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Fox News is pushing fatally flawed analogies to defend Mitt Romney from criticism over his jobs record at Bain Capital, pointing to the Obama administration's green energy loans and the successful rescue of the U.S. auto industry. These comparisons crumble under scrutiny, as leveraged buyouts are different from providing bankruptcy financing or loans.
Obama Campaign Ad Hits Romney On Jobs
New Obama Campaign Ad Highlights Bain's Takeover Of Steel Mill Under Romney's Leadership. In a new ad, the Obama campaign tells the story of how venture capital firm Bain Capital, which Romney led at the time, took over Kansas City steel mill, GST Steel. GST eventually went bankrupt, resulting in hundreds of workers losing their jobs and much of their pensions. However, Bain's executives walked away with millions of dollars in profit. [YouTube, 5/14/12]
Fox News: Romney Should Respond By Hitting Obama Over Auto Rescue, Solyndra
Byron York: Auto Rescue Is Similar "In Essence" To Bain's Steel Mill Bankruptcy. Fox News contributor Byron York, also the chief political correspondent at the Washington Examiner, wrote:
The Obama campaign has released a new ad holding Mitt Romney responsible for the loss of 750 jobs in the bankruptcy of a steel plant purchased by Romney's Bain Capital in 1993.[...]How will Romney respond? The Romney campaign has given some broad hints lately. First, the campaign has carefully scrutinized Romney's entire record at Bain and believes it is a strongly positive one overall. But that is the big picture -- there are individual instances in which Bain investments failed. Given that, look for the Romney campaign and its surrogates to counterattack by focusing on an instance in which Barack Obama, in essence, took over a company and laid people off in an effort to save the larger enterprise.That was, of course, the auto bailouts, and while Obama often cites his success in "saving" the car industry, few remember today how many (non-union) workers lost their jobs in the Obama administration's handling of the matter. During the economic crisis, General Motors and Chrysler shut down more than 700 dealerships, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs. And the companies did it under pressure from Obama. [Washington Examiner, 5/14/12]
Brit Hume: Romney Could "Fire Back" By Highlighting Auto Rescue, Solyndra. Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume stated:
HUME: One way would be to fire back at the president for his record on job creation for what happened to the workers at a place like Solyndra, where the administration, I guess, encouraged that company to hire people and generate a business, and then it went bankrupt and everybody lost, including the workers and the taxpayers.You could talk about the dealerships, auto dealerships that were closed down when the government got control of a couple of the auto companies, an awful lot of people lost jobs, businesses were closed, and so on. [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 5/14/12]
But The Auto Rescue Plan Cannot Be Compared With Bain's Leveraged Buyouts
New York's Jonathan Chait: Comparing Bain's Actions To Auto Rescue Is "Fairly Silly." New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait wrote:
The transformation of American business is deeply unpopular. It has made working life less secure and has failed to deliver broad-based prosperity even while it has bestowed enormous riches on the most fortunate. The locus of public opinion on it in many crucial ways sits well to the left of what either party proposes. Many Americans want to go back to the days when corporations offered secure employment and generous benefits.That's why, interestingly, Romney is not trying to fight against the currents of public opinion but glide along with them. His response to Obama is telling. As reported by Byron York, Romney plans to hit back at Obama by citing the auto bailout, which imposed some of the same kinds of restructuring that Romney used at Bain: wage cuts for workers, incentive payments, and so on. The comparison is fairly silly, because the key point is that Romney's career produced huge gains for owners of capital, and the auto bailout forced them to swallow huge losses. But it shows Romney's recognition of what the voters want. [New York, 5/14/12]
Wash. Post's Sargent: "Obama Didn't Personally Profit When He Bailed Out The Auto Companies." The Washington Post's Greg Sargent wrote:
If this is indeed the comparison the Romney campaign plans to pursue, it's a curious one. After all, Obama didn't personally profit when he bailed out the auto companies. By contrast, Bain walked away with at least $12 million in profits after its episode involving GST Steel, the company that is the subject of Obama's ads. More broadly, Jon Chait notes: "Romney's career produced huge gains for owners of capital, and the auto bailout forced them to swallow huge losses."Beyond this, what's really curious about this counterattack is that it only helps underscore the philosophical difference between the two that the Obama campaign is trying to highlight with the Bain attacks.[...][W]hen Romney invokes the auto bailout, all he does is remind us of an instance where his economic worldview broke down -- where his philosophy compelled him to advocate for what likely would have been a disastrous course. This worldview led him to originally argue that the bailout would guarantee the auto industry's certain demise. This worldview obliges him to continue arguing that the auto industry would be in better shape today than it is now if Obama had not pursued a government "intervention." Many experts dismiss Romney's claims about the bailout as thoroughly wrong on several levels .Obama, by contrast, argues that an unfettered free market is not a total cure-all. He argues that sometimes active government is necessary to help those who have been damaged by free market excess or to step in when the consequences of allowing unfettered capitalism to run its course could damage thousands of lives. In service of this larger point, the Obama campaign is very happy to engage in a dispute over the auto-bailout, a clear cut case where this argument turned out, by most accounts, to be thoroughly vindicated. If anything, invoking the auto-bailout in the context of the battle over the Bain years only reinforces the larger contrast of economic worldviews the Obama team hoped to draw with the Bain ads in the first place. [The Washington Post, 5/14/12]
Bain Used Leveraged Buyouts To Maximize Return To Shareholders
LA Times: Romney's Leveraged-Buyout Strategy Was "To Create Wealth For Your Investors." From the Los Angeles Times:
Under Romney's leadership, Bain became one of the nation's top leveraged-buyout firms, helping lead a trend in which companies were acquired using debt often pledged against their own assets or earnings.Bain expanded many of the companies it acquired. But like other leveraged-buyout firms, Romney and his team also maximized returns by firing workers, seeking government subsidies, and flipping companies quickly for large profits. Sometimes Bain investors gained even when companies slid into bankruptcy.[...]Bain managers said their mission was clear. "I never thought of what I do for a living as job creation," said Marc B. Walpow, a former managing partner at Bain who worked closely with Romney for nine years before forming his own firm. "The primary goal of private equity is to create wealth for your investors."[...]Leveraged buyouts allow investors to purchase businesses with the acquisition funded sometimes by significant amounts of debt. To critics, these leveraged deals can make acquired companies more vulnerable to economic downturns, leading to a greater likelihood of bankruptcy and job cuts. At the same time, the deals sometimes introduce discipline to firms and even whole industries that need it.Either way, Bain investors typically profited. [Los Angeles Times, 12/3/11]
Boston Globe: With Failing Businesses, Romney "Never Suggested They Had To Do Something To Save Workers' Jobs." From a January 27, 2008, Boston Globe article:
