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College Hockey:Reversal of Fortune: Buckeyes Top Spartans
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The 6,703 fans at Value City Arena witnessed a reversal of fortune as Ohio State beat Michigan State 5-2 in the Buckeyes' CCHA home opener.
The last time the Buckeyes beat the Spartans, 1,500 rabid fans packed the OSU Ice Rink in Ohio State's last stretch in its old barn before moving into the Schottenstein Center, a 3-2 win on Nov. 14, 1998. Not one current player from either team participated in that game.
The last time the Buckeyes scored as many as five goals against the Spartans was back in 1997, in OSU's 8-3 home win at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Coliseum, the then-home of the Columbus Chill of the ECHL.
How times have changed.
"I thought we were hanging all the way from the get-go," said MSU head coach Rick Comley.
OSU's Paul Caponigri and Scott May each had career-high four-point games. Caponigri had two goals and two assists; May had the empty-net goal and three helpers. Troy Ferguson and Jim Slater scored for the Spartans.
"I thought Ohio State played very well," said Comley. "All we did was kind of hang around for a while and find a way to fight back a couple times, but they skated very well, they worked very, very hard, their size and maturity showed very much. They gave us fits all night long in our own end, and I thought they played very, very well."
The Buckeyes dominated the first period of play, outshooting the Spartans 14-9, outscoring MSU two goals to none, and taking advantage of the Spartans' obvious frustration.
If it weren't for the efforts of MSU sophomore goaltender Matt Migliaccio — who had 32 saves in the game — and OSU's own ability to shoot itself in its collective feet, the score of this game could have been much more lopsided.
"I thought the first period we won, territorially, but I thought the second period they played very, very well for 15 minutes, and we were lucky to rebound and get a goal to make it four to two before we went off the ice," said Buckeye head coach John Markell,
Dave Steckel put OSU on the board at 8:51 on OSU's first power play of the game. After Migliaccio made an outstanding save an RJ Umberger shot, Steckel was able to capitalize on a pass from Paul Caponigri. Scott May fired Umberger's rebound and hit the boards behind the net, where Caponigri picked it up and passed in the slot to Steckel.
It was 2-0 at 11:24 when Caponigri netted his first goal of the night from May right off a faceoff in the Spartan zone. Caponigri took the pass from May, who'd won the draw; the puck went in off of Migliaccio's glove low on the left side.
In the second, OSU allowed the Spartans back into the game with some sloppy play around the Buckeye net.
Said Markell, "I thought they got their transition game going and we got a little bit away from our game plan."
Troy Ferguson drew the Spartans within one at 2:56 when he simply walked into the slot, drawing Mike Betz left for an open net on the right side. Kevin Estrada and Duncan Keith were credited with the assists.
But the Buckeyes answered less than two minutes later, capitalizing on Brad Fast's penalty for shooting the puck after the whistle. Ryan Kesler's third goal of the year, from Dan Knapp and Doug Andress, gave OSU a 3-1 lead.
Later in the period, Jim Slater made it 3-2, but Ohio State came back again with another goal at 18:03, Caponigri's second of the night, and the Buckeyes carried a 4-2 lead into the third.
May hit the empty net at 19:33.
The Buckeyes finished the night 2-for-3 on the power play while shutting down the Spartan man advantage, which had been clicking at 42.1% in four league games.
"We knew coming in that they're a good team," said Comley. "We know what our flaws are. At times against good teams, they're going to show. When you're as young as this team is, it's going to take some time.
"I thought Migliaccio played very well. The first couple [of goals] were kind of squeakers, maybe, but he made an awful lot of big saves and we certainly left him high out to dry at the end of the game … but sometimes you're doing anything you can to get a chance."
Near the end of the third period, Caponigri had a chance to net his first collegiate hat trick when he broke in alone on Migliaccio and shot short-side.
"I was kind of tired at the end of a shift, but I thought, 'Hey, I might as well go,'" Caponigri said. "'Hat trick' started going through my head, and the rest is history."
Moments later, RJ Umberger had a chance all alone on another breakaway, but Migliaccio stopped him as well. OSU outshot MSU 14-5 in the final 20 minutes.
"In the third period, I thought we limited them to not very many chances, but I thought they did a good job," said Markell. "They turned it up after the first period. Nobody said it was going to be easy. They're a good hockey program, and I'm thinking about tomorrow already."
The Spartans (5-4-0, 3-2-0 CCHA) and Buckeyes (7-2-1, 4-0-1 CCHA) face off again Saturday in Value City Arena at 7:05 p.m.
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College Hockey:Knowles' goal in final minute gives Minnesota State upset over Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — Brett Knowles scored with 44 seconds left in the game, propelling No. 14 Minnesota State to a 2-1 upset over top-ranked Minnesota at Mariucci Arena, ending the Gophers' 10-game unbeaten streak.
The goal was Knowles' second of the year and came of a rebound from a shot from the blue line by Zach Palmquist. Knowles made no mistake and buried the loose puck into the open net.
"We fought through a lot that third period," said Minnesota State coach Mike Hastings. "I thought the guys played well tonight. I didn't think we created a lot of their offense, which was important for us and found a way to get one."
"The way both goalies were playing, that's kind a of the way it looked," Minnesota coach Don Lucia said. "It wasn't probably going to be a clean shot."
The Gophers did not go down without a fight in the remaining 44 seconds, nearly tying the game twice.
"I do not know how that last one did not go in," said Hastings. "They had a good look at it."
The valiant effort capped a period where Minnesota outplayed the Mavericks winning faceoff after faceoff and peppered goaltender Stephon Williams with 20 shots.
"We were playing a little bit on our heels and Minnesota showed why they are the No. 1 team in the country," said Hastings.
Williams was superb, stopping 37 of 38 shots on the game and outdueling fellow freshman netminder Adam Wilcox, who stopped 31 shots.
"I thought [Williams] was really good tonight, especially at the end, really throughout the third period," Hastings said.
Nate Schmidt opened the scoring at 7:48 of the second. Nate Condon found Schmidt make a run up the weak side. The pass was behind Schmidt, who showed great hands rotating the puck to his forehand before popping the puck over Williams.
Johnny McInnis tied the score at 16:42 of the second with a power-play goal. Wilcox lost track of where the puck was behind the net. Matt Leitner fed for the four-foot tap in as Wilcox looked over his shoulder.
The Mavericks started strong putting pressure on the Gophers from the opening draw, notching seven of the first 10 shots and outshooting Minnesota 12-8 on the stanza. Despite the high number of shots for Minnesota State, the Mavericks had very few high-quality chances.
"We came out early and they had the momentum the first half of the game," Lucia said. "We were kinda sagging. We weren't playing on our toes."
The best scoring opportunity of the first came when Minnesota's Travis Boyd was stopped on a back-door one-timer on the tail end of a two-on-one rush from just at the edge of the crease. Williams went pipe to pipe to stuff Boyd.
