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"What Planet Are You From?" 2000 (director/producer)
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"As It Is In Heaven" tells the story of the historic Shaker community of Pleasant Hill, Ky., during a time of religious revival in the 1830s. The simple and harmonious Shaker lifestyle is threatened by young newcomers. Intergenerational conflict arises when the spiritual leaders must make difficult decisions to maintain peace within the community. While opening a window to the past, "As It Is In Heaven" serves as a commentary on the classic intergenerational struggle as both the old and young search for the best way to express their faith.
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FOR RECOVERY, WIPE OUT, SHRED, DELETE ALL DERIVATIVES J.P. Morgan Chase, therefore, performs no useful or productive social function, and there is absolutely no reason in the world why the people of the United States should want to bail out this pernicious and socially destructive institution. It has probably been several decades since J.P. Morgan Chase created a single modern productive job. J.P. Morgan Chase's strategic commitment in favor of the derivatives bubble means essentially that we can easily dispense with most of the functions of this self-styled "bank," really a casino. Instead of being bailed out, J.P. Morgan Chase ought therefore to be seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and put through chapter 11 bankruptcy. In the course of that bankruptcy reorganization, the entire derivatives book of J.P. Morgan Chase must be deleted, shredded, used as a Yule log, or employed to stoke a festive bonfire of the derivatives. The world did much better when there were no derivatives, and will get along just fine without them.
"There are some people who look with distrust upon 'printing press' or 'fiat' money. But they overlook one of the basic facts about money. It is true that we need a 'hard' money. But we should not make the mistake of associating 'hardness' with convertibility into gold. The essence of a hard money is not determined by the material of which it is composed -- or the material into which it is convertible. The essence of a hard money is that its supply is fairly stable and there are precise limits to it. In other words, gold itself is a comparatively hard money because the supply of gold is inelastic. Bank credit convertible into gold is a very soft money because it is elastic and there are no precise limits to its supply, i.e., it expands and contracts.
And a purely paper or 'fiat' money can be hard money if we set precise limits to its supply, or it can be a soft money if we set no limits to its supply."
"Soothing words about the effectiveness of 'government mechanisms' to deal with a liquidity crisis will not allay the fears of those who know its cause. There is only one thing that will allay those fears and that is to put our depository intermediaries on a sound basis. To do this we must convert the existing volume of bank credit into actual money and require banks to stop the unsound practice of borrowing short to lend long.
Modern-day Greenbackers, while having the highest regard for Congressman Paul's valiant one-man crusade, would no doubt debate the details; and one highly debatable detail is his assertion that it is the government that now has monopoly control over money, and it is the government that is counterfeiting the money supply. Greenbackers might say that the government should have monopoly control over money creation, but it doesnt. Wars are fought, not to preserve the dollars of the U.S. government, but to preserve the Federal Reserve Notes of a private banking cartel. It is this private cartel that has monopoly control over money, and its monopoly grew out of a shell game called "fractional reserve banking," which grew out of the very "gold standard" the Goldbugs seek to reinstate. We have been deluded into thinking that what is wrong with the system is that the government has a monopoly over creating the money supply. The government lost its monopoly when King George forbade the colonies from printing their own money in the eighteenth century. Banks have created most of the national money supply for most of our national history. The government itself must beg from this private cartel to get the money it needs; and it is this mounting debt to an elite class of banker-financiers, not profligate government spending on social goods, that has brought the United States and most other countries to the brink of bankruptcy. If Congress had used its Constitutional power to create money to fund its own operations, it would not have needed to pursue imperialistic foreign wars to extort money from its neighbors.
Today the Greenback supporters are erroneously presented as merely being pro-inflation or against sound money. What they really wanted was a more honest money system, controlled by government, instead of banks....
Is it accurate to say that this would entail wiping out the loan, the future, and all the money that exists due to the loan (velocity of money)? Would the original borrower get his money back or would the bank keep the down payment.
As some of you may already know, an airtight case could be made for invalidating virtually all bank loans on the ground that no "lawful consideration" was made on the part of the banks, since the "money" they offer as consideration for the borrower's promise to repay doesn't really exist. (Ellen Brown explains this more thoroughly here.)I oppose invalidating traditional bank loans, however, because doing so would cause the entire money supply to collapse and the economy along with it. That's where "converting the existing volume of bank credit into actual money having an existence independent of debt" (while simultaneously abolishing fractional reserve banking) comes in.Derivatives, however, are another story. Allow me to explain, as best I can, why derivatives contracts are more fraudulent -- and many times more parasitic and destructive -- than even fractional reserve lending, and why they should be invalidated accordingly.When a regular bank loan is made, the collateral-backed IOU offered by the borrower becomes an "asset" of the bank, while the money offered by the bank becomes an "asset" of the borrower. Granted, the so-called "money" offered by the bank doesn't even exist until the very moment the loan is extended, and even then exists only as a bookkeeping entry; but at least each party is going through the pretense of offering one legitimate financial asset as "lawful consideration" for another.Such is not the case with derivatives, because these are mere bets as to whether a given asset will go up in market value.Ellen Brown explains it this way (all emphasis original):
Furthermore, it sounds a bit ludicrous to arbitrarily (without a legal rationale) tear down J.P. Morgan Chase.
Do we really need more government intervention in the banking business? Havent they helped the bankers enough?
Who sets the limits? Government?
Congress does create money when it wants. It also creates as much as it wants.
Just because the money created is also debt doesnt change the fact that the government still creates money.
A monopoly of money by the government is even worse than a monopoly by the banks.
At least bankers comprehend economics.
Competition is the only solution.
In an earlier post to this thread I specifically said:What part of the above excerpt do you not understand?On the contrary, it sounds more than a bit ludicrous to blindly oppose "tearing down" these overprivileged, parasitic, derivatives-infected mega-banks considering that they are the ones who've been "tearing down" the U.S. economy for the past two years -- just as they've done to the economies of countless Third World nations:-------------------------------------The Third World War has already started -- a silent war, not for that reason any less sinister. This war is tearing down Brazil, Latin America and practically all the Third World. Instead of soldiers dying there are children, instead of millions of wounded there are millions of unemployed; instead of destruction of bridges there is the tearing down of factories, schools, hospitals, and entire economies
.It is a war over the foreign debt, one which has as its main weapon interest, a weapon more deadly than the atom bomb, more shattering than a laser beam.
