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As NOM often tells us, married people live longer
Timothy Kincaid
March 14th, 2013
The National Organization for Marriage often touts the statistical advantages of marriage. For example, this is from their fact sheet, Why Marriage Matters:
Both men and women who marry live longer, healthier and happier lives. On virtually every measure of health and well-being, married people are better-off than otherwise similar singles, on average.
Which is, to my way of thinking, a good reason to support marriage equality. Unless, I suppose, you don't want gay people to live longer, healthier, and happier lives.
But I think NOM would counter that these statistics of benefit only apply to heterosexual marriages. And it is the magical, mystical, godly coming together of penis and vagina that in some unknown way (similar to the power of wearing your lucky socks on game day) gives better lives. I get the sense that they really do think there's something holy and mysterious about heterosexual married sex.
But they would be wrong. The Danes took a look. (LA Times)
Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, according to Danish researchers, but mortality rates among married lesbians have begun to rise after a long period of decline.
The study, published Tuesday in the International Journal of Epidemiology, used Denmark's civil registry to follow 6.5 million adults from 1982 to 2011. The study is the first of its kind to examine mortality — the risk of death during a specific period of time — and relationship status for an entire nation.
(What do you bet NOM mentions this study… but only the part about married lesbians mortality beginning to increase.)
And it turns out that it isn't penis in vagina, after all, that results in longer lives.
Researchers found that marriage in and of itself did not ensure low mortality during the period studied. For instance, opposite-sex married couples who lived apart faced a two-fold increase in their mortality rate.
Also, heterosexual men and women saw a steep jump in their mortality rate during the study period if they were married two or more times. The rate increased 27% for women with each successive marriage, and it increased 16% for men.
And so, with their usual logic, social conservatives will continue to insist that gay men and women leave their partners and live celibately. Or marry someone of the opposite sex – even though they know that this is likely to result in some poor soul's unhappy divorce and remarriage (and increased mortality).
You're killing me, NOM, you're killing me!
Marriage Equality States Are the Healthiest States
Rob Tisinai
December 6th, 2011
People with a religious aversion to marriage equality sometimes like to offer up secular reasons against it. I've seen this one many times:
- Premise: Legalizing same-sex marriage will increase homosexual activity.
- Premise: Homosexual activity is inherently harmful to one's physical health.
- Conclusion: Therefore, legalizing same-sex marriage is public health hazard.
You can argue with the truth of either premise, and you can dispute the logic of the conclusion, but I'd like to go another direction and point out that marriage equality states turn out to be the healthiest states.
The United Health Foundation has just released health rankings of the 50 states. The top 5 are:
- Vermont
- New Hampshire
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Massachusetts
4 out of the 5 of the healthiest states are marriage equality states! That's all the more striking when you remember that only 6 states in the country have legalized same-sex marriage. And all 6, by the way, are in the top of half of the health rankings.
Now don't go all Yee-haw! on me yet. You could raise a slew of objections to this, including:
- Correlation does not imply causation.
- The gay and lesbian population is too small to affect such a crude and broad measure as national rankings.
- Same-sex marriage has not been in place long enough for its effects to appear.
- Other factors — such as education, income, and demographics — could be responsible for these results.*
- For all we know, those healthy states might even be healthier if they banned same-sex marriage.
Of course, this blade cuts both ways.
Ppoliticians and business leaders have argued that banning same-sex marriage can hurt a state's economy. They offer clear, causally-based arguments. For instance, bans do harm because they make it hard for businesses in that state to attract the best talent. An executive with engine manufacturer Cummins, Inc., testified that a such a ban "jeopardizes our ability to be competitive in global markets."
And how do opponents of marriage equality respond? With the same, bogus argument-by-ranking I derided above. For instance, Maggie Gallagher writes that same-sex marriage bans can't possibly hurt a state:
The top five states for income growth in that decade [1999-2009] are: Wyoming, North Dakota, Louisiana, Montana and Oklahoma. Four of the five states with the fastest income growth per capita have state marriage amendments, and none have gay marriage.
I laughed at Maggie's naivete when I read that. The objections above to the physical health argument apply nearly word-for-word to her economic health argument. Maggie wondered, Why would a reputable company like Cummins Inc. embarrass itself in public by making such a ludicrous claim? (by "ludicrous claim," she's referring to a causal argument based on direct experience that she hasn't bothered to refute). In fact, Maggie's the one who should be embarrassed. And sadly, it's not just Maggie. Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R-MN) recently offered up the same flawed reasoning, too.
