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In addition to all the destructive consequences that may follow traumatic experience, some people say it also has power to encourage creative expression.
The photo is of the late actor Charles Durning (1923–2012) who reportedly appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays.
In World War II, he was severely wounded by shrapnel, and also engaged a very young German soldier in hand-to-hand combat.
After killing the boy, Durning said in an article, he "held him in his arms and wept. He said the memories never left him, even when performing, even when he became, however briefly, someone else."
Can this kind of trauma, which often leads to PTSD, have any positive impact on creative imagination and expression?
In her provocatively titled post Does Trauma Increase Creativity?, Laura K Kerr reports on a study that, she notes, "suggests there may be a connection between creativity and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
"Research conducted by Robert Miller and David Johnson revealed PTSD correlates with a greater capacity for symbolic representation, which is necessary for artistic as well as scientific endeavors."
She explains, "The study compared 56 Vietnam combat veterans with 14 veterans who lacked combat exposure. Originally, Miller and Johnson thought their research would show PTSD diminished a person's competence with manipulating symbolic material.
When participants of the study were asked to portray and act out an imaginal scene, the researchers said, "The PTSD group when compared to the non-PTSD group were better able to represent the boundary between reality and the role-playing, to immerse themselves in the scene, to enact identifiable characters consistent with their setting, and produce complex and interactive scenes that told a coherent story."
Kerr adds, "Given that PTSD is also characterized by flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive imagery—all symbolic representations of actual events—the results of the study seem supported by what is known about the experience of PTSD: it increases the psyche's likelihood of generating and interacting with symbolic representations."
In another post, she writes, "Trauma births its own world, one that exists beside the regular, expressed order of things where life stories are normalized, validated, even valorized. In trauma's otherworldly realm—the imaginal landscape of our minds—travel the fragmented narratives of what transpired, but also of what failed to come about: escape from harm, facing down abusers, regaining a sense of safety.
"Here we find the birthplace of grief, but also creativity, the origins of trauma stories, yet also their erasure, all vying for connection with what can no longer be—or become—now that trauma has claimed its space."
From post: Trauma's Imaginal Worlds.
Laura K Kerr, PhD, is a Mental Health Scholar and psychotherapist with interests in trauma studies and depth psychology.
Durning also commented that acting helped release at least some of the horror he suffered. He is quoted in a New York Times article: "There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about. There's terror and repulsion in us, the terrible spot that we don't talk about. That place that no one knows about — horrifying things we keep secret.
"A lot of that is released through acting."
From my article Creative People and Trauma.
Actor Meg Ryan has expressed a perspective that many creative people probably share: "I don't think you want to cultivate dramatic and traumatic experiences in your life in order to be an artist. I think that's all wrong. But you can use them… there's a redemptive power in your life when you go through hardships." [Los Angeles Times, Oct 5, 2003. Also quoted in my book "The Creative Mind: Identity and Confidence."]


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Backing into Caldwell scandal story at The Oregonian
Then, after the story appeared, the circumstances surrounding his death revealed another side to Caldwell. He had died after having sex with a 23-year-old PCC student in her Tigard apartment.
The Oregonian rightly printed a story today, but they did so in a manner that revealed how agonizingly difficult it was for the paper's staff to face and report the facts.
The story (shown here. Click on it to make it bigger.) painfully backs into the embarrassing news.
As they say in the business, the lead is buried.
The headline tells us that Caldwell died in a Tigard apartment. Is that news?
The subhead tells us that he died after "a woman called 9-1-1 to report he was unresponsive." Is that news?
The lead tells us that Caldwell was in the woman's apartment and that she was 23 years old.
We're getting warmer....
Finally, in the second paragraph we learn "The woman called 9-1-1 to report that Caldwell, 63, was coughing and unresponsive after a sex act."
Presumably with her.
The story goes on from there. "The woman told deputies she met Caldwell about a year ago at Portland Community College. Caldwell, she said, knew she didn't have much money so he provided her cash for books and other things for school in exchange for sex acts in her apartment."
Any freshman journalism student would recognize where the news is in the story and write a headline and lead to reflect it.
(A sodden thought: One wonders how Caldwell, once the paper's 'public editor,' himself would have written such a story involving a top Oregonian editor. Fate spared him the task. The public editor, by the way, often dealt with matters of journalistic ethics and definitions of "the news." The paper dropped the position some years ago. It seems to be time to restore it.)
The on-line commentary about today's article raises the usual ethical arguments. "Let him rest in peace." "Is this news?" "Is he a public figure?" "Does it matter?"
Yes, this is news, sad and embarrassing as it is. Yes, as one comment notes, the editorial page editor of the state's largest newspaper is indeed a public figure. And, yes, it does matter.
There's another story here and it has to do with PCC and, more generally, the plight of college students. For six years I taught journalism at PCC. Many of the students are in desperate financial straits. My guess is that this young woman was not — and is not — alone in her desperation. That's a story that still needs telling.
That Caldwell would take advantage of this student's plight is deplorable...and, yes, newsworthy.
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It's no surprise that Miley Cyrus, who is a close friend of Taylor Swift, is on Team Taylor when it comes to her VMA incident with Kanye West on Sunday – but how would the Disney starlet have handled the situation if it had happen to her?
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"It's her moment. For those times that you are able to tell your speech, you do it," Miley continued. "And it's disrespectful as an artist, and I know he even said his family would not be happy if someone did that to him."
Miley feels like Kanye interrupted the country star in order to turn the spotlight on himself.
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Following the interruption heard around the world, Kanye apologized multiple times and personally reached out to Taylor on Tuesday. The country star accepted his apology, a rep for the country star confirmed to Access Hollywood.
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Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Why I am Not a Neo-Pagan
Neo-Nazi. Neo-Confederate. Neo-Conservative.
Or, to choose some less loaded examples: Neo-Classical. Neo-Romantic. Neo-Primitive.
Whoever it was that decided to call people like us "neo-pagans" (there are several contenders for the dubious distinction), he was certainly no poet.
Poets care about words. Poets pay close attention to things like beauty, precision, and connotation.
Look again at the above examples. In non-scientific usage, neo- is not merely a synonym for new. Its implications are subtly but deeply different.
Neo- is a prefix of condescension. To dub something neo- is to define it as derivative, as less than, as not to be taken entirely seriously. To be neo-X is not to be a new X; it is, by definition, to be not really X. A Neo- is, by definition, a Wannabe.
And this we call ourselves?
Pagan is who we are. Pagan is who we've always been. Whenever people are left alone to suss things for themselves, they are, pretty much by definition, pagan. To be human is to be pagan. Pagan isn't something we have to be made into; pagan is what we already are. Pagans are born, not made, and we're all born pagan.
No, we're not the same pagans that the ancestors were, and there's no point in trying to be. They were the pagans for their time and place. Our responsibility, both to them and to ourselves, is to be the pagans for our own time and place, just like they were. It's the only kind of pagan we can be honestly be.
Like the ancestors, we new pagans live by three great truths: by the truth of our own experience, by the truth of the Received Tradition (the collective corpus of inherited ancestral lore), and by that ultimate source of authority in all pagan traditions, the truth of the world itself. Where's the neo- in any of that?
If one must needs distinguish, then by all means let us be the new pagans. Let us be modern pagans. Let us be contemporary pagans.
But for gods' sakes, let us lose the neo-.
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
I do not think we ought to be "neo-pagan", but I am afraid that most of us are in fact "neo-pagan".
Neo does not only imply "new", its meaning is more nuanced than that. Neo means that something is reformed; removed from its original context; recreated in a similar spirit for new conditions. In this sense using the word "pagan" at all--by definition--makes us "neo-pagans". We are not iron-age peasant-class worshipers of nature religions. We are contemporary-cosmopolitan nature worshipers.
