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The Principle of Authority
Internal authority is the charisma, the self-esteem, the personality that causes a person to command the respect of others. It is the element that characterizes all "natural leaders". External authority, on the other hand, is derived from the symbols and manipulations attached to the person's position. The principle of authority recognizes the distinction between internal and external authority and says that the leader should develop and enhance his or her internal authority.
Internal authority has nothing to do with a person's physical characteristics or actions, with wealth, social position, or status. Nor is it derived from success. Rather, internal authority is a conviction that you can move the people in your group toward goals of beneficial permanence. The person with internal authority is an individualist with a strong sense of self-esteem.
External authority derives its influence not from personal strength and ability, as internal authority does, but from external signs, symbols, and manipulations. It is an authority that can be taken away from a person. It is an authority that is immediately recognizable to those who know how to read the signs.
You have within yourself an internal authority. If you are going to be a leader, you must take steps to develop this authority. First though, it must be said that no one should exercise authority over others until he or she has first learned to accept authority over himself or herself. Internal authority is developed by acquiring self-confidence. It is developed by believing in the importance of your mission. It is developed by not revealing fatigue, by keeping your own counsel, and by respecting the rights and emotions of others. It is developed by striving for excellence. Internal authority is developed by believing in your own success.
All of the principles of leadership are important, but not all are absolutely essential. Cultivating the principle of authority is. It is essential that a leader have and demonstrate to others internal authority and use to his or her benefit the symbols of external authority that go with his or her position.
Adapted from Lead On, by John Edmund Haggai
The Principle of Staying Power
Difficulties exist. Every leader has pressures and problems that can make him or her want to give up. But if the Creator has given you a vision and you have established a goals program to accomplish your mission, you need staying power to overcome these difficulties. The principle of staying power says that problems and difficulties can be overcome, but it takes staying power. The leader has to hang in there. Moreover, God sends us opportunities to exercise staying power so that we will be strengthened to overcome greater problems and difficulities later.
The leader does not need education, charm, well-connected family ties, or influential firends, staff, equipment, materials, prestige, or even profound biblical understanding to master the principle of staying power. All you need is determination. You can do it today.
Staying power is essential to overcoming problems. Staying power can overcome illness, personal desires, financial limitations, the perils of prosperity, family opposition, betrayal and persecution, misinterpretation of events, and a host of other impossibilities.
Many leaders at some time question whether or not they ought to quit. When those moments hit, they can strengthen their staying power by remembering their vision, by focusing on their goals, by visualizing their goals as being already accomplished, by relaxation, by reading biographies, and by living in communion with God.
Staying power assures success. Problems and discouragments will face the leader, but he or she can overcome them with staying power.
Adapted from Lead On, by John Edmund Haggai
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Dear Friend of AIDS Alliance and The AIDS Institute:
We are conducting a community education project in your area as part of a larger project called Be The Generation to End AIDS. This project is intended to provide community members with information about new and future HIV prevention approaches.
We have trained and mentored 17 community educators around the country to conduct short, community based education and discussion sessions on Biomedical HIV Prevention and prevention research. These education and discussion sessions can be delivered in a support group, at a staff meeting, connected to a recovery meeting, a church or social event, at a special event organized just for this purpose, or in other settings as chosen by the community educator. Each community educator may choose the subject area that is appropriate for the audience and the topics they are most comfortable with. Topics include HIV vaccines, HIV microbicides, HIV Treatment as Prevention and/or Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV.
Community educators have been chosen because they have demonstrated tremendous leadership, education and advocacy skills. We have developed power point presentations and hand-outs on each topic for the community educators to use and they have completed a series of training sessions and review of the content. Community educators are tasked with conducting up to four education and discussion sessions between now and May 24, 2013. There is no fee for these sessions.
AIDS Alliance/The AIDS Institute is a national partner in Be The Generation to End AIDS, a partnership between community leaders, local and national organizations, health professionals, and educators to reach communities most affected by HIV with the goal of increasing awareness of and knowledge about HIV prevention research and advances. Our work is supported by the BTG Bridge Project, collaboration between FHI 360/HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the Legacy Project at the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC).
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Tyler Perry's "Temptation" and People Living with HIV
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April 16, 2013, New York, NY – "Tyler Perry's Temptation left me emotionally pained, angry and disappointed. Mr. Perry, a brilliant film maker, missed a genuine opportunity for honest and accurate community education around HIV. Instead, Temptation perpetuated HIV sensationalism and stigma. It demonized people living with HIV as irresponsible and portrayed women who acquire HIV as an undesirable, reclusive, sub-species, destined to live out their lives in suffering commented Waheedah Shabazz-El, a woman living with HIV.
Two weekends and $212.7 million later, Tyler Perry's film Temptation perpetuates the War on Women, fuels stigma and discrimination towards people of color and people living with HIV, and condones the belief that people living with HIV are sinners, who deserve punishment.
Positive Women's Network – USA, a national membership body of women living with HIV advocating for the rights and dignity of all women, is deeply disturbed by Perry's stigmatizing portrayal of women, people living with HIV, and people of color. Instead of using his film as a moment to challenge the rampant violence against women in our society, break down the self-hatred that causes people to live in shame, and showcase powerful role models for our young girls and boys, Perry demonizes and vilifies people of color and people living with HIV – two of the most targeted, profiled, and marginalized communities in the U.S.
By perpetuating a rhetoric that raises illogical fears that HIV-positive people are inherently violent, corrupt, immoral, and deviant, Perry plays into the misguided belief that people living with HIV deserve to be punished. In the U.S., HIV criminalization laws are real. They separate families and lock up people in 34 states and 2 territories. These laws are barriers, preventing people from HIV testing, accessing treatment and seeking medical care or social support. Many people living with HIV believe they do not deserve a fulfilling and dignified life. These laws do not prevent HIV transmission, they keep people from knowing their status or seeking care. His film effectively reverses the phenomenal victories of groups working to combat HIV stigma and criminalization, including the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, SERO Project and Positive Justice Project.
