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The American Welfare State Leaves Misery in Its Wake
Mar 24, 2014 12:28 PM
The modern American welfare state is a kleptocracy in which everyone is stealing from everyone else under the color of law using the income tax and IRS as the bagman.
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Taxed To Death: How the Income Tax and IRS Harm EVERYONE in America
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Growth Gap Begins To Swallow U.S. Economy
Mar 05, 2014 01:14 PM
In my new book,
Taxed To Death; How the Income Tax & IRS Harm EVERYONE in America
, I trace the historic development of the growth gap—a concept I introduced in a 1991
Wall Street Journal
—and pinpoint how the income tax has been a major contributor to its persistence. Chapter X of
Taxed To Death
makes the point that if one begins the analysis at the point the growth gap re-emerged in 2001 during George W. Bush's presidency—and never closed thereafter—rather than at the beginning of the latest economic recovery (mid-2009) as IBD does, by 2012, the measured GDP growth gap would be twice what IBD reports, a GDP shortfall of $2.651 trillion in real, inflation-adjusted 2005 dollars.
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HUNTER: Obama's plan is to destroy America's private health care industry
Dec 05, 2013 10:39 AM
Obamacare was designed to self-destruct, but not so quickly nor generating so much alarm... Obamacare has blown up on the launch pad. People are having their health plans canceled, and they are now stranded, unable to replace their old insurance policies with new plans purchased through the insurance exchanges because the Obamacare website is dysfunctional. President Obama is trying to prevent a chain reaction from getting out of control by proposing a system restart, requiring insurance companies to reinstate canceled plans for a year to give the administration time to "fix" the website and get the exchanges operational.
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There Obama Goes Again Holding Seniors Hostage
Oct 07, 2013 10:02 AM
Two years ago, as the federal government approached its legal borrowing limit, President Obama made a thinly veiled, Tony-Soprano-style threat to hold up Social Security checks if congressional Republicans didn't give in to him and increase the debt limit and raise taxes. The president contended that if the government was unable to borrow more money, "There may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it [pay Social Security benefits]."
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Taxed To Death
Sep 09, 2013 09:06 AM
(BOOK EXCERPT) At this advanced stage of the collective's development, dismantling the welfare-warfare state one agency and one program at a time will never succeed. Too many people who work and live inside the collective's bureaucratic cells and thrive off its nectar will swarm to man the barricades to defend their benefits and jobs. Too many crony capitalists who occupy the military-industrial complex and who operate the too-big-to-fail financial cartel will form a forward line of defense against would-be reformers and peacemakers. Too many apparatchiks and contractors at the IRS and inside NSA know too much about too many people in the constitutional branches of government to let them wander too far off the reservation.
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Senior Bashing Back In Vogue
Jul 25, 2013 02:43 PM
SENIOR ALERT: Pay No Attention To Those Rising Prices: A 1.5 percent COLA increase is all you get
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Taxed To Death Introduction
Jun 15, 2013 07:55 AM
Excerpt from the new book on the income tax and the IRS by SSI President Larry Hunter, available March 1, 2014:
Taxed To Death: A Concerned Citizen's Guide To How The Income Tax & the IRS Harm EVERYONE in America.
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Mutiny on Benghazi or Presidential Impotence?
May 28, 2013 12:03 PM
Was there mutiny in the ranks on September 11, 2012 when President Barack Obama gave the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a direct order to mobilize military forces in Benghazi and they failed to carry out his command? Or, did the president rescind his deployment order? The American people have a right to know. The president may be a potted plant but we are not.
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French Measles
May 13, 2013 08:41 PM
As with so much Republican "outrage," GOP indignation is misplaced and disingenuous.
Whether it is Republican "outrage" over Benghazi—outrage over Hillary's dereliction of duty and the Obama Administration's general incompetence—or the IRS's targeting so-called "conservative" groups for harassment and persecution, the outrage never goes to the heart of the real issue. As with American politics generally, GOP "outrage" over IRS abuse or about the president's imperial incompetence is superficial and distracting. In the case of Benghazi, the real issue is what the CIA is up to in Libya that provoked the attack and continues to fuel war and rebellion in other countries in and around the region, which the CIA and White House desperately are trying to cover up—almost certainly gunrunning to extremist Islamic rebels in Syria and beyond. Can you say "Watergate" and "Iran-Contra" Obama style? Can you say "impeachment?"
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Commissioner Gordon '85 to Speak at Orientation Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner and Southwestern Adjunct Professor Scott Gordon will help welcome new Southwestern students as the keynote speaker during Orientation on August 17. Formerly a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney and a founding member of the office's Stalking and Threat Assessment Team, Professor Gordon is a nationally recognized expert in child abuse and domestic violence. Among his high-profile cases as a prosecutor were the O.J. Simpson criminal trial and the trial of a man accused of stalking actress Brooke Shields. In earlier positions, Professor Gordon served as special assistant to the Chief Deputy District Attorney, where he was responsible for policy and legislative issues related to child abuse, domestic violence and sex crimes, and as a member of the District Attorney's Special Investigations Division, focusing on criminal conduct by public officials. He has worked with the California State Legislature to draft and review legislation and is the author of four statutes enacted into California law. In 1997, Professor Gordon was appointed by the U.S. State Department to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague where he spent two months evaluating alleged war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Most recently, he co-authored the book Shadow Enemies, a non- fiction thriller based on a World War II German terrorist plot against the United States. Professor Gordon is a 1979 graduate of California State University, Dominguez Hills. He completed his J.D. degree at Southwestern in 1985 while serving as a Santa Monica police officer.
Southwestern Students Selected for 2005 Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Program Five Southwestern students spent this summer interning with nonprofit public interest law organizations as a part of Equal Justice Works' Summer Corps program. Danielle Greene, Daniel Jimenez, Karen Lac, Lauren Liebes and Kenneth Meyer each received a $1,000 education award voucher through the national AmeriCorps-funded program. These students were among 505 applicants for 250 participant slots nationwide. The 2005 Summer Corps participants are first-year and second-year law students from 113 law schools. They each spent at least 300 hours at public interest internships, providing critically needed legal assistance to low-income or underserved communities in 39 states. The Summer Corps members also gained first-hand experience and lawyering skills in areas such as client intake, individual representation, and legal research and writing. Placements included the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, Los Angeles (Greene), Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Los Angeles (Jimenez), the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, Los Angeles (Lac) and Public Counsel, Los Angeles (Liebes and Meyer). Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law) was founded in 1986 by law students dedicated to working for equal justice on behalf of underserved communities and causes. Today, Equal Justice Works is the national leader in creating summer and postgraduate public interest opportunities for law students and lawyers, as well as in urging more public interest programming at law schools.
