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"Wet Tail," the young lady said that her dwarf hamster of 6 months was very inactive and not eating or drinking since yesterday evening. It was 1 pm now.
"Wet Tail means that the hamster passes watery stools," I noted that the hamster's penile area was very wet, with yellow urine stains.
"He passes a lot of stools, hard ones," the young lady said. "What's wrong with him? He has this continuous sniffling sound, as if he has asthma." I held the hamster near my ears. Yes, he was emitting a "sit, sit, sit" sound.
"The hamster has an infection and so he was not moving or eating," I said. "Does he pee in a corner normally?"
"He pees everywhere," the young lady said. "Yesterday and today."
The hamster lives with the sibling who is bigger size in the same cage. "They have company. They never fight," the young lady was at home all day and had observed them. "Many pairs of male dwarf hamsters are OK when they are less than 3 months old," I said. "When they grow up, one will bite or attack the other."
The lady would not believe me as she was a first-time hamster owner. "Do they compete for food?" I asked. "Each would stuff as many sunflower seeds into their pouches as they can?"
"Yes," the lady confirmed. "Sometimes they stuff until their cheek pouches are very big. They only eat sunflower seeds. They don't like the other type of food."
The mouths of the two hamsters were smelly as the cheek pouches were infected due to impaction of the sunflower seeds. The seeds were also smelly as I took two seeds out of the pouch. Finally, after 5 minutes, the patient poured out 30 seeds.
1. Cheek pouch impaction. Bacterial infection from the pouches to the whole body system. Hamster had fever and stopped moving.
2. Urinary stain. Incontinent due to urinary tract infection or bites at this area causing painful urination. Bitten by the bigger-sized hamster. "Not as big as Hamstaro," the lady said. "But bigger than this one."
Then her friend spoke to her in Malay with some words "gig" and laughed. The bigger sibling does bite the ears and other parts of this subordinate hamster. "Whenever the squeaking became too loud," I separate them," the lady said.
Separate the two males or use a fencing between them. Or one upstairs and one downstairs in the crate. "They don't fight," the lady said. "Separate means they have no company for each other." I could not convince her and said: "OK, wait for the Battle of the Hamsters first."
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This initiative, aims at improving the PhD education level in GNSS and to reach a high common standard of PhD in GNSS in Europe by supporting the networking of young researchers-to-be who will be the GNSS scientific community of the future. This year, the GNSS PhD Training teams up with the SaPPART GNSS Training School.
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I'll admit I didn't know a lot about Les McKeown and The Bay City Rollers before Sunday night at Crewe Lyceum, writes Claire Faulkner.
Of course, I'd heard of them and knew a couple of their hit records, but I really wasn't sure what to expect from the show.
I'm so glad I went. I had a great night.
Even before the show started the atmosphere was brilliant, and judging by the sometimes over excited audience, Rollermania is definitely alive and well in Crewe.
The theatre was packed. There was tartan everywhere you looked, and when the bagpipes started to play the fans lining the foot of the stage went crazy.
The musicians were brilliant, as was Les McKeown, who took time to talk and interact with fans between songs like 'Love Me Like I Love You', 'The Air That I Breathe' and 'Saturday Night'.
The fans were the most enthusiastic group of people I've ever seen at the Lyceum, singing and dancing all night to hits including 'Shang-A-Lang', 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling' and 'Bye Bye Baby'.
It was difficult not to join in with the energy and excitement of the crowd, although I'm still not sure what dance moves you do to 'The Bump'.
It was such an enjoyable and fun night out.
Les if you ever see this, it's a thumbs up from Crewe.
I'm sure your fans, old and new would love to see you perform at The Lyceum again soon.
More details on future shows visit www.crewelyceum.co.uk
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Several years and incarnations later, Konami has released the latest game based on the aging Ninja Turtle property, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee. Folks who played the last two Turtle games from Konami have reason to fear this one, seeing they both suffered from a myriad of issues. Control felt sloppy in both cases and wound up muddling the whole experience. When a game builds its foundation on frenetic combat, the one thing you just can't mess up on is control. It needs to be responsive, fluid and intuitive. So when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Battle Nexus shipped with clunky controls, the only thing left for fans to do was wait for the next installment.
Mutant Melee is not a direct sequel to Battle Nexus, in that it doesn't follow the timeline of the new cartoon. It's more of a spin-off, using all the characters from the show and throwing them in a disjointed adventure. As the name implies, Mutant Melee will have you battling everyone from Shredder to Foot Soldiers, and Master Splinter to Casey Jones, in a series of mini-games and matches. It's like Super Smash Bros. Melee in that regard, but for all things righteous don't think the two games compare when it comes to quality. In fact, they couldn't be farther apart. Once again, Mutant Melee, like the two games before it, suffers from a bunch of serious, fun-deteriorating issues.
Mutant Melee splits gameplay into two main modes. The first mode, called Adventure Mode, follows one of 10 characters (four unlocked, six unlockable) through 100 quickie stages tied very loosely by a story. And by loosely, you should understand the supposed story is practically non-existent. A typical story line goes something like this: Stage 1 - "You're in the dojo, train by hitting punching bags!" followed by Stage 2 - "You're done training, now beat up thugs in an alley!" followed by stage 3- "You're in April O'Neil's apartment. Beat up Michelangelo to impress her," and so on. It goes on and on, with each stage boasting no real character interaction or subplots, or even much of a plot.
Since many of the stages take place in different environments, they present different challenges. The layout is different every few stages, for example, and the placement of destructible crates and barrels is different. Many of the stages feature several levels, so you can climb and dive bomb your foes below. Perhaps the coolest (and sometimes frustrating) aspect of the stages are the insta-kill zones; sections with no guard railings, glass panes on the floor and break and give way and bridges that explode, sending you to your doom. Certain stages don't have you killing anyone at all, but simply trying to survive an aerial onslaught of bomb-throwing Foot Soldiers.
Unfortunately, the amusement wears thin excessively fast. The average gamer will clear the first ten or so stages in a matter of minutes, and that should give a clear indication of where the game is heading. There will be more enemies, harder enemies and different stages, but there's very little variety in what you're actually doing. It's just punck-kick-win, punch-kick-win, and so on. Things get harder and different enemies attack using slightly different methods, but none of it will get your blood pumping. What's worse, virtually every character shares from the same pool of stages and events. Donatello needs to spend his first few stages training in the dojo, but so do Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo. Each of their training sessions culminate in a fight with Master Splinter, which precedes a "surprise" attack by a posse of foot soldiers. A little more variety would have helped liven things quite a bit.
Just as in previous Turtle games, the characters don't control that well. It serves to note they control better than in Battle Nexus, but it could just be the arena-style stages that produce the allusion of tighter control. There are far less obstacles to overcome, so there's less chance of you missing a jump or something of that nature. If you've played a Konami turtle game before, then you know exactly how this one handles. Each character sports a main and secondary attack, shuriken technique, block, counter and signature move. Pulling these off exactly how and when you want will frustrate the bejebus out of you. And since bloodthirsty killers constantly surround you, a missed hit or block will cause you a ton of grief. And it happens a lot.
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Publishing in the shadow of the Nazis. Tauchnitz, Albatross and Brandstetter in the 1930s.
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By the time the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the firm of Bernhard Tauchnitz had existed in Leipzig for almost a century and had already survived a world war as well as the hyperinflation and depression that followed it. The printer and publisher Oscar Brandstetter, also based in Leipzig, was fast approaching its 75 year anniversary. Although the leaders of the two firms must surely have known each other within the Leipzig book trade, they were at that point unconnected, as far as I can tell. They were shortly to be brought together by the intervention of a third firm, Albatross, based not in Leipzig, but in Paris, and which had existed for only a few months. They presumably had little awareness of this, but may have had more awareness of some of the complications likely to arise from Hitler's rise to power, which were to play a significant part in the coming together of the three companies.
On 10th May 1933, in the Opernplatz in Berlin, German students and brown-shirted stormtroopers gathered to burn books that they considered un-German. It was followed by ceremonial book-burnings in other German university towns, including Leipzig. Did a collective shiver pass down the spine of the German book trade, for so long based in Leipzig?
As well as the works of many prominent German authors, books by a long list of English and American authors were banned, many of them published by Tauchnitz, including H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos. All of these writers had books published by Tauchnitz before May 1933. No further books by any of them were published after that date, although a few reprints with later dates exist, possibly only for sale outside Germany.
Several of the banned authors had in any case already defected to Albatross, whose books were vastly more attractive than the Tauchnitz volumes, and had quickly established the upper hand in the marketplace. So in the face of a formidable competitor, Tauchnitz was being asked to compete with one hand tied behind its back. To make matters worse, Albatross was led by Max Christian Wegner, who had previously managed Tauchnitz in Leipzig, where he had tried to push through various changes, before the Board, finding his changes too radical, decided to part company with him.
At Albatross he found a Board, led by the Italian publisher Arnoldo Mondadori, that was more attuned to his way of thinking and he was able to implement many of his ideas, with striking success. Amongst those ideas was the separation of the printing from the publishing side of the business. Unlike Tauchnitz Editions, Albatross books were never printed in-house. The first few were printed at Mondadori in Italy, but from volume 21 onwards, most were printed by Brandstetter, or more specifically by the Jakob Hegner department of Brandstetter in Leipzig.
How did the contact with Brandstetter / Hegner come about? Had Wegner already had discussions with them when he was at Tauchnitz, possibly with the thought of them taking over the printing work for Tauchnitz? Up to the point when he left, in May 1931, Tauchnitz books had always been printed in-house, but by the end of the following year books were being printed by the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig or by the Offizin Haag-Drugulin. Was that one of the changes he had proposed?
It would take more than a change of printer to save Tauchnitz though, and by mid-1934 its financial situation had deteriorated to the point where it was put up for sale. Although it was effectively unable to compete with Albatross, it had a back catalogue of over 5000 volumes that would have some value in the hands of the right owners, and in particular would have some value for Albatross.
But it was not Albatross who bought Tauchnitz, despite the rumours circulating at the time. Albatross had too many Jewish links, both in terms of its owners and its managers, for that to be allowed in the political climate of the time. Instead there was an effective partnership between Albatross and Oscar Brandstetter, where Brandstetter became the new owner of Tauchnitz and took on all the printing work, while editorial control was taken on by Albatross.
So Brandstetter may have been reluctant and largely nominal owners of Tauchnitz, there only to satisfy the authorities, happy to benefit from the substantial printing work, but with little interest in the publishing side of the business. It's hard to know for sure. They were certainly not just printers. They did have other publishing interests, but publishing contemporary English literature would be quite a specialised area that they might not have felt able to take on. They surely would not have wanted anyway to go into direct competition with Albatross, one of their major printing clients. A partnership where Brandstetter were the legal owners of Tauchnitz, but Albatross controlled the editorial side, would tie the two companies together and guarantee a substantial volume of printing work from both businesses.
But if that arrangement suited Brandstetter, other changes under way were more threatening. The department of Brandstetter dealing with Albatross was run by Jakob Hegner, who despite converting to Christianity, came from an Austrian Jewish family and was strongly opposed to National Socialism. He had been a publisher in Vienna, but his firm had run into difficulties in 1930 and was acquired by Brandstetter, with Hegner himself moving to Leipzig. In 1936 though he was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer, which effectively barred him from the book business in Germany, and he moved back to Vienna, before fleeing to England in 1938 after the Anschluss. Interestingly Brandstetter published a short volume in 1937 celebrating the work of the Jakob Hegner business, with the title 'Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit' (Reality and Truth). The title came from a work by Josef Pieper published by the firm, but could it also have been a commentary aimed at the German authorities that had effectively driven the founder of the firm out of the country?
Albatross had similar problems to deal with. The distribution business of the company was run from Hamburg by Kurt Enoch, who was also Jewish. Although a decorated officer in the German Army from the First World War, he was effectively required under the Aryanisation programme to sell his business, and he too emigrated, first to Paris and then in 1940 to the US, where he went on to work for Penguin Books and to found the New American Library. Max Wegner moved back to Germany from Paris to take on Enoch's role in distribution, leaving John Holroyd-Reece in charge of the editorial side.
Holroyd-Reece is rather demonised by the Tauchnitz bibliographers, Todd & Bowden, but almost certainly unfairly. He did have some potentially difficult decisions about which books to publish under the Albatross brand, and which in the Tauchnitz Edition, but did so in a way that distinguished the brand images – Albatross more edgy and modern, Tauchnitz more conservative and traditional. While Todd & Bowden accuse him of unfairly favouring Albatross, his decisions were restricted by censorship in Germany, and in any case the reality is probably that without the intervention of Albatross, Tauchnitz would have had no new publishing programme at all after 1934. They had failed commercially and anyone else would have struggled to compete with Albatross in anything other than reprinting previous successes from their back catalogue. Brandstetter, as legal owners of Tauchnitz would have had little cause for complaint about Holroyd-Reece's stewardship of the company in the few years before the Second World War.
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From sea to shining sea, we're a nation of serious eats. To prove it, we tapped some famous all-American establishments to reveal their tips and tricks for creating food that'll make you stand up and salute the flag (if you aren't too full). Don't go to Philly without learning how to spot a fake cheesesteak on sight, and don't come back from Portland without knowing what goes into the most perfect cup of joe. And no trip to New England would be complete without a classic lobster roll – just figure out how you feel about mayo before you commit.


