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Bishop Oyedepo
By Ishola Balogun
*Students beg, Parents react…* School declines comment
*I'm not aware — Prof Okojie, NUC boss
About 200 students may have been expelled by the authorities of Covenant University, Cannanland, Ota, Ogun State, recently for what was described as "disregard of paramount core values."
Frustrated and angered by the development, some of the affected students who gave account of what happened battled emotions while narrating their situations to Saturday Vanguard recently. They however pleaded with the school authorities to tamper justice with mercy in order to save their future.
Saturday Vanguard investigation revealed that out of the figure, about 126 were expelled for not attending the 'departure service', meant to sign off from the school after the end of the Semester and Matriculation of students on November 30. Five other students were thrown out for smoking while unconfirmed source said additional 60 got the same fate for violating other rules bordering on the University's core values. A few others were given four weeks suspension for failure to sign the head count that was conducted a couple of weeks earlier.
A letter of expulsion signed by the Registrar, Ntia Ubong, a copy which was made available to Saturday Vanguard stated that the affected students contravened Chapter 1, section 30, page 40 of the 2010-2014 Student Handbook.
We gathered that the massive expulsion was predicated on the anger of the Chancellor, Bishop David Oyedepo who was said to have been infuriated after seeing students loitering around when they were supposed to be at the Chapel for the Departure Service.
He was said to have personally chased students to the Chapel and ordered for a search into all the halls and colleges to fish out those who did not attend the service.
Several attempts to get the school authorities comment on the issue proved abortive. The Instituion's Corporate Affairs Head, Mr Igban Emmaunel also refused to comment as calls pulled through to him were unanswered and text messages not replied.
How it happened
A few of the affected students gave account of what happened to Saturday Vanguard at different points. The similar accounts go thus: "On November 30, the last day of the semester, preceding our December break, there was also a Matriculation for the 100 level students; in fact some students had their last semester exams on that day, some of them finished around 3:00pm while the matriculation started around 8am. Some students retired to their rooms to relax while some engaged in some other activities jubilating the end of the semester.
"Some also got drinks from the matriculating students. Even as these were going on, some students who finished around 3pm retired to their halls. By 5pm, they announced that we should get prepared for the 'Departure service' which was to start by 8pm. Some students were already seeing their parents off while some of us were just trying to relax to get off the stress of the exams.
"Most of us hadn't gotten through the tiredness of the sleepless nights of the exams; so, some us stayed back in our rooms. The departure service is usually a day before we go home and it is usually presided over by the Chancellor. Before the commencement of the service, they used to lock up the main doors of the halls so as to prevent cases of theft. I was not bothered since there were a lot of us in the hall. Some minutes past 8pm, they switched off the light and all of us in the hall went into our rooms. Because of the darkness and the cold, I slept off immediately."
He continued: "The persistent knocks on the door woke me up and I realised that they had come to search for people who had not come to service. Before I realised what was going on, I found myself with other students numbering about 30. They took down our names and counted us to make sure that no one was omitted. They said the Chancellor was at the service and we refused to come. I heard them talking about other halls and they asked us to wait. I didn't take it seriously because I never believed in my widest imagination that we would be expelled. We were later asked to go to our various halls.
"Some of those who went into hiding were lucky as they were not found. Shortly, those who went for the service returned and told us there was poor attendance at the Chapel and how students were diving in through the windows, scampering for seats. In fact, one narrated to us how the Chancellor jumped through the window to vent his anger on some students who had jumped in," he stated.
Another expelled student also gave similar account of the incident. "I couldn't go to the service because, I was not feeling well which was as a result of the stress of the exams we had just finished. After a while, I managed to go but I heard that they started driving people back around 7:30pm while the service was to start around 8pm. I was surprised because the rule was that you've got to be seated 15minutes to the service. Again, it was never made compulsory, but they tried to get students out of the halls to prevent cases of theft. So, because I was not feeling well, I went back to my room because I needed to rest for a while.
"I thought it was a joke when they said we are in for expulsion because we failed to come for departure service. I have never done anything contrary to the school laws. I have never faced any panel before and neither did I have any unpleasant case in my file. I never thought it was real until letters were handed to me the following morning."
Giving account of how letters were handed out to them, the visibly troubled student said: "By 6am, they announced the names of those who were caught in halls and colleges. Usually after the departure service, one can sign out from there and go but because it ended late and no one could travel, students had to wait till the following morning. But the hall officer told those of us whose names were written down that if we leave, we should be considered gone from the university forever. That gave us an insight into what was likely to come as punishment. By 7:45am, we were called once again to go downstairs for our letters. Those who collected theirs before mine were crying and I wondered what the punishment could be until I read the letter stating I was expelled from the university."
At the Chapel
Another student who found his way to the Chapel also told Saturday Vanguard that while the Chancellor was being driven past, he noticed that students were loitering at about the time they were supposed to be seated at the chapel. He said that this apparently infuriated him and he alighted from his car and chased students to the chapel with knocks. "I saw him, alighted from his car and chased students to the chapel; I quickly found my way to the hall. Not quite long after, I saw students jumping in through the windows. It was a big commotion. Even the chancellor was going after those who jumped into the chapel. Later, he addressed the students saying he was very disappointed by the behaviour that the students were not seated 15 minutes before the service."
Another account had it that while the Education Secretary, Prof. Aize Obayan was addressing the students, the students were murmuring, then the Chancellor immediately took to the microphone and said: "if I hear the voice of any student, the curse of the Lord shall fall upon that one." The chapel immediately went dead silent.
Our source who was also late to the service stated that the Chancellor later directed that those students who did not come to the service would be purged out saying they did not belong to the school. Our source stated that at the end of the service, he prayed for the students in the hall.
Another source in the school hinted that at that point, the Vice-chancellor pleaded on behalf of those who were absent but the Chancellor insisted they must be purged from the school.
Our source told Saturday Vanguard that the Vice-Chancellor while addressing the students announced that a search would be carried out in all the halls and colleges to find out those who failed to attend the departure service, advising them to wait behind.
Saturday Vanguard investigation revealed that out of the figure, about 126 were expelled for not attending the 'departure service', five were thrown out for smoking marijuana, twenty-five final year students and undisclosed number of lower level students were caught violating rules bothering on the University's core values. We also gathered that a few others were given four weeks suspension for failure to sign the head count that was conducted a couple of weeks earlier. Some of the students opined that failure to sign the head count was even a greater offence which implied that the student was not in the school at the time of the exercise but yet got a four-week suspension.
The private university is known for its strict rules and discipline such as not allowing the students to use mobile phones within the school's premises, while it is mandatory for students to always bring their bible to the chapel.
Parents react
A few parents who volunteered information spoke to us on condition of anonymity fearing that their children might be victimised in case the issue was resolved amicably. One of them said with bitterness that it is unacceptable, adding that the expulsion was not commensurate with the offence deemed to have been committed. He urged the school authorities to rescind its decision adding that the future of the students is at stake.
"For me, it is not acceptable. These students were not given fair hearing. Expulsion should not be a punishment for failure to attend service. We all agree, it is a Christian school but failure to attend church service could be due to a lot of reasons. I gathered that some of the students even finished their exams about 5pm that day. So, those people that finished at that time had barely three hours to prepare for the service. But stampeding them to congregate for service and then expelling those who did not come is a decision taken too far. For me, if there was poor attendance, I think the authorities have a responsibility. They have not been fair in putting the service so close to the examination. Even God will not do that."
