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Alrighty - 24 hours late, but better late than never! I had to make this weeks Spoon full of Sugar no matter what - One I got some new papers that were just perfect for the "Baby" theme, and Two my husbands niece had a baby! MIL needed a card to send with her gift - so I had to make this card! I love how it came out -
This Stampavie Rachelle Anne Miller Image "Play Time" is one of my favorite baby images, it is just too cute and fun and is perfect for the subject of baby. I colored with my copics, and then cut out with my Spellbinders Nestibilities Petite Ovals, the mat is the same as the card base. Now do you love those big polka dots they are embossed and feel almost flocked it is from DCWV and is part of the Nana's Nursery set. I used my Martha Stewart Valentine Border punch and scrap white card stock to make the heart border, hearts are ok for baby cards too right? Of course cuz we love babies so much!
And because of the heart I thought it was ok to punch out the Papertrey Ink Sentiment "Heaven Sent" with my Fiskars Heart Squeeze Punch. For the flowers I used EK Success Retro Flowers. Now all of the flower and the inside paper.. oh yes, I did the inside toooooo! All of these are a new paper stack that I got from Michael's, called Chloe's Closet from Making Memories. And wow.. you should see all the really cool embellishments that they make to go with this paper! Ok, so I inked the edges of everything with a light brown, sewed parts with straight and zig-zag stitches. Flowers are attached with jewelry spacers and mini button brads.
I hope MIL likes it, and I apologize for being late with this one - I have some fabulous DT buddies at Spoon Full of Sugar - they were so nice about me freaking out about being late. So make sure to visit the Spoon site and see how they made some GORGEOUS baby cards!
today - well I am hoping to put everything back into my brand new Utility Room - and get lots of laundry done. That while keeping an eye on Libbie - taking her out a million times. She has had very few accidents in her crate... she is so cute, she doesn't like to "do wrong" in there and wants to go out side to do her business, how cute is that at just over 7 weeks! Now my next thing is her and the cat.... They really love playing, and running all over the house. Gato has been so great with her careful but wearing her out so she sleeps a while!
Hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!
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Source: Tao of Motorcycles
Some time ago I was asked why I didn't go to church. I said I did go to church every day I went out riding my motorcycle.
For many motorcyclists, the ceremony of going for a ride provides the same spiritual sustenance other people find through the ceremonies conducted by organized religions. The similarities are striking. We wear our leathers and riding suits as vestments, we have a prescribed ritual for starting our engines, and our favorite roads compose our liturgy.
The very nature of riding a motorcycle forces the rider into a spiritual state. Think of it this way: most religious systems encourage some form of meditative technique. Christians have prayer. Some Native Americans meditate inside sweat lodges, and Eastern spiritual systems advocate elaborate chanting techniques. All these methods have as their common general goal the transcendence of the self or ego in order to get in touch with some greater force.
Motorcycling forces riders to transcend their egos—to empty themselves and exist in the world around them. The consequences of not being totally aware of their actions and environment, of becoming distracted by the baggage of their everyday lives, are too great. When you're out in the world on a bike, you must be completely in the moment, completely aware of your surroundings, or you may find yourself meeting your concept of God earlier than you might have hoped.
But when everything is working, when you and your bike are totally in sync and the road rushing under your feet feels like an extension of your body—at those times, you get in touch with divinity.
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I couldn't stop thinking about it! If I was mauled by an awful creature after a car crash and the cops were going through the empty Taco Bell cups in my Toyota Echo, they would assume 14 people had been in the car crash. And if they continued to go through all the Taco Bell wrappers, they'd guess they were 14 very gluttonous people with an insatiable hunger for Double Decker Tacos. And since they would only find my body, they'd go on a hunt for 13 people who never existed.
Moral of the story? Don't judge a book by its Taco Bell wrappers.


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Going For The Goal
We live in a goal-centered culture. Our language is heavily laden with talk about goals. Long-term goals, short-term goals, strategic goals, and in the field of education: Student Learning Objectives, Course Goals.
During my emerging adulthood (18-25-years-old) I resisted writing lists and setting goals. I did not think it was a useful exercise. "What happens if I don't reach my goal?", I would ask myself. It seemed like I would be setting myself up for failure. I knew what I needed to do on a weekly, daily and monthly basis; it was all in my head and I could keep track of it that way.
It wasn't until I began my career in Early Childhood Education (ECE)as a teacher, that I began to see the value of goal-setting. ECE teachers are required to set goals based on Developmentally Appropriate Practices.I realized that setting goals and documenting children's progress with portfolios was extremely useful. This process informed my teaching and enabled me to better serve children and families.
I soon stopped resisting setting goals for myself. One of my first major goals was to return to college, complete my BA degree and earn an MA Degree.I shared this goal with my ex-husband and he encouraged me to "go for it". I was 27 years old when I returned to college. Athat time, it had been five years since I attended college.Soon after I returned, we learned I was expecting our first child. So, I decided to postpone college for a while. Less than two years later, I gave birth to our second child. Again, I thought the timing wasn't right, so I would wait. Two years later I divorced and became a single mother. Once again my dream of a higher education was put on the back burner as I worked and raised my children. I thought, college could wait until my children were older. When they both were in elementary school, I enrolled for a night class. It was a bit challenging because I didn't have consistent childcare. So I dropped the class.
For years, I kept telling my friends and family, "My goal is to return to college." I faithfully wrote this goal as my New Years' Resolution for years. One day, after hearing me proclaim , "I want to return to college" a friend looked me squarely in the eyes and asked, "Which college, Sheila ?" "When?" I was stunned. No one had asked for such specificity before. I had to come up with an answer, so I responded, "Pacific Oaks College." She responded enthusiastically, " So, let's find out what you need to do to apply and enroll". How about that? I thought. So we proceeded to go to the website, make phone calls to get more information. I began to get excited and actually see myself walk across the stage. I learned the more specific you are about your goal the better. Also, having a clear vision and a feeling attached to that vision, makes the goal crystallize in your mind.
Once I identified the college I wanted to attend, made the necessary steps to apply, the process was seamless. I attended an Information Meeting for Pacific Oaks College. I remember the meeting facilitator, Gretchen Brooke said, " so many times as women, (there were about 15 women in attendance, all 35 years old and older), we put our goals and plans on the back burner, we put our families' needs, children's needs, our spouses' needs before our needs…now this is your time.." This was indeed my time and I was at the right place. Within six months I was sitting in class working on both my BA and MA simultaneously! My children were attending college and I was finally working on my own goal.
At the beginning of each class, I ask students to write three specific learning goals for the 12 weeks of class. I share my story with students to illustrate the importance of goals, and how being specific catapults you towards your goal. Sometimes students write, " I just want to pass the class" , I respond to them with, "do you want to earn a C or an A?". Other students write specific content-related goals, but they also write goals about improving public speaking skills, overcoming being shy, meeting new people, and learning how to work in groups, learning about different cultures etc
I check in with students following the Midterm to see how they are doing with their goals and how I can support them. As the quarter comes to an end, they respond to five questions that are part of a Self-Evaluation of their performance in class. The goal-related question is, "did you reach one or more of your learning goals, and if so, how, and if not, why not?" I can feel the excitement of students who reach their personal learning goals!
