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Texas Brigades' mission is to educate and empower youths with leadership skills and knowledge in wildlife, fisheries, and land stewardship to become conservation ambassadors for a sustained natural resource legacy.
Texas Brigades provides a combination of educational programs, including eight summer camps: Bobwhite Brigade (quail), Buckskin Brigade (deer), Bass Brigade, Waterfowl Brigade (ducks and geese), Ranch Brigade (cattle), and Coastal Brigade (marine life). Other Texas Brigades programs include Wildlife Intensive Leadership Development (W.I.L.D.) and Texas Brigades Experiences. An understanding of the importance of this organization is represented by its cooperating partners, including Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas Wildlife Association, Texas Wildlife Association Foundation, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Texas Brigades is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Dr. Dale Rollins, Extension Wildlife Specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, came up with the idea for Texas Brigades as a way to expand Extension's educational efforts by developing wildlife ambassadors. His idea came to life in 1993 with the formation of Bobwhite Brigade (known today as Rolling Plains Bobwhite Brigade).
As the saying goes, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." To that end, Bobwhite Brigade has been cloned in five other states through collaborations with Quail Unlimited. Buckskin Brigade was used as the base model for Pennsylvania Bucktails. The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society models its own summer camp (initiated in 1996) after Texas Brigades.
In Texas, Bobwhite Brigade expanded from its original camp in the Rolling Plains to East Texas Feathered Forces, formed in 1996, and finally to South Texas Bobwhite Brigade, formed in 1998.
South Texas Buckskin Brigade, an offshoot of Bobwhite Brigade, fledged in 2000; North Texas Buckskin Brigade held its first Battalion in 2002. Bass Brigade (2004), Waterfowl Brigade (2012), and Coastal Brigade (2016) added focus on aquatic, waterfowl, & marine species and management. Ranch Brigade, which launched its first Battalion in 2013, focuses on sustainable beef production from conception to consumer.
Each camp is 4 ½ days of intense, interactive, fun learning from top wildlife and natural resource professionals in Texas. Subjects covered include everything from biology, habitat management, watersheds, population dynamics, ecology, and botany, to photography, journalism, firearm safety, fishing, communication, critical thinking, team building, and leadership.


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In lots of circumstances nowadays, when a house owner wants to hold out a number of home enchancment projects for their house, he or she normally tries to seek out professionals and rent them to deal with the stated venture. The lesson was that while marijuana may not be inherently unhealthy it could trigger the consumer to make unhealthy selections and the potential risk shouldn't be price it. Drop the Hammer : Through the Flash Again to the pilot episode of Device Time, Tim wields a sledgehammer while Al holds a stake steady.
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Holiday Volunteering : Episode "The Wood, the Dangerous and the Hungry" has Randy volunteers at a soup kitchen for Thanksgiving. Dwelling Improvement had been within the works between Tim Allen and the writing/producing workforce of Carmen Finestra , David McFadzean and Matt Williams since the summer season of 1990.
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Keeping your doors and locks in tip top shape means performing regular maintenance on them. Since a door is probably the one thing in every building that is used multiple times per day, they're bound to need a little maintenance.
Commercial doors can come with a hefty price tag and so you want to keep them maintained. Just like your vehicle, if you neglect all the moving pieces they're bound to bust. So, how do you take care of a door?
How to Maintain Commercial Locks
Keep it lubricated
Just like the Tin Man, your doors need to be lubed up every now and then to keep components moving smoothly and to prevent damage. WD-40 is one tried and true method of lubrication, but it's generally used for parts that are already grimy. Using a Teflon based lubricant on a regular basis will help keep your door swinging freely minus any friction. Try to create a regular cadence for this task. You don't want to wait until the hinges on your doors are so dry that they could need premature replacement.
Clean the Strike
Have a door that doesn't quite close all the way? You could be looking at a dirty strike. Many times debris like trash or dirt can get in there and clog it up preventing the strike from working properly. Leaving your strike in this condition for extended periods of time may cause damage due to the increased resistance from the door to latch and, not to mention, compromising your security. Read more about electric strike locks for your business in this post.
Spot Check
You should be doing spot checks on all the doors on a regular basis. This means looking for loose screws or improperly functioning components. As an example, a door closer on commercial doors is one element that needs to be routinely checked. It has to be functioning just right to keep your building safe. If it's closing too slowly you give people time to sneak in behind employees…too fast and you could be damaging the door with repeated slamming. Repairing commercial doors can be a pain so this should be on your priority list.
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All right. DJ tips in under a minute. You're about to speak at a wedding, you're about to speak at an event, people are chit-chatting, it's cocktail hour, whatever the case might be. It's not always enough to get on the mike and start to speak, because people traditionally don't hear the first 10 seconds of what you say, it's just human nature. So I saw this in Las Vegas at a seminar and if I remember who gave the seminar, I will credit them. I think it was Peter Merry, though, but he said, how about starting off with a song that elicits that sort of response from people? And he mentioned this one. So next time you're doing a wedding or an event, try this, right before you have to speak on the mike, play the THX jet sound effect. People know it means something is happening, something's coming and they're liable to quiet down. Play this, wait a moment, no other music and then begin to speak and I think you'll find it will work for you to get their attention. DJ tips in under a minute.
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text: On April 12, 2019, Baylor University in Waco, TX sponsored its fourth annual Business Negotiation Competition strictly for undergraduate students. It is the only event of its kind in the United States and attracts participants from all over the globe including universities in South Korea and Hong Kong. The competition consists of two rounds of team negotiations tackling such issues as the purchase of a B&B after it had been featured on a reality television show. Students are judged by professional business executives and academics with a great deal of experience in negotiation. For the second year, NAU sent a team of two to compete. In our first showing, Richard Jones and Stanley Humphrey, Jr. finished as the fifth best team overall in a competitive field of twenty-six, and this year Kelly Shaeffer won the Best Individual Student Negotiator Award. She represented NAU proudly along with Bethany Clark under the coaching of Professor Jason Myrowitz. The round where Kelly really shined focused on obtaining free promotion for a local folk music festival. The award is a testament to Kelly's hard work, diligent preparation, and integrative bargaining skills.


