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Eddie Flaiz, a well-known manager of the downtown multiplex who was admired for his courage and high spirits in the face of harrowing disabilities, died Thursday after a stroke. He was 46.
Eddie Flaiz, a well-known manager of the downtown multiplex who was admired for his courage and high spirits in the face of harrowing disabilities, died Thursday after a stroke. He was 46.
Flaiz suffered a stroke on Sept. 21. He suffered several more after being rushed to St. Joseph's Medical Center. He died at 7:33 p.m., a family member said.
"He was an inspiration to everybody," said Anthony Barkett, developer of City Centre Stadium 16 + IMAX. "He lived his life to the fullest, and he never complained about his disabilities. He was just a joy to be around."
Flaiz was hobbled by cerebral palsy. He suffered two heart attacks and at least four strokes before the recent strokes that claimed his life. It seemed the reaper was always taking a swing at him.
But he always came back to work. And he kept an incredibly positive attitude.
"I just want to make the most of it," he told me once.
Shift manager at a movie theater is not usually a high-profile job. Flaiz transformed it into one.
"Everybody knew him, everybody recognized him," said the theater's general manager, Richard Binney.
Flaiz knew many moviegoers by name. To them, he was more like a maitre'd, greeting and offering assistance and special favors.
The plaza outside the downtown theater can be urban and intimidating. Flaiz made the inside warm.
Despite his handicap, he ousted many an obnoxious patron.
"He was a tough little guy, too," Barkett said. "He took it personally. He would go out there and kick butt."
Born in Honduras, Flaiz had hardships literally before birth. His father abused his mother while she was pregnant. Flaiz's twin sister died in utero. Flaiz was born disabled.
Put up for adoption, or given away, Flaiz was brought to America by a Mormon missionary. He stayed with a Tracy family and in orphanages. Stockton's Minatre family took him in.
Back then, among his other challenges, he stuttered, said Joanne Minatre. "My husband used to always tell him, 'Don't talk, sing it,' " Minatre recalled. "When he sang, he didn't have the stuttering."
In fact, Flaiz boasted a beautiful singing voice. In late life, he sang the national anthem at a San Diego Chargers game and at many other events.
Flaiz went on to earn honors at Lincoln High School. Upon graduating, he was not content to rely on disability benefits. He sought work.
He rounded up shopping carts at a grocery store, and worked as a doorman at a nightclub, before landing a job with a northside movie theater.
Along the way, he exercised his bewildering talent for meeting anybody and everybody. When he submitted his application to the downtown multiplex, "His two references were Alex Spanos and Gary Podesto," recalled Binney. "Wow. He was most definitely connected."
Moviegoers came to love the guy.
"Anyone who went to the theater felt they knew him," said Paul Rapp. "The guy was always bright-eyed. You just felt happy seeing him."
Flaiz also sat on local disability advocate boards. He worked to make life better for disabled people.
"Eddie Flaiz was always the most upbeat person at the meeting," said Teresa Brown, who sat on one board with him. "No matter what he was going through physically."
Perhaps the proudest moment in Flaiz's life was his appointment by Gov. Jerry Brown to Area Board VI of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce CEO Douglass Wilhoit went to the swearing in. "You could just see the joy on his face," Wilhoit said. "It was kind of an exclamation point on all he had done."
But not all he dreamed of doing. Toward the end of his life, Flaiz was considering a run for mayor.
Flaiz was no saint. His engagement to a Stockton woman ended badly. It caused him enduring regret.
He was a severe boss to his home caregivers: According to the woman he considered his grandmother, Virginia Sanchez, he fired or drove off 885 of them.
"He would hire and fire them, hire and fire them," Sanchez said.
But in recent months he began calling them to apologize, Sanchez said.
Despite that, Flaiz was inspirational. He strove to flourish despite severe misfortunes. And more; he was one of those mysterious nuclei around which community forms.
I loved the guy. So did a cast of thousands.
"My God, he had the heart of gold," said Michael Spanos, president of the A.G. Spanos Cos.
"He never gave up hope for the future of his city, and he was a true community leader," said Mayor Anthony Silva.
"He played an important part in the renovation of downtown," said Mark Lewis, Stockton city manager 2001-06. "He was the spirit keeper, keeping the hope alive that there were better days ahead for us all and the downtown."
Added moviegoer Rich Riley: "He really added to the character and fabric of the city. We need more Eddies in Stockton and in this world."
Services for Eddie Flaiz will be held at 11 a.m. on Oct. 8 at Horizon Christian Fellowship Church, 10702 Lower Sacramento Rd., Stockton.
Contact columnist Michael Fitzgerald at (209) 546-8270 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/fitzgeraldblog.


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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Quick Summer Maxi Dress Upcycle
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- Melanie said...
Looks great! You make it sound so easy!
- May 2, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Kellie said...
Bravo! Never think to look in the BIG sizes and alter to fit! Smart shopper!
- May 2, 2012 at 2:06 PM
It turned out cute! Good work.
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- Thrifty Miss Smith said...
I love it! great idea :)
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Upcycle is much better! So glad that you shared. Thanks for helping make Things I've Done Thursday a success!
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You look stunning in your comfy upcycled maxi. I've been thinking of those myself as spring is finally here. We had June in March, Feb.-March in April, finally I think we have spring, lol. I'm a big girl so I won't find one so big on me, but it'd be great to be able to thrift one.
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After the two-day gathering, the three defense chiefs promised in a press release to increase their cooperation in dealing with supposed continental threats. They also vowed — despite the U.S. posse comitatus law generally prohibiting involvement of the armed forces in domestic law enforcement — to explore more ways to support "security" agencies and collaborate on responses to natural disasters.
