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Dannii Minogue has opened up about the strained relationship she had with her ex-husband's mother.
Dannii and actor Julian McMahon - the son of Lady Sonia and former prime minister William McMahon - were married in 1994 but split one year later.
In that time Dannii claims her mother-in-law would refuse to let her inside their home, and didn't want to come to the couple's wedding.
"There's a certain social pecking order and I was definitely not in that scene," Dannii said during a yet to be shown episode of Anh's Brush With Fame, due to air on the ABC on Wednesday, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The 47-year-old said she was often left "waiting in the car out front" if Julian had to duck into the house.
Dannii and Julian first met on the set of Australian TV drama Home and Away - where she played the role of Emma Jackson from September 1989 until August 1990.
But even on their wedding day, Dannii revealed there was "drama", as Lady Sonia almost refused to attend.
"(Lady Sonia) said she wasn't going to show up, so that's quite stressful," she said.
"Julian and I were going ahead with the marriage regardless. So she did end up coming and was causing a scene. It wasn't the greatest, it was hard."
As the wife of Sir William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, Lady Sonia was well-known as a socialite. She died in 2010.
Dannii went on to date Kris Smith from 2008 to 2012. The couple share an eight-year-old son, Ethan Edward Minogue Smith.
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JYJ's Kim Junsu (XIA) put on a superb performance in front of 5,000 fans this past week.
The singer who wrapped up successful shows in New York and Los Angeles continued his World Tour by performing at the Blackberry Auditorium in Mexico on September 6th (KST).
The fans there enthusiastically responded to his visit by perfectly singing along to his songs "TARANTALLEGRA", "UNCOMMITTED", "I Don't Like Love", "Set Me Free", and more.
3,500 fans flocked to this performance in Mexico, and the local media outlets as well as the cultural center were shocked to see that the show had completely sold out.
Producer Alex of Mexico Media TV 'Azteca' remarked, "Kim Junsu (XIA) is a total performer. His independent solo album was amazing, and we feel his performance today was also remarkable. We would like to continue to share news regarding Junsu (XIA) with the Mexican fans in the future."
And after observing Junsu's show, Seo Nam Kyo of the Korean Culture Institue in Mexico remarked, "There are about 50,000 Hallyu fans in Mexico, and I knew that K-Pop was popular amongst the young people, however, I truly felt it after seeing this performance today. It was a performance where I was able to realize why Junsu was indeed so popular, and I hope that starting with this concert, more and more Mexicans will be able to get to know Korea."
As soon as his performance in Mexico came to an end, Junsu got on a plane the next day to perform at Espacio Victory in São Paulo, Brazil. At the performance where 1,300 fans were present, Junsu made the crowd go wild when he stated in Portugese, 'Obrigado (thank you)', and 'Amore (I love you)'."
"Coming to South America to perform an independent concert was a huge challenge on my part, and I was concerned about a few different things because I could not utilize the greatest equipment, but those concerns vanished once I arrived," Junsu said. "There were so many fans who loved my songs, and I earned new energy. I would like to take responsibility to successfully wrap up the rest of my World Tour."
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On July 22nd, C-JeS Entertainment released an official statement regarding the recent cancellation of JYJ's scheduled broadcast appearance for Jeju Island's special "N7W" concert.
Their statement reads as follows:
"We would like to first apologize to all the fans for causing them worry over JYJ's cancellation. Illogical disruptions against JYJ continue to repeat themselves, and every time this occurs, we feel that hesitating is not being of any help to the artists involved, which is why we have decided to release a final statement.
Like a flower that blooms in the blistering winter, JYJ continues to make great achievements amidst exterior pressure and disruptions. Under the name of JYJ, they have released a worldwide album with the help of world-renown artists, and were even introduced on the American Billboard. They are also leaders of the Hallyu wave, having gone on a worldwide concert tour that has brought in over 100,000 people both in Korea and overseas.
Unfortunately, JYJ continues to encounter cancellations for their TV appearances, much like what happened recently.
C-JeS Entertainment will no longer pay such matters any attention and feel any joy or grief from them; instead, we will be doing our absolute best with everything in our power to take actions to ensure that JYJ will be able to walk the path they desire.
We have filed a complaint with the Fair Trade Commission for this case with KBS, and we will take legal action for any further disruptions of JYJ's individual activities.
Not only that, we will continue to focus on the original lawsuit by using the recent controversy (as well as many others) as an accumulation of evidence.
Unfortunately, I feel that there will continue to be mountains standing in our way, even if we win the original lawsuit;the situation will not change all that much.
C-JeS Entertainment will continue to walk the path that JYJ have been on all this while. In the future, JYJ will continue to advance onto stages all over the world to show off their talents to their hearts' desire, and to present joy through their music and acting.
Lastly, JYJ will continue to work as honorary ambassadors of the 'NW7′ and promote the beautiful Jeju Island. We ask that the fans continue to lend their support and interest."
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Theatre was thrown into the national spotlight with the emergence of the #MeToo movement. Led by the Royal Court, the industry pledged to change, but a year on have things improved? Amber Massie-Blomfield talks to the leaders still fighting to dismantle old power structures and stamp out abuse
A year ago, the #MeToo movement exploded into being. Harrowing accounts of endemic sexual harassment and gender imbalance poured out from every profession and across society.
In theatre, Vicky Featherstone and Lucy Davies, the artistic director and executive producer of London's Royal Court, acted quickly and decisively. They set up the groundbreaking event No Grey Area for people to tell their stories and drew up a code of behaviour for theatres across the country. The sector, it seemed, was ready to embrace change. But, 12 months on, has it?
Vicky Featherstone announces 'day of action' in response to Weinstein revelations
"Breaking the issue open was really important," Featherstone says, a few weeks before #MeToo's first anniversary this week. But, as she and Davies have continued to work on the issue behind the scenes, they have become increasingly aware of the huge amount of work yet to be done. "What we've uncovered is absolutely monumental and I feel we're further away than we've ever been from getting to a place of truth or change. It's really distressing."
When the Royal Court's leaders first went public, Featherstone was invited on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and was asked about allegations levelled at the Old Vic's former artistic director Kevin Spacey. "I said: 'We all knew and we all colluded, well what's happened post that, a need has been created – which is way beyond the fact that we all knew – which is people coming to us and telling us the absolute, unbelievable, dark, systemic failure and detail of abuse, in so many different areas, that they've gone through.
