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PITTSBURGH, PA (October 24, 2008) – More than 650,000 scheduled passengers were enplaned and deplaned at Pittsburgh International Airport (www.FlyPittsburgh.com) in September 2008, bringing the yearly total to 6,639,537 according to the September 2008 Scheduled Airline Traffic Report, prepared by the Allegheny County Airport Authority. Passenger traffic is down 12.9 percent for September 2008 compared to September 2007 (650,454 in September 2008/747,064 in September 2007; 12.9 percent) and is down 11.5 percent year-to-date compared to 2007 (6,639,537/7,503,909; 11.5 percent).
Despite the overall drop in passenger traffic, six airlines reported increases in traffic for the month led by United, which showed an 11.8 percent increase in traffic, with a total of 6,987 more passengers in September 2008 compared to September 2007 (66,358/59,371; 11.8 percent). The other five airlines that reported increases for the month were: Continental (42,300/39,895; 6.0 percent), American (35,693/34,685; 2.9 percent); AirTran (33,860/30,716; 10.2 percent), Air Canada (4,136/3,631; 13.9 percent) and Myrtle Beach Direct Air (2,326/2,161; 7.6 percent).
AirTran Airways' increase is reflective of outstanding performance in attracting more passengers and adding flights during the past year as the airline has shown a 24.0 percent increase in year-to-date traffic in 2008 compared to 2007. Through September of this year, AirTran has enplaned and deplaned 371,413 passengers at Pittsburgh International Airport compared to 299,589 through September 2007 (371,413/299,589; 24.0 percent).
Additionally, AirTran added service to Florida destinations Tampa, Fort Myers and Fort Lauderdale in October and will make the following additions in the months to come. From Nov. 20 – Dec. 3: Nonstop AirTran flights to Tampa, Ft. Myers, and Ft. Lauderdale will operate daily to handle the Thanksgiving Travel schedule. Effective February 12, AirTran's nonstop Ft. Lauderdale service is increased to two flights per day:
"This is good news for leisure and business travelers at Pittsburgh International Airport," said Bradley D. Penrod, Executive Director and CEO of the Allegheny County Airport Authority. "Florida has so many popular destinations and AirTran Airways is doing a great job getting passengers there. In November it will have 30 departures to Florida each week."
"AirTran Airways was truly the first low cost carrier at Pittsburgh International Airport," Penrod said. "Adding service such as this shows why they earned the trust of our travelers."
The air service announcement continues what is a good year at Pittsburgh International Airport for AirTran. Through July the airline has seen its traffic increase almost 30 percent compared to 2007. AirTran offers five non stop departures a day from PIT to its hub in Atlanta and two to Orlando.
August 2008 Passenger Traffic:
In August 2008 scheduled passenger traffic was down 10.8 percent compared to August 2007 (785,148 in August 2008/880,272 in August 2007; 10.8 percent. Despite the overall drops in passenger traffic, six airlines reported increases in traffic for the month led by Continental, which showed a 10.9 percent increase in traffic, with a total of 5,015 more passengers in August 2008 compared to August 2007 (51,218/46,203; 10.9 percent). The other five airlines that reported increases for the month were: United (76,853/71,883; 6.9 percent), Northwest (46,089/45,366; 1.6 percent); AirTran (43,223/42,121; 2.6 percent), Myrtle Beach Direct Air (4,895/3,364; 45.5 percent) and Air Canada (4,487/4,465; 0.5 percent).
Those airlines that reported decreases in passenger traffic for August 2008 compared to August 2007 include: US Airways (261,525/343,065; 23.8 percent), Southwest (126,021/137,110; 8.1 percent), Delta (86,813/86,914; 0.1 percent), American (40,693/42,930; 5.2 percent), JetBlue (21,347/30,083; 29 percent), USA3000 (15,676/15,687; 0.1 percent), and Midwest (6,308/11,081; 43.1 percent).
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When Coast Guard pilot Daniel Judycki suits up for his training missions and prepares for take off, the last thing on his mind is he could lose the one thing he needs most to fly: his vision.
But that's almost what happened last night.
Judycki was on a training exercise with three other crew members just a mile off the Mahaka Coast when someone shined a laser through the cockpit.
"Our flight mechanic and rescue swimmer were hit in the eyes with the laser so they were seeing spots and suffered blindness for several moments," said Lt. Judycki.
The crew was forced to return to Barbers Point.
Judycki was wearing night vision goggles and was not hit. However, his crewmates who were will have to be checked out before they can fly again.
"The biggest issue that the Coast Guard or any pilot would have is it prevents us from doing our job," said Judycki. "Our primary mission is search and rescue if you're taking on water or if you're a flipped boat or you needed assistance we are here to come and help. We can't do that when lasers shine at us and are blinding our pilots, blinding our flight crew, we have to turn back at that point."
The Coast Guard plans on launching a public service announcement soon to put an end to the laser incidents.
Shining a laser at an aircraft is a federal crime and is punishable up to five years behind bars.
Hawaii isn't the only state dealing with laser incidents. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, more than 3,500 cases were reported last year. The number has increased so much the FAA has its own laser incident reporting website.


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The IMAX short film, "Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time," transforms images and data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope into a voyage that sweeps viewers across the cosmos. Using the 650-megapixel-mosaic image created by the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), more than 11,000 galaxy images were extracted and assembled into an accurate 3-D model for the three-minute movie. The large-format film was created by a team of Hubble image and visualization experts in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. The film was directed by Frank Summers, an astrophysicist and science visualization specialist.
The movie has been so well received that it recently won the "Best Short Feature" award at the Large Format Cinema Association's 2004 Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA. The Hubble movie premiered in April at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, and is currently also playing at the Rueben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego, Calif., and the New Detroit Science Center in Detroit, Mich. Distribution to several dozen other large-format theaters will occur over the coming months and years.
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Adamson Industries Corp. Announces New Product Release from Nova Electronics, the Bullet Hide-A-LED
Haverhill, Massachusetts - Adamson Industries Corp., a leading provider of public safety vehicle equipment and installation services is pleased to announce a new product release from Nova Electronics, the Bullet Hide-A-LED. A concealed LED warning light that features two high-intensity 3-watt LEDs.
The Bullet is designed to allow quick and easy installation in any headlight or taillight casing. Requiring only a single ½" hole, the Bullet's shape overcomes the problem of difficult installation in the highly compact, double wall design of modern vehicle light casings. In addition, the Bullet is self-adhesive and requires no mounting hardware (can also be secured with screws). The Bullet features 12-24 VDC operation, 16 flash patterns, the ability to synchronize with additional units, and a 9' cable.
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October has arrived, which means colorful leaves and candy out the wazoo. Of course, there's a lot more to look forward to than foliage and Halloween, though. Find out what to see, do and celebrate with Glo's guide to making the most of your month.
