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Last week I headed to Six Flags with the youth, led by our capable and energetic youth intern, Taylor Zimmerman. It was a perfect day for an amusement park: 80 degrees, clear skies, a Saturday. Unfortunately, everyone else in the greater St. Louis area thought this was a perfect day for Six Flags, too! This meant that we spent a substantial amount of time waiting in line for the rides.
While standing in line (and standing and standing...) the youth taught me how to use Instagram, a camera app that you can download to a smartphone. Taylor had helped the church start an Instagram account when he went with the youth to do mission work with the Appalachian Service Project.
Taylor gave me the username & password for @UniversityUMC, so I immediately began applying my newfound talent.
It turns out that anyone can look like they have artistic talent when they filter a picture through instagram. Some posing may be required, as in this one from Appalachian Service Project when one of the youth suggested that everyone stand with their back to the camera:
Instagram users can add "filters" that portray the church in different shades, tones, colors, and styles.
As my Dad says, "You mean people WANT their photos to look like over-processed polaroids from the 1970s?" Yep. You were cool thirty years too soon, Dad.
This picture surprisingly has no filter. (You can tell because I used the hashtag #nofilter. A hashtag is any word/phrase that follows a pound sign. #likethis.) The line for the Batman ride went through a tunnel full of red lights, and this #nofilter photo was the result!
This was Taylor's favorite picture of the day:
You can follow me at @Rev.Diane (the high schoolers did give me a hard time for my uncreative name choice), youth intern Taylor Zimmerman at @coolesttaylor (I joined the high schoolers in giving Taylor a hard time about that name!), and Communications and Office Manager Abbi Telander at @abbiroad. The church's account is @UniversityUMC. Follow us for more youth group pics, Vacation Bible School pics, and other photos that we take around town. Feel free to take and upload your own pictures --- and tag the church in it!
If I keep posting pictures like this of my sweet hubbie, perhaps he'll break down and join the social media revolution, too.


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The president recently releases a budget, and I've noticed some things you might be missing your your attempt to balance it. I want to do my part to help. Here are some suggestions I've come up with off the top of my head:
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2. Stop deploying dangerous and ineffective scanners at airports. They're not cheap either, and from what I hear, the initial cost doesn't even include maintenance.
3. Make incumbent telco providers start paying rental for the right of way they've been granted. I think they build-out cost has probably amortized at this point. If they don't like that idea, they can alternately start improving that infrastructure by laying fiber to the home to make it worth our while.
4. Start making lawsuit mills pay fines for tying up the courts with flimsy cases.
5. Fix the patent system, which would lessen stress (and cost) on the court system.
6. Increase the staff of the EPA and actually fine people for breaking regulations.
7. Close loopholes in corporate tax regulations and actually collect taxes from companies that owe them.
8. Stop subsidizing industries that promote health issues and contribute to our national health crisis.
9. Break up monopolies or duopolies that disrupt people coming into markets and providing real competition, creating jobs and increase tax revenue.
10. Re-regulate. We've slowly been peeling back regulations that have staved off the periodic wild swinging of our economy since the last great depression. If we hadn't removed some of those safeguards there wouldn't have been a need for billions and billions of bail-out funds propping up a failing private sector and trying to stabilize our economy. This won't put money in our pockets at the moment, but it would potentially keep the last few years from happening again.
There are more controversial suggestions I have but some of these wouldn't even require changes to existing regulations, and may might just have other positive societal benefits as well. Feel free to contact me for further advice.
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Yeah. I know I've said otherwise. But how does one make any sense of out of something like this? Journeyman bantamweight Francisco "Franky" Leal has died after being knocked out on Saturday night and never regaining consciousness.
The fight was ugly. Watch if you wish. Or skip to 38 minutes into the film, the end of the eighth round, when Leal is wounded by a body shot, backs helplessly into a corner, and is felled by what looks like a rabbit punch. The aftermath is as hard to watch as anything you'll see in boxing.
Leal gets up but immediately starts to go downhill. He wobbles in a way that's sickeningly familiar to those who remember Gerald McClellan collapsing against Nigel Benn or Jose Victor Burgos's ill-fated fight against Vic Darchinyan. It's not the usual short-circuit in the synapses: it's a wobble that means that his brain is broken; damaged irretrievably. The fighter shivers like a ship being battered by troubled waters. When you see it, you instantly know it's over.
Leal slumps into his corner. There's not even a stool for him to sit on. His eyes are still open, but he's already gone. A doctor tries to look in his eyes for signs of recognition. There's nothing coming back. The bleeding in Leal's brain is getting worse with each passing second. Everyone knows what's happening. His opponent - celebrating moments earlier - is ashen. Leal's body is sloppily placed onto a bright orange stretcher, his eyes still refusing to close even as the last bit of life seems to have already left his limbs. He's taken away from the ring. He'll never be seen again.
This wasn't the first time Leal left the ring on a stretcher. It happened last March, in Texas, against an undefeated Russian prospect fighting out of California's newest boxing mecca, Oxnard. And he's been knocked out on several occasions, including a stoppage at the hands of the sole recognizable name on his resume, Celestino Caballero. Maybe he should not have been allowed to continue fighting. Certainly, that's what most rational people would have decided to do after coming that close to death. But Leal soldiered on because that's what fighters do. Especially poor fighters who spend their life as what can generously be described as a B-side fighter, or what sometimes more accurately can be called cannon fodder.
I won't pretend I knew Franky Leal. I didn't. I knew his name, I'd seen him fight once or twice, but he hadn't made an impression. If he'd died in a car wreck this weekend, I probably wouldn't have noticed. I wouldn't have been alone.
Tonight, there is plenty of mourning online. Boxing writers and fans are passing along their condolences on twitter, on message boards, on fan sites. They'll say the right things. They'll curse the corner that let him continue after an earlier knockdown. They'll condemn the doctors who cleared him for the fight. They'll promise to never forget Franky Leal, and then they'll go back to rubbing their palms together in anticipation of the surefire knockout that awaits in the showdown between Gennady Golovkin and Curtis Stevens in two weeks.
Franky Leal is dead because boxing fans and the boxing industry are hypocrites. I am. Even as I sit here cursing the sport that let an innocent man die for the amusement of others, I know my disgust will pass, my love for the sport will return, and I'll be eagerly waiting to plop down $65 to watch Manny Pacquiao fight next month. Manny Pacquiao. The guy whose last fight ended in a horrifying knockout. The guy who was last seen looking like this:
If Manny dies against his next opponent - the relentless, heavy-hitting, Brandon Rios - will that be enough? Will we admit we should have known? Will we admit that maybe the guy in the ring, the guy who has been told his whole life that he's indestructible by the people who profit off his pain, the guy who has never known any other life, isn't the most objective judge of his own mortality? Will we concede that the sport is crying out for regulation - honest to goodness regulation - that will protect fighters from themselves, their fans, and the industry? Would the death of its most beloved star just months after such a clear reminder of his mortality force Congress to act? The casinos? The athletic commissions?
Why should it change a thing? The hypocrisy allowed a broken, slurring old Muhammad Ali - its most beloved treasure - to get humiliated in the ring by Trevor Berbick. Trevor Berbick. A guy who is best known for his own devastating loss to Mike Tyson. A guy who wound up getting beaten to death with a pipe in Jamaica. The hypocrisy lets my childhood heroes, Roy Jones and Evander Holyfield, keep fighting when their talent and health (and, of course, dollars) have long since abandoned them. The hypocrisy somehow let Paul Briggs get into the ring with Danny Green at a time when he was, at best, physically and mentally broken, and perhaps, in the pocket of gamblers to boot. (Go ahead. Watch the clip. I promise you won't need to wait very long.)
Franky Leal is dead. And we will keep watching. Franky Leal is dead. And the sport will not change. Franky Leal is dead. We could have stopped it from happening. Franky Leal is dead. His blood be upon us and our children.
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The Coast Guard announced on the VHF radio that there would be a special security zone around the ferry Island Home. They did not identify the route that the ferry would take, although they did give a time. All mariners needed to stay 250 yards away from this vessel. Don't you just know that Island Home, with it's 3 Coast Gaurd vessel escort turned out in front of us in Woods Hole. Woods hole is a narrow channel with rocks on both sides and STRONG 3 knot current! We were able to slow down enough to let the ferry and the escort get well ahead of us. Below is a picture of our track through Woods Hole.
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"Make no small plans for they have no passion to stir men's blood."
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The architect Glenn Murcutt has said that the process begins by asking the question, "How do you want to live?" He then observes everything in sight and interviews all of the principals involved.
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Here's Bellow reading from Humboldt's Gift at the 92nd Street Y in New York in 1988.