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Episode 212 - Fantasy Movie Draft: 90s Sequels
Jun 4th, 2018 by soimarriedamoviegeek
The sequels strike back on #FantasyMovieDraft this week! More specifically, we have 4 brand new drafters competing by drafting the best of the best film sequels of the 1990s! We've got Santiago from Weird With You, Chris from The Gravity Beard Podcast, Steve from Everything I Learned From Movies and Tom from Jake and Tom Conquer The World going toe to toe to toe to toe for their first draft victory! Who picks with their brains, who picks with their hearts and who picks for...family members?! Be sure to vote for your favorite team in our Twitter poll! Please check out our podcast on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @MovieGeekCast and find our pod and several other awesome ones like it on the PodFix Network! Subscribe and if you like us (like really like us), we'd appreciate it if you leave us a positive rating and review on Apple Podcasts! You can also email us any questions or comments to moviegeekcast (at) gmail (dot) com!


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Nothing brings back sweet memories of summer like biting into the gooey, chocolate, marshmallowy goodness of s'mores.
However, there's just one little problem with this classic warm-weather snack.
If you happen to be a city dweller like myself, you know campfires can be pretty hard to come by in the concrete jungle, and let's be real, microwaving your marshmallows or toasting them over a candle simply isn't the same.
But, don't worry. It turns out you can still enjoy your beloved s'mores without setting a bunch of sh*t ablaze in a trash can on your fire escape.
Yep, Starbucks put its glorious S'mores Frappuccino back on the menu just in time for summer, and this thing looks insanely tasty to say the least.
If you don't remember this treat from last year, let me refresh your memory.
This heavenly drink starts off with some marshmallow whipped cream and chocolate sauce at the bottom of the cup, followed by a frosty blend of a coffee, milk, and graham that's smothered in even more marshmallow cream and sprinkled with graham cracker crumble.
Yeah, this thing is basically summer in a cup.
If you're looking to get your hands on one of these campfire confections, the S'mores Frappuccino will be available at Starbucks from now until the end of the summer.
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I have always had a deep attraction to depictions of angels. I especially have a fondness for angelic depictions created during the time of the Italian Renaissance. Sure, the figures are basically human with large wings and halos included in their visage, but there is something so rich about these figures. True, they are representing messengers of God, but they are far more akin to the Greek ideals of beauty and ideal human form than any creature that would inspire the fear that the Bible describes. True, there are examples of such frightening angels in this era. However, when I think of these creatures, this piece is always the first to come to mind.
This is Leonardo Da Vinci's Annunciation, which depicts the angel coming to tell Mary that she is going to bear the Son of God. Aside from my general amusement at Mary's expression ( "Pardon me? Are you quite certain?!"), I personally love the gentle force born in the angel. The drapery of his costume is luscious, his whole body active, and you can actually see the wings joining into his back. I can't help but feel compelled by this creature. The fact that the artist used a very human looking angel does not eclipse the fact that he carries a divine essence. Even if you took away the halo and the wings, I still feel as though I would know him for what he is because the artist imbued him with the rich energy that I associate with angels. In sooth, I think true angels might appear more like this:
These images come from the fabulous fairy artist Brian Froud. In a section of his book Good Faeries/Bad Faeries he shares his thoughts and depictions of angels. He writes something that I find interesting, "All phenomena of thought or emotion that are subjective to us are objective to angels. Angelic emotions, aspirations, and consciousness are all external, visible, pulsing and flashing through their bodies. the exquisite beauty of angelic faces is due to this: these beings are literally open and transparent, revealing pure intent." Tis this "pure intent" that I see in Da Vinci's angel, but strangely enough, I also strongly recognize it in people. For me, every person I meet is pulsing with energy. True, most are very keen on masking that energy and keeping themselves wrapped in their own false complexity. Perhaps that's why I am so attracted to the simplicity of angels within the art world. They are uncomplicated, purely about their business of bringing whatever message is assigned to them. Their energy is unclouded by self-doubt, suspicion, and lack of direction. Funny thing is, as I said, that energy is very present in people. I once read a book that said something along the lines of (major paraphrase), "As long as we are brave, and hold fast to who we are, and what we love with all our strength, then we are greater than angels." Our beings our strong, because our beings our loved. Our energy has every potential to be transparent and powerful. Perhaps, once we fully embrace such an idea, that's when we find our wings.


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Few things can bring as much magic to the holidays as mistletoe. But as you take a hit of Binaca to prepare for your next mistletoe moment, briefly consider these fun facts about the plant above you. Then, go ahead—get lost in the romance of embracing underneath a parasite.
- The typical mistletoe we hang here in the U.S. during the holidays is the leafy mistletoe, Poradendron tomentosum. However, the mistletoes we encounter in the wild in Central Oregon are dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium) and juniper mistletoe (Phoradendron juniperinum). Both are parasitic plants.
- The genus name for juniper mistletoe, Phoradendron, is derived from Greek and means "thief of the tree." This name alludes to the parasitic habits of this mistletoe—it produces its own chlorophyll but steals water minerals and other nutrients from its host. Dwarf mistletoes are completely dependent on their hosts.
- The word Mistletoe is believed to come from the Anglo-saxon words mistal (dung) and tan (twig). So basically, you're kissing under a dung twig. The plant was so named because it was thought to spread through bird droppings.
- The seeds of dwarf mistletoe can explode from ripe berries at speeds up to nearly 50 miles per hour, traveling as far as 50 ft. The seeds are very sticky and adhere to the surfaces on which they land. This is the primary way dwarf mistletoes spread from tree to tree. Other times seeds hitchhike on the backs of birds and mammals.
- Dwarf mistletoe species are host-specific, meaning that they are capable of living solely on one type of tree. Some of the dwarf mistletoes we have in Central Oregon include: larch dwarf mistletoe (principal hosts: larch, mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine), western dwarf mistletoe (principal host: ponderosa pine), fir dwarf mistletoe (principal hosts: white and grand fir), douglas-fir dwarf mistletoe (principal host: douglas-fir), and true mistletoe (principal host: juniper).
- Dwarf mistletoes are a natural part of forests. Although severe infestations of mistletoe will kill host trees and damage forests, mild infestations can be advantageous. Mistletoe provides food and habitat for a diversity of wildlife. Owls, raptors, and songbirds nest in the witches' broom branch formations that the mistletoes cause. The plant is also a nutrient rich food source for chipmunks, American martens, mule deer and elk. Juniper mistletoe produce berries that commonly feed birds including American robins, Townsend's solitaires cedar waxwings, and mountain bluebirds.