Over the years, I have received a lot of positive feedback from students about the goal-setting and self-evaluation exercises. I think for many students, this is just the confidence they need to "Go for the Goals" in other areas of their lives.


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Guest post from: Marion Slater
I think one of the most interesting shows on television is "16 and Pregnant." This is one of the most tragic shows to watch, but it also shows how teens deal with being young mothers. I love watching this show on my satellite tv from http://www.tvbydirect.com for how it exposes me to all the different realities that teens have to face when they get pregnant. Teens truly have to deal with so many struggles when they get pregnant too young. This show exposes that hard reality.
I think this show is interesting, because it offers the perspectives of fathers and mothers. Young fathers also have a lot of stress to deal with, when they choose to impregnate a young woman. Young fathers always end up having to pay child support, which costs thousands of dollars. All too often, the young mothers do not have the financial stability to support their children and they have to take up a second job. It is so sad to see how hard these mothers have to work at such a young age. I am always amazed to see how young mothers can do so much and still manage to raise young children. I think it is so remarkable and that these young mothers surely deserve a gold medal of some sort! I hope this show encourages young women to not get pregnant.


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The upcoming Apple iPhone 5, due this summer, will be powered by TriQuint and Skyworks PAs. While it is disappointing that it will not have 4G LTE capability, according to an article from The Street about TriQuint, the Apple iPhone 5 will be a full featured world phone equipped with "seven power amplifiers" to improve the wireless reception on the full array of WCDMA and EVDO frequencies in the U.S. and Europe, says Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar. This is good news for power amp supplier Triquint, which was left out of the Verizon iPhone 4 this year.
The Street goes on to say that Triquint is back in the iPhone 5 and sharing power amp supply duties with rival Skyworks. "We expect Triquint to gain share and outgrow most of its peers in mobile phones, while improving margins," according to Charter Equity Research analyst Ed Snyder. Snyder says chipmaker Triquint is in a sweet spot as phone makers push for better wireless performance.
Apple's move to improve its wireless reception performance comes after three rough years of complaints about poor service at AT&T. And as industry experts have pointed out, not all of Apple's iPhone connection quality issues were due to AT&T. Apple's effort to design the iPhone to use less power apparently caused some unintended effects with signal jamming. The iPhone was recently released on Verizon and while there does not seem to be major reception complaints, Consumer Reports has said that their tests show the Verizon iPhone 4 version still has some antenna issues when the antenna element gaps is bridged by holding it.
RFMD, Skyworks and TriQuint continue to dominate the cellular front-end market ast the big three but Avago and Anadigics are fighting for larger market share. We are seeing a lot of innovative changes coming in the front-end modules as different configurations are being developed including new switch technologies such as SOI/SOS switches, miniature BAW filters, tunable devices such as MEMS and others, and wide band power amps that can support multiple bands. It will be interesting to see how these technologies play out over the next year or so.


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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Right of Reply: Toby Young talks to Shepherd's Bush Blog on Free School
Yesterday I reported that the Guardian had described local refugee groups being effectively made homeless by the arrival of the West London Free School, led by broadcaster Toby Young. I should say that two things have hapenned since then - the Guardian were forced to change their headline and Mr Young himself has been in touch to put his own side of the story, which I'm happy to reproduce in full.
In my own story I referred to Mr Young as "evictor-in-chief", in reference to the fact that local groups are having to leave Palingswick House in Hammersmith to make way for the school. Here's what Toby had to say in response:
"Incidentally, I'm not the evictor-in-chief. And my defence is ... I'm not. My group only became aware of Palingswick House when Hammersmith and Fulham listed it for disposal last year.
Now that the consultation about it and the other eight sites listed for disposal has been completed, the Council is minded to sell it. The choice, therefore, is not between selling the building or keeping it, but between selling it to our school or a commercial developer and I have no doubt that a developer would demolish it and stick up a block of flats.
The current tenants will have to be re-housed by the Council whoever buys it so it's grossly misleading to claim that the West London Free School will be responsible for "expelling" them, as the Guardian did in its headline today. (I managed to get the Guardian to correct that headline by the way.)
Do you think that if the Council sold it to a commercial developer that said developer would allow the current groups to remain in the building paying 65% of the market rent? In any event, the groups won't be "expelled". The Council is working with them to find suitable alternative accommodation."
Mr Young has also offered to do a fuller interview with me on the subject of the West London Free School in early February which, whatever your opinion of the school coming to the Bush, is very welcome. So any comments or questions you'd like me to put to him please leave in the comments or directly to firstname.lastname@example.com
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A world right at her feet.
Heart amongst the waves.
Her spirit glowed in safe retreat.
A first love, she held so dear.
A father whom loved rock and roll
With him she knew no fear.
Protector of her untouched soul.
I love you darling BDD
Hold my hand this last time,
Forever you are with me
Your heart belongs to mine.
Her dreams they drowned
On the day he flew,
Those sunsets turned to storms
Her spirit caged, the darkness grew.
His feet no longer on the window pane
All cherished moments gone,
Big bear hugs, "Daddy again, again!"
Last happy breaths were drawn.
Her sheltered family at an end
A house a home no longer.
Her world, her hope was long forgotten,
They didn't grow nor become stronger.
Walking a path alone
Didn't know right nor wrong,
Her pain and grief, nobody shared
She believed that she was strong.
Home became a battle field
She hid and chose a way,
Believed he was her shield
Instead he lead her astray.
Numbed, she shut it out
Not once did she yes,
She'd protect her spirit
She "chose" this awful mess.
Surface pain was easier
It didn't touch her soul,
He could take her body
But that's all that he stole.
Drugs replaced what love once was
that darkness simply fled,
But relief it did not last
Her heart, it truly bled.
A precious life grew inside her
How could she be so reckless,
The blood, the loss and fear
She'd been left completely senseless.
Hiding from her pain was ugly
She lived a life of lies,
A dirty, selfish loner
Her young way to stay alive.
Soon it became too much
The visions grew and grew,
She raised a blade, not once nor twice
"Oh Daddy, can I be with you?"
It was her fault, she caused this pain
He hurt those that she loved.
She was that bitch, the "f*cked up wean"
He threw those daggers - taunted, shoved.
Run away or die right here
Her adult grew and grew,
Her inner child was screaming
Dad was there; she simply knew.
This was her redemption
Own those past mistakes,
It's time to heel those wounds
She'd own the bumps and scrapes.
It was her, she chose it all
It was time to lay her bed,
Accept that nobody would catch her fall
Or wipe those tears she shed.
Be independent and grateful
Stop using those that care,
Her past actions were disgraceful
Be more self aware!
"I'll make you proud," she'd quietly say
How dare she abuse a life,
"I'm not sure how, but I'll find a way"
For now she'd own regret.
The truth it didn't pass him,
He seen what she had left behind
And grabbed her on a whim.
Every kiss and touch was meant
She lay and numbed like before,
But everything was beautiful
For once she didn't feel the gore.
A love she'd known but once ago
Trust and joy she'd long forgotten,
This feeling it was safe and pure
A sign befell, her dad - a robin.
A ring, a vow, another life.
She'd finally begun achieving,
How did this "bitch" become a wife?
Because she never stopped believing.
