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Mini Beaded Christmas Trees
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This free Christmas craft is perfect for showing your holiday spirit! Show off these Mini Beaded Christmas Trees at home or at work. Everyone will love them! Best of all, you can have these lovely Beaded Christmas Trees out on display all winter long. Just as beautiful come New Year's Eve, these beaded trees are a great winter decoration to have in your collection.
- 12″ tall 4″ diameter black candleholder
- 10″ tall 4″ diameter black candleholder
- 8″ tall 4″ diameter black candleholder
- (3) 8-7/8″ x 3-7/8″ Desert Foam® Green Dry Floral Foam Cone – FloraCraft® (Used in project as pictured
- (3) 5-1/2 ft. lengths silver beaded garland
- (3) 1″ silver ball ornaments
- Craft Bond™ Tacky Glue – Elmer's® – (Used in project as pictured)
- Glue gun and glue sticks
- 4 oz. container silver glitter
- 24″ length fishing line
- Silver ball ornaments (optional)
- Old paintbrush
- Scissors
- Paper plate
- Old newspapers
Cover work area with old newspapers. Squeeze glue onto paper plate. Spread glue onto cones using old paintbrush. Sprinkle glitter onto cones covering entire cone. Shake cones to remove loose glitter. Let dry.
Use glue gun and glue sticks to attach cones to candle holders.
Bind garland by starting at one end and gather looped pieces of different lengths at center. Bind by tying with fishing line. Use glue gun to attach bound center of beads to top of cones. Spread lengths of garland around cone.
- Use glue gun to glue ornaments to top of trees. Arrange large silver ornaments at base of candle holders.
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Now that is just my style, classy and in silver which is this years theme.
You have some really neat things here. It would be great if your photos were bigger. You really can't see the projects very well.
These craft ideas aqre such a hoot! I have been playing with "left-overs" my entire life, and I pity the women who'se work is so serious that they don't have time for these whimsical light-hearted crafts. My own daughter-in-law puts these wonderful things into a covered trash can immediately and indiscriminately so that her dog won't get into it. What a shame these is no trash stream from her, and she connot appreciate the creativity involved in snipping and glueing, coloring and taping, much less displayng home made things on the mantle or coffee table. My sister framed her family candid photos and hung them in her bathroom, saying anyone who stays an hour will go in there! God bless her. DB in Connecticut
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What I bought – 8 January 2014
we cry we laugh we feel we love we live
in the coffin of our existence and
IT IS ALWAYS TOO LATE (Tommy Trantino, from Lock the Lock)
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Sipping drinks on the porch in the sunset, Farsheed Shomloo, an immigration lawyer, pointed to a book on the patio table and told Jim, "You should read this new book about Iran, it's really interesting." Jim replied:
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What I bought – 16 January 2013
If so, that impression was in his mind on that last day of 1807 when he was forty and played Surrey to Burr's Wolsey, exclaiming to the ravening crowd that Burr had "no religious principles, and little, if any sense of reverence to a moral Governor of the Universe." How could even an Adams purport to know such a thing? John Quincy Adams's theologically trained father would have been aware that one makes a statement about the state of another person's soul at great peril to one's own. (Roger Kennedy, from Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson)
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For them it might stave off what he could not help but see with clarity: that the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty. (David Guterson, from Snow Falling on Cedars)
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We have illustrated how our "small theory" (Lipsey, 1990) of bereavement guided the development and evaluation of a preventive intervention for bereaved children. Our small theory, based on prior empirical research, enabled us to identify family processes that appeared to mediate the effects of parental death on child mental health. Our intervention was designed to attempt to change these processes. The evaluation of our experimental trial of the intervention assessed changes on these processes as well as the more distal mental health outcomes. The experimental trial showed some-what encouraging results, in terms of the program's ability to modify the warmth of the parent–child relationship and to decrease symptomatology in the adolescent children. We also obtained further empirical support for our underlying theoretical model. Finally, implications for redesign of the program were derived from assessing the adequacy of the program components to change each of the mediators in the theoretical model.
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- Title
- Linking empirically based theory and evaluation: The family bereavement program
- Journal
American Journal of Community Psychology
Volume 20, Issue 4 , pp 491-521
- Cover Date
- 1992-08-01
- Print ISSN
- 0091-0562
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2770
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Irwin N. Sandler (1)
- Stephen G. West (1)
- Louise Baca (1)
- David R. Pillow (1)
- Joanne C. Gersten (1)
- Fred Rogosch (1)
- Lynn Virdin (1)
- Janette Beals (1)
- Kim D. Reynolds (1)
- Carl Kallgren (1)
- Jenn-Yun Tein (1)
- Gary Kriege (1)
- Eloise Cole (1)
- Rafael Ramirez (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Program for Prevention Research, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, 85287-1108, Tempe, Arizona


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"You Raise Me Up" | ||||
Song by Secret Garden from the album Once in a Red Moon | ||||
Released | 26 March 2002 | |||
Genre | Inspirational | |||
Length | 5:04 | |||
Writer | Brendan Graham (lyricist) Rolf Løvland (composer) | |||
Producer | Decca | |||
Once in a Red Moon track listing | ||||
"You Raise Me Up" | ||||
Song by Secret Garden from the album Once in a Red Moon | ||||
Released | 26 March 2002 | |||
Genre | Inspirational | |||
Length | 5:04 | |||
Writer | Brendan Graham (lyricist) Rolf Løvland (composer) | |||
Producer | Decca | |||
Once in a Red Moon track listing | ||||
"You Raise Me Up" is a song that was originally composed by the duo Secret Garden. The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. After the song was performed early in 2002 by the Secret Garden and their invited lead singer, Brian Kennedy, the song only became a minor UK hit. The song has been recorded by more than a hundred other artists including Josh Groban, who popularized the song in 2003; his rendition became a hit in the United States. The Irish band Westlife then popularized the song in the United Kingdom two years later.[1] "You Raise Me Up" is sung as a contemporary hymn in church services.
