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Deleted Calendar account on iPhone and want to restore calendar entries! Completed iOS 9 upgrade, backup and restore then deleted unused email/calendar account not realizing it held all my calendar items!! Can it be retrieved from the "backup" and if so how to I find and restore the calendar. (The deleted email/calendar account is no longer available to me). Can any one help?
Usually, most people will use their email account to sync those notes or calendars. However, when you delete those email account on your iPhone, those synced and stored calendars will also be missing, just as the above user did. What he wants is to restore only those missing calendars from his iTunes backup. Here, what I want to show you is to restore missing calendars from iTunes backup selectively due to email account deletion without erasing any data on your iPhone. (Recover Lost Notes Due To Changing An Email Account)
When it comes to restoring only calendars from your iTunes backup, it is hard to make it if without the help from a professional iOS data recovery named iFonebox. It is widely recognized that iFonebox enables you to extract and restore data from your iTunes or iCloud backup selectively. Besides, iFonebox supports to recover deleted data like contacts, calendars, messages, notes, etc, from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch directly. So cool.
How to restore missing calendar items due to deleting email account?
It is an indispensable part to download and install iFonebox on your computer firstly. There are two versions accessible: Windows version and Mac version. Now, you can refer to the simple steps listed as following.
- Run iFonebox. Choose Recover from iTunes Backup mode. All iTunes backup files will be detected by iFonebox. Just select one containing your lost calendars to restore.
- Scan calendars from selected iTunes backup. Just click on Calendars item to start scanning and analysis.
- Preview and select missing calendars to restore. Now you can choose all missing calendars and then, click Recover to Mac button to get back all lost calendars.
Notes: when calendars are missing from iPhone due to deleting email account, you can also recover those lost calendars from your iPhone directly under the help from iFonebox.
In short, it is quite convenient and functional to use iFonebox to restore only calendars from iTunes backup due to email account deletion.


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oranj franchise opportunity
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interested in joining the oranj fitness family?
At Oranj Fitness our specialty is fun and cutting-edge drop‐in fitness, spin, barre and yoga classes. Our studios are luxurious facilities featuring sprung dance floors, innovative fitness rooms, full-amenity change rooms, a childcare room (aka the Mini Boogier room), retail store and a superfood vegan smoothie bar. We hire absolute rockstar staff and world class instructors to ensure a safe and inviting environment for all.
Why oranj? It's the level of detail we put into every step of our process. We know that opening and running your own business is a big life and career decision. From our initial meeting to buildout, training and ongoing, our team makes rocking your oranj studio easy and rewarding.
We are looking for franchise partners to spread the love in communities across Canada. Our ideal partner is healthy, energetic and lives the oranj values.
We want a world where the status quo is boogying. Come play with us and start #boogyingeverydamnday!
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Sheila Chutskoff is the co-founder and CEO of Oranj Fitness. Ever since she was young, growing up in the small town just outside of Nelson, BC, Sheila Chutskoff dreamed of running her own health and wellness studio. She's gone on to realize her dream and then some – as the founder and franchisor of oranj fitness, a growing chain of luxury fitness studios; and as a partner in Shine Kids Fitness, a community fitness space where children can exercise both their bodies and minds. Sheila is also a yoga instructor, public speaking guru and goal coach who inspires others to achieve their dreams.
Inspired by her mentor and business partner, Darrell Kopke, Chutskoff launched oranj fitness in 2008 with the goal of raising fitness industry standards while giving back to the community. Since the 2008 opening of her first location in Kelowna, oranj has become a recognized and sought-after fitness brand with six franchises throughout Western Canada, and three more currently in the works.
Darrell Kopke, Co-Founder of Oranj Fitness, is CEO of Ædelhard, a Vancouver-based rugby-inspired performance tailoring brand and is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. Prior to Ædelhard, Darrell was the founding CEO of Kit and Ace, a global retailer of technical luxury apparel. He also founded institute B, a business advisory and accelerator firm focusing on for-profit social impact benefit corporations and holds ownership and Board positions in several growth companies.
Darrell is considered a member of the group of founders of lululemon athletica, a Vancouver, Canada-based yoga-inspired athletic apparel retailer. Since joining lululemon athletica as General Manager in 2001 and until the sale of lululemon to private equity in late 2005, he oversaw the company's expansion from one store in Kitsilano to 60 stores internationally, about 100 percent annual growth and $200+ million in sales. When he left lululemon in January 2009, Darrell was the Managing Director for Asia Pacific, responsible for the region's store operations based in Hong Kong.
Darrell was president of his MBA class at the University of British Columbia, and enjoys weight-training, hiking and reading in his spare time (he doesn't have any spare time). In 2006 Darrell was announced as a member of the Business in Vancouver magazine's 'Top 40 Under 40' business people. He is most proud of his wife Maria and two children Kai and Kennedy.
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Why it may take eternity for Nigeria to move forward
Posted by Afam Nnaji | 15 years ago | 8,991 times
Nigeria is indeed blessed with abundant natural and human resources even though it is sad to note that we have not been able to use these resources to transform Nigeria into a country where every Nigerian will be proud to associate with.
From power supply to the state of our roads the story is the same, so much decay even in the midst of plenty. It is easy and more convenient to blame the government but in reality is the government the building or structure we see everyday or is the government made up of people?
The issue of blaming the government for everything is becoming rather too convenient and in my opinion overrated. How many Nigerians have the courage to accept their mistakes when they make them? Even with hard evidence and proof you will need a miracle to see the average Nigerian agree that indeed he has goofed.
Rather, energies will be expended on diverting the issue (as owning up to the mistake is certainly out of the question) and when he is not getting his way with the diversion he/she goes personal and begins to attack your person. Now I ask, is it wrong or criminal for one to make a mistake? If it is not, then why do we prefer to go through the very difficult task of justifying our mistakes rather than acknowledging them even if we do not want to correct them?
Now, the people in government are Nigerians, friends, sons, daughters, fathers, husbands etc but they are still Nigerians. How do they take decisions concerning Nigeria? How do they arrive at conclusions on what ought to be and what ought not to be?
Would it be possible that a simple task of agreeing to a mistake could be responsible for the state of that road that is decaying by the day? Could it be that the person truly believes that everything is fine with Nigerians when in reality things are not?
Could it be that these people in power simply surround themselves with people that will tell them what they want to hear as against what they should hear? I refuse to believe that someone will see white and call it black for no reason. Is there a good reason why as a people we will rather dwell on falsehood, lies, misinformation than dwell on facts and truth?
While I will remain a die hard optimist for the future of this great nation I cannot but go to bed everyday wondering why our people find it hard to accept responsibilities of their actions especially when they make mistakes. The irony of it all is that those who are guilty will always be the ones accusing others of the very mistakes they are denying.
As for the led, what do we do? Criticize our leaders based on wrong actions while appreciating their good works or praise them when they do the wrong things and abuse or dismiss anyone that points out mistakes or issues just because the people in question are our friends, colleagues, relations etc?
Even though the later is the norm today I will rather die an unrepentant optimist than join this bandwagon that is headed nowhere….
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Well…. I recently sold my old Flashforge Creator Pro. We never really got along, it seemed that every time I was ready to do 3d printing it was feeling unwell. There were times when I looked at it wrong and it freaked. I swear. I wasn't doing anything to it. I even left the room a few times thinking that my mad vibes were influencing it. Damned if it didn't take that time to let the print break free of the print bed and go swishing around with every move of the extruder head. Enough…. I wasn't finished with 3D printing, but that printer had to go.
So up on Ebay it went and it was gone in a couple of days. Now mind you I don't think it was a bad printer, I just never seemed to have any luck with keeping it going. Sometimes relationships are like that. 🙂
In the meantime I was surfing Youtube and came across a couple of videos on a new model of XYZprinting 3D printer. This new model allowed you to use 3rd party filament, had an aluminum heated print bed, had almost the same size build volumne as the Flashforge and was about half the cost. A teaser indicated that a laser engraver module was soon to come. Wow!
