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The 2010 Congressional midterm elections were approaching. Attacks on the Tea Party and groups calling for less government spending and taxation were in full swing.
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President Barack Obama in his state of the union address in January had attacked the Supreme Court with the justices in attendance for signing off on the Citizens United case, for opening the "flood gates" for special-interest money in U.S. elections
And 2010 was the year Democrats went full bore pressuring the IRS to investigate nonprofit politicking, which resulted in the IRS targeting Tea Party and other nonprofit applicants who were ideological opponents.
Letters from 10 high-profile Democrats to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman pressured the IRS to investigate nonprofit politicking, even threatening legislation to change IRS standards if the IRS didn't act.
The letters show how elected officials pressured the IRS during an election season, fearing opponents were unfairly using the tax law to raise money to their advantage.
Shulman testified yesterday that back in March 2012, there was "absolutely" no special targeting of conservative groups going on. "At no time, to the best of my memory, was I ever given the impression that these [IRS employees] were only [looking closely] at conservative groups," Shulman told Congress on Wednesday.
IRS official Lois Lerner has already publicly apologized for the IRS's targeting of tax-exempt applications by using key words such as "Tea Party" and "Patriots."
The timeline of the events show top-ranking Democrats were sending a flurry of letters to Shulman, demanding that the agency act, and act fast.
Democrats' Letters to the IRS
The letters to Shulman date from September 2010 through August 2012, and are from Democrat senators including Max Baucus, Carl Levin, Charles Schumer and Al Franken, as well as Rep. Peter Welch.
"We write to urge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether any groups qualifying as social welfare organizations under section 501(c)(4) of the federal tax code are improperly engaged in political campaign activity," wrote Vermont Democrat Welch to Shulman in March 2012. (for more, click here).
Seven senators, including Schumer and Franken, complained to Shulman in March 2012 that "lack of clarity in the IRS rules" is to blame, threatening "legislation" to enact bright-line rules.
The seven Democrat senators signed off: "We urge the IRS to take steps immediately to prevent abuse of the tax code by political groups."
The IRS is behaving "passively," complained Levin to Shulman in July 2012, adding: "How long after a complaint to the IRS does a compliance review begin?" and "What approximate time does it take to review the complaint?"
Sen. Levin also asked Shulman to look into a dozen groups, including Americans for Prosperity, 60 Plus Association, Patriot Majority USA and Club for Growth.
IRS official Steven Miller wrote back to Sen. Levin that the "IRS routinely receives examination referrals from a variety of sources including the public, media, members of Congress or their staff."
IRS Broke the Rules
Tax-exempt 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations may engage in limited political campaign activities. They can engage in unlimited lobbying and advocacy on the issues. Donors cannot deduct donations on their tax returns.
The intense pressure from the Democrats likely led to the IRS breaking the rules. It selectively targeted conservative groups, says the report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
Specifically, the IRS "developed and used inappropriate criteria to identify nonprofit applications" with the words "Tea Party," "Patriots" and "9/12," or had a focus on "government spending," "debt" or "taxes," or said they wanted to "make America a better place to live," or had any statements that "criticize how the country is being run," the report says, instead of focusing on all applications with indications of potential political campaign activities.
A nonprofit's focus on "government spending," "debt" or "taxes," or wanting to "make America a better place to live" or "criticizing how the country is being run," fall within the social welfare education mission of tax-exempt groups under the law.
What Happened in 2010
The president said in his 2010 January state of the union address: "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign companies -- to spend without limit in our elections," adding, "I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities."
In May 2010, the IRS unit responsible for reviewing tax-exempt groups in Cincinnati launched "a spreadsheet that would become known inside the IRS as the 'Be On the Look Out' computer listing, which included "the emerging issue of Tea Party applications," the Treasury IG report says.
In June 2010, this unit "began training its specialists on issues to be aware of," including Tea Party cases, the IG report says. "By July 2010, Determinations Unit management stated that it had requested its specialists to be on the lookout for Tea Party applications," the IG says.
Workers in the IRS's Cincinnati Determinations Unit then used the Tea Party criterion as "a shorthand term for all potential political cases," the report says, even though it appears so far the IRS did not use key words such as, say, the word "progressive" to target liberal groups.
IRS officials then started asking about the political affiliations of the groups' speakers and candidates they supported; for a list of issues important to the group, its positions about the issues; details about the conversations and discussions the groups' members had about the issues; and other jobs the groups' members held outside the organization, including hours worked.
The IRS also demanded these groups fork over lists of names of past and future donors, which could put a chill on donations. The IG report says the IRS asked how the applicants used donations and grants, and whether the groups' donors or officials have run or will run for public office, in violation of the rules.
By law, applicants for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status do not have to disclose this information, tax pros note.
Baucus Letter to the IRS
On Sept. 28, 2010, Sen. Max Baucus, Democrat chairman of the Senate Finance Committee which oversees the IRS, wrote a three-page letter on Senate Finance letterhead noting: "The Committee has jurisdiction over revenue matters" and the IRS.
The Senator noted his concern about nonprofit lobbying for financial or political gain, and that the tax code was being used to "eliminate transparency in the funding of our elections" with "hundreds of millions of dollars" being spent by nonprofits in elections.
"I request that you and your agency survey major 501(c)(4)" groups for "possible violation of tax laws," he demanded.
In June 2011, the IRS director of exempt organizations "immediately directed that the criteria" used to review tax-exempt applicants "be changed," the Treasury IG report says.
Next month, in July 2011, the criteria were changed to focus on the "potential political, lobbying" or "advocacy activities" of the groups applying for tax-exempt status, targeting Tea Party and other groups worried about the size of government, for example.
The IRS workers then "used inappropriate criteria" that stayed in place for more than 18 months, the IG report says.
Congressman Calls for Action
In March 2012, Welch decried "political groups masquerading as nonprofits," the Congressman's office said in a statement.
Rep. Welch said at the time: "The spigots of spending have been opened and the rules of the campaign road are muddier now than ever before. While we work to overturn this horribly misguided Supreme Court decision, federal agencies should send a clear signal that there is a cop on the beat enforcing federal laws."
The statement from his office went on to say: "Welch is calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether nonprofit 501(c)(4) organizations affiliated with Super PACs – such as Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed group spending millions of dollars in campaigns across the country – are in violation of federal law and IRS regulations."
A the same time, Rep. Welch sent a letter to the President urging him to "use his constitutional authority to fill five openings on the six-member Federal Election Commission," so the commission "can immediately get back to work policing the new campaign landscape."
And Rep. Welch sent a letter to IRS commissioner Shulman that said: "We write to urge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether any groups qualifying as social welfare organizations under section 501(c)(4) of the federal tax code are improperly engaged in political campaign activity."
He urged the IRS "to fully enforce the law" and "investigate and stop any abuse of the tax code by groups whose true mission is to influence the outcome of federal elections."
