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Browsing by Author "Semesi, A."
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Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts from Six Green Algae from Tanzania Mtolera, M.S.P.; Semesi, A. (1996)Many algae species have been shown to have bactericidal or bacteriostatic substances (Glombitza, I979;Michaneck, 1979; Caccamese et al., 1980; Fenical & Paul, 1984; Niang& Hung, 1984). The antibacterialagents found in the ...
Coralline Algae, Important Coral-reef Builders Threatened by Pollution Mohammed, S.M.; Björk, M.; Björklund, M.; Semesi, A. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1995-12)The release of inorganic nutrients into the sea by domestic sewage is a major threat to many marine systems. This eutrophication affects coral-reef organisms indirectly by increased growth of microalgae, leading to increased ...
Farming and Physiology of the Red Algae Eucheuma: Growing Commercial Importance in East Africa Pedersén, M. C.; Mtolera, M.S.P.; Collén, J.; Abrahamsson, K.; Semesi, A. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1995)

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I'm an honest, active and playful fellow looking to meet new people and make new friends. I'm looking for this little something more which could be called "chemistry".
I'm a nature lover, enjoy camping and backpacking. I ride my bike everywhere in the city, all through winter. I've been somewhat successful at gardening but lots more to improve on that front! I practice meditation and yoga (to a lesser degree). I'm pretty social too and enjoy getting to know new people. Sometimes I may come across as a social butterfly :-)
I'm easy... especially with the right person. When it comes to being intimate with someone, I definitely prefer when I am acquainted with that someone first. After that, watch my walls drop, I'm a big cuddle monster and love to snuggle.
I am polyamorous and am involved in a few relationships with both men and women the most serious of which is with DynaMighty. She and I date separately and together. So boys, if you ever wanted to interact with a couple like us, your messages are welcome.
Of course I am open and honest about my situation. I don't really keep secrets. The folks I am involved with are also polyamorous and keep a good communication and openness. polyamory is a model I found worked well for me and allowed me to reconcile honesty with the ability and desire to love more than one. Ask me more, I am very open and "out". I am more than happy to discuss and share my life experiences with others.
I'm also opened to sharing! Not at all possessive as you can imagine.
My experience showed that I can feel equally attracted to male identified, female identified and gender queer peeps. I am also capable of falling in love with any, I am sure. I am pretty much as you might say "omnisexual" or "pansexual".
On a completely unrelated topic, I like board games! I like the ones that involve resources and strategy and a lot of pieces. Have you played Carcassone? Settlers of Catan? Power Grid? Puerto Rico?


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Wildcats women's tennis bests Pacific
Courtesy of Linfield sports information
FOREST GROVE – Sweeping doubles for the fifth time this season, Linfield continued its winning ways against Northwest Conference opponents with a landslide 8-1 victory against host Pacific Saturday afternoon at the Holce Tennis Courts.
The Wildcats (8-2, 5-2 NWC) put themselves in good position to earn the point against the Boxers (2-10, 0-8 NWC) as part of the league's round-robin-and-a-half schedule. Pacific must defeat Linfield 9-0 – or by an 8-1 margin with fewer sets lost – when the teams meet again April 11 to pick up the all-important point that factors into the team standings.
Playing together for the first time all year, Marisa Kume and Kaila Nip opened with a resounding 8-0 victory at No. 2 doubles, blanking Pacific's Danielle Wicks and Kelly Flores.
Courtney Mostul and Gretchen Jernstedt improved to 7-0 in third-flight doubles action with an 8-2 win against Danielle Hunter and Esbeida Ramos before Caroline Brigham and Mackenzie Fraser defeated Kaitlyn Lomartire and Kelsey Lack by a score of 8-6. Linfield's top duo rallied from a 5-6 deficit to claim the victory and secure the sweep for the Wildcats.
"Kaila and Marisa played consistently and efficiently with very few errors," said head coach Lisa Macy-Baker. "Gretchen and Courtney's chemistry and ability to take over the net continues to improve. After being down a break of serve most of the match, Caroline and Mackenzie jelled when needed most to come from behind once again."
With the exception of a tough three-set loss at No. 1 singles, the 'Cats dominated singles action, winning five flights in straight sets.
Nip pushed Linfield closer to the decisive fifth victory with a 6-0, 6-0 shutout against Wicks in second-flight singles before Jernstedt clinched the win for the visitors with her 6-1, 6-2 victory over Flores.
Lomartire supplied the sole triumph for the Boxers at No. 1 singles. Pacific's freshman responded from a 6-4 opening-set loss to Brigham before taking the second set 5-7 to force a tiebreak third set, which the Boxer won 10-5.
Kume toppled Lack 6-1, 6-2 in third-flight singles, while Fraser came out on the winning end of a 6-1, 6-2 match against Hunter. Mostul wrapped things up with a 6-2, 6-0 win against Ramos.


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First I am new in the forum so please have a little bit patience with me and my english. :-)
I am writing a C# application which should send multithreaded SOAP requests to an apache backend. Everything worked fine till now but I ran into a problem. The application first reads a XML file from another system that is parsed first into classes, sorted and send to the SOAP backend. Here the snippet
List<Thread> ThreadsPerOneRecord = new List<Thread>();
bool ExecuteSingleThreaded = false;
//The variable list is passed as parameter to the function
foreach (Record prov in list)
XMLResult.AppendText("Type: " + prov.Type + Environment.NewLine);
Thread t = new Thread(() => Send(prov, c));
//Here the sleep
#region Code for test single threaded execution
if (ExecuteSingleThreaded)
foreach (Thread t2 in ThreadsPerOneRecord)
XMLResult.AppendText("Waiting for the threads to finish" + Environment.NewLine);
//Waiting for the threads to finish
foreach (Thread t in ThreadsPerOneRecord)
As I am sending this to the SOAP web service it works fine except one request. These requests are mixed up between each other. I.e.:
What it should be:
Record 1 -> SOAP
Record 2 -> SOAP
Record 3 -> SOAP
What it is
Record 1 -> SOAP
Record 2 -> SOAP
Record 2 -> SOAP
Record 3 -> nowhere
I already tried to debug the whole code and with the debugger it works fine. The same when I insert this sleep of 50 milliseconds. But without the sleep it mixes this two records ...
Does anybody have any idea why this happens? Shouldn't every thread be independent from itself? Also I checked the collection and the data are correctly inside.


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My Posts, Just the List (from April 23, 2014… back to Sept. 24, 2012)
Table of Contents — Simplified
I started this blog in spring 2009. It is my continuous show-and-tell learning curve exposing, as the motto says, Family and Conciliation Court Operations, Practices, and History from the early 1990s and earlier.
This table of contents was finally, painstakingly published on April 24, 2014. It's not automatically generated by wordpress.
The table, the post's titles and abstracts themselves are an overview of issues, and an insight into which ones you might not have noticed before. I had fun researching, writing them, and there's a degree of entertainment involved too. These issues, and their practical consequences decade after decade, are so vital, so real, so life-changing, so consequential, and sometimes so truly ridiculous, I find humor helps trim it down to size.
[Substantial Explanatory Material removed, January 2015.
Get to the Table of Contents.
Get face to face with the evidence, deduce/grasp/SEE the patterns,
Get an Understanding — that's most important! — and from there, what would YOU do about the situation?
Then show and talk to others. Not enough conversations on this material…]
There are valuable posts 2009-2010-2011 also. I will add earlier Table Of Contents to the posts and links as I can; readers may use the Archive function. But first, browse the table of contents! I've added abstracts (summaries) to many, and marked vital ones. In this field, an overview supported by links to evidence (details) really counts; and that's where my five years of sustained attention and continued investigation outside the mainstream, really delivers the goods.
…I guarantee, so far, you will not find this type and such a synopsis of this type of information elsewhere regarding our courts, or our government. We have been too "laissez-faire" as citizens into understanding basic economics and the overall systems affecting our courts, many of which originate outside the courts, and before this type of court even existed.
Put this together with the sidebar summaries, pages, and other links on blogroll — become more aware of your economic and court-connected corporations language, and become a resource! (But, remember to link back here where quoted, thanks!)
Blog Purpose can be deduced by: Browsing the table of contents below, reading a post or two, reading the sidebars, such as the one which starts:
This Absolutely Uncommon Analysis shouldn't be!
What I do here: I expose the Systems Design, and the Designers, so Y.O.U. can show others, and to notify those playing certain games, "you've been flagged."
Heard of "disruptive technologies?" Disruptive innovations?
Well, this is a disruptive blog. I give people who've already been strung out and stripped down BY the system another place to stand and look at it, and a clear, fairly diagnostic language (vs. pretty logos and moving pictures) to describe it to others. AND, which many don't do, I tell how I found the information; links databases and all.