The song was originally written as an instrumental piece and titled "Silent Story." Parts of the melody resemble the traditional Irish tune Londonderry Air, (especially the opening phrase of its chorus), which is best known as the usual tune to the 1910 song Danny Boy. Løvland approached Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham to write the lyrics to his melody after reading Graham's novels.[2]
The song was written by and for Løvland himself and performed for the very first time at the funeral of Løvland's mother. Here he noted "there's something about the song people are embracing - which becomes emotionally strong. [...] I believe people think of it as a song they use for their own stuff.".[3][4]
In 2002 it was released on the Secret Garden album Once in a Red Moon, with the vocals sung by Irish singer Brian Kennedy, and sold well in both Ireland and Norway. Originally, Brian Kennedy was supposed to follow Secret Garden on their Asian tour in 2002, but fell ill, and could not attend. He was replaced by Norwegian singer Jan Werner Danielsen, who also later recorded the song together with Secret Garden. A demo version of this recording was released in 2010, on Danielsen's posthumous compilation album One More Time - The Very Best Of, which included several previously unpublished recordings.
Although the original version did not chart internationally, the song has now been covered more than 125 times,[5] with the most successful covers being by Josh Groban (#73 in the US and #1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart), Westlife (#1 in the UK), Daniel O'Donnell (#22 in the UK) and Dutch Popstars winner Wesley Klein (#4 in the Netherlands). The song has also found success as part of a three-song EP entitled "George Best - A Tribute" by Peter Corry and the song's original vocalist Brian Kennedy, which reached #4 in the UK.
In 2004, the song was played more than 500,000 times on American radio. In late 2005, there were over 80 versions available in USA alone, and it has become nominated for Gospel Music Awards four times, including "Song of the Year."
On 21 September 2006, "You Raise Me Up" became the first song to have sold over 76,000 copies of the score on the popular sheet music website musicnotes.com.[6]
"You Raise Me Up" | ||||
Single by Josh Groban | ||||
from the album Closer | ||||
Released | September 10, 2004 | |||
Genre | Operatic pop | |||
Length | 4:52 | |||
Label | Reprise Records Warner Bros. Records 143 Records | |||
Producer(s) | David Foster | |||
Josh Groban singles chronology | ||||
In 2003, David Foster decided to produce the song after being introduced to it by Frank Petrone of peermusic, the song's publisher. He chose the up-and-coming Josh Groban to record the song, which was accompanied by the great tenor Craig Von Vennik of the Establishment. Groban's version made it to #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in early 2004 and remained there for six weeks. This version also peaked at #73 on the Billboard Hot 100, his first single to do so, and was nominated for a 2005 Grammy award.
Groban performed the song at Super Bowl XXXVIII, in a special NASA commemoration for the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. A special surprise performance by Groban, for Oprah Winfrey's 50th birthday, also gave "You Raise Me Up" massive international prominence. On April 25, 2007, Groban also performed it at the first Idol Gives Back Concert, along with the African Children's Choir. This version was released as a single and peaked at #76 on the Billboard Hot 100. He performed this version with the African Children's Choir again on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on August 10, 2007.
On May 26, 2007, Josh Groban appeared on BBC's talent show Any Dream Will Do to select one of the remaining contestants (or "Josephs") to perform the song with him. He chose show favourite and eventual winner Lee Mead, whilst the other four contestants (Lewis Bradley, Craig Chalmers, Ben Ellis, and Keith Jack) performed as backing singers. Following this, the solo version of "You Raise Me Up" charted in the UK at #74, making it his first chart entry there.
Chart (solo version)[7] | Peak position |
Austrian Singles Chart (2008) | 54 |
Danish Singles Chart (2009) | 26 |
French Singles Chart (2012) | 16 |
Swiss Singles Chart (2008) | 54 |
US Billboard Hot 100 (2004) | 73 |
US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks (2004) | 1 |
UK Singles Chart (2007) | 74 |
Chart (2007 version with African Children's Choir) | Peak position |
US Billboard Hot 100 | 76 |
Preceded by "Forever and for Always" by Shania Twain "The First Cut Is the Deepest" by Sheryl Crow | Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single (Josh Groban version) March 13 - April 3, 2004 April 17–24, 2004 | Succeeded by "The First Cut Is the Deepest" by Sheryl Crow |
"You Raise Me Up" | ||||
Single by Westlife | ||||
from the album Face to Face | ||||
Released | October 24, 2005 | |||
Format | CD Single | |||
Recorded | Rokstone Studios, London 2004 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 4:01 | |||
Label | Sony BMG | |||
Producer(s) | Steve Mac | |||
Westlife singles chronology | ||||
"You Raise Me Up" was the lead single from Westlife's fifth studio album, Face To Face. This version is one of the most successful covers of the song, peaking at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart,[8] the only version to do so. This was the band's 13th number-one single as well as the first single to be released following the departure of Brian McFadden from the group. The single sold 540,000 copies on UK so far.[9] Westlife performed this song with Secret Garden at the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize concert. On December 11, 2009, they performed it again at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize concert celebrating US President Barack Obama. When Louis Walsh suggested the band to record it, Filan Egan Byrne and Feehily were against it saying it was a church song, and would not be a success. They also said they did not want to record it. However they have since claimed in 2011, six years after the single's release, that the song changed their careers and were glad they recorded it.