It's even on a bit of a sale on Amazon. Thirty dollars less than normal. Okay, so I'm sold. So a few days later it comes in via the UPS truck and I spend the next hour or so unpacking it and setting it up. I don't turn it on yet. Not yet. I poured over the documentation and watched the Youtube videos first. Then I sleep on it.
Now intially my impression is good. This printer just seems a little more finished than the Flashforge, more consumer friendly. It should be, it's supposed to be you say. Flashforge Creator Pro is a workhorse, it's a man's 3D printer. Rubish. I'll give you that the FF Pro is heavier built and has dual extruders, but it still seems unfinished, unrefined. The Da Vinci 1.0 Pro just seems so much more polished.
So now it's morning and my anticipation is high. It's plugged in. I've read up on what it's supposed to do when I flip the power switch. I even have a small simple print ready to test the printer. Moment of truth. I flip the power switch.
At first everything is proceeding normally. The lights inside come on, the led displays the initialization message, the extruder starts moving to home position. I'm thinking al…..right….!
Bang! Grinding….. Bang! The lights start flashing. The machine is beeping hysterically. The led flashs and finally displays Error 31.
I slap power button off frantically, merciful silence. I've just ruined the printer by turning it on and lost nearly $600 I can't afford to lose. So thinking I have nothing to lose, I turn the printer back on. Same horrendous banging and grinding as the extruder attempts to go to home. Finally the error is displayed on the led screen again. I turn the printer off again in frustration.
I think great….. leave it to me to have problems with a new printer that nobody else has. I begin to have dej vu.
But the extruder hot end isn't hitting the bed and I've already checked half a dozen times to make sure I haven't left any packing material in the machine, so what is causing the noise and error. Onto Google and several hours pass. It's a new model. Not many people have bought it yet, much less had problems. Finally I find a single post on an obscure webblog. Like me the poster had just turned his new printer on and had the exact same thing happen. He has contacted XYZprinting and they have diagnosed the problem as a misaligned Y axis. Their solution, decidedly low tech. Bring the extruder assembly all the way forward and then pull hard on both sides where the black plastic covers are.
Well what the hell…. It can't get any worse, can it?
I'm glad I didn't find out. I do the hard pull and after a few minutes gather my courage up to flip the power switch back on. The printer comes on like before and the extruder assembly proceeds to home it's axis. A little whine, a little stutter and then the quiet whir of the power fan on the back. The printer is homed and waiting patiently for my next command. I realize I need to tell my body to breath when the dark spots start dancing in my vision.
At that point I decide to leave well enough alone. I call it a day.


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Ituren is a pretty, quintessentially Basque village situated to the west of the Baztan valley in the Pyrenean foothills of northern Navarra. It is less than an hour from glorious San Sebastian (to the north) and the Roman city of Pamplona (to the south). The wide sandy beaches of the Altantic are just 40 minutes away. At the core of our village identity are the pagan carnival festivals in early spring which have attracted international attention and are arguably the oldest carnival rites in Europe.
In 2013 the village had a population of just over 500 people spread between the main village centre of Ituren and the out-lying hamlets of Aurtiz, Latsaga and Ameztia (the highest and smallest of the hamlets where we are based). There are 64 children enrolled at the village school who all help keep the village culture and spirit alive. It is a lively, close-knit community with a vibrant social and cultural life. At present Ituren has 2 bars, 3 restaurants, a village shop and butcher, a chemists and a hairdresser.
Our farmhouse is situated in Ameztia, a farming hamlet of about 22 people which lies 4km from the centre of Ituren and is a source of pride for us all. Here you will find the largest farms in Ituren and a very strong sense of collaboration. It is a beautifully-tended hamlet of verdant fields, dry-stone walls and hand-made bracken stacks. At 400 metres up from the valley floor its views are incomparable.
Traditionally the village economy depends on small-scale farming: semi-self-sufficient farms with their own cows, sheep, pigs and chickens and grain (predominantly corn). Both sheep and cows are exploited for their meat and milk and the tangy local sheep's cheese is a prided version of the acclaimed Dominacion de Origin Idiazabal sheep's cheese. Most people have large vegetable patches where they grow chard, green beans, lettuces, onions, potatoes etc. and ... in pride of place ...of course, the tomatoes. Quince, cherry, apple, plum, peach and fig trees are often planted around the farmsteads.
Today, although many young people have had to search for jobs further afield, the village population is slowly expanding. The Basque people are often very proud of their roots and have a strong tie to the land. Low-scale eco-tourism offers an invaluable second income for the local population however, despite the picture-postcard beauty of the area, it is surprisingly little known to foreign tourists. In the past political issues (i.e. that this is a Basque community in the middle of Spanish Navarre) meant that local government was unforthcoming with funding to promote the area. This has been left in the hands of small, private ventures like our own and a small, struggling local tourist board and means that these valleys remain among the most traditional areas of the Basque Country.
Today, Ituren is best known for its carnivals which take place at the end of January and have been hailed as possibly the oldest pre-Indo-European carnivals in Europe. These carnivals lie at the very core of our village identity.
The protagonists of the carnival are known as the Joaldunak or Zanpanzar; men from the village who wear sheepskins and colourful conical hats with flowing pastel ribbons topped by a cockerel's feather: this mix of masculine and feminine articles symbolizes fertility.
The Joaldunak carry horsehair whips and strap large cows' bells around their waists which they ring through a series of rhythmic thrusts of their hips as they enter an almost trance-like state. The rest of the villagers dress up as witches and demons who scatter in their wake. These carnival traditions symbolise the eternal struggle between the forces of winter and spring, light and darkness, good and evil. Much more information on these carnivals can be found among my numerous blogs.


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The Madison County Courts have switched to a new Case Management system. This affects the availability of Madison County information on Doxpop. It does not affect cases in Pendleton or Anderson city courts.
As of Monday, October 11th, all cases filed in Madison Circuit and Superior Courts have been transferred to the Odyssey system of the Indiana Supreme Court. That means that updates for these cases will no longer be received by Doxpop. Existing case information on Doxpop from before that date continues to be available and searchable until further notice.
You can search for new cases and updates to existing cases filed in the Madison Circuit and Superior Courts on the state court administration web site: http://mycase.in.gov/default.aspx
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Important Note: This county's data was restored to the Doxpop system in November, 2011. Read the details here: http://blog.doxpop.com/2011/11/long-odyssey-doxpops-4-year-quest-pays.html
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Your Local Partner for LASIK Co-Management
LASIK, or laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis, is an outpatient refractive surgery procedure to permanently correct vision, working by reshaping the eye's front surface, the cornea. When the cornea is flattened, for instance, a reduction in nearsightedness or myopia is observed.
The LASIK Process: What to Expect
Typically, LASIK eye surgery starts out with anesthetic drops being administered to the eyes. Your eye surgeon will then create a thin flap in the cornea, revealing inner corneal tissues. Computer-controlled pulses of cool laser light will then be applied to the inner layers of the cornea, reshaping the transparent, dome-like structure covering the iris and the pupil. Once the cornea is reshaped, your eye surgeon will place the flap back, aligning it with its original position where it will naturally and securely heal. Some patients report slight irritation within hours after the procedure is completed but most don't have issues after napping and resting.
Your Options for LASIK in Northern VA
Bladeless LASIK is the standard procedure that uses an IntraLase laser to create the corneal flap. As it doesn't utilize a blade, it is ideal for those with thin corneas who may have been turned away previously as they weren't good candidates for the surgery. Bladeless LASIK has also been shown to reduce dry eye cases after the procedure.
Aside from bladeless LASIK, custom LASIK is available for clearer and sharper vision. According to FDA studies, it may even produce better vision compared to what wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses can offer, thanks to a customized 3-D map of the eye that can guide a surgeon better while performing the procedure.
