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Please read through this. It is a tale of Murder… and Gender being mislabeled as being Gay (the easier to understand label or "box"). This is a hate crime.
Hating people for anything is wrong. This is the story of a young, misunderstood teen with many other social challenges and difficulties going on since early youth. Larry also had strong support of an openly Lesbian Vice Principal who fostered confusion of this being only a Gay subject. Gender differences often fall into the common labels that society offers about sexual orientation, rather than gender identity. Ultimately, forcing anyone into any box or label is wrong, though Larry had little choice but to accept the only label offered him by a caring (and uncaring) teachers and misguided 'parents' – despite so many obvious gender crossing behaviors.
Larry and Brandon both suffered. Sexual Orientation is about who you want to have sex with – Gender is who you are. Live – Love – Be.
By Ramin Setoodeh | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 19, 2008
Kids are coming out younger, but are schools ready to handle the complex issues of identity and sexuality? For Larry King, the question had tragic implications.
At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.'s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women's accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he'd paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. "He wore makeup better than I did," says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn't have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran.
But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn't slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair.
Brandon, 14, wasn't working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he'd finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. "He kept looking over at Larry," says a student who was in the class that morning. "He'd look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry." At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone's noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry's head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student's work, spun around. "Brandon, what the hell are you doing!" she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries.
The Larry King shooting became the most prominent gay-bias crime since the murder of Matthew Shepard 10 years ago. But despite all the attention and outrage, the reason Larry died isn't as clear-cut as many people think. California's Supreme Court has just legalized gay marriage. There are gay characters on popular TV shows such as "Gossip Girl" and "Ugly Betty," and no one seems to notice. Kids like Larry are so comfortable with the concept of being openly gay that they are coming out younger and younger. One study found that the average age when kids self-identify as gay has tumbled to 13.4; their parents usually find out a year later.
What you might call "the shrinking closet" is arguably a major factor in Larry's death. Even as homosexuality has become more accepted, the prospect of being openly gay in middle school raises a troubling set of issues. Kids may want to express who they are, but they are playing grown-up without fully knowing what that means. At the same time, teachers and parents are often uncomfortable dealing with sexual issues in children so young. Schools are caught in between. How do you protect legitimate, personal expression while preventing inappropriate, sometimes harmful, behavior? Larry King was, admittedly, a problematical test case: he was a troubled child who flaunted his sexuality and wielded it like a weapon—it was often his first line of defense. But his story sheds light on the difficulty of defining the limits of tolerance. As E. O. Green found, finding that balance presents an enormous challenge.
Larry's life was hard from the beginning. His biological mother was a drug user; his father wasn't in the picture. When Greg and Dawn King took him in at age 2, the family was told he wasn't being fed regularly. Early on, a speech impediment made Larry difficult to understand, and he repeated first grade because he had trouble reading. He was a gentle child who loved nature and crocheting, but he also acted out from an early age. "We couldn't take him to the grocery store without him shoplifting," Greg says. "We couldn't get him to clean up his room. We sent him upstairs—he'd get a screwdriver and poke holes in the walls." He was prescribed ADHD medication, and Greg says Larry was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, a rare condition in which children never fully bond with their caregivers or parents.
Kids started whispering about Larry when he was in third grade at Hathaway Elementary School. "In a school of 700 students, you'd know Larry," says Sarah Ranjbar, one of Larry's principals. "He was slightly effeminate but very sure of his personality." Finally, his best friend, Averi Laskey, pulled him aside one day at the end of class. "I said, 'Larry, are you gay?' He said, 'Yeah, why?' " He was 10. Averi remembers telling Larry she didn't care either way, but Larry started telling other students, and they did. They called him slurs and avoided him at recess. One Halloween, someone threw a smoke bomb into his house, almost killing the family's Jack Russell terrier. In the sixth grade, a girl started a "Burn Book"—an allusion to a book in the movie "Mean Girls," where bullies scribble nasty rumors about the people they hate—about Larry. The Larry book talked about how he was gay and falsely asserted that he dressed in Goth and drag. And it ended with a threat: "I hate Larry King. I wish he was dead," according to one parent's memory of the book. "The principal called my wife on the phone and she was crying," Greg says. "She found the book, and said we needed to do something to help protect Larry." His parents transferred him to another elementary school, hoping he could get a fresh start before he started junior high.
E. O. Green is a white slab of concrete in a neighborhood of pink and yellow homes. In the afternoons, SUVs roll down the street like gumballs, the sound of hip-hop music thumping. Once the students leave the campus, two blue gates seal it shut, and teachers are told not to return to school after dark, because of gang violence. Outside, there's a worn blue sign that greets visitors: this was a California distinguished school in 1994. The school is under a different administration now.
E. O. Green was a comfortable place for Larry when he arrived as a seventh grader. He hung out with a group of girls who, unlike in elementary school, didn't judge him. But that didn't mean he was entirely accepted. In gym class, some of his friends say that the boys would shove him around in the locker room. After he started dressing up, he was ridiculed even more. He lost a high heel once and the boys tossed it around at lunch like a football. "Random people would come up to him and start laughing," Moreno says. "I thought that was very rude." One day, in science class, he was singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" to himself. Kids nearby taunted him for being gay. "He said to me, 'It's OK'," says Vanessa Castillo, a classmate. " 'One day, they'll regret it. One day, I'll be famous'."
Larry's home life wasn't getting any better. At 12, he was put on probation for vandalizing a tractor with a razor blade, and he entered a counseling program, according to his father. One therapist said Larry might be autistic. At 14, Larry told Greg he thought he was bisexual. "It wouldn't matter either way to me," Greg says. "I thought maybe some of the problems would go away if we supported him." But the therapist told Greg he thought that Larry was just trying to get attention and might not understand what it meant to be gay. Larry began telling his teachers that his father was hitting him. Greg says he never harmed Larry; still, the authorities removed Larry from his home in November 2007. He moved to Casa Pacifica, a group home and treatment center in Camarillo, five miles away from Oxnard.
Larry seemed to like Casa Pacifica—"peaceful home" in Spanish. The 23-acre facility—more like a giant campground, with wooden cottages, a basketball court and a swimming pool—has 45 beds for crisis kids who need temporary shelter. Every day a driver would take Larry to school, and some weeks he went to nearby Ventura, where he attended gay youth-group meetings. "I heard this was the happiest time of his life," says Vicki Murphy, the center's director of operations. For Christmas, the home gave Larry a $75 gift card for Target. He spent it on a pair of brown stiletto shoes.
In January, after a few months at Casa Pacifica, Larry decided to dress like a girl. He went to school accessorized to the max, and his already colorful personality got louder. He accused a girl to her face of having breast implants. Another girl told him she didn't like his shoes. "I don't like your necklace," Larry snapped back. Larry called his mom from Casa Pacifica to tell her that he wanted to get a sex-change operation. And he told a teacher that he wanted to be called Leticia, since no one at school knew he was half African-American. The teacher said firmly, "Larry, I'm not calling you Leticia." He dropped the idea without an argument.
The staff at E. O. Green was clearly struggling with the Larry situation—how to balance his right to self-expression while preventing it from disrupting others. Legally, they couldn't stop him from wearing girls' clothes, according to the California Attorney General's Office, because of a state hate-crime law that prevents gender discrimination. Larry, being Larry, pushed his rights as far as he could. During lunch, he'd sidle up to the popular boys' table and say in a high-pitched voice, "Mind if I sit here?" In the locker room, where he was often ridiculed, he got even by telling the boys, "You look hot," while they were changing, according to the mother of a student.
Larry was eventually moved out of the P.E. class, though the school didn't seem to know the extent to which he was clashing with other boys. One teacher describes the gym transfer as more of a "preventative measure," since Larry complained that one student wouldn't stop looking at him. In other classes, teachers were baffled that Larry was allowed to draw so much attention to himself. "All the teachers were complaining, because it was disruptive," says one of them. "Dress code is a huge issue at our school. We fight [over] it every day." Some teachers thought Larry was clearly in violation of the code, which prevents students from wearing articles of clothing considered distracting. When Larry wore lipstick and eyeliner to school for the first time, a teacher told him to wash it off, and he did. But the next day, he was back wearing even more. Larry told the teacher he could wear makeup if he wanted to. He said that Ms. Epstein told him that was his right.
Joy Epstein was one of the school's three assistant principals, and as Larry became less inhibited, Epstein became more a source of some teachers' confusion and anger. Epstein, a calm, brown-haired woman with bifocals, was openly gay to her colleagues, and although she was generally not out to her students, she kept a picture of her partner on her desk that some students saw. While her job was to oversee the seventh graders, she formed a special bond with Larry, who was in the eighth grade. He dropped by her office regularly, either for counseling or just to talk—she won't say exactly. "There was no reason why I specifically started working with Larry," Epstein says. "He came to me." Some teachers believe that she was encouraging Larry's flamboyance, to help further an "agenda," as some put it. One teacher complains that by being openly gay and discussing her girlfriend (presumably, no one would have complained if she had talked about a husband), Epstein brought the subject of sex into school. Epstein won't elaborate on what exactly she said to Larry because she expects to be called to testify at Brandon's trial, but it's certain to become one of the key issues. William Quest, Brandon's public defender, hasn't disclosed his defense strategy, but he has accused the school of failing to intercede as the tension rose between Larry and Brandon. Quest calls Epstein "a lesbian vice principal with a political agenda." Larry's father also blames Epstein. He's hired an attorney and says he is seriously contemplating a wrongful-death lawsuit. "She started to confuse her role as a junior-high principal," Greg King says. "I think that she was asserting her beliefs for gay rights." In a tragedy such as this, the natural impulse is to try to understand why it happened and to look for someone to blame. Epstein won't discuss the case in detail and, until she testifies in court, it's impossible to know what role—if any—she played in the events leading to Larry's death.
Whatever Epstein said to Larry, it's clear that his coming out proved to be a fraught process, as it can often be. For tweens, talking about being gay isn't really about sex. They may be aware of their own sexual attraction by the time they're 10, according to Caitlin Ryan, a researcher at San Francisco State University, but those feelings are too vague and unfamiliar to be their primary motivation. (In fact, Larry told a teacher that he'd never kissed anyone, male or female.) These kids are actually concerned with exploring their identity. "When you're a baby, you cry when you're hungry because you don't know the word for it," says Allan Acevedo, 19, of San Diego, who came out when he was in eighth grade. "Part of the reason why people are coming out earlier is they have the word 'gay,' and they know it explains the feeling." Like older teenagers, tweens tend to tell their friends first, because they think they'll be more accepting. But kids that age often aren't equipped to deal with highly personal information, and middle-school staffs are almost never trained in handling kids who question their sexuality. More than 3,600 high schools sponsor gay-straight alliances designed to foster acceptance of gay students, but only 110 middle schools have them. Often the entire school finds out before either the student or the faculty is prepared for the attention and the backlash. "My name became a punch line very fast," says Grady Keefe, 19, of Branford, Conn., who came out in the eighth grade. "The guidance counselors told me I should not have come out because I was being hurt."