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Say au revoir to the Y in YSL. The brand's spring/summer 2013 show marks the debut of Saint Laurent Paris from new head designer Hedi Slimane. (Slimane has officially dropped the Yves from the brand.) Fashion insiders are waiting to see what the new name means for the iconic label.
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Humorist Ian Frazier, a staff writer at The New Yorker, has penned his hilarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days. Written as a daily journal of sorts, the book recounts the frustrations of a foul-mouthed housewife, who offers up domestic advice that would make Martha Stewart cringe.
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Everybody's favorite alien is back, but not for long. To mark the 30th anniversary of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the classic film returns to theaters for one night only. Find a showing in your area.
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Have a martini in honor of the dashing spy, who celebrates 50 years on the big screen with Global James Bond Day. (See Glo's round-up of the most iconic Bond-girl looks.) Another perk of the unofficial holiday? Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007, a new documentary, will be available through Epix.
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Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly are squaring off in a 90-minute pay-per-view debate dubbed "The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium." Modeled after a presidential debate, the meeting will entail 60 minutes of back-and-forth, then 30 minutes of audience questions. Who will be declared the winner?
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Grab a box of tissues—you're going to need it for the TV adaptation of tearjerker Steel Magnolias, premiering at 9 p.m. on Lifetime. The new cast includes Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott, Phylicia Rashad and Queen Latifah, in the role played by Sally Field.
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A year after her song "Lights" became a hit stateside, Brit songstress Ellie Goulding releases her second album, titled Halcyon. (Watch the album trailer here.) We're predicting airy electro-pop tracks to accompany her whispery kittenish voice.
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The NBA season will begin with defending NBA champion the Miami Heat taking on the Boston Celtics. With Stan Van Gundy's controversial exit and the Lakers' four-team trade sweep (what? we like basketball), the season's already got us jumping out of our seats—just wait until it officially begins.
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4 Frontier League Teams Vie In Semifinals; Massena, SLC Win Hockey Crowns
Four Frontier League basketball teams played in Section 3 semifinals at Onondaga Community College Sunday night, all hoping to advance to the Carrier Dome.
And, in hockey, Massena captured the Section 10 Division 1 championship and St. Lawrence Central took home the crown for Division 2.
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The McHenry County Board may discuss CSS regarding TBI and SASS with DMH agencies, TLS, YSB and TAG.
No, I haven't been hitting the fermented printer's ink. I'm speaking Governmentese. And you, too, can learn it through language on tape!
Or rather, you can learn it through those new audio-streaming clips of County Board meetings.
Tuesday was the second meeting that the County Board decided to audiostream live and put on the Internet to improve transparency. One of the subjects, the unfortunate demise of Family Service and Community Mental Health Center, was laden with government acronyms and jargon – I'd expect no less when government talks about government.
I'm fluent in Governmentese – county being just one of many dialects – from my 15 years as a journalist, so I didn't think about the problem that the County Board's transparency initiative faces. Namely, how is the poor sap listening at home going to understand the acronyms being thrown around like election-year accusations?
As a fluent speaker of Militaryese from my years in the Infantry, I am not dumping on the use of abbreviations and jargon to save time by simplifying complicated concepts.
For example, if someone on post asks me for directions, and I say, "Drive past the deefac, turn left at the BOQ, check in with the e-fuzzy with the BCGs and wait until the NCOIC calls for you, but watch your POV because the MPs are DD 1408 happy," it's because it's far quicker than, "Drive past the chow hall, turn left where the unmarried officers live, and check in with the new private wearing those ugly basic training-issued amber glasses at the desk. Wait for the sergeant, but don't park illegally because the military police around here love to write tickets."
But if gave those directions to some poor civilian schlep who's just visiting post for a day, chances are blue smoke would start pouring out his ears. I'm imagining someone listening to the County Board's meeting at home looking up one acronym while they're hit with three more, and deciding to call it quits in favor of YouTube videos of kids accidentally hitting their fathers in the groin with wiffle bats.
And no, neither Rosetta Stone nor Berlitz sells Governmentese products.
Fortunately, County Board member Mary Donner understands the problem – as someone who both signs and reads lips, she is used to bridging communication gaps. (And given her involvement with veterans' causes and being the proud mother of a retired U.S. Marine, I'd bet she understands some Militaryese too – jarhead dialect, anyway).
Donner politely translated some of the acronyms into English for the listeners at home, and advised board members later in the meeting to get into the habit of explaining acronyms for the 99 percent of the public not in the know.
Board members may want to heed Donner, because to borrow from Militaryese, it would be NDG, as in 11 up and three down, if the POGs had to get up off of their fourth points of contact and buy a Dash 10 from the PX just to understand what the brass hats are saying. Otherwise, live-streaming is just a big waste of taxpayer beer vouchers.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Legendary investor George Soros cut some of his technology bets in the first quarter, including his positions in Apple(AAPL) , Baidu(BIDU) , and Yahoo!(YHOO) , and went so far as to add a huge position against the sector.
Soros, 81, cut his stake in Apple during the first quarter, selling more than half of his holdings to reduce his position to 40,000 shares, per his latest filing with Securities and Exchange Commission.
As of the end of 2011, Soros held 95,000 shares in the Cupertino, Calif.-based technology giant.
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Apple shares gained 48.04% during the first quarter.
Despite cutting his stake in Apple, Soros added a new stake in Apple supplier Qualcomm(QCOM) . He had 125,000 shares of the San Diego-based chipmaker as of March 31, along with a call position worth another 56,000 shares. Qualcomm shares gained 24.42% in the first quarter.
Perhaps almost as notable as his stake reduction in Apple is the large bet against technology. Soros had a put position in PowerShares QQQ Trust(QQQ) worth almost $294.86 million. A put is a directional bet against the ETF.
The Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist also sharply decreased his position in Chinese technology high-flyer Baidu, showing a position of 37,000 shares as of the end of the quarter. He had 118,500 shares of Baidu as of the end of 2011. Baidu shares gained 25.16% during the quarter.
Soros also lowered his stake in Yahoo! during the quarter, but still held onto 710,000 shares. Shares of the Yahoo! fell 5.63% during the first quarter.
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Sometimes I check out youtube for futbol highlights. These two videos I'm putting up are probably the best ones I've seen so far. First one is robinho and the second is ronaldinho.
ROBINHO- Twinkle toes (the intro is a minute long, after that its all highlights)
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Hilltop homes project still planned
Officials are jump-starting a stalled effort to bring 40 new and renovated homes to the eastern half of the Hilltop.
The nonprofit Homes on the Hill wants to work with the Columbus Housing Partnership on the project and apply for tax credits to help finance what could be an $8 million to $9 million project, said Steve Torsell, executive director for Homes on the Hill.
Homes on the Hill had been working with the Oberer Companies on the development but that company pulled out, Torsell said.