The primary objective, of course, was to make money. That meant every job couldn't be saved. Some strategies, such as a roll-ups, are designed at the outset to cut jobs. In roll-ups, similar firms in the same industry are acquired and combined to boost revenues while eliminating duplicative jobs, particularly in administrative areas such as payroll, personnel, and information technology.[...]In assessing deals, Romney and partners didn't consider whether they saved or created jobs, according to a former Bain employee who requested anonymity, citing confidentiality guidelines. When Bain partners discussed shutting down failing businesses in which they invested, Romney never suggested they had to do something to save workers' jobs. "It was very clinical," the former employee said. "Like a doctor. When the patient is dead, you just move on to the next patient." [The Boston Globe, 1/27/08]
Reuters: Under Bain Ownership, Steel Mill Went Bankrupt, But Bain Reaped $12 Million Profit And $4.5 Million In Consulting Fees. In October 1993, Romney's Bain Capital became the majority shareholder in a group of investors that bought the Kansas City steel mill renamed GS Technologies. From Reuters:
[I]n October 1993, Bain Capital, co-founded by Mitt Romney, became majority shareholder in a steel mill that had been operating since 1888.It was a gamble. The old mill, renamed GS Technologies, needed expensive updating, and demand for its products was susceptible to cycles in the mining industry and commodities markets.Less than a decade later, the mill was padlocked and some 750 people lost their jobs. Workers were denied the severance pay and health insurance they'd been promised, and their pension benefits were cut by as much as $400 ... a month.What's more, a federal government insurance agency had to pony up $44 million to bail out the company's underfunded pension plan. Nevertheless, Bain profited on the deal, receiving $12 million on its $8 million initial investment and at least $4.5 million in consulting fees. [Reuters, 1/6/12]
LA Times: Under Bain Ownership, Steel Mill "Cut Jobs And Benefits Almost Immediately." As the Los Angeles Times reported:
Leveraged buyouts allow investors to purchase businesses with the acquisition funded sometimes by significant amounts of debt. To critics, these leveraged deals can make acquired companies more vulnerable to economic downturns, leading to a greater likelihood of bankruptcy and job cuts. At the same time, the deals sometimes introduce discipline to firms and even whole industries that need it.Either way, Bain investors typically profited.That was true in the case of GS Industries, the 10th-biggest Bain investment in the Romney years. Bain formed GSI in the early 1990s by spending $24 million to acquire and merge steel companies with plants in Missouri, South Carolina and other states.Company managers cut jobs and benefits almost immediately. Meanwhile, Bain and other investors received management fees from GSI and a $65-million dividend in the first years after the acquisition, according to interviews with company employees.In 1999, as economic challenges mounted, GSI sought a federal loan guarantee intended to help steel companies compete internationally. The loan deal was approved, but in 2001, before it could be used, the company went bankrupt, two years after Romney left Bain. [Los Angeles Times, 12/3/11]
Reuters: Bain's "Failed Investment" In Steel Mill Led To "A U.S. Bailout." After the steel mill went bankrupt, the federal government had to bail out its underfunded pensions plan:
The story of Bain's failed investment in the Kansas City mill offers a perspective on a largely overlooked chapter in Romney's business record: His firm's brush with a U.S. bailout.His supporters say the pension gap at the Kansas City mill was an unforeseen consequence of a falling stock market and adverse market conditions. But records show that the mill's Bain-backed management was confronted several times about the fund's shortfall, which, in the end, required an infusion of funds from the federal Pension Benefits Guarantee Corp.[...]The U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp, which insures company retirement plans, determined in 2002 that GS had underfunded its pension by $44 million. The federal agency, funded by corporate levies, stepped in to cover the basic pension payments, but not the supplement the union had negotiated as a hedge against the plant's closure. [Reuters, 1/6/12]
While Obama Administration Used A Structured Bankruptcy To Rescue GM, Chrysler
McClatchy: GM And Chrysler Went Through "Government-Sponsored Bankruptcy" In 2009. McClatchy reported that GM would move through an accelerated "government-sponsored bankruptcy":
Administration officials said late Sunday the federal government would provide an additional $30 billion to GM -- which has already received about $20 billion in government loans -- to help it restructure through bankruptcy. GM will follow a similar course taken by Chrysler LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 protection in April and hopes to emerge from its government-sponsored bankruptcy this week.The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in advance of Obama's public remarks, said the administration expects the court process to last 60 to 90 days. If successful, GM will emerge as a leaner company with a smaller work force, fewer plants and a trimmed dealership network. [McClatchy, 6/1/09, via Cleveland Plain Dealer]
U.S. Now Owns A 26 Percent Stake In GM. According to The New York Times, "the Treasury Department still owned a 26 percent stake" in GM as of the beginning of May 2012. This is down from the roughly 60 percent stake owned when GM left bankruptcy in July 2009. [The New York Times, 5/3/12]
Center For Automotive Research: Auto Rescue Saved More Than 1 Million Jobs In 2010. In November 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that a study from the Center for Automotive Research found that the auto rescue saved well over 1 million jobs:
No matter what happens with Government Motors, the taxpayer intervention in the auto business appears to be a win for Americans, a new research report asserts.The Center for Automotive Research said today the government's bailouts of the U.S. auto industry spared more than 1.14 million jobs last year alone, and prevented "additional personal income losses" of nearly $97 billion combined for this year and last.Another 314,400 jobs were saved this year thanks to the $80 billion in taxpayer lifelines extended to GM, Chrysler, and the GMAC and Chrysler Financial financing businesses, CAR said. [The Wall Street Journal, 11/17/10]
Bain Comparisons To Solyndra Are Also Fraudulent
Solyndra Was Given A Loan Guarantee, Not Leveraged For Profit. From a Department of Energy press release announcing the loan guarantee extended to Solyndra in March 2009:
Energy Secretary Steven Chu today offered a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc. to support the company's construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its proprietary cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels. The company expects to create thousands of new jobs in the U.S. while deploying its solar panels across the U.S. and around the world. [Department of Energy, 3/20/09]
Talking Points Memo: Comparison Between Bain Business Model And Solyndra Loan "Is Misguided On Many Levels." Talking Points Memo's Pema Levy wrote:
The comparison is misguided on many levels and only makes sense if you fundamentally misrepresent both what private equity at Bain meant in practice, and what happened at Solyndra. As a private equity firm, Bain Capital invested in companies and came up with a plan for making them profitable, or more profitable than they previously were. It wasn't merely an investment -- that's venture capitalism -- because it included a business strategy. Sometimes the plan was to lay off workers and cut wages and benefits. Sometimes the strategy failed and the company went under. But Romney, as CEO of Bain, was in charge of strategies that called for laying off workers while benefiting shareholders. None of that is true of Solyndra, where the company was loaned money to follow through on its own projects but ultimately failed anyway. [Talking Points Memo, 1/8/12]


