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New to Five Star Alliance: Hotel Molitor Paris
November 23, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Those who saw the award-winning movie Life of Pi (or read the book) will remember the legendary pool Piscine Molitor. The book and movie's hero was named Piscine Molitor, because his father wanted him to be as clean as the pool's water. Pi later shortened his name due to teasing at school. In addition to being featured in Life of Pi, Olympic gold medalist and future Tarzan actor, Johnny Weissmuller, was once a lifeguard at the pool. In a photoshoot held at the pool in 1946, the modern bikini was revealed for the first time. The pool also used to double as a skating rink in the winter. In 1989, the pool closed due to lack of funds, and the site became a magnet for graffiti artists.
After 25 years, the pool was recently reopened as part of the new Hotel Molitor Paris. With views of the summer pool, the 124 rooms at the 5-star MGallery hotel invite you to discover this wonderful location: enjoy relaxing in the spa, swim in the indoor pool, share a cocktail on the rooftop or savor the menu dreamt up by 2 generations of Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Relax: you are at the Molitor.
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Get Jazzy at La Tremoille
October 12, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
La Tremoille's Jazz Suites were created to honor Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Both musicians stayed at the Parisian hotel in the 1960's.
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Congratulations to Banke Hotel
October 4, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
A hearty congratulations to Banke Hotel!
This boutique hotel, which opened in 2009 in Paris's Opera district, has just received its fifth star from Atout France. Atout France is the Tourist Development Agency of France. The award is the ultimate recognition for an establishment steeped in art and design, and committed to service excellence from the outset.
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Hotel La Tremoille 's Spa Offers The Well-Being Stopover
September 26, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Dating back to 1883, La Tremoille was transformed from a private residence into a hotel in 1925. La Tremoille took its name of Louis II de La Tremoille, a statesman during the reign of Francois I. Today, La Tremoille luxury spa hotel in Paris pays tribute to this past by providing top-of-the-range contemporary services. Body care can be administered in guest rooms, or in delightful cabins integrated into the hotel spa. The spa has dubbed its treatments as "The Well-Being Stopover."
The spa includes a fitness room, sauna and jet shower; access is free of charge for hotel guests. Unwind in the sauna and let its virtues relax your body and mind. The jet shower also brings unrivalled relaxation.
For total repose, guests can take advantage of therange of body and facial care treatments by Carita. La Tremoille's spa has joined forces with Carita's Haute Beauté brand to offer guests effective, top-of-the-range beauty treatment. Body care and modeling services are available to both men and women and are sure to bring relaxation and well-being.
Treatment Options Include:
-Facial treatments: whatever your skin type, enjoy beauty treatments adapted to your face bringing suppleness, freshness, and lightness and a perfect complexion.
-Beauty care: foot and hand beauty treatments, manicure, depilation, eye care, make-up, hairstyling, and more.
-Body care: exfoliation, foot and head reflexology, leg massage, and more.
-Slenderness treatments.
-Care promoting well-being: modeling with essential oils, ayurvedic massage, hot stone massage, and more.
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Did You Know? Hotel Prince de Galles
September 22, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Hotel Prince de Galles was built in 1928 and was inspired by the style of the Decorative Arts exhibition of 1925. With a classical yet modern frontage and a magnificent patio in mosaic, the hotel Prince de Galles owes its name to its original aim: to welcome to Paris during his annual stays, the Prince of Wales, future Edward VIII, son of the king of England George V. Other famous guests include Winston Churchill, Lord Chamberlain, Marlene Dietrich, Elvis Presley, Lana Turner, and Gina Lollobrigida. Composer Frederic Chopin lived in the building that was the precursor to the hotel.
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Did You Know? Ritz Paris
August 8, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
In the early '30s, fashion icon Coco Chanel moved into the Hotel Ritz Paris. She not only brought her luggage, she also brought her own furniture, including a beige suite settee and a chinoiserie folding screen. The suite where she lived for more than 35 years still exists. The 1,670-square-foot Coco Chanel Suite has two bedrooms and a living room and features Coromandel lacquers, Chinese furniture, baroque mirrors, and over-sized sofas with quilting created by Chanel.
But Madame Coco wasn't the only celebrity of the time to call the hotel home. Ernest Hemingway also lived there, and one of the bars is fittingly named in his honor.
The hotel is currently closed for extensive renovations, but is expected to re-open in late 2014 or early 2015.
Hotel Plaza Athenee Re-Opens
July 25, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Since opening in 1913, Hôtel Plaza Athénée has been the choice of celebrities wishing to experience the energy and elegance of this unique city. The hotel is located on the prestigious avenue Montaigne, home of Parisian haute couture with exclusive labels such as Dior, Chanel and Valentino. Near the Eiffel Tower and River Seine, in the heart of the Triangle d'Or area, the hotel also enjoys incredible views over Paris.
Now, fter a lengthy renovation, the luxury hotel finally re-opens on August 1, 2014. To mark the occasion, the luxury Parisian hotel has a special offer. Be one of the first guests and you can cut the ribbon to your room or suite.
Be the First Package Includes:
-A souvenir photo of the ribbon-cutting event.
-Two Black Rose Royal cocktails at the newly redecorated bar.
-Two American Breakfasts
-A chocolate souvenir
Rates for this special event start at €875 per night. This offer is valid for stays between August 1 and 31, 2014 and is subject to availability. Blackout dates may apply. Rates are per room or suite, per night, based on double occupancy. Taxes and service are included. The cancellation policy is 48 hours before arrival. This offer cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. Additional restrictions may apply.
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Your Questions Answered: Can You Recommend a Family-Friendly Parisian Hotel?
July 13, 2014
By: Betsy LeTourneau
We at Five Star Alliance work tirelessly to ensure we bring you the best luxury hotels selection and information regarding amenities, location, and highlights so you are confident that the hotel you choose will exceed your expectations and serve your needs. Sometimes, however, you are left with a few questions that go unanswered, and that's why we're here. Be sure to explore our new blog series Your Questions Answered to find answers to real questions submitted to us by our clients regarding traveling with kids, pets, the best beach hotels, and much more.
QUESTION: What are some family hotels in Paris for a family of 4, children ages 8 and 11?
ANSWER: Shangri-La Hotel Paris
Built in 1896 as the home of Prince Roland Bonaparte - Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew - Shangri-La Hotel, Paris is situated in the elegant 16th arrondissement of Paris, adjacent to the Trocadero. Located amidst one of the highest concentrations of museums in Europe, this historic residence features breathtaking views of the Eiffel Tower and Seine River, Les Invalides, the Louvre and Montmartre.
Restored by the prominent architect Richard Martinet, the plush interiors of this luxury hotel are the realization of renowned interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon. Surrounded by a secluded garden re-invented by landscape designer Louis Benech, the 81 rooms and suites - the largest among Paris luxury hotels - offer guests the chance to enjoy an exclusive home in a unique setting. The hotel features sumptuous guest rooms and suites in a classically French style. These opulent furnishings are complemented with superb views across the city and the River Seine, making every room a special place to rest and relax. To complete this experience of pure luxury, every room includes a spacious marble bathroom with seperate deep soaking bathtub, large walk-in shower, flat screen TV in the bathroom, mist-free mirror, and decadent heated floors. Breathtaking views of the Eiffel Tower and the River Seine confirm the hotel's status as one of Paris' finest hotels.
For Your Family's Needs, We Recommend:
2 connecting rooms (maximum occupancy in rooms is 3). Try a Deluxe King connecting to a Deluxe Twin or a Premium King connected to a Deluxe Twin.
