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People power: Asking the right questions and channeling your anger into holding those in power accountable is our only weapon.
Like most of you, I don't have answers. I only have questions. I ask them all the time, increasing in frequency and frustration. Like you, I am emboldened because I know that I am asking the right questions. I know that I am holding the right people accountable. I know that I am being force-fed information that is false. I know when I am being lied to, when my taxes are being stolen, when the very people sworn to protect me are the same ones who are out to get me.
And just like you, I feel helpless because no one seems to give a flying f**k about it.
It has only been 1.5 years since President Duterte came to power. I think many of us will agree that this is 1.5 years too long. The others who don't, well, I quite frankly don't know why that is. You don't have to support the President or hate him to see what is going on. The police are dirtier than ever, killing alleged criminals and innocent teenagers like flies. Meanwhile, a man accused of smuggling billions of pesos worth of drugs gets to defend his innocence, simply because he is the son of the most powerful man in the land. The opposition is smeared for their plots to overthrow the administration — never mind that these "plots" seem to exist in the same dimension as George R.R. Martin's next book. (Sorry, GRRM.) Meanwhile, a bureaucrat in a wig is caught shamelessly plotting the downfall of a political enemy, then claims that he's been wiretapped simply because their smartphone fonts are at 72-point Helvetica. Early this week, the House of Representatives defunded three government agencies — including the Commission on Human Rights — and reduced their budgets to a laughable P1,000. Meanwhile, Oplan Tokhang was awarded P900 million to "reload" its drug war operations.
I wish I could tell you that there is comfort to find amid all of this. I wish that all the crazy things I've just mentioned didn't happen in the last month. I wish I could say that these are the only bad things happening in our communities, that we didn't just honor a dictator's birthday, or that we awarded a billion pesos to a public entity that never bothered to learn what the Labor Department's logo is. I wish I could say that things were any better in the previous administrations, that we were never lied to before or robbed of our hard-earned money. I wish that we didn't have reasons to be so goddamn angry anymore.
We can't afford that kind of privilege these days, I'm afraid. We can no longer hide in our comfortable homes and pretend that none of this is happening. We can't afford to be silenced after being accused of being pro- or anti-government, just because other people (read: older people) think there is no place for us in politics. It is not a time to hide nor should we regress to our old, ignorant ways.
Our generation was born with a power that the old guard didn't realize we could wield: information. As much as the word grosses me out, we have the ability to be — sorry in advance — woke. We ought to use it to our advantage. We have the power to make them realize that they are just as vulnerable as they make us feel, because we have an eye on every dirty trick up their sleeves. To paraphrase writer Alan Moore, why should we be afraid of the government, when the government should be afraid of us?
Like I said, I don't have answers, only questions. So now, I pose this challenge: what do we do? The first step, I believe, is anger — either stay there or get there. Channel that rage into holding those in power accountable. Contact your representatives; demand that your voice be heard. Speak up in the face of injustice, stand up for those who cannot do so themselves. I can't guarantee that this will be easy, and there are days — many days — when our efforts will feel worthless. Even when we feel like winning, sometimes it will feel like no one gives a f**k anyway.
That is not true. We do. So tell them.
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Google's Penguin algorithm update has impacted several travel affiliate websites. What did all those travel sites have in common? A search engine optimization (SEO) strategy that depended heavily on a non-diverse link profile with a majority of their links coming from low quality sites with over-optimized anchor text.
As a result, many businesses were decimated by Penguin, just like Panda before it. These sites won't recover the organic traffic and rankings they once had unless they do some cleaning up and reinvent their online marketing strategy.
Now the focus for travel sites should be on how to create and implement a comprehensive inbound marketing strategy (although many of these principles apply to other segments) to not only recover from an algorithm hit, but to avoid one altogether.
In travel, the search engine results pages (SERPs) – especially on Google, less so on Bing – for high volume keywords are unsurprisingly dominated by big brands such as Expedia, Kayak, Priceline, etc. Smaller travel sites found their way into the SERPs by using exact match domains, link building practices that are now outdated, or by pursuing extremely narrow niches.
Other travel sites sidestepped the SERPs entirely by going with a 100 percent pay-per-click (PPC) model and built successful businesses using this approach. Organic visits and rankings weren't a priority as they felt their resources were better spent increasing the reach of their paid campaigns.
However, as more players with deep pockets and vast resources enter the online travel space, the increased competition is greatly impacting the PPC business model. Over a three year period, based on data from some of our PPC partners, they have seen an average cost-per-click and average ad positions increasing over 40 percent. As a result, margins are razor thin and the trend shows no signs of changing.
Most travel affiliates don't have a contingency plan for the day when their PPC model is no longer profitable. Not to mention having a plan for growing the business beyond what PPC can do by itself. Sure, some sites implement some basic SEO best practices, but few think about a more complete approach to marketing their site.
In order to grow and sustain success in the competitive online travel space, travel sites need to be better at attracting visitors from a variety of sources and get better at converting the traffic they have.
Looking at online marketing as just PPC and SEO isn't enough anymore. In a post-Panda and Penguin landscape, sites need to be better than that.
Successful travel sites will look at online marketing as a holistic effort that includes as many pieces of inbound marketing as possible – SEO, content, social media, conversion, user experience, on-site merchandising, just to name a few.
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- SEO. It isn't going anywhere, but it's changing quickly. The sooner sites realize old tricks no longer work, the sooner they can focus their resources on SEO that will make a difference.
- Build a brand. This is a necessity for success. What does your site offer that is unique? Why would someone visit your site and transact with you over a bigger, more established brand? A robust and strategic inbound marketing campaign will result in a strong brand identity, more customer loyalty, and link building will be a natural and Penguin-proof process.
- Content. It makes the entire inbound effort come together. Whether it's blogs, webinars, quality landing page copy, or videos, content is what adds value and distinguishes your site from others. Create content that is interesting for your customer base and don't be afraid to be interesting.
- Optimize for conversion. Making your user experience as good as possible and using better merchandising increases the chances of getting a transaction. By doing this, you will increase your profitability by turning those users you've been working so hard to get by turning them into customers.
- Social media. Use this to interact with your existing customer base, find new ones, diversify your sources of traffic, and even rank better on search engines. In order to see the benefits, it's essential to add value and encourage sharing of your content. Social shares are only going to grow in importance.
While many travel affiliates are nervous about the future, algorithm updates like Penguin should be seen as an opportunity to review your online marketing strategy. Those that see where online marketing is going will outpace their competitors.
Is your site taking an inbound marketing approach?
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Dear Editor:President Obama said he wants to make sure he got this straight - Romney will get rid of regulations on Wall Street but he's going to crack down on Sesame Street. I'm more than happy to straighten the president out. No, he did not get it right. What Romney said was that he would not borrow money from China to support Big Bird. To clarify: he said he loves Big Bird but instead of being indebted to China so that our children could watch a show, he feels one of us here in this country would support something this loved by our children. Now does the president understand the difference? Maybe he doesn't and that's why we're in trouble. Any more questions that only require common sense, I'd be glad to help. Loretta Scott Downey
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Conventional dentures can be placed on both top and bottom dental arches. They are made from plastic materials that resemble natural teeth and gum tissues, and they adhere to your jaws through suction forces. After any remaining teeth are removed, a healing period is observed so that the changing bone and gum tissues can stabilize. When healing is complete, conventional dentures can be made.
Immediate dentures are inserted in the mouth on the same day the last teeth are extracted. Immediate dentures can be advantageous because you never have to go without teeth, even during the healing period. After the tissues have change shape during healing and stabilized, the dentures are refitted through a process called a reline. Immediate dentures are a popular means of quickly going from a very unhealthy situation to a beautiful smile.