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ALBANY — County officials are proposing the creation of local development corporation to oversee a $12 million loan to the private firm that wants to lease the county nursing home in a bid to quell concerns about the deal, a person familiar with the plan said.
The phased loan would still be financed by the county, which would borrow the money and then transfer it to the newly created LDC, said the person, who declined to be identified by name because the final terms of the proposed contract with the firm, Upstate Services Group, have not yet been publicly announced.
Amid the broader debate over whether the County Executive Dan McCoy's privatization plan is the right course for taxpayers and nursing home residents, some county legislators had voiced fears the proposed low-interest loan violates an article of the state constitution that bars governments from lending money to private corporations.
McCoy has insisted the arrangement would be an "altogether a legal and proper use of public funds" because the firm would essentially be performing a public function for the needy at a facility still owned by the county. But lawmakers have called on McCoy's administration to first seek approval of the state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.
It's not clear what, if any, guidance DiNapoli's office has offered, though a DiNapoli spokeswoman confirmed the office has discussed the matter with county officials.
The LDC, a private not-for-profit organization, could provide an extra level of comfort to lawmakers because the loan and resulting repayments would be handled by the development corporation, not the county.
In a 2011 report describing local governments' use of LDCs, DiNapoli's office noted they are often used because they are "exempt from many of the constitutional and statutory provisions that guide the operations and financial transactions conducted by local government."
McCoy has discussed the idea of forming an LDC since taking office a year ago to promote economic development. More recently, some lawmakers have pushed for the creation of a local development corporation to serve as a land bank, or clearing house for foreclosed properties targeted for redevelopment.
The LDC plan, if approved by the legislature, could also have another effect that might entice lawmakers to approve it: It could give them significantly more control of the loan. The LDC would have to be created by the legislature, likely giving legislators sway over how the loan money, plus interest, would be spent once it is repaid.
Legislature Chairman Shawn Morse said he wasn't aware the LDC had been included the final proposed contract with USG, which wants to lease the 250-bed nursing home from the county for a decade — a plan that nursing home employees and family members of residents have sharply opposed.
But Morse claimed credit for floating the idea in conversations with McCoy several weeks ago — even though, he cautioned, he's not convinced that privatization is the right path.
"The legislature now has a say in where that $12 million and that interest goes when that money comes back," Morse said. "That ... is not a suggestion that I support the privatization of our nursing home. It was merely a conversation that I had should in fact all other alternatives fail to keep the county nursing home."
Majority Leader Frank Commisso, who has also been skeptical of the privatization deal, called the LDC proposal "certainly a step in the right direction" but noted it doesn't address the underlying financial risk of the loan — whether it be to the county or the LDC.
"While I think the LDC is a mechanism ... that could be used, we have to be very cautious as to how we move forward," Commisso said. "I don't know what assets these people have, if any. That's a critical part of the process."
McCoy's office declined to discuss the terms of the final contract before they are presented to the legislature, which is expected to be as soon as next week.
According to an earlier version of the proposed deal with USG, the $12 million loan would come in separate installments of $6 million in 2014, $4 million in 2015 and $2 million 2016 and be repaid over 15 years.
Recurring, multimillion-dollar annual losses at the nursing home have pushed McCoy, once an advocate of a county-run facility as a legislator, to look for an alternative, even as the legislature's Democrats have advocated a now-failed bid for state permission to build a new, 200-bed nursing home.
McCoy has called on lawmakers to approve the partnership with USG in time to hand over control of the nursing home by July 1. But without a contract in hand, the legislature restored enough money to the county budget to fund the facility for the full year, if necessary.
McCoy, however, told the Times Union editorial board late last year that he would not allow that to happen and would instead move to close the facility rather than allow lawmakers to stall the privatization deal in hopes of keeping the home under county control for the full year.
In November, the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors voted to create an LDC to take ownership of its Maplewood Manor nursing home in hopes of eventually managing its sale to a private firm.
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WITN received an outpouring of comments in response to our story about a ministry that claims to help gays go straight.
We sat down to talk with two of the people who told us they do not believe these types of ministries work.
Aaron Lucier is an openly gay man from Greenville.
"I'd have to say that I really do believe that anything is possible through God, but at the same time, I also believe in a God that made me gay and made me as a person that is a homosexual, therefore I don't believe that God's going to be in the business of making that change."
Lucier says he is in a committed relationship with both his partner and God, a combination he feels goes against the belief of ministries that work to help homosexuals change their sexuality.
"Years of me thinking and working on it and praying about it and thinking about it over the years, until I've gotten to a point that my sexuality is not in conflict with my spirituality, and I'm in a very comfortable spot."
Reverend Ann Marie Alderman heads the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Greenville, which promotes the inherent worth and dignity of every person. The Reverend says ministries that help homosexuals change their sexuality send the wrong message.
"That you're either immoral on the outside of a faith community and can be free to do whatever you want to do or you have to change your orientation to be good."
Lucier and Reverend Alderman say they're against homosexual conversion therapy. They believe it perpetuates the idea that homosexuality is wrong and needs to be fixed.
"I believe homophobia is the sin," said the Reverend. "When we fear gay people just because they're gay, that's the sin we need to ask God to rid us of".
Both Lucier and Reverend Alderman were among dozens of people who responded to a story earlier this week on a man who claimed he was converted from gay to straight through prayer and ministry.
North Carolina minister Ron Elmore says he lived his life as a gay man for over 20-years. But, then through intense prayer and scriptures, Elmore says God changed him from homosexual to heterosexual.
Elmore said, "I didn't know why. I didn't choose to be homosexual."
Growing up in a North Carolina group home, Elmore says he started to engage in relationships with boys, to feel loved and accepted. But, he says his life as a openly gay man really began after he left the military at the age of 19.
According to Elmore, more relationships and drug abuse followed in the coming years until a co-worker spoke to elmore about his lifestyle.
He says, "And one day she walked up to me and very calmly and quietly said you need to go back to where your joy is."
Elmore says that meant a christ-filled life without homosexuality.
Elmore explains, "To follow christ and to say no to my behavior of homosexuality, um I really felt like I could live life differently that that's what God wanted, he wanted me to pursue him, not pursue men."
Today, Elmore is married to a woman and through his ministry, Beyond Imagination, a member minstry of the Exodus Church International, he makes it his life mission to help homosexuals longing to change.
Elmore said, "So people can say, you can't change and I say yes you can."