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A Delegation from the European Union (EU) led by the Acting Head of Delegation of the European Union for the Pacific, Mr Corrado Pampaloni attended the 49th session of the Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations (CRGA) and the 11th Conference of the Pacific Community held in Noumea, New Caledonia last week.
At a time when human rights are challenged on a daily basis with many attempts to undermine the universality and indivisibility of human rights, the EU has remained at the forefront of the protection and promotion of human rights and democracy, be it in international forums, bilaterally with governments or through concrete support to the civil society.

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How to apply
How to apply
Should you wish to nominate a person for an award you must submit a letter (or email) to the Awards Committee of Cycling UK, addressing your letter c/o Sue Cherry at our national office address in Guildford.
This letter needs to lay out clearly why you believe a Certificate of Merit or Commendation is the appropriate award and what this person has done for Cycling UK and cycling. Please provided as much information as you can about this person.
At this stage it is also a good idea to write the 'citation'. This essentially says the same thing as the letter, but is written in such a way as to be appropriate for presenting to the recipient along with the framed certificate, 3/4 of an A4 page is enough.
The certificate is framed and the citation produced onto good quality paper and all is then sent by post ready for the special presentation date. Should you have any query please ring Sue Cherry on 01483 238302.


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Grading on the Curve
I was sitting in a Sunday School class once when the teacher began to address the issue of comparing ourselves to one another. He warned of the hazards of doing so and then added, "We should never compare ourselves or our situations in life to others. If you must compare yourself to someone, then compare


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The Thief Who Could Not Spell
Occasionally I get scammers who are so terrible that they give a bad
name to their fellow thieves. Case in point is the following e-mail
message which I received today from a so-called "DOCTOR DOUGLAS H. KING," who is clearly an uneducated and not sophisticated thief.
[Publisher's Commentary: On Scammers]
I get hundreds of legitimate e-mail messages everyday --maybe over 900.
While many are legitimate news tips, article submissions, press releases, racist written assaults, and some praises, I also get my fair share of junk mail --messages about drugs to enhance sexual potency or enlarge the size of the critical anatomy.
Yet the most special e-mail messages are the infamous so-called "Nigerian" scammers'. Truth be said the scammers aren't all Nigerians but include con artists from all over the world.
Some scammers are very good and if they applied their energy to productive enterprises, they could become highly successful legitimate business executives. Who can deny the genius of the Nigerians who duped a Brazilian bank executive a few years ago into wiring them millions of dollars for a supposed oil? They must have had considerable powers of persuasion.
Occasionally I get scammers who are so terrible that they give a bad name to their fellow thieves. Case in point is the following e-mail message which I received today from a so-called "DOCTOR DOUGLAS H. KING," who is clearly an uneducated and not sophisticated thief.
Check out the broken English and poor grammar in the good doctor's letter of intent to commit theft. How does a thief send such a poorly written con letter to a newspaper editor? He also claims, incredibly, that if I can't prove the "money" belongs to me, it will be confiscated and deposited in "The World Bank," as if the Washington, D.C.-based economic development institution is a commercial bank.
The quality of idiocy has diminished--or did I mean to say improved? What has this world come to? The "doctor's" letter follows:
Region No. 2 New York City P.O. Box 804 Knickerbockers Station
New York City, New -York 10002-0804 U.S.A.
Attn: Sir/Madam. The office of the international police (INTERPOL) hereby write to inform you that we caught a diplomatic lady called Mrs. Dorothy Wallace at (John F. Kennedy International Airport) here in New -York with parcel box filed with united state dollars.
Meanwhile, base on our interview to the diplomat (Mrs. Dorothy Wallace) she said that the parcel box belongs to you, that she was sent by Dr. Craw Williams from the Central Bank Of Nigeria to deliver the parcel box to your doorstep, not knowing that the content of the parcel box is money.
The diplomat also said that her first transit in the states was at Cincinnati Northern, Kentucky International Airport Ohio. Now, the diplomat is under detention in the office of (INTERPOL) security, and we cannot release her until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount of money managed to be yours before we will release her with the box.
So, in this regard, you are to re-assure and prove to us that the money you are about to receive is legal by sending us the Award Ownership Certificate showing that the money is not illegal.
Note that the Award Ownership Certificate must to be secured from the office of the Senate president in Nigeria, because that is the only office that will issue you the original Award Ownership Certificate of these funds.
You are advised to forward immediately the Award Ownership Certificate if you have it with you, but if you do not have it, we will urge you as a matter of urgency to contact back the sender of the diplomat to help you secure the Award Ownership Certificate if at all you did not have it. Below is the contact information of the person that sent the diplomat.
Name: Dr. Craw Williams Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Furthermore, we are giving you only but 5 working business days to forward the requested Award Ownership Certificate. Please note that we shall get back to you after the 5 working business days, if you didn't come up with the certificate we shall confiscate the funds into World Bank account then charge you for money laundry, but if you forward the Award Ownership Certificate then we will release the diplomat with your parcel box and also gives you every back up till the money arrives your doorstep.
Also note that we are doing this to make sure that any huge amount of money like yours that enters United States is genieu. Thanks for your understanding. Yours Truly, I.P.A REGION NO: 2 THANKS. DOCTOR DOUGLAS H. KING . COMMITTEE OF POLICE SOCIETIES, NYPD. firstname.lastname@example.com"
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Revision as of 13:36, 5 February 2007 by Mik.kersten.eclipse.org (Talk | contribs)
This is an early draft and not yet ready for comment.
Mylar milestones are released 1 week after Eclipse milestones.
- 2.0M1: February 16, 2007
- 2.0M2: March 30, 2007
- 2.0M3: May 11, 2007
- 2.0RC1: June 15, 2007
- 2.0: June 29, 2007
- Eclipse 3.3: Mylar 2.0 and future Mylar releases
- Eclipse 3.2: Mylar 2.0 will be the the end-of-life for 3.2 branch
- Requires Java 5 and later
Committers will prioritize bugs without external contributions (i.e. patches) in the following order:
- Tasks framework & API
- Task List and Task Editor UI
- Task-Focused UI
- Context framework & API
- Connector improvements
Legend: in progress, completed, optional
Task List
- Support date view in Task List. A common way of organizing tasks to work on in the current week is by day. We should support this by integrating the Task Activity view's date range container presentation with the Task List. (147084)
- Support integration with planning and calendaring tools. Many task repositories have facilities for task planning in the form of milestones, due dates, and other organizations of tasks. The Task List and Task Editor should support such extensions, for example, allowing the Task List to be organized by milestone. (Calendaring, privacy controls) (e.g. 152490).
- Support task dependencies. Many tasks are related to other tasks, whether it's because they should be worked on in sequence or are subtasks. We should make these dependencies explicit in the Task List and Task Editor. (137543)
- Support working set groupings. A Task List that includes projects from multiple "working spheres" (e.g. Project A, Project B, Personal) can become unwieldy and distracting. Integration of top-level working sets could address this.
Task Editing
- Increase Task Editor information density. The task editor is a very frequent target of interaction, and we need to continue streamlining it. When opened it should show the user the most relevant information with minimal clicking and scrolling required. (158921).
- Improve task activity timing. We currently have a task activity mechanism, but it is not explicit enough, and does not capture time spent outside of the workbench. It should also be extensible to OS-specific monitoring. (135668).
- Provide task workflow mechanism. There are many common workflows, such as commit/complete/deactivate. We should provide a mechanism for specifying and executing task-related workflows. This requires direct editing of task data (i.e., without editor submission). (160780, 124224)
- Streamline task creation. Make it easier to create tasks, fork them, or promote local tasks to repository tasks. (154896, 152211)
Task Repositories
- Make offline cache faster and more robust. The offline cache is currently one large serialized file. We should make it more robust so that changes to connectors and the framework do not cause the offline data to be cleared. This should make it possible to put a repository into offline mode permanently, and never lose the task data. (165809)</font>
- Streamline task searching. It is currently impossible to search through local and cached task data. We could improve the search experience by providing Google-style syntax in the Task List find box, e.g. severity=critical. (bug 163341)
- Improve connectivity problem and performance handling. Lack of or degraded connectivity should be transparent, and jobs should be cancellable. (165833)
- Improve synchronization control. (offline mode for repositories bug 165809, finer-grained control bug 165473)
- Provide standard XML for for tasks. We should create a canonical and extensible XML for for tasks that we use for retrieving task data. Connector providers returning this form would not need custom attribute mappings.
- Improve consistency between local and repository tasks. Need to consider how to promote task between local and repository, and whether local tasks should be a kind of repository. (12431)
Task-Focused UI
- Provide preview and editing of task context. For submitting and retrieving contexts, or wanting to inspect a context for a non-active task, we should provide a preview pane. This should also support operations such as merge and element deletion. (bug 107259)
- Support debugging views. This includes improved filtering of the thread tree, and automatic toggling/loading of breakpoints with task context.
- Preserve element identity through refactoring. Currently only the active context participates in refactoring. We either need to maintain a dependency map to update the element handles of inactive contexts, or migrate them when they are activated, via the refactoring history. (164243)
- Improve error handling and resolution. When an error happens, we should do automatic duplicate detection, and if no duplicate is found prompt to submit a bug to the failing plug-in.
- Generalize task and context storage mechanisms. Our API currently specifies files and paths as the storage mechanism, but it should be general, to allow for alternate mechanisms such as server-based storage.
- Improve representation of people. Support real names, selecting CCs, content assist for fields with people. The user's identity should be represented in the UI (e.g. different icon when user appears in the CC list).
- Hyperlinking everywhere. Wherever structured elements show up, we should be hyperlinking them (e.g. bug 165827)


