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Book your room at Parc Hotel Billia
Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with 2 indoor pools and full-service spa
Located in the heart of Saint-Vincent, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Casino de la Vallee and La Chiesa di Saint-Vincent. Terme di St Vincent and Gamba Castle are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features 2 indoor pools, a full-service spa, and a casino. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a health club are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 119 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and minibars. For a bit of entertainment, guests will find LCD TVs with satellite channels, and other amenities include balconies and rainfall showerheads.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Parc Hotel BilliaViale Piemonte, 72 Saint-Vincent AO 11027
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Parc Hotel Billia features a full-service spa, 2 indoor swimming pools, an outdoor pool, and a health club. The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
7 meeting rooms are available. This Saint-Vincent hotel also offers a casino, a rooftop terrace, and spa services. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary. A total renovation of this property was completed in 2012.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Casino
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Conference center
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Full-service spa
- Garden
- Health club
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 5
- Number of indoor pools - 2
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Outdoor pool
- Restaurant
- Rooftop terrace
- Snack bar/deli
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Television in common areas
- Terrace
- Total number of rooms - 119
Family Friendly Amenities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Indoor pools
- Outdoor pool
- Snack bar/deli
- Soundproofed rooms
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Balcony
- Bidet
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Down comforter
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Minibar
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Satellite TV service
- Shower only
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
Le Rascard - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine.
Nearby Things to Do
2 indoor swimming pools are on site along with an outdoor pool. Other recreational amenities include a health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hot springs nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Horse riding/rental on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Rock climbing nearby
- Ziplining nearby
Spa Services
SPA L'EVE has 5 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Services include sports massages, massages, facials, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a steam room.
Guests under 5 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Steam room in spa
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Number of treatment rooms 5
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 5
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 25.00 per pet, per night
- Dogs only
- 1 per room
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 11 years of age.
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 155,00 per vehicle (one way)
- Pet fee: EUR 25.00 per pet, per night
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
- Facilities fee: EUR 39.00 per person, per day and includes use of:
Hotel Name
- Hotel Billia
- Parc Billia
- Parc Billia Saint-Vincent
- Parc Hotel Billia
- Parc Hotel Billia Saint-Vincent
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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The passenger started to tell me about how they had just finished up a job in Spokane, and they didn't want haul the speakers back to Seattle where they were based. At that point, I told them I wasn't interested, and I knew exactly what they were up to. I asked if they were Digital Pro Audio speakers, but before either of them could answer, I started repeating their sales pitch--word for word.
I also told them to logon to ripoffreport.com and read all about their little scam. At the point, the passenger said, "It's not a scam, it's a hustle," and they drove off. So if you live on the I-90 corridor between Seattle and Minneapolis, watch out for these guys. Evidently, they're taking advantage of the nice weather and are expanding their operation outside of the Sun Belt states between California and Florida.
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Influence of muscle temperature during fatiguing work with the first dorsal interosseous muscle in man: a 31P-NMR spectroscopy study.
Eur J Appl Physiol
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pp. 203-209.
Six healthy subjects rapidly lifted and lowered a small (250 g) weight with the first dorsal interosseous muscle (FDI) of one hand while the work performed was recorded continuously until fatigue (defined as losing the ability to continue lifting). Work was recorded in units of chart recorder trace displacement from baseline (centimeters) as an isotonic transducer followed the movement of the weight. In all experiments, the temperature of the hand was first adjusted by immersion in a controlled-temperature water bath. In the warmest condition, the skin surface temperature over the FDI was 30.5(0.30) degrees C [mean (SE)]. After moderate cooling, this surface temperature was 21.5(0.16) degrees C. Cooling significantly reduced the time taken to reach fatigue and more than halved the work capacity. An intermediate degree of cooling was also used in four subjects, showing that most of the effects seen were changing incrementally. Before work, and at fatigue, intracellular metabolic conditions in the FDI were studied by phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance (31P-NMR) spectroscopy, with occlusion of the blood flow maintained during measurements. The mean intracellular pH of the FDI was also calculated. The changes observed were all consistent with the fact that intense work requires energy which must be derived largely from intracellular stores of phosphocreatine and glycogen. Less work made less demand upon reserves, and created lower concentrations of waste products and by-products. The observations did not, however, allow us to explain why fatigue occurred at a particular point or why work capacity was reduced by cooling.
|Influence of muscle temperature during fatiguing work with the first dorsal interosseous muscle in man: a 31P-NMR spectroscopy study.
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Carrol Shelby was motivated by speed as a driver and after retiring from racing he obtained a license to import
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Number 9 of 20 produced 20th Anniversary Superformance MkIII Cobra Test miles only Ford Racing 427 CI engine Inglese fuel
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Day Care for Grown-Ups; For busy, busy people in the 90's, the city spa is booming.
By ALEX WITCHEL
Published: October 19, 1997
THE woman in the chair next to me whispered to her pedicurist.
''Did you see that blondish woman outside?'' she asked. ''I think she's an actress.''
The pedicurist lifted the woman's foot from a bowl of hot milk and patted it dry, nodding.
''Do you know who she is?'' the woman asked.
The pedicurist shook her head.
''Oh wait, I know,'' the woman exclaimed. ''Jennifer Ashton. From 'Melrose Place.' ''
It was actually Jennifer Aniston from ''Friends,'' but close enough. Part of the pampering of the Bliss Spa experience is that your own unsightly calluses are buffed side by side with clients like Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, Uma Thurman and Cindy Crawford. The fact that there is no Jennifer Ashton on ''Melrose Place'' is only a technicality.
Bliss is probably the hottest of the day spas that have proliferated in the last few years in New York and nationwide. It used to be that spas were primarily destination vacations -- Canyon Ranch, Golden Door -- where you could spend your hard-earned money on a week of starvation and sweat. But as life grows ever more jam-packed, and vacations, especially for people who own their own businesses, are more difficult to plan, the concept of the day spa was not only born, but in the ''Be good to yourself'' 90's, has boomed.
Frank van Putten, the president of Spa Finders, the largest spa and resort travel company in the world, has tracked the industry since 1987. ''There has been 2,000 percent growth nationally in the day spa industry in the last 10 years, going from 30 to 600 spas,'' he said. ''There are more aging baby boomers than ever before looking at their quality of life, and there is a growing recognition that stress is a major contributing factor to the major killers: cancer, heart disease and strokes. Anything we can do to get a handle on that is something we are embracing.''
Men are embracing spas as well. In 1987, only 9 percent of spagoers were male, but the figure has tripled, to 27 percent in 1997, Mr. van Putten said. In New York, both health clubs and beauty salons have realized that day spas are where the market is headed, and suddenly, no one wants to be without one.
