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Problem Identification:
The Department currently has 45 recreation centers in various states of disrepair. Facility conditions range from adequate to grossly inadequate with little funding being expended for building and/or repairs. A comprehensive study of where facilities should be located in relation to other services and needs has never been performed.
Recommended Action:
Conduct a comprehensive inventory of all Departmental facilities.
Cost Savings, Service Improvement
Functional/Operational Area:
All Departmental Operations
Estimated Annual Impact:
Cannot be Estimated
Estimated Implementation Costs:
Minimal. Coordination with the Family League, Safe and Sound, and Recreation and Parks staff should make initial assessment fairly easy. Some further costs could be incurred if engineering or environmental assessments are necessary.
Barriers to Implementation:
Projected Implementation:
90 Days
Next Steps:
Develop metrics to be used for evaluating center facilities. Some measurements could be size, layout, condition, barriers and ability to meet the needs of the community.
Site visits to Departmental facilities led the project team to conclude that very little thought has been given to the present location of facilities and whether they adequately meet current community needs. The physical condition of these facilities ranges from adequate to total disrepair. For example, the Department's Roosevelt Park facility is in deplorable condition with the building's electric power being too weak to even operate a ceramic kiln, a leaky roof and windows, and a prevalent rodent population that necessitated the disconnection of the building's alarm system.
Consideration should be given to studying the new facility being constructed by Baltimore County in Arbutus. It is a collaborative effort between the County's Department of Recreation and Parks, Boys and Girls Clubs, and the Police Athletic League (PAL). The facility is being developed using community input on program needs and its design is intended to maximize both recreational opportunities and efficient staffing.
Data compiled by the Family League of Baltimore and Safe and Sound could be used to establish a baseline that identifies the city's at-risk areas and the current continuum of programs and services being offered. Information regarding the adequacy of facilities must be utilized in making informed decisions about consolidating facilities and merging programmatic offerings. If centers cannot meet the needs of the communities they serve or are presently in a location where their full service impact is not being maximized, facilities should be consolidated or relocated. Moving forward, ongoing capital plans need to be developed based on the established metrics. Each facility should be regularly evaluated using a standard quality checklist.

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MARTELL ANTWON MINGO, Movant,v.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. No. CR612-018.
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In its last Order the Court preliminarily reviewed Martell Antwon Mingo's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion. Doc. 1049, reported at 2014 WL 4702577. In it he claimed that he told his appointed lawyer, Thomas Charles Rawlings, to file a direct appeal yet was ignored. Doc. 1049 at 3. The Court thus directed Rawlings to respond via affidavit and he has complied. Doc. 1050. Rawlings says he duly consulted with Mingo about his direct appeal rights just after the Court sentenced him. Id. at 2.[1] Mingo signed the Court's Notice form - electing not to appeal. Id. at 2-3. Rawlings then handed the Notice to the courtroom deputy to file, but it is not in the record. Id. at 23.[2]
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
Press release from the issuing companySTAMFORD, Conn., October 31, 2007 - Pitney Bowes Inc. today lauded the Postal Regulatory Commission for successfully creating new rules that ensure a vibrant future for the American mailstream.
The five-member commission has been working since January to write the regulations to implement the landmark postal reform bill signed into law last year. It has been a daunting task to translate the 28,000-word law into specific regulations that mailers and the U.S. Postal Service can use to guide their actions, and Pitney Bowes praised the commission's hard work and good results.
The rules create a new system to set postal rates for market-dominant products, which represent the vast majority of the Postal Service's business. The new system replaces the time-consuming and expensive "rate cases" used under the old law. In the new system, overall postal rates are capped at the rate of inflation (Consumer Price Index) and can be adjusted more frequently, thereby reducing the negative impact of infrequent and large changes in the cost of postage.
"This is a historic moment in the development of the U.S. mailstream," said Pitney Bowes President and CEO Murray Martin. "We believe the commission found the regulatory sweet spot, and that will bring lasting benefits to anyone who wants to send or receive mail."
The highlights of the new rules include:
- A cap on annual rate increases for most classes of postal products, allowing mailers to plan and budget more effectively and encourage investment in the mailstream;
- Dynamic pricing that allows the U.S. Postal Service to use seasonal or temporary rates that give mailers incentives for "off-peak" mailings;
- Worksharing discounts that fully reflect the Postal Service's avoided costs and enable mailers to benefit fully from presorting and other activities, further stimulating an increase in the value of mail in the postal system;
- A streamlined process for creating special customized rates for large mailers, or for mailers of any size that process their mail through third parties who make the overall postal system more efficient;
- Specific advance guidance that will allow mailers to understand the new rules and have sufficient time to adapt to future regulatory changes.
The Postal Regulatory Commission finalized these regulations a remarkable eight months ahead of the already-aggressive timetable called for in last year's postal reform legislation. The commission will now turn its efforts to preparing the additional reports and finalizing the other rules the law requires.
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Come hear Jen Hatmaker talk about life, love, and Jesus on January 23 at 5:30 and 7:30 pm at Oklahoma Christian University.
Tickets will no longer be refunded after 5:00pm, January 19th.
Jen is the author of the best-sellers For The Love, Interrupted, and Seven. She has the unique ability to hilariously and eloquently say what a lot of women are thinking. She is real, open, and refreshingly honest.
This is the perfect girls night out or date night event!Jen will deliver the same talk at both sessions.
While you're here, enjoy pie and coffee in McIntosh Conservatory from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. Proceeds will benefit The Haven Project in Kalomo, Zambia. (http://zambianhavenonearth.bl
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Nepal RPCV Laurence Leamer writes about the Kennedy's - America's Fallen Royals
Nepal RPCV Laurence Leamer writes about the Kennedy's - America's Fallen Royals
America's Fallen Royals
By John Aloysius Farrell,
Washington bureau chief for the Denver Post and the author of
Wednesday, March 31, 2004; Page C03
The Fate of an American Dynasty
By Laurence Leamer
Morrow. 638 pp. $27.95
This much we can say about the current crop of Kennedy men: Their behavior has been so churlish, their accomplishments so middling, their spending so wasteful and their scandals so base and harmful to others that -- in one generation! -- they appear to have freed their descendants, and maybe us all, from the load of the so-called Kennedy dynasty.
The Kennedy name is so tarnished and the fortune so disbursed as to make one wonder about intent. Perhaps their lives were so perfectly miserable, played out in such ghoulish celebrity, that the young men of this generation unconsciously set out to destroy the family "myth" to liberate themselves and their children from its burdens.
How else to explain such havoc? Early in "Sons of Camelot," author Laurence Leamer lets us in on how the grandsons of that Irish American buccaneer, Joseph P. Kennedy, earned their reputation as, in the memorable words of John F. Kennedy Jr., the "poster boys for bad behavior."
Three of old Joe's 17 grandsons have died violently, Leamer notes, "one by drug overdose, one by playing a dangerous game on the ski slopes, and one in a private plane crash brought on largely by overconfidence." Two have been accused of rape, with one case "involving a fourteen-and-ahalf-year old." Seven admitted their addiction to drugs, or are self-proclaimed alcoholics. At least half a dozen young women have had their lives ruined, or lost, by running with this crew. To be sure, Leamer reports how the sons of Sargent and Eunice Shriver have performed noble work for worthy charities, like the Special Olympics and Best Buddies. The "Very Special Christmas" albums produced by Bobby Shriver raise funds for the mentally disabled, and he has joined with Bono, the Irish rock star, to put a spotlight on the issue of Third World debt.
Before he quit politics, Joseph P. Kennedy II had a record as a capable, if abrasive, congressman. His brother Robert has done penance for his wastrel days by soldiering in the environmental movement. And their cousin Patrick still represents a Rhode Island district in the House of Representatives. But these are hardly dynastic achievements, particularly when one considers the social, financial and educational advantages that allowed a Kennedy boy to start life on third base. As uncomfortable as it may be for the family courtiers to acknowledge, the star of this generation is an immigrant Austrian brother-in-law: the weight lifter Arnold Schwarzenegger, who parlayed his limited talent into fame and wealth in Hollywood, married Maria Shriver, and overcame reports that he likes to grope women to win election as governor of California. There's a man to make the old pirate proud.
The dissolution of the Kennedy stock may be a good subject for glossy magazines. There is a certain morbid fascination to it, like the feeling you get when, while channel-surfing, you chance upon the grainy police video of a high-speed chase and linger to watch the tire-smoking, car-flipping finish. But if the Kennedy saga teaches us anything, it is that life is fleeting. Why invest our time in one more morbid telling of the squandered lives of David, Michael and John, or the squalid Willie Smith rape trial? No doubt there are gloating Republicans, or Kennedy sycophants, who are yet fans of this long-running soap opera. But the author doesn't offer the rest of us a compelling reason to slog these paths again. There's no provocative analysis of the corrosive effects of fame or the effect on a son of a father's murder, just a few fresh tidbits, some of them sordid, about JFK Jr. One wishes that an insightful theorist like Garry Wills ("The Kennedy Imprisonment," "Reagan's America") had tackled the subject.
There are also irritating hollows in Leamer's reporting. When rendering his verdict on the sons of Camelot, he is roughest on the dead -- Bobby's sons David and Michael Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy Jr. -- and more protective of the surviving Kennedy and Shriver boys, especially those who sat with him for interviews. Other members of their generation -- the Smith brothers, Christopher Lawford and Edward Kennedy Jr. -- are barely mentioned. Maybe they weren't cooperative.
Leamer is a veteran Kennedy biographer: This is the third volume of his "epic multigenerational history of America's first family." As the author of "The Kennedy Men" and "The Kennedy Women," he knows his stuff. He can pluck the Camelot strings and has the Sorensenian cadences:
"Camelot was born not with the inauguration of John F. Kennedy but with his death, and that birth found expression in the figure of his only son saluting his fallen father. Camelot was an emotional repository of a people's inchoate feelings about a youthful president, a newfound elegance, a nation of endless promise, and a world of hope. Young John bore those mythic dreams, and as much as he tried to flee them, darting down Manhattan streets on his bicycle or flying above the clouds, they were always with him."
There are moments when Leamer's analysis hits home. Consider this comparison between Joseph Kennedy II and another son of a famous family, which rings true for those who know the men: "As Joe rushed along the corridors, he might have a cigar in one hand, his drugstore reading glasses in the other, a splotch of his lunch on his tie, and scruffy shoes on his feet. He was the first downscale Kennedy," Leamer writes. "The politician of his generation he resembled the most was Governor George W. Bush of Texas, an aristocrat who had reinvented himself as a middle-class Texan with a schoolmarm wife."
Who would have predicted, 20 years ago, that the fusty old Bush-Walker clan would rise to eclipse the dashing Kennedys? Why did one dynastic family perpetuate itself, reaching new heights while the other sadly crumbled? The "Sons of Camelot" offers some scattershot hints but not the answer.
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iam from nepal nepal nawaraj lamichhane . iwant to say that here is to many national problebs but the gov.is not thinking so . they are only for cropction.they dont think about peace and people plz help us and we are beg our life. thank you