Rep. Welch tells FOX Business: "Our letter was sent in the context of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United that opened the floodgates of corporate spending in 2012 election. We asked the IRS to do its job and make sure that no group was taking advantage of the taxpayer by claiming a tax break to which they were not entitled."
Ryan Nickel, spokesperson for Congressman Welch, said: "No group was singled out in the letter which was sent nearly two years after the IRS began to focus on conservative organizations."
Seven Senators Write to the IRS
In March 2012, nine days after Welch wrote to the IRS, seven Democrat senators -- Charles E. Schumer (NY), Michael Bennet (CO), Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Jeff Merkley (OR), Tom Udall (NM), Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and Franken (Minn.) -- sent a letter to Shulman which demanded the IRS "immediately change the administrative framework for enforcement of the tax code as it applies to groups designated as 'social welfare" organizations.'"
The senators cited an "absence of clarity in the administration of" nonprofit laws, which groups could be "tempted to abuse" to their advantage, noting "worse," they may take advantage of the law "even though they are not legitimate social welfare organizations."
The senators even attacked IRS rules for being in violation of the law: "We think the existing IRS regulations run afoul of the law," which allows wiggle room for nonprofit politicking "behind a facade of charity work," they said.
The letter writers threatened "legislation" if the IRS failed to "adopt a bright line test" for nonprofits.
The senators signed off: "We urge the IRS to take steps immediately to prevent abuse of the tax code by political groups focused on federal election activities," adding, "If the IRS is unable to issue administrative guidance in this area then we plan to introduce legislation to accomplish these important changes."
Sen. Levin's Letters to the IRS
On July 27, 2012, Levin wrote a six-page letter to Shulman on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs letterhead complaining that the July 13, 2012, response from Lerner "was unsatisfactory." (Read letter: Levin letter to IRS re 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organizations)
In his letter, the senator criticized Lerner, quoting her as saying that the IRS only "takes steps to continually inform organizations of their responsibilities as social welfare organization [sic] to help them avoid jeopardizing their tax-exempt status'" and only "'actively educates'" these groups on nonprofit tax law.
Senator Levin complained that her response "shows the IRS is passively making some information available" once a nonprofit is already in existence.
His stated fear: "Organizations are using Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(4) to gain tax exempt status while engaging in partisan political campaigns."
The senator added: "Making the problem worse is that the IRS knows there is a problem because of the public nature of the activity, but has failed to address it."
He cited two TV ads attacking Ohio Democrat senator Sherrod Brown and Nevada Republican senator Dean Heller, ads paid for by 501(c)(4) nonprofits.
"The IRS needs to immediately review the activities of 501(c)(4) entities engaging in partisan political ads," the senator wrote.
Levin also asked IRS commissioner Shulman: "Typically, how long after a complaint to the IRS does a compliance review begin?" and "What approximate time does it take to review the complaint?"
He asked: "How many persons are involved in the enforcement of the 501(c)(4) rules?" and "why does the IRS allow 501(c)(4) organizations to self-declare?" Meaning, nonprofits get to hang out a shingle as nonprofits and are only scrutinized after the fact.
Sen. Levin's letter noted that nonprofit "advocacy communication is [emphasis the senator's] political campaign activity" if that activity "coincides with an electoral campaign" and "targets voters," among other things.
The senator then asked: "Have the following 501(c)(4) organizations applied for..exemption for political activity from the IRS?" The senator listed in his letter to the IRS:
Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies
Priorities U.S.A.
Americans Elect
American Action Network
Americans for Prosperity
American Future Fund
Americans for Tax reform
60 Plus Association
Patriot Majority USA
Club for Growth
Citizens for a Working America Inc.
Susan B. Anthony List
IRS Responds to Levin
On August 24, 2012, Steven Miller, IRS deputy commissioner for Services and Enforcement, wrote a seven-page letter back to Sen. Levin, noting "the IRS routinely receives examination referrals from a variety of sources including the public, media, members of Congress or their staff" and that the IRS has "an impartial, independent review process" in place. (Read letter here: IRS response letter re 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organizations).
Because they were already nonprofits, Miller could then disclose to Sen. Levin that the groups Americans for Prosperity, American Future Fund, 60 Plus Association, Patriot Majority USA, and Citizens for a Working America Inc. are in fact 501(c)(4) groups, but that the IRS was still determining whether the others were nonprofits.
Sen. Levin again wrote a two-page letter on August 31, 2012, to Shulman thanking him for Miller's letter, but complaining: "I find it unacceptable that the IRS appears to be passively standing by while organizations that hold themselves out to be 'social welfare' organizations clearly ignore the tax code with no apparent consequences." (Read letter here: Levin response letter to IRS re 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organizations).
He demanded: "How many 501(c)(4) organizations which appear to be primarily engaged in political activity have been notified by the IRA [sic] within the last 6 months that they may be in violation of the law?"
The senator signed off: "It is urgent that I receive your answers promptly."
Miller then wrote a four-page letter back to the Senator reiterating the IRS's process. (Read letter here: IRS response letter re 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organizations).


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House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama — not that they don't have their differences.
Boehner tells ABC's "This Week" that the two have a good relationship and that they're "open with each other ... honest with each other." But the Ohio lawmaker says they're trying to bridge some big differences.
One issue they agree on: The U.S. doesn't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt.
Some conservatives criticized Obama when he said last week that the country doesn't have an immediate debt crisis.
Boehner says a debt crisis does loom in the years ahead because entitlement programs are not sustainable if they aren't changed.
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This release presents the latest immigration statistics from Home Office administrative sources covering quarter 3, July to September 2012.
Summary points: quarter 3 2012
(All data relate to year ending September 2012; comparisons are with previous 12 months unless indicated)
There were further falls in visas issued for work, study and family reasons, and also fewer extensions of stay and fewer permissions to stay permanently (settlement). The recent falls for work and study are likely in part to be due to policy changes, which came into effect in December 2010 and April 2011.
There were fewer work-related visas issued (-4% to 145,604, the lowest recorded using comparable data) and fewer grants of work-related permissions to stay permanently (-5% to 65,310). However there was an increase in work-related grants to extend stay in the UK (10% to 142,443).
There were 29% fewer sponsored student visa applications and similarly there were 26% fewer study visas issued. There was a 1% increase in sponsored student visa applications for the university sector, contrasting with falls for the further education sector (- 67%), English language schools (-76%), and independent schools (-17%).
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The total number of visas issued, excluding visitor and transit visas, fell by 14% to 508,488, to the lowest 12-monthly total recorded using comparable data available from 2005.
There were 105.6 million journeys to the UK in the year ending September 2012. This total was 0.6 million less than for the year ending June 2012 reflecting fewer passengers arriving during the staging of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
There were 20,838 asylum applications, 8% higher than the previous 12 months. This remains well below the peak number of asylum applications received in the year ending December 2002 (84,132).
