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The new Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse in Long Beach is the first courthouse in the United States to be built using the PBI method. In 2010, the AOC reviewed applications from three consortia and selected Long Beach Judicial Partners as the project company. Construction began in May 2011; by the end of August, the foundation was finished and construction had begun on the building.
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Racing is at the heart of Honda and we proudly embrace our Motorsport heritage with the launch of the new Honda Racing Teamwear collection.
The Honda Racing collection is destined to become the focal point of any racing fan's wardrobe essentials.
Our collection was developed in close cooperation with a renowned brand, whose expertise helped us ensure our Teamwear is produced to the best quality, guaranteed to meet our customers' high expectations. Thanks to the Honda red piping, contrast fabric and 3D PVC printed logos, these garments perfectly reflect the Honda spirit.
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Sporty yet classy, this comfortable polo is simply a stylish wardrobe essential, making it ideal for your race weekend. Thanks to the 4-way stretching fabric, you'll enjoy complete freedom of movement and can be sure it will fit your body perfectly. The difference is always in the details, which is why we've added some laser engraved buttons to style it up even more! The combed cotton ensures a soft touch and feel. The polo is further enhanced with Honda red and white piping, 3D PVC printed logos and contrast fabric inserts. Team branding can be added on the sleeves. Regular fit, breathable fabric.
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One of the most popular garments from the Honda Racing collection, and simply a basic must have! The Honda Racing t-shirt is made in soft 4-way stretch fabric, designed for comfort and practicality. Easily match this t-shirt with any other garment of the Honda Racing collection, or simply wear it with jeans to spice up your everyday outfit. The combed cotton ensures a soft touch and feel. This t-shirt features Honda red and white piping, 3D PVC printed logos and contrast fabric inserts. Team branding can be added on the sleeves. Regular fit, breathable fabric.
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This long sleeved sweatshirt with its soft inner brushed fleece is made to keep you warm. Its fabric is mixed with polyester to ensure colour stability. Wash after wash, your sweatshirt will still look like brand new! Its black colour, combined with the contrasting Honda red and white details, will make a lasting impression. Our favourite garment of the new collection. The sweatshirt showcases Honda red and white piping, 3D PVC printed logos, contrast fabric inserts, 3D PVC zipper pullers and soft-touch press studs. Team branding can be added on the sleeves. Regular fit. Material
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Thanks to its versatile and enhanced functionality, the lightweight jacket is the perfect garment to wear or throw in your bag, no matter what the trackside conditions are. Made from high quality fabric, it is totally windproof and breathable. As a plus, the jacket has a high quality DWR Taslan coating, making it water-repellent. The inner mesh lining provides you with maximum comfort and protects the jacket's technical fabric, turning it into a durable garment you'll want to wear at any time. Lightweight but highly protective, this jacket is the ideal choice for any fan who likes to be prepared. The jacket is styled with Honda red and white piping, printed Honda logos, 3D PVC zipper pullers, an inner pocket and a heat sealed pocket as an additional plus. Team branding can be added on the sleeves. Regular fit.
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Let this beautiful winter jacket keep you warm on cold days. Its soft inner padding will provide you with comfort and warmth, whereas the outside fabric, made out of a technical polyester blend, is designed to be windproof and water-repellent thanks to its DWR Taslan coating. The detachable hood is adjustable at two sides to ensure perfect fit, even in harsh weather conditions. This jacket is destined to become your indespensable winter companion. It is styled with Honda red and white piping, printed Honda logos, 3D PVC zipper pullers, soft-touch press studs, two outside pockets, an inner pocket and adjustable cuffs as an additional plus. Team branding can be added on the sleeves. Regular fit.
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Complement your Honda Racing look from head to toe with these outstanding trousers, made from a comfortable and breathable blend of cotton and elasthane. Its big side pockets turn these trousers into a very practical garment. The Honda Racing trousers are customised through Honda red and white piping, 3D PVC printed logos and laser engraved PVC buttons. Team branding can added on the pockets. Straight fit, breathable fabric.
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It goes without saying that a watch is obviously the number one accessory to complement any look or style, and we couldn't have launched the Honda Racing collection without including one. Indeed, thanks to its subtle red accents and stitching, this watch is the perfect finishing touch for any Honda Racing outfit, and a must-have for any fan. Our most wanted item
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Three Legal Experts from different countries were invited for this event. Mr Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río of the Ecuatorian law firm Estudio Falconi Puig Abogados and the Peruvian attorney Mr Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río of the firm Luiz Echecopar spoke about the existing antitrust structure in their countries. The Brazilian IP attorney Mr José Carlos Vaz e Dias of the firm Di Blasi, Parente, Vaz e Dias Advogados & Associados brought two cases being handled at the Antitrust Division that were related to IP rights.
Besides addressing the existing structure and the functionality of the competition law system in the aforementioned countries, the speakers dealt with one of the most controversial and sacred subjects in Latin America: the impact of intellectual property rights on competition.
The main question to be answered in this regard was the following: Does Intellectual Property foster competition in the Latin American countries?
The unanimous answer was positive, as IP rights are effective instruments to bring new companies into the market, especially that created by innovative products. Moreover, it induces local companies to participate in high technology fields, such as biotechnology and IT products. It was argued that, in Brazil, the protection of industrial design provides an opportunity for local companies to participate in the competitive, restricted and global market of "haute couture" (shoes, clothes and bags) and in the supply of spare parts to the automobile companies.
Further to that, Latin countries have been erasing the concept of adopting a set of clauses regarded as a violation per se of competition. Instead, the examination of the effects on competition of specific clauses in technology transfer agreements is now required.
The common position of the experts reflect the general understanding of Latin Americans and may be considered as a radical and positive change towards the governments' attitude in the 80's, as several limitations were raised to the IP laws as an attempt to reduce the impact of IP on their industrialization policy.


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Heisuke Hironaka
Born: 9 April 1931 in Yamaguchi, Japan
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Heisuke Hironaka's father ran a textile factory. This was not an occupation he wanted but he was forced into the family business when his father (Heisuke's paternal grandfather) died while he was still a schoolboy. Heisuke's mother was his father's third wife. After his first wife died, he remarried and had four children. However, his second wife then died and he married for the third time, to a younger sister of his second wife who, by this time, was widowed with one child. These five children comprised three boys and two girls. Heisuke's parents then had ten children of their own (six boys and four girls), so Heisuke grew up in a family of fifteen children. Of his parents' ten children, Heisuke was the second eldest having one older sister.
Two of Heisuke's half-brothers were killed, one fighting against the Americans and one fighting against the Chinese. Heisuke's father was devastated and as a consequence sold his textile factory and gave up work. Heisuke attended elementary school and then middle school where he began to develop a liking for mathematics. The town of Yamaguchi is about 80 km from Hiroshima and on Monday, 6 August 1945, at 8.15 in the morning, Heisuke's father witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. They were fortunate that their area was not affected by the radiation. After middle school, Heisuke attended the boys' junior high school in Yanai. This meant that he had to take a 30 minute train journey to school every day. He started to learn to play the piano and became very keen but was advised by his teachers not to think of becoming a professional musician. After a mathematics professor from Hiroshima University gave a lecture at the junior high school, Heisuke became enthusiastic and applied to study mathematics at Hiroshima University. However he did not study for the entrance examination and failed. In the following year he applied to study physics at Kyoto University and was accepted. He was able to live with one of his sisters who had married and was living in Kyoto.