The staff at E. O. Green tried to help as Larry experimented with his identity, but he liked to talk in a roar. One teacher asked him why he taunted the boys in the halls, and Larry replied, "It's fun to watch them squirm." But Brandon McInerney was different. Larry really liked Brandon. One student remembered that Larry would often walk up close to Brandon and stare at him. Larry had studied Brandon so well, he once knew when he had a scratch on his arm—Larry even claimed that he had given it to Brandon by mistake, when the two were together. Larry told one of his close friends that he and Brandon had dated but had broken up. He also said that he'd threatened to tell the entire school about them, if Brandon wasn't nicer to him. Quest, Brandon's defense attorney, says there was no relationship between Larry and Brandon, and one of Larry's teachers says that Larry was probably lying to get attention.
Like Larry, Brandon had his share of troubles. His parents, Kendra and Bill McInerney, had a difficult, tempestuous relationship. In 1993, Kendra alleged that Bill pointed a .45 handgun at her during a drunken evening and shot her in the arm, according to court records. She and Bill split in 2000, when Brandon was 6. One September morning, a fight broke out after Kendra accused her husband of stealing the ADHD medication prescribed to one of her older sons from her first marriage. Bill "grabbed Kendra by the hair," and "began choking her until she was almost unconscious," according to Kendra's version of the events filed in court documents. He pleaded no contest to corporal injury to a spouse and was sentenced to 10 days in jail. In a December 2001 court filing for a restraining order against Kendra, he claimed that she had turned her home into a "drug house." "I was very functional," Kendra later explained to a local newspaper, in a story about meth addiction. By 2004, she had entered a rehab program, and Brandon went to live with his father. But he spent years caught in the middle of a war.
While his life did seem to become more routine living with his dad, Brandon's troubles resurfaced in the eighth grade. His father was working in a town more than 60 miles away, and he was alone a lot. He began hanging out with a group of misfits on the beach. Although he was smart, he didn't seem to have much interest in school. Except for Hitler—Brandon knew all about the Nuremberg trials and all the names of Hitler's deputies. (When other kids asked him how he knew so much, he replied casually, "Don't you watch the History Channel?" Brandon's father says his son was interested in World War II, but not inappropriately.) By the end of the first semester, as his overall GPA tumbled from a 3.3 to a 1.9, he was kicked out of his English honors class for not doing his work and causing disruptions. He was transferred to Boldrin's English class, where he joined Larry.
Larry's grades were also dropping—he went from having a 1.71 GPA in November to a 1.0 in February, his father says. But he was too busy reveling in the spotlight to care. "He was like Britney Spears," says one teacher who knew Larry. "Everyone wanted to know what's the next thing he's going to do." Girls would take photos of him on their camera phones and discuss him with their friends. "My class was in a frenzy every day with Larry stories," says a humanities teacher who didn't have Larry as one of her students. He wore a Playboy-bunny necklace, which one of his teachers told him to remove because it was offensive to women. But those brown Target stilettos wobbled on.
The commotion over Larry's appearance finally forced the school office to take formal action. On Jan. 29, every teacher received an e-mail with the subject line STUDENT RIGHTS. It was written by Sue Parsons, the eighth-grade assistant principal. "We have a student on campus who has chosen to express his sexuality by wearing make-up," the e-mail said without mentioning Larry by name. "It is his right to do so. Some kids are finding it amusing, others are bothered by it. As long as it does not cause classroom disruptions he is within his rights. We are asking that you talk to your students about being civil and non-judgmental. They don't have to like it but they need to give him his space. We are also asking you to watch for possible problems. If you wish to talk further about it please see me or Ms. Epstein."
Jerry Dannenberg, the superintendent, says the front office received no complaints about Larry, but according to several faculty members, at least two teachers tried to formally protest what was going on. The first was the same teacher who told Larry to scrub the makeup off his face. She was approached by several boys in her class who said that Larry had started taunting them in the halls—"I know you want me," he'd say—and their friends were calling them gay. The teacher told some of her colleagues that when she went to the office to file a complaint, Epstein said she would take it. "It's about Larry," the teacher said. "There's nothing we can do about that," Epstein replied. (Epstein denies she was ever approached.) A few days later another teacher claims to have gone to the school principal, Joel Lovstedt. The teacher says she told him that she was concerned about Larry and she thought he was a danger to himself—she worried that he might fall in his three-inch stilettos and injure himself. Lovstedt told the teacher that he had directions, though he wouldn't say from where, that they couldn't intervene with Larry's sexual expression. (Lovstedt denied NEWSWEEK's request for an interview.) There was an unusual student complaint, too. Larry's younger brother, Rocky, 12, also attended E. O. Green, and the kids started picking on him the day in January when Larry showed up in hot pink knee-length boots. Rocky says he went to several school officials for help, including Epstein. "I went up to her at lunchtime," he says. "I said, 'Ms. Epstein, can you stop Larry from dressing like a girl? The kids are saying since Larry is gay, I must be gay, too, because I'm his brother'."
As you talk to the teachers, many of them say they tried to support Larry, but they didn't always know how. In blue-collar, immigrant Oxnard, there is no gay community to speak of and generally very little public discussion of gay issues, at least until Larry's murder happened. One teacher was very protective of Larry, his English teacher, Mrs. Boldrin. To help Larry feel better about moving to Casa Pacifica, she brought Larry a present: a green evening dress that once belonged to her own daughter. Before school started, Larry ran to the bathroom to try it on. Then he showed it to some of his friends, telling them that he was going to wear it at graduation.
And then there was Valentine's Day. A day or two before the shooting, the school was buzzing with the story about a game Larry was playing with a group of his girlfriends in the outdoor quad. The idea was, you had to go up to your crush and ask them to be your Valentine. Several girls named boys they liked, then marched off to complete the mission. When it was Larry's turn, he named Brandon, who happened to be playing basketball nearby. Larry walked right on to the court in the middle of the game and asked Brandon to be his Valentine. Brandon's friends were there and started joking that he and Larry were going to make "gay babies" together. At the end of lunch, Brandon passed by one of Larry's friends in the hall. She says he told her to say goodbye to Larry, because she would never see him again.
The friend didn't tell Larry about the threat—she thought Brandon was just kidding. There are many rumors of another confrontation between Larry and Brandon, on Feb. 11, the day before the shooting. Several students and teachers said they had heard about a fight between the two but they hadn't actually witnessed it themselves. The next morning a counselor at Casa Pacifica asked Larry what was wrong, and he said, vaguely, "I've had enough." When he got to school, his friends quizzed him about his noticeably unfabulous appearance. He said that he ran out of makeup and hair gel (which wasn't true) and that he had a blister on his ankle (this was true—he'd just bought a new pair of boots). Larry walked alongside Boldrin to the computer class and sat in front of a computer. A few minutes later, a counselor summoned him to her office. She told him that his grades were so low, he was at risk of not graduating from the eighth grade. He went back to his computer. He had written his name on his paper as Leticia King. Most of the campus heard the gunshots. Some described it like a door slammed shut very hard.
On March 7, the school held a memorial service for Larry. Epstein stood at the podium with students who read from notecards about what they liked best about Larry: he was nice, he was unique, he was brave. The band played "Amazing Grace," and two dozen doves were released into the sky. Averi read a poem about how her friend was like a garden seed that grew, and died; Larry's mom wept in the front row. Deep in the audience, an eighth grader turned to one of Brandon's friends and whispered, "That's so gay."
The obvious question now is whether Larry's death could have been prevented. "Absolutely," says Dannenberg. "Why do we have youngsters that have access to guns? Why don't we have adequate funding to pay for social workers at the school to make sure students have resources? We have societal issues." Many teachers and parents aren't content with that answer. For them, the issue isn't whether Larry was gay or straight—his father still isn't convinced his son was gay—but whether he was allowed to push the boundaries so far that he put himself and others in danger. They're not blaming Larry for his own death—as if anything could justify his murder—but their attitude toward his assailant is not unsympathetic. "We failed Brandon," a teacher says. "We didn't know the bullying was coming from the other side—Larry was pushing as hard as he could, because he liked the attention."
Greg King doesn't feel sympathy for Brandon, but he does believe his son sexually harassed him. He's resentful that the gay community has appropriated his son's murder as part of a larger cause. "I think the gay-rights people want it to be a gay-rights issue, because it makes a poster child out of my son," King says. "That bothered me. I'm not anti-gay. I have a lot of co-workers and friends who are gay." That anger was made worse when he heard this summer that Epstein would be promoted to principal of an elementary school. "This is a slap in the face of my family," Greg says. Many teachers wonder if the district moved her because she had become a lightning rod for criticism after Larry's death. Dannenberg, the superintendent, says that she was the most qualified person for the new principal job.
The school has conducted its own investigation, though its lawyer won't make it public. But it will likely be brought up when Brandon goes to trial. He is charged with first-degree murder and a hate crime, and is scheduled to be arraigned this week. Hundreds of his classmates have signed a petition asking that he be tried in juvenile court. The district attorney wants him tried as an adult, which could result in a prison sentence of 51 years to life. "Brandon was being terrorized," says Bill, who has set up a public defense fund in his son's name. "He was being stalked almost, to the degree of the school should have never let this happen." What happened to Larry and Brandon was certainly extreme, but it has implications for schools across the country. "If we're going to be absolutely sure this isn't going to happen again," says Elaine Garber, 81, who has served on the school's board for 48 years, "this has got to be discussed some more."
As if anyone has stopped talking—and arguing—about Larry King. He had an entire page devoted to him in the E. O. Green yearbook. On the Internet, he's become a gay martyr, and this year's National Day of Silence, an annual event created to raise awareness of homophobia, was dedicated to Larry. And in Averi Laskey's bedroom, she still keeps a handmade purple get-well card she made for Larry on the day after he was shot. At the time, there was still hope he would pull through. He had survived the night, which the doctors said was a good sign. Averi rounded up dozens of teachers and friends between classes to sign messages of encouragement. "Larry, I miss you. Get better," Boldrin wrote in blue ink. "Keep up your spirit. A lot of people are rooting for you to get better," the principal wrote. Some of Larry's classmates apologized for how he had been treated. A few even left their phone numbers, so he could call them if he ever needed to talk to someone. But when Averi got home that day, she learned that Larry had suffered a fatal stroke. Larry was pronounced brain-dead that afternoon, and the family decided to donate his organs. The following day, Feb. 14, doctors harvested his pancreas, liver, lungs and the most important organ of all, which now beats inside the chest of a 10-year-old girl. On Valentine's Day, Larry King gave away his heart, but not in the way he thought he would.
In the five months NEWSWEEK spent examining Larry King's death, we spoke with several dozen people, including faculty, students and parents. All students named were interviewed with their parents' permission. Some of our sources would speak only anonymously; the school's staff was instructed not to speak to the media because of the criminal proceedings and the possibility of civil litigation. While they agreed to be interviewed on the record, Jerry Dannenberg, the district superintendent, and Joy Epstein, E. O. Green's former assistant principal, were limited in what they could say for the same reasons.
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Volume 48 Number 8 Flip-through Edition
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Margo Hall and Marcus Shelby craft a musical memoir in 'Be Bop Baby'
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Gray days
House party
How to make a home into a venue
Gobble online
Ordering heritage turkeys with Bill Niman
Born to lose
Alexander Payne's small-scale, deeply satisfying 'Nebraska'
Out of the fog
TURF dancing, God's country, Korean War musicals: this weekend's Cinema By the Bay festival showcases films with local ties
We are back
The SF underground roars again. Plus: Deltron 3030, 1002 Nights, Alland Byallo, Surya Dub, Danny Daze, more nightlife
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The good, the meh, and the human-pretzel marvels of the SF International Hip Hop DanceFest
Parents under pressure
New hope for arts nonprofits
Eviction epidemic spurs legislative solutions
The Presidio Strikes Back
As George Lucas' tech-focused art museum duels with history and nature museums for a key spot on Crissy Field, the Presidio Trust considers going big and allowing all three
After Prop 30, What's Next? Reform Prop 13.
Developing divisions
Thousands of housing units are coming to market, but not many San Franciscans can afford them
New fracking regulations fail to allay environmentalists' worries


