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Mangum, the hoaxer, was charged with attempted murder in 2010.
In 2011 she did manage to murder someone.
"It's Crystal Magnum. THE Crystal Magnum," he told the emergency operator. "I told him she was trouble from the damn beginning."
Much of the media still cannot be bothered to get her name right.
She'd been involved with the courts before. One night in 2002, she lifted a taxi driver's keys while giving him a lap dance. With a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit, Mangum then stole the cab. Police chased her through the city; she was eventually arrested, but not before nearly running over a cop as he approached her car.
At 17, she told police that three men had raped her when she was 14, but the case was dropped when she didn't follow through with the authorities. Her father later told reporters that he didn't believe that she'd been raped then.
Also of interest is Tara Levicy.
Tara Levicy, the nurse who reported on the condition of Crystal Mangum after the alleged rape, shrugged off the absence of physical evidence of assault and the lack of lacrosse-player DNA with a feminist slogan: "Rape is about power, not passion."
She was also a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner in training. She was not qualified to do the job she was asked to do.
For example she could not explain why if the perpetrators had not used condoms she had none of their semen in her but she had semen from other men.
False rape claims are not about justice but power.
Michael Nifong, whose parents had gone to Duke, was known for his hatred of Duke University and its students. According to Patsy McDonald, a law school classmate, he also had a "deep-seated antipathy to lacrosse players."
The Lacrosse season was cancelled and the coach was sacked before being reinstated.
Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are indicted for the sexual assault and kidnapping of Crystal Mangum. They turn themselves into authorities at the back of the Durham County Jail. They were handcuffed and driven 15 yards to the front of the jail, where they were then paraded in front of waiting camera crews.
Richard Brodhead makes an appearance at the Durham Chamber of Commerce meeting, two days after Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty are arrested. WRAL-TV quotes Brodhead as saying, "If our students did what is alleged, it is appalling to the worst degree. If they didn't do it, whatever they did is bad enough." So not committing a crime is .. a crime?
A black guy sacked from a TV programme (was it because he did not toe the line?) and Selena Roberts (who was part of the misleaders) got his job.
How many of these rentamob protesters had heard of Rakheem Bolton?
Where were the slutwalkers, the sloganeers, the group of 88, and other "concerned citizens" complaining that someone said that his victim "made him rape her"?
"Rape is about power, not passion." (But will be ignored when white devil woman is the victim?)
"so called feminists, for whom the protection of women was clearly not a priority."________________
As we see in the Hilaire S. case in Texas where nobody has criticised a school for kicking a cheerleader off the squad who refused to cheer for her rapist.
Selena Roberts et al must have been very busy not to notice this.
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Published on October 1st was the official announcement on the upgrade of the subdistrict municipality Samrong Tai (เทศบาลตำบลสำโรงใต้) to a town municipality (thesaban mueang, เทศบาลเมือง).
This upgrade was just decided in the board meeting of June 24, the announcement was signed on August 20. However the announcement does not state the date the upgrade is taking effect, it only says "ทั้งนี้ ตั้งแต่บัคนี้เป็นต้นไป" which means "effective after this announcement is published". In the board meeting however it was set to be effective on August 7.
As the upgrade was done quite recently, the website of the municipality still shows the term "thesaban tambon" (เทศบาลตำบล) in many places, it seems that so far only the page footer has been changed to "thesaban mueang" (เทศบาลเมือง) already.
Interestingly this upgrade was the latest of the newly created town municipalities, there are still several similar upgrades already decided in the board meetings which however haven't made it into the Royal Gazette - the last similar announcement dates from 2007, so all those upgrades decided in 2008 and 2009 are not yet officially announced.

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This could have dramatic implications for the Detroit area for sure. We'll see what transpires...
WASHINGTON The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-discrimination laws and health research.
Under current law, people from the Middle East are considered white, the legacy of century-old court rulings in which Syrian Americans argued that they should not be considered Asian because that designation would deny them citizenship under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
But scholars and community leaders say more and more people with their roots in the Middle East find themselves caught between white, black and Asian classifications that don't fully reflect their identities.
"What it does is it helps these communities feel less invisible," said Helen Samhan of the Arab American Institute, which has been advocating the change for more than 30 years. "Its a good step, a positive step."
On Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget advanced the proposal with a notice in the Federal Register, seeking comments on whether to add Middle Eastern and North African as a separate racial or ethnic category, which groups would be included, and what it should be called.
Under the proposal, the new Middle East and North African designation or MENA, as it's called by population scholars is broader in concept than Arab (an ethnicity) or Muslim (a religion). It would include anyone from a region of the world stretching from Morocco to Iran, and including Syrian and Coptic Christians, Israeli Jews and other religious minorities.
But the Census Bureau, which has been quietly studying the issue for two years, also has gotten caught up in debates about some groups such as Turkish, Sudanese and Somali Americans who aren't included in that category. Those are issues the White House is trying to resolve before adding the box on 2020 census forms.
Adding a box on the census form could have implications beyond racial identity. According to the White House notice, the new data could be used for a wide range of political and policy purposes, including:
Enforcing the Voting Rights Act and drawing congressional and state legislative district boundaries;
Establishing federal affirmative action plans and evaluating claims of employment discrimination in employment in the private sector;
Monitoring discrimination in housing, mortgage lending and credit;
Enforcing school desegregation policies; and
Helping minority-owned small businesses get federal grants and loans.
Adding the classification also would help the government and independent scholars understand more about trends in health, employment and education.
"We can't even ask questions like that, because we don't have the data," said Germine Awad, an Egyptian-American and professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
The racial classifications have been unchanged since 1997, and Michigan's congressional delegation has argued that they're due for an update. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., said Friday the White House action was good news. Adding a MENA category, she said, would allow many of her Michigan constituents to "accurately identify themselves and access the employment, health, education and representation services that are based on census data.
There are an estimated 3.6 million Arab-Americans in the United States, but that doesn't include other ethnic groups that could put the total Middle Eastern and North African population above 10 million. According to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey a survey conducted in between the 10-year census cycle based on a statistical sample about 1 million people from the region are first-generation immigrants to the United States.
"You have individuals within this designation that would consider themselves white, and they certainly have a right to their identity. Its not about identity in the psychological way. Its about where would you fit the best on this form," Awad said. "If you talk to anybody at the census, theyll tell you that their job is not to help anybody with their racial or ethnic identity."
And some, especially in the Muslim-American community, are also concerned about how the data might be used especially given proposals by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for a moratorium on Muslim immigrants and for increased surveillance of Muslim communities.
"It just aids and facilitates the state's ability to know where these communities are in a very specific fashion," said Khalid Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit. "My inclination is to think that individuals who might identify might not check the box for fear of retribution especially if Trump wins."
But Beydoun, a naturalized citizen with Egyptian and Lebanese parents, said he still supports the proposal as an expression of Middle Eastern identity.
"In the grand scheme of things, its really a progressive stride forward," he said. "But in the broader landscape, its taking place in the context of greater animus against Arab Americans, and really, Islamophobia."
Comments on the proposal are due in 30 days, making it possible for the Obama administration to enact the change in the last three months of a presidency that has spent considerable effort to be more inclusive of Arab-Americans and other Middle Easterners.
"I think with him being the first African-American president and being an obvious example of making the American fabric more diverse, that this could be great sign of inclusion about what it means to be an American," Awad said.