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Anonymous. Notices to Correspondents: Climate of Scotland. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (3 Mar 1866), p.200
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A brief editorial response to a letter from Matthew claiming that a previous editorial impugned his veracity:
CLIMATE OF SCOTLAND: In an article relating to this subject (see p. 100) occurs a passage which Mr. Matthew chooses to consider as an imputation on his veracity. This gentleman also inquires of us as to what mischievous imp of darkness has enticed us to throw disparagement upon Scotland?
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We're sitting in an optimal moment in time for homeowners who are ready to sell their houses and make a move this year. Today's homeowners are, on average, staying in their homes longer than they used to, and this is one factor driving increased homeowner equity. When equity grows, selling a house becomes increasingly desirable. Here's a breakdown of why it's a great time to capitalize on equity gain in today's market. (more…)
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As remote work continues on for many businesses and Americans weigh the risks of being in densely populated areas, will more people start to move out of bigger cities? Spending extra time at home and dreaming of more indoor and outdoor space is certainly sparking some interest among homebuyers. Early data shows an initial trend in this direction of moving from urban to suburban communities, but the question is: will the trend continue? (more…)
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So far, it's been quite a ride this year, and our nation has truly seen its fair share of hurdles. From COVID-19 to record unemployment and then the resulting recession, just to name a few, the second quarter of 2020 has had more than a few challenges. Amidst the many roadblocks, however, the U.S. homeownership rate rose again, signaling great strength in the recovery of the housing market and an indication that even in a time of crisis, Americans still feel confident about buying a home. (more…)
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Was anyone else awoken by the smell of fresh fecal matter this morning?
Oh.... it was just me then..... that's a shame.
I guess that's what happens when you make the almighty bran muffin part of a baby's snack time.
I'm not going to lie, for about 2 seconds I thought about just going back to sleep.... and then I caught sight of the tell-tale brown puddle forming through my little one's sleeper and onto my sheets.
Forced out of bed, I had washed sheets, pajamas and a little body by 6:00am.
Forced out of bed, I had washed sheets, pajamas and a little body by 6:00am.
What does that have to do with Marshmallow Tartlets?
Except that I really need to break into my Christmas baking today to ease the horror of my morning and I'm going to start with these.
|Christmas baking can get messy, in more ways than one. This is what happens when you forget there's a baby loose in the house.
They're sorta like a Viva Puff but without the cookie and the chocolate coating.
The recipe does call for the chocolate coating but I thought it was an unnecessary step.
(Did you see my broken dishes? I don't really have the multitasking abilities for unnecessary steps.)
I found these pretty simple to make.
Pressing the chocolate in the pan to make the crust was a bit tedious but I'm willing to do tedious things in the name of Christmas.
Pressing the chocolate in the pan to make the crust was a bit tedious but I'm willing to do tedious things in the name of Christmas.
Go ahead and make these.... they're good enough to erase the horror of even the worst morning.
Marshmallow Puff Tartlets
Makes about 48
Source: Canadian Living 2010 'Special Issue Cookbook'
½ cup unsalted butter
⅓ cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
⅓ cup cocoa powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup strawberry jam
24 marshmallow, cut in half lengthwise
2oz each bittersweet and milk chocolate , coarsely chopped
1 tsp vegetable oil
1. In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder and salt; stir into butter mixture to make a stiff dough. Wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
2. By rounded 1 tsp, press dough into ¾ inch deep mini tart cups. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
3. Prick bottom of each shell twice. Bake in a 350°F oven until bottoms are dark and edges are brown, about 10 minutes.
4. Immediately spoon ¼ tsp jam into each tart shell; top with marshmallow half, cut side down. Bake until marshmallow is slightly melted but still white, about 2 minutes.
5. While warm, press marshmallow slightly to seal shell. let cool in pan for 5 minutes; remove from pan and let cool on rack.
6. In a small heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering (not boiling) water, melt together bittersweet chocolate, milk chocolate and oil. Remove from heat. Dip marshmallow tops into chocolate mixture ; let stand on rack until set, about 30 minutes.


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Is Your Link Building Actually Focused?
Regardless of how many or how few search engine optimization blogs you spend your time reading, one of the main topics that just about every SEO blog focuses on is building links. Although anyone with a basic understanding of SEO realizes that they need more links in order to rank higher in the search engines, there is a big difference between understanding this concept and actually understanding how to build links that have a significant impact on your rankings.
For today's post, I want to take a look at how you can actually formulate a link building strategy that gets results for your website. While this is a topic that I will most likely address on multiple occasions, hopefully this introduction will get you pointed in the right direction.
When it comes to creating a link building strategy, I think that the best place to start is by doing some competitive analysis. In a perfect world, we could use Google to do this, but for the foreseeable future, we are all going to have to rely on the backlink data provided by Yahoo.
While anyone with an Internet connection can use Yahoo to get a list of the backlinks that one or more of their competitors have, the real trick is knowing what to do with these links. From my experience, the best thing for you to do is break the list of links down into the following four categories (which will allow you to actual focus and take action on pursuing those links):
The Low Hanging Fruit: As the name implies, these are the easy links to get. As you are going through the backlink list, links that can go into this category are ones from places like quality niche directories. These are the links that do carry value, but as long as you have a good site, you will have no problem obtaining in a short amount of time.
The Spam: Even if the competitor you are looking at is ranking well and has obtained links listed in the fourth category, this doesn't mean that they don't have at least a small amount of spammy links pointing towards their website. Whether it's guest book spam or blatantly paid links (like a link from a directory that says "Pay $10 for a PR4 Link" on the homepage), just because these links appear in the backlink data does not mean that they carry any value. If you try to obtain, you are most likely just going to waste your time (or even worse, hurt your existing rankings).
The Mission Impossibles: These are the links that are even more of a waste of time than The Spam. Although there are other examples that fall into this category, the most common one is links from other websites which are owned by the same person. Even if these are quality links and you are tempted to pursue them, you are simply not going to get a competitor to help you boost your rankings.
The Gems: Once you get all of the low hanging fruit, the links in this category are the ones that you are going to spend your time pursuing. These are the kind of links that are given by bloggers or authority sites because of quality content. It's going to take some time to create and market good content that's going to attract these links, but these are the links that will really impact your rankings, so it's worth the investment of time to go after them.
I'm sure that you have at least one great piece of information to add to what I talked about today, so please take a minute and share it with all of us in the comments area!