Who Can Get LASIK Eye Surgery?
As long as you're at least 18 years old and have healthy eyes, you can be a candidate for LASIK surgery. To confirm if you can undergo the procedure, don't hesitate to schedule a consultation with us. At our locations, any of our experienced and highly trained optometrists will be more than happy to assist you with pre- and post-operative care for LASIK patients undergoing laser eye surgery.
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Freeday Friday April US / UK Edition – Is SBS Essentials Right for My Business?
Freeday Friday April Podcast Posted – US / UK Edition
This program was recorded and is posted here.
Do I Really Need to Try to Sell SBS Essentials into My Client Base?
We had a good show today (45 minutes). Four people posted questions live and we had a good email question to kick us off. The kickoff question was, "Do I really need to sell SBS Essentials?" We talked about when it is and is not the right product to sell to specific clients.
Caller Ken asked a follow-up question: When to sell SBS Essentials and when to sell Foundation Server since they have so many features in common. . . . And lots more!
If you would like your question to be the start-off question, just send an email to[email protected]. Please put Freeday Friday in the subject line.
Freeday Friday is a new program to give you access to some coaching advice in a totally new format. See details at www.FreedayFriday.com.
Basically, I am offering free coaching advice to a very few people – live and free. The "price" for free advice is that other people get to listen in. The idea is that we all share some common challenges, so we might be able to learn from each other and address those challenges in similar ways. I'm not really a "coach" with a program to sell. I will sell some hours. But this one-to-many format allows me to get information out there and engage in the community.


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Crimean leader Sergiy Aksyonov has told a cheering crowd of thousands on Lenin Square in Simferopol that the region was "going home" after a referendum to join Russia.
The crowd sang the Russian anthem after preliminary results showed the disputed vote had come out 95.5% to break from Ukraine and become part of Russia.
Referendum commission chairman Mykhaylo Malyshev said 3.5% had voted to remain in Ukraine with wider autonomous powers and 1.0% were "spoiled ballots".
The final tally is expected in a day or two.
Crimea's regional government will make a formal application tomorrow to join the Russian Federation, the local pro-Moscow leader has said.
"The Supreme Soviet of Crimea will make an official application for the republic to join the Russian Federation at a meeting on March 17," Mr Aksyonov said in a tweet earlier.
Polling stations in Crimea closed at 6pm Irish time and the preliminary results were known about two hours later. Another Russian news agency, Interfax, said voter turnout had exceeded 80%.
The US rejected the vote in Crimea and called Russian actions in the crisis "dangerous and destabilising."
The White House said Russia will face "increasing costs" for military intervention, violation of international law
"We are long past the days when the world would stand quietly by while one country forcibly seizes the territory of another", a spokesperson said.
France demanded Russia immediately take measures to reduce "pointless and dangerous" tensions in Ukraine, calling the secession referendum held in the Crimea region illegal.
President Vladimir Putin told US President Barack Obama the referendum on Crimea was fully legal, but the two leaders also agreed to work together to find ways out of the Ukraine crisis, the Kremlin said.
A telephone conversation between Mr Putin and Mr Obama, which the Kremlin said was held at the initiative of the American side, came amid soaring US-Russia tensions.
The Kremlin statement said the referendum took into account "the well-known precedent of Kosovo", which has been recognised by more than 100 countries, including the US and all but five EU members since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008.
But the statement said the two leaders also agreed that "despite the differences in assessment it is necessary to jointly search for ways of stabilising the situation in Ukraine".
Mr Putin also told the US president that any Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe monitoring mission should cover "all Ukrainian regions" and not just Crimea.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Mr Putin earlier today that she backed a bigger role in Ukraine for the OSCE, in particular in the tense east of the country.
The Russian leader, who has not recognised the new pro-West authorities in Kiev after the fall of president Viktor Yanukovych last month, told Mr Obama that Moscow was unhappy with the Ukrainian government's failure to crack down on "ultra-nationalist and radical groups".
He said such groups were "destabilising the situation and terrorising peaceful inhabitants as well as the Russian-speaking population".
The White House said Mr Obama told Mr Putin the referendum "would never be recognised" by the US and the international community.
Mr Obama said the crisis can still be resolved diplomatically, but only if Russian military stops incursions into Ukraine.
He asked Mr Putin to accept international monitors in border areas.
Caught in an East-West crisis reminiscent of the Cold War, Kiev said Russia's build-up of forces in the Black Sea region was in "crude violation" of an international treaty, and announced plans to arm and train 20,000 members of a newly-created National Guard to defend the nation.
US Secretary of State John Kerry told Moscow that Washington would not accept the outcome of the vote.
The White House also warned Moscow to expect sanctions while foreign ministers from the European Union, which has major trade ties with Russia, will decided on possible similar action in Brussels tomorrow.
In Kiev, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk threatened dire consequences for the Crimean politicians who had called the vote, saying separatist "ring leaders" wanted to destroy Ukrainian independence "under the cover of Russian troops".
"We will find all of them - if it takes one year, two years - and bring them to justice and try them in Ukrainian and international courts. The ground will burn under their feet," he told a cabinet meeting.
Kiev's pro-European rulers, who took power after last month's fall of Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovych to popular unrest, have been as powerless as Western governments to prevent the referendum or build up of Russian forces on Ukrainian territory.
Ethnic Tatars - Sunni Muslims who make up 12% of Crimea's population - said they would boycott the vote despite promises by the regional authorities to give them financial aid and proper land rights.
Crimea's 1.5 million voters had two options: union with Russia or giving their region, which is controlled by pro-Kremlin politicians, the broad right to determine its own path and choose relations with whom it wants - including Moscow.
Russia has the right to keep forces on the Black Sea peninsula, including at its naval base in the port of Sevastopol, under a treaty signed after Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
But Ukrainian acting defence minister Ihor Tenyukh accused Moscow of going far beyond an agreed limit on servicemen - which he said was 12,500 for 2014.
This figure had risen from 18,400 on Friday.
Mr Tenyukh later said that the defence ministries in Kiev and Moscow had declared a truce until 21 March during which Russian forces, who have been arriving by boat and helicopter, would leave Ukrainian military facilities untouched.
Many Crimeans hope union with Russia will bring better pay and make them citizens of a country capable of asserting itself on the world stage.
But others see the referendum as a land grab by the Kremlin from Ukraine, whose new rulers want to move the country towards the European Union and away from Russia's sway.


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Iberico ham is a variety of Jamón, a type of cured ham produced in Spain.
Pork products made from Black Iberian breed pigs receive the ibérico denomination. As such, jamón ibérico is the dry-cured ham produced from the livestock of said breeds.
Jamón Ibérico, especially the one labelled as "de bellota", has a smooth texture and rich, savoury taste.
Pata Negra, meaning literally blackleg, Pata Negra is a commercial label for jamón ibérico. In colloquial Spanish and popular culture, it is used as a superlative or a synonym of the best.
Ibérico encompasses some of the most expensive ham produced in the world, and its fatty marbled texture has made it very popular as a delicacy.
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It's certainly been an interesting few weeks , looking at deals , working with agents.
Gees some of them are smart and others, well you know how they get qualified right?!!
Here is this week's invisible secret 1 minute video…enjoy!!!
To check out this 1 minute video go here:
Til next time,
PS: Can't wait to release this year's new intake of Diamond Mentoring PRogram,
the ultimate in PRoperty PRofits, stay tuned!!!


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Sitting in BREL Glasgow Works yard on 2nd April 1978 awaiting overhaul is Inverness DMD based Class 120 Set No. 300. Centre is DMSL SC51792 in blue and grey livery. The 'stretcher window' fitted to this vehicle is clearly visible, front window behind the cab, which hinged upwards from the top to permit a patient on a stretcher to be loaded into the coach straight from a platform. On the far left of the image is Class 120 TSLRB No. 59683 also part of Inverness Set 300 which still carries it's 'Buffet' markings on the carriage side as well as a red cant-rail showing the Buffets position in the vehicle. Both vehicles would be scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester by April 1986.