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Mohamed Morsy, ousted Egyptian president, dies in court
by Magdy Samaan and Kara Fox
Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, who was the country's first democratically elected leader, has died.
Morsy, 67, had been on trial Monday for an espionage case when he suffered a heart attack, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram online reported.
Egypt's public prosecution office said in statement that Morsy had been granted a request to speak before the trial ended.
After a five-minute statement, the court adjourned and Morsy was brought back inside a cage inside the court, where he fell unconscious, it said.
Morsy was dead when he arrived to the hospital at 4:50 pm (10:50 a.m. ET).
No apparent injuries were found on his body, according to the statement.
Morsy's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud, who is also the lead lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood, told CNN on Monday that Morsy had closed his statement by quoting a verse of a poem that read:
"My country is dear even if it oppressed me and my people are honorable even if they were unjust to me."
Abdel Maqsoud added that Morsy had not been allowed to see his lawyers or communicate with the outside world or his family and that he was detained in solitary confinement.
On Monday evening, Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reacted to the news, calling Morsy a "brother" and a "martyr," according to state-run news agency Anadolu.
Erdgoan also tweeted about Morsy's death, saying he had "conducted one of the biggest democratic struggles of the history."
A strict Islamist who was educated in southern California, Morsy was voted into power in June 2012 following the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's longstanding rule.
A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsy had campaigned on appealing to the broadest possible audience.
But, during his year in power, critics say he became an authoritarian leader who forced through a conservative agenda.
In 2013, Morsy and the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood movement were ousted in a coup, with the Muslim Brotherhood banned by the government after the military seized power and declared it a terrorist organization.
Roughly 1,000 Egyptians many of them Morsy supporters were killed during protests against the military government.
Following his ouster, Morsy was tried en masse with Mohamed Badie the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as more than 100 alleged members of the outlawed group, according to state media.
In 2015, he was sentenced to death over a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising and to life in prison on espionage charges after being convicted of conspiring with Palestinian group Hamas, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and other foreign organizations.
Both of those sentences were widely criticized as political grandstanding.
Morsy was also handed a 25-year prison sentence for leaking state secrets to Qatar, and had received an additional 15-year sentence for other, lesser, charges.
In 2016, Morsy's death sentence and life sentence were overturned.
Last year, in a report from a panel commissioned by Morsy's family and made up of British Parliamentarians said that the conditions of his detention "would constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," and "could meet the threshold for torture in accordance (with) Egyptian and International law."
The panel wrote that Morsy is receiving inadequate medical care "which is likely to lead to premature death."
On Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Morsy's death "entirely predictable" accusing the government of failing to allow him adequate medical care while he was in prison.
In a statement on Monday, the Muslim Brotherhood said it held Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his regime "accountable for the killing of the elected legitimate president, politically and criminally," and demanded an independent review into the circumstances of Morsy's death.
The group has called for demonstrations outside Egyptian embassies around the world at 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET).
Egyptian state media Al-Ahram reported Monday that Morsy was regularly examined by doctors and "was treated in accordance with the law while in detention."
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Ok, that might be a little drastic…but you get the point. I used to love going to coffee shops for the experience more than the coffee and muffin. I never really had a sweet tooth until I got pregnant, but I loved how bustling it was and all the conversation that was happening. It was a common place to see your friends, and my favorite coffee shop in Sacramento had a sweet back patio.
With my little one, the coffee shop trips are a lot less common, and I usually stick to making coffee at home. I also found a way to have a treat every morning – and not have to pay anything for it! No, I have not taken to shoplifting. I just make a dozen of muffins every week, silly!
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Set your oven for 375 deg and grease a 12-cup muffin tin. The book says to grease a 1/3 cup measure, to equally portion the batter. I just used a cookie scoop and did two scoops per muffin cup. However you want to do, just make sure it's all mixed together good. Or else the texture will be inconsistent, and you will find yourself back at the coffee shop.
Bake them for about 15 minutes then rotate the pan and bake them for another 10 minutes. They may need a little longer, but my muffins were perfect after 25 minutes. Stick a toothpick in and if it comes out clean or with a few crumbs, they're done. If it comes out sticky, they need a little more time.
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More details, including the full list of who's playing, once the full Gally schedule has been revealed. In the meantime, here's what they've said in their latest site update:
Plus as a special treat this year: "The Game of Rassilon"… it's Dungeons & Dragons but a little more timey-wimey, and we've gathered four very funny people to play the game for your amusement! What misadventure will the Doctor and his (or her!) companions find themselves in this time, and how will they get out? It all depends on the dice…
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Villa Ladies have announced a new management set-up as they get ready for their first season in the newly-formed Super League.
Ron Mellor has been brought in as manager, taking the lead role in getting the team ready for the season, which runs over the summer months from April to October.
Joe Hunt, League cup-winning manager from the previous campaign, will continue to support the team with the role of head coach alongside Karl Fellows.
Natalie Courtney, Ant Bosson and Andrew Colley will continue in their roles as assistant manager, physiotherapist and goalkeeping coach respectively.
Anders Braastad will also join the staff as sports science coach while Martin Harrison comes in as general manager to oversee the day-to-day running of the club.
Hunt, who has overseen the changes, said: "I'm over the moon that Ron has agreed to come on board with us.
"He is very highly recommended.
"Ron will add a new dimension to us. He will help the development of Karl and I as coaches with all his knowledge and experience.
"He will take charge of all team affairs, dictating training sessions and matchday operations.
"He has some great ideas but is also comfortable with how we play already and where we want to go
"Already Ron has shown a massive interest in our female section overall, working with the U15s team.
"He has thrown himself into the club, trying to get an understanding of how it works and how we do things.
"Even though we have now moved to Super League we still intend to produce our own players from within our Centre of Excellence.
"This has always been our focus. We are not reliant on other clubs to produce players for us.
"The future is very promising for us. Within the last month, we've had a great turn out for the national teams. A total of 14 players have gone away at U15, U17, U19 and U21 levels - 12 of them with England and two with Wales."
Mellor, who also coached former defender Brendan Ormsby when he was a teacher at Ladywood Comprehensive School, added: "It goes without saying that I am very much looking forward to joining the management team for Villa Ladies.
"It should be an exciting journey for us as we embark on our first season in the Super League."
Before the Super League campaign begins, Villa Ladies set off in the FA Cup with a home encounter with Doncaster Belles on Sunday February 9, kick-off at 2pm.
The match will be played at their new ground at Sutton Coldfield Town.
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Aston Villa's Pre Season Schedule:
January 28 -Derby County (a) 7.45pm
February 2 - Everton (a) 2pm
February 9 - Doncaster Rovers Belles (h) FA Cup Third Round
February 16 - Arsenal (a) 2pm
February 23 - Bristol Academy (h) 2pm
March 2 - Notts County (h) 2pm
March 30 - Manchester City (a) 2pm
April 6 - Chelsea (a) 2pm
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Now I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person, but is there something we should know? They have been a bit non existent since their licence was granted apart from on their men's site. Personally I haven't seen happy piccies of players with the other clubs for photo shoots at Wembley recently, seem to be the only club without any kind of squad or badge image on the FAWSL site
and, although probably just an oversight on their part, this hasn't changed since last June
(although the other WSL teams have)
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villa have always been reluctant to give anything away.
the fawsl also seem incapable of giving wsl2 or reserves any web space at all
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If you look up Polly Fildes (I think) on twitter she mentioned this morning that the FAWSL website was just about to be relaunched with all new content plus an online ticketing system
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Will do thanks.
