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New In the Public Interest column today on The Huffington Post from Phineas Baxandall
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Senior Analyst on Tax and Budget Policy explains the hidden tax subsidy likely to be in a settlement unless it's prohibited
"The true BP settlement amount will be substantially less than the headlines proclaim unless it prohibits a tax write off.
"When the SEC negotiated a $535 million civil penalty agreement with Goldman Sachs in 2010, they made sure the penalty would not be deducted. The same could happen with BP.
"When the government offers a company a tax-deductible settlement for its misdeeds, the public loses four times over. First, the public suffers the direct impact of corporate wrongdoing. Second, taxpayers must shoulder part of the penalty by covering the lost revenue in the form of higher tax rates or cuts to public programs. Third, future deterrence of corporate wrongdoing is weakened. And fourth, the absence of a trial eliminates opportunities for a public airing of evidence about corporate misdeeds."
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Interview: Working Out Our 'Big' Issues With Elizabeth Perkins
Features By Sarah Carlson on April 1, 2014 | Be the First To CommentI'm sitting here with Elizabeth Perkins, who starred in 1988's Big, to talk about the making of the beloved movie now that we're almost at its 26th anniversary. Elizabeth, thanks for meeting with me. Well, thank you. I'm a little confused why we're talking about the film in time for the 26th anniversary instead of last year for the 25th. Right, right. Well, this didn't occur to me last year. Oh. Okay, then.
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Features By Kevin Carr on April 2, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThis week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr recovers from a full day of watching Armageddon back-to-back to crawl back to the multiplex. He re-lived the last eight minutes of Source Code over and over, thoroughly confusing himself. Then he stumbled into the theater next door to learn about the true meaning of Easter from Russell Brand and James Marsden. Things take a decidedly creepy turn when he watches Insidious and wets himself more than once. This led to a very unfortunate scene while he watched the sexual-predator cautionary tale Trust. No one would believe him it was just wee wee.
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Movie News By Scott Beggs on February 9, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhen the teaser trailer for Hop first hit, it was an incredible moment of adorability and Blur's "Song 2." Now, with the first full trailer out, we're getting a better idea of the Roger Rabbit nature of the flick. It turns out it's a mixture of live-action and CGI. James Marsden stars as a guy who hits the Easter Bunny-elect (voiced by Russell Brand) with his car, and the two starts an unusual friendship that involves one of them pretending to be a stuffed animal in order to hit on the other's girlfriend. I'll let you figure out which one. Check out the trailer for yourself:
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These bean cakes are yummy and great for you. Served with the salsa, it makes a very colorful and festive presentation. I serve these with a lite side salad. Plenty of protein and fiber. Even my meat loving hubby loves this meal. Submitted by BCJL13 Carbs: 48.3g | Fat: 6.1g | Fiber: 13.6g | Protein: 14.2g | Calories: 294.2
A great recipe that is easy to make. Submitted by SPROUT Carbs: 8.5g | Fat: 8.5g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 13.4g | Calories: 161.2
Quick and nutritious, this zesty take on pasta salad is a family favorite. Garnish with fresh herbs and black olives. Submitted by RDEPASS Carbs: 45.6g | Fat: 3.3g | Fiber: 7g | Protein: 14.2g | Calories: 267.8
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This sweet dish is low in sugar. Submitted by ARINZE Carbs: 44.6g | Fat: 9.1g | Fiber: 7.4g | Protein: 8.8g | Calories: 280.5
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This nice meatless meal is good for vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters who are looking to transition to meatless meals. Submitted by THEOTHERHALF Carbs: 36.1g | Fat: 4.8g | Fiber: 5.8g | Protein: 9g | Calories: 216.3
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Everyone will love this simple dish that's full of flavor! Submitted by SMOKINGSBADFORU Carbs: 28.8g | Fat: 4.4g | Fiber: 4.9g | Protein: 6g | Calories: 172.6
This delicious vegan chili is the perfect meal for a cool, fall day. For more recipes like this, visit Daily Garnish. Submitted by THEFRONTBURNER Carbs: 40.8g | Fat: 1.4g | Fiber: 13.5g | Protein: 10.2g | Calories: 202.3
This filling vegetarian meal is nutritious and easy to make. Submitted by TWINMOM143 Carbs: 52.7g | Fat: 5.1g | Fiber: 10.2g | Protein: 13.7g | Calories: 284.5
A super easy version of the crispy fried eggplant parm I love! Submitted by JFALGIATANO Carbs: 23g | Fat: 8.7g | Fiber: 4.3g | Protein: 14.5g | Calories: 223.8
An experiment with leftovers yields a delightful, filling vegetarian meal. Submitted by STEPFANIER Carbs: 31.7g | Fat: 3.2g | Fiber: 9.1g | Protein: 13.8g | Calories: 204.5
The versatility of this Mexican salsa is limitless! Put it on grilled chicken or steak, add it to eggs, or serve with tortilla chips. Submitted by METALFINGER2U Carbs: 5.9g | Fat: 0.3g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 0.9g | Calories: 22.5
This sesame seaweed salad recipe is healthy and easy to make! Submitted by PHRAUGIE Carbs: 13.7g | Fat: 26.1g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 2g | Calories: 284.1
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My favorite dairy-free, protein-rich sauce! I use it for nachos, macaroni and "cheese", anything that requires a cheesy sauce. Don't let the yeast part daunt you -- it tastes awesome! Submitted by KIBACAT Carbs: 68.7g | Fat: 30.8g | Fiber: 16.9g | Protein: 37.1g | Calories: 661.3
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This is a wonderfully healthy soup! It is a good healthy hearty soup that holds up well for the next day. A nice blend of rich flavors and yet so simple to make. Submitted by CHEFGLORIA1030 Carbs: 22.3g | Fat: 1.9g | Fiber: 5.9g | Protein: 6.7g | Calories: 127.9
A hearty, homecooked meal that everyone will love! Serve with steamed broccoli and sweet corn for a complete vegetarian meal. Submitted by COACH_NICOLE Carbs: 44.9g | Fat: 4.4g | Fiber: 9.5g | Protein: 10.9g | Calories: 254.2
When the ingredients are fresh, salads can be simple yet impressive. This traditional, classic Israeli salad is perfect as a side, salad, or as filling for your pita. Submitted by LOULOUB Carbs: 4.4g | Fat: 5.6g | Fiber: 1g | Protein: 0.8g | Calories: 65.2
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The lungs supply needed oxygen to the body. But treatment for childhood cancer, such as bleomycin, can sometimes damage the lungs and lead to problems many years later.