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I live in Illinois my wife left me and her 15 month old son Atticus two years ago this month.Since then I discovered our son had Autism.Are there any family court guide-lines for children and visitation and how this affects a child of 3 years.I have a lawyer but I feel like we are falling in a crack when I'm in the court-house.She's been around our child 4 times in 2 years cause she moved to another state has not paid one dime in support and our son don't really know her anymore.What should I do?The last time he was there for 7 days he came home very disturbed throwing toys hitting himself in the head.I have learned alot about Autism in the last year why dont the courts know how to handle this matter.
Autism and family court guidelines
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 11:05 AM
What would you like done about this matter?
Posted 18 December 2012 - 12:34 PM
I'm not really sure what your question is. Can you clarify what you want to know and why you think folks on a message board can better address your question than your lawyer?
Posted 18 December 2012 - 09:24 PM
Do any stated has any type of guidelines to go by for children with Autism, since change as in visitation could make his condition worse.I know Judges are not doctors but they need to know to be able to help for the best outcome for any child with Autism.I feel like there just acting like this is just a typical case with a normal child.
Posted 19 December 2012 - 06:58 AM
Your lawyer needs to be looking into this, but it is ultimately incumbent on the parents to bring in evidence about this.
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Rare Crown Chakra Meditation Technique
Crown Chakra Meditation Technique
Free Guided Meditation Techniques E-book – Ch 12
Crown Chakra Meditation Technique will be the 12th entry in our ongoing and popular Free Online Guided Meditation Techniques E-book. As it is also considered a Kundalini Yoga Kriya, I will include it in the Free Illustrated Kundalini Yoga Poses E-Book as well.
In the article Kundalini Seven Chakra System I gave an overview of the Kundalini Seven Chakra Model and indicated that in general Kundalini Yoga does not look to directly open or activate a particular chakra. Kundalini Yoga is designed to prepare the body for the greater flow of energy and focuses on clearing away blockages in the pathways instead. As these blockages are cleared, energy flow increases and the chakras are subsequentially balanced and healed in the process.
The meditation I am about to present here though does not follow this approach. Not only does it directly activate the Crown Chakra (Seventh Chakra), but it is even more unusual, as the Crown Chakra (Sahasrara Chakra) is one which Kundalini Yoga seldom targets directly at all. So, what does this all mean? It means please don't overdo this potent chakra meditation. Start off slow and build up from there.
The Crown Chakra represents the spiritual dimension of life. In that if it's unbalanced you may not have any spiritual practice, or it could be such that you are a total fanatic. A balanced Crown Chakra would mean frequent dips in Infinite Consciousness, as well as awareness and expression of the Unified Nature of Reality. So if you feel you need to give this Chakra some love and attention, then this meditation is perfect for you.
Benefits of Crown Chakra Meditation Technique:
- Experience of Bliss.
- Detachment from the mundane and material world.
- Experience of Oneness and Divine Consciousness.
- Connection and guidance from within.
- Access to the energy of beyond.
Cautions for Practicing Crown Chakra Meditation Technique:
- Do not overdo this meditation. If you start to feel too spaced out or really out of touch with reality, back off this meditation and spend some time in nature.
- Do not hold the eye position for longer than it is comfortable. If the eyes tire, just release them and reapply the position when ready.
Crown Chakra Meditation – Illustration #1
Crown Chakra Meditation – Illustration #2
Final Pose for Crown Chakra Meditation – Illustration #3
How to Do Crown Chakra Meditation:
Seventh Chakra Meditation Video
- Sit in any cross legged posture. You can also do this meditation sitting on a chair.
- Interlace your hands is shown in the illustrations above and place them above your head. Elbows should out to the sides.
- Turn your eyes upwards such that you are trying to see the ceiling or sky right through the top of your head (Illustration #1). You will close your eyes finally for this meditation, while looking up. The illustration is just to show how the eyes are turned up.
- Hold this hand and eye position and close your eyes (Illustration #3).
- Do long deep slow breathing and feel every inhalation saturating the top of the head with energy and light. So to summarize. Your eyes are closed, but you are looking upwards with your eyeballs as if trying to see through the top of your head. You are doing long slow breathing for the duration of this meditation, and as you inhale, feel the top of the head being saturated with light and energy. Remember if the eyes tire, release them and re-establish the eyes looking upwards when you are ready again, but continue with the breathing and visualization.
- To end, rub your palms together vigorously and gently place them over your eyes, allowing the warmth to sooth and comfort them.
- Beginners can start with doing 1 minute, and build up from there to up to 11 minutes. That is the time for the entire meditation.
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If itŌĆÖs May, then itŌĆÖs time for the Business Software AllianceŌĆÖs annual Global PC Software Piracy Study. The study, a comprehensive look at the state of unauthorised software around the world, is commissioned by the BSA and carried out by research giant IDC, which uses its data from quarterly PC shipments and market indicators from around the world to come up with a global figure as well as rates for individual countries. South AfricaŌĆÖs piracy rate was given as 35 percent this year, not as bad as some other countries but not good either, according to local BSA chairperson Charl Everton.
ŌĆ£A piracy rate of 35 percent is far from acceptable,ŌĆØ she says. ŌĆ£As we emerge from the most severe global economic recession in 20 years, it is essential that we continue to engage with government, businesses, and consumers about the risks of stealing software ŌĆō and to educate the market on the true impact that software piracy has on the South African economy.ŌĆØ
How was the 35 percent rate arrived at? ItŌĆÖs a guess, or rather, a combination of guesses combined with some market data and presented as a final authoritative percentage.
South Africa wasnŌĆÖt surveyed at all for the current report.
The BSA says surveys were conducted in 28 countries representing ŌĆ£a mix of geographies, levels of IT sophistication, and geographic and cultural diversityŌĆØ. These included, among others, China, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Germany and Italy.
IDC extrapolates numbers from the 28 countries to form conclusions about the 111 that appear in the final report. But even for those countries that are surveyed, the sample size is woefully small given the number of PCs there are in the world: just 6 000 consumers and 4 300 business respondents are the worldŌĆÖs global proxy for the final results. This works out to 150 businesses per four countries.
WhatŌĆÖs the statistical error and standard deviation of this sample? The BSA in the UK told Brainstorm that the study ŌĆ£is not a statistical estimation or survey that lends itself to probability analysis, so there is no standard deviation.ŌĆØ
Calculations and machinations
How then is the number of applications per South African PC calculated? Using, er, statistical analysis.
ŌĆ£To calculate the software load in countries that were not surveyed, like South Africa, IDC determined the statistical correlation between a countryŌĆÖs position on the International Telecommunications UnionŌĆÖs (ITU) ICT Development Index (IDI) and the known software load for countries that were surveyed,ŌĆØ the BSA says. ŌĆ£It then used that correlation to determine the software load based on a countryŌĆÖs IDI placement.ŌĆØ
Software load is a key part of the final calculation. As senior VP and head of research John Gantz explains in a video on the BSA website, IDC multiplies the number of PCs getting software in a given year (which it gets from its quarterly PC Tracker report) with the average software load (based on the ITU index in South AfricaŌĆÖs case) to get the total software units installed. The number of pirated units (based on shipment numbers from the BSAŌĆÖs members) divided by the total software units gives the piracy rate.