Deluxe Rooms are spacious French style bedrooms located between the first and the seventh floor of the hotel. They are appointed with the very latest technology and Shangri-La signature beds create a warm residential feel. Furniture, made of natural wood and marquetry, is characterised by French clear-cut silhouettes and symmetry in decoration.U The rooms unique layouts overlook the hotel garden, the courtyard or the Avenue d"Iena. Some rooms have a terrace or a balcony. King, Queen or Twin beds available on request. The marble-clad bathrooms feature a bathtub, separate deep soaking tubs, large walk-in shower, flatscreen television, mist-free mirror, and heated floor. Each room offers 40 square meters of luxury.
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All rates are based on double occupancy and extra person charges may apply. Please be advised that the rates, availability, as well as any extra person charges are subject to change depending on the hotel's policies.
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Dining al Fresco: Castille Paris
June 30, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Castille Paris offers fine dining at L'Assaggio. The Italian restaurant serves a symphony of the colours and fragrances of the best Mediterranean cuisine with many regional Italian dishes. The Florentine patio opens its doors around the Roman fountain in spring and summer, evoking an Italian atmosphere.
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New to Five Star Alliance: Hotel Le Littre
May 28, 2014
By: Five Star Alliance
Ideally nestled between the Montparnasse Tower (the best view of the city) and the mythical Saint-Germain-des-Pres arty neighborhood on the left bank of Paris, Hotel Le Littre welcomes guests for family vacations, honeymoon, business trips, or weekend gateways. Everything is at hand: from restaurants, shops, monuments, exhibitions, museums, bars, and other entertaining places. There is direct metro and bus access to the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, the Opera House, the Arc de Triomphe, and other sites of interest.
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Jury clears Erie teacher of molestation charges
An Erie County jury deliberated about 25 minutes this afternoon before clearing a suspended Erie teacher of all charges he molested a then-12-year-old boy in December 2010.
David M. Montgomery, 43, was acquitted on one count each of indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of minors, all first-degree misdemeanors.
The boy, now 15, told jurors on Tuesday that Montgomery touched him improperly while Montgomery was baby-sitting him during the 2010 Christmas season in Montgomery's home in the 3200 block of Holmes Street.
The defense presented several witnesses to say that the boy was not in the home at that time and that the allegations surfaced amid an Office of Children and Youth investigation of the boy's family that might have been prompted by Montgomery.
Judge Shad Connelly presided.
Montgomery's legal troubles are not over. He is awaiting a preliminary hearing on another set of allegations from a different alleged victim, who came forward in March and said Montgomery repeatedly molested him between 2003 and 2010, when the boy was between 8 and 15 years old.
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Good luck. I gave up oatmeal myself. I ate it at least twice a day, about a full cup raw. I miss it, but overall I feel much better on PB. The best part for me is the deep sleep I am getting.
Today embarks day #1 of my 4 week primal experiment. I have been following this blog for a number of months now and enjoy the Primal lifestyle as each day passes.
I run a natural skin care blog teaching others how to live acne free through a holistic lifestyle. I am personally 99% clear - you have to be within a foot of me to notice any acne. But, I want to be 100% free from acne.
So, I thought, why not officially go 99% primal (explained below) and see how my skin reacts? I am very confident that within 4 weeks (probably less) I will truly be 100% clear with glowing skin. The overall lifestyle is what counts as diet is only a part to the equation.
One thing that I do love is 100% irish steel cut oats. I love soaking the oats overnight and simply heating them on low in the morning. So, I will be doing this twice a week for breakfast. I also enjoy ezekiel sprouted grain bread (sesame) once in a largely great while, so I may have a slice or 2 with coconut oil during the 4 week experiment.
Other than that, I believe I will be all primal. I love sleep and will be getting a minimum of 8 hours a night. I use my alarm clock but have been waking up naturally lately. Today it was set for 7 am but I naturally woke up at 6:45 - almost exactly 8 hours of sleep (funny how that works).
I will update this forum topic 2-3 times a week I am guessing. But, feel free to check out my blog every Saturday for detailed updates. I am keeping track of everything I eat down to the gram just about via FitDay. This way I truly know my carb, protein, fat intake as well as other nutrients.
My goal is to consume less than 150 carbs a day. 100 is a good number but just a few months ago I would not doubt it if I was over 300. Baby steps!
So, we shall see how it goes.
So far today I had a green smoothie, 4 egg omelet (with true pastured eggs - hooray!) with 3 mushrooms and one yellow onion along with 3 T of coconut flakes. For lunch I had a smoothie with 1 scoop whey, 1 avocado, 2 strawberries, 1/3 C coconut milk and ice and water. I also had a small cucumber and 1 large celery stalk. Oh, and I had one t of fish oil - yea I drink my fish oil
I will be enjoying a Big Ass Salad for Dinner. Lots of veggies and 2 100% grass fed hot dogs from applegate farms - a fav! And homemade balsamic viniagrette dressing.
I am 100% stress free at the moment... just working a bit I taped Tiger Woods news conference - can't wait to watch!
Anyone here a fan of Tiger? Golf in general?
Check out my blog - view last Saturday's post for more information!
Good luck. I gave up oatmeal myself. I ate it at least twice a day, about a full cup raw. I miss it, but overall I feel much better on PB. The best part for me is the deep sleep I am getting.
Thanks buddie. A full cup of raw oatmeal a day? Damn. I am having some tomorrow but only 1/4 C uncooked. I'll be slow cooking it - 1 serving making 150 calories of irish steel cut oats. I'll be adding some almonds, hemp seeds, coconut milk, and cinnamon. A green smoothie with spinach, strawberries, and guava will be consumed while the oatmeal is cooking. Can't wait
I said I would update this thread a few times a week, but I have failed to do that. Sorry for those of you who are interested!
I need to make a statement...
Choosing to live Primally has been the best decision I have made in my entire life!
Starting my 4 week experiment is having a HUGE effect on my life in all areas. I thought it would be awesome, but it has been beyond spectacular. I love it to death and will NEVER look back!
I will have an update later today or tomorrow. I did just publish a post at my blog too.
Well, here is a quick and sad (for now) update...
I have entered my data for the first 4 days of my 4 week experiment.
Here are my averages for the 3 macronutrients and calories:
Cals: 2200 (exactly...crazy)
Fat: 129
Carbs: 175
Protein: 99
My carb intake has been higher then I want it to be... my goal is less than 150 g per day for now. It will be easy to do and I think day 5 I ate less than 150 g for the first time. I will find out tomorrow! My protein intake is right what I am shooting for which is crazy. My goal is 100 g and wala - 1 gram short. I will be increasing my protein in take as I hope to gain weight. I am 5'9" but weigh only 133 lbs. I have very low body fat (not sure on the # but it is low - it has to be).
That's all for now!
Primal living is awesome! And, perfect for getting rid of acne let me tell you! This will allow me to bring thousands of more people into the primal world! Thanks Mark!


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The Cainhoy Titans closed out their perfect season with the South Carolina Youth Soccer League U9 boys Division III championship last week.
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Climactic conditions with the right amount of sunshine and rain make the Mendrisiotto an ideal wine growing area.
Hiking time: 5 hours
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In glossy 3x5 photos meant for the scrapbook, the shining faces of two boys with mischievous grins and eyes full of promise paint an almost Rockwellian picture of normalcy.
Fabian Flores and Christopher Hale grew up together in the working-class neighborhoods of Greeley. They played football together and were inseparable since they were 6 and 7 years old.
Years later, they joined the gang life together.
In 2008, they went behind bars together.
Earlier this month, Fabian's parents buried him after a drive-by shooting, while Chris completes his prison sentence in Buena Vista.
Their parents and teachers tried. There were frequent lectures about the dangers of gangs and a transfer to different schools to avoid gang influences. The boys seemed to be typical teens by day, but they cruised into the shadows of gang life away from the watchful eyes of authority.
Not so long ago, Greeley leaders denied there even was a gang problem. Now, most concede that gangs will remain part of the city's fabric for years to come and may never go away. Police can contain, track and lock up gang members, but they know their war on gangs is a fight they ultimately can't win.