Kyoto University was founded in 1897 to train small numbers of selected students as academics. By the time Hironaka entered Kyoto University in 1949, it had been integrated into a mass higher education system but had maintained its prestige. In his first year Hironaka studied physics, chemistry and biology. In his second year, however, he began to realise that he was best suited to mathematics. By his third year as an undergraduate he had moved completely to courses in mathematics. Yasuo Akizuki, a pioneer of modern algebra in Japan, was a major influence on Hironaka during his time at Kyoto. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1954 and his Master of Science in 1956, both from Kyoto University. An important event happened in 1956 when Oscar Zariski visited Kyoto University [3]:-
When Zariski visited, I tried to tell him what I was doing. I have never been good in English! But my colleagues and teachers helped me to explain to him what I was doing. At some point Zariski said, "Maybe you can come to Harvard and study." And I said, "Okay."Hironaka went to the United States in the summer of 1957 where he continued his studies at Harvard. He undertook research for his doctorate, with Oscar Zariski as his thesis advisor. While at Harvard, Hironaka became friends with Alexander Grothendieck who spent the academic year 1958-59 there. He invited Hironaka to the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifique in Paris in 1959-60 where he found himself the only visiting fellow. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960 for his thesis On the Theory of Birational Blowing-up. He had already published three papers before submitting his thesis, On the arithmetic genera and the effective genera of algebraic curves (1957), A note on algebraic geometry over ground rings. The invariance of Hilbert characteristic functions under the specialization process (1958), and A generalized theorem of Krull-Seidenberg on parameterized algebras of finite type (1960). After completing his studies at Harvard, Hironaka was appointed to the staff at Brandeis University. Also in 1960 he married Wakako who was a Wien International Scholar at Brandeis University during 1958-60. She obtained an M.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University Graduate School in 1964. Heisuke and Wakako Hironaka had one son Jo and one daughter Eriko. Wakako wrote several books, essays, translations, and critiques on education, culture, society, and women's issues. She entered Japanese politics being first elected to the House of Councillors in 1986. She has held high positions in the Democratic Party of Japan and in the Hosokawa Cabinet.
After being on the faculty at Brandeis University, Hironaka was appointed to Columbia University, and then to Harvard in 1968. In 1970 he had the distinction of being awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress at Nice. This was for his work on algebraic varieties which we describe below.
Two algebraic varieties are said to be equivalent if there is a one-to-one correspondence between them with both the map and its inverse regular. Two varieties U and V are said to be birationally equivalent if they contain open sets U' and V' that are in biregular correspondence. Classical algebraic geometry studies properties of varieties which are invariant under birational transformations. Difficulties that arise as a result of the presence of singularities are avoided by using birational correspondences instead of biregular ones. The main problem in this area is to find a nonsingular algebraic variety U, that is birationally equivalent to an irreducible algebraic variety V, such that the mapping f : U → V is regular but not biregular.
Hironaka gave a general solution of this problem in any dimension in 1964 in Resolution of singularities of an algebraic variety over a field of characteristic zero. His work generalised that of Zariski who had proved the theorem concerning the resolution of singularities on an algebraic variety for dimension not exceeding 3. Jackson writes [3]:-
Taking a strikingly original approach, Hironaka created new algebraic tools and adapted existing ones suited to the problem. These tools have proved useful for attacking many other problems quite far removed from the resolution of singularities.Hironaka talked about his solution in his lecture On resolution of singularities (characteristic zero) to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm in 1962.
In 1975 Hironaka returned to Japan where he was appointed a professor in the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Kyoto University. He gave a course on the theory of several complex variables in 1977 and his lecture notes were written up and published in the book Introduction to analytic spaces (Japanese). Ikuo Kimura writes:-
Some fundamental theorems in the theory of several complex variables and of the geometry of complex manifolds are proved in a simple but rigorous form. ... Throughout this book one recognizes again the importance of the preparation theorem, and one finds good introductions to the study of the advanced theory of Stein spaces, the works of A Douady, and the theory of the resolution of singularities, to which Hironaka has contributed deeply.Hironaka was Director of the Research Institute in Kyoto from 1983 to 1985, retiring in 1991 when he was made Professor Emeritus. However, in1996 he became president of Yamaguchi University, being inaugurated on 16 May. He held this position until 2002. He then became Academic Director of the University of Creation, a private university in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan.
We should also mention two educational projects which Hironaka has established (see [4] for details). Jackson writes [3]:-
Hironaka has contributed much time and effort to encouraging young people interested in mathematics. In 1980, he started a summer seminar for Japanese high school students and later added one for Japanese and American college students; the seminars ran for more than two decades under his direction and continue to this day. To support the seminars he established a philanthropic foundation in 1984 called the Japan Association for Mathematical Sciences. The association also provides fellowships for Japanese students to pursue doctoral studies abroad.Among the many honours he has received, in addition to the Fields Medal, we mention the Japan Academy Award in 1970 and the Order of Culture from Japan in 1975. He has been elected to the Japan Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and academies in France, Russia, Korea and Spain.
On 4-5 May 2009 the Clay Mathematics Institute held its 2009 Clay Research Conference in Harvard Science Center. Hironaka was invited to give one of the featured lectures on recent research advances and he spoke on Resolution of Singularities in Algebraic Geometry. The abstract for his talk reads:-
I will present my way of proving resolution of singularities of an algebraic variety of any dimension over a field of any characteristic. There are some points of general interest, I hope, technically and conceptually more than just the end result. The resolution problem for all arithmetic varieties (meaning algebraic schemes of finite type over the ring of integers) is reduced to the question of how to extend the result from modulo pm to modulo pm+1 after a resolution of singularities over . I want to discuss certain problems which arise in this approach.
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What do Oakman Inns, Waitrose, Barclays, BAe and the Co-Op all have in common?
Oakman Inns & Restaurants, which operates hugely popular pub restaurants in Northants, Bucks, Beds, Herts, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and beyond is among the 40 recipients of The Princess Royal's Training Award, organised by the City & Guilds Group.
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The exceptional award-winning businesses, selected from a list of 116, will be honoured by HRH The Princess Royal at a ceremony due to take place this autumn. The award recognises Oakman Inns for creating a lasting impact by successfully linking their skills development needs to business performance. Each of the 116 applications were assessed against three Hallmarks of Excellence by the Princess Royal Training Awards Commission, which comprised of HRH The Princess Royal and seven leading figures in the business and training community.
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Oakman Inns' HR training and career development programmes were recognised earlier this year in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For in which they are the highest-ranking hospitality company at 8th position.
