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When Adolph Hitler began attracting attention beyond Germany with his anti-Jewishness, the Jew Cahilla in America selected James P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb, & Co. to finance him so as to build up a Nationalist Germany, then push Anglo-Saxondom into attacking Germany and thus, break the back of Christianity in Central Europe so as to pave the way for Jewry to seize all of Europe in the name of Russia in the final prelude to the destruction of the White Race and the establishing of Satan's World Empire.
Major Robert H. Williams reported in his "Williams Intelligence Summary" for February, 1950, about James P. Warburg's part in the plot against Christendom. He said:
"Last November, the widow of the late General Ludendroff, on trial at Nuremberg, explained why her husband broke with Hitler, confirmed the reports in convincing detail.
She stated that, '...as early as the summer of 1929, James P, Warburg had undertaken an assignment from financial circles in America, which desired to exercise solitary influence on Germany in the unleashing of a national revolution. Warburg's task was to find the suitable man in Germany, and he entered into contract with Adolph Hitler who subsequently received sums of money amounting to 27 million dollars up to January 30, 1932, and still another seven million dollars thereafter, enabling him to finance his movement.'"
After the 1919 German Revolution, Jewry took over the country lock, stock, and barrel. Jewry retained power until Hitler came on the scene. Then why was international Jewry so anxious to foment a NATIONALIST revolution in Germany? Because they desired to destroy the Royal Judah tribe of Israel (the Nordic Germans) because Jewry could not absorb them in mongrelization; and to destroy Christianity in Central Europe.
After Adolph Hitler received the financial assistance he disenfranchised the Jews in Germany, then set up a banking system of his own. Nevertheless, Anglo-American Intelligence Services learned that Hitler, Jew Rudolph Hess, and Von Papen secretly called on Jew Baron Kurt von Schroeder in Cologne and obtained his guarantee to further finance Hitler's schemes.
Schroeder agreed to the proposition after bribing Hitler to place Jews in strategical positions to direct the very heart beat of National Socialism. Hitler made Jew Hjalmar Schachet the Director of the Reich Bank. Rudolph Hess became Deputy Fuhrer. He is the son of an Egyptian Jewess. General von Haushofer was made Geopolitical Minister. He is a Jew. General Milh became head of the Luftwaffe. He is a Jew. Goebbels was with Hitler to the end. He was a Jew. All of which is in accordance with Jewry's protocol No. 15 which says:
"But, if there should arise in its midst a plot, then at the head of that plot will be no other than one of most trusted servants."
Baron Kurt von Schroeder was related to Baron von Schroeder of J.H. Schroeder & Co., Ltd., London, England, which, together with Messrs. N.M. Rothschild & Sons' Rutgers, Ltd., and the Imperial Chemical Industries assisted James P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., finance Hitler in accordance with protocol No. 9, which says:
"Nowadays, if any State raises a protest against us, it is only 'pro forma' at our direction and at our discretion, for their anti-Semitism is indispensable to us for the management of our lesser brethren."
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Recursive objects (for example, lists or dictionaries that contain a reference to themselves, directly or indirectly) use to indicate a recursive reference, and the result cannot be passed to to get an equal value ( will be raised instead).
The built-in function performs exactly the same conversion in its argument as enclosing it in parentheses and reverse quotes does. The built-in function performs a similar but more user-friendly conversion.
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A compatibility layer for the APIs provided by the Allegro CL Common Lisp implementation by Franz, Inc. It provides interfaces for multiprocessing, networking, and more.
An ASDF extension that makes it possible to specify where compiled Lisp binaries should go.
A tool for testing ASDF-INSTALLable Common Lisp software. It works by downloading packages, installing them and reporting any problems.
ASDF-Status generates reports that display the testing results collected by the ASDF-Install-tester tool, which checks ASDF-INSTALLable Common Lisp software.
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An implementation of the Blowfish encryption algorithm.
Bordeaux Threads
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Interface to the OpenSSL library, which implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols.
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A library for "generating dot (a program in the Graphviz suite) output from arbitrary Lisp data". Graphviz is a graph visualization software.
Syntax anayzer (parser) for any context free grammar.
CL-EC2 is a library offering a Common Lisp interface to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and CloudWatch Query APIs.
CL-EMB (Embedded Common Lisp and template system) is a library for embedding Common Lisp and template tags into normal text files. It can be used for dynamically generating HTML pages.
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A parser that parses HTML documents and generates a sexp-based representation. It is based on the phtml parser by Franz, Inc.
String interpolation for Common Lisp
CL-Magick (Common lisp interface to ImageMagick library) is a set of bindings to the ImageMagick image manipulation C library.
A Common Lisp rewrite of the Markdown text markup language by John Gruber. Documents are written using an easy to write and read plain text formatting syntax, and are converted to HTML by the CL-Markd...
A collection of mathematical routines for combinatorics, statistics, functions, matrices, vectors, and more.
A set of CFFI-based bindings to the ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) C++ library for simulating rigid body dynamics.
A library for reading and writing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files.
A portable regular expression library with a syntax compatible with Perl.
CL-PREVALENCE is a proof of concept implementation of the Object Prevalence object persistence concept by Klaus Wuestefeld. It comes with both a sexp-based and and an XML serialization protocol.
A client library for the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) networking protocol.
An implementation of the SOAP protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over HTTP, which is the foundation for web services. CL-SOAP is ultimately planned to support the full SOAP 1.1 specification u...
A collection of semi-standard, well documented, miscellaneous utilities with good error checking. It includes utilities for sequences, I/O, iteration, mathematics, functions and more.
A portable random number generator that produces the same results regardless of platform, and provides additional random distributions such as Poisson, exponential, and more.
CL-Yacc is a LALR(1) parser generator for Common Lisp, similar in spirit to AT&T Yacc, Berkeley Yacc, GNU Bison, Zebu, lalr.cl or lalr.scm. CL-Yacc uses the algorithm due to Aho and Ullman, which is ...
CLLIB (asdf version)
An ASDF version of CLLIB from CLOCC.
An implementation of the OMG CORBA 2 specification for distributed computing, with the goal of supporting CORBA 2.6 and comply with the Lisp mappings defined by OMG. It currently supports DII, DSI, th...
CLSQL is a SQL database for Common Lisp interface maintained by Kevin M. Rosenberg. CLSQL uses the Universal Foreign Function Interface (UFFI) library for broad compatibility.
Wiki-style collaborative authoring environment with which the popular Lisp community site with the same name, and some others, are implemented. Araneida is the HTTP server on which the CLiki infrastru...
A dataflow, constraint-management extension to CLOS. It allows the creation of classes whose instances "have slots whose values are determined by a formula", like cells in a spreadsheet. Arbitrary Com...
Cells-GTK is a binding to GTK+ that provides an object/components framework for GUI construction (similar to CAPI) and a declarative "rule-based" means to keep the state of the GUI consistent with the...
An application for performing chemical calculations, such as knowing the mass of a given number of mol of a compound. It also supports calculations on Boyle's, Charles', the Combined gas, and the Idea...
Closer to MOP
Closer to MOP is a compatibility layer that rectifies many of the absent or incorrect MOP features as detected by MOP Feature Tests in a growing number of Common Lisp implementations.
A library for interacting with CouchDb databases
Common Lisp Gtk-Server Wrapper
Common Lisp Gtk-Server Wrapper works with Gtk-Server to access the GTK widget set for another process using many communication protocols.
Common Lisp Librarian
CL-Librarian aims to be a manager for Common Lisp libraries that is focused on libraries updated dynamically by version control systems and targetted at power users. It handles downloading such librar...
Common Lisp User Space File System
A simple file based file system. Use mkfs and mount to take clufs file system into use. Use it with mkdir, create, open and close to read and write files. Open returns a stream to file in clufs file s...
Conduit packages
Conduits are a generalization of packages. They allow the definition of packages that extend other packages in some way, such as having some symbols from another package. This is part of the Lisp hack...
ContextL is a CLOS extension for Context-oriented Programming.
Curly is set of two reader macros for easy function currying and composition. It was inspired by Arc's syntax for currying, using square brackets. Curly creates anonymous functions (lambdas) with lite...