The project would concentrate on the area east of Hague Avenue between Broad Street and Sullivant Avenue.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Ferenchik on December 31, 2013 04:21 PM
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Coleman ready to break record as city's longest serving mayor
He won't get a trophy, but maybe someone will make the mayor a T-shirt: "Columbus: No one's done it longer." (OK, we'll work on the slogan.)Continue Reading
Michael B. Coleman hits a milestone on Wednesday, beginning his 15th year and becoming the city's longest-serving mayor. He passed M.E. "Jack" Sensenbrenner, who served 14 total years in separate tenures from 1954 to 1960 and 1964 to 1972.Posted by Lucas Sullivan on December 31, 2013 01:27 PM


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Oxen case spurs college plea for helpBy LISA RATHKE
The Associated Press | January 16,2013
MONTPELIER — Officials with the Vermont college that was targeted by animal rights activists over its decision to slaughter two oxen told a legislative committee that resources are needed for farms and other businesses to deal with potential online threats from activists.
Green Mountain College officials and students testified before the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday about the ordeal that ensued this fall after the school decided in a public forum to slaughter two retired oxen from the college's farm and use the meat in its dining hall.
The uproar began after VINE Sanctuary, based in Springfield, Vt., offered a home for the animals and urged followers to contact Green Mountain College officials and ask them to reconsider their decision. VINE stands for Veganism is the Nest Evolution.
Critics signed online petitions, other groups got involved and followers sent millions of emails from around the world — some of them threatening and vitriolic — to try to spare the animals, school officials said, displaying some of the messages to the committee. Groups opposed to the school's decision put it under surveillance, with photos of the campus and video appearing online, officials said.
Area slaughterhouses in Vermont, New York and New Hampshire were threatened, preventing the small liberal arts college from finding a place to butcher them, the school said.
"Students felt threatened. I felt threatened," said Philip Ackerman-Leist, head of the school's Farm and Food Project.
He has proposed setting up a rapid response team that includes a respected veterinarian, a social media expert, a lawyer and representatives from nonprofit groups to help others — colleges, farms or businesses — if they come under such an attack.
"We needed support. We needed help from other organizations," said Ackerman-Leist, who said the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and Agriculture Secretary Chuck Ross were a big help.
VINE's coordinator has said the effort took off far beyond what the group expected and the group itself has been threatened but it has never endorsed violent language.
The college eventually euthanized the injured ox and decided to keep the other ox at the farm.
Baylee Drown, the assistant manager of the college's farm, asked legislators on Tuesday to consider some sort of recourse for the businesses that are interrupted by the activities of activists.
"I want to encourage you to make some sort of an avenue for us to defend ourselves so that we do not feel powerless, and possibly a task force would be wonderful so there's some sort of response," she said.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryMONTPELIER Gov. Full Story
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#2 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
INDIO, CA - APRIL 15: Musician Wouter "Wally" De Backer aka Gotye performs during Day 3 of the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival held at the Empire Polo Club on April 15, 2012 in Indio, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Coachella)Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Coachella
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#5 Maroon 5 - Payphone ft. Wiz Khalifa
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 29: Singer Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs on NBC's "Today" at Rockefeller Plaza on June 29, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
#6 Fun. - We Are Young
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - JUNE 01: Singer Nate Ruess of Fun (L) and singer Janelle Monae perform at rehearsals for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards on June 1, 2012 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
#7 Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up
PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 20: Singer Jason Mraz performs at the Speaker Series for "In Search of Incredible" at Bing Bar presented by Intel and Asus during 2012 Park City on January 20, 2012 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Bing)
#8 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - JULY 22: Singer Carly Rae Jepsen performs onstage during the 2012 Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre on July 22, 2012 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
#9 Rihanna - We Found Love feat. Calvin Harris
LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 22: Singer Rihanna performs onstage during the 2011 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena May 22, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for ABC)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 02: 'Pink' performs live on the Main Stage during the Wireless Festival in Hyde Park on July 2, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 28: Singer Adele performs onstage during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on August 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
#12 Train - Drive By
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 29: Singer Patrick Monahan of Train performs onstage during the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education's 16th Grand Slam for Children benefit concert at the Wynn Las Vegas on October 29, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event raises funds to help improve education for underserved youth in the Las Vegas community. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
#13 The Wanted - Glad You Came
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 21: Jay McGuinness, Nathan Sykes, Max George, Tom Parker and Siva Kaneswaran of The Wanted perform during the T4 Stars Of 2010 at Earls Court on November 21, 2010 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
# 14 Jessie J - Domino
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 18: Jessie J performs onstage during VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul at Hammerstein Ballroom on December 18, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Vh1)
#15 Ed Sheeran - The A Team
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND - AUGUST 18: Ed Sheeran performs on The Arena Stage on day 1 of the V Festival at Hylands Park on August 18, 2012 in Chelmsford, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)
#16 Katy Perry - Wide Awake
Singer Katy Perry performs on Hollywood Boulevard before the premiere of her film "Katy Perry: Part Of Me" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on June 26, 2012. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/GettyImages)ROBYN BECK/AFP/GettyImages
#17 Ellie Goulding - Lights
HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 11: Singer Ellie Goulding performs at the Third Annual ELLE Women In Music Event at Avalon on April 11, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
#18 Adele - Someone Like You
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#19 Neon Trees - Everybody Talks
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 28: Neon Trees perform at the MLB Fan Cave on August 28, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
#20 Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
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What a human being would refer to as "my life" is a collection of all perceptions being put together in a meaningful way and watched from a screen in the brain, and one can never come out of one's brain. When you look out of the window, you think that you see an image with your eyes, as this is the way that you have been taught to think. However, in reality this is not how it works, because you do not see the world with your eyes. You see the image created in your brains. This is not a prediction, nor a philosophical speculation, but the scientific truth. Everything we perceive takes place in our brains, and that we have no need for the outside world or material beings to experience these perceptions.
The hearing process also operates in a similar manner to the visual process. In other words, we hear sounds in our brains in the same way that we see the view of the outside world in our brains. The ear captures the sounds around us and delivers them to the middle ear. The middle ear amplifies the sound vibrations and delivers them to the inner ear. The inner ear transforms these sound vibrations into electric signals, on the basis of their frequency and intensity, and then transmits them to the brain. These messages in the brain are then sent to the hearing center where the sounds are interpreted. Therefore, the hearing process takes place in the hearing center in essentially the same way that the seeing process takes place in the seeing center.
Despite the volume of the sounds you hear, the interior of your brain is actually very quiet. However, you hear noise, such as voices, very clearly in your brain.
Therefore, actual sounds do not exist outside our brains, even though there are physical vibrations we call sound waves. These sound waves are not transformed into sounds outside or inside our ears, but rather inside our brains. As the visual process is not performed by our eyes, neither do our ears perform the hearing process. For example, when you are having a chat with a friend, you observe the sight of your friend in your brain, and hear his or her voice in your brain. As the view in your brain is formed, you will have a deep feeling of three dimensions, and your friend's voice is also heard with a similar feeling of depth. For example, you could see your friend as being a long way from you, or sitting behind you; accordingly you feel his voice as if it is coming from him, from near you or from your back. However, your friend's voice is not far away or behind you. It is in your brain.
