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The proposal has been discussed with Farrah Nazir.
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If the Edmonton Oilers are serious about bringing in a big time, minutes crunching defender in 2015, the options are few and the risks frightening. Men with one year left before free agency, aging players with stunning contract length and number, it's enough to make you quake in your boots! No worries. There's always Dion!
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Cornell West has supported Nader in the past, I was disappointed to see him fall -- at the time -- into Obama's camp.
OBama never claimed any allegiance to your silly notions of what he'd do once elected. He was / is a run-of-the-mill Amerikan politrickian. You ought to have known that.
I warned you, just after he was elected, that you'd become, in just a few years, his biggest detractors. You thought that your votes had given him the win and that he'd have to pay attention to your whining.
Well, you were wrong. If you'd been less full of yourselves and a little more on top of what was happening, you'd have known that our ol' buddy, GW Bush gave him the win. People were so fed up with Der Shrub that they wanted someone quite different. B U T .....not socialist different. Just not another arrogant Republican.
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee, my dear lefty friends. If you want any kind of a silly socialist system to take hold in Amerika, you're going to have to build it from the grass roots on up. The Democratic Party is NOT going to become your vehicle to the White House. Nor should it be.....
I see you commented on Libby's blog Dr. Perhaps you read my theory on Obamas pathology: having been abandoned before birth by his Kenyan father Obama has a pathological hatred for Black people. I think its rather obvious he has killed more Black people in the past four years than the Southern Democrats killed in the entire ninetieth century. But perhaps whoever said people get the candidate they deserve was right.
What makes you think that I limited "those on the left" to those whom YOU know?
If you were reading the blogs here on OS, by left oriented writers, you'd have seen many who indicated support for Obama and what they expected of him once he took office.
Having followed your comments for some time now, I can honestly say that I don't know what to make of you.
Your reading of the present situation, its causes and its likely outcome, seems spot on. I just cannot understand how you could possibly be sucked in by socialist clap-trap.
Perhaps, like many, you see it as the only possible alternative to predatory greed capitalism. I hope not because predatory socialism, which is built upon the same pyramid of power as PGC, is likely to be no solution to the problem of building a society that actually works for the members of that society - ALL of the members.
To me, naif that I am, a society ought to exist solely for the benefit of its members - that's why people come together to form societies, is it not?
No society that we've ever had has done that effectively (aside from, possibly, some of the pre-columbian Polynesian and, perhaps, some of the ancient North American ones).
Such a society is never going to "just happen" to come into existence. We need to define just exactly what purpose we want a society to serve and then design one specifically for that purpose.
Apparently a very great many people think that mankind is not capable of doing that. They keep grabbing at straws like "capitalism", "socialism", "fascism", etc. All of these have been tried. All of these have failed to meet our need for an equitable and decent social order. Repeating those previous methods will only bring the same results again.
We need to design a social order that seems to us to be likely to serve us well. We need to adopt or design an economic system that will serve the social system.
I am convinced that once we see the need to step out of the boxes we've already found very uncomfortable and take up the challenge of designing and building something different and suitable, we'll be on the way to taking the next step upward on our long, slow journey to maturity.
How do you see it?
He's never hesitated to play rough or throw anyone under the bus to achieve victory in his political career. However non-transparent Obama's tactics may be, if you look through his history, what you see is what you get.
And skypixie seems convinced that little cells of people can change everything. At some point larger realities have to be confronted. In societies with hundreds of millions of people large, working systems, of transportation, communication, are needed. The problem is they serve conglomerates and capitalism. So, yeah, that IS the problem. There's no avoiding that confrontation, no matter how much Fox-type "anti-lefty" stuff is heaped on the fire. It's a perspective that sounds very isolated, very uninvolved...
Again, good post. Rated.
Right now as far as what I see around me Socialism is the only possible alternative to predatory greed capitalism. What I would like to say is what we need is a new religion but the predominate religion in the West is Christianity which says it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to attain the kingdom of heaven. Yet the prevailing system of economics is predatory greed capitalism and indeed "good" Christians even managed to endorse slavery less than two hundred years ago. So I must come to the conclusion that the rest of the world is right. Its in our DNA sky. the Caucasian is a predator above all else, even above his God. The simplest solution is the one that is being attempted now; to breed it out, but I doubt that's going to work either. There are two reasons it won't work. One is simply because we don't have enough time for that and the other, related to the first, is because the Caucasian as a whole abhors breeding with other races. I am not even so sure that removing the Caucasian race is a good idea. As noted by Benjamin Disraeli in his early "fictitious" novels the Caucasian race cannot be subjugated where as all other races can. If this statement is true and, as you probably know, Disraeli was no fool. He didn't let idealism get in the way of the facts. Then it just may be that the Caucasian race stands as a stopgap to just the kind of totalitarian world government that you and I so abhor. The one we have now! Or should I say the one which we are about to wage war against. I do not know of any political solution that will work that will incorporate Caucasians peacefully into a world community, a world community which is quite necessary given environmental concerns of a population that has swelled to over 7 billion people. So give the Caucasian National Socialism minus the NAZI racism, something he can spread with his little toy bayonet to keep that warrior gene happy. He likes war even more than he likes material goods anyway. Lets hope that we can buy enough time so that we can come up with a more permanent solution before he once again starts taking the things that are not his to take.
