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If you missed it 4/1
If you missed The Morning Rokit on 94.1 The Rock this morning, you missed……….
Joke Of The Day
A man is driving down a road. A woman is driving down the same road from the opposite direction.
As they pass each other, the woman leans out the window and yells, "PIG!!"
The man immediately leans out his window and yells, "IDIOT!!"
They each continue on their way, and as the man rounds the next curve he crashes into a huge pig in the middle of the road.
If only men would listen.
John went to a psychiatrist: "I've got problems. Every time I go to bed, I think there's somebody under it. I'm scared. I think I'm going crazy."
"Just put yourself in my hands for one year," said the shrink. "Come talk to me three times a week, and we should be able to get rid of those fears."
"How much do you charge?" John asked warily.
"Each visit is $150," replied the doctor.
"Well, I'll sleep on it."
Six months later the doctor bumped into John on the street: "Why didn't you ever come
to see me about those fears you were having?"
"Well, one hundred and fifty bucks a visit three times a week for a year is an awful
lot of money! A friend at work cured me for nothing. I was so happy to have saved all that
money that I went and bought myself a new pickup!"
"Is that so?! And how, may I ask, did your friend cure you?"
"He told me to cut the legs off the bed!"
Dumbass Of The Day
Today's FTW
Patricia Edwards, 51, who robbed a bank so she could check "rob a bank" off her bucket list. Edwards admitted robbing a bank was something she wanted to do before she dies. She walked into a bank and handed a teller a note demanding money. When apprehended by police, she said: "Because it was something I had on my bucket list… I think everyone should have a list of things they want to do before they expire."
Harry K. Weisiger, a 70-year-old Nashville man, who rammed his SUV several times into the back of a car that had a Obama/Biden bumper sticker. Weisiger made obscene gestures and pointed at the campaign sticker for President Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden before he smashed into schoolteacher Mark Duren's car. He was charged with reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of the accident and refusing to take a field sobriety test.
Daniel R. Lee, 22, who ran naked through a grocery store because he was bored. A police report said Lee admitted to walking into the IGA grocery store wearing only a rubber mask.
Other stuff for 4/1/2010
Bozo Criminal Of The Day
Bozo criminal for today comes from Cleveland, Ohio, where bozo Ricky Fox fled from the cops after a traffic violation. After leading them on a chase at speeds of up to 90 MPH, our bozo spotted a tall fence and pulled the car over. He quickly scaled the fence but did not find the freedom he was looking for on the other side. He had climbed over the fence that surrounded the state women's prison. Oops. He's under arrest.
Babe Of The Day
Keeping with our women of the NBC show Community, today we feature Lauren Stamile. She played Prof. Michelle Slater.
British researchers found a link between social networking sites and the spread of STDs. So Facebook really is a place to connect and share.
Hot Women Photo Contest. You're not an American if you don't click that link.
Andrew WK proves he's pretty much pure awesome in THIS video
I saw Diary of A Whimpy Kid Tuesday night at the Carmike Cinema 9 taking advantage of their stimulus Tuesday promotion. Its a cute movie. Something the kids will love. That got me thinking about some of the Summer 2010 movies I'm really looking forward too. When you realize most of these are kids movies, realize I'm just a big kid.
May 7th – Iron Man 2
May 21st – Skrek Forever After
June 18th – Toy Story 3
June 25th – Grown Ups
July 16th – The Sorcerer's Apprentice
July 30th – Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore
*94.1 The Rock and Jade Presents bring you Puddle Of Mudd and Adelitas Way, May 24 in Aberdeen at the Ramkota Convention Center, tickets on sale April 9. Listen to your concert connection 94.1 The Rock for more details!!
*94.1 The Rock, Pepper Entertainment & The Aberdeen Downtown Association present: Saliva headlining the 2010 Great Aberdeen Pigout July 10th. Tickets are $10 for one day of the Pigout or $15 for both days. You can get tickets in advance at greatpigout.com or you can get them at the gate. Oh, we're not done yet either. We're announcing the supporting acts on April 19th. Pepper Entertainment gave us a preview of who they are trying to get. Rusty and myself are happy with ANY of the supporting acts.
*All this week listening online to Point FM, Pheasant Country 103, Sunny 97.7 & 94.1 The Rock you have your chance at winning $20 in scratch tickets from the South Dakota Lottery. When you hear the sounder, just be the 1st caller and you win! The only way you can win is by listening online!
*Show your support for the South Dakota Special Olympics. Myself and Lord Rokit are raising money for the Polar Plunge at Wylie Lake. Our goal is to raise $300 by April 24. We picked $300 as our goal so members of The Rock Army, donate today, whether it's a little or a lot, anything helps and we appreciate your time and help with this great cause! Stop out for the Polar Plunge at Wylie Lake on Saturday, April 24, 2010!
*May 14th 8 BANDS!! Seasons After, Janus, Red, Lacuna Coil, Drowning Pool, Five Finger Death Punch, Seether, & Three Days Grace will be rockin' Huset's Speedway in Brandon. Tickets are only $41.50. The Rock bus is SOLD OUT but we are taking names for the waiting list (just incase someone doesn't pay). Call 229-3632 if you want to get on the waiting list.
*Don't forget the All Request Lunch Rush weekdays from 12-1pm. For one full hour you guys control the rock. Can't complain about the music if you don't call in!
*Stump The DJ weekdays at 7:40am. You have your chance to call in and stump the DJ's for your chance at scratch tickets from the South Dakota Lottery. The better the question, the more scratch tickets you could win!
Concert Connection
For tickets, check out the Concert Connection page of The Rock Page on hubcityradio.com.
April 28th – Breaking Benjamin & Sick Puppies – Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD
May 14th – Seasons After, Janus, Red, Lacuna Coil, Five Finger Death Punch, Drowning Pool, Seether & Three Days Grace – Husets Speedway, Brandon, SD
May 24th – Puddle Of Mudd with Adelitas Way – Ramkota Convention Center, Aberdeen, SD
May 30th – The Unite & Fight Tour with Flyleaf, 10 Years & Fair To Midland – Ramkota Exibit Hall, Sioux Falls, SD
July 10th- Saliva with TBA April 19th – Great Aberdeen Pigout, Aberdeen, SD
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Here is the home for my blog posts in which I give advice to university and college students!
I call myself The Perpetual Student because I have been in education for 19 years (since primary school!), I have completed 2 degrees (Egyptian Archaeology BA Hons. and Egyptology MA), and even though I have finished university, I will always encourage myself to learn more and better! I feel that I will always be in education! As my Vice Chancellor said to us at our MA graduation ceremony- "If we have taught you anything, I hope we have taught you how to learn!"
It is one of my passions to help new and existing students by giving them help and advice. I was the first member of my family to go to university, so I had no-one to give me advice when I needed it. Therefore, I strive to give you guys tips and advice about university life!
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23 November 2016 -
In his first major statement since the Brexit vote, new Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced a number of initiatives aimed at showing the world: 'Britain is open for business'.
One of Hammond's main challenges after picking up the reins from George Osborne will be to solve the UK's enduring productivity problem, with the country currently lagging behind its G7 rivals.
A deficit in professional management contributes to the UK's productivity problems so, to help combat this, Hammond has committed £13m to enact Sir Charlie Mayfield's proposal to improve management skills across British business.
"Productivity is vital not just in driving the growth agenda, but increasing social prosperity and improving living standards, too," Mayfield said in his report earlier this year. "Yet our current productivity trajectory is flat… The routes to improvement are many and varied but they all depend on strong ambitious business leadership and enduring action on the ground."
Responding to today's Autumn Statement, CMI chief executive Ann Francke said she hopes UK employers will be inspired to show similar investment in their workforce's management training.
"The Chancellor's £13m pledge for Sir Charlie Mayfield's review's plan to support firms' management skills shows that as a nation our businesses too are only just about managing (JAM)," she said. "Currently, only one in five businesses invest in management skills. The Chancellor's comment signals that we need world-class management and leadership to close the gap with our G7 competitors."