So how should this analysis work? Social science is tricky because controlled experiments are often impossible to conduct. Instead, scientists use statistical analysis to try and isolate the impact of possible variables. My own training in econometrics has left me skeptical of this approach unless you've got mountains of data to work with. I don't think we're there yet.
Alternatively, you could deveop causal hypotheses to explain an interesting observation, and then test those hypotheses. For instance, if you're trying to determine whether same-sex marriage promotes public health you could test whether:
- Married partners support each other's personal health in ways unavailable to a single person.
- It's easier for married partners to both get health insurance than it is for a single person (i.e., spousal benefits).
- Marriage can provide a stable and secure environment conducive to mental and physical health.
In fact, these and other causal factors have some empirical support — support that Maggie Gallagher herself has written about in a book she titled, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially (which makes her adamant opposition to marriage equality all the more distressing).
How about the claimed economic benefits of same-sex marriage? We've already seen one causal hypothesis above. There are others, too, also with some empirical support. And yes, Maggie has written about those as well.
By the way, Maggie's coauthor on that project supports same-sex marriage. It's a bit of a shame — and quite revealing — that Maggie is willing to ignore her own research in favor of this new lame argument-by-ranking. I suppose she's working with what she's got, and tossing the rest.
Despite all this, I suggest you keep these health rankings in mind. You'll be able to shoot down anybody repeating Maggie's bogus logic:
Your opponent: The states with the healthiest economies have banned same-sex marriage!
You: The states with the best physical health allow it.
And when your opponent argues that things are more complicated than that, you can simply reply: Exactly.
*You could add access to health insurance to the list, but our conservative opponents probably wouldn't highlight that.
"Exotic Become Erotic" Professor Thinks He Has Scientifically Proven… Well, You Already Know
Jim Burroway
March 2nd, 2011
Which means I don't have to tell you:
According to "Feeling the Future," a peer-reviewed paper the APA's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology will publish this month, (Cornell Professor Daryl) Bem has found evidence supporting the existence of precognition. The experiment I'm trying, one of nine Bem cites in his study, asks me to guess which of two curtains hides a photograph. (Some of the images are erotic, some neutral, in an attempt to see if different kinds of photos have different effects.) If mere chance governed each guess, I'd be right 50 percent of the time. Naturally, I'd guess correctly more like 100 percent of the time if you showed me where the photo was before I chose.
But what about if you showed me the photo's location immediately after I chose? Perhaps, if I had ESP, I could peek into the future and improve my guesswork, even just a little bit. Over seven years, Bem tested more than 1,000 subjects in this very room, and he believes he's demonstrated that some mysterious force gives humans just the slightest leg up on chance.
Between 1996 and 2000, Professor Bem published a series of papers touting his "Exotic Becomes Erotic" theory of sexual development, in which he posits that:
…biological variables, such as genes, prenatal hormones, and brain neuroanatomy, do not code for sexual orientation per se but for childhood temperaments that influence a child's preferences for sex-typical or sex-atypical activities and peers. These preferences lead children to feel different from opposite or same-sex peers–to perceive them as dissimilar, unfamiliar, and exotic. This, in turn, produces heightened nonspecific autonomic arousal that subsequently gets eroticized to that same class of dissimilar peers: Exotic becomes erotic.
In other words, Bem's theory holds that we become attracted to those who are different from ourselves, a theory which leaves masculine gay men's attractions to effeminate twinks but not to women (or twinks to each other or bears to each other or jocks to each other or lipstick lesbians to each other, etc.) unexplained. Nevertheless, this developmental theory which downplays the possibility of biological forces in favor of peer relationships as a cause for homosexuality — and for which there is precious little clinical evidence for support — found favor with NARTH's own socially–constructive viewpoints.
On January 27, Bem appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to discuss his latest paper on ESP. While amusing on cable television, his paper has generated considerable consternation among psychologists:
Responses to Bem's paper by the scientific community have ranged from arch disdain to frothing rejection. And in a rebuttal—which, uncommonly, is being published in the same issue of JPSP as Bem's article—another scientist suggests that not only is this study seriously flawed, but it also foregrounds a crisis in psychology itself.
…To science-writing eminence Douglas Hofstadter, the publication of work like Bem's has the potential to unleash, and legitimize, other "crackpot ideas." In the New York Times, the University of Oregon's Ray Hyman used the words "an embarrassment for the entire field." Some critics protest that the article can't explain what mechanism might be behind precognition. ("We almost always have the phenomenon before we have the explanation," Bem says.) Others just scoff: Why limit yourself to one kind of pseudoscience? As York University's James Alcock points out in Skeptical Inquirer, that 53 percent might as well be proof of the power of prayer.