Michael Geist, law professor and Canada research chair for internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa, calls the BSA figures ŌĆ£bordering on deceptiveŌĆØ.
ŌĆ£The BSA methodology is so suspect that there are enormous problems with placing significant weight on the study,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£Thousands of Canadians have been speaking out on copyright, arguing for a balanced approach and against attempts to falsely paint Canada as a piracy haven based largely on questionable data. ŌĆ£The political pressure to cave to the USŌĆÖ demands are intense, but many Canadians have grown sceptical of the outlandish claims of US-backed lobby groups.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The BSA methodology is so suspect that there are enormous problems with placing significant weight on the study,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£Thousands of Canadians have been speaking out on copyright, arguing for a balanced approach and against attempts to falsely paint Canada as a piracy haven based largely on questionable data. ŌĆ£The political pressure to cave to the USŌĆÖ demands are intense, but many Canadians have grown sceptical of the outlandish claims of US-backed lobby groups.ŌĆØ
South Africa has yet to see the kind of lobbying pressure Canada has had but itŌĆÖs coming. The BSA wants government to make unauthorised copying a crime.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs very challenging when the legislation is the way it is. It cripples our ability to enforce it in the market,ŌĆØ argues Everton.
Andrew Rens, an intellectual property lawyer with the Shuttleworth Foundation, is unimpressed with the proposed changes.
ŌĆ£Over the last five months lawyers for the BSA, as well as the BSA chairperson, have been quite vocal about changes that the BSA wants made to South African law,ŌĆØ he says. ŌĆ£Those changes would shift the onus of proof so that when the BSA brings a case against someone, that person would have the onus of proof on him. They claim that these changes are necessary to combat the allegedly high level of software infringement in South Africa. But now it emerges that the claims themselves are suspect. And South Africa is not the only country where claims of large-scale infringement have proven suspect. The United States Government Accountability Office has found that estimates are not empirically verified.ŌĆØ
The GAOŌĆÖs report, Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, notes that the illicit nature of piracy makes estimating the economic impact of IP infringements extremely difficult, so assumptions must be used to offset the lack of data.
ŌĆ£Efforts to estimate losses involve assumptions ... which can have enormous impacts on the resulting estimates,ŌĆØ it says. ŌĆ£Most experts observed that it is difficult, if not impossible, to quantify the economy-wide impacts.ŌĆØ
Previous BSA studies assumed that every unauthorised copy was a lost sale, an assumption seriously questioned by Geist, among others. So now the BSA estimates the commercial value as ŌĆ£the value of the software if sold on the market representing a blend of prices including retail, volume licence, OEM, and free/open source,ŌĆØ according to the UK office.
The report says that freeware and open source are treated the same in the final calculation ŌĆō one assumes zero dollars per unit but it doesnŌĆÖt say. Unlike sales figures for the BSAŌĆÖs member organisations, there are some clear numbers available about open source shipments.
Version 3.0 of the free OpenOffice suite was downloaded 100 million times last year and the Firefox web browser boasts some 350 million users worldwide. The commercial value of both packages is arguably enormous to their users but wonŌĆÖt show up in BSA membersŌĆÖ bottom lines. Nevertheless, the BSA fixes the global piracy rate at 43 percent in its report and assumes that open source only takes market share from paid-for software, a claim trivially refuted.
There are other problems with its final conclusions, particularly about the effect on the economy and on tax revenues. If all South Africans with unauthorised copies of software were to pay for them tomorrow, nearly a billion dollars would be added to our economy, says the BSA (after first being subtracted from the economy, but it leaves out that part). It also double-counts the number of dollars in its economic claims.
ŌĆ£IDC estimates that for every dollar of software sold in a country, another $3 to $4 of revenue is generated for local service and distribution firms, as opposed to margin or profits,ŌĆØ says the BSAŌĆÖs UK office. ŌĆ£If a vendor sells a package for $100 to the channel who sells it for $200 to an end user, both of these transactions count as revenue. When you also add in revenues derived from implementation, and ongoing maintenance, this initial dollar spend on the software itself creates an additional $3 to $4 of revenue.ŌĆØ
But economics 101 says that before the transactions, the channel had $100, the end user had $200 and the vendor had the software package. After them, the channel has $200, the vendor $100 and the end user the package. And if the vendor is not South African, then a portion of the profits go overseas.
Copyright reform
Should the BSAŌĆÖs survey influence South African copyright reform as the BSA wants? Our law certainly needs an update, since it harks back to 1978. Modern conveniences such as creating an MP3 for personal use are still illegal and there is no scope for access to copyrighted material by the disabled.
Says Rens: ŌĆ£The current Copyright Act does not work for South Africa because it was never appropriate for a developing country. Now digital technology has fundamentally changed the way that most creative works are produced and distributed.ŌĆØ
Attorney Paul Jacobson agrees. ŌĆ£Copyright law should be updated but it should be brought into line with modern attitudes towards content and current technologies,ŌĆØ he says.
Developing countries have always been contentious ground for copyright skirmishes. Since they are net importers of material covered by copyright, there is often considerable pressure on them by copyright holders to tighten up laws and enforce them. Those countries argue that protection of rights needs to be balanced with the need for poorer countries to have access to information including properly defined exceptions to copyright for fair use. ThatŌĆÖs a debate which should include everyone, says Rens.
ŌĆ£There has never been a process in which the development needs of South Africa were taken into account in writing intellectual property legislation. There is quite a debate about how to reform or replace copyright. In that debate, itŌĆÖs very important not to be taken in by phrases such as ŌĆścreative industriesŌĆÖ or ŌĆścopyright industriesŌĆÖ. ŌĆ£There is a value chain in which actual creators ŌĆō journalists, photographers and software writers ŌĆō have very little power. Then there are the distribution channels: the old ones like record companies or proprietary software vendors, and new ones like Apple, Amazon and Google. Each part of the value chain has a different set of interests. The creatorsŌĆÖ interests are not the same as the distributors. The old distributors have an interest in suppressing the new business models of the new distributors. There is no monolithic industry.ŌĆØ
And that could open the floodgates for more one-sided laws, says Jacobson.
ŌĆ£If the BSA persuades Parliament to make copyright law more onerous and protectionist, it wonŌĆÖt be too long before Big Content comes rushing in with the same arguments and pretty soon we have extended copyright terms and ACTA-like ŌĆśthree strikesŌĆÖ laws kicking people off the internet for being suspected of infringing copyright. Rather than protecting innovation, copyright law could stifle it to benefit a broken business model that has better funding.ŌĆØ
ThereŌĆÖs no doubt that counterfeiting and unauthorised copying are a problem for proprietary software vendors ŌĆō exactly how much of a problem is difficult to say ŌĆō but any changes to our law should include the needs of all South Africans.


