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This Clever Box Crams Five Screens Into One TV
Now you have an excuse to buy that 80-inch flatscreen.
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Now that televisions of ridiculous size are becoming more commonplace, home viewers have a lot of extra real estate to work with. But what can you actually do with all of that space?
Thus far, a single picture-in-picture is the most that the average viewer has had to work with, but Foxboro, Massachusetts, startup Skreens TV wants to help you cram up to five different content sources onto your television at the same time. If you've ever dreamed of a split-screen multiplayer–like layout for your family TV, well, here it is.
...sort of.
The company is only in the startup phase—they haven't even launched a Kickstarter yet—but it's showing off its early work at this weekend's PAX East gaming expo in Boston, where we got to check it out.
Here's how it works: You hook up your various content sources to the Skreens TV box via HDMI, which then passes the video and audio on to your TV. From there, you use a tablet/smartphone app to control the number, size, and location of each stream's window.
In its pre-alpha state, the interface is pretty basic. However, it looks plenty promising: You can pinch to resize the windows, and move sources on and off-screen with relative ease. You can also select which stream is the primary audio source. The box broadcasts the other audio streams over WiFi, so you can listen on headphones through your smartphone or tablet. An optical audio out port on the rear of the device takes care of home theater users.
Because Skreens TV is platform-agnostic, you can mix all kinds of different inputs on a single display. Let's say you're watching an NFL game: You can have the broadcast running from the cable box on HDMI1, your favorite fantasy football site on HDMI2 via your laptop, and Madden 15 from your Playstation 4 on HDMI 3. If your kid is bored with football, he or she could watch Netflix on your Roku through HDMI 4.
Hardcore gamers are probably worrying about latency issues right about now, but the company claims Skreens TV won't add more than 30 miliseconds or so of additional lag to your gaming setup. Any additional lag is bad, but for casual use 30ms seems acceptable.
If all of this sounds too ADD for you, I can assure you that you're not alone. Still, there are undoubtedly users who have been waiting for exactly this solution, and I have no doubt Skreens TV will find plenty of takers.
Skreens isn't ready for market yet, but if you'd like to know more, check out the company's website.


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The Bible stories about the first man and creation are not true, according to a new investigation. Stop the presses, Mr. Gutenberg!
How many times must the same headline be printed?
Headlines will come and go and the world will continue to turn, upheld by the power of Christ's word, and people will continue to make a decision as to whether or not they choose to accept or reject Jesus and the book written about him.
"God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high," (Hebrews 1:1-3 NKJV)

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Marvelous Middle Grade Monday is a meme started by Shannon Messenger to celebrate middle grade books. This week I'm looking at LAWLESS by Jeffrey Salane
If I could give this book a grade I would give it an A+. It was a bit slow to start because I didin't really get it. The characters in this book are really cool.
I would recommend this book to my friends because it's very exciting, scary and sometimes confusing. It's difficult to read but I liked it!
The best part was when M tried to steal the painting, Jacob De Gheyn 3 and she almost got caught.
I would change when M loses the painting in the lake. I would have her break it by accident. I think you should know that it is interesting, funny, scary and confusing. Also here's what Goodreads has to say about it:
The Lawless School provides the right education for kids on the wrong side of the law.
M Freeman has been homeschooled her entire life. So M has no idea just how unusual her education has been – not until she leaves home to attend the prestigious (and mysterious) Lawless School.
Suddenly, it's very clear to M that her tutors have been preparing her all along for a life of crime. She excels at escape tactics. She's a whiz at spotting forgeries. Her years of piano lessons pay off when picking pockets and cracking safes.
M's newfound talent for criminal mischief soon brings her to the attention of the Masters, the secretive school's most secretive clique. M's interest in the Masters is personal – joining this international dishonor society is her best chance to learn the truth about her father's life . . . and his death. But when her first real-world heist goes wrong, M is left wondering: Is there truly honor among thieves?
LAWLESS will be published in April 2013 from Scholastic! YAY!!


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We are now certified to provide Pet Loss Grief Counseling through the Animal Loss & Grief Support Institute facilitated by Teresa Wagner. We can now help pet owners who have suffered the loss of a beloved animal companion. Every client is treated with compassion, understanding, and dignity. Every session is a safe, non-judgmental space where clients are heard. If this is a service that you or someone you know may need, please click one of the buttons below for more information about our updated policies and programs.
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WATCH! Holli's Encore Presentation!
By popular request, Holli gave an encore presentation of her Communicating Intuitively with Animals: More Than "Sit, Stay, Get Down from There!!" talk from April of this year. This speech was given at Rowan Tree in Herndon on September 16th.
In this talk, you are taken through the journey of what intuitive communication is, some examples of when a communication has occurred and how we can bridge the gap of communication between ourselves and our animal companions.
At Holli's TEDxAshburn talk, she met Junaid Ahmed, who hosts the Hacks and Hobbies podcast. He asked Holli to participate in an interview for him to talk about her Animal Communications experiences, and even drifted into science fiction, including Star Trek, The Orville and Dr. Who . The interview took place on April 25.
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"The Animal Kingdom is filled with thinking, feeling, sentient beings who are always communicating with us. We can understand them if we are quiet enough to listen."
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If you have suffered a loss of a beloved pet, either recently or years ago, and you have always wondered if you made that right decision at the right time, I can help give you peace of mind and help you reach closure regarding your feelings about your dearly departed pet.
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An Intuitive Animal Communicator is someone who can communicate with animals on a deep, non-verbal level. This is the practice of being able to sense images, emotions or feelings from a distance. This practice does take time to learn - but anyone can be taught how to communicate with their pets intuitively.
Do you need to be in the same room as my pet?
No. A communication session can take place over the phone, e-mail or in person. It all depends on the needs of the animal. Most sessions can be done via e-mail or phone.
Can you communicate with my deceased pet?
Yes. An animal's spirit is eternal, and the bonds of love are unbreakable. Even though our pets are no longer physically with us, a communication can still happen with them.
How will I know if a communication has worked?
You will know by the results. You may notice a change in behavior or the demeanor of your pet for the better. If the communication has happened with a deceased pet, then you will know by the peace of mind you
feel after your session.
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Follow up sessions are to ensure that the core issue was addressed with you and your pet. Over time, as an Animal Communicator, I can build a relationship with you and your pet. This way we can get to the issues that are really going on to help keep them resolved. It is always a good practice to check in and see how your pet is doing after a session.
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Holli has been a certified equine and canine massage therapist since 2006, and a professional animal communicator since 2009. Her love of animals gives her the compassion to be an Animal Communicator and relay the needs of beloved pets to their owners.
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- Holli is a certified Equine Sports Massage Therapist (ESMT), and Canine Massage Therapist (CMT), trained at Equissage and Associates.
- Holli completed training as an Animal Communicator with Janet Dobbs
- Holli completed training in Interspecies Counselor, and Apprentice Animal Communication Instructor with Penelope Smith


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We do contact our lighting reps and manufacturer's with feedback on what parameters we need for their families.

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There will be half a billion viewers of mobile TV by 2013, largely driven by the switchover to all-digital broadcasting in the US and other countries predicts ABI Research…I'm pretty sure that includes broadcast and streamed TV services. Senior analyst Jeff Orr said that people don't value mobile TV because it's at the end of a list of more preferred mobile services, however " mobile TV will soon be positioned in a more proper role as an extension of traditional broadcast TV services". The argument is that people don't want mobile TV, but do want to see TV on the move and if that is on a mobile phone — so be it. This appears promising for the OMVC model which sees broadcasters tack on a mobile stream to their digital broadcast, offering it free (and at little extra cost to themselves). Mobile TV will therefore also be on MIDs, in cars, and so on.
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An online magazine based out of Provo that covers local music, entertainment, politics, and everything else.
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A guide for Provo's hipsters written by Provo's hipsters.
City Weekly
Salt Lake's premiere paper for everything hip.
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Salt Lake Underground. In Utah, but not of Utah.
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Occasionally updated reviews of Provo's most popular bands.
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How to recover from a girls' night out to keep a promise for your kids the next day: one Big Gulp, half a Panera quiche, one hot shower, one bowl of oatmeal, three bananas, two B-12 vitamins, two Alka-seltzers in Vitamin Water, one tablespoon of honey, one cold shower, six Advil, 10 Saltines, one Gatorade, and one plunge into an ice-cold Lake Michigan.
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Mommy Dearest
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After wiping Aidan's ass, the two of us were looking at our reflections in the mirror while we scrubbed feces from our hands. "Mom, it's you and me forever," he whispers, "for as long as I poop."
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In Sickness and In Health
Note to self: Do not be annoyed when husband stays in bed sick all day upon returning from a six-day biz trip because he just might end up in the ER with a giant kidney stone and you'll feel like a real jackass.