In addition to investing in the management of British business, Hammond has also pledged to invest in regional infrastructure, which will help to improve the productivity of companies outside London.
"This government recognises that for too long, economic growth in our country has been too concentrated in London and the south east," he said. "That's not just a social problem, it's an economic problem. London is one of the highest-productivity cities in the world and we should celebrate that fact. But no other major developed economy has such a gap between the productivity of its capital city and its second and third cities.
"So we must drive up the performance of our regional cities. Today we publish our strategy for addressing productivity barriers in the Northern Powerhouse; and give the go ahead today to a programme of major roads schemes in the north."
The chancellor says the government will also invest 1% to 1.2% of GDP on economic infrastructure, compared to the current 0.8%, and will double UK export finance capacity to help firms sell their services and products abroad.
Minimum wage incomes will experience a boost following Hammond's announcement today that the National Living Wage will increase from £7.20 an hour to £7.50 in April next year, adding up to an extra £500 every year.
Guy Stallard, director at KPMG, lauded the rise explaining that it will make a "huge difference" for adult minimum wage employees.
"Today's announcement will see a significant number of workers aged 25 and above get a pay rise," he said. "This [30p increase] may seem like small change to some, but for many people it'll make a huge difference. With the cost of living higher than it's ever been, the reality for many is that they are forced to live hand to mouth.
"The increase in the National Living Wage will go a long way to save swathes of people being caught between the desire to contribute to society and the inability to afford to do so."
Sticking to the business tax roadmap that was set out in March, Hammond also promised that corporation tax will fall to 17%, by far the lowest rate of overall corporate tax in the G20 – highlighting the government's stated aim to make Britain an attractive place to run a business.
How will Hammond's announcements affect British business? Have your say on the future trends in management in our Future Forecast survey, here
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Clinical Trials BC provides province-wide support and access to a range of training, guidance and resources for clinical research personnel. Our support helps British Columbia grow a clinical research workforce with the skills and knowledge to conduct world-class clinical trials.
Fast-Track Training for COVID-19
We're offering Clinical Trials Fast-Track Training for COVID-19 beginning April 2020. The program is comprised of 10 condensed education modules on clinical trial compliance topics. Research team leads can select the pertinent topics applicable to their team member's role in the COVID-19 research trial.
Job Board
We maintain an online job board to promote positions located in British Columbia across the clinical research and trials sector as an added benefit to our clinical research community.
2019 Clinical Trials BC Syllabus
2020 Syllabus is coming soon!
Clinical Research Professional Certification Program
Clinical Trials BC offers clinical research professionals at BC-based academic research sites financial and resource support to become certified by the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SoCRA) and the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP).
For 2020, we're pleased to offer a partial reimbursement in the amount of $350 towards clinical research examination fees for up to 25 successful applicants who work for academic health research organizations. Funding is provided by the BC SUPPORT Unit.
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Clinical Trials BC provides province-wide access to best-in-class tools and resources from the Network of Networks (N2), focused on enhancing clinical research capability and capacity. N2 benefits are available for clinical researchers working in health authorities and academic organizations in BC, as well as for some independent investigators.
N2 is an alliance of Canadian research networks and organizations working to enhance national clinical research capability and capacity. N2's vision is "To be recognized as Canada's alliance for excellence in clinical research," and its mission is "To enable and enhance clinical research capability and capacity in Canada."
Tools and resources that are available through N2 membership include Educational courses (available via CITI-Canada), Standard Operating Procedures, Quality Tools, Tools to Engage Participants and more.
We're a longstanding member of the N2 Clinical Trials Education and Awareness (CTEA) committee, which co-developed the It Starts With Me project and website in partnership with patients. This campaign encourages patients and public stakeholders to participate in clinical trials. Please see our Participant Experience page for more information.
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ACRP's eLearning catalog of 30+ programs covers the essentials of clinical research, including the new "Introduction to Good Clinical Practice" eLearning course, which provides training on the new ICH GCP E6(R2) as the international industry standard for designing, conducting, and reporting clinical trials.
Since our partnership began, more than 300 people have signed up for access to the ACRP LMS. We continue to encourage the BC research community to register and complete courses.
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Pordenone diary – day three
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A hurried post today. I saw the same program as The Bioscope did, but stayed on for Paris en Cinq Jours (1925), a harmless enough little comedy about American tourists in Paris which features, notably, a hurried 15-minute rush by the tourists through Le Louvre (a gag Godard, in Bande à part, was to renew, though Jacques Feyder had also used it in his Hollywood-made 1929 The Kiss). Isn't it bad business to go about showing your main customers as boobs ? In the magnificent festival catalog, Lenny Borger comes down hard on the film, and on star-director Nicolas Rimsky:
The film's central weakness is Rismky himself — his bumbling and grimacing are mostly uninspired mimicry of American models. Still, Rimsky enjoyed popularity among French cinema aurdiences of the 1920s.
I dunno…I thought the film breezed right along (not like that plodding Triplepatte which Lenny Borger seems to have liked…thought for another day!), and I actually enjoyed the pastiche element in that film: it took me a little while to figure out that this was indeed a French film (once the tourists hit Paris then it's impossible to doubt anymore: hand-held, jerky, out-of-focus shots, long pans on crowds and streets, nervous editing of out-of-balance shots, those would seem to have been de rigueur in all French films seen during this week). But the American segment is, aesthetically, a good copy of an American film c. 1919: the sets are, notably, American. Dark, velvety, textured, with camera in frontal position, the ubiquitous large desk in front. Is there a good study out there of French pastiches of American silent films ?
But now my main Pordenone complaint. I too went to the Collegium. While I imagine this opportunity given to students to hobnob with the best in international scholarly erudition can only be fantastic (witness for one instance the link Phil Carli just dropped during that session: the University of California Santa Barbara has digitized, in its Sound Collection, 1890-1900 cylinders of theatre or early film music), and while I think it's a great idea to open said sessions to the public, I wish the sessions were, well, really open. Not to make a mountain out of a molehill, but it sounds jarring to hand out a bibliography "only to Collegians". This is 2008, information should not, cannot, be proprietary.
Got to be a pretty cool festival if that's the only bummer of the week. And it is. Check out day four ! I have tons of notes on day four in my little notebook — hopefully there'll be time this weekend to upload it all here.


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Cornell College Events
Monday, August 21st (link)
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|All day-Aug 29th
|Resident Assistant Training Residence Life Office
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The first Campus Currents session of the year will be held on Monday, August 21st from 9 - 10:30 am in Hall-Perrine in Thomas Commons. During the academic year, Campus Currents are held on the third Thursday of each block. The purpose of Campus Currents meetings is to share information that will be helpful to staff members in their daily roles and as they guide student success, recruit new students, or connect with alumni and friends. It is intended to expand lines of communication, foster collaboration among all divisions, and offer opportunities for discussion and feedback on college issues. If there is a topic you would like covered, please email email@example.com.
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|Monday Matinee Movie for Adults Cole Library
Monday, August 21, Cole Library will host the movie The Last Word. The movie will begin at 1:00 p.m. in Room 108 on the library's first floor. Popcorn and a drink will be provided.
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Todd Rhoades recently shared this post in his blog. We welcome your comments. – STEVE
Be a Witness, Not a Judge
I think you'll enjoy a quick excerpt from my friend Mark Wilson's new book, Purple Fish: A Heart for Sharing Jesus:
Some church folks, as Marshall Shelley observed, are "well intentioned dragons. Their earnest desire for setting things (and people) right comes off wrong. "Nothing has done greater damage to our Christian testimony," said Watchman Nee, "than our trying to be right and demanding right of others."
It's tempting to assume the role of judge, especially when so many evils abound. But if you find yourself pounding the gavel, you'd better step off the bench. Jesus warned us not to judge or we will be judged (Matt. 7:1). God alone is the judge—not us. That's quite a relief. Who in their right mind wants to carry such a burden of responsibility anyway? "There is no point trying to size people up," said Ann Voskamp, "because souls defy measuring."