The company, which was founded by Mr Borg-Neal in Tring with it's first establishment The Akeman, also has the Kings Arms, Berkhamsted, Banyers House, Royston, Beece House, St Albans, The Red Lion at Water End Hemel Hempstead across Herts and runs the White Hart at Ampthill in Beds, Beech House in Beaconsfield, Dog & Badger at Medmenham, The Akeman Inn in Kingswood and Betsey Wynne in Swanbourne as part of its Bucks portfolio.
Oakman also runs the The Navigation at Thrupp Wharf, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, The Crown & Thistle in Abingdon, the The Old Post Office, Wallingford and the Blue Boar, Witney, as part of its Oxon venues as well as The Globe in Warwick and the Four Alls, Welford on Avon, in Warwickshire.
The highly-regarded company has pub restaurants in the West Midlands, Berkshire and Essex and will soon add Beech House in Amersham and Cherry Tree, Olney, Milton Keynes to its Bucks operation.


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Cecil Collins was drafted by the Dolphins in 1999, became their starting running back as a rookie, and then saw his career end as quickly as it began when he was arrested for breaking into a house late in his rookie year and sentenced to 15 years in a Florida prison for burglary.
Collins has tried many times to have that 15-year sentence reduced, but 13 years later he remains in prison. And when Dave Hyde of the Sun-Sentinel visited Collins, he said he has accepted the life he has and even thinks he may be better off, considering the path he was heading on as a young man who thought his talent and income entitled him to do whatever he wanted.
"I have no regrets, no grudges, none of that," Collins said. "What happened to me in that time saved my life. I believe if I was left out there with that same mindset, I'd be dead or my life would be totally in shambles. It made me grow so much and showed me how to be a man and to live and walk in life. These 15 years they gave me, it seemed bad at first. But I met the most beautiful woman in the world in prison. I found God in prison. I've come out of it much better than when I came in."
Collins got married in prison to a woman he met while she was visiting another inmate, and when he's finally released next year he says he'll be a family man, and a different man than Cecil "The Diesel" Collins, who viewed himself as a superstar who could do no wrong.
"I think 'The Diesel' is the guy that got me in trouble," Collins said. "The Diesel ran in clubs, ran with the wrong people. The Diesel didn't know how to handle all the money or celebrity coming in."
Collins was an amazing talent (I don't know if I've ever seen a college running back have a better game than Collins' 232-yard performance against Auburn in 1997), but he could never avoid off-field trouble. After getting kicked off the team at LSU he transferred to McNeese State and then got kicked off the team there, too. The Dolphins knew he was a major character risk when they drafted him, so no one could have been surprised when he couldn't finish his rookie season without getting into trouble again.
Still, the 15-year sentence seems rather harsh, considering that no one was injured in the break-in that Collins committed. (Collins got a sentence more than 200 times as long as the 24-day sentence another NFL player, Donte Stallworth, served for driving drunk and killing someone in Florida.) That 15-year sentence ended Collins' football career and took away a large chunk of his life, but in the end Collins thinks it may have saved his life.


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The Map & Chart Makers
Charles Blaskowitz
Blaskowitz is amongst the better known of Samuel Holland's team of surveyors who worked up and down the North eastern coast of North America both before and during the War of Independence between 1664 and 1775.
Throughout this period he collaborated with Messrs; Grant, Wheeler, Sproule, Holland and Grant on a number of important surveys which formed the basis for a number of subsequent maps including those published by J.F.W. Des Barres in his folios of the Atlantic Neptune between 1777 and 1781. In addition a good deal of his own work was privately printed by William Faden the London publisher.
His most famous work was carried out in the Rhode Island region where he carried out a number of surveys intended to inform the British as to the suitability of Newport as a naval port. One of Blaskowitz's surveys for the British Admiralty completed about 1770 was famously redrawn by the surveyor to fulfill a private commission for the local landowners and farmers of Rhode Island showing land boundaries and place names add. The map was later published by Faden in 1777. He returned to the area in 1774 where he was teamed with Thomas Wheeler on further surveys of the area.
Like a number of his fellow surveyors, including Samuel Holland, Blaskowitz was aligned to the regiment of Guides and Pioneers once hostilities had broken out between the Americans and the British in 1775. He attained the rank of Captain and was responsible for a number of surveys and sketches depicting military actions and engagements around the New York area in between 1776 and 1777.
He was a talented water colour artist and a number of his works are held in the collections of the Library of Congress.
Associated Charts and Maps: A103a, A103b, A105, A106, A108.


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Chris' Camera Bag
A Photo Web log by Chris Young
Sunset geese
January 09, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Driving Illinois 4 just outside of Chatham, wave after wave of Canada geese passed overhead.
Following the direction of travel, I eventually found them feeding in a harvested field just west of town.
It was one of the winter days that is cloudy and dreary all day, but then the sun drops out of the clouds at the last minute.
Things seemed to warm up slightly, if only for a few minutes.
Greater white-fronted geese mix with Canada geese on Lake Springfield.
Canada geese rest on the ice at Lake Springfield.
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BattleTanks II is a combination action/strategy tank combat game where you can battle against up to 3 other teams of computer-controlled tanks, in one of 5 unique battlefields. BattleTanks II features three tank types to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. There are many ways to win a war in BattleTanks II. If you like being the commander of your army, you can sit back away from the action, directing your army's actions strategically. However, if you prefer action, there's nothing stopping you from helping your tanks out and join the fight. You can make sneak attacks, massive assaults, try weakening your enemy with artillery, and much more. John Judnich is the creator of this game.
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A wet snow is falling. The wind is howling. And you have to shovel the driveway, walk to the library, or wait at the bus stop. Are you destined to be miserably damp and cold? Not if you're wearing a parka!
Some info about Parkas and why you should wear it:
How to wear parkas for women
The onset of the winter season always catapults the parka to fashion stardom. Parkas for women are viewed as the most ideal and fashionable types of jackets for the winter season. That being said, investing in a good parka is one of the best ways to prepare for the coming winter season. Buy it now and enjoy the huge discount before prices increases. When shopping for a parka, be sure to take note of the following shopping tips.
Avoid overly shiny parkas for women
The most basic rule of parka shopping is that shiny parkas are not always the best. This is because dull parkas are easier to wear and look more stylish. Trying to match an overly shiny parka with an outfit can be a hassle. Contrastingly, matte or dull colored parkas go well with almost any outfit you put on.
Always accessorize
To add style to your outfit remember to accessorize, especially when you are rocking a parka. There is a wide array of hats you can accessorize with from Bennie hats to trapper hats. Apart from being stylish hats will help you keep warm during the cold month of December. A stylish wrist watch and a cool pair of sunglasses can go a long way in adding style to your cold season outfit.
Match the colors
The color of your parka should complement the color of your shoes, pants, top and any other piece of clothing you intend on wearing your parka. For example, brown or caramel leather boots blend perfectly with khaki green parkas for women. To add color to your outfit you can go for indigo leggings or shorts depending on which of the two you prefer. If you are to carry a bag, let its design and color be simple and natural. Also, do not go for bold hairstyles and make-up when rocking a parka. The idea is to maintain a high level of simplicity in your outfit.