-- Luis Ignacio Silva, as quoted on page 238 of A Fate Worse Than Debt by Susan Georgehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-is9t2BP7og (A pertinent clip from The Money Masters)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WstddMJZQ (Interview with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)-------------------------------------Like every other monetary flat-earther from the Austrian School I've encountered, you've got it completely backwards. It was the reduction of "government intervention" in the banking business that got us into this mess in the first place:
------------------------------------------http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10588Global Financial Meltdown: Sweeping Deregulation of the US Banking Systemby Michel ChossudovskyGlobal ResearchOctober 17, 2008The 1999 financial sector reforms had set the stage for the current financial crisis. "The 1999 legislation had repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, a pillar of President Roosevelts "New Deal" which was put in place in response to the climate of corruption, financial manipulation and "insider trading" which led to more than 5,000 bank failures in the years following the 1929 Wall Street crash. Effective control over the entire US financial services industry (including insurance companies, pension funds, securities companies, etc.) had been transferred to a handful of financial conglomerates which are also the creditors and shareholders of high tech companies, the defense industry, major oil and mining consortia, etc. Moreover, as underwriters of the public debt at federal, state and municipal levels, the financial giants have also reinforced their stranglehold on politicians, as well as their command over the conduct of public policy.Rather than taming financial markets in the wake of the storm, Washington was busy pushing through the US Senate legislation, which was to significantly increase the powers of the financial services giants and their associated hedge funds. Under the Financial Modernization Act adopted in November 1999, US lawmakers had set the stage for a sweeping deregulation of the US banking system.In the wake of lengthy negotiations, all regulatory restraints on Wall Streets powerful banking conglomerates were revoked "with a stroke of the pen". Under the new rules ratified by the US Senate and approved by President Clinton commercial banks, brokerage firms, hedge funds, institutional investors, pension funds and insurance companies can freely invest in each others businesses as well as fully integrate their financial operations.The "global financial supermarket" is to be overseen by the Wall Street giants; competing banking institutions are to be removed from the financial landscape. State level banks across America will be displaced or bought up, leading to a deadly string of bank failures. In turn, the supervisory powers of the Federal Reserve Board (which are increasingly under the direct dominion of Wall Street) have been significantly weakened."The following text reviews, in a historical context, the 1987, 1997 and 1998 stock market meltdowns. The article was written nine years ago in November 1999, following the adoption of the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act. It was subsequently published as a chapter in the Second Edition of The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003. Michel Chossudovsky, October 17, 2008See complete text below -------------------A new global financial environment has unfolded in several stages since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. The debt crisis of the early 1980s (broadly coinciding with the Reagan-Thatcher era) had unleashed a wave of corporate mergers, buy-outs and bankruptcies. These changes have, in turn, paved the way for the consolidation of a new generation of financiers clustered around the merchant banks, the institutional investors, stock brokerage firms, large insurance companies, etc. In this process, commercial banking functions have coalesced with those of the investment banks and stock brokers.While these "money managers" play a powerful role on financial markets, they are, however, increasingly removed from entrepreneurial functions in the real economy. Their activities (which often escape state regulation) include speculative transactions in commodity futures and derivatives, and the manipulation of currency markets. Major financial actors are routinely involved in "hot money deposits" in "the emerging markets" of Latin America and Southeast Asia, not to mention money laundering and the development of (specialized) "private banks" ("which advise wealthy clients") in the many offshore banking havens. Within this global financial web, money transits at high speed from one banking haven to the next in the intangible form of electronic transfers. "Legal" and "illegal" business activities have become increasingly intertwined, vast amounts of unreported private wealth have been accumulated. Favoured by financial deregulation, the criminal mafias have also expanded their role in the spheres of international banking.[Continued...]
Note: Lest silent onlookers misunderstand me, I'm not saying that government intervention is thus always a good thing. Far from it. Whether the law or policy measure in question is good or bad depends on a variety of factors, and so must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.As Robert De Fremery put it:"I distinguish sharply between the government's legitimate function of providing our country with an adequate supply of money and the banks' legitimate function of acting as financial intermediaries. Because we have allowed banks to interfere with the government's function, the government has been forced to interfere with the banks in a multitude of ways." -- Rights vs. Privileges, pp. 95-6Not in the sense that you mean. The reason many state governments have a "balanced budget" each year is not because state politicians balance it voluntarily, because they're required to by law.
Same principle here. What I advocate is making the money supply expansion rate a matter of law (by pegging it to objective criteria such as population growth and the general price level), that way it's not subject to the arbitrary dictates of either bankers or politicians.
False. If that were true, it wouldn't have to borrow it all the time from a private institution.Yes it does. The "Federal" Reserve is not part of the "government." http://www.themoneymasters.com/faqs.htm#q1Period. End of story. Get over it.
Wrong again, because if one leaves the power of money creation in the hands of private bankers, those bankers end up becoming the government:Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." -- attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England (appointed 1928)
Another laughable statement that only an Austrian Schooler could make, particularly in view of who created a derivatives bubble that dwarfs the annual productive output of the entire planet: http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/its_the_derivatives.phpThis is yet another Austrian School mantra, and here's the fatal flaw that those who parrot it either cannot or will not see: once the government declares commodity-backed currencies A, B & C good for the payment of taxes and commodity-backed currencies X, Y & Z not good for such payment, then automatically the value that the former three have relative to the latter will be based in large measure on government "fiat," thereby discrediting the Austrian School's fairy-tale notion of their value being determined entirely (or even primarily) by the "free market."http://www.monetary.org/goldnewsletter.htm
I really wish you would have attempted to respond to my inquiry, but I will have to assume either A. you don't really understand what you're talking about or B. you refuse to counter my refutations because you cannot.
I don't blindly oppose anything, but I do oppose someone supporting an illegal dismantling of an organization if that organization didn't break any laws.
I never once gave an indication that I was an Austrian school advocate. Sorry, but I was giving my own opinions. I don't agree with the current Austrian beliefs either.
I don't completely agree nor disagree with this article, but it's obvious the government has as much responsibility in this crash as the banks do, which is implied in this article via deregulation.
Right, because no one is going to buy state treasury bonds, because the Federal Government has all the real assets. That, and the states don't create money.
Right, and back to the question you completely ignored "why would the government be inclined to make such a law in the first place?"
The government has never been able to restrain itself when it comes to money or anything else for that matter.
Ok, maybe you don't quite understand how money is created.
The government literally prints money when they need it,
I'm not sure what's worse: international bankers colluding with the government, or the government running it themselves.
A Monopoly of money is the worst kind of monopoly.
Schacht is telling us that the excessive speculation against the mark -- the short selling of the mark -- was financed by lavish loans from the private Reichsbank. The margin requirements that the anti-mark speculators needed and without which they could not have attacked the mark was provided by the private Reichsbank! ....Thus it was a privately owned and privately controlled central bank, that made loans to private speculators, enabling them to speculate against the nation's currency. Whatever other pressures the currency faced (and they were substantial), such speculation helped create a one way market down for the Reichsmark. Soon a continuous panic set in, and not just speculators, but everyone else had to do what they could to get out of their marks, further fueling the disaster. This private factor has been largely unknown in America.-- Stephen Zarlenga, The Lost Science of Money
Let's not forget that the constitution points to gold AND silver as lawful money.
