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ĐẮK LẮK — The People's Court of Đắk Lắk on Monday opened the first court of instance hearing in the fraudulent case related to online shopping and training company MB24 (muaban24.vn)'s branch in Đắk Lắk Province.
The four defendants are Ngô Văn Chiến, 37, and Trần Văn Sự, 42, former director of the company's branch in Đắk Lắk; Đặng Anh Tuấn, 37 and Bùi Thị Chiên, 40, former director of the company's branch in Buôn Ma Thuột.
The four people were arrested since August 2012 on charges of using computers and internet systems to illegally appropriate more than VNĐ10 billion (US$440,200) from other people.
The case may last many years, as it involves more than 700 victims. About 150 persons concerned have been summoned by the court as witnesses.
According to the indictment, the company's branches in Đắk Lắk and Buôn Ma Thuột were set up in October and November 2011, respectively. It got licence from Đắk Lắk Province's Planning and Investment Department and operated under the direction of MB24 in Hà Nội, which was led by Ngô Văn Huy (Chiến's brother).
The defendants promoted the company, opening fake online "booths," which purported to allow members to buy and sell goods online. To become a company's member, each person had to contribute VNĐ5.2 million to the company.
Members paid real money to the company and got virtual currency in return.
From October 2011 to July 2012, the two branches have developed 2,054 booths with a total turnover of VNĐ10 billion. This money was transferred to the company's head office in Hà Nội. The four defendants received commission of over VNĐ3.2 billion from the company.
Specifically, Chiến and Sự received over VNĐ1 billion each; Tuấn got VNĐ900 million and Chiến got nearly VNĐ29 million.
Earlier in 2014, the Hà Nội court sentenced Ngô Văn Huy, the then general-director of the online shopping and training company MB24 to 16 years, while his deputy Lê Văn Cường and Nguyễn Mạnh Hà, the technical chief and administrator of the website, got 14 years and 12 years, respectively.
In addition to their jail sentences, the men were ordered to pay back the remaining proceeds of the ill-earned money to their 107 victims.
Most victims of the MB24 scheme lived in remote rural areas and lacked an understanding of technology and e-commerce. The court found they were lured by VNĐ1.5 million commissions that the company promised to pay them for signing up as new members.
MB24 managed to enlist recruiters and dupe victims all over the country, before its headquarters in the capital was raided on August 1, 2012.
The first instance court is expected to last until June 16. — VNS


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Issue Details, Summer 2016
The Summer 2016 cover features Hillary Waters Fayle's cut paper piece, Dance of the Nymphs. The piece features Mayflies, and was created in honor of a friend who was captivated with the springtime insects. More of Hillary's work can be found here: http://www.hillarywfayle.com/
Elizabeth Robinson's poetry is paired with Laura Kaufman's Dark Matter Triptychs and Redacted Samplers, inspired by the scientific search for dark matter and dark energy, the mysterious substances present at the Big Bang. Laura was inspired by the journalists' evocatively ambiguous language used to explain science occurring in presumably precise conditions. Ultimately, she paired her impulse for abstracted systems with the overwhelming scale of our current information landscape.
Using phrases taken from current news reports on dark matter, she pulled the words apart and rearranged the letters, leaving the original phrase as the base. These anagrammed lists are nonsense phrases in graphite on paper. Each triptych also includes an analogue drawing derived from the shape of the text. These block-like formal compositions are redacted texts that reinforce word structures while further eroding and expanding communication. Laura combined these word plays with drawings of knots taken from her grandfather's book on nautical knots. The knots allude to textiles, to manifolds, to the hand, to maps of these unknown structures in the universe. She considers them another form of communicating this slippage of words.
This invented language system has become an index of forms for other works that intend to reveal visual phenomena. Each triptych has a related embroidered and painted sampler. These redacted samplers are done in copper thread and gouache and follow the same formal pattern as in the text works. In fact, they retain the original layout of the word processing program, complete with small shifts of spacing calculated by the computer. What started as a meditation on the edges of the solar system lands in her lap as traditional handwork that takes the form of a copper circuit.
More of Laura Kaufman's work can be found here: http://www.laurakaufmanstudio.com/
Judith Roitman's poetry is paired with Hillary Waters Fayle's work from her "Of Trees" series. Hillary uses found botanical material such as leaves, seedpods, and branches to explore human connection to the physical world. By combining these organic objects with the rich traditions of needlecraft, she binds nature and the human touch. Both tender and ruthless, this intricate stitch work communicates the idea that our relationship with the natural world is both tenuously fragile and infinitely complex. More of Hillary Waters Fayle's work can be seen here: http://www.hillarywfayle.com/
Genevieve Kaplan's images are part of a larger poetic project / artists book titled Community Chest, which takes as its topic issues of illness and uncertainty that affect not only individuals but also expand to surrounding family and friends; the impersonal "one" and continual evasion of subject highlight the difficulty in fully associating "the patient" with "the human." Community Chest is — in its current iteration — a small deck of cards meant to be held, shuffled, read, and re-read to create different combinations of hand-printed phrases, ultimately leading to new poems and new understandings. The cards are a collection of iterations, of questions, of possibilities, of responses that are meant to rub against each other and change with each encounter. One way to explain the project is as a much (much) more intimate edition of Queneau's "One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets." The 2×3″ Community Chest cards are hand-cut, hand-stamped, and presented in a card case (not pictured). More of Genevieve's work can be seen here: http://genevievekaplan.blogspot.com/
Tiff Dressen's poetry is paired with Fay Helfer's images Blackbird from her "Gibberish" series, Dandelion Heart, Fennel Heart, and Sea Fan Heart from her "Heart Transplants" series, and C. Comosum (Spider Plant) from her "Faces" series. Fay's work is mixed-media, created with pyrography (word burning, aka "writing with fire") and natural pigments to create art inspired by nature and nonsense. Her work embraces a spirit of randomness and 'why not?' with science, humor and pop culture influences. Natural pigments may come from earth minerals (zinc, ochres, malachite), biological sources such as plants (indigo, turmeric, berries), animals (bone char) and insects (cochineal).
More of Fay Helfer's work can be seen here: http://fayhelfer.com/ and here: http://fayhelfer.tumblr.com/
and more information about her work can be found at the following links:
Summer 2016 Bios:
Tiff Dressen spent most of childhood and early adult life wanting to be volcanologist.
Hillary Waters Fayle really loves plants.
Fay Helfer sneezes when she is really hungry. Her images often contain an unlisted 'natural pigment:' yellow insect poop, which splatters down from the sky onto her paintings when she works outside.
Genevieve Kaplan once had a job collecting redhaired pine bark beetles for this research project:
Yesterday Laura Kaufman saw mother and child fin whales feeding in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Paolo Freire once kissed Elizabeth Robinson.
Judith Roitman is double-jointed. She does not know how to ride a bicycle.