I'll admit it: when it comes to my husband being sick, I often call bullshit. I do the same thing to my kids and don't come to my senses until I am cleaning puke off the berber. So, when my husband calls me at work saying that he is in pain because he can't take a dump, I am less than compassionate. "Drink some Pepto." Then when he calls me again saying that he called my dad over to watch the kids, I am mildly concerned. When I come home to find him pale as a ghost and dry heaving on our front lawn, I am just scared. And remorseful. And hoping the neighbors don't see him.
Seeing that we just paid off the hospital bills from Aidan mysterious parasite stint which involved puking and shitting at the exact same time for two weeks, we decided to drive 20 minutes to the immediate care rather than rake up another ER bill at the hospital that is literally at the end of our block. Three questions about his balls, two shots in the ass, and one diagnosis later: get to the ER. You have a kidney stone.
He gets doped up and I have to admit, he's a very witty and charming stoner. The next day, we are at the urologist's office with fabulous penis décor everywhere you look. The stone is as large as a marble, so they have to put a stick up his dick and break it up with sonic waves. It didn't work. They try again. That doesn't work. In the meantime, you can hear the poor guy scream every time he has to go to the bathroom. And because of the stent, orange, medicated pee shoots out like a garden hose. At least it's easy to spot before sitting down. (Want to see for yourself? Search Herb Dove Takes a Pee on YouTube — will take you back to the days of Beavis and Butthead.)
As all else fails, the doc finally had to go up —cross legs here — and dig the stones out. One by one. (On the upside, they did some complimentary manscaping down there.) The fifth and final time they knock him out is to remove the stent. The doc is visiting us in pre-op, going over the procedure when Tom asks if he can bring the straw that is up his privates home because his buddy wants to see it. I am mortified. The doc is unfazed as explains the government regulations against taking home a TUBE THAT WAS UP YOUR PENIS. So the doc offers to take a money shot of Tom's… stent. In fact, afterwards, he said he spent more time taking the picture than on the whole procedure.
After seeing the dickstick, I finally handed over my childbirth trump card. It was a nice 10-year run.
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Eileen loves hamsters. We have two furry friends that she licks on a regular basis. So, when asked to watch one of her BFF's rodents for a long weekend, she was thrilled. Upon the hand-off, the mom pulls me aside and says, "Just a heads up that Cutie Pie has a tumor on its leg. I just didn't want you to freak out. She gets around just fine, so we are not worried about it." Gotcha. Have a great trip.
Two days later, I wake up to: "MOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! Cutie Pie is bleeding all over the place!!!!!!!!" Eileen is sobbing at side of my bed.
I run to the cage and find that Cutie Pie tried to CHEW OFF THE NASTY GROWTH on her leg. (Even as disgusted as I am with my muffin top, I would never attempt to gnaw it off. Mmm. Muffins… I digress.) Anyway, there she is with this gaping hole in her little leg with blood all over the wood chips. I am a little queasy at this point.
"Mom. Mom. Mom. What do we do? My friend will be devastated!"
So I Google "hamsters with bleeding tumors" which displays more grotesque pictures of hairy little animals with open wounds. One site recommends cleaning the hamster and stopping the bleeding with olive oil. I take the poor thing out of her cage, dunk her in water and apply olive oil with a Q-tip onto her sore while simultaneously praying and gagging. (Wonder if there is a market for pet Baptisms?) Cutie Pie looks at me with her big brown eyes as if saying, "What the hell are you doing? Frying me up for breakfast?" She hobbles back into her cage, soaking wet in water and I assure Eileen that everything is going to be okay.
Two hours later: "MOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! Cutie Pie is dead!!!!!!!!"
Are you friggin' kidding me? I try — unsuccessfully — to calm Eileen down. Explain that Cutie Pie is in Heaven and that she was loved right up until the end. She is sick about her friend's reaction that the hamster died on our watch. And not just a plop and drop. A full hari kari.
I send Eileen away, grab a little coffee tin, line it with napkins and place Cutie Pie good side up just in case her friend peaks. Hmm. Okay, scrap the Baptism idea and replace with "King's Groom and Tomb."
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I'm trying to optimize an ELISA-based technique where I coat with laminin protein, block, add proteinX and then detect for the proteinX .
my protocol:
Solid-phase Binding between proteinX and laminin
For enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analysis of binding of proteinX to immobilized laminin, wells of Costar 96-well plates (Corning) were coated overnight with 10ug/ml EHS laminin (Sigma-Aldrich) in 50 mM Na2CO3 (pH 9.6) at 4°C.
Plates were brought to room temperature and washed three times with PBS plus 0.5% Tween20 (PBST). Wells were blocked for 2 h at 37°C with PBST-2% BSA and then washed three times with PBST.
Wells were incubated for 2h at 37°C with various concentrations of recombinant proteinX in PBST(plus 2% BSA).
Following three washes with PBST, wells were incubated for 2h at 37°C with a 1:10000-diluted proteinX -specific rabbit polyclonal antiserum (this work). Plates were washed three times with PBST, and then wells were again washed three times with wells were incubated for 1h at 37°C with HRP-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (Jackson, US), diluted 1:5,000in PBST-2% BSA.
After washing, 100 ul of TMB substrate solution were added to the wells in the microtiter plate. After 10 min at room temperature, the reaction was interrupted by adding 50 ul of 1M H2SO4. Absorbance was then read at 450 nm. This protocol was designed according some published papers.
But in our test, even no laminin was coated on Costar 96-well plates, protein X still can bind to plates. I don't know why.
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While Tim Cook was not a guest at this year's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama did single out Apple -- alongside Microsoft, Sprint and Verizon -- for helping to launch an initiative to get high-speed broadband services to nearly every student in the country.
"We've got a down payment to start connecting more than 15,000 schools and 20 million students over the next two years, without adding a dime to the deficit," Obama boasted.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post took a tongue-in-cheek look at the annual address, wondering what it would be like if it was approached the same way that Apple approaches its signature keynotes.
Other news from Tuesday afternoon includes:
- Those perusing their Apple TVs will notice that a Red Bull channel has been added to the mix.
- Angry Birds developer Rovio has joined the list of people claiming that it did not collaborate with the National Security Agency to share private data.
- An Apple Store employee takes you behind the scenes of working for the retail behemoth, and his latest column focuses on Apple believers.
- Google is bringing its Chrome apps to iOS through Apache Cordova.
- Not only are iBeacons coming to a store near you, but they are also headed to a couple of theme parks.
Kick back and relax with these features:
- Tim Cook: Innovation is alive and well at Apple, 'deeply embedded in everybody here.'
- Flappy Bird is the cheapest digital drug on the App Store
- Tim Cook: Mobile payments was 'one of the thoughts behind Touch ID'
- Password security at Apple.com is a level above the rest
- Why Dark Sky 'sold out' with a full-featured weather app, and why it's not charging for the upgrade


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I love people who are genuine and honest about their healthy lifestyle, eating raw or a plantbased diet. I love it, when they make absolutely gorgeous, finger licking delish food, and become succesful by doing what they love without trying to scam people.
That's why I'm writing this post. I found a Facebook page created August 2015 Enjoy Your Rawsome Life (is deleted). I'd like to warn people. I know this person, she's my sister, and she did not study holistic health and is not a certified to give dietary advise. I checked to see if she is registered at the Chamber of Commerce. She isn't, because franchises based on pyramid scheme are not able to register. (according to the Chamber of Commerce in Utrecht) Discription of the page translated in English:
"How can you lose weight healthy without starving or yo-yo effect? Send a private message for free information. This page is designed to help you become healthier and get in better shape with free advice and weight loss program by own coach. Healthy and fit are no short-term plan , but a lifestyle. We help you with the transition !
Social hygiene
Restaurant Business
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For more than 25 years food is my favorite activity. Cozy dinner at home with friends or family .. or go out to eat . In
my profession it is definitely important to tell guests about food. What's in it? Do you have an allergy or intolerance?
How is it prepared ?
The last two years I have gained a lot of knowledge concerning the food and products we buy every day at the store. If you want to live conscious and healthy, then you want to know what you put in your mouth! And so began my way to the desire for more knowledge but also to share that knowledge.
In February 2016 I 'm going to do the training Accredited Weightconsultant, to actually be able to give good advice to
others and guide when it comes to health and weight. Expanding on nutrition and dietetics : This is the next step to gain a broader knowledge of nutrition.
The credentionals she displays only means she is certified to work in a restaurant or a catering service handling food.
First of all, she has not been busy with food for more than 25 years. Those cozy dinners with family or friends are also not true. She has been off and on working as a waitress and catering worker and has had many other jobs in between. She does not work and never has worked in a profession where she tells people about food. (maybe because she's in to Juice Plus now) Up until last year, before I cut off contact with her, she told me I was insane for my Raw Vegan lifestyle.