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By Anthony Kuipers, Idaho Athletic Media Relations
Excitement always surrounds the first swim meet of the season, but this year the University of Idaho Swimming and Diving team will get to enjoy that excitement in front of a home crowd when it takes on Boise State at the UI Swim Center for an 11 a.m. dual meet Saturday.
"We love being here," coach Mark Sowa said. "We love being in front of our fans. We pack the place when we race here. So, there's a lot of support and our girls really do feed off of that."
Idaho fans attending the first home-opener since 2010 will see many familiar faces as 18 swimmers and divers are returning from last year. The Vandals are coming off a 2011-12 season where they finished seventh in the Western Athletic Conference, but earned several impressive wins and broke numerous school records along the way. Among those record-breakers are senior Kelsie Saxe, juniors Lyndsay Williams and Paige Hunt, and sophomore Rachel Millet.
He said the returning athletes already are showing considerable improvement from last year.
"I will tell you, I believe we're more fit than we were a year ago at this point," Sowa said. "I think we're better swimmers than we were a year ago."
This will be Sowa's second season at the helm. He said he appreciates having a full year to familiarize himself with the team as opposed to the six weeks he had at the start of last season.
The first meet will be a tough test for the Vandals. Boise State enters the season as the defending Mountain West Conference champion and is picked to finish second in the conference this year, according to preseason polls.
Sowa said this will be an important opportunity for the Vandals to challenge themselves right away against a talented program.
"I want to race great competition, which is what BSU is," Sowa said. "I want to put us in uncomfortable situations where we have to deal with adversity, which is what we will do. This will be a learning experience. This is a nice jumping off point."
Sowa said the first meet will be crucial in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the team.
"We're going to learn a lot about what we have and we'll use that information and move forward and continue to progress," Sowa said.


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Imagine being on your honeymoon one second and the next thing you know you are waking up in a hospital room, surrounded by strangers, and ten years of life have passed you by in the blink of an eye. This is the world Shannon Ridgeway discovers herself in in the newest contemporary fairytale, "Rise and Shine" by Sandra D. Bricker. Not only must Shannon learn about what the world is like ten years later than her last memory, she also must deal with the knowledge that her husband, Edmund, has died while she has been in a coma. It makes for an interesting, light-hearted romance that will have readers laughing out loud and cheering for Shannon to realize that some things never change.
Christian author Sandra D. Bricker was a publicist working in Los Angeles with daytime television stars before she decided to try her hand at inspirational fiction. Her first modern-day fairytale was titled "If the Shoe Fits." Bricker is also the author of several other inspirational fiction favorites such as "Always the Designer, Never the Bride," "Raw Edges" and Merry Humbug Christmas."
From the very first page of "Rise and Shine" readers will be drawn to the character of Shannon Ridgeway. She is a young woman who married the man of her dreams, only to be involved in a diving accident on her honeymoon that left her in a coma for ten years; she awakens to learn that her husband has since died from cancer and that she has been cared for by Dr. Daniel Petros for nearly a decade. Of course, Edmund was wealthy and so he made provisions for Shannon should she ever awaken. While she is thankful that she has awakened and some of her beloved friends and family are easily remembered, other memories are difficult to recall.
As she navigates in a world full of technology that wasn't around in 2005 (the Kindle, for example), she discovers talents and interests that were never there before. Her elderly aunt Mary, her best friend Izzy and a Basset hound named Rodney Dangerfield fulfill Shannon's life, but she still feels something is missing. Only when she is faced with losing the friendship of Dr. Petros, does she realize how important it can be to trust God no matter what life throws at you.
"Rise and Shine" is sure to be one of those books that leave readers wondering what happens next with the characters. It is published by River North and is set to be released May 14, 2014.
Cindi Rose received an ARC of this book from Jeane Wynn at Wynn-Wynn Media.


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The Home Inspection, What it Covers
From Engineering on July 01, 2008 in General
When purchasing a building, a home inspection is recommended to protect the buyer. The buyer is normally expected to cover the expense. A non-biased third-party is hired to thoroughly inspect the property, and then present their findings to all parties involved in the process. Buyers can use this report as bartering power, requesting the seller fix the problems as part of the deal. However, unless the buyer contractually negotiates it, the seller is not required to fix anything found by the inspector. The buyer just has to be made aware of the problems, and it is up to them to make an informed decision based upon the knowledge.
Each state varies, but in many, the inspector is held liable for any serious problems he or she missed for up to one year. This liability encourages the inspector to be vigilant in the inspection, and is in the buyers best interest.
The typical home inspection includes: testing all electrical outlets and fixtures, inspecting the plumbing in the kitchens and bathrooms, inspecting all appliances, any gas fixtures, the fireplace, the chimney, and the foundation, detecting any insect and rodent problems, highlighting any obvious signs of water damage, and assessing the overall condition of the house from the roof to the basement.
If you are purchasing a building, it is definitely in your best interest to invest in a home inspection. The average cost equals $350, and has the potential to save you thousands in unseen repairs. It also helps to have a contractor give you an estimate for any renovations ahead of time as well for a truly informed decision. Request free estimates from licensed pre-screened contractors in your area today.


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God bless every single one of them. Past, present and future.
I always make sure that Dec 7th, in my classroom, is devoted to this day. Show films, discuss details, talk about patriotism. Does not matter what else is going on. This is important and people need to remember.
Fortunately I was able to take a vacation to Hawaii and visit Pearl harbor and the USS Arizona. If you ever get the chance, it is worth it!
Got up this morning gave thanks that I could fly Old Glory and it flies at half mast to remember those that gave all
When i saw this title i said whaaaat !! Dont sweat me like that again man..... Lol. This storys interesting, im laying back and keep reading.
I know of no one from wwll but ive seen documentation on cable tv. And the war it self in color, of coarse with technology today we can do that, and the movie was the actual war. It was wild, i wish they put it on again you all will love it... Eddie.
The men who fought and survived were a special breed. I remember growing up, the neighbor 2 doors down was captured in the fall of the Philippines. He was also a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Every morning he would raise the flag in his yard and every evening lower it, with a recording of TAPS playing. He would not talk to anyone about what he endured. I can still remember seeing him one day without a shirt on. 20+ years after his liberation, the scars on his back were still vivid. I found out in later years, the scars were from repeated beatings with bamboo by the Japanese. I shudder thinking of what he went through. I've wished many times over the years, I had taken the time to thank him for what he endured for this country. While I can't tell him, I never fail to thank a WWII Vet when I see one now.


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The last post talked about how people want to know who they are, but either there is no who to know or at least nobody is ever going to figure it out just by thinking about it, so the only way people can figure out who they are is by getting their hands dirty and interacting with the world. This action changes the world and reflects the self back to the person doing, so the person can use the world as a kind of mirror. But that story isn't finished (not that we're going to finish it here, but we can at least knock out another chapter).