The absolute best type of denture involves implant placement to secure the dentures to your jaws. After teeth are removed and implants are surgically placed, dentures can be made which clip into the implants. Overdentures are the standard of care in denture treatments and are by far the most comfortable and secure type of denture available. If you have ill-fitting dentures that are uncomfortable, come see us for a consultation. In many cases, existing dentures can be converted into overdentures by placing implants and slightly modifying your existing denture to accommodate the clip attachments.


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Asset Tracking, Trailer Tracking and Container Tracking. Monitor Working Hours, Fuel Levels, Engine Hours with Service Due Alerts, Security Alerts and more.
It has long been recognised that asset tracking plays an important part in engineering plant and heavy equipment security, however many of the wider benefits are seldom explored.
Unfortunately the majority of engineering plant and heavy equipment are not remotely monitored, leaving at risk of avoidable failure, fraudulent use, neglect or theft.
Hired equipment can only generate revenue when it is in use, and equipment failure, non-availability, and fraudulent use, are the biggest sources of lost revenue in the industry.
Managing these issues and ensuring the maximum up-time of equipment can put unnecessary strain on a company's engineering resources, especially as equipment is often be moved from site to site without the knowledge of the provider.
Many companies would like to improve the ways in which they manage their plant and equipment, and being able to combine affordable remote monitoring with asset tracking is identified as the most viable way of improving profitability while strengthening customer relationships.
"ITS" monitoring units can provide validation of usage periods and negate fraudulent use, while monitoring critical equipment functions and automatically reporting problems to managers before they become critical and result in lost revenue.


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TWA Flight 847
A TWA Boeing 727-200 similar to the aircraft involved in the hijacking.
|Hijacking summary
|June 14, 1985
|Greek airspace
|Aircraft type
|Boeing 727-231
|Trans World Airlines
|Flight origin
|Cairo International Airport
|1st stopover
|Athens (Ellinikon) Int'l Airport
|2nd stopover
|Leonardo da Vinci Int'l Airport
|3rd stopover
|Boston Logan Airport
|4th stopover
|Los Angeles International Airport
|San Diego International Airport
Trans World Airlines Flight 847 was a flight from Cairo to San Diego with en route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles.[1] On the morning of Friday, June 14, 1985 Flight 847 was hijacked by members of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad shortly after take off from Athens. The hijackers were seeking the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody.[1]
The passengers and crew endured a three-day intercontinental ordeal. Some passengers were threatened and some beaten. Passengers with Jewish-sounding names were moved apart from the others. United States Navy diver Robert Stethem was killed, and his body was thrown onto the tarmac. Dozens of passengers were held hostage over the next two weeks until released by their captors after some of their demands were met.
Hijacking events
Flight 847 was operated with a Boeing 727-200, registration N64339.[2] The flight originated in Cairo on the morning of June 14. After uneventful flight from Cairo to Athens, a new crew boarded Flight 847. The new crew in Athens were Captain John Testrake, First Officer Philip Maresca, Flight Engineer Christian Zimmermann, Flight Service Manager Uli Derickson, Flight Attendant Judith Cox, Flight Attendant Hazel Hesp, Flight Attendant Elizabeth Howes, and Flight Attendant Helen Sheahan.[3]
At 10:10am, Flight 847 departed Athens for Rome. It was commandeered shortly after takeoff by two Arabic-speaking Lebanese men who had smuggled a pistol and two grenades through the Athens airport security. One was later identified as Mohammed Ali Hamadi, who was later captured and sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.[4]
To Beirut, then Algiers
The plane was diverted from its original destination of Rome, in airspace over Greece, to the Middle East and made its first stop, for several hours, at the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, where 19 passengers were allowed to leave in exchange for fuel. Shortly before landing, air traffic control initially refused to let them land in Beirut. Captain Testrake argued with air traffic control until they relented.
"He has pulled a hand-grenade pin and is ready to blow up the aircraft if he has to. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut. We must land at Beirut. No alternative."[5]
During this time, Lebanon was in the midst of a civil war, and Beirut was divided into sectors controlled by different Shia militia Amal and Hezbollah.
That afternoon, the aircraft continued on across the Mediterranean to Algiers, Algeria, where 20 passengers were released during a five-hour stop before heading back to Beirut that night.
Back to Beirut
Beirut International Airport, surrounded by a Shia neighborhood, had no perimeter security, which had been over-run by Islamic militias, and nearby residents could simply drive onto the runway. The hijackers had systematically and regularly beaten all the military passengers, but during this stop they selected U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem, beat him, shot him in the right temple, and dumped his body out of the plane onto the ramp and shot him again, seeking permission from other Shia Muslims operating the control tower to obtain more fuel. Seven American passengers, alleged to have Jewish-sounding surnames, were taken off the jet and held hostage in a Shia prison in Beirut.[6]
Algiers, Beirut again
Nearly a dozen well-armed men joined the hijackers before the plane returned to Algiers the following day, Saturday, 15 June,[1] where an additional 65 passengers and all five female cabin crew members (flight attendants and purser) were released.
The hijackers wished to fly to Tehran, but mysteriously returned to Beirut for a third time on Sunday afternoon, 16 June, and remained there for unknown reasons. (The pilot working as Flight Engineer deemed this portion of events could be dangerous to any who may be involved in future situations. The other pilots agreed with him to withhold details of his actions from the media.)
The initial demands of the hijackers included:
- the release of the "Kuwait 17," those involved in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Kuwait[7]
- the release of all 766 mainly Lebanese Shias transferred to Israel's Atleat Prison in conjunction with immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon[1][8]
- international condemnation of Israel and the United States[1]
The Greek government released the accomplice, Ali Atwa, and in exchange the hijackers released eight Greek citizens, including Greek pop singer Demis Roussos, to be flown by a Greek government business jet from Algiers back to Athens.
By Monday afternoon, June 17, the 40 remaining hostages had been taken from the plane and held hostage throughout Beirut by the Hezbollah. Nabih Berri was the chief of the Amal militia and the Minister of Justice in the fractured Lebanon cabinet. One of the hostages was released when he developed heart trouble. The other 39 remained captive until intervention by US President Ronald Reagan with Lebanese officials on 30 June, when they and the pilots held captive on the airplane were collected in a local schoolyard and met with international journalists, then driven to Syria by the International Red Cross to the Sheraton Hotel and a press conference in Damascus. The hostages then boarded a U.S. Air Force C-141B Starlifter cargo plane and flew to Rhein-Main AB, West Germany, where they were met by US Vice President George H. W. Bush, debriefed and given medical examinations, then flown in a TWA Lockheed non-stop to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home by President and Mrs. Reagan (accompanied by Reagan's Chief of Staff Donald Regan). Over the next several weeks, Israel released over 700 Shia prisoners, while maintaining that the prisoners' release was not related to the hijacking.[9]
The iconic image of this hijacking was a photograph showing a gun being held to a pilot's head, sticking out of the cockpit window, while all three pilots were being interviewed by reporters. The scene was interrupted by one of the French-speaking Hezbollah guards left by the hijackers to hold the crew after most passengers and the cabin crew had been released in Algiers, and the remaining men were held in captivity elsewhere in Beirut. The young militiaman may have unloaded the gun before crashing the scene, as he primarily wanted to be on television.[10]
Flight attendant Uli Derickson was credited with calming one of the hijackers during a fuel-quantity incident during the first leg to Beirut, because of her German language ability, the only common language either man had. Neither of whom spoke English. Notably, she interrupted an attempt to end the hijacking in Algiers when airport officials refused to refuel the plane without payment by offering her own Shell Oil credit card, which was used to charge about $5,500 for 6,000 gallons of jet fuel, for which she was reimbursed. She also refused to cooperate with the hijackers in identifying passports with Jewish-sounding names so they could not be singled out.