"That's so much deeper than us thinking: 'Everybody knew about Kevin Spacey so why didn't anyone speak up about it? Why didn't anyone speak up about the way some dirty old director was working in a rehearsal room at the Royal Court?' So it feels as though people came and needed to have really different conversations with us, on a really regular basis, and it's really hard to know how to make change."
The Royal Court has been listening to testimony from individuals since No Grey Area. "People have had to endure, both historically and currently, really difficult situations. Some have been able to email us or speak to other people and have conversations and bring them out – so that is a positive thing. But they are so major, we don't know how to find our way through them." They are conscious of how much work still lies ahead. "As a culture, we still don't know what to do," Featherstone says.
Read The Stage's in-depth survey and report on harassment and bullying in the theatre industry
So how much has really changed in the way theatres deal with issues of harassment? How much still needs to be done? And is the industry any safer to work in than it was in October 2017?
Cassie Chadderton, head of UK Theatre – the member organisation for many of the UK's leading venues and producers – strikes a cautiously optimistic note: "The sector is a more supportive environment than it was 12 months ago. There is much more likelihood that you will hear the words: 'Is that okay, or not okay?'. As the start of a conversation, that's a good thing. Of course, a lot has to sit behind it."
UK Theatre's handbook, Encouraging Safer and More Supportive Practices in Theatre, provides a benchmark for the industry in dealing with harassment issues; Featherstone calls it "fantastic". Launched in partnership with sister organisation Society of London Theatre, following extensive consultation through a series of open forum events, it contains 10 principles designed to promote a safer working environment in theatres. "They are a way of having a conversation when you're starting a new production," Chadderton says. "Which then, we hope, goes on to create a much more open conversational culture. Which means it's okay to talk about it if you think you've got a problem."
'What we've uncovered is absolutely monumental and we're further away than we've ever been'
Vicky Featherstone, Royal Court artistic director
The handbook has been downloaded by UK Theatre members, made up mostly of medium to large scale venues, more than 1,600 times, says the organisation's head. UK Theatre and SOLT also opened the Theatre Helpline in June, a 24-hour service for theatre professionals needing support with any issue affecting their health and well-being. It receives about 40 calls a month. "People are calling to check in and understand what the helpline is. Then if they feel confident they come back," Chadderton says.
Meanwhile, Equity's Agenda for Change report, created following contributions from more than 340 union members, offers practical guidance to encourage a "cultural shift in the sector". Out of this, the union created a dedicated harassment helpline, and the provision of resources such as posters and an affirmation statement to be read at the beginning of rehearsals.
In September, Equity became a member of the Trade Union Congress' executive committee after its president, Maureen Beattie, presented a motion to the TUC seeking support for changes to legislation around non-disclosure agreements in production processes and increases in time limits for tribunal claims to at least six months.
The Stage has carried out its own research into how the industry has responded to #MeToo over the past year. More than 80 commercial and not-for-profit theatre organisations, of all sizes and from across the UK, were asked about the action they had taken over the past 12 months. Of these, 84% said they had updated policies and procedures related to harassment and bullying.
Harassment survey: 80% of theatres update policies in light of #MeToo
Despite this, more than three-quarters said the number of grievances around harassment had stayed the same during this period, which poses a question about the practical value of policy change, while the majority of smaller organisations said they do not have a dedicated member of staff for human resources, indicating a further challenge.
That robust paperwork doesn't necessarily translate into a willingness to speak against inappropriate behaviour became clear to the Old Vic during its investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey and the culture surrounding him.
'All of us can collaborate and learn and come together to effect lasting change'
Kate Varah, Old Vic executive director
"What we discovered was that there is a gap between water-cooler conversation with a colleague and the formal, very excellent and robust methods of escalating through HR, unions, industry bodies or line management," says the venue's executive director Kate Varah. "You've got to feel confident and brave to go through those processes and some people don't. So we thought about how we can bridge the gap and come up with a pastoral initiative that gives people the agency and confidence to speak up about something they are concerned about."
Varah and the Old Vic's solution has been to launch the Guardians' Network – an initiative in which members of staff are trained to offer confidential support to peers who are facing harassment issues, but are unsure of how to escalate them. The scheme has been adopted by more than 50 organisations across a number of sectors. Operating in the context of a wider network is, Varah believes, crucial. "I can talk to other theatres that are involved and say: 'By the way, this trend is happening, have you experienced that, what training have you put in place?'. We can horizon-scan: everybody has experienced something that they wish hadn't happened in their organisation, so all of us can collaborate and learn and come together to effect lasting change – because it is absolutely about what happens next."
Freelancers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation as they operate outside the organisational structures that provide PAYE employees job security and channels for reporting. "For freelancers there's this sense that if they call out bad behaviour they might not get the next job," Chadderton says.
"A freelancer should be able to walk into a building and to understand immediately what the culture is and where to go if there's an issue," Varah says. "With the Guardians scheme we've hopefully created a common language where people can go from institution to institution, walk in and it says 'Here is your guardian' and they feel instantly safe and supported and ready to activate any conversation they want. So that would be a fantastic thing to achieve – if the Guardians scheme was to become so ubiquitous that people could walk into a building and know it was a resource available to them."
With so many new schemes and policies in place across the sector, is the atmosphere different in the rehearsal room?
"Yes, most definitely, there has been a big change," says Joan Iyiola, star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Duchess of Malfi this summer and co-director of Monobox – a career-support service for actors in the early stages of their careers. "At the RSC, Erica Whyman, the deputy artistic director, came in on the first day to talk to us about its new policy on harassment, why it was there, what it meant, flagging that if anyone needed to talk to her about anything over the process she would be there to listen, to help, to move it forward. I thought that was exceptional, because before that I hadn't really seen someone come in and say: 'If there's a problem, here's how we deal with it'."
Erica Whyman writes for The Stage about the industry in the wake of harassment allegations and the RSC's 'Respect' policy
"We actors are a community and if you hear very unfortunate stories from a colleague or a contemporary, about what it is like to work with somebody, that really goes a long way – in the same way they are having those conversations when they are casting. We often forget the power that the community of actors can have in those discussions, because I don't think twice about whether or not the people I trust are telling me the truth."
