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Seventeen-year-old Tan Lai Ho, a student of SMK Danau Kota, Kuala Lumpur, has a dream to study hard, get good grades, build her career in the corporate world, and do something to benefit the people with her knowledge. With that, her dad can enjoy old age and does not have to stress over life, family and her.
Knowing that a dream kept in the heart and not put into action remains a dream, she made a positive change and started afresh.
Failing primary school syllabus
"When I was in primary school, I was rejected by my classmates, and without encouragement from my teachers, I was disinterested in learning. I had no friends, hence was very lonely," admitted the slightly tan girl. In the past, her performance was bad, and her exams averaged around 40%. After going to secondary school, she had to enter preparatory class, but the results remained unsatisfactory. At the year-end holiday of Form 1, her disinterest in learning took a different turn.
It turned out that her father, Tan Kar Chai, had to ride a motorcycle to carry the buns for sale, come rain or shine. The filial girl could not bear to see her dad working so hard every day just to raise her, let her eat and dress well, have money to study and for tuition. She said, "My father had a heart surgery. I really can't bear to see him working so hard. But our family is poor; even the money for my father's surgery was paid by Tzu Chi. If my father stops working, our life will be a problem."
Although Kar Chai is not her biological father, he loves her as his own; and she grows up in an environment full of love. In order to take care of her, he stopped indulging in alcohol and never considered marrying, preferring to live only with his daughter.
Lai Ho was very concerned that her dad could not understand letters sent by banks or government departments that were written in English or Malay. They often had to get others to translate. Whenever she saw this scene, she felt particularly uncomfortable, feeling that despite her attending secondary school, she was still of no help.
The effort behind success
She also began to have sleepless nights worrying that if her father could not work in the future and she could not do anything because she had neither skills nor knowledge, what would happen to them? In order to find the right direction, she read the stories of successful people online and found that they were constantly working hard and had struggled before achieving success.
No one is destined to be successful at birth. The teenage child realized that she had been wasting her life all these while. There and then, she recalled that every time she showed her academic transcript to her father, he always looked forward to seeing her good grades, but she repeatedly disappointed him. Despite the disappointment, Dad had never blamed her. Instead, he would encourage her by saying, "Do better next time."
Lai Ho remembered that she had been receiving Tzu Chi Study Grant every year since Primary 4, and each time volunteers visited her home, they would encourage her not to give up, to put in more efforts and work hard. With the urge to seek improvements, she was determined to change herself.
She knew that as her foundation for primary school syllabus was not strong, she could not keep up with the secondary school curriculum. Therefore, she used the year-end holiday of Form 1 to repeat the subjects of the entire primary school, especially her weakest subjects – English and Malay.
When she encountered new grammar problems, she would go online to find a learning channel and through the teaching of these websites, she gradually grasped the way of learning and increased her confidence in continuing her efforts. In order to improve her memory, she asked her father to buy a whiteboard to hang in the room. She would then do her homework on the whiteboard daily; and when she could not sleep at night, she would copy notes on the board and read them aloud.
In order to revise her studies, she abandoned her favourite TV series, and more and more reference books and extra-curricular readings appeared in the cabinet. She spent an increasing amount of time burying herself in the books, day and night, determined to make up for lost time.
When Form 2 class started, she found herself understanding and absorbing the contents taught more quickly. In the first semester exam, she was fourth in the class, passing all subjects. She even scored 60% for Maths, a subject she usually failed.
The girl became more and more confident in her learning methods. Other than paying attention in class, she attended tuition and used online platforms to self-study. In the second and third semester, she came up top in the class. When she went from the eighth class (for low-performing students) to the second class (high-performing students) in Form 3, her teachers and classmates were impressed.
To practise speaking Malay and English, she talked to Indian and Malay friends whose English and Malay are good, to pick up the correct pronunciations. Now, she could speak both languages fluently.
"The most comforting thing for me is that students who looked down on me would now turn to me for help with their homework. I don't blame them for their bad attitude in the past, and will tell them all that I understand. The happiest thing is that I can now read every single letter for my father, be it in Mandarin, English or Malay. It is no longer an issue to me."
With her dedication, Lai Ho got rid of the stigma of being labelled the "poor-performing student who fails everything". She proved that with "perseverance, determination and faith", she could change herself and be a better person.
A mother's love for a lonely soul
Lai Ho's unbeatable learning spirit touched volunteer Lim Ah Lian, who visited from time to time. Every time she made progress, the volunteer would give her a hanging ornament with a motivational quote or blessing phrase, or a little gift, to encourage her to strive on.
As a mother of two, Ah Lian felt sorry for the girl, who was without the care of a mother. Therefore, she has taken Lai Ho under her wings and treated her like her own. She would take her out for walks and meals. When the girl had issues, Ah Lian would encourage her to speak about it and share her feelings. Lai Ho felt the love of a mother from Ah Lian and gradually, she opened up to her.
Ah Lian knew that Lai Ho spent most of her time studying, hence rarely participated in extra-curricular activities. Although the girl would seek advice from the school's counsellor whenever she had an issue or doubt, Ah Lian was worried about her non-existing social circle and its possible effect on her. Thus, she encouraged Lai Ho to participate in after-school activities and mix with other students.
Sometimes, when Lai Ho had difficulty with her homework, she would complain to Ah Lian about it. The latter would then get for her relevant reference books and remind her not to fear but to consult her teachers when she encountered a problem. Lai Ho was grateful for the reminders, which had enabled her to learn more. Ah Lian's heart of a mother also touched Lai Ho. For example, when she learnt that Lai Ho was unwell, she took her to see a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and encouraged her to exercise more. Lai Ho was truly touched by these little caring actions.
On December 2, 2018, and accompanied by her dad, Lai Ho attended the 2018 Tzu Chi Study Grant & Incentives Presentation Ceremony at KL Tzu-Chi Jing Si Hall. It was a joyful and meaningful day for both of them because on this day, the child was awarded "Academic Progress Award" to recognize the improvement she had made academically. When she walked up the stage to receive the certificate, her dad smiled happily.
From the father's point of view, his daughter was well behaved. Although he was previously worried that her future may be tougher without the interest to study, he never wanted to increase her mental burden and had turned his worry into encouragement. "This year, she scored A for eight subjects, and hit an overall average of 73%. It is an achievement. I am overjoyed and relieved. As long as she continues her efforts, her future will no longer be tough," he shared cheerfully.
Upon receiving the Award from the volunteer, Lai Ho was over the moon. To her, this certificate not only has Tzu Chi's blessing and encouragement, but is also a token of recognition that will support her to move forward into the future.
Tan Lai Ho was focused in her studies to make up for lost time. [Photograph by Ong Saw Tin]
Volunteer Lim Ah Lian (1st left) has treated Tan Lai Ho (middle) as her own daughter. She and Lai Ho's father (right) were both gratified for her good grades. [Photograph by Ong Saw Tin]
Tan Lai Ho was overjoyed to receive the "Academic Progress Award" of Tzu Chi Study Grant, which meant a lot to her. [Photograph by Chan Boon Huat]


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A second damning report has now been published on Jersey's ill-fated Innovation Fund, this time castigating the way it was overseen by politicians and civil servants, with the result that no one seemed to know for sure who was actually responsible for it.