By creating a rhetoric that condones violence against women and blames women for their "actions," Perry dismisses the complex realities of women's lives.
Movies and messages like this reinforce judgments that are akin to a societal death penalty. Women are dying because they can't bear knowing and/or don't want anyone else to know that they may be living with HIV. Thus they may choose not to engage in care, take medication, and/or disclose. 2 out of 3 women who newly test positive are Black women. Women are more likely to be diagnosed late with a dual HIV and AIDS diagnosis. In addition, Black women account for the largest share of deaths among all women living with HIV and in 2009, HIV was the 4th leading cause of death for Black women ages 25 to 44. Stigma and discrimination are largely responsible for women getting sick faster and dying sooner.
As partners, sisters, mothers, daughters, teachers, and lovers, living with HIV, we denounce Perry's portrayal of HIV as a punishment for bad behavior. We further denounce Perry's portrayal of HIV-positive women as unworthy of love, incapable of relationships, and his portrayal of men living with HIV as sexually irresponsible predators.
Positive Women's Network – USA calls for the responsible and respectful use of the media by filmmakers. Mr. Perry, as someone with incredible power, resources, and privilege to dictate our society's culture and norms, it is your responsibility to accurately represent those who you portray. Give us a call next time you want to make a film about women and HIV.
Take Action to Oppose Kansas HIV Quarantine Bill
Today and tomorrow the Kansas Legislature will consider a bill that would expand the authority of state and local health officials to impose isolation or quarantine on people living with HIV and other infectious diseases. But quarantine statutes are designed for dangerous diseases spread through casual contact, thus presenting a danger to overall public health.
HIV is not transmitted by casual contact, and it makes no sense that people living with HIV must be quarantined or isolated for public health reasons.
The bill as written is offensive, stigmatizing, and does not serve to address any real public health crisis. It perpetuates outdated myths about HIV transmission and people living with HIV. It refers to people living with HIV and other infectious diseases as "afflicted". There is no public health reason to lock up or quarantine people living with HIV, nor to loosen restrictions on authority to do so.
The bill, Substitute for Kansas HB-2183 will also allow testing of individuals with HIV and other diseases in "occupational exposure" circumstances without consent of the individual and without requiring that a court previously find there is a sound medical basis for the testing.
However, the definition of what may constitute "occupational exposure" is excessively broad, does not include any distinction between, for example, fluids that may transmit HIV and those that do not (e.g. saliva vs blood or semen), routes of exposure that may transmit HIV and those that do not (contact on unbroken skin vs a needle stick), and what type of occupations are being included. Thus there is nothing to prevent a teacher, for example, who has heard a rumor that a parent of her student is HIV-positive, to demand HIV testing of a child who spits on her unbroken skin. This is outrageous.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) claims that the bill was originally designed to: 1) protect first responders from infectious diseases and 2) reduce HIV stigma by eliminating specific protections for HIV. But according to Catherine Hanssens of the Center for HIV Law and Policy, there has been no documented case of HIV transmission to a first responder in over 30 years of the U.S. HIV epidemic.
The bill permits for HIV testing without consent and says nothing about counseling as part of the testing process, nor does it allude to referrals to any type of medical, mental health, or supportive services that may be needed upon diagnosis of a life-threatening condition. It provides no protections for confidentiality, and in fact, a previous version of the bill may have opened the door for physicians and providers to disclose a patient's HIV status to partners, spouses, and other providers without her consent.
The substitute bill abridges civil rights and liberties of people living with HIV and other infectious diseases. Substitute for HB-2183 adds the terms "reasonable and medically necessary" as limitations on expanding testing and quarantine authority under the bill. However, the bill fails to define those terms and does not provide a clear standard for what constitutes a "medically necessary and reasonable" restriction.
Write Kansas legislators today to say that the current bill must be rejected or amended consistent with KDHE's stated intentions and to uphold the rights and dignity of people living with HIV.
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I write to you to express my concern about Substitute for HB 2183. Over thirty years into the epidemic, HIV remains a highly stigmatized disease and recent research demonstrates that there are still significant myths and misunderstandings about modes of HIV transmission, many of which are evident in public policy and practice.
Substitute for HB 2183 as written perpetrates stigma against people living with HIV and does not accurately reflect current medical and scientific knowledge about how HIV is and is not transmitted. It violates the rights of people living with HIV.
Further, it fails in the stated intention to strengthen protections for individuals who may be occupationally exposed to HIV, who should have timely access to post-exposure prophylaxis in those very rare situations where occupational exposure and a risk of transmission may have actually occurred, regardless of a source patient's test result, because it can take several months after infection before an HIV-positive person's antibody test is reactive.
In addition, Substitute for HB 2183 does not define which settings occupational exposure is restricted to, thus allowing for any employee in any setting to claim occupational exposure and demand testing under the circumstances where they are exposed to any bodily fluid, including saliva, which does not transmit HIV. Further, the bill does not provide for counseling of individuals who are tested for HIV, referrals to necessary medical and mental health services if they are diagnosed HIV-positive, nor for protections of confidentiality upon diagnosis.
For these reasons, I urge you to reject Substitute for HB 2183 as written, or at minimum to include the following amendments:
- Section 1.E. Add clarifying language that "potentially infectious materials" should reflect current medical and scientific knowledge about the disease being tested for and the mode of exposure.