"It shouldn't be difficult to do one proper experiment and not nine crappy experiments," the University of Amsterdam's Eric-Jan Wagenmakers tells me. He's the co-author of the rebuttal that accompanies Bem's article in JPSP. Wagenmakers uses Bayesian analysis—a statistical method meant to enforce the notion that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence—to argue that Bem's results are indistinguishable from chance. In essence, he explains, 53 percent of a bunch of Cornell sophomores, in unmonitored experiments conducted by a pro-PSI professor, shouldn't really move the needle, considering how deeply unlikely the existence of precognition actually is. The paper, says Wagenmakers, never should have made it through peer review, and the fact that it did is representative of a larger crisis in the field: The methods and statistics used in psychology, he writes, are "too weak, too malleable, and offer far too many opportunities for researchers to befuddle themselves and their peers."
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If you've been reading the blog for awhile, then you know I've upped my fitness game these days. A lot of it has to do with marathon training and other is group fitness via Classpass. In either situation, as much as I hate to admit it, there's an opportunity do A. do things wrong B. slack off because there are 20 other people in your class or C. not follow the right mix of exercises catered to you.
Long story short: I found a way to fix all of these issues- PERSONAL TRAINING.
I'm about to start in on my 4th week of working 1-on-1 with Ryan Miller aka. RiseUpRyan of Rise Up Fitness. I've known Ryan for years and have always admired and been inspired by his enthusiasm, approachability and, most importantly, his expertise. Bonus: he's always got great music in his zone.
We kicked things off by doing a fitness assessment, which meant taking height, weight and BMI. Ryan warned me that whatever my goals were (and mine were to cross train for my half), I might gain weight in the process at first, but the ultimate end result would be converting fat into lean muscle.
Then with that we were off! Two days a week, I've been getting up bright and early to do some really challenging, but very rewarding workouts. I really like Ryan's approach, which is pilates-based so everything is super core focused. That doesn't mean that I'm delicately working out my abs doing crunches and whatnot.
Oh no. Quite the opposite.
There's Bosu Burpees (which involve doing a burpee while balancing my plank on a bosu ball then hoisting the thing over my head).
There's treadmill running (and sprinting!). There are plyo pushups, which I can eek out just a handful of before dropping down into my level one.
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Wednesday, Nov. 7
Indian Hills at Lakeland, 6 p.m.
Hawthorne at Weehawken, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 8
Dumont at Mahwah, 6 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 9
Palisades Park at Ridgefield, 7 p.m.
Secaucus at Waldwick, 7 p.m.
Pompton Lakes at Hasbrouck Heights, 7 p.m.
Kinnelon at Boonton, 7 p.m.
DePaul at Wayne Valley, 7 p.m.
Don Bosco at Hackensack, 7 p.m.
Passaic Tech at Ridgewood, 7 p.m.
West Milford at Pascack Valley, 7 p.m.
Wayne Hills at Paramus, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 10
Rutherford at Park Ridge, 1 p.m.
Passaic Valley at Bergenfield, 1 p.m.
Northern Highlands at Paramus Catholic, 1 p.m.


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As recently as three years ago, it seemed that the network anchor chair was an exclusively male realm.
Come next year, women will dominate and men will be the endangered species.
ABC News announced Wednesday Charlie Gibson would be retiring from "World News Tonight" at the end of the year and that he will be replaced by Diane Sawyer.
"Diane Sawyer is the right person to succeed Charlie and build on what he has accomplished," ABC News Westin said in a statement. "She has an outstanding and varied career in television journalism, beginning with her role as a State Department correspondent."
Being stuck in morning television as a co-host on "Good Morning America" has meant she has done a lot of softer features in the interim, which was a similar criticism of former "Today" co-host Katie Couric before she became the first solo female network news anchor three years ago this week at CBS.
With Couric at CBS and Sawyer at ABC, Brian Williams at NBC will be the sole male anchor in a field which until earlier this decade had enjoyed decades of stability.
But Tom Brokaw retired at NBC in 2004, Dan Rather left CBS under a shadow in 2006 (and is subsequently suing the network), and ABC's Peter Jennings died in August 2005. Before Gibson took over "World News Tonight" in June 2006, ABC had a short-lived dual anchor role with Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas, but Woodruff was seriously injured in Iraq less than a month after that transition.
It was Gibson's decision to leave, Westin said.
"It has not been an easy decision to make," Gibson, 66, said in an e-mail to his "World News" staff. "This has been my professional home for almost 35 years. And I love this news department, and all who work in it, to the depths of my soul."
