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Let's talk bags - I'm sure you've seen many, if not all, of these bags on campus, and with good reason. They're cute and stylish, yet can fit a surprising number of textbooks too. Today we'll talk about what bag is best for your needs at school, and what you should be carrying on an at least semi-daily basis in order to succeed!
From the ever classic black Jansport to the studded MCM bags, backpacks are back. Your back is probably thanking you right now, because we've all suffered through carrying heavy textbooks in the dreaded messenger bags, right? When Two-strapping it, backpacks are, in fact, better for your back, especially if you favor an ergonomically designed one. Most will usually come with a built-in sleeve for your laptop, and roomy pockets negating the need to dig around for your car keys (or bus pass!)
All things considered, though, a tote bag might be better bang for your buck. A sleek leather bag will last you years, from the classroom to the board room. If you have the opportunity, invest in a mid-range purse now, but if you have the extra cash and don't mind it getting beaten up, a high-end bag could be worth a shot too. If you're working in an office, while taking a full or part time course load, a bag like this will allow you to bring in some homework that you'll be spending your break time working on.
Now, what to carry (in addition to your text books, obviously): One or two pouches, for pens and pencils, and makeup for retouching, would not go amiss in your bag. Keeping them in a pouch will allow for easy access and will prevent the dreaded lost pen-cap stain on the bottom of your bag. If you're forgetful, you should also be carrying a planner, no matter your course load or work schedule. The simple act of writing things down will help the memory process along. If your coursework allows for it, copies of your syllabi are a great idea too.


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The Texas House began speeding through a slate of gun bills Saturday, giving quick preliminary approval to bills to reduce the amount of classroom instruction needed for a concealed handgun permit, allow permits to be renewed online and reduce fees for reserve peace officers, veterans, Texas guard members and correctional officers.
The three bills, which top a list of gun bills up for House consideration, were approved within a half hour. They need a final House vote before heading to the Senate for consideration or consideration of House changes.
Senate Bill 864 by Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, as approved by senators would reduce the number of hours of classroom instruction needed for a permit from the current 10 to 15 to six. The House version by Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Canton, would change that to four to six hours. After a final House vote, it will return to the Senate for consideration of House changes.
House Bill 48 by Flynn would allow online renewal of concealed handgun permits. It will go to the Senate for consideration after another House vote.
House Bill 485 by Rep. Sarah Davis, R-West University Place, originally was filed to reduce concealed handgun fees for reserve peace officers and honorably discharged veterans. Davis expressed concern over amendments to broaden the lists of those who are eligible for reduced fees, saying they were worthy but costly. She said her original bill would cost the state $800,000, while the amendments would cost several million dollars in lost revenue.
But after an amendment to add Texas guard members survived a motion to table it, Davis said she would accept the amendments to avoid lawmakers having to cast votes against adding groups. Lawmakers also added an amendment to give the discount to correctional officers. A proposed amendment to reduce the fee for everyone was ruled not germane to the bill.