Students Sound Off on Judge Roberts' Nomination On the eve of President Bush's nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court, many were scrambling to learn more about the man who, if appointed, will play a crucial role in the country's future. Those who turned to local TV news stations might have seen an unexpected group of legal experts sounding off on the nomination: Southwestern students. KTTV Fox 11 sent reporters to Southwestern to gauge law students' reactions to the conservative Roberts. News of the nomination had been leaked several hours earlier, and a group of seven SCALE I students had already been busily researching the judge's background, using legal research programs on their laptops. Now, with the cameras rolling, they sat in the Salle Moderne watching the president formally announce his selection on television, and offering their opinions to reporters. "I'm really concerned," said Jennifer Turner, explaining that Roberts' past criticism of Roe v. Wade could pose a threat to legalized abortion. "Even though we're not exactly sure where he'll go, because he doesn't have any published opinions as of yet, we really need to be concerned about women potentially losing their right to choose." David Likens warned against jumping to conclusions about Roberts. "He might surprise some people," he said. "He might not be as conservative as everybody assumes that he is." The students' observations were aired in segments* that featured commentary from senators Bill Frist, Patrick Leahy and Charles Schumer. Not bad for a study group that had been in law school for just under a month. *Portions of the interviews were used in segments on KTTV's 10pm and KCOP's 11pm news programs.
Southwestern Welcomes New Adjunct Faculty Ira Gottlieb, a partner with the law firm of Geffner & Bush, will teach labor law during the fall semester. Specializing in the representation of public and private sector labor organizations, he has litigated before federal and state courts and administrative agencies in 14 states and the District of Columbia. Professor Gottlieb has appeared before the National Labor Relations Board, National Transportation Safety Board and California Public Utilities Commission, among others, and has experience in arbitration under collective bargaining agreement and counseling union clients. Earlier in his career, he was an attorney in the legal department of the United Farm Workers. A member of many professional organizations, including the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee, and the Labor and Employment Law Sections of both the American Bar Association (ABA) and California State Bar, Professor Gottlieb is a senior editor of the forthcoming ABA publication, The Railway Labor Act, 2nd edition; he also served as an editor of the first edition. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University, his J.D. from Rutgers University and is a member of the California and New York State Bars. Hope Singer, a partner with the law firm of Geffner & Bush, will teach labor law during the fall semester. Specializing in the representation and counseling of public and private sector labor organizations, she has extensive experience arbitrating under collective bargaining agreements and advocacy before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and civil service commissions. A former field attorney with the NLRB, Professor Singer has written extensively on a variety of labor law issues. She has served as contributing editor of Construction Organizing, a publication of the AFL-CIO, and How to Bring a Case Before the NLRB, a publication of the American Bar Association (ABA). She is co-chair of the ABA's NLRB "Practice and Procedure" Committee, as well as a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee, and has been a featured speaker at a range of symposia. She earned her B.A. from the City University of New York, her J.D. from Rutgers University and is a member of the California, New Jersey and Nevada State Bars.
Notice Changes? Summer may bring a big drop in classes, but that doesn't mean campus is quiet. In fact, the break between semesters provides Southwestern with time to tackle various projects that cannot be completed during the regular school year. This summer's primary undertaking has been a major upgrade of the Westmoreland building. Janice Manis, Southwestern's Director of Administrative Services, said the facility is being enhanced both functionally and aesthetically. "We want to bring it in line with the quality of the Bullocks Wilshire building, while retaining its basic character," she explained. "Every year we take a look at campus facilities and determine what needs to be improved from an academic, service, operations or safety point of view." This year's project is threefold. First, the building's façade is being repainted and weatherproofed. Manis said the new color palette was chosen to blend with the Bullocks Wilshire building and the Promenade. Second, the bathrooms throughout the edifice are undergoing a dramatic facelift. Aging equipment and finishes are being replaced with soothing tones and state-of-the-art, motion-sensing faucets, soap dispensers and paper towel holders. Also, many of the bathrooms will now feature handicap accessible door entries. The exterior painting is expected to wrap up in November, and the bathroom renovation should be completed by the end of the year. By the time students and faculty return in the fall, Suite 102 on the Westmoreland building's first floor will boast a new look and arrangement. Manis said the roughly 10,300-square-foot area is being reorganized "to make better use of its space and improve student services." The offices in the northwest corner of the suite – which previously housed the Dean of Students, Career Services, Student Affairs and Externships – have been demolished . In their place, the school has constructed a new Admissions Office (pictured above, before and after construction). Offices for the Dean of Students and Student Affairs have been relocated to the southeast corner of the suite, where the Admissions Office used to sit (pictured, after construction). Meanwhile, the Externship Office, which had been housed on the first floor since 1998, has been moved up to the second floor, adjacent to the Student Bar Association office. The Financial Aid Office and the Registrar will remain in the same spots with minor modifications in counter configurations, waiting areas and staff work areas (Financial Aid pictured, after construction). Career Services will continue to operate on the third floor, where it moved last year. Manis described the Suite 102 layout as "more efficient." "Our goal was to improve the accessibility that students and applicants need to have with different offices," she said.