I agree that what we ought to be is something like a natural religion that is novel to our history and geography. But so much of what paganism today is is reconstruction, which makes it inherently "reformed" (i.e. neo-). That doesn't make it bad, in fact there is a lot that is neat about "celtic-reconstructionism" and the like; however, most of what paganism is neo, so I think that whoever came up with the word was spot-on.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
I like both the points that Steven made and the points that Chris made; each is right according to the orientation from whence his observations came. Being of a romantical poetic bent myself, I wish our society still cared about the subtleties of language valued by Steven. But I've lived long enough in this sad world to realize that it does not. Bottom line, I guess, is that each of us must find the designation that makes us most comfortable.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
The phrase 'neo-pagan' originally came with pride. Back in the '80s when most of us were first finding we weren't alone, forming groups and the first festivals, 'neo-pagan' was how we acknowledged we were pagans *today.* It was a way of making ourselves real, of pointing out that we didn't belong just in history books. We were real people living our lives right there in the cities and on the farms like everyone else.
It was also meant to be an acknowledgement that we weren't claiming to practice our spirituality(ies) in the same way as our far-far-far back ancestors. There's no way to do so (and even if there were, we live in today's techy society - hence the techno-pagan phrase, too).
The phrase has mostly fallen out of usage, at least here on the west coast; people would look at me funny if I said that (and I'm a Feri, which is as neo as it gets :-D ). We no longer have to prove we exist (ok, that's not as true as I might wish ;-) ). Any how, what you're reading into the phrase is not at all how it was originally intended or used (doesn't mean some folks don't use it that way today).
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
First of all, the term "pagan" is an archaic term. It may be likened to an automobile being called a horse-less carriage. So, maybe some prefer anachronisms. It's a matter of choice.
Second, most ancient societies practiced four major types of cosmology or a mixture of them. These are:
A) Polytheism, the worship of or belief in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. This type is found in many "classical" cultures from Egypt, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Greco-Roman as well as parts of the Norse and Celtic cultures. These rituals were fairly consistent much as modern Christian rituals are consistent but assume the local "flavor".
B) Pantheism, the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists thus do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god. Some Eastern religions are considered to be pantheistically inclined.
C) Animism, (from Latin animus, -i "soul, life") the worldview that non-human entities (animals, plants, and inanimate objects or phenomena) possess a spiritual essence. Specifically, animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system or cosmology of some indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the development and/or infiltration of colonialism and organized religion. Although each culture has its own different mythologies and rituals, "animism" is said to describe the most common, foundational thread of indigenous peoples' "spiritual" or "supernatural" perspectives.
D) Shamanism, a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world. A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.
Thirdly, the inclusive term "pagan" was first used as an umbrella at the insistence of the early Christian Church. Under it's original edict, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism as well as the expressions of the classical cultures were all labeled as "pagan" faiths. If a people choose to accept the appellation given by an organization they eschew, that, once more, becomes their choice.
Fourthly, I have had the distinct privilege of being given an oral tradition that has been traced back to the 1700's where it's track becomes muddled. What I was given was more in line with indigenous peoples' views. This is so much the fact that a Philippine mumbaki in a long line of mumbakis from the Ifugao region presented me with an atlatl adorned with my totemic animal so it can be used as both a weapon and a connection to the other world. In his words, " I respect your knowledge and teaching. This is an atlatl of a shaman."
Fifthly, "pagans" honored their ancestors. This is evident in the burial rituals of the Celts and Norse that survive. The Tomb of the Eagles in Scotland is an example of neolithic ancestor worship. Archaeologist M. Parker Pearson's work at Stonehenge points to that as a "home" for ancestral spirits. Sadly, this seems wholly absent from the contemporary "pagans" world view.
Sixthly, I travelled in the "neo-pagan" or "contemporary pagan" circle. What I saw was a stitched together montage of beliefs acquired from any region with an attempt at utilization. One lady told me she was a shaman and "we believe life is in everything" so she walked tenderly through the grass. No doubt to her mind, the ancients would have hugged Bambi rather than hunted her. I can see ancient faiths thanking the deer for giving up it's life before letting loose the arrow or spear. The horned "god of the hunt" figure is a motif found globally with a similar head being found in a mid-western Hopewell mound ( see Hero, Hawk and Hand ).
Furthermore, I've heard more quotes by A. Crowley than I care to mention as well as seen rituals originally designed by The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn. One priest assured me that " such things has it's place in the pagan faith". Really? Historically, do tell. The foundations of those are found in Jewish mysticism primarily The Kabballah.
As indigenous person explained " a horse may be called a cow, but it remains a horse". What we call ourselves whether it is "pagan", "neo-pagan" or "contemporary pagan" becomes irrelevant. The modern expression bears no semblance whether in practice or principle to the original. Until we choose to walk in our ancestral ways, it will remain a fabric of sewn together concepts and structures designed for the ease of the practitioner.
I do, however, suggest the viewing of Richard Rudgley's BBC series Pagans as a quick overview, It can be found on YouTube.
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We have a double headliner tonight, with both Peter New and Daniel Ingram confirmed for Canterlot Gardens! Please read on for more detailed information.
Peter New will be right here at Canterlot Gardens joining our other guests in on our weekend of excitement! From autographs, to panels, to simply having a good time the voice of Big Mac will be joining the star-clad ranks of Canterlot Gardens.
Likewise, via skype, the well-known composer Daniel Ingram will be in appearance at the Gardens for an interview during our production panel. Ingram will not be alone during this panel, as he will be joining several other guests including our previously announced Meghan McCarthy, and other guests that you will simply have to wait and see.
Danielle McRae – The voice of Painwheel from Skullgirls – Has also confirmed her appearance at Canterlot Gardens alongside our other voice talent. Having also done voices for League of Legends (as Karma the Enlightened One) and World of Warcraft (Hagara the Stormbinder), we just couldn't turn her down when we saw how enthusiastic she was for our convention.
From now, and until August 20th, ticket prices for our single and 3-day badges will remain at the current discount rate of $15 dollars for single day badges, and $35 dollars for 3-day weekend badges. On August 20th the price will increase by 5 dollars to our standard rate, making single-day badges $20 dollars and three-day weekend badges $40 dollars. If you haven't already registered, do so now! Badges are limited and we're coming close to selling out.
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Canterlot Gardens will also be holding two auctions at our event! Here's the rundown for those of you interested:
We are having both a charity auction, and a silent auction. Anyone interested can find out more and register at this link.
For the charity auction, 50% of all proceeds go to Toys for Tots. Anyone can donate something for the auction, including even people unable to attend Canterlot Gardens! If you are unable to make it, please make sure to approve the item you wish to donate with us before sending it via our web form. Please include a picture and description of your item(s). All items donated for auction must be uniquely crafted items, such as customs or plushies, related to My Little Pony. The charity auction will be on stage and livestreamed.
Our second auction, the silent auction, will be held in our artist ally and not livestreamed and/or on stage. Items in our silent auction can only be submitted by in-person attendees. Like our charity auction, we prefer the items be uniquely crafted. 80% of the final sale price goes to the individual listing the item for auction. Items may be disapproved at our discretion pending on content.
On the community side of things, Fillydelphia Radio will be at Canterlot Gardens for a live broadcast right from our grounds! On top of that, make sure to stop by and say hello, since they will be doing attendee interviews. Fillydelphia Radio has been amazing supporters of Canterlot Gardens over the past months, so definitely give them our thanks.
Adding to our concert roster, HeyLasFas will be at Canterlot Gardens for his very own set. Possibly best well known for his epic 90's inspired concept album Nightfall, HeyLasFas will be joining Tarby, Forest Rain, and our other musicians for our concert event. Likewise, HeyLasFas will tentatively be playing drums for both Tarby and Forest Rain, so it looks like he is going to have one crazy night of performance! Having already seen him perform, we can easily vouch for his talent. Donate this crazy guy a cupcake! [Youtube]
Finally, our thanks goes out to the community! So far we have seen an amazing response in preregistration and even volunteer applications. Hopefully we don't sell out too soon! Even more impressive, our male-to-female attendee ratio has actually proven that the girls in our community are out there representing in full force – With more than 50% of our attendees currently being female, we are easily proving how diverse and fantastic our community is.