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Geoff Cape is leading a movement to redesign urban spaces in a way that incorporates the natural environment more fully into public spaces and children's learning environments.
The New Idea
Geoff's new idea is to mainstream nature in city planning and the development of public spaces. His approach goes beyond a coalition of environmental organizations and includes organizations from all sectors with a clear message: cities need more nature.
Geoff envisions a movement to redesign urban planning and development. He has brought together not only a coalition of environmental organizations to develop a vibrant city model that embraces nature, but also players from business, nonprofit, and government sectors. As such, for the first time in this context, brown fields and parks will be given a new lease on life.
Geoff started implementing living, breathing, organic space to city dwellers with Evergreen sixteen years ago.For the past four years, Geoff and his colleagues at Evergreen have been developing plans for the Brick Works as a venue to provide a large-scale source for native plants, organic food markets and youth leadership programs. According to Geoff, this is especially important right now, as the pressure on cities has grown tremendously over the past few decades, and the ecological restoration movement in and around Toronto has gained significant momentum. What's more, while becoming intimate with the land and now-defunct brickmaking facilities, Geoff had the vision to transform it into an environmental education center that integrates nature, culture, and community, and is based on a sustainable business model.
The Problem
In an era of mass urbanization, our societies could benefit enormously by reconnecting with nature at its fullest. Since the mid-twentieth century, during the height of modernist architectural practice, urban designers shaped public space according to scientific principles, without considering human nature and patterns of social behavior. Naturally an overlapping system—mobile, dynamic, socially-constructed—urban space became compartmentalized: areas to work, areas to play, etc. Outside of designated park space, "nature" has been strategically designed into and around skyscrapers, shopping malls, apartment buildings, and parking lots. Without overlap, cities lack physical receptacles for the natural systems that make a city thrive and have come, over time, to look more like concrete jungles than lush social commons.
As a result, human beings have suffered. Our human nature has been impaired. In artificially constructed spaces, we are disconnected from the natural world and the significant role we play in the larger ecosystem. Like animals in a zoo, we forget our home and become alienated from ourselves, each other, and the environment. This alienation gives rise to abuse of urban space, pollution, waste, vandalism, and crime. It is only through reintegration of nature at its fullest in urban space, and into our daily lives, that we have a chance to heal community, culture and the environment. Once reconnected to nature, it will be easier for humans to innovate together for positive change.
The Strategy
Geoff's national organization, Evergreen, working from nine offices across Canada, targets three specific areas: Learning Grounds, which helps to develop outdoor classrooms for students; Common Grounds, which helps to restore and protect public parks and green spaces in cities; and Home Grounds, which educates homeowners about the use of organic processes and naturalization of residential landscapes. His organization brings together leaders in all sectors and has already helped to transform many areas of Toronto into a model of urban potential—a city redesigned as an urban ecosystem where humans interact organically with their environment year-round. Most recently Geoff has been leading the revitalization of the Don Valley Brick Works as a center for nature, culture, and community. This Can$50-million project has secured interest and support internationally as a model for sustainable urban planning and community building.
With Evergreen at the Brick Works—a heritage site in the heart of Toronto, adjacent to the Don River Valley and ravine system—Geoff intends to create an urban space that will revitalize both human nature and the natural environment while strengthening community ties and meeting the diverse needs of the population. A unique blend of three programs create roles for citizens in all sectors to contribute to Evergreen's mission.
Where Brick Works helped build the City of Toronto, Evergreen at the Brick Works can help "green" the City of Toronto. Since the late 1880s, the clay in its back quarry was mined and dug out, and then fired into brick that became the infrastructure of stately homes and buildings in Toronto's central neighborhoods. Currently in disrepair and inaccessible to the public, Geoff sees its potential. He believes Evergreen at the Brick Works can showcase the best in green design technologies and community initiatives, making it a one-stop shop for experiential learning, unconventional team-building, and celebration.
Evergreen at the Brick Works will serve as a model of urban potential, a city redesigned as an urban ecosystem, where humans interact naturally with their environment year-round. Not only will children have outdoor learning adventures now. So, too, will adults, who are increasingly concerned about environmental quality, fast-pace lifestyles, and the lack of meaningful social exchanges. An anticipated 250,000 visitors per year will be exposed to dynamic arts programming and environmental/outdoor education in an urban park setting.
The programming will be co-developed by Geoff and partners, and so it will reflect a wide range of interests—from Outward Bound corporate programs and organic culinary experiences by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens to at-risk youth employment in Evergreen's year-round nursery (the largest in Toronto) and an inclusive eco-friendly summer camp. Evergreen will also walk and talk its environmental mandate, employing the best of green design technologies (Brick Works will be a "zero discharge" facility) and making available to the public practical solutions to help improve air and water quality and restore the habitat. In all, Geoff intends to offer an experience for people in and around Toronto unlike any other, both locally and globally, and bring together creative mixes of events and people for the greater good of all.
Geoff has had to creatively finance Evergreen over the years due to the conditions of working in the non-profit sector; he has done so by way of a Can$50-million capital campaign with government grants and combined support from individuals, foundations, and corporations. Evergreen now receives approximately 40 percent of its revenue from corporate partners, 30 percent from private foundations, 20 percent from government sources and the balance from individuals and fee-based activities. Geoff hopes to increase the proportion of Evergreen's annual revenue with the Brick Works project, increasing individual and fee-based income from 10 to 40 percent, by 2010. He will provide a diverse range of nonprofit organizations and a select handful of socially conscious private enterprises with dynamic rental space (resources to be shared among tenants): Evergreen too will occupy space, with a 100,000-square foot native plant nursery and market garden (Evergreen Gardens) and a 10,000-square foot office space (Evergreen's national headquarters). The balance of the 265,000-square foot building complex will be used by partner tenants and related programming by the community. The Brick Works project will embrace both private and public funding and adhere to Geoff's triple bottom-line objective: financial, social, and environmental success.
In addition, Geoff's Learning Grounds is responding proactively to the grim reality of school children spending an average of 25 percent of the school day outside, on concrete school grounds designed without learning in mind. He successfully implemented natural outdoor spaces to engage the children in more complex imaginative and social play than they would have had in an environment of built structures and asphalt. He also designed an effective delivery mechanism of environmental education, by way of a kit, which has enabled a long line of environmental stewardship beyond Evergreen itself. He provided over 2,200 participating schools across Canada with expert assistance (planning, design, plant selection, and fundraising) and extensive print, video, and Web resources. For teachers, lesson plans and teaching tips were prepared, as well as curriculum resources and an on-line library that lists helpful educational resources on a number of related subjects.
Although a heroic first step in the direction of human/nature integration for the benefit of both, Geoff recognized that the city at large, beyond the Learning Grounds, remained dissociated and compartmentalized. Recreation remained separate from everything else. Systems that do not naturally exist in isolation were organized to be so, cut off from other systems of the city. With Evergreen at the Brick Works, he sees the opportunity to extend his success with Learning Grounds and design complex, overlapping systems in downtown Toronto that will mix work and play; gallery-going and gardening; hiking and shopping; lounging and eating. The programming will illuminate the relations between nature and city life.
The Person
As a child, Geoff experienced regular "deep wilderness" adventures in Tweed, Ontario, where his family had a cabin in the middle of the woods, surrounded only by Crown Land. He admits that he has always been "in the ravine system" and that this is what drives him to bring the adventures of nature to people in cities. Consistent with Evergreen, where the operational goal is to bring nature to cities, Geoff recognized the opportunity inherent in the Brick Works project: Rather than support the current system where city dwellers must get into cars and drive several hours outside of the hustle-and-bustle of urban living to experience nature, Geoff decided to bring nature directly to the city dwellers.
Geoff takes initiative when he sees a solution to a problem, regardless of the magnitude. Going from Evergreen to the Brick Works is a great testimonial to his commitment to bringing nature to cities. Geoff came up with the idea first, and then convinced the City of Toronto it was a worthwhile project to pursue. Geoff provided the vision before there was an Open Call. Logically, the City of Toronto selected Evergreen to be the preferred candidate to develop Brick Works.
Geoff has worked primarily as an entrepreneur. Even in high school, influenced by a long family history in the construction industry, Geoff started his own carpentry business. He has consistently led the development of innovative ideas to help solve traditional social and environmental problems too. During his undergraduate studies in Politics and Philosophy, he started a series of small businesses. Geoff started Evergreen over 16 years ago, and his work has not gone unnoticed. Evergreen was awarded the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation (1996), the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Environment Award (1998), and the Canadian Center for Philanthropy's "New Spirit of Community" Partnership Award (1998). Evergreen was also voted one of four recipients of the bank's Shared Interest Fund by Citizens Bank of Canada members.
Outside of Evergreen, Geoff is the founding chair of the Sustainability Network, a group that focuses on building the capacity and management of the environmental community across Canada, and is a founding partner in the development of Featherstone, an initiative to launch a nonprofit investment management firm modeled on the success of Vanguard in the U.S.


