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Anyone who has a hard time understanding why PETA hasn't hopped onto the "no-kill" bandwagon should have a look at this long list of failures of limited-admission (i.e., "no-kill") shelters and rescues. There have been so many raids, busts, and seizures that we can't even be sure that we have kept up with them all.
Rescued From a 'Rescue'?
One of the latest tragedies comes from Muncie, Indiana, where 63 dogs and puppies were seized from a single-story house operating as "Adopt a Lab Rescue and Adoption." Living conditions were so foul that one official characterized it as being "like a dungeon in the basement." Some of the dogs had reportedly been bought from a "broker." This same facility had also been raided in 2010, when 30 dogs were removed because of poor conditions, including keeping animals in crates without food or water for up to 21 hours a day.
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No one wants to euthanize animals, least of all people who dedicate their lives to helping them. And we should all be deeply upset that in this day and age, shelters must still resort to euthanasia—but breeding and buying animals from pet shops is still legal (in most places)! The reality is that there are more animals in need of homes than there are people ready to adopt them. Even if we could build enough shelters to hold all of them, these animals need real homes and families to love them. They can't be warehoused forever just to make us feel better.
Euthanasia prevents suffering—it is, by definition, humane. But turning away animals in need of shelter is anything but humane. Forcing animals to exist in cages, joyless, for months or years or their entire lives, is inhumane, too, as is allowing animals to suffer in squalor, loneliness, deprivation, and illness.
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The Intern position is located here in Portland, MAINE, but we're open to remote candidates for the others. But hey, Portland is a terrific city -- it's currently about 65 and sunny, and I was thinking of hopping out to the beach after work. Or maybe to go to one of our strangely numerous James Beard award winning restaurants. So I'd say living in Portland is a big perk of the job!
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The Senior Researcher will help to design research projects, do detailed and in-depth research into software choices in the nonprofit sector through interviews and software demos, manage projects and client relationships, and work with the Idealware team to create easy-to-understand reports, articles, and training based on the research. In this position, you'll have an opportunity to become a nationally recognized expert in particular software research areas, talk with some of the smartest and most cutting edge minds in nonprofit technology nationwide, and be part of the planning process for a small but quickly growing nonprofit. Read the full job description at http://www.idealware.org/
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Having spent some time looking at my mother's life and in particular her time from 1961 onwards in Notting Hill, I have inevitably had cause to ponder Jack The Stripper and the nude murders. At least six west London prostitutes died in a bizarre series of mid-sixties sex slayings but the killer was never caught. I have always been more interested in the victims than their murderer(s), but I felt it worth commenting on a recent book that claimed to identify the killer. My focus in this review was on the author of this travesty, since he made a number of outrageous claims without any proof to back them up. You can read my review here. Despite this, via the mail form on my website, I get a fair number of messages about Jack The Stripper. Indeed, I got one yesterday that read:
"Nude Murders. Dear Stewart, would you be interested in discussing this subject with me. I believe that 2 people were responsible for these murders. The first is Mungo Ireland, the second Harold Jones, a near neighbour of Ireland. Google Neil Milkins for more info on Jones. Neil Milkins."
Mungo Ireland is one of the usual suspects put in the frame for the Jack The Stripper murders, alongside the likes of boxing champion Freddie Mills. I hadn't heard of Harold Jones before. After doing a web search I discovered Jones had been convicted of killing two children in 1921 when he was himself only 15 years-old. Milkins has produced a book about the case entitled Every Mother's Nightmare: Abertillery in Mourning (Old Bakehouse Publications 2008) and as The South Wales News of 8 November 2007 explained: "After many years of researching the subject, Mr Milkins threw himself whole-heartedly into the project after leaving his job as a tree-feller due to an injury." When I checked yesterday, the book only had one Amazon review, but it was enthusiastic and gave a 5 star rating:
"Kevin Milkins (Wick/Scotland). I have just finished reading my brother's first book and found it a great and informative read. Well done Neil for turning an interesting factual story into print for all of us to share. Can hardly wait for your next book."
My web searches also revealed that Neil Milkins had drummed up some local newspaper coverage for his Jack The Stripper theories. For example, the Hounslow Chronicle ran the following under the headline "Author uncovers new suspect in sixties murder mystery" on 26 August 2008:
"While the hedonists of the King's Road were preoccupied with the swinging sixties, a grim orgy of killing was taking place just a few kilometres to the west.
"A serial killer obsessed with prostitutes murdered six, possibly eight, young women between 1964 and 1965, dumping their naked and mutilated bodies on the banks of the River Thames. His heinous acts earned him the moniker Jack the Stripper – but he was never caught.
"Now the dormant investigation has been given a boost after the name of a notorious Welsh double-child murderer was put in the frame for the killings.
"Harold Jones was aged 15 when he was convicted of killing two girls, aged eight and 11, in Abertillery, Wales. He served 20 years for his crime and was released in 1941 and moved to Fulham.
