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A Pennsylvania nurse has been accused of forging co-workers' signatures more than 280 times to steal painkillers and sedatives to support her sister's drug addiction.
Bonnie Duffy, 53, admitted in a confession to police last month that she stole medications from Carbondale Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Carbondale, PA, by forging 19 coworkers' signatures in a medication logbook. The book was used to document drugs that were administered to patients at the facility. She also allegedly stole residents' prescriptions from a medication cart, according to police.
The falsified entries were discovered when a nurse saw her signature next to a drug sign-out that she said she had not signed. According to the entry, the drugs were given to a resident who rarely asked for his pain medication. Administrators later discovered Duffy had signed for his medications in several other entries in the book. The thefts took place over 185 days, according to the center's records.
A police investigation revealed that oxycodone, Vicodin, Xanax and morphine were among the drugs taken from the facility. Aside from occasionally taking painkillers herself for headaches, Duffy gave the stolen drugs to a relative, police said.
Duffy was indicted Thursday and released on $20,000 unsecured bail. She faces charges of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or misrepresentation, forgery, records tampering, theft, receiving stolen property and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for later this month, according to her attorney.


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Emma has been creating bears since the late 1990s, eventually selling her own unique designs under the incredibly original name of 'Emma's Bears'. At first the bears were just a hobby, but it was one that soon became addictive. Over the course of nearly 20 years of designing, Emma has produced a rather extensive collection of her unique hand-drawn teddy bear designs, some of which she has released for other bear makers to use.
This little bear is an adaptation of one of her very early designs, and would look wonderful in a wide variety of contrasting colours and fabrics. Emma and her husband Mark run 'Emma's Bears' and the sister store 'Fur Addiction' from their home in Queensland, Australia, producing one of a kind handmade teddy bears as well as unique hand-dyed fur fabrics, hand painted glass eyes and many more bear making items. "For more information about Emmo visit her blog on: http://emmasbears.blogspot.com.au/p/about-me.html
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State of IT
Company revenues are expected to rise, IT budgetary waters look calm, and IT pros are gearing up to adopt new tech in the coming year.
What does 2018 hold in store for IT buyers? From budgets and purchase drivers to top tech trends, we surveyed more than 1,000 IT pros about everything you need to know. Then, we compiled (and analyzed) a massive treasure trove of data to help you prepare for the year ahead.
In this interactive report, you'll discover a boatload of spicy insights, including:
Key Takeaway #1
Smooth sailing for tech budgets.
IT budgets are expected to stabilize and (in many cases) grow in 2018, leading to a boost in IT staffing.
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Tides are turning for IT spending.
Budgets for cloud-based services are on the rise, and more IT departments are jumping on board with emerging tech like AI, VR, and 3D printing.
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GDPR preparation is hazy.
Few IT departments are budgeting for GDPR, which could end up costing companies quite a few shillings in fines.


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Light In My Darkness: The Gospel Of Hope
Today I want to write about the life of a most extraordinary woman against whose challenges in life our own trials pale to near insignificance. A woman whose moral and intellectual life was profoundly moulded and shaped by a faith articulated by an 18th Century Christian mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg. A woman who carried the bright torch of her Christian understanding through the darkness of a private world oppressed by profound physical affliction and endless challenge—a world deprived of sight, hearing and speech. The everyday world of Helen Keller.
Helen Adams Keller, most will recall, was a perfectly normal child until her nineteenth month when she was stricken with scarlet fever. When the fever cleared, Helen was left unable to see, hear or speak. She was blind, profoundly deaf, and mute.
The medical arts of her day offered Helen no hope of regaining any part of what she had lost. The best her grieving parents could hope for was that the child might somehow be taught some system which would equip her with the most basic communications skills, though even this modest dream seemed well beyond the sad realities of her case.
Helen Keller needed a miracle, and it was a miracle that God supplied.
Helen's miracle arrived in the person of Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old former student at the Perkins School for the Blind, who was to be Helen's teacher, tireless companion and devoted friend. In the bond God formed between these young women Sullivan found the key to unlock Helen's world of loneliness and isolation, the spark which ignited an explosion of learning and growth and unshackled a brilliant mind.
To the astonishment of all who knew her, Helen learned how to effectively communicate through the use of manual signs, but this awe inspiring accomplishment was only the beginning. She pressed on with unbounded enthusiasm and determination to surpass in accomplishments even the brightest, most talented and ambitious of her peers.
At the age of twenty-four Helen graduated from the prestigious Radcliffe College, becoming the first deaf/blind student ever to earn the Bachelor of Arts degree. In the following years she put her education to serious and beneficial use, becoming an effective political activist and advocate of a radically just social gospel, accomplished author, philanthropist, champion of the blind and deaf, and popular lecturer. Yes, lecturer! Helen Keller was nothing short of a marvel—the product of a true miracle.
Was it mere happenstance, a random series of happy strands of fortune that tangled in such a unique pattern as to form the miracle that was Helen Keller? Was her miracle of her own making, the product of sheer force of will? If so, how does one so exercise mortal will to produce such a victory? Helen, herself, had a far gentler and more reverent answer:
"I know that life is given us so that we may grow in love. And I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of the flower, the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence."
Keller was introduced to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg by John Hitz, superintendent of Alexander Graham Bell's research institution, theVolta Bureau. From the day that Hitz first put a Braille edition of Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell into Helen's hands, when she was sixteen years old, she clung to it as the lamp which illuminated her Christian understanding and delivered her out of a sightless world.
In 1927, Helen wrote Light In My Darkness (originally titled, My Religion), a book which stands as a testimony to her abiding Christian faith and which acknowledges the contributions made by Swedenborg to her more perfect understanding of that faith. Of Swedenborg she writes:
"The teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg have been my light, and a staff in my hand and by his vision splendid I am attended on my way."