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The plaintiffs are individual physicians and their corporate employers engaged in performing legal abortions. The corporate plaintiffs are providers of women's health services. The debtor, a regional leader of the American Coalition of Life Activists ("ACLA"), a radical organization opposed to abortion, targeted the individual plaintiffs for possible injury and death by posting their names and addresses on the Internet and by distributing wanted posters bearing their likenesses. The plaintiffs sued the debtor and other members of the ACLA in the Federal district court in Oregon and obtained substantial judgments against them for damages based upon the infliction of willful injury. The debtor filed bankruptcy in this Court, and the plaintiffs filed the instant complaint to determine the Oregon judgments to be nondischargeable based upon the doctrine of collateral estoppel. Before the Court are the motions for summary judgment [P. 9] filed by the plaintiffs, Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette, Inc., Portland Feminist Women's Health Center, Robert Crist, M.D., Warren M. Hern, M.D., Elizabeth P. Newhall, M.D. and James Newhall, M.D., and by the debtor-defendant, Donald J. Treshman, as to the second cause of action stated in the instant complaint, namely the nondischargeability of debts. For the reasons set forth, the plaintiffs' motion will be granted and the defendant's motion will be denied.


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One of the great joys of my job is I move around a lot. I have lived in many different countries. One of my favorite places is Singapore. I moved there a year ago to help my company set up a new office. Thankfully I find great short term housing wherever I go, but I also want to find a home cleaning company to help me keep my property clean. Plus a good company will clean it to the point that I always get my deposit back. I did a search for pre and post tenancy cleaning for Singapore. This time when I went to work in Singapore I found a lovely three bedroom condo to live in. I have a girlfriend and she was coming to Singapore too so I needed to make sure it would be comfortable for her too. But I also didn't want her to feel like she needed to clean it either. She works and would be busy too. Your company was so perfect for my situation too.
I was able to have you come when I was away at work, and clean the entire condo. I loved the care you too for every detail. My girlfriend felt comfortable working in her office when you were there, so that was great, since she worked from home most of the time. One of the major things was to keep the condo in perfect shape so when it was time to move on to the next project we could easily do that and not worry about not getting our deposit back. Thanks to your great staff of hard workers, we easily got our deposit back and the end of my job. I definitely will use your company again if and when I come back for a stay in Singapore.


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Shale gas explorer offers community benefits of up to £6,000 per household for those nearest the drilling sites, but admits it is yet to secure the right to frack beneath dozens of homes up to 5,000ft away
Cuadrilla's plans to frack in Lancashire could be blocked by hostile landowners – despite the offer of benefits that could exceed £6,000 a household for communities living near two proposed drilling sites.
The shale gas explorer on Tuesday unveiled plans to frack at two sites near the villages of Roseacre and Little Plumpton, both between Blackpool and Preston, scaling back previous plans to do so at up to seven sites in the region.
Francis Egan, Cuadrilla chief executive, told the Telegraph it hopes to commence drilling towards the end of this year and frack as soon as the first quarter of 2015, if it gets planning permission.
The two sites could be the first to be fracked since the lifting in December 2012 of an 18-month ban on the practice, imposed after Cuadrilla caused earth tremors by drilling at Preese Hall, just a few miles from Little Plumpton.
But Cuadrilla faced immediate threats from campaigners Greenpeace that its plans could be blocked by hostile landowners using trespass laws to deny permission for fracking under their land.
Mr Egan said wells for fracking could extend up to 5,000ft horizontally from the proposed drilling sites and admitted that it was yet to secure access agreement from potentially dozens of homeowners under whose land fracking could take place.
Under current trespass law, if Cuadrilla were unable to negotiate access with any landowners in its drilling path, it would need to take them to court to overrule them. However, ministers are considering changing the law.
"Clearly its an issue," Mr Egan said. "We will have to cross that bridge when we come to it."
Greenpeace said that more than 100 homes in the area had signed up to its "legal block" to deny permission.
Shale gas companies have pledged a series of community benefits, including £100,000 for every exploratory well that is fracked, in an attempt to win support.
Cuadrilla said that as few as 130 households could receive the "lion's share" of £800,000 in benefitsthat would be paid if it fracks four wells per site as planned.
The Community Foundation for Lancashire has been tasked with distributing the benefits in consultation with local communities. Payments to individual households have not been ruled out, although the cash may be spent on wider community projects. "It's up to communities to decide that," Mr Egan said.
Cuadrilla began consultation with residents on Tuesday and hopes to submit its planning applications in May.
An artist's impression of the fracking site at Preston New Road
Villagers in Roseacre appeared divided over the plans. Heather Speak, 53, spoke of her "shock" at the plans and said people were "frightened".
Rowland and Marie Taylor, both 70, said they feared they would not be able to sell their bungalow in the village as a result of the plans. Mr Taylor dismissed the benefits, saying: "I don't want it and I don't want fracking."
But Chris Noad, 73, said: "I am in favour. It's an energy resource and the country needs it."
Cuadrilla said in July it would seek to frack at up to seven sites across Lancashire, though had not begun the planning process at any of them.
Mr Egan said it had instead opted to frack multiple wells at the two sites to "reduce the potential impact on the local area". It could drill wells at different depths "because the shale is so thick".
Cuadrilla encountered fierce protests while attempting to drill for oil in Balcombe in the summer, leading to suggestions from a Tory peer that fracking should take place in the "desolate" north.
Mr Egan said the company had "learned from the experience of Balcombe" but denied it had sought more desolate locations.
"We looked at a range of issues: closeness to infrastructure, transport, ecology. We assessed a number of possible sites across a whole range of criteria," he said. "I don't think 'desolation' was one that we included – or the lack thereof."