PROFESSOR PAUL BATEMAN • Lecturer, Opinion Writing Seminar, National Judicial College, University of Nevada • Speaker, Academic Assistance Workshop, LSAC, University of Nevada, Las Vegas-Boyd Law School
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER CAMERON • Interviewed on "AirTalk," and "Past Sunset," KPCC
PROFESSOR MARK CAMMACK • Principal Organizer, The Global and the Local in Accounting for and Judging War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain • Interviewed on "The Abrams Report," MSNBC
PROFESSOR MICHAEL DORFF • Does One Hand Wash the Other? Testing the Managerial Power and Optimal Contracting Theories of Executive Compensation, 30 JOURNAL OF CORPORATION LAW 255 (2005)
PROFESSOR MICHAEL EPSTEIN • From Must-See-TV to Branded Counter-Programming: Syndicating 'Seinfeld' in MASTER OF ITS DOMAIN: REVISITING SEINFELD (Continuum, 2005) (with Mark C. Rogers and Jimmie L. Reeves) • From Scarcity to Market Power Quid Pro Quo: Toward a Workable Right of Access in U.S. Media in MEDIA OWNERSHIP: RESEARCH AND REGULATION (Hampton Press, 2005) • Surviving the Hit: HBO's Brand Equity after 'The Sopranos' in READING THE SOPRANOS: CAN THIS BE THE END OF TONY SOPRANO? (I.B. Taurus, 2005) (with Mark C. Rogers and Jimmie L. Reeves)
PROFESSOR JAMES FISCHER • Appointed, Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, California State Bar
PROFESSOR MICHAEL FROST • INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL LEGAL RHETORIC: A LOST HERITAGE (Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2005)
PROFESSOR MAX GOODMAN • Quoted in "State's Laws Make Good Breeding Ground," Riverside Press Enterprise
PROFESSOR WARREN GRIMES • Quoted in "RIMS President Issues Challenge for Industry: Eliminate Contingents," Business Insurance
PROFESSOR PAUL HORWITZ • Grutter's First Amendment, 46 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 461 (2005) • Interviewed on KABC-TV News
PROFESSOR SUNG HUI KIM • The Banality of Fraud: Resituating the Inside Counsel as Gatekeeper, FORDHAM LAW REVIEW (2005)
PROFESSOR DAVID KOHLER • Forty Years After New York Times v. Sullivan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 83 OREGON LAW REVIEW 1203 (Winter 2004)
PROFESSOR JAMES KUSHNER • Lecturer, Innovative European Urbanism, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO
PROFESSOR CHRISTINE METTEER LORILLARD • Moderator, "Legal Stories of Empowerment/Disempowerment," and presented a paper, "Making the Law Free: Literature as a Bridge Between the Law and the Culture in Which it Must Exist," The Power of Stories: The Intersection of Law Culture and Literature, sponsored by Gloucester City Council, The Gloucester Initiative, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law and University of Gloucestershire, England
PROFESSOR ROBERT LIND • ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 2nd ed., 5 vols. (Thomson/West, 2005) (with P. Acton, T. Selz and M. Simensky) • NEWSGATHERING AND THE LAW, 3rd ed. (Matthew Bender, 2005) (with C. Dienes and L. Levine)
PROFESSOR ROBERT LUTZ • Ten Years of the WTO: Reflections on the Future of Regional and Global Trade, 34 INTERNATIONAL LAW NEWS: SPECIAL FOCUS ISSUE – THE WTO 1 (Spring 2005) • Lecturer, "Legal Aspects of Terrorism," Terrorism, Global Security and the Law, University of California, Los Angeles
PROFESSOR JONATHAN MILLER • Co-Organizer and presented a paper, "Argentina's 'New' International Human Rights Trials and Its Search for Domestic Political Legitimacy," The Global and the Local in Accounting for and Judging War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain • Chair and panelist, Comparative Constitutional Construction, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
PROFESSOR AUSTEN PARRISH • Trail Smelter Déjà Vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law, and the Search for Solutions to Canadian-U.S Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes, 85 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 363 (2005)
PROFESSOR ROBERT PUGSLEY • Interviewed on Radio America, KPCC, KAHL (San Antonio, TX) and WNDB (Daytona Beach, FL) • Quoted in Newsday and the Christian Science Monitor
PROFESSOR MYRNA RAEDER • "A Primer on Gender-Related Issues That Affect Female Offenders," Criminal Justice Magazine (Spring 2005) • Quoted in ABA Journal e-Report
PROFESSOR J. KELLY STRADER • WHITE COLLAR CRIME: CASES, MATERIALS, AND PROBLEMS (Lexis Publishing, 2005) (with S. Jordon) • Interviewed on KCRW; KPCC; and "Marketplace" and "Morning Edition," NPR
PROFESSOR BYRON STIER • Resolving the Class Action Crisis: Mass Tort Litigation as Network, UTAH LAW REVIEW (2005)
PROFESSOR DENNIS YOKOYAMA • You Can't Always Use the Zippo Code: The Fallacy of a Uniform Theory of Internet Personal Jurisdiction, 54 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 1147 (Summer 2005)
PROFESSOR JEFFREY LENKOV • Organizer, "Littles in Law," Big Brothers Big Sisters Mentoring Program • Quoted in "'Bigs' Mentor 'Littles," Teach Them About Law, Los Angeles Daily Journal • Interviewed on KCAL and KCBS news
PROFESSOR JEFFREY MAUSNER • Speaker, Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day Dinner, Temple Ner Maarav
PROFESSOR AMY PELLMAN • Appointed Superior Court Commissioner, County of Los Angeles
PROFESSOR BIANCA PUTTERS • Featured guest speaker, Land Use and Planning Methods Incorporating Protective Financial Incentives, University of Amsterdam
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Dalina Nicholas Arrested For Selling Sex With Six-Year-Old Daughter For Drugs
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"I can't think of an adjective that's bad enough to describe (the charges)," Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Bruce Thomason tells the Florida Times-Union.
Nicholas' own mother, who is now caring for the six-year-old girl, sticks up for her own daughter, though. She says the drug addict was essentially taken hostage in her own home by drug dealers who took advantage of her and her young daughter.
"These drug dealers kept returning and basically they took over her home," the girl's grandmother tells the Times-Union. "She was as much a victim as her daughter was."
Whoever is to blame, the allegations in the case are stomach-churning. Police were tipped off to the alleged abuse in Nicholas's house by a homeless man in the neighborhood. Detectives say he flagged down police after doing drugs in the house and seeing the girl being sexually abused.
Two men have also been charged with abusing the girl: 56-year-old Quinn Brooks and 47-year-old John Hagans, a homeless man nicknamed "Mute."
The two men have extensive criminal records, the Times-Union reports, while Nicholas' had only one previous drug conviction on her record. Nicholas now faces child neglect charges, while Hagan and Brooks are each charged with capital sexual battery.
Her daughter is now in state therapy and is living with her grandparents, police say.
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The marketing for this movie went into overdrive with its touting of this being action star Jet Li's first dramatic role. Unless you count his appearance in a non combative role in Founding of a Republic and the various attempts to balance his action status with more dramatic acting chops such as Danny the Dog, then Ocean Heaven will be that maiden effort. Written and directed by Xue Xiao Lu, this modest effort is by no means small in ambition, having the likes of Jay Chou and Kwai Lun Mei lend their vocals to separate title tracks (with Kwai Lun Mei also starring in the movie), as well as being lensed by the renowned Christopher Doyle. Both Jet Li and Wen Zhang share great chemistry, which helps make their individual performance credible. Xue Xiao Lu also spends considerable screen time in outlining the father-son relationship, albeit that it's not quite the norm because communication almost always seem like a one way street and through many scenes, Xue Xiao Lu has allowed for an awareness of autism to ring through without resorting to over-reliance on melodrama to do so. I won't say this is a tearjerker, but there will be those who will inevitably be touched by Father's love, going by the amount of sniffles in the cinema hall.
- husky10000years, Sunday, December 19, 2010


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The Bridgeport Public Library will celebrate the Week of the Young Child with a Family Drumming Circle featuring Michael Mills of Drums No Guns and Friends.