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text: I love this! Who in their right mind would call a car dealership "Booze-Up"? Well, the owner of this Japanese "land cruiser speciality store" did, apparently. It makes you imagine that each guy behind the wheel of a 4X4 that could smash you to a pulp is a beer-swilling booze-hound.


text: Welcome to the BWA Interactive Map of its global partners! Click on the map to find a country and the corresponding global BWA Member Organizations within that country. In many cases, you can discover more about each organization by clicking on the link to their website. This knowledge database shares a wide variety of data about individual BWA churches, as well as information about the different regions and countries they represent. Praise the Lord for the global reach of BWA!


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Channelview, Texas Area Code
Channelview, TX is officially utilizing an area code overlay in which area codes 832 and 713 and 281 serve the same geographic area. Ten digit dialing (area code + seven digit number) is necessary.
In addition to Channelview, TX area code information read more about area code 832 and 713 and 281 details and Texas area codes.
Channelview, TX is located in Harris County and observes the Central Time Zone.
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Shelton, Connecticut Passport Office Information
Residents of Shelton in Fairfield County, Connecticut have only a single location from which they can get a passport application sealed at. The passport agent in Shelton can provide you with passport forms or witness your signature and seal your passport documents (if you don't need your passport application sealed then you do not need to visit an acceptance agent). Besides the 1 location there are 157 other locations in the state of Connecticut from which you can get a passport application sealed at. If you are not needing a passport in Shelton for a least (3) weeks, you can visit the sole passport acceptance agent listed below the map on this web page. If you need it faster than (3) weeks we have provided the closest regional passport offices to Shelton, Connecticut and Expedited Passport service options for Shelton.
Regional Passport Offices Close to Shelton:These are passport issuing facilities. You will need to make an appointment and present proof of upcoming travel but in most cases, you will be able to get passport renewal, new passports, child passports, or a lost passport replacement Same Day or Next Day.
Connecticut Passport Agency - 23.7 Miles, New York Passport Agency - 52.4 Miles, Boston Passport Agency - 112.4 Miles, Philadelphia Passport Agency - 122.3 Miles, National Passport Center - 148.6 Miles
Fast Rush Passport Expediting Service in Shelton, Connecticut3rd Party Passport Expediting in Shelton CT: Expedited Passports & Visas are the experts for expediting passports in Shelton, if you're in a hurry, this is probably going to be your best option. Passport servces offered for Shelton: Expedited Passport Renewal, Expedited New Passports, Fast Passport Name Changes, Expedited Child Passports, Expedited Lost/Stolen Passport Replacement
How to Get a Passport in Shelton, ConnecticutGetting a passport in Shelton CT depends on what type of passport application you are needing. The process in these guides assumes that you are applying at a local Shelton Passport Office in which case it will take you 4 to 6 weeks to get a passport in Shelton.
Please select the appropriate guide from the list below to get started:
Passport Office in Shelton, CT
The single passport acceptance agent (local passport office) located in Shelton is listed below:
- Shelton Post Office
83 Bridge St
Shelton, CT 06484
Other Passport Offices Near Shelton, Connecticut:Listed below are additional passport offices that are located within 50 miles of Shelton Connecticut:
Derby Probate Court - Ansonia - 3.5 Miles
Ansonia Post Office - Ansonia - 3.5 Miles
Trumbull Post Office - Trumbull - 4.6 Miles
Seymour Post Office - Seymour - 5.8 Miles
Milford Public Library - Milford - 6.3 Miles
Milford Post Office - Milford - 6.5 Miles
Stratford Post Office - Stratford - 6.5 Miles
Orange Post Office - Orange - 6.6 Miles
Bridgeport (Bayview Sta.) Post Office - Bridgeport - 6.6 Miles
Allingtown Branch Post Office - West Haven - 7.3 Miles
Passport Service for Cities Near SheltonResidents of the following closeby cities looking to get a passport should consider using the passport office(s) located in Shelton for document sealing and 3-week passport expediting. Be sure to check other nearby passport offices listed above, as there may be a closer passport office to your city.
Shelton Connecticut, Derby Connecticut, Monroe Connecticut, Ansonia Connecticut, Trumbull Connecticut, Seymour Connecticut, Milford Connecticut, Woodbridge Connecticut, Stratford Connecticut, Oxford Connecticut, Easton Connecticut, Bridgeport Connecticut, Beacon Falls Connecticut, West Haven Connecticut, Bethany Connecticut, New Haven Connecticut, Newtown Connecticut, Redding Connecticut, Southbury Connecticut, Fairfield Connecticut


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Rodney McBride is a legal assistant at Burger Law
Rodney has been a legal assistant for 3 years. He handles cases and assists our lawyers and clients. Rodney attended McKendree University where he majored in history and was captain of the nationally ranked debate team for 2 years. He uses the research and communication skills honed there to provide support to the Burger Law team and to help our clients. Rodney also contributes to the Burger Law social media presence and online correspondence.


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Once all the gifts are opened and everyone's had a satisfying brunch on Christmas morning, the long afternoon stretches out before you. While it's true that many cities around the world shut down for Christmas Day, Vancouver stays alive with interesting seasonal activities, from visiting the Belugas at the Vancouver Aquarium to hitting the slopes or going out for Chinese. Here are some ideas on how to spend Christmas Day in Vancouver.
Visit the Vancouver Aquarium
Address845 Avison Way, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2, Canada
Phone+1 604-659-3474
One of the best things to do on Christmas Day in Vancouver is to head to the Vancouver Aquarium. Unlike most Vancouver attractions, which are closed on December 25, the Vancouver Aquarium is open 365 days a year. It's also a great option if the weather is bad since most of the aquarium is indoors; there's even a (small) play area for younger kids on the lower level. The aquarium will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Christmas Day.
Go Ice Skating at Robson Square
Address800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7, Canada
Phone+1 604-646-3554
Situated in the heart of downtown Vancouver, Robson Square's free outdoor ice skating rink is open on Christmas Day. In case there's bad weather, the rink can be covered, so don't worry if you see snow! The 50-foot lighted Vancouver Christmas Tree, which will be in Robson Square this year, serves as a beautiful holiday backdrop for a Christmas Day skate. You can rent skates at the rink for $5 a pair. On Christmas Day the rink will be open from noon to 5 p.m.
Eat Christmas Dinner at a Restaurant
Address1339 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6E 2B1, Canada
Phone+1 604-685-0871
Eating out is always one of the best things to do on Christmas Day in Vancouver. Lots of restaurants are open on December 25 and may even offer special pre-fixe menus. This includes most Chinese restaurants, many Indian restaurants, and top restaurants like the Teahouse in Stanley Park that serve Canadian Christmas dinners. If you have a favorite Chinese or Indian restaurant, call ahead to confirm that they're open and make a reservation. Nearly every deluxe hotel in downtown Vancouver has a Christmas brunch, too. Here are just a few recommendations:
- Hon's Wun-Tun House: Multiple locations; serves inexpensive Chinese
- Landmark Hot Pot House: Chinese, family-style
- Salam Bombay: Indian
- The Teahouse in Stanley Park: West Coast Canadian-style Christmas Day dinner
- Hart House Restaurant: West Coast Canadian-style Christmas Day dinner in Burnaby
- The Sandbar
Hit the Slopes
AddressMount Seymour, North Vancouver, BC V7G 1L3, Canada
Vancouver is perfectly situated for hitting the slopes on Christmas Day. It's just 30 minutes to Mount Seymour and Cypress Mountain and an easy two-hour drive to Whistler. Whistler and Blackcomb are adjacent peaks that offer more than 200 marked runs, 8,171 acres of terrain, 16 alpine bowls, and three glaciers combined. After all that holiday eating and drinking, crisp air and exercise are a perfect antidote. So strap on the skis and enjoy the fresh powder.
Go to the Movies
One of the most popular things to do on Christmas Day in Vancouver—or in any city—is head to the movies. Some of the biggest movies of the year (and many Oscar-worthy films) open on Christmas Day, so you are sure to find one you want to see. Go in the morning of Christmas Day and you'll most likely have the theater to yourself as well.


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Today's first app worth downloading can help you save some money. It's RedLaser, the bar code-scanning app that lets you compare prices on products and helps you find deals. Also here to help you save money is Tophatter, an app that lets you step into a virtual auction. Finally, we have an update to Pixel […]
Today's first app worth downloading can help you save some money. It's RedLaser, the bar code-scanning app that lets you compare prices on products and helps you find deals. Also here to help you save money is Tophatter, an app that lets you step into a virtual auction. Finally, we have an update to Pixel People that greatly expands the management simulation game and gives players lots more clones to find through experimentation.
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RedLaser update (Free)
What's it about? RedLaser from eBay is a barcode scanner that lets you get the most out of shopping (and the lowest prices) by giving you information what different retailers are charging for products.
What's cool? RedLaser's latest update helps you find deals by using the power of your iOS device's GPS to mark which store you're in when you enter, and inform you about any local deals you might be missing. Fire up RedLaser next time you go shopping, and you might think twice before grabbing that shirt or those groceries. The app lets you scan the bar codes of products you have in front of you, then compare prices across lots of different retailers. The app also can be used to read QR codes and other bar code messages, and even store your loyalty cards for various stores.
Who's it for? If you like saving money when shopping, RedLaser can help you do it, both through price comparisons and by finding deals for you..
What's it like? Try Price Check by Amazon and ShopSavvy for alternative scanner and price comparison engines.
Tophatter (Free)
What's it about? Auction app Tophatter allows users to bid in real time in a virtual auction house on items seen on sites such as Etsy, allowing you to get hand-made items at potentially low prices.
What's cool? Using Tophatter is not unlike stepping into an imaginary digital auction house, complete with cartoon avatars for the crowd, the auctioneer, and the item's seller. Each timed auction allows you to bid along with everyone else, or talk with the group in real time (with your comments displayed as speech bubbles). There are a number of different categories for auctions, and you can scan through what's coming up on the block and let Tophatter send you reminders for when the items you want become available. Each auction also supplies full information about the product, complete with images and details such as shipping information.
Who's it for? Fans of the kinds of hand-made fare you see on Etsy and nabbing good deals through auctions should try Tophatter.
What's it like? You can get similar stuff through the dedicated Etsy app, and find more auctions on eBay.
Pixel People update (Free)
What's it about? Pixel People is a management simulator that has players building and keeping a town running, while populating it with cloned humans who must be combined to discover new jobs.
What's cool? Technically, Pixel People takes place after Earth has been destroyed and humanity has started rebuilding in space. Your job is to create a new town for the cloned humans by adding buildings and populating them with workers. You find new workers and add more buildings by splicing different sets of genes together – say, mayor genes with assistant genes, or sheriff genes with construction worker genes. Each splice unlocks new jobs, and the latest update to Pixel People throws in some 64 additional clones to find, plus new buildings to unlock. It also adds more new content in the form of animals and other secrets to unlock.
Who's it for? Management simulation fans will have a great time with (the extremely addictive) Pixel People.
What's it like? Try Epic Astro Story and The Simpsons: Tapped Out for more fun management-style games.


