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The group wants to see the existing bureaucracies that oversee social benefits, such as disability payments, instead funnel all the savings into tax measures that would put more money into the hands of low-income earners.
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Katharine Schmidt said the move also could reduce the number of people using food banks, which this year crept up by about one percent to more than 852,000 from the almost 842,000 recorded last year.
"It certainly wouldn't be an easy thing to do," she conceded.
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Food Banks Canada has seen two other regular requests in its annual "HungerCount" report become part of the Liberal government's campaign platform: to bring down the cost of food in the territories and money to build more affordable housing across the country.
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The report found that this past March, 852,137 people visited a food bank—up just over one percent from the 841,191 recorded in 2014 but still below the 10-year high of 872,379 recorded in 2013.
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Serve. Who has the ball now? Kill. Who missed an opportunity? Pass. What's the score? Next play. Who's in?
Tara Strange wants to know every movement that happens on the court, especially those of her daughter, Alexa, a senior on USC's beach volleyball team.
Other parents tell Tara that her daughter is usually covered in sand from head to toe by the match's end; that she dives for any play, no matter the cost to her body, to secure wins.
"Tara was the same way growing up," said her husband, Greg Strange. Tara had played high school volleyball. "She couldn't stand losing."
Greg, who narrates each sequence to Tara, cannot afford to miss a beat. Tara cannot see the game. She has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that left her completely blind.
Tara does not let it stop her from cheering loudly in the stands. From cooking her favorite Indian curry in the family's San Clemente home. From being the best mother she can be.
That is why Alexa dives for balls, unafraid of the consequences. She helped USC to the first-ever NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship in May.
"Anything I want in my life, there's no excuse at this point. I have to go out and get it," Alexa said. "Because that's exactly what she has done without her eyesight."
Tara was 19 when she discovered that she could no longer see the concrete steps beneath her. She'd lose her footing when hiking cliffs and lose track of the ball when playing tennis.
She had three accidents within a six-month period in the new Chevy Nova Greg bought her, unable to see the cars next to her.
"Mr. and Mrs. Strange, I have some bad news for you," a retina specialist said, delivering the diagnosis. "You will probably go blind. You should let your employer know. You should stop driving right now. If you plan on having kids, you better think twice about it because there's a good chance you could pass this on to them."
Tara and Greg were too stunned to ask questions. They had always dreamed of having many kids. Now they didn't know how they'd move forward.
"That drive home, I don't think we said a word to each other," Greg said.
The two had fallen in love almost instantly at El Camino College. Greg was a surfer from Virginia. Tara was from India. By the second date, Greg knew he wanted to marry her.
But after the diagnosis, she snapped and picked fights with him to push him away, so he wouldn't feel like he had to stick around.
But he did. Even if he sometimes cried in the closet, hoping no one saw. Even if it hurt him that he couldn't unburden his wife.
"Let's go see all we can see," Greg said. They traveled to Germany, France, Italy, England, Ireland, Singapore and more. Looking at castles in Rhine Valley, the pair grew quiet. It occurred to them that Tara may not be able to see the castles if they return.
"They say things like this can either make or break a marriage," Tara said. "And in our case, it bonded us."
A specialist informed them that the gene was recessive and that Greg was not a carrier. Therefore their potential kids would not inherit the disease. Soon they had three: Andrew, Alexa and Aaron.
But adjusting to a new way of living grew more difficult, as Tara was forced to give up pieces of her independence as time went on. She had devoured classics from Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. She had sewn her own clothes. She had often painted and sketched.
"When I was first diagnosed, I remember thinking, I'd much rather they had told me I had something terminal, " Tara said. "This means I'm going to live the rest of my life like this."
But a quote in "The Memoirs of Cleopatra" by Margaret George gave her a new mentality: "With acceptance comes peace after a bitter morning."
She stopped saying sentences that began: "I wish I could …" and began focusing on the activities she could do.
She never missed her children's games. Andrew eventually played football at Harvard; Aaron will play volleyball at USC. She tutored them in school. She cooked. She listened to audio books. She was always there when anyone needed her.
"She never complained about it, she never let it inhibit her," Andrew said. "Everything she did, she did everything that a traditional mother would do and more."
As a child, Alexa, who played basketball, softball and soccer before focusing exclusively on volleyball, used to ask her mother: "Why? Why did God make you blind?"
"She would always tell me, 'Stop asking yourself why do bad things happen to me, and start asking yourself, why not me? What makes me so special that this couldn't happen to me?'"
"It inspires me," Alexa, an All-American at San Clemente High, said. "No matter the adversity or negative circumstance, you can't counter injustice with feeling sorry for yourself. You have to fight."
It was early May, the day of the national championship against Florida State. Alexa, who would be named an All-American, did what she always does before matches: finds her mother, sits in her lap and gives her a hug and kiss.
This way her mother feels her presence and know that she's there.
The Trojans swept Florida State, 3-0, to win the inaugural NCAA title, finishing the season on a 30-match win streak.
Alexa ran to her parents and grabbed her mother's hand. "I had made up my mind before, that if we win this, I'm dragging her into the water with me," Alexa said. "I wanted her to experience what it felt like to win."
"Where are we going?" Tara said.
"You'll see," Alexa said, holding her hand, slowly joining her in the water. USC's players and coaches surrounded them, celebrating.
"Is the water deep? What are you going to do?" Tara said.
"Trust me, Mom. I'm going to hold on to you."