'I'm not going to be in rehearsal rooms or work at certain theatres if I don't feel safe'
Joan Iyiola, actor
But Iyiola acknowledges that she and her peers still feel vulnerable to inappropriate behaviour. "So often, so many actors will tell you that they don't feel safe. I've given myself a rule that I'm going to try to minimise that as much as possible," she says. "If that means I'm not going to be in certain rehearsal rooms or work at certain theatres, because I just don't feel that I'm going to be safe within them, then I have decided I'm no longer going to do that. And that's #MeToo but it's also a bigger thing, it's about power and how it is distributed."
That does not just apply to actors. It is a crucial issue backstage too. Multi award-winning lighting designer Paule Constable says: "As a young woman walking into this industry you are still incredibly vulnerable." For her, the focus on high-profile sexual harassment cases has skewed a necessary conversation about bullying in a much broader sense. "There are many brilliant things about #MeToo, but it's about one very specific articulation of an abuse of power and bullying. And in terms of gender politics and trying to realign and look at opportunities for young women it has become fuelled by a salacious love of gossip and I fear that we are still humiliating and bullying women, overtly." She points to the treatment received by Indhu Rubasingham over the change of the Kiln's name from the Tricycle: "I don't believe she would be treated that way if she were a man, I really don't."
'It's fuelled by a salacious love of gossip and I fear that we are still humiliating and bullying women'
Paule Constable, lighting designer
Constable's words capture the complexity of measuring the impact of #MeToo on the sector. While many of the women who have been at the forefront of the theatre industry's response acknowledge the importance of the formal measures that have been adopted, there is a wide recognition that the change required is far more root and branch: that it is about power structures and how they operate. As the Royal Court's Davies says: "Generally in the sector, fundamentally there's still a sense of being at a loss about how to put a process in place that will do what it needs to do. The paperwork is good, the helplines are good, but the actual challenge of dismantling some of the power structures is much greater."
The experiences of the past year have clearly made her reflect deeply on the power she and Featherstone hold. "You're mindful of how you use your power and how you can shift things to be a bit fairer, a bit more open and a bit more ethical," she says. One of the striking aspects of the industry's response to the rise of the #MeToo movement has been the very different approaches the leadership of different organisations have taken. Could that be related to the gender of those in charge?
Davies says: "It's struck us that there have been a couple of male artistic directors who haven't felt confident enough to put their truthful voice into this place, in a way that instinctively you do as a woman, you don't question it… It could be that this is a moment where our social conditioning has been useful. Our compassion is fostered and men's is silenced." She continues: "There's that brilliant Simone de Beauvoir quote: 'The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands… It's a question of destroying that notion of power.'"
For Constable this is precisely why #MeToo is indivisible from bigger questions about diversity and representation in the industry. "The healthier the gender balance, the less you find ghettos of poor behaviour. We need to make safe spaces and part of that has to be making environments to work in where the power base does not belong to one age group, one sex, and one cultural type. That will help." Iyiola's experience bears this out: "In a lot of the jobs I've done this year the leadership – or creative teams – have been female driven. That immediately changes something. So that is going to be a big step forward, if we keep pushing – who our leaders are. That just filters through."
'We need to make sure survivors are supported properly and then we'll talk about rehabilitation'
Rachel Vogler, Houselights founder
Meanwhile, Rachel Vogler, founder of Houselights, an initiative working with drama schools and youth theatres, feels the genuine, far-reaching change required will only truly be achieved through the passage of time. "We're aiming to build a new generation of people who know that this is not okay. We're not in a place where, if you don't experience harassment, you don't have to worry about it. We're all part of it. Students proactively and pre-emptively have to know, because it is now an unignorable, integral part of training for professional development."
Vogler, a former women's officer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, started Houselights with fellow Central graduate Kim Turford on the back of Central Says Enough, a campaign that challenged that institution's "incredibly clinical" response to #MeToo by improving the support offered to students who had filed harassment claims.
"Our greatest achievement was that we saw a huge spike in reporting. Ideally years down the line we won't measure the success of sexual harassment campaigns by the number of reports, but for the place that we are at." Their new enterprise expands this work to drama schools and youth theatres more widely, offering consultations, workshops and access to the Houselights Network.
One key issue remains largely unaddressed. The question of rehabilitation for those who have had accusations of misconduct upheld against them. Is it too soon for this conversation? Vogler thinks so: "Right now we're in no position to be entertaining the idea that these people still have a place, not least because certain parts of this sector spend so much time telling people there isn't a space for them. We need to make sure survivors are being supported properly and then we'll talk about rehabilitation."
But Davies believes "proper, genuine atonement can become a really important advocacy moment". For Featherstone, the question of whether rehabilitation is ever possible is "case by case… you have to believe people can change, otherwise we're saying that society is only ever one thing, which is whatever your main means of behaviour is and I don't think that's the case".
She continues: "One of the things I find quite interesting is people who don't believe they've done wrong, the denial of it – there's a whole thing about perception and people needing to understand that perception is valid in these situations, but it doesn't mean that somebody should be dragged through (a process) if there isn't anything that can be held up in terms of proof. So it is a really grey area."
The Royal Court's leaders recognise a conflict between the necessarily private nature of organisational disciplinary procedures and the public appetite for justice and accountability.
'The paperwork is good, the helplines are good, but the challenge of dismantling the power structures is much greater'
Lucy Davies,Royal Court executive producer
"Often things can be dealt with effectively internally, but they're confidential and other people hear about those things and aren't satisfied with the process, even though the complainant may be," Featherstone says. "That will be a challenge going forward – that organisations will feel as though they have gone through the process and that a person will have had some form of rehabilitation. Those organisations will be doing things by the book and people will complain – that's a complex new area we're in."
While the way forward for the #MeToo movement may be "daunting", Davies and Featherstone are absolutely committed to keeping up the fight. They see the Royal Court continuing to push this issue, in particular fighting a "resistance" they perceive from certain groups. Featherstone believes there has been "a sort of tribal coming together of people who think it might have gone a bit too far and has threatened certain ways of behaving that they thought were actually okay and we've been a bit over the top – they can only say that in certain groups, but they probably all agree with each other. They couldn't say that publicly, but we know that happens. In surprising areas".
Davies adds: "Our role going forwards might be in relation to that resistance. If that's going to become more vocal or more strident, it might be that all of us as a sector have to push back."
Wherever #MeToo goes next the Royal Court's leadership team is in this for the long haul. "Change is possible. Look at the women's movement: that involved a huge paradigm shift in men's thinking as well as women's and there are things that were real in the 1970s that are unimaginable to us now," Davies says. "So I believe it can happen."