During the third quarter of 2012 (July to September), 48 children entered detention, lower than for the second quarter of 2012 (60). The number of children in detention for the third quarter of 2012 remains well below the peak in these figures for the third quarter of 2009 (322) using comparable data available from 2009.
Removals and Voluntary Departures
Enforced removals remained steady at 14,823, while the number of passengers refused entry at port and who subsequently departed has fallen 15% to 13,632. There was a 7% fall in total voluntary departures to 23,184, (although retrospective checks mean that these figures are particularly subject to upward revision).
For additional summary points see the full summary in the Statistical News Release.
Data tables
The data tables for 'Immigration Statistics, July to September 2012'.
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- Documents 'Statistical news release: immigration statistics July - September 2011' and 'Pre-release access to the immigration statistics, July - September 2011' replaced with 'Statistical news release: immigration statistics July to September 2012' and 'Pre-release access to the immigration statistics July to September 2012'.
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Nsd is an authoritative DNS resolver.
Install nsd:
pacman -S nsd
Migration to nsd for bind users
Once the package is installed there are useful migration notes for users who currently run bind as their dns server in the file:
Many users will wish to run nsd as their authoritative dns server concurrently with unbound as the validating, recursive, caching dns server on a single machine. It may be useful to refer to the wiki page for unbound at:
Initial Setup
More often than not nsd will be running concurrently with a recursive, caching dns server such as unbound. Usually dns servers will be listening on port 53 but the two services would conflict if they were listening to the same port. Hence if unbound was the main server answering dns queries on port 53 then it is sensible for added security to select a high private port number for nsd to listen on. Also if the only direct access to nsd will be from queries forwarded from unbound, then nsd can be configured to listen only to the localhost machine on the private port chosen, and is not then directly accessible from outside. This gives added security to the authoritative server. In the examples of configuration files here port 53530 is chosen as the listening port number for nsd.
If any firewall running on the machine blocks private port 53530 then this adds to security. The only port that then needs to be open for dns queries coming from external machines (or other machines on the same local network) is port 53.
It is perfectly possible to put the nsd.conf file as well as any zone files into /etc/nsd/ but it is also possible to place the zone files in a separate directory. So for the purpose of this wiki page assume that the zone files are in /etc/nsd3/ and if you have already been running bind previously then copying the zone files that worked with bind into /etc/nsd3/ should work without adjustment. There are sample configuration files in the web page at https://calomel.org/nsd_dns.html but the example here is for a single master zone only.
Note that nsd is not designed to do logging, despite the existence of a logging line in the nsd.conf example file. Attempting to uncomment the logging line will result in being unable to start nsd.
A sample nsd.conf is given here where the forward and reverse zone files are presumed to be in /etc/nsd3/ and named myhomenet.com.zone and 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.zone:
## NSD authoritative only DNS ## nsd.conf .:. https://calomel.org ## Primary or "Master" NSD server # # The directives "notify" and "provide-xfr" are only needed if you are also going to setup # a secondary NSD server. Uncomment out these lines to use them. server: # uncomment to specify specific interfaces to bind (default all). ip-address: 127.0.0.1 # port to answer queries on. default is 53. # port: 53 port: 53530 # Number of NSD servers to fork. server-count: 1 # listen only on IPv4 connections ip4-only: yes # don't answer VERSION.BIND and VERSION.SERVER CHAOS class queries hide-version: yes # identify the server (CH TXT ID.SERVER entry). identity: "Home network authoritative DNS" # The directory for zonefile: files. zonesdir: "/etc/nsd3" key: name: "sec_key" algorithm: hmac-md5 secret: "6KM6qiKfwfEpamEq72HQdA==" zone: name: myhomenet.com zonefile: myhomenet.com.zone # notify: 10.0.0.222@53 sec_key # provide-xfr: 10.0.0.222 sec_key zone: name: 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa zonefile: 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.zone # notify: 10.0.0.222@53 sec_key # provide-xfr: 10.0.0.222 sec_key # Logging #logfile: "/etc/nsd/nsd.log" # Do not uncomment these lines as logging in nsd is not currently implemented # ## NSD authoritative only DNS ## nsd.conf .:. https://calomel.org ## Primary or "Master" NSD server
Starting and running nsd
Before starting up nsd you can check the zone files using the nsd-checkconf command with the zone file name as a parameter.
In order to build the zone database that makes nsd run exceptionally quickly the database file must be rebuilt each time a zone or config file is changed, and the following command is executed as the nsd user (the daemon runs as nsd and that user must be able to read
nsdc rebuild
In order to start nsd then type as root:
systemctl start nsd
Once nsd has been tested then make nsd start at boot by typing:
systemctl enable nsd
If you were already running bind listening on port 53 and are moving over to unbound, then it is important to stop bind before starting unbound to avoid conflicts:
systemctl stop named systemctl start unbound
and to make the correct services start at boot:
systemctl disable named systemctl enable unbound
Testing nsd
nsd can be run concurrently with bind during the testing phase. You can check forward and reverse local lookups on the port at 53530 using:
drill @127.0.0.1 -p 53530 mylocalmachine1.myhomenet.com drill @127.0.0.1 -p 53530 -x w.x.y.z
where w.x.y.z is a local address within the LAN.
Once this is working then if you are running unbound as the caching recursive server then you can switch the unbound config to forward queries from local machines on the same network to query nsd by using the following structure in unbound.conf (and see unbound), where it is assumed that nsd is listening to port 53530:
local-zone: "10.in-addr.arpa." nodefault
stub-zone: name: "mdylocalnet.com" stub-addr: 127.0.0.1@53530
stub-zone: name: "10.in-addr.arpa" stub-addr: 127.0.0.1@53530
Once the unbound.conf contains the above then restart unbound and check that local queries for the nsd zone entries works. Once it is all tested then you can switch unbound to listen on both 127.0.0.1 as well as on the external interface for the local network by having the lines in unbound.conf including:
interface: 127.0.0.1 interface: 10.0.0.1
where 10.0.0.1 is the ip address of the dns server running both nsd and unbound and providing local dns for other machines on the 10.x.x.x network.
The examples here all assume that only ipv4 is being used. Corresponding configurations for ipv6 should be included where necessary, and further details on the parameters for that can be found in the man files for the two packages as well as examples that can be found with web searches.
WAN facing dns
It is also possible to change the configuration files and interfaces on which the server is listening so that dns queries from machines outside of the local network can access specific machines within the LAN. This is useful for web and mail servers which are accessible from anywhere, and the same techniques can be employed as has been achieved using bind for many years, in combination with appropriate port forwarding in the network firewall machines, to allow incoming requests to access the correct machine.