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Nicole Kidman has to be one of the most disliked A-list actresses of the moment, and the most common criticism I hear from people is the claim that she's overrated (by whom, I'm not exactly sure). The last two films I've seen her in, The Golden Compass and now Margot at the Wedding have contained easily her best work in years. That she's particularly unlikeable in both roles could be saying something, but they aren't at all similar.
Noah Baumbach's previous feature, The Squid and the Whale, was a touching portrayal of a dysfunctional family (his forte), and one of the best films released in 2006. With Margot at the Wedding we're in similar territory, though this time round it's a much darker, more depressing affair. Kidman's Margot is at times hard to watch – more than a little neurotic, she alternately smothers her son Claude (Zain Pais) with love or picks on his flaws. The two of them have come to visit her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in the days leading up to her wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black). These two are just as real and maladjusted as any of Baumbach's characters.
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It isn't clear just when the film is set, but the fashions and lack of technology suggest we're possibly in the early 80s, like The Squid and the Whale. Unfortunately the film is simply too bleak to really enjoy. Even the cinematography is drained of colour – most of the scenes horribly under lit, making for a rather ugly film.
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Tuesday 17- Sunday 22 July 2018 (Tue-Sat 12:00-19:00 Sun 12:00-17:00
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Sarah Lang, City Lit Fine Art 2018
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Cass Breen
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An article on the site of the public radio BNR (Bulgarian National Radio), dating from 2013, suddenly disappeared two weeks ago, after an influential Facebook user reminded of it. Bivol immediately sent to the BNR a request for information under the Access to Public Information Act (APIA) that must be replied to. According to the Director of the radio, Alexander Velev, there had been a "technical problem" and the article was restored.
The story with the headline "TIM controls 25% of CEZ Electro and 5% of CEZ Distribution" discusses Czech media, cites Bivol's editor-in-chief Atanas Tchobanov, as well as a diplomatic cable by the former US Ambassador to Sofia James Pardew, in which TIM is called "the up-and-coming star of Bulgarian organized crime and the new leader in Bulgarian OC".
On March 11, at the height of the scandal with the sale of the assets of CEZ Bulgaria to Inercom of Ginka Varbakova, the popular writer and author of collages, Ivan Chervenkov, published a link to this article in his personal Facebook profile. The link was accompanied by a sarcastic comment by Chervenkov that BNR needs to be censored for posting such story.
The information shared by Chervenkov had a rather modest success – to date, 56 people have liked it and 23 have shared it. But on the next day, March 12, TV political talk show host Vesselin Dremdzhiev found out that the article was no longer available on the BNR website.
"Strange things are happening. At first glance. A day after an old Prague correspondence about a BG stake in the ownership of #CEZ was shared on FB, the text disappeared from #BNR's site. The public radio's site…," Dremdzhiev commented.
On March 14, Bivol sent an e-mail request under the APIA to the BNR, which was rejected at first because it had not been signed. Following a reminder of the law, the BNR examined the request after all.
In the answer, which was received before the end of the 14-day deadline, Alexander Velev claims that a check had been immediately carried out and the following had been established: "As of March 14, 2018, the article was inaccessible for technical reasons. Access was restored on March 15, 2018, after removing the technical obstacle."
The dear listeners and readers have no choice but to believe in the paranormal phenomena lurking in the BNR headquarters – the article remained unnoticed for five years and only when it became relevant, a technical glitch suddenly popped up and made it inaccessible.
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In an apparent breakthrough in a series of mysterious garden raids in Scotland, police in Britain have charged two women after discovering a huge cache of garden gnomes, the BBC reported Wednesday.
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Police reportedly found least 40 gnomes, hedgehogs, rabbits and furniture in a house in Alloa, Clackmannanshire in central Scotland in what they described as an Aladdin's cave of garden ornaments. They also unearthed more than 60 plant pots and 25 solar lights, according to the BBC.
People in Stirling, Clackmannanshire and Falkirk in Central Scotland had complained that gnomes, hedgehogs and rabbits had gone missing, it said.
The discovery was the culmination of an 11-day police investigation into the spate of thefts.
Cracking the case was described as a "significant achievement" by Detective Constable Roy Lake, but the challenge of making sure the gnomes had a home to go to remained, the BBC said.
"Our task now is to identify who the items belong to and ensure they are given back to their rightful owners," he was quoted as saying.
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3 Ways to Align Manager Development and HR Strategy
by Sharlyn Lauby | Posted | Business Impact
Earlier this year, we talked about the three essential ingredients in the company's HR strategy being performance, learning, and engagement. Those three elements are interconnected and ultimately drive organizational performance and the bottom-line. Great conversations about performance lead to learning opportunities, and when these two things are managed well employees are engaged. And engaged employees tend to be great performers and open communicators. It's a wonderful cycle!
Obviously, when we create a strategy, we need to find opportunities to bring that strategy to life. Those opportunities include corporate communications, policies, procedures, etc. It should also happen in management and leadership development. Or more specifically, it should take place at the right time for managers.
Over the years, we've spent lots of time talking about all the things that managers and leaders need to know. You know the topics. Honestly, I don't know that we're disputing any of them. But maybe it's time to look at when managers should be introduced to those topics. Is it possible that organizations are giving managers too much information too soon?
A new delivery schedule for management development
Instead of giving managers all of the information they need at the moment they become a manager, maybe it's time to align management development with the three ingredients of HR strategy: performance, engagement, and learning. And create management development tracks based on the stage of that manager's career. For example:
In the early career stage, managers would be focused on performance. Their development would be geared toward identifying key performance factors, so they could hire the best talent. Then they should learn how to set expectations and goals, so employees can deliver their best work.
