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Transgender Advocates' Statements on APA DSM Workgroups
Jim Burroway
May 30th, 2008
The American Psychiatric Association has convened several panels to discuss revisions to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM), which is currently in its fourth edition (DSM-IV). It's a standard practice for the APA to revise the manual every decade or so in order to incorporate knowledge generated by more current research.
The APA has begun the work of compiling the data for DSM-V, and that process has sparked several strange rumors around the Internet that really didn't ring true with me. According to a few of these rumors, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is poised to either reinstate homosexuality in the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM), or that the APA was going to decide to approve of sexual reorientation therapy. There is nothing however to suggest that anything like that will be happening.
But most of these rumors surround the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder (GID), which is of particular interest to the transgender community. These rumors are centered around two researchers who have been appointed to some of the working groups: Kenneth Zucker, who chairs the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders work group, and Ray Blanchard, who chairs the Paraphilias subworkgroup under Zucker.
To understand transgender people's concern about these two appointments, some background is in order. Kenneth Zucker and Ray Blanchard are associated with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. This center resulted from the merger of four mental health centers, one of which was the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. The Clarke Institute was the referral agency for transgender clients who wanted to surgically transition.
Many transgender clients found their treatment in the hands of the Clarke Institute degrading and offensive, feelings which were greatly magnified by the Institute's main mission of treating sex offenders. Transgender clients often describe inappropriate and degrading tests and experiences at the institute. In fact, feelings run so deeply about the Clarke Institute that some transgender advocates have dubbed it "Jurassic Clarke.", while others append the adjective "notorious" in front of the Institute's name so routinely that one might be tempted to think that its official name was "The Notorious Clarke Institute."
Because of the Clarke Institute's history, virtually anything emanating from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is suspect among the transgender community, and those suspicions often radiate to the rest of the LGBT community.
Associations with the Clarke Institute however isn't the only source of transgender advocates' concerns. Also controversial are some of Blanchard's theories on MtF transgender etiology that he calls "autogynephilia,"which many people find deeply offensive and off the mark. (Blanchard, on the other hand, is a leading researcher into what he believes to be the biological causes of male homosexuality.) Also controversial is Zucker's approach to treating transgender clients, which involves counseling the client to take on behaviors and attitudes which are considered to be more socially appropriate to that person's biological sex. This is an approach which raises alarm bells among gays and lesbians who recognize the parallels to sexual reorientation therapies, which may be the source of the rumors concerning homosexuality and sexual reorientation therapy that I mentioned earlier.
Today, we have a statement from four Transgender advocacy groups, which will hopefully provide some clarification on Zucker's and Blanchard's role in the DSM-V revision.
Statement from:
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
Transgender Law and Policy Institute (TLPI)
Transgender Law Center (TLC)
Transgender Youth Family Allies (TYFA)
On May 1, 2008, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced the composition of work groups to review scientific advances and research-based information to develop the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). The composition and scope of the work group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and two subgroups are of great interest to transgender people and therefore to our organizations.
Though no consensus exists among transgender people about whether and how a GID diagnosis should be in the DSM-V, there is certainly agreement that decisions made by the APA about transgender and gender non-conforming people will deeply affect the lives of millions of transgender adults, adolescents and children.
We have met with and strongly encouraged the APA to closely adhere to its stated commitment to scientific process regarding diagnosis of transgender people. We are confident that a fair, unbiased review of current knowledge can result in a DSM-V that can move society toward a more rational and humane understanding of transgender people.
We encourage our transgender brothers and sisters to approach this issue with thoughtful consideration of all available information. To that end, we encourage transgender people and allies to remember that:
The naming of this working group on May 1 was not the commencement of advocacy around rethinking or revision of the GID diagnosis. Thoughtful advocates, within and without the APA, have been working on this issue for several years and they will continue to do so for several more, through at least 2012 when the DSM-V is finalized. We look forward to strengthening our relationships and positive communication channels with the many APA-affiliated professionals who are knowledgeable and understanding of transgender issues.
It is inconceivable that in the 21st century any credible scientist or medical professional would recommend any discredited treatment that would attempt to change a person's core gender identity or sexual orientation. Such treatments have no empirical basis and are harmful. Importantly though, the DSM consists of diagnoses and not treatments. As such, the DSM-V will not offer any treatment recommendations for transgender people of any age.
The APA has created several mechanisms for thoughtful input into the DSM revision process from mental health professionals as well as laypeople affected by the DSM. We encourage transgender people and allies, especially mental health professionals, to utilize these systems to appropriately impact the process. In particular the APA has created a website through which written comments can be submitted. Additionally, as the DSM-V development process advances, working groups are charged with seeking the counsel and input of various advisers who will be selected from various clinicians, academics and other stakeholders. We will advocate for the inclusion of fair-minded advisors who are committed to providing only scientific, fair, reasonable and humane input. We are hopeful that these systems will help provide sufficient information to assure a fair and scientific process for the creation of the DSM-V.
Public acceptance of transgender people and anti-discrimination protections have been advancing swiftly. This is in large part due to scientific and medical advances, but also to the assertive, vigilant and intelligent activism of thousands of transgender people and our allies. While transgender people's history with the psychiatric and medical professions has been, at times, fraught with misunderstanding and tainted by bigotry, we are optimistic that current and developing scientific research and clinical data will further the understanding of transgender issues among health care professionals and the public.
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
Transgender Law and Policy Institute (TLPI)
Transgender Law Center (TLC)
Transgender Youth Family Allies (TYFA)


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Born in Egypt, Proyas relocated to Australia with his family when he was three years old. He began making films at age ten and went on to attend the Australian Film Television and Radio School along with Jane Campion and Jocelyn Morehouse. Proyas collaborated with Campion on two of her shorts, "A Girl's Own Story" (1984), for which he wrote and performed a song, and "Passionless Moments" (also 1984), which he photographed. Proyas' own short, "Groping" (1982), had earned him some attention at festival screenings in Sydney and London. Also while still a student, the enterprising novice formed Meaningful Eye Contact, a production company.
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Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Derby winner, and two-time Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic winner Royal Delta, along with Dullahan, will attempt to give American-based horses their first World Cup win since 2010, when the track was changed from dirt to a synthetic surface.
Monterosso, owned by Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, is back to try for a second straight World Cup win.
