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Things are shaping up for another great football season for local teams.
As it stands, Edmond still has two undefeated teams in Edmond North and Oklahoma Christian School. And there are signs the big three have reached a near full recovery from the spit.
"I think you're starting to see it," Edmond North head coach Jeremy Dombek said before the season started. "The talent here is so much better than what it was when I got here just a couple of years ago. That first senior class was an incredible group of guys, and they did make the playoffs, but the talent now is so much better."
"For some reason or another, Santa Fe has always had a lot of talent. But you are starting to see the same type of talent at North and Memorial, and it's only going to get better in the years to come."
Memorial's Kameron Doolittle is one of the highest regarded players in the junior class. Linebacker Adrian Shoecraft is one of the best this season. North's Xavier Smith has already committed to Missouri, while Qua'Don Henderson and Joe Aska are right there. North's Jared Benway is a big-time talent that will likely be playing on Saturdays. Santa Fe has put its share of players in Division I football, and now they are not alone in that category.
Big-time talent isn't restricted to just the three Edmond schools.
Deer Creek (1-1) has loads of talent upfront with Garrett Sullivan and Cale Coshow. OCS has Jeff Levy and Jeff Smith, and Oklahoma Christian Academy has Parker Randell, who has rushed for 430 yards and six scores in two weeks, while averaging over 10 yards a carry. Ridiculous.
For the first time in two weeks are teams will be on the road this week, with Memorial being the only home team. The Bulldogs matchup against Del City will be one of the state's most intriguing games. The Eagles (2-0) are currently ranked No. 8 in the latest AP Poll.
Santa Fe is still winless after a couple of close losses to its inner-city rivals, but things should get better with Putnam City West up next.
North has a good chance at staying unbeaten as it travels to Yukon, though the Millers are much improved. OCS should do the same as it travels to Christian Heritage.
OCA travels to Agra on Friday night.
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SPRUILL: Edmond recovering from split
Things are shaping up for another great football season for local teams.
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First off, I'd like to thank the Edmond sporting community for accepting me into their fold, or at least accepting me as much as possible for a journalist. It has been a great five-and a half months and I've had the opportunity to witness some prime time moments while at The Sun.
- SPRUIL: Woods scandal not that shocking Charles Barkley warned us about it in 1993. Professional athletes should not be role models.
SPRUILL: Woods scandal not so shocking
Charles Barkley warned us about it in 1993. Professional athletes should not be role models.
Sir Charles gave us this gem back then stating, "A million guys can dunk a basketball in jail, should they be role models?"
Just can't do it. I remember vividly the day I learned this valuable lesson, it was when I got my copy of Sports Illustrated with Sooner quarterback Charles Thompson being ushered to jail in his infamous orange jumpsuit.
- HARRISON : It's time for some hoops With Bedlam in the rearview mirror and talk of freezing temperatures and possible snow this week it can only mean one thing. The winter sports season is upon us.
- SPRUIL: 'Dogs have nothing to lose Bulldogs have a chance to break another streak, which is to attempt to end the east sides dominance — Jenks and Union have combined to win 13 straight Class 6A state titles.
SPRUILL: UCO loaded for another run
No. 18-ranked Central Oklahoma appears to be loaded for another deep run in the NCAA Division II tournament.
It's only November and the Bronchos have only played one game, but what they showed against Emporia State in a 116-114 double-overtime win was incredible.
SPRUIL: Playoff picture still cloudy
With most of the district's already decided — a few key matchups still remain — it's time to start looking at the playoff picture.
We know Edmond Memorial, Edmond North and Oklahoma Christian are in the playoffs. Deer Creek is on life support, while Oklahoma Christian Academy and Edmond Santa Fe are done for the year following Friday night.
SPRUILL: OU's Bradford still livin' the dream
There's still no guarantee that Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford will play this season. But Sooner fan or not, you have to love the Heisman Trophy winner's attitude.
His first start could come this week against Baylor, or it could be against Texas. You will not hear any crying from Bradford, though, that is for certain.
The media has questioned his decision about coming back. He could have been the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, instead he gets injured in the opener and now his future is in question.
But what seems so shocking to some across the country, really isn't that shocking at all. Bradford is living his dream. The dream of any former high school star in the state of Oklahoma that wants to play in either Stillwater or Norman.
- HARRISON: Local teams draw favorable regional assignments With the end of the regular season fast approaching, local softball teams are turning their attention towards next week's regional tournaments. While Edmond Santa Fe is the only squad that will be at home next week, all four teams have a legitimate shot at state.
SPRUILL: Edmond recovering from split
Things are shaping up for another great football season for local teams.
As it stands, Edmond still has two undefeated teams in Edmond North and Oklahoma Christian School. And there are signs the big three have reached a near full recovery from the spit.
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A striking, red-headed leading lady of the 1940s and 50s, Rhonda Fleming was dubbed the "Queen of Technicolor" because of her highly photogenic green eyes and flaming auburn hair. She was signed by David O. Selznick directly out of high school and, after appearing in bit parts, was cast in her breakthrough role (her first in color and her first musical) opposite Bing Crosby in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1949). Featured mostly for her decorative good looks, Fleming graced a number of Technicolor B-epics such as "Yankee Pasha" (1954), countless Westerns ("The Eagle and the Hawk" 1950) and in film noir played several femme fatale roles, such as the nervous secretary who fram... Continue Bio >>
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This brief session is the introduction to the tenth two day virtual event for the Institute for Human Resources - Contract Workforce and Talent Exchanges. The goal of the Institute is to provide on-line sharing, training and educational opportunities for HR staffing and procurement specialists on the effective utilization and management of contract talent within their organization. Over 3600 members have joined our growing community over the past year. Even if you have attended one of our events in the past, we'd still encourage you to attend. If this is your first time attending an event, the introduction will provide you an overview of the certification program.
Chad Behan, Content Facilitator for the Contract Workforce & Talent Exchange Institute for Human Resources will take you through this introduction.
During this short session she will:
- Introduce you to the Advisory Board
-Review the progress of the Institute and upcoming events
-Explain the Certification program
-Provide you with an overview of the sessions and speakers for this event
-and most of all - help you learn how to become an expert in the area of Contract Workforce and Talent Exchange
If you have not yet signed up for the certification program – you still can. During this session you'll find out how to get started. Get an update on the hours accumulated to date. Find out what you have missed and take a look at what is coming up for the next couple of months.
If you are new to the Institute for Contract Workforce and Talent Exchange this introduction will cover not only our past accomplishments but also explain why you should participate and be a part of this growing community!
For those with questions regarding the Institute and its content this is your chance to share your ideas.
Companies have used independent contractors for a long time. During touch economic times, businesses have sought ways to control costs and improve their bottom lines and this often includes turning to a variable workforce. Using variable workers can be a smart strategy, but when you treat these workers as independent contractors, it's crucial to understand what types of workers really are independent.
Simply deciding to call someone an independent contractor is an ill-fated approach; and even an agreement between you and the worker where you both agree that the worker is independent may not be the protection you think.
"Worker Misclassification" is the term most used when a business designates a worker as an independent contractor when the government or the Courts deem the worker to be an employee of the company for whom the work was done.
Worker misclassification can (and has) cost individual businesses millions of dollars. Risk comes from the federal government, state governments and from civil lawsuits brought by independent contractors themselves.