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Survivors who received bleomycin during treatment for childhood cancer can develop these lung problems many years after treatment:
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Does any one know of a quicker way to germinate Acer seeds? Stratification seems so slow and time consuming Any suggestions would be appreciated Regards Len |
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I picked 2 species in the fall, and stuck them in the ground right away minus the wings. They are just now coming up. I am in Zone 8. |
Hi justmossy Thank you for your response,i have tried the same way as you more by accident ,I had left seed trays out over the winter that had not germinated and that did the trick but it is very slow I am hoping to find a quicker method' I was wondering if any one had tried giberic acid or some similar chemical particularly on Acers.i found the links on the acid but it does not mention Acer's in particular I have read that orange juice mentioned or am I having my leg pulled? Regards Len |
I've got seedlings galore...probably six hundred or more. I spent maybe fifteen minutes picking them off the tree November 1st...stripped the wings off (I know that is controversial) while I watched the news, soaked them overnite in a coffee cup of hot tap water, mixed them with damp (not wet) peat, sand and perlite in a ziplock, marked the date with a ballpoint and threw them in the lower back shelf of the fridge. I checked them in late Feb (about ninety days later)...noticed they were starting to sprout and put them in sand/peat/perlite flats under sixteen hour florescents. They are now an inch and a half high with true leaves. Easy as pie...no effort at all sabi |
Thanks sabi I appreciate winter sowing does the trick but it is now February I dont want to wait until next winter. I am trying the aluminium foil in fridge method, said to shorten the time considerably But still looking for a quicker method, who knows there may be a genius out there Regards Len |
As far as I know there isn't a workaround to Acer's need for a cold moist period before germination. The seed has a built-in germination inhibitor that is overcome by the chemical reactions within the seed that take place in cold stratification. Although you can probably shorten the time to 6-8 weeks with typical hardy species, you can't trick the seed out of this need. Soeur |
Len, I don't know that you will have to wait til next winter. I do know that after about ninety days in our fridge my seeds just "woke up". With only occasional light, reasonably constant temperature and no other disturbances, the seeds had no way to know what time of year it was, so I assume they have an internal clock that tells them when they have been cold enough for the right length of time...then they simply sprout. Let us know how your experiments work...but I don't think you will find more of a genius than mother nature! sabi. |
Hi Len, I too am curious if anyone knows a way to shorten the time. I stratified my seeds at room temperature for 10 days and now will keep them in the fridge for a few months. By the way, what is the aluminum foil in the fridge trick? Is it basically just storing them in foil instead of plastic or something? Curious as I've never heard of this. Regards. |
Hi Glen Apparently if the acer seed is wrapped in damp kitchen roll,I would imagine compost would be the same and then put in an aluminium foil ,the foil stops oxygen or at least hinders it and this decreases the amount of time in the fridge and brings about a 95% germination much quicker I am would imagine that the germinated seedlings could not do with out oxygen for too long and would be need to be checked on a weekly basis. I have am just trying this method,I started on 18th Feb, There was an artical on the subject by an American forestry comission, when I find the source I will post it here Regards Len |
Hi Glen After a struggle I found that reference to the aluminium foil for acer stratification. It is from the 'RNGR: reforestation,nurseries,and genetic resources' Try.www.mgr.net/reforestry/publications/tpn/files/30_2_3 pdf. Briefly it says,Quote. When seeds were stratified in aluminium foil pockets ,95% germination within 18 days after the onset of germination; with current methods ,germination took 46 days to reach 95% unquote In the similar artical by Carol A Janerette it says quote soaking sugar maple seeds in water at low temperatures for 14 days before they were stratified signifcantly reduced the time required to surpass 90% germination unquote |
Regarding Plant Hormones at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/botany/hormones.html Gibberellins stimulate cell division and elongation, break seed dormancy, and speed germination. The seeds of some species are difficult to germinate; you can soak them in a GA solution to get them started. |
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Thanks muligus An interesting link which deserves some study Best wishes Len |
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CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Gus Ragland ran for five touchdowns and threw for three more to lead Moeller to the Ohio Division I state championship with a 55-52 win over Mentor at Canton's Fawcett Stadium.
The Associated Press' co-offensive player of the year tied the Division I state championship record for rushing touchdowns Saturday as 14-1 Moeller won its second consecutive title and ninth overall. He threw for 273 yards and rushed for 189.
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I just got a sundew last week and I'm worried about it. I have it in a terrarium under a flourecent light and a 60 watt dome light shining in the side of it mainly for heat but also for additional light. I'm running 17.5 hour days. How long should I keep my lights on per day? Every chance I get I'm spraying water in the terrarium to keep the humidity up. I watered it and drenched the soil in distilled water as soon as I got it and there is a small amount of water on the base of the terrarium. That would be considered using the "tray method", correct? Day temperatures in there are 65-75F and night temperatures are about 60. The lid of the terrarium is open on the one side. I take the lid off a few times a day to wiggle the pieces of cricket on two leaves in hopes that it will digest them but it's been days and nothing has happened. Should I take off the crickets and wait until my plant creates dew to put them back on, or will my plant just digest them when it starts producing dew? I feel that I'm giving my plant the perfect environment but she still isn't happy enough to eat the food I'm giving her haha. What am I doing wrong? |
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I am not a fan of terrariums for CPs. I'd take it out, put it in a shallow tray of water in a bright window. Lack of light tends to be the reason for no dew. Also, it's probably adjusting to it's new home as well. |
That doesn't look like nearly enough light for vigorous dew production. I have a very dewy D. capensis (along with a few other carnivores) that I grow on a tray, with 6 T-8 fluorescent bulbs on 16 hours a day. The fluoros are about 5 inches from the sundew. Sundews like a *lot* of light. In nature they'd be getting full sun for like 12 hours a day. Here's my setup -- the D. capensis is on the far left. |
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This year's destressing plan for Washington University students at exam time backfired when Boo Boo, an adorable two-month-old bear cub, nipped 14 students and prompting a rabies scare that, sadly, will require Boo Boo's euthanization for rabies testing.
An informative video posted in time for the warm weather, known to draw many humans to the great outdoors and many animals to human habitations, as in the recent case of a Florida woman, who was attacked by hungry bears in her own garage. When dealing with angry or possibly rabid animals, rest assured: None of this advice may actually work.