The backing track is re-used in the Spanish version of this song, "Por Ti Sere", performed by Il Divo in their Siempre album.
Chart (2005) | Peak position |
Australian Singles Chart | 3 |
Austrian Singles Chart | 46 |
Dutch Singles Chart | 47 |
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[10] | 4 |
German Singles Chart | 11 |
Irish Singles Chart | 1 |
Norwegian Singles Chart | 3 |
Swedish Singles Chart | 7 |
Swiss Singles Chart | 18 |
UK Singles Chart | 1 |
Chart (2005) | Position |
Irish Singles Chart | 1 |
UK Singles Chart | 9 |
Chart (2006) | Position |
Australian Singles Chart | 14[11] |
Preceded by "Push the Button" by the Sugababes | Irish Singles Chart number-one single (Westlife version) October 27, 2005–December 1, 2005 | Succeeded by "My Humps" by The Black Eyed Peas |
Preceded by "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" by Arctic Monkeys | UK Singles Chart number-one single (Westlife version) 30 October 2005–5 November 2005 | Succeeded by "Hung Up" by Madonna |
"You Raise Me Up" | ||||
Single by Wesley | ||||
from the album Vandaag en morgen | ||||
Released | February 4, 2010 | |||
Format | CD Single | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Wesley singles chronology | ||||
On the second season of Popstars in the Netherlands, "You Raise Me Up" was recorded by each of the four finalists - Kim Stolker, Kristel Roulaux, Joshua Newton and Wesley Klein. When Klein won, his version was released as a single in the Netherlands under the mononym Wesley, peaking at #4 in the Dutch Top 40 and staying in the charts for eleven weeks,[12] making it the first version of the song to reach the top 10 in the Netherlands. The song was subsequently released as the final track on his debut album Vandaag en morgen (meaning Today and Tomorrow in Dutch).
Chart (2005) | Peak position |
Dutch Top 40 | 4[12] |
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sweet, thanks 98. So a little over 10 left until we catch up with them.
^ agreed. Thanks aeonsky for consistently releasing and kuu-scans for a little better quality when they are released.
Not much to say about this chapter, other than that Kazu looked an awful lot like L from Death Note huddled up in the back of Wanjima's car.
Well, actually now that I think about it, Wanjima reappearing in the story means he may not have lost his relevance like I thought he might. There's still that comment about Agito that's been in the back of my mind, but I can't imagine what he could mean by that with the story going the direction it is now.
i think wanjima is the factor that going to completely agito/akito, since he's the cause of them anyway.
but yeah, not much to discuss about....since this chapter things are pretty much said straight out and doesnt leave too much room for speculation.
...but what are the teams as of now...
genesis: sora, nike, yoshitsune, nue (anyone else?)
SF: ringo, kilik, om, and a bunch of other ppl.
so technically the power struggle be in the favor of SF right now? Unless sora/nike combo is just that strong?
...also! if sora planned to do this all along, what was the point in helping to train ikki? o.O
Kaito is becoming too soft....>.<
almost there to catch up with the raws!
Oh man nooo they got butchered and kazu looks like he is in severe shock or something.
I think the power balance is in favor of Genesis right now. The Soras have been biding their time, and given that they've suddenly appeared again they probably feel they're ready to take another shot at Sleeping Forest. Judging by the way they're toying with Spitfire and Aeon, they could probably take out most of SF fairly easily, the only real problem being Kilik. Other than that Sleeping Forest's only advantage seems to be Ringo's ability to not be affected by the pressure crush in the shaft to the Sky Regalia.
It remains to be seen who sticks with Genesis now that the battle lines have been drawn. I could see Nue staying with them, but given how they played out Spitfire and Aeon's allegiances, I'm guessing that Yoshitsune and Benkei will end up being on the "good" side or at least stay neutral to see who becomes more powerful. And of course Kogarasumaru will probably be the wild card that ends up defeating both of them.
I don't think we can put the Nike/Sora team in either of the teams. I think they're splitting up from the teams becasue one is lead by Kilik and the other is made of defectors from the initial Sleeping Forest.
I also think the Kaito/ Agito/Akito connection will play a role soon and that the next chap may finally having a meeting among Kogarasumaru to shake off shock and to prepare to train. I'm really looking forward to seeing Kazu's plans.


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Polling Place: Our All-Time Favorite Horror Films
By Brian Walton on October 27, 2013
We're often asked two very important questions here at Nerdist: What is Chris Hardwick really like, and what is your favorite part of your job? Let the record show that Chris is just as awesome and nice around the office as he is on TV and in audio form. As far as the favorite part of our job, for me, it's easily getting to talk about and debate movies, comics, video games, and comedy with a team of some of the wittiest and intelligent writers you can find.