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Alleged perpetrators
Hezbollah specialist Magnus Ranstorp of the University of St. Andrews credits "leading" Hezbollah members Hassan Izz-Al-Din (later involved in the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 hijacking in 1988) and Mohammed Ali Hammadi whose brother was one of the heads of the Hezbollah SSA (Special Security Apparatus). Iran assisting Hezbollah operatives in the "supervision and planning of the incident itself and as an active participant in the defusion and resolution."[8]
On October 10, 2001, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, three of the alleged hijackers, Imad Mugniyah, Ali Atwa and Hassan Izz-Al-Din, having been earlier indicted in United States district courts for the 1985 skyjacking of the American airliner, were among the original 22 fugitives announced by President George W. Bush to be placed on the newly formed FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. Rewards of $5 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Atwa and Izz-Al-Din are still being offered by the United States.
Another of the hijackers, Mohammed Ali Hammadi, was arrested in 1987 in Frankfurt, Germany (then West Germany), while attempting to smuggle liquid explosives, two years after the TWA Flight 847 attack. In addition to the West German charge of illegal importation of explosives, he was tried and convicted of Stethem's 1985 murder and was sentenced to life in prison. However, he was paroled and released by German officials on December 20, 2005, and returned to Lebanon.[11][12] There has been speculation that his parole was granted as part of a covert prisoner swap, in exchange for the release of Susanne Osthoff. Taken hostage in Iraq a month prior, Osthoff was released the week of Hammadi's parole.[13] On February 14, 2006 the United States formally asked the Lebanese government to extradite Mohammed Ali Hammadi for Stethem's murder.[14] On February 24, 2006, he appeared as well on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, under the name Mohammed Ali Hamadei. He was among the second group of indicted fugitives to be named by the FBI to the list.[15]
Several news outlets reported the announcement by Hezbollah of the death of Imad Mugniyah in a car bomb explosion in Syria on February 13, 2008.[16] The remaining three fugitives from TWA Flight 847 remain on the list, and at large.
Hezbollah reportedly denies culpability in the TWA Flight 847 attack, among its denials of numerous other attacks which have been attributed to the group. Still, the FBI wanted posters of each of the indicted fugitives alleges their individual membership or leadership role in the organization the FBI names as "Lebanese Hezbollah," which it plainly then calls a "terrorist organization."
- The Delta Force film of 1986 is based on the TWA 847 hijacking.
- The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story is a 1988 TV movie based on the incident focusing on the role of flight attendant Uli Derickson (played by Lindsay Wagner).
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Smith, William E. June 24, 2001. Terror Aboard Flight 847. TIME Magazine. Retrieved: 24 November 2012.
- ↑ "FAA Registry". Federal Aviation Administration.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ See Hostage in a Hostage World: Hope aboard Hijacked TWA 847 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1985) for Zimmermann's account of this experience.
- ↑ New York Sun editorial
- ↑ "He's Pulled a Grenade Pin". The New York Times. Associated Press. June 15, 1985. Retrieved May 23, 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Lebanon Hostage crisis
- ↑ "Hijacking of TWA Flight 1847". PBS. Retrieved 12 January 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ranstorp, Magnus, Hizb'allah in Lebanon : The Politics of the Western Hostage Crisis, New York, St. Martins Press, 1997, p.95
- ↑ Lebanon, the hostage crisis
- ↑ Terror Mastermind's deception cause for skepticism, CNN.COM, February 14, 2008
- ↑ Germany paroles terrorist after 19-year term, MSNBC
- ↑ Will Germany Release an American-Killer?, January 27, 2004
- ↑ Freed Osthoff Not Heading Home Yet. Spiegel. Dec. 19, 2005
- ↑ US 'seeks justice' for hijacker, BBC News
- ↑ FBI updates most wanted terrorists and seeking information – War on Terrorism Lists, FBI national Press Release, February 24, 2006
- ↑ Hezbollah: Top militant wanted by U.S. slain, MSNBC February 13, 2008
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Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement
Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement made on behalf of the Coventry Building Society and its subsidiaries Godiva Mortgages Limited and ITL Mortgages Limited further to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015
Coventry Building Society is a financial services provider based in Coventry, United Kingdom. The Society provides retail savings products, and the Society and its wholly owned subsidiaries Godiva Mortgages Limited and ITL Mortgages Limited (together 'the Society') provide mortgage products. The Society does not have a presence outside the United Kingdom.
The Society has been looking after our members' finances for over 130 years, and today we are proud of our record as one of the UK's strongest building societies. We are now the second largest building society in the UK with assets in excess of £40 billion, serving over 1.8 million members and employing over 2,400 staff. We provide competitive savings and mortgage products to our members, jobs and career development for our employees, and social and economic benefits to our local communities.
The simplicity of our business model, focussing as it does purely on savings and residential mortgages means that we do not lend to businesses and do not have exposure to 'unethical' sectors.
The Society does not manufacture any goods. The Society's suppliers support our property and IT estate, and the retail financial services we provide to members and customers. The suppliers are subject to due diligence checks before we enter into contracts, as well as regular ongoing risk monitoring.
All the Society's call centres are UK-based and operated by the Society, and the majority of the Society's suppliers are also UK based.
The Society has zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking and is committed to taking all reasonable steps to ensure that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains or in any part of our business.
Because of the nature of the Society's business and its supply chains, following careful consideration, we consider that the risk of the presence of slavery or human trafficking in our supply chains is low. However, the Society is not complacent in relation to these issues.
Our policy is to require all our suppliers to comply with applicable legal requirements, including in relation to modern slavery and human trafficking. The Society's Procurement Policy states:
"Modern slavery – Suppliers will ensure that employees are treated fairly and ethically, and that there is no slavery, servitude, forced/compulsory labour, or human trafficking.
Forced labour – Suppliers will not use any forced labour, which means any work or service performed involuntarily under threat of physical or other penalty. Suppliers shall respect the freedom of movement of its workers and not restrict their movement by controlling identity papers, holding money deposits, or taking any other action to prevent workers from terminating their employment.
Child labour – Suppliers will not directly (or indirectly through the use of its subcontractors) employ any children under the age of 16.
Diversity and inclusion – Suppliers will hire, compensate, promote, discipline, and provide other conditions of employment based solely on an individual's performance and ability to do the job. Suppliers will not discriminate based on a person's race, gender, age, nationality, marital status, ethnic origin, or any legally protected status".
When bidding for new appointments, suppliers are required to confirm their compliance with these requirements.
Following appointment, we operate a programme of supplier relationship management activities. Where any concerns arise, a full assessment is made and appropriate actions are taken to address those concerns.
We see our approach to Procurement and Supplier Relationship Management as an effective measure in carrying out our zero tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking.
Training our colleagues
We provide all of our colleagues with training that's relevant to them. We also ensure our management teams have additional support which includes guidance to make sure our recruitment process is consistent and our approach to managing suppliers is effective. We have given, and will continue to give, extra training to colleagues who regularly work with and have a level of operational responsibility for managing our third party suppliers on the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Next steps
We regularly review our approach to tackling modern slavery. This helps us engage with suppliers to identify any ethical trading issues and incidents of modern slavery or human trafficking and take appropriate action.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes the Society's slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2017.
Thank you for taking the time to read the Coventry Building Society's statement.
