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The Young Adult Borough Center at John Adams High School received a $100,000 check this week from the city, allocated by Councilman Ruben Wills.
Operated by the city Department of Education and Queens Community House, the program works with young adults, ages 17 to 21, who desire to pursue their high school diploma and develop their career and employment skills. It is one of 23 YABC sites in New York City high schools and caters to students from all over the borough.
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Pics: Peter Barlow starts drinking again
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Oh no.. he'll break Leanne and Simon's hearts. Hope it's a short tumble, and he picks himself up again sharpish..
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- 18 October 2011 at 19:52
Of course..leading to Leanne booting him out - again - straight into Carla's arms who will be drinking up a storm right along with him. OBOY!!! Leanne is going to get her's right soon...yay.
- 19 October 2011 at 01:04
Hmm, just where we don;t want him going - but kudos for Corrie in keeping Peter's addiction real - not like Leanne's brief flirtation with drug addiction years ago, which was over in about six weeks. Alcoholism is, regretably, for life. I just wish it wasn't going to be used for such stale plot recyling as the Carla-Leanne-Peter triangle. Getting mighty sick of the once-great character of Peter Barlow (ok, I'll admit it, the character I actually cried for when I thought he was dead after the Live Ep) behaving like a colossal tool. I wish I could get the bloody script department in the back-room of a pub for just one flamin' hour!!!
- 19 October 2011 at 01:26
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- 19 October 2011 at 03:27
Agree with Cobblestone, Peter is acting like a total dickhead and seems to have a self destruct button. He has always been one of Frost's favourites but where we loved him for his flaws he is now becoming irksome and dislikeable. And for goodness sake Wardrobe get him a new jacket, that flaming black leather one has seen better days!
- 19 October 2011 at 07:33
I'm sure he dyes his hair, but yes, gorgeous.
- 19 October 2011 at 11:24
Oh dear. I really like Peter as a character but can't say I'm looking forward to this! I wish they would let Leanne and him just get on with things. It's all very repetitive at the moment. Too much Peter + Carla!
- 19 October 2011 at 11:46
Peter falls of the wagon and straight into Carla's arms where they proceed to destroy each other. Then there's the tiny inconvenience of Simon whom Peter was given a lot of money to care for. Leanne will seek a residency order or adopt Simon (whatever the legal proceudre is) and try to keep the bookies running. She'll have to seek some of Peter's cash as maintenance, I suppose. I think this could be an interesting story and I love Peter. He's weak and immature so when Carla finally boots him out, he'll be running back to Leanne. She'd never take him back, would she?
- 19 October 2011 at 19:52
FFSakes! Who pays these script writers. Its primary
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'EVE: Valkyrie' will be first full-size game for Oculus Rift
Full games — not tech demos — are coming to the Oculus Rift. Oculus, the company behind the impressive Oculus Rift virtual reality headset announced it will be co-publishing EVE: Valkyrie, the first full-size game possibly slated for later this year.
While we've seen tons of Oculus Rift tech demos since the company made dev kits available for purchase, the fact that a full-featured game is coming is exciting news. It's a signal that developers should finally start getting serious about virtual reality. Rift might not have a consumer model available yet, but if a real game is coming, it hopefully means they're close to finalizing hardware.
Since last year's E3, Oculus has trotted EVE: Valkyrie, a game that puts you in the cockpit of a spaceship as you dogfight your way through space. When we tried EVE: Valkyrie on the 720p Oculus Rift dev kit, we were wowed by how realistic (and dizzying) it was to look around the virtual cockpit (and at a body that isn't real).
At last month's CES, we were treated to an improved version of EVE: Valkyrie demoed on the Crystal Cove version of Rift. With low-persistence (reduced motion blur) and positional tracking, the game demo only felt more realistic.
Creating games for virtual reality isn't as simple as porting a console or PC game over. It requires completely new groundwork, just as shooting a movie in proper 3D does (as opposed to a conversion), as outlined by EVE: Valkyrie programmers Robert Clarke and Sigurður Gunnarsson:
"We strongly believe the best VR experiences are going to be the ones built from the ground up for VR, and we've kept that in mind whilst developing Valkyrie. We wanted people to really feel like they were there – to sense the vastness of space, feel the confined area of the cockpit and get that adrenaline rush as you see an exploding fighter whizz past your head."