Eager Future
Eager Future is a Common Lisp library for concurrent programming with composable, eager futures.
FReT (Framework for Regression Testing) is a testing framework inspired by Lift, CLOSUnit and JUnit, with an emphasis on interactivity.
Simple regression testing framework "designed with Common Lisp's interactive development model in mind". It features hierarchical test suites, functions for re-running recent tests, and inter-test dep...
GECO - Genetic Evolution through Combination of Objects
A CLOS library for writing genetic algorithms.
A library for reading and writing compressed files in gzip format.
A library for "generic hash tables".
A web server written in Common Lisp
Iteration construct similar to CL:LOOP. It is more extensible and has a more Lisp-like syntax than CL:LOOP.
Infix provides a reader macro for reading mathematical expressions in infix form.
Ironclad is a cryptographic toolkit that includes several block encryption algorithms and hash functions.
KPAX - A Common Lisp Application Framework
A web application framework written in pure Common Lisp. Can run standalone, behind Apache/mod_lisp, or with portableaserve.
LIFT is a unit testing framework in the JUnit/SUnit tradition.
A library for manipulating dates and times, based on the paper "The Long, Painful History of Time" by Erik Naggum.
LW Compat
A few utility functions from the LispWorks library.
A collection of enhancements to the LispWorks IDE. Most of them are intended to make the IDE's behavior more similar to SLIME and GNU Emacs.
A program for generating a permuted index of the LispWorks IDE documentation.
Ltk is the easy and portable way to create Common Lisp GUIs.
MCPat stands for Meta-Circular Pattern Matcher, a simple pattern matcher that executes code by lists against patterns.
MT19937 is a portable Mersenne Twister random number generator.
A library for sending, receiving and handling e-mail. It can access messages in Maildir format and supports the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols.
Memoizing functions
A library for function memoization. This is part of the Lisp hacks collection by Tim Bradshaw.
A collection of miscellaneous utilities for container data structures, binding, user interface, dates and times, I/O, symbols, sequences, string manipulation, and more.
A full text search engine. It is a port of the Ferret search engine in Ruby, which is in turn a port of the Lucene Java engine.
A compatibility layer on top of various CLOS MOP implementations, with some additional reflection capabilities.
Objective-CL is a free CL/Objective-C bridge that is portable not only across Lisp implementations but also across operating systems. It strives to achieve full GNUstep and Cocoa compatibility includ...
Open Sound Control
the Open Sound Control Protocol (aka OSC), implementated in common lisp.
Osicat is a lightweigh operating system interface for POSIX-like systems. It provides facilities for directory walking, access to environment variables, symbolic links, file permissions and identifica...
PLOKAMI - Common Lisp PCAP Interface
PLOKAMI is a lispy interface to libpcap/winpcap built on top of a CFFI portability layer. SUPPORTED Realtime network packet capture, injection, dumpfile reading/writing, filtering with BPF, timeouts ...
A mathematical library for statistics, derivatives, linear algebra, linear programming, least squares, random numbers, interpolation, Monte Carlo, and more.
Poly-pen is a graphical proxy library that "links hi-level operations to low-level back-ends libraries". It provides image generation facilities and a few high-level operations such as plotting and co...
Portable AllegroServe
A version of the AllegroServe web server that is portable among different Common Lisp implementations. It is based on a compatibility layer called ACL-COMPAT. AllegroServe was developed by John Fodera...
A library for communicating with a PostgreSQL database, trying to make the Lisp-SQL boundary as unobtrusive as possible.
Regression testing framework described in a paper by Richard Waters titled "Some Useful Lisp Algorithms: Part 1".
An HTTP 1.0/1.1 client library that supports access to any URL over HTTP/HTTPS, connection reuse and basic authentication.
S-SYSDEPS (An Abstraction Layer Over Platform Dependent Functionality) is a compatibility layer that abstracts facilities for managing processes and process locks, implementing a TCP/IP server, and pr...
A simple XML parser featuring an efficient and purely functional implementation, support for different DOM models and XML namespaces, and access to the underlying Lisp implementation's character sets.
An implementation of the XML-RPC standard. XML-RPC is a language independent, cross-platform protocol for performing remote procedure calls over an HTTP transport with XML encoding.
Function for splitting a sequence into a list of subsequences delimited by objects satisfying a test.
Salza is a Common Lisp Compression Library that provides an FFI-less interface to the ZLIB and DEFLATE compressed data formats. It is used by CL-PDF for the zlib compression inside the pdf files.
CLIM frontend to the SBCL sb-sprof statistical profiler.
Sparse tensor representation library. There are no external dependencies; Spartns works on any data type and is heavily optimized.
A tool for documenting Common Lisp source code. TINAA "is based on the idea that a system is made up of parts and subparts and sub-subparts", and is able to document them as long as it knows their str...
A binary trees library with a uniform CLOS interface. It supports ordinary binary, AVL, Red-Black, and AA trees.
Trivial Shell
An operating system and Common Lisp implementation independent interface for accessing command shells. It is based on, and is a fork of, the KMRCL utilities.
A simple library for performing client HTTP operations (GET and POST) over a socket interface. trivial-http has been superseeded by Drakma.
Unix-Style CLI Option Parser
A parser for unix style command line options. Can act as a simple Getopt for Lisp or can automatically bind values passed in from the CLI.
Library to add decimals (fixed precision and scale numbers) as supported numeric types in Common Lisp.
A toolkit for building test suites, based on JUnit by Kent Beck and XPTest by Craig Brozensky. It provides a tradeoff between programmer overhead and good support for fixture setup and teardown.
A small, simple, non-validating XML parser. It provides mappings from XML to s-exps and back. XMLS is self-contained, embeddable and thread-safe, and comes with support for XML namespaces.
Experimental code for a CLX persistence layer. It adds suspend-resume functionality to X windows and other graphics resources.
ZPB-EXIF is a library for accessing metadata in EXIF format stored in digital camera image files.
Parser/unparser generator for Common Lisp Zebu is part of a set of tools for the translation of formal languages. Zebu contains a LALR(1) parser generator like Yacc does. Aside from generating a pars...
Asdf-packaging (A project to package up loose code) is an umbrella project for updating, packaging and distributing useful software in an ASDF-INSTALLable format. This software was usually written for...
An FFI bindings generator for C libraries. It automatically generates foreign function interface definitions for UFFI (CFFI is also planned) by parsing C header files.
A pipe-based library for interfacing the gnuplot data plotting program. It has an Ltk-based GUI.
CL-AJAX is Richard Newman's Common Lisp library to allow for remote invocation of functions through Javascript. Quoting John Wiseman's writeup: ... lets you use Lisp to leverage the XMLHttpReque...
Common Lisp wrapper for the web service Audioscrobbler/Last.fm.
B-Tree implemented in Common Lisp. Stores key/value pairs onto disk based data structure. Current implementation has been tested with SBCL.
cl-buchberger is a Common Lisp implementation of Buchberger's algorithm for the computation of Gröbner bases.
A Comic book archive viewer with an Ltk-based GUI.
CPS-style continuations for Common Lisp.
A Common Lisp library for working with the CouchDB database system.
An interface to the CrackLib C libary, which checks passwords for robustness and suggests how to improve it.
A Common Lisp wrapper around the Digg API.
CL-Famix is a model extractor, that extract FAMIX-Lisp complaint models from Lisp systems.
Google GData bindings for Common Lisp
A Common Lisp wrapper around the Geonames web service
IRC client library featuring partial support for DCC, CTCP and related commands from RFC 2810, RFC 2811 and RFC2812. cl-irc uses usocket for implementation independent socket access. It uses FLEXI-ST...
CL-JPEGMETA is a library for image metadata manipulation.
A parser and generator for the JSON data-interchange format.
Library for manipulating dates and times in Temps Atomique International (TAI) format.
A Common Lisp interface to the MediaWiki API
Library for generating menus for controlling an application and editing of special variables settings. It currently comes with a text-based backend, but others can be defined.
cl-migrations is a port of the database migrations feature of Ruby on Rails to Common Lisp. cl-migrations is intended to provide a simple way to version-control your database changes.
Bindings to PortAudio crossplatform library.