Mark Parsons
Chief Executive
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I have a confession to make to you all. I generally ignore our Child Tax Benefit statement that comes in from the federal government each year. Why? Well with our combined income we don't really get a whole lot of money from it and second all of the money I do get, plus some of our own, goes immediately into the kid's RESP. So from my point of view the money doesn't really exist since it only passes through my bank account on the way to the RESP account. I think of it as my kid's money and not mine.
So when I did all my retirement planning I generally ignored any potential tax perks I may get when I leave full time work and our income sinks like a stone. I knew we would be paying less tax but I didn't really consider that we may qualify for any other benefits programs like an increase to our Child Tax Benefit.
Yet the other day it did occur to me finally that we would get a bit more Child Tax Benefit, so I finally sat down and plug our projected numbers into the government calculator. Then my jaw hit the table when I saw the result. See the screen shot below.
In my head I was expecting perhaps $100/kid per month, so $2400/year. I certainly was not expecting $8,873 a year. So how the hell did that happen? Well it appears that there was a high degree of dumb luck on the numbers when I looked into it. I figured we would end up between my wife we would have a taxable income of about $26,000/year between RRSP withdrawals and some work (recall my wife will keep running her daycare after I leave work which is her choice). The rest would come from TFSA accounts so won't impact our qualification for government programs. That $26,000/year number is just under the threshold to tie into the National Child Benefit Supplement which for two kids under 18 is fairly generous (over $350/month), then we would also qualify for a few other programs like the GST credit which would give us a bit extra money.
Of course all of this is set to change with the next federal budget as they have previously promised to overhaul these particular benefits during the election campaign. So I can't depend on these numbers but it does provide me with some useful input towards my retirement planning.
First off it tells me that I will likely get enough government benefits that I shouldn't need to save any additional money to finish funding the kid's RESP account. I had previously estimated I would need around $20,000 stashed away for that prior to leaving my day job (I had assumed five years of contributions at $4000/year). But now it entirely reasonable that we should get enough government funds to cover that amount.
The second particular useful fallout of likely getting more benefits than I thought would be the fact this provides a minor cushion to my plan. As you may be aware one of the particular risks of retiring early and living off of investment income is if you get a series of bad returns on your investments in your first five years, you may end up running out of money in the long run. So to combat this issue I have a series of backup plans on the ready to help cushion the blow should anything go wrong during those critical five years including: being able to cut back on some spending, having a year's worth of spending money put aside, being willing to pick up some part time or consulting work in those first five years…you get the idea. This unexpected money just provides an additional cushion, if we ended up needing it. On the other hand, if things go well, I would continue to not depend on the government benefits and just put the money aside for the kids.
Ah the joys of having a government think I'm poor based on income, just because I don't tend to spend a lot regardless of our income. So this was news to me, did anyone else out there with kids look at this when planning their early retirement?


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Who Will Be The Ultimate Superhero? Batdog Or Superdog?The Animal Rescue Site
When the world needs a hero, it looks to the ones it can really count on. Will it be Superdog with his superpowers and red cape? Or will it be Batdog with all his stealth and whisper-talk (LOL! You so know what I mean!) Well, what are you waiting for? Let the battle begin!
Theresa May Has Resigned. Now Twitter Wants A Cat To Assume Britain's Top Job: Click "Next" below!
The Animal Rescue Site is a place where people can help provide food and care to millions of animals in need, both in the U.S. and around the world. In addition to sharing personal rescue stories, shopping for the cause, and signing petitions, visitors can take just a moment each day to click on a purple button to help animals. Visit The Animal Rescue Site and click today - it's free!


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Click here or on the book image above to access the sermon archives of former pastor Alan Christensen.
Recommended Links
For online worship music visit: www.allworship.com
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God's Promises of Hope
Our name Hope Church stands for the Hope we can find as revealed in these great promises from the Bible.:
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Isaiah 40:28-31


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So Bloom suggests we should be striving for higher levels on his taxonomy if we want students to reach a mastery level. Well, I have found when I had students create a toothpick bridge they were able to demonstrate and articulate their design choices, and why they were good or not. Because the toothpick bridge project was a chance for the students to create and apply what they had learned, I found they were much more engaged in the activity than if I had them do something more theoretical.
Bloom has "remembering" at the lowest level of the pyramid which indicates the learner would not be able to do something useful with the information. I can remember that I learned in high school biology class the following: "Kingdom, Phylum, Classes, Order, Family, Genus, Species." I remember this, but I can't tell you what I'm supposed to do with it. I can see that I will want to do more than just have the students memorize the material. They will need to do something useful with it to make it meaningful.
Bloom is not suggesting "remembering" is not worthwhile, he is suggesting if all I do is have students remember, they are are not going to have any mastery of my discipline. I've come to realize that my thinking was wrong regarding the notion that having the students memorize the biological classification would lead to them understanding why we have a classification. I'll need them to actually work with the classification tree to understand the relationships among the classes.
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If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting an actor needs to become one with both the script and the moment in order to give a good performance. I think this means a good performance occurs when I no longer feel the actor is acting. But you said this can only come by working with a good director. I fail to see how a director has exclusive domain over an actor's ability to become one with the moment and the script.
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It is with deep sorrow and sadness that the family announces that their beloved son and brother, Warren Ermantrout, passed away on February 15, 2012 at the age of 43 years.
He is survived by his parents, Ken and Donna Ermantrout; sister and brother-in-law, Shelley and Jeff Nygard; and his niece and nephew, Sadie and Nathan; as well as numerous other relatives and friends.
Warren will always be remembered as a gentle, big-hearted man who lived life one day at a time with playfulness and happiness; touching everyones hearts around him.
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For the last few days, I've been at the Glorieta Christian Writers Conference. As a literary agent, I've had a parade of would-be authors sign up to meet with me, flock to my dining room table and catch me in the halls of the conference.
Each time I attend a conference as a member of the faculty, I'm keenly aware of the fragile nature of dreams. I've listened to many people tell me about themselves, their work, their hopes and their dreams. The challenge is to understand the effort of the writer to tell someone else about their hopes and dreams. I know these plans are fragile because I have many of my own plans and dreams. I look for ways to build these individuals, give them hope and encouragement yet balanced with realism about the challenges of book publishing and today's marketplace. It's a careful walk and I hope I achieved it.
I'm on the way back home. Tuesday I'm looking forward to interviewing Susan Driscoll, the president and CEO of iUniverse.com which is one of the largest Print-On-Demand companies in the United States. I'd encourage you to ask a question and listen to the live telewebcast.
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Having successfully reimplemented our e-commerce website www.otto.de in a highly decentralised, agile project approach, we currently face the challenge of establishing an agile mindset outside the cosy cheese dome of a well-protected and well-specified project. During this project we felt like living on a separate planet. Business and technology work entwined, scope was managed by ourselves, we had the liberty to change and adapt our processes and methodologies, introduced an agile management framework, implemented Scrum, built autonomous and cross-functional product development teams and closed feed-back loops with continuous integration and delivery. Or putting it a different way: we learned how to change into a learning matrix organisation. This process was thrilling, demanding to all of us and we are proud of having mastered this challenge. After leaving our project "Lhotse" behind and literally lifting our project cheese dome, we are now facing an urge to change management culture and improve our capability in inter-organisational collaboration. The severity of this problem is easy to grasp when reading Steve Denning's article "Why do managers hate agile" in the Forbes Magazine.
