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A beauty pageant queen seems like an unlikely advocate for body positivity or a healthy re-thinking of beauty standards. But Miss Universe Canada, Siera Bearchell, is just that. And her fresh thinking isn't just influencing the pageant world, it's teaching girls and women everywhere that they can be proud of their bodies.
Siera Bearchell's Story
Hailing from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, second-year law student Siera Bearchell is no stranger to the pageant scene. She was the 2nd runner up in the 2009 Miss Teen World and 1st runner-up at the 2015 Miss Supranational pageant. But in the most recent Miss Universe pageant of 2016, Siera faced constant criticism in interviews and online about her size compared to the other pageant participants.
"I was recently asked, "What happened to you? Why have you gained weight? You are losing points" This was a reference to my body of course, " she says. "While I am first to say I am not as lean as I was when I was 16, 20, or even last year, but I am more confident, capable, wise, humble and passionate than ever before. As soon as I started to love who I was rather than always trying to fit what I thought society wanted me to be, I gained a whole new side of life."
Siera opened up to her Instagram followers this January, admitting that she tried extreme dieting to prepare for her earlier pageants:
"To be truthful, I restricted my food intake intensely at previous pageants and was miserable, self-conscious and I never felt good enough… there were days I would eat a protein bar, workout for hours and struggle to fall asleep because I as so hungry. My body is not naturally lean and that's okay. I am healthy. I am fit. I am confident. I am me. This is who I am right now and I'm okay with it, so you should be too."
In response to an altered image of her that was circulating around the internet, Siera posted this message to her Instagram followers:
Siera's Message: A Healthy Lifestyle Is More Than Just Your Body
While Siera has always had a passion for fitness, teaching spin class and yoga, and being a pretty impressive golfer in a mostly male-dominated sport, she firmly believes that true health has to go beyond expectations about your body; true health will bring more to your life, not take away.
In an interview for Miss Universe Canada, Siera said, "A healthy body truly does lead to a healthy mind and overall happier life". But she wants to strongly emphasize to girls and women everywhere that a health body doesn't look the same on every person:" This physical body is NOT an indication of health-including physical and mental health."
This physical body is NOT an indication of health-including physical and mental health. To call me lazy is an insult. To say I was healthier when I was more lean is ignorant. To define me by my body demonstrates the inadequacy of our society. I'm not saying these things just for the judgment directed at me personally. I'm saying them for every woman who has ever questioned her self-worth because of her physical being. We are not defined by our appearance. When we think about the people we love, we think about their character, their humour, their intelligence, their wit, their generosity, their kindness and humility…. we don't define our friends and family solely on their appearance. So please inform me why it's okay to belittle those we don't even know based only on what is seen on the outside?
Siera Today
Siera is definitely keeping busy. Even as she pursues her law degree at the University of Saskatchewan, she has a passion for charity, and has won multiple awards for her extensive volunteer work and service. Additionally, she co-owns Watered Down Apparel – a company that donates 30 days of clean water in Keyna, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Haiti for every item purchased. Yet she always makes time to send positive messages to the public about true beauty.
"I have a vision to redefine beauty. I have a vision in which women around the world will recognize that true beauty, validation and self-worth start from within. I have a vision that regardless of our age, gender, race, background and personal views, we will support and encourage one another to be comfortable in our own skin."
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One of my hobby is monitor air ticket and grab good bargain ticket. due to economic crisis and dramatic drop of cruel oil price, most of the airline ( main and budget ) having a promotion during 2016. my philosophy of travel is comfort but best price. there are rule of thumb in order to full fill my need.
We travel via Jetstar and reached Macau at Midnight. We was so tired and took a taxi to hotel. The receptionist of Century hotel told us due to centre air-conditional break down, they transferred us to another hotel named – Altira Hotel. we accepted unless we want to stay with room without air-con. when we reach Altira Hotel we was so surprise, the room was really nice and luxury, further more we paid only SGD 70/ night.
Macau have 4 main areaz:- peninsular Macau, Taipa, cotai and coloane.
Around 9pm we took MTR travel to Yau Ma Tei, we went to Temple Street night market, they got a lot of thing to see and buy, but the seller not so polite actually. maybe I spoke mandarin hence they are not polite .. (my mandarin is too good !!!)I entered a kiosk that selling Hello Kitty Stuff, and the auntie said : not easy to travel to overseas, this items unable to buy at China, must buy some souvenir to family. catch no ball. I told this story to other, everybody told me the same thing she think I am people from China.