"We know he was living in Hestercombe Avenue, Fulham, as Harry Stevens until 1962, said author Neil Milkins, who conducted research into Jones' movements for his book Every Mother's Nightmare.
"The next record is from 1965 when he is living in Aldensley Road, Hammersmith, as Harry Jones. But his whereabouts during the years of the killings is unknown. I don't know that he was involved in the murders, but it is certain a psychopath with the capability of committing callous crimes and covering them up was around the area.
"Mr Milkins examined Jones' psychologist and prison reports at the National Archives Centre, in Kew, before handing his suspicions over to Scotland Yards murder review team.
"But Neil insists: The coincidence of Harold Jones being there just jumped out at me and I'm hoping people come forward with more information on him where he worked, who he associated with and the kind of person he was. I want to find out where he was between 1962-65, the answer to that may answer a whole lot of other questions.
"Harold Jones died in Hammersmith in 1971, his death certificate names him as Harold Jones, otherwise Harry Stevens."
Moving on from this newspaper report, I happen to know that Milkins is an Irish name, whereas Malkin is an English name, and these two surnames have quite distinct origins. Nonetheless, some people might be struck by the similarity between Neil Milkins' surname and the name Malkin, and then read something into the fact that malkin was a slang term for a lewd woman in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. For an example of the word malkin being used in this fashion we might turn to Father Hubburd's Tales by Thomas Middleton: "and none can justly except me but some riotous vomiting Kit or some gentleman-swallowing Malkin." (Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2007, page 166; the tale we're dealing with was first published in 1604). A kit is, of course, a loose woman… but the phrase 'some gentleman-swallowing Malkin' is the one that really gets me going, since it might be taken to mean a prostitute doing 'French' (i.e. performing oral sex, giving head, providing a blow job etc.). It is thought Jack The Stripper killed his victims by suffocating them with his manhood as they gave him oral sex…
A lot can be (mis)read into the fact that Neil Milkins' Irish surname sounds similar to the unrelated English name Malkin. Likewise it may appear curious that a Welsh double-murderer seems to have been living in west London when the Jack The Stripper murders took place, but given the size of the population in the area at the time it is unlikely he is the only psychopath who might be put in the frame for the killings on the basis of past record. I haven't seen anything that convincingly links Harold Jones to these unsolved crimes. And for me the victims are still of greater interest than the killer… To finish, f you want an example of a contemporary Malkin whose reputation is considerably lower than that of a Whitefriars punk, then right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin fits the bill….
And while you're at it don't forget to check – www.stewarthomesociety.org – you know it makes (no) sense!


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While I may not be your definition of sober, I am mine. So stop telling me that I'm dry, addicted to chocolate or need an exercise intervention.
I quit drinking in 2009 without the help of AA or rehab. There was no intervention, medical crisis or new low that finally spurred me to action. I got sober as I had gotten fucked up—alone, under my own power. Three weeks into my sobriety, a survey I took at a public health clinic flagged me to an outreach program, Project Link, and they hooked me up with an addiction specialist at Weill Cornell Medical Center. I've attended counseling sessions there for the last couple of years and my relationship with my doctor has been a huge help to both my sobriety and my overall happiness but we've been clear the entire time that I own my sobriety—it is my creation and I define its parameters. I got myself sober and I alone am ultimately responsible for keeping myself sober. I feel good about my sobriety but I don't necessarily feel pride about it. As my parents pointed out to me when I was a little kid, you don't get extra points just because, for once, you did what you were supposed to do.
Maybe a month after I stopped drinking, I took a job as night manager at a bar on 14th street, a bar I had drank in, fallen asleep in and gotten tossed from. It was a decision that everyone questioned, myself included. I took it for two reasons. First, I reasoned that alcohol was everywhere. "Avoiding temptation" was an illusion: there was a liquor store across the street, a bodega next door, my roommate's beer in the fridge and Listerine in the bathroom. If I wanted to drink, I was going to drink. Second, I didn't have another option. I needed that fucking job. It wasn't "sink or swim"—swimming was the only option I had. I worked there for two years and though I was sorely tempted many times, I never drank.
I'd been sober for more than a year before I admitted to anyone that I was an alcoholic and sober for two years before I submitted the general public to that ugly news. Initial reactions ranged from actual tears of gratitude and relief to the girl at the bar I was managing who looked at me slyly, swaying on her heels and said, "So what would happen if you took just one sip?" and tried to push her drink into my hand.
When others learn you're an alcoholic, you immediately become a victim of the information shrapnel they've passively absorbed about the disease.
After their first splash of surprise (or lack thereof), I had to accustom myself to my peers viewing me through the distorting lens of alcoholism. My experience has taught me that most people—even intelligent, worldly people—have bad data about alcoholism. When others learn you're an alcoholic, you immediately become a victim of the information shrapnel they've passively absorbed about the disease. They don't see you, a specific, unique person burdened with a wily, tenacious affliction. They see Andy Capp, Charles Bukowski, Anna Nicole Smith, Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, any character from any pre-1990 Tom Waits' song, after school specials, a faulty decision tree that always returns to alcohol, their drunken aunt/uncle/mother/father/whatever. Every sentence you utter, even the minutest gesture you make, is filtered through volumes of self-help literature, hours upon hours of well-intentioned talk shows and second- and third-hand paraphrasings of the aforementioned.