It's the first of three reviews of the Fund to be published, which were all commissioned after it emerged earlier this year that loan repayments totalling up to £1.4million of public money had fallen overdue, and may not be recovered, and one of the companies it supported had gone into liquidation. In the aftermath, Senator Philip Ozouf resigned his position as an Assistant Minister responsible for Innovation.
But today's report, written by Jessica Simor QC of Matrix Chambers, reveals that determining which politician was actually responsible for the Fund was at the heart of problems with the way it was organised.
The problem began in November 2014, after the last elections, when Senator Lyndon Farnham became Economic Development Minister, which was the Department in charge of the Fund. But, the Chief Minister wanted to move that responsibility to his own Department, with Senator Philip Ozouf running it as Assistant Chief Minister. Until that happened, Senator Ozouf was made Assistant Economic Development Minister so he could still take charge of innovation.
But the report shows that although it seemed to be understood that Senator Ozouf was responsible for the Fund from late 2014, the actual process for transferring the legal responsibility wasn't finally completed until April 2016.
It seems that during that period, Senator Lyndon Farnham thought he had delegated responsibility for the Fund to Senator Ozouf, but this wasn't done properly:
"Senator Farnham therefore had legal responsibility for the JIF from 12 November 2014. In accordance with the intention of the Chief Minister, he appointed Senator Ozouf as his Assistant Minister for Economic Development for an interim period pending transfer of the JIF (along with Digital, Innovation and Competition) to the Chief Minister's Department. Senator Farnham believed that in so doing, he had delegated his powers and responsibilities in relation to the JIF to Senator Ozouf. However, whilst I have found that he did delegate his powers, he did not make a written Ministerial Decision to that effect, nor was the delegation reported to the States in accordance with the requirements of Article 30 of the States of Jersey Law 2005 ("the 2005 Law")."
But despite this confusion, the reports notes that Senator Ozouf thought he did have responsibility for the Fund from November 2014, and that was the true intention of both the Chief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst, and Senator Farnham, even if the correct legal steps to implement it hadn't been correctly taken:
"One of the problems was that during the interim period Senator Ozouf understood that he had sole responsibility for the JIF and was answerable to the Chief Minister in relation to it. This he understood from three factors. The first was his letter of appointment as Assistant Chief Minister dated 4 November 2014, in which he was informed that he would have responsibilities in the areas of 'Digital, Innovation and Competition'. The second was the nomination letter for Senator Farnham of the same dates, which excluded those areas from Senator Farnham's (proposed) responsibilities. The third was advice he received to that effect. This was incorrect because the relevant areas of responsibility were only transferred to the Chief Minister on 1 January 2016 by the Transfer Regulations; neither his appointment letter nor nomination letter affected the fact that ministerial responsibility for the JIF ultimately rested with Senator Farnham until that date. Senator Farnham, correctly understood that as a matter of law he retained ultimate legal responsibility for the JIF."
In light of that intense confusion, Ms Simor has recommended that all Ministers receive better training:
"Ministers need to understand (1) the scope, meaning and effect of a letter of appointment; (2) the source of their powers, namely delegations and the enactment under which the relevant power(s) arise; and (3) their obligations to complete written Ministerial Decisions in accordance with Appendix 3, paragraphs 3 and 4 of the 2015 Code and to report delegation decisions to the States under Article 30 of the 2005 Law. It would also be useful if they were given training on their legal responsibilities, the roles and responsibilities of their officers and decision-making and recording."
She also recommends that each States Department is clearer in setting out who is responsible for what, and the relevant deadlines.
Finally, Ms Simor recommends that the States find a quicker and simpler process for making organisational changes.
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Everyone beneath the sun is dreaming dreams,scheming schemes, wanting what they haven't got, chasing golden beams...I'm like the rest its quite true
September 16, 2008
Where Gods Dwell
22 comments:
- Avishek said...
Great photo-story. Beautifully seen and captured through words and the camera. Keep up the good work.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- ~ ॐ ~ said...
Bhoomi, this is a some good work !!!
very very nice !!
- September 16, 2008 at 12:23 PM
what a conundrum... now, readers will not know whether to harangue you to post more often or to wait for quality stuff like this.
- September 16, 2008 at 6:39 PM
- bhumika said...
Thank you. Inspiration comes from your great work :)
Dhanyawaad haiji.
I agree - the last break was pretty long. But i shall make up for it soon :) Thanks for your appreciation
- September 16, 2008 at 9:01 PM
- megha puNAter" said...
yipee you are back,lovely post it was definitely worth the wait :)
- September 18, 2008 at 11:26 PM
- Piggy Little said...
:) i miss hometown. :)
wen i come, u and i, and a trip :)
lovely. lovely. lovely.
- September 19, 2008 at 12:44 AM
- Chaggoholic.... said...
Findin God within one's self, in ur case thru the camera.Cool really nice....
- September 19, 2008 at 12:45 AM
- bhumika said...
:) thank you
@ neha
definitely! i'm looking forward to it :)
welcome to my blog! finding god in oneself - it's all about faith, i believe.
- September 21, 2008 at 2:34 AM
- dharmabum said...
there is always more to be seen than to be captured - what a beautiful thought, that! hats off - on that one, and all the colourful pictures. :)
PS: indeed you are a journalist - aren't blogs a part of media too?
- September 24, 2008 at 4:24 AM
- bhumika said...
Thanks for the appreciation.
"PS: indeed you are a journalist - aren't blogs a part of media too?"
I agree that blogs are a part of media. As for journalism - i consider it to be a very sacrosant pillar of our democracy. To call myself a journalist would be further diluting the already watered down image of the news media nowadays.
- September 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM
- megha puNAter" said...
bhumika,there is an award waiting for you in my blog :)
- September 28, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Vineeta said...
This is such a fantastic post! Very well put together. With love. I havent been blogging & reading blogs at all for some months now. But I'm so glad I stopped by here :)
- September 29, 2008 at 11:47 PM
- ~mE said...
very nice photo journal
- October 2, 2008 at 11:23 PM
- bhumika said...
Glad to see you on my blog after ages. I had a great time bringing together this post and feels good to know that you'll enjoyed it as much as i did :)
Welcome! That's a nice way of putting it - 'photo journal'. Guess i'll add it in my tags :) Do drop in more often.
- October 3, 2008 at 12:25 AM
- pink dogwood said...
Just found you via Arch's chai blog - wow - I like your thoughts - will be visiting regularly :)
- October 22, 2008 at 4:41 AM
- bhumika said...
Welcome! and yes, do visit often :)
- October 23, 2008 at 9:10 PM
- ramanjit said...
hi b,
very nice pic.
thanks for shearing it with us.
- November 24, 2008 at 5:33 AM
- Komal-Nishka said...
Hey Bhoomi,
This post has brought back memories of that stretch - this was a street i'd pass every 15 days to reach my orthodontist at panchvati...awwww...
I am no longer in Abad but miss the city and its humbleness..
Love your thoughts too..
- December 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- bhumika said...
welcome to my blog! i'm glad this post did its bit of reminding you of a'bad.
btw, did you visit ajay shah at panchvati?
- December 30, 2008 at 12:10 AM
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Minister Bonnici presented the letter during a cordial meeting held this morning with Commissioner Jourová at the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government. In the letter, Minister Bonnici states that Malta recognises that the establishment of the EPPO is a major development for safeguarding the economic interests of the European Union and ensures that union funds are employed for the achievement of the social and economic purposes for which they are intended.