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In this section, we will consider several examples where we generate the execution control sequence for a number of instructions for the single-bus CPU.
Note that in this example the Z register is used as a temporary register to perform the exchange operation. However, none of the program accessible registers can be used for this purpose (e.g. R1, R2, R3, R4).
In this example, we first read the operand to be incremented from memory. Then, we increment the operand and store it back. Note that MAR is loaded with the address of the operand in T4 and will remain having that address in T4-T7. The reason why the END signal is not placed in T6 in this example will be illustrated later when describing the CPU-Memory interface circuitry.
The CMP instruction subtracts the second operand from the first, and based on the result updates the flags. So, it is assumed here that there will be a FLAGS register that will store the flags and there will be a unit to compute the flags. The FLAGSin signal will control loading the values into the FLAGS register.
In this example, it is assumed that the loop counter is stored in register R1. So, R1 is decremented first and in T5 if the Z register contains 0 which is the result of decrementing R1, then the END signal will be activated to indicate the end of the execution of the instruction and that the loop instruction will terminate. Otherwise, a similar action to the JMP instruction is performed.


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How Would That Couch Look at Home? Check Your Phone
The second design, which was bolder with richer blue and white tones, flipped the bed to the other side of the room — a layout I had never considered but now would consider trying — replaced the desk with a dresser, reading nook and added a Dowel mirror (from West Elm).
The few hiccups I encountered were easily resolved by tapping on a service bell icon for help with my design and dashing off a note about my issues: a couple of items, including a table lamp I was interested in, were not itemized in my list of products to buy; and I was not in love with the sectional that Modsy suggested for my living room or the art on the wall.
For $199, you can get unlimited revisions and access to a Modsy designer via phone, chat or video. I opted for the cheaper version, which allows for one revised design per room and unlimited use of the "style editor," which allows you to swap products and adjust layouts yourself.
While using the bell service was a breeze, I found the "style editor" a bit clunky. It was not available on my phone. And when I tried to swap out a piece of art in my living room design using my laptop, I encountered a glitch that did not allow me to scroll down to see more options. As a result, I could access only a handful of alternative artworks, none of which appealed to me.
Jacqui Wimberly, a Modsy publicist, pointed out that the style editor is an experiment. "There was such a high demand from customers to be able to make changes on their own that Modsy decided to release it in the beta state while they continue to work on a full-fledged editing feature," she said.
In the end it didn't matter, as the Modsy designer I reached via the service bell icon was willing to swap it out for me.
If you would rather create your own renderings for free, Hutch may be the app for you. Hutch, which debuted this year for iPhone and Android users, lets you be the designer by snapping a photo of your room and decorating in 2-D.
Within an hour of submitting a photo of your room, Hutch virtually clears out all furniture, children's toys and clutter so you can fill it with furniture sold via the app. You can create your own look by selecting from furniture and accessories sold by Hutch's partners or choose from a list of completed designs called "filters" to superimpose a specific look onto your room, complete with a price list of the furniture used.
Don't like the Deco Inlay nightstand (from Anthropologie) under the "flea market finds" filter? You can easily swap it out with a Marotta end table (from Wayfair). Tapping an item sends you to the seller's website to find dimensions or to buy.
While the filters were easy and fun to play with, I was disappointed by the lack of options when trying to create my own look. Though I was designing a living room and bedroom, there were no options to customize other spaces like a dining area, children's bedroom or playroom. And while I wanted to put a TV console under the window in my living room, the only categories available were sofas, coffee tables, lamps, art, curtains and rods, bouquets, and side tables.
A few of the categories, including side tables, table lamps and chairs, only offered one option: sold by Hutch, all of which were out of stock. And for nontraditional spaces, you may have to use your imagination or try a couple of different angles before you find a filter that fits your layout.
Beatrice Fischel-Bock, Hutch's chief executive and co-founder, said more rooms are in the works and that she will have her team look into what must have been a glitch I experienced when personalizing my living room. "We have thousands of products in the system," she said. "You really shouldn't be seeing just one. There should be at least 10 backup options."
By November, Hutch plans to let you play with layouts to make it easier to design nontraditional spaces.
Apple's latest operating system for iPhones and iPads rolled out on Sept. 19 along with a flurry of new apps that leverage Apple's new augmented reality development platform. Houzz, the home renovation and design site, was among them, with a new version of its 3-D shopping feature, "View in My Room 3D," which lets you immediately place three-dimensional images of furniture, for free.
Say you are shopping online for a floor lamp for your dining room. A tap of a button below the item lets you view the lamp in your room by accessing your phone's camera and superimposing a 3-D image of the lamp on the screen.
(Ikea, Wayfair and others rolled out similar features in the App Store with Apple's latest operating system. Wayfair's version also works on devices supported by Tango, Google's augmented reality platform.)
Houzz's new version comes with a catalog of 500,000 products in 3-D. It eliminates a quirk of the previous iteration, which required users to pinch and zoom furnishings into place – an arduous task in my experience, that resulted in inadvertently shrinking items down to the size of a pea whenever I tried to fit them to my space. Now the app eliminates that frustration by automatically sizing images to scale. A new version of "View in My Room 3-D" was released on Sept. 26 for Android users.
Seeing the images at scale removes the guesswork involved in figuring out whether that coffee table will actually fit in your cramped living room. You can also now walk up to that coffee table to get a better sense of its texture. Multiple items can be viewed at once on the screen, with each automatically added to a shopping list so you don't have to leave the app to buy. Just don't try to virtually hang a ceiling lamp in your room. The app does not yet support ceiling lamps in 3-D.
If all you want is to get an idea of how a specific piece of furniture will look in your room, Houzz is a good, fast option. For those who want to play around with different looks, Hutch will help you do that for free. For those of us who want more hand-holding while decorating a room, Modsy is a solid, low-cost alternative to seeing an interior designer in person.
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2 Tablespoon(s) Minced Chipotle chilies
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2 Cup(s) Apple juice
6 1/2 Cup(s) Sugar
1 Cup(s) Cider vinegar
1 Box, 1.75-oz. dry fruit
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_High-Flavor, Low-Fat, Vegetarian Cooking_ (copyright Steven Raichlen,
1995)(ISBN: 0-670-85782-3) If using dried chipotles, soak them in 1/2
cup warm apple juice for 30 minutes, then remove the stems and mince
the chilies. If using canned chipotles, mince them. For a milder
jelly, you can remove the seeds. Combine the sugar, remaining apple
juice, vinegar, and chipotles in a large heavy saucepan and stir to
mix. Simmer the mixture over medium heat, stirring gently, until the
sugar is completely dissolved, about 5 minutes. Skim off any foam that
rises to the surface. Stir in the dry and liquid pectins and boil for
2 minutes. Skim well. Pour the mixture into sterile jelly jars (three
1-pint jars or six 1-cup jars) and cover tightly. Invert the jars for
10 minutes, then reinvert. Shake the jars from time to time as the
jelly cools, to evenly distribute the pepper pieces. The jelly will
keep for several months in a cool, dark place, unopened. Refrigerate
it, once it is opened. Makes 6 cups: 52 calories per tablespoon; 0g
protein; 0g fat; 14g carbohydrate; 1mg sodium; 0mg cholesterol
CHILE-HEADS DIGEST V2 #334 From the Chile-Heads recipe list.
Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.
Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients)
Calories: 5953
Calories From Fat: 24
Total Fat: 2.7g
Cholesterol: 0mg
Sodium: 2409.9mg
Potassium: 1795.7mg
Carbohydrates: 1523.2g
Fiber: 20.5g
Sugar: 1404.2g
Protein: 12.9g