I'm not sure that I "get" all that you're saying. Let me see what I can make of it.
As I already said in other words, "as far as you can see around you" is just the same old tried and failed stuff that we really don't need to get involved in again. It didn't work before and it won't work now.
What about coming up with something different? Y'know we've got a hell of a pile of knowledge of things that work and things that don't work stored up now. Any good social system is going to have certain things in common.
The materials used to build one structure can be used to build another. The sub-systems will differ little, I think. I mean, a good transportation system in a capitalist nation is not going to be far different from one in a socialist country, is it?
I can understand your thought that a new religion is needed. I think that may be just an expression of your realization that people need a definite goal (heaven?) to work towards and a means of achieving that goal (religious rites?).
But in the US part of North America there already is a strong secondary religion; two in fact - politics & wealth. Heck, the politics religion has even followed the same pattern of early christianity by splitting into two treat warring factions. I see few differences between the Republican / Democrat split and the Catholic / Protestant split. And the wealth has split between the haves and the have-nots. Again , two great warring factions.
I don't see this working out too well, do you? In the past we've seen what happens when one side or the other gets the religious upper hand. Right now we've seen what happens when politics and wealth get the upper hand. And however you describe it - however you define it - it isn't working out for the people. It's another dead end. We're on the verge of another Dark Ages for pete's sake!
OK, with each system, we had to try it. We had to see. But now we know. It won't work. Time to move on. Time for those, such as yourself, who seem able to clearly see much of what doesn't work, can't work, won't work, to design a system that you think WILL work. And no, Jack, you can't just turn around and grab one of the old ones off the shelf and put it forward as a "new and better" solution. Oh yes, parts of the old ones can help but in total, as systems already tried, we know we just can't adopt them.
I find it very interesting that you should bring up National Socialism because that is a system that had a lot of interesting ideas. So does communism. So does (world) socialism. I suspect that even feudalism could contribute something to the discussion. But I think it a serious error to try to apply one of them whole cloth to our present situation. They just don't fit.
Your ideas about Caucasians are abhorrent to me. I married across race lines and do not understand racism at all. To me there is one race - humanity. It comes in different genders, sizes, ages, colours, and intelligence & abilities. But it is one race. Every member of it is different from every other member of it - yet every member of it is equally a member of it.
I'd love to see you and others of your abilities stop "looking around" for an existing blueprint for a system that'll work well. I'd love to see you take a seat at the drawing board and help to design a system that'll work better.
And then go to work on "how to get there from here".
I apologize for Jack and myself bumbling rather far afield from the topic of your blog. Sometimes things just have a life of their own......
You ask a good question, only you, unlike others, seem to be prepared to attempt to answer it. This is the question I periodically ask Boko. OK, you don't like the current system because it's failing. Yup. It is. Blatantly. Peculiarly enough, it's even failing itself, because as the rich take more from everyone else, they're bankrupting their own customer base, which is what keeps them rich.
We know what isn't working. I'm not prepared to say Let's get rid of what we have regardless of what comes next, because I've seen that tried too much in the Third World (and other places) and it's never pretty - they throw out the Corrupt and they get the Zealots, who are usually worse.
How do we come up with even a theory of what would work?
If we do, how do we impliment it?
You mean Victoria, not Elizabeth
Because by any substantive measure Romney would be even worse.
Obama is in many respects Romney Light. They're justifiably more afraid of Romney Heavy.
"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."
Obama is good proof, he's one of whitest gents ever to occupy that house.
As you may already know, I don't ask anyone to "come up with an idea" without having one of my own to toss into the pot. I started work on mine over 40 years ago.
Basically it's this:
--Recognize that our society has two basic systems and a multitude of sub-systems that it operates on. A social system and an economic system.
--Acknowledge that capitalism, while a terrific economic system, is a tool. It is a very dangerous tool. It must be kept in strict control at all times as a servant of the social system.
--When the capitalist system is made to serve the society, it does a great job of offering a decent income for all and opportunities for all to develop their abilities.
--When the social system loses control of its economic system that system soon runs amok and having no conscious intelligence, ends up eating itself (sound familiar?)
--In order for a social system to be effective, it must determine what it wants to be; i.e. what would a fairly decent society look like (let's not try for utopia - how about just one little step up from the mess we have?)
--Almost all the problems of our society stem from one easily recognized thing; improper distribution of wealth.
--The majority of the wealth of our society is held by a very few people who MOSTLY INHERITED IT!
--What would be wrong with having ALL the people inherit the wealth by generation instead of a few inheriting it directly from parents?
--If all people passed their wealth on to the next generation of the whole society when they die, instead of just to their own personal progeny, then all would have a birthright inheritance.
