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I'm wondering how many people still read blogs? I seldom have the time anymore.
With the advent of Ravelry on the scene and all the new electronic ways to stay in touch, I'm wondering if the time has come to close down my blog.
One of the reasons I have held onto my blog is for non-Ravelry members to have access to my designs. That is no longer true. Recently, Casey has made designers store pages visible to non-members and allow anyone to purchase pattern downloads. Here's a direct link to my Simple Knits pattern store on Ravelry:
Simple Knits Store click here
I maintain a Simply SimpleKnits group on Ravelry where I post notices about my new designs at the time I add them to the Ravelry pattern database for sale or download. Finding time to post about them on my blog is getting harder to do. I have a couple of new designs that I have not been added to my blog.
When I began my blog in December 2006, Ravelry did not exist. As of today it has 1,367,433 registered members. That's incredible! It's also a testament to what Casey & Co. have created free of charge for all knitters and crocheters (spinners, quilters, etc.). The pattern and yarn databases alone are wonderful! If you're making a certain design you can see what others finished projects look like, she how it works up in different yarns, or what modifications or problems people have had with the pattern. I love to browse my designs to see what people have made from them. Or ask permission to use a photo of their finished objects on the pattern page for that design.
There are forums for almost anything you might be interested in. I know that some people had issues with not nice people on Ravelry forums. Sadly, this happens in Yahoo groups or even in groups that meet in real life. Ravelry does have strict community guidelines and they do ban people who cause trouble. Spammers are kept out of the site. They rely on members to report when there are problems that need to be addressed.
For Simple Knits fans, the benefits of joining this online community are:
1) If you have a question or problem with a pattern, you can easily get in touch with me through a PM or by posting in my SSK group.
2) If a revised copy of the pattern becomes available, you will receive it.
3) If you friend me, you'll see what I'm currently working on that might become future designs.
4) You could help test new designs for me or other designers on the Free Pattern Test group on Ravelry.
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You know how you see the "bestsellers" and "most popular" products in beauty stores, so you of course scoop them up, but then you realize you have no idea how to work them? In "How It Works," we're going to explain to you exactly how to get the best use out of your products, whether they are cult classics or hot off the conveyer belt must-haves. We'll teach you the basics, as well as a few industry expert tips to make sure you're getting the most out of everything you buy.
Cleaning our makeup brushes is one of the most dreaded beauty tasks, but no matter how much we can't stand it, it needs to be done. Whether you use a traditional brush cleanser or stick with the warm water and shampoo trick, it can be a bit of a messy process. That all changed when we discovered the Solid Brush Cleanser from Japonesque.
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Very stylish evening blouse from famed courtier Oleg Cassini
Approx. Size: Small, but please check measurements below.
Condition: Very good, some very minor bead loss which is not noticeable.
Very stylish evening blouse from famed courtier Oleg Cassini
Approx. Size: Small, but please check measurements below.
Condition: Very good, some very minor bead loss which is not noticeable.
Mark/Label: Oleg Cassini, He-Ro Industries, made in China
One of a kind vintage item. Get it before it's gone.
• Gorgeous 1970s black silk chiffon blouse with intricate beaded and sequined sunburst pattern.
• Heavy beading around neck, bottom and at the ends of the cuffs.
• Silk chiffon bodice with sheer sleeves.
• Back covered zipper. Rounded neck and light shoulder pads.
• This blouse is fitted in all the right places.
• Narrow shirred sleeves are very flattering to your fans.
Oleg Cassini was an American fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry. He came to the United States as a young man after starting as a designer in Rome, and quickly got work with Paramount Pictures. Cassini established his reputation by designing for films. He gained additional renown by designing for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. "The Jackie Look" was highly influential in American design. Cassini's designs such as the A-line, sheath and the empire strapless dresses continue to be influential.
Note on Size: Size Large on the label but this blouse is small. (Note vintage sizes run smaller than contemporary sizing. Please use the numbers below as a guide)
Approx. Measurements taken flat:
Shoulders: 17" (43 cm)
Bust: 20" (51 cm)
Hips: 18" (46 cm)
Length - Center Back: 26" (66 cm)
Sleeve: 22" (56 cm)
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Today's sizes have very little correlation to clothing size labels from past decades. Over the past 20+ years designers and manufacturers have fed our egos by making standard size numbers smaller and smaller. Back in the 1960s there was no size 0. The smallest size was a 6. Plus today's men and women are fitter, taller and have much more muscle tone of than people of earlier eras. Even today's undergarments make a difference. Today's woman isn't corseted, girdled or wearing a stiff bra. So even the thinnest of people sometimes have trouble with vintage sizing.
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Epson ST-2000 Scanner Software, Driver, Manual, Utilities, Download for Windows 10, 8, 7, XP, and Macintosh OS / Mac – are you having problems with Epson ST-2000 scanner?, and you want to download drivers, software, and others for your needs, for those of you who download a driver or another, you don't need to worry about downloading it here, because we present articles or files originating from the EPSON Official Site.