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Watership Down is rightly regarded as a classic. Richard Adams wisely resisted the temptation to write a traditional sequel. However, he did attempt to satisfy readers' demands with Tales from Watership Down, a set of tales told in the aftermath of the warren's' victory over Efrafa. The first set of tales provides more background on the rabbit legend El-ahrairah. The second set reveals what happened to El-ahrairah after he left the Black Rabbit of Inlé's lair. The final set continues the adventures of the Watership Down rabbits.I thought the first few stories undermined the narrative frame Adams so carefully constructed in Watership Down. In the original novel, Adams presented the story from the perspective of rabbits and treated the world as rabbits would. However, in several of El-ahrairah's adventures, rabbits – and other animals – suddenly become obsessed with humanity. Whereas in Watership Down humans were simply an odd form of predator, in Tales the animals blame humans for mass extinctions. Moreover, some of the animal species go by the names humans gave them, such as "Oregon Bison" (I doubt a real bison would know about U.S. geography).
In the better stories, El-ahrairah encounters a seemingly impossible puzzle or a moral quandary. In my favorite story, El-ahrairah briefly joins a warren of rabbits after saving them from a plague of rats. However, the rabbits begin to encroach upon a human farm. How far should El-ahrairah go in trying to convince them to tread carefully? The tale is especially memorable because Adams manages to make the rabbits both sympathetic and unnatural at the same time.
For the most part, I didn't think the stories about the Watership Down rabbits actually add much to their character development, mostly because Adams did such an outstanding job in the original novel. Some of the later tales even bordered on undermining the development of key characters from the original novel. Bigwig in particular comes across as whiny or even sexist as he berates a female chief rabbit, whereas I'd always gotten the impression that he was a chivalrous rabbit.
There's one exceptionally memorable story about the original Watership Down rabbits. Speedwell was a forgettable character in Watership Down. I honestly can't recall a single thing he did in the original novel. In Tales from Watership Down, Speedwell gets a chance to tell his story from his "unique" perspective. I won't spoil the twist, but I think it's a good example of how shorter stories can breathe new life into characters by exploring approaches that might not fit in a novel. Let's just say I'll never forget about Speedwell again.
As is often the case with collected volumes of short stories, the tales vary in quality. Tales from Watership Down has a few stories that recapture the spirit of Watership Down, but I'd hesitate to recommend it to diehard fans of the original. It'll inevitably be disappointing, even though taken on their own most of the stories fare quite well. I'd recommend skipping the first section entirely and focusing on El-ahrairah's journey back from the Black Rabbit of Inlé.


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We never expected this to be so hard
Jeff was so exhausted by the time we cast off our lines that he needed a quick nap en route.
Destination Pelicans Cove, Santa Cruz Island Sept. 17, 2011
I (Julie) often broke into tears when talking to the boys, my parents and close friends about our departure and plans. The reality of leaving those so dear to us behind was incredibly hard. I was also surprised by how attached I had become to our home and the comfortable life we were enjoying.
Finally we had time to relax and fully experience living in Ventura and now we were leaving. Does this make sense?
As our departure day neared our "to-do" list grew. It was so tempting to keep pushing back our date one more week or maybe next year.
We just kept working through each task one at a time and little by little things came together.
We just kept working through each task one at a time and little by little things came together.
|Jeanne and I sewing sun shades
for the Buena Vida.
Thanks Jeanne.
|Will we ever get this all packed
into a 42 foot Sailboat
We were bolstered by the encouragement from our friends and with the support of each other we continued packing the boat and preparing our home 10 hours a day until it was time to leave.
Well, not quiet 10 hours a day. We were blessed with many invitations to dinner with friends and
family as an opportunity to say "good bye". The thoughtfulness of our friends has truly touched us
and we can not express enough how much the kind words and loving gestures have meant to us.
Our Last Supper at the Ventura Yacht Club with great friends.
Hasta Luego Amigos


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One of our Best Books of January was Sujata Massey's mystery The Widows of Malabar Hill, which introduces one of the more interesting heroines of recent times, Perveen Mistry.
Here's what Amazon's Vannessa Cronin had to say about it:
"Set in 1920s Bombay, The Widows of a Malabar Hill introduces Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female solicitor, who works for her father's law firm, handling contracts and estate work. When one of her father's Muslim clients dies and the trustee of the estate submits paperwork, signed by his three widows, donating the bulk of their inheritance to charity, Perveen's suspicions are aroused. The widows live in purdah, totally cut off from the outside world, and as she delves deeper into the secrets and betrayals in the house on Malabar Hill, what started as a routine inquiry quickly escalates to murder. Perveen has painful experience of the ways in which women's voices can be silenced, and driven by personal tragedy to protect the rights of such women, even murder can't deter her. Massey deftly evokes the sights, the sounds, and the heat of Bombay as her clever and determined heroine, aided by a large supporting cast of sharply-drawn characters, sidesteps both custom and danger to deliver justice."
We asked the author to write a little about her book and her heroine.
A Woman's Place
By Sujata Massey
A couple of years ago, I took a walk through a narrow old lane in the heart of Mumbai's Fort neighborhood. I puttered along, observing the faded marquees of old shops, newspapers and law offices. I'd journeyed from my home in Baltimore, Maryland, to arrive at a small street that I only knew from an antique map. It felt like a victory to find Bruce Street really could stand as part of my historical novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill.
In the post-World War I era I was writing about, Bruce Street was packed with law offices. Fortunately, most of the old buildings on Bruce were still standing, and the imposing, Gothic-style Bombay High Court is still nearby. Throngs of people involved in law streamed toward the court, and among them I spotted a number of women lawyers and clerks dressed in the white shirts and black coats that are mandatory for recognition before a judge.
I watched these legal professionals chat and go about their business, and I felt the warmth of a secret tie between us. The tie was my book, which centers on a young woman named Perveen Mistry, who is the city's first woman solicitor and works with her father on a mix of contracts and crime cases at 3 Bruce Street.
My fictional Perveen was inspired by India's first two women lawyers: Cornelia Sorabji, who began working in the 1890s as the first female lawyer in the British Empire, and Mithan Tata Lam, the first woman admitted to the Bombay Bar in 1923. Both were tremendous groundbreakers, because people were reluctant to have their legal rights protected by women. Perveen Mistry only has a job because her father has allowed her to work inside his practice, and her caseload is almost exclusively contracts and wills. In other words: nothing public-facing.
I understood the lady lawyers' struggles after reading their memoirs and letters. But not until I stood on Bruce Street did I understand the weight of the old hand of colonialism. India's British government made Christians subject to British common law, but it wrote different legal codes for Hindus and Sikhs and Buddhists, Sunni and Shia Muslims, and Parsis, as Indian-born Zoroastrians are known. The legal codes—which were signed off by a few powerful Indian men in the different religious communities—dealt with family matters. They specified at what age boys and girls could be married, whether divorce was allowable, and allowable property and asset inheritances.
It is inheritance due to wives that starts off The Widows of Malabar Hill. Perveen is overseeing the estate settlement of a Sunni Muslim textile mill owner. Omar Farid has died from cancer and left behind three wives, two daughters and a baby son living in a stately stucco bungalow in Bombay's elegant Malabar Hill. The wives have spent all their lives living in purdah, secluded from contact with men other than their husband. Because the widows cannot be seen by shop owners and bankers, they can't take care of themselves without the assistance of a household agent appointed by their late husband as the household's spokesperson and guardian.