- Section 2. B. Add that testing should be voluntary and that the secretary of health and environment should clarify the minimum factors required to seek involuntary testing, which must be reasonable and medically necessary, based on current medical and scientific knowledge.
- Section 2. B. Add: "The authority for isolation or quarantine shall not extend to infectious diseases or conditions that do not pose a significant transmission risk through casual contact."
- Section 2.B. Add: The authority for involuntary testing shall not extend to infectious diseases or conditions that do not pose a significant transmission risk through occupational exposure or casual contact."
- Section 2.B. Remove the phrase "afflicted with or exposed to such diseases" and replace with "living or exposed to such diseases"
- Section 2.C. Add clarifying language that "potentially infectious materials" should reflect current medical and scientific knowledge about the disease being tested for and the mode of exposure.
- Section 2. Add language to provide for counseling when HIV testing takes place, regardless of test result, protections to assure confidentiality, and referrals to medically necessary services as well as mental health and other services if an HIV test is positive.
Thank you for your consideration.
The Principle of Energy
Energy attracts attention. Energy attracts followers. The leader who demonstrates enthusiasm and energy will gain the acceptance and confidence of others. Energy conveys the ideas of authority, of excitement, of success, and of purposeful activity. The principle of energy says that a real leader must exude energy, "the vigorous exertion of power" and "the capacity of acting or being active."
The leader's energy is demonstrated through physical vitality. Even though he or she may be older or have a physical handicap, the leader radiates good health and purposeful activity. The leader's energy is demonstrated through mental alertness. He or she is not necessarily an intellectual giant, but he or she wil use their mind to its fullest for observation, foresight, and reflection and reasoning. The leader's energy is demonstrated through hard work. Work is the most common expression of human energy and the leader will enjoy it and purse it. The leader's physical, intellectual, and emotional energy is demonstrated through commitment and perserverance as he or she believes in and works toward their goal against all odds. A leader's energy is demonstrated through attention to details because the little things will make or break you.
It is true that some people naturally possess more energy than others. Nevertheless, it is possible to increase your energy level. You can maximize your energy level by eating right, exercising regularly, maintaining a proper mental attitude, eliminating negative emotions, and by walking in fellowship with God.
Adapted from Lead On, by John Edmund Haggai
The Dissolution of the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA)
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GNP+NA notes with sadness and disappointment the dissolution of the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA).
NAPWA was founded 30 years ago, shortly after the meeting where the seminal "Denver Principles" self-empowerment manifesto was written and adopted by people living with AIDS. Since then, NAPWA played an important role in fostering HIV positive leadership and advocating on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS.
While we salute the historical role of NAPWA and valuable work done by those who were part of NAPWA over the years, we also know that the organization often struggled to fulfill its mission to be an effective national voice of and for people living with HIV/AIDS.
As the North American affiliate of the Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS, GNP+NA believes that the closing of NAPWA must be the impetus for a far-ranging participatory discussion that re-imagines and strengthens PLWHA organizing and leadership in the United States.
One of the first steps must be a full, honest and transparent explanation of the circumstances and actions leading to NAPWA's closure. Like others in the AIDS community, we have recently been made aware of troubling issues that appear to have led to the bankruptcy. Any tax-exempt group that has raised and spent tens of millions in contributions, grants and government funds over the years owes such accountability to the community they purport to represent.
There are now more people than ever living with HIV/AIDS in the US and around the world. While transmission rates have stabilized or even fallen in some communities, other communities are ravaged by an epidemic that continues to grow and rage unchecked.
The need for the meaningful involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly those from the most vulnerable communities, has never been more critical. Yet the commitment to empowering people with HIV, by those in government, NGOs and civil society, seems to exist more in rhetoric than in reality.
Despite that lack of support, there are countless vibrant and effective HIV positive leaders and activists working at every level of this epidemic from the grassroots to national and global organizations. There are thousands more who are capable of leadership, but who aren't provided the encouragement, opportunity and support to find their voices.
GNP+NA intends to work with colleagues and committed allies to turn a sad milestone—the closure of one of the very first organizations representing people with HIV—into an essential community dialogue involving the full, rich and exciting diversity of all communities of people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.
Together we can and must build a stronger, more inclusive, representative, and accountable movement by and for people living with HIV. Because like those early pioneers who met in a hotel room in Denver and wrote a radical manifesto that has been heard around the world, we are still "Fighting for our Lives" and we are fighting for the lives of each other.
President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) Passes Resolution Condemning HIV Criminalization
BREAKING: PACHA Passes Resolution Condemning HIV Criminalization
President's Advisory Council on AIDS (PACHA)
Resolution on Ending Federal and State HIV-Specific Criminal Laws, Prosecutions, and Civil Commitments
Resolution passed Feb. 7, 2013
Despite the relatively low risk of transmission and significantly lowered level of harm, thirty-four U.S. states and territories have adopted criminal statutes based on perceived exposure to HIV. Most of these laws were adopted before the availability of effective antiretroviral therapy for HIV, which substantially reduces already low transmission risks and provides a pathway to highly successful HIV treatment. Clearly the use of HIV-specific criminal laws, of felony laws such as attempted murder and aggravated assault, and of sentence enhancements to prosecute HIV-positive individuals are based on outdated and erroneous beliefs about the routes, risks, and consequences of HIV transmission. Legal standards applied in HIV criminalization cases regarding intent, harm, and proportionality deviate from generally accepted criminal law principles and reflect stigma toward HIV and HIV-positive individuals. People living with HIV have been charged under aggravated assault, attempted murder, and even bioterrorism statutes, and they face more severe penalties because law enforcement, prosecutors, courts, and legislators continue to view and characterize people living with HIV and their bodily fluids as inherently dangerous, even as "deadly weapons." Punishments imposed for non-disclosure of HIV status, exposure, or HIV transmission are grossly out of proportion to the actual harm inflicted and reinforce the fear and stigma associated with HIV. Public health leaders and global policy makers agree that HIV criminalization is unjust, bad public health policy and is fueling the epidemic rather than reducing it.