In addition to established day spas like the Paul Labrecque Salon and Spa at the Reebok Sports Club on the Upper West Side and the Origins Feel-Good Spa at the Sports Center at Chelsea Piers, the Peninsula Hotel has expanded its day spa, and Equinox, which already has them at its gyms on the Upper East and West Sides, is opening a 40,000-square-foot spa and health club in the Barbizon Hotel in mid-December.
All spas are not created equal, of course. Livinia Errico, an owner of Equinox, said, ''I go to a lot of the beauty shows, and people are lecturing about how to expand a hair salon into a day spa, and that means putting a room out back with a part-time masseuse.''
At Bliss, 568 Broadway (Prince Street) in SoHo, the cachet comes from the heavy dose of star power and the lack of affiliation with anything so commonplace as a gym. Ninety percent of its clients are regulars, so downtown beautiful people and European beautiful people vie to fill the waiting lists and are accommodated just often enough to keep them interested.
The spa's founder, Marcia (pronounced mar-SEE-uh) Kilgore, the former personal trainer for Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher who is all of 29, has the knack of coddling the famous and the not with equal grace. She also invented the spa's coveted Double Oxygen Treatment: a 90-minute facial that includes cleansing, alpha-hydroxy fruit acid exfoliation, extractions, mask, massage and a 15-minute blast of liquid oxygen, which she says ''boosts cell metabolism.'' The facial costs $125, and the waiting list to see Ms. Kilgore herself is 18 months.
That's right. Of course, if you happen to be from the press, you don't have to wait more than 18 minutes. Ms. Kilgore is nothing if not media-savvy, and even though she saw a client last week who booked her appointment a year ago November, she still had an opening to see me. The only catch was, I didn't want it.
It was certainly nothing personal. But for facials, I've been going to Elena Schell at the Elena Schell Beauty and Skin Care Clinic for 12 years, and to me, she's sacrosanct, like the doctor. I was happy to try a Bliss pedicure and its Ginger Rub, a massage extravaganza, but no facial. Especially after a friend of mine (also in the Press Corps Easy Access program) had her face cleaned by Ms. Kilgore and sported scabs for a week. Granted, once they fell off, she claimed her skin had never looked better. But at 40, I refuse to have wrinkles and scabs. The prom is over.
Ms. Kilgore, as it turns out, knows Ms. Schell and was quite gracious at being refused. ''If it works for you, what the heck?'' she said congenially.
Instead, I went for my other treatments, beginning with the Hot Milk and Almond Pedicure ($52), administered in a room for two, which is painted sky blue and decorated with umbrellas. Margaret, my pedicurist (staff members at spas go by their first names only), was brisk and efficient. She placed my feet in a huge bowl of warm milk. (''Lactic acid works wonders as an exfoliant,'' the Bliss brochure says.)
''Is it whole or skim?'' I asked, only half-kidding.
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CA has long had a practice of putting gang affiliates in solitary confinement, not for any behavioral purposes, but to coerce people to inform on their gang-mates. Back in 2012, a group of prisoners — Todd Ashker, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Luis Esquivel, George Franco, Richard Johnson, Paul Redd, Gabriel Reyes, George Ruiz, Danny Troxell, spanning several affiliations — sued to end the practice. Along the way they've also engaged in hunger strikes to call attention to the practice.
The suit just settled. Within short order, almost all of the prisoners who've been in long term solitary will be released into the general population. Solitary will be behaviorally based going forward, rather than affiliation based. For those put in solitary for behavioral issues, there will be a designated step-down process, and they'll get significantly more out-of-cell time than currently. There will be new group housing alternative to solitary. And the prisoners will be a key part of ensuring compliance with this settlement.
The joint statement from the plaintiffs emphasizes the degree to which they won this settlement by working together.
This settlement represents a monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California, and across the country. California's agreement to abandon indeterminate SHU confinement based on gang affiliation demonstrates the power of unity and collective action. This victory was achieved by the efforts of people in prison, their families and loved ones, lawyers, and outside supporters. Our movement rests on a foundation of unity: our Agreement to End Hostilities. It is our hope that this groundbreaking agreement to end the violence between the various ethnic groups in California prisons will inspire not only state prisoners, but also jail detainees, county prisoners and our communities on the street, to oppose ethnic and racial violence. From this foundation, the prisoners' human rights movement is awakening the conscience of the nation to recognize that we are fellow human beings. As the recent statements of President Obama and of Justice Kennedy illustrate, the nation is turning against solitary confinement. We celebrate this victory while, at the same time, we recognize that achieving our goal of fundamentally transforming the criminal justice system and stopping the practice of warehousing people in prison will be a protracted struggle. We are fully committed to that effort, and invite you to join us.
Center for Constitutional Rights has more on the settlement here, including depositions from the plaintiffs dating to last year.
This is really great news. Let's hope it serves as a model for reform elsewhere.
So, just a quick thought here, and with a little prompting by Jon Turley, obviously there is torture, and outright homicide thereon, spelled out and specified by the SSCI Torture Report. As I have said on Twitter, there are many things covered in the SSCI Torture Report and, yet, many things left out.
There are too many instances in the SSCI Torture Report to catalogue individually, but let's be perfectly clear, the failure to prosecute the guilty in this cock up is NOT restricted to what is still far too euphemistically referred to as "torture".
No, the criminality of US Government officials goes far beyond that. And, no, it is NOT "partisan" to point out that the underlying facts occurred under the Cheney/Bush regime (so stated in their relative order of power and significance on this particular issue).
As you read through the report, if you have any mood and mind for actual criminal law at all, please consider the following offenses:
18 U.S.C. §1001 False Statements
18 U.S.C. §1505 Obstruction of Justice
These are but a few of the, normally, favorite things the DOJ leverages and kills defendants with in any remotely normal situation. I know my clients would love to have the self serving, toxically ignorant and duplicitous, work of John Yoo and Jay Bybee behind them. But, then, even if it were so, no judge, court, nor sentient human, would ever buy off on that bullshit.
So, here we are. As you read through the SSCI Torture Report, keep in mind that it is NOT just about "torture" and "homicide". No, there is oh so much more there in the way of normally prosecuted, and leveraged, federal crimes. Recognize it and report it.
Abu Wa'el Dhiab, the Gitmo prisoner at the center of an ongoing force-feeding controversy, has been released to Uruguay along with five others.
Dhiab's Reprieve lawyer, Cori Crider, said this in a statement.