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H5 Technologies was one of only four companies included in a report by Gartner entitled Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2007.
Said Gartner Senior Research Director Debra Logan, "Any method or technology that can reliably and transparently help with a process, and thus reduce the amount of time lawyers spend on it, doesn't have far to go to make it a worthwhile investment. H5 acknowledges that it is tackling a complex set of issues and bringing high-level expertise to bear on the problem."
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Come along to our annual UWA Open Day on Sunday 11 August, from 10am to 4pm, to find out about the State's only world top 100 ranked university* as we celebrate our 100th birthday.
UWA offers more than 400 scholarships every year to undergraduate students from all walks of life. In 2014, there will be in excess of $4 million in scholarships available to undergraduate students to assist them to realize their potential.
If you know any students currently in Year 11 and interested in design, be sure to tell them about the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts' (ALVA) annual Design Studio for School Students.
The Centre for WA History at The University of Western Australia will once again run a series of Professional Learning Seminars on the Australian Curriculum: History for primary and secondary teachers on Saturday, 24 August.
The format for the 2013 Career Advisers Day was altered slightly to previous years' events to provide a more interactive experience for attendees, and as a result, the feedback received has been extremely positive.
The Faculty of Arts has introduced two exciting new Bachelor of Arts majors for 2014 - Gender Studies and Korean Studies.
Nearly 200 students from high schools across Perth had the opportunity to experience a 'Day in the Life' of a UWA student at our Crawley campus in the July school holidays. Among them were prospective architects, budding engineers and tomorrow's business leaders.
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Action Against Hunger is responding to the Rohingya crisis with hundreds of full-time staff members on the ground in Bangladesh, delivering hot meals and water, according to Elizabeth Wright, a spokeswoman for the group. Health workers are treating malnourished children, while mental health counselors are providing support to refugees suffering from acute stress and trauma. Having been in Bangladesh since 2007, Action Against Hunger is partnering with many local organizations and international groups in distributing food and water.


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Many people don't have a deep understanding of functional food or health food. At first I was in the fog, thinking that functional food was not very different from the usual food. For example, bread is the need to solve the need of hunger. Coke solves the need for thirst, so bread and coke are also functional foods.
Definition of functional food
With the development of the times and the progress of society, people's demand for food is getting higher and higher, and the theme of food has also changed.
Early: to meet the needs of hunger (attention to survival);
Now: meet the needs of health and safety (reduce poisons, increase beneficial ingredients, shift concerns).
Future: meet the need to reduce disease risk (functional increase);
In fact, it is very early in the world to have a specific definition of functional food: internationally recognized - "functional food to meet the nutritional needs, to promote the health of the body, to reduce the risk of disease food". It can be seen that functional food has three requirements, and the highest level belongs to third requirements, which is to reduce health risks.
Foreign history
In Japan, functional food started early in the middle of 70s. In the middle of 70s, the concept of functional food was put forward in Japan based on the potential problems brought by aging. It was at the time to improve the health of the Japanese elderly, thus alleviating the increasing pressure on the aging of the population in Japan.
The aging of the population in Europe was scattered with the shadow of World War II, and the concept of functional food was put forward in the 80s of last century. By the year 90s, the United States began to start legislation on functional food, thus legally determining the legal status of functional food.
The development of functional food in China
Functional food in the Western Zhou period belongs to the food specialist, in general, it is the link between food and medical health, and the food therapy is very close to the connotation of functional food. Dietotherapy can use food to influence various aspects of the body's function, so as to get a healthy or more disease prevention method. Food is an edible substance for the human body to provide various nutrients needed for growth and development and healthy living. That is to say, the most important part of food is nutrition. In fact, Chinese medicine has long recognized that food can not only nourish, but also cure diseases and remove diseases. For example, Zhang Xichun, a modern physician, once pointed out in his "heart to heart" that "food" is not only a cure for diseases but also a hunger for patients.
What are the similarities and differences between foods, functional foods and medicines?
(1) the ninety-ninth article of the food safety law defines "food" as follows: food, refers to all kinds of products and raw materials for people to eat or drink, as well as articles which are traditionally both food and medicine, but not for the purpose of treatment.
Functional food is the health-care product we usually say, which regulates physiological activities and promotes health. It has a specific health function, that is, it is suitable for the specific people to eat, and has the function of regulating the body and is not for the purpose of treating disease. There are the following characteristics:
(1) food is non-toxic and harmless and meets the nutritional requirements.
(2) it has a specific health function.
(3) in view of the research and development of specific people who need to adjust the function of a certain aspect, there is no "old and young salty" health food that has the same role for anyone.
(4) not for the purpose of treatment, but not for drugs.