Quote from: trailhound on April 09, 2010, 11:53:03 amLet's not forget that the constitution points to gold AND silver as lawful money.QFT!
Let's not forget that the constitution points to gold AND silver as lawful money.
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Los Angeles, Calif. - The 10th ranked Santa Clara Broncos men's soccer team captured its first West Coast Conference championship since 2003 on Sunday with a 2-0 road win over Loyola Marymount. The Broncos' win at Sullivan Field coupled with San Francisco's loss to Gonzaga Sunday clinched the championship for SCU. Senior Keith DeVey and sophomore Jide Ogunbiyi scored second-half goals to give Santa Clara the win. The win also gives Santa Clara (11-3-4, 7-1-2 in WCC) an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament, which begins in two weeks.
Santa Clara has won four games in a row and now has an eight-game unbeaten streak, posting a 6-0-2 record in that span. The unbeaten streak began following a loss on Sept. 29 to the same Loyola Marymount squad that the Broncos defeated Sunday. The win snapped a three-game losing streak against the Lions as well.
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[Editor's note: While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we're revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published August 10, 2011.] Earlier this summer, a shocking number of our readers flocked to read (and amend) our list of the harshest author-on-author insults in history. But you know who is even more childish, trifling, vindictive, and nasty than your favorite scribes? Your favorite filmmakers. These directors may not have quite the same precision with the written word as those rancorous authors, but when it comes to pettiness, they can't be beat. After the jump, we'll run down 30 of our favorite slights, slanders, and cheap shots from filmmakers both classic and contemporary; we'd love to hear yours in the comments.
1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni:
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text: Submitted by Bess on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 5:33pm Most people consider giving birth with an OBGYN to be the "safe" choice, but having your baby with a midwife has gone from a crunchy alternative decision to relatively mainstream now. This cultural shift has come from women wanting more control over their births and becoming more educated about their choices. While midwives are becoming a more popular birth choice among a growing number of women, there are still many misconceptions and fear about giving births with midwives. In this post, we give the basic facts about midwives and information about how to find a midwife in New York City. Ricki Lake has also been an outspoken proponent of midwives in her informative documentary, The Business of Being Born, which takes a closer look at how the medical industry has shaped the way women give birth. This film is a must-see for anyone considering having a baby (even if you are not considering using a midwife) as it will help you make informed decisions and give you insight into how choosing your practitioner can affect the outcome and experience of your birth. What is a Midwife? Midwives are trained practitioners who do a whole range of well woman care, including attending labor and deliveries. There are two recognized types of midwives in the United States: Direct Entry Midwives (DEM) and Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM). There are some significant differences between the two types of midwives, so read on. Direct Entry MidwifesIt's a little hard to get a handle on DEMs, because it's a new field, without standards of education. Even more confusing, some DEMs get certified and become Certified Midwifes (CM) which is a good education but not the same as a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). An interesting aspect of DEMs is that they enter the field through apprenticeships and community-based programs or allied fields, and often offer sliding scales. Not all states cover DEMs but some insurance does cover them. DEM's are mostly used for home births. If you are considering using a CM or a DEM they should answer all your questions about their training, experience and explain how they are the same or different than their colleagues. Certified Nurse MidwifeComparably, it is easy to understand the training of a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) because it is standardized. A CNM has graduated from an accredited nursing program and also undertaken graduate studies in a midwifery program. CNMs must pass a national exam (their "boards," if you will) and are licensed and registered by a State Board of Midwifery. CNMs do almost everything a OBGYN does such as write prescriptions, labor and delivery and give gynecological exams etc. so you can go to a CNM even if you are not pregnant. In terms of labor and delivery, midwives differ from obstetricians in that they do not do surgery. So if you've working with a midwife and you need a cesarean section, a doctor will take over your care during the labor to perform the operation. Nevertheless, midwives tend to stick around (continuous support is one of the things that distinguishes a midwife from other practitioners) so expect her to see you through to the end. You should also know that midfives do not manage high risk problems and will refer you to a doctor if complications arise during the pregnancy. CNMs work in a variety of settings, such as private practice, a physician's practice, hospitals, clinics, birth centers, and health departments. Some may attend home births. All states mandate Medicaid reimbursement and most require private insurance reimbursement for nurse-midwifery services. By law midwives must have a written practice agreement with a collaborating physician. Some of the reasons to choose to give birth with a midwife are because they have excellent medical training in child birth procedures, focus on empowering the woman in her birth and promote birth as a normal process. Studies show that outcomes are the same as physician-attended births in terms of health of the baby and the mother. What's the difference between a midwife and an OBGYN? While no generalization fits all, obstetricians and midwives tend to have different philosophical views on birth, which can have an impact on your care. OBGYNs tend to treat pregnancy as a medical condition and birth as a procedure. They will focus largely on preventing and dealing with unlikely, but potentially life threatening problems. Midwives tend to treat pregnancy and birth as a special, but normal, life event and focus on making birth a positive experience for the mother. Do I have to have natural childbirth if I use a midwife? No. Your midwife is trained to and should support the birth experience you want to have. If you are planning on having pain relief you can discuss this with your midwife from the start and plan a hospital birth with pain relief. Can I give birth in a hospital with a midwife? Yes, but you must use a midwife that has hospital privileges. Start by looking at the listings below for a midwifery practice that is affiliated with a birthing center or hospital and ask them what their procedures are. What happens if something goes wrong? All midwife practices are supposed to have OBGYNs that they work with who can be available in the event they are needed during a birth. Unfortunately, some midwives don't. When interviewing midwives make sure to ask them about their medical support and relationships with area hospitals. If you are giving birth in a stand alone birthing center or at home you will want a midwife who will be able to stay with you and who has a doctor on call in the event that you have to go to the hospital. Will my insurance cover my birth with a midwife? Most insurance policies cover birth with midwives and many midwifery practices take various insurance policies, just like your doctor. Finding a Midwife in New York CityBelow we've listed the larger midwifery practices we know about in the tri state area but your family physician or OB/GYN can refer you to a midwife as well. In addition, the Assocaition of Certifed Nurse Midwives has a 24-hour toll-free number that provides the names of ACNM certified midwives, sorted by zip code: 1.888.MIDWIFE (1 888 643 9433).or look online at www.midwife.org/find.cfm. NYC Area Midwives and Midwifery PracticesSome midwives generally do home births others generally assist births in a birthing center or hospital. Birthing Center Midwives Beverly Woodard, CNM 646-638-9388 Bluebird Midwifery (St. Vincent's) 718-855-8885 Central Park Midwifery Georgia Rose, CNM and Elaine Keller-Duemig Delivers at Roosevelt hospital and birthing center 212-531-2229 Christiane McCloskey, CNM 646-530 3514 Clementine Midwifery Stacey Rees, CNM and Abby Howe-Heyman, CNM 646-519-7209 Community Midwifery (home birth and St. Vincent's) Joan Bryson, CNM 718-788-0595 Karen Jefferson, CM 718-230 4789 Maureen Rayson CNM 646-230-7708 Midwifery of Manhattan (Roosevelt's birthing center) Slyvie Blaustein 212-957-3006 Nurse Midwifery Associates 718-486-7374 Park Slope Midwives (NY Methodist Hospital) firstname.lastname@example.com CBS Midwifery (Roosevelt's birthing center) 212-366-4699 Tioma Allison, CNM 917-497-3529 Baldwin Midwifery Service (home birth and St. Vincent's birthing center) Jeanette Breen 516-223-1251 Home Birth MIdwives Cara Muhlhan, CNM 212-388-1837 Miriam Schwarzschild, CNM 718-369-0769 Kristen Leonard, CNM email@example.com Marcy Perlman Tardio, CNM firstname.lastname@example.com Birthing Wise Homebirth Service, Inc. 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In this week's TIME cover story, "One a Day" (available to subscribers here), journalists Mark Thompson and Nancy Gibbs explore why suicides among the U.S. military have reached crisis levels. Every day, one active-duty …
Is This Teen Angst or an Uncontrollable Anger Disorder?
