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Welcome to the beginning of my research into the New Jersey Sisco Family Tree. Thought to origonally be spelled "Van"Sisco or FranSisco, my family has lived in the New Jersey (Newark-Little Falls-Wayne area for several hundred years according to the family bible(printing date 1823-names with some birth/death/marriage dates go back to the very late 18th century) This Bible is in marginal condition---if anyone knows how to preserve an old book of this sort-please email me...thanks.I will try to post my results for all those interested as time permits. Thanks for visiting! |
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It's that time again, one of those rare few days of the year when all gadget bloggers leave their home offices and head out to downtown San Francisco to bask in the excitement that is… an Apple event! This year, I'll be joining the flock too, congregating with the rest to see what's in store. Our heads are filled with important questions that will only be answered in the secret no-video-allowed conference room in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts between 10 and 11am — Will the original iPod go extinct? What will the new Nano look like? Could this be the debut of the enigmatic tablet? Will Steve Jobs make a comeback? Who could the musical guest possibly be at an event titled It's Only Rock and Roll? And perhaps most importantly, who will live blog the fastest? Will it be Gizmodo or Engadget or Ars or GDGT or…. well, it definitely won't be us, because we're not live blogging it, but I will be live-Tweeting the important details — plus some random trivia, factoids, and observations on the whole fiasco — from ground zero. So keep up-to-date by following me on Twitter or checking back here for updates to this post. Join me as the mysteries unfold — it's gonna be fun!
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Flocks flock and congregations congregate, but maybe a grouping of flocks is a congregation?
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"The problem with you dog writers," a friend politely proposed, "Is you're always writing about force-fetch or steadying my dog to wing-and-shot. Most of us just want dogs that stay quiet in the blind and don't run off." He raises a good point. I like polishments—and many of the things my dogs are trained to do are just that—but as a field trialer, gundogs are a full-time hobby for me. Certainly a hunting dog can be perfectly adequate or even exceptional if he isn't trained to the level of a trial competitor. While certain obedience measures are simply nice layers of control for a dog to have, they're not 100-percent necessary. There are, however, certain training measures I consider mandatory—dogs who lack them have been practically done a disservice. So, here's my list. Mandatory Training:
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The 28-year-old, who started his career with Blackburn Rovers, had been linked to numerous SPL clubs following his departure from Dundee at the end of last season.
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Although Jay-Z's own success is undeniable, his label, Rocawear, which he started with Dame Dash hasn't been doing so well.
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Glazers won't sell: Gill set to quash 1bn Man United takeover talk
Manchester United chief executive David Gill is expected today to distance the club from takeover speculation surrounding a group of wealthy fans. Red Knights, a group of 'high net worth individuals' who work in the City, have confirmed their intention to try to oust the owners, the Glazer family. But the Glazers have insisted they are not interested in selling United - and Tuesday's announcement of a sharp rise in turnover and profits has strengthened their position. Staying put: Chief executive David Gill is expected to announce the Glazer family are committed to Manchester United and do not intend to sell the club for £1bn Gill is due to speak at today's Soccerex conference in Manchester - and yesterday defended the club's debts saying they would not impact on UEFA's new rules where all clubs must only spend what they earn if they want to play in European competition. 'We have seen what the proposals are and we would meet the financial break even rules,' said Gill. £1.5bn or you can say good Knight! Glazers to stand firm over United saleManchester United release figures showing revenue and profit increaseManchester United are not for sale! Glazers stand firm amid takeover talkMANCHESTER UNITED FC
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BRUNSWICK, Maine - Bowdoin College golfers Ryan Blossom (Concord, N.H.) and Jeff Cutter (Medfield, Mass.) have been named to the All-New England Small College Athletic Conference Golf Team in selections announced on Tuesday. Blossom, who garnered First-Team All-Conference honors, is the first Polar Bear to achieve that status since the NESCAC began their post-season honors for golf in 2000.
The award highlights a spectacular fall season for Blossom, who finished in fourth place tie (+6, 150 two-day total) at the Conference Tournament to earn the honor. In addition to leading the Polar Bears to a sixth-place showing at the event, he has claimed medalist honors at Thomas College Invitational while also winning the Maine State Intercollegiate Tournament. A sophomore, Blossom is also a member of the Bowdoin men's ice hockey team where he finished second on the team in scoring with 11 goals and 10 assists in 25 games last year.
Cutter earns Second-Team All-Conference honors for the second-straight season after finishing 12th (+10, 154) at the NESCAC Tournament last weekend. Cutter finished in sixth place at the Maine State Tournament earlier this fall and is the captain of this year's team. He is also a member of the Bowdoin men's ice hockey team, where he scored a goal and two assists in eight games last season.