There is no essential difference between health foods (Health Food) and functional foods (Functional Food) in China. There are two reasons:
(GB 16740-1997) the general standard of health care (functional) food is attributable to two mandatory standards.
(2) from the definition of health food: the State Food and Drug Administration (State Food and Drug Administration) nineteenth order "health food registration management method" "" "second provisions of this method of health food, refers to the claim to have a specific health function or to supplement vitamins and minerals for the purpose of food. It is suitable for certain people to eat, have the function of regulating the body, not to treat the disease as the purpose, and do not produce any acute, subacute or chronic harm to the human body. "
Visible "specific health function" is a common feature of health food. At present, there are 27 kinds of health functions (health function) announced by health food in China.
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Shereen's yoga journey began in 1992 when she wandered into Waldenbooks and bought Richard Hittleman's Introduction to Yoga. She began practicing in her childhood bedroom. Five years later she took her first official yoga class in college. 20 years after that she completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training from Littleton Yoga Center. She is currently studying Dianne Bondy's Yoga for All course. In the fall she will be earning her Yin Yoga certification. Shereen is passionate about making yoga accessible for all bodies, particularly those with abundant bodies (like her) and physical limitations. She has a body positive approach and believes you are your own best yoga teacher.
Before becoming a yoga teacher, Shereen earned her BA in Theatre Arts from Fort Lewis College and later her MA in education from the University of Denver.
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Work is due to start next week to provide new facilities at West Lindsey Leisure Centre in Gainsborough.
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Work at the centre, which is managed by Everyone Active in partnership with the council, is expected to be complete by September.
Councillor Sheila Bibb, chairman of the council's prosperous communities committee, said: "I am really looking forward to seeing work start on this exciting new initiative.
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It's Just Another Day ...
Well, maybe not today. My alarm went off at 6:17, but I didn't notice it until 7, menaing that I was doomed to be late today. The Partnerin has had the flu the last couple of days and has quarantined herself to the second bedroom, so she was surprised to see me when she awoke this morning. But it was nice to see her looking a little better, so the old saying about it being an ill wind that blows no good held true. I was late, but I got to see my honey.
Despite my late arrival, the recent spate of people, including the boss, being nice to me continues. Funny, but when I was firmly in their grip they were truly a miserable lot to work with. Now, with my freeom looming, they get nice. The Partnerin suggests that they are feeling rejected and being nice so they can assuage their own guilt for driving me away. Whatever. It's just a shame it came to this. I'm reminded of a line Alan Shore used in Boston Legal ... "I'm tired and I'm rich. I don't need this."
Well, I am tired, but not exactly rich ... I do have a few assets to live on, and it is amazing how liberating it can be to be able to simply walk away ... well, except for that notice perod, but if they keep on being so nice to me I probably won't fight them on that .
It's the first time in my adult life that I quit a job without having another lined up, and I told them that ... I wanted to use the Alan Shore line, but at the last minute I decided that was way over the top, so I kept it very terse ... "This letter constitutes notice for termination of my employment." Just the facts, Sir.
So I arrived at the office today just in time to pick up a phone call from 'XXX'. No, not an adult chat line ... Were that my life were so interesting, rather when the caller ID won't ID, you get 'XXX.'
It turned out to be a headhunter asking if I might be interested in a position in London. Here we go again. These people tease me, using me no doubt to make their other local candidates look more interesting, and then cast me aside. I had a bunch of these calls last year when I was officially unemployed, and none of them panned out, alhough I got a few nice day trips to London on someone else's dime. But this time around I might actually look more appealing since I still (technically) have a job, so who knows?
Some of you thought perhaps that the Russian was my midlife crisis, others perhaps were convinced that the car was further evidence. Well, you were wrong. I have a bigger, real mid-life crisis up my sleeve.
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There is no perfect way to let down a woman that you don't like. If you have already planned to let a woman down, be prepared for an emotionally broken woman. No woman or man takes it lightly when you give them the boot.
You may have already been told by your friends and family on how to let her down gently. But has anyone told you the 'Don't dos' of letting her down?
We have compiled a list of don't dos that you must make sure you never do when you set out to let her down after dating.
Don't go on flattering on her
When letting her down, don't start with the typical flatter her into believing that she was okay but everything was wrong with you. She will only take this as chance of clinging on to you. If you tell her that she was perfect but you were the one who was wrong and that you think this will not work out well for both of you, she will start insisting that there's still a chance where she can convert your feelings.
Be straight and send off a solid message saying that its over from now on. Don't leave any kind of hope for her to cling on to otherwise she will never let you go and will keep coming back to you to try again.
Never be cruel to her
Whatever you do, don't turn into a cruel being no matter how much she puts you off. We know that if someone becomes persistent, you tend to overreact and become cruel to them so you can instantly ward them off from your life.
The thing you want to do here is leave the situation in all positivity. So in order to do that, remain calm and break the news and be ready to fight back with logic and reasoning. She will probably go into an emotional wreck when you start on the subject, just make sure not to turn into a bad guy who loathes her.
