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Ronald Reagan's Secret, Genocidal Wars
By Noam Chomsky - June 08, 2013
Reagan's murderous assault on Central America was not limited to Guatemala...In most of the region the agencies of terror were government security forces that had been armed and trained by Washington...One country was different: Nicaragua. It had an army to defend its population. Reagan therefore had to organize right-wing guerilla forces to wage the fight.
Reinventing Guatemalan History
History reinventors support despots. Social democrats are vilified. Crimes of war, against humanity and genocide are sanitized. They're whitewashed. They disappear in plain sight.
State of Seige: Mining Conflict Escalates in Guatemala
With the world's attention focused on the on-again off-again genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and his head of military intelligence in Guatemala City, there has been little international reporting on other events in the Central American nation. Meanwhile, as the trial continues, conflicts involving rural communities and Canadian mining companies are escalating, to the point that a State of Siege was declared last night.
The State of Siege in Guatemala, This Time to Protect Canadian Investment
By Ollantay Itzamná - Znet
President Otto Perez Molina...decreed, this past May 1, the second state of siege of his term in office. This time, it was to repress indigenous people, the Xinca, in the municipalities of Jalapa and Mataquescuintal...and in Casillas and San Rafael Las Flores...and to protect the "investments" of the Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources (the San Rafael mine).
Israel's Proxy War in Guatemala
By Gabriel Schivone - April 24 2013
...Israel "didn't send down congressmen, human rights activists or priests" to strengthen Israel's special relationship with Guatemala. Israel "taught the Guatemalans how to build an airbase. They set up their intelligence network, tried and tested on the [Israeli-occupied Palestinian] West Bank and Gaza, designed simply to beat the Guerilla."
Wave of Persecution and Assassination of Social Leaders in Guatemala
By Rocizela Pérez Gómez - April 02, 2013
In the first three months of 2013, a number of social leaders...have been assassinated or kidnapped...These attacks are not isolated events. They have all been directed against men and women who struggle to claim individual and collective rights and have constantly denounced the looting of natural goods on the part of transnational corporations, in complicity with the Government which has instituted policies of repression and criminalization of the organized struggle.
Remembering Guatemala
By Frida Berrigan - January 10, 2013
It was a tough trip. We listened to story after story after story. We wept endlessly. We were reminded again and again of the hundreds of millions of dollars in economic, military and political support doled out by Washington over the decades to repressive oligarchs in Guatemala City. We heard about human rights violations and crimes carried out by Guatemalan soldiers trained at the U.S. School of the Americas. We visited modest monuments inscribed with the names of men, women and children slaughtered by government-backed death squads.
New Acts of Repression Target Land Defenders in Guatemala
By Grahame Russell - December 12, 2012
On December 7 and 8, 2012, there was yet another act of mining-related aggression against community members of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, 45 minutes outside of Guatemala City, who are defending their environment and community well-being...Community members have been legally and peacefully engaging in a nine-month encampment at a place known as "La Puya" by the entrance to the proposed "El Tambor" mine site.
Guatemala's "Little School of the Americas"
By Dawn Paley - November 27, 2012
Since February, forensic anthropologists have turned up over 400 skeletons at a military base in Coban, Guatemala...During the country's 36 year long internal armed conflict that led to acts of genocide, the base at Coban was a center of military coordination and intelligence....But what sets this dig apart is that it is taking place at a military base that remains active today: foreign military and police arrive regularly at the base to train troops from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic.
Canadian Mining on Trial: Guatemalan Delegation Traveling to Canada to Challenge Corporate Impunity
By Dawn Paley - November 21, 2012
"I'm going to Canada with high spirits, in hopes that [Hudbay Minerals] recognizes the harm that they have done to me," Chub told The Dominion. "I want justice." Not only has Chub been confined to a wheelchair since 2009, but he still feels threatened by company workers who park in front of his house and monitor his movements. When he wheels himself onto the plane to Canada, it will be his first time leaving Guatemala.
Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence
By Dawn Paley - Znet Commentary
"I want to tell the world that here in Guatemala there is a peaceful resistance that exists, and we are prepared to stay here as long as possible...We always hoped no blood would be spilled in this struggle, and personally mine did, but I think it has been a very important test and today I am back in action, and I know that they will not quiet me, while god gives me life I will continue."
Mining, Repression and the Rhetoric Of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Guatemala
By Grahame Russell - Znet
Increasingly, over the past few years, information has been published about serious human rights violations and health and environmental harms being caused in Guatemala by (mainly) Canadian mining company operations...It is not possible to understand how these violations and harms occur, and will continue to occur, without understanding the political context. In short, global mining companies profit financially and benefit directly from the fundamental lack of democracy and the rule of law in Guatemala, both historically and on-going today.
Conflict, Repression and Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Guatemala
By Dawn Paley - Media Co-op
I've barely been able to keep up with all of the resource conflicts going on in Guatemala over the past little while. A recent wave of protest/repression linked to mining and hydroelectric projects has escalated to the point where both sectors met together last week to try and deal with "attacks" against them.
Guatemala Civil War Massacre Trial Begins
25 July 2011 - BBC News
A unit of Kaibiles entered the village of Las Dos Erres in the northern department of Peten in December 1982...The military suspected the villagers of supporting or harbouring left-wing guerrillas...Over a period of three days, the Kaibiles interrogated and then killed the inhabitants, including children, women and the elderly.