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Lighting Consulting Firm Scams Pennsylvania Towns
Richland, Penn., is among several municipalities in the state to have paid money for energy upgrades that were never delivered.
In 2009, Richland paid $165,488 upfront to energy consulting company Municipal Energy Managers to help the town secure ownership of its streetlights and to help it install LED bulbs in the lights. But Municipal Energy Managers has never done the work.
Now, Richland police have charged the two principals of the energy firm with theft by unlawful taking, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received and criminal conspiracy, according to PhillyBurbs.com.
Unfortunately, the owners of Municipal Energy Managers are already in state prison for an identical scheme in Bethlehem Township where they received $800,000 in a streetlight contract for which they never delivered. And the firm is in bankruptcy. Similar charges have been filed against the company owners for the same alleged fraud in Bucks, Northampton, Lehigh and Cumberland counties, reports the local news outlet.
Richland police Sgt. Mike Kisthardt told PhillyBurbs.com that losses across the state from the defunct firm total $6.5 million, so far.
Richland paid the firm $165,000 in part because it wants to own about 160 streetlights, which are currently owned by the Allentown-based utility PPL. The utility charges the township a monthly fee for electricity and maintenance of the lights. The city figured it would be cheaper to maintain the streetlights itself than to pay the monthly fee. Also, the city wants to own the streetlights so it can apply for grants to install LED bulbs, which would save money on electricity.
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text: September 19, 2012 September 19, 2012/ Lisa Hughes Early Years Jack was born in Lompoc, California. He lived in Ventura and Ojai, California until his early teens, finishing up high school in Garden Valley, Idaho, a small town about 50 miles north of Boise, Idaho. During his junior year of high school Jack was drawn to the Savior through the testimony of his brother Tim and by reading the Word of God. Jack was baptized into Roman Catholicism as an infant, yet his desire to understand the Word of God led him to search for a church that would teach him the Scriptures. His journey led him first to Seventh Day Adventism, then to a Baptist church, and finally to an independent Bible Church which practiced expository preaching. Family and HobbiesJack first met his wife to be at a Campus Crusade for Christ meeting while attending college at Boise State University. Jack and Lisa have been happily married since 1984. They have three grown children, Leah, Nate, and Mark. In the past Jack has enjoyed fly fishing, bow hunting, reading, woodworking, and gardening. EducationJack earned a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in electronics technology from Boise State University (1987), his Master's of Divinity degree from The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California (1991), and a Doctorate of Ministry degree in expository preaching from Westminster Theological Seminary in Escondido, California (2001). As part of his doctoral program Jack wrote a book for preachers called Expository Preaching with Word Pictures: with Illustrations from the Sermons of Thomas Watson. The book aims at helping biblical expositors become engaging and clear preachers who can fix the truths of God's Word into the minds of their hearers. MinistriesBefore attending seminary Jack served in a variety of ministries including Sunday School teacher, Campus Crusade for Christ Bible study leader and summer campus director, singles ministry leader, and junior high school pastor. After graduating from The Master's Seminary Jack pastored and helped plant three churches in Idaho, preaching expositionally and teaching a variety of classes. From 2000 to 2012 God called Jack to Calvary Bible Church in Burbank, California where he served as Pastor-Teacher.While in Burbank Jack also served as adjunct associate professor at The Master's Seminary, and Cornerstone Seminary. He serves as an advisory elder for a new church plant in the heart of London called Grace Life London. He has also published articles for various theological journals. Jack has ministered world wide as a conference speaker and trainer of preachers.


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BATON ROUGE,LA (NBC33) — For the blue team's Carole Walker being over weight is something she's struggled with for a long time. When Carole's mother died a few months ago from complications with her weight, Carole decided to get back in shape once and for all.
"Being able to go into the stores and buy a size smaller," said Carole Walker. "I love that. that's a good feeling."
Carole's friends say she is constantly taking care of other people, and now it's her time.
"It's not just about losing the weight for Carole." said co-worker and friend Ericka Lavender. "It's a lifestyle change and being able to feel like yes, it's time to take care of herself."
At the end of month one Carole lost her personal trainer Greg. She didn't stop let that her from hitting the gym. Carole goes to Bally Total Fitness four days a week.
"I'm still trying to get into the routine of weight lifting on my own," said Walker. " I always fear I'm not doing it right."
Carole also walks with friends twice a week. Carole's friends even keep an eye on her diet.
"When she's not monitoring it I am," said Lavender. "I'm like the that little person on her shoulder like no when she orders something. Then she'll change up her order."
Carole says she's kept diet dishes tasty by adding lots of spice, but there is one food group she cant tolerate to taste.