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Hi, I'm new to this forum and I don't have alot to trade with but I could get some thing you wanted I need some sempervivum hen and chicks thanks rob |
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Hey robs. Welcome to the Tennessee Forum. I noticed "SC" after your name. Are you in TN or SC? If you happen to be in the East Tennessee Area, I could probably bring you some different Semps to the East Tennessee Spring Plant Swap. I have quite a few types and my collection is growing. Another place you might consider is Squaw Mountain Gardens (Garden Watchdog rating = a perfect 26/26). It is one of the best Semp sources. I will provide a link below. I'm not sure if they would ship this time of year or not. Even if they do, you'd be better off waiting until mid spring to order. Another good source is Mountain Crest Gardens (Garden Watchdog rating = a perfect 13/13), but they are a little expensive in my opinion. |
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A shrub called the Be Still does very well in Molokai, Hawaii, and up until now, the local deer population did not eat this bush. All of a sudden, these bushes were denuded. Any idea if the deer will continue to devour the Be Still bushes or could this be a isolated instance? |
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Aloha! Thevetia peruviana is the actual name of this plant. It's most common common-names are Luckynut and Yellow-oleander, but it is sometimes also called Be-Still Tree. Deer are really hard to predict. Their behavior often varies considerably with species, geographical location, and current conditions (availability of food, etc). Deer are often described as willing to eat almost anything if they are hungry. The only way I know of to get an idea of whether they will bother the plant in the future is to watch and see what happens. Your local extension agent might be able to give you a better guess, factoring in local information/knowledge. But, at best, you'd only get a better idea of what's typical, and not what's necessarily going to happen. If the plant is part of your landscape and you don't want it damaged, I'd recommend either providing some type of protection or repellant. Your local extension agent might be able to provide some good ideas about that too. |
Interesting. This is what we call Mexican Oleander here in Texas. I'm surprised that deer would eat it. |
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Nigel Llong will replace Billy Doctrove, who announced his retirement recently, on the ICC's Elite Panel of international umpires for the 2012-13 season. Llong, 43, is a former Kent batsman and has umpired in 12 Tests, 55 ODIs and 16 Twenty20 internationals.
Llong made his international umpiring debut in June 2005, in a T20 between England and Australia in Southampton. He stood in his first ODI, between England and Sri Lanka at Lord's, in June 2006 and his first Test in January 2008 in Dunedin, in a game involving New Zealand and Bangladesh.
As a batsman for Kent, he played 68 first-class games, scoring 3024 runs at 31.17. In List A cricket, he made 2302 runs at 25.29 in 136 matches. He made his last List A appearance in 2000.
The ICC have also picked Bruce Oxenford, part of the International Panel of umpires, to officiate in the World Twenty20 in September in Sri Lanka together with the 12 members of the Elite Panel. He also umpired in the 2011 World Cup where he was one of six chosen by the ICC to stand alongside the Elite Panel "after being identified as an emerging and talented match official".
Oxenford, a former Queensland legspinner, has stood in eight Tests, 34 ODIs and 11 T20 internationals.
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Torch travels to Buckingham Palace
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry welcomed the Olympic Torch to Buckingham Palace as its neared the end of its journey.
William, Kate and Harry watched as the flame was carried into the grounds of the Queen's London home.
It has travelled hundreds of miles across the UK in the run-up to the Olympics which will be officially opened by the Queen on Friday during a spectacular ceremony.
A host of famous names and ordinary people have helped carry the flame through villages, towns and cities.
The royal trio each nominated one of their charities to take part in this leg of the Torch Relay.
Kate's fellow Scout volunteer Jon Sayer, 33, handed over to Wai-Ming Lee, from MapAction, a humanitarian emergency response charity which has Harry as its patron, close to the Palace gates.
To cheers from the crowds lining the perimeter fence, Mr Lee walked on to the Palace forecourt and towards William, Kate and Harry, who all wore official Team GB tops. The trio are Team GB ambassadors and Kate completed her look with blue skin-tight leggings while the brothers wore chinos.
William, Kate and Harry were flanked by around 40 athletes from the Team GB Ambition Programme, which aims to encourage future sports stars.
In front of his royal audience, Mr Lee exchanged the Olympic flame with John Hulse, from the Mountain Rescue organisation which has William as its patron. The two men posed for a picture with the Duke, Duchess and Prince behind them before the flame moved on in the hands of Mr Hulse.
Members of the Queen's Royal Household had also gathered to wave the torchbearer off and, after he left the Palace's forecourt, 32 soldiers from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment escorted him up Constitution Hill to Hyde Park Corner.
Mr Lee, 38, from Hemel Hempstead, works for a digital mapping company, but as a MapAction volunteer is sent to disaster areas around the world to map resources, plot where aid is needed and other elements vital to emergency relief.
Before joining the royals for a private reception, he said: "I'm not a medic, I'm not a fireman, when we see these things on the TV you wish you could do something and I can - I'm a computer specialist who makes maps.
"Using maps I can make a difference to the people on the ground, help them get aid to the right people, at the right time, at the right place."
Speaking about the experience of carrying the torch, he said: "It was exhilarating and over too soon, I was walking slowly to make it last. Prince William said to me 'Don't drop it'."
Earlier, Joanna Lumley and Absolutely Fabulous co-star Jennifer Saunders shared torch-carrying duties as it passed through Sloane Square. The pair smiled and waved to the hundreds of spectators who lined the route to cheer them on, as they completed the leg in a quick walk.
Prime Minister Cameron and wife Samantha watched a relay exchange take place on his doorstep in Downing Street as war hero Kate Nesbitt handed over the flame to pensioner Florence Rowe.
Miss Nesbitt, 24, from Plymouth, Devon, was the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross.
She was given the award in honour of her bravery in administering emergency medical treatment to injured servicemen while under enemy fire during an ambush in Afghanistan in March 2009.
Miss Nesbitt met the Camerons on the steps of Number 10 and chatted to them briefly before she handed over the flame to Ms Rowe, 81, from Prestwood in Buckinghamshire, who carried the flame out of Downing Street.
Mr Cameron hailed her "huge heroism" on the battlefield and the medic afterwards said carrying the torch had been "incredible".
"It was such a special experience," she said.
"The Olympics is a massive event, bringing everyone together, and the crowds were lovely.
"It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt joined the Prime Minister to watch the handover in Downing Street, which was full of schoolchildren cheering on the torch.
When Ms Rowe was 18 she was part of the crowds in London who welcomed the Olympics in 1948.
She seemed perfectly at ease, waving to the crowd as she walked out of the gates at the end of Downing Street and into Whitehall.


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LEGO Survey analysis
Posted by Huw,The LEGO community team has published an analysis of the survey we were asked to complete in May. Here it is verbatim:
We hereby share top line, aggregated results of the LEGO Fan Survey which was conducted in May 2012.
Over 6.000 LEGO fans over the age of 13 participated in the survey. A majority of you who participated in the survey were above 18 of age with seven out of ten being between 18-44 years old. 14% of the respondents were women. When we compare this figure with previous studies, it indicates that more adult women are entering the LEGO hobby. The main occupation among you who took the survey were "computer/engineer/technical", then "arts/design/media", followed by "business/financial operations" and "education/training/library". Close to half of you have a bachelor degree or more.
In general the data indicates that the joy of building was ingrained in you from early childhood. Thus, eight out of ten confirm that as children they really enjoyed coming up with solutions to problems. The data also suggests that you were not afraid of embarking in building activities that others would think of being a bit too challenging. Apparently, you had plenty of time for free play and for many, playing with LEGO elemets was a daily occurring activity. Surprisingly, at least to us, the numbers suggest that you did not make use of older siblings and friends to help you build with LEGO products. This to us suggests that you were self-motivated and did not need assistance or to be encouraged to play with LEGO products.
