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Welcome to Our Practice
The doctors at Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, PC talk about their close relationships with their patients. The doctors are as dedicated to delivering outstanding surgical outcomes as they are to helping patients feel restored and whole after a mastectomy. Their practice's culture of hope includes patient support groups and events that build a sense of community and camaraderie, so patients feel they are not alone, but supported through a difficult time.
At Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, PC, we are dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery services in a personalized and dignified manner. Our practice is among the leading plastic surgery practices in New York, and our team of surgeons - Drs. Randall Feingold, Ron Israeli, Peter Korn, David Light and Jonathan Bank - has the training and experience needed to perform the most advanced and innovative plastic surgical procedures. As a group, we share a genuine commitment to achieving superior, natural results while providing a warm environment for our patients.
Please feel free to contact us if you have questions regarding the treatments we offer. We would be happy to arrange a consultation that fits your schedule.
We are Long Island's first and largest center of excellence in breast reconstruction. Now more than ever, as a plastic surgery practice specializing in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, we are seeing countless women requiring mastectomy for the diagnosis of breast cancer or due to the finding of a breast cancer gene (BRCA) mutation.
By utilizing state-of-the-art surgical techniques in microsurgery, our group of surgeons has distinguished themselves as leaders in the field of breast reconstruction, and is among a handful of groups nationally specializing in all of the currently available techniques in breast reconstruction:
At Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, PC, through our breast reconstruction practice, we have seen the emotional turmoil of a mastectomy, both for patients with breast cancer as well as those with a BRCA mutation. This has led us to create the New York Breast Reconstruction Associates, a program of coordinated efforts committed to improving not only outcomes but also quality of life for patients requiring mastectomy and breast reconstruction. These efforts include the most advanced surgical options provided by our surgeons, the comprehensive online education resource, BreastReconstruction.org, and the training of plastic surgeons through the Microsurgery Fellowship Match.
The New York Breast Reconstruction Associates also promotes patient advocacy, both on an individual level and within the community. To address the interplay between the emotional and physical aspects of healing, our Patient Empowerment Program provides pre-operative stress relaxation and post-operative support to our patients and their families. Community service is addressed through a focus on fundraising for breast cancer research and through work promoting breast reconstruction awareness and access to care.
If you want to make a positive change in your life and are exploring the possibility of plastic surgery or if you are facing mastectomy and breast reconstruction, we want to help. At our Long Island practice, we have had the pleasure of serving individuals from across the New York region as well as throughout the country, and we would be honored to work with you. You can contact us via telephone or by emailing our practice using the form below.
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Silver Lining
This story appears in the February 1999 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
How many of your employees are older than you? Your current answer doesn't matter -- quite soon you'll likely report that many of your workers are older, and, what's more, you'll be singing their praises.
"Initially, it was very awkward for me to hire and manage older people," admits Jay Goltz, 42, owner of three Artists' Frame Service stores, a $10 million business in Chicago, and author of The Street-Smart Entrepreneur (Addicus Books). "But that was 20 years ago when I was 22 and everybody was older than me. It took time for me to get comfortable with managing older workers, but today, I'd guess one-third of my 120 employees are older. And I have absolutely no complaints about that."
Power In Numbers
Chew on this: Thirty-five million Americans (13 percent of the population) are over 65 years of age, and this 65-plus group is currently the fastest-growing population group tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau. In fact, the Census Bureau estimates that this group will comprise 20 percent of the total U.S. population by 2020.
But that's just one sign of a nation that, across the board, is rapidly graying. As baby boomers continue to cross the 50-year mark and health care continues to rapidly advance, we're all living longer, higher-quality lives. The most telling statistic: The Census Bureau projects that America's median age will shift from 34 in 1994 to 38.7 by 2035, an immense jump for such a large and diverse country.
According to Gangaram Singh, a professor of human resources policy at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, if you study the statistics, the simple fact is that with current economic conditions, including low unemployment and worker scarcities, "The pool of young workers is no longer sufficient to meet employment needs."
Is that an unsettling reality? Say "yes," and you're in the majority. Most managers approach the notion of supervising workers older than themselves with sizable anxiety.
"Age is often referred to as `the subtle bias,' " says Elissa Perry, an assistant professor of psychology and education at Columbia University Teacher's College in New York City and a specialist in age discrimination. "While most companies recognize the need to address gender and race diversity and the tensions that arise [from that], few have done anything but ignore age diversity."
For its part, the federal government has already addressed these tensions. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) sets out unmistakable protections for workers 40 years of age or older. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which enforces ADEA, spells out the law's impact: "Under the ADEA, it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of his/her age with respect to any term, condition, or privilege of employment--including but not limited to hiring, firing, promotion, layoff, compensation, benefits, job assignments and training." That's a sweeping law, and, especially as more small businesses see an increasing number of older job applicants, it's a law you need to digest. Bumping up against ADEA can be every bit as painful (and expensive) as running afoul of the sexual harassment or race discrimination laws the EEOC administers.
The trouble is, many businesses violate ADEA, possibly unintentionally. "Many studies have shown when an older and a younger job candidate apply for an entry-level position, the younger candidate more consistently gets the job," says Perry. "That has to change."
Singh agrees. "There are many stereotypes against hiring older workers," he says, ticking off the three most common:
- Older workers are absent more frequently.
- Older workers are short-term employees who only stay on the job briefly.
- Older workers are less productive than younger workers.
"None of these stereotypes are true," says Singh. "Research has shown them all to be false, but many employers entertain these beliefs, and that makes them reluctant to hire older workers."
Adds Perry: "Businesses hold more myths about older workers, probably subconsciously. For instance, you'll hear that older workers are more accident prone, but there's no basis for believing it. You'll hear older workers will not retrain; there's no evidence that a willingness to retrain has anything to do with age."
Older But Wiser
Obviously, hiring older workers needn't be damaging to your business. In fact, it may add a competitive zing to your work force. "Older workers are a very underutilized resource," contends Perry. "Most companies don't understand the advantages of hiring them."
Jay Goltz heartily agrees with the endorsements of graying employees. "Older workers are often less trouble than younger workers," he says. "They've already figured out the rules for succeeding on the job.
"So many of the 20-year-olds [I've hired] have never had another job, and from them, I often hear what I call the `f-word'--`fair.' `It's unfair that I can't park in front of the business, but the customers can.' I don't hear that kind of thing from my older workers, ever."
But, still, aren't older workers resistant to taking orders from younger bosses? That may be the big psychological stumbling block for many managers, but, says Singh, "A lot of older workers have taken instructions from bosses all their lives. They understand the role of the boss, and the boss's age won't matter to them."
Often the hang-up rests with the business owner. "The problem of managing older workers is 75 percent in your own head," says Goltz. "Show them respect, and you'll get the same back. They know who the boss is. Act like one, and you won't have problems."
One tip to defuse possible tensions, says Perry, is to try to shift attention away from the age difference. Age is just one of many things people potentially have in common. There are also hobbies, shared values and common interests. Put plainly, you may be a generation younger than Joe, but you're both San Francisco Giants fans, love hot dogs and can't wait for baseball season to start. As you focus on those shared interests, Joe's birth date will matter less and less in your mind, suggests Perry.
Make no mistake, however: Some older job candidates might grumble at taking orders from "a kid." Regardless of age, that's what interviews are for--to sort out who will mesh with the chemistry of your workplace and who won't.
Keep in mind, too, that older workers know that plenty of businesses discriminate against them throughout the hiring process. Because they want to keep their jobs, odds are, despite moments of occasional irritation that may crop up, their overall attitude just might be gratitude toward a boss who saw their potential despite a few gray hairs. "Research shows that older workers value their jobs more than younger workers. It also shows that they are less likely to quit and are more likely to stay committed to the organization," says Singh.
Can you really afford to ignore all the positive attributes older workers offer? "There are no valid arguments that older workers perform less effectively," says Singh. "They are good workers, and they want to work."
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trompbx necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 25 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small Dutch software development company with a web-application that has been in use for over ten years with little to no layout changes.
Productname: CRSIntranet and/or CRSinternet, company tradename: TrompBX
The software is used daily by over a thousand Dutch users working in mental health care organizations.
Needs a redesign to look more up-to-date and modern, fresh. No coding but all designs should be simply achievable with standard CSS coding.
Preferable a design which can easily be modified into multiple themes, e.g. yellow, blue, red, green as the main color, but a neutral, sober design. Nothing fancy or flashy. No major layout changes (ie no moving of elements), just a design that is more pleasing to the eye.
The screens contain an example of data viewed and data edited. The yellow screens are the "classic" screens of the application. The blue screens are some basic trial versions that we have created ourselves, these blue designs are not actually in use. We like the small icons for view-edit-delete choices that replace the text version ("toon" - "wijzig" - "verwijder" in Dutch).
Apart from the main menu, some pages also have a sub-menu which is in tab-form (see screen "inbox-outbox" for an example).
Our company is now called "Tromp & Van Bruxvoort ZorgIT BV". We also have registered the brandname "Trompbx". The website is http://www.trompbx.nl. A logo design request for the name TrompBX will soon follow, and maybe a template for the website which is in Joomla!.