--If that inheritance were in the form of shares of all public companies, it could be left to grow until the new-born is an adult - say 20 yrs old.
--That would provide sufficient funding for him/her to prepare themselves for their life's work or even, if they lived frugally, to support them for life. JUST AS IT DOES FOR THE WEALTHY RIGHT NOW.
--Unlike the socialist model, I do not wish to drag the rich down to the level of the hoi-polloi, I want to drag the hoi-polloi UP to the level of the rich. AND I want to do it the exact same way the rich got up there - inheritance!
--To set up the mechanics of something like this is child's play for smart, educated people. You or I could, in a pinch, probably work out a model that would serve.
--Look at what this does. It lets us continue to gain the advantages of a capitalist, competitive, economic system - but one that is strictly controlled and whose benefits accrue to the whole of the population.
--It provides the security of self survival and personal advancement that a socialist system claims to provide while still leaving individuals owning their own wealth and able to dispose of it as they see fit.
--It eliminates the need for costly social services to be provided by a huge bureaucracy that masters and feeds upon the population.
--It even eliminates the need for labour laws and unions. A financially secure population can no longer be forced to accept employment as wage-slaves but will be free to accept or reject employment based on their own terms. Bad bosses will lose out - who would work for one?
--Since the "employees", indeed the whole population, would be shareholders in the economic system via their shares in national corporations, they would have a personal stake in making sure that those companies are successful by buying American instead of buying cheap foreign goods. Another major plus, you'll agree.
The elephant in the room is, of course, how to "get from "here" to "there." And I even have some thoughts on that!
But I am only one wee average person. Imagine what someone who really knows his stuff could come up with! But that won't happen as long as we're all convinced that we've got to grab, off the shelf, one of the previously tried, ready-made, social/economic systems from the past. My ideas may have value or they may not. That isn't important. What is, important is that they show that it IS possible to think of other social/economic models that DON'T include throwing the baby out with the bath water by destroying a fine economic system because we let it get out of control. Would you ban all use of fire because it is dangerous? Or would you prefer to control it properly so as to make use of its helpful qualities?
Capitalism CAN work for the good of the whole society; but NOT predatory, greed capitalism. Let's think about a form of capitalism the I call Citizens' Capitalism where our society owns the economic system instead of the other way around.
I think perhaps I got carried away while answering kosher and actually replied to you too. Sorry 'bout that. I get excited sometimes!
That's actually really intriguing. Is there really enough money in inheritance to do that? After all, the whole point of inheritance is the security of the next generation.
The problem you'd run into is from parents but if there's really enough that all kids eat, you've hit the minimum, particularly if the parents can pass on, say, their houses.
This is a new idea to me. This is actually not bad.
I'm kind of a negative repairs (debating term) capitalist myself, not that I'm big on the whole investing structure but on private businesses. Actually, my personal experience is that no business that I've ever seen go public performs as well as when it was still private. What you need to do for employees and yourself is way different than what you need to do for shareholders. Shareholders are looking for nothing but financial worth, private owners often care for the good of the company because it's their baby.
This is a conversation worth having further. You've got my attention.
Queen Victoria Queen Elizabeth their all the same Kosher: parasites! If she had any decency at all she would have listened to Gladstone when he told her what they planed on doing in Africa and what they were doing in India was morally reprehensible. Instead she cast her lot and therefore mine, yours, and the entire Western world, with a guy like Disraeli whose biggest disappointment in life was the repeal of the corn laws, laws that starved to death millions of her own people. I would say David Icke is right but then that would be an insult to reptiles. Reptiles have far more compassion than the aristocracy! If we do not remove them now they will remove us and finish the job of world wide enslavement. War is coming to America and its going to happen very quickly like their Jesus said "like a thief in the night." And like M&M said when he was composing their anthem "You only get one shot, do not miss your chance." It is the last chance for the human race.
Jack, you seem to be heavily invested in the idea that "the elite" are some other form of life; different from "we-the-people". They're not. They're just you and I had we been fortunate enough to have been born to their parents. They were born in and raised in the same polyglot of "systems" as we were. They are every bit a human as you and I and every bit as worthy of respect as you and I. They are NOT some alien enemy that we can ever "get rid of once and for all".
We humans have had an "elite" class as long as we've had social organizations. In the beginning it is the parents who formed that elite to their children. Then it was family/tribal elders. Then minor kings, major kings, emperors, etc.
The concept of electing such leaders is not a new one. America, contrary to popular American belief, did not invent it. It has advantages over hereditary leaders - and it has disadvantages too.
There are those who say that we can do without such leaders. Perhaps we can, perhaps not. I suggest that the real social leaders are "positions" rather than individuals and that individuals are only "leaders" so long as they occupy those positions. The question is: How do we determine who and when and how individuals come to sit in those leadership seats?
Elections have been our recent method. I question the viability of this method. Elections, it seems to me, require that every candidate be pretty well known to the electorate if that electorate is to have the ability to make a good choice. Those selected must, of course, bend every effort to fulfill the responsibilities of the office (the seat) they've been chosen to fill.