Animal Kingdom drew the No. 12 post on Wednesday, with Royal Delta—bidding to become the first filly to win the race—drawing the No. 8 post. Dullahan leaves from the No. 3 post.
Barry Irwin, founder of Team Valor which co-owns Animal Kingdom, said he's glad with the outside draw, noting his horse won the Derby from the No. 16 post in the 20-horse field.
"I don't think it's that big of a deal," Irwin said. "He's not going to be in front anyway. He will be a mid-pack horse. We just didn't want to be inside. If we were in the 1-2-3, we would be feeling it; 11-12-13 not great, but not bad."
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, who won the first World Cup in 1996 with Cigar, said he hopes Royal Delta "breaks well and has a clean trip," from the No.
"We are just hoping for a better trip, a smooth trip. That is all we can ask for," Mott said.
Jerry Crawford, managing partner of Donegal Racing which owns Dullahan, said he was fine with the post position for his horse who ran third in last year's Kentucky Derby and then beat Game On Dude in the Pacific Classic.
"We will save a lot of ground between the start and the first turn by being where we want to be," Crawford said. "I much prefer the 3. You can do the math. If you come straight over to the rail and save every step of ground, you still have to run 40 feet further from 13 than the 1. It's just mathematics at the end of the day."
The early favorite is Hunter's Light, who drew No. 4, and also comes from the stables of Sheik Mohammed.
Also entered were African Story, Capponi, Kassiano, Meandre, Planteur, Red Cadeaux, Side Glance and Treasure Beach.
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Forget robo-calls—Obama's text messages are this campaign's secret weapon.
Over the last couple of months, John McCain has launched at least a dozen automated phone campaigns that question Barack Obama's alleged ties to terrorists, among other charges. McCain, who was famously targeted by ugly robo-calls in the 2000 presidential primary, defends his effort as "totally accurate." Several Republicans have criticized the calls. Even Sarah Palin says she doesn't much like them. The Obama campaign has scolded McCain to stop the phone campaign; Obama has even launched his own robo-calls to denounce McCain's robo-calls.
With all this Sturm und Drang, you might think that automated phone calls will make a difference in the presidential race. They won't. Robo-calls are the pyrotechnics of politics: They create a big disturbance, but they don't have a prolonged effect. Numerous studies of robo-call campaigns show that they're ineffective both as tools of mobilization and persuasion—they don't convince voters to go to the polls (or to stay away), and they don't change people's minds about which way to vote. So why do campaigns run robo-calls? Because they're cheap and easy. Telemarketing firms charge politicians between 2 and 5 cents per completed robo-call; that's as low as $20,000 to reach 1 million voters right in their homes.
Compared with TV advertising, door-to-door canvassing, and mega-rallies, automated phone calls are seductive because they harness modern telecommunications technology in the service of political persuasion. That being said, it's Obama's campaign, not McCain's, that has hit upon the cheapest effective way of contacting voters via the phone: text messaging. During the last two years, Obama has collected hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cell phone numbers from loyal supporters and new registrants. Now his campaign is sending out text messages to people across the country—the texts remind people to register to vote, to go to the polls, and to organize others on behalf of the campaign.
On the surface, these texts don't seem that different from robo-calls—they're both automated messages and both easy to ignore. But for reasons that aren't completely understood, text messaging is different: We pay attention to short messages that pop up on our phones.
These conclusions arise out of work by Donald Green and Alan Gerber, two political scientists at Yale whose book, Get Out the Vote: How To Increase Voter Turnout,is considered the bible of voter mobilization efforts. Green and Gerber are the product of a wave of empiricism that has washed over political science during the past decade. Rather than merely theorizing about how campaigns might get people to vote, Green, Gerber, and their colleagues favor randomized field experiments to test how different techniques work during real elections. Their method has much in common with double-blind pharmaceutical studies: With the cooperation of political campaigns (often at the state and local level), researchers randomly divide voters into two categories, a treatment group and a control group. They subject the treatment group to a given tactic—robo-calls, e-mail, direct mail, door-to-door canvassing, etc. Then they use statistical analysis to determine whether voters in the treatment group behaved differently from voters in the control group.
Political scientists have run dozens of such studies during the past few years, and the work has led to what you might call the central tenet of voter mobilization: Personal appeals work better than impersonal ones. Having campaign volunteers visit voters door-to-door is the "gold standard" of voter mobilization efforts, Green and Gerber write. On average, the tactic produces one vote for every 14 people contacted. The next-most-effective way to reach voters is to have live, human volunteers call them on the phone to chat: This tactic produces one new vote for every 38 people contacted. Other efforts are nearly worthless. Paying human telemarketers to call voters produces one vote for every 180 people contacted. Sending people nonpartisan get-out-the-vote mailers will yield one vote per 200 contacts. (A partisan mailer is even less effective.)
Meanwhile, pinning leaflets to doors, sending people e-mail, and running robo-calls produced no discernible effect on the electorate. Green and Gerber cite many robo-call studies, but the most definitive is a test they ran during the 2006 Republican primary in Texas. Gov. Rick Perry recorded a call praising a state Supreme Court candidate as a true conservative. The robo-call was "microtargeted" to go out only to Perry supporters—people who'd be most open to his message. But as Green and Gerber show, Perry supporters who received the call reacted no differently from those who'd been kept off the list. They were no more likely to vote, nor, if they voted, to vote for Perry's candidate.
These findings create an obvious difficulty for campaigns: It's expensive and time-consuming to run the kind of personal mobilization efforts that science shows work best. Green and Gerber estimate that a door-canvassing operation costs $16 per hour, with six voters contacted each hour; if you convince one of every 14 voters you canvass, you're paying $29 for each new voter. A volunteer phone bank operation will run you even more—$38 per acquired voter. This is the wondrous thing about text-messaging: Studies show that text-based get-out-the-vote appeals win one voter for every 25 people contacted. That's nearly as effective as door-canvassing, but it's much, much cheaper. Text messages cost about 6 cents per contact—only $1.50 per new voter.


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In the middle of being blasted off again, James finds a bottle cap from his training days that starts everyone reminiscing about being Team Rocket trainees. Jessie was a problem trainee, unable to work with any partner for long. Meowth walked into Giovanni's office, asking to be made a Team Rocket field agent. And Butch and Cassidy were trainees, too--Cassidy was Jessie's constant rival. Drill Sergeant Viper ordered Jessie to start training with her new partner, James, and Meowth was assigned to their team after Giovanni lost patience with his incompetence.