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Aston Villa Ladies will be challenging the top three of the Women's Super League's second tier next season, according to general manager Martin Harrison.
The Lady Villans may be young in years but they are fresh from their first taste of success, having clinched The FA Women's Premier League Cup last season.
Yet the WSL 2 is unknown territory for the club and with the likes of Sunderland Ladies, Doncaster Rovers Belles and Watford in their division – all winners in their own right – the challenge is about to get tougher.
However, Harrison is expecting his young guns to rise to the occasion and fight for promotion at the first time of asking.
"Our aims and ambitions are that we want to be challenging, really," he said.
"Realistically we want to be in the top three and it will probably be between ourselves, Sunderland, Watford and Donny.
"The national division was a competitive one last year and there were a number of teams able to get results against each other, and now with Doncaster coming down it's only going to strengthen.
"Sunderland have won national divisions too, so it's going to be very strong.
"It's going to be interesting to see how the likes of Yeovil and Millwall are going to rise to the challenge too.
"From our point of view, the players had a lot of experience and soon they'll be some of the better players in the country.
"So now there's less of a feeling as a youngster that they shouldn't be here at this level. They won't be as overawed.
"We would like to think a lot of girls that have come through our programme have developed massively over the last few years.
"They've gained international recognition with us so from a loyalty point of view, they will be happy."
Such is the confidence in the Villa's current crop of players, there has not been a raft of new arrivals at the club.
Emily Owen and Natasha Baptiste were signed from West Brom while Lauren Walker and Hannah Williams joined from Wolves – all four arriving back in August.
And with a few tweaks here and there, Harrison is confident his side can cope with the demands of their maiden WSL season.
"We haven't gone out of our way to bring in too many new players, but a few to enhance what we already have such as Emily Owen, two 20-year-olds from West Bromwich Albion who have a lot of potential," added Harrison.
"Some of our girls have gone away on international duty and that extra experience is only going to take us forward and drive other players on too."
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The day started nice and sunny, showing signs it would stay that way, and I had been seeing reports of avocet young at various reserves, but not Middleton. So, armed with camera, I set out to see if the avocets had any young yet, along with whatever else I would see.
Unfortunately no avocet young, and while the reserve was generally quiet, there was more than enough for anyone keen enough to seek out.
I was going to upload them to Flickr today, but it seems Flickr is down for major maintenance but they'll be up soon enough.
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A coot chick, not cute, in my personal opinion, probably the true ugly duckling...
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Gadwall duckling, that was following adult gadwall ducks, which helped, or certainly gave a good indication of being gadwall
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Mute swan incubating. I did watch it for a good while, just in case any cygnet activity was to be observed, but when the swan arose from the nest and sorted the immediate nest material around, nothing was observed.
Quite a lucky shot, I was about to pack the camera away when the heron flew right over.
At the end of the day, one of the volunteers at the reserve pointed out the cuckoo that everyone could here, and I managed to get a half decent photo.
Did I say a quiet day?
Well, possibly it was, but there's always something to see, you just need to keep your eyes and ears open.
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Regards, Hazel
"Each kindness shown to birds or men is sure to flutter back again"
Lot to learn
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HAZY said:A lovely series of photos and species Mike and what a bonus to see a Cuckoo - fabulous set and glad you had a good day.
Thank you Hazel.
The cuckoo was a bonus to what was a good day, even if things were a little on the quiet side.
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gaynorsl said:Great photos Mike, I like the Redshank very much and also the two Avocets taking a relaxing walk and hoping for a meal at the same time. The banded Damselfly is a stunner. Thanks for letting us share in your day.
Thank you Gaynor.
I hadn't seen avocets until last year, but then to be fair, I hadn't really been anywhere near the sort of environment they' inhabit, so I'm a little fascinated by them at the moment.
I was hoping to see young very avocets, but alas, not this year, I'll not be back to see them for a few weeks, so I'll have to wait until next year.
The banded damselfly is another species I hadn't seen until last year, though where I am seeing them are areas I frequent, so no excuses, and the redshank, another not seen until this year for the first time, though I have visited places where the inhabit, but not at the right time.
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PimperneBloke said:Hi Mike, nice shots. Can I ask, how you manage to get a number of pictures of a sensible size into one post? All mine seem to have to be made almost thumbnail size and can only get 2 or 3 pics per post in? Thanks in advance.
You certainly can ask.
Though the process I'm sharing with you may seem back to front, it is, but it will enable you to get the results you desire without too much faffing around.
When you open the "Insert image/video file" look for the "Dimensions" box, double click the mouse over the first box and change to 1024.
You will need to do the same with the second box, now here comes the fun bit, depending on what ratio you're using for the pictures. I use 1024 x 683 for most of my photos, its small enough but large enough to give clear images.
However, that is set around the image ratio of 3:2 used by most DSLR's and the old 35 mm film cameras. You can go bigger, but for a starter, I think that is more than enough to get to where you desire to be.
Using the table below will help, I've listed the common picture ratios and basically which type of equipment uses what.
Using the old fashioned image width of 1024 in the first box followed by the number in red against the yellow background will help to get a somewhat sensible image size.
Once you selected the dimensions, then select your photo to upload
I hope that helps you.
If you've any doubt what the dimensions of your photography device/camera are, I'm happy to search the web and let you know what the options are.
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PimperneBloke said:That's brilliant, thank you
You're welcome
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Thanks Nigel, i'll definitely give it a go. I take it I still have to make my source pictures smaller, as on the pc they are anything from 4-7mb, but the post limit is 5mb?
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Although I am not a match angler I have entered or been entered into a range of competitions.
As a youngster I used to send in details of my specimen coarse fish captures to gain Kingfisher Guild Certificates from the Angling Times. An Angling Times Top Ten badge was proudly worn for a while, this was the mark of a true specimen hunter at the end of the seventies.
My allegiance then changed to the Anglers Mail, and at one stage I used to send in photos for publication. In those days the Anglers Mail paid £25 for each photo it used. Believe it or not, a 5lb 9oz Welland Chub back in 1989 won me a reel as the fish of the week. How things have changed, even a six pound chub barely gets a mention nowadays!
Various badges from Trout Fisherman and Sea Angler Magazines have arrived in the post and like the Angling Times Top Ten Badge have briefly adorned fishing clothing. I don't recall ever entering a trout, it being good publicity for day ticket fisheries.
My match career is limited, I have entered one trout fishing match. I travelled all the way to Bure Valley Fishery in Norfolk to find that the only way I could fish that day, was to enter a competition. I fluked a four pound rainbow first cast and walked off with a trout rod for the biggest fish of the day.
Despite this glittering array of awards I had never won a trophy until a couple of years ago when I was the weakest link in a two day RNLI competition aboard Colin Penney's Flamer III. Today I finally got another trophy to accompany it after accidentially winning a Portland and Surrounding Waters competition aboard Flamer IV.
I have entered several matches aboard Flamer, simply because this has given me access to species rich areas that would not normally be visited during a charter trip. During Colin's matches I have landed several new species including the rare Red Band Fish and the Baillions Wrasse. Whilst I admire match anglers, I have no real desire to compete and continue to concentrate on trying to catch new species. I felt that I had a chance of Trigger Fish, Dragonets and Butterfly Blennies and fished accordingly. Unfortunately I failed miserably and yet again, the angler next to me caught the only Butterfly Blenny of the day.
