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3 Ways the Mayday Super PAC is Better than Americans Elect
Lately, I've been using the platform of Irregular Times to share information with you about the Mayday Super PAC, which asks Americans to give it big money to spend in elections in order to get big money out of politics. A reader has written in response, characterizing such sharing of information as "demonization." I should hope it's clear on its face to most people that sharing critical information is different from simple demonization; if you don't think there's a distinction, let me know and I'll spell out my position. On top of that, some information I've shared actually casts the Mayday PAC in a positive light. For instance, a hallmark of the puppet organizations controlled by the shadowy Americans Elect/No Labels/Pete Peterson political octopus is a glaring overlap in contributors. But an analysis of contributions to the Mayday PAC indicates that its financial supporters appear mostly to hail from outside that insular, self-referential sphere.
Some other relatively positive traits of the Mayday PAC stand out in comparison to the organization its leaders were previously involved in, Americans Elect.
1. We know who's giving Mayday PAC money, while some two years after Americans Elect shut down, we still don't know exactly who was funding its privatized presidential election system. This is a big, important difference.
2. While Americans Elect sent out press releases promising that "the people" would choose its private U.S. presidential nominee, in reality it set up multiple processes and procedures so that the Americans Elect corporate board could overrule whatever decisions rank-and-file members made. In contrast, the Mayday PAC as been very clear about the delineation of privileges between its own corporate board and the American public. The place of the American public in the Mayday PAC system is to send money and maybe send a message with some suggestions; all decisions about what to actually do with the money are clearly under the control of the Mayday PAC leadership board. You may not like that, but at least the Mayday PAC isn't trying to fake a democratic process. I admire the Mayday PAC's honesty in that regard.
3. Americans Elect leaders repeatedly refused to communicate with people asking critical, probing questions. In contrast, Mayday PAC's head honcho Lawrence Lessig and some staffers have been quite willing to communicate with me and with others regarding disputes and criticisms. I may not like all the answers, but any answer is worse than Americans Elect's stone wall of silence.
I have a number of significant concerns regarding the Mayday PAC. I also admire some of the ways that the Mayday PAC has chosen to be more open than Americans Elect. There's space enough for both kinds of judgment in our heads.


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Plastic surgical treatment options and results for management of an open abdomen in the context of intestinal allograft transplantation in children
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|May 17, 2010
Introduction: A major technical problem of intestinal allograft transplantation is the inadequate size of the abdominal cavity at the time of transplantation.
Materials and methods: Between 2005 and 2008, 2 children received and intestinal allograft at our institution:
Results: The first patient, a 3 year old boy was referred plastic surgery with an open abdomen after intestinal alllografting. A topic negative pressure treatment was reapplied to seal the abdominal cavity and to enhance the growth of granulation tissue. The wound was left for active secondary wound healing, and the wound surface was significantly diminished over one year. However a residual defect of 2x3 cm could not be closed. Therefore a skin grafting was done with success.
The second patient, a 7 year old girl was presented to plastic surgery prior to intestinal allotransplantation. It was decided to increase the surface of the abdominal wall skin with tissue expanders. Three osmotic (self expanding) tissue expanders were placed subcutaneously, two (440 and 660 cc) on the right side, and one (440 cc) on the left side. After intestinal allografting the abdominal skin could be completely closed primarily.
Conclusion: Complete wound closure is preferable in patients with systemic immunosupression. Therefore the reconstruction of an adequate abdominal cavity volume should be achieved prior to transplantation. Tissue expansion is a valuable technique. The use of self expanding expanders has the advantage to avoid frequent visits for filling up the expander.


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Floyd Price
Policeman Floyd Price was on night patrol in Northeast Lubbock when he saw what he described as "hooks hanging from the sky."
"It was extremely hot and humid the day the tornado hit," recalled Price, who now works in the police department's crime prevention unit. "We'd had a few showers earlier in the day. About five minutes before (he storm hit, there was very little wind, which is unusual because the wind is always blowing in Lubbock.
"I had never seen the weather so calm," he said. The tranquility ended quickly, replaced by a scene of destruction Price described as "looking like an atomic bomb hit here."
"Never before or since have I seen so much devastation," he said. "Lightning lit up the sky, and I thought I saw,a hook hanging from the clouds in the southwest part of the city.
"I called it in and told the police dispatcher the location," he said. "Another officer patrolling the southwest area said he couldn't see a thing."
About five to 10 minutes later, lightning flashed again, and Price saw what looked like seven or eight funnel clouds hanging over Texas Tech University.
"The funnel clouds were whipping around like a snake's tail, moving all around," he said. "I called back in and told them what I saw. Then the calls about damage started coming in from all over the city.
Someone's roof had just caved in and a patrol car's windows were blown out. Finally, the radio dispatcher said he was getting the hell out because the tornado had just hit the police department."
As lightning continued flash through the sky, debris was visible in the air.
"I watched as a tornado veered off to the north, went through the Country Club and Skyview areas, and hit the airport. Then it just raised up."
Connie Delgado
"The house just exploded - disappeared."
That is how Connie Delgado remembers the beginning of the Lubbock tornado.
"We went to the cellar in the back yard at 9:45 p.m., and just as we got inside, the tornado ripped the cellar door off. It was the most threatening experience of my life. Our eardrums felt like they were going to explode, the pressure was so great."
Mrs. Delgado said her son, Dwight, then 13, left the cellar after the tornado hit and looked around.
'"He went out with a basket over his head because of the rain, and soon came back crying, 'Mama, the house is gone,'" Mrs. Delgado said.
0nly the house's foundation remained at 2115 Cypress Road. Even Mrs. Delgado's recently purchased 1964 Studebaker was destroyed.
"I started crying then," she said. "But we were lucky. There were 26 people killed in Lubbock, and 10 of them were in my neighborhood - a family of four right across the street."
Mrs. Delgado said she and her children - Dwight, Doris, 16, Dawn, 12, and Dana, 5 - were rescued at 2 a.m and transported in a blood-spattered ambulance to "shelter at St. Joseph's Church.
"It was scary," she said. "I could hear my name coming over the radio. My parents in New Mexico called the radio station and were trying to get a message to me to call them, but I couldn't call out. Then they drove five hours to get here, but the police wouldn't let them into town. They had to turn around and go back."
In the ensuing days, the Delgados rented a house on 26th Street while the rebuilding of their home got under way. They moved back into their home on Labor Day 1970.
"But what's still on my mind is how magnificently the tornado brought people together," Mrs. Delgado said. "Before the storm, minorities and whites were totally separated by prejudice.''
Tony Reyes
Tony Reyes had wanted to get off early from his job at the Guadalupe Neighborhood Center that day.
Earlier, some buddies from El Paso who had just returned from Vietnam had called to say they were on their way to Lubbock. When threatening weather appeared that night, the children were sent home early.
Reyes, now director of the city's Community Development office, went home to his wife at the Casa Orlando Apartments to prepare for the festivities. Their children were visiting grandparents in Lamesa.
A while later, "It got strangely quiet," Reyes recalled. "We went out onto the balcony, and it started hailing - not balls but big chunks -- for three or four minutes."
Back inside the apartment, the wind whistled through the front door. Realizing that something was wrong, the Reyeses lay down in the hallway for shelter.
"While we were lying there, I looked around once at the kids' bedroom, and it just flew away," Reyes said.
The Reyeses quickly sought shelter downstairs, but their neighbors were not home. They returned to their apartment, where only the interior walls remained. They crawled beneath a mattress.
"I resigned myself to death then," Reyes said. "We started praying and holding on to the mattress. After five or 10 minutes, it got calm, and we went downstairs."
They found a car filled with about 15 people who had sought shelter in it, and the Reyeses joined them. The apartment manager put them in undamaged apartments, which later had to be evacuated because of natural gas leaks.