Cori Crider, a Director at Reprieve and a lawyer for Mr Dhiab, said: "We are grateful to the government of Uruguay – and President Mujica in particular – for this historic stand. Very few people can truly comprehend what the cleared men in Guantánamo suffer every day, but I believe Mr. Mujica is one of them. Like President Mujica, Mr Dhiab spent over a dozen years as a political prisoner. Mr Dhiab was never charged, never tried. President Mujica spent two years at the bottom of a well; for most of the past two years, Mr Dhiab has had a team of US soldiers truss him up like an animal, haul him to a restraint chair, and force-feed him through a tube in his nose. The President's compassion has ended that torture.
"Despite years of suffering, Mr Dhiab is focused on building a positive future for himself in Uruguay. He looks forward to being reunited with his family and beginning his life again. Let's not forget that Mr Dhiab and the others freed today leave behind many men just like them: cleared prisoners warehoused in Guantánamo for years. Reprieve hopes that other countries will follow the positive example set by the Uruguayan government today, and help President Obama close this shameful prison."
Carol Rosenberg has more background on the transfer, which has been held up for months even as Dhiab fought over whether he has to be tortured to eat.
The roots of Sunday's transfer were planted in January when Sloan, the State Department special envoy for Guantánamo closure, traveled to Uruguay to pitch the idea, according to Obama administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about it.
He found the nation's now 79-year-old president, Mujica, sympathetic as a former 14-year political prisoner who spent much of his captivity in solitary confinement for his guerrilla activities with the Tupamaro revolutionary movement.
In February, Montevideo sent a delegation to the U.S. Navy base in Cuba to interview detainees. They chose six for resettlement, among them Dhiab, a 6-foot-5-inch sickly man whose lawyers said refused to eat not to die but to protest his indefinite detention despite notice that he could leave once a nation agreed to take him.
While some quarters of the U.S. government were pleased with the deal, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was slow to approve it. It sat on his desk for months, awaiting his signature, while intelligence analysts evaluated it. Before he signed it, the White House ordered the truly clandestine transferof five Taliban prisoners to Qatar in a trade for POW Bowe Bergdahl on May 31 — drawing protest on Capitol Hill that Congress had not been informed in advance.
Hagel finally approved the Uruguay release in July and sent the required 30-day notice to Congress.
By then, however, the disclosure had stirred domestic debate in Uruguay in the midst of the presidential campaign to pick Mujica's successor.
I honestly wasn't sure Dhiab would survive long enough to be able to take this transfer. I worried that he, like Adnan Latif before him, would be suicided while he waited. And it sounds like his health is still pretty dodgy.
I wish him and his family the best of luck in Uruguay.
Unsurprisingly, the government has just appealed Gladys Kessler's order that it release the videos of Abu Wa'el Dhiab. h/t Josh Gerstein
DOJ cited a number of reasons why releasing videos of US service members feeding a indefinitely detained prisoner who had been cleared for released years earlier. But one of them is the propaganda to which our adversaries might use such videos.
(4) use of the videos in propaganda by entities hostile to the United States;
Apparently, if the rest of the world saw how we fed our indefinitely detained prisoners, they would start bombing us.
But honest, DOJ says, it's not torture and it's not punitive.
Update, from an affidavit submitted by Rear Admiral Sinclair Harris. (h/t Ryan Reilly)
There is little doubt that ISIL would use imagery from Guantanamo Bay to further encourage its supporters and followers to attack military and government personnel.
He likens releasing these videos to the release of Marines pissing on corpses and news of the US burning Qurans.
He explains if AQAP got it, they might use it to support a recent claim made in Inspire claiming, "America has lost the most important element of global leadership: morals and principles."
The WaPo reports that Judge James Pohl has just severed Ramzi Bin al-Shibh from 9/11 trial, creating two 9/11 trials. He did so for two reasons: because he could not quickly resolve whether the FBI investigation into defense attorneys has compromised his representation, and because the court has not yet determined whether he is competent to stand trial.
Army Col. James L. Pohl said the court needs to resolve whether Binalshibh has the mental capacity to participate in a trial and whether he needs another lawyer because of a potential conflict of interest after theFBI questioned members of his defense team.
These issues "are not expected to be completed in the near term," Pohl said in his order.
While both issues are emblematic of the clusterfuck that is Gitmo, I'm particularly struck by the uncertainty whether bin al-Shibh is competent.
Earlier this year, prosecutors asked the judge to evaluate Binalshibh after he repeatedly interrupted court proceedings and had to be removed because he ignored warnings to stop the disruptions. However, neither the government nor Binalshibh's lawyer argue that he is mentally incompetent.
"The judge's decision today seems to indicate that the issue of competency is still open," [bin al-Shibh lawyer James] Harrington said. "We have to clarify that with him."
After all, the entire point of the torture program was to break these men. They succeeded in doing so with bin al-Shibh (that is confirmed by other sources). But now they can't try him — it sounds like this severance is probably a tacit admission he can never stand trial, for a variety of reasons.
I would much prefer civilian justice, and have said so numerous times. But this Kangaroo Court in Gitmo has sure succeeded in demonstrating all the problems with the US counterterrorism approach.
The government has made 10 of the videos showing the force-feeding of Abu Wa'el Dhiab available to his lawyers. They are reportedly watching the video this weekend.
In a piece seemingly meant to diminish concerns about the claims the government tortured detainees, in the guise of force-feeding them, to break up a large hunger strike last year — and to pre-empt whatever claims his attorneys will make after viewing the videos — Southern Command Commander Marine Gen. John F. Kelly gave an interview to the AP. In it, he made the absurd claim that Gitmo does not force feed anyone.
Military officials, who call the hunger strike a propaganda stunt, reject the phrase "force-feeding." They say the video will show nothing more than guards and medical personnel doing their jobs in a difficult situation.
"We don't force feed anyone," said Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, who oversees the prison as commander of U.S. Southern Command.
Worse, in an apparently effort to redefine hunger strike as he also redefined force feed, Kelly called hunger striking "a joke."
"The whole hunger strike thing was kind of a joke anyway before. Now it's based on nutrition and a medical exam as opposed to missing meals," he said.
The general said "very few" detainees now qualify for the feeding procedure and he believes none are truly on hunger strike — "if the definition of a hunger striker is someone who is no-kidding attempting to hurt themselves by starvation."
Of course, the hunger strikes aren't about "attempting to hurt themselves by starvation." They are attempts to regain some sort of autonomy and dignity and — yes — to call attention to the injustice of detaining men who could be released for over a decade.
Whether a judge will ultimately rule that force feeding, as done to the men most committed to hunger striking, amounts to the water torture or not, Kelly's disdain for the hunger strikers lays bare the coercion involved.