In large populations such as ours it is impossible for the electorate to "know" the candidates that well at all. This means that the voters must rely upon the information that comes to them through the advertising done by the candidates. Since such advertising is expensive and needs to be well co-ordinated and aligned, political parties raise funds and determine who will run to represent the party.
This does two terrible things to "elections". It puts the question of who will be able to afford to run into the hands of a political party - a party whose best interests it will most certainly look after FIRST. A party whose best interests are NOT usually the same interests as the interests of the voters. It also allows the political parties to make promises to funders in order to get funds from them. Those promises too, will seldom be in the best interests of the voters.
So electing people to fill the seats of the political elite becomes, as it has in most countries that have them, harmful to the interests of the ordinary people. Those with massive fortunes can, and do, purchase promises from elected officials, openly or secretly, to ensure that the laws support the financial elite. Even when such laws are directly harmful to the electorate!
The corollary problem with electing those who will sit in the "elite" political seats, is that it fosters career politicians who see their interests as aligned with the interests of those who fund them and the party which provides that funding. This works against the electors also.
I'd suggest that those who sit in the seats of management be one-time-only managers and that they be chosen, from the adult, non-criminal, mentally sound population. I further suggest that such people be chosen by lot. A lottery is unbiased as to age, gender, colour, ethnic background, etc. It allows a fairly even distribution of choice that will truly represent any large population.
This would take the funding - the purchasing - of representatives out of the equation. It also takes the "career" out of social management. It means that each, and every, member of the population must be ready to take a turn sitting in one of those management seats at some point during his/her lifetime.
This, it seems to me is much closer to "of the people", and "by the people" than "electing" career politicians who owe allegiance to political parties and financial supporters (masters).
As to the "for the people" part, well, those chosen from among the people will hardly be likely to do any worse than those bought and paid for minions of the financial and political elite, now will they?
If you combine this idea of social duty with the idea of starting life in a fairly equal financial position as are all others, (Citizens' Capitalism) you get a social system that doesn't have the flaws that our present system has. One that allows the social system to work on behalf of the people instead of on behalf of the financial OR political elite. And if socialism doesn't have a financial elite it sure as hell has a political elite!
You cut out the financial and political elite's ability to control the whole economic and social systems for their benefit and their benefit alone.
"Of the people. By the people. For the people." - Words to live by. Words to build an entire social/economic system by. Words to leave to our children in a society that honours them.
What do you think?
Is there enough money in inheritance to do that? Heck kosh, the elite - the top 6% - have about 90% of all the wealth in our society. We, the people, make do with the other 10%. Imagine what our society would look like, financially, were that other 90% of the wealth to be brought into play!
With the security of financial stability, the competitive capitalist economic system would operate as it should. Capitalism was never a system that could work well with a huge chunk of the wealth of the society grabbed off by the few wealthy. It's a system that requires that the wealth be "in play". Direct line inheritance has NEVER been good for capitalism.
True capitalism, being competitive, must ensure fair competition to work properly. Only when all start at the same starting line can the race be fair. When some start with the finish line two steps in front of them, thats not competition - thats a massacre. Direct line inheritance is a hold-over from feudalism and other ancient systems. It doesn't belong in capitalism.
I think that discussions like this are actually pretty sad. The post itself draws up a good point, starting with an interesting figure. Pinkney is no great anti-imperialist in the tradition of Carmichael, or Fanon for that matter. In particular Pinkney's reliance on tropes of universal humanity is an awful weakness. It leaves far too much obscured in the present evolution of global-capital, and in many ways mirrors exactly the rhetoric used by corrupted and absorbed NGO's and others who work adjacent to the World Bank, IMF, and other psuedo-internationalist institutions. I'm sure Pinkney would denounce the collusion--but the tropes have to go at some point, and not only out of recognition that they are no longer owned by popular-democratic forces. The system has to be transformed before the terms can be--something the anti-imperialists knew in Fanon's time. Even thinkers as advanced as Hardt and Negri only now are struggling to understand how profoundly the changes that have already been made under global-capital effect representational, symbolic, and political norms. I mean this in the widest possible sense.
That said, Pinkney makes important points, laying out the specifics that should form the basis for a solid progressive rejection of Obama's cynical politics. Voting for him does not represent compromise, unless one believes in compromising with a sociopathic profit system. Some evidently do.