I was truly astonished when Colin announced that I had not only landed the most species but was also the points winner by some way. I don't really understand why, as I am sure that Steve Clements the runner up caught far more fish than me. However I would have happily swapped the kudos for Steve's Butterfly Blenny and the weakest link spot!
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Introduction: Galaxy Glass Art
This Galaxy Glass Art is a very simple craft with great results. I did this project with my 4 year old, so the pictures in the tutorial include close ups of my work and shots of my daughter completing that step. We both had a great time making these and afterwards she wanted to do more! Unfortunately, I didn't have any more empty picture frames left in the house.
Step 1: Materials
Here are the materials you will need to complete this project:
- A picture frame with glass
- Glitter glue
- Food colouring (red, blue, yellow)
- Paintbrush
- Toothpicks (optional)
- Hot glue gun OR E6000 Permanent Craft glue
Step 2: Getting Started: Prepping Your Glass & Frame
1) Turn your picture frame face down and remove everything except for the glass.
2) Remove the glass and set to the side, you will need it again in a moment. Apply your hot glue or adhesive all the way around the inner edge of the frame. When I first did this, I used hot glue. However, I took too long to go all the way around the edge of the frame and put the glass in. Because of this the first edge that I did was already starting to harden. If you are doing a small frame and can work fast you can use hot glue. Since I wasn't happy with my hot glue job, I found some E6000 at the back of the craft cupboard. I applied a line of this around the edge and pressed my glass in. When I did my daughter's piece I didn't bother trying the hot glue, I used the E6000 right around and it worked great.
3) Place your glass back into the frame. When the adhesive sets it should hold the glass in place.
Step 3: Glitter Glue!
Now that our glass is in place we can get started with the fun stuff. You don't need to wait for the E6000 to dry before you start this set. Just jump right in!
1) Squirt big globs of glue onto the glass. Your picture frame should still be face down. We are painting onto the back side of the glass. We used both types of glitter glue that we had. They had different types of glitter in them so it added nice variety to the project.The glitter looks great when the project is complete because it glitters like thousands of tiny stars in your galaxy. :D
2) Use a paintbrush to spread the glitter glue around to cover the glass.
Step 4: Add Your Food Colouring
Since we are going for a galaxy theme we used red, blue and just a touch of yellow.
1) Put drops of food colouring onto the wet glitter glue. 1 drop of red and 1 drop of blue together makes the purple that we used in this project. I used purple in three of the four corners. I also used just blue in one corner and a tiny bit of yellow near the middle of one edge. I let my daughter choose where she wanted her colours to be. She just used blue and red.
Step 5: Spreading the Colours
1) Use your paintbrush to spread and blend the colours. I made most of the glass purple, but I left a swirl of bright blue and yellow. There is a bit of green created from the yellow and blue mixing together. I used light, sweeping brush strokes to blend the edges of the colours and create the galaxy spiral look. Every now and then, pick up your project and (carefully) hold it up to the light so you can better how the light shines through it. I added a lot more purple food colouring to my edges and corners to make the colour darker and more vibrant. My daughter also had fun making interesting lines on hers using a toothpick.
Step 6: Display and Enjoy!
Project complete! She's super happy with her craft and is already talking about how she wants to give it as a present to her JK teacher.
Wait for the glue to completely dry before you start trying to set it up somewhere. Depending on how liberal you were with the glue and food colouring, this may take a while.
You can display your project in a window to let the sunshine through like a stained glass window, or you could just set it up somewhere in your house as an interesting piece of art. It looks good both ways! If you saved the backing to the picture frame, you can place some white paper against the inside of the backing and reattach it to the picture frame (just make sure you wait until it is completely dry!).
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going to try with my grand kids always looking for fun nice crafts I know they will love this one thank you
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Some of our customers include:
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Founded by Alexandre Aguirre in 2007, Aguirre Architecture is a benchmark in architecture in Uberlandia, Brazil. The firm develops various projects, mainly residential designs.
Alexandre Aguirre has a degree in Architecture and Urbanism by the University Center of Triangulo (Centro Universitário do Triângulo – UNITRI, Uberlandia, Brazil) and a postgraduate degree in Metallic Structures by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña – UPC, Barcelona, Spain). Due to his experience abroad, he draws inspiration from several foreign architectural influences and solutions, which help define the firm's main concept.
In 2013, our team welcomed architect Michell Damascena, who also has a degree in Architecture and Urbanism by UNITRI and was previously employed in other architecture firms. Damascena is also the recipient of the 2014 Caio Award (Prêmio Caio 2014, an award ceremony that celebrates excellence in interior design).
Currently, our firm has a portfolio of over 200 projects and employs a team of qualified architects and interior designers.
Aguirre Architecture adopts a pure, minimalistic architectural style. The concept that "less is more" is seen in every project. Also, we use natural materials to design and create, which makes our projects timeless and helps establish our brand through generations yet to come.


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The nation is in serious danger. The creeping spread of Islam is pushing out Christianity. The country's borders are swarming with drug-slinging criminals, and its veterans are dying in droves. Heartless, power-hungry liberals snatch guns away from poor, defenseless citizens while openly mocking Gold Star widows. Meanwhile, Democratic operatives are planning a coup from a bunker not far from the White House and wiretapping Trump administration officials, not to mention Trump Tower itself—a looming scandal of Watergate proportions.
The worst part? The propagandistic left-wing media (that subhuman species) won't report a word of it.
At least, that's what I learned spending a few weeks on a self-imposed binge of President Trump's media diet—a virtual smorgasbord of Breitbart, Fox News, front-page newspaper headlines, presidential Twitter, and a smattering of Infowars for flavor. I already know what the president thinks of the press, but I wanted to know more about how the world looks to the president through his particular media lens. Yes, even presidents live inside their own filter bubbles. And this past weekend demonstrated just how damaging such media myopia can be when that blinkered vision belongs to the world's most powerful person.
In less than a day, a Breitbart story accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower became, via tweet, a presidentially asserted fact. As with most Americans, the television Trump watches, the news he consumes, and the people he follows on social media warp and distort his view of the world.
Millions of people share Trump's media habits. His favored outlets have huge, devoted followings. But unlike everyone else, Trump has the authority to turn these often lopsided and misleading narratives into policy—or at least 140-character proclamations that, by virtue of his office, the rest of the world must take seriously. Now the Trump administration is calling for a congressional investigation into the wiretapping claims, even though Trump aides have repeatedly failed to point to any hard evidence to back up the president's allegations.
And I should have seen it all coming. During my weeks on the Trump media diet, I surfed an endless feedback loop circulating between Trump and his preferred media outlets, where speculation leads to justification, ad infinitum. Through this fish-eye, Trump's wiretapping tweets don't look surprising at all. They would instead represent the logical conclusion of what happens when the President of the United States seems to believe everything he hears—and when he limits what he hears to what he wants to hear.
The Paleo of Media Consumption
Trump's media diet is tough to stick to. It's like the Paleo of media consumption. It requires extra preparation to fit everything in and a spartan commitment to elimination. (Trump reportedly swore off Morning Joe after years as a devoted viewer).