He however commended the Chancellor, Dr. Oyedepo on his vision towards the education of Nigeria children especially when the government institutions are failing, but urging him to tamper justice with mercy.
Another parent who was afraid of the press noted that he was still studying the situation and would not want to comment but noted that he was reliably informed that some group of parents made frantic efforts to meet with the Chancellor on the issue but without success. It was not clear the level of the efforts made. He further hinted that some students have not told their parents about their expulsion, still hoping that the issue would be resolved.
He lamented that his child had been having sleepless nights, going through mental torture unjustifiably. "I agree that discipline must be instilled in the students but it should not be aimed at destroying the life of the students. Expulsion is too great a punishment for non attendance of a departure service, without even a warning especially when the students hitherto, had not been found wanting," he stated.
What the Student Handbook says
The Covenant University Core values border on Spirituality, Possibility Mentality, Capacity Building, Integrity, Responsibility, Diligence and Sacrifice. On the spirituality aspect, it states: "The Christian ethos underguard our activities and conducts at all time and every student of Covenant University is expected to exhibit character traits and dispositions of a Jesus-centered heritage. The Jesus – factor centered approach to all issues is non-negotiable and central in the pursuit of our mandate in raising a new generation of leaders and in the realization of the objectives of our purpose.
To this extent therefore, students will be committed to maintaining a high level of spirituality and shall act in such manner as to facilitate their spiritual growth as well as work out ways to evolve and implement a spiritual development plan. Attendance at Chapel Services is a compulsory part of students' spiritual development where a bible and notebook are essential kits for the service. Students are expected to demonstrate a deep reverence for God at all times."
The school declines comment
Several attempts were made to get the school authorities comment on the issue. The institution's Corporate/Public Affairs Officer, Mr Igban Emmanuel Kalu declined comment. At first, several calls were pulled through to him but he refused to pick his calls. When the reporter persisted, he later picked but said he was driving and could not answer any question. But few hours later, other calls pulled to him were unanswered. A text message was sent to his phone and up to the time of writing this report, he did not reply.
I'm not aware —Prof Julius Okojie, NUC Executive Secretary
The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof Julius Okojie said he has not been briefed on the matter.
Prof Okojie stated this during a telephone conversation Saturday Vanguard had with him a few days ago. "I am not aware of any expulsion by Covenant University; I will ask the school authorities. Right now, I am not in Abuja, I left Abuja few days ago and until I return to Abuja and find out details about the matter, I cannot comment on it," he said.


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The food truck concept has become an influential segment in the food service industry. The evolution of food trucks and food carts are positively benefitting owners, customers and the communities where they operate. Mobile Food Management program at Community College of Philadelphia will help guide you through the steps of planning, starting and maintaining a food truck or food cart.
This workshop provides the fundamentals of owning and operating a food truck or cart. It familiarizes you with the tools needed to formulate a food truck concept and turn it into a standardized plan. The focus is on menu planning, truck/cart design and location, navigating marketing techniques, federal/state/local regulations, and licenses and permits. Learn to design, cost and budget for a mobile food unit, while developing the necessary skills for succeeding in the foodservice segment of mobile food ownership.
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All you girls 5'4" and under, fight for your right for high quality fashionable clothes! Many petite women find it difficult to find properly fitting quality clothes. It is only recently that designers have started to target petite women with fashionable clothing. This year, fashion is all about you and your style. Fashion is about confidence. If you feel great in an outfit, others can't help but feel your vibes.
In the past petite women had to settle for ill fitting regular clothes in run-of-the-mill sizes. But that's long in the past. Today's petite women find more and more stores devoted to meeting the needs of the short statured.
Petite framed women can wear just about any style and look slimmer and most importantly taller, by following a few simple rules.
Avoid bold, large patterns with heavy fabrics. Keep print in proportion to your figure. Smaller frames deserve smaller prints.
Avoid styles that draw the eye to the waist or hip area. These tend to make you look more round.
Avoid too much jewelry. Jewelry can overpower a small frame.
Wear light weight material when layering. Too much bulk bulks up the petite woman.
Avoid wearing contrasting colors such as black skirt and white top when wearing separates.
Wear the same color from head to toe to create a continuous flow. Blend similar colored shoes and hose to appear taller.
If wearing boots, make sure the hem of your skirt is long enough to cover the boots. This will create an unbroken line to help give a slenderizing affect.
Skirts should be slightly above the knee and always worn with heels. Below the knee skirts tend to make the short statured woman look stubby.
Heels are a must for the vertically impaired. High-heeled shoes guarantees that your legs will look longer and leaner.
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About Turner Syndrome
Turner syndrome is a chromosomal condition that alters development in females.
What is Turner syndrome?
Turner syndrome is a chromosomal condition that alters development in females. Women with this condition tend to be shorter than average and are usually unable to conceive a child (infertile) because of an absence of ovarian function. Other features of this condition that can vary among women who have Turner syndrome include: extra skin on the neck (webbed neck), puffiness or swelling (lymphedema) of the hands and feet, skeletal abnormalities, heart defects and kidney problems.
This condition occurs in about 1 in 2,500 female births worldwide, but is much more common among pregnancies that do not survive to term (miscarriages and stillbirths).
Turner syndrome is a chromosomal condition related to the X chromosome. [ghr.nlm.nih.gov]
Researchers have not yet determined which genes on the X chromosome are responsible for most signs and symptoms of Turner syndrome. They have, however, identified one gene called SHOX that is important for bone development and growth. Missing one copy of this gene likely causes short stature and skeletal abnormalities in women with Turner syndrome.
What are the symptoms of Turner syndrome?
Girls who have Turner syndrome are shorter than average. They often have normal height for the first three years of life, but then have a slow growth rate. At puberty they do not have the usual growth spurt.
Non-functioning ovaries are another symptom of Turner syndrome. Normally a girl's ovaries begin to produce sex hormones (estrogen and progesterone) at puberty. This does not happen in most girls who have Turner syndrome. They do not start their periods or develop breasts without hormone treatment at the age of puberty.
Even though many women who have Turner have non-functioning ovaries and are infertile, their vagina and womb are totally normal.
In early childhood, girls who have Turner syndrome may have frequent middle ear infections. Recurrent infections can lead to hearing loss in some cases.
Girls with Turner Syndrome are usually of normal intelligence with good verbal skills and reading skills. Some girls, however, have problems with math, memory skills and fine-finger movements.
Additional symptoms of Turner syndrome include the following:
An especially wide neck (webbed neck) and a low or indistinct hairline.
A broad chest and widely spaced nipples.
Arms that turn out slightly at the elbow.
A heart murmur, sometimes associated with narrowing of the aorta (blood vessel exiting the heart).
A tendency to develop high blood pressure (so this should be checked regularly).
Minor eye problems that are corrected by glasses.
Scoliosis (deformity of the spine) occurs in 10 percent of adolescent girls who have Turner syndrome.