At the mid-career stage, managers would develop their skills around employee engagement. This is the time when managers need to support, guide, and coach employee performance. They need to know how to deliver recognition as well as constructive feedback.
Finally, in the late career stage, managers would dedicate their time toward learning. Not just their own learning, maybe in terms of knowledge management or succession planning, for instance, but how to teach others as a mentor.
Of course, this doesn't mean that managers won't learn anything about employee engagement or learning until they're in their mid-to-late career. Management development isn't some sort of Vulcan mind meld. Managers need a learning path along with time to digest and use the knowledge and skills they receive.
The idea here is to give managers the tools they need at the moment they need them, so they can be successful. And that each skill track for performance, engagement, and learning builds on the last, further reinforcing the manager's development.
Learn more about the connection between management and strategy
I hope you can join me at this year's Saba Insight for a discussion about aligning management development and human resources strategy. The event is being held September 24-27 in Scottsdale, Arizona. We're going to do a deeper dive into what early, mid, and late stage management development tracks might look like and how to implement this type of program within your organization.


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Allied Races - Highmountain Tauren
Bestowed with moose horns by their ancestor Huln, the Highmountain Tauren tribes have united together after pushing the Legion out of their lands. With the threat gone, these Tauren have decided to ally with the Horde and the rest of their kind to fight the Alliance.
Unlocking the Highmountain Tauren
To unlock the ability to make a Highmountain Tauren, the following achievements must be completed on one character on your account. Once done, you can make a Highmountain Tauren on any server that you have a 110 character provided you have purchased Battle for Azeroth.
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Complete the Highmountain storylines
- Exalted with The Highmountain Tribe
The Highmountain Tauren Allied Race can be any of these classes:
- Druid
- Hunter
- Monk
- Shaman
- Warrior
The Highmountain Tauren racial abilities give you damage reduction, increased mining, increased versatility, a knockdown, and a chance to loot more meat and fish.
- Rugged Tenacity - Reduces damage taken by 1.8% of stamina.
- Pride of Ironhorn - Mining skill increased by 15 and allows you to mine faster.
- Mountaineer - Increases your Versatility by 1%.
- Bull Rush - Charges forward for 1 sec, knocking enemies down for 1.5 sec. 2 minute cooldown.
- Waste Not, Want Not - You have a chance to loot additional meat and fish.
The Highmountain Tauren racial mount is the Highmountain Thunderhoof. It is usable by all Horde races upon completion of Allied Races: Highmountain Tauren.
Heritage Armor
Level Type Slot Name Model Viewer 1 Cosmetic Head Highmountain Headdress Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Shoulders Highmountain Shoulderguards Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Chest Highmountain Harness Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Waist Highmountain Girdle Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Legs Highmountain Leggings Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Feet Highmountain Boots Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Wrists Highmountain Bracers Modelviewer 1 Cosmetic Hands Highmountain Gloves Modelviewer
The Highmountain Tauren have an intro cinematic upon creation:
Jokes, Flirts, and VO
You can hear the Highmountain Tauren Allied Race Jokes, Flirts, and other VO in the video below.
The Highmountain Tauren offer a variety of faces, hairstyles, skin colors, antler customization, and tattoo options. You can view them all in the screenshots and modelviewer below.
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At Least Some of Us Know Where The Sidewalk Begins
Not everyone knows where the sidewalk ends, or where it begins for that matter. Sorry, but I have a neighbor who's a complete hole, ass and otherwise. Before I even go there, may I just spew?
People in South Florida are rude. There. My sweeping generalization is out—perhaps not entirely accurate, but it feels accurate. No, the rude isn't isolated to Boca or confined to the private roads of Woodfield Country Club. The rude is here, there, and everywhere. On the airplane she'll force her way past your row, reaching for her overhead luggage, irritated as shite that your drag-ass won't make way for her hefty sack of impatient-fcuk. Parking lot? Blinkers are just that: nothing more than blinks. Lines? Yes, excluding laugh lines, they're everywhere, and if there's any confusion over who's next, an extension of a hand with a simple, "Please, after you," never will you see. Neighbors you say? Not a single baked nibble, not a welcome basket, nor a single knock-knock welcome. Nary a warm hand gesture in sight. Not even a WAVE from a next door neighbor.
I wave to all of them, every person I see on my street, and they look at me as if I'm wearing a tampon up my nose. I walk toward them, offering a smile, ready to introduce myself. Know what I get? He slips into his car, door shuts. She nods, then heads inside. They close their garage door. We are "the renters," which apparently is the equivalent to a kick me sign. But, in truth, I'm guessing most of the neighbors have no idea if we're renters or owners, or even, dare I say, new to the community. I'm guessing most of them have never met. They do not wave to one another as their cars pass. Everyone seems closed. Know what I'm going to do? I'm going to fatten 'em all up with sugar and kindness.
Pile of nut-free, gluten-free, brownies on each and every front door, with a note attached. "Thought we'd introduce ourselves since you didn't fcuking bother. Enjoy!"
Know what? The nit and grit of this sidewalk story will have to wait until tomorrow's post because now I have too much baking to do.


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At MIS, purpose of education is to scale beyond the difference of class, language, creed, status, caste and background. It is only at MIS we ensure that all our students study, learn, play and perform at par without any prejudice and inhibition.


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Every year some 500 women kill their abusers in domestic relationships. The story of how Barbara Sheehan shot and killed her husband Ray with his own two loaded guns, and the her ultimate acquittal at trial, dominated headlines for months. She told her story only as she testified for her own freedom. Until now. Thursday, Barbara Sheehan took PIX11 News into the home she shared with her family, where she suffered untold abuse, and where she ended the torment in a hail of bullets.