With all those raging hormones, every teenager is bound to "lose it" at one time or another. But a recent study suggests that adolescents' attacks of anger may indicate something more serious than your standard puberty-related mood swings
Cute Overload: Can Watching a Puppycam Improve Your Motor Skills?
Given the undying popularity of kitten, puppy and baby videos on the Web, it might be worth asking, Does exposure to so much cuteness affect our behavior?
Baboon Study Shows Why High Social Status Boosts Health
Ranking high in the social hierarchy is a good predictor of robust health — in both monkeys and humans.
Why We Talk About Ourselves: The Brain Likes It
Science has now proved what kindergarten teachers, reality-show fans and Catholic priests discover anew every day: humans can't help talking about themselves. It just feels too good.
Your Drive to Compete May Come Down to Dopamine
Are you the kind of person who is always "on," constantly driven to achieve? Or are you more of a slacker type, less motivated by the promise of material reward?
'Shock' School Trial: Where Is the Evidence that Abuse Helps Treat Autism?
The video is brutal: a young man, pinned face down in four-point restraints, receiving 31 electric shocks over the course of several hours that convulse his body with pain. But this is not Guantánamo or Syria.
Shhh! Genius at Work
In this week's issue of TIME, we explain why the brain does its most creative work while you're asleep. Subscribers can read the full story here.
Why Republicans and Democrats Can't Feel Each Other's Pain
A new study shows why empathy doesn't cross the political aisle.
Mom's Exposure to Air Pollution Can Increase Kids' Behavior Problems
Prenatal exposure to pollutants in city air is linked to later anxiety, depression and behavior problems in children.
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It's counterintuitive, but under stress we tend to focus more on the rewards than on the risks of any decision.
Do Snoring Babies Become Troubled Children?
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The Ten Best Corporate Citizens Awards 2007, a gala CSR awards ceremony organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), was held on November 29, 2007 at the Oak Room of the Cinnamon Grand Hotel.
This event was sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Sri Lanka and held in association with The World Conservation Union (IUCN) for the second year in succession. The objectives of these awards were to recognize efforts of the corporate sector in the context of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to create a healthy competitive setting for promoting and encouraging CSR practices amongst the corporate sector. The awards were reviewed under five existing categories: Environment, Community Relations and Society, Employee Relations, Customer Relations, Economic Performance and a new category of Special Projects.
Mrs. Shiranee Yasaratne, IUCN Sri Lanka Country Representative was one of the adjudicators on the panel of judges. There were awards given for overall performance on all five categories with John Keels Holdings winning the best corporate citizens award with Nestle Sri Lanka and Sampath Bank bagging the first runner up and second runner up awards respectively. The special projects awards for disaster relief and health and nutrition were won by IUCN's corporate partners, viz., Holcim Lanka and Dilmah Tea respectively. In addition, Holcim Lanka also received the Best Corporate Citizens Award under the environmental category.
The Chief Guest for the event, Honourable Professor G.L. Peiris, Minister of Export Development and International Trade, speaking at the event emphasised the importance of businesses contributing towards environmental conservation objectives including addressing climate change impacts. The keynote speaker for the evening, Dr. J.J. Irani, former Managing Director Tata Steel and currently Director, Tata Sons shared the Tata Group's experience with the concept of corporate sustainability as opposed to CSR. IUCN was proud to be associated with this prestigious event as it added impetus to the need for greening of businesses in Sri Lanka and working towards a triple bottom line scenario.


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Despite the most salary cap room in the NFL, the Raiders declined to use the franchise tag Monday on either left tackle Jared Veldheer or defensive end Lamarr Houston.
When the 1 p.m. deadline (PST) came and went, Veldheer and Houston were five days away from being able to negotiate with other teams for their services.;
The Raiders have more than $66 million available under a cap projected at just over $133 million. A one-year tag on Veldheer would have cost the Raiders $11.6 million, while keeping Houston as a franchise player would have cost $13.1 million.
Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie said following the season he would use the franchise tag if necessary but preferred to work out long-term deals with club wanted in its future.
Although the free agency period begins March 11, agents for players can begin soliciting offers from other teams on Saturday, potentially driving up the price. Players cannot sign during that three-day window, which was instituted by the NFL this season to try and limit tampering.
Veldheer missed the first 12 games of the 2013 season following surgery to repair a torn left triceps. He has stated on numerous occasions he wants to remain with the Raiders and be part of the building process.
Houston, considered a leader by example and a versatile lineman who can play inside and outside, said following the season he thought it might be time to move on but coach Dennis Allen and McKenzie have both said they would like to keep him on the roster.
Despite just six sacks last season, Houston's market value was enhanced when two coveted defensive ends _Greg Hardy of Carolina and Brian Orakpo of Washington _ were given franchise tags by their teams.
Veldheer was a third-round draft pick out of Division II Hillsdale in 2010 and Houston arrived in the second-round out of Texas that same season.