The first thing that's missing is that the post understated the role of choice. Any of those actions on the world need to be preceded by a decision. Of course, right? Nobody is just going out and acting in the world without making any kinds of decisions, choices, about what they're going to do. Before anything happens, you have to want it to happen and choose to exert the effort to make it happen. That's the difference between people and competent robots and why it's wrong to take credit for happy accidents.
The second thing that's missing is that this is all pretty straightforward, but it's still so damned hard to actually realize. A clever kid could understand it, but whenever anyone actually manages it, they're pretty much declared a saint, a mystic, a prophet, or similar. So there's a big gap between saying/understanding and doing. Maybe it's easier to bridge the gap if you know its dimensions. Here's hoping.
Superheroes are world-class neurotics, and they provide a common vocabulary, so they're as good a place to start as any. (Rule: only superheroes in Hollywood movies – there are maybe a dozen people who've read every Superman, and I ain't one of 'em.). Quick question: which is the real identity: Bruce Wayne or Batman, Clark Kent or Superman, Peter Parker or Spiderman.
Superheroes are complex because of their secret identities, so let's start the game on easy and use a villain: Lex Luthor. He provides an excellent reference value to calibrate the scales because he's totally at ease in his own skin – 100% Lex all the time, no doubt, no regret. At the beginning of the last Superman movie, he was wearing a toupee to bilk a dying dowager out of her fortune in a long con, but the toupee wasn't disguising him. The dowager's family is seething about the ploy and the brazenness of it, yet he struts away from her deathbed. He's a megalomaniacal villain, but he probably prints exactly that on his business cards. His twitter handle is probably something like Lexth3villain.
There's just one scene in the movie where you can catch a sliver of a gap between his internal and external worlds. Suffering from delusions of grandeur, Lois wants to get to the bottom of some electromagnetic weirdness and trespasses onto Lex's inherited yacht with her useless, asthmatic, excuse-for-a-sequel son in tow. She's snooping around below decks, and is startled by Lex sauntering out of the bathroom in a bathrobe, toothbrush still hanging out of his mouth. When he sees her, there's a split second of constituting Lex the villain. He misses a beat, but only one, while he's going from the Guy treating his bacne to Lex the super-villain extraordinaire (In other words, he has to constitute his Symbolic self.) That's the space of the gap, but the rest is zen villainy. (NB: just because you're comfortable in your own skin doesn't mean you're a good person – another blind spot of the last post that this one won't cover either, but hey, it's a blog. We got time.)
Now for Superman, who's pretty easy. When Superman goes back home to the farm, he's not Clark Kent, the impossibly awkward, but kind and conscientious loser with a fetish for the gym. He's an adopted son and he relates to his adoptive parents totally differently to how he interacts with his colleagues at the newspaper. Clark Kent is a costume, an affected identity, but so is Superman. How can you tell? Simple. He can't be Superman all the time. Lois clearly digs him as Superman (in fact, she ignores Clark), and he doesn't need the reporter job, but he keeps going back to it. And it works the other way too. He's not Clark or the son on the farm all the time either. He's always bouncing between identities; he's never really comfortable in his own skin, even though he has three different skins to choose from – and he puts a lot of effort into maintaining all three.
If Superman-Clark-Farm boy is shuffling through all three identities, how do you tell who he is? Watch what he does. He bounces. That ambivalence is what defines him. He's not wiling to go all-in on any one life: settle down on the farm, find a nice farm girl, and watch the world burn from afar; stay Clark and try to trick Lois into liking him warts and all and as far from Superman as he can possibly get (won't work either, 'cause the warts are an act); be Superman, own it, wow Lois come what may, even at the risk that she loves the costume more than whatever might really be under it.
Superman has godlike powers, but he can't decide what reality to create. Camus once said something about the free man being condemned to freedom, and this is what he meant. By choosing one thing, you're simultaneously foreclosing on countless other things, and you have to live with that. The pressure to choose wisely is one reason why it's so hard to choose at all. (Everything is a test. Remember?)
Batman is a little harder because he's not physiologically a superhero (i.e. with Superman, you might just say 'alien genes – whatever'). There's the same problem here of bouncing back and forth, but Bruce Wayne is no less an act than Clark Kent. In the first Tim Burton Batman, there's a great date sequence where Bruce has Vicky Vale over for dinner. They start out having dinner at a table so long they can't even hear each other, and Bruce says he's not even sure if he'd ever even been in that room before. So they go and continue their dinner in Alfred's servant's kitchen, where Alfred tells stories about Bruce as a kid, Vicky is enthralled, but Bruce is distant. Whatever. Maybe he was just thinking about Vicky's boobs or the new rims on the Batmobile. Later, though, after Bruce and Vicky have given each other a thorough physical, Vicky wakes up and sees Bruce-man hanging upside down on some contraption in the corner, hands crossed over his chest vampire-style, and snoring gently. He can't sleep in a bed; he has to be upside down like a bat. This is weird in itself, but it's even weirder when you remember that Bruce is terrified of bats. He doesn't just use them as his mascot and build his secret headquarters in their cave, he needs to affect their sleeping habits in order to get any sleep himself. Multiple but simultaneous personalities.
Then there's the death wish. He gets shot in the movie. Not just as Batman, which you can hardly avoid, but as Bruce Wayne – twice. Once is in front of city hall where the Joker's just assassinated a politician after a speech and his henchmen are making full use of their 2nd amendment rights on reporters and bystanders. Bruce doesn't duck, doesn't run, nothing. He's apparently wearing body armour, but not on his head, and isn't ducking kinda natural, like jolting when startled? The second time he's at Vicky Vale's apartment, Joker and henchmen stop by looking for trouble, and instead of not confronting his arch rival without all his Batman kit, Bruce just walks into the room in a suit. 'sup!'. He gets shot, which he was expecting, as indicated by the tray he had surreptitiously shoved up his shirt. The reason he's so attracted to Joker and danger simultaneously is the same as with the bats. Joker scared him as a kid, when he killed Bruce's parents and almost killed him. Bruceman is terrified of bats, so he lives with them and imitates them; he's afraid of Joker, so he provokes the object of his fear into terrifying him. DIY exposure therapy, I guess.
Okay, so Superman was defined by his ambivalence, Batman is defined by his fear. Superman couldn't commit, Batman is totally committed to one thing, but it's absolutely obsessive. It's not about overcoming the fear, it's about revelling in it. It's a high, an addiction. Why? If the fear defines him, what's left if you take it away? Whereas Superman was three things at once and couldn't commit, Batman is totally committed and no longer sees the possibility of choosing otherwise. He has to throw himself into the terror to keep his connection to it.