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Tears, Trials, and Other Troubles for Famous Family
Testimony at the elder abuse trial of Anthony D. Marshall reveals family plagued by dysfunction.
During the first three weeks of his trial, Anthony D. Marshall sat stoically at the defendant's table. The former Marine and diplomat betrayed no emotion as witness after witness—many old acquaintances, some even friends—gave testimony supporting criminal charges that he plundered his senile mother's estate.
Then his twin sons, Alec and Philip, added their voices to the government's chorus of accusers.
Like many witnesses before them, the twins, 56, testified that their grandmother, New York socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor—"Gagi," they called her—wasn't mentally fit when their father orchestrated an allegedly fraudulent will change that increased his inheritance by tens of millions of dollars. Alec and Philip also described their distant, painstakingly formal relationship with their father. They even detailed Marshall's demands that his sons make an appointment for the rare occasions they visited him.
The relationship, Philip Marshall recently told the AARP Bulletin, "isn't what is typically looked for in a father."
With his sons displaying their father's failings to the world, Marshall's stony countenance crumbled. During a break in testimony, Marshall, 85 and walking with a cane, made his way to a bench in the hallway outside the Manhattan courtroom. He sat and quietly cried as his wife, Charlene, tried to comfort him.
While the twins' testimony about their relationship with Marshall had no direct connection to his criminal charges, it did provide an almost too personal glimpse into the generations of family dysfunction that provide the backstory of this case. Belonging to the family of Brooke Russell Kuser Marshall Astor brings unimaginable wealth, power and privilege. It also comes with a debilitating inheritance of alcoholism, domestic abuse, divorce and parental indifference.
Elder abuse: a family issue
That a member of a family has been accused of abusing an older, more vulnerable relative isn't surprising. Of elder abuse cases reported in a 2003 study by the National Center on Elder Abuse, two-thirds were perpetrated by a family member.
Nor should it be surprising that a person accused of committing elder abuse belongs to a family with long-standing interpersonal troubles, according to family therapists and elder abuse experts interviewed for this story. In such families retaliation "can certainly play itself out, particularly later in life when the roles are reversed and the child is in charge and the parent is dependent," says Dan Neuharth, a family therapist in the San Francisco area.
And when it comes to money and family dysfunction, says Ronald Chester, who teaches wills, estates and trusts at New England Law School, there's one basic rule: "The more money, the more dysfunction."
In the case of Brooke Astor's family, the more dysfunction, the more courtroom drama.
History of legal battles
People v. Anthony Marshall is at least the fourth family-on-family legal proceeding involving the defendant in his lifetime. Claiming to be upset that Marshall had adopted the last name of his stepfather, his biological father, J. Dryden Kuser, sued him 60 years ago in an attempt to recoup the trust fund he had provided for his son years earlier. The family of Marshall's second stepfather, Vincent Astor, sued Brooke, claiming she coerced Vincent to change his will while on his deathbed in 1959.
In the summer of 2006, Marshall's son Philip filed a petition in the Manhattan courts to have his father removed as Brook Astor's guardian, claiming his father and stepmother were neglecting his grandmother, allowing her to live in squalor and denying her such essentials as quality food, heat and even medicine. Ultimately, the petition filed by Philip led the Manhattan district attorney's office to open an investigation resulting in Marshall's current elder abuse trial.
Tony's early years
An argument can be made that Tony Marshall owes his existence to family dysfunction. At the age of 16 in 1919, Brooke Russell married J. Dryden Kuser, a drunken, womanizing, wife-beating grandson of a U.S. senator. Five years later she conceived what would be her only child after her husband forced himself on her, Meryl Gordon writes in Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach.
In her 1980 autobiography, Footprints, Astor recorded her reaction to learning she was pregnant: "having not participated very willingly in this future event, I was perturbed." While she was still pregnant, Astor claims, Kuser, a New Jersey politician, broke her jaw during one beating. But she stayed for the sake of her unborn child, whom they would name Anthony Dryden Kuser.
After her son was born, Brooke dealt with the anger of being abused by Kuser "by spending as much time as possible in Manhattan with friends," Gordon wrote. "She professed to love her son but handed off his daily care to nannies." By 1930, she was having an affair with a stockbroker named Charles "Buddie" Marshall. Brooke flew to Reno, Nev., spent three months there to establish residency and divorced Kuser, according to newspaper clips from the time. Buddie Marshall left his wife and handicapped son to marry Brooke. Tony was 8. Marshall didn't like the boy's beloved nanny, so Brooke fired her. Within a year or two, the Marshalls sent Tony to boarding school.
In 2001 Tony Marshall self-published Dash, a fictionalized account of his life, Gordon writes in Mrs. Astor Regrets, as a pitiful boy born a "solitary scion of a rich British family with a distant mother and a tyrannical, cruel father."
Marshall wrote: "As the infant developed into childhood he was regarded in both physique as well as in manner as a hereditary mistake." Sent to boarding school, the boy "was lonely, friendless, forever hungry and physically exhausted when he rose each morning after a night in the clutch of terrifying nightmares."
The parent "pleaser"
Children who grow up in dysfunctional families typically follow one of three routes, Neuharth said. They rebel against their parents; they "go away," often drifting toward alcohol or drugs; or they attempt to "endlessly please their parents." Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Marshall's trial have found little common ground, but they agree that Tony Marshall chose a role of "pleaser"—at least for a period.
Though Marshall would later live extremely well off his mother's wealth, at first it was the other way around. After Brooke married Buddie Marshall, the substantial alimony she had been receiving from her first husband was placed, by divorce agreement, into a trust fund for Tony. When her second husband's finances took a turn for the worse, Brooke Marshall approached her son with hand out. Tony dutifully gave her money, even paying for an in-ground swimming pool at their summer home and buying his mother jewelry from Cartier and Tiffany, Gordon writes.
And Tony was getting pressure from both sides. By then Kuser, addicted to alcohol and gambling, was broke and chronically borrowed money from Tony until the son had to cut him off. That's when Kuser unsuccessfully sued Tony for his trust fund. Tony had changed his last name to Marshall, and as a result, his biological father claimed, he didn't deserve the "Kuser money."
In 1952, Buddie Marshall died of a heart attack after a 20-year marriage described by Astor in a 1980 New York Times interview as "perfect." Eleven months later, Brooke married Vincent Astor, who 40 years earlier had inherited an $87 million estate after his mogul father, John Jacob Astor, went down with the Titanic. By then, the 29-year-old Tony was living in Washington, D.C., and working for the CIA when he had his twin boys, Alec and Philip.
Irene Deitch, a professor emeritus of psychology at the College of Staten Island and a practicing family psychologist, says children of emotionally detached parents often treat their own children with similar coolness. "We can only transmit as parents what we know, even if it's all negative, because you don't know anything better," Deitch says.
Tony Marshall proved to be only marginally better at parenthood than his own parents. In 1961 he divorced his first wife, Elizabeth, when the twins were 8. At first, Tony attempted to maintain regular contact with his boys, though he refused to kiss or hug them because he regarded it as "unmanly," Philip says.
By 1965, the boys, their mother and new stepdad lived in the suburbs of Boston and later in Vermont. The boys would only see their father, who had also remarried, maybe three times a year, Philip said. The fact that the visits always required an appointment didn't strike Philip as being odd at the time because that's the way it had always been.
And so it remained, formal and distant but civil. As Philip and Alec grew into young men in rural Vermont eschewing the Astor money and lifestyle, their father settled into middle age and became completely dependent, both financially and socially, upon a woman who former New York Mayor Abe Beame was saying at the time "has done more for New York City than any other one person."
Vincent Astor had died in 1959, leaving Brooke a $60 million foundation and a personal estate of about equal value, which she inherited after his relatives' failed lawsuit claiming Brooke tampered with his will. That foundation's principal and the interest earned from it enabled her to give away nearly $200 million to city charities over the next four decades and position herself atop New York society.
The ever-changing will
During that time, Astor changed her wills "like people change socks," her son's defense attorney Frederick Hafetz argued in his opening statement in April. Between 1953 and 2003, Astor changed wills 38 times. At first, many of the changes revolved around the foundation and how much the charities she handpicked were to receive.
As time passed, however, and Astor grew older, she began exerting what is known in the estates and trust business as "dead hand control"—that is, dictating how her family would spend her money after she was gone. Many of Astor's friends and acquaintances have testified during the trial that one of her primary goals was to make sure that none of the Astor fortune ended up in the hands of her son's third wife, Charlene, whom she came to openly detest.
"As we get older, we start sensing a loss of control," says law professor Chester, author of From Here to Eternity? Property and the Dead Hand." Our children go out of our orbit. We feel our bodies deteriorate and we start looking at the day when we're going to lose total control. We want to grab on to what control we still have, which in this case is basically the money."
There was a time in the late 1980s when Marshall's twin sons, then grown men, unexpectedly reconnected with their father. Philip and Tony Marshall took a couple of trips to Bermuda together, went sailing, sat on the beach, ate good food. Alec tagged along on one of these reunions. Tony Marshall was still formal and stiff, Philip recalls, but it resembled at least the beginning of the relationship they never had when the twins were younger.
Enter Mrs. Marshall No. 3
That's when Charlene entered the picture, leaving her Episcopalian priest husband for Marshall. After that the Marshall twins' relationship with their father grew increasingly distant. Philip Marshall recalls his father visiting him once after his first child was born in 1991 and then never again, not even after the birth of a second child. Eventually, Philip says, Charlene came to dominate his father, and there was no father-son contact whatsoever.
"My grandmother was such a dominant force in my father's life," Philip, a professor of historic preservation at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, told the Bulletin. "And just when her influence waned along with her fading mental capacities, along came Charlene to fill the void."
Prosecutors have charged that Marshall coerced his mother into changing her wills long after she was mentally capable of doing so and, with the aid of his codefendant, lawyer Francis X. Morrissey Jr., even forged her name on a will change. The will amendments shifted total control of the entire $185 million Astor estate into the hands of Marshall and his wife.
Though the mother-son relationship was complicated, Marshall's attorneys have claimed, Astor loved and relied on Tony. The will changes near the end of her life—she died in 2007 at age 105—were an attempt to do right by her dutiful only child. "The fact that these people are not huggers in public doesn't mean anything," Kenneth Warner, Marshall's trial attorney, told the Bulletin. "Ultimately it came down to a decision of Brooke to let Tony decide."
Whether it's a case of Astor finally relinquishing her "dead hand control" or Marshall taking through deceit is still to be determined by a jury. But one thing is for sure: The final will alterations not only shortchange Astor's chosen charities our of tens of millions of dollars but virtually cut Marshall's sons and subsequent generations out of the will.
New alliances
Around the time that he was losing newly found contact with his father, Philip Marshall rekindled his relationship with his grandmother based on her desire to spend time with Philip's kids, her great-grandchildren. This "was really something," testified Astor's attorney and dear friend, Henry Christensen, because everyone knew "Brooke Astor did not like children."
Astor had spent some time with her grandkids at her sprawling Maine summer home, Cove End, and discussed with Christensen the possibility of leaving the $5.5 million property to Philip and his children. When Marshall earned of the plans, he reacted angrily. He eventually gained control of the property through a suspicious will change and then quietly deeded it to the wife his mother despised.
In his courtroom testimony, Christensen recounted Marshall's words on the subject: " 'I can't be in a position that Philip has a vested interest. I won't have him breathing down my neck and waiting for me to die.' "
Sean Gardiner is a veteran journalist who most recently covered the criminal justice system for the Village Voice.
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B.o.B has a "Rolling Out" Magazine Cover coming. There's an interview too. We've got a couple of excerpts. Check 'em out.
How he signed his first record contract:
"I was in Miami and went to Jim Jonson and he heard the music. The music was in the beginning stages, but he believed in it. We stayed in Miami until they got the contract right in New York. We flew to New York and went to the offices of Atlantic Records. We walked into the conference room and I had to perform all of the songs off of the demo on the spot. I had to put it all on the line. I put it all on the line. It was signed on Oct. 3, 2007."
What he learned from working with T.I.:
"The most important thing I've learned from Tip is bigger than words. He's genuine. When he talks, you know he's not telling you a lie. He's totally honest with you. In this industry, there can't be any grey areas. You have to be honest and be able to articulate what you're trying to say. If everyone was like that, the industry would be so much better."