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Log has been getting quite cluttered lately, due to a lengthy hiatus by Wandee Love, who is off doing some kind of a deep-cleanse detox program. In an effort to un-clutter and generally de-accession, Sloth has set up a "swag table." There are many items that could be given away to promote Log World, and also to make for some turn-around room in Log.
These papers appear daily under the log-door. Not sure where they come from, but they might be useful for nesting material. Help yourself!
Various types - could be useful or just decorative.
Take home an actual piece of Log! Limited supply - please do not remove any part of Log that is still attached. Only the pre-crumbled bits.
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Sunday turned out to be a fairly nice day with only a little coolness.
Sorry to hear we have a couple men who are not doing as well as we would like to hear. So we send get well wishes to Bill Henry and Frank Martz.
The family of the late Herbert and Kate Berkstresser held their reunion at Forbes Road Lions Park on Sunday, May 17. Those attending were Robert and June Bennett of Carlisle; Barbara Torcasco and son Michael and daughter Kristin of Harrisburg; Sandra Holtz and daughter Ava of Philadelphia; Harvey and Pat Berkstresser of McConnellsburg; Bronwyn Mundorf and children Michala, and sons Wyatt, Dakota and Colton of Bedford; John and Heidi Peck and children Haley, Jacob, Joel and Jonah; Danny and Brook Sheeder of Mc- Connellsburg; and Kate Berkstresser.
I wish to thank everyone for the cards and gifts to help celebrate my birthday last week.
Shawn Knepper, son of Henry and Lucinda Knepper of Hustontown, remains a patient in intensive care. He is however improving and now off life support. Please keep in your prayers.
Knobsville United Methodist Church will hold a spaghetti supper Saturday, May 23, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Come out and enjoy the evening.
Household hint: Natural fabric softener - for a natural fabric softener and static cling, try adding a cup of white vinegar to the final rinse cycle of your wash. It's strong enough to dissolve alkalis in soaps and detergents and also leaves clothes soft and fresh. Add two cups of vinegar to full tub of rinse water if you are doing baby laundry.