Steve describes high and broad tensions between an agile mindset and a management-driven approach as a clash of two different worlds. A vertical management world, where strategy gets set at the top, power trickles down and where the purpose is evident: make money for shareholders. This vertical world collides with an agile, horizontal world. Its purpose is to delight customers and making money is the result, rather than the goal of activities. It focusses on continuous innovation and enablement rather than control. These worlds appear to be traveling different orbits.
Presumably, one of the prime tasks of management is to bring these two worlds to get to know each other better. Trying to understand how to establish an inter-orbital communication, I stumbled over the "Laloux Culture Model", which is brilliantly explained and depicted by Peter Green in his blog post "Laloux Cultural Model and Agile Adoption". Frederic Laloux' book "Reinventing Organizations (2014)" created this model in order to answer the question, whether it is possible to reinvent organizations, to devise a new model that makes work productive, fulfilling, and meaningful. Actually, Frederic talks about successive stages of human and organizational consciousness. Two of these stages are especially relevant for our situation:
The "achiever" organizations aim at beating their competition by achieving profit and growth. This level of organizational consciousness is built on the idea of a machine, where each individual gear-wheel contributes to this overall goal. Management by objectives and meritocracy are the tools of this vertical world and individual accountability is the grease to each and every gear-wheel. The leadership style is in consequence goal- and task-oriented as well as decisive.
The next development stage superseding "achiever" organisations are "pluralistic" organizations. Within the classic pyramid structure of organizations, focus lies on company culture and on empowerment of people in order to achieve extraordinary employee motivation. Teams strive for holistic stakeholder satisfaction (internal as well as external), derive their decisions on shared values and demand high engagement from everyone in the organisation.
"Pluralistic" organisations provide a meaning in work beyond being a part of a profitable machine. This is especially relevant keeping in mind, that the profit motive of "achiever" organisation feels less relevant to most employees, and that monetary incentives may even be a countermeasure to engaging employees (be sure to check on a fine Animation by The RSA on "Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us").
The agile and lean movement evolved from companies with a "pluralistic" culture.
From an "achiever" management perspective, agile methods and proceedings are merely means of improving organisational efficiency. This misconception, based on the cultural context, is the key reason of mismanaging agile organisations. Without adopting the cultural elements of the "pluralistic" organisation, only ideas from the agile and lean movement are accepted, that fit the "achiever" perspective, such as top-down decision-making. This conflict between self understanding of teams and an "achiever" management perspective will in time deteriorate the team culture and motivation.
Changing an organisation culture is tough, needs to be enforced by the top management and could just be a bridge to far for most of us. When in doubt, you might want to double-check with John Kotter's "The Key to Changing Organizational Culture" in the Forbes Magazine. Allthough, developing and evolving a "pluralistic" culture on a team level is a valid alternative to strive for in management.
This is true for three reasons:
- A valid meaning to work, derived from a common understanding and set of values, is the best motivation and leads to long-term employee loyalty
- Inheriting the cultural aspects of pluralistic organisations, teams following the principle ideas of the lean and agile movement will produce results faster, are able to react and change quicker and will be superior in coping with complexity (e.g. as we find it in software developement at http://www.otto.de)
- "pluralistic culture" is the foundation of high performance teams
The first reason is deducted from the Laloux Model, and stands for itself, as it directly addresses people. The second reason is well explained by the Cynefin Framework, as described by Dave Snowden.
I am certain, that not only designing an enterprise e-commerce platform from a customer perspective is a rather complex problem in itself. Looking at the methodology, the product development organisation needs to be able to close the loop of probe, sense and respond quickly and efficiently, in order to minimize cost of change. The complexity of enterprise software development and architecture sets empiricism as the guiding paradigm in short term decision making (the long term decision making requires foundation in an overall product strategy). This has been the motivation for introducing Scrum and Continuous Delivery to the product development of http://www.otto.de.
The third reason targets the team. The FIT "Functioning Integrated Team" model depicts the elements of high performance teams.
On the level of the intellectual team agenda, we see elements of an agile methodology. A well-defined core work process such as Scrum, clear goals and objectives either derived from the strategy, or from overall product goals, and a clear understanding on how decisions are made and communicated, are essential to turning input into output. In this transition, lean principles such as designing MVPs ensure the reduction of superfluous effort, by measuring and learning from customer behaviour. Focus on reaching shared and meaningful goals in the eyes of stakeholders, is an essential driver for pluralistic cultures. On the emotional team agenda, a team commitment in a shared team responsibility, builds on the team values, standards and behaviours. These elements are the main differentiation between "achieving" and "pluralistic" cultures.
Don't lose out of sight, that goals and priorities remain essential for a high performing team to build up a team culture and commitment. A "pluralistic" culture delivers this foundation implicitly. A "achieving" culture compensates this only by deducting well defined goals from a mutualized strategy and a shared vision – better be sure to have all this in place as a manager.
Hence, as a manager, you may still see agile and lean ideas merly as processes as efficiency drivers in your organisation. But not because you cherry pick what suits your "achieving" view, but because these ideas build on an understanding of a "pluralistic" organisational culture. This culture, even if it is only on the team level, will not only increase satisfaction on employee level, but in addition make your organisation fit for change and innovation. In other words, it turns teams in to high performing teams.
Concluding, the role of management in developing self-conscious and agile teams sums up to
- State a clear vision, strategy and corresponding goals
- Empower the product development teams to make decisions based on facts and assumptions in a culture of participating leadership
- Orchestrate individual team skills and foster team building to create an atmosphere of mutual trust
- Define clear goals as well as roles and responsibilities in and outside of the team
- Manage conflicts especially spanning cultural breaches
- Protect your teams from diverting cultures by suitable processes and organisations
- … and stay out-of-the-way!
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Below are a few of the paintings Frank completed while we spent 6 glorious weeks on Monhegan Island, ME. And though the island is small, only 1.5 miles long, and with only 30 year round residents, the landscape painting opportunities are infinitesimal. He's like a kid in a candy shoppe; only these decadent creations are like tonics on the soul!
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After my great-grandparents slaughtered a pig, my grandmother would make homemade sausage. Then she proceeded to make it into patties. Then she fried the sausage patties and put them into a ceramic crock. Then she poured the rendered fat into the crock as well. This process was repeated until all the patties were cooked. The top was covered with the remaining grease and then the crock was placed in the cool cellar. Then when she needed some patties, she would go to the cellar and bring up the amount she needed and slowly heat them. The excess fat was used for the eggs.
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This change is effective from November 1, 2016 in pilot cities in China, namely Anhui, Beijing, Guangdong, Heibei, Ningxia, Shandong, Sichuan, Shanghai and Tianjin. Starting April 2017, it will be implemented nationwide.
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- Employers who are operating in China and individuals who are either looking to work or already working in China will be impacted directly by this change.
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The new system will be points-based, categorizing foreign nationals into three (3) groups: A, B, and C. The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) will be the approving authority for the change, assessing eligibility of foreign nationals. The points-based criteria include salary, educational background, the length of time services are provided, Chinese language proficiency, age and work experience. If the criteria are met, foreign applicants will then be sorted into one of the three (3) groups, classifying the holder as high-end personnel, professional personnel, or temporary and seasonal personnel.
Previously, SAFEA and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Services (MOHRSS) were the approving authorities for foreign workers coming to China. While SAFEA was in charge of the Foreign Expert Certificate, granted to workers who are highly skilled, the MOHRSS was liable for the Alien Employment Permits, granted to other foreign employees.