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Murder charge filed in Carnel Chamberlain's death
MOUNT PLEASANT — A grand jury indicted a central Michigan man Wednesday in the death of a 4-year-old boy, more than four months after the badly burned remains of the child were discovered outside the victim's house.
Anthony Bennett has been in custody on another charge since Carnel Chamberlain's remains were found in June at a home on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian reservation. He was living with Carnel and the boy's mother.
Bennett is charged with first-degree murder, assault of a child, assault with a dangerous weapon, animal cruelty and witness tampering.
"We're not surprised," defense attorney Anthony Chambers said. "We'll go forward and defend the case."
Carnel was last seen alive on June 21 when his mother went to work and left him in Bennett's care. A weeklong search on the reservation ensued until the remains were found buried outside the home.
Bennett was subsequently charged with an earlier assault on the boy, a key step that kept him in custody while authorities developed the murder case against him. The FBI and federal prosecutors investigate crimes committed on Indian land.
"The tribal community has waited for quite some time for this to occur and now we can begin our journey toward justice," Tribal Council member Louanna Bruner said.
A Tribal press release said there is no place in any community for tolerance toward abuse or murder, and that the Tribe is confident that the effort to bring charges in the case will bring about "appropriate justice."


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A year later Kjos attempts to connect Harry Potter to Halloween with the web page Halloween 2000 and Beyond, Starring Harry Potter.[102] She carps about the popularity of Harry Potter, gripes about Pokemon, Digimon, X-Men and Disney. She wails about how "Teenage girls are showing unprecedented interest in witchcraft, with about 100 every month wanting to join covens to learn about casting spells...."[103]
Kjos then goes on to cite an elderly and inaccurate description of Samhain from the Encyclopedia Britannica, describing it as a time of "Sacrifices and propitiations of every kind..."[104] I've been complaining about similar faulty Witchcraft definitions from this dictionary for years. From this Kjos quotes J. K. Rowling as saying that Halloween is her favorite holiday. From this Kjos leaps to a Zsuzsanna Budapest quote Kjos used in an earlier web page about the Christians losing their California school board complaint about Halloween: "We have the holiday back again. These pagan calendars are imprinted in our genes."[105] Kjos accuses books like the Harry Potter series and television shows like Sabrina the Teenaged Witch of "transforming public attitudes toward the occult."[106] Of course they are, in a positive way, and that is what bothers Kjos. "The forbidden realm of witchcraft, vampires and haunting spirits is taking center stage in popular entertainment, " Kjos moans, "Meanwhile, Christian parents who share their concerns risk sounding 'intolerant' by the world's new standards."[107] Kjos continues:
"Free to explore the practices God calls evil, children and teens are flocking to pagan groups and websites for practical lessons in spells and self-empowerment. Some start Wiccan covens in their high schools. God's wise warnings are all but forgotten: 'Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.' (Romans 12:9)."[108] Kjos then goes into a lengthy description of one of Starhawk's Samhain rituals, which includes the following words:
"Before leaving home for the ritual, each covener sets out a plate with cakes and drink and a lighted candle as an offering to their own beloved dead....
"The circle gathers, does a breathing meditation, and the Priestess says, 'This is the night when the veil is thin that divides the worlds. It is the New Year in the time of the year's death, when the harvest is gathered and the fields lie fallow. For tonight the King of the Waning Year has sailed over the sunless sea that is the worm womb of the Mother.... The gates of life and death are opening; the Sun Child is conceived; the dead walk... We meet in time, out of time, everywhere and nowhere, here and there, to greet the Lord of Death who is Lord of Life, and the Triple Goddess who is the circle of rebirth.'"[109]
Kjos tries hard to make this seem sinister. "Notice that Starhawk refers to 'the Lord of Death' but doesn't name or define him." Kjos tells us, "Others have named him. They call him Samhain, the God of the Dead, who gave his name to the harvest celebration. But there is little documentation to prove his reported influence and fearsome power."[110] That is, as I pointed out earlier, because Samhain was NOT the God of the Dead of the Celtic tribes.
Kjos then makes another attempt to describe to us the "historical record"[111] of "some of the sobering details of the end-of-the-year celebration."[112] She claims that it was a time at which the flocks and herds had to be protected from "demonic influences."[113] She once again claims that human sacrifices occurred, the victims being burned alive. From this she launches into a discussion of the Mexican Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos), showing similarities between this and Samhain. She then returns to "the Dark Side of Samhain, "[114] citing the book Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects (Time Life Books), which describes those dog eared "Roman records" (such as the writings of Caesar and Tacitus) that describe how the Druids burned people alive in human shaped wicker cages and how they practiced divination by disemboweling sacrificial victims. A medieval source is cited as proof that "firstborn children were sacrificed before a great idol to ensure fertility of cattle and crops."[115]
"The occult images of Halloween desensitize people to evil and prompt the masses to embrace the new global paradigm, " Kjos complains, "God's people in the Old Testament didn't hesitate long before they conformed God's teaching to the pagan practices of their neighbors. The same kind of compromise is changing churches today... We live at a time when popular culture, peer pressure, and public training in the consensus (dialectic) process are pushing masses toward a global blend of all religions. Halloween promoters may never mention reincarnation or Satan, but their efforts have desensitized the masses to a spiritual mix that promotes both. They succeed by taking the darkest images of the occult and packaging them as the most enticing celebration of the year.God warned us it would happen -- again and again -- for neither human nature nor Satan's tactics change much through the centuries."[116] Of course the persons presenting the "darkest images of the occult" to the public are people like Kjos.
Kjos concludes by giving the reader suggestions on how to deal with Halloween and the occult. These suggestions include:
1. Pray...
2. Understand the The nature and tactics of Satan.
3. Know the protective truths of The Armor of God and "put them on" each day.
4. Memorize some of God's important promises. See Scriptures for our times.