The Bridgeport Public Library will celebrate the Week of the Young Child with a Family Drumming Circle featuring Michael Mills of Drums No Guns and Friends on Wednesday, April 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the downtown Burroughs & Saden Library Children's Room. Mr. Mills has performed at the New Haven Jazz Festival, the Special Olympics World Summer Games, and most recently at the downtown Bridgeport Arcade.
Drumming for Life features hands on participation. Family audiences will discover the relevance of rhythms from around the world as well as the exploration of diverse cultural drumming, percussion and chants involving various basic communicative languages from different regions of the world.
The Week of the Young Child™ is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The purpose of the Week of the Young Child™ is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. The 2014 Week of the Young Child™ is April 6–12.
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Urinary incontinence is a common condition with aging, especially among women who have had children. Common actions such as coughing, sneezing, or laughing can lead to embarrassing involuntary losses of urine with incontinence. There are several underlying causes of incontinence according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Qi Deficiency and Urinary Incontinence
In TCM the Kidneys "govern water", and are in charge of the metabolism of urination. Kidney Qi helps to hold the urine in the Bladder; therefore, Kidney Qi Deficiency could be the root cause of an urinary incontinence or an overactive bladder. With Spleen Qi Deficiency, symptoms could include:
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Kidney Yin Deficiency and Urinary Incontinence
Bladder function and the Chinese medical Yin-Yang theory can also point to certain patterns of imbalance. The bladder's ability to hold urine is a Yin function. With Kidney Yin Deficiency, the bladder will not be able to hold the urine with symptoms such as:
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Kidney Yang Deficiency and Urinary Incontinence
Yang Deficiency would be common with urinary problems associated with prostate issues, but is also seen in women. Urinary incontinence associated with Kidney Yang Deficiency would include symptoms such as:
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Liver Imbalances and Urinary Incontinence
In TCM, the Liver energetic organ system "governs the muscles and sinews" ; this means that the general function and health of the muscles are affected by Liver imbalances. Since muscles are involved with the ability to hold urine, an imbalance of the Liver can contribute to urinary incontinence or overactive bladder. Other signs of the Livers' involvement are indicated when the condition is worsened stressful situations or are accompanied by frustration or anger.
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Lung Qi Deficiency and Incontinence
While not as common as the other patterns, Lung imbalances can be at the root of the cause of incontinence; here a couple of the reasons why:
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Stress Incontinence
The most common type of incontinence among women is stress incontinence with symptoms of involuntarily leaking urine while exercising, coughing, sneezing, laughing or lifting with the sudden pressure to the bladder causes urine to leak. While weaknesses due to childbirth to muscles that hold the bladder in place is the most common cause, a weakening of the bladder itself can also occur. Other causes of stress incontinence include:


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21/05/2012The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai welcomed Breguet's Queen of Naples exhibition held from April 18th to May 21st 2012. This exhibition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the creation of the first wristwatch in horological history, ordered in 1810 by Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon and Queen of Naples, and delivered in 1812. Moreover, Breguet is also taking the opportunity of this event to immortalise the 10th anniversary of its stellar Reine de Naples ladies' watch collection.
The exhibition in the Swatch Art Peace Hotel immersed visitors into a feminine atmosphere, where they gradually discovered the history of this model and its fascinating mysteries.
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Benefits of after-tax returns
PUBLISHED: 07 Jun 2013 05:05:51 | UPDATED: 05 Jul 2013 11:14:56PUBLISHED: 07 Jun 2013 PRINT EDITION: 07 Jun 2013Fil Andronaco says the minimisation of short-term capital gains benefits all investors as these do not receive a 50 per cent capital gains tax discount. Photo: Michele Mossop
Fil Andronaco
There is still widespread indifference in the investment industry to focusing on after-tax returns. It can be to the detriment of commonly reported pre-tax returns, which may make fund managers look less attractive relative to their peers. Also, it can be unclear which tax outcome investment managers should manage to; funds typically have investors across a range of tax brackets who may each have slightly different after-tax objectives.
Managers may also be reluctant to report the level of unrealised capital gains inherent in their unit price. If investors know a particular manager's unit price has a large component of unrealised capital gains, the manager may be less likely to attract investment flows as investors know there is embedded future tax liability. It is unlikely investors want to inherit unrealised gains of those who have come and gone before them.
Despite these complexities, something is better than nothing. Van Eyk Research believes investors have a right to know as much as possible about the investments they are considering. Reporting after-tax returns may also be a further step towards better aligning the interests of investment managers and their clients.
Our analysis shows there can be a significant difference in the after-tax outcomes between fund managers. We studied 30 Australian equity managers over a 10-year period. After-tax returns were calculated to ensure a consistent methodology data provided by the managers. The methodology aims to be consistent with Financial Services Council guidance note 25. This stipulates pre-liquidation and post-liquidation after-tax returns should be presented, but our analysis is limited to pre-liquidation after-tax returns because of data limitations.
We found a dispersion of pre-tax and after-tax returns across the various marginal tax brackets for a subset of managers in the study. Managers that are more tax-efficient showed a low dispersion between pre-tax and after-tax returns for the higher marginal tax brackets (30 per cent, 37 per cent and 45 per cent) and a wide dispersion for lower marginal tax brackets (0 per cent and the 15 per cent tax rate on super).
The interests of those on the lower tax brackets and higher tax brackets have potential to conflict when managing a portfolio to a pre-liquidation tax objective. Investment managers often cite issues such as these as to why it is not necessarily best to manage to after-tax outcomes. In order to improve pre-liquidation after-tax return for the lower tax brackets, investors desire the accumulation of franking credits. Conversely, investors in the higher tax bracket might prefer less income from dividends and franking credits and prefer a higher proportion of total return in the form of unrealised capital gains so they can defer taxes until they shift to a lower tax bracket or can offset it against realised capital losses from other assets.
However, there are still elements of a tax-aware approach that can benefit all investors (on a pre-liquidation basis). For example, the minimisation of short-term capital gains benefits all investors as these do not receive a 50 per cent capital gains tax discount.
Look at the evidence
The benefit of managing to after-tax returns can be significant. There is evidence to suggest managers who have pre-tax returns that are less attractive relative to their peers can actually have tax-adjusted returns that are better.
Compare two hypothetical managers Neutral 1 and Neutral 2. Both managers might achieve a similar level of pre-tax return (this is the return you will see on all of the manager marketing materials and the return published by data providers). On an after-tax basis, however, the Neutral 1 hypothesis in our modelling was clearly more tax efficient across all investor tax brackets. The difference was not insignificant, ranging from about 0.60 per cent to 1.60 per cent per annum for the 15 per cent (super) to 45 per cent tax brackets respectively. Compounded over 10 years, this is quite significant in monetary terms. In this case, it is likely the Neutral 1 manager is more effective at lowering its realised capital gains relative to Neutral 2. Obviously missing from this picture is the level of unrealised capital gains inherent in the unit price of each manager. This is why post-liquidation is also useful.