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As an electrical professional — whether you're newly out of college with an engineering degree, or can look back on years of field experience designing and installing electrical systems — your job today is harder than ever. It's also never been more important.
The level of competition your firm is facing is unprecedented, and the pressure to do more with less is unrelenting. Illustrating this point, the average estimator these days needs to develop eight estimates for every one job the firm wins.
The same time crunch impacts everyone in the construction trades, and we completely understand. Don't worry, we're going to keep it brief, to-the-point, and highly valuable because we realize your time is limited, and we appreciate your attention.


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Marriage is like a marathon... this was one of the lines from Ann and Andrew's candle lit and beautifully intimate ceremony. Ann and Andrew got married in Harbor Bowers Inn just outside of Traverse City on Old Mission Penninsula. We couldn't have asked for better weather for the month of February in Northern Michigan. The sun was shining and the temperatures were perfect. As the sun set over Grand Traverse Bay Ann and Andrew declared their vows to one another in front of all their family and friends. I had the absolute pleasure while spending the day with both of them. We are all runners so I had a great time talking about their training and how it it coming for upcoming races. When Andrew was getting ready at the Bowers Harbor Inn I asked him how he was feeling and his reply was.. " I ran in college and this is much worse nerves then before any race I have ran." We both smiled and laughed.
Ann and Andrew thank you for letting me be apart of your beautiful wedding and your special day with all your family and friends. It was a pleasure! I wish you many years of blessings and happiness!
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Get off my face
Product manager, software engineer, strategy consultant, startup founder, musician, Oxford science graduate. Based in London.
I'm the founder of OurPath, we provide at-risk people with an online programme to help them change their lifestyle and avoid chronic diseases such as diabetes.
I was part of the founding teams of Trussle and Giglist.
I also compose and produce music!
Here's a few other links: an article I wrote about starting up your own company and an interview with me. My open source code contributions are here.
I've worked for 3 years as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group, advising companies, governments and charities to help them grow. I've also worked as an independent consultant.
Diverse experience across multiple industry areas, with a focus on applied technology, healthcare and life sciences using novel big data analysis. During my time, I managed projects and teams.
Yes, these scores are arbritrary. But damn they look pretty.
A couple of links to some of the projects I've managed:
NHS CCG strategy toolkit via NHS England
The Rising Costs of Cancer via The Guardian
And a lot more I'm not allowed to share...
I make and manage the development of technology products. My experience and a few examples of my work are below.
I've managed several products through full lifecycle, from inception through to launch.
For front-end development web development, I have experience in a variety of JavaScript libraries, from basic jQuery to complete web application development in AngularJS. D3.js is my go-to library for any graphical work and data representation.
For back-end work, I primarily use Node.js with Express or Django - depending on the requirements of the projects. For databases, I work primarily with PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
Email me at [email protected] As long as you're not a robot. If you find the Easter egg in the page, you have double the reason to email me.
More information is on my LinkedIn.


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Thursday, 26 November 2009
I swear, even trying to sort this stuff out is going to kill me.
2 comments:
- Walter said...
Don't kill yourself over a bunch of business cards, Priscilla ;).
Best get the holders that are A4 plastic where you can slip up to .
eight cards in per page
They're so wonderful, till you start using them.
And then you start to hate the business cards that are too wide or high to fit, so you need to snip bits off with a scissors to make them fit, but you can't because the telephone number is too close to the edge.
You'll hate the people with company names that start with Q , so you have to have a whole page for that one silly card.
Of course there's always just 9 or 10 cards for certain letters of the alphabet , so you have to waste a whole page on them too :)
Still, that's nothing compared to the utter loathing you'll feel in the future for the people who worked for division ES 15 and after restructuring of the company now work for division I&S PE 5 ( like me :-)
or change to another division, so you need to take their old cards out , move the others of the same company and redo the lot.
Ah the endless reshuffling !
I have been there, I have done that, it's hell.
My tip : never put more than 6 cards per page of eight, leave 2 empty slots. I used to fill them up 8 per page and whenever a new business card arrived , I had to shift pages and pages !
- Sun Nov 29, 10:16:00 pm
- Priscilla said...
Haha, the problem is that I'm sorting out the office's business card folders - that means I have over 4000 business cards to sort out. Luckily, I've already gotten them all in alphabetical order. I just need to sort those out into a neater alphabetical order and put them in the folders.
We do have those 8-a-page folders, but they're so full I can't insert anymore of them :/ I'll have to buy new ones and completely rearrange everything.
Ooooh yes, I hate that reshuffling! It's the reason why I'm sorting out all of the cards here - looking for things get so messy after a few reshufflings, and it's a headache to look for some cards.
I'll take your tip about the leaving 2 blank spaces! Maybe for some of the larger companies, I'll leave a whole page empty... XP
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If you're considering having some reconstructive or cosmetic surgery on your vulva or vaginal area, you're not alone.
Like most women who are considering these procedures, you've probably done a significant amount of research. You may already know exactly which outpatient surgery or surgeries you wish to undergo, or you may still be weighing your options.
If you're unhappy with the way your labia look, or if your labial size causes you discomfort, you're probably looking into labiaplasty. If, as often happens with age or after childbirth, you find that your vagina lacks its original tone or elasticity, it's likely that you're considering a vaginoplasty or labiaplasty procedure.
In some cases, however, a labiaplasty and vaginoplasty combination surgery may be used to achieve the right results.
The good news is that a cosmetic vaginal surgeon can accomplish multiple procedures during a single operation. In fact, perineoplasty is already one part of a full vaginoplasty, or vaginal rejuvenation, procedure. Some women, whose vaginas recovered properly after childbirth or surgery, may find that they only need perineoplasty.
If you want labiaplasty, which reduces the size and appearance of your labia, along with a perineoplasty, your surgeon can combine the two procedures.
If you're undergoing vaginoplasty, you may elect to undergo a labiaplasty at the same time by combining all three procedures.
The upshot of combining vaginoplasty, perineoplasty and labiaplasty is that you won't need to take additional time for healing – but if you had each procedure separately, you would. By combining two or three procedures through a labiaplasty and vaginoplasty combination surgery, your tissues all knit together and regain strength at the same time. This also reduces your need for multiple rounds of anesthesia and lowers your overall cost for the procedures.