The thyroid gland becomes under-active in about 10 percent of women who have Turner syndrome. Regular blood tests are necessary to detect it early and if necessary treat with thyroid replacement
Older or over-weight women with Turner syndrome are slightly more at risk of developing diabetes.
Osteoporosis can develop because of a lack of estrogen, but this can largely be prevented by taking hormone replacement therapy.
How is Turner syndrome diagnosed?
A diagnosis of Turner syndrome may be suspected when there are a number of typical physical features observed such as webbed neck, a broad chest and widely spaced nipples. Sometimes diagnosis is made at birth because of heart problems, an unusually wide neck or swelling of the hands and feet.
The two main clinical features of Turner syndrome are short stature and the lack of the development of the ovaries.
Many girls are diagnosed in early childhood when a slow growth rate and other features are identified. Diagnosis sometimes takes place later when puberty does not occur.
Turner syndrome may be suspected in pregnancy during an ultrasound test. This can be confirmed by prenatal testing - chorionic villous sampling or amniocentesis - to obtain cells from the unborn baby for chromosomal analysis. If a diagnosis is confirmed prenatally, the baby may be under the care of a specialist pediatrician immediately after birth.
Diagnosis is confirmed by a blood test, called a karyotype. This is used to analyze the chromosomal composition of the female. More information about this will be discussed in the section "Is Turner syndrome inherited?"
What is the treatment for Turner syndrome?
During childhood and adolescence, girls may be under the care of a pediatric endocrinologist, who is a specialist in childhood conditions of the hormones and metabolism.
Growth hormone injections are beneficial in some individuals with Turner syndrome. Injections often begin in early childhood and may increase final adult height by a few inches.
Estrogen replacement therapy is usually started at the time of normal puberty, around 12 years to start breast development. Estrogen and progesterone are given a little later to begin a monthly 'period,' which is necessary to keep the womb healthy. Estrogen is also given to prevent osteoporosis.
Babies born with a heart murmur or narrowing of the aorta may need surgery to correct the problem. A heart expert (cardiologist) will assess and follow up any treatment necessary.
Girls who have Turner syndrome are more likely to get middle ear infections. Repeated infections may lead to hearing loss and should be evaluated by the pediatrician. An ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT) may be involved in caring for this health issue.
High blood pressure is quite common in women who have Turner syndrome. In some cases, the elevated blood pressure is due to narrowing of the aorta or a kidney abnormality. However, most of the time, no specific cause for the elevation is identified. Blood pressure should be checked routinely and, if necessary, treated with medication. Women who have Turner syndrome have a slightly higher risk of having an under active thyroid or developing diabetes. This should also be monitored during routine health maintenance visits and treated if necessary.
Regular health checks are very important. Special clinics for the care of girls and women who have Turner syndrome are available in some areas, with access to a variety of specialists. Early preventive care and treatment is very important.
Almost all women are infertile, but pregnancy with donor embryos may be possible.
Having appropriate medical treatment and support allows a woman with Turner syndrome to lead a normal, healthy and happy life.
Is Turner syndrome inherited?
Turner syndrome is not usually inherited in families. Turner syndrome occurs when one of the two X chromosomes normally found in women is missing or incomplete. Although the exact cause of Turner syndrome is not known, it appears to occur as a result of a random error during the formation of either the eggs or sperm.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, which contain all of a person's genes and DNA. Two of these chromosomes, the sex chromosomes, determine a person's gender. Both of the sex chromosomes in females are called X chromosomes. (This is written as XX.) Males have an X and a Y chromosome (written as XY). The two sex chromosomes help a person develop fertility and the sexual characteristics of their gender.
In Turner syndrome, the girl does not have the usual pair of two complete X chromosomes. The most common scenario is that the girl has only one X chromosome in her cells. Some girls with Turner syndrome do have two X chromosomes, but one of the X chromosomes is incomplete. In another scenario, the girl has some cells in her body with two X chromosomes, but other cells have only one. This is called mosaicism.
Additional Resources for Turner Syndrome
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President Bush Visits CIA Headquarters, Participates in Briefings
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In Focus: Global Diplomacy
THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank the Director, Mike Hayden, and Steve Kappes for hosting me out here at the CIA. It's a chance to thank a lot of the folks who work out here for their service to the country.
It's really important for the people who work here to understand the significant -- the significance of the contributions they're making to secure the homeland. The people here work long and hard hours. They're smart, capable, and they deserve the nation's thanks.
We also had a couple of briefings, one on the war on terror and the other on the situation in Georgia. Got a lot of folks, smart folks analyzing the situation on the ground and, of course, briefing us on different possibilities that could develop in the area and the region.
I sent Condi Rice, Secretary of State Rice, over there. She'll be coming back to brief me on Saturday. I'm looking forward to hearing firsthand what she has seen, what she has heard. And I call for the territorial integrity of Georgia to be respected and the cease-fire agreement to be honored.
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On the other side, broadcasters such as the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Pat Robertsons Christian Broadcasting Network, argue that the ability for customers to individually choose the channels to which they subscribe would undermine their ability to reach non-Christians.
Where both groups err is in assuming that the choice (or lack thereof) in cable television is primarily a political issue. Issues of government deregulation, privatization, and competition get thorny enough in the case of essential utilities, such as electricity, water, and natural gas. The voluntary and non-essential nature of cable TV immediately relegates it to an area in which governmental interventions ought to be minimal.
Secular organizations concerned with cable regulation, like Consumers for Cable Choice and Cable Choice Now!, make no bones about their commitment to relying on the coercive power of government to achieve their ends. These are essentially political lobbying groups, and more and more conservative Christian groups are conforming themselves to their image. The politicization of cable television is indicative of the contemporary evangelical preoccupation with political power, a result of which is that secular and Christian groups often cannot be distinguished by their methods and goals.
But in resorting to the big stick of government regulation, such groups are making an end-run around more responsible and socially-sensitive methods of achieving their ends. Under the guise of the interests of children and families and the rubric of individual choice, evangelical lobbying groups ignore the most basic choice that Christians can use to make their voices heard: the choice to turn off the TV.
Cable providers, as profit-motivated entities, are by nature interested in maximizing the satisfaction of their customers with the services they provide. If cable choice activists gave due consideration of the economic interests of cable companies, they would realize the essential power that consumers possess. Boycotts, letter-writing campaigns, and privately-organized civic coalitions can be effective means of signaling a clear consumer desire for increased channel choice.
If enough consumers made their voices heard, we wouldnt see these misguided appeals to government enforcement. The unwillingness of cable choice activists to make use of non-coercive methods of redress speaks to their fundamental unwillingness to sacrifice and organize.
It can take time, energy, and patience to attempt to communicate with businesses and corporations. It also takes organization and resources to gather enough consumer power together to effectively make a concerted voice heard. Instead of working diligently to create such civic campaigns, it is far easier to engage in the long-established tradition of political activism through entrenched lobbying groups.
Instead of pursuing the recourse to political coercion, lets revisit the idea of turning off the TV. Many evangelical Christians, including myself, are so infatuated with popular culture that we are unwilling to sacrifice a non-essential and potentially problematic medium like cable TV, even for the relatively brief time it might take to get the message across to cable companies.
Instead of bothering to set up channel blocking systems or more closely monitoring our childrens (or our own) viewing habits, it is easier to have someone else, like the government, take responsibility. Instead of canceling our cable subscriptions and giving the money to our churches, we are tempted to acquiesce to the seductive materialism of TV culture.