The government is hyper-focused on this issue, because the Government Accounting Office estimates worker misclassification costs billions of dollars per year in lost revenue. Substantial increases in the budgets for enforcement are now being spent. Federal and state governments are working together in ways not seen before to identify worker misclassification and hold businesses accountable.
This narrative may sound bleak, but the important thing is to be educated about the issue to understand whether or not your company may be in harm's way. If you are, there are strategies you can put into place to reduce or eliminate your risk going forward.
Remember, since this issue potentially involves federal and state taxes that should have been collected and paid by your company, these liabilities can go past the assets of your business to the owners who were ultimately responsible for proper tax management.
Further, if your business has any plans to sell at some point or make a public offering, it's important to know that this issue is now on the due diligence checklist used by professionals involved in helping make sale transactions happen.
You're invited to take an important next step and attend this presentation to become better educated.
HR professionals within the contractor community should be aware of the unique applicant management obligations required of them in order to remain compliant. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) requires federal contractors and subcontractors to follow federal regulations when tracking applicants within their organizations. These requirements are in place to ensure applicants do not face discrimination through the applicant process, and that the contractor is maintaining effective affirmative action hiring efforts.
OFCCP requires contractors to comply with the definition of an Internet Applicant, along with analyzing data to ensure discrimination is not present. In this informative presentation, Charu Avasthy, PHR, one of Berkshire Associates' leading compliance experts, will address OFCCP's requirements as they relate to applicant management—and provide attendees with resources and information to ensure their organizations are creating compliant applicant tracking processes. Charu will share strategies contractors should be using when posting their job openings, what type of documentation should be used for these postings, what information they must retain for each applicant, and how to analyze the data collected when someone applies. She will also examine how the upcoming regulations will impact recruitment efforts, and how contractors can prepare now in anticipation. Finally, Charu will share information on how contractors can conduct self-audits to ensure compliance.
Attendees of this session will leave with:
• A better understanding of OFCCP's definition of an Internet Applicant
• Strategies for creating a compliant applicant process
• An understanding of how to analyze data to determine if discrimination exists
• Resources to help meet the latest requirements
Does your company seek talent outside of its borders? Does employing cross-border present challenges in terms of employment law compliance? In this session, HR Options will review the four most common employment options available to US/International companies looking to use workers across a border, such as in Canada. The employment options we will review are:
1. Direct Hiring (i.e. you become an employer in the cross-border country and remit payroll, taxes and insurances to appropriate governing bodies)
2. Third Party Employment offered through staffing firms and HR organizations (i.e. the Third Party Employer takes on the role of employer-of-record, assuming all employer liability and remitting payroll, taxes and insurances in your place)
3. Professional Employer Organizations (i.e. the PEO creates a co-employment relationship with you to share liability and to remit payroll, taxes and insurances on your behalf)
4. Independent Contractors (i.e. the IC via Talent Exchange such as oDesk, Elance and others, are self employed in the cross-border country and invoice you for their services).
Our discussion will include a review of the associated benefits and common pitfalls of each employment option so you can evaluate when each method is of use for your organization. We will also look at steps to become an employer in a new country, using Canada as a case study, as well as the distinction between a Third Party Employer versus a PEO, what the employment relationship looks like, and finally how to properly use Independent Contractors to assist with your cross-border staffing needs.
This webinar will give us the forum to discuss your cross-border employment options and offer a variety of solutions to help meet your cross-border staffing needs.
Supplier Strategy can absolutely elude CW programs. Terms like "Supplier Management" allow people to assume that strategy is included, however, unless the strategy is properly identified and managed, most programs fall into the common "Req in Req Out" process. Process replaces strategy. It does so sneakily as to appear as strategy. Supplier strategy can behave fickly and absolutely requires baby-sitting. If you take your eye off it, it will quickly disappear. Phrases like "I thought we had one", "It was there last month", "I'm not sure how that happened" are very common and sometimes expected when the proper importance hasn't been taken on by a company.
• Having the right amount, right skill sets and great talent in your staffing supplier relationship are absolutely critical to any CW Program. Without these partners, all other tools lose their full value. What good is it to report on "time to fill reqs" when all your suppliers are failing? Or you can only fill a proportion of skill sets for your managers? Or you have the greatest policies in place but no one to adhere to them because you can't find or onboard the right talent? If a CW program cannot put butts in seats, your entire program, no matter how sophisticated, will track failure.
• Common strategies like "Vendor Neutral" and "Competitive Bidding" can be great assets to your overall supplier strategy, but they need to be broken down, and they aren't the only options out there. Service Level Agreements can help you track success but it can also choke off your strategy. Have SLAs in place that suppliers have to submit resumes within 48 hours? And they only can submit 3?
Without the right suppliers in place for ALL your reqs, these two SLAs act conflictingly. It begs suppliers to send the first resumes they find so they are "dinged" on their Supplier Scorecard later. What do managers get? Resumes who don't qualify and who may not have been pre-screened. Depending on your company's need, different SLAs and KPIs may be important at different times. Depending on your strategy, different suppliers may be held to different terms. Your MSP should act both as your strategic partner and your transactional partner. It's their job to implement your strategy. Make sure that you aren't accepting a bunch of "Best Practices" SLAs or processes without understanding why they were put in place.
• This session will be spent discussing the different questions and approches that a CW Program Owner should think about before handing over supplier management to their MSP.
Whether you have recently expanded your workforce strategy to the global level, or if you are just beginning to collect internal requirements for such an exercise, the content of this session will provide the framework and expertise you require to successfully drive global compliance and efficiency into your workforce management programs and policies. This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the market dynamics, local regulations and labor trends that can and will impact the global expansion of a workforce program. From a broad assessment of global challenges and opportunities, to detailed analysis of how regional and local country considerations, this session will provide you with critical knowledge that should be incorporated into your planning and management of human capital.
In addition to aligning market dynamics to labor considerations, this presentation will outline the ten fundamental steps to successful globalization and provide you with ample opportunity to ask questions and gain clarity on the external aspects of your planning activities. While every organization is unique and has specific requirements to be considered, these internal priorities rarely alter the reality of the marketplace itself. Understanding where talent gaps exist, where sourcing strategies are limited and where labor costs are determined by regulation rather than competitive rate cards can help you bridge the gap between your operational mandates and the markets in which you need to strengthen hiring practice and policy. The ten steps outlined in this session will walk you through the information you need to gather, when and how to communicate your objectives and expectations, and how to measure success. Whether you want to, have gone, or will go global – this is a session not to be missed!
Ardent Partners predicts that, in 2014, nearly 30% of the average organization's workforce will be considered contingent, contract or temporary in some regard. With such a large percentage of the workforce traversing into this realm, it becomes critical for organizations to understand the necessary strategies, solutions and approaches to effectively manage their contract talent.
While companies across the world have been continuing to rely upon temporary labor to address crucial organizational goals and project-based needs, the fact is that this space has undergone a veritable evolution in recent years to comprise what is now known as the "contingent workforce umbrella."
While some companies may have a robust hold on managing this umbrella, particularly traditional ("classic") temporary labor sourced via staffing suppliers / agencies, this industry will continue to evolve as the next few years pass by. With SOW-based projects / services and independent contractors becoming the umbrella components that are drawing the most organizational attention, companies will find themselves in the midst of a contingent workforce revolution…one that will require the utmost preparedness and aptitude to effectively ensure that contract talent continues to drive true corporate value.
