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I was trying to write a post about things not to say to a special needs parent, realizing it was based off of things said to me. I haven't finished it because it was turning into one of those ugly therapy moments where you get it all out, but now you're depressed and want to shove a cookie in your face.
In thinking about it more, I wonder – is this a phenomenon that happens to those still looking for a diagnosis? Is this one of those "fun" unique things that happens to only us?
Like being told we're lucky our child doesn't have autism?
Like being told to stop complaining so much about my child, she'll be fine, but it's rude to complain about our piddly problems in front of So and So, whose child has real issues?
Like being told "Well I could have told you she didn't have that! You were worrying for nothing!"
Like being told "You shouldn't shortchange your child, you should be striving for independence!"
Like being told "It can't be that bad! She's so happy!"
It's like, somehow, not having a label people can relate to, it opens up the door for all sorts of weird criticism.
"Don't worry."
"I could have told you…"
"It's not that bad…"
All things I heard more than once the first three years of dealing with Maura's issues. So much "helpful" advice – no wonder I ended up in therapy. There I was, dealing with one of the most stressful things you can deal with in life (plus a house move!) and I was being doubted.
I get it. It's human to wonder these things. Even I've wondered once in a while, "Gee, maybe that person is just seeing things that aren't there."
But the difference is, I keep my big yap shut. Because telling a worried mother to not whine so much, there are others with bigger issues – well, that just doesn't help things. Especially when doctors don't know.
The thing is, these people didn't see what I was truly dealing with. I kept a lot of it to myself. I still do. If you met me on the street today, you wouldn't realize I was a big ball of anxiety ready to hurl itself into a vat of chocolate. No, I'm really damned good at keeping a presentable front. I smile my way through problems, cracking jokes about our situation, with my smiling child in tow. Because I also know when I do let some things loose, it comes out in an incoherent heap of babble which is hard to take seriously. And yet, it's the most serious I'm being.
A friend of mine just had a child diagnosed with an issue after several months of trying to figure out what was going on. She admitted to me she felt bad about saying they "finally" know, knowing that their journey has been a few months, while I'm at 9 years of not knowing. Me? I'm thrilled they know what's going on, that it's manageable, that they can move forward.
But it made me wonder…how different would our lives have been if Maura was born differently?
People new to us ask if Maura was born this way. They're usually fall-out-of-their-chair shocked to hear that no one noticed anything for the first 15 months. For fifteen months, I had a normal child. Or I was told that. When she was six months, worry started creeping in. At 13 months, they noticed she had "some" low muscle tone. But nothing screamed "Holy crap, there is something wrong with this kid!". Even after that, for a couple more years, we still heard "Well, she could catch up by…"
I've seen others go through the process of diagnosis, or read about the beginnings of their journey. There was always "And then we joined this group" and "Therapists coming to the house" and "by two months, he was receiving therapy".
Fifteen months.
And we got jack all.
We had the generic "delay" label, which got my non-walking, non-talking, non-pincer grasping 16 month old 30 minutes of PT and 30 minutes of OT per week. At 20 months, after doing all the evaluations, they realized that she was really far behind in speech, so added 30 minutes of that as well. And then, while everyone else got home visits, I got the crappy 8:30 am Monday morning slot b/c Maura needed "so much" that it was the only time they could fit me in.
Hindsight has made me realized we were shafted. Not on purpose. We were just dealing with a "delay", not something "serious" like autism or a syndrome. I didn't know any better, and there wasn't a support group I could join to help me navigate through all this. No one called my child disabled – not a doctor, not a therapist. No one went there. Instead, I got backlashed – She'll be fine. She doesn't have a real issue like So and So's child. You're making too much of it. She'll catch up. Time and time again, I was undermined by people doubting that what I was going through was, in fact, a pretty big freaking deal. And they were vocal about it.
Funny enough, when Maura was diagnosed with epilepsy, people started taking things seriously.
Funny how a label can make a difference.
This is why people call hindsight a bitch. The first four years of Maura's life, I worried, and people patted my head and told me it would be okay. It wasn't okay. I wasn't okay. They told me about those who had it worse, until one day, I was the one who had it worse. They were certain that my good attitude and Maura's happy personae somehow negated any seriousness to our situation. It didn't.
I spent three years in a haze of doubt and uncertainty. While I tried to figure out what my daughter needed, I was being told there was nothing wrong, that what was wrong wasn't a big deal, that I shouldn't complain, that I should just buck up like a good cupcake.
Would they have said that if that first test for Down's Syndrome came back positive?
I doubt it.
Instead, after two weeks of worrying, when I revealed that we had Maura tested, I got "Well I could have told you that!" the "DUH!" was implied. It was my first "Geez, you're making too much out of it, she's FINE!"
To be honest – I wanted her to be fine. I wanted that more than anything in the world.
But I already knew it wasn't fine. My blinders were off, thank God. Because if I had listened to everyone else, it would have been even longer before Maura got into therapies.
I knew in my heart when Maura was six months that something wasn't quite right, but wasn't ready to admit it, and was willing to embrace the idea of the "late bloomer" with her. Looking back now, at pictures and videos, I see all she couldn't do, how she really couldn't sit up well, even at a year old, how that time when we thought she might have had a seizure and were told was a delayed startle reflex (at like age two) – that was probably a seizure. I was told one day that I was the expert on my child, and the next, told I was blowing things out of proportion.
That she'd be fine.
And then people caught up. It only took a grand mal seizure on horseback and a diagnosis of epilepsy to get everyone on board.
It took a label people could understand and embrace.
How different would our lives have been if we had a label early on? If I didn't have to spend so much energy defending my daughter's special needs to people? If I could have stated "Yes, my daughter has special needs!" early on. If I had a disability group to show support? If I didn't feel like a fraud at times with my happy toddler who *might* catch up in the world of special needs families? Or in the world in general? It took me years to be able to call Maura special needs, to use the term disabled with her – not because I was in denial over her issues – but because no one else seemed to believe it. No one else considered it, no one else accepted it. I had people shaming me when I did try to put my child in that category. We weren't as deserving of it as others.
It's a wonder I didn't crack under all the pressure sooner.
Nine years after that first "there's something not right here" mention, I'm in a different space. Literally and figuratively. I've gone from being doubted to being called a bit of an expert. Now I'm the one telling people Maura will be fine – though my definition of "fine" has changed. I've learned to share better what we've been through, if only to help those who are in a boat similar to the one we found ourselves in nine years ago.
But I've learned it's all an evolving process, this journey we're on. I spend so much time just taking it day by day, getting through this week or that appointment, losing two days to anxiety and sleeplessness when Maura does get sick, that one day, I stop and look back and go "Wow."
Which is why I'm here, today, talking about how we were treated 7, 8, 9 years ago.