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"By virtue of our geography, our peoples, and our trading relationship, our three nations share many defense interests," the defense bosses claimed in a joint statement. "Threats to North America and the hemisphere are increasingly complex and require non-traditional responses. Building upon the trilateral collaboration under the North American Leaders Summit process, we share a determination to enhance our common understanding of those threats and of the approaches needed to address them."
One of the main focuses of the controversial summit, according to officials and reports, was ever-closer cooperation in the increasingly costly, unpopular, and deadly so-called "war on drugs." In Mexico, some 50,000 people have been killed in recent years as the military joined the battle. American taxpayers, meanwhile, have financed much of the unconstitutional "war."
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The "historic" meetings in Ottawa, Panetta said, offered an "unprecedented opportunity" to adopt a "common approach" to what he described as "continental security." "I think all of us think today has been an important day because I think all of us recognize the importance of dealing with this threat to North America, this threat to security, this threat to our people," he claimed, referring to the drug war.
Even as Latin American governments debate legalization of drugs, the Obama administration has vowed to wage more and more war. In recent months, as official calls for decriminalization in the region have grown louder, Vice President Joe Biden and "Homeland Security" boss Janet Napolitano urged leaders to keep fighting the battle, promising more U.S. tax dollars to regimes that fight with sufficient vigor.
After the trilateral defense talks in the Canadian capital, most of the news coverage dealt with Panetta's rejection of public opinion in guiding the administration's war-making strategy. Responding to a recent New York Times poll showing that well over two thirds of Americans want U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, the controversial U.S. defense chief essentially said taxpayers' thoughts on the matter were irrelevant.
"We cannot fight wars by polls," Panetta told reporters. "There's no question that the American people have tired of war just like the Afghan people have tired of war" but the Obama administration will continue pursuing its "strategy" there anyway, he noted.
Panetta also contradicted Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by claiming the supposed "mission" in Afghanistan was now to ensure that the Taliban — once a close U.S. ally, funded and trained by American taxpayers — would not find a "safe haven" there. The President has said on multiple occasions that he is seeking an agreement with the Islamist group that could see it restored to power.
In addition to the public, polls also show that U.S. troops are quickly losing confidence in the wars and their Commander-in-Chief. And earlier this month, Panetta sparked an avalanche of criticism by ordering American soldiers to disarm before he gave a speech in Afghanistan.
Before that, the defense chief was already under fire for publicly announcing that the administration would seek permission from "international" authorities to wage war — and possibly notify lawmakers later. Critics said the statement smacked of "treason" because the Constitution specifically states that only Congress has the power to declare war.
Of course, analysts and lawmakers are also extraordinarily concerned about the administration's efforts to pursue North American "integration" — largely in the shadows and without any sort of authorization from Congress, the Constitution, or the public. Under Obama, the scheme has accelerated even more dramatically than under George W. Bush.
According to analysts, the three governments are pursuing a similar trajectory toward "integration" as the model that was used by elites in Europe to erect the troubled European Union regime. It began with "free" trade agreements and was followed by closer cooperation in various fields.
Eventually, the process in Europe culminated in virtually the complete erosion of national sovereignty. And despite public opposition, EU leaders continue to seize more and more power at the expense of citizens and national authorities.
In North America, prominent voices have proposed everything from a single currency to a continental "parliament." U.S. embassy cables released by WikiLeaks, meanwhile, revealed that official progress toward a "North American Union" has been underway for many years.
Critics from all three nations and from across the political spectrum have been fighting the plot for years. But like in the EU, despite overwhelming opposition, governments are proceeding anyway. And the process is quickly picking up momentum.
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Related articles:
WikiLeaks Exposes North American Integration Plot
U.S. & Canada Agree to Common "Perimeter"
Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels
Obama to Host North American Summit on "Security," Global Warming
Leon Panetta and the Institute for Policy Studies
Obama Adm. Will Seek "International Permission" for Going to War
Poll: Troops Losing Confidence in Obama, Wars
Déjà Vu: Obama's Military Actions in Syria May Be Impeachable
Latin America Debates Drug Legalization; Obama Demands More War on Drugs
"Drug Lords" Targeted in Fast & Furious Worked for FBI
Mexican Drug Trafficker Says He Worked With Feds
Feds Purposely Keeping U.S. Borders Wide Open, Experts Say
Secretary Clinton Says No Peace Without the Taliban
Obama: U.S. Waged Afghan War Incorrectly for Years, Taliban Now Welcome


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Carrying on from the ZombiU thread I thought I'd start this one up just to keep a list of all the Nintendo IDs for each other. Nintendo requires both parties to add each other before you show up in the friends list.
Post your name below and I'll add it to this thread.
Once the first upgrade got loaded mine has been running pretty fast.. Upgrade took forever though, about an hour and a half.
Yeah, but it'll take six weeks to get in to the menu to add them.
I don't get it.
EDIT: Btw, I've added both Zapo and TicMan.
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I'll add mine tomorrow after I explain to the kids that SANTA SENT THE WII TO DADDY
Also, unconfirmed reports or very good launch month for Wii U, with 1.8M units shipped
Also, unconfirmed reports or very good launch month for Wii U, with 1.8M units shipped
Wow, that's pretty impressive. What's with all of the doom and gloom then?
Haven't added other people besides Midda and Eorl yet, too much drinking yesterday and today so I haven't fired it up, so I'll probably get to that tomorrow.
Took me a while to even find where the friends list was and how to send invites to new friends, not entirely the most intuitive (or apparent)
Yeah, I had to look it up. For anyone wondering, the Friends list and downloads list are in the home menu (when you press the home button). No idea why it doesn't have something on the front page.