This package is a manual translation from C to common lisp of some random number generation functions of GSL library. The package also include the alias method implementation of Mario S. Mommer and my...
An SASL client library. SASL (RFC 2222) is used for authentication in various protocols.
Interface to the syslog Unix logging facility.
A client implementation of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), which is the set of core protocols created by the Jabber messaging system.
Common Lisp wrapper to the YouTube API.
Implementation of the BSD sockets API. It supports both Internet (TCP and UDP) and Unix-domain sockets.
A compatibility layer for system definition tools, which also provides a foundation for building higher level tools. It currently supports ASDF and the EKSL Generic Load Utilities, and will eventually...
A simple regexp-based lexer-generator
PEG parser-generator with s-exp grammar definitions
A library for importing data in CSV (Comma-Separated Values) format.
getopt is a library for processing command-line arguments. The syntax of the command-line is modeled after GNU's getopt_long function.
A library for "encoding text in various web-savvy formats". It takes care of processing text for inclusion in HTML PRE and TT elements, and managing long text lines.
Hyperspec-lookup is a documentation system for Lisp software. It provides an interface for mapping from Lisp symbols to documentation URLs for the Common Lisp HyperSpec and the CLOS MetaObject Protoco...
jwacs - Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support
A program transformer for web development that translates code from an extended Javascript syntax to standard Javascript. It supports client-side continuations.
Log5 is a Common Lisp logging framework organized around five things: categories, outputs, senders, messages and contexts.
Metabang-bind provides a binding construct that generalizes MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, LET, LET* and DESTRUCTURING-BIND.
A toolkit for specifying how to make copies of CLOS objects.
A library of routines for parsing, conversting, and manipulating dates and times. Most of the code was originally written for the CMUCL Common Lisp implementation.
CLIM-based GUI for the org-davep-dict RFC 2229 dictionary client library.
Client library for RFC 2229 dictionary servers.
Client with a textual command interface (a REPL) for the org-davep-dict RFC 2229 dictionary client library.
Library for parsing Unix ~/.newsrc files.
Client library for the NNTP network protocol for accessing Usenet news servers.
A library that parses a string into one of the Common Lisp number types, or signals an error if it is not possible.
Facilitates working with functional data structures on top of CLOS.
A library for generating PostScript pictures of directed acyclic graphs.
An INI-file style configuration parser conformant to the Python configparser module.
pygen - Python-style generators library
A library for manipulating "dynamic index structures for spatially-extended data" such as R-trees, Greene-trees, R*-trees and X-trees.
A library for querying the user. It adds generality to the standard Y-OR-N-P and YES-OR-NO-P functions, and the ability to time out and return a default value.
A simple library for performing client HTTP/HTTPS operations (GET and POST) over a socket interface. It is a fork of Trivial-HTTP. Trivial-https has been superseeded by Drakma.
TCP networking library for simple applications such as "scripting" and interactive use. A patch provides UDP support. trivial-sockets has been superseeded by usocket.
Trivial UTF-8 is a small library for doing fast UTF-8-based in- and output on a Lisp implementation that already supports Unicode -- meaning char-code and code-char deal with Unicode character codes.
A library for generating indented XML. Although it can emit any kind of XML, it comes with a built-in RSS 2.0 emitter.
Yaclml is a collection of macros and utilities for generating XML/HTML-like markup. It can generate HTML from both Lisp code and designer templates.


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Massachusetts lawmakers finished the formal portion of their 2011-2012 session with a flourish of activity, sending Gov. Deval Patrick economic development, health care cost control, transportation borrowing and renewable energy bills.
Also shipped to Patrick just after the midnight deadline was a bill laying out a framework for auto manufacturers to make available for purchase by independent shops vehicle repair information. The repair bill flew through the chambers Tuesday after outside groups traditionally at odds with one another offered legislation as an alternative to a question that's already a lock to appear on the November ballot.
Other bills that reached Patrick are designed to make utilities more accountable for post-storm power restoration efforts and overhaul the state's approach to serving about 8,000 truant and runaway children.
Lawmakers linked job creation goals to the major bills they passed, asserting that an energy bill would spur the clean energy sector and that the economic development bill would address permitting concerns, help with infrastructure costs and deliver tax relief to startup businesses.
To assist the retail sector, the economic development bill suspends the 6.25 percent sales tax on most purchases the weekend of Aug. 11-12. The bill also raises the cap on historic rehabilitation tax credits by $10 million, extends brownfields cleanup tax credits for two years, and authorizes the state pension fund to invest $100 million in institutions that make capital available to small businesses.
The health care bill, which lays out a new payment platform centered on more coordinated care, will shave $200 billion off the estimated cost of health care statewide over the next 15 years, money that lawmakers hope will be plowed back into the economy. Patrick said Tuesday he would sign the bill.
"To be able to be able to accomplish what we did today with cost containment is historical," House Speaker Robert DeLeo said after the House adjourned after midnight Wednesday morning.
The health care bill cleared the Senate unanimously and passed the House 132-20, with critics of the bill in that branch asserting that the legislation includes too much bureaucracy and too many costly mandates. Rep. James Miceli urged his colleagues to delay action until next session, warning of a repeat of the failed experiment of health maintenance organizations and limited networks of the 1990s.
"That's a good bill. We have been working very, very closely with the conferees for months now," Patrick said. "Everybody was absolutely committed to getting a good bill, and I think this is more than a good bill, a really great bill."
Patrick on Tuesday afternoon answered the big question bandied about for the early part of the day – would the governor sign or veto sentencing reform legislation in the wake of Monday's votes by the House and Senate to reject his call for judges to have sentencing flexibility for repeat violent offenders?
Patrick announced he would sign the bill, thrilling supporters of the so-called three strikes legislation and obviating any need for the Legislature to deal with a controversial veto on the last night of formal sessions, an evening dedicated to the rapid fire passage of many bills, both major and minor.
While Senate President Therese Murray has committed to revisiting the issue of sentencing next session, DeLeo Tuesday night said he couldn't promise anything: "I'll be glad to take a look at it. Not making any promises in terms of what the final result may be, but anyone can file whatever legislation they wish to file," DeLeo said, indicating members had expressed interest to him in addressing mandatory minimum sentences, the link between mental illness and crime, and women's prison issues.
The children's services bill (S 2410) updates the 38-year-old children in need of services program that Murray described in a press release as "too complex and confusing," saying "it unnecessarily drags some children in front of a judge over and over again."
The bill requires the state to establish a network of family resource centers, requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a truancy prevention program certification process and replaces the definition of "children in need of services" with a definition of children "requiring assistance." Both chambers adopted the legislation by voice vote without any discussion.
Sen. Karen Spilka said the legislation sets up one pilot program in every county in the state, with a goal of implementing reforms across the state within three years. The pilot programs will allow police to refer families to services in their communities in an effort to avoid court. The bill also creates a truancy prevention program.
One bill that gathered momentum this week ended up stuck as formal sessions concluded. The House and Senate each approved bills aimed at extending the civil statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases but differences between the bills remain, making final passage of the bill uncertain at best.
The Senate on Tuesday night removed a provision that would allow those who had been barred from filing lawsuits because of the statute of limitations – which currently requires a lawsuit to be filed before the victim turns 21 – to file a lawsuit within a one-year "look back" window.
Sen. Will Brownsberger, a former prosecutor who filed the amendment to remove that provision, said the Senate had determined that the "look back" language might be unconstitutional because it decrees that cases that courts have dismissed with prejudice might be able to be filed again.
"We think it's possible to write a constitutional 'look back' provision and look forward to working with the House to do that in a conference process," Brownsberger told the News Service.
The version passed by the Senate also extends the statute of limitations from the victim's 43rd birthday contained in the House version to the victim's 45th birthday.
"I respect the Senate leadership because they told me they want to get this bill right," said Kathryn Robb, an attorney and board member for Massachusetts Citizens for Children. Robb and others have been lobbying against language in the House version that increases the standard of proof for plaintiffs suing entities using the "look back" window.
"We're disappointed," Robb said about the Senate's removal of the "look back" language. "It leaves a lot of victims standing at the courthouse door unable to get in."