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We are a Nintendo household. Our collection of Nintendo consoles includes: three Gameboy Advances, three Nintendos DS lites, one Nintendo DSi, one Nintendo DSi XL and, the latest, the fancy Nintendo 3DS that promises game play in three dimensions. We also have a Nintendo Wii that's used by the whole family.
In the beginning, when my now-fifteen-year-old eldest son wanted a Gameboy, I had no idea what a monster I was creating.
Of course, once he had his Gameboy Advance, his younger brother and sister wanted one. Not only that, they wanted their own copies of some of the games as well. This was not an unreasonable request because it's very hard to pass the games around as each player saves it at a different place.
And so things steamrolled form there.
As the consoles became more expensive with each new Nintendo upgrade, I questioned the need to upgrade every time. But with all the cool new stuff on the latest gadgets, even I had to admit the new stuff looked cool and purchased them for birthdays and holidays. But I balked at the DSi price tag, which is why we have only one. And I have to confess I received the XL and the 3DS through my role as a reviewer here and on Wired.com's GeekDad.
Still, those would definitely have been birthday or Christmas purchases for at least one of my children.
Because, yes, if your kids seriously love video games, the next cool thing from Nintendo–currently the 3DS– is definitely worth buying.
I asked the experts in my house–my two sons and my youngest daughter– to evaluate and compare the latest three handheld devices. (I reviewed the XL in a longer last year as a holiday gift possibility.)
From my youngest son, age eleven:
The best part of the 3DS is the 3D, naturally. It's very well done and you almost expect to look behind the screen and see the same image right there in real life. That means the pets inNintendogs + Cats look and seem very real, especially when you can use the enclosed 3D cards to take a picture of them in your own home. The graphics are obviously sharp and they don't feel crowded or smooshed like on some of the earlier screens. You can also play the regular DS games on it but, of course, they're not in 3D.
The youngest son is still happily engrossed in the Nintendogs + Cats game, though he did complain that it takes a lot of game money to buy a cat. He was less interested in PilotWings Resortbut that was not due to fault in the game or graphics. It's just that he doesn't tend to like action games nearly as much as he likes to play and train his virtual dogs and cats. And, as you can see from the photo above, you can take those pets anywhere you like and event take photos in the real world–that's our real living room carpet. I foresee a large number of photos of various pets taken in all the places he'll go this summer.
My eldest son gave the 3DS a big thumbs up but he's waiting on Shin Megami Tensei to release several of its 3DS games, especially Persona 3DS, before he gets down to serious play. The Persona game that hasn't been updated for modern systems for quite some time, he said, and it should look very cool in 3D.
There are a couple of negatives to the 3DS, however.
If you look at the screen from an angle, the 3D disappears and instead, the graphics are in a hard-to-read double-vision. As a result, you have to hold the device very carefully. Unlike the DSi models, the 3DS doesn't have a web browser as yet and the photo manipulation software that my children had so much fun playing with on the DSi models isn't present on the 3DS. All that's left is the graffiti function.
There's also the fact that the game library isn't that large as yet and, naturally, the games are expensive, some in the $50 range, like most of the really good Wii games.
If your children are already video game enthusiasts, they likely are already begging for the 3DS. It's definitely worth the $249.95 price tag. Buying the games, however, will put another serious hole in your pocket book. I suggest considering a subscription to Gamefly, if necessary, to test out the games before paying for them permanently.
If you don't have any handheld devices, s the 3DS a good purchase for kids knew to gaming?
Well, they might become spoiled quickly by having the latest gadget but, other than that, it depends on your child. Some kids will love it right off the bat. Some might have more fun with the photo manipulation of the DSi models. Or you can go for the very low cost option, which is finding a used DS that will play DS games and older Gameboy Advance games, some of which are still quite fun and most are under $10.
If they love that, though, you're sunk. They'll want to upgrade at some point. Nintendo now has hooked you in for life.
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On the Trinity
In the summer of 2016 the subject of the Trinity was brought to the forefront on MortificationofSpin.org, particularly through blog posts by Liam Goligher and Carl Trueman. The discussion went viral across the evangelical blogosphere throughout 2016, bringing the doctrine of the Trinity to national attention.
Highlights on the Trinity Debate
In response, Dr. Goligher preached a series of sermons on the Trinity from Hebrews. This doctrine is not easy to understand or to preach. Yet the Trinity is the most foundational of all Christian beliefs, because it speaks of the God we worship as he revealed himself to finite minds.
These sermons are now available on CD and MP3 at ReformedResources.org thanks to a partnership between the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and Tenth Presbyterian Church.
The TRINITY series is ideal for devotional study.
Trinity: The Eternally Divine Son
False teaching has crept deep inside the walls of evangelicalism. We are called to pick up a debate that has lain dormant for 1600 years. Shrouded in the mists of history, couched in Trinitarian language almost too abstract for us to comprehend.
Liam Goligher has been training his congregation for this battle raging nationwide. They have been tough sermons to follow. Listening to them several times, one still finds new angles, new insights into the shape of the battle; new understandings of the implications for every aspect of our faith.
Those who care deeply for the gospel faith, for our God, and for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will spend time mulling over these sermons. As Dr. Goligher says, "Everything is at stake! Everything is at stake!"
8 Messages
Available from ReformedResources.org on CD or as mp3 on CD or mp3 downloads.
Trinity: The Two Natures of Christ
If Christians confuse what is true of Jesus Christ as a human being with what is true of the Eternally Divine Son, they make very serious errors indeed. The most obvious is to conflate the exaltation of the Son of God from all eternity with the welcome given by the Father to the God-Man Christ Jesus, who redeemed God's elect through a sacrificial death. So, in these great teachings, a course correction is long overdue. We must adore Jesus Christ our Lord, both fully Son of Man and fully Son of God.
8 Messages
Available from ReformedResources.org on CD or as mp3 on CD or mp3 downloads.
|Because of your prayers and financial support, No Falling Word provides teaching that stands against the tide of culture. Bible teacher Liam Goligher's preaching does this from the pulpit, and does the same by radio. It is teaching that feeds and refreshes the spirit across our land and around the world. Your tax-deductible gift keeps No Falling Word on the air – allowing tens of thousands to hear God's Word and to respond. Please consider making a donation.
Liam is a native of Scotland and earned his D. Min. at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS. He was minister of churches in Northern Ireland, Canada, Scotland, and in the Richmond area of London before becoming senior minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA, in 2011. Dr. Goligher has served on the boards of many Christian ministries and was for many years a Trustee of the Keswick Convention Trust in the UK. He has authored several books and contributed to many others. He and his wife Christine are blessed with three daughters, two sons, and numerous grandchildren.