More than likely says it in that manual that I didn't bother to read. I'll add everyone when I get back to Brisbane, too busy with family on the Gold Coast. Guess I'll have to find your zombie Khel and give it a good 'ol whacking.
Guess I'll have to find your zombie Khel and give it a good 'ol whacking.
Sounds hot
Btw Eorl, I've come across your corpse 3 times now! the last one was right outside the safehouse with a survivor score of 50 and no loot. :(
Wii U games seem cheap to anyone else? They're regularly priced (no discount) at $60 in JB Hi-Fi, they're $60 in the USA according to the guys on the Wii U subreddit.
What gives? Not that I'm complaining (and its helped me spend money locally) but where's the AU tax?
Yeah I noticed that. Tempted to go back to JB tomorrow and just buy a bunch more. I have Nintendoland, ME3 and Mario Bros - any recommendations for another 2 games?
It might just be JB. They were like $89 in Target the other day.
Yeah, I grabbed that from the eShop on Christmas Eve, it's pretty awesome! That level with the aircraft carriers made me actually say "wow." Much harder than Mario Kart though, I've only come first a handful of times.
Btw Eorl, I've come across your corpse 3 times now! the last one was right outside the safehouse with a survivor score of 50 and no loot. :(
Yeaaaa, a random horde decided to attack the safe house and short story is I got swamped. Sad times were had.
u can add me to the list also, id is Dangles
Parents in law have taken over my lounge room rendering my WiiU playing time to Sunday afternoon (after they leave).
Oh there.. sorted! Has been an early start to the turps tonight.
Well looks like my Wii U just shat itself. I was downloading a demo from the online store, came back about an hour and a half later and it was powered down (download probably finished). Turning it on and the gamepad says it can't find the console and nothing appears on the TV.
By default the auto-shutdown thing is set to shut it down after it hasn't been used for an hour, so nothing out of the ordinary there. But yeah, the gamepad not finding the console is what my first one used to do :(
Theres been some reports of success with fixing that issue by re-syncing the gamepad though, so maybe power up the console and hit the sync button on it (twice, cos you need to press it twice to sync a gamepad) and go through the resyncing process. Other stuff I read said you might need to pull the battery to reset it, which is pretty easy and doesn't void warranty or anything, you just need one of those tiny watchmakers screwdrivers to take the screws out that hold the battery cover on.
I ended up just unplugging the AC adapter from the WiiU for about an hour and it started up again and continued downloading Fifa.
Added most people now, I think I might have missed simul and dangles cos I was jumping between the browser and the friends list on the Wii U and I knew I'd forget a couple cos my memory is s***house. Will add the others next time I'm on!
Be careful of adding Midda, he sends disturbingly realistic c**** to you.
Also, scribblenauts is pretty crazy fun, I dunno what the lastability will really be like and I've never played one before so its all new to me so that probably factors in too, but its insane how many obscure words it actually knows. So many times I was suprised when it actually understood and brought to life my crazy ideas. And just the way everything interacts in unexpected ways provides for a fair amount of amusement.
In an underwater level I was going to make a 'Hungry godzilla', just for the hell of it, but it didn't know godzilla (it doesn't seem to work too well with names and proper nouns) but it suggested gorilla instead, so I went with that and made a hungry robot gorilla. Went to drop it next to a fish thinking it'd eat the fish, but instead it got on the fish and rode the fish around the level, hunting down and eating everything else. Unexpectedly awesome.
haha. f*** ninjas and unicorns. gorillas riding fish is where its at.
Heh, I just left plenty of corpses right outside the safehouse door while playing ZombiU. I dunno how it works, does the most recent corpse show up in other people's games or the one with the best loot?
I was doing really good, had the same survivor through all the starting stuff, and the bit through the supermarket, etc, had a whole bunch of medkits and ammo and stuff collected, then I get back to the safehouse and a horde attacks it and my survivor with all the good s*** got chomped. Then the new guy I became got killed before I could loot the previous one, so all my good stuff was gone :(
Ended up dying like four times in that area just outside the safehouse trying to fight off the horde. Fun game though.
haha khel pretty much the same thing happened to me, ill make sure to add everyone tonight.
Heh, I did the exact same thing at that spot when I first played, Khel. I ended up wussing out and starting over though, I was too angry at myself for failing so hard. Managed to get through that attack alive on me second attempt, and I'm doing better. Still died twice so far though. :(


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Major Section: PROOF-CHECKER-COMMANDS
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Some interesting things going on at the US Import/Export Bank:
The Ex-Im first made a $78.6 million direct loan in December 2012 to Abengoa, the Seville, Spain-based firm that specializes in green technologies, then approved a second loan worth $73.6 million Agengoa's Palmatir S.A., wind farm in Cuchilla de Peralta, Uruguay.Ex-Im president Fred Hochberg said the loans will support "approximately 510 American jobs."
Loaning out $298,431.37 of taxpayer backed money per "American Job supported" is odd, loaning over 150 Million of taxpayer backed money to green companies after the fiasco of green companies dropping left and right in the US these loans is odder.
But what doesn't seem odd to me is this:
Former Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson sits on both the Abengoa International Advisory Board and is currently listed on the Ex-Im bank's website as a member of the advisory committee that helps guide bank policy.
The idea of insiders getting insider making insider deals with taxpayer money, that's not odd, that's business as usual.
What is odd is that a former Presidential candidate and prominent governor being on both sides of taxpayer backed loans to foreign governments is a story that is newsworthy to the Washington Free Beacon and the Washington Examiner but produces no results when you do a search of the New York Times for "Bill Richardson".
Then again considering that former presidential candidate and governor has a "D" next to his party affiliation maybe the disinterest of the MSM isn't that odd after all.