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So, I am finally starting to reconstruct everything that I have destroyed over the last few months and I need your help. I have put the new tub in its place and I am not sure what to do about the gap. I have it flush with the studs on the back (long) side, and the right side where the drain is. There is one twisted stud that I will have to shave down and put a straight one beside it, but other than that, two of the three sides are looking good. As you can see in the attached image(s), there is roughly a 1" gap on the left side of the tub. Now, I am not sure how to word the rest of this post so please forgive me. I plan on waterproofing this alcove with Kerdi, and need your help with hanging the drywall. Should I use furring strips to fill the 1" gap on the left side, and then use 1/4" furring strips on top of that for the drywall? If I do that method, should I then continue to fur all of the studs on that wall with 1.25" furring strip to make the wall flat? Since the right (drain) side is already flush, should I also continue to fur that whole wall with 1/4" furring strips in order to make everything flat? Does that make sense? it does in my head? I'm worried about the butt joints and recessed joints when I hang the drywall? what kind of layout should I use? Should I use a solid sheet of drywall to do the whole wall including the alcove? Should I try to avoid recessed joints around the tub? Thanks, Ed |
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Ed, If it was me I would not shim the walls at all other than your crooked stud. Using Kerdi I think you have a perfect fit right now. Drywall either down past the lip to self shim the tub or stop at the lip if it make the centering better re the faucet. Kerdi down to 1/4" or so of the tub deck and Kerdi-fix. Tile, thinset and Kerdi will cover the slight bump-out at the tub lip and you won't have to worry about matching drywall. |
First thing I would do is attach the drain. It may affect the position of the tub. |
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If the petitioner is an adoptive parent who intends to travel to the United States for a temporary visit and plans to return to their residence abroad, they may wish to explore the N-600K process.
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Please submit copies of relevant documentation to support why you believe you qualify for an exceptional circumstance exception. Some examples would include evidence of a medical emergency, documents related to a job offer or job relocation, or other evidence that indicates an imminent need to depart the country. This is not an exhaustive list of examples.
Supporting documents must be in English. Any document that is not in English must be accompanied by a full English translation, and include a translator's certification that he or she is competent to translate from the original language into English and that the translation is a complete and accurate translation of the entire document.
What documentation should I submit when filing Form I-130?
Please refer to the USCIS website, which outlines the requirements for filing the Form I-130 and provides more detailed information. USCIS regulations also describe the requirements for a Form I-130 petition. You can find these on our website.
If I've met all eligibility criteria to file Form I-130, what is the process to request local processing at the U.S. Embassy or consulate due to exceptional circumstances?
If I live in a country without a USCIS International Office and the USCIS Field Office Director with jurisdiction over my place of residence denies my request to file with the Department of State, can I appeal that decision?
No, there is no right to appeal or request reconsideration of a USCIS decision to deny a request to process Form I-130 on an exceptional basis.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invited you to participate in a listening session on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern) to discuss DAPA, one of the recently announced executive actions on immigration.
On Nov. 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions. Under one of those actions, certain parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who have been living in the country since Jan. 1, 2010, will later be able to request deferred action and employment authorization for three years. During the listening session, USCIS officials provided an overview of the new initiatives and seeked your feedback on DAPA.
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If you request either initial or renewal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), you must submit Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization and required fees. USCIS will reject your request if you fail to submit Form I-765, the required filing fee, Form I-765 Worksheet, and Form I-821D, Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. For complete instructions on requesting DACA, go to the Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) page.
For DACA renewals, USCIS strongly encourages you to submit your renewal request between 150 days and 120 days before the expiration date located on your current Form I-797 DACA approval notice and Employment Authorization Document. Filing during this window will minimize the possibility that your current period of DACA will expire before you receive a decision on your renewal request.
USCIS' current goal is to process DACA renewal requests within 120 days. However, you may submit an inquiry about the status of your renewal request after it has been pending more than 105 days. To submit an inquiry, please visit egov.uscis.gov/e-request or call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 (TDD for the hearing impaired: 1-800-767-1833)
USCIS recently published revised Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker. The revised Form I-129 is labeled with an Oct. 23, 2014, edition date. You can download the revised form and details about who may file Form I-129 from the USCIS forms website.
Starting on May 1, 2015, USCIS will accept only the Oct. 23, 2014, edition of Form I-129. USCIS will not accept previous editions of Forms I-129 (edition dates: Oct. 7, 2011, Jan. 19, 2011, and Nov. 23, 2010) on or after May 1, 2015.USCIS recommends that you download the revised form, which prompts customers to fill out the form completely and helps improve USCIS' ability to process the form.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invited you to participate in a stakeholder teleconference and listening session on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern) regarding recent developments relating to the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) and appeals processing.
During the first part of this engagement, USCIS provided AAO program updates. The second part of the engagement included a listening session in which individual stakeholders provided feedback on areas of potential regulatory reforms and improvements to appeals processing. USCIS is exploring options to update, clarify, and simplify current DHS regulations for appeals and motions, including the scope of the AAO's appellate jurisdiction.
AAO May 28 Stakeholder Engagement Summary
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invited you to participate in a listening session on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern) to discuss the expansion of DACA as part of the recently announced executive actions on immigration.
On Nov. 20, President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions, including expanding DACA to individuals of any age who came to this country before turning 16 years old and have been present since Jan. 1, 2010. This expansion of DACA will go into effect approximately 90 days following the announcement. The actions also extend the period of DACA and work authorization from two years to three years. During the listening session, USCIS officials provided an overview of the new initiatives and your feedback on DACA expansion.


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"Help! I always fall for bi women who leave me for men!"