Some church people see themselves as self-selected juries, but it's not our job to convict people. That role belongs to the Holy Spirit. There is a huge difference between conviction by the Holy Spirit and condemnation by a narrow group of priggish people with shriveled hearts.PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
Others take the prosecutor position: "You are guilty, and I'm going to prove it." Prosecutors are the ones who protest with placards and engage in heated arguments about religion. That approach is terribly ineffective. I have never seen a soul argued into God's kingdom. When you become the spiritual prosecutor, you are not assuming God's role at that point—but rather, the Devil's. He is "the accuser" (Rev. 12:10).WITNESS
Your role as a Christ follower is to simply be a witness. You don't have to pound gavels, point fingers, or cast blame. All you need to do is share your story. The beautiful thing about sharing your faith story is that nobody can deny it. No one can argue with your own personal experience. When you share personally, it touches hearts deeply. What is most personal is most universal.
We are not called to push anybody into our way of thinking. Rather, we bear witness to what God has done for us, and then leave the outcome in his hands.
"Evangelism is less about trying to manage an outcome as it is sharing events and offering an advent alternative for what everyone clearly sees," said Leonard Sweet. "Rather than wrestling the sinner's prayer out of a person who will say anything to get out of the headlock, it is a nudge toward the undeniable truth that is alive in all of us."
Like the redeemed beggar, all you need to say is, "One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!" (John 9:25).
A few pointers on sharing your faith story:
1. Pray that God will open doors for you to share.
2. When the door opens, have courage to speak.
3. Stay humble and never portray an attitude of superiority.
4. Keep it simple and brief. Don't share more than they want to know.
5. Tell them what you experienced, rather than what they should do.
6. Focus on the message (Jesus) rather than the mess.
7. Don't engage in argument. If they protest what you're saying, back off and let the Holy Spirit work.


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As per the articles 352, 356 and 360 in the Constitution of India, President of India have been given extraordinary power to declare an emergency to meet any threat to the country. Those powers to President of India in Constitution are called emergency provisions.
National Emergency (Article 352):
- If the president of the state is not satisfied with a grave emergency exists whereby the security of India or any part is threatened whether by war or external aggression or an armed rebellion, then he may proclaim a state of national emergency for the whole of India or a part of India.
- Such a proclamation of emergency may be revoked by the president subsequently.
- The proclamation of emergency made under article 352 may be subjected to the judicial review and its constitutionally can be questioned in a court of law on the grounds of malafide.
- The proclamation made must be approved by both the houses of parliament within one month after the proclamation.
- The effect of the proclamation of emergency is the emergence of the full-fledged Unitary Government.
State Emergency (Article 356):
- Article 356 provides that if the President, on receipt of a report from the Government of a state or otherwise, is satisfied that a situation has arisen in which the Government of the State cannot be carried on by the provisions of the Constitution, the President may issue a proclamation.
- By that proclamation, the president may assume to himself all or any of the powers vested in the Governor and may declare that the powers of the legislature of the State shall be exercisable by the Parliament.
- The proclamation issued under Article 356 must be laid before each House of the Parliament. If the proclamation is not approved by both Houses, it will expire in two months.
- The Proclamation is so approved by Parliament (by simple majority) shall be in operation for six months. However, it may be revoked in between or extended further by the Parliament.
Financial Emergency (Article 360):
- Article 360 states that if the President is satisfied that a situation has arisen whereby the financial stability or the credit of India or any part thereof is threatened, President may declare a state of financial emergency.
- During the period such Proclamation is in operation, the executive authority of the Union extends to the giving of directions to any State to observe such canons of financial propriety as may be specified in the directions, any such directions may also include:
- A provision required the reduction of salaries and allowances of all or any class of person serving a State or the Union.
- A provision requiring all Money Bills or other Financial Bills to be reserved for the consideration of the President after they are passed by the legislature of the State.
- A Proclamation issued under Article 360 will remain in force for two months unless before the expiry of the period it is approved by both the Houses of the Parliament.
- A proclamation issued under Article 360 will remain in force for two months unless before the expiry of the period it is approved by both the Houses of the Parliament.
- Once approved it remains in force till revoked by the President.
- No emergency under Article 360 has been issued so far.


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Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
The Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague, Spokane
Everyone's favorite practically perfect nanny takes the stage in this Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious musical adventure. One of the most popular Disney movies of all time is capturing hearts in a whole new way: as a practically perfect musical! Based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins delighted Broadway audiences for over 2,500 performances and received nominations for nine Olivier and seven TONY Awards, including Best Musical. The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones she has a profound effect upon. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
Ages: All who can be quietly attentive
Cost: $5.50 per seat. A child sitting on an adult's lap is free.
Tour limits: 400 people
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Kraft's Clawdad - Brown
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I'm not sure the strange little Kraft's Clawdad would have made our draft picks if it wasn't for the glowing reports we've heard about its effectiveness on smallmouth bass. Kraft's Clawdad is a simple crawdad pattern which will sink quickly and has lots of movement by way of its array of rubber legs. Give it a shot on your next bass adventure. We will certainly be doing the same.
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Impeccable sea front corner APARTMENT. Highly finished and furnished ultra modern design enjoying magnificent views. Entrance into hall and very large open plan lounge/dining/kitchen, living room area, study, 3 bedrooms, en-suite bathroom with shower and underlying heating , guest bathroom with shower, 9 balconies, double glazing, air conditioning throughout, sound system, lift. Price includes car space. Truly a Luxury Home!
Sliema (or Tas-Sliema) is a town located on the northeast coast of Malta. It is, relatively speaking, a modern town. It is a centre for shopping, restaurants and café life. Sliema is also a major commercial and residential area and houses several of Malta's most recent hotels. Sliema, which means 'peace, comfort', was once a quiet fishing town on the peninsula across Marsamxett Harbour from Valletta. Sliema and the coastline up to neighbouring St. Julian's constitute Malta's main coastal resort. Sliema nowadays has a great deal of turnover of foreign expatriates who reside temporarily. The Sliema promontory offers on one side stunning views across to Valletta and on the other, open sea views. The promenade, which runs for several kilometres from Gzira just south of Sliema to St Julian's, is ideal for walker and joggers.


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The city of Bath is one of the great loves of my life. It's my hometown and a place that I melt over every time I come back… so much beauty, history and charm like I've never found anywhere else.
Great Pulteney Street is one of the most striking and historic streets in Bath (it's homed people such as Jane Austin and is the widest road in the city!). There really couldn't be a more perfect location for a hotel to allow its guests to be swallowed up in Bath's magic.
What's more, from the age of about 4-12, I lived at number 16 Great Pulteney Street. We lived in a flat on the top two floors with my mum, dad and two siblings (my parents are now remarried and two amazing parents became four, FYI!). So when I booked a night to stay next door at No.15 Great Pulteney in their Henrietta Junior Suite, my sister and I anticipated some serious nostalgia as we checked in.
It's so amazing to be able to go back to my lovely city as often as I can, but I've never slowed it down and visited as if it was my first time; checking into a hotel and having little to do but sit in awe of our surroundings both in and outside of the hotel. As we checked in we both glanced to our right to see our old front door.. we both remembered spinning around on the age old metal prongs that were once used to pick mud out from resident's shoes, and sitting on the front step watching traffic goby whilst waiting for our poor mum to lug the buggy down four flights of stairs.
We checked into our room, dropped our bags (and our dogs!) and, as we always do, ran around each floor to explore every corner, as if our childhood selves from next door had instilled a fresh injection of springy adolescent excitement. The hotel has been designed to take you back to the street's golden age; rich burgundy and royal blues, crystal chandeliers, exposed original brick walls, exaggerated curtains and drapes and statement, aged mirrors.
Our room was absolute perfection. THE comfiest king-size bed you will ever land your behind on, a shower that's bigger than my flat, three huge sash windows (which opened all the way up… a major hotel novelty for me!) and an adorable welcome 'woof pack' for our four-legged babies.