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Basic medical imaging technologies, mainly radiography and ultrasound, are essential tools of the modern medicine. They are crucial for taking adequate diagnostic decisions for a wide variety of conditions such as pregnancy, road traffic accidents, tuberculosis, complications of infant pneumonia and cardiovascular problems. Yet over two thirds of the world's population does not have access to these vital medical instruments.
This is mainly due to the mismatch in between existing technologies and the context of developing countries. The equipment are often too expensive, too complex and too fragile to be adapted to the conditions of district hospitals with very limited resources.
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The GlobalDiagnostiX project aims in redesigning an ultra-robust radiology device with a service-life of more than 10 years, but with a total cost of ownership reduced 10 times with respects to existing solutions. The project officially started in 2012. It represents now an alliance of more than 35 researchers, engineers and domain experts under the coordination of the EssentialTech team from the Cooperation and Development Center at EPFL (CODEV).
The first research phases emphasize important innovations that were valued by several scientific publications, demonstrating the exceptional challenges that the project represents. The realization of the first fully functional prototype is expected by the end of 2014.
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 review: Birdie
It makes sense that EA Sports would release its annual rite of golf passage around the time of the Masters, so golf gamers can enjoy tearing Augusta National apart virtually as Tiger and the pros do it on the real thing.
On the surface, the ability to play all four major tournaments feels like a massive accomplishment and a ridiculous one at the same time. But gamers should overlook that and focus more on the Legends of the Majors mode. Here, you take a time warp back to the game's infancy and slowly progress, playing on classic courses with wooden clubs and sepia-toned footage. The lengthy mode gives you a feel for the advancements the game has made and is a better history lesson on golf than you would find watching a typical weekend broadcast on TV.
The Career mode returns as well, and, thankfully, the game finally gives women a chance to participate via the LPGA Tour. Unfortunately, the Career mode still ramps your skills up too quickly and gets you winning or placing in the top three in almost every tournament before you even finish your rookie season.
But this year, the franchise is scoring birdies instead of pars and bogeys. Impressive visuals and the trip through the lore should compel gamers to tee it up with Tiger, Jack, Arnie and all the rest.
RATING E for Everyone
PLOT Tiger and the rest hit the course
DETAILS Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $70
BOTTOM LINE A winner