The love it grew, created life
But love she couldn't bare,
Through all the trouble and the strife
Her inner child was standing there.
Life it turned from black to white
She lived in sadness, loss and pain.
Why did she deserve this bliss
Could it happen all over again?
She felt a mothers undying love
But then she felt another,
A broken child inside her mind
"Please don't forget the other."
"Help me find acceptance, did I do so wrong?"
"No dear child, it's simple
You are right where you belong."
Help was sought and past reflected
A child's mind, a broken heart
Little guidance and support,
It was never her fault from the start.
The path her inner child had crawled,
But that's the problem that she faced
Her childhood was mauled.
A tangled mess she tried to fix
A child's mind not yet grown,
Not equipped to face the world
A pain not hers to own.
Peace at last her heart did feel
A decade of war later,
A snippet of her movie reel
Lessons that will cater.
To serve a purpose and inspire
To fight and stand your ground,
To lift up spirits and shed a light
And prove that peace can be found.
Fiction or a story
Take it as you will,
It only holds a lesson
If you believe this skill.
We all hold that strength
A love and strong belief,
To focus on a lessons duty
That can teach us much from grief.
And life can be so cruel,
Don't believe you can't be fixed
Life's number one rule.
There is always hope
There is life beyond pain,
She finally spoke out
So that she could live again.
Be proud of who you are
Don't ever be ashamed,


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Expecting Backup Duty, Garrard Now Competing to Start
Since last spring, Mark Sanchez has had a rather tenuous grasp on the Jets' starting quarterback job.
Either verbally or literally, the team has offered the opportunity to supplant him to a succession of other players: Drew Stanton, Tim Tebow, Greg McElroy. The latest man to stand in that line is 35 years old, had back surgery in 2011 and knee surgery last year, and hasn't played in an NFL game in more than two years.


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One of the reasons I wrote The Flight of the Sorceress was to raise my voice against ominous signs that there were powerful forces presently at work striving to destroy the separation of church and state. The objective is intolerance. The mission is to impose a strict, theocratic moral code upon the entire population. The result will be a return to the Dark Ages.
Shortly after Theodosius I became emperor of Rome, in 479 A.D., he revoked the Edict of Toleration and made Catholicism the state religion. No longer was there even a pretense of separation of church and state. In short order, pagan worship was outlawed, pagan temples were seized and their properties confiscated. Possession of many books was declared illegal and the penalties for possession of such books or pagan icons could include confiscation of all property. Terrified Roman citizens soon began burning their own libraries. Untold numbers of written works were lost to posterity. People were simply unwilling to take the chance that they might lose everything they owned. Ultimately, this is the goal of religious zealots --to use to power of the state, its police and military might, to impose their religious beliefs upon everyone else.
The campaign begins with innocence. The zealots pose as the victims. All they want, they will declare, is the right to practice their religion. But soon, they will proclaim that their rights are violated if others practice differently, or do not practice at all.
Today we see the ugly tactic again rearing its head. Emboldened by a relentless campaign first against "unrestricted abortions" that morphed into "any" abortions for any reason, we now see these same zealots turning their attention to contraceptives. Lead by the same theocrats that brought us the first Dark Ages --the Roman Catholic Church -- politicians such as Rick Santorum whine that the rights of their most extreme religious adherents are being violated if the state does not take their part in a campaign to undermine women's reproductive health care.
Over the last several weeks, we have been subjected to a debate that attempts to raise a freedom of religion argument in opposition to government regulations that would require some religious organizations to provide certain health care benefits to its workers. This debate is a sham with the ultimate objective of dismantling a health care program that one should expect religious organizations to support for the good of people.
Some see this as simply an attack upon women by misogynist Christian sects (as well as some Jewish and Muslim elements) but it is more than that. Like the canary in the mine that heralds poison gas leaks that will ultimately kill every miner, if the fight over women's reproductive rights ends with victory for these zealots, it will prove to be just a jumping off point for their ultimate objective, the utter and complete control over all societal behavior. Religious zealots cannot be satiated until everyone practices their brand of whatever religion they profess, or at least pretends to. The current sparring over contraception is merely a harbinger of things to come, for they cannot stop. They must always have heretics or infidels to crusade against and exterminate. Their promise for society is another Dark Ages, with more book burnings and witch burnings and Inquisitions. Lest there be any doubt, this is Rick Santorum's real platform, and it is an agreeable Faustian bargain for all of the other Republicans currently running for president.
No one advocates a policy that would prevent anyone from expressing his or her religious beliefs. Nor is anyone being compelled to use contraceptives, or to have an abortion. No one is being forced to have sex out of wedlock. No one is being forced to marry someone of the same gender. Religions are free to convince people to behave consistently with their dogma, but they are, and ought to be prohibited from using the power of the state to force people to obey their dogma.
If a religious institution decides to run a hospital, a thrift store or to operate a university, it is making a choice. No religion is being forced to engage in these activities. But when they do, they are competing in a marketplace and they are hiring employees. The playing field must be level when it comes to voluntary endeavors. Employees should all be subject to the same minimum wage laws, the same laws relating to hours and breaks. If the government mandates that employers provide certain benefits it would be discriminatory to exempt some businesses while requiring other similar businesses to comply. An employer who is exempt from paying a benefit is actually paying its workers less than a non-exempt employer and is therefore at a competitive advantage. Such a result rewards a religious employer with an economic preference.
Take, for example, a thrift store run by Jehovah's Witnesses. They don't believe in any medical intervention at all. Are they entitled to a complete exemption from providing medical insurance to their employees? Can they require that their employees refrain from spending any portion of their paycheck for health care? Can the Catholic Church prohibit employees at their hospitals from privately purchasing health insurance that includes contraception and abortion benefits? If the minimum wage is $8.00/hour plus a health plan that provides contraceptive coverage, can the Catholic Church get away with providing a cheaper plan that does not provide that coverage? What if the law says, if an employer fails to provide the coverage, the employee is entitled to a minimum wage surcharge equal to the cost of obtaining such coverage privately? Can the religiously affiliated employer demand, as a condition for employment, that its employees not use birth control? Not have an abortion? Not seek any medical care at all? Can Baptists tell potential employees that they must sign a pledge to not drink alcohol? Where does it stop?
Our constitution addresses religious liberty in two parts: freedom to practice religion and a prohibition against government establishing religious requirements. There is a tension between these two liberties. One person's freedom can be another person's oppression. In some places laws exist that prohibit various commercial activities on Sunday. Is this a government-imposed religious requirement? After all, Sunday is a Sabbath to some, but not to all. Can the government force a Jew or a Muslim to abide a Christian Sabbath? Sometimes courts avoid this question by declaring that there is a secular purpose to a day of rest that simply through custom has fallen on a religiously recognized day. But is that really the case? For some, that would mean two days of inability to do business, their religion's Sabbath and Sunday. Over time, Sunday Sabbath laws have dwindled, but they are not completely obliterated. However most of us now recognize that the decision to close a business on Sunday, or any other day, ought to be a private one.
The constitution also gives our government the power to regulate commerce. One of the purposes for this power is to insure that there is a level playing field for similarly situated enterprises. If the government makes exceptions, it must justify them. However, the government need not make exceptions. Once any person or entity decides to engage in commerce, it is agreeing to abide by reasonable government regulation of that commerce. For example, just because a religion endorses the use of a hallucinogen, it doesn't mean that the government must permit a business run by such a religion to sell the drug.