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Mr. Speaker, I rise once again regarding this bill, of which I have already spoken at other stages. It is as industry critic for the Bloc Quebecois that I am taking part in this debate. I used to be human resources development critic and, as such, I may have had more opportunity to deal with issues that have to do with workers, employment insurance and things like that.
In this case, I think that this is a bill that deserves our support. Indeed, it is the result of several years of work as well as the result of the tenacity of certain members of this House. The involvement of members of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights was mentioned. The work that led to this bill was initiated by NDP members. They were the ones who were closest to those who went through this terrible experience.
As was mentioned earlier, this bill follows several bills that were brought forward by individual members. Basically we realized, following the explosion at the Westray mine in Nova Scotia, that we did not have the necessary tools to conduct a thorough inquiry.
This could also have a preventive effect so that, in future, people would not engage in more or less acceptable behaviours for which they could not punished previously. Now, with this legislation, before engaging in such behaviours, people will know that there are consequences, and chances are that they will choose not to go in that direction. Indeed, they will have been warned in advance that it is very dangerous to engage in these types of behaviours.
First, let us go back to Bill C-468, which was introduced in February 1999. The purpose of this bill was to establish in certain circumstances the criminal liability of corporations for criminal acts or omissions carried out by their officers or staff and to create a new offence in the Criminal Code for corporations that do not provide a safe workplace.
This bill was also aimed at making it easier to establish the criminal liability of directors and officers, something that was missing from the legislation and the Criminal Code. It was impossible to clearly put the blame on those who were actually responsible for these situations.
After Bill C-468 died on the Order Paper in June 1999, a motion was presented to amend the Criminal Code and other federal legislation to hold corporate managers and administrators responsible for workplace security. At that time, the Bloc was in favour of such an amendment. The members of the Bloc Quebecois took part in the work needed to ensure that the end result would be as good a bill as possible and one that would solve the problem at hand.
The bill was introduced again in October 1999, as Bill C-259. Once again, it died on the Order Paper. In February 2001, the bill was introduced again. At that time, the hon. member for Laurentides spoke in favour of the bill while explaining that Quebec already had such an agency—the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail—that oversees the safety of employees. Thus, in Quebec, we already had a framework for dealing with such situations. Nevertheless, that did not correct the weaknesses of the Canadian Criminal Code. Thus, the Bloc Quebecois thought it relevant to push for the adoption of a satisfactory bill.
For example, in the House on November 11, 2001, the member for Hochelaga—Maisonneuve expressed his support for such a bill. For him, it was important to pass this bill as a kind of legislative corrective measure, and especially important to strengthen the Criminal Code in order to prevent loss of life among workers.
Finally, it was the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights that began to deal with the issue. It held hearings on the issue in the spring of 2002 and tabled its report in June 2002. It recommended that the government introduce legislation in the House on criminal responsibility of corporations, managers and administrators.
That has been the legislative process so far. Beginning with a private member's bill, facing many challenges, we have finally, through sheer tenacity, ended up with a government bill. In the end, the government had almost no choice but to introduce something. We started with a vague private member's bill, and ended up with a recommendation from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, telling the government that it must act. And that is how Bill C-45 came to be introduced in the House.
The main changes pertain, first, to the use of the term "organization", rather than "corporation". This will take in more institutions, including institutions that otherwise would not have been covered and could have continued to engage in inappropriate behaviour.
The bill also says that a company can be held criminally liable for the acts of employees who are not necessarily senior officers in the company. We know that with the multitude of hierarchical levels, under the current Criminal Code there would be no way to ensure that someone who committed a reprehensible act could be prosecuted accordingly and forced to assume the consequences of what he had done. Part of this is corrected in the current bill.
The material aspect—the act of committing a crime—and the moral aspect—the intent to commit a crime—of criminal offences attributed to companies and other organizations no longer need be the work of the same person. It is possible that in an organization where a criminal act has been committed, that someone utters the intent to commit the crime and directs someone else to do it. Now this distinction can be made in charges and in the how the behaviour of people involved in this type of situation is judged.
When it comes to criminal negligence, the moral aspect of the offence could be attributed to the organization insofar as it can be attributed to one of the organization's senior officers. For these aspects, it is essential that fault be attributable to one of the senior officers of the organization.
With regard to mens rea, the organization could be held responsible for the actions of its senior officers if a senior officer is party to the offence or directs other employees to commit an offence or if a senior officer, knowing that an employee is about to be party to an offence, does nothing to stop them.
I would say that this is the crux of the bill. It was truly this side of it that had major flaws and blame could go back and forth without anyone ever having to take responsibility.
The bill also explicitly imposes an obligation on those with the authority to direct the work of other employees to take the necessary steps to prevent bodily harm to those individuals.
The bill also establishes sentencing principles and conditions of probation for organizations. It was important to have clear and specific penalties, so that people would know exactly what the consequences of their actions would be. This did not exist previously in the Criminal Code, which led to the Westray mine situation, where it was impossible to establish liability and to ensure that it was assumed correctly. This gave a very bad example for the future and created legal precedents. This is why it was necessary to legislate.
We know that, in Canada, the conditions under which a corporation can be held criminally liable are essentially based on jurisprudence. Therefore, it was important to have adequate legislation as a basis for jurisprudence.
The bill also amends current legislation so that organizations other than corporations can be held criminally liable. Indeed, under this bill, the term organization includes a public body, body corporate, society,company, firm, partnership, tradeunion or municipality. Let us hope that we did not forget other types of organizations that could be placed in such situations. The definition appears to be broad enough to cover all those who should be covered.
The bill also says that the term organization includes any association of persons thatis created for a common purpose,has an operational structure, andholds itself out to the public as anassociation of persons. We see that the legislator really wanted the definition to be as broad as possible. It is not only the employer that is included but any other type of organization, so as to prevent the same kind of situation from happening again. The government is ensuring that the legislation was not corrected only to cover a certain type of organization or employer, but all the different types of associations.
The bill also deals with the issue of safety in the workplace when it says, with respect to section 217.1, that every one who undertakes, or has theauthority, to direct how another person doeswork or performs a task is under a legal dutyto take reasonable steps to prevent bodilyharm to that person, or any other person,arising from that work or task. This new provision will make it possible to charge people in positions of responsibily who have failed to meet this obligation with criminal negligence.
Again, this measure comes from the impact analysis of the tragedy at the Westray mine. Of course, it will not bring back those who died in that terrible accident and are still mourned by their families.
However, this bill at least gives those families the assurance that legislators have learned their lessons and are trying to ensure that such a tragedy never occurs again.
Sentencing these organizations is another issue on which we put a lot of emphasis. The bill would add new sections and expand existing sections to take into account, during sentencing, factors that are characteristic of organizations. A specific section is also added to regulate the probation conditions applicable to organizations.
Overall, this bill seems to solve one of the problems linked to the tragedy at the Westray mine. For all these reasons, the Bloc Quebecois supports the principle of Bill C-45.
Given the current state of the law, we believe it is important to establish a regime of criminal responsibility for businesses that is effective and takes into account the differences between an individual and an organization.
However, I would like to voice a concern regarding offences. Indeed, mens rea is required, in other words, to prove that intent is above and beyond that required for criminal negligence. A first look at clause 22(3) leaves questions as to how effective this clause will be when it is applied to a specific situation.
We have reached a level of proof that, in practice, might be difficult to achieve. We made these comments in committee and at other stages. This has not been corrected, but let us hope that with respect to jurisprudence, we will not end up in a situation where we have to amend the legislation because it was not accurate enough in the first place.
I want to reiterate that Bill C-284, which had been presented by the NDP, proposed a solution to this difficulty by including the possibility of reversing the burden of proof for corporations. Reversing the burden of proof would work as follows: once it has been established that the employees of an organization have committed an act or made an omission leading to the commission of a crime, that organization would have to prove that it neither authorized nor tolerated such behaviour.
Thus, it would be a kind of preventive measure to avoid that kind of situation. We also should note that the bill does not in any way make it possible to impute criminal responsibility to administrators of corporations, unless the corporation itself has committed a criminal act.
Perhaps this amendment was not included in Bill C-45 for constitutional reasons. Still, it remains open to interpretation, which I hope will not leave an opportunity for people with bad intentions to commit a criminal act without being subject to the appropriate sanctions.
Certainly, the entire bill must be examined very carefully to ensure that it is effective; still, its objective remains valid and necessary in order to make organizations answer for their acts.
I believe that this is the kind of law on which we will look back in 10, 15 or 20 years and say that it brought in real improvements to prevent unacceptable behaviour. It will have corrected something that had caused a great deal of pain in the past, particularly to the families of the victims of this accident.
Nevertheless, it will be clear that the measures that legislators in this field have taken will have helped correct the situation. We can hope that this kind of situation will never happen again and that there will be no need to intervene before the courts to obtain convictions. The way the bill has been written and the information that will be provided to various organizations are intended to make people in all kinds of organizations aware of the fact that they will be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. Thus, we hope to avoid a repetition of the terrible accident at the Westray mine.
In conclusion, I want to express my wishes, and those of many members of this House, that we will be able to pass this bill and that it will come into effect as soon as possible.


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Our shop has been making effort in technology oriented life under the rule of recycling for years. We exchange goods with our clients and recycle them. We support environmental protection. Various kinds of electronic products, hardware and software are recycled, sold or donated to those people in need. Our shop also provides services like computer assembling and repair, data recovery, network engineering, on-site repair as well as SME computing solutions.
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In business for over 30 years, Vincent Printing has stayed on top of the technology and maintained consistently high quality/price ratios. Our expertise rests upon the knowledge invested in our employees, who are trained according to the very latest in printing methods. At Vincent Printing, management and staff put every effort into satisfying the customer's needs. We can tackle any job, no matter how challenging, using our extensive system of integrated services – graphic design, pre-press, digital and offset printing, large format printing and finishing – all done in-house by our team of experts. We are known for working to exacting specifications and tight deadlines.
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It's been little more than a week since the New Year's Eve ball dropped, and people everywhere may have already dropped the ball on fulfilling their important work-related resolutions. How many of these apply to you? Resolution: "Embrace" social media. First step: Start using Twitter.
Excuse: What the hell is this whale thing?! 'System Overcapacity'?! Huh? I guess I'll try again tomorrow.
Resolution: As a sys admin, I will be more patient toward my company's users.
Excuse: The first-first!-help desk call I get, and it's Glenn over in marketing, who once again (third time since November!) "accidentally got some type of virus...or something." Yeah right, Glenn! Stay away from the Tila Tequila sites, will ya! Moron.
Resolution: On Monday morning, ask my boss for the 5 percent raise I deserve.
Excuse: I walked into her office, and she just gave me that look. I'll go back next week, when she doesn't look so stressed. Or pissed off. Maybe.
Resolution: Start reading The Economist to better understand global business trends and geopolitical issues, and make myself a more knowledgeable employee.
Excuse: Planned on reading it in the bathroom yesterday, but when got in there, a copy of Maxim looked way more interesting. (Have no idea where Economist is now.)
Resolution: Tell my IT staffers how much I value their contributions to the department and the overall company.
Excuse: Those lazy, good-for-nothing jerk-offs screwed up the patches they were supposed to do while I was out on vacation. And they still roll their eyes when I say "alignment." Now where's that outsourcer's number.
Resolution: Learn to use my company's new CRM system.
Excuse: Ya know what, my admin does a much better job at inputting data than me, so why not let her keep doing it? She likes doing it, anyway.
Resolution: I will NOT be a slave to my BlackBerry outside of work! I will NOT be a slave to my BlackBerry outside of work!
Excuse: I'm sorry if it was rude, honey, but I had to respond to that email from Doug. I know it your father's funeral service, but it couldn't wait. Yes, it really was Doug, and no, you do not have to scan my contact list like Tiger's wife.
Resolution: Fix all the bugs in my code before I write new code.
Excuse: I'll go back and fix that bug later. Tomorrow morning. Yup. And that one. That one there. And that one, too. I'll never forget about fixing that one. And those over there. And, of course, that nasty bugger. I swear I can remember it all.
Resolution: Get my head around this whole cloud thing.
Excuse: Flying in the clouds to The Bahamas for some Dark and Stormy drinks counts, right?
Resolution: I have to expand my personal networking efforts.
Excuse: Does leaving even cruder comments (when compared with 2009's entries) on my friends' Facebook pages count?
Resolution: Learn something new about my business every day.
Excuse: Well, after staying late one night to research the company's future, now I know that my boss is having an affair with his admin.
Resolution: I will clean my desk and keep it organised.
Excuse: But I just love the way my empty Diet Coke cans, reams of spreadsheets from 2006 and mess of tech gear make it look like I'm really busy all the time.
Resolution: Go "green" with our data centres.
Excuse: But our company's official corporate colour is red?
Join the CIO New Zealand group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.