That provision might be added back, but the means of doing that was too complex to be done Tuesday night. "We ended up having some problems with the House language so we couldn't just take that tonight," said Brownsberger. He said, "I think both the House and the Senate are very committed to getting something done on this to provide victims relief."
DeLeo said he plans to appoint members to a conference committee in hopes of getting the bill finished in informal sessions, but he acknowledged that could be "difficult" and said the work done this session will at least lay the groundwork for a new effort starting in January.
Lawmakers also did not conclude work on monitoring bill to prevent prescription drug abuse or election system reforms. The House passed the prescription monitoring bill just before midnight, adopting several amendments that Senate sponsor Sen. John Keenan said reconciled the branches differences and left him confident the bill could be finalized in an informal sessions.
The full-time Legislature in Massachusetts meets year-round. Legislative rules call for formal sessions to end during election years on July 31 in order to prevent election season and lame-duck lawmaking.
The Legislature will still meet roughly twice a week for the remainder of the year but during those sessions bills need the unanimous approval of the limited number of members attending to be approved and any member of the Legislature can prevent any bill from advancing simply by objecting.
The House on Tuesday night adopted a resolution calling on Congress to pass and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment "to restore the first amendment and fair elections to the people," making it Massachusetts the seventh state to call for such a change to the Constitution.
The language of the resolution is very similar to one approved by the Senate last week. The House, unlike the Senate, did not debate the resolution. The House resolution acknowledges that the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has allowed for corporations, unions, political action committees and super political action committees to "influence the political process and democratically-enacted reforms."
The resolution also states that the First Amendment has been "greatly impacted" by the decision, "threatening the fairness of the democratic process." Though both branches have passed similar resolutions, the House has yet to act on a bill the passed the Senate last week requiring corporations to disclose their political donations and contributors under the same rules and guidelines applied in Massachusetts to groups such as labor unions.
House Minority Leader Brad Jones had an overall positive view of the session.
"I'm happy that we finally did something on economic stimulus. It's unfortunate that what should have been the first priority was one of the last hurdles cleared. That being said, I'm glad we got that done," Jones told reporters outside the House after the session.
Jones said, "As the last few days or couple days of session goes, this one was better than most. Not too many bad ideas, or things I had a problem with, got moved forward or moved across the finish line. I think there were some things that were worthy that got done."
While he said the pre-deadline push was "unfortunate," he acknowledged that it is "human nature" to wait until the end. Jones said, "Unfortunately I know that's the dynamic where that, I think, forces people to reach consensus. Nothing like a deadline."
Michael Norton, Matt Murphy and Andy Metzger and Colleen Quinn contributed to this report.


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Tim Perilloux knows better than most the challenges of producing pumpkins in the Deep South. The LaPlace, La., grower, who shared his experiences with other growers at the recent Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference and Trade Show in Biloxi, Miss., says 2002 dealt him a multitude of problems.
The only thing worse than a pumpkin in November, says Perilloux, is a group of school children visiting a pumpkin patch in mid-October only to find that weather or bugs have beaten them to their Halloween treats. He dealt with both scenarios in 2002.
Weather conditions in Louisiana were not kind to Perilloux's pumpkin crop in 2002. "We plant Creole pumpkins, and we lost much of our crop. Because of the rain, I couldn't spray for insects or diseases on time. The pumpkins were going to rot whether I treated with an insecticide or not," he says.
To compensate, he imported pumpkins into his empty fields from New Mexico. "Once you take appointments, you'd better have pumpkins in the field before the children get there. No matter where or how you get them, you must have pumpkins, even if you have to truck them in to your farm. Don't lie to people about what you are doing — tell them what's happening, and they'll understand."
Perilloux has planted pumpkins for 17 years — "since before the phrase 'agrotourism' was even around," he says. "You don't even need to have a pumpkin patch; you could have a turnip or cabbage farm. Teachers are looking for places to take school children on field trips, and the children want to pick something and take it home with them.
"We charge $3 per person and have handled up to 1,400 children in about three hours. We give the children a hay ride and they choose any one of the pumpkins in our 20-acre field. I don't care how big a pumpkin is. There are too many people and too many pumpkins to worry about pumpkin sizes or weights."
Riding the wagons and washing pumpkins in a trough is all part of the fun for kids — picking the pumpkins is secondary, he says. His "automatic pumpkin-washing system" consists of water-filled troughs with concrete bottoms where the children dip their pumpkins and scrub them with brushes. The pumpkins then drip-dry for about three minutes.
It's common on a busy morning, says Perilloux, to have 30 school buses parked in his backyard and 100 cars in his frontyard. His pumpkin patch is open seven days a week, with about one-half hour allocated per school group.
"To maximize your profits, pick a crop that grows well in your area. I have to have a backup system because pumpkins don't always grow well in south Louisiana."
Perilloux also advises that the farm be located within traveling distance of a populated area. He is situated about halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
"You'll also need someone to park cars, otherwise you'll have the biggest mess you've ever seen. In addition, it's good to have a picnic area for visitors, because they usually need to stay there and eat their brown-bag lunches."
Perilloux's best advertisement is the teachers and children who visit his farm. "You have to have patience for that word-of-mouth to build. But other than that, we've never advertised our business."
He has four pumpkin-carrying wagons and seven people-carrying wagons, each with about 400 square feet of area. The sides are 30 inches tall for the children's safety.
"The sides come up above their waists so they don't fall out. The adults, however, need to find something to hold on to so they won't fall out. We haven't had one accident in 17 years."
Perilloux's operation requires few employees — only him, his wife, his dad and three other trailer drivers. "We also have boys who unload the trucks of pumpkins when I have to buy them, which is more often than I'd like to admit. Buying pumpkins deeply cuts into your profits, but I hate to consider raising prices."
Perilloux's wife makes painted pumpkin necklaces, which she sells at the farm for $7 to $10. The necklaces, he says, can't rot.
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ToTrustAgain posted 4/7/2013 09:49 AM
Suspicious, my heart goes out to you. I just have one thought after reading this entire thread:
Relationships shouldn't be this hard.
Obviously, relationships go through rough patches and even complete devastation (aHEM, why we're all here.) But at this point, you are mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausted. It makes sense, logically, that you're returning again and again to the same behavior/cycle - hell, it's all you've known for the past 4 years. It takes time and practice to change those thought patterns and behaviors. It absolutely can be done, but it's going to take some work on your end.
I think you and he have lost sight of the main issue here - that he CHEATED, and has no interest in helping you heal.
Not to mention...he's MEAN to you.
You're doing great by starting to honestly look at the situation in its reality - keep it up, and hang in there.
StillGoing posted 4/7/2013 12:21 PM
Here, lets pretend he does surprise you.
You're at Disney, enjoying your life, hanging out, the Magic Castle show starts, and he has spent a good chunk of his trillion dollars and mesmerized the Disney staff with his singing penis so he can swoop out of the tower on a jetpack and inflate Drive-in Theater jumbotron screens to hover in the air to project his awesomeness for what you know is coming next: his proposal to you!
You say, right there in front of ten thousand people, many of them dressed like princesses and rats and strange creatures whose names escape me, in a laughing voice, merrily twinkling:
Because even if he did all that shit do you really think it'd be about how special he thinks you are? I'd put money on it being about him showing off how awesome he is. If he wanted to show you how special you are he'd apologize for hurting your feelings and give you a hug. Apparently it'd be cheaper to shop for fist sized diamond rings and jetpack proposal settings than it would to just apologize, though.
Stay NC, and if he does surprise you, Just Say No. Like he's heroin without the fun part, just the big diseased fucking needle that will drive you into a chemical freakout.
gonnabe2016 posted 4/7/2013 12:36 PM
He wants you broken. Think of marriage to him as a cult. He wants to completely break you and then retrain you the way he wants you to be. No independent thought, no fight left in you ... no resistance to him doing whatever the fuck he wants
If he calls. Don't answer.
If he shows up. Don't answer.
He mentioned on our last convo he was looking at rings an proposal locations
He's manipulating you.
And it worked...because you started worrying about being *surprised* by something.
This guy is BAD, BAD NEWS, Suspi.
Just. Say. No.