A Stunning Validation by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: The Assault on Truth, The Origins of Psychoanalysis
A key issue in the courts includes sexual assault and violence towards women and children. This has also been a key issue with psychoanalysis. Cummings is a psychoanalyst, or has been one.
The key, or leading edge, feature OF these courts includes therapeutic jurisprudence, attempting to resolve conflict through addition of behavioral health professionals, the field Dr. Cummings has dedicated much of his life to preserving the business and economic well-being of, to the point that a Wall Street Journal article reported, not too many years ago, that — doctors and hardcore professionals aside, among the top highest paying professional jobs, including the benefits and actual hours worked to earn the pay, were: Judges, and (with a doctorate) psychologists.
He is also well-informed in his field, has been a psychoanalyst, and very likely knew of this other psychoanalyst's, Mr. Masson's, 1980s allegations of Anna Freud's censorship of her father's letters, which cast an entirely different light on what "The Etiology of Hysteria" is.
Time to read this statement of "The Assault on Truth, The Origins of Psychoanalysis" .
(I notice the Cummings Foundation site also got a facelift since my last visits).
I feel it's only fair to warn people which path they are going down. If they want to ignore the warnings, then it's not my problem, other than when it's draining attention and energies from more critical analyses — which this movement IS, and is probably intended to do.
As soon as I saw the January 2012 advertisement (at the SF Center for Psychoanalysis) of an upcoming March 2012 "FREE TRAINING IN ARIZONA" I blogged it, "Our Broken Family Court" isn't. It ain't "Ours" and it ain't "Broken." That phrase is a "tell." I'll tell you why…. [excerpt:]
Donner authored an excellent article {bold added} by the same title in Psychoanalytic Psychology. Contact him (HERE) to request a copy of "Tearing Children Apart: The Contribution of Narcissism, Envy and Perverse Modes of Thought to Child Custody Wars." [see FN3 LGH, below]Our broken family court system: Free training in Arizona
Another free training geared toward child custody evaluators is coming up March 16-17 [2012] in Phoenix, Arizona. Co-sponsored by the National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers and the Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation, it features a cast of well-known experts, including:
- Dr. Lenore Walker (author of the classic, The Battered Woman's Syndrome)
- David L. Shapiro, PhD
- G. Andrew H. Benjamin, JD, PhD, ABPP
- Judge Marjory Fields
- John Caccavale, PhD (speaking on Business Ethics for Custody Evaluators)More information and online registration is available HERE.
How much of this "Broken Courts" buzzwords (spoken by the people who have the answers, which naturally involves buying certain products, trainings, and consultations, by the same, on how to fix it) — is enough?
When is anyone (else) going to actually, literally, develop the habit of running background checks on charming, or wealthy strangers who approach them (or into whose strong, authoritative, and competent, OPEN ARMS someone is tempted to dash for sympathy and protection — or for money). Wasn't that, ladies, part of what got you into an abusive relationship to start with? Handsome strangers, charming, eloquent and INTERESTED IN YOU?
I do this consistently. It's been a great source of learning, enriched my understanding of this vital field, and moreover, helped me screen out the liars and dissemblers (those who don't quite lie, literally, but systematically "forget" to reveal who they really are, and what is the agenda, which you get to find out later — after the situation is further compromised, you have less time, money and energy left, and in some cases, in which it's just plain too late to extricate onesself – – or one's kids). I will explain this further, separately.
FYI, I found the material on Freud's Archives/Jeffrey M. M. while looking up the background of the Cummings Foundation and Nicholas Cummings.
One thing about investigating, looking things up: be prepared to have world view turned upside down (or the sense that something IS upside down, or backwards as presented in public confirmed). In this case, regardless of who this man was personally, at the point of insisting to publish about the Freud coverup, he was acting in the public interest.
Post-Published Note. First published Feb. 2013.
In Dec. 2013, realizing in ongoing conversations and further readings how central this topic is to the family and conciliation court systems, including possibly why we even have them to start with, I re-arranged, moving a major section to the top of the post. Therefore further introductory sections may seem out of sequence.
I think EVERYONE concerned with the courts, even though I know I primarily focus on the economic factors, should read this material. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson was highly qualified, had access to the Freud archives, documents how censorship of his work after 1897 continued even up to the 1950s, when the letters were compiled (including by his daughter Anna), constituting "The Origins of Psychoanalysis."
Quote First, Commentary below. Especially read if you're considering signing up for psychoanalysis!
So who is that guy? Briefly,
Exposing and Prosecuting Judicial Corruption through Common Law Discovery (1997 Interview)
File this Article under "What a Difference One Person can Make, if that person:
Has Guts, Will Obtain Evidence, Look at Evidence, Come to Logical Conclusion regarding Evidence Obtained AND Publicize It!
Includes Marv Bryer's discoveries, especially in the mid- to late 1990s.
Exposing and Prosecuting Judicial Corruption Through Common Law Discovery
1997 interview with Marv Bryer.
[I ASK READERS: ] Can you read 7 pages "for the cause"? And think about it?
If given a brief pop-quiz of about 10th grade level on what it's talking about, how much of the vocabulary or ideas could you remember?
Marvin Bryer's discoveries began when his daughter was involved in a custody battle for her son. Apparently a judge received a bribe to rule against Mr. Bryer's daughter, and as a result Mr. Bryer discovered a judicial slush fund bank account, and a common law discovery for overcoming judicial immunity.
Right away, we are in the financial category: Bribe, Slush Fund, Bank account, overcoming judicial immunity.
Underneath this, I also pointed out that (for example, in California) the shifting of literally trial courts, to the state level away from the local, AND of the workforce (county employees) of the courts to become instead trial court employees — moves the entire power structure up to the state level — but under Administration ("AOC"). What does this mean? How about shifting the bureaucracy of court operations up to the State level, where it's harder to sue (see "immunity"). It also centralizes power and control — and for this matter, I have not note that "AFCC" is very active at the state level under this particular Judicial Council's AOC.
Table is repeated below:
Report From Judges Blasts California Court Bureaucracy By MARIA DINZEO ShareThis SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – In a sweeping call for reform of the Administrative Office of the Courts, a report from a committee of judges found the agency has been operated as the director's fiefdom, has strayed far from its original path and has been deceptive about finances and personnel. The judges also criticized the bureaucracy as top-heavy, overpaid and badly organized. Their long-awaited report proposes a drastic reorganization that includes cutting the staff by one-third and moving the agency from its lavish San Francisco headquarters to a cheaper space in Sacramento.
In the 221-page, 11-chapter document, the Strategic Evaluation Committee also recommended cutting high-level positions, closing regional offices and eliminating entire divisions of the vast bureaucracy that sits atop the court system. Based on a year-long investigation, the massive, crisply-worded report does not pull its punches.
That 221 page document should be read– it shows the centralization and expansion of control in the administrative sector.
Yes, Broken Courts, Flawed Practices, and the Parade of Fools: (Pt.1(a) Intro, Context)
[Published June 29, 2014; Post in edit mode late July-Aug. 2014; expanded to almost double the size,nearly 24,000 words; with background info….In most posts, a lot of the length is simply quotes, my style is not just tell, but "show and tell."]
Between "Pts.1" [1a and 1b] and "Pt.2" I expect to post more material on the Family Court Enhancement Project ("FCEP"), which I understand is all the talk about town (i.e., on the internet in these circles (use your search function to find some of it…). So the title of this blog refers to a series. It is a natural continuation of the recent (and from May 2012) "Parades, Charades and Facades," and my posting this is keeping a personal promise (to myself) for the year 2014, to expose what's underneath the rhetoric.
These parades, charades, and facades have become a problem for the people who match the profile of what they claim to represent, "Protective Parents" and/or "Battered Mothers," specifically. I am among that class and a witness of the practices, tactics, and censorships of dialogues involved. I believe collectively the groups involved comprise a cult, and exhibit all primary cult practices.
Before a few mental circuits of distressed parents disconnect, or melt from the heat of in "righteous indignation," ("But my children were abused; I am an incest survivor" etc.), this post is not about whether or not incest or abuse took place in those cases, or children are being placed in the care of batterers or dangerous parents. I'm a survivor, and I know that plenty of times, abuse, sometimes incest did take place and children ARE being placed in the care of batterers. Mine were….
It's about what kind of parents are taking a road trip (real, or virtually) with ANY advocacy organizations whose articles of incorporation (if any) boards of directors on their tax returns and patterns of incorporation, charitable filings they have not yet even identified (let alone read and understood), and what's worse to a destination they have not evaluated as sensible, based on analyses of those organizations in the larger context.
It's about the dangers of tunnel vision. Focus is one thing, but tunnel vision, an entirely different thing. it's about how even spending days, weeks and months on a combination of social media, group -emails, individual emails, and even supplemented by various published articles on a certain topic can still be like eating white bread and peanut butter only, and wondering why you can't make it through the marathon.