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Putting teeth in in public health (Spring, 2008)
April 28, 2008
Alum spearheads Arkansas' water fluoridation efforts; founds PANDA program to train dentists worldwide to recognize and report abuse
Dr. Lynn Mouden has been called a communist, fascist and even the minion of the devil. That's on a good day.
As the director of the Arkansas Health Department's Office of Oral Health, this UNC School of Public Health graduate has seen his share of concerned citizens questioning the statewide effort to fluoridate the water.
"You're not going to convince some of them. They work on emotion, not science," says Mouden, who earned his doctor of dental surgery at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1975 and his master's in health policy and administration from Carolina in 1994.
Instead, Mouden and his four-person staff have concentrated on crisscrossing the state, meeting with local officials, one community at a time. In fact, he says he's been to more city council meetings than he can remember. But the work is paying off. Local water system participation was at 49 percent when he arrived. It's now at 64 percent and getting closer all the time to the 75 percent goal.
Mouden's accomplishments look all the more impressive considering he started in Arkansas in 1999 with no budget or staff. Using his savvy political and leadership skills, he aligned himself with supportive legislators who developed and passed a statute requiring the state oral health program. He also built a coalition of 38 organizations and nonprofit groups to advocate for oral health.
"All of that has been significant because we've been able to continue despite several major budget crises and two departmental reorganizations," he says.
Mouden, however, is perhaps best known for a national and international program called PANDA — Prevent Abuse and Neglect through Dental Awareness. PANDA trains dentists and other health professionals to recognize victims of family violence and provide appropriate intervention.
"Seventy-five percent of all physical abuse signs occur in the head, neck and mouth areas," says Mouden. "And yet, less than one percent of dentists were responsible for reporting such abuse."
Mouden's interest in family violence was strengthened at UNC while taking courses in the School of Public Health's executive master's program. However, it was seeing and reporting actual cases of abuse while he was a practicing dentist in the small Missouri town of Weston that really got his attention.
"At one point, I talked to dentists from other towns in the state and asked if they were seeing what I was seeing, and they said they weren't," he says. "That got me thinking. Why am I seeing it in Weston and it wasn't being seen anywhere else?"
He discovered that abuse wasn't really more prevalent in Weston but that dentists in other towns were missing the signs in their young patients. So, joining forces with a dental benefits carrier, Delta Dental of Missouri, Mouden developed the educational material for PANDA and started spreading the word.
"I just took it upon myself to make it a personal mission."
Now with 45 state and 12 international programs, PANDA has proven to be the driving force behind dentists and others doing a better job of recognizing and reporting abuse and neglect.
"We are truly blessed to have Lynn Mouden's experience and capabilities as our leader in improving oral health for all Arkansans," says Ed Choate, president and chief executive officer of Delta Dental of Arkansas. "Through his efforts, we have greater awareness, understanding and oral health treatment for those most in need in our state."
There's no slowing this high achiever. Mouden has continued to expand the PANDA program, both in the United States and abroad, and to promote a "train the trainers" component to the program that he developed largely during his annual leave time. Mouden says it's worth it, knowing he's helped save lives.
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Thanks to the comments on an old forum here at SCS, I purchased the Perfect Square and the Perfect Layer Rulers sometime ago. They are THE BEST!!!! I couldn't be happier and I highly recommend all the tools. Just add a cutting mat and a good blade and you have all you need to get started on a life long craft journey!!!
Perfect Squares
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90-degree angels are quick and easy with this simple tool that helps you cut perfect squares of any size or square up crooked folds.
- >Create 90 degree angles with every cut
- >Each straight side is 8" long and has built in measurements
- >Straight edges have a "lip" that makes lining up paper edges easy
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Perfect Squares is designed to create perfect squares and right (90-degree) angles; it is fantastic for scrapbooking, card-making, rubber stamping and general paper crafting. Squaring and cropping images becomes a simple task using Perfect Squares.
The tool has the same "catch lip" mechanism used in Perfect Layers to hook along the side of a picture or project, for effortless, perfect alignment.
How does it work? Five easy ways to use Perfect Squares:
1) Cropping photos - get perfect 90-degree angles every time. Catch the lip along one edge of the photo, and look through the square to see where to crop the image.
2) Quickly create a square - cut one flat edge on an item, and work your way around to turn ANY uneven scrap of paper into a perfect square!
3) Custom-make ANY size card - Perfect Squares is superb for scoring, folding, and making cards. The tool is eight (8) inches long on each straight edge, and has built-in measurements. Catch the lip along one edge, score along the other edge, and fold! Use Perfect Squares to trim a card evenly, or to custom-make ANY size card!
4) Fix mis-aligned card folds - it's a lot cheaper to make your own cards out of card stock than to buy pre-folded cards; but sometimes, the fold is not aligned. Perfect Squares can be used for a quick fix: find one straight edge, and even it all out in a matter of seconds!
5) Bonus! The circles on the inside of the square are designed for different hand positions, to hold paper in place while using the tool; but you can also use the circles as templates, to round the edge of an image, or to draw circles of three different sizes!
Learn more about the Perfect Squares Tool in this video:
Perfect Squares is the Perfect Tool For You!
By Amanda Havon
I confess, I had never heard of the Perfect Squares tool before receiving it to try. But oh, I wish I had it back when I started to scrapbook! I love it, and it's so easy to store and use.
When I opened the Perfect Squares tool for the first time, I used my craft knife to cut along the edge guide, and it cut like a dream with out "skipping" like many rulers do. But, what makes this tool so special, is the little "lip" that holds your paper perfectly even and in place with ease. That little detail sets it a part from anything else, and I appreciate the help keeping my lines straight.
I also used tool as a guide to emboss a folding line on my cards, and it was a breeze. I didn't think it would let me score deeply enough, but it did an impressive job. I didn't even have to lug out my scoring board, like I usually need to do.
This tool is so easy to store and pull out at a moment's need, and that really appeals to me since I don't have much crafting space. But the best, and my favorite part, of the Perfect Squares tool is that I only need to grab this tool for crops. I can leave my heavy 12x12 scoring board at home!
Perfect 90 degree angles every time!
By Beate Johns
After our recent Perfect Layers Product Focus, I was excited to hear that we would try another tool from Perfect Paper Crafting. The Perfect Squares tool did not disappoint. Just like the Perfect Layers tool, the lip on the bottom of the Perfect Squares tool makes it easy to line up your cardstock and use the tool as a guide for cutting. Creating rectangles and squares with perfect angles has never been easier.
I like to use my rotary cutter with these tools. It's safer for me then the craft knife, since I am a bit of a klutz. Just cut your first straight line, then line up the edge of the tool and cut the other three sides with perfect 90 degree angles. The circular holes in the tool let you grip your cardstock/paper through the holes and help prevent the paper from shifting while you cut it. The ruler on the straight edge makes it easy to create squares and rectangles in a specific sizes.
What is WONDERFUL about the catch lip, is that it is on both sides of the tool. This means that the ruler will show on whichever side you need it. That's especially handy for left handed people like me.
I also used the tool to score my cardstock. I placed my cardstock on a piece of fun foam, then used the stylus tool and the Perfect Squares tool to score my card bases and even a 1/8" border on one of my layers.
This tool is easy to use and does exactly what it says... creates perfect squares (and rectangles, too).
Handy Trim & Crop Tool
By Rose Ann Reynolds
To be honest, I was quite nervous when I heard we were reviewing the Perfect Squares tool. I've seen squares used in carpentry, but what could I possibly use it for in paper-crafting? I found out quickly, after I watching the recommended video, which explains many ways to use the handy tool.