Don't put the blame on someone else
Don't try to bring anyone into this. You may think bringing someone into the fry is the best way to let her go, but you are actually giving her a chance to include that person into this ordeal. If she finds out that you were making things up, you're going to be in a lot more trouble than you were. Its best to be honest and tell her how you feel instead of blaming her.
Be a man
Last thing you want to make sure is that you are honest, straight forward, to the point and strong when it comes to breaking up with her. You should be prepared to face the very worst side of her because when you break off the news, she is going to go into a complete emotional meltdown where she will not only say things to you but will also make it tough for you to get out of the situation. So be prepared to handle her.
After you've done all that, you can try to find your match by joining a site like this. You'll find matches that want to get down and dirty.


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CBC News - Canada November 22, 2010
Deny polygamy legal protection, lawyer urges
A lawyer for the B.C. government is warning a judge that declaring polygamy a protected religious practice would make Canada the only Western country to allow multiple marriages.
The B.C. Supreme Court is examining whether banning polygamy violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in a case that will focus on the small polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C.
Craig Jones, a lawyer for the province, said he would present expert evidence suggesting the decline of polygamy has been "inextricably entwined" with the growth of Western democracy and equality-based societies.
All forms of polygamy contribute to the discrimination of women and the sexualization of young girls, Jones said.
He said the court would hear evidence that polygamy in Bountiful and fundamentalist Mormon communities in the U.S. leads to child brides, teen pregnancies and the trafficking of young girls.
TV cameras disallowed
Earlier, the B.C. Supreme Court judge refused a CBC application to mount cameras in the court to televise proceedings at the hearing.
Before opening statements from the Crown began Monday in Vancouver, the court heard an application led by CBC lawyer Daniel Henry calling for the right to broadcast the proceedings on the internet, radio and TV, which would be a first for a B.C. court hearing.
But Justice Robert Bauman turned down the request, citing the lack of consent from the attorney general of Canada.
A spokesman for the attorney general of B.C. had earlier said the provincial ministry had no objection to the CBC providing pool coverage for all Canadian broadcasters who were interested.
At issue in the hearing is whether Canada's 1890 law against polygamy violates guarantees to freedom of religion and association in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A team of federal and provincial prosecutors will argue that the law does not violate Canada's charter, while a legal team called the Amicus, meaning friend of the court, has been appointed to argue against the government's case.
Thirty-six witnesses, including some women in polygamous relationships, are scheduled to testify - in some cases behind screens to shield their identity from spectators in the court. In addition, several groups of interested parties are also represented at the hearing, which is scheduled to last until Jan. 31, 2011.
The province's attorney general has asked the chief justice to rule on two questions. The first question is whether Canada's law against polygamy violates the religious protections in the charter.
The second question - if the court rules the law is constitutionally valid - is whether all polygamy is illegal, or just unions involving minors or exploitation?
Exploitation at issue
The West Coast Legal Action Fund's lawyer Janet Winteringham says a law against polygamy is vital to protect vulnerable women and children from exploitation. "You need to read in an element of exploitation and if you do that, then the section is constitutional," argues Winteringham.
But B.C. Civil Liberties Association lawyer Monique Pongracic-Speier disagrees.
"Consenting adults have the right - the Charter protected right - to form the families that they want to form," she argues.
Pongracic-Speier says the law against polygamy is the wrong way to protect vulnerable women and minors.
"In some polygamous families, as in some monogamous families, there are abuses and there are difficulties, and it's those abuses or those difficulties that ought to be the target of legal intervention, not the form of relationship itself," she says.
Bountiful prosecution dismissed
The hearing follows the province's unsuccessful attempt to prosecute the two leaders of a fundamentalist Mormon sect in Bountiful, a small community in the southeastern Interior of B.C.
Winston Blackmore and James Oler were charged in January 2009 with one count each of practising polygamy, but those charges were later thrown out when a judge ruled the province used an unfair process to find a prosecutor.
If the court strikes down the law, Canada would be the first country in the developed world to decriminalize polygamy.
However, no matter what Bauman decides, appeals to higher courts are expected.
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CBC News - Canada November 23, 2010
Polygamy laws aimed at men, court told
Canada's prohibition against polygamy does not criminalize women who have multiple husbands, a lawyer for the British Columbia government said Tuesday.
Craig Jones told court the law was intended to only prohibit men from marrying multiple women.
Jones offered his admittedly "controversial" interpretation — one that stands at odds with even the federal government — at a constitutional reference case in Vancouver examining whether Canada's anti-polygamy laws violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The hearings were spurred by the controversy over the fundamentalist breakaway Mormon sect of Bountiful, where two leaders were charged with polygamy last year only to see those charges dropped on technical legal grounds.
