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"Twenty plus years of Odyssey work, our entire teams efforts, millions of air miles, countless presentations to groups around the world and now a two minute shot to tell the story on national news."
I had two minutes of fame a few weeks ago. As I prepared for my interview on Fox Business, I flew to New York, got a room near Time Square and brought along a good friend and co-facilitator Alex Van Dewark to share the adventure. Alex had never been to NYC, so it was fun to see the city through the eyes of a first time visitor. What an amazing place! We wondered the streets until late in the evening and by chance found ourselves outside the Fox Studio. We snapped photos and hit the street vender for a late night gyro. Some local repair guys said it was the best in the city and the meal satisfied our hunger.
The next morning we got the call that our driver was downstairs and hit the street looking sharp and ready for anything. The driver drove the 5 blocks to the studio as instructed. We could have walked faster, but it seemed more VIP to take the car. Upon entry to the building we checked in and our escort took us to the green room on the 4th floor. The room was bustling with various network stars and special guests preparing to give their perspective of the world and the state of business. Watching the monitors, we enjoyed the show and began to understand the flow of things in TV land. Two employees sat at computers, monitoring giant spreadsheets and busily managing the flow of the green room. They had every second of the show mapped out and kept perfect time. Every second!
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Hey Nancy, That bike building charity program is great for Team Building – Unless it has nothing to do with building the team!
You are a gem, Nancy. You get it.
It's just brutal to hear another of the dozens of "Team Building" companies who copied our invention of the bike-building program has left a foul flavor after delivering their version of it. Unfortunately, when managers, VP's, and owners of teams look for "Team Building" there is the risk that they will do an "activity" that has nothing to do with who they are, what they do or where they are going. There are too many "Team Building" companies that don't build teams.
See recent blog on this.
There is incredible power in the use of metaphors and business simulations as a way of rustling up powerful discussions (and actions) specifically related to the effectiveness of a team, but it has to come from a commitment to training and the use of "activities" as a development process. It has to connect with who they are, what they do, and where they are going, or it is a waste of time and money.
Dealing with Stress? Pressure? Getting the chip to the end-user with a commitment to quality? Dependence on others? Collaboration?
Odyssey Client, NetApp is named "Third Best Multinational Work Place"
Odyssey client, NetApp was just given the honor of "Third Best Multinational Work Place" according to greatplacetowork.com. We are extremely proud, yet not surprised. Over the years they have been enthusiastic participants in our Life Cycles and Helping Hands programs. Throughout our partnership we have helped them deepen the individual and organizational 'Why' of their work. This has provided a more powerful perspective and context for answering the 'How' questions they strive towards:
How can we be more collaborative?
How can we be more innovative?
How can we improve quality?
How can we be more customer-centric?
How can we give more to the community?
They worked on the answer to each of these, and the by-products have been incredible amounts of bicycles built for (and given to) under privileged children and hundreds of prosthetic hands funded and built for amputees in developing countries. While other companies might do a charity event to check the box, NetApp understands the connective element to character, culture, contribution and customer. These Four C's are the building blocks of innovation, quality, customer-centricity, and community – and NetApp is not afraid to talk about it. Odyssey Teams has provided the structure and process for them to do this powerfully.
Not surprisingly, NetApp is now where people want to work and where they want to do business.
Well done, NetApp. The world is watching. Way to use your heads, hands and hearts!
Changing Colors & Dropping Leafs
Our world-renowned philanthropic team building programs are custom designed to match the goals/themes of the group. A charitable component is always in the mix. Often times during the leadership teambuilding sessions 'change' is in the mix too.
Our main office in Chico California is located across the street from the magnificent Bidwell Park. Over 3000 acres of +100 year old trees, creek, and trails that goes right through the heart of town. The office is the birthplace of the original Life Cycles program where teams build a bike for a deserving child. The park is a continual lesson in life and a touchstone.
Many of us Odyssey crew take to the park for solitude, recollections of loved ones, exercise and rejuvenation. The park is alive. Currently leaves are dropping off of the majestic oaks and sycamore trees. They fall at just the right time for each particular leaf. They fall quietly with grace rather than drama or hoopla. They provide a soft path for those around to stroll on. They provide precious sunlight during winter for the life in the woods. They provide space for new growth and possibility in the Spring – New growth in their beloved trees and in the new soil they helped create.
Change. Always in the mix…and often in our life changing philanthropic team-building events. We encourage leaders to explore what patterns, thoughts, and actions they can let drop. So they can have space to do many new amazing things for themselves and those around them.
A Good Way to Wake Up!
Our "give back" teambuilding programs wake people up. We like to say "Knock 'em Alive!" to our delivery team before we start our philanthropic sessions. Knock 'em Alive in the sense that we all can get a little lackadaisical with our thoughts, words, actions, patterns and perspectives.
During a recent Life Cycles program where teams build a bike for deserving children in Canada, the participants indeed woke up.
They woke up to…
– Seeing some new (positive, helpful, encouraging) things in each other.
– Seeing how their actions (while their intent is good) may be causing mischief for others.
– Seeing new possibilities for the challenges that are ahead.
– Seeing and feeling more alive, ambitious, and connected to each other and their work.
– Seeing that learning and change can be fun at times too.
It is healthy for people and teams to wake up, dust off the cobwebs, mix it up, look at things from a different perspective etc. To be a world-class team it is imperative to do so.
…And they thought they were just doing a 'give back' team-building event 😉
X Marks the Spot
People's votes are heard around the world at Odyssey's Teambuilding Philanthropic programs such as Helping Hands, Life Cycles and Playhouse Challenge. In a recent week span we delivered programs in Brazil, Singapore, Canada, and California.
Participants in these team-building programs were the opposite of silent and apathetic. They listened (maybe initially biased or jaded) to what was presented, they were open to new possibilities, they took up calls for new action, and they created goodwill by doing good works.
During these corporate team building (and charitable events) they shared different perspectives and respected the valuable differences and strengths in their midst. By their voices and actions they voted for how they want their 'world' to be at work, home, and beyond.
The Rebuilding of a Brand: The Possibilites are Endless
The Rebuilding of a Brand: The Possibilites are Endless
I dropped by the Apple Store in NYC after doing a program for Microsoft. I know… seems strange and almost unethical. It was research. I didn't buy anything, but I wanted to see what all the buzz was about. As a partner to Microsoft, I asked myself, "What could I do to provide leadership and teambuilding programs for Microsoft that could support the rebirth of the Microsoft brand and the cutting edge culture that was once the norm for them?"
I walked into a store filled with almost 1,000 shoppers acting like it was the closing bell on Wall Street. Over 900 employees keep the store buzzing 24 hours a day, never closing! I was shocked at the brand, the culture and the emotion of the customer. One dominant thought filled my head, "we do judge a book by its cover". The Apple cover is really cool and has the attention of the world. The vibe, the look, the image and emotional experience are almost overwhelming. Real I.T. geeks compare Apple users to a person that sees "50 shades of gray" as a well-written novel. Most of us don't use our computers to their potential. The true techno person can tell you all the reasons the Microsoft platform is better, but I think the masses see it for the cover and the emotion, "buying an Apple product will make me cool."
iDisorder – Unplugged, Live – it's Odyssey Teams!
iDisorder – Unplugged, Live – it's Odyssey Teams!