In the most recent ratings, it was Williams' "NBC Nightly News" at the top with 7.574 million viewers. According to Nielsen numbers, Gibson's "World News Tonight" was at 6.5 million with Couric's "CBS Evening News" third at 5 million.
Some observers say the evening news is not the force it may once have been, but its combined audience is still far bigger than anything on the cable news networks.


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The camera looks really nice, the flashlight focus is too big I think.
Those most overlooked are often the most important. INFRA puts you into the shoes of a simple structural analyst. Nothing more than a quiet desk jockey assigned to survey some routine structural damage. Quickly though, your mission turns from a mundane trek to a fight for survival. INFRA is what we like to call a gun free exploration game. Instead of large explosions and powerful guns, you will rely on your cunning to survive puzzles in an incredibly detailed world. As you travel through the infrastructure of a city you will find that your actions and thorough observations ultimately determine if others will survive.
The camera looks really nice, the flashlight focus is too big I think.
Uhu, same tought here. And are the handmodels temp?
Hands are temporary, the character models are being currently worked on and hopefully we are able to show the new hands soon. I also agree about the flashlight, the light cone will be tightened a bit.
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Porthcurno was once an important place on the map. It was the centre of world telecommunication and, until recently, there was a training school for that industry to which people came from all over the world. The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum remains as a testament to the past. It incorporates tunnels well below the surface use to house top secret equipment during the Second World War.
Porthcurno Beach is about three miles east of Land`s End on the south coast of West Cornwall. It faces south-east and lies in the western corner of lovely Porthcurno Bay. A wide footpath gently slopes down to the beach from a large car park around 200 yards above. There is a café across the road from the car park and a restaurant not far away during the in season. In the car park are public toilets and a telephone. The sandy beach shelves quite swiftly.
On the cliffs to the west of Porthcurno is the world famous Minack Theatre . This wonderful open air venue commands superb views across Porthcurno Bay, with its turquoise water and golden rocks, as far as The Lizard. Between May and September each year, performances are given by a variety of theatrical companies. An Exhibition Centre tells the story of how a village play in 1929 led to the seventeen week summer season now staged in the 750 seat auditorium. The Minack Theatre was the inspiration and life's work of Rowena Cade. There is a café on the site and sub-tropical rockeries, based on the cliff garden developed here by Rowena Cade in the 1930s. The salt-tolerant succulents thrive, despite the wind, providing an added dash of colour during most of the year.
There are many rewarding walks along the cliffs and coastal path from Porthcurno, westwards towards Porthgwarra and Land's End ; eastwards to Logan Rock and Mousehole . Beyond the headland is Penberth Cove , an unspoilt fishing cove belonging to the National Trust. Open boats can be seen on a granite slipway in front of the old horse drawn windlass.
About a mile to the east can be seen the Tater Du Lighthouse, a whitewashed construction at the base of the cliffs, visible for many miles. It is possible to reach it by steep steps cut into the grassy cliff slope. The light is automatic.
Lamorna Cove is further east along the coastal path towards Mousehole . The granite quarries here have not been worked for 90 years and it is difficult to imagine how busy a place this once was. The cove was popular with early 20th century artists, particularly Samuel John known as Lamorna Birch . The cove is popular with divers exploring Bucks Reef or one of the many wrecks lying a short distance offshore. Lamorna Cove lies at the head of a wooded valley. A stream runs down to the sea and daffodils abound in the springtime. Flowers were once grown commercially in the small fields on the valley sides. Not too far inland from here is the ring of standing stones known as the Merry Maidens. Their dance is accompanied by the Pipers, just across the road.
A mile or so from Porthcurno is the Porthgwarra Valley, often missed by visitors. Porthchapel Beach is a smaller, more secluded low tide beach, reached from the car park in the field behind the church of St Levan. This is a great sun trap, but requires a climb down to the beach.


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This developer Avanquest is very good at making hidden object games, each one they make feels unique and Samantha Swift & the Hidden Roses of Athena is no exception to this of course. This time, the drawings look cartoony as opposed to the realistic environments of their other hidden object games, which is a nice change in the atmosphere. If you have played and enjoyed any of their other hidden object games, you are most likely to enjoy this one as well, the story is humorous.


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A welcome addition to help carry on the South African tradition of excellence in Cougar Swimming. She adds great strength to the team's middle-distance events, and depth in the distance and individual medley races.
Attended D.F. Malan High School in Welgemoed, South Africa...coached by Karoly von Toros, South African National Swimming Coach...won the 2001 South African National Championship for the 17-18 year old age group in the 50, 100, 400 and 800-meter freestyle events...runner up in the 200-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley at the same meet...bronze medallist in the 100-meter freestyle and fourth-place finisher in the 200-meter freestyle at the 2001 South African Open Championships.