Indigenous Protesters Blockading Mine Owned by Vancouver-Based Goldcorp Assaulted and Taken Hostage in Guatemala
March 1, 2011 - Intercontinental Cry
On February 28, 2011, approximately 50 Indigenous men and women from Mayan communities affected by Goldcorp's Marlin Gold mine in San Marcos, Guatemala, were attacked and taken hostage by a group of individuals said to have "strong ties" to the Vancouver-based mining company.


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Don't let the fatcats at the mini-monopolies collectively known as The Industry decide the next big band. Do it yourself, with Makeastar.com.
I first heard about this contest (well, the original music portion of it) when the Hollywood band Orange excitedly announced that it won several preliminary and semii-finalist rounds. The upshot: These guys are appearing on the FUSE network at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time tomorrow, as part of the so-called "Hollywood round."
I'm rooting for Orange, a pop-punk outfit that's the first Hollywood band I saw after moving to Los Angeles a year and a half ago. They obviously worship at the altar of Social Distortion, in a good way, and I've been hearing that songwriter Joe Dexter has some really interesting compositions in the works.
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"My mother had a talent for friendship."
This is how Nicole Hollander starts the story of the birth of Sylvia, the reigning - and only - feminist of the comics pages. (Even in the '80s, when Sally Forth wore a business suit and tie, she was not a feminist.)
Sylvia enjoys spewing opinions as much as she enjoys a long drag on a cigarette.
Doing both can be bad for you, of course - which is why Hollander's Sylvia comic strip often ranks at the bottom in Palm Beach Post comics polls.
When editors tried to kill the strip from the comics page about a decade ago, however, a barrage of calls from middle-aged women saved Sylvia.
Perhaps Sylvia, too, has a talent for friendship.
Or at least a kinship with women who love cats, caffeine, bubble baths and politics. And we've got a lot of those in Palm Beach County.
Hollander recently chatted about Sylvia over coffee - a large cappucino, to be exact - at Starbucks in Lake Worth, where the artist has been snowbirding since February, when she came south to escape the Chicago winter.
Hollander looks nothing like Sylvia. She is petite and youthful at 72, with dramatic white hair and a smile as wide as Carol Channing's. And she's shy, she claims, but her irreverence is evident by the twinkle in her eye.
"I created Sylvia to say what I couldn't," she writes in her 2010 book, The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama.
She modeled the character after her mother, Shirley, and her mom's two friends Esther and Olga, who were housewives in the '40s.
When they'd gather for coffee, cigarettes and coffee cake, they'd cut loose with tart comments and backbiting that enthralled the young Nicole.
"These women were hilarious," Hollander says. "They did a lot of tap-dancing around men in those days. You know, if a man has a cold it's equal to you having the plague. My mother and her friends would talk about their husbands over coffee, and these fascinating, renegade parts of their personalities would come out."
Hollander took their sarcastic swagger and threw in a dose of feminist politics, and Sylvia was born. The strip, which has run in The Palm Beach Post for 20 years, once ran in 80 newspapers, but cutbacks in comics space have trimmed that number to about 30 today.
Sylvia's fans are "women 40 and up, usually career women, who have a love of words," Hollander says.
These women remember what typewriters and "White-Out" are. They are not above making fun of "the woman who does everything better than you" or "the woman who lies in her personal journal."
They like people who speak their minds, and they also tend to like Bill Clinton more than Newt Gingrich.
"Newt behaved like a pig and now he really looks like a pig," Hollander adds as an aside. She says his current wife, Calista, with her well-coiffed, stand-by-my-man image, fits the role of "transformational wife, the one who believes."
Hollander was a wife herself for just four years, when she was 20 and in college. "I'm not cut out for it," she says.
She ran into her ex-husband at a speaking engagement a few years ago. He told her: "I don't agree with your politics, but we can agree on cats."
Like Sylvia, Hollander adores cats. They symbolize the most self-involved part of our personalities, she says.
In the comic strip, the cats are often the wisest, wittiest commentators. They basically run the world.
"I taught myself to read, and then I sent away for catalogs," one cat deadpans in a strip from the '90s. "And then I ordered 50 pounds of smoked salmon from Harry & David."
Last week, the "feline protection squad" arrived to make sure the residents of the Sylvia strip were fit owners for the cats.
"Can there ever be too many cat cartoons?" Hollander writes in The Sylvia Chronicles. She creates cat-egories, such as "malicious cats with hypnotic powers."
A dog wants to please his owner, she says. "A cat will only come if there's something in it for her."
Cats are renegades. Nicole Hollander can relate.
Her latest business venture is a website, a depository for more comics and more commentary, called badgirlchats.com.
"It's not porno," Hollander cracks, sounding a little like Sylvia might. "It's for women who speak their mind.
"Bad girls tell the truth."
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'England's Most Creative And Technically Adept Player'
I literally can't believe the criticism that Welbeck has been getting recently. Even his defenders have resorted to praising his workrate and saying that he "does a job." Have I been watching a completely different Danny Welbeck to everyone else?
The Welbeck I see is England's most creative and technically adept player. He plays quick one-twos in crowded areas, turns defenders, drifts between the lines, chips keepers, and pulls off clever flicks that other players wouldn't even think to try. The fact that he is also quick, physically imposing, and hardworking is just the cherry on top.
My mind boggles at the suggestion that Theo Walcott - the very picture of pacey mediocrity - should start ahead of him.
I think Welbeck has become the new Michael Carrick. A few years ago you could tell whether or not someone really understood football by their opinion of Carrick. Most fans seem to judge players on a combination of reputation and fantasy football points - during matches they're like schoolchildren reading Shakespeare and not understanding any of it.