"iDisorder: Understanding our obsession with Technology and overcoming its hold on us" is a new book by Ph.D.'s Larry Rosen with N.A. Cheever and L.M. Carrier. It is a fascinating subject that supports the basis of Odyssey Teams world-renowned Philanthropic Team Building Programs. Life Cycles, Helping Hands and our other Corporate Social Responsible offerings I'm sure would be a welcomed breath of fresh air to the above co-authors.
I encourage you to go to Amazon.com search the book title and click on the 'read inside' button. Read the first few pages of Chapter 1. It lays out so many often seen and experienced examples of how technology gets in the way of effective relationships, family, and teams. The authors state early on that they believe in, use, and appreciate the technological advances that come before us at an unprecedented speed. However, they believe there is a time and place for these items, as most any 'tool' can be used to build or destroy…intentionally or unintentionally.
Environment and Opportunity!
Environment and Opportunity!
220 people changed the lives of 44 youth and vice versa. This all took place in a warehouse in East Los Angeles via our capstone Philanthropic Team Building Life Cycles Program.
As the lead facilitator I had some work cut out for me. The physical environment/meeting space was a challenge. It felt like I was trying to do surgery in a swamp-infested jungle with mosquitos buzzing around everywhere and pythons dropping down from the trees. However, the participants were outstanding…optimistic, engaging, and willing to take on whatever we put on the agenda. The result was a huge victory for all involved.
Small Team Builds Hands and Changes Lives
Small Team Builds Hands and Changes Lives
When I was asked to do our Helping Hands philanthropic teambuilding program for a group of six people, I reluctantly agreed. My favorite size groups delivering Helping Hands, Life Cycles Build-a bike program and our others has been in the hundreds of participants range. I wasn't sure how the build-up activities and conversations would go before assembling the LN-4 Prosthetic Hands.
This small group was from Cisco – Latin America and they just blew me away. Yes, the Latino culture lives up to its reputation of being a passionate culture.
These six have much to teach the rest of us about teamwork and leadership from a place of thinking deeply AND feeling deeply. They came to the states for a larger meeting with cohorts from North America. They wanted to align on desired outcomes and make a difference for others in the process.
What a difference they made for three people whose lives will be changed by receiving the new LN-4 prosthetic hands they built during the Helping Hands program. Most surprisingly, however, is the difference they made on me. I am digging small programs now just as much as the large ones – with the caveat that they're ready to think deeply and feel deeply as this group did.


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A reading of life stories from the Hill District will be presented by Duquesne University and Focus Pittsburgh.
Seniors in the Psychology and Social Engagement class of Dr. Susan Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology, interviewed Hill District residents and will share the stories they have preserved during Voices in the Hill: A Public Reading on Friday, April 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Focus Pittsburgh, located at 2228 Centre Ave. in Pittsburgh's Hill District.
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You can buy tiny circulars but the consensus seems to be that they are awkward to knit with and stretch the stitches.
There are three main methods for knitting small diameters in the round: on double-pointed needles, on one long circular needle (Magic Loop), or on two circular needles.
I think the videos page on this forum has videos of these techniques. For further tutorials, use Google to search terms like 'how Magic Loop' or 'socks on two circulars tutorial' etc. Some pages will explain the basic concept, others will take you step-by-step through everything including each step of casting on... etc. Try Silver's sock tutorial for a thorough explanation of the 2-circs method (I think).
I recommend you do a practice sock - this could be on thick wool and needles, and sized to fit a child, and never have a mate made for it - but you will start to understand and get used to knitting in the round, and basic sock construction.
There are two basic ways to do a sock heel: a heel flap, and short rows. If you do a practice sock, make sure the heel is of the same type! Also, socks can be knitted from the toe up, or cuff-down, that should be the same too.
Basic guidelines for just about everything can be found online by Googling.
Remember that socks are considered by many knitters to be very advanced, so I recommend that you make sure you are familiar with the stitch pattern, like knits, purls, YOs, ssk, k2tog. stitches before you try it. I think they can be a beginner project but may be difficult for an absolute novice.
Very basic plain socks look great when knitted in self-striping wool!
My second pair of socks were Baudelaire from the online magazine Knitty, have a look how scary they look - but mine are turning out perfect! Good luck.
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Leo Messi has, generally speaking, played his best football for Barcelona, and has often been disappointing while in the blue and white of Argentina. This is perhaps not surprising, because in Catalunya he is the king, the main man without peer and, crucially, compared to few. Messi has contributed more to his club than basically any other player in their history, bar possibly Johan Cruyff and László Kubala.
In Argentina things are rather different. Every action for the Albiceleste is measured against Diego Maradona. Every win, every goal, every flick is compared - usually not favourably - to the other great No.10 in Argentina's history. It's no wonder he has perhaps struggled for his national team – Maradona went through his career with few comparables, but Messi will always have Maradona.
Of course, the most frequent hit against Messi is that he will have to repeat Maradona's feat of basically winning the World Cup on his own if he is ever to be considered the equal of or even better than his predecessor.
However, if Argentina continue playing as they did against Switzerland, and did for spells in the group stage, then Messi will have to play much better in 2014 than Maradona did in 1986 if they are to win the World Cup.
Back then, while Maradona's performance was utterly extraordinary and it would be churlish to suggest anything else, he at least had a supporting cast who could take the pressure off him once in a while. Argentina's defence that year was exceptional, conceding just five times throughout the tournament (two of which were in the final – they let in only Gary Lineker's consolation in the knockout rounds), while Maradona was also supported by the likes of Jorge Valdano and others, who chipped in with nine goals between them. Additionally, Maradona didn't score in the final, which of course is not to denigrate his obviously decisive contribution, but merely to illustrate that he had a good amount of help.
In contrast, Angel di Maria's late winner was just the second goal scored by an Argentina player other than Messi, coming after Marcos Rojo's header against Nigeria, and while their record of conceding three goals in four games isn't bad, they haven't exactly come up against offensive titans thus far. Those three goals were scored by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nigeria, who managed just five in five other matches between them.
Beyond Messi, Di Maria has been their only real performer of note at the World Cup, and he was largely terrible against Switzerland until Messi teed him up for a well-taken winner. It was a far cry from his performance against Nigeria, which I wrote about here, and it perhaps only served to highlight the deficiencies elsewhere in the Argentina side. When Di Maria is on form he can do the jobs of two or three players, but when he isn't the team can be exposed.
While the defence was shaky, goalkeeper Sergio Romero an accident waiting to happen and little creativity came from the rest of the midfield, it is perhaps Messi's forward partners that are the biggest problem.