Nothing to see here, move along.


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It's now been 5 months since Diffle folded, so I figured I'd write one last post to wrap up this blog. There seems to be a lot of curiosity about what happens to startup founders after their startups die, so perhaps this'll prove informative to people.
Job Hunt
I start work as a UI Software Engineer on Google's Search UI team next month. The resume effect mentioned in Paul Graham's essays seems to be true: my recruiter said that one factor in their acceptance was the experience of having run my own business, even if it did fail. (The others were heavy JavaScript experience and strong knowledge of theoretical CS fundamentals, which apparently is not a combination they get very often.) They thought it would make me a good candidate for leadership roles in the future, which I hope is true, though I'm sure there's plenty to learn on the engineering side before then.
It's not a panacea, though. I also applied to Twitter and didn't even get an interview. Skill fit still matters - being a startup founder is not automatically going to get you a job, though it usually helps. As does all the other common-sense jobhunting advice, like going through a referral, being nice to HR, dressing well for the interview, following up, and knowing your stuff.
It also matters what you did in the startup - at my last employer, I interviewed one candidate who had started his own company but outsourced all development to programmers in Russia. When I asked him what he'd learned from the startup, he said, "That you can't depend on outside programmers. Other people are unreliable." He didn't get the job.
Immediate Aftermath
I didn't realize it at the time, but I was flying when I closed down Diffle - running on pure adrenalin. Part of this was from working with the YC startup, and part was just that entrepreneurship tends to put you into this highly-focused, tunnel-vision state that feels just slighly unreal.
That all crashed down about a month later, which happened to be about a week and a half after I started the job hunt. I ended up getting rejected by FriendFeed, and then told the other companies that I wasn't quite ready to go back into the employee world and needed a few months to figure out what I really wanted to do next.
For anyone faced with winding down a company, I'd highly recommend taking a while off before making any big decisions, and not just the two and a half weeks that I'd initially tried. You're not thinking straight when your startup dies - your perspective may be a bit different in a few months, as might your preferences for what you want to do next.
The corollary to that is to wind up your startup before you're totally out of money, so that you have options for what to do next and don't have to bargain from a place of total weakness.
Anyway, I ended up developing a programming language for those couple of months. I'd actually started this about 3 weeks before Diffle, and then put it on hold for the startup. Whenever people asked me what I'd do if Diffle was a huge success and got bought for enough money to retire on, I said, "Invent a programming language or something." I figured that I still had a good amount of savings and didn't know what I wanted to do, so I might as well get that childhood dream out of the way and see how far I could take it.
As it turned out, I decided that this was better off as a part-time hobby project (remember "If your idea starts with 'we're building a platform to...', find a new idea"? It applies to programming languages as well.) I'm hoping to continue it, as a hobby project, though I don't know how much spare time I'll have at Google.
I also spent a lot of this time stripping off pieces of GameClay, cleaning them up, writing docs, and open-sourcing them. This often took longer than writing the initial code.
I started pursuing other opportunities around October. There was a YC startup that was interested in me as a first employee. A couple friends offered to refer me to big companies (Apple and eBay over the summer, and then Google and IBM in October). I thought I'd try a cold application to Twitter and Facebook (Twitter ignored me, and I nixed Facebook after realizing I'd probably have to code in PHP). And I had a whole bunch of other startup ideas.
I didn't decide what general direction I wanted to go until very late in the process - as in, last week or so. For a while, I thought about just telling the places I was applying to that I was off the market and doing another startup. Even as recently as this afternoon, literally minutes before formally accepting Google's offer, my mom was telling me about how she'd shared one of my startup ideas with a bunch of prospective customers (teachers - it was education-related) and half thought it was a terrible idea and half absolutely loved it. That's often the mark of a good idea, so I wondered if I was making the right choice.
But if I were to do another startup, I'd be stuck with it for the next 4-10 years, it'd have to be profitable within about 2 to avoid running out of money, and this is all in a very uncertain economic climate. And I have no cofounder, so I'd be doing everything myself until I could afford employees, and then I'd have to build a company culture. There's no fun in that - I might be able to pull it off and get rich, but it'd eat up all of my twenties, probably all my friends, and possibly all my sanity. Not worth it.
Some additional lessons
I keep thinking of other things I wish I'd said in the postmortem but didn't think of. Here're a couple that stick out, though I'm only going to devote a paragraph or so to each.
The big one: startups are out there, not in your head. You get ideas by engaging with the world around you. That can mean potential customers, or experts in the field, or lead users, or friends, or even potential investors. It's really tempting to hole yourself up in your room and code, but unless your idea is spot on (and almost no ideas are), this is a recipe for failure.
Pick a direction and go deep. I tried a couple other ideas after officially folding up, yet never really got into them. If you're like most entrepreneurs, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of possible things you could be doing. Ignore most of them, and concentrate only on what you can do better than anyone else.
It's also really important to be frugal. This is more apparent after failure than before: frugality gives you options, and you need them. If you're better positioned than we were, you might even be able to turn failure into victory given enough chances, and cash will give you chances.
I still hope that there's another startup in my future. It looks like it'll now be several years off in my future, though. In the meantime, I'm stoked for Google. I thought the people I met there seemed really cool, as does a lot of the stuff that comes out of there. Maybe I can even give the "intrapreneurship" thing a try.
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Last month when I was in Turkey my friend Sona gave me some of her home made yoghurt to try. It was delicious - so good, indeed, that I decided to try making my own yoghurt when I got back to the UK.
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Social Workers Take Woman's Baby From Her Womb, Won't Return It To Her
Authorities in Great Britain forcibly sedated a pregnant woman from Italy, performed a court-ordered C-section delivery on her, and now plan to put the child up for adoption against her will.