We settled into our room for an hour or so before heading down to the spa. The staff are able to coordinate guest's visits to the spa (for a small fee) so that only two people are in there at any one time which we did and made it feel SO special. We were shown through to one of the street's original underground vaults that once formed the house's staff quarters, now homing an intimate relaxation area with a hot tup and sauna.
We had one blissful hour on the clock to drink bubbles, talk like raving lunatics about everything and nothing, and stoke the walls in a tipsy haze saying "but just think about all the things that have happened here!". Once our time was up I was not so begrudgingly whisked away down the hall to a treatment room for a 60 minute 'Natura Bissé time out treatment'.. 60 minutes of deep tissue BLISS (full disclosure – I fell asleep and the poor therapist had to wake me up at the end. Tbh it's THEIR fault for making it so god damn relaxing!).
Back to the room, washed, dressed, glammed up and ready for drinks in Bar 15 followed by dinner in Cafe 15.
To say dinner was a little chaotic is an understatement… being the slightly reckless and unorganised individuals we are, we got a little carried away in the bar (again.. their fault for making SUCH good drinks I'd say…!) and missed our dinner reservation. Thankfully they kept the kitchen open for us long enough for us to charge down and order three courses (I know, we were those people, and to the staff at cafe 15 I apologise a thousand times over!).
Dinner was incredible and our waiter put his inevitable grudge to one side and helped us pair our wine so perfectly. If you go, you really need to order the crab starter and cheese soufflé. I'm still dreaming about it now.
We woke up to a slightly crowded bed….
Two sisters and their two needy pooched had us up and across the road to the park at around 6am, but all that meant was that we had more hours in the morning to enjoy our surroundings and take in the fresh Somerset air that our lungs long for every second we're in London.
Breakfast ended at 10:30 and check-out was 12pm so we had a long stretch of relaxing, reading and coffee drinking ahead of us. I'd like to say we got into the spirit of our surroundings and popped a bit of Classic FM on our Robert's Radio, but instead we threw on Kisstory and rapped along to Nelly in our PJs. Our dogs were a lil confused….
We popped back down to the familiar surroundings of Bar 15 for breakfast (the option for dog owners – anyone else is able to eat downstairs in Cafe 15 although I actually think Bar 15 is my favourite dining space!).
(let's take a moment for this table – the pieces inside of the glass were individually sourced by the hotel's owners from various shops, boot sales and vintage stores!)
A large and delicious breakfast sitting happily in our tums and we bid farewell to what is quite literally a home from home for us both. Thank you for having us No.15 Great Pulteney, you wonderful, wonderful place.
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During the Oregon/USC Men's basketball game yesterday, Bill Walton reached the pinnacle of his basketball TV commentary career, far exceeding any level of incoherent, weed-induced, jibberish I ever thought he could mouth-spew.
Walton started by saying:
"Jordan isn't even one of the top three NBA players of all time."
Then Bill dropped more knowledge on us:
"Michael Jordan was average in terms of size, strength, speed and jumping ability."
My ears are bleeding right now. This reminds me of the time that my Salt Lake City, Utah cousin-in-law tried to explain to me "What a hipster really is." – I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
How do I attack these statements without losing control of my bowels and projectile vomiting all over my desk?
Maybe I should mention that MJ has six NBA championships to Bill's two? Or that UNIVERSALLY, Michael Jordan is considered the best player in the history of the game or AT LEAST top 3 of all time, by EVERY PEER he ever played with! Every player in the league right now grew up wanting to BE Michael Jordan, has anyone on earth ever said, "I wanna be Bill Walton when I grow up"????? No, No, that's too easy.
How about the fact that Bill Walton was/is still the slowest, whitest, most non-athletic, arthritic redwood tree-stump of a Center in the history of the NBA? So maybe he shouldn't comment on someone's athleticism, strength and jumping ability?
No, No, again that's too easy.
Maybe I should talk about how Bill has SO OBVIOUSLY smoked himself retarded at this point, that ESPN and ABC have completely removed him from any TV commentating of ANY realm of significance what-so-ever, reducing him to doing the bottom of the barrel PAC-12 games??
"YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MORE KIDS PLAYING BASKETBALL…….so we literally have no excuse left to let you commentate games", said EVERY ESPN executive EVER.
Maybe that's a little harsh.
How about this argument:
SHUT THE F#&K UP BILL WALTON! No one cares what you have to say about ANYTHING! You're a burnt out, old hippie that stumbled back into our basketball world on your way to a Greatful Dead concert that's been cancelled for 20 years!
Leave us alone, we don't want to buy some hash from you, we're not interested in any of your glass-blown pipes that you're selling out of your guitar case, there is LITERALLY NOTHING that you could say to us that we will find interesting OR relevant to ANYTHING.
Seriously, WHY DO I HAVE TO GET ANGRY ABOUT THIS SHIT!?!?
Please, please ESPN……….the people of this basketball world are begging you, just tell Bill to go sit down somewhere. This is embarrassing.


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The majority of the meals we eat are vegetarian. On the 1st of February 2017, I stopped eating meat, as did my daughter. She'd been thinking strongly about becoming vegetarian. That day was the first day for her, she hasn't looked back. I was never a massive meat eater but in complete honesty, I initially stopped eating meat in an effort to support my daughter. One year later, I still haven't eaten any and I don't miss it. While she is vegetarian, I am not, I do eat fish occasionally.
This dish is one that came along by accident, my girl loves noodles. Actually, most of us do! This was created with the remnants of a batch cooking afternoon. It took a couple of attempts to get it just how we like it, but here it is. Served with some warm Naan Bread to mop up any leftover sauce, it is delicious.
1 Onion, finely chopped
3 Garlic cloves, minced/grated
A good piece of Ginger, grated
3 Tsp Curry Powder*
1Tsp Chilli Powder
1Tsp Garam Masala
1Tsp Paprika
2 Carrots, topped, tailed & diced**
1 Red Pepper, diced
1 Courgette, diced
1 Tbsp Tomato Puree
1 Can Coconut Milk
1 Can Tomatoes
1/2 Tbsp Maple Syrup***
1 Can Chickpeas
100-150g Noodles of your choice
*Combine all of the spices together and set aside.
**I don't peel the carrots, I wash them, top & tail, finely dice them and parboil them whilst I prepare the rest of the ingredients, thus ensuring they are cooked through when the dish is done.
***A teaspoon of sugar is fine if you don't have Maple Syrup, the sweetener is to take any bitterness away from the tomatoes.
- Heat a large saucepan and add one tablespoon of water. To this add the onion, garlic, ginger and cook until the onion has softened.
- Add the spice mix and stir for a couple of seconds, this smells delicious! If you find it is sticking, just add a little water.
- Next, put in the vegetables, give them a good mix in, then add the tomato puree and stir again. It may not look overly appetising at this stage but the next step will transform the dish.
- Add the coconut milk, tin of tomatoes and sweetener. Give the mixture a good stir, then add the chickpeas.
- Leave the pot to come to the boil and as it simmers prepare the noodles. I normally do these separately, add them to a bowl, cover with hot water and when they are soft, strain them and add them to the curry.
- Simmer for 10 minutes before serving.
The sauce freezes really well, so I often prepare it when my vegetables are freshly bought. After stage 4, let the sauce cool before putting it into a container suitable for the freezer. Later in the week, you just need to prepare the noodles as the sauce reheats and there you go, dinner in 20 minutes.
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Despite the fact that "the science of delivery" is a hot topic these days, the truth is that we don´t know that much about its engine: the public sector workers. A recent book from the IDB sheds some light, looking at the evolution of public employment in the past ten years. The book focuses on civil Service reform (public employment in the Central Administration) in Latin … [Read more...] about Has civil service improved in Latin America?
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Leave the bureaucrats alone?
A few months back we shared some disheartening results in this blog: kids didn't improve their test scores if taught by teachers from the Kenyan Ministry of Education but did better if the teachers were managed by an NGO. Although the results were striking, the policy implications were non-starters. Even if it were politically feasible, which NGO in the World is capable of … [Read more...] about Leave the bureaucrats alone?