Daily, kids like Fabian and Chris are inundated with the underground influence of gangs, from the music they listen to, to the clothing they wear, to the school and neighborhood cultures. For some, the perceived prestige, excitement and attraction of a gang lifestyle — with the structure kids sometimes lack in their own families — is too powerful to resist.
"It used to be something you saw in the poorer neighborhoods, in single-family homes," said Ontika Porter, Chris' mother. "Chris and Fabian are proof that it's not."
The early years
Fabian and Chris met on the football field at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Weld County.
"You're not very good at football. Why do you play?" a young Christopher asked his new friend, Fabian, so many years ago.
"Because my dad made me," Fabian answered.
"Those were the first words me and my best friend exchanged when we first met at football practice. That was 14 years ago, and we were in the second grade," Chris, now 21, wrote from his prison cell in Buena Vista earlier this month when he learned Fabian, 20, was shot and killed.
From that time, the boys became inseparable. They became fixtures in each other's homes and part of each other's families. They treated each other's parents as their own.
"As little boys, when one would ask for something the other was right there saying, 'Come on mom,' " Porter said. "They did everything together, everything. Chris would go to Florida for the summer and spend time with my mother, and he'd call Fabian. Ever since he was a kid, they'd call and talk. They always said they were going to live together, and they neither would get married."
Fred and Grace Flores had good jobs, worked hard and instilled in their four kids — Fabian was the baby with three very protective older sisters — the strong values they shared.
They took their kids on family vacations every year to Disneyland and Universal Studios. Fabian loved science, often writing stories about aliens coming to Earth. He played the saxophone and did well in school.
When Fabian was nine or 10, his parents divorced.
"In the beginning he didn't like it very well, we were doing the usual squabbling, we decided this was hurting him too much," Fred Flores said. "We got joint custody so he could spend time with both of us."
Added Grace: "We decided we're going to do what's best for him and get along. And we've been like best friends ever since, spending family functions and birthdays together.
"There was never a time when I couldn't go to his house and he couldn't come to mine and spend time with Fabian."
In the letter he wrote from prison, Chris talked about their dreams as boys.
"Growing up, all we talked about was how we were going to live together in this big house with our families," he wrote. "I was going to be an NFL player. He wanted to be one, too, but I told him he was better off being my agent. He didn't like that very much. LOL."
Chris asked his mother to read his letter at Fabian's funeral.
She couldn't bring herself to do it.
High school
Though elementary and middle school went well for both boys, high school changed them. The gang influence was everywhere — even from Fabian's first girlfriend in ninth grade, who would secretly flash gang signs to friends when she was with him. For many, the gang members in class represented somewhat of a cool clique in school.
"You can't really get away from it to some degree," said James Lozano, a lifelong friend of Fabian and Chris, who went to school with Fabian at Greeley West High School. "To some degree there was some prestige in being involved" in gangs.
There was alcohol, drugs, parties, lifelong friends going down the wrong path. But few involved knew then, or even now, the extent of Chris' and Fabian's double lives.
"We always talked to him about not having anything to do with the gangs," Grace said.
Added Fred: "He said, 'Dad, I'm not involved,' because I drilled it over and over. He said, 'I'm not involved in gangs. I have friends I grew up with. They're involved in gangs. I'm not going to stop being their friend.' That's what he told me."
Indeed, they had friends who drifted into gangs. But they had other friends, like Lozano, who would become a class leader at Greeley West and who is now 21 going into his fourth year at the University of Denver, or Reynaldo Delgado, who is studying to be a firefighter at Aims Community College.
"They were really good friends," Lozano said of Chris and Fabian. "They helped me understand what true friendship meant."
Chris, who once wanted to be a police officer, struggled academically and drifted out of sports given that he was shorter than other athletes and stopped making the teams, his mother said. She refused to let him drive until he could maintain a C average. Halfway through his sophomore year, Fabian transferred to Northridge High School. His parents believed he was being harassed by gangs at Greeley West. Around the same time, Northridge officials sought to move Chris to Greeley West, seeing some of the kids he was hanging around with. The boys spent their time out of school together.
Chris started skipping school and lying. He'd sneak out at night, despite all of his mother's attempts to keep him home.
"He was hanging out with gang members, and I'm sure they weren't out doing community service and walking old ladies across the street," Porter said.
Looking back, she knows she missed many of the signs of his gang involvement. She knows her son played her. She wishes she had done things differently.
"Chris was my first teenager," said Porter, who has four other children, three of whom are now home-schooled. "I was just as responsible for him making the decisions he made. I really did not know what to do. He'd look at me with those big brown eyes … and I believed him; I saw my 2-year-old in a diaper."
Fabian's lifelong friend Delgado, 19, who recently completed the Aims Fire Academy and will continue his schooling this fall to get his associate degree, learned of some Fabian's gang activities in the past year.
"He'd come to us all normal, then go to his other friends and that lifestyle," Delgado said. "He kept it away from me. He just told me the major parts, all the things he was doing … he would steal from people at school and break into houses."
"I'd say his new friends are what influenced him the most," Delgado said. "I don't know his new friends. I just know they were in gangs when he switched to Northridge."
Delgado didn't know much about Chris, but he liked him the few months he did know him.
"He was the funniest guy I ever met," Delgado said. "He was so creative. He was a pretty good guy and very loyal to his friends."
Despite Fabian's denial of gang involvement, strange things happened that still have his parents scratching their heads.
One day, a boy came to Fred Flores' door, asking to get his bike. Flores, confused, told the boy there was no bike there. The teen left, and Flores went to school to pick up his son. In the time he was gone, his house was robbed, but only Fabian's clothes and accessories were stolen. Burglars took everything from his underwear and socks to his hats.
Another morning, Fabian and his father woke up to all the windows of Fabian's car busted. Flores paid $1,800 to replace them.
The Floreses, until recently, thought their son was being harassed to be in a gang, but they never knew he had been "jumped in," a common initiation to prove worthiness and loyalty to a gang.
In Chris' junior year, he wanted out of school. His mother made him promise to finish out the year, then try to get his GED. If he wasn't going to school, Porter said, he had to work. He got a job at Sonic.
"Everything seemed to be going OK until the armed robbery," Porter said. "Whatever they were doing behind closed doors, they absolutely kept it behind closed doors."
Life-changing events
Gang detectives had never even heard of Chris and Fabian until a series of robberies in 2008.
But police reports in both Evans and Greeley revealed a group of young kids from June 16-20, 2008, committing four separate robberies, a couple at knifepoint and two more at gunpoint.
Chris and Fabian were together in the robberies with Nolan Granados and Julian Gonzalez.
From 2-4 a.m., the group of boys — all 16 and 17 years old — took off to rob a store, then another as police busied themselves with the first one. In at least two cases, Fabian was said to be driving the getaway car, but in one instance, a store clerk identified him as pointing a gun at him, according to police reports.
Chris was the decoy, often going to the cashiers and distracting them with purchases and small talk, while two other boys came in with guns or butcher knives, according to police reports.
All eventually were identified in store videos, arrested and convicted. Three were charged as adults: Chris got eight years in prison; Fabian six. Gonzalez, identified in the robberies as holding butcher knives or shotguns against the clerks, had a history of theft. He got 20 years. Granados was sentenced to 10 years in the Youth Offender System.
Fabian was the first to get out in February 2011. He had been living and working Denver, in a halfway house. Eventually, he was earning enough privileges to see his parents on the weekends in Greeley.
He was determined to walk the straight and narrow.
"He did tell me he would find it hard to trust people now," Delgado said of his conversations with Fabian after his release, when Fabian would reveal his troubled past. "The friends who were supposed to have his back … they just kinda left him — the friends that didn't go to prison."
On June 30, Fabian, in town to visit his parents, went to Porter's house to talk to his second mom.