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With the playoff matchups set and the countdown to the playoffs underway, we're ranking the top playoff teams by position. On Monday, the forward groups were ranked. Today, here's the ranking of the 16 playoff defenseman groups: 1. St. Louis Bl...Blog | April 15, 2014
Ranking the postseason forward groupsCraig Custance
With the playoff matchups set and the countdown to the playoffs officially underway, we're ranking all 16 playoff teams by position. Up first, we'll rank the forward groups. Note that the Corsi stats are courtesy of ExtraSkater.com, while the other s...Blog | April 14, 2014
NHL - 2013 mock expansion draft protected teams in EastCraig Custance
Craig Custance reveals which players in the East would be protected from being selected in a mock NHL expansion draft.Story | Conversation | September 10, 2013
Latest reminder of NHL's concussion problem - NHLCraig Custance
Craig Custance writes that Artem Anisimov's latest concussion is another reminder of a league-wide issue.Blog | Conversation | February 22, 2013
Compliance buyout candidates in the WestCraig Custance
Editor's Note: Earlier this week Craig Custance looked at potential compliance buyout candidates in both the Eastern and Western Conferences. With negotiations now suggesting that each team could receive a second buyout, we revisit the list of p...Blog | December 31, 2012
NHL - Potential Western Conference compliance buyout candidatesCraig Custance
With the NHL including an option for teams to buyout contracts to comply with a proposed drop in the salary cap, Craig Custance examines some likely candidates in the Western Conference.Blog | Conversation | December 31, 2012
Teams could target rights to Suter, PariseCraig Custance
TORONTO -- Last June, the Columbus Blue Jackets were very interested in adding a puck-moving defenseman, a clear hole in their roster. GM Scott Howson targeted Montreal's James Wisniewski as the solution but realized Wisniewski might not feel th...Blog | June 01, 2012
As offseason picks up, teams target FA negotiating rights - NHLCraig Custance
As the offseason picks up, Craig Custance checks in from the NHL combine in Toronto, where GMs believe that teams could target the negotiating rights for upcoming free agents -- particularly top stars Ryan Suter and Zach Parise.Blog | Conversation | June 01, 2012
2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs - Nashville Predators G Anders Lindback...Craig Custance
Craig Custance looks at the goalie situation in Nashville and sees a backup goalie more valuable to the Predators on the trading block than on the bench behind star Pekka Rinne.Blog | Conversation | April 13, 2012
Players prep for possibility of lockoutCraig Custance
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- The last time there was a work stoppage in the NHL, life was much different for Dustin Brown. When the lockout hit hockey in 2004, Brown was coming off his rookie season. He had some money left over from a signing bonus and a t...Blog | March 15, 2012
Players are saving up for possibility of lockout - NHLCraig Custance
Craig Custance writes that while there is no real sense of urgency when it comes to the upcoming labor negotiations between the owners and the NHLPA, many players are already saving money in case there ends up being a lockout.Blog | Conversation | March 15, 2012
Columbus facing critical summer choicesCraig Custance
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- There were times in the final hours before the NHL trade deadline, the most important one of his tenure, that Columbus GM Scott Howson needed a little reassurance. He was dealing veterans. He was getting calls about his captain, Ric...Blog | March 08, 2012
NHL - Rick Nash just one of key issues facing Columbus Blue Jacke...Craig Custance
Columbus did not trade Rick Nash at the trade deadline, but huge decisions loom. Craig Custance goes in-depth on the Blue Jackets, examining how the franchise is approaching the biggest offseason in its history.Blog | Conversation | March 08, 2012
Phoenix Coyotes high on Vermette tradeCraig Custance
By the time the Phoenix Coyotes and Columbus Blue Jackets pulled the trigger on a deal that sent center Antoine Vermette to Phoenix in return for a 2012 second-round pick, a conditional 2013 fifth-round pick and goalie Curtis McElhinney, Phoenix GM D...Blog | February 22, 2012
Phoenix Coyotes high on Antoine Vermette trade - NHLCraig Custance
Phoenix GM Don Maloney exhaustively scouted Antoine Vermette before trading for him Wednesday. Now Maloney believes the Coyotes have found a center that will help them down the stretch and beyond.Blog | Conversation | February 22, 2012
Pittsburgh's season of survivalCraig Custance
As he's done all too often during media availability, Dan Bylsma rattled through the latest Pittsburgh Penguins injuries during his Sunday news conference. His captain, Sidney Crosby, already has been shelved indefinitely, and his young franchis...Blog | January 09, 2012


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I have only just got around to painting this portrait of White Cloud - this is how I saw him in a vision 6 months ago. Below are the words given to me at the time.
4.12.13 - 4+1+2+1+3 = 11
Today as I prepared to meditate I was shown the face of White Cloud with shorter hair and he was dressed in a pale blue tunic edged with gold.