Don't JADE: justify, argue, defend, or explain yourself. He doesn't want to hear it. He WON'T hear it.
Wipe this guy off of your *brain-map*.
circe posted 4/7/2013 14:01 PM
Its dawning on me that I need to cut him off completely. Forever.
I almost want to let him know so he doesn't hold out hope or try to act like a 'good' boy because there's a chance of reconciling with me. He mentioned on our last convo he was looking at rings an proposal locations and I really don't want him to surprise me with anything. Is sending him a text or email saying there's no hope of us getting back together and I'm moving on a bad move?
I just don't want him showing up at my house with a ring and tears in his eyes. That sounds like my worst nightmare at this point in time.
I have a feeling I have not heard the last from him and he will make this break Impossible. This is a long road ahead. Impossible to break free and won't take no for an answer. (I know from experience - have tried to leave many many times)
He has all my furniture and clothes in his warehouse. And my rommate's mattress. Now we dont need these things until October but it is best to get them now or wait until then?
As you said, you have to cut him off completely.
Then you go on to bargain for four ways in which you can talk to him again!
You already know this, but read it again: YOU talk from the heart, he doesn't listen. There is no "one last time" with him. You already ended it with him and HE DID NOT CARE.
Last time you ended it with him he didn't even listen to you. He simply used your words (and it doesn't matter to him which words they were, break up words or words of love - if you're talking to him at all, he'll use it) to manipulate you into heartrending emails and 5 hour phone calls in which he once again tries to crush your pride and your free will. And that's what he'll do again when you call to "tell him it's really over".
From your other statements - he won't let you go, he'll make it impossible, he'll keep reeling you in - there is one thing you are forgetting. This is not the HIM-SHOW. His feelings do not matter in this situation. YOU are in control of this. YOU are the one who is leaving him. He does not get to "force" you into a relationship against your will.
Do you know what you call an ex boyfriend who won't take no for an answer, who keeps calling and showing up at your front door - tears and ring or empty-handed - despite your forceful requests for him to leave you alone? A stalker. It's illegal.
Do you have a male friend or coworker? Do you have a female friend with a kind husband? If so, regarding your stuff, I would simply tell him that two friends will be available on whatever day to pick your things up from his warehouse. One of those friends should be a man. Not for protection, exactly, but because men like your SO always seem to have a different "act" for men than women. They are usually more threatened by men and wary around them. My strongest advice would be for you to not go with them.
Whatever you decide to do, just know that you have a good support system here on SI and if you feel like sending him a text or email, why not just post it here first and get it out of your system, and maybe that will make it easier not to end up in another run-in with him?
[This message edited by circe at 2:06 PM, April 7th (Sunday)]
FaithFool posted 4/7/2013 14:02 PM
This guy is batshit crazy riding the fucking crazy bus with a "i am the president of the crazy club" button on.
I've just read most of this thread (skipping over the tediously long and narcissistic passages from Me-Boy) and I have to say MY BRAIN HURTS.
Suspicious, you've given this freak wayyyy too much ammunition with which to hurt you.
And it's working! Look at how you're hurting!
Sweet Jesus, please, run far and fast, change your number, block him from your email, get a restraining order and get on with your life.
This man won't stop until you are a smoking pile of wreckage.
solus sto posted 4/7/2013 18:28 PM
I disagree about the sick part. Not all selfish, self-obessessed perfectionist, arrogant assholes are sickNo, but some are. Whether he's personality-disordered (sick, though in a way not particularly amenable to change, and usually worsening with age) or an asshole is ...well, tomato, tomahto. Either way, his behavior is sick. Whether he's able to change it is the only real question. Central to change is the desire to change. He is clearly demonstrating that that's not among his plans. So whether he's sick or an asshole is moot.
And Suspicious's response, currently, is sick, too. The good news about that is that she can change; she just has to make the decision to do so.
Suspicious, you are mistaking crisis and chaos for passion, and thinking that this "passion" is a marker for love.
Your interpretation is faulty. He doesn't love you. Not the way healthy people love. He loves how he feels when he manipulates you. He likes winning.
The thing is, relationships are supposed to be partnerships of equals who wish only the best for one another.
This man is not a partner in any sense of the word. He is positioning himself to be your opponent. On a good day, perhaps he relishes the role of benificent teacher. That's not the role of a romantic partner, either.
Can he learn to love healthily? Maybe. But not if he is not strongly motivated to to so--and his behavior and words demonstrate NO willingness or desire (or ability) to do so.
Without very strong motivation, nothing will change. Ever. Are you okay with spending your life with a man who's just peachy with the notion that there's something wrong with you---and who uses that as justification lying and cheating---and blaming you?
Please, Suspicious. Stop translating chaos, crisis, and abuse as love. It may create the same heightened feelings as some of the more positive stuff associated with love, but it's as far from love as you can get.
He does not love you. He loves controlling you.
Once you detach and regain your equilibrium (something you will find very hard to do as long as you are still giving him audience), you will see this very clearly.
If he is unwilling to be the man you deserve, please work to accept this sooner rather than later. He's shown you who he is. Believe him.
[This message edited by solus sto at 6:36 PM, April 7th (Sunday)]
summerain posted 4/7/2013 19:04 PM
Hi suspicious.
I want you to try something
Buy a new phone with a new number, give all your friends etc your new number. Keep the old one going for this wanker.
Then I want you to go NC for two days, see the activity on your old phone.
ETA: my friend actually did this it helped a lot
[This message edited by lauren123 at 12:07 AM, April 8th (Monday)]
suspicious247 posted 4/8/2013 06:35 AM
I'm going to post every damn text I get here. Didn't hear from him at all yesterday . Today this-
I'm going to make an appointment to see a professional. Would you be open to doing a couple of sessions together if suggested?
summerain posted 4/8/2013 06:44 AM
Did you reply? If not that's great I would of had difficulty not replying!!
windowsnotwalls posted 4/8/2013 06:46 AM
All I can tell you is what I would be thinking if that text was sent to me right now. "Thinking" because I wouldn't respond....
Would I have been open to couples sessions a long time ago? Yes. Am I now? Absolutely not! I'm not about to sit in a room and have you use a professional as the next weapon to manipulate me with. I don't need validation that you're a twisted fuck. I know enough. NC NC NC
Feel free to go and read my thread "R may be ending..." I broke away from mine this week. Feels great. Sending strength your way. Good luck. (and a gentle reminder, I still believe you should just stop reading his anything.....stop listening and stop giving him a door to hurt you.)
suspicious247 posted 4/8/2013 06:47 AM
I am in shock. He never believed in counseling. Ever! And I don't see him even being honest with an ic. He can't even be honest with himself.
And no I am not responding. Nor am I going with him.
Guys I've been reading a ton and I realize he will never ever change. Narcissism IS his personality. And from what I read that never goes away. They are harmful people and I've been in a war zone for years. Sleeping with one eye open, pleadig with him to treat me right, crying, numbing, isolating, going crazy. I realize I can never ever go back to that relationship . It's not healthy for me
windowsnotwalls posted 4/8/2013 06:51 AM
I realize I can never ever go back to that relationship . It's not healthy for me
Good, now you're aware. Once you're aware, you can't become unaware. Even if you relapse and return, it'll forever change how you view him. You'll only get stronger and more self-loving from here. Your self-worth will return, and once it does, you'll protect it just as you would your own child. You're worth it. Keep moving forward.
nowiknow23 posted 4/8/2013 07:34 AM
KUDOS on not responding. That's step one of NC. Here's what you can expect now.
1. He'll ramp up his attempts to get you to engage.
2. He'll promise the moon and the stars (e.g.: suddenly willing to do counseling) in order to hook you again. I'll see if I can find the Hoovering thread to bump for you about this tactic.
3. When you consistently maintain your NC, he may turn from carrots to sticks. This can be anything from talking shit about you to friends and family all the way to stalking, threatening, or actually lashing out at you with physical attacks or property damage. And before you say, "Oh, he'd never go that far," stop yourself cold. He could. It has happened many times to members here. There is no such thing as being overly cautious in these situations.
So, all that is stage 1 of NC, and that's likely plenty for you right now.