At a recent meeting, we got on the subject of our favorite horror films, and thought it was high time to bring our readers into the discussion. We want you to tell us who's right by voting on our picks in the Ranker list below. Just hit the thumbs up and down buttons based on your opinion of our picks. And don't forget to tell us what your favorite horror film is in the Quemments below.
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Ginger Snaps, The Descent, and Return of the Living Dead are some of my favorites. I do enjoy the mixture of horror and humor!
I love House! I was so excited when I was able to buy a real copy so I didn't have to watch it on the crappy VHS tape I recorded it to from my TV in the mid eighties. It still makes me laugh, cry and jump out of my skin! I miss William Katt (loved him in this and in 'Greatest American Hero.'… I want that suit). Interesting list. I'm surprised it didn't include more of Hitchcock's and Stephen King's work.
Can't forget 'Night of the Comet'.
I have to pick a favorite?! That's like picking my favorite child.
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Not one of these is scarier than The Shining.
What kind of horror list doesn't have Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) or Halloween (1978 or 2007)?
What?!?!? What have you got against Evil dead 2 delightfully super campy it's the best and let's not forget Brain dead (called Dead Alive in the U.S I think) taking a lawn mower to some zombies and a funny intestinal tract I mean that is just beyond wonderful and disgusting with the mom eating her ear in the soup and what not…
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Woot! great posting team nerdist. I cant believe The Thing is #1…i completely agree with that rating. Its my personal all-time-favorite horror movie.Other notable additions:
* Halloween – undisputed champ of all slasher flix. John Carpenter does it again.
* Evil Dead 2 – good call @Orit. This is by far the greatest all-time Horror-Comedy.
* Jaws – yup…its a horror….seems weird to classify it as such as its like one of the greatest movies ever…but it is a horror thru and thru.
* Dead Alive (aka braindead) – funnest gorriest.
* Poltergeist – best 'scared the crap out of me as a kid'.
* The Ghost and Mr Chicken – ok ok its a comedy and not a horror but it wins for "best goosebump inducing final scene". Im literally getting goosebumps thinking about it.
* Cabin in the Woods – best horror in the last couple years.
* 70's Invasion of the Bodysnatchers – best final shot.
Peace .n. Happppy Hallowwwweeen
3ToF…hiding under the bedsheets with a flashlight.
It's a good list. I am also missing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the 1974 original), and Poltergeist.
And Cronenberg's 'Fly"
Blair Witch Project really got under my skin and gave me nightmares for three years, which should count for something.
1) Alien
2) An American Werewolf in London
3) Dead Alive (Braindead)
4) Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
5) Psycho
6) Aliens
7) Halloween
8) The Thing
9) Night of the Hunter
10) NosferatuHonorable Mention: The Act of Killing
It isn't really genre horror per say, and I would not have included it without having seen it on the Nerdist list, but truly the most terrifying thing to have ever been put on screen. It's worse knowing that all of it is real.
Nope. Any horror list that doesn't include "The Descent" doesn't count.


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Frank Skinner is one of the biggest names in British comedy. He has enjoyed unrivalled success, both as a phenomenally popular stand-up comic and with his hit TV series, The Frank Skinner Show (ITV1 and BBC1), Fantasy Football (ITV1 and BBC2), and Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned (ITV1).
He has also achieved two number one hits in the UK music charts with the football anthem Three Lions, alongside David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds.
Between 1992 and 1997 Frank sold out four UK tours, the last of which culminated in a performance at Battersea Power Station to what was then the largest ever audience for stand-up comedy in the UK. In 2007 Frank made a triumphant return to stand-up, performing a sell-out 69-date national tour with three sell-out dates at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.
His latest book, Frank Skinner on the Road, explores this stand-up comeback; from how an act is put together to the terrors and joys of trying to make a live audience laugh night after night, and the nature of comedy itself.
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Alongside the redesigned 2013 Accord sedan and coupe, Honda unveiled the Accord Hybrid for 2014. It's the first Accord Hybrid since 2007, but unlike its predecessor two generations ago, which used a go-fast V-6 gas-electric powertrain, the ninth-gen hybrid maximizes gas mileage with a four-cylinder.
Like the Ford Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Energi, the Accord Hybrid will come as a conventional hybrid and a plug-in hybrid that's capable of 10 to 15 miles of all-electric range. The Accord Plug-in Hybrid arrives in early 2013; the conventional hybrid will show up later that year.
EPA figures are still pending, but Honda expects the Accord Plug-in Hybrid to beat 100 MPGe — something Ford anticipates for the Fusion Energi — with a total driving range of 500-plus miles. The automaker has yet to reveal many details on the conventional Accord Hybrid, including mileage expectations.
The Accord Hybrid wears dramatic visual changes, including a unique grille that plunges toward the lower bumper. Aerodynamic alloy wheels, blue-tinted headlights and the requisite hybrid badges round out the visual changes. Inside, unique gauges flank the speedometer, with power and charge meters on the left and battery and fuel range on the right. An information display with various screens — including a real-time display that shows driving efficiency — sits within the speedometer, but it isn't as elaborate as the Fusion Hybrid's LCDs. Trunk volume hasn't been announced yet, but it shrinks a great deal because of the battery pack.