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TORONTO - There is something missing from Joe Sakic's new plaque at the Hockey Hall of Fame and it's not because the printer made a mistake.
Among the list of his many achievements is no mention of his 21st NHL season, the one that was never played because of the 2004-05 lockout. With the sport back in another dark period brought on by another labour dispute, Sakic reflected on the year that never was on the day he took his place among hockey's greats.
"I lost a year of hockey," Sakic said Monday prior to the induction ceremony. "It would have been 21 years instead of 20. That's what you lose."
Fellow inductees Mats Sundin and Adam Oates were also in the NHL when the last lockout hit while Pavel Bure, the fourth member of the class, was already retired.
Sundin never managed to win a Stanley Cup during his career and can't help but wonder what could have been had the 2004-05 been played. His Maple Leafs were on a run of six consecutive playoff appearances before that work stoppage.
"It was awful," said Sundin. "I think it's devastating."
While all four of the inductees seem to have thoroughly enjoyed their induction weekend, the current lockout made it a more subdued affair than usual. They were to have been honoured at Air Canada Centre prior to a scheduled Leafs-Devils game on Friday night — a missed opportunity in particular for Sundin, the longtime Toronto captain, and Oates, who grew up in the city.
Sundin is back living in his native Sweden now but the impact of another work stoppage hasn't gone unnoticed even from a distance.
"I think it's huge," he said. "The National Hockey League is kind of representing the game of hockey. It's the biggest representative of the game of hockey in the world. When the NHL is not going, people lose focus on hockey.
"For everybody that is involved in the sport, it's huge to get the guys back playing as soon as possible."
Added Sakic: "It hurts the players, it hurts the owners, it hurts the fans and it hurts the game."
The two men at the centre of collective bargaining negotiations, commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, both attended Monday night's ceremony. Bettman referred to "difficult times" after paying tribute to the inductees in a speech.
"All of us — fans, teams, players — look forward to the time the game returns," said Bettman.
The lockout was also a hot topic of discussion on the red carpet as honoured members and others from the hockey world arrived for the ceremony. Hall of Famer Mike Gartner, who was active in the NHLPA during his playing days and later worked for the union, expressed concern for the sport.
"I think that one of the main dangers is that the fans and the game is taken for granted, that it's going to come back to the same health that it was before," said Gartner. "When you look at the last time that it happened, coming back to record attendance and record profits and taking a business that went from $2.5-billion to $3.3-billion in revenue, I think that tendency can be — and I don't think it's consciously — is to take all that for granted.
"I think that there's a real danger in it. I sense that there's more of a danger now than there was in the past."
Igor Larionov, another Hall of Famer who now works as a player agent, called for "common sense."
"I'm very positive it's going to be resolved in a matter of weeks, maybe two or three weeks," said Larionov. "You'll see the game back in shape and the players playing."
All four members of this year's Hall of Fame class were affected by a labour disruption during their careers — Bure was playing for the Vancouver Canucks during the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season — and it's reasonable to expect that trend will continue for some time after four work stoppages in the last 20 years.
Oates finds himself in a unique position because the lockout has delayed the start of his first season as a head coach with the Washington Capitals. He was hired for the position on the same June day he found out he was heading into the Hall, making "for a pretty emotional 15 minutes."
The last season of his playing career came in 2003-04 with the Edmonton Oilers and he was on the fence about retiring afterwards. The decision ended up being made for him.
"I thought about (continuing to play) because I wasn't happy with my year in Edmonton, so I didn't really want to go out that way," he said. "I was considering it, but (the lockout) made it easy."
He doesn't harbour any regrets about being quietly ushered out of the game. In fact, it fit the personality of somebody who avoided the limelight by making his name as an excellent passer rather than a scorer.
"That's kind of the guy I am — a little bit understated," said Oates. "Actually Joe (Sakic) said it this morning: We're all understated guys, believe it or not."
Bure's career was ended prematurely because of knee injuries and he only ended up playing 702 NHL games, just slightly less than half as many as Sundin, Sakic and Oates. But he made the most of what time he had by scoring 437 goals.
He never dreamed he'd find a plaque with his name in the Hall and spoke with emotion in his voice during his induction speech.
"I think it's the biggest achievement you can get in hockey," said Bure. "The selection committee combines everything you've done for hockey worldwide, so for me it's a huge honour. It feels great."
For now, hockey at its highest level remains on hold.
Sakic works as an adviser to the Colorado Avalanche and is as anxious as anybody to see the NHL resume. Looking back, the pain of sitting out an entire season quickly went away when a new CBA was signed.
"I remember coming back that next training camp I was pretty excited to be back and playing the game," said Sakic. "You realize how much you miss the game."


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It's clear that despite a healthy economy, not every part of San Diego is enjoying economic prosperity. This week, GlobeSt.com sat down with Jim Zortman, sector VP, strategic operations of Northrop Grumman and newly appointed chairman of EDC, for a chat about what he hopes to do about this issue and others.
What are your goals in your new role as chairman of the San Diego Regional EDC?
As chairman, I am committed to championing these initiatives, but it's clear that despite a healthy economy, not every part of San Diego is enjoying economic prosperity. I hope to broaden our agenda to focus on economic development issues in communities that have not yet benefited from the region's development. It is my vision that the broad-based coalition of partners that catalyzed the region's life-sciences, technology, R&D, defense and aerospace sectors can also come together to develop job opportunities and prosperity for more San Diegans.
What do you feel are the biggest economic development challenges in the San Diego market?
Zortman: We have all heard the comment that businesses should operate "anywhere but California." We know it is not cheap to do business here. But it is our job as economic developers to understand and leverage our assets and competitive advantages—just as your readers often have to do as real estate professionals. California is number one in economic categories like foreign investment, venture capital and job growth; we rank first in sectors like agriculture, defense, biotechnology and life sciences; our public universities are nationally ranked and produce top-tier talent—the list goes on and on. San Diego plays an important role in each of these fields.
San Diego is home to the largest concentration of military anywhere in the world. It is the underpinning of defense sectors where we have unmatched dominance: cybersecurity, defense, communications, unmanned systems and maritime. San Diego is the epicenter of the future of biotechnology—specifically genomics. We are home to Craig Venter, who was the first person to sequence the human genome, and to Illumina, the company that can now sequence the genome in just over 24 hours for under $1,000. San Diego has more than 80 research institutions, more than any other region in the country.
Not only are we home to a diversity of thriving industries, but we are also a top-tier talent pool driving our region's growth. Specifically, San Diego gained 72,000 degree holders in 2014 alone, more than any other major metro area in the country. Also, San Diego has the lowest turnover rate in tech and scientific R&D jobs, which is attracting the attention of technology companies across the country.
Continually, we have what talent wants: the lowest average commute time of any major metro area in the country; an influx of creative-office space as seen with iboss Cybersecurity's space in UTC; competitive wages—ranking second average annual pay for R&D employees—and more.
And if that's not enough, let me point out that the economy of Texas could pretty much double overnight and still not match the strength of California's economy. In the end, dispelling myths about doing business here and telling San Diego's story is our collective responsibility.
What do you feel are the biggest economic-development opportunities that are perhaps not being taken advantage of in the San Diego market?
Zortman: One of the biggest opportunities we have as a region is to help companies export their products and services. In 2013, San Diego ranked 18th of the 100 largest metro areas in total export value, export-supported jobs, GDP and population size. But the region was only 61st in terms of export intensity—total export value as a share of the region's GDP. According to the Institute for International Economics, companies that export not only grow faster, but are less likely to go out of business than non-exporting companies.
World Trade Center San Diego – now housed within EDC – has introduced the MetroConnect Program to provide small- and medium-sized enterprises with resources and funding to help open new markets abroad. The Go Global Initiative and programs like MetroConnect help San Diego maximize its global competitiveness.
What else should our readers know about San Diego Regional EDC?
Zortman: The real estate industry is a key partner to EDC. Every day our team works with brokers and developers to help enable and encourage companies to grow here. Using data on the region's industry clusters, workforce talent and network of partners, EDC is able to assist companies with expansions throughout the mega region. Some of San Diego's recent wins include the attraction of tech companies such as Bizness Apps and Wrike.
Real estate professionals should also use the research EDC produces to better understand industry sectors poised for growth. For example, EDC recently released a study on San Diego's software development industry. The study showed the region's software ecosystem impacts more than 100,000 jobs in the regional economy, with an economic impact totaling $12.2 billion annually; venture-capital investment in software was up by 38 percent in 2015; and the industry has an anticipated employment growth of 18.1 percent in the next year—all signs that the region's tech ecosystem is gaining national visibility.


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Roger Strong has more than 42 years of skiing experience under his belt.
But even a lifetime of training on the slopes is no match for an avalanche.
In April 2011, Roger was climbing up his favorite backcountry run when he triggered a snow slide that hurled him and two of his friends several hundred feet down the mountain.
See Roger's incredible story >
Roger's horizontal skis were clotheslined by a tree, and his tibias, the bone that connects the knee to the ankle, were ripped from his femurs.
Over the past decade an average of 25 people died each year in avalanches in the United States. The list of fatalities has ballooned in the last half-century alongside the growth of ski tourism.
Fortunately Roger survived. He returned to the spot that mangled his legs and bound him to a wheelchair for more than three months exactly one year after the horrific accident
Roger's memory of that terrifying day — and inspiring recovery — are chronicled in a short film by ARC'TERYX.


