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Dale Meck posted a topic in Using SMSHas anybody had any luck adding multiple obstructions into the same simulation? I have two nearby bridges... it will let me link either one to a simulation, but not both at the same time... Documentation seems to suggest 99 is the limit, but I can't get past 1... thx, -d


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Labor energy boss argues 'renewables now best for bills'
It's the easiest thing in the world to nostalgically look to the past and promise what once worked as George Christensen does supporting a new privately owned coal fired power station.
Real leadership is being across the latest technological and economic developments and ensuring the best outcomes for household power bills - exactly the opposite of what occurred under Newman and Nicholls, who inflicted 43% increases on us during their term.
Mr Christensen must have been living in a cave not to have noticed the Palaszczuk Labor Government's week of energy reforms under the Powering Queensland Plan released this month.
Using the levers available to us because we kept our assets in public hands, we slashed the 7.1% increase by more than half the same day the Queensland Competition Authority announced it.
We committed $386m under our Powering North Queensland Plan including for a North Queensland clean energy hub, and brought back gas generation capacity mothballed by the LNP to put downward pressure on wholesale prices.
Within a day of our plan's release, wholesale energy futures prices plunged 10% in Queensland, which the Energy Users Association of Australia said is "providing real benefit and a ray of hope for all energy users".
Compared to 3.3% in Queensland, southern states with privatised power are suffering massive household price surges - 19% in South Australia and in ACT, 11 % in NSW and 9 % in Victoria.
Mr Christensen doesn't mention the Finkel Report Clean Energy Target proposes a 42% renewables mix by 2030 which is not far off Labor's 50% target. Hardly crazy.
Like all his LNP colleagues, he ignores what everyone in the energy market knows - that large scale renewables are now cheaper than new coal fired stations to build, commission and operate.
That was said by his own Turnbull Government appointed head of the National Energy Market Review and Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel.
Call me crazy, but I'll be listening to Dr Finkel ahead of perennial backbencher Mr Christensen.
Peak business body the Australian Industry Group said a new coal-fired power station would not recoup its costs unless wholesale electricity prices are sustained at around double their historic average level.
They're no hard left green group - that's the hard nosed business sector talking.
Industry investment is driving the clean energy boom in Queensland - seventeen renewable energy power stations are committed and being built under the Palaszczuk Labor Government creating 2000 regional jobs.
Barcaldine is commissioned, Kidston, Normanton, Lakeland and Sunmetals solar stations under construction and a wave of renewable projects will start construction over the next year.
Near Townsville in Mr Christensen's own seat, SunMetals is constructing Queensland's largest industrial solar project with 1.3 million solar panels providing the zinc refinery with a third of their baseload needs. That's right - baseload solar.
With the youngest most efficient fleet of eight traditional baseload generators in the nation we will see them continuing to play an important role, however the big switch over on renewable energy versus new coal generation has happened.
Stagecoaches served their purpose till motor cars and Henry Ford came along. Bi planes were handy till single wing planes then jets were invented.
Mr Christensen should acknowledge the truth and back the cheapest newest form of power which is the best thing not just for power bills but also for our Great Barrier Reef.

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4720 Forbes Ave • Pittsburgh, PA
RIDC announced the realization of the mission of the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC) with the acquisition of the property by Carnegie Mellon University in October of 2014. The CIC was a collaborative project between the RIDC and Carnegie Mellon, along with the Commonwealth of PA and the Urban Redevelopment Authority to create a landing pad for university-related technology companies in the region. It was originally designed to complement with physical space the programmatic efforts of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse initiative.
CMU leased the land to RIDC in 2003 to develop a building for companies looking to collaborate with the university to create new commercial concepts and products. RIDC completed construction of the 127,636 square-foot dry-lab research building along with a parking garage in 2005. The building, which has an address of 4720 Forbes Avenue, is located along the hillside of Panther Hollow. The CIC received a Gold Core and Shell LEED certificate.
The CIC is one step towards the vision shared by Carnegie Mellon and RIDC to attract a robust corporate tech presence in Pittsburgh. The CIC was the landing pad for several nationally known technology companies. The CIC was the first Pittsburgh home of Google in 2006, which later expanded to Bakery Square -- another property RIDC rescued from demolition before selling it to Walnut Capital for the Bakery Square development. CIC also became the region's home to Disney, Apple, Intel and includes other university related tenants. "The Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center represents a core RIDC mission – Providing real estate solutions to support high quality job creation and tax base enhancement. A key component of that is the growing corporate tech sector that leverages our region's investments in research universities," said Donald F. Smith, Jr., President of RIDC.
"The CIC is where CMU and industry meet," said Amir Rahnamay-Azar, CMU vice president and chief financial officer. "CMU's talented faculty and students continue to attract cutting-edge tech companies, and we look forward to the opportunities that building ownership will bring in furthering both existing and new corporate alliances."
The development of the CIC is one of many projects where RIDC has partnered with the universities. RIDC assisted CMU in their construction of buildings at the Pittsburgh Technology Center and constructed three University Technology Development Centers (UTDC) as well as CMU's Software Engineering Institute building. RIDC has also supported numerous university related startup companies to find space and to finance their build-out including FORE Systems, RedZone Robotics, Aquion Energy, and Carnegie Robotics.