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Due to Melbourne's rapid growth, the Rialto Tower site built in 1986 no longer met the city's changing urban context. Comprised of two skyscrapers and a low-scale podium building, the landmark project was rotated at 45 degrees, which obscured the relationship between the buildings and the pedestrian area along Collins and King Street. The first step was to remove the original podium in order to eventually create a more visually coherent frontage and easier access to the new plaza. The solution were new commercial lobbies, a public plaza forecourt, and low-scale podium buildings.
Now, undulating seven-meter-high canopies made of glass and steel articulates both the north and south lobbies at the foot of the site while linking a Victorian heritage brick building with the new podium buildings. Complementing the local vernacular, the low-scale edifice provides an additional 6,000 square meters of workspace and displays a geometric glass façade with blue stain steel to be consistent with the original towers.


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Florida rapper Kodak Black wants to see Lil Wayne in the ring. The hip-hop newcomer has challenged Weezy F. Baby to a boxing match.
Black went to Instagram Tuesday (January 10) and publicly revealed an interest in fighting the rap veteran.
"Eh, listen here, man. Tell Lil Wayne fight me. Know what I'm saying? We finna get in the ring and we gonna fight. Me and Lil Wayne. Finna knock that stupid a** n*gga out. And if he whoop me, he's the best rapper alive. You heard me?"
This week, Black dissed Wayne and told the award-winning rapper to go down on him.
A few weeks ago, Black stripped Wayne's "Best Rapper Alive" title.
Late last month, Black made headlines after accidentally putting nude footage of himself onto social media.
Everyone is taking advantage of this new Instagram live feature on instagram. Well, rapper Kodak Black known for his hit record "Like Dat" who was released from jail a few weeks ago took advantage of it today and it backfired. While the rapper was on IG live in the shower he accidentally dropped his phone and you can clearly see his privates. (Blogionista)