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The "Liberation Upon Seeing" Sand Mandala & Retreat was completed on 11/2/14;
please read the PRESS RELEASE here.
There are three main spiritual practices (or sadhanas) we focus on at our centers. Each relies upon the support of one of the three deities pictured in our banner above*: Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava), Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara), and Medicine Buddha (Orgyen Menla).
The "Shower of Blessings" by the great Mipham Rinpoche is our main Guru Yoga practice which is centered around the recitation of the Seven-Line Prayer. This practice also includes a Tsog offering, which is a special practice of offering food to the gurus, yidams, dakinis, protectors, buddhas, and bodhisattvas. This is practiced on the 10th day of the lunar month (Guru Rinpoche Day), and on the 25th day of the lunar month (Dakini Day) unless a Dakini practice is held.
The main practice of Chenrezig (Sanskrit: Avalokiteshvara) is "For the benefit of all beings as vast as the skies" by the great siddha Thangtong Gyalpo. This sadhana centers around the recitation of the blessed mantra "Om Mani Peme Hung" which is considered to be inseparable from Chenrezig himself. Chenrezig is visualized above one's head and lights and blessings are sent out to all of the beings suffering in each of these realms. We gather for this practice every Sunday morning at 10:00.
The main practice of Medicine Buddha is "The River of Lapis Lazuli" Ritual of Menla taken from the "Sky of Dharmata" Jewel excerpt from the Revealed Treasure "Clear Expanse of the Mind". This is a special practice considered to be especially powerful for healing all kinds of illness, physical, mental, and spiritual.
Medicine Buddha practice occurs on the eighth day of the lunar calendar.
Green Tara practice is also held monthly in Santa Barbara, on the 1st day of the lunar calendar. There are other important sadhanas that we also practice regularly, such as Ngondro (Preliminary Practices), Shakyamuni Buddha Puja, Protector Practices, Fire Puja (Riwo Sang Chö), Nyung Ne (Fasting Practice), T'hroma Chöd; and Dorje Drolö.
For a complete list of events, dates and times, please visit our calendar.
*thanks to Pema Namdol Thaye for the images in our banner.


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HTML is certainly the first tag-based language. However, it has seen a lot of change in the past 22 years ever since it was first launched in the year 1990. The first web page was made out of the HTML. Now we have the latest HTML 5 mobile features that is going to make your life easier. We did have had limited number of tags when HTML was first launched. However, with HTML5, we are seeing a new dimension and we have some unlimited number of tags. We will be having a look at two important part of the HTML5 that is certainly going to be an important proof that we are up with the advanced version.
Let us discuss the forms at first. The forms have been upgraded in HTML5. You will find a lot of current hack out here in HTML5. There is so much to learn in case of HTML5 certainly.
We do have various elements that are new certainly and they have been added to make sure that we have more freedom as well as better structure. For generic document and application section, we now have the section and we can use these using the h1, h2, h3, h4 and all the other such tags. For the blog entry, we do have the Article tag. Well, this is a very important tag and is mostly widely used for kindle and nook tags. We have figure that represent the self-contained flow content, that is referenced as the single unit. These are great for HTML5 mobile.
You can now measure the disk usage using the meter tag. We have the audio and video tags as well. You can highlight and mark some text in some document using the mark tag. You can make the ruby annotations as well and we have the ruby, rt and rp. Suppose you want to provide the word definition on click then you can use the details tag. You can invoke a command using the command tag. Using the data list, you can input to the combo box and these are quite great feature for HTML5 mobile.
Html now certainly has the support of the IRI. However, you can make full use of it only in case if the document encoding is either UTF-8 or UTF-16. With Input element, you now have some more values for type attribute. We now have tel, search, email, date time, date, moth, week, time, datetime-local, number, range and color. It is quite incredible; we are seeing so many changes with respect to the HTML4.
Some of the new form attributes for input, select, output, button, label, object, fieldset as well as button allow us to associate the controls to the form and we do have more number of controls. However, we do have more number of attributes and that is certainly a great thing for you undoubtedly. You will find that HTML5 mobile is going to be more dynamic as well as we can use the JavaScript as well. Undoubtedly, it is awesome to have so many features. The biggest plus point is that HTML 5 has opened the gate for new level of mobile development. If you are interested in collaborating with TBL Development Firm, contact them on their website.


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D-Block is a video web series that is produced by the Atlanta Falcons linebacking corps and broadcast from the team's locker room. It's wonderful. Earlier this week, D-Block somehow managed to get a shout out from Mark Wahlberg while he was promoting his latest movie, Broken City.
Wahlberg doing his Wahlberg thing ("If you need a...[flexes]...strong safety for the game, let me know.") is fun and all, but what's really important about this video is that tremendously creepy guy sitting in the background. His slouched demeanor and hidden, unflinching gaze get more terrifying with each viewing. Wait, you guys can see him, too, right? Because I kind of feel like he's staring at me and only me. Oh god, please tell me you can see him, too.


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Running into a camouflaged prototype or mule out on the street is a rare and special occasion even if it turns out to be some boring family sedan or crossover. But running into a prototype for the upcoming BMW M4? Well, that's downright magical.
Over at BMW forum Bimmerpost, user kyleshim got so caught up in the magic of encountering an M4 in development, he chased after it on foot in freezing-ass Jersey City while carrying a video camera. I certainly can't blame him. That's an awesome get.
The other thing we can take away from this is that if the production model stays close to this, the M4's exhaust note will sound ludicrously mean.


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How to Wear Spring Florals
What better way to prepare for the approaching spring than with gorgeous florals? WSJ's Elizabeth Holmes visited Lucky Magazine's Elle Strauss to find out what flowered pieces are a must for your wardrobe this season, and how to style them without looking like a blooming fool. Bring on the sun!
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The debut full length album from Greater Pacific sees its release on September 4th right here on Yer Bird Records! We are excited to have the crew back after their EP release of 'Rainfall' early last year. This time you find the album Incandescent a full 12 tracks immersed in their signature laid back Americana. You might even get some keyboards alongside that great pedal steel!
Also of note, the original artwork for the cover is from new friend Karl Haglund - check him out on his website here.
Take a listen below to And You All Remain With Me from the new album, Incandescent!