The same thing happens to some cancer patients who start with shaky identities. The world tells you cancer is a humongous problem, a life altering event, and the word is enough. No particular pathology and prognosis can qualify the connotative howitzer of 'cancer'. Try posting on facebook that you have totally treatable cancer and it's been diagnosed early and is under control. You will witness a thermonuclear explosion of sympathy. And it's something you can't screw with; faking it for a day off work won't be forgiven as it might be for a cold. Anyway, some people who get the diagnosis define themselves as cancer patients, then as 'cancer survivors' once they hear the word 'remission', and then when those magic five years are up (1826 days, not 1820 or 1917), the title of 'survivor' is revoked, and they're lost. The same thing happens with slight variation to pregnant women, recovering addicts of all sorts, etc. What's left if you take that one life-changing and defining thing away? Phobia is Batman's cancer, and he'd rather fellate Penguin than get treatment.
That's the second reason it's hard to choose: sometimes the choice involves foreclosing on the one thing you are (not the many you could be), and having to reinvent yourself from scratch. Thanks for the invite, but I'll stay in tonight, where it's safe and comfortable.
Spiderman is even harder because Peter Parker actually struck paydirt with Spiderman. It's what he always wanted. It was a massive upgrade. But again, he hides that identity (compare this with Johnny in the Fantastic Four movies, who brags about it). Great power comes with great responsibility, right? He just wants to protect the ones he loves, right? Good enough to put on the tombstone, but it's not what's eating Peter. Imagine it from his perspective. He had been fantasizing about being something like Spiderman for a while before he became just that. Yes, this includes sexual fantasy, and yes, that's a certain fact because he's the right age: on the downslope of puberty and dying to use all that new physiological equipment. (If you doubt that, consider that the most blatant sign of his potency is to, uh, squirt sticky web juice all over town – in unlimited frequency and supply.) Every teenage boy fantasizes about being a superhero with some form of supreme potency, and when some of these teenagers turn 30, they might buy guns; at 50 it'll be a Harley.
So if Peter the math Olympiad runner-up has become his own fantasy, how devastating would it be to have Mary-Jane discover that he is his own fantasy? The high-minded way to interpret this is that he's afraid she'll just love the powers and not the Peter, so he has to get her to love Peter independently of the powers. Yeah. Maybe. (you could apply the same logic to Clark/Superman and Lois if Clark weren't a way bigger doofus than farmboy) The other possibility is that it would kill the fantasy. If he's really Spiderman and she knows about Peter, he has to deal with that reality, and kids and mortgages and fights about the dishes might ensue, which cannot happen to fantasy-Spiderman. In order for Spiderman to be worth fantasizing about, part of him has to remain the geeky Peter looking up to Spiderman as a superior self (which is why you can't be equally committed to your Harley and your wife). They can't remain in the same head if Spiderman is to be special, super-human senses or not: "Oh yeah, Saturday mornings I'm Spiderman, afternoons I clean the apartment and watch my kids while the wife has mom's day out."
So the third reason it's hard to choose? The ideal Self you've been carrying around in your wallet like an optimism-condom for the last 5 years will have to face reality, and nobody can stay ideal in reality. Reality has an irresistible talent for making things real.
Superman is committed to multiple possibilities, which prevents him from committing to anything else or even one possibility. Analogue Guy you know: is 3 credits away from 3 different degrees; has never had a single relationship longer than 3 months but quite a few of them; gets increasingly bitter with age. Result: no progress, just more frustration as each birthday reveals another wanna-be to be a never-was.
Batman is absolutely committed to his pathology, and he'll nix anything that gets in its way. Analogue Guy you know: most noticeable changes are bounces from one addiction to the next, even if it's just vidya games; pushes away any help; relationships are short and stormy; sabotages any apparent improvements; obsessed with some claimed but apparently manageable 'sickness'. Result: there's a word for people devoted to their own pathologies, and it's not flattering.
Spiderman is absolutely committed to an ideal image of himself, and he protects it anxiously from reality. Analogue Guy you know: obsessed with cleanliness/orderliness/a certain style and will reject people and possibilities that detract from it; is willing to take 'roids that'll eat his balls if they'll help his biceps; dating is more like shopping for an accessory; grooms, tans, and considers plastic surgery while still oddly young; might be 'successful', but will sell everyone's mother for a better-sounding title. Result: the Situation, Goldman-Sachs, Lance Armstrong, late-imperial dreams of the good ol' days returning.
So those are 3 possible reasons why it's so hard for people to choose to change and follow it through. Before the choice even came up, they had already chosen something else. Either some pathology, which they wear like Gorbachev's birthmark right on their foreheads, or a self-image that other people could only ruin, or maybe just the ability to keep all their options open and stand at the buffet without having to fill a plate.


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Antonio Galloni Wine Advocate 91 Points
The 2006 Brunello di Montalcino is surprisingly dark and heavy in this vintage. Black fruit, leather, licorice and spices are some of the nuances that emerge from the glass. As delicious as this is, the typical Lisini pedigree and elegance doesn't come through to the extent it usually does. Ultimately the 2006 Brunello is a rather ponderous wine from this historic property. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2020.
Wine Spectator 90 Points
Tasting of sweet cherry and berry fruit, this rich Brunello maintains a sense of grace. There's a supple texture up front, with grainy tannins ushering in the finish. Best from 2012 through 2023. 2,500 cases imported.–BS
International Wine Cellar 92 Points
Good deep red. Aromas of crushed cherry, minerals and pungent smoke. Intense red berry and spice flavors are framed by strong but integrated acidity. Not at all overly sweet but broad, rich and concentrated. Classy, floral sangiovese with superb energy and lift, and the structure to support a slow and graceful evolution in bottle.
James Suckling 93 Points
What a dreamy nose of crushed berries and dried flowers. Perfumes too. Then changes to Indian spices and dark fruits. Full bodied, with super well integrated tannins and a classy, long finish. So well integrated. Just a joy to taste. Better in 2013.


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I'm getting the following message when docking a ligand with Glide.
NO POSES STORED FOR LIGAND 1 (******from-structure)
%IMPACT-W: No Ligand Poses were written to external file.
What does this message indicate?
This message usually occurs when Glide cannot find any good poses that satisfy the constraints. When Glide can't find poses when constraints are applied, it often is because the tolerance (e.g., with a positional or core constraint) is too strict. The active site search is performed on a grid, and if the constraint sphere radius or RMSD is too small, all the poses could get rejected.
If you aren't applying constraints, this message also could indicate that all poses have been rejected during post-docking minimization (PDM). This generally happens if the input poses to PDM have high energy, which causes problems for the minimizer. You might be able to get a result by turning off PDM and increasing the Coulomb-vdW filter cutoff (Advanced Settings on the Output tab). This will allow higher-energy poses to be retained. They probably won't be scored very well, but by examining the poses in Maestro, you might be able to diagnose why Glide is having trouble finding low-energy poses.