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The captions and field notes given with the following photos come from both women. The photos show Wheeley's Church which was 1.1 mi. SE of Gordonton, Person County, North Carolina. It was thus located very close to the Whitfield's house, seen in the previous post. Wheeley's Church has since become Wheeler's Church. At the time Lange visited it was located off Wheeler's Church Road near an intersection of three state roads (1100, 1102, and 1107).2
The field notes say:
Accidentally learned at Gordonton that "everybody in the community was gathering at the church, going to take their dinner." Was not able to get back in time to see the dinner in progress and most of the cleaning done. Farm women of all ages, men and children; one six-months old baby and one woman on two crutches were still there finishing up the cleaning at about 2:30. There were fifteen cars; "a good many people" left before dinner. Had to talk to a succession of people: had to ask some of the others: had to ask the older members: had to talk to the head deacon to get permission to photograph.3 They very much want to have a print showing the church and the grounds. Very proud of their church, spacious well shaded church yard, well kept (though very simple) cemetery, and very proud of the fact that they keep everything so tidy. They had done a thorough Job of sweeping the yard close to the door and raking the test, about 5 acres.The following photos all come from the Farm Security Administration Collection in LC's Prints and Photos Division. The captions are by LC staff from information in the FSA sets of negatives and prints; they are supplemented by field notes that were made as part of the shoot.
Field notes: 'A group of solid country people who live generously and well. ... The church is primitive Baptist — "don't know whether you ever heard of that kind or not." and is "over a hundred years old" but no one seemed to know exactly.4 It has 70 members and "lots of friends around who help out. Much interested in the photographing, much joking about posing.'}
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Field notes: "Preaching once a month and the church is crowded. Will probably hold 500. . . . Cars new or relatively so and not all fords."}
Field notes: Lange received permission to return on July 9: "July 9 is "preachin' Sunday" and got permission from deacon to return to make pictures of the congregation."}
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Field notes: "The people are substantial, well-fed looking. the women in clean prints, mostly ready made, the men in clean shirts and trousers, some overalls. Good looking children. Many addressed each other as cousin or aunt, etc. Very gay and folksy — evidently have a good time together." }
Field notes: "Note woman wearing bonnet, front and side view."}
Field notes: 'Note homemade gloves. This woman was called "Queen."'}
In preparing for her book on Lange (cited directly below) Anne Whiston Spirn sought out the locations of the Person County photos. She couldn't find the church of Lange's photos, but — instead — a brick one called Wheeler's, not Wheeley's. In the cemetery of the new church she found the gravestone for the woman called "Queen":
In July 1939 when Lange took her portrait, Queen had been 57 years old, recently widowed. While Spirn was observing the grave, she says, "A man stepped out of the church. Yes, it was once called Wheeley's, the brick was added in the 1950s.5 Would I like to come inside? The chapel is simple and beautiful, much as Lange described it. I mention the photograph of Queen. 'That's my great aunt, Queen Bowes.'"
Here's Spirn's photo of the "new" church.
Main sources:
Daring to look: Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field by Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Picturing faith: photography and the Great Depression, by Colleen McDannell (Yale University Press, 2004)
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon (W.W. Norton & Co. 2009)
1 The source of this information and the quote: DARING TO LOOK WWW.
2 See this Google map.
3 In a book called Picturing faith: photography and the Great Depression, Colleen McDannell says rural Southerners, like the members of Wheeley's Church, did not have negative associations with photography and would not have been wary of exploitation documentary photographs such as Lange took, but they would have been skeptical about non-religious use of photos taken of their religious spaces. Lange was sensitive to the reluctance of church members and the Deacon to have photos taken within the church. There was less concern about exterior photos or the posing of the cleansing group for group shots.
4 According to Colleen McDannell, the church became a Primitive Baptist Church in 1832. Its original Baptist congregation formed in 1755. In 1832 some Baptists, including the parishioners of what was then Wheeley's Meeting House, wished to return to belief in predestination as well as banning of instrumental music and all ornamentation or imagery. They resisted centralized control via associations of groups of churches or "conventions." "They argued that all missionary work, even teaching in local Sunday schools, was contrary to Scripture. God in his sovereign power, they believed, did not need any human means to bring his elect to repentance." They chose ministers from within the local community and asked that they speak in a way local people could readily understand. It was common for congregations to meet only once or twice a month.
Regarding the formation of Wheeley's Church in 1792, one source says: "The Upper South Hico Baptist Church separated from the Flat River Church on September 8, 1792. The name was later changed to Wheeley's and today it is known as Wheelers Primitive Baptist Church. The Church is located on State Road #1102 about one mile south of Gordonton which is itself about twelve miles south of Roxboro, North Carolina."
5 Located off Wheeler's Church Road, the name of the church must have caused local confusions when it was Wheeley's. Old place names tend to morph and shift around despite map makers' efforts to pin them down.


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Bernice M. Nykamp, age 80, of Oakland, went to be with her Lord peacefully on Friday, December 26, 2008
Bernice M. Nykamp, age 80, of Oakland, went to be with her Lord peacefully on Friday, December 26, 2008, in Resthaven Care Center.
She was a member of Oakland Christian Reformed Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry Jr. and Jeanette (Lohman) Eding; her sister and brother-in-law, Sophia and Gerrit Hemmeke; her brothers and sisters-in-law, Alvin and Goldie Eding, and Hollis and Ardith Eding; and her brother-in-law, Marvin Koops.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Alvin Nykamp of Oakland; her sisters, Aleta Koops and Blanche and John Decker; and her nieces and nephews
Funeral and committal services will be held on Monday December 29, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. at Oakland Christian Reformed Church, 4460 38th Street, Hamilton with Rev. Ronald D. De Young officiating.
Visitation will be held on Sunday from 2-5 p.m. at the Dykstra Life Story Funeral Homes, Mulder Chapel, 188 West 32nd Street.
Burial will take place in Bentheim Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be given to Resthaven Patrons, Bethel Program or Oakland Christian Reformed Church.
Arrangements by Dykstra Life Story Funeral Homes, Inc., Mulder Chapel, www.lifestorynet.com


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A mysterious image purporting to show the Loch Ness monster has scooped a photography prize for a man who has never even visited the famous lake in Scotland.
Eagle-eyed Swede Bjarne Sjöstrand, 52, noticed a thin shape in Loch Ness while browsing Google Earth. He made a screen-grab of the image and sent it off to a local newspaper in Inverness which runs an annual competition for the best photo of Nessie.
Sjöstrand's photo so impressed judges that it was awarded the £2,000 top prize - all without him having to leave the house.
"I am very interested in anything regarding Nessie and the history of Loch Ness," said Sjöstrand.
"The reason I found this image on Google Earth was that I was sitting one night at home reading about Nessie and Loch Ness on the internet and thought I would check to see if I could see something from above - and that proved to turn out well. I have never been to Scotland but my hopes are that one day I will visit Loch Ness."
Nessie-ologists have called for more research to be carried on Sjöstrand's photograph and others sent in to the competition.


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Baptist churches giving away guns to attract new members
Praise the Lord . . . and pass the ammunition.
Baptist churches in the Kentucky town that was the site of a deadly high school shooting are giving away steaks and guns to attract more people to their congregations.
According to WJBK Fox 2, churches in Paducah – where three students were killed during a school shooting in 1997 – are hosting "Second Amendment Celebrations," giving away guns to attract more people to the pews.
At Lone Oak First Baptist Church, about 1,300 people crammed into the church hall this month for a steak dinner and pep talk by a gun expert, Chuck McAlister. McAlister was hired by Kentucky's Southern Baptists in an attempt to grow church membership. Twenty-five guns were raffled off during the dinner. Winners were required to pass a background check.
"I brought a gun with me tonight," McAlister told the group. "I know that's very controversial."