We had Hong Kong Style breakfast at hotel, the serving was abundance. Meat ball Noodle with American breakfast. I just don't understand why the set come with 3 cups of beverage? Milk, Orange juice, Coffee or tea ?We travelled to ShaTin station by train, New Town Plaza, New Territories. we took picture at Snoopy World, at the roof top of New Town Plaza, Is free entry play ground for children. Snoopy world is not big place but nice place for photography.
Tip: please add Dr Kong shoes in your shopping list, because the price cheaper than Singapore a lot.(you may check at New Town Plaza outlet)
friendly speaking I not recognise the road at all, I just knew at peninsular Hong Kong and at the central part, unfortunately the shop closed down. this Restaurant operated for 42 years old but due to rental issue and closed down ( Li Wan Mee and Porridge restaurant )
we checked out at 3.pm ( Promotion period late check out for free), and we back to Macau via Ferry again.
We checked in at 5.30pm at Century hotel, you can see a very big difference with Altira hotel.
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Bernie Sanders 'disappointed' by Ben Carson's Muslim remarks
PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday decried Dr. Ben Carson's suggestion on "Meet The Press" that a Muslim should not be president of the United States.
"This is the year 2015," Sanders told NBC News while talking with reporters after celebrating a campaign field office opening in Portsmouth.
"For a long, long time in the history of America, there were people who would say, 'you know, we don't want a Catholic to be president of the United States.' And then John F. Kennedy became president in 1960," Sanders said. "And then people said, 'oh, we don't want a black guy, African American to be president of the United States,' and then finally Barack Obama became president of the United States."
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He continued, "Look, you judge candidates for president not on their religion, not on the color of their skin, but on their ideas on what they stand for. That's what democracy is supposed to be about. So I was very disappointed in Dr. Carson's statement and I disagree with him."
On "Meet The Press" on Sunday, Carson told NBC's Chuck Todd, "I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that." The retired neurosurgeon also said that the religion of Islam is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, generally does not go on the offensive against his opponents in the Democratic presidential primary, telling a town hall crowd in Seabrook earlier in the day, "if I were to start viciously attacking Hillary Clinton it would be on the front pages of every paper." But he is less shy about taking on Republicans.
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Now it's time to learn more about how people are using the new sharing feature. In your app, people can share different types of content: either an individual track, a whole album, or a playlist. You're interested in seeing what type of content your users are sharing.
Step 3: Understand what users are doing right before using the feature
It's helpful to trace the paths that users take in your app.
Some analytics platforms, including Amplitude, provide event flows that help you visualize users' sequences of actions.
Step 4: Build a behavioral cohort of people who used the feature to analyze how they compare to your overall user population
use this cohort in Steps 5-7 to measure how how users who share contents might differ for key metrics like conversion, retention, and engagement.
Step 5: Analyze the impact of the new feature on retention
User retention is critical to the success of any app. The more your app becomes an ingrained habit for your users, the more time you have to upsell them and monetize them.
To measure the impact of sharing on retention, you can compare the retention of the cohort of users who shared music vs. those who did not. One way to do this is to look specifically at new user retention: do new users who share music early in their experience (like their first day), retain better than new users who don't share music?
Step 6: Measure the impact of the new feature on your key conversion funnels.
It's fantastic that it correlates with higher retention; does sharing have a similar impact on your company's revenue?
Step 7: Measure the impact of your new feature on engagement
Now that you've seen the impact sharing has on conversion and retention, you're curious whether users who share music are more engaged with your mobile app overall. One way to look at this is the number of sessions each user does per day.
You can also look at the 'stickiness' of users who share. We define stickiness as the percentage of users who are active at least n days out of a week.


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"What kind of legacy will we leave behind," Page asked, "as the Executive Committee, as students, as professors, as preachers, as lay men and women?"
Page reviewed the legacy Southern Baptists are building through the Cooperative Program
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"Southern Baptists got [race issues] so wrong for so long that we have to deal honestly with it, because we do not have credibility," said Matthew J. Hall, vice president for academic administration and assistant professor of church history. The forum, which was held at the
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"Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, ... in this dark hour in America, when we wrestle within ourselves to not become downcast or discouraged with all that is happening in our nation," Floyd said, "we must respond in obedience to what the Lord is telling us in Psalm 43. We need the power and the guidance of the Holy Spirit so we will be anchored to the Truth of God and to the Lord Jesus Himself alone." Read More
Jimmy Draper ponders how NASCAR drivers -- and Christians -- would do if they were blindfolded. Christians "should never pull into the fast lane of life without first reading our Road Map -- the Bible," Draper, president emeritus of LifeWay Christian Resources, writes. Read More
Trained disaster relief volunteers from the Kentucky Baptist Convention are working in Flint seven days a week at the invitation of Michigan emergency management officials. Five three-member teams are going door to door, delivering water filters, bottled water and water test kits. They also are passing along information related to the water crisis and listening as residents tell their stories about being caught up in the dilemma. Read More
WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pope Francis is wrong in asserting the death penalty always violates the Bible's command not to murder, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore says.