So, what then, in Swedenborg's teachings produces such light as illuminated Keller's path? What is the essence of his vision that finds so much affection among his followers? It is, precisely, the same rare and precious jewel that glistens at the heart of the Gospel, bursts radiantly forth from the Word, and makes manifest the Truth of our Christian faith.
It is Hope. Nothing more nor less than Hope.
Swedenborg's visions are available for all to see. They are not hidden in unseen worlds nor reserved for the eyes of the privileged few. They are ever in plain sight, even for a young girl so afflicted, and so blessed, as Helen Keller. They are on every page of the Holy Scriptures, and they are within the hearts of all mankind. We need only have eyes to see and ears to hear. We need only have Hope.
At Helen's funeral in 1961 Senator Lister Hill of Alabama delivered a tribute to Helen's life, and ended with a tribute to her vision of the life hereafter. The words were Helen's own, a passage from Light In My Darkness.
"What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved smiling face upon you? I have to believe that such shall be our awakening from earth to heaven. My faith never wavers that each dear friend I have lost is a new link between this world and the happier land beyond the morn. My soul is for the moment bowed down with grief when I cease to feel the touch of their hands or hear a tender word; but the light of faith never fades from my sky."


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- It was all coming together for 20-year-old North Shore resident Kaylyn Pryor.
The effervescent Evanston Township High School grad, who was attending Robert Morris University, had won the "Mario, Make Me a Model" competition sponsored annually by Chicago's Mario Tricoci Hair Salons & Day Spas in September.
And she had just signed her first modeling contract. Her breakthrough came from Factor Women Model Management agency, and she was expected to return the freshly inked agreement to the Chicago agency on Thursday.
[...]Police said a passing vehicle sprayed bullets at the two about 6:20 p.m., not far from where 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was shot to death just two hours earlier in the 8000 block of South Damen.
And now the speculation has some grounds it would seem:
- Chicago police are looking into whether a 9-year-old boy was killed in retaliation for his father's alleged role in a gang rivalry that resulted in at least two recent slayings on the South Side and the wounding of a reputed gang member's mother, law enforcement sources have told the Tribune.
But while the father of Tyshawn Lee said he believes his son was targeted, he denied anyone had reason to kill the boy in order to retaliate against him.
In an interview Tuesday night with the Tribune, Pierre Stokes denied anyone would have a motive to kill him, but if they did, there was no reason to take it out on his son because he's out in public in the neighborhood all the time. If anyone wanted to harm him, they could find the opportunity, he said.
"I'm not hard to find," Stokes said.
Watch your backs and fronts boys and girls - the potential for violence during this warm stretch has many people worried.
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For those of us watching Yeezy Season 4 at home on Tidal, the show was pretty cool as an art piece but a bit tough to track the sneakers. Lucky for us, our friends at Sneaker News were in attendance and able to take shots of the model of the moment: the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2.
While the shoe's retail debut is slated for the end of this month, three different variations were worn on the runway. A triple-white wear paralleled pairs of 550s previously spotted on the likes of French Montana, while an "Oxford Tan" take saw the new knitting and translucent sole upgrades associated with the current version. On top of that, Kanye West took to the show wearing the Black/Red pair he's been spotted in as of late.
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Bobcats – "The Three Stooges"
That's right, meet "The Three Stooges", "Bob", "Milo" and "Lyle" our three adult male bobcats. They are full of so much energy, they'll make you tired just watching them! They all three can be worked together or separately. Together or alone, they will run right at camera, play fight, and pose. They all have terrific personalities, giving you great natural behaviors, with not one, but the possiblity of three bobcats in one picture! The Bobcat is always on board for our Red Rock Moab Utah each year. Jumping across shallow canyons, catch his reflection in the pot holes, posing nicely with the breathtaking Red Rock Canyons as the backdrop. Our cats are not declawed, therefore they can be photographed/filmed in trees, jumping down and back up again. The opportunties are endless!
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- Type: Mammal
- Diet: Carnivore
- Average life span in the wild: 10 to 12 years
- Size: Head and body, 26 to 41 in (66 to 104 cm); tail, 4 to 7 in (10 to 18 cm)
- Weight: 11 to 30 lbs (5 to 14 kg)
- Did you know? The bobcat is the most abundant wildcat in the U.S. and has the greatest range of all native North American cats.
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Four new patterns are now available from Goddess Knits – 2 socks and 2 shawls.
Also, a new Mystery Shawl will begin on July 28. This mystery will included two bonuses – an additional shawl pattern as well as a special bonus that will be uploaded at the end of the mystery.
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By Carolyn Cohn
LONDON (Reuters) - Uganda's anti-gay law is having little impact on its ability to attract investment from Western economies and investors, its finance minister said on Tuesday.
Western donors have halted or re-directed about $118 million in aid to the east African economy since President Yoweri Museveni signed a law in February which toughened existing rules against gays and prescribed life in jail for what it called "aggravated homosexuality", such as sex with a minor.
"There has been a lot of heat and dramatization," Maria Kiwanuka told Reuters on the sidelines of a Uganda business forum, saying she had no figures for any aid cuts.
"Nobody has written to me to say," she said.
Aid contributed around 20 percent of the budget this year, Kiwanuka said, compared with 25 percent in the 2012/2013 year. Analysts have said Uganda has become less dependent on aid for budget support in recent years.
Kiwanuka denied the law had affected Uganda's economic relations with the West, saying she had held recent extensive discussions with U.S. officials on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington in April.
"No one has said 'I am not talking to you any more'."
Foreign direct investment into Uganda, which is due to start producing oil in the next few years, rose to $1.5 billion in the 2012/13 year, Kiwanuka said, double the levels in 2008/09 at the height of the global financial crisis.
"We are getting inward investments into the oil (sector), so it could be higher this year," said deputy central bank governor Louis Kasekende, who was also present at the interview.
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group conglomerate, told Reuters last month the anti-gay legislation was "very sad and damaging to the country's reputation and prospects".