"I'm pretty much sick of vegetables," said Walker. "If I eat one more thing of broccoli I'm going to die."
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We have two guinea pigs and a rabbit at home, and I was wondering, rather than throwing out my spent grains, could I feed them to our guinea pigs or the rabbit?
I don't see why not. I make cookies and bread out of the spent grains. I give the cookies to my dog, and he LOVES them.
They'll have to eat them pretty fast or the wet grains will putrify. Or you could dry them out. I don't see why it wouldn't make good feed for them, though. Try it and report back.
My guess, yes. But I'd also dry them out so they don't rot.
I know I read on a cavy site that grains are not a recommended food. It would probably be better to ask on a cavy forum.
Sure you can. Their system might need the roughage. Remember though, there is minimal nutritional value remaining in the spent grains, depending on your efficiency, cause you already mashed them out. Those sugars you extracted are the same carbs your pets want.


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Obama Did It For the Money May 7, 2013
Posted by rogerhollander in Barack Obama, Economic Crisis.Tags: anti-union, commerce secretary, Economic Crisis, hyatt hotel heiress, Obama, Penny Pritzke, Robert Scheer, roger hollander, sub-prime, subprime, superior bank
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Roger's note: Obama strikes again: rewarding another one the architects of the economic disaster that ruined thousands of lives. But she got him elected and the banksters and the corporate blood-sucking congress-owning community will be pleased; and that is what is important to the president.
Published on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 by TruthDig.co
The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money. Her money, not his, financed his rise to the White House from less promising days back in Chicago.
"Without Penny Pritzker, it is unlikely that Barack Obama ever would have been elected to the United States Senate or the presidency," according to a gushing New York Times report last year that read like the soaring jacket copy of a steamy romance novel. "When she first backed him during his 2004 Senate run, she was No. 152 on the Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans. He was a long-shot candidate who needed her support and imprimatur. Mr. Obama and Ms. Pritzker grew close, sometimes spending weekends with their families at her summer home."
But don't sell the lady short; she wasn't swept along on some kind of celebrity joyride. Pritzker, the billionaire heir to part of the Hyatt Hotels fortune, has long been first off an avaricious capitalist, and if she backed Obama, it wasn't for his looks. Never one to rest on the laurels of her immense inherited wealth, Pritzker has always wanted more. That's what drove her to run Superior Bank into the subprime housing swamp that drowned the institution's homeowners and depositors alike before she emerged richer than before.
Pritzker and her family had acquired the savings and loan with the help of $600 million in tax credits. She became the new bank's chairwoman and ended up as a director of the holding company that owned it. Under her leadership, Superior specialized in subprime lending, hustling folks with meager means and poor credit into high interest loans that were bundled into the toxic securities that wrecked the U.S. economy.
As federal regulators began to move in on her bank after it had dangerously inflated the value of its toxic assets, Pritzker assured its employees: "Our commitment to subprime has never been stronger." Two months later, the bank was pronounced insolvent. At the time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s inspector general report concluded, "The failure of Superior Bank was directly attributable to the board of directors and executive management ignoring sound risk diversification principles, as evidenced by excessive concentration in residual assets related to subprime lending. …"
No biggie. In announcing her appointment, Obama joked, "For your birthday present, you get to go through confirmation. It's going to be great." It's the same sort of joke he could have cracked in appointing Citigroup alum Jack Lew to be Treasury secretary.
It is deeply revealing that in the midst of the continuing cycle of misery brought on by the chicanery of the financial community two key Cabinet positions dealing with business practices will likely be occupied by people who specialized in those financial rip-offs.
For Pritzker, as with the confirmation of Lew, the fix is in. The Republicans don't dare push back too hard on shady business practices that their deregulation legislation endorsed, and Democrats will go along with anything the president wants.
The same restraint will be exhibited in exploring the offshore tax havens that have protected the Pritzker family's immense wealth. Back in 2008, when she had been rumored for this same Cabinet post, Pritzker was queried about avoiding the sort of taxes most ordinary folks are obligated to pay, and she replied in writing: "I am a beneficiary of some non-U.S. situs trusts which were established about 50 years ago (when I was a child) and are administered by a non-U.S.–based financial institution as trustee. I do not control how those assets are administered." If the Republicans challenge that canard, the Democrats will smugly remind them of Mitt Romney's tax havens, as if that excuses tax avoidance within their own ranks.
Certainly the Republicans will not raise questions about the anti-union practices that helped create the Hyatt fortune in the first place and continue to this day. Nor will the Democrats, who embrace unions only at national convention time.