In a Feb. 21 blog post, Moore responded to the pope's call the same day for a worldwide ban on capital punishment. The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) took issue with the reasoning used by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in his abolitionist appeal. Read More
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NEW YORK, New York - Stocks are coming off a strong week after the Dow Jones closed at a record high on Friday, November 11, 2016.
Investors' concerns about Donald Trump's upset election were turned around by the end of the week. They're hoping the president elect's policies can help boost the economy.
The Dow was up nearly one thousand for the week to finish at a record 18,848 on Friday. The broader S and P 500 saw a 3.8% gain for the week, despite a 3 point decline on Friday, to close at close to 2,100.
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Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin is a newcomer to the cause of reforming America's vote-counting machines, welcomed through baptism by fire. In 2015, Maryland's main election system vendor was bought by a parent company with ties to a Russian oligarch. The state's election officials did not know about the purchase until July 2018, when the FBI notified them of the potential conflict.
The FBI investigated and did not find any evidence of tampering or sharing of voter data. But the incident was a giant red flag as to the potential vulnerabilities of American democracy – especially as many states have outsourced vote-counting to the private sector. After all, the purchase happened while Russian agents were mounting multiple disinformation and cybersecurity campaigns to interfere with America's 2016 general election.
"To say that they don't have any evidence of any wrongdoing is not to say that nothing untoward happened," Raskin said. "It's simply to say that we don't have the evidence of it."
The fact is that democracy in the United States is now largely a secretive and privately-run affair conducted out of the public eye with little oversight. …
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It was almost midnight as we boarded the river cruise. There was a mild chill in the spring air. The night was mostly clear with a few wandering specks of clouds here and there, with the moon perched high up. As the boat set sail, she rested her head on my shoulder and whispered, "this is it, we are in Paris." Indeed, many years ago when we were two smitten lovers with not much to claim other than a handful of dreams, we often used to picture ourselves walking through the streets of Paris someday.
Here we were, as life partners (and parents of a gorgeous seven-year-old boy), sitting hand in hand on a midnight river cruise through the heart of Paris. A city that has forever remained synonymous with all that is glamorous and dazzling in the modern world. It is a haven for those seeking a refuge from the mundane, and an indulgence for the ones who cherish a romance (like us). Paris, as we experienced it that night under a soothing moonshine, was breathtakingly wondrous.
Paris that night was dressed up in an irresistible dazzle as we meandered along the famed Seine river. It was ornate like the words of a timeless love ballad dripped in a runic fetish. The night played the perfect seductress too, with a mild chill and a breeze light enough to quaver her hair every now and then. In the midst of this entire spellbinding pageant sat the two of us, riddled with goosebumps, as we tried to take in every bit of Paris. A lit up Eiffel Tower glittered in the background as we glided on a sleepy Seine.
Paris, as we experienced it that night under a soothing moonshine, was breathtakingly wondrous.
Minutes into our hour-long cruise, the clock struck 12 and the iconic Eiffel lifted its prowess a notch as it broke into a shimmering display of milky white lights. It was a moment to behold, a surreal trance of sorts that renders you incapable of drawing in a breath; a moment that overwhelms you to the core, yet, you don't choose to resist it for you want to have more of it — and that's what we both did. We hid away the cameras and let the city enthrall us with its magic, grappling to hold on to every sight that met our eyes.
The city stands around you with its ambiance and architecture, as if to distract you away from all that is less perfect about life and this world. The boat gently sailed under a series of bridges that were breathtakingly glorious in design and aspect — every single one of them. Along the banks of Seine, on each side, we were treated to opulence and grandeur in every building that we looked at.
Palaces, cathedrals, and museums, all doused in lights that added to their poise and enigma. You go past city gates and structures that were erected by the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and suddenly every inch of your skin breaks out into goosebumps, yet again. The architecture all around you in Paris is overwhelmingly grandiose and yet tranquil.
Then, if at any moment you chose to look away, you couldn't escape the views as Paris chose to shine through the shimmering ripples created by the rudders of our boat. "Can't we shackle time and make it stand still in this moment," she said in my ear. I had no response, for words had escaped me by then. So, I held on to her hand and pressed on it gently, in agreement.
Thirty minutes into the cruise, the boat turned around and started making its way back. It was well past midnight now, yet, sleep escaped us both. As we headed back, the Eiffel loomed tall, like a beacon. The half-moon sat to its right and a speck of clouds floated in its vicinity. Paris and Parisians were most likely in deep slumber at that moment but here we were, a couple of dreamers treading unapologetically through the city of love and dreams.