The surreal story, first reported in the Telegraph, sheds light on an "increasing problem" with foreigners being forced to leave their children in the UK, critics say.
The unnamed woman traveled to England in July 2012 for a training course offered by her employer, the budget carrier Ryanair. While at the airport hotel awaiting her return trip to Italy, she reportedly had a panic attack because she'd misplaced the passports of her two older daughters, who were back home with their grandmother.
The distraught woman called police, who took her into custody on learning that she had a bipolar disorder. They dropped her at a psychiatric hospital. Five weeks later, after hearing an appeal by social services officials, a British court ordered the pregnant woman's labor "to be enforced by way of caesarean section."
On the day of the procedure—which she didn't know was coming—she was refused breakfast and forcibly sedated. She remained in a drug-induced stupor for five weeks after, when she was told what happened... and informed that she could neither see her newborn nor take her home.
The woman has since returned to Italy, resumed treatment for her mental condition, and unsuccessfully petitioned for custody of the child. Her husband, an American man from whom she is "amicably separated," reportedly offered to give the daughter a home with his family in Los Angeles. But so far authorities have gone against the UK's general guideline of placing children in social services with immediate members of their own families.
The child, now 15 months old, remains in UK custody, where authorities say they'll comply with a court's order to put her up for adoption by some family in Great Britain. The mother has called in a high-profile British attorney in hopes that the court's ruling is overturned, but there are few precedents to guide an appeal. Asked by the Telegraph, an expert in social services cases called the woman's plight "highly unusual."


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A few weeks ago, I spent a weekend driving around Zeeland, one of The Netherlands' 12 provinces. Zeeland is in the Southwest corner of Holland, and consists of several large islands or peninsulas, separated by long tidal inlets. "Zee" means "sea" in Dutch and it was easy to see how it got its name. This part of Holland is unbelievably flat, and mostly below sea level. The history of this part of Holland is basically a saga of the residents continuous battle against the sea. I read somewhere that in the past 100 years, the Dutch have lost more land to the sea than theyve reclaimed.
The last great flood, and the greatest flooding disaster in Hollands history, was in February of 1953, when the dykes broke in a number of different places, flooding 70% of the total land area of Zeeland. The flooding happened quickly and during the middle of the night and 1,835 people were drowned, 72,000 left homeless.
The Dutch quickly recovered from the flooding, repairing the dykes and pumping the water out. They decided to shorten their coastline by damming off several of the tidal inlets and to enlarge and reinforce many of the existing dykes on the coast. This was dubbed "The Delta Project" and was finally finished in 1986 with the building of the last dam, the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier.
Dutch Ancestors
One of my reasons for visiting Holland was to see if I could find the birthplace of Nathalie Verstraete, my great-grandmother. I had only a little bit of information about where she came from, but I thought that it would be enough to find the town.
The information that I had came from a tape of Marie Sexton, nee Wolters (my grandmother). Shed talked on the tape about her parents, who were both born in Holland. According to what grandma said on the tape, her mother, Nathalie Verstraete, was born in 1864 in a town called "Aidan", right on the Belgian border. She had two brothers, Jacob and Peter, both of whom emigrated to America. Jacob ended up in St. Paul, where he worked and eventually sent for Nathalie, who probably came over somewhere between 1885-1895. According to the tape, shed been working as a governess for a couple with two children.
No one had been able to find the town of Aidan on any map but, after doing some searching on the Internet, my dad got a note from someone that said that we must mean "Eeden", which was in Zeeland, about 10 km south of a town called Oostburg. I couldnt find either Aidan or Eeden on the map that I had, but I decided to see if I could go find it.
Looking for Eeden
Im living right now in Leuven, which is a smaller city not too far from Brussels. I didnt really have any idea how long it would take me to drive up to Holland but it ended up being only about an hour to Antwerp, near the Dutch border, and then another hour headed west along the border, before I turned north to cross over into Zeeland.
It had been raining steadily all morning (all week actually), but it started to clear up just a little bit as I left Antwerp, heading west. Someone had told me that I had no chance of sunshine in Hollandthey said that it rained twice as much in Holland as Belgium and the forecast for Brussels was for non-stop rain all weekend. But by the time I turned North, onto a smaller highway heading for Holland, the clouds had scattered and the sun came out in full force right about the time that I got to the Belgian/Dutch border.
I crossed over a couple of small canals and I started looking for some sign that said that I was near the border. There didnt seem to be anything marking the border, just more of the same small green farms on either side of the highway. As I looked around, wondering if I was in Holland yet, I came into a little town that was marked with a small sign labeled "Eede". I hadnt really been looking for Eeden yet, so the sign caught me by surprise. Id been thinking that Id drive up to Oostburg, and then work my way backwards, looking for the town.
I realized that this had to be the place, so I pulled over to check my map. This time I found Eede on the map, almost obscured by the dark line that marked the border. After hunting for the legend on the map for a little while, I managed to measure the distance and discovered that I was exactly 10 km south of Oostburg. Even missing the "n" in "Eeden", I figured that this had to be the place.
Quiet Little Town
Once I realized that this was the place Id been looking for, I took a minute to glance around. There wasnt much to the town, most of which was off to the left of the highway, where I could see a bunch of red-tiled roofs clustered around a single church steeple poking up through them. It seemed a bit like a Dutch version of Lake Wobegonpretty sleepy. It was Saturday morning, about 11:30, but there were only a few cars to be seen and absolutely no people moving around anywhere.