It's so easy to get a sense of TIME (date of origin of a group), PLACE (where did it originally incorporated, and if it's one of those state-skipping chameleon corporations, make a note of it, and find out where it's been before), SIZE (for that, see the financials), and POSITIONING (who else is it interlocking agenda with; and — this is important — is it talking from a religious-exempt institution, or from a law school, or center/institute (etc.) at a university, or individually. Universities, hospitals, government represent considerable clout, prestige and authority, and lesser accountability for said "Center" or Institute" when it comes to tracking the funding = tracking the influence. Is it a regular HHS grantee? On which federal funding streams?
Does it file separately — or has it got another organization as its fiscal agent? If that status changed (example in this post), when, and probably why?
It's about followers failing to set standards and keep leaders ethical.Consider: if as a parent, you would NOT want your kids to get into a strange cars with smiling strangers and start hitch-hiking with them, for years, recruiting others as you go, why have you demonstrated this same behavior by failing to do basic look-ups, and obtain those fiscal identities and trade-association connections?
[Example: Child-Justice, Inc. (Eileen King, fall 2012] connections to First Star = connections to NACC = connections to AFCC. Another: Battered Women's Justice Project ["BWJP"] connections (ongoing) to AFCC AND to Duluth, MN's "Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs" [connection to Ellen Pence, the HHS and DOJ-funded DV industry programming] AND recently, presenting at "BMCC" (Battered Mother's Custody Conference). Why would BMCC (and Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Goldstein) keep a ten-year silence (as if they were unaware of its existence) on what has been a $150 million/year federal since 1996 financing program around marriage and fatherhood promotion by way of diversions from Title IV-A, welfare, or the $10 million/year since 1996 (though first financed in 1988) Title IV-D (re: child support enforcement incentives, including percentage-based quotas) access visitation grants? Possibly because out of some of this funding comes the batterers intervention and supervised visitation networked industries, with solid income streams from court-ordered services, courtesy US taxpayers and privately, individual, extorted parents?
One significant "Why?" unanswered ought to indicate something seriously "off," but there are many — far too many — significant unanswered questions in this company. Suggestion: Come to a decision on the "why" and act on it. Insist on answers as a condition of telling your stories through these channels, lending credibility as the voice of the victims. As a condition of attending rallies, or advertising rallies, etc.
WHO are the friends of those empathetic friends? WHO are they leading you to?
Get the group identity first (the process is simple)! Assess size and special interest groups, and steer clear of groups which refuse to incorporate, or which refuse to submit state-level charitable returns when states require this — on time. And which attempt to censor conversations about areas of common interest, or refuse to educate followers about it in communications or in websites.
I have for years attempted to have intelligent conversations on the money trail and the matter of court-connected corporations, not to mention the more than obvious federal marriage/fatherhood promotion grants, with mothers who have been wrapped up in blogging their, or someone else's personal stories — without running basic background checks on who they're doing it for.
However, the leadership and by association followers have habitually refused to discuss these topics properly, timely, or thoroughly, remaining focused on the apparently preplanned solutions to the crises — essentially, get better trainers (i.e., themselves: a self-defining mixture of professionals, nonprofits, some groups absent any corporate identity and enough mothers who tell their stories to lend the experts credibility. For example, see in recent "Parades, Charades and Facades" post, or find and read a typical newsletter or press release from one of the members). Unless you look at other sources of information, on the same topic it is less clear how self-defining and discussion-limiting the conversations are.These are professionals whose background and skills are in the fields of persuasion, experienced in group situations and guided-group attempts at behavioral modification [seeking to persuade the court, persuade the public, or persuade the legislature towards system change, or persuade people to refer services and advertise product]. People who have obtained PhDs, published, conferenced, been professors, and many (not all) still are.
And there's been definite "guidance" on what is unacceptable to teach or talk about in these life-and-death matters.
Like, the money trail, from the United States (Executive Branch) Departments of HHS and DOJ. And private wealth pouring funds into producing certain custody-outcomes, by state, and by gender, and related quotas
Like, nonprofit trade associations that populate judge-ships, head family court services, and organize nationally to favor their members' interests.
So, the "Broken Courts, Flawed Practices" the court reform group's leadership it seems was all along as "the professionals" setting their sights on becoming the subject matter experts for this exact type of FCEP project, i.e., public recognition and with it, potential related spinoff income from close association with the "source," i.e., with people managing the funding stream out of the USDOJ (among other places)'s Office of Violence Against Women $400 million budget, and direction of public (federal) money funding grants stemming from the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act).
(Announcing the project June 2013 on facebook and responding to comments)
Barry Goldstein The courts' response to sexual abuse issues is particularly horrible and I hope that is included in the practices adopted by some of the courts. It is included in the best practices discussed in a few chapters for my next book with Mo Hannah.
I have been watching the promotion of this book since before it was first published in 2010 and noticed how relentless Barry is on the matter, and how followers of the Crisis in the Courts crowd do this as well, reblogging. Readers take note: Similar behavior for the book promoted about ten years earlier, same basic circles, by "Our Children Our Future Foundation" which corporation barely existed for two years. (See recent post "A Different Kind of Attention").
The book here is meant to sound so authoritative, but it isn't! It is anything but complete on the subject matter and its deliberate avoidance of reference to the money trail stemming from 1996-forward (Welfare reform) , to specific organizations, or any searchable terms or names which might better alert women, definitely primary target readers, to the scope and context and history of HOW "custody of abused children going to batterers" actually happens.
Track the organizations* promoting this book, and you will find a very speckled and incomplete trail of corporate and nonprofit filings with a literal obsession with intervention at the federal level while ignoring how the federal grants factor are already in place to intentionally produce certain custody outcomes. In other words, they are a significant factor in the problems to start with.
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Parades, Charades and Facades — Mother's Day and Beyond
[about 3,200 words, plus a section on the Guggenheim Family and Foundations = about 3,000 more, making it about 6,000 words… It links to post on another of my blogs "The Family Court Franchise System," quoting parts of it here. As I often do, the original writing is closer to the bottom of the post, and the top part is context. I brought in the philanthropy examples in preparation for specific situations in upcoming posts, and not just in a random reference.]
Seeing as it's almost Father's Day, I thought it was time to put out a post inspired this past May, 2014, on Mother's Day, after revisiting one I'd drafted on a different but related blog in 2012. The basic dynamics it described haven't changed.
Along the lines of the recent post Accounting Literacy Matters. Cause-based Literacy Doesn't (even though it's dealing with a different topic), I then looked again (hindsight sure does help) at some of the players helping compile various Judges' or Attorneys' ToolKits" which, I guess, we are to hope might function as some magic wand, or special panacea, if waved around in hearings for custody and visitation matters after having separated because of domestic violence, or for general knowledge.
Excerpt, and basically about:
"How California Protective Parents Association Doesn't — and Why"
It was drafted in 2012, and finished, of course, supplemented, in 2014. Related "exhibit"
The fine print (footnotes) to that sheet revealed "good cop/bad cop" discussions in one put out by the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence. As usual, taking a second look leads to more information about who's been backing all the policy studies, for example the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation *backing a well-known social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, who also turns out to be AFCC-friendly:
*Harry Guggenheim established this foundation to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance because he was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis would in the end accomplish more than the usual solutions impelled by urgency rather than understanding. We do not yet hold the solution to violence, but better analyses, more acute predictions, constructive criticisms, and new, effective ideas will come in time from investigations such as those supported by our grants.
The foundation places a priority on the study of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world and also encourages related research projects in neuroscience, genetics, animal behavior, the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities which illuminate modern human problems. Grants have been made to study aspects of violence related to youth, family relationships, media effects, crime, biological factors, intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, and political violence deployed in war and sub-state terrorism, as well as processes of peace and the control of aggression.
[from "FAMILY" hyperlink on the site ] All men are not violent, and all violent men are not alike. We encourage more research into typologies of violence and the implications for treatment of distinguishing different types of batterers. However, explanations for spouse abuse must also recognize that two people contribute to a dysfunctional marriage, and the dynamics of family relationships should be explored to understand family violence more completely. The ways both masculinity and femininity are understood in particular cultures should be explored in order to explain how male dominance and marital violence are "normalized" in different and similar ways across cultures. …
Does that not shed some light on why certain people would rather study domestic violence perpetrators and batterers than actively separate them from their victims, PERIOD, sending a public policy message to others that this is socially unacceptable? And why some are prone to publishing where the grants money is ("let's characterize batterers and provide and evaluate treatment interventions") than expecting it to stop by separating the batterer from the battered, as a deterrent, and sending a message that it's completely unacceptable? (including if women are perpetrating….)
Read the post to find out which Pennsylvania sociologist I'm referring to.