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The Tube Open Movie
In Under 1 Week, Tube Surpasses Barebones Goal! Onward to full production funding -- next target: $50K.
Animation with substance. The crowd funds it, the crowd owns it. Tube is the experimental production of a 3D animated short about the dream and failure and achievement of immortality. It's also a love letter to free software and open culture that marks their convergence with independent filmmaking.
Your support will enable us to finish a movie in which a passionate volunteer team has invested years of hard labor.
Elephants Dream, the original open movie directed by Bassam Kurdali, proved it possible to make high quality 3D animated films using free, libre tools in a studio setting. The Tube project is a new experiment in distributed collaboration. From an undisclosed base in New England, it unites a team of local and international artists using cutting-edge tools for independent filmmaking based in - what else - the hypertubes.
Tube will be licensed as CC BY-SA 3.0. Follow the open movie production process at URCHN.ORG
As a frame of reference, Elephants Dream cost €100,000 to produce; Sintel more recently, €400,000 -- or $550,000. We got to this point in our experiment by placing Tube in a teaching context, and through the participation of a lot of talented people who have worked so far for next to nothing, but also need to eat. In the course of making Tube we are developing useful tools, and we would like to release the movie with its impressive data assets before they obsolesce! Our aim is to prove the open movie model as a viable way to create independent animation. So, in order to finish production in the next 7 months, we ask for your support.
We have set our 30 day Kickstarter goal to a conservative sum that can maintain momentum by going quickly into work already in production. It will fund key artists from our team, and potentially some new hires. If community patronage can exceed that target, it will ensure that we are able to work better and faster, and help us establish the open movie as a model we and others can continue to use.
If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution please contact us; we also have fiscal sponsorship.
Other ways you can help!
- Spread the word
- Add our banner to your website: horizontal, horizontal-sml, vertical
- Get involved as an Executive Producer
URCHN is an animation group developing an internet-based production pipeline rooted in free/libre tools. It is perhaps the first studio of allied artists outside the Blender software's own Institute to take up the experiment of producing ambitious and costly computer animated films with content and data CC licensed to the public. Using a business model that invests in commonwealth, and which feeds directly into education, our goal is to explore the versatile medium of animation independent of typical commercial pressures that restrict it to genre. Enhancements we develop to the free/libre software toolset support the proliferation of varied creative works. At the same time, our participatory media encourage literacy in the underlying tools and systems that aid or impede expression, to influence how we assemble not only in culture, but as a global society.
URCHN is affiliated with the Bit Films incubator of Hampshire College, where students and graduate artists work alongside professionals to develop their skills, their reels, and gain screen credit in animated filmmaking. We open internships to application each summer, fall and spring.
Bassam had hardly discovered the very cool 3D software Blender, then available as freeware, when in 2002 its parent company NaN announced bankruptcy. Despondent at the threat of its demise, users rallied to the news that Blender's primary author, Ton Roosendaal, had brokered a plan with creditors to free the source code under the GNU General Public License, for the sum of €100,000. In a few short weeks the community achieved the target of the Free Blender Fund, and the libre Blender CG suite -- modeller, animator, video editor, compositor, renderer and game engine -- was born.
Computer animation is today's cathedral, an overarching art that collects disparate forms (programming, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, literature), and which collectively they advance. In 2005 work began on the first 'open movie' -- Elephants Dream. Another early example of crowdfunding, the short was conceived in part to demonstrate the contested viability of libre tools in a production environment. It not only saw a dramatic real-time overhaul to the Blender software, but captured a wide audience and galvanized the entire ecology of libre tools and culture: its influence was recognized from CG festivals to financial newspapers to the Museum of Modern Art. The success of the project enabled the Blender Foundation to set up a permanent Institute, with further productions organized to drive software development and showcase its capabilities.
Open tools have become an important global resource. While One Laptop Per Child brings the wealth of open computing to little-developed areas, comparatively affluent countries where PC infrastructure (hardware + connectivity) already exists lag in adoption. Developed countries promote increasingly restrictive and monopolistic standards that impoverish social discourse and capital. Copyright and Patent, meant to feed inventors, but also experiment and the public domain, are today used in defense of a regressively feudal system from which neither cultural nor economic benefit can easily flow. Lofted by the most powerful elements of industry, such developments also lay the groundwork of a control society: important historical films cannot be shown because of permissions issues; Ian McEwan is charged with plagiarism for citing a WWII memoir -- or, referencing collective memory; and in the United States, we use uninspected election software to institute government if it has been judged "Intellectual Property". URCHN implicitly critiques the role of IP in formulating the terms/structures of public discourse – because Property as applied to Speech creates vacancies in memory; its fantasy is criminalization and control. Perversely, it may be that no quarter has done more than the entertainment industry to promote dystopian technology (e.g. DRM, DMCA, ACTA, SOPA, PIPA). Now, in this moment, copyright has metastasized to threaten not just the cultural economy, but the internet we live on. There is no copyright policy, only Internet policy; there is no Internet policy, only policy.
Reformulating Biko's observation that the most powerful tool in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed in market terms gives us the problem known as 'mind-share'. A populace conditioned by unregulated industry will be slow to notice the freedoms it is losing, or to be aware of rich alternatives even when they are almost under its nose. Open tools and licensing standards have ripened; Fedora and Ubuntu Linux have made it easy; peer-to-peer networking (e.g. BitTorrent) is positioned among the vital organs of grassroots media. But a fork is in place between the collaborative and competitive systems: closed tools are standard, perceived to be king. For students and professionals, working outside that standard can be fatally babelizing. For this reason, interest in open media far exceeds its present ecology.
Purely synthetic, 3D animation has a remarkable expressive capacity, and by its uniquely modular nature holds the potential to grow a public archive of reusable data. The medium is also labor intensive. The challenge animators face, the challenge we are all trying to solve, is of how to fund the expensive work of really interesting independent animation. Despite numerous successes of permissive distribution in a variety of media in recent years, there is no other CG studio outside the Blender Institute yet founded on the open model. URCHN wants to see the commons as fertile terrain, and not a marginal zone beside which the real business of culture transpires. With the Tube project, our central experiment is to produce high value, radically open work, assuming the principle that what you feed into the global commons will inspire the commons to feed you.
When the medium and means of production is digital, we don't need to endlessly mimic economic behaviors derived from material scarcity. Instead, we can respond to the condition of digital reproducibility in pursuit of a new mode of production. Promoting a libre toolset, URCHN offers the full data of its filmmaking pipeline -- usually a closely guarded asset -- and invites the audience to take apart our work to advance its own.
We continue the trend begun by the Blender Foundation: demonstrating a model of independent production that invests in commonwealth, URCHN seeks to engender a new industry of participatory media. Tube will be released in formats from handheld to High-Definition; without closing off traditional distribution avenues, its licensing status as an open movie is also its passport to new ones. In a popular medium, when allowed to roam at will, such animation acts as a wide ambassador for free/libre tools and culture.
-- Fateh Slavitskaya, Executive Director, URCHN; Writer + Producer, Tube
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Douglas Farley, director of the Erie Canal Discovery Center in Lockport since its opening nearly a decade ago, has joined the Museum of disABILITY History in Buffalo, as its new director.
"I loved my job, but I realized I needed one more move to finish up my career on the highest possible plateau," Farley said. "Part of what convinced me to take the job at the [Discovery] Center was the sense of urgency in the situation. Now, I have accomplished much of what I had set out to do there and am very pleased with the result."
Farley's main mission in his new job is to improve the Museum's sustainability by increasing tours, memberships, new volunteer opportunities and hosting events.
The Museum of disABILITY History, 3826 Main St., sponsored by People Inc., displays and preserves artifacts relating to the history of people with disabilities.


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Posts Tagged 'hamentashen'
Book Review | It's Purim Time!
by Latifa Berry Kropf
Score: 3
Photographs by Tod Cohen © 2005, KarBen Publishing, Inc. The little preschool shana punim return to celebrate Purim in their classroom. They dress up in costume, have hamentashen for their snack and deliver shalach manot to the preschool staff. While listening to their teacher read the Megillah, they shake their hand-made groggers so loud the [...]
Book Review | Mystery Bear: A Purim Story
by Leone Adelson
Score: 3
Illustrated by Naomi Howland © 2004, Clarion Books. A little bear cub wakes up from his winter's nap and finds he is starving. Not wanting to wake up his mother, he leaves the den to search for food. At the edge of the forest he smells a tasty aroma and sees a crowd of people [...]
Book Review | The Purim Surprise
by Lesley Simpson
Score: 2.5
Illustrated by Peter Church © 2004, KarBen Publishing, Inc. Naomi is sure that her mother has forgotten her seventh birthday. After all, they just moved into their new home, her birthday and Purim are three days away and instead of unpacking boxes, they have been baking Hamantashen and putting together Shalach Manot baskets for people [...]


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Pro wrestler Chris Benoit canceled a pay-per-view appearance at the "Vengeance" event in Houston because of "personal reasons" a day before he, his wife and their 7-year-old son were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
Details of the deaths "are going to prove a little bizarre" when released to the public, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Autopsies were scheduled Tuesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in DeKalb County.
Authorities were investigating the deaths at a secluded Fayette County home as a murder-suicide and were not seeking any suspects.
Investigators believe Benoit, (pronounced ben-WAH) killed his wife and son over the weekend and then himself sometime Monday. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in three different rooms of the house on Green Meadow Lane, in a subdivision off a gravel road about two miles from the Whitewater Country Club.
Ballard told The Associated Press a gun was not used in any of the deaths. But he declined to say how the three died.
"We're pretty sure we know, but we want to confirm it with the crime lab," Ballard said early Tuesday.
Fayette County Coroner C.J. Mowell did not return phone calls. The answering service for his funeral home said he was out of town.
World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning."
Sheriff's Lt. Tommy Pope told WSB-TV that the three were found about 2:30 p.m., but he wouldn't release other details.
Stamford, Conn.-based WWE also said on its Web site it had been asked by authorities not to release further information on the deaths of Benoit, 40; his wife, Nancy, 43; and son, Daniel.
Benoit was born in Montreal. He was a former world heavyweight champion, Intercontinental champion and held several tag-team titles over his career. He was known by several names including "The Canadian Crippler."
"WWE extends its sincerest thoughts and prayers to the Benoit family's relatives and loved ones in this time of tragedy," the company said in a statement on its Web site.
Benoit had maintained a home in metro Atlanta from the time he wrestled for the defunct World Championship Wrestling.
The WWE canceled its live "Monday Night RAW" card in Corpus Christi, Texas, and USA Network aired a three-hour tribute to Benoit in place of the scheduled wrestling telecast.
Benoit's wife managed several wrestlers and went by the stage name, "Woman," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
They met when her then-husband drew up a script that had them involved in a relationship as part of an ongoing story line on World Championship Wrestling, the newspaper said.
Benoit has two other children from a prior relationship.