The next day, Reyes said, he remembered his friends from El Paso. Shoeless and shirtless, with bleeding feet and scratches on his back, he returned to his destroyed apartment.
"I found my buddies, and they were all right. But they only told me, 'Well, it's nice seeing you again, goodbye."
"They left, and I never saw them again."
Ken Brendle
Policeman Ken Brendle began his patrol in a brand new cruiser that had only six miles on the odometer. The shiny new car was literally taken for a spin that night when the tornado unleashed its fury on downtown Lubbock.
Brendle, now 47, and his partner were driving the streets when they noticed the wind intensifying. They headed into the downtown area when they heard over the police radio that a tornado had been spotted.
"We were told to turn on our sirens and drive through the neighborhoods telling residents to take shelter, " said Brendle, who then was in his fifth month as a police officer. "We turned onto Ninth Street off of Avenue Q. We made it about a block when we ran into the tornado.
"The wind was blowing in all directions, and it was raining," he said. "We drove a little farther, then bam. It picked the car up, the engine raced, and we were spun around and set down on the sidewalk," he said. "The whole thing took about 10 or 15 seconds."
The patrol car was badly damaged as it was battered with bricks and boards, he said. "The storm's power was unbelievable."
Flying debris cracked the windows and knocked out the headlights. "All we had was one operable spotlight, which is what we used the rest of the night."
"We started the car up, but we couldn't move," he said, noting that the car was surrounded by downed power lines.
"At that point, we had the option of sitting there all night or pulling the wires off. We reached out and carefully pulled the wires off the car. It was imperative that we get to work."
Willard Barnett
Lubbock Police Sgt. Willard Barnett, 62, was inside the Pancake House at Eighth Street and Avenue Q when the tornado hit.
"Me and (now Lt.) Dean Summerlein were sitting in the restaurant when the wind started to pick up. Suddenly, the plate-glass windows started to bow in and we decided it was more than just the West Texas wind."
They advised the restaurant's employees and customers to move to the back of the building and away from the glass windows.
"The employees locked the register and gave the keys to me," Barnett said. As the two officers ducked under the kitchen counter, the restaurant's glass windows began shattering and part of the roof "came tumbling down."
He said it took about five minutes for the storm to blow past.
After checking to see if anyone in the restaurant was injured, the officers got in their patrol car to survey the damage. It was so extensive, Barnett said, that it took
them almost an hour to drive half a mile.
Thornton Rexroat
Thornton Rexroat and his wife were In the living room of their home at 309 Ave. V, enjoying a quiet evening, when large hail began pelting the roof.
"I saw ice balls, not hail stones, bouncing off the pavement," Rexroat recalled.
An ice ball then crashed through the roof and landed with a pop on the kitchen floor. Suddenly, he said, "Everything went black, our electricity went off and the street lights went out. Then our large 4-by-6-foot picture window exploded."
They ran into a hallway in an effort to reach the basement.
"Just as I put my hand on the door knob to the basement, the door just disappeared," Rexroat said. "We then went into the bathroom and held onto the plumbing."
"It sucked everything out of the house," he said.
"The tornado was so strong it uprooted my apple tree. I couldn't believe it could uproot a tree."
He and his wife escaped without a scratch, however.
Their dog, which had been tied to a doghouse in the backyard, was alive and well - still tied to the dog
house, but two blocks away.
Irasema Velasquez
Irasema Velasquez was 15 when the tornado struck. Her family's home, at Sixth Street and Avenue R, was demolished. Only the bathtub remained in place.
None of the home's nine occupants, including seven children, was seriously injured.
"We all sensed that something was about to happen, and we all ran toward the hall looking for each other," recalled Mrs. Velasquez, now an employee of Southwestern Bell's external affairs department. "As soon as we reached the hallway, we heard the windows pop, and the west wall fell in.
"When we fell, I blacked out for a few seconds, but I've always remembered thinking, 'Am I dead?' Then I heard my little sister's crying and voices, and I snapped out of it."
Family members walked Mrs. Velasquez's grandmother to University Hospital, where she was treated for cuts.
She later sought treatment for a piece of glass that was imbedded in her head when a 2-by-4 struck her as the house collapsed. "For years, whenever my head hurt, I would say, 'my tornado bump hurts.'''


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01-06-2011, 06:12 PM #1Registered User
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CA - Tommy Daniels arrested for child molestation, Citrus Heights, 2011
Rio Linda pastor arrested for child molestation
"Pastor Tom Daniels of First Baptist Church of Rio Linda [CA] was arrested by Citrus Heights police Dec. 9 and charged with six felony counts of child molestation. Citrus Heights police officials said Daniels, 48, faces felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old and sexual conduct with a child...."
"....Authorities said there is one known victim but believe other victims could still be out there. Lt. Ray Bechler said Daniels has worked as a day care provider and been a foster parent...."
more at link (mug shot)
Rio Linda church expresses support for accused pastor
"The board of a Rio Linda church, whose pastor has been arrested on suspicion of child molestation, released a statement of support on Saturday...."
"...Daniels is being held in Sacramento County Jail. Daniels' bail is set at $6 million...."
"...Police said the charges against Daniels involve incidents that allegedly occurred between June 2004 and June 2007. Police investigated an initial complaint in 2008 but were unable to come up with enough evidence for the DA to file charges.
In recent months, another victim came forward.
more at link
A victim had to wait 6 years for this monster to be arrested. Who knows how many children this man traumatized even AFTER all eyes were on him. I can't understand how a church can support him or how they could have even hired him or kept him on with serious allegations.
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Now, I'm beginning to understand. This couple took in special needs children for respite (short term stays). Because the children were legally adopted, they didn't need a license as that had been revoked. Daniels preyed on girls who typically have problems with lying and acting out--girls with Reactive Attachment Disorder. He chose very carefully and I'm certain that the girls' histories of telling tales will play a huge part in the trial.
Citrus Heights pastor ordered to stand trial on molestation charges
"A hush fell over the courtroom Thursday as a Baptist pastor from Citrus Heights was ordered to stand trial on charges that he had molested girls as young as 5 in his home. Tommy Gene Daniels, 48, was returned to jail on $6 million bail after Superior Court Judge Lloyd G. Connelly found there was probable cause to try him on six felony counts of child molestation involving five alleged victims..."
"....Tommy and B [EBM] Daniels had been under intense scrutiny for years from child welfare agencies.
B Daniels lost her day care and foster care licenses in 2003 due to substandard care, violations of state regulations, lying to state and county workers and misappropriating public funds – as well as her husband's threat to a social worker about having a gun, according to records from the California Department of Social Services.
Despite the violations, a therapist from Loomis continued to place high-needs children in the home...."
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I completely missed updating this disturbing case. Daniels came to trial in November and there was a verdict this last week:
Concerning the trial:
NOTE: Some interesting statistics about false allegations and the all too common issue of victims waiting years to report.
Prosecution rests in pastor's sexual molestation trial
".....[Anthony] Urquiza, a professor in the UC Davis School of Medicine's pediatrics department, testified as an expert on what he called "child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome." According to Urquiza, the theory of the syndrome holds that it is common for children to keep their victimization secret. He said it also explains a sense of helplessness and entrapment that children feel about their molestation. He testified that it is typical for children to delay reporting sexual molestation and that as many as 25 percent of victims will retract their allegations after they make them...."
"....Urquiza's testimony attacked the heart of the defense case. In his opening statement, Chastaine told jurors the prosecution of his client is largely based on the untruthful testimony of four of the five alleged victims. He suggested in his questioning of the four that they lied about the abuse and that the notion they had been sexually molested had been planted in their heads by another psychotherapist. He directly accused one of the girls of lying in his cross-examination of her...."