Like other plug-in hybrids — but not extended-range EVs like the Volt — full acceleration will engage the engine. Charging up for the 15-mile range takes less than three hours on a 120-volt outlet, Honda says, or less than an hour on a 240-volt (Level 2) outlet. The Accord Plug-in Hybrid doesn't accept Level 3 quick-charging, though. Like with most EVs, dashboard controls and a smartphone app allow you to set charging times or precondition the cabin.
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The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic (SLTPPC) provides students with real-world experience and an opportunity to help develop sound public policy rules at the increasingly complex intersection of law and technology. In the Clinic, which operates much like a practice group in a law firm, students learn about both the theory and the practice of lawyering, the intricacies of government institutions and the policy-making process, and how to work with complex technological concepts, even when one has little or no background on the topic.
Through their Clinic work, students also often provide representation to individuals, nonprofits and consumer groups that could not otherwise obtain counsel. Although the Clinic's docket varies per semester, typical clinic projects include filing friend-of-the-court briefs, commenting on proposed legislation and regulations, and providing legal counseling in matters that raise important issues relating to law and technology. The Clinic represents public interests in a wide variety of subject matter areas, including privacy, intellectual property, consumer protection, and communications regulation. Please visit samuelsonclinic.org for more information about the clinic's mission and examples of past projects.
Because this course allows students to practice law with real clients under the supervision of clinical faculty, its workload is structured differently than most classes. Students are expected to work on their projects every week for an average of 16-20 hours per week. Please note that this is an average. Due to the real-world nature of the projects, some weeks may require more time, in some cases significantly more time. As with all real-world legal jobs, clinic projects can be unpredictable from day to day and week to week; they require flexibility, so please plan for this. First-time SLTPPC Students are required to register for the companion Samuelson Clinic Seminar, which is an additional two-unit course, requiring 2-4 additional hours of work per week.
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Franglais row: Is the English language conquering France?
The French parliament is debating a new road map for French universities, which includes the proposal of allowing courses to be taught in English. For some, this amounts to a betrayal of the national language and, more specifically, of a particular way at looking at the world - for others it's just accepting the inevitable.
It all started with a faux-pas - to use a French phrase commonly borrowed by English-speakers.
On 20 March, when French higher education minister Genevieve Fioraso unveiled the proposed road map, she mentioned that there were only 3,000 Indian students in France.
In order to attract more foreign students, she added, French universities would have to start offering courses taught in English.
"We must teach in English or there will only remain in France a handful of experts discussing Proust around the table," she said.
But Proust was an unfortunate choice. The author is actually one of France's best literary exports and the reason why many students in the world take up French at university.
Sacre bleu
- Tuesday's front page of Liberation - one of France's major daily newspapers - was all in English
- It offered no French translation
- Parliament is due to debate relaxing 1994's "Toubon" law, which makes French compulsory in government publications, most workplaces, advertisements, parts of the media and state-funded schools
The influential Academie Francaise, the official authority on the French language founded in 1635, led a chorus of disapproval of Fioraso's proposals.
Few countries guard their linguistic heritage as jealously as France, and defend it so vigorously from foreign threats - such as the growing worldwide influence of English. Though, interestingly, the institution was originally founded by Cardinal Richelieu to fight off the invasion of Italian in the French language. Today, there are as many Italian as there are English originated words in the French language.
But Fioraso fought back, saying she only meant to be pragmatic.
Elite French business schools, and Grandes Ecoles such as the Institute of Political Studies also known as Sciences-Po, have been teaching in English for the last 15 years. Why, she asks, shouldn't other less prestigious universities follow suit?
According to the left-leaning daily newspaper Liberation, 790 higher education courses in France are already taught in English, and like Fioraso it sees nothing wrong with the idea.
Its all-English front page on Tuesday featured the words "Let's do it" in bold capital letters.
Liberation represents a growing fringe of the French population - young, urban, trendy, the kind which, in the last 20 years, has adopted franglais in their daily life.
For them, the work of the Academie Francaise - which offers grammatical advice and alternatives to new foreign words - now feels irrelevant and obsolete. They like nothing more than adding English sounding suffixes to French words, or combining English words into new terms such as "fooding" (made out of "food" and "feeling").
The result is a fantasy English that exists nowhere else; this, many think in France, is an inverted snobbery. "Why speak French well when you can speak English badly?" asks with irony the literary critic Bernard Pivot.
Languages in numbers
- The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, which represents French-speaking nations and regions, has 56 member states, three associate members and 20 observers
- According to Ethnologue, the most widely-spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese with 1,026m speakers, followed by English with 765m and Spanish with 466m. According to Francophonie.org, French has 220m
- An April 2013 study by W3Techs.com suggested that English was the most widely-used language on the internet, accounting for 54.9% of web content, with Russian in second place with 6.1% and French in sixth on 4.3%
These people present themselves as pure pragmatists. English is conquering the world, they say, and it would be foolish to resist an inevitable evolution.
Once the language of the world's elite, French now ranks as only the eighth most-spoken language in the world and its influence is clearly receding. Even within Europe, if one takes a look at the European Union, there is no doubt that since the addition of 10 new member states in 2004 French has lost its appeal.