But Kiwanuka said, "Virgin Atlantic is still flying into Lagos, and Nigeria has even stricter laws."
Uganda is one of 37 countries in Africa where homosexuality is illegal. Foreign investors are prominent in many countries where homosexuality is illegal or seen as anti-gay, such as Nigeria and Russia.
Uganda's central bank said last week growth for the 2013/2014 fiscal year ending June would be 5.7 percent, a slight drop from earlier 6 percent forecasts, with 6-6.5 percent growth seen next year.
This was largely due to a slowdown in exports to conflict-hit South Sudan.
"It's a big trade partner," Kiwanuka said, adding exports to east Africa fell 15 percent in the January-March quarter, with South Sudan the major contributor to the downturn.
Uganda aims to borrow commercially from whichever sources are cheapest to help fund economic development, Kiwanuka said.
"Like any good housewife, I will go for the least cost, who will give me the best value."
Uganda previously shelved plans for a debut Eurobond, rather than follow several other African sovereigns which have issued dollar debt in the past few years - some more than once.
But Kiwanuka did not rule out a Eurobond - even though yields have risen in emerging debt markets over the past year - if debt underwriters were able to provide attractive pricing.
"Who knows - a Eurobond merchant might be very skilful," she said.
Once oil output starts, Uganda plans to follow other African states such as Nigeria and Angola in setting up a form of sovereign wealth fund to preserve excess oil revenues for future generations.
The fund would only invest in triple-A rated assets, Kiwanuka said.
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PREPARING PATHWAYS FOR TOMORROW'S LEADERS WITH THE SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED FOR THE 21st CENTURY
Bloomsbury International School Hatyai is proud to present its Pathways to Success event on Thursday 7th December 2017 between 5pm and 8pm in our Convention Hall.
This event will highlight the changes being made to university entrance in Thailand as A-levels are now an essential entrance qualification for international programmes at Thai universities and will help you/your child to prepare academic or career goals for the future. There will be guest speakers and presentations designed to be informative, valuable and inspiring to you/your child that an international route in education is a positive step.
Pathways to Success will also be the first opportunity to learn more about the new and exciting Bloomsbury International School Hatyai Sixth Form opening in 2018/19. Learn how International A-levels can lead toacademic and vocational degrees, training, or work, and how they can be valuable qualifications and a passport to global education. Overseas qualified staff and speakers will be on hand to advise on both our Sixth Form and university entry. We look forward to seeing you there.


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At 2400 Briarwest, you will discover a relaxed lifestyle. We have well-appointed one, two and three bedroom apartment homes which offer built-in bookshelves, wood-burning fireplaces, linen closets, ceiling fans, mini-blinds and so much more. Our beautifully landscaped community features a resort-style swimming pool and Jacuzzi, fully-equipped fitness center, tennis courts and we are pet friendly too. We are close to Beltway 8 and shopping and dining opportunities including West Oaks Mall await you. "Make yourself at home" at 2400 Briarwest today. Great amenities, professional management, and convenient location adds up to an incredible living experience. Come visit us today or call to schedule your personal tour!
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The property is really a good place to live in.
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence," a film directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Stanley Kubrick, was released 10 years ago this summer. We are honored to present critic-filmmaker Benjamin Sampson's two-part video essay on the film, which he edited in 2009 while studying cinema and media studies at UCLA. Sampson has written a new introduction for PressPlay. — MZS]
By Benjamin Sampson
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As most people know, Steven Spielberg's A.I Artificial Intelligence actually started out as Stanley Kubrick's A.I Artificial Intelligence. It was Kubrick's longest gestating project, always in some form of development or another from the 1970s until his death in 1999. Part of Kubrick's hesitance to make the film was actually very practical. Kubrick knew he shot films slowly, and therefore hesitated to cast a child actor in the starring role of David for fear that any real child would grow too rapidly for on-screen consistency. Kubrick spent a significant amount of time trying to solve this problem, even pouring a good deal of money into the development of actual robots for the role, only to abandon the attempts. While the troubles of children and robots endlessly delayed the project throughout the 1980s, it also eventually led to Spielberg's participation in the film.
After viewing Jurassic Park in 1993, Kubrick thought digital effects might now be sophisticated enough to solve his technical problems. He knew Spielberg well—the two had been friends since 1979, when they both shared neighboring sound stages in England while filming The Shining and Raiders of the Lost Ark—and so he contacted the other director for advice. Their conversations led to Spielberg becoming a confidant and advisor on A.I and, as the collaboration grew, Kubrick eventually came to believe Spielberg's sensibilities and quicker filming pace would better suit the material. He even offered Spielberg the job at several points, saying they could advertise the project with "Stanley Kubrick Presents a Steven Spielberg Film." Spielberg, however, initially declined. After Kubrick's death in 1999, Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan approached Spielberg and asked him to complete the film. Spielberg this time agreed and the final film was released, appropriately enough, in the year 2001.
So now we have the film—the technological and artistic child of two very famous and very different directors. But given this filmmaking pedigree, the film itself is sadly the most overlooked artifact of the entire venture. Critics and fans spend much their time debating the contributions of each filmmaker—what belonged to Kubrick and what was added by Spielberg—and often with incorrect theories. A common misconception, for example, is that Kubrick would have ended the film with David trapped under the sea, and that Spielberg tacked on some strange and sentimental ending set in the far future, which is false. Kubrick actually devised the entire ending.
But all of these speculations still distract from the central issue: the film. Regardless of production history—fascinating as it may be—A.I. is still a film and speaks in the language of a film and communicates to an audience on the level of a film. So, what is the film communicating?
When studied as a visual text, the film expresses many visual patterns and motifs. For example, A.I. is obsessed with patterns of doubling and circular design. Throughout the film, faces become superimposed on top of one another, while different characters echo similar actions and the film narrative circles around on itself. Circles also dominate the film's visual compositions, with specific characters repeatedly framed through oval structures or reflected against rounded surfaces. These repetitions in the mise-en-scène suggest multiple readings and underlying themes, including an interconnection between humans and machines that spans both desire and destiny.