Would I have known this if I didn't look behind the rhetoric? NO. I read. I never heard of "Harry Frank Guggenheim" foundation, although the Guggenheim family are well known as philanthropists. Harry Frank (1890-1971) was born into this family of eight sons and wealth from various industries, especially smelting.
The Guggenheim Family (Jennifer Schaub, Grand Valley State grad student, 2005):
The Guggenheim Family left a strong mark in the industrial smelting industry of the early 1900's. By 1918 Forbes reckoned that the Guggenheims were the second richest family in America (Kaufmann 2004). However, they are more widely remembered as a long line of philanthropists. Five key philanthropists have emerged from this extensive family. By creating a series of foundations, the family is credited for promoting the development of individuals {{??}} by funding research and the development of scholarly thought. . . .
Historic Roots
Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905) was a tailor of Swiss-Jewish decent who immigrated to the United States in 1847 (John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Oppenheim, 2002). He and his wife had eight sons. Meyer created the family fortune in the late 19th century beginning with 300,000 from an investment in railroad stocks (Oppenheim, 2002). From there he moved to importing Swiss embroidery and then eventually into the production of metals including silver copper and lead (Infoplease, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation). Meyer started the Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Company, and eventually took over American Smelting in 1901. At one time the Guggenheim family was said to control 31 industrial, import, and farming companies in the US and abroad (Wooster, 2005) ….
Daniel Guggenheim (1856-1930) was credited for shaping much of the family business; he combined and presided over, the Guggenheim and American Smelting companies. Solomon Robert Guggenheim (1981-1949) was also active in the family business creating mining strong holds most notably in Colombia (The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation). Simon Guggenheim (1867-1941) was for a short time, a Republican Senator for Colorado, and the chief ore buyer for family factory. He worked in Colorado for a number of years overseeing the Leadville mines (American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)….
Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971) was the son of Daniel Guggenheim. Harry fought in two world wars and was the ambassador to Cuba from 1929-1933. Harry was also the co-founder, along with his wife Alicia Patterson, of Newsday Magazine (Newsday.com).
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), the daughter of Benjamin, was an art collector and gallery owner. Noted as one of the most important art patrons of the 1930s and 40s. She owned and operated 3 galleries in the US and Europe. Her New York gallery, Art of This Century was one of the first to show such artists as Rothko, Pollock, Dali, Moore, and Brenton (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).
As a philanthropist, Daniel Guggenheim is best known as an aviation pioneer. Along with his wife Florence, and their son Harry, Daniel Guggenheim created the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of Aeronautics in June 16, 1926 (Wooster, 2005). While the fund was operational, it invested 2.6 million for the creation of aeronautical schools and research centers at 11 different universities. By conducting competitions to create innovations, and funding the research of individuals, projects sponsored by Daniel Guggenheim are said to have increased the safety of Aeronautics …
[para. out of order]
- Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was a physics professor whose contributions to rocket science included a rocket that could travel in a vacuum, and one of the first high altitude rockets. For these and other aeronautical innovations, Goddard has been named one of Time's 100 Most Important People of the Century. Goddard's research was funded by Harry Guggenheim for 4 years and the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation for 11 years (Kluger).
Although Harry Guggenheim also financially contributed to the Daniel Guggenheim fund he began his own foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, which was formed to contribute critical thought and analyses of the world issues of violence and conflict (The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation).
Solomon Guggenheim began collecting non-objective paintings in 1929, and began the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to purchase and increase the appreciation of modern art. After beginning to amass a large collection, Solomon began plans to create the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York Solomon died before his project was complete and Harry Guggenheim saw to the completion of his Uncle Solomon's dream (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).
[[…Also the Guggenheims, or their foundations, funded: composer Aaron Copland, artist Jackson Pollock ["American Abstract Expressionism"] , and Charles Augustus Lindbergh.]]
[…obviously this is just a sampler of information …]
The world we now live in has been vastly influenced by industrialists of last century; of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some of them were challenged on their monopolies and faced anti-trust actions; any biography of such families shows how they acquire their wealth, diversify often, and set up major foundations, in part as great public relations (sometimes necessary considering how the wealth was acquired), and in return for this, get to restructure the world and institutions we live in — because their wealth and influence enabled them to.
When it comes to a MAJOR aspect of the family courts, ordering treatment for abnormal or violent behavior (or, originally, to avoid divorce) — we can see today that many of the professionals and professors of course owe their studies, and sometimes the centers or institutes, or even schools at which they teach and research — to philanthropists.
We should be looking at this. When I saw this connection, I better understood what's the fascination with "treating" everyone, including "batterers," and families. It makes NO sense to me to continue dialogues "pretending" the professor/researcher classes are not themselves funded by either private foundations, or government grants, or both, and that we are all on an equal playing field when it comes to setting major policies in the courts, without discussing the power and money behind them — and the power of private wealth to direct public policy.
FOR EXAMPLE — in SAN DIEGO, and regarding GALs:
In the field of Child Welfare Law — here's an example. The group "Children's Advocacy Institute," which I will post on shortly — has influenced family courts through, with others, pushing for more "counsel for the child" in contested custody cases, a.k.a., adding GALs wherever possible. Previously, the same professor was NOT interested in family or children's issues at all, but instead public, environmental, energy (utility) laws.
My Challenge: Talk Sense, or become an OxyMORON (and Someone Else's Dinner)
This post was drafted March 2014, and is posted June, 2014. Although it has some oddball illustrations — like the duckbilled platypus– and it references distraction techniques of cults (which, FYI, you're in it), below all that are some references you might want to bookmark re: FMS.Treasury.Gov (excerpt in 2nd box yellow with teal-green border. This shows combined US government receipts & outlays, by source, in numbers and in a pie-chart, which is easier to remember.
Show your friends reading the morning newspapers about how broke we are. We who?
This is also 7,000 words, and has multiple formats. [Insert Standard Copyeditor's/Proofreaders' Nightmare Disclaimer for anyone who's expecting a proofread, copyedited vision of perfection.]
I am one person struggling with a free wordpress blog platform. I compose what I've personally investigated and written up, including quotations and evidence from many different sources, and commentary on these, in a triple-view format; sometimes in "Text" (html) mode, others in "Visual" (the post editor). Neither "Text" nor "Visual" mode bears ANY true resemblance to "Published" (or Preview) mode, either to paragraphing, or even to fonts (typestyles).
However, I do consistently deliver other goods that I know have helped some people not go "bonkers" (nuts) during their custody cases, get them out of trauma mode by giving some objective information (not standard predigested rhetoric) on these operations.
Anyone who doesn't like this blog, or its format, can go find this information elsewhere [good luck with that…], or if he or she wants this information in a more polished format, hit the Donate button (on the sidebar) to help me overcome the technical (computer) issues through upgraded website, or, if that's not within your ability range (or wish), consider signing the petition I've included on this post so I may do this myself, with my own resources, which the straightforward petition explains. It can be signed anonymously, although city and state will display.
(Now would be a great time to sign or donate)
Or be patient and understand the purpose of this blog. It's not my attempt at an academic dissertation. I have my degrees already. It's about laying out some information as a NOTICE that this type of information exists. And that people who have been badly traumatized can at least reduce their own confusion on cause-and-effect by becoming aware of this information; including WHO designed the family courts, and the programs to be run through them; and how.
Sometimes you just need other information to get your bearings. What's more, it's interesting and relevant to all of us where our taxes are being spent, and who's running our courts.
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Amazing and False Assumptions about the Family Courts…
This post is essentially draft, notes. I'm just injecting, FYI, some different talk into the tired old (while still relevant) conservations about what the courts are doing, and have done to our little ones, the next generation. ~ It's at least as reasonable as what's out there now. No big deep conclusions; I just wanted to point to other information, information worth giving up one's security-blanket support groups for.
And for those who are curious, and make it through enough paragraphs, I've thrown in a link telling readers (finally) my name. WHY? My situation is not safe (it has really become life-threatening, again, and from the attrition) and I'd like to take credit for the considerable effort put into this blog, while still alive. And if you're concerned, remember there's a Donate Button Here, and a Petition there.
Some people who have witnessed my personal situation now for over 10 years, and I truly hope that younger people, and in-bound men and women to the family law system will recognize just who they are dealing with, and abandon the false prophets flying around hawking their wares as if it were just one nice big family with a few communication problems any real (well-trained) expert could straighten out.
I have paid attention to networks, and been networked, and around long enough to see "denial" mode kick in when people are presented with the uncomfortable information that they've been betrayed as badly by those showing empathy for their distress as by any original "abuser" who got custody.
While I'm extremely stressed this past month, after going public (with my case) for the first time in April, I have like many been since Year 2000, to the top and back down through the justice system, the agencies, and the personalities. I have spoken with extremely intelligent men and women and qualified, who continue hoping to extract some justice. I'm interested in extricating my LIFE and a future, with the least damages and compromise, particularly for my two (daughters), who I miss very badly these days, as well as all along, but see no way to get to, in the current situation.