Join us for an exclusive webcast during HR.com's Contingent Workforce and Talent Exchange virtual conference that will utilize the history of contingent labor to paint a vivid picture of how this industry / space will look only a few years in the future. Attendees will learn:
- How this space will look just a few years from now
- The best means for preparing for the continued evolution of contract talent
- The role of technology in the future of contingent workforce management
The trend toward using skilled workers on a temporary project-by-project basis has only intensified since the recession. Instead of ramping up hiring, companies increasingly rely on independent contractors and staffing firms to meet their labor needs. This represents a radical change in how work is performed. The notion of lifetime employment is a dying concept. The emergence of a pool of freelance workers, moving from project to project, may be the new model. But this new model is not without its pitfalls.
This 21st century workplace, based on technological advances, which allows many types of work to be done anytime and anywhere is in conflict with the old ways of organizing and regulating work. Legal rules implemented to address the issues of a manual laborer working in a factory at the beginning of the 20th century are applied to the knowledge worker who plies his or her trade in virtual workplace with unpleasant results. Government regulators and legislatures, comfortable with the old arrangements, are increasing their scrutiny of these alternative labor relationships for compliance with vast numbers of laws and regulations governing employment in the United States.
This presentation will review workforce trends in relation to contingent labor, examine administrative agency agendas targeting compliance audits, and offer practical suggestions to avoid or limit legal disputes with your organization's contractors, temps and leased employees. We will review key employment law issues such joint employer issues, worker privacy and technology, wage and hour issues, trade secrets and intellectual property protections, and recommend practical steps to take now to address these issues.
The new Affordable Care Act is set to provide American workers with access to quality, affordable health insurance starting January 1st, 2014. However, there are still a number of questions as to how employers of temporary and project based workers are going to implement the legislation effectively, as well as handle the plethora of new reporting requirements associated with the regulations.
The basic principle of the law is that companies who employ a full time staff of fifty (or part time staff working hours equivalent to those of 50 full time employees) must offer a medical plan that provides minimum essential health benefits to their full time employees or pay a tax penalty effective January 1, 2014. However, complications arise when companies use long term temporary and contract workers – particularly if their services are utilized on an indefinite basis. Employee misclassification and co-employment issues with staffing vendors and government bodies will undoubtedly escalate as a result of ACA implementation so it's critical for employers to have a plan in place.
Our virtual conference - led by Emergent President, Bill Inman - will show you how to compliantly navigate your project-based workforce through healthcare reform, save time and streamline your administrative obligations.
If your company currently utilizes contingent workers or plans to increase its usage of this type of worker in the near future, you should attend this conference.
Emergent is part of a family of companies that is one of the largest employers of contingent labor in the US, employing hundreds of thousands of workers each year for companies nationwide, including many Fortune 100 clients. Our team of payroll, legal, HR, risk management and operations professionals are some of the most experienced in the contingent workforce industry today.


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4-star Art Deco hotel in Paris (Opera - Department Stores) near Paris Opera
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Located in the heart of Paris, this hotel is within walking distance of Edward VII Theater, Paris Opera, and Galeries Lafayette. Also nearby are Place de la Concorde and Louvre Museum.
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In addition to a bar/lounge, Le Pera provides a coffee shop/café, complimentary wireless Internet access, and a porter/bellhop.
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The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This Art Deco hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
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Proof-of-concept for the therapeutic application of MHC-matched EHM grafts.
(A) F-EHM graft sutured onto a beating heart. (B) EHM graft on infarcted myocardium (PCMs, EGFP-positive; heart was explanted directly after EHM engraftment for demonstration). (C) Anterior wall thickness in diastole (AWThd) and (D) anterior wall thickening fraction (AWThF) measured by echocardiography 2 weeks after MI and the respective surgical intervention. Sham, no MI, and no graft; control (Ctrl), MI with no graft; F-EHM, MI with formaldehyde-fixed (nonviable) EHM; EHM, MI with viable EHM graft (n = 7–8). Data represent means ± SEM; *P < 0.05 versus control (also refer to Supplemental Table 3). (E) Heart explants with F-EHM and EHM (EGFP-positive) grafts; EGFP signal (lower panels) indicates retention of viable cardiomyocytes. (F) Anisotropically arranged PCMs (α-actinin and GFP) in EHM graft. (G) PCMs surrounded by CD31-positive capillaries. Scale bars: (A, B, and E) 2 mm; (F and G) 20 μm.
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Here in the States, the day is just beginning when Gilles Peterson is on the air grooving in a red-eye shift on British time, bumping selections from his mood-setting playlist. The diversity of beats that lives on his BBC Radio 1 show has found its way into the dark tell-tale raps that don't always rhyme, but still weave together the spiraling chain of events from Ghostpoet. His new EP sounds is as haunting as any UK grime, minus the heavy gun play because the amount of hard partying he recaps are laden with worse consequences than a simple hangover. It's s a slow-sipping four tracks with no filler of watered down chasers needed to get the scope of some rocky times, and even a relaxed moment especially in his flip of A Tribe Called Quest's "Electric Relaxation." Keep reading to get the EP download link.
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Jessica Ennis celebrates after receiving her gold medal at the Olympic Stadium
Britain's Jessica Ennis won the gold medal in the Olympic heptathlon with an emphatic victory in her 800m heat.
Four years after reluctantly watching the Beijing Games on TV following a career-threatening foot injury, Ennis made light of the weight of expectation on her shoulders to leave her rivals battling for silver and bronze.
Three personal bests in the previous six events meant Ennis went into the final discipline, the 800m, with a commanding 188-point lead that equated to a 13-second advantage over Lithuania's Austra Skujyte.
A run of two minutes 5.69 seconds would have seen Ennis become only the fourth woman in history to score 7,000 points, and even though there was no need for such heroics, the 26-year-old from Sheffield blasted through the opening lap on her way to victory in 2:08.65.
Russian world champion Tatyana Chernova claimed silver with 6,628 points, with Ukraine's Lyudmyla Yosypenko taking bronze in a personal best of 6,618.
Ennis' time was outside her personal best but still enough for a new overall PB of 6,955 points to improve on the national record of 6,906 she set earlier this year.
Russia's Tatyana Chernova, who took Ennis's world title last year, claimed silver a distant 327 points behind, with Ukraine's Lyudmyla Yosypenko taking bronze a further 10 points back.
Ennis, who follows in the footsteps of 2000 champion Denise Lewis, had fittingly ignited the athletics programme with a sensational performance in the opening discipline on Friday morning, her 100m hurdles time of 12.54s not only a British record and personal best but also the same as that which won individual gold in Beijing.
A high jump of 1.86m was marginally disappointing and she briefly lost the lead following Skujyte's heptathlon world best of 17.31m in the shot, but another personal best of 22.83s in the 200m gave Ennis her biggest first-day score of 4,158 points and a lead of 184.
The second day brought an excellent 6.48m in the long jump - a source of concern over no-jumps just six weeks earlier - before yet another personal best of 47.49m in the javelin effectively sealed the win.
"I am so shocked I can't believe it," a tearful Ennis said. "After the javelin I didn't let myself believe it.