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Congress Planning To Debate CISPA Behind Closed Doors; No Public Scrutiny Allowed
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The truth is that this is yet another way to try to hide from the public on this issue. Congress doesn't want an open discussion on the many problems with CISPA, so it does what it does best: try to hide things away and rush them through when (hopefully) not enough people are looking. It makes you wonder just what CISPA's supporters are so worried about. Congress is supposed to work for the public, not hide things away from the public. This isn't a situation where they're discussing classified info or plans -- but merely a bill focused on information sharing between the government and private companies. Any markup on CISPA needs to be public.


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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Mid-Autumn Festival Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Mid-Autumn Festival Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Holidays View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message mengxiangwuJoined: 06 Jul 2007Posts: 17 Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: Mid-Autumn Festival How much do you know about Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival? Back to top blackwolfJoined: 29 Mar 2006Posts: 64 Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: you are rıght i dont know anythıng this festival i want to learn really because i like chinese people 'cause they be HUMANIST i m a turkısh man:p i guess that chinese people who have TRADE OF ALL OF WORLD,must do good festival if you want to describe that ,,,,i m ready i have msn:[email protected] Back to top If.NotJoined: 08 Sep 2007Posts: 5Location: Lost World Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: Mid-Autumn Festival mengxiangwu wrote: How much do you know about Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival? The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority nationalities. It is on August 15th in lunar year. In ancient China,there was a fairy named chang'e,she was the first one who produced the mooncakes. And now,people eat mooncakes on Mid-autumn Festival. Here are some pictures of the mooncakes: There are so many kinds of mooncakes. The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary moon. In some areas of China,people eat pomelos as well as mooncakes.The pomelo is a kind of fruit,like this: Some of the pomelos are sour,but some are quite sweet,that depends on how good the skill of your choosing pomelos is. No matter how,all the people will get togethter to have a splendid dinner and on the night of Mid-autumn Day,people will sit under the sky and admire the moon and chat with his family. Aha~the day after tomorrow is Mid-autumn in China~~~ I can't wait it! Back to top daavidfischerJoined: 17 Oct 2012Posts: 25 Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:43 am Post subject: Are you talking about the Mooncake festival or the shi sui festival. Well I have not been there for the festival or nor do I have ever read it. But I just know it through one of my friends who lives there. ----------------------------------- DAVID GRANT google chrome crashing ----------------------------------- Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Holidays All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Mike Bloomberg
Monthly Forecast for January 2019
Mike Bloomberg is a male celebrity.
He was born on Saturday February 14th 1942, in Brighton, Massachusetts, United States.
For Mike Bloomberg, January 2019 is a 2 Personal Month in a 1 Personal Year. This combination of numbers represents opposites, yin and the yang - the most masculine number 1 and the most feminine 2. The result is that Mike experiences the best of two worlds - the strength and confidence of the leader, and the tact and subtlety of the diplomat. However, this is not a month to make important choices or decisions without a lot of careful consideration. Mike should begin this cycle by taking a critical look at his current state of mind.
This January is a month of some confusion and self-doubt. More mercurial than usual, Bloomberg will likely switch from optimism to pessimism, and back again. This is to be expected when he is right in the middle of a major personality overhaul. But even so, Mike Bloomberg may experience an increase in his authority at work.
2 is Mike Bloomberg's first month of a new long-term cycle. Many of the changes Mike is going through require approximately two years, and Bloomberg is now traveling through the second of those years. His transformation can be compared to a low-level reformat of his inner hard-disk. When the job is done, much of the information is replaced, gaps are closed, and the bugs are ironed out. Bloomberg can look forward to a time of greater self-confidence, more energy, and a refreshed and more positive outlook on life. Actually, once he has passed the mid-point, Mike Bloomberg increasingly gains confidence, direction, and momentum toward his goals.
A 1 Personal Year, 2 Personal Month is highly charged in the areas of romance and friendships. Mike may well meet someone who will touch his heart deeply.
Bloomberg will likely find himself being helpful to others, particularly as a counselor or adviser. The implicit energies of the month give him greater sensitivity to feelings - his as well as those of others. However, this may cause Mike Bloomberg to make mountains out of mole-hills. Still, Mike possesses the ability to gently guide others, and to maintain harmony even in potentially discordant situations.
Mike Bloomberg will be tactful and capable of creating harmony where there was turmoil. But, at times, he may be overly sensitive, and may not handle criticism well.
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Early HIV Therapy in Patients With High CD4 Cell Counts (EARLI)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01479634
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 24, 2011
Last Update Posted : March 4, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Drug: Standard ART Drug: Study-Provided ART
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After dramatic progress in recent years, HIV care for patients in resource limited settings is rapidly evolving to newer models of care delivery. Governments, non-governmental organizations and charitable foundations are placing increasing scrutiny on the programmatic costs associated with delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART). Given these realities, if the global ART roll-out is to continue successfully, we must develop innovative new ways of providing HIV care and ART that are more efficient, more cost-effective, and tightly integrated within country-level health systems. We must treat more patients with fewer resources, and we need sustainable simple models for ART delivery.
These goals can be accomplished building on several existing knowledge points. First, initiating ART at earlier disease stages and at higher CD4+ cell counts may prevent irreversible immunologic damage, prevent opportunistic infections and non-AIDS-associated morbidities, and may prevent death. International and national HIV policy bodies have increasingly recognized this and adjusted recommendations in this direction. Second, ART initiation at higher CD4+ cell counts is less complex, triggers fewer complications, and is less costly to healthcare systems. Third, patients responding to therapy and doing well require fewer physician-administered follow-up visits. This can allow for "task-shifting" to non-MD providers, and the establishment of tiered healthcare delivery down the spectrum of medical acuity. Fourth, the lack of viral load monitoring is responsible for major structural problems in how we deliver ART, causing delays in recognizing ART failure, preventing clinicians from diagnosing HIV drug resistance, and making the decision to switch a patient to a new ART regimen very error-prone.
The EARLI study is a pilot study that will address and investigate all of the above critical issues. This study will focus exclusively on asymptomatic patients with CD4 cell counts ≥250 cells/uL. These relatively healthier individuals are well suited to a more streamlined approach to ART delivery and healthcare provision.
Primary Objectives:
A. To evaluate the 48 week efficacy of ART initiated in asymptomatic individuals with high CD4+ cell counts (CD4+ > 250 cells/uL) and provided in a "streamlined" mode of care.