6. Discuss chart showing the shift from a Christian world view to a Global/Pagan paradigm.
7. ...help your children understand spiritual warfare as well as God's armor.
8. ...understand the strategies used to conform our children's beliefs to the new global spirituality.
Kjos has drawn a lot of attention to herself as she is so vocal. Yet she is saying the same old things and recycling the same tired urban legends as the rest of the people that I write about. She is, to paraphrase her own words (her disclaimers notwithstanding), proud, a boaster, an inventor of evil things, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, thinking she knows the righteous judgment of God, believes that that those who practice such things are deserving of death.
[1] http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid.
[6] Ibid, emphasis in original.
[7] Ibid, emphasis in original.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Ibid.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Attwater, Donald. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, pg 274.
[14] Reinach, Solomon. Orpheus, pg 240.
[15] http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Ibid.
[19] Ibid.
[20] Ibid.
[21] Ibid.
[22] Ibid.
[23] http://www.crossroad.to/images/Halloween/Halloween-symbols.htm
[24] Ibid, emphasis in original.
[25] Ibid.
[26] Ibid.
[27] Ibid.
[28] Ibid.
[29] Ibid.
[30] Ibid.
[31] Ibid.
[32] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/carl-teichrib/1contents.htm
[33] Ibid.
[34] Ibid.
[35] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/carl-teichrib/8owl.htm
[36] Ibid.
[37] Ibid.
[38] Ibid.
[39] Ibid.
[40] Ibid.
[41] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/carl-teichrib/9pentagrams.htm
[42] Ibid.
[43] Ibid.
[44] Ibid.
[45] Ibid.
[46] Ibid.
[47] Ibid.
[48] Ibid.
[49] Ibid.
[50] Ibid.
[51] Ibid.
[52] Ibid.
[53] Ibid.
[54] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/carl-teichrib/11scarab.htm
[55] Ibid.
[56] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2002/carl-teichrib/5isis.htm
[57] Ibid.
[58] Ibid.
[59] Ibid.
[60] Ibid.
[61] Ibid, emphasis in original.
[62] http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/Halloween.html
[63] Ibid.
[64] Ibid.
[65] Ibid.
[66] Ibid.
[67] Ibid.
[68] Ibid.
[69] Ibid.
[70] Ibid.
[71] Ibid.
[72] Ibid.
[73] Ibid.
[74] Ibid.
[75] Ibid.
[76] Ibid.
[77] Ibid.
[78] Ibid.
[79] Ibid.
[80] Ibid.
[81] Ibid.
[82] Ibid.
[83] Ibid.
[84] Ibid.
[85] Ibid.
[86] Ibid.
[87] Ibid.
[88] Ibid.
[89] Ibid.
[90] Ibid.
[91] Ibid.
[92] Ibid.
[93] Ibid.
[94] Ibid.
[95] Ibid.
[96] Ibid.
[97] Ibid.
[98] Ibid.
[99] Ibid.
[100] Ibid.
[101] Ibid.
[102] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/Halloween2000.html
[103] Ibid.
[104] Ibid.
[105] Ibid.
[106] Ibid.
[107] Ibid.
[108] Ibid.
[109] Ibid.
[110] Ibid.
[111] Ibid.
[112] Ibid.
[113] Ibid.
[114] Ibid.
[115] Ibid.
[116] Ibid.
Kerr's Bio: Kerr Cuhulain the author of this article, is known to the mundane world as Detective Constable Charles Ennis. Ennis, a former child abuse investigator, is the author of several articles on child abuse investigation that appeared in Law & Order Magazine. Better known to the Pagan community by his Wiccan name, Kerr Cuhulain, Ennis was the first Wiccan police officer to go public about his beliefs 28 years ago. Kerr is now the Preceptor General of Officers of Avalon. Kerr went on to write four books: The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca (Horned Owl Publishing), Wiccan Warrior and Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the Wiccan Warrior. (Llewellyn Publications), as well as a book based on this series: Witch Hunts: Out of the Broom Closet (Spiral Publishing).
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Derby Theatre has announced the details of its spring 2016 season.
From home-grown productions of ground-breaking plays to fresh and thrilling re-tellings of classics, fabulous shows for all the family to exciting and eclectic touring shows, cutting edge and contemporary Studio shows to a wealth of insightful workshops and engaging participation opportunities for children, young people and the community, spring 2016 at Derby Theatre once again promises an exciting theatrical ride for all ages.
Derby Theatre will be producing and presenting, during the 60th anniversary year of this seminal play, John Osborne's ground-breaking classic, Look Back in Anger.
A play which smashed onto the scene and changed the face of British theatre in the mid-1950s, by placing on stage the voice of the 'Angry Young Man', Look Back in Anger will be presented in co-production with Octagon Theatre, Bolton. On from March 4-26, the play has a huge local resonance, as it is a strongly autobiographical piece which suggests it is based on Osborne's unhappy marriage to actress Pamela Lane, and their life living in a cramped flat in Derby during the 50s.
Directed by Sarah Brigham, Look Back in Anger promises a stellar cast, searing drama, sizzling passions and a truly memorable night out at the Theatre.
Other Derby Theatre productions for next season includes Jinny, part of the Theatre's RETOLD series, which looks to crack open the classics from the perspective of the female characters. Jinny, on from March 7-23, is inspired by Look Back in Anger.
Touring theatre for next season promises top quality entertainment and includes: The Great Gatsby by Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park and Eastbourne Theatre, a sizzling new stage adaptation bringing to life the glittering decadence of America's Jazz Age, on from February 9-13; The Damned United by Red Ladder Theatre Company and West Yorkshire Playhouse, a gripping play about the beauty and brutality of football, on from April 7-16; Terrence Rattigan's Flare Path, a major revival of the epic wartime romance, on from April 19-23 and The Mousetrap, the legendary, record-breaking, box office smash-hit thriller, on from June 6-11.
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Stefan Molyneux (here's his Wickedpedia page) is what you would call an 'influential opinion-maker' who appears to have a pretty large following in the 'alternative media truth-seeking sector'. I must say that clowns of his ilk are a far graver concern to me than any of the occasional, small-town infiltrators of this valiant research / discussion forum of ours. Here's a recent, quite boring (yet very telling) Youtube video of his published only 4 days ago - with already close to 55,000 views - featuring a frowning Molyneux - mostly just listening and grimacing at callers opining that 9/11 was a complete hoax :
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK2pEevzhVk
If you can muster watching at least a few minutes of this latest Molyneux-production, I trust you will easily realize for yourself what sort of techniques are still being used (by the so-called "alternative media") to ridicule any notion of 9/11 being nothing but a mainstream media hoax - as comprehensively exposed by the wider September Clues / Cluesforum research.
At 9:21, Molyneux scoffingly says: "Wait, so there were no planes in the Pennsylvania field, no planes in the Pentagon and no planes that flew into the World Trade Center???"... Followed by a snigger and a wide grin on his face.