"He even told me, 'I'm sorry this had to happen, that everything happened with me and Chris,' " Porter said. "He wanted to tell me he was sorry. He thought I was mad at him and I wasn't."
Fabian had spent his time behind bars contemplating what he'd done, what his parents eventually felt was the best thing that could have happened.
Margo Preciado, a Weld County Jail chaplain, remembers how Fabian began to change from a quiet recluse to an avid learner during her Bible study in jail.
"When he went to prison, I started talking to him again," she said. "He said, 'I love to pray, like you pray for me.' He started ministering there. He'd write, and say, 'I'm ministering about God.' He said, 'Sister, do you think I'm doing good?' "
Fabian served his sentence in Sterling Correctional Facility, and he was one of the youngest inmates inside the state's largest prison.
"All the older guys just talked to him," Fred said. "This guy who's doing 40 years, 'You're so young, you made bad choices, when you get out, stay out.' … They wanted him to turn around and start changing his life. They were talking positive to him. That's what made it all the better."
Fabian got his GED and his commercial driver's license in Sterling, and he kept up with his religion. He began ministering to other inmates, as well as his dad.
When he was released, he went to the halfway house in Denver. His parents didn't want him returning to Greeley with the potential of old friends coming back. And Fabian worked hard, showing up at his employer's doorstep in a suit to get a job working on the trash trucks, even though he already had a job at a tire shop, his human resources director said at his funeral.
"I'd seen all of it, the way he was changing his life, of trying to prove to me he could," his father said. "He worked his butt off. His fingers were all skinned up from tire busting. He was trying to prove to me that he could do it. So many times he almost gave up."
Fabian's passion to change is what pushes Lozano to better himself.
"He's my motivation now to realize that now is the time," Lozano said. "There's no time to waste."
The last day
On July 1, Fred picked Fabian up in Denver to come to Greeley, and they went to church at New Hope Christian Fellowship in north Greeley. He was allowed a day pass from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
"We were talking about the Bible," Fred said. "He was trying to tell me, all you have to do is accept Jesus and believe he died on the cross for your sins and you're saved.
"We went to church that day, and the minister just happened to be preaching about what we were talking about. He elbowed me and said, 'See? I told you.' "
Fabian rededicated his life to Jesus after that service.
After church, the family went to El Charro for lunch, where Fabian ordered a hamburger and fries.
Fabian returned to his father's house, and announced he was going to the mall to get a pair of shoes. Fred had errands to run, and they went their separate ways.
"I called him at 5 p.m. I could tell he was in a car," Fred said. "I told him to make sure he was here on time to get back to Denver. I told him I loved him, and he said, 'I love you, too.' Twenty minutes later I got the call."
Fabian was in the back seat of a car with friends — gang friends — driving through downtown Greeley. A car of apparent rival gang members drove up from behind the car and someone fired three shots.
Fabian was the only one hit. A bullet hit his eye, shattering his eye socket. He went into the emergency room complaining his eye hurt, that something was in it. Within minutes he was on the floor.
A friend called Fabian's dad, and his dad called Grace. The parents were too late.
"To me, he was pretty much already dead," Fred said. "He was all stiff, and he had a patch on his eye. When they sedate them, their eyes are just wide open."
The Floreses called Porter, who rushed to be at Fabian's side.
"I just kept thinking this couldn't be happening," Porter said of the last moments of Fabian's life. "I had some hope that maybe he would pull through. And I just begged him to stay.
"I held his hand. The nurses got a copy of his handprint, and they gave us one. I'm going to keep it for Chris."
Gang ties
Why was Fabian in that car with gang members? Police, used to most gang members getting out of jail and rekindling their ties, would suggest Fabian was doing just that.
In fact, a week before his death, Fabian flashed a smile for a photograph, wearing a bright red shirt and a large silver cross.
His family thought maybe he was just resuming lifelong friendships that began at Meeker Elementary School.
They didn't know until the gang members themselves told the family he was ministering to them.
"Not only was he ministering to gang members, but to lots of different people, people we didn't know he was ministering to, until they told us," Porter said. "He was making amends. He was paying for what he did, he was paying beyond the full extent of the law."
The family kept him alive to donate his organs to seven people. One person was able to see for the first time.
Police still have not arrested anyone in the shooting, one of five gang-related shootings in a three-week period in Greeley. The gang members Fabian were with said little to police — likely part of their code of silence.
Porter grieves, not only for Fabian, but for the person who pulled the trigger that day.
"I'm almost positive this is a young kid, and they probably had no clue they were going to take someone's life," Porter said. "They just thought they could prove they were badder or my gang is better than yours.
"Still, when and if they get caught, this will be another young life lost. There is going to be some other parent dealing with a child going to prison."
Even in death, Fabian couldn't escape his gang ties.
Gang members showed up at his funeral, held just two days before what would have been Fabian's 21st birthday. A group sat in the back of the New Hope Christian Fellowship hall, wearing their colors in various forms from their shirts to their shoes. Few in attendance were pleased.
All involved in Fabian's and Chris' story hope kids get one message about gangs: Stay away. Even minor involvement may be too much.
"That isn't a life," Fred said. "That's a life of fear, that is a life of doing wrong and wrong unto others. Eventually everyone has to pay for what they do wrong. No one gets away with anything. My son knew that, and he was turning his life for the better."
Said Grace: "There isn't anyone out there who can't change life for the good."
Part Two on Monday examines the way Greeley is trying to contain gang activity and trying to encourage young kids to stay away from the gang life.
Some signs of kids involved in gangs
» Wearing predominantly blue or red T-shirts, shoelaces, belts, bandannas
» Sports jerseys with gang numbers 13 or 14
» Belt buckles with gang initials or numbers
» Hash marks shaved into eyebrows
» Tattoos of gang names or numbers
» Fake tattoos of gang names
» Gang doodles or drawings
» Facebook and MySpace page with gang talk
» Skipping school
» Staying out late
» Coming home with unexplained bruises or injuries
» Carrying weapons
» Hanging out with gang members
» Having an unusual interest in gangster-influenced music, videos, movies or websites
» Having unexplained cash or goods, such as jewelry and clothing
» Using hand gestures or signs to communicate with friends
Greeley's gangs
Greeley police consistently track roughly 600 gang members throughout the city, with no clearly identified territories, despite their names: Norteño (north side) and Sureño (south side). There are various subsets of both major gangs.
» Norteño street gang members often identify with the symbols XIV, X4, 14, and 4-dots. Fourteen refers to the 14th letter of the alphabet "N" which stands for Norteño or the Nuestra Familia. The gang associates with the color red and the words Norteño, Norte and Northerner.
» Sureño street gang members often identify with the symbols XIII, X3, 13, and 3-dots. This refers to the 13th letter of the alphabet "M" which stands for Mexican Mafia. The gang identifies with the color blue and the words Sureño, Sur and Southerner.
I'd seen all of it, the way he was changing his life, of trying to prove to me he could. He worked his butt off. His fingers were all skinned up from tire busting. He was trying to prove to me that he could do it. So many times he almost gave up.
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Sophia's Choice
In Merv Griffin's newly released Book of People, the talk show host reports that both Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton claim Sophia Loren cheats at poker. What's more, he quotes Omar Sharif as saying, "Sophia's got this thing that you cannot leave the table until she's winning. If it takes one week, you sit at that table. Usually, when you're tired, you let her win. She says, 'I've got a pair of deuces,' and you just throw your four aces out." Griffin, ever the gentleman, gives Loren equal time. Her reply: "That's not true. They are never able to win with me, that's why they say I cheat." Besides, she zings, "O'Toole still owes me money."
