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Dear Editor,
Whose cruel and dangerous idea was it to not allow the Public Bus on the streets of Pahoa where the Road is open to traffic and all stops can still be serviced along the OPEN route. Now the Powers-That-Be make mothers with children and babies in strollers walk and wait in the rain along with seniors and everyone else who can't afford or choose not to own an automobile because the designated Bus Stop shelters in Pahoa that are on open routes through Pahoa have inexplicably been abandoned in exchange for walking and/or being dropped off on highway with traffic whizzing by at 45-60 mph. Then you must cross the highway on foot to get to Pahoa but there is not one crosswalk anywhere on the whole bypass and the speed limit sign says 45. Where is the logic in this? Our Public Servants have cut Pahoa in half in their panic causing undue hardships for people instead of helping.
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Firms unveil their tactics for dealing with the Olympic rush hour
Everything gets overstated amid the buzz of an event like the Olympics. The Family and Parenting Institute charity, for instance, has predicted that this summer's Games will be a watershed moment for flexible working practices in the UK.
But a quick survey of law firms' plans shows no signs of a home-working revolution. Firms have clearly put thought into how they will carry on business as usual once the City becomes flooded with all the lucrative nuisances, though.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the official law firm of the Games, held travel disruption sessions in May, but has only said it "may be appropriate" in some cases for a team member to work from home on a particular day. "Flexible working requests during the Games would usually be considered informally due to the short length of time [the arrangement] would be in place, but would be subject to the usual considerations about staffing numbers," it added.
Eversheds said it has improved its remote working technology for staff to work shifts or at home and is discouraging any non-essential trips to London.
Berwin Leighton Paisner will "have flexible working all around the Olympics as long as staff have laptops and can work from home".
Herbert Smith polled its staff and found that, of those who responded (over half the London office), 60 per cent had event tickets. It set up an Olympics intranet site to keep staff informed of travel disruption and said it will offer the option to work at home or in shifts. The firm also said it will offer only two three-week vacation schemes this summer instead of the usual three, although the groups will be bigger.
DAC Beachcroft is the only firm that said it did not want staff to work from home due to reports that broadband networks may suffer during the Games. It is, however, encouraging London staff in particular to take time off.
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Off the Couch contributor Sara Knutson will have an ambitious goal when she takes the start line for the Madison Marathon on Sunday. In this thoughtful post, she shows that her training to run a fast marathon has sharpened her physically and mentally.
Beware the arrival fallacy!
This little conundrum has caught the attention of Gretchen Rubin and other authors, and recently grabbed mine.
The arrival fallacy occurs anytime people expect a future event will contribute greatly to their happiness: If you get that promotion, find your soul-mate, or lose 30 pounds, your happiness will skyrocket. Right?
Not so much.
As time goes on and the event or accomplishment becomes more expected, you begin to adjust to the new level of happiness ahead of time, and to look ahead to even bigger events or goals. Hence the common thought, "Huh… I thought this would make me happier, but I feel exactly the same."
Enter the Madison Marathon this weekend.
I've been training specifically for the marathon since the American Birkebeiner Ski Race, at the end of February.
I planned track workouts in detail, scheduled my weekends to accommodate long runs, and fretted over whether my tempo pace was too slow. Everything was in the name of qualifying for the Boston Marathon, a goal I've had for years. (Knutson needs to run a 3:40 to meet the qualifying standard)
I still don't know whether I'll be fast enough to qualify (and the heat expected in Madison this weekend will make that task a bit tougher), but based on some heartening long runs, I think it's a real possibility. As a result, I've been reflecting on the arrival fallacy and whether a qualifying time will make me any happier.
I've noticed that I have started to make the assumption that I'll qualify, if not this spring, then soon.
And even after I qualify, there will always be another goal to chase, whether it's a faster time at Boston, completing a half Ironman, going on a weeklong solo backpacking trip, or something else entirely.
The good news is that psychologists say the antidote to the arrival fallacy, clichéd as it sounds, is to enjoy the journey and appreciate the gratifying moments along the way. I've done that.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I love training, and it has contributed greatly to my happiness this spring. I feel immensely proud of myself for working a 22-mile run into my vacation in April.
I've learned more about how my body responds to heavy doses of exercise, and how to beat that first wave of exhaustion (the second is a whole other story). I appreciate the impressed look on my track-stud brother's face when I tell him my interval times. And there's nothing like going to work at 8:30 a.m. knowing that I've already finished a hard workout.
So whether the marathon this weekend goes perfectly or I flame out at mile 16, I'm already happier for the effort put in and the dozens of smaller accomplishments achieved along the way. It's a great feeling to be on the home stretch, regardless of the outcome.
That said, I know I'll be happier if my legs and lungs give me a top effort on Sunday.
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Me: Okay, people. I don't own Digimon, nor do I own Bother, by Corey Taylor. This song is on the Spider-Man soundtrack, by the way, and this is going to be a pure Rukato, with a hint of Jurato.
Rika: What?!! I'll kill you for this!!