Perveen is suspicious when the household agent sends a letter to the law firm stating the widows wish to donate their inheritances to a charitable foundation. She insists on meeting with the household agent, and then the women, to apprise them of their rights. Perveen's legal visitations lead to a shocking act of violence on the other side of the house's golden purdah screen. Suddenly, she's embroiled in a criminal law crisis and begins a delicate balancing act trying to protect the Farid family.
The killing in the Farid bungalow stirs up Perveen's own troubled past—subjugation she's suffered under cultural traditions relating to menstrual seclusion, and also in terms of domestic violence and archaic family law.
As I'm writing this, I'm on tour. When I describe some of the old laws women lived under in the British Empire, people are horrified. But then we talk some more. A women lawyer recalls the Baltimore judge who refused twenty years ago to allow her to approach the bench unless she wore a skirt. I know battered women whose husbands called the police and got the women arrested instead. And in multiple states, laws stand that allow attackers to sue for custody of children conceived during a rape.
At one point in the novel, Perveen complains to her father about the unfairness of the existing family laws. He retorts that the only way to change the law is for a woman to take power and push for it. And as India moved forward, women lawyers did make that happen. With the involvement of Mithan Tata Lam, the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act was rewritten in 1936 to expand the grounds for divorce. The Act was amended again in 1988 to finally eliminate the provisions that had been left in defining acceptable marital violence.
As I continue writing about my historic woman lawyer, I've seen women's activism become amplified around the world. Last January 21, I walked the streets of Washington DC in a throng of more than 500,000 women calling out to the world they would not stay silent in the face of growing conservatism of the U.S. government. Women and men joined the march in all states and an estimated 81 countries, with an estimated 10 million participants. Some thought the march was just a show, but in the months after the Women's March, women began speaking out the names of men who'd abused them, and action has been taken in many fields to become less professionally tolerant of abusers. I suspect much more action lies ahead.
I made my research trip to old Bombay two years before the Women's March. At the time, I had no inkling that the feminism would resurge powerfully in my own country. But I suspect that Perveen Mistry was looking down from her open office window on Bruce Street, and she was glad for it.
-- Sujata Massey


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Evan Bayh: Making a stand on stewardship
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana
Rob Christensen, Staff Writer
Editor's note: Even though the presidential election is not until 2008, potential candidates to succeed President Bush are already making their way around the country. When they visit the Triangle, The News & Observer will try to ask them a few questions.
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh was in Raleigh over the weekend to speak at the Democrats' annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner when reporter Rob Christensen caught up with him. Bayh was twice elected governor in Republican-leaning Indiana before being elected to the Senate in 1998. He is looking at running for president in 2008.
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Q: Why do you think we should abolish the Electoral College?
A: "I think our president should be chosen by the majority of the American people. That is ordinarily the case. But in 2000, as we all recall, we elected this president with fewer votes than the other candidate got. I just don't think in the modern era that is appropriate."
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What a bone head!
Obviously, this Presidential candidate has never read the Federalist Papers, thought about the implications of the Electoral College, or taken a course in Engineering Measurements with Brother Austin Barry. The reporter and writer must have missed those experiences as well.
The electoral college is part of compromises made at the convention to satisfy the small states. Under the system of the Electoral College each state had the same number of electoral votes as they have representatives in Congress, thus no state could have less then 3. This ensures a republic; not a democracy. remember that the dead old white guys view democracy as mob rule and rightly so.
Thinking about the implications would expose a few hidden benefits. (a) The Electoral College presents the image of a plurality when the nation is closely divided. Thus, in 2000, 271 to 266 Electoral College vote disguises the razor thin popular vote. (b) It insulates the process from fraud. Stuff the ballot box in a red or blue state all you want, you'll only get that state's electoral vote. In a popular vote, that's a problem. (c) What happens if a candidate dies before inauguration? The Electoral College will solve the problem. The peaceful transition of power is the hallmark of the republic. (d) The States are sovereign entities. They make the rules for their own state. They could decide to pick them at random like jurors. (e) It ensures that the President MUST campaign in the small states. Popular vote could be decided in the big cities, even without fraud. The current system ensures that candidates know where New Hampshire and Iowa are. Remember if Gore had carried his "home" state of Tennessee, he'd be president. Kerry lost West Virginia. Ignore the small states at your own peril. (f) A state or local issue could bring a big turnout for someone in one state at the expense of another state. Turnout rates don't matter ACROSS state boundaries. (g) [My personal favorite] A third party elector could influence the election in ways that have not yet been seen. The Repubocrats and the Democans split the Electoral vote 267 each and NH elects 3 Libertarians. Those three guys extract promises to increase freedom, lower taxes, and curtail the growth of government from one side or the other. Probably the side that would lose by throwing the election to the House of Representatives. And the Libertarians could care less after that. Imagine the howls of "we wuz robbed" from the losers. And, the "winners" wouldn't be that happy either! Love it.
Finally, as Brother Austin Barry could have instructed the candidate, every measurement has blunders and errors. We don't worry about blunders, but we do worry about errors in measurement. Every measurement process has errors. Count a deck of cards ten times and you won't get the answer 52 every time. And we know the answer we are supposed to get. Unless the good Brother, took out a card or two OR stuck in a joker. Different people can measure the same thing and come up with different "correct" answers. Counting votes is no different (e.g., Florida recounts). The electoral system does not mandate that the vote tally be exactly right. Therefore it makes no difference if you win a state by 50.1% or by 80% of the vote you receive the same number of electoral votes. This confers the benefit that we don't need an exact nose count. "Close enough" is good enough. Some places don't bother counting absentee ballots when the plurality is larger than the number of absentees.
So the dead old white guy continue to earn my undying admiration for their political construction.
And, before anyone glibly says "amend the Constitution", remember all the bone headed results form messing with success. Prohibition gave us organized crime. Direct Election of Senators gave the States unfunded mandates. Presidential term limits gave us lame duck two term presidents.
Don't mess with what you don't understand!


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Prof. Wójcik's leadership seminar ranked no. 1 among 30 leading universities
We are proud to announce that prof. Wójcik's leadership lecture was chosen the best seminar among 30 leading universities included in CEMS.
CEMS – The Global Alliance in Management Education, is a global association of best business schools and corporate institutions dedicated to educating and preparing future generations of international business leaders. The members of CEMS work collectively to develop knowledge and provide education that is essential in the business world. One of the ways to achieve this goal is CEMS Master's in International Management studies. Prof. Wójcik's seminar is an important part of this program.
Prof Wójcik's seminar received a 4,87 mark from his student on a 1 (worst) to 5 (best) grading scale. Students were also asked to list the strengths of the seminar.
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Rockstar adds Valentine's Day Massacre Special to GTA Online
Rockstar Games will add special Valentine's Day Massacre content this Friday in celebration of Valentine's Day.
Announcing via their website, the company said that players of GTA Online will see new content added such as new weapons, cars and attires inspired by the 1920's gangster-era and the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
The extra content will also be available through story mode.
The Gusenberg Sweeper, a new machine, gun will be automatically given through story mode and will be available for purchase through the in-game's Ammu-Nation. The Albany Roosevelt, an armoured 1920s limousine, will be available via Legendary Motorspot in GTA Online and in any garage property in story mode.