You've probably been hearing this more and more around the internet, as propagated by people who want us to believe it's even relevant to the family law code in state after state. We may want this — naturally, as human beings or parents, or others — but how does what we want relate to what the existing legal system says about this area of law? Time and again, people complain that the family courts aren't keeping their children safe, and demand that they do, thinking (without evidence) that the courts are on the same page with the parents. since when did any family court venue say that this was its reason for existing? Does even the family code indicate this is its purpose? Now, there's a push for The Safe Child Act by certain people who, shamelessly (and probably knowingly) call the courts by their wrong names and push the theme of "more scientific practices to recognize child abuse, " etc. If you're a parent, it's hard to resist the appeal to pathos and the assumption that better subject matter expertise would turn the family courts (often called mistakenly "custody courts," simply an inaccurate term) into safer places for children. Here's a segment, catch the phrasing:
Of course protecting children's health and safety requires more than a goal of making this the courts' first priority. The court cannot rely on generalized professionals who understand mental illness and psychology unless they have specialized expertise in domestic violence, child sexual abuse, substance abuse, medical diagnosis and treatment. Court professionals must be familiar with current scientific research so they know that exposure to domestic violence, child abuse and other trauma results in a lifetime of greater illnesses and injuries. As the Saunders' study demonstrates, courts must avoid relying on unqualified "experts" who focus on the myth that women frequently make false allegations; unscientific alienation theories or the belief that mothers' attempts to protect children from frightening fathers are actually harmful to the children.
Yeah, well guess which group of professionals, a fairly tight-knit, self-referencing court-reform community saw the opportunity to become the next generation of experts in the courts, a long way off, and is NEVER going to give up this talk — and realized that if the mothers actually refocused their emotional energy on something different than "Abusers getting custody," they might (like I eventually did) figure out a thing or two…See very recent post "A Different Kind of Attention Leads to Sound Judgment" for more information).
This information doesn't take long to figure out — that the language is focused on better professionals, not operational structures. Well, the rest of this post, I'd just rather look at some different terminology; a bit about commissions that draft codes, what's a code versus a statute, and face it — the Family Code is the new kid on the block, and you probably still have less than enough understanding of how tightly this country (and each state) is organized around the profession of law. And it doesn't take too long to figure out that, whatever else most of us may want to believe about how vastly important we, and our children are to the world — this entire system is just not about them.
I haven't written much lately because longstanding dealings with my own situation (<=<=yes, that is me, my petition. Now you know….) the family court case that never closed, and its aftermath) required attention. I have been dealing right along with two or three attorneys (NOT on my side) in matters directly affecting my safety — and doing this without stable income or a full-time or even consistent job history. (You try to have a stable job history after your kids disappear from your life overnight….). A fourth one was brought in recently, apparently just for fun — and it's become clear what the next agenda.
Accounting Literacy Matters. Cause-based Literacy Doesn't. (Spring 2010, Ellen H Brown tangles with Walter Burien's info, or at least tries to.)
This blog has been sitting in draft since January. I cleaned it up, fleshed it out and am publishing. Meanwhile, I'll be over at Cracking the Cult of the Constitution by Clint Richardson, and tell you why when I get back. Particularly on the topic "Corporations Sole." (3 part series from August 2013).
Look for these two colors in a side-by-side column format to see the conversation that inspired this post. I've added material to a middle section one day after publishing this post (added Sun. 5/4/2014) because I think it's relevant. Alternating color scheme (dark green/light-beige with red fonts) section is more about the particular institute set up AFTER the conversations of 2010.
Some months ago, I also got entangled with the "Web of Debt" conversation; not because of CAFRs, in particular, but because I also live in California and wanted a few answers I wasn't seeing on the site.
The strange response to a single comment on a blog (from someone I was a complete stranger to) led to my further inquiries about "Inquiring Systems, Inc." and some of the issues below. What I see is someone trying to sound more intelligent than he or she is (see below), and trying to seem more concerned about the disenfranchised 99% (us poor slobs) than the associations and behaviors would indicate.
Which one was the attorney, well keep reading.
A Different Kind of Attention develops Sound Judgment
Post in Update Process. Recent (October 2014) introductory material will be reduced shortly. I felt inspired to elaborate some more on the role of the Ford Foundation, Center for Court Innovation, MDRC, and the economic influence on setting in motion systems-change elements (including court changes) at public expense. I tend to revise published posts as my understanding increases, and often in the process or drafting a related one.
This is a recent find when I was explaining and showing the Center for Court Innovation to a person completely unfamiliar with it. It didn't take too long to "get"once the tax returns and other materials were shown in person. It probably also helped the understanding process that the individual was familiar with project development and budgets, and hadn't been indoctrinated NOT to talk finances or economic systems through any court advocacy group which is more interested in selling books, promoting conferences, and getting in on the "train the trainers, educate the judges" routine….
NYC 2014 BUDGET — READ! Center for Court Innovgot $400K (Fund for City of NY not mentioned), Man Up, LIFT, Vera — ec (439pages…)
This link and discussion added below under the post's' heading "Center for Court Innovation." [Click through to the website and bookmark, please!] Making for one very long post indeed, but covering some very important ground….
This NYC 2014 BUDGET link above (the adjustments to a NYC budget) shows that the name "Center for Court Innovation" was identified with an EIN# that matches the $86 million (in assets) tax-exempt corporation called "Fund for the City of New York" as a fiscal item on the NYC budget, and having been characterized as running several types of courts in the city, while receiving budgetary contributions from the City for this service.
I think this should interest readers from both the size of operations and the setup (see pp. 7, 8, 9). It takes some sustained attention, to grasp, however. Question: Why would writers of the NYC Budget Adjustments who surely know the difference between a corporation or nonprofit organization (such as Fund for the City of New York) and a project which is not a corporation (such as "Center for Court Innovation") forget to use the correct name when listing the budget adjustment of, that year, $400,000, with (it says) funding having begun in 2005 and this CCI being the designated lead for that type of project? More visuals below under that Title.
Neither the CCI nor this Fund should be ignored, for what they represent to USA and, it's been made clear, the internationalization of justice reform according to "best ideas, as defined by those in power to fund demonstration projects, AND evaluations of the same demonstration projects" via tax-exempt fund and tax-supported court system.
CCI is self-defined as "a public/private partnership." That means both public and private funds go into it and moreover, that those funds are not easily traceable by looking at EITHER the public (NYS Unified Court System) budget OR the tax returns of the Private (Fund). And yet they are also self-defined as innovative, and systems change oriented. An attempt is being made to engineer this change, obviously, without public awareness of who, really, is paying for it, although depending on what type of change, we ALL pay the price if it's in a more, versus less oppressive direction. So which direction the money and which direction the change IS going, should be watched. You watch the influence by watching the organizations; and you watch the organizations, in good part, by getting tax returns where available (or other financials) and considering what's seen, who's involved, and WHAT is the organizational or corporate purpose.
CCI is an item on others' tax returns and budgets, but not being a specific corporation OR arm of government, it would be quite a project to get a picture (layout) of its finances, and from that, its influences, on a major court system such as the NYS UNIFIED Court System.
We are supposed to take it on faith that being in the hands of the experts is good news.
I have been in such hands (in California, but with similar flavor and programming) and know better than to accept "just trust us" when it comes to bright new ideas on how to change the courts bypassing regular public input, because the public is too broke to get that input in there, and those pushing the ideas are, well, the opposite.
Founded as a public/private partnership between the New York State Unified Court System and the Fund for the City of New York, the Center for Court Innovation seeks to aid victims, reduce crime, strengthen neighborhoods, reduce incarceration, and improve public trust in justice. The Center combines action and reflection to spark justice reform locally, nationally, and internationally.
Fund for the City of New York was (funded/incorporated as a nonprofit) in 1968 by the under-funded (?) Ford Foundation, with significant involvement in other systems-changes elements of the courts around the country; CCI is hardly its only project.
To my 259+ "Followers" who just received an email notification of this trust (and other viewers)…. You were just mailed a post in DRAFT status, when yours truly hit "Publish" instead of "Save Draft" while editing it. Right now, my version of wordpress, or my input device, simply will not let me put a published post back into draft or pending status. When I attempt, the system simply refreshes all windows.
{{As of Mon 3/24/2014, I have continued adding to and editing this post; it has now doubled and is about 19,000+ words long. Please scroll through the material if you only plan to read part — I tend to add material to the middle and introductions, when revising; meaning some of the original topic (after first stating it) is moved down towards the end. Or, I will split it off.