B. To evaluate the programmatic costs of streamlined ART delivery to asymptomatic high CD4+ count individuals.
Secondary Objectives:
A. To evaluate the 96 week efficacy of ART initiated in high CD4+ cell count individuals.
B. To identify predictors of retention in care among high CD4+ cell count ART initiators.
C. To assess adverse events among high CD4+ cell count ART initiators.
D. To assess medication adherence among high CD4+ cell count ART initiators.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|279 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Early Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource Limited Settings in Patients With High CD4+ Cell Counts (EARLI)
|Study Start Date :
|October 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2015
Active Comparator: Arm A
Treatment for HIV in participants with CD4+ cell counts 250-350 cells/uL
Drug: Standard ART
Standard Ugandan 3-drug antiretroviral therapy regimen consistent with current practices
Active Comparator: Arm B
Treatment for HIV in participants with CD4+ cell counts >350 cells/uL
Drug: Study-Provided ART
Study provided drugs:
Other Names:
- 48-Week Efficacy [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study ]Proportion of patients with virologic suppression (HIV-1 plasma RNA ≤400 copies/cc) at 48 weeks, stratified by study arm.
- Programmatic Costs [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study ]Total estimated costs of provider time, medications, diagnostic testing, and healthcare facility infrastructure per patient treated with ART for one year, stratified by study arm
- 96-Week and 144-Week Efficacy [ Time Frame: When all particiants reach 96 and 144 weeks on study, respectively ]Proportion of patients with virologic suppression (HIV-1 plasma RNA ≤400 copies/cc) at 96 and 144 weeks, stratified by study arm.
- Predictors of Retention in Care [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study, then again 144 weeks on study ]Factors statistically significantly associated with attendance at all scheduled clinical visits throughout the first 48 weeks of ART, and throughout the full 144 week study period, stratified by study arm.
- Adverse Event Rates [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study, then again at 144 weeks ]Describe grade 3 or 4 toxicities (defined by NIH DAIDS scale) that occur throughout the first 48 weeks of ART, and throughout the full 144 week study period, stratified by study arm. These will be assessed by active and passive ascertainment and clinical verification, stratified by study arm.
- Medication Adherence [ Time Frame: When all participants reach 48 weeks on study ]Proportion of total medication doses taken by patients at 48 weeks, assessed by pharmacy refill records, stratified by study arm.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infection diagnosed by a rapid HIV test or any licensed ELISA test kit and documented in the participant's medical chart and re-verified at the time of study screening (hereafter: "screen date").
- Most recent CD4+ cell count ≥ 250 cells/uL:
Arm A: CD4+ cell count 250-350 cells/uL Arm B: CD4+ cell count >350 cells/uL
- Age ≥ 18 years.
- Residence within a 30 kilometer radius of the Bwizibwera HC-IV.
- Willing to initiate ART if the CD4+ cell count is ≥ 350 cells/uL.
The following laboratory values obtained at the screening visit:
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 500 cells/uL
- Hemoglobin ≥ 7.0 g/dL
- Platelet count ≥ 50,000/uL
- ALT (SGPT) ≤ 5 times greater than the upper limit of normal
- Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of ≥ 60 mL/minute by the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula:
eGFR = 186 * Serum creatinine-1.154 * Age-0.203 * [1.21 if African] * [0.742 if female]
- Ability to swallow oral medications.
- Ability and willingness of participant to give informed written consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Receipt at any time prior to study entry of > 7 days cumulative treatment with any ARV or combination of ARVs, except ARVs taken for any length of time during pregnancy for the prevention of mother to child transmission (pMTCT) or ARVs taken for occupational exposure.
- For Arm B participants only: allergy/sensitivity to TDF, FTC, EFV, RTV, LPV or formulations of any of these three medications, or to co-formulated Truvada®.
- Active World Health Organization (WHO) HIV stage 3 or 4 illness
- Pregnancy.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01479634
|Bwizibwera Level IV Health Center
|Bwizibwera, Mbarara district, Uganda
|Study Chair:
|Diane Havlir, MD
|University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
|Principal Investigator:
|Vivek Jain, MD
|University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
|Principal Investigator:
|Moses Kamya, MBChB, MMed, PhD
|Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
Additional Information:
Publications of Results:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01479634 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|November 24, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2016
|Last Verified:
|March 2016
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Welcome to Team Monster.
Control a crack squad of highly trained monster-hunters on the mean streets of Maxville. Your mission: To rescue the town's hapless residents from a deadly plague that transforms them into flesh-eating zombies, blood sucking vampires and flea-bitten werewolves.
Take control of zombie-killing veteran Earl, werewolf-slaying heroine Becky and vampire-hunting motor-mouth Jim-Jim. Armed with a machine-gun, shotgun, steam-blower and a van fitted with an onboard 55mm cannon, make your way through the city clearing out buildings and solving nail-biting puzzles that will push you to the limit and keep you playing like never before.
Briefed by the Governor of Maxville who cares more about his town than his voters, you'll be avoiding fangs, fighting off hunger pangs and dodging claws until you are all that's left of this monster-infested town.
Team Monster - it's Us versus Them.
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One of the defining rituals of my young life was watching the Masters with my father, who was almost as good a golfer as he was a Baptist pastor and hospital chaplain. I drove home from college several times to keep that ritual intact. So, of course, I watched the Masters this weekend. It's a tradition or even a Tradition.
Like many other viewers, I had no idea who to cheer for down the stretch -- the man who made the double eagle (video) or the man who took that historic punch and kept fighting back to win the tournament (video).
The winner, of course, was Bubba Watson, a young man who is a sportswriter's dream -- if the sportswriter is open to writing about a free-swinging Southern family man who has his wife and Tim Tebow on speed-dial instead of super models and world-famous swing coaches.
In the wake of Bubba's stunning win, oceans of ink have been spilled about his tendency to shed an ocean of tears when the spirit moves him, which is early and often. Nevertheless, some journalists have had trouble trying to describe what this man cries about, to describe the thread that connects the elements of his life that keep inspiring all of those tears.
One of the best attempts was over as ESPN, where Gene Wojciechowski came just this close to knocking his Bubba commentary into the hole -- but lipped out.
How best to describe this unique athlete?
Watson refers to his playing style as "Bubba Golf." Bubba Golf doesn't have a conscience. It never plays it safe. It's high risk, high reward, high drama.
That's Bubba's life too. He was a gifted slacker, a golf savant who didn't work hard enough, didn't care hard enough and nearly alienated those closest to him. His caddie and friend, Ted Scott, threatened to walk out on him if Watson didn't clean up his golf act. Watson got the message.
He dedicated his first PGA Tour victory to his father Gerry, who died of throat cancer not long after the 2010 win at The Travelers. If you don't get misty watching Bubba's post-round speech that day, then your tear ducts were removed at birth.
He married the lovely Angie, who told him on their first date that she would never be able to conceive a child. They've spent the past four years working their way through the adoption process, suffering through red tape and heartache.
Of course the adoption came through, shortly before the Masters. Of course Bubba cries just thinking about it.
This leads us to the key passage in the ESPN feature.
He has a twang, a born-again story and the Dukes of Hazzard car, General Lee. He hits the ball farther in one shot than you and me hit it in two. He doesn't know a thing about changing a diaper, which is why he was hoping the green jacket might buy him some time with Angie.
He is unlike anybody else.