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The head of an anti-corruption watchdog who last week accused Indonesian officials of inflating refugee numbers to boost aid payments has been arrested for allegedly diverting large quantities of aid.
In a furore that threatens to undermine faith in the $10 billion relief effort, Farid Faqih, chairman of Government Watch and a leading United Nations contractor in Aceh, was in police custody yesterday after being apprehended by Indonesian air force officers.
Last night the United Nations said it was conducting its own investigation into the claims.
But at a press conference in Jakarta, Government Watch representatives insisted Mr Faqih had removed the aid for safekeeping.
A spokesman for the Indonesian military, Colonel D. J. Nachrowi, told the Herald that Mr Faqih had improperly removed medical supplies, hundreds of cooking stoves and other aid from the central depot at Banda Aceh airport.
Mr Faqih was arrested with three members of the Islamic Defenders Front, who allegedly assisted in the removal. The military then found large quantities of international aid in three warehouses operated by Mr Faqih.
"Mr Faqih took goods that were clearly not his," Colonel Nachrowi said.
Mr Faqih appeared to have been badly beaten, but Colonel Nachrowi said it was unclear who was responsible.
Last week Mr Faqih claimed the number of refugees in some Aceh camps has been significantly inflated by local officials seeking to get more aid.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand Government has ordered an investigation into allegations that its relief flights out of Aceh unknowingly carried people who bribed officials to get on board.


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Go down or get out: women claim equality in the bedroom
Dancehall singer Ishawna
In her latest song, Shape of You (Equal Rights), dancehall singer Ishawna makes it clear that she is a woman who enjoys oral sex.
In fact, she states in no uncertain terms, the kind of attention she enjoys from her men.
"Mi love it when the man dem brave up, cause nuff man have them good tongue a save up. MHmm that mi like when you eat mi right," she sings on the track.
The song has been a hit with the females but one male dancehall star, Bounty Killer, has taken offence, declaring that he will not perform at any venues Ishawna is booked to appear on the same cast with him.
At the Bikini Fish Floss show last weekend in Portland, Jamaica, Bounty, appearing on stage after Ishawna said any man who performs oral sex is a crackhead.
It is no secret that in Jamaica, cunnilingus is frowned upon, publicly at least.
One Jamaican man told Loop that the machismo culture is to blame.
"Every man want to be able to go to the dance and 'buss' a blank in the air to anti- bow songs," he said.
He recalled that in high school when he and his group of friends discovered that one of their classmates engaged in oral sex, everyone had a glass at their home with the boy's name written on him so as not to risk his mouth touching anything they drank from.
In his songs, Bounty Killer has sung against the practice.
In "Badman Nuh Boy" he sings that badman doh bow cause that is not their policy.
He is not the only one.
Shabba Ranks sang about it in "Dem Bow" and in a direct response to Ishawna Kiprich sings "I doh care what you tell me, I not put you inna my plate."
But Ishawna has had some support. In a Facebook Live video, Ninjaman defended the song, blaming male artists for being hypocrites by singing about what they want women to do to them but being upset when the tables are turned.
Alkaline also supported the artist in a song urging her to buss files and name the men who love oral sex.
Shelly-Ann Weeks, a sexologist in Jamaica known popularly as Dr Sexy Ann, labels the controversy as hypocrisy.
"When it comes to sex there are two different Jamaica, the Jamaica in public, the self-righteous and I only do it in the marital bed, under the covers with the light on and then there is the private Jamaica that has access to the Internet, and are trying things and that is the one everyone knows about but nobody wants to talk about," she said
"In my capacity as a sexologist I see a lot of couples who eating long time it is just not kosher to talk about it, she said, labelling it as the misogyny of Jamaican culture where men can sing about all the things they want to do to women.
"Now Ishawna is not the first female artist to talk about it. Cecile and Tanya Stephens sang about it but Ishawna is very relevant, one of biggest current acts of dancehall saying this thing, one of those things you are not to talk about. I have heard about cases where men threaten the woman with a gun and say doh tell anyone about it but not only are the men eating but they are doing so willingly and enjoying it," she said.
She said in Jamaican culture bowing means to give in so if you are bowing you are not standing up and that is showing signs of weakness.
She advised men, however, that if they enjoy oral sex and pleasing a woman then do it.
Meanwhile, in Trinidad and Tobago, where dancehall dominates the airwaves outside of Carnival Ishawna's song has support from both sexes.
The majority of women polled on the T&T's Women's Forum Facebook page said they would not reciprocate if their men refuse to pleasure them as well.
"I give as much as I get, so if he's not bowing neither am I. These things go both ways, doh want me to go down and b friendly and u playing bashful at all. I saying no to yuh face," said one woman.
" If I have to get on my knees for you? You better get on your knees for me," said another.
The men were equally supportive on another thread, making it clear that position was a Jamaican thing.
"Why would you want to shortchange your woman, and yourself? Get in there and learn - she will be very happy, and so will you. Sex is communication. It's sharing. Two-way street,' advised one man.
Some said they don't mind but presentation mattered.
And for those women wondering if any willing men they meet might be any good at it, one man said the way a man eats a starch mango is a good sign.
"The skin delicate, the meat sweet and the seed small. If they could handle a container of starch mango while being stared at without becoming self-conscious and sucking the seeds dry, they good to go."


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Adventure Catechesis
What's in a name?
Around the year 2000, when I was first looking for a term to describe the methods that we were finding effective at camp* to teach the faith there seemed to be an obvious choice: Experiential Catechesis. This seemed like a simple phrase to use which was quite natural. After all, we were using the methods of experiential education for catechetical purposes. As a college student I contemplated this and looked to see who else I could find using this approach. After some research, I found that this term already had been discussed for quite some time.
Experiential Catechetics, as was discussed in the '60's and '70's, I saw was something quite different from what we were using. Experiential catechetics assumed that for someone to be taught a concept about the faith we must first work from their own experiences and/or the secular experiences happening in the world around them. Practically, part of this idea is involves us looking at the world around us and then teaching from what the student see. This approach eliminates sequential or systematic study. One can debate the pros and cons of this concept, but it surely isn't what we were doing.
I agree with the idea that we learn best when it resonates with our experiences, though, I prefer to take a pro-active approach. If we want to teach about the concept of forgiveness, or love, or grace, etc. we don't need to wait until we know that there is a touchstone in the person's life that we can reference before we can talk about it with them ... we can provide such a moment. So much of ministry is providing such experiences.
On a retreat, for example, we set the stage for people to have conversion moments - encounters with the living God. Our liturgies are intentionally designed to bring people into a divine encounter. When you perform a work of mercy, you are offering a chance for the other person to interact with God's mercy. When you send someone a simple note, you provide a touchstone of caring and love in their life. As ministers, I would liken us to God's event planners. Not only because of the obvious connection that we set up a lot of events, but more than that. An event planner seeks to understand the purpose a host has for a function and cater everything towards that singular reason. The location, the lighting, the music, the guest list, the food - every detail is painstakingly laid out to guide the guest toward the intentions of the host. We, as ministers, don't merely wait for the people of God to have experiences and then talk with them about what happened, we warmly invite people into experiences that were intentionally designed with them in mind.
As I reflected on this, I saw that the term 'experiential catechesis' simply wasn't going to work. At camp, the experiences we were inviting people into were exciting and out of the ordinary because the God we wanted to introduce them to is invigorating and quite extraordinary. We were inviting the young people into nothing less than and adventure that, for some, is the first step into their eternity. Thus ... Adventure Catechesis was born.
*The camp I reference here is Camps Kateri Tekakwitha of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Activity Zone
This installment's activity is called "Knot or Not" and is one of my favorite quick go-to's.
Knot or Not opens up conversations about relativism, what works and what doesn't when trying to convince someone of something they don't agree with, it's never to late to admit when you are wrong and ask forgiveness, the balance between taking care of yourself and helping the group, rash judgements, and so much more. Check out the activity guide below.
Last time, the article was missing the link to the activity. That has been fixed and can be found here.
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Adventure Catechesis
This article is part of a series on adventure catechesis. Check out the others in the series:
Adventure Catechesis
You're Already Doing it
Learning Happens with the Second Question
Behold the Power of Story!
This series is written by Shawn Madden from components of a potentially forthcoming book.