The extraordinariness about the real nature of the sound you hear is not limited to this. The brain is actually both lightproof and soundproof. Sound never in fact reaches the brain. Therefore, despite the volume of the sounds you hear, the interior of your brain is actually very quiet. However, you hear noise, such as voices, very clearly in your brain. This is an extraordinary fact. The electrical signals that reach the brain are heard in your brain as sound, for example the sound of a concert in a stadium filled with people.
If someone is asked how he senses the smells around him, he would probably say "with my nose". However, this answer is not the right one, even though most people would instantly conclude that it was the truth. Gordon Shepherd, a professor of neurology from Yale University, explains why this is incorrect:
We think that we smell with our noses, [but] this is a little like saying that we hear with our ear lobes.1
Our sense of smell works in a similar mechanism to our other sense organs. In fact, the only function of the nose is its ability to act as an intake channel for smell molecules. Volatile molecules such as vanilla, or the scent of a rose, come to receptors located on hairs in a part of the nose called the epithelium and interact with them. The result of the interaction of the smell molecules with the epithelium reaches the brain as an electric signal. These electric signals are then perceived as a scent by the brain. Thus, all smells which we interpret as good or bad are merely perceptions generated in the brain after the interaction with volatile molecules has been transduced into electric signals. The fragrance of perfume, of a flower, of a food which you like, of the sea—in short all smells you may or may not like—are perceived in the brain. However, the smell molecules never actually reach the brain. In our sense of smell, it is only electrical signals which reach the brain, as happens with sound and sight.
George Berkeley, a philosopher who has realized the importance of this truth, says "At the beginning, it was believed that colors, odors, etc., 'really exist,' but subsequently such views were renounced, and it was seen that they only exist in dependence on our sensations."2
The smell molecules never actually reach the brain. In our sense of smell, it is only electrical signals which reach the brain, as happens with sound and sight.
Michael Posner, a psychologist and Marcus Raichle, a neurologist from Washington University comment on the issue of how sight and other senses occur, even in the absence of an external stimulus:
Open your eyes, and a scene fills your view effortlessly; close your eyes and think of that scene, and you can summon an image of it, certainly not as vivid, solid, or complete as a scene you see with your eyes, but still one that captures the scene's essential characteristics. In both cases, an image of the scene is formed in the mind. The image formed from actual visual experiences is called a "percept" to distinguish it from an imagined image. The percept is formed as the result of light hitting the retina and sending signals that are further processed in the brain. But how are we able to create an image when no light is hitting the retina to send such signals?3
If the taste nerves in your brain were cut off, it would be impossible for the taste of anything you eat to reach your brain, and you would entirely lose your sense of taste.
There is no need for an external source to form an image in your mind. This same situation holds true for the sense of smell. In the same way as you are aware of a smell which does not really exist in your dreams or imagination, you cannot be sure whether or not those objects, which you smell in real life, exist outside you. Even if you assume that these objects exist outside of you, you can never deal with the original objects.
The sense of taste can be explained in a manner similar to those of the other sense organs. Tasting is caused by little buds in the tongue and throat. The tongue can detect four different tastes, bitter, sour, sweet and salty. Taste buds, after a chain of processes, transform sensory information into electrical signals and then transfer them to the brain. Subsequently, those signals are perceived by the brain as tastes. The taste that you experience when you eat a cake, yogurt, a lemon or a fruit is, in reality, a process that interprets electrical signals in the brain.
An image of a cake will be linked with the taste of the sugar, all of which occurs in the brain and everything sensed is related to the cake which you like so much. The taste that you are conscious of after you have eaten your cake, with a full appetite, is nothing other than an effect generated in your brain caused by electrical signals. You are only aware of what your brain interprets from the external stimuli. You can never reach the original object; for example you cannot see, smell or taste the actual chocolate itself. If the taste nerves in your brain were cut off, it would be impossible for the taste of anything you eat to reach your brain, and you would entirely lose your sense of taste. The fact that the tastes of which you are aware seem extraordinarily real should certainly not deceive you. This is the scientific explanation of the matter.
If our fingertips are given a stimulus in a different manner, we can sense entirely different feelings. Today this can be done by mechanical simulators. With the help of a special glove, a person can feel the sensation of stroking a cat, shaking hands with someone, washing his hands, or touching a hard material, even though none of these things may be present.
The sense of touch is one of the factors which prevents people from being convinced of the aforementioned truth that the senses of sight, hearing and taste occur within the brain. For example, if you told someone that he sees a book within his brain, he would, if he didn't think carefully, reply "I can't be seeing the book in my brain—look, I'm touching it with my hand". Or, if we said "we cannot know whether the original of this book exists as a material object outside or not", again the same superficially minded person might answer "no, look, I'm holding it with my hand and I feel the hardness of it—that isn't a perception but an existence which has material reality".
However, there is a fact that such people cannot understand, or perhaps just ignore. The sense of touch also occurs in the brain as much as do all the other senses. That is to say, when you touch a material object, you sense whether it is hard, soft, wet, sticky or silky in the brain. The effects that come from your fingertips are transmitted to the brain as an electrical signal and these signals are perceived in the brain as the sense of touch. For instance, if you touch a rough surface, you can never know whether the surface is, in reality, indeed a rough surface, or how a rough surface actually feels. That is because you can never touch the original of a rough surface. The knowledge that you have about touching a surface is your brain's interpretation of certain stimuli. This important truth, which needs careful consideration, is expressed by twentieth century philosopher Bertrand Russell:
As to the sense of touch when we press the table with our fingers, that is an electric disturbance on the electrons and protons of our fingertips, produced, according to modern physics, by the proximity of the electrons and protons in the table. If the same disturbance in our finger-tips arose in any other way, we should have the sensations, in spite of there being no table.4
The point that Russell makes here is extremely important. In fact, if our fingertips are given a stimulus in a different manner, we can sense entirely different feelings. Today this can be done by mechanical simulators. With the help of a special glove, a person can feel the sensation of stroking a cat, shaking hands with someone, washing his hands, or touching a hard material, even though none of these things may be present. In reality, of course, none of these sensations represent occurrences in the real world. This is further evidence that all the sensations felt by a human being are formed within the mind.
When you touch a material object, you sense whether it is hard, soft, wet, sticky or silky in the brain. The effects that come from your fingertips are transmitted to the brain as an electrical signal and these signals are perceived in the brain as the sense of touch.
1 www.hhmi.org/senses/a/a110.htm
2 V.I.Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970, p.14
3 Michael I. Posner, Marcus E. Raichle, Images of Mind, Scientific American Library, New York, 1999, p. 88
4 Bertrand Russell, ABC of Relativity, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1964, pp. 161-162


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bag of holding
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|adds a bag of holding to your inventory, so all the packrats out there can keep hoarding
Master of Blades
|Nov 13, 2011
|Master of Blades This mod add several new weapons! In progress... @14.11 Well, I did one model and now I am doing texture. I want to ask you two questions. How has the weapon to gain? How do you prefer? Write a comment.