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A blog devoted to links of winners, runners-up, finalists and semi-finalists for The American Prize. Use this site to see some of the many different ways you can share your success in the competitions, or to learn more about The American Prize laureates. The archive at right helps you navigate categories. Click AUGUST to see the options. To submit a link, email email@example.com
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Here is just a small sampling of The American Prize Winning Links, and not just from winners, but also finalists and semi-finalists. If you discover more you think we should highlight, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Long Ridge Equity Partners is a private investment firm focused on the financial services industry. Leveraging deep sector knowledge and an extensive network of industry resources, Long Ridge serves as a value-added partner to high-growth financial and business services companies.
Over the last fifteen years, Long Ridge's principals have sponsored some of the most successful growth companies in the financial sector, providing strategic resources and capital to drive profitable expansion. Long Ridge places a strong emphasis on partnership with management, focusing heavily on aligned incentives through equity participation.
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Elaine Frances Lederer, known as Sister Joseph Loretta, was born in Chicago on December 2, 1923, the youngest of three children born to her Jewish parents, Arnold and Camille (Pick) Lederer. Her father worked in his father's business and later worked in Washington, DC, as a representative lobbyist for manufacturers. Elaine described her mother as a "stay-at-home mom."
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i have a pair of yellow Indian ring neck parrot and they have two chicks 3 week old. yesterday, i have noticed that they have started feather picking their chicks.
please let me know why it is so and how can i further prevent it.
their is no dietary insufficiency as i am proving best possible diet (mix of fruit ,vegetables,seeds and vitamins)
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Inter Milan sensation Davide Santon is delighted to have the confidence of Italy coach Marcello Lippi.
"The words of the trainer give me pleasure," Santon said. "Lippi has made me other compliments, telling me to live this moment with serenity because getting called up to La Nazionale is difficult and to stay in the squad is even more so.
"This moment is incredible. Over the last year I have gone from the Youth Cup Final to La Nazionale. It's a year in which I challenged Cristiano Ronaldo. My luck in that case was not being able to take into account what was happening to me.
"I can still do more. I will look to do so next season. But meanwhile I would like to thank Jose Mourinho. Without him I would not have played so much. I hope to be a part of the Confederations Cup and the next World Cup.
"I have a wise head on my shoulders. It has always been my strength," Santon explained. "I will try to stay close to those who want me to do well, avoiding envious people
"Women arrive when you become a footballer, we'll just have to see if the number increases with La Nazionale But also from this point of view I will stay calm."
Santon has been likened to Paolo Maldini, the Milan legend, who retired on Sunday after 25 years in the game.
"Paolo is an example. To do half of what he has done would be enough for me."


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French is known with its uniqueness and beauty beginning from fashion, art, even the historical buildings too. You might remember how adorable is the Eiffel tower. Many people understand and know about the great taste of French designers from its historical buildings. Something that you should know is many talented designers still born many decades after it until today. Now, they are coming with their amazing designs which I will show you after this. The French dining room sets that will catch the attention of every single eye that watching.
Here, you will catch the hidden art from these perfect design. The classical French dinning rooms are created with the unique and vintage details in every spots. The combination of classical and rustic seem like the main weapon of these designers to win the war of design nowadays. The wood accent meets the bright, but calm colors that can show the outstanding luxurious atmosphere. The circular details are taking control here, even so, the stylish appearance are not invisible. I love the wall colors, very sweet, calm, and soft. Not too striking, but very elegant and gorgeous. Sometimes something good is not only about the complicated design.
Besides the colors, design, and furniture, the other thing you need to see is the way the talented Frech designer arranging their spaces. Some additional details are perfectly placed to bring more vintage look. The hanging chandelier is on the ceilings with the perfect beauty. The luxurious shape of the chandelier seems united with the awesome arrangement of these 48 magical French dining room furniture. Some items like a set of candle and a vase of flower on the tablecloth can perfectly bring the perfectness to the dinning room and blowing up the French touches. Don't you think that both of them (the chandelier and candle) are the key in creating the French look dining room? Do you agree with me?


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The Bloody Details Behind Splatterhouse
This past weekend there was a little thing called Comic Con in New York. Geeks dressed up as their favorite superheroes came flying in from all over the place. There were also some game developers at hand and MTV Multiplayer got a chance to sit down an talk with Dan Tovar and Mark Brown, producers for Namco Bandai's upcoming remake of the classic Splatterhouse…
For those of you who don't know, Splatterhouse was originally for the arcades and Turbografx-16. You played as Rick Taylor, a man who gets attacked by a monster and have his girlfriend stolen. Talk about a rough day. Putting on a demonic mask, you gain evil powers and have the ability to regenerate. Now you must save your girl as the hideous monster you have become.
From the sound of things, both Tovar and Brown seem to put an emphasis on the whole regenerative aspect of the game. They say that there is no lifebar, and that what you see is what you get. If Rick is close to death, you will see that through the character. Bone, flesh, and muscle; all will be able to regenerate over a matter of time.
The team wanted to stay as close to the original while giving the game a whole updated look and feel. There are characters from the original that fans will recognize and adore.
In the original game there was an enemy called Biggy Man who had chainsaw blades for hands and had a bag over his head. It was a no-brainer to include icons from the games like this. We did our own thing with him, but he's still the same guy with chainsaw blades for hands.
The duo also chat about how they push the M rating to the limit with the blood, gore, and even partial nudity. Nothing beats pixelated porn I tell ya! What about a Splatterhouse film you say? It's a possibility, so long as that horrible video game film adaptor doesn't get his slimy hands all over it. You know who you are.
Check out MTV Multiplayer for the rest of the interview along with possible influences from Dead Space and Fallout 3. Spoiler alert. They weren't that influential. Splatterhouse is due out for the PS3 sometime later this year.


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Compositions that can be used in semiconductor manufacturing processes, comprising perhydro-polysilazane having a weight average molecular weight of about 300 to about 3,000 and a polydispersity index of about 1.8 to about 3.0 are provided. Solutions comprising the compositions of the present invention, methods of forming films in a semiconductor manufacturing process, and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices are also provided.