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Advocates of public education have been offered any number of partial loaves since the Legislature convened in January. And, much like the best teachers, they have been careful to sandwich their disappointments between positive, grateful remarks.
Thursday morning, when the Senate DFL released the details of its proposed E-12 education budget, there was authentic cheering at long last.
The loudest applause was directed at LeRoy Stumpf, the Plummer senator who proposed the central plank of a package that would move Minnesota toward a more equitable and stable system of school finance.
The bill cleared committee late Thursday night, after many policy-watchers had gone home. There was plenty of optimism about the package from the start, however.
"In the back and forth between what's optimal and what's realistic, I would say what's right for Minnesota won out," said Libby Kantner, political director of the Service Employees' International Union Local 284.
Like other Capitol education watchers, Kantner is disappointed that there isn't a larger increase in overall education funding in the plan, which would add $356 million in new state aid, versus $550 million in the House plan. But under the Senate proposal, "there are no losers this biennium," she said.
In contrast to the House proposal, released earlier in the week to a golf clap, the Senate package is much closer to the budget put forth by Gov. Mark Dayton, who is seeking about $340 million in additional education dollars. It goes a step further by proposing some long-sought structural fixes.
No surprise, then, that the Senate version generated less bipartisan support. At the same time, it has less of the politically expedient "bling" that has advocates grumbling about its House companion.
Like the House, the measure would virtually fully fund all-day kindergarten statewide.
Also on both lists: The replacement of the high-school exit GRAD tests with a set of college- and career-readiness regimes that start in middle school (doubtless state Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius is personally saluting this one) and funding for the new system; and the full funding of a reformed system for underwriting integration efforts.
The Senate would meet Dayton's request for $44 million for early childhood education scholarships, vs. $56 million proposed by the House and the $180 million it would cost to fully eliminate the waiting list of families in need of pre-K assistance.
Sen. Sean Nienow, the lead Republican on the education committee, criticized the early-education funding as over-prescriptive and said his colleagues wouldn't support the legislation.
"The Republicans, I think, would prefer to see local control rather than state mandates," Nienow said. "Let the schools have that money. If they want all-day K – great. If they need it to fulfill other needs in their district – wonderful. Local control is better than state mandates."
The proposal also aims to add accountability to some of the funding streams. Sen. Patricia Torres-Ray, DFL-Minneapolis, who heads up education policy in the Senate, said struggling districts could lose 20 percent of their integration revenue if they don't demonstrate to the state Department of Education that they're making progress on student achievement in math, literacy and writing.
"We want to make sure that we provide some accountability to those additional dollars," Torres-Ray said.
That's one area that Nienow praised. "They did make a completely unaccountable program a little more accountable," he said amid criticism of the overall proposal.
The Senate provides for Safe Schools money that would go both to making buildings — particularly those that serve the most challenged populations — physically safer spaces and to paying for anti-bullying activities contemplated by both houses in separate bills.
And the upper chamber directs $9 million toward the repayment of the special-education cross-subsidy, the portion of all districts' per-pupil state aid that must now be siphoned off first thing and diverted to make up the shortfall between the cost of legally mandated services and lagging state reimbursement.
The nod is symbolic financially but enormous in terms of honest policymaking. At the moment, the cross-subsidy exceeds $600 million statewide, so the money won't go far. But given that this least understood of funding shifts has been used to camouflage much of the funding cuts of the last decade, its appearance as a line in a marquee bill is big indeed.
"We didn't have enough for that," Education Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Wiger said when asked why the Senate hadn't tackled more of the cross-subsidy. "We do some other things on special ed as well as that [the governor] has recommended," including paperwork reduction.
The most surprising element of the Senate package is also the hardest to explain. Stumpf's provision would create a uniform, statewide general education levy but would actually use it to raise very little money. At the same time, another provision directing $150 million to property tax relief would put money back in the hands of homeowners.
The legal mechanisms by which this would occur are devilishly complicated, but the effect is simple. Imagine the general education levy as a new kitchen faucet that can be turned on incrementally as water becomes available. The property tax relief in essence frees up ratepayers from subsidizing other shortages in the state budget to compensate.
Under this measure, "the runs" — the spreadsheet of local level winners and losers that bedevils elected officials back home — become irrelevant. In practice, individual and business property owners will pay the same amount; the way it's parceled out once it's collected will change.
For school districts, this shift is supremely important. Without the statewide levy — gone since 2003 in the official end of the Minnesota Miracle — they now are forced to go to voters for local levies. This has created massive disparities between haves and have-nots. And as property taxes increasingly made up for shortfalls in other arenas, it's become tougher and tougher to ask voters to assess themselves further to pay schools' bills.
Finally, a levy is predictable; it's there in prosperous times and thin ones. By contrast, funding schools from Minnesota's general fund makes them dependent on whether the economy has left state coffers flush.
A wholesale return to a general education levy was at the center of a state task force's late 2012 recommendations to the governor and Legislature, but the aforementioned runs loomed problematic even as the proposal was being birthed. Start tinkering with the carefully balanced line items, the panel's financial expert opined, and you're playing fiscal Jenga.
Most districts would be net winners, and those that weren't would see tiny tax hikes. But the worst of the pain would be clustered in the Twin Cities' western suburbs — newly acquired pockets of DFL support the party would just as soon keep.
"I think you'll see a lot of happy property owners across the state because they should get a nice reduction in their statements," Stumpf told reporters on Thursday. "In a sense, this bill, with the general education levy, does narrow that disparity between the districts that spend more and those districts that have less to spend."
Educators aren't crazy about the fact that money they'd prefer to be spending is going instead to property tax relief, but they see the beauty of the balance, said Kantner: "There are no losers this biennium."


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Palimpsest Biennale Arts Festival event @ smecc
Girls Youth henna project group
Mildura SMECC was pleased to host a special "Intercultural Installations & Lunch" community event as part of the official program for the Palimpsest Biennale Arts Festival on 4th October 2015.
Find out more about the festival HERE, and see more info about the SMECC event HERE.
The event included a range of art installations from amateur and processional artists from and range of countries and the local indigenous community. The event also included our youth Henna art stall, live music performances and food stalls run by our local ethnic communities.
As part of this festival SMECC was particularly proud of the Henna artwork installation highlighted at the event. Members of our Afghan and Pakistani community worked with artist Rosina Byrne through a series of workshops to explore the boundaries of henna art.
This resulted in a wonderful installation highlighting their full-body artwork with a model. The girls also provided henna art for guests at the event, and have continued to progress their artwork activities since the event. See our youth projects page for more information.