Glass Weapon Set Recolor WIP
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|Updated Current Colors: Magma Red Orange - Blue Hilt Emerald - Bone White Hilt ( I made this one much less "glowy") Obsidian - Silverish Hilt (Not glowy) -------- Coming Colors: Bone White Blade with undecided color hilt Aqua Blue with undecided color hilt -------- About: Doing this set to have some nice looking weapons in the game when you get bored with the standard weapon sets. I will be doing the entire glass weapon set at some point, the greatsword is next, will be uploaded to this and I...
Byz Nightingale Recolor - Male and Female
|Nov 23, 2011
|This mod is a recolor of the Nightingale Armor using a soft white for hightlights and a variety of red, blue, or green for smaller areas on the armor. To install, simply put the 'armor' folder of the color you choose into your Data/textures folder. eg. C:/Program Files/Skyrim/Data/textures/armor
Craftable Lockpicks
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|****** Install ****** (1) Put the .esp file into your /Data/ folder in your skyrimm install location. (2) At the skyrim launcher, click on Data Files, and make sure that craftablelockpicks.esp is checked. OR open %localappdata%\Skyrim\plugins.txt and add craftablelockpicks.esp to a new line. ****** Uninstall ****** Delete craftablelockpicks.esp
Equivalent Exchange - Simple Transmutation
|Nov 25, 2011
|Yes, the name of this mod is inspired by a mod with a similar purpose for Minecraft! INTRODUCTION Hello, and welcome to my first mod for TESV: Skyrim. I did not think modding would be this big so early, but I guess Oblivion and TESNexus have left an impression! Anyway, I am a long time modder for Oblivion, and I do have a bit of experience with Gamebyro's file structure, etc. HOWEVER, as you probably already know, there is no official SDK (Construction Set) out for Skyrim, so all mods must be...
Hybrids Hires Plants and Herbs Retexture WIP
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|v2 updates: Snowberries, Thistle, Hanging Moss High resolution Plants Retextured at 1024x1024: - Snowberries - Thistle - Hanging Moss - Lavender - Red Wildflower - Purple Wildflower - Blue Wildflower High resolution Herbs (Harvested Plant Items) are also included. Work in progress.
Lightweight Scrolls
|Dec 02, 2011
|Lowers the scroll weight from 0.5 to 0.1, no one had made it yet so I decided to. Let me know if there are any problems.
Dwemer metal and dragonbone, less weight
|Dec 03, 2011
|dwemer scrap metal, and dragonbone & dragonscale weight reducer. reduces the weight of all the dwemer scrap metal pieces, they were 10, 15, 20 pounds, now they are all 3 or 5 pounds. ... i want to pick up so much metal at the dwemer ruins, but i had to make multiple trips and load up my housecarl... now the parts all weigh less, but not super cheating less. + HOW TO INSTALL + use Curse Client http://www.curse.com/client or place "cao_dwemetal_dragonbone_lessweight.esp" into Skyrim DATA folder...
Scale Quest Rewards
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|Description This mod will check to see if you have leveled to a point where you would have received a better version of a reward, and will swap the item with the better one. Items now level up with you! Well, some of them at least. Currently the mod will check when you load a game (you can turn this feature on/off) or when you press a certain key (configurable or disable-able in the ini file). By default the key is the coma/less than key. Note that currently player-upgraded/enchanted versions...
Skyrim Item ID List
|Dec 04, 2011
|A complete item ID list compiled into one Excel worksheet. No more need to search the web or a PDF for an item code. Contains all in-game item names, weight, value, damage/rating, and effects/enchantments. The list is broken down into categories for easier use. Disclaimer: All information taken from the UESPWiki.
Creature & NPC Control Console Bats / AHK
|Dec 08, 2011
|Skyrim Creature & NPC Control Mod Via AHK This AutoHotkey script allows you to control NPCs(follow, attack, inventory, wait) via auto-completed console commands for the PC version of Skyrim with an enabled console via the F-keys. INSTALL Extract all files into your Skyrim game directory. (Optional) Run .AHK(AutoHotkey) file for ease of use. ! IMPORTANT: 1) YOU MUST HAVE AN NPC/CREATURE SELECTED BY OPENING CONSOLE WITH TILDE( ` ) KEY AND CLICKING ON IT WITH MOUSE; BE SURE CONSOLE IS CLOSED...
nightingale hood cloak dark emblem
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Improved Nightingale Bow
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Skyrim NPC Editor
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Ring of Boost Carry Weight Maximum
|Mar 28, 2012
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|New armor and weaponry for the Dragonborn
|Apr 28, 2012
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Portable OnDemand Disposable Unlimited Mannequins SPODUM
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Fetuses, infants, and toddlers, as well as older children and teens are particularly susceptible to environmental insults due to their rapid rate of growth, development and reproduction of cells. This vulnerability makes children a specific focus of environmental health research on the effects of lead, chemical dump sites, pesticides, PCBs, benzene, environmental estrogens, and outdoor and indoor air contaminants. Scientists want to know which substances pose significant health risks, how to identify susceptible children, and how to intervene to prevent illness.
The following are some of the studies conducted or financed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, which focus on children:
Lead Poisoning
Lead (commonly found in old paint, household dust, soil, pipe solder and some ceramics) has long been known to cause severe health problems at high doses, including muscle and abdominal pain, mental impairment, paralysis, and even death. Recent studies supported by the NIEHS suggest that a young person's lead exposure is linked not only to lower IQs and lower high school graduation rates but to increased delinquency. Preliminary data from two other grantees' studies indicate that young girls exposed to lead store the metal in their bones. This lead can be released when they become pregnant years later, exposing their fetuses. Until recently, however, we have not appreciated the devastating effect of low exposures early in life.
Basic research financed by the NIEHS has shown the adverse effects of lead on children's IQ and physical development at levels previously considered safe. Based on these and other findings, public health officials declared lead the number one environmental hazard to American children and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lowered the acceptable blood lead level.
Research by the NIEHS grantees has helped identify sources of lead in the environment, design public health prevention efforts, and develop treatment to remove lead from exposed children, a process called chelation.
To help improve treatments, the NIEHS supported the study of dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) as a chelating agent. Known generically as Succimer and the trade-name Chemet, DMSA binds with the lead, hastening its removal from the body and can be administered orally without hospitalization, an improvement over previous intravenous therapies.
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Hello again ...I think I should change my alias to Paranoidmamma!!! OK so Eleanor has been doing well with reducing supplementation. Over the last few days she was down to 6oz formula per day BUT I just got a cold and coincidentally she seems to need 9oz a day again now...I'm not taking any meds and I'm pumping/feeding just as much. Just feeling ill and v tired. Could this cold be responsible for my milk supply going down again.
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Posted on: September 1, 2015
By: Andres Edwin Valles, Esq.