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Former Rutgers attacker Annie McGinley is the newest member of the Liberty lacrosse coaching staff.
Liberty Lacrosse Head Coach Kelly Nangle has announced the addition of Annie McGinley to her staff as an assistant coach. McGinley comes to the Hill City after playing at attacker for Rutgers. "I am thrilled to welcome Annie into our Liberty family," Nangle stated. "Her energy and passion for the sport of lacrosse is going to have an incredible impact on our student-athletes. Annie's knowledge of the game and her experience as a player is going to be instrumental in developing our attackers. I am very excited to have her on the sidelines with me as we work to take this program to new heights." McGinley closed out her playing career at Rutgers in 2013 with 60 goals, 43 assists, 103 points and 47 ground balls. After being sidelined during the 2011 season due to a knee injury, the New Jersey native returned with a career-best 17-goal, 15-assist effort the following year. This past season, McGinley recorded 15 goals, including a three-tally performance against No. 7 Notre Dame on March 22. The attacker followed up the hat trick with multi-goal performances against Marquette, Connecticut, No. 5 Syracuse and Villanova (March 24-April 13). "I am extremely honored and excited to have been given the opportunity to coach women's lacrosse at Liberty University," McGinley said. "I have always been very passionate about the sport of lacrosse and could not be more thrilled to continue this passion in the next chapter of my life. I am eager to coach a group of young girls who share the same beliefs and values as I do. I hope to inspire and influence this group of girls both on and off the field." Prior to playing at Rutgers, McGinley was a 2008 US Lacrosse High School All-American, finishing her time at Moorestown High School with 184 goals and 117 assists. Upon joining the Scarlet Knights, McGinley learned under the tutelage of Nangle, who spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Rutgers (2009-11). During the 2010 season, the pair was instrumental in helping the Scarlet Knights post an 11-5 overall record. "No words could express my excitement working under head coach, Kelly Nangle," McGinley added. "Having had her as a coach myself, I know that her passion and enthusiasm for both the sport and her players will bring a new dynamic to this program that I am excited to be a part of."
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The View From Her has recently made its new home on WordPress and is undergoing some renovation. Hope you'll check back soon for new posts. Watch for updates on Twitter or Facebook. Thanks for stopping by.
The View From Her has recently made its new home on WordPress and is undergoing some renovation. Hope you'll check back soon for new posts. Watch for updates on Twitter or Facebook. Thanks for stopping by.
It's been a difficult couple of weeks in the Kingdom. Many of us watched silently with shock and awe as social media exploded in a firestorm of outrage, condemnation, and judgement by all kinds of believers over decision(s) made by World Vision. Let's be real: Casualties are high on all sides (and yes, there are… Continue reading the problem of being right
Thanks again to Church Marketing Sucks for asking me to participate in their "Getting Started" series. Getting Started is a series of interviews with a wide variety of church communications staff who share their successes and failures, ideas and strategies, and a whole lot of wisdom. My interview posted here.
Several weeks ago I was contacted by DJ Chuang about participating in his Social Media Church podcasts. If you're somehow still unaware of this incredible resource, go and bookmark it now. DJ is curating interviews and thoughts about the use of social media within the Church, from all kinds of perspectives: communications, web, tech, marketing… Continue reading interview on social media church
Fast Company recently posted an article, A Successful 21st Century Brand Has to Help Create Meaningful Lives. An enormous study of how consumers around the world interact with brands finds that only the companies that make life better for consumers create impactful connections. I'm always intrigued when culture begins to understand something the Church has… Continue reading brands that create meaningful lives
I'm not all that comfortable with confusion. As an ENTJ I'm prone to over-analyzing, and attempting to really nail things down so everyone in my same time zone can also be perfectly clear, just to be on the safe side. As Christians, in my experience, we tend to believe confusion is bad. It implies I… Continue reading the way of confusion
I recently took a trip to the Midwest to visit family, and endured one of my worst travel experiences, stuck in O'Hare airport overnight on what should have been an otherwise routine journey – one I've taken many times. As a communications director, I watched and listened with interest as American Airlines failed to manage… Continue reading communication lessons from american airlines


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On National Digital Literacy Day, Mayor Menino Announces "Tech Goes Home" Milestones
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 22, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) –To mark National Digital Literacy Day, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced the City of Boston's "Tech Goes Home" programming will reach 10,000 Bostonians from 6,000 households by summer 2013. Tech Goes Home is a nationally-recognized program that equips families and residents with the tools, training and access required for the digital age. Participants receive fifteen hours of hands-on classroom training, a new netbook or mobile device (for a $50 co-pay), and, for eligible residents, access to low-cost home Internet.
"Tech Goes Home makes a real difference in the lives of our residents every day." Mayor Menino said. "Access to the Internet is so important for people looking for work, young people looking to take advantage of educational opportunities, and really anyone who needs to communicate in today's digital age. We've become a national model for bridging the digital divide, and our work to bring technology to our residents in need will only continue from here."
74% of Tech Goes Home (TGH) participants have a household income under $25,000, and 79% are single female heads of household. 41% are English language learners. Since 2010, TGH has trained 9,000 participants, and will reach 10,000 by summer. The program has provided hardware to more than 5,200 households and signed up more than 2,100 households for Internet access. According to data collected from TGH, 90% of participants report having access to the Internet after completing TGH programming, compared to 66% prior. 40% of participants say TGH has helped them find employment or improved their prospects at their current job.
"The Internet is responsible for 21% of economic growth in developed nations, and to build a better Boston, all our residents need to have access," Bill Oates, Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston said. "Tech Goes Home provides this access, and as a result opens a whole new set of doors to a population that might otherwise be without."
In the powerful TGH school-based model, a parent and child learn as a team, at the child's school, taught by teachers from the school. Beginning in 2010, TGH added additional classes to provide training to individuals in community assets: libraries, community centers, housing associations, and public computing centers. More than 4,500 individuals now participate in the program each school year. Whether training families in the schools or individuals in the community, participants learn to "Live, Learn, Earn, Work, and Play" more efficiently and effectively through the use of online tools.
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The researchers aren't suggesting that high-fructose corn syrup is itself toxic to bees, instead, they say their findings indicate that by eating the replacement food instead of honey, the bees are not being exposed to other chemicals that help the bees fight off toxins, such as those found in pesticides.
Cutting the crappy sweeteners from honeybees' diets and allowing them to eat a bit more of their own honey won't necessarily save them in a world doused in pesticides. But it might give bees back some of their natural defenses against the poisons they encounter every day.
It's time to share more honey with the honeybees that make it.
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SOMMERFILMS videos on YouTube. . . . or click on the pictures below - to watch Rebecca Sommer's videos in quicktime.
HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS is an eye-opening documentary about an ongoing, but unknown, genocide
— against the Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. Hmong in hiding are still mercilessly hunted, attacked, raped, tortured and killed by the military. In recent years, over 8500 Hmong escaped from Laos to Thailand, where they where held by Thailand in a temorary refugee camp. In this documentary, the Hmong Lao refugees speak about their fear to be deported by Thaildand, and explain the shocking reason why they had fled Laos. They also speak for many thousands of their voiceless people still trapped in the jungle, surrounded by Lao and Vietnamese soldiers. But Thailand deported the desperate refugees against their plight back to Laos - 2 days before 2010.
Official Selection 2008: Amnesty International Film Festival; Shen Zhou International Film Festival; Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival; The International Filmmakers Festival; Tri Continental Film Festival. Received the WorldFest 2008 SILVER REMI Award and naiff GRAND PRIX.
ELIMINATED WITHOUT BLEEDING is a one-hour documentary on the Khmer Krom indigenous peoples
from the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam. The Khmer Krom explain how they are oppressed and
eliminated as a peoples. There is no freedom of speech, religion or culture. Aggressively
Vietnam-ized, the Khmer Krom struggle to maintain their way of life and identity.
OfficiaL Selection 2008: Lowell Film Festival; Received the New York Festivals International Film & Video Award, Documentaries 2008.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE UNITED NATIONS, Vol.1 is a thirty-minute long documentary, to promote and raise-awareness on indigenous issues within the UN system, to politicians and diplomats. It was commissioned by the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). English, Spanish, or French subtitles: Official Selection 2008: Montreal Human Rights Film Festival; Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film Festival; Human Rights Film Festival Aotearoa New Zealand; Musée des Confluences. Received the New York Festivals International Film & Video Award, International Affairs 2007.
Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol. 1
Rebecca Sommer, for the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), 2006
Pueblos Indígenas y las Naciones Unidas, Vol. 1
Rebecca Sommer, película realizada para la Secretaría del Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas de la ONU, 2006
Les Peuples Autochtones et les Nations Unies, Vol.1
Rebecca Sommer, film pur le Secretariat de l'Insstance Permanente sur les Questions Autochtones de l'ONU, 2006
ADOPTION OF THE U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES — NYC, a 8 minute long news reel video, about the historic adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the U.N. Generel Assembly, September 17, 2007.
ADOPTION OF THE U.N. DRAFT DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES — GENEVA, a 8 minute long news reel video, about the historic adoption of the U.N. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
DISCUSSIONS ON THE U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES a one hour long historic video record, that was used as an awareness rasing lobby tool. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was rejected in November 2006. In this film, governmental and Indigenous representatives present their views - up to the day when the Declaration was finally adopted at the General Assembly.
PROTEST AT THE PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGNEOUS ISSUES — THE 2nd of MAY 2008 REVOLT a 10 minute long POV News Reel. Indigenous Peoples protest 2nd May 2008 the conclusion of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York. They do not consent with the outcome of the final Report of the UNPFII, that ignored Indigenous Peoples' stated concerns about carbon trading and offset projects (REDD), Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The special theme of the 7th session of the UNPFII was Climate Change.
THARY: A DAY IN MY VILLAGE, a 2-minute Children film, commissioned by Sesame Street, PBS, showing the life of a four-year-old Khmer Krom girl, in rural southern Vietnam.
Official Selection 2008: KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, Danville International Film Festival.
KHMER KROM BUDDHISTS, a 2-minute trailer, showing the Khmer Krom's Buddhist Moon ceremony in rural southern Vietnam.
APSARA, a 3-minute Art/Dance video, showing Apsara dancer's in Cambodia.