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|We continued traveling down the beautiful Oregon coast to Tillamook and camped by this World War II blimp hangar...
|...then we toured the Tillamook factory and had to try the ice cream that everyone claims is the best. (It almost compares to MOOMERS). It was interesting to learn the history of how this area became known today as the "Dairyland." Of course our campground had the aroma of cows to get used to.
|As we drove south on hwy 20 around Oroville, CA., there were miles of ricefields filled with thousands of Greater white fronted geese or "Specks" as the locals call them.
|Our camping spot in my sister's backyard.
|BOO loved it when their dogs visited him at the motorhome.
|My sister and husband.
|My nephew and his wife enjoying their Willie boat. They announced in March they were expecting in June....
and the new boat was delivered on time.
|My niece and her family excited about their new home.
|My baby brother - so huggable!
|My nephew and his girlfriend
Again this year I spent the day with my friend Sally Drone enjoying a MET Opera in Grass Valley's DEL ORO Theater. Then she took me on a tour of Nevada City. I like downtown Grass Valley but Nevada City is even better with its beautiful 1800's architecture. (Sally - I wish I would have taken a picture of YOU)
The timing was right when we left my family. Two days prior they had significant snowfall in the mountains. We picked a good day to travel over Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mtns.
|The ghost town of Rhyolite, at the NE entrance of Death Valley, was fun to visit.
|The above ghosts and "Ghost Rider" were sculpted
by Albert Szukalski in 1984
|The Bottle House in Rhyolite, built by Saloon owner Tom Kelly
in 1906 at age 76.
|Many areas of the park were closed due to flooding.
We did enjoy a 4 mile hike through the Golden Canyon.
I've always wanted to visit the Opera House in Death Valley Jct. I timed it right for a morning tour with this group visiting from San Diego.This Youtube explains a bit about it: MARTA BECKET'S OPERA HOUSE
|Marta painted her own audience on the interior walls. Amazing.
|Happy Hour at Tecopa Palms RV Park. Commercial parks aren't for Dick. He was being a good sport and singing along. (yes, Evelyn, he's playing the accordion!)
|Corvair Ultravan motorhome
|We passed by this RV parked in Tecopa Hot Springs
|This sign was modest compared to some things advertised in Nevada
Next stop Borrego Springs.....

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My daughter does love to watch videos on her iPad 2 & play games. Hence for Christmas, I bought her the Bestek iPad flexible arm (BTIH130) to mount onto her bed, so she does not need to hold the iPad while using it.
It comes with a flexible arm which is fairly strong and capable of holding the iPad 2/3/4 in place without it sagging down under the weight. It has a 2-way clamp mount to allow for more flexibility when using it. There are also clips to hold the charging cable along the length of the flexible arm. This allows for charging of the iPad while using it.
The kit came with two other holders which will work with the iPad mini and the newest iPad Air/Air 2.
How to mount the iPad into the holder?
The iPad is placed in the holder by sliding it into the end with the two end grips and then the top end is pushed into the holder until the clip grips the iPad. Just ensure that the charging end (bottom) of the iPad is towards the end with the two grips.
Having bought a few other iPad holders before, including a carbon fibre mount from Apple (which was very expensive and not very stable), this iPad holder is definitely one of the better ones to buy out there. It is stable, well made and allows for plenty of adjustment to get the iPad at the right angle.
But just be aware that it may not be suitable for everyone. Tthe length of the flexible arm is only about 53cm long, so will not work with bed frames unless you can mount above the level of the mattress; alternatively, it could be mounted to a table or shelf. At £19.99 from Amazon, it is a very good value indeed. Highly recommended.


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November 16th – 10:30 am – 9:30 pm
November 17th – 9:00 am -3:00 pm
Pat Duffy Center
19 East Main, Ft. Pierre, SD 57532
Keynote Speaker
This year's keynote speaker is DRA member and lawyer Bruce Ellison. He will discuss when an issue or campaign can be won by legal, legislative, or community action, and the value of each different approach.
Breakout Sessions
This year we will host three concurrent breakout sessions covering the following topics:
- Environmental Issues and Environmental Law
- CAFOs
- Sustaining Local Foods
Time for ad hoc discussions will also be provided.
Friday, November 16th
10:30 – 11:30 – Optional Solar Tour with Pierre Utility
11:30 – 1:00 -Lunch on your own
1:00 – 4:00 – Breakout Sessions
4:00 – 5:00 – Ad Hoc Discussions
5:00 – 6:30 – Break
6:30 – 9:30 – Celebration and Keynote Speaker – Food and beverage will be available
Saturday, November 17th
Breakfast on your own
9:00 – 10:00 – Optional Thanksgiving Farmers Market at Capital City Farmers Market in Pierre
10:30 – noon – Business Meeting/Reports/Resolutions and Bylaws
12:00 – 1:00 – Raffle Drawing and Potluck Lunch (storage space/refrigerator will be available to keep food items)
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Blocks of single and double rooms are reserved under "Dakota Rural Action" for a special group rate at the following hotels:
- Governor's Inn – 605-224-4200 – located in Pierre next to Red Rossa Restaurant
700 West Sioux Ave., Pierre, SD
$65.00 + tax per night
- AmercInn – 605-269-8411 – located in Ft. Pierre on the river with a bar on site
312 Island Dr., Ft. Pierre, SD
$109.99 + tax per night
Deadline for the block rate is Oct. 15th for both hotels. Both hotels offer complimentary breakfast, pool, and are pet friendly.
Raffle Fundraiser
This year DRA will host a raffle fundraiser instead of a silent auction. We will focus on larger baskets valued at around $200 with specific themes. Each member is invited to donate one or more item for a basket, and chapters are also encouraged to collectively participate. Themes for baskets are as follows:
- Holiday Baking
- Gardening
- Crafting (Crafts & Arts)
- Camping/Wild Life
- New Baby
- Native American Food
- Home Brew/Wine Making/Fermentation Galore
- Get Away
- Family Game Night
- Biking
Donations for the fundraiser should be new or very gently used and must be entered into the raffle form HERE by November 1st. For more information on the raffle fundraiser, including information about how to donate, please click HERE.