"There is a huge unresolved set of issues in the Democratic Party between people of wealth and people who work," noted Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union, which attempts to organize the miserably paid workers that produced Pritzker's wealth. "Penny is a living example of that issue."
But it's payback time, and even normally progressive Democrats like Pritzker's home state Sen. Dick Durbin are prepared to roll over. Treating the appointment of billionaire Pritzker as a victory for women everywhere, the senator said she'd "broken through the glass ceiling with her extraordinary intelligence and business acumen."
Right, Pritzker will be a fine role model for those women working at the Asian factories that she'll be touring as Commerce secretary extolling the virtues of the American business model.
Robert Scheer is editor of Truthdig.com and a regular columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle.
Preying on the Poor: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks May 17, 2012
Posted by rogerhollander in Criminal Justice, Economic Crisis, Poverty.Tags: barbara ehrenreich, Criminal Justice, debtors prison, poverty, poverty cycle, roger hollander, subprime, usury, wage theft
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By Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch | News Analysis
Thursday, 17 May 2012 10:09
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But asBusiness Week helpfully pointed out in 2007, the poor in aggregate provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them.
The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators. Employers, for example, can simply program their computers to shave a few dollars off each paycheck, or they can require workers to show up 30 minutes or more before the time clock starts ticking.
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. When supplemented with late fees (themselves subject to interest), the resulting effective interest rate can be as high as 600% a year, which is perfectly legal in many states.
It's not just the private sector that's preying on the poor. Local governments are discovering that they can partially make up for declining tax revenues through fines, fees, and other costs imposed on indigent defendants, often for crimes no more dastardly than driving with a suspended license. And if that seems like an inefficient way to make money, given the high cost of locking people up, a growing number of jurisdictions have taken to charging defendants for their court costs and even the price of occupying a jail cell.
The poster case for government persecution of the down-and-out would have to be Edwina Nowlin, a homeless Michigan woman who was jailed in 2009 for failing to pay $104 a month to cover the room-and-board charges for her 16-year-old son's incarceration. When she received a back paycheck, she thought it would allow her to pay for her son's jail stay. Instead, it was confiscated and applied to the cost of her own incarceration.
Government Joins the Looters of the Poor
You might think that policymakers would take a keen interest in the amounts that are stolen, coerced, or extorted from the poor, but there are no official efforts to track such figures. Instead, we have to turn to independent investigators, like Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America, who estimates that wage theft nets employers at least $100 billion a year and possibly twice that. As for the profits extracted by the lending industry, Gary Rivlin, who wrote Broke USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business, says the poor pay an effective surcharge of about $30 billion a year for the financial products they consume and more than twice that if you include subprime credit cards, subprime auto loans, and subprime mortgages.
These are not, of course, trivial amounts. They are on the same order of magnitude as major public programs for the poor. The government distributesabout $55 billion a year, for example, through the largest single cash-transfer program for the poor, the Earned Income Tax Credit; at the same time, employers are siphoning off twice that amount, if not more, through wage theft.
And while government generally turns a blind eye to the tens of billions of dollars in exorbitant interest that businesses charge the poor, it is notably chary with public benefits for the poor. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, for example, our sole remaining nationwide welfare program, gets only $26 billion a year in state and federal funds. The impression is left of a public sector that's gone totally schizoid: on the one hand, offering safety-net programs for the poor; on the other, enabling large-scale private sector theft from the very people it is supposedly trying to help.
At the local level though, government is increasingly opting to join in the looting. In 2009, a year into the Great Recession, I first started hearing complaints from community organizers about ever more aggressive levels of law enforcement in low-income areas. Flick a cigarette butt and get arrested for littering; empty your pockets for an officer conducting a stop-and-frisk operation and get cuffed for a few flakes of marijuana. Each of these offenses can result, at a minimum, in a three-figure fine.
And the number of possible criminal offenses leading to jail and/or fines has been multiplying recklessly. All across the country — from California and Texas to Pennsylvania — counties and municipalities have been toughening laws against truancy and ratcheting up enforcement, sometimes going so far as to handcuff children found on the streets during school hours. In New York City, it's now a crime to put your feet up on a subway seat, even if the rest of the car is empty, and a South Carolina woman spent six days in jail when she was unable to pay a $480 fine for the crime of having a "messy yard." Some cities — most recently, Houston and Philadelphia — have made it a crime to share food with indigent people in public places.
Being poor itself is not yet a crime, but in at least a third of the states, being in debt can now land you in jail. If a creditor like a landlord or credit card company has a court summons issued for you and you fail to show up on your appointed court date, a warrant will be issued for your arrest. And it is easy enough to miss a court summons, which may have been delivered to the wrong address or, in the case of some bottom-feeding bill collectors, simply tossed in the garbage — a practice so common that the industry even has a term for it: "sewer service." In a sequence that National Public Radio reports is "increasingly common," a person is stopped for some minor traffic offense — having a noisy muffler, say, or broken brake light — at which point the officer discovers the warrant and the unwitting offender is whisked off to jail.