James, Cumbria.
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So, a few of my teacher friends have taken today off.
Around lunchtime, one of them decided to post this video on a popular social networking site.
I have done very little work this afternoon.
Stu (So. Many. Backheels.), Chiswick
Praise FOr Jimmy Milner
I was surprised there weren't any harsh refutations to Nick Cooper's suggestion of sending young Hendo to the World Cup. Personally I filed it under "so crazy it might just work". As a Liverpool fan I know Henderson is and never will be more than above average but he certainly can do the bulldog (albeit a very cute bulldog) role when called upon.
Saying that, for a country that seems to produce very little other than big, fast, strong specimens we are seriously lacking a destroyer. Wilshire is too ill disciplined, Phil Jones is not Fernando Hierro while Lampard, Carrick and Gerrard lack the stamina and speed. However, I feel a better answer lies in James Milner. I, much like yourselves, remember Milner being pretty handy in the centre for Aston Villa. He's no quicker or slower than Hendo, definitely a better footballer, has shown to have defensive nous and if you have the stamina to run the line for 90 minutes you can definitely put in a shift harrying opposing no. 10s.
If Roy is willing to play Smalling at right back despite this not being his best position nor one he plays regularly at for his club team then why not play Milner as an orthodox centre midfielder?
Fred ('Arry would recognise me as a great manager if he knew me) Tickell
On Left-Footers
Rob, Bristol Gooner's mail regarding Gibbs' lack of ability with his right foot reminded me of something of that I have often brought up in conversations with my friends so I thought I'd get the thoughts of the mailbox.
A lot of right footed players have a decent-to-good left peg. There are many players, such as Cristiano Ronaldo for example, who although are primarily right footed, have a more than passable left foot and do not shy away from using it to good effect.
Left footed players, on the other hand, are almost always completely one footed. They use their right leg primarily for standing and the odd 'swinger' which will occasionally fly in but more often than not is woefully short of the quality shown on their strong foot. Even Lionel Messi, who many argue is the best player of all time, is extremely one-footed.
To expand on this a bit further, I've also noticed that a lot of left footed players seem to have an absolute hammer of shot and generally a lot of ability compared to right footers on their respective strong sides. Obviously, there are examples of solely right footed players or right footed players with magic in that right boot, but I think as a general rule my theory stands up.
So my question to the mailbox is: Why are right footed players more adaptable to using their weaker foot that left footers?
Paul, Gooner in Munich
'Arry's Bottom
So 'Arry suggests that over the period of the last 20 years the FA haven't always appointed the best man for the England job, Since 1993 England have had 7 managers all of which seemed logical appointments at the time. Let's take a step through time and look at them...
1994 - Terry Venables - Had managed Barcelona and with Spurs to a top 3 finish in 1990, on-going questions about his dealings meant he wasn't chosen in 1990 but as Graham Taylors tenure came to a shuddering halt Venebales was appointed on the grounds of his missing out to Taylor previously. He was also the media choice at the time.
1996 - Glenn Hoddle - One of England's best midfielders and a legend in the game from his playing days. Whilst his time at Chelsea didn't produce high league positions, Chelsea's cup runs included an FA Cup final and semi-final and a Cup Winner Cup semi-final. Whilst the was a high level of numptiness away from the pitch he did end up with a win percentage of over 60% with England.
1999 - Kevin Keegan - Had led Newcastle to be one of the most exiting teams in the PL, one of the most popular choices ever for an England manager at the time of his appointment.
2001 - Sven-Goran Eriksson - Managed a several high profile clubs in Europe, initial scepticism of a foreign appointment never gave away even though his tenure was one of the best sustained periods of relative success for England. 'Arry was busy being sacked by West Ham at this point.
2006 - Steve McLaren - England assistant manager and did well with Middleborough in the UEFA Cup in 2006. His was a logical choice to bring continuity to a side that was one of the better teams in the world. 'Arry was busy relegating Southampton in 2005 so wasn't considered.
2008 - Fabio Capello - Had managed some of the biggest sides in the world and probably one of the best managers in the game at the time of his appointment. Whilst the media was speculative about another foreign appointment his CV commended respect. 'Arry had just won the FA Cup with Portsmouth.
2012 - Roy Hodgson - By 'Arrys own admittance the best man for the job.
So the only way his point makes sense is to look at how these managers ultimately performed. Whilst some managers may have done better I don't think the FA could have really done much more and I don't feel that for each appointment there was a far better candidate than the one chosen. Redknapp, somewhat surprisingly I think, is talking out of his wobbling derrière.
David - WAFC
I have to disagree somewhat with Steve McBain, Singapore who has had a moan about the British media exposure of Bale since his multimillion pound move to Spain, he also had a similar dig regarding Beckham and having to learn about LA Galaxy news and results. I think there are a lot of positives to British players moving abroad and I wish more would do it. I think exposure to new styles and 'philosophies' are important and they improve their technical game. Also as a person it encourages you to try new things, learn a new language and starting fresh in a new country can mature a person very quickly, which let's face it a few young English stars could have done with.
I think it improves the national team as people are coming into the squad with different ideas and styles which the others can learn from. I also think that the more time people spend with someone the more you either like them or can't stand them, with the England team playing together week in week out, either in the same team or against one another you end up with a bunch of people who are either best friends or worst enemies. Introduce a few neutrals who have been away in a different country for the season and it could improve the whole harmony of the group.