Trump follows this regimen rigorously. Alone—perhaps in his bathrobe—in the pre-dawn hours, he flicks on the television to tune into Fox & Friends, which he recently called "the most honest morning show." He scours The New York Times and the New York Post—in print, not digital—and scans The Wall Street Journal. At night he's been known to tweet reactions to The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and hate-tweet his response to Saturday Night Live. And don't forget the Sunday shows.
It's a lot to take in. So, as with any diet I've ever tried, I cheated a little here and there. Instead of waking up at 6 am to catch the morning shows and staying up late to watch Hannity, I caught the highlights online. And I added outlets that have a known influence on Trump. Every day I checked in on Breitbart, whose former chair Steve Bannon is now Trump's chief strategist, and watched as Alex Jones' face grew ever-redder throughout his four-hour Infowars broadcast. (Please know, dear reader, I did this for you.) Trump may not listen to Infowars, but several of his most controversial claims—including the idea that millions of people voted illegally—first gained traction on Jones' show.
I also created a Twitter account to follow everyone Trump follows on Twitter, a list that notably does not include any government agencies, press secretary Sean Spicer, @WhiteHouse, or even @POTUS but which does include Apprentice producer Mark Burnett and his wife, Touched By an Angel star Roma Downey. In the dark dystopia that is Trump's media bubble, Downey's random musings exuded a welcome ray of light.
In the end only kindness matters ☀ #kindnessmatters #bekind https://t.co/6fIBE8YkkX
— Roma Downey (@RealRomaDowney) February 24, 2017
It's the End of the World
Otherwise, the world inside the bubble looked bleak. On Infowars, Jones touted what he called a "bombshell" story about Hillary Clinton planting moles throughout the White House. On Fox, Sean Hannity asked Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu whether Iran was readying a "modern day holocaust." "It's up to us to prevent it," Netanyahu replied in a sober baritone. Fox & Friends hosts told the story of an undocumented immigrant accused of murder in Colorado and claimed a DREAMer detained under Trump's executive order was a gang member. Breitbart published videos of Palestinian children dancing joyfully to a song called "Pull the Trigger," while Ann Coulter filled my Twitter feed with headlines about crimes committed by Latinos.
MAN ACCUSED OF ENGAGING IN SEX ACT WITH DOG. "Man" is landscaper, Cruz Barrera-Lugo.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 14, 2017
For the most part, these stories weren't fabricated. But they were cherry-picked, selected to convey an overarching message about what Trump might call "American carnage." In this world, immigration and Islam serve as the default enemies, along with the mainstream media and the left. Whenever the president comes under attack by either one, his preferred outlets offer him the ammunition he needs to fight back. When the press seized on reports that US attorney general Jeff Sessions didn't say during his confirmation hearing that he had met with a Russian ambassador, Trump's media mirrors scrambled to dismiss the story as hysterical.
"This whole smear campaign is really just part of the Democrat's larger fake news conspiracy theory that Russian hacking, hacking, is the reason why Hillary Clinton lost the election," Hannity quipped during his opening monologue.
The wiretapping story wasn't the only one Trump ran with and repeated to millions of people across the country. After a Tucker Carlson segment on Fox about Sweden's issues with refugees, the president held a rally in Florida, where he compared Sweden to Brussels, Paris, and Nice—all places that have experienced deadly terror attacks. More recently, the president tweeted that 122 prisoners released from Guantanamo have "returned to the battlefield," a phony line he repeated verbatim from Fox & Friends.
I surfed an endless feedback loop where speculation leads to justification, ad infinitum.
This alternate universe to which I traveled taught me as much about my bubble as it did the president's. I'm a 30-year-old college-educated writer living in Brooklyn, and my media diet is pretty much what you'd expect given those credentials: The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, CNN, WIRED (duh), and a whole lot of Refinery29 in my Facebook feed. In Trump's filter bubble, senator John McCain is a politically motivated warmonger. In mine, he and Lindsey Graham represent the lone Republican voices standing up to a rogue president. In my bubble, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau wins over hearts and minds with his good butt and welcoming approach to refugees. In Trump's, the "Trudeau effect" is steadily decimating trust in government among the Canadian people.
My Trump media diet reminded me that I could also benefit from breaking out of the bubble—except I'm not the president. There's no subset of the media who make it their job to convince me I'm right. For Trump, there is.
Time and again, Trump's pet outlets find a way to rationalize the president's claims, even claims as apparently baseless as the wiretapping conspiracy. By Monday morning, while other outlets pressed the administration on the origins of the president's theories, Utah representative Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight Committee, sat stiffly beside the hosts on the Fox & Friends couch, vowing to "get to the bottom of this."
The real danger in all of this is not that Trump lacks media literacy. Indeed, he may understand the machinations of the media better than anyone. The danger is that an increasingly large number of media outlets today have built their business models around telling the president's supporters—and the president himself—only what they want to hear. As long as that cycle exists, the wiretapping claim won't be the last online conspiracy theory to become state-sanctioned.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Welcome to Darwin College!
'In the long history of humankind those who have learned to collaborate and improvise the most effectively have prevailed.' – Charles Darwin
Using the great English naturalist Charles Darwin as our inspiration, we have created the 'Big Picture' for Darwin College students to enable them to identify what we are all trying to achieve and the journey our students will take during their time in Darwin.
To provide Darwin College students with a challenging and engaging curriculum which meets the needs and aspirations of all learners to enable them to achieve their potential.
Equipping our students with the skills they will need to meet the demands and challenges they will face when managing their lives, we will aim to develop Darwin College students to become:
With the 'Big Picture' in mind we have also created the motto for Darwin College:
'Courage, Commitment, Collaboration'
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change". – Charles Darwin
We value personal and social skills ensuring students learn how to co-operate, work in teams and respect others. We expect our students to learn because they want to learn and that they are motivated and enthused by the topics they study, the practical work and the state of the art technology. Darwin staff have created the 'Darwin Student Criteria' that identifies the skills, qualities and attributes we aspire for our students to achieve.
Darwin students are treated as individuals and regularly use the Darwin PRIDE Principles to help them to understand the high expectations and standards we require from all members of the Darwin community.
P – PERSONAL BEST, students should try their best in all aspects of learning, meeting and exceeding their minimum target grade
R – RESPECT and FRIENDSHIP, students should respect themselves, all members of the school and local community and the environment
I – INSPIRATION, students should be inspired to achieve, take part in extra curricular opportunities
D – DETERMINATION and COURAGE, students should show that they do not just give up when things may be difficult and have the skills of resilience and resourcefulness
E – EQUALITY and DIVERSITY, students should be respectful of others' abilities, cultures and values.
The Darwin College colour is green – the word green is closely related to the old English verb growan, "to grow". In many cultures, green symbolizes hope and growth. For the Darwin students in the College the colour green symbolizes self-respect and wellbeing.
The Principals, other senior leaders and governors, provide outstanding leadership.Ofsted
Relationships are enhanced by the college structure. Students say, and inspectors agree, that there is a close family feel to being in a smaller college unit, and that students enjoy school more because of this.Ofsted
Students participate readily in the wide range of sports, social, art, music and drama activities that the school provides. Many students attend the after school and weekend revision clubs that staff provide.Ofsted
The school organises the wide range of subjects it teaches extremely well, and reviews them regularly, adjusting its provision to meet the changing needs of students.Ofsted
Teaching is challenging. It is based on accurate assessment of how well students make progress, what their individual learning needs are, and what kinds of activities will best make sure that they learn well.Ofsted
Students make outstanding progress in English and mathematics. Students' progress in business, design and technology, ICT and physical education is also outstanding. Students make good progress overall.Ofsted


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What can I expect at Wesley?