Higuain, Aguero, Lavezzi and Palacio scored a combined total of 87 goals this season. No goals & just 7 shots on target between them at WC.
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As this stat shows, the four players that have lined up alongside Messi in Argentina's forward line simply haven't contributed. Sergio Aguero could be excused because of his injury, but he was a shadow of the threat he can be when he was playing, while Gonzalo Higuain has been listless. Ezequiel Lavezzi offers them more balance, but he has been ineffective as well.
If his Twitter feed is anything to go by, Carlos Tevez hasn't been paying an enormous amount of attention to the World Cup, focusing instead on the golf course. As Rodrigo Palacio ran around gamely but slightly aimlessly against the Swiss, Alejandro Sabella would be forgiven for cursing his own stubbornness in not calling up Tevez, given the superb season he has just enjoyed with Juventus.
They are in the last eight, and with not many other stand-out teams left in the tournament Argentina are of course among the favourites to win the World Cup. However, if they are to triumph in Rio on July 13, then on the basis of the Switzerland game Messi will have to eclipse Maradona's performance in 1986.
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Religious Quandary Archives
Atheists Rejected By the American Cancer SocietyOctober 13, 2011
Corbin on "The Irony of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC"October 04, 2011
Caroline Mala Corin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her piece forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, "
Happy [belated] Blasphemy day!!!October 01, 2011
I'm happy to say that…I can satirize religion and criticize it all I want. I think it is not blasphemous to have a woman priest in the Catholic Church. I think people rely too much on religion to give them the answers. People use the Bible, misinterpret it and use it to control others. Religion should be seen as it is, a human creation to explain the world. Religion, in my opinion, traps a person in a paradigm with myth-making and stories to help them get by.
Vatican Family ValuesSeptember 07, 2011
As my people like to say, there is chutzpah, and then there is chutzpah. And if you are Michele Bachmann there is even chitzpah. But this needs a bigger word. Probably in Italian. With an issimo on the end. Don't get me wrong. I like my Vatican predictable. So I wasn't surprised when the Catholic Church came out to
What my Christian fundamentalist upbringing taught me about periodsSeptember 06, 2011
A few recent readings and experiences have brought some of the ideology I grew up with as a Christian fundamentalist back into my mind. Specifically, I've been thinking a lot lately about conservative Christian attitudes towards menstruation. I spoke
Secular WitchingAugust 27, 2011
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Christianity as a Cultural PhenomenonAugust 21, 2011
Christianity is no longer just a religion. It's not just entrenched in our North American culture, it is our culture. Religion crops up when we eat, even comes up in sex, when you get married, when someone dies, or even when we sneeze! We have Christian holidays, that have eventually become the norm. Christmas, is sometimes no longer about Jesus but about (Coca-Cola's) Santa Claus. We even speak Christian. Words like 'devil,' angel,' 'heaven,' or 'hell' and even the word Sin are all Christian words! All these words do not occur in any other religions. Yet, we use them. There isn't just words there are Christian names, too.
"Condoms 4 Life" at Catholic World Youth DayAugust 18, 2011
More than a million young pilgrims have flooded into Madrid for the 26th Catholic World Youth Day (
Why Shari'a Poses Less of a Threat to Women's Rights in the US than Fundamentalist Christians DoAugust 17, 2011
As the Republican race for Presidential nomination heats up in the United States, we're hearing more and more about the so-called threat of "creeping shari'a" from the candidates and their supporters on the Religious Right. Other writers have refuted the arguments that allowing Muslim participation in US life will lead to terrorism or shari'a usurping
Why be religious?August 05, 2011
In recent threads about religion, some people have asked, simply, why? Why be religious? Why put in all of the effort to redefine a feminist Judaism? Why maintain an association with these historically and presently oppressive institutions? For me, there's a few reasons that stand out in my head.
It's Ramadan. How 'bout those Muslim feminists?August 04, 2011
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Monotonous offering of a debut maker
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Published: 13th October 2013 01:26 PM
Last Updated: 13th October 2013 01:26 PM
Vanakkam Chennai
Director: Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi
Cast: Shiva, Priya Anand, Santhanam, Rahul Ravindran, Oorvasi
It's about two strangers who are forced to share an apartment, and about the changing equation in their relationship. A rom-com, Vanakkam Chennai marks the debut of Kiruthiga (wife of producer-actor Udhayanidhi) in her home production. The film has a premise that is bound to go the predictable path. And if it's watchable to an extent, it is because of its lead pair, and its pleasant warm visuals.
Shiva plays Ajay, a guy from Theni, who is in Chennai to take up a job, while Priya Anand is Anjali from London. Wanting to compete in a photography exhibition, she had come to Chennai to work on her project. Thanks to a wily house broker, the duo end up sharing the same apartment. Some of the earlier scenes seem more like school skits, where the duo bicker and fight for space, and try to throw each other out. The happenings in their life follow the expected path, their changing relationship offering no element of surprise or novelty.
From the urban scenario, the plot takes a sojourn to the village. Anjali now sharing an easy camaraderie with Ajay, joins him in his trip to Theni to gather more material for her work. Since we have seen such sequences in many earlier films - the urban/foreign lass getting acquainted with the rural culture and tradition and becoming the wiser for it - the director makes it a brief tolerable detour. Shiva is softer and likable here. If only he would let his defenses down, get more involved in his role, and not depend just on his dialogue modulation while playing different roles, he would be a delight to watch. Priya looks gorgeous as never before, and comfortable in a role that suits her perfectly.
The third angle appears in the form of a dapper Rahul Ravindran who plays Anjali's fiancé Deepak from London. It's appreciable that the director has resisted projecting him as this despicable overbearing heel we get to see in most films. Deepak is cool, suave and understanding, and not the reason when Anjali finally makes her choice.
Santhanam plays Narayanan, the slippery elusive house broker. His plans with Ajay to make Anjali warm up towards him, reminds one of his love-guru role in 'Theeya Velai Seyyanum Kumaru'. There is this fun moment where Santhanam suggests the trio watch a ghost-film, the move backfiring on them. The film could have done without the characters of the cop (Oorvasi), and of Priya's perpetually chattering aunt, both too loud and over the top for comfort.
Sweet and warm at places, the film is a monotonous journey on the whole. Offering nothing exciting or novel in either its plot or presentation, it's at best a stepping stone for a debutant maker.
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Our main Antarctic camp is located at Union Glacier (79°46'S 82°52'W, elev. 700m/2, 297ft ) in the southern Ellsworth Mountains. The camp is accessed via a 4 1/4 hr flight from Punta Arenas, Chile. The camp operates during the Antarctic summer (November through January) offering a full-service logistics hub and staging point for deep-field science. More…
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Ever wonder how mobile devices get tested on a particular wireless carrier? Take a good look at the image below then, and soak it in. While we're sure that this isn't the way every wireless carrier tests upcoming handsets, but it's definitely one of the more interesting methods. Especially the wood. It's got a Do-It-Yourself appeal to it, doesn't it?