The High Cost of Hand-Me-Downs
One night last February, while Bonnie Sirower was trying to think of a way to raise money and promote a new line of "designer jeans" for her employer, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York, she dreamed (she swears it's true) that Robert Culp came to her with a pair of jeans and said that she could sell them. Sirower woke up with a start and began planning last month's auction of celebrity clothing that brought in some $7,000. Among the 63 items auctioned were a purple glove of Miss Piggy's, Pat Boone's golf cap and a sock sent in by Andy Kaufman. The highest price of the evening—$400—was for a shirt worn by Tom Selleck on Magnum, PA., and $350 came between Brooke Shields and a pair of her Calvins. The lowest price of the night was $10, for Erica Jong's jeans (and it was Sirower's mother who bought them). Sirower herself shelled out $20 to buy—that's right—Robert Culp's jeans.
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Edward Kennedy was elected to his fifth term in the Senate by a 3-2 margin last month, but he'd better start correcting some serious flaws in his communications style if he wants to make it to the White House. Or so says L. Patrick Devlin, a University of Rhode Island professor of speech communications. Devlin studied hundreds of hours of speeches from Kennedy's 1980 campaign for a 20-page article about to be published in The Quarterly Journal of Speech. His conclusions: that Kennedy lost the Democratic nomination to Jimmy Carter by (1) trying too hard in his speeches to be all things to all people, (2) making so many speeches each day that he became "fuzzy on his stances, inarticulate and nearly incomprehensible," (3) campaigning with his wife, Joan, in the midst of what everyone knew were serious marital problems, and (4) being unable to overcome an aversion to pressing the flesh. Says Devlin, "Although he would shake hands with hundreds in an audience, he did not like to touch people and many could sense it."
Five years after his death, fans of Bing Crosby can look forward to a new Christmas single: Der Bingle singing Little Drummer Boy with, of all people, David Bowie. The duet was recorded for a 1977 Crosby Christmas special on which Der Bowie guested. After years of legal wrangling, the record is in the stores, and Bowie says he has only one regret—that Bruce Springsteen and Bob Hope didn't sing harmony.
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Formula One's testing schedule is set to be overhauled from next season, with a return of the ban on in-season testing and the loss of one of the three pre-season tests.
Those steps, as well as a desire for all non-race weekend sessions to be held in Europe, are just some of the methods in contention as the sport looks to control costs.
After a dramatic, tense Monaco Grand Prix weekend, you would expect that the relationship between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton is close to being out of control—but their boss at Mercedes remains relaxed over their head-to-head fight for the 2014 title.
Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen were hoping to be part of that battle at the beginning of the year, but Ferrari's failure to produce a competent car has deflated any wishes for a tense inter-team tussle, with Alonso outperforming his teammate by a significant margin thus far.
Having worked with both men, this has come as little surprise to Felipe Massa, who has also offered some advice to Robert Kubica, who is continuing his rehabilitation from injury in rallying.
Closing this week's roundup is Kevin Magnussen, who has received a vote of confidence from one of his McLaren bosses despite enduring a patchy handful of races since his stunning debut in Australia.


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Capone and Bin Laden: The Failure of Government at the Cusp of War and Crime
Mark William Osler
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Baylor Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2003
The United States, through its democratic, Constitutional government, is relatively good at fighting wars against standing armies and fighting crime. Where we are challenged is the gap between the two: When crime looks like war or war looks like crime. Al Capone and Osama bin Laden both exploited this weakness by creating entities which were difficult to attack with either our centralized military or our decentralized police units.
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Joanne Whalley {Scarlett) isn't the first actress to portray Jackie O (Jaclyn Smith did it in 1981; Roma Downey in '91), and she won't be the last (Jill Hennessy gets her turn in February for NBC's Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot). But Whalley's Jackie may be as unglamorous as we're likely to get. Yes, there's the First Lady looking radiant in her pillbox hat and Oleg Cassini evening gowns. But there's also the wan, wrinkled Jackie, visibly ailing from the lymphoma that would claim her life in 1994, when this four-hour miniseries based on Donald Spoto's recent biography begins and ends. In between and in flashbacks, Senator Kennedy's wife sulks at home alone, while JFK (Tim Matheson, The West Wing's VP) is out womanizing; years later she tells off second husband Aristotle Onassis (Philip Baker Hall), who's been cheating on her with Maria Callas. Jackie's travails wear thin by then, and even Whalley looks exhausted in the role. The real treat is Matheson, who cannily captures Kennedy's roguish charisma. When the President dies, the life goes out of this meandering mini.
Bottom Line: Jack 1, Jackie 0
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BOTHELL - On Monday, Oct. 2, at approximately 9:20 p.m., two detectives from Shoreline Police Department attempted to apprehend a 27-year-old Seattle man as he sat behind the wheel of a stolen car. The car was parked in the parking lot of the Denny's restaurant, located in the 22800 block of State Route 527, in the Canyon Park area of Bothell. The man fled in the car and attempted to run over one of the detectives. The detective fired a single round from his service weapon, missing the suspect. Both detectives pursued the suspect into a residential neighborhood, located east of Thrasher's Corner, where the man was taken into custody without further incident. The suspect was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree assault and felony drug possession.
The Shoreline detectives were conducting an investigation related to a stolen car and drugs. The Seattle man was the focus of their investigation. The altercation occurred when detectives attempted to arrest the man. The man tried to avoid apprehension by driving the car over a planter strip toward one of the detectives. The detective fired his weapon in response and was able to step clear of the vehicle's path.
At the time of his arrest, the man was found to be in possession of a controlled substance. No injuries were reported.
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Opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining law, commonly referred to as Senate Bill 5, the legislation that created the rules, got a win last week.
They got the language they wanted when the question to repeal the law is presented to voters as Issue 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot.
A ''no'' vote will be a vote to reject the law that weakens public union workers' ability to collectively bargain, while a ''yes'' vote will uphold the law, Ohio's bi-partisan Ballot Board determined with ballot language that reads: ''Shall the law be approved?''
Proponents of the new law argued that a ''yes'' vote should favor repeal and a ''no'' vote to oppose the repeal.
The wording gives opponents an advantage.
Political expert Bill Binning, professor and chair emeritus with Youngstown State University's political science department, said although the thought of having an advantage with a no vote isn't grounded in solid political science theory, it's thought regardless that a no vote gives the upper hand.
''Urban legend is a 'no' vote is of great advantage because if people who are uncertain, not clear, not totally convinced, what is the easiest thing to do? Vote no,'' Binning said.
Plus, Binning said, the burden is heavier on Republicans and other proponents to make the case the law is a good one, whereas Democrats and other opponents only need to raise reasonable doubt.
Democratic precinct committee members in Trumbull and Mahoning counties have a busy week ahead.
First in Trumbull, they meet to pick a replacement for ex-engineer David DeChristofaro, who resigned and then pleaded guilty to theft and conflict-of-interest charges stemming from using his public office for personal and political purposes.
Competing for that spot Tuesday night are Randy Smith of Hartford and Gary Taneri of Warren.
The game of musical chairs continues the next night in Mahoning County.
There, they will be filling two vacancies created by Jay Williams' departure to Washington, D.C., where he's joining President Barack Obama's administration as the U.S. ''auto czar,'' plus an opening on city council in Struthers.
Here's what happened in the county to the south.
Chuck Sammarone, city council president, assumed the position of Youngstown mayor (his first day was Tuesday) and brought along second ward councilman DeMaine Kitchen to be chief of staff.
And when Sammarone departed the leader's post, third ward councilman Jamal Tito Brown became president.
That leaves central committee members in wards two and three to pick successors for Kitchen and Brown to fill their unexpired terms.
That's not all.
Committee members will be picking replacements to appear on the Nov. 2 general election ballot in those races, too.
The same thing is happening in Struthers. Committee members there will be picking a ballot replacement for the at-large city council seat, formerly held by Dan Yemma, who resigned when he was named interim Mahoning County treasurer and then withdrew from the ballot after he was named treasurer, succeeding Lisa Antonini.