She starts a (written) weight consultant training next year. She does this, because there is no other training needed to enroll in this 1 year course. (She does not have any diplomas) Mind you, weight consultants are very limited. They do not have the same credentials as a dietician. Internship is not a part of this training.
This is the twitter account created August 2015 Enjoy Your Rawsome Life (got deleted) . As you can see on her page and twitter account, she does not share any recipes she has made herself. She takes nice looking pictures from the internet and post them to make it look 'professional'.
As I was searching, I found her personal twitter account created August 10 2015 Kitty Clignett. (she has deleted this account) I saw she was promoting Juice+
So, I put 2 and 2 together… it was obvious to me what she is tryin to do. She is not in to the health lifestyle to promote a healthy life style, but to earn $$$ quick. (She hopes) Don't forget, this is my sister and I know her.
She has currently 2 5 star reviews. One she did herself Kitty Clignett and Annet van Dorsser. Annet van Dorsser sells and promote JuicePlus. There are no other reviews done by anyone (clients) who is not connected to JuicePlus. (She deleted the reviews) Like I claimed, my sister is in it for the money….here's the proof… Annet van Dorsser is owner of Rawfood.nl. July 23 '15, she shared a post. Asking people if they want to earn money, when they want, where they want and a promise to earn 100.000 euro in bonuses. My sister replied 'Yes…super!' …and now she has a JuicePlus 'business'.
Oh, my sisters comment was deleted as of August 26 2015…that says enough, thank God for screenshots.
My sister posted a message on her page, where she says that Rawfood.nl and herself are looking for new 'team members' to 'help' people with their health. Really, if you are so concerned about peoples health you don't have to mislead people in to 'working in a team'. It's a pyramid scheme…
UPDATE: My sister posted a message that she's on a 'Holiday Vacation' (which has been deleted, because she changed her page name). In fact, she's not on a vacation she's a member of God's Church Holding Fast. (This is the pastor's, Mark Little, Youtube Channel) The members are in a resort somewhere at the East Coast to spent the Feast of Tabernacles. This church follows the strict doctrines of Herbert W. Armstrong. They believe they are the '144000 chosen ones' (or what ever number) as discribed in the book of Revelations and because I don't believe Herbert W. Armstrong is the 'End Time Apostile', I'm no good. To make you understand what doctrines they follow here's one example, my sister believes that gay people should be stoned to death. (Raw) Veganisim is considered 'of the Devil'. (Christian Theory on Veganism here you can see veganism is God's original design for humanity)So, 'Rawsome' has nothing to do with pure rawfood at all. (She consumes dairy and animal products.) To me, you can only tell people to inspire and to live a healthy life, when you practice what you preach. Dairy and animal products are not healthy for human bodies. She changed her page to 'The Next Level'. She must have seen the Update 😉 Ever wondered why you don't see pictures of herself? Because she definitely does not look like any of those women in the pictures she posts. She eventually hopes to look like that, until then she needs to attract an audience 😉
So, many of you may ask yourselves why I've 'dedicated' this post to my sister. As long as she, or any other person keeps stalking, harassing me personally, I will expose more and more what she really is about. Going to the police doesn't help, they will only do something if she is standing in front of my door trying to kill me. She is very good with her inspirational quotes, but ofcourse she needs clients for her pyramid scheme 'Juice Plus Business', but how 'great' of a mother, sister and aunt she is… Severe mental illness diagnosed since 1994, she was in a mental hospital then (and yes, I have the proof) physical and mental abuse of my daughters, stalking me with phone calls and textmessages etc. Her own daughter didn't want to live with her anymore last year, so the court placed her under the care of child protective services. This is only one year ago! There are sooo many people she has used and abused over the years. I'm still waiting for her to give me back the money I spent on her daughters diet and supplies I bought, when I fixed her house.
Earlier this week, a woman named Michelle de Jong (you need to be signed in to view profile) approached me on facebook stating I was lying about my sister with this blog post. Now, I know who my sister knows and this woman was never a part of my sister's life, only a person who likes her page. Well, I did do a search and made some phone calls. The people with the same lastname, in the area where this person lives, never heard of a Michelle de Jong. I wouldn't be supprised if this is one of my sister's many fake facebook profiles, hahaha.
I'm only exposing a person who is in it for the money, in this case this person happens to be my sister. If a sex offender or murderer got released from prison and moved in to your neighborhood, you would like to know right? Why not the truth about people that try to con you? You know what they say: 'Birds of a feather, flock together' … food for thought…
CHANGED FACEBOOK PAGE TO 'The Next Level'
There seems to be access to a 'secret' Facebook group if you joint the '30 day motivation program' from Annet van Drosser. (hahahaha) Everything, that is secret or done in secret is no good. If Juice Plus is such a great product, why secretive about it? Well, my sister's response to a post is not very according to the doctrines she follows. Lusting is one the many sins, I'm not sure if her pastor knows all of the things she is doing… 😉
I received a textmessage (oct 4) from my sister that I believe the 'lies' I post, that is typical for a person who has a mental illness, I don't believe it… I've lived and experienced it. I can prove EVERYTHING I post. I've also warned her, if she continues, I will post the proof that support my claims.
Typically my sister a true narcissist and diagnosed with NPD
This is what she's doing 😉
(oct 4) Huh? She changed it back to her old page name, make up your mind girl! hahaha
UPDATE: I just received several messages from my sister. Apparently, suddenly my sister got an allergic reaction (but who knows 😉 ) from Juice Plus a month ago, and that's why she is not going to support selling that product anymore. Yay! But if that is the case, why doesn't she share that on her page? Just to warn people about what can happen, if you take Juice Plus. Says enough 😉 So, was she in it for the money or for the health of others?She claims in her email that I make it seem in this post she promotes rawfood on her page, no I don't. The word 'Rawsome' is used in the rawfood scene a lot, which is or can be misleading and could attract people that are especially rawvegans and in the short discription of the pages she wrote: 'Be part of my journey on RawFood'. HER OWN WORDS. 'Enjoy Your Rawsome Life' will be deleted in about 2 weeks. 'It's just too much work' she claims. Quote from her email: Het ging mij helemaal niet om een health page.. het was deel van Juice Plus.. tot ik met Juice Plus stopte. Translation: I didn't care about a health page….it was part of Juice Plus…until I stopped Juice Plus. I know my sister very very well 😉
I think she's going in to another product she can earn money with and that product is called Instantly Ageless or something. Which naturally, has nothing to do with a healthy lifestyle. Oh and she's not with that 'God's Church Holding Fast' anymore since March of this year. But she's still talking 'Godly' and how much she's praying for my mental health, so I assume she probably found another Church to go to. (to be honest, I think she may not have fit in with the brethren. She experienced the same issue in all the other Churches she's been. She still owes one 'sister' money , who payed for her accommodation during feast of tabernacles 2013. Ofcourse… according to her I write lies about her and her mental illness and such. Here's some info on sneaky Covert Narcissist. Then my sister claims I've contacted her daughter, (which also has multiple personality disorders). I've learned to stay away from peoples circuses even if they are my family, but some how they always get in contact, so hopefully they now will leave me alone 😉 This is typical for a narcissist: they start a problem or drama and blame you for it all. To be honest, I got the idea of this post after watching a video from someone who gave advise on how to treat a narcissist…and his advise really works! Just mirror exactly how they treat you, but with the truth ;).
When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, my ex husband and I let my sister stay with us for a while. We got her out of prostitution back in 1994. When I was 8 months pregnant, I asked my sister one day to help me clean the green beans for dinner. She told me she didn't want to. When I told her she could help out, 'cause she eats our food too (not to mention, she lived in our house, we didn't ask her to pay for anything) She got up and hit my back with her fist. I was glad my exhusband was home, he saw what she did and her grabbed her and threw her out of our house. Instead of pressing charges, I asked her to have herself committed in a psychward, which she did. (years later I found out she got a 2 year suspended sentence for severely beating a girl up who was treated in the hospital before she did this to me) A few years ago, I received her diagnostic report from 1994/1995 by accident in the mail. So, I know what she has been diagnosed with. I don't have skeletons in my closet, I keep my life simple and easy (so I don't have to remember lies) and I don't lie about my past or my life. I don't have the need to impress people, the people that are in my life are the ones that have known me for most of my life and just a few family members. Her circus has been going on for 2 months now (this time), in the past I took all the things she said and done and kept my mouth, now I'm not afraid of her anymore.
What is Juice+? Here are a few interesting links:
Nourishing Our Children Do You Recommend Juice Plus? No.
Fooducate 4 Ways Juice+ is scamming Americans
Love to know Juice+ scam
Diet Pills Watchdog Juice+
The Daily Beast The Multimillion Dollar Multivitamin Hoax
Juice plus scam? Someone should have told you this!