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Good morning!
Tegan and Sara had a great night at the Junos (aka the Canadian Grammys). The sister duo took home Pop Album of the Year, Single of the Year and Group of the Year. The best part was in their acceptance speech:
They recently spoke on Strombo Home Session about Ellen Page's coming out, and their own.
Speaking of, another Dinah performer had cameras following her around for a A Day In the Life. Ms. Mary Lambert.
She may not have won Dancing with the Stars, but The L.A. Sports Council awarded Diana Nyad the Athlete of the Year award from the LA Sports Council.
Ebony has a cool piece on Skye's the Limit, a queer black web series. So rad they are being inclusive.
Model Miranda Kerr tells GQ she might not be so straight.
She recently became single after a split from beau Orlando Bloom. Now's your chance, ladies!
Comedian Sara Barron has a new memoirish type book where she details how she thought she was a lesbian (wanted to be) but it apparently didn't work out. She thought being gay would make her cool. (IT DID. IT DOES. YOUR MEMBERSHIP IS REVOKED.) Just kidding, I don't have that power. Only Ellen does.
Chloe Bennett is a Skimmons shipper!
Thanks for the tip Colette!
Heather Peace was on BBC One this weekend to talk about the legalization of equal marriage in the UK.
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I'm strictly a cash-only kind of guy. I like my purchases to be anonymous, I like to deprive the credit-card companies their slice of the transaction, and above all I like the feel of the greasy, germ-laden slips of paper in my fingers. 1
However, I recognize that sometimes you just don't have any cash. Like when you're supposed to be splitting the dinner bill and your friend ends up paying yet again because you "don't want to split this fifty." Well now your sorry payment-dodging days are coming to an end, my friend. Why? Square Cash.
With Square Cash, I can give you money instantly, and without even using Square's trademark white cuboid card reader. Or even a card. Nope, I just pull out my phone, e-mail you with the dollar amount in the subject line, and copy email@example.com in on the mail. That's it. I can even add a message like…
I know the bill was $50, and I owe you $25, but you had most of the mineral water so I took off my half of that. Cool? So here's the $22.34. And I'll totally get the tip next time. I promise.
The cash is sent straight to their debit card, which means, I guess, straight to their bank account.
Currently the trial is invite-only, but imagine how it will be when everybody has this? My low-life friends won't be able to leach off me ever again. And maybe Leander will finally start paying me for writing on Cult of Mac. It's been over a year now and he's still not answering my calls. Maybe I shouldn't have insisted on him mailing me envelopes stuffed with cash?
- True story: In my bar and restaurant-running days, I would lick my thumb to help count the bills in the day's take. And sometimes my tongue would go numb, presumably from cocaine residue. ↩


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John Derr, who reported from the Masters golf tournament 62 times and was part of the CBS team when the event was televised for the first time, in 1956, died on Saturday at his home in Pinehurst, N.C. He was 97.
His daughter, Cricket Gentry, said he apparently died of a heart attack while watching the Belmont Stakes on television. She went to his house after the race, in which American Pharoah captured the Triple Crown, and found him in his chair in front of the TV.
"It was like he had stood up and said, 'Hooray!' and then fell over," said Ms. Gentry, who is a paramedic.
Mr. Derr covered the Masters for CBS from 1956 to 1982. According to Golf Digest, he was a 17-year-old reporter for The Gaston Gazette in North Carolina when he went to a college football game and sat next to the sportswriter O. B. Keeler, who suggested he attend a new spring tournament at Augusta National Golf Club hosted by Bobby Jones.
Mr. Derr went to the second Masters, in 1935, the year Gene Sarazen shot a 2 on the par-5 15th hole, helping to put the Masters on the map. Along the way, Mr. Derr forged relationships with some of golf's giants, including Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson. He wrote about his encounters in his third book, "My Place at the Table: Stories of Golf and Life" (2010).
In an interview with Golf Digest, Mr. Derr told of seeing Albert Einstein taking his daily walk along the golf course at Princeton. He asked Einstein if he had ever played the game, he recalled, and Einstein replied: "I tried once. Too complicated."


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Bringing People Together
September 17, 2013 from 7pm to 8pm – Hampton Library, Rose Hill A illustrated talk by Martin Wyatt, Deputy Director of the Handel House Museum, exploring the relationship between the composer and his friend, John Beard, famous tenor of the 18th century and the… Organized by Community Libraries Manager | Type: local, history, arts, music, culture
April 6, 2017 from 7:30pm to 8:15pm – Hampton Library Elizabethan food at Hampton Court Palace State Apartment Warder from Hampton Court Palace, Ian Franklin, will talk about Elizabethan cookery. Ian has been associated with the Tudor Kitchens Team at… Organized by Richmond Libraries | Type: history, seminar
April 24, 2017 from 7pm to 8pm – Hampton Hill Library Cityread: A Tour of Elizabethan London Hampton Hill Library Full price: £3.00 Concession: £3.00 A Cityread London 2017 event. Travel back to the year 1600 with speaker Nick Dobson to take a virtua… Organized by Richmond Libraries | Type: library, history
September 26, 2017 from 7:30pm to 9pm – Hampton Library This heavily illustrated talk tells the story of the History of Hampton based on 25 objects which are mainly from the speaker's collection formed over more than 30 years. Starting with the seal of He… Organized by Hampton Library | Type: library, history


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Events have conspired to prolong the debate over who will be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. And as I urged in my last post, that debate should also be about what kind of person could be the next speaker. More specifically, I argued that the next speaker—or any speaker, for that matter—needn't be a sitting member of the House of Representatives. This drew responses from Matthew Franck, writing at NRO's Bench Memos, and Diana Schaub, in this space. As they present quite different reasons for disagreeing I'll take up each in turn, though it will become clear…
In the House but Not of the House?
If you haven't heard, there's a job opening on Capitol Hill. It pays well but, as the outgoing incumbent might tell you, the management duties are pretty stiff. The job, of course, is the Speaker of the House. John Boehner's surprise announcement that he would be resigning both as legislative leader of the House of Representatives and his seat representing Ohio's 8th Congressional District has set off a scramble for his successor. The heir apparent, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the next most senior party leader, at first seemed to have a lock on the job. But McCarthy's missteps have caused at least two other Republicans throwing their hats into the ring.
The Sweet Mystery of Dignity
In the vast majority of governing charters around the world, you will read the word "dignity"—but you won't see it in the American Constitution. The traditional lodestars of American rights jurisprudence have been liberty and equality, as enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. But of late, dignity has had something of a renaissance. Writing for the Court in United States v. Windsor (2013), Justice Anthony Kennedy concluded,
The history of DOMA's enactment and its own text demonstrate that interference with the equal dignity of same-sex marriages, a dignity conferred by the States in the exercise of their sovereign power, was more than an incidental effect of the federal statute. It was its essence.


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Ryan Bradley Thompson is the lead social marketing strategist at Mark Travel Corporation. He loves to bike, read, write, and play music in bands.
"How millennial are you?"
This was a question I asked myself a few days ago when Ragan's Millennial Mafia asked me to write a guest post for them. Given the fact that I was just outside of the traditional metric of a millennial (someone who was born "after 1980"), I wasn't sure I could represent a millennial's perspective.
But after taking the Pew Research Center quiz, I found out that I'm 85 percent millennial.
And according to Wikipedia, I still might qualify:
As there are no precise dates for when the Millennial generation starts and ends, commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s.
Well, not only did I just shave a generation off my life, but I'm no longer a pencil-pushing Gen Xer. After all, I am 85% millennial, right?
Well sort of…
While I can't go back and experience my teen years and early twenties again, I do communicate with the mindset of a millennial.
Here's how:
- Texting. It's quick and easy. I love it. SMS, MMS, Y-E-S. Beats a phone call 99 times out 100.
- Twitter. It's social savvy and full of digital natives like myself. I've tweeted with some of my favorite people and some of them have written back.
- Facebook. As a social marketing professional, I use Facebook on the job, but also personally. Facebook is my phone book, my rolodex, and a walled garden of content and goodness—filled with my friends and rich online experiences.
- Email. I receive about 300 emails a day, plus hundreds of RSS feeds. HINT: You can replace Gmail ads with social profiles and a Firefox install called Rapportive.
- iPad. This is all about the user experience. I use apps such as Zite and Flipboard for nearly everything. And if I like a story I read, I don't think twice about sharing it with friends.
- Face to Face. This is the best and most rewarding way to communicate with people. However, there just doesn't seem to be enough time for it. (Tear.)
- Phone. On a night that I'm not going out, it's great to call a friend and catch up. But I probably already know what he or she is up to, since I just checked their Facebook status on my smartphone.