"After all the hard work and disappointment of Beijing, everyone has supported me so much. They said 'go for another four years', and I've done that.
"I'm going to savour the moment. I've had great support although I've been under a huge amount of pressure."
Paul Higham reflects on the greatest day in British sport, send us in your highlights from Super Saturday.
Sebastian Coe applauded Britain's athletics heroes and said their performances were "sensational".
Chef De Mission Andy Hunt hailed a great day for Team GB after a super Saturday, which saw the team win six gold medals.
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new to the forum and, in the expectation of my 150k 2003 Golf MkIV TDI 1.9 finally expiring and my camper van finally selling I am in the market for a new car. With a dog and a 10 year old child I'm pretty well committed to a hatchback and like the look of the A3 Sportback in manual diesel guise (do around 22k per year) but would welcome thoughts on the following
Model Retail Drivethedeal 105 SE £21,150 £19,402 105 Sport £22,375 £20,501 150 SE £22,500 £20,669 150 Sport £23,725 £21,713 105 S Line £24,535 £22,431 184 Sport £24,995 £22,914 150 S Line £25,875 £23,643 184 S Line £27,145 £24,783
The sweet spot for me is between the 184 Sport and the >£700 more expensive 150 S Line. As I intend to keep it for its lifetime resale values are less important than having a car that is satisfying. Would I be right in thinking that once the warranty has expired I could chip the 150 to around the 184 mark without it being an issue come servicing/MOT time? And would others on the forum trade the extra performance for extra features and finish?
Boot size
Has anyone observations on the boot in the A3 Sportback versus that in the Golf? I'm sure at least one person here has been dissatisfied with the A3 boot and though there are more vocal travellers I need to keep happy I don't want to ignore the dog!
This forum is testing my resolve in terms of limiting options and keeping the total price around £26k. I'm basing my limited choices on wanting things to keep me amused/entertained/awake during a long commute and have settled on the following
Retail Dtd B&O £750 £695 Int Lights £225 £208 Tech HI £1,795 £1,665 TOTAL £2,770 £2,568
My query is concerning the Tech Hi package: I assume that, signal and additional sim permitting, it gives access to a raft more online functionality and versatility and is to be much preferred to the Phone Box. Is it worth the premium over the standard Tech pack? Is it more useful than the Phone Box? Would anyone recommend it or regrets getting/not getting it?
If I abandoned the Hi Tech package and went with the standard I'd probably spring for Shiraz (otherwise Brilliant Black) if only because I've had enough of it inside me over the years so a bit on the outside wouldn't go amiss. Have yet to see it in the metal - anyone have any thoughts on it in relation to the more usual Daytona/Glacier choices?
Any help much appreciated - this forum has been really informative thus far and look forward to any specific advice regarding the above.


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Frederick, an artist from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, fashions portraits of rock and pop icons from shards of vinyl record albums and covers. His work embraces the pop spirit of Andy Warhol and the street ethos of Banksy and Shepard Fairey, according to a media release from the gallery.
"Record Breaker" will open with an artists' reception from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the gallery at the Roxbury Corner Store at 53525 State Highway 30, in Roxbury. The exhibit will continue through June and be open to the public during the gallery's normal business hours, noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday,
Frederick is from Phoenix, Ariz., where he developed aspirations to become an artist with influences as diverse as Warhol and Courtney Love. He studied photography in London for five years and continues to work as a music and fashion photographer whose clients have included Lil' Kim and Hole. With his interest in street art, Frederick has also worked on murals. While experimenting with printing his photographs on canvas he started adding pieces of found objects including fragments of vinyl records to the images. He began outlining the visages and rendering the features of his subjects in shards of vinyl. Eventually he began removing the printed images from the canvasses, leaving the portraits fashioned solely from the vinyl pieces.
Frederick has developed a portfolio of luminaries from the musical world ranging from Amy Winehouse and Notorious B.I.G. to John Lennon and Jim Morrison. He also works on commission and recently executed an amazing portrait of local bluesman Zonder Kennedy. Frederick exhibited at the Strivers Garden Gallery in the "eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp" exhibit last summer and he had his first solo show at Get Up Gallery in Las Vegas in August.
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Lady Gaga has written an open letter to Kelly Osbourne, detailing her less than complimentary view on the star's show Fashion Police.
Kelly O vs. Lady G: it's war! Copyright: [wenn]
Gaga reckons that Kelly's show, which sees her pick apart various celebrities outfits, is "rooted in criticism and judgement."
In full, Gaga wrote the following to Kelly:
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"Everyday, through my music and public voice I choose to be positive and work towards a kinder and braver world with our community of followers."
Excellent, good for you Gaga etc.
"I encourage them to ignore criticism, stand up to bullies, know their own value and see that we are all the same and no one person is worth more than another."
Again, very brilliant.
"I have empathy for you Kelly, but I feel it culturally important to note that you have chosen a less compassionate path."
In other words, Gaga reckons Kel's career choice is MEAN and hers is GREAT.
She goes on: "Your work on E! with the Fashion Police is rooted in criticism, judgment, and rating people's beauty against one another."
""Appearance" is the most used reason for bullying in the world. Your show breeds negativity, and over the years has even become comedic in nature."
Oh. Em. Actual. Gee.
And it goes ON, saying: "It glorifies you and Joan Rivers pointing in the camera, laughing, and making jokes about artists and celebrities as if we are zoo animals."
In closing, Gaga said: "I cannot control my fans, and I discourage them from any negativity and violence, because that is wrong and hurtful - and I do feel baldy that your feelings were hurt.
"However, we can all do our part in the media to set a standard of respect, compassion, and love."
Now, while Kelly maintained a dignified silence it was her MUM, Sharon Osbourne who then got all involved defending Kelly's honour.
Sharon stepped in to defend Kelly. Copyright: [wenn]
Sharon wrote back an open letter of her very own, which makes for excellent reading.
"By your actions to Kelly right now, you have shown me that you are nothing more than a publicly seeking hypocrite and an attention seeker. You know it would have been much more dignified of you to do this privately.
"I am calling you a bully because you have 32 million followers hanging on your every word and you are criticizing Kelly in your open letter. Are you so desperate that you needed to make this public?"
Sharon added: "A word from you would stop all the hideous, negative and vile threats from your 'little monsters.'"
A while back, Kelly revealed in a magazine interview that she has received threats from Gaga fans after calling them 'the worst'.
Shazza signed off her letter, saying: "Let me know if you want to continue this debate. I'm an open playing field for you my darling."
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FEW places need the milk of human kindness more than crisis-ridden Russia
- and few countries have been less hospitable to altruism. Although it preached
humanity and comradeship, in practice communism encouraged Russians to be
beastly to all but their own friends and families. And even then, the poverty-stricken
daily grind and the intrusiveness of the state - its bullies and sneaks
- often made harshness and deceit a way of life within the home too.
All the more reason, therefore, to welcome the growing weight of independent
do-gooders. Not only do they help cripples, orphans, drug addicts, army
conscripts and other pitiable groups in Russia. More widely, they stand
for such rare, important ideas as common human values, a civilised concord
between the state and society, and capitalism with a conscience.