I drove around a bit, exploring the town, before ending up at the church. Everything still seemed pretty quiet, and the church was locked when I walked up to try the door. One thing that I noticed immediately about Eede, comparing it with the Belgian towns that Id been in, was how clean everything was. The towns in Belgium all seem to be grey and dirty and a little tattered around the edges. But in Eede, everything seemed meticulously cared for, which made the town seem almost brand new. Most houses had little gardens in front of them and even though nothing was blooming yet, the bare hedges were perfectly trimmed and the gardens looked as spotless as the brick homes.
Looking For Verstraetes
I decided to find somewhere that I could have a little lunch and possibly talk to someone about the town. I eventually found my way back to the main road and went into what looked like the only restaurant in towna spotless, subdued place, full of plants and seeming brand new. There was a bar running along one end of the dining area, and several older guys sitting at a table near the bar, talking to each other and to the guy behind the bar, who seemed to be the owner. I grabbed a table near the front window and ordered a sandwich.
As I ate, I watched the town through the front window of the restaurant. It was still pretty quiet outside, with only the occasional car rushing by on the highway out front, none of them stopping. The guys up front were talking quietly with the guy behind the bar and the place felt like some tourist town in Northern Minnesota in April, waiting for the summer holiday to start.
The guy behind the bar eventually came to clear the table for me and I ordered a coffee. As he started to turn away, I told him that I had a couple of questions about Eede. Ive stopped prefacing every conversation with the question, "Do you speak English?", because I have yet to meet someone who says no. Most often, the answer turns out to be "of course". I explained that my great-grandmother had been born in this town and that I was looking for someone who could tell me a little bit about Eede. I told him that her name was Nathalie Verstraete, and I asked if there was anyone named Verstraete still living in Eede.
He seemed pretty impressed that Id come all the way from America, looking for relatives in Eede, and said that there werent exactly a lot of Verstraetes in Eede, but that there were a few. Then he told me to wait a few minutes and hed go call a friend of his that could possibly answer some of my questions for me.
Willem and Miriam Verstraete
I sat sipping my coffee for a few minutes, enjoying the sun that was now beginning to shine directly into the window. The owner came back a few minutes later to tell me that hed contacted his friend, who was a Verstraete, and that he might be able to come talk to me. He explained that the man hed telephoned didnt speak English, but was calling his daughter, who spoke English, to see if she was able to come to the restaurant with him.
After another ten minutes, he came back again, smiling a little, to say, "Ok. They are going to come now to meet you.." I went back to my coffee, and eventually a woman and older man came walking up to the front door of the restaurant. They came in and I got up to greet them. The woman, who seemed to be in her mid-30s, introduced herself as Miriam Verstraete, and the man was her father, Willem. I invited them to join me and they ordered some coffee and sat down at my table.
After I introduced myself as Sean Sexton, they listened patiently while I explained why I was looking for Verstraetes. I ended up pulling out a notebook and drawing a quick family tree, to show them how our family was connected to Nathalie Verstraete. By her name I penciled in "born in Eede 1864" and Willem nodded, smiling, as Miriam explained in Dutch that it was my fathers grandmother who had come from Eede.
Miriam told me that her father had been born and raised in Eede and that she had also grown up here. She said that she was married, had a couple of kids, and lived in the town of Aardenburg, just a few kilometres north of Eede. Willem still lived in Eede, and Miriam said that her mother had just died a few years ago. She said that many of the younger people had moved to larger towns over the past few years and that Eede was becoming "quite grey".
I asked them if they knew anything about the Verstraetes that would have been living in Eede 100 years ago. Miriam translated for Willemhe said that he thought there had been a couple different groups of Verstraetes living in Eede back then, but he didnt know if Nathalie would have been from his side of the family or not. He said that it made sense that Nathalie and her brothers might have left Eede in the 1880s or 1890s, since a number of people had left the area around that time to go to America.
Miriam also told me that theyd recently met a couple from Texas who were cousins and whose family had also originally come from Eede. She said that she had a large family tree that someone in America had put together, showing her side of the family, and that shed send a copy to me. Willem said that maybe the Verstraetes in Eede didnt know anything about our side of the family because we had all moved away.
Eede History
I asked a lot of questions about Eede, and Willem explained some of the towns history. Eede currently has a population of about 600 and he said that it was roughly the same size 100 years ago. When I asked if most of the inhabitants had been farmers, he said that some were, but many people who lived in Eede during the last century were involved in making clothprobably linen.
Willem also told me that during the 2nd World War, the Germans had occupied the entire town during most of the war. He said that the Allies began bombing the whole area late in the war and that Eede had been completely destroyed as a result of the bombing raids. Since there wasnt a single building left standing in Eede, he explained, the residents had all moved north to Oostburg until the war was over.
They also told me that the allies had fought the Germans not too far from Eede towards the end of the war. Miriam said that it had been mostly Canadians fighting near Eede, and that there was a large cemetery for them not too far away. She said that the town had been completely rebuilt after the war.
I asked about the flood in 1953, and whether Eede had been affected, but they said that Eede was far enough away from the sea that it hadnt been flooded at all.
At some point I remembered that I wanted to ask them about "teat". I said that our family made a particular kind of food that we thought was Dutch and that I was curious if they knew what it was. I explained that we call it "teat", but they shook their heads, not recognizing the name. But as I started describing how its made, they both starting nodding, recognizing immediately what I was describing. They said that they call it "Hoofdvlak", or "Oofvlakke" in the local dialect.
Willem said that Oofvlakke was generally made only once a year, in the late Fall, when the pigs were slaughtered. He said that it was made from the pigs heads, which were boiled to get all the meat off of them, before grinding up the meat. He didnt recall anyone adding flour to the meat, but he thought it was quite possible that some people made it that way.