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I mentioned earlier this week the CBC's misguided attempts at laying the blame of Brandon Crisps' death at the feet of pro-gaming, and not society, his parents or Crisp himself.
The segment of Fifth Estate aired last night and is now available to watch on their website. It is as frustrating as you might expect it to be.
Top Gun [CBC]


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Since the introduction of the original VariCam in 2002, the first high definition camera-recorder with the ability to over or under crank and create beautiful cinematic images, Panasonic's engineers have strived to bring innovative ideas to the production market.
Now in its third generation, the VariCam has arrived in two new variants, the VariCam 35, Super-35mm 4K camera and the VariCam HS, high speed 2/3 type camera. Featuring an innovative modular design, where the camera head can be separated from the recording module, enabling users to switch between super 35 and 2/3 type heads to best suit the shoot.
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I recently went over to a houseplant and gave it praise. I said, "Thank you clivia, for producing flowers for me. I know I don't deserve them because I don't do anything for you. I don't even wipe the dust off your beautiful green leaves. You are so undemanding that sometimes I've gone a whole month without watering you – and didn't wilt or complain. And now you are beginning to flower. Thank you." I really did say that. And I meant it.
Clivia, also known as Kaffir lily, is a plant that comes from South Africa where it lives in deep forests with low light conditions and survives much of the year without rain. So it is an ideal houseplant. It has18-24-inch glossy strap-like leaves and once a year it produces a tall flower stalk with a cluster of orange blossoms. I haven't done anything for mine, and it has produced two more plants, offsets from the parent plant. And now one of those two offsets is preparing to bloom, too.
But bloom time is unpredictable for my clivia. Keeping it quite dry in the winter in a cold room and then giving it a little liquid fertilizer now is supposed to help it wake up and bloom. I've never given mine fertilizer, and still it blooms. One year it bloomed in August and won a blue ribbon at the Cornish Fair.
I like keeping an aloe plant in the house to use occasionally on a burn or a bothersome bug bite. You have bought hand lotion with aloe vera in it, I'm sure. The aloe plants available for purchase have similar healing properties – just cut off a leaf and rub the cut surface on a burn, spreading its juices. Again, I do nothing for it. It sits in a north window, getting little or no direct sunlight. And it only gets watered very occasionally. Yet it has survived for 25 years or so. Benign neglect.
At the Vermont Flower Show I bought some perky little plants that I've had before: kalanchoe. Think energizer bunny. They are commonly sold in grocery in 2-inch pots, loaded with little pink or yellow or orange blossoms. And they just keep on blooming, for months, it seems. I keep mine on a morning-sun windowsill, and do actually give them water once a week. If I forget to water they droop, but quickly recover with a good soaking. I only paid $3.99each and they keep blooming. What's not to like?
Then there is the pony tail palm (Beaucarnea recurvata). This is a houseplant that reminds me of a soccer ball in a pot, topped with a woody stem and a big head of green strap-like leaves thrown off in all directions. I keep mine in a 12-inch deep pot and still the leaves are so long they hang down to the table.
In the summer I leave my ponytail palm on the deck where it gets a few hours of sunshine each day. In the winter I keep it in a west-facing window and only water once a month or so – the bulbous base stores water, and it goes somewhat dormant in winter anyhow.
Swedish ivy (Plectranthus sp.) is another "you can't kill me" plant. It is not an ivy, but does make long stems that will hang down and out of a pot. The leaves of mine are all green with purplish stems. Occasionally it will produce tiny light blue flowers. The great thing about Swedish ivy is that it is so easy to start new plants. Just cut off a few stems, put in a jar of water, and they will root. Then pot a group of them up for a nice pot of foliage. It does like more water than the other plants discussed above, but it always recovers if I let it dehydrate. It can appear dead, but so far, mine has always bounced back. The last of my favorite tough-as-a nail house plants is crown of thorns (Euphorbia milii). I have one that is at least a hundred years old, so you know that it has had some rough treatment in its day. I don't like the thorns, but I do like that it produces dozens of nice small bright red flowers all winter in a west-facing window. Like the others, it never seems to complain when I ignore it.
The worst thing you can do for most houseplants is to water too often. Most reliable, rock-solid houseplants come from the tropics, often from South Africa. Most can go a month or more without water – it's what they have to survive in the wild.
I don't fertilize houseplants. In nature no one comes along with liquid fish juice or a chemical solution to "help" them. Fertilizer will push growth – but I don't need bigger house plants. I need easy houseplants – and probably a few less than I have. Re-potting helps many houseplants, but those I mentioned above I have never re-potted, either. Crown of thorns is too prickly. I've read that clivia roots are almost impossible to pull apart. So I just say thanks to my plants, or offer them a few words of encouragement, and they do just fine.
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UK Treaties
Guidance to the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Treaty Section
The FCO Treaty Section supports government departments with advice on practice and procedural matters relating to the conclusion of treaties by the UK.
We also provide information on those treaties to which the UK is, or has been a party, including the UK Treaties Online (UKTO) service which is available to all users free of charge.
Our team performs a range of activities, including:
- advising on UK treaty practice and procedure including preparation of treaty texts, instruments of ratification and Full Powers (authority to sign treaties on behalf of the UK)
- publishing UK treaties as Command Papers with Explanatory Memoranda (EMs)
- registering with the United Nations details of treaties that have entered into force for the UK
This document is a guide to some of the important elements of the UK's treaty practice and procedure. It provides a link to UKTO, an interactive database enabling users of this site to research details of bilateral and multilateral treaties applying to the UK and contact details for an enquiry service which can help explain or clarify information on treaties applying to the UK.
UK Treaties Online
The UKTO service enables you to access details of over 14,000 treaties involving the UK. You can research the existence of treaties, find important information about them (such as the place and date of signature and entry into force date) and see which states or organisations participate in them.
Treaty texts
The UKTO database contains records of treaties published since the nineteenth century and links to their texts published as Command Papers in the UK Treaty Series from 1892 to present. Non-Treaty Series command papers published up to 2012 can be found on the archived version of our website (updated to 31 December 2012). The texts of most treaty Command Papers irrespective of Series can also be found on the UK Parliamentary Papers site.
UKTO guidance notes
We recommend that you take time to read the guidance notes as presented on the home page.
Treaty Enquiries Service
Treaty Information Section maintains records of treaties involving the UK stored on a database which supplies information to UKTO. Electronic treaty records were introduced in 1987, and prior to that date were stored in manual registers and other physical formats. The electronic database records are continually updated and provide the basis of our Treaty Enquiries Service which is able to provide advice on treaties which involve the UK and its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Treaty Information Section also holds historical indexes and finding aids.
It should be noted that Treaty Section staff are not able to provide an interpretation of a treaty, or advise on its applicability to a particular situation. We can however generally advise on whether a treaty has entered into force, details of the signatories and contracting parties, together with dates of signature, ratification, approval, acceptance, accession, succession and withdrawals or denunciations. Reservations, declarations or objections can usually be identified, and where applicable, the depositary.
Treaty texts published in the UK Treaty Series from 1892-present can be found by searching the UKTO database. All treaties regardless of series published since 1997 are also available on our site.
In the case of multilateral treaties for which the UK is not the depositary, it is recommended that their current status is cross-referenced with the depositary government or authority (see also following section on The UK as a depositary).
The Treaty Enquiries Service is available from 0900 to 1700 Monday to Friday.
Telephone: 020 7008 1109
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Practice and procedures
The responsibility for concluding treaties involving the UK lies with the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The FCO is responsible for Foreign and Commonwealth policy aspects of all treaties, as well as for dealing with questions of form and procedure. It must also consider points of international law. This remains the case even when the negotiation of the treaty is led by another government department, ie the department that will carry out the treaty's provisions.
The FCO's Legal Advisers and Treaty Section must be given the opportunity to comment on the drafts of all treaties under negotiation in order to ensure that they are drafted in accordance with correct practice.
Our Treaty Procedures staff produce original signature copies of treaties that are to be signed by the UK either in London or overseas. This involves advising officials, both within FCO and in other government departments, on the form the treaty should take and related matters such as the production of Full Powers and instruments of ratification. Once the terms of the treaty have been agreed, the original document is produced by Treaty Section staff on special treaty paper and is then bound and sealed into a binder.
Advice is also provided on the form that the treaty signing ceremony should take and, where possible, Treaty Section staff will attend the signing of a treaty in the UK.
Where the treaty is to be signed overseas, Treaty Section staff will still advise on its form and production and on any procedures that should be followed for the signing ceremony. However, it would not be usual for a member of Treaty Section staff to attend an overseas signing.
Our Treaties and MoUs (Memoranda of Understanding): Guidance on Practice and Procedures document gives you further information.
After signing, Treaty Section staff arrange for the agreement to be printed and laid before Parliament.
Publication of treaties
Since 2010 it is a statutory legal requirement for the government to lay treaties which the UK has signed subject to ratification or its equivalent, or to which it intends to become party by accession, before both Houses of Parliament. Treaties laid before Parliament are in the form of a command paper, which is published in one of three FCO series:
- Country Series – for bilateral treaties
- Miscellaneous Series – for multilateral treaties
- European Union Series (formerly the European Communities Series prior to 1 April 2011) – for treaties between member states or between member states and non-member states or group of states.
Agreements entered into by the EU which are subject to national ratification or its equivalent and amendments to multilateral treaties which require new legislation are also laid before Parliament. Such treaties are required to be laid before the UK indicates its formal consent to be bound and therefore provides Parliament with an opportunity to scrutinise treaty provisions before this occurs. However, this practice does not apply to the following types of treaties:
- a treaty covered by Section 12 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002
- a treaty covered by Section 5 of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008
- a treaty for which an Order in Council may be made under Section 158 of the Inheritance Act 1984, Section 2 of the Taxation (International and other Provisions) Act 2010 or Section 173 of the Finance Act 2006
- a treaty concluded (under authority given by the Government of the United Kingdom) by the Government of a British Overseas Territory or any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
Once a treaty has entered into force for the UK (that is become legally-binding in international law), it is our practice to publish the text in the form of a Command paper in the Treaty Series. Where a treaty has been previously laid before parliament prior to ratification or accession, it is re-laid upon entering into force. Where a treaty has entered into force on signature alone, it is laid for the first and only time in the Treaty Series.
Treaty Command Papers
Texts of Treaty Command Papers laid before Parliament in the Country, Miscellaneous, EU Series (with EMs) from 1997 to 2012, and in the Treaty Series from January 1999 to December 2012 are available on our archived site.
Click on the links below for access to Command Papers in the respective Series laid before Parliament from 2013 to present:
|Country Series
|Bilateral Agreements that are not yet in force
|European Union Series
|Multilateral Agreements between Member States of the European Union, or between Third Parties and Member States of the European Union that are not yet in force for the UK. (Note: On the 1st April 2011, the European Union Series replaced the European Communities Series)
|Miscellaneous Series
|Multilateral Agreements, where the UK is a signatory, that are not yet in force
|Treaty Series 2013 - 2017
|Agreements that have completed all necessary procedures and now are in force for the UK
|Treaty Series 2018 to present
Treaties and the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRaG Act)
CRaG details the procedures for the ratification of treaties and puts parliamentary scrutiny of treaties on a statutory footing. The Act received Royal Assent on 8 April 2010 and was brought into force on 11 November 2010 by a Statutory Instrument that was laid before Parliament. Under the Act all treaties (except those listed above) which are subject to ratification, acceptance, approval, the mutual notification of completion of procedures, or to which the UK intends to accede, cannot be ratified unless they have been laid by a Minister of the Crown before parliament for 21 sitting days without either House having resolved that it should not be ratified. The Act details the procedures required if either House resolves that a treaty should not be ratified.
Since 1997, when a treaty is laid before Parliament it is accompanied by an Explanatory Memorandum (EM) which explains the provisions of the treaty and the reason for seeking ratification.
When a treaty Command Paper is laid before Parliament it is sent together with its accompanying EM to the relevant department Select Committee in the House of Commons.
When a treaty enters into force for the UK (whether this is on signature or following ratification, accession etc), it is published again in the Treaty Series of command papers and laid before Parliament. The EM is then linked to the Treaty Series document.
Prior to the introduction of the CRaG Act, all treaties (other than the exceptions as above) that were subject to ratification, acceptance, approval, the mutual notification of completion of procedures or to which the UK intended to accede, were laid before Parliament under the Ponsonby Rule.
United Kingdom treaty action bulletins
Treaty publication news, UK actions on multilateral treaties and changes to the status of treaties for which the UK is depositary can be found in the UK treaty action bulletins.
UN Registration
Treaties to which a member state of the United Nations becomes a party must be registered with the UN, under Article 102 of the UN Charter, in all their languages and with all their ancillary documents. The intention of this requirement is to discourage secret treaties.
In theory, no member state may invoke a treaty before the International Court of Justice or any other organ of the UN unless the treaty has been registered. Regulations to give effect to Article 102 were adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 1946, and have been modified several times since.
Treaties are subsequently published by the UN, both on the internet and on paper, in the United Nations Treaty Series.
FCO Treaty Section is responsible for the registration of:
- all bilateral treaties concluded by the UK which have been published in the UK Treaty Series and have therefore entered into force
- multilateral treaties of which the UK is depositary, when they have entered into force, whether or not the UK is a party
Other multilateral treaties are registered by the organisation or foreign state with which they are deposited.
UK overseas territories
Unless expressly authorised to do so by HMG in the UK, overseas territories (OTs) do not have the authority to become party to treaties in their own right. The UK must extend the territorial scope of its ratification of treaties to include them. This is normally done either at the time of ratification, or at some later date. When the UK is involved in the negotiation or signature of any treaty which could apply to the OTs it is important that they are fully consulted at the earliest stage. The OTs must then be allowed a proper length of time to consider the implications of having any treaty extended to them. Further guidance on this issue is produced by the Ministry of Justice.
We have published complete guidance on extension to treaties on overseas territories.
The UK as a depositary
The UK acts as depositary for multilateral treaties encompassing a wide range of subjects.
As part of this function, Treaty Section is responsible for co-ordinating the UK's response to formal instruments of ratification or accession to these treaties which are deposited with the FCO by foreign governments. Part VII of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties contains provisions on the role of depositaries.
In most cases, treaties take effect for a new state party either on the day an instrument is deposited with the FCO, or after a pre-determined period of time has elapsed in accordance with the provisions of the treaty concerned. The date the instrument is received within the FCO is therefore crucial, as it determines the precise date from which a state is bound by international law to exercise the rights and obligations that the treaty provides.
Governments and other international organisations wishing to deposit an instrument of ratification or accession with the FCO by post should ensure that it is sent to the following address, and clearly marked:
Treaty Section
(Legal Directorate)
Room WH.2.143
King Charles Street
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Requests for heads of mission (in London) to deposit instruments of ratification or accession with the FCO personally should be addressed to the Head of Treaty Section at the above address.
It should be noted that while Treaty Section can provide publication references to treaties and links to texts of treaties for which the UK is depositary, it is unable to supply certified copies of treaty texts on demand. Texts can be accessed on UKTO or purchased from The Stationery Office Ltd. Copies of older treaties may be found in library reference collections and photocopies of out-of-print items can be purchased from the British Library. Original copies of treaties deposited at The National Archives (TNA) may be identified in the TNA's catalogue.
Lists of treaties
We are frequently asked to provide lists of treaties that may apply in certain circumstances, or to defined territorial areas. For ease of reference, we have reproduced various lists in the archived FCO Treaties website pages covering:
- Human rights
- Terrorism
- Other useful information
- Bilateral civil procedure treaties
- Bilateral mutual legal assistance in criminal matters
- Extradition
- Table of consular conventions and mandatory notification obligations
Please note any information provided is for convenience only, and is based on information supplied by the depositary concerned. Treaty Section accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions contained therein. It is recommended that status information be confirmed with the depositaries for each agreement.
The FCO is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked websites, and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listing shall not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over availability of the linked pages.
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- Added list of countries that have ratified the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
- First published.
- added April 2013 bulletin of recent changes to UK treaties in force
- Added latest editions of the supplementary list.
- added treaty command series papers in a table with links to the 4 document series.
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Here's a Catholic trivia question: What's the Pope's church? If you answered, like most people, "St. Peter's at the Vatican" – you're incorrect. The Pope's church – the cathedral for the Diocese of Rome, Italy – is St. John Lateran. But because it is the Pope's church, St. John Lateran is officially the "mother church". It is known as the mother and head of all churches of Rome and the world!
A basilica has stood on this site since the 4th century. The current façade dates from the 18th century, but much of the interior is from 1646. Beneath the high altar is a small table which tradition holds was used by St. Peter to celebrate Mass. The basilica has withstood fire, earthquakes, and wars – and even two attacks by the Vandals.
Today, November 9th, the Roman Catholic Church everywhere celebrates the Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran. Normally a dedication of a church is celebrated and remembered by its parishoners. In the case of St. John Lateran, we as Catholics are all parishoners whether we've been to visit or not. Today's feast is our universal celebration of our mother church!