Stage 2 of NC is removing him from your own thoughts and actions. That's the more difficult part, and it's damn near impossible when he's still actively trying to engage you. But for now, pay attention to your thought processes. Take note of how often you catch yourself thinking about him, your relationship, etc. You will astonish yourself with how much real estate he has in your brain.
Hang in there.
suspicious247 posted 4/8/2013 07:42 AM
When I get to the sticks portion of texts and emails . The nasty side when he's mad that I'm not budging. I can totally see him going through all his bank statements and add up all the fancy dinners (we did at least one every weekend) the trips, the jewelery, all the things he helped me with financially and saying.
" I spent $93000 on you during the course or our relationship and this is how you repay me?"
That's going to be the hardest stick / branch/ trunk ever bc it's a main reason I stayed for so long
Not bc I'm a gold digger. I make a good living. But because it was very generous of him and I interpreted that as love in my warped mind
[This message edited by suspicious247 at 7:44 AM, April 8th (Monday)]
hardtimesinlife posted 4/8/2013 07:43 AM
Since you are getting support here he is seeing the change in you. He knows he's losing his hold on you and he will use whatever trick he can think of to reel you back in. This time it is counseling. Next time it will be something else that will make you say "He never ever believed in such and such but he's willing to do it for ME!" then you'll think he has finally changed so you should at least hear him out.
This cycle will continue for as long as you'll let it. It's cat and mouse. You run he chases. You run and hide and he pulls out cheese to tempt you. You cave and he thinks "Ha. That was fun".
Everyone has a price. He is a successful businessman. He knows that if he keeps offering, you will eventually sell out. The more you wait the higher the offer becomes. marriage proposal, love, attention, children, counseling, fancy trips ... What's next? Maybe he'll offer to buy you a house and tell you that your future kids will live there. I don't know what's next but I know there is more up his sleeve. Why? Because he will win at all costs! It is not in his nature to lose and, in his mind, to lose will feel like death to him. He fears that it will destroy his very soul if you make the final decision to end it. His goal in this game is to get you back so HE can toy with you and break you again. That feeds his power hungry nature and reinforces in his own mind that he is the greatest man ever.
The trick for you now is to see him for who he really is, not for who you really wanted him to be. Imagine for a minute that he didn't have success, power and money. That he just had a normal job with normal devoted friends. That he lived in a normal house and ate what normal people eat. Ask yourself, would I still tolerate this person treating me the way he has for 4 years?
Blobette posted 4/8/2013 07:57 AM
This may be silly -- just a suggestion -- print out some of his really obnoxious statements and our responses to them (especially the funny ones), enlarge them, and tape them to your bathroom mirror. Then tape up your statements re how you're going to ignore him and how bad you know he is for you. Maybe put this a few places around your house, places where you might feel weak. Do you have friends to support your resolution to dump him? Do you have habits to keep your mind off him? (Oh, and start going to a gym that you KNOW he won't go to.) Join a club, start some new healthy habits. (Healthy in mind, I mean.) And maybe go to IC yourself to get the all the toxins you've accumulated over the years from this guy out of your system.
Good luck, and STAY STRONG!
circe posted 4/8/2013 07:58 AM
Good for you, susp!!! No, don't respond!!
I totally agree with windowsnotwalls that people like him use IC as yet another weapon. He does not want to go to fix himself - he doesn't think there's anything wrong with him. He wants to go to trap you into a professional agreeing WITH HIM that you are the problem. And manipulators like him can get a clueless IC to eat up the superficial charm, become part of "his team" and then both will turn on you. PLEASE don't go with him, no matter what. Oh it's just the worst. It is part of what happened to me with the partner I had who sounds eerily like your SO, and probably eerily like the NPD/abusers of most people who have encountered them.
I also agree with nik that you need to be prepared for him to up the ante, and shift around quite a bit in his methods to entice you back into the abuse cycle. The only thing you can do to break it is stay out of it completely -NC. No other action works. No conversation, no counseling, no "aha" moment, nothing. Just NC.
In my case, and I know others have had similar experiences, my own relationship with this type of person only ended when he completely shocked me by throwing something at me - hard - when I tried to walk away from an argument. He was NEVER physical before -he was a pacifist, he meditated, he was a kumbayah health nut like your SO, he came from a wealthy family, he was skinny and biked everywhere rather than drive - NOT the profile of a physical abuser. I was shocked when it happened, literally couldn't believe what I'd just experienced. I was so shocked I told my friends, and they took pictures of my back and told me that they would go to the police if I ever saw him again. And so I wanted to "protect him" and "not ruin his future" and that's how I ultimately went NC, so my friends wouldn't report him to the police. Pathetic, right? It's like I escaped through some wormy enabling back door. But within 3 weeks the fog cleared and my reasons for NC shifted to being ashamed I had been with him so long, embarrassed at what it took to end things and disgusted by the thought of him. It took a couple of years to fully recover though.
I think you're stronger than I was though, susp. And smarter. And for sure you have a huge amount of backup in the people of SI and those who have experienced this themselves. My own friends were operating from tons of caring, but not much experience in abusive relationships. I feel like if I had known how typical my pattern was, and how dangerous, and how likely to lead exactly where it ultimately led, I would have been more resolved to work through the pain and end it with dignity, instead of the way it actually happened.
So please take care of yourself. Please don't think "he would NEVER..." fill in the blank. He might. And even if he doesn't go anywhere physical, his verbal, emotional and social manipulation may escalate to the same point. If you can cut it off, mentally, NC completely, just draw a line and hold it, you can avoid a lot of hurtful, harmful moments.
Are you in IC by the way?
Edie posted 4/8/2013 09:07 AM
Mostly because I was embaraased that my baby sister was marring a guy she knew for one year and Im no where closer at 4 years with mine...
...i could not wait, not one more day, to be proposed to
THis getting married business seems very high on your list of goals.
Do you have others? (goals? Interests?) Can you review them and bring them way up your list, you will need the distraction in the coming days of doing other interesting things that remind you how good life is.
And spend some time counting your blessings. You discovered his solipsism, narcissism, control,and abuse relatively early into the relationship, and before you had got shackled through house ownership, children or any other complicated commitment to this man.
I encourage you to spend some time reading in the NPD thread down in I Can Relate to see how lucky an escape you have had and also to go and post a hello in New Beginnings, there is a great crowd down there who can help you feel excited about your new beginning.
Nature_Girl posted 4/8/2013 11:03 AM
" I spent $93000 on you during the course or our relationship and this is how you repay me?"
If he did pull that on you, you can just smile because you are not a whore, nor are you a slave. A whore would think of repaying in sex, a slave would repay in servitude. An authentic free woman would know that she cannot be bought or sold, her freedom is her natural-born right.
You are a free woman. Hold your head high, Hon!
nomistakeaboutit posted 4/8/2013 11:32 AM
You're doing great. Your eyes are opening. Stay strong. This is a good path for you.
I had one other thought to share regarding any potential marriage proposal from him. I understand that you're not thinking along those lines now, which is very good. The thought is that if he were to propose (perhaps as art of his plan of escalating to "win"), just have in your mind that it is not a real proposal. In other words, he would break the engagement before you two were ever married. Yes, he might give you a big ring and/or make a big display, but he would not follow through. Why? Because you argued with him again, or he saw you drink a milkshake, or you are too thin now, or you don't understand him the way you used to, or because the magic is not the same, or because of something you wrote in one of your emails, or because ...
Many people on this site, myself included, have had to deal with something you're dealing with, which is, the person we were in love with was not and is not the person we thought they were. Admitting that and embracing it is difficult, but empowering.
I'm very proud of you.
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May 14, 2012 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: MOWINS Release 2.15.05 - July 2, 2012
SUBJECT 2: Memorial Day and Independence Day Holidays
SUBJECT 3: May WIC Invoices
SUBJECT 4: REMINDER - FFY 2013 LAP Training Registration
SUBJECT 5: The Business Case for Breastfeeding" Conference
JOB OPPORTUNITY: WIC Peer Counselor-Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center
- MOWINS Release 2.15.05 - July 2, 2012: The next MOWINS release into production is scheduled for Monday, July 2, 2012. We will be producing a recorded webinar approximately two weeks prior to the release date which will include information on enhancements and defect fixes. In order to assure a successful implementation on Monday, July 2nd, MOWINS production will not be available from 8:00 pm Friday, June 29 through 6:00 am Monday, July 2. Please plan accordingly for this release. If you have any questions, please contact Melissa Seaver at 800-392-8209 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Memorial Day and Independence Day Holidays: The State WIC Office, including the WIC Help Desk, will be closed on Monday, May 28, 2012 and Wednesday, July 4, 2012. If you have questions, please contact Mark Davis at email@example.com or 573-526-5323 or 800-392-8209.