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I was instantly transported to a time 11 years ago when I spoke at his funeral all the emotions came flooding back like it was yesterday. In fact as I sit here typing my eyes are filled with tears and the screen is blurrying before my eyes.
So I am going to embrace those feelings and share with you my Grandpas life.
Dee Jay was born December 4, 1929, he was the first son and second child of 12 to Berton and Rachel Mae. Being one of the oldest he shared the responsibility of gathering firewood, bringing water, starting the morning fire and other such chores.
He attended Malad Idaho Elementary and Jr, High School. During these years he shined shoes and set bowling pins at the bowling alley for dimes and nickels.
Quitting school his ninth grade year he began working. He traveled with a carnival, sometimes hitch hiking between cities because he was too young to be hired by the carnival. Other times the trucks would stop at the state line so he could walk across to the next state, because it was illegal to transport a minor across state lines. At other times he helped farmers by riding the derrick horse or driving wagons. He also worked as a fry cook. One summer while helping his Uncle Stephen on the harrow he broke his leg. They transported him from Kilgore Idaho to Malad before he got medical attention. He spent days in the hospital allowing the swelling to go to down so the compound fracture could be set. He enjoyed showing the scar off to his family. In his youth grandpa tried his hand at various jobs and gained many skills. He never stopped amazing us with the stories of his many experiences.
At the age of 17 he joined the Air Force and spent time in Topeka, Kansas, St. Louise Missouri, Puerto Rico, and Guatemala. He was assigned to a reconnaissance aircraft, the B17, as a radio operator which gave him the training and education which lead to his life time career.
At age 20 he became reacquainted with Hanna Lou. Two months later, on August 8th 1950 the were married in Carlin, Nevada.
Shortly after his marriage he went to work for the State of Idaho Highway Dept surveying roads and testing road materials. During this time his four oldest children were born, Grant in 1951, 11 months later Eunice was born in 1952. Louise came in 1954 and Janice in 1955.
Also in 1955 he was hired by the Federal Government as an Air Traffic Controller. The family temporally moved to Bountiful, Utah for 6 months.
They then moved back to Malad where he continued working for the FAA at the Malad Airport for 18 years. Here he loved his job and co-workers. Three more children were born during these years, Dana in 1957, Natalie in 1959 and Dalan in 1962.
In 1965 Grandpa and Grandma were sealed in the Logan Temple to each other and their children for all eternity.
Grandpa kept busy during these years being active in the Lions Club, The Eagles Club, and serving on the Draft Board. He also enjoyed raising and racing horses. He served as LDS church as the executive secretary, a young men's adviser, home teacher, Sunday school teacher, a member of the Sunday School Presidency and a member of the Elder's Quorum Presidency.
TO better support his family he took other jobs such as spraying for weeds and insects. During lambing he would help sheep ranchers. As payment he brought home the orphaned or "bum" lambs for his family to raise.
In 1973 the airport in Malad closed down and Grandpa moved his family to Boise Idaho. He continued working for the FAA for 12 more years and took a second job as a relief bus driver. Also during this time he was selected to take special training for his job and became certified as a E faus specialist. He also served as stake missionary for his church. In all he jobs Grandpa excelled and earned respect from those around him.
While in Boise and in his fifties Grandpa picked up new hobbies. Although deathly afraid of drowning he endured 3 sessions of swimming lessons until he learned to swim. At the age of 52, Grandpa learned down hill skiing. He also learned the trade of shoe repairing. A skill he hoped to use after he retired. It was also during this time that he became a grandfather a role he enjoyed immensely.
In 1985 Grandpa retired from the FAA and in 1986 he and Grandma returned to Malad, his beloved home and as he would say, "God's Country."
In 1987 he went through surgery for colon cancer. Although the illness altered his life, he won the battle and as a true survivor continued an active and productive life. Grandpa again worked in the young men's program and as a home teacher.
He then took a new job as a manager of the Senior Citizen's Center. He remained at this job for 13 years. He was dedicated worker preparing the monthly meat order for the center from his hospital bed just a day and 1/2 before his death.
After retiring to Malad Grandpa picked up the hobbies of snowmobiling and riding ATVs. He again raised, trained and raced horses. He continued snow skiing into his 60's and always enjoyed hunting and fishing with his children and other relatives.
Grandpa's highest priority in life was his wife, children, grandchildren and other family members. I am very proud to be able to call him Grandpa.


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REINDEX Rebuild open indexes in the current work area ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Syntax REINDEX [EVAL <lCondition>] [EVERY <nRecords>] Arguments EVAL <lCondition> specifies a condition that is evaluated either for each record processed or at the interval specified by the EVERY clause. This clause is identical to the EVAL clause of the INDEX command, but must be respecified in order for the reindexing operation to be monitored since the value of <lCondition> is transient. EVERY <nRecords> specifies a numeric expression that modifies how often EVAL is evaluated. When using EVAL, the EVERY option offers a performance enhancement by evaluating the condition for every nth record instead of evaluating each record reindexed. The EVERY keyword is ignored if no EVAL condition is specified. Description REINDEX is a database command that rebuilds all open indexes in the current work area. When the reindexing operation finishes, all rebuilt indexes remain open, order is reset to one, and the record pointer is positioned to the first record in the controlling index. If any of the indexes were created with SET UNIQUE ON, REINDEX adds only unique keys to the index. If any of the indexes were created using a FOR condition, only those key values from records matching the condition are added to the index. In a network environment, REINDEX requires EXCLUSIVE USE of the current database file. Refer to the "Network Programming" chapter in the Programming and Utilities Guide for more information. Caution! REINDEX does not recreate the header of the index file when it recreates the index. Because of this, REINDEX does not help if there is corruption of the file header. To guarantee a valid index, always use INDEX ON in place of REINDEX to rebuild damaged indexes Notes Index key order, UNIQUE status, and the FOR condition are known to the index (.ntx) file and are, therefore, respected and maintained by REINDEX. Examples . This example REINDEXes the index open in the current work area: USE Sales INDEX Salesman, Territory NEW REINDEX . This example REINDEXes using a progress indicator: USE Sales INDEX Salesman, Territory NEW REINDEX EVAL NtxProgress() EVERY 10 FUNCTION NtxProgress LOCAL cComplete := LTRIM(STR((RECNO()/LASTREC()) * 100)) @ 23, 00 SAY "Indexing..." + cComplete + "%" RETURN .T. Files Library is CLIPPER.LIB.
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I do not get to keep most of my clothes all the time; majorly because I always get to lose interest in wearing them, give them out, sell it off to customers who will buy them off me, or lose them "forcefully" to my biggest wardrobe enemy... my niece or my friends lol.
I have had this "cutest of them all" beaded Ankara kimono for about three years now. Seriously, I have had to guard it jealously too, because of the obvious reasons (it's uniqueness).
So on this fateful day, because I am not one to live by them laid down rules, or how/how not to pair your looks, I paired my all time fabulous beaded kimono with a chiffon black long sleeved buttoned -up shirt and a black mini skirt to go.
I love to spice up my looks. I love colors, especially the bright ones, so I topped this look up with my black suede neon heels pumps that featured neon spikes, and then finished it up with my ankle-length neon stockings hahahaha! Did I hear you say what is wrong with Cheche?
You can get your beautiful beaded Ankara Kimono from Tamris. (@tamris_) They have some really amazing statement pieces .
Black shirt and mini skirt is by Cheche Smith Nation. Yes, that's moi!
Ahhha! I see you staring at my bun and all natural hair...unique and fancy abi? Lol!