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Prospect Eats starts at 5:30 p.m. at Prospect Downtown Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. The night will feature food trucks and live music by Prairie Scholars. Go to prospecteats.com.
The town of Frederick is hosting the Community BBQ Tour from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Firefighters Park. Frederick citizens can enjoy free hot dogs and interact with local gov-
ernment officials. Call 720-382-5500 or go to frederickco.gov.
B.A. Zombie (Dead Academy) starts at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, at the Berthoud Community Library, 236 Welch Ave., Berthoud. Makeup artists from Dead Academy will bring their skill. Call 970-532-2757.
The Berthoud Community Library District presents "Dig Into Reading: Akimbo Music" at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, at the Berthoud Community Center, 248 Welch Ave., Berthoud. Dig Into Reading is designed for first to fifth graders. Call 970-532-2757.
Denver Municipal Band performs a patriotic concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, at the Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield. Call 720-887-2371 or go to attheaudi.com.
The town of Firestone presents a carnival from 4 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, south of Safeway, 8134 Colorado Blvd., Firestone. The carnival also runs 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday, July 4, and 4 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 5 and Saturday, July 6. Go to ci.firestone.co.us.
Rocky Mountain Regional Pony of Americas Horse Show is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 4, and Friday, July 5, at the indoor arena at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Admission is free. Go to copoac.org.
The 15th annual Coolest Car Show in Colorado presents 130 different motor vehicles from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 4 at Bond Park, Mac Gregor Ave., Estes Park. Admission is $5 per person; $10 for a family of four, $2 for every additional family member; and children 5 years and under are free.
The Longmont Symphony Orchestra performs at 11:45 a.m. Thursday, July 4, at Thompson Park, corner of Fourth Avenue and Bross Street. The Longmont Youth Symphony will open with all three ensembles performing together. The event is free. Please bring your own blanket or chair and park in the adjacent lot off of Longs Peak Ave. Call 303-651-8404.
The Town of Firestone presents Fourth at Firestone at 10 a.m. Thurs-
day, July 4, at Miners Park, 226 Grant Ave. Go to ci.firestone.co.us.
Lunch from Fannie Palmers pantry will be served at 11 a.m. Friday, July 5, at the McCarty-Fickel Home, 645 Seventh St., Berthoud. Cost is $10. Reservation must be made no later than noon on Wednesday, July 3. Call 970-344-5160.
First Friday Art Walk in Niwot from 5 to 8:30 p.m. in Old Town Niwot and Cottonwood Square, Second Ave., Niwot. Parking is free. Go to niwot.com.
The Longmont Downtown Summer Concert series presents Quemando from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5, at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Kimbark Street, Longmont. Go to downtownlongmont.com.
Western Classic Pony of America Horse Show is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and Sunday, July 7, in the indoor arena at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Go to copoac.org.
Roller Derby is from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, in the exhibit hall at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Cost is $8 to $10 in advance, $10 to $12 at the door.
24 Hour Lock-In Workshop presents one-act shows at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 6, at the Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main Street. Admission is free. Plays are rated PG. Call 303-772-5200 or go to longmonttheatre.org.
"Fiddler on the Roof" starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, at Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Showtimes also include 2 p.m. Sunday, July 7, Tickets for dinner and show range from $27 to $35, for show only they are $12 to $20.
Western Classic POA Horse Show is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 7, in the indoor arena at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Admission is free. Go to copoac.org.