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Today while we were in my Pilates room, she not only stood up on my machine but managed to climb on top of it and stand. She apparently she is ready to walk up stairs. Yikes!
I can't take pictures of some of the places she has stood cause I am too busy trying to protect her from killing herself. Going up is easier than going down.
She has cut her two bottom teeth. She is usually happy and a good baby. She is starting to laugh and understand teasing and playing.
She still isn't the biggest eater. She does like bananas and eating some finger foods, like digestive crackers. I can't believe how fast she is growing up.
Carter is so fun but seems to be needing some extra love lately. Wants me to hold him all the time. one of his favorite things to ask- how was your day? So funny.
He has started locking us out of the house. Awesome! He locked the front door and garage door and had the back door wide open for me to come in. He is a great story teller with expression and animation. He likes to make up songs. He refuses to be potty trained, I am not sure what it is going to take.
I seriously love my kids but somedays I think I need to be 10 years younger. But they sure are cute!


text: Share: Comments Print July 3, 2014 at 6:04 AM Hobby Lobby decision a step closer to establishing Christian church as official U.S. religion Posted by Letters Coordinator Before the movie "Mary Poppins" came out the longest word in the English language was supposedly "antidisestablishmentarianism." The word was coined in the middle of a heated political fight in Britain over the "established church," namely the Church of England (frequently referred to outside of the U.K. as the Anglican Church). Not surprisingly, a lot of people did not want to be coerced by the government into accepting its beliefs as the one and only true religion. One side effect of the fight against established churches in the U.K. and elsewhere (at various times the Roman Catholic church in Italy, the Lutheran church in Germany, and so on) was the founding of the United States and the adoption of the First Amendment to the Constitution. Now look at the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision ["Hobby Lobby got it right," Northwest Voices, July 2]. Justice Samuel Alito specifically says it is OK to discriminate against Jehovah's Witnesses (blood transfusions), Scientologists (antidepressants), Christian Scientists (vaccinations), Mormons (polygamy), or the medical use of anything derived from a pig (several religions). What religion is it not OK to discriminate against? Conservative Christians (birth control). The Alito opinion can only be interpreted as placing conservative Christianity above all other religions, of making it the official established church of the U.S. Patrick J. Russell, Seattle Comments | More in Health | Topics: Christianity, conservatives, Hobby Lobby


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What are your favorite cupcake books?
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AI don't have a favorite book I have a favorite website. Cupcakeproject.com the ultimate vanilla cupcakes are so yummy
I like Martha Stewart's Cupcake book for the recipes, so of the decorating is good too.
I agree with cupcakeproject.com being a great website for flavors, there's some really interesting ones there. For decorations I love "What's New Cupcake?" and "Hello Cupcake". They're made by the same people and have some really cute ideas. The decorations look difficult to do but they're all fairly easy.


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Twenty years ago, a small Calgary-based mining company called Bre-X Minerals duped thousands of people out of millions of dollars.
On Friday, the story of that company will be cast onto the big screen as the basis for the movie Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey.
It has all the hallmarks of a classic Hollywood con man movie: money, luck, greed — even a suspicious death.


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Framing the potential Senate contest as the "The Clown vs. The Mama Grizzly," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed Minnesota State Senator Julianne Ortman Thursday in her bid to get the GOP nomination and unseat Sen. Al Franken (D-MN). The primary is August 14.
Palin slammed the former Saturday Night Live comedian's record in the Senate as a "joke" and, riffing off of Franken's Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot book, called Franken just a "Big Fat Liberal" who voted with Obama 100% of the time:
Al Franken's career has been a joke; we all know this. The biggest joke of all though is not funny at all because the American people are the punch line. This joke? The fact that Franken has voted 100% (!) of the time with Barack Obama. This just proves what we already knew – Al Franken is a Big Fat Liberal.
"Minnesotans are known for their rugged independence. Adherence to any establishment is frowned upon in the state that has 'gone rogue' in many recent elections," Palin said of the state that has a history of electing anti-establishment candidates. "The only way to beat Al Franken is with a public servant from the people, not from the establishment in Washington, and Julianne Ortman is just that public servant."
Palin spoke glowingly of Ortman's legal practice and record in the state Senate:
Julianne and her husband Ray ran a successful legal practice from their home so they could raise their four young kids. Their law practice specialized in fighting on behalf of small businesses; so, Julianne knows first hand the burden our federal government places on hard-working Americans. As a state senator, Julianne is a conservative champion. She was the first woman to ever head the Senate Tax Committee where she led the effort to balance a $5 billion deficit without raising taxes by a single dollar. Julianne is a fighter for life and for our Second Amendment rights. She is running a grassroots campaign against a well-funded favorite of the Washington GOP establishment whose policy record is a blank slate.
"Let's give voters a contrast this fall: a clown vs. a Mama Grizzly, an Obama 100 Percenter vs. a Blue Star Mom, a talker vs. a doer, and a liberal Obama rubber stamp legislator vs. a proven conservative fighter," she said. "Let's make this proven conservative the one to take the fight to Al Franken this fall and make him the punch line. Julianne Ortman is the choice. She is good enough, she is smart enough, and doggone it, people like her!"
Palin, whose endorsement has the most impact in GOP primaries, asked supporters to learn more about Ortman at www.julianne.mn.
Palin has been rolling out "Mama Grizzlies" endorsements this week. She endorsed Joni Ernst in Iowa for U.S. Senate and Lizbeth Benacquisto for a House seat from Florida's 19th congressional district. She endorsed Karen Handel in Georgia on Thursday before announcing her support for Ortman.


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Ma Soeur Est Une Putain / My Sister Is A Whore
Jessie, that pretty blonde girl eagerly waiting for her american pen pal is my sister. In front of our parents, she is the sweetest girl ever. But once they're gone, she turns into the sluttiest you could meet. Her piano teacher is one of her numerous partners. All my sister is interested in is seducing men.. all men. Even when we go to diner with our parents, she finds a way to seduce the waiter and suck his dick in the restaurant"s kitchen before being fucked in the ass by the man at the table next to us. Whether with her college friends or with older, more experienced men, Jessie is a true nymphomaniac who is always ready to jump on all the dicks around. I even heard she fucked three men in her bedroom while my parents were away. Luckily, Mia, her American friend seems to be a bit more quiet and shy. At least, that's what I thought until I learnt that Jessie had taken her to a private orgy. Eventually, Mia is as slutty as my sister. I saw that when she caught me filming my sister durong one of her sex romps. I hope Mia will come back next summer because we still have a lot to do together.
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The trailer sees the Voice UK mentor laying down vocals in the studio, describing it as a "nice reintroduction".
Big Sean and Dizzee Rascal are to feature on the single, which will be released later this year.
Jessie J also tweeted lyrics to the song, adding: "Let the fun begin".
"Everything starts with a WISH but everything can be real" @jessiej #jessiejwild
— JESSIE J(@JessieJ) May 16, 2013
Jessie J appeared on the live final of Fox's American Idol last night (May 16), performing 'Domino' with finalist Angie Miller and inviting the singer to come over the UK for a live show.
She recently shared a number of quotes from her second studio LP, along with the hashtag #album2.
Watch Jessie J and Angie Miller performing 'Domino' together on American Idol below:


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Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick are reportedly an item once again and have decided to go on with their original marriage plans.
It's only been less than a week since Scott got angry at Kourtney for hanging around with the much younger, 23 year old model Younes Bendjima with whom she allegedly started a relationship after she and Scott broke up again.
The fans already know that the couple have been on-again, off-again for a long time and it was most of time because Scott had trouble committing to his family. Disick was known for being a party animal and for cheating on Kourtney repeatedly.
Recently he realized that it was time for him to change and become the father and husband Kourtney wants or else he might lose her for good.
Yesterday the couple jetted to Aspen in an effort to fix their relationship.
According to an insider, "After Scott became super jealous and flipped out on her, the two of them had a really nice time together on Christmas, which they spent with their kids. One of Scott's presents to her was this trip to Aspen!"
The past summer, after a break of over a year, Kourtney and Scott got back together and even decided to try for a fourth child.
"Scott gave in and he told Kourtney that he would do whatever she wants if she would take him back," shared the source. "If she wants another child, fine. If she wants to get married, fine."
"He just does not want to see her with other men because it drives him absolutely insane!"
Now, according to the source, the two are back together trying to fix their relationship for good, for the sake of their kids and for their own happiness. The wedding is also back on the table.
"They never really stopped having sex. She loves to make him jealous and her boytoy was just another attempt at doing so," added the insider.


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Businesses flock to chamber's annual holiday party
BURLINGTON — As it has for decades, KeyBank played host to the annual Holiday Party in downtown Burlington in December. The event served as a networking event of Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce (LCRCC), with Farrell Distributing, Lake Champlain Chocolates, and Cheese & Wine Traders joining as sponsors. Several local businesses celebrated both the season and strong economic years, and that included the hosts. Don Baker, Vermont market president at KeyBank, said, "We're coming off maybe our strongest year ever. The economy is gradually getting better, and there's lots of optimism, post-election, for growth.


text: Water rail, (Rallus aquaticus), slender marsh bird of the family Rallidae (order Gruiformes), native to most of Europe and Asia. Its length is about 28 cm (11 inches), and it has a moderately long beak. The sides of the bird have black and white bands. The name water rail also is used as a general term for the larger group, or tribe, to which R. aquaticus belongs. Rallus aquaticus can be distinguished from the tribe Rallini by its relatively long beak. See also rail.


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Hello, and Welcome to my online style and fashion space. I am Thrifty Phat and my blog is for inspiring you on how to be effortlessly stylish, chic and dress fashionably affordably at a reasonable budget, mostly from thrift markets and stores, and also to highlight my affordable finds as well as outfits that I find worth the splurge as well as those investments thrift pieces I will wear again and again.
My blog is also for the woman who looks to magazine and celebrities for inspirations but has a real life budget and more importantly, the desire to craft her individual sense of style. And because I'm naturally a thrifty person, I'd love to share my tips and tricks with women because I believe "your style should never be determined by the size of your wallet."
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Barth and Scripture
It cannot be emphasized enough that Jesus is the only perfect revelation of God – his express image to quote the author of Hebrews. The bible is most certainly an inspired collection of books, but it is not equal to Jesus as if God can be reduced to writing on pages. The authority of Scripture is rooted not in its accuracy alone, but in the fact that God reveals Himself personally and actively to us in the reading of the Word. Moreover, as Ted Johnston mentioned, Jesus himself stated the case for us when he said that the bible's purpose is to testify of Jesus – to be a witness of him.
To be authentically evangelical does not mean one must use the word inerrancy and become embroiled in the politics surrounding the development of the statement of inerrancy which tries to prove too much. This does not mean the Bible cannot be infallible according to Barth's perspective. It is just the opposite in that we can affirm the infallibility of Scripture, as we do in our statement of beliefs. It is also important to take note that John Calvin's' view of the bible is not very different from Barth's. He also rooted the Biblical authority in the self-Revelation of God. Calvin also appealed to self-authentication by the Holy Spirit. Essentially, Barth makes the same point as Calvin only he uses "12 cylinder words" in comparison to Calvin's 6 cylinder expressions!


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Are You Picking Up Your Co-Workers Bad Habits?
We have all be there at one time or another. That place you go to in your career that you wouldn't normally be caught dead in. I am talking about that place that makes you adopt the bad habits of your co-workers. Sometimes this bug comes in the form of the drink-too-much at happy hour fairy, or the gorge-at lunch monster that sends you into an afternoon tailspin of lack of productivity, or it could even lead you into the danger zone of gossip monger at the water cooler.
Why is it that we tend to pick up the bad habits of those around us, especially those we work with? Well, according to LiveScience, the blame game is contagious and detrimental to all involved, especially in the workplace, but that your co-workers good habits can also be contagious and inspiring.
It's Contagious-The Blame Game At Work
According to Nathanael Fast of the Department of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California, blaming others or events is a dangerous thing to do for anyone involved, even spectators can be affected by watching others play the blame game. Blaming is usually done to protect ones self image. "Oh, I didn't forget to do that, it must have been John Smith." By pointing the finger at someone else, you unload your own feelings of failure, and minimize your shortcomings by throwing someone else under the bus and forcing that person to ride in the hot seat of blame. As Fast explains, this leads to multiple problems. First, the blamer never learns from his own mistakes or acknowledges them so he misses out on the chance to become more effective. How can we learn from our mistakes if we are in denial about them even occurring?
Secondly, there's the issue of the "kick-the-dog effect," as Fast calls it. If someone at the top of the ladder in an organization makes a mistake and points the finger at someone else below him as being the culprit of the mistake, a chain reaction is initiated where everyone that gets blamed, denies it, and points the finger and blames someone beneath him, until the lowest man on the totem pole is forced to shoulder the blame for something he didn't do, so he goes home and kicks his poor defenseless dog.
The Study and It's Findings
Fast, along with Larissa Tiedens of Standford University conducted multiple studies in which candidates were divided into two groups. One group was given a scenario about a person's failure in which that person owned up to their mistake. The other group was given the same scenario, but instead of acknowledging his mistake, the leader in the scenario passed the buck and blamed someone else. Later the members of these two groups were asked to write about one of their own recent failures and the reason for this failure.
The group that read about the leader's failure and how he blamed it on someone else were more than twice as likely to lay blame on someone else for their own mistakes than the other control group where the leader owned up to his failure.
Two other similar studies yielded the same types of results, indicating that blaming others is contagious.
Why Do We Blame Others
Besides being easy, we tend to blame others for our own slip-ups because we are concerned about preserving our own self image. When we see others play the blame game and offload their shortcomings onto other people, it can put us in a bad mood which Fast believes can lead to further blaming (the whole concept of misery loves company), and it can also justify the act of blaming in our minds. People begin to think that if they see their co-worker push their mistakes off onto someone else, that blaming is an acceptable form of behavior.
Set An Example
The best way to avoid infesting your workplace with the blame game is to lead by example. "It's important for leaders and organization managers who are trying to shape their cultures in a way to improve performance and creativity," Fast said. "If you're a leader, don't blame other people, at least not publicly. You might want to offer praise in public, but if you have to blame someone, do it in private."
Good Habits Can Be Contagious As Well
While blaming others at the office seems like an easy and common contagious workplace practice, there are good habits that can also be contagious. For example, self-discipline in the workplace can also rub off on your co-workers, even without effort. A series of studies, whose results were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, found that observing and/or thinking about a person with good self-control makes others more likely to follow suit and mimic some similar restraint. According to the lead author of this study, Michelle vanDellen, of the University of Georgia, "picking social influences that are positive can improve your self-control, and by exhibiting self-control you are helping others around you do the same."
Kate Lemay, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, says that the studious habits of her co-workers is contagious, in a good way. "My co-workers and I work in a library quiet environment and out of respect for this policy, we talk in whispers. Working day in and day out in an environment like this is great for writing and thinking." Lemay adds that she finds herself whispering hello on the elevator sometimes which is a bit odd, but that the quiet environment has done wonders for her dissertation.
While it is obvious that the habits of those around you-at home and at work- are contagious, it is best to avoid the blame game and hone in on some positive habits of those around you and mimic those instead. Your mood and your productivity levels will thank you.