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Multidisciplinary open access journal Heliyon now accepting submissions
Reviews will be carried out by the 500+ members of the Editorial Board who have been drawn from all fields and disciplines
By Mary Beth O'Leary Posted on 29 April 2015
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In a previous Reviewers' Update article, we introduced you to Heliyon – Elsevier's new open access journal which will publish sound research across all disciplines. Now Heliyon is officially accepting submissions and authors are invited to send in their manuscripts. We expect the first papers to be published later this year.
We have also launched heliyon.com, a website containing everything from author guidelines to our open access policies and Editorial Board members. The website is also the entry portal to the EVISE® submission system (the successor to our current Elsevier Editorial System – EES).
You might wonder what sets Heliyon apart from other open access journals with broad scopes. Authors who publish their content in Heliyon can expect the following:
Heliyon – the facts
- Once an article is accepted, Heliyon aims to publish it online within 72 hours
- The article publishing charge is $1,250, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable
- Authors can choose between two Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND
- A new, simple interface for the submission system will be launched later this year
- Lessons learnt could potentially be rolled out to other journals
- Heliyon is not currently recruiting reviewers - reviews will be carried out by the Editorial Board
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The author experience starts with the submission process. Our developers are currently working on a new, simple interface for the submission system that will be launched later this year. Our efficient editors, who specialize in a broad range of fields, will then match each manuscript to the right expert reviewers, and will work to get a decision quickly. Once an article is accepted, Heliyon aims to publish it online within 72 hours.
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Heliyon is a fully open access journal. As such, readers will have immediate and permanent access to all articles. Authors will be able to choose between two Creative Commons licenses – CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND – so they can pick the one best suited to their specific needs. For more information on the licenses, our article publishing charge ($1,250, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable), and other open access information, visit heliyon.com.
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It was time for the thirteenth clash between Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) and Kento Momota (Japan). The prediction did not look good for Axelsen as he only managed to win one of those meetings. However at the last All England final, Axelsen was so close to the win. Could the tides be turned a second time for Axelsen?
Unfortunately, this was not the case. In the first game of the semi-final, Momota was the dominant party most of the time. Axelsen did make a series of points, which caused him a small lead, but Momota fixed that gap immediately.
In the second game Axelsen stepped up his level by variation in speed, which eventually gave him a 16-6 lead. Then at this point, Axelsen gradually lost his focus which allowed Momota to get better in his game. A sad ending for Axelsen as the second game also ended in his disadvantage: 21-15 21-18.
- Should definitely have been able to get more out of a big lead in the second game. But Momota stepped up and I made waaaay to many mistakes, Axelsen posted on social media after his match.
Read: A drama in 80 minutes
Needed rest
- Tough 3 weeks for me. I definitely need some days off now, and I will enjoy my chance to recharge before getting back to work., Axelsen continued.
- Thanks so much for all your support the last three weeks. I appreciate it always
With Axelsen out of the tournament, it means no Europeans in the finals of the Singapore Open. In the mean time we can enjoy the men's singles final between Kento Momota against Anthony Ginting (Indonesia).
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Gary and I had been trying to arrange a climbing "date" for the last two weeks. A snowboarding incident (injured ribs) and the weather had complicated the scheduling but other than being windy, Wednesday finally looked good.
I was surprised to run into Jenn and Jeremy at the parking lot, where we got the skinny on winds and crowds (bad and not bad respectively). Wind Tower didn't look too crowded, but Gary wished to avoid pulling any overhangs, so we continued on to the West Ridge. The two pitch climb, Verschneidung Dihedral (5.7) was our goal. Gary took the first pitch, kindly letting me have the classic second pitch containing the dihedral.
Lots of good hand jams and a couple convenient face holds got me through the dihedral and then out to easier climbing leading to the anchors. Gary followed, while trying to modify his technique a bit to compensate for the hurting ribs.
Two rappels and a bit of scrambling got us back down to the ground were we fought a few ticks for our packs.
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Economics Research Paper Done by: Anisha Charan (B6) Discuss 3 factors that may hinder the economic growth/ development of the country that you have visited. The Republic of The Philippines has a GDP per capita of only US$2,132 (2010) and a population size of 93,616,853, of which, 26.5% of the population live under the poverty line. Accounting for 20% of the gross national product, agriculture is the main source of livelihood for its inhabitants. Previously one of the richest countries in Asia, Philippines is now one of the poorest, but is slowly making its way back up. There are however, some factors hindering its economic growth, specifically in the areas of education, infrastructure and agriculture, which I will discuss in the following report. Primary and secondary education in the Philippines is free, and quantity-wise, schools are provided with sufficient basic necessities. The problem hence lies in the drastic amount of dropout rates from school (*Refer to pie chart above); only 63% of pupils graduate from elementary, 34% continue to high school and 3% move on to college. ...read more.
Hence, the large number of dropouts proves to be an immense hindrance in economic growth in Philippines. The next major hindrance in the Philippines? economic growth is infrastructure with regards to health. In the city area, the government spends on concrete-made government buildings and public facilities, while in rural areas, houses are made with bamboo and rattan, depicting lack of expenditure for houses. 66% of all households in rural areas are not supplied with clean water, relying on potable water supply from wells, and due to the lack of sewage treatment facility, wastewater from households directly drains into canals and rivers. Contamination to the surface and underground water sources and in the wells can impose serious health risks to people such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, and typhoid. To add on, 14% of houses do not have sanitary toilets, while 4% do not have toilets at all, resulting in similar health problems. Due to these diseases, people would either be unable to go to work or would be less productive at the workplace, both resulting in slow or negative rate of production. ...read more.
As rice is the staple food in Philippines, it is important to promote agricultural development in order to alleviate poverty. Furthermore, landlords are converting agricultural farmland into golf courses and agro-industrial parks, reducing space area for cultivation. If this is prevented, rice can be cultivated, without stopping the cultivation of non-rice products for exportation. This also helps reduce the unemployment rate. Moreover, if rice is cultivated, Philippines would not have to rely so much on imports, and can invest their money in other industries, where it is needed such as housing and sanitation in rural areas. In conclusion, I believe that the government lacks where it should be rightfully spending money; instead of quantity-wise for education where it is adequate, the government should spend more on incentives to bringing children to school such as providing breakfast or free transport of school buses. It should spend on housing and sanitation instead of urban developments and should secure the problem of poverty in its own country by cultivating rice before exporting non-rice products to other countries. By doing this, I feel Philippines will have a higher chance of achieving development. ...read more.
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A Cordova fishing boat captain will pay a $20,000 fine and apologize in a national magazine as part of a federal sentence for killing Steller sea lions.
The federal investigation began after 15 dead sea lions were found at the mouth of the Copper River at the start of the 2015 salmon fishing season.
Cordova resident Jon Nichols, 31, will also serve three months of house arrest and five years of probation after admitting he used a shotgun to harass and shoot the federally protected marine mammals, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Anchorage. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith on Tuesday ordered Nichols to serve 400 hours of community service and "publish a public apology in a national magazine covering commercial
Theodore "Teddy" Turgeon, a 21-year-old from Wasilla who worked as a deckhand on Nichols' boat, the Iron Hide, was sentenced to four years of probation, one month of home incarceration, 40 hours of community work service and a $5,000 fine, federal prosecutors said.
Both men in June pleaded guilty to one count of illegal take under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, prosecutors said. Nichols also pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of a Marine Mammal Protection Act investigation.
Nichols was accused of directing his crew, including Turgeon, to shoot at sea lions while they were fishing the Copper River in May and June of 2015. At times, Nichols would shoot the animals himself and at other times he'd drive his boat closer to them to give the others a better shot.
The men removed the shotgun from the fishing vessel after learning they were under investigation and coordinated false stories among crew members, according to prosecutors. Nichols tried to obstruct a grand jury investigation by attempting to influence crew members to provide false information, prosecutors said.