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It wasn't supposed to be this way. The $1.25 billion that was slated for the construction of a commuter rail tunnel between New Jersey and New York now will be funneled into the state's Transportation Trust Fund to repair our local roads and bridges over the next five years.
That money would have been better spent taking cars off the road, by building the ARC tunnel to increase rail capacity between New York and New Jersey, creating tens of thousands of jobs, raising state property values and promoting mass transit as a green alternative for all those drivers choking on fumes as they wend their way into Manhattan on the Lincoln Tunnel helix. Gov. Chris Christie cut the legs off that plan because of what he saw as vast cost overruns for the $9.8 billion project.
Jim Simpson, the state's transportation commissioner, says fixing local roads and bridges is a better use of the money because "the transportation system does not end at the end of the Parkway or the end of the Turnpike." It doesn't end at the Hudson River, either.
Our state has the third-longest average commute in the nation, according to the American Community Survey of the U.S. Census. Just ask any of the roughly 300,000 New Jersey residents who commute to jobs in New York City.
Repairing our roads and bridges is critical, but using this money for that purpose is a quick, short-term fix for a recurring problem, best addressed with a permanent revenue source, such as a higher gas tax. At 10.5 cents a gallon, Garden State drivers pay the third-lowest gas tax in the country.
Christie is a champion of "pay as you go" government services, but has resisted raising the tax. Using this cool billion for that purpose simply kicks the can down the road. It's a temporary solution for a problem that will come back to haunt all of us.
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Just because temperatures are low doesn't mean you have to put your motorcycle away until the tulips poke through the earth, but it does mean you have to adopt a different riding style.
Dress in Layers
Winter is cold enough on its own, but when you add wind speeds in the double digits, it's like taking a polar dip when the polar vortex hit. Start with base layers like long johns and a thermal shirt so they'll both keep you warm and wick away moisture that can turn cold in a hurry. Next, add mid-layers like a wool shirt or sweater that have a higher collar than the thermal shirt so air will be trapped between the layers and heat up.
Top it off with outer gear, donning a hardshell jacket like Gore-Tex for maximum warmth and wind-blocking. Wearing Gore-Tex boots also adds breathability and waterproofing, two things important for a comfortable ride. If you find your Gore-Tex boots slip a bit, you can add grippier pegs to compensate.
Finally, pick out lobster mittens that are lined and well-insulated, a neck warmer that fits snugly between your coat and helmet, and a fog-free face shield.
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The colder the weather, the colder- and harder- the tires. And for safe driving and maximum stopping time, motorcycles need winter-appropriate tires that can handle cold temperatures. Although driving can help warm up the tires, regular ones still stay hard and translate to decreased stopping time. Your tires are two tiny patches connecting you to the ground, and skimping on ones that don't have the proper tread and resistance is a death risk.
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It's never more crucial than in winter to see how the road actuallylooks. The freeze-thaw cycle causes its own havoc from the road constantly expanding and contracting, but the bigger problem is snowplows coming along and tearing up the asphalt, leaving cracks and potholes that can easily trip you up. But after every trip, make sure to clean your bike off for salt to minimize corrosion.
Keep Back
Stopping time is increased in the winter, and especially important in motorcycle because it's uncovered. In ideal and dry conditions, it takes a good rider about 85 feet to stop at 35 mph. And with an average car measuring about 16 feet, that's 5 car lengths…and snowy or winter weather increases that. But the faster you go, the more distance you'll need to maintain between you and the car in front of you.
Mind the Weather
If it starts snowing or the roads are frozen, keep home. There's almost no occasion that necessitates using your motorcycle in bad weather, and there'll always be another day for you to take your bike out.


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A while back I asked Edwyn if he would let me use his music on a little film I made. Here is the result: Mill Mechanics
Thanks for that.
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Funding: Child and Family Social Development Projects
Through the Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP), funding is provided to eligible not-for-profit organizations for projects that help to improve the lives of children and families.
Funding is also provided under the Disability component of this program.
Application Information
We are not accepting applications at this time.
To ensure your organization and proposed project are eligible for funding, review the following criteria before you apply.
Who can apply?
Individuals and provincial/territorial departments and agencies are not eligible for funding.
In order to be eligible to receive contribution or grant funding the recipient must be:
- A not-for-profit organization, including registered charities and social enterprises; and
- Actively pursuing activities in line with the SDPP's objectives.
Calls for Proposals and/or guides for applicants will be consistent with the list of eligible Recipients, but may be more restrictive. Proof and determination of an organization's not-for-profit status will be explicitly defined in Calls for Proposals.
Funding Amounts
The duration of the Program's funding support will be up to a maximum of five years, subject to review.
For Contributions
The maximum level of multi-year financial support per contribution agreement is $3,000,000 per fiscal year. Support will be negotiated and where possible and appropriate, costs will be shared by recipients or other stakeholders.
Contribution funding amounts will be determined based on an assessment of the recipient's budget submission, previous financial performance, capacity of the recipient to achieve results, and previous experience with contribution agreement management. An assessment tool will be used to evaluate the reasonableness of costs. The availability of Program funds and the number of successful applicants will also be used to determine the amount the recipient is eligible to receive.
For Grants
Multi-year grants to organizations to help strengthen services and programs may be provided to a maximum of $2,000,000 per fiscal year, subject to annual reports on progress toward achieving results.
Grant funding amounts will be determined based on an assessment of the recipient's budget submission and the organization's historical budget capacity along with a review of the organization's annual statement of accounts. An assessment tool will be used to evaluate the reasonableness of costs. The availability of Program funds and the number of successful applicants will also be used to determine the amount the recipient is eligible to receive.
Stacking Limit
The maximum level (stacking limit) of total Canadian government funding (federal, provincial and municipal assistance for the same eligible expenditures) for this Program will not exceed 100% of eligible expenditures. This stacking limit must be respected when funding is provided. In the event that actual total Canadian government funding to a recipient exceeds the stacking limit, it will be necessary for the department to adjust its level of funding (and seek reimbursement, if necessary) so that the stacking limit is not exceeded. Employment and Skills Development Canada(ESDC) will require all potential recipients to disclose all sources of funding for a proposed project before the start and at the end of a project.
Eligible Projects
Eligible projects must be consistent with SDPP objectives and respond to the priorities set by the Minister of ESDC.
Funding may be provided to support community-based or pan-Canadian projects related to social development that:
- explore, test and develop innovative solutions, best practices, tools and methodologies (e.g. toolkits, resources, information management and retrieval systems, etc.);
- disseminate information and knowledge (e.g. share best practices, tools, resources, training guides, newsletters, Websites, public education materials, symposia, etc.);
- establish and maintain sustainable partnerships, alliances, networks and collaboration (e.g. through workshops, information sharing, joint initiatives, protocols, Memoranda of Understanding, etc.);
- foster participation in consultations on social policies and programs (e.g. consultations with communities, stakeholders, individuals, etc.); or
- help increase not-for-profit organizations' capacity in the areas of governance, policy and program development, community outreach, organizations administration and management.
Eligible Costs
The purchase of real property is not an eligible expense for funding support.
For Contributions
Expenditures may be reimbursed on the basis of eligible costs incurred. In order to be eligible, expenditures must be project-related and must be incurred during the agreement period. Financial assistance may be provided to cover expenditures such as:
- wages and employment-related costs for staff;
- fees for professional service;
- disability supports for staff of the recipient;
- materials and supplies;
- printing and communication;
- travel costs;
- utilities;
- insurance;
- rental of premises;
- lease, purchase and maintenance of equipment;
- costs of project audits;
- evaluations and assessments;
- performance monitoring and reporting costs;
- data collection;
- knowledge development activities; and
- other administrative costs associated with the project based on approved methodology.
The costs related to accommodating the special needs of project participants will be approved on a case by case basis.