Among those of you who responded, LUG members and people who have participated in a LEGO fan club meeting or a convention seem to represent a smaller group. However, data suggest that there are many more fans who expect to participate in LEGO fan activities in the future. We can also see that there are quite a few who expect to organize or participate in events where the purpose is to show fan created work to non-LEGO fans. Thus, there seems to be lots of enthusiasm among LEGO fans and a great interest in taking part of fan organized activities. We guess that there is a direct link between the great work that so many LUGs are doing and then this great anticipation to engage and socially interact.
About your online LEGO hobby activities, nearly nine out of ten check out LEGO related online sites a couple of times per week or more. You mostly use LEGO related online sites to check out new LEGO products and MOCs and to read reviews of LEGO products. Many of you use LEGO related online sites to learn new building styles and techniques, to keep informed about good LEGO deals, and to hear the latest rumors or gossip. Fewer of you use LEGO related online sites to show your latest MOCs, to contribute to LEGO fans' discussions and to get other fans' input and help with things you are working on. Only very few use LEGO related online sites to find new friends.
Regarding the way you perceive LEGO products, most of you agree that you feel a personal connection with LEGO products and that you believe that LEGO products are best in class. Judging from your answers, you are very knowledgeable about LEGO products and many of your non-LEGO friends turn to you to get advice on LEGO products. Close to half of you who took the survey have played with LEGO products for more than 16 years. So, it is actually no surprise that others think of you as a great source of knowledge and experience.
Seven out of ten agree that they take great joy in showing and explaining LEGO models to people who are not actively involved in the LEGO hobby. Six out of ten agrees that he or she feels compelled to help a fellow fan if he or she asks for help on how to improve his or hers LEGO design. This to us indicates a general openness and willingness to share and exchange the deep knowledge and experience many of you possess.
We also asked you about the way you perceive your MOCs. While most of you would not be too worried if other LEGO fans disliked your MOCs, many of you agree that the opinions of other LEGO fans are important when judging your work and that a MOC has to live up to certain standards if it has to be appreciated by many LEGO fans. More than eight out of ten agree that winning a MOC award or having one's MOC praised by other LEGO fans would potentially represent a very positive experience.
We are using the survey results to better understand the LEGO fan community and your relationship with the LEGO products in general. We would like once again to thank you for your participation.
Is there anything in it which surprises you?
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Not many surprises to me if I am honest, it more kind of confirmed somethings I had thought ie regarding who the majority of AFOLs are and the long term enjoyment from building lego thrives on.
Only surprise was the relative low membership of LUGs. But thinking about it, maybe not so surprising. It's perhaps more of a call for the LUGs to consider
No surprises, and that includes a complete lack of mention of prices.
@delatron -- Eggggggsactly. Of COURSE it'll be engineers first. Thats a duh moment. I remember my parents getting Lego sets as toys because they were reusable, used my imagination, and they were AFFORDABLE. The pricing isnt unbearable yet, but it's definitely less flex than it used to be...and it seems like the Lego aisles are busier than ever. On a positive note, that means they'll be around for a good long while.
Who'd have thought that the majority of people filling in an online survey would be in the "computer/engineer/technical" field! :) Surely the nature of the survey itself skews that one slightly...
^ Perhaps, but then again, isn't EVERYONE pretty much online these days?
This reads like a speech that a beauty pageant contestant would give. It's nice, but it seems skewed to make the community feel good and appreciative of itself. Even the one negative-ish part (about the low membership in LUGs) ends with a positive upbeat optimism.
"When we compare this figure with previous studies, it indicates that more adult women are entering the LEGO hobby" So, does this mean my chances of finding a girlfriend have increased!? Yesssss!
@ericjohn : Indeed. Doesn't say much and certainly doesn't address any negative points. Then again, the survey was commissionned by LEGO, so it was to be expected. I for one think their brand image suffers when we see huge profits and high prices...
There is a lot of negativity towards greed lately, as it seems to be the root of a lot of the problems these days. So when we see fairly high prices, we think GREED. We may not see other factors for the high prices that are not a result of greed (or at least not on LEGO's part), such as material cost increases, licensing, and so forth. That said, I am pretty unhappy with the generally high prices. I have even found sets like city, that don't have the added cost of expensive license agreements, yet still often having a high cost per piece often as bad or worse than licensed sets.
Not very surprising at all. It seemed kind of predictable. Happy 4th of July, fellow Americans!
I don't think the higher prices are greed, I think it is a classic example of the economic principle of price being linked to supply and demand. LEGO can't keep the shelves stocked at the current prices, which means that they can raise prices and make more money while still moving product. Don't blame it on LEGO, blame it on the people who are buying it regardless of price.
I don't think I've ever seen the LEGO shelves look like they do this year. How often this year have you seen the Ninjago or Friends section at your local store fully stocked? Not often, I suspect. That's usually something you see around the Holidays, not mid-year. LEGO just can't make this stuff fast enough.
Parents - start your holiday shopping now. By the time Christmas rolls around you won't be able to find any of the in demand sets if this pattern keeps up.
Back on topic... the point about LUGs describes me. Not a member because there wasn't one within 100 miles, but I'm actually trying to form one. If you live in Northeast Wisconsin and haven't heard from me, send me a private message on the forum.
Hmmm more women play with LEGO? Might find someone with common interest lol :P
So we turn to Brickset and the like for gossip? Very funny. I wonder how TLG is going to use the results?
@PaulTR Not if you go round saying things like that :-) I have a mental image of Moss from the IT Crowd uttering that line!
FYI There is hope and there are stories of happy couples that have met through Lego.
Haha with only 13% of respondents being women, the odds are not stacked in your favour gents! I'd say they'd be even worse if you subtracted those already in relationships and those that prefer the ladies!
I don't think it is "obviously" due to Friends.
If you think of anyone coming out of their dark ages, it takes a while to establish yourself in a hobby. Something puts Lego into your mind and you buy something...you get a taste for it, and you look for more things to build. You might look online for bargains, or for new ideas of what to build...and voilà, you end up on a fansite.
From there, you have the bug - and that's how you end up identifying strongly enough as an AFOL to fill in such a survey. I would say that's a fairly long process, and Friends has only been going for about 6 months.
If I had to choose a theme to account for the upsurge in AFFOLs, I'd say the modular buildings could have a lot to answer for. There has been a perfect storm over the last 18 months or so of fantastic adult builds which don't look like traditional 'boy toys' (which Technic, or Star Wars Lego does). I wouldn't say that adult women would be turned into rabid fans due to an explosion of pink...
@ scooby
As much as Modulars have attracted more females to LEGO bricks as adults, don't discount part of the increase being due to Friends. Several adult fan venues/sites have enjoyed an increased AFFOLs of about 10% during and since the release of Friends.