Dear CG,
Help! I always end up with bisexual women who end up leaving me for men. This is the 4th time it's happened! In the beginning they always gush on and on: "You're so beautiful, you're such a goddess" and I fall for it every time. Then later they're like "Well, I'm sorry, I really like you, but…" My heart can't take this any more!! What is wrong, and how can I fix it?? — S.D., Chicago
Dear S.D.,
Ouch. That does sound incredibly painful. I am so sorry you are going through this.
The issue really isn't that your partners are bisexual, though. (Bisexual women are just as capable of committing to one partner as anyone else.) We hear from lots of women who have similar patterns that play out just a little differently. For instance, "I always fall for women that aren't over their exes yet," or "I always fall for women who are poly, even though I want a monogamous relationship," or "I always fall for women who live far away," or…
So, let's look at what these scenarios have in common. They all involve someone who thinks, "I'm here, I'm available, my heart is open – why can't I meet my match?"
What I've discovered time and time again, both in my personal experience and with my therapy clients, is this:
When you feel like you're saying Yes and the universe is saying No, the truth is that somewhere inside of you, there is also a big loud No – and that's what the universe is echoing.
Please know that I'm not saying you want or deserve this situation. Of course you don't want it or deserve it. And it's not your "fault." Yet somewhere inside of you, there are beliefs, fears or needs that are leading you to re-create it, to get drawn into it, again and again.
Now, it can be very painful to face this truth – but ultimately it's a joyful and empowering truth, because it means that since you have been (unconsciously) creating your own suffering, you have the power to change it! (Which is part of why we at Conscious Girlfriend love to say, "You have the power to transform your relationship destiny!")
Here is an exercise I often do with clients to help them locate that inner "No." If you're brave enough, you can even do it by yourself. Here's how.
Let yourself get into a calm, centered, meditative state. Relax, breathe deeply, feel the surfaces underneath you, remember your connection to the earth, and to yourself. Place a hand on your own heart. Come into your body as fully as you can.
Then try on a preview of what you believe you want. Say to yourself, "Okay, I've met my match. She is completely, 100% available. She's single and unattached, she lives nearby, I'm just her type, she's just my type, she's perfect for me, and she's totally into me. All systems are GO."


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N.E. Side fire ruled arson
Investigators have concluded that a Northeast Side house fire was intentionally set, KSAT-TV is reporting. The fire started about 3 a.m. Tuesday at a house in the 5100 block of VIllage Green, the station says. A couple who rented the abode were arguing, and the fire started shortly after the woman left the house. A […]
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What you're saying about President Obama's visit to S.A.
President Barack Obama is expected to stop by the Alamo City to raise campaign funds today and social media is all atwitter with local commentary.
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Car overturns on I-35 in Austin
A car overturned in the wake of a wreck this morning on Interstate 35 northbound in Austin, KXAN-TV is reporting. The wreck occurred on I-35 at Onion Creek Parkway, the Austin station says. It wasn't known how many lanes of the interstate were shut because of the wreckage or for how long. Read more: Rollover […]
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Bogus UT kidnap claims probed
Bogus calls referring to the kidnapping of University of Texas at Austin students are being investigated, KXAN-TV is reporting. The FBI has joined with university police in probing the calls, in which a person who speaks English with an accent demands that a small amount of money be transferred to a bank account outside the […]
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Comal ISD gets a new boss
The Comal Independent School District has a new superintendent, KABB-TV is reporting. The school board approved hiring Andrew Kim on Monday night as the district's new leader, the station says. Kim is leaving Manor Independent School District near Austin, where he's been superintendent since 2008. Kim also has worked in the Austin and Round Rock […]
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Southbound 281 snarled
Southbound morning rush-hour traffic on U.S. 281 between Airport Boulevard and Basse Road has been slowed by debris in the road. Traffic is backing up past Loop 410 to the north. Early police radio reports indicated that a nail-studded 2-by-4 had fallen onto the road, puncturing motorists' tires. However, the entrance ramp from Jones Maltsberger […]
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Man jailed in parking-lot burglaries
Police captured a suspect in car burglaries early today at two downtown hotels, KABB-TV is reporting. Officers saw a man breaking into cars near Cesar Chavez Boulevard and South Laredo Street about 2:30 a.m., the station says. Police gave chase on foot, and a suspect was was Tasered and caught near Guadalupe Street, KABB says. […]
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If anyone ever ventures out to my neck of the woods (Birmingham Al) make sure you visit J Clyde. Best bar in town for beer selection. They don't even carry BMC. I think the most commercial beer they sell is Sam Adams and Guinness. About a 6 page beer list and around 46 draft beers from Chimay triple to Great Divide Yeti to St. Bernardus 12 to god knows what else. (Supposedly soon to have dogfish head 60, 90, and maybe 120). Also hundreds of bottles to choose from. They may eventually also double their draft list to over 90 some odd beers. Great place with great staff and AMAZING food. Try the J. Clyde burger with a fried green tomato and sweet potato fries or the veggie boxty (add some seasoned beef...) smothered in asiago sauce. Let me know if you're in town and I will buy you a pint!