For one Seattle Times blogger, who goes by the name Brier Dudley, his lucky day was definitely today, as he just happened to walk by this lovely gentlemen playing with four Dell Streaks, apparently testing them to work on AT&T's 3G network. He was also making sure that they could send accurate e-911 information, which is pretty important. We can't help but keep staring at that red Streak, because it's definitely shiny. In any event, no word on how the testing went at the time, but if everything went well, we should be just a few weeks away from an official announcement. We're excited. Are you?
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Effect of fluoxetine on regional cerebral metabolism in autistic spectrum disorders: a pilot study
The regional metabolic effects of fluoxetine were examined in patients with autism spectrum disorders. Six adult patients with DSM-IV and Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI) diagnoses of autism (n = 5) and Asperger's syndrome (n = 1), entered a 16-wk placebo-controlled cross-over trial of fluoxetine. The patients received 18F-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography with co-registered magnetic resonance imaging at baseline and at the end of the period of fluoxetine administration. After treatment, the patients showed significant improvement on the scores of the Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale – Obsessions subscale and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale; Clinical Global Impressions – Autism scores showed 3 of the patients much improved and 3 unchanged. Relative metabolic rates were significantly higher in the right frontal lobe following fluoxetine, especially in the anterior cingulate gyrus and the orbitofrontal cortex. Patients with higher metabolic rates in the medial frontal region and anterior cingulate when unmedicated were more likely to respond favourably to fluoxetine. These results are consistent with those in depression indicating that higher cingulate gyrus metabolic rates at baseline predict SRI response.(Received June 18 2000)
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Key Words: Positron emission tomography; magnetic resonance imaging; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; cingulate gyrus; orbitofrontal cortex; autism; Asperger's syndrome.
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Kingspan launch new lambda valuesKingspan Insulation have improved the thermal performance on many of their product ranges.
Their premium performance rigid phenolic insulation Kooltherm range now has a lambda value as low as 0.020 W/m.K, whilst that of the high performance rigid urethane insulation Therma range is now 0.022 W/m.K, helping to achieve desired U-values with thinner products.
Research has shown that U-values of around 0.27 W/m2.K for walls, 0.22 W/m2.K for floors and 0.16 W/m2.K for all types of roof are at or around the best starting point for achieving a high level of energy efficiency. Some insulation materials require bulky thicknesses to reach these figures, which has the knock on effect of needing longer fixings, deeper studs etc, all of which adds to the cost. The very low lambda values offered by Kingspan's products mean that these U-values can easily be achieved and now with a thinner thickness than before.
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Ban on same-sex marriages challenged
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MORGANTOWN — A national gay rights organization sued the state of West Virginia over its ban on same-sex marriages Tuesday, declaring its Defense of Marriage Act a violation of the 14th Amendment of......
I got this,....simple resolution,....its very clear WV doesnt recognize same sex marriage,.. so move to the state that married you,.. they knew this before hand, If they can challenge this,*****I should be able to challange PA for not selling alcohol in stores,..cause WV does it,.. please seriously now !
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You care about having the first and last comment on every story. You care about insulting anyone you disagrees with you or points out how vacuous and false your arguments are. You care about conceding no point, no matter how obviously you have lost it.
You do not care about engaging in honest reasoned dialogue or debate. You ignore facts, counter-arguments, and refutations. You change the subject. You move the goal posts. You do whatever it takes to make pretense of winning an argument, even if you're the only one convinced by it.
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You are such a troll...
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Invalid reasons for denying two people from marrying include endorsing religious beliefs, popular prejudices, irrational fear and hatred, etc. That's why the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage in spite of popular support for such laws, and the use of many of the same type of arguments by those who opposed the right to marry whomever one chooses.
If the state lets Harry and Sally marry, they have to treat George and Tyrone the same way and hold them to the same reasonable standards. The state has no say in whether, how, or how often married people have sex or reproduce, so it has no reason to care what genders the couple represents. The defenders of Prop 8 in California had their day in court and were completely stumped when asked to provide a RATIONAL BASIS for denying same-sex couples the right to marry.
Rationality has been, and remains, the chief deficiency of opponents of same-sex marriage. They never needed it before.
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I'll bite...
What gives you the right to decide what gay marriage rights advocates advocate for?
If you are concerned about the marriage rights of bigamists, polygamists, or children you may start your own advocacy campaigns whenever you want. One could just as easily say that advocating for opposite-sex marriage imposes an obligation to advocate for all other forms of marriage. Your argument has no traction whatsoever, and is really quite silly.
You ask whether marriage is a privilege or a right. Based on your fallacious argument, you obviously see it as a heterosexual privilege, but marriage is a legal contract between two people who are of sufficient age and sound mind to make that contract of their own volition. That is, they have a RIGHT to make a marriage contract, and the state cannot deny that right without a valid reason. These are the basic legal and constitutional principles.
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Lamont, I don't believe that you will receive a "reasoned" or logical response from the other side about your questions.
It would cause them to admit too much, be too consistent, or think too much.
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My comment has nothing to do with religion but can someone explain to me how this would be any different than the arguments other groups use? Of course I love how this went on a religious rant which everyone loves to attack and fight over but look at my first comment and give a reasoned response please.
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"West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey declined comment."
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You state, "The Bible, namely Jesus Himself, said no one is judge unless they are without sin."
Can you please show me that reference in context?
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cantkidme, That same Bible also says it's an "abomination" to eat any kind of sea food that doesn't have scales or fins (lobster, clams, oysters,etc.) and to wear clothes made of mixed fabrics. Are you against that too?
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The Bible, namely Jesus Himself, said no one is judge unless they are without sin. He also said we're to love our neighbor, all of them, as ourself. Major sure doesn't do that. I doubt very seriously if he feels any love for anyone.
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Since marriage is doctrine with undeniable religious roots and origins and society wants to do away with anything that has to do with religion, then why don't states just eliminate marriage all together from the law? The state's divorce rate is approaching 60% so obviously it shouldn't matter if marriage existed or not.
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For those of you that disagreed with my statement would you mind answering the questions I posed?
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You are also wrong when you state, "once again strict constitutionalists have no use for the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE."
Do you think a strict construction reading of the equal protection clause in the Constitution would apply to homosexual behavior when the people who passed the amendment also had laws in every state banning sodomy/homosexuality and they saw no conflict or challenge for many, many generations?
Sorry, it is your "living" and "evolving" redefinition of words that are causing the problem.
According to your logic and abuse of strict constructionism, when the Flintstones' say that "they will have a gay old time" that would mean homosexual behavior.
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You state, "Please explain to me how 2 womens' or 2 mens' love for one another affects your life and your family?"
Do they engage in behavior which means that everyone pays more through ACA? I think history says that it does.
If so, how is that different from the reasoning of my statist "Progressive" comrades to mandate that everyone wear a seat-belt because otherwise it may affect medical costs?