I would also like to address your comment about "explosion of pink" in that, the truth is merely 10% of the bricks/pieces in LEGO Friends sets are the color pink. The boxes are purple. New brick elements have colors of Azure Blue, Aqua Blue, Lime Green, pale Yellow Green, 2 Lavenders, and yes, some bright pink. The sets also contain loads of Red, White, Green, Black, Tan, Brown, etc. Although pink bricks have existed for decades, the recent online "freaking out" about Friends has artificially magnified the prominence of the color.
New elements, a Friends Modular, more colors which exist in the natural world, and some fun set designs are most definitely bringing more adult females either to the hobby for the first time, or out of "dark ages" to build again. Not only is this evident on image sharing sites and fan sites -- it is also demonstrated in LEGO events. LEGO Friends are just the beginning. The past year saw an increase in female minifigures appearing in sets and as collectible. This will continue to increase over the coming years, to the delight of females who prefer the classic minifigure.
LEGO stores' building areas have more girls participating than ever before. Whether those girls who are now building with LEGO bricks due to Friends will influence more adult women to build -- or more adult women building will influence more girls to build -- both activities have surged.
The true empowerment is for girls who never built with LEGO bricks before Friends. For those girls who did not relate to LEGO before Friends to now have an opportunity to build their own play scenes is a dynamic shift. In years to come, when those girls become women, they will be able to comment on how they gained their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) skills by playing with LEGO Friends. I will have a very big smile then :-)
Being in the 14% female minority i have to second that the modulars would likely be a large factor in capturing the eye of an adult woman. I love them and drool for them but do not personally own them I'm too busy buying the sets my almost 8yr old son drools for :p Even if I didn't have a son the modulars remind me of those dept 56 houses people collect or dollhouses, i've always thought dollhouses were cool and loved the idea of furnishing one but it's ridiculously expensive (ie 1 piece of fake food $8) and then what do you do with it when you're done? It sits and gets dusty, lego is definitely an affordable outlet for that. Of sets I have bought for myself (not caring if my son wanted to play with them) its been the creator 3 in 1 houses. I totally love the small little minifigure food and accessories and my absolute favorite is the animals. As an adult woman the Friends line doesn't excite me much. I used bricklink to get the new animals but as far as the dolls and that I don't care but I can see how little girls would. That said i've always been kind of a tom-boyish child anyways. I never cared much for actual dolls, I did have barbie and then my other favorite was hot wheels cars. I just had generic lego as a kid :P So my 2 cents for the lego group (not that I think they read our forum) would be to keep sets coming that allow girls to "play house" women love to build houses and then furnish and decorate them... that's kind of a no brainer right? And make more animals :P I love the animals, I know i can build them out of bricks but it's not the same I like the lego made animals.
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Stephen Sondheim is not everybody's idea of someone to tell you bedtime stories.
But in "Into the Woods," a musical based on Grimm's fairy tales, the lyricist-composer of such acid, bittersweet shows as "Company," "Follies," and "Sweeney Todd" has written a spellbinding score, witty enough to make old stories fresh for adults, lovely enough to enchant youngsters.
You know that "Into the Woods" is wizardry as soon as you see Tony Straiges' bewitching sets, which move as magically as dreams. And if you can resist its luscious star, Bernadette Peters, you are beyond the help of potions and spells. (Go directly to "Starlight Express." Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.)
Peters, whom every sensible person must adore, is central to James Lapine's book, which tells the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Ridinghood, The Baker's Wife and Rapunzel concurrently. It is like making half a dozen plates dance on top of spinning poles, which Lapine does with finesse.
Many of these stories hinge on ancient fears about "the weaker sex." Who but Peters could make even a wicked witch a droll image of troubled motherhood?
In the second act the characters discover that living happily ever after ain't easy. It is equally funny but more sober in spirit, a balancing act greatly aided by Peters' tongue-in-cheek warmth and her beguiling voice.
Sondheim's music weaves in and out of the dialogue seamlessly. At times it is a bouncy cushion for his ingenious lyrics (much less self-conscious than in some of his work). At other times the music is rhapsodic, particularly in a haunting refrain for Rapunzel, several glorious ensemble numbers, and a ravishing duet for two princes.
Some of the most evocative music recalls the more tender moments in "Sunday in the Park With George," as does a touching lyric like "Children can only grow / From something you love / To something you lose."
The cast is perfection. Joanna Gleason, whom sensible people are learning to adore, is funny and moving as the baker's wife. Chip Zien, an actor who has grown greatly, is appealing as her hapless husband. It is hard to imagine a more dashing, vocally seductive prince than Robert Westenberg (though his fellow prince, Chuck Wagner, is a good match).
Danielle Ferland is hilarious as a nasty Red Ridinghood, Tom Aldredge powerful in the tricky role of the narrator, Ben Wright wonderfully innocent as Jack. Kim Crosby is a captivating Cinderella, Barbara Bryne is expectedly funny as Jack's long-suffering mother.
Ann Hould-Ward's costumes have gorgeous shapes and colors. Richard Nelson's wondrous lighting and Jonathan Tunick's elegant orchestrations also add to the spell.
Unlike some current shows, which belong in Vegas or Disneyland, "Into the Woods" is genuine musical theater, an evening of total enchantment.
The moon has a dark side, and so do fairy tales. It is the darker side of both that Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine are exploring in their new musical, "Into the Woods," which opened last night, once upon a time, at the Martin Beck Theater.
At first the musical seems a collection of fairy tales with a certain difference - most are familiar, some are Grimm and many are made grimmer.
There are Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, a brace of assorted Princes (as one explains, "I was brought up to be charming, not sincere"), Jack the Giant-killer, Rapunzel and, of course, a Witch.
And there is also a Baker and a Baker's Wife, who want nothing more than to have a child, and if you don't remember the fairy tale about the Baker and his Wife, don't worry. They are the pure invention of James Lapine's always inventive book.
It is the adroitness of this book that threads all those various threads together and makes an ingeniously interlocked fabric from the various tales. And, naturally, they all end happily ever after. Don't they?
Well, only until after the intermission. Then a certain degree of bitterness intervenes as reality intrudes. "Into the Woods" suffers the ravages of a moral forest fire, not to mention the trampling of a real giant.
The earlier Sondheim/Lapine musical, "Sunday in the Park with George," had a rather similar two-act "masque, anti-masque" structure, but what failed so pompously, pretentiously and predictably in the earlier musical, narrowly, but triumphantly, works here.
Each act has a certain parallelism to it - details are oddly echoed in a different emotional key, with a different dramatic coloring.
Even the zaniness of the first act takes care to stress not only a high degree of sophisticated irony, but also the violence and savagery that have traditionally existed in fairy tales but that we, in modern, Disneyesque times, have tended to bowdlerize.