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People find Anna Faris relatable — it's one of her charms — but one thing the actress can't relate to is struggling with New Year's resolutions.
"Oh, God, I gave up on New Year's resolutions a long time ago," she tells Yahoo Lifestyle. "Because I couldn't keep them for, like, more than three days."
She makes a good case, because most people can't keep their vow to, say, hit the gym every single day, or eat only vegetables for a year.
"It feels like we're bound to fail if we put so much pressure on ourselves," she says. "Like, maybe we should start to do an opposite thing. Like, this year, you know, I'm going to eat more ice cream sundaes. On Sunday. And then I'll eat Kind bars the rest of the week."
Faris can make that one happen, for sure. She's working with the brand to promote its new protein bar. But she adds that she's eaten its products for about three years. Part of her pitch includes a funny video for Funny or Die in which she reads abysmal reviews people have given other protein bars.
The Mom star says she likes to eat a lot of burgers and pizza, but that she reaches for Kind bars when she wants a healthy snack — or at least one that tastes better than, according to one review she reads, "hyena crap."
But it's not like Faris isn't up for setting goals for herself or trying new things. Over the New Year's holiday, for example, the star made headlines when she officiated a wedding. And it wasn't just what she was doing that people noticed — it was also what she was wearing while she was conducting the blessed event: Uggs.
"I was ordained, like, in 2007," Faris explains. "I was kinda bored one night, and I was like, 'I'm gonna become a minister. It's a little bit weird that I'm proud that I did it a decade before I actually got asked, but so… I've been a minister for over a decade, and I finally got asked to marry my friends. And it was awesome!"
There was one hiccup, but groom Sim Sarna, Faris's co-host on her Unqualified podcast, and his bride, Amy, didn't mind.
"When it came time to exchange the rings, I completely forgot … I was supposed to do more," Faris says. "I just said, 'Uh, with this ring you promise to love him forever and ever and ever.' Thankfully, my friend was just laughing and she was like, 'Yes.' I couldn't remember … so I fumbled for sure. I fumbled when it came down to it. But it was great. I love them both so much. It was an awesome time, then I was completely obnoxious the whole night."
Her choice of footwear just kind of happened. Anyone who's ever taken off her heels at a wedding can understand. And in this case, the location featured a gravel road.
"I had these amazing nude Louis Vuitton shoes that are incredible, but I truly don't know exactly how to walk in heels," Faris says. "I looked unbelievably awkward, like a baby giraffe standing for the first time, so when I saw all the gravel at the vineyard, I was like, you know, maybe I'll just wear my Uggs for now, and then maybe I'll quickly change into them. And then, like, 'No, they feel too good to do it.'"
Read more from Yahoo Lifestyle:
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As Thomas Mueller hammered the final nail in Barcelona's coffin last night, many among the viewers would have found themselves grinning amiably, if not really celebrating – unless you were a Bayern fan, obviously, in which case going completely berserk was the only plausible response – as the mighty Barcelona suffered their heaviest defeat in Europe since 1997.
In any other environment, from music to art, say, we would be thrilled to be treated to the opportunity of witnessing an artist at its peak. However, in football, and particularly in Barcelona's case, the plaudits are becoming increasingly tarnished by a hint of dislike.
Having dominated European football for the last six years (yesterday's was Barca's sixth consecutive semifinal in the Champions League), Barcelona have beaten pretty much every record, dazzling the world with a revolutionary approach to football and producing arguably some of the finest players the world has seen.
Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi have so often looked as if they were playing on a complete different planet from the rest of the football pariah, that fans across the globe could only watch in amazement as they tiki-takaed their way to a flurry of trophies.
Being a great deal better than anybody else, and therefore winning regularly is always likely to ruffle a few feathers, as Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, New York Yankees and Boston Celtics could testify.
Furthermore, there's also an element of novelty to be considered. Having dominated football for six years – minus the occasional hiccup – it almost seems refreshing to see the greatest side in the world being treated to a taste of their own medicine, something all the sporting greats have endured throughout their careers.
However, boredom and envy alone aren't enough to explain why so many football fans would rather see the greatest player in the world not reaching another Champions League final.
After dazzling Europe with some superb football on their way to their Champions League triumph in Rome in 2009, Barcelona, perhaps inevitably, began to believe the hype surrounding them.
They were no longer content with playing their own brand of football, they wanted the world to recognise that theirs was the way the game was supposed to be played – "Pure football" as Adrian Chiles repeated relentlessly last night – and to bow before them respectfully.
The care-free attitude with which the Catalans had initially stormed to success became almost a political agenda when they faced Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan in 2010, with Barcelona portraying themselves as Luke Skywalker, to the Portuguese Darth Vader.
For the first time cracks began to appear in Barcelona's armour. Glorious winners as they were, they were also insufferable losers. Parking the bus and tactics against football were to blame, according to some of Barca's senior players, for their defeat. In their eyes, nobody could beat them at their game, hence any other tactic being described as a dark art.
While it is undoubtedly daunting to beat Barcelona at their own game, there are others, perfectly legitimate tactics that, if employed correctly, can have the Catalans rocking.
Whether it's the strenuous defence perfected by Inter and Chelsea, or the razor-sharp counter attacks typical of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, Barcelona struggle when pushed out of their comfort zone, often resorting to some questionable behaviour.
Barcelona's quest for football purity is quickly becoming their undoing in the eyes of many. While any other would be happy to win and be hated for their success, the Catalans want to win and being applauded at the same time.
They have no time for the football uneducated who might find their tiki-taka extremely boring. In all their smugness, they believe to be not just another club, as emblazoned in their Mes Que Un Club – more than a club – motto, and demand to be treated as such.
Winners are often despised, sanctimonious winners even more so. Hence why many found last night's thrashing so satisfying to watch.


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Davido is on an international level.
The pop star is set to perform at a 3 day concert for FADER Fort, organized by Converse. He will be performing alongside a host of other international music stars including Yo Gotti, Kace Musgraves, Rae Sremmund, Section Boyz, Sheer Mag, Metro Boomin and more.
It's definitely a big deal for the star as he will be taking the stage for 25 minutes on Friday, 18th of March.
He shared the news with his fans on Instagram.
Get more details on the event here.