Not everything about Paris was glorious and enchanting, but for an hour that night, it was flawless.
Then, as the captain manoeuvred the boat to the anchor point, we stood up and looked around us one last time. I held her in my arms and together we held back our breath as we took in a last snippet of Paris. We left the cruise after an hour that night. Yet, it lingers on, spraying us with memories of a magical night every time we sit together and reminisce about our holiday.
Not everything about Paris was glorious and enchanting, but for an hour that night, it was flawless.
Here's a poem I wrote to capture that serene night we experienced in Paris:
I will not look for the moon,
in the night sky,
to write you a poem.
I have this love drenched city,
all to myself,
lit up in a shimmering splendour.
just sit beside me, and
let's not utter any words.
For this twinkling town is lush
with magic, eager to cast a spell.
Before you know it,
you will have fallen in love,
with me...


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Since graduating, they relocated to London and even ventured to Paris for recording. The four-piece could not be described as gothic nor grunge, but are definitely somewhere between the two. They're too delicate for a heavy-handed label, but have a kind of slow-building sound that is brooding, gloomy and incredibly exciting. It's our job as rock lovers to support them.
Raw Meat: Tell us about your local music scene; what's your favourite local venue, are there any record labels or stores we should look up, what's the scene like where you're from?
DG: We're currently residing in south-west London but have spent the majority of our existence in Leeds. We all really enjoyed getting involved with the scene there - it's very accessible, and promoters and venues often make it easy for you to put on shows in a way we haven't found in London. The city is quite small, but full of great venues. We really enjoyed playing at the Brudenell Social Club a few times. It's a really unique small-ish venue which attracts some amazing bands.
Name one track or band that you love from the past.
We've listened to Jeff Buckley's Grace a lot in the past. 'Mojo Pin' stands out as one of our favourites.
Name one track or band that you're loving right now.
Loads of stuff really, past and present. Off the top of my head, D.D. Dumbo, Blake Mills, St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear. Each of us enjoy a range of styles though, more than that short list might suggest.
Name one track or band that you think we should listening out for in the future.
Our friends Death Rattle are about to release their debut album. We've heard bits and pieces, and its sounding pretty amazing. Watch out for those guys.
What are you up to now?
We're mid-tour at the moment. We spent a week up north which was really great. We head west next, to Bristol and then back up north for a final few shows. We've been trying out some new material, and have had a really positive response so far. We also have a cool one-off show coming up in Budapest with some old friends of ours. It'll be our first gig abroad so we're curious to see how Sam's unique, abstract brand of stage banter goes down over there. It's also in an amazing venue called A38, which is a retired warship so I guess that'll be nice too.
What can we expect from you next?
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Understanding Blood Alcohol Concentration and Alcohol Impairment
Q: Does the type of alcohol I drink affect my BAC?
A: No! A drink is a drink, is a drink.
A typical drink equals about half an ounce of alcohol (.54 ounces, to be exact). This is the approximate amount of alcohol found in:
- one shot of distilled spirits, or
- one 5-ounce glass of wine, or
- one 12-ounce beer.
Q: What affects my BAC?
A: How fast a person's BAC rises varies with a number of factors:
- The number of drinks. The more you drink, the higher the BAC.
- How fast you drink. When alcohol is consumed quickly, you will reach a higher BAC than when it is consumed over a longer period of time.
- Your gender. Women generally have less water and more body fat per pound of body weight than men. Alcohol does not go into fat cells as easily as other cells, so more alcohol remains in the blood of women.
- Your weight. The more you weigh, the more water is present in your body. This water dilutes the alcohol and lowers the BAC.
- Food in your stomach. Absorption will be slowed if you've had something to eat.
Q: What about other medications or drugs?
A: Medications or drugs will not change your BAC. However, if you drink alcohol while taking certain medications, you may feel – and be – more impaired, which can affect your ability to perform driving-related tasks.
Q: When am I impaired?
A: Because of the multitude of factors that affect BAC, it is very difficult to assess your own BAC or impairment. Though small amounts of alcohol affect one's brain and the ability to drive, people often swear they are "fine" after several drinks – but in fact, the failure to recognize alcohol impairment is often a symptom of impairment.
While the lower stages of alcohol impairment are undetectable to others, the drinker knows vaguely when the "buzz" begins. A person will likely be too impaired to drive before looking – or maybe even feeling – "drunk."