A selection of 1920s attire will be available as well as 10 brand new jobs including Deathmatches, Parachute Jumps and Races.
The content will only be available for a limited time but once purchased you'll be able to keep them in your inventory.
Rockstar also promised more GTA Online content in the future including an expansion to the Creator tool and Online Heists.


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QWIU is a Portuguese and innovative label. QWIU footwear and clothing items are designed in Portugal and produced in the textile and shoe hotspots of northern Portugal. They describe themselves: "We asked: How can we create a unique line able to take several people and styles and always affirm the uniqueness of the one who uses it? The QWIU is this brand."
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Dress Codes is written out of a love of clothing, and a concern that some people take clothes way too seriously.
Clothes are blamed for so many actions, viewpoints, and attitudes – but at the end of the day they're just dirty laundry. Dress Codes is a collection of official rules of dress, accepted rules of dress, …and ultimately ending at how ridiculous both the rules, and the garments really are.
Each morning I get dressed like a tea-drinking, DemocracyNow!-listening, travel-loving, people-watching, mid-twenties costume designer living in Chicago with my husband.


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The UK Civil Aviation Authority delivered another extensive flying day on Saturday, running 69 flights covering 40 airports at home and abroad, as Operation Matterhorn completed its sixth day. The operation, that runs until Sunday 6 October, has successfully returned around 93,000 people so far and plans to operate another 70 flights on Sunday.
Richard Moriarty, Chief Executive at the UK Civil Aviation Authority, said: "We have returned a further 15,000 Thomas Cook customers to the UK in the last 24 hours, and have now used more than 100 aircraft as part of our Matterhorn fleet. Although we are proud of our work so far, we are clear that we still have more than a week of the flying programme to manage and nearly 55,000 passengers to bring back to the UK and we remain focused on that challenge.
"The scale and complexity of this operation will inevitably cause some inconvenience and disruption and I would like to thank holidaymakers for bearing with us as we work around the clock to bring them back at the end of their holiday. I am very grateful for the assistance provided by all of our partners who are helping us to deliver the largest ever peacetime repatriation operation."
Thomas Cook customers are reminded to check the dedicated website for further information - thomascook.caa.co.uk.
Flying programme information:
The number of passengers reported is based on Thomas Cook booking data. It is likely that some passengers booked on these flights will choose to make alternative arrangements and therefore not fly, thus reducing the actual number of people who travel on our aircraft. The exact numbers will not be known until the end of the programme.
We have now used over 100 different aircraft to support Operation Matterhorn. Our fleet size is consistently around 40 each day, but we have now used 100 different aircraft across the first six days.
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While the boys and I began an evening walk last night, we ran into some neighborhood kids that asked quite the random question: Have you seen the baby cow? As far as I knew, I had not suffered any head trauma lately, but I found myself saying, "A baby cow? Where?" I mean, this is a nice neighborhood in Sugar Land, TX, with lots of traffic and smog - this is NOT the place where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play. I knew the family of the house the kids were pointing to, so the boys and I knocked on their door in the hopes of meeting this random livestock animal. Sure enough, they had brought home a six day old bull calf. (They have a ranch about an hour away from here, and when they visited the ranch this last weekend, they found a brand new baby and the mom was no where to be found... )To keep it from starving, they packed up the "tiny" 30 pound baby, and he now resides on their back porch. The boys and I loved on him and even got to feed him his HUGE bottle.
To quote the new human mommy, "He sleeps through the night!" No doubt they are PUMPED about that!
In the meantime, we have been sworn to secrecy as they are trying to keep his presence hidden from our Home Owner's Association. Oooooops. I highly doubt any of you will be turning them in. :)
It has been raining and raining and raining here. Last night, however, the rains came down and the floods came up, and due to heavy flooding in the area (our house is fine), schools are closed today. This is bad news for me as I was supposed to work today, but since Grant's preschool is also closed, I am having to take a personal day. Oh well - I suppose that's what they're for. It's just that our last day of school is May 14th, and I am really trying to get through the entire curriculum before that day comes. Since we've lost several school days this year due to Ike and other issues presented by Mother Nature, I'm really having to double time it. I REALLY feel sorry for my public school teaching buddies as tomorrow is the TAKS, and it is a BIG deal to miss school the day before TAKS as it is a huge review and "pumping the kids up" day. I can only imagine how those teachers are feeling right now.
Kerry said many roads/highways/intersections are closed due to high water, but he made it to work. It took him two hours, but he made it. I was crossing my fingers that he'd give up and come back home to spend the day with us. But, it is his busy season, and he is a trooper - so I am very proud of him for sticking it out!


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Hero Town: Standard Mental Health First Aid in Geelong
Standard Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) teaches adults how to assist other adults who are developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis. Learn about:
- the signs and symptoms of the common and disabling mental health problems, including:
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- where and how to get help when someone is developing a mental illness,
- what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and
- how to provide mental health first aid in a crisis.
This is a 12-hour course, which we will deliver as a 2-day training package. Course participants receive a copy of the MHFA Manual to keep and a Certificate of Completion. Attendance is required on both days, in full, to receive the certificate.
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Don't look to other HUMANS for solutions for our worlds problems. Trust in God's promise and plan (even in the midst of terrible EVENTS) REST IN KNOWING that the world is NEVER "spinning out of control"!
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Zombie theme park coming to Dubai in 2020
Are you ready to defend yourself from a real life zombie attck? Well, you're going to get a chance to do just that very soon. A giant, zombie-themed entertainment zone, featuring more than 12 activities and attractions, will open at The Night Market at Deira Islands, Dubai next year.
Zombie Apocalypse Park, the first of its kind in the UAE, will feature live acts, games, battles and events, all powered by glow-in-the-dark technology.
Activities will include paintball games, escape games, VR 9D cinema, haunted house, axe throw, archery, haunted corn maze, air soft battle games, laser tag, trampolines, target shooting, zombie apocalypse attack and zombie runs.
Set to open in mid-2020, the 65,000 sq ft fantasy land also has its own car park, zombie-themed cafe, party room for private events and activities shop.
Nakheel Malls, the retail arm of master developer Nakheel, has teamed up with Sharjah Golf & Shooting Club to create the attraction.
Omar Khoory, managing director of Nakheel Malls, said: "We are committed to creating unique, unforgettable experiences, attractions and facilities at our existing and upcoming retail developments. The Zombie Apocalypse Park will be a huge draw at The Night Market, attracting tourists, businesses and schools for team-building events and families and individuals for a new kind of entertainment."
Joseph Estephan, general manager, Sharjah Golf & Shooting Club, added: "With this collaboration, we are expanding our reach to provide a phenomenal entertainment experience at The Night Market, and are honoured to be partnering up with Nakheel Malls."
The Night Market, one of a range of Nakheel retail, leisure and hospitality projects at Deira Islands, will be the world's largest night market, with over 5,000 waterfront shops, restaurants, cafes and attractions, and more than 3,000 parking spaces.