It is important to note that managing on an after-tax basis will not necessarily compensate for a lower pre-tax return. While tax efficiency is an important consideration it is all for nothing if a manager performs poorly on a pre-tax basis in the first place. In our opinion, a manager's ability to generate overall alpha still matters most.
Interestingly, some active managers have a similar level of tax efficiency as the index fund. Index funds often tout themselves as being more tax efficient than their active counterparts, due to index funds generally having a lower level of turnover. Low portfolio turnover is often cited as being more tax efficient as it aims to minimise realised capital gains, and where gains might be realised, typically having holding periods of greater than 12 months. Despite this, active managers can achieve a similar level of tax efficiency.
Fil Andronaco is a senior asset consultant at Van Eyk Research.


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Baton Rouge police are investigating a deadly hit and run crash.
It happened at 11 p.m. Thursday at 7900 Airline Highway near Tom Drive.
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A dance theater duet about the science of consciousness. Read more
A dance theater duet about the science of consciousness.
Megan Mazarick and Mason Rosenthal
Project by Megan Mazarick and Mason Rosenthal
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About this project
We made it! Megan and I are so thankful for all of your generous contributions. We've been hard at work building the show and we can't wait to share it with you.
Although we've reached our goal please still consider making a contribution. We are hoping to raise some additional funds to do things like: hire a lighting designer, hire additional performers, pay our stage manager more than a pittance, buy materials for scenic elements, and countless other things that have come up in our rehearsal process.
We hope to see you at the show in September. Tickets are now available here.
Thank you!
A Dance Theater Duet.
Megan and Mason met in 2011 and started working together for the first time in 2012. They knew it was a match made in heaven when, at their first rehearsal, they spent 3 hours pretending they were Gremlins giving a mansion tour. This is Mason's first evening-length work in Philadelphia, and his first time self-producing. This is Megan's first time co-creating a piece. Megan thinks it's dance. Mason thinks it's theater. They both can't wait to share it with you.
About MMMM.
Transforming into a variety of scientists, gurus, animals, plants, and minerals, Megan and Mason go out of their minds and into the unknown to investigate human consciousness. Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals is what happens when dance, theater, neuroscience, and spirituality collide in a TED talk gone wild format. Can you dig it?
MMMM draws from the work of scientists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers like:
Marco Iacoboni, Jill Bolte Taylor, Antonio DaMasio, V.S. Ramachandran, Daniel Dennet, Alva Noë, Eckhart Tolle, Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön, and many more.
It has been influenced by Megan and Mason's shared practice of improvisational dance, their unusual sense of humor, and obsession with shifting physical and mental states.
The performance will feature visual design by Ryan W. Kelly and sound design by Michael Kiley.
What we need.
We are asking for your help to raise $3500. The money would cover all of the costs of the production including the Philadelphia Fringe Festival fee, renting the Jolie Laide Gallery for rehearsals and performance, posters and cards, insurance, paying our stage manager, and collaborating artists.
Learn more.
Performances will take place as part of the 2012 Philadelphia Fringe Festival at the Jolie Laide Gallery (224 North Juniper Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107).
Show Dates and Times:
Saturday, September 22 at 7pm and 10pm
For tickets and more information go to: http://livearts-fringe.org/
Below are links to our websites, our amazing designers' websites, and a rough video of a 15 minute showing we did in April. If you have any questions feel free to contact us!
the Mine of the Mind for Minderals Work
in progress showing. April, 2012
Megan Mazarick Co-creator, Performer
Mason Rosenthal Co-creator, Performer
Michael Kiley Sound Design
Ryan W. Kelly Visual Design
Thank you. We are grateful for your support.
Megan and Mason
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All of the above, two tickets to the show, and an international spiritual teacher (Mason in character as Eckhart Tolle) will address your deepest spiritual concerns in a personalized video.
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Dec 02, 2012, 03:49 AM | |
Hey Rob,
All is good I have found an RC track literally 5 min from me at a place called Kambah. Its good for the bike but it's not as big as brendale so I can't wind it out as much. It's a bitumen surface as well, it tears the 200's up. Haven't talked to any other RC guys yet so I don't know if there are any other bike guys. hope all is well there, I will post some pic us of the track soon and possibly some footage if I can get some. Cheers Scott |
Dec 02, 2012, 08:26 AM | |
Hi Scott, good to hear you guys are getting settled in now. Great news finding a track so close too.
We had the AGM on Saturday, and we did the trophies for all classes for the year. I know Adrian set you a pic of your 3rd place trophy. You and Adrian were neck N neck all year, just 1 point standing in favor of Adrian. If you send me your new addy I'll package it up and send it down to you.. I spoke to Steve, he lives near Wyalan and said he'd be keen to catch up some time. Moorebank is another nice track in Sydney. Looking forward to seeing pics of your local track tho.. Cheers |
Dec 07, 2012, 05:13 PM | |
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Still having trouble getting the right stuff for the bike online, and I always manage to somehow get some wrong stuff whenever I buy. Most websites don't give details of what they're offering other than e.g. "Stealth Super Moto (SMR) Rear Insert - VMX 450" ; and after some time consuming research at a lot of websites I finally found that this insert is medium hardness, but some other important info was missed by me. This is what I got when I tried to buy a wheel & medium rear insert:
Has any of you guys time to sort out what tires are best for what from this list: http://www.shop.gotnitroonline.com/M...F.qscstrfrnt02 , or is there a better place with a few choices to buy from online? Trent is still looking into getting the best tires and inserts, but we need to get the stuff that we're after now. Also: how do grooved tires affect the handling? Basic beliefs suggest that slicks give more traction than grooved tires on dry tracks; due to their greater contact area, but typically have far less traction than grooved tires under wet conditions. But I realise how little I know when I see some of you experienced guys using grooved tires? |
Dec 08, 2012, 12:18 AM | ||
Hi Lars, Thats funny, sorry. You should have asked me or sent me an email. Next time find out what the VMX450 is first before you buy. Its for the 1/4 scale off road bike. Venom only make 1/8 and 1/4 scale bikes. I can buy that insert off you if you like, I can use it on me 1/4 scale road bike.