Using the "Progressive" mindset, there isn't a sexual behavior that we can't legislate on anymore and no reason that we should allow Freedom!
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once again strict constitutionalists have no use for the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE. And for those who think homosexuality effects them in a negative way; they are the ones who question their own sexuality. Please explain to me how 2 womens' or 2 mens' love for one another affects your life and your family?
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Re: Deut 18 Don't think we have stoned a child for a while but many have no qualms or conscience about killing them daily by abortion. There seems to be a wider gap between our law of the land and God's law which also defines homosexuality as an abomination.
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Well said, Lamont.
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And here I thought it was my "Progressive" comrades who were whining that the House Republicans were trying to circumvent laws by using the people's actual duly-elected representatives to defund Obamacare.
Yet, here they are using a couple people in robes to circumvent the will of the people and the law!
I would say that it is odd how hypocritical and manipulative they are, but it isn't odd.
It is politics-as-usual (abuse the Rule of Law) for them...
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Why would you use the bible to make laws? Thats not America! An example, go to Deuteronomy 21:18-21... which among you have killed your "unruly" child by having him/her stoned to death?
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Homosexuality is a sickness,The bible says man shall not lay with another man!Its getting really old watching our society becoming weaker than it has ever been,excepting Homosexuality like it ok and something cool,its not and God will judge them all one day.
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If you ont like our laws here in WV...Move! Go to California or Maryland
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So since they say its about who people love then will this group sue to decriminalize bigamy? Will they fight for polygamist? Will they fight for the rights of those that want to lower the age of consent so they can love and marry those that are under 15? Or is marriage simply a privilege and not a right? If it's a right then regardless of our personal opinion then we shouldn't be able to restrict those things. Of course they won't fight for those things because I doubt they will agree on those groups rights.
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Our Beloved WV is just going to have to step into the 21st century. Check your history, please. Civil rights for everybody!
Why would we want it any other way?
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I red the book...God's team wins in the end....and the 2 minute warning was given in 1947.
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Kris Weems' contract with the Golden State Warriors officially runs out at the end if this month. On July 1, the Weems' era as Menlo School-Atherton's athletic director begins.
Weems was head boys basketball coach at Menlo School from 2004 to 2011, when he took a job with Golden State as an assistant coach for player development. After two years, Weems was fired by recently fired Warriors coach Mark Jackson.
Weems didn't give a reason why he was let go by Jackson, only that Weems "didn't like the way it went down."
Weems quickly landed on his feet, being hired as a scout by Warriors General Manager Bob Myers and Assistant General Manager Kirk Lacob, who played basketball for Weems at Menlo School.
"I traveled all over the country," Weems said. "Must have seen 60 to 70 college games. Saw a lot of D-League (NBA Development League) games at our affiliate in Santa Cruz. I really enjoyed it."
Weems was named "Mr. Kansas Basketball" in 1995 after starring at Schlagle High in Kansas City, Kansas. He went on to star as a shooting guard at Stanford from 1996 to 1999 and was a member of the Cardinal's 1998 Final Four team.
Weems said he decided to return to Menlo School for a new challenge in more ways than one. Weems' wife, Neda, is expecting a girl in July, their first child.
"There is no more travel," Weems said.
Weems replaced Craig Schoof, who also resigned his varsity baseball coaching position. Weems needs to hire coaches for baseball, boys lacrosse and boys basketball.
Weems may know more about firing than hiring, having been linked to the Warriors the past three years. Not long after the Warriors lost in seven games to the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA playoffs, Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob fired Jackson on May 6.
"Jackson gave the Warriors some credibility," Weems said. "He did a good job with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, but, then again, Jackson was a guard in the NBA."
Before he was canned, Jackson did his share of canning, reassigning bench assistant coach Brian Scalabrine to the Warriors' D-League affiliate in Santa Cruz. A few weeks later, Jackson dismissed assistant coach Darren Erman. ESPN reported that move came after Erman recorded conversations with other coaches and players without their knowledge.
"Coaching at the NBA is the highest level," Weems said. "There aren't that many jobs available. You have to get along with your boss. Coaching is like a fraternity. You can't be selfish. You have to be humble."
Former NBA star Steve Kerr has been hired by Lacob to replace Jackson.
"Steve Kerr will do a great job," Weems said. "The Warriors are poised to take the next step. The key for Kerr is to hire good assistants."
In less than a month, Weems will start "coaching the coaches" at Menlo School. He knows a little bit about coaching, too.
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Officials with the Maritime Academy of Toledo met with area community
The UK P&I Club applauded the European Harbour Masters' Committee (EHMC) for its release of a new DVD entitled "The Missing Link, improving the mooring process.
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1Tools, machinery, and other durable equipment: high-tech military hardware
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- Yet for all the talk of military hardware and holy war, little time is devoted to what happens if it goes wrong.
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- Chris and her brother Jim run it alongside the grocery business, hardware store and fishing tackle shop.
- Retail products range from work wear and lawn and garden supplies to hardware and pet foods.
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The Assyrian kings of the early first millennium BC founded the new capitals and cities of Nineveh, Calah (now called Nimrud), and Dur-Sharrukin (now called Khorsabad) along the northern Tigris River and its tributaries. The emergence of Assyrian kingdoms from 1133 to 609 BC in northern Mesopotamia resulted in an unprecedented flourishing of artistic achievement. The kingdoms' new palaces were embellished with magnificent wall decorations such as inscribed bas-reliefs, lamassus (statues of human-headed, sphinx-like creatures that were placed in doorways), and glazed bricks. The Assyrian sculptures mostly date from the peak of the Assyrian kingdoms, roughly between 900 and 600 BC. In the same line of artistic accomplishment are the two fragments from decorated staircases at Persepolis, which display the peak of this art in Iran in the fifth century BC.
- Ali Mousavi, Assistant Curator of Ancient Iranian and Near Eastern Art, 2008
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This virtual reconstruction, realized by two German architects, Kourosh Afhami and Wolfgang Gambke, is based on the documentation obtained from the archaeological excavations at the site, especially from the work of the architect Friedrich Krefter, who produced a wealth of reconstruction drawings and two scale models of the great terraces of the Achaemenid palaces, including the great entrance vestibules and interiors. The present reconstruction makes it possible to see LACMA's two fragments in their original context, decorating the outer face of the monumental staircases at Persepolis.
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I tried to install OpenBSD 3.7, 3.8 but nothing helped.
Then i try to install 4.1 with "disable pciide" and "disable isa" and
then obsd promted me to "install / upgrade / console" but computer
But i successfully manage to install version 4.0 only with "disable
pciide" and with all peripherals turned on
I googed and found how to make "disable pciide" permanent.
Only OpenBSD 4.0 works with Intel Desktop Board D201GLY.