On average, evangelical Christians give about 4 percent of their income to charitable groups. In 2002, based on a set of surveys, pollster George Barna concluded that the average congregant spends more time watching television in one day than he spends in all spiritual pursuits combined for an entire week.
If it is true that the bad programming on cable television far outweighs the good, as is claimed by Lanier Swann, the director of government relations for Concerned Women for America, the responsible way to protect our families is to refrain from patronizing such a corrupted medium until such time that we can tilt the balance acceptably in favor of the good.
Imagine the time and financial resources that might be used in service of Gods kingdom if the Christian concern with cable TV were placed in proper perspective. CRO


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Apple may have announced their ringtone strategy for the iPhone (30-second ringtones cost $1.98 to make and you must purchase songs through the iTunes Music Store), but Ambrosia Software's iToner utility lets you make ringtones from any mp3 or acc audio file with a simple drag/drop, all for $15 (free 30-day trial). iToner seems like the clear winner here.
Update: The just-released new version of iTunes (7.4) makes iToner ringtones invisible to the iPhone. Ambrosia is working on an iToner update. (thx, jim)


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Are you on the 'SS Euro'? Abandon Ship!
The Euro is creaking and making funny noises. Lloyds of London – who have a pretty good ear to perceive impending disasters – says the insurance market is preparing for the Euro's collapse and is trying to reduce its exposure as much as possible.
Robert Ward chief executive of the multi-billion dollar and almost five hundred year old institution said Lloyd's may have to write-down on its £58.9 billion investment portfolio if the euro collapses. In the interview for The Sunday Telegraph he explained the market has put in place a contingency plan to switch euro underwriting to multi-currency claims settlementsIt seems Lloyds believes 'grexit' is looking more and more likely day by day. Insurers are a good reference point on this, since risk management lies at the very heart of insurance and reinsurance. London as well as Germany are two of the key global long-term risk management markets, counting on extensive expertise and experience in such potentially catastrophic financial upheavals.Another major insurer providing credit insurance for Eurozone trade – the Franco-German Euler Hermes Group – has also stated is would be reducing coverage for trade with Greece. Clearly, a tell-tale sign that a country is about to go bust is when credit insurance providers decide to stop trading with it.Also going into Orange Alert Mode are the German mega-bankers. Last weekend Juergen Fitschen, co-chief executive of Deutsche Bank, described Greece as a "failed state" run by corrupt politicians adding that even though he did not think that if Greece exits the euro that would immediately lead to the collapse of the eurozone, he was nevertheless jittery about the whole matter adding that "what we need to do is prepare for that eventuality."Correct, Juergen! If Greece goes, then the temptation for Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy and others to follow suit would indeed be great. And maybe we should not just be focusing on the weak end of the Eurozone – Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy – but should also turn an eye on its strong end: because even you Germans might – for very different reasons – end up realizing that you too would be far better off dumping the euro and going back to the proverbially strong Deutsch Mark.Then, Germany would have no need to bail-out and rough up "Today Greece, tomorrow Europe!". As German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich just told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper, Germany was prepared to help rescue Greece but only if it helps itself and honours its agreements, adding that "We're not willing to pour money into a bottomless pit".Come on, Germany! Look at history and start understanding that you'd be far better off looking eastwards, reaching intelligent agreements with raw-materials-rich Russian, than with just dragging as dead-weight "Old Europe" and its increasingly decadent and misgoverned American controllers.Even quiet, conservative and bourgeois Switzerland had its Central Bank Governor Thomas Jordan also admitting that they too were drawing up contingency action plans in the event of the euro's collapse…On May 25th, writing in the London Telegraph, conservative political columnist Bruce Anderson observed that European Union ideologues – "those wise men" as he calls them – made a double mistake: they both "underestimated and overestimated their fellow humans", because although globalization and global competition was nice …for a while… "en-masse, human beings need the nation-state, just as individual humans need dwellings." Comparing the EU to life in a great city, Anderson explains that "there are moments when most people want to close their front door and relax at home. It helps to cope with all that pressure if you can live in a nation state, where you speak the language, understand the politics, respect the legal system," I would add, "where you can issue and control your own currency…" It seems that those "wise men" of old and their modern Eurocrat counterparts in Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt have been trying to run Europe having "a French jockey on a German horse": two delusions that eventually led to the single-currency. It's important to listen to what the British have to say about today's euro-crisis because a decade ago, they very intelligently accepted the European Union but rejected the single currency. And they were right!!As Anderson aptly points out, "you cannot use the same interest rate in Dublin and Düsseldorf unless there are fiscal transfers. Monetary union must mean fiscal union. On the basis of no taxation without representation, this must lead on to political union. Instead, the eurozone leaders told the architect to build the roof first…. "The result is today's unsustainable continent-wide crisis: rising unemployment, top-heavy pension systems, extreme hardship for the young and the poor, which is leading to increasing social disorder, constant emigration from Greece, Spain and Italy that presses into northern Europe…Europe today stands at a cross-roads: in the coming weeks and months it may be living its "To be or not to be" moment. It has been the European Union bureaucrats allied to the global banking mafia that led Europe to its present woes, so, Europe: don't look to them for "transnational" crisis leadership and "global solutions". They won't deliver!!Rather, seek common sense solutions at home, review recent / not so recent history; use your imagination more and your imaginary fears less.Perhaps, the ultimate litmus test on this runs something like this: The more angry and furious Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy make the global private mega-bankers – and the IMF, ECB, Fed, and global rating agencies – the more certain you can be that you're on the right track.Woe to Greece, woe to Spain, Italy and others if the day dawns when these mega-bankers applaud you saying they're "satisfied that you are doing the right thing". That will undoubtedly mean you've put the noose around your own necks. For the love of God, don't do that!
Adrian Salbuchi for RT
Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. www.asalbuchi.com.ar
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the story are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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CHIPMAN, CLARENCE CAMPBELL, office holder and HBC officer; b. 24 May 1856 in Amherst, N.S., son of John Allen Chipman, a postmaster, and Abbie Whidden Brown; m. 25 April 1882 Ada Jane Borradaile (d. 1913) in Ottawa, and they had at least one son and three daughters; d. 11 Feb. 1924 in Royal Leamington Spa, England.
Educated in Amherst, Clarence Campbell Chipman is said to have worked in the federal departments of Agriculture, Public Works, and Finance before 1882. In 1880 he was with the Department of Finance in Ottawa, but he most likely did not join the civil service in 1867, as some sources have claimed. On 27 Jan. 1882 he became private secretary to Sir Charles Tupper*, minister of railways and canals. When Tupper was officially appointed Canadian high commissioner in London in May 1884, Chipman accompanied him there as assistant secretary and accountant. In this position Chipman organized Canada's contribution to the universal exposition held in Antwerp the following year and in 1886 he served as accountant for Canada's participation in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. After acting as Tupper's assistant in the Atlantic fisheries negotiations in Washington in 1887-88, he was promoted chief clerk in the Department of Marine and Fisheries and private secretary to the minister, Tupper's son Charles Hibbert, on 1 July 1888. He participated in the negotiations over the seal fishery in the Bering Sea in 1889 [see Sir Charles Tupper] and was later said to have written a treatise on the fisheries of Canada in 1891.