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This document describes how the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act office will conduct its review of the Harvard 20-year Master Plan. It includes:
Establishment of a Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC)
The existing Harvard-Allston Task Force, supplemented with a limited number of additional representatives to assist in the state's review of Master Plan impacts, serve the function of the CAC. To nominate yourself of someone else to be on the CAC, address your email to Secretary Ian Bowles and sent it to email@example.com by October 9. It can only help to ask your State Rep and Senator to nominate you as well.
Third-party review of Harvard plans
Harvard has made a voluntary commitment to provide the CAC with financial resources to assist the CAC in obtaining third-party peer review of technical materials developed by the proponent that pertain to the issues of transportation, energy, and air quality.
MEPA Special Review Produre document is now online
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"Women make up half of the world's population and yet represent a staggering 70% of the world's poor..."
- Global Poverty Info Bank (2013) -
How could this be? Sadly, it starts from birth. When families favor males, young girls are sometimes left to die, be malnourished, or suffer from untreated medical conditions.
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In many cultures, genital mutilation is done with maternal consent, leading to a life full of pain, infection, and in many cases, death. If they make it to working years, they are often underpaid and overworked.
In fact, according to GPIB, on average, women make half of what men make (2013). Many women are encouraged to stay home and do work around the house. In this case, women don't have the same opportunity for education.
When gender inequality takes a toll on women, some will turn to prostitution or other informal work for pay, which makes them extremely vulnerable to exploitation, violence, rape, murder, or sex slavery (GPIB, 2013).
Empowering women can lead to more gender equality in the world. Empowering women can also help encourage economic growth nationwide in countries with extreme gender inequalities because working women contribute more to the economy (Kerbo, 2006).
There are many ways to empower women. Here are some of large scale types:
Empowering women means advocating against early child marriage.
o Prevention of early child marriage leads to less health complications and less child birthing related deaths
o Discouraging early marriage will lead to a lower national population, which means more food and money to go around
o If children wait to get married, more women will get educated, giving them more career options. If a woman can get a good job, she won't need to marry into a new family.
o In most cases, women who don't get married as children have a higher life satisfaction.
(Child Brides: Stole Lives, 2007)
Empowering women means encouraging and promoting education.
o With education, women are more likely to get good, steady jobs, so they will pay back their loans (Kerbo, 2006).
o With education, women are more likely to use birth control, keeping the population in control as well, which also benefits the national economics (Kerbo, 2006).
o According to World Bank, "an extra year of secondary schooling for girls can increase their future wages by 10 to 20 % (World Bank, 2011)."
What else can you do to empower women close to you?
o Promote women's political rights and participation
o Teach girls to empower each other from a young age
o Believe in them and help them find necessary resources to move forward
o Get involved with an organization or just spread the word!
Many people still don't realize that gender inequality exists. Likewise, many women don't realize their lives (or their children's lives) could be better with a few changes.
Written by: Tristyne Brindle
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Kerbo, H. (2006). World poverty: Global inequality and the modern world system. New York: McGraw Hill. Pg 47-49.


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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. -Helen Keller
In less than one month, over 130 million people watched Rick Rigsby speak about the transformative power of hope. Now he shares these truths and more in his landmark book, Afraid to Hope. You will discover how the dynamic power of hope has the capacity to transform every part of your life.
Circumstances never leave you the same. Adversity definitely has advantages! The question is, are you willing to move past your fears and expect a better life?
In this book, you will discover:
- How what you believe about the future holds immense promise and adventure.
- How to overcome your fear of the future and make hope a dynamic part of your everyday life.
- What to do if you can't seem to find peace about the past or spark for the future.
- The life-changing difference between real and false hope.
- That hope is a quality inside every person and how you can place a transformative demand upon your heart to believe for the absolute best outcome.
- How hope is available to you today, in endless supply, exactly where you need it.
Nothing is as attractive as the possibility of hope. Nothing is as life changing as the motivation of hope. Nothing is more transformative than a heart filled with hope.


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The U.S. military machine is on the verge of adding an impossibly powerful new weapon to its arsenal: the Thunderer. This multistage rocket armed with a thermonuclear warhead is about to be launched into orbit, and from there it can be sent screaming towards any enemy of truth, justice, and the American Way. It's the space race equivalent of gunboat diplomacy; the military brass hope the Thunderer will never be unleashed, but perhaps the spectre of nuclear annihilation quite literally looming overhead can keep our foes at bay. Besides, the Reds and company have to be working on the same thing, and we don't wanna have someone else beat us to the punch, right?
The scientists shepherding the Thunderer through these final, critical days have brought their families along for the ride. 'Course, there's not a lot that civilians without any security clearance can do on a missile base. Y'know...goof around with some of the other kids...swim...explore the nearby caves...get possessed by an otherworldly intelligence. The children become automatons controlled by a quickly-growing alien brain. Infused with strange psychokinetic powers, the base's children begin to carry out their master's mission...
Director Jack Arnold spent much of the '50s amassing some particularly impressive genre credentials, having helmed Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequel, It Came from Outer Space!, Tarantula, and The Incredible Shrinking Man. If The Space Children -- one of the first movies Arnold directed after striking out on his own -- is any indication, maybe he would've been better off staying at Universal after all. On the
Even at its scarcely feature-length runtime of 69 minutes, The Space Children is an interminable slog. The movie is basically one scene after another of barely serviceable actors standing around and talking. Few of the characters radiate anything resembling a personality. The children are largely interchangeable, so flat and dead-eyed from the outset that being enslaved by an alien intelligence doesn't make for much of a change. Hardly anything happens. The creature is all but immobile and gets precious little screentime. The performances and dialogue lack any vaguely memorable spark. It sure doesn't help that the production values are so startingly low. The Space Children jarringly shifts from location shoots to cheap, unconvincing sets and awkward rear projection. When Russell Johnson's drunken lout gets zapped by the alien brain, his shadow winds up getting cast on the "night sky" a few inches behind him. The Thunderer itself is introduced as a static painting. There's a promising story here, and if 60% of the film had been gutted out, I'm sure The Space Children would've made for a standout episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. That's not what I'm reviewing, of course. What I have in front of me...? Rent It.
I believe this is the first ever home video release of The Space Children, plucked from obscurity by Olive Films. MST3K fans might remember the movie popping up halfway through the series' run on the Sci-Fi Channel, making this one of just a handful -- geez, if that? -- of MSTied movies to claw their way onto Blu-ray.
See Jackie Coogan sharp!
The Space Children can look kind of erratic in high-def. For the most part, though, the image is remarkably crisp and very nicely detailed, outclassing the presentations of quite a few more lavishly budgeted films of a similar vintage. Contrast also varies somewhat but, by and large, remains reasonably robust throughout as well. It's a consistently filmic presentation, not dragged down by any artificial sharpening, excessive filtering, or sputters in the compression. There is some mild speckling, but it's rarely enough to distract, and a few flecks of dust never hurt anyone anyway. It's an uneven but generally terrific presentation.
There's one sequence in particular with some unexpected pillarboxing on the right, and that's reflected in the 'soft' shot above. Can't say I'm sure what the story is there. Otherwise, The Space Children is lightly letterboxed to maintain its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its AVC encode is dished out on a single layer platter.
The Space Children's original monaural soundtrack has been preserved in 16-bit DTS-HD Master Audio. The elements must've been in spectacular shape; this ranks among the very best sounding vintage genre films I've
There are no alternate soundtracks or subtitle streams.
The Final Word
Part of me's thrilled that this slice of science fiction -- helmed by the director of some of my absolute favorite '50s genre films -- has been rescued from obscurity. It's also a rare treat to see a movie that's been skewered on Mystery Science Theater 3000 find its way onto Blu-ray. The Space Children, with its daringly even-handed criticism of the arms race...its collision of the fantastic with everyday mundanity...likely would've made for a brilliant episode of The Twilight Zone. As a film, though, it's sorely underfunded and struggles to fill its barely feature-length runtime. For vintage sci-fi completists only. Rent It.