So it is not infringing upon religious freedom to require, let us say Georgetown University, to provide its janitors with the same health plan as NYU. No one is requiring the Catholic Church to operate Georgetown University. But the government does have a legitimate interest in insuring that all janitors get similar health coverage.
The freedom to practice one's religion is a freedom that pertains to activities involving worship. It is a freedom that entitles church members to assemble together and to employ free speech to convince others to follow their path. But it is not a freedom to advantage the religious institution in its commercial enterprises. Such a demand by any religious denomination is a demand for special treatment. It is a demand that our government must not agree to because it is really asking for all of us to treat as special, a specific religion. To give Catholic universities or hospitals an exemption from any labor laws that apply to similar commercial enterprises would be a violation of the constitution's prohibition against establishing a government sanctioned religion.
What these advocates of so-called freedom of religion are arguing for is that their practices be imposed upon all of us. They want to prevent everyone from using contraceptives. They want to prevent every woman from having an abortion, regardless of the reason. So they demand that the enterprises they support get special treatment, thus an advantage over others. Over time their demands will prove insatiable, their position intractable and we will find a government edict dictating that we follow their creed. This is not a matter of freedom but a matter of theocracy.
Once upon a time, in ancient Catholic Rome and in Europe during the Middle Ages priests were not subject to the laws of the state. They could not be tried in a civil court. They could commit any crime and walk free, unless the Catholic Church decided to discipline them. Some, like Rick Santorum, would have us go back to those days. But we must be aware of the danger, as were the drafters or our constitution. Every cleric, of every stripe should be put on clear notice that once stepping out of the church and beyond their roles as leaders of services, that upon entering into the public square the secular laws of our state apply equally to them as to everyone else. And politicians who advocate special exemptions to clerics from our secular laws, merely because of their religious affiliations, cannot without perjuring themselves, swear to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States. The likes of Santorum, Romney and Gingrich, in particular, are by their own admissions, disqualified to hold public office under our constitution. If we do not want to invite a return to the Dark Ages, we must repudiate them and their extremism.


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Anti-fascists claim victory as BNP festival cancelled
According to Amber Valley BNP organiser, Lewis Allsebrook, the BNP will be trying to hold a number of smaller events across the region instead of holding one big festival. Dissidents within the BNP are claiming that the this is because few members are interested in buying tickets for this year's event.
The festival has taken place on farmland near Codnor, Derbyshire since 2007. Last year over 1,000 anti-fascists and locals marched against the festival and in 2009 militant anti-fascists attempted to block roads leading to the site. In addition, the farmer who hosts the RWB, the festival organisers and even toilets companies have been targeted for direct action. RWB host Alan Warner has cited the attacks on his property as a reason to give up hosting the event.
The RWB was the BNP's annual "family festival", usually held in August. Before coming to Derbyshire, the event was already notorious for playing Nazi marching music, hosting racist comedians and inspiring drunken violence between party members. Its image has not improved since then.
In 2007 the event passed largely unnoticed by anti-fascists, with only one lone protester turning up to express his views. By 2008 local anti-fascists Notts Stop the BNP were more organised and launched a concerted campaign against the festival. The licensing hearing was picketed and, as a result of mounting pressure, Derbyshire police imposed more serious security conditions on the event. BNP representatives withdrew their application in a huff and stormed out of the hearing.
Meanwhile, Alan Warner received a number of late night visits from activists who stole his flag, locked his gate and painted anti-fascist graffiti on his walls. STS, the company supplying the festival with toilets, also had their depot targeted.
On the weekend of the festival, a rally was held by several hundred anti-fascists responding to callouts from Notts Stop the BNP and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) who had had jumped on the bandwagon at the last minute. This was, unfortunately, marred by squabbling between the two groups. Meanwhile, a group of 100 masked anti-fascists emerged from the fields in an attempt to blockade access roads to the festival site. Fighting between riot police and this bloc resulted in over 30 arrests and led a local paper to plead for the BNP to "Never again" come to the area.
The direct action continued after the event with Warner being targeted two more times as well as RWB organiser, David Shapcott, being visited at his Burnley home.
Last year's festival was marred for the BNP by over 1,000 protesters turning up to march on the farm and the fact that an American white supremacist, who was booked to be one of the event's main speakers, was banned from entering the country. A number of festival goers were later convicted of racially abusing the protesters. Photos from inside the festival showed a pathetic turnout for what was supposed to be a flagship event.
At a meeting of East Midlands BNP organisers last weekend, whose minutes were leaked to Indymedia, the decision to cancel this year's RWB was announced. The local Amber Valley branch of the BNP have made the preposterous claim that the reason for the cancellation was worry about diverting police funds from anti-terrorism to policing the RWB. More cynical commentators have suggested that the campaign against Warner and the plummeting popularity of the festival are more likely reasons.
11 comments:
- John P said...
Notts Stop the BNP did a fantastic job last year along with the other local groups.
- 10:54 am, May 31, 2010
- Flakey said...
Exactly as I predicted last year
- 1:28 pm, May 31, 2010
- Anonymous said...
"More cynical commentators have suggested that the campaign against Warner and the plummeting popularity of the festival are more likely reasons"
I think it's more to do with internal problems within the BNP. Having factions fighting in a field surrounded by cops wouldn't be good for business.
- 3:06 pm, May 31, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Think you will find they will be too busy marching through the streets. Because that is what will be happening this summer.
- 3:47 pm, May 31, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Does this mean there wont be an RWB or onoy that it ownt be at derby?
are they moving it back to lancs or is going essex
- 5:14 pm, May 31, 2010
- Anonymous said...
How to demoralise an already demoralised membership even more, he he
- 5:14 pm, May 31, 2010
- red said...
Dare i say that a certain bnp organiser owns a farm in Wigan?
It would not surprise me.
- 6:46 pm, May 31, 2010
- iliacus said...
Even BNP 'loyalists' are finally turning their back on yet another Griffinite rip-off.
Ticket sales poor.
- 6:51 pm, May 31, 2010
- irishtony said...
Its like cancelling a Bucks Fizz concert on Bridlington Beach. Whos gives a feckin shite, it was always a bloody flop anyway.
Despite that well done Notts stop the NP, well done ll those that protested, and well done all sane rational people in the UK
- 7:37 pm, May 31, 2010
- smiffy said...
Harrington's friends in the US have set up their own American version of the BNP to contest elections in America in 2010: -
- 12:56 am, June 01, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Its cancelled because of the poor turn out last year only 800 members attended the rwb, which made a massive loss.
- 1:14 pm, June 01, 2010


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Title: Beauty & The Beast
Author: Mallory Reaves
Length: 160 pages (each)
Publication date: April 18, 2017
Genre: fairy tale, manga
Rating: 3.5/5
While I wouldn't say that Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney movie (that honour goes to Tangled), it is definitely up there in the top 3. I mean, what bookworm can't relate to Belle? I really enjoyed the new live action film that came out this spring as well. I liked some of the ways they drew out the characters and gave them more depth. When I saw this manga duology, I just had to read it. The story arc is pretty much the movie verbatim, with the addition of some inner thoughts. Volume 1 follows Belle's story, and volume 2 follows the Beast. The art wasn't amazing, kind of typical manga, and of course the story got really simplified from the movie. But if you're a fan of the movie I'd recommend this for a fast and fun read.