"He's just a big kid," said buddy Rickie Fowler. "He's a goofball who likes to have fun. ... But he's a big family man. If you needed something, he'd be there in a drop of a hat."
You got it. That vague "born-again story" reference is as close as this ESPN story came to discussing the factor that Watson describes as the key to his life, his family and his career.
Perhaps the quickest, most concise way to describe this man is the ready-made soundbite he posted as his bio on his Twitter page. That would be this:
"@bubbawatson: Christian. Husband. Daddy. Pro Golfer. Owner of General Lee 1."
If you want to know more about Bubba's brand of Twitter evangelism -- which has been the subject of some controversy online -- you'll need to head over, logically enough, to Baptist Press, which filed its own news story on the Masters.
In April 2011, just before teeing off on the final round of the Masters, Watson took advantage of his social media platform to Tweet out two Bible verses on Sunday morning. He followed that up talking about his faith, his relationship with God, Tweeting out more verses and the impact of Christian artists on his iPod.
Some started complaining about his 140-character witnessing tactics, but Watson's response was simple: Feel free to unfollow, but the talk about God wasn't going away.
Some 100 people quit following him and in true Bubba style, he reached out and wished them well with goodbye notes. ...
When someone tells him "Your God Tweets are lame," Watson responds with, "I will pray for u and ur family."
Once again we see a basic issue in mainstream news coverage of religious believers in public life: When describing what makes these people tick, isn't a good thing for journalists to include their own voices as part of the coverage?
Now hear me say this: Their words are not the whole story, of course. However, it's hard to make a case for ignoring their voices, the voices of the ultimate stakeholders in news stories about their lives.
UPDATE: The usually faith-sensitive Rick Reilly also manages to paint a vivid picture of Bubba -- without any Godtalk. Amazing.
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If anyone deserves something special this holiday season, it's the folks who've been keeping you so well-fed all year. Heck, we bet they're in the kitchen right now, whipping up a batch of gingerbread cookies or planning the turkey dinner. So pamper the hardworking cook on your list with some new cookware, delicious nibblies or an endless supply of farm-fresh veggies. Here are some ideas to get you started.
A passion for purple
Any cook worth their fleur de sel will want one of Le Creuset's gorgeous enamelled pots, especially when it comes in this season's most fashionable colour, cassis. This rich, dark purple hue is a beautiful addition to any kitchen. And even better, it goes perfectly with all those lovely wine-soaked stews and braises we're craving at this time of year. Le Creuset in cassis is available in various styles ranging from a 26 cm square skillet grill ($175) to a 6.9-litre round French oven ($385). For more information, visit www.LeCreuset.ca.
Mmmmmelted cheese
What is it about ooey, gooey melted cheese that makes it so ideal for entertaining? With T-fal's 2 in 1 Raclette, guests can gather round as cheese melts in the little removable nonstick compartments, then slather it deliciously all over vegetables, meat or bread they grill on top ($99.99 at The Bay, Home Outfitters and Canadian Tire). Or they can dunk forkfuls of bread into the molten fromage bubbling away in All-Clad's fabulous fondue pot. It's a stainless steel pot with a three-litre ceramic insert that promises efficient and uniform heat, as well as handy slots for the forks. Suggested retail price $215; visit www.all-clad.ca to find a store near you.
Perfect preserves
Breakfast will never be ordinary again thanks to Jamie Oliver's marvelous marmalade. Britons are famous for the citrusy spread, and this celebrity chef's fine-cut version is one of the best - all sweet and tart and just bitter enough to be interesting. Jme Seville Orange Marmalade is part of the Jme Pantry Collection It retails for $28.95 at Williams Sonoma (www.williams-sonoma.ca).
Cookware that really cooks
If you have a serious cook around the house, you will earn their undying love (not to mention a lifetime of gourmet meals) by bestowing upon them some truly terrific cookware. An All-Clad Copper Core cookware set is not just any old collection of pots and pans. It is the definitive chef gift, with five-ply construction of stainless steel interior cooking surface, two aluminum layers, a copper core and a polished stainless steel exterior. It is also the first and only induction compatible copper cookware. Available in seven-, 10- and 14-piece sets at a suggested retail price of $1,110 to $2,500. For more information about All-Clad or to find a retailer in your area visit www.all-clad.ca.
Pudding, please
Oh, bring us some figgy pudding - especially if it's the Fortnum and Mason St. James Plum Pudding, a much-loved holiday tradition across the pond. It's $21 at Holt Renfrew, which is also carrying the Fortnum and Mason Musical Cookie Tin, $27, www.holtrenfrew.com. Mind you, we're also awfully tempted by the Williams Sonoma Sticky Toffee Pudding Mix and Mold, a moist date sponge cake and caramel sauce made according to an old family recipe from England's Lake District, $38, www.williams-sonoma.ca.
Decorative arts
Give the baker in the family a Kuhn Rikon Pastry Decorative Set and watch 'em start decorating desserts like a pro. This set features a large pastry gun that can frost an entire cake without refilling, along with 12 plastic and two stainless steel tips that can create ribbons, stars, flowers, lettering and more. It also has a handy frosting spatula as well as two decorating bottles for creating accents. Available for $45 at Cookworks, www.cookworks.ca.
We all scream for . . .
For the ultimate in home-cooking decadence, nothing beats a really good ice cream maker. Just think of the fresh fruits, the exotic flavours, the cream and eggs and chocolate that could be mixed and chilled to sweet perfection. We especially love the ice cream makers from Cuisinart. The Pure Indulgence Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker whips up two litres of fabulous frozen delights in 25 minutes or less (for about $99), while the Supreme Commercial Quality Ice Cream Maker has a built-in compressor-freezer, so there's no bowl to pre-freeze and it'll produce batch after batch (about $329). For more info, visit www.cuisinart.ca.
The perfect slice
No kitchen tool is as important as a really good knife. While there are perfectly good factory-made versions on the market, for the Ferrari of knives you want a handmade, carbon steel Japanese blade - just the sort of thing Kevin Kent carries at his Calgary store Knifewear. His knives are true works of art that can slice through just about anything, which is why chefs are clamouring for them, especially when visiting knife makers come from Japan to lead workshops at the shop. It's best if you can drop by to practise for a while and discover your knifely soulmate, but if you're not heading to Cowtown anytime soon, you can still order online. Prices range from about $200 to about $1,400 at www.knifewear.com.
A taste of Paris
A visit to the fine food emporium Fauchon is a delicious stop during any trip to the City of Light. Now you can bring the taste of Paris home with the gourmet goodies that Holt Renfrew has brought in for the holidays. You won't be able to resist Fauchon's assorted preserves, $32, Un Soir de Noel tea blend, $46, caramel pack, $35, and Almond Past Christmas calisson, $35, www.holtrenfrew.com.