For Grants
The type and nature of expenditures that will be considered in determining the amount of grant funding provided to recipients are determined during the assessment phase. Financial assistance may be provided to cover expenditures such as:
- wages and benefits;
- professional fees;
- travel and accommodations;
- materials and supplies;
- printing and communication;
- equipment rental/lease/maintenance;
- administration costs;
- capital costs; and
- disability supports for staff of the recipient.
Objectives and Performance Indicators
Topics in this section:
The objectives of the Program are to:
- support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address social issues and challenges;
- develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address social needs of individuals, families and communities;
- foster partnerships and networks to address existing and emerging social issues;
- recognize and support the ability of not-for-profit organizations to identify and address social development priorities; and,
- recognize and promote community engagement initiatives (e.g. volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, innovation by not-for-profit organizations, partnerships, coalitions) that mobilize community assets and develop capacities and resources for action.
Outcomes and Performance Indicators
The SDPP contributes to the achievement of the following direct outcomes.
Partnerships and Networks are Fostered
Partnerships and networks will be fostered to build knowledge and understanding of the social issues and challenges facing target populations. Activities may include identifying current gaps in knowledge and approaches, and providing input during the design, piloting and implementation of project tools, information and resources, and program development.
Performance indicators:
- number of working groups and sector-wide networks;
- number of funded projects where the recipient organization had funding partners (by type); and
- number of organizations that have reported the development of new networks and partnerships.
Approaches to Respond to Existing and Emerging Social Issues are Developed and Identified
SDPP will enhance the development and recognition of approaches that address the social needs of individuals, families and communities. Approaches could include programs, services and resources that are designed to identify and meet the needs of target populations.
Performance indicators:
- estimated number of approaches developed (e.g. tools, pilot projects, best practices and training guides);
- number of grants;
- financial value of grants;
- number of contributions;
- financial value of contributions; and
- number and percentage of proposals that address each priority.
Knowledge of Existing and Emerging Social Issues is Developed and Shared
Understanding the social needs of target populations will be enhanced through the development of best practices and innovative solutions. SDPP funding will help disseminate, promote and share this knowledge to better serve target populations. Examples include community engagement through volunteerism, corporate social responsibility and innovation by not-for-profit organizations.
Performance indicators:
- estimated number of approaches developed (e.g. tools, pilot projects, best practices and training guides);
- number of grants;
- financial value of grants;
- number of contributions; and
- financial value of contributions.
Application Review Process
All application processes will assure fairness and transparency. All proposals and applications must include all required information as set out in the specific Guide to Applicants. Application guidelines, outlining application requirements, will be publicly available.
Applications will be assessed against the requirements outlined in the Guide to Applicants and/or Call for Proposals documentation. Project proposals and grant applications will be accepted through regular, transparent and fair intake processes. Applications for funding must be compatible with SDPP objectives, priorities and funding criteria.
Applications for funding must be supported by proposals that:
- state the project objectives, describe the activities to be funded, outline a timeframe, and expected results;
- demonstrate how the project fills a gap or meets an identified need;
- demonstrate how project outcomes will benefit the community;
- outline how the project will be evaluated and success will be determined;
- include financial information on costs to be incurred and other sources of funding;
- provide basic organizational data;
- declare Amounts Owing to the Government of Canada; and
- disclose the involvement of former public servants who are subject to the Post-employment Measures of the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service, the Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders, the Conflict of Interest Act, the Parliament of Canada Act and the Lobbying Act.
In the case of contribution agreements specifically, some or all of the following may also be required in the application:
- lobbyists' information;
- information regarding the capacity and/or expertise of the organization; and
- other information as may be required.
Topics in this section:
Successful candidates will receive payments in accordance with the Policy on Transfer Payments.
For Contributions
Payments to contribution recipients will be made, as appropriate, based on expenditure claims, or via advance payments based on a cash-flow forecast in accordance with Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments, and a final payment of any sums due following receipt of the final claim. Employment and Skills Development will withhold up to 10 percent of the contribution until after the recipient's final claim has been received and approved. Only eligible expenditures will be reimbursed.
Progress payments will be provided to recipients on the basis of written claims supported by substantiating documentation as may be required by ESDC.
For advance payments, an initial payment will be made to recipients based on a cash-flow forecast for a specific period. Subsequent advance payments will be calculated by taking the planned amount for the next period minus any excess amount the recipient has on hand from previous payments.
Any payments that exceed the amount to which the contribution recipient is entitled are debts to the Crown and must be repaid. An overpayment will be established in the Departmental Accounts Receivable System (DARS).
Notwithstanding the approved duration of funding, payments will be linked to financial and/or performance reviews as appropriate. Pre-determined performance expectations will be met by the recipient through reports submitted on a regular basis, which include a description of activities and progress towards achieving results. Milestones for reporting will be outlined in the contribution agreement. Results of such reviews may lead to the early termination of the project.
For Grants
Payments to grant recipients will be made in instalments, as appropriate, in accordance with the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments, subject to verification of continued eligibility of the recipient.
Where other sources of funding are anticipated, a provision for repayment is to be included in the agreements covering the grant or contribution in case more funding than was anticipated is provided from federal, provincial and municipal sources.
Employment Canada will negotiate specific terms of repayment to suit the particular capacities and concerns of the prospective recipient within the context of the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Employment and Skills Development Canada is accountable for ensuring that reasonable recoveries are made and that the Government's interests are visible in contribution agreements.
Contributions will not be made to businesses and/or will not be intended to allow recipients to generate profits.
Redistribution of Contributions
In carrying out projects, contribution recipients may have to procure goods and services needed to perform the project. When contracting or subcontracting, principles of accountability for results and fairness, and best value for money must be respected. Within these principles of accountability, full disclosure on the intended use of contribution funds must be respected. The goal is to promote greater rigour in assessing the proposed use of contribution funds before signing contribution agreements, as well as in the monitoring and approval of claims during contribution agreement administration.
In projects involving the further distribution of the contribution by the Recipient to one or more persons or entities, the agreement will make clear, either expressly or by implication, that the Recipient has independence in the choice of those persons or entities, with minimal guidance from ESDC, and will not be acting as the agent for the government in making the distributions.
Financial and Performance Reporting
For Contributions
Recipients will be required to submit a financial claim supported by general ledger or equivalent. Recipients will also be required to submit regular progress reports that outline activities completed and progress towards achieving results. The frequency of financial and performance reporting will be based on assigned risk, using the department's Risk Assessment Management and Mitigation (RAMM) approach.
A final report will be submitted by recipients and will include information on results achieved, which will be recorded in the Program's evaluation database. Information on project results will be used to support the Program's performance management strategy and departmental reporting.
For Grants
Recipients will be required to submit a report on progress towards achieving results on an annual basis. Information on grant results will be captured in the template provided by the Program and will be used to support the Program's performance management strategy and departmental reporting. Grant recipients will also be required to submit their annual statements of accounts and activities.
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Joan Smalls Is Paris Fashion Week's Top Model
The hardworking commercial veteran has finally arrived in the high-fashion world.By James Lim
The hardworking commercial veteran has finally arrived in the high-fashion world.By James Lim
She closed out the huge DVF show.By James Lim
With runway regulars missing in action, Milan proved to be a battleground for the new crop of girls.By James Lim
Sunday finally saw the return of some big-name models.By James Lim
Whether it's an editorial campaign or just a backstage snapshot, a book makes a lovely accessory.By Sharon Clott
Who will be the next Agyness Deyn? Here are the top newbies this Fashion Week.By James Lim
Wha?By Lane Brown
In which we tally up the points from this week's recap.By Mike Vilensky
What do Albus Dumbledore and the original framers of the United States Constitution have in common? Besides their both having inspired a plethora of highly erotic fan fiction, not much — unless you ask hip Columbia Law School professor Michael Dorf.