However the main disgruntlement was at the media attention, which I actually find quite interesting, ok so the whole 'will he play, won't he', 'is he out for the season' rubbish is tedious but it's nice to pick up the morning paper and read about another league and see different teams under the spotlight. It can get boring reading about the Premier League all the time and its quite interesting to hear what's going on in other leagues especially when British players are involved. I know that John Terry scored a wonder goal then got sent off for putting on a KKK outfit to celebrate because I saw it live then I watched it on MOTD then again on MOTD2 and read about it in the paper, but I didn't know what David was up to in LA, was he scoring and making the British proud? Is Bale scoring hat trick after hat trick in la liga showing that the premier league is far superior and Wales is back on the map in a big way?
So I encourage it and wish more would follow in their footsteps, go abroad and take the media attention with you make Britain proud by being awesome and show the world that British players can cut it in a different league, learn a new language and show us that you're not all thick and learning English alone was a too much to ask.
The more leagues us Brits are involved in and the more I hear about them the better, so please don't 'move on' it's much more interesting than stories from the same league over and over again.
Henry (why don't more players move abroad? It's all about the money!!)
Just writing in to object to all these uses of terms like 'Welbeck Role', 'Kuyt Role' etc. Brendan Rogers has repeatedly provided us with the correct vernacular for such supposedly new but in reality tiringly and boringly familiar positions on the football pitch:
'That sort of seven and two thirds position,' 'He's playing like a nine-and-a-half.'
Much more hilarious but equally pointless.
The problem stems from the online, 24-hour, big-brother football coverage, whereby so many people are desperately writing and reading so much guff about football that we pretend boring stuff is actually new, as opposed to just being a re-hash of something that existed pre-internet.
e.g. Total Football is now Tiki Taka. Inside forward is now 'Seven and three quarters' (said with a furrowed brow).
I am sure there have always been 'false nine's' (like Cruyff at Ajax, Bergkamp, Totti, even some Austrian chap in 1934 according to some sources) and players who did a job for the team rather than being spectacular individuals as well (millions of them, no point listing). We don't need to re-name them, or pretend they are new, heretofore unseen signs of a negative / cowardly / exciting trend in football. Just necessary parts of the game.
The question is not 'Do we need a Welbeck' but 'Who is better than Welbeck at doing his essential job?' The answer to that is nobody, certainly not Walcott and definitely not our Jimmy Milner.
Ben, MCFC
In response to Aaron Maguire's email on the World XI, don't worry it's not as stupid as John Delaney's 33rd team idea from 2010!!!!
Mark (Still embarrassed by that one), Cork, Ireland
George, AFC, nailed it when he said the Kiwis have a 'tough-as-guts' defence. This is what one of the centre halves does for fun.
Alex, (why pick Subotic for a World XI when you can have Nastasic, Vidic or Ivanovic - shameless hipster) LFC
A Team Who Won't Be In Brazil
I'm sure you'll get loads of these but its wasted 20 minutes...
I've picked this on the basis of players definitely not at the World Cup, so no Uruguay or Sweden players as they're not out yet. It pained me to not have Zlatan leading the line.
Also not including anyone who qualifies for a qualified nation but doesn't necessarily play.
Clear? Good...
Due to a paucity of defensive options (teamed with an unwillingness to put Christopher Samba or Johnny Evans in any World XI), I've gone for the unfashionable (rubbish) 3-4-3 formation:
GK Handanovic (Slovenia)
DF Ivanovic (Serbia)
DF Subotic (Serbia)
DF Alaba (Austria)
MD Ramsay (Wales)
MD Turan (Turkey)
MD Hamsik (Slovakia)
MD Mkhitaryan (Armenia)
ST Bale (Wales)
ST Lewandowski (Poland)
ST Aubameyang (Gabon)
Sure someone who watches more Copa Libertadores can do better...
MN, NUFC, happy for FIFA to rig the playoffs to get C Ron and Ribery there...who wants to watch Greece!?
...World XI: I've excluded nations who still have playoffs to negotiate, and only taken players from eliminated teams.
GK: Petr Cech (guess)
RB: Lukasz Piszczek (Poland)
CB: Christopher Samba (Congo)
CB: Branislav Ivanovic (Serbia)
LB: John Arne Riise (Norway)
CM: Nuri Sahin (Turkey)
CM: Marek Hamsik (Slovakia)
RW: Arda Turan (Turkey)
SS: Stevan Jovetic (Montenegro)
LW: Gareth Bale (Wales)
ST: Robert Lewandowski (Poland)
Subs: Handanovic (Slovenia), Skrtel (Slovakia), Ecuele Manga (Gabon), Evans (Northern Ireland), Mkhitaryan (Armenia), Blaszczykowski (Poland), Ramsey (Wales), Rosicky (Czech Republic), Sessegnon (Benin), Pandev (Macedonia), Aubameyang (Gabon).
A fair few Borussia Dortmund players in this lot (6 by my reckoning). The ultimate hipster team then.
Alex, LFC.
We Got A Few Of These
I'll have to keep this short because after reading Adam W's email about Ten Best Players To Have Never Played At World Cup my hands are too sore to type from all the applause. Excellently researched, excellently written and one of the best pieces I've read on here in ages. Sign him up Winty.
Bren, Dublin
Best Not To Play At The World Cup
Adam W's list was pretty comprehensive but although I never saw Alfredo di Stefano play, I'm pretty sure he was better than Kakha Kaladze.