BlackTerriermon: Hold it right there, Queenie! (Rika halts)
Me: (sighs) Can't you two act reasonable for once? This doesn't only have romance in it, but also some angst. Also, this story is dedicated to Frozen Phoenix.
BlackTerriermon: I hope you know what you're doing, buddy…
Me: As do we all... This story follows the climactic battle against the D-Reaper, people.
Wish I was too dead to cry…my self-affliction fades
Stones to throw at my creator…masochists to whom I cater
Digimon Tamers: Relieving the Pain
"I don't need you…I don't need anybody!" –Rika Nonaka, The Icemon Cometh!
"I haven't finished yet…We haven't finished yet!" –Takato Matsuki, Grow Mon, Grow
Tears trickled down Rika's face to splash onto her hands as she shivered lightly while sitting outside in the heavy rainstorm. An hour or so after the Digimon Tamers had been forced to send their Digimon back to the Digital World, this storm had cropped out of nowhere, and seemed to mimic their mood-dark and despairing, but none more so than the former Digimon Queen. Not only had she lost her partner, Renamon, but she'd also lost a chance at true love, and it had been right in front of her all this time…yet, she hadn't seen it until it was too late.
"There's no way he'd ever love me…not after the way I'd treated him and his partner by saying to him how weak he was, when it turned out he was the strongest of all of us-even the so-called Digimon King."
To those at her private school who would repeatedly tell her that she would never find a guy who would ever like her for just being herself, or that she would never find someone to break the ice around her heart, they would be somewhat surprised to find out that Rika had actually fell in love with someone, a someone who those same girls could possibly drool over themselves, but if they'd tried, she would send them to the hospital for 3 weeks, a month at the latest. That someone was known as Takato Matsuki, a former Digimon Tamer, who, like Rika, had lost his own Digimon partner, Guilmon. Unlike the other Tamers on the team, Takato had actually created Guilmon from pencil and paper, and he'd come to life when his Digivice had scanned all of Guilmon's stats and abilities; the DigiGnomes had a hand in helping Guilmon come to life, too. When the two of them had first met, Rika had been convinced that all Digimon were nothing but meaningless data that had to be deleted, and only with Takato's help was Rika able to see that Digimon were actually alive. Of course, another Tamer, Henry Wong, had his own hand in this, along with his partner Terriermon, but he hadn't tracked Rika down to her house and tried to find out more about Digimon. Eventually, disgust turned into toleration, and that turned into like, that turned into a mild crush, and by the end of their adventure, Rika had found herself head-over-heels for their unofficial leader. There was only one problem-apparently, he had already given his heart to someone else, by the name of Jeri Katou.
Chorus: You don't need to bother; I don't need to be…
I'll keep slipping further…
But once I hold on, I won't let go 'till it bleeds…
Speaking of Takato, he was trudging home as best he could after being rejected by the only girl he thought he could ever love. Only moments after he'd been forced to bid his partner a sorrowful farewell, he'd decided he should tell Jeri how he felt about her now, while he still had the chance. So, after waiting until the others had all dispersed and left-Rika had hidden behind a tree so she could watch and observe-Takato had summoned up his courage once more and told Jeri-the real Jeri-how he felt. It was at that moment that Rika's heart had shattered into pieces and that she'd run off, not even waiting to overhear Jeri's response. That response could've awoken her broken heart; it surely shattered Takato's heart. Despite the fact that Takato-as Gallantmon: Crimson Mode-had saved Jeri from the misguided D-Reaper, Jeri had found out she could never fully trust Takato in the same way as before, nor could she ever give her heart to him the same way he'd done so with her, and that reason had just left to return to the Digital World.
"I'm sorry, Takato…but I can never love you the way you want me to. Every time I look at you, I can't help but see Megidramon, and recall how innocent Guilmon was before you turned him into…into…that monster, and I can't live like that. I know you'll find someone else who loves you and who can return your love equally."
Once Jeri had left, eventually, Takato's parents had come by to see if he wanted to go home, but he said he had somewhere to go to. His mother had made sure he'd taken his jacket with him before going anywhere. (A/N: The one he'd worn throughout the remainder of the series, starting in the episode Homeward Bound.)
Wish I was too dead to care…if indeed I cared at all
Never had a voice to protest…so you fed me **** to digest
I wish I had a reason; my flaws are open season
For this, I gave up trying; one good turn deserves my dying
Through some miracle or another, during Takato's travel from the park to home, he found himself near the same alleyway in which he and Guilmon had run into Renamon, which meant he was very close to Rika's house! That was his solution-he could talk to Rika, and see if she could help cheer him up in someway. His mind set on what he had to do, Takato started running and ended up making it to her house within 3 minutes. The goggle-wearing Tamer almost expected Renamon to appear behind him, wanting to fight, but that wouldn't happen anymore, since she wasn't in their world. Fighting back tears of desperation, Takato quickly rapped on the front door of the Nonaka residence before stepping back. Seconds later, Rika's grandmother had answered it.
"Oh, hello again, ma'am! Um…I was just wondering if Rika was at home yet, or if she's still on her way-"
"Rika's here, and it's a pleasure to see you again, too. Maybe you can help be a beacon of light for my granddaughter."