Whereas the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) includes a statement on the problem and public health consequences of HIV criminalization and notes that many state HIV-specific criminal laws reflect long-outdated misperceptions of HIV's modes and relative risks of transmission; that criminal law has been unjustly used in the United States to prosecute and disproportionately sentence people with HIV; and that legislators reconsider whether these laws further the public interest and support public health approaches to preventing and treating HIV;
Whereas nearly all HIV-specific criminal laws do not consider correct and consistent condom use and effective antiretroviral therapy that reduces the risk of HIV transmission to near-zero as evidence of a lack of intent or ability to harm; and behaviors that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have negligible risk of transmitting HIV, such as spitting and biting, have resulted in sentences as long as 35 years;
Whereas sound criminal justice and public health policy toward people living with HIV is consistent with an evidence-based approach to disease control and research demonstrates that HIV-specific laws do not reduce transmission or increase disclosure and may discourage HIV testing;
Whereas criminalization harms women and young people, as well as men, with HIV in many ways, because it:
1. Creates a tool for control by abusers who threaten prosecution of partners who want to leave abusive relationships;
2. Complicates custody disputes and pregnancies;
3. Imprisons women and young people for non-disclosure without regard for complex reasons such as fear of violence or other situations when disclosure may not be advisable or safe;
4. Over-targets sex workers, against whom condom possession has been used as evidence of intent to commit a crime;
Whereas punishments imposed for non-disclosure of HIV status, exposure, or HIV transmission, including the use of sex offender registries and indefinite civil commitment, are out of proportion to the actual harm inflicted or intended and reinforce the fear and stigma associated with HIV;
Whereas singling out HIV or any other health condition or disability as a basis for prosecution or sentence enhancement is unjust and unwarranted from legal, ethical, and public health perspectives;
Be it resolved that the PACHA recommends that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)/CDC complete a written review regarding opportunities for the creation of specific guidance and incentives to state attorneys general and state departments of health for the elimination of HIV-specific criminal laws and to develop recommendations for approaches to HIV within the civil and criminal justice systems that are consistent with the treatment of similar health and safety risks; and supports legislation, such as the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act, that advances these objectives;
Be it further resolved that current criminal laws require modernization to eliminate HIV-specific statutes or application of general criminal law that treats HIV status, or the use of condoms or other measure to prevent HIV transmission, as the basis for criminal prosecution or sentence enhancement;
Be it further resolved that Federal and state officials should review the HIV-specific convictions and related penalties, sentence enhancements, and other restrictions imposed on people living with HIV, such as mandated sex-offender registration and civil commitment. In the event that such convictions or sentence enhancements fail to conform to the principles outlined above, federal and state officials should take appropriate measures (e.g., executive clemency, pardon, sentence reconsideration, parole, probation) to mitigate the harm caused to individuals;
Be it further resolved that all U.S. law should be consistent with current medical and scientific knowledge and accepted human rights-based approaches to disease control and prevention and avoid imposition of unwarranted punishment based on health and disability status;
Be it further resolved that the CDC should issue a clear statement addressing the growing evidence that HIV criminalization and punishments are counterproductive and undermine current HIV testing and prevention priorities.
National Black HIV and AIDS Awareness Day, February 7th, 2013
"Our Ancestors Fought So That We Might Be Free-Even From HIV"
February 7, 2013 marks the 13th year for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, an HIV testing and treatment community mobilization initiative targeted at Blacks in the United States and across the Diaspora.
There are four specific focal points: education, testing, involvement, and treatment.
*Educationally, the focus is to get Blacks educated about the basics of HIV/AIDS in their local communities.
*Testing is at the core of this initiative, as it is hoped that Blacks will mark February 7 of every year as their annual or bi-annual day to get tested for HIV. This is vital for those who are sexually active and those at high risk of contracting HIV.
*When it comes to community and organization leadership, getting Blacks involved to serve is another key focus. We need Black people from all walks of life, economic classes, literacy levels, shades and tones as well as communities (large and small) to get connected to the work happening on the ground in their local areas.
*And lastly, for those living with HIV or newly testing positive for the virus, getting them connected to treatment and care services becomes paramount.
We cannot lead Black people towards HIV/AIDS education, prevention, testing, leadership or treatment unless you love them. And, we can't save Black people from an epidemic unless we serve Black people.
To find a testing location close to you if an event is not listed here, go to http://hivtest.cdc.gov/
The Principle of Opportunity
Your greatest opportunities are cleverly disguised as insurmountable problems. The principle of opportunity says that life is a series of obstacles and that these obstacles hold the key to your greatest opportunities if you only discipline yourself to see opportunities everywhere.
Anyone can make a mistake. That takes no genius. You should learn from your blunders. Convert them to unexpected benefits. To put the principle of opportunity into practice, you need to learn how to handle mistakes and how to profit from blunders.
First, admit the blunder the moment you know about it. You can never correct a situation if you don't admit it exists. And if mistakes are uncorrected, they multiply and grow worse.
Second, assume accountability for the blunder. Unless you assume accountability both for your own mistakes and those of the people in your group, you cannot correct them and profit from them.
Third, evaluate the damage. Ask yourself such questions as: What effects will the blunder have by upsetting deadlines? How will this blunder interfere with the work of others? Will it adversely affect the "big picture"? How will it affect the testimony I have?
Fourth, do an in-depth study of the possible causes of the blunder. Blunders are the result of 1) an error in judgment, 2) poor planning, 3) insufficient information, or 4) defective follow-up. Examine all these areas in depth.