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When Special Olympics athletes get their medals — and the competitions are designed so that many, many do — the music swells, they pump their fists and their parents and teammates clap and yell. At the 2015 Special Olympics World Games across Los Angeles this week, the medals ceremonies went on for hours, a cascade of triumphant moments, one after another after another.
The glow has to last, because the athletes will need it when they get home and become invisible again.
This is the conundrum of Special Olympics, an organization so good at making its athletes and the public happy, so bursting with good will and smiles, that nobody has to take it seriously. It has waged a nearly 50-year battle for inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities, and people still think it's a track meet.
It's not that the organization has given up the broader struggle, which by many measures is failing. The Special Olympics chairman, Timothy Shriver, convened a round-table discussion at the World Games to try to get world and corporate leaders, the United Nations and other organizations to commit to greater support for people with intellectual disabilities, a group perennially left out of global development programs and priorities. They are not on the world's agenda, however much their ever-smiling advocates keep trying to put them on.
Mr. Shriver explained a perverse truth: The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That's because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities. The organization reports, for example, that at least 90 percent of children with disabilities in the developing world are denied the right to an education. Money for schools and health education never reaches them.
People with intellectual disabilities, an estimated 3 percent of the population, are hidden in institutions, in private homes, in segregated schools, willfully kept beyond the public's vision. And the injustices they suffer — educational abandonment, medical neglect, sexual abuse — often go unanswered.
Mr. Shriver has a theory.
When members of minority groups make progress, he said, it is because "deep down most people know they are the same as us, as me, whoever the dominant majority is.
"But with our group it's like, 'No, no, no, they are not the same. They are not like us. They are not going to go to medical school if we give them a scholarship. They're not going to become engineers,' " he said. "We labor under the barrier, the attitudinal barrier, that this population is too different to matter."
Given those barriers, Special Olympics is sticking with gentle persuasion and the attitude-changing power of sports. It is all carrot, no stick. It is not ACT UP, and never will be; its revolution is televised, happily, on ESPN. This is a carefully thought-out strategy. Even its health programs — Special Olympics athletes tend to have serious untreated problems with vision, teeth and hearing — are part of what Mr. Shriver called "an elaborate bait-and-switch." Its clinics offer much-needed care, but their deeper purpose is to educate doctors about such patients, who too often get short shrift and indifferent care.
Special Olympics is a utopian organization, and to encounter it is to enter a well-constructed bubble of acceptance and equality. A strange thing happens when you spend a week inside that bubble at the Special Olympics World Games, watching groups of young people wandering about, relaxed and confident. You stop noticing the differences. The novelty wears off, and it becomes clearer that the world is full of people of an astonishing variety of appearances and abilities.
But outside the bubble, the battle for hearts and minds, and for rights and laws, is not going away.


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Do you know who is behind Common Core State Standards? This may surprise you...
Posted by Darla Dawald, National Director on March 26, 2014 at 3:03pm in Patriot Action
Contrary to what you may have heard, there are many organizations that are involved in Common Core that also stand to gain a lot financially with its implementation nationally. Of course, these groups will tell you that their involvement is simply to provide a great education platform that will increase the learning curve of all of our children. Nothing cold be farther from the truth. This is nothing more than a plot and ploy to amass more money and essentially, control and information on our children and push toward the UN and control internationally.
WHO IS BEHIND COMMON CORE?A nonprofit organization called Achieve, Inc., in Washington, D.C. is the main driving force behind creating the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). The Common Core (CC) standards were initiated by private interests in Washington, D.C., without any representation from the states. See Common Core: Myths vs. Facts here written by American Principles Project.
From the Achieve, Inc. website: "To this day, Achieve remains the only education reform organization led by a Board of Directors of governors and business leaders. This unique perspective has enabled Achieve to set a bold and visionary agenda over the past 15 years, leading Education Week in 2006 to rank Achieve as one of the most influential education policy organizations in the nation." Achieve is a Washington, D.C. "think tank" which does not include membership from all of the states.
In Achieve's "Common Core Implementation Workbook" they state, "After 30 years of fits and starts, true transformational reform in education is not only possible but also entirely within our grasp." So Achieve has been working on "national education standards" for 30 years! They continue on, "The implementation challenge looms large. In response, Achieve and the U.S. Education Delivery Institute have developed a practical Common Core Implementation Workbook for all states in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). The workbook uses a proven performance management methodology known as 'delivery' to lay out clear action steps for states and districts. It provides relevant information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises for leadership teams to complete together. Regardless of your timeline, the workbook offers state and district leaders the means to plan for the CCSS and then drive successful implementation. The discipline of delivery was first developed in 2001 under U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. "So the system of delivery was not first developed by the states but from from the United Kingdom's Tony Blair and in 2001! So much for the Common Core standards being a "state-led" effort! This is long before what is stated on the CCSSI website of this process starting in 2009!