"...[Dr. Jeremy] Colley testified about the side effects of assorted antipsychotic and other medications. Four of the girls who testified against Daniels said they were taking the substances when they lived in his house in 2003 and 2004. Among the side effects of the drugs, Colley said, are "sedation" and "somnolence...."
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Defense rests in Rio Linda pastor's child molestation trial
And, the verdict:
Baptist pastor convicted of molesting 5 girls in his Citrus Heights home
December 11, 2011
"The trial came down to the word of a Baptist preacher who castigated as liars the troubled little girls who called him a child molester. In the end, after nearly four days of deliberations, a Sacramento Superior Court jury compared his testimony against theirs and came down clear and strong Thursday about who had credibility and who didn't.
On 11 of 12 counts, the jury said they believed the girls about what happened in the home of Tommy Gene Daniels. Now, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Rio Linda is looking at spending 165 years to life in prison...."
"...Daniels, 49, who was booked into the downtown jail exactly one year ago today for the sex crimes that took place six to eight years ago in his Citrus Heights home, sat impassively while the jury's guilty verdicts were read. The mother of one of the victims wept softly when the jury came back with its decision on the first count. It involved her daughter – now 12, then 5..."
"...While the first victim had been placed in the house for day care, the other four were referred to in court as "respite kids." They all had been adopted, and all had behavioral issues, including a propensity to lie. Deputy District Attorney Kimberly Macy said in her closing argument that Daniels played off the questions about their believability to target them as his molestation victims...."
"...Daniels' lawyer, Michael L. Chastaine, said he was "incredibly disappointed" by the verdict but that his client "took it like a man...."
"....Judge Trena H. Burger-Plavan scheduled Daniels' sentencing for Jan. 13. He faces 15 years to life in prison on each count..."
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June 2015 - appeal:
Defendant contends:
(1) the trial court erred in allowing evidence of the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS);
(2) the court erred in excluding evidence of victims' mental health issues;
(3) the evidence is insufficient for several counts;
(4) the trial court erred in positioning a uniformed officer near defendant during trial without any finding of necessity;
(5) the cumulative effect of errors was prejudicial;
(6) the court erred in ordering section 1202.1 HIV/AIDS testing; and
(7) jail booking and classification fees were improper because there was insufficient evidence of defendant's ability to pay and of the actual administrative costs.
We reverse as to the HIV test order and otherwise affirm the judgment.
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|Reviews for Rainy Day Quirkiness
| AikiChaos chapter 1 . 10/12/2005
OMG, I am spellbounded by your use of assonance, 'Bright yellow and grey with glints of black and blue.', 'Leaving a wake of jiggling green and wobbling precariousness', as it all sounds so lovely!
Hmm, I only see one incident of alliteration in this poem,which is, 'eccentric innocent indifference'. I like it. It adds on to you diction of words, amplying the nature of the hummingbird. I also like your use of personification, 'soft protesting branches' and the word 'bouncing', which is in the same stanze, is so cute!
Anyway, are there hummingbirds in Singapore? Hmm,I must skate around canals and drains more often!
| Rhea Valente chapter 2 . 10/10/2005
AWESOME writing...I hate snails...I shouldn't, should I? But...
Have I said you are unbelievably talented? If not, YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED. If I have? Well it just needs to be said twice.
| Rhea Valente chapter 1 . 10/10/2005
Yeah, hummingbirds are amazing, just like this work, I LOVE it as it is! YAY! More to read? Excellent! _
| Plinky chapter 2 . 10/4/2005
Lol, I do that all the time. Today I came in and thought a crumpled pair of tights was a dead squirrel! Lol. Lovely poem. Beautiful descriptions as always! keep writing!
| Plinky chapter 1 . 10/4/2005
Wow, really beautiful descriptions. I love the description of it 'flouncing'. Lovely. And I like the way the passer by pauses 'just so'. Lovely poem. Keep writing!
| FrozenKiwi chapter 2 . 9/1/2005
Heeheehee... fake snails! It must have been a very curly leaf.
| FrozenKiwi chapter 1 . 9/1/2005
Rain rocks my socks, as does this poem! You have a real skill with language. Keep it up!
| a moth in lace chapter 2 . 8/12/2005
That was cute and almost depressing at the same time. I really like how you take the snail and make it something more-you take a veil of words and crown it and place it on a throne. I really like that. Not many people can make something as magnificent of a snail as you did. All I can really think is- "Poor snail."
| a moth in lace chapter 1 . 8/12/2005
THE TITLE! I love the title. It's so delicate, in a way, in comparison to the hummingbird. Anyway, the poem-I fell kind of into the poem and my it seemed to just sink into my eyes and I really liked it. I love how you described it all. The first line is absolutely delicious. How cute.. I think hummingbirds are so... well, I guess I can't think of the word... they're just small and cute and bouncy and eccentric and amusing. (Is there a word for all that? :P) And, well, I liked it. (I'm dearly sorry if this review is a drag; I'm not very a very articulate person when it comes to writing reviews..) Well, I did enjoy it. Keep writing!
| Thorn's-girl chapter 2 . 8/8/2005
"In deliberate oozing contemplation
Of the next slurred step" Hehe, this is awesome. I almost like it better than the first, and there is humor. excellently done.
| Thorn's-girl chapter 1 . 8/8/2005
I love the line "eccentric innocent indifference." I occasionally catch a glimpse of hummingbirds - one of the advantages of parent who garden - and you captured the essence of one perfectly.
| Archipelago chapter 2 . 7/24/2005
Oh, both poems are lovely. I kinda like the second one a bit more but the first is so amusing with the hummingbee er bird thing. I like them both bunches, so fanciful. The last stanza of part 1 is my fav. and the hummingbee er bird monkey part. I keep wanting to type hummingbee...
| in theory chapter 1 . 7/23/2005
Ooh, how whimsical. I love how you write, your style is flawless and your choice of words is interesting. Enchanting topic too. *appluads*
| Melanie Layugan chapter 1 . 7/23/2005
Love it."But almost, as one would not normally linkHummingbirds to monkeys, would they?"It fits the title, made me laugh, rain is a beautiful thing.


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|Information and Communications Security (ICS)
The security of information and communications has been from the start of the professional and research activity of several members of the GÍTACA group, an special attention aim. To suffer the problems of insecurity, to experience the risks generated by it and having to overcome the weaknesses of networks, systems and users, led us to reassert the need for innovate and research in this field so essential in today's society. With such a clear motivation we can include this research line within our activities since years. This has led us to write articles in scientific journals and books, to participate in research projects, courses and participate in conferences.
A possible take off of the use of ICTs must be supported by a clear reliability of the information stored in computer systems and which is transmitted by the networks. The continued violations of the information being betray; the massive viral problems that are repeated every few months; attacks against private property and personal data, the impact that spam causes; unauthorized accesses, denials of service ; non-availability of computer systems and networks at the most inopportune moments; the absence of security policies, etc. do nothing more but act as a barrier to entry to many users and corporations who has no faith in current systems and networks. For all this, our aim is to research and provide innovations to improve the security of communications and systems, trying to spread where are the weaknesses at present and proposing, providing, innovating or developing solutions, products or basic research that will prevent to continue attacks against the information.
Due to most of our projects and researches is often present problems of security, either from the viewpoint of information or from the communications, we consider this research line as transverse to the rest of our research activities.


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You told me
you'd come back
for me
when you went
to search for
after we got stranded
on this deserted
No no, my darling
you're too weak,
I'll get us out of here
I promise.
And I figured you
meant it,
because we started
our adventure
so what reason
was there
for me to believe
No no, my love
don't you worry,
I'll come back for you
as soon as possible.