To use the Perfect Squares tool, you will need a sharp craft knife, and a medium to large-sized cutting mat (12 inches or larger, because the tool is approximately 8.5 inches on the straight edges, and 12 inches on the wavy edge).
I was quite curious to try the Perfect Squares out before I actually used in on my projects, and found it to work exactly as described. Cropping photos was easier than ever because the tool is clear, and I was able to line it up exactly where I wanted. The catch lip secured the edge of my photo, and the holes in the tool helped me to hold everything stable while I cut.
I like the option of straightening up my stamped images when I don't quite get things centered as well as I had hoped when ink goes to paper. Once I got the first edge lined up where I wanted, the rest of the edges were easy to cut at a perfect 90°. I generally do not make custom sized cards, but it's nice to know that it can be done easily with this tool by using the ruled edge and a score tool. I do, however, find the need to fix my botched card edges sometimes if I haven't scored exactly even. This is so easy with the Perfect Squares, and you can shave such a minimal amount of cardstock that it's virtually impossible to tell that there was a problem with the card edges in the first place. I haven't used the circle templates just yet, but I'm planning to when I scrap my next layout. I will also use the curvy edge of the tool for my page.
This tool has so many uses while taking up a minimal storage space. I find it a valuable asset to my collection!
The Perfect Tool!
By Lori McAree
The Perfect Square by Perfect Papercrafting is easy to use, light weight and takes up little storage space. I like that it is so easy to hold while cutting, the ruler is very easy to read and your cutting blade glides easily along the edge of the tool while cutting so smoothly.
A really great feature of the Perfect Square tool is that you can turn any scrap paper that's laying around into a perfect square. You only need one straight edge, and then you can easily cut three other sides to quick right angles. The lip that catches the edge of your paper makes all the difference. I did find that using thicker paper was a bit easier as the thinner paper wanted to shift, but all you need to do is put a bit more pressure on the paper and you are good to go.
I love how the tool fits into a small space on my desk. It's easy to grab and cut.
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I purchased mine a few months ago and am happy with it, tho I am still getting used to it. It does work better with thicker paper, high/thick enough to catch the lip on. I use alot of thin (cheaper) paper for layering so it can be a challenge to keep the paper from shifting as Lori said.


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Before and after surgery, most patients must serve as the 'general contractors' of their own care: Managing appointments, following directions, remembering instructions and more.
Even when everything goes well, it can be a stressful experience. When things do not go well, patients may arrive unprepared for surgery, be readmitted after improper post-care or experience any number of other complications.
"For caregivers, managing patient documents is equally time-consuming and stressful," said Matthew Cohlmia, director of digital strategy at Providence St. Joseph Health. "Some caregivers even resort to building silos as they feel inundated with the repetitive processes involved in patient care. The result is frustration and deterioration of communication and customer and caregiver satisfaction."
Providence St. Joseph needed to eliminate barriers to a better experience by simplifying its approach. Instead of allocating resources to manually calling and e-mailing patients and performing other repetitive administrative duties, the health system wanted its caregivers to be free to focus on innovation, improving patient satisfaction and reducing costs. It also wanted to reduce no-shows and minimize confusion in care coordination.
"The best solution we selected after a thorough process of assessing a variety of options and then piloting the top two solutions was Twistle, an automated patient engagement platform that helps guide patients through their episodes of care," Cohlmia said.
Patients download the app, through which they receive educational materials, reminders, checklists, surveys, communication tools and more, all customized by their Providence St. Joseph Health care team. The intent is to make their care management simple and care plans accessible, providing the right information at the right time.
"Care teams use a simple interface to track patients and get appropriate alerts if a patient requires their attention," Cohlmia explained. "The pathways are designed to match the caregiver's desired workflows. And information is documented in the EHR, so there is no confusion as to what was relayed to patients. Also, if a patient forgets what was transmitted, the information can easily be re-sent."
There are many vendors of care management and patient engagement technology on the market today, including Athenahealth, CipherHealth, Epic, Health Catalyst, LexisNexis Health Care, Medfusion and Solutionreach.
Twistle has undergone a rigorous testing period at Providence St. Joseph. The product was selected to pilot after a vender evaluation of more than 50 systems.
For the pilot, several Providence St. Joseph Health hospitals used Twistle for planned surgical episodes with exceptional results. Initial cases included patients undergoing joint replacement, spine surgery, colorectal surgery, cardiovascular surgery and bariatric surgery. For these cases, the clinical care teams used Twistle to communicate with the patients throughout the entire episode of care.
"Information is documented in the EHR, so there is no confusion as to what was relayed to patients. Also, if a patient forgets what was transmitted, the information can easily be re-sent."
Matthew Cohlmia, Providence St. Joseph Health
The app also was where patients received information about how to prepare for surgery and what to do afterward. The app provided one place to keep all the exchanges and information together so that the care team and patient had access and a record.
Since completing the pilot phase, the health system now has 14 hospitals signing up to use Twistle for surgical episodes of care – plus new pilots are being tested involving longer term, chronic care management.
The impact of the app on the Providence St. Joseph Health care delivery experience is reflected in the fact that 94 percent of the patients who used it found it to be helpful. The app also encourages patients to rate and review at the end of their care pathway. The health system saw online ratings for physicians improve by an average of 0.9 stars.
Some other key metrics include:
- Within the first 614 surgeries across four Providence St. Joseph hospitals, patient adoption was 95 percent.
- Patients using Twistle had a 16.5 percent lower occurrence of overall complications from spinal surgery.
- Patients went home sooner, with a reduction of 5 percent in the average length of stay. For colorectal surgery, patients on the app went home an average of two days earlier than non-app users.
- Twistle patients had a 22.8 percent lower cancellation rate for appointments and satisfaction ratings were 7.2 percent higher than for those not on the app.
- Patient calls dropped by 26 percent when the app was used in a clinic.
- No-show and cancellation rates for colonoscopy procedures fell by 29 percent at clinics that used the app to engage with patients before their procedures.
- In one test, colorectal surgery patients also had a 20 percent reduction in readmissions.
"It made sense to pilot with surgery patients as surgery is anxiety-provoking, and it's complicated to navigate all the things you need to do and know through the entire episode of care," said Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, executive vice president and chief clinical officer at Providence St. Joseph Health. "The pilots showed us that managing the flow of information and communication between care teams and patients in a single place made surgery a much better experience."
The app not only helped streamline interactions between patients and caregivers, it also built longer lasting and stronger relationships and trust, added Aaron Martin, chief digital officer at Providence St. Joseph Health.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Richard Herman on Immigration Reform
Washington Forgets Best Case for Immigration Reform
By: Richard Herman**
The White House has once again announced its commitment to immigration law reform in early 2010. So far, however, there is no sign that the administration, the Congress, or any other national leaders have learned their lessons from past attempts on this issue, most notably the ugly debate and legislative failure in 2007.
Ask people on the street what they think of when they hear the word
"immigrant" --- particularly with 10% unemployment in the country ---- and
you will hear statements like: "They take our jobs," "They bring crime,"
"They steal our health care," "They don't learn English."
Americans hear the word "immigrant" and imagine the worst. They think of illegal immigrants, competition for jobs and the stamping out of American culture.
They don't think of the tendency of immigrants--especially today's immigrants-- to create jobs, to revitalize communities, and to adopt and strengthen American culture, because no one is reminding them of this.
Humanitarian arguments to legalize 12 million undocumented immigrants
dominate the public discourse on immigration law reform. This is a mistake.
Instead of focusing on illegal immigrants, policy-makers should focus on legal immigrants--the vast majority of all immigrants--and their power as an economic engine.
Economic policy has never driven immigration debates ---- that must change.
In the new book, Immigrant, Inc. ---- Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker) (John Wiley, November, 2009), which I co-wrote with Robert L. Smith, we document how immigrants have created millions of jobs for Americans and now represent the most powerful job-creating force today.
Consider the following:
* Immigrants are almost twice as likely as native-born Americans to start a business.