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Dutch Customs Seal Large, Image by StuE, Found by Mary Col Club.
Found in East Anglia, 25mm, 10.1g.
A Dutch Custom House seal. One side depicts the crowned Dutch shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland* with the number 31(3?) to left of the shield. The other side has an inscription related to the more usual R & A markings that stand for Regten en Accynsen.
The full inscription from this seal is believed to be IN EN UIT GAANDE REGTEN EN ACCYNSEN standing for in and outgoing customs and excise.
*The arms, consisting of a crowned lion armed and langued, holding in his dexter paw a sword and in the sinister paw seven arrows tight together, were first used in The Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces from 1584 until 1796 when revolution replaced it. It was returned in its current form in 1815 as the Lesser Arms of the Netherlands. However the colour change cannot be seen on a lead impression and the only visual difference is the 'billetty' (small squares on the background which are only faintly evident on a few of the seals. This means the seals cannot be older than 1815 and were probably unlikely to be still in use after the early 20th century.


text: Buy a home in Bryan-College Station Imagine buying your dream home. Let our experienced staff help you make it happen. Our team of local experts is ready to guide you through the home-buying process. We are committed to fast, professional and courteous service to help you understand and feel at ease throughout the home buying process. Our trained and licensed agents specialize in the Bryan-College Station area real estate market and are prepared to find the right home and get the best price. 1 Property Basics What type of property are you looking for? - Any - Single-Family Home Condo Villa / Townhouse Vacant Land / Lots Manufactured Home Multi-Family Commercial Patio Home What areas are you interested in? - Any - Austin's Colony Bryan Castle Rock Castlegate College Station Copperfield Creek Meadows Edelweiss Golf Course Communities Indian Lakes Pebblecreek Saddle Creek Shenandoah Southwood Valley Tiffany Park Woodcreek What is your desired price range? - Any - under $100k in the $100's in the $200's in the $300's in the $400's in the $500's in the $600's in the $700's in the $800's in the $900's in the $1M's in the $2M's $3M and up Minimum number of bedrooms? - Any - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7+ Minimum number of bathrooms? - Any - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7+ 2 Features Tell us more about any home or neighborhood features that are important to you and your family 3 About You First Name Last Name Email Address Phone Number When are you looking to move in? Just browsing Buy... less than one month Buy... 1-3 months Buy... 3-6 months Buy... 6+ months What is your main reason for buying? Vacation Home Job Relocation Schools Need a larger house Closer to job Other Submit Disclaimer: By entering your information and clicking "Continue" you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and that you may be contacted by phone, text message and email about your inquiry.


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Former toilets provide convenient living for Londoners
Converting abandoned public toilets in London into flats and businesses is providing a solution to rising property prices for some.
Peter Tomlinson took redundancy from his marketing job and ploughed much of his money into converting a former public toilet near Oxford Circus to create a sandwich and coffee bar.
He said: "Everything has been jet washed and the soil stacks have been concreted and capped.
"It smells beautiful down here now."
The old attendant's office has been converted into a kitchen and the urinals are now table tops, in a conversion which has cost more than £100,000.
Architect Laura Jane Clark has spent more than £60,000 converting an abandoned toilet in Crystal Palace, south London, to create her dream one-bedroom flat.
Her living room used to be the main gents stalls and urinals and her bathroom was formerly the attendant's office.
The glass tiles on the pavement give natural light to her underground flat.
She said: "I love the originality of living in a toilet."
London has seen local authority maintained facilities falling from 486 in 2000, to 401 in 2011, which meant it had "a closure rate twice that of the country as a whole", according to a London Assembly Health and Public Services Committee report.
Paul Talling, author of Derelict London, who has photographed scores of closed down public conveniences, said he had seen former toilets that had been turned in comedy clubs and beauty salons.
He said: "They can make quite quirky flats or restaurants. They really are prime property."
Savills estate agent Lindsay Cuthill said conventional spaces on offer in the capital are very expensive.
He said: "If you can see beyond the smelly lavatory and create this fantastic little space, how clever is that?"


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We have had a very successful launch with Kali our dealers have given us very good feedback about the build, design and looks belie the cost of these helmets but those who know Kali better know they also do Motorcycle helmets and are a hot favourite with Downhill and Stunt riders.
This chart shows how the current technologies and future ones make safety and comfort REAL. Technology and mission behind Kali is simple – better impact handling, looks good on your head, light and light on your wallet too.
For 2017, we have expanded the range to cover more urban styling and also add a model for the Enduro, the Aero and the Commuter. The Chakra, Chakra Plus, City, Maha remain the main lineup but we will see more Danu and Ropa.


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Blockchain and EIDAS
The block chain is a series of timestamped data records that link together, through hashing the content of every record concatenated with the previous hash. To create transactions, a hash of the previous transaction is recorded and the public key of the recipient is used by the signer, along with the private key of the signer.
Blockhain is replicated in several servers, hosted by independent members of the network, with economic incentive to keep the servers running and consuming energy and communications costs.
Blockchain servers updates each other once a transaction is included in any of them. The technology works on the following properties:
- Log replication – To create resiliency, log-based replication is increasingly used for distributed systems to replicate logs to all peers in the network.
- Chained Data of Probative Value– The values stored in the blockchain can be digital currency (such as the widely known Bitcoin or other digital "coins"), data, hashes derived from documents, and other small size assets (frecuently represented by hashes). Hash chains are kept for each block providing a history of changes, which helps protect data integrity of the block asset.
- Public-key Cryptography – Blockchain uses different types of security technologies including compact elliptic curve cryptography signatures to authenticate transactions.
- Decentralized transaction ledger – The ledger is a metaphor of a system that stores information recorded under different rules in a way that one kind of records help to check the others (similar to double-sided entry accounting). Blockchain information is replicated in a peer-to-peer connected dedicated servers network that is similar to how DNS works. For this reason this property is presented as a feature of not requiring a central authority.
EIDAS Trust services
Regulation UE 910/2014 (EIDAS) describes several trust services one of which keeps some similarity with Blockchain.
Article 34 and 40 define qualified preservation service for qualified electronic signatures and seals in the sense that these "qualified" services may only be provided by a qualified trust service provider that uses procedures and technologies capable of extending the trustworthiness of the qualified electronic signature beyond the technological validity period.
So we can asume there are other "non qualified" preservation services for qualified and "non qualified" electronic signatures and seals and even "non signed" electronic records which are out of the scope of the harmonized legal environmet provided by EIDAS regulation which are nevertheless subjet to supervisory bodies supervision, since article 19 declares:
Qualified and non-qualified trust service providers shall take appropriate technical and organisational measures to manage the risks posed to the security of the trust services they provide. Having regard to the latest technological developments, those measures shall ensure that the level of security is commensurate to the degree of risk. In particular, measures shall be taken to prevent and minimise the impact of security incidents and inform stakeholders of the adverse effects of any such incidents.
Qualified and non-qualified trust service providers shall, without undue delay but in any event within 24 hours after having become aware of it, notify the supervisory body and, where applicable, other relevant bodies, such as the competent national body for information security or the data protection authority, of any breach of security or loss of integrity that has a significant impact on the trust service provided or on the personal data maintained therein.
Where the breach of security or loss of integrity is likely to adversely affect a natural or legal person to whom the trusted service has been provided, the trust service provider shall also notify the natural or legal person of the breach of security or loss of integrity without undue delay.


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To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 30 January 1795
Department of War, January 30th 1795
The President of the United States has instructed me to communicate, in confidence, to the Senate, the dispatches from Major General Wayne herewith transmitted, dated the 23d of December last, and which were received on the 28th instant.
I have the honor to be, / Sir, / with great respect, / Your obedient Servt:
Timothy Pickering
Secy. Of War
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.