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Video: Brazil Tour Part 2 – Our T-shirt Surprise – Rapalje Show 21
Now on YouTube: On our second day from our Brazil Tour we got our first, official, gig and David will tell you all about it.
He will also show you that he's got some woodworking to do.
We discovered that we didn't have to bring our own Rapalje merchandise T-shirts.
And then we take you backstage for the first official show on our Brazil tour.
The show you gonna see now and in the end is a recording from the last show we did in São Paulo.
We recorded almost two hours from our concert
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Hey everyone,
I finally got the Game News section of the website working. I can now start recruiting Community Managers / Social Media peeps to write news articles through the site and have them show up without me having to do a thing. Once I got that working, adding an events list in the sidebar wasn't that much harder. Drupal's been time consuming to learn, but I'm finally getting a handle on it. There's still some parts of the site that bypass Drupal like the Jobs page, but I'm going to be fixing that soon.
Speaking of events, have I mentioned we have a booth at Sac Anime? Two actually, side by side. My goal is to turn our 10' by 20' booth space into a family room, though I've come across an unexpected snag. Seems like furniture rental places won't let you move furniture once it's delivered, and they'll only deliver to a residence--certainly not the Sacramento Convention Center. I don't want to outright buy two couches for Sac Anime. I don't have any room to put them at my place before / after the event. What I might do is end up buying a bunch of cheap bean bags then stuffing them in my bedroom closet for next year. But hopefully I can still pull off Plan A.
Speaking of conventions, Sac Arcade is coming along well. I can't make any announcements until I have more things confirmed. But basically, people that run game related things for Sac Anime, I've recruited to do the same for Sac Arcade. This isn't confirmed, but it's likely I'll also be bringing in a huge group that organizes events for PAX. PAX, btw, huge game convention that draws 80,000 gamers in Seattle once a year--this year, all their tickets sold out in less than 5 minutes. Sac Arcade might not be amazing the first year, but I see no reason why we can't eventually rival PAX.
Duplicating PAX in Sacramento isn't going to be easy though. It sounds like there's a lot of money to be made, but that's not really the case. When you figure labor costs for security (you can't rely on volunteers for everything--especially the safety of people that can sue you or expensive equipment that can be so easily stolen or broken), food and shirts for those that do volunteer, venue costs, insurance, and marketing, whatever profit I could have made for the amount of work I'm putting in, I could just have gotten a conventional job and made more money for less time. That, and all the proceeds will get sunk right into making the next event bigger. I think we're going to sell out the Sheraton long before the event starts, and will likely be expanding into the Convention Center by 2016. I've already gotten quotes from the Convention Center, and it's really do-able.
What else? I had a company contact us about making a game for them. I'm on the fence about this. Being able to finally meet a payroll would be fantastic. But as soon as we're done with the game, we're out of money again. Then we go back to working on Stigma Games stuff right back where we started from: without any money to pay people and a huge chunk of time taken away. I know some studios only exist to make games for other developers and own nothing. That feels like it would defeat the purpose of working in the game industry.
Ok, this was a nice break, but time to get back to work.


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SpoilerTV (which is great for AoS discussions - there are lots of AoS fans there, and there are polls and comment threads and reviews of each new episode) has an interesting new poll:
What was your favorite chapter of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD seasons 1-4?
I like that it doesn't ask what is your favorite season, but divides seasons into 'chapters' - strings of episodes roughly covering an arc. So there's 3 chapters in season 1, 2 in season 2 and season 3, and 3 in season 4, and you can vote for 3 of your favorites.
I voted for 4C (the Framework!), 1C (Hydra!) and 3B (Hive).


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Like many of us, I spend an inordinate amount of time on planes, and over time, I have come to appreciate flying as a rare sanctum for reflection. One ritual in this sphere, the pre-flight safety demonstration, ranks among my favorite: It offers preparation and instruction for the unexpected, and highlights the service and amenities that accompany the journey.
Investing in nonprofit leadership development, as others in this series have shown, is a high-leverage strategy that can further the goals of any foundation. It is not a one-off, transactional proposition but a dynamic, iterative voyage. This piece offers a "pre-flight briefing" for foundations on (or curious about) this journey.
The Levi Strauss Foundation is carrying out a five-year initiative called Pioneers in Justice in our hometown of San Francisco—a cradle of innovation in civil rights and technology. We are supporting five nonprofit leaders who are shaping the next wave of social justice work as they use the power of social media and networks to advance their missions and movements. In June, we published a case study by Heather McLeod Grant on the initiative's textured results and lessons; recently she contributed a handy overview of her findings.
We have learned a tremendous amount about how to invest in leadership networks as a tool for transformative social change. Admittedly, this work can be kind of messy: It involves embracing both complexity and emergence, and doesn't lend itself to strict, linear thinking. But when it works, it serves as a potent "super-vitamin" for amplifying impact across multiple layers of the systems we seek to transform.
Here are some tips on how to prepare for a successful journey.
1. Expand the toolkit.
From the outset, it was clear that bolstering these leaders and organizations to drive meaningful change would call for approaches beyond traditional grantmaking, with its tangible sets of deliverables on fixed timelines. We embraced experimentation (knowing that some of the pasta wouldn't stick to the wall) and broadened our toolkit.
Of course, grants served as a vital starting point, both to build social media capacity and support experiments in breakthrough forms of collaboration—reaching across sector, field, and constituency, and mobilizing both trusted and "unlikely" allies. We hosted bimonthly "pioneers forums"—learning sessions that featured case studies, training, and guest speakers—knowing that amid their rigorous responsibilities, nonprofit leaders rarely have space to connect with peers, have frank discussions, and "peer around the corner" in anticipation of challenges facing the field. We supported a retreat by Rockwood Leadership Institute for three senior leaders (including one board member) from each organization.
We aimed to use all the leadership tools at our disposal—convener, organizer, relationship broker, listener, policy promoter, and knowledge disseminator. As Tessie Guillermo, CEO of ZeroDivide (a terrific partner in building the social media and communications prowess of these leaders) said, "This is part of a movement in philanthropy—a departure from traditional grantmaking toward change-making through a broader set of levers."
2. Broaden the time horizon.
As Bob Haas, president emeritus of our foundation, says: "One of the most difficult lessons in philanthropy is to be patient and stay committed—especially when the going gets tough."
When embarking on Pioneers in Justice, we recognized that to have an impact, we needed to go slow and deep. It was new for us to focus so intensively on five organizations. We also sensed that we needed a five-year timeline to show that fundamental change is possible through leaders' embrace of technology and networked collaboration.
Our conclusion: Long-term commitment, grounded in shared values and rigorous goal-setting, has its rewards. Commitment fosters honesty and intimacy. In turn, this fuels risk-taking and more expansive ambitions, such as these:
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice's Asian Law Caucus is leaping into the digital space to engage Asian Americans on challenging immigration issues; it aims to debunk mythologies of the "good" and "bad" immigrant to drive broader support for reform.
- National Center for Lesbian Rights and Equal Rights Advocates forged unprecedented ties with perhaps "unlikely" allies—including the Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office—for its Let Her Work campaign, which champions formerly incarcerated women.
- Chinese for Affirmative Action is serving as a backbone for the dynamic new network Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE). The network's members include a range of progressive community organizations, and it aims to serve as an inclusive home and ballast. AACRE offers shared back-office capabilities and spawns new kinds of collaboration—for instance, between marriage equality and prisoner reentry advocates.
No doubt, leaders cannot cultivate these kinds of innovative changes overnight.
3. Bring the worlds together.
Meaningful philanthropy requires outstanding partners. At our foundation, it has proven invaluable to forge direct connections between our board members and community partners. Through site visits and board sessions, we curate conversations that bring to life the challenges of change management and the standout leadership characteristics of our partners. (The book Forces for Good can be a powerful touchstone for these dialogues—in fact, our staff embraces its guiding principles to help identify game-changing leaders and propel impact across our strategies.)
This helps everyone discern the long-term lifecycle of change—warts and all. Our board understands that bad policies and egregious rights violations often trigger the issues and events of our day. These threats, however, may instigate a perfect storm of change if community leaders are deft, savvy, and tenacious enough to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves. We know that it is not possible to predict these circumstances or foster this spark of change in every instance; we embrace our role of providing patient capital and preparing our partners for these watershed moments.
For foundations, the journey to supporting nonprofit leadership may not be linear, or free of bumps and turbulence. But it comes with few risks and potentially lofty rewards—especially over the long haul. Finally, it's not an all-or-nothing proposition: Take any of these kernels of insight and apply them to enhance your journey.
Read an expanded version of this piece, with more pre-flight tips, here.