…but you never came.
And I still sat there,
when my mind
and my body
I still believed you
loved me enough
to save me.
Day and night
I waited,
until my heart convinced me
that you weren't
coming back.
And I should've known
that the minute you saw
that boat
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The folks behind Deadpool 2 are doing everything they can to keep fans clued in on what to expect from the highly-anticipated sequel. After the original Deadpool went through a tortured development cycle, it's a welcome change to have all the Deadpool 2 information at our fingertips within moments.
Ryan Reynolds—the man who turned Deadpool into a massive success—has been a big part of that. On Saturday afternoon, he casually dropped off a shot of the lead character at a familiar location, in front of the headquarters for the X-Men.
Dropped by the X-Mansion. Big fucking surprise. No one's home. pic.twitter.com/svbUMEdKbb— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) June 17, 2017
For those of you unfamiliar with the X-Mansion—the shorter name for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters—it operates as something of a home base for the X-Men, and a place for younger mutants to learn how to harness their powers. Within the canon of the movie series, the mansion was originally built by Professor X's father for a much different reason; worried by the threat of nuclear war, he built the house with a massive bunker underneath.
Returning to the X-Mansion was to be expected after Deadpool dropped by the house in his first movie, and his interaction with his mutant pals—okay, sort of pals—was one of the highlights of Deadpool. His affinity for chaos and going rogue is a stark contrast to the teamwork of the X-Men, and that balance makes for great fun on screen.
One of the characters who will be tasked with keeping him in check is Cable, a new character for the movie series who has a long history with Deadpool in the comic world. Josh Brolin, the actor playing the character who is expected to keep Reynolds' renegade character in check, has been sharing updates on his transformation into the telepathic, cybernetic mutant. The 49-year-old recently shared a video of him bulking up in the gym, with an appropriately threatening hashtag attached: "#RyanReynoldsIsMyBitch."
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If you saw the teaser for Deadpool 2, you know you're in for a wild ride when the sequel releases next June. In addition to new characters, we already know the director of John Wick is in charge of the upcoming movie, so the gratuitous violence from Deadpool might even go up a notch.
We still have a ways to go before Deadpool 2 is available for our viewing pleasure, but all signs are pointing in the right direction. You should be ready for a heavy dose of mutants when it hits theaters in 2018.


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dear sister, Thu Le', once said to me, "You need to start writing
everything down. Everytime you have a thought, write it down."
Also, my practitioner said, "It'd be great if you kept a journal
next to your bed, so when you wake up, you can write down the
first thing that comes in your head." Hence, I started doing that.
I like to put down as creatively as I can my theories towards
therapy and life in general...I am open for debate (although I
am pretty bad at it)...
Unfortunately, insecurity can present itself as anger and
blame. This happens because the person who is feeling insecure
has a hard time admitting it, so rather it comes out passively,
or aggressively - or perhaps a combo of both. When a person is
feeling insecure, they are in more child energy - they are not
their 25 or 35 year old self. They are probably around six or
of this, if you are the one they are coming to in that child energy
- it may be challenging for you to be there for them - and the
two of you may end up in conflict. What's needed is SUPPORT and
EMPATHY. Here's a simple way to do that:
Imagine a seven-year old child coming up to you with insecurities.
Even imagine them coming to you in a temper-tantrum way...Would
you get mad at them? Would you start defending yourself and ask
them, "Why do you take your issues out on me?" Of course
you wouldn't!
time, see if you can relate to your partner in his/her child energy
- the same way you would relate to a child who is worried or insecure.
*Excerpt from my upcoming book entitled "US".
Too many times I hear that people think if you go to therapy it
means there's something wrong with you. There is not. Experiencing
any form of therapy is a pathway to growing, moving through the
blockages, living a richer life, and enabling yourself to connect
and just be. To allow you to roll with the moments and focus on
the present, which may be difficult to do. Sometimes getting a
little guidance from an objective, nonjudgmental place helps you
to feel more open and, essentially, helps you grow. With this
growth comes practice, practice, practice. Allowing yourself to
practice knowing your needs, and satisfying them...with patience
and compassion.
All About Me...this is my mantra. Taking responsibility for
ourselves, our behaviors, our decisions, and the care of our own
self is empowering, loving, and necessary. The moment I truly
grasped the idea that I have all I need inside of me to get where
I want to go - to take care of myself - I felt empowered. I hear
a lot of people give their power away when they say phrases such
as, "He made me feel so stupid..." or "She made
me so angry". From my experience anyone can do and/or say
anything they want - but it is up to me as to how I choose to
respond, and essentially how I choose to take care of myself in
the moment. If I'm not able to make a choice and/or respond in
a way that takes care of me, then that is what I need to look
at and explore. That is possibly what needs to be healed.
are our mirrors... they are our way of getting to know ourselves,
our way of choosing to know ourselves. An intimate relationship
can be just the reflection we need to lead us to the light of
healing our traumas, great and small. Our traumas are what lead
us to attainment, enlightenment - peace - harmony. When one can
embrace their traumas and begin to appreciate the emotional pain
and suffering they have experienced, they will be on their path
to true healing and grace (...and fulfilling relationships!).
may not be everything but it can alter an unfolding of a person's
life in a split second. A turn of the head, a missed exit, a traffic
jam, a last minute decision to take a trip, an irresistable job
offer across the country, an off comment - any one of these events
can affect the way one's life unfolds, and all of them are influenced
by how we perceive ourselves and life in that moment.
This is especially shown in relationships. How many times do you
see couples date, move apart, and then reconcile later in life?
Or see two really great people never get their paths to quite
meet? He likes her, she likes him - but never at the same time.
Or, you see two people that have been friends for years upon years
finally get together? Or how many times have you watched yourself
or a friend look back on an old love and have regret?
It can kick your butt. It can make your day. It can catapult you
into a new level of feeling and living. From my experience, we
allow different levels of love to come into our lives depending
on where we are at that time in our life. I have to say it again,
timing can kick your butt - but it can undoubtedly, without question,
lead you into the greatest experiences of your life, especially
when it comes to falling in love. I look forward to embracing
those moments when the timing is just on, and it feels like home.
CONFLICT can be difficult and/or it can be easy. From my
experiences, in order to stop resentment and the eventual demise
of a relationship, the two people must communicate. Communication
will occur from the standpoint of each person's willingness to
take accountability for his/her behavior and see how s/he can
adjust and heal in order to do things in a way that supports the
relationship. This ability to take accountability is what could
possibly make resolving the conflict difficult.
TRUST is created when we take accountability for our behaviors.
We can trust ourselves to be capable of owning up to our mistakes
and our faults. And, when others do the same - we can trust them.
Taking accountability is a loving and emotionally grounding thing
to do. It is also compassionate to ACCEPT ourselves and others
- regardless of mistakes or faults. When we allow COMPASSION into
our hearts, it opens up our ability to grow together and with
OWNERSHIP. Each person's ability to take accountability
is most likely based on what they have learned and know to be
true about themselves, other people, and relationships. If a person
has learned in their childhood to withdraw, repress their feelings,
point, blame, deny, etc,. most likely they will not be in a place
to be conscious of their behavior and take accountability. If
a person has learned in their childhood to express their feelings,
communicate, listen to others, take personal responsibility, etc.,
s/he will have a better chance of doing just that. Conflict can
be a significant gateway to invite each person to look at themselves
INTENTIONS MEAN NOTHING...it is how the person has received
it. For example, if I say something with absolutely no intentions
of being hurtful, but my beloved ends up feeling hurt - for me
to say, "Oh well, that's not what I meant, so..." would
be unloving and inconsiderate. It is important to nurture any
relationship you have, especially when feelings have been hurt.
