspires her.
In February, 2003, Jan's house was destroyed by a fire and all belongings were lost, including thirty years of artwork. For this reason, many prints have been reproduced from digital or web photographs. Jan is slowly rebuilding her inventory, as well as expanding into new areas. Her Great Dreams are becoming a reality.


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LIT456 Studies in Drama
Lead Faculty: Dr. John J. Miller
Course DescriptionAn examination of the conventions and varieties of dramatic texts and performance, focusing on drama of the 20th century. Includes discussion of both Western and non-Western traditions.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of important conventions, traditions, and theories of Western drama.
- Apply close reading skills to the critical analysis of dramatic texts in discussion and writing.
- Situate modern and contemporary dramatic texts within the Western dramatic tradition.
- Identify significant similarities and differences between Western and non-Western dramatic texts.
- Analyze and critique performances of plays as interpretations of the written text in discussion and writing.


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AAI International Advisor for the U.K. Ioannis Lianos is a Reader in European and Competition law and Economics (tenured professor) at the Faculty of Laws (UCL) and the founding director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society (also at UCL). He is also the Gutenberg Research chair at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in France, a visiting professor at the University of Chile in Santiago, a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Strasbourg and a fellow of the Centre for Law & Economics at the Australian National University. Lianos has conducted funded research internationally, among others, as a fellow of the NYU Law School (Emile Noel/Hauser) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg , Germany.
Lianos contributes widely to the global discussion in the area of competition law and policy. He is a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) at the International Competition Network (ICN), a Research partner with UNCTAD in Geneva and has also contributed to the European Commission's consultations and workshops in the context of the recent proposals for a Directive on antitrust damages. He has been elected a member of the international advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute in 2010.
Lianos is the co- General Editor of the Global Competition Law and Economics Series, established by Stanford University Press, in June 2010, the chairman of the Editorial Board of Competition Bulletin, Paris, and serves at the editorial boards of the Antitrust Chronicle (Boston), and of the Global Antitrust Review, London. He has an intense competition advocacy activity in his capacity as the chairman and executive director of the Institute of Competition Law Studies (IMEDIPA), an active NGO in competition policy based in Athens with activities in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean regions. Lianos has published 9 books, including most recently, the two-volumes Handbook in EU Competition Law (Edward Elgar, 2013), Competition Law and Development (Stanford University Press, 2013), The Global Limits of Competition Law (Stanford University Press, 2012), The EU After the Treaty of Lisbon (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012), The Regulation of Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO (Cambridge University Press, 2012) as well as more than 40 book chapters and law journal articles. His forthcoming publications include a book on Damages Claims for the Infringement of EU Competition Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) and a casebook in EU and UK Competition Law (Hart Pub., 2014). Lianos is a Laureat of the French Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Emile Girardeau prize, 2005) and was awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize in 2012 for his work on the economic evidence and the interaction of law with economics. His recent research has taken a more sociological perspective, examining the emergence of forensic economics and their impact in the production of economic knowledge and legal norms.


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Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. JamesFifty Shades Darker
Author: E.L. James
Series: Fifty Shades #2
Publisher: Arrow, Cornerstone Publishing
Date: September 2011
532 pages
Source: Purchased
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
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Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.
The second book in the Fifty Shades series, in my opinion is not quite as good as the first.
I still enjoyed it and I'm still looking forward to reading the third one but I just felt that it was missing a little something. And I also became a little exasperated with the two main characters.
What I did like about this book was the extra characters and storylines that are brought into play. The first book was very much about Christian and Ana getting to know each other and so it generally just focused on the two of them. And although the story in Fifty Shades Darker is also focused on Christian and Ana, there are other storylines and characters introduced too. Such as the evil 'Mrs Robinson', and Ana's rather inappropriate boss. And it was great to have more chapters with Christian's family in them.
I think these extra side plots gave some great dimension to Ana and Christian's already hectic relationship.
Another compliment I have for this book is the character development of Christian and Ana. By the end, they are hardly recognisable as the same two characters we were introduced to at the beginning of book one. The author has done a great job of letting them develop and grow and compromise with each other and portrays a very realistic story of two very different people falling in love gradually. This was so refreshing.
Therefore, I am a little sad that I didn't love this book as much as I wanted to. My problem was mainly the exhausting ups and downs of the relationship. I understand these arguments and 'make ups' had to happen for Ana and Christian to be able to move forward but, it just happened so often! Like, every day there was a new drama that would cause them to fall out dramatically… and then make up 'dramatically'. It felt like being on the 'big dipper'!
So ultimately, if the third book can take the excellent pacing of the first book and marry it together with the character development and relationships of the second book then I will be very happy!