Devingrayfitness JuicePlus Debunked
The Clean eating Routine Is Juice Plus A Pyramid Scheme?
Remember, genuine people in the healthfood scene do not try to sell you expensive products to become healthy! There's so many (free) information on the internet to transit to a healthy lifestyle, please don't get fooled in buying pills that cost a fortune!
Much LoVe,
P.S. I'm not slandering my sister. This is ALL TRUTH… A few weeks ago she started harassing me on Facebook with a fake profile. Josien van Houten was the name she used. She eventually changed it to her real name Kitty Clignett. I made screenshots and told her that if she doesn't stop harassing and lie about me, I would expose her.
After her message, I posted this on Facebook. She slandered me, and wrote I lie about my past and that I am a very disturbed woman. What she accuses me of, she does herself and she forgets to mention she has several mental illness diagnosis.


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TNPSC Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2017
- TNPSC Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2017
- TNPSC Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2017
- TNPSC CESE Exam Important Dates
- TNPSC AE Eligibility Criteria
- Tamilnadu AE Recruitment: How To Apply
- TNPSC Assistant Engineer Application Fee
- TNPSC Assistant Engineer Vacancy Details
- TNPSC Engineering Services Exam 2017
- TNPSC AE Notification 2017
- TNPSC AE Exam 2017 Online Application
- तमिलनाडु सहायक अभियंता भर्ती 2017-18
- TNPSC AR Eligibility 2017-18
- Age limit
- TNPSC Assistant Engineer Application Form 2017
- TNPSC AE Selection Procedure
TNPSC Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2017-18: The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission has released a TNPSC Combined Engineering Services Examination Notification of recruitment. The notification calls the candidates from the engineering background to appear in the exams. Those who possess the interest in joining the state Engineering Job can send their applications to the department before 16th December 2017. More details of the vacancy such as TNPSC AE Online Application, Eligibility, important dates, and selection process have been given below in the article.
TNPSC Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2017
The announcement of the TNPSC Junior Assistant Vacancy has been made by the recruitment notification released by the TNPSC department.
TNPSC CESE Exam Important Dates
TNPSC AE Eligibility Criteria
Tamilnadu AE Recruitment: How To Apply
Online Mode
TNPSC Assistant Engineer Application Fee
TNPSC Assistant Engineer Vacancy Details
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TNPSC Engineering Services Exam 2017
(तमिलनाडु सहायक अभियंता भर्ती): In the TNPSC CESE Notification 2018, there are vacancies for different posts of Assistant Engineer, Junior Electrical Inspector and Assistant Director of Industrial Safety and Health which are released by the Tamilnadu Public Service Commission. The candidates who will be selected will be recruited in different departments. However, there is no experience requirement listed by the department which means even the freshers can apply for TNPSC AE Recruitment 2017. As the application submission has already started we have provided the guidelines for the submission of application.
TNPSC AE Notification 2017
The TNPSC Combined Engineering Services Examination 2018 Date has been already provided by the department. Thus the interested candidates will have to be quick in taking any action against the Tamilnadu AE Vacancy. Through the table given the candidates are advised to take all essential details.
|Name of the Organization
|Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission
|Tamil Nadu
|Vacancy Name
|Combined Engineering Services Examination
|Total Vacant Posts
|Application Mode
See Also
TNPSC Recruitment Notification Pdf
CESE Vacancy Description
|Name of Posts
|Total Vacancies
|Recruiting Department
|Assistant Director of Industrial Safety and Health
|Tamil Nadu Factory Service
|Junior Electrical Inspector
|Tamil Nadu Electrical Inspectorate Service
|Assistant Engineer (Agricultural Engineering)
|Tamil Nadu Agricultural Engineering Service
|Assistant Engineer
|Tamil Nadu Fisheries Engineering Service
See Also: TCS Recruitment Notification
TNPSC AE Exam 2017 Online Application
The candidates who are willing to appear in the selection process of any of the posts will have to make sure that their TNPSC AE Application Form is submitted carefully. The candidates are informed that they will be able to appear in TNPSC Combined Engineering Services Examination 2018 only if they have submitted the examination fee with the application. Hence the right steps have been provided in the article below.
|Application Submission Start Date
|17th November 2017
|Application Submission Last Date
|16th December 2017
|Application Submission Fee
|Examination Fee
|Fee Submission Last Date
|19th December 2017
|Application Link
तमिलनाडु सहायक अभियंता भर्ती 2017-18
टीएनपीएससी ने संयुक्त इंजीनियरिंग सेवा परीक्षा की एक अधिसूचना जारी की है। इसके अनुसार उम्मीदवारों को विभिन्न विभागों में इंजीनियरों की विभिन्न रिक्तियों की भर्ती के लिए कहा जाता है। अभ्यर्थियों को 147 रिक्त पदों के लिए लेख परीक्षा में उपस्थित होना होगा। आवेदन जमा करने की आखिरी तारीख 16 दिसंबर, 2017 है। हमने ऑनलाइन आवेदन करने के लिए सीधे लिंक दिया है।
See Also: NWR Railway Vacancy
TNPSC AR Eligibility 2017-18
Educational Qualification
Assistant Director of Industrial Safety and Health
- The candidate should have completed a degree in Mechanical or Production or Industrial or Electrical or Chemical Engineering or Textile Technology.
Junior Electrical Inspector
- The candidate should have done a degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Equal preference to other degrees with similar degrees will be given only if the candidate has gone undergone Apprenticeship Training under the Government of India Scheme or the State Government Apprenticeship Scheme for one year.
Assistant Engineer (Agricultural Engineering)
- The candidate should have done B.E. (Agriculture) or B. Tech (Agricultural Engineering) or B.Sc., (Agricultural Engineering).
- The candidate has completed degree in B.E. (Mechanical) (or) B.E. (Civil) (or) B.Tech (Automobile Engineering) or B.E. (Production Engineering) or B.E. (Industrial Engineering)
Assistant Engineer
The candidate should have done Civil Engineering from an institution recognized by the University Grants Commission.
The candidates should have passed the examination of AMIE in Civil Engineering Branch conducted by the Institution of Engineers (India) and practical training in surveying for a period of not less than one year.
Age limit
- The maximum age limit for the candidates is 30 years.
- Candidates from the SCs, SC(A)s, STs, MBCs/DCs, BCs, and BCMs have no age limit.
Application and Examination Fee
The candidate will have to pay Rs 150/- as one-time registration fee and 200/- as the examination fee.
See Also: Indian Army Technical Recruitment
TNPSC Assistant Engineer Application Form 2017
Those who are unable to access the direct link given to submit applications can also follow these steps:
- Go to the website tnpsc.gov.in
- Open the notification link.
- Open the link of Apply online available next to Combined Engineering Services Examination.
- Register with the valid ID.
- The application form will appear on the website.
- Fill information in the fields with valid information.
- Click on the link to submit.
- You will be redirected to Application fee submission page.
- Submit the fee using online payment method.
- Application submitted successfully.
TNPSC AE Selection Procedure
As per the released TNPSC Assistant Engineer Notification, the aspirants of all the posts in the CESE notification will have to go through the written examination and interview process. The format of the exam will be as follows in the table given below. The TNPSC Assistant Engineer Exam Date has been scheduled for 24thh February 2018. Only those who pass this exam will be called for interview and record verification.
CESE Exam Pattern
|Paper 1
(Degree Specific)
|3 hours
|10.00 A.M. to 01.00 P.M
|Paper 2
(General Studies)
|2 hours
|02.30 P.M. to 04.30 P.M
The candidates can take help from the exam pattern and start their preparation so that they can qualify the exam with a good score. If you want to get the admit cards for the exam earliest possible keep following jobs.chekr.com. Also, write your problem about TNPSC Assistant Engineer Recruitment 2017 in the comment box to get it solved.


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Last month here on The McEwan Group blog we explored some of celebrity chef, Mark McEwan, and McEwan's General Manager, George Bachoumis' top predictions for this year's hottest food trends. The consensus? Us Canadians care about the quality of ingredients we're putting into ours bodies, and McEwan wants to make sure we only eat the best. One of the most popular health-driven movements we're seeing for 2014 is an emphasis on locally sourced meats and fish.
Local products have long been known to have health benefits, largely associated with the reduced time between harvest and eating- the fresher the food, the more nutrients and flavour it retains! But it's not only about micronutrients, as George points out.
Customers are also concerned about where their food comes from, how it was raised and how it was prepared.
This type of information is much easier to obtain from smaller operations that are locally grown than from massive corporate organizations with countless international plants, allowing you to feel much more at ease with a familiar local supplier.