Fifth, immediately eliminate the causes for the blunder. Take action. Write down your plan. Work this into your goals program.
Sixth, salvage what you can. Make the most of the assets you have.
Seventh, revise your modus operandi so that the blunder won't be repeated. Constantly evaluate what you do to see if it can be improved, not just in relation to this one blunder, but in relation to all your activities. This requires constant questioning and study.
Eighth, begin to execute the new program immediately. Procrastination will only make the situation worse. Begin your correction right away.
Ninth, use blunders as road signs as they mark both where you have been in the past, as well as where you should go in the future. Learn from your mistakes.
Tenth, remember that obstacles enhance leadership by 1) the credibility you develop with others who realize you have experienced what they are experiencing 2) the conditioning of your own spirit for service, and 3) the opportunity to demonstrate love, humility, and self-control.
There need to be two words of warning: first, a leader neither attempts to shine or whine. He or she must not complain that he or she is sacrificing. Second, it's unrealistic and dishonoring to God to treat obstacles as though they don't exist. They do.
The leader, under God, will develop the habit of creatively converting obstacles into opportunities. This habit will enhance one's leadership by inspiring those who follow their leadership.
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Drawn to an old trunk in the attic, Lara Calhoun is unable to resist finding out what treasure her late, beloved mother had kept hidden away for all these years. Her unexpected discovery soon turns her world upside down and makes her second-guess everything she's ever believed about her mother and about love. Will it lead her straight into Dave Lafferty's arms, or make her turn away from the love of a lifetime?
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"The Valentine Wedding Dress"
The story is just too unbelievable.
"Little to believe in as far as romance is concerne"
I would say no. I could have been enjoying my time better elsewhere. While the narrator is very skilled and does what she can with the book she has been given the text and story is lacking in being realistic and ability to connect to characters.
I would say if you want a short, incomplete feeling story in which nothing really of any importance happens and it stays free (it was $0.00 when I purchased it) then go right ahead. If I would have paid for this title using a credit or just outright purchasing it I would have returned it right away.
I have not. I do not have any fault with her performance though of the material she was given.
No, I do not believe so.
I did not care for the music at the beginning and end of the audiobook however it does go away quite quickly. The whole story is lacking in real climax or suspense. Everything is quite easily predicted and feels silly. I have no connection to the characters or the plotline. I feel like this could have been a short story and cut out part of the whole "romance"-ish nature and have it be (spoiler) just two people meeting one another realizing their parents at one point were engaged and sparks now fly between them. It feel cheesy and overdone.
"Nice love story."
This was a nice up lifting short love story.
I have not.
Voice was easy to listen too.
No. The story felt too short to be made into a movie.
"Quick Story with a big enough punch"
Yes, it was a quick story with just enough of everything. Mystery, romance, loss, and a great happily ever after.
It's all about "YOU!"
"Cute .."
Of course the "big event" - the tumbling down the stairs in her wedding gown into the arms of your new husband!
the story was delivered nicely. It is truly rare that I run into a 'horrible' narrator like some of the fake negative reviews on these sites claim an audio book to have.
that would be fun. To see how her life unfolds with the highs and lows and past brought forward.
I'm just a girl, listening to a book, asking it to entertain her.
Nothing from Sherryl Woods.
Something by Lisa Gardner
Yes, it was the story that was terrible
the fact that it was only 38 minutes long
I've read books about vampires and werewolves, but this is probably the most unbelievable story I've ever read.
Yes, I would purchase another book from both Sherryl Woods and Elenna Stauffer
The story was very predictable, I pretty much knew what was going to happen next. The most interesting surprise was discovering Peter arrange the meeting between Lara and Dave.
Lara was my favorite
If the story and characters were more developed, I could see a very good novella.
"Just Silly and annoying"
The concept is silly. The fact that the author must have thought woman would like a hero that is that cold hearted on Valentines day is just annoying.
Tell us about yourself!
"this was a good short book"
Making this a little longer. I like the fact that she end up her moms ex fience son. This had a great poteintal of being a really great book.
she was no diffent then the others. Very clear
no! This book just seem old. Already done this was a no brainer what was going to happen.
I chose this selection because I generally like the short story form and it was free. I wasn't expecting a formula romance, and I'm not a big fan of romance stories. If I had been buying it, I might have noticed that it was published by Harlequin and known it wasn't my type of story.
The performance was fine and the story had a reasonable set up but patent and predictable. I thought it lacked depth and the little bit of intrigue didn't really go far enough.
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Is the National Security Agency collecting and storing data on fewer telephone calls than we thought? So say reports in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times. "Although intelligence officials have indicated since last summer that the National Security Agency was vacuuming up nearly every American telephone record for counter-terrorism investigations," the L.A. Times reports in its version, "officials acknowledged Friday that the spy agency collects data from less than a third of U.S. calls because it can't keep pace with cellphone usage."
That's a momentous development.
If true, virtually every news article and analysis piece you've read about the phone dragnet overstated how comprehensive it is. The L.A. Times story continues:
Rather than sweeping in all U.S. call records, officials said, the NSA is gathering toll records from most domestic land line calls, but is incapable of collecting those from most cellphone or Internet calls ... The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because much of the program remains classified*, said they did not correct the public record because they did not want to tip off potential adversaries to obvious gaps in the coverage. "We didn't want to tell the bad guys to go out and get a cellphone," one senior intelligence official said.
What perplexes me is why anyone in the executive branch would want this out there. It can't help but reflect poorly on the national-security state. If these stories are false, you understand, current and former U.S. officials are lying. And if the stories are true, even in a narrow, accurate-but-misleading sense? If the NSA really collects just a third of phone metadata and almost no cellphone metadata under Section 215? That would prove that important NSA overseers have little idea what's going on. It would prove that more effort needs to be put into oversight.