Starting virtually from scratch ten years ago, there are now more than
60,000 independent charities in Russia. They are becoming more competent,
better organised, and thus more influential - especially in dealing with
local governments. "They manage not only to survive in this awful economic
situation but they're also getting stronger and stronger," says Elena
Topleva, director of the Social Information Network, a news agency for voluntary
They expand in a moral vacuum. Communist ideas about social welfare were
primitive: a mix of window-dressing and punitive deterrence. This has left
a dreadful legacy of hostility and ignorance towards the worse-off. The
idea, for example, that parents of handicapped children might want to cherish
them at home rather than dump them in an institution remains unfamiliar
- despite charities' efforts.
The most promising sign is that cash-strapped local governments are beginning
to realise that contracting out social services to charities may mean better,
cheaper and more popular provision. More than a dozen cities and local governments
have made "social contracts" laws to let charities bid against
state organs, for example, in providing care for addicts; a similar law
is winding its way through the federal legislature. "Regional governments
want to get rid of their problems," says Oleg Zykov, who runs NAN,
one of Russia's biggest charities for addicts and their families.
There is still a huge way to go. Russians are suspicious of organised
do-gooding, thanks to the legacy of fake charities from the Soviet era,
when voluntary work meant occasionally being told to give up Saturdays to
tidy the streets and when contributions for causes such as British miners
and American farmers - we were told they were starving," remembers
one charity worker - were deducted compulsorily from payrolls. Not that
post-communist charities are spotless. Too many are dodgy. Some, such as
some army veterans' groups and sports clubs, have been covers for criminal
gangs. Other state-backed bodies have been crony-ridden and ineffective
- except as ways to evade taxes and customs duties on imports such as alcohol.
This makes it difficult for charities to get money and time from the
public. Many do not even try. Most are run, heroically, by the passionately
committed, usually with a direct connection to the cause - for example,
the mother of a maimed conscript or of a handicapped child. Part-time volunteers,
who in the West are often middle-class people who want to help out in their
spare time and are often the mainstay of charities, are all but unknown
in Russia. So are individual donations, which are rarely sought or made.
This is partly the fault of a primitive banking system: there are no cheques,
few credit cards, and paying by bank-transfer means an hour or so in a smelly
Charitable giving by businesses is growing - although, unlike in the
West, it tends to be anonymous, impulsive generosity rather than part of
a sustained effort to polish a corporate image. This is due less to inherent
modesty than to an understandable desire by entrepreneurs to avoid drawing
the attention of the taxman or his even more grasping cousin the gangster.
But Russia's charities are rapidly becoming more solidly run. Groups
like the Charities Aid Foundation, sponsored partly by the British government,
teach fund-raising and "social market ing" (meaning public relations).
Mrs. Topleva estimates that there are around 40 full-time centres
in Russia where charity workers are now being trained.
The first big question for Russian charities is whether they can turn
from being small impressive organisations into big impressive ones - something
which requires administrative skills that are exceptionally scarce in Russia.
The second is whether corrupt vested interests in the state system will
let them flourish. Bureaucrats who have grown fat on maladministering the
current arrangements will not take kindly to outsiders who try to replace
them. Most foreign charities in Russia have already found this to their
cost. Campaigning charities dealing with sensitive issues, such as human
rights and environmental damage, are also likely to fall foul of officialdom
as they become more effective.
And for all the growth at grass-roots, Russia's federal government remains
on the whole disdainful. The larger charities ridk being hassled by the
tax police. And a fresh tax code about to come into force looks set to make
things worse: one new rule, for instance, could make a soup kitchen liable
for VAT on the imputed value of the food it dishes out.
Still, with government across the board often venal and invariably incompetent,
the growth of philanthropy among ordinary citizens may inject a vital new
ingredient of humanity into the new Russia. And that would be progress indeed.


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Maryanne Zeleznik speaks with John Deatrick, project executive for The Banks project, about the completion of Phase One of the development.
Award-winning actor and director Alan Alda has a passion for science, and more specifically, how to help scientists better communicate with students and the public of all ages. He founded the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University for this reason, and created a yearly contest where scientists are asked to explain a concept so that an 11 year old can understand it. The Flame Challenge is judged by thousands of 11 year olds, and this year's topic is What is Time? Alan Alda spent a few minutes on the phone with Dean Regas talking about how his love of science began, and his goals for this contest, in this month's Looking Up.
Leah Stewart teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati and is a successful novelist with her books "Husband and Wife," and "The Myth of You and Me" receiving critical acclaim. Her newest book, "The History of Us," based here in Cincinnati, is just out and she joins Mark Perzel to discuss her writing and her newest novel.
Dr. Joshua Miller from the University of Cincinnati's Department of Geology joins Thane Maynard to discuss his work collecting and researching fossils and other historical fragments to better understand the population and geographic movements of earlier cultures. He has traveled to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (AK), Yellowstone National Park (WY), Denali National Park (AK), Isle Royale National Park (MI), the Wind River Mountains (WY), and Amboseli National Park (Kenya) to seek out information on the movements and ecological challenges faced by early man.
The Federal Aviation Administration has started writing licensing and safety regulations regarding using unmanned air vehicles (UAV's) for alternate purposes, such as newsgathering, by 2015. In this week's Focus on Technology, Ann Thompson reports on how these drones may eliminate the need for TV news helicopters.


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Last week, Women's Foundation President Nicky Goren spoke on a panel about the importance of giving boldly. While the message was geared toward donors, it was easily applicable to the foundations and nonprofits that serve our community. In order to create real change, we all have to be willing to be bold, strategic, and take risks. This, she explained, is why The Women's Foundation has invested in Goodwill and their job training programs for nearly eight years.
Goodwill's work here in the Washington metro area is representative of the change that needs to happen in order to become a great community with a viable workforce. Goodwill trains employees they themselves would be willing to hire (and often do). They are strategic about their programs, looking to the future to find jobs that will likely be in high demand and offer opportunities for growth. And they're vigilant, correcting course when they see ways to be even more successful.
Several years ago, The Women's Foundation funded a construction training program at Goodwill geared toward women. When the economy slowed and women trainees faced challenges in getting into and remaining in construction jobs, Goodwill changed their strategy in order to be more effective.
Kieva, a woman I met after she finished Goodwill's training, participated in the construction program. After deciding that it wasn't the field she wanted to be in and struggling to coordinate child care and the early construction hours, she used Goodwill's training and resources to find and interview for a job at a Washington hotel. "I took those things that I learned here and got the job on the spot," she told me.
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During Goodwill Industries Week (May 5-11), The Women's Foundation congratulates Goodwill on their incredible accomplishments. And more importantly, we want to thank Goodwill of Greater Washington for creating the change that is transforming our community.


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OP ED: 16 October 2012
Laura Tompkins recently wrote an article for the Huffington Post, criticizing A.A. for being too negative:
A "sober lawyer" named "Dick" attacked Laura and defended A.A. in his blog:
Dick's response is just loaded with A.A. slogans and misinformation. I want to respond to a few of his statements (in quotes):
"Ms. Tompkins ... offers some truly frightening advice as well — that some alcoholics may indeed be able to drink in safe moderation under the careful guidance of a — you guessed it — a certified addiction specialist such as herself."
That is true, whether Dick likes it or not. Many years ago, way back in 1980, the famous government think tank, the Rand Corporation, found that the successful people who had stopped self-destructive drinking were evenly split between total abstinence and tapering off into moderate, controlled, drinking. So total abstinence is not the only way. It all depends on the individual person.