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"Am I Waking You Up?"
On 21st June 1971, three young men were dragged before a court over a cartoon.
This was the trial on obscenity charges and conspiracy to deprave and corrupt of the editors of Oz, a dazzlingly-designed countercultural arts and lifestyle magazine, which over the past couple of years had outgrown its hippies-in-a-squat publishing origins to become a high street-rivalling must-read, and this trial of its editors was essentially the establishment's long-awaited revenge on everything that had irked them about the decade of satire, psychedelia and free love. From those young ruffians making fun of our sacred institutions in Beyond The Fringe, through modern art and moves towards sexual and racial equality, to any last utterance by any given Beatle, and probably even the opening titles of Zokko!, Oz editors Richard Neville, Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis were effectively being made to stand trial for the sociocultural 'crimes' of an entire generation. It was as though the flustered gentleman who had only recently barked at a David Frost-baiting Dennis on live television that he ought to spend more time near a cenotaph had suddenly been given the keys to the Old Bailey. And in case you are not unreasonably thinking that this is all a load of paranoid conclusion-jumping educated& guesswork by someone who wasn't even born at the time, I can honestly assure you that it is not, and that the above was made proudly and gleefully explicit in pretty much every utterance by the prosecution and, most notably, the judge, Justice Michael Argyle. Not being backwards in coming forwards was clearly one of the values that the establishment still held dear.
For the benefit of anyone who's unfamiliar with the background to the trial, in May 1970 the Oz editors had given over an issue to up-and-coming still-at-school aspirant contributors and named it 'Schoolkids Oz'. This was far from an unusual move - in the past they had run women-only and even gay-only issues (you can bet they'd wanted to prosecute over that) - and the resultant top-drawer material included early efforts from iconoclastic rock journalist Charles Shaar Murray, design critic Deyan Sudjic, publisher Trudi Braun and veteran foreign correspondent Peter Popham. However, the in-retrospect perhaps ill-advised retitling gave the authorities a long-awaited chance to arrest and charge the editors, on the pretence that they believed that it was an issue intended for sale to schoolchildren. Key in their artillery of material liable to deprave and corrupted the supposed army of innocent young minds it was not intended for was a cartoon by Vivian Berger depicting Rupert Bear as a priapic degenerate launching himself at generously-proportioned ladies. Although it's easy to see why this would have caused unease back in 1970 - and, lest we forget, Rupert was of course the star of a long-running comic strip in the not exactly free thinking Daily Express - with hindsight it's also possible to appreciate it as an irreverent note-perfect subversion of the mind-numbingly repetitive layout and language of the original cartoons. But were the guardians of our national morals going to listen to that back in 1970? Were they fu[NEE NAW NE NAW etc]
Plenty of people did try to make a stand, though, and in a peculiar way the repercussions still reverberate today. The Policeman's Jig, a scathing rejoinder to the Oz controversy and also to the recent seizure of prints of Andy Warhol's Flesh from the rarely so politicised Jake Thackray, was mysteriously shelved by EMI and would not see release for another three decades, while Michael Palin's published diaries reveal his tangible exasperation at having attended a dinner party full of educated, articulate people who refused to accept any argument against the obscenity charges or in defence of the editors, even from someone who only weeks beforehand had been locked in a fierce dispute with the BBC over Monty Python's notorious 'Undertaker' sketch. And many of them duly turned out in force to speak in defence of the editors, but found their efforts belittled, dismissed or ignored by the judge.
A list of public figures who had allowed themselves to be identified as regular readers, ranging from David Frost to Daily Mail columnist Paul Johnson ("hardly a pillar of the permissive community", as defence counsel John Mortimer noted to much amusement) was met with a threat to clear the court if the jury continued to display reaction. Vivian Berger's brave taking of the stand was prefaced with a warning that he was "technically an accomplice". DJ John Peel, eloquently defending Charles Shaar Murray's references to 'fuck music' with well-researched historical detail, was forced with some reluctance to talk about his recent fronting of an awareness campaign about sexually transmitted diseases, and then upbraided by the judge for bringing it up; Edward De Bono, one of the most prominent theoreticians of the late Twentieth Century, was reduced in the summing up to "a gentleman from Malta"; activist and broadcaster Caroline Coon was introduced with remarks that, if they were made today, she may even have been able to take legal action over; artist, jazz musician and film critic George Melly grew so irate with the high-handed disapproving discussion of his defence of the word 'cunt' that he volunteered that "I might certainly refer to a politician as one"; and leading psychotherapist Josephine Klein was asked "so we have no children of our own?".
They met their match, however, from a most unexpected direction. Comedian Marty Feldman, at that point still best known to most people as the star of his own off-the-wall BBC2 show of a couple of years previously - so a move roughly equatable to getting Peter Serafinowicz to appear as a key defence witness now - began his evidence by refusing to swear on The Bible because "there are more obscene things in that book than in any issue of Oz". Over the course of a barnstorming appearance he bluntly swatted aside any and every impassioned and overwrought whimper from the prosecution with hefty and witty counterdoses of reality and logic, and became visibly agitated when he reminded the court that "in a dictatorship, one of the first things that they try to do is to outlaw ridicule" the child of wartime Jewish immigrants might well have had some awareness of what happened the last time that people started burning books. When Argyle disingenuously attempted to wave away Feldman's forceful and impassioned evidence by claiming not to be able to hear him, the comic smartly rounded on the ageing gavel-wielder and asked "am I waking you up?".
Marty Feldman's appearance probably did more than anything else to ensure that the jury delivered a guilty verdict, albeit on lesser charges than those originally brought, and that the judge handed down the most draconian sentence - including enforced haircuts - that he permissibly could, but it also, crucially, did a great deal to win over the hearts and minds of the general public. Suddenly these three foul-mouthed long-haired layabouts were the underdogs persecuted by the old, the posh, the rich and the out-of-touch, and few things stir up the populace to the same extent; even some of the right-wing tabloids considered the haircuts a bit much. So great was the outcry that within weeks, an appeal hearing accepted that the jury had been grossly misdirected and overturned the convictions. The three editors were once again free in the outside world, where conventional mainstream media careers beckoned for both them and for the 'Schoolkids'. Well played, The Establishment.
At the start of the trial, Mortimer had remarked to the jury that the case stood "at the crossroads of our liberty, at the boundaries of our freedom to think and draw and write what we please", and, depressingly, that's exactly where we find ourselves yet again. This is why this is not just a straightforward everyday piece about the Oz trial, and why I'm not concluding by recommending some of Deyan Sudjic's books, or remarking on Felix Dennis' remarkable retaining of his charitable countercultural values while moving in big business and high society, or even how Charles Shaar Murray's sustained attacks on the lacklustre solo careers and slipshod yet pedestal-mounted repackages of the same old material did more to undermine The Beatles than any tweedy letter to The Times ever managed. Instead it's ending with a plea. Never forget, never lose sight of the fact that censorship and opposition to freedom of expression comes in many forms and can hide anywhere. There are people out there that will use the recent senseless brutality over another cartoon to try and hoodwink us into accepting their own curbs on liberty. They will want you to take sides, to believe in a handy off the shelf threat, to accept that their way of tackling things will keep everyone 'safe', more often than not for no other reason than, somewhere along the line, their own personal gain; they want you to be, essentially, Michael Palin's dinner companions.
Don't let them.
If you're interested in books and the sixties underground, you might also enjoy this feature on Psychedelia And Other Colours.
here or from the Kindle Store here.
Posted by Tim Worthington at Sunday, January 11, 2015
Labels: 'banned', 1971, beyond the fringe, jake thackray, john peel, marty feldman, michael palin, monty python, oz, peter cook & dudley moore, psychedelia, sixties, the beatles, thunder against them


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Website of the Day: The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
Website of the Day: The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
My grammar may not be perfect, but I loathe messy quote marks and grammatical errors on menus, posters and fliers. Last week I fell in love with The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks, which is an entire site dedicated to making fun of awful punctuation.
The creator of the site doesn't claim to be a grammar expert, she just thinks it's funny to misinterpret quote marks. She and her friends have taken pictures of hilarious signs, menus and other documents with unnecessary quote marks all over the world and she invites readers to send in their submissions via email or comment. It's "awesome."
To learn how to post your favorite sites to the Website of the Day group, follow the steps below.
- First of all, join the Website of the Day group
- Click "Create and Share!" on the left hand side
- Choose "Blog"
- Give your photo a Title
- Leave the category as "general"
- Change the channel to "technology and gadgets"
- Add keyword(s) (for example mine for this photo was "Website of the Day")
- Click on the "Add Image" link below the "body" box
- A popup window will happen - click on "Browse" to find your image on your computer
- Once you have the image chosen, click "Submit"
- The popup will show you your image, choose size: "normal" - if you want, you can give it a title (which will show up as a caption)
- Click "Insert" and the popup will go away
- Your "body" box will now have some text in it. Leave it as is. If you want to add some text before the picture telling me why you love the website, do it before the code that has appeared.
- Click Submit
So join the Website of the Day group and share information about all your favorite sites! Yours just might end up on the geeksugar homepage!


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The Gee—Haw Problem Some mushers expect a leader to turn instantly on command; others give the command some yards ahead of the turn so that the dog can absorb the situation. This explains why some mushers have trouble missing turns. A dog trained to turn instantly will jump straight into deep snow even if he sees a fork ahead. Serious …Read More »
Influential People in the Development of Learning Theory Part 2
By Robert Forto Pavlov, Thorndike, and Watson Many attribute the beginning point of modern theories of behavior to Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). A Russian physiologist, and Nobel Prize winner, Pavlov studied digestion in dogs. While conducting this research he observed his canine subjects salivating before the food was presented. Pavlov reasoned that his dogs were displaying this behavior in response to …Read More »


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It's all about length this Fall with shoulder-duster earrings. We lengthened our classic Gypsy earrings by adding three strands of natural, green agate stones set in 18k gold plating. Pair them with a black, strapless dress to elongate your neck.
Handcrafted with green agate and 18k gold plated brass.
Measures 12 cm long, 5 cm wide and weighs 32 grams a pair.
As seen on Hilary Duff.


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The great places are usually hard to get to and this one is no exception. Folks, don't try this road in your car or mini-van.
A kitchen with all the built-ins. A mortar, a slick and a metate. It's the trifecta of milling stones. All we're missing is a Cuyamaca Oval. There even looks to be a few cupules.