Local Governments as Predators
Each of these crimes, neo-crimes, and pseudo-crimes carries financial penalties as well as the threat of jail time, but the amount of money thus extracted from the poor is fiendishly hard to pin down. No central agency tracks law enforcement at the local level, and local records can be almost willfully sketchy.
According to one of the few recent nationwide estimates, from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 10.5 million misdemeanors were committed in 2006. No one would risk estimating the average financial penalty for a misdemeanor, although the experts I interviewed all affirmed that the amount is typically in the "hundreds of dollars." If we take an extremely lowball $200 per misdemeanor, and bear in mind that 80%-90% of criminal offenses are committed by people who are officially indigent, then local governments are using law enforcement to extract, or attempt to extract, at least $2 billion a year from the poor.
And that is only a small fraction of what governments would like to collect from the poor. Katherine Beckett, a sociologist at the University of Washington, estimates that "deadbeat dads" (and moms) owe $105 billion in back child-support payments, about half of which is owed to state governments as reimbursement for prior welfare payments made to the children. Yes, parents have a moral obligation to their children, but the great majority of child-support debtors are indigent.
Attempts to collect from the already-poor can be vicious and often, one would think, self-defeating. Most states confiscate the drivers' licenses of people owing child support, virtually guaranteeing that they will not be able to work. Michigan just started suspending the drivers' licenses of people who owe money for parking tickets. Las Cruces, New Mexico, just passed a law that punishes people who owe overdue traffic fines by cutting off their water, gas, and sewage.
Once a person falls into the clutches of the criminal justice system, we encounter the kind of slapstick sadism familiar to viewers of Wipeout. Many courts impose fees without any determination of whether the offender is able to pay, and the privilege of having a payment plan will itself cost money.
In a study of 15 states, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University found 14 of them contained jurisdictions that charge a lump-sum "poverty penalty" of up to $300 for those who cannot pay their fees and fines, plus late fees and "collection fees" for those who need to pay over time. If any jail time is imposed, that too may cost money, as the hapless Edwina Nowlin discovered, and the costs of parole and probation are increasingly being passed along to the offender.
The predatory activities of local governments give new meaning to that tired phrase "the cycle of poverty." Poor people are more far more likely than the affluent to get into trouble with the law, either by failing to pay parking fines or by incurring the wrath of a private-sector creditor like a landlord or a hospital.
Once you have been deemed a criminal, you can pretty much kiss your remaining assets goodbye. Not only will you face the aforementioned court costs, but you'll have a hard time ever finding a job again once you've acquired a criminal record. And then of course, the poorer you become, the more likely you are to get in fresh trouble with the law, making this less like a "cycle" and more like the waterslide to hell. The further you descend, the faster you fall — until you eventually end up on the streets and get busted for an offense like urinating in public or sleeping on a sidewalk.
I could propose all kinds of policies to curb the ongoing predation on the poor. Limits on usury should be reinstated. Theft should be taken seriously even when it's committed by millionaire employers. No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. These are no-brainers, and should take precedence over any long term talk about generating jobs or strengthening the safety net. Before we can "do something" for the poor, there are some things we need to stop doing to them.
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Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of a number of books including Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.
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Religion causes problems. It never fixes them. There are always different factions fighting for their beliefs; that their beliefs are the true and only correct beliefs and all the others are wrong and should be punished. That's why many wars have been fought throughout history. Government and religion do not mix!! Everyone in America has the right to practice their own personal religious beliefs, but not force those beliefs on others. Sadly, that is what's happening now with this Evangelical push in this country. They want to set up their Theocratic government and force us all to do as they believe.
Sounds like a bad dream, but many realities do.
Debtor's prisons just changed their name to corrections facilities. It's ironic that often corrections systems spend a lot of money educating inmates – get the GED, learn salable skills, get counseling, learn social skills, so you can reenter society and get a job. Returning military will be in competition w/those already out of work. For those paroled, getting a job has a myriad of difficulties that start with parole rules that are virtually designed to help them fail parole.
This snowball effect on the poor trickles up and drags down the middle class. Unfortunately, most taxpayers are clueless to the negative effects of 'tough on crime' and 'zero tolerance' regulations they vote for. Programs that actually help get people off drugs and alcohol (drug), get training, etc. are generally viewed as 'soft on crime'. If forward thinking judges cannot get the public to accept the positive effects of those programs then the poor are not going to get the help they need.