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CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears hired Montreal Alouettes coach Marc Trestman on Wednesday to replace the fired Lovie Smith and gave him two basic tasks — get the most out of quarterback Jay Cutler and lead the team to the playoffs on a consistent basis.
It's not exactly a simple task for the former Raiders and 49ers offensive coordinator. But the Bears believe he's up to it.
It's the first head coaching job in the NFL for Trestman, a longtime assistant in the league who spent the past five seasons coaching the CFL's Alouettes and led them to two Grey Cup titles. In addition to working with the Raiders and 49ers, Trestman was also an offensive coordinator with Cleveland and Arizona.
Chicago general manager Phil Emery cast a wide net in his search, meeting with at least 13 candidates. Besides Trestman, he also brought back Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and the Indianapolis Colts' Bruce Arians for second interviews.
Trestman wasted little time starting to assemble his staff.
A person familiar with the situation said the Bears have hired New Orleans Saints offensive line coach Aaron Kromer as their offensive coordinator, hoping to revive an attack that often sputtered with Mike Tice calling the plays. Kromer is also a former Raiders assistant coach. he person spoke Wednesday on the condition of anonymity because the move had not been announced.
Kromer served as the Saints' head coach for six games this season while interim head coach Joe Vitt was suspended for his role in the bounty scandal. Saints coach Sean Payton had to sit out the year.
For Chicago, the moves come on the heels of a 10-win season in which the Bears fell apart after winning seven of their first eight games.
Smith was let go after nine years, ending a run that included a trip to the Super Bowl but also saw Chicago miss the playoffs five of the past six seasons. That move did not sit well with some players at the time, but there's at least one who is looking forward to working with Trestman.
"Heard so many GREAT things about Coach Trestman can't wait to follow his lead," star receiver Brandon Marshall wrote on Twitter. "Reading his book now."
Trestman authored "Perseverance: Life Lessons on Leadership and Teamwork," a motivational biography released in 2010. According to his website, it mixes his philosophies with personal stories that "provide a unique insight into the secrets of his success."
The Bears, who have scheduled a news conference for Thursday morning, are turning to the 57-year-old Trestman in part because of his background with quarterbacks.
He worked with Bernie Kosar as an assistant at the University of Miami and again when he was on the Browns' staff in the 1980s. Trestman helped the Raiders reach the Super Bowl at the end of the 2002 season with an offense he geared for Rich Gannon, the league's MVP that year.
In recent years, Trestman has worked as a consultant in the NFL and in the offseason helped develop quarterbacks entering the league — including Cutler. His biggest task will be maximizing the man behind center and getting the offense to click.
That's something that never really happened under Smith, who helped build a top defense around stars such as Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs but never could solve the issues on the other side of the ball. The Bears' offense never ranked higher than 15th under Smith, and the problems in that area along with the postseason misses ultimately led to his dismissal.
The Bears have big holes on the offensive line and at tight end, but the No. 1 task is connecting with Cutler. As gifted as he is, questions remain about his makeup and demeanor. He has one year left on his contract, and the Bears have to figure out if he can lead them to the top. In Chicago, the deck at times has been stacked against him.
His relationship with former offensive coordinator Ron Turner seemed icy, and he took a beating in Mike Martz's system. Cutler will now be working in his fourth system since the Bears acquired him from Denver in 2009.
Beside the issues on the line, Cutler also lacked a go-to receiver his first three years in Chicago, but that changed in a big way before this season. The Bears hired Emery to replace the fired Jerry Angelo as GM after a late collapse last year, and although he was given a mandate to work with Smith for at least a year, he was able to retool the roster.
The biggest move? That was the trade with Miami for Marshall, Cutler's favorite target in Denver.
Marshall set club records for catches and yards, but the Bears still ranked 28th on offense.
It didn't help that receivers Alshon Jeffery and Earl Bennett missed time with injuries or that running back Matt Forte was banged up and uninvolved at times, whether it was in the running or passing game.
The Bears also have an aging core on defense and a big question at middle linebacker. Urlacher has an expiring contract and missed the last four games with a hamstring injury after being limited by a knee problem, and the eight-time Pro Bowler might have played his final down for Chicago.
Pro Bowl cornerback Charles Tillman, star defensive end Julius Peppers and linebacker Lance Briggs all are in their 30s.
Despite having some aging stars, the Bears' defense ranked fifth overall and picked off a league-leading 24 passes while returning an NFL-best eight interceptions for touchdowns. Their special teams remain a strong point, too, even if Devin Hester failed to return a kickoff or punt for a touchdown.


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This poster has been an ongoing quarterly thing for the Psychology Club at Ohio State, and features an illustration of Sigmund Freud doing seasonally appropriate activities. The first two images were created by Laura, and the third is the one I did while attempting to mimic Laura's style. I am proud of the final product, and hopefully the untrained eye won't know the difference! But what do your highly-trained eyes think?
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If you're suffering Hollywood career doubts and need a little advice, there are worse people you could turn to than Christopher Nolan.
That's the situation Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister found himself in several years ago when he debated making the high-concept science-fiction film "Transcendence" his directorial debut. Pfister had shot all but one of Nolan's movies and had worked closely with the helmer on his superhero tentpoles.
But Pfister wasn't convinced that this script, with its big ideas and action pieces and a budget that would eventually approach $100 million, was the right fit for him.
"I told Chris, 'I think it's a good project. My hesitation is that it's just too big for my first adventure,'" recalled Pfister, 52. "And Chris very calmly said, 'Absolutely not. You know how to handle this scope of filmmaking. And storytelling is the same whether you're dealing with $100 million or $10 million.'"
Pfister took Nolan's counsel as well as crucial notes from the director, who came on as an executive producer and offered a guiding hand in matters ranging from story pacing to the score. The result is a sci-fi action tale — it stars Johnny Depp and hits theaters courtesy of Warner Bros. on April 18 — with the spirit if not the direct involvement of one of Hollywood's most lauded filmmakers.
Pfister and production company Alcon Entertainment hope the movie captures some of the same lightning in a bottle as the "Inception" director's work. Certainly it has a similar level of conceptual ambition. Focusing on technology guru Will Caster (Depp), "Transcendence," written by the science-pedigreed Jack Paglen, tells what happens when a man who has been researching artificial intelligence dies, and his wife and partner (Rebecca Hall) decides to digitally reconstruct his psyche and persona. As violent dissenting forces try to stop the march of technology, Caster evolves into a powerful but ambiguous force.
Inspired by the idea of the Singularity — the term coined by futurist Ray Kurzweil to describe the merger of humans and sentient machines — "Transcendence" stakes out a middle ground between utopian and apocalyptic visions of the decades ahead.
"I wanted to get away from the cliched notion of a sentient machine taking over the world," Pfister said. "There are deeper questions of what we're using technology for. To heal or to create a barrier? Is it benevolent or malevolent? I want the audience to understand both sides of it."
In that way, the movie has a few things in common with Spike Jonze's "Her," which also looks to show the more well-rounded consequences of artificial intelligence and which similarly drew from Kurzweil.
Pfister said he read the author's work and found himself both piqued by and skeptical of it, thinking some of his ideas overly optimistic. "The question is whether we're going to take advantage of technology or technology is going to take advantage of us," Pfister said.
He was less ambivalent about directing. After beginning his career working behind the camera on "Frontline" documentaries and a Robert Altman HBO miniseries, Pfister attended AFI with a cinematography concentration. He has spent much of the past 15 years serving as Nolan's D.P. on every one of the director's released movies dating back to "Memento."
But after "The Dark Knight Rises," he knew he was interested in a shift, and spent years seeking out the right film. (He initially responded to two scripts--"The Fighter" and "Captain Phillips"--so his taste, at least, was sound.)
The idea of a 52-year-old first-time director is not common, and cinematographers don't typically make permanent transitions to the big chair. But Pfister says he has no plans to return to cinematography. (He hired someone else, up-and-comer Jess Hall, to shoot this movie.) And although both script rewrites and the politics of working with actors were new, Pfister said he was helped by all the years of watching Nolan and Nolan's wife-producing partner, Emma Thomas, handle the many moving parts on their sets.
Still, Pfister, who won his Oscar working on "Inception." emphasized that the pair's divergent backgrounds will distinguish their films. "If people are expecting Nolan-lite, I think they'll be surprised," he said. "My training comes from Chris, but my emotional content comes from a different era. I'm steeped in a 1970s, pre-'Star Wars' period, films like 'Soylent Green.' Chris comes from a different place."
One regard in which the two are similar: "Transcendence," like much of Nolan's work, was cloaked in mystery for years, many of its characters and plot points unknown to anyone outside the film's inner circle.
"It wasn't like we had some deep, amazing secret to keep; we just didn't want too many plot elements to leak out," Pfister said. "But it's interesting with blogs. Sometimes just keeping your mouth shut becomes a veil of secrecy." He paused and laughed. "Technology strikes again."