In their first team challenge, they had 14 hours to reach a target location in the wilderness, surviving on a loaf of bread and bottle of water per person. When Meowth ate all of his food right away, James shared his food with Meowth. Jessie sniffed at such sentiment, but when they made camp that night, she reluctantly shared her own food with the other two. The next day, the trio had to cross a rickety bridge. Jessie made it across, but the bridge collapsed beneath Meowth and James. Although Jessie grabbed them just in time, James let go and fell into the river below, thinking it was for the best. His injuries put him out of action for the final trainee test: a real heist job to steal a red Snorlax from an office tower.
But to Jessie's surprise, James showed up for the mission anyway. Nothing would keep him from being there for his team! The only teams left were Jessie, James and Meowth against Butch and Cassidy; in the final room, Butch and Cassidy fell into a pit trap and James and Meowth almost fell in as well. This time, Jessie grabbed her partners and wouldn't let go, even when the building's alarms went off. As soon as she pulled them to safety, they started to make off with the Snorlax, but time was up--and the Snorlax was Drill Sergeant Viper in disguise!
Not only did Butch and Cassidy pass, but Jessie, James and Meowth also become real Team Rocket agents for getting as far as they did. Back in the present day, Team Rocket is still blasting off after another failure, but no matter what, they're still a team!
- Since Make-up would run while working out, Jessie and Cassidy did not wear lipstick when they were working out on the treadmill.
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Butch: "What happens if we don't get the Snorlax in time?"
Viper: "An excellent question Biff. Those who don't perform the task successfully will be rewarded an automatic "F", in addition they will have a lifetime stay in prison."
- "That's it, I'm officially changing my name."
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- For the hearse in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, see Hearse.
- "Funeral director's vehicle. Possibly used as cover."
- — GTA Vice City Website
The Romero is a two-door sports car that first appeared in Grand Theft Auto 2. The name was then applied to a hearse in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV.
Grand Theft Auto 2
In its original appearance in Grand Theft Auto 2, the Romero assumes the design of a two-door hardtop coupe, distinguished by its bubble-like windscreens and triangular windows in the rear. Ray Larabie's original version exhibits a more original design.
Despite its somewhat sporty design, the Grand Theft Auto 2 rendition's controls are delayed, resulting in sluggish cornering, and its acceleration and top speed may be regarded as below average. When crushed, the Romero will award the player armor when in the Downtown District, or Molotov cocktails in the Industrial District.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City — Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City featured a hearse named Romero's Hearse and in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: IV, this was shortened to Romero.
The Romero name was probably reused for hearses in reference to George A. Romero, the director of the Night of the Living Dead series of zombie movies. Within Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the car name is also associated with the Funeraria Romero funeral parlor, which features two Romero's Hearse parked out front in the mission Two Bit Hit.
Due to the recurrence of hearses since Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the differently named Hearse in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars may be confused with the Romero's Hearse.
DesignIn Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Romero's Hearse resembles an '80s Buick Superior Hearse (in turn based on a 1977–1984 Buick Electra). In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it resembles a late '70s Cadillac hearse, sporting a wider range of colors for the roof and body (although generally maintain dark tones). One of Carl Johnson's possible girlfriends, Katie Zhan, owns a white Romero, and will give Carl the keys to it if Carl gains her approval. The Romero featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City may come with a coffin at the back (appearing with one of two or three different designs).
The Grand Theft Auto IV rendition of the Romero is a modified version of the Washington sedan, and as such, bears the Albany brand. However, the vehicle lacks a coffin, aside one mission ("Undertaker").
The Romero's Hearse in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a car capable of high speeds, but suffers from poor steering due to its weight and long wheelbase. Performance of the Romero in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is even worse, as the car is only capable of mediocre top speeds, and features weak brakes. The Grand Theft Auto IV Romero retains the adequate handling of the Washington, but has inferior acceleration and top speed due of 138 mph to the added weight of the wagon body.
All renditions of the hearse are only capable of carrying two occupants, despite featuring two back doors in most cases. The Grand Theft Auto: Vice City rendition is an exception, being capable of holding four occupants.
Availability and appearances in missions
While the original Romero in Grand Theft Auto 2 is commonly found in the Downtown and Industrial Districts of Anywhere City, the vehicle in hearse form is not normally driven on the streets, and are more commonly seen parked or in specific missions.
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Romero's Hearse is only available in the mission "Two Bit Hit" but it can be spawned through cheats. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, however, the Romero can be found outside missions, for example at the Blackfield Chapel in Las Venturas or at the Angel Pine Medical Center.
The Romero in Grand Theft Auto IV is only featured in the mission "Undertaker".
Modifications (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
The Romero can me modified at the TransFenders.
- Color (two areas)
- Wheels (ten types)
- Nitro (All)
- Bass Boost
- Hydraulics
- While the car appears to have four doors, only two can be seated, except for in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where four people can fit.
- In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, when the Romero's left light is broken, it will still work, but the right (unbroken) light will not, and vice versa.
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Romero is the least durable vehicle in the game.
- The vehicle can be sold in Grand Theft Auto IV for $2,200 at S&M Auto Sales following completion of Stevie's Car Thefts.
- Despite its only regular Grand Theft Auto IV appearance being in the mission "Undertaker", more Romeros will spawn in traffic if the player retains that Romero and drives it around the city, particularly in Westdyke.
- The Romero in Grand Theft Auto IV, just like the Washington, its base, features the "door ajar" chime which can be heard with the door open and volume turned up.
- Romero is Spanish for "Rosemary."
- The name 'Romero' is likely a reference to the famous horror movie director, George Romero, due to it being a hearse in all but its Grand Theft Auto 2 appearance.
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Romero is the only vehicle that start with Radio Off.
- The Romero in Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the four cars only to be called by their name in missions. The others are "The Silver Blista" in Clean Getaway, the "shitty beige Willard" from It's Your Call and Gracie Ancelotti's Pink Feltzer.
- Grand Theft Auto 2
- Commonly spawned in the Downtown and Industrial Districts of Anywhere City.
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- It can only be obtained during the mission "Two Bit Hit", by stealing it from the Haitian funeral.