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About her story
"I am one woman among hundreds of thousands of women who are learning to be courageous, and to overcome, and to live in the face of cancer."
Jan was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer in June 2009 after undergoing a routine bone scan for an unrelated injury. A wife and mother, Jan described her initial diagnosis as a complete shock.
"I remember just the sensation of having the wind sucked out of my lungs, a sucker punch, or something that stops you mid-stride," says Jan about her diagnosis. "And then as you begin to breathe again, there's this one million questions that circle your mind. "
Realizing that her family needed her and that she had some things she still wanted to accomplish, Jan decided to fight. Her touching story of survival and hope is an inspiration to anyone facing the difficult journey of breast cancer.


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Comparing Vietnam and Afghanistan
Reports have leaked out over the past week that President Obama will announce that he is sending additional troops into Afghanistan. The only question seems to be whether he will send 30,000, 40,000 or some number in between. That is, frankly, not a very important issue.
And for all of his talk about "off ramps" for the United States if the Afghan government does not meet certain policy targets or "benchmarks," the reality is that he is escalating our commitment. Since Obama has repeatedly asserted that the war in Afghanistan is a war of necessity, not a war of choice, his talk of off ramps is largely a bluff—and the Afghans probably know it.
There are obvious hazards in equating one historical event with a development in a different setting and time period, but there are a couple of very disturbing similarities between Vietnam and Afghanistan. In both cases, U.S. leaders opted to try to rescue a failing war by sending in more troops. And in both cases, Washington found itself desperately searching for a "credible" leader who could serve as an effective partner in the war effort.
The United States never found such a leader in Vietnam, and was frustrated by a parade of repressive, corrupt, and ineffectual political figures. That experience sounds more than a little like the problem the Bush and Obama administrations have encountered with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government. That fact alone suggests that our Afghanistan mission is not likely to turn out well.


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I'm really not trying to post every day, but I made some creamed corn for dinner that was so delicious, I just have to share how incredibly easy it is to make from scratch. You should do it. Why get the stuff in a can when you can make your own with fresh corn from the farmer's market? So grab a few ears and try this. You won't regret it. (Sorry there's no pic of the dish itself, but it just disappeared too fast.)
- 2 Tbsps butter
- 1 large shallot, minced
- corn kernels from four ears of corn
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 cup heavy cream (or half and half, if that's what you've got)
- salt and pepper
- a pinch of nutmeg (preferably freshly grated)
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- Melt the butter in a pot over medium heat.
- Add the shallots to the butter. Cook them until they are soft and slightly browned.
- Add the corn kernels to the shallots and the butter. Stir and add the water and the sugar to the corn. Let it cook for about 7-10 minutes. (The corn should be cooked, but it's nice if it still has a little crunch.)
- Add the cream and let it cook with the corn for 3-5 minutes, enough to thicken the cream.
- Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and smoked paprika. Enjoy!


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Curmudgeonly comments documenting an unsuccessful attempt to remain in the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Communion at the same time---with some leavening for good measure.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The Superbowl Commercial No One Saw Today
My, my -- how times change. For some unfathomable reason, George Soros and MoveOn did not even consider submitting this commercial for the Superbowl ad competition this year. Please watch it, and along with me, wonder why -- are their particular bones of contention becoming increasingly irrelevant to what the rest of us can see is happening?
Here is the 30-second commercial that -- despite Soros' billions -- did not run in either 2004 or in 2012:
Meanwhile, here is a commercial (with Clint Eastwood) that did run this year. It implies that, under the Obama administration, Detroit and its automobile industry are about to launch a new "second half" initiative that will put the (Democratic) team on the scoreboard once again:
Who else but the Democrats under President Obama can claim to have turned GM and Chrysler around in these trying times? (Of course, the commercial does not mention Ford, which managed to survive the recession with its own capital and negotiated union contracts, no thanks to the President.)
And who else but the Democrats under Obama would choose to make this commercial the one they decided was best to run, instead of the one George Soros handed them in 2004?
I tell you Republicans out there : you've got to get up early to gain a march on these Democrats.
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Perhaps I'm unperceptive, but the Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial does not seem to be about a second term for Obama. I don't know Eastwood's political views and I doubt that most viewers would know either.ReplyDelete
To me, the ad seemed to be an inspirational message to have hope and work for a comeback.
(Obama is not the person that is going to inspire that comeback IMHO.)
RalphM, Clint Eastwood himself agrees with you. President Obama's campaign, on the other hand, does not.ReplyDelete
My juxtaposing of the two ads was intended to poke fun at the Democrats -- that they could not re-run the first ad because it would embarrass Mr. Obama, but that they could identify with the second ad because it could be taken as an endorsement of the results of Mr. Obama's bailouts of both GM and Chrysler. In doing that, however, they would end up emphasizing how the bailouts have served mainly to keep GM and Chrysler alive, so that they could continue to pay union workers according to their elaborate contracts. But neither of those companies nor Mr. Obama has yet devised a means of going forward profitably in these recession/depression times while still adhering to those contracts.
You, seeing Clint Eastwood for what he meant to say, didn't fall for it. But Obama's campaign managers, wanting to hitch their candidate to an icon like Eastwood, did.
There is no place to hide. No one can reasonably say that the Clint Eastwood clip was not a campaign advertisement for BHO. The dastardly take-over of the two companies, Fiat-Chrysler and Government Motors resulted in the cancellation of all preferred shares of stock, thereby punishing those who had the least to do with the companies' failures. Preferred stock is that which is most frequently found in the "widows' and orphans'" portions of long-term, "ultra-secure" stocks designed to produce modest but sure dividends. One can check how many mutual funds are still in existence since the expropriation and subsequent cancellation of these shares of stock. The number of Mutual Funds have been reduced by almost 40% since the expropriation. The most innocent of the financial instruments were the ones most punished by this marxist administration.ReplyDelete
Clint Eastwood, as have I, perhaps has become a bit unclear in his thinking now, at this stage in his life. During the expropriations and subsequent delivery of the two corporations into the hands of extremely corrupt labour unions and the central government, Rowdy Yates knew that these were bad moves, and he said as much, frequently.
Forgive my long-windedness and abrasiveness. Thank you for your kind attention and time.
David Christian Newton


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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) Graeme McDowell loves nothing better than to close out a long year with a win, and there's no better place for him to do that than Sherwood Country Club and the World Challenge.
Two years ago, he rallied from four shots behind in the final round and beat Tiger Woods in a playoff.
Staked to a two-shot lead on Sunday, McDowell never let Keegan Bradley catch up to him, and he protected his lead on the back nine with a pair of superb short-game shots to save par. One of them was a 75-foot lag putt to within tap-in range, critical for someone coming off a three-putt bogey. The other was a delicate chip behind the 17th green that the ball had to land in the rough, and then the fringe, or it would have raced by the cup. It stopped a fraction of an inch away from falling.
The only debate was which win was more meaningful.
``It's been a frustrating year,'' McDowell said. ``This really caps off my season.''
Two years ago, the win capped off an amazing year in which McDowell won his first major at the U.S. Open and delivered the winning point for Europe in the Ryder Cup. What made Sunday so special was the fact he hadn't won anything at all - nothing since that last World Challenge win two years ago.
``It's been too long. It's been a hell of a two years since I sat here as a winner,'' McDowell said after closing with a 4-under 68 for a three-shot win. ``We all put winning up on a pedestal as the ultimate goal. We like to say that it's all about the process and going through the motions and trying to get better. But let's be honest. We all measure ourselves by the win. I can say that now.
``For two years, I've been saying things like `processes' and `trying to get better' and `be patient' and `hopefully the wins will come.' So I'm just relieved, really. I guess I got fed up with telling everybody that I'm playing well. I'm relieved to get across the line and take some nice confidence into this little off period I've got coming up.''
McDowell was headed home to Northern Ireland for a few days before taking the rest of his 10-week break in his new house at Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla.
He just finished building the house, which sits across from a lake instead of a golf course - ``I get enough views of golf courses,'' he said. He just got engaged last month. He is opening a tavern outside the gates of his Orlando club called ``Nona Blue.''
There are a lot of changes in his life, and that's why it was important for him to get into that old habit of winning.
``I know I'm good enough,'' McDowell said. ``I think when you know you're good enough, it gets even more frustrating.''
The three-shot margin made it look easier than it was.
Sherwood was playing longer than ever in a light rain, giving an advantage to a big hitter like Bradley, not to mention tournament host Tiger Woods. Even when McDowell built a four-shot lead through 11 holes, a careless three-putt bogey on the 13th brought Bradley within two shots with five holes to play.
McDowell responded with the 75-foot putt that he lagged to tap-in range. From a precarious spot behind the 17th green, he had to land his chip in the rough and hope it would hop onto the fringe and not run too far by the hole. He pulled it off perfectly.
``It was an inch away from sticking in the fringe, and about 1-16th of an inch away from going in the hole,'' he said.
He made one last birdie he didn't need, extending his dominance at Sherwood. It was the 10th time in 12 rounds at Sherwood that McDowell has shot in the 60s, and he now has two wins and a runner-up finish in his three trips to the World Challenge. He finished on 17-under 271 and earned $1 million against the 18-man field.
Bradley, who was within one shot after a birdie on the fifth hole, closed with a 69. Bo Van Pelt had a 70 to finish third. Woods, the tournament host and five-time champion, was never in the picture. He didn't make birdie until the 13th hole and shot 71 to tie for fourth.
``Graeme really likes this place,'' Bradley said. ``Just when I thought maybe I'd have a good chance, he'd hole a putt or hit a chip like he did on 17. He's a champion. I don't expect anything less out of him.''
Woods, needing a fast start, was stuck in neutral. He failed to birdie the par 5s on the front nine and dropped a shot on the seventh hole when his flop shot below the green came out heavy. He didn't make his first birdie until the par-5 13th.
``I struggled with my game a little bit this week,'' said Woods, playing for the first time in five weeks. ``I just managed myself well to get around in these conditions.''
Van Pelt opened with two birdies and tried to hang around in contention on the back nine.
But this was a duel from the start, and Bradley never could get closer than one shot with his 18-foot birdie on the fifth hole. Two holes later, Bradley made bogey on the eighth and McDowell was back in command.
All three of his wins in America have come in the Golden State - twice at Sherwood, one up the coast at Pebble Beach in the 2010 U.S. Open, and McDowell nearly added another one at Olympic Club this summer when he was runner-up in the U.S. Open.
The celebration was not restricted to Sherwood.
McDowell glanced at his watch and realized it was only about 11:30 p.m. back in Northern Ireland, when the bar would still be open. It's been a tradition of his when he wins to call the bar at his home golf clubs - Rathmore in Northern Ireland, Lake None in Florida - and open a tab for free drinks.
And now that he's building his own tavern?
``I think traditionally, it may be drinks on the house at Nona Blue when I win a tournament,'' he said. ``So thankfully, it's not open yet. I'll save a few quid this time around.''