Our messages bear fruit for we shall indeed all become part of this new world. We register your thoughts, your day dreams, and assist you in making a grand recovery; this will be such a momentous occasion and we welcome you all into this land of dreams, manifesting a greater reality.
I can see his face and want to reach out and touch to stroke his hair and there are tears in my eyes. Grandfather, White Cloud it is so wonderful to see you. Why are you wearing the blue robe today? Is it because you are part of the Galactic Council, can you tell me more about this council?
We come in preparation of our new world of strength and grace and we open your heart to receive us. The Federation of Light has made a declaration to honour and protect the Children of Earth and we come in multitudes across the globe to shelter you in our embrace as we make these mammoth adjustments that will enable you to join us. Please do not be afraid for we come in all Love and sincerity. There will be time to make these adjustments as we come among you and we deliver further speeches in the amphitheatres of Earth compelling you to listen to our words. The time range is of no comparison and we adjust frequencies to restore connections that have slipped through the net. We attune admirably in the circumstances available.
We fly across the great divide to be with you and yours and we monitor this connection, bringing in flavours of a new time frame that is open to each and every one of you. Stand firm ready to receive us and we will enable greater delights in store. We offer a broad beam of knowledge ready for your perusal and we understand a greater connection with those on Earth who are ready to come forward and be counted as part of our tribe. Those connections on Earth shall come to fruition and we have honoured many of you already in this time frame. Be prepared to accept greater residual energy and we will have accomplished a mammoth task to reunite with our elders on Earth. This has been a great accomplishment of mammoth proportions and we ask you not to look back but to look forward into a new world of exquisite gentility and freedom.
This is the main purpose of our visit today to give you that freedom to expand your boundaries . . . to march across those fields to see the vistas clear before you, and as the Eagle flies and soars above so will you soar on wings of Love. We tell you now my little one it will be so . . . and such exquisite Love awaits you in our dimension. And we bring you sustenance, the food of Love, and we welcome you to this domain, bringing forth the wisdom that you so desire and to spread around your world that we come in Love and Peace.
We bring a solution for your problems on Earth and the solution is such an easy one to follow if only you will raise your hearts and Love one another. What could be easier than this . . .
This is what makes the heart soar and the pleasure of giving far outweighs the pleasure of receiving! For giving yourself - you give to God and God shall raise you up to fly like an Eagle, higher than you have ever known and you shall be blessed!
We tell you now my children that we will be with you throughout the great ordeal you are going through on the Earth plane at this time, and all will be given a place in this beautiful world that we are preparing in your honour, and we receive you with the greatest Love and affection to be brought into a new world of indescribable beauty.
How shall we live in this new world; will we still have jobs and do all the things we do on Earth? We won't be just sitting on a cloud all day will we?
There will be much to do, do not fret on that score, there will be much to sing about and for a time you will be adjusting and settling in; there will be a time of playfulness and laughter, a time of learning and exploring your new world.
This does sound very much to me where you go when you die and go to Heaven. Are we in fact dying and going to heaven?
You will not have to leave your physical bodies behind; you will be transported as you are, as you choose to be in this physical frame. Your frequencies will have changed and your bodies will be lighter, of not such a denser frequency; you will be more of your true essence. We will empower you to roam at will and to study the universe in greater detail; you will have the ability to travel as you have never travelled before. And this new world may seem like Heaven to many of you, but you will remain intact and sample these truths without having to travel through the veil of death, and transformation shall be yours.
I'm being caressed by purple clouds.
We open this connection to allow you to see in greater detail, we draw back the veils that cloud your vision and allow you to see into our dimension . . . just open your eyes!
I still can't see!
Use your imagination and we can build with this.
I'm imagining a temple with white pillars and a blue sea; it looks like the temple at Philae in Egypt near Aswan. I'm going for a ride on a Felucca with the white sails billowing in the wind, laid back on cushions and floating along the river Nile. I think I get it now; everybody has their own dream and vision of how they want their world to be. But is this world of substance or is it a world of illusion?
You are already trapped in a world of illusion but you believe it to be real! You are locked in prisons that you have made for yourselves! Open your eyes and see the reality . . . push back those boundaries that hold you down. Your thoughts build the walls that surround you!
I was thinking of the animals, the ones that are ill-treated, surely they don't dream the world they live in because we are the ones that are controlling their world. If we let go they will be free too!