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Additional spaces planned to ease parking woes at hospital.
What are the plans?
Hospital bosses have submitted an application to the town hall to extend one of its car parks at the Royal Preston site. In addition to this bid, a separate application has been submitted to update certain conditions relating to a previously approved scheme to build a multi-storey car park.
Has the multi-storey plan stalled?
The green light was given in 2014 for the facility that would provide 680 spaces, increasing the site's capacity by 470. However, construction work is yet to start and no timescale has been given. The trust's website still describes the project as being "on hold." With the original planning permission reaching its expiry date, the application to vary some of the conditions is to keep the permission "extant" so that it "could be implemented at short notice if required, pending further decisions about the future of the RPH site." Therefore it appears hospital bosses are keen to keep the multi-storey on the table of options for the future.
What are the details of the extension?
The new bid relates to the hospital's car park H. The extension will provide 70 additional spaces for staff with a further 10 added to other car parks. The addition of low level lighting is included in the plan "to improve safety". Car Park H is at the south of the hospital site, to the rear of the Sharoe Green Unit and Medical Rehabilitation Unit and has been in use since 2004.
A supporting document submitted to the town hall reads: "The proposals would provide much-needed additional on-site parking at appropriate locations within the confines of RPH. It is not considered that the increase in vehicle numbers using this part of the site would have an unacceptable impact in terms of noise on residential amenity."


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Employers Now Required to Offer Employees a Commuter Benefit
New legislation passed in September 2012 is requiring employers of 50 or more employees to offer a regional commute benefit, SB 1339 the Regional Commuter Law. Transportation is the largest source of air pollution in the Bay Area. Reducing the growth of vehicles miles traveled is necessary to achieve the State's climate goals set by AB 32 and SB 375.
Bay Area employers are must now comply with a pilot program that requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees in the Bay Area to offer commuter benefits to their employees.
The Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program requires employers subject to the program to complete the following tasks by September 30, 2014:
- Select a commuter benefit;
- Register via the program website; and
- Implement their program.
Employers of 50 or more employees will have the flexibility to offer their employees one of the following:
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Aug. 15 — Caps, cutbacks and other strategies may be used to avoid triggering a 20 percent golden parachute excise tax to executives and costing employers their tax deductions, speakers said during an Aug. 14 webcast.
Tax code § 280G on golden parachute payments comes into play when payments are made to certain executives, contingent on a change in control, that equal or exceed three times the executive's base amount, generally defined as the individual's average compensation for the last five years preceding the change in control, said Andrew C. Liazos, a partner with McDermott Will & Emery LLP in Boston.
In determining whether an amount is subject to § 280G, it is important to know what counts in the calculation of the base amount and why, what doesn't count and how you calculate it, said Pamela Baker, a partner at Dentons US LLP in Chicago.
Baker and Liazos spoke during a program sponsored by American Law Institute.
Liazos said that ways to meet the three-times safe harbor include capping the payment at the statutory level to avoid triggering the excise tax or cutting back the payment to save taxes for the executive and to save the company a significant tax deduction.
In a cutback, the employee is required to reduce parachute payments until he or she is under the safe harbor, he said. A cap that eliminates the excess payment can be a good approach, but not necessarily in every situation, Liazos said.
"Best-after-tax" provisions in plans and agreements allow for a cutback to avoid the 20 percent tax, but only if the employee would be better off after-tax with a cutback instead of receiving the full amount, he said.
In recent years, shareholder advisory firms have urged companies to shift to performance-based equity vehicles, Baker said. Performance-vested equity doesn't receive favorable parachute treatment, so performance-based awards "are going to use up your three-times safe harbor amount faster than options or time-vested restricted stock," she said.
The shift to more types of performance-based compensation puts more pressure on companies to avoid triggering §280G, and the pressure is further intensified because tax gross-up payments have disappeared, Liazos said. A gross-up payment that would make the executive whole for the § 4999 excise tax is considered a poor corporate governance practice by advisory firms, he said.
"You have to look at equity awards before you can estimate if there is going to be a parachute tax," Baker said. This is because time-vested options, time-vested restricted stock and time-vested restricted stock units whose vesting is triggered by a change in control receive favorable treatment under § 280G, she said.
One way to address exceeding the safe harbor limit is to add a noncompete agreement, which can be subtracted from the parachute calculation as reasonable compensation for performing or refraining from performing services, Baker said. However, "it is tricky," because it has to be demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that the noncompete actually works, that the company will enforce it and that it is enforceable under state law, she said.
There is no clear guidance on how to value a noncompete, whether by what harm would come to the employer if the executive goes to work for a competitor or hires away employees, or in terms of income replacement, Baker said. It is something to think about when you are valuing parachute amounts, she said.
Change in control is one of the distribution events permitted under § 409A, Baker said. The definition of what constitutes a change in control isn't the same as the definition under § 280G, however, and neither match the definition that may appear in traditional plans, she said.
Because the definitions don't line up, employers need to think about whether they have a definition of change in control in their plan document that will require a payment of deferred compensation that won't meet the § 409A definition of a payment event, Liazos said.
"That is a more common experience than you might anticipate," he said.
One safeguard is to include language that says, with respect to compensation subject to § 409A, that a change-in-control provision requiring accelerated payment will only apply if the change in control is § 409A-compliant, he said.
"That is not a substitute for carefully thinking through the issues, but it is something to think about in terms of a fail-safe," Liazos said.
Section 409A prohibits acceleration of payments and substitutions of one form of deferred compensation for another, Baker said. When deferred compensation is reduced or foregone in a § 280G cutback, it may be considered an acceleration or substitution that violates § 409A, she said.
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This simple invitation to play can be explored on any Spring day, whether sunny, windy, or wet, all you need is a beautiful blossom tree.
How can you play with a blossom tree? Here are 7 simple ways to explore & play.
1) Dance under the branches of the tree & decorate your feet/shoes with the fallen blossom on the ground. We found wet petals stick particularly well to little feet!
2) Make blossom confetti by shaking a branch! We're talking gentle shaking & tapping of tree branches here. A gentle tap or two will produce a shower of delicate petals. Why not twirl around in the petals as they fall, or catch them in your hands or on your head!
3) Go fishing for flowers! How many petals can you catch in a fishing net? You could estimate the number of flowers, weigh them, or count the handfuls collected!
4) Collect the petals & make your own blossom perfume or magic potion. All you need is a small bottle, petals, & some water.
5) Make a blossom picture or collage. Arrange the flowers on paper or card & attach them with glue, or turn the petals into a suncatcher by laminating them.
6) Enjoy the wonder of the falling blossom again & again. Shower yourself with the petals, then scoop them up, & watch them fall once more! When an experience is this magical it's worth repeating!
7) Capture the beauty of Spring blossom! Encourage your children to take a photo of the blossom around them. They may choose the tree, a carpet of blossom on the ground, or maybe the blossom on their heads/feet. Here's Minnie's favourite image of her bear on a bed of blossom!
If you're out & about this week why not explore the beautiful Spring blossom near you. I wonder what you'll discover.