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After working registration on Friday and a 2 hour meeting on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day holiday (who's idea was that, anyway??), I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get my family ready for our vacation in Destin.
We were scheduled to leave by noon on Saturday, and I was determined not to lose my mind before we left. I'm notorious for freaking out a little before I leave to so somewhere...I'm a little OCD about how I like to leave my house when we're going to be gone. Certain things like dirty laundry and dishes in the sink or dishwasher can make me nuts.
I wanted to stake my tomato plants before I left, but my Farm and Garden was out of stakes :( I did not have time nor was I interested in going to Wally World to buy tomato stakes, so hopefully my tomato plants will be ok when I get back. My cucumbers are growing like crazy every day...it's almost as if you can SEE them growing
Our yellow pepper plants keep getting taller and have little buds on them...I'm not sure if the buds are new branches or actually the beginnings of a pepper.
My youngest's watermelons are beginning to spread out...I'm so glad we left them plenty of room to grow. The last watermelons we grew were very small, but much of the reason was planting them too close together. Vines have to have room.
I can't wait to see our plants when we get back home; I can only imagine how much they will have grown after not seeing them for 7 days!


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Boating yin and yang
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Would it be possible to make that hole bigger without nicking the wires?ReplyDelete
Bill, it is, but the pain threshold depends on what actually happened. If the flange at the bottom entry point was closed, then the hole through the aluminum flange is the same diameter as the hole you see, and about the only real option is to cut the wiring, remove the canvas and back pull the wiring, and with a hole saw cut a new hole through the fiberglass, and the aluminum plate. If the flange hole is larger, you can take a small drill bit and punch a series of holes to see what the diameter is, and with a rotozip you can enlarge the hole, albeit slowly and carefully. A piece of tin or the ilk can be bent and slid next to the wires to protect them while cutting. It all begs the question of why the hole was so small in the first place. I think it was just laziness in the first place.ReplyDelete


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Sri MGR Year 96, 24th April, Wednesday
Udhayam Productions colour movie Pallandu Vazhga was re-released previous week in Mahalakshmi theater. We have already uploaded some of the images and video of the re-release.
The story is a jail warden enacted by our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR, reforms 6 deadly prisoners (who had committed crime due to the situation) is released on parole and how our Leader turns the six deadly prisoners into persons of virtue by following his revolutionary techniques in reformation is the core of the story.
MGR Devotee Sathya had captured some of the scenes from Pallandu Vazhga to share with MGR Blog. Below is the video clipping consists of two scenes. First is the intro of MGR and V.Gopalakrishnan in the Warden room, followed by MGR venturing with the 6 most dangerous prisoners he had choosen to reform and the punch dialogs.
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Join Susan as she obsesses about cosmetic chemistry and other things (some possibly related to monkeys). Often strange, occasionally useful, and always worth a stop as a point of interest on your journey through the Intertron.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
A possible shampoo for dandruff prone hair
(From this post) Dandruff is defined as excessive scaling of the scalp that results in flaking of our skin. There are many different things that can cause dandruff but the general consensus is that it is a low-grade underlying inflammatory process resulting in proliferative activity of the scalp, meaning there is some kind of inflammation that is leading to excessive scaling. A person with dandruff might see a scalp skin cell turnover of as short as 7 days, whereas someone without dandruff might take up to a month. People with oilier scalps with an excess of oleic acid and a microbe (Pityrosporum species Malassezia ovalis) are more susceptible to dandruff. (The microbe processes the oils and causes an inflammatory response in our stratum corneum.) It's more active in the colder months than the summer. Dandruff treatments should include anti-microbial agents (like Tinosan or quaternary compounds), keratolytic agents (like salicylic acid or sulfur to increase scalp desquamation) and anti-seborrheic compounds (things that reduce sebum levels, like coal tar).
So with this in mind, I set out to make him a shampoo for his fine, oily, dandruff prone hair!
24.5% water
20% aloe vera liquid
5% sodium lactate
2% polyquat 44
2% Phytokeratin
10% cocamidopropyl betaine
15% C14-16 olefin sulfonate
15% DLS mild
0.5% white willow bark
1% tea tree oil
1% oily hair blend (equal parts lemon, lime, rosemary, sage, and cedarwood)
3% panthenol
0.5% liquid Germall Plus
2% Crothix added after cool down
I chose the aloe vera because it thickens the shampoo, makes it milder, and can help with moisturizing and increasing cell proliferation. It's also anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory, both of which sound necessary for a dandruff product.
I chose polyquat 44 because I find it to be a really good cationic polymer that won't build up on fine hair. I figure he can use this product as a 2 in 1 as he has really fine, short hair and doesn't really need to use a conditioner. (Which means I couldn't use Tinosan as an anti-bacterial as it doesn't play well with cationic ingredients or clear bottles, and I don't have any opaque bottles right now.)
I chose sodium lactate at 5% because my hand slipped as I was making it (it happens!) and because at over 3% it acts as a mild AHA, which can cause sloughing off of our cells. Since it will rinse out of his hair, I don't have to worry about it making him sun sensitive.
And I chose Phytokeratin because it's a blend of various hydrolyzed protein, and I figure his scalp needs some moisturizing without oils because he's oily enough!
I chose my surfactants because this is the blend I always use for oily hair. The cocamidopropyl betaine is great at thickening, increasing mildness, and increasing the foam. It can also behave as a humectant, which is great for fine hair. Disodium laureth sulfosuccinate (DLS mild) is considered a mild surfactant with great degreasing qualities for oily hair. C14-16 olefin sulfonate (I use Bioterge AS-40) has great flash foam and good cleansing, and it's recommended for oily hair.
I always include panthenol as it behaves as a humectant as well as a moisturizer and it can increase the size of the hair shaft, making hair look thicker. I chose tea tree oil as it is supposed to be good as an anti-bacterial ingredient, and I included my oily hair blend of essential oils because this is a product for oily hair! I included white willow bark as it behaves like salicylic acid without all the hassle of trying to dissolve the latter and it offers good anti-inflammatory and exfoliation properties. (I leave a little of the hot water phase out to melt it, then add it at the cool down phase!)
Finally, I added 2% Crothix when the shampoo came to room temperature to thicken it and increase mildness. You can use any thickening product or process you wish - I just find liquid Crothix so easy to use!
So what do I think? It works well as a shampoo, but I don't know how Ken feels about its possible dandruff battling action, so I'll have to wait for his e-mail saying yay or nay!
Remember, treating dandruff is a medical claim, so I'm not sure what those of you who sell might say about it. I'm calling it "A Possible Dandruff Shampoo" because I want to make sure that Ken knows what I've given him and not mix it up with other products I've given him (the white willow bark makes it a browny colour and my body wash looks the same way, although it does smell different).
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- DuhBe said...
This post is near and dear to my heart since I really want to clear up hubby's psorisis scalp which is very tricky. Coal tar works but it stinks - bad.