In my three-plus years of sobriety, friends, enemies and strangers alike have offered me their unsolicited, uninformed, condescending input on my life: I'm not an alcoholic because I was able to quit on my own without AA, I'm not sober because I don't go to AA or work the 12 steps, I'm not sober because I infrequently indulge in psilocybin mushrooms, I'm a "dry drunk" because my soul is not infused with God's healing light, I've become a caffeine addict/a "chocoholic"/an exercise addict/a sex addict, just exchanging one addiction for another.
Part of this is my fault. Usually, when we make the big declaration—"I'm an alcoholic"—we often leave off the last, most important part: "…so I'm going to stop drinking and work very hard to make lasting changes in my life. Some of them may seem bizarre or ill-advised to you, but I ask you to be patient with me and supportive of me because it's not going to be easy." I got to the first part when I was 17—piece of cake! It took me 15 years of hard drinking to get to the crucial second part. But lots of people will be tempted to pathologize your every move once they know you are an alcoholic/addict. Some of them will just be pricks with massive problems of their own. They will also be people you love and people who love you, making your tough situation even tougher by inexpertly expressing the ways in which they care for you.
So let's go point by point. Just as alcoholism existed before AA, alcoholics have stopped drinking before AA existed. It strikes me as bizarre that my disease can be reverse-diagnosed by its "cure." The only other instance of this I can call to mind is the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th century where a suspected witch was subjected to the "ordeal of water"—repeatedly held under water for increasing amounts of time until she proved her innocence by drowning. (The few who survived were clearly witches, so they were hanged.) Oh, there's also House, in which a maverick pill-popping doctor subjects patients with bizarre ailments to a battery of increasingly unorthodox and dangerous cures. Folks, that's a TV show. It's fiction.
I know that I'm an alcoholic. My family and my friends who have known me for 20 years recognize that I'm an alcoholic—they knew long before I did. It's taken a lot of humiliation, soul-searching and grim self-evaluation for me to admit I am an alcoholic—first to myself, then to my inner circle, then to the world at large. Please don't further demean me by telling me it's not real or pushing me for proof.
There is no empirical data which proves that AA helps alcoholics get sober or stay sober. Yes, you can cite story after transformative, inspiring story, as can I, but that's all anecdotal evidence. AA is a secret society with no accurate active member count and no measurable success rate. An article in Wired on the organization's 75th anniversary reported that, from the best information available, AA doesn't work. Multiple accredited sources report that AA members fail to stay sober more often than they succeed. Does AA help at all? Wired reports that it does and I believe that it does. Wired also reports that group talk therapy like the sharing that occurs in AA helps people recovering from cancer and pathogen-driven diseases like tuberculosis. My takeaway is that it benefits people suffering from a hardship to congregate with other people suffering from the same hardship to talk about their experiences. As such, I support AA as one potentially useful tool but it's not one that works for me. In no way is AA or the 12 steps the alpha and omega of recovery its strictest adherents would have you believe.
As alcoholism is not dependent on AA for its diagnosis, neither is sobriety. I describe myself as sober because I don't drink alcohol and I am habitually abstinent from drugs. It's not just that I don't drink hard liquor or wine or beer; I don't drink non-alcoholic beer, I don't drink kombucha, I avoid food I know has alcohol in it, I even threw out the vanilla extract my ex used to bake with when I saw its alcohol content. One of my best friends, Steve, is sober. But he is a devout Catholic so several times a year, he drinks a mouthful of wine as part of religious services. I don't do the steps; Steve puts a great amount of faith and effort into them. When we vacation together, Steve smokes pot all the time; I rarely do. I eat mushrooms a couple of times a year; Steve would never think of such a thing. Once in a while, I'll make a stupid bet with a friend or play cards; Steve has a gambling problem so he won't bet a nickel or even play solitaire. Do we both understand ourselves as sober? Hell, yeah. I get to define my own sobriety because my sobriety means almost nothing to you compared to what it means to me. Steve taught me how to drink. He and I have pushed against our addictions long enough that we have mapped out the entire floodplain. We have placed the sandbags, we have carried the stones. We know the difference between a harmless trickle of water and the precursor to a flood. And we've become experts at differentiating between the two because it's our own selves that are at risk of being washed away.
Have I replaced one addiction with another? You bet. Just like you, I am addicted to pleasure…and air and water and just life in general.