I knew that squeezing the poor was bad in the U.S…I didn't know it was THAT bad. Thanks for this concise and well written piece.
I had to pay to get my records from every one of my doctors! They used to be considered 'your' records and given to you free of charge, since you've paid for your visits to the doctor. Not anymore! It took several months and an attorney to get my doctors to release my records and a hefty sum of money!! This is not the same country I grew up in the 1950's. America is a sad, sad place now. I used to be so proud to be an American because what this country stood for and how we took care of our people… now, I am not proud anymore. I am disgusted that the rich have bought this country, even the government! SCOTUS has given 'Money' the power and rights of speech while taking them away from WE the People! Five Justices are conservative, card carrying, Koch associates! Yet they are allowed to have the last word on all Constitutional conversation in the USA! This doesn't even begin to touch on the Tea Party, who has taken over the Congress and pays NO attention to their constituency and their needs! They had their agendas set before they were ever elected and those agendas were to rape and pillage the poor and indigent and pass legislation counter-intuitive to the betterment of the American society! Theirs is an agenda to dupe all of us into believing this is all for Religious Freedom and to save unborn babies. It's all LIES!! They could could NOT care less for anything or anybody!!! It's all about MONEY and POWER of a very few old, white men!!!
I am bereft of hope, but will keep fighting!
I can relate to your final sentence Patti. I guess what struck me hardest concerning this article was the number of times "government" was implicated in the fleecing of the poor. And despite your correct analysis of the Tea Party and The Supreme Court, BOTH parties are heavily enmeshed in their abdication of principles and seeing government other than a self-aggrandizing machine designed to "aid" the wealthy, fight perdurable "wars on terror," expand empire,and provide
"perks and benefits" to those who have made their way into the political "club."
I am not a religious person but after hearing "God Bless America," for the zillioneth time since the "government manufactured" tragedy of 9/11, I find myself desiring to inquire of any "honest" Christian…why would God bless America? I grew up in the 60's and it seemed, for a time, despite the atrocity of Vietnam, we might be headed in the right direction in terms of shared equality.
It sure doesn't appear to be the case now. From an aging white man who "doesn't" have any money or power. Perhaps that's a blessing. I'll keep fighting too! -
Really need to look at the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) as mechanisms the gov't uses to force poor people into low wage, meaningless jobs.
I know someone who got 2 years in prison for stealing an ipod…while I read stories like the one I recently came across about a 20 year old girl with no drivers license (never did acquire one) who ran over and killed a biker, but got 90 days probation because she was related to the sheriff….Where I live if you can afford an attorney, no matter what the offense, they pretty much leave you alone or drop the charges, but if you are poor – you are incarcerated, drilled to death with fines, fees, probation costs, and excessive harassment by the police.


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If you like egg salad, but don't care for the mayo in most of them, you will enjoy this recipe.
I personally like small quantities of Hellmann's Light Mayo in my salads, but some of our family members do not like mayo at all, so I am on a lookout for mayo alternatives.
Today I created a light version of egg salad with Avocado and Greek Yogurt.
I used Light Style Pepperidge Farm 7 Grain bread, which has only 45 calories per slice.
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1I definitely want to try this, as you know how I despise mayonnaise Plus the combination of hard boiled eggs with avocado sounds tasty!
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September 17th, 2012 at 6:07 pm
2Actually I was thinking of you when I saw this recipe. If you don't care for the vinegar, you can try lemon juice, lime juice, or even mustard.
Next time I will try mustard as well.
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Most (but not all) librettos are available on the Web in the original language, but for a variety of reasons English translations are rarely offered. The request I see most often is for Wagner's Ring operas. This seems a bit odd to me, since these are surely the operas for which a translation is most readily available in the non-cyber world. Der Ring des Nibelungen. Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883).
The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied. The composer termed the cycle a "Bühnenfestspiel" (stage festival play), structured in three days preceded by a Vorabend ("ante-evening"). Das Rheingold. Das Rheingold ( pronunciation ; The Rhine Gold) is the first of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung').
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September 05, 2010
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Red Bull New Year. No Limits.
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2009 Rally America Championship
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Since his entry into rally racing full-time in 2006, Travis has never lost a championship.
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Travis Defends Rally Crown
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2006 Rally America Champion
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September 01, 2001
First Jump into the Grand Canyon
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Disguise, the fifth novel by Irish writer Hugo Hamilton, is a story about lost identity.