This board is great
- uses only about 40W
- size 17x17cm
- very cheap ~66EUR
- only 1 quiet fan for processor
- USB boot support
- auto wake up when power off
- will also boot without motherboard and mouse attached
must go to play with my obsd now ))
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> Hi,
> Today I get new motherboard D201GLY:http://www.intel.com/products/mother...1GLY/index.htm
> When I tried to install OpenBSD i get errors as shown here:http://openbsd.4ezi.com/pic.html
> (2 pictures; second is when i booted openbsd with: boot -c
> and then typed: disable pciide)
> Motherboard chipset is SiS* SiS662
> Is this chipset supported by OpenBSD?http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
> Is there any other like "disable pciide" command get around this
> error?
> Regards,
> TomazZ


text: Hello Cambridge People ! Last year I lost 4 1/2 stone in 5 months and reached my goal. I really felt like a different person and lived a different life altogether and vowed to *never* return to my old life. Here comes the but... and yes, it's now a bigger butt and my jeans don't fit ! A hop on the scale proved that no one can eat as much curry as they wish and scoop up peanut butter from the jar ( my absolute worst weakness ) and lo and behold there is a 1 1/2 stone gain. So, a third time lucky in as many weeks of day 2. All very familiar; yukky mouth and a million trips to the loo. I'm now focused and wanting my jeans and previous life back asap. I had started to avoid photos again; another telling sign. To all returners, you can do it ! You know the drill ! Love Winklepip xx


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This is embarrasing, so please bear with me. :o :o :o Without going into details, I was wondering if anyone has used BEENO and if it has worked. My problem started about a month ago, but I don't know what food or foods is causing it. I haven't changed my diet in any way, so I am not sure what is causing this problem that was never an issue. I've tried Gas X and similar products, but I think I have to prevent it before it actually starts. Any help is appreciated.


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If there are any Orange County fans out there, and there really should be since it's a sorely underrated comedy, we have some good news. The high school comedy with Colin Hanks in his first starring role also featured Jack Black as his slacker, drugged up brother. Why are we talking about this? Because the forthcoming Jumanji reboot will feature a little Orange County reunion thanks to the fact that Jack Black has joined the cast. Find out more after the jump. Read More »


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Scotland is the home of golf. No matter where the original roots of the game may have sprung from, be it the Romans, the Chinese, the French or even the English, there's no doubt that the game as we know it has its foot firmly planted in Scottish soil. The history of golf is also deeply entwined with the country.
In the 15th century, King James II tried to ban it because he wanted everyone to practice archery instead of golf. The links course at St. Andrews dates from the 16th century and is a pilgrimage site to most serious golfers. The rules of golf were compiled in the 18th century for the "gentleman golfers" of Edinburgh. And the oldest golf competition in the world, The Open Championship was first played in 1860 in Ayrshire, Scotland. So, if you are a golfer or have one in the family, you will need to schedule at least one game into your itinerary.
Here are some of the best places to play golf while you are in Scotland:
1. St Andrews Links. There's the Old Course and the New Course. Play the Old Course for history's sake, the New Course for a bigger challenge to your game. And of course teeing off in front of the iconic clubhouse is a peak life moment for any serious golfer.
2. Muirfield Golf Course. Again history brings you here. This is home to that Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers who wrote down the first rules of the game.
3. Royal Dornoch Golf Club. Another links course and a good challenge, it's a little out of the way north of Inverness but the champions think it's worth the journey.
4. Turnberry Resort. Another spectacular course that has hosted The Open Championship, on the west coast south of Ayr.
5. Royal Troon Golf Club. This is a tough course, especially the Old Course of the two links. There's history here, challenges, and often strong winds to contend with also.
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This video has been making the rounds, and it's easy to understand why. The only thing glaringly missing is: "Is mercury in retrograde? It seems like mercury's in retrograde."
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Haha – I saw this yesterday and *almost* sent it to you! For the record, I never say "twinsies!"
I've totally said twinsies before 🙁
It doesn't count if I call it "twinkies," right? Right???
Of course, the short version of that – twinks – has been sort of re-appropriated in recent years, so maybe all of this is coming together to tell me that it's time to stop.
haha my friends and I say "samies", but same principal 🙂
Like, I'm not even joking right now, I think I've literally (oooh, they forgot one) done all of these in the last month.
LITERALLY! Good one. Yes, they forgot that one. They also forgot ANYWAY…
My favorite part was: "listen, listen, listen. listen to this email!" hahaha.
I watched this literally 2 minutes after calling my brother saying, "can you do me a favour?"
I think I text my boyfriend that like 5 times a day. And half of them "can you do me a huge favor? If you're near a computer can you look up…"
haha, yes 'huge' is often included in my requests too
Oh, the "Are you near your computer?" one is so damn accurate. Two of my best girl friends do this to me all the fucking time and they are usually calling me ON THEIR IPHONES!!!!
Hah! Its my boyfriend who actually does that one ALL.THE.TIME. as the only 20-something left who still doesn't have a smart phone…
I'm totally sending this to him btw…
Haha I'm guilty of this. I'm still smart phone-less as well.
I watched this yesterday 3 times cause it was so amazing. My favorite is when 'she's' smashing those chips at the end!! Ahahahaaa!!
Are we really like that? Really?? I need to show this to my husband! 🙂
This was totally about ME! hahahaha
Hahaha…I saw this yesterday and can't get enough of it. I second you guys that he forgot "LITERALLY" and "ANYWAY" but I guess those will come in episode 2. Some others might be "Seriously?" or "just 5 minutes!" "can you hold on just one second?" "that is just ridiculous!" "why would you even ask me that?" "where is my phone? can you call it?" …it would also be funny if he made fun of the daily birth control cell phone alarm
I don't do any of this 😀
My bf asks me quite a lot: does this sentence make sense? , can you do me a favor? can you search something for me?
Aaah….Mercury HAS been retrograde, since Nov 24th, and depending on where you live, went direct Tuesday late (12-13) or yesterday (12-14). It really can impact your life—I've asked people in industries which might be influenced by a Mercury retro over a period of years how things have been (without mentioning anything about Mercury) and the 'crazy' periods' are those with Mercury retro.
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Am I the only one that doesn't really think this is funny?
nope, I'm with you. Not quite sure its picking on girls. Ive been called by many guys to look things up and I do tons of "can you do me a favor"'s for them to.
I'm not even trying to be all "why pick on women" about this; I just really don't get it (as in, everyone does that) so I don't quite get the joke.
But then again, I'm in NYC, where the girls are girls, the men who like men are girls, and the men who like girls are also, unfortunately, girls.
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Massachusetts Steelworkers Local Secretary Sentenced for Theft
On December 17, Manuel Nogueira, former recording secretary for United Steelworkers Local 4-421, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to 18 months of probation for his role in the theft of funds from the union, now based in Auburn (near Worcester), Mass. He also will have pay restitution in the amount of $9,000 and a $200 special assessment. Nogueira had been indicted back in October 2010 with three other local officials for embezzling a combined $7,000; he pled guilty in April 2011. The actions follow a probe by the Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards.