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Hotel Discount Rate: Please remember to use group code EQU while checking out. Our current discount rate is $79 dollars/night, ensuring that Canterlot Gardens is affordable for everyone. Strongville Holiday Inn
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CAIRO Clashes overnight between police and supporters of Egypt's ousted president left at least seven people dead, authorities said Tuesday, in the latest eruption of political violence on the country's streets since the military deposed the Islamist leader nearly two weeks ago.
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Morsi and the Brotherhood insist that loyalists of deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by Egypt's 2011 uprising, worked incessantly to undermine Morsi's rule and that a wave of protests and strikes prevented Morsi from introducing reform.


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QUINCY – The number of overdose deaths in Massachusetts may finally be on their way down more than a decade into a national opioid addiction epidemic, but local officials say they're now having to work harder than ever to keep opioid users alive.
The number of 911 calls for overdoses has continued to climb in Quincy even as fewer of those turn out to be fatal, in large part because of the widespread use of the overdose-reversing drug nalaxone, best known by the brand name Narcan.
At the same time, Quincy first responders are having to use larger doses of nalaxone to keep users alive as many turn to more powerful opioids, particularly fentanyl.
The number of overdose deaths in Quincy each month now appears to be holding steady – and officials hope to see a drop by the end of the year – but the number of 911 calls for overdoses in the city continues to rise.
In the first 30 days of August, for example, the city saw 42 overdoses, resulting in three deaths, which Lt. Patrick Glynn of the Quincy Police Department said is higher than most months this year.
At the same time, users are increasingly turning toward more powerful opioids and requiring stronger doses of nalaxone when they overdose, Glynn said.
"We're definitely using more (Narcan). Using twice as much," said Glynn, who heads up the Quincy police drug control unit and is seen as a national pioneer in the use of nalaxone by police officers.
About eight months ago, Glynn noticed that the department was using more and more two-milligram doses of nalaxone to revive overdose victims. So, they switched to four-milligram doses and have seen positive results, he said.
"Fentanyl is now out on the street and it's taking the place of heroin," Glynn said. "There are more people overdosing because the drug is that much more powerful.
"Not just heroin, but heroin mixed with fentanyl and straight fentanyl. You cannot use the same amount of fentanyl as you do with heroin."
A year ago, the Quincy Police Department and a local community health agency began following up on each overdose call in the city to help connect opioid users and their families with treatment programs and other resources to help them stop using.
The follow-up program is operated in in conjunction with prevention specialists from the Manet Community Health Center based in Milton.
The non-profit group has three locations in Quincy, as well as offices in Hull and Taunton.
"Our program does outreach to people who are at-risk for overdose," said Kim Kroeger, Program Director of Prevention Services at Manet.
"It's working out really well. It's a way to support people in getting through this illness. People, family members feel really alone and isolated and often times don't know where to turn to for support."
Each week Glynn compiles information on overdoses calls in the city and gives a list of addresses to Kroeger. From there, the social workers from Manet and plainclothes officers visit each home on the list.
Glynn said the officers do not go to the homes in uniform or in marked cruisers.
"They're not in any enforcement level at that time. They're there to provide information," Glynn said.
Since they started the program in October, the response they've gotten has been mostly positive.
"First we were gauging the success of just getting into the home. Now it's getting more and more prevalent where someone will access the services," Glynn said.
"The family members have been so appreciative of the follow-up visit. They tell us that some of these programs are ones that they weren't aware of."
"I don't think we've ever gotten the door slammed in our face," Kroeger said.
In addition to the informational materials, the prevention specialists offer in-home training on how to administer nalaxone.
Once they complete the brief training, they are given a dose to hold on to.
"We recommend to anyone to have it in their first aid kit. Unfortunately now for many households, it's a needed medication," Kroeger said. "It's not just administering the Narcan – it's training them to call 911 and do rescue breathing."
In rarer cases, the visits have prompted some users to go to a detoxification program either that day or the following morning.
State officials announced on Tuesday that Massachusetts saw 5 percent fewer opioid-related overdose deaths in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period last year.
An estimated 978 people have died of opioid overdoses since January, 53 fewer people than the 1,031 who had died by August of last year, according to data released by the state Department of Public Health.
Glynn said the state has been able to at least stem the tide of overdose deaths thanks to the growing number of people, carrying nalaxone, from users and family members to first responders.
Police have even began going to local business owners and offering them training on how to use nalaxone in the event a customer or employee suffers an overdose.
Due to the success of the follow-up program, Kroeger is working to get funding so they can go out more frequently and get to users as soon as 16 hours after they've overdosed.
"We're hopeful that we'll soon be moving toward a quicker response. We've had some people overdose two days later, a day later," Kroeger said.
Despite the increase in overdoses, Glynn said he is glad that the overdose deaths have not followed suit.
"The death rate is somewhat subsiding. We're getting to the scene sooner, we're able to reverse the overdose, then we get them to the hospital," Glynn said.
"It's crucial in our mission to be able to address the individual and the family to get them back on track and back into the community as individuals and restore the family unit together. Each time we do that, we feel as though we're one step ahead."
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Double jeopardy: New Hampshire man faces bigamy charges
Police: Woman discovers husband still married to first wife
A Rochester, N.H., man accused of tying the knot with a woman while still married to another is due in court next month to answer felony charges of bigamy and making a false statement on vital records.
Joseph Gibson, 41, turned himself in to Portsmouth police last week, according to Capt. Mike Schwartz. Police launched an investigation last November when Gibson's wife contacted them and said she had discovered that her husband had never divorced his first wife.
Schwartz said Gibson married his first wife in 1991 and the couple separated the next year. In 1997, Gibson applied for a marriage license at Portsmouth City Hall, according to Schwartz, who said Gibson never acknowledged his first marriage when he filled out the paperwork.
Schwartz said the investigation took a while because police needed to obtain records proving that Gibson had been previously married and never divorced.
Gibson was released on $5,000 personal recognizance from the police station and is due to appear in Portsmouth District Court on Feb. 4. If convicted, Gibson could face up to seven years in prison on each count.


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Lawmaker pay raise rests with committee
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A pay raise plan for Minnesota elected officials is a key point of difference as a House-Senate panel begins negotiations on a state agency budget bill.
The state Senate approved its bill containing pay raises for legislators, the governor and agency commissioners. The House didn't broach the lawmaker pay topic when passing its bill.
Thursday's conference committee hearing is the first of several expected before a state agency budget bill is finalized.
Lawmakers haven't seen their base pay rise in more than a decade. If enacted, the raises wouldn't kick in until 2015. For legislators, the initial bump would be about $10,000 as part of a proposal to tie their wages to the governor's pay. The governor would see successive 3 percent raises and inflation-adjusted salary hikes after that.


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Database plays an irreplaceable role in the modern economy and is widely used in the business computing areas like Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), Customer Relation Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and the Decision Support System (DSS).
Computation of structured data in the database mainly relies on SQL (Structured Query Language). SQL is the powerful, simple-to-use, and widely-applied database computing script. However, it has some native drawbacks: non-stepwise computation, incomplete set-lization, and no object reference available. Although almost all vendors have introduced and launched some non-compatible solution, such as various stored procedure like PL-SQL, T-SQL. These improved alternatives cannot remedy the native SQL drawbacks.
esProc solves these drawbacks with more powerful computational capability, much lower technical requirement, and broader scope of application. It is a more convenient database computing scripts.
Case Description
A multinational retail enterprise needs to collect statistics on the newly opened retail store, including: How many new retail stores will open in this year? Of which how many companies have the sales over 1 million dollars? Among these companies with over-1-million sales, how many companies are abased overseas?
This question is progressive. The three questions are mutually related, the next question can be regarded as the further exploring on the current question, fit for step-by-step computation.