"The abuse was horrendous. It just didn't stop the black and blues, the black eyes the bruising. It was just horrible to have a gun put to your mouth to your head on more than one occasion," Barbara Sheehan can lay it all out now, three and half years after the abuse stopped. Sheehan had endured 17 years of verbal, physical and mental abuse. Both of her children testified in her defense at her murder trial; she was acquitted of shooting and killing her retired NYPD Sergeant husband Ray, escaping a 25 years to life sentence. It all ended here, in the family's Howard Beach home. 24 hours of intense fighting between the two came to an explosive conclusion in February of 2008.
"He was screaming he was going to kill me, I'm f'ing going to kill you. And I picked up the gun I had and I shot him. I don't know how many times I shot," she says, with a look on her face as if she is back there, in the hallway, outside the bathroom, facing what had just happened. In just moments Barbara used two of Ray's loaded guns, firing 11 bullets, bringing her husband's life, her marriage, and ultimately her torture–to an end.
"All of a sudden it was over and I was still standing up and he wasn't and he was no longer threatening me."
Barbara says looking back, she saw the signs that Ray wanted to end her life, "I knew the end was near and that he was going to kill me."
For years he kept her abuse secret to make the Sheehan family life look perfect from the outside. Lying to cover up the bruises, threatening her with wiping out her entire family to keep her quiet. "He would tell me if I told anybody he was going to go down in glory he's not going down easily and he would take everyone out before he left."
The night before the shooting, Barbara and Ray visited son Raymond at his Connecticut college. It was then that Barbara stood up to him–saying she would not go to Florida the next day on a planned vacation. It unleashed his fury. "I put my foot down and said I'm not going to Florida tomorrow. I'm not, I can't, I'm afraid of you. And he broke my nose in the car. This white t-shirt I was wearing was full of blood, and he took his gun out and held it up to me and said he was going to kill me if I got blood in his new car."
She needed to go to the hospital, and ended up walking, but could not escape his threats. "He was texting me all night while I was in the hospital and threatened me and said if a cop car shows up here I am going to go down in glory and he was going to take out my whole family, my kids, my father, my brother and then was coming back to get me, and I knew he was going to do it. I knew he had the guns and the extra ammunition."
And it wasn't over the next morning, when they should have been leaving for vacation. "He dragged me out of bed, dragged me down the stairs and threw me out on the porch."
Left in the February rain, in her pajamas, she hid under their deck, ashamed to ask for help, terrified to go back inside. "I was so afraid, I knew he was going to kill me, I knew. 17 years. You just know."
Barbara had called an abuse hotline just weeks before; they told her to accumulate some cash, and get ready to flee. She decided she would go for good, but telling Ray she needed to run to the store.
"His face was totally blank, his eyes were glazed over they had not emotion. He opened the door and had a gun in his hand and pointed a gun at my head and he said he was going to kill me if I left the house, that I couldn't leave the house."
But she knew she couldn't stay either.
She recounted the horrific moments of the shooting, "I ran down the hall, and got my money and that's when one of the guns was lying on the bed. So I said in order to get out of the house, I needed to pass the bathroom and get down the stairs. If I have a gun in my hand, then maybe he won't shoot. Cuz he'll see that I have a gun and he won't use his. "He came at me with the gun he had, and I picked up the gun I had and I shot him. I don't know how many times I shot."
Barbara had just emptied Ray's .38 caliber fully loaded pistol, the weapon he usually wore strapped to his ankle. 5 bullets tore into Ray. But a second gun, his NYPD issued 9mm glock that he kept with him as he showered, had slipped from his hands and was on the floor between them.
Sheehan continued the blow by blow narrative, "I went to the bathroom to actually help him, I felt so bad. He kind of slid down, was in the sitting position, he was trying to get up, use his hands to push himself up and reaching for the gun next to him and he was screaming I'm going to f'ing kill you, wait till I get up you're f'ing dead, I'm going to f'ing kill you. So I grabbed the gun that he was trying to reach. / He was a lot bigger than I am he was going to catch me. So I was backing out of the bathroom and I shot that gun too and I shot it until he wasn't threatening me anymore and he couldn't get up and I ran down the stairs."
Barbara unleashed a total of eleven bullets, killing Ray, ending the abuse, but not the guilt.
"I couldn't believe this had happened. this is what I did. It was a terrible, terrible thing to live with."
She was found not guilty of murder on October 5th, and is now appealing one guilty charge for weapons possession. Out on a million dollars bond, secured by four of her family members houses, she is physically free, and for the first time in decades, mentally freed as well.
"I know I'm safe now. I can go to bed at night, and put my head on my pillow and not worry about what will happen."
Barbara will be sentenced in two weeks for possessing the gun she used in the shooting, but should remain free on bail through her appeal, which could take a year. The department of education, where she is a secretary, has notified her they will fire her since she is now a convicted felon. She's hopeful she will win the appeal, and ultimately her job back. Despite all those obstacles, she's thankful, and hopeful. Tomorrow at 5, she shares how she's rebuilding her life by trying to make other lives better.
Barbara Sheehan has become the unintended poster child for Domestic Violence. Her story grabbed national headlines after she was found clutching two guns on her Howard Beach living room floor, admitting she'd shot her retired cop husband in the family bathroom.
The story that was revealed during her murder trial was heart wrenching–a woman who'd been abused for 17 years by a man who was obsessed by twisted sexual fantasies.
For the first time since she beat the murder charge and went away for nearly 2 weeks to Riker's Island Jail, Barbara Sheehan is telling her story exclusively to PIX 11.