"The Volunteer Lawyers Program (VLP) provides potential volunteer attorneys an opportunity to learn about Landlord and Tenant Law in New York City from very knowledgeable and nice court staff personnel of the New York City Civil Court Help Centers.
Even though I primarily volunteer in the VLP at the New York County Civil Court Help Center, I was fortunate to have volunteered at the Bronx County Civil Court Help Center for a short period. To become a volunteer attorney for the program, I attended the Landlord/Tenant Law Session of the Bridge the Gap CLE administered by the New York State Courts Access to Justice Program. The Landlord/Tenant Law Session, through its lectures and handouts, provided me with a basic understanding of the different kinds of legal actions that the New York City Housing Courts have jurisdiction over, such as a Non-Payment proceedings, Holdover proceedings, including Licensee and Roommate Holdovers, HP and Harassment Law Actions.
On my first volunteer date, I shadowed Help Center Court Attorneys for half a day at the New York County Civil Court Help Center. I watched the Court Attorneys provide legal information to unrepresented litigants who faced issues regarding Landlord and Tenant Law in New York City. Afterwards, I began to provide legal advice and information to unrepresented litigants on my own. At that time, I was very nervous to provide legal advice and information to litigants due to not knowing much about Landlord and Tenant Law in New York City. However, I helped the litigants to the best of my ability and when I did not know a legal question, I went to a Court Attorney or court employee to talk about the issue. The court staff of the New York City Civil Court Help Centers are a wealth of knowledge and friendly people. They provided me with the legal information and/or documents to read that would answer a legal question. During the weekends, I read handouts from the New York County Civil Court Help Center to learn more about Landlord and Tenant Law in New York City.
Over time, I learned to properly start a Licensee or Roommate Holdover proceeding, Non-Payment proceeding, HP Action and/or Harassment Law Action. Also, I learned to properly respond to such legal actions (e.g. filing an Answer to a Holdover Petition and Notice of Petition) or requesting compliance with an order and decision (e.g. filing an Order to Show Cause for Failure to Comply with an order and decision in a Non-Payment proceeding). This knowledge helped me to become more efficient in providing legal advice and information to litigants, which is great because I am able to help more people. The Volunteer Lawyers Program is a great opportunity for attorneys to learn about Landlord and Tenant Law in New York City. If a potential volunteer attorney is willing to commit many hours in volunteering for this program, he or she will likely be surprised by how much he or she has learned about Landlord and Tenant Law in New York City in a short period of time. I am happy to say that I experienced it."
Posted: November 18, 2014
By: Adam S. Waldbaum, Esq.
"My decision to join the Volunteer Lawyers Program is one of the best I have ever made. When I signed up for the initial CLE training in April 2013, I was just looking for an opportunity to fill some free time doing some pro bono work. I had a background in real estate law, so I focused on volunteering in Housing Court, but I didn't have much experience with landlord/tenant law and was nervous about whether I would actually be able to assist pro se tenants.
My fears were unfounded. The initial CLE program provided a great primer on landlord/tenant law (as well as consumer credit and divorce law). Although I was still a bit nervous the first time I showed up to volunteer, the court attorneys in the Help Center were very welcoming and quickly put me at ease. The Help Center staff is extremely experienced and knowledgeable – they made it easy for me to learn the nuts and bolts of landlord/tenant law and how to clearly convey that information to pro se tenants.
I thoroughly enjoy my time volunteering in the Help Center. Every day brings a different mix of people and cases that provide new challenges. Even after a year and a half I learn something new almost every time I volunteer.
Participating in the Volunteer Lawyers Program has also had a profound effect on my career. I have discovered that I enjoy landlord/tenant law more than the work I had been doing before I started volunteering. As a result, and with the benefit of connections I made while volunteering, I was able to get a new job with the Housing Court. Despite the new job, I still try and volunteer every week I am able because I enjoy the people at the Help Center and I feel a strong sense of fulfillment helping people navigate the court system."
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"My name is Kahlil G. Winslow, Esq., and I am a solo practitioner attorney who started practicing law after being admitted in 2010. I am a graduate of Brooklyn Law School. I started doing pro bono work (mainly in Kings County) because it served three primary purposes: (1) help those who otherwise would not have access to legal representation, (2) satisfy my free CLE training requirement, and (3) network with some of the brightest and sharpest minds in the legal profession of New York City. I am always glad to give my time and service to an underserved community. There are thousands of individuals throughout New York City, old and young, different backgrounds and ethnicities, who all desperately need assistance. They are scared and frustrated and often feel that they have no one in their corner to help them. So I make it my mission to be of service.
I find my pro bono work to be the most rewarding and enjoyable work I do. I have been working with the NYS Courts Access for Justice Program primarily in its Pro Bono Housing area for over a year now. I work with tenants advising them of the law and their rights; putting them into contact with legal services as well as government agencies. I help them negotiate settlements, prepare for trial, navigate the court process, prepare and file appropriate motions. Similarly, I work with landlords as well helping them start court cases and preparing petitions and helping them to navigate the court process. I know my job was done well when a litigant tells me that they were so glad that I was patient and took the time to help them."
Posted: December 12, 2011
By: Steven C. Teague, Esq.
"Scared would be an understatement to describe how I felt before my first day as a member of the Volunteer Lawyers Program in New York City Housing Court. I am a tad high strung to begin with, but, when at my interview, Yacine Barry, counsel to Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Fisher, informed me that "if you can make it in housing court, you can make it anywhere," I was forced to wonder exactly what I had gotten myself into.
Now that I have hopefully piqued your curiosity, let me provide you some personal information by way of background. Up until last spring, I was working at a Wall Street firm and—I must admit—was deeply unhappy. When I finally threw in the towel at my job, giving up on the legal profession also appeared imminent. Yet, I started shopping around for a new career only to discover, with the exception of waiting tables, that I was not qualified to do much else. I, therefore, decided not to give up practicing law for the time being and started searching for a volunteer position to bolster my then meager work experience.
Perhaps like you, perhaps not, I knew little to nothing about New York landlord/tenant law much less the goings on in housing court so after the above quote from Yacine, I was nervous. However, after watching the 8.5 hour CLE required of all volunteers, I was somewhat horrified. (I swear this testimonial will soon become an endorsement of the Volunteer Lawyers Program.) Landlord/tenant interaction in my home state of SC is pretty straightforward: Landlord does not like tenant, then he throws tenant's personal items on the sidewalk and changes the locks. Landlord/tenant law in New York is immensely complicated, and I realized that the CLE training provided only touched the surface of what I would ultimately need to know to master the intricacies of nonpayments, holdovers, HP actions, rent regulations, federally subsidized housing, etc. I did not anticipate being able to be of assistance to any client, but, because I made a 12 hour commitment, I had no choice but to give it my best shot.