Fresh veggies
Support your local farmers and provide your favourite cook with endless produce by investing in Community Supported Agriculture (or Community Shared Agriculture). With a CSA, you pay a fee at the start of the growing season then receive "shares" in the form of fresh veggies throughout the year. You never know what will be in the weekly grocery box - spinach, peppers, onions, carrots, tomatoes - and that's half the fun. There are CSAs all over Canada, and you can find them through databases like the Ontario CSA Directory (http://csafarms.ca/) or Farm Folk City Folk in B.C. (www.ffcf.bc.ca). Prices vary, but the support or farmers - not to mention the yummy produce - is worth every penny.


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Two walks, one intentional and hit batter combined to load the basesfor Campbell in the 10th. Kevin Nelson hit a ground ball to the left side of Lipscomb shortstop Kyle Henry who was not able to make a play, missing potential double play that would have ended the inning. Instead, the grounder by Campbell's Kevin Nelson brought in Alan Denman with the winning run.
The Bisons end both the series and the season Friday at noon with a doubleheader against the Camels.
First baseman Ryan Wilkins led the Bisons with two hits. They finished with nine for the game. Left fielder M.L. Williams had the only extra base hit for the Bisons, a double, his 10th of the year.
Senior right-hander Josh Smith made his last start of his career for the Bisons. He pitched seven innings and gave up eight hits and four runs, three earned. He walked one and struck out nine. He did not get a decision.
Alex Ross pitched the final 2.1 innings. He gave up one hit and one earned run to take the loss. His record is 2-4. He walked two batters and did not record a strikeout.
The Bisons are 18-35 overall, 8-16 in the A-Sun. Campbell is 27-26 overall, 7-18 in the conference.
The Atlantic Sun baseball tournament begins Wednesday at Lipscomb's Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium.


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Submarine Veterans will meet at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, at VFW Post 3282, 5810 S. Williamson Blvd., Port Orange.
Join the group in remembrance of those still "overdue; presumed lost."
For more information, call (901) 229-2077.
Charity horse ride Jan. 14
The third annual Ride for Hope Reins will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, at Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Park, 2317 Creek Shore Trail, New Smyrna Beach.
Participants may ride their own horse or use one of Marcody Ranch's horses. Participants pay $40 to ride their own horses or $75 with horse rental.
All proceeds benefit Hope Reins.
For more information, email Natalie Eisenhut at firstname.lastname@example.com, call
(386) 846-3515 or visit hopereinsinc.org.
Veterans post seeks speakers
The Father Charles Waters Post 1962 of the Catholic War Veterans is looking for speakers and entertainers for its meetings the last Monday of the month at 1920 Mason Ave.Emery L. Bennet Veterans Nursing Home.
For more information, call (386) 255-3814 or asktravVolusia County's master gardeners will share winter gardening tips and answer questions during plant clinics in January.
Residents can bring their plants or clippings for a free check-up.
?2 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the Port Orange Regional Library, 1005 City Center Circle.
?9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, at Sugar Mill Gardens, 950 Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange.
For more information, call the Volusia County Extension Service at (386) 822-5778.
Sugar Mill DAR meets
The Sugar Mill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the Port Orange Christian Church, 904 Taylor Road.
The program will be "Women's Issues in History" presented by Niki Byram.
For more information, call Regent Betty Stecker at (386) 882-5291.
Program in the Park
The Town of Ponce Inlet will host a Program in the Park, "Night Sky Tour," by the Museum of Arts and Sciences at 6:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at Ponce Preserve, 4401 S. Peninsula Ave.
For more information, call Amy Zengotita (386) 236-2163.
Vietnam Veterans of America to meet
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1048 will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at VFW 3282, at 5810 S. Williamson Blvd., in Port Orange.
Arrive early for social time, all veterans welcome.
For more information, contact Rod Phillips at email@example.com, (386) 690-9553 or visit vva1048.com.
Fundraiser planned to benefit IDignity Volusia
IDignity Volusia will host a pancake breakfast fundraiser at 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at Applebee's, 1390 Dunlawton Ave., Port Orange.
Tickets are $7 for a meal with pancakes, sausage, coffee and juice.
Proceeds benefit IDignity Volusia, a non-profit, volunteer organization that helps obtain Florida identification cards and licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, replacement immigration records and other documents.
The next client event will be Friday, Jan. 26, at Port Orange Presbyterian Church, 4662 Clyde Morris Blvd. Intake is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and individuals are served on a first-come, first-served basis. Those interested in attending are encouraged to arrive early as capacity is limited.
For tickets to the pancake breakfast, call (386) 788-1111.
For more information, visit volusia.idignity.org.
Library plans free computer classes
Adults can pick up new computer skills during free classes at the Port Orange Regional Library, 1005 City Center Circle.
January's classes include:
?Computer basics 2: Intro to Windows and the internet: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16
?Hoopla, Access Video on Demand, and Freegal Music: 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17
?Windows 10 overview: 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18
?Computer basics 3: Intro to file handling and storage: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23
?Introduction to Overdrive: 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24
?iPad basics: 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25
?Introduction to Excel: 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30 ?Skype overview: 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31
Computers will be provided, but participants may bring their own laptops or other portable computing devices. The library has free Wi-Fi throughout the building.
Nine spots are available for each session. Registration is required; call (386) 322-5152, option 4.
Annual Empty Bowls and Silent Auction
The 10th Annual Empty Bowls Event a benefit to help Halifax Urban Ministries overcome hunger in Volusia Co., will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at Bethune Cookman'sCenter for Civic Engagement located at 740 W. International Speedway Blvd.
Tickets are $20 and are available online at HalifaxUrbanMinistries.org or at Jennings Insurance Office 109 Magnolia St., New Smyrna Beach, Halifax Urban Ministries, 54 S. Ridgewood Ave., Ormond Beach, or 215 Bay St., Daytona Beach.
Library friends seek left over greeting cards
The Friends of the Port Orange Library are collecting new Christmas cards, including the envelopes.
Do not go out and buy cards just to donate, the Friends are only asking for any extra cards. They are trying to reduce, reuse and recycle. Cards for other occasions are welcome, too. Cards are cut down into bookmarks used to make gift boxes and for various craft projects.
They can also use all of those cards and stickers sent from various organizations. Donated cards can be left at the Circulation Desk at the library at City Center.
Realtors playing poker for ?the cause'
The Daytona Beach Area Association of Realtors' Sold 4 the Cause will host its inaurugal Texas Hold ?em Tournament from 5:10 to 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, at Daytona Beach Racing & Card Club, 960 S. Williamson Blvd., Daytona Beach.
The event is presented by Lynn Byrne of 1st Florida Realty Lynn Byrne, Susan Summers of Century 21 Sun-dance Realty and the card club.
Cocktail hour and hor d'oeuvres begin at 5:10 p.m. Cards in the air at 6:10 p.m.