I will have a few posts on the Intelligence Authorization that passed the House Intelligence Committee last week. (h/t Steven Aftergood)
But before I talked about what made it into the bill, I'd like to highlight what isn't in it: language requiring the Intelligence Community to consider climate change. The minority views reveal,
One of the bill's weaknesses is that it does not do enough to enhance analysis of the national security implications of climate change, which the Intelligence Community refers to as environmental indications and warning. Whether by driving competition for scare [sic] resources, by opening the Arctic, or by increasing sea level and storm surge near our naval installations, climate change will have profound, destabilizing effects which need to be understood, anticipated, and accounted for. There may be disagreement about the causes of climate change, but the national security consequences are so significant that they cannot be ignored.
The intelligence community has been delving into this area in recent years (and appear to have renamed climate change "environmental indications and warning"). But thus far, the IC has stopped short of treating climate change as the threat to the US it clearly represents.
It appears Democrats on HPSCI tried to change that. And Republicans refused.
Someday the climate deniers will be held responsible for leaving our country vulnerable. And the Democrats will have left a record of those who should be held responsible.
Col. Morris Davis is, at least for my money, an American hero. He served and fought not only for his country, but for the Constitution he swore to protect. The subject of what happened to him at the hands of the very government he defended deserves a much longer, and deeper, dive than I have time for in this post. We will likely come back for that at a later date as it seems as if the legal case Col. Davis brought to correct the wrongs done to him will likely go on forever.
And the going on forever part is the subject of this post. Col. Davis was scheduled to have a hearing in United States District Court in Washington DC tomorrow in front of Judge Reggie Walton. But the hearing was postponed. And that is the problem, this is the FOURTEENTH (14th) TIME hearing on Col. Davis' case has been delayed. One delay was due to a conflict on Judge Walton's part, and one because the offices of Davis' attorneys at the ACLU in New York were substantially damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Other than that, the delay has been at the hands of an intransigent and obstreperous DOJ. If the actions of the DOJ in relation to Col. Davis are not "bad faith", it is hard to imagine what the term stands for.
Now, to be fair, it appears the latest delay was at the unilateral hand of the court, as yesterday's minute entry order reads:
In light of the fact that potentially dispositive motions remain pending, it is hereby ORDERED that the status hearing currently scheduled for Friday, February 21, at 9:15 a.m. is CONTINUED to a date and time to be determined by the Clerk.
The problem with that is that the "dispositive motions" the court speaks of as being "pending" have been "pending" for a VERY long time, since July of last year. And the case itself has been going on since the complaint was filed on January 8, 2010.
Why is it taking so long you ask? Because of the aforementioned bad faith and obstreperousness of the Department of Justice, that's why. To get an idea of just what is going on here, a little background is in order. Peter Van Buren gives a good, and relatively brief synopsis:
Morris Davis is not some dour civil servant, and for most of his career, unlikely to have been a guest at the Playboy Mansion. Prior to joining the Library of Congress, he spent more than 25 years as an Air Force colonel. He was, in fact, the chief military prosecutor at Guantánamo and showed enormous courage in October 2007 when he resigned from that position and left the Air Force. Davis stated he would not use evidence obtained through torture. When a torture advocate was named his boss, Davis quit rather than face the inevitable order to reverse his position.
Morris Davis then got fired from his research job at the Library of Congress for writing an article in the Wall Street Journal about the evils of justice perverted at Guantanamo, and a similar letter to the editor of the Washington Post. (The irony of being fired for exercising free speech while employed at Thomas Jefferson's library evidently escaped his bosses.) With the help of the ACLU, Davis demanded his job back. On January 8, 2010, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Library of Congress on his behalf. In March 2011 a federal court ruled against the Obama Administration's objections that the suit could go forward (You can read more about Davis' struggle.)
Moving "forward" is however a somewhat awkward term to use in regards to this case. In the past two years, forward has meant very little in terms of actual justice done.
Yes, you read that right. Col. Davis was fired from the job he truly loved at the Congressional Research Service because he, on his own time as a private citizen, exercised his First Amendment right to speak. As one of Davis' pleadings puts it:
Col. Davis was unconstitutionally removed from his position at the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service for writing opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post expressing his nonpartisan, personal views on the failures of the American military commissions established to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. His speech lies at the very core of the First Amendment and exemplifies the kind of speech that federal courts have been most vigilant in protecting from government retaliation.
The full pleading that quote came from, Col. Davis' response to the government's motion for summary judgment (one of the "pending dispositive motions") can be found here and is a good read if you are interested in more background.
That is exactly what happened and what is at stake. And you do not have to take my word for it, Judge Walton thinks it is a solid and valid claim too. Here is language from Judge Walton in an order in late January 2010, not long after the case was filed:
The Court is satisfied that the plaintiff has established, at least based on the record before the Court at this time, that the likelihood of success on the merits and public policy prongs of the preliminary injunction standard weigh in his favor. Essentially, the record before the Court suggests that the plaintiff was terminated immediately after two specific opinion editorials he authored were published in national newspapers. Regardless of the defendants' contention to the contrary, it appears that the content of the plaintiff's published opinions was one of the reasons, if not the primary reason, he was fired, i.e., because the plaintiff took a position on the prosecution of detainees being housed at the United States military's Guantánamo Bay facility which the Congressional Research Service felt would call into question its impartially as to any policy recommendation it would make and any research it would conduct on that issue. This conclusion is supported by the fact that the opinion articles were specifically referenced in the plaintiff's termination letter, and also the timing of the letter, which was issued only several days after his writings were published. The plaintiff's likelihood of success position therefore is well-founded, at least with respect to the record the Court now has before it. And as to the public interest prong, it cannot be questioned that government employees retain First Amendment rights. (citations omitted)
So, there is really no question but that protected First amendment rights were involved, and that Col. Davis was wrongfully fired for exercising them. Makes you wonder why the DOJ would string him out and fight so hard in a case that is only about the rights and not even about the money damages he suffered as a result (that would have to be litigated in a separate action).
As the graphic at the top questions, why is the DOJ willing to give free speech rights to a terrorist at Guantanamo and not to Col. Morris Davis? Bad faith is the answer. Complete, scandalous, bad faith.
Today's New York Times dutifully bleats to us that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been "warned" over his plan to release 88 prisoners from the Detention Facility in Parwan over the objections of the US. The warning:
"If these releases go ahead, it will do irreparable damage to the relationship," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. "There will be a backlash in the U.S. Congress."
Those doing the warning were hypocrisy tourists Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Missing their third amigo, Joe Lieberman, the duo settled for stand-in John Barrasso to join them on the trip. It appears, however, that Barrasso opted out of the opportunity to open his mouth, as he is not quoted in the Times piece and doesn't appear in the video interview ToloNews conducted while they were in Kabul:
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The hypocrisy emanating from [Linsey, as he is identified in the ToloNews video] Graham and McCain is staggering. Back in December of 2011, Graham led the charge to put remarkably strong rights protection for the Parwan prisoners into the NDAA, as Marcy noted, but Obama then proceeded to gut that language with his signing statement.