"I knew I needed to do something. I knew the end was near I knew he was going to kill me," Barbara Sheehan can now state matter-of-factly.
The mother of two is weaning herself off anxiety medicine, and sleeping pills, the hangover from years of panic attacks as she coped with the aftermath of shooting her husband.
It all ended in February, 2008 with 2 guns, 11 bullets, and Barbara being the only one to walk away. 24 years of marriage for Ray and Barbara Sheehan came to this explosive conclusion after years of abuse according to Barbara.
She had married her high school sweetheart at just 22, despite seeing early warning signs. "He was very possessive of my time, didn't want me to go out with my friends," recounts Barbara of their early dates. But they reunited after a break up and eventually wed. And once married, more clues slipped in once Ray started to slap her around
"He came from an abusive home. He was abused, verbally, emotionally, physically," all at the hands of his mother. Soon as a child he was venting his silent rage on animals.
"That's another first sign of an abuser. Another sign to get out if people are telling you how they abused animals as a child," said Barbara and eventually he turned all that anger on her.
She sums it up in one terrible sentence. "It was a house of Horrors," she says.
The violence escalated after their second child, son Raymond, was born. But Barbara never told anyone, never called 9-1-1,
"He'd hit me with the receiver and say go ahead and call them, you think they're going to take a police report from a sergeant, you think they're going to believe you?" taunted Ray, according to Barbara.
"Being a cop he knew where to put the bruises. On your back, the top parts of your arms on top part of your legs, places where people don't see them."
She still bears the scar from having her head split open and stitched up after Ray smashed her head against a hotel room wall while on a Jamaican vacation. Ray would blame Barbara for the cuts bruises, calling her a clumsy. And Barbara's shame pushed her to secrecy as well. "You learn how to cover things up. You don't see them for a week while the black eye is healing. You have a cold, you can't come out. You wear a turtleneck because you have marks on your neck," she remembers.
The relationship took its ultimate violent turn for the worse once Barbara stumbled on Ray's true secret while on the family computer.
Barbara recounted, I would log on and these people would start talking to me. Originally I thought it was a woman he was having an affair with but then there was no woman. He went with transvestites. He would meet up with these young people he would dress up as a woman; they would dress up as a woman. He wanted to act as a baby; I don't even know what it was called. Infantilism? He was into that, wearing diapers. I knew for years. It had been at least 10 years since we had any sex," Barbara spelled it all out.
"You knew all the dirty nasty little sexual secrets that he was embarrassed by that he was shamed by?" asked reporter Kirstin Cole, "You think that's part of the reason why you had to go?"
"I knew too much," said Barbara.
Barbara's most basic instincts kicked in, and sent her a message. "I could see and sense he was losing his mind, he was losing control of himself and it was going to end and he was definitely going to kill me," she says ominously.
The District Attorney's office tried desperately to prove Barbara manufactured the abuse allegations, trying to discredit her own testimony as well as that of her children who witnessed so much of the abuse, and friends who vouched for the cuts, bruises and verbal abuse. Ultimately, the jury believed Barbara and that she was justified in shooting her husband in self defense.
The scenario she describes is all symptomatic of domestic violence. It happens behind closed doors; victims are silent and are so scared the abuser may hurt other family members they often choose to suffer in silence, as Barbara did.


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Currently browsing posts filed under "Evan Miller '06"
Miller '06 on Coronavirus
Evan Miller '06 is one of the smartest Ephs of his generation. If you are interested in Coronavirus, there is no better source of information. Perhaps, in his next segment, Evan could address two issues:
1) If he were the president of Williams, what would he do?
2) What does he forecast that the president of Williams, and other elite colleges, will do?
I do not have strong opinions on either question. What say our readers?
Can't Help Themselves
Evan Miller '06 writes:
Every computer programmer ought to read Frankenstein. It is the story of Creation, with a capital C, and contains perhaps the best description of monomaniacal flow-state in the English language.
Frankenstein, as any decent pub-trivia player knows, is the name of the scientist, not the monster. Young Victor Frankenstein creates a horrible monster; the monster wants to know why he was born, and why so horribly. Reasonable questions, both. Can there ever be an answer?
Makers, of course, can't help but to make things; ask a 10X engineer why they do what they do, and you won't get a convincing reply. They get an idea and have to see it through, every night, until 4 or 5 in the morning. They just can't help themselves.
Just like we bloggers!
Read the whole thing.
Sloppy Go
Evan Miller '06 with a hilarious review of the Go programming language. A snippet:
Despite my misgivings over the absence of Sloppy Go, and the waking nightmares I have about the Go gopher wearing my Peter Pan pajamas and murdering me in my sleep, on the whole I've been enjoying my initial experiences with the Go language. I was surprised at how idiot-proof it was to build things — you just type "go build" and almost instantly have a self-contained executable. This does make me wonder how things went so badly with make, makemaker, autoconf, aclocal, and the rest of the Texas Toolchain Massacre.
The jokes only make sense to a technologist, but, trust me, they are great!
You Can't Dig Upwards
Excellent essay from Evan Miller '06.
In retrospect, learning stick shift was a prudent investment of time, even though I've never had to prove it to society by (for example) driving a stick-shift ambulance full of orphans while avoiding heavy gunfire. Driving stick is just a good skill to have. More people should have it, in my opinion.
The astute reader will have surmised by now that I am not telling you all this in order to establish my credentials as a driver of low-end convertibles, or to hinder the ineluctable onslaught of automatic transmission in the automobile industry. I bring it up because I see important parallels between the move to automatic transmission in cars and the rise of Python in the computing world.