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Boxe Francaise, Canne de combat, Baton, Savate defense, Savate forme
Monday, July 14, 2008
Do we have enough money for something like WTF?
Source: http://www.wtf.org/site/news/taekwondo.htm?realnum=159&page=1&keyword=&part=&mode=view
By Cui Xiaohuo
China Daily Staff Writer
The world's taekwondo chief Chungwon Choue is telling International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge and his compatriot UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring the world together through sports.
The 61-year-old, who took the helm of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) in 2004 after the resignation of its founder Kim Un-yong, is eager to push the "Sports Peace Corps" initiative to improve sports in developing countries.
"A Sports Peace Corps should be founded between the UN and the IOC. The IOC's main purpose is world peace through sports. The UN's purpose is also world peace," Choue said during a short visit to Beijing, before running in the Olympic torch relay in Lijiang, Yunan, the first international federation chief to carry the flame on its route to Beijing.
"(Rogge and Ban) really like the idea and they want to support us," Choue said.
For the initial edition of the project this summer, WTF will send eight Peace Corps teams from South Korea, with one interpreter and three coaches on each team, to eight countries developing taekwondo, including East Timor and Kazakhstan in Asia, and Cote d'Ivoire in Africa. This edition will be one-month long, and WTF plans to hold two sessions each year in the future.
Global engagement and acceptance is a key factor for any sport, Choue said.
"Each international federation should have its Peace Corps team with professionals going to more regions of the world," he said. "I hope it will be a model for other sports federations."
As one of the most loved and widely practiced combat sports, taekwondo has more than 60 million practitioners in 188 countries and regions, the sports chief from Seoul said.
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The World Taekwondo Federation launched the Taekwondo Peace Corps and the WTF Demonstration Team in a ceremony in Suwon, Korea, on July 5, 2008.
The launch ceremony, which was held at the Suwon campus of Kyung Hee University, drew 27 members of the Taekwondo Peace Corps and 61 members of the WTF Demonstration Team, as well as dozens of dignitaries.
The 27 "2008 Summer" Taekwondo Peace Corps members will be dispatched to five countries in seven teams for a period of one month starting in the middle of this month. The five countries are Russia, Paraguay, India, Pakistan and China. Two teams will be sent to China and India.
The WTF plans to expand the number of Taekwondo Peace Corps members and the countries to which members will be sent starting this winter vacation.
The Taekwondo Peace Corps is promoted by the WTF and organized by GCS International, a United Nations-recognized non-governmental organization with a special consultative status with the U.N. Economic and Social council. GCS stands for goodwill, cooperation and service. WTF President Chungwon Choue heads the two international organizations.
"Through the Taekwondo Peace Corps, the WTF can ultimately contribute to the promotion of world peace," said WTF President Choue in his welcome speech at the launch ceremony. "After consultations with our 188 member nations, we will dispatch Peace Corps members to taekwondo-developing countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East."
Dr. Choue said, "If the Taekwondo Peace Corps project is carried out successfully, then we will expand the program to involve all Olympic sports into a 'Sport Peace Corps' program, in cooperation with the United Nations and the IOC."
Shortly after taking the helm of the WTF in June 2004, WTF President Choue promised to launch the Taekwondo Peace Corps, thus helping enhance the image of taekwondo and the WTF in the international sports community.
The Taekwondo Peace Corps idea was first raised by Dr. Choue at an international workshop on sports and peace in Leuven, Belgium on Sept. 21, 2007, and then at an international forum on peace and sport in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on Dec. 6, 2007.
As part of its efforts to further promote taekwondo around the world, the WTF conducted a series of tests before finalizing 61 members of the WTF Taekwondo Demonstration Team. The demonstration team will be dispatched abroad upon requests from the WTF's 188 member countries.
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Pardons and Sentence Commutations (Part I)
In part I of this two-part interview, we meet Samuel Morrison, who served with the U.S. Pardon Attorney's Office for 12 years. We learn about steps a person can take to prepare for executive clemency, pardons, and sentence commutations.
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Interview with Former US Pardon Attorney (Part I)
Interview with Samuel Morrison, Esq. Sam is an attorney based in Washington, DC. For 12 years he worked as an attorney in the United States Pardon Attorney's Office. In that capacity, his role was to review people who submitted petitions for Executive Clemency. There are several types of Executive Clemency. They include Pardons and Commutations. In this two-part interview, Sam discusses his role. We also learn what steps an individual can take to advance prospects for executive clemency. Visitors can also listen to the audio podcast by clicking the link above. Read the second article by clicking this link.
Discussing Pardons and Sentence Commutations
Welcome to the Earning Freedom Podcast. I am Michael Santos with michalesantos.com and prisonprofessor.com. Today I am really excited because I get to introduce somebody that is going to be of interest to any individual who has either faced criminal charges or is facing criminal charges in the Federal courts. We have with us Samuel T. Morrison who currently runs pardonattroney.com, but he has an insight into how executive clemency works that would be of value to any individual who has been charged in the Federal courts. Sam, I really want to thank you for taking some time out of your busy morning to share your story and provide some insight to listeners of the Earning Freedom Podcast. Where are you located?
Well first of all thanks Michael, I'm glad to be here. I am in Washington D.C., actually I'm physically located at the moment in Fairfax which is the suburb of D.C., so …
Okay. Well I had the privilege of meeting Samuel Morrison a couple of months ago when I visited Washington on some other work, work that I try and do to spread awareness on the criminal justice system, so I had the great privilege of shaking his hand, but my history with him began long ago. Do you remember when we first kind of connected Sam?
Well, the first time that I learned about you Michael was when I was consulted by someone else to comment on your clemency petition which was pending at the time.
And why would he have contacted you, what was your role that you would have been interested in looking at my clemency petition when I was still in prison really, I think I was probably advancing through my, maybe my 10th or 15th year, I don't remember because I filed a couple of times but I was in prison, where were you working at the time?
Well probably when you first filed I was staff attorney at the office of the Pardon attorney so …
What is the office of the Pardon attorney, for those in our audience who don't quite understand how that works, what does that mean?
Sure. I think everybody knows that under the constitution, the President of the United States can grant pardons, which includes commutations, which simply means reduction of sentence for federal offences. But the President himself doesn't actually investigate every petition that's filed because he simply doesn't have time and his own immediate staff is too small. So for many years, in fact for over a hundred years that advisory function has been delegated to the department of justice.
How many people are in that department of justice component that you work with?
When I was there, there were a total of six attorneys. Recently they've hired several additional attorneys, I believe four; so there's either ten or eleven attorneys, I think it's eleven if you count the Pardon attorney herself and then there is a support staff of a similar size. In addition, they are trying to recruit temporary attorneys from around the department of justice to stand anywhere from a few weeks to help them out at the case level.
Okay, so you were going on before I interrupted about the process that takes place there, could elaborate for us on what the process is at the Pardon attorney's office?
Sure. So as I was saying, under the constitution the President ultimately makes these decisions. That however is a little bit misleading because it's really formed out to this office in the justice department, called the office of the Pardon attorney. So when you fill out an official form regardless of what type of clemency you're asking for, the forms are submitted to this office in DOJ and they are responsible for doing whatever investigation needs to be done in any particular case and then drafting a recommendation to the President which is called a Letter of Advice and that letter of advice is signed by the Deputy Attorney General who supervises the Pardon office and that goes to the White House counsel's office and then the President acts on the advice of the Justice department, so that's prepared by the office of the Pardon attorney and the truth is that nine times out of ten, maybe more, the President does whatever the Pardon office advices, and that actually makes sense for a couple of reasons. One is, he doesn't really know anything about a case except what they tell him, so they control the flow of information, except in unusual circumstances where people can try to get information directly to the White House, but that's not that easy to do. And then secondly just for political reasons I think it gives the President some cover, some assurance that if his own justice department says this is a good case, you should grant it, then he feels more comfortable granting it. The flip side is if the Pardon office says, we recommend you should deny this case for whatever reason then President is much less likely to grant the petition. So the real game, the real action in the Pardon arena, in the clemency arena is really the office of the Pardon attorney. If you can persuade the officials in the department to give you a favorable recommendation then you have a very good chance of getting a pardon or a commutation. If you fail to persuade them, your chances aren't very good, and I was a staff attorney there, so that's what I did.