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Councillor Pat Garrett
When looking for a place to call home, both my husband Art and myself originally from the Stettler area; decided to raise our children in small town Alberta, Millet. We moved to Millet in 1986, with our children Michael and Rochelle. It all started with my son wanting to join Beavers; I became Rainbow and never looked back. From that time on I was involved in a number of groups and organizations; starting with Scouts, Recreation Board, Minor ball; and then Council. I have been a Town Councillor for over 25 years; and have had the opportunity to be part of most areas pertaining to Council involvement. My major emphasis is Marketing, Promoting and Policing. Some of the committees I am now active with; Tourism, Historical Society, Land Fill Authority, Water Commission Board and Municipal Planning. I have helped initiate and set up policing projects from; Wetaskiwin and District Victim Services Program, a Community Advisory Committee, and Citizens on Patrol. It has been both a pleasure and privilege to be an ambassador for Millet.
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Worthy is the Lamb: Glory to the Holy One Concert (Saint Andrew's Chapel)
Revelation 5:13 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
"And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying,
"To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever."
2 Corinthians 5:8 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
"we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord."
This is the first Christmas in Heaven of Dr. R.C. Sproul (St. Andrew's Chapel), where he is in the Presence of Christ, his Lord and Savior. Consider his many contributions to the spreading of the love of Christ.
Dr. R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian education ministry located near Orlando, Fla. In addition, he was copastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president and chancellor of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. Ligonier Ministries began in 1971 as the Ligonier Valley Study Center in Ligonier, Pa.
Dr. Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, the Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary, and he had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and Jackson, Miss. He was ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.


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No Lease on Life
This story appears in the May 2004 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
In the Equipment Leasing Association's (ELA) recently released survey covering business owners' attitudes toward leasing, the big surprise was not an attitude change, but the lack thereof. Nearly 70 percent of respondents said the newly enacted Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, which increases the depreciation allowance, would not affect whether they lease or buy. The reason for this flat-line change, says ELA president Michael Fleming, is that "we're in a very, very low interest-rate environment, and people have opted to buy." Fleming mentions, however, that "as interest rates start to tick up, more people will start showing interest in leasing options."


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Every student has a long and winding road from acceptance letter to graduation. For international students the road to graduation also includes learning a foreign language, understanding the customs of a new country and getting used to a different lifestyle.
In the following interview Manuel, an international student at the International Study Centre at Royal Roads University in Canada, talks about his student journey and why he chose to study abroad in Canada.
Manuel: I'm from Venezuela and I'm pursuing a Master's degree in Global Management.
M: I chose to come to Canada to study because if you're going to work and study really hard here, Canada is going to open its doors to you and you're not going to have any problems finding a job. I'm planning to stay in Canada after graduating and apply for a three-year work permit. After that I'm going to try to find a job, and if I can, I'm going to apply for the permanent residence.
M: It's one of the most beautiful campuses in Canada where you can find people from all over the world. It has a nice basketball court in the recreation center where I play every day. It's an amazing place near the Olympic Mountains, ocean, castle and a forest.
M: The Pre-Master's Program is an excellent tool if you need some academic upgrading. You can take many courses like financial accounting, public speaking, communication, as well as critical thinking. In these courses, you can practice your mathematical, writing and communication skills. The program is based on a business model, and you also do research papers and business case studies. These kinds of things can help you to be better prepared for the Master of Global Management or another kind of program that you will take.
M: For me, Royal Roads University means my new home!
Manuel's study abroad journey is an inspiring example to all international students. Follow the stories of other students and share your own using hashtag #StudyAbroadJourney.


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Finance Ministry issued Revised Method of Pay Fixation in Cases of promotion taking place in the pre-revised pay structure between 1.1.2006 and the date of notification of CCS(RP) Rules,2008 and the subsequent merger of the pre-revised pay scales of the promotional and the feeder posts in a common Grade.
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It's nice to know that I never have to read the book "Eat, Pray, Love." I know that I never really had to, it's just one of those books that seemed to be everywhere and seemingly everyone has read it. I didn't want to read the book, it just could have been something that happened, like if I ran out of reading material at an airport or relative's house.
Recently, I had to sit through a video of a Ted Talk given by the author of this "big, mega-sensation, international bestseller" memoir that was a "freakish success" (her words). Entitled "Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity," it starts out fine, I suppose. She talks about how creative professionals such as writers are often asked if they are afraid that they will never have another successful work or never be able to top their one huge hit. Like success has somehow doomed them and their creativity. She talks about the fear-based reaction kids receive when they express a desire to be an artist or writer. She mentions that no one asked her dad, who was a chemical engineer, if he was afraid to be a chemical engineer. She then references the reputation of creative types as being unstable, depressed, drug-addled, and suicidal.
She says that we have collectively accepted and internalized that "creativity and suffering are inherently linked and that artistry, in the end, will always, ultimately, lead to anguish." She wants to ask the audience a question: "Are you cool with this?" She calls the assumption "odious and dangerous, and [she] doesn't want to see it perpetuated into the next century."
Excellent. All of this led me to believe that she was setting us up for a good, solid debunking of that reputation, but oh, no. Nothing could be further from the truth. How does she avoid becoming the assumption? Accept the myth as true, and use it to provide a basis for her belief in supernatural source for creativity. Divorce herself from the responsibility of her creativity. Go to ancient Greece and ancient Rome, when they believed that daemons and genii were responsible for creativity. This "psychological construct" will "protect you from the results of your work" because you don't have to take responsibility for it.
There is no attempt to look at the myth itself and apply any critical thinking skills. There is no attempt to look at empirical evidence that pertains to the myth, though there is some cherry-picking of history offered in support of her belief. She does not say that her dad, the chemical engineer, may not have been asked fear-based questions, but, as a scientist, his profession is number 11 of 13 on at least one list of professionals who commit suicide. (Laborers, carpenters, and doctors are all there, too, and dentists are number one.) She does not mention that it seems to be difficult, if not impossible, to even correlate profession with suicide with any meaningful accuracy.
Spot the things that are wrong with this statement about the rise of rational humanism, the idea of creativity coming from the self and not the divine, and of people being a genius instead of having a genius:
"I gotta tell you, I think that was a huge error. I think that allowing somebody, like one mere person, to believe that he or she is like the vessel, you know like the font, and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just like a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. You know, it just completely warps and distorts egos and creates all these unmanageable expectations about performance, and I think the pressure of that, has been killing off our artists for the last 500 years."
We have suicidal fruit to pick off the tree of creativity because creative people are usually living somewhat public lives, and their deaths make the news. Sometimes, while they are alive, they are talking or writing about their psychic pain. While I have always figured that my petty neurosis and relatively painless middle class upbringing make me unworthy of creative success because of the perpetual myth that creativity equals suffering, I don't think that the myth or my assumption are true, and I certainly don't think that creative people suffer because their creativity has become their responsibility instead of a gift given to them by the poetry faeries.
The kind of thinking that Ms. Gilbert is promoting here isn't doing us any favors. It is upholding a myth instead of debunking it, and it is using a myth to perpetuate yet another myth. Was ever a time in documented human history without plenty of people, probably even a majority, who believe that creativity comes from some sort of divine inspiration, the Enlightenment notwithstanding? What evidence is there that uncovering a mystery has made us worse off as a society? How can divorcing ourselves from responsibility for our powers make the world a better place? Does that mean that any extraordinary power is somehow divine? Why would it just be creativity? What about nefarious powers such as the ability to pull off the perfect crime? That's creative. Is it divine? What about all the other people who commit suicide, some at higher rates than artists? Did they just need to believe in a science faerie or welding faerie, and once they placed their skills into a supernatural being, all their psychic pain would go away?
The Enlightenment did not kill off our artists. Our artists are not dead. Artists are everywhere, many of them not dying by their own hand or even suffering under the hideous responsibility of their brilliance. Furthermore, The Enlightenment gave us the First Amendment, among other things, allowing for not only a flourishing of the creative arts but also of religion in a secular nation.
Anyway, if you made a decision to believe that you are not responsible, are you not still responsible for the fact that you made that decision?
The idea that there are creativity faeries rubbing faerie juice on our projects, makes as much sense to her as anything else she has ever heard to describe the creative process. Yeah, you're right, it does. It's the faeries and their emissions that write poetry. Just because we don't know the answer to a question does not mean that the answer is "Magic." Isn't it a threat to creativity to ask us to just trust some sort of mystical process and not instead ask questions and search for answers?
It's not just creative people who experience maddening blocks in their work. There are times that all of us just can't make connections. Scientists, policy makers, engineers, carpenters, and administrators have moments when something can't be resolved, even though the resolution seems so close. When we do finally figure it out, was it the faeries?
The Greeks thought it was daemons and the Romans thought it was genii because they didn't know any better.
Humans don't behave rationally much of the time. It's work for us to do so, as the brain seems wired to react on emotion. So why would we encourage irrational thinking? And why would we give it a stage?
p.s. I put as much research into this as she probably did:
The 13 careers where you are most likely to commit suicide
The occupation with the highest suicide rate
Physicians Are Not Invincible: Rates of Psychosocial Problems Among Physicians
Veterinarians more likely to commit suicide
Do Dentists have the highest suicide rate?
Suicide by profession: lots of confusion, inconclusive data