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An excerpt from Wikipedia (Feb 26, 2015):
Therbligs are 18 kinds of elemental motions used in the study of motion economy in the workplace. A workplace task is analyzed by recording each of the therblig units for a process, with the results used for optimization of manual labor by eliminating unneeded movements.
The word therblig was the creation of Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American industrial psychologists who invented the field of time and motion study. It is a reversal of the name Gilbreth, with 'th' transposed.
A basic motion element is one of a set of fundamental motions required for a worker to perform a manual operation or task. The set consists of 18 elements, each describing a standardized activity.
Transport empty [unloaded] (TE): reaching for an object with an empty hand. (Now called "Reach")
Group (G): grasping an object with the active hand.
Transport loaded (TL):moving an object using a hand motion.
Hold (H): holding an object.
Release load (RL): releasing control of an object.
Preposition (PP): positioning and/or orienting an object for the next operation and relative to an approximation location.
Position (P): positioning and/or orienting an object in the defined location.
Use (U): manipulating a tool in the intended way during the course working.
Assemble (A): joining two parts together.
Disassemble (DA): separating multiple components that were joined.
Search (Sh): attempting to find an object using the eyes and hands.
Select (St): choosing among several objects in a group.
Plan (Pn): deciding on a course of action.
Inspect (I): determining the quality or the characteristics of an object using the eyes and/or other senses.
Unavoidable delay (UD): waiting due to factors beyond the worker's control and included in the work cycle.
Avoidable delay (AD): waiting within the worker's control which causes idleness that is not included in the regular work cycle.
Rest in peace (R): resting to overcome a fatigue, consisting of a pause in the motions of the hands and/or body during the work cycles or between them.
Find (F): A momentary mental reaction at the end of the Search cycle. Seldom used.


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I'm a user experience designer and researcher based in Australia. And I'm also a bit of a traveler.
Some past and upcoming projects
I've worked with a range of industries, from banking and public sector to media products like Big Brother and The Voice.
THE VOICE (2013) I worked for the website of The Voice Brasil (2013), the Brazilian edition of the American reality television singing competition. In Brazil this show is aired by TV Globo. For more details, visit my Behance.
Suncorp is one of Australia's largest banks. I've worked on something with their Innovation Lab team, in a partnership with Deloitte Digital.
TELSTRA (2016/17) Telstra is the largest telco and media company in Australia. They operate teleco networks, mobile, internet access, pay television and other entertainment products and services. I've worked on something related to their media products subscriptions (like Netflix, Stan, AFL subscriptions, movies, etc).
CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY - AUSTRALIAN GOV (2016) - CASA is the government department responsible for the regulation of civil aviation, in Australia. I worked on a digital tool to improve the interactions between pilots, ground crew, drones operators and aircraft operators (it's still under development).
RACQ (2016/17) The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) is a motoring club that provides roadside assistance, insurance and financial services. I've been involved as designer and researcher on something for RACQ.
BIG BROTHER (2009) I participated on the design and development team for the Big Brother Brazil Season 9 website. I worked on the user interface design, functional documentation, Search Engine Optimisation.
GLOBO.COM (2011) Globo.com is the most accessed portal in Brazil. The homepage is a gateway to the websites and products of Globo Organisations like globo esporte, G1, magazines sites, newspapers as well as TV news programs, soap operas and other TV programs portals. I worked on the homepage in 2011 (the current version in production is not mine). For more details, please visit the project on my Behance.
G1 (2012) G1 is most accessed news portal in Brazil. I've worked in several projects related to the portal over a year's time. The biggest one was The Local News - a partnership made between our TV affiliates and G1, for the purpose of covering the entire country within G1. The portal covers news about approximately 6000 cities in Brazil, all filtered using semantic content. For more details, visit the project on my Behance.
ATLANTICA HOTELS (2013) Atlantica is the biggest privately held hotel network in South America, with more than 80 hotels all over Brazil. They have currently 10 brands, including luxury brands 4Points by Sheraton and Radisson. I worked on two different projects for them, with Agencia Amo.
ALLIANZ GLOBAL ASSISTANCE (2016) Allianz in a global player in the insurance industry. I've worked as UX researcher on something for Allianz in Australia.
QSUPER (2016) QSuper is Queensland's largest super fund. Deloitte Digital worked as their partner designing, building and delivering a fully integrated online experience. I was engaged to the project as UX Researcher, interviewing users, designing User's Journey Maps and preparing and conducting the usability testing at the prototype stages. Read more about it at Deloitte Digital.
FIRJAN (2013/14) FIRJAN System is a network of private nonprofit organisation that promotes business competitiveness, education of industrial workers in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The website had an enormous amount of information to be organised. I worked on it with Agencia Amo in 2013 and 2014, they just finish developing in 2015, so you can check it out online. For more details, visit the project on my Behance.
QUEENSLAND URBAN UTILITIES (2016) QUU is the main water provider in QLD, Australia. I've been involved in the design of their customer portal. Mainly responsible for prototyping and Usability Testing. For more details, check the project page on my Behance.
AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE (2015) I worked on a project with the ATO design team. My responsibilities included designing wireframes, interactive prototypes and planing usability testing.
TATTS GROUP (2015) Tatts is one of the biggest player in gaming/lotteries in Australia. I worked with them designing a Self Betting terminal, a machine placed in pubs and agencies. It allows users to place and pay for their bets, without the need of human interaction. I did contextual inquiry, personas and User Interface Design.
DIGITAL STRATEGY - Competitor analysis, business requirements, product structure and strategy plan.
INTERACTION DESIGN - Wireframes and interactive prototypes.
USER RESEARCH - Personas, A/B test, investigative user studies, contextual inquiry and usability testing.
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE - Card sorting and IA workshops, navigation and web-ontology.
IMPLEMENTATION - Support throughout build phase.
ANALYTICS AND IMPROVEMENTS -Track data to keep improving the product and the user experience.