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INSIGHT Support Services
INSIGHT Support Services is located in KAMLOOPS, BC
Insight Support Services is located in Kamloops, BC and was formed in 1993. Insight works to provide services to children, youth and families in the community that are living with special needs and would benefit from support in order to be successful in the future. Their mission is "Through education and by example we will create a community of acceptance, understanding and value of all people."
In 2011, Insight partnered with SCIDES so that a schooling option could be made available for some of the students. This has been a successful partnership as SCIDES is able to provide a personalized, flexible approach to learning that meets the needs of the students. Students benefit from the varied activities, social opportunities and adapted learning options made available to them. This program has shown amazing growth with no end in sight.
Govardhana Academy
Govardhana Academy, located in the Venables Valley, is a Hare Krishna community outside of the town of Ashcroft. This community has a school building located on their land in which the students from the area attend.
Their SCIDES teachers meet with the students face to face on a monthly basis to assess the students, observe and make recommendations to improve and individualize the learning of the students.
Teachers also arrange external learning experiences for them in Kamloops and Merritt (i.e. plays at the Sagebrush Theater, TRU Career Fair, meet your teacher day at SCIDES, FoodSafe Course, 4Cats Art Studio).
The community of Venables Valley, with SCIDES, have created a wonderful educational environment in which all of their students achieve great success in their academics and enjoy a varied program.The students take part in everything from making stained glass, private French lessons, chopping wood for the school, celebrations and holidays, community plays, cooking programs etc. as this is a community in which everybody works together to provide the best educational experiences for the children. These children benefit from a rich educational experience creating well rounded, intelligent, socially rounded children.
Govardhana Academy partnered up with SCIDES in 2013
Kelowna Actors Studio Inc.
Kelowna Actors Studio Inc. (KAS) was formed in May of 2003 to produce vibrant, exciting presentations of the world's best loved Broadway productions; to present fun, challenging and enriching learning experiences for students of all ages; to become the premiere forerunner and prime example of a high quality theatre company and to enrich the cultural landscape of the Okanagan valley.
The studio located at 1379 Ellis Street (across from the Kelowna Public Library) offers an approximately 11,000 square feet of space divided into four main areas; 230-seat theatre including 91 dinner seats with full table service, mirrored rehearsal/dance studio, set and props construction/storage; kitchen, licensed bar and a general office area.
The education component, now under the Kelowna Actors Studio Academy Foundation, offers classes and camps in musical theatre, acting and improv which are extremely beneficial to social development and the best part is its just a ton of fun!
No other group has the reputation, track record and success stories. Many of their students have gone on to post secondary studies and careers in the arts (29 thus far). As well, many of their young performers end up in their mainstage productions.
KAS partnered up with SCIDES in 2014 to create an Academy at the high school level, so students could have a performing arts focused education. Students work at the Kelowna Actors Studio on both their SCIDES courses and take KASA theater lessons which are accredited as graduation electives and include IDS theater electives with KAS instructors (Dance, Music, Drama, Production).
Penticton Centre for Exceptional Learning
The Penticton Centre for Exceptional Learning (Penticton EXCEL) was created by a group of parents who wanted some differnet options for their children. As a result, they formed a learning centre designed and staffed specifically for students with high functioning autism. In partnership with SCIDES, Excel has created a sensory-sensitive centre where students could augment their Ministry of Education curriculum with life skills, social skills, and executive function skills. This is a centre without bullies and a centre where being "unique" is "normal".
Excel partnered up with SCIDES in 2015 as they wanted the children that attended Excel to be able to do their schooling on site.