The first surprise during my experience as a volunteer attorney was discovering just how patient and complimentary the Help Center court attorneys were of me and the work I was performing. I was not used to seeing either of those qualities in the supervising attorneys I dealt with in the past. In the Volunteer Lawyers Program (compare to the Volunteer Lawyer for the Day Program), you work at the court's Help Center where you are encountered with constant inquiries, typically by either tenants who have recently been served a Petition of Eviction or by disgruntled lower income landlords—largely roommates—needing to know their options in terms of eviction. Though a fair portion of your time as a volunteer would be assisting such pro se litigants in drafting Petitions (landlords), answers to Petitions (tenants), or varied notices and motions (both), most of your time is spent fielding questions. Often, at least initially, a client would ask me a question and I would instantly have to run to a court attorney, who, without sighing or acting otherwise frustrated, would provide me an immediate answer. What a welcome change from my past experience as an attorney.
The next surprise I found as a volunteer was that I never had to leave my comfort zone until I felt ready. My first days/weeks as a volunteer were spent assisting the Help Center court attorneys and building the confidence needed to take more clients on my own. Though I will not claim to have mastered landlord/tenant law—give me at least another decade—I can honestly say that I have learned enough to handle the bulk of my pro se clients competently with only limited assistance from my supervisors.
Finally, I am continually surprised to learn that it is possible to enjoy being an attorney. Yes, I have certainly learned what Yacine meant by her above description of housing court. For threat of losing their homes, clients are often quite intense—at times even mean. However, it's in those moments when I am able to help even the most intimidating client either successfully draft an Order to Show Cause, or inform her of a subsidy that she had no idea existed, or just assure her that a Petition does not mean she will be homeless after her first court date that I am reminded of our profession's value and why I chose to pursue it.
In summary, I have really loved my experience in the Volunteer Lawyers Program. And, though I cannot guarantee that you will find your experience as rewarding as I have, I can guarantee that if you put in the time, you will learn a great deal about an extremely intricate and interesting area of law, make great contacts, and have a good time in the process."
Posted: December 9, 2011
By: Richard Landman, Esq., Attorney Emeritus
"After working for decades in the area of real estate development and academia, I wanted to use my legal skills to assist pro se litigants in understanding their rights in a face to face experience. It may sound corny, but assuring justice was the original reason that I went to Law School. Now that I was semi-retired, I wanted to fulfill the dreams of my idealistic self. But I needed confidence and more practical experience, and volunteering was the best way to gain these skills under a supervised setting.
That was when I learned about the Access to Justice Program in Civil Court and saw firsthand how great the need was to assist those without any legal representation. I never realized how many people faced evictions or unfair judgments without any legal help. The first step I took was to participate in the CLE courses to become a Volunteer Lawyer for the Day (in Housing and Consumer Credit), the Pro Se Litigant Help Center and DIY program, the Guardian ad litem program and in the Small Claims Arbitration program.
The knowledge and experience from each one of these programs (and my 30 years background knowledge of real estate, land –use law, and landlord/tenant law) played off each other. I was not only helping people to better understand their legal rights, but my legal competencies grew and I was being supervised. It was better than any college internship program around. It didn't take long before I realized that I was getting more than I was giving.
For over two years I have been using my legal skills at the Pro Se Litigant Help Center once a week, and I found that my new knowledge was also very helpful at the LeGaL (LGBT Bar Association) Walk-In Clinic where I am the lead counsel every Tuesday. Thanks to these programs I have been able to not only refresh my legal skills; but have helped so many people who would have had no idea how to operate in a legal setting.
The need for legal assistance for lower income people is greater than ever, and I know that I have helped a little, but the main issue is that our society must increase funding to provide legal assistance to more people (so that volunteering is only one option). In the meantime, I feel like a band-aid, but an important one."
Posted: March 14, 2006
By: David Patterson, Esq.
I'm on my way to the Civil Court's Help Center, which is located on the first floor at 111 Centre Street. On my way in, in the waiting area, I notice a woman sitting down and crying. I proceed inside and say hello to Faith and Louise, the two full-time Court Attorneys who work in the Help Center and Zelda, the reception person. (Note: All names are fictional, except mine.)
"Do you know there's a woman outside crying?" I ask. Faith says, "She's scared stiff of losing her apartment. We're helping her, but she wanted to have a couple of minutes alone, to compose herself."
Louise says, "Oh, DP (my initials), we can also have you talk to her because she has some non-housing issues we can't answer. Perhaps, since you are a general practitioner, you can give her additional information."
Faith adds, "She lives in an apartment with her boyfriend, who moved in about two months ago. It's her apartment, and she has lived there for around three years. Only her name is on the lease. Yesterday, her boyfriend hit her. She wants him to leave the apartment, but he refuses to go. We gave her the forms for the required predicate notice, notice of petition and petition, in case she decides to start a proceeding to evict him."
I thought to myself that I knew exactly what this "predicate notice" stuff was all about, because the Volunteer Lawyer's Project staff provided us with in-person training, and comprehensive, easily understandable, and extensive written materials during the 9-hour training in Fundamentals in Landlord-Tenant Law.
Incredibly, while we were being taught the skills to become knowledgeable in the landlord-tenant area, we also received CLE credit for the training courses we took. I remember thinking to myself that this is such a good deal. I was really surprised that more people don't take advantage of it.
What is just as helpful, by the way, is that after undergoing the prerequisite training, Faith and Louise supervise us volunteers when we see people who come into the Help Center asking for help, and, in effect, help train us to competently and appropriately handle their questions. Only after I had acquired enough experience was I left on my own. Even now whenever I have a question, Faith and Louise are right there to answer it.
The woman who was crying, whose named turned out to be "Sarah," came back into the Help Center. Louise asked me if I wanted to see if I could provide additional assistance to Sarah, and I went to speak to her.
After talking to Sarah, I learned that, sadly, this was not the first time her boyfriend had assaulted her. The good news was that she had finally decided to do something about it. As I also practice in the criminal law area, I knew enough to be able to inform Sarah that she could go to the local precinct and make a complaint against the boyfriend, whose name happened to be "Punk Kid."
If the police believed a crime had been committed, they would arrest Punk Kid. When he went before a judge, that judge would probably issue an order of protection. This order could bar the boyfriend from coming anywhere near Sarah or her apartment. I also provided Sarah with the numbers of a couple of agencies that provide services to battered women.
Sarah also stated that she got behind on her rent, because Punk Kid had never contributed any money towards the household and rent. Faith gave Sarah a list of various charities that provide money to pay back rent under certain circumstances. Louise noted that the listed charities might well be sympathetic to a case like Sarah's and also provided her with information about how to get similar financial assistance from New York City's Department of Social Services. As long as Sarah could show she could pay her rent prospectively, these agencies might well be able to help her.
As Sarah left, she said, to no one in particular, "Thank you so much. You guys are my angels. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't been here."
It was getting to be the end of the day and time to go home. Louise, Faith, Zelda and I looked at each other, knowing full well that we had done some good today.