Poker spectators tickets are $25. Early player registration is $95 through Jan. 15. Player registration is $125. Player seats and sponsorships are available.
For information, call (386) 566-7503. To register, visit https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg? oeidk=a07eeo43tp02f-135d63&oseq=&c=&ch=.
County plans Explore Volusia programs
Learn about Volusia County's conservation lands and land management practices during free Explore Volusia programs in January.
Reservations are required; call (386) 736-5927.
Upcoming events include:
?Hickory Bluff Preserve paddle: 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 12. Explore the ecosystems of the St. Johns River during a leisurely paddling trip. Bring a canoe, kayak or stand-up paddleboard along with a life preserver and whistle. Meet at 598 Guise Road, Osteen.
?Beach cleanup: 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13. Start the new year right by cleaning the beach at Mary McLeod Bethune Beach Park. Bring a bucket and gloves. All ages are welcome. Minors must be accompanied by an adult. Contact Laura Albert at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information. Meet at 6656 S. Atlantic Ave., New Smyrna Beach.
?Eco-buggy tour: 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17. Learn about land management practices while riding through the diverse ecosystem of the 1,400-acre Wire-grass Prairie Preserve, which is almost entirely in the St. Johns River valley. Meet at 1751 Lopez Road, Osteen. Do not use a GPS to find the location.
?Guided hike of Lake Ashby Park: 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18. Take a walk through cypress swamp on Lake Ashby's boardwalk. Participants will learn about the importance of swamp habitats while enjoying the beauty of nature. Meet at 4150 Boy Scout Camp Road, New Smyrna Beach.
Participants should bring water and insect repellent. They should wear comfortable clothes and hiking or walking shoes.
Former state representative declares for Congress
Former State Rep. Fred Costello has declared his campaign for the Sixth Congressional District of Florida.
Mr. Costello, who also served as mayor of Ormond Beach for eight years, announced his candidacy at Rockefeller Park, which he led the way as mayor in restoring the park adjacent to The Casements.
He has been a dentist in Ormond Beach for many years and served in the U.S. Air Force.
The Sixth District includes Volusia and Flagler counties and part of St. Johns and Lake counties.
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I can not change the past, I can not predict the future, All I can do is live in my Integrity today.
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Honesty Respect
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Happiness Trust
Nobility Sincerity
Faith Courage
Strength Confidence
Kindness Positivism
Personal Growth
The sorting hat says that I belong in Hufflepuff!
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same."
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Fleeting and forever, true to a city that won't forget
Last Tuesday afternoon, the weather in Copley Square was as nice as weather can get in New England: sunny, dry, warm enough for shirtsleeves. So people filled the square: strolling, window-shopping, eating outdoors, sunning themselves on the grassy sward next to the impromptu memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. Many others visited the memorial. The sense of resumed normality in a space so recently filled with devastation could itself be seen as a kind of memorial — one looking to the present and future, as a traditional memorial looks to the past.
Three metal railings: the Boston Marathon memorial
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The nice weather wasn't supposed to last, as anyone caught in Wednesday's noontime downpour would learn. So that morning five city archivists had removed certain fragile items from the memorial to be preserved in the city's archives in West Roxbury.
City workers assembled the memorial in late April, bringing together smaller memorials from sites around Boston. People have continued adding items to it.
As the site of the bombings, Copley Square was the obvious location for a consolidated memorial. Yet no urban planner or museum curator could have picked a better setting for this particular constellation of objects. Three of the most magnificent buildings on the continent define the square: the Boston Public Library's McKim Building, the John Hancock Tower, and Trinity Church. They are imposing in the best sense of the word. They command attention and reward it. Their monumentality makes all the more affecting the modesty of the memorial and the homeliness of the items that make it up.
Part of the wonder of the memorial is that "memorial" seems like far too grand a word for it. It's small (roughly 60 feet square) and formed by nothing more exalted than three metal railings, the kind police normally use for crowd control. Here there's no need for control. Visitors are respectful and engaged without being solemn.
Against the railings or hanging from them are shirts, running shoes, flags, pieces of paper, banners, stuffed animals, balloons, pinwheels, bouquets of flowers. Many of the objects bear handwritten messages. Within the space formed by the barriers, there are another dozen or so gatherings of items. On a tree, for example, hang rosary beads and origami figures.
In neither appearance nor scale could the memorial less resemble its mighty neighbors. It's anything but imposing. The fact that so many passersby can ignore it is one indication of that. But that very fact suggests how quickly, and fittingly, it has braided itself into daily urban life.
To someone unaware of what happened last month, this assemblage would look like a cross between a yard sale and a florist's. Which is kind of wonderful, and which the contrast with the lofty surroundings makes even more kind of wonderful. There's such a sense of humanity and personality to the memorial. Like the Marathon, it's deeply, almost defiantly, democratic.
At some future date, the city intends to take down the memorial. No decision has been made yet as to when. Items in it are likely to be included in a permanent replacement. Some people are eager for the memorial's removal. The term "trash heap" has been used. Others see taking it down as disrespectful or even a desecration. Both views seem excessive.
The items may be naturally emphemeral, but that can make their presence all the more poignant. The fact that so many bouquets have started to dry out recalls the traditional commemorative practice of preserving flowers from momentous personal occasions: marriage, birth, a funeral. That said, flowers and shirts and scraps of paper aren't meant to last. What is meant to last are the emotions attached to them. And for that to happen no memorial is necessary.
It's least of all necessary in this particular city. In the immediate aftermath of the bombings, there was much talk along the lines of "They picked the wrong city when they picked Boston!" It was a kind of boast, and however unintentionally, it carried invidious implications. So there would be a right city? Fresno, perhaps? Atlanta (which had a sports-related bombing of its own)?
For all that it expresses a fine sentiment, "Boston Strong" is another boast. But there's a specific sense in which Boston is more than strong, it's indisputably strongest — at least among US cities. That's as regards memory. It's more than the city having such a long history. It's the way in which remembering is embedded in its psyche. No city so notorious for grudge-holding could ever be accused of having a poor memory.
First came the Puritans, people in exile who prized the written word. Words are how we remember, and there is no goad to remembering like exile. They founded and defined a city. Then came the Irish, a people in exile who prized the spoken word. They took over the city and redefined it. Except that they didn't — redefine it, that is. Irish Catholicism is Jansenist — Catholic Puritanism — and the close resemblance in values between the two groups contributed no small amount to the friction between them. Brick churches succeeded wooden ones. Vowels in surnames started appearing in unexpected places. The imperative to remember didn't change. If anything, it strengthened. Boston has many failings. Forgetting has never been one of them.
For all that the Copley Square memorial comprises so many ephemeral items, there's nothing ephemeral about the motivation behind it, the refusal to forget. The memorial will come down, as it should, though there's no hurry. The memory of it will remain strong.