- Via cheat - PC: THELASTRIDE, PS2 - down, R2, down, R1, L2, left, R1, L1, left, right.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- In the driveway of Drive-Thru Confessions Church, Palomino Creek, Red County.
- Outside Katie Zhan's home in Juniper Hollow, San Fierro. (only when dating her, and locked until certain progress is made with her)
- Near Fort Carson Medical Center, Fort Carson, Bone County
- Two are located in Blackfield Chapel, Las Venturas.
- Next to the Angel Pine Medical Center, Angel Pine, Whetstone.
- Via cheat (PC): WHERESTHEFUNERAL
- Grand Theft Auto IV
It can be obtained during "Undertaker", where you have to take the corpse of Derrick or Francis to Steinway or Colony Island.
- Can also be obtained after the mission if you are lucky enough to find it in traffic.
- Rarely Spawns in Colony Island, at the Cemetary's parking lot.
- Some many spawn in traffic if already in one, especially after Heavy Toll. Appearing in Steinway and Colony Island.
See also
- Hearse, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars equivalents.


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[IMG] Insert half build SS jamis MTB here [/IMG]
Might as well pop a pic up in this thread..
My piece-of-sh*t bike with a few decent components.
Beginning to look more seriously for a new bike at the moment.
My trek
Bike my dad rode before he died this March
hmmmmmmm,what's hanging around right now........
Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
All of the non-MTBs should be deleted from this thread.
Installed the new seat post last week.
So I finally got my first hardtail MTB. Thanks to all from BikeForums who helped me out. Guess the new Post your Rigs is the ideal place to showcase. Brick wall on a overcast day makes a surprisingly good background. I'll do a proper photo shoot sometime. Felt Q720:
The shifting was set up so well by my store it's a dream, at times so quiet and quick that I don't realise its happened:
Two small changes to the stock version: grips changed to Bontrager foam ones (I REALLY didn't like the stock grips). I thought foam grips would be way too soft and spongy, but they're actually very nice, firm and grippy. Also went clipless with the basic Shimano SPD pedals:
I could go on about how the fork isn't up to the rest of the bike, but I'm a cyclist, not a component weenie and to be honest, I can't even tell the difference between that and higher-end forks. The thing rides like a dream, and I'm happy as a pig in mud.
And that's mah first hardtail.
Name this trail.
2014 Giant Trance SX
Mostly kidding. That is a nice looking bike and that fork will be fine until it drops all of its oil on the garage floor, but how else would you know its time for an up grade?
New toy day for me.
One day I'll get a real mountain bike but until then...I'm gonna beat the snot out of this thing!
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Wakulla County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) and Wakulla Correctional Institution (WCI) staff took part in the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run to support Wakulla Special Olympics Tuesday, April 9.
The Wakulla Torch Run began at the sheriff's office and concluded with a ceremony at the Wakulla County Courthouse. The Special Olympians were treated to a lunch by Sonic in Hickory Park after the event concluded.
More than 3,000 Florida law enforcement agencies participate in the statewide Torch Run which includes a 1,500 mile relay through nearly all of the counties in Florida. The Torch Run began in March and will culminate with the Opening Ceremonies of the Florida Special Olympic Games in Orlando on May 18.
Law enforcement officials will bring the "Flame of Hope" into the stadium to signify the opening of the state games. More than 20,000 athletes will compete in Orlando including a group from Wakulla County. Sharon Scherbarth and Patricia Bodiford are the school district program coordinators.
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Playa del Seville is a district in southeastern Los Santos, San Andreas, and is a strong hold of the Grove Street Families, in particular the Seville Boulevard Families set. Sweet's girlfriend is the only known resident of the area and LB, Ryder's friend, owns a garage in the area. North of the area is the Los Santos Forum and East Beach. To the west, meanwhile, are the districts of Ocean Docks and Willowfield. Playa del Seville is mixed race and had a population of 92 as of 1992.
The area contains a set of housing projects, a beach and nearby busy road, a set or garages, a basketball court, a small street with some small single-family homes and a few businesses and stores. Despite the gang activity, the area is more middle-class and the beach is a popular tourist destination.
Events of GTA San Andreas
Playa del Seville does not feature much in GTA San Andreas. During one mission, Carl Johnson rescues his brother Sweet and his girlfriend, from Playa del Seville (after Seville Boulevard Family members start attacking them). Other than this, Playa del Seville appears as the location of LB's garage or the Lockup, where stolen items are kept. These include from Colonel Fuhrberger (during the mission Home Invasion) and when doing the burglary side mission.
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Even after their involvement in the fishing industry for all their lives, most villagers living adjacent to the Tanga city coastal waters are ignorant of laws governing fisheries.
They are in the dark as to what types of fishing gear require licensing and why they should meet the requirement at all.
What is even more baffling is the fact that some ward environmental committees are not fully conversant with the laws which guide them in their operations.
"We have seen people who are said to come from fisheries department in our village, but what they are here for, we do not know," said Hassan Mwajasho, 68, a resident and environmental committee member of Mwarongo village, Tongoni Ward in the City.
"We are aware that the government prohibits dynamite fishing. When we see fisheries officers in our village, we know that they are looking for people who engage in bombing," Mwajasho said.
Having noticed that a larger section of people whose lives depend on the sea were ignorant of marine laws, a non-governmental organization (NGO) Tanga Together Trust (TTT), a lobbying and advocacy group stepped in to educate the society on their rights and obligations.
"After identifying the weakness with regard to marine law within the fishing society, particularly on the youth, we discovered that a large section of the fishing population lacked awareness on marine laws," says Aurelia Mtui, the project coordinator.
"Youths are being used in illegal activities by well-off individuals. We therefore decided that as a civil society group, we were obliged to remove the darkness surrounding the society through awareness seminars," says Aurelia.
Established in 2004, the NGO has thirty five members, both men and women. The NGO is involved in dissemination of various information with regard to human rights, environmental, development, youth, orphans and gender issues.
The one-year project which ends in December covers three wards of Tongoni, Tangasisi and Marungu with 150 households. The NGO is funded by the Foundation for Civil Society (FCS).
In a paper presented at one of the seminars, Obadia Ngogo, a fisheries officer lectured the villagers on the necessity to have their fishing gear registered and licensed.