The inserts you want are: ThunderTiger/SB5, PMT, Nouva Faor, not sure if the DuraTrax Road Racer inserts fit but that bike is 1/5 scale too.. If I was to say what inserts to get, get the NouvaFaor Grey/Hard inserts.., they work really well at Brendale.. So all those tyres and inserts from GotNitro will work fine. As for the treaded PMT's, I would'nt get them untill winter comes around again, in summer you'll just ware them out in no time.., slicks are better right now. 100's (Hard), 200's (Soft) and 010's (Medium) will work good through summer. Hope that helps Lars..? Cheers Btw,.. I have a set of inserts you can buy off me if you like..? C you and Chance on the 14th... Quote:
Dec 08, 2012, 02:09 PM | |
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Thanks for the advice.
Thanks for all that guys. No need to buy the insert; it was cheap and you can have it. I'll bring it along on Friday, and you can decide who should have it.
Ordered a set of ThunderTiger/SB5s from Bruce. I hope that they'll be here by Friday. We should probably get some more advice from you about our tires on Friday. Kindest regards, Lars. |
Dec 08, 2012, 06:08 PM | |
Hi Lars,
You can order small stuff like that thru Geoff at trackside. If its in Australia you will get it quickly and still relatively cheaply. Thats where I bought mine when I was up there, come to think of it all of my small rc bits I got thru Geoff unless it wasn't available in Oz. Cheers Scott |
Dec 08, 2012, 06:56 PM | ||
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Kindest regards, Lars. |
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Ever since visual storytelling burst onto the scene, vision-keepers have dabbled with ways of putting an element of "openness" into their craft. The comedy-mystery Clue was originally released with multiple endings, for example, while the legendary French firebrand Jean-Luc Godard once made a film whose projection sequence was determined by the flip of a coin.
Today, however, as more and more people consume images and narratives from devices designed for input and output in equal parts, the line between viewer and creative is becoming increasingly blurred. It's no surprise that advertisers are looking to harness this new reality to knit large tapestries of consumer-guided story. Here's how:
Putting the audience in action
There's an old saying that holds "what the hand does, the mind tends to remember"–and that's certainly true when it comes to web usage. If viewers need to click before getting to the next round of a story, the more likely it is to mean something to them, the more likely they'll remember the video's message…and the more likely they'll take action. Even if it's only a nominal push of a button, such interaction draws upon the power of what media theorist Douglas Rushkoff once called "the Pong moment": the giddiness one feels when their actions immediately change the game unfolding on the screen.
But interactive videos do even more than getting viewers to feel empowered and part of a brand's story. When properly responsive, the interactive experience can also streamline the viewer's intake of information to the choice nuggets most fitting to their profile. Marketers must never forget that their story exists in a virtually limitless sea of others, so it's best to guide visitors to their own personal point of interest…lest they lose that interest. With a well-thought out branching video, marketers can help potential customers jump to the most relevant part of the video (or even a free trial or custom-fit point of sale opportunity). Consumers feel their desires have been catered to, and marketers can reach a number of demographics without concocting multiple campaigns: it's a true win-win.
Cashing in on the cool
One of the best ways to stoke up brand interest and loyalty is to make people feel they are part of a cutting edge–and in the case of digital media, no one has to pretend. Take a look at the way comment functions to surround almost any shared content on the web. Discussion threads give videos a life that extends far beyond the running time of the video, folding fans into the story in what academics would call an "extra-textual" experience.
However, some purveyors of sound and image are bringing edgy, almost avant-garde principles of storytelling into videos themselves. Not surprisingly, a number of musicians have unsheathed videos that play with non-linear, almost stream-of-consciousness to their art, notably Boys Noize, Arcade Fire, and Pharrell. And given the non-linear, rhizomatic nature of the internet itself, the only question is why such bold yet immediately accessible experimentation hasn't happened sooner.
Such left-field narrative (or non-narrative?) is by no means the sole domain of music, and their engaging energies are open to small business owners, not just blue chip Grammy winners. Any number of cheap to free tools out there exist to create flow-chart like video narratives, with HapYak one of the notables. And don't forget YouTube already offers interactive authoring options.
Big Data as Big Author
On the flipside, as dazzling and innovative as the prospect of "choose your own adventure" style interactive narrative may be, clicking a button to decide a story's fate strikes some as too gimmicky. People turn to creatives for their vision, after all, not merely to fill in the blanks for them. However, an increasing number of companies are using their data mines to create stories so responsive to audience desires that soon we'll soon be seeing seemingly traditional programming that would warrant the handle "interactive."
Using their massive reserves of client data, content providers such as Hulu and Netflix are rolling out shows based on crunched data–a sort of collective authorship by default. The cynical slacker crowd is showing a spiked interest in the supernatural? One Dead Beat, coming right up. Kevin Spacey fans say they like old school political thrillers. A House of Cards has been erected. As affordable analytics platforms for the masses become more commonplace, expect to see an increased number of stories of which fans can meaningfully say "we built this." (On a much smaller scale, by-request clips from YouTubers are on the rise.) For branders, no sense of belonging could be sweeter.
If there's any one secret to connect with potential consumers through interactive videocraft, it's to cultivate things organically. If the goal is to make consumers feel in some way that you've magically made their stories come to life, it makes a lot more sense to meet the people halfway through careful R&D and a good old fashioned ear to the digital street.


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Another new spring collection is Carnaby Street by Pat Bravo also for Art Gallery Fabrics. Rich colors and "springy' while still being fresh and edgy. I'm especially loving the navy. If I were at all decent at making myself clothing, I would love a top out of that mint and navy circle print (it's called Retro Pop Mint). Love it. Carnaby Street will be available this month from Fat Quarter Shop and from Mad About Patchwork in Canada.
I'm also really crushing on some Dear Stella fabrics. I'm working on a project right now using Cleo (above) that I'll share in the future. It's a little more muted, but I like it - espeially the bargello prints and that big dahlia looking flower. You can find Cleo here and here.
Dear Stella also has some great blender prints. I love this navy zigzag that I got from DryGoods Design. I also love the orange Piper Zig Zag print. Both are more blendable, subtle chevron design. Another upcoming Dear Stella line that I'm probably going to need is Va Bene - it's an Italian themed collection with Vespas and tomatoes and monuments in Rome. I've got a few Italians in my life that I might need to do something for. It's available here. I should probably get some before it's gone!
Finally, a few more prints that called my name. Ever since our trip to Paris last fall, I've been a sucker for French inspired prints. I think I need to make a France quilt now...so this new collection by Kei/Yuwa is calling my name.
Of course, since it's a Japanese import, it's not cheap. I'm limiting myself to little bits and pieces and then I'll mix them with pieces from my stash. This collection is available here. I got a few of the prints -including that awesome post-marked stripe from Sew Mama Sew. (Japanese prints are 15% off at Sew Mama Sew through Feb 13 with the code 15JAPANESE13. Hey, every little bit helps.)