Jones said the harms associated with polygamy — including child brides and the discrimination against women — are specific to the most common form of polygamy known as polygany, which involves men having multiple wives and is the form of polygamy practised in Bountiful.
Instances of women with multiple husbands, known as polyandry, are incredibly rare, said Jones, and neither polyandry nor same-sex, multi-partner relationships bring about the same harms to the people involved and society as a whole.
"It is arguable that Parliament could not criminalize polyandry and same-sex, multipartner conjugality even if it wished to," said Jones.
"Polyandry does carry some risk of harms that might be associated with it, but evidence for these is speculative and weak.... The fact is that the overwhelming majority of polygamy in practice is traditional, usually religious, patriarchal polygyny."
Jones made the point as he rejected a criticism made by some opponents of the law: that the crime of polygamy sweeps in relationships that aren't harmful.
Argument targets polygyny
He argued that most, if not all, of the problems with polygamy are specific to cases in which men marry more than one woman. He added that when Parliament brought in the polygamy laws in 1890, the government of the day was clearly concerned about multiple wives in some cultures — namely Mormons, Muslims and First Nations.
"It was clear what behaviour they wanted to address," said Jones. "All of the harms we are going to be demonstrating are specific to polygyny."
The federal government's lawyer is expected to disagree, explaining in written arguments that Ottawa believes the Criminal Code section dealing with polygamy refers to any marriage or conjugal relationship involving more than two people, regardless of their sex.
The constitutional reference case is scheduled to last until the end of January, hearing evidence from more than 30 witnesses including academics, current and former residents of Bountiful, and people living in multi-partner relationships outside of a religion.
The results aren't technically binding, but experts have said other courts would certainly look to the decision for guidance and the case is expected to ultimately end up before the Supreme Court of Canada.
There are also about a dozen interveners, including religious groups, women's rights organizations and civil liberties advocates.
Oler, who leads a faction within Bountiful connected to the U.S.-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, is also an intervener.
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The Vancouver Sun - Canada November 22, 2010
The road to Bountiful: how the Crown ended up defending the polygamy law in court
by Daphne Bramham
VANCOUVER — And so it began Monday with more than 30 robed lawyers in Courtroom 55 before Chief Justice Robert Bauman of the B.C. Supreme Court.
It is the reference case to determine the constitutionality of Section 293 of the Criminal Code, which outlaws polygamy. And there are so many lawyers in the courtroom that Bauman pleaded with them — at least in the early going of the two-and-a-half-month proceeding and until he recognizes them all — not to change seats "for the sake of my sanity."
If the law is struck down, Canada will be the only developed nation to legalize marriage of more than two people and will be bucking the trend in developing countries to outlaw it.
The reference was first urged more than 20 years ago when the B.C. attorney-general contemplated charges against leaders in the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful.
At the time, the attorney-general had legal opinions — including one from a former chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court — questioning the law's constitutionality. Yet though the reference was urged, nothing was done. No charges. No reference.
In 2008, polygamy charges were laid against two leaders in the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful. But those charges were stayed because a judge found that they had been improperly laid by a special prosecutor who had been improperly appointed.
Rather than appeal that decision, Attorney-General Mike de Jong filed the reference in B.C. Supreme Court, making it the first time that such a case in Canada has been heard in the form of a trial with witnesses.
And, now, far from arguing that the law is unconstitutional, the B.C. attorney-general's lawyers are arguing that it is valid and necessary, because of polygamy's harmful effects not only on the people practising it, but on the wider society.
That reversal results from 28 years of jurisprudence, Craig Jones of the B.C. attorney-general's ministry told the court. That's how long it's been since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enshrined in the Constitution.
Jones said the earlier opinions took a "civil libertarian view," which will be outlined later this week by the court-appointed amicus, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and WestCoast Legal Education and Action Fund in their opening statements.
But Jones called their position "unsustainable" in light of what the evidence will show to be the harms of polygamy. Lawyers for the government must prove that polygamy is harmful for the law to be upheld.
The harms that Jones and lawyers for the attorney-general of Canada will attempt to prove go beyond the sexualization of children and estrangement of boys and men from polygamous communities, to polygamy being an affront to women's equality and even antithetical to democracy itself.
If the governments can't prove that there is a reasonable apprehension of harm, Jones said the chief justice must rule that the law is an unjustifiable breach of the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom, as well as freedom of expression and of association.
The governments must also prove that the law was enacted for the right reason.
If it was enacted — as the amicus and others will argue — to uphold Christian religious values and force them on others, Jones said that too is reason for Bauman to rule the law invalid.
Among the witnesses Jones plans to call to make his case is Walter Scheidel, chairman of Stanford University's classics department.
In an affidavit already filed, Scheidel traces the origins of "socially imposed, universal monogamy" to the early democracies of ancient Greece. He argues that monogamy has "been inextricably entwined with the growth and success of the Western democratic way of life and the development of a rights-based culture."