David Keele, a Sunday school teacher, told NPR that the church was accomplishing two things: "One, we're going to talk about the Second Amendment to bear arms. But that isn't the primary thing. The primary thing is who Jesus is."
Kentucky isn't the only state where churches are using guns to attract new members, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Grace Baptist Church in Troy, N.Y., will be giving away an AR-15 on March 23. A flier for the giveaway shows the assault rifle -- with a quote from the Gospel of St. John: "My peace I give unto you."
The church's pastor, John Koletas, told the Albany Times Union, "I'm just trying to be a blessing and a help to the gun owners and the hunters and give away a free AR-15. It's the right thing to do."
He said the constitutional right to own a gun should not be abridged, any more than First Amendment rights should be, the paper reported.
The winner of the Grace Baptist gun reportedly must be at least 18, undergo an FBI background check and meet all state and federal laws before the gun is handed over to its new owner.


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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Saturday Readings
Bernice has also organised readings for her creative writing students from CENFAD (Isabella Sya, Aina Liyana, Farid Ramlee, Lainie Yeoh) and Sunway College (Helena Foo, Joylynn Teh and Razif Hashim). Venue: 67, Jalan Tempinis 1. These newbie writers deserve support and encouragement, so try to make it if you can. I know Bernice is very proud of them.
If you're canny you can sample both events - leave Silverfish by 3.30 to catch the readings a short walk away at Seksen's place ...
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i got the invites and i have to follow the boss to a un luncheon. sheesh. amir muhd's film opens that day and time too.
btw, you are going to the british council thing next friday right? how about we meet for tea, and then you hop into my car and we make our way there?
- November 17, 2005 3:04 pm
- bibliobibuli said...
there are times when nothing is happening and times when everything decides to happen on the same day! the un luncheon sounds like fun ...
yes, let's go together after tea dz
- November 17, 2005 3:24 pm
- Leon Wing said...
I'm also going there, probably this time in my car, and I'm now trying to look for my Gunesakera books I bought quite some time ago when Monkfish and Reef came out in paperback. Have to get his autograph in those books.
- November 18, 2005 12:46 pm
- bibliobibuli said...
Leon! - you have a car??? yes, i have his books to be autographed too ...
- November 18, 2005 8:08 pm
verisimilitude, yet. :) I like that word, verisimilitude. :)
- November 25, 2005 11:24 pm


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Things to do before you die…
An English high tea is definitely on that list.
Scones with clotted cream and jam… Delicious!
Especially if it's served to you by a very uptight English lady; pronouncing the cHlottHHed cHream with the posh hyper corrected 'h'. It's a ceremony rather than a meal.
I treasure my childhood memories of this highly recommended English tradition.
Sailing the English coast we would discover beautiful spots to enjoy 'cream tea'.
Or we would row up the river.
And at the end of such a trip we would indulge in a high tea at the local pub or tearoom.
My favourite high tea is in Smugglers Cottage up the River Fal, Cornwall, UK.
The cottage dates from the 15th century.
Cruising up the river Fal to the cottage is just magical. The heavy rain fall makes for dark green hills kissing the water. It's untouched by human kind. There is only the odd boathouse or cottage here and there. And then suddenly at the next turn a huge tanker rises between the hills. You arrive at Carrick Roads.
Today the ghosts of this memorable day are still present in the air. You feel the frenzy and husky excitement that went through these soldiers mind. With our little zodiac we land at the beach. We step up the hills to the rightly named Smugglers cottage.
The best high tea is served. Most of the time inside cosy and warm or when sun is out in the beautiful terraced gardens.
A delicious brewed tea accompanies the golden baked scones. A dollop of cold clotted cream makes for the lusciousness. A spoonful of jam makes for the sweet tartness. The best scones are flaky and buttery.
To obtain this it's very important not to overwork your dough!
The scones can be made with any kind of filling you like. I personally prefer the little black raisins, the Zante currants.
recipe adapted from Orangette
yields 20 small scones
½ c buttermilk
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
65g unsalted butter, cubed and chilled
2,5 tbs sugar
1 cup of Zante currants (little black raisins)
Preheat oven to 220 degrees.
Beat together the milk and the egg and then set aside. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Rub the butter into the flour mixture, working until you have no lumps bigger than a pea. Add the sugar and the currants, and stir or toss to mix. Pour the wet ingredients into the dries, reserving just a tad of the milk-egg mixture to use as a glaze. Let the liquid slowly absorb the flour and butter mixture by letting it stand for a couple of minutes. Bring dough together very gently.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured counter and knead it no more than 12 times. This it to ensure the flakiness. Anything more than that and you will get a chewy scone. Pat dough into a round approximately ½-inch thick, and cut out rounds with a cookie cutter. Place on an ungreased baking sheet or a Silpat, if you have one. Using a pastry brush, glaze scones.
Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until golden. Cool on a rack.Serve with clotted cream and jam. Oh and tea of course!!!


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While some might argue that the early 90s were flooded with female singers on the charts, I'd like to take a moment in bask in those glory days. Ok moment is up. Now let's find out what became of Tara Kemp. Born Tara Leslye Kemp May 11, 1970 in Livermore, CA Kemp came out of nowhere with her debut hit "Hold You Tight". With her pop and new jack lite sound she took the Billboard Hot 100 by storm peaking at # 3. The song also fared well on the R&B charts peaking at #4. (Source)
Check out the rare 1st version of the video:
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Lightening struck twice with her follow up "Piece Of My Heart" which also made the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #7. (Source)
A third single came and went entitled "Too Much". It failed to set the charts on fire and stalled at #95. (Source)
All three of these songs were from Tara's self-titled debut album.
Released on Giant Records, the album peaked at #109 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart and at #34 on the R&B album charts. (Source)
While fans waited for a follow-up to Tara's self titled debut, Tara appeared on the soundtrack to the 90s hit teen show Beverly Hills 90210 with the track "Action Speaks Louder Than Words". Then in 1992 Tara appeared on the soundtrack to Class Act with the track "Anything You Ask".
After a successful debut, one would think her label would be rushing to release a follow-up. Word is that Tara left Giant in 1992 to record for Nerve Records. A single was released in 1994 entitled "Come Off" and flopped, thus the infamous follow-up never saw the light of day.
It's been about 16 years since her debut. So readers, we ask of you...what became of Tara Kemp? Anyone??? All I was able to find was a fan made myspace profile. Sigh.


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Video Premiere: Björk - Notget
Björk invites us into her VR world with visuals to her fantastic Notget from 2015's stellar album Vulnicura. Directed by Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones it's part of the björk digital exhibition at Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos. We love how otherwordly it looks, literally, and yet so familiar. Björk is front and center and there is no way to miss her now iconic dance moves, perfectly captured here. Like a video game from another dimention we get teleported into a bold world with a deep sense of angst and sadness. Much like the song it hurts to watch and we still cannot get over how brilliant the word "notget" is. It sums it up perfectly and we so wanna go to the exhibition. Who's in?


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The England midfielder scored a second-half hat-trick as dire Derby were destroyed with a performance of power and pace from Avram Grant´s side.
Lampard put the Blues in front from the penalty spot in the 28th minute and Salomon Kalou added a second before half-time.
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Wildwood Studio NM
Wildwood Studio NM home
Bodies of Work
Crosses for Prayers
DNA Series
Geometry of Landscape
a beginning with Portraits
Artist's Statement
Minimalist in lifestyle and in my approach to art, I combine my relationship to landscape with my interest in human ecology to shape my latest bodies of work.