For mild dandruff I have found that switching surfs can make all the difference. Sometimes our dandruff is simply caused by overdrying shampoos, or irritation. SLS is too harsh for me, and many people are allergic to CaPB and don't even know it.
- January 5, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Robert said...
Since people have settled on a fungus as the cause of dandruff (to the same degree that a bacterium is the cause of peptic ulcers), I've been eager for someone to try undecylenic acid or a derivative thereof as an anti-dandruff agent in shampoo. It was the original active in Desenex, the anti-fungal foot powder. Merck gives it as a constituent of human sweat, and says it has a sweat-like odor, so it'd probably need a masking fragrance. Merck also says it's prepared by pyrolysis of ricinoleic acid, the fatty acid peculiar to castor oil.
Whether it would be effective enough in the form of soap, or needs to be present as the acid, I don't know.
- July 17, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- Sherry said...
A coal tar and a sulfur/salicylic acid combo shampoo have worked for me, but both leave my hair ultra greasy at the bottom layers after a day (or less) because I have really fine Asian hair. If it's possible, and when I become more well-versed in how to create products, maybe I'll try adding the sulfur/SA combo. I think my dandruff isn't really dandruff at all though, but more of flaking from oily scalp.
- July 3, 2014 at 2:50 PM
- Shahid Edroos said...
Hi Susan I am running a small business of room fresheners I have a problem of blooming my fresheners do not give excellent fregrence can I get some good tips of making good quality of roomfreshners
- June 21, 2015 at 4:12 AM
- Susan Barclay-Nichols said...
Hi Shahid. Please put your comments in the appropriate post. This has nothing to do with dandruff shampoo.
I don't know what to suggest. As I mention on the side bar of the blog, to help with a recipe I'll need you to post the complete recipe with process and we'll see what we can figure out!
- June 21, 2015 at 7:59 AM
- A Fajardo said...
Hi Susan, I had been having a problem with dandruff or flaky scalp for a long time. I would love to try this recipe except, I don't have fine oily hair just like your friend. I have thick strands, dry hair (as I use commercial hair colours) and I'm not sure about my scalp if it's oily or dry. Maybe say, normal. Is there any ingredient I should change on this recipe and what do I replace them with? Thank you!
- June 28, 2015 at 2:38 PM
- Susan Barclay-Nichols said...
Hi A. If you have dandruff, you have an oily scalp. I don't think I'd change anything in this recipe. Try it the way it is written, then make modifications if you don't like it.
- July 3, 2015 at 11:08 AM
- Kimberley Scanlan said...
Hi, I was wondering if you ever heard back on its performance? My partner has dandruff and I would love to make something for him. Though I will have to alter the surfactents as not all of these are available in Australia. I will have to do some research to find out which are best for oily hair.
- July 16, 2016 at 2:16 AM
- Susan Barclay-Nichols said...
Hi Kimberley! My friend really enjoyed the shampoo! If you check out the surfactants section of the blog, there's a surfactant chart you can consult. I would suggest for oily hair C14-16 olefin sulfonate, disodium laureth sulfosuccinate, LSB (which is disodium laureth sulfosuccinate and SLSa), or SLSa (but it's a powder, so only suitable for a shampoo bar). My husband and i both have oily hair, so I know these surfactants well!
- July 17, 2016 at 10:36 AM
- Dina Aruni Saffanah said...
hai susan if i add wheat germ oil and lemongrass oil which is good as antibacteria and antifungal properties to the formula, do you think the shampoo will have to much oil? and i will exclude wolliw bark because i dont hav any
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The Economy's the Wedge. Freedom's the Cause.By J. Robert Smith
Could 2012 be a reprise of 1932? You know, 1932, when Republicans were hosed by FDR and the Democrats? Though this time it's Barack Obama and his Democrats who'll face voter wrath and be sent packing -- packing for that cold, far land called Ignominy.
Say 2012 is an historic election like 1932 (and 1860 before it). How will Republicans guarantee that the results go their way in a big way, a landslide way? Republicans will do it by driving the economy like a juggernaut to the November polls. Gallup is reporting that voters approve of Republicans to handle the economy by gaping margins. With the U.S. and world economic and financial situations darkening, the trust-gap on the economy should continue to widen to the GOP's advantage.
Yet while the economy is the pile-driver for GOP election fortunes, there's got to be something more, much more. Surely the economy leads for the GOP, but freedom must be the cause, the theme that undergirds the entire GOP enterprise to capture the White House and Congress.
These critical times call for nothing short of the GOP to mount a great freedom campaign. A freedom campaign must provide a high resolution contrast to the Democrats' ongoing campaign to grip America in a soft tyranny -- or a harder tyranny, eventually, if the GOP fails to convince voters of the stakes.
Let's be clear: Republicans can still lose even if they rack up impressive gains in next year's elections (we've all heard of pyrrhic victories). If Republicans choose to run on particulars -- the economy, jobs, a sound dollar, less government -- without tying up those issues in a grand package called freedom, they may just miss the historic moment, the rare opportunity to shift the nation's course tectonically, like Roosevelt and liberals did back in the 1930s.
Emerging from this decade, the nation will either be more or less free -- markedly so. There's no middle ground, and neither is a given. Not just the nation's future, but its fundamental character is up for grabs. Freedom -- not the perverted definition of freedom offered up by the left -- is imperiled.
That's why it matters greatly who the next GOP presidential nominee is. Presidential nominees set the course for their parties. The sense is that Mitt Romney, the best-funded and best-organized contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is a particulars guy, not a big-picture guy -- a fixer, not a place-setter. Establishment Republicans -- and Romney is assuredly an establishment denizen -- aren't comfortable with causes; they squirm if pressed to come up with the "vision thing," as the Bushes might sneeringly refer to a thematic approach to campaigning and governing.
Romney Republicans aren't revolutionaries. The sense is that the plurality of GOP voters backing Romney (currently a plurality, given that the conservative vote is fractured) hanker for a restoration of the country pre-Obama -- say, a return to the good old days of 2007. Then, the federal government was big but not too overtly aggressive. The economy was performing well enough. The real estate market was buoyant. No ominous dark clouds cluttered the horizon.
But if the 2012 elections are chiefly about a restoration of 2007 America, the GOP will have lost the moment, much to the distress of future generations. Left-wingers are a resilient bunch; they live for government and the power and control it confers. Merely retarding the federal government does little to effectively roadblock a resurgence of Uncle Sam's power in outlying years.
Washington needs a root-and-branch job, a sizing down that's dramatic and that makes restoring big government a frustrating, arduous task for the left. America needs a freedom revolution powerful enough to redirect the nation as the progressive revolution did in the early twentieth century. That's not to suggest that a Republican president and Congress need to accomplish a freedom agenda overnight. FDR initiated the progressive revolution, setting the course for subsequent reforms and accretions in Washington's powers over the years.
A Republican president and Congress need to be initiators, groundbreakers, who build a momentum that will roll across the republic for decades. Of course, conservatives would do well to provide the spine and the prod for Republicans throughout the 2012 election cycle and into 2013, when -- let us pray fervently -- Republicans take the reins in Washington.
The spongy establishment conservatism of a Mitt Romney isn't the antidote for what ails the country. A clarified conservatism that embraces liberty and founding principles is the remedy. Imagine a surgeon cracking a patient's chest to unclog a few arties, but who clears only two of the three. The surgeon's partial service is too partial for the patient's health and well-being. A conservative-driven freedom revolution is aimed at restoring America's health fully. Half-efforts are practically useless.