Wear with a skirt or dress
Although parkas are predominantly worn with leggings, they can also be worn with a skirt or dress. To pull off such a look, you will have to get a pair of tights. When wearing a parka with either a skirt or dress, it is wise to wear tights underneath the skirt. The color of the tights should be dull. To complete the look, you can wear a pair of boots. Also, depending on your fashion taste, you can complement you can also wear a pair of leggings under your skirt or dress.


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Hey folks I'm back today with another lesson but this time instead of starting off with an animal or star, I thought we could have some fun by tackling the task of drawing another internet meme. Here is "how to draw You Don't Say", step by step. The rage comic meme 'You Don't Say' was actually created or based on Nicolas Cage's character from a movie he did back in 1988 called 'Vampires Kiss'. It was a very goofy and entertaining film about a character named Peter Loew (played by cage) who was going crazy and thought without a doubt that he was turning into a vampire. The saying "You don't say" is actually a phrase that the character says in the film. An outlined drawing of Cage's character was created to mimic Peter Loew. The meme first appeared on Roflrazz on August 15, 2009. Later, the contour drawing depicting Cage's character appeared in a rage comic which was uploaded by a user named 'LeechHax'. It had gotten so popular that You Don't Say was appearing almost everywhere. This is a really cool lesson on drawing Nicolas Cage as an internet meme. If you are familiar with this rage comic star, you should enjoy tackling this tut. I still have some other stuff that needs to be uploaded so stay tuned in for a while longer to see what I have in store for you all. Peace out people!
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Summer Reading Program Finale Week
Here we are at the end of our summer reading program. With school starting on September 2nd, summer will be over in 4 weeks. Not totally I'm sure will hit some high temperatures come September. If the children would like to read the rest of the summer I encourage them to do so. I will talk about this again next week.
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Smoking and the use of other tobacco products (snuff, chewing tobacco, etc.) is one of the most unhealthy habits possible for a person with SCI. Smokers with SCI have a higher rate of pressure ulcers, ED, osteoporosis, heart disease, and lung and breathing problems.
Veterans continue to use tobacco products at a higher rate than the general population in the USA, and it has been estimated that as many as 30% of SCI Veterans do so.
The PVA has funded the development of a new video on smoking cessation that details the adverse effects that smoking can have on your health if you have a spinal cord injury. You can view the video here:
A DVD copy of this video can also be purchased for $5 through the same link.
Your provider and local health care facilities/organizations have many resources available to you to assist you in stopping smoking and tobacco use. It is not easy, but classes, support groups, medications, and counseling can be very helpful. Quitting can cause immediate results in improved health and quality of life for you.


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Shot Angles—Head-On
The animal will certainly detect your movements with a head-on shot angle.
- This shot can be effective if you have an adequate firearm that is already positioned for the shot.
- However, head-on shots rarely result in a clean kill and ruin a lot of meat. Aim at the center of the chest to hit the vital organs.


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It's time for another edition of 5 Fab Friday Freebies!
Anne Weaver has produced a wonderful set of Autumn Photo Flashcards. Now that I have a Smartboard in my classroom, I am madly saving lots of resources like this one on my USB. I open up the file on the board and do a traditional 'picture talk' with my students. Use Anne's set as it is for your classroom learning activities or use it for both personal or commercial learning products you create. There are 30 photos of plants, animals, leaves, seeds and signs of autumn. There are six photo flashcards on a page. Each photo is labelled. LOVE!
Find it at TpT HERE
Primary Punch has listed a Fall Themed Synonym Match Up resource. It is a quick and easy ELA centre to practice 12 synonyms with a fall theme! A synonym poster is also included. I LOVE the graphics in this one. Find it HERE
The delightful Jennie from JD's Rockin' Readers has put together an adorable Pumpkin Sound Boxes resource. The sound boxes can be used to help students stretch out words in their writing. Just laminate and use a dry erase marker..... you know me, I love ANY activity that involves a dry erase marker! You can find this FAB resource right HERE
Incredible K Kids has put together a one page freebie that will help your students determine if their writing is 5 Star! I would open this file on the Smartboard also, and discuss each point with my students. I love that visual examples have been included on each step of the rubric, so students can understand what good writing LOOKS like! Find it HERE
Greg Smedley has a cool Halloween Ten Frame Freebie up for grabs. Oct 31 is a while off, but get this early and get these babies printed and laminated ready in time. Greg has put together a set of 5 different Halloween ten frames that are great for centers, small groups and number recognition! They make insant fun centers and would be great for meeting Common Core math standards. Find them HERE
As always, I had a wonderful time looking through and downloading lots of FREE and wonderful resources that fellow teachers are sharing with the world. In a week that has been filled with talk about teachers becoming millionaires selling their resources, it is also thrilling to see so many resources being shared freely. Without taking anything away from the awesome achievement of super sellers I get just as much joy from thinking about the millions of ideas being exchanged between teachers all over the world with fab freebies such as these.
Have a great weekend!


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The Sea Me Dolphin Mirror from Children's Factory is a great way to create some excitement and liven up any child's room. Constructed in the shape of a smiling shark this mirror will reflect back all that is in front of it and is designed to aide in the development of a child's sense of curiosity while at the same time help them build self awareness. The mirror, itself, is made of shatter-resistant PET material that is lightweight and flexible to prevent breaking and the edges are laser cut so they are smooth and safe. The Sea Me Dolphin Mirror is lightweight and will mount easily to a wall or door. This mirror can be combined with other Sea Me Mirrors, each sold separately, to create a full ocean theme on the walls of a room. The other available Sea Me Mirrors are:
Specifications Manufacturer Children's Factory Manufacturer Product No. CF332-542 UPC 756118419646 Dimensions L 26.0in x W 26.0in x H 0.5in Weight 2 lbs Material Shatter-resistant PET Flexible Yes Made USA
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This article appeared in a 2015 issue of the
student newsletter.
In October, North Lake College welcomed student art submissions for the 2015 college holiday card. The school received 22 submissions from students, including drawings, paintings, photography, and computer designs.
President Christa Slejko and a panel of art faculty members judged the entrants and chose their favorite artwork.
Below are the winners, their entries, and the prizes they will receive. North Lake would like to thank contest sponsor Follett Education (the NLC campus bookstore).
This article was brought to you by
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I'm not sure why I'm so taken by this Craigslist posting, sent in by a pair of readers, seeking a very specific sort of ballplayer for a Wake County (N.C.) 9U travel team. Maybe it's because all the nine-year-olds we remember from little league swung as hard as they could on every pitch, and because everything hit to the outfield got past the fielders for a triple anyway, and because only the fat kids were put at catcher.
But travel baseball can be serious business, so it's hard to blame a coach for turning to the internet to bring in a ringer. Even if my first instinct when seeing a Craigslist post seeking a nine-year-old is to call the police.


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Bump, set and spike with Shoji
A few quotes from UH volleyball coach Dave Shoji that didn't make it into Sunday's column
Q: Do you consider 2014 to be a rebuilding season?
A: I wouldn't classify it as rebuilding. We have five solid players who have played quite a bit. We do need help from one, two or three more. We have some excellent players already in the program. We just have to find who is going to supplement them.