Everything else about how Oofvlakke was made seemed to match "teat" exactly. He confirmed that the result was a disgusting color of grey and that you poured it into pie tins until it solidified. The only difference seemed to be that we fry it before we eat it, while Willem said that they just slice it, putting the slices on bread and eating it that way. Miriam told me that she thought Oofvlakke was disgusting, but that her father loved it.
I smiled and admitted that there was a group of us in Minnesota who also loved it. I explained that we get together a couple of times a year to make it and that many of the cousins really looked forward to the chance to have some.
The Language and the Name
We also talked a little bit about the language spoken in Eede. Miriam told me that they spoke a special dialect that was quite different from "High Dutch" and that it was actually a little bit closer to German than to Dutch. From what Ive heard, there are quite a few dialects throughout Holland and they arent necessarily always that close to High Dutch.
While we were talking about the language, Miriam mentioned that shed once looked up the origins of the name "Verstraete". She said that the literal meaning is "from the stone street", since "straete" is a variation on "straat", which means street. "Straete" referred to a type of street that was paved with stone, which signified that it was in a part of town where the rich people lived. The bottom line seems to be that "Verstraete" refers to someone that came from the rich part of town, where the streets were paved.
Moving On
We all talked for about an hour before it was time for Miriam to head home and for me to hit the road again. We exchanged phone numbers and Miriam said that shed send me a copy of some of the family tree information that she had. I thanked them again for coming to the restaurant to meet me and told them that several other cousins who were descended from Nathalie Verstraete might be traveling to Eede in the next month or two. Miriam said that she and her father would love to meet them and that maybe they could arrange to meet for lunch.
I really enjoyed my quick visit to Eede, and meeting Miriam and Willem. Eede is a beautiful little town and has a special sort of charm, apart from it being the home town of one of my ancestors. It was also fun to meet a couple potential cousins, though in the end it didnt seem to matter that much whether there was a direct connection between us or not.
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Don't Endorse Ron Paul
Andrew Sullivan declares himself for Ron Paul as the GOP presidential nominee, as he did in 2008 as well.
As Andrew himself jokes, the Sullivan endorsement is more likely to hurt Paul than help him. In any event, there is precisely zero likelihood of Paul winning the GOP nomination, although he may well help to stop Gingrich from winning it. Paul is inescapably a boutique candidate, appealing to a very particular fringe within the GOP.
But here's what does need discussing, in the wake of Andrew's endorsement of Paul.
Paul has had an outsize appeal to writers and intellectuals dissatisfied with the present state of Republicanism.
Some see him as a corrective to militaristic nationalism. Or as a principled champion of limited government. Or as a leader who can curb the excessive influence of social conservatives.
Those perceptions are not very realistic, but leave that pass for now. More to the point—even if true, which they are not, these are not the correctives present-day Republicanism most needs. The thing most wrong with present-day Republicanism is its passivity in the face of the economic crisis, its indifference to the economic troubles of the huge majority of the American population, and its blithe insistence that everything was fine for the typical American worker up until Inauguration Day 2009 or (at the outer bound of the thinkable) the financial crisis of the fall 2008.
It is the lack of concern to the travails of middle-class America that "reform Republicans" should most centrally be concerned with.
And no candidate in this race—ok, except maybe the defunct Herman Cain—has been more persistently, aggressively, and forcefully heedless of those travails than Ron Paul.
Everything else that's wrong with Paul—the paranoia, the crank theories—exists as an adjunct to this first prime fault. And the success of Paul in winning a boutique audience for his message has driven the rest of the field to mimic his crank monetary theories. In the midst of the worst crisis since the 1930s, the one thing that all the current and former first-tier candidates have agreed upon (even Mitt Romney!) is the need for tighter money and higher interest rates. That should seem obviously nuts, and not in a theoretical or marginal way that denying evolution is nuts. The press for tighter money and higher interest rates now is the kind of nutty thing that a government can actually do—and that would inflict severe, immediate real-world harm on the US and world economy.
There's much to dislike about Ron Paul's politics, and I dislike every bit of it. (It's maybe remote from current concerns, but at a minimum, I have no patience for a professed libertarian who openly prefers the slaveholding cause in the US Civil War.)
But the Ron Paul problem is bigger than Ron Paul the candidate. The real shame is the gravitational pull Paul exerts on exactly those people, like Andrew Sullivan, but many others too, who ought to be leading the fight for a GOP more attuned to the challenges and aspirations of middle-class America—but who have been attracted via Ron Paul to an ideological cure even worse than the right's present political disease.


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Error Opening Saved Files in DS4/4.5
I'm sorry if this is a repeat of any other thread, but the search feature doesn't work and I couldn't find any answers for this going back several pages or by using google to search. I have been having a problem opening any .daz save files in DS4 since installing. If I save a scene I've worked on in DS4 and comeback later, it can't find anything, produces an error message and loads what you can see in the attached images (program lists figures, but they are invisible and cannot be turned visible again). Same goes for files saved in DS2 or DS3. My content directories are all set up as they were for DS2 and DS3, Program Files/DAZ/studio/content/runtime. With the exception of a few textures, everything works fine while working and rendering, I just can't load my saved work. I was hoping that by uninstalling the previous version and installing DS4.5 the issue might be fixed, but it's still the same. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this I would love to know.
It looks like you are using Vista or Win7, and you should definitely not have user content in the Program Files area.
Did you install the latest Genesis Essentials file into Program Files as well?
Can you post a screenshot of your Content Directory Manager showing the collapsed list for DAZ Stuio and Poser Formats?Post edited by JimmyC_2009 on
I realized after the fact that Windows 7 doesn't seem to put much in Program Files, but I didn't want to move everything and cause some other problem in doing it. And up until DS4, I haven't had any kind of issues.