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I'm going to stick my neck out here and I'm very sorry to say this, but Jeremy Corbyn has lost my support. He did so with this statement responding to the vote of no confidence from MPs in his leadership.
"Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the Government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the Government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes."
With this statement he has betrayed the hopes and interests of the young people who formed the core of his support, and who have been so badly let down by Cameron's referendum. It's an abysmal failure of leadership.
I've always had mixed feelings about Corbyn. I supported him because unlike the other candidates for the Labour leadership he was the authentic voice of opposition, the necessary antidote to the hopeless platitudes of the Blairites, though for pragmatic reasons I always wished that voice could have come from the mouth of someone younger, someone without his baggage, someone who would be a harder target for our rabid right wing media.
When Labour MPs responded to the Brexit debacle by turning on Corbyn I wanted to put my head in my hands. But now I fear they have little choice. (Labour might well be finished anyway – this really is the Last Chance Saloon.)
Owen Jones, as committed a Corbyn supporter as any, has put his finger on the immediate problem. He's admitted frankly that for him there was a plan, that Corbyn would continue to articulate and influence the necessary opposition to the Tory government, but as we came closer to the election set for 2020, he would step down in favour of a younger more compelling candidate, also from the left of the party.
But now, with the distinct possibility of a snap election, it seems unlikely that there will be time for all this.
It's not that I think Corbyn would be an electoral disaster in these circumstances. The media is very sure he'd be a disaster, while for the rest of us the truth might be a little less cut and dried. But if in that defiant statement he's setting out his stall for such a campaign then I couldn't support him anyway.
The only person to blame for the Brexit debacle is David Cameron, not Corbyn. Nor do I blame Corbyn for refusing to share a platform with Cameron. I'm glad he refused. It's more what Corbyn didn't do.
He didn't set out a clear alternative, progressive and positive case for the UK's continuing membership of the EU. He unequivocally urged supporters to vote Remain, but that's not the same thing. It was left to the likes of the Green's Caroline Lucas, who for my money remains the most cogent and impressive voice on the left.
Now it sounds as though Corbyn has no intention of pushing that progressive vision, that he has indeed fallen back on the old hard left antagonism to the EU, suggesting we might still create a workers' paradise right here on our own.
It's crap. There is no path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes. If we leave the EU and the single European market there will be considerable, unavoidable short and medium term pain. It's a version of the same bollocks peddled by the Leave campaign.
I suppose too you could argue that Corbyn was being no more than a proper democrat, acknowledging that "the people have spoken". But there's far too much wrong with what's happened for the referendum verdict to be taken at face value, and no political leader who thinks it's ok if we're all screwed by Cameron's biggest screw up is going to get my respect, let alone my vote.
Because it is a matter of leadership. Good leaders seek to change and lead opinion, not follow it, and then be ready to be held to account for their decisions at the end of their term. That simple idea seems to have been largely lost in a political culture driven into the ground by the fake wisdom of focus groups and Clinton's "triangulation" of left and right. Labour is where it is now substantially because of its failure in the wake of Gordon Brown's notorious "bigot" gaffe to address the growing resentment of immigration among many of its traditional supporters. It was never going to be an easy task, but then nor was saying "we hear your pain" ever going to cut it. Corbyn has said a little more than that, but he's done nothing to confront or counter the Conservative suggestion that there was nothing to be done, that this was all the EU's fault.
(The Tory remainers would no doubt say that it was the EU's fault but was a price worth paying for the prosperity brought by the EU, a prosperity not felt by many in the traditional Labour fold. The Tory leavers would just say it was the EU's fault, end of story.)
The political world is in a state of unprecedented turmoil. It's not clear what incoherent stance the Conservatives are going to take next, but it is pretty clear that this is no time for the same old shit from everyone else. In a week or so's time the Chilcot report is expected to destroy the last shreds of any credibility Tony Blair might once have had. At least this should at a stroke rule out the tainted likes of Hilary Benn or David Milliband (god help us). There is a glimmer of opportunity for the UK's progressive parties if they can put their heads together, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
In the meantime Corbyn should already be yesterday's news, because he's never shown any interest in such a project, and in these last ten months failed to build the bridges even within the Parliamentary Labour Party that could have taken him through this crisis. I've loved his integrity, his refusal to play the PR games, but he's never framed a bigger vision, a vision that could give people hope of something different from the past, and more than the failed neoliberalism of the Blairites and the Tories alike (not to mention the Orange Book LibDems).
I see little hope of that from the likes of Angela Eagle either, and maybe that's why Labour really could be finished, its vote likely to continue to bleed out to UKIP, the Greens, the SNP and perhaps even Tim Farron's newly leftish LibDems. I hope not, but while the Tories currently present an open goal, Labour has only a few weeks to sort itself out. It's not a cheering thought.
Almost immediately after I'd posted this Caroline Lucas published her open letter to Corbyn, inviting him to join her in a progressive coalition. To me such a coalition offers a potentially mould-breaking way forward, a chance to break through the stagnation of party politics that in part has brought us to this miserable place, where for all the terrible things they have done, and their current complete disarray, the Conservatives are still showing at level pegging with Labour.
This dismal prospect rather than any Blairite coup is why Labour is turning on itself, and it's why figures of the left such as Lisa Nandy have resigned from Corbyn's cabinet. People talking about Blairite conspiracy need to address this.
As far as I know Corbyn has yet to respond, maybe because he has other things on his mind which would be fair enough, but it has to be said that such pluralism goes against everything his strand of Labour has ever done, and I'd be happily surprised if he showed any enthusiasm for it now.
But we are in a changed reality. Labour has for the foreseeable future lost Scotland, which stacks the odds against it ever commanding a majority on its own. It's hard to know whether in its current form the SNP is a progressive party or not, but I'd have thought it was worth having the conversation. The timing of all this is hardly desirable, but then as Macmillan remarked, politics has always been about events.


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Divorce Without An Attorney – Self RepresentationMarch 11, 2014
You know, many, many, many people are foregoing attorney driven divorces now for self-representation. It's almost a movement. The unfortunate thing, I feel, is there's not enough legitimate support and assistance for those people who really want to self represent, who really want to have control of the process, so that their actual needs get heard and expressed on the particular government forms, or declarations, or their request for orders. People have a right to take care of themselves in these circumstances, and they have every capacity and ability to do it. We do it every day, day in and day out. For years, we've done it through this clinic. It works. People do not need attorneys to get a divorce. They do not need mediators to get a divorce. They need someone to facilitate the process that has a skill set that can manage conflict if it arises, can manage emotions because there are profound emotions. It's a very human process.
The movement of self-help, where people are fed up with the old paradigm of attorneys drawing out cases, and more paperwork and more filing and more drama, all of that. People are fed up with it. They truly are, and they're trying to find a way to help themselves. Go Divorce Clinic is here to do just that. To help them control the process of their own dissolution, to help them control the outcome because they're co-creating it, not lawyers and not a judge. Their alternatives without lawyers? A mediator, perhaps. But many times mediators are lawyers. And mediators aren't really about, in my opinion, self-representation. Supporting and encouraging self-representation. Mediators are looking for the problem between two disputing parties that they can solve. But it's still not what I feel people need that are moving through a divorce process.
What they need is to actually have what's important to them listened to, understood and expressed in the appropriate legal paperwork that needs to be submitted to the court. And that's what we are doing. We are helping couples who can cooperate self-represent themselves and come to an agreement without attorneys or mediators. They don't ever have to go to hearing. They don't ever have to go to court. That makes the family court system very happy because they're plenty bogged down with people who are struggling with attorney-driven divorces. So, empowering the people to empower themselves is a big part of what Go Divorce Clinic is about and we assist them in that endeavor. We prefer working with couples who cooperate. It stream lines the process, it's less expensive, it takes a lot less time, it preserves dignity.