The entire issue of the prison at Parwan and the "independence" of Afghanistan to make its own decisions on the fate of prisoners put into the facility by US forces has been a point of contention for years and has seen significant deception on the part of the US. For example, in September of 2012, the US pretended, as they had several times before, to hand over "complete" control of the prison to Afghans, but still claimed to have veto power over the release of any prisoners. The US pretended again in March, 2013 to do the handover of the prison.
The current controversy again seems to come down to whether this veto power still exists and to the underlying wish of the US for Afghanistan to practice indefinite detention without charges, which Afghanistan has resisted instituting.
The relevant section 1024 of the NDAA calls for review of Afghan prisoner status:
But the NDAA wasn't all bad when it comes to U.S. military detention policy. In fact, section 1024 of the law, spearheaded by Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, provides detainees held indefinitely in Afghanistan with the right to a military defense lawyer and a neutral military judge to evaluate whether their detention is lawful and necessary. The provision was not particularly controversial and garnered little media attention; Congress apparently understood that for the U.S. to maintain any legitimacy while imprisoning some 3,000 Afghans in their own country it has to provide them basic rights to defend themselves.
As Marcy noted, though, Obama's signing statement sought to undercut that authority for an Afghan review. Graham and McCain, on their hypocrisy tour, appear to be agitating for the US veto power that Afghanistan never seems to have agreed to. From the ToloNews article accompanying the video: Continue reading
I would be shocked if, after today's appeal hearing in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's trial, he were granted a new trial on competency grounds. On the panel, David McKeague seemed completely skeptical on legal grounds, Jane Branstetter Stranch seemed skeptical on the central competency issue, leaving Curtis Collier (a District Judge on loan from E TN) with the only apparent sympathy for the argument at hand in the least.
As I explained back in May, The central question was whether Abdulmutallab was competent to defend himself. He had fired his federal defenders in September 2010 and the court named a standby counsel, Anthony Chambers, for him. In August of the next year, Chambers submitted a sealed motion arguing Abdulmutallab was not competent. Judge Nancy Edmunds had a hearing on August 17, 2011 and while she addressed several questions to Abdulmutallab, she did not have him evaluated for competency. When he plead guilty on October 12, 2012, she asked standby counsel if he thought Abdulmutallab was competent to plead guilt and after he assented, she accepted the guilty plea.
Both Judge McKeague, to a lesser degree Stranch, and prosecutor Jonathan Tukel emphasized that last point in their discussion: given that the same standby counsel who had submitted the motion on competence did not re-raise it at the plea, they argued, it suggests the counsel agreed with Edmunds' determination that Adbulmutallab was competent. Abdulmutallab's attorney Travis Rossman argued that the Chambers could not, at that point, argue his client was totally crazy. Moreover, he argued, the standard for a defendant representing himself was higher and must be concurrent determination (meaning if he were crazy in August 2012 but competent in October 2012, it would still be an issue for a defendant representing himself). But that detail will almost certainly be the one the judges point to to reject this appeal.
Judges McKeague and Stranch also examined a different question. Some of the most obviously crazy things Abdulmutallab did (though this wasn't and couldn't have been Chambers' original argument) came leading up to trial, most notably his bid to wear a Yemeni dagger to his trial. Abdulmutallab intended to martyr himself, Stranch noted, couldn't these actions be interpreted as an effort to use the trial to make a point of his faith? McKeague pointed out that Abdulmutallab had done some pretty "well thought out logical things" leading up to his attack. He later asked whether his conduct at trial wasn't consistent with what you'd expect a jihadi to do, to use the trial as a platform to present his views?
Rossman contested that point — noting that had Abdulmutallab let the trial play out, he would have had many more opportunities to parade his jihadi views. McKeague responded that refusing counsel left Abdulmutallab more empowered to make jihadi statements rather than mount a defense. Rossman correctly pointed out this was all getting into speculation about how a competent jihadi would act.
While it didn't come up in the hearing, remember that the statement Abdulmutallab ultimately made was remarkably muted and took up less than 15 minutes, so by measure of his exploitation of his soapbox, the UndieBomber failed.
All that's a way of saying that much of the hearing focused on how a competent jihadi would use his decision to represent himself to further his goals of jihad.
There is, however, a significant weakness in the government's case, one Tukel made obvious with the central ploy he made in his argument.


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It seems that when inserting left-aligned pictures in pages WP adds: style="width: 650px" to the image which means an extra 10 px to the image's actual width. It doesn't show in html-mode either as it does if you add margin in the advanced preferences for the image.
Since it gets created directly in the page I can't take it away in the style-sheet. It doesn't make a change either to use negative margins in the style-sheet.
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First up, we have an official statement from Producer Bryan Burk regarding Episode Seven's film schedule:
"We're progressing on a schedule to hopefully begin next year, or the beginning of next year, and the location is still kind of floating around in the air all depending on script and a whole bunch of other issues," Burk told Collider. "As I just said, everything is kind of a free-flowing thing, and when we feel like the story level on this script and everything is really coming together and schedules are all working and pieces line up, we prowl ahead, and Star Wars will be no different."
Next, Dave Filoni has posted one of his famous doodles on Facebook, along with these cryptic words:
"It's hard to believe that I have worked at Lucasfilm almost eight years, and this is the first time I have ever gotten to draw a TIE fighter."
It's safe to assume, especially given the specific phrasing, this means Filoni is referring to drawing a TIE Fighter in an official capacity for Lucasfilm, as part of his actual job, since he obviously could have drawn one on his own at any point in those eight years. Could this have something to do with his new project?
And lastly, LEGO Star Wars will soon return to Cartoon Network with The Yoda Chronicles, a new Star Wars story told in three animated specials.
Set in the prequel era, "The Phantom Clone" centers on Jedi Master Yoda and a fresh class of Padawans who set out to stop Darth Sidious and his minions from creating a new super-weapon that could crush the Republic. The special will also introduce Jek 14, an all-new original clone character who has been "enhanced" by the Force. The Simpsons' Michael Price wrote the script.
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Baroness Warsi has quit the government, saying she can no longer support its policy towards Gaza.
The senior minister for Foreign and Commonwealth affairs and for faith and communities tweeted her resignation this morning.
With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza— Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) August 5, 2014
i100 believes this is the first time a government figure has quit, not just in the UK, but also in the EU or the US, in protest over policies regarding Israel and Gaza.
Pretty sure @SayeedaWarsi is first govt figure to resign in #EU or #US over objection to #Israel #Palestine policy— John Lyndon (@JohnLyndon) https://twitter.com/JohnLyndon/statuses/496572811054694400">August 5, 2014
Is this the first resignation from the Coalition on a matter of principle?— Tim Montgomerie (@TimMontgomerie) August 5, 2014
Her resignation follows prime minister David Cameron refusing to condemn an alleged Israeli strike upon a United Nations school as "criminal".