On 12 May 1891 Chipman was appointed trade commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company, a senior Canadian position within the firm. He was one of a series of professional administrators who were hired from outside the HBC by its London committee in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to shake up the managerial staff. The HBC, and particularly its governor, Sir Donald Alexander Smith*, had been attracted by Chipman's administrative abilities. As well, Smith had sought someone who would adhere to his policy of fiscal restraint. As commissioner, Chipman supervised over 100 posts, shops, and depots stretching from Quebec to the Yukon; he hired managers, checked accounts, and developed strategies to comply with the wishes of the London committee. He served in his new post until October, when the committee decided to separate the fur trade into two departments, fur trade and saleshop (retail trade), but to combine their administration with that of the land department under a single person, Chipman, who was named chief commissioner.
Faced with falling profits from furs and competition from companies with smaller infrastructures, the London committee issued Chipman a mandate in 1892 to reduce costs. Chipman followed this course of action rigorously, generating the greatest amount of profit while effecting strict economy and promoting efficiency. He expanded the firm's network of steamships in order to move more goods at lower costs and he promoted the use of the telegraph to bring news of international fur prices to traders. The firm's administrative operations were centralized in Winnipeg, eliminating haphazard accounting and overlap of personnel. The HBC adopted a conservative approach to land sales, selling only when market conditions were favourable, and it expanded its retail department. Chipman introduced cost accounting, price standardization, and regular inspections. He also suggested that cash replace barter in trading for furs. In 1910 the company embarked on a thorough inspection of the retail business and afterwards decided to divide it into departments by "placing at the head of each a man especially conversant with these respective interests."
In May 1911 Chipman was demoted to the position of commissioner of the land department. On 12 September the London committee, which had new members who wanted to change the firm's methods, resolved that he be given notice. He was to be paid at the rate of £1,500 a year to 31 May 1912, after which time he would receive his pension. Following his departure, the HBC reverted to the structure it had abandoned on his appointment in 1891 and enhanced the role of middle managers. Thus, the company's operation in Canada became more specialized as its bureaucratic structure was enlarged. This development would not have been possible without the measures Chipman had brought in to make its management more effective.
Clarence Campbell Chipman moved to England in 1911 with his wife and two of his daughters. He purchased Woodlands, a home in Roehampton (London). In 1923 he moved to Arnathwaite House in Royal Leamington Spa, where he stayed until his death the following year.
The correspondence of Clarence Campbell Chipman while he served as trade commissioner and then chief commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company can be found in the following series at the AM, HBCA: D.13-D.14, D.17-D.22, D.24-D.27, D.44.
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Let me introduce myself before I start. I'm a 2nd year CS major and have programming in C++, C, some assembly language, and a bit of VHDL. I also know HTML, CSS, and a bit of PHP. I was interested in learning Java so here I am!
I currently have Ubuntu 8.04. What do I need to start writing/compiling in Java?
I've use Eclipse but didn't like it too much. I've grown to use CodeBlocks but doesn't have a Java version as of yet. I've heard there is some patch, but I don't know if there is one for Ubuntu.
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Shutdown can't stop lobbyists
It's not exactly business as usual — but even a shutdown can't put a stop to K Street lobbying.
Far from relaxing on the links or taking boozy two-hour lunches, Beltway lobbyists are making their normal load of Hill meetings and client work happen — in spite of a federal government operating without hundreds of thousands of staffers and a congressional stalemate over Obamacare and the budget.
"I've been on the Hill all day," David Urban, a lobbyist with the American Continental Group, told POLITICO on Tuesday. But, he added, "it's been challenging logistically to get things done."
One of the biggest problems for lobbyists on Capitol Hill on day one of the shutdown was simply getting into the congressional office buildings for the access they need with lobbyists and staff.
( POLITICO's full government shutdown coverage)
Massive lines formed Tuesday outside the House and Senate office buildings because the shutdown forced the Capitol complex to reduce the number of open entrances. Even after the morning rush of staffers arriving for work was over, it was common to see lines of nearly 100 people waiting to get into the congressional office buildings.
Urban — "being a good lobbyist," he joked — found a way around this problem too. "I had one of the staffers come pick us up and he drive us into the garage," he said — avoiding the security lines. Urban — "being a good lobbyist," he joked — found a way around this problem too. "I had one of the staffers come pick us up and he drive us into the garage," he said — avoiding the security lines outside. (The Capitol Police noted to POLITICO that there are still security procedures in the garage.)
Other lobbyists echoed that they were working a normal work day — with a fair number of logistical challenges added into the mix.
"I went to a 7:45 a.m. breakfast on the Hill this morning with two congressmen — it was packed and they were on time," said Brian Johnson, a tax and trade lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute. "With long lines at all the congressional buildings, I'm thankful I've built relationships where folks on the Hill will just take a call — most of them, that is."
( Also on POLITICO: The shutdown: How it happens)
More importantly for K Street, the shutdown has sucked all the oxygen out of the room, meaning there's little action that can take place until a deal is made — and there isn't much attention being played to other issues.
"The mood around K Street is basically a waiting game," Johnson said. "It's just not something you can really 'lobby' in any traditional sense."
Though major legislative fights — immigration reform, tax reform, and others — aren't getting any attention, many clients are nevertheless interested in the state of play on Capitol Hill around the budget. Some lobbyists are helping to keep their clients in the loop about the latest shutdown news and gossip coming from Capitol Hill.
"What shutdown? I was as busy as ever," said one lobbyist with a big D.C. firm. "I think clients are engaged as ever. Clients all want to know what's going on. They're pestering everyone minute to minute, asking what's the latest."
"There are always two parts to a lobbyist's day, servicing, lobbying, and being responsive to clients, and doing their own business development to secure new clients. During the shutdown, understandably, there may be less of the former and more of the latter," said Jeffrey Taylor, a managing partner with USGRI.com and a former chief of staff to Rep. David McIntosh (R-Ind.). "While there will certainly be less 'face-to-face' lobbying during this period, lobbyists can still work with their clients on strategy, tactics, messaging, coalition building and other aspects of lobbying."
A lobbyist can still be quite productive during a shutdown because there are many parts to lobbying and many ways to be of value to a client," Taylor added.
Bryan Tackett, a senior adviser at PD Frazer Associates, said that he spent Tuesday buried in client work for foreign clients — who were interested in how the shutdown would affect their relationship with the United States. In Tackett's case, he spent his Tuesday doing an analysis for Canadian clients.
"Largest bilateral trading relationship on Earth, potential cross-border tie-ups, delayed product inspections. Advising clients on how this will impact legislative interests they have here," Tackett said about how he spent day one of the federal government shutdown.
Still, not everyone is convinced that everyone on K Street is working hard.
"I bet you can't find a tee-time at any golf course in a 25 mile radius this week," said one lobbyist.
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You might suspect thread count is simply a marketing ploy to make Egyptian cotton sheets sound more luxurious. But it's really a scientific term, with strict federal standards on how those threads are counted.
Technically, thread count means the number of threads woven together in a square inch. You count both lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft) threads. So 100 lengthwise threads woven with 100 widthwise threads produce a thread count of 200.