Imagine being Real Madrid's greatest ever player and playing less at the World Cup Finals than Stewart Downing has.
Jonny. MUFC.


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Much of modern telecommunications rests on the ability to send multiple communication channels along a single optical fibre. The rapidly expanding use of the internet has led to an explosion in demand for such high speed data communications. This advanced course covers the theory and application of light pulse propagation in optical communication links formed from fibres of varios structures, planar waveguides, and optical circuitry and how these links may form a network.
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Content | . Review of ray and wave propagation . Single and multimode optical fibres – design, loss mechanisms, non-linearity . Pulse propagation - bit rate dependence, dispersion and compensation, solitons . Optical transmitters – directly modulated diode lasers, externally modulated DFB laser sources, modulation format . Optical amplifiers – Raman and Erbium-doped fibre properties . Optical receivers . Planar waveguides and optical circuitry . Optical networks | ||||||
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Four soon to be anonymous singers were eliminated from
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last night. It's a little bit sad to think about those four. Getting past the thousands of people in the audition period, emerging out of the vast talent pool of the Hollywood and then to crap out after one week in the Top 24 has to be a massive disappointment for these singers. Then again, just being there has to be a great experience. Earlier today, FOX held conference call interviews with each of the four eliminated
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Garrett Haley didn't really get to choose the song he sang. He chose three songs from a list and, though contestants are usually guaranteed to get one of those, Garrett didn't any of the songs he wanted. So, the producers basically just threw a different song at him and he had to perform it. He auditioned on a whim in San Diego while he was on a family vacation. They had driven from Ohio and had to re-schedule their trip. Garret talks a little bit about his hair – he's been compared to Leif Garret and Peter Frampton.
Overall, Garrett is pretty much a sweet, naïve kid. He's never had a voice lesson in his life. He wasn't all that offended by Simon's comments about his gauntness. However, Garrett's family and friends were very upset with Simon's comments.
Amy Davis admits that she was not surprised that she was voted off. She sounds pretty sad about it, but she knew that she turned in a poor performance. She doesn't at all regret her song choice, but saying that it was a technical issue – she was not able to hear herself. She'd been using in-ear monitors for two years and without them, she was unable to hear herself and thus sang out of tune. That makes a lot of sense – from what was saw from Amy in Hollywood, the girl has a pretty good voice. She says that the pressure of Idol was the hardest part – she was nervous and anxious. Amy was not one of the girls who was hit by the flu. She was healthy.
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The Brandon School Division is giving a heads-up warning to its taxpayers there is a hefty bill coming as schools there adjust to a provincial decree to cap class sizes at 20 children. The class cap is to take effect in 2017 and early board estimates indicate it will cost an additional $4 million.
Brandon is one of a few school divisions that have seen steady enrolment increases. Trustees are squeezing a variety of funds, including the board's surplus reserve, to find the $756,000 needed to hire nine teachers this year to keep kindergarten to Grade 3 classes at 24 students. Some of the money will come from provincial grants, but the board is also tapping its surplus -- an unsustainable fix.
The province believes its new class-cap rule will require 250 more teachers, at a cost of $20 million, and school expansions to accommodate the growth will cost $85 million. But that's ball-parking.
Generally, the Manitoba trend has seen steady drops in enrolment, so some schools have surplus space to use. Brandon, Seven Oaks, Garden Valley and Hanover are bucking that trend, largely because of dramatic rises in immigration.
But no one has done a good calculation of the financial ripples the new cap will cause. Nine years ago, the Winnipeg School Division calculated it would have to hire 93 teachers to cap its K-3 classes at 20 pupils.
The province allotted Brandon school board $131,000 this year to begin the move toward a 20-student cap. The province says 2012-13 is a planning year, with funding expected to increase as classes are capped.
Luckily for the province, its treasury will not take the full hit for the policy. Increased school costs are equally borne by municipal taxpayers, through property levies collected by the boards. This illustrates the disconnect in accountability in a bifurcated system in which the province has sole jurisdiction over education but off-loads a lot of the cost to boards that can tax.
Property owners will be hearing school boards in future years claim tax hikes are necessary because provincial grants fall short of covering the class-cap costs. The only way to bring transparency and accountability to the system is for the province to assume full responsibility for funding education by taking away the taxing authority of school boards and gradually phasing out school taxes.
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When your dog barks, he may be trying to tell you something.Scientists now think that dogs use different barks tocommunicate different ideas and can even count. (Theycertainly know the word "walk" when they hear it).
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Toronto – The Toronto International Film Festival® opens September 8 with the world premiere Gala Presentation of From the Sky Down – Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's documentary about Irish band U2.
"Davis Guggenheim's fascinating account of this world-renowned band is the perfect film to kick off our 11-day celebration of artists, stories and voices from around the world," said Piers Handling, Director and CEO, TIFF.
"For the first time in 36 years the Toronto International Film Festival will open with a documentary," said Cameron Bailey, Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. "Davis Guggenheim returns to the Festival with his powerful marriage of music and film that honours U2's talent, dedication and music. We look forward to sharing this film with audiences on Opening Night."
Twenty years after the release of U2's Achtung Baby (1991), Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud) charts this groundbreaking album with new interviews, stories and unseen footage from Berlin and Dublin. Now a key chapter in their career, Achtung Baby was in Bono's words "the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree."
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Priscilla Salant
Priscilla Salant directs the University of Idaho's Office of Community Partnerships, which connects community priorities with university resources. Her responsibility is to support university partnerships with communities, non-profit organizations, and public agencies throughout Idaho. She has over 20 years of experience building connections between universities and their statewide constituents, with a focus on rural economic development. Her work is guided by a core belief that by engaging with statewide constituents, universities produce more useful research and students have better learning outcomes.