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Unharnessing tradition
Beauty and genteel culture? How dull. A Brit with a penchant for bad taste shows that Vienna has more to offer than Sisi and Sachertorte.
Ugly things provoke revulsion, but the façade that Eugene Quinn is pointing at elicits pity at best. Purple tadpoles on a pink background; faceless women and a single eye decorate the outside. A gutter juts from the eye's pupil. "In bad weather, the house cries," says the city guide, sounding amused. "Is this house ugly?" he asks the group. Most lift their hands, only a few disagree. Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Quinn, 48, is wearing hi-vis garbage collectors' pants. He holds up two crumpled pieces of paper on a stick, proclaiming "Vienna Ugly" in Comic Sans font. His mission is to take visitors to the ugliest places in Vienna. His tour starts at a World War II anti-aircraft tower, pokes fun at the gilded statue of Johann Strauß in the city's main park, and compares the building of the Hungarian Cultural Institute to Russian president Vladimir Putin: "Aggressive and proud – a small building with megalomaniacal ideas." Obviously the Vienna Ugly tour only works in a city that is as beautiful as Vienna, says Quinn. In the former imperial capital, magnificent buildings are the rule, rather than the exception. The centrally located Ringstraße street is a prime example: It is lined dramatically by the Volksgarten park, the Spanish Riding School and the Austrian National Library. The parliament building opposite resembles an ancient temple, complete with white columns and marble sculptures. Down the road, the city hall with its turrets seems to emulate a Disney castle. Even the apartment buildings on the Innerer Ring, painted bright yellow and ivory, are beautiful. Vienna's fairy-tale backdrops are its best assets. The city knows this, and it maintains them well.
Quinn's tour of Vienna's architectural atrocities takes two and a half hours and includes monstrous roof structures, artificial rock faces and the Ministry for Innovation, which seems to have emerged from an architectural netherworld. Here, the paradoxical nature of ugliness is particularly poignant. The buildings make such good viewing because they do not conform to the usual esthetic norms.
Eugene Quinn hails from London and moved to Vienna eight years ago with his Austrian wife. In 2012 they set up the "space and place" culture project and have been organizing playful assaults on the city's public spaces, including coffee-house conversations between Vienna natives and migrants and an olfactory tour called "Smells like Wien Spirit." It is a playground for grown-ups. "We like to play with the image of the city," says Quinn. What may seem absurd to some, is just ridiculous enough for him. But just like beauty cannot exist without ugliness, the jester would be nothing without an adversary. Quinn found his nemesis in Vienna's Chamber of Commerce, which stipulates that tour guides must obtain a license and undergo training to conduct guided tours. Preparing for the exam takes two years and costs almost 5000 euros. The Chamber of Commerce once fined Quinn 380 euros for lacking the necessary certificates. This explains why he wears his garbage collectors' pants. He is also barred from showing his groups around any of the usual sights and is not allowed to talk about historical dates. This, according to the Chamber of Commerce, is the way to distinguish his tour from "real" guided tours. The Kafkaesque disputes even made Germany's main news program, Tagesschau, and were featured in the Guardian, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and USA Today. Quinn will only comment that he is not interested in fighting the authorities, but the city's image. "Many people think that Vienna is hopelessly old-fashioned, but that is not true."
Many people think that Vienna is old-fashioned, but that's not true
And yet many conservatives still hanker for a golden age in which Austria was more Austrian than it is today. The Viennese live with one foot in the past. They will not be told they cannot smoke in a café. They navigate around the horse-drawn carriages and horse droppings in the city center without complaining. Hype is an alien concept to them. As comedian Karl Farkas once said: "The Viennese look confidently into the past."
Innovations take a bit longer to establish themselves here, compared to other metropolises. For example, the slowly changing nature of the Naschmarkt market, which consists of a long line of dark green pavilions with striped awnings. Cafés and restaurants only started opening here eleven years ago, and have since turned the paths between the stalls into the city's catwalk. At one end, affluent Viennese catch the sun and enjoy oysters; the other end is a meeting place for students.
At the Neni café, the Molcho family serve dishes from their native Israel: shakshuka, tabbouleh and hummus. Mother Haya Molcho opened the restaurant with her sons Nuriel, Elior, Nadiv and Ilan. The Molchos experimented right from the start, serving mulled wine in winter, and in summer holding fashion shows and getting street artists to decorate the awnings of the pavilions. "In the beginning, we had to expect a 'no' from the city authorities in response to any creative requests. That was really obstructive," says Nuriel Molcho, who is responsible for the café's marketing. "In Vienna, 'new' is never good – until even the city government realizes that the changes actually work well."
The Neni café has since become a brand and has turned into a small food empire with branches in Hamburg and Berlin, with Amsterdam, Paris and Munich set to follow. Haya gives lessons at her cooking school, while Ilan handles the distribution of the brand's supermarket range. The Molchos also opened a beach bar on the lower footpath along the Danube canal, previously a gray concrete wasteland, where two solitary bars held the fort and only graffiti artists and joggers ventured into some stretches along the waterway. The Molchos bought a pavilion there, refurbished it in the Bauhaus style and called it Tel Aviv Beach. "Today the canal is booming," Nuriel Molcho says, adding that the city government is becoming more and more accommodating. Bars that relocate to the canal area enjoy more generous licenses, like being allowed to play music until 2 a.m. Molcho, in a straw hat and shorts, is standing next to a bathtub, filling up water balloons. The brothers are celebrating their beach club's sixth birthday. Rubber flamingos hang from palm trees, and fans disperse cooling water vapor around the place. Now and then a water fight breaks out. Most guests laze around on deckchairs – a cigarette in one hand, a mojito in the other – and watch the sun go down.
Vienna is a city of spectators, says Eugene Quinn. "The Viennese like watching shows, but don't want to be part of them." The former BBC journalist eventually came to an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce, and the Vienna Tourist Board now lists Vienna Ugly on its website. Today, Quinn wants to show us around the new campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business in the Leopoldstadt district, as a contrast to the city's old town. The curved library building was designed by star architect Zaha Hadid. White, rounded surfaces rise up from the floor in the foyer, punctuated by narrow windows. Quinn often prepares his tours in the neighboring Teaching Center, with its facade of slowly oxidizing steel. It is Quinn's favorite design: "At first glance, you wonder what has happened to the poor building, the rust makes it look so vulnerable."
The universities and their relaxed admissions procedures draw many students to Vienna, a quarter of whom are from abroad. They form a bulwark against conservatism, aided by iconic institutions like the city magazine Falter, which shines a spotlight on corruption and nepotism in the city. The left-leaning FM4 radio station broadcasts progressive shows – partly in English – while pop band Wanda and author Stefanie Sargnagel with her downbeat comedy are shaking up Austrian pop culture. "In the 19th century, Vienna was a radically avant-garde city. Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud did a lot of crazy things here," says Quinn, adding that the imperial past is being dug up, romanticized and artificially preserved for the sake of tourism. "But Vienna can't just be all about Mozart and Sachertorte cake."