In the second, comeuppance act, we even have death, murder, adultery and the problem of pain. Yet Lapine and Sondheim are neither bleak nor pessimistic about the human comedy, or even the human condition. Despite all failures and mistakes, betrayals and departures, they insist that: "No One is Alone."
Sondheim has long abandoned writing conventional, common or garden variety Broadway musicals, and obviously "Into the Woods" is not going to go up the common or garden path.
He may be ready to tackle the problem of pain, but he still has the problem of music - the problem of finding an acceptably literate musical language between pop and pop opera, between rock and a hard place.
He has abandoned the furtive passes he made at Puccinian Lloyd Webber lyricism in "Sunday in the Park," and returned to the cooler, crisper, less expansive, more urgently dramatic language of his own "Sweeney Todd."
The melodies are here very much shaped by the lyrics - the word - the musical word, that is - takes precedence over the actual music, forming it and shaping it to its own sense.
This spare, laconic score, with Jonathan Tunick's succinct orchestrations, may not please everyone - it's a long way from "Oklahoma!" - but I find it exciting in its acceptance of simplicity, at times almost minimalist simplicity, and its quest for an acceptable musical usage to bridge the threatening gap between Broadway and its future.
The lyrics here are dazzling. Note, for example, how many rhymes for "ick" Sondheim can find with a flick, and how he can construct them into brilliantly cerebral poetry.
Lapine's staging seems more confident than it was in "Sunday in the Park," with smoother transitions and sharper performances, although in the former he was presumably much helped by the choreographer Lar Lubovitch, credited with the "musical staging."
The real success of the production team goes to the settings, designed by Tony Straiges. With etching-like front-cloths of fairy-tale castles and cottages, and wonderful bosky, sylvan woodland scenery that might have been inspired by the now textbook forest settings of the French designer Jean Carzou of some 30 years back, "Into the Woods" is a scenic trip. And the costumes by Ann Hould-Ward are also imaginative and vigorous.
Unusually, perhaps, for a Broadway musical, "Into the Woods" lacks a star role, although Bernadette Peters, as the most calculating witch to come down the pike since "Macbeth," with her street-smart brittle glitter unquestionably offers a star performance.
Other particularly lovely performances come from a warily resourceful Joanna Gleason and a chirpily honest Chip Zien as the Baker couple, Robert Westenberg handsomely stuffed as the wolfish Prince, Kim Crosby as a knowing Cinderella, and Barbara Bryne as a reluctant hero's mother.
"Into the Woods" takes a new look at adult fairy tales and lunar romance. June doesn't have to rhyme with moon anymore, and there isn't a tune to go with it. I found it refreshing.
When Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood and their fairy-tale friends venture into the woods in the new Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, you can be sure that they won't miss the subconscious forest for the picturesque trees. The characters of ''Into the Woods'' may be figures from children's literature, but their journey is the same painful, existential one taken by so many adults in Sondheim musicals past.
Like the middle-aged showbiz cynics who return to their haunted youths in ''Follies'' and ''Merrily We Roll Along,'' or the contemporary descendant who revisits Georges Seurat's hallowed park in ''Sunday in the Park With George,'' or the lovers who court in a nocturnal Scandinavian birch forest in ''A Little Night Music,'' Cinderella and company travel into a dark, enchanted wilderness to discover who they are and how they might grow up and overcome the eternal, terrifying plight of being alone. To hear ''No One Is Alone,'' the cathartic and beautiful final song of ''Into the Woods,'' is to be overwhelmed once more by the continuity of one of the American theater's most extraordinary songwriting careers. The lyric's terrifying opening admonition - ''Mother cannot guide you'' - sends one reeling back three decades to the volcanic finale of ''Gypsy,'' in which the mother played by Ethel Merman at last cast her children into the woods of adulthood with the angry outburst, ''Mama's got to let go!''
The material of ''Into the Woods'' is potent stuff - as old as time, or at least as old as fairy tales. One needn't necessarily have read Bruno Bettelheim's classic Freudian analysis to realize that, in remaking Grimm stories, Mr. Sondheim's lyrics and Mr. Lapine's book tap into the psychological mother lode from which so much of life and literature spring. What is harder to explain is why the show at the Martin Beck, though touching both of its authors' past themes at their primal source, is less harrowing than, say, ''Sweeney Todd,'' which incorporated its own Sondheim variations on ''Rapunzel'' and ''Hansel and Gretel,'' and less moving than ''Sunday in the Park,'' which made related points about children and art and gnarled family trees through similarly Pirandellian means.
To understand how much ''Into the Woods'' disappoints, one must first appreciate its considerable ambitions and pleasures. The authors have not just tried to match the Grimms but to top them. In Mr. Lapine's book for Act I, Cinderella (Kim Crosby), Little Red Ridinghood (Danielle Ferland) and the giant-killing Jack (Ben Wright) join two newly invented characters reminiscent of ''Sunday in the Park,'' a childless baker (Chip Zien) and his wife (Joanna Gleason), in an intricate tripartite plot also yanking together one witch (Bernadette Peters), one wolf (Robert Westenberg), two princes (Mr. Westenberg and Chuck Wagner) and countless parents and stepparents. Although the principal characters, true to their Grimm prototypes, gain new wisdom in the woods, their pre-intermission happy endings hardly deliver the promised eternal ''tenderness and laughter.'' In Act II, everyone is jolted into the woods again - this time not to cope with the pubescent traumas symbolized by beanstalks and carnivorous wolves but with such adult catastrophes as unrequited passion, moral cowardice, smashed marriages and the deaths of loved ones.
The conception is brilliant, and sometimes the execution lives up to it. Mr. Sondheim has as much fun as one expects with his wicked airing of the subtext of the old tales: Mr. Westenberg's rakishly sexual wolf sings, ''There's no possible way/To describe what you feel/When you're talking to your meal.'' Mr. Lapine's script has its own bright jokes, many of them belonging to the production's two performing finds - the sassy Ms. Ferland, whose Lolita-like Red Ridinghood evolves into a ferocious little fox in a wolf stole, and the tender Ms. Crosby, whose insecure, weak-kneed Cinderella has a lovely, comic fragility that recalls the young Paula Prentiss. Only when Barbara Bryne is mugging campily as Jack's mother does the humor compromise the production's fundamental belief in grave, ontological fairy-tale magic. The designer, Tony Straiges, transports us from a mock-proscenium set redolent of 19th-century picturebook illustration into a thick, asymetrical, Sendakesque woods whose Rorschach patterns, eerily lighted by Richard Nelson, keep shifting to reveal hidden spirits and demons.
Unfortunately, the book is as wildly overgrown as the forest. Though the structure of ''Into the Woods'' leans on Sondheim trademarks - puzzles and scavenger hunts - its architecture has not been ingeniously worked out in Mr. Lapine's script. Perhaps the enterprise could use less art and more craft. The interlocking stories, coincidences, surprise reunions and close calls do not fall gracefully into farcical place as they did in the theatrically equivalent books for ''A Little Night Music'' and ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.'' Instead, the various narrative jigsaw pieces often prove either cryptic or absent, and, with the aid of a sort of post-modernist anti-narrator (Tom Aldredge), they must finally be patched together to achieve a measure of coherence.