The McEwan process for buying local acknowledges that as a result of variable landscape and terroir, the different Canadian provinces and regions have their own specialty in what they farm and produce best. Mark describes this as the "best in show" approach to sourcing the products on his shelves. Rather than buying all from only one Canadian region, McEwan finds the crème de la crème across our delicious country. For example, Mark sees Prince Edward Island as an absolute gem for fantastic seafood- "the saltiness of the air and the natural programs make their products pristine which is why I am happy to serve them to my clients."
And while it may be easier to buy from just a handful of massive production facilities, the McEwan team know the value of seeking out the very best. So every day George meets with local sales representatives, and visits Toronto's food terminal to hand-pick the freshest products. Him and his team also attend a variety of food shows throughout the year to network with passionate suppliers, farmers and food entrepreneurs.
To George, Mark and the rest of the McEwan family, buying and selling local is a no brainer, especially because it's what you, the customer want. As George says, "Supporting local creates a relationship between the producer, us, and the customer", and that's what McEwan is all about.


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Rush Hudson Limbaugh, a febrile font of faux pas, everyday from his throne, behind a golden microphone, makes millions spoutin' hoo-hah.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
More Guns, Less Crime
FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And "Large" Magazine Sales Soar
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.
According to gun control supporter dogma—"more guns means more crime"—the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and "large" ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.
Also indicative of the upward trend in firearm sales, the number of national instant check transactions rose 24.5 percent in the first six months of 2009 compared to the first six months in 2008, the greatest increase since NICS' inception in 1998. Through the end of October, NICS transactions rose 18 percent, compared to the same period in 2008.
More Guns Means More Crime? Hardly. In 2009, more guns meant less crime, in a very, very big way.
Find this item here.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Still Dancin' With The One Who Brung Ya?
Sarah Palin is quoted from Maui as supporting the re-election of John McCain to the U.S. Senate, in the wake of the flap over blacking out last year's campaign message on her visor, in an effort, she demurred, to be "in cognito."
From the Honolulu Star Bulletin, December 18th:
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection."
I'm not buying it.
The NY Daily News reports: Much clearer was the message on her T-shirt: "If you don't love America," it read on the front, "then why don't you get the hell out," it advised on the back.
Hardly what I'd wear if I were trying not to attract attention.
No, the episode simply highlights that Sarah's thinking is sometimes muddled, and when that is exposed, as on this occasion, she says just what you'd expect a habitually polite and loyal person to say, which is a good sign.
But Sarah needs to move on. The prom is ancient history. And get the wardrobe thingy under control already. In an age of superficiality, a person of substance can't let herself be derailed by image faux pas.
And McCain should also move on, into retirement.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
You're Being Bribed, But With Your Own Money
Jay Ambrose says here that "Health Vote Moves Us Toward A Tipping Point":
Here's my vow: to vote for no one for the House or the Senate this next November who does not first pledge to do everything within their power to rescind any health care monstrosity that gets visited upon this nation by what currently seems a derelict Democratic party.
It's true that despite all the sound and fury, after all the hoopla and posturing, we still have only an outline of what we might get. The reason is a rush to do anything to please the great idol Obama, the extraordinary extent of change being sought, the mystery of how differences between the House and Senate versions might be resolved and the purposeful obfuscation of morality-challenged legislators who have plenty to hide.
But that outline tells us of extraordinary costs and an approach that could well represent a tipping point in this country's economic decline while it reduces freedoms, rations coldly, does nothing to improve health care and could worsen it over time. What is more, the march toward disaster has taken on the aspect of inevitability.
The rest is must reading at the link.
The rest is must reading at the link.
Steve Lee: "I Like Guns"
Friday, December 25, 2009
Decline in Christmas Card Traffic Mirrors Unemployment Rate
How do you write the annual Christmas letter, anyway, when you have to write the following: "Gee, we've been out of work for a year now, we're six months behind on the mortgage, they're coming to get the car on Monday, and we're getting heating assistance and food stamps. But other than that, Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year!"?
Considering that the U-6 measure of unemployment is around 17%, a similar percentage drop off in Christmas card traffic just about fits.
"A lot of my friends aren't sending real cards this year,'' Willingham said. "I suspect every year it will decline, just like the rest of Western civilization.''
Go here for more on the story from Boston.com.
Slavery in 2009: A Damning Indictment of Human Decadence
There are hundreds of thousands of slaves in the city-state of Dubai, a playground for ex-pats:
Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete buildings. Some 300,000 men live piled up here, in a place whose name in Hindi means "City of Gold". In the first camp I stop at – riven with the smell of sewage and sweat – the men huddle around, eager to tell someone, anyone, what is happening to them.
For the rest of the story, go here.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Let Me Be Clear: I'm Projecting Again
Some nebulous "other" is treating our money like Monopoly money, but certainly not the Democrats, and certainly not Obama. Yeah, right.
From Dan Henninger:
This week brought a more troubling incident. Harry Reid's Senate had just secured its 60th vote for Mr. Obama's health-care reform. Whatever one's view, its trillion-dollar-plus cost is an agreed given. Days earlier the public saw Congress vote to raise the debt ceiling by almost $290 billion to make room for the needs of the $800 billion stimulus bill, the unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget, and the House's approval Dec. 16 of a new $154 billion jobs bill. Amid this President Obama said Monday: "We can't continue to spend . . . as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money."
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sham Economy, Part Three
In late October the government reported that third quarter GDP came in at 3.5%, about half of which was attributed widely to stimulus schemes like the first time home buyer credit and the cash for clunkers program.
Then the first revision brought the "growth" down to 2.8%. Today the Associated Press is reporting that the final revision brings third quarter growth down to 2.2%, which means that the economy, minus the hundreds of $billions in other stimulus spending, may actually have contracted in the third quarter, meaning "the recession" hadn't ended yet:
The economy grew at a 2.2 percent pace in the third quarter, as the recovery got off to a weaker start than previously thought. ...
The Commerce Department's new reading on gross domestic product for the July-to-September quarter was slower than the 2.8 percent growth rate estimated just a month ago. Economists were predicting that figure wouldn't be revised in the government's final estimate on third-quarter GDP.
You mean the same economists who warned us so long in advance of last year's financial tsunami?
The stuff they ladle out in this soup line we're standing in comes out of a crock of you know what.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Up Yours, America
The Wall Street Journal offers a penetrating critique of ObamaCare, as the Senate prepares to vote.
Or as the Democrat Senator from Rhode Island would put it: Just another bunch of white male supremacist Aryan skinhead birther pistol fanatics going off the deep end:
Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government, yet on Saturday morning Mr. Reid threw out the 2,100-page bill that the world's greatest deliberative body spent just 17 days debating and replaced it with a new "manager's amendment" that was stapled together in covert partisan negotiations. Democrats are barely even bothering to pretend to care what's in it, not that any Senator had the chance to digest it in the 38 hours before the first cloture vote at 1 a.m. this morning. After procedural motions that allow for no amendments, the final vote could come at 9 p.m. on December 24.
Even in World War I there was a Christmas truce.
To read the whole sorry tale, go here.
Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives Three to One
And the big joke's on you: your kid goes deep into debt to pay the salaries of the proponents of the god that failed.
Kevin Hassett in "Marxist Professors Are Gift to Climate Skeptics" here for Bloomberg explains the politics of climate science:
A 2007 survey of more than 1,400 professors by sociologists Neil Gross of Harvard University and Solon Simmons of George Mason University is as damning an indictment of an organization as you are ever likely to see.
The authors compiled the political affiliation and beliefs of the professors, who were asked to identify themselves along a spectrum from very liberal to very conservative. Across all fields, 44 percent identified themselves as liberal or very liberal, while 9.2 percent identified themselves as conservative or very conservative.
Strikingly, the data were even more tilted in the physical and biological sciences. There, 45.2 percent of professors identified themselves as liberal, while only 8 percent said they were conservative.
The authors dug deeper than many previous studies and established some startling findings.
In the social sciences, 24 percent of professors identified themselves as liberal "radicals" and 18 percent as Marxists. Only 4.9 percent of social scientists identified themselves as "conservative."
So there are almost five times as many self-identified liberal radicals on our faculties, and more than three times as many Marxists as there are conservatives. Last I checked, Marxism has been utterly discredited. Yet there are still Marxists everywhere, poisoning the minds of our children. Conservatives, on the other hand, are a rarity.
While there isn't enough data to address the question, it is safe to assume that no other profession is so tilted. In a society about evenly split between liberals and conservatives, achieving such a bias requires serious effort. It doesn't happen by accident.
If you want to run conservatives out, you need to discourage dissertations that might reach conservative conclusions. You need to shun young students if their work questions liberal orthodoxy. You need to control the academic journals, rejecting papers submitted by identifiable conservatives.
You need to celebrate work that supports the political bias of Democrats. If your research shows that higher minimum wages are terrific, an endowed chair is yours for the taking. Question whether a higher minimum wage might cause higher unemployment, and find your place on the bread line.