To put it bluntly — I'm an investigative blogger (and DV survivor, mother, etc.). I don't publish in professional journals, and my former profession was not based around getting federal grants to write up others problems in a scholarly manner. Rather, I provided genuine services, real-time (and involving considerable focus, preparation, and practice) to a local community, based on demand for those service, NOT forced consumption by the local courts and the federal child support or welfare system — making it a win-win situation (if not necessarily producing wealth, it was a healthy lifestyle for sure. So — obviously this is not "AP" (or any other) editing style When I get to it, I'll split this post, maybe. In the meanwhile, everything I wrote goes into a storehouse ALSO called memory (awareness of trends, systems, groups and to a degree, personnel).
Therefore, I pretty much blog it as a write it — with about 2/3 more posts in draft, and consistent communications (networking) by phone and email as well.}.
However, even incomplete and in draft, this post on this material is still timely, and relevant. It proves who (by group name, including Executive Director), while valiant in reporting troubling matters, was still systematically and uniformly covering up, or had abandoned from all significant public discussion the role of the federal grants (access/visitation in particular) in influencing INDIVIDUAL custody cases where child abuse had already been identified.
The information surrounding the creation of the family and conciliation courts, plus its relationship to "welfare reform" is significant enough it puts an entirely different light on the whole subject matter. There are MANY corollaries (logical conclusions) from the information about the Who, What, When, Where, How and even Why that make sense of the current situations in the court and enable people paying attention to even see, document , changes continuing to happen along the same lines.
There is literally NO EXCUSE for this degree of OMISSION from DISCUSSION of THIS MUCH relevant information.
This post also again PROVES that the organization in question, through its at least 2004 Executive Director, and as I have asserted often enough in person (email, phone) and I believe on this blog, has had access all along — and chose to siderail that information, if not [just about] eliminate it from their email alerts, co-sponsored conference topics, summaries of the situation and assessments — as do the professionals and other organizations they tend to support, promote and help publicize.
With the information from Liz Richards nafcj.net alone, a logical conclusion would QUICKLY lead [as it did me] sensible people to understand (better) the events leading up to and following from the 1996 PRWORA welfare reform and, by NAMING them, which significant organizations and individuals were restructuring not just the courts, but the entire US Government (economically, through radical changes to the Social Security Act). Please note, from NAFCJ.net website, front page: "Fifth Step – Change your Reaction Mode" which is still good advice!
Fifth Step: Change your reaction mode: Learn how stop being fooled and manipulated by dishonest people who are supposed to be helping you ! Learn about unique responses to this problem.
I'm not sure I agree at this point with the recommended responses, which could and have produced retaliatory action (extreme) upon individuals. I DO, however, agree with researching and finding out WTF is going on — in those areas!


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"The University of Illinois is also in turmoil. The university sports an Interim Chancellor, an Interim Athletic Director, and an Interim Football Coach; the game will be played at Soldier Field, making this an Illini Interim Home Game."
one frame at a time
One Frame At A Time: Northwestern
Despite watching this approximately 457 times, I'm still in utter disbelief that this worked. Things required to have this happen:
- Jeremy Gallon immediately pitching the ball to an official.
- That official rugby-tossing the ball to the umpire.
- The umpire placing the ball down and getting the hell out of the way.
- Drew Dileo, barely in the frame when the camera zooms out, realizing after a split-second hesitation that he must sprint to the right spot and slide into position.
- Jareth Glanda snapping the ball at the last possible moment so the line doesn't draw a flag.
- Brendan Gibbons marking off his steps at warp speed, then drilling a 44-yarder despite still moving backwards at the snap (which is legal, as covered in today's mailbag).
100% complete insanity, indeed.
If you're wondering about the identity of the guy in the black jacket running around like a manic behind the goalposts, that's Greg Dooley of MVictors. Livin' the dream, Greg.
[The rest of the Northwestern game in GIFS after THE JUMP, including Brady Hoke RAWKING OUT, Devin Gardner sacrificing life and rib, Derrick Green truck stick, and more angles of the miraculous field goal.]
One Frame At A Time: Nebraska
Oh, just putting the finishing touches on the best/worst infographic of all time.
[GIFs of Michigan players doing actual good things after THE JUMP because gallows humor only goes so far. Also: Jabrill Peppers!]
One Frame At A Time: Michigan State
Seeing Denard grimace and swear is akin to seeing Santa remove his fake beard and take a long pull from a flask. Something's gone horribly wrong and perhaps it's time you stopped believing in certain things—like the possibility of a Big Ten title or the existence of Santa Claus.
[After THE JUMP: More cursing! More sadness! But also basketball!]
One Frame At A Time: MSU Past
"...he has no idea Charles Woodson can jump 15 feet in the air." — actual call, not really hyperbole.
When I posted the above GIF on Twitter today, someone pointed out that the icing on the cake was Dhani Jones (#55) body-slamming the MSU receiver on the sideline. I've watched that play literally hundreds of times since it first happened (gulp) 16 years ago; this is the first time I've ever noticed Dhani's hit. Watching a purportedly-mortal human take flight can be distracting.
[Hit THE JUMP for Braylonfest.gif, Desmond Howard doing Desmond Howard things, Manningham FTW, and more.]
One Frame At A Time: Indiana
Reader and graphic designer Brian Downing shows off his skills with the above, which I wish I was aware of before attempting my own "Al Borges is trolling us all" GIF:
Brian's (NTB's) is obviously superior; both of these are exempted from voting this week since they're edited. There's still plenty to choose from after the jump, mostly featuring Indiana not playing defense and various reactions to the on-field insanity. It's a good crop, so...
One Frame At A Time: Indiana Past
Six seconds left in a tie game, no timeouts remaining, and Anthony Carter runs an in-cutting route 20 yards short of the end zone for the game-winning catch-and-run. This is something that only Anthony Carter could do, and even then only in 1979 against a team coached by Lee Corso, because how do you let that happen?
[Hit THE JUMP for another play from that game that could only happen a long time ago, plus a few more GIFs from Indiana games past.]


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Hull boss Peter Gentle slammed his players after their Super League top-four hopes were dealt a big blow with a shock 42-16 defeat at bottom club Widnes.
The Vikings ended a run of three defeats with their first win over the Airlie Birds in eight years.
Gentle said: "It was disgraceful and the most inept performance I have seen for a long time."
The Vikings ran in eight tries with Shaun Briscoe and Willie Isa each bagging a brace while Paddy Flynn also crossed on his 100th appearance for the club.
Briscoe was back after a six-match injury absence against his old club and made only his seventh appearance of a frustrating season but turned in an outstanding show.
Hull, who led 10-8 midway through the first half, made too many errors and Gentle said: "We got behind and panic set in. Our completion rate in the second half was only 39% and we went from bad to worse.
"We weren't anything like a top-four side out there and are kidding ourselves if we think that. We have a lot of work to do. We had no respect for the ball and no defence to back it up. It was embarrassing and not up to standard."
Widnes boss Denis Betts was full of praise for his players, and said: "We stuck to our task. Peter may be upset with his players but we got in their faces and forced them into errors. Hull could not break us down and we can take a lot out of that performance."
Betts paid tribute to Briscoe and said: "We miss Shaun when he's not playing. He gives us experience and talk. When he's out there I can hear him all over the field urging on his team-mates.
"Willie Isa has really contributed the last 10 or 12 weeks. He has a huge work ethic and his energy is infectious. Young Alex Gerrard also deserves credit. He has very limited Super League experience and made the hard yards. Paddy Flynn has also been chomping at the bit and took his chance well with Patrick Ah Van out."
- Shaun Briscoe
- Willie Isa
- Paddy Flynn
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On June 14, 2005 I weighed in at a hefty 567.4 pounds. I couldn't walk up the two flights of stairs to my apartment without being out of breath. Lifting a regular PC was a challenge. My back constantly hurt, and I had no energy. Then I got sick of it.
Did I get your attention? Good, I'm hoping my story shows that no matter where you are, with determination you can get your life back.
I won't make excuses for my weight. I was lazy, and I ate horribly. That's why I weighed that much. Nobody, including my doctor, could tell by looking at me that I weighed that much. He was 100 pounds off on his estimate. But at that point I knew I had two choices, I was 28 years old and continuing on that path was a good way to sign my own death warrant. I could either have surgery, or I could start a drastic diet. I *HATE* needles, being cut up, and anything related.
So I found a clinic who offered a drastic plan. 800 calories of liquid a day for 12 weeks, with a gradual transition back to food. My sister did it, along with some friends and they all lost a substantial amount of weight and kept it off. And I did it. I didn't eat any "food" for a month, after a month I'd start having veggies on occasion. I excercised religiously, drank a ton of water a day, etc.
In November of 2005 I was down to 407-ish. I was back on food, and relaxed a little over the winter, dropping another 5 lbs between December and March, but not caring too much. I kept active, enjoyed things I never thought I would, and just basically enjoyed my new lease on life.