This led to recriminations between No 10 and Labour when Ed Miliband rebuked Mr Cameron for his "silence on the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians", while Downing Street accused Mr Miliband of playing politics.
In her resignation letter, Baroness Warsi strongly hints that Israel may have committed war crimes, and suggests the removal of attorney general Dominic Grieve and Ken Clarke from the Cabinet in the last reshuffle may have contributed to the government's line on Israel's actions.
Baroness Warsi was first appointed to the Cabinet after the last general election. She was demoted to a middle-ranking Foreign Office post two years on but still attended Cabinet meetings.
Some people have suggested the resignation had more to do with internal politics than international issues.
Sayeeda Warsi resigns over Gaza. Only amazing things are (1) she was appointed in the first place; (2) she hadn't resigned before.— Tim Montgomerie (@TimMontgomerie) August 5, 2014
Baroness Warsi hasn't resigned over Gaza. She's resigned over Baroness Warsi > Telegraph > http://t.co/emjluhnJa3— Dan Hodges (@DPJHodges) August 5, 2014
Warsi has been trying to escape the government for months. She finally found her casus belli— Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) August 5, 2014
There was also a very short-lived suggestion from former Tory whip Mike Fabricant that Baroness Warsi's Muslim faith was central to her decision.
.@GarySpedding @SayeedaWarsi Gaza is certainly NOT a "Muslim issue". It is indeed a humanitarian issue.— Michael Fabricant (@Mike_Fabricant) August 5, 2014
. @LouiseMensch @Zehra_Zaidi If I have a view on the economy I'm a Tory, on the NHS I'm a Tory but on foreign policy it's bcos I'm Muslim!— Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) August 2, 2014
World War One commemoration services yesterday most likely delayed Baroness Warsi's resignation by at least one day, meaning the news of her stepping down coincides with the start of a 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza that has, so far, been observed by both sides.
Her resignation plus the mounting death-toll (1,800 Palestinians and 67 Israelis) could lead to calls for Parliament to be recalled during the summer recess.
It has also certainly put the government's response to Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip in even sharper focus than they already were, and partly vindicated Mr Miliband's stand against the prime minister.
The Prime Minister regrets that Baroness Warsi has decided to stand down and is grateful for the excellent work that she has done both as a Minister and in Opposition.
Our policy has always been consistently clear - the situation in Gaza is intolerable and we've urged both sides to agree to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
But its wider impact is questionable.
What this most recent stage of the Israeli-Hamas conflict has shown is that Israel is not easily swayed by even its closest ally the US condemning its actions when civilians are killed.
An arms embargo against Israel remains as distant a possibility as it did before the war in Gaza began.
Netanyahu turns the page of the newspaper.
Sips coffee.
Turns the page.
Starts the crossword.— Matt Leys (@mattleys) August 5, 2014
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He had a reputation for accepting too many jobs at the same time and was unable to live up to contractual obligations.
The idea for Shadow Island came from Steven Rouse. He also had some money for the production. Steven however, is dyslexic and needed someone else to write the script for him, He teamed up with Kevin Harriman for the first draft. It was at this stage that Lawes got involved. Lawes said he had investors from Australia, Ross Stansfield and his Singaporean partner John Chia who happen to have investment in Chang Mai where he went to see them inn August of 2005.
He returned and promptly told everyone he had funding for the movie. Lawes did several rewrites of the script. Although he is not a scriptwriter (But now he tells everyone he has been on a scriptwriting course in LA, so he must be one, right?)
He roped into the production Surun Srisomsub a Thai producer. He brought in Robin Jacob a British producer/director as editor/associate producer.
A range of top Thai crew and started casting the production with local actors. He put out publicity about the production trying to make out he was doing this great movie and it would benefit the Thai film industry.
The truth is somewhat different. The potential investors according to their side of the story, never promised to invest; they said they would consider it if their funding materialised. We have seen emails to this affect. Ric Lawes then realising that the funds would be delayed if it would be forthcoming at all, turned to Stephen Rouse to put up some of the funding until the main funding came in.
Lawes inability to produce became quite obvious when he brought in 2 Directors of Photography. Not something done on a professional film. Carol Raver (now deceased) from the US was flown over to be one the other was Laurie Gilbert from Singapore.
But this was a minor hiccup according to Rouse who had now put in several million Baht to prop up the production. John Chia one of the potential investors came to the set for a day or so to see the shooting. But continued to tell Lawes that their money was not yet in place and Lawes should not hare started filming unless he had other funding available.
The shooting finished at the end of November 2005. Still no money from the investors. The upshot was, Surun Srisomsub had to pay off a lot of the debt built up by Lawes because the rentals went through his company not Lawes. Rouse put up 6Million baht and was not in possession of the tapes. Many of the crew had not been paid. The director Jacob is still owed US$50K. Lawes fraudulent activity was highlighted on a website called Urban Rebel.
The movie remains unfinished, though Lawes has tried many times to rope in various people with editing facilities, etc. The movie will not cut. Lawes blames Jacob for being a bad director. However, He has won awards around the world for his work and knowing the way Lawes behaves we cannot believe this statement from Lawes.
In conclusion to this saga what we know is this:
Lawes started this project to get money to pay off Credit Card debt in Australia. Citibank were about to put him into bankruptcy.
He had no experience in producing and as we have previously discussed he is a sociopath. He lied to everyone, blaming each person when they weren't around and talking up those up whose company he was in.
Srisomsub, Jacob and Rouse told him not to start unless all the funding was in place. We have seen an email which was sent to Jacob 2 weeks after the finish of the shoot asking Jacob to look over the contract for the investors.
This apparently was sent to Stansfield, he promptly retuned it. Why would he want to invest in a project so badly handled by Lawes? Would you?
Most of the debt has not been paid, and what has been paid has been paid by everyone except Lawes.
Lawes blamed everyone else in turn except himself. Now Jacob is the flavor of the month, probably because he isn't here in Thailand. Wonder what Lawes would do if he turned up? Get his lawyer brother in law to get some friendly policemen to hassle him and file trumped up charges?
We must ask the question, why do the Thai authorities tolerate Lawes, is it because his wife is Thai? Surely that is not a good enough reason.
Lawes has left such a long paper trail showing just how stupid he is. We have been given pages of stuff that we haven't got even into yet. More will come soon.
What is Lawes involvement with Richard Walker, John Campbell and Lifewealth8 Ltd? Lawes was selling it in Thailand.