Q: How do you replace a great player like Emily Hartong?
A: We think Nikki Taylor is the one who takes a lot of swings. We saw a bit of it last year, more and more as the season progressed. I think she's one that we look to step up. Tai Olevao, with two seasons of experience, she'll need to step up her game. Physically she has the things we need. Great vertcal, fast, quick. She just needs to be more consistent offensively.
Q: Other keys for the season?
A: Of course our setting position is, I wouldn't call it a question mark but we will have a new setter. With Taylor Higgins based on what we know and what she did last year we think she has a lot of what it takes.
We lost (middle) Jade Vorster but replaced her with Olivia McGill, an Arizona transfer. With Olivia, there won't be any drop off.
Q: Your sons, Kawika and Erik, are both performing well on the U.S. men's national volleyball team. How gratifying is that, two sons doing it at their sport's highest level?
A. In my mind, we just never knew what level they would eventually get to. As a high school player you never know if they will make the jump to college, next the jump to pro volleyball. In that respect they're at the highest level now. It's pretty unbelievable for any of these kids. We're just counting our blessings that they're taking it this far.
They were in the gym all the time, played a bunch of sports, which I think helped their volleyball. So it's not that surprising that brothers would be about the same in athletic ability, of course their volleyball IQ helps."
Q. Your book, written with Ann Miller, is scheduled for release during the season. Any thoughts on it?
A. To be honest, I had mixed feelings about it. The people at UH press have been marvelous.


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Annie Liebovitz brings Disney fantasies to life in new pictures
Hitchhiking Ghosts, Captain Hook featured in images
Disney revealed two new images from photographer Annie Leibovitz starring Jack Black, Russell Brand, Will Ferrell and Jason Segel.
The new Disney Dream portraits were commissioned by Disney, which began featuring celebrities in Disney fantasy settings in 2007.
According to a new release, the new photos were the first time Disney characters created for the theme parks have been included in the campaign.
Black, Ferrell and Segel portray the Hitchhiking Ghosts from the Disney attraction the Haunted Mansion. Guests to the parks can see the ghosts when they make their way through the "home of 999 happy haunts."
The tagline of the Haunted Mansion-themed photo says, "Where you can go on the ride of your afterlife."
Brand portrays Captain Hook from Peter Pan in his photo. He is shown trying to escape the jaws of a crocodile who continues to chase him.
Brand's photo reads, "Where every moment leaves you hungry for more."
Liebovitz had previously applied her vision to the campaign with photos featuring Queen Latifah, Alec Baldwin and Penelope Cruz.
The images will premiere in a special insert in the Fall issues of GQ, O -- The Oprah Magazine, People, People En Espanol, Vanity Fair, Real Simple, Essence, and InStyle.
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CBO: Obamacare to cost $1.76 trillion over 10 yrs
by Philip Klein Senior Editorial Writer
March 13, 2012 4:21pm
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President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.
Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO's standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama's pledge that the legislation would cost "around $900 billion over 10 years." When the final CBO score came out before passage, critics noted that the true 10 year cost would be far higher than advertised once projections accounted for full implementation.
Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending through 2022, and the results are as critics expected: the ten-year cost of the law's core provisions to expand health insurance coverage has now ballooned to $1.76 trillion. That's because we now have estimates for Obamacare's first nine years of full implementation, rather than the mere six when it was signed into law. Only next year will we get a true ten-year cost estimate, if the law isn't overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by then. Given that in 2022, the last year available, the gross cost of the coverage expansions are $265 billion, we're likely looking at about $2 trillion over the first decade, or more than double what Obama advertised.
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Wil Myers took his time going to first on his assumed homer, but when the ball didn't leave the park, he still reacted quickly enough to earn an inside-the-park home run against the Yankees.
The ball appeared to be heading over the wall at Yankee Stadium, until it instead bounced off of Jacoby Ellsbury and rolled towards right field. Myers then put effort into his baserunning. Along with Myers, Desmond Jennings and Evan Longoria were sent home, giving the Rays a 4-1 lead.
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Organizations Lobby for Relaxed Speech Codes at Colleges
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has composed an open letter to the Office for Civil Rights Assistant Secretary Russlynn Ali, calling for the Department of Education not to encourage more restrictive speech codes at colleges and universities.
The letter also included the signatures of other groups, including Accuracy in Academia, the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and The Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University.
"For decades now, college administrators have struggled to define discriminatory harassment," says the letter, reports Malcolm A. Kline at Accuracy in Academia.
"Define harassment too broadly, and an institution might be on the losing end of a First Amendment lawsuit, the latest in a long line of courtroom defeats dating back more than twenty years⦠Define harassment too narrowly, and a student might sue for ignoring Title IX violations."
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is often cited in sport and sexual harassment suits.
"A 2010 survey of policies at nearly 400 universities conducted by attorneys from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education found that two-thirds of schools maintain policies that clearly and substantially restrict protected speech," says the letter.
"Many of these restrictions are broad or vague harassment policies. For example, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign defines sexual harassment to include any âstatement that is offensive, humiliating, or an interference with required tasks or career opportunities.' Jackson State University prohibits as harassment âverbally abusive language by any person on University-owned or controlled property.' Marshall University's harassment policy bans expression that causes or was intended to cause âmental harm, injury, fear, stigma, disgrace, degradation, or embarrassment.'"
This letter comes after a 2012 FIRE report on campus speech codes, which found that the vast majority of the 392 colleges and universities analyzed still maintain policies that seriously infringe upon the free speech rights of students.
Virginia was the best state for free speech on campus, with only 29% of schools rated having "red light" speech codes. Illinois was the worst of the larger states, with 100% of its schools earning red light status.
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Maclean's - Canada March 30, 2011
On polygamy, child brides and why the stakes in B.C. are so high
Carolyn Jessop in conversation with Luiza Ch. Savage
by Luiza Ch. Savage
Carolyn Jessop, 43, was born in the U.S. into a radical polygamist cult, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS). At 18, she became the fourth wife of a 50-year-old man and bore eight children. She recounts the abuses she endured and her harrowing flight in a book, Escape. She recently testified before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, which is considering whether polygamy laws violate religious freedom under the Charter and whether they can be used to prosecute FLDS leaders in Bountiful, B.C.
Q: Critics of anti-polygamy laws say that the state should not interfere with the religious beliefs or lifestyle decisions of consenting adults. Do you agree?
A: This is not about consenting adults. My position is it is sexual slavery. I was never asked. I was told what I was going to do. My husband Merril never asked me to marry him. The purpose of marriage is not to fall in love but to provide righteous children. They say it's a victimless crime. I have not seen a polygamous situation that is not abusive to someone in the relationship.
Q: Ironically, you describe your husband, who had more than a dozen wives and 54 children, as emotionally monogamous.
A: If a man gets many wives, he'll find one he has chemistry with. Once they fall in love, things get difficult for the other women. If he's not having sex with you, your status in the family goes down. When he shuts you out, they know you are just a prime target for whatever abuse they want to throw at you because he won't protect you or your kids.
Q: Did you witness child abuse?