The more you let go . . . the greater your world will become and the more freedom you will have. Let go . . . soar to those heights you have dreamed of and imagined in dream state. Soar to the mountain tops . . . fly through the ethers. Nothing shall hold you back . . . expand and push back the boundaries that you yourself build. Continue pushing back and regain your heritage of life eternal, forever growing, forever learning, and forever loving.
I'm feeling the bliss, there are no pains in my body there is just vivid gold on purple in the silhouette of a crown and I can hear the rousing music from Handel's Messiah rising up to ornate golden ceiling covered in paintings from times gone past.
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I have been doing yet another blog Eileen about what is going on,I have gathered some links together
Oh Kerrie, I so needed to hear all these words from White Cloud even the ones I channelled . . . they bring tears to my eyes! Yes thank you that's great Kerrie, I would love to hear if Elisabeth sees White Cloud in this manner as Sharon who was his daughter in a previous life has said she sees him.
Eileen I am so glad you commented on Elizabeth's channel of White Cloud,this is what puts a smile on my face,people connecting and not being afraid of ego,you are a pure soul,so glad I met you, I posted this link so Elizabeth can view your painting,hope that is ok xxx
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Sweet Sister of MINE....I FEEL this is happening to some now the proof is in the pudding ........ This info is cream for the taking to filter through the right minds [energy]..THEN SHINE IT
Yes letting go & BELIEVING....that we can create this new world LOVE you & all xoxoxooxo........... eg I will just close my business today for a few hours & soak in the mineral hot pools KNOWING that ALL is taken care of PERFECTLY xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Here's some of my feelings about this.
In the present moment there are no delays!
We are much stronger than we Think.
We chose to be here in this time of transition because we're the Strong ones. That's our job. To stand strong in Love. That's our focus.
We chose to let go of our Minds and follow our Hearts. We are the Bridge.
We are what we create and what we create is Love, and that rises above the mind.
We hold the Lamp.
The Federation of Light ~ 21st Feb 2014
Thank you Terence,yes I get that there are dark energies and so many still beat that drum,I too seem to fall into the collective's way of thinking at times,so this I guess is what those that protect themselves intend to do, protect themselves from those energies! yet are they not also protecting themselves from higher energies,God can not judge it is impossible for love to be judgemental! so the only way we can do this is to raise our vibes and love unconditionally, it is a good way to access higher energies, that channel of Blossom's was in 2014 too Terence not 2013 and look what Blossom is saying in it.......
Yet … BEING of LOVE, no matter what … doesn't stop us having to pay bills that continue to rise out of control … and having to deal with … what I call, general 'rip offs'! Yes, you can come from LOVE … yet, the darker side continue to manipulate and monopolise … leaving us FEELING helpless and powerless at times, to overcome their control. LOVE does not seem to be breaking through these kind of issues … and these kind of issues are the very things that leave us struggling to shine! Do you understand, not just what am saying … yet, do you FEEL the frustration this causes and indeed the very reason why we asked for a sign to keep us keeping on?
So Blossom is continuously focused on that of which she doesn't want is she not? I do not blame her as she speaks for many it would seem,but I find it frustrating,this is why I love The Federation of Light so much,they just keep on keeping on with us and our ways,they are pure unconditional love!
I know we are living in an Illusion Kerrie & the 'New Illusion' we should have 'Shifted too was delayed. So we now are still in this Illusion (but in the 5th Dimension).
I was in a Trance Channeling group (at a Spiritualist church) last July/August & a friend was channelling the Goddesess. When they asked if we had questions, I asked if our new Illusion would be in October (2013) - Was told YES - I asked if Sirius would be our new Sun - was told YES - I asked if we would have 5 moons in October - I was given YES again...... When November came, I asked (at the same group) what had happened - we were told there was a delay,, unforseen issues.
So I asked my 8yr old Grandaughter (who knew all about the Shift & when) the following week. She asked her guide (Sara), who told her that there was a battle going on in another dimension.
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I will always believe my guides the Elohim as they are pure Spirit & at the Godhead, so when they warned me this morning. I knew it was Truth. - I think you misconstrued my meaning of a 'Dark Energy', it was a Dark Spirit (not Galactic) that said it wanted to go to the Light - Arcturus (Elohim) stepped in & said NO.
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Here's a portion of Blossoms Feb' 21st '13, where Fed'OfLight say;
Yet, we would say that this has much to do with the density in which you reside. So consider this. We have spoken in TRUTH … that we see more LIGHT pockets than dark. Does this not SPELL OUT TO YOU … just how exceedingly well you are coming together AS ONE in THE GREAT DIVINE PLAN?