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Modular Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Titan is a first-of-its-kind modular, hybrid, unmanned ground vehicle that provides soldier safety and support for small military dismounted operations. Titan is a large Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) that provides "lighten-the-load" support for small dismounted military operations. Developed by QinetiQ North America and Milrem Robotics, Titan features a multi-mission, reconfigurable platform that increases unit effectiveness while increasing soldier safety.
Unlike existing UGVs, Titan is a highly modular platform that allows different superstructures to be mounted and integrated onto the middle vehicular platform for complex missions such as rescue, transport and reconnaissance. The flexibility and versatile nature of the system not only increases efficiency, it also significantly reduces life cycle costs and soldier workload.
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- Increases soldier safety
- Reduces soldier carry load
- Increases unit capability and squad support on extended missions
- Modular autonomous behavior reduce cognitive load
- Multi-mission modular payloads
- High mobility / all-terrain operations
- Multiple controller and camera options
- Operable in manned or unmanned modes
- Open architecure
- Wide variety of payloads and accessories for CBRN, route clearance and integration autonomy packages
- Diesel/Electric hybrid for run-silent mode and squad auxiliary power
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Well the first thing I did was actually go and make sure this was a word, because I do have the tendency to make up some words every now and then. Being from Alabama and spending my summers in the country, I learned that trick.
Busyness is a word and it simply means "the quality or condition of being busy; lively but meaningless activity." I tend to find myself in this condition sometimes, after all most people don't want to leave the impression that they are lazy.
When I went home a few weeks ago, it was a busy time and it seemed a lot of people were busy. After all it had been 30 years since I saw 99.7 % of the people I graduated high school with and all of us had gone on to college, careers and family life. Not only was there the High School reunion, but my brother was getting married and I was officiating the ceremony for them and that too gave me a chance to see relatives I had not seen in 30 years. Then there were other people and places to try and see in just the few days Kathy and I were there. At some point I realized that you can't catch up on 30 years in a few days and you certainly can't do it in 4 hours at a reunion. Sadly I went away from the reunion not being able to talk to everyone there and also not realizing some were there, because I simply didn't recognize them and they didn't recognize me. But, I also went away from the reunion rejoicing for being able to re-connect with so many and hearing some wonderful testimonies from them and what God is doing in their lives and the journeys they had been on and are still on. I literally had tears of joy in the car driving back to my dad's that night.
Back to busyness now, I find that in the Christian life this can "activity" can consume us if we are not careful. Better yet, this can consume me it I am not careful. Remember there is a difference in busy and busyness. Life can keep us busy, but we can control busyness. So I need to take the time to ask myself is what I am doing "lively but meaningless" or is what I am doing bringing glory and honor to the Lord. We are told in 1 Corinthians 10:31 "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God"
So let us not go about with busyness, rather let us do those things God has called us to do for His kingdom. It is ok to say NO sometimes, even when the flesh says "they might think you are lazy" if you don't do it. We all must take the time and the effort to do what God says to us and do it not for busyness sake, but do it because we love Him and are grateful He has chosen us and work with Him.
I don't want to have "the quality or condition of being busy", if I am busy; I want it to be busy in the work of the Lord for the good of His Kingdom. So the question for us is "Am I doing this so people will see me as busy (busyness)" or "Am I doing this because I love doing it for the Lord and I don't care if no one ever sees me doing it and I don't care if I ever get any recognition". Busyness does not equal godliness.
Should we be busy, yes; in doing the Lord's work. Should we be so busy it takes away from prayer time, bible reading and fellowshipping with our brothers and sisters in Christ? NO. God help me and prevent me from appearing too busy! I never want to be "too busy" to help others and shepherd my church. Remember this is a marathon, not a sprint.


text: Add the Offline list on sidebar when a server has 100+ members 已回覆 追蹤 Nelly 2018年11月04日 11:12 Or, otherwise put, don't make it disappear when reaching 100+ members. For me, an admin in three servers, a mod in a few others and a member of various Discord servers, losing this list is just dumb and annoying, and it doesn't affect performance at all for me. (see the last paragraph for me elaborating on this) Make the function toggle-able or lose it. I want to be able to see offline members in Indie Game Utopia (main server I am admin'ing in.) and others to see it as well, in a server that's made for small indies to talk about their games and stuff isn't it a good thing if they can see who's in there, if a developer they know or like is in there? And with many members being from different timezones, the online users at the same time isn't a lot, so people might think it's a small server. More on the performance issues thing: I have been in servers with like 600+ online members, no loss of performance, not even a slight bit and any loss I might have had was if I had other programs open that used the CPU, not Discord. I think it's just a lame excuse to take the feature away and a few months later it will be added as a Brand New Feature™ for their paid Nitro program. I hate to sound cynical but I think the Discord devs are lying about this. Other moderators in my server also think so, and it also bothers them to not have the offline members list, and having to do like 5 clicks to see the member list in Server Setting is inconvenient, on mobile especially, and completely pointless as I stated before. I have seen threads with dozens of people almost unanimously agreeing on this issue as well. Those people also stated no loss of performance when many more members are online as well. Just leave the list no matter how many members or make it an on/off option. 1951


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fitbit: start of a healthy lifestyle! 😉
Two consecutive days! Went out for a walk last night for almost an hour and I unlocked another badge. Sweet!
Walk at 8:54PM
Saturday, July 4
2.16 miles | 43:17 min | 20'04" pace
I also had an opportunity to take a photo of this beautiful sky. Looks so yummy, like a flavored cotton candy. 😀
Let's go out for another walk later!
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In celebration of the Japanese Film Fest 2010, the Consular Office of Japan in Cebu is showcasing eight (8) different Japanese films at the Ayala Center Cebu on the following schedules:
In celebration of the Japanese Film Fest 2010, the Consular Office of Japan in Cebu is showcasing eight (8) different Japanese films at the Ayala Center Cebu on the following schedules:
It has only been a month or so that the Japanese Film Fest in Cebu was featured here on Pachuvachuva and now we are going to highlight another must-go-to event — The Rakugo.
Rakugo according to Pachuvachuva. My version of the event poster.
Rakugo is a Japanese entertainment that depicts a lengthy and complex funny monologue usually about two or more characters. As the lone performer, the Rakugoka in the customary kimono, stays in a seiza sitting position in the middle of the stage and illustrates the different situations using only a paper fan (sensu) and a small cloth (tenugui) as props. Being a traditional art form, Rakugo demands the highest skills from the artist. The years of discipline and mastery of this art manifest when by only changing the pitch and tone of his voice or by turning his head slightly, the performer is able to show the differences in the story's characters.
This month, the Cebuano audience will be treated to a unique experience as the Japan Foundation, Manila and the Consular Office of Japan in Cebu will present the English Rakugo! Japanese Sit-down Comedy in English on September 26, 2009, Saturday, 7 pm at the Ayala Center Cinema 1. Admission is free on a first-come first-serve basis.
Official Rakugo Event Poster. Image courtesy of www.clickthecity.com, the official event partner of the Japan Foundation, Manila.
Performing Rakugo in English is premier Rakugo artist Kaishi Katsura. With over 180 performances worldwide under his belt and more than his fair share of awards including the prestigious NHK Japan National Television Award for Young Artists, the Ministry of Culture Yew Artist Award, and the Hanjoutei Yose Theatre Award for Explosive Laughter, Katsura was recently appointed Cultural Exchange Ambassador by the Agency of Cultural Affairs. With the goal of bringing Rakugo to the western audience and the rest of the world, Katsura is on an international tour promoting the art. Read more about it on Kaishi Katsura's blog.
"English Rakugo!" will be staged in Cebu on Saturday, September 26, 7:00 pm at the Ayala Center Cinema 1. This performance is organized by the Japanese Consular Office in Cebu, in cooperation with the Japanese Association in Cebu, Inc., the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Cebu, Inc., and the Ayala Center Cebu.
TRIVIA: Some events hosted in Ayala Center Cebu have already been featured on Pachuvachuva like the 2008 Moonrise Film Fest, the Speedo Summer Soiree 2009, and the 2009 French Film Festival all thanks to Ms. Wilma Entera of the Ayala Mall Group who keeps Pachuvachuva in the know. Looking forward to capturing the best of Cebu from here on out. ^_^
The first image in this entry was created using Adobe Photoshop and goodies downloaded from the Internet. It is not the official event poster. Image concept copyright by Pachuvachuva.
You can read more about Rakugo on wikipedia.
Here's another treat for us, movie maniacs.
The Consular Office of Japan in Cebu, in cooperation with the Japanese Association in Cebu, Inc., the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Ayala Center Cebu, presents Eiga Sai 2009, a week-long festival showcasing nothing but the most insightful Japanese films participating this year.
Be sure to drop by Ayala Cinema 4 on these dates and times:
Jul 28 (Tue)
7:00 PM – ALWAYS – Sunset on Third Street (PG-13)
July 29 (Wed)
7:00 PM – The Milkwoman (PG-13)
Jul 30 (Thu)
7:00 PM – Turn Over (General Audience)
Jul 31 (Fri)
7:00 PM – Tony Takitani (PG-13)
Aug 1 (Sat)
4:00 PM – Mind Game (R-13)
7:00 PM – Memories of Tomorrow (General Audience)
Aug 2 (Sun)
4:00 PM – Kamome Diner (PG-13)
7:00 PM – Memories of Matsuko (R-18)
Click here for schedules across the country or for more information about the festival.
Special mention to Wilma Entera of the Ayala Mall Group for forwarding the schedule. 😉
Image was created in Photoshop CS with the black flowers and bamboo shoots from the Japanese Foliage Brush Pack on DesignFruit by Jason Gaylor. The rest of the brushes used are native to Photoshop. Big thanks from Pachuvachuva.