Finally, a little Fat Quarter of this French Yuwa print. (Isn't it interesting that the cutest French prints are from Japan?) I got this one and the cute cross-stitch text print above from this awesome little Etsy shop. Their service was great! I may have also succumbed to some out of print pieces of Katie Jump Rope... Now it's time to make something with this loot.


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The Benigno S. Aquino Foundation: An Enduring Legacy
Even in their deaths, Sen. Benigno S. Aquino and former President Corazon C. Aquino have united and touched the Filipino people in innumerable ways.
They are beacons of hope for the Filipinos during their lifetime. Through the Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Foundation, the late Corazon Aquino helped countless of Filipinos especially with microfinance, leadership skills, and most especially, education. The BSAF was established to perpetuate the memory ideals and values of the late Senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. The Foundation is legally registered as a non-profit organization with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission.
In its organizational profile, BSAF's programs reflect the values upheld by the Aquino family, which stemmed from their convictions and life experiences. It supports activities that embody the spirit of people power as a strong positive force for societal change and reform. It has extended help to many deserving excellent students throughout the country to support their endeavors of finishing college. Last February 2009, five months before her death, Cory Aquino participated in the formal opening of the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Scholarship Program at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila. This recent program aims to help financially challenged students who excel in the university. This was also in partnership with the BSAF.
Reluctantly pushed into the Presidency during the post-Marcos era, Cory Aquino had served as an example to all the people around the world that truly helping people knows no bounds. Indeed, with his husband before her, they have both become enduring icons in the world landscape.


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Source: Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - Tolls on the Crescent City Connection will continue for another 20 years after elections officials counted and certified final results Tuesday from the highly contested Nov. 6 referendum.
The Times-Picayune reports approval of the extension hung on an eight-vote margin until Tuesday, when the final difference rose to 16 votes after officials counted 32 military and overseas ballots.
More than 308,000 ballots were cast by voters in New Orleans and in Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes.
The two spans of the Crescent City Connection tie New Orleans' downtown area to the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi River.


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Predictors of Positive Psychological Strengths and Subjective Well-Being Among North Indian Adolescents: Role of Mentoring and Educational Encouragement
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The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship of positive psychological strengths and its dimensions (hope, optimism, self efficacy and resiliency) with subjective well-being, mentoring and educational encouragement; and to examine the role of demographic characteristics, mentoring and educational encouragement as a predictors of positive psychological strengths and subjective well-being. Data were collected from 464 professional course students, 200 males and 264 females residing in North India. Descriptive, correlations and regression analysis were performed. Gender, socio-economic, marital status and religious belief of the students significantly influencing on outcome variables. Significant positive relationship were found between positive psychological strengths with subjective well-being, mentoring from teachers and educational encouragement from parents, siblings and friends. Regression model revealed that mentoring on the part of the teachers significantly predicted positive psychological strengths and subjective well-being. Educational encouragement on the part of the parents, siblings and friends were significantly predicted the positive psychological strengths and subjective well-being. Role of mentoring and educational encouragement from parents, siblings and teachers was found to be imperative in developing positive psychological strengths and subjective well-being of contemporary adolescent, as well preparing skill to face challenges of life in a complex world.
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- Title
- Predictors of Positive Psychological Strengths and Subjective Well-Being Among North Indian Adolescents: Role of Mentoring and Educational Encouragement
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Social Indicators Research
Volume 114, Issue 3 , pp 1285-1293
- Cover Date
- 2013-12-01
- 10.1007/s11205-012-0202-x
- Print ISSN
- 0303-8300
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0921
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Positive psychological strengths
- Subjective well-being
- Mentoring
- Educational encouragement
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Aqeel Khan (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia


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Clinton Everett FolinThursday, March 21st, 2013 Issue 12, Volume 17.
He was preceded in death by parents, Conrad and Ruth Folin, first wife Betty, an infant daughter, and a stepson. He is survived by loving wife Helene of Glenwood; brother John (Priscilla) Folin of Mound, MN; children Chelene (Dan) Koenig of Canada, Scott (Loraine) Folin of Oregon, Randy (Denise) Folin of California, Robin (Derek) Clark Nevada, Lisa (Tom) Hebb of California, Sharon Quick of Texas, Charles (Barbara) Early of California, and John Early of Texas; many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Clint was born May 16, 1923 in Brooten, Minn. and was raised there. He graduated from Brooten High School and attended the University of Minnesota before being drafted into the Army for three years of military service. Upon returning from the Army, he completed the graphic arts course at Dunwoody Institute and worked at several printing and advertising companies. He later was the editor and publisher of the Bertha Herald and Verndale Sun and started a new weekly newspaper, The Brooklyn Center Press. In the summer of 1965, Clint and wife Betty and their five children moved from Brookyn Center, Minn. to Fallbrook, Calif., traveling by covered wagon. Cancer took his wife of 25 years soon thereafter. He married Helene Ackerman Quick in Escondido, Calif. in 1974. They relocated to Brooten, Minn. where they lived in the house where he was born. In Brooten, they operated Folins Definitely Different collectibles shop for several years before moving to Glenwood, Minn. Clint had a lifelong passion for storytelling. He could see a story in just about everything-a collectible item, an event, something unusual or something ordinary. But most of all, he loved to write down his stories and to share them with others. His stories will be remembered by many who read his articles and columns in the Pope County Tribune, Simple Pleasures, Folkstyles and for the American Amateur Press Association. He was known locally as "Hat Man" because of one of his columns titled "Under My Hat". He was involved as a member and volunteer with many organizations in every community in which he lived, most recently with the Young at Heart singers, Pope County Historical Society, Glenwood Senior Center and Lakeview Good Samaritan Society. Clints life leaves family, friends, and colleagues with affectionate memories of his quick and quirky sense of humor, his breadth of interests, and with plenty of stories to tell and to read. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Clints memory to the Glenwood, Minnesota Pope County Museum. To send condolences to the family, visit www.hoplinfuneralhome.com and click on obituaries. 1 comments
In the winter of 1966, my family moved to Fallbrook from Pacific Beach and I immediately met Randy Folin at Potter Jr. High. His dad, Clint Folin, made a big impression on me. He was not like the other adults that I had known up until then, and he always had a story or at least would take the time to try and talk with us, which isn't an easy thing to do with a 14 year old boy. Clint, and his wife Betty, always welcomed us to their house, which is where the Levering CPA business is now kitty corner from the firehouse. It had previously been a funeral home. We would sleep in his covered wagon on hot nights and in the day, take a tour of Clint's collections of just about everything you could imagine. Rest in Peace, Clint. My best wishes to his family.