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- 2015 KES Award for outstanding contribution and leadership
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Presented November 13, 2011, by Dr. Doug Muder
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Anatole France: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Desmond Tutu: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
I once heard the story of a particularly clever protest during the Civil Rights movement. A movie theater did not sell tickets to Negroes, so protesters of many ethnicities came together, arranged themselves by color, and got in line together. A blond Swede was at the front of the line, a coal-black African at the end. And in between Germans, Greeks, Arabs, and South Asians represented every shade from light to dark.
Where would ticket sales stop? Exactly what shade was too black?
Imagine that you stumbled into that protest, just wanting to see the movie, not knowing what was going on, not even conscious of the fact that you never saw Negroes inside this theater. The organizers place you in your appropriate spot, behind someone lighter, in front of someone darker.
Imagine being the last person to get in. The woman ahead of you gets a ticket. The man behind you is turned away. You get to see the movie.
Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
I think I should annotate here, because Jesus uses both Pharisees and tax collectors as stereotypes that his audience would have understood, but two thousand years later we have a harder time. The Pharisees taught that religion should be part of everything you do, rather than just being a business transacted in the Temple between God and the priests. That's why, when the Temple was destroyed a few decades after Jesus, the Pharisees were the sect that survived to create modern Judaism. But as you might imagine, many of the common people Jesus was talking to might have found them annoying, holier-than-thou. "Why can't we just get on with our business and stop worrying what the Torah says about every little thing?" Tax collectors were disreputable people, people you wouldn't want to be seen hanging around with. It's not that there is something wrong about collecting taxes in general, but Israel was an occupied country, so these were Roman taxes. That made the tax collectors were collaborators, Jews who profited from the Roman occupation of their country.
[An annoying religious zealot and a collaborator went up to the Temple to pray.]
The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, "God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income."
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!"
I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other.
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the workers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.
When he went out about nine o-clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; and he said to them, "You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right." So they went.
When he went out again about noon and about three o'clock, he did the same. And about five o'clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, "Why are you standing here idle all day?"
They said to him, "Because no one has hired us."
He said to them, "You also go into the vineyard."
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, "Call the workers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first."
When those hired about five o'clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage. Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.
And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, saying, "These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat."
There is a web site called "We Are the 99%". Maybe you've seen it. People write their story on a single sheet of paper and then post a photo of themselves holding the paper. By now there are more than a thousand stories on that site. Here's one:
I am a 20 year old college student trying to better myself and my family by gaining an education although my husband and I both know that with the way things are, we're both almost better off working our minimum wage jobs that we have and are barely scraping by with than even attempting to do anything more.
We rely on government assistance for food/medical/daycare, work insane hours each week to get by and still can't afford basic necessities.
Our combined 100 + hr work week shows no profit. None of our jobs provide medical (which due to asthma, I cannot go without medications or I will die. Since a stable home for my children is more important that my own health, rent comes before my $150 prescriptions).
My husband is trying to find another full-time job on top of the one he has so we can stop relying on assistance but due to a buy out and closing of the company my dad worked at, so are 900 other people in the area who are suddenly unemployed or like my dad, took a 75% pay cut and can't afford their bills anymore.
Here's another:
Got my bachelor's. Got low-paying job. Business went under. Defaulted on 70K student loan debt. I make less than 20K a year -- 2 jobs. Not enough to pay debt. No dental/health. 6 cavities -- used car -- no savings -- no $ in bank.
There's another web site called "We are the 53%". It's a response to the 99% site,and it uses the same format. The title comes from the fact that only 53% of American households owed any income tax last year. Conservatives have latched onto this figure to symbolize the idea that only about half of the people in America are pulling their weight, while the rest are baggage.
Interestingly, the people considered to be baggage are not the idle rich, working age people who have no jobs and live on investment income. They're not trust-fund kids, who have never worked, but live on vast inherited wealth. No, the baggage, the 47%, are often like the folks on the 99% site, who might work two or three minimum-wage jobs, but can't make the minimum amount to get into the lowest tax bracket.
The first 53% post was put up by Erick Erickson, who is actually quite well-to-do and famous. He started redstate.com, the premier conservative group blog, and now he's a commentator on CNN. He tells his 53% story like this:
I work 3 jobs. I have a house I can't sell. My family insurance costs are outrageous. But I don't blame Wall Street. Suck it up, you whiners. I am the 53% subsidizing you so you can hang out on Wall Street and complain.
With that post as a model, the site drew posts from people much poorer than Erickson:
I am a former Marine. I work two jobs. I don't have health insurance. I worked 60-70 hours a week for 8 years to pay my way through college. I haven't had 4 consecutive days off in over 4 years. But I don't blame Wall Street. Suck it up you whiners. I am the 53%. God bless the USA!
Here's a similar, but less inflamatory story that's been shared on Facebook:
I am a college senior, about to graduate completely debt free. I pay for all of my living expenses by working 30+ hrs a week making barely above minimum wage.
I chose a moderately priced, in-state public university and started saving $ for school at age 17. I got decent grades in high school and received 2 scholarships which cover 90% of my tuition. I currently have a 3.8 GPA. I live comfortably in a cheap apartment, knowing I can't have everything I want. I don't eat out every day, or even once a month. I have no credit card, new car, iPad or smart phone -- and I'm perfectly OK with that. If I did have debt, I would not blame Wall St. or the government for my own bad decisions. I live below my means to continue saving for the future. I expect nothing to be handed to me, and will continue to work my @$$ off for everything I have. That's how it's supposed to work.
I am NOT the 99%, and whether or not you are is YOUR decision.
Herman Cain, in an interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal:
Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself. ... When I was growing up, I was blessed to have had parents that didn't teach me to be jealous of anybody, and didn't teach me to envious of somebody. It is not a person's fault because they succeeded. It is a person's fault if they failed.
Many years ago, my mother and her sister had a conversation. I was about to get a Ph.D. in mathematics, the family's first, and I had already lined up a job that paid more than my father had ever made working in the factory. My aunt commented that I was lucky to have had so many opportunities, and that made Mom bristle. "He wasn't lucky," she said. "He worked hard." Now, I think this was an old argument, because over the years my sister and I had provided Mom with more obvious things to crow about than my cousins had given my aunt. Mom wasn't willing to write that off as luck.