Born June 8, 1982 in Welgemoed, South Africa to parents Koos and Claudine Louw...brothers Ulger, Ruald and Jiaan...competed in fresh water life saving, where she earned her national colors...also participated in biathlon and cross country...enjoys horseback riding...interested in studying speech and hearing sciences at WSU.


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Catherine Connors is a mother, writer and recovering academic who traded the lecture hall for the playroom and discovered that university students and preschoolers have much the same attention span. She still dips her toes into academic waters by writing the occasional scholarly article about the place of motherhood in Western philosophy, but mostly now she changes diapers and wipes noses and indulges in long reflections on whether Yo Gabba Gabba is a harbinger of the decline of western civilization. Oh, and she blogs: in addition to Bad Mother blogging at BeliefNet, she is, among other things, the author of HerBadMother.com, Managing Editor of MamaPop, moderator of Her Bad Mother's Basement, co-founder and co-editor of WeCovet, Contributing Editor at BlogHer, and (deep breath) founder of and contributor to Canada Moms Blog. And in her spare time… oh, wait. She doesn't have spare time. But she's okay with that.
So my mom called me the other day, to talk about this, that and the other, and in the course of our chatting she says, in passing, words to the effect of '… and so after I saw the vascular surgeon…'
At which point I interrupted and said words to the effect of 'WHAT?'
'The surgeon, honey. For my aneurysm? I saw him yesterday, and…'
'My aneurysm. I'm sure that I told you…'
'I'm sure that I did…'
And so on.
A couple of years back she 'forgot' to tell me that she'd had a mole on her arm diagnosed as malignant. She forgot to tell me that she had skin cancer. I was furious. I worried enough about losing my parents; to think that there might be extra cause to worry that I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT was enough to send me straight to my psychiatrist to renew my Ativan prescription. Parent-triggered anxiety: DO NOT WANT.
That, as I said, was a couple of years ago. Since then, I did lose my dad, and if anything my fears and anxieties about losing my parents have ratcheted upward a trillion-fold. The idea of losing my mom fills me with abject terror. It gives me nightmares. I can hardly think about it without needing to sit down and breath deeply into a paper bag. And knowing that there might be things that might cause that to be – things that she is not telling me – makes it worse. Much, much worse.
She tells me that I'm a worrier. Which I am. That's the problem. I worry, a lot. And in the absence of information, I worry more. In the absence of information about whether or not there's information that may or may not be absent, I worry even more. So. We have a problem. And, I know, it's not her problem. It's mine.
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Wreaths Across America Co-founder lives the organization's mission to Remember, Honor and Teach
Wreaths Across America (WAA) is enacting a 21-Day Salute, recognizing groups and individuals who exemplify the mission to Remember, Honor and Teach. The organization has a goal to place a wreath at every headstone at Arlington National Cemetery, but they have a dream that people across the country will share the mission of WAA for generations.
On the ninth day of our 21-Day Salute, and with Veteran's Day this weekend, it seemed appropriate to honor the woman who is as much behind the scenes as she is in front. Karen Worcester, executive director of Wreaths Across America, is well known as a passionate champion and spokesperson. Karen tenaciously works to find unique, impactful ways the organization can best Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve, and Teach our children that our freedoms come at a great cost.
Wreaths Across America, true to the vision that Karen and her husband Morrill Worcester conceived 20 years ago, has become a worldwide gesture of gratitude to veterans and their loved ones. Karen has listened to the stories of veterans here and gone, and families and volunteers — in her words "nearly 900 personal stories" she can recount. Her heart is big and her tears flow freely. Through the strength of these stories, and because of the generosity of spirit and goodwill of thousands of dedicated volunteers, Karen continues her work with Wreaths Across America.
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"It's the Journey, Not the Destination" Top 5 Page for this destination Big Sur by Callavetta
Big Sur Travel Guide: 311 reviews and 898 photos
Today, April 7th, gas prices in Big Sur were the most in the entire U.S. $3.79/gallon for regular!)
When my e-pal, Mina, said that she had set a goal to run in the LA Marathon just 4 months away I was in awe. "You do it", I told her,"and I'll be at the finish line. So when the March 7th date neared and she was up to 20 miles at a pop (up from walking a mile!), I figured I'd better plan on going to LA.
Daughter Jill, and I headed out, the day before the race. We decided to make an adventure of it and drive at least part of the way on the Pacific Coast Highway, also known as California Highway 1, which hugs the coastline with twists and turns.
The drive, while not for the timid is incredibly beautiful and we managed to be there in perfect weather.