When that Rand Corporation report was published, the A.A. true believers had a hissy-fit. They screamed that the Rand Corporation was killing alcoholics by saying that. Ann Landers indignantly printed a denunciation and said that it was irresponsible to release such information. As if alcoholics are too stupid to handle the truth. (Remember Jack Nicholson screaming, "The truth? You can't handle the truth!")
But in my experience, alcoholics are not a separate species of stupid sub-humans. They are as intelligent as the rest of the people, and they need more true information, not less. (What a vicious, insulting stereotype of alcoholics A.A. really spreads.) See:http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-bibliography.html#Rand_Corp1
"Ms. Tompkins is not an alcoholic and therefore has no idea what it's like to be one.Baloney. That is the typical A.A. arrogance where they think they are the only ones who know anything about alcohol abuse or addiction or recovery."
Now I am an alcoholic who has 12 years of sobriety — 12 years off of all alcohol, tobacco, and drugs — and I've been to a bunch of A.A. meetings, too, so even by Mr. Dick's standards, I know what I'm talking about. And I agree with Laura Tompkins. She is telling the truth.
"And like most critics of AA, she offers zero alternatives or "solutions" to what she perceives as the problem with AA — other than "don't go to AA. It sucks."
Actually, she did offer alternatives, and Dick just listed them in his complaint: SMART and Rational Recovery. Also, counseling and moderate, controlled, drinking.
Besides which, when criticizing crimes like fraud, quackery, and medical malpractice, it isn't necessary to offer alternatives to committing the crime. I don't have to offer an alternative to Tom Cruise's crazy idea of Scientology psychotherapy defending us from interplanetary cooties and the nasty Galactic Overlord Xenu, do I? And I don't have to offer an alternative to doing the practices of an old pro-Nazi cult religion from the nineteen-thirties. The answer is just stop doing it. You don't need a substitute cult to replace the one that you are dumping.
"First, there is no requirement in AA that you announce yourself as an alcoholic, although"
...False. I've seen it with my own eyes, plenty. When a newcomer speaks without saying, "My name is XXX and I'm an alcoholic", someone quickly jumps on his case and instructs him to introduce himself "properly". And the same thing happens at Narcotics Anonymous meetings if people fail to say, "...and I'm an addict."
Chelsea Carmona, a writer for the Washington Post, also recognized the requirement to identify oneself as an alcoholic or an addict, and she described the harmful effects of such self-labeling this way:
In my case, labeling myself an alcoholic paved the way for me to take on the "addict" persona, and I got much worse before I got better. After treatment, I traded in my college friends for the criminal ones I met in recovery, and in turn, I gained access to a variety of hard drugs.That is perhaps the most disheartening aspect of 12-step recovery and inpatient care: Because most of their AA colleagues are older, the adolescents I met in treatment found more drug connections, party buddies and rehab romances than they did mentors, counselors and long-term sober friends.== CHELSEA CARMONA | Special to The Washington Post, Published: July 16, 2012Chelsea Carmona is the West Coast regional manager of the Op-Ed Project, which works to bring underrepresented voices into opinion writing
The fact that "Dick" really liked the Hazelden cult religion training (A.A. Steps One through Five) does not make it a good course of treatment for alcohol addiction. The fact that confession makes him feel good and he thinks it's "amazing" is no justification for promoting quackery. I am reminded of the words of William James, on whose philosophy Bill Wilson claimed A.A. is based: ** 'If merely "feeling good" could decide, drunkenness** would be the supremely valid human experience.'** == William James (1843—1916), U.S. psychologist,** philosopher, in "The Varieties Of Religious** Experience", lecture 1, "Religion and Neurology" (1902)
"The second paragraph is just pure inflammatory rhetoric. No one in the rooms would ever call anyone a dishonest and unfortunate idiot — unless they deserved it!"
Get real. A.A. sponsors do it to sponsees all of the time. Try reading my list of A.A. horror stories for many descriptions of even worse abuse:http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters121.html#horror_list
Just a few examples from that list:
I get my first sponsor (what am I thinking) and our first meeting of the minds, I get in her truck with her to run errands and talk. She starts screaming at me because she knew I took medication for some mental illnesses I have. She knows some oldtimer who had what I had was healed with the steps. Well, folks, that was the end of that relationship.The rest of the story is here.Well, need I say that it wasn't very long after my first relapse when I started observing strange behavior in members of the group. I noticed that people who once thought I was the coolest thing at any meeting wouldn't even come over and say hi anymore. And those who would acted very awkward in my presence. My sponsor began telling me that I wasn't ready to embrace the program yet because I still wanted to do it on my own. Then he started asking me for money.The rest of the story is here.After I gave birth I had severe postpartum depression. I had not healed from the birth and my sponsor told me not to take any medication. ... My sponsor had said that god would heal me and when god wanted me to sleep I would.The rest of the story is here. ANYTIME I don't follow a direction, no matter how small, I get yelled at and lectured and told repeatedly that I'm not willing and haven't had a real bottom. There are no choices, it's an illusion. It's really controlling.The rest of the story is here.An A.A. sponsor describes her sponsee as a retard who "has a serious spiritual disorder and also one inside his head".The rest of the story is here.That's the problem with having ignorant, untrained, unprincipled, uncertified sponsors acting as amateur doctors, amateur psychiatrists, and amateur priests.
"Ms. Tompkins should know that alcoholism is an incurable, progressive, terminal and ultimately fatal disease that lasts one's lifetime."
Wrong. That is mythology. There is no such "disease" as "alcoholism". The American Psychiatric Association recognizes alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence as mental illnesses, but the "spiritual disease" of "alcoholism" is just a myth. Addiction is a choice.
Furthermore, most people recover from alcohol abuse and addictions spontaneously, by themselves, without joining a cult religion.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health, performed the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. For it, they interviewed over 43,000 people. Using the criteria for alcohol dependence found in the DSM-IV, they found:"About 75 percent of persons who recover from alcohol dependence do so without seeking any kind of help, including specialty alcohol (rehab) programs and AA. Only 13 percent of people with alcohol dependence ever receive specialty alcohol treatment."The Harvard Mental Health Letter, from the Harvard Medical School, reported:
On their own
There is a high rate of recovery among alcoholics and addicts, treated and untreated. According to one estimate, heroin addicts break the habit in an average of 11 years. Another estimate is that at least 50% of alcoholics eventually free themselves although only 10% are ever treated. One recent study found that 80% of all alcoholics who recover for a year or more do so on their own, some after being unsuccessfully treated. When a group of these self-treated alcoholics was interviewed, 57% said they simply decided that alcohol was bad for them. Twenty-nine percent said health problems, frightening experiences, accidents, or blackouts persuaded them to quit. Others used such phrases as "Things were building up" or "I was sick and tired of it." Support from a husband or wife was important in sustaining the resolution.Treatment of Drug Abuse and Addiction — Part III, The Harvard Mental Health Letter, Volume 12, Number 4, October 1995, page 3. (See Aug. (Part I), Sept. (Part II), Oct. 1995 (Part III).)
"A true alcoholic can never, EVER, drink in moderation or safety. Those folks Ms. Tompkins refers to were never true alcoholics in the first place. Maybe "problem" drinkers, but not real alcoholics who are powerless over their consumption of the spirits."