Went to Birmingham last week; that place was pretty awesome, I must say. Didnt think to look for suggestions here. I was like a kid in a candy store. The high gravity beer laws just changed there and J Clydes gets awesome beers that we just dont see in Texas.
Cheers!------------------------------- "Luck is when opportunity meets preparation" - SenecaAustin Zealots
My ex-girlfriend lived on 21st way south right around the corner, we ventured over to J Clyde all the time. Great selection and just a really cool place to hang out and hear some live music occasionally. Along with a great beer list, I recall that they also know how to actually make a cocktail. While we are on the subject of B-ham bars, don't forget to venture around the corner to Marty's when everyone else closes up at 2. Some would say a dive, I would say a very classy establishment!


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Celebrating my birthday that was on Saturday in fine style I use this lovely lime green fabric and make this captivating dress.
The dress is a mixture of two patterns. The top is from June 2013 and I finish off the skirt with a style from my birth month November 2012.
The top feature little pleats on the right shoulder and waist. The fabulous inverted pleated skirt is just perfect to be combined with it. I added three quarter sleeves and lined the dress.
Love the fabric and the colour. I really enjoyed my birthday and I was glowing with happiness.
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Nov 23, 2013, 07.27 AMby vinia789
What a sweet outfit and you look fable in it.happy belated birthday.
Nov 24, 2013, 12.38 AMby kisses
Thanks Vinia…I had a fabulous time :-)
Nov 14, 2013, 10.43 PMby puffinlove
Happy birthday Kisses! Happy birth-week now… hope you have a great year to come, you certainly got off to a glorious start in your vibrant dress!
Nov 17, 2013, 02.46 AMby kisses
Thanks Puffinlove…I did had a great time and I am so enjoyed wearing this dress :-)
Nov 14, 2013, 01.56 AMby velvetribbon
Happy belated birthday Kisses! The dress is so lovely and I like the color. I hope you had a great time on your birthday :)
Nov 15, 2013, 03.06 PMby kisses
Thanks girlfren…I had an awesome time and I am so loving this colour :-)
Nov 13, 2013, 07.39 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Great colour and all your look is really captivating, it rejoices the eye with its freshness:-)
Nov 14, 2013, 12.06 PMby kisses
Thanks Oksana for such sweet comment :-)
Nov 13, 2013, 01.27 AMby schnui
This colour looks wonderful on you and the dress is lovely.
Nov 14, 2013, 01.41 AMby kisses
Thanks for lovely comments as always Schnui :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 06.17 PMby rita61
Happy Birthday! Great outfit and hairdo.
Nov 13, 2013, 02.09 PMby kisses
Thanks Rita ..much love :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 02.25 PMby nishavinod2009
Happy birthday sweetie! love the dress and the color??? love it love it…..!
Nov 13, 2013, 02.02 PMby kisses
Thanks a million :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 12.42 PMby liliv-1
Happy birthday my sweet friiend!! The dress is super nice and what a color! Very impressive! I also love the combo with the blue belt and shoes!
Nov 13, 2013, 01.49 PMby kisses
Thanks my sweetie….the combination worked well and I am overly happy :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 08.30 AMby Mary Athey
Happy birthday kisses, may all your days be happy. You look radient in this gorgeous dress. I love blue and green to- gether and again your shoes are fabulous. I love your hair as well. You look marvellous my dear x
Nov 13, 2013, 01.45 PMby kisses
Thanks Mary…I had so much fun and I did live it up :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 08.27 AMby Ellen Hatteland
Happy Birthday dear sewing friend! You look great as always! Fabulous dress and the color suits you so well – it looks very nice together with the blue! :-)
Nov 13, 2013, 01.43 PMby kisses
Thanks Ellen for lovely compliments :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 07.44 AMby bethmaryharley
Happy Birthday, kisses! This is such a beautiful dress and the colour – wow! So lovely! I hope you had a fantastic day on Saturday! :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 07.16 PMby kisses
Thanks Beth…I really had a great time :-)
Nov 13, 2013, 04.39 AMby bethmaryharley
Hurray! I'm so happy to hear that! :-)
Nov 12, 2013, 05.37 AMby Anjovis
Lovely dress Kisses. This colour looks great on you and you look fabulous :) Happy birthday!
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Thanks Anjovis :-)
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LMFAO singer hit with a glass in an Australian pub
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LMFAO singer Redfoo was hit with a glass in a pub in Sydney on Thursday and suffered a minor facial injury.
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And maybe then his life will finally get cleared up. Actually, that's what the Clarksburg Project, which remains "my most favorite thing," was designed to do. "I think a lot of it was crappy," he says of the piece that he started in December 1994, "but I actually founded a brand-new art form."