Thread count has become a buzz word for marketing luxury sheets, shirts and other woven fabric goods. The idea is the finer threads you can weave together, the softer and finer the fabric.
But that's not always the case. According to Consumer Reports, a thread count of 200 is fine; 400 may be softer. But anything above 400 will likely only provide a higher price tag [source: Consumer Reports].
To get a sense of the type of fabric various thread counts produce, consider that a thread count of 150 (75 threads one way, 75 the other) produces muslin, which feels a little rough, certainly not silken. Good-quality sheets come in at 180, and anything above 200 is considered better quality [source: Linenplace]
So how are counts such as 800 or 1,200, which some manufacturers claim, even possible? How could you fit that many threads into a single inch? The short answer is you can't. "Some manufacturers use creative math to boost thread count," explains Consumer Reports [source: Consumer Reports].
In the spirit of free enterprise and competition, manufacturers battle to calculate their tread counts high, higher and highest. They count not just each thread, but each fiber (called plies) that make up each thread. So a single thread might be four plies twisted together; one manufacturer will call that one thread, while another manufacturer will call that four threads.
To untangle this inconsistency, Consumer Reports hired an independent textile lab to count threads in a $280 queen sheet set with a manufacturer-stated thread count of 1,200. The lab counted 416 threads per inch, just 35 percent of what was claimed [source: Consumer Reports].
The Federal Trade Commission even got involved in the fracas, thanks to a request made by the Textile Bedding Committee of the National Textile Association. Bed, Bath & Beyond got sued for misrepresenting thread count and, without admitting any wrongdoing, settled the suit on July 26, 2008, by offering refunds, gift cards and discounts [source: Bed, Bath & Beyond Court Settlement].
But thread count is really only part of the puzzle as to whether or not you'll enjoy your nap (are you getting sleepy?) on your sheets. What about quality of threads and not just quantity? And what's the big deal with Egyptian cotton anyway?


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About a month ago I asked Naked Security readers Which web browser do you trust? Your answer was emphatic: it's Firefox.
I asked this question because trustworthiness has become an important selection criteria for web browsers and there is no objective test for it.
Modern web browsers are mature and complex products and, despite inflated version numbers and conspicuously busy release cycles, their feature sets evolve quite slowly.
Selecting the right web browser is no longer a question of what the software can do, it's about whether or not it can do the things we expect it to do quickly, securely and with due regard for our privacy.
Our poll offered readers the chance to vote for one of the six most popular web browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Chromium – and asked which you trusted the most.
Mozilla's Firefox, the linear descendant of both Netscape Navigator and the original 'graphical web browser' the NCSA Mosaic, was a runaway winner.
Firefox accrued almost double the number of votes of its nearest rival, Google Chrome, and more than six times the votes awarded to perennial rival and fellow 'browser wars' veteran Internet Explorer.
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The results are even more emphatic when you consider how many people actually use each browser.
Below is a table that compares the number of votes each browser received in the poll against the number of unique article pageviews from each of those browsers over the same period.
Results are ranked in order of conversion rate – the rate at which page views by a given browser correlate with votes for that browser (Chrome and Chromium identify themselves in the same way and we can't separate their unique page views so their results are combined in this table).
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Top of the table is Opera which was the only browser that scored more votes for trustworthiness than it had users, although it did so with much smaller totals than its competitors.
You could probably sum up the entire history of the Opera browser with the phrase "small but loyal following" and despite the regard in which its users hold it Opera seems destined to remain the perennial bridesmaid of the browser world.
The poor showing of Internet Explorer is notable but perhaps not surprising given that it is often imposed on users as a matter of corporate policy.
What stands out at me is the difference between the Mozilla and Google products. Both browsers are well established and well known open source projects, they both run on Windows, Mac and Linux and unlike Explorer or Safari neither come bundled with an operating system.
Perhaps Chrome users are more cynical or more realistic about where they place their trust. Or perhaps people who choose Chrome are also people who don't vote in internet polls.
We don't know but I suspect, as the comments on our poll seem to suggest, that the reason for Chrome's poor showing is that Google's claim to Do No Evil is simply no longer convincing.
The untrustworthiness of Google is a consistent theme across the most highly rated comments on the poll:
frankly I trust Google the least, as they have too many data points for comparison.
I don't trust Google as far as I could throw 'em. As a company, it's entirely uninterested in my security or privacy, especially if it can make money by selling my personal information.
Trusting any software completely is a bit foolish, but anyone who actively trusts Chrome is a good subject for psychological study.
You get the idea.
Of course this is only an online poll and and not a scientific experiment so my conclusions should be taken with a liberal pinch of salt.
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Monday, November 11, is Veterans Day. We set this day aside to thank the men and women who have served and are still in the service of our country. We thank them for the sacrifice that both they and their families have made, so that we can remain the land of the free, the home of the brave.
President George Washington showed remarkable insight when he spoke about the country's treatment of veterans: "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation."
What have you done for a veteran you know?
In this week's Post, we have a special section featuring the men and women who have served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are the Hometown Heroes that we run in our paper throughout the year. If you see one of these veterans, or know one who served during another era, please be sure to thank them!
Click link below to download our special Veteran's Day Tribute.
One family, one Veteran, two heroes
(NewsUSA) – From the perspective of many veterans, their military service is merely a duty. They were doing their job. They don't look in the mirror and see a hero. When wounded Air Force sergeant Tom Marcum returned home from Iraq, he was his family's hero every day. But his wife April would soon step up to become the second hero in the Marcum family.
Tom's injuries were extensive, and the impact on April and their two sons was enormous. In two years, Tom endured four separate mortar explosions. He faced a traumatic brain injury (TBI), hearing loss, vision problems and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). April faced a whole new reality. Her days were a flurry of doctor appointments, therapy and home healthcare, not to mention raising two boys. For 18 months straight, she was the sole nurse, driver, maid and mother to three. She had to meet her husband—a friend since grade school—all over again.
"I missed the help my husband gave me with the kids and errands," says April. "And some time to myself. I don't like to admit this, but I think I was close to a breaking point in my own emotional health."
Due to Tom's brain injury, he wasn't the same man whom April married. He experienced behaviorial changes, mood swings and memory loss that he could not control. Despite the tenacity of her love for him, April was nearing her breaking point until she got a call from Wounded Warrior Project. April went to a Spouse Retreat hosted by WWP, where she was able to meet other people in situations like hers.
"I made some deep, emotional connections with several women," April says. "It was just the right thing at just the right time. I came home ready to get back into the fight again. I was re-energized and happy when I came home."
Both Tom and his sons, Gabe and Jared, saw a positive change in their mom after the retreat. Slowly but surely, the family knit itself back together through love, humor and fierce dedication. As Tom says, "Family is our lifeline." Wounded Warrior Project has 19 programs and services to nurture the mind and body, and encourage economic empowerment for injured service members from post-9/11 conflicts. Learn more at woundedwarriorproject.org.
Recognizing American Indian and Alaskan Native Veterans
(NAPS)—According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are more than 150,000 American Indian and Alaskan Native veterans throughout the United States. The Veterans History Project (VHP) of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invites these men and women to share their unique stories of military experience.