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Moving on from Europe, we next talked about the settlers who came to the New World.
We read about Jamestown, how it was springtime when the settlers arrived in Jamestown. We painted some lovely paintings of springtime in Jamestown based on a description in our book.
We learned about "Indians" who helped the settlers learn to fish and farm. We did another art project for this, too.
Then we learned about the Mayflower's journey to the New World. This activity was a HUGE hit! We had to go from "Europe" (the playroom) to "America" (the livingroom) by traveling across the "ocean" (linoleum in the schoolroom and kitchen.) The kids were each giving to pieces of paper. They had to step on one, then put the other in front of them and step on that piece. Then they had to take the piece from behind them and move it to a spot in front of them...the process was slow going at first, until they got a rhythm down. They have actually played this more than once! Too funny!
The last part of this week was the first Thanksgiving feast. Even though it is not November, we still enjoyed a small feast, and pantomiming the hard work the pilgrims had to do in order to enjoy the harvest.
*Ü* Blessings,
Monday, June 29, 2009
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Coat - c/o Bitching and Junkfood, Tee - Vintage, Pants - Lip Service, Shoes - GoJane, Jewelry - Miss Industry etc.
This look is clearly inspired by Snuffaluffagus:
I really relate to him, aesthetically. Also, he's freaking magical, so who would't want to be that?
Alright, so I started working at Lip Service and I developed this thing called "Lip Service Goggles", wherein you look at something totally batshit crazy and weird and go, "I dunno, I think I kinda like that..." and one of your more rational friends/coworkers goes, "Girl, you got Lip Service Goggles on..." meaning: "That thing is only cute to you because you work here but it is totally not your style and you should not go buying that thing because it will not make sense to you once you get it home and try to work it into your closet..."
So, about six months into my part-time freelance gig at Lip Service, I got it in my head that I really needed vinyl pants. "Do I have Lip Service Goggles on?!" I asked my friend Kali, to which she replied with that thing that I usually use the baby chick emoji to describe, like a weird WELP shoulder shrug that seems to say "who knows but waddaya gonna go?"
A month later, these badass mother(shut your mouth!)ers came in and I was all like :O
(the poodle emoji is obviously how I express delight about something)
And it was love at first sight. WTF is the point of this story. Something about vinyl pants, IDK man.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Former VMI right-hander Matt Eagle has signed a free agent contract with the Los Angeles Angels, according to information released by the organization recently.
"I am very excited for this chance, and I thank the Angels for the opportunity," said Eagle. "I am very thankful for the support of my family, friends and coaches, and for how they have believed in me since I started playing baseball."
Eagle signs after posting seven saves last season, and going 1-3 with a 5.22 ERA. He struck out 47 and walked only 10 in 39 2/3 innings, and limited opponents to just two home runs.
"Most of all, I thank God for the opportunities and abilities to chase my dreams," stated Eagle. "When Jesus died and rose again on the third day, the word impossible was removed from the world and I just want to prove that. Once again, thanks to everyone who has believed in me on this journey!"