The original data is from the database of stores table with the main fields:storeCode, storeName, openedTime, profit, and nation. Let's check the SQL solution first.
SQL Solution
To solve such problem with SQL, you will need to write 3 SQL statements as given below.
l SELECT COUNT(*) FROM stores WHERE to_char (openedTime, 'yyyy') = to_char (sysdate,'yyyy');
l SELECT COUNT(*) FROM stores WHERE to_char (openedTime, 'yyyy') = to_char (sysdate,'yyyy') and profit>1000000;
l SELECT COUNT(*) FROM stores WHERE to_char (openedTime, 'yyyy') = to_char (sysdate,'yyyy') and profit>1000000 and nation<>'local';
SQL1:Get the result of question 1.
SQL2:Solve the problem 2.Because the step-by-step computation is impossible (that is, the results of previous computation cannot be utilized), you can only solve and take it as an individual problem.
SQL3: Solve the problem 3,and you are not allowed to compute in steps either.
esProc Solution
A1 cell: Get the records requested in problem 1.
A2 cell: Step-by-step computation. Operate on the basis of cell A1, and get the record meeting the conditions of problem 2.
A3 cell: Proceed with the step-by-step computation, and get the records requested in the problem 3.
B1, B2, and B3 cell: It is still the step-by-step computation. Count the corresponding records.
For the SQL, there are 3 associations for you to compute in steps, and explore progressively. However, because step-by-step computation is hard to implement with SQL, this problem has to be divided into 3 individual problems.
esProc is to compute in steps following the natural habit of thinking: Decompose the general objective into several simple objective; Solve every small objective step by step; and ultimately complete the final objective.
In case that you proceed with the computation on the basis of the original 3problems, for example, seek "proportion of problem 3 taken in the problem 2", or"on" problem 3, group by country". As for esProc users, they can simply write "=A3/A2", and "A3.group(nation)". In each step, there is a brief and clear expression of highly readable, without any requirements on a strong technical background. By comparison, SQL requires redesigning the statement. The redesigned statement will undoubtedly become more and more complex and longer. Such job can only be left to those who have the advanced technical ability in SQL.
esProc can decompose the complex problem into simple computation procedure based on the descriptions from the business perceptive. This is just the advantage of the step-by-step computation. By comparison, SQL does not allow for computation by step or problem decomposition, and thus it is against the scientific methodology, and not fit for the complex computation.
Complete Set-lization
Case Description
A certain advertisement agency needs to compute the clients whose annual sales values are among the top 10.
The data are from the sales table, which records the annual sales value of each client with the fields like customer, time, and amount.
SQL solution
SELECT customer
SELECT customer
SELECT customer,RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY time ORDER BY amount DESC) rankorder
FROM sales )
WHERE rankorder<=10)
GROUP BY customer
HAVING COUNT(*)=(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT time) FROM sales)
Such Problem requires ranking the sets of a set, that is, group by "time" and then rank by "customer" in the group. Since the popular SQL-92 syntax is still hard to represent this, the SQL-2003 standard, which is gradually supported by several vendors, will be used to solve this problem barely.
Just a tip to compute the customer intersections in the last step, the count of years equals to the count of clients.
esProc Solution
A1: Group the original dataset by year so that A1 will become a set of sets.
B1: Get the serial number of records whose sales values are among the top 10 of each group. The rank() is used to rank in every group, and pselect() can be used to retrieve the serial number on conditions. ~ is used to represent every member in the set. B1 is the "set of set".
A2: Retrieve the record from A1 according to the serial number stored in B2, and get the customer field of the record.
A3: Compute the intersection of sets.
The SQL set-lization is incomplete and can only be used to represent the simple result set. Developers cannot use SQL to represent the concept of "set of set". Only the queries of 3-level-nested-loops are available to barely perform the similar computations. In addition, SQL cannot be used to perform the intersection operation easily that developers with advanced techniques can only resort to the unreadable statements to perform the similar operations, such as "count of years equal to the count of clients". It equals to compute the intersection of client sets.
The set is the base of massive data. esProc can achieve set-lization completely, represent the set, member, and other related generic or object reference conveniently, and perform the set operations easily, such as intersection, complement, and union.
When analyzing the set-related data, esProc can greatly reduce the computation complexity. By taking the advantage of set, esProc can solve many problems agilely and easily that are hard to solve with SQL.
III Ordered Set
Case Description
Suppose that a telecommunication equipment manufacturer needs to compute the monthly link relative ratio of sales value (i.e. the increase percent of sales value of each month compared with that of the previous month). The sales data is stored in the sales table with the main fields including salesMonth, and salesAmount.
SQL solution
select salesAmount, salesMonth,
(case when
prev_price !=0 then ((salesAmount)/prev_price)-1
else 0
end) compValue
from (select salesMonth, salesAmount,
lag(salesAmount,1,0) over(order by salesMonth) prev_price
from sales) t
The popular SQL-92 has not introduced the concept of serial number, which adds many difficulties to the computation. Considering this, the designer of SQL-2003 has partly remedied this drawback. For example, the window function lag() is used to retrieve the next record in this example.
In addition, in the above statement, the "case when" statement is used to avoid the error of division by zero on the first record.
esProc Solution
sales.derive(salesAmount / salesAmount [-1]-1: compValue)
The derive() is an esProc function to insert the newly computed column to the existing data. The new column is compValue by name, and the algorithm is "(Sales value of this month/Sales value of previous month)-1". The "[n]" is used to indicate the relative position, and so [-1] is to represent the data of the previous month.
On the other hand, for the data of the first record, the additional procedure for division by zero is not required in esProc.
From the above example, even if using SQL-2003, the solution to such problem is lengthy and complex, while the esProc solution is simple and clear owing to its support for the ordered set.
Moreover, SQL-2003 only provides the extremely limited computation capability. For example, esProc user can simply use the "{startPosition,endPosition}" to represent the seeking of a range, and simply use "(-1)" to represent the seeking of the last record. Regarding the similar functionality, it will be much harder for SQL user to implement.
In the practical data analysis, a great many of complex computations are related to the order of data. SQL users are unable to handle such type of computations as easily as esProc users because SQL lacks of the concept of Being Ordered.
An insurance enterprise has the below analysis demands: to pick out the annual outstanding employees (Employee of the Year) whose Department Manager has been awarded with the President Honor. The data are distributed in two tables: department table (main fields are deptName, and manager), and employee table (main fields are empName, empHonor, and empDept).
empHonor has three types of values: null value; "president's award", PA for short; and "employee of the year", EOY for short. There are 2 groups of correspondence relations: empDept and deptName, and Manager and empName.
SQL solution
FROM employee A,department B,employee C
WHERE A.empDept=B.deptName AND B.manager=C.empName AND A.empHonor='EOY' AND C.empHornor='PA'
SQL users can use the nested query or associated query to solve such kind of problems. In this case, we choose the association query that is both concise and clear. The association statement behind the "where" has established the one-to-many relation between deptName and empDept, and the one-to-one relation between manager and empName.
esProc Solution
esProc solution is intuitive: select the employee of "EOY" whose Department Manager has be awarded with "PA".
The SQL statement to solve such kind of question is lengthy and not intuitive. In fact, the complete association query language is "inner join…on…" style. This statement is simplified in the above example. Otherwise it will be much hard to understand.
esProc users can use "." for object reference. Such style is intuitive and easy to understand. The complex and lengthy association statement for multiple tables can thus be converted to the simple object access, which is unachievable for SQL. When there are more and more tables, the complexity of SQL association query will rise in geometric series. By comparison, the esProc user can always access the data intuitively and easily by taking the advantage of object reference.
Regarding the multi-table associations of complex computation, esProc can handle it more intuitively and conveniently than SQL.
About esProc: http://www.raqsoft.com/product-esproc


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1st Rate Mortg. Corp. v. Vision Mortgage Services Corp., 2011 WL 666088 (E.D.Wis. Feb. 14, 2011)
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is a popular weapon that employers use against former employees who steal information on the job. But since the employees just use their credentials to get information off the server, there really is no security breach that occurs in those inside jobs.