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Fender Custom Shop 1959 Stratocaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar Aged Daphne Blue
You are looking at a Fender Custom Shop 1959 Stratocaster Heavy Relic Electric Guitar Aged Daphne Blue, serial number CZ542959. This is the actual guitar you will receive should you decide to purchase. (7 lbs, 10.2 oz)
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Though it looks like it's been gigging steadily since 1959, this Strat plays like it was made today. This beautifully accurate recreation of a '59 Strat is another notch in the belt of the Fender Custom Shop. It features a classic Stratocaster build with the Fender Custom Shop heavy relic treatment, and hand-wound Fat '50s pickups. This guitar is perfect for the player that loves that worn, vintage look on a brand new guitar.
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The allure of this guitar comes from the heavy relic treatment it gets before leaving the Fender Custom Shop. The lacquer body finish is realistically worn away in specific locations. Each heavy relic guitar sports a unique, custom wear which differentiates it from any other Fender Custom Shop iteration. The body of this guitar is finished in lacquer which is period-correct and allows the guitar to look naturally worn. The neck is finished with tinted nitrocellulose lacquer for the same reason. You'll notice this most in the incredibly accurate wearing of the back of the neck and the fretboard, the most touched area of any guitar. In addition, the control knobs have a faded color and the metallic hardware bears a slight haze.
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On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
The Expedition splits into two parties. Because of his inflamed ankle, Clark remains with the canoes and camps near Beaverhead rock, a landmark named by the Indians. Lewis is further ahead near present Dillon, Montana.
From the journals...
Friday August 9th 1805.
I directed my course across the bottom to the Stard. plain led left the beaver's head about 2 miles to my left and interscepted the river about 8 miles from the point at which I had left it; I then waded it and continued my rout to the point where I could observe that entered the mountain, but not being able to reach that place, changed no direction to the river which I struck some miles below the mountain and encamped for the evening having traveled 16 M.
Beaverhead Rock
Friday 9th August 1805.
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Japanese monthly magazine Shincho 45 published an article that claimed LGBT people do not "produce children" and "lack productivity, and therefore, do not contribute to the prosperity of the nation." The magazine's publisher Shinchosha apologized for the article by Mio Sugita, according to the Guardian, who is "an ally of the prime minister Shinzo Abe." Sugita is a member of Japan's House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
After her article appeared, the magazine doubled down, the Japan Times reported, by publishing "nearly 40 pages" and seven articles about "What's so wrong about the Mio Sugita article?"
The magazine will now "halt publication amid the controversy" surrounding the article, the Guardian reported.
Shinchosa said in an apology that, "It is undeniable that our editing of articles and scrutiny of feature series in the pipeline has grown perfunctory over the years as we struggle with the magazine's dwindling circulation and numerous trials and errors," according to the Japan Times.
iMediaEthics has written to Sugita to ask if she stands by what she wrote in her article, what the basis for her argument was, and if she has any comment on her column leading the publication to close. We've also contacted Shinchosa to ask what went wrong.
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Umarudeen Kayode, one of the aides of ace musician, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, on Thursday beat up security officials at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Among those attacked by the aide on their arrival from a foreign trip were officials of Aviation Security, Nigeria Customs Service and Checkport.
According to available information, Kayode went on rampage after a personnel of Checkport requested for the luggage tags of the bags with him for verification.
He was said to have resorted to the use of abusive words on the staff and followed it up with a punch.
An official of the NCS who was close by was said to have received the same treatment upon intervention.
This led to the call for reinforcement by the airport officials.
Even after he was overpowered and taken to Tango City, an area of the airport where unruly passengers and touts are kept, Kayode still attacked two other personnel.
One of those attacked was a female AVSEC personnel, who was writing her report, and the other an official of the NCS.
Apart from detaining Kayode, the airport officials equally seized the 17 bags with him.
He was then dragged to court on Friday after he had spent Thursday night in detention.
In court on Friday, Kayode was slammed with a five-count charge.
This was at the Ikeja Magistrate Court, presided over by E. Kubanje.
Count One accused him of obstructing and resisting a public officer, an offence contrary to section 117(1) and punishable under the same section of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.
Count Two: "That you, Umarudeen Kayode 'M', on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district did unlawfully assault a public officer causing him harm and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 171 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011."
Count Three: "That you, Umarudeen Kayode 'M' on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district did unlawfully assault a public officer with the intent to resist and prevent your lawful arrest and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 172 (a) and punishable under 172(f) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011."


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I am putting electrical service to a outdoor shed and a chicken coop. I had outside service to a pool. The pool is no longer there. the wire to the pool was 12/2. I have wired the coop with 14/2 outside wire and I just dug a 18 foot ditch min of 18" deep. I was going to put the wires through the conduit, and I saw the wire coming from the house was 12/2. there is no way I can change that wire at the circuit box. can I use the 14/2 or do I need to change the shed and coop to 12/2?
1If there is no way to change out the existing 12/2, are you at least able to change the breaker protecting it to a 15A (assuming its a 20A now)? – JPhi1618 Nov 16 '15 at 17:00
Keeping the 12/2 is ok. It's always OK to use larger wire than is required. Never tear out a large wire to sub a smaller one - simply run the large wire at the smaller wire's breaker value. (unless it is very, very easy to do so, and you will reuse the pulled wire and this saves money). – Harper - Reinstate Monica Jun 2 '19 at 13:19
It's perfectly fine to use the 12/2 wire, but if it's connected to 14/2, the circuit breaker needs to be 15 amp, not 20 amp, (due to the wire size of the 14 ga wire) and should also be GFCI (not due to the wire size, due to the location/use being outside)


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By Doug Vehle, The Daily Bosco
Can it always be true that real disasters never strike Fullerton, or do we have one in the offing? I joked to a grim faced police officer about how the sign used to say "Brea Wonderful" before they moved in, he actually laughed. Cyclists stopped for a look, then not seeing the point in sticking around with just the 12 tents and one visible person. The Brea Dam has been invaded by the lowest common denominator, to which I facetiously say "God Help us ALL!" Once again, a small group of people declares that they are going to push the rest of us around. Once again, I'm saying "Like hell you are."
I've followed the news. What started out as modern day "Hooverville" settlements (Named for the President at the beginning of the Great Depression) has taken a greater resemblance to the "Rookeries" of 18th-19th century England. Rioting, vandalism and stealing in various communities, extortion/"Protection Racket" activities in San Diego and other cities, even a shootout between residents, or should I say "Occupiers," in Oakland. This is worse than anything the people in the various Hoovervilles did, but most of those people didn't want to be a bother. Now it's the city of Fullerton indulging them as other communities have. You don't have to look too carefully at the photograph to see another illustration of people bending over backward to look the other way as the Occupy Movement does as it pleases. In case you didn't catch it, the sign says "No overnight camping," yet they'll be allowed to stay until they've simply bullied too many people to tolerate anymore. Then they'll scream it's "Illegal" to protect yourself from them.
If I don't sound unimpressed, that's because I'm not. I see absolutely no effort to accomplish anything by these people and their "Movement." Ah, the romance of disrupting press conferences, of screaming "That's ILLEGAL" about perfectly legal things that go against you. Of aligning yourself with a group that symbolizes itself with a mask of a possibly retarded fall guy whose body the conspirators had intended to leave in the rumble when they blew up parliament,or if he escaped would have flee the country to lead the trail away from themselves; only to have him brag foolishly to the guards what they were up to and name names. Just as later writers would convert Guy Fawkes into what has been referred to as an "Acceptable fictional character," so do the Occupiers try to rehabilitate their image to that of freedom fighters rather than squatters. But if they didn't destroy things, I'd say they weren't even doing squat. I'm not working much at the moment, I'm occupying myself going to school, trying to help the school to deal with being understaffed and the students to deal with being under prepared. Yeah, life's tough all around. I can tell Occupiers about jobs they can get if they're willing to get just a little bit of training to prepare for it, jobs that have a way of going unfilled because people won't bother. I'm sure they'd get mad. I say that I alone mean a whole lot more to America than the entire Occupy movement. If the truth were told, how much economic injustice have the Occupiers been the cause of in their lifetime?