In one of those odd twists, history seems to be repeating itself. The bad old days of the early 1930s are coming back. Well, not exactly the early 1930s. It could prove much worse. So says Sir Mervyn King, who runs the Bank of England. The world and the nation may be on the verge of an economic and financial collapse that surpasses the Great Depression. Quite an accomplishment for the ruling classes, our second adolescent president (Bill Clinton being the first), and their ideologically hidebound relations in Congress. Barack Obama can blame Pop G.W. Bush all he wants, but the voters are sticking Mr. Obama and Democrats with the responsibility for not reviving the national economy.
The elections in 2012 are about more than the economy, stupid. They're about freedom, or if freedom will survive the onslaught loosed by the left, in the persons of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. No -- come to think of it, 2012 is about driving a stake through the heart of the eighty-year statist experiment that has been inflicted on the republic. It needs to be about a rebirth of freedom -- that, is if the GOP has the clear-sightedness and courage to strive mightily to do so.
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The full version of this article was published on NextBillion on August 11th and written by Jessica Massie, senior technical advisor for Reach Global in Rwanda and a former Microcredit Summit Campaign team member.
Below are excerpts from Ms. Massie's review of the 2014 State of the Campaign Report. Read the full article here.
A Changing Narrative
When the Microcredit Summit Campaign began in 1997, it was, as the name implies, focused on microcredit. Since then, the world of financial services for the poor has undergone a shift from microcredit to microfinance—a broader range of formal and informal products and services.
Resilience: The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report, 2014 keeps up with the times by providing an interesting discussion of a number of innovations in the field of microfinance. The report focuses on resilience, and how financial services can promote it among the world's poorest families. But it also covers a broad range of services that have the potential to help people grow—to lead the prosperous life that Birdsall mentions—much more than credit alone can.
Taking Steps to Target the Poorest
[T]his year's report signals a shift in focus from microcredit to microfinance in the Campaign itself…reflect[ing] the trends shown in the Campaign's data. The 2013 report (which compiled data from 2011) showed a decline in borrowers for the first time; this year's report continues to show a decline in borrowers among the poorest.
Which Financial Services Promote Resilience?
[T]he Microcredit Summit Campaign's broader focus is a welcome adjustment. Last year's focus on vulnerability—and this year's on resilience—remind us of the core reasons that we do this work: to provide a useful and beneficial service to people who have historically been excluded. We don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but we do need to take a critical look at our work and revise our objectives accordingly. As the report's author, Larry R. Reed, points out, we need to ask, "How often—and how well—do MFIs reach those living in extreme poverty and supply them the type of financial services that help build resilience to withstand economic, medical, and weather-related shocks?"
The future of financial services that promote resilience and reduce vulnerability depends on institutions that not only innovate, but also practice self-reflection to ensure that they meet their social missions in a cost-effective way. While microfinance has seen its share of well-deserved controversy, the report offers a measured and realistic view of microfinance as an industry. No matter where you find yourself on the spectrum of ideology surrounding microfinance, Resilience is an interesting and informative read.
NextBillion Financial Innovation is a media partner of the 17th Microcredit Summit, which will be held in Merida, Mexico, from September 3-5, 2014. Many of the issues addressed and the innovations presented in the 2014 State of the Campaign Report will also be featured at the Summit. Please take a look at the program to see what there is to learn from participating in teh 17th Microcredit Summit.


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Commencement To Draw Upwards of 50,000 Guests
10,500 Grads and Candidates Expected to Take Part in 54th Annual Commencement
May 10, 2013
Nearly 10,500 grads and candidates for graduation are eligible to participate in Cal State Fullerton's May 25-26 commencement ceremonies. Attendees are expected to number more than 50,000 during the weekend festivities.
Keynote speakers for the universitywide ceremonies are Cal State Fullerton alumni Marc Cherry, Emmy Award-winning producer, on May 25 and Orange County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Guerrero Macias on May 26. They will be speaking at the universitywide ceremonies.
Saturday, May 25, and Sunday, May 26
Both commencement ceremonies begin at 8 a.m. on the athletics fields north of Titan Gym. College and department exercises and celebrations will follow at various locations throughout campus (listed below), 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, 92831
Tickets are not needed for the all-university ceremonies at 8 a.m., but are required for admission to all college and department exercises/celebrations that follow. This year, the university is using an e-ticket order system; scanners will be in use at all venues.
The ceremonies will be broadcast live on the Internet and may be viewed on the CSUF webpage, as well as on AT&T U-verse and Channel 98 in Fullerton, Placentia, Santa Ana and Seal Beach; and heard on Titan Internet Radio. Images from pre-commencement events, including the Senior BBQ and cultural recognition ceremonies can be see in the Commencement 2013 Flickr collection.
Faculty Marshals:
Faculty marshals, by college, are:
Arts — Todd L. Miller, professor of music
Communications — Genelle I. Belmas, associate professor of communications; Kurt P. Kitselman, professor of human communication studies; and Jule Selbo, associate professor of radio-TV-film
Education — Dawn Person, professor of educational leadership
Engineering and Computer Science — Mariko Molodowitch, associate professor of computer science
Health and Human Development — Jie W. Weiss, professor of health science
Humanities and Social Sciences — George M. Dery, professor of criminal justice
Natural Sciences and Mathematics — Mortaza Jamshidian, professor of mathematics
Mihaylo College of Business and Economics — Lori A. Muse, professor of management
Commencement Eve:
The annual Honors Convocation to recognize student achievements will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 24, in the Meng Concert Hall of the university's Clayes Performing Arts Center. Also Friday, May 24, is the 10 a.m. ROTC Commissioning Ceremony on the Engineering and Computer Science lawn and the 5 p.m. Teacher Credential Ceremony in Titan Gym.
Special Commencement parking permits are required for on-campus parking. Limited to vehicles with three or more occupants, on-campus parking is on a first-come, first-served basis. Late arrivals or cars with fewer than three people will be directed to park at off-campus parking areas.
Levels 1 and 2 of the State College Parking Structure and Parking Lot I (east of the Education-Classroom Building) have been designated for the disabled whose vehicles display DMV placard or DP plate; limited shuttles will be available. Map of the campus is available online.