Jones made it only halfway through his opening statement Monday because of a last-minute application by the CBC to have cameras and live streaming video from the courtroom for the entire proceeding. Jones will continue his remarks Tuesday.
Cameras have never been allowed into B.C. courts, even though there are rules setting out conditions under which they might be allowed. Under those rules, it takes only one of the parties to a case to say no, which is what lawyers for the attorney-general of Canada, WestCoast LEAF, the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of the Child and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights said in this case.
Canada embraces the open-court principle, its lawyer Deborah Strachan said. But it couldn't support opening the courtroom to cameras in this case because there wasn't sufficient time to debate the merits of cameras versus privacy rights of the witnesses.
Bauman agreed. However, he did leave open the possibility that cameras and live, streaming video might be allowed for the closing statements.
It was a blow to media aspirations to make courts more open to the public, especially in a controversial case such as this one. But no one expects a huge public outcry.
Because as tantalizing as polygamy is and regardless of how big the TV audiences are for Big Love, Sister Wives and courtroom dramas, the reality is that justice moves slowly.
In fact, it moved slowly enough Monday that on several occasions, someone near me was snoring.
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CBC News - Canada November 22, 2010
B.C. woman with 2 partners decries polygamy law
A Vancouver Island woman with two male common-law partners says Canada's polygamy law needs to be struck down by the B.C. Supreme Court because it doesn't permit her to live her chosen lifestyle.
Zoe Duff, a director of the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association, lives in Esquimalt, west of Victoria, with her two male partners. Duff says she and the two men are polyamorists, a term that literally means "many loves."
But it wasn't until she looked at the law that criminalizes polygamy that Duff realized their relationship was illegal, she said.
"Holy cow - this affects me," said Duff, who came to Vancouver this week to watch the B.C. Supreme Court hearing at which Canada's polygamy ban is being tested.
Lawyers representing the attorneys general of B.C. and Canada are arguing that polygamy forces child brides into the arms of manipulative men and should remain illegal.
The special hearing into the issue was called after charges against two religious leaders from Bountiful, B.C., with multiple wives were dismissed by a judge because B.C.'s attorney general was unable to fairly appoint a special prosecutor willing to take the case to court.
Section 293 of the Criminal Code explicitly bans polygamy and threatens offenders with a five-year prison term.
The legal team for B.C.'s attorney general said Tuesday morning that the law is intended to crack down on only one kind of polygamy - polygyny, which involves one husband with multiple wives, as opposed to polyandry, which is one woman with multiple husbands. But the distinction remains a key point in the legal debate at the hearing.
Consensual relationship in the shadows
Duff says the situation in Bountiful has little relevance to her and the two men who share her bed, and she would like the court to strike down the law so that people like her don't have to live in the shadows.
"I'm living common-law with two partners, and this law very much overshadows my life and how I feel, how I relate to other people in the community and causes a great need for secrecy that's just not part of a lifestyle that I want," Duff said.
As written, the law targets people in any kind of conjugal union with more than one person at the same time, and Duff says that includes her.
"I'm a female with two partners ... and I would never have called myself a polygamist, but the description does fall under the description of this law," she said. "I'm currently in contravention of a law if they chose to prosecute us."
Polygamy targets child brides
Not everyone agrees that polygamist or polyamorous relationships are consensual. B.C.'s attorney general is arguing that laws against polygamy are needed to prevent exploitation of child brides.
Brenda Jensen left the tightly knit Mormon fundamentalist community of Bountiful, located in southeastern B.C., at the age of 14 and says polygamous relationships cannot exist without exploitation.
"All the freedoms they're beating the drum about, they're the ones not living by it," said Jensen, referring to the men in the community with multiple wives. "They're not allowing their children to have it. They're not educating their people so they know they have choices.
"They take the freedom before the child is even old enough to know what freedom is about."
The court has appointed a legal team to act as the amicus curiae, or friend of the court, and make the legal argument that Canada's polygamy law should be struck down because it violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The hearing, which began this week, is expected to last until January. Thirty-six witnesses, including some women in polygamous relationships, are scheduled to testify - in some cases, behind screens to shield their identity from spectators in the court.
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The Vancouver Sun - November 20, 2010
Boy sent to Bountiful at age 14
by Daphne Bramham
Don Fischer, 26, was born into a polygamous FLDS family in Hildale, Utah, where he lived with his father, three "mothers" and 33 siblings in a house with 15 bedrooms.
In his video affidavit, Fischer says he was sent Bountiful when he was 14 because "my Dad had to get rid of me. We argued all the time because I wouldn't let him beat my little brothers and sisters. ... Father went to the prophet and said his son was interfering with his right to run his family." [Read the affidavit at: http://www.vancouversun.com/pdf/affidavitdonfischer.pdf
His father used scriptures to justify beating his children for things as minor as spilling milk.