Once the lingua franca around the negotiating tables in Brussels and Strasbourg, French has given way to English. Though, if the UK were to leave the EU, there would be no reason for this to continue - English would remain the joint official language only of Malta, as well as widely-spoken in the Republic of Ireland (where Irish is the "national language") and Cyprus.
Those who oppose the introduction of English in French universities are attached not only to the national language, however, but more importantly, to the vision of the world it carries. A vision that differs from the English or American world view.
This is the crux of the matter, and, for a majority in France, the strongest argument in favour of rejecting the government's bill.
Teaching English is very different, they argue, from teaching in English. They support the teaching of foreign languages, and suggest starting it even earlier - in nursery schools - but they oppose the teaching of subjects such as mathematics, history and literature in any language but French.
English words (some made up) used by French youth
- Bug
- Buzz
- Fashion
- Fooding (love of food)
- People (celebrities)
- Standing ovation
- ...and another 10,000 English-derived words
Antoine Compagnon, a distinguished French scholar who taught at Columbia University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, maintained in a public letter that it would be better to teach foreign students French than tolerate "Globish" (the primitive English of non-English-speakers) and the dumbing down of teaching that would inevitably follow.
Foreign students who choose France over Britain, Compagnon says, are not only choosing the French lifestyle but also its culture and language. Teaching them Proust in English, in France, would be a travesty.
French MP Pouria Amirshahi, who represents French expats in North and West Africa, backed him up. "The signal given out to those everywhere who learn French abroad and in francophone countries throughout the world is not reassuring," told The Daily Telegraph.
It looks as though, in France, if you want to teach students in English, you have to do it quietly like the elite universities which never asked permission but never boasted about it either.
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Vive la révolution in the Speirs household
I am not ashamed to admit I am a huge fan of musicals.
In contrast, my father couldn't stand them.
"Normal people do not randomly burst into song while walking down the street," he would mutter back in the day when we would force him to eat Sunday-night dinner in front of the TV and watch something like My Fair Lady, wherein Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl portrayed by Audrey Hepburn, is transformed into a proper English lady by Henry Higgins, a snotty phonetics professor portrayed by Rex Harrison.
Still, despite being a guy the size of a major kitchen appliance and completely tone-deaf, I am a sucker for glitzy movies and plays in which cheesy actors convey important plot points via the technique of belting out showstopping tunes.
For reasons I do not understand, I am especially partial to Les Misérables, a hugely popular musical that tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean's quest for redemption in early 19th-century France, where a group of rebellious young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade in an effort to change society for the better by singing songs that are difficult to get out of your brain once you leave the theatre.
I like this epic show so much it is not unusual for me to slap the soundtrack into my car's CD player as I drive and, with my windows and sunroof wide open, sing along with the original Broadway cast as, in unison, we shriek heartfelt lyrics such as: "Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of the people / Who will not be slaves again!"
I can tell other motorists are in awe of the power and majesty of my voice because when they pass my car, shaking their fists, they will give me the sort of look you would give to a naked man wandering through the frozen-food aisle at Safeway wielding a machete and singing obscure show tunes.
I mention this so you will understand how (bad word) excited I was Saturday night as my wife and I were getting ready to head downtown for a touring company's evening performance of Les Miz.
"You might want to hurry up a little bit, Honey!" is what I helpfully advised my wife as I headed out to the car.
My wife did not respond. Moments later, I heard a cry of sorrow mixed with anguish drifting out of the living room. "OH NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" is what my wife howled.
Being a sensitive, modern husband, I sensed something was wrong. "Is something wrong?" I asked, relying on years as a hard-hitting journalist to get straight to the heart of the matter.
In reply, my wife made the sort of pathetic face a puppy would make after peeing on the carpet, then thrust out one shaking hand, displaying our tickets the way a terrified high school student would hand over a truly terrible report card.
"I made a tiny mistake," she croaked. "Our tickets aren't for tonight's show. They were for the afternoon matinee!"
Thinking quickly, I adopted a pained expression. "You mean we have tickets for a show that ENDED several hours ago?" I asked in a slightly frosty tone.
In the end, however, I took the news like a brave little soldier. What with being a modern husband, I tucked this tragedy away in my long-term memory bank, ready to pull it out the next time we have a minor marital disagreement, such as my wife suggesting it is my turn to do the dishes.
"I would love to do the dishes," I will be able to tell her with righteous indignation, "but if you listen closely, sweetheart, I believe you will hear the people singing... singing the song of angry men? Unless I miss my guess, that is the music of the people who will not be slaves again!"
Then I will make a dramatic bow and march out of the kitchen as quickly as humanly possible, because every Broadway star knows you should always leave your audience hungry for more.
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Love is best expressed by that which you do not do.
Hillel the Elder said this when he summed up the entire Torah,
"If you do not like something, don't do it to someone else."
What is it that you most dislike?
You don't appreciate when someone pries into your faults, underlining each one with a red pen.
So if you truly wish to express love to someone else, don't even look at his faults.
Find whatever is good about him and talk about that.
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October 2, 2013
The Mighty Peanut
Ralph Kramden, the world's most famous bus driver, was a contestant on the popular "$99,000 Answer" show (not to be confused with the "$64,000 Question" show). He had already won the $600 prize and was about to go for the grand prize. When his wife pleaded with him to take the $600 he scoffed, "Six hundred dollars? Peanuts, peanuts. What am I gonna do with peanuts?" To which his loving wife Alice calmly replied, "Eat 'em, like any other elephant".