My unique vision comes through walking hundreds of miles across deserts, wildernesses, forests, and fields. As I walk I find myself studying such subjects as the movement of the grass in the wind and rain in Ireland and the colors and nature of the slugs on the forest floors of the Ardennes, Belgium. Of equal notice are the marks made by humans upon the landscape: fences, rock walls, and gates.
In 2008 I walked from Las Cruces to Santa Fe through the Jornada del Muerto and up scenic country roads including the Turquoise Trail. The purpose was to connect with both the land and its history. Having lived in New Mexico now some 26 years I find myself still enchanted with its diverse landscape. Through the Geometry of Landscape series I share my love for the details: the patterns, lines, and shapes of the land that I encounter every day.
The DNA series presents the complexities of human connections discovered from DNA results. The abstract geometric drawings are maps of how actual living people are related within a group. Each drawing surprises the viewer with the new organism created by tying the individuals together in a relational wholeness.
Each piece in the DNA series is built around specific data gained from me or family members having our DNA tested. My research began as I worked to solve the family mystery of who my mother's biological parents were.
A passion for lengthy adventurous walks in unfamiliar places prepared me for DNA research: it required effort and tenacity and sometimes ingenuity. It also led me to unexpected places and people. It did bring me to the two destinations I sought: the identities of my maternal grandmother and maternal grandfather. Now I find myself in an artistic adventure. When I began the series I wasn't sure it would provide me enough variety to keep my interest. As I became more comfortable with imagining forms for the data I realized the possibilities are extensive.
My research has introduced me to many ancestors through their histories and their relationships to the land. The two - place and people - are as connected as a strand of DNA.
Through the DNA series I celebrate one humanity for humanity is far more connected than it knows.
SusanMaryZ was born in Houston, Texas in 1954. Her family moved away from Houston 18 days later. By the time she was in high school the family had lived in 7 different states and numerous cities which established for her a healthy wanderlust.
She graduated from New Mexico State University in 1975 with a Bachelors of Individualized Studies. Too many subjects were of interest to SusanMaryZ for her to settle into one major. Her approach to life is similar. Her coursework included printmaking, silver smithing, 2 dimensional design, and photography. SusanMaryZ is a self-taught artist for the most part, but she finds that taking a workshop in a new medium from time to time brings fresh perspectives and enhances whatever she is working on in her studio.
SusanMaryZ is an adventurer, artist, writer and distance-walker. Her artistic adventures have included photography, clay, book arts, mixed media, and most recently art and ecology, particularly human ecology. Her writings have appeared in a variety of magazines and SusanMaryZ's books Walking Outside the Box and The First Marathon: the Legend of Pheidippides were both published in 2006.
Walking has become a part of her studio practice. Years ago SusanMaryZ realized that for her to know a place she had to walk it. Time alone on the trail has enhanced her view of landscape and structures. Putting her relationship to landscape into the simplest of lines often results in the evocation of emotion to that place. SusanMaryZ has walked in many European countries as well as Costa Rica and Ecuador. Her longest trek was through back-country desert and on a scenic byway as she followed the footsteps of those who came from Mexico to settle the state of New Mexico. While the desert was without doubt her toughest walk, the more exotic was nearly 200 miles alone in the Arctic Circle of Lapland, Sweden.
Independent, determined, creative, hard-working: all words that describe her well. SusanMaryZ is passionate about wilderness. Minimalism has become a way of life.
Home is in the foothills of the Black Range Mountains in southern New Mexico six miles from the Gila National Forest and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. Her husband Matt and she (and dog Acorn) feel entrusted with their three acres which is a corridor for an abundance of wildlife. They do their best to live lightly upon this land.
2018 exhibits
Small Works Winter Salon,
Setra Artes
Stonington, CT, 16 Nov - 23 Dec, 2018
Techne: Art and Science in One,
Arthaus Projects, Williamsport, PA, 06 July - 11 August 2018
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, June 2018
Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises
, The Center for Book Arts, NYC, NY, 18 January - 31 March, 2018 (by invitation)
Inclusion in the documentary:
Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises
Connecting the Dots: Artist Susan Reynolds on the human network
by Michael Abatemarco,
July 28, 2017
Walking to Abstraction
, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Saturday, 11 March, 1:30 p.m.
exhibits and shows
2017 Art in the Park, Sierra Vista, Arizona
2017 Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Some Large, Some Small
, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, Massachusetts
, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, New York
Trasna V
, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland
Voices: An Artist's Perspective
, Unitewomen.org online gallery
Personal Histories
, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Personal Histories
, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Lines into
Park, Estes Park, Colorado
Art of the Book
, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, New York
The Illustrated Accordion
, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Small Works
, N.A.W.A. Gallery, New York City, New York
, The Gallery W at the Whitney Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
The Muse is Poe
, ArtWorks!, New Bedford, Massachusetts
, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Tangibles: Beauty and Purpose in the Art of the Book
, Univ. of N. Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
Crossroads: Book Arts on the Border
, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
How to Read a Book: an Artists Books Reading Room
, Univ. of Wisconsin Green Bay
2012 Pacific Currents runway fashion show, Handweavers Guild of America's Convergence, Long Beach, California
RAGS Wearable Art
, Tacoma, Washington
Harvest Time
, Poudre River Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado
Lines into Shapes
, Art Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, Colorado
selected publication inclusions, collections, awards
Voices: an artist's perspective,
Unitewomen.org and Karen Gutfruend Art
2014 1st place in artist book category,
Art of the Book
, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, New York
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
500 Handmade Books Vol. II,
Lark Books
2012 Cofrin Library Artists' Book Collection, Univ. of Wisconsin Green Bay
2011 3rd place Best of Show,
Harvest Time
, Poudre River Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado
selected published: books and articles
2010 "Road Warriors of VolState"
Marathon & Beyond
, July/Aug. issue
2007 "Marching in Blankenberge"
Fall issue
2007 "Over the Umbrian Hills"
, Spring issue
2006 "In the Heat of the Summer"
Fall issue
Walking Outside the Box,
Outskirts Press
The First Marathon: the Legend of Pheidippides,
Albert Whitman & Co.
workshops taught
2015 single-needle Coptic binding, Burren College, Ireland
2003 Tiles Don't Have to Be Square, Hillsboro, New Mexico
2003 Possibilities in Tile, Anguila, British West Indies
2013 Madrono Ranch, Medina, Texas
2003 International Keramikmuseum, Skaelskor, Denmark
speaking engagements and documentaries
2008 Seafair marathon expo, Bellevue, Washington
2007 Tahoe marathon expo, Tahoe, Nevada
2007 Portland marathon expo, Portland, Oregon
2007 Marine Corps marathon expo, Washington D.C.
2007 inclusion in documentary and side features on the Athens marathon, produced by Stephen McKenney Steck, WMFE-TV/FM, aired in 2008
selected walks
2016 solo 6 days, the Algarve, Portugal
2016 3 days, the Mid-Clare Way, Ireland
2009 solo ~100 miles, Southern Upland Way, Scotland
2009 2 day IML event, Wellingborough, England
2008 solo ~309 miles, Mexico
2007 solo ~200 miles, Lapland, Sweden
2007 solo ~110 miles, the Ardennes, Belgium
2007 Blankenberge, Belgium
2006 solo ~93 miles, West Highland Way, Scotland
2005 group hike to 16,000 ft. up Cotapaxi, Ecuador
2005 4 day IML event, Chantonnay, France
2004 Great Lake Walk, 56 kms event, Lake Cowichan, Canada
2004 Rock n Roll marathon, San Diego, California
numerous day hikes, half marathons, wanderings in places near and far
Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises video
Connecting the Dots
Bodies of Work
Crosses for Prayers
DNA series
Geometry of Landscape
a beginning in Portraits


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