So you might tend to agree that the employer overreacts when, after discovering the nefarious acts of its employees, it conducts a thorough and expensive security analysis of its whole system. Just delete the offending employees' accounts and move on, right?
And this overreaction shouldn't give the employer something to sue over that it would not have had if it reacted reasonably to the threat, don't you think? After all, plaintiffs have a duty to mitigate their damages.
The defendants (accused former employee information thieves) in a recent federal case in Wisconsin argued along these lines in their summary judgment brief. But the court did not buy it at the summary judgment stage – whether a CFAA plaintiff's reaction to alleged theft is "reasonable" should be answered by the jury.
The CFAA allows a plaintiff to recover its "loss." And courts have interpreted the term "loss" to include the cost of responding to a security breach. But the statute says that loss includes the "reasonable cost to any victim."
In this case, defendants argued that the employer's overreaction in doing a system-wide analysis caused the employer to incur an unreasonable (and therefore uncompensable) cost. The court held, however, that "[w]hat matters is whether the employer's reaction was reasonable, not whether it was strictly necessary to continuing in business." A jury may well conclude the reaction and its related costs were appropriate.


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Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country. We seek to build a party and government controlled by citizens, not corporate elites-with policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests. As a grassroots PAC operating inside the Democratic Party, and outside in movements for peace and justice, PDA played a key role in the stunning electoral victories of November 2006 and 2008. Our inside/outside strategy is guided by the belief that a lasting majority will require a revitalized Democratic Party built on firm progressive principles.
For over two decades, the party declined as its leadership listened more to the voices of corporations than those of Americans. PDA strives to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up-from every congressional district to statewide party structures to the corridors of power in Washington, where we work arm in arm with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In just five years, PDA and its allies have shaken up the political status quo-on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Medicare for all, voter rights, accountability, and economic and environmental justice.


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In the second quarter, Boeing (NYSE: BA) observed a 25% (y-o-y) top line contraction primarily due to 78% reduction in commercial airplane deliveries. Despite tepid air travel demand and delay in MAX approval process, the rising inventory level is the key contributor to $9.5 billion operating cash outflow in H1 2020. The company's inventory level has surged by $7 billion since the beginning of the year. While the Commercial Airplane segment's order backlog has declined by 6.5% this year, Trefis believes that rising inventory level is the major risk faced by the company amid the coronavirus crisis.
Below are the key drivers of Boeing's value that present opportunities for upside or downside:
Commercial Airplanes EBITDA Margin
Commercial Airplanes EBITDA margin stood at 17.4% in 2018. We expect the division's margins to decrease marginally (to 13%) over the Trefis forecast, due to the decrease in the production of the 737. If margins remain around the current level over our forecast period (the stiff price competition from Airbus and development or delivery delays of 737-MAX might restrict the increase in EBITDA margin), then there could be a potential downside of about 8% to ${trefisprice}.
Boeing's share of global commercial aircraft deliveries
Boeing commercial aircraft deliveries represented about 31.4% of global commercial aircraft deliveries in 2008. This figure rose to 37%-38% during 2009-11 and further to 43.7% in 2018 driven by production rate hikes of the 737, 777, and 787. Going forward, we expect Boeing's share of the global commercial airplane market to increase to about 46% by the end of the Trefis forecast period. If however, due to increased competition from regional jet makers Bombardier and Embraer, and entry of new players such as China's Comac, Russia's Irkut and Mitsubishi's Regional Jet, Boeing's market share remains at the current levels, then there could be a potential downside of around 15% to ${trefisprice}.
Boeing is one of the two major manufacturers of 100+ seat aircraft for the global commercial airplane industry. The other major airplane maker in this category is Airbus. Boeing designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services commercial jetliners such as the single-aisle 737, and twin-aisle 777, 787, and 747.
Apart from commercial aviation, Boeing has a defense contracting business. The company is the second-largest defense contractor of the U.S. government after Lockheed Martin.
To promote sales of its commercial airplanes, Boeing offers leasing solutions to airlines through its Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC) segment.
The commercial airplanes division is the largest contributor to Boeing's total value. The key factors responsible for this are:
Aircraft manufacturing requires significant upfront capital and research and development expenditure. Boeing has made these investments over the last several decades to establish itself as one of the largest commercial aircraft manufacturers.
A large number of airlines in the world operate Boeing airplanes. These airlines have a long, established relationship with Boeing as their airplane provider.
Other companies, including Embraer, Bombardier, Comac, Russian Irkut, or Mitsubishi that are looking to play a larger role as a commercial airplane manufacturer, face enormous competition from both Boeing and Airbus. In contrast, airlines have a working relationship with Boeing and Airbus for most of their airplanes. This track record and existing relationships provide both Boeing and Airbus with a significant competitive advantage over smaller and relatively new airplane makers.
A decline in passenger and cargo traffic due to the global recession in 2009 adversely impacted revenues/margins for commercial airlines world over. This, in turn, affected aircraft demand. In recent years, as the global economy has steadily grown, airlines have seen their profits rise. Higher profits, in turn, have enabled airlines to place orders for new airplanes, growing results of airplane makers such as Boeing.
However, in the recent few quarters, the weak economy has forced air carriers and governments to delay or cancel orders for new aircraft, including the flagship 787 Dreamliner. This trend is likely to reverse towards the end of the decade.
Low-cost airlines or carriers (LCC) are fast expanding around the world. They provide an alternative to other modes of transportation, such as railways.
LCCs typically use single-aisle aircraft such as Boeing's 737 and Airbus' A320. The growth of LCCs is primarily a consequence of increased liberalization in the commercial aviation industry that has reduced entry barriers for private players. This is especially true in the emerging countries of the Asia-Pacific region, where liberalization driven by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has boosted the growth of many LCCS. We expect regulatory hurdles in the commercial airline industry to continue to decline the world over, paving for growth of LCCs. And the expansion of LCCs will boost demand for single-aisle airplanes. The company estimates that there will be a demand for over 37,000 aircraft over the next two decades.
Unions represent over 40% of Boeing's total workforce. The company experienced a workforce stoppage in 2008 due to the IAM (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) strike. Similar stoppages in the future have the potential to significantly impact the business through delays in production and the development of Boeing's products and services.
Boeing generates about 80% of its defense, space, and security (DSS) division revenues from the US government through its various agencies such as the Department of Defense and NASA. Owing to this high degree of dependence on the U.S. government, Boeing is vulnerable to any cuts in the government's military spending.
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Kodak EasyShare One Digital Camera Now Shipping
Trying to achieve a record with the number of press releases for one camera, Kodak has announced that their WiFi enabled Kodak EasyShare One digital camera is now shipping. Amazon is saying that it will be available on October 20, but from the sounds of Kodak's press release, it may be sooner.
Press Release:ROCHESTER, N.Y., September 27 – Signaling a new era in photography, Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) has begun shipping its innovative, highly anticipated EASYSHARE-ONE zoom digital camera to retailers. Initial customer availability is expected within the coming days, dependent on individual retailer and store stocking schedules.
Since it was announced earlier this year, the EASYSHARE-ONE model – the world's first Wi-Fi consumer camera – has won hundreds of accolades from industry organizations and consumer electronics writers for its groundbreaking design and functionality, making it one of the most talked about digital photography products in years.
"The KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE camera combines the power of sharing, taking, organizing, and printing pictures into a single, highly innovative product," said Greg Westbrook, general manager, Digital Capture, Digital and Film Imaging Systems; and vice president, Eastman Kodak Company.
"Only the EASYSHARE-ONE camera has the ability to send e-mail from the camera, to connect to the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery at home and on-the-go from thousands of hotspots worldwide, to store up to 1,500 favorite pictures, and to optimize viewing and operation via its unique touch screen and graphical menus. It's the ultimate picture sharing device, redefining the digital photography experience."