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May 23, 1922 - Sept. 8, 2012
Genevieve C. Geibel, of Kenmore, a registered nurse and advocate for the mentally ill, died Saturday in Kenmore Mercy Hospital, Town of Tonawanda. She was 90.
Born Genevieve Sweeney in Buffalo, she was a graduate of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing. She worked as a registered nurse at Kenmore Mercy Hospital and Sisters Hospital, retiring in 1975.
Inspired by her son, who suffered from schizophrenia, Mrs. Geibel helped organize a parents group at Buffalo Psychiatric Center, pushed to get dental care for patients there and fought to protect housing for the mentally ill. She was a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
A member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, she worked with the church's Outreach Program. Known for her kindness, compassion and deep faith, she was devoted to Father Baker and St. John Neuman.
Her husband, Lawrence F. Sr., died in 1984. Her son, Lawrence, died in 2005.
Surviving are three daughters, Genevieve M. Fitzgerald, Sheila A. Laird and Theresa J. Carbone.
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A twenty-five-year-old recent graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, Lindsay Harrison began writing Missing as a way to cope with a terrible loss. During her sophomore year at Brown University, Lindsay received a phone call from her brother that her mother was missing. Forty days later they discover the unthinkable: Their mother's body had been found in the ocean.
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Before the big crash of 2008, Gilmore Erickson seemed to control two of the more promising condo tower sites in downtown San Jose. When the Los Gatos man pitched investors, success seemed inevitable. The mantra of the era was "get in or lose."
In fact, Erickson's two condo projects -- one on Delmas Avenue, just west of Highway 87, the other on Fifth Street, across from San Jose City Hall -- were, in the words of prosecutors, "an unmitigated disaster." No ground was ever broken.
You might dismiss it as another failure but for this: Gil Erickson had done a year in prison after a grand theft conviction a decade before in a Monterey County property scheme, a fact he didn't share with investors. And he lacked the massive wealth he claimed.
Erickson, 72, who grew up in San Jose as the son of a mortician, was sentenced last week to eight years in prison by Superior Court Judge Hector Ramon. In a plea deal, he was convicted earlier this year on a series of charges including securities fraud and grand theft. Prosecutors say he took in $2.8 million from 40-odd investors before things fell apart.
A beefy, bald man with a background as a leader in Youth for Christ, Gil Erickson knew how to persuade investors. "People thought of him as a competent man," said prosecutor Georg Behrens. (A side note: In the 1970s, Erickson's vice-president in Youth for Christ was David Runyon, who went on to drunken disgrace as a San Jose councilman).
On the Delmas property, once the site of the historic Bethel Lutheran Church, Erickson's Grandpoint Community Builders planned to build a 152-unit condo complex. On the Fifth Street site, it was working with the Methodist Church to build 320 units.
Active plans
Grandpoint, which sometimes went by Northpoint or Next Group, said it hired Strangis Properties to work with the city. And the company promised investors that the project would be secured by the fabulously wealthy Erickson Family Trust, which wasn't so fabulously wealthy.
There was one tipoff that should have alerted investors: Stymied in its attempt to get traditional financing, Grandpoint was promising investors a 50 percent return on their money after a year.
The story of one investor, whom I'll call by his first name, Jack, shows how it worked. Jack had heard about Grandpoint through a real estate investment club. After watching a webinar featuring Erickson's son, Alexander, he met with Erickson at the company's downtown offices.
Jack was cautious: He sent in a set of email questions that Grandpoint deftly answered. (Example: "What percentage completion is the Fifth Street property as of today?" Answer: "If the question refers to the commencement of construction, it is 75 to 80 percent ready.") He invested $100,000, money he never saw again.
Before Erickson was sentenced, a cadre of his friends wrote letters describing him as a devoted family man, a guy who started a course in writing business plans for his fellow inmates at Elmwood. Cynthia Van Biene of Austin described Erickson as a selfless man "who would give the shirt off his back to someone in need."
To his investors, Erickson was also the guy who took the shirts off their backs. You can argue that they were greedy. But in a court of law, that's no defense to fraud, particularly if you've sinned before.
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Opinion: Social housing - what's in a name?
Published by Anonymous for 24dash.com in Housing
'2.5 million council houses sold' under Right-to-Buy
By Kevin Gulliver, Director, Human City Institute and member of the SHOUT campaign steering group
As George Orwell knew only too well, the language we use to describe our world is imbued with meaning. Orwell also recognised that our evolving vocabulary and the terms we use to describe society and the economy are powerful enough to change the way we think.
His idea of Newspeak, where words could signify the opposite of their original meaning, saw the Ministry of Propaganda named the Ministry of Truth. Orwell laid bare how language can dictate meaning, warp reality and set agenda. Think today how there are no more 'problems' to be solved: only issues or challenges to be addressed.
Let's look at how the word 'fair' has a morphed meaning since the coalition came to power to 2010. Before then, 'fairness', or the lack of it, was usually applied to the wealth gap between rich and poor.
Since 2010, fairness has been redefined by the coalition to relate to the lifestyle gap between the very poor on welfare benefits contrasted with the working poor. The super-rich and their share of national wealth being greater than at any time since the Edwardian era barely gets a mention. Instead we get the rhetoric of 'strivers versus skivers' with social housing signalled out as a foster of a 'dependency culture' (although without a scintilla of proof).
As Chancellor George Osborne said in his 2012 Conservative Party conference speech: "Where's the fairness for the shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits … We speak for all those who want to work hard and get on … They strive for a better life. We strive to help them."
Social housing has experiencing something similar for many years. Even the term 'social housing' is relatively new and replaced two distinct sectors - 'council housing' and 'voluntary housing' managed by housing associations. Housing associations themselves have had many names – public utility societies, housing societies or trusts, voluntary housing organisations, housing associations (from 1935 onwards) registered social landlords and latterly registered providers.
The current rebranding of social housing is a further case in point. The rise in commercialism and the appropriation of market language in the last two decades have and are reshaping social housing. The nature of social housing is being redefined, while the views of tenants are ignored and alternatives ways of managing social housing are closed-off.
In a recent HCI survey, those living in social housing were asked their preference in how they are addressed. They were give a series of alternatives, including customers, tenants, residents, clients and service-users. Overwhelming (two thirds) they wanted to be known a 'residents'. 'Tenants' was second favourite and 'customers' a distant third.
Focus group work revealed that 'residents' was popular because it gave parity with home owners. Focus group participants also rejected 'customers' as they thought the term whittled away their rights as tenants. They felt more like passive recipients of housing services but without any opportunity to exercise choice in market terms and move to another social landlord.
Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel in 'What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits to Markets', argues that the dominance of a narrow form of market thinking and its penetration into the public and third sectors has worrying consequences. Not only do social goods change their nature when supplied through the market but the market crowds out other ways of providing services that may, paradoxically, be more efficient.