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Highblood's Racist Promo – Ignorance Rather than Malice
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Published on Thursday, 23 March 2017 19:18
Written by Andrew Loh
To stand apart from others, you have to distinguish yourself, or your product. This, however, could lead you down the path you might not have intended to go.
Dating apps (or websites, before apps became popular) were cumbersome to use – you had to key in a tonne of information about yourself when you joined such a service, and you would have to scroll through the same amount of members' profiles before you would find a few whom you might want to strike up a chat with.
That was the way things were – until Tinder came along and changed the dating scene in 2012. All you have to do when using Tinder, which is for casual dating or short-term relationships, was to upload a photo of yourself, provide some information, and then start swiping left or swiping right as you assess the profiles that match your preferences.
Highblood, an upcoming app created by a Singaporean, hopes to do one better than Tinder. According to its founder and creator, Herbert Eng, the app hopes to eliminate two of the most frustrating problems faced by dating app users:
1. Fake profiles/bots
2. Catfishing
refers to scams, such as those asking for money or tricking you into a romantic or sexual relationship, perpetrated by fake or false profiles.
Catfishing is a serious issue online.
In the United Kingdom, for example, one woman – Anna Rowe - was so affected by such a scam that she has started an online initiative to ban catfishing. (See
"He used me like a hotel with benefits under the disguise of a romantic, loving relationship that he knew I craved," she said, referring to the man who tricked her into a relationship.
According to the BBC, there were 3,889 victims of so-called "romance fraud" last year, who handed over a record £39m.
In July last year, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told Parliament that the number of credit-for-sex scams, Internet love scams, kidnap hoax scams and lottery scams committed over the phone and on social media in Singapore had more than doubled in a year.
One of the biggest "love scams" involved a 50-year old woman who met a man, supposedly an American, on Facebook who eventually scammed her of her life savings of more than $1.2 million.
The Singapore Police Force have regularly issued advisories on such scams to remind the public to be alert when engaging in online relationships or communications.
The creator of Highblood is aware of these problems and said his app intends to weed out such things.
"We're here to improve the landscape of online dating as a whole in our commitment to eliminate fake profiles," Mr Eng said. "I am very, very determined to improve veracity in the general Internet landscape and eliminate bots and fake profiles in online dating through our fact verification system... I happen to be a victim of catfishing myself."
According to Mr Eng, the app requires users to provide their "income, education and profession" when they sign up.
"We are targeting young and educated professionals as well as ambitious university undergraduates," Highblood said. "Many of the people we've talked to have complained about the lack of authenticity and concrete intentions on popular dating apps. We would like to provide an alternative."
The "verification system" Mr Eng mentioned are "experts" who will vet the applications to ensure they are authentic; and a "covenant" of 5 users will decide on each application. 3 approvals are needed for an application to go through.
What got Highblood into the current controversy swirling online about its app is, however, the promotional advert it posted online recently.
"No banglas, no maids, no uglies, no fakes/bots, no escorts".
Not surprisingly, the advert was met with outrage online, with many slamming it for being blatantly racist by excluding two groups of people in particular – "banglas" and "maids".
Excluding "banglas" and "maids"
Excluding certain groups of people from using a service is racist. It is not unlike a restaurant saying it does not welcome Bangladeshis or Filipinos because it prefers its clientele to be Caucasians. Or for a Chinese restaurant to do the same to Caucasian customers.
It would also be like condominiums banning domestic workers from using the swimming pools simply because they are "maids".
"If we allow all the maids to swim in the pools at the various condos, it will be swamped and over-utilised," Mr Francis Zhan, the chief executive of the Association of Management Corporations in Singapore's (AMCIS), shamelessly told
The New Paper
in 2011, obviously unaware of the blatant racism in his thinking.
Perhaps this is what the owner of Highblood is really worried about too – that the app would be "swamped" by "banglas" and "maids" if it were opened to everyone.
This would be an apparent departure from what is said on the
Start-up Jobs Asia
profile of the app, where it said the app is more inclusive, in terms of nationalities - welcoming Indians, Koreans, Japanese and Singaporeans.
Mr Eng has defended the app from criticisms.
In a rather awkward explanation, Mr Eng said:
"What does manifests in Asian culture however, and especially in Singapore, is a certain racial preference when it comes to dating — we are merely responding to honest (however politically incorrect) feedback respondents have given us when we asked them what they find insufferable in dating apps. Additionally, when probed further, some of them revealed that the preference was occupational rather than racial. Because of the nature of our app, we would like to interpret the terms as pertaining to occupations rather than a certain ethnicity."[Sic]
It is good that Mr Eng is listening to customer feedback and tuning his service to meet their needs or preferences. However, it is questionable to attribute "a certain racial preference" to "Asian culture". One could say the same of other cultures as well, although that is a debate for another time.
If users' preference is "occupational rather than racial", as Mr Eng said, then why exclude "banglas", which is not an occupation but a nationality and a race - unless one associates the term with a particular (low-skilled) occupation? That would be stereotyping, which is a close cousin of racism and xenophobia.
Whatever it is, if it is in fact about occupation rather than race, then there is absolutely no need to even mention "banglas". So, it is obvious some sort of negative racial profiling, conscious or otherwise, is going on here.
Why not let users decide?
What appears to have happened in this case is that Highblood went for the sensational eyeball-catching headlines to generate publicity for its eventual launch of the app. Unfortunately for Highblood, the stunt has not come off too well with members of the public.
Highblood could have just gone with the criteria it has stipulated for users – that is, membership based on occupation, education, and profession – without having to finger any nationality or any particular occupation for special exclusion. After all, it is existing users who will decide on whether a membership application is accepted.
As Mr Eng himself explained:
"We only verify information and leave the yardsticks and judging to the users. The process of denying entry into HighBlood is also performed by existing users."
He added, "The application will be as elitist as the users want it to be."
So, why not be as inclusive as possible by accepting anyone who meets the basic criteria and just leave it at that? Let users decide who gets accepted and who doesn't.
Having said that, what Highblood has done does not seem to be borne out of any inherent or deeply racist ill intent. In other words, it does not seem to be from a pathological hatred for a particular race or nationality, although its action can or is considered racist.
What has happened, however, looks to be an over-zealous attempt at generating publicity for itself, without careful thought, and with a careless use of words borne out of some stereotype ideas of certain groups of people.
In short, one would give Highblood the benefit of the doubt and see the offending advert as one made out of ignorance rather than malice.
As undergraduate Chloe Tong told The New Paper, "What Highblood is doing is nothing new or revolutionary. But what they are saying is tactless."
And sometimes, tact is important, as this incident shows.
Let's hope Mr Eng will accept the criticisms and refrain from using such unnecessary publicity stunts at the expense of others.
The app's goals of eliminating fake profiles and catfishing are good ones, and Mr Eng should focus on these, rather than on which groups of people should be excluded.
For at the end of the day, if the app is able to provide an authentic experience by eliminating fake profiles and catfishing, it would be not an insignificant achievement.
Lastly, Mr Eng and the users whose feedback led to Highblood putting out those two criteria might want to acquaint themselves better with the different (foreign) ethnicities here in Singapore, to get a more accurate perspective of who exactly these people – Bangladeshis and "maids" -are.
There are, for example, also Bangladeshis who are doctors here, and domestic workers who work very hard to feed their families back home. They are decent, hardworking, honest people who do not deserve to be swiped in the way Highblood has done.
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When did you play for UC Davis? 2005 – 2006. What positions did you play? I moved around from 8-man to Flanker and covered at Lock from time to time[…]Read more
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LITTLE ROCK — Actor Jeff Bridges, spokesman for the No Kid Hungry campaign, said Monday he was inspired by a visit that morning to Stephens Elementary School in Little Rock, where he saw students participating in a breakfast program.
LITTLE ROCK — Actor Jeff Bridges, spokesman for the No Kid Hungry campaign, said Monday he was inspired by a visit that morning to Stephens Elementary School in Little Rock, where he saw students participating in a breakfast program.
"It was so inspiring, so good, so terrific with the kids themselves to see how much they enjoyed … eating together, enjoyed learning about the different food groups," Bridges said during a panel discussion on childhood hunger at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
The actor, known for movies such as "The Big Lebowski" and "True Grit," said proper nutrition is one of the most important things to teach a child.
"Obesity is really the flip side of hunger," he said. "A lot of that is due to training your palate to enjoy certain kinds of foods. If you get used to eating, you know, pizza pockets, the stuff that's not really good for you, that's what's going to feel good to eat when you're an adult."
Bridges and others with the campaign praised Arkansas for increasing its summer feeding programs by 1.6 million meals.
"(That is) the single biggest increase in summer meals — bigger than California, Texas, New York, any other state," said Billy Shore, CEO of Share Our Strength, the organization that created the No Hungry Kid campaign.
Shore said breakfast programs serve 55 percent of Arkansas students, which he said is higher than the national average.
Arkansas has the highest rate of food insecurity in the nation. About 19 percent of households and 28 percent of children in the state are unsure of the source of their next meal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Shore said people are realizing that "we can't have a strong America with weak kids."
Also taking part in the panel discussion was Gov. Mike Beebe, who credited his wife, Ginger, with keeping him focused on the issue of childhood hunger.
"If the other governors would just take it one step at a time, it's not an insurmountable problem," he said.
Beebe also met Monday with a group of CEOs of various companies to discuss what the private sector can do about childhood hunger. Shore noted during the panel discussion that Arkansas' meal programs receive a combination of state and private-sector support.
"It doesn't always require legislation," Shore said.
Bridges said he came away from his school visit with renewed enthusiasm.
"It was wonderful to be there at Stephens Elementary School. It made me feel like, 'Oh, we're not alone. We've got a lot of committed, excited people.' That fueled my excitement so much," he said.