E-mail, Upload, View and Share Pictures at Hotspots Worldwide
Kodak is working with the world's leading wireless hotspot companies to make sharing pictures across town, across the country, or across the globe as easy and convenient as possible. When visiting a hotspot, EASYSHARE-ONE camera users can effortlessly send pictures with personal messages via e-mail, upload pictures to the EASYSHARE Gallery, and view and share existing Gallery albums all without a computer.
EASYSHARE-ONE camera purchasers receive a complimentary, camera-specific trial service in conjunction with major hotspot providers*. Current preferred service providers include T-Mobile USA, with more than 6,000 T-Mobile HotSpot locations across the United States; T-Mobile International, with over 5,000 hotspot locations in Germany (in conjunction with T-Com) and more than 800 hotspot locations in the United Kingdom; and Telstra, with over 850 Telstra Wireless Hotspot locations in Australia.
Kodak is also working with other providers to expand broadband hotspot coverage in Europe and Asia, enhancing the thousands of public freespots available in venues such as airports, parks, business centers, and municipalities.
Cutting Edge Retailers to Stock the EASYSHARE-ONE Camera
Major retailers are finalizing preparations to sell the EASYSHARE-ONE digital camera and companion Wi-Fi enabled EASYSHARE snapshot printers. In the coming days and weeks, people will be able to purchase Kodak's wireless system at leading stores such as Circuit City, CompUSA, and Ritz Camera (U.S.), Dixons (U.K.), FNAC (France), Saturn and Media Markt (Germany) and Harvey Norman (Australia).
From Point-and-Shoot to Point-and-Share
Kodak designed the EASYSHARE-ONE model (US$599 MSRP, including the KODAK WI-FI Card) specifically for sharing, moving the camera experience from "point-and-shoot" to "point-and-share." It incorporates multiple benefits that avid picture sharers could only dream of until now, including:
E-mail and online picture sharing without a computer, using a direct, wireless connection to the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery service. By connecting to the Gallery through a compatible home, hotspot or public network**, people can upload pictures and videos for near instantaneous electronic sharing with friends around the world.
On-the-spot sharing of up to 1,500 favorite pictures, synchronized with a person's PC-based picture collection, thanks to a huge, 3-inch, high resolution, rotating LCD touch screen that's protected when not in use, plus a generous 256 megabytes of internal memory . In addition, when connected wirelessly to the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery, EASYSHARE-ONE camera owners can also view thousands more of their pictures stored online, including albums shared by their friends and family.
Significantly enhanced ease-of-use for picture sharing and taking, including the ability to create on-camera albums in which to store pictures, intuitive menu options with touch screen selection, automatic organization of pictures by date taken, and even richer, graphical scene modes to help get the best possible picture in a variety of outdoor and indoor environments. The dynamic user interface was developed in MACROMEDIA FLASH, a first for digital cameras.
Wireless picture printing featuring KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology when used with the new KODAK EASYSHARE Printer Dock Plus Series 3 or Photo Printer 500 (optional KODAK WI-FI card required for the printer).
Pictures with professional-quality color and sharpness, with the use of a renowned SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH C-VARIOGON 3X optical zoom lens (36 — 108 mm equivalent), a 4-megapixel sensor, and the exclusive KODAK Color Science image processing chip.
Smooth, vibrant video taking and sharing, with its built-in high frame-rate motion and sound recording, plus the ability to share those videos via the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery.
Premium customer service from Kodak, providing EASYSHARE-ONE model owners with priority inquiry handling, assistance with the camera's wireless setup and operation, and other benefits made available to only these customers.
The KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery is available by visiting www.kodakgallery.com (U.S.), www.kodakgallery.co.uk (U.K.), www.kodakgallery.fr (France), www.kodakgallery.de (Germany), and www.kodakgallery.com.au (Australia).
The innovative KODAK EASYSHARE digital photography system consisting of cameras, viewers, software, docks, home snapshot printers, services, papers and accessories makes taking, organizing, sharing, and printing high quality digital pictures effortless. More information on KODAK EASYSHARE products is available at www.kodak.com/go/EasyShare.
* Please contact your local wireless service provider for details regarding complimentary access and subscription plans.
** The KODAK EASYSHARE-ONE camera is compatible with most in-home and public Wi-Fi networks that support 802.11b technology not requiring authentication, with the option to enable 64- and 128-bit WEP security. 802.1x support and WPA security are planned for a future firmware release.
Up to 1500 images, marked as Favorites, optimized for viewing on the camera. 256 MB internal memory/185 MB available for picture storage (1 MB equals one million bytes).


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South Korea
What you need to know before you go
South Korea, also known as the Republic of Korea, is situated at the southernmost part of the Korean peninsula. It's a complex and fascinating nation – on one hand, it has modern and flourishing megacities that are as urban as they come, and on the other, a remarkable and rich culture and history, which dates back to 2333 BC.
One of the 4 'Asian Tigers' (which includes Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), South Korea is a major economy in the world with a very high standard of living. It's also a major tourist destination in Asia, offering a variety of attractions, from serene temples, royal tombs and unspoiled fishing villages, to picturesque mountains and volcanic landscapes.


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Butte Energy Inc. Announces Results of Its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders and Changes to Management
/EIN News/ -- CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 11, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Butte Energy Inc. ("Butte" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of its Annual General and Special Meeting of shareholders held on August 1, 2017 in Calgary (the "Meeting"). At the Meeting, shareholders holding 77.42% of the issued and outstanding common shares were present or represented by proxy and such shareholders voted 100% in favour of the sale of the Company's Chigwell properties to RKSmith Energy Corp. for $35,000 (the "Transaction").
In addition, the Company is pleased to announce the re-election of Charles Baker, Chris Reimchen, Victor Redekop, Gerald Gilbert and Cuneyt Tirmandi. At the Meeting shareholders also re-appointed Czechowsky, Graham & Hanevelt Chartered Accountants as auditors of the Company and approved a special resolution approving the winding up of the Company, the full text of which is set forth in the Company's management information circular dated June 30, 2017.
The Company also wishes to announce that Tyron Pfeifer has resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, with effect as of August 9, 2017.
This news release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Specifically, this news release includes, but is not limited to, forward-looking statements with respect to completion of the Transaction and the winding-up of the Company. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "projects", "intends", "anticipates", or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or "variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "can", "could", "would", "might", or "will" be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: risks associated with general economic conditions, adverse industry events, loss of markets, inability to obtain regulatory approvals, the liabilities of the Corporation, income tax and regulatory matters. Although the Corporation has attempted to identify important factors that could cause results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results to be materially different from those anticipated, described, estimated, assessed or intended. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements will prove accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Corporation does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
This press release is not an offer of the securities for sale in the United States. The securities have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Not for distribution to U.S. Newswire Services or for dissemination in the United States of America. Any failure to comply with this restriction may constitute a violation of U.S. Securities laws.
For further information please contact: Butte Energy Inc. Victor Redekop, Chairman (403) 541-5310


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2014 has sprung! Let's ignore all the blather about how old we're getting (when did YOU graduate high school?) and instead get to the point. Whether on paper or just in passing thought, you probably make some sort of resolution for yourself each new year. Have quiet time, go to church, lose 20 pounds, stop spending.
But why not involve your kids? Sit down together with a pen and paper (or be trendy and use chalk and a big chalkboard-paint wall) and talk through some things you want to do as a family this coming year. Less of a bucket list and more of an goal sheet, this is a great way to hold yourself accountable and get everyone thinking on the same page.
Here are some ideas to help you start.
- Family Traditions – What are some traditions you have or some you'd like to start? Vacationing the same place each year, having a weekly game or movie night, or just having a family devotion before bed? Traditions help keep families together and feeling connected.
- Places to Go, People to See – This is your "bucket list" stop. What are some places you'd like to visit this year? People you want to see or write to or reestablish a connection with? Think outside the box: could you write to a missionary? Send cookies to someone in the military? Visit a shut-in?