Could you give us a little bit more insight, it is my understanding there are several different types of executive clemency, there is the pardon, there is the commutation, there is amnesty, there's a few others I think. Could you help us understand what are the different mechanisms or components that the President can choose to act on?
Sure. In the constitution, it says that the President can grant pardons and reprieves for offences against the United States, except for cases of impeachment, that's the pardon clause, that's the constitutional term. Buy what falls within the umbrella of the pardon clause as you pointed out are several different forms of relief. Executive clemency is another umbrella terms for everything the President can do pursuant to the pardon clause. So the broadest form of relief is called a Pardon, and a pardon is official forgiveness for an offence and it can be granted anytime after the commission of the offence but even before there is a conviction, so it's a very broad power. So, the most famous example of that probably is Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon probably committed probably committed crimes in the Watergate affair but was never actually prosecuted, much less convicted. But President Ford decided, in order to put the issue behind the country and move on he would grant Nixon a full pardon for anything he may have done. So another form of pardon can be a pardon with conditions attached. Ordinarily a pardon is full and unconditional; it's either all or nothing, but Presidents have in the past and are authorized to place conditions on any form of the executive clemency. So for example in the past there have been pardons granted on condition that the person agree to employment restrictions or deportation or any number of other things, so that would be a conditional pardon. A commutation is a reduction of sentence and that is typically filed by somebody who's actually in federal prison and they're seeking to have their sentence reduced or shortened. An aspect of that would also be called a remission, which is a remission of fine or restitution. So if there's an outstanding monetary obligation, the President can reduce or even eliminate that monetary obligation. Now in amnesty, is really just another form of pardon, it's just done in a slightly different way, or merely a clemency whether it's a pardon or a commutation is to either a specific individual or a list of individuals, sometimes there'll be a number of people named in one document. An amnesty is only different in the sense that it defines a class of people and grants pardon to anyone who happens to fall within that class. So the most recent example of that would be President Carter's Vietnam era amnesty proclamation in which he pardoned as a group everyone who had committed certain kinds of service act violations. It didn't have names in it, but anyone whose case fell within the class as defined in the proclamation was automatically pardoned. So those are all the different kinds of relief. Well there's one more and that's called a respite and that is to say a temporary suspension of a sentence, like a stay of execution.
In the case of Scooter Libby which was quite famous, who was in the George Bush's White House and he was convicted and about to be sentenced or he was sentenced and he had some type of executive clemency granted to him, so never had to surrender to a federal prison, what type of pardon was that?
That was a commutation of sentence, so Scooter Libby's sentence was I believe it was 30 months in prison, two years supervised release and a fine. He sought a full and unconditional pardon, but President Bush decided not to grant that and my understanding is the reason he decided not to grant it is that Scooter Libby wouldn't accept responsibility for his offence. That being said, the President felt that a prison term was inappropriate, so he commuted the 30-month sentence, but he left intact both the supervised release and the fine.
So it is possible because you had mentioned that the commutation release, I understood you to say that a commutation is typically filed by somebody while they are incarcerated, but it seems that it is possible then to file that commutation or to have your sentence commuted even before you surrender, recognize its extraordinary circumstances, but apparently you can get, even you can get sentenced in court, get ex-commuted and never have to surrender to prison.
No that's exactly right, there are no legal restrictions on the timing of the President's authority other than the fact that the offence has to actually have occurred, in other words the President can't give you license to commit a crime in the future, but as long as the offence has occurred, he's free to act. Now that raises an important issue that I think your listeners will be interested in. The office of the Pardon attorney has a set of administrative rules that govern the filing of these various kinds of petitions. So for example for a commutation the DOJ's administrative rules say, not only do you have to have reported to prison before you can file, you have to have exhausted your direct appeal before you can file, otherwise they won't accept your case, and that is a policy judgment and their notion is, listen we're not going to spend resources on this if the courts might resolve it. But as the Scooter Libby case illustrates, those rules aren't binding on the President. There's another very interesting example of that that President Clinton did, a particular individual had been sentenced to a prison term, it was reversed, the sentence was vacated on appeal and it was remanded to the district court for resentencing. Well before the person was resentenced President Clinton put a ceiling on the sentence that the judge could impose, he put a cap on it. He said, I grant you commutation to more than 36 months. So when the case went back to the district court for resentencing, the judge was not permitted to impose a sentence greater than that because the President hadn't commuted anything above that, so that's also quite unusual but it illustrates the broad scope of the Pardon power.
Do you remember the defendant and the type of case that was?
Yes that was a guy named Arnold Prosperi and it was a real estate fraud case.
Interesting because we've recently seen a lot of attention to non-violent drug offenders being commuted and I'd like to get into that in a lot of portion of our episode but it's clear that the President's can do this to anybody they choose, it would seem that there has to be a pretty good marketing effort in place in order to get around these administrative policies that the Pardon attorney office imposes, is that accurate?
Yes, you can do if you have the resources and the connections, it is certainly possible to go directly to the White House counsel's office and plead your case. Now I don't want to make it sound like that, a routine thing because it's not, and what would normally happen is if somebody writes directly to the White House counsel's office, they're just going to send it to the Pardon office and sent the requester a standard form letter that says we've forwarded this your request to the office of the Pardon attorney. But it is certainly true that there have been many instances where people appeal directly to the White House and if it is sufficiently compelling case or a sufficiently compelling issue the President will sometimes intervene based on that request.
The case in point would have to be Scooter Libby because he would not have abided by the policies of the Pardon attorney.
That's correct, he didn't follow any of the rules, he didn't even bother to file a petition to the Pardon office.
And that brings up another interesting point. I've as an individual who has spent most of my life inside a federal prison, I was always interested in the power of commutation and the Pardon power and some of my research showed some really disturbing trends that I'd love for you to elaborate on. I would seem that prior to I would say President Reagan's term, the office of the Pardon attorney was the commutation part, particularly during Lyndon Johnson's term it would seem that it was granted much more frequently that it is today and at that time when I came into prison there were only about 27,000 people incarcerated, I think during President Johnson's term the population was around 25,000 and according to the DOJ website I saw he granted several hundred commutations. What was different at that era than exists post Reagan?
I think the primary difference really is just a change in our culture. We've become a much more punitive criminal justice system than we were before. That's purely political, there's no real at least in my opinion, and there are people who would dispute this I'm sure but I don't believe that that's a public safety, driven by public safety concerns, I think that's certainly driven by political ideology because the crime rate was dropping even before we started ratcheting up criminal sentences and there's really no good academic literature that would suggest that simply increasing sentences to draconian levels has anything to do with crime rate or that it contributes to public safety, so it's just the political program and political attitudes changed. So I can give you a very … 5-minute history of the Pardon power and how it's changed over time and that responds to this issue that you are raising.
And that would be like … or would you say that that time … I'm looking forwards to that 5-minute explanation but did that really begin around 40 or 50 years ago or how long ago?
That began in earnest really with the Reagan administration.
Ok so we got … please give a story insight.