Regardless of your intention, being mindful of how it has been
received - and nurturing any indirect hurt - will allow your relationship
to be nourished and fulfilled.
all of this comes the need for consistency. CONSISTENCY BUILDS
TRUST. Lack of consistency can lead to distrust. Bottom line.
Life From the Inside Out...On January 31, 2003, I spent the
day with the buddhist monks of the Deer Park Monestary and the
venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. I used to believe that anyone that
joined a monestary of any kind, whether it be the priesthood,
a convent, a monk, etc., never truly lived. Today I asked myself,
"Am I truly living?" What is the definition of "truly
living" anyway? If we go according to mainstream America
and nationwide media antics, I would have to say it is partying,
sowing your oats, having relationships, and all other external
ways of life. What about what is happening inside? Since I have
gone on the internal journey, my way of living has undoubtedly
shifted. There is nothing that money can buy, no stimulus that
can be created, no love that can be shared that is as rich, energizing,
and comforting as to what I can find when I search myself internally.
Truly living is getting to a place of enlightenment when that
search becomes natural, effortless, and cultural. We all struggle
through life. We all suffer at some time or another. Today, I
make a choice to practice not suffering and truly live life from
the inside out.
Little Story About Four Characters You May Have Heard Of...
Have you ever met a character named ANXIETY? ANXIETY is a big
ole' pain in the butt - always regretting the past and worrying
about the future. DEPRESSION is ANXIETY'S best friend. It likes
to jump in there with ANXIETY and do a little dance in your head.
They cheer each other on and pat each other on the back. Then,
along comes the PRESENT. The PRESENT gives ANXIETY and DEPRESSION
a reality check - it takes deep breaths and grounds itself by
hanging out with the MOMENT. The PRESENT and the MOMENT don't
regret the past or worry about the future, they just chill together,
enjoy one another, give each other support, and roll with the
punches. ANXIETY and DEPRESSION fight for attention but since
your directing your love and energy to the PRESENT and the MOMENT,
they just wither away and become lifeless while the PRESENT and
the MOMENT become powerful and strong!
© 2003 Aimee Zakrewski
Marriage & Family Therapist MFC43736 . Growth Oriented
Healing © Aimee Zakrewski 2003 - 2016. All Rights Reserved


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Obama and Disability Policy: More Action Needed on Core Issues
In the 2007 Presidential election, disabilities in general and autism in particular were specifically mentioned Obama in his plan to "build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination":
- to provide Americans with disabilities with the educational opportunities that they need to succeed;
- to end discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for persons with disabilities;
- to increase the employment rate of works with disabilities;
- to support independent, community-based living for persons with disabilities.
Much was promised. While some initial measures have been taken—in February of 2009, Kareem Dale was appointed as the first Special Assistant to the President for Disability Policy and in December of 2009, Obama nominated eight individuals including self-advocate Ari Ne'eman, President of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network to the National Council on Disability—-much remains to be done regarding individuals with disabilities and their needs: Whether the proverbial glass is full or empty remains to be seen.
When the site Whitehouse.gov was launched on January 21, 2009, autism was listed as a specific agenda item in the Disabilities section and was said to "top" the President's "medical to-do list. During his presidential campaign, Obama's plan on "supporting Americans with autism spectrum disorders" had promised to:
- appoint a federal ASD Coordinator to oversee all federal ASD efforts;
- fully fund the Combating Autism Act and Federal Autism Research Initiatives;
- support Special Needs Education for Children with ASD;
- support universal screening.
An "autism czar" has yet to be named to coordinate federal efforts concerning ASD. While Obama's plan to ""build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination" had mentioned fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, there has not been much discussion about this in the past year. Legislation under the name the Autism Treatment Acceleration Act (S. 819, H.R. 2413) was introduced in the Senate in April of 2009 and in the House in 2009, respectively. These bills call for insurance companies to provide coverage for diagnosis and for treatment and especially in the form of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy; assistive communication devices are also mentioned.
That is, these bills focus more specifically on insurance for children, for fairly specified types of treatment. Legislation providing insurance coverage for certain types of treatment for children has indeed been passed in a number of states. But this legislation is just a start. Autism is a lifelong disability. While individuals vary greatly in their needs, some—my son included—will need support and services to work and live throughout their lives.
Legislation and programs that can make it possible for individuals to work and live in their communities—rather than in nursing homes or other institutional settings—are vital and, in these areas, Obama's administration needs to take a much, much more active stance. Assessing his remarks on the American with Disabilities Act in July of 2009, self-advocate Dora Raymaker refers to New Mobility's blog on Obama's ADA "Speech Bombs" which suggest that his administration still has some ways to go in creating a world "free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination." Another key piece of disability legislation, the Olmstead decision, calls for "persons with mental disabilities" to be placed "in community settings rather than in institutions when the State's treatment professionals have determined that community placement is appropriate." The President's press release on the anniversary of Olmstead referred to 2009 as "The Year of Community Living" and announced "several new initiatives including details about increased numbers of Section 8 (housing) vouchers and enhanced interagency coordination to address this critical civil rights issue." While these are, as Raymaker writes, a "move in the right direction," much more aggressive action is need to truly realize Olmstead; Obama's press release failed to make "any mention of the core issue of institutional bias in the health care system and the need for significant health care reform."
More aggressive action that recognizes the "core issue[s]" facing individuals with disabilities of all ages and those are support them: This is what we need to see from the President in 2010. "Creating a world "free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination" is a beautiful ideal that we'd all like to see come to pass but it won't—it can't—unless we roll up our sleeves and start making real changes now.
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A new study has been produced showing a link between smacking and aggression.
Experts did a survey of nearly 2,500 children in 20 large cities in the USA.
They found those who were regularly smacked at the age of three were more likely to be aggressive at the age of five.
The research is being published in the May issue of Pediatrics magazine.
Researchers also took into account other factors that could have made the children more aggressive.
These included physical and psychological abuse between parents and towards children, neglect, stress, substance abuse, depression and the consideration of abortion.
Even taking those factors into account, the researchers found children who were smacked three or more times in the month before the survey at the age of three, were 50 of adults thought it was acceptable to spank a child.
The evidence against smacking does seem to be stacking up. We reported on ParentDish last year that two studies had shown a connection between smacking and aggression.
But many parents defend their right to smack their children and mild smacking is allowed in the UK.
There have been calls for a total ban on smacking but so far any attempts to change the law have not been successful.
It seems you will always find plenty of people who say "I was smacked and it didn't do me any harm".
What do you think? Is it acceptable to smack children? Does it do them any damage?
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Lk: 12:15: And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
(The economic condition, in America, is declining. Many people, Christians and non-Christians, are apprehensive about the future, some are already in financial trouble. Many Christian leaders are trying to help Christians handle the situation. I have heard them encourage the people to have faith that God will provide. I have heard them teaching people how to handle money, debts, and spending, but what seems to be missing is the mind of Christ on the subject. Here in Lk: 12, we can learn the rest of the instructions for Christians in financial jeopardy.
The first step is to be ever mindful that accumulating a full storehouse, a beautiful home, a horde of clothes, and all the latest technology is not what life is really all about. It�s easy to forget that in modern America, so I urge you to first of all to get your priorities straight. If you are a Christian you are to put on Jesus. This means you are to learn to see things through His eyes and deal with things the way He has instructed. So this is not a suggestion, this is not an option, this is the way it is to be done.)
16-21: And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18: And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19: And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20: But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21: So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
(I don�t have anything further to say about these verses--they speak for themselves.)
22-24: And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23: The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24: Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
(Jesus teaches us the right focus and the right order of priorities. In these verses He tells us not to take thought--that is not to be overly concerned or even worried about what you are going to have to wear or what you are going to have to eat because Almighty God is your Father, if you have received Jesus and Jesus says you can count on Him to provide for you.