Ngogo told an audience at Mwarongo village that it was of paramount importance to know types of fish which were not allowed to be fished out, giving an example of cilicant – a strange specie.
He also said dynamite fishing which was on the rise along almost all fishing villagers was a crime whose punishment was either a fine of 1m/- or 5 years imprisonment.
At Mwambani, another facilitator, Hassan Kalombo told over 70 villagers that the fisheries Act 1997 required people engaged in fishing activities to own a vessel fully registered and licensed before venturing in fishing business.
"If we come across anybody doing fishing without a licence, the fine is 1m/- or three years imprisonment," said Kalombo, a senior fisheries officer of the Tanga regional secretariat.
"All you need to do is obtain a permit from your local government. When you come to us, we simply issue you with a licence," he said adding that the use of illegal fishing nets attracted a fine of 2.5 m/- or a three-year imprisonment.
Kalombo told the participants that use of gas cylinders is outlawed as well use of certain types of poison, adding that such vices called for a jail sentence of 5 years with no option of a fine.
"The aim of imposing such severe punishment is to deter perpetrators from the illegal vice," he said adding that the villagers focus should be on preserving marine life for future generations.
But a large section of participants said they were at a loss to know the procedures to follow before obtaining a licence.
"There is no BMU (Beach Marine Unit) here. Those paying for licences do so when fisheries officers from Tanga come to the village," said Chogo Abdallah Mikidadi, 42, the facilitator called upon the villagers to report any acts of breach of law particularly exposing dynamite fishermen to the district fisheries officer or any other government authority for legal action.
"I know, everyone here is another's relative and you fear being blamed for exposing those engaged in illegal fishing. But you can do it through writing letters to fisheries officers," asserted Kalombo.
Mwambura Bakari, on his part requested for provision of fishing gear so that the village can be able to carry out legal activities and save marine resources from destruction.
"We have no financial resources to buy fishing gear like boats, engine etc. We need assistance," said Bakari.
"Much as we appreciate the knowledge availed to us, we feel that we should be considered for financial assistance," said Mwajuma Abdallah, 65, a resident of Mwambani. She said they felt extremely sad to learn that their neighbours in Mwahako who live far away from the sea had been provided with grants with which to buy fishing gear. She said that was not fair. "We too should be considered for grants so that we may buy modern fishing gear and improve our lives," said Mwajuma.


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Let's Do Business! video series is on the city's YouTube channel for viewing at your convenience [video].
In 2016 the Community and Business Development Department will host its third Business Plan Contest. Each of the two winners will receive: $5,000 grant for startup costs, $5,000 potential matching micro-loan, and an opportunity to apply to Small Business Loan Program. Business Department staff is happy to provide technical assistance and feedback to participants. If you are interested in the Business Plan Contest, you can read more about it here.
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Love Gov Video Series: Presentation at Draper University
Recorded: Tuesday, November 3, 2015
David J. Theroux, Founder and President of the Independent Institute, presents the idea and concept behind Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate, the award-winning, satirical video series that portrays the federal government as an overbearing boyfriend Scott Gov Govinsky who foists his good intentions on a hapless, idealistic college student, Alexis Smith.
To watch the web series, follow this link
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Banking and Finance, Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Corporate Welfare, Culture/ Society, Economic Policy, Education, Energy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, Housing, Labor and Employment, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Privacy, Property Rights, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes, Trade, Welfare
Robert Higgs on The Peter Schiff Radio Show on Economic Intervention
Recorded: Thursday, December 15, 2011
Fill-in host Tom Woods on the Peter Schiff Radio Show interviews Senior Fellow Robert Higgs. They discuss the history of government economic interventions during the Great Depression and World War II and how those lessons apply today. Check out some of Robert Higgs books mentioned on the program.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Robert Higgs on the Consequences of Leviathan-sized Government
Recorded: Thursday, July 1, 2010
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Scott Horton on Antiwar.com Radio, warning those who long for total governmental and economic collapse to be careful what they wish for. Higgs also explains why federal spending cannot continue at the current record levels without a failure of the bond market. He further compares the military and economic over-extension of the Soviet Union prior to its collapse to the United States as a warning against rampant spending by the government.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Fiscal Policy/Debt, Terrorism and National Crises
Robert Higgs Interviewed: Governments Intrusions Threaten Economy
Recorded: Thursday, June 3, 2010
Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed on Governments Intrusions Threaten Economy. Interviewed by Steve Stanek of the Heartland Institute, Dr. Higgs explains that the governments growing intrusions into the economybank bailouts, economic stimulus, interest rate manipulations and credit expansion by the Federal Reserve, increased business regulationscould eventually lead to soaring price inflation and interest rates and another, far worse economic downturn. The solution is to move deliberately to end such policies and the accumulation of federal bureaucratic programs, controls and taxes on Americans.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic Policy, Government Waste/Pork
Robert Higgs on Booms, Busts and Bad Predictions
Recorded: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. They discuss the economic baloney of mainstream economists, the failure of most to understand the potential for mass inflation given the money supply currently sitting around in bank reserves, the reality of the business cycle and the politicians and medias failure to grasp it, and why none of us should make sweeping predictions about how the future will unfold, even if we do understand economics, since human action and the flexibility of markets are impossible to quantify.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Politics
Mike Church Interviews Robert Higgs
Recorded: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics
Robert Higgs on Economic Prospects for 2010
Recorded: Friday, December 18, 2009
Originally aired on 12/18/09 on FoxNews.com Freedom Watch. Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses economic landmarks of 2009, including the increasing demand for Federal Reserve transparency, and also looks forward at the possible outcomes of government economic intervention in 2010.
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Rapid Launch USA (the company) claims their Rapid Launch powered parachute is the "world's only amphibious powered parachute." The helium-filled canopy system "is adaptable to all major brands," Rapid Launch says. The canopy (shown here on a Buckeye powered parachute cart) rises to fill the top of your hangar. Below: A pair of SlipStream floats was mounted to the amphibious powered parachute displayed to the ultralight industry recently.
Powered parachutes are seen as one of the fastest growing and most innovative segments of aviation. Reasons for this include: new powered parachute pilots often are able to solo in as little as a single day, and powered parachutes are very portable - no hangar is required and they are easy to transport from home to field. But powered parachutes do have their limitations - limitations like flying on floats.