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Last Friday, July 29th, was a fifth Friday of the month and another opportunity for a dance party. If you weren't there you missed a tropical twirl. We moved to the island beats from a music mix filled with Cuban and Brazilian music. Earlier in the day, our Ohio weather was blasting us with a nasty heat wave, so gently swaying to these rhythms was the thing to do. As usual, we had quite a few fans circulating the air. Accompanied by this playlist, the blowing air felt like gentle breezes through palm trees. Am I the only one who was salivating for a fruity blended drink topped with a paper umbrella? Check out this hot playlist:
Thanks to DJ Bulee for providing this original and entertaining playlist. Our next dance party is THIS Friday August 5th at 7:30 pm. In these summer months, be prepared to sweat. Bring some water or gatorade and maybe even a towel. But most importantly, bring yourself with your boogie shoes! See you then.
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The DePaul Alumni network includes a diverse group of graduates from all over the world. Alumni chapters are established in Chicago and in various locations around the country, as an opportunity for alumni to connect and network with the DePaul community in their area. We also offer specialized groups focusing on affinities and personal interests.
Areas without formal chapters may still host events and programs domestically and internationally with the help of our Alumni Relations staff. Check the additional areas section for more information about DePaul alumni regional groups, and other ways to connect with the DePaul community in your city.


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On St. Patrick's Day March 17th I volunteered to photograph the wedding of Lori and Mark. Lori and Mark had started planning their wedding in 2012 when was she diagnosed with cancer so planning a wedding was out of the question until Lori discovered Wish Upon A Wedding. This organization provides couples with weddings and vow renewals for couples facing terminal illness and serious life-altering circumstances, regardless of sexual orientation. I volunteered my photography services along with numerous volunteers to give Lori and Mark the wedding of their dreams. It was truly a beautiful day filled with so much love and emotion, I was honored to be part of it.


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In obvious anticipation of the Season 4 premiere next week, Little Women: LA's Christy has checked herself into Cedars-Sinai with HEAD TRAUMA and filed charges again Terra. Again, the season premiere of Little Women: LA is January 27th on Lifetime. Tune in!
Anyway, whilst filming one of those classic Little Women scenes where cast members each drive to a mutually agreed upon location to have a conversation that could totally have transpired over text, Terra and Christy's drama dissolved into the throwing of glassware.
I have no idea if both women were throwing glasses – we'll have to watch! – but presumably, Terra just had better aim than Christy and her tossed glass connected with the back of Christy's head. So Christy went to Urgent Care, the primary care physician of dramatic people, and then checked herself into the hospital. Christy then filed a report with the LA County Sheriff accusing Terra of "assault with a deadly weapon."
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By Patrick Brogan
As we already reported, The Liberal.ie and Leo Sherlock were forced to issue an apology and pay an undisclosed fee for plagiarising both INM and CCC Nuacht Teoranta. As we pointed out in our podcast, The Liberal.ie are no strangers to this worrying behaviour. The problem remains, they may get away with plagiarising others' work that don't have the financial resources to take them to court.
Indeed, there are numerous examples of The Liberal taking articles from local publications and passing it off as their own. The Dublin Inquirer did an excellent article covering just this.
The Liberal continues an alarming trend of the monied using their cash to push their political ideology. Much like George Soros and Peter Thiel. He was accused of stoking up racial tensions by blowing an incident on St. Stephen's Day out of proportion. He has very strong views on abortion and Donald Trump. His views certainly aren't liberal, nor are they objective and this is reflected in his publication.
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Alcoholics Anonymous – Most Famous & Successful of Them All
Alcoholics Anonymous is without question the most well known self help group. They blazed the trail and others followed. They have two million members around the globe. Almost half of them live in the United States. They have over 100,000 meetings taking place at different times and places. They're an abstinence based program. So moderation isn't something they accept as a possibility for an alcoholic. They follow a 12 Step Program.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory or ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry the knowledge to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
AA blazed the trail. The rest of us just followed along. I didn't like AA, it wasn't for me. On the other hand, I have two uncles that swear it helped them. There is no question about their having helped more alcoholics than any other program. Possibly, the have saved more alcoholics than all the other alcoholism treatment programs put together. There is no denying their contribution to alcohol treatment. To make this a bit more heroic, Alcoholics Anonymous does it for free.