Yes, that is what I acknowledged many leaders are already reminding people of, but the main subject was not brought out to my satisfaction. They emphasized not worrying and urged the people to trust in the Lord, but listen to this teaching--it goes farther. Jesus says in order for this to work well the person must keep things in perspective, keep God on the throne, and keep possessions in their proper place.
What is their proper place? That things are nice to have, but not necessary to life or happiness. As for food and clothes--God fed the ravens, He clothed the grass, and He says you are worth much more to Him than either one of those--so be happy, God is still on the throne.)
25-31: And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26: If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? 27: Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28: If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith? 29: And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. 30: For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. 31: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(Here, He gives more examples of God�s power and caring. Notice that Jesus teaches us that we can reason along these lines. Reason can be our enemy if it is faulty, but Jesus teaches us that we can look at nature and see how God cares and we can apply that reassurance to our own situation. He also teaches here, that God loves us with the same kind of father love as humans have only His goes farther, but we can know that love because it is an affectionate and benevolent love.
Jesus is teaching us here how to survive economics bad times. He has told us to have faith in God and now He gives us a promise that, if taken to heart, can give the believer all the strength they need to go through the hard times, but Jesus� emphasis is on priorities again. Seek the kingdom of God.
What should you do when you lose your job, or drain your bank account, or don�t have the money for the mortgage? SEEK THE KINGDOM OF GOD! He says, if you seek His kingdom, you can be rest assured that God will look after your finances.
So it is not just--trust in the Lord. And it is not just good planning and management that will get us through financial tough times and keep us on the right tract--it is to make sure our first priority is always to seek the kingdom of God.)
32-34: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33: Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. 34: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35-40: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36: And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. 37: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. 38: And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39: And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40: Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
(Look at that! What a feeling of joy Jesus� words invoke here--It�s God�s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. The kingdom!--that which we are to seek. How do you come into the kingdom? You seek it until you find it. It�s the kingdom where God rules and no other. If you are still saying--�I can�t do this.� or I�m afraid of tomorrow.� or �I know I should, but �� know and understand that you are not in that kingdom yet. When you can say, �I know whom I have believed and I am assured that He is able �� Then you are not far from the kingdom of God.
Now in God�s kingdom, people handle things differently from the world. Instead of worrying about their financial shortage, they sell things so they can give to the really poor--for those in His kingdom have learned that it is far wiser to lay up their treasures in heaven. Up there, there is no inflation, no robbers, and no corroding influences.
Then He says all this works when you have your loins girt with the truth and you are letting Jesus shine in your life. THAT�S WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO IN THESE FINACIAL HARD TIMES! He wants you to put on the full armor of God and be a light in this dark world, all the while watching for His return.
That�s the plan! Instead of fussing about decreased income, you are to center up on being a light for this dark--getting darker- world and look up for your redeemer draweth nigh. That is--live as though He is coming this week.)
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What is your all time favorite cartoon character?
when are you next gonna log on? :mrgreen:
..... and for a proper one.... you like live band/music photog.... and a bit of this and that.... but whats your fav kind.... do you see yourself having a future in this line of photog?.... or is it just a hobby?
AHHHHHHHH! Just my luck, I get MOTW on the first week of school when I've been too busy to log in. But I will do my best.
Alison: I do like omelletes, but that isn't why I'm called omeletteman. The name comes from the fact that a friend of mines in grade 7 thought my last name looked like omelette, and so he called me omeletteman, since that was the same time I was signing up for my first email account, it stuck with me. But I tend to just put like onions, cheese, and maybe some green pepper in my omeletes.
Nitefly: I'm 21, I'm from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, though I currently live in Nova Scotia where I go to university. My prefered method of transport is walking, or probly more recently my girlfriends car, I'll take a pic of it when I get a chance.
Mentos: Dream job, eh? I really haven't figured that one out yet...hopefully I can answer better by the time I'm done school in 2 years, or I might have a problem.
I got into photography while I was in China teaching English. I bought a crappy point and shoot camera and took thousands and thousands and thousands of low res photos of random stuff and funny Chinese things. But I got hooked on it and wanted to learn more about photography so I bought myself a old 35mm SLR camera off Ebay (best $35 I ever spent) once I got back to Canada. The rest, is history.
I'll get a photo of the bedroom up in a bit.
cory: Dilbert. Love that guy.
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Photography is just a hobby for me, but I am sort of moving into it as a job. Only becuase I work for my school newspaper (Photography Editor) and so technically I am being paid (though not a lot) to take pictures. As for concert/music photography, its definately an area I enjoy and hopefully over this year I'll get to do a lot more of it. From there we will see what happens.
whew. That was fun.
When you were 8, what did you want to be when you grew up?
we've got to get some photos in here, can you share one or two of your favorite, or what you might consider signature, shots from your collection. You know, if you HAD to pick one or two that define your photographic style...
btw, your omelette sounds really good about now... all i have for breakfast right now is oatmeal... :thumbdown:
oh, and dilbert rules!
What was your impression of China? Would you like to go back?
Do you speak Chinese? I have a friend who went to Japan to teach English and he didn't speak a lick of Japanese. Somehow it all worked out though... Do you know what you want to major in?
What are some of your favourite movies?
What's your favourite alcoholic drink? Non-alcoholic?
How did you hear/find out about TPF?
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England's hopes of winning the women's World Cup on home soil next year are burning bright following Saturday's 10-3 victory over New Zealand at Twickenham. It was the first time in eight years that England have beaten the Black Ferns, the traditional powerhouses of the women's game. The home coach, Gary Street, paid tribute to his captain, Catherine Spencer, who led by example on her 50th Test appearance and scored the game's only try after 24 minutes. "We won this game because of our physicality," said Street. "Our defence was tremendous and we really believed in ourselves. Catherine Spencer put on one of the great Twickenham performances. She is a tremendous athlete and brilliant leader of this team."
The historic win was witnessed by a record crowd of 12,500, despite poor weather. The fly-half Katy McLean converted Spencer's try and contributed a second-half drop-goal as the home side defied the wet, slippery conditions to ensure the two-Test series finished level at 1-1.


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|Slim, sexy, and 100% Latina, Tia Cyrus was a bad one. She knew how to seduce a man to the fullest. Her art of seduction was unparalleled and she had that look that would make any man go crazy. She decided to pay us a visit and we weren't as hell going to refuse her. She came for one reason, and one reason only, for Romeo Price. Always had a thing for him and today was her chance. We patiently waited till he arrived and once he did few words were said. This Latin fox taught Romeo a few things that day...
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WHAT'S OFFLINE; The Revolt of the Childless
By PAUL B. BROWN
Published: October 13, 2007
IF the boss allows an employee to leave early to take his children trick-or-treating (or to the doctor, or so the employee can watch a school play, etc.) is the boss being fair to everyone else who still has to work a full day?
Is it fair to offer a working mother a flexible schedule but not provide the same option to a woman without children?
A growing number of childless workers are answering ''no'' to questions like these, prompting HR magazine to ask employers in a cover story ''Are You Too Family Friendly?''
It's an issue because of the changing nature of the population in the United States.
''Slightly more than one in four households, 26 percent, consisted of a person living alone in 2006, up from 17 percent in 1970,'' Susan J. Wells writes. ''Unmarried and single U.S. residents numbered 92 million in 2006, making up 42 percent of all people 18 and older.'' That's up from 89 million in 2005.
As a result, ''family friendly'' benefits are starting to generate a backlash among those people who do not have children.
''Childless singles feel put upon, taken for granted and exploited -- whether because of fewer benefits, less compensation, longer hours, mandatory overtime or less flexible schedules or leaves -- by married and child-rearing co-workers,'' Ms. Wells writes.