Now, according to a company called Rapid Launch USA, not only float flying, but amphibious float flying can be done safely on a powered parachute. The Rapid Launch system features a retractable pneumatic landing gear system with a CO2 safety backup system, hydraulic disc brakes and four-cavity fiberglass floats. "The system has been in development now for 4 years," Rapid Launch says, "and has the advantages of increased safety, superior convenience and the lowest cost per use of any powered parachute."
Rapid Launch combines the buoyancy of pressurized helium gas with the latest in ram-air parasail technology, to make a canopy that is "virtually impossible to collapse," the company claims. The helium-filled canopy can thus be used safely for landing and taking off from water, as well as land. According to Rapid Launch's Gordon Belena, the "lighter-than-air wing" is not your "standard" powered parachute canopy, but rather one that has been developed during the past 4 years. It is 574 square feet in canopy area, and because it is a "rigid wing" (pressurized with helium), it has an excellent descent rate, turns on a dime, and has a better flare than a "conventional" powered parachute, says Belena.
Adding to safety is the fact that unlike regular powered parachute canopies - which initially lay out behind the cart and require inflating (by accelerating the powered parachute cart forward) before the pilot can "inspect" his risers - the Rapid Launch system starts overhead - so the risers are visible to the pilot at all times. This, of course, also makes it ideal for float operations, since the Rapid Launch canopy floats overhead rather than sinking into the water (as a "normal" powered parachute canopy would when it deflates after landing).
How do you store your Rapid Launch? Drive the unit into its own hangar, so that the canopy rests overhead in the hangar arch (see photo). The cost for filling the canopy with helium gas is about $100 per season of flying, according to Rapid Launch USA. If a bag were to fail in-flight, the cell then becomes a ram-air chute, with no difference in the flight characteristics of the powered parachute, Rapid Launch indicates. The bags can be easily repaired (or replaced, if necessary).
The amphibious system was recently displayed to the ultralight industry, mounted on a Buckeye powered parachute, and took about 2 days to set up, but it is adaptable to all major brands, according to Rapid Launch USA. Setup can be done by factory representatives at your location or at the Rapid Launch USA factory in Alexandria, Minnesota.
- Report filed by Dave LovemanInfo: Rapid Launch USA, 25271 Terrace Grove Rd., Dept UF, Los Gatos, CA 95033.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama confronts a daunting array of domestic and foreign policy challenges as he begins a second term amid a political climate so fractured that compromise has become all but impossible.
The country is not in economic freefall as it was when he was first elected. The war in Afghanistan is winding down. The U.S. role in Iraq is finished.
The country has stubbornly high unemployment. Depressed incomes. High gasoline prices. The government owes $14 trillion and the debt is climbing. The federal budget is a mess of temporary measures held together by short-term fixes always about to expire and plunge the government into crisis and the economy back into recession. There are fewer Americans on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq and Osama bin Laden is dead, but al-Qaeda remains a threat, new governments in the Middle East may or may not be on America's side, and Iran still threatens to bedevil the U.S.
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As Obama looks out on this second term, he also faces a different political landscape than the one that greeted him four years ago. Then, he swept easily into office on a wave of hope and optimism. Now, he had to struggle to persuade the country to rehire him, and he must navigate a political system that, if possible, is even more polarized. This Congress, with an approval rating hovering around 11 percent, has been mocked as the least productive in six decades.
A political loner who has developed few relationships with lawmakers, Obama now must try to forge agreements on major issues with Republicans who almost unanimously opposed his agenda in the first term and with Democrats who are looking for him to deliver on promises, such as climate change legislation, that he abandoned in his first term.
"The major challenge for any president is to build a consensus in the country and not just in Washington," said Ken Duberstein, chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan.
"You have to build coalitions to win," Duberstein said. "Every presidency ultimately goes into a ditch, somehow and for some reason, and you have to have not only the people's trust but the members of Congress know you and trust you. That has not yet developed."
Even before Inauguration Day, Obama will be under enormous pressure to ward off looming tax increases and spending cuts that threaten to throw the nation into another recession.
Here's what Obama will confront:
Spending cuts
A series of spending cuts are slated to take effect Jan. 2 as the result of a bipartisan deal struck last year to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
The first $110 million would kick in before a new Congress and president are sworn into office. Republicans and Democrats acknowledge that the cuts would be devastating, but they haven't been able to agree on what to do about them. Obama want some cuts combined with higher taxes on the wealthy. House Republicans oppose tax increases.
Nearly every tax cut enacted in the past decade will expire at the end of the year. The $500 billion tax increase paid by Americans at all income levels would leave the average household paying $3,500 more, according to nonpartisan estimates.
Obama wants to extend all the tax cuts on individual incomes below $200,000 and household incomes below $250,000 — and to let them expire for all incomes above that.
Republicans want to extend all the tax cuts — enacted under President George W. Bush and extended by Obama — through at least 2013.
The nation's Social Security and Medicare programs are running out of money. Obama has said he is open to "modest modifications" to the programs, but he's not proposed a plan for long-term solvency for either. Meanwhile, some Republicans on Capitol Hill want to allow retirees to get a fixed annual payment from the government that they could use to buy traditional Medicare coverage or a private health insurance policy.
Washington is facing increasing pressure to play a bigger role in Syria's ongoing civil war. Obama has called for President Bashar Assad's ouster but has ruled out military intervention in the country. Analysts say that leaves the U.S. with limited options but considerable pressure to force Assad out — or the U.S. could be left with weakened influence in the oil-rich region.
The country's quest for a nuclear weapon is likely to occupy much of Obama's foreign agenda as the U.S. tries a combination of economic sanctions, diplomacy and warnings. Obama has said economic sanctions are having an impact. He has said he reserves the right to use force as a last resort to stop Iran, but he thinks there is still time for diplomacy and sanctions.
Arab Spring
As in Libya, the tumult in the Muslim countries is likely to continue and experts say U.S. influence may be limited. Obama has said the U.S. should support the growth of new democracies while ensuring support for American counterterrorism efforts, making sure that Israel is protected, pushing for the protection of "religious minorities and women" and helping "the economic capabilities" of those nations.


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A new system for evaluating Maine's public school educators is moving forward, but not without reservations on the part of some teachers and principals. The Maine legislature passed - and Gov. Paul LePage signed - a bill to overhaul evaluations last year. A proposed rule implementing the new law would make student progress in the classroom count for at least a quarter of a teacher or principal's evaluation. But at a public hearing this afternoon, some educators argued that number is too high. Jay Field reports.