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For months he has mocked us from our television screens, telling us that the Socceroos could not beat history. Well up until now, he was wrong. But yesterday he gave Australia's World Cup chances the kiss of death.
In an interview with theage.com.au, actor Terry Camilleri, who plays the stateless enemy 'History' in the 'Stuff History' Nike ads on SBS, predicted that the Socceroos would defeat Italy 2-1.
"I woke up this morning thinking 2-1 Australia," Camilleri said from his Melbourne home yesterday. "That would be nice, wouldn't it?"
About 12 hours later, the Socceroos' dream run at the Cup was over. But so was Camilleri's.
"It was great working on those ads," he said. "I loved every minute of it."
Now the Maltese-born actor, who emigrated to Australia at the age of four and grew up in Sunshine, is looking for more work.
He is back home after a 25-year stint in the United States, where he landed parts in a long list of films and television shows including The Truman Show and NYPD Blue.
But fans of the 1989 cult film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure might recognise him as 'Napoleon'.
Camilleri, aged in his 50s, returned to Melbourne 18 months ago. "My parents are in their 80s now and I need to be here."
"There's not a lot of work happening, but I'm still having a nice time," said Camilleri, whose first break in Australia was on 1970s cop show Homicide.
"My first role on Homicide was actually playing a dead body in a river ... That was my introduction to television."
Later he was spotted by legendary Australian film director Peter Weir. Weir cast Camilleri for a vampire film alongside Olivia Newton-John and John Farnham, but the film never went ahead. Instead Camilleri scored the lead role of Arthur Waldo in Weir's 1974 film The Cars That Ate Paris.
Prior to the Nike ads, Camilleri worked on an Australian feature film called Wil that is yet to be released.
For the moment, he is lapping up the popularity of the 'Stuff History' campaign, shot in Melbourne in May.
But Camilleri said that prior to filming, he felt relieved that the role of 'History' required layers and layers of make-up.
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I read an article yesterday on the practice of Zen where being mindful means practicing awareness of every moment, every thought, everything you touch, every detail you notice. The article talks about how in Japanese culture during tea drinking rituals you take time to really notice the intricate designs on the cups from which you drink, and during the one week that cherry blossom trees bloom, people take time out to sit and really look at the blossoms. There's also a new trend of moss watching where you go into forests and literally touch and look at moss.
For anyone stuck in the chaos of an eating disorder, mindfulness is a foreign world. An anorexic life tries to be ordered, regimented, strict, in line but it's not—it's mental, emotional, and spiritual chaos. I remember hating nature as an anorexic, like actually declaring, "I hate nature" and wearing sneakers to the beach and thick soled boots so I didn't have to feel the ground beneath my feet, the earth, although I didn't know that at the time. I was out of my mind, mindless.
And it's almost an impossible state to try to communicate to others because it's like a broken record that's playing really loud and is very scratched and just keeps playing this annoying, scratchy, senseless sound that nobody else can relate to. I recently received an email from a young woman in the throes of anorexia, desperately seeking to start recovery who was so grateful for my book because she said it put words to what she was experiencing yet couldn't communicate, even to herself.
It's hard to put words to chaos because where do you begin?
But this article struck me because I'm at a point in my life where I'm looking back—I'm always looking back, to see how far I've come, but now there's such a big gap between my past eating disordered life and my new one that the disorder just seems crazier and crazier as time goes by. Especially after doing the final, and I mean final, edit of my book for the hundredth time where I sat back after editing the final page and had only one word to sum up my earlier life as an anorexic: chaos.
It's hard to live in a chaotic state. And it's unfair to those you love and who love you because you are never present. You can't be present when you're mindless. When you're going about your day on amped up autopilot paying attention to nothing other than the spiraling, colliding, chaotic thoughts in your head of what to eat and what not to eat. Because in that state nothing else matters and that's the whole sad point.
Mindlessness is a defense. Against feelings. Against the world out there. Your internal world. Pain. Love. All of it. And it works. Unfortunately. That's why it's such a damn hard disorder to crack. As are all addictions. But you're not going to reach a place of mindfulness until you work through all the feelings you want to avoid in the first place. That's recovery, I'm afraid. It's not pretty. It's not fun. But it is rewarding. And it does eventually get a whole lot better than what you're used to dealing with in an eating disordered life.
Today, literally today, I'm engaging in practices that help me be more mindful. I took an hour out of my work day to cycle to a yoga class so I could get on my mat and go inward. Quiet my mind. Quiet my thoughts. Sink into my body, into myself. I'm about to head out for an acupuncture session, which also stills the mind and turns your focus inward so you can relax into how you are feeling.
I'm noticing a call to mindfulness in my life in general lately (not surprising since I called it in, mindfully) where I've gotten two invitations to practice mindfulness and meditation in the next month at a zen retreat an hour away.
I look back on my anorexic life and remember a time when I couldn't be with myself in any capacity for even one minute. When I was waiting tables and bartending seven days a week to escape myself, to escape having a single moment of quiet where all the discomfort in my being would surface in one tidal wave and I'd want to crawl out of my skin.
Now that I'm on the other side of the disorder looking back, I can honestly say that of all the things there are to "do" in the world: world travels, crazy adventures, social stuff…all the amazing things that make up life, I can honestly say going inside myself, inside my own mind, to a place of quiet, stillness and calm…is just as appealing and sometimes even more so.
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Every year, Los Angeles offers up a wide variety of cultural events and festivals, some of which are free. The full schedule is available at the Department of Cultural Affairs' website [.pdf], but we will update this blog to bring you a listing of events in and around the district and invite you to tell us of your arts experience and/or events as well.
The listing reflects the city itself; events comprise an inter-cultural mix of dance, theater, literature, art and music. While many of these events have become annual favorites, some new additions will be unveiled this year.
Events have already started in many neighborhoods. In Tujunga, the McGroarty Arts Center now features artist Maria Bodmann, who teaches a weekly class on shadow play, the ancient form of storytelling using hand puppets or other materials.
The free class runs through March 23 each Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and students of all ages are invited to draw, carve, paint, act and choreograph. There are also classes on Sunday, Feb. 27 from noon to 4:30 p.m. and a special, final session on Sunday March 27 from 2 to 4 p.m. The McGroarty Arts Center is located at 7570 McGroarty Terrace in Tujunga and they can be reached at (818) 352-5285.
Starting this summer, the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center will take part in "Music L.A.," a citywide, hands on musical training session for kids and teens. At the arts center, musician Tomas Herrera will hold an instructive lesson about Jarocho, traditional Mexican music from the state of Veracruz. Stay tuned for more details. The Sun Valley Youth Arts Center is located at 8642 Sunland Boulevard and their phone number is (818) 252-4619.
There are also farmer's markets, art walks, gallery expositions and much more throughout the city. Read about it in the DCA guide – available online [.pdf]- or stop by one of our office's for more information.
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After watching this clip, are you as intrigued as I am? It's amazing to see the increasing use of technology into everyday objects (including tennis racquets!) every single day. Already, it has been predicted that by 2025, most tennis players will be using these smart racquets in place of regular racquets.
For those who are unaware, the concept of linking machinery, other physical assets, and equipment (including sports equipment) with networked sensors and actuators to capture data and manage performance relates to the Internet of Things. The smart racquet, created by French-based company Babolat, which is an example of the Internet of Things records data on each shot you hit, and sends this information to your smartphone via Bluetooth. The technology, which was developed over 10 years by more than 50 technicians, scientists and researchers, features built-in hardware and sensors in the racquet handle which measures the amount of racquet head speed used, whether the shot uses slice, topspin, or flat strokes, as well as where on the string bed the player has made contact with the ball.
The data is then transferred to the 'Babolat Play' app (on your smartphone or tablet) via Bluetooth where players and coaches can access and utilise the data to improve performance on the tennis court. The app also takes on a social approach, where data and stats can be seen and viewed by other users in the Babolat Play community. The racquet, which is currently $449 at Tennis Warehouse Australia, houses 6 hours of battery life along with a memory capacity which holds 150 hours of tennis.
So now that we understand the gist of this technological breakthrough in tennis, what are the marketing implications? Who benefits, the player, the coach, Babolat? Let's start with the player. Seeing the price may put off tennis players since its pretty much double the amount of a regular racquet, although the technology installed has the ability to change, improve, and evolve the game of a player, whether they're a young up-and-comer or a professional competing in the ATP like Rafael Nadal himself.
If you're wondering, no it won't put tennis coaches out of business. As a matter of fact, it will make lessons with players more efficient and effective, aiding the coach in giving instruction to improve how a player hits each shot. Although the data collected from the racquet may significantly improve a player's performance on its own, a coach's instruction is still important in how to use this information and where to make changes in a given style of play. It also demonstrates (if the player needs proof) that the coach knows what he's talking about.
Now let's talk about Babolat and how they benefit from this amazing product. The French-based company actually has access to all the data collected from each user's saved hitting sessions. Why does that not surprise me? It means that Babolat has the information contained in each person's profile including how often they play tennis, whether it's a practice session or actual match, what sort of strokes they hit, how fast they hit their shots, and where they hit it on the string bed of the racquet. Sure, to some people, if not most people, this won't be a big issue which is fine, although some may think it dives a bit too deep into the issue of privacy.
What's really interesting though is that if players purchase Babolat's smart racquet, it's almost certain they'll grow attached to the product since it stores all the data of how you play. Therefore, the consumer will most likely not feel comfortable to use another smart racquet or another regular racquet for that matter since all their data is collected from the Babolat smart racquet. David Benady confirms this, in that creating direct digital relationships between consumers, and the product (plus the brand), makes it harder for consumers to switch to other products. He then goes on to explain that products like the smart racquet allow Babolat to build profiles of user behaviour which was previously unobtainable data, including their style of play, how often tennis is played, and insights into where the customer is at in their tennis journey (whether they are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player).
I'd love to hear what you have to say about the smart racquet! Would you use it? Or are you concerned about Babolat's access to your data? If you ask me, I think it sounds like an amazing product which would greatly improve my game, although it would be nice if users were given the option to make data private rather than accessible for others to see (including Babolat). Having said that, I would absolutely love to give it a try!