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Today, I feel positive. You know when you get stuck in a bit of an emotional rut and everything seems to be pretty crappy? Yeah, that. Sometimes it can be the biggest chore to pull yourself out of it, but with a little help from some wonderful people in my life (lovely fellow bloggers included) I'm starting to feel a bit more normal. And what better way to celebrate than with an outfit post. Haha. So smooth Megs, so smooth.
|Hat: Topshop. Jeans: Topshop. Blouse: C/O The Vintage Set. Bag: Vintage. Boots: H by Hudson. Belt: Vintage Lipstick: Topshop Infrared.
This outfit, albeit a bit country (which seems to be a regular choice for me?!), is I think slightly transitional. The days of bare legs and floaty dresses are done for this year and therefore it is time for jeans and a good pair of boots with woolly socks. Agreed? Good. And even though it's a little bit more chilly, there's still a wee bit of sunshine holding out. Which is why this shirt is so perfect. It's thin, floaty, pretty and simple, all of my favourite things in a garment; and I'm particularly fond of the collar.
Hope you all had a fabby weekend. Mine consisted of Photography homework, watching an Elvis impersonator and copious amounts of sewing. Bloody brilliant.


text: THe US indictment against alleged Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon reveals the IP addresses of attacked computers. The rap sheet against the suspected über-hacker contains the IP addresses of the Pentagon, US Air Force, and other Department of Defense servers he's accused of breaking into as part of an alleged quest to unraveling the truth about UFOs. These addresses are masked in a publically available PDF version of the indictment out of concerns their publication might invite further assaults. Except that, as Reg readers discovered, if you copy the PDF text into Acrobat Reader and then paste it into a text editor, the IP Addresses are unmasked and very-much readable. We only hope the hacked systems have now been hardened, preferably by nobody involved in the botched obfuscation job. McKinnon (AKA Solo), 39, of Wood Green, north London, allegedly hacked into 53 military and NASA computers over a 12 month period from February 2001 until March 2002. The unemployed sysadmin faces an extradition hearing at London's Bow Street Magistrates Court on 27 July, following his arrest early last month. ® Related links> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4071708.stm http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/hacking/story/0,10801,75833,00.html WHAT DO THE PEOPLE OF WILDERS THINK OF THIS GUY >RUTHLESS HACKER OR A GUY WHO FOUND FOUND AN OPEN DOOR AND JUST DECEIDED TO HAVE ALOOK


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|Louis J. Pearlman
|Birth name
|Louis Jay Pearlman
|Also known as
|Big Poppa[1]
Incognito Johnson.[2]
|June 19, 1954
Flushing, Queens, NY, U.S.
Boy band
confidence trickster (convicted)
|Years active
|Trans Continental Records
|Associated acts
|Backstreet Boys
Take 5
Jordan Knight
Aaron Carter
Smilez and Southstar
Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman (born June 19, 1954) is a former talent manager and impresario of 1990s boy bands the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, and was convicted in 2008 of conspiracy and money laundering. Both bands had been enormously successful, and Pearlman had always led a lavish lifestyle, but in 2006 it was discovered that Pearlman had perpetrated one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, leaving more than $300 million in debts. After getting caught on the run, and pleading guilty to conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding, Pearlman is now serving (up to) 25 years in a US federal prison.[3][4][5][6]
Pearlman was born and raised in Flushing, Queens, the only child of Jewish parents Hy, who ran a dry cleaning business and Reenie Pearlman, a school lunchroom aide. (Pearlman is the first cousin of Art Garfunkel, their mothers being sisters.) His home at Mitchell Gardens Apartments was located across from Flushing Airport, where he and childhood friend Alan Gross would watch blimps take off and land. According to Pearlman's autobiography, Bands, Brands and Billions, it was during this period that he used his position on his school newspaper to earn credentials and get his first ride in a blimp. (This version of events is disputed by Gross, who claims he was the school reporter, and allowed Pearlman to tag along.)[7][8]
His cousin Garfunkel's fame and wealth helped fire Pearlman's own interest in the music business. As a teenager he managed a band, but when success in music proved elusive, he turned his attention to aviation. During his first year as a student at Queens College, Pearlman wrote a business plan for a class project based on the idea of a helicopter taxi service in New York City. By the late 1970s, he had launched the business based on his business plan, starting with one helicopter.[9] He convinced German businessman Theodor Wüllenkemper to train him on blimps, and subsequently spent some time at Wüllenkemper's facilities in Germany learning about the airships.
Returning to the United States, Pearlman formed Airship Enterprises Ltd, which leased a blimp to Jordache before actually owning one. He used the funds from Jordache to construct a blimp, which promptly crashed. The two parties sued each other, and 7 years later Pearlman was awarded $2.5 million in damages. On the advice of a friend, Pearlman started a new company, Airship International, taking it public to raise the $3 million he needed to purchase a blimp, claiming (falsely) that he had a partnership with Wüllenkemper. He leased the blimp to McDonald's, for advertising.[10][8]
He then relocated Airship International to Orlando in July 1991, where he signed MetLife and Sea World as clients for his blimps. Airship International suffered when one of its clients left, and three of the aircraft crashed. The company's stock, once pumped up to $6 a share dropped to 3 cents and the company was shut down:[11][12]
After he took his air charter company, Airship International, public in 1985, Pearlman became personally and professionally close to Jerome Rosen, a partner at small-cap trading outfit Norbay Securities. Based in Bayside, Queens, and frequently in trouble with regulators, Norbay actively traded Airship stock. This sent Airship's stock price consistently higher, enabling Pearlman to sell hundreds of thousands of shares and warrants at ever-higher prices. However, Airship was reporting little revenue, cash flow or net income. In return for keeping his penny stock liquid, Pearlman allegedly paid Rosen handsome commissions, according to a mutual friend, that reached into 'the tens of thousands of dollars' per trade.[11]—Roddy Boyd, New York Post
Pearlman became fascinated with the success of the New Kids on the Block, who had made hundreds of millions of dollars in record, tour and merchandise sales. Thus he started Trans Continental Records with the intent of mimicking their boy-band business model. The label's first band, the Backstreet Boys, consisted of five unknown performers selected by Lou in a $3 million[13] talent search. Management duties were assigned to a former New Kids on the Block manager, Johnny Wright, and his wife Donna.[14] The Boys went on to sell 100 million albums worldwide,[15] hitting gold and platinum in 45 different countries. Pearlman and the Wrights then repeated this formula almost exactly with the band *NSync, which sold over 56 million records globally.
With these two major successes under his belt, Pearlman had become a music mogul. Other boy bands managed by Pearlman were O-Town (created during the ABC–MTV reality TV series Making the Band), LFO, Take 5, Natural, and US5. Other artists on the Trans Continental label included Aaron Carter, Jordan Knight, Smilez & Southstar and C-Note. Pearlman also owned a large entertainment complex in Orlando, including a recording studio he called Trans Continental Studios, and a dance studio by Disney World named "O-Town".[16]
With the exception of US5, all of the musical acts who have worked with Pearlman have sued him in Federal Court for misrepresentation and fraud. All cases against Pearlman have either been won by those who have brought lawsuits against him, or have been settled out of court. All cases have also ended with a confidentiality agreement, meaning none of the parties is allowed to discuss Pearlman's practices in detail.[8]
The members of Backstreet Boys were the first to file a lawsuit against Pearlman, feeling that their contract — under which Pearlman collected as both manager and producer — was unfair, since Pearlman was also paid as a sixth member of the Backstreet Boys (ie, one-sixth of the band's own income). The band's dissatisfaction began when member Brian Littrell hired a lawyer to determine why the group had received only $300,000 for all of their work, while Pearlman and his record company had made millions. Fellow boy band *NSYNC was having similar issues with Pearlman, and its members soon followed suit.[8]
At the age of 14, pop star Aaron Carter filed a lawsuit in 2002 that accused Pearlman and Trans Continental Records of cheating him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and of racketeering in a deliberate pattern of criminal activity. This suit was later settled out of court.[17]
In September 2002, Pearlman purchased Alec Defrawy's internet-based talent company, Options Talent Group f/k/a Sector Communications (previously named Emodel and Studio 58), which would then go through several names including Trans Continental Talent, TCT, Wilhelmina Scouting Network (WSN), Web Style Network, Fashion Rock and Talent Rock. Regardless of the name, all incarnations were based on the business model used by Emodel founder Ayman el Difrawi (aka Alec Defrawy), himself a convicted conman[18], who played a principal role in running Options / TCT / WSN and setting up Fashion Rock. The companies received unfavorable press attention, ranging from questions about their business practices to outright declarations that they were scams.[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
After Hotjobs and Monster.com pulled over a thousand of the company's job ads from their boards[27], they were further advertised on the Difrawi-founded[28] "Industry Magazine" website. The Better Business Bureau's opinion about Options / TCT / WSN was negative (a "pattern of complaints concerning misrepresentation in selling practices")[29]. The New York State Consumer Protection Board issued an alert, naming it the largest example they had found of a photo mill scam[30] (in which agencies force models to shoot portfolios with photographers on their own payrolls), and a State Senator called it trying "to make a quick, dishonest dollar"[31]
The San Francisco labor Commissioner declared it in violation of California law, and several state agencies were reported to be investigating.[32] In Florida, around 2,000 complaints were filed with the then-Attorney General Charlie Crist and the Better Business Bureau, and an investigation was started by Assistant AG Dowd. However, no charges were filed, as the newly appointed Assistant AG MacGregor was unable to find "any substantial violations" and the company had declared bankruptcy, "leaving no deep pockets to collect damages from."[33][34]
By June 2004, Fashion Rock, LLC had filed a civil suit for defamation against some who had criticized Pearlman's talent businesses and outed suspicions of bankruptcy fraud. The case was dismissed and closed in 2006.[35][36][37] One of the accused, Canadian consumer-fraud expert Les Henderson, successfully pursued a libel lawsuit against Pearlman, Tolner, El-Difrawi and several others.[38][39][40]
Fashion Rock, LLC lived on until February 2, 2007[41][42], when its assets were sold in Pearlman's bankruptcy proceeding.[43][44]
The November 2007 issue of Vanity Fair magazine reported claims of inappropriate sexual conduct made in interviews with several former and current boy band members, and male employees of Pearlman's. Many of the boys had lived in Lou's Florida mansion, where the inappropriate conduct was alleged to have taken place, but none was willing to come forward publicly, and no charges were ever filed. Backstreet Boy Nick Carter's mother, Jane Carter, told the magazine: "Certain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothers." She said, "I tried to expose him for what he was years ago".[8]
In 2006 investigators discovered Pearlman had perpetrated a long running Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of $300 million. For more than 20 years Pearlman enticed individuals and banks to invest in Trans Continental Airlines Travel Services Inc. and Trans Continental Airlines Inc., both of which existed only on paper.[45] Pearlman used falsified FDIC, AIG and Lloyd's of London documents to win investors' confidence in his "Employee Investment Savings Account" (E.I.S.A.) program and he used fake financial statements created by a fictitious accounting firm Cohen and Siegel to secure bank loans.[8]
In February 2007, Florida regulators announced that Pearlman's Trans Continental Savings Program was indeed a massive fraud and the state took possession of the company.[46] Most of the at least $95 million which was collected from investors was gone. Orange County Circuit Judge Renee Roche ordered Pearlman and two of his associates, Robert Fischetti and Michael Crudelle, to bring back to the United States "any assets taken abroad which were derived from illegal transactions."[47]
Following a brief flight from officials, Pearlman was arrested in Indonesia on June 14, 2007 after being spotted by a German tourist couple.[48] Pearlman was then indicted by a federal grand jury on June 27, 2007.[49] Specifically Pearlman was charged with three counts of bank fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud. On July 11, 2007 at a bond hearing, the Judge set a September 4, 2007 trial date in Federal Court for Pearlman on the bank fraud charges.[50] Pearlman requested, and was granted, a delay in the start of his trial. Pearlman's trial was then scheduled to begin on March 3, 2008.[51]
On May 21, 2008, Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy, money laundering, and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding. U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp gave Pearlman the chance to cut his prison time, by offering to reduce the sentence by one month for every million dollars he helps a bankruptcy trustee recover. He also ordered individual investors are to be paid before institutions in distributing any eventual assets.[52][53]
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Louis J. Pearlman (born 1954) is a con man (someone who tricks people into giving them money) from Flushing, Queens, New York, USA, and used to live in Orlando, Florida. He is now awaiting his trial in jail. [1]
Since September 2002, Louis Pearlman got into talent scouting (looking for people with talent) working with former criminal pasts, like Ayman Ahmed El Difrawi (aka Alec Defrawy) and David Elliott. [2], [3]
The New York State Consumer Protection Board did issue a consumer alert about WSN / TCT due to consumer complaints [4]. In Florida about 2000 complaints were filed with the Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau.
According to accusations by the State of Florida and several banks Pearlman's businesses were funded with money he borrowed from banks and stole from investors into his "Trans Continental Airlines Savings Program". The program was offering "high yield at no risk", and was presented as a way to participate in a special deal for Trans Continental Airlines employees. The authorities say that over 1,400 investor accounts (many from retirees) have been lost via Pearlman's massive Ponzi scheme, which used falsified FDIC documents to lure investors. Missing so far: $317 million and counting. Details