Sandel cites the banking cartel setting the LIBOR interest rate and the inability of G4S to service Olympic security, having to be replaced by the British Army at the last minute, as two examples of market failures. He concludes that we need to be more sceptical about market approaches and have greater confident about our own judgements.
The current vision for social housing, which draws upon outmoded market thinking, needs to be challenged. Social housing should reject a consumerism approach and embrace greater democracy and resident control of social housing assets since they are both more desirable and more efficient.
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Pesto is one of those deliciously deceptive sauces. It tastes gourmet. (And, that inferior stuff in a jar is priced like it's gourmet). But it's really a simple to make and versatile in application. Like some of us hard-core cooks, it's a real workhorse in the kitchen.
Slap it on some good bread and top with fresh tomato and you've got a delicious appetizer. Put it on pizza and suddenly Friday night dinner goes upscale. Whether it's basil or sundried tomato based, or some herbal fusion variety dreamed up by the assistant to a big time food network chef, there's not a lot a good pesto can't do—except perhaps dessert.
This I my basic method for making basil pesto. (The method for making a good sundried tomato recipe is essentially the same, except that you leave out the basil and it takes a little more effort to get the consistency right.)
3 generous handfuls of fresh basil leaves
2 handfuls of walnuts (soaked and roasted) (See this resource.)several cloves of garlic (4 or 5 or just what you have on hand)
2 or 3 Tbsp grated aged parmesan (optional)
olive oil (probably about a cup, but it may be more or less)
Put basil, walnuts, garlic and parmesan into bowl of food processor. Pulse until chopped. Remove lid and push everything down again, then replace lid and turn on full speed. Using the feature that allows you to add liquid while the processor is running, slowly add olive oil a bit at a time until you get the desired texture. You may need to stop the processor and push everything back down several times to get it all worked in. Liver dangerously. You can use more or less of most of the ingredients–for instance, I often make it without cheese, but you could use more cheese if that's what you like! I like a lot of garlic, some people may prefer a little less.
I'd love to hear from others who have traditional family recipes, or just other methods, as I'm always up for experimenting! If you try making it, write me and let me know how it goes!
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You may have heard stories about these cards running hot and I assure you that it is not far from the truth. And while we will have liquid nitrogen on the core, the VRMs under the loads that we will be using will produce enough heat to warm a small house in winter. These will not only require heatsinks, but also active cooling.
Just for an annoyance, one of the components nestled in and around them sits slightly higher than what we are trying to cool. To counter that, I have drilled out a small section of the heatsink where that component can sit unobstructed while letting the heatsink sit flat.
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Section 35 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
- Having just described a bitter defeat, Whitman now relates a victory at sea against the British, perhaps from the War of 1812.
- Whitman talks as if he were on the boat, even though he was never in the Navy. He's just playing another character, putting himself in another's shoes.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- A young boy with a Maple Leaf on his chest led a "Go Canada" cheer from his father's lap in the front row. Others dangled flags, clanged cowbells and stomped their feet, trying to rally the favored Canadians.
Canada obliged, but barely. The men's and women's curling teams gave the home crowd plenty to cheer about, each starting off with victories as the Olympic tournament began Tuesday with all the fanfare expected from a nation boasting more than 1 million curlers.
Yet Norway nearly ruined the feel-good start for Canada's No. 2 sport in a tense men's opener in the morning. Then, the women needed a big final throw by skip Cheryl Bernard to beat Switzerland 5-4 in the afternoon.
Canadian skip Kevin Martin loved every minute of it all, even if he had to stave off an upset with one perfectly timed final throw that allowed most everybody in the building to relax for just a bit.
"Electric, it's just so much fun to be a part of, it really is," said Martin, who wants his team to enjoy the atmosphere while also maintaining its focus on the task at hand.
Martin secured a 7-6 victory over the Norwegians in their funky pants with his last stone in an extra end. The result clearly showed that every team in Vancouver has a chance to win in this deep field.
"Not scripted but that's kind of what we figured it would be, a tight game or extra end or something," Martin said. "It's a good win, a hard, battled win, which is important, too."
In other openers Tuesday, 2009 world champion Britain -- Canada's top rival -- was upset in its opener. David Murdoch's team lost 6-4 to Sweden. Switzerland held off Denmark 6-5 and the Americans fell to Germany 7-5.
Defending women's Olympic champion Sweden held off Denmark 6-5, Japan beat the U.S. 9-7 and Germany defeated Russia 9-5.
Bernard's Canadian women's team also heard from the crowd. When her rock landed near the button to secure Canada's winning point, the fans jumped and hollered. Bernard waved in delight as she skated down to the far end of the sheet to retrieve her brooms and belongings.
"We could feel the noise," she said. "It was really stimulating. It kind of gets right inside of you."
Imagine how the crowd will be next week when it's approaching medal time.
"Words can't describe that atmosphere," Canada's Marc Marc Kennedy said.
The Canadians led 5-1 after four ends but were forced into an extra when Norway evened it at 6-6 with two points in the 10th.
The 43-year-old Martin, a former world champion who is playing in his third Olympics, secured the victory with the big last-rock advantage known as the hammer.
"We looked upon this as a bonus game," Norwegian skip Thomas Thomas Ulsrud said. "Close to winning the jackpot, eh?"
The Canadians appreciated all the help from their fans. They played in front of a packed house at 5,600-seat Vancouver Olympic Centre, where scalpers outside the venue sought tickets that are considered nearly as hard to come by in these games as the country's No. 1 pastime of hockey.
The little boy, probably all of about 4 years old, inspired the capacity crowd to join him in his cheer. Who could say no, given the adorable sight?
"There were little kids screaming, 'Go Canada,'" Kennedy said. "I didn't see an empty seat in the house."
Everybody took notice. Everybody knows this is great for curling, a chance to even further put the sport on the map while performing on the world's biggest stage.
"There must have been some hockey fans out there. It was real loud," Ulsrud said. "I've been to world curling tournaments and I've never experienced a crowd as loud as this. It's good."
Queen's hit "We Will Rock You" blared through the arena, a fitting anthem before the first rock was thrown.
The Canadians were happy to be tested right from the start. Martin was his typical clutch self when it mattered most -- with his entire nation watching.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS (KRIS) - The search is on for the driver who backed into an older woman crossing the street and dragged her under a truck as they sped away.
Corpus Christi police released a photo of the 2003-2006 Chevrolet pickup. It's a grainy photo, but that is all they have to work on right now.
Witnesses told police the truck blew through a stop sign at Mary and Harmon Streets around 7pm last night. The driver backed up, hit the woman crossing the street, and sped off with her stuck underneath.
She suffered injuries to her hip and legs, but is expected to survive.
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Instead of going under the limbo stick, you jump over it.
At Kate's party Many Canadians did the Canadian limbo.
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A fun game to play with your buddies. All over the world, and particularly in Mexico, there are young, Canadian tourists hurting for a squirting. How low can you go?
Eric and Terry met some Canadian teenagers at their resort in Puerto Vallarta and then they did the Canadian limbo.
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