For years, I have watched the economic community act this way. The hacked East Anglia e-mails confirm that exactly this type of conspiracy is in place. They show climate experts plotting how to keep the lid on research that didn't support the prevailing view on global warming. In one e-mail, Michael Mann of Penn State University proposed boycotting an academic journal because it had published an article that provided evidence contrary to global warming canon.
There's more at the link.
There's more at the link.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
"We Have Nothing to Fear from a President Obama"
Dear Senator McCain,
Buck up or shut up.
As reported in Politico:
McCain: GOP can't stop health care
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won't be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas.
"We will fight until the last vote," McCain told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace. "We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we must look back and say we did everything to prevent this terrible mistake from taking place."
Democrats recently reached a deal with hold out members of their own caucus to cobble together the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill - and McCain, in response to a Wallace question, said there's "probably not" anything the GOP can do to block the bill. "But what we can do is continue winning the battle of American public opinion."
Well, whoopdeedoo, Mr. Screw the Pooch. In case you weren't paying attention, AGAIN, the battle of American public opinion is over. The battle is in the Senate, dumbass.
Health Care Reform by Legal Insurrection, Literally
By William A. Jacobson:
Saturday, December 19, 2009
This Is Why I Named This Blog "Legal Insurrection"
I was in the car most of the day, so I haven't had a chance to post on the Ben Nelson sellout. So here are some initial thoughts:
Yes, it is that bad. The Democrats are about to put in place the legislative, regulatory and bureaucratic infrastructure for a complete government takeover of health care. Just read the comments from the supporters and you will see a common theme -- this is just the beginning. They know it, we know it, and Ben Nelson knows it but doesn't care because he scored some pork for his home state, just like Mary Landrieu
This is the worst of Washington. Payoffs, lies, deceit, and deception. Oddly enough, I've come to have more respect for the left-wing advocates of single-payer than the so-called moderates who will sell their principles for money. At least the left-wing has principles, even if I disagree with those principles. The moderates like Nelson and Landrieu have no principles, at least none that cannot be sold.
Where is Evan Bayh? His silence has been deafening.
How amazing is the number of circumstances which caused this perfect storm, without any one of which we wouldn't be on Obama's precipice: Massachusetts changes its rules for a second time to allow appointment of a Democrat in Kennedy's place rather than having to wait for the special election; Al Franken outmaneuvers and out-litigates Norm Coleman to steal the Minnesota race; Rahm Emanuel recruits "blue dog" Democratic wolves in sheep's clothing and people fall for it; the media covers up the Obama agenda during the campaign, portraying Obama falsely as a moderate; [added] George Allen says "Macaca," and so on.
Democrats do not care about the 2010 election cycle, or 2012. Obama has said it. He'd rather get his restructuring of society in place and be a one-term president, than be a two-term president and not succeed in perfecting our imperfections.
There is a slight, slight chance this legislation can be stopped in the House, so don't give up until the last vote is taken.
This perfect storm likely never will be repeated. But it only takes one storm to wreak havoc and cause damage which will take years or decades to undo, if it can be undone.
The only ray of hope is that most of the provisions will not kick in until well after November 2010. I've said it before, this is the political fight of our lives for the future of the country.
Rescinding Obamacare needs to be the organizing theme of the 2010 election. And throwing out the bums who voted for it.
Now I remember why, as I saw the Obama wave rising last fall, I named this blog Legal Insurrection. That's what's needed, now more than ever.
Update: A couple of commenters correctly have pointed out that I should have included Ted Steven's defeat as another element in the perfect storm. Remember that Steven's conviction later was dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct, but the Democrat who won the election remains in office, as I posted previously, Ted Stevens Conviction Reversed, But What About The Election? I noted the implications in that post: "Without the Begich vote, Obama would have a much more difficult time passing his agenda."
And, now we know why Evan Bayh was relatively silent in public. Behind the scenes, Bayh was a moving force in closed meetings to put the plan together:
Lawmakers who attended a private meeting between Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats at the White House on Tuesday pointed to remarks there by Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, as providing some new inspiration.
Mr. Bayh said that the health care measure was the kind of public policy he had come to Washington to work on, according to officials who attended the session, and that he did not want to see the satisfied looks on the faces of Republican leaders if they succeeded in blocking the measure.
A Baby Boomer Mistakes Declines For Advances, and is Suddenly Afraid for his Country
"The greatest danger comes from within," you write, as if it's some new insight. It is a warning heard for years now from the likes of Michael Savage, and others. Where have you been, Goodwin?
Obama was speaking out of both sides of his mouth during the entire primary season, long before he became the nominee. Think what you will of Fox News Channel. They reported on it dutifully, daily, but you were writing what, exactly?
The poverty was in your own soul already, so poor were you that you couldn't even pay attention. The story of your generation, of my generation.
Michael Goodwin in "Dreading our future" posted here has various epiphanies:
I am afraid -- actually, certain -- we are losing the heart and soul that made America unique in human history. Yes, we have enemies, but the greatest danger comes from within.
Watching the freak show in Copenhagen last week, I was alternately furious and filled with dread. The world has gone absolutely bonkers and lunatics are in charge. ...
Even more frightening, our own leaders joined the circus. ...
President Obama, for whom I voted because I believed he was the best choice available, is a profound disappointment. I now regard his campaign as a sly bait-and-switch operation, promising one thing and delivering another. Shame on me.
Equally surprising, he has become an insufferable bore. ...
His assertion we will go bankrupt unless Congress immediately adopts the health monstrosity marks a new low. ...
In fact, it is a myth the fight is over health care at all. It is a vulgar power dispute between liberals and extreme liberals, with health care a convenient portal for command-and-control of 17 percent of the economy.
It's definitely not reform. ...
Meanwhile, Mother Nature delivered her verdict with yesterday's blizzard in Washington. I am cheered by the thought that finally, hell has frozen over.
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Aristotle, On Tyranny
Now a tyranny is a monarchy where the good of one man only is the object of government, an oligarchy considers only the rich, and a democracy only the poor; but neither of them have a common good in view.
Tyranny, the worst excess imaginable, [is] a government the most contrary possible to a free state.
Tyranny arises from a headstrong democracy or an oligarchy, but very seldom when the members of the community are nearly on an equality with each other. When there is a want of a proper number of men of middling fortune, the poor extend their power too far, abuses arise, and the government is soon at an end.
A tyrant is chosen out of the meanest populace; an enemy to the better sort, that the common people may not be oppressed by them.
In former times, when the same person was both demagogue and general, the democracies were changed into tyrannies; and indeed most of the ancient tyrannies arose from those states: a reason for which then subsisted, but not now; for at that time the demagogues were of the soldiery; for they were not then powerful by their eloquence; but, now the art of oratory is cultivated, the able speakers are at present the demagogues; but, as they are unqualified to act in a military capacity, they cannot impose themselves on the people as tyrants, if we except in one or two trifling instances.
Formerly, too, tyrannies were more common than now, on account of the very extensive powers with which some magistrates were entrusted: for they were supreme in many things of the last consequence; and also because at that time the cities were not of that very great extent, the people in general living in the country, and being employed in husbandry, which gave them, who took the lead in public affairs, an opportunity, if they had a turn for war, to make themselves tyrants; which they all did when they had gained the confidence of the people; and this confidence was their hatred to the rich.
A government shall also alter from its ancient and approved democratic form into one entirely new, if there is no census to regulate the election of magistrates; for, as the election is with the people, the demagogues who are desirous of being in office, to flatter them, will endeavour with all their power to make the people superior even to the laws.
To prevent this entirely, or at least in a great measure, the magistrates should be elected by the tribes, and not by the people at large.
A tyrant, as has been often said, has no regard to the common good, except for his own advantage; his only object is pleasure, but a king's is virtue: what a tyrant therefore is ambitious of engrossing is wealth, but a king rather honour.
The guards too of a king are citizens, a tyrant's foreigners.
That a tyranny contains all that is bad both in a democracy and an oligarchy is evident; with an oligarchy it has for its end gain, as the only means of providing the tyrant with guards and the luxuries of life; like that it places no confidence in the people; and therefore deprives them of the use of arms: it is also common to them both to persecute the populace, to drive them out of the city and their own habitations.
With a democracy it quarrels with the nobles, and destroys them both publicly and privately, or drives them into banishment, as rivals and an impediment to the government; hence naturally arise conspiracies both amongst those who desire to govern and those who desire not to be slaves.
The extreme of a democracy is a tyranny.
If any one assumes the government, either by force or fraud, this is a tyranny. A king exists but while the people are willing to obey, as their submission to him is voluntary, but to a tyrant involuntary.