The mushrooms are a constant sticking point and it's ridiculous. I mean, even my mother ate shrooms once, and not when she was in college. I once tried to date a girl who had grown up a straight-edge punk rock musician with a deep investment in questioning the government and the moral majority. By the time we met, she had relaxed her stance enough that she allowed herself to get hammered regularly and yet she mercilessly mocked my infrequent use of mushrooms. When I tried to get at the essence of her objection to them (since she thought alcohol use was okay), it came down to the fact that alcohol was legal (according to the government) and everybody drank (the moral majority). So much for thinking for yourself, or even thinking at all. This year, the BBC reported that new analysis of LSD studies performed in the 60s published in the Journal of Pharmacology indicated that "a single dose of LSD has a significant beneficial effect on alcohol misuse." Point blank, they said LSD "helps alcoholics give up drinking." Furthermore, they suggested that "more regular doses might lead to a sustained benefit." And Time reported that a recent Johns Hopkins study stated that the correct dosage of psilocybin mushrooms "offered long-lasting psychological growth and helped people find peace in their lives—without the negative effects." Anecdotally, how many mushroom addicts do you know? A beer and a line of coke only ever fired me up for another line and another beer but every time I do mushrooms—well, they not only make it clear to me what needs to stay in my life and what needs to go but they also cure me of any desire to do mushrooms for a while. And all you Big Book beaters—surely you must know that the devout agnostic Bill W. had his religious epiphany on December 14th, 1934 when he was tripping on belladonna, right?
I don't believe in God or a Higher Power or spirituality of any kind. I'm indifferent to AA. I'm resistant to the 12 steps. I suffer bouts of melancholy and fits of anger. All of these things taken in sum cannot make me a dry drunk. Why? Because when I stopped drinking, I filled that gaping chasm in my life with the opposite of drinking. I wrote, I learned how to fix and modify guitars, I learned to run, box, kickbox and suffer gladly the torturous workouts my trainer Tracy Helsing devised. I ended a lot of hollow friendships, deepened my relationships with friends who, sober or not, were good for me, repaired my relationships with my father and older sister and invested deeply in my relationships with my nephews and nieces. I ate my vegetables and took my vitamins and did my homework. I stopped doing fun things I wasn't proud of and did a lot of hard things I knew were good for me but somehow still couldn't feel proud of because they were so "recovery-by-the-numbers" like raising plants and doing yoga. Of central importance to my transformation was keeping my appointments with my counselor, Chris Sturiano. I didn't want to go so I forced myself to go. I didn't want to be honest so I forced myself to be honest. When I didn't want to tell him something because I knew his response was going to annoy the fucking shit out of me, that was the first thing I forced myself to tell him. Some of it was really rewarding, a lot of it sucked and all of it was hard work. Don't erase all my vigilant efforts to change by calling me a dry drunk just because I get pissed when I get a parking ticket. Parking tickets suck—that's a universal constant.
Have I replaced one addiction with another? You bet. Just like you, I am addicted to pleasure…and air and water and just life in general. Human beings are biologically programmed to seek pleasure and avoid fear and pain. Eating, drinking, sleeping and fucking bring us pleasure because those activities ensure the survival of the species. I swore off alcohol, not pleasure. It's not necessary to pathologize my every move simply because I am an alcoholic. I don't run because I'm an exercise addict, eternally chasing the "runner's high." Occasionally, I enjoy running but mostly I endure the discomfort of running because I know it increases both the length of my life and the quality of my life and I hate running less than I fear death and the sensation of dying. Just because I have been addicted to alcohol, it doesn't mean my life after alcohol is necessarily just an empty series of dire cravings and desperate injections of pleasure. When I pat your dog, I am not chasing "dog patter's high," I am just patting the dog. Because, at the end of the day, yes, I'm an alcoholic, but I'm also a bass player, a gear nerd, a writer, an ultrarunner, a guitar wrangler, a songwriter, a mediocre kickboxer, a solid friend, an uncle, a brother, a step-brother, a foster brother, a son and a flawed, imperfect but mostly happy human being.
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Good for him. Is he happy?
Remember Christopher Stevens when you vote.
I have read some very good peyote church stories; I understand that those in the church do not drink and typically get deep insight into their existence.
Sober is a state of mind, as far as I am concerned the writer is sober even though he uses mushrooms. He is not damaging himself and is responsible for maintaining his own equilibrium.
If he is not happy, his failure as I see it threatens me.
(He is not accepting my solution)
If he is happy, his success can also threaten me.
(His solution places doubt on mine)
He does not have to be happy and I do not have to be happy or sad for him.
This is the absence of judgment where another's dignity is concerned, their dignity to choose.
What right do I have to interfere?
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"If he is not happy, his failure as I see it threatens me.
If he is happy, his success can also threaten me."
Please explain. I got the rest of your post but this is baffling.
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Cult disciples love to measure success with immeasurable units such as spirituality and happiness, while dismissing things like financial success, criminal records, credit scores, successful long-term marriages and even grade point averages and college degrees. You wouldn't want to measure snake-oil treatment with actual conclusive, straight-forward, tangible results, would you? So these things are considered "ego" and according to steppers have nothing to do with recovery or sobriety.
In the AA cult, convincing vulnerable, naive newcomers that you have a close, personal relationship with God is acceptable practice. You can therefore measure a "good program" by how many newcomers you can dupe into submissive sponsee roles.