Looking back, though, I recognize some truth in both of their points of view. I did work hard, and I was lucky. I was lucky to be born with talents I did nothing to earn. I was lucky to have parents and teachers who encouraged me. I was lucky that I didn't have to drop out of school to help support our family. I was lucky not to get sick. I was lucky that none of the stupid risks I took as a teen-ager turned into life-changing disasters. I went to college as an English major, and I came that close to not signing up for the freshman math course where I met my most inspiring professor and the ambitious students I hung around with for the next four years. That was one of many moments when my life could have gone some other way entirely. So I was lucky. And it was not the least of my luck to live in a country like the United States. I'm sure many just as talented people worked just as hard in Sudan or Rwanda, but things did not work out nearly so well for most of them. I could go on and on.I was lucky. And I worked hard. You can tell the story either way. Probably all of you have known some success in your life. Maybe it's a big success or just a small one. But somewhere, you have a success story. And like me, I bet you could tell it either way. You worked hard. And you were lucky. That's how you succeeded. That's how anybody succeeds.
Now, that vision of success -- that it takes both luck and effort -- is a little too complicated to communicate to small children. So we usually just present the hard-work side,because that's the part a person can control. You work hard and you hope for the best. But hoping for best comes naturally,while hard work needs to be taught. So it would be a poor parent who told his child: "Do whatever you want and maybe you'll get lucky." Instead, parents tell children: "No you can't go out and play with your friends, you have to stay in and do your homework. No you can't stay up and watch TV, you have to go to bed so you'll be awake for school tomorrow. No you can't skip straight to dessert. You have to eat your fruits and vegetables. And then you have to brush your teeth." And -- unless things have changed a lot in the last few decades --parents also threaten children with what will happen if they don't: They'll grow up ignorant. They won't get into college. They won't get a job. They'll be fat and unhealthy. They won't be good at sports. Their teeth will turn black and fall out. They won't be pretty, and no one will ever want to marry them. Now, personally you may try hard not to give these negative messages to your children. But they're out there. Children can't really escape them.
There's an old song about this. Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby both sang it. It's called "Would You Like to Swing on a Star?". The chorus is very upbeat:
Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?
But then comes the alternative: Or would you rather be [some kind of animal]? Each verse describes a different kind.
Or would you rather be a mule?
A mule is an animal with long funny ears.
He kicks up at anything he hears.
His back is brawny but his brain is weak.
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak.
And, by the way, if you hate to go to school,
you may grow up to be a mule.
It goes on like that: Pigs have bad manners. Fish are slippery and try to escape the consequences of their actions. And so on. These animals are bad. And if you're not careful, you might grow up to be one. Now, people who tell kids these things mean well. And if you remember adults telling you things like that when you were growing up, I'm sure they meant well too. Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby probably meant well. Some kinds of behaviors help you to succeed in life, and the grown-ups wanted us learn them. They didn't want us growing up to be losers. But there's a downside. What happens when you grow up and you meet the kind of people your parents threatened you might become? People who can't find work. Unhealthy people who need some kind of care they can't pay for. People who don't have an education or a skill. Or maybe they do have an education and a skill, but it's obsolete now. We don't do that kind of work in this country any more. Or a machine does it now. Or that whole industry doesn't exist any more. Maybe they didn't save when they were younger. Or they did save, but they put their money in AAA-rated bonds that turned out to be worthless. Or maybe they trusted a pension fund that invested in those bonds. However it happened, they are the losers in this economy.
How do you react when you meet them? No doubt some part of you feels compassion, wishes them well, and wants to do whatever you can to help. But maybe you have another reaction too. Maybe some part of you thinks: All my life I was raised not to be like this person, and by God I'm not! I didn't make his mistakes. I stayed in and studied when he went out and played. I turned left when he turned right. I took the other one of those two paths that diverged in the woods, and that has made all the difference. In other words: O God, I thank thee that I am not like this tax collector. Or, to put that in 21st-century terms: Suck it up, you whiners.
When enough people have a reaction like that, it starts to have political implications. It's one of several psychological responses, each of which is very human and understandable in an individual. But the people who benefit from the injustices in our economic system can take advantage of them to keep the rest of us from coming together to fix things. Let me go back and start at the beginning. I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know if I say that we live in a country with ever-increasing inequality, ever-decreasing opportunity, and hardening barriers between classes. More and more so all the time, our economy works for the benefit of the wealthiest 1% and at the expense of the rest of us. You would think this would be impossible in a democracy, but here we are. The lower 99% seem incapable of coming together to defend their own interests.
Now, how does that happen?
Psychologically, an unjust system's first line of defense is shame. That's what's going on in that Herman Cain quote -- and I picked Cain not because the message is unique to him, but because he said it more plainly than anybody else: If you're not succeeding, don't blame the system, blame yourself. If you want to work, but can't find a job; if your mouth is full of cavities, but you can't afford to go the dentist; if you're doing everything you can, but you still can't provide what your children need to grow up healthy and happy -- don't be angry, be ashamed. Don't go out on the street and protest, go into your closet and hide, because you are a loser. That sense of shame combined with the expectation that we will meet blame rather than compassion causes many of us to minimize the extent to which we have been affected by the downturn. "Oh, I'm OK. I'm getting by. Things are looking up. I've got some prospects."
In the last few months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has started breaching that first line of defense. That's the significance of that 99% web site. People are overcoming shame. By protesting in public, and by putting their pictures and their stories out on the web for everyone to see, they're saying, "Yes, I am losing in this economy. But I refuse to hide. Look at me. This is what a loser looks like in America today." If you spend much time paging through that website, you'll probably see that they look a lot like the rest of us. The losers look a lot like you.