What has been already mentioned is as conducive as anything can be to preserve a tyranny; namely, to keep down those who are of an aspiring disposition, to take off those who will not submit, to allow no public meals, no clubs, no education, nothing at all, but to guard against everything that gives rise to high spirits or mutual confidence; nor to suffer the learned meetings of those who are at leisure to hold conversation with each other; and to endeavour by every means possible to keep all the people strangers to each other; for knowledge increases mutual confidence; and to oblige all strangers to appear in public, and to live near the city-gate, that all their actions may be sufficiently seen; for those who are kept like slaves seldom entertain any noble thoughts: in short, to imitate everything which the Persians and barbarians do, for they all contribute to support slavery; and to endeavour to know what every one who is under their power does and says; and for this purpose to employ spies: Hiero also used to send out listeners wherever there was any meeting or conversation; for the people dare not speak with freedom for fear of such persons; and if any one does, there is the less chance of its being concealed; and to endeavour that the whole community should mutually accuse and come to blows with each other, friend with friend, the commons with the nobles, and the rich with each other.
It is also advantageous for a tyranny that all those who are under it should be oppressed with poverty, that they may not be able to compose a guard; and that, being employed in procuring their daily bread, they may have no leisure to conspire against their tyrants. The Pyramids of Egypt are a proof of this, and the votive edifices of the Cyposelidse, and the temple of Jupiter Olympus, built by the Pisistratidae, and the works of Polycrates at Samos; for all these produced one end, the keeping the people poor.
It is necessary also to multiply taxes, as at Syracuse; where Dionysius in the space of five years collected all the private property of his subjects into his own coffers.
A tyrant also should endeavour to engage his subjects in a war, that they may have employment and continually depend upon their general.
A king is preserved by his friends, but a tyrant is of all persons the man who can place no confidence in friends, as every one has it in his desire and these chiefly in their power to destroy him.
All these things also which are done in an extreme democracy should be done in a tyranny, as permitting great licentiousness to the women in the house, that they may reveal their husbands' secrets; and showing great indulgence to slaves also for the same reason; for slaves and women conspire not against tyrants: but when they are treated with kindness, both of them are abettors of tyrants, and extreme democracies also; and the people too in such a state desire to be despotic.
For which reason flatterers are in repute in both these: the demagogue in the democracy, for he is the proper flatterer of the people; among tyrants, he who will servilely adapt himself to their humours; for this is the business of flatterers.
And for this reason tyrants always love the worst of wretches, for they rejoice in being flattered, which no man of a liberal spirit will submit to; for they love the virtuous, but flatter none.
Bad men too are fit for bad purposes; "like to like," as the proverb says.
A tyrant also should show no favour to a man of worth or a freeman; for he should think, that no one deserved to be thought these but himself; for he who supports his dignity, and is a friend to freedom, encroaches upon the superiority and the despotism of the tyrant: such men, therefore, they naturally hate, as destructive to their government.
A tyrant also should rather admit strangers to his table and familiarity than citizens, as these are his enemies, but the others have no design against him.
These and such-like are the supports of a tyranny, for it comprehends whatsoever is wicked.
But all these things may be comprehended in three divisions, for there are three objects which a tyranny has in view; one of which is, that the citizens should be of poor abject dispositions; for such men never propose to conspire against any one.
The second is, that they should have no confidence in each other; for while they have not this, the tyrant is safe enough from destruction. For which reason they are always at enmity with those of merit, as hurtful to their government; not only as they scorn to be governed despotically, but also because they can rely upon each other's fidelity, and others can rely upon theirs, and because they will not inform against their associates, nor any one else.
The third is, that they shall be totally without the means of doing anything; for no one undertakes what is impossible for him to perform: so that without power a tyranny can never be destroyed.
These, then, are the three objects which the inclinations of tyrants desire to see accomplished; for all their tyrannical plans tend to promote one of these three ends, that their people may neither have mutual confidence, power, nor spirit.
This, then, is one of the two methods of preserving tyrannies: the other proceeds in a way quite contrary to what has been already described, and which may be discerned from considering to what the destruction of a kingdom is owing; for as one cause of that is, making the government approach near to a tyranny, so the safety of a tyranny consists in making the government nearly kingly; preserving only one thing, namely power, that not only the willing, but the unwilling also, must be obliged to submit; for if this is once lost, the tyranny is at an end.
This, then, as the foundation, must be preserved: in other particulars carefully do and affect to seem like a king; first, appear to pay a great attention to what belongs to the public; nor make such profuse presents as will offend the people; while they are to supply the money out of the hard labour of their own hands, and see it given in profusion to mistresses, foreigners, and fiddlers; keeping an exact account both of what you receive and pay; which is a practice some tyrants do actually follow, by which means they seem rather fathers of families than tyrants: nor need you ever fear the want of money while you have the supreme power of the state in your own hands.
It is also much better for those tyrants who quit their kingdom to do this than to leave behind them money they have hoarded up; for their regents will be much less desirous of making innovations, and they are more to be dreaded by absent tyrants than the citizens; for such of them as he suspects he takes with him, but these regents must be left behind.
He should also endeavour to appear to collect such taxes and require such services as the exigencies of the state demand, that whenever they are wanted they may be ready in time of war; and particularly to take care that he appear to collect and keep them not as his own property, but the public's.
His appearance also should not be severe, but respectable, so that he should inspire those who approach him with veneration and not fear; but this will not be easily accomplished if he is despised.
If, therefore, he will not take the pains to acquire any other, he ought to endeavour to be a man of political abilities, and to fix that opinion of himself in the judgment of his subjects.
He should also take care not to appear to be guilty of the least offence against modesty, nor to suffer it in those under him: nor to permit the women of his family to treat others haughtily; for the haughtiness of women has been the ruin of many tyrants.
With respect to the pleasures of sense, he ought to do directly contrary to the practice of some tyrants at present; for they do not only continually indulge themselves in them for many days together, but they seem also to desire to have other witnesses of it, that they may wonder at their happiness; whereas he ought really to be moderate in these, and, if not, to appear to others to avoid them-for it is not the sober man who is exposed either to plots or contempt, but the drunkard; not the early riser, but the sluggard.
His conduct in general should also be contrary to what is reported of former tyrants; for he ought to improve and adorn his city, so as to seem a guardian and not a tyrant; and, moreover., always to seem particularly attentive to the worship of the gods; for from persons of such a character men entertain less fears of suffering anything illegal while they suppose that he who governs them is religious and reverences the gods; and they will be less inclined to raise insinuations against such a one, as being peculiarly under their protection: but this must be so done as to give no occasion for any suspicion of hypocrisy.
He should also take care to show such respect to men of merit in every particular, that they should not think they could be treated with greater distinction by their fellow-citizens in a free state.
He should also let all honours flow immediately from himself, but every censure from his subordinate officers and judges.
It is also a common protection of all monarchies not to make one person too great, or, certainly, not many; for they will support each other: but, if it is necessary to entrust any large powers to one person, to take care that it is not one of an ardent spirit; for this disposition is upon every opportunity most ready for a revolution: and, if it should seem necessary to deprive any one of his power, to do it by degrees, and not reduce him all at once.
It is also necessary to abstain from all kinds of insolence; more particularly from corporal punishment; which you must be most cautious never to exercise over those who have a delicate sense of honour; for, as those who love money are touched to the quick when anything affects their property, so are men of honour and principle when they receive any disgrace: therefore, either never employ personal punishment, or, if you do, let it be only in the manner in which a father would correct his son, and not with contempt; and, upon the whole, make amends for any seeming disgrace by bestowing greater honours.
But of all persons who are most likely to entertain designs against the person of a tyrant, those are chiefly to be feared and guarded against who regard as nothing the loss of their own lives, so that they can but accomplish their purpose: be very careful therefore of those who either think themselves affronted, or those who are dear to them; for those who are excited by anger to revenge regard as nothing their own persons: for, as Heraclitus says, it is dangerous to fight with an angry man who will purchase with his life the thing he aims at.
As all cities are composed of two sorts of persons, the rich and the poor, it is necessary that both these should find equal protection from him who governs them, and that the one party should not have it in their power to injure the other; but that the tyrant should attach to himself that party which is the most powerful; which, if he does, he will have no occasion either to make his slaves free, or to deprive citizens of their arms; for the strength of either of the parties added to his own forces will render him superior to any conspiracy.
It would be superfluous to go through all particulars; for the rule of conduct which the tyrant ought to pursue is evident enough, and that is, to affect to appear not the tyrant, but the king; the guardian of those he governs, not their plunderer, but their protector, and to affect the middle rank in life, not one superior to all others: he should, therefore, associate his nobles with him and soothe his people; for his government will not only be necessarily more honourable and worthy of imitation, as it will be over men of worth, and not abject wretches who perpetually both hate and fear him; but it will be also more durable.