Another sign of a "successful recovery" is the constant love-bombing of other members. If you are smiling and hugging and telling as many complete strangers as possible how much you love them, you will be met with much approval. Some will even credit you for loving them until they were able to love themselves.
But the sure way of being viewed as a nirvana indulging, pinnacle reaching, all-knowing 12 step guru is the constant and consistent attendance of AA meetings coupled with the constant and consistent testimony of how sick and hopeless you were and how the 12 steps saved you (preferably by following the words in the Big Book to perfection, any deviation from the text will be cause for deductions in your spiritual status).
Without a doubt, these cult religion practices will earn you a spot as a wise guardian of the 12 step faith and nobody will ever question your serenity level or the amount of happiness in your life, regardless of how many anti-depressants you are on or even if you live in your car. Just keep on following "the path".
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Is that a bit cheeky? Or totally unacceptable?
The guy kind of defecates on his dinner, and then eats it all up?
Just a thought...
I'm sure lots of them are. Especially here in the UK.
Ah! do you think we are being infiltrated by covert catholics? should he be 'outed' ?
Who is we and who is infiltrating? You asked if a catholic school teacher could be atheist and I said they already were. I am not sure if any of them are 'out' about it.
Your discussion title seems to have lost a word?
My wife is a catholic school teacher and she would classify herself as agnostic more than anything, but a job's a job and the money is great, so she doesn't mind playing along.
There ARE lots of Atheists that hold jobs or positions in religious facilities. With the economy the way it is, a job is a job.
hmmmm. a bit of an easy way out. what about convictions
One's conviction could be, as was mentioned, ameliorating the unopposed indoctrination......as well as teach kids in an envirnment that is better than many other schools, due to the nature of the selection, at least in the UK.
Can a Catholic school teacher be an atheist? Certainly. Obviously. Without a doubt there are atheists who teach at Catholic schools so the question must self evidently be answered in the affirmative.
Probably what you wanted to ask was SHOULD an atheist teach at a Catholic School.
In that case, what has to be decided is whether implicit support for sectarian religious– but particularly Catholic– schools as a teacher is overridden by the fact that they might be able to do some good in the position, working to reduce the purity of the bullshit the kids might otherwise be taught.
It seems the question can only be answered on a case by case basis as the answer will depend on which classes the particular teacher teaches. I say this because if the individual teacher is teaching something like English, something unlikely to offer opportunities to challenge the bullshit the kids would otherwise be taught, as opposed to teaching Physics or Biology which ought to provide those opportunities. There's also going to be the question of how permissive the individual school is. Because even if the teacher is teaching Biology or Physics and would normally have those opportunities, except that the individual school kept a tight rein on what the teachers are teaching...
So... it depends.
Yes, of course, especially in Ireland and the U.K. The majority of schools here follow a religious ethos of some kind and I know several people that teach in these schools who are atheist or agnostic. It's out of necessity and lack of an option not to more than anything else!
To me separation of church and state should mean no school should have any religious ethos but it's far from a perfect world!
probably not openly.
i went to Catholic school, and I'm pretty sure I had some non-Catholic teachers, and I'm also pretty sure they weren't allowed to discuss that kind of stuff with us.
What I wonder about, though, is: Are Catholic schools allowed to fire you for not being Catholic? Would that violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
I have to comment on this because it hits home for me on a personal level. I am a math/science teacher, an Atheist, and I've taught at a private Catholic all-girls school. The nuns that ran the school knew that I was not Catholic but they offered me a job based on my qualifications anyway. I'll tell you exactly why I took the job.....MONEY. If we can't destroy the stupidity behind the ideals of any church, then we can at least take some of their money away from them.
I could not STAND the fact that I was asked to hold prayer at the beginning of every period. Since I could barely vomit up such words myself, I almost always asked a student to lead the prayer for me, and that was fine with the students and the school. I was also required to "be a good role model" for the students and attend the school's monthly mass. I did what I was required to do, barely holding in blazing fury the whole time. I never took communion because that was not a requirement (many of the students didn't do it either). If I'd had to swallow (literally) that body and blood BS, I truly would have lost my stomach.
The student body of this school was about 50-50. By this I mean that half the girls were there because they were smart, sweet, and had great potential for great futures. The other half were moron rich bitches who'd already been expelled from other schools and this Catholic stuff was their parents' last ditch attempt to keep them out of prison.
Alas, I was forced to not only leave the school's employment, but turn around and sue them for wrongful termination, before the first year was done. I had some very un-Catholic-role-model type happenings in my personal life, which I'd put into an online diary. Some of the prison-bound teens I've mentioned, who hated me because I gave them the grades they deserved and didn't let them cheat on tests, managed to hack into that diary, print it out in full, make copies, and distribute it to the principal and their friends and parents.
I was told to leave the next morning because, even though the school had known I was not Catholic, now the parents would also know, and the school would start getting angry phone calls about what kind of sinning whore the school had teaching their perfect little angels geometry.