Wesley is officially the United Methodist campus ministry in Orangeburg, but we are also a "home away from home" to learn about God, build lifelong friendships, and serve the community. We welcome students of all faith backgrounds, even none!
Ways to Worship
There are a lot of churches around town. Check out our Bulletin Board to see the worship times and locations of 7 area United Methodist Churches.
Ways to Grow
Wesley offers weekly Bible studies, small groups, and short devotionals to allow students to grow in their faith together. We also have other special events like lock-ins, movie nights, craft nights, to get to know each other and just hang out!
Ways to Serve
We're looking into a fall break service opportunity, and hopefully a Spring Break Mission Trip! We also have local service projects throughout the year, volunteering at a pumpkin patch, making valentines for nursing home residents, and helping out with events at local churches.
Wesley students are often found helping out around the church by carrying heavy boxes and ushering at services. We are grateful to be a part of NUMC and love to give back!
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to be Methodist?
Absolutely not! While we are affiliated with the United Methodist Church, many of our students were raised in different denominations, and some are new to church altogether. We are also sometimes joined by students of other faiths. Whether you were raised in the Methodist church or are just starting to consider pursuing a relationship with God, we welcome you!


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Byrom Lends Artistic Hand To Edward Killingsworth BiographyPublished: July 1, 2013
The School of Art's Andrew Byrom recently capped his seventh year on campus with the design of a biography about CSULB's defining architect Edward A. Killingsworth, along with the creation of an historic exhibit at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles.
Byrom's design for Edward A. Killingsworth: An Architect's Life by Jennifer Volland and Cara Mullio debuted in April. After his architectural education at USC and service in World War II, Killingsworth settled into his home town of Long Beach and into an architectural practice that lasted almost half a century.
An exhibition designed by Byrom called "Windshield Perspective" opened on May 16 and continues through July 9 at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. "Windshield Perspective" is part of "Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A." The collaboration, supported by the Getty Foundation, brings together several local cultural institutions including MOCA, the Getty and LACMA for a wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of the city as a whole, from its residential architecture to its freeway network.
"A calm entrance opens into a visual wonderland," Byrom explained. "The viewer will navigate 15 large-scale totems featuring rescued art work from the boulevard such as a folk art rendering of the Virgin Mary and hand-made signage."
"Windshield Perspective" focuses on a short yet dense stretch of Beverly Boulevard from Normandie to Virgil. This drive along Beverly stands for hundreds, if not thousands, of daily journeys through the city's landscape, Byrom explained. But a choreographed drive, recreated within the museum, reveals the essence of the city—messy, disorderly, impromptu and vital. "`Windshield Perspective' provided a way of seeing and a sight to be seen," said Byrom. "The windshield is converted from scrim to lens."
Byrom last worked for the A+D Museum two years ago to curate and design an exhibition on the design philosophy of Charles and Ray Eames called "Eames Words". "These exhibition projects are huge collaborative efforts and I wanted to share this side of design with my students. We invited the students to have a private viewing before everyone else," Byrom recalled. "Things like this help the students to feel part of the project."
His design work on the book Edward Killingsworth: An Architect's Life was much more of a solitary affair. After working closely with the authors to get the tone and feel right, Byrom spent over eight months laying out the in-depth text and hundreds of photographs, renderings, plans and elevations, many of them unseen before.
In 1962, Killingsworth's firm was selected as CSULB's master planning architect. When he was first appointed, Killingsworth went right to the source—the students—spending much of his time getting their thoughts as to just how the campus should be developed.
Architectural historians Volland and Mullio recognized Killingsworth's importance while researching their first book, Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis (2005). They conducted interviews with Killingsworth himself and with his family and associates as well as explored the firm's extensive archives. The book offers in-depth examinations of 42 of the most important projects the firm produced, from small residential pavilions to enormous hotel and resort developments.
"There are beautiful buildings on this campus, some of them hidden by not-so-beautiful buildings," Byrom said. "I am especially impressed by the International House at the east entrance to campus. Utilizing a modern lodge design, the two-story hall includes double rooms in a two- or three-room suite design with a shared bathroom. It's the first building I noticed when I visited campus for an interview eight years ago and its a sight to see. I knew right away there was something interesting here hidden amongst some of the other buildings."
Byrom thinks one reason he was the right choice to design the Killingsworth biography was that he was not particularly aware of the architect before arriving in Long Beach.
"I admired the campus buildings without knowing who designed them or their architectural importance," he recalled. "I live close to campus and I walk by his buildings every day. It reminded me of when I was 12 and saw Alfred Hitchcock's `Rear Window' which I loved without knowing anything about Hitchcock. My reaction to Killingsworth's campus designs was the same. It felt like I had discovered something."
His vision for the book is based on a very simple Killingsworth-like, page grid. "I found a beautiful Killingsworth line rendering and I was able to base the entire structure of the book on that one single image. It was a beautiful day when I found that drawing. As you read the book, you can follow the lines throughout. This may be only the kind of thing a designer would notice but I'd like to think readers will pick up on it, if only subconsciously," he said.
Byrom is pleased by the Killingsworth biography's breadth of coverage. "His master planning stretched from 1962 to 2004," he explained. "I felt connected to furniture maker Charles Eames from a previous exhibit and that is what has happened here. When you get into a project and learn more about the subject, you can't help but feel a connection. For instance, I love the image on the cover of Killingsworth in a garden with his dog. It is much more personal than the typical design drawing you see on most architecture book covers."
Byrom's designs have featured in Print magazine, Dwell, Creative Review, +81, IdN, and in numerous design books including New Typographic Design, Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts, Type Addicted and Lettering & Type. Byrom's work has been recognized with awards from the AIGA and The Type Directors Club. Last year he was voted as a member of the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale and he travels to London In September to address its annual congress.
Byrom feels the book and exhibit design drew him closer to Los Angeles. "I came from England, via Chicago, to California. I feel L.A.'s my place now. I've been lucky to have been asked to work on projects related to some iconic L.A. designers and landmarks."


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Did you know that there is an amended bill being considered by the State Legislature that proposes new rules for Mediation Confidentiality? Phyllis Pollack, our former SCMA President, recently provided this update. Amended bill SB 954 provides that attorneys be required to advise their clients in writing before a mediation that mediation confidentiality applies and seeks to require that clients sign a written acknowledgment that they understand that what goes on in mediation remains in mediation. For more information regarding this proposed legislation visit the links below. The first link is the latest legislative analysis of SB 954, and the second link is the most recently amended version of SB 954.
Since the mid-1980s California law has protected mediation communications from disclosure in order to promote the sort of candor and openness that is essential to effective mediations.
But a 2011 decision of the California Supreme Court barring the admission of evidence of mediation communications in a case in which a client alleged that a lawyer committed malpractice during the mediation[1] has resulted in an effort to revise the California Evidence Code to allow mediation communications to be offered into evidence in order to permit lawyers to be disciplined (and held financially accountable) for misconduct during mediation proceedings).