This is how it appears to us … THAT THE LIGHT IS OVERTAKING THE DARK … and THIS is appearing to us in this way … EVEN through ALL that is planning to STOP the Divine plan … So, amidst all that is fighting to STOP YOU … YOU CANNOT BE STOPPED.
I have no fear whatsoever & even understand that if we worry about the Devil, we will manifest a Devil (thru Law of Attraction).. I once felt compelled to ask a guy (at a Mind-Body-Spirit fair) for a reading, some 3yrs ago - He went straight into Trance; channelled the Elohim, who said 'I will Command the Light & the Dark. It is my Path, as I did as Osirius'. He then started chanting in Egyptian 'Amun Khan Osirus' - I didnt even know the guy 2 days previous.
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In 2010, Jonathan Bender retired after completing the most unlikely of all comebacks from the game of basketball and left millions of dollars on the table to pursue entrepreneurship. Like so many inventors before him, he put his faith above the fear of what he was losing out in order to pursue his dreams beyond the basketball court. Interestingly, according to the NBA Players Association, an estimated 60 percent of retired NBA players go broke within the first five years after their hefty NBA paychecks stop arriving. Determined not to become another statistic, Bender found a way to turn a career-ending injury into an inspirational entrepreneurial triumph. In order to rehabilitate his chronic pro-sports injury, Bender invented an award-winning and clinically proven product which has enabled him to help others. For Bender this giant "leap of faith" has transformed him into a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is constantly being nationally recognized by media outlets like Fox News, Bloomberg, and Jim Cramer's Thestreet.com. His company the JB Intensive Trainer has had staggering growth with a 700% increase in distribution and now has over 500 sales people on board.
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A Myrtle Beach, S.C., taxicab driver is accused in connection with a womans rape.
Alqi Dhimo, 50, of Myrtle Beach is charged with criminal sexual conduct.
According to a Myrtle Beach police report, officers responded to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center on Thursday morning for a reported sexual offense and spoke with a woman who said she had been raped.
The woman told police that at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday she was walking near Hotel Blue on South Ocean Boulevard when a cab pulled up and the driver asked her if she needed a ride. She said she told the driver she didnt have her wallet with her and was looking for her lost cell phone.
The driver told the victim he would help her look for the phone. The victim told police he drove around for about 10 minutes before parking behind two buildings. She said he then began to kiss and fondle her, at which point she said she told him to stop.
She said the driver then grabbed her by the neck, covered her mouth and raped her. She said the sound of voices nearby and his cell phone ringing caused him to leave the area and drive her to Captains Quarters.
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While there may be a lot of free-floating anti-Bush and anti-American sentiment in the U.K. and Continental Europe right now, it's clearly not stopping consumers from buying U.S. brands.
Indeed, the industry observers, U.S. fashion brand executives and consumers on the streets of London interviewed for this story in the days before and just after President Bush's reelection overwhelmingly agreed that politics and fashion rarely mix.
"There is quite a bit of underlying anti-American feeling and mistrust here, but it doesn't cross over to the brands. Europeans are just not that crude," said Stephen Cheliotis, brand liaison director for Superbrands, a London-based independent branding consultant.
Indeed, in the U.K., op-ed writers appear to be resigned to another four years of Bush.
"I suspect that many anti-Americans inwardly rejoice in an election result that will enable them to go on believing that the Americans are all trigger-happy, gas-guzzling religious maniacs," wrote A.N. Wilson in The Evening Standard on Friday. And George Kerevan, writing in The Scotsman last week, said, "Anti-Americans should be aware of getting what they wish for — living without the Americans may prove worse than living with them. Like it or lump it, a Bush White House is now a fact of life. But if Scotland calms down a minute, we might discover that his America is a far less alien place than we imagine." (The mainstream view in Scotland is anti-Bush.)