I recall the howling when the "Dot Bomb" Internet economy collapsed. All these people who'd flunked out of college and got well paying jobs not getting any work done were now unemployed, with no skills to get another job. There had been a lot of us who'd needed jobs that had learned to do the things that could have kept all those companies in business, but these do nothings had wanted to protect their phoney baloney jobs, so they'd only hire their own kind. How am I supposed to be sympathetic when I'm reading an article that included the whining of a ne'erdowell who'd stumbled into a job where he'd wound up interviewing me, became wide eyed with panic as I told him how to solve problems he was just telling me I was just going to have to live with while I worked there because not even HE could solve them. Do you get where my 100% scores on all 4 tests they had me take didn't get me the job, while others there who'd peaked at 75% and fell below 40% on one or two others were given start dates? The real "Economic Justice" would have been if I was reading his published "Poor Me, POOR ME" on a break from my first ever permanent full time job. What have the occupiers really done to solve their own problems? I've only caught where they complain, steal and threaten people. I can tell you I've been as desperate as these Occupiers if not more so, I've never behaved as badly as they do. I've gone to the trouble of becoming someone who really should have access to the real job I've never been able to get.
My thoughts will always go to the homeless man trying to raise his son and get off the street who went on to become a millionaire and the subject of a film starring Wil Smith. There is the real courage to me, actually trying to do something himself rather than pouting until SOMEONE ELSE fixes it for him, a la Obama health care. What is the badly misidentified "99%" really doing other than alienating even the 19% that once supported them? (Insert answer here, if you can.) While Guy Fawkes spun quite a fanciful tale of the activities of himself and his conspirators, there was never any proof they did much besides collect gunpowder. Even the extensive tunnel he told of digging never existed. As imaginary as the enttitlement the Occupiers feel.
I recall a little 'Compare and Contrast' editorial in the 'New York Times' on Irish Republican Army terrorist Bobby Sands after he'd starved himself to death on a hunger strike in prison, a place he'd been several times before at the age of 26. "Mahatma Gandhi used the hunger strike to move his countrymen to abstain from fratricide. Bobby Sands' deliberate slow suicide is intended to precipitate civil war. The former deserved veneration and influence. The latter would be viewed, in a reasonable world, not as a charismatic martyr but as a fanatical suicide. . . ." Oh, Sands was even elected to Parliament, yet instead or taking office chose to kill himself. Thus escaping the pressure of having to actually accomplish something.
To the rest of the world, most Americans are the 1%. To be what is considered "Poor" in America is to be unable to replace that TV you bought at a garage sale (Or possibly did buy new) with a big screen, to wonder how you'll get a new washer and dryer when those you have wear out. If the check the government gives you isn't enough, you make a run to the food bank and stop on the way home where they give you dinner ready made. The homeless are allowed to leave their electronics, the DVD player, portable computer that can access the free WiFi (And used WIkipedia during the blackout, as I did to fact check this) at the coffeeshops, etc., to charge at local businesses while they run to their mailboxes to pick up their celphone bills and their monthly checks. If you don't believe any of that, go volunteer with the organizations working with these people and you'll find out. In short, the Occupiers socalled 99% are included among the world's wealthiest. I won't be satisfied until I hear Occupiers admit "We ARE the 1% upper class." If you really want to hear someone scoff at the Occupy movement, talk to a "Foreigner" (Immigrant, legal or illegal) who works at fast food or a convenience store after Occupiers have been in there demanding to be fed and blocking the doors until they are. These people will tell you they'll take being homeless in America.
So Steve, whom I hope is reading this, told me of his childhood adventures at a campground where his family spent the summer in a tent when Dad was out of work but had a teaching job coming in the fall. I guess a modern "Condo Tent" has gotta beat the built from what they could find shanties of the 1930's Hoovervilles. He talks about that as a happy memory. I wonder if the Occupiers even care about their socalled "Movement," or if it's all just a facade. As I was taking my photographs, a family of cyclists stopped to look at the encampment. They asked where all the people were, I told them I had only seen one man since I'd arrived. They asked about the planned activities, how many more were coming, etc., I think they took my responses as coming from a member of the camp. Who knows, if the one man had come over he might have said the same thing I was saying: 'I don't know.' Obviously there would be no vicarious thrill here, they rode on.
As they did, the grade school age boy vented his disappointment. "This is the worst Occupy ever." If that is what makes it the worst, I just hope it stays that way, we don't need their kind of disaster here. It's not worth having them do anything "Better."
Sunday, January 22, 2012
How the Upscale, Suburbanite 99% Live
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By the railfans park. As seen from Montreal's new railfans park by Pointe St-Charles yard, CN 120 passes the entrance to the RTM's maintenance centre, with CN 2231 & CN 2958 up front.
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Thirty-two men have entered the New Japan Cup this year for not only the bragging rights to be declared the winner of the largest edition of this tournament but also for the added bonus of getting a shot at "Switchblade" Jay White's IWGP Heavyweight Title at the hallowed grounds of Madison Square Garden. The competition has never been so fierce and this Friday we find out who will get that golden opportunity.
The winner of last year's tournament, Zack Sabre Jr., has remained undefeated in this annual event. He enters the quarter-finals with a boosted ego as he had successfully made EVIL and Kota Ibushi tap out to some of his innovative submission maneuvers. He is looking to do that again to Hiroshi Tanahashi. The "Ace of New Japan", unfortunately, was forced to submit earlier this year to the man he lost the title to Jay White. When up against the wall, Tanahashi has been known to perform impressive feats. Can he pull out a miracle and advance to the semi-finals and more importantly win back the championship?
In perhaps the most bizarre matchup of the entire New Japan Cup, SANADA will face off with Colt "BOOM BOOM" Cabana. SANADA is known for his hard-hitting blows and is viewed as the future of professional wrestling. The same can't be said for Colt Cabana, but he causes a bit of confusion with his opponents due to his most unorthodox move-set. He is a former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion. To be that much closer to main eventing Madison Square Garden would make this Chicago native's long wrestling journey nearly complete.
Rounding out the quarter-finals are all matches containing members from the CHAOS stable: Tomohiro Ishii vs. YOSHI-HASHI and Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay. Each one of these men wants – the cup, the title shot, and revenge against Jay White. "Switchblade" was formally in CHAOS but together with GEDO they turned their backs on their fellow stable mates and aligned themselves with the popular renegade group, the Bullet Club.
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Going into the game, Clemson Tigers wide receiver Sammy Watkins had only 202 receiving yards and 0 touchdowns. He managed to double that total against Wake Forest by putting up 202 receiving yards on 8 receptions and one touchdown.
It's safe to say that Sammy Watkins is back playing the way people were expecting him to when the year started. He is an explosive playmaker that can only be matched by a few players in college football.