Recent rains scared the mountain-sides and left piles of recently tumbled rocks on the side of the road. It really made you realize what a catastrophe it would be should one happen to pass through at the wrong moment.
- Pros:One of the most beautiful routes in the US
- Cons:Twisty, curvy, falling rocks and sharp cliffs. Not for the timid.
- In a nutshell:It would be a shame if you died without seeing this coastline.
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This - I miss! Grazie for lovely tour.
great page Katherine!
Immortalized in photographs by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. I wished I had driven through this area in 1980.
Beautiful pics of Big Sur---how inviting this area looks, Katherine! I would love to see it sometime and just soak up the natural splendor!!!
Thanks for your Birthday wish! Good to learn that I could dive at Big Sure for my next trip the scenery above water looks great too ;-)
looks a great place to visit. well written stuff
Nice Big Sur page!
I had great weather the day I took those pics, but my last trip I unfortunatly did not get to see the sun once!
Very nice page Katherine Lori & I were here last year and we loved the PCH from L A to San Francisco it is indeed on eof the nicest areas anywhere
Some stunning photo's Katherine...I'm still waiting to see my first whale! Happy travels, Blu
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In order for any government agency, subsidiary or law to be applied to an individual American Citizen, it must be first proved or assumed that the government has jurisdiction in this matter over that particular individual for that time. Specifically, before an individual can be charged and convicted with a crime, the government official or agency must prove jurisdiction. This is seldom accomplished, and many individuals lose a case and even go to jail when no one has proved this legally essential issue.
No where is this more common than in Internal Revenue Service cases against so-called tax protesters. The IRS almost never attempts to prove jurisdiction. In fact, jurisdiction is almost never even addressed. If the individual is correct in his/her claims that he/she is not a taxpayer as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, then the IRS HAS NO JURISDICTION! With no jurisdiction comes no case and no conviction! But to win, jurisdiction MUST be challenged by the individual, and if challenged successfully, the case is dismissed.
There are seven elements of jurisdiction, all of which must be proved by the prosecution if challenged. If not challenged, it will ALWAYS be assumed by the court that competent jurisdiction is proved and accepted by all parties. If any element of the seven is not proved, the case must be dismissed. The normal process in a case against a so-called tax protester is to ignore the jurisdiction issue altogether, or else to challenge jurisdiction while at the same time conforming to procedures and requirements that assume jurisdiction. In other words, one cannot allege the IRS has no jurisdiction over one while at the same time one continues to file a Form 1040 each year.
In the very few IRS cases where jurisdiction is challenged, almost always the judge will proclaim jurisdiction from the bench. ["It is the opinion of this court that the prosecution has jurisdiction in this case, and exercises it regularly, almost every day. I don't think we need to go through all that today."] This is a total violation of law and accepted court procedures. But most federal judges won't let that stop them! But the one alleging jurisdiction must prove jurisdiction if jurisdiction is challenged. Usually the defendant charged with a crime is too intimidated or ignorant to successfully challenge a judge on this, but the judge MUST be challenged if he/she proclaims that the prosecution (IRS) has jurisdiction in this case. If he/she is not successfully challenged, almost always the individual will lose the case.
One of the easiest and most common means of alleging jurisdiction on the part of the prosecution (IRS) is to refer to the accused as a "taxpayer." If that word is ever used in reference to the so-called tax protester," it MUST be immediately challenged. ["I object, your Honor. The prosecution has just labeled me a taxpayer. Whether or not I am a taxpayer is the very root issue in this case, and has not been proven by the prosecution. I respectfully request that the word 'taxpayer' be stricken from the record and that the prosecution be instructed to not use that word again until it has proven that I am indeed a taxpayer."] If the defendant does not challenge that word, and similar techniques used by the IRS, the judge will have legal justification to assume jurisdiction. Of course, if the defense has done its job, the issue of taxpayer and jurisdiction would already be established. The time to challenge jurisdiction is at the beginning of the trial, not at the end when it looks like the individual is about to lose. If jurisdiction is to be successfully challenged, it must be at the very beginning of the trial. To allow the trial to continue at all is to admit to jurisdiction. Below are the seven issues of jurisdiction in any and every court case. Remember, if any one of these seven are not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the case cannot continue.
1. The accused must be properly identified; identified in such a fashion there is no room for mistaken identity. The individual must be singled out from all others; otherwise, anyone could be subject to arrest and trial without benefit of "wrong party" defense. Almost always the means of identification is a person's proper name, BUT, any means of identification is equally valid if said means differentiates the accused without doubt. (By the way, there is no constitutionally valid requirement that you must identify yourself to the judge or to anyone.) For stop and identify issues (4th Amendment) see Brown v. Texas, 443 US 47 and Kolender v Lawson, 461 US 352.