Think about it:
1) Numerous members of Congress, including legislators with a particular interest in surveillance issues (e.g., Justin Amash, James Sensenbrenner, etc.) have operated for months now under the belief that data on virtually all calls is tracked under Section 215. As Sensenbrenner put it in a letter to Eric Holder, "the administration has collected the details of every call made by every American, even though the overwhelming majority of these calls have nothing to do with terrorism." Is this widespread belief among legislators wrong, and if so, isn't that alarming?
What else don't they understand?
2) Two federal judges have ruled on the constitutionality of the Section 215 program, reaching opposite conclusions. But if you read their opinions, both of them believed that metadata was being gathered on virtually every telephone call in the United States, and that belief played a non-trivial role in their published opinions.
Here's Judge William H. Pauley, who ruled in the Obama Administration's favor (emphasis added):
This blunt tool only works because it collects everything. Such a program, if unchecked, imperils the civil liberties of every citizen. Each time someone in the United States makes or receives a telephone call, the telecommunications provider makes a record of when, and to what telephone number the call was placed, and how long it lasted. The NSA collects that telephony metadata. If plumbed, such data can reveal a rich profile of every individual as well as a comprehensive record of people's associations with one another.
In response to the unauthorized disclosure of the Secondary Order, the Government acknowledged that since May 2006, it has collected this information for substantially every telephone call in the United States, including calls between the United States and a foreign country and calls entirely within the United States.
Later in the opinion he says this:
The ACLU argues that the category at issue-all telephony metadata-is too broad and contains too much irrelevant infonnation. That argument has no traction here. Because without all the data points, the Government cannot be certain it connected the pertinent ones. As FISC Judge Eagan noted, the collection ofvirtually all telephony metadata is "necessary" to permit the NSA, not the FBI, to do the algorithmic data analysis that allow the NSA to determine "connections between known and unknown international terrorist operatives.
If the government now acknowledges that it has less than a third of the data points anyway, one of the judge's specific arguments against the ACLU falls apart.
And here's Judge Richard Leon, who ruled that the Section 215 metadata program is unconstitutional:
Straining mightily to find a reason that plaintiffs nonetheless lack standing to challenge the metadata collection, the Government argues that Judge Vinson's order names only Verizon Business Network Services as the recipient of the order, whereas plaintiffs claim to be Verizon Wireless subscribers. The Government obviously wants me to infer that the NSA may not have collected records from Verizon Wireless (or perhaps any other non-VBNS entity, such as AT&T and Sprint). Curiously, the Government makes this argument at the same time it is describing in its pleadings a bulk metadata collection program that can function only because it "creates an historical repository that permits retrospective analysis of terrorist-related communications across multiple telecommunications networks, and that can be immediately accessed as new terrorist-associated telephone identifiers come to light."
Put simply the government wants it both ways. Virtually all of the government's briefs and arguments to this Court explain how the Government has acted in good faith to create a comprehensive metadata database that serves as a potentially valuable tool in combatting terrorism–in which case, the NSA must have collected metadata from Verizon Wireless, the single largest wireless carrier in the United States, as well as AT&T and Sprint, the second and third-largest carriers. Yet in one footnote, the Government asks me to find that plaintiffs lack standing based on the theoretical possibility that the NSA has collected a universe of metadata so incomplete that the program could not possibly serve its putative function. Candor of this type defies common sense and does not exactly inspire confidence!
In a footnote, Judge Leon tries to capture how important the premise of a cell-phone inclusive, comprehensive dragnet is to the state's argument. "To draw an analogy," he writes, "if the NSA's program operates the way the Government suggests it does, then omitting Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint from the collection would be like omitting John, Paul, and George from a historical analysis of the Beatles. A Ringo-only database doesn't make any sense, and I cannot believe the Government would create, maintain, and so ardently defend such a system."
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I ran across this today while doing my usual Google news trawling for interesting articles for EduGeek.
Does this affect anyone here? Or is it a NZ only thing?
Not too sure if that was the right newslink for the title of the thread ... but in answer to the title ... Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 Professional (which includes Virtual PC without a guest OS) is still covered under the present UK Schools Agreement as mentioned here
We will not know whether the new version of Microsoft Office for Mac will be covered until it is released and the Schools Agreement is update. As far as I am aware not even Microsoft know yet ...
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1. Preheat the oven to 350°F and butter a freezer-proof 10-inch deep-dish pie plate. Press the crumb mixture over the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate. Bake for 10 minutes or until set. Cool.
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Sectarian battles for control of Iraq's national team between Shiites and Sunnis have led the International Olympic Committee to block Iraq from participating in the Summer Games in Beijing. The ban was upheld Thursday after the Iraqis failed to meet a deadline to appeal the decision, thereby losing a chance to generate considerable PR and/or pride for the wounded country.
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In May, the [Iraqi] government dissolved the National Olympic Committee. Among the claims was it was illegitimate because it lacked a legal quorum—but four members of the committee, including its chief, were kidnapped two years ago and their fates are unknown.
There is also a potential sectarian rift. Iraq's Youth and Sports Ministry is dominated by Shiites, while the NOC includes several holdovers from the Saddam-era Olympic Committee, once run by his feared eldest son, Odai.
The International Olympic Committee denounced the order as "serious interference" in what is supposed to be an independent body and demanded the government respect the NOC's autonomy.