Other Raiders who are free to negotiate with other teams Saturday if they have not been re-signed include running backs Rashad Jennings and Darren McFadden, defensive tackle Vance Walker, safety Charles Woodson, cornerbacks Mike Jenkins and Tracy Porter, wide receiver Jacoby Ford, defensive end Jason Hunter, safety Usama Young, cornerback Phillip Adams, tight end Jeron Mastrud, guard-center Andre Gurode, tackle Tony Pashos and defensive tackle Daniel Muir.


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Weather-Related Crashes Turn Deadly on Mo. Roads
CAMDENTON (AP) - Wintry weather has contributed to four deadly crashes on Missouri roads in two days.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says one person died Friday morning in Camden County when a vehicle crashed into a minivan after sliding on ice. Later Friday morning in Phelps County, a second person died when a car lost control on an icy road and overturned.
A third person died around noon Friday in Franklin County when a vehicle lost control on an ice-covered bridge and veered into oncoming traffic. The fourth victim died Saturday morning in Henry County when a pickup truck began sliding and hit a tree.
The patrol identified the victims as 42-year-old Karla Brown of Camdenton, 16-year-old Charity Adams of Licking, 23-year-old Whitney Gabathuler of Herman and 80-year-old William Dulaban of Deepwater.


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UD graduate students share agronomic research at open house
University of Delaware graduate students at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources were featured speakers at a recent fruit and vegetable open house held at the Elbert N. & Ann V. Carvel Research and Education Center in Georgetown. Held on August 14, 2013, the tour was co-sponsored Delaware Cooperative Extension and the Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association of Delaware (FVGAD). Research stemming from grants obtained by the University of Delaware – a five-year, $1.5 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant on lima beans, and two USDA Specialty Block Grants, which seek to find alternative fruit crops for the First State – provided an opportunity for local growers to observe the research in progress, listen to updates on both the challenges and progress of fruit and vegetable crops that are grown in Delaware, and what crops, such as wine and table grapes, are being considered as a future agronomic crop in the First State. Gordon Johnson, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences and Extension fruit and vegetable specialist serves as graduate adviser to Philip Sylvester, Kristina Smith, Harwinder Singh Sidhu, Andrew Kness and Donald Seifrit. Each participated in the tour and provided details of their current research to invited growers and industry professionals. "Our graduate students provide the means by which more industry research can be conducted while they pursue their education," Johnson said. Together, Extension researchers and graduate students will research critical pest and disease issues in lima beans and produce tools to help the industry further manage these issues, Johnson said. The graduate students are assisted by Heather Baker, research associate with the college. Phil Sylvester The objective of Sylvester's current project is to evaluate alternative control measures for root knot nematodes in lima beans. Root-knot nematodes are microscopic roundworms that can cause significant damage to the root system resulting in yield loss. Alternative controls in the project include biological control organisms, compost amendments, and the use of biofumigant mustard and sorghum species incorporated immediately ahead of planting. Microplots were established in Georgetown at the University of Delaware Research and Education Center to evaluate biological control organisms and an alternative chemical treatment. Small scale field plots were established in Salisbury at the University of Maryland Lower Eastern Shore Research and Education Center to evaluate compost amendments and the biofumigants species. Sylvester is the agriculture Extension agent in Kent County and is editor of the Kent County Agricultural Extension Blog. Kristina Smith Kristina Smith is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware. Smith's studies are aimed at better understanding the spread of, and early detection of the Root-knot nematode within the lima bean fields of southern Delaware. The Root-knot nematode is a microscopic round worm capable of causing significant yield reductions within a variety of economically important crops. Smith's research is conducted on eight different farms, at approximately 40 acres per farm. Smith's focus is on the epidemiology of the Root-knot nematodes, how and why it presents itself in the lima bean crop. Harwinder Singh Sidhu Harwinder Singh Sidhu is a Ph.D. candidate whose work focuses on pod blight of lima beans caused by Phytophthora capsici. There are three primary objectives of his research. First, fields of lima beans, watermelons, cucumbers, and other host crops will be scouted for isolates ofP. capsici. Secondly the surface water irrigation sources such as ponds, and streams will be baited for P. capsici. All the isolates collected from crops, and irrigation water sources will be characterized on the basis of mating types, mefenoxam (fungicide) sensitivity, and molecular markers. Third objective of the research is to study disease epidemiology. This will include various field abiotic parameters (weather and topography) that might influence pathogen outbreak and disease progress. These observations will be used to develop a model which will be tested for predicting future disease outbreaks. Andrew Kness Phytophthora capsici is a fungus-like pathogen of over 50 crop species worldwide, one of them being the lima bean. P. capsici was first discovered as a pathogen of lima bean in Delaware in 2000. Since then, it has spread throughout the state and the Delmarva Peninsula. The pathogen is particularly aggressive during years of heavy rainfall as soil moisture and plant wetness facilitate infection. Mefenoxam, a class of synthetic fungicides, is the only fungicide currently registered for use against P. capsici on lima bean, and has been routinely applied for protection against infection. Repeated applications of mefanoxam fungicides over the years has led to the development of resistant populations of P. capsici to this fungicide. Kness's research seeks to identify new classes of fungicides with efficacy towards P. capsici in an attempt to get new fungicides registered for use against P. capsici on lima beans in Delaware. This will allow farmers to rotate fungicides, significantly retarding the development of resistant populations. In addition to fungicides, he hopes to identify alternative control practices through cultural and biological control agents. The former includes testing the affect of a no-till cropping system on P. capsici disease development, and the latter includes various biological soil inoculants which have the potential to parasitizeP. capsici spores in the soil and biofumigation crops such as mustard and sorghum which have soil fumigation properties. Kness was a 2012 Extension Scholar at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources along with classmate Donald Seifrit. Donald Seifrit Like his classmate Andy Kness, Donald Seifrit, is pursuing his master's degree after graduating from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in 2012. He works closely with Johnson under the USDA Specialty Block Grants. Seifrit's focus is on improving the fruit set and crown set in watermelons. Seifrit analyzes the pollen production of different pollenizers and collects pollen by hand, distributing the pollen, also by hand to other watermelons in the trial. According to the Delaware Department of Agriculture, Delaware produces 100 million pounds per year, and local growers shipped $13.6 million worth of watermelon, grown on approximately 2, 800 acres. "A healthy, full sized triploid watermelon plant will normally carry 2-3 fruits at a time." Johnson wrote in a recent issue for UD's Weekly Crop Update. A healthy watermelon will produce more flowers than will set as fruit. Johnson writes that failure to set fruit is directly related to pollen issues caused by weather, and lack of honeybee activity. In 2013, watermelons fields lost significant pollenizer plants, resulting in reduced fruit set or fruit size. Seifrit's research continues to look at alternative methods of pollenation. The open house also highlighted productivity results of commercially growing crops and specialty fruits and vegetables not currently in widespread production, such