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News of yesterday's murders and rampage at Ft. Hood began to surface just as my national radio show was beginning. The first segment of the program was with Senator Marco Rubio --itself a newsmaker-- was wrapping up as first reports of an "active shooter at Ft. Hood" appeared on Twitter. The second segment, about DOD's budget with
By 6:30 eastern, however, enough details had emerged to make the obvious choice of postponing regularly scheduled coverage of both the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision yesterday and the Court's hearing from Hobby Lobby last week --which can be still be covered in depth today-- and an interview with Robert Kaplan, author of China's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific. Both my conversations with Erwin Chemerinsky and John Eastman about the Supreme Court and with Kaplan can air today.
As details of the number of people believed to be dead and the possibility of a second shooter began to emerge, I was joined in studio by journalists and filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Anne McElhinney, who are crowd sourcing the funding for a movie about Kermit Gosnell, America's worst serial murderer, the butcher of Philadelphia. Both were amazing friends to have help manage huge news flows from all the networks and especially Twitter, but McAleer especially was a stroke of broadcasting luck as he had covered Northern Ireland's "The Troubles" for a dozen years and had been at the scene of literally hundreds of bombings, mortar attacks and murders.
"Don't believe anything you hear in the first six hours," he stated again and again as we waited for official word about casualties and the identity of the shooter, though when three sources printed the name of the killer I broadcast it as well. Anne and I were particularly surprised ot hear a CNN reporter say, at 7:44 eastern that sources had told CNN that this is not a terrorism incident. That was simply impossible to conclude at that moment, as any journalist would no.
We could find no one mentioning the story that Phelim brought to my attention from Tuesday, a Fox News exclusive about an FBI investigation into threats against military bases by a man named Booker. The shooter had no connection with Booker, but no one new that for hours and more importantly, it was a piece of relevant information that might have impacted base preparations if it had widely circulated on the base (as I suspect but have not yet been able to confirm happened because of social media and the networks of military spouses who keep close eyes on all news about their home bases.)
Phelim and Anne pointed out that MSM wouldn't know how to handle such a story, containing as it does a worry about Islamist violence, even though real journalists know you simply report relevant facts deep into a story and do not weight them with overwrought speculation. The "Booker" story from the day before was surely relevant but also potentially sensationalist and misleading, so it should have been noted deep in written stories or in passing on broadcast news, unless the focus was on the coverage of the event itself and what was and was not being mentioned. (CNN, for example, because of the mis-identification of the Boston bomber a year ago steadfastly refused to name the killer for hours after all other major news networks had done so.)
Phelim and Anne graciously agreed to stay with me for the entire five hour broadcast which wrapped up when the Ft. Hood press conference concluded. Phelim should be a staple of cable land when any horrible incident of this sort occurs as perhaps other veterans of the Troubles should be because he has a unique perspective that comes from arrive at hundreds of scenes of terrible political and non-political violence. From yesterday's broadcast, as well as live broadcasts from the moment 9/11 began to unfold and a hundred other big news events, I have learned the following five rules:
1. The first rule is a negative: Don't trust a source who won't use his or her name on air. "Sources tell...." is an alarm that nonsense and worse follows.
2. Take relevant information from every source and attribute quickly and freely. I read on air with many attributions from The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal coverage, and grabbed audio bits --always identified-- from Fox News and CNN of the president, the Secretary of Defense and then from the press conference by General Mark Milley. No one news source has the whole story, and cable news is particularly lousy at freely attributing what is being said in real time on other networks and news organizations. It isn't about being first, but about comprehensive and correct.
3. Find a real expert, like Phelim McAleer, who has covered thousands of stories and and ask him to sit in and critique your own coverage, correcting and adding as need be balance and perspective. Many if not most cable anchors haven't been to a mass murder scene, much less scores and scores of them. They don't understand the chaos that rules as the man or woman in charge on the scene tries to gather facts and organize responses. The needs of journalists, as Phelim noted last night, are the last priority if we can call them a priority at all.
4. Be aware that other news might happen at the same time as a huge story, just as a shooting at Kent State occurred in the middle of the Fort Hood coverage. Report it, but don't overreport it for fear of the 9/11 effect where there were many stories all of which were horrific and all of which were confusing. The 9/11 effect is the "all hands on deck what is going on" adrenalin-driven overdrive that leads ordinarily calm people to over-report small details.
5. The most important rule of all: Stick to the facts, "just the facts," and repeat the facts again and again and again. Always, always, always remember that some people are actually being terribly hurt, children and nephews and grandparents of people on the base, and thousands more are in a terrible position of intense worry. It is wrong to deny them real information and it is wrong to panic them with speculation. Repeating the same thing again and again and again seems boring and slow to the folks in the newsroom, but "just the facts" again and again, is the most important rule of all, and refusing to be caught up in news narratives that are preconceived is the second rule. It isn't a terrorism story or a deranged shooter story or a gun control story...but just a terrible event with facts to be relayed to an intensely interested public. The analysis of why and whom can come the next day.
The sad reality is that these sorts of news days are a staple of a journalist's year. The Boston bombing and Newtown were 2013's horrors, and now 2014 has its first. There will be more. Twitter makes them all more immediate and more difficult to cover. These five rules make them easier to report.


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OKOTOKS — Each day in the winter, Okotoks returns 80 to 90 per cent of the water it draws out of the Sheep River.
Residents of the burgeoning town use an average of 295 litres of water each day, pay extra if they want green lawns in the summer and face regular restrictions on water use.
Then, at least in the winter, most of the water used is treated and put back in the river.
"In order for us to grow, what we've had to do is implement some of the most aggressive water conservation, efficiency and productivity measures anywhere," says Rick Quail, municipal manager for the Town of Okotoks. "We haven't had a significant increase in our annual diversion, but we have been able to accommodate that additional 10, 15, 20,000 population."
Indeed, Okotoks has grown.
Between 2006 and 2011, a recent Statistics Canada report shows it was the fastest-growing census area of between 10,000 and 100,000 people in the country — with its population spiking 42.9 per cent to 24,511 from 17,150 in 2006.
It now sits around 25,500 residents.
With growth comes the inevitable challenge of managing the need for more transportation, water, sewer, culture, recreation, libraries and schools.
But the most pressing matter for Okotoks is its water supply.
The community doesn't have enough water to grow beyond 27,500 people — a challenge it now must face head on after council lifted its long-standing 30,000-resident population cap in the fall.
Residents like Allen King, who moved to Okotoks in 1957 when it was home to only 650 people, say growth was inevitable.
"It was going to come anyway, whether we liked it or not," says the retired pharmacist. "If we didn't do it, the municipality would have expanded all around us. We should be planning for the future."
Patrick Lockhart, who moved to Okotoks six years ago, says it's losing its small-town charm and becoming more of a city these days.
"It certainly makes life easier," he says, "but the connection to nature is more important to a lot of people."
One of Alberta's leading water experts says he has larger environmental concerns about Okotoks' move to lift the population cap.
"They are very proud of what they've done in terms of water conservation and they ought to be, but we always compare ourselves to ourselves in Canada," says Robert Sandford, Canada's representative for the United Nations Water for Life initiative. "That's an unfortunate mistake because we are the second-largest per capita water users in the world.
"We're profligate wasters."
Furthermore, Sandford says Okotoks is basing its expansion plans on the amount of water it has now.
"It's not that they aren't thinking hard about it," he says. "They are, but they are making choices based on the world as we see it today and they are making choices based on the world as we see it today.
"I would prefer that they had much more secure water supply assurances than they have presently before they expand so rapidly."
Currently, the town's water supply comes from the Sheep River.
In 2006, however, the province issued a final moratorium on allowing any new water licences from the South Saskatchewan River Basin, which includes the Sheep River.
So the Town of Okotoks has been looking for other solutions.
Mayor Bill Robertson says the pressures were building on the town's borders with the approval of the Wind Walk development, which is currently being appealed in the courts by the town.
"That's what turned the tide for me," he says, noting he was able to support lifting the cap provided they find sub-regional solutions rather than building a pipeline from Calgary. A pipeline would not only have tied the town to the city's water, but it also would have led to increased energy costs.
Instead, Robertson says they will try to find ways to further conserve water within the town and continue to buy up existing licences from private landowners or oil companies who have used the water for underground extraction.
Council has also asked the town to work with its other neighbours — the Municipal District of Foothills and the town of High River — to explore options on the Highwood River.
"Now that council has embarked and committed to a path of continued growth, Okotoks has no choice but to find an alternate water supply and a certainty of water supply going forward," says Quail. "No choice."
However, he holds out hope that the Alberta government will come up with ways to reward conservation efforts when it reopens the Water Act for consultations next year.
"We would hope it would deal with recognizing and incenting high-quality effluent return to rivers," he says, referring to the town's success in returning most of the water it uses back into the Sheep River.