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Alex Rheault is senior at the University of Idaho studying Environmental Science with an emphasis in hydrology and Spanish. Alex is originally from Fargo, ND and now resides in Moscow. She has held leadership positions in the U of I orchestra and was a board member of ASUI Vandal Entertainment for two years as Small Concerts Chair and Board Chair. Alex enjoys volunteering, biking, hiking, reading, cooking, music and arts and crafts.
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Over the years, Allen and Mary Dee have conducted numerous workshops for adults, children and schools in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. Currently, they dedicate their time to studio work by collaborating on brightly painted whimsical wood sculpture. Allen does the woodcarving and Mary Dee paints the pieces. They describe the process as being full of mystery and surprise: Allen delivers the raw artwork to Mary Dee, who doesn't know what she may be getting. Mary Dee then designs and paints the surface, without Allen knowing what she might do. In addition to creating commissioned pieces, they have exhibited their new work at the Art Spirit Gallery and at Art on the Green in Coeur d'Alene, as well as the Tin Man Gallery in Spokane, WA, and the Jacklin Cultural Center in Post Falls, Idaho.
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A native of Boise, Idaho, accepted the directorship of the Environmental Finance Center in December 2010. He began his professional career in the Treasure Valley in 1978 as a staff economist with Idaho Power. In 1983 he left Idaho Power Company to reinstate The College of Idaho economics department. Over the next ten years, he taught full time at Boise State University. In December of 1995, Dr. Eberle completed his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Nebraska and shortly after began his consulting firm. His work has taken him before the Idaho State Legislature and court rooms and regulatory agencies as an expert representing his clients. His financial consulting with municipal governments, his tenure on City Council, Urban Renewal District, and Community Infrastructure District all provide him with a strong foundation to help water, waste water and watershed systems and districts answer the question of "How to Pay" for capital infrastructure.
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Dr. Erik R. Coats is an associate professor of civil engineering at UI. Prior to earning his doctorate, Dr. Coats spent 13 years working as a professional engineer designing municipal wastewater systems. Dr. Coats is a licensed professional engineer in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. At UI, Dr. Coats has focused his efforts on advancing microbial processes for upcycling waste streams to high-value commodities and on developing an enhanced understanding of microbial wastewater treatment processes. To date his research team has advanced a biotechnology for producing biodegradable plastics on organic waste, with commercial application on the horizon. The process integrates with anaerobic digestion, but can also be deployed independently. Dr. Coats' research team also has conducted extensive research into the wastewater treatment process known as enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Dr. Coats has published extensively on his research, and more information can be found at www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ecoats.
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Hannah is the Science and Environment Division Manager for the City of Pocatello, a position she has held since 2012. Previously she served as the City's Environmental Educator. In both of these roles Hannah has been intimately involved with developing and implementing programs to comply with the City's federal stormwater permit and address other environmental interests of the City. This includes developing design guidelines for stormwater treatment, as well as revegetation and erosion & sediment control. Hannah holds an MS in Environmental Education and an MA in Curriculum Development from the University of Michigan, and a BA in Neuroscience from Colgate University.
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JJ is from Hazelton, ID, and attended both the College of Southern Idaho and Utah State University. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering and Masters of Engineering in Civil
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Brent Crowther is a transportation planning engineer with specialized experience in multimodal mobility projects, including corridor improvement plans, campus, area and regional multimodal transportation plans, transit plans, bicycle and pedestrian plans, Travel Demand Management (TDM) plans, Safe Routes to School programs, and Roadway Safety Assessments (RSAs). Brent is a Registered Professonal Engineering (Civil) in Utah, Arizona, and California.
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Recently retired at 60, regular wage earning Joe, Jack of many trades, the 'go to,' small town born/raised, survivor. Lifelong community volunteer, usually asked before raising my hand. Following, helping steer, leading, working on the premise, if you do anything, it's better than doing nothing, and the gift is in the giving. Married 35 years to an equally able and giving Kristina. Marine Corp, Viet Nam engaged vet. Other talents include freelance writing, ability to hold audience. Able to remember the past, enact imagination, set an example, and in so doing all – educate.
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He has been employed as a Utilities Planner with the Nez Perce Tribe Water Resources Division since June of 2008. He is responsible for finding funding to help develop or improve upon utility programs, building program capacity, and managing grants. John is a member of the Energy Committee for the Tribe, Tribal Solid Waste Advisory Committee for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) region 10, and the Infrastructure Task Force Steering Committee facilitated by the EPA. He is a family man with three daughters and a wife. His educational background is a Bachelors of Social Sciences from Portland State University, a Masters of Curriculum and Instruction and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Idaho. He enjoys family time with his wife, three daughters, and two dogs.
Donna Spier
Donna worked as the City Clerk for the City of Plummer for 19 years and was involved in several public works projects for water and wastewater. She is currently serving a term as the Benewah County Assessor.
David Flesher
David lives in Caldwell with his wife of 25 years, Sarah. We have four kids from 23 to 16 years old. He has worked in various capacities for USDA, Rural Development and its predecessor agencies throughout rural Idaho for the last 24 years. The last 15 years have been in Community Programs, working with rural communities and non-profits to finance the construction or upgrade of water and wastewater systems, health clinics, fire stations, libraries, schools, etc., first as the Specialist serving Southwest Idaho, and since December 2007 as the Director of Community Programs for Rural Development for the entire state.