as table and wine grapes, blueberries, onions, and brambles such as blackberries. On Aug. 21, a second open house tour was held at the Bridgeville location of T.S. Smith and Sons, UD's Specialty Block Grant partner. In their joint effort, Charlie Smith and Johnson discussed ways to extend the growing season for crops like strawberries and evaluate fruits not normally grown as a production crop in Delaware- sweet cherries, quince, pawpaws, and figs. Over two years, Johnson will have six acres as his research canvas on Smith's farm, with UD's portion of the grant centering on figs, cherries and strawberries. Two California strawberry varieties, Albion and San Andreas show promise in Delaware beyond the traditional April to June growing season. At this six-acre site, 2,000 pounds of strawberries were harvested by June. By mid to late summer, local strawberry production shuts down. To extend the growing season beyond June, strawberries must be protected once temperatures remain at 84 degrees or above. As growers watched, Johnson quickly placed aluminum stakes along the row and effortlessly rolled the protective covers along the strawberry beds, creating a low tunnel. Johnson will closely look at the reflective and protective properties of the white, dark grey, silver and red plastic mesh. Johnson is interested in the effect the covers will have on fruit growth and their overall value as a tool to extend the growing season. "We are looking for what we can do to complement the tourist trade," Johnson said. "The market is there, we just need the berries." Throughout the growing season, UD researchers and Cooperative Extension experts schedule a variety of field tours for growers, colleagues and industry professionals at various locations. Topics such as organic farming, weed control, crop rotation, agronomic crop trials, and ornamental horticulture, provide a valuable opportunity for UD experts to engage with stakeholders in Delaware agriculture. Click here for additional photos of the August 14 Fruit and Vegetable Open House andAugust 21 tour of UD's partnership with T.S.Smith and Sons. Photos by Michele Walfred


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Back when Ruby Miller was a student at Morenci High School in the early 1920s, there was an older girl who sat in the row across from her in study hall named Delora Fletcher.
That girl—now Delora Ehlinger—turned 100 years old in 2005.
That means it's time for the younger classmate to take her turn celebrating the century mark.
Friday is Ruby Miller's big day.
Ruby was born in Hillsdale in 1907, but the family soon moved to Morenci. Other than when she followed her husband, Blair, around to various locations while he was in the Navy, Morenci was always home to Ruby.
She attended Davis Business College in Toledo and landed a job with the school as secretary to Morenci superintendent Henry Geisler. Retiring from that job didn't mark the end of her working days. She served as a part-time secretary at Harlo Wells' insurance agency until her mid-70s.
Ruby and Blair first had a home built for them on Orchard Street. This is where they raised their two daughters, Lucy and Jane, who both graduated from Morenci High School.
Later, as the west end of Morenci was developed, the Millers moved into a ranch home on Chestnut Street. Long after Blair's untimely death, Ruby moved into an apartment in the York Hills II senior complex.
Ruby's birthday was always just Dec. 7 until 1941. Then, of course, it was always associated with the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Dad was in the service then," said Ruby's daughter, Lucy Brown, "and it was a very uneasy time."
Blair was serving in the Atlantic Ocean at the time, but the war brought worries to many parts of the globe.
In honor of her husband's service, Ruby has crocheted hundreds of lap afghans for the Veterans Hospital in Ann Arbor.
"I'll bet she's done a thousand," Lucy said.
For years, Ruby created 30 to 40 over the winter and two or three dozen more during the summer.
She's also donated many afghans to the Chelsea Methodist Home.


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Never before has the American business owner had to manage a workforce consisting of employees whose ages span five generations. And because each generation is unique, your company's leadership team is left with the impossible task of adopting a management style to accommodate an incredibly diverse workforce.
Listen To: Mastering The Un-Manageable Magic Of Millennials
Today, an effective management team is required to be fluent in a traditional management style to accommodate the Baby Boomers while adopting an effective hands-off approach to appease the up-and-coming Millennials and a variety of other techniques to motivate and inspire the workers who fall somewhere in the generational middle ground. AND all of this has to be done effortlessly. …
You're probably wondering if all this extra work to understand the generational differences of today's workforce even really matters. If so, worry no longer – it does matter, a lot. Here's why:
Marketplace Competition
The marketplace is changing and in order for your business to stay competitive, you have to be fast and agile. Who knows how to do this better than the Millennials? When I was growing up, if I wanted to make a purchase, I had to drive to the store and browse the aisles before making a purchase. Today, all the consumer has to do is pull out the smartphone, browse the products, read reviews and buy the product – and this whole transaction happens very, very quickly.
Employee Retention
A lot of businesses are having a real problem when it comes to employee retention. Companies that are not willing to adjust to their employee's needs are going to have a difficult time retaining them for a significant period of time. Rather than try to fit a square peg into a round hole, your business might have more luck keeping that star employee around if you were to adopt a different management style. Otherwise, be prepared for the company rock star to look for employment elsewhere.
Improved Productivity
Millennials have already changed the way business is conducted in America, and we're only getting started. One of the most extreme changes we have seen centers around the productivity of the younger generation. A lot of times we will hear that they are unwilling to get to work at 8 a.m. or that, when they do get to work, they are rarely focused on just one task. To the older generations, this can be frustrating because it flies in the face of the traditional workstyle. However, when the business can harness the unique skills and dedication of the younger generations, business owners are bound to see the productivity of these employees significantly improve.
Pat Porter talks a lot about how businesses can make since of an increasingly diverse workforce on episode 29 of unsuitable on Rea Radio. You can listen to the episode, Mastering the Un-Manageable Magic of Millennials" by clicking play on the media player below, or you can visit the episode's webpage to listen and tap into some other great resources to help you along. And, of course, you can always email Rea & Associates for even more, specific tips and insight.
By Renee West, SHRM-CD, PHR (New Philadelphia office)
Are you looking for some more HR insight to help your business? Check out these articles for some helpful advice:
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Bucknell Student Health Service provides the best health care possible in a manner that is competent, current, compassionate, confidential, timely, and in an atmosphere of mutual responsibility without regard to race, gender, ethnic heritage, or sexual orientation
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Located in Rm 47 of the Langone Center, the CAP Center (Campus Activities and Programs) provides a vast array of entertainment and activities designed to complement life outside the classroom and make one's overall experience at Bucknell a positive one.
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The Greek-letter community focuses its efforts on community service, philanthropy, and educational programming.
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Housing Services is committed to delivering quality service that compliments the development of students in their residential living experience. We educate student leaders and empower them to create and mentor a community.
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International Student Services (ISS) meets the unique needs of international students as they adjust to life at Bucknell in order to help them feel more comfortable and confident in becoming members of the campus community.