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December 15, 2012–the 3rd Saturday
Meet at Noon at Peninsula Park Gazebo
We will ride to Mississippi and carol along the street, heading south. Take a snack break outside/inside Grand Central Bakery at the end of our ride.
We will have carol lyrics, but bring your favorites as well. Turn a carol into A BIKEY-CAROL! Rumor has it that the Wittwer kids will perform a metal version of Jingle-Bells!
Have a guitar or other instruments? Bring them. Let's rock this day.
BONUS !!Afterward, everyone is invited back to the Wittwers' for cookie decoration. All supplies will be there.
BONUS-BONUS !!! Make a hand-made wooden ornament. All supplies will be there.If weather is poor, we can meet at Peninsula Park gazebo and head to the Wittwers' for cookies and ornament making.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Let them eat cake! These handbags are IT! @IntlCulCenter
Can you spot your favorite bag? How about that cherry red Chanel? Look again closely, because all these handbags are actually cakes! It's amazing what a bit of creativity and craftsmanship can produce. These "purse" cakes were made by the students of the Cake Techniques and Design program at the International Culinary Center in NYC. Bravo, students!
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Digest Comment - New Technologies and the Fourth Amendment
By Dr. Jur. Eric Engle - Edited by Gary Pong
New technologies have made types of searches possible which could never have been envisioned when the Fourth Amendment was proposed to prohibit unreasonable search and seizure. With remote listening, infrared imaging, and, now, wireless technologies, it is possible to detect movements of people within buildings with no discernible physical impact on the surveilled person's life.[ii] Are remote searches reasonable? Do they require a warrant?[iii] In my opinion, courts should treat these sorts of remote detection techniques ("surveillance") as searches subject to the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonableness.
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expressly guaranties that:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The Fourth Amendment was incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment to apply directly to the states, even though many protections against search and seizure at state common law were more extensive than the Fourth Amendment.[iv] The general rule is that the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unwarranted searches does not apply where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.[v] That leads to the question of when a person has reason to believe that he or she is "in private" as opposed to "in public". This will depend both on the facts of the case and on social reality.[vi] For example, different cultures within the United States have different senses of what is "public" and what is "private", and those senses are constantly evolving.[vii] However, one bright line stands out: searches of homes without warrants are presumptively unreasonable because "[a]t the very core [of the Fourth Amendment] stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion." [viii]
At first, this might seem to offer significant protection. However, when we ask "what is a search," we discover several activities that are not in fact considered "searches" even in the context of one's own dwelling. In one case, the court decided that helicopter overflights making naked-eye observations of concealed marijuana crops did not violate the "reasonable expectation of privacy" and thus were not subject to the Fourth Amendment's protections.[ix] In another case, an officer's observation of marijuana plants growing in a backyard was held not to be a search under the Fourth Amendment when the observation was made from the defendant's publicly accessible driveway.[x] Essentially, anything in plain view from a publicly accessible vantage point is not subject to the Fourth Amendment.[xi]
What then of the new technologies which enable unique and innovative forms of search and surveillance? Generally speaking, the U.S. Supreme Court limits application of the Fourth Amendment to new technologies.[xii] Given the permissive attitude toward searches of the exterior of houses and searches in the context of modern inventions such as computers and data media, one might expect the Court to allow the use of new technologies to search personal dwellings as well. That does not seem to be the case. The U.S. Supreme court has answered fairly clearly in this regard, stating:
[I]n the case of the search of the interior of homes -- the prototypical and hence most commonly litigated area of protected privacy -- there is a ready criterion, with roots deep in the common law, of the minimal expectation of privacy that exists, and that is acknowledged to be reasonable. To withdraw protection of this minimum expectation would be to permit police technology to erode the privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. We think that obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the interior of the home that could not otherwise have been obtained without physical 'intrusion into a constitutionally protected area,' constitutes a search -- at least where (as here) the technology in question is not in general public use."[xiii]
Likewise, police monitoring of electronic transmissions from within a house violates the Fourth Amendment because the inside of a house is a "location not open to visual surveillance."[xiv] A similar analysis holds for "bugs" which record and/or transmit audiovisual data – they cannot be placed inside a dwelling without a warrant.[xv]
The problem remains of how to resolve apparently contradictory tendencies in the cases which result from the fact-intensive inquiry needed to determine whether an expectation of privacy is "reasonable" and the circular character of that inquiry – reasonable expectations are created by court decisions as well as reflected in them. A partial resolution results from focusing on a bright line test: we can somewhat reconcile the different results between remote sensing devices used to search dwellings, where the Fourth Amendment applies, and computer technologies generally, where it often does not, by focusing on the particular status of the home as each person's secure refuge. Even that is of little use given the ideas of "curtilage"[xvi] and "open fields"[xvii] where the "plain view" doctrine permits warrantless searches. This particular divergence most likely cannot be usefully explained in "economic" terms as somehow "efficient".
How, then, are we to understand the Fourth Amendment? Can we impose any rationality on these contrary tendencies? They reflect the basic struggle between the State as guardian against criminality and the justified fear of tyranny. The problem facing us all is: how can the State, the most powerful actor of all, be prevented from aggrandizing even more power with each introduction of new technology? Recourse to the Framers' intent as to the meaning of "search" is of little help here when remote sensing technologies did not exist in 1789, especially since cultural understandings like the "reasonable expectations of privacy" evolve over time.
Currently, the struggle over the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is often cast as one more example of the struggle between "individual rights" versus "collective powers"[xviii] with a balancing[xix] of various competing interests via a multitude of factors.[xx] That miscasts the issue. "Rights" of individuals and "powers" of the State are both emanations of State power because rights are enforced by courts and police. The inevitable and impossible problem of self-limitation of the State, of the renunciation of the State to power despite the desire of factions to seize state power and aggrandize their own power[xxi] is not a problem of "rights" versus "powers". It is a problem of self-limitation of the State, by the State.[xxii] However, multi-factor interest balancing tests are too vague and manipulable to provide the essential protections needed against state power.
The conflict between "individual rights" and "collective state powers" is currently methodologically analyzed via "balancing," a term which in American jurisprudence has more than one meaning[xxiii] and can refer to either a multi-factor interest analysis[xxiv] (e.g., in the Fourth Amendment) or, instead, to what in the European Union[xxv] is referred to as "proportionality"[xxvi] (e.g., in equal protection and due process analysis). Multi-factor interest balancing tests are rightly criticized as arbitrary and potentially capricious judicial fiat.[xxvii] How does the court decide which factors are chosen and what weight is assigned to them? In contrast, the proportionality test provides much greater legal certainty.
The proportionality inquiry is more exacting than ad hoc multi-factor interest balancing. Proportionality refers to means-end rational review[xxviii] with strict scrutiny for suspect classes[xxix] and requires the examination of:
1) the means chosen by the State (are they necessary?)
2) the ends to be attained (are they legitimate?)
3) the relationship between the means and ends (is there a rational relationship between the two?);
4) the application of strict scrutiny (i.e., is the invasion of the private fundamental right by the public power done via the least restrictive means?[xxx])
Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is circular,[xxxi] confused,[xxxii] and often criticized[xxxiii] because determining and balancing competing interests is vague and manipulable. As a jurist, the only practical way to proceed is through fact-intensive analysis of the individual case to try to find out what is a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the given factual context. But, from the perspective of legal theory, the only solution is to understand that the problem is inevitable and irresolvable because the issue is miscast both theoretically and methodologically. Theoretically, the conflict is not between (individual) "rights" versus (collective) "powers".[xxxiv] Rather, the conflict is between the State as guardian versus the State as tyrant because both "rights" and "powers" are creations of the State. The State's invasions of freedoms should thus be regarded with great distrust because of the tendency to tyranny. [xxxv] Interpretations of the text, context, structure, history, and intent of the law must be made with this principle of distrust of state power as a guide.[xxxvi] Doubtful cases should be resolved by a presumption against the State and in favor of the people. That is what is meant by the phrase "limited self-government"[xxxvii] – a democratic minimal state.[xxxviii]
Will the court's currently confused "interest balancing" approach in the Fourth Amendment context[xxxix] ever solve the problem of what is a "search" and when it is "reasonable"? No, because the test itself is flawed and uncertain. A proportionality test would better protect individual freedoms. Is the invasion of the fundamental right to privacy a necessary means to a legitimate end? Is the infringement of this fundamental right the least invasive possible? In many cases, searches are a necessary means to the legitimate end of public security. However, because the invaded right is fundamental the permissibility of such searches should be subject to strict scrutiny – proportionality stricto sensu.
The State should be able to undertake non-invasive "remote" searches via new technology without triggering the State's liability in tort for breach of privacy due to the absence of monetary damages. Without a warrant, however, such evidence ought to be inadmissible in court. This approach is sensible because the people have a clear interest in discreet surveillance of criminals, whether terrorists or drug dealers. At the same time, the people have a clear interest in privacy and in avoiding the risk of a tyrannical government.[xl] Electronic remote searches are not invasive or intrusive. They are not outrageous. However, to be admitted into court there must be a good reason for such search to have been undertaken in the first place.
New technologies are here and the problem will not disappear – unlike your liberties, or for that matter, criminals. Justice Scalia has already noted the flawed nature of open-ended multi-factor interest balancing.[xli] It is likely that the U.S. doctrine of multi-factor interest balancing will merge into the globalizing legal concept of proportionality because interest balancing is vague and uncertain whereas proportionality is much better defined. New technologies are both a vector of this globalization of law leading to normative convergence and a subject of it.
[i] Dr. Engle works as a research assistant to Duncan Kennedy at Harvard Law School and as an editor for various law journals at Harvard. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
[ii] Kim Zetter, Wireless Network Signals Produce See-Through Walls, WIRED.COM, Oct. 2, 2009, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/see-through-walls/.
[iii] See generally, Richard S. Julie, High-Tech Surveillance Tools and the Fourth Amendment: Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in the Technological Age, 37 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 127 (2000) (describing the law of search and seizure with respect to new technologies).
[iv] Thomas Y. Davies, Correcting Search-and-Seizure History: Now-Forgotten Common-Law Warrantless Arrest Standards and the Original Understanding of "Due Process of Law", 77 Miss. L.J. 1 (2007) (explaining that common law protections against warrantless search and seizure were more extensive than Fourth Amendment guaranties).
[v] See, e.g., California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35, 37-38 (1988) (finding no reasonable expectation of privacy in garbage because "[i]t is common knowledge that plastic garbage bags left on or at the side of a public street are readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public."). So for example, evidence obtained from a homeless person rummaging through a dumpster would be admissible in court.
[vi] Orin S. Kerr, The Fourth Amendment and New Technologies: Constitutional Myths and the Case for Caution, 102 Mich. L. Rev. 801 (2004) (arguing that the admissibility of new technologies in searches should be determined by the legislature, not the judiciary).
[vii] See generally, Steven Penney, Reasonable Expectations of Privacy and Novel Search Technologies: An Economic Approach, 97 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 477 (2007) (explaining the reasonable expectation standard in the context of new technologies).
[viii] Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 505, 511 (1961).
[ix] California v. Ciraolo, 476 U.S. 207, 209 (1986); see also Florida v. Riley, 488 U.S. 445, 448–51 (1989).
[x] United States v. Hatfield, 333 F.3d 1189, 1198 (10th Cir. 2003).
[xi] California v. Ciraolo, 476 U.S. 207, 213 (1986).
[xii] See Daniel J. Solove, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age 202 (2004).
[xiii] Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27, 34 (2001) (internal citations omitted).
[xiv] United States v. Karo, 468 U.S. 705, 714 (1984).
[xv] Berger v. New York, 388 U.S. 41 (1967).
[xvi] United States v. Dunn, 480 U.S. 294 (1987) (applying a multi factor test to determine whether an area is "curtilage").
[xvii] Oliver v. United States, 466 U.S. 170 (1984) (explaining the "open fields" doctrine with respect to the Fourth Amendment); United States v. Vankesteren, No. 08-4110, 2009 U.S. App. Lexis 183 (4th Cir. 2009) (allowing evidence from a video surveillance device placed in an "open field").
[xviii] "Moderates and conservatives argued that because all the courts could do was balance rights against powers, or rights against rights, they had no specifically legal basis for overruling legislative judgments." Duncan Kennedy, The Critique of Rights in Critical Legal Studies, in Left Legalism/Left Critique (Wendy Brown & Janet Halley eds., 2002).
[xix] Whether a search is reasonable "is judged by balancing its intrusion on the individual's Fourth Amendment interests against its promotion of legitimate governmental interests." Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648, 654 (1979).
[xx] See Comm. on the Judiciary, House of Representatives v. Miers, No. 08-0409 (D.C. 2008) (citing Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273, 283 (2002)).
[xxi] See James Madison, Federalist #10 (1787).
[xxii] See Gunther Teubner, Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law?, 72 Mod. L. Rev. 1 (2009).
[xxiii] See Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Lexicon: Balancing Tests, Legal Theory Blog (August 23, 2009).
[xxiv] See id.; T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Constitutional Law in the Age of Balancing, 96 Yale L.J. 943 (1987).
[xxv] See J.H. Gerards, Proportionality review in European law, IVR Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law (2009).
[xxvi] E. Thomas Sullivan & Richard S. Frase, Proportionality Principles in American Law: Controlling Excessive Government Actions (2009).
[xxvii] Lawrence Solum, A Law of Rules: A Critique and Reconstruction of Justice Scalia's View of the Rule of Law, APA Newsletters, Forthcoming (Discussing discussing Justice Scalia's critique of multi-factor balancing tests); District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S. Ct. 2783 (2008)554 U.S. ___ at 62.
[xxviii] Mculloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 356–57 (1819) ("The court, in inquiring whether congress had made a selection of constitutional means, is to compare the law in question with the powers it is intended to carry into execution; not in order to ascertain whether other or better means might have been selected, for that is the legislative province, but to see whether those which have been chosen have a natural connection with any specific power; whether they are adapted to give it effect; whether they are appropriate means to an end.") (emphasis added).
[xxix] See Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).
[xxx] See Id.
[xxxi] Ian James Samuel, Warrantless Location Tracking, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1324, 1340 (2008).
[xxxii] See Christopher Slobogin, Technologically-Assisted Physical Surveillance: The American Bar Association's Tentative Draft Standards, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 383, 401 (1997) (contending that the courts apply a multi-factored analysis to decide whether government conduct violates a reasonable expectation of privacy, and then concluding that "many of the factors that courts consider... are of dubious value").
[xxxiii] See Id.
[xxxiv] See generally, Duncan Kennedy, Toward an Historical Understanding of Legal Consciousness: The Case of Classical Legal Thought in America, 1850–1940, 3 Res. in Law & Soc. 3 (1980).
[xxxv] See James Madison, Federalist #10 (1787).
[xxxvi] Charles Kelso & Randal Kelso, The Path of Constitutional Law (2007).
[xxxvii] "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined." James Madison, Federalist #45 (1788).
[xxxviii] See James Madison, Federalist #45 (1788); Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #83 (1788).
[xxxix] Professor Donald Dripps, Will the real Fourth Amendment please stand up?, in Trial (1995).
[xl] For an example of governmental overreach see Ryan Singe, FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts, WIRED.COM, May 21, 2009, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fcc-raid/.
[xli] Bendix Autolite Corp. v. Midwesco Enter., 486 U.S. 888 (1988) (dissent); Vernonia Sch. Dist. 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (1995).