After examining the film itself, it seems rather logical that Kubrick offered Spielberg the project. Their dual authorship perfectly reflects the film's own visual duality. And their much-noted contrast of temperaments—warm and cold, emotional and analytical, tender and pessimistic—perfectly compliments the film's final message. Only their combination of perspectives could show why human love is so attractive and so addictive, and at the same time so maddeningly selfish and self-seeking. As a result of this duality, A.I. never recoils from either genuine emotion or its dark consequence.
Benjamin Sampson is a writer and filmmaker based in Los
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Valley Finisher is located at 5639 Thurston Rd, Springfield, OR. This location is in the Thurston neighborhood. This business specializes in General Contractors.


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A symbol of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is once again looking radiant in bright shiny gold after a yearlong restoration. It's the 13-foot-tall sculpture of the Roman goddess Diana in an archer's pose, ready to fire her arrow. The work by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens originally crowned an early venue for New York's Madison Square Garden, where it served as a weather vane starting in 1893. The museum acquired it in 1932. Museum officials said that 180 square feet of gold leaf was applied over the 700-pound work.
Details: http://philamuseum.org/.
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After the success of their debut film together, 'Student of the Year' pair, Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan are back onscreen in Dharma Productions' 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania'.
The trailer starts off with the muscled Punjabi lad, Humpty dreaming about feisty Kavya with 'Mud mud ke na dekh' playing in the background.
The couple was the talk of the town owing to their crackling chemistry in their first film together, and this time it looks even more promising.
While Varun plays the simple boy looking for love, Alia is the headstrong, Delhi girl who knows what she wants. Also what's interesting is that she seems to be a Kareena Kapoor fan in the film.
Directed by Shashank Khaitan, 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania' is said to be an ode to all-time love classic, 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'.
The trailer ends with Varun Dhawan watching the last scene from 'DDLJ' with tears in his eyes.
Produced by Karan Johar, 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania', is slated to hit screens by July 11.
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The Media and Educational Technologies (MET) group in IT Services offers a wide range of services to the campus community, including:
- Professional media production services (concept development, scripting, filming and photography, editing, post-production, and online streaming)
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Until March 2016, the MET group was part of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. We are now part of IT Services. Our service locations have not changed: we are still located in the basement of the Erie/Lambton complex.
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Kid's Desk from Molger
Materials: MOLGER bench, VALLA door, wooden stick (60cm), screws
Description: Inspired by this hack I got the idea to make a kid's desk from the MOLGER bench.
So we put the lower shelf outside the bench (a bit higher +-30cm), the legs are made of wooden sticks 3x3cm).
As the table top we used VALLA kitchen cabinet door 60x92cm, but it is a bit redundant, next time I would prefer 50x92cm.
It is simple, washable, stable, kids don't need to (and can't :) move the chairs, they have enough space... I am satisfied :)
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Tesla brands Model S review 'fake'
When Top Gear tested the Tesla Roadster all those years ago, you could say that things between Tesla and the BBC ended up getting little tense – with the manufacturer eventually (and unsuccessfully) suing the broadcaster over its representation of the car.
Now Tesla, or more importantly boss Elon Musk, has again kicked off in defence of its EVs' range – this time branding a review of its Model S in the New York Times as 'fake'.
Mr Musk, the former founder of Paypal, took to Twitter to slam claims by the writer John Broder that the car ran out of power sooner than expected on a winter's day.
Mr Musk tweeted: "NYTimes article about Tesla range in cold is fake." The NYT responded, by defending its article saying Mr Musk's claim was "flatly untrue".
Tesla predicts a range of 265 miles for the particular Model S tested by Broder, and say that in some cases the mode should travel further than 300. Mr Musk therefore claims that the reviewer didn't fully charge the car and "took a long detour".
According to a report on the BBC website, a statement responding to Mr Musk from the NYT said: "Mr Broder's review was completely factual, describing the trip as it occurred. Any suggestion that the account was 'fake' is, of course, flatly untrue.
"There was no unreported detour."
Despite the widely understood idea that EV batteries' ranges tend to shrink in the cold weather, Musk is apparently preparing a blog detailing what actually happened and had plans to get other journalists to do the same trip.
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The following links provide useful information for Danish companies with an interest in Thailand and Cambodia.
Board of Investment provides valuable information to companies interested in investing in Thailand regarding rules and framework conditions such as costs of doing business, legal concerns and much more.
The Danish-Thai Chamber of Commerce (DanCham) organizes monthly network events, seminars and other arrangements for the benefit of Danish companies in Thailand.
European trade organisation in Thailand with an objective to act as the voice of European businesses in Thailand towards the development of a favourable business climate and to promote Thailand and ASEAN as high-potential markets.
One of over 140 EU delegations around the world. The office in Bangkok also covers Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
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There is a well know parable about a man who comes to a rabbi and begs the rabbi for advice about how to undo the effects of his sin of defamatory gossip. The rabbi responds by telling the man to fill a pillowcase with feathers and to open the pillowcase on the top of a mountain. The man dutifully does that and then reports back to the rabbi. The rabbi said, "Now go collect all those feathers."
The clear implication of this story is that when one defames another person it is nearly impossible to undo the damage that was done.
One might not be able to undo the damage but there is a path to repentance for the sin itself.
In the rabbinic tradition the sin of gossip is an extraordinarily severe sin. The Babylonian Talmud (Erchin 15b) says that one who gossips is equivalent to a heretic and thus causes God to remove Himself from the world.
There is a physical affliction described in the Torah that is called tzara'at (Leviticus chapters 13 and 14). The rabbis understand that this affliction arose out of a punishment for a person's sin of gossip.
The ancient rabbis therefore interpret the cure for this biblical punishment to be reflective of the need to purge ourselves of this emotional desire to gossip.