Of course, due to the excitement of the moment, Alice was taking a very narrow view of the potential uses of peanuts. Had she really thought about it, she would have realized that Ralph would have many more uses for his winnings:
If Ralph was a farmer instead of a bus driver, he surely would have planted peanuts as an alternate to his annual wheat crop to replenish the lost nutrients in his soil.
If he were a printer, he could have used peanuts as a cheap source of blue ink.
If he were modeling for Gentleman's Quarterly magazine (not likely) or Alice needed some beauty help, he could have made some cosmetics out of peanuts.
Still brushing up on his bus driver's test? He could use peanut coffee to help him stay awake. He could even lighten his coffee with peanut milk – a nutritious, inexpensive substitute for dairy milk.
Want something to eat with his coffee? Bake a cake or cookie with peanut flour.
Need to clean up after himself? Peanut soap.
In the mood for pizza? No, sorry, nothing substitutes for a great marinara sauce, but why not use peanut cheese?
George Washington Carver, one of America's greatest inventors (died 1943), claimed he came up with more than 300 uses for peanuts.
For me, nothing beats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a tasty slice of peanut bread.
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August 25, 2013
Star of David origin
"But You God are a shield for me…" (Psalms 3:4). David refers here to God as being his 'shield'. This brings us to the topic of the 'Magen David', [lit. shield of David] popularly know as 'the Star of David', and regarded as a symbol of Judaism. Strangely, there is no mention of this symbol or its meaning in any authoritative Jewish book.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, in Igros Moshe (Orach Chaim Vol. 3, Res. 15) tells us that the most convincing source for this sign is David himself. For it is clear that David did not find security in battle from any armor or shield. Only in God did he find himself securely enveloped, invulnerable from every side - above and below, east, west, north, south, - six directions in all. Thus the six-pointed symbol stands for David's true shield - God! Rabbi Feinstein concludes that for this reason this symbol, hallowed by centuries of traditional usage, should be respected, because it is meant to symbolize the eternal Jewish faith in God no matter what the adversity.
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June 14, 2013
A Stormy Sprinkle
Countless lines have been written about Hurricane Sandy, the storm that recently battered the eastern coastal states of the U.S. How to prepare, how to repair and how to react has been the subject of articles in newspapers and magazines spanning the nation. There are lessons to be learned by governments, individuals and emergency crews about how to understand what insurance companies called "an act of God".
Here is another.
Living on the scenic Jersey coast, we were not unaffected by the damage wrought by the storm. In addition to homes, cars, businesses and sources of recreation being destroyed, hundreds of trees fell in the tornado force winds. A study was recently conducted to determine – what caused some to fall while others, of the same type and age, remained?
Certainly those in exposed areas on top of hills or isolated areas were more likely to succumb to the high winds. But there was one glaring difference of the ones that fell in residential areas. Those that fell were primarily near homes that had lawn sprinkler systems as opposed to those without sprinklers.
That seems to be counter-intuitive.
You would think that a tree that received life giving water twelve months a year would outlast ones subject to seasonal rain and snow.
But that's not what happened. Here's why.
Life strives to be self-sustaining. Animals forage for food instinctively. Plants and vegetation naturally stretch out their roots in search of water and nutrients. When it is supplied daily, like by those homes that have sprinklered lawns, the roots remain short. When it is scarce, the roots stretch out far and wide searching for water and in the process, build a strong, stable foundation.
We see the same behavior on a human level. When people are handed sustenance on a silver platter, they become uninspired to reach out and better themselves. When encouraged, or even forced, due to circumstances, to fend for themselves, their natural instincts to survive come to the fore. They grow stronger and more stable.
Sprinkled support when needed is a benefit. Long term support might be a short-sighted approach and the root problem of a coming storm.
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May 2, 2013
Three Degrees of Separation
Sociologists have confirmed that if you speak to enough people about enough people, someone is going to know someone who knows someone who ultimately knows you. No matter where you are in the world, we are only separated by seven levels.
Microsoft actually proved it statistically and came out with 6.6.
(Close enough).
But even though there are seven levels, there are really three degrees.
Number one is physical. Physical objects are separated in time and space. As far away as the table is from the chair, that's exactly how far away the chair is from the table. When one moves closer or farther away, the level of separation is exactly the same for both objects.
Not necessarily so in the second degree. In relationships, one person can feel very close and connected to another while the other party remains cold and aloof, or perhaps even oblivious. This holds true many times in dating – he/she can't wait for the other party to call and the other can't imagine why. Parents generally always feel emotionally connected to their children even though the child may be physically distant across the country somewhere and never calls. (Which reminds me I have to call my mother).
The third degree is spiritual. The Kaballah tells us that similarity of spirits equals closeness. Married people with shared goals, business partners with a common vision or leaders working for the betterment (or detriment) of mankind feel a spiritual kindred that transcends emotion.
When we exhibit Godlike traits such as kindness, caring, giving, nurturing, correcting or forgiving, our spirits become ONE with our Creator.
You can't get closer than that.
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February 28, 2013
Playing the Odds
I'm not a betting man but I know something about "The Odds".