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Since the last time I wrote to all of you about our debt free journey, Christopher and I hit a few personal milestones. The first is that in November we passed the $100,000 mark in debt paid off. Hooray! (That number is both liberating and terrifying to admit).
The second, which might actually be more meaningful as far as our day to day lives go, is that we had a true emergency come up recently and we were able to handle it. One frosty cold morning my husband found himself stranded in the grocery store parking lot thanks to a busted fuel pump. As (rotten) luck would have it, on the same morning our car was dead in the driveway. Not our best day.
However, we were able to make repairs thanks to having an emergency fund. By the end of the week, things were back to what passes for normal around the Fleck household, amazingly without any lasting financial repercussions. A few years ago that certainly wouldn't have been our story.
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Conde Nast Traveler has just come out with its annual Readers Choice Survey, which features a Top 10 list of the country's friendliest, and unfriendliest cities.
New Haven was designated as the third most unfriendly city in the United States, a distinction we'll get back to shortly.
Charleston, S.C. was deemed the nation's friendliest city, its residents being described as "insanely nice," which I guess is a compliment.
Newark, N.J. took top honors for being the unfriendliest city. It was called home to rude people and a destination to be visited only to take advantage of its airport's cheaper airfares. I'm sure there are other reasons to go to Newark, and if you can think of any you might drop the Newark Chamber of Commerce a line.
Getting back to New Haven, I think we can all agree there are unfriendlier cities in Connecticut than New Haven.
Greenwich is certainly more unfriendly, and if you don't think so, just try and go to the beach there.
Oxford, I'm sure, has to be more unfriendly, although I'm not sure why.
West Hartford would like to be unfriendly, but they're just not there yet.
Anyway, respondents to the Conde Nast survey said New Haven residents were "rude, unfriendly folks," and pretty much blamed the Yale community for the perception.
Yale-ists, of course, are not unfriendly. They just think they are better than everyone else, which I suppose could be misinterpreted by an outsider.
UConn Bans Prof-Student Love
The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new policy last week called "Policy Against Discrimination, Harassment and Inappropriate Romantic Relationships." Essentially what this does is prohibit faculty members from getting it on with undergraduates. It remains to be seen how new policy this will affect the curve.
Speaking of UConn …
The trustees also approved the expenditure of $1 million to study the feasibility of moving the school's West Hartford branch to the former Hartford Times building on Front Street. Earlier this month Hartford city officials had sought to discourage UConn from selecting this location saying it would break "the connection" between the Connecticut Convention Center and downtown venues. As much as the Weak love weak, this argument was even too weak for the Weak.
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The board of trustees decided not to tap the Hartford area Metropolitan District Commission for water for the Storrs campus. Instead, the university decided to suck a reservoir dry in Tolland … although they didn't use those exact words.
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A piece in the Courant's Opinion section last week argued that Connecticut should have a full-time state legislature staffed by full-time legislators, who would be paid a full-time salary. While the piece's author, Matt Zagaja, makes a strong case, the Weak does see one major flaw. Making the legislature full time would mean it would not be in recess for more than half the year.
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Apparently, the state's investigation into the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings will not be released until the fall. This should give the state police more time to travel around the country revealing additional details at law enforcement conferences.
All four Democrats vying for the party's mayoral nomination in New Haven turned in their petitions on time and will be on the primary ballot next month. I guess this is a good thing.
Jared Kupiec, Mayor Pedro Segarra's former chief of staff, was granted accelerated rehabilitation after having been charged with two misdemeanors for continuing to drive a city owned vehicle two weeks after he resigned his position. As long as he pays the city back, does some community service, and keeps his nose clean for the next year, the deal allows him to have his record expunged. (Who'd a thunk that when I got up this morning I'd get to use "keeps his nose clean" and "expunged" in the same sentence? Life is good.)
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I don't eat meat, but if I did I think this (test tube hamburger) would turn me off.
Friday is Starbucks Appreciation Day, as designated by gun advocates. Yet another reason to avoid Starbucks.
Just had a truly dangerous interaction: I used a credit card at a vending machine.
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I have an idea everyone!
Who knows of the book Post Secret ? If you don't, go look at it! It deals with people submitting post cards about "secrets" they have. Something as simple as: "I never sing because I'm afraid someone will hear me" to something more serious like: "I tell my husband I'm at a tuperware party but really I'm having an affair with his best friend".
I LOVE this book because it's a simple reminder that EVERYONE has issues/secrets/etc. and while some don't resonate with me as personally, some do- and it helps.
SOOOO i was thinking ...when I'm in an OCD funk---it's hard to get out of it, and it helps to come on here and talk to someone and hear that other people get through it. but often times, in my experience here, its more venting about OCD then trying to "manage" it.
SO my idea::: members send me anonymous obsessions/compulsions.
then, if you want to go on further, maybe include :
1. how it affects you? how do you feel?
2. do you want to be doign this?
3. How do you manage this?
then...if people do this I could use i toward a life dream of mine to : help make awareness of ocd more real... something more than the stereotyped "neat freaks" ( I could publish these in a book (like post secret) or make a blog) Anything that gains awareness. and the best part--it could be run by us! people who have and live iwht OCD ---not a psychologist who just has "book" knowledge
I know this is just an idea, and some people may not want it.
BUt i know that i have obsessions that I'm ashamed of telling---I'm guessing some people do as well. Wouldn't it be nice to put it out there with no name attatched and possibly help others relate to you??
any thoughts?