Wrong. We just covered that. Half of the alcoholics who recover do it by tapering off into moderate, controlled, drinking. And yes, they are "real alcoholics". Mr. Dick is trying to use the Real Scotsman Logical Fallacy: "They aren't real alcoholics if they recover without A.A.... They aren't real alcoholics if they can eventually drink moderately." See: http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-propaganda.html#real_Scotsman
"Ms. Tompkins ends her critique with a self-serving argument about confidentiality and sponsorship. Your sponsor is not a "complete stranger." For most AA's, their sponsor is one of the closest people in their lives and will surely respect the confidentiality."
That is wishful thinking. I have received many stories of blabbermouth sponsors, even sponsors who vindictively gossiped people's personal secrets all over town in revenge for someone quitting A.A. The list of A.A. horror stories contains many stories of egregious breaches of confidentiality like:
I walked away after members of this group went to friends of mine outside of A.A. and spread lies, ruined my reputation and cost me dear friendships.Look here for the rest of that story:http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters328.html#Michelle_C
She also had plenty to say about sexual abuse in A.A., which is a subject that Dick carefully avoided talking about.
And then there is the story of Sarah and her sponsor:... as soon as I told my sponsor to mind her own business and realize that just because I don't follow all of her advice doesn't mean I am relapsing... she took it upon herself when asked where I was at to tell everyone that I had indeed relapsed and that I'm very ill and that I'm beyond hope and help because I wouldn't do what the program required (demanded) of me... wow... talking trash because I wouldn't jump through your hoops? What sort of bs is that? And that follows their "traditions" how? Look here for the rest of that story:http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters216.html#Sarah
And then there are stories like:I felt ashamed that my son's father had left me and was starting to question aa. I then slowly started going back. I got a new sponsor and after about 6 months found out that she was best friends with my son's father's new girlfriend. I was appalled she was defending him and telling him what was going on with me. I said it was a conflict of interest and fired her. I was pretty disgusted with aa at this point. Look here for the rest of that story:http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters241.html#horror
"As the literature makes clear, you don't have to believe in God. The suggestion is to find a Higher Power other than yourself.A "Higher Power" who isn't "God"?"
Fat chance. That is just another bait-and-switch trick. First, as a recruiting trick, A.A. says that you don't have to believe anything, but then, later on, you do. Bill Wilson had a lot to say about how you had to "find God" or you would die:
Remember that we deal with alcohol — cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power — that One is God. May you find Him now!The Big Book, 3rd Edition, William G. Wilson, Into Action, pages 58-59. When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be?The Big Book, 3rd Edition, William G. Wilson, We Agnostics, Page 53.If he is sincerely interested and wants to see you again, ask him to read this book in the interval. After doing that, he must decide for himself whether he wants to go on. He should not be pushed or prodded by you, his wife, or his friends. If he is to find God, the desire must come from within.The Big Book, 3rd & 4th Editions, William G. Wilson, Working With Others, page 95.... we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word... Rather vain of us, wasn't it? We, who have traveled this dubious path, beg you to lay aside prejudice, even against organized religion. ... People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all about.The Big Book, 3rd Edition, William G. Wilson, We Agnostics, page 49.I had been brought up to believe in God, but I know that until I found this A.A. program, I had never found or known faith in the reality of God, the reality of His power that is now with me in everything I do.The Big Book, 3rd Edition, The Housewife Who Drank At Home, page 341.To some people we need not, and probably should not emphasize the spiritual feature on our first approach. We might prejudice them. At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself. Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us.The Big Book, 3rd & 4th editions, William G. Wilson, Into Action, pages 76-77.Bait and switch. Don't reveal the truth to the newcomers.
Finally, Wilson wrote that the goal of the Big Book was:Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. ... [That] means, of course, that we are going to talk about God.The Big Book, 3rd Edition, William G. Wilson, We Agnostics, page 45.
"In my experience, no one is vilified in AA for not completing the steps."
Baloney. Bill Wilson himself sarcastically sneered at people who didn't do all of his Steps that he copied from Frank Buchman's Oxford Group cult religion:
We are sober and happy in our A.A. work. Things go well at home and office. We naturally congratulate ourselves on what later proves to be a far too easy and superficial point of view. We temporarily cease to grow because we feel satisfied that there is no need for all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps for us. We are doing fine with just a few of them. Maybe we are doing fine with only two of them, the First Step and that part of the Twelfth where we "carry the message." In A.A. slang, that blissful state is known as "two-stepping." And it can go on for years.
The best-intentioned of us can fall for the "two-step" illusion. Sooner or later the pink cloud stage wears off and things go disappointingly dull. We begin to think that A.A. doesn't pay off after all. We become puzzled and discouraged.
Then perhaps life, as it has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest. We fail to get a worked-for promotion. We lose that good job. Maybe there are serious domestic or romantic difficulties, or perhaps that boy we thought God was looking after becomes a military casualty.
What then? Have we alcoholics in A.A. got, or can we get, the resources to meet these calamities which come to so many? ...
Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from "two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are willing to receive that grace of God which can sustain and strengthen us in any catastrophe.Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, William G. Wilson, pages 112-113.And once again, Bill Wilson declares that you must find God or you will die.
"Of course, Alcoholics Anonymous has survived since 1935, and will continue to survive and grow, despite such criticisms from the likes of Ms. Tompkins."
That is the logical fallacy of asserting that something is good because it is old. The Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, and the Ku Klux Klan have all survived even longer. Does that prove them right?
And A.A. is not growing, it is shrinking. The last several Triennial Surveys have revealed that the A.A. membership is declining. It's over. A.A. is just an old cult religion from the nineteen-thirties that has run its course. It will eventually join the "Shakers" and the "Dukhobors" and "Russellism" and other forgotten oddities of cult religions.
Look here for much more about the A.A. "growth rate", or rather, lack of it:
A spreadsheet from the Omaha, Nebraska Foxhall Group.The_Mathematics_of_Alcoholics_Anonymous_-_Part_1.pdf — Analysis of the mathematics of Alcoholics Anonymous, using A.A.'s own published documentsThe_Mathematics_of_Alcoholics_Anonymous_-_Part_2.pdf — Analysis of the mathematics of Alcoholics Anonymous, using A.A.'s own published documentsThe program speaks for itself.No, actually, guys like Dick speak for it.
And you know what Dick did not say? What the A.A. success rate really is. If we send 1,000 randomly-selected alcoholics to A.A., how many of them will be clean and sober a year later? How well does A.A. really work?
It turns out that A.A. works no better than no treatment or help at all.
What is the REAL A.A. success rate? Out of each 1000 newcomers to A.A., how many will pick up a one-year sobriety medallion a year later?Or even several years later? And how many will get their 2-year, and 5-year, and 10-year coins? Ever? How about 11 years and 21 years?
No qualifiers are allowed, like, "We will only count the people who worked the program right, or we will only count the people who really tried, and kept coming back." Everybody counts. No exceptions.
No excuses are allowed. When the doctor gives a patient penicillin, and it fails to cure the infection, the doctor doesn't get to say, "But he didn't work the program right. He didn't pray enough. He didn't surrender. He held something back in his Fifth Step." No excuses.