Python is convenient, and in many ways, a great advance over the C programming language. However, just as teaching teenagers to drive automatic transmission is a practical guarantee that they'll never learn stick, advising neophytes to learn Python is creating programmers who will never bother to learn how to code in C. And that, I believe, is a bad thing.
Read the whole thing.
Tragic figure
Evan Miller '06 defends someone that, quite frankly, I didn't expect to see anyone defending.
Scanning the CPD
Evan Miller '06's new iPhone app is featured in the Chicago Tribune:
Anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch can listen to Chicago Police Department scanner traffic on their Apple device, from anywhere in the world. It's a technological upgrade to a decades-old hobby.
Evan Miller, a 25-year-old University of Chicago doctoral student, created the iPhone/iPod application, which was released Sept. 27. It sells for $4.99 on iTunes and is the only application that allows users to exclusively tap into the Police Department's 13 neighborhood dispatch zones, said Miller and other scanner experts…
"It can make for an action-packed listening experience," said Miller, a former software developer. "It's a great way to get a sense of how things are working in the city."
Want to know about the future of Ephs on-line? Go to Ephtown. Here's how WSO alumnus and class speaker Evan Miller '06 describes it.
I'm interested in making a sort of WSO for alumni. I didn't appreciate the need for one until I graduated, but I've since come to believe that community in America is either dead or in a coma and it's damn well difficult to solve life's big problems without it (work that affects one's friends and relations, love that doesn't start in a bar). Anyway, I'm not writing you to preach, but to ask your help in establishing a site where Ephs can meet and help out other Ephs, discuss the issues of the day, and relish the small enjoyable things of life and of Williams.
Amazing stuff. The rest of the e-mail is below the break. Read it all. Twice.
Evan has now joined EphBlog as an author, the better to bring news of Ephtown to a wider audience. Our readers want to know more. (I wonder if the College will refuse to tell people about Ephtown in the same way that it never mentions EphBlog in any official communication.) Comments:
0) Know much about open source software? Start here and here. (Previous EphBlog discussion here.) Because I am involved with some open source projects, I am midway through Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel. In many ways, Evan is creating an open source version of Williams. You read it here first.
1) Williams College — the insular, technologically-backward and bureaucratic institution that we all love so well — needs to wake up! When someone as smart and talented as Evan Miller decides that he wants to make a site that Eph alumni will want to use as their homepage, then official college sites (e.g., here or here) are in big trouble. No matter how many thousands of dollars worth of checks you write to (incompetent) Harris Connect, your time has run out.
2) Evan was kind enough to listen to my hour-long rant about what Ephtown should be. I threw out a dozen crazy ideas. With luck, Evan will figure out which one of them was valuable and implement that one. Evan and I disagree about a lot of things, but we agree that there is a need for a single on-line location which brings together the community of Ephs. If the College refuses to make that location a reality, then we will do it for them.
3) I don't want to be mean, but isn't it a bit pathetic to imagine the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni meeting this week-end, trapped in a cold and rainy Williamstown, learning about the latest "progress on our online communications strategies?" What progress? EphBlog has done orders of magnitude more for online communication among Ephs than everything that the alumni office has ever done. And now, Evan Miller (10 times smarter than me) is going to tackle this problem. The alumni office's "online communications strategies" will soon be about as relevant as their ridiculous question of the day.
Now, I know, I know. The Executive Committee is made up of good people, dedicated to the betterment of Williams. I have many friends hard at work, everyday, in the alumni office. Shouldn't I be nicer to them? Try to work with them? Try to explain how this whole internets thing works?
Yeah, I should. I should be a better person. But I have tried and tried and tried. And so have people like Ken Thomas and DeWitt Clinton and Evan Miller and so many others. At the end of the day, the College is a bureaucracy and the insiders selected for alumni leadership positions are unlikely to make trouble. The College is unable to make an online world worthy of Ephraim Williams and so we will make it ourselves.
4) How will history judge these efforts? We need look no further than Fred Rudolphs's description of alumni efforts from page 207 of Mark Hopkins and the Log.
It would be incorrect to accuse the alumni of infiltration, for they had subscribed to the cult so well that they had not the slightest doubt that the college belonged to them. They were proud to be sons of Williams and sought, by demanding a role in controlling her destiny, to do their part in preserving her health, taking care of her in her old age, and seeing that her neighbors did not outdistance her. It was well that they thought as they did. The General Court in 1859 and 1860 passed legislation designed to test their manliness. Could the sons of Williams College manifest sufficient perseverance, devotion, and energy to send $100,000 home to Alma Mater to match the sums allotted by the Court? That was the test, and it was successfully met.
Those attempts to secure state funding almost 150 years ago seem far removed from the Williams of today. Yet the principle is the same. Too often, the College does not know what is best. We do. Following in the footsteps of David Dudley Field '1825, we will force the College to acknowledge and then embrace an online presence worthy of all the best that is Williams. Surely you know what Field accomplished, how he forced an insular College to recognize the importance of alumni, how he bent the leadership of the College to his will? Field is the patron saint of alumni trouble-makers.
Reading this from the alumni office on a sleepy Monday morning? Don't know much about David Dudley Field, class of 1825? Time to learn some history. Those lessons will serve you well.
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Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration this week as always. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!
You may have arrived from Indah's blog but if not you can start here and work your way around by following the Hop List included in each of our posts.
Now for my creation for this week.
I've used the gorgeous Tilda Catching Stars from Magnolia's Princes & Princesses Collection for my card today. My base card has been cut using Spellbinders Grand Labels Twenty Three dies.