According to the Torah (Leviticus 13:46): "All the days in which the tzara'at is on him he shall be unclean; he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be beyond the encampment."
The great medieval Jewish commentator Rashi (1040-1105) notes: "Our Rabbis said: Why is this person who has tzara'at different from other sinners in that only he must dwell alone? Since by his slanderous tongue, he separated man from his wife, and a man from his neighbor, so he too will be separated."
Once a person has committed the sin of gossip, the only way to atone for this horrible sin is to force oneself to understand just how emotionally painful it is to live alone. For this reason the one who gossiped is forced to live alone.
I thought of this last week when reading about the life and death of Chuck Colson.
Technically speaking Chuck Colson was a convicted felon. He pled guilty to a crime on June 3, 1974.
But what was his crime?
The Washington Post obituary for Colson noted the following:
In an effort to get to the bottom of this story, I spoke with Ken Adams, one of Colson's defense attorneys at the time, as well as Semour Glanzer who was one of the three original Watergate prosecutors.
A self-described "hatchet man" for Nixon, Mr. Colson compiled the notorious "enemies list" of politicians, journalists and activists perceived as threats to the White House. And most fatefully, he helped orchestrate illegal activities to discredit former Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who was suspected of leaking a top-secret history of the Vietnam War to the New York Times and The Washington Post.
It was the targeting of Ellsberg -- rather than Mr. Colson's peripheral involvement in the growing Watergate break-in scandal -- that eventually led to his conviction for obstruction of justice. In the midst of this crisis, Mr. Colson said he underwent a profound religious transformation in August 1973.
Acting against the advice of his lawyers, Mr. Colson pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, a step that he depicted as "a price I had to pay to complete the shedding of my old life and to be free to live the new."
Released on parole in January 1975, after seven months in a minimum-security prison, Mr. Colson became a leading voice in the evangelical movement and an advocate for prison reform.
Glanzer told me that there was no way that Colson would ever be convicted. There was simply not enough evidence that he did anything wrong.
Adams confirmed that both he and Colson's other defense attorney, David Shapiro, told Colson that he would not be convicted. However, Colson instructed them to find something that he could plead guilty to since he felt he did something morally wrong. According to Adams he and Shapiro had to work hard to convince the skeptical judge that Colson had violated Ellsberg's civil rights by "condoning a break-in in an attempt to find derogatory information about Ellsberg and feed it to the press." Glanzer told me that Colson did not even know about the break-in until after the fact and no one would have ever known what his intent was.
But Colson felt that he was involved in a character assassination of Ellsberg and that he needed to atone for this horrible act. So against the advice of his attorneys, and in the face of a skeptical judge, Colson pled guilty so that he could go to jail and in a figurative sense dwell alone, like the biblical sinner afflicted with tzara'at.
Colson ultimately served seven months in prison for his sins and it is clear that his prison time had a profound impact upon him as he went on to found Prison Fellowship, a prison ministry.
From a religious perspective we can see his prison experience as equivalent to the biblical commandment for a person who gossips to spend time alone. It is only through loneliness that one can appreciate just how hurtful gossip can be.
In the memory of Chuck Colson, the next time we think about gossiping lets hold back.


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Around 6:30 Tuesday morning, Homeland Security's Special Response Team raided 2906 Moraine Avenue in Dayton. Investigators also attempted to pull over Moore who they say threw nearly two pounds of meth out of his car. After Moore's arrest, detectives with the task force searched a home in Jefferson Township and an apartment in Trotwood.
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Last week, I overheard two young white girls gleefully discussing their Halloween costumes and I had to walk away so as to avoid hitting them.
Let me explain. These young (early 20s), Caucasian (very pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, familial lineage rooted in the UK) girls were brainstorming how to most effectively darken their skin for their Halloween looks as "Indians."
I do not know these girls very well, but we have shared the same space before and I had previously overheard conversations about the family from England and that they were born in Southern California and I know their ages and all of this is important because nowhere in their history has there been an alien abduction or a lobotomy or some other answer to the question "How can they think that darkening their skin to dress up as a caricature of a culture is OK??!"
The girls were devising a multi-layered plan consisting of spray tans covered in "black people's foundation" and using spray-on hair color to make their blonde locks black. They had already gotten their costumes from Party City and were sooooooo excited to complete their looks with the appropriate makeup. Or inappropriate, as the case may be.
These girls didn't even have the misguided decency to be dressing up as Pocahontas or Sacagawea, but rather as generic "Indians." I calmly said to the girls: "Sorry to butt in, but am I understanding correctly that you're going to paint your skin dark for your Halloween costumes? As…Native American women?"
One fell silent. She's probably the one of the pair who will eventually become sentient and develop into a fully-formed thinking person one day. The other of the two seemed thrown at first by the phrase "Native American," but still chirped cheerfully "Totally! Like, almost your color!"
I was in a professional environment and even though I felt a rage inside me that would have been best expressed through use of physical force, I have gotten this far without ever hauling off and punching anyone and I'd like to adhere to that, so I walked away.
Also, as opinionated as I am, I know that I am not an Officer of the World Police, because there is no such organization. But, despite not having Native American roots myself, and though it can be dangerous to take up arms in someone else's fight when uninvited, I do feel guilty for not having said more. I could have used my words better to express that I found this encounter to be an affront to anyone who objects to Blackface (or Brownface), which is…EVERYONE, RIGHT???
In the moment, I told myself that these two girls do not, and cannot possibly represent the majority of young white women! These girls are an anomaly. There are not really more Aryan-featured white girls in their 20s coloring their skin and spray-painting their hair, especially not anyone who qualifies as a celebrity doing so to attend a big party in Beverly Hills where they will most likely be photographed for public consumption, right?
I wasn't going to write about the two girls I had met, I really wasn't. But then I saw the pictures of Julianne Hough in costume as the fictional character Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren from the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. The character is a black woman, played by a black woman, Uzo Aduba, who has impressively crafted what I think is the most interesting character on the show despite having less material to work with than others.