Established by the U.S. Congress in 2000, VHP's mandate is to collect, preserve and make accessible the firsthand recollections of America's wartime veterans. Through a network of volunteers from across the country, the Project has collected nearly 89,000 stories, making it the largest oral history project in the country.
VHP seeks to increase the number of veteran interviews from all minority communities, including American Indian and Alaskan Native veterans. Among VHP's 250 oral histories from the American Indian and Alaskan Native veterans are the stories of Joseph Beimfohr and Marcella Ryan Le Beau, both American Indians who served in the U.S. military.
Joseph Beimfohr served in the Army during the Iraq/Afghanistan War. When he deployed to Iraq in January 2005, he was exposed to intense hostile fire. During his VHP interview, Beimfohr said, "You can't just sit there and be paralyzed with fear, because you're going to get everybody killed." What he learned from his experiences was that soldiers have to trust their training and instincts. He lost both legs to an explosion, and Beimfohr subsequently learned that the only limitations in his life were self-imposed.
In 1943, Marcella Le Beau had just finished her nurse's training in her native South Dakota and was working at a hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, when she heard about the Army's need for nurses. A year later, she was camped out in a cow pasture in Normandy, in the wake of the D-Day invasion, on her way to Paris. "I was young and I didn't know what war was… I guess in a way that was a saving grace," Le Beau said. She never encountered discrimination because of her background; in fact, when colleagues learned that her great-grandfather was a Chief, they assumed she must be an "Indian princess."
Beimfohr's and Le Beau's stories, along with thousands more, may be accessed on VHP's website, www.loc.gov/vets. The website also provides information on how to record and collect veterans' stories using VHP's free Field Kit, a how-to-record-a-story booklet.
Civilian life can be costly: Money tips for those leaving the military
(BPT) – No right-thinking person would ever claim that the financial side of military life is the land of milk and honey. Even so, military life provides some perks that don't exist in the civilian world.
If you're active-duty military and thinking about getting out soon, it pays to understand how your personal financial landscape will change when Uncle Sam is no longer issuing your paychecks.
First, don't overlook the not-so-small matter of finding a suitable place to begin your post-military career. Take a look at the 2013 Best Places for Veterans: Jobs list for metro areas that offer America's new generation of veterans more opportunities to find a job that correlates with their military-related skills. Houston, Dallas and Minneapolis landed the top spots in the study, commissioned by USAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Hiring Our Heroes program.
Once you secure that civilian gig, here are two specific areas where USAA Certified Financial Planner Scott Halliwell predicts you'll see the biggest differences in benefits and pay.
No more tax-free allowances: If you've been in the military for any length of time, you've no doubt realized some of your pay comes to you free of tax. Basic allowance for subsistence (BAS) and basic allowance for housing (BAH) are two of the most common sources. What you may not realize is just how much of your hard-earned cash this tax treatment saves you.
For example, a married E-6 living in San Antonio who has one child and has been serving for more than 10 years would have a taxable base pay just shy of $39,600 annually. His non-taxable BAS and BAH would total just more than $21,300. Looked at another way, about 35 percent of this family's income would be free from taxes. If this BAS/BAH combo was instead taxable, the service member and his family could lose around $250 each month to taxes – and that's just in federal taxes. State taxes, if applicable, could make it even more.
In other words, civilian pay and military pay are not an apples-to-apples comparison, so you've got to plan accordingly.
No more free health insurance: And while a couple hundred bucks a month is nothing to sneeze at, that could just be the tip of the iceberg. Health insurance in the military is, to put it lightly, very cost-effective. Not everyone is always thrilled with how the whole system works, but you just can't get much more cost-effective than free.
In the civilian world, the average cost for employer-based insurance plans for a family of four is around $1,300 per month, according to a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The good news is that most folks don't have to foot that entire amount. Civilian employers typically subsidize these costs so that the average monthly employee expense is about 28 percent, or $360 per month. Even so, costs for health care can vary widely from one employer to the next.
Also, it's important to know these numbers are just the premiums employees pay for the insurance. The numbers don't include co-pays, co-insurance or deductibles you might have to pay. The national average for these expenses for a family of four is about $3,600 per year, according to a study reported in the Milliman Medical Index. When you add these costs to the insurance premiums you'll have to pay, health care-related costs can easily be one of the single biggest cash outflows each month for civilians. And that's without adding in expenses for vision and dental care.
These are just two of the big financial changes people face when they leave the military, but they aren't the only ones, so it's important to have a solid game plan in place ahead of time. To help build out a plan, spend some time with the Separation Assessment Tool and the Separation Checklist on usaa.com.
Eleven ways to honor veterans this Veterans Day
The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) calls on the citizens of Michigan to honor wartime veterans across the nation through a day of remembrance and dedication this Veterans Day. There are countless ways to honor veterans this Veterans Day and every day. Here are eleven ideas to get you started:
Attend a Veterans Day event in your area. View our list at http://1.usa.gov/1coJMt6.
Encourage a veteran in your life to apply for VA benefits by contacting an MVAA service officer at 517-284-5298;
Send notes or thank you cards to a local veterans home or hospital
Visit or volunteer at a local veterans home or hospital.
Take part in a flag-raising ceremony in honor of local veterans.
Be a good friend or neighbor to the family of a deployed military service member.
Visit a nearby battleground.
Take part in a service project benefiting veterans in your community.
Watch or take part in a Veterans Day parade.
Assemble and send care packages to deployed service members.
Donate to a veterans' charity.
The observance of Veterans Day helps focus attention on the intended purpose of this day—to celebrate the honor of America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.
"On Veterans Day, we honor and thank all the brave men and women who have served our nation," said MVAA Director Jeff Barnes. "We set aside this day each year to make sure our veterans know how grateful we are for the sacrifices they have made to protect our freedom."
Since 1919, Americans have dedicated the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month to veterans – a tribute to the day and time that the armistice was signed, effectively ending World War I. Following this day, veterans have continued to show their loyalty and dedication in protecting our nation. In return, and with great honor, the MVAA extends Michigan's gratitude through the continued preservation of November 11th.
The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency serves as the central coordinating point, connecting those who have served in the United States Armed Forces and their families, to services and benefits throughout the state of Michigan. MVAA is responsible for administration and operation of the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund, Michigan Veterans Homeowners Assistance Program, Michigan Homes for Veterans, constituent service or referral and the state's grant to chartered veterans' service organizations and the Michigan Association of County Veterans Counselors.


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Customer Information - Customer Information refers to personally identifiable information about a consumer, customer or former customer of this Institution.
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We define the Region as the State of West Virginia. Although the LLC intends to emphasize investments within the Region, the LLC may also invest in companies located elsewhere.
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US agents encounter more single adults crossing border
Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. The smallest of three lines is for single adults.
The scene Tuesday night in La Joya, a town of about 4,000 people, plays out nightly in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, presenting Joe Biden with one of the most serious challenges of his young presidency — high numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum. April was the second-busiest month on record for unaccompanied children encountered at the border, following March's all-time high.
But while asylum-seeking families and children dominate public attention, single adults represent a growing number of border encounters, nearly two of every three in April. They are less likely to surrender to authorities than families and children, making them less visible.