Like I said, I was able to sue the school for my lost wages for the remainder of the year, mostly due to the threat of my going to the news media and putting the Catholic church under scrutiny for yet another discrimination fuck-up.
The really fun part, I discovered later, was that the students who got into my diary and caused the whole problem had online journals on the same website and were writing things like "I'm going to burn that fucking school to the ground and kill all of my teachers!" Guess what the school did to punish them?
Not. A. God. Damned. Thing.
Big surprise there.....
How can anyone wonder why I'm an Atheist?
There are religious teachers in public schools who teach evolution, but profess not to believe it themselves. Still, they teach it because it's their job. Therefore, I don't see why an atheist can't be a Catholic (or any other religion) school teacher. They may not believe it, but they teach it because it's their job, and it pays the bills.
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Local officials are once again preparing for a fast-moving cold surge of weather which could sweep into the area today with the possibility of snow with freezing sleet and rain.
According to National Weather Service Forecaster Patrick Wilson in Blacksburg, Va., today will start sunny and cold, with daytime temperatures averaging 34 degrees and falling to 19 degrees tonight. Wilson characterized the approaching system as a fast moving, low pressure front traveling through our area from the Great Plains. As of 4:30 p.m. Thursday, the service issued a statement placing Surry County under a winter storm advisory.
Forecaster Jim Hudgins said this advisory was issued because of the potential for ice and it will be in effect today from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.
Wilson said as the system sweeps through today, temperatures will be cold enough for snow when that system merges with a warmer system coming from the South. Depending on the moisture and temperature of the southern system, this could cause sleet or a mix of snow with sleet or even freezing drizzle. He said Mount Airy could have snow accumulating from 1-3 inches. The surrounding mountains could see anywhere from 2-4 inches of snow.
"The issue with this system is sleet," said Wilson. "According to how the conditions unfold, its a question of how much will mix in, if it does anything at all."
He said the weather models run for the storm locally said there is a possibility of wet snow.
"It looks like this will be a fast moving system straight out of the east and then it will continue past and out to sea," said Wilson. "It's going to happen pretty quickly and it looks like there is not going to be as much snow in the mountains as the last system dropped a week ago."
Wilson also predicted winds with this storm system would not be as strong as in the previous storm.
"After Friday night, we will actually start to see a warm up," added Wilson. He said he expected temperatures to be 38 degrees during the day Saturday with daytime highs reaching 60 degrees by Tuesday. "It looks like it's going to warm up and any accumulation will be gone quickly. After getting used to the colder temperatures it's going to be a shock to some."
He added forecasters feel the snow and sleet will be pushed over by rain next week.
"I think the main issue will be travel (Friday and Saturday)," summarized Wilson. "It doesn't look like there is going to be as much wet snow to endanger power lines. We feel would mostly impact travel, especially Friday night and again Saturday night when it returns to freezing temperatures which could cause black ice as the icy roads melt and re-freeze.
Surry County Sheriff Graham Atkinson said the department's procedures will center on making sure extra civilian employees can be on hand to run the department freeing up more deputies to answer calls. He said the department also has four-wheel drive vehicles it will rotate officers to, which was the same preparation as last week.
"We will be open for business as always," joked Atkinson. "We will continue as usual." He reminded residents to stay home if at all possible during the upcoming storm. Atkinson said needless travel in bad weather results in more stranded motorists and hampers the department's efforts answering calls.
"The highway department will have the roads ready in a short time so if you can stay in a while it would be a help to us," added Atkinson.
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He said in a worst case scenario, the department also has contractors available to help push snow off highways.
Surry County Emergency Services Director John Shelton said EMS teams are going about checking generators because of the potential storm as well as being sure additional rescue personnel will be available if needed.
"If we start to have a lot of slipping and sliding we could see a variety of accidents happening," said Shelton. "We are making sure we have enough people to cover so if the storm escalates we have staff ready to come in so we are also making sure our vehicles are prepped and ready to go."
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(AP) — Airlines canceled more than 1,140 flights at Chicago airports Tuesday amid a winter storm forecast to bring up to 10 inches of snow to Northern Illinois.
The Chicago Department of Aviation said today that about 900 flights had been canceled at O'Hare International Airport as of 1:00 p.m. Airlines have canceled more than 240 flights at Midway International Airport. For the flights making it out or into the airports, there were only minor delays, the department said. At Midway, Southwest Airlines canceled all of its flights after 10 a.m. and expects to resume flight operations today at 6 p.m.
The storm rolling into Chicago on Tuesday was expected to dump the most snow since the 2011 blizzard, with its more than 20 inches of snow.
"This will be the biggest widespread storm of the winter," National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Seeley said.
Hardware stores in and around Chicago did a brisk business, selling salt and snow shovels at a time when many usually turn their thoughts toward gardening and baseball.
"Everybody's got a little comment with every bag they're buying," said Mike McIntosh, who works at Dressel's Hardware in Oak Park just outside Chicago. Workers had started to stock the shelves with tools and supplies associated with spring and summer, only to find the shovels and salt they thought they'd hold for another year were still in demand.