So I'll give you just a very high level overview of how this changed over time. As you pointed out, before the last 20 years the federal criminal justice system was very small compared to the states. So in the 19th Century, the President actually performed a [0:18:01] appellate function and [0:18:04] parole function through the clemency power, and the reason for that was there is no constitutional right to a direct appeal. The first appeal statute didn't even exist until the late 19th century and the first general right of appeal in all federal cases didn't exist until like 1913 I believe. Also the first parole statues and the first probation statutes weren't passed until the early 20th century. So those mechanism were all introduced, direct appeal, probation and parole were all ways of diverting people out of the prison system that didn't need to be there either on the front end or on the back end. So up until the early 20th century the Presidents spent a fair amount of time correcting legal errors or releasing people from prison that didn't need to be there anymore. Gradually over the course of the 20th century those functions began to be performed by these other legal and administrative mechanisms, which is actually a good thing because we don't want to unnecessarily put that burden on the President himself. So you did see a decline in the second third of the 20th century in the number of commutations. Now that being said, they were still granted far more frequently than they are today. So prior to FDR the average number of commutations was over a hundred a year in a prison population that had about 10,000 people. During FDR's administration that dropped to about 40 a year, but still you had a very small prison population.
When was the 40 a year, at what time?
In the 1930s and early 1940s.
But again, remember as a percentage of the prison population that was a huge number, the equivalent number today would be 300 or 400 a year, and we're obviously nowhere close to that. Then in a very interesting story of historical parallel to where we are today, in the early 1960s as you mentioned John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson commuted the sentences of hundreds of people who were serving mandatory minimum drug sentences which by today's standards seems fairly lenient but by the standards of the time we're considered very strict. They were imposed in the 1950s and so by the early 1960s there were all these people in federal prisons serving mandatory minimum drug sentences and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson quite deliberately instead of consciously said, that's not a good idea, let's find the people that don't need to be there anymore, and so again they commuted hundreds of sentences in prison population of at that point maybe 20,000. Then, let's fast forward to the present, that started really under Nixon is where it began, it was this famous war and crime, but just get a sense of the cultural differences that I'm talking about, even President Nixon granted hundreds of pardons and I think maybe a hundred commutations roughly speaking, I don't remember the exact number but it was something like that, so even this famously tough-on-crime President was far more generous than any recent President has ever been. What really kicked it in the high gear however was the reforms that happened under the Reagan administration, so that's when we had the Sentencing Reform Act which introduced the Sentencing guidelines, it introduced a whole new [0:22:06] of mandatory minimum sentences that had been repealed in the 1970s, it downgraded basically the Pardon function, the Pardon attorney became much less important a figure within the justice department, he no longer reported to the attorney general. Reagan decided that the Pardon attorney would report to the deputy attorney general. That's important because the attorney general is a member of the cabinet, he's not just a law enforcement officer, he's also a political advisor of the President and he carries much more weight with the President because of his status. The deputy attorney general is the chief prosecutor, he's the #2 person in the justice department and his or her (it's a woman now) her primary function is to oversee all criminal prosecutions. So at the same time we eliminated parole, we instituted mandatory guidelines, we instituted a whole new raft of mandatory minimum sentences, we downgraded the status of the clemency power, and the justice department quite consciously decided to exercise its ability to control the clemency power in the 1980s and the early 1990s and how could they do that, I thought this was the President's power, where they can do it quite easily because as I said before they control the flow of information. So if the only thing the President knows is what the justice department tells the President, and they exercise a lot of control over what the President politically can do and so it they say no, over and over and over again even when it's unreasonable, that kind of ties the President's hands, what they're saying essentially is, Mr. President you'll either do what we advice you or you're on your own and most Presidents, and President Reagan and I think the first President Bush didn't complain about that because that was their agenda, they weren't interested in doing commutations. Interestingly enough both President Clinton and the second President Bush, George W. Bush complained to the justice department quite vigorously that they were not receiving enough favorable recommendations and they complained that the Justice department and the Pardon office was being too strict and was not being reasonable enough in the recommendations that they were making and in both cases the Pardon office simply didn't respond. They either made excuses or they dragged their feet knowing that the president was time limited and there wasn't too much he could do about it and President Clinton reacted by granting a whole bunch of pardons and commutations that were not really valid at all and therefore made some mistakes like the Marc Rich case famously, and President Bush with very few exceptions like Scooter Libby basically shut the process down. He didn't want to make a Marc Rich mistake. So he said, well if you're not going to give me the service that I want, then I'm just not going to do anything.
Why was the Pardon attorney so reluctant to recommend people who may not be necessary to be continued in confinement?
Well that will be … that's a somewhat contentious question I suppose. I was in the Pardon office from 1997 until 2010 and in my experience the primary driving factor was essentially ideological, not in the Republican/Democrat sense but in the sense that these were all either former prosecutors or people who had bought into the prosecutorial mentally and they viewed the function and the mission of the justice department as a prosecutorial one where they are able to convict people and where they are going to punish people and where are to punish them as harshly as we can and they simply had a knee-jerk reaction against commutation because they viewed it as giving up on a case that they'd won and they didn't want to recommend favorable too often because that ceded a certain amount of control to the President, they wanted to control who is in prison and who wasn't. So at the [0:26:51] think about it, we are now in a position where we need the clemency power more than we have in over a hundred years, because we don't have parole anymore, because we do have guidelines, the supreme court it is true has now made the guidelines advisory and that has helped some, that has evened the balance a little bit, judges have more discretion than they used to. But also remember, prison sentences now are so severe that there are almost no jury trials anymore, because you can threaten somebody with a sentence that is so draconian that it becomes unreasonable for them to take the risk of going to trial. So the justice department by the way they charge cases by manipulating the sentences that are out there are able to essentially coerce and threaten people into pleading guilty who might otherwise go to trial, so you also don't have juries intervening in the process, and for political reasons we've had no commutations. So now we're in a position essentially where we were in the early twentieth century.
Well I got to say that's all the more reason to be learning more about Sam Morrison's practice and we're going to be talking about that in the follow-up episode. I want to point one other thing, when I went to prison we had fewer than 25,000 people in federal prison that was back in 1987. When I emerged from federal prison in 2013, we have I think more like 220,000 people in federal prison and commutations as Mr. Morrison said during earlier years were several hundred a year, when we had 200 and there were only 20,000 people in there, now we have 200,000 plus in there, and prior to this recent grant by President Obama how many were we giving a year, how many were given in 2013, commutations would you guess?
Well I believe that President Obama has done roughly 60 in the last two years, so before that it was literally a handful.
So when you say 60 in the last two years, he gave 46 a couple of weeks ago, so right there we are looking at about 10 is all he's given.
Right. So the first five years he did virtually nothing.
So a dozen people had their sentences commuted. Now we're ratcheting up, we've got leaders like Sam Morrison who are working to help individuals position themselves for, but it is a very, very heavy lift, the one that I wasn't able to overcome but I think that the tides are turning and in our next episode on the Earning Freedom Podcast we will be learning more about what an individual can do who wants to position himself or herself for some form of executive clemency, either a commutation of sentence of perhaps a pardon later on during the journey. We're going to learn exactly how those benefits can really change your life. So thank you so much Mr. Morrison, we'll start again. I'm just going to close this episode and we'll start another one back to back for episode #2 in the Earning Freedom Podcast. If you are listening and you like what we're doing please go to Apple i-tunes, subscribe to the Earning Freedom Podcast, rate and review and that way we can get more distribution. Thank you so much. I'm Michael Santos, we will have show notes at michaelsantos.com.