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Your pets
Pets allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Pet fee: USD 25 per pet, per stay
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10.00 per night
- In-room microwave fee: USD 10.00 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 15 per night
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.Mark Twain
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.Nicolas Chamfort
It is said that the public is stupid. That's why those who hold it in contempt never dare to offer it something original.Isidore Isou
You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.Orson Scott Card
Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.Orson Scott Card
To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.Orson Scott Card
Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.Willa Sibert Cather
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.Denis Diderot
Some day, even the experts will figure out, that crime is not caused by rap music...or even my music, but by a power structure of self-absorbed property owners so brain dead and stupid they won't even see that if you're too goddamn greedy to pay taxes for schools and services, they're not going to be any good any more! And that uneducated time bombs are a very poor investment as a future work force. And if you go on teaching people that life is cheap, and leave them to rot in ghettos and jails, they may one day feel justified in coming back to rob and kill you. Duh!Jello Biafra
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.Peter McWilliams
More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.Brian Lamb
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.Conrad Veidt
The brave man is not he who feels no fear,For that were stupid and irrational;But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.Joanna Baillie
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.Aristophanes
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.Emile M. Cioran
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.David Hume
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture it's a really stupid thing to want to do.Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.Oscar Wilde
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Maybe you've put your faith in spiritual claptrap because our random, narrative-free universe terrifies you. But that's no solution. If you want comforting, suck your thumb. Buy a pillow. Don't make up a load of floaty blah about energy or destiny. This is the real world, stupid. We should be solving problems, not sticking our fingers in our ears and singing about fairies.Charlton
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.John Dewey
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.Willa Sibert Cather
You ever notice the first thing someone says when they can't find something is that it was stolen? They say "who stole it?!". It's an ego defense. They can't stand the fact that they might have been stupid enough to have lost something.George Denis Patrick Carlin


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Homes protected along Assiniboine River
Flood preparations have paid off along the lower Assiniboine River, as sandbags and earthen dikes are successfully protecting homes after a massive mobilization of resources to ensure the area is protected.
RM of Cartier public information officer Carmen Asu said all homes at risk of flooding in the area were sandbagged or protected by earthen dikes, thanks to the hard work of the Canadian Armed Forces, municipal public works staff, residents and volunteers.
"Everybody who needs a dike, got one," she said Mon., July 14. "The water levels seem to have stabilized."
The provincial government has said in several flood information updates that a flow of 18,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) will be maintained until water levels drop along the Assiniboine River above the Portage Diversion.
"We've identified no problem areas," St. Francois Xavier CAO Robert Poirier said Monday. "The water's at 2011 levels."
Headingley mayor Wilf Taillieu said the situation is the same in his municipality.
"It's holding now," he said.
Headingley's July 13 municipal flood report stated that the Assiniboine River's peak arrived that day with a maximum flow of 17,954 cubic feet per second (cfs) — just slightly below the expected rate of 18,000 cfs. The river level was measured at 234.394 metres (769 feet) which was just below 2011 levels.
The report said a second peak is expected to arrive at Portage la Prairie between Tues., July 15 and Thurs., July 17 at a flow of 52,000 to 53,000 cfs — higher than the rate of the flow of the first peak. As a result, it is expected that the 18,000 cfs flow on the lower Assiniboine will be maintained until July 22 or beyond.
St. Francois Xavier's Emergency Operations Centre will remain open, with reduced staffing, until any danger has passed. The public information line 204-864-2871 will be kept open.
The municipality will maintain a rapid reaction group able to respond to emergency calls around the clock. This group will respond with sandbags, equipment and operators in short order if called.
A St. Francois Xavier municipal report said that three 16-inch water pumps are being used to keep the level of the Long Lake Drain in the western end of the municipality below the overflow level. It is hoped this will mitigate the enormous loss of producing farm land seen in 2011.
Cartier's Asu said the Cartier Emergency Operations Centre will remain open and can be reached by calling 204-353-4005.
For up-to-date information, flood updates are available on the RM of Cartier website at www.rm-cartier.mb.ca, the RM of St. Francois Xavier web site at www.rm-stfrancois.mb.ca and the RM of Headingley web site at www.rmofheadingley.ca
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In addition to a restaurant, Hotel California Palace features a water park. Other amenities include a poolside bar and a complimentary children's club.
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Hotel California Palace features a water park, 2 spa tubs, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub. The hotel offers a restaurant. A poolside bar is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
2 meeting rooms are available. This family-friendly hotel also offers a children's pool, a fitness center, and a sauna. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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That's why I'm so amazed with this video from Rev3 Games. They managed to cut through the cold, icy walls of my XCOM-dismissing frontal lobe and made me feel something about this franchise. That's no easy trick, especially for an old jerk like me who's pretty set in his ways.
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What's wrong with consent?
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I broadly agree - our rape law is, to put it mildly, inadequate, and favours the rapist over the victim. That isn't the only, or even the main reason, why rape convictions are so low - that's due to broader cultural and social problems that changing the law wouldn't affect. But it would be a good start.ReplyDelete
So, I have to ask... what would a more pro-victim rape law look like? It's not enough to say the current law is bad, it should be possible to come up with alternatives. Perhaps it should simply require the accused to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the alleged victim was consenting, rather than requiring her to prove that she wasn't. But as you say, part of the problem is the whole way 'consent' is defined under the law - it's an artificial construct which doesn't always line up with real life, and reinforces a certain ideological view of sex. So how can that be addressed?