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Welcome to the first monthly review report on Tropical U.P! From now on I will post a monthly overview of all the things that I have done the past month, my successes and struggles and how far I am from realizing certain goals.
You might ask why I want to share these details with you in the first place? First and foremost, they are here because they help me with keeping track of my progress. Once I put it online there is no denying to the things that I should have done, but also sharing the things that went well for me.
The second reason I decided to put these reviews online is that I thought it would be interesting for you to follow changes that are ongoing in my life. As might know I was laid off earlier and since then a lot has happened. I hope that these reviews encourage and motivate you to chase your own dreams.
July has been a pretty exciting month so without further ado, let's dive right in!
Last month has been a pretty hectic month, not only was I still dealing with the aftershock after being just laid-off, we also decided to leave China and move to Vietnam. All in all a lot of things happened but now around one week in August we definitely feel that it is for the better.
At the beginning of July, Teresa and I were still enjoying our well deserved holiday in the Netherlands. It was also at this time that I incorporated my own holding company and finalized a business idea with a business partner that I have been working on the past months. I am not able to share anything about our upcoming plans yet, but stay tight because it is all about Tropical U.P and what I talk about here.
After we returned from our holiday we pretty much had less than 2.5 weeks to deal with everything that is related to moving from one country to another. I must be honest; this was quite a stressful period. Luckily it went without any major hiccups and we have made to Vietnam without any problems.
Vietnam so far has been really good, I feel I have better concentration and more energy during the day. I am excited for all the new things that we are planning and I can just feel we made the right choice to come here.
August is going to be a pretty exciting month. Right now we have just found a house in Hanoi and I am looking forward to setting up my working spot to further develop content. Right now I am also working on a YouTube series of instruction videos, with hands-on advice about everything related to your website on online business.
Previous months I have often felt that I was not able to publish content on a regular basis and this is definitely going to change from now on. I have worked on an elaborate schedule that I will now follow strictly. I have a good feeling about Tropical U.P and I can see the numbers increasing, thanks for all your support!
Like I mentioned before I am also working on a product together with a business partner and I hope to be able to share more about this soon, August seems a promising month and I am looking forward to all the opportunities it will bring!
Thanks for reading my first monthly review. The first monthly review is still a little bit on the short side, but don't worry, the coming months I will have a lot more to share. Thanks for your support and I am looking forward sharing the next review! Let me know if you have any suggestions of other aspects to include in this monthly review, thanks and stay awesome!


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All applications go to the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR). CSR then determines whether an application will remain there for review or whether it will be forwarded to a specific NIH Institute (such as NIDCR) for review.In general, CSR conducts peer review of:
Not Discussed (formerly unscored) ApplicationsSome applications will be subjected to streamlined review and will not be discussed. These applications fall roughly in the lower half of the distribution for applications reviewed at a meeting. This designation requires unanimous consent from the reviewers and results in the application not receiving a score and not being discussed in detail at the meeting. The investigator will still receive the written critiques prepared by the reviewers. However, these applications will not move forward for further review. Scoring of Unsolicited ApplicationsFor unsolicited applications that are reviewed by CSR, priority scores are converted to percentiles. The percentile ranks your application relative to the other applications that have been reviewed by the same study section for its last three meetings. Percentiles range from 0.1 (best) to 99.5 (lowest).
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Gioacchino Rossini ~ Arranged by Melanie Thorne
This overture is from an early opera by Rossini. It is typical of Rossini's
lighthearted yet energetic style. The original was forward-looking
with the instruction for the Second Violins to tap their bows on their
music stands. In this arrangement, the tapping is replaced with 'key taps'. (Grade 5-8)


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Bob Livesey, Commercial Director at EGGER in Western Europe, said: "EGGER has invested £250 million in its Hexham site in the last decade to produce high-quality and attractive products for homes across the UK - but we need more wood to secure future market demands, investment, growth and jobs. As well as the 630 people employed directly, our factory supports around 1,800 jobs in the wider community. We need to plant more trees and get the timber to market more quickly, effectively and sensitively."
The document proposes three projects to stimulate the cross-border sector under the Borderlands Growth Deal:
• Creating the UK's first Forestry Investment Zone in Northumberland and Cumbria
• Introducing a Strategic Timber Transport Fund in England to match the one operating in Scotland
• Carrying out a future skills audit to ensure the industry has the people it needs to ensure future success.
The Borderlands Growth Deal covers five local authority areas - three in England (Northumberland and Cumbria County Councils and Carlisle City Council) and two in Scotland (Dumfries & Galloway Council and Scottish Borders Council).
Guy Opperman, MP for Hexham, who organised Mr Berry's visit, said: "As the biggest employer in my constituency, EGGER is a very significant business in the economy of the Tyne Valley. It is also a business that recognises its wider responsibility to the local community, to the wider region, and to the whole forestry and wood processing supply chain. I'm very pleased that the Minister was able to see the factory and to receive this highly positive and constructive report on how forestry and wood processing can play a major part in the Borderlands Growth Deal."
Councillor Peter Jackson, leader of Northumberland County Council, said: "EGGER is a bedrock employer in the county, which also has the largest productive forest planted in England for 30 years - now taking shape at Doddington, North Moor near Wooler. EGGER has recognised the need to ensure long-term confidence in wood supplies - for its own business and for other wood processors across the region. This is an excellent report with some really practical ideas to put forestry and wood processing at the heart of the Borderlands Growth Deal."
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