Yes, Genesis Essentials is installed in Program files.
Here is the Content Directory Manager. I hope this is what you needed.ds4CD.jpg475 x 460 - 52K
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Win7 protects the Programs area from writes. All writes now default to other areas, thats why DS3 and 4 moved the Content folder to My Documents. Every time you save a scene the Data is written to the content folder, the same for materials ect another write to the content folder. I'm very surprised you have not run into errors before now.Post edited by Jaderail on
ShanarahPSU said:I realized after the fact that Windows 7 doesn't seem to put much in Program Files, but I didn't want to move everything and cause some other problem in doing it. And up until DS4, I haven't had any kind of issues.
Yes, Genesis Essentials is installed in Program files.
Here is the Content Directory Manager. I hope this is what you needed.
There are several things wrong with your listings for DAZ Studio Formats.
1. This entry is only valid if contains DS content directly, not in any sub folder. Since it is the first entry in the list, it will be where DS4 writes the Data folder to. You will need to check that or you may have to redo all of your scenes.
2. That is correct if all of your content is installed to the Content folder, but it should NOT be in Program Files as Jaderail explained.
3. A runtime folder should never be listed, even for Poser Formats. Remove this one.
4. This entry should be in Other Import Formats, I believe that it contains Collada files.
5, Should be OK except for the fact that it is in Program Files
6. Should be removed, already covered by entry 2
7. The data folder should never be listed as a Content folder, it is not necessary.
Poser Formats
1. Seems OK, DS4 will pick up the Runtime folder inside Content, and display it in the Content Library tab.
2. Not Needed, remove
The other two entries will work OK if they contain a Runtime folder.
You would really need to move any installed content folders into the Documents are in Win 7. On my system, the My Library folder is located as follows :
C:\Users\\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library
I strongly suggest that you move everything there, and then you wont have problems loading saved scenes. See what you think of that?
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I started with DS 2 on a XP PC. It was fine with content in Programs. I Upgraded to DS3 on the Same XP machine. Ds three created the Content folder in My Documents. It still worked fine with my DS2 content folder but I then had two content folders on my system an I had to pick one for all my new installs. I loved DS3 so I just moved all my content to DS3's default folder in My Documents. I am a big believer in the Software was written this way for a reason. I might not know why it needs this to be here but I'm not going to second guess the programmers. I always follow the Defaults for new software just to be safe. I would move your Content Folder to the new Default location and make sure all new Installs point to the New Folder. Then change your Preferences in DS4.5 to use that folder as your Default DS Formats and your Defaults Poser Formats as just pointed out.
Then you can be in control of all your content and your files should work as ment to.
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Don't know if that would work but you could try Right click->Execute as administrator on the DS shortcut but I would definitely move all the content from C:\;Program files
Thank you all for the help. I have moved my content folder from program files to a folder on my desktop. Loaded up DS3, put the new location into Content Manager, loaded a few scenes. I'm getting a ton of errors, but everything's been loading ok anyway. Loaded up DS4 did the same thing, but nothings changed. I still get the same error messages and blank scenes for files saved with DS4 and scenes with missing items/no character morphs for those saved in DS3.
Are these .DAZ Scene Files? If so, they rely on the 'data' folder to load the geometry items. The error messages would take the form 'Unable to find storable for ....', are these the messages you are getting?
Have you moved your DS4 scenes to the same folder on the Desktop? If so, you will need to move the data folder for DS4 there as well.
All of the data folders were in that content folder, so yes, they are in the same place. The DS3 errors are that sort, but it's not effecting anything actually loading. The DS4 error is the same as the original error I posted.


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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 23-year-old Washington-based soldier accused of fatally stabbing a fellow soldier in the heart after a verbal confrontation has been charged with first-degree murder.
Prosecutors charged Jeremiah Hill on Tuesday, saying he approached Spc. Tevin Geike from behind and attacked him early Saturday just as a confrontation between two groups in Lakewood, Wash., was calming down.
Authorities also charged Cedarium Johnson, 21, and Ajoni Runnion-Bareford, 21, with rendering criminal assistance, saying they helped dispose of the murder weapon.
All three men pleaded not guilty in Pierce County Superior Court. Hill was held on $2 million bail. Deputy Prosecutor Phil Sorensen told the court that Hill's "only ties with the community are through the military."
The suspects and victim in the case were all soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Hill is from Chicago and joined the Army this year, The News Tribune reported. Runnion-Bareford is from Islesboro, Maine, and Johnson is from Tyler, Texas.
An autopsy determined that Geike, 20, suffered a deep stab wound to his chest that cut through a rib and plunged through his heart, prosecutors said in charging documents.
Bail for Runnion-Bareford was set at $250,000.
Johnson's attorney asked that his client be released and contained within the base. Johnson's mother, Rona Taylor, flew from Texas to attend the hearing, according to The News Tribune. She bowed her head and clutched a banister while Court Commissioner Meagan Foley considered the request to release him, and said "thank you" when Foley agreed.
Geike, of Summerville, S.C., was walking with two other soldiers early Saturday when words were exchanged with someone in a car. The vehicle, containing five people, stopped and four of the occupants got out to confront the three, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the groups were separating after realizing they were all active duty soldiers when Geike was fatally stabbed.
Two of the five suspects are cooperating with law enforcement and were not being held in custody, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the suspects eventually discarded the knife that was used in the attack. Investigators believe they have found the weapon.
Outside the courtroom Tuesday, Amy Johnson, a friend of Geike's, said the victim "deserves his justice."
"He deserves to know his killer is put behind bars or put on death row," she said.
Baker reported from Seattle.