It opens in war-torn Germany at the height of the Second World War. Mara Leidman's young son, Gregor, is killed during the bombing of Berlin -- "He was almost three years old and went straight from his dream into death" -- and so, bereft and shocked, she flees south, into the arms of her father, Emil, a war deserter who drives a delivery truck collecting defective weapons. When Emil presents her, shockingly, with a refugee orphan (given to him by an old woman he meets on the road) to replace her dead son, Mara looks at the boy with revulsion.
He was frightened and cold, snivelling and coughing. His eyes were infected. He was holding his ear and sucking a button on the shoulder of his woollen jumper at the same time, staring into the dark outside the windscreen, worried what was keeping his mother and why she was not coming to collect him.
Mara does not really want anything to do with this new replacement who understands little German, but when she is unexpectedly interrogated by the Gestapo, circumstances force her to pretend that this is her real son, for to suggest otherwise would surely result in her own execution.
The book then fast forwards 60 years and Gregor, now an elderly man, with an estranged wife and adult son of his own, reflects on his life living in the "borderlands", never quite sure of his roots and never feeling like he belongs anywhere in particular. Over the course of a day, surrounded by family and friends, picking fruit on an orchard outside Berlin, he sifts through his memories. As the narrative flickers seamlessly between the past and the present, we learn about Gregor's lonely and complicated life.
As a 17-year-old he deliberately cuts himself off from his parents, when his Uncle Max accidentally lets slip that Gregor had been "found" as a toddler. But his mother, who hasn't even told her husband about the "swap" (he was fighting on the Russian front at the time) denies all knowledge.
Over the course of the next 40 or so years, Gregor becomes a musician, reinvents himself as a Jew (he even goes so far as to arrange a circumcision), and drifts from Berlin to Ireland to Toronto.
Gregor had turned his life into a search for belonging, though it always remained a distant thing, a vague, utopian memory.
His marriage slowly flounders because he cannot truly open up to his wife, Maria, about the things that trouble him. Then when Maria makes contact with his "adopted" mother behind his back, she begins to doubt his claim that he was a Jewish foundling. Surely his mother isn't lying? Could it be that Gregor's convinced himself he's Jewish in order to alleviate some kind of German guilt?
There's a lot of big themes and issues in this book about memory, loss, belonging and the ways in which Germans dealt with the aftermath of the war. And while Disguise had the potential to be absolutely heart-wrenching in places, I found the prose style so distant and removed -- there's a lot of telling and not much showing -- that it made very little emotional impact at all. This is a shame, because the opening chapter is one of the saddest and most exciting, and morally troubling, pieces of fiction I've ever read. But the rest of the book fails to live up to this promise and, as a result, Disguise, while an enjoyable read, doesn't deliver the truly emotional wallop that would have elevated it to something really special.


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When asked just how important the bank was to furthering his scheme, Rothstein said that on a scale of one to ten, "They were a ten."
Rothstein claimed investors often wanted to do business with a larger bank, but said he simply couldn't because of the help he was getting from TD Bank -- specifically the bank's former vice president, Frank Spinosa.
From the December 13 transcript:
Q In terms of the components that you view as critical, how does TD rate?
A Do you want it on a scale of one to ten --
Q Yeah.
A -- ten being the most important?
Q Yes.
A They were a ten.
Q And why do you say that?
A Because they were assisting me in putting fake balance statements into the hands of my investors. They were critical in providing real letters to go on top of the fake balance statements. They were critical in the fact that they had TD Bank employees actually handing me those phony statements in front of the investors; and Frank Spinosa was a fantastic advocate for our firm's supposed financial condition, as well as on several occasions actually verifying phony balances.
Rothstein went on to explain some of the ins and outs of the scheme, and alleged how TD Bank employees -- especially Spinosa -- were helping him out.
His explanation as to why Spinosa would want to assist him was pretty simple.
"Other than me asking him to, the two main reasons: One, he was directly paid a sum of money somewhere between $50- and $75,000 by me in cash," Rothstein said. "Two, he was one of the people that was, again, for lack of a better term, living the rock star lifestyle provided by our firm in exchange for his continued cooperation in our conspiracy."
TD Bank has continuously denied Rothstein's allegations against them.
Rothstein was also asked that morning to explain his escape to Morocco during the downfall of his scheme, and his reasoning was fairly simple -- it has no extradition treaty with the United States.
His plan was to open a series of nightclubs in Morocco using the $9 million he claimed TD Bank helped him wire to an account there.
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I'm here with another update on Small Chronicles! The past few days have been spent on finalizing headgear in the game! Here are a few preview screenshots of what characters look like when you equip them with headgear Lyea with her red headband ready for some magic action! And here's Kon with his paper bandana in action! Headgears are also slightly different from regular equipment in the way they add stat bonuses to your character. Instead of just 1 stat, they add bonuses to 2 different stats! And now that headgear's done, I am spending more time on making achievements more worthwhile to complete! That also means that I will be adding many new achievements to Small Chronicles! I will posting sneak previews of the new achievements in the next update! |
It has been a while since the last open beta update! And now v1.03 has finally arrived!