Even though boys his age in Bountiful went to school, Fischer says the FLDS bishop at the time — Winston Blackmore — put him and other American boys to work in his forestry companies.
"[For] The boys shipped up there was kind of a work camp, reform camp. Keep them busy so they couldn't do bad. He actually did pay us kind of like an allowance. They supplied us with food and I think we got $120 every month, just a little spending money."
Still, Bountiful was different from Hildale. Nobody screamed at him and Blackmore let the boys play hockey. "I really liked Winston. I really looked up to him almost as a father figure."
In the early 2000s, Fischer's father was excommunicated by FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, who reassigned his mother to Allan Steed.
"Mom called and said your dad isn't your dad any more. All the family, all the children had to be at the wedding ceremony because you [the children] are pretty much getting married as well."
Steed already had 15 wives.
When he was 16, Fischer was told to leave because he refused to turn the money he earned over to the church.
At 8 p.m. one day, he was told that Jeffs had ordered his 18-year-old brother and him to be out of town by midnight.
"Our stepdad gave US$100 and me and Walt took clothes in a garbage bag."
Steed allowed them to keep working for one of his companies as long as they said they were trying to repent. But finally, Fischer decided to cut all ties.
"I wasn't a person out there. I wasn't alive. ... It's night and day [the difference between being in the church and out]."
Outside, he says, you have choice and are free to be whatever you want — a doctor, a lawyer. Insider, "you don't have options, you're one of their slaves ... you're treated as an object. Out here, you can be a person."
His mother remains in the FLDS.
"There's no relationship. I can't talk to them, I can't see them. They don't talk to me. We don't communicate ... it's like we don't exist."
This article was found at: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/sent+Bountiful/3856366/story.html
Stop Polygamy in Canada website has notes taken by observers in the courtroom as well as links to most of the affidavits and research the court is considering in this case.
Unique Canadian constitutional case on polygamy set to begin November 22, 2010
Timeline of events leading up to Canadian constitutional case on polygamy which is set to begin
Survivor of abuse by Mormon polygamists documents accounts of sex crimes in the FLDS and other fundamentalist groups
Mormon fundamentalist leader asks court to exclude evidence against him in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Fundamentalist Mormon spokeswoman says polygamy doesn't hurt anyone
Mormon fundamentalist claims of religious persecution in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy not supported by the facts
Polygamist leader says BC attorney general guilty of religious persecution
Polygamist leader calls charges religious persecution
More persecution than prosecution
Second Mormon polygamist found guilty of child sex assault, jury doesn't buy defense claim of religious persecution
Claims of persecution ridiculous in societies where Christians have special privileges to indoctrinate children
More pro-polygamy affidavits by Mormon fundamentalists filed in Canadian constitutional case set to begin in November
Judge will allow anonymous testimony from Mormon polygamists in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Mormon polygamists seek immunity from future prosecution before giving evidence in Canadian constitutional case
Canadian constitutional case on polygamy triggered by Mormon fundamentalists, but will also examine Muslim communities
Polygyny and Canada's Obligations under International Human Rights Law (pdf)
Research paper submitted to B.C. court in constitutional case documents harms associated with polygamy
Man from Bountiful says girls in Mormon polygamist communities "treated like poison snakes", taught to obey men and have many children
Bountiful evidence that polygamy harms women and children - constitutional case likely to reach Canadian Supreme Court
Review of the positions 12 intervener groups are expected to take in upcoming Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Some religious practices, such as polygamy, are inherently harmful and should not be tolerated in modern society
Women's adovcates: polygamy is an "oppressive institution" that abuses and enslaves women and children
Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado by Marci Hamilton
Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearings on Polygamy Crimes: What Needs to Be Done at the Federal Level to Protect Children from Abuse and Neglect
Senate hearing: "Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response."
Texas Will Attempt to Show That Polygamist Culture Itself Harms Children
FLDS defendants complain their religious freedom violated, while denying religious freedom to their children
Children in Bountiful have religious rights too, but are denied them by parents claiming religious freedom
Some Canadian children are protected from religion-related abuse, while others are not
Polygamy is not freedom
Israeli politicians and women's advocates call for immediate change to polygamy law to protect rights of women and children
New study on polygamy in Malaysia finds evidence of harm to everyone involved
Indonesian Women's Association divided on whether polygamy, which is legal in Indonesia, is harmful to women and children


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Diamond Pools Inc. does weekly pool servicing on 2 properties.
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Journalists in collusion with terrorists? April 19, 2006Posted by dr. gonzo in Iraq.
Editor's Note: Gonzo is a former journalism student and newspaper editor.
Alright, I just read a couple posts on the media's use of local stringers in Iraq.
Clicked here first
And then here
And then on to Michelle Malkin
And from there to CBS news blog
The gist of these posts is that certain stringers in the Iraqi (hired by Western outlets) media appear to be in collusion with terrorists. The last three links center around Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Bilal Hussein, who was apparently captured and taken into custody by coalition forces in Iraq.