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Townsend Hoopes
Townsend Walter Hoopes II (April 28, 1922 – September 20, 2004) was an American historian and government official, who reached the height of his career as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1967 to 1969.[1]
Hoopes, known as Tim, was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He graduated from Phillips Academy before attending Yale University, where he became a member of the Skull and Bones society[2]:188 and captain of the football team, graduating in 1944. Later he would graduate from the National War College as well.
He married twice. His first marriage to Marion Schmidt ended in divorce. They had two sons together: Townsend Walter Hoopes III and Peter Schmidt Hoopes. His second marriage to Ann Merrifield lasted 40 years until his death. They had a daughter together: Andrea Hoopes DeGirolamo. He also had four stepchildren: Lise Jeantet, Cecily Hoopes Lyons, Briggs Swift Cunningham IV, and F. Thomas B.C. Hoopes. Additionally, he had 11 grandchildren including a grandson bearing his name, Hunter Townsend Hoopes.
Hoopes died from the complications of melanoma.[3]
During World War II, he served as a Marine Lieutenant in the Pacific theater of the war, participating in the U.S. 5th Marine Division capture of Iwo Jima and the initial occupation of Japan. Afterwards, he became assistant to the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee from 1947 to 1948. He continued as staff aide to three Secretaries of Defense: James Forrestal, General George Marshall and Robert A. Lovett from 1948 to 1953.
He then went on to work in the private sector for a number of years, spending 7 years as partner of an international consulting firm: Cresap, McCormick and Paget.
In 1964, he returned to public service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International affairs. From 1965 to 1967, he was Principal Deputy for International Security Affairs at the Pentagon.
Serving as Under Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon from 1967 to 1969, he witnessed firsthand the effect of the 1968 Tet Offensive and Lyndon B. Johnson's subsequent decision to de-escalate the war in Vietnam.
After leaving the government, he became fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for two years. From 1973 to 1986, Hoopes was president of the Association of American Publishers.
In a telephone conversation between Richard Nixon and Charles Colson, taped on July 1, 1971, Colson relates the news that Lyndon Johnson privately believed that Hoopes had played a role in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press, and that he would have liked to see Hoopes taken to court by the government alongside various newspapermen. A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."
Hoopes also became co-chairman of Americans for SALT, director of the American Committee on U.S. Soviet Relations, and a distinguished international executive at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2002, he became senior fellow of Washington College.
From the mid-1980s to 1995, Hoopes and his wife ran Hoopes Troupe, a charitable amateur singing group that performed around Washington, D.C., including at the Supreme Court.
- 1974 Bancroft Prize
Hoopes was a prolific writer of books and articles. His 1969 book The Limits of Intervention (ISBN 0-393-30427-2) is the most widely known. The book deals with the period from 1965 to President Johnson's March 31, 1968 speech ordering a partial bombing halt and announcing that he would not run for re-election. As well as serving as Hoopes's memoir, the book offered an insider's view of the post-Tet Offensive decision-making within the Pentagon, especially that of Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford. The book described how the Tet Offensive undermined the support within the government and the country for the strategy of aerial bombardment and ground search-and-destroy missions, fostering instead the view that further escalation of the war was futile. (In a Washington Post article a year later, he acknowledged "that the Tet Offensive was not the shattering military defeat for the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces it appeared to both Washington and the American people.")
The Limits of Intervention also made clear that, from the end of 1965 on, Hoopes favored a change in the Johnson administration's Vietnam policy: "As 1965 came to an end, I had become a great deal more skeptical about the U.S. performance in Vietnam -- about the validity of our stated purposes, the official assessment of the problems we faced, and our ability to control events." (p. 43)
His other writings include:
- The Devil and John Foster Dulles (1973), received Bancroft Prize, ISBN 0-316-37235-8
- Eye Power (1979), written with his wife, ISBN 0-394-50023-7
- Townsend Hoopes on Arms Control (1987), a collection of his essays and speeches, ISBN 0-8191-6622-7
- Townsend Hoopes, Douglas Brinkley (1992). Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal. ISBN 1-55750-334-6.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- Townsend Hoopes, Douglas Brinkley (2000). FDR and the Creation of the U.N. ISBN 978-0-300-08553-2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- A Textured Web (2002), fiction, ISBN 1-4010-5401-3
- ^ Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb (September 25, 2004). "Townsend Hoopes Dies; Wrote About Vietnam". Washington Post.
- ^ Robbins, Alexandra (2002). Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-72091-7.
- ^ WOLFGANG SAXON (October 10, 2004). "Townsend Hoopes, 82, Author Who Wrote About Vietnam, Dies". The New York Times.
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Verizon to 'Retire' FiOS TV Apps for Xbox, Smart TVs
Verizon FiOS confirmed that it is shutting down its authenticated live TV apps for Xbox consoles and Samsung smart TVs because few customers were using them and because the apps only supported a subset of the channels offered on the FiOS TV service.
As reported by Ars Technica, Verizon has been telling customers recently that the telco will be shutting down those apps on March 31, but that it will continue to support the FiOS Mobile TVE app on smartphones and tablets, which deliver a mix of live TV programs and VOD to authenticated FiOS TV customers.
"[D]ue to the limited number of FiOS customers who were using the FiOS App on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, and because of the limited number of channels available to those users, we decided to retire the app," a Verizon spokesman said in a statement. "FiOS customers still interested in using the app can do so through the FiOS Mobile App on the iOS and Android platforms."
"Going forward," the official added, "we will continue to look for new ways to give our customers access to our Fios content and that provide a good user experience."
Verizon's not alone in pulling support from the Xbox platform. Deadspin reported last week that ESPN was dropping app support on the Xbox 360 on March 23 while retaining its app for the Xbox One. As another example, Comcast pulled its Xfinity TV On Demand app for the Xbox 360 last fall. AT&T U-verse halted its support for the Xbox 360 at the end of 2013, citing "low consumer demand."
Notably, Verizon is shutting down its apps on those gaming consoles and smart TVs as the FCC continues to push ahead with new set-top rules that will succeed the CableCARD and apply to all types of MVPDs. On Monday, the Consumer Video Choice Coalition, which includes Google among its backers, teamed with other groups to launch a new website, unlockthebox.com to push their cause.


