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Michelle Foster, A&E Editor
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This year's David Nord Award, an annual prize given to students for projects addressing problems that queer communities face, went to junior Colleen Boken and alumna Anna Zheng. Each chose a creative project to pursue: Boken curated an art exhibition called "Perspectives: Binaries in Disruption"...
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Hannah Bartman, Feature Editor
October 1, 2015
"A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense…This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion...
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Andy Monserud
September 10, 2015
Whitman held a special orientation for first-generation and working class (FGWC) students on the week of July 11-15. 32 first-year FGWC students were given a week on campus to take sample classes from Whitman professors and gain an understanding of the on-campus resources available to students.


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Divorce decrees for Lebanon County
A list of the most wanted persons in Lebanon County. If arrested or whereabouts are known, notify the Lebanon County Sheriff's Office at (717) 228-4410, Lebanon County Crime Stoppers at (717) 270-9800, or county detectives at 717-228-4403.
The following divorce decrees were ordered recently by Lebanon County courts:
- Lindsay Martinez, Lancaster, Pa., vs. Jerome Martinez, Lancaster, Pa. Date of marriage: January 2009.
- Linda Brown, Elizabethtown, Pa. vs. Dennis Brown Jr., Richland. Date of marriage: December 1994.
- Lora Varvel, Jonestown, vs. Brian Varvel, Hershey, Pa. Date of marriage: October 1997.
- Stephanie D. McGonigle, Columbia, Pa., vs. Michael J. McGonigle, Palmyra. Date of marriage: August 1984.
- Michael M. Miller, Lebanon, vs. Ashley D. Godwin, Lebanon. Date of marriage: October 2012.
- Jacqueline Rothermel, East Petersburg, Pa., vs. Eric Rothermel, Lancaster, Pa. Date of marriage: October 2010.
- Debra A. Cunningham, Lebanon, vs. Houston L. Cunningham, Lebanon. Date of marriage: July 2002.
- Michelle Rivera-Torres, Lebanon, vs. Eliezer Lugo-Martinez, Orlando, Fla. Date of marriage: May 2011.
- Susan M. Sites, Jonestown, vs. Duane S. Sites, Myerstown. Date of marriage June 2004.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As a 17-year-old student fought for his life Wednesday morning after being shot in the chest while walking to his bus stop, his classmates, their parents, and city and school district leaders wrestled with the aftermath of the violence.
Jacksonville police said the teen, who goes to Westside High School, was walking on Lane Avenue around 6:15 a.m. when a black car pulled up and someone inside opened fire. The teen, who was identified as Javon Mills by his father, was shot in the chest but managed to make it to his bus stop, and the driver quickly got him to a fire station, where paramedics rushed him to a hospital in critical condition.
Duval County School Board Chair Paula Wright said the superintendent immediately sent the crisis team to Westside High School so counselors and social workers would be available for students.
"Helping the school to understand what happened, helping the students to grieve and, more importantly, providing them the mental health opportunities that the students would need," Wright said. "My heart goes out, again, to the student who is fighting for his life and to his family."
Both Wright and Dr. Diana Greene, superintendent of Duval County Public Schools, said the district will provide whatever support the student's family needs.
Since Greene started as superintendent on July 1, there was a deadly triple shooting minutes after the end of a football game at Raines High School and then Wednesday morning's shooting of a student walking to his bus stop.
When Greene spoke to reporters later on Wednesday, she said that the violence is not shocking, but she hopes she never becomes desensitized to these situations.
"I'm very fortunate in my experience as a superintendent at another school district, and I've dealt with tragedy and violence with students," she said. "So it's not new, it's just I don't want to ever get used to it. I want to continue to do what I can to ensure that we work as hard as we can as a school district to deter any opportunity for students to be harmed by senseless violence."
The superintendent said collaboration among agencies, including the Jacksonville's Sheriff's Office, is key.
"The agencies we are collaborating with, I value the cooperation we have in our communication -- whether it's (with) the mayor's office or JSO. So that's very strong," she said. "The issue now is we've got to bring our community together and help solve this issue of violence."
The superintendent encouraged community members, whether they have children in school or not, to get involved with students to keep them busy, especially in the hours after school.
Greene said she went to Westside High soon after she learned of the shooting Wednesday morning. She said she wanted to make sure the school knew it had her support.
The good news, she said, was that the school day went on as normal and that there was support available for any students who may be struggling to deal with what happened. She said the students who were on the bus were also provided with whatever they needed, whether that was food or someone to talk to.
Westside High students describe emotional school day
Though classes went on as scheduled at Westside High, students were shocked and upset, with many saying they don't feel safe.
Students who know Javon described him as "quiet" and "chill."
"He doesn't mess with nobody," said a Westside High senior named Zee. "It makes me feel like we're not safe anymore. I don't even want to ride the bus no more."
The shooting hit close to home for the injured teen's classmates, including Allen Washington, who said the teen is "a cool person" who hasn't been in trouble.
"It makes me fearful for a lot black people that's just walking around, because you can get shot anywhere," Washington said.
Students were fed up, frustrated and scared, saying violence has become all too common for them and they're worried it's only getting worse.
"I mean, I don't feel safe nowhere," said a Westside High senior named Tee Tee. "Anything could happen."
Duval County School Board member Scott Shine said the students shouldn't have to fear violence.
"We know this is wrong, and we have a big problem in Jacksonville," Shine said. "We have an out-of-control gun violence situation in the city. More has got to be done."
Overall, students said, it was an emotional and tense day at school, with crisis counselors and extra police on campus.
When school let out Wednesday afternoon, school district officers could be seen standing guard.
Community tired of violence
The mother of a 14-year-old student who was on the bus said the school called to let her know her son was OK, but she was so shaken up at the thought of what her son had seen, she decided to pick him up from school.
"When I knew he was here, I was on my way," Keywaon Stewart said. "I just don't feel like his mind is going to be on work after seeing a child bleeding like that."
Stewart said she'd like for her son to speak to a counselor at the school Thursday, and that he won't be riding the bus.
"I'll probably just bring him into school tomorrow, just because it's too soon," Stewart said. "Being that it didn't happen on the bus makes me feel a little more at ease, but it doesn't feel right that the students are walking to go to school and someone is literally shooting early in the morning at students. It doesn't make sense to me."
A neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was getting ready for work when he heard gunfire outside his home.
"For you to wake up to gunshots and to have a kid that's going to school shot, going door to door, trying to get some attention, trying to get whoever is up to give him some help -- that's ridiculous," he said.
A witness who saw the aftermath at the fire station said he's tired of the violence involving children.
"Parents, you are killing your children," Roderick Dorsey said. "You can't let your children do what they want to do, because the streets are going to do something to them."
A Westside High School parent echoed that sentiment.
"It's broad daylight, kids coming to school to learn, and for this stuff (to happen), it's unacceptable," Winston LaBranch said. "Kids' lives are in danger. It's ridiculous. We're living in a time now where people just want to hurt each other instead of resolving things and just resort to violence. It's just got to stop."
Community members said action needs to be taken to stop the violence, especially among teenagers.
"Sit down, have these town hall meetings. Sit down with the whole community and try to come up with some kind of solution because, after a while, it's going to get terrible," Dorsey said. "It's already out of control."
City Councilman Terrance Freeman said his heart goes out to the family of the injured student and the students on the bus.
"Once again, we have kids in our community that are experiencing these tragic events and are having to process it and try to deal with it on their own," Freeman said. "I've heard they have (counseling) teams here that are going to help them. And I continue to pray for them and pray for our city as a whole."
Police did not have any description of the shooter.


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Padmanabhan and Yang published an interesting paper called Click Tracks On The Web: Are There Signatures In Web Browsing Data? Their answer: yes, there seem to be such signatures. What's a web browsing signature? And why would online retailers care? Just people have characteristic walking patterns, typing patterns, and online writing patterns, it turns out that people have characteristic ways of using websites. And just as aggregate patterns of whorls and arches in a fingerprint can sometimes identify an individual, statistical measures of web usage can sometimes identify an online visitor. In short: even if someone doesn't log in to your website, you might be able to make a good guess as to who they are using the time they visit, how long the stay, and how they click across your site. You could think of a click signature as a "soft cookie" -- you're not 100% sure of the user's identity, but you might have a reasonable guess. Not this year, however. Today's sites aren't advanced enough, and clickstreams aren't well enough understood (or even stored) well enough. But maybe, some day, in far distant future -- I'd predict about five years out -- sites might be able to make reasonable guesses as who is using the site, just by their browsing behavior. How could browsing signatures help an online retailer?
- Fraud. P & Y propose this approach as a way to detect possible fraud: "Alert! The user in session 12345 is attempting to check out using Jane Smith's credit card, yet the user in session 12345 uses our site very differently than Jane Smith typically does. Investigate for potential credit card fraud."
- Targeting. P & Y don't discuss targeting, but a site could guess the identity of an anonymous visitor to serve relevant offers: "Alert! The user in session 67890 has similiar click sigature to Bob Jones, who often buys fishing equipment from us -- serve fishing ads across site to this user."
- Multichannel tracking. P & Y don't discuss multichannel, but a retailer might be able to use click signatures to match anonymous web visits back to known web users, and then back to offline marketing: "Attention! The user in session 456789 has a similar click signature to Mary Thompson, to whom we just mailed a fall test catalog. That version seems particularly effective at getting older women to our site."
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The ability of advertisers to exclude racial groups from the intended audience was temporarily suspended by Facebook Inc., it said Wednesday, November, 29.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, told African-American US lawmakers that the company is determined enough to do better, following news reports saying the social network failed to block discriminatory ads.
Despite Facebook's earlier months' claims of being able to detect and block such ads, ProPublica, a US-based news organization reported that it purchased discriminatory housing ads on Facebook, however got past the Facebook's review process.
"Until we can better ensure that our tools will not be used inappropriately, we are disabling the option that permits advertisers to exclude multicultural affinity segments from the audience for their ads," an excerpt from Sandberg's letter to the Congressional Black Caucus said; this according to a copy posted online by ProPublica as disclosed in a story by ABS-CBN News.
To publish such ads that indicate a preference based on race, religion, sex or certain classifications, is unlawful under US law.
As the world's largest social media platform with 2.1 billion users and $36 billion in annual revenue, Facebook has reportedly been on its defensive side when it comes to advertising practices.
Moreover, Sandberg said that advertisers who utilize the social network's targeting options to include certain races for ads about housing, employment or credit, would need to comply to Facebook's anti-discrimination policy and with applicable law, by certifying.
In defense to all race- and culture-based marketing in general, she said it was a common and legitimate practice in the ad industry to try to reach specific communities.
Meanwhile, US Representative Robin Kelly, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that the company's action was just appropriate.
"When I first raised this issue with Facebook, I was disappointed. When it became necessary to raise the issue again, I was irritated. Thankfully, we've been able to establish a constructive pipeline of communication that's resulted in a positive step forward," said Kelly, a democrat.


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Administrator is not able to attach any visibility rules to the portal page
Note: This issue was reported on PZN 220.127.116.11; however it's believed to exist in version 6.0 as well.
The log shows the following error:
0000005d ActionManager W com.ibm.wps.state.accessors.action.manager.ActionManagerImpl internalExecuteAction id = E::fL75640004 is invalid.
0000005d WPActionPhase W com.ibm.wps.engine.phases.WPActionPhase processPortlets EJPEI0169E:
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Install PK82601. (Contact IBM Support to obtain this ifix )
Visibility Rules are not called / invoked by Portal Engine
Collect a trace with tracestring com.ibm.websphere.personalization.*=all. If there are no entries in the trace for com.ibm.websphere.personalization classes, the pzn rules are not being invoked by the portal engine.
Find the resources.xml that contains Possible locations for the file:
Check if this config property is set:
You can remove this property completely from the file since the default value is true.
The property content.topology.dynamic controls if the Portal dynamic content model is enabled or not. The dynamic content model is the plug point for visibility rules. If it is disabled the rules will not be executed.
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Attributes set in the session from one portlet are not available for visibility rules on another portlet ?
Attributes that are set in the session is available to visibility rule if it is in the same portlet or the scope is set to application.
Visibility rules are not getting re-executed or somehow retaining the previous state for that session even if we refresh the page many times.
Install PK67945 (Visibility rule cache does not always invalidate when cleared. ). Contact IBM Support to obtain this ifix.
The visibility rules and personalization engine gets fired only once at the time of login. It should be fired every time the user goes to the page on which they have applied visibility rules.
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text: Pubdate: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 Source: Anderson Valley Advertiser (CA) Column: Cannabinotes Copyright: 2005 Anderson Valley Advertiser Contact: http://www.theava.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2667 Author: Fred Gardner Cited: Gonzales v. Raich ( www.angeljustice.org/ ) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California) THE RAICH DECISION: ALL POWER TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT In a six-to-three vote announced June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Angel Raich and Diane Monson the right -established by California voters in 1996- to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes. Phony Tony awards go to Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, two of the five justices who advocate limits on federal power but in this case made a War-on-Drugs exception to their "principles." John Paul Stevens, who wrote the majority opinion, was joined by Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Steven Breyer. Scalia wrote a concurring opinion trying to justify his switcheroo. Kennedy didn't feel he owed the public an explanation. Sandra Day O'Connor's dissent was joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Clarence Thomas, staying true to their states-rights line. Thomas wrote an eloquent separate dissent. Raich and Monson are California medical marijuana users who in October, 2002 sought to enjoin the DEA from confiscating their marijuana and raiding their suppliers. They argued, among other things, that the feds had no jurisdiction to enforce the Controlled Substances Act against them because their activities don't affect interstate commerce. After failing to get an injunction from a federal District Judge, they appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, which ordered that the injunction be granted. The Bush Administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard arguments in November '04. The case started out as Raich et al v. Ashcroft et al but goes down in the books as Gonzales et al v. Raich et al. Regulating the noncommercial cultivation and use of marijuana in California "is squarely within Congress's commerce power," Stevens wrote for the majority. Previous cases, notably Wickard v. Filburn, had established "Congress's power to regulate purely local activities that are part of an economic 'class of activities' that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce." Some of Stevens's opinion seems apologetic in tone. "The case is made difficult by respondents' strong arguments that they will suffer irreparable harm because, despite a congressional finding to the contrary, marijuana does have valid therapeutic purposes. The question before us, however, is not whether it is wise to enforce the statute in these circumstances; rather, it is whether congress' power to regulate interstate markets for medicinal substances encompasses the portions of those markets that are supplied with drugs produced and consumed locally. Well-settled law controls our answer. The CSA is a valid exercise of federal power, even as applied to the troubling facts of this case." Stevens recounts the futile efforts to remove marijuana from Schedule 1 (dangerous drugs with no medical use). "After some fleeting success in 1988 when an Administrative Law Judge declared that the DEA would be acting in an 'unreasonable arbitrary, and capricious' manner if it continued to deny marijuana access to seriously ill patients, and concluded that it should be reclassified as a Schedule III substance, the campaign has proved unsuccessful. The DEA Administrator did not endorse the ALJ's finding, and since that time has routinely denied petitions to reschedule the drug. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit has reviewed the petition to reschedule marijuana on five separate occasions over the course of 30 years, ultimately upholding the Administrator's final order." Stevens concludes by noting that Raich and Monson can appeal again to the Ninth Circuit with their due-process and medical-necessity arguments, which were not considered previously. They can also seek to have marijuana rescheduled by the DEA and/or avail themselves of "the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress." Boalt Hall professor Robert Berring says Stevens's decision is "in the fine tradition of 'we are sorry that this is not the right thing to do, but we are bound by the law to harm you.' The tone is so patrician and unrealistic. It does have a fine timeline history of drug policy in this country which shows it for the great muddle that it is. Suggesting that the plaintiffs should use the democratic process to address their problem is ridiculous since they HAVE used it in California. He also uses the straw-man assertion that maybe marijuana should be removed from Schedule 1. Well, yes, but tell that to the FDA not to Ms. Raich. I also love the way that they drag out an old chestnut like Wickard v. Filburn, a case about the wheat market in the depression, and say that it is squarely on point. It makes no sense. This is the kind of opinion that I can appreciate for its cranky weirdness except for the fact that it truly harms people. Who would have thought that I would look to Justice Thomas for solace?" Professor Berring must have missed Pebbles Trippet's recent Anderson Valley Advertiser column, "Clarence Thomas is our Hope." Her prediction was fulfilled by Thomas's bluntly worded dissent. "If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything," he wrote, "and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers... In the early days of the republic it would have been unthinkable that Congress could prohibit the local cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana." O'Connor's dissent repeated Justice Brandeis's famous line that 'a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.' This case exemplifies the role of States as laboratories." O'Connor concluded, "If I were a California citizen, I would not have voted for the medical marijuana ballot initiative; if I were a California legislator I would not have supported the compassionate Use Act. But whatever the wisdom of California's experiment with medical marijuana, the federalism principles that have driven our commerce clause cases require that room for experiment be protected in this case." Attorney Robert Raich says he was most surprised that "Stevens, who I thought would be our biggest supporter, ended up authoring this negative opinion and Rehnquist, who I thought would be our biggest opponent, ended up joining this terrific opinion by O'Connor... Stevens had commented about the issue of federalism in his concurrence in the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative case. He should have ruled for us on that basis. It is inexplicable why that analysis is missing from his opinion." Stevens's hypocrisy is exposed by Thomas, who quotes his comment in the OCBC case (May, 2001): "The majority's rush to embrace federal power 'is especially unfortunate given the importance of showing respect for the sovereign States that comprise our Federal Union.'" Raich says that Stevens "still could have let the federal government regulate all those other issues he cares about -the endangered species act, the clean water act-under the commerce clause, except when you have an actual case where a state weighs in with a specific challenge. And those would be dealt with case by case. If you had a state trying to ban abortion or re-impose segregation they would be overridden because a state can't infringe on the right to privacy or violate the equal protection clause. If a state says, 'We don't care about tailpipe emissions, we're not going to regulate factories.' Well, factories and automobiles actually are engaged in interstate commerce. So a state that tried to get out of clean-air laws would still be validly overridden by federal law under the commerce clause." Attorney Bill Panzer was appalled by Scalia's opinion. "He seems to be saying Congress can do anything it wants under the 'necessary and proper' clause. If they have the right to regulate interstate commerce, they can regulate it any way that they want. They don't even have to show that what they're regulating has any substantial effect on interstate commerce... He's changed 'necessary and proper' to 'imagination and whim.' If congress can imagine that it'll help, they can do it. Scalia, supposedly the strict constructionist, is giving Congress incredible powers." A well-placed Washington source thinks Scalia was never sincere about federalism, that he adopted Rehnquist's line for tactical reasons, but now he's coming out for an all-powerful federal government (under the control of his duck-hunting buddy, Dick Chaney). Panzer has a simpler analysis. "I think it's more like: 'It's drugs, they can do anything they want.'" Pebbles Trippet of the Medical Marijuana Patients Union would like to see "a new federal challenge, focusing on a full spectrum of constitutional violations broader than the commerce clause and states rights... We need to decide whether there is a compelling federal interest to outweigh the patient's under the Due Process Clause; whether the CSA's penalties are cruel and unusual punishment as applied to cannabis for medical use; and whether there is a rational basis for discriminating against medical cannabis compared to other medical treatments." Ten Clubs Closed Two chains of cannabis dispensaries shut down "voluntarily" the day the Raich decision was announced: Compassionate Caregivers, with seven locations (Oakland, San Francisco, Bakersfield, San Diego, Ukiah, San Leandro, Long Beach) and United Medical Caregivers Clinics, with two (Ukiah and West Hollywood). According to attorney Lenore Schefman, Compassionate Caregivers had been contemplating such a move since May 6, when their West Hollywood club, widely known as "The Yellow House," was raided by the LAPD and IRS. Thirteen employees and one customer were arrested. The authorities reportedly seized 800 pounds of marijuana and $300,000 in cash. A police spokesperson told the West Hollywood News, "They regularly sold 8 ounce and one pound quantities to people who made sometimes daily buys. There were an average of 235 visits a day to the house. That's drug dealing, not medicine dispensing." Bruce Margolin, who is representing the employees, says they were performing a legal public service. Krystic, who had made his living for many years running a gambling operation in Alaska, saw California's medical marijuana law as a commercial opportunity and did not pretend otherwise when I interviewed him in at his brand new West Hollywood club in February '04. (He said he had signed a seven-year lease and that the yellow house had once been used as an office by Charlie Chaplin's production company). Although Krystic had no personal affinity for marijuana, he hired managers and purchasing agents who did. His clubs, starting with "The Third Floor" on Telegraph Ave. in Oakland, were known for always having a wide selection of strains, clones, and edibles. In addition to hiring Margolin to represent his employees and Schefman to be his spokesperson, Krystic has now retained a specialist to deal with the IRS if he gets prosecuted for tax evasion or money laundering. Many established club proprietors resented competition from Krystic. Whereas they were in it for the cause, they said, he was in it for the money (echoing Dennis Peron's attitude towards them). Attorney Bill Panzer speculates, "I guess Larry's game plan is to already be on a beach in South America." Schefman, who notified Compassionate Caregivers's 250 employees not to come to work Monday, June 6, says Krystic will be available for an interview by June 15. On June 8 San Bernardino sheriffs busted California Alternative Caregivers Christian Alliance in Big Bear Lake, the only cannabis club in the county. Dale Gieringer of California NORML reports, "They sent in a sheriff's deputy with a recommendation to buy MJ, then arrested the proprietor for sales. Assistant DA James Hosking has stated that the county regards sale of medical marijuana to be illegal, while recognizing that cooperative gardens are allowed under the law. Reports are that sheriffs deputies had been watching the dispensary the previous day, stopping customers as they left and taking their medicine." The club closures notwithstanding, media coverage of the Raich decision in California has emphasized that Prop 215 remains in effect. The pro-cannabis doctors didn't report any fall off in patients seeking appointments, nor did sales at dispensaries decline -in contrast to May, 2001, when the headlines announced the Supreme Court's 9-0 ruling against the Oakland CBC. The Raich ruling, at 6-3, is a less definitive defeat and represents a shift in momentum. Attorney General Bill Lockyer issued a strong reassertion of state law, which may or may not be heeded by those under him. Montana's attorney general, Mike McGrath, also defended his state's marijuana law, which was enacted by popular iniative in November, 2004. McGrath a Democrat who recognizes how strongly the people of Montana favor medical marijuana (62-38), challenged the Bush Administration to crack down. Officials in other states haven't stood up for their constituents. Administrators of the Oregon medical marijuana program stopped processing new applications until the state attorney general could weigh in with an opinion on the ramifications of Raich. In Hawaii, U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo released the following statement: "The U.S. Supreme Court decision this morning is the death knell to the medical marijuana issue. I would advise all physicians and anyone who is involved in distributing or helping in the distribution of any illegal narcotic to be very, very leery." Kubo seemed unaware that the 9th Circuit's Conant v. Walters ruling, which the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to review, establishes the unambiguous right of doctors and patients to discuss cannabis as a treatment option under the First Amendment. Angel and Robert Raich are heading to Washington, where Congress is about to debate an amendment to an appropriations bill that would compel the feds to honor state medical marijuana laws. Last year the same amendment was introduced by Rep. Maurice Hinchey and garnered 148 votes (to 268). Now Hinchey is saying he hopes to "get a few votes more." Why not aspire to win? Three-quarters of the American people think marijuana should be legalized for medical use. An insider says that Hinchey is "trying to lower expectations" at the urging of p.r. experts. Don't they know about the bandwagon effect? Just how slick do they think they are? Bill Panzer on the Raich ruling We asked Oakland defense specialist Bill Panzer, "In the wake of the Raich decision, what are you telling your clients?" I'm telling them that from a legal standpoint, this really doesn't change anything. I don't think Raich in any way would have legitimized dispensaries. However, from a practical standpoint, there could be some kind of backlash because of a misreading of it. For example, the prosecutor in Hawaii put out a press release. It's like, "Hey, dude, did you ever hear of Conant v. Walters?" The Raich decision has nothing to do with doctors, but this is the typical thing. I do expect that there are going to be some raids, but I think their new tack is going to be financial. I believe the IRS was involved in the shutdown of Compassionate Caregivers, and CHAMP is being audited. They could say, "Okay, fine, you're paying taxes, but you deducted the cost of purchasing the cannabis and you can't do that because it's against public policy." Somebody may have to raise the question, "How do you define 'public policy?'" What the public votes and wants, or what Washington is trying to shove down their throat? The Supreme Court says: with respect to pornography, it's local community standards. You're anticipating an argument to the IRS down the road. Yes. "My community voted for this public policy." What happens if a popular, well-respected club gets raided and closed by the DEA. Will they get a jury trial? The question is whether the jury ever hears any of this stuff. How they go after clubs really depends. Whether or not the club is selling clones [starter plants] makes a huge difference, the reason being: the five-year mandatory minimum kicks in at 100 plants or 100 kilos [a kilo =2.2 lbs]. A plant is defined as having leaves, stem, and any root structure; so most clones are plants. If a dispensary is selling clones, the chances are pretty good that they'll have 100 on hand. If they're not dealing clones, the chances that they'll be caught with 100 kilos are pretty slim. Other than Compassionate Caregivers, I can't imagine any club would have 100 kilos lying around. My experience with the feds is if they can't get at least the five-year sentence, they're not going to take the case. So, most of these dispensaries, as long as they're not dealing clones, will not be facing a great risk from federal prosecution. What's more likely is that the feds come in, take everything, and then don't prosecute. That may be one of the reasons we're hearing about the IRS getting involved. Because tax evasion is something you can prosecute on, or at least hit them with a big tax levy. DEA agents in San Diego and San Francisco have said they won't be going after individual patients. Do you take those reassurances at face value? I was glad to hear those statements. In the Osburn case, which is being appealed, I came up with a straight necessity defense. Here's how it goes. California says "We're going to let patients use cannabis. It's legal here. The feds are saying "We're not interested in going after patients, we've never gone after patients." That's their policy, that's their deed. So, there is a discrete group of people who are going to use marijuana and no one's going to stop them. They've got to get it from somewhere. If they get it from the black market, what does the federal government tell us they're doing? Supporting terrorists! Remember those commercials during the Super Bowl? "I smoked a joint and killed a family in Colombia." They're telling us the black market directly helps the terrorists and there's imminent danger from the terrorists. So, to protect America, I have to supply the marijuana so that Al Qaeda doesn't get the money and crash a plane into my house tomorrow. Is this a serious defense or a stand-up comedy routine? When you bring a necessity defense, one of the elements is you have to show that there was imminent danger or that your belief in imminent danger was reasonable. The weak point in the defense is buying a lid on the black market is not really going to cause Al Qaeda to crash a plane into my house tomorrow. But the government is telling me that's going to happen. So the government would have to argue, "It's not reasonable to believe us. Everybody knows we're bullshitting." Pro-Cannabis Doctors Respond to Stevens's Opinion Justice Stevens's opinion for the majority in the Raich case includes a paragraph that could be read as demeaning to California's small but growing group of openly pro-cannabis physicians: "The exemption for physicians provides them with an economic incentive to grant their patients permission to use the drug. In contrast to most prescriptions for legal drugs, which limit the dosage and duration of the usage, under California law the doctor's permission to recommend marijuana use is open-ended. The authority to grant permission whenever the doctor determines that a patient is afflicted with 'any other illness for which marijuana provides relief,' is broad enough to allow even the most scrupulous doctor to conclude that some recreational uses would be therapeutic. And our cases have taught us that there are some unscrupulous physicians who overprescribe when it is sufficiently profitable to do so." (Funny how some fervent capitalists start tsk-tsking about profit when it"s cannabis-related.) David Bearman, MD, responds: "That is an insult. No one gets in my front door for an appointment unless they represent themselves on the phone as having a well-documented serious disease. If the Medical Board and the feds had not been so damn busy harrassing and intimidating physicians, 10 to 20 times as many California physicians (e.g. 15,000 to 30,000) would be making recommendations. It would take the patient's principal doctor (and the vast majority of my patients have one) an extra minute or two, and save the patient the time and trouble of having to seek out a cannabinologist. This is what the voters of the state of California had in mind when they passed 215. It's the Feds and the MBC who have created this economic barrier, uh oh I mean incentive." Frank Lucido, MD, thinks Stevens misunderstands the doctor's role in approving a patient's request to self-medicate with cannabis. "The more appropriate analogy is not to a drug prescription, which would involve an exact amount you are ordering the pharmacist to dispense, but to a medical decision of 'yes' or 'no,' such as: 'Yes, you are fit to go to camp.' 'No, you cannot fly a plane' (FAA physicals) 'No, you can't have insurance from this company that I work for.' 'Yes, you should be off work for the next 3 days due to illness.' 'No, your injury is not work-related.' 'Yes, I recommend you cut back your work hours for health reasons.'" Robert E. Sullivan, MD, says Stevens's reference to "economic incentive to grant their patients permission to use the drug" would apply as well to "a new cure for herpes, hypertension, or erectile dysfunction (talk about a "marketed diagnosis"). What is he thinking? One can only conclude that he believes physicians really make decisions on such base motivation. Does he think they get a kickback? Very cynical." Sullivan also questions the accuracy of Stevens's line, "In contrast to most prescriptions for legal drugs, which limit the dosage and duration of the usage, under California law the doctor's permission to recommend marijuana use is open-ended." Sullivan says: "Not so. The medical board limited the duration of recommendations to one year, like all conventional Rxs. And we, at least, specify an amount (on a weekly basis) for each patient approved. Most conventional Rxs for pain/spasm leave quite a range of dosage/frequency up to the patient. And does he really believe the patients follow it anyway? And, oh yes, what does this have to do with the question at hand?" Sullivan adds: "The suspicions people reveal they have about others often reveal their own true motives and styles... My overall impression of the decision is that the 'What ifs' have taken over. 'The parade is a wonderful idea, but What if someone gets run over by a float? Maybe we just better not have it.' "What I would love to do is get Justice Stevens to go through a day at work with me. To meet an adult daughter who brought in her elderly mother on chemo, neither of whom had had any prior contact with cannabis before trying it and finding it worked far better than any other medicine she'd been given - at this point getting a frail smile from mom nodding her head too - and be able to inform them how they could obtain and use it in a manner suitable to them, and have them leave confident with an informed plan, professional endorsement, and ongoing support as needed. To meet the plumber who walked in and seemed normal until telling and showing you a foot that'd been reconstructed thru several surgeries after being run over at an intersection years ago, and now it hurt all the time but the cannabis was the only thing that helped the pain at night, allowed him to sleep and wake up clear-headed so he could still work and support his family... The gentle 45 y/o black man who dropped out of school in Texas because he just couldn't get it and was considered stupid, tried drugs and lots of menial jobs before self-diagnosing himself in his 30's with ADD from what he'd heard about it and then deliberately learned about it, never saw a doctor but discovered that cannabis helped him focus so he could finish things. Then got his G.E.D., worked thru college on the dean's list, and now was an electrical engineer with an LA firm. On cannabis the whole time. "I'd love to have Stevens meet some of these folks, listen and look them over, then have the courage to go back and tell his friends about it... Entrenched power can see a threat to itself in its own shadow. The fear of loss or change controls the thinking. The only value is self; others are base, unscrupulous, expendable, totally amoral, and, more than anything, bent on taking your power for themselves. Any little loss or change can quickly get out of hand and must be assiduously avoided. We already know everything that's important so there is no need for new knowledge, or perspective, or goals; indeed, these are likely to contain unseen threats and should be actively stifled. 'Remember, we are the leaders and certainly know best.'" And a last word from the founder of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians: "As the 'any other conditions' author I am responsible for this mention by Justice Stevens. He appears to be complaining about aesculapian hegemony that keeps the physician as a gatekeeper. He is correct in his complaint at the potential for exploitation economically but oblivious to the complexity of medical diagnosis and judgment. The level of skepticism or cynicism is understandable but unfortunate when the court -supreme or lower-seeks to practice medicine. The world of stipulative reality bereft of clinical medical expertise isprejudicial to both health and governance." -Tod Mikuriya, MD - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom


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South Korea's economy grew 2.8% in 2018 and is forecast to expand at similar levels over the next five years. The government was elected on policies focused on enhancing productivity, increasing public sector employment, and social-spending to support growth. But aggressive hikes to minimum wages (16% rise in 2018 and a further 11% in 2019) could curb employment growth as businesses scale back on hiring in response to higher wages. This will be particularly hard on small businesses who may not be able to afford higher wages. Construction investment—the key driver of growth since 2015—is slowing, but stronger global demand for Korean exports should offset this.
In 2017, South Korea's Per Capita GDP was US$32,000, a 7% increase from the year prior. This figure is expected to approach US$39,000 by 2023, driven by targeted fiscal stimulus aimed at reducing income inequality.


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Leeds Psychologist in the Pub: Applying Discursive Psychology to 'Fact' Construction in Political Discourse
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Leeds Psychologist in the Pub: Applying Discursive Psychology to 'Fact' Construction in Political Discourse
26 February 2019 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Leeds
Cost: This event is free and open to everyone. No registration is required.
'Facts' are more than neutral reflections of an objective reality – 'facts' are highly attuned to the local context of political argumentation. We draw upon examples from two studies that used discursive psychology to analyse political contexts: 1) Islamophobia in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, 2) debates over Great Britain and the European Union. The analysis uncovers how politicians challenge both the context and the relevance of a fact. The context of 'facts' are reconstructed to undermine their original argumentative strength, whereas questioning the relevance of a 'fact' undermines it as a rhetorical tool to be used in a debate. These findings show how discursive psychology can contribute to knowledge about political communication, as well as the benefits of applying discursive psychology to political discourse.
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MONDAY, Feb. 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Although more women have hip fracture surgery, they are less likely to receive perioperative geriatric care and anesthesia consultations, according to a study published online Feb. 11 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
Natalie Cho, M.D., from the University of Ottawa in Canada, and colleagues identified all Ontario residents aged 66 years and older who had hip fracture surgery between 2014 and 2016. The authors examined the adjusted correlations between female sex and geriatric care, anesthesia consultations, regional analgesia, and neuraxial anesthesia.
Of the 22,661 patients undergoing hip fracture surgery, 71.3 percent were women. The researchers found that women were less likely to receive perioperative geriatric care and anesthesia consultations (adjusted odds ratios [aORs], 0.80 [95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.72 to 0.88] and 0.89 [95 percent CI, 0.80 to 0.98], respectively); however, women were more likely to have timely surgery (aOR, 1.26; 95 percent CI, 1.17 to 1.36). There was no difference between the sexes in terms of receipt of neuraxial anesthesia and regional analgesia (aORs, 0.98 [95 percent CI, 0.93 to 1.04] and 1.00 [95 percent CI, 0.94 to 1.07], respectively).
"This new knowledge could be used to inform knowledge-translation strategies (such as refinement and targeting of recommendations) to improve patient- and system-level outcomes for older people with hip fracture," the authors write.
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We were talking last night about our social media communities and how we can interact, engage and talk to you more; as well as use all the great knowledge and experience you have to help other iWriteReadRaters on their writing journey.
One idea that we thought was pretty good was this one.
We would like to crowdsource an article for our blog from our followers across Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The question is:
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Anime Right News – (ARN) It's been over 9 months since the WHO declared an end to the last Ebola outbreak in July 2017, but flight records indicate at least one their specially equipped Ebola containment and treatment jets, also linked to the CIA, has been in the air over America since January of the current year. Logging over fifty flights in those four months. Quite a lot of action for a state of the art mobile biosafety level 4 facility when there aren't any active epidemics.
The jet in question, N163PA, also happened to land in Atlanta just two weeks after CDC epidemiologist Commander Timothy J. Cunningham, ScD was reported missing from his Atlanta home on February 12th. The doctor, who has first-hand experience with Zika and Ebola outbreaks, had called in sick for work two consecutive days prior to his disappearance. Police say his wallet was found in his home, but they don't suspect foul play, which seems a bit odd to me. Obviously, there's no reason to believe he has secreted away in preparation for a suspected future or fledgling plague, but I wouldn't be surprised.
This is all fairly strange but the weird amped up considerably on April 12th, 2018 when the other two known Ebola response planes were mobilized to separate locations across the US, and also proceeded to tour airports and AFBs across the nation.
Their activities can be tracked here:
N163PA: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n163pa
N173PA: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n173pa
N186PA: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N186PA
It's as of yet unclear what the objectives of these flights are, but their goals remained entirely domestic until 2:34 AM, April 20th, 2018, when N163PA departed from Washington D.C. bound for Casablanca, Morocco, with a near two hour stop in Ponta Delgada, Portugal. Whatever N163PA and is crew was doing in Morocco didn't take long, as it was back over the Atlantic by nightfall, and back in the D.C. area by the 21st. It has since yet to be dispatched again, near as I can tell anyway, although some logs do list a flight scheduled for today(4/23/18), bound for an unlisted destination.
Love Is In The Airwaves.
It will be at least, as April 18th National Geographic announced a television adaptation of one of my personal favorite novels, Richard Preston's 1995 book The Hot Zone. A dramatized chronicle of the first Ebola Zaire outbreak in '76, and the '89 Ebola Reston incident that took place just outside of D.C. in Virginia. NatGeo didn't offer much in their press release, however, stating only that they intend to begin production, in association with Fox Studios, later this year.
Now, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hyped to see my Goddess crashing and bleeding degenerates on the small screen in the near future, but I assure you I only bring this up because it raises a few more questions. "Why now?" comes to mind for one, over two years since the end of the last major outbreak. a distant memory in the minds of most, even the faithful. It was that same outbreak that saw the rise of The Hot Zone to the top of the New York Times Best Seller List. Could there be some blood in the water NatGeo hopes to capitalize on? Or could it be more likely that they have some narrative to familiarize the public with? A person or organization to run damage control for? A shot in the dark at all of the above? I don't find it all that outlandish myself, given their history of promoting global warming, globalism, multiculturalism, out-of-Africa, the odd anti-white propaganda, and WHO knows what else.
It's long been known that mediums like television can sway the masses towards or from ideas, behaviors, and preferences. In fact, properly employed, propaganda or memetics can be used to alter an individuals disposition on literally anything. So I can't help but wonder what they could have up their sleeve.
Of course, this could all be literally fucking nothing, but it's an awful lot of Ebola-related action for such a quiet season. Could be just as possible there be a happening a brewing, mayhap the happening of all happenings. Will Ebola Zaire make another pass in 2018? Or will the newly discovered LLOV virus get its day in the spotlight? Could there be a new Filosister in town, secretly giving the CDC trouble across America this very instant? You can expect me to be looking for answers to all these questions and more conjecture! So stay tuned for the next exciting outbreak of EbolaVirus Z!
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Corey Hart: I only do a few things…much.
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Capri Orient Express
Capri | The Island of Art - 2nd Edition (2016)
Certosa di San Giacomo - Villa Lysis - Capri 11 September - 11 December 2016
The exhibition Capri Orient Express, curated by Sergio Risaliti, with the technical and scientific coordination of Patrizia Di Maggio, director of the Charterhouse, opens on September 11th at 4.00 pm at the San Giacomo Charterhouse.
Capri Orient Express focuses on three Italian protagonists of the contemporary art: Marco Bagnoli, Domenico Bianchi, Remo Salvadori, also displayed at Villa Lysis, whose works highlight the fruitful relationship existing between the ancient and the modern, successfully interacting with such a focal venue for the history and identity of Capri.
The project was also the result of a long lasting cooperation between the curator and the artists, and it developed from the reflection inspired by the recurring presence - in the works - of symbolic elements and hieroglyphics taken from the eastern and middle-eastern culture, calling to mind a formal and conceptual tradition that - within the Mediterranean area - originated the exchange and cohabitation of different cultures, often assimilated by the Italian arts, philosophy, scientific tradition and poetry.
The works of Bagnoli, Bianchi and Salvadori, relating with the Mediterranean and far east cultures, trigger memories and conversations between the ancient masters of spirituality and the western world, reconnect symbolic exchanges and formal knowledge, which have been spreading over centuries along the sea routes and in the ports, and show an experience of the art as "other" knowledge and vision. Significant is the interaction with the Charterhouse which - in its sinuous lines recalls similar formal paradigms of the eastern architecture - and with Villa Lysis, named after Plato's Dialogue Lysis, the house of the cultured and extremely refined Jacques Fersen, a representative of a free and emancipated way of life and thought, who also fed on eastern and middle-eastern rites, symbolism and suggestions.
Capri The Island of Art, organized by the namesake Cultural Association, in partnership with the Town of Capri and the Municipality of Anacapri and - as regards the exhibition at the Charterhouse of Saint James - with the Campania Museum Centre, confirms the format of event scattered on the territory. The artworks, mostly site specific, are scattered on the most symbolic venues of the island, such as the Piazzetta, but also in private areas, large hotels, along the streets, on the walls of a building, on the side of a mountain, to suggest a different cultural and sensory approach to the venues of the island to the audience. In fact, the artists have been invited to "interpret" the myths, the places and stories of Capri, and everyone replied with their own language, from sculpture to painting to performance arts. The result is an original itinerary which surprises, intrigues, seduces and asks questions to those who are staying on the island or are visiting for a short journey, and including the Charterhouse points out that the development and promotion of the contemporary culture cannot disregard the restoration of the roots and focal venues of the history and identity of the territory.
The activity of Marco Bagnoli, Domenico Bianchi and Remo Salvadori started before the outbreak of the Transavantgarde movement (1978-79), just before the international success of the Arte Povera movement. They participated in important exhibition events such as the Venice Biennial and Documenta by Kassel, personal exhibitions in important museums in Italy and abroad (Marco Bagnoli: Magasin in Grenoble, Rivoli Castle, IVAM in Valencia, Pecci Museum in Prato; Domenico Bianchi: Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Rivoli Castle, Macro in Rome; Remo Salvadori: Magasin in Grenoble, Pecci Museum in Prato, MAXXI in Rome), and collective exhibitions among which Identité Italienne, Chambres d'Amis, Terrae Motus, Europa Oggi and Minimalia. Works by these three artists are displayed in prestigious public and private collections, in Italy and abroad, among which the MADRE Museum in Naples, the Rivoli Castle and the MAXXI in Rome.
La stanza delle tazze (the cups room) by Remo Salvadori
copper, lead, rope, canvas
Villa Lysis, second floor
L'anello mancante alla catena che non c'è (the missing link in the chain that doesn't exist) by Marco Bagnoli
Steel and brass
Villa Lysis
Come figura d'arciere (as an archer figure) by Marco Bagnoli
Villa Lysys, terrace at the first floor
Ascolta il flauto di canna (listen to the reed flute) by Marco Bagnoli
Elements in cast aluminum, stone - variable height
Villa Lysis, garden
Non si volta chi a stella è fisso by Remo Salvadori
White marble for sculpture and black bellina marble
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Fontana Verticale (vertical fountain) by Remo Salvadori
copper, lead, tin, water, engine
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Soglia (threshold) by Remo Salvadori
Copper and painted wood
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Untitled (bench) by Domenico Bianchi
Cardoso Marble and lapis lazuli
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Untitled (Wax and silver) by Domenico Bianchi
Wax and silver on glass fiber
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Untitled by Domenico Bianchi
Ink on paper and enamel on silver
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Sonovasoro by Marco Bagnoli
Alabaster on wooden board
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
IO X TE by Marco Bagnoli
22 elements in painted wood
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
Chi sei tu, lo stesso sono io (Who are you, the same is me) by Marco Bagnoli
Iron, wood, ceramica and glass fiber
Church of the Chartusian Monastery of San Giacomo
The project Capri the Island of Art is an open air event created by Franco Senesi, president of the namesake cultural association which organizes this event in partnership with the Town of Capri..
- Artistic Direction
- Marco Izzolino
- Guest curator of Capri Orient Express
- Sergio Risaliti
- Producers
- CAPRI THE ISLAND OF ART Associazione Culturale (fondata da Franco Senesi)
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- with the support of:
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- with the contribution of:
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- Hotel Capri Palace, Anacapri
- and for the inauguration of:
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- Polo museale regionale della Campania
- Print Graphics
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- Simone Larocca
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Working out postpartum has been a journey for me. Getting into a work out routine that makes me feel successful has been tricky, but I'm finally feeling like I'm getting there! Almost a year later… But I'm learning to give myself grace and appreciate my body for the miracle it's accomplished. Having work out clothes… Read More
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Being pregnant, it can be so hard to find good maternity clothes. You want to find items that will work for you for the majority of your pregnancy, especially for when you reach your third trimester and NOTHING fits. I found this stretchy maternity dress from Target and it is my favorite maternity clothes item… Read More
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My New Year's style/beauty resolutions
I have so many goals for 2018, but I decided it would be fun to create some style/beauty resolutions.
Merry Christmas you filthy animal
I love this Merry Christmas ya filthy animal sweater/sweatshirt because watching Home Alone is one of my family's ultimate Christmas traditions. I can't even count how many times I've seen those movies.
3 tips for dressing your growing baby bump
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Summertime, and the livin is not so easy
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Farmers Market style + a night downtown Hillsboro
One of my VERY FAVORITE things about summer/early fall is all of the farmers markets. I love just walking around soaking in the atmosphere…tasting all of the yummy treats, buying produce, petting ALL the dogs…you get the idea. My husband and I recently went to the Hillsboro Farmers Market (the city does one downtown on… Read More
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The PTO is very excited to be planning this fun-filled family event. We're kickin' it old school with an old-fashioned Spaghetti and Pie Feed and bringing back the fun-for-all-ages game of BINGO! For only $8 per person, you'll get spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, bottled water and a slice of pie, along with five rounds of BINGO.
Can we pack more fun into the evening?!?! Oh, yeah, you know we can! How about a Pie Eating Contest? There is a youth (age 5-12) and an adult (13+) division. Pre-registration is $4 for the contest, and only $5 at the door.
Reservations are required. Order forms are due Friday, Jan. 19.


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This summer stock institution was founded in 1954 on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and focuses on world premieres and features big-name actors on its stages. This year boasts Uma Thruman in Ibsen's "Ghosts" (July 31-August 18), Ellen Barkin in "Before the Meeting" (August 7-18), and Jane Kazmarek in "Tell Me I'm Not Crazy" (July 24-August 3). The festival celebrates the 60th anniversary of "A Raisin in the Sun" (June 25-July 27) and premieres "Grand Horizons" (July 17-28), Jonathan Payne's "A Human Being, of a Sort" (June 26-July 7), and Sylvia Khoury's "Selling Kabul" (July 10-20).
Ministered by performance artist Chris Wells and based in Woodstock, the Secret City is a nationally touring "church of art" that lets loose its Summer Art Revival each July for a three-day, town-wide celebration highlighting Woodstock's rich artistic culture. Along with local-hosted house events, there will be a kickoff party with the Secret City Band (July 25), a concert by members of the legendary Penguin Cafe Orchestra (July 26), a picnic (July 27), live band karaoke (July 27), and, finally, a fabulous processional through town to culminate in an ecstatic tent revival (July 28). Performers this year include Amanda Palmer, Jerry Marrotta, Leah Coloff, Viv Corringham, Riley Johndonnell, and others. See website for venues and schedule.
Since 1985, Shadowland Stages (formerly Shadowland Theater) has been offering live productions of classic, contemporary, and new plays within the welcoming walls of a restored, 179-seat 1920s Art Deco vaudeville theater in Ellenville. "Our focus," say its founders, "remains on producing thought-provoking, socially relevant works with vision that will entertain, educate, and challenge our audience." Shadowland's current and upcoming calendar includes "Memoirs of a Forgotten Man" (through June 16), "The Roommate" (June 21-July 14), "Shear Madness" (July 19-August 18), "Over the River and Through the Woods" (August 23-September 8), and the East Coast premiere of the Jeff Daniels-penned "Flint" (September 13-29).
At this Berkshires mainstay much has long been ado about not only its namesake dramatist: The Lenox, Massachusetts, company is also about presenting newer and underserved original works to its dedicated and growing audience. Twenty-Nineteen promises "The Waverly Gallery" (through July 14), "The Children" (July 18-August 18), "Topdog/Underdog" (August 13-September 8), and, for the fall, "Time Stands Still" (September 13-October 13). And, of course, there are this season's Shakespearean classics: "Twelfth Night" (July 2-August 4), "The Taming of the Shrew" (July 9-August 17), "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (August 8-September 1), and "Coriolanus" (August 21-25).


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Last night I began to understand what the hype is all about surrounding Gone Girl.
I've heard from many of you who are number 400+ on your library's wait list for this book. Insane! The wait list was crazy-long at my library as well, so I bought Gone Girl through Amazon last week (I love two day shipping!) and am already enjoying it. Mysteeerious!
My workout this morning yet again followed Tina's Best Body Boot Camp and included three different sets of supersets with five minutes of cardio thrown in between. I wasn't as enamored with today's workout as I was with some of the strength workouts from last week, but it is always good to change things up and keep the ol' body guessing. I really liked the way cardio was spread out through the workout though. That kept me sweatin'!
The minute I started opening a can of salmon to use in this morning's breakfast, a furry little guest arrived at my feet.
Sadie becomes quite the helpful apprentice anytime she hears a can open in the kitchen.
I used a can of wild Alaskan sockeye salmon in a batch of scrambled eggs with onion and parmesan cheese for my morning meal.
The salmon was the perfect way to kick boring scrambled eggs up a notch. The extra protein also made this breakfast quite filling.
Along with my eggs, I also ate a banana that was on the verge of death.
Time to get to work!
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Staff-Sergeant Christopher Jones Arnold served with the 14th battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces during World War One. He died while serving in United Kingdom. He was entitled to the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. His mother received the Memorial Plaque and Memorial Cross
He was born on December 29, 1888 in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, England.
He enlisted on September 21, 1914 at Camp Valcartier, Quebec with the 14th Infantry Battalion, naming his next-of-kin as his mother, Mrs. Louisa Arnold of Wolverton, He stated that he had four years' service with an Active Militia as a member of the 3rd Regiment Victoria Rifles, that he was not married and that his trade was that of Pattern Maker.
Height: 5' 6" Weight: 140 lbs. Eyes: grey
Hair: fair Religion: Church of England
The Battalion sailed to England on October 3 aboard the S.S. Andania,
He was appointed Arm. Staff Corporal on January 1, 1915.
He left for the French theatre on August 1, joining the 14th Battalion in the field on the 4th.
He was appointed Arm. Corporal on September 25. He returned to the Canadian Base Depot on October 23rd, remaining there until November 20th, when he rejoined the 14th Battalion.
He was stuck off strength of the 14th Battalion and transferred to the Canadian Ordnance Corps on April 30, 1916. He was promoted to Arm Sergeant the next day, May 1st and transferred to the 13th battalion.
He reported "sick" two days after his transfer, to No. 14 Stationary Hospital at Wimereux with a suspected Enteric Fever on May 2nd. After three weeks, he was invalided and transferred "sick" to England, his condition stated as "Paratyphoid Slight".
He soon found himself at the University War Hospital at Southampton on the 27th and diagnosed with Paratyphoid.
After ten days and no improvement in his condition, he was transferred to Ardington Park at West Croydon on June 6th and diagnosed Paratyphoid. He was transferred again, this time to Wear Bay Typhoid Convalescent Hospital on June 30, where he was to spend the next two months, to August 29, then transferred to the Military Hospital at Shorncliffe on the 30th and subsequently discharged, after four months hospitalization.
He required an additional three weeks at the Canadian Casualty Depot Monks Horton before he was struck off strength to the Canadian Ordnance Corps at Ashford on September 20.
He was later posted to the 13th Infantry Battalion for a short time.
He contracted German Measles and was admitted to "Isolation" at Moore Barracks Hospital at Shorncliffe on January 18, 1917. On February 6th, he was transferred to the Westcliffe Eye and Ear Hospital at Folkestone, diagnosed with Otitis Media (middle ear infection) and discharged two weeks later on the 22nd.
He soon saw a transfer from the Canadian Casualty Assembly Centre to the Canadian Ordnance Corps. He is documented as being "on command" at the Ordnance College in Woolwich on October 1, remaining there until February 8, 1918.
He was stuck off strength and proceeded overseas on February 28, taken on strength by the Canadian Ordnance Corps at Ashford on March 1st.
One week later, he was transferred to the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion in Western Europe on March 8th. He soon saw another appointment, this time to Acting Arm. Staff Sergeant with pay on April 1st.
He was admitted to No. 3 Canadian Field Ambulance on June 5 and diagnosed Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and discharged the same day.
He was confirmed in the rank of Arm. Staff Sergeant in the field on July 1 while with the Canadian Ordnance Corps.
He was transferred to the 19th July Infantry Battalion at Witley on October 10th and returned to the Canadian Ordnance Corps on October 26th.
He was taken on strength at the Canadian Base Depot for disposal on October 29th before being transferred to England and posted to the General Depot at Witley on November 1st, whereupon he was taken on strength at the General Depot from the Canadian Ordnance Corps on November 4th.
He was admitted to the 11th Canadian General Hospital at Shorncliffe on November 6th with Chronic Bronchitis. In his medical records, it was noted that he was "seriously ill" and re-diagnosed with "Subacute, Malignant Endocarditis". He had acquired a "cough" that lasted "most, all of the time", combined with a shortness of breath, loss of weight and night sweats. His condition worsened over the next two weeks, to the point where he passed away on November 19, 1918.
In February of 1921, his mother, received his 1914-15 trio, The Memorial Plaque and Scroll and the Memorial Cross.
1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
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Rochester Hills Easter Bunny Visits, April 9, 14 & 15
Rochester Hills Easter Bunny Visits, April 9, 14 & 15
Rochester Hills, MI – It's that time of the year again…Spring is almost here! And the Village is looking for some great photos to be shared with us on our Facebook page. Share with the community and "dinner is on us" for three lucky families!
Every year the Village brings to you a free, unique opportunity to visit the Bunny with your family and friends…but we rarely get to see the photos. This year we are going to get selfish and ask you to share.
You can post about your experience, your favorite thing that happened while you were visiting or simply upload your photo (which is what we prefer!) If you post your photo on our Facebook page, in the comments section of each event date, you will have the opportunity to win dinner for four at Noodles and Company in the Village! It is that easy! So please share! You have three chances; Sunday, April 9 – https://www.facebook.com/events/1873513109528722/
Friday, April 14 – https://www.facebook.com/events/1894547090780855/
Saturday, April 15 – https://www.facebook.com/events/1032623526843685/
The Village of Rochester Hills
104 N Adams Rd, Rochester Hills, Michigan 48309
All photos and memoirs need to be posted by April 17, 2017 to be entered into the drawing.
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When we first started going to Nar Anon we didn't know what to expect. After attending our first meeting we left feeling good just knowing we were not alone on this journey. There are others who share our pain of loving an addict.
It is a great feeling because for just an hour a week you are among others who know exactly what you are going through. We listen to others share stories, we cry together and we pray for each other in our daily walks of life.
If you are feeling at the end of your rope, broken, alone and feeling no one else can relate to you why not give Nar-Anon a try?
Nar Anon is a true Stigma and Non Judgement Free Zone!
Here in Martinsburg we meet each Sunday evening at 6PM at Trinity United Methodist Church in Martinsburg, WV. The church is located at 220 W. Martin St. in Martinsburg.
For more information, you can also reach out to the ladies @ The Hope Dealer Project.
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The Devil At the Door is... Heroin. Heroin doesn't discriminate. It destroys lives and families and is robbing our community. These pages are the personal Chronicles of loving a child who uses and abuses heroin and opiates. You can also find what I hope to be helpful links, info and resources as well as sometimes whatever is on my mind at the moment... even an occasional venting!
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Nar Anon: The True Stigma and Non Judgement Free Zone
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Winter has arrived in New Zealand the shorter days, wintery chill, and morning frost will become a regular occurrence.
BUT… not need to fret as we have come to the rescue to give you some colour inspiration that is inspired by the 3 months of the year that we call winter.
Our first colour inspiration is tones of purple, a perfect winter colour, with a pop of green.
Our second inspiration came from the beautiful colours that you get from a winter sunset. Nothing beats a beautiful sunset in winter, just look at the gradients in the sky!
Our final inspiration came from the unusual bright colours that you can see in winter, for example these beautiful Maple Trees during the winter in New York, anyone keen to go to New York during the winter? I know I am!


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Volume 7, pp. 1-17, 1998.
Error estimation of the Padé approximation of transfer functions via the Lanczos process
Zhaojun Bai and Qiang Ye
Krylov subspace based moment matching algorithms, such as PVL (Padé approximation Via the Lanczos process), have emerged as popular tools for efficient analyses of the impulse response in a large linear circuit. In this work, a new derivation of the PVL algorithm is presented from the matrix point of view. This approach simplifies the mathematical theory and derivation of the algorithm. Moreover, an explicit formulation of the approximation error of the PVL algorithm is given. With this error expression, one may implement the PVL algorithm that adaptively determines the number of Lanczos steps required to satisfy a prescribed error tolerance. A number of implementation issues of the PVL algorithm and its error estimation are also addressed in this paper. A generalization to a multiple-input-multiple-output circuit system via a block Lanczos process is also given.
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Key words
Transfer function, Padé approximation, Lanczos process, linear system.
AMS subject classifications
Primary 41A21, 65F15, 65F10.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
For Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
I think we're finally past the point where musicians have to stop pretending that this is great music. Even so, this music doesn't suck either. Babbitt was, like Stockhausen, an overrated composer whose avant garde music retains a certain overwhelming kitsch value. Nobody should have to pretend that all composers ought to write like this, or that music like this is somehow the next evolutionary step from Mahler, or that this music expresses anything more profound than an experience college kids can derive from an acid trip. Still, a lot of it's entertaining, and Babbitt was a very intelligent and funny man. It may not change that he was one of the most deleterious influences on music in the 20th century, but he was also a fine musician and not quite as dogmatic as some of his coevals (we're looking at you Pierre).
(I liked his electronic music better. At least it wasn't second-rate Webern, and I don't really like Webern either)
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London artist Roger Hiorns's remarkable project SEIZURE, which brought more than 20,000 visitors to Harper Road during the autumn of 2008, is open to the public again.
Hiorns has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize for this transformation of a vacant flat into a glittering cave of blue copper sulphate crystals.
The flat within a low-rise 1960s block on the Lawson Estate was selected by producers Artangel who specialise in exceptional art projects in unusual places.
Agreement to use the building for a period before the site is redeveloped was reached with Southwark Council, the Leathermarket JMB and the Lawson Estate Tenants & Residents Association.
Seizure is the result of a chemical process on an unprecedented scale, and is Hiorns' most ambitious large-scale work to date.
The work was made by flooding the interior of the flat with 75,000 litres of copper sulphate solution and leaving it to crystallise across every interior surface, over the course of several weeks.
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Online job ads slightly decline in March
The number of help-wanted ads posted online in the United States declined in March but remains consistent with continued job growth.
The index for measuring online job ads by the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group, fell in March to 102.3 from 104 in February.
"Despite the one-month decline, it is too early to conclude that hiring activity is slowing," said Gad Levanon, chief economist, North America, at the Conference Board. "We still expect economic growth to remain above the two percent rate throughout 2019."
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Levanon said that while job growth should slow, "we expect it will remain strong enough to tighten the labor market and draw more people into the labor force."
The Conference Board Experimental Help Wanted OnLine Index measures changes over time in advertised online job vacancies, reflecting monthly trends in employment opportunities across the U.S.


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About this book
We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries. We would have many a question to ask them if we could - questions never to be solved. Hugh Miller, The Old Red Sandstone When I started this book in 1991, the subject of vertebrate origins was fusty and unfashionable. Early drafts for this preface read like an extend ed complaint at the lot of traditional morphologists, cast aside by the march of modern molecular biology. But no longer - this book should reach you at a time of renewed inter est in the origin of the vertebrates, our own particular corner of creation. For although the topic has excited interest for well over a century, molec ular biology has only lately achieved the maturity necessary to test its predictions. As a legitimate field of study, it is fashionable again.
Palaeontology developmental biology the origin vertebrates zoology
Bibliographic information
- DOI http://doi-org-443.webvpn.fjmu.edu.cn/10.1007/978-0-585-25272-8
- Copyright Information Henry Gee 1996
- Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
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- Print ISBN 978-0-412-48300-4
- Online ISBN 978-0-585-25272-8
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Set of 6 mini life rings. 2" diameter,
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Receiving blog awards like these are always nice, as it means somebody has chosen to nominate you and your blog as one of their favourites, and that's got to mean you're doing something right ;) They're a great way for bloggers to recognise, appreciate and support one another.
The lovely Rosie from It's All Just Rosie has nominated me for this award, which I'm extremely grateful for, so huuuge thank you to her!!
Rosie writes a fab lil beauty blog - go check it out!
The Versatile Blogger Award...
The Versatile Blogger Award is awarded by fellow bloggers to acknowledge blogs that they rate really highly and which have touched them in some way. Their posts should be unique, well-written and injected with love. Think of it as a mutual admiration society where bloggers recognise their peers for writing quality blogs that touched them in some way. The VBAs honour the blogger rather than specific posts. It's a chance for bloggers to pat themselves on the back.
The Rules...
1. Display the Award Certificate on your blog.
2. Announce your win and thank the blogger that nominated you.
3. Present 15 deserving bloggers with the award.
4. Link your nominees in your post and let them know they've been nominated.
5. Post 7 interesting things about yourself.
My Nominations...
5. Emma | Not Your Average
6. Chloe | Thrifty Skies
7. Amy | The Powdered Nose
8. Laura | L is for Ladybird
9. Sara | Sookiespartan
10. Gemma | Miss Makeup Magpie
11. Shaz | A Pinch of Shaz
12. Hattie | Project Rattlebag
13. Anoushka | Anoushka Loves
14. Sophie | SK Beauty
15. Charl | Ginger Girl Says
6. Chloe | Thrifty Skies
7. Amy | The Powdered Nose
8. Laura | L is for Ladybird
9. Sara | Sookiespartan
10. Gemma | Miss Makeup Magpie
11. Shaz | A Pinch of Shaz
12. Hattie | Project Rattlebag
13. Anoushka | Anoushka Loves
14. Sophie | SK Beauty
15. Charl | Ginger Girl Says
Interesting Things About Me...
1. My biggest pet peeve is nail biting - and my boyfriend is the biggest nail biter ever - which goes down well. ;)
2. I met David Beckham at Old Trafford back in 1996, when he was 21, way back before Victoria met him! ;) I took him a birthday card and he was extremely shy.
3. I have an unhealthy addiction to Lucozade. I'd actually choose Lucozade over alcohol any day. My friends and boyfriend ban me from it! :)
4. When I was 14 my goal in life was I was to marry Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys. Simple as that. When I was all grown up I was lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time with him and soon changed my mind, ha. ;)
5. Back at primary school I was the champion at the skipping race on sports day, every year! I remember the priest from the local church telling me I was 'the fastest skipper' he'd ever seen.. nowadays I struggle running for the bus.
6. I much prefer a good ol paperback to a book on a tablet. I get excited in Waterstones.
7. I hate the cold, with a huuuge passion. Give me summer all year round!!
Make sure you go check out the fab bloggers in my nomination list - and big thanks again to the lovely Rosie for this award.


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Hello Alabama, let's talk about the root canal procedure ("endodontic therapy" in dentist-speak). The root canal may be the most cringe-worthy dental treatment commonly done today, but it is important that dental patients in the Mountain Brook and Birmingham, Alabama, area know what is happening during this anxiety-inducing, though routine, procedure.
Root Canals
Alabama Dentist: Calming Root Canal Fears
Categories: General Dentistry, Restorative Dentistry, Root Canals
Though a root canal can be intimidating or scary, educating yourself and talking to your local dentist in the Birmingham, Alabama area can relieve much of your anxiety. Root canals are often not painful, and for many people the pain of the infection experienced beforehand is worse than any pain that might be experienced during the procedure, and the relief is well worth the trouble.
Birmingham Root Canals
Categories: Restorative Dentistry, Root Canals
At Koch Aesthetic Dentistry, we perform root canal (endodontic) therapy routinely for our Birmingham dentistry patients and many report minimal discomfort. Root canal procedure have advanced significantly in recent years. For many root canal patients, the procedure is no worse than getting a filling.


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The Evie Tee is designed as an easy tee for us that should fit snugly on the upper body, arm and across the bust so that it falls and drapes over hips, thighs and covers our back side. The sleeve comes just below the elbow, and the Vee neck makes it a bit more dressy.
I'm wearing the size Small. Check out the video to see how it moves.
Fletcher (the cameraman) being cheeky and not counting me in lol!
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