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The Office of LGBTQ Resources is committed to making Bucknell a safe place for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
Multicultural Student Services
The Office of Multicultural Student Services (MSS) is dedicated to developing healthy perspectives of cultural differences through educational and social programs and activities.
New Student Orientation
The New Student Orientation Program is an extensive five-day program that focuses on scholarship, tradition and community.
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Students living off-campus are encouraged to assume responsibility for their experience and be respectful students.
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Outdoor Education and Leadership programs develop student leadership, group dynamics, and environmental stewardship while offering a conduit for students and academics to connect our natural areas.
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Spiritual and religious growth and development are, for many Bucknellians, a critical part of educational achievement. Growth in spirit can mean finding new depths in ancient traditions, discovering purpose through service to others, and building community through shared values.
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The Emerging Leaders program and the Student leadership Institute are two programs coordinated by Residential Education that promote personal growth and leadership development, and educated and challenge Bucknell students.
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As a "Student Focused" Center, DCMME strives to provide our students with opportunities that will further their education and increase their engagement with other students, faculty, and industry. DCMME offers two student competitions throughout the year including the DCMME Student Summer Internship Poster Competition and the GSCMI Undergraduate and Graduate Case Competition.
The Student Summer Internship Poster Competition is a fun and informative student event held in conjunction with the annual fall operations conference. This lively "speed dating" formatted competition was created to benefit industry visitors as well as students. Read more about this event here.
In conjunction with the GSCMI Spring Conference, the Centers also sponsor an undergraduate and a graduate student case competition. The competitions, jointly organized by student leaderships from Operations & Supply Chain Organization (OSCO) and the Krannert Operations Club (KOC), aim to provide students with opportunities to transfer their classroom learning to practical problems and demonstrate their capability to an industry judge panel. Read more about the GSCMI Case Competition here.


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The television production of the 2011 Hope College Christmas Vespers service has received recognition in the 18th Annual Communicator Awards program of the International Academy of the Visual Arts and has also been nominated for two Michigan Emmy Awards.
The program, produced by WGVU-TV in Grand Rapids in cooperation with the department of music at Hope, received an "Award of Excellence" in the Video category in the 18th Annual Communicator Awards. It has also been nominated in the categories of "Special Event Coverage (other than News or Sports)" and "Director-Live or Live to Tape" in the 34th Emmy Award program of the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The 2011 Christmas Vespers television program was produced, directed and edited by Phil Lane, production manager at WGVU. Dr. Brad Richmond, professor of music and director of choral activities at Hope, was artistic director of the 2011 Vespers.
Christmas Vespers has been held at Hope College since 1941. The program of Christmas carols and anthems is presented by the college's department of music and features more than 200 students in historic Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The service was first broadcast on WGVU in 1994 and is now filmed every two or three years.
The productions have earned multiple awards through the years. The 2008 production won three awards, including a Second Place Silver Screen Award in the Arts: Music category from the U.S. International Film & Video Festival's 42nd Annual Awards Competition; an Award of Distinction in the Arts category in the Videographer Awards competition; and a Bronze Award in the 30th annual Telly Awards competition. The 2006 production won an Award of Excellence in the 2007 Videographer Awards; a Silver Award in the 2007 Millennium Awards; and a Best Arts-Local Release Award in the 2007 Gabriel Awards. The 2004 production won a 2005 Michigan Emmy Award for Multiple Camera Field Directing, and Honorable Mention in the 2005 Videographer Awards.
The 2011 services were held on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3-4. The WGVU production was made available to PBS affiliates nationwide for presentation during the holiday season.
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals, and is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interact and audio. This year's Communicator Awards received thousands of entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The awards program is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a range of acclaimed media, advertising and marketing firms.
The winners of the 34th Annual Emmy Awards presented by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will be announced during a ceremony on Saturday, June 16, at the MotorCity Casino Sound Board Theater in Detroit.


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Of course, this is an extreme case. Nevertheless, it is true that your words create your world. As you look around your surroundings, you are talking to yourself about everything you see. Your language structures your reality. Furniture and pictures are not good or bad in and of themselves. They become beautiful or ugly, valuable or worthless, based on your descriptions of them. The clothes you're wearing are fashionable or dowdy, depending on your judgment of them. So too with your health. If you tell yourself that starving a fever will help relieve it, it probably will. If you say that arthritis and senility are inevitable, they probably will be. People tend to find what they have told themselves to expect.
Where Our Illness Programming Originates
Your brain operates like a highly sophisticated computer, storing every experience you have ever had in your
subconscious. Brain research reveals that subjects can describe minute details of events that happened to them as children; clinical hypnosis allows people to remember things that the conscious mind may have filed away long ago. The body acts and reacts on the basis of its previous programming, even without the mind's conscious acknowledgement. So many of your illness reactions and fears of today are the results of messages you received as a child. You keep these old programs in place with unconscious self-talk and reinforce them with new input from contemporary sources.
* Childhood role models. You may have watched Mom or Dad start every day with a dose of aspirin for pain or end every day with a few drinks to handle stress. You wondered why certain topics, like sex and death, made adults very uncomfortable and why certain words, like cancer, were never used.
* Direct commands from parents and others. "You'll fall." "Oh, you'll get sick." "You'll cut yourself." And sure enough, you probably did!
* Rewards for illness or for being in pain. You may have received special attention like physical nurturing, been allowed to stay home from school, or been given candy and ice cream or gifts.
* TV, magazines and newspapers, and billboards. The media constantly supplies direct illness messages such as "The winter cold season is here!" or "Don't worry about overeating, as long as you have those little white mints to fight indigestion." Even more insidious are the implied messages, like "Cancer is inevitable and will always mean death."
* Daily conversations. Some people constantly complain about their own symptoms and the ill health of those around them.


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Dragon Ball Super Episode 69 Aomori, Japan.
In a land blessed by nature's bountiful beauty, bizarre things begin to take place. Makoto Kowata, 15 years old, is a professional witch. She left Yokohama with Chito, her black cat, to live in the house of her relatives in Aomori. This is where she begins to train as a witch.
Even though Makoto's powers are still limited to just flying through the sky, she and her second cousins Kei and Chinatsu surely make the most out of each and every day.
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With Majin Boo defeated, peace returns to Earth. Son Goku has settled down and now works as a radish farmer to support his family. His family and friends live peaceful lives.[4] However, a new threat appears in the form of Beerus, The God of Destruction (破壊神ビルス Hakaishin Birusu) who is considered to be the most terrifying being in the entire universe. Beerus is eager to fight the legendary warrior whom he had seen in a prophecy, known as the Super Saiyan God (超サイヤ人ゴッド Sūpā Saiya-jin Goddo).[5]
The series retells the events from the last two Dragon Ball Z films, Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F', before proceeding to tell original stories about the exploration of alternate universes and the reemergence of Future Trunks and a new threat to his Earth known as Goku Black (ゴクウブラック Gokū Burakku).