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When we go out into the community we serve, we are able to meet our patients on their home turf. These visits bring clarity to the needs of the people we care for. We are reminded that, like the sisters before us with their commitment to practical charity and compassionate care, we are here to meet the needs of those who are vulnerable and marginalized."
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Incstlouis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We are a locally owned and operated gymnastic facility in Chesterfield, MO (St. Louis suburb)
The business culture is very family friendly. The company's motto's are "Life Without Limits" and "Happy, Healthy Kids
It is a fast paced, very energetic staff of 20 people.
We teach gymnastics at a level of excellence and build life skills - self-confidence, goal setting/achieving, work ethic, etc...
Mom's with kids 3 yr. -15 yr (Pre-school - High School)
Gymnastic team members
General Public
All will be viewing the new logo on website to gather information about classes and other events at HI NRG Gymnastics
Classes include tumbling, team gymnastics, trampoline, cheerleading, birthday parties
We need to have a new logo designed to go along with a new website.
The current logo is gender specific (girls) and we would like to drop this in the new logo. (see attached)
We are also interested in branding HI NRG and dropping the word gymnastics or in a perfect world be able to add the word Gymnastics underneath the logo when needed.
We are open to new, fun & creative ideas.
We would like to use green or a color that would look good with green in the logo design to match the website redesign.
Here is a link to the DNS skin we will be using:
The successful logo will blend well with this color scheme.
We would also like the logo to look acceptable in black & white.
The logo should not contain any clip art or photo images.
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Wow: Larry Lessig Interviews Jack Abramoff
from the don't-miss-it deptI just came across this, which actually happened a month ago: Larry Lessig, who is focused entirely on figuring out ways to stop systematic corruption in Washington DC, interviewing disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, widely considered the perfect example of corruption in DC. The 1.5 hour discussion is an attempt to not just go over Abramoff's history, but to educate how the Congressional system works. It's worth watching in its entirety:
One key point that Abramoff makes, is that government is a "tool to wage war." He talks about how Congressional hearings are kangaroo courts designed to just cause problems for people or companies that someone doesn't like. He notes that "even if it goes well," you have to spend a million dollars just to get ready for the hearing. So, setting up a hearing is a way to cause problems for "enemies." Indeed, we've talked about how legacy industries regularly use government as a weapon against competitors and upstarts -- and how troubling it can be when new comers get sucked into the system.
There's a long discussion about the power of staffers on the Hill, rather than the actual elected officials (who "never read the actual bills"). They note that staffers are the real power. Abramoff talks about how he never wanted to hire the actual Congressional Reps, but always focused on hiring staffers. And then he makes a key admission that won't surprise many people. He says that, early on, he focused on hiring people when he had job openings. But, later, he would talk to staffers -- especially chiefs of staff -- and just let them know he had a job opening for them whenever they wanted it. And he would ask them: "When do you want to start?" If they said "two years," he knew that the guy was already working for him, but on the inside. As he says "I really hired him that day," even though he went on for two more years working as a chief-of-staff to someone in Congress.
Abramoff notes that most lobbyists, staffers and elected officials aren't taking it to the criminal level -- like he did. And that the real problems are in what's already legal. He notes that, for himself, he didn't care about what was legal or what wasn't -- he just wanted to "win" at any cost. But he says most others are at least more conscious of staying on the legal side of the line, even if it's "legally" corrupt.
From there, they go into a discussion of Abramoff's own suggestions for reforming the system. That part of the discussion is really interesting, but feels a bit more down in the weeds, as Lessig and Abramoff more or less debate their own personal plans (and their own books) for reforming Congress, campaign finance and lobbying. And, finally, there are audience questions, which are interesting, but don't really delve that deeply into the overall discussion. Either way, definitely worth watching.
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Facebook veteran Allison "Ali" Rosenthal will leave the company at the end of the week most likely to join a start-up. Rosenthal, who was working in mobile business development, was one of the first employees who started with the company in 2006.
"I've started to feel the pull of some new ideas," Rosenthal told AllThingsD, also saying that she was leaving for no specific job, but it was likely she would join a start-up. Although for now, she said she wants to detach a little from technology and take some time off.
Rosenthal, a Stanford University MBA, previously worked for General Atlantic Partners and Zazzle. She said her replacement hasn't been found, but will likely come from within Facebook.
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The committee consists of nine members. Two board positions shall be filled by the City Finance Director and the City Personnel Director; two board positions shall be elected by secret ballot by the active paid police officers of the City; two board positions shall be elected by secret ballot by the active paid firefighters of the City; and three board positions shall be appointed by the Mayor, after consultation with the other six members, subject to approval by the City Council. The three appointed members shall have at least five years demonstrated experience in financial, actuarial, investment or employee benefit plan matters.
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Crosswords With Friends Solver is a website where you can find the answers for the daily crosswords of the popular Zynga game, Crosswords With Friends.
On this particular page you can find all the answers from September 11, 2019. If you need another date you can use the calendar on the right (below on mobile) or the search function.
|A bit wet
|Pot's top
|Website whose categories include "Collectibles & Art" and "Business & Industrial"
|Frozen drink with cola, cherry, and blue raspberry flavors
|Back to square ___
|Morse ___
|"Borg vs McEnroe" star LaBeouf
|First name of Mitt Romney's wife
|Bird that's pictured on Canadian dollar coins
|World War II veteran who played a WWII brigadier general in "The Longest Day": 2 wds.
|"The" in French plurals
|Baffling puzzle
|The path of ___ resistance
|With 33-Across, World War II veteran who played a soldier on a suicide mission in "The Dirty Dozen"
|Rowboat stick
|"Hip, hip, hooray!"
|"What ___ going to do without you?": 2 wds.
|See 29-Across
|Tyler Perry character who has appeared in 11 live-action films and one animated film
|Part of a movie that a spoiler might spoil
|World War II veteran who played a WWII submarine commander in "Run Silent, Run Deep": 2 wds.
|"The Shining" star Nicholson
|Baseball's Marlins, on a scoreboard
|It's what a defendant might "cop" to get a lesser sentence
|Lake that rhymes with "weary"
|Put on an ___ (make believe)
|Sardine containers
|Greenish-blue shade
|Pointy item on a golf course
|"X marks the ___"
|"... and the ___ ran away with the spoon"
|Something a masseur might help relieve
|Beef lo ___ (Chinese menu item)
|Gems that come from oysters
|Is lazy rather than working
|___ particular order: 2 wds.
|"Presumed Innocent" actor Brian
|Long pastry that is filled with either cream or custard
|Sound from an unhappy audience member
|Big commotion
|Asian currency whose symbol is ¥
|"So near and ___ so far"
|Evidence obtained from a cheek swab: Abbr.
|Happy-sounding brand of plastic wrap
|Internet phenomenon that often dies out quickly
|Continent with the most chopsticks usage
|"Frontal" or "temporal" part of the brain
|Acquire through effort
|Nickname of J.Lo's fiancé: Hyph.
|"I ___ see that"
|Surface on which to practice the lotus position: 2 wds.
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|Show with a "Weekend Update" segment: Abbr.
|GQ or Cosmopolitan, for short
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|Alabama-to-Georgia direction
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|"What ___ you waiting for?"
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Reunification Of Skyrim
Reunification of Skyrim begins after the Battle For Whiterun. This quest is available to the Imperial Legion as part of the Civil War Quests. This is an ongoing quest of sorts that will span several smaller but integral quests.
- Report to General Tullius
- Regain the Pale
- Regain the Rift
- Regain Winterhold Hold
- Regain Eastmarch
Find General Tullius at his usual spot in Solitude. He'll hand you a nice weapon and a new rank within the Legion. You are now to head immediately to the Pale Imperial Camp to regain control from the encroaching Stormcloaks. When you speak to Legate Rikke, she has a set of tasks that you must fulfill before the wheels of this quest can start turning.
In order to regain the Pale, you'll need to complete A False Front and The Battle For Fort Dunstad.
Afterwards, you'll rank up yet again and be gifted accordingly. To regain the Rift, complete Compelling Tribute and The Battle For Fort Greenwall.
Regaining Winterhold Hold is a matter of completing Rescue From Fort Kastav. Finally, complete The Battle For Fort Amol and Battle For Windhelm to put an end to this bloody chapter in Skyrim's history.
This quest ends when the Imperial Legion has triumphed over Ulfric's rebels.