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Ricareda "Rica" Verceles Valuenzuela, the first woman to be ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in the Philippines, passed away 21 August at the age of 81.
Born on 18 April 1938, Ricareda Verceles was the daughter of the late Francisco T. and Adriana O. Verceles. She was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family and subsequently resented religion. When she was 13, Nazarene missionary John Pattee conducted a four-week revival campaign close to their house. Despite her initial fear, Rica's curiosity at the amplified music and speaking being broadcast throughout the neighbourhood got the better of her. She ventured into the church, even though she had been taught that it was a mortal sin to do so, and heard the gospel for the first time. Rica accepted Jesus into her heart that night and returned home to share Christ with her sister Henrina. Soon the entire family were Nazarenes, including her mother, aunt, three brothers, and two sisters.
After graduating high school, with Pattee's encouragement, Rica enrolled at Fitkin Memorial Bible Training School (later Luzon Nazarene Bible College and now Philippine Nazarene College) in August 1956. That same year, at the age of 18, Rica preached her first sermon at the Cabanatuan City Church of the Nazarene.
Rica graduated from Fitkin in March 1960 and married Andres Castro "Andy" Valenzuela, pastor of the Guisad Church of the Nazarene. The couple shared pastoral ministry while Rica focused on music ministry with the children of the community.
At the 1961 Philippines District Assembly, Rica was the first woman to receive a district minister's license in the Philippines. That year, Pastors Andy and Rica accepted the call to pastor the Church of the Nazarene in Agbannawag, Rizal. During this pastorate, Rev. Andy founded the Tabuyoc Church of the Nazarene in Pangasinan province in October 1966.
Andy was elected assistant national superintendent of the Philippines District in 1967, and Nazarene historian Floyd Cunningham believes Rica was one reason Andy was chosen.
"The strength of her character and influence was one factor leading Filipinos to elect her quieter husband as assistant national district superintendent," he said.
The Valenzuelas resigned the Agbannawag church and relocated to Binalonan, Pangasinan, where Rica became the pastor. After a year traveling with Mission Director Robert McCroskey Sr., Andy was elected the first Filipino DS in the Philippines in a near unanimous vote in March 1968.
During her pastoral ministry, Rica led Nazarene churches in Binalonan, Laoac, and Tabuyoc in the province of Pangasinan. Rica became the first woman ordained as an elder in the Church of the Nazarene in 1971. In June 1972, Rica served as a delegate to 18th General Assembly in Miami Beach, Florida, representing the Philippine-Luzon District. When the Philippines District was subdivided in March 1973, Andy became the first superintendent of the new Luzon District, which encompassed the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.
In 1976, Rica became the first Asian representative to the General Council of Nazarene World Mission Society (now Nazarene Missions International), serving two terms. She gave a personal testimony at the 1980 General Assembly in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and was a featured speaker at the 1985 General Assembly in Anaheim, California, USA, sharing before almost 65,000 delegates and visitors.
After Andy became the first superintendent of the Metro-Manila District in March 1980, the Valenzuelas relocated to Manila, where Rica pastored the Central Church of the Nazarene in Cubao and was the first district children's ministry coordinator. The Valenzuelas both enrolled in master's degrees at Asia Theological Seminary and in the first class of Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1983.
Rica graduated from Asia Theological Seminary with a Master of Religious Education in 1986, and Andy resigned as superintendent of the Metro Manila District. The Valenzuela family migrated to northern California to minister to the Filipino community, co-founding the New Life Church in Vallejo, California, USA, and serving there until they retired in 2008.
The couple relocated to Silverdale, Washington, USA, in January 2015 to live closer to their daughter and her family, and two years later, they returned to their hometown of Tabuyoc, Binalonan, Pangasinan. During this time, the Valenzuelas, who previously received Distinguished Service Awards from both the Metro Manila District (1983, 1984) and the Philippines Luzon District (1987), were honored again 27 August 2017 in a special service at the Tabuyoc Church of the Nazarene, and on 5 October 2017 by their first alma mater, Philippine Nazarene College (formerly Luzon Nazarene Bible College), with plaques of appreciation.
Rica was preceded in death by Andy 30 October 2018. They are survived by their two children, Abner Valenzuela and Brenda Valenzuela Fortune, and five grandchildren: Brenica, Doren, Cariza, Ged, and Deo.
A viewing for Rica will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on 25 August at the Lewis Funeral Home, 5303 Kitsap Way, Bremerton, WA 98312 prior to the memorial service at 5 p.m. and a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. As her desire was to be buried with her late husband in the Philippines, a memorial service and funeral is planned for February 2020 in Tabuyoc.