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A documentary is being made in the UK about dubious characters in Thailand; Shadow Island, Ric Lawes and his involvement in an identity scam, timeshare scam with companies in the UK, Thailand and Cyprus, involving millions of dollars, human trafficking and the exploitation of underaged migrant workers.
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Any of the above can be confirmed by contacting the stars, the crew who are listed on the website of the film we all worked so hard to make only to be destroyed by Jacob. Rot in hell Jacob.
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Is Zac Efron using his hair as a post-breakup coping mechanism?
Not likely. Although the "High School Musical" star and Vanessa Hudgens, 21, split in mid-December, Efron, 23, is focusing his energy on work -- namely, the Nicholas Sparks movie he just wrapped in New Orleans.
As part of "The Lucky One," Efron had to shave his signature wavy locks into a military-style cropped cut, the Times-Picayune reported.
Efron and Hudgens dated for more than three years before going their separate ways. "It was mutual," a source told UsMagazine.com. "They have been together for so long. It just ran its course."
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Teleblock is derived from the game RuneScape. You need to be on Modern Magics to cast Teleblock and you need 85 Magic to cast it. It takes 1 Death rune, 1 Law rune and 1 Chaos rune to cast. The spell stops the opponent from teleporting away from a fight in the Wilderness. Can be shortened to TB.
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Definition of anemic in English:
(British anaemic)
1Suffering from anemia.
Example sentences
- Does a blood transfusion in anemic patients with acute coronary syndrome improve survival?
- Nearly 90 percent of MDS patients are anemic and require regular transfusions of red cells.
- If the patient is anemic, transfusion of one or more units of packed red blood cells may be prescribed.
colorless, bloodless, pale, pallid, wan, ashen, gray, sallow, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaked, sickly, etiolated
1.1Lacking in color, spirit, or vitality.
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- The anemic palate that colours the film - grays, browns, and other hushed earth tones - provide the foreboding backdrop.
- Setup is joyously simple, and DVD performance is good, if not spectacular, but the sound is anaemic, lacking sufficient detail for music and serious clout for movies.
- It is anaemic, lacking in vision, and a generally debate-free zone.
feeble, weak, insipid, wishy-washy, vapid, bland;
lame, tame, lackluster, spiritless, languid, lifeless, ineffective, ineffectual, etiolated
informal pathetic
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Today's busier, faster society is waging an undeclared war on childhood. With too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time, children can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even be diagnosed with behavioral problems. Now internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne helps parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that all kids need for their attention to deepen and their individuality to flourish. Simplicity Parenting offers inspiration, ideas, and a blueprint for change: Streamline your home environment. Reduce the amount of toys, books, and clutter as well as the lights, sounds, and general sensory overload. Establish rhythms and rituals. Discover ways to ease daily tensions, create battle-free mealtimes and bedtimes, and tell if your child is overwhelmed. Schedule a break in the schedule. Establish intervals of calm and connection in your child's daily torrent of constant doing. Scale back on media and parental involvement. Manage your children's "screen time" to limit the endless deluge of information and stimulation.A manifesto for protecting the grace of childhood, Simplicity Parenting is an eloquent guide to bringing new rhythms to bear on the lifelong art of raising children.
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Bully? Victim? Bystander?
It's rough out there. If you're not being bullied, chances are good you know someone who is. Even if you're the one doing the bullying, you're not alone. And there are people who can help.
Launched in 2011 as an awareness campaign, Flip the Script earned awards, endorsements and national attention. Since the beginning, Flip the Script and its supporters have also successfully fought for tougher anti-bullying policies during the last three sessions of the Nevada Legislature.
However, research shows that anti-bullying programs are most effective in reducing bullying incidences when there are two key factors in play: when the program is evidence-based and when the program has student buy-in.
The anti-bullying program Operation Respect/Welcoming Schools is a research-backed, evidence-based program that is offered to a select number of schools in Clark County through the Public Education Foundation and Clark County School District's Equity and Diversity Education Department.
Flip the Script has adopted specific middle schools in Clark County who implement the Operation Respect/Welcoming Schools program. Flip the Script has provided students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to develop anti-bullying campaigns with the help of communication professionals. By focusing on the critical element of a student-created campaign, Flip the Script is playing a unique role in the fight against bullying and is ensuring the anti-bullying messages will spread from peer to peer.
For case studies and to learn more about the schools and their campaigns, please check back at the end of the school year.
What is bullying?
Bullying is ANY hurtful behavior that is done on purpose to harm another person. Bullying can take many forms, such as verbal, physical, relational and cyberbullying. It can make kids feel scared, lonely, embarrassed, sad and even sick.
The first thing is to stay safe. That might involve simply avoiding contact with your bully or not engaging with the bully. Talk to someone you trust and seek help from an adult. Report cyberbullying and keep evidence such as emails, texts, posts, etc. Do not respond to the cyberbully and block them if the bullying continues.
If you're a witness to bullying, it's important to remember there are no innocent bystanders. If you laugh at the bully or egg him on, you're a bully too. Take action by doing something to help get the victim away from the bully or report the bullying to a teacher or other adult.
Reference: American Psychological Association online article: How parents, teachers, and kids can take action to prevent bullying. Content contributed in part by Erica Maniago, Ph.D.
The first line of defense
If your child indicates he or she is being bullied, assure your child that it was the right choice to tell you. Deal with the situation in a responsible and confidential way. Parents can help their children learn ways to handle their anger or frustration and how to resolve conflict in nonaggressive ways.
If you suspect your child is being bullied, maintain open communication and stay informed about your child's life. Your child may be a victim of bullying if your child tries to avoid going to school, loses interest in schoolwork or begins to perform poorly, or displays unusual changes in temperament.
Be familiar with technology and set boundaries for use. Educate your child on appropriate online behavior and supervise his/her activities online. Set up proper filters and place computers in public areas. If bullying occurs, document all messages and activities and block the bully from further contact. Contact the police when physical threats are made or other aggressive messages are sent.
References: (1) National Association of School Psychologists, Bullies and Victims: Information for Parents (PDF) (2) American Psychological Association, Bullying: What Parents, Teachers Can Do to Stop It (3) Principal Leadership, September 2008; Cyberbullying Content contributed in part by Erica Maniago, Ph.D.
Safe schools are everyone's responsibility
Teachers hold the most influence in reducing bullying in schools. Create a safe and respectable classroom by having students develop their own code of conduct. Celebrate diversity in your classroom. If you witness bullying as it's occurring, stop the bullying immediately. Talk to all participants, including bystanders. If a student reports bullying to you, never ignore or downplay the incident. Follow up on all reported incidents.
Appropriate responses to bullying do not fall into a "one size fits all" model. Intervention approaches will depend in part on the age of the students, the type of bullying that is occurring, the number of students involved and the circumstances surrounding the incident. Follow your school's policies for reporting bullying and seek support from administration when needed.