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In exceptional circumstances, such as if a club had no goalkeepers available, the Premiership might consider allowing a club to sign a player.
In the Football League, loan deals are permitted up to 24 November - after which no deals are allowed until the re-opening of the window on 1 January 2006. The exception to this rule is only if a club had no goalkeepers available.
Conference clubs can register four short-term and four long-term loan players after the window closes, and can play five loan players in a game.
They can also sign a keeper for a minimum period of seven days outside the window if they do not have a registered keeper available.
28 November 2005
Lennie Pidgeley [Chelsea - Millwall] Loan
24 November 2005
Nathan Abbey [Boston - Leyton Orient] Loan
Cliff Akurang [Heybridge Swifts - Dagenham & Redbridge] Loan
Rob Atkinson [Barnsley - Scarborough] Work experience
Terry Barwick [Grimsby - York] Loan
Chris Brass [York - Southport] Loan
Aaron Brown [QPR - Swindon] Loan
Omari Coleman [Lincoln - Gravesend] Loan
Mark DeBolla [Chesterfield - Notts County] Loan
Michael Dobson [Brentford - Reading] Loan
Joe Dolan [Leyton Orient - Fisher Athletic] Loan
Colin Doyle [Birmingham - Millwall] Loan
Robert Elliot [Charlton - Accrington] Loan
Scott Fitzgerald [Brentford - Oxford] Loan
David Galbraith [Northampton - Boston] Loan
Peter Gilbert [Leicester - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Danny Graham [Middlesbrough - Derby] Loan
Lewis Gobern [Wolves - Derby] Loan
Don Hutchison [Millwall - Coventry] Free
Jason Jarrett [Norwich - Plymouth] Loan
Dan Jarvis [Rossington Main - Scarborough] Non-contract
Brett Johnson [Northampton - Gravesend] Loan
Zac Jones [Blackburn - Southampton] Loan
Nathan Koo-Boothe [Milton Keynes Dons - Grays Athletic] Loan
Michel Kuipers [Brighton - Boston] Loan
Neil MacKenzie [Macclesfield - Scunthorpe] Loan
Petr Mikolanda [West Ham - Swindon] Loan
Daryl Murphy [Sunderland - Sheff Wed] Loan
Andy Parton [Scunthorpe - Scarborough] Loan
Rory Prendergast [Blackpool - Halifax] Loan
Neville Roach [Eastleigh - Oxford] Loan
Carl Robinson [Sunderland - Norwich] Loan
Bas Savage [Unattached - Bristol City]
Tony Scully [Notts County - Crawley] Loan
Dino Seremet [Luton - Doncaster] Loan
Jake Speight [Scarborough - Bury] Loan
John Turner [Cambridge United - Aldershot] Loan
Zak Whitbread [Liverpool - Millwall] Loan
Jason Wilcox [Leicester - Blackpool] Loan
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Aaron Brown [Tamworth - Reading] Loan
Scott Fitzgerald [Brentford - Oxford] Loan
Francis Green [Lincoln - Boston] Loan
Danny Morgan [Oxford-Basingstoke] Loan
Craig Nelthorpe [Doncaster - Hucknall] Work experience
Sam Oji [Birmingham - Doncaster] Loan
Adriano Rigoglioso [Doncaster - Southport] Loan
Mark Roberts [Crewe - Southport] Loan
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Gavin Heero [Farnborough - Cambridge] Loan
Max Porter [Southend - Cambridge] Trial
Elliott Ward [West Ham - Plymouth] Loan
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Joe Broad [Walsall - Redditch United] Loan
Paul Evans [Nottingham Forest - Rotherham] Loan
Jonathan Forte [Sheff Utd - Doncaster] Loan
Simon Francis [Sheff Utd - Tranmere] Loan
Luke Howell [Gillingham - Welling United] Loan
Adam Lockwood [Yeovil - Torquay] Loan
Mark Smyth [unattached - Accrington] Non-contract
Paolo Vernazza [Rotherham - Barnet] Loan
Ashley Vincent [Cheltenham - Aldershot] Loan
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Patrick Flynn [unattached - Kidderminster] Non-contract
Callum Lloyd [Mansfield - Alfreton] Loan
Richard Logan [Peterborough - Lincoln] Loan
Luke McShane [Peterborough - Basingstoke] Loan
Allan Russell [Macclesfield - Mansfield] Loan
David Wright [Wigan - Norwich] Loan
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Gary Harkins [Blackburn - Blackpool] Loan
Dean McDonald [Ipswich - Hartlepool] Loan
15 November 2005
Leo Bertos [unattached - York]
Michael Bridges [Bristol City - Carlisle] Loan
Lee Grant [Derby - Burnley] Loan
14 November 2005
Chris Butler [Accrington - Altrincham] Loan
Mike Flynn [Accrington - Hyde United ] Loan
12 November 2005
Steven Gillespie [Bristol City - Cheltenham] Loan
11 November 2005
Lee Andrews [Carlisle - York] Loan
Lee Fowler [Huddersfield - Scarborough] Loan
Ben Harding [Milton Keynes Dons - Forest Green] Loan
Bradley Johnson [Northampton - Gravesend & Northfleet] Loan
Tresor Kandol [Dagenham & Redbridge - Darlington] Loan
Sean McClare [Unattached - Scarborough]
Chris McHale [Kidderminster - Stourport] Loan
Stephen Quinn [Sheffield United - Milton Keynes Dons] Loan
Eric Skora [Preston - Walsall] Loan
Nathan Tyson (Wycombe-Nott'm Forest) Loan
10 November 2005
Marc Pugh [Burnley - Kidderminster] Loan
Brian Tinnion [Unattached - Aldershot]
Sam Togwell [Crystal Palace - Port Vale] Loan
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Ian Dunbavin [Halifax - Scarborough] Loan
Clayton Fortune [Bristol City - Port Vale] Loan
Richard Keogh [Bristol City - Wycombe] Loan
Marc Joseph [Hull - Bristol City] Loan
John Mousinho [Brentford - Woking] Loan
Iain Turner [Everton - Wycombe] Loan
7 November 2005
Ged Brannan [Unattached - Morecambe]
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Chris Breach [Brighton - Bognor Regis Town] Loan
Chris Cohen [West Ham - Yeovil] Loan
Leon Constantine [Torquay - Port Vale] Loan
Paul Harrison [unattached - Wolves]
Chris Holland [Bath City - Weston-Super-Mare] Loan
Barry McConnell [Exeter - Bath City] Free
Liam Miller [Man Utd - Leeds] Loan
Danny Reet [Sheffield Wednesday - Bury] Loan
Mark Ricketts [Charlton - Milton Keynes Dons] Loan
Ollie Ryan [Lincoln - Ilkeston Town] Loan
Ian Stonebridge [Wycombe - Torquay] Loan
Nicky Weaver [Manchester City - Sheffield Wednesday] Loan
Neil Wilkinson [Hartlepool - Blyth Spartans] Loan
James Winter [Hartlepool - Gateshead] Loan
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Lance Cronin [Unattached - Oldham]
Steve Robinson [Lincoln - Worksop Town] Loan
2 November 2005
Anthony Lloyd [Huddersfield - Torquay] Loan
Paul Robinson [Unattached - Torquay]
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A Spoken Corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English: pilot study
A Spoken Corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English: pilot study
Dr. Melanie Green, University of Sussex; Dr. Miriam Ayafor, University of Yaoundé I; Dr. Gabriel Ozon, University of Sheffield
Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Cameroon Pidgin
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Encoding format: audio .wav files (RIFF little-endian, Microsoft PCM, 44.1 KHz, 16-bit stereo); text transcripts .txt files; POS-tagged text transcripts in .txt files
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This resource is a 240,000-word corpus of spoken Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), a widely-used yet stigmatised and largely uncodified pidgin/creole variety.
The corpus consists of transcriptions of private and public dialogues and monologues, with mark-up and POS-tagging, together with accompanying sound files. The recordings were conducted in five different locations in Cameroon (Bamenda, Buea, Douala, Kumba and Yaounde), allowing some insights into regional variation. Text categories and the proportions of monologue and dialogue are guided by those of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project, which makes the corpus immediately comparable with existing corpora of post-colonial varieties of English.
The corpus is aimed at providing a resource for linguistic description and comparison. It allows linguists to identify and describe recurring grammatical patterns, as well as the phonology of the language (given the availability of sound files deposited with the text files). It also allows comparison of CPE with other pidgin/creole languages, other Cameroonian and West African languages, and other varieties of post-colonial English. Furthermore, the corpus provides an exceptional resource for the study of general/theoretical linguistics, creolistics, typology, language contact and change, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.
The corpus contains 80 sound recordings of monologues (scripted and unscripted) and dialogues (public and private). Each sound file (in .wav format) is 10-15 minutes in length. These recordings have been transcribed (each approximately 3,000 words in length) and annotated. Transcriptions are submitted in two formats: (a) plain transcription (with basic markup indicating speaker turns, overlaps, etc.), and (b) a POS-tagged version, which adds POS-tags to the plain version of the transcription.
The language of the monologues is Cameroon Pidgin English, with codeswitching into English, French, and indigenous Cameroonian languages.
The accompanying documentation includes (i) a list of submitted files, (ii) a list of participant data, (iii) a tagging guide, (iv) a word list and spelling guide.
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A federal judge has ordered Ohio officials to give full legal recognition to same-sex marriages performed in other states.
US District Judge Timothy Black ruled on Monday that Ohio prohibition on recognizing same-sex marriages from other states were unconstitutional and unenforceable.
The decision does not strike down the state's 2004 voter-approved constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but it lops off a significant portion of the state's regulation of marriage.
The decision requires state officials to grant the same privileges and benefits enjoyed by opposite-sex spouses in Ohio to same-sex couples who were legally married out-of-state.
"The record before this court … is staggeringly devoid of any legitimate justification for the State's ongoing arbitrary discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation," the judge wrote in a 40-page decision.
The content of the decision was no surprise. The Cincinnati-based judge had announced two weeks ago that he would rule against the Ohio same-sex marriage statute.
Nonetheless, Judge Black's decision marks an important addition to a growing number of lower court rulings rejecting state efforts to uphold and protect the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
Same-sex marriage is recognized in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Thirty-three states have banned gay marriage either by passing a statute or enacting a constitutional amendment.
In recent months, federal judges have struck down same-sex marriage bans in five states – Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Michigan. Those cases are either under appeal or are about to be appealed.
Black said he would stay enforcement of his order for at least a day until lawyers in the case could file briefs arguing whether a stay is appropriate.
Lawyers for the state are expected to urge the court to delay its enforcement of the decision to allow completion of expected appeals to the Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati and, perhaps, to the US Supreme Court.
Black said he was inclined to allow his ruling to take effect for the four same-sex couples who filed the initial lawsuit.
The context of the Ohio case is somewhat different than litigation in other states mounting outright challenges to same-sex marriage bans. The lawsuit challenging the Ohio same-sex marriage restrictions was filed by four same-sex married couples seeking to have both their names included on birth certificates issued by Ohio authorities.
Three of the plaintiffs are lesbian couples who have been legally married in states that support such unions. They relied on anonymous, artificial insemination in each case to conceive the child. The birth mothers in all three couples are due to give birth this June.
Ohio officials are willing to list the birth mother on the birth certificate, but have declined to include the other same-sex spouse as a parent, because the state does not recognize the marriages as legal.
The fourth couple is comprised of two men legally married in New York. They adopted a child from Ohio. They want both their names listed on the Ohio birth certificate as the child's parents.
Ohio performs that service for adoptive parents in other states who are heterosexual couples. But it refused to issue a certificate to the gay couple.
"There is a growing national judicial consensus that state marriage laws treating heterosexual and same-sex couples differently violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and it is this Court's responsibility to act decisively to protect rights secured by the United States Constitution," Black wrote in his decision.
Black, an appointee of President Obama, had faced a similar issue in a case last year dealing with the listing of a same-sex spouse on a death certificate.
The judge ordered Ohio officials to record the name of the spouse on the state-issued death certificate. Officials had declined to do so.
The judge ruled that the state's refusal violated the surviving spouse's constitutional right to not be deprived of one's already-existing legal marriage and its associated benefits and protections.
In ruling for the couples Monday, Black said it was clear that Ohio lawmakers and voters who supported the same-sex marriage ban had acted "with discriminatory animus and without a single legitimate justification."
"Ohio's marriage recognition ban embodies an unequivocal, purposeful, and explicitly discriminatory classification, singling out same-sex couples alone, for disrespect of their out-of-state marriages and denial of their fundamental liberties," he wrote.
The judge said the state's action relegated lesbian and gay married couples to "a second-class status in which only their marriages are deemed void in Ohio."
Lawyers for the state had argued that Ohio's same-sex marriage ban was justified as a legitimate effort by the state to preserve the traditional definition of marriage without regard to decisions made by other states.
They said judges should respect decisions made by lawmakers and referendum results that represent the declared will of the people of Ohio. They argued that democratic mechanisms in the state were able to encounter and embrace social change in a deliberate and careful way.
Black was not impressed. "Repeated appeal to the purportedly sacred nature of the will of Ohio voters is particularly specious," he said.
"These vague, speculative, and/or unsubstantiated state interests rise nowhere near the level necessary to counterbalance the specific, quantifiable, particularized injuries … suffered by same-sex couples," Black said.
The judge noted that the state's refusal to act on the birth certificate requests subjected children of same-sex couples to a variety of harms that children of opposite-sex couples will never encounter.
"The Supreme Court has long held that disparate treatment of children based on disapproval of their parents' status or conduct violates the Equal Protection Clause," Black wrote.
Children in families of same-sex couples could not be "denied the right to two legal parents, reflected on their birth certificates and given legal respect, without sufficient justification." The judge noted, "No such justification exists."
Evan Wolfson, president of the gay rights group Freedom to Marry praised Black's decision.
"Couples who are married should be treated as married no matter where they are in the country, including Ohio," he said. "Couples should not have to play 'now you're married, now you're not' as they travel, work, move, or return home."
The case is Henry v. Himes (14cv129).