At the direction the California Legislature, the California Law Revision Commission ("CLRC") is now conducting a study (Study K-402), which is focused on "The Relationship Between Mediation Confidentiality and Attorney Malpractice and Other Misconduct". Since work began in 2012, the Commission's staff has prepared a collection of comprehensive memoranda surveying the law, practice, statues, cases, and commentary on the subject. The Commission has also received substantial input from mediation participants (including parties, lawyers, and mediators) addressing whether mediation confidentiality should be compromised in order to permit lawyers to be sued and disciplined for mediation-related misconduct.[2]
The Law Revision Commission's Initial Decision to Allow the Disclosure of Mediation Communications Relevant to Alleged Lawyer Malpractice.
In recent meetings, the Law Revision Commission has adopted tentative proposals to recommend that the Legislature amend California's Evidence Code to allow parties to discover and offer into evidence all mediation communications that are relevant to proving or disproving claims that attorneys committed malpractice (as an advocate for a mediating party) in connection with a mediation.
To date, the CLRC's tentative decisions include:
- Creation of an exception to mediation confidentiality for all evidence proving or disproving professional misconduct or malpractice by an attorney advocate where the misconduct occurs "in the context of a mediation".
- This exception would not apply in a case alleging malpractice by the mediator, even where the mediator is an attorney.
- The exception would apply in State Bar disciplinary proceedings as well as in malpractice suits.
- The exception would not permit disclosure of mediation communications as part of an effort to unwind a mediated settlement agreement.
- The exception would not affect existing protections against mediator being compelled to testify. Nor would it affect any current mediator immunity against suit.
- A plaintiff bringing a malpractice case involving a mediation would be required to give notice to known participants in the underlying mediation.
The Law Revision Commission's Tentative Conclusions Rejecting Procedures To Limit Unnecessary Or Abusive Disclosure Of Confidential Information.
In its most recent meetings, the CLRC has also rejected a number of proposals that would have imposed preliminary procedural requirements before mediation communications could be revealed. In particular:
- The Commission rejected any requirement that cases which would reveal confidential mediation communications be subject to a preliminary judicial or private screening to bar the filing of cases that lack substantial merit.
- The Commission also rejected proposals to require a judge to determine, before confidential information would be subject to discovery or disclosure, that the information is relevant to the malpractice claim and that the need for the evidence outweighed the privacy interests of people who would be adversely affected by disclosure. (This process is used in certain types of proceedings under Uniform Mediation Act, which has been adopted by a number of states and has more limited confidentiality protections than are available under California law.)
- The Commission's proposed exception to mediation confidentiality would not, however, limit the power of the Court to protect rights of privacy established in California's Constitution.
The Commission's Formal Draft Recommendation and Request for Public Comment.
On June 22, 2017, the Commission published its tentative recommendation for amendments to the California Evidence Code to create a new exception to mediation confidentiality to allow disclosure of private communications in a mediation if they are relevant to proving or disproving a claim of professional malpractice by a lawyer who represented a party in a mediation. CLRC Draft Confidentiality Legislation. The Commission's Press Release is available here: http://www.clrc.ca.gov/pub/Press/Press-K402.pdf. A detailed summary of the Commission's conclusions and reasoning is available here: http://clrc.ca.gov/pub/Misc-Report/TR-K402.pdf.
The Positions Taken by SCMA.
During the course of the Commission's study, SCMA twice submitted written views on this subject. In 2012, SCMA publicly opposed proposed legislation that would have eroded mediation confidentiality. More recently, SCMA submitted a carefully crafted statement to the Law Revision Commission opposing the effort to lift, dilute, or compromise mediation confidentiality to allow the disclosure of confidences revealed in mediations if a lawyer is being sued or disciplined for the alleged breach of a professional duty to his or her client.[4]
SCMA stated that candor and openness in mediation is just too important to be sacrificed because of what the Association's experience demonstrates are only "rare, isolated, or unusual" claims of lawyer misconduct in mediation. But recognizing that the Law Revision Commission has decided (at least tentatively) to recommend that the Legislature allow judges and juries to be given access to confidential mediation communications where they are relevant to claims of lawyer misconduct, SCMA urged the Law Revision Commission to recommend meaningful procedural protections against unnecessary public disclosure of private information and confidences revealed in the mediation process.
In a second submission, SCMA's President, then Floyd Siegal, reminded the Commission that:
"To the extent that courts in California have allowed judicial scrutiny of events that occurred during mediation, they have done so only in very limited circumstances and applying special procedural safeguards . . . thereby maintaining the confidentiality of the mediation process. In the event the Commission decides to recommend an exception for confidentiality in cases alleging attorney malpractice, similar protections to those mandated in Rinaker [ v. Superior Court (1998)] should be a part of the law."
SCMA's letter is available here: https://www.scmediation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SCMAs-December-7-2015-Letter-to-the-CLRC.pdf.
SCMA's positions are not universally recognized, either within the mediation community or within the larger community of mediation participants. And SCMA's recommendations have, so far, found little support in the CLRC.
The CLRC has now received additional public comment on its tentative recommendation to strip mediation communications of the confidentiality protection they now enjoy if the communications become "relevant" to a malpractice case in which a client sues his or her lawyer for misconduct during a mediation. A September 27, 2017 Staff Memorandum (Memorandum 2017-52) begins by characterizing the the public comment on the Commission's legislative proposal as "decidedly negative" and "unfavorable". Memorandum 2017-52, p. 1. It goes on to state that "the degree of opposition to the Commission's proposal suggests that careful reexamination of the competing considerations is in order." Emphasis original. Staff Memorandum 2017-52, p. 12.
A fuller discussion of the Staff assessment of the public reaction to the CLRC tentative recommendation can be found here.
Developments at the CLRC Meeting on September 28, 2017 are summarized in Phyllis Pollack's October 2, 2017 article: Sunk Costs and the California Law Revision Commission.
What SCMA Members and Others Can Do to Have Their Views Considered By The Law Revision Commission.
As this process proceeds, SCMA members – and others interested in the subject – may submit their personal views on both the importance of mediation confidentiality and the need for protections against unnecessary disclosure of confidential information revealed in mediations directly to the Law Revision Commission. These comments may be directed to Barbara Gaal, Chief Deputy Counsel, California Law Revision Commission, either by mail, to 4000 Middlefield Road, Room D-2, Palo Alto, CA 94303; by fax, to 650-494-1335; or via email, to [email protected]. Comments are due by September 1, 2017.
[1] Cassel v. Superior Court, 51 Cal. 4th 113, 244 P.3d 1080, 119 Cal. Rptr. 3d 437 (2011).
[2] This substantial body of material can be accessed on the Law Revision Commission website. The web address is clrc.ca.gov/K402.html.
[3] Published at clrc.ca.gov-pub-2015-MM15-55.pdf (Exhibit 1).
[4] clrc.ca.gov/pub/2015/MM15-54s2.pdf.Mediation Confidentiality 1 (PDF)
SCMA has collected additional materials from the Mediation Confidentiality debate to give members of the mediation community interested in this subject an opportunity to explore further. These resources include:
- Selected Memoranda From The Law Revision Commission's Comprehensive Background Materials On Mediation Confidentiality (Including Current Statutes),
- Selected Materials Supporting The Creation Of New Exceptions To Mediation Confidentiality,
- Materials Supporting Preservation Of The Current Rules Protecting Mediation Confidentiality,
- Scholarly Materials and Decisions, and
- Links To All Law Revision Commission Study Materials.
Find these resources at MEDIATION CONFIDENTIALITY RESOURCES.