A: Systematic abuse. There is a lot of violence toward kids. Merril did a lot of water torture on his babies.
Q: What is water torture?
A: The concept is that you have to break a child's will before the age of 2. If you don't, you'll never be able to control them at the level that their salvation depends on. A baby may be crying because it is hungry. They would take the baby and spank it to really get it going. Then they hold the baby face-up under cold running water for 30 seconds, and as soon as it gets its breath and starts crying, they'd spank it again. A session like that could last an hour until the baby quits fighting from fatigue. That can happen frequently until the parent feels the baby is sufficiently broken.
Q: And you say the community was rife with child sexual abuse?
A: This isn't a typical sexual assault of a minor. Parents are involved in this. That's what makes it so egregious. Underage marriage is a conspiracy to have sex with minors. The parents are involved, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles. The options the girls have for help and relief from those crimes—they virtually have none.
Q: The RCMP are now investigating evidence that cult members were smuggling Canadian girls as young as 12 to marry men in the U.S. One of them ended up being given to your husband.
A: Back in 2008, when they did the raids at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas, three of the minors that had been sexually assaulted under the pretense of marriage and didn't know where their parents were, were from Canada. They were brought into the States by the parents, given to [FLDS leader] Warren Jeffs on a silver platter and abandoned. The investigator in Texas, Angie Voss, sent a report to Canada, saying [they had] three girls who were trafficked [there] for the purposes of sex. That got lost in the system and nothing was ever done. As far as I know, they are still in the U.S. Merril married another Canadian girl who was 16 at the time.
Q: What happens to boys when all the girls are married off to the old men of the church?
A: Boys are disposable. It's simple math. They excommunicate them. They dump a 13-year-old boy on the street, in a big city, and tell him they never want to see him again because he has been turned to the temptations of Satan. There are crimes committed against children in these groups that if committed in a regular household, the family would lose their children.
Q: Why not just leave?
A: Getting out of the community is a huge obstacle. You are not free to say, "Oh, I don't want to do this anymore." They hunt you down. They take you back and put you under 24-hour surveillance, take your kids away and tell you that you can't see them again.
Q: What obstacles did you face?
A: The first was legal: how do you get legal custody of your kids? Merril hired an attorney who was paid around $1 million. Family attorneys would not touch my case because they would be taking on a cult, and they only did family law. I didn't have any money. My attorney, Lisa Jones, said it was the most stressful case in her career. She did it as a favour to the state attorney general of Utah, who told her we cannot lose. If we lose, no other woman will ever come forward. I was the first one to ever leave the FLDS and get legal custody of all my children and get all of them out. Another problem a woman has is the fact that we are in an illegal lifestyle. When I went into court to fight for my kids, it was viewed as two criminals fighting over the kids. I didn't get any advantages that women would get who are leaving an abusive situation.
Q: Why didn't you have any money?
A: My husband had a home worth more than $1 million—it was 17,000 square feet for seven wives and 30-some kids. I had no claim, even though I worked as a teacher and all my money contributed to that home. But it was all in a Church-controlled trust. He had other assets such as construction equipment that he put in the name of other members. It was a fraudulent transfer and the state could have traced it back to him, but they didn't want to do that. My case didn't fit the simple system where he gets a paycheque and you garnish it for child support. He would have had to give support for eight kids and one with a severe disability and in critical condition with cancer. That's one of the problems with polygamy. Women don't have any protection from financial abuse. He was flying around in a private jet and I was in a homeless shelter.
Q: When you escaped, you discovered he had run up debts in your name.
A: He was using my name to finance different things—credit cards, construction equipment. When I left, he stopped paying. I didn't know what I owed. He legally got away without paying child support and pushed me into bankruptcy and it did not hurt him because we were not legally married. Harrison, my 11-year-old disabled son, at the time was 4. He needed 24-hour-a-day care. That forced me onto welfare.
Q: How are women prevented from physically leaving the community you were in, on the Arizona-Utah border?
A: The men work construction and are gone during the week. They are not there to watch their wives. They don't want her taking her kids to go to town but it's not practical to leave a woman with a lot of little kids with no transportation. So they leave her a clunker that's unlicensed and uninsured to make sure that she cannot leave the community. The minute I start driving outside of the community, they know I'm leaving without permission. It's like driving a marked car.
Q: Why not go to the police?
A: The cops are members of the cult. Merril would have called and said, 'My wife is leaving and you'd better get over and stop her.' I tried to call a cop outside of the community; they said we don't have jurisdiction there.
Q: What made you finally decide to leave?
A: It was a combination of how critical things were becoming because Warren Jeffs had become the prophet and he was preaching the "lifting up." I could see he was starting to program us for a mass suicide. I was also afraid for the safety of my daughter, who was turning 14 and I knew Warren wanted to marry her. The other factor was my disabled son. I was having hell on wheels getting him treatment, keeping him alive.
Q: What do you think would happen if courts strike down Canada's anti-polygamy law?
A: It could have a devastating impact. It would push the legalization of polygamy into the U.S. It would help mainstream that lifestyle. We want to see specific legislation to go after specific crimes they are committing, such as educational neglect of children, medical neglect, in addition to sexual assault. If Canada says this is legal, there probably won't be legislation to deal with these crimes.
Q: You tell U.S. audiences Canada represents "hope" because of the potential for prosecutions of leaders of a branch of the FLDS in Bountiful, who had many underage brides.
A: Canada presents a hope to me for two reasons. They are looking very seriously at crimes within the polygamous community. The other encouraging thing is because they are looking at a polygamist population of fewer than 2,000 people, dealing with the situation is more feasible. In Utah we have 80,000. If Canada prosecutes, it would put serious heat on Utah.
Q: What do you think the Canadian government should do?
A: They should pass specific legislation. If children are born into it you can't take away all their Charter rights in the name of freedom of religion. Regardless of what you believe, you don't have a right to deprive a child of all their other rights. You couldn't just take girls over international lines and give them over to sexual abuse when they are 12. You can open the door to freedom for people who are trapped. It's not about consenting adults. There are children there.
Speaker opens eyes to suffering of women in polygamist cults
Written by Linda Leicht | News-Leader
Carolyn Jessop's new book, "Triumph," is about her life after escaping her ex-husband and the FLDS. / Valerie Mosley / News-Leader
Carolyn Jessop is on a mission.
The 43-year-old mother of eight "escaped" from a polygamist compound eight years ago and is determined to open the public's eyes to the realities of a way of life that holds women powerless and children in peril.
"The crime is still happening, and children are still being hurt," she told a packed house at Missouri State University Tuesday night.
Jessop is the author of "Escape," which tells the story of her life in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and her escape from it, and "Triumph: Life After the Cult, a Survivor's Lessons."
After the petite, blonde woman with a quiet voice told the harrowing story of being forced at age 18 to become the fourth "wife" of a man of 50 and of ultimately escaping with her children, the crowd rose to their feet to applaud her.
"I thought it was phenomenal," said MSU senior Abby Barcomb of Springfield. Although Barcomb had been interested in the topic of polygamy and aware of some of the things Jessop reported, she said, "Everything was shocking."