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Andrew Devis has series of newer tutorials on color in After Effects and Premiere. Here are the ones for AE that use the Color Finesse plug-in, which ships free with After Effects...
- Primary Color Correction in After Effects
- Secondary Color Correction in After Effects
- The Vectorscope in After Effects
- Waveform Monitors in After Effects
The Synthetic Aperture training resources page lists almost every other resource available for Color Finesse. Related articles include: White balance + more with Color Finesse and Profiles and color management in AE at AE Portal, How to talk to a Colorist by Alexis Van Hurkman, and a review of the book Color Correction For Video by Steve Hullfish at AEtuts.
By the way, there are 2 other 3rd party plug-ins that provide easier monitoring in AE (not in a modal dialog box): Synthetic Aperture Test Gear and Metadma ScopoGigio. An interesting free Pixel Bender filter was posted on Video Copilot last year, Waveform Monitor by Peter Werner, shown below.
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- Phone case (preferably a solid, light color as most Washi tapes are somewhat transparent and will be able to see through)
- Washi Tape – pick two or three fun designs
- Toothpick
- Start by placing a strip of tape on the bottom of the case, and wrapping around the front edges. If the case is curved, use you fingernail to press out any creases to get a good fit.
- Alternate between tapes and place the second strip of tape above the first, making sure to wrap around the front edges.
- Repeat until the entire case is covered
- Take a toothpick and poke a hole where there are openings in the case (ex: camera, speakers, on/off button). If you can tear the excess off then do so, otherwise just press to the inside of the case since it will be hidden anyways.
Don't you love how easy and inexpensive this is to change up your case from time to time? I love Washi tape and I can't wait to make several of these for myself and as gifts.
Do you have other wash tape crafts you like to make? I'd love to know what they are so I can do them too!


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International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis
NBER Working Paper No. 16346
We examine the cross-country dispersion in fiscal outcomes during 2007-2009. In principle, international differences in fiscal policy may be related to differences in optimal fiscal positions, funding constraints, political economy factors and fiscal control problems. We find that the decline in the overall and structural fiscal balances have been larger for those countries experiencing larger increases in unemployment and where credit growth during the pre-crisis period was more rapid. However, there is no systematic co-variation between fiscal outcomes and a larger number of other macroeconomic variables and country characteristics.
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NEW YORK (Forex News Now) – The Euro had a difficult first week of 2011 in currency market trading, with the rate generally trending lower off of its weekly high point of 1.3431 seen on Tuesday to today's lowest level of 1.2906.
EUR/USD currently trades just above that at 1.2929, down an impressive -3.4% from last week's 1.3365 close, as short covering ahead of the weekend is expected into Friday's close.
Fundamental and Technical Outlook for EUR/USD
According to various fx trading news sources, the sell off seen in EUR/USD this week has largely been due to an unexpectedly sharp improvement in the U.S. employment picture. The ADP Non-Farm Employment Change out last Wednesday showed its highest ever rise of 297K and the U.S. Unemployment Rate dropped sharply today from 9.8% to 9.4% in December.
U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls was less encouraging, however, showing only a 103K rise compared with the market consensus that was pushed upward from 136K to 159K after the impressive ADP result. Nevertheless, the market's initial disappointment with the headline NFP number for December was later reversed by the substantial upward revision to November's number from 39K to 71K and from 172K to 221K for October.
Overall, the Greenback looks set to benefit from a recent boost in business confidence and employment that could be short term results of the Fed's most recent QEII economic stimulus package. Conversely, the Euro is still weakened by the ongoing Eurozone financial troubles and increasingly well-justified fears that the consolidated European currency will eventually break down as a result. The net result is a fairly bearish fundamental outlook for EUR/USD.
A more technical EURUSD analysis shows that the rate has now fallen below its slightly downward sloping 200-day MA now at 1.3004, which roughly coincides with an important psychological level for EUR/USD at 1.3000. This supports the continued bearish short term technical outlook for the pair, and has even turned the medium term technical outlook mildly bearish should the rate sustain its recent losses below 1.3000.
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The forex market will now be watching the following chronological list of key data releases for the United States and the Eurozone due out during the coming week of January 10th to the 14th: The likely highlights will be the ECB Rate Decision and the U.S. PPI numbers out on Thursday, as well as Friday's U.S. CPI and Retail Sales data.
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Wednesday, January 12th
EZ Industrial Production +0.5% expected +0.6% previous
U.S. Import Prices +1.3% expected +1.3% previous
U.S. Fed's Beige Book
U.S. Federal Budget Balance -150.4B previous
Thursday, January 13th
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U.S. Trade Balance -41.2B expected -38.7B previous
U.S. PPI +0.8% expected +0.8% previous
U.S. Core PPI +0.2% expected +0.3% previous
U.S. Weekly Initial Jobless Claims +405K expected +409K previous
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke talks in Arlington
Friday, January 14th
EZ CPI +2.2% expected +2.2% previous
EZ Core CPI +1.1% expected +1.1% previous
U.S. Core Retail Sales +0.7% expected +1.2% previous
U.S. Retail Sales +0.8% expected 0.8% previous
U.S. CPI +0.4% expected +0.1% previous
U.S. Capacity Utilization Rate 75.6% expected 75.2% previous
U.S. Industrial Production +0.5% expected +0.4% previous
U.S. Preliminary Univ. of Mich. Consumer Sentiment 75.6 expected 74.5 previous
U.S. Business Inventories +0.7% expected +0.7% previous