It's important, first, to understand the political climate surrounding the debate over evaluations. It's not a stretch right now to say that some teachers feel as if they're under siege. Just this morning, Gov.ernor Paul LePage continued hammering away at what he believes is to blame for the state's lack of competitiveness and shortage of skilled workers. LePage says Maine's K-12 education system isn't cutting it.
Unionized teachers, he's said on more than one occasion, are a big part of the problem. Kate Sheldon, who's a member of the Maine Education Associaton, teaches at a school in Kittery. Sheldon came to Augusta with lots of questions about the proposed evaluation rules, but kicked off the hearnig by giving voice to teachers' frustration with the governor.
"At our school, Mr. LePage's behavior would be classified as bullying and he would be sent to the principal's office," she said. "However, we do not have that authority and are made to listen to his constant stream of insults and putdowns."
Sheldon says it's not possible to separate the governor's criticism of teachers, principals and school administrators from the debate going on over the right way forward on evaluations. Under the new law, school districts will follow guidelines, laid out by the Maine Department of Education, as they set up their own systems for grading teachers.
The most controversial part of this proposed road map, many teachers say, is a requirement that a student's academic performance count for at least 25 percent of an educator's rating, as Highly Effective, Partially Effective, Effective or Ineffective. Sheldon says that's setting teachers up to fail.
"As someone who has spent some time in the private sector, I certainly understand the need for a comprehensive evaluation system," Sheldon says. "However, as teachers, we are being asked to evaluated on our performance, not our students. There are so many factors that affect student achievement that are outside of our control. There is also no way to gauge which specific teacher deserves credit for gains, or punishment for falling behind."
Across the U.S., 37 states have made some kind of change to their teacher evaluation policies in the past three years, while 30 require some kind of objective evidence that kids are actually learning.
"The important thing is that a teacher shouldn't be able to get an effective rating if the objective evidence suggests that teacher is not very effective," says Sandi Jacobs, who oversees state policy with the National Council on Teacher Quality in Washington. Since 2007, the non-profit has been pushing to improve teacher evaluation systems across the country.
Jacobs says states are currently all over the map on how much student performance ought to factor into evaluations. Jacobs says in states that actually have proposed a sizable percentage, like Maine, teachers may worry that performace on standardized tests will now heavily influence their evaluations, and ultimately, their pay and job security.
"But of the states that have those larger percentages, generally there are multiple measures making up that percentage," she says. "So it's not that one single test score counts for 40 or 50 percent."
In Maine, for example, the proposed rule says districts can't base their assesment of student growth on attaining a certain level of performance on a test. They have to look at the growth in classroom performance over time. And higher achievers aren't expected to make as much growth as students at the lower end of the ladder, who have more room to improve.
Deborah Friedman directs policy and programs at the Maine Department of Education. Friedman, who helped write the evaluation blueprint, says she expects the student growth component to come up when she and her team sit down to review comments on the rule.
"This rule has to go before the legislative committee for approval before we can finally adopt it," she says. "So we expect some additional conversation in the legislative process."
Next year, local districts will be required to come up with their evaluation plans. The year after, they'll pilot them before the systems are officially implemented in the 2015-2016 school year.


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- American Council of the Blind
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- Blinded Veterans Association
- National Federation of the Blind
- Council of Citizens with Low Vision International
- National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
- Leber's Congenital Amaurosis eGroup
- National Keratoconus Foundation
- Aniridia Foundation International
- Jewish Guild Healthcare
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American Council of the Blind
National. 72 affiliates. Founded 1961. Aims to improve the well-being of all blind or visually impaired people and their families through education, support and advocacy. National conference, information and referrals, phone support, state and special interest affiliates e.g. guide dog users, blind lawyers, teachers and students. Monthly magazine (available in Braille, half speed cassette, large print, data CD, online or via e-mail; free to members, all others pay $25 per format per year). College scholarships. Online job bank. Chapter development guidelines.
American Council of the Blind
1155 15th Street NW, Suite 1004
Washington, DC 20005
Voice: 1-800-424-8666 or 202-467-5081
Fax: 703-465-5085
Website: http://www.acb.org
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Verified: 1/10/2013
Massachusetts Assoc. for the Blind and Visually Impaired
National. 34 groups. Founded 1903. Support network for persons coping with sight loss. Sponsors support groups for elders and mixed ages. Outreach services and community volunteers.
MAB Community Services
200 Ivy St.
Brookline, MA 02446
Voice: 617-926-42321 or 1-800-852-3029 (MA only) (Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm EST)
Fax: 617-738-1247
Website: http://www.mabcommunity.org
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Verified: 2/7/2013
Blinded Veterans Association
National. 54 regional groups. Founded 1945. Support, information and outreach to blinded veterans including those who were blinded in combat and those suffering from age-related macular degeneration and other eye diseases. Help in obtaining prosthetic devices and accessing the latest technological advances to assist the blind. Information on benefits and rehabilitation programs. Quarterly newsletter. Regional meetings.
Blinded Veterans Association
477 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Voice: 1-800-669-7079 or 202-371-8880
Fax: 202-371-8258
Website: http://www.bva.org
E-mail: email@example.com
Verified: 1/15/2013
National Federation of the Blind
National. 52 affiliates. Founded 1940. Serves as both an advocacy and a public information vehicle. Provides support and information on services and applicable laws. Student scholarships. Assists blind persons who are victims of discrimination. Literature, monthly meetings and magazine. Assistance in starting new groups.
National Federation of Blind
200 E. Wells St.
Baltimore, MD 21230-4998
Voice: 410-659-9314
Fax: 410-685-5653
Website: http://www.nfb.org
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Verified: 1/23/2013
Council of Citizens with Low Vision International
International. Founded 1979. Encourages low vision people to make full use of vision through use of equipment, technology and services. Education, advocacy, quarterly magazine, group development guidelines, scholarships, conferences, information and referrals.
2200 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22201
Voice: 1-800-733-2258 (Mon.-Fri, 9am-4pm EST)
Website: http://www.cclvi.org
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Verified: 1/9/2013
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
National. 25 chapters. Founded 1983. Serves as both an advocacy and public information vehicle. Provides information on services available. Offers positive philosophy and insights into blindness and practical guidance in raising a blind child. 'Future Reflections' magazine, parent seminars, free parents' information packet, meetings and conventions. Dues $8.