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www.english.globalarabnetwork.comGlobal Arab Network – A new study by a British archaeologist says that the first human settlement in Oman began about 125,000 years ago. Dr Jeffrey I Rose, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, UK, said this during a lecture here yesterday on "Oman at the Dawn of Time: Th…LikeUnlike · · Share · 54 minutes ago
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"All praises due…" Announcing #Streets2016 Headliner
"'All praises due to Allah and that's a blessing.' This line from the legendary Eric B & Rakim track "Move the Crowd" stands out like a glimmering minaret in the annals of Hip-Hop.
I remember asking, who is this Allah to whom Rakim gives the entire credit for his excellence, and how do I get some of this in my life? He stood in the video in front of a crowd donning a kufi, seemingly teaching them how to unlock their inner Rakim. I've been trying to do so ever since.
As the competitive spirit of Hip-Hop evolved into the dance, art and innovative DJing of Rap, Rakim–a small-framed, monotone-voiced teenager with the most intricate, intelligent and smooth rhymes ever heard–became the undisputed poet laureate of Hip-Hop's golden era. Rakim's cool emanated from a spirituality that was at his very core. As a kid, back then, struggling to find my voice and honor my story, Rakim emboldened me to be a person of integrity.
So it's a profound honor for me to announce that Rakim will headline IMAN's 2016 Takin' It to the Streets Festival & Summit. This is even more powerful in a year when activists and artists from across the country will converge on Chicago's Marquette Park on Saturday, August 6 to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Chicago Freedom Movement's historic march into that same park exactly 50 years earlier.
You don't want to miss this event. See you in the front row."
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Businessweek recently had an article on Consumer Reports and how they "dared" take on Steve Jobs and the problem-ridden iPhone 4. While the article itself was interesting, it was the bit about how Consumer Reports came about that intrigued me most.
Back in the midst of the depression the 1930's no one trusted banks, a fact borne out by the nation's love of notorious bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. This truly scared the nation's elite business people as they thought that consumers would have no faith in their products or services anymore. And then this upstart organization called Consumers Union began independently testing products like Alka-Seltzer and breakfast cereals to see if the makers' claims were truly valid. Results were published in a magazine called Consumers Union Reports, now renamed Consumer Reports.
The concept that big business could possibly be wrong was truly considered unAmerican at the time. Readers Digest, one of the biggest magazines of the time, literally called the organization members dangerous subversives. Good Housekeeping told its readers that Consumers Union was extending the Depression. Coincidentally, those two magazines relied on big business advertising for their revenues while Consumers Union has never accepted advertising ever.
Of course, today it's easy to find unbiased or pretty much unbiased reviews of products and services. But the powers that be, using the media, still lull people into a sense of "not questioning". The entire Iraq war, still going on at this writing, is a classic example. I have yet to hear anyone explain to me why we had to invade at all, or why we are still there. Claims of weapons of mass destruction or Iraq being a threat to America were proven false. Yet most Americans associate the Iraq war with "defending our country". It's just media spin.
This is why understanding both your flow and the flow blockages of things around you is so important. It's easy to get sucked in by claims ("Asbestos is safe", "Doctors approve of cigarettes", etc.) that can appear unimpeachable on the surface but are, in reality, the exact opposite. This goes double during this recession, where no one wants to hear any bad news about any product or service they invest in. But such "ignorance" is extremely detrimental.