"Eventually the creators of the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) realized the need to present a facade of state involvement, and therefore, enlisted the National Governors Association (NGA) {a trade association that doesn't include all governors}, and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), another DC-based trade association. Neither of these groups have grant authority from any particular state or states to write the standards. The bulk of the creative work was done by Achieve, Inc., a DC-based nonprofit that includes many progressive education reformers who have been advocating national standards and curriculum for decades. Massive funding for all this came from private interests such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. which has donated $150 million in grants to implement the Common Core Standards (See Common Core: Myths vs. Facts as well for further information).
WHAT COMPANIES HAVE TO GAIN FROM COMMON CORE?You can see from the "How is it Implemented in our 'States'?" flowchart, there are companies that will directly benefit by implementing Common Core. Some of these companies are:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, pledged $150 million dollars in Grants in 2007. Bill and Melinda Gates are directly tied to the United Nations, and they will directly benefit from the software packages that are sold to train teachers in the classroom through Microsoft.
Publishing Companies- Pearson, Scholastic News, MacGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (AZ textbooks used in Public Schools are primarily from the publisher Harcourt) etc., will benefit from Common Core because they will provide the textbooks, for training teachers and teaching students, and curriculum changes that will need to be made to implement Common Core. Pearson, the largest on-line book company in the world, announced in their 2012 Earnings Report that "The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)...awarded Pearson and Educational Testing Service (ETS) the contract to develop test items that will be part of the new English and Mathematics assessments to be administered from the 2014-2015 school year. We continued to produce strong growth in secure online testing, an important market for the future. We increased online testing volumes by more than 10%, delivering 6.5 million state accountability tests, 4.5 million constructed response items and 21 million spoken tests. We now assess oral proficiency in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese. We also launched the Online Assessment Readiness Tool for the PARCC and the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Common Core consortia to help 45 states prepare for the transition to online assessments." Can you say more $$$ for Pearson???
Achieve, Inc. connections- who will benefit from Common Core? Craig Barrett is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Achieve, Inc., he is the current Chairman for the AZ Ready Education Council; and he is a Thunderbird Faculty member promoting United Nation Principles. (He is also the Former CEO/Chairman of the Board of Intel). Computer companies will directly benefit from computer sales to the states and local school districts. All of the Common Core student assessment testing will now be computer based. See (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers {PARCC} website for more details on the new student testing that will replace AIMS).
COMMON CORE MOVEMENT IS A TROJAN HORSE AND TIED TO THE UNITED NATIONS (UN)If you cannot see that Common Core is tied to the United Nations you have not done your homework! The major funder of the Common Core Movement is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has pledged $60 million dollars to this effort. Bill and Melinda Gates are tied to UN through-and-through and have spent money in America and overseas for UN programs in Africa and all over the world for decades. Wake up and smell the koolaide you have been drinking and wake up that you are being lied to! Common Core is part of the UN's plan for complete federal control over our education systems and the "Dumbing-down" of America. Again, Wake up!
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- Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
- Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .
- Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
- At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
- [From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
- 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
- 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
- 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
- 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
- 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
- 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
- 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
- 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in
- 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
- 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
- 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
- 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
- 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
- 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
- 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
- 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
- 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
- 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- 18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
- 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
- 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
- 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
- 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
- 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
- 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
- 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
- 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
- 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
- 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
- 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
- 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
- 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
- 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
- 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
- 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
- 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
- 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
- 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
- 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
- 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
- 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
- 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
- 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
- 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
- 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
There you have it friends, the bigger, more sinister plan that has been in the works at least as far back as 1963 but probably a lot longer, is finally seeing the fruit of its labor. All of this at the expense of our children and our society as a whole.
What will you do to PUSH BACK? We cannot stand for this any longer. You MUST get involved in your local area and FIGHT this communist takeover of our education and children. Our children DO NOT belong to the state or the federal government. They belong to their family!
- You can start by signing our petition to STOP COMMON CORE
- Then, you must attend your local school district meetings (whether you have children in the school or not). Finally contact your STATE legislators and let them know that you are vehemently against Common Core. It's time to bring our education back to the local/states control. Let's get the Feds out of our education system; it is Unconstitutional!
- Be sure to sign our petition to STOP COMMON CORE!
- Because these kids deserve the very best!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Sen. Ted Cruz at the Claremont Institute
45 Minute presentation. 'ENJOY'!
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Democrats are destroying our USA!
President Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_pancanal_1.html
President Bill Clinton transferred the anti-missile missile technology from the US Military to the US Commerce; allowing China and other nations to ascertain this technology. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/inside-the-ring-2059116/?page=all
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Are New Yorkers losing their Constitutional 'Patriotism'
By Oscar Y. Harward
Senator 'Chuck" Schumer (D-NY), Governor Andrew Cuomo, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, all essentially indicate that they, and 'the people' of New York, apparently have no desire to accept, support, and/or defend the Constitution of the United States, and more specifically, the Bill of Rights. Sen. Schumer says the 1st Ten Amendments to the Constitution are being taken too literally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFBGaKJk7o.
Sen. Schumer is particularly referencing the First Amendment and the freedom of speech. Are we to release these rights? Will the voters of New York advocate that we surrender this and other 'Bill of Rights' to the Government?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says pro-life activists along with anti-gay activists, and other supporters of the Second Amendment, are not welcomed in New York. By my personal observation, this may have been Gov. Cuomo's first exploratory remark as he chases a pursuit to become a 2016 Democrat Party Presidential nominee.
NY Mayor Bill de Blasio appears to be duplicating President Obama's plan of 'redistribution' by proposing, "A tax on the wealthy to pay for free pre-school education for every four-year-old. He has already launched measures to expand paid sick leave to another half a million employees. He has promised to work for 200,000 new affordable housing units, and to rebuild trust and confidence in the police."
Does New Yorkers know and understand our US Constitution and/or New York's History? US Congress convened for the 1st time in New York City on March 4, 1789 in approving the Bill of Rights?
Do New Yorkers know, or have they forgotten the sacrifice of attaining 'Independence' from the Revolutionary War? Have New Yorkers been taught or have they forgotten the Battle of Harlem Heights, Battle Hill, the Battle of Stony Point that later allowed Washington to cross the Hudson, other Revolutionary War, and additional war history? Are these failures instrumental of your public education system as may be taught in public schools?
Have Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and New Yorkers forgotten "9/11/01"? Do you remember how our entire Nation rallied around New York during and after these terrorist attacks? Have Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and New Yorkers forgotten the honor, the sacrifices, and the lives of New York's and others' police officers, firemen, and our soldiers in defense of our Constitution? Have Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and New Yorker's forgotten our Founding Fathers' precious freedoms in our Constitution with inserted Christian values?
Freedom is not free. Constitutional freedoms are fought and won at a heavy cost; Americans' blood. More than 600,000 American soldiers have died in combat for protecting our Constitution, our Nation, and our American flag.
Why do Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and New Yorkers continue efforts to disassemble our Constitution? How do New Yorkers fail to understand, and appreciate the price and values of 'freedoms'? Do New Yorkers fail to understand the loss of 'freedoms', and whom then elect, appoint, and/or direct officials in the State of New York as in other states? Will Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, NY Mayor de Blasio, and other New Yorkers awaken before we, they, and/or others lose these precious 'freedoms'?
The Army's Oath of Enlistment states that "I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …" Every American should proudly 'pledge, honor, and obey' this 'Oath'.
Patriotic Americans must be asking, "What rights do New Yorkers have in dismantling our Constitution comprised to insure all Americans may remain free from an oppressive government?"
It is a duty for each voter to elect and/or re-elect 'responsible' representatives. If the voters of New York fully support Constitutional values, Americans will discover that New Yorkers are 'Patriotic' to our USA. Your representatives will 'honor' the sacrifices of over 600,000 American soldiers; including your ancestors who fought and died for these values embedded within (y)our Constitution.
Up front, and based on election results, it is logical to assume that Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, and NY Mayor de Blasio are speaking for the people of New York. If so, many of us are saddened. Most of us anticipate that may change.
Currently, if Sen. Schumer, Gov. Cuomo, and NY Mayor de Blasio are not domestic enemies to our Constitution, who is? Each element in our Constitution today is just as relevant now as our Founding Fathers inscribed in the 18th Century.
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Is Democrat Party Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) lying to America from the podium of the US Senate?
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Awesome; to say the least!
Wow! Wow! Wow! You got to see this awesome weapon!
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I wasn't ever going to post on Fifty Shades of Grey. I am well aware of the fact that there are already thousands upon thousands of opinions out there regarding this first novel in E.L. James' erotic romance trilogy. These novels have been discussed ad nauseam, by everyone who doesn't live under a rock. What I have to say about it is neither enlightening nor profound, and yet, I still can't seem to keep my pie hole shut regardless.
Now I haven't read FSOG in its entirety, because the writing is so atrocious that I just can't bring myself to do it. I'd rather get a gynecological exam, or have my nipples clamped, or my clit whipped, or…well, you get the idea. I've been reading excerpts of it in blog posts penned by a hilarious writer who is critiquing the book chapter-by-chapter, and just from those horrid excerpts, I feel I've seen enough. If you want a good laugh, you should check out her blog: jenniferarmintrout.blogspot.com. You won't be sorry.