* Immigrants are twice as likely as native-born Americans to file for a U.S. patent.
* Immigrants constitute the majority of Ph.D. candidates in many science and engineering programs at U.S. universities
* Immigrants founded more than half of the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, and twenty-five percent nationwide.
* Many brilliant immigrants are turned away from this country because of an immigration system that does not value their skills.
To succeed in a knowledge-based economy, America needs an advanced-degreed, entrepreneurial, and globally-connected population. Today's immigrants bring these skills to the table --- with aces. Their world-class talents translate into the creation of new industries and generations of new jobs for Americans.
Immigration reform would also inject billions of dollars into the economy.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that $66 billion in new revenue over 10 years would have been generated if supporters of the 2006 immigration reform bill had succeeded in legalizing most undocumented immigrants.
Jobs and fiscal responsibility ----- this should be the message ----- not earned amnesty and candlelight vigils.
Recently, syndicated columnist Neal Peirce of The Washington Post Writers Group argued that a new line of thought could drive a more productive discussion. "The mere fact that immigrants are an asset, not a liability, puts a whole new face on the Lou Dobbs-style attacks on America's 12 million undocumented immigrants," he wrote.
Welcoming immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs is "a virtually guaranteed stimulus to our economy and to our creative capacity
for this century," Peirce argues.
The problem is, it's hard for the innovators and entrepreneurs to get in. The current immigration system reserves only 9% of the coveted "green cards" for highly-skilled or investor immigrants. Instead of waiting in a years-long line, more and more super talent is leaving the U.S. or deciding not to come in the first place. That's why reform is essential.
So, while the right-wing begins the public outcry on undocumented immigrants or problems with H1B visas, the pro-immigration side should not allow the powerful, economic issues to be forgotten.
A job-creating message will soften the conversation, inject rationality into the discussion, and increase the chances of something getting passed. The White House should help coordinate a public education campaign that explains how smart immigration is good for America, especially in a smart economy.
To get that message out, they should employ the services of some immigrants who have been quite busy lately: People like Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google, Andy Grove, who gave us Intel, or Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
The President could talk about immigrant-founded companies like Dow Chemical, DuPont, Pfizer, Proctor & Gamble, Carnegie (later U.S.) Steel. He should remind America that immigration has historically been our competitive advantage. That's a fact that is more real today than ever before.
**Richard Herman is the co-author of Immigrant Inc.--- Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker (John Wiley & Sons, November, 2009)
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NY Appleseed Names David Tipson as New E.D.
NY Office Secures Talented New Director
Happy New Year to all of Appleseed's partners and supporters! With 2010 just hours away, the New York Office is celebrating the successful launch over the past year of several landmark projects under the leadership of outgoing director Jennifer Ching, as well as the entrance of her successor, David Tipson.
"Replacing the irreplaceable Jenn was a daunting prospect for us," said Betsy Cavendish, executive director of Appleseed. "But David's impressive background and proven commitment to social justice leave no doubt that the New York Office will continue to produce innovative, life-changing work."
With Ching to continue her service to low-income populations as the director of Queens Legal Services, Tipson officially begins on February 1. In the meantime, he and Ching are working together to ensure a smooth transition.
Tipson's legal and professional experience cover everything from program creation and legal research to fundraising and volunteer management. As an attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for the past three and a half years, he has accumulated a wealth of knowledge relating to community development, disaster recovery and housing issues, expertise that is particularly germane to heir property, one of Appleseed's key projects.
Inspired by leaders of African American communities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Tipson created the Lawyers' Committee's Heirs' Property Initiative in 2006 and has managed it since that time. That program, which connected him to several Appleseed project leaders, deployed nearly 100 volunteer attorneys to provide legal representation to low-income individuals seeking to clear title to land and has unlocked nearly $1.8 million in grants for these landowners.
Tipson will apply his proven skills as a writer, legal researcher and coalition builder to several ongoing programs launched by Ching during her tenure at the NY Office. A few highlights:
Removing barriers to the New York Earned Income Tax Credit, the state's largest anti-poverty program, for self-employed and cash-earning workers
Ensuring due process for the unrepresented by launching a volunteer lawyer program to provide legal advice and assistance to consumer debt litigants
Expanding health care access for immigrants through innovative public-private partnerships and local advocacy for insurance plan and program extensions
Promoting immigrant consumer empowerment by developing and distributing financial literacy materials in Haitian-Creole, leading trainings for over 150 community leaders, and developing a model community investment fund led by hometown associations
Appleseed is delighted that this impressive list of projects will be passed into such capable hands. Please join us in thanking Ching for her brilliant service and welcoming Tipson to the Appleseed network!
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18-Month Extension of Temporary Protected Status for Sudan
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Sudan from the current expiration of May 2, 2010 to the new expiration date of Nov. 2, 2011. During the past year, DHS and the Department of State have reviewed the conditions in Sudan. Based on this review, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has determined that an 18-month extension is warranted because the armed conflict is ongoing and the extraordinary and temporary conditions that prompted the last TPS designation of Sudan on Oct. 7, 2004 persist.
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Pilgrim's Pride Pays $4.5M to End Immigrant Probe
The U.S. government will not prosecute Pilgrim's Pride Corp. for employing undocumented immigrants. The Texas-based company agreed to pay $4.5 million and improve how it screens prospective employees to ensure they are allowed to work in the United States. See the AP story and the U.S. government's press release (here).
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Million Dollar Visas Up!
Jennifer Ludden of NPR reports that the recession has given new life to a program for visas for immigrants who invest between $50,000 and $1 million in a U.S. business and can establish that it created 10 jobs. The number of these investor visas has tripled in the past year. Still, fewer than half the the 10,000 allotted visas were used.
One reason for the uptick in investor visas -- the long backlog in other visa categories that create long lines for noncitizens seeking to immigrate to the United States from certain nations, such as China.
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Not Really News: U.S. government moving to deport longtime legal residents with criminal convictions
Here is a story about a few of the long term resident victims of the modern-day effort to rid the nation of "criminal aliens."
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The First Immigrant on Ellis Island: Annie Moore
Photo Courtesy of the Famalily of Annie Moore Schayer
Sam Roberts of the New York Times has a nice story on the first immigrant to set foot on Ellis Island when it opened on Jan. 1, 1892. Annie Moore, who came from Ireland, was her name and died on the Lower East Side in 1924.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Top 10 U.S. Immigration News Stories of 2009
A new year is coming and it seems like a good time to think back on 2009. Here is my list of the top 10 U.S. immigration news stories for 2009:
1. Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Representative Luis Gutierrez's introduction of a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the U.S. House of Represenatives on December 15.
2, Enforcement Now, Enforcement Forever: To the surprise of many who thought that they were voting for change in the 2008 elections, the Obama Administration continues to adhere to immigration "enforcement now, enforcement forever" in its immigration policies.
3. Adios, Lou Dobbs: Lou Dobbs abruptly departs from CNN (announced at the beginning of his last CNN show) this fall to "pursue other opportunities." Many Latinos and immigrants had viewed Dobbs as conducting "war" on them for years.
4. Feds Prosecute Teens Involved in Killing of Luis Ramirez: After a state prosecution resulted in the acquittal of the defendants on the most serious charges, the U.S. government files a federal hate crimes prosecution in the killing of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
5. Sheriff Joe's Reign of Terror Continues: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues a reign of terror over immigrants and Latinos generally in Arizona. Along these lines, state and local governments continue to actively pursue the regulation of immigration and immigrants in 2009.
6. Steadfast Champion of Immigrants, Senator Edward Kennedy Dies. RIP.
7. R.A. Finally Prevails: The victim of horrific spousal abuse, Rody Alvarado, with the help of a UC Hastings clinic, finally prevails after years of litigation in her efforts to remain in the United States.
8. Death on the Border Continues: Deaths on the U.S./Mexico border sadly continue as migrants from Mexico seek passage to the United States.