Then in March of 2006 I was involved in a horrible car accident. My back was messed up, along with most of my body so I got out of the excercise routine. I put 30lbs back on between March and June. Frustrated with my back pain, on a whim I jumped on an old Raleigh MTB in my parents garage. It's probably the second-smartest thing I ever did.
Since June I've put about 1,000 bike miles on the Raleigh, and a Specialized Hardrock I treated myself to in August. I dropped about 5 lbs and gained legs that look like tree trunks. Then I got engaged.
So my challenge now is to drop down to 225-250 by August of 2008. I'm getting married then, and I want to look damn good. I also want to finally be "in shape" so I can enjoy my life with my soon-to-be-wife and soon-to-be-stepchildren.
To jump start it, a friend has lost about 20lbs since July by buying a bunch of Bianchis and riding like hell. So at the start of September I challenged him. I told him that I could lose 50 lbs before he lost another 20. Loser buys the winner dinner that won't exceed $25. To add her support, my fiancee made a side bet with him for $20 that I would win.
So I started again watching carefull what I ate and excercising. In the past 21 days I've lost 29.3 lbs, and haven't felt better. I *will* lose 50 by 1/1/2007, but my goal is to lose 75.
What I love is that even though I'm a big guy, I still will pass skinny roadies . Nothing finer than the look on the face of a guy riding a Madone as a big guy on a Specialized MTB passes him going 28-29mph on a straightaway .
That's me. I'm very glad I found bikeforums, and glad this forum started.


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Something small for Ludum Dare.
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Turn based action game.
Defeat enemies to absorb their power.
Destroy the mimic crystal to ascend.
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Something small for Ludum Dare.
Turn based action game.
Defeat enemies to absorb their power.
Destroy the mimic crystal to ascend.
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A game inspired by a trip to New York last year!
This took a lot longer than planned, and over the last couple of weeks I've had some extremely helpful feedback from lots of people. Special thanks especially to Holly Gramazio, Josh Hadley, Stephen Lavelle, and Sophie Sampson for feedback and chats, and Robert Yang, Andrew Yoder, Richard Perrin, Guilherme Töws, James Andrews, Farbs, Jonathan Whiting, Bennett Foddy, Bean, Bateleur, Jonathan Prior, ellaguro, and Harry Giles for playtesting and suggestions!
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A short game I made this month with Stephen Lavelle.
(note: contains some NSFW content)
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Hey everyone! I have lots of big annoucements about VVVVVV today, so let's get to it!
Let's start with what I consider the really important thing – inspired by things like Knytt Stories and DROD: Architect's Edition, I'm releasing a special build of VVVVVV on Windows, Mac and Linux today. It's called VVVVVV: Make and Play Edition, and it's completely free. This version of the game only includes the player levels and the level editor – which means that, from now on, the tools to make and play VVVVVV player levels are completely free.
People have done some really incredible things with the VVVVVV editor. I want to share that work as far and wide as I can!
VVVVVV is now available on iPhone, iPad, Android, and OUYA!
These ports have been quite a long time coming! Actually, I originally started the iPhone port before I started Super Hexagon, way back in 2012. So it feels very, very good to finally have it finished, and released. This is something I felt I really had to take on myself – VVVVVV's important to me, and it was really important to me that this be done right. I wanted the game to be as good as it could be on mobile. I feel very good about how it's turned out!
You can get it from here:
Nicalis have been working on a Vita port as well – this should be coming out sometime this summmer!
Surprise! Today I'm also releasing another game on iOS and Android: Super Gravitron. It's a little minigame that you might remember from the end of VVVVVV!
It's acting as sort of a demo, but mostly I just think it happens to work really well as it's own thing on mobile. And it's completely free! Get it here:
Thanks to Ethan Lee, VVVVVV on desktop has finally gotten an update! Version 2.2 fixes a bunch of long standing bugs (for example, player level warp lines) and makes the 2.1 changes official (like player maps, coloured text in player levels, editor direct mode, etc).
If you're on steam, this update also adds achievements! They're the same ones that VVVVVV always had, except now they're recognised by steam. If you've already got them, log into today and you should get awarded a bunch of them at once, which is extremely satisfying!
Finally – remember that amazing Metal Medley of VVVVVV music by @FamilyJules7x? Yeah, both Souleye and I were seriously impressed!
Introducing: MMMMMM! A complete Metal cover of the VVVVVV soundtrack! You can pick it up today directly from Souleye!
The soundtrack comes with a mod, which you can install in your player level directory to play the game with the metal soundtrack instead of the original one!
That's all, everyone! Thanks for playing!
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A Flappy Bird fan game.
Thanks for the inspiration, Dong. Looking forward to your next game when things settle down!
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Made a little thing for Ludum Dare.
I've had this particular idea in one form or another since about 2010, and over the years I've made several ill-fated attempts to bring it to life. At last, I think I've found an approach that works! I like how it's turned out – I hope you like it too. I'm happy to finally have it out of my head.
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Yay, I took some time out of crunching on Halting Problem to make a little thing. Play it here!
It's created using my flatmate's awesome new puzzle game engine, PuzzleScript, which is extremely fun to use. You can hack the source for this game here, if you like.
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Ahhhh I've had to keep quiet about this for ages
Last month I took part in a chain game, which has come to be known as Experiment 12. I'm so happy with how it all came together – I think the final thing is incredibly cool, something bigger than the sum of its parts.
All the chapters were made on a game jam timescale – everyone had just three days for their part.
Since I proposed the project, I ended up going first – which was cool in some ways, but I think I'd prefer to start further in if we ever did something like this again.
Anwyay, hope you enjoy it!
Some words by other authors:
Ian Snyder (Chapter 2)
Jack King Spooner (Chapter 3)
Michael Brough (Chapter 6)
Robert Yang (Chapter 7)
Jasper Byrne (Chapter 12)
(It's windows only for the moment, but there should be a mac version soonish)
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I like the idea of starting fresh each year – ever since I went full time indie five years ago, I've kept annual pages on the sidebar of my blog of the creations I'm happiest with. I think it's creatively healthy to start fresh, bury old things away, prepare for new things.
2012, mostly, is defined for me by Super Hexagon, a game I started this year. Which is odd, because when this year started, I was pretty sure I wasn't going to work on anything new at all. Things didn't work out that way. My plans never do, apparently. I think I'm ok with that.
Where that feeling was coming from, though, was a desire to work on less small, incidental things. To take more control of my work, to really focus on something bigger, something more ambitious. That's something I actually did this year – as well as making Super Hexagon, I worked long stretches on several other projects – a roguelike, an FPS, an RPG.
As a result, I released very few smaller games this year. There were a few things I was sorta happy with, though, so I want to make a place for them, in this small collection:
|Harmonilr is a puzzle game inspired by the Towlr approach to puzzle design.
Play Online
|Griefer is a multiplayer experiment that didn't really work out.
Play Online (Kongregate) (Original Post)
|Notsnake is not snake.
Play Online
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Design and Stress Analysis of a General Aviation Aircraft Wing
G. Atmeh[1], F. Darwish[1], and Z. Hasan[2]
[1]Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
[2]Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
The present study focuses on the design and analysis of a single-engine, propeller-driven general aviation airplane. Initial weight estimation based on the initial sketch and the design mission profile is conducted. The estimated weight and other design parameters are used to define the external geometry of the fuselage, wing and tail. Conic lofting is utilized to render a layout of the design ...
Design and Simulation of Unimorph Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System
E. Varadarajan[1], M. Bhanusri[2],
[1]Research and Innovation Centre (RIC), IITM Research Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
[2]Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
In this paper we made an attempt to maximize the power output in the different piezoelectric materials in a unimorph cantilever beam configuration. In this research, a macro scale unimorph piezoelectric power generator prototypes consists of an active piezoelectric layer, stainless steel substrate and titanium proof mass was designed for frequencies 60 Hz - 200 Hz. An analytical model of a micro ...
Modelling of Pressure Profiles in a High Pressure Chamber using COMSOL Multiphysics
P. S. Rao[1], C. K. Chandra[1]
[1]Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
High Pressure Processing (HPP) is a leading non-thermal food processing technology that is often cited as a major technological innovation in food preservation. Although it is very early to place this emerging technology among the list of breakthroughs in food processing, HPP has started to become a viable commercial alternative for pasteurisation of value added fruits, vegetables, meat, and ...
Lamb Waves and Dispersion Curves in Plates and It's Applications in NDE Experiences Using Comsol Multiphysics
P. Gómez, J. P. Fernandez, and P. D. García
Hydro-Geophysics & NDE Modeling Unit
University of Oviedo
Mieres, Spain
In this paper, a model for numerically obtaining lamb wave modes and dispersion curves in plates is presented. It is shown that COMSOL Multiphysics can be employed to simulate the behavior of guided waves in dispersive plates, which is useful for NDE applications. A two dimensional steel plate (4x0.1 meters) is excited with a space-time impact point source. To model the point source, we use ...