Investigate all reports of cyberbullying. When cyberbullying takes place on campus, schools are obligated to take action. However, even if the cyberbullying occurs off site, schools have a responsibility to become involved.
References: (1) Stopbullying.gov (2) American Psychological Association article: Bullying: A module for teachers (3) National Association of School Psychologists article: Bullying prevention and intervention (4) American Psychological Association Zero Tolerance Task Force (2008). (5) Are zero tolerance policies effective in the schools? An evidentiary review and recommendations. American Psychologist, 63(9), 852-62.
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Translation of collar in Spanish:
- 1 (Clothing) to grab somebody by the collaragarrar a alguien del cuelloto get hot under the collarExample sentences
- In the context of an interview with mainstream corporate America, it's best to cover your tattoos and piercings with long-sleeved shirts, blouses, collars, and such.
- Tweed jackets are popular with the men, along with garish ties and socks, coloured shirts with white collars, coats with velvet lapels, yellow cords - all topped off with a flat cap or a trilby.
- The dangling detached polo shirt collars and tiny tee shirts may take some getting used to.
- 2 (for animal)Example sentences
- But unless he can replace the stolen tack, collars and harness, he will be unable to take part.
- The rigid collar and tandem harness allowed teams to pull with equal strength and greater efficiency.
- 3 (Zoology)Example sentences
- Then, if all went well, they would outfit the two-and-a-half-foot-long bird with a radio collar and transmitter.
- Testosterone-implanted males (with a control collar) were trialed against males with red, orange, blue, and control brown collars.
- One option was to fit animals with GPS collars, which get position fixes from satellites to monitor movements and activity patterns.
- 4 (Cooking)Example sentences
- Living on a staple diet of belly pork, collar bacon, and beef dripping, her arteries should have been as choked as the M1 on a Friday evening.
- 5 (Mechanics)Example sentences
- Diversion collars placed around the pipes, just below the sand surface, can be retrofitted if this begins to happen.
- The concrete pipes and collars on the sandy bottom created a tangled mass of intestines that lay unconnected to anything.
- So when the collar for new valve went round the pipe, there wasn't contact all the way round, due to a distinct lack of pipe.
transitive verb
- [colloquial]they were collared by the policela policía les echó el guante [colloquial]he collared me as I was leavingme agarró or me pescó cuando salía [colloquial]me cogió por banda cuando salía (Spain) [colloquial]Example sentences
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- Rookie cops graduate from the police academy anxious to collar real criminals.
- Crime-busting technology used by police to collar urban criminals is helping to catch wildlife thieves.
- That's slim consolation, however, for the 50-odd banks the Friday Night Bank Robber knocked over before he was finally collared.
- Rick left Edie's side immediately and collared David.
- Brian Beard collared him after the game and there was a slightly serious element in his first question.
- He was hoping to collar someone who would tell him what was up.
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The Burton AK 2L Swash jacket replaces the Burton AK Stagger jacket. The Swash uses the same two layer GoreTex as the Stagger and adds Primaloft insulation to the body of the jacket. It also uses the same functional pocket design on the front of the jacket.
The swash comes in eight different color ways from solids to to prints including Vintage Duck Camo.
The Swash retails for $400 but expect to find it at big discounts as the season draws to and end.
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'Genze riyaku' als Wesenskern japanischer ReligiositätDiese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Vorurteilen und kontrovers diskutierten Fragestellungen im Hinblick auf den japanischen Buddhismus, welche häufig in (populär-) wissenschaftlicher Literatur anzutreffen sind. Dabei wird der praktische Nutzen (genze riyaku), welcher vor dem Hintergrund europäisch-christlicher Vorstellungen häufig Befremden hervorruft, als Wesenskern japanischer Religiosität
'Wilde Ursprünge': Opfer, Jagd, GewaltStudienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1.0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Institut für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Hauptgeschehen im blutigen Opfer, das Töten eines Lebewesens, ruft (zumindest beim modernen Betrachter) vor allem zwei Assoziationsbereiche auf. Zum Einen ist dies die Jagd,
100 Proofs that the Bible is the Inspired Word of God and Scientifically AccurateDid you know that Science, Astronomy, and physics actually prove the Bible's accuracy? Numbers, the Human body, our DNA, and even the heavenly bodies all point to a creator. There seems to be no contradictions between what modern society has discovered about our world and the cosmos and what the Bible reveals in hundreds of ancient scriptures and prophecies. The big bang theory, and evolution do
The Confessions of a Converted Jehovah's WitnessAt first, the Watchtower Society seemed harmless to William J. Schnell, even valuable as a way to develop his faith in God and pass it on to others. This book is Schnell's fascinating account of his involvement with the cult, which effectively enticed him in the 1920s and continues to lure countless individuals today. Readers will learn, as Schnell did, that the Jehovah's Witness religion he had
50 Things You're Not Supposed To KnowIf you're waiting for the world's "Holy Men" to tell you the truth about their religions, do you suppose they'll mention that:The Tao Te Ching was only created because Lao Tzu was thrown in jail by a disciple who didn't want to let him leave town without writing down his teachings?"Passover" celebrates God killing all firstborn Egyptian kids while Jewish homes were "passed over" by the angel of
60 Questions Christians Ask About Jewish Beliefs and Practices"An invaluable guide from a trusted expert."--Lee StrobelWritten in a compelling, accessible style, this book answers the most common questions about Jewish people and culture, drawn from the steady stream of queries Michael L. Brown's ministry receives every month.As a Messianic believer, Brown provides clear answers to questions like "Are there Jewish denominations?" and "Do the Jewish people
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Hi im Sara, im 16, kinda old i guess for pokemon lol.. well hi :D
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hi sarah welcome to PokeCommunity ;P
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eh...time to meet a 19 year old still into pokemon...XD
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You are never too old for Pokemon. ;D Welcome to PC, VelvetDratini~ I'm Karli. X3 If you have any questions, you can PM/IM me if you want. :) See ya around.
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You can never be old for pokemon lol Anyways welcome and have a great time!
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Competing in a triathlon with an open-water swim? Don't miss these tips from super swimmer John Flanagan.
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Chris Lieto gives tips on navigating a mass-start swim and provides a specific workout for you to try before your next big race.
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When prepping for their first race, should new triathletes focus more on technique or open-water skills?
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Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap starring Aamitabh Bachchan is releasing this Friday (July 1). Amitabh is pinning all hope on the film to give him a big hit. It's reported that he has hurled lots of abuses in the film. Aamir Khan's home production Delhi Belly starring Imran Khan has been in the news ever since it was launched. The actor has made it clear that it is an adult film with ample double meaning words.
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