9. The Supreme Court: The U.S. goverment loses three of four immigration cases in the U.S. Supreme Court Term ending in June. Late in the summer, Justice Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed as a Justice on the Court and is the first Latino on the Court. Justice Sotomayor has already made a difference in the judicial discourse on immigration.
10. Matter of Comnpean Vacated: Attorney General Eric Holder vacates Matter of Compean, a heavy-handed, last minute effort by the Bush administration to thwart ineffective assistance of counsel claims by noncitizens in immigration proceedings.
Honorable Mention:
1. "You Lie": The immigration-related outburst of Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) during an address of President Obama on health care reform.
2. The Olympics -- What Goes Around Comes Around: The Chicago Olympic bid fails, with the U.S. government's treatment of foreigners an apparent issue.
3. Happy Halloween! Target's tone-deaf "illegal alien" Halloween costume.
4. New UN Refugees Deputy: Georgetown Dean Alex Aleinikoff is named United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees.
Of course, I had to make many hard decisions in winnowing this list. Sorry for any omissions.
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March Against Arpaio on January 16
From the National Day Laborer Network:
March on Phoenix, AZ -- Arpaio's America is NOT our America
January 16, 2010
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are seeking organizational endorsers for the March on Phoenix, AZ on January 16, 2010. By endorsing the march, your organization will stand in solidarity with the people of Maricopa County, AZ and send a clear message that Sheriff Arpaio's America is NOT our America. To be included in the list of endorsers click here: http://puenteaz.org/JANUARY_16_.php
Why do we march?
We have reached a new phase in the struggle for justice and dignity in Maricopa County, Arizona and in other communities suffering severe civil rights abuses due to the failure of United States immigration policy.
The nation has watched with disbelief as Sheriff Joe Arpaio has carried out a systematic reign of terror disguised in the name of immigration enforcement, but directed against all communities of color in his jurisdiction. In the process, he has become a symbol of abuse, bigotry, and intolerance. The Obama Administration's recent endorsement of Sheriff Arpaio - through the renewal of his 287(g) authority and its expansion of local immigration enforcement initiatives proven to cause racial profiling - is an affront to this nation's struggles for equality and justice.
Not since the days of Bull Connor has this country seen a public official abuse his authority in order to terrorize and intimidate communities based on the color of their skin. The hatred and extremism that Sheriff Arpaio breeds is felt from Phoenix to Washington DC. It is an extremism that, left unchallenged, threatens to disrupt communities, destroy lives, and undermine bedrock constitutional protections for us all.
On January 16, the communities in Arizona will come together with the support of people from across the country to turn the tide. By endorsing the march, your organization will join the people of Maricopa County in their historic call for justice.
Our Demands:
· A termination of Sheriff Arpaio's 287(g) contract, which grants him federal immigration law enforcement authority.
· An end to the controversial 287(g) program, the so called " Secure Communities" initiative, and others like them that spread racial profiling and civil rights abuses across the nation.
· An end to criminalization of migrants and communities of color in the name of immigration enforcement.
· An end to family separation.
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Repeat after me: Sheriff Joe has got to go!
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Immigrant of the Day: Jorge Sactic-España (Don Jorge) (Guatemala)
Our Immigrant of the Day is Jorge Sactic-España, known among the Latino community in Prince George County, Virginia, as Don Jorge. Don Jorge is from Guatemala and, although he is not an elected official, he regularly dispenses aid and advice. "His Chapina Bakery is a popular gathering spot in the two-story shopping center, the epicenter of the large Hispanic enclave in this part of Prince George's County. Sactic's cachitos and gallinitas are known as the most authentic Latin American sweet buns around. But it's his standing as a onetime illegal immigrant who has mastered life in the United States that makes him a bridge between newcomers and old-timers, Latinos and gringos -- the unofficial mayor of La Union Mall."
At age 25, Don Jorge swam across the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas in 1985. "The Guatemalan civil war was raging, and college students were targets of right-wing hit squads. He abandoned his studies in economics and fled north." His story is a classic story of a political refugee -- one of many thousands -- who fled Central America in the 1980s.
See Steve Hendrix's story in the Washington Post about Don Jorge.
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Continue DREAMing?
Unfortunately, here is another sad story of a college graduate facing deportation because his parents brought him to the United States when he was a teen. How does this make any sense?
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The Obama Administration to Back Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
As a candidate and later as President, Barack Obama pledged to support comprehensive immigration reform. Some observers have been disappointed that the administration has done little to push immigration reform in the President's first year in office. Indeed, his administration has adopted a plethora of immigration enforcement measures. Nor has the administration said much about the comprehesive immigration reform bill introduced by Rep. Luis Gutierrez in the House on December 15.
But there may be hope that the Obama administration will start to move on immigration reform in 2010. The Baltimore Sun reports that "senior White House aides have privately assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation in 2010 to provide a road to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented workers now living in the United States."
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
"Immigrant, Inc." Reviews
From: Richard Herman, co-author of "Immigrant, Inc. --- Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker)" (John Wiley, November, 2009).
I remember appearing on Fox's television show "The O'Reilly Factor" a couple of years ago to discuss immigration reform with guest host Michelle Malkin. As you can guess, Michelle quickly abandoned a conversational tone and erupted into a frenzied scream ont how immigration is destroying America.
I also remember receiving death threats after the show, from viewers who called me to say things like: "all 100 million saw you on TV, and the revolution is on."
I don't think Michelle (whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines in the 1960s as the result of the Immigration Act of 1965, immigration reform that more widely opened the American door to Asians and other non-Europeans) will like the new book I co-wrote with journalist Robert L. Smith, titled "Immigrant, Inc. --- Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker)" (John Wiley, November, 2009).
While I hoped a few might like this read of immigrant success stories intertwined with groundbreaking research, I didn't anticipate that the book would garner such glowing reviews and attention as referenced below.
In his review, Neal Peirce of The Washington Post Writers Group calls the book "audacious." Peirce writes that "the mere fact that immigrants are an asset, not a liability, puts a whole new face on the Lou Dobbs-style attacks on America's 12 million undocumented immigrants that CNN so longer tolerated, and right-wing media still promote." Peirce supports the book's message that welcoming immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs is "a virtually guaranteed stimulus to our economy and to our creative capacity for this century." Hard to do with the current immigration system, which reserves only 9% of the coveted "green cards" for highly-skilled or investor immigrants. Due to the paltry number of available green cards and the resulting years' wait to get one, more and more super talent is leaving the U.S. or deciding not to come in the first place.
In his review, Ira Stoll, editor of Future of Capitalism and author of "Samuel Adams: A LIfe" writes that the immigrant success stories "are compellingly told in this book." Stoll also found that the book uncovered a unique angle on the formation of Google. "Somehow, even with all the books out there on the company's success, most Google users probably don't realize that the involvement of immigrants in the company's success is so extensive." An interview with the parents of Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, also give the reader a new persepective on how America's welcoming of refugees has changed the world.
India's Businessworld magazine says that Imimigrant, Inc. goes "beyond praising talented immigrant entrepreneurs to explore their mindsets, cultural specificities, and their high level of determination and innovative thinking....suggesting how Americans need to tap their 'inner immigrant' to succeed."
The Akron Beacon Journal says that the authors "embarked on a mission to explore the data on immigration and open the eyes of a country they viewed as growing more insular since 9/11."
The book is also generating the type of controversy that I first tasted after my appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor." As indicated in the posts to some of the articles below, the nativists insist on spreading a message of xenophobia and of perpetuating antiquated high-skill immigration policies that continue to tie at least one hand behind America's back as she faces fierce overseas competition in the innovation and job-creating game. As my quote in Forbes suggests, "Americans are having a tough time dealing with global diversity."
Congress and the President are expected to tackle immigration reform in early 2010. Let's hope that we can find a way to free the immigrant job-creators.