While v1.02 (the previous version) added league mode to Small Chronicles, v1.03 introduces headgears and new achievements to the game. Equipping your characters with headgears will customize their outlook while also adding stat bonuses to them. I have also added tons of new achievements to Small Chronicles! Completing achievements can now also earn you rubies! And if you are curious as to what new achievements there are, you can also view them from the new achievements list! There are also some changes and bug fixes to the game. To read all about what's new in v1.03, do check out the blog post at http://whitesponge.com/blog/open-bet...3-has-arrived/ Small Chronicles' open beta is coming to its closing soon! Which means that the announcement of the official release date of Chapter 1 is near! So do always check back for when it's announced! |
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Small Chronicles' progress is still going on strong! I have spent the last few days taking screenshots and adding in-game help content! If there's anything that you don't understand in the game, the in-game help content will be there to aid you! And of course you can always tweet me at @WhiteSponge too! In-game tips are on the way too! |
Hey everyone! How has your day been?
I have just added tips to Small Chronicles! They will appear randomly during the game's loading scene (as shown below)! And here's the video version of it! And just 1 more thing ~ the open beta of Small Chronicles is coming to its end soon so if you want to contribute your feedback and also earn rewards for doing so, be sure to hurry up and sign up now! You can do so at http://www.whitesponge.com/games/sma...icles/openbeta |
Hey everyone! I'm back with another update!
As I had mentioned before, Small Chronicles will be released into multiple chapters. Chapter 1 - Key of Light and Darkness introduces the first two playable characters - Kon and Lyea. Kon, whose sister was mysteriously kidnapped by an unknown evil force, sets out on an journey to rescue her. On the other hand, Lyea, who is also Kon's childhood friend, decides to chase after Kon when she discovered that he left without saying anything. Chapter 1 only tells the first half of the game's story but also introduces league mode! League mode is where you can pit your characters against other opponents and win awesome rewards (rubies)! So what about the 2nd half of the game? That's where Chapter 2 comes in I will also be announcing when the open beta closes and the official release date of Chapter 1 really soon! ^^ |
Hey everyone! How's your day again? I'm back with another update on Small Chronicles!
A new update for the open beta has arrived! As mentioned before, this update introduces 1) In-game help content A great place for you to check and learn more about the game mechanics behind Small Chronicles 2) Tips And here's the video version of it! 3) Push notifications! Get notified when you are attacked by another league player! 4) New community forums! To join the forums, go to Help -> Community -> Forums! So whats coming next for Small Chronicles? Well for one the credits are still missing from the game. This is the place where all testers will have their name appear for being awesome and contributing to the games progress. Also watch out for an important announcement regarding Chapter 1 coming soon after that! Cheers! Last edited by WhiteSponge; 02-21-2014 at 01:36 AM.. |
Hey guys/gals how's your day? It is going to be another awesome weekend!
Remember when I mentioned that I reduced the file size during 1 of the previous open beta updates for Small Chronicles? Well I did it again... From the initial size of 200MB, I reduced it to around 150MB by simply changing the file compression formats for the voice over audio files. If you want to know how, do check out this post by Gamua While that is indeed a huge decrease in size, it still exceeds the 100MB allowance for downloading apps over cellular networks. So what else can be done to further decrease the total size? By making the game's content downloadable! Moving the game's content to a server allows the game to be shipped with a much smaller footprint! As not everyone will use the in-game help content frequently, moving it to a server and making it downloadable further reduces the game's total size! So how much was shaved off from the game's total size? That's almost 60MB gone! While it might not seem like a lot, it is a lot when you are downloading something with that size on your mobile device! With that said, does that mean that Small Chronicles Chapter 1 is coming really soon? |
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It has been more than 2 weeks since I last posted an update here! I have spent the last 2 weeks doing final testings on the game and also weeding out any possible remaining bugs! I would say that I'm at the last mile (about 95%) done for the release of Chapter 1! So while that's going on, here are a few more (last few) preview screenshots! The last screenshot shows a last minute change that I made in the game. Basically instead of always stunning (100%), Kon's charge skill now has a chance (4 - 12%, dependent on level of skill) of stunning. This change should make the game more balanced as there won't be anymore abusing of the skill I will be announcing Chapter 1's release date right after I have finished the final round of testing! If you want to find out earlier, you can also like Small Chronicles on Facebook or follow on Twitter! Cheers! |
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