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"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." This passage of Scripture from Matthew gave me some trouble. Why should the meek inherit the earth?
These are not the shakers and the doers of the world. As I read this passage again I thought of the meekest, most spiritless person I knew. Why would he inherit the earth? It wasn't that I doubted the Scripture. It was just that I didn't understand it. Why would God leave the earth in the hands of people like that? And, if God did, what would this person do with it?
Jesus spoke these words during his Sermon on the Mount. It was one of the many "blessed" he listed that day. But it wasn't until I searched the Bible for Jesus' meaning of the blessed that I began to understand. First, I discovered these words were not original with Christ.
They are first recorded in Psalm 37. Verse 11 reads, "But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."
The "meek" are also mentioned about 15 other times in the Bible. Each time it is describing a quality that is admirable. Finally I realized Christ was not talking about the meek as I pictured them. The meek in the Bible are not the weak, timid souls who go around with downcast eyes carrying an inferiority complex. The meek in the Bible are those who look up to God and feel humble in his presence.
The meek are those who are modest enough to know they do not know it all. They are always seeking for new truths. The meek are those who are Godly enough to seek their duties before demanding their rights.
The meek are those who wish to help but who feel embarrassed when caught at helping. The meek are those who love God, and who know that God loves them, imperfect as they know they are. "Humble" is the word we would use to describe these people. Just as I misunderstood Christ's meaning, so others misunderstood this meekness quality in Christ.
Many saw in Christ the man to lead them in a rebellion against the Roman Empire. Even some of his disciples had the hope he was going to set up some kind of rule and assert his authority. James and John wanted to be the ones sitting at his right and left hand in his glory. But Jesus didn't talk about ruling the nation; he kept talking about the Kingdom of God. He kept talking about a cross instead of a crown. He kept talking about serving instead of being served.
"You know the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over their people," Jesus said to his disciples. The disciples responded, "We sure do know this. Give them a little authority and watch how quickly it goes to their heads."
Jesus said, "That's not for us." Instead, he told his disciples, "Whoever would be greatest among you must be the servant of the others, even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve."
But they didn't really understand. Do we?
This week's question: How many years were the Israelites in Egypt? Last week's question: Who doubted the resurrected Jesus? Answer: Thomas (John 21:25)
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Sencha is undoubtedly the most popular tea in Japan, and is considered to be one of the most aromatic and delicious of all green teas.
High quality Sencha green teas yield their best flavor when brewed with well below boiling water, and for less time than most other teas.
In other words, if you brew with water that is too hot, your the tea will end up tasting bitter.
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Hint: It is best not to use an infuser. Loose tea leaves move more freely and make better contact with water, allowing for richer extraction of goodness and flavor.
1. Add tea leaves to teapot. One tsp per cup.
2. Add near boiling water to each cup. Let water in cups cool for 2 min.
3. Pour water from cups into teapot. Brew for 1-2 min.
4. Serve and enjoy!
If your tap water tastes bad, then so probably will your tea, regardless of its quality!
You should use fresh, good quality water without a lot of minerals (but not distilled water) to get the best flavor out of your tea. If using tap water, let it run cold for at least 10 seconds before using it.
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Jacobsen Eclipse 322 greensmowers and our new fully electric Tru-Turf greens rollers.
Mitch is trying out the new Eclipse mower. The operation is so quiet all you can hear is the sound of the reels turning. It has been a long time since we have been able to cut any green grass and the arrival of these greensmowers just adds to that desire. Really looking forward to a great year and some of the best manicured greens we have ever had.
We also took delivery of the new 48 volt Tru Turf Electric greens roller which will help us to provide faster, firmer greens. The tri-roller smoothing heads and the rubber coated drive roller will help us to roll the greens in almost any direction without the fear of leaving creases or lines in the putting surface.
Here is another quick video to demonstrate the quietness of the electric equipment.
Only a couple more pieces of equipment to be delivered and some finish up work in the golf course maintenance building by Ooltewah Electric and the Electric Equipment Initiative will be in full swing.