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The Hall of Waters
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Built for $1 million in 1937 as a WPA boondoggle, the Hall of Waters was supposed to be the most complete health resort in the U.S. Today it sits nearly empty, an Art Deco pile with faux-Mayan friezes, home only to the local government offices that have moved into its vacant rooms (you can pay your water bill here).
Excelsior Springs has always been blessed with a variety of natural waters bubbling out of the ground. The idea behind the Hall of Waters was to pipe them all to one spot where they could be filtered and dispensed. The complex offered bath houses, a spa, therapy pools, and the World's Longest Water Bar, all built around the concept of water as a medicine. But that idea fell out of fashion, the Hall was shut down, then was revived for its tourism potential. A sequence of interpretive panels between each window explain the history and importance of water in the town.
The Water Bar staffing and operations were outsourced, then shut down again at the end of 2006 when the contract expired, the company left town and the town had no one to replace them.
Excelsior Springs wants to revive at least the World's Longest Water Bar, and hopes visitors will once again be able to enjoy calcium water, saline water, soda water, iron manganese water -- hot or cold from a tap -- inside the soaring Hall of Springs with its high windows, futurist chandeliers, and polished terrazzo floors. But for the moment all that's here are a couple dozen plastic bottles of water stacked behind the bar, and no one to sell them.


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5 Ways UNICEF Improves Access to Clean Water
This month, the UNICEF Tap Project is challenging you to put down your phone to help provide water to a child in need.
You might be wondering, how exactly does UNICEF help?
Since 1990, UNICEF has helped more than 2 billion people gain access to clean water, hygiene and sanitation. Here's how.
1. Promoting good hygiene in schools and communities. By promoting simple behaviors like handwashing, UNICEF helps protect children from life-threatening diseases like diarrhea, which are often directly related to unsafe water and poor sanitation.
2. Installing community water access points. UNICEF has helped build thousands of water facilities and rehabilitate community wells. Access to clean drinking water can help revitalize communities in many ways, from decreasing child mortality rates to freeing up women and girls from fetching water to ensuring healthy livestock.
3. Restoring access to clean water during emergencies. The risk of contracting diseases from unsafe water is extremely high during an emergency when water systems may be damaged or insecure. UNICEF helped restore access to clean water in Tacloban, Philippines, after the devastating typhoon and for 10 million people in Syria. UNICEF also provides hygiene kits in these high-risk situations. See what's inside the blue bucket.
4. Providing sanitation facilities to support hygienic living conditions. Access to adequate sanitation facilities is vital to preventing needless suffering and death. UNICEF actively promotes the elimination of open defection.
5. Helping kids help their communities. Access to clean water and decent sanitation facilities keeps kids — especially girls — in school, and keeps them focused too. UNICEF works to improve water and sanitation facilities in schools so that children themselves are agents of change in their homes and communities.
Help children around the world gain access to clean water.
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Building Character: Tracie Thoms
The "Stick Fly" star can't worry if we agree with her character
Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages' ongoing series about how actors create their roles
Tortured love affairs, parental disapproval, and a board game that leads to a wall-rattling fight: There's plenty of juice in Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly. However, drama's only half the equation in the play, which is running at Broadway's Cort Theatre. The show stands out from other family meltdown sagas because it fuses fury with deep conversations about race, class, and gender. The characters are just as likely to hurl accusations about racist subtext as they are to cry about their daddy's dark secrets.
Both elements spring naturally from the story, which centers on the Le Vays, a clan of wealthy, African-American intellectuals. When the sons bring home their girlfriends—Taylor, an African-American entomologist, and Kimber, a white scholar who works with urban youth—philosophical differences quickly lead to personal explosions.
Actors have to make sure the thinking and the feeling are equally clear in every moment. Tracie Thoms, who plays Taylor, has it especially tough: Her character—who is not only a scientist, but also the abandoned daughter of a famous race theorist and a black woman who grew up in a privileged white community—has several dense speeches that unfurl like arias. "It's a mouthful to say every night and even more difficult as I'm wrapping my mind around these particular ideas," Thoms says.
She adds that Taylor always has an emotional reason for every argument: "If there's no passion behind it, if there's no need to say these things, then it can become like a lecture. I have to start with who she is and what her background is and how she felt alienated her entire life, being the only black person in her classes. That's why she's always felt like she has to argue her point and say, 'No, you can't say that.'"
But even when she's making righteous arguments, Taylor also wants to be accepted, and the hunger to be right and be loved animates Thoms' performance.
Thoms, who starred in the Rent movie and the series Cold Case, says that as a performer, she identifies a little too easily with Taylor's neuroses. "Taylor plays on the basic needs of all actors," she explains. "She wants to be right. She wants to be agreed with. She wants to be liked. At the end of the day, what actors do is subjective, and it depends on whether people like you or respond to you, so Taylor really plays on that."
That becomes an issue when Taylor gets to the end of a big tirade and waits for other characters to agree with her. At that moment, it's tempting for a performer to wait for the audience's approval, too.
Thoms explains, "There were days, especially in rehearsal and in the first couple of previews, where I would think, 'Who is making this decision? Is it me or is it Taylor?' Do I feel like I want to argue this point because the audience isn't on my side or because Taylor doesn't feel supported? Where is this impulse coming from?"
Ultimately, she has to ignore those thoughts. If Thoms changed her performance to make the audience root for her, then Taylor would lose her essential rough edges and the play itself would feel like a political rally instead of an authentic family story.
"I really have to stay in Taylor's mind and stay focused on the people on stage," Thoms says. "We try hard not to let the audience's response alter what we're doing. They're there to participate, absolutely, but you can't play your position differently based on how
they're receiving you. [Our director] Kenny [Leon] always says we have to be the rabbit and the audience has to be the greyhound."
Mark Blankenship is TDF's online content editor
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- 1 Nick Davis { 12.19.11 at 10:55 pm }
Really enjoyable interview with an actress I really admire, who's found a way to consistently pick good, smart, worthy projects in a storytelling culture that doesn't present actors of color with an embarrassment of rich opportunities. Glad to have this window into the intelligence and consideration she brings to her performances. (Also have I Will Follow sitting on my TV table, ready for a spin!)
- 3 Mike Styer { 12.20.11 at 2:52 pm }
Very perceptive to get this interview. It is right on. Maybe the NY Times reviewer should see this…..learn something about real acting.
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TAMUK: Jason Garcia Injured
POSTED: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 8:28pm
UPDATED: Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 11:33am
On the next level, a former Rivera star is part of the TAMUK success story in 2009. Jason Garcia injured his lower leg in a win two weeks ago for the Hogs, but is ready to rejoin his teammates ASAP. The latest injury report has Garcia listed as out for West Texas, but he is expected to return to the lineup in time for 14th ranked Tarleton State.
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