But back to Julianne. My first thought was that Ryan Seacrest is a very powerful man, even more so than anyone could have imagined. I don't usually engage in celebrity dating gossip, but I am aware of reports that their relationship had ended amicably. Perhaps not! Perhaps there was some secret contentiousness and he crafted an elaborate revenge plot wherein he enlisted everyone closest to her; friends, family, confidantes, glam quad, etc. and convinced them all to encourage her when she came to them with her Halloween costume idea.
Surely these kinds of shenanigans do not happen in a vacuum. It was a group costume, after all. Someone in their group was in costume as Pablo Schreiber's awesomely awful prison guard character, and other ladies dressed as other inmates, none of whom felt the need to also don Blackface.
So this had to be some immaculate revenge, successfully served up cold by Mr. Seacrest, who wasalso at the party. How else to explain the fact that this idea made it past the "Hey guys, you know what would be so cool……." phase to full execution? How else to explain that even a child could Google Image Search the TV show and pull off a better approximation of Bantu knots (or her knotted 'do, as most media outlets insisted on calling it, with an implied shrug of the shoulders and an undertone of curious Can I touch your hair-ness that makes me grimace).
Also, despite the show's title, Crazy Eyes wears a beige uniform, not orange. But who cares about details when you've got a party to go to?
If my tone seems glib, it is because this is one way of coping when my cultural identity is used for the amusement of those in positions of privilege. Because it is almost too much to fully take in at times. Because I would rather amuse myself imagining the secret meetings held at Seacrest Manor that led to this abomination than fully accept and embrace that this made sense to this young woman.
And hey -- anyone can have a lapse in judgment. But to think that of all of the many people it took to bring this costume together, no one raised an objection? Or that perhaps someone did but it wasn't strong enough to overcome the majority view that this is OK?
I have a rule: I can express an opinion without dictating behavior. I now invite you to join me as I break that rule: You can't wear an ethnicity as a costume. You just can't.
Of course anyone is free to dress up as any character they please, but if in doing so you trample my sense of humanity, you will hear from me. If, for your amusement, you don any form of dark skin that you can wash off, you are making a mockery of people who cannot wash their skin color off after their proverbial Halloween party is over. People who in many cases have suffered greatly because of that very skin color, for whom life has been no party.
I wonder if it ever occurred to Ms. Hough to simply don the jumpsuit and act the part? To put her blonde hair in better knots and trust that people would recognize the character, especially since she was part of a themed group and wearing a name tag? How cool would it have been if she had memorized the short poem Crazy Eyes wrote on the show and recited it at the party? But maybe that's too much to ask of an actress.
Three Halloweens ago I went to a big party as Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I love the film and especially relate to Jessica since many people react to the way I am "drawn" before getting to know me. It is an idea I had many years earlier, but in my more fearful youth, I had hesitated because I'm black. Ultimately, I decided to go for it, buoyed by the fact that Jessica Rabbit is not only fictional, but animated. (Fun fact: Jessica Rabbit has no nose. That is intentional; to avoid lawsuits by the estates of any of the Silver Screen legends she is inspired by. The filmmakers have posited brilliantly in interviews that one cannot effectively claim that she is a portrait of any one person when she is missing the central feature of any face.)
The essence of a costume, to me, is recognizability. I made a shimmery dress like hers—I had to make it myself because I'm very tall and store bought dresses wouldn't have been floor-length. I made no effort to lighten my skin or wear lighter makeup, and I went for the red wig, even taping it over one eye so that it didn't move. No one was confused as to who I was supposed to be.
Maybe I was being too skittish in my original hesitation, but the psychology of exclusion is powerful. And the thing that finally convinced me I could do it, the thing that people who argue 'Well then how come it's OK for black people to_____________' when faced with racial fuckery perpetrated by a white person will never get, is the issue of power. The marginalized race does not hold the power.
White people have not been systematically damaged by Native Americans. I could have tried harder to explain that to the two girls I encountered. Perhaps someone with more patience than me will, and they will come to see that if being born into a life of racial privilege means maybe this once they'd be better off employing just a smidge of creativity and/or choosing something different from the near-endless possibilities of Halloween costumes, that's really not such a bad trade-off after all.


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Review too long? Well it'll be enough to read this summary where I provide Eve Billionaire Membership an overall score. My goal has been to use stats to produce a totally impartial review that can help to provide a clear idea of whether or not you should buy this product. I looked at the sales figures, the refund rate and the authority of the product's site to set up a general idea of reliability. It's a computer algorithm, yes, but it should be a great help nonetheless. So, the final score is 58.09/100 – pretty good!.
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Does it sell many copies?
First, a confession. I tend to be affected by the popularity of products. If I see everyone is purchasing something I often go along for the ride. My logic? Well, if everybody wants it, it must be fantastic, right? Of course, that is not often true but product sales can be a great proof of quality. Fortunately for you, I do have some sales information for Eve Billionaire Membership. First, I've got a thing called Gravity which comes entirely from the payment processor. It offers us a rough indication of sales volume. Eve Billionaire Membership has a gravity of 0.72, which makes me think this might be one to avoid – maybe better to look at alternatives. Now, this gravity figure may not mean much to you. Therefore, dear readers, I've compared the gravities of every product on this website and produced a sales rank! A rank of 100 means it's the most popular product here … and all the way down to 1 with the worst seller. So what about Eve Billionaire Membership? Basically, it gets a sales rank of 63.85, which signifies this is above average – excellent! – yet another game-tester.org seal of approval.
Are there lots of refunds?
Of course, I prefer to give my readers more than just sales stats. You want to know about a product's quality. Unfortunately, my time restrictions (and bank balance!) don't allow me to try every product personally. So I use another stat – the refund rate.This stat comes directly from the payment processor, when it was available for a short time. Eve Billionaire Membership scores 3 /5 which is the average score and indicates we either don't have any refund data or the refund amount is at a satisfactory level – should be OK to proceed here.