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'Run, Liz, run!'
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — At the debut event of Elizabeth Warren's book tour this week, the moderator at a Barnes & Noble off Manhattan's Union Square asked what she said was the most-submitted question from the senator's fans in the audience: "Will you please run for president?"
"Run, Liz, run!" one woman hollered, as the room broke out in cheers and applause.
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When a smiling Warren responded, "I'm not running for president," the audience collectively let out a disappointed, "Aww."
( PHOTOS: Elizabeth Warren goes on a book tour)
It's a question that the first-term Massachusetts Democrat is being asked over and over again as she promotes her newest book, "A Fighting Chance." Here at the First Parish church in Cambridge, a member of the audience tried a slightly different tack: "You've said a number of times that you do not plan to run for president. What can we say tonight to change your mind?"
The first stops of her cross-country book tour this week in New York City and Cambridge offered a vivid snapshot of the intense, passionately liberal following Warren has amassed in the course of a few years, as she has become a national political celebrity. Her supporters are pledging that regardless of her decision on 2016, Warren will be a political force that any candidate in the Democratic field — including Hillary Clinton — will have to contend with.
Interviews with more than a dozen Warren supporters in both cities showed that her message — the system is rigged against the little guy to the benefit of Wall Street and corporate America — is resonating, and any Democratic presidential hopeful will have to convince the Warren wing of the party that they get it. The conversations also revealed that enthusiasm for Warren often goes hand in hand with wariness of a President Hillary Clinton.
( QUIZ: Do you know Elizabeth Warren?)
Since taking office, Warren, 64, has been relentlessly guarded, ignoring reporters' questions in Capitol Hill hallways and staying strictly on message in media appearances. This week, Warren looked relaxed and energized by the enthusiasm of her supporters, working the rope lines with the ease of a seasoned politician and drawing frequent laughter from the crowd with stories of setting her toaster on fire or by teasing the audience.
"I will be calling on people in the back row," the former law professor said. "You can always tell a teacher."
Though Warren is not approaching the publicity events for her book as a campaign tour, that's not stopping others from treating it that way.
Liberal groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Americans for Financial Reform, a Wall Street reform advocacy group, have launched messaging schemes capitalizing on the release of Warren's memoir. Meanwhile, America Rising — the GOP outside group collecting opposition research on 2016 Democrats — sent a tracker to Warren's event in Cambridge on Thursday night.
Even if she has no interest in running for president, the speculation is full of upsides for Warren. It only helps enhance her stature as a rising star in the party, and it's not going to hurt book sales either. "A Fighting Chance" is currently No. 2 on Amazon's best-seller list.
The crowds that turned up at the first two events this week — a mix of young and old of varying ethnic and professional backgrounds — captured the broad appeal the senator enjoys within the liberal base.
The supporters who showed up to hear Warren speak included an artist struggling to pay off $50,000 in student loan debt; a lawyer who took a class Warren taught in the 1980s and never forgot his favorite instructor, "Professor Warren"; a 78-year-old Harvard alum dispirited by the widening wealth gap in the country; and a college student who declared he would drop out of school to work for the senator's campaign if she ran for president.
Warren's fans consistently said they are moved not only by Warren's unapologetic and unwavering progressive policy views, but also by her personal story of overcoming economic hardship.
"Corporate lobbyists and their Republican friends fight to protect every single privilege that the rich and the powerful have. The game is rigged," Warren said in New York on Wednesday in a speech she repeated the next evening. "So here's how I see it, and this is why I wrote this book: We can whine about it, we can whimper about it, or we can fight back."
Warren added, to thunderous applause from the audience: "Me? I'm fighting back."


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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Young Women Were Physically and Verbally Harassed by Restaurant Employees, Including Managers, Federal Agency Charged
HONOLULU, Hawaii - La Rana Hawaii, LLC, doing business as Señor Frog's, a popular Mexican-themed restaurant and bar in Honolulu, will pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of 13 female employees who were allegedly sexually harassed or retaliated against between 2007 and 2012, the federal agency announced today.
The federal agency filed suit in 2011, later amending its complaint to charge that at least 10 female staffers were sexually harassed by several male employees, including managers. The EEOC alleged that the managers subjected employees to sexual comments, language and advances, and unwelcome physical contact. The agency further alleged that some employees were subjected to retaliation after complaining about the alleged harassment. The EEOC also alleged that the women were also treated less favorably than men in the workplace: they were passed over for promotions, assigned less favorable shifts and earned less than their male counterparts.
The alleged behavior violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. La Rana Hawaii, LLC dba Señor Frog's & Altres, Inc., Case No. CV-11-00799 LEK BMK) after first attempting to resolve the matter through its conciliation process.
As part of the settlement announced today, the parties entered into a three-year consent decree requiring La Rana Hawaii, LLC to pay $350,000 to 13 female claimants. The company closed its Honolulu establishment in August 2012. Notwithstanding, if La Rana chooses to open another restaurant or chooses to reopen the Señor Frog's in Hawaii, the consent decree requires substantial injunctive relief including the creation and distribution of an anti-harassment policy along with annual training for all restaurant employees to prevent future instances of sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation. The EEOC will monitor compliance with the agreement.
Altres Inc., a Hawaii staffing company, was contracted by La Rana Hawaii to provide human resources services and oversee the company's non-management staff during the time in question. The EEOC also named Altres in its lawsuit; Altres previously settled with the EEOC for $150,000 and injunctive relief, including EEO training for its employees.
"Our young workers are all too often the targets of the most insidious forms of sexual harassment, which can spread like wildfire at work," said Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, which includes Hawaii in its jurisdiction. "Employers who fail to fulfill their moral and legal obligation to prevent and immediately stop the sexual abuse of its young workers will answer to the EEOC."
Timothy Riera, local director for the EEOC's Honolulu Local Office, added, "The EEOC takes workplace harassment against young workers very seriously. Through our Youth@Work outreach, we aim to educate America's next generation of workers on their right to work in an environment free of harassment and discrimination and their right to report such abuses without retaliation."
The EEOC recently updated its Youth@Work website (at http://www.eeoc.gov/youth/), which presents information for teens and other young workers about employment discrimination. The website also contains curriculum guides for students and teachers and videos to help young workers learn about their rights and responsibilities in the workforce.
Preventing workplace harassment through systemic litigation and investigation is one of the six national priorities identified by the Commission's Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP).
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