- May WIC Invoices: WIC Invoices for May 2012, and prior months, submitted for payment in the month of June must be submitted through the Online WIC Invoicing System by close of business on Friday, June 8, 2012. Invoices submitted after that date will be held and paid in July, 2012. This change in schedule complies with the close of State Fiscal Year 2012 payment processing deadlines. If you have questions please contact Laura Weiler at email@example.com or 573-526-7901.
- REMINDER-FFY 2013 LAP Training Registration: Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2013 WIC Local Agency Plan (LAP) training will be conducted at the Department's ITSD Training Room, 920 Wildwood Dr., Jefferson City on June 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29, 2012. This year's training is optional, but is strongly recommended for new LAP users. Experienced LAP users or those who feel they need a refresher may view the FFY 2013 LAP e-Learning training sessions. You will be notified when the training sessions are available on the WIC web site in a future WIC Updates. To register for the in-person training, complete the attached registration form and e-mail to email@example.com or fax to 573-526-1470. If you have questions about the training, contact Debby Hanlon at 800-392-8209 or 573-751-6196. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
- "The Business Case for Breastfeeding" Conference: The state WIC office and Wright County WIC is hosting "The Business Case for Breastfeeding" on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 in West Plains and Thursday, July 19, 2012 in St. Charles. This conference covers how to present the "business case" for breastfeeding to employers, including understanding employer barriers to providing breastfeeding support, "business" messages that resonate, and creative outreach strategies. Please see the attached brochure for more information. If you would like to attend please complete the attached registration form and email to Reba Brown at email@example.com,gov. If you have any questions please contact Kathy Mertzlufft by email at email@example.com or by phone at 573-526-4792 or Tracy Hardcastle, Wright County Administrator, at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 417-741-7791. (TWO ATTACHMENTS)
WIC Positions
JOB OPPORTUNITY: WIC Peer Counselor-Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center
8 hours per week; flexible days and times
The Peer Counselor will work with WIC team members to encourage and support breastfeeding among WIC participants. This position will counsel pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers by telephone and in the WIC office at scheduled intervals; teach prenatal and breastfeeding classes with approved lesson plan provided by the health center. Current or previous enrollment in WIC preferred. Applicant must be able to speak Somali. Position requires three days of training to become a peer counselor. Send resume to fax (816) 889-1839 or email resume to firstname.lastname@example.com.
LAP Training Registration
The Business Case for Breastfeeding Brochure
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Lawmakers have passed new insurance requirements for licensed child care providers in Nebraska.
Child care services would have to provide the Department of Health and Human Services with proof of liability coverage of at least $100,000 per occurrence, under a bill that passed Thursday. The measure sailed through its third and final vote in the Legislature, 42-0.
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|2008-03-15, 21:26
|Link #41
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 32
I can say for certain that I followed those stages exactly as they were described (although I never really made it to stage 3, as I didn't do calligraphy for more than half a year). Does it apply to all forms of art, and all types of people? I know it applies to me and almost any type of art I do, but I can't say for sure that it applies to everyone.
What you say may apply to most people - I can't say for sure. I personally don't think everyone or even the majority of people start out at the final stage that calligraphy makes mention of, but I can't say for certain It's just a thought, either way. I guess I'm with solace in saying that if you enter a contest you're already nominating yourself by putting yourself into the running. If you really feel that you're the absolute best and nobody else is even worth a single vote, abstain from voting - your superiority should be clear enough to your peers, right? (For what it's worth I don't really mind it if people vote for themselves. At this point I'm more or less musing over the philosophy behind the act.)
|2008-03-15, 21:39
|Link #42
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
I feel that behind the whole idea about voting for yourself is because you want to win, and naturally I do believe that most of us do want to win despite what we say about "lets just have fun". Well it is true about it we want to have fun but another part is that we do want to win as it gives a sense of joy. Well not winning is not the end of the world but just a chance to look at others and imporve yourself for next time. As much as your guy want to fluff it by saying that it is just for fun, deep down a part of that fun is looking forward to winning; THIS IS WAR MEN!! (or something like that ).
|2008-03-15, 23:08
|Link #43
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
If you really wanted vote for yourself, then use your own quota.
|2008-03-16, 03:11
|Link #45
Join Date: Feb 2006
Personally I don't see anything wrong with voting for yourself, it shows you appreciate your own work. But it is a bit redundant to vote for yourself, even after all the hard work you've put into creating it. We all know everyone love their own work, so wouldn't it be better to show appreciation toward other works beside your own... unless you're here for the purpose of winning or just self-centered. Then by all means do what you have to do.
After all we're all (or most, maybe some, or just me) here to enjoy and appreciate the ideas and creativity of other members. Yes it would be nice to win but that's just a small piece of the pie (the last piece), the main portion is the enjoyment of displaying your beauty.
Who knows, maybe I'm wrong... I tend to have brain fart sometimes.
Spoiler for Off Topic for useless fact:
|2008-03-16, 03:43
|Link #47
Join Date: Feb 2006
Fair enough, it's a contest after all.
Good luck again to all contestants.
Solace, after the final vote is counted, is it possible to reorganize the siggys in ranking position with votes number beside it. It'll make it easier to see where each sig ranked and who's better or worse with just a scroll. Exactly like a video game ranking.
Instead of trying to match names and sigs.
|2008-03-16, 04:47
|Link #48
Join Date: Mar 2006
Let me be a little more blunt. If someone votes for their own entry, but does not vote for at least one other entry, I will disqualify the vote. Sorry but don't make me regret allowing self voting in the first place. If I have to change the rule so that no one can vote for their own entry, I will.
I don't approve of it. I think it's a pointless thing to do. And the rule is designed so that the voter recognizes at least one other person with an entry. Let me be clear, this contest is for fun. Winning is great, don't get me wrong, but the last thing I want to see is ego stroking. Finding at least one other person who deserves a vote IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT. There's 54 entries. If you can tell me honestly that 53 of the entries are completely terrible then I can tell you that you shouldn't bother entering the next contest because you are in fact, a god among graphic designers.
@ kayos. Yes, I could. It's possible. Let me know when I need to devote a few hours of personal time for that.
|2008-03-16, 05:00
|Link #49
Join Date: Feb 2006
I could take up your position of counting the ballots and organizing it by ranks, all you would have to do is reorganize the signatures. That alone shouldn't take more than an hour... right?
The list of ranking shouldn't be too hard for me.
|2008-03-16, 05:04
|Link #50
Thinking outside the box
Graphic Designer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 32
Of course everyone want to win. And as mentioned in my previous post in this thread i don't think any of us are a exception to that. But just don't forget the main point of this. And that being: fun and learning things and improving.
You will see something similar like this
It's from previous SOTM. You could easily look for who got what amount of vote with that. I might sound like a prick for saying this. But making a ranking would just take a lot of extra time from Solace. And i hate to see effort only being one sided. With that sheet it shouldn't be to much trouble to figure out how much vote everyone got with some ctrl+C and ctrl+F and paste. It's won't be aligned nice and tidy. But you should get a good picture of votes and signatures.
Not sure if Solace was being sarcastic about his comment. But if he really doesn't mind to do it. Than nvm me
Edit: To slow with posting But seeing Kayos commented already what i said wasn't really necessarily.
|2008-03-16, 05:28
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Join Date: Mar 2006
I guess the response was a little sarcastic. Let me be a bit more diplomatic.
Since it was the first voting session, the formating wasn't great. But keep in mind I was using notepad to track votes. It's not exactly easy to copy paste results and organize them into rankings using something like that. Sephi assisted in vote counting and he had a spreadsheet, which was much more organized and was posted when the voting was done. At that point everyone was excited to get the next contest going and everyone moved on pretty quick.