Natl Org Parents of Blind Child
200 East Well St.
Baltimore, MD 21230
Voice: 410-659-9314
Fax: 410-685-5653
Website: http://www.nopbc.org
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Verified: 1/9/2013
Leber's Congenital Amaurosis eGroup
Online. 750 members. Founded 1999. Provides a listserv for everyone interested in sharing and sourcing information relating to this genetic disorder.
Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lca
E-mail: email@example.com
Verified: 1/9/2013
National Keratoconus Foundation
National network. Founded 1986. Provides information and support to persons with keratoconus, an eye condition where the cornea progressively thins causing a cone-like bulge. Newsletter, phone support, information and referrals. Online support group. Encourages research into cause and treatment.
National Keratoconus Foundation
6222 Wilshire Blvd. Ste. 260
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Voice: 1-800-521-2524
Fax: 310-623-1837
Website: http://www.nkcf.org
E-mail: email@example.com
Verified: 1/9/2013
Aniridia Foundation International
International. Founded 2002. Offers support, data studies, research, and education to the public, medical community and families with aniridia syndrome. (Children born with multiple blinding eye and medical conditions). Provides medical and social conferences, newsletters, medical research for conditions which make up the condition.
Aniridia Foundation International
c/o Univ. of Va, School of Med.
P.O. Box 800717
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0715
Voice: 434-243-3357
Website: http://www.research4vision.org
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Verified: 1/22/2013
Jewish Guild Healthcare
National. Founded 1914. Support for persons of all ages who are visually impaired, blind and those with additional disabilities. Telephone support network brings together parents from around the country whose children have the same condition (Retinopathy of Prematurity, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Cortical Visual Impairment, Leber Congenital Amaurosis CHARGE Syndrome a group for siblings, and a group for blind teenagers planning to attend college) to speak with parents in the same situation. Newsletter and literature available on the website or in hard copy.
The Jewish Guild Healthcare
15 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023
Voice: 1-800-284-4422 or 212-769-7800 For direct information on the tele-support network call Dan Callahan 212-769-7815.
Website: http://www.jgb.org
E-mail: email@example.com
Verified: 1/24/2013
MD Support: The Eyes of the Macular Degeneration Community
International. 134 chapters/affiliated groups. Founded 1995. Provides information and support for people who are affected by macular degeneration and similar retinal diseases. Large informational website, monthly webcasts, email discussion group, message board, telephone and live support groups, telephone help line.
MD Support
3600 Blue Ridge Blvd.
Grandview, MO 64030
Voice: 888-861-6148 or 816-761-7080
Website: http://www.mdsupport.org
E-mail: email@example.com
Verified: 1/10/2013
Congenital Glaucoma Network, The
Online. Founded 2011. Provides support, facilitates discussion and promotes awareness of congenital and childhood glaucoma internationally.
Contact via website's contact page
Website: http://congenitalglaucomanetwork.com
Verified: 1/16/2013
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- Temperature only controlled with handle.
- Field adjustable to limit handle rotation into hot water zone.
- 120° maximum handle rotation.
- All parts replaceable from the front of the valve.
- Water efficient showerhead - 2.0 gpm.
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- ADA Compliant: No
- WaterSense Certified: yes
- Width: 7.5"
- Showerhead Width: 6"
- Shower Arm Reach: 7.5"
- Showerhead Shape: Rectangular
- Showerhead: Multi Function
- Spray Settings: 2
- Flow Rate (GPM): 2
- Material: Brass
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- Number Of Handles: 1
- Handle Style: Metal Lever
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The last thing Francis Goodon's commanding officer told him before he stormed Juno Beach on June 6, 1944, was that he probably wasn't ever going to see the rolling hills of Turtle Mountain ever again.
"I hope you all go home, but I thought I better let you know some of you aren't going home," Goodon said his commanding officer told him and the rest of his B Company with the Winnipeg Rifles just moments before he jumped into the waters of the English Channel to charge the beach in the Normandy region of France.
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The Real Spiritual Impact of 9/11
Americans don't go to church more often now, but 9/11 was still one of the most important spiritual moments in recent history.
A mainline Protestant might view it slightly differently. "You cannot gauge spirituality by worship attendance alone," says the Rev. Wayne Dreyman, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Summit, NJ. "A lot of people have been asking deep spiritual questions about the meaning of life and the mystery of suffering in the world. But we are in a post-Christendom world where many people are experiencing a spiritual renaissance outside of institutional religion."
One result of this questioning may be, for some, a fundamentally different view of God--one not often spoken of from the pulpit. Bishop John Shelby Spong, the liberal former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, wrote shortly after the attacks, "The image of hijacked planes crashing into buildings killing thousands of people gives us no hiding place for theological pretending. The skies are empty of a protective deity ready to come to our aid. God defined theistically has died." This does not mean atheism, Spong argued, but that "God is rather the power of love, which flows through each of us, calling us to life, inviting us to step beyond whatever binds our humanity."
For many closest to the tragedy, there is still clearly some anger at God, enough so that they might not be inclined to visit church.
The Attacks Affected Character and Soul
Though worship patterns seemed unaffected, that doesn't mean individuals weren't changed.
A group of psychology researchers had begun in January 2001 measuring the presence of certain positive personality and character traits in the population. They found that after 9/11 seven traits showed noticeable increases: love, gratitude, hope, kindness, leadership, teamwork, and spirituality. These scores have started to slip but remain much higher than pre-9/11 levels. The researchers speculate that these effects have persisted because they are self-sustaining. "Love is reciprocated; hope opens doors previously unseen; kindness begets kindness," says Christopher Peterson of University of Michigan, one of the leader researchers.
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Encounter 9: Outer Gardens. Trees by Kepli.
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Encounter 11: Bell Tower.
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Encounter 13 & possibly more: Font of Ioun. Fountain by Supercaptain.
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Watchtower Overview. Inspired by a sketch on these forums.
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There is also Kurama's warning from when they met, when he told Sasuke "We may not meet again, but let me tell you one thing: Don't kill Naruto, you'll ... regret ... it ...". I think this will come to play in their final match.
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