For example, if I had to pick a number between one and ten, the odds against picking the right number is ten to one. One number out of five thousand, the odds are five thousand to one.
Two out of five thousand? The odds are exponentially higher.
Three out of five thousand? I begin to lose count.
Four out of five thousand and the odds are off the chart.
In other words, if someone told me that they could guess right four times out of four from a field of five thousand items, I would say they're either crazy, a genius or very lucky.
Three thousand years ago, three-quarters of the globe remained unexplored. Nobody knew what existed in Australia, in South America, in the northernmost regions of Alaska or in the wilds of Africa.
Yet, the bible goes out of its way to state that there is only one specie of mammal, anywhere in the world, that has a split hoof but doesn't chew its cud. And the Bible names it – it's called the pig.
And lo and behold, the Bible is right.
Okay. Easy stuff. One out of five thousand mammals and it "guessed" right.
Then it names three other animals and says that these are the only ones in the world that DO chew their cud but DON'T have split hooves.
And lo and behold, it gets it right again.
Maybe it's a fix. A setup. Maybe the One who wrote those lines also created all of the animals of the world so there's nothing special about the prediction. He already knew!
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November 27, 2012
Holocaust Denial Or Revisionism?
A revisionist or an outright liar?
That, in essence, was the question brought to one of England's highest courts regarding the views about the Holocaust by David Irving, author of some 30 history books on World War II.
Professor Deborah Lipstadt, an American Holocaust historian, had written a book about Holocaust denial, and included Irving in her list of deniers. Irving's reputation as an historian was at stake, he felt, and sued her in a British court for libel.
The trial had ramifications far beyond personal reputations. At stake was history itself. Irving, for instance, claimed, "There were no gas chambers in Auschwitz," and that the mass murders of Jews in the death factories of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka was a "myth… which in fact never took place."
His claims buttressed the battle cry of anti-Semites worldwide, from white supremacists in the West to Arab/Islamists in the Middle East, including the President of Iran.
After a long and highly publicized trial the judge issued his ruling on April 11, 2000. His conclusion was unequivocal: "[F]or his own ideological reasons [Irving] persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence…. [He was] an active Holocaust denier… anti-Semitic and racist…."
In other words, Irving was not an historian with an alternate view on the Holocaust, but an outright denier.
How did Irving have the temerity to claim there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz? Two of his points were: not enough evidence for use of Zyklon B poison gas and no holes in the roofs of the gas chambers at Auschwitz to drop in the poison pellets.
The first claim was based on the research of a German-American who went to Auschwitz and scraped some concrete from two different rooms: where Jews were gassed and where clothes were fumigated. (Zyklon B was first used to kill vermin on clothes.) A chemist found that there was a much lower level of Zyklon B in the chamber where people were killed. This indicated, the researcher (and Holocaust deniers) concluded, that Zyklon B wasn't used against people.
However, they were wrong, because rodents are actually more resistant to the poison. Therefore, it actually took more gas to kill them than people.
Irving's second claim, that there were no holes in the roofs, was aided by the fact that the Nazis blew up the gas chambers just before abandoning Auschwitz-Birkenau. However, a confluence of evidence proved otherwise.
First, eye-witnesses, including perpetrators (captured Nazis) and victims (e.g. Sonderkommandos), testified seeing the holes and SS soldiers dropping Zyklon B gas pellets inside. Second, architectural documentation emerged of how, for instance, the Nazis changed the Auschwitz morgue into a gas chamber, including putting in new doors that swung out and changing chutes (for sliding in dead bodies) into stairs (so people could walk down).
There is also evidence from a US reconnaissance flight over Auschwitz on August 25, 1944
which shows the Zyklon B introduction chimneys clearly visible on the roof as four dark squares staggered side to side down the length of the room.
In short, historians have a confluence of evidence to prove the existence of the gas chambers (as well as other things about the Holocaust). Of course, hardened anti-Semites are unlikely to change no matter how substantial the proof. But many people are neutral or don't know any better. They see that David Irving wrote many books, is considered a historian, and might think his view is merely revisionist.
It is not. It is a deliberate falsification.
(Further Reading: History On Trial by Deborah Lipstadt.)
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The Department of Environmental Protection's Sand and Salt Pile Program is responsible for mitigating the effects on ground and drinking water from piles of uncovered salt and mixed sand/salt.
The program includes the creation of project priority lists; assistance with the siting of new sand/salt piles and buildings; an on-going registration program for sand/salt piles; implementation of siting and operational rules, and investigation of complaints involving chloride contamination of drinking water wells, as time and resources allow.
The Sand and Salt Pile Program is a cooperative effort of the The Maine Dept. of Transportation (DOT) and Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP).
- Environmental and siting issues, including new sand/salt pile registration, should be directed to Erich Kluck (207) 592-2068 at DEP.
- Facility construction and municipal or county funding issues should be directed to Peter Coughlan (207) 624-3270 at DOT.
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- Project Priority Rankings for Uncovered Sand and Salt Piles in Maine (map)
Investigation of complaints
- Complaints involving chloride contamination of drinking water wells are investigated as time and resources allow.
Supplemental materials
The materials below include a number of resources for municipal officials, private contractors and homeowners who have questions about their responsibilities and rights regarding sand/salt storage.