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When you stop to think about it, a smartphone is smart because of all the things it can communicate. Your iPhone 4S has a Notification Center that gives you an at-a-glance, timely view of everything you want to keep on top of: new e-mails, texts, the current temperature, appointments and reminders, Twitter tweets, and more.
But although it's useful to keep tabs on all this stuff, you don't want to be hit over the head with the information, thus distracting you from whatever else you're doing on the iPhone. So Apple delivers notifications in an unobtrusive manner: They appear as banners at the top of the screen:
The banner disappears after a few seconds until you actively choose to view the notification. When you're ready, you summon the Notification Center just by swiping down from the top of the screen.
You can also choose which notifications you see. Tap Settings—>Notifications and then tap the notifications you want to see. What's more, you can customize the way the notifications you do want to see appear. By way of example, in Settings, tap Reminders under the list of apps and widgets that you can include in Notification Center. You can decide whether reminders should appear in the Notification Center and indicate whether you want to see just a single reminder item, up to five reminders or up to ten of these items. Next, choose an alerts style: whether such reminder notifications appear as one of those banners at the top of the screen that disappears automatically or as an alert that requires your response before you can do anything else. Lastly, you get to decide whether to receive reminder notifications when your phone is locked:


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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today announced formation of a citizen task force to examine the City's laws and regulations governing group homes and congregate housing.
The City of Lincoln currently regulates the location of group homes and congregate housing and care facilities through the zoning ordinances. The task force will be asked to consider and recommend any changes that would improve the community's ability to provide appropriate housing opportunities for people with special needs, yet do so in a way that is compatible with Lincoln's existing neighborhoods.
"It is important to consider the impact that congregate housing has on a neighborhood and discuss who can safely be housed and what settings are appropriate for the variety of different services being provided by group homes or other supervised congregate housing," Mayor Seng said.
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan states that congregate facilities should be designed and located to enhance the surrounding neighborhood. Reasonable spacing, design and operational requirements should be created for all congregate facilities to preserve the neighborhood character while providing for those with special needs.
"The recent incident in which a group home resident was charged with stabbing a child has justifiably focused the community concern on how congregate living is incorporated into a neighborhood," Mayor Seng said. "We are glad the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is making a requirement for more security in some programs, but we also need to discuss what patients are housed in a community. My hope is that the task force can focus a thoughtful discussion of the issues and how they should be addressed in local ordinances.
"The task force will be charged with balancing the objective of providing effective and efficient services to the City's special populations while protecting the integrity and stability of our residential neighborhoods," Seng said. The task force is expected to complete its mission and report to the Mayor within four months of its initial meeting.
Seng noted that the task force will begin by reviewing the existing City ordinances. Some group home operators have indicated they intend to seek waivers from parts of the existing City zoning ordinances. The City of Lincoln currently does not have a procedure to review applications seeking a variance from the City ordinance.
Seng said the Group Home and Congregate Housing Task Force will be chaired by Jon Carlson, a member of the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission. The City Council will be invited to have a representative on the task force. Other members will be:
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When you don't know where else to start, fire up Windows 8 Help and Support and begin digging at the top. To summon the program from the Start screen, type the word help. As you begin to type the word, the Start screen clears immediately and begins displaying names of all matching apps. When the words Help and Support appear, click or tap the words to launch the program.
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Lit Agent David Vigliano Thinks People Love Jayson Blair's Story, or Hate It
David Vigliano on Jayson Blair, in "Hey, Victim, Want a Book Deal? Jill Carroll's Post-Trauma Choice," by Sheelah Kolhatkar, NYO, today:
Ms. Carroll's future book project was going to be big, according to Mr. Vigliano. "She's very sympathetic, so I think there'll be a very positive reaction to her book," he said. "You gotta differentiate between somebody who's seen like a hero, like she is or [Charles] Moose is, and someone who's notorious, like Jayson Blair or Jared Paul Stern. If a lot of people are offended by the person's behavior, ultimately they're not going to buy a book."
David Vigliano on Jayson Blair, in "The Blair Pitch Project," by Joe Hagan, NYO, May 26, 2003:
Mr. Vigliano, meanwhile, is working hard — and fast — to turn the 27-year-old into Jayson Blair Inc. It's a story that he believes could be worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, in film and book royalties....
Already, speculation in the New York Post has suggested the possibility of a six- or seven-figure advance for a book by Mr. Blair. Those figures, Mr. Vigliano said, "don't seem unreasonable to me. It's a huge, huge story. I've talked to Jayson and I've seen the richness of this story. It's a very deep and very textured and layered story, and he's a gifted writer — and no, those figures don't seem unreasonable at all, by any means."
Hey, Victim, Want a Book Deal? Jill Carroll's Post-Trauma Choice [NYO]