My image was stamped onto X-Press It Blending Card using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with Copic Markers. My image has been cut out using Spellbinder Nestabilities – Labels Eight
Here's a close up of the image.
The colours I've used are: Skin – E21, E11,E00, E000, E0000, R20 & R30; Hair & Shoes – E47, E44, E43, E42, E40; Clothes – R85, R83, R81; Stars & Crown – C3, C1, C00.
I've added some extra detail to her clothes using a Sharpie Poster Paint pen.
Here's another photo….
The paper I've used is from Magnolia's Princes & Princess Collection also and this print is called Magical Pink. I've added a sentiment from LOTV, a bow, some lace and a Prima flower.
Your next stop for the hop is Lydia.
Now visit each of the Design Team Ladies to see their amazing projects…leave comments along the way for more chances to be our blog candy winner!
In case you get lost, here is the full line-up:
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Stamps: Tilda Catching Stars(Magnolia), Sentiments are from LOTV.
Card: Naturals White & Sahara Sand(Stampin' Up), X-Press It Blending Card
Papers: Princes & Princesses – Magical Pink (Magnolia)
Dies: Labels Eight & Grand Labels Twenty-Three (Spellbinders)
Punches: 1 3/4" & 2" (Stampin' Up)
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Monday Night Talk 3-16-2015 featuring Kelley Gossett, No Boston Olympics
March 18, 2015 @ 10:16 pm
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A Welsh photovoltaics company has developed a solar-powered LoRa sensor node which it hopes will address current concerns about sensor battery life.
Established Cardiff firm G24 Power, trading as GCell, has mated its light-to-'leccy tech with the LoRa standard to create what it said is a solar-powered LoRa node which will not require batteries.
The node was developed in conjunction with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences' Institute of Embedded Systems.
"The GCell powered LoRa sensor node transmits hundreds of packets of data daily from outdoor light sources. The node can even transmit every 15 minutes when illumination is as low as 500 lux, lighting levels commonly found in an office or workplace environment," said the company in a statement.
This, it added, will let user disconnect from mains power and not be "restricted by the limitations of batteries". The idea is that the sensor will be better for the environment and reduce TCO for IoT devices.
The firm said, without giving further specifics, that the Gcell nodes would be tested in a trial environment in early 2017.
Battery lifespan is a worry for Internet of Things advocates generally. While the communications technology and standards have been devised to last for between 10 and 15 years without needing significant maintenance, the lifespan of remote nodes' batteries is starting to cause concern.
In principle, at least, the idea of solar-powered nodes is good. However, they would need a battery of some sort for energy storage (your nodes won't only be signalling in daylight or when your factory floor lights are switched on) meaning the battery lifespan problem has just been pushed from a total lifespan ("how many years before you go from full to empty?") to the problem of finding a battery to attach to the photovoltaic cell with a useful lifespan in terms of duty cycle ("how many times can I charge and discharge this before it's functionally dead?"). ®


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Possibly even concern. My mood has been kindof erratic lately. Normally I am the epidemy of "laid-back," but yesterday I totally lost it at work, and later on Oprah had me crying on the couch. I hope that my present inability to control my mood, with the sudden change in beauty regime, doesn't leave anyone doubting my sanity
Friday, October 01, 2004
operation beauty - full throttle!
Tonight I'm going to take a major step on the beauty front. I'll be seeing alot of my peers tonight, so I'm going to attempt both make-up and a non-pony tail and non-slacker clothes. This is a pretty bold attempt, and at the very least should warrant some strange stares.
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TBEC webinar on UN HLM - Shared screen with speaker view
Tamar Gabelnick
Is the draft declaration for Moscow publicly available?
Mona Drage
Its very useful to get a break down of the process and what we should do. It does not sound to promising that we are competing for the dates with a HLM on migration. Do you hvae any more ideas about how to approach the missions about this?
Mona Drage
sounds like a good idea. we will be doing this kind of advocacy work for the first time and any guidance or learning or joint initiatives would be useful
dr Ivana balter haluskova mba
sorry , I need to leave earlier but will try to see to support you as slovak /french physician specialised in infectious diseases. please can you share slides I can go through later
Tamar Gabelnick
Whatever you could share of the draft declaration would be great too
Mona Drage
I would also like to get input on how a country brief from o low incidence country could look like to still get the interest of our politicians
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Are you satisfied with the GMC declaratatino, and can we expect a similar declaration for HLM. If you are not satsified, what needs to be strenghtened?


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Failed Housing Minister Roger Jaensch has no hope of meeting the critical promise he made last July to Tasmanians to build 900 new affordable "homes" by the end of this month.
Shadow Housing Minister Alison Standen said if Mr Jaensch was to keep his commitment he would need to meet an impossible target of building at least 25 homes a day – each day – until the end of this month.
"Of course Mr Jaensch was never going to meet his target but more than this important issue being about a broken promise coming back to haunt him, this is about this Minister badly letting down thousands of Tasmanians in the midst of an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis," Ms Standen said.
"This is a disappointing result from a disappointment of a Minister who today in Budget Estimates has conceded he will not build nearly enough homes to address the crisis.
"But Mr Jaensch has continued to attempt to cover his tracks by deliberately trying to confuse Tasmanians by using tricky language and continually changing the numbers.
"Mr Jaensch cannot deny that he promised 900 homes. He cannot deny he quickly changed his language to include lots of land in that target.
"At no stage – in multiple press releases, in his published housing strategies or in multiple debates in Parliament – were lots of land included.
"So now either Mr Jaensch believes a block of dirt is a home or he deliberately mislead Tasmanians.