Now that is a scary thought, and fear tends to evoke another understandable reaction: denial. When you meet someone whose situation scares you, makes you worry about your own situation, the most natural response in the world is to try to find some difference between them and you, some waterline where you can imagine that the tide of misfortune will have to stop. That reaction may not be admirable, but it is very human. You hear that someone has lung cancer and (if you're not a smoker yourself) the first words out of your mouth are likely to be "Did he smoke?" The parents whose child vanished into thin air, the woman who was raped, the old person who can't keep working but can't afford to retire -- it's the most natural thing in the world to wonder what they might have done wrong that you always do right. And once you find the waterline that separates you, it's very tempting to build an imaginary wall there, a wall that makes it very clearthat I am on this side and they are on that side. And so, your mind turns differences of degree into differences of kind. It's not just that they work 40 hours a week and you work 45. It's that you are hard-working and they are lazy. If a single choice of yours has turned out better than theirs, then you are wise and they are foolish. If they broke a single commandment that you have kept, then you are upright and they are depraved. So an unjust system's second line of defense is to help you build that wall of denial to separate yourself from those shameless people who are refusing to hide even though they are losers. And so you will hear, for example, that unemployment isn't really that serious a problem, because it mainly affects the unskilled. Or people who didn't graduate from college. Or college graduates who didn't major in the right subject. Or people who did major in the right subject, but didn't get good enough grades. As long as there is some place to build that wall, you don't have to admit that the losers look a lot like you.
Denial gets all mixed up with legitimate pride. So that ex-Marine is right to take pride in how hard he works and what he has endured to keep his head above water. But he works two jobs and has no health insurance. Who is he kidding, imagining that there is some difference between him and the people on the 99% site? Likewise, that college senior who has no debt and works her ass off -- she has a lot to be proud of. But she imagines a wall that separates hard-working people who make good decisions from everyone else. She is on the right side of that wall. And because luck plays no role in the world, and because decisions that seem wise at the time never turn out badly down the road, she will always be on the right side of the wall. She will never need the help or support or compassion of the 99%.
In the same way that we resist being lumped in with the losers, we also want to hang onto our resentment of people doing better than we are. I'm not talking about class warfare here -- quite the opposite. It is actually quite hard to raise resentment against the very rich. Human nature just doesn't work that way. For example, growing up, I hardly ever thought about the kids who spent winter vacations skiing in Aspen and summer vacations surfing in Hawaii. They lived in another world. But if my sister got two scoops of ice cream when I only got one, that was not fair. Resentment stays close to home. It's much easier to resent people who are almost like you, but have some small advantage. Maybe they have just a little more than you, or like the late-arriving workers in the vineyard, they have exactly what you have, but didn't suffer as much to get it.
And so, an unjust system's third line of defense is to deflect legitimate resentment onto the wrong target. Last spring, when the bill to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees was being debated in Wisconsin, the Club for Growth blanketed the state with a very effective ad. It talked about the sacrifices that private-sector workers in Wisconsin had been forced to make to save their jobs, the cuts they had had to agree to in benefits and wages. And where did the ad want those workers to focus their resentment? Should they resent the owners, who pocketed those sacrifices as higher profits? Or the executives who raised their own pay while firing some employees and squeezing concessions out of the rest? Oh no. The ad wanted distressed private-sector workers to focus their resentment on the public-sector teachers and nurses who hadn't had to make those sacrifices yet. If my money has been transferred to the rich as profits, then my sister's money should be transferred to the rich as tax cuts. It's only fair.
We are the 99%. This is a democracy. If we can hang together, it ought to be possible to re-write the rules so that the economy works for ordinary people again. But there are big obstacles against us holding together. And you don't have to look far to see them, because they are sitting right in your own brain: the shame you feel in your own defeats; the denial that makes you want to say, "Bad things only happen to other people"; the pride that makes you want to set yourself above those who are worse off; the resentment you feel against people who are doing only slightly better. And all of those impulses sit right next to things you need or deserve. You ought to criticize yourself and learn from your failures. In the face of adversity, you need to find reasons to hope. You deserve be proud of all the things you're doing to keep your head above water. And you should stand up for yourself and demand to be treated fairly. So I'm not saying you should throw all that stuff out of your head. That would be naive advice, because I can't do it myself. I am ashamed, I am in denial, I am proud, and I resent all the wrong people -- just like everybody else.
All I'm saying is: Pay attention. Watch yourself. Shame, denial, pride, resentment -- those are ways you can be manipulated into working against your own interests and against people whose problems are just like yours. The manipulators have enormous resources. You will hear their message from all directions: The people who want change, they are evil, they are lazy, they are jealous, they are misguided, they are dirty, they are disgusting, they are unreasonable, they are violent, they are minions of some dark conspiracy against all that is good. And above all, you should be ashamed to have any connection with them. You should identify with the 1%, because you want to join the winners, not the losers. From time to time, that message will strike home and you may find yourself raging against people who are victims of this economy, people who are worse off than you are. When that happens, take a step back. Ask yourself where this is coming from. This thing you find yourself raging about, is it really the important battle? Or is it more important to make the country work again for the vast majority?
If this movement is to succeed, the hardest thing you will need to do for it is not to vote for certain candidates or give money to certain causes or even to occupy Washington Park. The hardest thing you'll need to do is face that voice in your own head, the one that says, "You don't want to be one of these losers." When you hear that voice, I hope you will claim your people and say: "Yes. Yes I do. I want to join the losers. Together, we are the 99%."
A century ago, Eugene Debs claimed the losers of his day like this: "While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it."
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Of the several important issues for the home gardener to understand and practice, pruning is quite possibly the most critical and the least well understood. Mal Condon will share some details of our 'Seasonal Step Approach to Pruning' – focusing on specific new understandings we continue to explore and develop over time. Additionally, several cultural issues deserve extra attention at this most important time in our growing season – fertilizing, bloom color control, irrigation strategies. 'Container Growing Techniques' for our much loved Hydrangea macrophyllas deserves serious consideration as a method for insuring winter survival. Full details will be presented 'on screen' and 'live'.
A lifelong gardener, Mal Condon has been collecting, propagating, and growing hydrangeas for more than 40 years. His initial home gardening pursuits developed over the years into a dedicated commercial operation. An engineer by education and profession, he is strongly committed to the continuing development of the genus – always searching for new and better plants, evaluating their landscape performance, and finding superior ways to produce and grow them.
His Hydrangea Farm Nursery on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts was a well-known specialty nursery featuring one of the largest hydrangea collections in the Northeast. In 2014, he relocated to Cape Cod, where he continues his passion establishing a significant new garden. Mal frequently shares his many hydrangea learnings with garden clubs, horticultural associations, and plant societies – in the USA and other hydrangea-centric locations world-wide.
He is currently the Curator of Hydrangeas at Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA and totally involved with the continuing expansion of the Garden's significant collections, including the North American Hydrangea Test Garden and The Cape Cod Hydrangea Society's Display Garden.