- The Family Who Eats Together … – "According to a number of reports issued by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), children who eat at least five times a week with their family are at lower risk of developing poor eating habits, weight problems or alcohol and substance dependencies, and tend to perform better academically than their peers who frequently eat alone or away from home." – Huffington Post
- Parent-Child Dates – How will parents make sure each child has individual attention? Ask your kids and see how they respond. How do they envision spending one-on-one time with each parent?
- Weekly Schedule – Talk through how much your weeks hold. Do they seem crammed, with no time to enjoy rest and down time? Would your kids enjoy adding an activity or changing what they participate in?
I hope you'll take these bullets as some jumping-off points. Let me know if you decide on any "family resolutions" for 2014!
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Apologies for some of these pictures being blurry, the light is low and my lens is not so good.
First Course: Smoked Salmon Stuffed Potato Nest paired with Hop Bomb IPA
Why it worked: If you haven't had the Hop Bomb IPA at the downtown Rock Bottom yet, you need to. This was the last of the current batch and it may not be back for a few months, but this is really one of Indiana's great Double IPAs. The base of this entree was a whipped salmon infused cream cheese that was incredibly decadent and delicious. The immense hop presence in the Hop Bomb helped cut through the creamy texture of the cheese. The cream cheese itself was seasoned with lemon zest and carried a bit of a citrus note as a result, which paired very well with the grapefruit, orange and lemon notes in the beer, while the grassy notes were a nice compliment to the meaty aspect of the salmon. Citrus and grassy notes tend to work well with fish, and when you add a rich cream or cheese in to the mixture (or even a fatty fish like salmon), hops are provide an excellent cleansing ability.
Second Course: Lobster Bisque paired with Raccoon Red Ale
Why it worked: This dish would perhaps be better described as a lobster tomato bisque, as the pureed tomatoes carried a much more dominant role than I had expected. When I saw the description of the dish, I wasn't sure how a sweet, malty red would work with this, but the tomatoes seem to be the answer to the puzzle. The sweet tomatoes and the caramel and nutty malt flavors of the beer paired together very nicely. While they didn't introduce any new flavors together, the well balanced profile of each made for an enjoyable match. When pairing sweet beers with sweet foods, the danger lies in creating a combination that is simply too sweet to be enjoyable, but with the light balance of hops and the sweetness of the soup coming from tomatoes instead of sugar, this was a well balanced pairing.
Third Course: Rosemary Duck paired with Trouble Belgian Tripel
Why it worked: I am a huge fan of duck. Duck provides a wealth of rich flavors with little necessary spices to coax additional flavors out of it. I was quite pleased when I saw that the entree was not one, but two duck breasts. The breasts were on the lean side and even though they were cooked medium well (I prefer medium rare), they were excellent. This was my food highlight of the meal. The Trouble sits on the spicier side of tripels, with a noticeable touch of alcohol in the back. When paired with the duck, something really exciting happened. It was almost as if the clove, cinnamon, anise and rock candy notes in the beer actually seasoned the duck. None of the spices conflicted with the rosemary rub, but they all gave it a nice burst of flavor that was not there on its own. Beer can often provide additional flavors or seasoning to different types of meat, but it is important to note the flavor profile of the beer and ensure that those characteristics are things you would season the meat with on its own. In this case, cinnamon, clove, anise and sugar are all used in different duck dishes, and worked great when provided by the beer.
Fourth Course: Strawberry Mint Spring Rolls paired with Hoosier Ma Stout
Why it worked: The Hoosier Ma Stout rotates its style, and is currently an English stout with notes of chocolate and coffee. If I were to pick a pairing of the evening that fell a bit short, it would probably be this one. English stouts tend to be on the drier side, and the strawberries and their glaze were simply too sweet to work with the dryness of the stout. All was not lost, however. The dish was seasoned and garnished with a bit of fresh mint leaves, which provided a nice cooling mint sensation that paired well with the dry chocolate notes of the stout without overpowering any of the flavors of the beer. Dry beers typically don't work very well with sugary dishes, but they do lend themselves very well to herbal flavors, which worked great here.
Pairing Lessons: Foods that have a relatively high percentage of fat often work well with hoppy beers, due to their ability to cut through thick flavors. You can never go wrong with pairing similar flavors either, providing neither are incredibly intense. Citrus pairs with citrus, sweet pairs with sweet, etc. Try to keep things in check, though. You don't want too much of one flavor going on or the pairing will appear one dimensional. When pairing beer with meat, always choose a beer that has tasting notes similar to things you might add to the meat, whether it be spices or side dishes. Belgian beers tend to work great for this reason. Dry beers can be overpowered very easily, and they aren't sweet for a reason. Focus on creating subtle balance and accenting flavors and avoid drowning the beer out with big sweet or spicy flavors.


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'But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was.' Luke 10:33
Suggested Further Reading: John 11:11–44
I do not believe in the way in which some people pretend to preach the gospel. They have no gospel for sinners as sinners, but only for those who are above the dead level of sinnership, and are technically styled sensible sinners. Like the priest in this parable, they see the poor sinner, and they say, 'He is not conscious of his need, we cannot invite him to Christ. He is dead; it is of no use preaching to dead souls;' so they pass by on the other side, keeping close to the elect and quickened, but having nothing whatever to say to the dead, lest they make out Christ to be too gracious, and his mercy to be too free. The Levite was not in quite such a hurry as the priest. The priest had to preach, and might be late for the service, and therefore he could not stop to relieve the man; besides he might have soiled his cassock, or made himself unclean; and then he would have been hardly fit for the dainty and respectable congregation over which he officiated. As for the Levite, he had to read the hymns; he was a clerk in the church, and he was somewhat in a hurry, but still he could get in after the opening prayer, so he indulged himself with the luxury of looking on. Just as I have known ministers say, 'Well, you know we ought to describe the sinner's state, and warn him, but we must not invite him to Christ.' Yes, gentlemen, you must pass by on the other side, after having looked at him, for on your own confession you have no good news for the poor wretch. I bless my Lord and Master that he has given to me a gospel which I can take to dead sinners, a gospel which is available for the vilest of the vile. I thank my Master that he does not say to the sinner, 'Come half way and meet me,' but he comes 'where he is.'
For meditation: Jesus went and raised the dead physically where they were (Mark 5:40–42) without them having to make themselves half-alive first. He works on exactly the same principle when he raises sinners from the dead spiritually (Ephesians 2:1,5). Is he raising you to trust in him now (Ephesians 2:8)?
Sermon no. 473
5 October (1862)


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The $5 mil VA conference in Orlando, FL [With Legion Response]
The Federal Times continues to break stories about the lavish spending spree under the guise of "human resources training conferences" for VA personnel.
The Veterans Affairs Department, rocked last week by a scandal concerning excessive conference spending, hopes to skirt the fate that befell the top leadership at the General Services Administration four months ago.
VA's Office of Inspector General is investigating allegations of wasted money and improper gifts at two human resources training conferences last summer in Orlando, Fla., that cost a combined $5 million.
And where did your tax money go?
• $84,000 in promotional items distributed to the conferences' 1,829 attendees, including pens and highlighters with VA's logo.
• $13,000 for about a half-dozen employees' scouting trips to at least three locations under consideration for the conferences.
• At least $100,000 more in other, unspecified waste, bringing the total amount of questionable spending to roughly $200,000.
In case you want to do the math, this resulted in a per capita cost of $2733.73 per attendee.
And now they've found another extravagence, a $52,000 18 minute spoof of the opening scene of Patton, complete with power point. I can't make it through the whole thing without getting angry, but if you want to watch it, knock yourselves out:
The Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and his Ranking Member colleague are decidedly unhappy:
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent VA Secretary Eric Shinseki a letter Aug. 13 asking for the parody video, and for contracts and documents related to the planning and execution of the July and August 2011 human resources training conferences. Issa gave VA until Aug. 27 to provide the video and documents.