2. The statute of offense must be identified by its proper or common name. A number is insufficient. Today, a citizen may stand in jeopardy of criminal sanctions for alleged violation of statutes, regulations, or even low-level bureaucratic orders (example: Colorado National Monument Superintendent's Orders regarding an unleashed dog, or a dog defecating on a trail). If a number were to be deemed sufficient, government could bring new and different charges at any time by alleging clerical error. ("I'm sorry, your Honor. I assumed that the regulation indicated by that number was a legitimate statute. My secretary must have made an error.") For any act to be triable as an offense, it must be declared to be a crime. Charges must negate any exception forming part of the statutory definition of an offense, by affirmative non-applicability. In other words, any charge must affirmatively negate any exception found in the law. Example of exception from a case where someone was on trial for Section 7203, Willful Failure to File(a Form 1040): "… thereof to make a return (other than a return required under authority of 6015)… Indictment or information is defective unless every fact which is an element in a prima facie case of guilt is stated. The assumption of an element is not lawful. Otherwise, the accused will not be thoroughly informed. 26 USC 6012 is a necessary element of the offense. Since 6012 isn't cited, the information is fatally defective. Additionally, the information did not negate the exception (other than required under authority of section 6015)." After reading 6012 and 6015, and knowing that the essential section 7203 elements are: A. Required to perform. B. Failed to perform. C. Failure was willful you may wish to ask, "how often is a valid Section 7203 indictment or other information or indictment brought? Very seldom. How many citizens have been convicted on a fatally defective process? Perhaps thousands, all with the knowing or willing participation of a federal judge. It is the judge's job to assure that justice is accomplished. But the judge will almost always stop short of doing his/her job and wait until the defense takes the important steps. The fact that most defense attorneys don't know how to fight a case against the IRS doesn't seem to matter to the judges. Nor does it seem to matter to the judge.
3. The acts of alleged offense must be described in non- prejudicial language and detail so as to enable a person of average intelligence to understand nature of charge (to enable preparation of defense); the actual act or acts constituting the offense complained of. The charge must not be described by parroting the statute; not by the language of same. The naming of the acts of the offense describe a specific offense whereas the verbiage of a statute describes only a general class of offense. Facts must be stated. Conclusions cannot be considered in the determination of probable cause.
4. The accuser must be named. He may be an officer or a third party. Some positively identifiable person (human being) must accuse. Some certain person must take responsibility for the making of the accusation, not an agency or an institution. This is the only valid means by which a citizen may begin to face his accuser. Also, the injured party (corpus delicti) must make the accusation. Hearsay evidence may not be provided. Anyone else testifying that he heard that another party was injured does not qualify as direct evidence.
5. The accusation must be made under penalty of perjury. If perjury cannot reach the accuser, there is no accusation. Otherwise, anyone may accuse another falsely without risk.
6. To comply with the five elements above, that is for the accusation to be valid, the accused must be accorded due process. Accuser must have complied with law, procedure and form in bringing the charge. This includes court-determined probable cause, summons and notice procedure or proper grand jury procedure. If lawful process may be abrogated in placing a citizen in jeopardy, then any means may be utilized to deprive a man of his freedom. All political dissent may be stifled by utilization of defective process.
7. The court must be one of competent jurisdiction. To have valid process, the tribunal must be a creature of its constitution, in accord with the law of its creation, i.e. (article III judge).Without the limiting factor of a court of competent jurisdiction, all citizens would be in jeopardy of loss of liberty being imposed at any bureaucrat's whim. It is conceivable that the procedure could devolve to one in which the accuser, the trier of facts, and the executioner would all be one and the same.
The first six elements above deal primarily with the issue of personal jurisdiction. The seventh element (also element #2-Proper Name of Statute) addresses subject matter and territorial jurisdiction. Subject matter jurisdiction is conferred by acts controlled by law; territorial jurisdiction attaches by venue of the parties in relation to the court and to any trans- jurisdictional acts and/or activities of the parties (extended territorial jurisdiction is conferred by controversial long-arm statutes).


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Housing Executive rent increase announced
Social Development Minister, Nelson McCausland has approved a rent increase of around £2.12 per week for Northern Ireland Housing Executive tenants.
~ Tuesday, 5 February 2013
The 3.6% increase, effective from 1 April 2013, brings average rents to £60.90 a week excluding rates. Housing Executive rents are around £20 a week less than the average rent for similar local authority accommodation in England, £12 less than those in Wales and on a par with those in Scotland.