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Indeed, We sent the Qur'an down during the Night of Decree.
And what can make you know what is the Night of Decree?
The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.
The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter.
Peace it is until the emergence of dawn."
Surah Al Qadr 97 1-5
It is recommended to supplicate a great deal in it, it is reported from 'Aa'ishah, RA that she said
: "O Messenger of Allaah! What if I knew which night Lailatul-Qadr was, then what should I say in it?" He said: "Say: Allaahumma innaka 'affuwwun tuhibbul 'afwa fa'fu 'annee." (O Allaah you are the one who pardons greatly, and loves to pardon, so pardon me.) (at-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah)
O brothers! You know the importance of this night, so stand in Prayer in the last ten nights, in worship, detaching oneself from the women, ordering your family with this, and increasing in actions of obedience and worship in it.
From 'Aa'ishah, RA who said: "The Prophet SAW used to tighten his waist-wrapper (izaar) – (meaning detached himself from his wives in order to worship, and exerted himself in seeking Lailatul-Qadr), spend the night in worship, and wake the family in the last ten nights." (Bukhari, Muslim)
May Allah Azzawajal grant us this night of bounty. May Allah Azzawajal accept our effort and act of worship and all our duas.
We ask Allah to give us a good destinyin this life and in the hereafter. We ask Him to give us excellent health in order we may
continue the work we are doing in His Path. We ask Him to saveguard all our affairs and to protect us against the accursed shaytan. We supplicate unto Him to bestow love, wisdom, patience and affection in our hearts for Him, for our family and all those who have submitted to His Divine Will.
Sister Ammaara
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