What about the sales page?
So, what else can I tell you? Well, why don't we take a look at the domain that this product is sold from (evebillionaire.com)? There are a few stats available that will provide us witha better idea about how reliable the product is. Firstly, we know the website has 6 pages – the idea is that the more pages it has, the older and more reliable it is. So, in this case, 6 is definitely not that plenty and could mean this website is new. But, naturally, you can't just judge a site by the number of pages it has. They could all be rubbish! Instead, let's learn something from Google's book and take a look at the amount of other sites that are backlinking in to this one. Loads of links from quality sites indicates that this one is bound to be quality too. So evebillionaire.com has 0 backlinks with an authority score of 1/100, which means it hasn't acquired much approval from other sites yet (and consequently not from me either).
Additional products – does this vendor have anything else for sale?
We're nearing the end of this review now, but I still think there's a few more data to be found. I've hunted high and low and made a list of all the other products this vendor is selling, and also any specials they have on at this time. Let's have a look… So, it seems Eve Billionaire Membership has 1 special product(s) on sale.
Eve Billionaire Discount – $27.97
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Eve Billionaire Corporation Membership – $47.97


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Thanks to 3 Republicans
Collins, Murkowski—and McCain
The rushed, secretive, reckless effort to get a "win," any win, by undoing the Obama health care plan is at an end—for now.
It is over because the 48 Democratic and independent senators led by Chuck Schumer refused to be peeled off or to support a measure that was opposed by most of the public and by all professional groups involved in health care.
It is over because Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, refused to budge from her position that such a consequential bill needed to be considered in an appropriate, systematic way, and because Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, refused to be bullied into giving her support.
And it is over because John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, in the end cast a vote matching the principles he had expressed in his dramatic speech two days earlier, on his return to the Senate after cancer surgery ....
From a disabled person with Medicaid, "thanks" to the three Republicans who had the spines to vote no.
More: Collins and Murkowski Stood Up for Womankind Over the Threats of Men


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The acting in this thing is pretty poor across the board. It ranges from flat to painful. Once the running, screaming and stalking gets underway it is a welcome relief from the generally grating tone set by actors who are clearly trying their best, but just don't have the chops for it. Two notable exceptions are Courtney Bertolone as the daughter and Heather Magee's breasts.
As to the plot, it's mostly a good idea that falls short of its potential. You can certainly delay the horror elements in a film to great effect (Jaws and Psycho being notable examples), but to do so you have to have a compelling story outside of those elements. The robbery story that gets Malevolence going simply doesn't fit the bill. Once we get to the horror it's pretty damn effective, but it takes quite awhile.
What does work in this flick is when it gets into the territory for which it's built. The cinematography is beautiful throughout, and takes full advantage of some sick locations for the good stuff. Mena's direction is quite apt as well, once his faceless killer gets down to business. The last half of the movie feels driven by a genre fan, but with creativity and style rather than presenting a watered down copy of other works.
And while it is not explored in nearly enough depth, likely because this is part of a planned trilogy, the glimpses of the killer's backstory that we get are genuinely well crafted and interesting. The "twist" at the end wasn't a winner for me, but it didn't hurt my enjoyment of the film.
So there's much to recommend about this effort, and much that detracts, but I think the overall quality is way above average and does make me want to see the trilogy completed.
Audio: Dolby Surround 5.1
Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Stevan Mena, Actor Brandon Johnson and Associate Producer Eddie Akmal: Clearly these guys faced a lot of challenges with this pic, and it's fun hearing about the trials and tribulations. A bit more specificity and this good track could have been great.
Rehearsal Footage: I thought the acting was weak in the finished product, so you can imagine my opinion of the rehearsal footage.
Deleted Scenes: Easy tip - if a movie runs under 90 minutes, they didn't cut anything good out of it.
Still Gallery: I'm continually perplexed why this is a feature on any DVD.
Theatrical Trailer and TV/Radio spots: Fine to have, but I'd rather see the fake trailer they put together originally to get funding.
DVD-ROM Original Screenplay: Pretty cool. Seeing the difference between the filmmakers original vision and what actually makes it on screen always fascinates me.
Other Trailers: Wanna know what movies inspired Mena to make Malevolence? Watch these trailers to get the answer.


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he library at ICBS is another place where students spend a considerable amount of their time. The library is equipped with all the latest recommended texts, reference material and newspapers. Various local and international periodicals, such as the Harvard Business Review and the Economist, are also available for students. The Library is the biggest single resource available to the students. Its here that the students can access much of the information they need for their coursework in an atmosphere which is conducive to quiet study and research. The library also has access to several data bases to which the college has exclusively subscribed.
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The Prince will appear on the front cover of GQ magazine's May issue, in aid of the Walking with the Wounded expedition, a charity team of ex-servicemen attempting to be the first amputees to trek unsupported to the North Pole.
The team, who include an officer with an amputated leg, a soldier with a broken back, a paratrooper with a partially paralysed arm and another with an amputated arm, were all injured on the front line in Afghanistan.
Prince Harry, 26, who is training to be a helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps and served in Afghanistan in 2008, is patron of the expedition.
He aims to join the group for part of their month-long trek in April, shortly before the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29.
Prince Harry was photographed by Bailey, who is famous for his rock and roll style portraits of supermodels and Hollywood actors, at his London studio earlier this month, alongside the expedition members: Capt Guy Disney, Sgt Steve Young, Capt Martin Hewitt and Pte Jaco Van Gass.
Prince Harry recently spoke of his admiration for the Walking with the Wounded team: "This extraordinary expedition will raise awareness of the debt that his country owes to those it sends off to fight – only for them to return wounded and scarred, physically and emotionally."
Previously, Prince William and Prince Harry have chosen the fashion photographer Mario Testino to mark important occasions.