So what's the actual A.A. cure rate? At best 5%...which is the rate of spontaneous remission: those who quit a behavior on their own. AA is a pack of lies.


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- Bring a pot of water to a simmer over low heat. Add the chicken breast to the water and cook until no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, about 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C). Remove the chicken from the water and allow to cool before shredding the meat into a large bowl.
- While the chicken cooks, bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook the macaroni at a boil until cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 8 minutes. Drain and rinse with cool water to halt the cooking process until the pasta is cool to the touch. Add to the bowl with the chicken.
- Stir the pineapple, apple, celery, carrot, and raisins to the bowl; toss to combine. Add the mayonnaise, sugar, and seasoned salt; gently stir the mixture until evenly coated. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving.
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Delicious and easily prepared. My family loved it. Call me crazy but I used jerked chicken breast the 2nd time I made this dish- it went QUICK, Definitely a keeper- thanks, Lola!
It's not good, it's not bad. But what makes this dish filipino? I've seen this dish prepared before a lot of other times by people who weren't filipino and there aren't any traditionally filipino methods or ingredients. Isn't this just a plain old macaroni salad?
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I had quite a lot of rotisserie chicken leftover and decided to give this a try. My Filipino DH was delighted. We loved it. I added a few sliced white seedless grapes and a handful of chopped walnuts. Excellent cold dish on these hot summer days. Thank you!
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- 23%
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- 7%
- Protein
- 3.4 g
- 7%
- Cholesterol
- 12 mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 196 mg
- 8%
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Craig Pearson
The Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE — Robinson 7-footer Meyers Leonard is not going to be the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA some day, but his odds of reaching the league are pretty solid if his game continues to evolve as it has during high school.
Sure, the 225-pounder doesn't have the NBA-ready, grown-man body that Greg Oden had when winning three Indiana 4A state titles for Lawrence North. But Leonard's athleticism and outstanding passing skills separate him from most 7-footers and he has a nice shooting touch from mid-range and at the free-throw line.
Robinson (25-5) battles No. 1 Hales Franciscan (28-2) tonight in the Class 2A IHSA Final Four. Leonard rarely faces another post man his size, and tonight is no exception.
Franciscan features several athletic 6-4 types on a guard-dominated team.
Also, Class 2A in Illinois is typically very good. Peoria Manual, who plays tonight's first matchup against Breese Central, won four state titles in the 1990s in the large-school division of the Illinois two-class system.
Olney coach Rob Flanagan, an Apollo Conference rival of Robinson's, led Olney to the Class 2A Final Four two seasons ago behind 6-foot-11 Keen Thomann, who is having a strong career at Division II Missouri Southern. That's two out of three years for a Final Four team from the Apollo Conference in the third year of the four-class system in Illinois. (And Marshall represented the region in 2A last year).
Flanagan watched Leonard make strides from year to year as he improved to the sixth best center prospect in the nation according to one recruiting service — and then the Maroons matured with their big man.
"It's been a maturing process for all of them to fill into their roles," Robinson coach Bob Coffman said.
The 7-foot Illinois recruit grew from 6-2 to 6-5 during his freshman season and played his sophomore year at 6-8.
"You could see Myers had a lot of growing into his body that year," Flanagan said. "My 6-10 was a different player, not nearly as athletic and mobile, but a very good player."
Last year, I watched as Leonard was held to 14 points in a victory over Paris. He had made big strides, though, since covering him as a sophomore in the Class 2A Regional, as he was learning to handle the attention he got on the court from defenses.
Back then, 6-foot guard Ben Jones was the best high school basketball player on the Robinson team — but Leonard had the most potential. The big man has tapped into that potential, but he'll still have a lot of work ahead.
"If he has a good college career, he'll play basketball overseas, in the NBA, I could easily see that for him," Flanagan said. "He's going to have a lot of work ahead of him. He's going to have some rough days … The sky's the limit."
Leonard has shown improved strength and says he's dedicated to continued progress in the weight room. And playing with a big-time AAU team, the Mac Irvin Fire, with other Illinois signees has to have helped his confidence.
"Good steady improvement," Flanagan said. "Meyers has so many opportunities in the summer, based on the chances he got early [in high school]. People invite you to things just because of your size. It opened up a lot of doors for him. You can tell he's been to some camps that taught him some high-level stuff."
Flanagan likes the Maroons chances at state because they're a complete team. But the 2A field is very good. Peoria Manual plays a Class 4A-type schedule every year, and Franciscan features several athletes with big-time potential and one Division I guard.
Leonard appears to have raised his game as his prep career is coming to a close. He plays with a lot of emotion, which can aid him and hurt him at times.
"I think in the last month, I think he's done a much better job of keeping his head and staying focused," Flanagan said. "He's not the only one that loses his focus at 17, 18 [years old]."
With the attention Leonard gets as a Fighting Illini recruit and the big stage of Peoria, it will be interesting to see how he responds.
But I'm just as intrigued by the 6-footer for Robinson. Jones has an impressive mid-range game, rarely even shooting 3s. Perhaps hurting his chance with college coaches is his height or maybe recruiters see him as a beneficiary of the attention Leonard gets from defenses. Jones said he's had interest from a junior college and some Division III programs.
Jones has scored over 1,600 points in his career, and he attacks the bucket like Harry Marshall does for Indiana State. If he improved his ball-handling at a junior college, he has potential as a Division I point guard. Or Division II level? I see a combo guard who can score and rebound and defend.
"Ben Jones is the Player of the Year in our conference," Flanagan said. "He got my vote. He's played since he was a freshman. Night in and night out, probably the best player in our conference. He's an offensive rebounding magnet and he just knows how to put the basketball in the basket."
Craig Pearson can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com. Read his blog at blogs.tribstar.com/craigpearson.


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By Miriam Pembertonand Gabriel I. Rossman
---- — Here's a milestone of sorts. In July, for the first time since 1998, the House of Representatives voted to maintain the current military budget rather than increase Pentagon spending. It's the first step toward bringing the budget down.
Within the bill, which included more than $600 billion for the military, the House embedded a few gestures toward fiscal sanity. Most important was the decision of 89 Republicans to join most Democrats in shaving a billion bucks off the budget that House Republican leaders had proposed.
Less publicized was a much smaller gesture. Congress voted to block Rep. Hal Rogers, R-KY, the chair of the House committee in charge of spending, from steering a contract to his district in Kentucky to buy $17,000 drip pans for Black Hawk helicopters.
Drip pans for $17,000? You know, pans that catch leaking transmission fluid. Congress ruled that the chair of the spending committee couldn't reward a frequent campaign contributor with a contract that somebody else could fulfill at 1/8th the cost to the taxpayer.
So why did Congress axe this particular sweet deal? Maybe they were a little worried that it would become the next $800 toilet seat.
Back in the 1980s, this fixture on a Navy plane epitomized military waste. As a symbol the public could really visualize, its discovery expedited contracting reform.
A pan that catches transmission fluid might not trigger the same outrage as that pricey toilet seat. But with the nation careening toward the edge of a fiscal cliff, the timing is right.
So Congress tried to head this particular program off before it got too much publicity.
We won't get too carried away with this glimmer of hope that a sane approach to military spending is around the corner. Still, for the first time since before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress voted to trim its leaders' aspirations for the overall military budget. It's a start.