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The Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence (ORF-RE) program promotes research excellence in Ontario by supporting transformative, internationally significant research of strategic value to the province. The ORF-RE focuses on scientific excellence and strong commercialization and targets new, leading-edge research initiatives.
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dinner irl: orzo "with everything"
So as you know, we moved a few months ago.
And you also probably know that we moved into a house without a kitchen.
And it was fine. Really. I made this. And these. And those.
And even when they took my temporary sink away, I was able to whip up some of these.
Visits from friends – and some delicious home cooked meals – helped ease this major transition, but I will not deny that having a kitchen again has been a true delight.
I couldn't wait to jump in and have people over again – it had been a while and I was craving "normal". But life has gotten busier, then Noah dislocated his elbow, and I thought for a moment about retreating again. Constructing a dinner party suddenly felt above even this confident cook's pay grade.
But I SO wanted to push through. And I decided that if I could create a "seasonal" entertaining menu – one that would be a crowd-pleaser (and serve a crowd if needed), have mostly make-in-advance components, and easily adapt to dietary needs – I'd feel much more confident about diving back in.
Fortunately for me, Mike is one of those easy eaters who doesn't mind having the same thing over and over again – so I didn't have to worry about boredom setting in for him.
And lo, my "summer menu" was born.
I immediately chose to make these ribs the star of the menu. I've been making them for about 15 years and they NEVER fail to fly off the plate, with a sauce so good that you will literally want to put it on everything (I swear I've seen Mike spooning it over ice cream). Click here for my secret for the best – and easiest – way to make foolproof ribs.
I then added in these garlic knots because I don't know that I have ever made anything easier or that people love more. I mean, garlic knots – are you going to argue with that???
And since I had just whipped up this dessert – to raves from all – I knew that it would be the perfect ending to any dinner party. Four ingredients, no-bake and do-ahead ease put this at the top of the list for a perfect summertime dessert (for a bigger group I always turn to my beloved roulade).
But I was missing a side.
For summer serving, I lean heavily on a variation of a corn-tomato-feta salad. But it's best prepared just before serving, and I wanted something more akin to a pasta salad – preferably one that was stepped up a bit and easily adaptable.
And then I remembered this:
I started making this dish almost 20 years ago, and I have to say it has never gone out of style. Easy, feeds a crowd and keeps well for days. And talk about adaptable! There's almost no ingredient that wouldn't work here. I'm including my adaptation but feel free to switch up and add in whatever you like!
I've served this "summer menu" up a few times already – taking out the pine nuts (for an allergy) on one occasion, and adding in a large caprese salad (for a vegetarian) on another.
And it's worked beautifully. I've enjoyed my guests, actually sat down to eat, and had zero stress.
For a smaller group I've turned to my tried-and-true steak and pasta salad, which – even all these years later – never grows old.
So, thoughts? Do you, or would you, create a "seasonal" menu? Would love to know your tips for stress-free entertaining, as well as any menu ideas that you love!
adapted from Epicurious
1/3 cup sliced and drained oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes
2 minced garlic cloves
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1 box (16 ounces) orzo
1 cup finely chopped radicchio
1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
1/2 cup thinly sliced basil
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1/2 cup crumbled feta
Place sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, oil and vinegar in a serving bowl. Cook orzo till tender but firm; drain well and let cool slightly. Add to the serving bowl and toss well to combine (can be made the day before; cover and refrigerate).
A few hours before serving add the radicchio, pine nuts, basil, parmesan and feta to bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper and toss well to combine. Keep at room temperature for serving.
This delicious recipe brought to you by Sheri Silver
Stay tuned for my "fall menu"! And get more dinner inspiration on Pinterest!


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How did I miss this Leigh? Thank you for the link;))
I'm going to use this page to post all the links that I have found in my travels over the interweb so far. Some are educational, others are weird but most are just hilarious! If you enjoy a good laugh, check these out!
Or check out my posts relating to the various websites I've come across.
Some from the people I know:
* http://www.ankhou.com/ – The creator of the Submeg logo and business card. Hit him up for work!
* AlisonKate – Check out her amazing art! (You must be logged into facebook)
* http://oldschoolgameblog.wordpress.com/ – A blog from another classicamiga member. Dedicated to all things retro!
* http://thecommodoreamiga.com – See above! This one is dedicated to only the Amiga
* http://laneymcmann.com/ – An acquaintance from the land of blogging. Information about writing, check it out!
* http://www.dustandgrooves.com/ – A site for music collectors
* http://www.the-breaks.com/ – For all those elusive breaks!
* http://www.ultragraphik.com/database – Another sample list site, currently being remodeled (in French)


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Happy Friday! I'm so happy the weekend is practically here! I've spent most of this week playing catch-up, but I did get to fit in a little fun along the way. I stopped in at Anthropologie in Fashion Island.
It's been a while since I visited in that store, since I usually go to the one at South Coast Plaza now. Well, their displays never cease to amaze me! I took a few pics of my favorite vignettes to share with you. I love the aged plaster walls they are showing with this grouping of antique–inspired mirrors.
This look reminds me of the real aged walls of my favorite antique store in Savannah, Alex Raskin Antiques. And, that rug! Oh my!
Here's another grouping of mirrors in this little room that has a more vintage tropical "Miami" look.
I love the look of this massive armoire filled with carefully arranged art and everyday dishes that are ready for the next table setting.
A pair of ladder-type shelves benefit greatly with a balanced approach to styling. The books are placed in a zig zagging pattern across the two shelving units, patterns and color are perfectly arranged and then the hanging "fish hook" plants soften the whole look.
Here's a really fun coastal dinner table look. It's not totally beachy, but it definitely has a vibe that's chic but casual.
Love the textures on this bed!
And, of course, their "shelfies" can't be beat!
While at Fashion Island, I also popped over to K. Hall Studio. If you watch the Real Housewives of Orange County, then you may recognize this as Meghan King Edmonds new candle store. They had the opening party on the show. It's a cute little store filled with books, candles and other pretty gifts. The styling in this store is darling too!
There'll be six home on the tour this year, and what's really great is that all the homes are relatively close to one another, so there will be more time to see them all and more time to enjoy the luncheon, shopping at the boutique and the after party at Barclay Butera Interiors. Also new this year is a morning reception at the Balboa Bay Club!