"Everybody's a bit surprised, but it's good for us, we've got a lot of this stuff to move," McIntosh said Monday.
A wet snow pelted commuters as they slid along the slick streets of downtown Chicago through the soggy wintery mix early Tuesday. Snow was forecast for the morning and afternoon rush hours, Seeley said. The weather service also said that as much as 1.5 inches of snow could fall per hour, "making snow removal difficult and travel extremely dangerous."
Ill. Gov. Pat Quinn urged motorists to avoid driving unless absolutely necessary, insisting that "safety comes first."
The Illinois Department of Transportation planned to send a fleet of 360 trucks to plow roadways in northeastern Illinois early Tuesday, with a total of 600 throughout Northern Illinois.
The storm created wet, heavy snow — known euphemistically as "heart attack snow" — which can pose a risk when it comes time to shovel for the elderly, sedentary people or those who have heart problems.
"Shoveling snow is a lot of work. ... It is taxing their bodies and their hearts," said Dr. David Marmor, a cardiologist at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston. "People are really testing their limits, and if they're already at high risk they are better off paying the kid across the street to do it."
If Chicago gets 10 inches of snow, it would only underline that this has been a mild winter, Seeley said. That amount would raise the snowfall this season from 20.3 inches to 30.3 inches — just a tenth of an inch more than what Chicago sees in a typical winter.
The storm started Sunday in Montana, hit the Dakotas and Minnesota on Monday and then barreled through Wisconsin and Illinois on its way to Washington, where it was expected late Tuesday night.
Schools were closed in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, where officials urged caution on snow-slickened roads. In western Wisconsin, a semi-trailer slid off a snow-covered interstate near Menomonie and into the Red Cedar River, killing one person. Authorities said they were searching for a second person, believed to be a passenger.
In northern Iowa early Tuesday, at least one person was enjoying the gentle snowfall.
"It's absolutely gorgeous out," said Mary Hermanson, the night shift front desk clerk at the Super 8 in Mason City.
"If I'm going to have snow come down, that's what I want to have come down," she said of the 10 inches that had fallen in the area in the past 24 hours. She happily said it reminded her of Christmas.
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, on view from February 27, 2011 to May 15, 2011. Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial will highlight the artists significant contribution to the field of American art and show how Dials work speaks to the most pressing issues of our timeincluding the War in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition will present over 75 of Dials large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures spanning twenty years of his artistic careerincluding 25 works on view for the first time.
Thornton Dials work draws inspiration from the rich symbolic world of the black rural South. With no formal art education, Dial developed a truly distinctive and original style that was born out of decades of struggle as a working-class black man. Influenced by African American yard shows, Dials work incorporates salvaged objectsfrom plastic grave flowers and childrens toys to cow skulls and goat carcassesto create highly charged assemblages that tackle a wide range of social and political subjects. Dials work touches on topics ranging from the dilemmas of labor and the abuse of the natural environment to meditations on significant recent political and cultural momentswith a particular focus on the struggles of historically marginalized groups such as women and the rural poor. His work also explores the history of racial oppression in America, from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and into the post-modern era.
The work of Thornton Dial offers powerful insight into the most compelling political and social issues of our time, said Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the IMA. This exhibition will bring long-overdue recognition to Thornton Dials remarkable career and make this important artists work accessible to new audiences.
Thornton Dials art represents a missing chapter in American art historythe rich yet unrecognized traditions of black vernacular art from the South, said Joanne Cubbs, the IMAs adjunct curator of American Art. His work can be viewed as the visual art counterpart to the better-known forms of black musical expression that are now recognized worldwide, such as jazz and hip hop.
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial will include more than 75 paintings and sculptural works as it surveys two decades of the artists career. Highlights of the exhibition include the 1992 work The Last Day of Martin Luther King, which examines the life, death and transformative message of the assassinated political leader, and Victory in Iraq from 2004, a ten-foot canvas that incorporates barbed wire and iconic symbols of Americas role in world conflict. Additionally, a Dial work recently acquired by the IMA will be on view in the exhibitionDont Matter How Raggly the Flag, It Still Got To Tie Us Together, which dates from 2003 and evokes the image of a torn and ravaged American flag that nevertheless serves to unite us. The earliest work included in the exhibition will be the 1991 drawing Refugees in Love. Among the shows many recent works is the 2009 piece Turtle Holding Flag, which celebrates President Obamas inauguration.
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Two beautiful homes on Lido Key are being featured as the designer showhouses for the 18th annual Jewels on the Bay. The annual event benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee and Sarasota counties.
The two homes featured in the tour boast different architectural styles and features. The Morris home is a 6,400-square-foot Mediterranean-style home, for which 16 spaces were redesigned by 12 designers. The Marr home is a 5,500-square-foot ranch-style home, for which 14 spaces were redesigned by 12 designers.
Though many designers took part in the event, they made sure to make a point to work together to give the rooms a cohesive style for better flow.
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Gaming Meme History sparks back up this week with a meme derived from the Triforce and beastie filled world of Hyrule. Remember: it's dangerous to go alone.