The confusion breeds stasis; the show stands still during the huffing and puffing of voluminous plot information. Worse, the convoluted story has a strangulating effect on the musical's two essential sources of emotional power, its people and its score. The characters are at such frantic mercy of the plot that they never gather the substance required to make us care, as we must, about their Act II dilemmas of conscience, connectedness and loss. This is often true even of the musical's real leads, the baker and his wife, in spite of a good performance by Mr. Zien, who is funnier than his wimpy Chico Marx costume promises, and a wonderful one by Ms. Gleason, whose intentionally anachronistic suburban matron blossoms in fairy-tale land.
Mr. Sondheim's numerous songs, though often outfitted with incomparably clever lyrics, sometimes seem as truncated as the characters, as if they were chopped off just when they got going to make way for the latest perambulations of the book. With the exception of ''No One Is Alone,'' the most effective songs are directly tied to the plot (as in the extended title number, a gloss on ''A Weekend in the Country'' in ''Night Music'') or are their own self-contained jokes (as in ''Agony,'' a duet for philandering princes).
Too many of the other songs bring the action to a halt, announcing the characters' dawning self-knowledge didactically (''You've learned . . . something you never knew'') rather than dramatizing it. And sometimes the soliloquies describing psychological change are written in interchangeable language, as if the characters were as vaguely generic to Mr. Sondheim as they are to the audience. Time and second hearings always tell with a Sondheim score, but this one, its atypically muted Jonathan Tunick orchestrations included, makes the mildest first impression of them all.
The work's weaknesses and strengths alike are emblemized by the predicament of Ms. Peters, who is very funny as a cronish, crooked-finger witch but whose connection to the many plots is so tenuously gerrymandered that she is assigned a sermonizing song in Act II for no apparent reason other than her billing. Without this star, who delivers her numbers with enough force to bring down houses (whether theaters or 'little pigs'), ''Into the Woods'' would be a lesser evening, but the paradoxical price for her appearance is a deflatingly literal-minded explication of the musical's message (and of the witch's character), not to mention overlength.
There is enough to look at and think about, however, that the overlength rarely induces tedium. As director, Mr. Lapine may make little call on the services of his musical stager, Lar Lubovitch, but the tales keep sprinting on stage and into the auditorium. The result is unique to its composer's canon - the first Sondheim musical whose dark thematic underside is as accessible as its jolly storytelling surface. ''Into the Woods'' may be just the tempting, unthreatening show to lead new audiences to an artist who usually lures theatergoers far deeper, and far more dangerously, into the woods.


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EUGENE, Ore. -- Springfield High School graduate Jake Wilson grew up to become a professional boxer, but when he's not training for a fight he's volunteering his time teaching kids the value of hard work and dedication.
The program does not cost the kids money, but they are required to pay it forward to participate.
"Work hard when they're here," said Wilson in between training with a 5-year-old from Eugene, "and when they go out into the community, be good people. That's what we're trying to send to them. That's our message."
Before the workshop convenes, each child is expected to share with the group a good work they performed in their community that week.
On this particular Saturday Wilson and his sparring partner showed all the kids the kind of fighting that is expected to stay in the gym.
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MI Rules MCR 5.404
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Michigan Court Rules of 1985
Chapter 5. Probate Court (Refs & Annos)
Subchapter 5.400. Guardianship, Conservatorship and Protective Order Proceedings
(A) Petition for Guardianship of Minor. The petitioner shall state in the petition whether or not the minor is an Indian Child or whether that fact is unknown. If the court requires the petitioner to file a social history before hearing a petition for guardianship of a minor, it shall do so on a form approved by the State Court Administrative Office. The social history for minor guardianship is confidential, and it is not to be released, except on order of the court, to the parties or the attorneys for the parties.
(B) Limited Guardianship.
(1) Modification of Placement Plan.
(a) The parties to a limited guardianship placement plan may file a proposed modification of the plan without filing a petition. The proposed modification shall be substantially in the form approved by the state court administrator.
(b) The court shall examine the proposed modified plan and take further action under subrules (c) and (d) within 14 days of the filing of the proposed modified plan.
(c) If the court approves the proposed modified plan, the court shall endorse the modified plan and notify the interested persons of its approval.
(d) If the court does not approve the modification, the court either shall set the proposed modification plan for a hearing or notify the parties of the objections of the court and that they may schedule a hearing or submit another proposed modified plan.
(2) Limited Guardianship of the Child of a Minor. On the filing of a petition for appointment of a limited guardian for a child whose parent is an unemancipated minor, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the minor parent. A limited guardianship placement plan is not binding on the minor parent until consented to by the guardian ad litem.
(C) Limited Guardianship Placement Plans and Court-Structured Plans.
(1) All limited guardianship placement plans and court-structured plans shall at least include provisions concerning all of the following:
(a) visitation and contact with the minor by the parent or parents sufficient to maintain a parent and child relationship;
(b) the duration of the guardianship;
(c) financial support for the minor; and
(d) in a limited guardianship, the reason why the parent or parents are requesting the court to appoint a limited guardian for the minor.
(2) All limited guardianship placement plans and court-structured plans may include the following:
(a) a schedule of services to be followed by the parent or parents, child, and guardian and
(b) any other provisions that the court deems necessary for the welfare of the child.
(D) Evidence.
(1) Reports, Admission into Evidence. At any hearing concerning a guardianship of a minor, all relevant and material evidence, including written reports, may be received by the court and may be relied on to the extent of their probative value, even though such evidence may not be admissible under the Michigan Rules of Evidence.
(2) Written Reports, Review and Cross-Examination. Interested persons shall be afforded an opportunity to examine and controvert written reports so received and, in the court's discretion, may be allowed to cross-examine individuals making reports when such individuals are reasonably available.
(3) Privilege, Abrogation. No assertion of an evidentiary privilege, other than the privilege between attorney and client, shall prevent the receipt and use of materials prepared pursuant to a court-ordered examination, interview, or course of treatment.
(E) Review of Guardianship for Minor.
(1) Periodic Review. The court shall conduct a review of a guardianship of a minor annually in each case where the minor is under age 6 as of the anniversary of the qualification of the guardian. The review shall be commenced within 63 days after the anniversary date of the qualification of the guardian. The court may at any time conduct a review of a guardianship as it deems necessary.
(2) Investigation. The court shall appoint the Family Independence Agency or any other person to conduct an investigation of the guardianship of a minor. The investigator shall file a written report with the court within 28 days of such appointment. The report shall include a recommendation regarding whether the guardianship should be continued or modified and whether a hearing should be scheduled. If the report recommends modification, the report shall state the nature of the modification.