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A sexy website. A great brand. A superb product range. Half a dozen clicks and a few minutes later you've bought exactly what you want. You print your order confirmation or save your email. You just need to go and collect it. That's all. Just collect it. Just. What a service! Top marks for Customer Experience; 100%.
You drive. You hit traffic. You try to park. No space. You enter the store glad that you've bought from a great brand with a sexy website and a superb product range because the service will be the same in-store. Won't it?
Where do you go? No idea. Down to 90%. You try to find someone who can help you. No-one about. Down to 80%. You are directed to the main till bank. ...OK.... You look around for some sign that they know you are there to collect what you've already bought. There is none. 80%. You ask at the till and are told to join the back of the queue. Surely not? 70%. There are 5 people in front of you, all with stuff to buy. 60%. There is only one person serving. 50%. You wait 10 minutes to reach the front. 40%. You hand over your order confirmation and they disappear for 5 minutes. 30%. You're frustrated. The traffic is their fault; the parking is their fault. 20%. They finally return with your order.
COLLECT. Let's hope it's what you ordered....!
Net Promoter Score – low. Customer Delight Index – low. Any other customer satisfaction metric – low. Result – you will tell between 9 and 15 other people about your experience. You may be one of the 13% that will tell more than 20*.
Now imagine.
You've CLICKED.
What day suits you to collect? Wednesday afternoon. You're free, the traffic will be lighter and the parking will be easier. Through online booking, you tell the store that you will be in then. Seamless.
You arrive in store. Clear signage directs you to a specific area designed just for you. A kiosk with branded messaging allows you to let them know you have arrived and confirming what you are there to collect. You receive an instant text message telling you that they will be ready for you in 10 minutes and inviting you to browse the store. Your service number is included. There's even a link showing you, real-time, where you are up to. The area is calm and ordered.
You pick up a couple of items just as you receive a text telling you to go to the service desk. Your service number is clearly displayed on a screen as you enter confirming that you are next. You go to the counter where you are personally greeted by a friendly member of staff, you produce your identification and you are handed your order. You pay for the items you have picked up en route and you leave. Just before you exit the area completely you leave your feedback on the touch-screen – smiley face. Customer Experience still 100%. Still seamless.
Customer satisfaction metric – high. Sales – increased. Result – you will probably tell between 4 and 6 other people about your experience. Customer loyalty can be worth up to 10 times as much as a single purchase*.
The technology to deliver this seamless Click and Collect experience is here and now. Retailers need to take a firm hold of their online to offline strategy and implement this kind of technology now rather than waiting until their entire store of the future is capable of being delivered. Many a Retailer has gone out of business by not responding to the needs of their customers quickly enough and as the saying goes, "he who hesitates is lost."
* Source: The White House Office of Consumer Affairs, Washington DC.


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Hi, it's Beth here, with my Chinese New Year cards using the Brayered Brilliance technique. You can find this technique in the February 2010 issue.
Each year Donnie and I gather our friends together to celebrate Chinese New Years at our local Chinese restaurant. This year 16 of our friends joined us for a fun evening of eating and catching up.
It is a tradition that I present each couple with a Chinese New Year card. One of my friends said she was looking forward to seeing what I came up with this year.
Brayered Brilliance is one of my favourite techniques because I love to layer. It is a technique that works well with any colour I choose. Doesn't the red pop?!
Both my background stamps, and the Chinese lady are from Stampin' Up.
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xxclone doesn't work with W8.1,it does not preserve all settings. Can someone recommend a software cloner for W8.1?
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Unless you are really locked into freeware applications, I would recommend looking into Acronis True Image. It comes on sale at times for a decent price and it's very easy to use. Acronis says it works with W8.1.
Freeware programs can also work, but they may be a bit behind. If you are locked into freeware, wait a bit and look around for alternatives.
There are two free versions of Acronis that I know of, one offered by Western Digital, the other by Seagate. If you have either a WD or Seagate drive in your computer you'd be in business. Dunno if the Seagate tech over-ride still works for new versions (hold Alt, type t and o, then click okay). The tech over-ride allows you to use Seagate's DiscWizard even if you don't have a Seagate drive.
Either one can clone a drive and AFAIK do pretty much everything the regular Acronis can do except incremental backups.Pull! Bang! Darn!
Macrium Reflect 32bit and 64bit for personal use is free. After installation, a bootable rescue CD can be created which can replicate all of the original cloning and imaging functions of the original installation.For the nth time, with the possible exception of certain Intel processors, I don't have/ever owned anything whose name starts with "i".
I can testify to Macrium Reflect/64 free version also. Attempting the 8.1 upgrade some months ago, the W8 system crashed and totally corrupted the partition. I used my MR rescue disk and it restored 100%, and I was back up & running in a few minutes.
I also recommend Macrium Reflect. You will absolutely need to make a rescue CD when it asks you to do so or your restores may not work. For a free product, having to burn a rescue CD is not unreasonable in my opinion.
I use a bootable USB thumbdrive that contains Win7-pe. I have SnapShot installed on it. I have created and restored partion images on my wife and son's Win 8 laptops. It works fine, you just need to store the images off-line. I store them on an external HDD.
Clonezilla also works, it's linux based and is free.Got my retirement plans all set. Looks like I only have to work another 5 years after I die........