Malkin and some of these other bloggers have insisted his Peter Parker like ability to be in the right place at the right time to document the "insurgents story" proves he is complicit in the murder, by terrorists, of innocents, U.S. troops etc.
Of course this is ludicrious.
Certainly, this is a hot button topic. A lot of people in the United States have loved ones in Iraq. However, journalists have traveled with American soldiers since day one, and almost certainly Iraqis killed by U.S. troops have families who see any journalist embed as complicit in the murder of their family members.
A journalist is a front line witness to history. In such an important role, to do anything but report completely objectively would be unprofessional as well as wrong.
So if a combat journalist, Iraqi stringer or not, is privy to information from insurgents/terrorists concerning future attacks on U.S. forces is it that person's responsibility to inform the U.S. led coalition/occupation?
The answer: absolutely not. Never.
This is a war, journalists, although targeted occassionally, are non-combatants. They are present to observe not intervene. Many journalists faced the same tough ethical questions during the Vietnam War.
Remember this a war. War. War. War. War. Not some FBI investigation but a war. Got that?
For any American citizen or military commander to expect that a journalist turn over information that would alter the outcome of events is complete lunacy.
Try looking at it from the other side and see if you still disagree. Think of this scenario, an Iraqi stringer embedded with American troops is given information that a U.S. led operation against an insurgent stronghold in Ramadi is set to take place at 10 a.m. the next morning.
Should the insurgents expect that the journalist hand over this information to aid them in their fight against their enemy?
The answer: absolutely not. Never.
It's really no different. Just because George W. Bush says that all insurgents are terrorist criminal thugs doesn't make it so. Ms. Malkin might do well to remember that. There are two sides to this war, the American and the insurgent. Both sides are fighting for a reason and no the insurgent reason is certainly not that they are "freedom haters." The desire to kill enemies runs deeper than political buzzwords.
It's also important to remember the old adage, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
To believe in blanket objectivity from the news media in situations of such important historical significance is not to condone the acts of violence or atrocities that occur but to observe and report them fairly. Lest history be left to judge.
Doing otherwise would be an injustice to history and to future generations who will struggle to learn something from this destructive conflict. This is something that I have wanted to say for a long time, this Bilal Hussein case and the blogosphere rambling about it have given me a perfectly timely opportunity to do so.
- 1. Mac - April 19, 2006
So who is a journalist? To me that question must be answered empirically to remove any gray area. Otherwise the status of journalist is an easy cover for deadly exploitation. I guess its a question of feasibility between theory and practice.


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ST ASAPH City manager Daniel Brewerton was please with side's display in their 1-1 draw at Nantlle Vale.
The Saints came from behind to kick-off their Lock Stock Welsh Alliance Division One campaign with a positive result, and they face another crucial pair of fixtures this week as they look to lay the foundations for a successful season.
City welcome derby rivals and title contenders Denbigh Town on Tuesday night, before travelling to Greenfield on August 20.
Brewerton, said: "To be honest I'm really happy coming away from the game with a point, we know they are good at home and only two teams managed a win there in the league last year.
"The lads deserve a huge amount of credit, especially 17-year-old reserve keeper Josh Wedge, after nearly 18 months out of the game due to a broken hip, he was called into the squad four hours before kick-off and put in a solid performance.
"The circumstances going into the game meant a late change to the system, and to be fair, Nant played a very high tempo game and never allowed us much time on the ball, but the lads stepped up to the occasion and got a valuable point."
Vale got off to a bright start on home soil and managed to get their noses in front on 35 minutes when a neat passage of play presented a chance to Tom Mahoney, who made no mistake with the finish to break the deadlock.
Wedge pulled off a series of fine stops to keep his side in the game following the goal, and the visitors came out after the break with a renewed sense of purpose that eventually resulted in them claiming a share of the spoils.
Their telling moment arrived with 70 minutes on the clock, with Danny Williams on hand to turn in an opportunity to level matters after a period of consistent pressure.


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Counsel For Zimri-Lim About Preparations For Campaign (FM 2.116) (4.60)
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Commentary Subject: Num 31:9–11; Deut 2:35; Judg 5:30 Sumu-hadu was a governor ( šāpitum) who had served during the reign of Yasmah-Addu. After Yasmah-Addu's reign was over, however, Sumu-hadu swore a loyalty oath to Zimri-Lim, the new king at Mari.1 In this letter, Sumu-hadu wrote to Zimri-Lim about preparing for a campaign to Shubat-Enlil, the capital where Shamshi-Adad had resided. According to Sumu-hadu, Turum-natki, the king of Apum, supported Zimri-Lim's campaign (cf. ARM 10.5 [4.61]). Sumu-hadu planned to have the mobile pastoralists from the Yamina assemble …
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