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The rules are simple: share how you sharded your data in MongoDB by writing a description of your data model. Do it all in a detailed blog post and make sure you answer the following questions:
10gen consulting partner Equal Experts will be sponsoring the London CodeKen 2011 conference on the 14th and 15th November. The conference is a resurrection of the Stackoverflow DevDays London conference. The event is focused on professional coders and covers an eclectic mix of subjects including coding style, HTML5 and MongoDB. See the full schedule on the conference site: http://london2011.codeken.com
In addition to the original line up of speakers, CodeKen is running a Side Projects competition. Entrants can submit the details of a side project they are working on to win a free ticket to the conference... Read More >
Today we're pleased to release the MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) to the public for free. MMS is a SaaS based tool that monitors your MongoDB cluster and makes it easy for you to see what's going on in a production deployment.
One of the most frequently asked questions we get from users getting ready to deploy MongoDB is "What should I be monitoring in production?" Our engineers have spent a lot of time working with many of the world's largest MongoDB deployments and based on this experience, MMS represents our current "best practices" monitoring for any deployment.... Read More >
10gen is hiring Language Evangelists to work with the Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl, Java, and node.js communities. The evangelists are responsible for not only working on the language driver but for being the liaison to that language community. We expect evangelists to work on open source software as part of their day-to-day activities. On one day, it might be building a cool sample application to be used as an example in our docs, in a blog post, or in a presentation. On another day, it might be working with existing libraries and frameworks... Read More >
10gen is excited to participate in the fall hackNY hackathon on October 1-2. hackNY connects talented students with New York City startups through hackathons and summer fellowships. We've been honored to participate in the hackNY program since its inception. We have had two great summer fellows who made substantial contributions to MongoDB, and we've helped many students use MongoDB in their hacks.
For this year's event, we wanted to help draw students from other cities to show them the vibrant startup culture in New York City. To that end, we're pleased to announce that 10gen is sponsoring free transportation... Read More >
10gen CEO Dwight Merriman recently participated in a panel discussion where he gave his thoughts on the database landscape.
Harry Heymann, the engineering lead at foursquare, also spoke on the panel and gave a brief overview of why foursquare selected MongoDB for their fast-growing application.
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Today SAP announced that they are using MongoDB as a core component of SAP's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering. MongoDB was selected for the enterprise content management (ECM) section of the platform, as its flexibility and scalability will enable SAP to scale its content management service on its PaaS offering to meet customers' requirements while managing data from different applications.
For more information, review the full press release. You can also learn more at MongoUK, where Dieter Guendisch will introduce and demo SAP's Java PaaS.
Many new and innovative applications are using MongoDB for data storage. Does your application use MongoDB? If so, we'd like you to demo your application in our September developer blog contest.
On Thursday we will be organizing a special meeting of the NY MongoDB User Group. 10gen's CTO, Eliot Horowitz, will present on What's New in MongoDB 2.0. After the presentation, please join us at the Bleeker Street Bar for the 2.0 Release Party. Over the weekend, 10gen will be sponsoring the first PyGotham conference in New York City. The event will feature an entire room dedicated to MongoDB! Some of the sessions on the agenda include:
On 19 Sept, come join the third MongoDB conference in London. We are again partnering with Skills Matter, hosts of MongoDB training and the London MongoDB User Group. Given the interest in our last MongoUK event, we've expanded the conference to four tracks at a larger venue to accommodate more attendees, more advanced sessions, and more community presentations. MongoUK will be a full day, multi-track conference dedicated to MongoDB, with sessions from both 10gen engineers and production users of MongoDB. MongoDB creator and 10gen CTO Eliot Horowitz will lead several sessions on advanced topics,... Read More >


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Is there anyone more chill than the iconic surfer singer-songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter? IŌĆÖm sure that if there is, none of us want to know about them. A regular feature on the Australian touring circuit, Donavon will be returning to Australia in the coming weeks thanks to the La Casa team, bringing with him a swag of good vibes, and of course his surfboard.
Sounding as relaxed as ever, it turns out I had picked his one-week off in a long time to call, but if youŌĆÖre talking music, itŌĆÖs sure not to be a nuisance. Now, how has his brief downtime been?
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs been great, IŌĆÖm home and have been able to take my kids up to school…be with my family. IŌĆÖve been on the road for the past few months, but IŌĆÖm home for a week, then I have to tour Australia for 7 weeks, but IŌĆÖll be bringing the whole family, which will be great, like one big musical surfing trip.ŌĆØ
The tour schedule meanders all throughout Australia and will take Donavon to some pretty remote regional cities that many bands tend to avoid, but Frankenreiter feels very differently about it.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs incredible, I feel fortunate to be able to take part in this. We did it last year too. The La Casa guys and Corona do this amazing thing, which means I can go to all these incredible places in Australia, sometimes doing 2-3 shows in one day – all these free concerts in all these great locations, and I get to see so much of Australia, it's unbelievable. Last year the vibe was so great I canŌĆÖt wait to do it again. ŌĆ£
Given the extensive 7-week tour, we got chatting about whether or not he will be filling in some of his spare time chatting with his fans. Regardless of how busy he may be, fan time is a given.
ŌĆ£These kids are pretty mellow you know? I can sense theyŌĆÖre free, and uh, theyŌĆÖre always around ŌĆō itŌĆÖs like one big giant meet and greet, I get to meet everyone. And if weŌĆÖre not too jammed in, there will be moments when we get down to the beach, you know, just out of Melbourne or Sydney or the Gold Coast … a lot of amazing areas to go surfing in.ŌĆØ
For those currently not in the know, Frankenreiter was last in town crashing at CoronaŌĆÖs own utopia La Casa, where he stuck around for an artist residency. By the sounds of things, it was a pretty tough and demanding gigŌĆ"
ItŌĆÖs such an amazing place. It has a fridge packed with Corona; surfboards; a studio; and music gear. Last year was amazing, there were so many amazing people stopping by, including Andrew from Wolfmother, and a few others came by and jammed out. Such a great vibe…oh yeah, Angus Stone came as well … really bitchinŌĆÖ place."