The Border Patrol's 173,460 total encounters in April were up 3% from March, marking the highest level since April 2000. The numbers, released Tuesday, are not directly comparable because most of those stopped were quickly expelled from the country under federal pandemic-related powers that deny rights to seek asylum. Being expelled carries no legal consequences, so many people try to cross multiple times.
Single adults — more than half of them from Mexico — drove the increased activity. The Border Patrol had 108,301 such encounters in April, up 12% from March. Nearly nine of 10 adult encounters ended in expulsions under pandemic-related authority that began under former President Donald Trump and continued under Biden.
Biden, however, exempts unaccompanied children from expulsion, allowing them to stay in the U.S. while pursuing asylum claims. Families with young children are also often released in the U.S. while their cases wind through the bottlenecked immigration courts.
Some current and former border enforcement officials say massive attention on families and unaccompanied children consumes agents' time and has created an opening for single adults and drug smugglers to elude authorities.
Michael Fisher, the Border Patrol chief from 2010 to 2015, said some agency leaders have told him that agents are spending 40% less time patrolling and more on "processing, doing meals" and duties related to the increased numbers of children.
"The line is very thin right now, and the cartels exploit that," he said.
While agents try to count how many people elude capture, Fisher thinks it would be "a guess at best" in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Its often thick brush has traditionally not had many sensors, and many families and children cross in large groups. The Border Patrol's most trusted method of counting how many people get away relies on observing tiny human traces: dusty footprints, torn cobwebs, broken twigs, overturned pebbles.
The Trump administration frequently flew Mexican adults far from the border in hopes of deterring them from crossing again, but recidivism has remained unusually high. The Border Patrol says 29% of people expelled in April had been expelled before.
Hoping to recalibrate staffing, the Border Patrol Academy recently graduated its first class of employees devoted to preparing court documents, freeing up more agents to work in the field. They are assigned to the busiest corridors in Texas but their limited numbers mean they're unlikely to make much immediate impact.
Meanwhile, authorities encountered 17,171 children traveling alone in April, down 9% from 18,960 in March but well above the previous high of 11,475 reported in May 2019 by the Border Patrol, which began publishing numbers in 2009.
Border Patrol encounters with families fell in similar proportion to unaccompanied children — down 10% to 48,226 from 53,406 in March.. Barely one in three family encounters resulted in expulsion.
In La Joya, a 15-year-old girl said she left her native Honduras without her parents or siblings in hopes of an education and eventually a job to help her family back home. She traveled for a month and a half and arrived at the baseball field with a larger group of migrants, sporting a black T-shirt with a phrase in English she did not understand: "Women Move Mountains."
"I wanted a better future for me and my family. I want to study and work," she said, adding that her uncle and aunt in New York offered to open their home to her.
The Associated Press is not using the girl's name. It does not normally name children without permission from their parents, and the identity of her parents could not be obtained.
Nearby, two sisters from Honduras, ages 14 and 16, undid their buns and removed the laces of their pink sneakers after an agent ordered them to place the laces and hair ties and other property like phones and bracelets in a plastic bag.
Rudys Acuña, 29, said he left Nicaragua for political reasons. He carried his 4-year-old son on his shoulders as he awaited orders from agents.
"Sometimes you are really forced to leave your country. It's not that you want to," he said.
Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Ben Fox in Washington contributed to this report.
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Clomiphene citrate is one of the two principal SERMs (selective estrogen receptor modulators), second one being Nolvadex, that is used for recovery of testosterone production, after using a steroid cycle. Clomiphene citrate is a kind of estrogen receptor modulators that prevents bodybuilders from estrogenic side effects. This is known as post cycle therapy (PCT) and all sportsmen are doing it. During a steroid cycle, androgen level shut the process of producing testosterone down. Having a cycle of maximum 8 weeks is not a real issue, but for those that are using for some longer period-steroids, testicular atrophy might occur. PCT with Clomiphene citrate should start as soon as androgen levels have dropped to normal and should be continued until the natural testosterone production has been fully restored, normally 1 PCT with Clomiphene citrate should take 3 to 4 weeks. The second SERM is Nolvadex. If to combine both of them in the same time, then should be used half dose of each drug, otherwise it will not provide enhanced efficacy and only increase risk of side effects.
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2nd Annual BING + CRAFT Young Farmer Gathering
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Come meet and mingle with fellow young agrarians and take part in a lively weekend!
12:30p ~ Registration & welcome
1-3:30p ~ Farm machinery demonstration CRAFT field day
3:30-4:30p ~ Break, snacks, and sharing experiences of the 2012 growing season
4:30-6p ~ Stir & spray biodynamic preparation 500, horn manure
4:30-5:15p ~ Learning center livestock tour and goat milking demonstration
4:30-5:15p ~ Creating a farm skills learning plan for beginning and aspiring farmers
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Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs 2 - Party Food and Decor
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What a cute idea! I love the marshmallows and the strawberries. We have not seen either of the movies yet. (my son is only three)ReplyDelete
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You will really like them when he is old enough.. Have you seen the original book. He is at the perfect age for the book now.Delete
Such cute ideas! I love that they are *mostly* all healthy snacks too!ReplyDeleteReplies
Merissa.. I did not realize that.. that was a happy accident.. :)Delete
I sure want to see that movie! I saw the first one and I loved it. These are all great party ideas. I think the strawberries are to darn cute!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Cynthia. I think Barry in the movie steals the show with his cuteness..Delete
I can't wait to go and see the sequel. That strawberry gets me every time! Cute ideas here!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Courtney.. You will really like the sequel. It starts right where the first move ends, and it is just as good as the first.Delete
This is so adorable!! Pinning it for sure!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Gabby.. I am happy to hear that you pinned them.Delete
Love all of these!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Lacy.. It was hard to choose which ones to make, there are so many cute foodimals to chose from.Delete
Haha what cute ideas. I love the first cloudy with a chance of meatballs and haven't seen the second yet but want to. This food looks so cute and delicious!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Aimee.. I had a good excuse to go opening weekend. :) We had a Cloudy themed Birthday Party after the first one, so I knew I wanted to add more ideas with the second one.Delete
love all the great ideas :) Time to party!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! There is always a reason to throw a party.:)Delete
That's so fun! I haven't seen the movie. This little party totally makes me want to!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Katelyn.. I hope you have the chance to see it soon.Delete
Fabulous I haven't seen the second one but the first one my kids have watched over and over so cute!ReplyDelete


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Palin visits Chick-fil-A
Sarah Palin waded into the controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A and gay marriage by tweeting a picture of herself and her husband Todd visiting one of the the fast-food chain stores Friday after a Texas campaign stop.
"Stopped by Chick-fil-A in The Woodlands to support a great business," the former Alaskan governor and vice -presidential candidate tweeted following an appearance at a rally for Republican Senate primary challenger Ted Cruz outside Houston.
At the Cruz rally, Palin said: "Jason, you're going to have to take me on our way back to the airport later. We drive by a Chick Fil-A. We don't have that in Alaska," she said, referring to an aide. "Love me some Chick Fil-A. So we'll go there, Jason, on the way, OK?"
Palin urged Cruz's supporters to visit Chick-fil-A, which has been mired in controversy since its president said the chain supports "the biblical definition of the family unit."
Palin told Fox News this week that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's comments on the chain amounted to "thuggery."