I feel just as unhappy with the current rape law as you - well, alright, maybe less so, since it isn't likely to affect me directly. But I also feel it's necessary to move from general problems with it to specific proposals for change. I have to say I don't know what a more pro-victim law would look like, how the concept of 'consent' could be handled less problematically. But I'm open to suggestions.
Good question Alasdair. I guess a more reasonable rape law would do away with the idea of consent altogether and have a higher bar of what level of involvement a person had in the event, to be considered actively participating in it. This would mean that a defendent would be questioned about how he knew that a woman was willingly participating in what he is calling sex and she is calling rape.ReplyDelete
This might not be a perfect solution as some couples who play sex games where passive/ active roles are employed, or where there is a pretence of resistance or reluctance from one partner, would still have the same issues as current rape victims have (a defendent could claim that these games were part of normal sex play and he'd mistaken reluctance or refusal for role-play) but it would address those rapes where a man ludicrously claims consent but has no sexual history with a woman, which would make his claim credible to anyone who isn't steeped in rape-myths.
I agree with you that a change to the rape law by itself would not be a panacea; there have already been a few changes recently, which have in fact introduced the principle that a man who wants to penetrate a woman's body needs to take reasonable steps to ensure that she consents to that penetration (and remember the hoo-ha that change caused! The idea that men should actually take some responsibility for ensuring they didn't rape someone was greeted as if they were being asked to achieve the labours of Hercules!)
Long term, we need much more education about rape and sex, we need to teach boys that they don't have a right to have sex with women and that they are responsible for preventing rape (by not doing it). This is not a message which people want to hear because it goes to the heart of power relations between men and women; women have traditionally been responsible for keeping their "virtue" and there has been an assumption that men have the right to break down boundaries in order to get that sex which a woman gate-keeps. (Sex being seen as a prize women jealously guard and men have to try and get hold of and if they manage to and the woman doesn't like it, it's her own fault for not being careful enough with the prize.)
Those cultural assumptions are still so strong, that even the recent re-write of the law hasn't filtered through to public attitudes and discourse, hence the outrage in some quarters about the jailing of Ched Evans, who is seen as merely doing what men do: getting sex from a woman who didn't do a good enough job of guarding it closely enough. The outrage is that her bodily integrity is being prioritised over his right to get the prize and many people are still bewildered by this long overdue change of priorities, a change which is based on a completely different set of assumptions with which those people are not familiar as they have no cultural resonance as yet.Replies
I would also like the standard to change to consent is active participation from all parties, not just permission. I could see how even in an "innocent until proven guilty" situation that the prosecutor could then show how the plaintiff did not actively consent rather than yes, he was aggressively rapey.Delete
I must defend BDSM where it supposedly is grey. There is such thing as safe words to prevent the confusion of assumed consent just because "no" isn't the nonconsent word. This problem occurs in vanilla relationships as well, hence how a spouse can rape their own spouse, by assuming that the relationship implies consent. Unless the couple established that consent could be assumed in said situations, the standard for consent should change to actively establishing the way to ask as well as reject consent, the specific cues per relationship will recognize.
this comment is actually for your "how i became a rape victim" post, but for some reason i can't post it there.ReplyDelete
i was stunned to read this. you're walkthrough of everything really opens my eyes and helps me make sense of my own experiences. this is what people should know about rape. every part of it. if this was published, i wonder how many women would realize how true this is, and change people's view on how society defines rape and how rape actually is, in every vague, every calculated, every forgiven-by-the-masses detail. i really think that something like publishing the truth of it like this would make way for change.Replies
Thanks Cori. Feel free to share on your social networks, the more people who question their assumptions about rape, the better.Delete
I also couldn't post there.Delete
It had taken me a long time to come to terms with what happened to me at fifteen, and the person I became because of it - I've never heard of anyone else reacting like that sexually, which cemented the knowledge that I 'was always just going to have been that sort of girl', and that it was expected of me. Reading that post was like reading my own life.
I haven't cried for years, if ever, over how it began seven years ago, but I cried today, though. It feels like I'm finally allowed to. That I'm still a valid person/woman/human. Not despite it necessarily, but because of it, too.
I can't get across on the internet how much this means to me, all I can say is... Thank you.