ŌĆ£ThereŌĆÖs no pressure, youŌĆÖre not there to make music if you donŌĆÖt want to, it's an incredible vibe, everything is there if you want it.ŌĆ£
Mid-way through last year, Start LivinŌĆÖ was released and has been toured extensively. YouŌĆÖd think new material would be a hot topic, and youŌĆÖd be right, as Donovan explains, he has already begun putting pen to paper.
ŌĆ£I feel IŌĆÖll be ready to record at the end of the year; IŌĆÖm gonna take this time to write. HmmŌĆ"I never have a formula, they just seem to kinda appear. IŌĆÖm not the kinda guy who, you know, is this prolific songwriter whoŌĆÖs sitting on 50 tunes. It takes me everything IŌĆÖve got to write 10 songs to make a record. The last one only had 9 songs, you know, everything I wrote. Songs donŌĆÖt come easy ŌĆō at least to me they donŌĆÖt…itŌĆÖs a weird process, it just happens. So I have no idea what it's going to sound like; itŌĆÖll all come together and weŌĆÖll record it.ŌĆØ
Donovan has already started his tour in WA, and will hit the east coast of Australia starting this weekend in VIC before heading north. By the sounds of things, it will be the penultimate experience for any of his adoring Aussie fan base. Rest assured if you miss chatting to him at a gig, youŌĆÖll be able to catch up cutting sick on a break somewhere nearby the next morning.
Friday 15 February
Woolshed Pub
Shed 9,T 18/161 Harbour Esplanade, Docklands
Friday 15 February
Prince Of Wales
29 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
Saturday 16 February
Portsea Hotel
3746 Point Nepean Road, Portsea
Saturday 16 February
Westernport Hotel
161 Marine Parade, San Remo
Sunday 17 February
Lorne Hotel
176 Mountjoy Parade Lorne
Sunday 17 February
Torquay Hotel
36 Bell Street, Torquay
Friday 22 February
Coogee Bay Hotel
253 Coogee Bay Road, Coogee
Friday 22 February
Clovelly Hotel
381 Clovelly Rd, Clovelly
Saturday 23 February
The Bucket List
The Bondi Pavilion, Queen Elizabeth drive, Bondi Beach
Saturday 23 February
Newport Arms Hotel
2 Kalinya Street, Newport
Saturday 23 February
Manly Wharf Hotel
Manly Wharf, Manly
Sunday 24 February
Cronulla Hotel
Cnr Kingsway & Elouera Rd, Cronulla
Sunday 24 February
Towradgi Beach Hotel
170 Pioneer Road, Towradgi
Friday 1 March
Bateau Bay Hotel
Cnr of The Entrance Rd & Lumby Drive, Bateau Bay
Friday 1 March
Queens Wharf Brewery
150 Wharf Rd, Newcastle
Saturday 2 March
SOL Bar
19 Ocean Street Maroochydore
Saturday 2 March
Noosa SLSC
69 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads
Sunday 3 March
Story Bridge Hotel
200 Main Street, Kangaroo Point
Sunday 3 March
Jubilee Hotel
470 St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Sunday 3 March
Eaton's Hill Hotel
646 South Pine Road, Eatons Hill
Friday 8 March
46 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise
Friday 8 March
Coolangatta Hotel
Marine Parade, Coolangatta
Saturday 9 March
144-146 Marine Parade, Coolangatta
Saturday 9 March
Boardwalk Tavern
Hope Island Marina Shopping Village/Santa Barbara Road, Hope Island
Sunday 10 March
Brunswick Hotel
4 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads
Sunday 10 March
Beach Hotel
Cnr Jonson Street & Bay Street, Byron Bay
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- Liam Finn Gets Stir Crazy During La Casa Artist Residency
- MS MR Tease New Record During La Casa Artist Residency


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Breaking Bad Composer to Score Better Call Saul
It's getting more Breaking Bad–like by the day.
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It's getting more Breaking Bad–like by the day.
It's evocative of the Heisenberg drug ballad from season two's "Negro y Azul."
Ten whole seconds!
Saul used to be Jimmy. And you can listen to his voice-mail message.
For one thing, we'll meet Saul's brother.
The show will have a "flexible" timeline.
They also pushed back its start date.
He'll star as Dr. Thurber.
Saul Goodman sent for him.
As does most of AMC's lineup.
From their Walking Dead and Breaking Bad spinoffs to their future slate to how they're handling Netflix competition.
If he can still get him.
It's not a disaster, alright?
Who do you want to see?
Though Sony and AMC make no mention of Bob Odenkirk or Vince Gilligan.
He plays television's sleaziest lawyer on Breaking Bad, but can he stomach these green-screen gems?
It could be an hourlong drama or a half-hour comedy.
AfterMASH doesn't scare him.
"A TV show is ultimately judged by its spinoff ... " he jokes.
A Better Call Saul comedy. Really.


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Printing Money: For the Birds -- and Banks
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. -- Mark Twain
It is no surprise that Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke's plan to steal trillions of dollars from hardworking, taxpaying Americans and give it away to their friends on Wall Street would cause a big rally in the stock market.
Unfortunately, Geithner's plan is flawed. Its primary objective is to prevent any bankruptcies or receiverships in the politically favored money-center banking and Wall Street financial sectors. Put simply, the plan inflates the value of toxic assets, held by the money-center banks like Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) and Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS), and gives away trillions in free taxpayer money to other politically connected private equity and hedge funds to buy those assets.
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