Testino, who is credited with producing the most memorable images of Diana, Princess of Wales, shortly before her death in 1997, recently took the official engagement pictures for Prince William and Miss Middleton and photographed Prince Harry for his 20th birthday in 2004.
Bailey, 73, recently spent a week in Camp Bastion, the British military base in Afghanistan, photographing troops for a book in aid of Help for Heroes, the charity that provides support to wounded servicemen and women.
The Walking with the Wounded expedition plans to raise £2 million for charities including the British Limbless Ex Servicemen Association and Help for Heroes.


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The summer vacation seems to come and go very quickly. Kids are probably not happy about having to go back to school soon. You can help get your kids excited about going back to school by throwing them a back to school party. They will probably be excited to see their friends again if they haven't been socializing throughout the summer vacation.
All that is needed for a Back to School Party is a cake, party balloons, decorations and perhaps you can fill a back pack for the kids with basic school supplies like loose leaf paper, #2 pencils, calculators, index cards, red ink pens, liquid paper and the like. If your kids are anything like mine they LOVE school supplies. Make sure you do the Back to School Party way before school actually starts or you won't be able to find any supplies.
Below you'll find several printable Back to School party invitations that you can download for free with a back to school party theme. The only things required are Adobe PDF Reader software (FREE), your printer and your Creativity! These free printable invitations contain vector images and are quarter page folded invitations. This means that you fold an 8 1/2 sheet of paper in half and fold again to create a single invitation.
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Could wearing the blue monster be the reason that cookies have become my main food source – or is it just the pre-Christmas spirit? Yum-yum-yum!!
P.S. No, I don't bother to do my hair anymore. That's also part of the pre-Christmas spirit.
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Adele 'Not Sharing Son's Name'
The Skyfall singer says it's 'very personal' to her...
Adele has refused to reveal the name of her baby son because it's "personal" to her.
The The Golden Globes, Adele said: "I am exhausted, that's how motherhood changed me. I have eczema from boiling bottles."
When asked what her baby's name was, the 24-year old replied: "I am not sharing his name at the moment. It is very personal to me. I am enjoying him on my own."
Adele made her first appearance at the ceremony on Sunday (13th January), where she [uuid=a03e67bb-709a-4b77-a91a-81d37909a296]James Bondtheme, Skyfall.
During her acceptance speech, she dedicated the trophy to Konecki and her baby, telling the audience: "This [award] is for my boyfriend Simon, who convinced me to do it, and my lovely son. Thank you so much."
Last week, Adele was snapped with her son for the first time at LAX airport ahead of The Globes, where his identity was protected by a white blanket.


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Dear Friend,
This is your invitation to represent your ministry to our members and delegates at our Annual Convention at the
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Two opportunities for representing your ministry/organization to our constituency are available to you.
First, sixty draped display tables, six feet long, are available in the exhibit area which is a high volume traffic area. Convention attendance is expected to be 400-500. Table assignments will be made at the Convention site and will be available to you when you check in at the IFCA Registration desk. Registration will start at 1:00 pm on Monday, June 27. You are permitted to sell items from your table; however you will be responsible to collect any sales tax that may be required. For those requiring electrical hookup, there is an additional charge of $35.00. Please bring your own extension cords.
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Breitbart News has confirmed the biographical claim of E. W. Jackson, who won the Republican Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor on Saturday and is only the second African-American to be nominated for a statewide office by the Republican Party in Virginia since Reconstruction, that he served in the Marine Corps.
All of Mr. Jackson's official biographies state that he served for three years in the United States Marine Corps. In fact, the very first line on his campaign website's biography states "E.W. Jackson served three years and was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps."
Breitbart News has obtained a copy from the Jackson campaign of Mr. Jackson's separation from service papers, Form DD 214. That form shows that Mr. Jackson enlisted in the Marines as a private in August, 1970 for a four year term. His job specialty (Military Occupation Specialty, or MOS) was number 5961 – AvnFC Tech. The related civilian occupation is communications engineer. He received on honorable discharge in February, 1973, two and a half years later. His rank on separation was corporal, and his release was for medical purposes–he injured his back during a training exercise.
While in the service, Mr. Jackson was awarded the National Defense Service Medal.
When Mr. Jackson ran for the Senate in 2012, his campaign was unable to find photographic evidence of his service as a Marine. Campaign manager Greg Aldridge told Breitbart News "We looked for any pictures of him in a Marine uniform when he ran for Senate in 2012, but we couldn't find any."
Aldridge provided Breitbart News with these additional facts of Mr. Jackson's service in the Marine Corps: he completed basic training at Paris Island, South Carolina, and though he was in service during the Viet Nam era, he did not serve in Viet Nam.
On Wednesday, Breitbart News confirmed this information with Marine Corps Public Affairs Officer Major Shawn Haney. "The following releasable information is provided from the Official Military Personnel File of Earl W. Jackson: Dates of Service: Aug 4, 1970 – Feb 21, 1973, Rank at time of discharge: Corporal (E-4), Military Occupational Specialty: 5961, Aircraft Technician, Awards: National Defense Service Medal."
Mr. Jackson's spell binding oratory has garnered enthusiastic grassroots support for his candidacy from evangelical Christians and Tea Party activists alike. He and his supporters took the Richmond convention where he became the party's standard bearer for Lieutenant Governor by storm on Saturday.
Yet in the midst of this stunning upset win questions about his background linger. In preparation for an in depth profile of Mr. Jackson, Breitbart News has begun a preliminary inquiry into his academic record, military service, and financial history.
The November 2013 general election for Governor in Virginia is being closely watched around the country as a potential harbinger for the 2014 Congressional Elections. On Saturday, the Republican Party of Virginia nominated Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as their candidate for Governor, Jackson as their candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and Mark Obenshain as their candidate for Attorney General.
The Democrats will select their nominees in a June primary. Former Clinton administration fundraiser Terry McAuliffe is favored to win the nomination for Governor.