"Lighten up!" the fans say to us haters. "It's just a book." Ah yes, but to writers it means so much more. It signifies a poorly-written piece of work unjustly catapulted to the top of the bestseller list. There are so many talented writers in the world who have been toiling away for years, and yet their words will never see the published page.
Most writers spend hours upon hours painstakingly choosing the right word to use, searching for a way to describe something that causes the reader to see it in a new light, mulling over phrases so as not to be cliché, and yet here is an author whose heroine "flushes" or "blushes" 125 times. Really, I'm not kidding. Certain repetitive phrases or words have been searched for on Kindle, and here are some of the things that came up:
The heroine bites her lip 35 times.
Characters raise their eyebrows 50 times.
The heroine says "Jeez" 81 times.
The heroine says "Oh my" 72 times.
Characters murmur 199 times.
Characters whisper 195 times.
There are 92 repetitions of the heroine saying some form of crap, from "Oh crap," "Holy crap," "Double crap," and when she's on a really good one, "Triple crap."
Now, I'm not expecting Jane Austen or even Anaïs Nin here, but I expect a writer to have some standards, for God's sake! Yes, I know FSOG was originally written as Twilight fanfic, a methadone of sorts for all the Twihards going through withdrawals. Yes, I know that even though this is the author's first published novel, no one, including her publisher, felt the need to use the services of an editor. Yes, I know E. L. James's inner goddess, subconscious, Id, ego, super-ego, clitoris, spleen, and what have you are all laughing their way to the bank.
Sadly, this leaves me with only one thing to say to the fans of Fifty: SHAME ON YOU!
Shame on you for praising a novel that reads like it was written by an over-sexed twelve-year-old.
Shame on you for glorifying an extremely jealous, possessive and controlling hero, who at times, is downright creepy. (For all you wives out there wishing your husbands were more like Christian Grey, get thee to a therapist and fast!)
Shame on you for buying into the fantasy that the only thing a broken man needs in order to be "fixed" is the love of a good woman. Anyone who has ever been involved with an abusive man or a "bad boy" knows what a crock of shit that is. Just go to the local women's shelter and ask some of them.
Shame on you all you bored, frustrated housewives out there who think light BDSM is way kinky and totally "out there," and/or is a fetish that needs to be cured. I get that your husbands are passive vanilla pussies in bed, but please, do yourselves a favor and go buy yourselves some quality erotica that doesn't degrade women.
I've come to the sad conclusion that based on what constitutes a bestseller nowadays, our society prefers their reading to be more on the Kraft macaroni & cheese and Wonder bread side. No one wants to have to look up a word, and based on the fact that the "average" American reads at a 7th or 8th grade level, or hardly at all, the choices of reading material is going to be limited. And probably have mostly pictures.
This shouldn't come as a surprise though, considering we're the same culture that has made the members of "Jersey Shore" and "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" millionaires.
So I guess I don't begrudge the author of FSOG anything. If someone were offering me boatloads of money for crap I'd written, I certainly wouldn't go on national television apologizing for my crap. In my humble opinion, it's our society that's fifty shades of fucked up.


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Nigeria: Women, Stakeholders Seek Enabling Environment for Tech Village in Nigeria
Lagos — A number of stakeholders across various sectors, yesterday, converged on the Vanguard Media Limited Conference Room, in a roundtable session, calling on the Federal Government to create an enabling environment for "Tech Villages" in various parts of the country to promote e-commerce to the advantage of work-age mothers.
Speaking at the event titled Women, e-Commerce and the Work/life balance, participants described a "Tech Village" as an environment or a community where an office space is provided with internet structures and relevant equipment that enable people get online training facilities.
The participants are of the opinion that in a tech village, people are not told what to do but rather they are provided with enablement and support facilities like trainer, young people with interest and relevant background coming into that environment.
Michael Umogun, a market researcher explains further. "Here, structures are put in place, for example they are given office, internet plug-in and charges made at a very small amount for people to come in and talk to like minds on issues; exchanging ideas about new products and apps.
He pointed out that the most important thing is that they are provided with the facilities and environment, cheap and subsidized accommodation, cheap equipment and the youth and interested persons are left to handle the rest.


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Mon, 23 March 2015
Jen West and James Martin come on the podcast to talk about their short film Little Cabbage in part 6 of our Atlanta Film Festival coverage. They talk about inspiration behind the film, crazy Owen Wilson obsessed homeowners, and what we can expect next from the team!
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