Clarksburg, it turns out, is the fingerprint-identification capital of the country. (Incidentally, it also has a thriving casket-construction business.) Surely by sending a year's worth of irritating mail, Colfax figured, he'd convince someone to check for fingerprints. And then they'd find that the perpetrator was wanted for probation violation in Denver, Colorado. Back in 1989 Colfax spent seven months in jail for stabbing a guy ("We were drunk," he explains), and then skipped town after just six weeks of probation. He supported himself by gay hustling, then moved to Atlanta, where he worked in a bookstore, then on to New York. But somehow, Denver lost any record of his violating probation. The Clarksburg Project was supposed to resurrect it and then "have them catch me."
This, anyway, is how Colfax's story goes.
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Must See? A Car Chase On Fox Prompts Apology
On Fox News Friday afternoon, viewers were presented with a police chase. In the end the suspected car-jacker appears to shoot himself. Fox issued an apology for airing the scene. NPR's David Folkenflik reports on the perils of live coverage.
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On the Fox News Channel yesterday, there was a grisly reminder of some of the perils of live coverage. Viewers were presented with a police chase involving a man suspected of a car-jacking in Arizona. NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik offers this essay breaking down what happened and what went wrong.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: There is a logic to broadcasting footage of a car chase live on the air. And local news helicopters make it so easy. It's ratings catnip and fast-moving, with an adrenaline rush, uncertainty, a whiff of peril and usually - usually - few real consequences. Not this time. Fox news anchor Shepard Smith is never shy about his tabloid TV sensibility. A lively car chase or fire rarely fails to stoke his interest. Around 3:26 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, Smith cuts back to footage from the Phoenix Fox affiliate.
SHEPARD SMITH: Well, look at this. Dingbat here has gotten off the freeway. Remember he was westbound on the...
FOLKENFLIK: The man gets out of his car and things start to go awry.
SMITH: Look at this. He's just running. Oh, my. Well, it looks like he's a little disoriented or something.
FOLKENFLIK: Smith is watching and speculating with us as the man wanders around serpentine in the brush.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (unintelligible)
FOLKENFLIK: The man pulls out what appears to be a gun and presses it against his head, and Smith starts yelling at his producers.
SMITH: Get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off it, get off it, get off it.
FOLKENFLIK: The man's gun begins to move and the camera turns back to Smith in studio wincing and what he's seen. After a short commercial break, Smith returns, his face drawn.
SMITH: Well, I have some explaining to do. While we were taking that car chase and showing it to you live, when the guy pulled over and got out of the vehicle, we went on delay.
FOLKENFLIK: Smith says Fox created a five-second buffer as a precaution - it didn't work. His apology is abject.
SMITH: Sometimes, we see a lot of things that we don't let get to you because it's not time appropriate, it's insensitive, it's just wrong - and that was wrong. And that won't happen again on my watch, and I'm sorry.
FOLKENFLIK: I think Smith deserves great credit for his immediate, forthright and transparent apology. But, absent a fugitive at least on the order of O.J. Simpson, a live car chase has no national news value. Remember the hoax flight of balloon boy who happened to be tucked away in his family attic? That was spectacle, not an everyday local crime suspect alluding cops. And at least that was genuinely transfixing. There was no need for what was shown yesterday, no point to this, especially not live or just about live, giving producers no real margin of error. In this case, the whiff of peril turned out to be quite real. David Folkenflik, NPR News.
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The Council of Canadians London chapter supports the Londoners for Door to Door postal delivery campaign. That mobilization has canvassed neighbourhoods in that southern Ontario city on Saturday January 17 and Sunday January 25. As noted in the promotion for these canvasses, "All are welcome and encouraged to join us as we inform Londoners about what is happening and what they can do to stop Canada Post and Harper from taking away this vital service. We will be joining many postal workers, who need our support. Canada Post belongs to all of us, and together we can save it!"
TPP protest in NYC. Twitter photo by Popular Resistance.
Common Dreams reports, "Braving snow and blizzard warnings, health, labor and environmental activists rallied outside a New York City hotel on Monday where industry leaders met with international trade representatives to commence the 'final negotiations' over the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP]."
The Council of Canadians is opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and endorsed yesterday's protest.
Stop Energy East HFX protest this afternoon. Council of Canadians organizer Tori Ball holds banner (second from the right).
The Council of Canadians Halifax chapter and Stop the Energy East Pipeline - Halifax held a public forum outside the Halifax Central Library this afternoon to draw attention to the National Energy Board's exclusionary and flawed review process. The Canadian Press reports, "About a dozen people staged a rally Monday in Halifax as the board met with groups during closed-door meetings to discuss the project. Members of Stop Energy East Halifax held signs and a makeshift pipeline with the words 'tar sands=climate bomb' in front of the Halifax Central Library."
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has tweeted:
France and Germany want to revise CETA! EurActiv.fr http://t.co/hiLwYuZfKC
— Maude Barlow (@MaudeBarlow) January 26, 2015
Goldcorp Inc. has acquired Probe Mines Ltd. That means the Vancouver-based mining company now also own the Borden gold mine near Chapleau in northern Ontario. That mine is about 160 kilometres west of Goldcorp's long-established Porcupine mine near Timmins.