I feel kind of ambitious today and am having a good day. hope this idea seems okay....message me privately with thoughts. if enough people are interested--- I may want to make this into an OCD project! :)
(also....if you like this idea make sure to tell other tribe member, maybe they didn't see my blog. if you have outside sources that would want to take part---ask around and let me know!)
Got a reply, her name is thymeoperator, but she said she no longer logs on here regularly. Maybe you could message her if you have questions?
With regards to publishing, there was a project a few years ago started here on the tribe that is now in print. It is called Check Mates, here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/Check-Mates-Collection -Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder/dp/0956452906/ref= sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1359219526&sr=8-2& keywords=vrinda+pendred
Many of the authors are tribe members. Sorry to say I can't remember the name the editor uses on this site, but I'm friends with her on FB. I sent her a message asking her to jog my memory. I'll post back when she replies. Perhaps you can connect with her about her experience.
Razzle Dazzle,
thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll take it to heart.
I do know that getting published would be a challenge. I think I would more so maybe make a blog or something if I wanted to take this idea further.
It sounds cool but I think maybe you ought to spend some time researching the publishing side before you get too involved in the concept. I know that getting published is very difficult... well, with a company that will really do a good job and get the work out there properly. I don't want to squash your hopes, but it is better that you know what you are up against before getting too excited. I have seen plenty of mindless books that made it out there somehow but most of those are "in house" ideas thought up by a publishing house itself or from some other person already on the inside track. An average person who has never been published is a bit like a person with a great voice trying to get a record deal. Even if they have a great idea, great material and so on.... "would be" authors are a dime a dozen... maybe even a nickel a dozen.
So, do some research first. Talk to any authors who have published and ask their advice... especially those who have published "non narrative" genres like this one would be. Find out the lay of the land.
I could be mistaken but I do believe that secrets book either grew from or copied its concept from an art project. An artist asked people to send in the cards, like you describe and then he exhibited them all over. I am guessing it eventually became a book deal. It was a very popular exhibition. But see, that is how he would have gotten around the obstacles to getting it published. It already had proven appeal.
It could be your idea would win some points for its relationship to the "secrets" concept. Hard to say.
It does sound really cool. Oh... on a positive note... you might also consider researching grants for consumers because a book like this would be right up their alley.
Woah. That sounds incredible actually!
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Event Calendar: $_DATES for repeating events
7 November 2009 at 5:10am
I have a repeated event in my calendar. $_DATES returns for example
09. Nov. 2009 - 15. Mar. 2010That is not what I want. I'd like to get 09. Nov. 2009 only. Would it be possible to expand $_DATES so that in case of a repeating event only the current date is displayed?
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7 November 2009 at 5:47am
Great catch. I hadn't thought of that. In a recurring event, "end date" means something different than it does for a standard event. An end date for a standard event means that a given event spans multiple days, but for a recurring event, it's the date at which the event stops repeating.
I'll get in a patch asap.
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8 November 2009 at 1:31am
Great! That would be great.
I tried to fix this until you check in your official update, but I did not manage to do it.
It seems most of
public function _Dates()
is meaningless, because everything is done within CalendarUtil::getDateString(). I not see how I can check if I have to deal with a repeating event, though. First I thougt CalendarDateTime's is_single attribute might do the job, but now I think I'm wrong because this is set for none of my events.So I guess I will wait until you solve it.
Thank's a lot!
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16 August 2011 at 11:42am
I know this is a really old post, but is this possible now?
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The physician chosen by an employer or its insurance career to handle an injured worker's care can make or break a worker's compensation case. Therefore, it is important when you're selecting your preferred facility or physician that you chose one that is reputable within the medical community.
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If you're questioning whether the physician is reputable, it is best to look at the Licensee Search page of the North Carolina Medical Board website. There you can check the physician's credentials and see whether any complaints have been lodged against the physician in the past.
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After reviewing the physician's credentials, it's good to ask a few practical questions:
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(3) Will the facility or physician examine whether the injured worker's complaints are consistent with the reported mechanism of injury? Do they instead accept complaints at face value?
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It's a "fact" that Black women are ugly?
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July 14, 2011 at 7:20 am by Jacob BLACKHonestly, I think you're just as predjudice as the Japanese guy Karawjeja (however you spell his nam)). If the article is trash why bother spreading it so people can read it? Just bury it and move on. And why is the first response commebt so sizzled with hatred towards Black women and it was left up here? You responded to another comment on here (and there are only 5) so you obviously read it and decided to leave it up.
You're using the article to say what you really feel about Blacks yourself and pretending to oppose it.
P.S. Hatred of others comes from a hatred of SELF.
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July 14th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Please be a little more careful about ascribing intent. You've misread the article.
Hatred, stereotypes and racism come in so many forms, and this time within the guise of a "scientific" article. These are not the messages that I want any of our children to grow up with. I hope that one day when I have my own I will send more positive messages. There is so much beauty in the world in spite of this kind of ugliness.
May 23, 2011 at 7:36 pm by LaurelWhere is the article that appeared in Psychology Today?
May 23, 2011 at 6:55 pm by Anita"Mommy, I want to be white" (or, "I want to be [something else that's genetically impossible]") would be such a painful thing for a parent to hear.
I remember reading Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye; she wrote so clearly about the profound pain of the little girl who wanted to be white like her peer. And Morrison captured the family and social contexts so well, too.
I'm glad to see this ColorofChange petition.