If there's a co-parenting relationship beyond the dissolution, it enhances for a more optimal relationship between mother and father after. That's what we're focused on at Go Divorce Clinic. Because we know that's what's best for the people that walk in our office, and it's what's best for the children who don't come into the office, who don't have a voice. This is what people need, and this is the kind of service and the spirit with which they get it at Go Divorce Clinic.
Divorce – Keep Control In Your Hands, Not The CourtsMarch 5, 2014
The court system is a very precarious place to put all of the things that are on the table in a divorce that matter to you: Your finances, your children, your emotional well-being, and the relationship that you're going to have post-dissolution with your spouse. That's a very precarious place to go. Because all the decisions are going to be made out of your hands by a judge, who's going to be listening to two other people that are representing the two parties at hearing. If that isn't a loss of control of the client, the client's ability to say what they want, when they want, and how they want, I don't know what it is. Because, by the time their needs get translated through an attorney, and through a judge who's got stacks of papers he's gotta read and files, and listening to hearsay, and he said/she said, and trying to make decisions based on that, and what evidence has been piled up, the cost and efficiency, the emotional toll and the outcomes rarely are satisfying for people.
What is the best way for somebody moving through a dissolution to control the process? The best way is for those two parties to cooperate. Because if they can cooperate, and I maintain that 95% of people can. The only ones that can't are the ones that have an agenda to hurt somebody. They really have an agenda for that. And those are rare, they're few and far between. Most people are confused, upset, disoriented, and scared… Absolutely. But if they go someplace that doesn't polarize them, if they go someplace that understands the emotional context, if they go someplace that isn't looking at these two individuals to see who can win, if they go someplace that can guide them through the legal questions, the asset and debt allocation, the rights and responsibilities, the support issues and structure, and has an experience with that, and is looking at it solution-based, not confrontational, not oppositional, but solution-based… We don't have a problem here, we just have some issues that we need to find clear solutions to. It's a different approach. That's what Go Divorce Clinic is all about.
That's what really meets the needs of people moving through a dissolution process, and it allows those clients to control the process by participating in it. The only thing they have to do is to cooperate. Which really isn't as tall a order as most people think, because the family law industry has really spun this to believe that every divorce has to be in a War of the Roses, has to be this huge, ugly thing. "Oh my God, a divorce." It doesn't have to be that way, and the clients that move through my office don't experience that ugliness. It's difficult, sure. It's absolutely, emotionally very hard to end a marriage. But it doesn't have to be ugly hard. It doesn't have to be bitter hard.
Our vision works, and has been working for years, is a vision where people can come, have a safe place, and be guided through the process and break things down equitably, reasonably, to decide over rights and responsibilities with a discussion that's adult, that has respect and dignity to it, that cuts out the drama, that does what's in the best interest of the children. This kind of venue never goes inside of a courtroom, never goes to hearing, never needs attorneys to argue about who's right and wrong.


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|These shelves are now empty and the walls are bare. Just took the last things down today.
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Version 0.5.8 updated again
I've just made yet another update to version 0.5.8. This contains one bug fix (sorting categories in proper alphabetical order, rather than prioritising uppercase entries as before), a change to the build system which allows out-of-source builds, which some CMake users like (thanks to a patch by Patryk Cisek). Downloads from the right side-bar, as always.
Version 0.5.8 updated
I've had to update version 0.5.8, as I discovered a bug in the search bar, which did not actually turn off expert (i.e. regular expression) searching when you turned off the feature in Preferences - it simply hid the checkbox instead, leaving the user with expert mode on and no means of turning it off. I have also published the search bar API.
Downloads of QTM v0.5.8.1 from the box on the right, as ever.
Version 0.5.8 released
Less than a week after the last release, I've put out yet another - version 0.5.8, this time featuring the "Foxhound" search bar, similar to the one in Firefox which pops up at the bottom of the window and doesn't obstruct the view of the text. Unlike the Firefox search bar (well, as far as I know), you can also use regular expressions (but you have to turn this on in Preferences). It's taken me quite long but last week I suddenly realised that QTM didn't have Find. Now it does. It still doesn't have Replace ... but maybe in another few weeks.
I had to get this out quick because there is a bug fix in it. The bug affected loading articles from disk, and led to the blog IDs being displayed in the blog selector (as in blogid:2) rather than the blogs' names. This was a "cosmetic" bug as it still displayed the correct blog ID, but it still wasn't supposed to.Read more »
Version 0.5.7 released (updated to 0.5.7.1)
I've just released version 0.5.7, more than three months after putting out the last. This is mainly because I was working long hours for much of that time, so had little time (and more to the point, energy) to work on QTM. This release has one important new feature, namely the ability to name an entry composed with Quickpost after the article it's based on; this is done by selecting "Copy title" when composing a template. The template configuration window now works more consistently, with the Accept button removed (any changes you make to a template are now accepted there and then) along with Reset (because it had intractable bugs and the same result can be achieved by closing and re-opening the window).
Update 10th Feb: I have now released a new version, version 0.5.7.1, which adds a rudimentary manpage (to satisfy Debian packaging requirements) and extends "Copy title" to all quickposts, not just templated ones as in the old 0.5.7.Read more »
Version 0.5.6 released (updated to 0.5.6.1)
I've just released version 0.5.6 of QTM. This version features fixes to crash bugs affecting the Quickpost Templates dialog, two new template tags (%host% and %domain%, the first being the hostname of the article being posted, the other being the same without the www bit), and the ability to "associate" certain hosts with certain templates, so that if you Quickpost any article from that host, QTM will use that template.
Update: I've had to post an updated version, with a serious bug fixed, namely one that caused the first template with no associated hosts to be triggered sometimes when quickposting. This has now been fixed by ensuring that no empty entries for associated hosts can find their way into the database, and will be ignored if the system finds them when quickposting. Source and a SUSE 10.3 binary are available now; I should post an Ubuntu Gutsy and Mac OS X binary later today.
Version 0.5.5 released
Over the past couple of months since version 0.5.4 was released, I've been busy working on new features for QTM. However, I discovered that version 0.5.4 broke compatibility with versions of Qt earlier than v4.3, because of my using Qt Designer v4.3 to lay out widgets. An interim release was therefore needed to restore this.
Also, I've included a couple of icons, on the usual "green send button" theme, for the application menus and Mac OS X dock, and a script to generate the desktop entry file, because it needs to specify where the program and the icons are installed (i.e. whether /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or somewhere else).Read more »
Final version 0.5.4 released
I've finally released version 0.5.4 nearly two months after I put out the first beta. The biggest new feature since 0.5.3 is file uploads. This is in response to a feature request from Günther in Austria, on Qt Apps. However, I've found its usefulness to be limited as some content management systems simply won't accept large file uploads from clients like QTM. My Movable Type 4 installation won't accept files in the 100-200Kb range, let alone converted RAWs from my Canon digital SLR. This release solves a few crashes that this feature introduced in the betas, particularly where large files are concerned.
There's also an auto-link system. This means you can highlight certain words or phrases, and (through the Insert/Link and Insert/Auto Link menu actions) set a particular web location to be associated with them. Then, next time you want to link that website, just type the text you typed the first time round, select Insert/Auto Link again, and it'll do the link for you.Read more »
Second beta of version 0.5.4 released
I have released a second beta of version 0.5.4 of QTM. This contains one new feature: auto links, which mean that you can set an URL to which you can automatically link set words or phrases in the text (by pressing a key combination - not just by typing the phrase). Source and a Fedora 7 binary are available in the SourceForge repository as always (not at KDE Apps since that is still the stable 0.5.3 release). You may find the links in the Downloads box to the right.
Beta of version 0.5.4 released
In response to a feature request from Günter on the Qt Apps page, I've released a beta of version 0.5.4 of QTM, which contains a file upload feature. This became a beta rather than a final release because file upload can be implemented in a "quick and dirty" fashion, which makes the application hang while it converts a large file into base 64, or it can be implemented properly, which means writing, or at least adapting, one's own base 64 converter. Since I wanted to do it quickly, I chose the former option.Read more »
Version 0.5.3 released
I've just released the sources for version 0.5.3 of QTM (binaries should follow). The biggest change this time round is the removal of the basic Blogger posting functions which were introduced in the beta to version 0.3.10. This happened after someone asked on the KDE Apps QTM page about posting to Blogger, and on investigation it turned out that Blogger simply no longer supports the old Blogger API. It has moved on to its own GData system, which I may support in the future but right now I'm concentrating on XML-RPC as used by Wordpress, Movable Type and pretty much every other content management system under the sun. So, QTM is no longer Blogger compatible.