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Under the Influence…/
I hope everyone had a restful and refreshing weekend!
I know I did. This weekend, I attended the President's Influence Retreat, which is a retreat that my school offers every year to graduating seniors. We went to a lake house and spent time under the sun, eating good food and getting to know one another, all the while growing closer to God and learning more about influence. We even had a real life riff-off!
Anyway. At my school, we are all about influence; the influence God has on us, and the influence we have on the world. This weekend, we went more in depth as the President of the college taught us all about what it means to be an influence and how we can do that after we graduate.
It got me thinking about the impact I hope to have on the world. Am I the only one who wishes to leave a lasting impression on this earth? Am I the only one who wants to change the world for the better? I know that I can't be…
Now, more than ever, I want to make a difference in the world. For me, that means showing the world Christ in everything I do and following God's plan for my life. I may just be crazy enough to think that I can change the world, but I think we can all agree that this world needs a change.
The biggest lesson I took away from the retreat is that if your dream fails, get a new one. It seems like such a simple concept, but if you're like me and your biggest fear is failure, then climbing Mt. Everest is easier.
If you've been following for a while, you know that I have failed a LOT this year. It's felt like mess up after mess up, disappointment after disappointment. I had to face my worst fear and part of me feels like I overcame it. However, I'm not sure that I'll ever be okay with failing. But though I may never be okay with it, I can get a new dream.
I don't ever want to be so afraid of failure that I don't follow my dreams. I will follow them, and if they fail, then God will give me a new dream.
I love the above quote. To me, it's a reminder that I can make it through failure. I can stand in the storm and when it's over, I can recover. I can rebuild, start again, dream bigger. Plans are rarely ever permanent. In this life, we must learn to adjust when things don't go our way. It's more than being flexible. It's learning to navigate new waters when you are blown off your original course.
Finally, if you haven't yet begun to follow your dreams, please do so. Everyone has a calling, whether you believe that calling is from God or not. I believe that everyone has something they were born to do. There are too many people in the world that are doing things that they hate simply because they never had the balls guts to follow their dreams.
Go out there and follow your calling! If you fail, you fail. You can always have another dream. You can always be inspired. You can always try new things. But use your gifts and talents. Be the person you have always wanted to be. Change the world. No one is stopping you but you…
*Prayers go out to all involved in the Boston explosions*


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I am so grateful for each and every one of you who stop by OMF to see what I'm organizing next - and hopefully you are motivated too! I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas from my family to yours!
I also want all of you to know that the very reason WE celebrate Christmas isn't about Santa Claus or presents. We believe that the whole purpose for Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus. And the whole reason He was born was so He could die for us on the cross - Easter is another of my favorite days!
If you've followed me even for a short time, you may know that I am a Christian. I believe in the Bible. If you think you're a good person and you want to know more about Christ, please click here.
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Confession of a Lapsed Feminist Signing Real Estate Papers in South Texas
Amy Minton
I have—of late—lost all my principles.
While at the title company signing for our new home, I did not demand that the MAXIM magazine be removed from the reception area.
When told I had to sign all documents as "co-borrower" and/or "spouse" in blue ink, I did not pitch a fit that I could not sign with a magenta glitter sharpie.
When asked by my home lender why I was a "grumpy bunny today," I did not stab that man in the neck with said blue pen provided by said title company.
I did not point out the bitter irony of the assembled group's consensus that they just "didn't get the ending of No Country for Old Men." (Have you no dreams of the old times? Do you not lament the horseman who carries the fire, receding into darkness?)
Most shameful of all, I did not, when the realtor blamed Hurricane Katrina victims for not evacuating when told to do so, berate him as ignorant of the social science disaster behind the meteorological one.
My psychiatrist had already deployed all available legal pharmaceutical solutions to ensure success, but alas! Menstruation is a sly bitch. Would I have wadded the pages of that MAXIM magazine to stop my flow from ruining their cushy leather chairs? Would I have veered off from the long walk to the conference room, ducked inside a windowless office, taken the woman seated there, held a stapler to her head, and demanded a primary signature line for me and a better salary for her?
Yes, I would have. In the early days.
Today, I am an older version of that feminist who'd have pointed out every bullshit disparity in this cowhide-coated, oak-paneled, Old Spice-infused man space. What's more, I'm a mother now, and a mother has to overlook the petty battles to win The War. A mother has to provide shelter, food, and security—and possess the pharmaceutical assistance to withstand indignities.
I am—as of present—doped up, with public restroom toilet paper wedged up my cooch-chute and my literary/social science analysis filters turned up to eleven.
This is how grumpy bunny signs on the lines underneath the man's name. For forty-five minutes. Signature, initial, date, repeat.
When the hurlyburly's done, there is an offering for my lost dignity: the plastic, cheap ballpoint—mass-produced, and stamped with the title company's logo.
Here, the line snaps. (For mustn't there be a victory, however small, to keep the flame alive?)
I say to the men assembled: "No, I don't want your fucking free pen friend-o. It's BLUE."
About the author:
Amy Minton's fiction appears in Indiana Review, Phoebe, Waxwing, Knee-Jerk Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, and others. Her short story, "Overhanded," was selected for inclusion in Best of the Web 2008 (Dzanc Books), edited by Steve Almond. Her non-fiction appears in Gravel, Hobart, and The Collagist. She sips fine tea while her four dogs keep her feet toasty.