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This weekend, starting at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 and 23 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Repertory Dance Theatre will showcase the lighter side of dance with their show Lively. Pulled from the history archives of dance choreography, with works dating back to 1967, choreographers Susan Hadley, Marina Harris, Joanie Smith, and Bill Evans created a show for the whole family.
"Sometimes modern dance is deep, but this show is more fun and is really good for all ages. Bill Evan's piece is from old movies, Harris' piece is just silly and playful, and there's isn't much to think about when enjoying it," says Stephanie Perkins, marketing director for RDT.
In addition, there will be a young dancer hip hop performance during intermission with free milk and cookies provided by Trader Joe's.
With tickets for $10, RDT promises a lively and fun evening for all ages, while showcasing some really eye-popping performances from the theatre's talented dancers. It will be in preparation for their upcoming fundraiser Charette (Feb. 2014), where choreographers will have an hour to create a new dance to be voted on by celebrity judges and the audience. Sister Dotty will be the host.
For more information on both shows visit rdtutah.org.


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he Molly puff quilt is a beautifully pieced quilt that has a soft yellows and pink floral prints with a ruffled edge.
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This Greek Catholic monastery has an interesting church, the oldest in the world of this denomination. It has a fine collection of icons, some painted in 1813 by Michael of Crete. The priest on duty in the shop, who is liable to encourage visitors to return to the faith and embrace Christian virtues, often asks people to join him for a coffee or a small glass of fruity Maalula wine. Among the items on sale are recordings of the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic.


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dpa International Service in English
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dpa internacional provides up-to-the-minute coverage of global events and caters principally for the needs and interests of the Spanish-speaking world. The news is comprehensive and includes all the classical categories of politics, finance, sport, culture and entertainment .
The service is characterised by a high degree of flexibility and by close customer links. Head office of the service is located in Madrid and from here the flow of news is coordinated and distributed in tandem with an editorial office in Buenos Aires. The news gathering network comprises correspondents in the key Latin American capitals along with their counterparts in major European and North American cities.
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dpa Agencia Alemana de Prensa S. L.
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28020 Madrid
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dpa international in Arabic
Central editorial desk in Cairo with Arabic language correspondents in the Arab capitals and the PAA produce a tailored service for Arabic language subscribers in the Middle East, with around 220 news items per day.
The dpa International Service in Arabic offers a tailor-made regional coverage in Arabic from 31 news bureaux in Africa and the Middle East with a Central Editorial Desk located in Cairo. The service is built on dpa's successful dpa international with editorial desks in Berlin, Washington D.C. and Bangkok and features all classical news agency categories, such as national and international current affairs including politics, finance and economics, sports, general interest issues, entertainment and leisure. In addition, the Arabic Service strongly benefits from dpa's German services, covering the complete spectrum of international and national news with an explanatory background on German news affairs.
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dpa International Service in Arabic
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Garden City, Cairo
Tel.: +2022 7956-842
Fax: +2022 7956-318
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dpa Europadienst in German
Central editorial desk in Berlin and correspondents in over 90 countries worldwide produce the International Service in German with 450–500 stories per day, covering all news categories.
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Markgrafenstr. 20
10969 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 2852-31133
Fax: +49 30 2852-31280
Email: euro[at]dpa.com
dpa top news
Our multimedia packages on the 30 top news items of the day – from international politics to sports, from human interest to travel features, are now available on our platform: www.dpa-international.com.
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The new Insight EU Daily Briefing will bring you the most important developments in the bloc every morning, with news, background briefings and a look ahead to key events and decisions. Available in both English and German, the top EU news from Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin and other capitals will come direct to you whatever platform you use, and wherever you are: at home, on the road, on the way to work or in the office. In one email, you will read all you need to know to be well informed and ready to take decisions: reliable, compact, concise.
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dpa Consumer News Service in Arabic
From the newest car models to the latest trends in fashion and lifestyle – the interests of consumers vary tremendously although they do have one thing in common: They all want to be kept up-to-date
To satisfy their needs dpa has launched a new dpa Consumer News Service in Arabic with effect from July 1st 2009.
The dpa Consumer News Service caters for the media with illustrated features as well as with news and background stories on travel, health, automotive topics and consumer technology. Lifestyle, leisure and career advice round off the package.
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The wire service will target children aged six to 10 years and is focusing on communicating information in an entertaining way, with explanatory sidebars and short background pieces that are easily accessible to children. The themes: animals, the environment, technology, but also music, art and history.
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If only Isabella could make herself really small and just crawl underneath the cage that imprisons her. Not much more than a baby, this female pit bull mix is described as extremely sweet. As can be seen by the look in her big brown eyes, Isabella is worried.
These are the dogs of Clayton County Animal Control located at 1396 Government Circle Jonesboro, GA 30236. For help with rescue coordination, please email email@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com.
View all of their photos on Facebook by clicking here. Isabella is fully funded to a qualified rescue. Please refer to #142006 when inquiring about this dog.
Partners with Clayton County Animal Control help dogs find homes by contacting rescues and sharing the dogs' photos and information through social media. The non-profit organization called Partners for Pets, not only performs on site work with the shelter animals, they also collect donations to improve the animals' chances of being placed in rescue organizations and with veterinarian help as needed.
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Trans community responds to proposed Marriage Equality Bill
The nation's gay and lesbian community may be rejoicing at the ACT's introduction of the Marriage Equality Bill into the ACT Legislative Assembly, but the country's intersex, transgender and gender diverse communities are asking where is their legislation?
Progress on reforms for intersex and transgender people has been slow moving – despite progress earlier this year in areas of sex discrimination and Medicare reform. Peter Hyndal, executive director of A Gender Agender says while the Marriage Equality Bill is an important milestone for lesbian, gay and bisexual members of the community, it highlights the slow progress of intersex, transgender and gender diverse reform.
"The intersex and gender diverse population in Canberra still experiences exceptionally high rates of discrimination, unemployment and social marginalisation, as well as poor health outcomes and low rates of engagement with mainstream support services. These are issues that have a profoundly negative effect on people's lives and need urgent attention at both an ACT and Commonwealth level."
Hyndal is particularly concerned with the inequities in the law when it comes to the human rights of transgender and intersex people.
"Currently the ACT Births Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997 (BDMR Act) requires a person to undergo unnecessary surgical sterilisation before they can change the record of their sex", says Hyndal.
In 2010 the ACT Human Rights Commissioner advised the Attorney General the conditions imposed in the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act was "inequitable and undermines dignity" and "imposes unjustifiable limitations on the human rights protected under the HR Act".
Following this, the Law Reform Advisory Council delivered a report on the legal recognition of sex and gender diversity in the ACT. The results of the report were delivered in 2012 whereupon the ACT Government expressed its support for a variety of amendments to improve the situation of sex and gender diverse people in the ACT.
Hyndal says the government has yet to act on these amendments.
"The government's progress in the area of same-sex marriage and relative inactivity on the issue of the rights of sex and gender diverse people is very disappointing".