She says one solution that has worked well for some companies is offering a cafeteria-style list of benefits that employees can choose from.
WHERE'S EVERYBODY? Of course, Edwin D. Hill has an agenda. He is, after all, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, a union that represents 725,000 workers including 220,000 employed by utilities in the United States and Canada.
Still, he makes a valid point.
''Deregulation and restructuring of the industry created downward pressure on recruitment,'' he writes in EnergyBiz, a trade publication. ''And the bill is now coming due.''
Mr. Hill writes that about half of the industry's workers are eligible to retire within the next 10 years.
One effort to deal with that is already under way. The union ''has partnered with local, state and provincial leaders to create pre-apprenticeship programs to attract students and young workers to the trade.''
DOING GOOD BETTER Foundations typically try to solve society's problems by making grants to nonprofits.
''Yet the lack of grant money did not cause these social problems,'' write Mark R. Kramer and Sarah E. Cooch in The Stanford Social Innovation Review. ''Instead, they are often attributable to market failures, where a misalignment between social goals and economic incentives has created or perpetuates social ills.''
Since that is the case, argue the authors who work for FSG Social Impact Advisors, a nonprofit group that seeks to advance philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, foundations may be better off directing some of their funds to market-based solutions, an approach the authors refer to as ''mission investing.''
Foundations are beginning to take tentative steps in this direction, the authors write. For example a survey of 92 foundations that they conducted showed a 16 percent increase in spending on mission investing in the last five years. Still, the total amount devoted to it represented just 2.4 percent of the assets of the foundations surveyed.
FINAL TAKE Higher prices for metals are being blamed for an increase in the theft of sculptures worldwide, Art & Antiques Magazine reports. More than 300 bronze, aluminum and copper sculptures have been registered with the Art Loss Register, an industry database, since January 2005.


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Improving the conversion rate of your website should be your first priority because if your site isn't converting well, then it simply means that it's failing in a few areas. If you're using a tracking script, then that's the only means by which you can see visitor behavior and where your metrics are not so good. This is not difficult to do, by the way, but remember that all or at least most tracking scripts have limitations. You can read about 3 ways in which you may find low conversions, and then what some possible fixes are for them.
Do not place live pop ups on your site because they annoy your customers and they do not look professional. This is not what you want at all. When surfers come to your site, they want you to welcome them, provide wonderful content and give them an overall good experience. The average visitor can get help from your site by following the provided prompts. But people do not want to ask for help if they do not need it. Instead, make sure that your site is easy to get around and makes it possible for things to be located.
If you're selling something on your website or want your visitors to take any kind of action (which is obviously going to be beneficial to you) then don't take them through an unnecessary sign up process as it just kills the conversions. It is so important to make the sales process very easy, allowing your visitors to become customers without having to figure out what to do next while going through the transaction process. Your website should offer a flawless experience to the visitors, and let them take the action without much hassle because ultimately if your site isn't converting, no sign up form will give you results any way.
Have you ever landed on a website that refuses to let you leave via the back button? You should never stoop to this. This will do damage to your conversion rate. Do not force people to stay on your site if they want to leave without clicking your buttons. It is all about respecting your visitor's preferences. Give your customers freedom, get more conversions and build up your brand. The points that we talked about here are pretty simple to understand and apply. Aside from beginning on this today, it's smart to continue finding out more because there are many ways to increase your CR. Just take things one step at a time, and you'll begin making positive progress.


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President Obama was in the house for the annual Detroit Labor Day Parade, sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. The President spoke about the importance of standing up for collective bargaining to fired-up chants of "Four more years!"
The President wasn't just giving a rah-rah speech, he was drumming up support for the jobs plan that he'll lay out this Thursday before a joint session of Congress. The more political capital he can whip up in his travels, the more leverage he'll have in DC for the inevitable death match with the immoderate, cult-like GOP who have signed pledge after pledge of fealty to their Koch/ALEC sponsored ideology rather than their country and constituents.
President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka warmed up the crowd, "We will not let Michigan become a right to work for less state!" Trumka was followed by warrior for working men and women Hilda Solis, the Labor Secretary, who wished the Motor City a Happy Labor Day, saying the auto industry is "roaring back". Hilda pointed out that the President could have been anywhere in the country but he chose Detroit, a city that gave birth to the middle class and never gives up. Solis added, "When America innovates and when America builds, America wins!" Hilda (the daughter of a teamster) thanked the UAW and the entire labor movement for standing up and sitting down for the social safety net that Americans are fighting so hard to keep right now.
In spite of the Republicans desperate attempt to push the meme that the President has lost the support of labor as reported in The Detroit News, the reality of the response to the President's speech was a fierce fired up and ready to go. The crowd roared the loudest every time a speaker mentioned the President's name, tying his name to the fact that there is still an auto industry in Detroit.
Other outlets such as ABC pointed out, "Obama's remarks today follow Friday's worse-than-expected jobs report, which showed that employers added no new jobs in August." However, this is also not exactly accurate. The numbers show that private sector jobs were added, but public sector job losses zeroed those job numbers out. It should be pointed out that those public sector job losses are a direct result of the GOP's agenda to kill the public sector, as evidenced in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida and more. Perhaps it's too difficult for news reporters to research the numbers, but luckily at PoliticusUSA, we have Ray Mederios to parse the numbers for us.
When the President took the stage, the crowd screamed, their fists pounded the air, and huge smiles graced the faces of the people behind him. They greeted him with chants of "Four more years!" It didn't sound like labor has lost their love for this President, though certainly if anyone has a right to be dispirited, it's the working class in Republican governed states like Michigan.
The President dedicated the day to the non-elite, shouting, "The working men and women of America, this day belongs to you!" He pointed out that the cornerstone of the middle class was built by the union, and that a critical and all-American aspect of the union is that union members watch out for each other and their brothers and sisters who are not in unions, but are still benefiting from the rights of union members.
President Obama pointed out that the "some were blaming" the working people for the poor economy, but the economy is stronger when workers are paid a decent wage and pointed out that unions are about "shared prosperity".
It looks like the Republicans have a few powerful narratives to kill this week, and even worse for them, it looks like their big dreams of knocking out labor and the middle class and thereby killing the largest support of the Democratic Party has failed.
The biggest point the President made in his speech is that he supports the middle class, the workers, and the right to collectively bargain. Obama pledged, "As long as I'm in the White House, I'm going to stand up for collective bargaining!" To which the crowd roared back, "Four more years!"
Obama told the fired up crowd, "Everybody has the same right, not just the CEO but the janitor who cleans that CEO's office!" Then the President wove in the importance of the public sector (again, it is public sector losses that killed our job growth numbers). He added, "We are one nation, and we will rise and fall together. Anyone who doesn't believe that should come to Detroit!" The President acknowledged the tough times that Americans face, but commended the working class for fighting for their rights, "Are times tough? Yes, but we're tougher!"
The GOP keeps punching the working people, but the working people keep getting back up. And the President of the United States is backing those workers. For those disappointed liberals, allow me to ask if you've contemplated what the President did last December, when he "gave in" the extension of the Bush tax cuts in order to get what he called a "second stimulus" for "our folks". The our folks would be us, the non-wealthy elite of this country.
Here's how those numbers worked out, according to David Corn in the Sept/Oct issue of Mother Jones, "In fact, White House aides boasted that the final measure included $238 billion for what Obama, in White House meetings, privately called "our folks" (low and middle income Americans) and $114 billion for theirs (the wealthy). …Despite the warnings about negotiating with (and empowering) "hostage takers," he could do more good by cutting deals than by going to war with Republicans."