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Churches and pro-lifers must act following pro-abortion European Parliament vote London, 14 January 2009 - Church leaders and pro-life groups in individual European Union countries must work to make the right to life the top political issue, says the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC).
SPUC's call was made following today's vote in the European Parliament to approve a resolution calling on the European Union (EU) to promote abortion and same-sex unions throughout the EU.
The resolution, authored by Giusto Catania of the Italian Communist party, is based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, part of the Lisbon treaty, despite the fact that neither the charter nor the Lisbon treaty have been passed into law.
Anthony Ozimic, SPUC political secretary, commented: "The resolution passed today is soft-law pressure for abortion to be made a right in every EU member-state. The resolution violates national laws on conscientious objection to abortion and on public funding for abortion. The resolution calls for the recognition of a so-called right to abortion - yet not one international treaty or human rights court has recognised any such right. Abortion is the most contentious issue at United Nations conferences and any attempt even to imply a right to abortion creates heated controversy between national delegations. "Religious leaders and pro-life groups throughout Europe must shake off their complacency about the EU and mobilise religious believers for pro-life action. The message everyone must hear is that the right to life is the most important political issue, because the right to life is the indispensable foundation of all other rights. Failure to act will mean that countless millions of unborn children will die because of the EU's promotion of abortion both inside and outside Europe."


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The Washington Post's Al Kamen reports:
In the Justice Department's Great Hall (the very room where giant, blue drapes covered the underdressed statuary during John Ashcroft's tenure as attorney general), an array of prosecutors, securities regulators and FBI honchos gathered yesterday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force.
"Good job," Gonzales said, extending his hand to Fitzgerald. Must have been thinking of Fitzgerald's office's successful prosecution last week of media mogul Conrad Black for fraud, obstruction, etc. Fitzgerald, taken aback, didn't say much in response, our colleague Carrie Johnson reports.
Loop Fans may recall that a former Gonzales aide had placed Fitzgerald's name on a list of prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" in March 2005, just after Fitzgerald had indicted former GOP Illinois governor George Ryan and as he was investigating the leak of the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
UPDATE: Kamen adds that President Bush did not recognize Gonzales' at yesterday's White House Tee Ball game. "I see Alphonso Jackson and Dirk Kempthorne of my Cabinet, who have joined us. I'm proud you all are here," said Bush. Gonzales was sitting directly behind Jackson and Kempthorne.