In his letter, Issa said the video used a paid actor to satirize the iconic opening scene of "Patton," in which World War II Gen. George Patton delivered a rousing speech to his troops in front of a massive American flag.
"Although the VA has videographers and editors on staff, the conference planners engaged a contractor to produce the video," Issa wrote.
And, that doesn't seem to be the only problem, per a story in the Orlando Sentinel:
Of particular concern to congressional investigators, as well as the VA's inspector general, is whether conference organizers broke federal rules by accepting gifts from hotels when deciding where to hold the two conferences in July and August 2011 – a decision that ultimately went to the Orlando World Center Marriott, the area's largest convention hotel.
[F]ederal employees are not allowed to accept "gifts" worth more than $20 from organizations that seek to do business with the agency for which they work, according to federal guidelines.
Businesses that showcase food and other offerings for meeting planners look at it as a marketing investment, and Orlando's main convention-and-visitors bureau says it is up to meeting planners to make sure they stay within the ethical guidelines that govern their organizations.
This is sure to anger a host of veterans, and with good reason. The American Legion have a response shortly.
Recent accounts of two multi-million-dollar VA human resources conferences last year, one of which reportedly included a $52,000 18-minute video parody of the movie "Patton," has the leader of the nation's largest wartime veterans organization, along with top lawmakers on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, demanding answers.
"At a time when everyone in the federal government is cutting back due to the budget deficit, it is unseemly to hear of conferences in a resort town and money spent on activities that don't seem central to VA's core mission," American Legion National Commander Fang A. Wong said after learning that the VA Inspector General has been investigating two VA conferences in Orlando, Fla., that rang up a reported $5 million in costs. "I don't know how much is too much for a conference for the second largest department of the federal government, but this seems excessive, especially for a nation at war and with VA losing ground on a backlog of nearly 1 million undecided benefits claims."
In addition to the "Patton" parody, the conferences reportedly spent $84,000 on VA-branded promotional items, such as pens, notepads and hand sanitizer.
"VA certainly has the technology to conduct training by teleconference and use other methods in order to train staff and keep costs under control at the same time," Wong said. "Our nation just passed $16 trillion in debt, and the budget deficit remains the biggest issue the federal government faces. Just like every American in this time of economic difficulty, the government needs to look for ways to control unnecessary spending."
House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., and the committee's ranking member, Bob Filner, D-Calif., jointly issued a letter to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki demanding answers about the two Orlando conferences and spending on such conferences in general over the last three years. Click here to read the letter.
The lawmakers asked Shinseki to provide a detailed list of all VA conferences, their budgets and their costs between 2009 and 2011. The letter reported that VA Chief Financial Officer Todd Grams told Congress last year that "a little over $100 million" had been spent on VA conferences in 2011 when the lawmakers had been informed that only slightly more than $20 million was budgeted for 2011 and $22 million for 2012.
"The American Legion applauds the House Veterans' Affairs Committee for its investigation into this issue," Wong said. "Veterans are waiting for hospitals and for benefits decisions. VA has to remember its priorities."
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Louis House (not verified)
August 23, 2012 - 2:37pm
Agent orange and VA training in FL.
What training do they need -- how to read and understand a Veterans medical file? Several thousand claims are standing for years with little or no action, while the VA reps. are having fun, with tax payers money. My! $5 million would pay for a lot of VA claims or medical care. Who do the hell they think they are?
Bill Van (not verified)
August 23, 2012 - 6:32pm
Spen Spen Spend
So now we know why our cases are delayed. To busy having fun
John E. Staffor... (not verified)
August 24, 2012 - 3:01pm
VA Conferences
I am 100% disabled and at 77 years old I do not see where $5M should be spent on a conference. They could use that money to train their personnel in how to decide a claim correctly the first time. Too many claims are NOT decided correctly and have to be sent back for readjudication, where if they did them right they would be done.
Don Burns (not verified)
August 25, 2012 - 11:25am
A half million "Blue Water"
A half million "Blue Water" Navy Vietnam vets still denied Agent Orange benefits and yet plenty of money to party!
joe abbott (not verified)
September 6, 2012 - 11:09pm
what is happening in america. Need to defend her.
I took an oath over 31 yrs ago. I still remember that oath today. On 7/1/81. I raised my hand , and stated. I will protect the constitution of the UNITED STATES, against all enemies and threats both foreign and domestic. The US Millitary has the president as comander in chief. We do not swear alligiance. To the president or Congress. When we served, we respected the office of commander in chief (wether we agreed with his politics or not). We followed orders. As Legionaires we do not believe in armed rebellion. However, we need to do what we can to protect that constitution, by holding our politicians , agencies accountable. I will stand and hold to my oath. Join me..
marine joesph (not verified)
September 7, 2012 - 1:50am
Wally Jernigan (not verified)
September 7, 2012 - 8:40am
VA HR Conference
Everyone sits around after the fact and bitches and complains about the horrific spending on the HR conference, while our wounded warriors can't get medical attention and treatmnt. This is a shame and everyone who attended should be forced to pay back their share of the money that was thrown around like it was growing on trees and was theirs to have and squander away. This is just another example of a government agencies complete disregard for tax payers money. This money would have gone a long way in covering medical expenses for thoses waiting in line to be approved for treatment. Maybe the conference planning committee should be disbanded and put to work on what they were hired for, and that would be taking care of veterans in case they have forgotten.
John H. Bouldt (not verified)
September 7, 2012 - 12:12pm
Demand Quality Assurance "Functional Audits"
Q: As required by federal law, are in "dependent" functional reviews conducted verifying compliance to job performance duties for all VA units? If yes. where are the records kept?
As a 100% disabled vet, I am requesting a public response to this question! For God and my country, please fix this mess. John H. Bouldt--US Air Force, 1963-67
carpet cleaning... (not verified)
November 20, 2012 - 5:08am
Legionnaire's disease is a
Legionnaire's disease is a lung infection caused by the legionella bacteria. Legionella is a naturally occurring bacteria that thrives in warm water environments. People develop Legionnaire's disease when they breathe in contaminated water droplets. Thanks.
http://youtu.be... (not verified)
February 15, 2013 - 8:43am
green coffee bean
For most of the Roman Imperial period, the legions were a part of the Imperial army and formed its elite heavy infantry, recruited exclusively from Roman citizens. Each legion always included a small cavalry attachment. Thanks.


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- Date: 07/20/2018 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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Check us out in our new location on Lodgepole Street, it'll be the most scenic farmers market in the world!!
Enjoy the harvests of the season at Summit County's Best Farmers Market. Colorado-grown, farm-fresh produce, artisan goods, live music and family entertainment offered weekly.
Join us Fridays from early June to mid-September, as vendors offer Colorado produce, cheeses, treats and more line Lodgepole Street directly adjacent to Lake Dillon at the Dillon Farmers Market. Pick up Palisade peaches from Forte Fruits, sample Winter Park Honey's sweet harvest and stock up on handmade bath products from Conifer-based Taspen's Organics. Other Colorado companies you can expect to see at Dillon Farmers Market include Eagle Smoked Salmon and Eat a Peach Farm in Palisade.
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June 8: Steve Plummer August 3: Local Folk
June 15: Shakey Hand String Band August 10: Kevin Danzig
June 22: Levi Corrigan August 17: Todd Johnson
June 29: John Truscelli August 24: Randall McKinnon
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- This is a cute magic worm for kids and adults
- With an invisible string to manipulate the magic worm
- Amazes your audience as this little magic worm moves and crawls around your hands
- It can even dance in a drinking glass and twirl around a pencil
- It is easy to learn and play
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The Wicker Man
Dir. Robin Hardy, 1973. Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland. Cult.
Here are numbers 35-26 of the "100 Things That Make The Wicker Man Totally Awesome!"
35. The way Edward Woodward says lines like, "Then why in God's name do you do it, girl!?" or "Jesus Christ!" He also rolls his R's which is great because the girl he's looking for is named Rowan, so every time he says her name it starts with a drum roll.Continue Reading
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