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|Woodjie loves Pokemon!
Singapore Math comes with a semester-long textbook and a workbook for each student. Right now, they're beginning Singapore Math 4A and when they are finished with that, it'll be time for 4B. It will take us a fair while to get through the books because most of it is not busywork. It's teacher-intensive and often needs a bit of explaining and classroom practice to be done well.
Usually I'll teach the concept from the textbook and go over the problems in the text with the children (using my dry erase board and bad drawings), and then allow them to do the workbook exercise on their own.
I'd highly recommend this curriculum for parents who want to actively teach their children each lesson themselves. If you're interested, I've reviewed it in a bit more detail previously when I used it to teach Emperor and Elf.
Wow, that was ages ago...


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The Department of Energy and Climate Change has announced a significant investment in energy infrastructure aimed at creating jobs and attracting investors.
Speaking on the initiative, Secretary of state Ed Davey said: "Our reforms will renew our electricity supply, attracting up to £110 billion investment in a mix of clean, secure power and demand reduction, and will support up to 250,000 jobs up and down the supply-chain."
What's more, the Capacity Market, which is to be initiated in 2014, is to expected to improve gas and other flexible electricity supply in order to meet future demands and cut risks to security of supply from winter 2018.
This will be achieved by attracting necessary investment in new and existing energy generation, in addition to other forms of capacity such as demand response.
Investment needed in face of power plants closures
The coalition acknowledged that it needed to put huge investment into energy infrastructure, with around a fifth of the UK's power plants set to close over the next ten years, and more closures scheduled after 2020.
Chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander and energy and climate change secretary Edward Davey today announced more details about the reforms.
It is hoped they will give developers and investors the confidence to stop holding back and progress with new projects.
The Energy Bill
Secretary of state Ed Davey underlined that the UK power market is vital to the economy, both in terms of investment opportunity and the scale of the infrastructure challenge.
"The Energy Bill is already progressing well through Parliament and received overwhelming cross-party backing at Commons' Third Reading."
Developers and investors have already been clamouring for more details, according to the minister.
He explained that the capacity market is designed to incentivise investment in new gas plants and other flexible capacity in order to maintain an adequate supply margin from 2018 onwards.
"Ofgem and National Grid will consult on possible steps they could take to ensure that mothballed power plant or demand response is available if needed in the middle of the decade," Mr Davey added.
"This will mean the public can continue to enjoy a reliable supply of electricity."
Strike prices
Speaking about the introduction of the Strike Prices for renewable technologies, the politician said that these are aiming to make the UK market one of the most attractive for developers of wind, wave, tidal, solar and other renewable technologies. At the same time, costs for consumers will be minimised.
Furthermore, this will help to boost home-grown sources of clean and secure energy, according to the expert. It will also enable the government to decarbonise the power sector, with renewables hoped to contribute more than 30 per cent to the mix by the end of the decade.
"Our reforms will keep the lights on and emissions down, and will save consumers money on their bills. The result – low-carbon, affordable and reliable power for the long term," Mr Davey said.
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text: Just finished a repaint of Onslaught in a similar style to the Jetfire I posted a while back. Again, I used Testors acrylic military flats for the base and accent colors, and flat enamel for the black wash. I wanted to make him look like a tough and battle hardened old soldier, so I put Decepticon "badges" on his shoulders and a big "tattoo" across his back. I also stuck on a few stickers I had left from a Zoid kit.