Also, I have added the ability to paste text in various formats, including as blockquotes, as lists and as Markdown blockquotes, and to specify whether or not a time should be sent at posting time, so as to avoid the problem of the wrong times being displayed on some CMS's including Wordpress and Textpattern.Read more »


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The "Green New Deal" proposed by congressional Democrats is a "recipe for mass suicide" and the "most ridiculous scenario I ever heard," Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore warned in an exclusive interview with The New American. In fact, Dr. Moore warned that if the "completely preposterous" prescriptions in the scheme were actually implemented, Americans could be forced to turn to cannibalism to avoid starvation — and they still would not survive.
Dr Jay Lehr and Tom Harris post at Americaoutloud.com why the rewriting of Earth's climate history is "the most pervasive and damaging example of scientific fraud in the history of mankind".
Canadian climatologist Dr Tim Ball posts at Technocracy News and Trends: "This is an update of an earlier effort to counter the propaganda war that is going on to promote the falsehoods about the environment and climate. An update is required because skills improved with practice and as they lose the war, desperation demands greater deceptions. Technocrats are at the center of this development."
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) is misleading humanity about climate change and sea levels, a leading expert on sea levels who served on the UN IPCC told The New American. In fact, it is more likely that sea levels will decline, not rise, explained Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, the retired head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics at Stockholm University.
Dr Jay Lehr and Tom Harris write at Heartland.org: "Claims of unprecedented carbon-dioxide levels ignore most of Earth's 4.6-billion-year history. Relative to Earth's entire record, carbon-dioxide levels are at historically low levels; they only appear high when compared to the dangerously low levels of carbon dioxide that occurred in Earth's very recent history."
Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London has been looking at how nature has reacted to forecasts of global warming, and shows that the rise in CO2 levels has not been accompanied by the claimed increases in temperature.
Robert Lyman is an economist with 35 years' experience as an analyst, policy advisor and manager in the Canadian federal government, primarily in the areas of energy, transportation and environmental policy. In this paper, titled "Transition to Reality" for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, he explains why prospects for rapid decarbonisation face 'perhaps insurmountable obstacles'.
Coupla weeks ago, due to a slip-up- by our administrator, we lost irretrievably some important recent posts that hadn't been backed up. We are re-posting some of them here:
First: A video in which Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT, Dr Richard Lindzen, explains why he and so many other scientists is a skeptic. It's a short but convincing piece.
Second: Originally a co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr Patrick Moore explains in this video why he quit the organisation and now opposes current Greenpeace propaganda, especially on climate change
Third: Dr Patrick Moore again in greater detail about why we need more carbon dioxide (CO2) to sustain life on Earth, and why it's important that we continue to extract oil and gas from beneath our oceans
Fourth: Dr Judith Curry rebuts alarmist propaganda about alleged recent rises in sea levels LINK
Chris Morrison writes in The Conservative Woman: "It has been an encouraging start to the contest for the year's loopiest climate story. It has been an encouraging start to the contest for the year's loopiest climate story."
Two Greek scientists report in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestial Physics: "The global warming during 1978–2018 was not more enhanced at high latitudes near the surface; the intrinsic properties of the lower stratospheric temperature are not related to those in the troposphere; the results obtained do not reveal the global warming occurrence." Heavy scientific reading, but highly convincing.
U.S. climate analyst Dr David Wojick posts at CFact: "The brutal cold wave that just struck America provides a stark example of why 100% renewables cannot possibly work. Once the massive high pressure system was in place there was almost no wind, so no significant wind power. And the coldest temperatures by far were at night or early morning, when there was no solar power either."
Professor Larry Bell describes at Newsmax how fossils fuels have saved people in Canada and U.S. from freezing to death in the current severe cold snap.
"The global climate scare – and policies resulting from it – are based on models that do not work. For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us the end of the world as we know it is nigh because of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by burning fossil fuels.". In this post at WUWT, Dr Jay Lehr and Tom Harris explain why those climate models just do NOT work.
Canadian climatologist Dr Tim Ball writes: "I will not apologize for my outrage at being lectured to about my moral obligations concerning climate change from the likes of Benjamin Santer, from his position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ironically, and sadly, he is right that we need to address climate change, but for the wrong reason. We need to address the false science about climate change and global warming he was part of creating and perpetuating almost from the start. We need to address and stop the use of science for a political agenda, as his latest pontificating illustrates."
Dr Jay Lehr and Tom Harris post at World Commerce Review: "Most of the periodic temperature increases and decreases observed in human history are average amount of the energy that we receive from the Sun. The mild heating and cooling per degrees Fahrenheit reflect changes in solar activity rather than exponential increase in temperature from 1880 to 1935 as the Littlre Ice Age ended. It decreased from 1935 to 1990, and has since levelled off. Temperature changes do not mirror emission changes."
Dr Roy Spencer explains about the icy coldness now gripping parts iof Canada and US: "For as long as we have had weather records (extending back into the 1800s), lobes of cold air rotating generally from west to east around the polar vortex sometimes extend down into the U.S. causing wild winter weather and general unpleasantness.....We used to call this process 'weather'. Now it's called 'climate change'".
Australian climate analyst, David Archibald, explains in full detail at WentworthReport.com, how the global warming myth was conjured up in 1980, and why, and rebuts the false claims by warmist propagandists. As Archibald says: "There is only one true path. This is dictated by physics, chemistry, and economics." THIS IS A MUST-READ.
Bob Tisdale posts at WattsUpWithThat: "This is a long post: 3500+ words and 22 illustrations. Regardless, heretics of the church of human-induced global warming who frequent this blog should enjoy it. Additionally, I've uncovered something about the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive that I hadn't heard mentioned or seen presented before. It amazed even me, and I know how poorly these climate models perform. It's yet another level of inconsistency between models, and it's something very basic. It should help put to rest the laughable argument that climate models are based on well-documented physical processes."
Emeritus Professor Geoff Duffy writes: "The GHG concentration of the actual atmosphere is 1.028% of the total atmosphere, based on water vapour being 1% (200C, 75% Relative Humidity). The main gases from possible agricultural sources (methane and nitrous oxide) total only 0.02% of all the GHG, or 0.00021% of the total atmosphere......Hence, it can be concluded from all the available evidence that their contribution to any potential change in weather is miniscule".
Extract from a reply by astronaut Harrison Schmitt on climate change: "Right now, in my profession[geology], there is no evidence. There are models. But models of very, very complex natural systems are often wrong. The observations that we make as geologists, and observational climatologists, do not show any evidence that human beings are causing this. Now, there is a whole bunch of unknowns."


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For one day each year, downtown Sierra Madre fills with artisans and visitors who came to see the largest blossoming plant in the world.
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The home of acclaimed astronomer Edwin Hubble was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and can be toured.
87 W Sierra Madre Blvd, Sierra Madrehttp://sierramadreplayhouse.org
This historic theater was built in 1923 and continues to present six to eight events each season.
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Meet at one of the nonprofit's mountain lodges and embark on a guided journey into nature.
Sierra Madre is located just 13 miles from Los Angeles.
The Sierra Madre Public Library has activities daily for readers of all ages.
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When Jesus told a parable about a fig tree in a vineyard, it reminded his listeners that repentance is necessary if we want to spend eternity with God. Unpacking Jesus' words in Luke 13, Alistair Begg encourages us to have a radical encounter with Christ—one that produces life-changing repentance and the fruit of the Spirit. God's mercy gives us the opportunity to choose Christ with our whole hearts. May we respond to His invitation while we're still able!
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