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Working Out with the Outside Rein
Today I practiced horse lifting. Yes, me versus 1,000 pound Micah. Micah definitely had the advantage.
As always, it was my fault. I had been gradually letting the right, outside rein slip … obsessing instead on getting bend to the left. Micah was training me more effectively than I was training him.
Things reached a head today, with Micah deciding he owned the outside rein and outside shoulder. He was blowing me off, ignoring my leg, and drifting to the outside. Not so bad at the walk and trot but a disaster at the canter.
Back to the Outside Rein and its importance! At the walk, we worked to regain my authority with both reins. We used the square exercise to move Micah's shoulder over in response to my leg. We also used turn on the haunches to move the same shoulder over. Cover your ears, gentle reader, but it took some whacking with both leg and crop. (No horses were harmed during this exercise — I assure you I was working much harder than Micah was.)
We then progressed to making squares at the trot and canter. The trot improved quickly but the canter remained the sticking point.
Natalie put two poles across the arena and I used them to keep my steering accurate while trying to make canter squares (see Chocolate Covered Canter Squares, an earlier posting, for specifics of this exercise).
We made big improvement, mainly as the message to: USE THE OUTSIDE REIN made its way to my brain. My right arm may fall off.
Thankfully I have a day to recover before attempting this feat again. Wish me luck.


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Quality Social Gives Affordable Reasons to Celebrate Summer's "Dog Days"
Whenever I hear the words hand-crafted or house-cured in relation to any edible product, my wallet winces in anticipation of a hefty price tag. But, despite the lengths the folks in the back of the house at Quality Social go to in preparing from-scratch charcuterie, condiments, and pickled items, I've always found their prices to be quite reasonable. This was particularly true last night when, while downtown to catch a Padres game, I stopped into this "upscale dive bar" to find specials that were almost mind-blowing in their frugality.
From 5 to 7 p.m. on weekdays, Quality Social offers an extensive happy-hour menu where everything is in the single digits. There's a nice array of offerings and even $3 pints (we're talking Green Flash, the Lost Abbey, Black Market vs. PBR...but you can have that, too, which is cool in its own nostalgic throwback sorta way), but the gold in this treasure chest of values has to be the house-made hot dogs.
I'm a fan of totally tubular meat in all its forms and appreciate that care and respect is being given to this American classic, which comes in several varieties, including a TJ Dog featuring a weiner that's wrapped in bacon and topped with pico de gallo and a dice of fresh avocado. That south-of-the-border treat was no slouch, but the smokiness and saltiness of the bacon detract from what should be the star — a frankfurter that features an incredibly rich meaty flavor and a immaculately homogenous texture.
The best way to enjoy one of these dogs is to have it their way, and by that they mean Chicago-style — stuffed in a bun and topped with tomatoes, pickles, bright green relish, sport peppers, a squirt of yellow mustard, and a dash of celery salt. Given that Quality Social's culinary headman hails from Chicago and splits time between there and SD, you're not likely to find a more authentic version of this regional classic anywhere else.
It's a bit like having your salad, meat, and bread all at once, but it works big time; and priced at $5 on its own or $6 with fries during their happy hour, it's easy on the wallet and way cheaper than anything — hotdog or otherwise — that you'll encounter at nearby Petco Park (where their take on a TJ dog, the Sonoran Dog, is $12).
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January 28, 2012
Contacts section updated with Nissan Consumer Affairs contacts
I wanted to make it easy for others to contact Nissan Consumer Affairs if you are experiencing the same problems over and over again like me. These will stay in the contact tab above, and here they are as well:
Nissan Corporate/Consumer Affairs Contacts:
If you are having problems with your Nissan, below are some contacts I've been dealing with over the past 4 years in Consumer Affairs at the Corporate office in TN. If you call in with a problem they should open a file each time, so you want to make sure to get that file number for your records to prove you've opened a case with Nissan Corporate. Take very detailed notes of everything they say, because I've been lied to numerous times by representatives of Nissan (discussed here: Trust and Accountability) so if your case ever goes to court, or even to put together a detailed file like mine, detailed notes including date and time you spoke to people help create a legal record.
Anna Naraeva
Nissan North America, Inc.
Escalation Team Supervisor, Consumer Affairs
Phone: 615-725-7376
Fax: 615-967-2559
Mary Baumgartner
Senior Manager
Customer Support
Phone: 615-725-7255
Fax: 615-967-2090
Melody Benedict
Consumer Affairs
Phone: 615-725-7514
Consumer Affairs
Phone: 615-725-7668
Fax: 615-267-7940
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and I do not offer legal advice; any advice or suggestions should be researched by you and decisions made based on your own research.


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As I pointed out recently this is probably the number 1 question that I ever get asked.
The bottom line as far as I'm concerned is deciding what I want to do and sticking with it. Goal orientation. They call it "Dveikut BaMesima" (adhering to the task) in Hebrew. I will give tips further on but first I think that in order to answer the question well I should put it in perspective. Here are some random facts that will help the reader:
- I am Orthodox Jewish so I don't paint on Shabbat (Saturdays).
- I have five children aged 3.5 to 15.
- I work a nine hour day in hi-tech which plus commutes makes near on 11 hours out of the house.
So how does a normal day look?
- 06:00 – Get up, get ready, coffee and then out to morning service "Shaharit". (luckily the synagogue is just across the street).
- 07:00 – Breakfast with the children, nagging and cajoling them to get ready, washing the dishes. If I'm lucky a bit of spare time.
- 08:00 – Out of the house on foot with children 4+5, drop them at kindergarten and school and wait for my ride to work. Open the laptop and do updates on the website, search for a wireless network someone carelessly left open and do email and surfing, read.
- 09:00-18:00 – At work. Sorry, my employer wouldn't want me to tell about my work and I would want them to read anything not work connected that I do in this time ;-).
- 19:00 – Get home, dinner with family, put children to bed, wash dishes etc.
- 20:00 – Small children in bed. Start of my discretionary time :-)…
- 23:00 – Bed
So as you see that 20:00-23:00 slot is where it all gets done, although normally it's nearer 21:00 till I can get started and that's apart from supermarket evening, ironing, school meetings and everything else.
The tips
- Remember: if you want time, you will find it. There is a saying that if you want domething done, then ask a busy person. It's true, busy people know how to find time. Be a busy person.
- Set yourself action items and timetables to get them done – "this week I will finish this picture".
- Set yearly goals. This will help you keep focussed on where you're going, but also it will give you the satisfaction of being able to chalk up another goal achieved when you get there. Remember, unwritten (and unshared) goals are not goals. Write them down and share them or you won't be committed.
- Schedule your week – Sunday painting, Monday shopping, Tuesday iron 1/2 hour then paint, etc. Then stick to it – it works.
- Watch out what you do with your time. Don't watch television, or surf idly. I don't have a TV and I read on Saturdays when I can't paint or write or work on the computer.
- Use dead time for doing things. I read and work on my website on my way to and from work. That's an hour and a half that would otherwise go wasted every day – like the total waking hours of 22 days!
- Be mean with external commitments. If you are a busy and goal-oriented person, the chances are that you will get approached to serve on school commitees or that you will feel strongly about cleaning up your city or… Don't do it, unless you have loads of time apart from your painting time… and I certainly don't.
- However… take time to be with your family. You may be wasting painting time, but time with your children will never return.
Good luck!