Ethan Couch, a sophomore from Cassville, attended the talk as part of an assignment for his ethics class. He came away impressed. "(Polygamy) is not at all like I thought it would be," he said, admitting that his insights had only been from the television show "Sister Wives," a reality show focusing on one polygamist family. "It sounded horrible."
Jessop described a life that surpasses horrible in many ways. She came from six generations of FLDS polygamists, tracing her family back to the founder of the cult that broke away from the Mormon church in 1912.
She grew up knowing only a life that offered her no choices but to have children for the man the "prophet" of the group chose for her and face the possibility that those children could be taken from her at any moment.
"I was never allowed to experience anything else," she said. "The mind control is very severe."
Her own father had three wives and 38 children. She saw her brothers banished from the community when they were still teenagers -- a fate she estimates happens to about 80 percent of the boys born into the cult. Her father was later banished, too.
Jessop's decision to leave the cult and take her children with her came after the group made an even more extreme turn. Warren Jeffs, the new prophet, declared that the children would no longer receive an education, he began excommunicating men and reassigning their wives and children to different families, and began arranging marriages between girls as young as 14.
In her family, Jessop faced the possibility that her daughter, 14, would become one of Jeffs' wives and that her son, diagnosed with cancer, would not be allowed medical treatment.
With the help of a sister still on the compound and two brothers who were living in Salt Lake City, she managed to get all eight of her children into a van and drive out of Colorado City, Ariz., a city
completely dominated by FLDS, she said.
Although she had no money, a critically ill son, children who were panicked that they were destined to hell for leaving, and little hope of succeeding, she managed to win full custody of her children and child support, something no other woman from the cult had accomplished.
Today, she is a successful author. Her son Harrison no longer has cancer but was left seriously disabled, and the other children went through counseling and continued in school. Her oldest daughter,returned to the
compound when she turned 18.
"I think the day that Betty went back was more terrible than learning my son had cancer," she said. "I couldn't do anything."
But Jessop is doing plenty to open the public's eyes to the realities of polygamy and cults like the FLDS. In addition to her best-selling books, Jessop has turned to the media, speaks at campuses, and testifies before courts in the U.S. and Canada.
Today, Jeffs sits in jail awaiting trial in Texas, and Canada's high court considers the constitutionality of its polygamy law and the case of two men who brought their 12-year-old daughters to the United States to
marry Jeffs, then about 50.
Jessop wants the government to do more. She wants states with polygamist communities to quit turning a blind eye to the abuse that comes with polygamy. And she wants laws that will protect women who
have no legal rights as a wife because their marriages were never legalized.
"Those women have no power," she says. "They are given like a slave."
Leaving that slavery meant giving up much more than her marriage. "I was willing to give up my religion, my home ... all I knew," she said.
It also meant finding a new power that gives her the strength to speak out for the women and children who continue to live in slavery and danger.
"I strongly believe there's a higher power," she said. "I believe in miracles."
Mormon fundamentalist asks court to prevent evidence in tax trial from being used in criminal cases related to polygamy
Mormon fundamentalist leader asks court to exclude evidence against him in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Mormon polygamists seek immunity from future prosecution before giving evidence in Canadian constitutional case
Judge will allow anonymous testimony from Mormon polygamists in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Decision in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy months away but evidence renews police investigation
Author who escaped abuse in US polygamy cult explains why Canadian constitutional case is so important in both countries
BC government has acted quicker to protect animals than the abused children of Mormon fundamentalists in Bountiful
Children's rights group tells court BC put rights of Mormon fundamentalist parents before rights of children
Teachers tell court BC government neglected children's educational rights in Mormon fundamentalist community
Court appointed lawyer says Canadian polygamy law criminalizes harmless behaviour, violates religious freedom of adults
Research from over 170 countries shows polygamy causes extreme violations of women and children's rights
Author who escaped abuse in US polygamy cult explains why Canadian constitutional case is so important in both countries
Evidence in Canadian polygamy case shows Mormon leader trafficked his daughters and other child brides to US
Stop Polygamy in Canada website has notes taken by observers in the courtroom as well as links to most of the affidavits and research the court is considering in this case.
Summary of positions in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy as court begins hearing final oral arguments
FLDS children raised for a life of poverty and servitude to their insane pedophile prophet Warren Jeffs
Polygamy prohibition is a reasonable limit on religious freedom to protect the equality rights of women and children
Two more plural wives testify in Canadian polygamy case, see no problem with forced marriage or trafficking child brides
Testimony of first FLDS witness in Canadian polygamy case reveals women in denial that their children are being abused
First anonymous FLDS witness in Canadian polygamy case paints cosy picture of plural marriage, seems oblivious to abuses
Affidavit in Canadian polygamy case reveals shocking statistics on child trafficking, child brides and teen mothers in Bountiful
Economics professor considers financial aspects of polygamy that create inequality
Two Mormon fundamentalist women from Utah tell Canadian court positive accounts of polygamy, no hint of abuse
Brother of FLDS bishop describes intellectual abuse, child labour, spiritual abuse and loveless religion in Canadian polygamy case
No freedom from religion for women and children in Mormon polygamist towns where men claim religious freedom to abuse
Mormon polygamist survivor tells court babies smothered to keep quiet, emotional and spiritual abuse worse than sex abuse
Video testimony by Mormon fundamentalist in Canadian court says polygamy provides happy life and harms no one
Survivor tells Canadian court extreme abuses including water torture of babies common in Mormon polygamist communities
FLDS bishop of Bountiful will not testify in Canadian polygamy case so his affidavit will not be read into record
Legal expert tells Canadian court polygamy prohibitions and monogamy tradition pre-date Christianity
The issue of women's rights in the Canadian constitutional review of the polygamy law
Expert in polygamy case says society should assume all members of sects have free choice, but what about children?