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Madison Meadow
Our Mission
We are a group of neighbors who formed the Madison Meadow nonprofit in order to purchase the meadow to preserve it as undeveloped space. As well as saving an essential element of our own community, we want to educate people on the importance of preserving habitat islands within sub-urban development. Our vision. The History of Madison Meadow.
The Value of a Meadow
The meadow at 22nd Avenue and Madison Street in Eugene, Oregon supports a far greater diversity of life than the surrounding lawns and gardens. Audubon Society members estimate that approximately 100 species of birds visit this valuable island of habitat, including the very rare black-throated green warbler. This diversity of life is not just good for animals and plants It's good for people.
For decades, the two acre meadow bordering 22nd Ave at Madison Street has been shared by all of the life it supports, and that, collectively, makes it what it is. Generations of neighborhood children have played among grasses and wildflowers, madrone, filbert, apple, pear and cherry trees.
While we accept the necessity of development, we believe it essential to our well-being to maintain undeveloped places within our neighborhoods. The ideal of containing sub-urban sprawl through population density should not lead us to overlook the necessity of day-to-day contact with open, natural spaces. A key to wise development is knowing when not to build.
Thank you
The incredible outpouring of support from the community here, and from the larger community (as far away as Germany and Holland) has been wonderful. To the hundreds of individuals who gave contributions of money, time and talent - from children and friends who put change in our collection jars to the anonymous donors, businesses and individuals who donated services and wonderful items and the many people who gave advice and encouragement - thank you. You have been amazing.
The meadow thanks you, too. In the spring Queen Annes Lace and wild sweet pea are in full bloom buzzing with bees, its grasses are tipped with butterflies, its old orchard trees are dropping plums and apples, their branches filled with birdsong in the day and stars at night. Thank you from those who speak quietly.
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2014 Ram Power Wagon - O.E.s Off-RoadPosted in Vehicle Reviews on June 18, 2014
We've officially received word about the 2014 Ram Power Wagon, and of course, we're excited. The 2014 Ram Power Wagon -- based on the gasoline Ram 2500 Heavy Duty 4x4 Crew Cab -- is Ram's solution for terrain dominance via off-road-specific engineering enhancements. Three trim levels (Tradesman, SLT, and Laramie) determine exterior and interior design treatments. Up to 12 different colors will be offered. The bonus of a really cool factory off-road truck? You got it: a standard three-year/36,000-mile Basic Limited Warranty and a five-year/100,000-mile Powertrain Limited Warranty.
The 2014 Ram Power Wagon is powered by the new 6.4L Hemi 16-valve V-8, boasting 410 hp at 5,600 rpm and 429 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm. Throttle response is calibrated for off-road maneuverability and finesse. The transmission is a 66RFE six-speed automatic connected to a part-time, manual-engagement BorgWarner 44-47 T-case. The 9.25-inch front and 11.5-inch rear AAM axles are both equipped with electronic locking diffs and 4.10 gearing. The axleshafts measure 1.5 inches in the rear and 1.375 inches in the front. New for 2014 is the segment-exclusive front-axle disconnect system across the Ram Heavy Duty truck line. Yeah, we're not thrilled with center-axle disconnect (CAD) making a reappearance, but it had to in order to make the Federal fuel economy bogey.
The three-link front suspension features Bilstein monotube shocks, more than 2 inches of lift, and allows for additional flexibility due to Ram's "Ram Articulink" design, which incorporates high-movement joints at the control-arm-to-axle mount and an electronic disconnecting sway bar that can be disengaged in-cab via the driver-actuated "Smart Bar." The Power Wagon's rear suspension is the segment-exclusive, five-link coil system found on all Ram 2500 HD trucks, with the addition of Bilstein monotube shocks. Some models have a Bilstein damper that links the top of the rear axle to the frame. Payload is up to 1,490 pounds and towing capacity stands at 10,810 pounds.
The 2014 Power Wagon will be equipped with 33-inch Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac tires, contributing to 14.5 inches of ground clearance -- 2.5 inches more than the Ram 2500 HD. A 34-degree approach angle, 23.5-degree departure angle, and 25.5-degree breakover angle make the Power Wagon agile on the trail. The underside is adorned in skidplates and a Warn 12,000-pound electric winch tucks elegantly inside the front bumper.
Identified by Ram as the most off-road capable pickup truck in the market, the 2014 Ram Power Wagon, which will be built at the Saltillo Truck Assembly Plant in Coahuila, Mexico, promises to continue the Power Wagon legacy of more than 60 years. With destination fees included, pricing will be $45,690 for the Tradesman, $50,340 for the SLT, and $56,015 for the Laramie.


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LyricFind provides a legal music lyrics service. LyricFind has licensing from over 2,000 music publishers, including the four majors – EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music Publishing, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing – as well as a database of those lyrics available for licensing. The LyricFind Web Service v2.0 has five APIs, available in basic and premium versions. The premium version incorporates Rovi's All Music Guide data access, providing search and display capabilities. Functionality offered by the API includes lyric search, lyric display, access to track level metadata, charts for data across LyricFind, and lyric submission. Data can be formatted in both XML and JSON. Full documentation is not publicly available, interested developers can contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.


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In the early 1970s, United States of America was rocked by Watergate Scandal. On 17 June 1972, few men were arrested for breaking into Democratic Party's office in Watergate Complex. These men were there to plant bugs in the opposition party's office with the consent of President of United States, Richard Nixon. These men were later convicted for attempted interception of telephone and other communications against wiretapping laws.
The draft version of Janlokpal Bill promoted by the 'civil society' members includes Prime Minister of India under its ambit. But the Congress Government has decided not to include the Prime Minister under the purview of Lokpal. The question that we have is: Should a Prime Minister be held accountable?
Now, take a look at how Indira Gandhi did not comply with legal procedures of this country. Do you want to see something like that happen in this country ever again? Ambedkar, recognizing that democracy did not come natural to Indians, said: