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Steven Tice to Speak at Evergreen at 3:30 p.m. on Veterans Day, November 11, 2008
Steven Tice, Certified Trauma Specialist with 19 years of experience as a program director and therapist in Veteran Administration programs will deliver the keynote address at The Evergreen State College Veterans Day Commemoration on November 11 at the college's Olympia campus, Seminar 2 Building, Room A 1105 at 3:30 PM.
Tice will speak on the theme of this year's event Thanking Those Who Serve, providing insights into life after the traumatic experience of combat. College officials will also unveil a new Evergreen Veterans Medallion, which will be presented to Evergreen students, staff and faculty who have served in the U.S. armed services at a ceremony later in the academic year.
Severely wounded in one of the most horrific battles of the Vietnam War, Hamburger Hill, Tice has been called a National Treasure for his work to help veterans through their experience of war and recovery. His personal story of familial stress, increasing recognition of lasting effects of war and work at reconciliation with the past provides an inspiring story to anyone who wishes to better understand the lives of veterans today.
Since retiring from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in December 1998, Tice has been writing, consulting and presenting on PTSD treatment, as well as providing direct clinical treatment with physically disabled combat veterans from WWII to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Steven's therapeutic approach is to treat PTSD as an emotional malady and not a mental illness. In Tice's view, symptoms of PTSD are expectable outcomes when individuals participate in or are exposed to traumatic events outside the norm of human experience.
About Steven Tice
Steven Tice, MA, CTS received his Master of Arts degree in 20th Century US Social History from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1981, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from UNLV in 1976. He has been certified as a trauma specialist through the international Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists since 1992. Steven is a Washington State Registered Counselor.


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Team Jackson Hole is a community of athletes coming together to raise awareness for community causes and projects while promoting the spirit of athleticism. Our mission is to positively impact our community by advancing local charitable causes, while promoting a healthy lifestyle through education and training.
The Team Jackson Hole Story
A group of avid cyclists and outdoor recreationists, from the Jackson Hole region, hatched the idea behind Team Jackson Hole. The group wanted a way to give back to their community and to help foster connections between the valley's businesses, community members and local nonprofit organizations that celebrated the spirit of community while promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Team Jackson Hole will get its start as a cycling team. This competitive road and mountain biking team of athletes competes in numerous regional and national road races throughout the summer season. Through participation in these and other public events, the team will represent the Jackson Hole community, raising awareness for select local community causes and projects.
The team is composed of the kind of athletes Jackson is famous for, men and women, young and old, who strive for excellence and achievement, who support and challenge one another to succeed.
Each year the team will choose one or more local causes support. Every time we publicize Team Jackson Hole, we also promote our cause of the year with the goal of raising awareness and funds for those undertaking the cause.
A Vision for the Future
Although Team Jackson Hole is starting as a road cycling and mountain bike team, we envison expanding participation beyond racers to include recreational cyclists to broaden public awareness and fund raising efforts
As we chart our course for the future, we welcome input from all community members. For more information and to be part of the conversation please contact Team Jackson Hole, President, Jim Verdone.

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The original 'Pangako Sa 'Yo', starring Jericho Rosales and Kristine Hermosa, will always be remembered in Philippine television lore.
Airing from 2000 to 2002, the series was considered the first teleserye in Philippine television. The popularity of 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' forever changed the landscape of primetime television viewing in the country.
Before 'Pangako Sa 'Yo', primetime on Philippine television was at its most diverse, ranging from local and foreign sitcoms, action, variety and suspense programs to even animes and cartoons. However, the mid-90s foreshadowed the eventual dominance of dramas in the primetime slot, beginning with RPN-9's 'MariMar' and later with ABS-CBN's 'Mara Clara'.
Then on November 13, 2000, 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' premiered on what would later become the Primetime Bida slot (ABS-CBN did not dub the primetime block as such until 2002). The series quickly made an impact, and by 2001 it was the hottest program in the country viewership-wise.
The success of 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' proved to be the last straw for GMA as a niche-oriented upscale network. Midway through 2001, GMA cancelled its Anime Assault (later known as Astig Authority) anime block from its primetime lineup and replaced them with their own teleseryes, a precursor of what later became GMA Telebabad.
However, GMA's own lineup of teleseryes were no match for ABS-CBN's, and eventually forced the network to introduce the fantaserye genre, which turned the tables in the mid-to-late 2000s. ABS-CBN stuck to their tried and tested formula of traditional teleseryes, even though they briefly flirted with fantaseryes, and later introduced sexual, social, political, value-oriented and culture-oriented themes to their teleseryes.
By the time 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' finished its run on September 20, 2002, much of the primetime scene on weeknights, if not entirely, were dominated by teleseryes. Today, with the exception of the early evening newscasts, teleseryes are aplenty in the 5:50-11:00 p.m. window, with each episode lasting for 40-45 minutes.
Fast forward to 2015, and the remake of 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' will make its way onto Primetime Bida this coming Monday. The premise is virtually similar to the original, with the love story of Yna Macaspac (Kathryn Bernardo) and Angelo Buenavista (Daniel Padilla) dominating the series along with the love triangle between Amor Powers (Jodi Sta. Maria), Claudia Buenavista (Angelica Panganiban) and Eduardo Buenavista (Ian Veneracion).
But like all recent remakes, the story of 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' will be shortened, revised and compressed to today's teleserye standards, with a timetable of at least four to eight months depending on the ratings. Still, fans of the original series cannot wait to revisit the tale that first captivated the nation in the early 2000s.
The original 'Pangako Sa 'Yo"s place in Philippine television history has been secured. Now it's up to the new version to make a similar impact.
The remake of 'Pangako Sa 'Yo' airs this Monday after 'Nathaniel' on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida.


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ABC Axes The Assets After Two Weeks
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ABC has pulled The Assets after only two weeks, TVGuide.com has learned.
The eight-part miniseries, set in the 1980s, was based on the CIA's hunt for the most notorious mole in U.S. history. The drama debuted to 3.8 million and 0.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. The show dropped in week 2 to 2.9 million and a 0.6.
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The Assets will be replaced by repeats of Shark Tank on Thursday nights at 10/9c for the next three weeks.
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LANSING — Five facts to know about Michigan's new health insurance marketplace, which opens Tuesday and is a major component of the federal health care law:
1. Should I care? Yes, if you don't have health insurance or buy it on your own. Michigan has 1.1 million uninsured residents and hundreds of thousands more who purchase their own. That's roughly 16 percent of the population. The law requires that you have health coverage or face fines.
In 2014, the penalty is $95 or 1 percent of taxable income, whichever is greater. It will rise to $325 or 2 percent of income in 2015, and $695 or 2.5 percent of income in 2016. You may be exempt from fines if you have a financial hardship, religious objection or coverage would cost more than 8 percent of your income.
2. Do I qualify? You will get tax credits to help pay for monthly premiums if you make between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line. That's about $11,500 to $46,000 for an individual or $23,000 to $94,000 for a family of four. Those under 133 percent of the poverty level will qualify for Medicaid around April 1, assuming the Obama administration approves Michigan's expansion plan.
If you have insurance through your employer, you can shop on the exchange, but won't qualify for tax subsidies unless your company's plan is considered unaffordable or inadequate — costing you more than 9.5 percent of household income or covering less than 60 percent of the cost. Some small businesses with low-wage workers also may look at the market, though the law doesn't require them to provide insurance.
3. What's the deadline? Though Tuesday is the first day to enroll, there's no rush, because coverage starts Jan. 1. The deadline to be covered is Dec. 15. You have until March 31 to sign up for a plan without being penalized.
4. How do I pick the best plan? Go to healthcare.gov or call 800-318-2596. You'll have four levels of coverage to consider: bronze, silver, gold and platinum. Plans at every level cover the same benefits, but different percentages of medical costs. You'll pay the difference, up to a cap on out-of-pocket expenses. Those below 250 percent of the poverty level can get help with deductibles and co-pays.
Michigan has put together an online calculator to help you figure out your options, including premium costs. Starting Tuesday, visit michigan.gov/hicap to use the calculator or call 877-999-6442. For extra help, go to enrollmichigan.com for a list of independent navigators to guide you through the process. Hospitals, health clinics, insurers and nonprofits also have application counselors to help.
5. Does Michigan differ from other states? Yes and no. It's among 36 states where the federal government will control all or most of the exchange. State government has a limited role, except to link computer systems to the market.
One thing unique to Michigan is competition. It has the highest number of participating insurers, 13, among states that chose not to run the exchange on their own. You on average will have 43 plans to pick from. You'll pay dramatically different premiums, depending on your income, family size, age, hometown and tobacco use. Michigan's average premium, before tax credits, ranks about middle of the pack nationally.


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Look Past Labels: Lessons from Working with Youth Who Experience Homelessness and Sexual Violence (2014)
This recorded webinar introduces the Linking the Roads guide and infographic for a discussion around trauma-informed practices and community partnerships for serving youth who experience homelessness and sexual violence. Download transcript.
Rural SARTS: What the research tells us (2014)
Megan Greeson, Assistant Professor of Psychology at DePaul University, presents preliminary findings on a research project about Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) in rural communities. Download transcript.
Children Need Us All: Defining the Unique Roles of Victim Service Professionals in Responding to Child Sexual Abuse (2013)
This recorded webinar explores the unique roles of victim service professionals in responding to child sexual abuse. Participants will be able to share communication strategies to enhance multidisciplinary team members' ability to meet the needs of children who experience sexual abuse. Download transcript.
Putting the Pieces Together: Prosecuting Perpetrators of Incest While Supporting Child Victims and Families (2013)
This webinar recording discusses techniques for prosecuting cases of incest while identifying and responding to the unique needs of child victims and families. It addresses the misperceptions about the dynamics of incest to help promote better response by victim service providers and other members of the system.
Growing Resiliency: Meeting the Needs of Children Surviving Incest (2013)
This recorded webinar discusses the challenging dynamics of supporting a child's resiliency after experiencing sexual violence by a family member. It reviews ways that anti-sexual violence advocates and allied professionals can play a vital role to child survivors and their families by responding to their unique needs and nurturing resiliency.
Let's Talk about It: SAAM as a Tool for Outreach (2013)
This recorded webinar provides an opportunity for rural grantees to learn about Sexual Assault Awareness Month as a campaign tool for outreach in their communities. Download transcript.
Uniquely Rural: Creating Effective Campaigns about Sexual Assault (2011)
Learn how to create comprehensive campaigns about sexual violence that meet the unique needs of your rural community. An overview of key outreach strategies including: benefits and key components, as well as the sharing of Rural Public Service Announcements and associated materials, and highlights from OVW rural grantees was provided. Download transcript.
No Place Like Home: The impact of sexual violence on housing (2010)
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July 16, 2018: All of the photos from the CAF Minnesota Wing's June 9, 2018 Spring Swing Dance have been posted! Please contact me if you can not find a photo you are seeking.
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My name is Rahul and I am a 14 year old Lego enthusiast. I specialize in building All-Around Competition vehicles as well as all-wheel drive trial trucks. I reside in Princeton, New Jersey. Builders who inspire me are Sariel, Nico71, and Zblj.
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Yes…. this. This jacket is cursed. It is the Christine of jackets. I started this tuxedo jacket in Feburary 2011. Things were going swimmingly until I put the pockets in the wrong place. Then, I didn't have any lining and had to wait until a run to the store. Once I got the lining that would help the jacket match the tuxedo pants I'd already completed, I was over it.
Ten months later I picked the jacket back up only to realize one of the sleeves was missing.
This jacket just does not want to get sewn. But, that's not enough for me to call it cursed. Stick with me here.
So, in the last week I've cut and sewn the lining. And, I cut and sewed a new sleeve. Well, cut a new sleeve after I spent over an hour looking for the hopsack material to cut the sleeve. Except, once sewn, I realized I'd put the sleeves in backward (wrong arm holes). Cursed.
I may possibly be over the jacket again 'cuz the tuxedo trend definitely seems to be leaving town!
Oh. And remember how I sharpeid the grey cloth buttons I had because the shipping on black tuxedo buttons cost more than the buttons? Yeah. Couldn't find the originals. I suspect they jumped ship with the original sleeve.
And this is how it looks tonight. One sleeve in. The other on the cutting table. I've done enough battle with this jacket for a few days. I don't even know why I was so anxious to try and finish! Yes. Time for another break from the tuxedo I'd say.


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"China Updates" is a service provided by U.S.-China Health Products Association. It is published on a weekly basis and provides news on regulatory environment, new legislation, association activities, food safety, consumer trends and any information related to the natural health products industry in China.
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"The Association's China Updates has for me become a highly important market intel tool when it comes to being up to date on market trends and regulatory changes in China's health food market. In a Chinese information jungle, the newsletter stands out as a trustworthy and clear source of relevant information."
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(CBS News) It was six weeks ago on Tuesday that terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Now, CBS News has obtained email alerts that were put out by the State Department as the attack unfolded. Four Americans were killed in the attack, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
These emails contain the earliest description so far of what happened at Benghazi the night of the attack.
Read the emails (PDF)
Ambassador warned Libya was "volatile and violent"
Why no one has been right about Libya
CIA saw possible terror ties day after Libya hit: AP
At 4:05 p.m. Eastern time, on September 11, an alert from the State Department Operations Center was issued to a number government and intelligence agencies. Included were the White House Situation Room, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the FBI.
"US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi Under Attack" — "approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM (Chief of Mission/embassy) personnel are in the compound safe haven."
At 4:54 p.m., less than an hour later, another alert: "the firing… in Benghazi…has stopped…A response team is on site attempting to locate COM (embassy) personnel."
Then, at 6:07 p.m., State sent out another alert saying the embassy in Tripoli reported the Islamic military group "Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibilty for Benghazi Attack"… "on Facebook and Twitter and has called for an attack on Embassy Tripoli."
The emails are just a few in what are likely a large number traded throughout the night. They are likely to become part of the ongoing political debate over whether the administration attempted to mislead in saying the assault was an outgrowth of a protest, rather than a planned attack by terrorists.
Fourteen hours after the attack, President Obama sat down with Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes" for a previously scheduled interview and said he did not believe it was simply due to mob violence.
"You're right that this is not a situation that was — exactly the same as what happened in Egypt and my suspicion is that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start," Mr. Obama said.
The White House and State Department declined comment on the email alerts. The House Oversight Committee told CBS News the information in the emails will be part of their ongoing investigation into the Benghazi attack.


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Elementary students take on Ultimate Fitness Challenge (VIDEO)
FORT WALTON BEACH— Energy was high at Wright Elementary School on Friday as students took healthy habits to the next level.
Students in all grades jumped, ran and climbed throughout the day as they raced through a series of obstacles in the Ultimate Fitness Challenge.
"It was like the most amazing thing, ever," said fifth-grader Hayley Brown as she danced from one foot to another after completing one round.
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She and other students began the challenge by crawling through a series of hoops. They then did five sit-ups before they bounded through obstacles and jumped over a giant roll called "The Twinkie."
But they were nowhere near finished. They still had to high-step through a soft ladder, do five push-ups and climb over a wall before doing five jumping jacks. They wrapped it up with a quick lap around the course.
"It felt like I was exercising my whole body," said 11-year-old Jyriana Grant.
The fitness course was set up and overseen by representatives from Ultimate Fitness Challenge, which is used across the United States to raise health awareness and money for schools, said Howard Daniel, who oversees the program at schools across the Southeast.
Before running the course, students were asked to get pledges for every round of the course they completed. The money collected goes to Wright Elementary.
Parent Betty Black was glad to see her son Zach and his classmates go through the paces.
"It's fun and healthy," she said. "I think it's great."
"You should do it," her 11-year-old son said with a smile. "I thought it was really cool."
Physical Education teacher Daniel Griffin decided to do the challenge as part of an ongoing effort at the school to promote a healthier lifestyle, said music teacher Chad Thurman, who helps out with physical activities.
On other Fridays, students are encouraged to run at least a mile, he said.
"We're always moving and shaking on Fridays," he said.
Griffin, who was busy directing the students for most of the event, said he was pleased with not only how much the students were enjoying the slightly different activity, but what they were learning.
"I think they're getting an awareness of the different levels of shape they're in," he said. "And they're getting a full workout. I promise you, they're going to sleep tonight."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Katie Tammen at 850-315-4440 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KatieTnwfdn.


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Follows the wild, exhilarating life of legendary adult film icon Vanessa Del Rio, set against the backdrop of organized crime-controlled Times Square during the 70s and 80s.
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An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as…
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At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history…
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A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
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A pregnant woman finds herself in serious danger when she agrees to live with the couple who plan to adopt her unborn child.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (2020)
Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's evil plot. It's your move: What should Kimmy do next?
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TORONTO – Few Canadian television events qualify as a momentous occasion for the nation, but Saturday's Tragically Hip concert promises to be special.
It seems like much of the country will be tuned into CBC's live broadcast of "The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration" from Kingston, Ont., when factoring in home screenings and community viewing parties.
Yet how many people will watch is anybody's guess at this point.
"This is an unprecedented event for us," said Jennifer Dettman, CBC's executive director of unscripted content.
The sentiment is true on many levels, she adds.
The last stop on the Hip's "Man Machine Poem" tour is widely expected to be their final performance, as lead singer Gord Downie is facing terminal brain cancer. After tickets to the tour sold out within minutes, fans launched a campaign urging the CBC to carry the band's Kingston show as a live TV event.
Dettman wouldn't speak to the contract negotiations that led to the Hip agreeing to the broadcast.
"CBC made both a competitive and financially responsible offer to acquire the broadcast rights, and we're thrilled to be able to offer this national celebration to as many Canadians as possible," she said.
The concert won't just be on the main CBC network, it will also be broadcast through various other platforms such as CBC Radio One, the CBC website and its YouTube and Facebook channels.
With so many viewing options, that will make it tough to capture how many eyes and ears are focused on the Hip this Saturday.
That's where ratings agency Numeris comes in. The Toronto-based company tracks viewership figures by using meters and viewing diaries prepared by a panel of Canadians representative of the population.
Their data shows that most huge audience draws are typically live programming, led by major sporting events.
The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event nearly every year — drawing about six million to eight million viewers in recent years — while a handful of other annual celebrations like the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and Grammys are perennial favourites too.
The gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is considered to be the most-watched broadcast ever in Canada. It drew 16.6 million viewers, according to data from Numeris, about double the number of people who tune into most Super Bowls.
Those kinds of numbers will be hard to beat, even for a rock band with as much Canadian clout as the Hip.
Numeris spokesman Tom Jenks wouldn't guess how many viewers will tune into the CBC broadcast, but acknowledges it'll probably be a pretty big number.
The agency said it will be counting every public screening — from restaurants to movie theatres to community viewing parties — and each person streaming the concert on their phone. Viewers who playback the show on their DVRs within seven days will also be included in the final numbers.
"Our system captures all viewing," Jenks said.
Potentially driving those numbers higher is the decision make the Hip's concert a one-time broadcast, with no encore presentation and no availability on on-demand platforms.
"Our goal was to bring the experience of this live concert to Canadians in that moment," Dettman said.
"I'm sure the band will figure out what they will want to do with the concert afterwards."
She said the goal is to give all Canadians the same "crescendo" feeling that will ripple through the arena in Kingston.
"Our goal is to bring the experience … to as many Canadians as we can," she said.
"The idea that we're all together experiencing this moment at the same time is really special."
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Question and Answer Guidance Regarding Debt Financing for a Districts Early Retirement Incentive Obligation for TPAF and/or PERS as of December 2002
Q.1 Can a school district issue refunding bonds to replace their existing early retirement incentive plan (ERIP) liability as a result of participating in either of the states 1991 and/or 1993 ERI programs?
A. Yes. Chapter 42, Public Laws 2002, effective July 12, 2002, revised N.J.S.A.18A:24-61.2 to permit school districts to issue refunding bonds to fund their remaining early retirement incentive program liability.
Q.2 What are the highlights of the new law?
A. C.18A:24-61.2 states:
Q.3 Why should a district consider issuing bonds to refund their existing ERIP liability?
A. The interest rate applied to the initial pension liability is 8 3/4%. The interest rate charged on newly issued bonds may be appreciably less and could result in substantial long-term savings.
Q.4 What are the basic steps to refunding?
A. Generally, districts will perform the following steps to refinance their ERIP obligation but should contact their bond counsel for specific details:
Q.5 Will the DOE calculate debt service aid on the ERIP refunding bonds issued by the district to refinance the ERIP liability?
A. No. The debt is not related to capital projects and, therefore, the district is not eligible to receive debt service aid on these refunding bonds.
Q.6 Where does a district currently budget the ERIP payments?
A. Based on the January 5, 1994 hotline, districts currently budget the expenditure in account 11-000-290-232 for TPAF and account 11-000-290-242 for PERS.
Q.7 If a district is able to take advantage of the new law and issue refunding bonds prior to the April 1, 200X due date of the original budgeted ERIP annual payment, will there be any requirements or limitations on a districts use in the current year of the unused appropriation for the original budgeted amount?
A. No, but the DOE strongly encourages districts to use their unremitted April 200X budgeted liability to fund their subsequent years budget. The DOE will require the district to anticipate the general fund surplus balance in their subsequent years budgeted recapitulation of balances on line 1640.
Q.8 What are the budget requirements for annual payments of the new debt?
A. The district will annually budget the principal and interest in the debt service fund. Revenue will be raised as tax levy and the appropriation will be annually budgeted in two newly established accounts for 03-04 entitled, "Redemption of Principal-Early Retirement Bonds" (#40-701-510-910) and "Interest on Early Retirement Bonds" (#40-701-510-835).
Q.9 What fund should be used to record and report the ERIP refunding bond proceeds?
A. The accounting treatment will depend on whether there is a requirement in the bond agreement to use the debt service fund for accounting and reporting. If there is no legal requirement to use the debt service fund, the transaction is recorded in the general fund and the general long-term debt account group (GLTDAG). GASB 34 implementers will no longer use the GLTDAG for reporting purposes, but may continue to use the account group for internal accounting purposes. There will be a conversion entry at year end to report the balance of the bonds payable (and related unamortized premium or discount and issuance costs) on the Statement of Net Assets in the governmental activities column.
Q.10 Where in my districts ledger do I record the refunding transaction? Where does the transaction appear in my year-end CAFR?
A. See Q.9 to determine whether to use fund 10 or fund 40. Bond principal (face or par value) should be recorded using the established revenue account 10-5110-000 or 40-5110-000, "Other Financing Sources- Bond Principal". Refer to Q.12 and Q.13 for accounting guidance on debt issuance costs and premium or discount. New account number 11-000-515-915 or 40-000-515-915, "Retirement of ERIP Liability" should be established for the purpose of recording the retirement of the existing ERIP liability.
The transaction is reported in the year-end CAFR as "Other Financing Sources Long-Term Debt Issued" and "Other Financing Uses Repayment of ERIP Liability.
Note that at the time the payment is made to retire the unfunded liability, the balance is removed from the GLTDAG by reversing the liability in account number 90-541, "Unfunded Pension Liability" against account number 90-305, "Amount to be Provided for Retirement of General Long-Term Debt".
Q.11 Does it make a difference if the ERIP liability is paid directly to the state at closing?
A. In most circumstances, the bond proceeds will be paid directly to the State Division of Pensions at closing. The transaction should be reflected in the districts accounting records and financial statements whether or not proceeds are deposited in a districts bank account.
Q.12 An amount equal to the issuance costs was deposited in the districts bank account and then disbursed by the district. How does the district account for this transaction?
A. Debt issue costs paid out of bond proceeds should be reported in the fund financial statements as an expenditure as opposed to an "Other Financing Use". As in the preceding question, the full amount of the transaction should be reflected in the districts records whether or not proceeds are deposited in a districts bank account. If proceeds have been deposited in a districts bank account, the appropriate cash transaction would be part of the entries. As noted in Q. 9, for the GASB 34 district-wide statements, there will be a conversion entry at year end to report the unamortized issuance costs on the Statement of Net Assets.
Q.13 What about premium or discount?
A. The accounting treatment for premium or discount will be similar to the accounting described in the GAAP Technical Manual, chapter 11, except that the premium or discount will be recorded in the fund which has the bond proceeds. If a district has implemented GASB 34, in the year of bond issuance and prospectively, there will be a conversion entry at year end to report the unamortized premium or discount in the district-wide Statement of Net Assets and the related expense in the Statement of Activities. Districts are not required to calculate the beginning balances of unamortized premium, discounts or debt issuance costs related to bonds issued prior to the year of implementation of GASB 34.
Q.14 For year-end financial reporting, would there be specific footnote disclosure requirements that relate to the refunding of the ERIP liability?
A. Yes. Districts must include a general description of the transaction in the notes to the financial statements in the year the refunding takes place. Be sure to include:
Note: Districts should refer to GASB Codification sections 1500 and D20 for further guidance on year-end reporting and disclosures.
Q.15 Are there any specific GASB 34 year-end reporting issues relating to the refunding transaction?
A. Yes. The two Implementation Guides published by GASB provide guidance on GASB 34 financial reporting for bonds issued, including provisions for:
1) Year-end accrual of interest.
2) Amortization of premium or discount over the life of the bonds.
3) Inclusion for discussion within the Management Discussion & Analysis.
Q.16 Will the tuition calculation be amended to reflect the accounting change of the annual ERIP payment from current expense to debt service for the refunding bonds?
A. Yes. The tuition calculation will continue to include the annual payment. To accommodate this, two new budget lines (09795 and 09796) have been added to fund 40 in the 03-04 district budget to be used for budgeting and reporting the annual principal and interest payments. (See Q.8 for account numbers and titles). These lines will also be included in the estimated tuition calculation starting in 03-04 and will be used in the certification of rates for 03-04 and beyond.
Q.17 How can principal on the refunding bonds for ERIP be allocated to the tuition calculation when the business services code and the A4-1 and A4-2 guidelines for certification of rates only allows interest on bond proceeds to be allocated?
A. The administrative code at N.J.A.C. 6A:23-3.1(e)3 and the A4-1 and A4-2 instructions specifically allow employee benefits as an allowable expenditure to be allocated in the certification of tuition rates. Moreover, the administrative code specifically excludes certain other items, and the ERIP liability payment is not specifically listed or considered an exclusion. Therefore, for purposes of tuition, the ERIP liability and its associated annual payment once repaid using refunding bonds, continues to be considered a benefit related cost and an allowable charge to be allocated in the certification of tuition rates.
The administrative code citation regarding restrictions on allocating principal on bond proceeds is related to bonding for capital purposes under the building use charge. It has no relation to refunding bonds for ERIP liability and therefore is not applicable.
The A4-1 and A4-2 guidelines and the estimated tuition rate forms included in the budget software will be changed to reflect this new distinction for ERIP refunding bonds annual principal/interest payments. No amendment is needed requiring state board approval in the administrative code for business services.


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In March of this year, as part of the Femme March Fest Challenge, I read a total of 8 books that included A Charm of Finches and Mudbound. But also read another book that made me laugh a LOT and made me fall in love with it. This book is called 50 Cups of Coffee: The Woes and Throes of Finding Mr. Right.
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Key Prosecution Witness Missing in Alex Sanchez Case
Federal prosecutors soon will be forced to admit that their star witness in the gang conspiracy case against Alex Sanchez is a fugitive still on a crime spree somewhere in Central America.
Cameron, in that gang-ridden country. The prosecution claims that Bonilla/Zombie participated in an incriminating wiretapped phone call with Sanchez and others one week before the shooting. The Sanchez defense has strongly argued that the government has the "wrong Zombie," that it was another Juan Bonilla who took part in the phone call.
The case of the mistaken Zombie aside, now the Salvadoran papers El Mundo and El Diario de Hoy are reporting that the real Zombie is not only a fugitive but has lied to Salvadoran prosecutors about the killings in 2006.
" 'Zombie' is on the loose," El Mundo reported on May 11. The detailed article describes how Zombie offered himself as a witness to the police in the murder of Cameron and others, including a well-known gang intervention worker known as Smoky, who was written up sympathetically by National Public Radio reporter Mandolit del Barco. Smoky, a former MS leader turned peacemaker, law student and father, was killed May 13, 2006. Cameron himself may have been implicated in the killing of Smoky, which would make Cameron's own death two days later an act of retaliation.
According to the El Mundo account, Zombie told prosecutors that Cameron traveled from Los Angeles to El Salvador to assassinate Smoky. "The latter had come out of anonymity and had achieved fame after appearing in a documentary about gangs, and he belong to an organization to rehabilitate mara [gang] members."
Zombie was finally arrested in 2006 after committing some twenty home robberies. In June 2008, he received special privileges for cooperating with Salvadoran and US authorities. After testifying against MS in exchange for leniency, Zombie escaped in April 2009 when prosecutors became suspicious of his tales. He disguised himself as a priest, a postal worker and even a prosecutor, the better to gain entry to the homes of the wealthy and later rob them. He also is blamed for several kidnappings, rapes and sexual batteries.
If the Salvadoran media accounts are accurate, Zombie has been a fugitive since before the June 2009 indictment of Alex Sanchez. Government prosecutors have never provided the court with the fact that their witness is missing.
Now, with Zombie's credibility shattered, it is not clear if the prosecution wants to find him.
Where does this leave the prosecution? They could recognize their mistake and drop the case against Sanchez. But with so much invested in their claim that Sanchez is a "shot caller" leading a "double life," a responsible retreat from their flawed case is unlikely.
But going forward with the prosecution contains seeds of embarrassment for the government as well. First, they will have to prosecute Sanchez with their central witness a discredited fugitive, and with strong evidence that the Zombie on the wiretaps is not the Zombie the government claims. Second, the other accusation against Sanchez is strikingly similar in its emptiness. He is charged in a gang racketeering conspiracy that took place over a fourteen-year period beginning when he left the gang in the '90s and concluding in May of last year. Though the government indictment alleges over 150 specific overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy against twenty-four defendants, the majority for selling drugs to government informants, there are no overt acts attributed to Sanchez beyond the disputed wiretaps.
This conspiracy case, then, is about RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a 1970 law that makes prosecution possible on the basis of guilt-by-association. The acronym RICO derives from Edward G. Robinson's gangster hero, Little Caesar, in the 1930 movie of the same name. In the most famous scene, Robinson goes down after shouting, "Caesar Enrico Bandello, this is Rico speaking. Rico! R-I-C-O! Little Caesar, that's who! Listen, you crummy flat-footed copper, I'll show you whether I've lost my nerve and my brains!" Released during the 1950s McCarthy period after decades of suppression, the film became a favorite of prosecutors and gang-bangers alike.
The RICO law makes it a crime to "associate" with any "enterprise" through a "pattern" of racketeering activity. The assumption is that street gangs like MS are identical to vertically organized crime structures. There is a presumed board of directors, known as "shot callers," who are an organized conspiracy responsible for every specific crime committed anywhere by any of the gang's individual members.
Alex Sanchez left the gang life behind at approximately the time that the present investigation began fifteen years ago. Subsequently, he founded Homies Unidos in Los Angeles, a gang intervention agency that works with young people, including gang members, to prevent violence and open up alternative opportunities. As an intervention worker, his task involves numerous conversations and phone calls with members of street gangs. In 1999, he helped expose the LAPD's Rampart scandal in which hundreds of young people were subjected to false charges, beaten, jailed and deported, violations that led to federal intervention. Since becoming an intervention worker, Sanchez also has testified as an expert witness in at least eleven federal and state gang conspiracy cases, in which six defendants were found not guilty. One of the government experts he has testified against is LAPD officer Frank Flores, a former Rampart beat detective who, nearly fifteen years later, is the prosecutor's expert witness against Sanchez in court today. It is fair to say that Sanchez poses a challenge to the prosecution mentality driving the war on gangs.
It is helpful to Sanchez that the prosecution lacks any specific evidence against him, a fact which led to his release on bail six months ago. But under RICO law, often referred to as an Alice in Wonderland statue by defense attorneys, that is beside the point. Prosecutors will try to prove that Sanchez, against all present evidence, is a secret shot caller leading a double life. As their case crumbles, they can be expected to compile a new one.
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I'll start by admitting that this is not a breaking story, but it does deserve a post. The Gravity Group is a wooden roller coaster design company. They're a fairly young company, but they've churned out some amazing coasters in the past five years including Hades, Ravine Flyer II, Fireball (China's first wooden coaster, and the top rated wooden roller coaster in the World, The Voyage at Holiday World. Last year, The Gravity Group unvieled their revolutionary new Timberliner Trains. And then later they announced that The Voyage would be the first roller coaster to feature the trains.
It sounded like some pretty cool news, but after watching this demonstration video I'm really feeling the gravity of the issue (sorry, I couldn't help the pun). I knew what they claimed the new trains would be able to do, but at about 1:44 in this video I still gasped at what I witnessed and the implications for all those rickety, punishing, jarring woodies out there.
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If the Timberliners can effectively "steer" as their expected to do then these new trains could be a complete game changer for wooden roller coasters. Of course, parks would have to decide to buy them and I would imagine that they're not cheap. But, I'd ask those parks if they would you rather have low ridership, higher maintenance costs, the occasional customer complaint, and horrible reviews from sites like mine or the chance to possibly bring their forgotten, painful woodie back to life.
I already gave The Voyage a 10 out of 10 when I rode it during it's opening year in 2006. I (perhaps, insensitively) compared it to an abusive relationship:
Holding your hands up is a battle. Is it TOO rough? At times it felt like it, but then I got off briefly exhausted, but not physically beat up. Then, I kept finding myself back on another train 10 minutes or so later. It was really weird, like an abusive relationship I couldn't get out of. – The Voyage Review
The point was that The Voyage was amazing even though it verged on being a little too rough and intense. With these new trains, the 10 out of 10 could be lifted to even greater heights as weird as that sounds. To keep up on the latest updates from the Gravity Group, check out their blog and podcast at: Gravity Cast.
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"Me and my best friend were planning a totally cool evening with the works: sleepover, movies, etc. Then, this really hot guy at school asked me out for the same night. I was totally psyched the whole day and totally forgot about the sleepover me and my bud were planning to have. So I called her up on the phone and told her I was really sick and would have to bail. She said it was okay and that she would see me tomorrow.
"So, the hot guy and I went to the movies that night as planned. As we were leaving the theater, wouldn't you know it, we bumped right into my best bud buying popcorn. She said she would never forgive me. I told her I was sorry, but she wasn't buying it -- she said I had made the wrong choice to do that and that it really hurt her feelings."
"I went to a huge pool party and everyone was there, including my ex-boyfriend and his annoyingly perky new girlfriend. While his girlfriend was swimming, I sneaked into the locker room and stole her thong underwear. Later, while she was getting dressed, she shrieked that she couldn't find them, and I threw them in the pool for everyone to see. She was so embarrassed, and had to spend the rest of the day in a wet bikini bottom that soaked through her pants. And she never found out who threw her underwear in the pool."
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"My older sister had a friend staying over at our house for a week. This friend had always had a major attitude with me, so when I overheard them talking about skipping school, I told my parents and they got big-time BUSTED! Ha-ha. They still never found out it was me who told."
"My mom grounded me for six weeks for something totally dumb. So a month into, I couldn't stand it anymore and called my boyfriend and told him to come pick me up. It was after midnight and mom was scheduled to be at work until 5 a.m. After hanging out and fooling around at his house for a few hours, my cell phone rang and it was my mom! (I didn't answer but I saw her name on the caller ID!) I had him rush me home ASAP. I saw her car in the driveway, so I had him drop me off down the street. As I walked toward the house, I rubbed my eyes and face and made it look like I had been crying. I walked in the house and told my mother I had been in the park thinking about my grandmother, who had recently passed away! Instead of yelling my mom smiled, hugged me, and said she missed Grandma too!"
"I would always get jealous over the fact that my best friend is smaller, smarter, and prettier. One day, she confessed to me that she stuffs her bras with toilet paper to make her 'twins' look bigger. The next day during lunch I saw her flirting with my longtime crush. I got so mad, because she knew that I liked him. My jealousy grew bigger and bigger until I got this evil plan. I walked over to her and 'accidentally' tripped and spilled my apple juice all over her T-shirt. The toilet paper that she used to stuff her bra melted and fell out from under her shirt! The worst/best part was that when I pretended to trip, I screamed to get everyone's attention. The whole lunchroom was laughing at her and staring at the two piles of soaked tissue paper at her feet. I felt so bad in the end, because she was crying."
"In my sophomore year of high school, the administrators took away our winter dance because people had shown up drunk the year before. My friends and I were really mad, so we took our revenge. We stayed late after sports practice one night and turned every sign in the entire school upside down. Then we went into the computer lab, stole all the mice, and hid them in a bathroom. Then we switched all the keyboards so that writing from one keyboard would come up on a different screen. No one had any idea it was us and we still get a huge laugh out of it."
"I really liked this guy that my parents absolutely couldn't stand. One day he asked me to the movies, and of course I couldn't say no! So I called my friend up and told her we were going to the movies together. She picked me up and we met my date there! My parents had no clue. Then, when my mom picked me up across the street from the movie theater at the video store, she saw me with him. I just told her that I happened to see him there and she bought the whole thing! To this day they still have no clue."
"I told my mom I'd be at this party that was on till late, but instead I went on my guy friend's boat at midnight with a few of my friends, and we went to a nearby island for an hour. Luckily I got back home safe and sound and no one had to be the wiser."
"One night my friend and I were driving around with this guy in his convertible. We were pretty bored, so when the guy dared us to flash the next car that went by, we were game. Turned out not to be such a good idea, 'cause when we flashed the car, it turned out to be a STATE TROOPER! They turned on their lights and turned around, but luckily my friend lives down a private road so we got away in time. Next time, though, I'll keep my privates to myself!"
"My best friend couldn't make it to one of our school dances, but her hot boyfriend was planning to attend. Since she didn't want him to dance with any other girls, she asked me to keep an eye on him and be sure to dance with him a lot. We did what she'd asked, except that after a few songs we were all over each other when we were dancing. The dance ended at 10 o'clock, but I didn't get home until 11:30 because he parked his car in the Devil's Pitchfork -- the local make-out place. I felt so bad and guilty about betraying my friend -- but it turns out that the reason she couldn't make the dance was because she was with another guy!"


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Viktor Kuncak is an associate professor in the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences, where, since 2007, he leads the Laboratory for Automated Reasoning and Analysis (http://lara.epfl.ch). He works in formal methods with emphasis on algorithms and tools, such as Leon tool for verification and synthesis of Scala programs (http://leon.epfl.ch). His community service include co-chairing CAV 2017, SYNT 2015, FMCAD 2014, and VMCAI 2012. He also co-led an international COST Action to establish standardized formats for verification and synthesis (Rich Model Toolkit). His proposal on Implicit Programming, aiming to bridge the gap between human goals and their computational realizations, was funded in 2012 by a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant. Viktor Kuncak received a PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007.


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(2009) Documentary (First Run) Pablo Fajardo, Sting, Judge German Yanez, Kent Robertson, Dr. Adolfo Callejas, Steve Donziger, Ebergeldo Criollo, Alossa Soltani, Joseph Kohn, Maria Garafolo, Sara McMillen, Ricardo Reis Veiga, Diego Larrea, Alejandro Ponce, Rosa Moreno, Amy Goodman, Rafael Correa, Hugo Chavez, Lupita de Heredia, Trudie Styler. Directed by Joe Berlinger
In 1993, lawyers in Ecuador filed a class action lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of 30,000 indigenous dwellers of the Ecuadorian rain forest for damages done by Texaco's (who were acquired by Chevron in 2001) Lago Agrio oilfield operations. The lawsuit alleged that poorly maintained pipelines and waste disposal pits had infiltrated the water supply, leading to a variety of cancers and other diseases that afflict the people of the region, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island.
The lawsuit dragged on for 18 years, following a change of venue from New York to Ecuador after American courts dismissed the case because they didn't have proper jurisdiction. This documentary, helmed by Joe Berlinger who has been Oscar nominated and also won Emmy and Peabody awards for his work, followed the case during 2006 and 2007 as the lawsuit drew international attention.
Berlinger admirably allows both sides of the story to air their opinions; certainly his sympathies lie with the plaintiffs as he tends to present more of their point of view, but certainly Chevron cannot complain that he didn't give them if not equal time at least enough time to present their case. It's hard to argue with the images that we see of scandalously polluted holes in the ground, children with heartbreaking rashes and illnesses, and the evidence of the cultural destruction of a people who had inhabited the area safely for centuries until the oil companies came along.
Chevron's argument that Texaco had cleaned up the area that they were involved in before turning over the oilfield to the state-run Petroecuador corporation who, according to Chevron, were responsible for the lion's share of the environmental destruction is hard to ignore. Berlinger was given access to Chevron executives as well as their legal team and quite frankly they don't come off as profit-mad monsters. However, the plaintiffs do argue that Texaco wouldn't have done any cleaning had they not been compelled to after an earlier lawsuit and their argument that Texaco didn't uphold their share of the agreement is also hard to ignore.
The status of the people affected by the extraction of oil is truly heartbreaking; nobody should have to live in those conditions, particularly considering the biodiversity of the region which has likely been irreparably damaged by the somewhat cavalier safety precautions of all of the oil companies involved. While the documentary does spend some time with the natives, more emphasis is given on the legal teams of both sides which in a sense is justified because as a legal drama this case is compelling, but like most real-life legal dramas, can be kind of boring to watch.
The Ecuadorian courts rendered a decision in 2011, ordering Chevron to pay just under $10 billion in reparations and clean-up costs, a decision upheld by the Ecuadorian supreme court. In turn, Chevron litigated in the United States, alleging that improprieties by the American and Ecuadorian lawyers of the plaintiffs and corruption in the Ecuadorian judicial system had led to a decision that was unjustified. An American court found in favor of Chevron in 2014, a decision that the original plaintiffs are appealing. To date, none of the people affected by the drilling for oil have received a penny in compensation.
Watching Donziger, the lead American lawyer who is somewhat arrogant, it is easy to believe that he behaved improperly, which has been borne out by documentary footage not included in the feature as well as through his own journal entries and internal memos. Sadly, while the cause was just, those who fought for the cause didn't behave in a manner that reflected the justness of that cause. And to their detriment, Chevron has launched an aggressive course of punitive litigation against the Ecuadorian plaintiffs and their lawyers. It is somewhat ironic that a company that complained that they were being sued because of their deep pockets are now using those deep pockets to go after those who sued them, who are now suing Chevron once again, this time for $113 billion, claiming that Chevron has failed to comply with the original decision.
Chances are the case will continue to churn in the American and international legal systems for years to come, maybe even decades. My gut feeling is that if Chevron ends up paying anything out, it will be much less than what they were initially ordered to pay and if they do pay anything out, most of it will likely go to the lawyers and little will make its way to the Ecuadorian Amazon where people continue to live and die. This is the human cost of our insatiable need for oil and the insatiable greed of those who supply that oil. It's the kind of tragedy that would have delighted Shakespeare – and turned his stomach.
WHY RENT THIS: Reasonably balanced, allowing both sides to present their points of view. Beautifully shot. Fascinating interviews.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: Those who love the law may be disgusted by the behavior of lawyers on both sides. The struggle between the lawyers overshadows the plight of the natives.
FAMILY MATTERS: Some adult themes.
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: Following the release of the film, Chevron had the case tried in an American court, claiming fraud and corruption; raw footage from the film, not included in the final cut, was submitted as evidence in the case.
NOTABLE HOME VIDEO FEATURES: Interviews with director Joe Berlinger and activist Trudie Styler, festival and premiere coverage and a resource guide.
BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: $185,881 on an unknown production budget.
SITES TO SEE: Netflix (DVD Rental only), iTunes
COMPARISON SHOPPING: You've Been Trumped
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The end of normal.
Well, kinda. But what this poly boosterism is missing (other than its manners) is that you don't actually have to date other people to do any of this. For that matter, dating other people doesn't guarantee that you'll do this--oh boy does it not. Dating other people is just somewhat more likely to bring these issues into the open.
Likewise, you don't have to actually hit each other to use BDSM methods of negotiation and consent-centrism. "What kind of play do you want today?" is an important question to ask of someone who doesn't have any Officially Designated Fetishes, but still has desires and limits--which would be, yeah, everyone.
And you don't have to be non-heterosexual to question what gender means to your relationship. If "which one of y'all does the dishes?" is a stupid question to ask a gay couple, it ought to be an equally stupid assumption to make about a straight one. The fact that assigned gender roles are available for a straight couple doesn't mean they ought to take them on without question.
What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn't better than another. What's important is that you make a choice. That even if you're you're monogamous, vanilla, and heterosexual--you're doing it because it's what you want and because you and your partner have agreed to it, not because that's what people do. What's important isn't what path you take, but that you know there are paths.
Paths? Fuck, there's an entire open world out there once you get past "man buys dinner, woman agrees to missionary PIV until he ejaculates. (Or rather, a world including "man buys dinner, woman agrees to missionary PIV until he ejaculates," because, hey, if that's your thing.) There's a million goddamn ways to love, a billion things "partner" or "lover" or "fuckbuddy" or "spouse" can mean to you, and you get to decide.
How fucking cool is that?
When there is no "normal," there's no reason to take pride in being "abnormal." You just are. People who have heterosexual PIV sex for 3.5 minutes once a week just are. Poly/kinky/queer enlightenment wouldn't mean anything at all if everyone were responsible for choice and communication in their relationships.
Who cares how many people you fuck or how you do it? The only thing worth being evangelical about is consciousamory.
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- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 5:58 PM
OH. MY. GOD.ReplyDelete
Yes. YES!!!
Wow. This is a conversation I had with my current partner. Almost word for word. After having been married for almost 7 years and then finding out just how vanilla things were. And then finding some really awesome Ben and Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough. (who knew it was there all along?!?)
Once again, you've hit me where I live. Amazing, once again.
Who cares how many people you fuck or how you do it? The only thing worth being evangelical about is consciousamory.ReplyDelete
Lest we go through a month without me mentioning it, you're absolutely one of my favorite people.
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Holly, yours is a sorely needed voice in our society. This needs to be heard. Thank you.ReplyDelete
I love this. Yes, yes, a million times yes, I cannot stress enough how much I approve of this post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 7:32 PM
*applauds* This. Thisthisthisthisthis!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 7:35 PM
This is a great post and it applies to more than just polyamorous people. All kinds of groups can get way too evangelical. If people would just get off their high horse and quit being so judgmental the world could be a much better place.ReplyDelete
More power to you, but I am a jelous Jerry. I needs to be the only one that ejaculates in my lover. Soz.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2012 at 4:27 PM
I think the point of this article is that your feelings are fine, as long as you communicate that with your partner and they feel okay with that. There is nothing wrong with jealousy, just with the coercion and lack of communication that often show up in jealous relationships.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2011 at 9:46 PM
This message is why I enjoyed reading Opening Up as much as I did. Thanks for boosting the signal.ReplyDelete
- NentuabySeptember 28, 2011 at 10:53 PM
Phazzle, it sounds like you entirely missed the point of this entire post. If your post really was meant to convey that it's not for you because polyamory is not your deal, you need to reread it. It's for you exactly because polyamory is not your deal.ReplyDelete
- Hershele OstropolerSeptember 28, 2011 at 11:00 PM
Also, I've hung out online with enough obnoxious aces* to recognize that nearly every (dyadic) relationship is mixed-libido to some degree. The contrast isn't always as stark as ace/non-ace, but there's almost always a difference, and it's not something a couple can go very long without being on the same page on.ReplyDelete
Phazzle, that's fine, just be up front about it. Own it as a thing that's true of you. There's nothing wrong with weighing the possibilities and concluding that monogamy is what works for you.
*N.B.: Not all aces are obnoxious.
I love you. <3ReplyDelete
- NentuabySeptember 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM
Hershele Ostropoler:ReplyDelete
I don't know the term "aces" and it's a bit too generic for Google... Can I ask you what it means?
"Ace" means asexual.ReplyDelete
- NentuabySeptember 29, 2011 at 12:05 AM
Gotcha. Thanks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2011 at 3:37 AM
Thanks for this beautifully written post, I feel strongly that relationships should be built on open communication and anyone can learn from the good practice seen in poly and kinky relationships. The gender role one is interesting and I like that you don't tell people off if they just happen to find that the roles suit - whether for social reasons or otherwise my partner and I do split tasks in a way that doesn't subvert those roles, but we do it based on each other's skills and interests, not based on our genders.ReplyDelete
- the_ragnarokSeptember 29, 2011 at 6:20 AM
sdlkfhjk this. I write and read about every possible relationship configuration under the sun, but my own life are monogamous, heterosexual and vanilla. because that's who I fell in love with, and he makes me happy.ReplyDelete
I used to get all liberal-guilty about it - can I call myself bi when for all privilege purposes I'm straight, can I call myself kinky when I only seek it out in written porn and not IRL, can I call myself not-entirely-monogamous when I have his permission to see other lovers (under limitations) and I don't?
But none of it matters. I have seen all the options, and went for this, because it's awesomest for me.
Actually, one point - the important thing about the consciousness thing is to remember that nothing lasts forever. If you plan on staying with the same partner for 20+ years, there's no knowing what will happen. People's desires change, and it's important to be aware of that and to always, always ask.
ALL of the awards! If I lived in boston I would give you highest of fives. This is awesome.ReplyDelete
In my house it usually winds up being, woman agrees to PIV sex, man has an orgasm, woman has an orgasm, and THEN we go out to dinner because sex works up an appetite, man.ReplyDelete
Poly is Advanced Relationships. It's stuff you should be doing anyway, but if you fuck it up in a monogamous relationship you have a safety net. In a poly relationship... not so much!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 29, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Thanks for this. My least favorite polyism is "I'm poly because I understand that I can't be all things to my lover." Um, I'm pretty sure that any remotely healthy relationship, poly or mono or entirely platonic, acknowledges this. Poly just has a slightly different set of solutions when a person feels like something sexual or romantic is missing.ReplyDelete
More power to you, but I am a jelous Jerry. I needs to be the only one that ejaculates in my lover.ReplyDelete
See, this is the perfect example of why nominally poly/kinky communication techniques are vital for even non-poly, non-kinky relationships. What you've described there implies a sort of monogamy, yes, but it leaves open questions about the vast majority of sexual behavior.
Can your partner flirt with others? Cuddle, either sexually or non-sexually? How about kiss? What about voyeurism or exhibitionism? Would you feel differently if your partner were a professional performer? Would you mind if they penetrated someone else? And so on and so on.
And on the emotional end: would some of these acts make you jealous in an acceptable way, if they were important to your partner, while others would are right out, or is any act that would make you jealous unacceptable? And so on once again.
People who believe that monogamy simplifies matters seem to not really appreciate the incredible breath of monogamists out there. I'd say that I'm one of them, by and large, though my relationship is officially non-monogamous (but monogamous in practice) nowadays. And I've met people who thought that flirting with anyone other than your partner in a monogamous relationship was verboten, and people who don't mind kissing, sexual activity with certain genders, or a whole host of activities.
That's why I'd part ways with you, Ozy. The "monogamous safety net" is an illusion. Monogamy is a principle, not a protocol, and someone who relies on general principles instead of explicit communication is liable to find themselves crying "but I thought we said!" sooner or later.
- NullPointerSeptember 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM
>That's why I'd part ways with you, Ozy. The "monogamous safety net" is an illusion. Monogamy is a principle, not a protocol, and someone who relies on general principles instead of explicit communication is liable to find themselves crying "but I thought we said!" sooner or later.ReplyDelete
I was typing up a comment to say something like this, but you said it better. Not communicating doesn't work, regardless of your relationship configuration.
I agree, Anon 12:55. People in monogamous relationships aren't friend-monogamous! They still have other people in their lives.ReplyDelete
I also get annoyed by "I'm poly because I don't try to own/control my partner." No one in a healthy relationship wants to own or fully control their partner. And poly relationships still have rules, even extra ones to deal with being poly! Presumably, most poly people require their partners to use condoms with other partners. But if you're serially monogamous, no one who isn't in the room is making condom demands on you.
Monogamous people just sometimes think they can get away without making their negotiation explicit.
"I agree, Anon 12:55. People in monogamous relationships aren't friend-monogamous! They still have other people in their lives."ReplyDelete
...except for that awkward time in elementary school when some kid says you can only have one best friend, so it's either me or one of those others, buddy, but not both.
It's like.... strict monogamous principles filtering down to children in a really weird way.
Thankfully everyone I know got past the mono-friendmous stage. I'm not sure everyone does though...
- ozymandiasSeptember 29, 2011 at 7:49 PM
K Raila: I had a teacher my freshman year of high school claimed you could only have one "real" best friend that you'd, quote, "take a bullet for." Yeah...ReplyDelete
Erl/Null Pointer: That wasn't... quite what I meant. Communication is necessary in all relationships and lack of communication can fuck up all relationships. However, poly relationships that don't involve good communication will flame out a lot faster and a lot more spectacularly than mono relationships.
Also, it's a lot easier (for instance) to not deal with your jealousy if you're in a monogamous relationship, in my experience.
K. Raila - I'm picturing a super dramatic scene where your friend demands you take off a friendship bracelet you got from somewhat else. "What, my red, purple and blue string wasn't good enough for you?! You want all different colors?!? YOU TRAMP!"ReplyDelete
However, poly relationships that don't involve good communication will flame out a lot faster and a lot more spectacularly than mono relationships.ReplyDelete
Also, it's a lot easier (for instance) to not deal with your jealousy if you're in a monogamous relationship, in my experience.
Fair enough. I should've realized that you wouldn'tve made the monovangelistic statement it seemed. Perhaps rather than "safety net" I'd have understood the phrase "margin for error" better? Or something along those lines. You can see what erroneous conclusions I reached in response to your extant one.
Anyway, agreeing is pleasant! Let's continue to do it.
I really like the 'Friend-polyamorous' thing. In terms of friends, I definitely have a primary, but I understand that other people don't, and it's still not up to me who she is friends with or does friend-like activities with!ReplyDelete
Awesome, awesome post. Love it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2011 at 8:23 AM
I get the feeling sometimes that it may be more difficult for monogamous and/or heterosexual people who don't want quite the standard package, just because there is a standard package (or overlapping set of standard packages): queer and poly people are less likely to find ourselves well into a relationship and discover that our partner(s) have assumed we agree about whether to have children, how to raise them, or how to handle finances.ReplyDelete
That doesn't mean being bi and poly makes me inherently better: it means that this is a place where it makes my life easier. (That's separate from the ways that it's easier to live in ways that one is comfortable with: for me that's poly, for someone else it might not be.) On the other hand, a chunk of that is that I tend to get involved with friends: I'd spent a lot of time discussing our ideas about life and relationships with my longest-term partner before I was thinking of him as a possible partner. So he knew from the beginning that monogamy wasn't on the table (though there have been long periods when he was my only partner).
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2011 at 12:33 PM
This post was quoted and linked to on Andrew Sullivan's blog at the Daily Beast, read by millions. Uh....good job?ReplyDelete
I saw! It's terrifying!ReplyDelete
Hi Andrew Sullivan readers! I'm Holly!
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2011 at 2:52 PM
I have to say this was extremely refreshing to read.ReplyDelete
As someone who was in a long-term open relationship not too long ago I was turned off a great deal by most of the books and discussions around polyamory (to the point where I deliberately avoided the term and chose "open relationship" instead) because of a consistent underlying self-righteousness.
I was also turned-off by the group-think and competition in the poly-community-types I encountered. There seemed to be this underlying assumption that the more poly you were (the more primary partners, the more fuck buddies) and/or the more you had checked off on your "kink list" the more progressive/enlightened you were.
I searched out writers who weren't quite as "evangelical" as you say. It wasn't easy to find, and I only found you through the Daily Dish.
I think it's absolutely critical, if poly folks are serious about this lifestyle becoming more acceptable, that they have to be more inclusive - people pay lip service to being accepting, then frown on folks who, for example, just aren't into BDSM, or only want one primary partner.
Otherwise even folk who do question the status quo, like me, just aren't going to want to sign up for it, because there's just too much unnecessary and pretentious bagage that comes along with it.
This is why I love this blog--no shaming for my consensual, healthy relationship. I just got into an argument with a poly friend a few days ago because she believes monogamy is "unnatural," biologically speaking. I can't blame her for fighting back, since I have monogamous hetero relationship privilege, and that sort of thing is often used to hurt other people. Still, that doesn't make her views correct.ReplyDelete
Monogamy is my kink, and MKINYK. My partner and I get off on the fact that neither of us is "allowed" to fuck anyone else. It's hot, end of story.
Collect everyone in a room and average their height. It's representative, not definitive or "normal".ReplyDelete
It also means that say you come up with 5'8" as your average, that the 4'10" person or the 6'5" person would be considered abnormal.
You also have many variations around the average mark and it's even possible that not a single person in the room that you got this average from is 5'8"!
We do this with everything and then we put labels on it all. There was a time I tried to define what my relationship was and label it but after a while as it didn't fit with societal preconceived notion of the average I stopped trying.
My spouse and I are happy and that's all I really care about.
I wish I could show this to some of my old co-workers. They're young, but it was still kind of maddening to hear them react with disgust at the mention of doing anything outside the bounds of a committed relationship, then come back around mentioning a one-off with an ex or some such. Or blech at the idea of acknowledging anything at all, then come to work with a hickey and get mad when people see it. It doesn't matter what you do, just be aware that there are other options you're choosing not to explore, and be honest about the fact you know those options exist.ReplyDelete
I realize the post deals with actual relationships, and that in this case there's no question those co-workers were playing to expectations of what girls are allowed to admit in public. But being forced into dishonesty does everyone a disservice, especially since they're around a number of young men who could stand to witness a few women who are fully aware of their sexual options holding court. We have one, but for that reason she just ends up seeming like an outlier.
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2011 at 4:15 PM
Maybe I'm too old fashioned, but I think I need to bring attention to the fact that relationships like this will practically require that all participants be fully independent in all ways or it's going to have that many more problems. I think the longer a relationship lasts, the more it becomes about more than love and sex.ReplyDelete
Like, personally, if my partner wants to be completely autonomous, then they need to be taking care of themselves. I'm not going to be working and paying to take care of someone while they go love and fuck whoever. If anyone's willing to do this, can I have your number? I'd love to be able to retire before I'm 30.
Anon - I'll support someone who loves me and whom I live. If they *also* love and fuck other people, that's okay.ReplyDelete
I'm not saying you have to, but not everyone views that as a dealbreaker.
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Holly - Cuckolds and/or doormats are amazing people.ReplyDelete
Hey, we never specified how many people *I* might be fucking.ReplyDelete
But even if I'm not, it's still a relationship structure that works for some people. I honestly *don't* care who my boyfriend fucks. Some people will be secretly choking back resentment if their partner isn't exclusive, and some won't. People are different.
- Hershele OstropolerOctober 9, 2011 at 9:54 PM
Um, way to miss the point, Yom Kippur anon.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2011 at 4:19 AM
The best part of being a grown-up is that we can play any game we want, with whomever is interested as long as we all UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE RULES.ReplyDelete
It's even better than the run-around-in-circles-faster-and-faster-until-you-fall-down game.
Thank you so much for writing this utterly brilliant post. *goes off to share*ReplyDelete
What does PIV mean?ReplyDelete


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Rain has played a big part in October
I have found myself mentioning a "gloomy" forecast very often throughout the past month.
We always mention rain totals, but what about the number of rainy days? Even if a day started off sunny and beautiful, if we end up with any amount of rain, that's what I tend to remember about the day.
Let's put all of the rain totals aside and look at how many days this month we've had rain. For the month of October, 40 percent of the days have been wet, compared to 20 percent in September.
No wonder this month has seemed so gloomy to me!
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Funding for ports infrastructure to create a domestic offshore wind manufacturing industry has been retained, as have current levels of support in the Renewables Obligation incentive mechanism, feed-in tariffs for smaller renewables and plans for a Green Investment Bank (GIB).
The industry has been lobbying hard for the coalition government to honour the previous Labour administration's commitment for ports funding.
Earlier this year, former energy minister Ed Miliband - now leader of the opposition - announced a £60 million competition for ports around the UK coast to bid to become manufacturing hubs. The aim is to develop the port-side facilities needed for the manufacture of offshore wind turbines in the UK - as well as boost local manufacture of other supply chain components.
Up to 50,000 jobs could be created, according to the industry.
Hard on the heels of the announcement, major turbine suppliers Siemens and GE revealed plans to set up shop in the UK.
Under finance minister George Osborne's review of government departmental spending, more than £200 million would be earmarked for low-carbon technologies, including offshore wind and manufacturing infrastructure at port sites.
However, as Windpower Monthly went to press, the wind industry was waiting to hear whether the government is to allocate the full £60 million promised by its predecessor. A spokesman from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said that further details would be made available shortly.
Signals from government are positive that the £60 million will be retained in its entirety, comments RenewableUK chief executive Maria McCaffery. "Retaining the ports fund will give the industry a huge boost and establish the UK as a major force in renewable energy manufacturing," she says.
The review also commits £1 billion, together with proceeds from asset sales, to capitalise a GIB to help unlock private investment in renewable infrastructure projects, including offshore wind farms.
The £1 billion is half the figure expected. RenewableUK comments that it falls short of the amount needed to support the hundreds of billions of pounds of investment needed in UK energy infrastructure over the next two decades. "It is crucial that a stable policy framework is put in place to secure that investment from the private sector," says RenewableUK director of policy Gordon Edge.
Targeted support
The lower than expected capitalisation makes it all the more important to target GIB support carefully, rather than trying to be all things to all people, says John Gibbs, corporate finance partner at PwC.
"Over the past few months the key blockage around offshore wind and low-carbon technologies is not so much lack of liquidity in the funding market as the ability of counterparties to accept, absorb and/or mitigate risk," he says.
Targeted measures that can help parties manage risk by credit enhancement or insurance products at the construction stage will have a significant beneficial leveraging effect, he adds.
A more upbeat assessment comes from Andrew Raingold, deputy director of the Aldersgate Group, a business coalition.
"With the intention to build on the £1 billion of direct funding through other sources, the bank's capitalisation could reach the £4 to £6 billion recommended by business leaders and independent analysis," he comments. "If the institution has a remit to issue bonds and leverage capital at scale from the private sector, it can significantly reduce the massive financing gaps for green technologies over the next decade, stimulating growth and jobs."
The DECC is seen as one of the winners to emerge from the spending review. Budget cuts of 18% over the period to 2014/15 will mean an average annual reduction of 5%. But the department's capital spending is set to rise by 41% - driven largely by commitments on nuclear decommissioning. In addition, up to £1 billion is allocated to creating the world's first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage demonstration plants.
Overall, environment spending across government is to rise by 21% to ensure the UK meets its 2020 low carbon goals.