Let him also frame his life so that his manners may be consentaneous to virtue, or at least let half of them be so, that he may not be altogether wicked, but only so in part.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
FDIC In The Red . . . 140 Failed Banks Year to Date . . . $30 Billion Down, $100 Billion To Go
The Associated Press is reporting:
The 140 bank failures are the most in a year since 1992 at the height of the savings-and-loan crisis. They have cost the government-backed deposit insurance fund - which has fallen into the red - more than $30 billion so far this year. The failures compare with 25 last year and three in 2007.
The FDIC expects the cost of bank failures to grow to about $100 billion over the next four years. ...
If the economic recovery falters, defaults on the high-risk loans could spike. Nearly $500 billion in commercial real estate loans are expected to come due annually over the next few years.
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Jewish Atheist Knows a Tyrant When He Sees One
From John W. Whitehead's December 11, 2009 interview with Nat Hentoff "America Under Barack Obama":
Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil libertarian, free speech activist, anti-death penalty advocate, pro-lifer and not uncommon critic of the ideological left.
At 84, Nat Hentoff is an American classic who has never shied away from an issue. For example, he defended a woman rejected from law school because she was Caucasian; called into a talk show hosted by Oliver North to agree with him on liberal intolerance for free speech; was a friend to the late Malcolm X; and wrote the liner notes for Bob Dylan's second album.
A self-described uncategorizable libertarian, Hentoff adds he is also a "Jewish atheist, civil libertarian, pro-lifer." Accordingly, he has angered nearly every political faction and remains one of a few who has stuck to his principles through his many years of work, regardless of the trouble it stirred up. For instance, when he announced his opposition to abortion he alienated numerous colleagues, and his outspoken denunciation of President Bill Clinton only increased his isolation in liberal circles (He said that Clinton had "done more harm to the Constitution than any president in American history," and called him "a serial violator of our liberties.").
Born in Boston on June 10, 1925, Hentoff received a B.A. with honors from Northeastern University and did graduate work at Harvard. From 1953 to 1957, he was associate editor of Down Beat magazine. He has written many books on jazz, biographies and novels, including children's books. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Commonwealth, the New Republic, the Atlantic and the New Yorker, where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years. In 1980, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Education and an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for his coverage of the law and criminal justice in his columns. In 1985, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Northeastern University. For 50 years, Hentoff wrote a weekly column for the Village Voice. But that publication announced that he had been terminated on December 31, 2008. In February 2009, Hentoff joined the Cato Institute as a Senior Fellow.
Hentoff's views on the rights of Americans to write, think and speak freely are expressed in his columns. He is also an authority on First Amendment defense, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court, students' rights and education. Friends and critics alike describe him as the kind of writer, and citizen, that all should aspire to be—"less interested in 'exclusives' than in 'making a difference.'" Critiquing Hentoff's autobiography, Speaking Freely, Nicholas von Hoffman refers to him as "a trusting man, a gentle man, just and undeviatingly consistent."
Hentoff took to heart the words from his mentor, I. F. "Izzy" Stone, the renowned investigative journalist who died in 1989: "If you're in this business because you want to change the world, get another day job. If you are able to make a difference, it will come incrementally, and you might not even know about it. You have to get the story and keep on it because it has to be told."
Nat Hentoff has earned the well-deserved reputation of being one of our nation's most respected, controversial and uncompromising writers. He began his career at the Village Voice because he wanted a place to write freely on anything he cared about. And his departure from the publication has neither dampened his zeal nor tempered his voice.
Hentoff, whose new book, At the Jazz Band Ball—Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene (University of California Press), is due out in 2010, took some time to speak with me about Barack Obama, the danger of his health care plan, the peril of civil liberties, and a host of other issues.
Nat Hentoff: I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had. An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system. If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.
In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government, Obama has reneged on his promises. He pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated. Why is Obama doing that if he doesn't want torture anymore? Throughout Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously. The Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue that it was a state secret and the case should not be continued. Obama is doing the same thing, even though he promised not to.
So in answer to your question, I am beginning to think that this guy is a phony. Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to. His only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
JW: Do you consider Obama to be worse than George W. Bush?
NH: Oh, much worse. Bush essentially came in with very little qualifications for presidency, not only in terms of his background but he lacked a certain amount of curiosity, and he depended entirely too much on people like Rumsfeld, Cheney and others. Bush was led astray and we were led astray. However, I never thought that Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil." I am hesitant to say this about Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution. The irony is that Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now. The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency. The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet. Obama has done nothing about that. In fact, he has perpetuated it. He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this. So all in all, Obama is a disaster. ...
JW: One of the highest unemployment rates in the country is among African-Americans.
NH: Not only that, the general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum. As usual, the people who are poorest—the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people—are going to suffer more than anyone else under the Obama administration. This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the Obama administration are not believable. I can't think of a single area where Obama is not destructive.
JW: A lot of people we represent and I talk to feel that their government does not hear them, that their representatives do not listen to them anymore. As a result, you have these Tea Party protests which the Left has criticized. What do you think of the Tea Party protests?
NH: I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them. That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country. A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights. ...
JW: You lived through the McCarthy era in the 1950s. Is it worse now than it was then?
NH: McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious. What we have now in America is a surveillance society. We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time. You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.
There is much more here. MUST reading.
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Symposium Session – Get Your Chignon!
Get Your Chignon!
Presented by Rachel Turner & Airship Archon
A demonstration of a few historical / historically inspired women's hairstyles.
Rachel is a member of the Airship Archon with an interest in the more historical side of steampunk. Her love of historically accurate fashion has recently expanded to include hairstyles.
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I would like all of us to feel safe in our homes, have access to green space and have a sense of stability and optimism about our neighbourhoods and communities.
Crime and Community Policing: The crime rate is increasing year over year. The renovation of the Guelph Police Service headquarters to serve our growing population makes it timely for a service review of Guelph Police, particularly the approach to community policing.
The Opioid Crisis: We need a stronger and more comprehensive approach to illegal drug use and the opioid crisis. Addiction is a complex issue, and numerous agencies and levels of government are involved. Guelph needs an effective and wide-ranging strategy to address this issue and its impact on our residents. We should also look at working collaboratively with Waterloo Region (which is similarly affected) to share local knowledge, resources and approaches, and to advocate with the provincial and federal governments.
The Environment: We need to respect and enhance our urban forests and tree canopy in existing neighbourhoods and new developments. Trees are one of the most helpful mitigators against climate change, cost-effective and an investment in the future. We need more parks and managed green space, and to protect our natural heritage, rivers and groundwater.
Growth: The City needs to use the tools of zoning and planning to require greater variety, imagination and energy efficiency in our built environment. We need to provide for walkable communities with green space and commercial hubs, and make long-term commitments to building sustainably, to ensure both market desirability and mandated growth.
Housing: In order to ensure affordability and livability, we need a healthy variety of housing stock and a mixture of housing options for a broad range of incomes. There is a shocking level of homelessness in the city, and an ongoing and growing demand for housing assistance. The next Council must work proactively with the County, the Province and the federal government, as well as the for- and non-profit sectors to address this issue.
Jobs: Support local entrepreneurs and employers. Look to the opportunities posed by clean, alternative industries and new technologies for innovation and stable employment.


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BLUE LAKE, Humboldt County (CBS SF) – A dog owned by a Northern California researcher studying how a rat poison affects endangered species was killed by the same poison intentionally left for the dog, according to the owner.
Nyxo, a 10-year-old labrador mix, belonged to Dr. Mourad Gabriel, who has been investigating how the poison brodifacoum threatens wildlife such as northern spotted owls.
On February 3rd, Nyxo began having seizures and vomited chunks of red meat after coming in from outside the night before, Gabriel told the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office.
A necropsy at UC Davis revealed that the dog had ingested red meat laced with brodifacoum.
The sheriff's office said it's believed whoever did it specifically targeted the dog and the house, according to the Eureka Times-Standard.
"We are attempting to find out if any other dogs in that area of Blue Lake have been poisoned," Lt. Steve Knight told the Times-Standard. "Deputies and detectives have been going around to houses in the neighborhood, and no other dogs have been poisoned."
A conservation group, the Center for Biological Diversity is offering a $2,500 reward for information about the fatal poisoning. In a press release, the center's toxics and endangered species campaign director Jonathan Evans said, "The evidence strongly suggests that this malicious poisoning is tied to Dr. Gabriel's research and if that is true we condemn the use of violence to silence any scientist, researcher or citizen whose work aims to conserve wildlife."
Brodifacoum, an anti-coagulant that causes internal hemorrhaging, can be found in products such as d-Con rat poison and is widely available in other forms online.
"Any animal or human that ingests this poison will experience a very cruel death," Knight told the Time-Standard.
California and the Environmental Protection Agency have worked to ban brodifacoum products because of secondary poisonings of pets and wildlife.
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