While the average rents for local authority homes in Scotland are also lower than other parts of the UK, there is a wide variation between individual Councils and approximately 45% of these properties fail the Scottish equivalent of the Decent Homes Standard compared to 15% for Housing Executive homes.
The Housing Executive stock is regarded as the best social housing in the UK, and rental income for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive needs to be sufficient to maintain accommodation at the standard expected by tenants and allow for adequate investment in the stock.
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- The Housing Executive encourages tenants, either in the private or social sector who are having difficulty paying their rent to seek advice from their local District Office as their level of income may entitle them to claim Housing Benefit.
- For further information, contact the DSD Information Office on 028 9082 9494. Out of office hours please contact the Duty Press Officer via pager number 07699 715 440 and your call will be returned.


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38 Studios, who partnered with EA earlier this year to release its debut title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, is in the midst of a severe financial crisis. The developer was unable to pay its 379 employees this week, and is behind in making repayments to the state of Rhode Island, which loaned the company $75 million in 2010.
The financial troubles at 38 Studios are having a ripple effect, too. If the developer defaults on the loans, Rhode Island taxpayers will be left with the bill. The state could also end up owning all of the studio's intellectual property — including Amular and an in-development online multiplayer game codenamed "Project Copernicus."
The public furor over the issue has had political ramifications as well. Keith Stokes, the head of Rhode Island's economic development committee (RIEDC) resigned Thursday. Stokes played a major role in providing 38 Studios with state funding two years ago.
Schilling's studio missed a $1.1 million payment to the state on May 1. The two parties met earlier this week, but Schilling surprised officials by asking for more money. As employees went unpaid, a company representative showed up at the RIEDC with a check to cover the late payment, but then admitted it was rubber, since the company did not have adequate funds to cover it. (Update: The studio and Rhode Island, in a press conference held Friday afternoon said 38 Studios has now made its first payment to the state. The studio is currently seeking private funding to continue operations.)
What makes the issue more maddening for Rhode Island taxpayers is the fact that state officials lobbied hard to lure Schilling and 38 Studios away from its original home in Massachusetts. Despite the mutter of some skeptics at the time, then-Governor Donald Carcieri said when announcing the deal, "This is a risk worth taking."
The financial crisis at 38 Studios comes, in large part, because of weakness in retail software sales. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning performed fairly well for a first title, selling 330,000 copies its first month, but it wasn't a blockbuster. In an industry that's increasingly hit-driven, that can be catastrophic to a developer — and possibly an entire state.
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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post PavilionWednesday 28 Jan 2009
Label: Domino
Year: 2009
Duration: 54 minutes
If you're someone whose threshold for arty bands is equal to that for looking at pictures of yourself aged 17, then Animal Collective may have ranked as high on your priority list as investing in one of Coldplay's colourful Crimean War-meets-the-school-panto jackets. But even the biggest cynic will find something to grin about on 'Merriweather Post Pavilion'.
Forget the mouthful title, their silly stage names or the fact that you heard something in the past and swore a wide berth and jump in: this is a life-affirming example of a band leaving caution back at home under the duvet and seeing where their playing takes them. The results are epic and catchy, meandering and pulse-raising and full of the one thing missing from so much music right now: a sense of wonder. From soundtracking nature documentaries to sunrise jogs, this album can do it all.
Already bestowed with classic status by many - although whether two of the last three songs are as strong as the previous eight is a moot point - this is the gloombuster that offers something new every time. And when you're 20 years older you may still hear kids banging on about it - or you might be banging on about it to them.
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Hi there! Long (long) time lurker first time poster.
Here is a map I did for a Deathwatch campaign a year or so ago. It represents the lands surrounding the holy Firmament on the planet Dichros. Dichros was the homeworld of my player group. The planet is in constant tectonic flux, and is roughly divided into two types of terrain: solid ground and the Shifts. The solid ground changes its geography fairly slowly, with some areas remaining recognizable decades or even centuries later, however the Shifts of Dichros are in a constant state of terrifying Flux. Mountains and valleys are born and leveled there daily, and to journey across them is to tempt fate. From any point on Dichros can be heard the rumbling of cracking stone, and always in the air is the smell of brimstone. One point alone on Dichros seems immune to this flux: the Firmament. On this mysterious point the Horizon Knights have built their great and terrible fortress. What forces keep it from slipping beneath the ocean of rock? If any man knows, he will not say.
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There is a native population on Dichros from which the Horizon Knights draw their ranks. These natives largely survive as herders of goats and sheep and are adapted to a constant alertness and light sleep to survive unexpected tectonic activity.
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