Jess!! There is a monster with yellow eyes behind you!!! It's Dangerous to present alone!
25 years later the sword (well technically not the same one but whatever) IS your companion. And she's apparently a master statistician ... and obsessed with telling you that you have low hearts or battery.
Damn! The video doesn't work anymore unless I click on one of the download links.
Anyway, I probably shouldn't be surprised they didn't mention Link's Quest for Ass.
Boy it would really be nice if we could get the older versions of Zelda that would work on the Wii or other new game systems. Can someone get thru to the game companies to make it happen? Pass on the message so it can be done.
@Old-Harwood You can download all of the original Zelda games from the Wii Store.
My favorite meme is from RE 2, Claire to Sherry "It's too dangerous to stay here alone"
im so oblivious to all of these memes :( ...thanks for the history lesson once again GS! :P
@tempertress Oh, its fine, sorry if I sounded kind of rude, I really didn't expect you to actually see the comment xD.
@andrescapo_ Not rude at all! It's alright, I'll take this as a sign that I need to go play through Ocarina of Time again =P
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Old man: " 'Tis dangerous to go alone!"
Link: "Oh! So you're coming with m-"
Old man: "Here, take this. *hands him a sword*"
Link: "*sour face* Oh. Hmm...*takes it and walks away*"
Old man: "*chuckles with a smug grin* Dumbass."
Haha! Love the picture of Captain Kirk offering a Red Shirt as a defense item. So true.
I had no idea about this game or 'memes' but good stuff, except for the annoying music near the end.
Wow, bringing us back to this game is a slap in the face to the garbage their trying to push these days, you'd think they were trying to start a fan war...
My favourite meme: "I'm commander Shepard and this is my favourite *insert name here* on the citadel"
Also Marauder Shield was funny.
@ilantis I love that one too, I considered using it but there isn't a whole lot more to it than the hilarious scenes themselves =]
- Jess
@ilantis The best part was claiming that multiple businesses were Shepard's favorite. So dodgy...but I loved doing that.
i expected proper journalism and not some meme montage. knowyourmeme team has made a way better video.
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@Gelugon_baat I dont own GameSpot sure but "it is my" favourite site. That said, you my friend are an annoyance. :D
@kiramasaki seeing how its almost always presented in text form this could be true. nowadays we have arrows to the knees, and X to JASON... and its all voiced and more widely broadcasted as memes. old school stuff had to have been experienced as it was more of an inside joke... if youve been around long around there were plenty of these that probably passed you by without notice.
@Harrydapro You'll be seeing more of it, yes, as to whether it'll be regular we're going to try for every couple of weeks give or take.
- Jess
@digi_matrix We're working on getting a show page set up for the series, but you can find the rest by searching 'Gaming Meme' on GameSpot. There's a whole bunch!
it isn't implying the sword is a companion. the old man is stating a fact. its dangerous to go alone. because of that, take the sword with you.
@jakek Thank you. I couldn't understand what the joke here was. I would think it obvious. He's saying that if you're alone, it's dangerous. To make it less dangerous you should take the sword. Why do people see it the other way around?


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Latest version: 0.5.0 (May 25, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download latest beta version Sponsored software: Supported operating systems: Windows Mac OS Linux More information and other downloads: Download YAMB here, a mp4box GUI. Download my MP4box GUI here, another simple mp4box GUI. Download MP4 FastStart here or here(direct link), it adjusts the MP4s metadata to allow for Flash players to play them right away, while it progressively downloads. Or use mp4box with the hint command(mp4box -hint video.mp4) Sections/Browse similar tools: Linux video tools, MacOS video tools, Video De/Multiplexers |
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GPAC 0.5.0 View full changelog Posted on 25 May 2012 by Jean Release 0.5.0 of GPAC is finally out, with many new features and bug fixes, including: - MPEG-DASH and HLS support (players and MP4Box) - MPEG-U Widgets and UPnP support in the player - Stereo and multiview display support - Better AVC and SVC support including OpenSVC decoder integration - More live tools: RTP, MPEG-TS, T-DMB support, scene encoders (BIFS and RME/DIMS) - iOS and Android support - and many other good things
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put together a quick presentation "how to guide" for yamb;let me know if u like it http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/cFaAT-t7b4_e5caJLRaA ... B/yamb.htm
Doesn't seem to be compatible with certain MP4 files notably those downloaded from BBC. I used the workaround solution of muxing to an .mka with mkvmerge, and then demuxing with mkvextract. This worked fine.
The newest revisions of "x264" have revealed that the older builds of MP4Box were not "100% standard-compliant". If you need/want an up-to-date version of MP4Box, download it from one of the URLs below: http://komisar.gin.by/tools/ http://vfrmaniac.fushizen.eu/MP4Box/ http://sada5.sakura.ne.jp/files/index.php?folder=TVA0Qm94 HTH.
MP4Box is an absolutely invaluable tool for all your MP4 needs. Most people will want/need a UI (ex: Yamb).
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