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Including or Excluding Bonuses for Child Support Awards in Tennessee Child Support
Simmons v. Simmons – Tennessee Court of Appeals case summary on income determination for child support.
Allison Lyn Simmons and Richard Lee Simmons were married for seven years and had three children together. The children were six, five, and two years old at the time of the divorce hearing. The Father and Mother previously both worked as flight attendants when they were married, but the Father was the sole provider since the first year of marriage. During the marriage the parents went deeply into debt, in part due to the Mother's spending, and filed for bankruptcy.
The trial court awarded the Mother custody of the children and the Father was ordered to pay child support in the amount of $1,900 per month. The Father appealed this decision, and argued that the child support obligation (together with the alimony award) constituted a punitive award against him because it represented more than sixty-seven (67%) percent of his gross income. The Mother appealed the decision of the lower court and argued that the Father's income was miscalculated and should have been higher, thus obligating him to pay more child support. She further argued that the Federal tax deduction given for two of their children should have gone to her, the custodial parent.
In this case, the Mother and Father presented two very different arguments on the amount of money the Father earned annually. According to the evidence presented to the trial court, including IRS form W-2 reports and pay check stubs, the Father earned approximately $80,000 in 2004. This income, however, was comprised of a large, one-time bonus. The trial court also found that this one-time bonus was actually back pay owed to the husband. The trial court included the bonus as part of the Father's income but discounted the bonus by seventy-five percent because it was actually for back pay. Neither court raised this issue but it might be argued that if indeed the bonus was back pay, it was not technically a bonus and should have been calculated as salary.
Both the Mother and the Father appealed the trial court's finding. The Father argued that the trial made a mistake by including the bonus at all because it was non-recurring. In this case, his child support obligation should have been lower. The Mother, on the other hand, contended that all of the one-time bonus should have been included in determining the Father's income for 2004.
On appeal, the court determined that the issues in dispute between the parties were "properly considered by the trial court." The acceptable standard for review of facts by an appeals court is that the findings of fact by the lower court are correct unless other evidence is presented that supports facts that are more convincing than the initial evidence. In this case, the Appeals court concluded that the evidence "does not preponderate again the trial judge's finding" that the Father's income was $80,000 in 2004. For this reason, this was no reason to modify the child support award. The Court of Appeals further held that since the Father paid child support for all three children, there was no error in awarding him the Federal tax deduction for two of those children.
2006 WL 236904, Court of Appeals of Tennessee, January 31, 2006.
See original opinion for exact language. Legal citations omitted.
For more information, see Commissions and Bonuses as Income Under Tennessee Child Support Laws and Tennessee Child Support Answers to FAQ's. For legal updates, news, analysis, and commentary, visit our Tennessee Family Law Blog and its Child Support category. A Memphis child support attorney from the Miles Mason Family Law Group can help you with Tennessee child support issues including setting or modifying child support. To schedule your confidential consultation about Tennessee child support, call us today at (901) 683-1850.


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Apr 15, 2016
Entering into our virtual studio this week is Byron Collins of Collins Epic Wargames. We talk about miniature gaming, some of the game CEW has published, and the relaunch of the 6mm miniatures game, Polyversal. All of this, plus our usual discussion of games we've been playing, and our Kick The Box, Kickstarter segment.
Games Played
X Wing Miniatures, Rebellion, Warrior Knights, Broom Service
Kick The Box Kickstarter Segment
Santorini, Pyramid Arcade, Mare Nostrum, Night of Man, WarFighter, Thunder Alley Expansion, Meta Games II
Important Links
Polyversal 1st Kickstarter Page


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The New York TImes has a story today about one, Doug Wead who secretly taped conversations with then Gov. George Bush as he was preparing to run for President. I read the whole story but I can tell you, it's a snoozer. Well, lemme qualify that. I'm sure the moonbats will pick out every 3rd word of the story, then read them backwards and find some secret message no rational person finds.
But having said that, after reading the whole thing I can't help but notice how closely his private conversations mirror his public. If you are looking for hypocrisy, you won't find any. He courts the evangelical vote but will not kowtow to them, he says he will not bash gays but he is against gay marriage. Basically all the same stuff he has said for 6 years now on the national stage.
In Secretly Taped Conversations, Glimpses of the Future President
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 – As George W. Bush was first moving onto the national political stage, he often turned for advice to an old friend who secretly taped some of their private conversations, creating a rare record of the future president as a politician and a personality.
In the last several weeks, that friend, Doug Wead, an author and former aide to Mr. Bush's father, disclosed the tapes' existence to a reporter and played about a dozen of them.
Variously earnest, confident or prickly in those conversations, Mr. Bush weighs the political risks and benefits of his religious faith, discusses campaign strategy and comments on rivals. John McCain "will wear thin," he predicted. John Ashcroft, he confided, would be a "very good Supreme Court pick" or a "fabulous" vice president. And in exchanges about his handling of questions from the news media about his past, Mr. Bush appears to have acknowledged trying marijuana.
Mr. Wead said he recorded the conversations because he viewed Mr. Bush as a historic figure, but he said he knew that the president might regard his actions as a betrayal. As the author of a new book about presidential childhoods, Mr. Wead could benefit from any publicity, but he said that was not a motive in disclosing the tapes. …
Mr. Wead said he withheld many tapes of conversations that were repetitive or of a purely personal nature. The dozen conversations he agreed to play ranged in length from five minutes to nearly half an hour. In them, the future president affectionately addresses Mr. Wead as "Weadie" or "Weadnik," asks if his children still believe in Santa Claus, and chides him for skipping a doctor's appointment. Mr. Bush also regularly gripes about the barbs of the press and his rivals. And he is cocky at times. "It's me versus the world," he told Mr. Wead. "The good news is, the world is on my side. Or more than half of it." [BOY if that wasn't prophetic huh? -ed]
[ed- And the best graph of the story…]
Mr. Wead eventually agreed to play a dozen tapes on the condition that the names of any private citizens be withheld. The New York Times hired Tom Owen, an expert on audio authentication, to examine samples from the tapes. He concluded the voice was that of the president.
Tell me Mr. Owen wasn't given the third degree huh? I bet that decision went up a few layers of management.
Anyway, there's the link. I found it lame but maybe it was just me.


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This is the story told in the documentary Coming Home Soon. The story of Estonian children who had to flee Estonia in 1944 with their mothers, siblings, and sometimes even their fathers.
They didn't know where the dangerous roads would take them, and when they made it to the refugee camps, they knew, this was temporary.
All interviewees in this film found themselves in Geislingen refugee camp from 1945 to 1950 in the South of Germany. Geislingen was an Estonian Assembly centre where some 4,000 Estonians lived for more than 5 years. The camp became a small Estonia with schools, workshops, post office, hospital, newspaper, theatre, orchestra, choirs...Estonians themselves were in charge of organizing the camp. According to the officer of the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) at the Geislingen camp, the Estonians did all the work while they did not have any say regarding the longevity or future of the camp. Geislingen was home for the refugees for five years, after which the residents had to depart once more, leaving their friends and familiar surroundings behind to start all over again in a new country unknown to them.
The film Coming Home Soon explores the influence which the experiences at Geislingen had on the lives of the Estonian refugees and their children.
It is a story about how to cope with extremely difficult circumstances, how to overcome your past and build a successful future. It is a story of hope and inspiration.
Although this film is related to Estonian post WWII history, one can observe strong parallels to the current refugee situation in Europe.
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