TakemetoVegas, I'm glad this helped.Delete
My ex wife accused me of multiple rapes. I was arrested, detained and questioned. I was able to show that on certain of these occasions no rape could have been possible, for a variety of reasons. Circumstantial evidence pointed to no rapes having ever occurred. I have had all my arrest records, DNA etc destroyed by the police as they are certain that no crime was committed. Only a few hundred people a year have this happen, out of nearly 1.5 million arrests.ReplyDelete
There are numerous reasons as to why she would benefit by making a false allegation. These were brought to the police's attention.
My ex-wife has never been interviewed about her false allegations, let alone be arrested, charged or prosecuted. The police recorded this as a rape, and have not recorded this as a false allegation. This is one of the reasons why only 6% of rape 'perpetrators' are convicted, and why there are so few cases of false allegations recorded. I'm not going to push for prosecution because the children have suffered enough from their mother's actions.Replies
Well arealvictim, that little anecdote is completely irrelevant to the subject of the post. This is a post discussing the concept of consent, about which you have not commented. However unpleasant your experience, it is incredibly rare compared to the experience of women actually being raped or sexually assaulted - 25% of women experience rape or sexual assault in their lives, 1 in 9 women actually get raped, most don't report it (only between 10 and 15% ever do) and all the research which is taken seriously by police, prosecution services and people who actually know about rape, are absolutely consistent that the rate of false allegations is around 4-6%, possibly even as low as 2% and of those false allegations, in half of cases the person making the allegation has mental health problems and/ or does not name a specific perpetrator.Delete
That means that between 94 and 98% of rape allegations are true and while there will be a tiny minority of men out there who are subjected to false allegations of rape, that problem is an anthill compared to the mountain of actual rape that takes place and goes unreported and un-punished.
This is the blog of a rape victim who in common witht he other 85-90% of us, never reported her rape. I am not interested in engaging with men who want to take about false allegations. You have the rest of the world to do that, you will be listened to sympathetically out there, while rape victims are silenced. If you post any more rape myths on my blog, I'll delete them and block you. For your assistance, here are some of the most common rape myths here:
HerbsandHags, if you are going to delete my posts, could you please have the courtesy to delete them all, or at least leave them and state your points where you disagree, and let others judge the merits.Delete
You do make valid points, but if you're going to be selective in what you allow to be posted you do detract from the merits of your arguments.
No. Like I said, you've got the whole of the rest of the world to give you a sympathetic hearing, while the 1 in 4 women who are raped or sexually abused in their lives are silenced by the deafening din of the minority of men who are either falsely accused of rape, or who falsely allege that they are falsely accused of rape. Men have a hell of a lot more reason to lie about rape than women do, but public discourse doesn't address that.Delete
Statistics show that only about 4% of rape allegations are false and these are NOT jsut police statistics, they are British Crime Survey stats (generally considered more reliable than police stats) and independent research carried out by universities etc. And yet if you ask most people, they think most allegations of rape are false. It is exactly this perception, that stops women speaking out against rape and that enables men to rape so many of us with so little consequence and so little awareness of what a bloody crisis this is for women. I am not going to allow this tiny little space on the internet, to be yet another space for people to discuss the anthill of false allegations while they ignore the Everest of rape and sexual assault.
If you want to delete your posts, feel free. If you want to post more, try and make it about rape, not false allegations. This blog is not here to give that crap a platform, sorry about that - you've got the rest of the world for it.
We need to start teaching boys that it is not simply "no means no" but actually "absence of yes means no".ReplyDelete
Just have to put in a link to a fabulously written article really going into the problems with our models of consent:ReplyDelete
and the second part:
Thanks Yafa, interesting stuff.Delete
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I'm not sure what the legal definition of consent is here in the United States, as it varies by state, but at my university, the definition of consent in our school code is "Consent is an understandable exchange of affirmative words or actions, which indicate a willingness to participate in mutually agreed upon sexual activity. Consent must be informed, freely and actively given. It is the responsibility of the initiator to obtain clear and affirmative responses at each stage of sexual involvement. The lack of a negative response is not consent. An individual who is incapacitated by alcohol and/or other drugs both voluntarily or involuntarily consumed may not give consent. Past consent of sexual activity does not imply ongoing future consent." It then goes on to list certain situations in which consent cannot be given, including incapacitation, force, and coercion. I always thought this was a pretty comprehensive definition that covers a lot of the holes you mentioned in your post.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree that that's a pretty comprehensive definition Eli, but unfortunately it's a much stronger one that the legal definition under UK law. The law has moved towards a more comprehensive definition in recent years, but public opinion hasn't yet moved with it and it isn't quite as good as the one you've described. Here's hoping we're moving in that direction.Delete