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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Serendipity Encore - A Family Heirloom?
Is it a coincidence that four days later, while I was a the library with the kids no-less, that I received a phone call from a total stranger offering me a family heirloom? Of course, you can say it was a total coincidence. Or you might consider that my ancestors took pity on me and decided to throw me a crumb.
I received the call from a man named Steve (I would write his last name but I'm afraid I would spell it wrong) from Long Island. When he first started talking he asked if I was an Edwards descendant. I was a little suspicious at this point because in the past when people have asked me that they wanted to sell me something for a lot of money.
But Steve kept talking and never mentioned money so I started to relax. He said he's had an Edwards family heirloom (I'm not going to tell what it is until it arrives) for the last 30 years. He did say that the item dated from 1868 and contained some family history. And what's more, he wanted to reunite the item with the Edwards family. He still didn't ask me for any money so I offered to pay for shipping and he declined.
Steve wasn't able to sent it right away. The waiting has been keeping me in a frenzied state. I got a text message from Steve yesterday saying that he mailed it that morning and it should arrive in a few days.
So many questions are running through my head! Will the heirloom answer any long standing family mysteries? Will it solve the brick wall regarding my immigrant ancestor, William Edwards? Will it provide new family information?
I will do my best not to desperately check the mail box every day this week but it will be hard to contain my excitement.
In the meantime, I'm going to hold off saying what it is until it arrives. Then I'll share a photo with everyone.
I'm classifying this one under serendipity!
Photo Credit: photo by jessicacasetorres and used under the creative commons license
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I'm on tenterhooks! Hope you receive it and post about it soon!ReplyDelete
The suspense is killing me...cant wait to see what it is! And I don't think it was a coincidence either.ReplyDelete
Over the last ten years I've had experiences like that (usually by email, but one was by phone). No one asked for money, and none would even take postage fees. This is the list of "stuff" I received in return: a 1796 will on parchment paper, a diary, an 1830 account book, adoption papers, photographs, a CD of scanned photographs, books (many books from different people), and most important INFORMATION leading to breaking down brick walls. Thanks goodness for the internet for making it all possible, and congratulations on joining the club! I can't wait to see what goody you received!ReplyDelete
Wonderful! I think I will have a talk with my ancestors tonight.ReplyDelete
Oooh goody! Give into temptation! check the mailbox everyday until it arrives. After all, inquiring minds want to know.ReplyDelete
can't wait to find out what you get!ReplyDelete
If you don't check the mailbox we'll do it for you :-) Can't wait to see what it is!ReplyDelete
Has it arrived yet?????ReplyDelete
(Sorry, could not resist!)


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Egypt's military-installed rulers declared the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Morsi a "terrorist" organization on Wednesday, signaling a wider crackdown after blaming it for a deadly police compound bombing claimed by a jihadist group.
A Muslim Brotherhood leader lambasted the decision and said the organization would keep up its protests across Egypt despite the unprecedented move against the 85-year-old group, the country's oldest and largest Islamist movement.
The decision is likely to accelerate a crackdown on the Brotherhood that has killed more than 1,000 people, mostly Islamists, in street clashes and seen thousands imprisoned since Morsi's overthrow by the military in July.
The decision lumps together al-Qaeda-inspired militants who have killed scores of police and soldiers with the more moderate Brotherhood, although authorities have provided no proof of any links between the two.
The announcement came the day after a suicide car bombing of a police headquarters in the Nile Delta killed 15 people and wounded more than 100. The attack was condemned by the Brotherhood — which renounced violence in the 1970s — and claimed by an al-Qaeda-inspired group based in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
However, the cabinet said "all of Egypt was horrified by the ugly crime committed by the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday morning, when it blew up the Daqhaleya police headquarters."
"The government has decided to declare the Muslim Brotherhood movement a terrorist organization," it said in a statement, referring to Egypt's penal code. "Members who continue to belong to this group or organization following the release of this statement will be punished according to the law."
The move caps a dramatic fall for the Brotherhood, which was Egypt's best-organized opposition group during decades of dictatorship and won a string of polls after the 2011 overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak, culminating in Morsi's election last year.
The group became deeply unpopular during Morsi's year in power, alienating the military, Christians and secular activists, who accused Morsi of mismanaging the economy and trying to erect a new Brotherhood-led tyranny. The military forced Morsi from power on July 3 amid massive demonstrations demanding his resignation, and he now stands accused of incitement to kill protesters and colluding with militants to carry out attacks.
One of the few senior leaders of the Brotherhood to have avoided prison said the Islamists would continue with their near-daily demonstrations, which frequently set off clashes with security forces.
"The protests will continue, certainly," said Ibrahim Munir, a member of the group's executive council who is in exile in London, denouncing the government's latest move as "illegitimate."
"This is an attempt to frame the Brotherhood," he added.
Social solidarity minister Ahmed al-Borei said the government would ban all the Brotherhood's activities, including "protests."
The cabinet had come under increasing pressure to declare the Brotherhood a terrorist group following Tuesday's bombing.
"Egypt enveloped in sadness ... and the government waffles," read the front-page banner of the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia, which strongly supported Morsi's overthrow and pledged billions of US dollars to the military-installed government, condemned the "terrorist acts" and offered its "full support" in a palace statement carried by state news agency SPA.


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A preliminary report on the cause of a car crash that killed a 13-year-old Bluffton girl will be available in the coming weeks and could determine whether charges are filed against the driver, according to the Bluffton Police Department.
The S.C. Highway Patrol's Multi-Disciplinary Accident Investigation Team will arrive soon to piece together the conditions leading to a Friday night collision that resulted in the death of Selena Newman, a student at H.E. McCracken Middle School, two days later from head trauma, said Lt. Joe Babkiewicz of the Bluffton Police Department.
A preliminary report will likely take at least a week, with a full report typically available in 30 to 60 days, he added.
Newman was airlifted to Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah after the car, driven by 18-year-old Dalton McClintock, struck a tree while traveling eastbound on New Riverside Drive. The driver reportedly lost control and the car spun around, hitting a tree on the passenger side of the back of the car, where Newman was sitting.
Police ruled out intoxication as a factor and can't say what could have caused McClintock to lose control, though excessive speed could've played a part. Those factors will determine whether charges are filed against McClintock.
"We're still investigating," Babkiewicz said. "We don't want to jump to any conclusions at this time."
McClintock and a 16-year-old girl riding passenger side in the front of the car sustained minor injuries.
Supporters have flocked to Facebook since Sunday, when a friend created a group in her memory and asked fellow students to wear blue Monday to honor her.
"Selena, you'll never be forgotten," wrote one supporter. "Your (sic) in all of our hearts."
Plans for a memorial service have not been finalized, friends of the family said. But a Facebook supporter asked friends to contact Sauls Funeral Home on Simmonsville Road for donations to cover funeral services.


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This one's just for the Padre:
Equally opportunity offense!
Equally opportunity offense!
Posted by shadowfax at 8:46 PM
No offense taken, and I probably did over-react to your first posting on this.
(Rev. Dr.) C. Scot Giles
Hey, my specialty is missing (OB-GYN).
I'm sure that you've seen scutmonkey's cartoon on medical specialties as well:
12 Types of medical specialities
Hilarious stuff :)


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How-To Make Log Furniture #7: Make a Chuppah How-To
I was asked to build a Chuppah for a wedding using small diameter, nearly green aspen logs. It was a challenge finding the logs but building it sure was fun! How do you incorporate logs into a wedding? It seems to be a growing trend – this is the third wedding project I've worked on. Please share things you've made for weddings by posting pictures below! If it's a log item, I'll share it on my FaceBook page with a back link to your page!