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Chinatown family life - what tourists don't see
Brant Ward of the San Francisco Chronicle tells of the San Francisco Chinatown that the tourists usually do not see.
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Why We All Must Unite In The Call For An Accurate Census
See Robert Gittelson's response to the calls of some activisits to boycott Census 2010.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Will Immigration Reform Hurt Democrats?
Gary Martin writes for the San Antonio Express-News
President Barack Obama's campaign promise to overhaul immigration laws next year faces an uphill battle in Congress, and it could hurt Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections whether it succeeds or fails.
Division among Democrats and solid Republican opposition to key provisions of any sweeping reform bill will be major hurdles. Democrats facing tough re-election battles will be hard-pressed to vote to legalize the status of unauthorized immigrants during an economic downturn.
But inaction on the issue could alienate crucial Hispanic voters who helped deliver the White House to Democrats last year.
"After being on our national agenda for a decade, comprehensive immigration reform's time has come," said Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Perhaps. But the House Democratic leadership is so skittish about the issue that it wants the Senate to go first. Click here for the rest of the story.
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Immigration to Israel Increases
From JTA:
The number of immigrants to Israel this year rose 17 percent over last year, the first time there has been an increase in 10 years.
Some 16,244 people immigrated to Israel in 2009, compared to 13,859 last year, according to the Jewish Agency. The announcement was made Sunday by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and Immigration and Absorption Minister Sofa Landver.
In addition, some 5,294 people immigrated from English-speaking countries in 2009, an increase of 17 percent over the 4,511 who immigrated the previous year. Click here for the rest of the story.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Get in the Filipino Line
Here is a story that illustrates the inequities of the per country ceilings, which create long lines for admission for noncitizens seeking certain family and employment visas from certain nations.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Text of H.R. 4321, Comprehensive Immigration Reform ASAP Act of 2009
We have blogged regularly about the H.R. 4321, CIR ASAP, introduced by Representative Gutierrez on December 15. Here is the full text.
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WordPerfect for Windows. (word-processing software) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
by William D. Harrel
We waited and we waited--a year past the originally announced release date. It seemed to the loyal majority that WordPerfect for Windows (WPWin) would never come. Well, it's finally here. Now the question is: Was it worth the wait?
WordPerfect promised that its new GUI word processor would be completely compatible with the immensely popular WordPerfect for DOS (WPDOS). It's always refreshing when a software maker lives up to its claims. WPWin lets you work with the same file formats and editing procedures that WPDOS users have come to know and trust. Documents created in the DOS version print exactly the same in WPWin.
Making the transition even less painful is an option offered during installation (and any time thereafter) to choose either a Windows or a WPDOS keyboard layout. In other words, if you're used to pressing Home-down arrow to move to the bottom of a document or Shift-F6 to center a paragraph, you won't have to change the way you work. Users who are new to WordPerfect and prefer the standard Windows Common User Access (CUA) keyboard may simply opt for it during installation--or any other time. In fact (WordPerfect power users take note), WPWin maintains the powerful multiple keyboard and keyboard-mapping features of the DOS version. If you do many different kinds of writing, you can use WordPerfect for Windows to create a keyboard, complete with macros and special characters for each type.
Compatibility between the old and the new is maintained to the point that both versions can use not only the same keyboard files but also spelling and thesaurus files, style sheets, and even the advanced printer drivers found in WPDOS. About the only thing you cannot bring with you from DOS is your more sophisticated macros. Simple ones can be converted with an included conversion utility, but you'll probably have to rewrite most macros.
But what does running in Windows do to improve WordPerfect? Well, with the graphic interface you have WYSIWYG--the ability to see font and formatting changes as you make them. Graphics can be placed and resized with your mouse. Tabs, columns, and tables can be adjusted by dragging markers or clicking on icons on a slick new ruler. You can work on nine documents at a time and create links between spreadsheets and graphics files with Windows' Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).
Other advantages include choosing from file lists during merges rather than having to remember filenames, extensive control over how the program is displayed on your monitor, and the option of running both the spelling checker and thesaurus any time during a Windows session--even when WPWin is not open. But the hottest new feature is the Button Bar.
The Button Bar, which can be placed almost anywhere in the document window, is a completely programmable group of icons. Any command or macro can be assigned to it. And, in keeping with WordPerfect's multiple keyboards, you can create as many Button Bars as you need.
Yet another slick feature is WPWin's file-handling ability. Not only do the Open and Save As dialog boxes give you extensive control (moving, renaming, deleting, and viewing) over computer files, but the program is also shipped with File Manage--a stand-alone program much more adept at handling files than Windows' rickety file-management utility with the same name.
As with everything in life, all this versatility comes with tradeoffs--in this case, a rather high price. You also sacrifice speed. Compared to character-based programs, Windows word processors are notoriously slow. Of the three most popular--Ami Pro, Word for Windows, and WordPerfect for Windows-WPWin seems to be the slowest.
If you're used to the lightning-fast DOS version, prepare to mellow out, no matter how fast your computer. If you don't have a relatively fast computer (at least a 286) with 2MB of RAM, prepare to upgrade before running this product. This is the minimum system requirement. This review was done on a 386 with 8MB of RAM and a fast graphics card, however, and there were times when WPWin's sluggishness was annoying.
Aside from the speed considerations, finally getting to use WordPerfect for Windows was well worth the wait. Once you try it, you can delete yet another lackluster DOS application from your hard drive.
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran accused the United States on Sunday of threatening Russia with new atomic weapons after Washington published a document outlining plans to expand its nuclear capabilities to deter others.
The review of U.S. nuclear policy published on Friday has riled Russia, which viewed the document as confrontational, and raised fears that it could increase the risk of miscalculation between the two world powers.
"The Americans are shamelessly threatening Russia with a new atomic weapon," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a pragmatist who opened the way to Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers including longtime adversary Washington, said in a speech.
"The same people who supposedly believe that using weapons of mass destruction is a crime against humanity … are talking about new weapons to threaten or use against rivals," he said in his televised address.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif earlier warned in a tweet that the U.S. policy document posed the risk of "bringing humankind closer to annihilation".
The U.S. military has put countering China and Russia, dubbed "revisionist powers", at the centre of a new national defence strategy unveiled earlier this month shifting priorities away from fighting Islamist militants.
By expanding its own low-yield nuclear capability, the United States would deter Russia from using nuclear weapons, according to American officials.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it was very disappointed by the content of the document, which, it said, has a confrontational feel and anti-Russian orientation.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the U.S. decision showed "the spiral of a new nuclear arms race is already under way" and added that Europe was, much like during the Cold War, especially vulnerable.
"That's why we need to start new initiatives in Europe for arms control and disarmament," Gabriel said in a statement, adding that developing new weapons sent the wrong message and risked triggering an arms race.
Zarif also said in his tweet: "(U.S. President Donald)Trump's obduracy in killing the #JCPOA (Iran's nuclear deal with world powers) stems from the same dangerous imprudence".
Trump gave the Iran nuclear deal, negotiated before he took office, a final reprieve last month but warned European allies and Congress they had to work with him to fix "the disastrous flaws" in the pact or face a U.S. exit.
He said he would waive sanctions against Iran that were lifted as part of the international deal for the last time unless his conditions were met.
The ultimatum put pressure on European Union powers – key backers and parties to the 2015 international agreement to curb Iran's nuclear programme – to satisfy Trump, who wants the pact strengthened with a separate agreement.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom with; additional reporting by Michelle Martin in Berlin; editing by Mark Heinrich


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Cinema Hostel & Apartments is situated in the center of Poznan, in Old Town, located in legendary tenement house, near pubs, bars restaurants and all the night life of Poznan. 400 meters to the Stary Browar, 500 meters to the Old Market, 1600 meters to the Railway Station PKP400 meters to the Stary Browar, 500 meters to the Old Market, 1600 meters to the Railway Station PKP.
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