College and Department Exercises/Celebrations
(Approximate starting time is 9:30 a.m., except where noted)
College of the Arts — Parking lot west of tennis courts/corner of Gymnasium and West Campus drives (northwest corner of campus)
Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
Business Administration-Accounting and Finance concentrations, M.A. Economics, MBA and M.S. in Accountancy, Information Systems, Information Technology and Taxation — Athletics field north of Titan Gym
College of Health and Human Development
Child and Adolescent Studies — West side of Titan Gym
Counseling — Meng Concert Hall, Clayes Performing Arts Center
Health Science, Human Services, Kinesiology, Public Health — Titan Stadium
Nursing — Patio east of Titan Shops/Commons (plus 2 p.m. May 26 pinning ceremony in Titan Gym)
Social Work — Little Theatre, Clayes Performing Arts Center
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
English, Comparative Literature, Linguistics — West side of Humanities-Social Sciences Building
French, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Spanish, TESOL — Portola Pavilion, Titan Student Union
Gerontology — Mackey Auditorium, Ruby Gerontology Center
Liberal Studies — Titan Gym
Sociology — Tent in the southwest corner of Parking Lot A (south of the Children's Center)
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics — Lawn west of Engineering Building
Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics
Business Administration-Business Economics, Entertainment and Tourism Management, Entrepreneurship, Information Systems, International Business, Management, Management Science, Marketing, and Risk Management and Insurance concentrations and B.A. Economics — Athletics field north of Titan Gymnasium
College of Communications
Communications — Titan Stadium
Communicative Disorders and Speech Communication — Tent in the southwest corner of Parking Lot A (south of the Children's Center)
Radio-TV-Film — Patio east of Titan Shops
College of Education — Titan Gym
College of Engineering and Computer Science — Lawn west of Engineering Building
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Afro-Ethnic Studies/Asian American/Chicano-Chicana Studies/Philosophy — Little Theatre, Clayes Performing Arts Center
American Studies/Religious Studies — Meng Concert Hall, Clayes Performing Arts Center
Anthropology/Environmental Studies — Portola Pavilion, Titan Student Union
History/European Studies — West side of Humanities-Social Sciences Building
Political Science/Public Administration/Criminal Justice — Parking lot west of tennis courts/corner of Gymnasium and West Campus drives (west side of campus)
Psychology — West entrance to Titan Gym
Women and Gender Studies — Mackey Auditorium, Ruby Gerontology Center


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The director and communications director at the State Department of Environmental Quality resigned in December. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced the firing today of Liane Shekter Smith, the former chief of the DEQ's Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance who had previously been reassigned and later suspended; the department continues to review the actions of a second employee who was suspended last month.
A task force Snyder appointed to investigate the crisis has concluded that the state DEQ is primarily to blame for not requiring the chemicals that allowed lead to leach into the water.
But some environmentalists are not letting the Federal Environmental Protection Agency off the hook -- saying it bears at least part of the blame for the catastrophe.
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NEW YORK—Four athletes with Washington ties are entered in the prestigious Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in New York at the Armory.
Garrett Heath of the Brooks Beasts is in the Wanamaker Mile, along with teammate Riley Masters.
In the women's Wanamaker Mile, Katie Mackey of the Brooks Beasts is entered, as is Camas' Alexa Efraimson (left/photo by Paul Merca).
In other events on the Millrose docket, Rainier Beach HS grad Ginnie Crawford is entered in the women's 60 meter hurdles, while Seattle resident Phoebe Wright is in the women's 800.
The complete start list for the Millrose Games is available here. The meet will be streamed on USATF.tv from 9 am-1pm, before moving to the NBC Sports Network from 1-3 pm.
The complete start list for the Millrose Games is available here. The meet will be streamed on USATF.tv from 9 am-1pm, before moving to the NBC Sports Network from 1-3 pm.
In Nampa, Idaho, Seattle Pacific's women's squad is in a solid position to challenge conference favorite Alaska Anchorage for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference team title after the first day of competition at Jacksons Track at the Ford Idaho Center.
The Falcons scored 50 points, 14 behind first day leader Alaska Anchorage, with Western Washington in third at 39.5 points. Central Washington stands fifth with 25, and Saint Martin's is seventh with 17 points.
SPU got their first title of the day from pole vaulter Michaella Kahns, who won the event with a clearance of 11-6.25 (3.51m), the same height as Central Washington's McKenna Emmert. Kanhs took the title based on a first attempt make at that height, while Emmert needed three tries.
Also earning a top-3 finish for the Falcons was Geneva Lehnert in the high jump, clearing 5-7.25 (1.71m) to take third, with Western Washington's Miranda Osadchey second with the same height.
Kyra Brannan took third in the long jump with a mark of 18-3 (5.56m), and Maliea Luquin was third in the pentathlon with 3468 points.
The Vikings earned a top three finish in the distance medley relay (3rd, 12:11.69). Central also got a top three finish in the distance medley relay (2nd, 12:08.56), while Saint Martin's got a second place finish from Kirby Neale in the weight throw (51-8.75/15.76m) and a third place finish from 1Shannon Porter in the 5000 (17:15.87).
After day 1 in the men's competition, Western Washington stands second with 31 points, eight points behind Alaska Anchorage's 39 points. Central Washington is in fifth with 14 points, while Seattle Pacific stands seventh with 9 points, and Saint Martin's is tenth with 3 points.
In first day finals, Nate Van Tuinen of the Vikings finished second in the long jump at 23-2.75 (7.08m), just one place ahead of Central's Luke Plummer (22-11.75/6.99m).
In the weight throw, Armando Tafoya of Central was second with a toss of 56-7 (17.24m).
The meet resumes Saturday. Day 1 results are available here.
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The NYTimes discusses the conflicts around "trusted computing:" A Safer System for Home PC's Feels Like Jail to Some Critics [pdf]
The most interesting suggestion of this article is that Apple may be electing to use its choice to echew DRM hardware (in favor of software) may end up being used as a competitive threat to the Wintel platform – a very clever move, if true, since I know that I will definitely vote with my wallet on this issue.
But by entwining PC software and data in an impenetrable layer of encryption, critics argue, the companies may be destroying the very openness that has been at the heart of computing in the three decades since the PC was introduced. There are simpler, less intrusive ways to prevent illicit file swapping over the Internet, they say, than girding software in so much armor that new types of programs from upstart companies may have trouble working with it.
[…] "Microsoft's use of the term `trusted computing' is a great piece of doublespeak," said Dan Sokol, a computer engineer based in San Jose, Calif., who was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computing Club, the pioneering PC group. "What they're really saying is, `We don't trust you, the user of this computer.' "
[…] How consumers will react to the new technology is a thorny question for PC makers because the new industry design stands in striking contrast to the approach being taken by Apple Computer.
Apple has developed the popular iTunes digital music store relying exclusively on software to restrict the sharing of digital songs over the Internet.
[…] Apple only has a tiny share of the personal computer market. But it continues to tweak the industry leaders with its innovations; last week, Apple's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, demonstrated a feature of the company's newest version of its OS X operating system called FileVault, designed to protect a user's documents without the need for modifying computer hardware.
Mr. Jobs argued that elaborate hardware-software schemes like the one being pursued by the Trusted Computing Group will not achieve their purpose.
Even the Darknet paper is cited.
Patents in the news: Protecting Ideas in the Insurance Business [pdf]
In 1998, after hearing a legal challenge to a patent for a way of pooling mutual fund assets, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that methods of doing business could be patented. Since that ruling, known as the State Street Bank decision, applications for business-method patents have begun transforming the way products are created and marketed.


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After going on a task for many days, he would later find out that his town had been ravaged by a group of Noxian bandits, leaving no trace of any survivors. He would soon later find one of her mother's knitting to find a robe made for him. He would travel to many places around the world for many years, learning the power of Earth, Wind, Water a…Read more >


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I decided to stage an impromptu photo shoot outside of a restaurant before going in to eat with my grandparents. It was hard to concentrate on everything while so many good smells wafted through the parking lot. Luckily, we managed to take a few before my appetite got out of control.