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Thornton le Dale is home to a collection of Classic & Vintage Cars, in this unique museum, owned by D.T.Mathewson and open to the public. There are also vehicles available for sale from the forecourt and via auctions held in the village hall.
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The Museum is run by a family of enthusiasts, for enthusiasts and specialises in vehicles dating from 1918 through to 1976, a period which many visitors will be able to remember. Why not have a nostalgic time looking at the vehicles of yesteryear? We are open every day:
- Monday - Friday: 9.30 - 4.30
- Saturday: 9.30 - 4.00
- Sunday: 11.00 - 4.00
- Price of admission: Adults £2.00, Children Free
The museum has over 40 cars and commercial vehicles and 30 motorbike's, along with an admirable collection of memorabilia including engines, signs, cycles, vintage pumps and many more interesting items.
Many of the vintage cars and motorcycles in the museum have been lovingly restored and brought back into full working order. This is done within the museums workshop and when under way visitors can call at the viewing area and see just how it's done. The restoration of vehicles is not just limited to the museum exhibits.
If you are impressed by what you see and have a vehicle you would like restoring why not talk to us, we'll do our very best to help you. We also have vehicles for sale and regular auctions in Thornton Le Dale village hall.
Click here to see more details - the Museum website
Some of your group not interested in motor cars? Why not do different things whist in the village? There are shops, restuarants, walks and cycle routes.


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Yarmouth shambles as wrong horse wins juvenile race at 50-1
McBride admits to 'genuine mistake' in identity mix-up
Yarmouth was the scene of an unprecedented mix-up in British racing on Thursday when the 50-1 winner of the opening two-year-old race was later identified as her year-older stablemate who had been due to run later on the card.
Trainer Charlie McBride called the error a "genuine, honest mistake" which had come about due to him being delayed collecting the saddle and then rushing to tack up the horse in time for the race.
He said: "It's a genuine mistake and humans make mistakes. It's an honest error and no-one stood to gain anything by it.
"I took a young girl who has been with me for two or three months to the races. She's ridden both fillies and knows them both. After we checked them in we got some lunch and I sent her to get the two-year-old ready and I went to the weighing room to get the saddle.
"I like to weigh my horses out early but I had to wait over 20 minutes for the saddle. The filly was already out when I got back and as I was stressed and rushing I didn't look that closely - I just assumed it was the right horse."
The mistake was only realised at the post-race sampling unit and after the weighed-in announcement had been made by officials, leaving the racecourse stewards with no power to amend the embarrassing result, which has been referred to the BHA.
McBride added: "They are two brown fillies and if you stood them together I'd be able to tell them apart straight away. I know both fillies but in the heat of the moment I didn't look at the filly.
"In the paddock and after the race there were a lot of owners and people to deal with. It never dawned on me it was not the right horse."
Mandarin Princess had appeared to cause an upset when winning the 6f novice auction stakes for Newmarket-based McBride and jockey John Egan from 4-6 favourite Fyre Cay.
An inquiry was called by the stewards, but no announcement regarding the race was made on course until 4.12pm, nearly 45 minutes after the mistake had first come to light and over two hours after the race.
In the meantime punters, bookmakers and those connected with the horses were left in a state of confusion and disbelief.
Stipendiary steward Tony McGlone told At The Races: "I've not come across this before. As with all horses they were taken across to the stables, scanned and then were allocated a box each.
'Like a plot out of a Dick Francis novel catastrophically gone astray' - what the bookies are saying
"Mr [Charlie] McBride was over at the weighing room and was slightly delayed and the stable girl had taken the horse out of the stables and into the saddling boxes. As he was in a rush, he put the saddle on, the horse ran and won.
"We then sent the horse for routine testing as normal and the veterinary officer scanned the horse and found it to be the incorrect horse. We've inquired into the matter and it's possibly a genuine mistake."
He added: "We've referred it to the BHA for further consideration. I think they've got 14 days to lodge an appeal to the winner. The system does work but like all things it's not fail safe."
Such a situation has not occurred on a British racecourse since the introduction of microchip identification in 1999, and a full investigation is set to be launched by the BHA.
'Result cannot be amended'
A BHA statement said: "The incident at Yarmouth has been referred to the BHA's head office in order that we can carry out an investigation, in accordance with our rules. Since we introduced the microchipping identification system an incident such as this is, as far as we are aware, unprecedented.
"The issue had not been established until after the result had been made official. After the weighed-in has been declared on the racecourse, the result cannot be amended by the stewards."
It continued: "The responsibility lies with the trainer to present and run the correct horse in the race. Having said that, and while we have not seen an incident of this nature in recent times, we will of course determine what steps need to be put in place to prevent it from happening again. We sympathise with the betting operators and betting public who have potentially been affected by this incident."
'I thought the lads were taking the mickey'
Egan, who had partnered the McBride-trained horse, questioned why the result had not been amended on course.
"I didn't know [about the mistake] until the fourth race, I thought the lads were taking the mickey," Egan told ATR.
Rossitor won twice as Aglow, and Aglow ran as Rossitor - more mix-ups
"At the end of the day we're all human and mistakes happen. I feel most sorry for Charlie and I'm sure there's no-one more disappointed. There are worse things in the world that happen and we'll all get over it and move on.
"I'm surprised the stewards didn't make the race void or disqualify the winner. It's the wrong horse in the wrong race and it seems very simple to me. I can't understand that rule."
Layers stunned
On-course bookmaker Dan Hague said: "It's a total embarrassment – it shouldn't really happen in this day and age. As bookmakers we have to abide by the 'weighed in' announcement otherwise there's no end to the business.
"There has to be a cut-off point and they've weighed in and then this has come to light. I took a £1,100 bet on the favourite [Fyre Cay] from a regular customer and to be fair to him he'd said they've weighed in and that's it. I might sort an ex gratia payment with him but how far do you go as I've paid out £400 on the winner?
"You've got to think it's a one-off, but it can never happen again. It's a very sad day for British racing."
If you are interested in this, read more:
What action the bookmakers are taking . . .
That's not my name: other cases of mistaken identity


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National Meet the Firms Week Virtually Connects Outstanding Accounting College Students to Hiring Firms
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - Mar 4, 2013) - Sage North America today announced its continued partnership with CollegeFrog, a company that works to match high-performing accounting students and graduates with hiring firms across the nation, to present the Spring National Meet the Firms Week event. This is the second National Meet the Firms Week, a premier virtual accounting recruiting event, running from March 25-29, 2013.
National Meet the Firms Week allows hundreds of accounting firms nationwide to meet thousands of job-seeking accounting students and gives students the opportunity to get their resumés into the hands of hiring firms, all online and at no charge.
Last fall, CollegeFrog presented the first National Meet the Firms Week event as an answer to recruitment challenges that college students and firms alike are facing. Colleges across the nation were hosting Meet the Firms events on campus, allowing students to interact with local hiring firms in person. Many accounting firms could not afford to recruit at multiple campuses in their area, and students wanted more exposure to more employment opportunities.
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"The main focus of the Sage Accountants Network is to propel the accounting profession forward. One way we are doing this is by participating in National Meet the Firms Week events," said Jennifer Warawa, vice president, partner programs and channel sales, Sage North America. "This is an excellent opportunity for young professionals looking to start their career, and we are excited to provide training and certification opportunities to build knowledgeable leaders in the accounting profession."
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