Sometimes it's not about the show, but the results. When we cave into the framing of the Right while accusing the President of not fighting, I have to wonder if our sense of irony is completely lost. If we're so cynical post-Bush that we simply will never trust another President again, well, who can blame us. Of course, that does feed right into the exact political climate the Republicans have been trying to create for 40 years in order to justify their hatred of government, so when we do this, we are carrying water for the notion that government can't help people and in the end, this idea does nothing but feed corporations over people.
If we want to engage in the political process, if we want to stand up for the people, it's going to take a willingness to look behind the curtain of mistrust. Things are far from perfect, but most of us knew better than to expect perfection. But we do have in the White House a President who prioritizes the working class. Do we care more about the show than the people? That's not how this President rolls.
"Four more years!" Take that, Koch Brothers. See you in DC.


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'Tis the season…for overeating and overspending. And in the midst of the chaos, sometimes you just need a break. With the price tag that often accompanies the holidays, sometimes it's difficult to take some time to get away. If an impromptu vacay isn't in your budget — let's face it, holiday travel can be pricey — why not try getting away in the comfort of your own hometown? Interested? Read on for how to plan and execute the perfect stay-cation.
Stay-cations: What They Are and How to Do Them Right
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Pak insurgents hampering war on terror in Afghanistan, says new US army commanderJune 25th, 2008 - 7:08 pm ICT by ANI
Kabul, June 25 (ANI): Gen. David D. McKiernan, the new US military commander in Afghanistan who over the past three weeks has toured the war-torn nation's 34 provinces, has said that he was here to win areas under the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other militants hold.
He said that part of the problem was posed by insurgents coming from across Pakistan s North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
There is certainly a rise in violence in the south and eastern parts of Afghanistan . We've got to win those areas, he said.
He said: As a NATO command, the mandate for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does not extend across the border to Pakistan . So we do have a right to self-defense, but we do not have any ISAF military operations in the sovereign territory of Pakistan . But part of the security environment and challenge in Afghanistan are the materials, the insurgents, the leadership that comes across the border from [ Pakistan 's] North West Frontier Province .
Gen. McKiernan said he would also be visiting neighboring Pakistan sometime in the next few weeks to seek support from its Army. He added he was eager to establish a good relationship with Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. I want, as a new commander in this environment, to establish a relationship with him and the Afghan leadership, and to bring that process further along, the Washington Times quoted him as saying.
A liaison between Pakistan 's military and ISAF along the border already exists, but we need to build on that, he said and added that in a process all the three, including himself, Gen. Kayani and top Afghan military leaders, will meet and discuss security issues that affect the border area.
The NATO-led ISAF has about 33,000 American troops as part of an international force of nearly 70,000.
Gen McKiernan also said that he would work towards ensuring peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan , especially in the wake of the recent war of words between the two sides following Afghan President Hamid Karzais threat to launch attacks on Pakistan soil.
Gen. McKiernan said that winning in Afghanistan is essential to global security and that winning is not about the NATO alliance, the future of NATO or any of that, but about the Afghan government, Afghanistan and the Afghan people. (ANI)
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Project: Ecuador
- "¡Buenos dias!"
- "Good morning!"
Country Overview
Ecuador is one of the most naturallly, culturally and ethnically diverse countries in the world. Oil, natural resources and fertile soil are found among Andean peaks, tropical cloud forests, Amazonian jungle and coastal lands. Despite its rich diversity, Ecuadorians experience great economic, social and political inequities as a result of more than five centuries of exploitation, irrational extraction and weak political infrastructure and policies.
Smallholder farmers in Ecuador produce 65 percent of the basic staples in the family diet in plots smaller than 10 hectares, or 25 acres. Critical to the nutrition of Ecuadorians, these family plots account for only 10 percent of arable land in the country. The rest of the land belongs to large farms and agricultural corporations.
Heifer's Work in Ecuador
Heifer International began its work of supporting the rural development process in Ecuador in 1954 with agricultural programs promoted initially by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. In the 1960s and 70s, Heifer concentrated on setting up a Brahman and Holstein breeding center and on training farmers in a homesteader area on Ecuador's coast. Since 2004 the concept of food sovereignty has been incorporated as the framework for all of Heifer Ecuador's work. Research regarding this work has yielded materials to inform collective reflection, enhancing the work by and with rural organizations.
Heifer Ecuador has given priority to working directly with rural organizations. Heifer also works with nongovernmental organizations dealing directly with and well trusted by rural organizations. Heifer's relationships with partner organizations, especially rural organizations, address the challenge of building, on the basis of food sovereignty, a decent life for rural people. Current work
promotes advocacy through small farmers' actions.
Key Services Heifer Provides:
Sustainable agricultural production: Agro-biodiversity recovery and conservation; measuring, documenting, producing ecologically sound practices among smallholder farmers
Post-harvest management and processing: Promoting smallholder farmer production in response to market demand
Market development: Increasing market opportunities for smallholder farmers; supporting marketing and circulation of agroecological produce; facilitating coordination among organizations of consumers and producers
Technology: Improving the national gene bank; technical assistance in implementing sustainable technologies
Nutrition: Advocating for food sovereignty policies
Heifer's Work Around the World
See where Heifer is working around the world to end hunger.
Heifer International In For The Long Haul In Ecuador Earthquake Recovery
Ecuador is in the midst of recovery after an April earthquake killed over 660 people. Little Rock-based Heifer International has been working with farmers and fishing families in the region just outside the earthquake's epicenter for decades. Oscar Castañeda, Vice President of the Americas with Heifer, spoke with KUAR's Jacob Kauffman about the path of recovery efforts... Please click the title of the article to read more!
Nancy from Ecuador
The chickens Nancy received from Heifer made an immediate difference. Now she can earn income to pay for her children's education.
In Honor of Heifer's 70th Anniversary
The Heifer International Sacramento Volunteers held a community celebration for Heifer's 70th Anniversary. The event featured chicks to hold, activities to engage and speakers to inspire. Bill Beck (pictured), one of the original Heifer seagoing cowboys, and Rosa Rodriguez, Heifer Ecuador Country Director, were featured speakers at the event. Everyone enjoyed the chance to reconnect and gain renewed dedication to support Heifer's work.
VIDEO: Sacramento Heifer Volunteers Travel to Ecuador
In August, members of the Sacramento Heifer Community Volunteer group traveled to Ecuador to increase their understanding of Heifer's work.
1945 Program Participant Shares his Story
Meet Stanislaw Debert; at the end of 1945, Mr. Debert was the recipient of one of the 150 heifers sent by the Heifer Project to Poland on the SS Santiago Iglesias. In early October, I had the good fortune to sit and talk with him, his wife, and a daughter in their home near Gdansk about what that heifer meant to them. At the end of World War II when Europe was seething with displaced persons, Mr. Debert arrived in the area of Gdansk. He fled from Kielce on the roof of a train car with only the clothes he was wearing...
Volunteers Impacted by Trip to Ecuador
My wife and I have just returned from a Heifer Project study trip to Ecuador. We have long been friends of Heifer and we have now seen first hand the ongoing response to human need in which Heifer is engaged.
Selling Agroecological Products at the Market in Ecuador
We sell the horchata for 40 cents a glass and can earn about $150 in a day. It is a source of income. It helps with the costs of school for my son and food for home.
The Big Deal About Fair Trade Bananas
In January 2011, Heifer began implementing a project in partnership with El Guabo.
Protecting Bananas for Export
Heifer Participant Wilson Sanchez on Agroecological Banana Farm
Literacy Classes Improve Lives - Northern Thailand
In the world today, no one can deny the importance of education. Yet many women in the remote mountainous areas of Northern Thailand rarely have the opportunity to be educated. Heifer International Thailand believes that providing basic education to women will broaden their world view and enhance their confidence.


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