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Paradise Woods, brilliant winner of the Grade I Santa Anita Oaks in April but a serious disappointment as the favorite in the Kentucky Oaks May 5, returns to action Sunday when she heads a field of eight three-year-old fillies in the Grade III $ 100,000 Torrey Pines at one mile over Del Mar's main track. The swift daughter of Union ...Read More »
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Ebor Festival: Enable wins Yorkshire Oaks for fourth successive Group One victory
Enable records her fourth successive Group One victory by winning the Yorkshire Oaks at the Ebor Festival. BBC Sport – Horse RacingRead More »
Dream Dancing Fights To The Wire To Win Del Mar Oaks
John Oxley's homebred filly Dream Dancing scored the biggest victory of her career on Saturday, fighting down the length of the stretch to nail a blanket finish over Beau Recall and Madam Dancealot in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks. The 3-year-old daughter of Tapit, ridden by Julien Leparoux for trainer Mark Casse, covered nine furlongs over the firm turf ...Read More »
Madam Dancealot Tops Bakers' Dozen For G1 Del Mar Oaks
Slam Dunk Racing's Madam Dancealot and jockey Jamie Theriot win the Grade II, $ 200,000 San Clemente A field of 13 was entered Wednesday for Saturday's Grade I $ 300,000 Del Mar Oaks presented by The Jockey Club. The 1 1/8-mile turf event generally determines the champion 3-year-old filly of the meeting. Madam Dancealot, winner of the Oaks-prep Grade II ...Read More »
'Back To Basics': Classic Empire Returns To Winding Oaks To Train
Champion Classic Empire has returned to Winding Oaks Farm in Ocala to continue to prepare for what is hoped to be a start in the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 23. The Daily Racing Form reports that trainer Mark Casse made the decision to ship the son of Pioneerof The Nile back to Ocala on Monday, after the colt "pulled himself up ...Read More »
Teresa Z Gives Juarez Fourth Win On The Card In Monmouth Oaks
Teresa Z #5 with Nik Juarez riding won the $ 100,000 Monmouth Oaks at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey on Saturday August 12, 2017. Photo By Taylor Ejdys/EQUI-PHOTO Jockey Nik Juarez was on fire Saturday at Monmouth Park, winning four of the first 10 races on the card. In the G3 Monmouth Oaks the leading rider guided St. Elias ...Read More »
Summertime Oaks Winner Faypien Heads East For G1 Test
Faypien and jockey Rafael Bejarano, right, outleg Mopotism (Mario Gutierrez), outside, and Spooky Woods (Flavien Prat), inside, to win the Grade II, $ 200,000 Summertime Oaks The Grade 1, $ 500,000 Longines Test at seven furlongs on the main track will serve as a strong, tightening affair for 10 3-year-old fillies hoping to advance among graded competition. The race hosts ...Read More »
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes: Dual Oaks winner Enable to feature
Flat racing's dual Oaks winner Enable will line up in Saturday's high-summer showpiece, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot. BBC Sport – Horse RacingRead More »
Dual Oaks Winner Enable Could Be Favored Over Older Male Rivals In Saturday's King George
Enable (seen winning the Investec Oaks) completed an Oaks double in winning the Darley Irish Oaks Enable looks set to go off as favourite in the Group 1 King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot this Saturday after John Gosden made positive noises about the dual Oaks winner lining up. With the ground currently described as soft at ...Read More »
Abel Tasman, Elate Exit CCA Oaks In Fine Fettle As Connections Plot Next Moves
Abel Tasman, fresh off her head victory in the Grade 1, $ 300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga Race Course, was set to fly out of Newburgh Airport early Monday afternoon to return to Bob Baffert's barn at Del Mar in California. All looked well Monday morning for the Quality Road filly, according to trainer John Terranova, who housed ...Read More »


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In Morocco, the lingerie brand is connected with the association "Les Amis du Ruban Rose " for committed action. Thus, throughout the month of March, the brand will offer bracelets with strong symbolism. The proceeds will be used to improve the conditions of care for women with breast cancer.
Through these bracelets bearing the inscription "Women Power", the brand, which offers since last October a collection of "post-operative" bras, intends to contribute to the awareness against breast cancer and provide financial support to the association.
Rather than a mere bracelet around the wrist, "Women Power" is also a message of support to women, suffering or having suffered from this disease and a tribute to the struggle that these women lead.
Bracelets sales, marketed in the shops Women'Secret in Casablanca and Rabat at the price of MAD 10, will be entirely donated to the "Les Amis du Ruban Rose" association.


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3 years of blogging?March 9, 2013
It seems I've been doing this for three years now. I started this blog off as a test to see what video streaming tech I could get to work through common SM platforms. It turned into a place for organising and finding links between the disparate bits of work I do, and a repository of thoughts that I may need to refer people to later.
Thanks for sticking with it 🙂


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No "Corn Sugar" for you
Looks like the plan to rebrand High-Fructose Corn Syrup (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2010/09/hfcs-rebranding-as-corn-sugar.html) as "corn sugar" has run into a legal speed bump (http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/09/sorry-corn-refiners-the-name-corn-sugar-is-already-taken/63269/). Turns out that definition is already used in a way that cannot apply to HFCS. Guess they'll just have to keep peddling that poison under the same old name. Still wondering why high-fructose corn syrup can't be sold in stores like every other sweetener. And no, plain corn syrup sweetened with HFCS doesn't count.
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All those who made their First Communion this year are invited to wear their Communion attire. If anyone who made their communion would like to be involved (prayers of the faithful, offertory procession or prayers before or after communion) please an e-mail to the Parish office firstname.lastname@example.com and we will be in touch.
Hope to see you there.


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Welcome to the Health BOCS Update, the monthly update on Health and Wellbeing activities at The Brothers of Charity Services in England.
Click here to view the BOCS Health and Wellbeing Calendar from 2019/2020
July Promotion
As part of Health BOCS, the Brothers of Charity Services' health and wellbeing programme, throughout July we promoted, our annual Heritage Day and Medicash/Staff Benefits.
Heritage Day
On Friday 12th July the Brothers of Charity Services celebrated their annual Heritage Day at Lisieux Hall in Chorley, with the theme of the day being advocacy. The day started off with an amazing performance from our Sing and Sign Choir, led by Daniel Hall. Everyone in the choir thoroughly enjoyed being part of the day and we loved watching their performance. The day was filled with fun events such as a very tense football final; an amazing performance of Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat; raffles and much more.
Read more about our fun day here.
Medicash/ Staff Benefits
Your Medicash healthcare plan covers yourself and up to 4 children (until their 24th Birthday in full time education)
You can receive cash back on every day healthcare bills such as dental and optical. Cash back is also available on a range of treatments, therapies and much more.
Medicash covers every day essentials:
Routine Dental Treatment- per adults: £55/ per child: £27.50 (Half of the annual limit can be claimed towards dental care plan fees. Medicash will only pay dental care premiums where paid for by the individual).
Dental Accident and Injury- per adults: £150
Optical- per adults: £55/ per child £27.50
Making a claim (once completed probation)
Ask for receipt from your practitioner after you have received and paid for your healthcare treatment. You can then either:
Complete a claim form by filling the form in online, printing it out, and then posting it to Medicash along with your receipts.
Make a claim through the Medicash app- removing the need to post your receipts!
Your claim can be paid directly into your bank or by cheque. As well as the app staff can now access their Medicash via https://www.medicash.org/customers/boc
August Promotion
As part of Health BOCS, the Brothers of Charity Services' health and wellbeing programme, throughout August we will be promoting: Sun Care and BBQ Safety.
Sun Care
We all need some sun exposure. When skin is exposed to the sun, our bodies make vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium for stronger, healthier bones.
Do not rely on sun cream alone to protect yourself from the sun. Wear suitable clothing and spend time in the shade when the sun is at its hottest; in the UK, this is between 11am and 3pm from March to October. When buying sunscreen, the label should have: a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15 to protect you against UVB; and at least 4 star UVA protection. Don't spend any longer in the sun than you would without sunscreen.
The immediate danger of too much sun is sunburn. With repeated sun damage, skin starts to look dry, wrinkled, discoloured and leathery. Although the skin appears to be thicker, it actually has been weakened, and as a result, it will bruise more easily. However, the sun's most serious threat is that it is the major cause of skin cancer, which is now the most common of all cancers. Doctors believe that most skin cancers can be avoided by preventing sun damage.
Click here to find out more information.
BBC Safety
A BBQ should be a safe and enjoyable but it's all too easy to be distracted when you have friends and family around whilst cooking. To avoid injuries or damage to property, follow these simple precautions:
General Safety:
- Make sure your barbecue is in good working order.
- Ensure the barbecue is on the flat site, well away from a shed, trees or shrubs.
- Keep children, garden games and pets well away from the cooking area.
- Never leave the barbecue unattended.
- Keep a bucket of water or sand nearby for emergencies.
- Ensure that barbecue is cool before attempting to move it.
- Consult the instructions provided for advice on how to check for gas escapes, e.g. brushing lead detection solution around all joints and looking for bubbles.
- Leave your gas stove, light or heater outside, with a supply of fresh air at all times.
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"Mass media consumption is generally down," said Maryanne Reed, dean of the journalism school at West Virginia University. "I think there will be a significant retrenchment in TV news now that this is dying down. They spent a lot of money covering this election. You wonder what they will be willing to pay several months down the road."
The good news for viewers is that the long national ordeal is finally over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.


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Antony Raikhlin didn't bother looking for jobs during his medical residency. There was no point, he was told, because jobs in his field — radiology — were scarce.
His job hunt began in July 2012, at the beginning of his one-year fellowship — the final leg of his training. "I started looking around and there weren't that many ads," he recalled. Dr. Raikhlin, 32, figured more ads would appear as the year went on. "By the fall I started getting a little nervous because there were very few ads coming out."
He eventually secured a staff radiology post at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. He feels fortunate to have nabbed a position in his home city.
It's difficult for patients who wait for treatment to accept that there are able and willing young doctors [out there]
Many new specialists — as well as graduates in fields from nursing to physiotherapy…
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API for hierarchical multilevel collections. https://github.com/BioHaskell/iterable
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Module documentation for 3.0
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Typeclass and TemplateHaskell instantiating methods for accessing data within multilevel, monomorphic, heterogeneous collections.
Used as a main interface to Protein Databank structures parsed by hPDB library.
Details on official releases are on Hackage.
This package is also a part of Stackage - a stable subset of Hackage.


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Naso Family History
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possibly a nickname from naso 'nose' (Latin nasus), denoting someone with a prominent, snub, or otherwise remarkable nose. habitational name from Naso in Messina province, Sicily.
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The law of intellectual property is seldom simple or without surprises. In 2014, the High Court decided that the 'corrugated' shape of the Kit Kat chocolate bar, whilst unremarkable in itself, had acquired a 'distinctive character' by way of use over time and hence could be registered as a trade mark by the Nestlé company in the product group that includes chocolate goods of all kinds.
The Court concluded that consumers associate the distinctive shape of the product with the Kit Kat brand. The effect of such a decision would be that other chocolate manufacturers would not be allowed to market confectionery the same shape as the Kit Kat bar.
The decision was opposed by Cadbury and the matter was referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
The CJEU ruled that a trade mark can only be registered if the applicant can demonstrate that the average consumer of its products would 'perceive the goods or services designated exclusively by the mark applied for, as opposed to any other mark which might also be present, as originating from a particular company'. In other words, Nestlé would have to show that the shape of the product alone was sufficient to identify it, without the use of the brand name or any other trade mark.
The practical effect of this decision is that it sets the hurdle very high for applications for registration of trade marks based on the shape of goods sold. The case will now return to the High Court for determination.


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Apply for Edith Cowan University International Masters Scholarships 2019 in Australia for Bangladeshi and Foreign students
Scholarships provider: Edith Cowan University in Australia
Scholarships for Masters Level
Scholarships Variable for Bangladeshi and International students
Application Deadline: July 30, 2019
Scholarship offers a 20% (percent) reduction in your tuition fees for the duration of your course at ECU.
• Entrance Requirements: To be eligible for this scholarship you must:
• be a citizen of one of the countries identified above;
• be commencing study of your ECU course in 2019, 2020 or 2021;
• not be currently holding a Confirmation of Enrolment (COE) for a postgraduate course at ECU issued prior to the start of this scholarship;
• not be in receipt of another scholarship or sponsorship;
• be an International student, not an Australian Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident, or New Zealand Citizen;
• intend to study a Master by coursework degree; and
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• English Language Requirements: Students must have a high level of English competency.
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