(3) Judicial Action. After informal review of the report, the court shall enter an order continuing the guardianship or set a date for a hearing to be held within 28 days. If a hearing is set, an attorney may be appointed to represent the minor.
(F) Termination of Guardianship.
(1) Necessity of Order. A guardianship may terminate without order of the court on the minor's death, adoption, marriage, or attainment of majority. No full, testamentary, or limited guardianship shall otherwise terminate without an order of the court.
(2) Continuation of Guardianship. When a court has continued a guardianship for a period not exceeding one year, the court shall hold the final hearing not less than 28 days before the expiration of the period of continuance.
(3) Petition for Family Division of Circuit Court to Take Jurisdiction. If the court appoints an attorney or the Family Independence Agency to investigate whether to file a petition with the family division of circuit court to take jurisdiction of the minor, the attorney or Family Independence Agency shall, within 21 days, report to the court that a petition has been filed or why a petition has not been filed.
(a) If a petition is not filed with the family division, the court shall take such further action as is warranted, except the guardianship may not be continued for more than one year after the hearing on the petition to terminate.
(b) If a petition is filed with the family division, the guardianship shall terminate when the family division authorizes the petition under MCL 712A.11, unless the family division determines that continuation of such guardianship pending disposition is necessary for the well-being of the child.
(4) Resignation of Limited Guardian. A petition by a limited guardian to resign shall be treated as a petition for termination of the limited guardianship. The parents or the sole parent with the right to custody may file a petition for a new limited guardianship. If the court does not approve the new limited guardianship or if no petition is filed, the court may proceed in the manner for termination of a guardianship under section 5209 or 5219 of the Estates and Protected Individuals Code, MCL 700.5209 or MCL 700.5219.
(5) Petition for Termination by a Party Other than a Parent. If a petition for termination is filed by other than a parent, the court may proceed in the manner for termination of a guardianship under section 5209 of the Estates and Protected Individuals Code, MCL 700.5209.
[Adopted July 12, 2001, effective January 1, 2002, 464 Mich; amended December 18, 2001, effective May 1, 2002, 465 Mich; November 15, 2005, 474 Mich; February 2, 2010, effective May 1, 2010, 485 Mich.]
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Located in the city of Wilmington's historic 'Little Italy' district, West End Neighborhood House has been improving the lives of an ethnically, economically and culturally diverse community since 1883. In 2013, the agency served over 9,000 individuals. By employing a continuum of care approach to meet clients' comprehensive needs and encourage ultimate self-sufficiency, West End provides assistance through outcomes-driven programming, utilizing innovative solutions to resolve complex social challenges throughout Delaware. West End is a registered 501c3 organization, whose mission is to help individuals achieve self-sufficiency, reach and maintain their maximum potential, and live responsibly and harmoniously in a healthy community and complex world.
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The Samsung UE32F4000 is a cut-down version of the UE32F4500. It's the cheapest 32 inch Samsung TV, but it cuts the available features right to the core. Design & looksThe UE32F4000 is a smart-looking TV with a glossy black narrow bezel around the edge of the screen. However it lacks the designer-style stand of the F4500 model and doesn't make such a good visual impression. Power consumption is extraordinarily low however, at just 31W, making this TV A+ rated for energy efficiency. Picture qualityThe picture quality of this entry-level TV isn't as bad as you might expect for the price. It's the same panel as the F4500 and is capable of producing super bright colours with plenty of contrast. It can also generate impressive black levels. However, there are several areas where picture quality is compromised. The most obvious one is that this is not a full 1080p HD display. Instead it supports 720p HD at a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. That's common for cheap televisions, and at a screen size of 32 inches it's not as problematic as you might think. Secondly, the dynamic range of the screen is poor, with shadow detail often lost. Thirdly, the Clear Motion Rate of 100Hz is barely sufficient to resolve fast motion, so if you watch a lot of sport or action movies, you'll probably notice motion blur. But some or all of these shortcomings are also true of many of the more expensive 32 inch models on offer from Samsung. You could spend considerably more and not notice any real difference in picture quality. Audio qualityAudio quality is surprisingly good for such a cheap TV. Although the speakers lacks bass and can sound tinny at times, most other flat panel TVs are the same, and the F4000 performs as well as most, apart from the very expensive sets. ConnectivityThere have been inevitable cost savings when it comes to connectivity. There's no Smart TV on this model, and no internet connectivity either. There are just 2 HDMI connections, which will quickly be used up by a digital TV box and a DVD or Blu-Ray player. That leaves none to connect a games console. There are connections for supporting older devices, including a SCART and a composite AV connection, but these are best avoided as they lead to lower quality signals. Conclusion - not the best entry-level TVThe F4000 model is certainly cheap, but it's not much cheaper than the significantly better Samsung UE32F4500 with Smart TV. The F4500 also includes more HDMI connections, has built-in Wi-Fi and a sexy-looking stand too. We'd definitely choose the F4500 instead. Samsung UE32F4000 features include:
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Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership Announces Awards
Published: May 1, 2009The Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership at CSULB is providing students from majors as diverse as social work, computer science, criminal justice, construction engineering, science education and communications with essential ethical decision-making tools before entering the workforce. Through one of its key initiatives called "Ethics Across the Curriculum," the center offers $2,000 stipends to faculty members who integrate a three-hour ethics module into their courses.
The 2008-09 multidisciplinary faculty awardees were Chikako Nagai for "Critical Ethical Issues Addressing Spirituality and Religion in Social Work Practice;" Hung Nguyen for "Integrating Ethics in Construction Engineering Management Courses;" José Rodriguez for "Preventing Sexual Assault: Ethical Performance in Interpersonal Communication;" William Straits for "Ethics in Science: A Guide for Future Science Teachers;" John Wang for "Teaching Ethical Issues in Forensic Sciences through a Mock Trial Debate;" and Xiaolong Wu for "Infusion of Computer Ethics into the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Curriculum."
Recipients received their awards at a campus luncheon attended by faculty, staff, College of Engineering Dean Forouzan Golshani, College of Health and Human Services Interim Dean Dixie Grimmett, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean Laura Kingsford and College of Business Dean Michael E. Solt.
"Ethics Across the Curriculum" has been made possible through a grant from Boeing. The Ukleja Center launched the program with College of Business Administration faculty in 2005. Now all CSULB colleges and disciplines are invited to participate and lecturers as well as tenured faculty are encouraged to apply. The application deadline for 2009-10 proposals is Friday, Oct. 30.
Named for its major donors, Mick and Louise Ukleja, the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership equips people with the transformational power of ethical leadership. It focuses on a three-pronged approach to applied ethics – university research, education, and community outreach. In addition to offering programs for faculty and students, the center works with companies, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations to advance the practice of ethical leadership.


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