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Bear in mind that Benito Mussolini,originator of fascist state, said
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate interests."I pointed this out in my post Laws Benefit Corporations.
I found 2 really good links.
14 points of Fascism: http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
Fascist America in 10 easy steps by Naomi Wolf: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html
In the first link, one of the steps is:
"Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause"
In the second link, the same step is called
"Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy"
I pointed this out in my post, "Mass Media: Ministry of Fear".
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Of course, Giuliani is one of the "media anointed'. The mass media is making a short list of whom they approve for the presidency. At the very beginning of the campaign, they anoint who the "top tier candidates" are, instead of just letting them all be equal "candidates", and letting the public choose who the "top tier" are. The media is choosing our president for us.
Now let's look at the statement "The USA is Communist".
FSK wrote "The Communist Manifesto's Succesful Implementation in the USA"
He shows that the USA has implemented many of the 10 Planks of Communism. The most damning are:
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
- Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
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"Created to solve the problem of child sexual abuse, child pornography law...has grown dramatically in the past two decades, expanding and proliferating along with the underlying problem that it targets. Curiously, the law's expansion has not solved the problem, but only presided over its escalation." Amy Adler, Associate Professor, New York University School of Law** The TRUTH about Child Pornography; the myths and your cognitive dissonance. attorney notes
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The Dominate Narrative
The dominate narrative used by law Enforcement is, Every image of a child being abused is hurting the child in the image; However I find if you dig deep the real truth emerges. Unfortunately thousands are in prison waiting for that truth to come out. Potential Jurors need to be told about, "jury nullification" for the sake of the TAX PAYERS. Only those that hurt a real child should go to jail; However those using the logical fallacy "Every image of a child being abused actually harms the child"(without empirical evidence) drum beat goes on thousand more will be in incarceration for NO contact, NO victim crimes.
The following from Inquision21.com
The dominant narrative:
The case was sensational. A single American man, Matthew Mancuso, a millionaire divorcee from suburban Pittsburgh, adopted 5-year-old Masha Allen from a Russian orphanage in 1998 with the assistance of a US adoption agency. Over the next five years, he used her as both his sex slave and as a child porn model to be shared with a small private circle on the Internet. After years of abuse, police located her by identifying some backgrounds in the images, such as images of her in Disney World in Florida. While Allen was the surname finally given to her, her original name was in Russian. After her rescue, her adoptive father Mancuso was sentenced to many years in prison and Masha was finally given a real adoptive mother.
Masha's new government protectors were Betzi White and her assistant Michelle Rager. Masha bravely went before a Congressional Committee, spoke to national newspapers and other media and appeared on Oprah. Masha's Law was passed, tripling sentences for sex offenders.
US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan was the law enforcement official who rescued Masha from Matthew Mancuso, the man who adopted her from Russia. She was intimately involved with every step of the case. Mary Beth Buchanan is described as 'the government's most aggressive opponent of the spread of pornography in the nation'. One report is that 'She is scornful of prosecutors who have avoided taking on obscenity cases. Unlike her counterparts, she said in a recent interview, "I'm not afraid of the challenges, legal or otherwise, here." It went on "Ms. Buchanan said she selected cases that she hoped would have deterrent effects on other pornographers."
"We want producers to know that these things are not tolerated," she said.
ANOTHER VERSION of the Masha story !!
A happy ending for Masha and society? Far from it. Take society first. The draconian Masha's Law worsened the plight of families of those accused of involvement in child pornography and that of homeless sex offenders. But no happy outcome for Masha either.
For around two years after 2007, James Marsh, Masha's former lawyer, and I (Brian Rothery, Editor.) tried with no success to stop the FBI publishing images of the 'rescued' Masha, including the uncropped one above(One can see the photo on the web site), which was on the front page of an entrapment web site titled mycandidteens.com and hosted by the large Californian server DreamHost. We were ignored with what could be described only as contempt. I tried to enlist the help of her 'saviour' and 'child protector' Mary Beth Buchanan, but the only result we saw was that even more provocative images of underaged girls appeared on the front page of the entrapment site. It was not possible to research inside the site for reasons that should be obvious.
Finally the images of Masha and other little girls were removed from the front page, but the site remains active at the time of writing with dodgy link titles that suggest that it is still very much an entrapment site. Readers are strongly advised not to access it.
I first learned about Masha being used by the FBI on January 24 2008 and my US informants wrongly criticized James Marsh, her lawyer. Quoting the source:"(We made) numerous abuse reports and complaints to the hosting company which were ignored as well as numerous attempts to contact Mr. Marsh himself to no avail."
But James Marsh wrote to me on February 1 2008: "For the record, neither me nor anyone associated with my firm has seen Masha Allen for almost two years.
"When I discovered the existence of the site www.mycandidteens.com in December 2007, I immediately informed the government officials responsible for Masha's health and safety, Betzi White and her assistant Michelle Rager, that they should exert every effort to investigate www.mycandidteens.com. Obviously they have failed to do anything to protect their ward.
"Also for the record, we haven't brought any lawsuits under Masha's Law and my position concerning her situation could not be clearer: http://www.childlaw.us/masha-allen/
"Masha was never rescued, acquired or head-hunted (at least not by me); her adoptive mother (recruited by her rescuers) retained me in late June 2005 to uncover the truth about her government-approved international adoption by Matthew Mancuso. I did not learn about the mycandidteens site until December 2007, I have never even heard of Dream Host until now, and yes it does appear that Masha continues to be exploited over and over again.
"Your questions and inquiries are most appropriately addressed to the government officials, judges, social workers and lawyers who are currently responsible for Masha's well-being. James R. Marsh, Esq."
This is most interesting and revealing. James Marsh informed the government about the Masha images in December 2007. This question must now be asked of Masha's government protectors, Betzi White and her assistant Michelle Rager. Why was Masha still being exploited by images of her being offered thus? Has the most famous girl ever rescued from abusers and child pornographers become titillating bait to be used to entrap so-called predators? Are you complicit in this? Is there a connection between her now being vanished and her images suddenly re-appearing?
And as James Marsh suggested, I asked the government officials, judges, social workers and other lawyers who are currently responsible for Masha's well-being, "Has her well-being just been a sham to you? Where are any of you now? And which of you is still involved in her continuing exploitation?"
Perhaps we should have expected no better from the US government. Here is James Marsh on his blog (http://www.childlaw.us/masha-allen/): "When Masha was rescued, she was placed with a young single foster parent with her own history of sexual abuse, given an unlicensed Christian therapist and a Medicaid card. When the FBI reportedly 'moved her to another part of the country' a few months after her adoption, Masha was taken from the only community she knew and her thin support system was shattered. She began an unstable lifestyle which continues to this day. No therapists, no medical team, no house or meaningful compensation. Just a prayer and a press release and a one way ticket to nowhere."
And, having now read so many pious outburst from all those who celebrated her rescue, and wondering why they seem to no longer care, perhaps it's understandable for me to conclude that they were far more interested in the opportunity to introduce the draconian Masha's Law than they were in either Masha herself or any other little girl.
As for the worldwide description of Masha being a famous child porn star, she would probably have never become famous (infamous?) were it not for the way her rescuers promoted her for their own ends, publicly identifying her.
A few more quotes about and by Mary Beth Buchanan in the Pennsylvania Tribune-Review: "The Internet has given predators access to children they previously would not have had. Children are often too trusting of adults." Question for you, Mary Beth Buchanan – Why was Masha sexually exploited by a government agency?
(Despite the swelling ranks of online predators), "We are doing a better job of catching these people (including through her Pennsylvania Crimes Against Children Task Force). Question for you, Mary Beth Buchanan – Why don't you now catch the organization exploiting Masha?
Quote from the Tribune-Review: 'U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan attributes the increase to greater Internet use among offenders and more skill by law enforcement agencies in tracking them down'. "The volume is so much greater, but the severity is also a lot worse," said Buchanan, who prosecuted such cases as an assistant U.S. attorney and formed a regional Crimes Against Children Task Force. "I think that people are still surprised at the level of violence that many of these predators will engage in." Question for you, Mary Beth Buchanan – is some of the greater Internet use among offenders caused by activities such as that which still displays images of Masha online and if so why don't you stop it?
The first woman Masha was placed with after her rescue lost an action against her pastor for sexual assault. She also claimed that her parents were in a satanic cult and forced her to participate in human sacrifices. Buchanan was aware of this woman's history. Now Masha is suing the state because of her post-rescue treatment. It seems that when you are being abused the next worse thing to have happen you is to be rescued by the state.
Earlier quotes from Masha
"How can so many people enjoy the horrible things that happened to me?
"I know that these pictures will never end and that the abuse from them will go on forever. ...
"I want every single person who downloads my picture to go to jail and really be punished as much as possible. They are as bad as Matthew. ..
"Child pornography is not a victimless crime. I am a victim, and I still suffer everyday and every time someone sees me being abused."
So from her own mouth, all you government-paid protectors of Masha and other victims like her, listen -
"I still suffer everyday and every time someone sees me being abused."
"They are as bad as Matthew."
"I know that these pictures will never end and that the abuse from them will go on forever. ..."
How right she was.
Note on mycandidteens.com
From the index page. Welcome to mycandidteens.com. Summer price is $19.95, 100 000 pictures,everyday update.
Candid upskirt, candid pantyhose, candid park, candid beach, candid school girls, contribution, amatuer models posing, contribution from gymnastic girls, candid street shots, private shots. (All of which was beside Masha's image above.)
More information
Information received February 3 2008."(This web site) is the same one that has been spamming tens of thousands of images per day to legal newsgroups recently. - - - general teen porn designed to get people to then go and look at the site that may then entrap them.
"This is very similar to a site caled sweatsweet that did the same thing a few years ago and was also likely a FBI run site - - -."
"It is also worth remembering that the idiots brought this girl to public knowledge as they published her photo in an attempt to locate her and her abuser but unknown to them she had already been located and was needlessly thrust into the public limelight to bolster egos and this then meant she had no choice but to be used again by the Americans in their own publicity campaign."
Up to 2009, despite trying to ask more questions from officials in the US, it became obvious that the authorities did not have any interest in what this writer or the other objectors had to say about their continued exploitation of Masha as, blatantly, they still had her online.
So why did they then blatantly add more sexually explicit images of other young girls to the front page? Forget the cheek of it. I, for example, was not surprised that they have a contempt for me or any other writer or journalist. That fact may, however, be of concern to every decent US citizen who becomes aware of it.
There is one possible reason. They were upping the ante and stopping any further investigation of this web site. Up to now few would have dared go beyond the index page, for fear of what they might acquire on their hard drives, but by placing extra explicit images of other young girls right on the index page, they were ensuring that anyone who attempted to expose them, or even criticize them for this exploitation, would be instantly criminalized. This is so brazen that it is truly organized crime. Hopefully, some more Americans will awake from their sleepwalk and begin to see what kind of state their legislators and police have created.
How the American police create crimes
(This was written before the Masha story above, but Masha's story gives it new significance.)
The manufacturing of crimes by the police is a very big industry in America, but it is part of the even bigger industry of the organized crime where the police, the legal profession and the judiciary act together to defraud and criminalize innocent citizens.
In a devastating indictment of the American justice system, the US writer, Paul Craig Roberts, has described some of the activities of the US police in an article titled 'How the Police Create Crimes'. We were aware that the US police were legally using child pornography to entrap men over the Internet and also posing as underage girls and boys to ensnare men into meetings where they would be arrested and, even in some cases, filmed for television programmes. Stories have also been coming in to this web site about malicious women using help from male FBI agents and police to entrap their ex-husbands and boy friends and for years we have been hearing that the security services use women (all over the world incidentally) to entrap and ruin men who may be politically undesirable to American causes. Roberts now reports that the American police are planting attractive women half naked in parks, who entice passing males, engage them in conversation, pretend to begin to seduce them and ask to see their penises. When the foolish men comply, the police with their cameras still running pounce on them in triumph.
Does the beauty of the child revolt her beholder
There was another example of how a dominant narrative can distort values and even deny and assault beauty itself when a 2008 exhibition by Australian photographer Bill Henson was shut down by the authorities and Henson investigated by the police for breaching child pornography laws. The image causing the greatest controversy was that of a beautiful 13 year old girl posing topless, her lower half shaded in darkness. Climbing on to the bandwagon that followed from Australian child protectionists, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd described that image and those of other youngsters in the exhibition as 'revolting'. While his remark was published, no-one appears to have subjected it to any form of analysis. In the semantic world which I occupy that remark could not make his view of the matter clearer. He, the prime minister of Australia, finds the body of a 13 year old girl revolting.
I would like to apologize to James Marsh myself for thinking without knowing the truth.
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