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Alliance Trust posted a double-digit rise in net asset value yesterday as its chief executive came out fighting against Laxey Partners, the activist shareholder with a 1.6 per cent stake.
Alliance Trust said that NAV per share for the year to January 31 was 439p, compared with 377.7p in the previous year. The company added that it would pay a full-year dividend of 8.395p and was seeking to increase dividends further this year by 2 per cent. Katherine Garrett-Cox said she was confident that Alliance Trust's shareholders would support the board when they voted on changes proposed by Laxey at


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Why do Red States Vote Republican While Blue States Pay the Bills? Federal Spending and Electoral Votes, 1984-2008
Dean P. Lacy
Dartmouth College
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Every year more states receive more in federal spending than they pay in taxes to the federal government. Since the early 1980s, when data on tax burdens per state are first available, the states that receive more in federal spending than taxes paid have been increasingly Republican in presidential elections. This pattern persisted in the 2008 presidential election. The impact of federal spending on a state's Electoral Vote is increasing over the period 1984 to 2008 and remains statistically significant as a predictor of the vote when controlling for differences in ideology and opinions on issues across state populations and when controlling for per capita or median state income.
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"I knew that Sergeant Jones was a real dinger when I saw him putting them in the ten-ring from the thousand yard line."
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Apple Should Give This Customer-Service Rep a Big Raise
She had the perfect responses for everything.By Madison Malone Kircher
She had the perfect responses for everything.By Madison Malone Kircher
His daughter is also out as general manager.By Clint Rainey
Famous last words to anyone with a camera: "Where you gonna post it? YouTube?"By Clint Rainey
"Her parents said, 'Are you screaming at a child?' 'Yes I am. And she shut up.'"By Clint Rainey
It took three months to solve the horrendous crime.By Clint Rainey
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Classy.By Jessica Roy
It all went down after the customer asked for white sauce and got "light sauce."By Clint Rainey
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He's going to do something about that right now.By Hugh Merwin
The once-truculent chef is softening a bit.By Alan Sytsma
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'Housewife': Lenders conspiring to kick her out
O.C. 'Housewife' Peggy Tanous, who's facing foreclosure on her Irvine house, is fighting that prospect in court.
Tanous' home has been scheduled for a foreclosure auction, but that's on hold while her lawsuit winds its way through a special program in Orange County Superior Court aimed at bringing borrowers having trouble getting loan modifications and their lenders together.
Tanous says in the suit she's been having financial woes and deserves a loan modification, but her lenders aren't honoring their agreement. She accuses them of conspiring to take the house.
She also says the foreclosing bank interfered with a payment schedule she worked out with the Orange County tax collector to pay her delinquent property taxes, which she says caused them to spike, at one point, by 400%.
The home, right, was purchased in 2006 for $1,379,000 from Lennar Homes of California, records show. BAC Home Loans Servicing is foreclosing on the first loan, showing that at $1 million and saying she now owes $1,318,253.
There's also a second loan, at $312,540.
The lawsuit names as defendants BAC Home Loans Servicing, a subsidiary of Bank of America, the National Bank Association, Reconstrust Company, and "PNC Mortgage.''
PNC, holder of the 2nd loan, and not the foreclosing lender, filed a response saying it can't figure out exactly what it's being accused of in the suit. It also clarified that its name is PNC Bank, not PNC mortgage.
"Plaintiff [Tanous] does not allege any relationship between the defaulted loan that is the subject of this litigation and PNC,'' the response says. "It is simply unintelligible what allegations are being asserted against PNC.''
The foreclosure auction was initially set for March 17, but has been postponed. The latest date, May 17, likely will be moved back, as well, if the suit is still being litigated.
We'll follow the case.
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A New Chapter in the Homeschooling Movement
No home school is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each kitchen table classroom is connected to neighborhood, big "C" Church and culture,
A part of the main.
With apologies to John Donne, this is a story that the homeschooling community hasn't always been good at telling itself.
A generation ago, the first wave of homeschooling parents were doing the work of pioneers: fighting court battles, developing educational philosophy, creating and adapting curricula, and answering endless questions about whether their kids would be socialized properly.
These pioneers continue to shape popular perceptions of the movement: quirky, brainy children who get master's degrees at 16; super-sized, ultra-conservative broods; or crunchy attachment-parenting families. There are flat-out negative stereotypes as well, like that of the barely literate truants parked in front of a flickering TV all day, eating bags of chips and playing video games.
Hard-and-fast numbers of homeschoolers are difficult to come by, since reporting rules vary by state. But reasonable estimates place the numbers between one and two million children - or at least 4 percent of the K-12 U.S. population - learning at home this year. The promise of homeschooling (closer families, less peer-dependent and more spiritually and emotionally solid children, a better, tutorial form of education than a child would receive at a public or private school) has been fulfilled in enough children over time that a second generation of "settlers" has moved into the space carved out by those pioneers.
Embedded deep within the DNA of the notion of homeschooling is rugged individualism. It takes a combination of conviction and chutzpah to make a countercultural choice. Even if 4 percent of the children in this country are being homeschooled, 96 percent are not. As a result of this DNA, there is no single "homeschool movement," but a collection of related, not-always-harmonious streams within the larger population. Some associations form out of a specific educational or spiritual philosophy; others are created by geographic proximity. Though a few hardy souls go it alone, most families connect with other homeschoolers for at least a few field trips. On the other end of the spectrum, some families co-op with others for the bulk of their children's academics.
My husband and I homeschooled our three children from 1992 to 2004, bridging the pioneer and settler eras. I was a local support group leader and writing tutor during and after our active homeschooling years. Though I replied regularly to the "What about socialization?" question, I can't remember ever hearing the same concern raised about the parents of homeschoolers.
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An international relief mission is taking shape to help the people of the Philippines after a super typhoon struck last week. Authorities say ten thousand people may have been killed and tens of thousands are now homeless. Sally Kidd reports from Washington.
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Iraq, where nearly 4,500 Americans died in what appears to have been a futile attempt to change the very culture of that violence-torn region, may be about to fall to a radically militant Islamic insurgency. At this point there is virtually nothing the United States can do about that.
Let us hope President Barack Obama has a contingency plan to evacuate the thousands of Americans who remained in Iraq after U.S. troops ended active operations in 2011.
At the same time, members of Congress should demand assurances that if a terrorist regime takes over Iraq, U.S. response will be decisive. By that we mean a policy that will prevent Iraq from becoming the new Afghanistan - a haven from which terrorists can launch attacks on Americans.
As the al-Qaida organization was being built during the 1990s, then-President Bill Clinton did little to stop it. U.S. officials looked the other way when the vicious Taliban regime took over Afghanistan and invited al-Qaida to set up shop there.
That mistake should not be repeated. If a government sympathetic to Islamic terrorists takes over Iraq - a distinct possibility -Obama should warn it such behavior will not be tolerated. The very first infraction should be punished militarily. Unfortunately, it may be up to Congress to ensure that happens.
So easy a child could do it. The phrase is used to describe everything from assembling toys to programming remote controls.
And now, for sneaking across the border from Mexico into the United States.
Border Patrol agents in Arizona and Texas have been overwhelmed by thousands of "UAC" illegal immigrants. The abbreviation stands for unaccompanied children. So many have come across the border during recent months that the agency has put out an emergency call for babysitters.
Many of them are from Central American countries. Somehow, perhaps with adult help, they made their way across Mexico to where they could enter the United States illegally. Reportedly, some of their parents believe that once the children are here, they will not be kicked out.
"It's a humanitarian disaster," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said last week. It is that, and President Barack Obama's administration seems to have no good plan for dealing with it.
But the influx of youngsters is something else - proof claims by the White House that our southern border is secure are false. When children unaccompanied by adults can cross the border illegally, "secure" is not a word most people would use.