On the time side of things, yes it only takes an hour-ish to do what you ask. Keep in mind that's an hour-ish later that announcing results will take, an hour-ish later someone needs to spend organizing and copy/pasting, and an hour-ish later that most people won't care about.
It's nice for convenience sake, but for the few who care I think scrolling will work just fine for now.
This is what the entry list looks like when I edit it. Keep in mind this is with almost no formatting outside of bolds, img tag, and the list tag.
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|2008-03-16, 05:50
|Link #52
Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fürth (GER)
Age: 37
If one does compete to win, sportsmanship should prevent one from voting for oneself, since there is no performance needed to vote for oneself, means if one does win because of one's own vote it usually does not feel like winning because of a good performance.
Finally if one tries to desperately win this contest, I seriously question this person's self-esteem. (Like... put the effort into real life problems instead of this contest, that will secure a more enduring fortune for the life)
For me it really is just fun. And if there is only one person who likes what I created, it even has a purpose (which is all the better).
On the other side I think, if there is someone voting for oneself, this person should not need to justify this here. So don't understand me wrong, I actually don't want/need to know your intentions on this matter. It would not affect my voting or my POV for this contest anyway (I am biased only to a signature's content never to the creator).
|2008-03-16, 06:15
|Link #53
~ You're dead ^__^* ~
Graphic Designer
Like I said, it isn't/shouldn't be the end of the world if you lose, this is but a great opportunity to share ideas and improve yourself so you can win next time ^^
or the next...or the next...and maybe the next...
But that wasn't a rule, just a general opinion on perhaps 70% of the contestants.
And I have my theme thought out already
WAIFUS! (yes, if anyone wants waifu theme you know what to do ).
/runs before I get axed for advertising
|2008-03-16, 06:35
|Link #54
Peek a boo
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
I have also learnt the reluctance of people letting me borrow their hair to pull.
|2008-03-16, 08:20
|Link #55
Kira_Naruto, the ecchi
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: http://www.exciting-tits.com/
In previous sotm, I learn to draw rocks and onsen.. animate a water portion while having a steam effect. This sotm I learn how to make lightning. I failed at making a blood drop effect good enough to show saphyre tho
And I also value my hair more
|2008-04-21, 04:12
|Link #56
Join Date: Mar 2006
Essentially, the contest was about "pretty girls in pretty clothing" but just saying that is also vague. Sephi provided an image pack that I felt was pretty much exactly what he was trying to convey the theme was, but it didn't appear that people wanted to review it. Or if they did, they chose to ignore it or had other ideas.
I feel for the most part all of the sigs display some form of elegance. As you state, it's open to interpretation but I feel that's ok. The theme was compromised a bit, unfortunately, and I think that soured some people. I can only hope that next month won't be as difficult and that those sour feelings won't persist.
On the other hand, bumps like this are expected. As a forum, the contest is still new to us. This is only the third month the SOTM has been running. Personally, I'm amazed response is still strong. I fully expected things to drop off much more than they did (we're slightly less on entries this month than last), especially seeing that the theme was an issue.
It's still a bit of a learning experience trying to get things like this sorted out. But I'd hate to get in someones way and start creating rules about how themes should be created and handled. It takes some of the fun out of the process.
Perhaps the community wasn't ready for a theme like this, that's hard to say. But they still tried their best to create entries for this theme, and that's extremely commendable. There might have been some that missed the mark but there's still a lot of girls in pretty dresses and there's a lot of creativity on display this month.
I'm open to ideas on how to handle Themes from anyone who has some thoughts.
|2008-04-21, 07:21
|Link #57
Thinking outside the box
Graphic Designer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Netherlands
Age: 32
But suppose the theme choice wasn't that good. But with the images provided i thought people would still understand what i had in mind. But it appears not many people bothered with checking them. Or they just don't read anything beside the thread title.
Overall, my biggest disappointment about this SOTM was the amount of complaints i did received and the very little amount of help people wanted to offer. I tried my best with the theme, and i really thought i had a nice theme going(looks at images). But there are limits to mine and Solace views on things. If only more people helped i'm sure we could of had a smoother SOTM with less unhappy people.
But unfortunately this is how the world works. Good things are taken for granted. And bad things are the only things people bother to talk about.
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|2008-04-21, 10:00
|Link #58
Hina is my goddess
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Just an idea, but i think it would be a good idea to have a thread dedicated to showcasing past winners and their sigs. That was people can check all the winners without having to search out 2 or 3 month old threads. Not sure how the admins would like so many threads for this contest but i think it would be great.
|2008-04-21, 16:31
|Link #60
♥Sebastian's new wife♥
LMAO the drama in the april entry phase thread was hillarious.
Anyways like SeedFreedom, we should have a thread from all of the winners of the SOTM contest and at the end of January, a contest for SOTY (Signature of the year) of 2008. That will be really cool, and would represent the thinking that the Artists did in 2008 ^^, and maybe someone is willing to give special prizes as well.
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E! calls the Peabody Award "Pulitzer Prizes for Radio," and shares that Beyonce won the award for her visual album Lemonade.
Peabody Awards are distributed for excellence in television, radio, and digital broadcasting, and because of it's aesthetics in all of it's excelling areas (E! cites a quote saying "prolific literary, musical, cinematic, and aesthetic sensibilities of black cultural producers to create a rich tapestry of poetic innovation" from organizers), this is how she landed herself with 7 other honorees.
Donald Glover also has landed a spot on this list, as his show Atlanta will be honored.
Amy Cooper is the type of journalist that when asked "What do you bring to the table," she replies "I am the table.


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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a brief statement released Thursday afternoon confirmed that it would appeal a Federal district court's decision vacating the Commission's position limit rule.
The appeal was approved by a 3-2 vote, which was foreshadowed during the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Expo conference in Chicago two weeks ago when Commissioner Mark Wetjen indicated that he would support an appeal and stated that Commission attorneys felt it had a strong case. Chairman Gary Gensler and Commissioner Bart Chilton had already indicated support for an appeal.
Commissioner Scott O'Malia wrote a sharply worded and detailed dissent. In it O'Malia states, "When I voted against the Commission's final position limit rule last November, I expressed dismay that the Commission had failed to utilize its expertise to lay the necessary foundation for the establishment of position limits. A federal district court affirmed my reasoning in striking down the rule in September. Regrettably, instead of taking the opportunity to revise its flawed reading of the statute, the Commission has decided to double down on its no-justification-needed stance by appealing the district court's ruling."
In announcing the appeal Chairman Gensler stated, "As part of the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress directed the Commission to limit promptly speculative positions in physical commodity futures and options contracts and economically equivalent swaps. ... It is critically important that these position limits be established as Congress required. I support the Commission's continued efforts to put in place position limits on speculative positions by appealing the September ruling."
O'Malia took issue with the way the Commission proponents ignored the court's decision. "The court explicitly stated that the statute unambiguously requires a finding of necessity before establishing position limits," he wrote. "It went on to argue that subsequent parts of the statute are ambiguous. I continue to believe that the statute is crystal clear in calling for a necessity finding – and that this should be the end of the discussion."


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About Debra Spunt
The Debra L. Spunt Clinical Simulation Labs at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) are named for Debra L. Spunt, DNP, RN, FAAN, an assistant professor and director of the UMSON clinical simulation labs, who died of cancer at age 50.
A pioneer in clinical simulation in nursing, Dr. Spunt helped establish UMSON's 24 clinical simulation labs, which now serve as national and international models for student learning. Her expertise for integrating the use of clinical simulation into the educational curriculum garnered worldwide recognition for both Dr. Spunt and the labs. UMSON was twice named a Center of Excellence in Simulation Education by Laerdal Medical, an international manufacturer of interactive computer and patient simulators for educating health care professionals.
As an innovator in simulation learning, Dr. Spunt participated in the landmark 2003 National League for Nursing/Laerdal study, Designing and Implementing Models for the Innovative Use of Simulation to Teach Nursing Care of Ill Adults and Children: A National, Multi-Site, Multi-Method Study. She was co-founder of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and served as its first president. She received many honors and awards throughout her life, including induction as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.