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mjmjr25 wrote:There have been random copies all over racketboy lately. CRT has one, cookie had one, and I think s1mple gave one away.
As for rarity - eh, not terribly rare - we've covered this.
I didn't have one for sale i was looking for one. I have since found 4 of them to make one mint.


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Colour Control are a 2 piece act from Perth Western Australia, consisting of vocals, guitar,drums and synth.
Did you count that correctly? We chat to Shea Jones, one half of the sonic architects behind the their fuzzed out, effect laden sound.
How and why did you first pick up the guitar?
I remember in 12th grade a dude was selling his guitar for $50.00 and I thought it was a good deal. It wasn't til after grad I found myself with a bunch of time on my hands, so I started teaching myself how to play from tabs I found online, not with an end goal in mind, just cause I had nothing better to do…still don't.
I played that guitar til it almost exploded on me. It's beautiful, in its own way.
What kind of attributes do you look for when choosing an electric guitar?
Hollow body and built like a tank. Never was interested in what wood does to the tone, or what pick-ups are in fashion. My guitar signal is generally annihilated before it gets to the amp, so as long as it's built well and can take a fall, I'm sold.
Below is my first (right) and current guitar.
First album you purchased?
Aqua…no regrets
Can you describe your approach to songwriting — how do you decide which riff's good and which are bad?
On average I'll come up with around 2-3 songs a week and if they can survive my attention span I'll do a simple recording. For most of the recordings that's how they will stay and never be played/worked on again. If they are good they'll find a way back in to my head.
I have a few different ways on how I would start writing a new riff or melody, but they all feel like trying to build a crossword puzzle with poor spelling skills and no dictionary.
Can you tell us about your upcoming EP? recording setup, gear etc?
The recording set up for our first EP was pretty run of the mill. The gear I used in the studio (my home) is the same that I use live with a few special pedals thrown in for flavour. I have spent countless hours searching and trying out pedals so when it came time to start making tone choices I felt pretty confident my set up could handle what I wanted to hear.
I use a handful of basic microphones and run them in to my computer via a Focusrite interface, and after experimenting quite a bit I ended up falling in love with re-amping tracks from DI guitar. Most of the time spent tracking guitars went in to playing with knobs and trying different mic placements, so having the exact performance repeating helped tremendously.
How do you recreate this live?
Well, as a two piece band we have a lot of space between 20Hz and 20kHz to play with, and for live gigs we try our hardest to fill it all up. It's easy to make a riff or fill sound meaty when recording but when playing at a venue you really need to have a serious think about how you're going to pull it off. At the moment Jon is playing synth basslines while drumming (still not sure how he does it) and I'm splitting my signal off to a guitar and bass amp.
Anything in the upcoming horizon for Colour Control?
We are currently mixing our first EP, which we'll then send off to be mastered, with the aim of releasing a single once that's all done. Then, towards the end of the year, we wanna launch the EP with some kind of huge show. We'll see.
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- President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed a seven-member panel to start recruitment of a new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
- Among those picked are COTU boss Francis Atwoli and EACC CEO Halake Waqo
- The office became vacant after Uhuru nominated then DPP Keriako Tobiko to the cabinet as Environment Cabinet Secretary
President Uhuru Kenyatta has finally commenced the process of replacing Keriako Tobiko who resigned as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to take up a cabinet position.
Uhuru nominated Tobiko for the position of Envirionment Cabinet Secretary and he is awaiting vetting by Members of the National Assembly before being officialy appointed.
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In a Gazette notice seen by TUKO.co.ke, Uhuru formed a seven-member panel who would be charged with advertising the vacancy, shortlisting, interviewing and picking three highly qualified names and forward them to the President.
Uhuru will then pick one of the three names and forward it to the National Assembly for vetting before being officialy appointed to the position.
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Those appointed include COTU secretary-general Francis Atwoli, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights boss Kagwiria Mbogori, EACC cheif executive officer Halakhe Waqo, Elizabeth Muli representing the Law Society of Kenya, Marryanne Njau from the Attorney-General's office, Lilian Omollo from the Public Service and Kennedy Kihara from the Office of the President.
Without a substantive DPP, suspects of various crimes cannot be prosecuted as one of the functions of the DPP is to direct the police to conduct investigations before hauling a suspect to court to be charged.
The term of office for a DPP is eight years.
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Rocky Mount, N.C.-The city of Rocky Mount has always strived to be good stewards of your tax dollars in response to the needs of citizens, and that is why our vision is to be transparent as public service professionals. In that spirit of transparency, here are a few things we would like to share with you.
First, questions have been asked regarding the city's use of general funds for the construction of eight housing units at MS Hayworth Court. The city of Rocky Mount entered into an agreement with the Southeastern North Carolina Community Development Corporation, Inc. on June 5, 2017 to commit $182,453.65 in HOME Investment Partnership Funds for subsidizing the construction of MS Hayworth Court. However, the MS Hayworth project began without following the required procedures for accessing HOME funds because the previous community development staff did not follow HUD procedures. Since HOME funds cannot be committed to the MS Hayworth project, council was informed of the situation, and a general fund request was necessary to fulfill the city's commitment. The new Community and Business Development Department created by City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney was not established until Jan. 2018, subsequent to the misstep regarding HUD funds.
Second, we have received inquiries on department head residency requirements and funds provided to them during their transition to Rocky Mount. All employees who live out of town are provided assistance to make the transition from where they are currently living to Rocky Mount. These expenses are provided for a variety of items to help with the transition, such as travel, hotel accommodations, moving expenses, housing and more. Employees are generally given six months to one year to find housing within the city limits; however, it is to the manager's discretion to provide additional time if needed. In the past, some department directors did not live in the city, and currently, there are still some department heads who do not reside in the city of Rocky Mount for a variety of reasons.
Additionally, the improvements being done to the city manager's office suite are the result of mold in the ceiling tiles, leakage from the roof and the HVAC, wallpaper coming down and other issues that arise in any facility. Improvements to the city manager's suite is just one of many that are 2 needed in City Hall and in other city facilities. These projects are being done in a phased approach and should be completed in two years. Finally, many have been concerned about our police chief search, and rightfully so since this is one of the most important positions within any community. At the onset of this search, we stressed the importance of hiring a superb executive search firm and engaging the community in the selection process. We created a comprehensive assessment and evaluation that included a variety of exercises to determine the capability and performance predictability of each candidate. The assessors were volunteer community leaders, police chiefs and other administrators. There are no recommendations that come from the assessment panels, just total scores and comments on each candidate.
This multi-faceted approach also started with community meetings to gain citizen insight on the values of a police chief and more. There was also a one-on-one interview with the city manager. An appointment did not emerge from this process.
The city of Rocky Mount is committed to finding the best police chief and the best employees to nurture a growing city. We will continue to be transparent and to work with our community in establishing a more perfect union and a Rocky Mount we all envision.
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Belgium terror fears: Boy, 14, found with rucksack full of bombs marked 'Allah Akbar'
Four teenagers were discovered inside, one of whom was allegedly carrying a deadly cargo of homemade bombs in his back pack.
The 14-year-old was also in possession of a bottle with the words "Allah Akbar" engraved into it, according to police.
He allegedly told police that he wanted to make a bomb because he is interested in video games and chemistry.
Does anyone think the games and chemistry line will work?