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Former B.C. Mountie Rapinder (Rob) Sidhu has been arrested in Montreal on charges that he conspired to smuggle hundreds of kilograms of cocaine worth millions from B.C. to Washington state.
Sidhu, who is on trial in Surrey for allegedly misusing a police computer to get information about the Bacon brothers, was picked up Aug. 29 about 4:30 p.m., RCMP Cpl. Luc Thibault confirmed from Montreal Wednesday.
"He was intercepted without any problem," Thibault said. "The arrest was following a request from Washington state."
Sidhu remains in custody and will be back in a Montreal court Friday to set a date for his extradition hearing, federal Crown prosecutor Christian Jarry said Wednesday.
Jarry said Sidhu has not applied for bail, though his lawyer has indicated that he would do so.
Sidhu moved from Abbotsford to Montreal last winter, despite being in the middle of an on-again, off-again trial in Surrey on one count of impersonating a police officer. He is accused in B.C. of posing as a member of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team on July 31, 2007, to get the address of the Bacons from the RCMP's Operational Communications Centre.
The Bacons are gangsters linked to the Red Scorpion gang. Eldest brother Jon was gunned down in 2011. Middle brother Jarrod is serving a 12-year sentence for cocaine trafficking and youngest brother Jamie is awaiting trial in the Surrey Six murder case. Sidhu's trial is scheduled to resume in Surrey Provincial Court Nov. 13 after a series of adjournments.
Sidhu, a former undercover drug cop who has links to several gangsters, was charged in Seattle in August 2011 with being a leader of an international drug smuggling ring that had links to the Hells Angels.
The U.S. indictment alleges that beginning at least by the middle of 2007 until at least May 2008, Sidhu worked with convicted B.C. smugglers Rob Shannon and Devron Quast "to operate a cocaine transportation organization based in British Columbia."
"On a regular basis during this time period, the B.C. cocaine organization exported, and attempted to export, loads of cocaine from the United States to Canada," the indictment says. "The cocaine was concealed in vans and recreational vehicles."
The indictment also claims that Sidhu, who quit the RCMP in 2003 in the middle of an internal investigation, "recruited an employee of the Canada Border Services Agency, who agreed to allow and did allow vehicles containing cocaine to pass through his lane at the Lynden/Aldergrove Port of Entry."
Border guard Jaspal Grewal pleaded guilty in a Seattle courtroom last year. Both Shannon and Quast earlier pleaded guilty to their roles in the smuggling organization, which U.S. authorities allege was run for the benefit of the Hells Angels in B.C. The ring moved more than $19 million worth of marijuana and cocaine across the border over five years.
The indictment also alleges Sidhu was behind two intercepted shipments of cocaine, totalling 478 kilograms. One load was found inside a recreational vehicle stopped by police in Orange County, Calif., on July 24, 2007. The other was located inside luggage in a minivan intercepted in Everett, Wash., on May 16, 2008.
The indictment claims there were many more cocaine shipments that police did not intercept. "Members of the B.C. cocaine organization communicated with each other via prepaid cellular telephones and encrypted BlackBerry messages, and other secretive means, often referring to each other, themselves and the cocaine using nicknames and codes," the indictment says.
So far, 25 B.C. men have pleaded guilty to working for the massive criminal enterprise, earning sentences ranging from a maximum 20 years for Shannon to probation for some of the bit players.
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It is known that bee bread is fermented and that the fermentation is needed to make it digestible. It is also known that not only does sugar syrup change the pH of the hive and disrupt this, but that terramycin will kill the bacteria involved, wholesale.
but feeding on nectar or honey derived from nectars [is a] very different proposition from feeding on other types of plant tissue because plants load up their vulnerable tissues with chemicals, you know, natural pesticides, so that insects won't eat them, but they want insects to eat nectar; that's the whole point [of nectar].


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Our values
Grundfos runs its business in a responsible and ever more sustainable way. We make products and solutions that help our customers save natural resources and reduce climate impact. We take an active role in the society around us. Grundfos is a socially responsible company. We take care of our people - also those with special needs.
In Grundfos we do what we say, and we say what we do. Our communication is open and honest among ourselves and with the world around us. We put the facts on the table – also when it is not pleasant.
Grundfos is our people. We develop the individual. Everyone in Grundfos has passion and potential. Everyone has the power to influence. Everyone must feel respected and valued.
The main shareholder of Grundfos – now and in the future – is the Poul Due Jensen Foundation. Profit is a means to growth – not a goal in itself. We ensure a healthy financial foundation at all times.
Grundfos creates value through close relations with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. We are a global company building on local entrepreneurship. We believe that diversity drives innovation and growth.
In Grundfos we never stop challenging ourselves to create better solutions faster. We take pride in delivering premium quality in everything we do. We show leadership and innovate the future.
Our purpose
Grundfos is a global leader in advanced pump solutions and a trendsetter in water technology. We contribute to global sustainability by pioneering technologies that improve quality of life for people and care for the planet.
"Global leader" means that Grundfos is perceived by its customers and competitors throughout the world as the leading player in the pump industry. We develop, produce, sell and service high quality pump solutions and we set the standard in the industry.
"Advanced pump solutions" means that we offer turn-key solutions to match the requirements of our customers – no matter how complex the solution is, where it is to be used or how big it is.
"Trendsetter within water technology" means that we strive to be among the industry leaders when it comes to finding ways of using new technologies to move and treat water and wastewater.
"Contribute to global sustainability" means that we do business in an environmentally sustainable way and create sustainable solutions from cradle to grave. We are committed to making a significant contribution towards reducing the impact on the environment by limiting both our own and our customers' CO2 emission levels. We aim to create cleaner technologies and solutions which limit water consumption, improve efficiency, enable consumers to reduce their water and energy consumption and increase the reuse of resources.
"Ground-breaking technologies" means that we will invent solutions the world has never seen before. We will expand our business with the addition of new categories and areas by using our technologies in new and creative ways, based on the requirements of our customers.
"Improve the quality of life for people and take care of the planet" means that we focus on people in a growing world, and that there is always a balance between human, social and environmental concerns in our solutions. We want to enable people to look after themselves and to give more people a more comfortable life without it being at the expense of the environment and the planet's natural resources. We are always eager to find solutions for the world's most poverty-stricken communities and people with special needs.


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by Sue Ann Rybak
As the parent of a sixth grader who attends J.S. Jenks Elementary School in Chestnut Hill, I am appalled at the current state of Philadelphia's public schools. Last week, Superintendent William Hite announced at a press conference that if the district did not receive at least $50 million by Friday, Aug. 16, the district may not be able to open all 212 schools by Sept. 9.
Recently, the state House of Representatives passed a bill to give the district a one-time grant of $45 million in state funds that were originally owed to the federal government, but may be forgiven. The money currently is in limbo and depends largely upon concessions from teachers and their contract which expires on August 31.
In addition, a portion of the money is contingent on the Pennsylvania education secretary deciding that the district has made adequate "reforms that provide for fiscal stability, educational improvement and operational control."
While I have little faith that the district will not face a financial crisis next year, I do believe that the district has taken steps to remedy the current situation. While the Governor stalls on providing critical funds to Philadelphia's public schools, the state continues to find funds to build new prisons. Meanwhile, students, parents and teachers are being held hostage.
With less than four weeks to the opening of schools, the city is scrambling to find new sources of revenue to fund public schools, but cannot agree on a solution. Mayor Nutter wants City Council to increase the 1 percent city sales tax to raise the $50 million the district needs to rehire crucial staff, including assistant principals, counselors and lunch aides.
City Council President Darrell Clark said the sales increase would hurt the city. He proposes giving the school district $50 million in cash in exchange for closed neighborhood schools and other surplus real estate.
It's time to put political haggling aside. Time is running out. The governor and our local representatives need to act. Our children not only deserve a quality education but, under the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), are "entitled to a free and appropriate public education." If the school district decides not to open on Sept. 9, the courts may decide otherwise. But who can argue that a school without adequate staff, paper and books is an "appropriate" education?
Unfortunately, many people don't believe they should have to pay for other people's children to be educated, but as a society we all have a stake in the future of our children.
As Americans, do we really believe that we should continue to bail out large corporations but not provide our children with the right to receive a quality education in a safe environment? Regrettably, I don't see a constitutional amendment protecting our children's right to a quality education anytime in the near future. Therefore, I will be exercising my right to freedom of speech by participating in a Day of Action to Save Our Schools at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Comcast Center, 17th Street and JFK Boulevard. Let's send a message to our city officials that our children matter.
For more information about a Day of Action to Save Our Schools go to facebook.com/events/203562856469727/.


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