On Spetember 13 ACT chief minister Katy Gallagher confirmed she will also introduce the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Transgender) Amendment Bill to the Legislative Assembly in the Spring sitting.
"The bill will create full recognition and equality before the law for transgender Canberrans, and provide the right to privacy and reputation," said Gallagher.
- CATEGORIES: National, ACT, News + Politics
Comments (3)
Heidi LouisThat is so true Romana, I really cannot understand why intersex people do not have these rights already. Just know that marriage regardless of gender/gender identity is the aim! Unfortunately, we will get there in very small steps. This is one of the first steps.
Romana SAs an Intersex person I am not legally allowed to marry anyone in Australia. Not only that, but if I did, there is case law that allows for the nullification of Intersex marriages in Australia. So I am all for marriage equality, but not for same sex marriage. That would mean I would only ever be allowed to marry another Intersex person in Australia.
I think that is one of the reasons why Peter Hyndal is an advocate for marriage equality, but not so big an advocate for same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage is not quite the same as marriage equality.
DebbieI thought the bill was for marriage regardless of sex or gender identity? Doesn't that cover trans and intersex couples?


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'Moral Education
For Non-Believers'
In Belgium
Dirk Vandyck
From: "Vandyck
Dirk" (Belgium)
To: "Positive Atheism" <email@example.com>
Subject: WebMaster:_Positive_Atheism_Index
Date: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:43 PM
I'm a teacher in Belgium. I teach 'niet confessionele zedenleer' (moral education for non-believers). In Belgium, there are a lot of Christian schools. But in the state schools, it is possible to choose between Christian religion and moral education for non-believers. Does this also exist in America?
Thank you,
Dirk Vandyck
From: "Positive Atheism Magazine" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "Vandyck Dirk"
Subject: Re: WebMaster:_Positive_Atheism_Index
Date: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:32 PM
During Colonial times (before 1776) the American Colonies were under British rule. Since the founding of The United States of America in 1789 we have had strict separation of state and church (though this is not always easy to enforce). Indeed, the states had some leeway in this regard, until the Fourteenth Amendment shortly after the Lincoln Administration and the Civil War. But until recently, a state-funded religious school of any kind would have been unheard of. Lately, moves to provide government-funded vouchers for religious schools have succeeded in some states, but in almost all the cases, the courts have ruled these schemes unconstitutional. No so-called Christian education would prosper even if they did find a way to place it into the public school curriculum because even amongst Christians there is little agreement even as to whether the Christian religion is about ethics (some say that it's not morality but faith that gets you into Heaven).
As for teaching ethics, this would be a tough one in the United States simply because we are such a diverse group of people. What would a government-run ethics class say about homosexuality, for example? Either side of the question would raise problems with one group or the other. As a government, we try to stress neutrality, and emphasize allowing parents to choose such things as which ethical systems they will teach to their children.
We do have private schools that are secular, and that do teach various ethical systems. And the public schools do teach the basics, mainly because the schools need for the students to be able to get along, but the rest is mostly based upon the responsibilities of American citizenship (obedience to the law, etc.). Some of the major systems are probably covered by the time a student gets to high school, and ethics is offered at almost all college-level institutions. However, I do not remember learning anything in the public school except what was against the law and what was against the school rules.
Perhaps it would be good for Americans to establish some private, after-school tutoring programs (or even commercial television programs) that familiarize students with the basic ethical systems -- both secular and religious -- so that students would have some tools to work with by the time they become adults. The problem here, though, is that we are so diverse: any proposed system, no mater how carefully chosen, is guaranteed to conflict with someone's cultural background.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Serving those without theism for five years
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The Pandemonium Drummers will perform in the Opening Ceremony for the FA Cup Final 2014 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, 17th May, alongside the Band of the Welsh Guards and Leona Lewis!
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We will join a large cast of dancers and other performers to introduce the two teams, providing a suitable welcome for the 22 players.
Watch The FA Cup Final on ITV1 from 3pm and BT Sport 1 from 4.15pm. Kick-off is at 5pm, and the ceremony with the Pandemonium Drummers starts at ca 4.45pm.
Photo credit: CC Jack Davison via Wikimedia Commons


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In our ongoing coverage, we've mentioned that "Magic Mike" is actually a complex comedy about male strippers. However, in the midst of all that, there are also many jokes that poke at the ridiculousness involved in the job.
In one particularly surprising and hilarious scene, Joe Manganiello's character, Big D— Richie, actually demonstrates how he got his nickname … with the use of a "penis pump."
When MTV News caught up with the cast recently, we asked the cast to explain how that scene came to be and the technicalities involved in operating a penis pump.
"I went up and did this stripper convention once in the Carolinas and there were these guys that I didn't quite understand how they were doing what they were doing," Channing Tatum recalled of his days as a real-life stripper. "And then I saw something in the back that I wasn't sure [about], but I [saw] one dude — while other dudes weren't paying any attention and they like were talking — this other guy was just like kinda [makes fist-pumping motion], and I was like, 'What is happening back there?' And that's where that idea [for that scene] came from."
"That's a good scene," Matthew McConaughey added, "And just a microcosm of the movie and [director Steven] Soderbergh [does]. If you say, 'Hey it's a scene and a guy's pumping up his trophy there,' it's funny. You're going, 'what?!' When you reveal that's what he's doing in the shot, I remember Steven on the other side [of the camera], it was a kitchen we were all getting dressed in, when you reveal it, [you think]: One, it's part of the joke and two, how is the character/Joe doing it? He could go big on it, he could make a big, funny 'Animal House' moment/joke of it but the fact that he's taking it so seriously, [his character] does this nightly and he's really concentrating."
"He had a whole thing with it," Tatum further explained of Manganiello's method in the scene. "[Joe said,] 'You have to take it up to the point where you're blacking out and release. You have to take it right up to the point where you're just blacking out and the tunnel starts to close and you're just like, 'Uhhh.' "
From Manganiello's perspective, the scene was a delicate balance of a gonzo joke and getting into the mind of a character who takes his work very seriously. "Technology for penis pumps hasn't really increased since I'm guessing when they were invented in the 1970s," he said. "So they really haven't changed; technology is really the same. And with that said, we are working with a small budget. This is a small-budget independent movie."
"We're working with something very large on a small budget," Matt Bomer joked.
"Yes, well we didn't have enough money for fluffers," Manganiello added. "So the penis pump really was the cheap alternative."
"That would have been a whole different movie," Bomer pointed out. "I've never had a harder time not laughing in a scene, I don't think, because we've known each other for 16 years."
"I was so deep in character," Manganiello smiled. "You got to get it right; you don't want to go over. You just want to hover right there."
So, the pump actually works?
"Oh … it, it works," Manganiello assured us.
We had to ask if he thought that scene would be the last time he ever uses a pump.
"I can't say that," he said with a smile.
Check out everything we've got on "Magic Mike."
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