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Bracken's Kitchen: Bringing Food to People in Need
It's Tuesday morning when Bill Bracken hops on the phone while Bracken's Kitchen is in full swing. This week, the Garden Grove-based non-profit is set to provide meals to 15 different organizations that help feed people in need. Already, one van has left Orange County to bring 735 meals up to Los Angeles. Later on, a shelter in Anaheim will pick up meals, as will the homeless youth group Stand Up for Kids. Tonight, Bracken's Kitchen will take their truck, Betsey, out to Santa Ana to serve meals to the families of the kids who are part of an after-school program for homeless children.
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"We've fallen into a routine in our kitchen over the last couple months," says Bracken. It's a routine, though, that requires a lot of juggling as they handle everything from individual meals for people who live in hotels and motels to trays meant to feed larger crowds. Today, they're balancing everything from barbecue chicken to cheeseburger macaroni and cheese to breakfast bakes, along with salad and fruit preparation. And the team here isn't massive. There's an executive chef, three cooks, a dishwasher and, on this particular day, an estimated eight volunteers at work.
Bracken has been working in kitchens since he was 12 and, in the course of his career, he became an award-winning chef. He worked in luxury hotels and cooked for celebrities, but says that Bracken's Kitchen has been "life-changing and soul-changing."
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The seeds of Bracken's Kitchen were sown after the economy crashed in 2008. "I watched a lot of really good people lose their jobs and struggle just to put a meal on the table," he says, "and it was then that food insecurity became real for me and, quite frankly, the face of hunger changed, at least here in Orange County."
It took another few years, though, for the idea to fully take shape. The business plan came together with time. One day, he was sitting inside Starbucks when he saw a food truck pass. "I had the idea of a food truck bringing food to those people who need it, instead of asking, expecting them to come to a soup kitchen," he recalls.
Now, he says, the food truck is just part of what has become Bracken's Kitchen. The chef wanted to continue cooking in a way similar to what he had been doing in high-priced establishments. To an extent, Bracken's Kitchen has been able to do that. Thanks to food recovery services, they get excess, quality products from sources that include the same distributors who service restaurants. Bracken mentions that he has a rack of veal, some caviar and lobster claws in the freezer. He's thinking about using the lobster claws in a seafood chowder or pasta dish.
"I get to be every bit as creative as I used to be, but instead of figuring out the neatest coolest way to serve this foie gras dish," he says, "I'm figuring out what I can do with lobster in the freezer."
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I have a Keystone ceiling light fixture that uses two concentric circular fluorescent bulbs. For a number of years it worked fine, but a year ago both light bulbs burned out. I replaced the bulbs, but recently the fixture started having problems again, namely it refused to turn on when the switch was flipped (would blink and go out again) and it would take several tries to turn it on (and sometimes it refused to turn on entirely). I bought another pair of light bulbs and opened it up, at which point I found that (a) one of the old bulbs was totally burned out, while the other one still worked but looked like it was getting close to burning out, and (b) one set of connecting cables from the power box worked, but the other didn't. I changed the larger (32W) bulb and connected it to the working connectors, and left the broken connectors loose (I left the burned out smaller [22w] bulb in the fixture just to take up space). But now (a week later) the fixture is doing the same thing: blinking and refusing to turn on when the switch is first flipped, so that it takes multiple flips back and forth to turn it on. Clearly there is something wrong with the fixture itself. What would you recommend doing? And is this something a person who is not particularly handy or experienced can do themselves? I'm attaching a picture to show what the fixture looks like. Thanks a lot for your help.
Thank you for the reply. Would I be able to replace the ballast myself, not having any experience in electrical / wiring work? Also, something else I've observed is that the ceiling light in the living room, which is next to the kitchen, also seems to burn out light bulbs much faster than it should. That one uses incandescent bulbs. Is it possible that there is a bigger wiring problem in the apartment that's affecting multiple light fixtures? Thanks again.
I think you will find to replace the ballast for a few dollars more you could replace the whole fixture. As far as the other light goes make sure that center tab in the socket isn't flattened down first it needs to be bent up to make good contact with the bulb and not burned from arcing."Is it possible that there is a bigger wiring problem in the apartment that's affecting multiple light fixtures?"
Yes it is but more likely it would blow the bulb as opposed to just wearing it out.
Yes it is but more likely it would blow the bulb as opposed to just wearing it out.
My husband put up a new light fixture and now it stays on. Will not turn off unless you turn off hydro? How can this be fixed?


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Trailing 6-1 going into the bottom of the fifth, a single and a two-base error kick started the Wildcats. Julian Kurych walked and came around to score as Kendall Small singled, and raced around to third on an error by the right fielder. Luke Johnson followed with an RBI single up the middle, and two batters later Dan Hyatt brought the Wildcats to within 6-4 with an RBI single through the right side.
Matt Frost shut the Conquistadors down in order in the top of the sixth and the bats got back to work in the home half.
With one out, the Wildcats used a hit by pitch and back-to-back singles to load the bases with one out. Brad Scull came off the bench and singled up the middle for the first run of the inning. The Wildcats then used four straight walks to score four more runs, settling on a 9-6 lead after six full innings.
Florida National scored a run in the top of the seventh, but Mike Cottrell came on and left the bases loaded to keep the Wildcats in front, 9-7. Luke Johnson was able to get that run back for the Wildcats in the bottom of the seventh, getting hit by a pitch to force in a run for the 10-7 lead.
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Looks like the Iraqi Mujahedeen laid their hands on silencers for their weapons and are going all gangsta on soldiers with them. Operation Iraqi Freedom resulted in anything but freedom for the Iraqis.
The Mujahedeen definitely won this round. Storming military outposts and killing soldiers who are resting proved to be a solid strategy. They came, they fired their silencer equipped guns, they conquered. Very quick job.
These guys must have gone through proper training cause that was executed so well and so quietly, it just couldn't have been an operation by a street gang. You also barely hear them Allahu Akbaring. They simply carried out what they came for like complete pros and quickly disappeared before anyone could respond.
There are two videos of these trained and well organized Iraqi assassins. Both show how these Mujahedeen knew what they were doing and gave their target no chance. Though the last soldier to get killed in the first video did put up a bit of a fight but was killed in an attempt to flee:
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- My wife and I were recently reminded of a family member who used to spend all his time at a posh country club in a major Colombian city, despite not having much money himself. I assume that he felt he was entitled to feel special, to live among luxury, despite his humble pedigree. The problem is that his entire family had to live as slaves to his pretensions, working hard to support his expensive habits while he refused to work. I feel that sometimes in the US, struggles for justice for an individual or an entire community devolve a bit into thinking similar to this family member's. "My oppression has consisted in keeping me away from luxury, so overcoming this oppression would mean bringing me into the exclusive folds of luxury." The problem is that this is not justice; it's just changing or broadening the group of those who exclude others. True justice consists not in my accessing an elite circle I was heretofore excluded from, but rather in tearing down inherently exlusionary institutions. Not just scholarships to the country club, but rather universal access to it. Which of course would convert it from a posh country club into just a nicely-manicured public park.
- A friend of my daughter's recently declared that his main interest is in making money. I can understand this; I want and need money to live relatively comfortably, and I do what I can to get money. But despite having a pretty nice job, a few sage investments, and even inheritances from my family, I would not consider myself very prosperous economically. We often struggle just to pay for the basics like housing, food, and medical care. If I only desired and defined myself by the money I make, I'd be pretty miserable, because I'd have to consider myself mediocre in that respect. Luckily, I find my joy in my family, my work, my beliefs, the books and music and sights I experience. I hope that the young man who says he only is interested in money broadens his horizons, because otherwise he is bound for failure and disappointment, especially as US society becomes every-more unjust and feudal.
- A few months ago I visited El Salvador, as I detailed in a long blog. One thing I forgot to mention in that blog was that, while visiting the San Salvador zoo, I came across a group of young children that were visiting the zoo as part of a Young Pioneer day camp, run by the Communist Youth of El Salvador or something. It was funny to see a bunch of young kids with their matching daycamp T shirts, and with young camp counselors keeping order, but they all had a red star and sickle on the front of the T shirt, and a quote from Lenin on the back!
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Having just seen a google hybrid map of Mount Barker I am not surprised that they only run 1 bus service. That town is a public transport planners nightmare. Every trick in the book has been used to prevent pedestrian, cycle and public transport use.crawf wrote:littledyl16, you should consider yourself lucky.
Theres only 1 bus service that goes to the city from Mount Barker, and it only goes every hour off-peak. So if your running late for the bus and you miss it, you have to wait a whole another hour for the next bus (this has happened to me so many times).
But thankfully the bus service in the hills is going to get a huge overhaul in february which is going to help me alot.
You could have still had a train service if the town didn't completely turn it's back on the railway station. There aren't any houses within 500m of the station.
Those new subdivisions adjacent the Freeway are one of the most ridiculous pieces of planning I have ever seen. The area is completely incapable of being serviced by any transport other than the car. The freeway route was designed to avoid all towns and provide a scenic route through the hills. This subdivision completely ruins that.
If you want a decent bus service lobby your council to fix up the town's appalling urban design.


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Yep, your freedom used to rest in the palm of this idiot's hands. Count yourself lucky I'm not supposed to carry a gun anymore. ;)
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