B.C. government expert in polygamy case sets out long list of social harms, societies that abandon polygamy do better
Court views video affidavits from Mormon fundamentalist survivors detailing pedophilia, incest, child trafficking and forced marriage
Polygamy expert tells court in constitutional case that it reduces women's freedom and equality and leads to forced marriage
Affidavits from survivors and psychologist's testimony in constitutional case show abusive nature of polygamous lifestyle
Expert witness in constitutional case on polygamy claims Bountiful women freely choose their own religious oppression
Judge allows controversial expert witness to testify in Canadian polygamy case, no decision yet on publication of video affidavits
Pro-polygamy intervenor groups make opening statements as first week of Canadian constitutional case ends
FLDS lawyer in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy claims members freely consent to plural marriage, abuse survivors disagree
Lawyer appointed to argue for striking down Canada's anti-polygamy law in constitutional case makes opening arguments
Canadian constitutional case on polygamy begins with BC government's opening statement
Unique Canadian constitutional case on polygamy set to begin November 22, 2010
Timeline of events leading up to Canadian constitutional case on polygamy which is set to begin
Survivor of abuse by Mormon polygamists documents accounts of sex crimes in the FLDS and other fundamentalist groups
Mormon fundamentalist leader asks court to exclude evidence against him in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Fundamentalist Mormon spokeswoman says polygamy doesn't hurt anyone
Mormon fundamentalist claims of religious persecution in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy not supported by the facts
Polygamist leader says BC attorney general guilty of religious persecution
Polygamist leader calls charges religious persecution
More persecution than prosecution
Second Mormon polygamist found guilty of child sex assault, jury doesn't buy defense claim of religious persecution
Claims of persecution ridiculous in societies where Christians have special privileges to indoctrinate children
More pro-polygamy affidavits by Mormon fundamentalists filed in Canadian constitutional case set to begin in November
Judge will allow anonymous testimony from Mormon polygamists in Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Mormon polygamists seek immunity from future prosecution before giving evidence in Canadian constitutional case
Canadian constitutional case on polygamy triggered by Mormon fundamentalists, but will also examine Muslim communities
Utah law professor uses Mormon polygamists as example of how religious extremism leads to deliberate child abuse
Polygyny and Canada's Obligations under International Human Rights Law (pdf)
Research paper submitted to B.C. court in constitutional case documents harms associated with polygamy
Man from Bountiful says girls in Mormon polygamist communities "treated like poison snakes", taught to obey men and have many children
Bountiful evidence that polygamy harms women and children - constitutional case likely to reach Canadian Supreme Court
Review of the positions 12 intervener groups are expected to take in upcoming Canadian constitutional case on polygamy
Some religious practices, such as polygamy, are inherently harmful and should not be tolerated in modern society
Women's adovcates: polygamy is an "oppressive institution" that abuses and enslaves women and children
Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado by Marci Hamilton
Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearings on Polygamy Crimes: What Needs to Be Done at the Federal Level to Protect Children from Abuse and Neglect
Senate hearing: "Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response."
Texas Will Attempt to Show That Polygamist Culture Itself Harms Children
FLDS defendants complain their religious freedom violated, while denying religious freedom to their children
Children in Bountiful have religious rights too, but are denied them by parents claiming religious freedom
Some Canadian children are protected from religion-related abuse, while others are not
Polygamy is not freedom
Israeli politicians and women's advocates call for immediate change to polygamy law to protect rights of women and children
New study on polygamy in Malaysia finds evidence of harm to everyone involved
Indonesian Women's Association divided on whether polygamy, which is legal in Indonesia, is harmful to women and children


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National Catholic Reporter has posted the results of their Catholics in America study, which is chock-full of interesting data on the faith lives of those who make up our church in the United States. The study covers everything from parish life to reactions to the sex abuse scandal to how well Catholics understand the Eucharist, all of which is interesting reading.
It would be impossible to cover the whole study in one blog post, but there was one particular portion that caught my attention: what makes someone a "good Catholic"?
There is a lot of disagreement these days on this particular question. We often see some Catholics claiming that a fellow member of the church is "not as Catholic" as they are, or claiming that another person's understanding of the Catholic faith is somehow "wrong" because of what they do or don't do in their personal faith lives. So it is not surprising that when it comes to what is most important to Catholics, the answers are all over the map.
At the top of the list is the resurrection, which 73 percent of Catholics surveyed say is "very important" to their faith (and what, may I ask, do the other 27 percent think about the resurrection? That it just makes for a nice story?)
Coming in second is helping the poor, which 67 percent say is very important to their Catholic faith. Concern for the poor far outranks some of the big social issues often associated with the Catholic Church, such as opposition to abortion (40 percent) and opposition to same-sex marriage (35 percent). Matters of spirituality fall somewhere in the middle, and the importance of Vatican authority is pretty far down the list with only 30 percent citing it as a key component of their faith. A celibate, all male clergy is at the bottom of the list with 21 percent.
As for what makes someone a "good Catholic," there's a wide range of opinion there as well. An overwhelming 78 percent say it doesn't require going to Mass every Sunday, which explains the fact that only 31 percent say they actually do attend Mass at least once a week (and 47 percent say they attend less than once a month).
Even among those who identify themselves as "highly committed" Catholics, there are large numbers who say you don't have to follow church teaching on issues like birth control (60 percent), divorce and remarriage (46 percent), and abortion (31 percent) to still be a good Catholic. Of those who are "highly committed," 56 percent also say it isn't necessarily important for Catholics to help out in their parishes.
Just looking at this particular portion of the study, one gets a picture that today's Catholics believe much more in what is convenient than what is universal truth. With such a huge gap in how members of the church view their faith, it is going to be a challenge for the church to get its members back on the same page, no less to bring back the many who have made a permanent exit from the pews.
When the U.S. bishops gather in a few weeks for their annual general assembly, hopefully they'll have a chance to talk, formally or informally, about these results. The findings can help church leaders see where the average Catholic has drifted from the true teachings of their faith--and where the bishops have fallen out of touch with the issues that really matter to Catholics today.


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What a pathetic lie. I didn't see you pulling the hidden room ex-inquisitor.
What a pathetic lie. I didn't see you pulling the hidden room ex-inquisitor.
Well, lets see here.
1) If he makes the video and its legit, then those saying its impossible look like jackasses.
2) If he's trolling, you all already look like jackasses
3) If he makes the video and misses a pull somewhere then one of you will say the title is a lie and be a jackass for diminishing an accomplishment.
Oh and just for those who seem so ENRAGED by where he posted this, is that really such a big deal? Can you prove this isn't a world first any more than he can prove it is?
Personally, I'm bookmarking this thread and patiently waiting for a video. Preemptive congratulations OP.
lol this thread is still going on, and some people are still waiting on a video he said he'd give 4 days ago?
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Just Shut it wreaking troll... anyone doesnt care that you pulled Cathredal as 45lvl char , we only care about ACTUAL first realms...
PS: pics or it didnt happen
PPS: here have you cookie and now begone.
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Oh dear, he's being serious..
When have I eva been able to reach a mage? He just freeze me, blink, freeze himself, make big dragonhead and confuse me, blink etc etc.
Definitely judging you for having auto-attack on your action bars in the warrior video.
Nonetheless, eagerly awaiting this solo druid one-pull, full-clear.
Oh wow, i wish i could do that!
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Couldnt bother to read all these comments so I'll just quote and say:
I did this on a lvl 38 Priest who wore no Pants and had res sickness and i also had a slight fever and my mom just told me she was pregnant again, so don´t lie i haz tha world first on this.But i sadly have no proof because the video was deleted as soon as the child was born because it was a mutant and was alergic to world first videos.so sad
Interesting topic, did i missed video or should i wait for photoshop version?
I'm pretty sure i was the first mage to ever 1080 off of the zepplin tower in trisfal glade and instant pyro a lvl 8.I NO SI NO CUUKIEZ 4 MEH!!!%$#!!^$#%!!!!
lol big ego if u think no one ever tried this on that lvl, it never can be a world first, this dongeon is here since launch
btw it's one of the most boring and unintersting topic roday
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i'll do a world first in a few minutes! i'm trying to get some beer out of my fridge while doin' a NAKED HANDSTAND, so i'd have to get that beer with only ONE arm out! no video will be coming to back that up, just trust me. i can do it! :-)


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