I find that providing legal counseling is an enjoyable experience because 1) you get a chance to relate to "real people with real problems" 2) you REALLY get to utilize your legal skills and training, by identifying the critical legal issues among the mish-mosh of emotions and details provided by the person seeking assistance 3) you get the chance to REALLY help people, in a way we thought we might when we first decided to go to law school; 4) you get to enjoy a unique feeling of satisfaction, particularly when you see that sense of desperation slowly draining from someone's face, only to be replaced by the recognition and hope that her problems really can be successfully addressed; and, perhaps most importantly, 5) unlike your regular clients, Help Center clients won't call you twenty times in the next week seeking a different answer to the very same question, because, once you see them at the Help Center, your work with them is complete.
For the more practical among us, volunteering at the Help Center also provides participants with additional perks, including 1) having the opportunity to network with Court Attorneys and other volunteers; 2) getting training in the Landlord-Tenant Law area; 3) receiving excellent written materials, as well as in-person training; 4) having the opportunity to continue to learn, from full-time Court Attorneys, like Faith and Louise, with substantial expertise in this area of the law; and 5) even getting free CLE credits while you're doing all this other good stuff.
So, what more can you ask for? I know you might have been thinking about doing pro bono work for awhile. Now, you have an ideal opportunity to translate these thoughts into action. So, join Housing Court's Volunteer Lawyer's Project Team, and help us have a good time while we're providing a much needed service.
David J. Patterson
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It was one of the first food at arounf 7mo she still likes it...
It was one of the first food at arounf 7mo she still likes it...
I'd like to give to my LO... but she goes to daycare. Can I spritz some lemon juice to keep it from going brown?
It's an excellent first food for baby. Full of good fats. I wouldn't add any lemon until after your baby is one. It does turn brown, but I think it just bothers us because we see it. The flavor is still the same.
Mommie to big sister Eszter, and twinnies Sophia and Josiah
this site for info. on introducing foods.
This was also one of dd's first foods. Although she wasn't crazy about it the first few times, she wolfs it down now!
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Mother - Wife - Artist - Cook - Writer - EnvironMENTAList - Cloth Diaperer (but we are soooo done with diapers) - Organic Health Nut...I'm sure there's more.
DD1 - 12/15/05 Breastfed for 16.5 months
DD2 - 8/6/07 Breastfed for 3 whole years and 3 little, extra days.
Avocado was one of the first foods we fed our lo. I cut it in french fry strips and she went to town on it. Avocado's are a great first food. I agree with pp that I would not spritz with anything citrus. It's too much for them yet.
Tracy...Mommy to my two beautiful girls - Kinzie Marie, 1/19/01 and Ryan Renee, 2/1/07
Married to Danny, an amazing husband and father - 3/22/03
Age Ticker
Breast milk is better than any udder milk!
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard. ~David Allen
The browning doesn't hurt it...it's just a bit of oxidisation. You can keep the pit in with it, and that'll help a bit.
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Iryssa(24), DH(27)
DS born Sept. 21 '07, 8.5lbs
Nursed for the last time Oct. 20 '08
DD born Jan. 20, '09, 8lbs 14oz
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#207776 - 10/25/12 02:12 PM Re: The joys of parenthood [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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The joy of reading a touching limerick.
#207777 - 10/25/12 03:04 PM A gem for Mary Jane [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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One form of corundum is ruby.
I know this, though I am a noobie.
With beauty galore,
Its cost is much more
Than identical weight in a doobie.
#207778 - 10/25/12 06:24 PM The joys of disability transport! [Re: Tromboniator]
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A gem if a Limerick, Peter!
When ere I desire some fresh air
My buggy will take me out there:
To make sure that my lucks not
Run out, I load buckshot
To give any muggers a scare!
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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"A gem if a Limerick, Peter!"
Is our Rhub being rude or fat-fingered?
#207785 - 10/26/12 06:20 AM Hungry man, lonely man [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Racing pigeons run round from post to pillar
Homing pigeons home to home from hither
The Passenger Pigeons
Once numbering two billion
Are as dead as a Dodo with us as the killer
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Now that is a fun limerick with a definite lesson. Thanks._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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An Overture leads to a Suite;
An overpass leads to the street.
In competitive sport
Or proceedings in court,
An oversight leads to defeat.
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Beautiful, AC. Almost wants to be a sonnet!
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I swills down a pint of weedkiller,
Then lashes me 'and to the tiller.
I sails in foul weather,
And goes hell-for-leather.
Me life on the sea is a thriller!
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Nice limerick, Tromboniator full of salt!
I noticed a postal van parking;
The parcel it brought had no marking,
Except a small sign
Saying "Don't drink this wine".
How completely and utterly barking!
(From the British expression "barking mad")
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Women... can't live without 'em
February 27, 2013 —
Making up more than half of the population in the United States, women are now considered by many to be the driving force behind the nation. Outnumbering men by almost eight million, female influence on the American way of life is no longer in dispute, but the rest of the world still has some catching up to do. March is National Women's History Month, and although its roots date back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York factories staged a protest over working conditions, it wasn't until 1981 that Congress established National Women's History week, which was eventually expanded to a month by presidential proclamation in 1987 (www.census.gov).
The numbers alone are pretty impressive: women dominate in the work force, representing close to 72 million, and there are currently fewer men working in management, professional and related occupations (www.bls.gov/home). Millions of women own businesses and the revenue from women-owned companies exceeded one trillion dollars in 2007 (www.factfinder2.census.gov). Little wonder then, that I found myself immersed in the world of women, once inside the doors of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (www.artsalliancesite.org) last weekend while out and about with the pooch.
The gallery's newest exhibit titled "Aph•O•Risms: Exploring the Economy of Form" is just that, but (I hate to admit) I was unfamiliar with the term. Instead of my usual pre-show research, I decided to head out swathed in ignorance and discover what I might learn along the way.
Before perusing the artwork, I stopped to greet curator Rocky Pinciotti, who pointed me in the direction of the program, where he had thoughtfully expressed some words on the subject. "Aphoristic creations are marked by the use of few words to convey much meaning or information," it read. "This exhibition features 10 artists working in a variety of mediums that exemplify this principle, either overtly or subconsciously."


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The Crystal Lake Police sent out the following alert through Nixle messaging system:
"Schools are back in session. Please watch for students and obey speed zones and cell phone restrictions.
High School District 155 started today, Monday, Aug. 27, and School District 47 starts tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug. 28.
Please watch for students walking. Please be ware of school speeds zones and as a reminder it is against the law to use your cell phone for talking or texting in a school zone.
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Greeley-based Pilgrim's shares saw an increase of nearly 6 percent to $7.16 shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time.
Corn production in the United States is expected to rise this year to 14.79 billion bushels, which would smash the previous record of 13.092 billion bushels in 2009. Chicken producers use corn in chicken feed.
Shares of chicken producer Sanderson Farms and ethanol producers Archer Daniels Midland and Green Plains also saw share prices rise.
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