Evaluation of Novel Wing Design for UAV - new
P. K. Bahumanyam[1]
[1]University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
Viable design alternative for the existing and fast growing UAVs which are optimized for unmanned flight is of great demand. Designing of a small scale UAV alternative to the AAI Aerosonde UAV has been considered changing the wing tail configuration of the vehicle analyzing both structural and aerodynamic performance improvements using COMSOL Multiphysics® software.
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Peristaltic Pump
N. Elabbasi, J. Bergstrom, and S. Brown
Veryst Engineering, LLC.
Needham, MA
Peristaltic pumping is an inherently nonlinear multiphysics problem where the deformation of the tube and the pumped fluid are strongly coupled. We used COMSOL Multiphysics to investigate the performance of a 180 degree rotary peristaltic pump with two metallic rollers, and an elastomeric tube pumping a viscous Newtonian fluid. The model captures the peristaltic flow, the flow fluctuations ...
Implementation of a Viscoelastic Material Model to Simulate Relaxation in Glass Transition - new
Z. Zheng[1], R. Zhang[1]
[1]Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, USA
Introduction: Glass relaxation occurs in a range of temperature during transition from equilibrium to super-cooled liquid. Viscoelastic material model can be applied to simulate glass behavior during the glass transition regime and to predict the glass deformation and stress evolution. Viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when ...
Load Cell Design Using COMSOL Multiphysics
A. Marchidan[1], T. Sullivan[1], J. Palladino[1]
[1]Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA
COMSOL Multiphysics was used to design a binocular load cell. A three-dimensional linear solid model of the load cell spring element was studied to quantify the high-strain regions under loading conditions. The load cell was fabricated from 6061 aluminum, and general purpose Constantin alloy strain gages were installed at the four high-strain regions of the spring element. The four gages were ...
Laser-Ultrasonics Wave Generation and Propagation FE Model in Metallic Materials
A. Cavuto[1], G.M. Revel [1], M. Martarelli [2], F. Sopranzetti [2]
[1]Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
[2]Università e-Campus, Novedrate (CO), Italy
A 2D axisymmetric model was considered in order to evaluate the propagation paths of the ultrasonic waves generated inside an aluminum plate sample due to a rapid thermal expansion produced by laser pulse. Laser Doppler Vibrometer is used to experimentally validate the numerical results of the wave propagation in the material. The presented numerical model is able to identify directivity ...
Analysis of 3-D Printed Structural Components for Cube Satellites - new
C. Herzfeld[1]
[1]SPAWAR Systems Center (SSC) ATLANTIC, Charleston, SC, USA
Additive manufacturing uses 3D printing to build physical parts from CAD-based designs. The technology includes fused deposition modeling (FDM) and selective laser sintering (SLS) methods. 3-D printing is of particular interest for smaller, one-of-a-kind, customizable products. A cube satellite (CubeSat) containing fiber reinforced SLS parts has been successfully launched (Ref 1). Lower ...


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A couple of weeks ago, the launch of the 2012 Botswana Netball Association (BONA) Northern Zone Netball League was marred by non-attendance by some clubs in what could have otherwise been a mouth-watering start to the league in Sowa Town. TASC, who finished first in the last year's season log standings, will be hoping to get to an explosive start when they host Sowa-based Flamingoes.
TASC, who are headless after coach Samuel Letsatsi quit, will hope to begin on a bright note, while Flamingoes will want to take advantage of their rivals' problems. TASC failed to travel to Sowa a couple of weeks ago due to disorganisation although the team officials argued that they had not received fixtures. TASC will be involved in another interesting duel tomorrow at the Francistown College of Technical and Vocational Education (FCTVE) courts when they visit BOASA. Last season, TASC rolled over BOASA in all the games scoring not less than 80 goals.
BOASA would be aiming for a good start when they clash with TASC and beating the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) Donga based outfit will
serve as a great motivation to the players of the Botswana Prison Service (BPS) backed side. The game between Flamingoes and BOASA at the same venue at 12:00 pm promises to thrill. Flamingoes have been on a surge for the past two years and would want to maintain the charge.
Last year, the Neo 'Horse' Kebuang coached side qualified for the Top 8 Tournament, which comprises four teams from each zone (South and North).Flamingoes, which has got a sound development policy, has promoted a number of youngsters aged 21 years and below, have shown maturity and growth during their season opening games played at Sowa against Miscellaneous and Botswana Railways (Botsrail).At Palapye's Kgaswe College courts, Miscellaneous will lock horns with Morupule Wanderers in the morning, while Botsrail will take on Arsenal at the same time and venue.
At 10:00 am, Miscellaneous will confront Botsrail, while Morupule will be up against Arsenal.BONA Northern Zone League Chairperson, Kene Tjikwakwa, said all the clubs are expected to honour the fixtures as the glitches experienced the previous weekend have been sorted out.


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Blurb BookStore http://www.blurb.com/favicon.ico stephcrawf's Blurb Bookstore A feed of new Blurb books from this author. http://www.blurb.com/feeds/user/stephcrawf 2015-12-01T06:03:56Z http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/5037060 Where Things Go Away: Stephanie Crawford 2014-01-23T17:11:48Z 2014-01-23T17:11:48Z stephcrawf http://www.blurb.com/user/store/stephcrawf A personal account on the bond between siblings...
A personal account on the bond between siblings, these photos were shot in my father's house collecting different aspects of light. Includes a reflective essay as the intro. Photographed, written, and put together during the summer of 2012. Shot on 35mm color film.
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in honor of valentine's day: written in very informal prose, i present "billet-doux": french for "a sweet letter/a love letter", this collection is made up of journal entries written over these past few years on the people who have especially impacted my life. think of it as one very long love letter to more than one person. circling the themes of love and loss, (because what is one without the other,) this is very much a testament of what it means to be alive. (on that note, i apologize in advance for Sad things, but it all ends on a happy one.) even if you don't know the people in this book, i hope you have someone(s) in your life who makes you feel that life is worth living. and remember to tell the people you love that you love them on a daily basis while you can, and not just once a year out of obligation.
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You can comfortably fit up to four guests in these staterooms, making them perfect for families. You'll enjoy an amazing view from the big picture window. Two lower beds convert into a queen-size bed and additional bedding to sleep two more guests. Of course, you'll have room service and many other amenities.
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Fabulous First-Timer Experience mckmpls
Very very clean. Staff was very attentive. Most especially, we greatly appreciated being upgraded from an interior room to one with a large window!
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Free Style a bit too FREE? yinittner
Way too small for a family of 4!
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Very Positive Experience on the Pearl email@example.com Location, average cabin, easy access to the elevators
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I'm Daniel or Mr. Greene, not Mr. Daniel. Thanks! CruiserSchmoozerI really liked our cabin; I just didn't like the way our steward kept it. He wasn't a thorough cleaner. There was nothing wrong with the room-- oh, wait. There was a pull-down bed on one wall, so you had to duck around that on one side of the bed, and we had to move the bed so we had to step over the other corner of the bed since it butted up against the desk.
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Alaska 6/10/12-6/17/12 NUPDCOPCabin was okay, seems bigger than a standard inside cabin. The window was nice to have. The extra bed hanging on the wall give limited room on that side of the bed while walking.
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Updated 9/26/2013 Thank you everyone for my great growth from 30ish subs to 2200+ and now over 600k+ in views also. It has been almost 2yr since I decided to go into Let's Plays seriously(over 150hrs of gameplay now) This is just a basic outline of how the channel will hopefully evolve Current Let's Plays will get continued support Showcase video will be around 45min-1hr long and if enough votes/comments/views I will create them into future Let's Plays If you are a indie developer viewing this and you have a relationship with me or considering one, Thank You in advanced I am always looking to partner with a new game and get as many views as it deserves Feel free to share my name with anybody you think would like views from Indie focused community Feel free to PM both through here and on YouTube with any questions you may have Thanks SMP Team for letting me do a Let's Play on Towns it was the beginning of everything Christonian
After some useful feedback on the forums, Gentrieve 2 got some important balancing tweaks. Now you should be able to play large challenging random & customizable worlds that are not too hard, but also not too easy!
Posted by Phr00t on Oct 5th, 2012
Hey all,
This is primarily a balancing update based on forum feedback. Changes in v1.5 should provide a more balanced and fun experience as the game progresses. Enemies will generally have less health later in the game & be vulnerable to more weapons. I've also made the "Advanced Vision" upgrade appear later in the game, but be easier to find — this should make it easier to find secret rooms that have important health boosts (and more). Finally, when you are low on health, I made enemies always drop needed items (like more health).
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