"At a time when Tasmanians are sleeping in tents and caravans and sheds and hundreds of others are sleeping rough, Mr Jaensch has chronically underfunded housing, continues to persistently under-deliver and shows scant regard for Tasmanians who are in desperate situations and facing a bleak winter."
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Bid for six new homes to go on village green
A bid is being made to build six two-storey homes on a village green.
The houses would be built within an existing semi-circle of homes off South Pickenham Road in North Pickenham.
A number of other applications have been made to build houses on the site over the past few years, but Breckland Council has refused them all and council officers have advised this latest bid also be turned down.
A council report on the bid, prepared in advance of a planning committee meeting which will consider the matter on October 28, said that while the homes would not intrude on open countryside: "It is considered the erection of a further six dwellings in this location would remove any remaining sense of openness, with a complete loss of the rural appearance of this locality."
Other objections to the homes mention loss of views and light, highway safety, ecological impact, the lack of services in the village to serve new residents, and the impact on the war memorial on the site.
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How to Use Chalk Markers
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It seems like everywhere you look nowadays there's a beautiful chalkboard or glass drawing made with vibrant attention grabbing colors. These artworks are all made with chalk markers which have become popular as the go-to tool for creating everything from DIY wedding decor to restaurant bistro boards and so much more. They are dust-free, erase easily, have a bright pigment and are super simple to use. To help get you started we made a list of helpful tips that you can use to start drawing and writing with your chalk pens right out of the box.
How to activate chalk markers
Before you can start using your chalk markers, you will have to activate them first. Chalk markers, by design, come with a dry and colorless tip. This is how you can get the super bright ink to flow:
- Shake the marker while capped and lid pointing up
- Remove the cap and press the nib down against a flat surface. It's best to use a test paper instead of your project surface
- Release the marker once there you see a small puddle of ink. This can take up to a minute
- Make a few test marks with the chalk marker to make sure you have the right amount of ink flow.
- Start drawing
Tips for using chalk markers
Kassa chalk markers are really fun and simple to use to create beautiful works of art. Here are some techniques and tricks you can apply:
- The chalk marker nib is reversible, simply pull it out and switch between a bullet & chisel point. The Bullet Tip is a medium point that provides a consistent line across your surface. The Chisel Tip is cut on an angle and can vary between a thin point and a thicker point.
- Chalk ink erases easily from non porous surfaces like chalkboard, glass, windows, mirrors and more with a damp cloth. For erasing small details, you can use a damp Q-tip.
- Make sure to prime a new chalkboard before using chalk markers on it. This will ensure the ink will fully erase and there will not be a ghosting effect left behind.
- When coloring in a large section, make sure to go slowly to get even coverage and prevent streaking.
- New colors: Take any two or more chalk markers and mixing the inks in a glass or ceramic dish. Then dip a chalk marker with a dry tip into the mixture to use the new color your project surface. (Kassa chalk markers include two extra tips in every pack)
- Create blending effects with the markers by adding water to the chalk ink. You can dilute the color, bleed two colors into each other, and so much more.
- If you haven't used your chalk markers in a while, you may need to re activate the markers to get the ink flowing again.
Storing your chalk markers after use
Proper maintenance can help extend the life of any art supplies. When you are done using the chalk markers, put the cap back to prevent the ink from drying. You also should store them upright and not horizontally so make sure the ink doesn't seep out the tips while they're not in use.
Season chalkboard to avoid ghosting
If you are using chalk markers on a chalkboard, you will need to season it first. Otherwise, you will have a hard time being able to completely erase your chalk writing or drawing. A faint image will eternally remain due to the chalkboards porous surface. This is called ghosting or shadowing.
To ensure ghosting doesn't happen, a few simple steps are required. Seasoning your board will create a chalk "foundation" that will alleviate any problems. It's super easy and it takes no time at all:
- Lay a piece of chalk flat on its side and cover your entire board.
- Do one layer of chalk going up and down. Then coat a second layer moving side to side to ensure you fill every pore with the primer chalk.
- Wipe off the chalk using a soft dry rag.
- Blow any excess dust off
If you season the whole thing, all the little pores will get filled with chalk particles and your future drawings will look nice and can be easily erased with a damp cloth.


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Well, it took place on the last day of January, but February is such a runt of a month, I think it would be a great time to host a book exchange.
I attended one yesterday, hosted by my friend Christina Lay and a book-loving friend of hers. They had tea and cookies and some delicious teacakes from Germany, and two big tables set up with books that she and her friend were culling from their bookshelves. They put the word out via their respective email lists to come sometime between 2-4pm. The deal was: you can take as many books as you bring.
I arrived about 2:20 with a half dozen books I don't need any more. I didn't really intend to bring home more books, as my shelves are currently groaning under the weight of textbooks, so I didn't consider the strategic effect of timing. If I had arrived later, there would have been more books to mull over, correct? Yet, perhaps they would have been picked over by that time… Christina said the best thing is to host a book exchange. That way you get to see everything that comes in the door.
I left with a small cookbook of sauces and marinades and a novel by Jane Smiley. It was nice to pick up a book and just put it in a bag. No checkout required. Meanwhile, I stood around, munching lebkuchen and discussing our best reads of the year with people I had never met. The only thing we had in common was a rabid love for books, authors, and the need to discuss them.
The hostesses were left with three boxes of books to donate. Perhaps a few more than the two of them started with, as most people who showed up brought more books than they took.
What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
So grab a book-loving friend and make it happen. Or organize a bigger one within your book club.
Fine (free!) literature is an excellent way to meet other readers and refresh your nightstand.


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