Takato's eyes widened slightly. "Say what? 'A beacon of light?' Is she okay? What happened to her?"
Amazed by the relentless amount of energies Takato seemed to radiate from his body, Rika's grandmother responded to his question. "When Rika came home, she didn't seem too happy. I looked outside and could feel that her kitsune-"
"Oh! You mean Renamon, right?"
"That's right. Renamon has left, correct?"
Takato bit back his own tears. Thinking about Renamon brought back memories of Guilmon, and he didn't need to think about his own partner if he was going to help Rika. "Right. So, what's wrong with Rika?"
"I assumed she was upset because her friend had gone, but she told me that was only half the problem. Someone she had deeply cared for had just broken her heart, and she doesn't want to talk to anyone."
Takato gasped lightly. Could it have been someone on the team? Could Rika have fallen in love with one of them?
"But, if she doesn't want to talk to anyone, why would I be able to help?"
"I remember the last time you had come here, and you actually sparked something in Rika that I thought had all but died out long ago-a desire to want to know someone, to be close to that person. If anyone can get her to open up, other than her friend from that other world, you would be that person."
Takato couldn't help but nod numbly as Rika's grandmother stepped aside and allowed him to enter inside.
"Why can't I help but think I've just signed my own death warrant by coming here?"
Chorus: You don't need to bother; I don't need to be…
I'll keep slipping further…
But once I hold on, I won't let go 'till it bleeds…
(solo by Corey Taylor for 32 seconds)
After searching most of her house, Takato realized that there was only one place for Rika to be, so he headed out to her backyard, with her jacket in hand, to see one of his closest friends sitting on the steps, freezing slightly and with her arms wrapped around her waist.
"Hey, Rika. Are you okay?"
Instantly, Rika felt her face heat up slightly and knew that she was blushing-albeit lightly, but a faint shade of pink was on her cheeks.
"Why are you here, Gogglehead?"
Takato gulped as that statement was made. He hadn't yet come up with a decent explanation for his sudden arrival to her house, and even with his earlier decision about coming to see her to talk, he figured she wasn't in the mood for talking.
"Well, uh…I just thought that you could use some company-"
"You just needed a place to hang out to get out of the rain, and you saw you were near my house, and you figured I wouldn't mind, right? Well, I don't feel like company, so you can just catch the train back home, got it?"
Takato came to the sudden realization that Rika wasn't like her usual moody self. Sure, she sounded like that, but after a quick glance at her eyes, which were brimming with unshed tears, he saw that she didn't really mean it what she said.
"I would, but I might catch pneumonia on the way back. Seriously, Rika, what's troubling you? Maybe I can help."
Rika started shaking violently and Takato immediately covered her with her jacket; she mentally thanked Takato for doing so before turning to face him. (A/N: This would be the one she wore in the episode Reunion and beyond that one)
"With what? You made it perfectly clear earlier that you can't help me with this problem! No one can! Just forget it, Takato! Forget I said anything!"
Takato struggled with his warring emotions as he pulled Rika into a tight embrace, feeling her tears running down his back as her body shook repeatedly due to the racking sobs he could clearly hear.
"I would, Rika, but you need me! Tell me what's wrong so I can help-please!"
Pulling away, Rika allowed Takato to see her tears before responding.
"You want to know why I'm like this? It's because of you! You and that puppet girl getting together right after I lost Renamon! First I lose my father, then I lose my partner, then I lose my Gogglehead!"
Takato couldn't keep his tears hidden as Rika pulled him back into another tight embrace, amazed by what he'd just heard.
"Rika…loves me? When? When'd this happen?"
Wish I'd died instead of lived…a zombie hides my face
Shell forgotten with its memories…diaries left with cryptic entries
"Rika…do you love me?"
Instantly, Rika froze in surprise, that pink tinge reappearing on her cheeks like wildfire. Could she tell him the truth, and if so, how would he react? Takato sensed her worry, even if she wasn't saying it, and stroked her back gently while reassuring her.
"If you're worried about Jeri, she just told me there's no chance of the two of us ever getting together. She said there would be someone else out there for me, and I'm beginning to think she may have been right."
Feeling her heart beat again with newfound life, Rika gently kissed Takato before pulling away, the two of them looking up to see the sun break through the clouds.
"Call it women's intuition, Takato. Now, get home before I have to hurt you for getting sick because of me."
"Still the same old Digimon Queen."
"And, you're still my stupid lovable Gogglehead."
Chorus: And, you don't need to bother; I don't need to be… (I don't need to be…)
I'll keep slipping further…
But once I hold on, I won't let go 'till it bleeds…
You don't need to bother… (You don't need to bother…!)
I don't need to be…yeah! (I don't need to be…!)
I'll keep slipping further…
But once I hold on… (Once I hold on…!) I'll never live down my deceit…
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Here is another model of American wonder in Kyrgyzstan – the Great Kyrgyz Canyon! It is not as huge as the one in the United States. However, the beauty of it can definitely be compared in that level!
Konorchak canyons are located in the north side of a country and it takes about three to five hours on a car from the capital city of Bishkek. So, the earlier you leave, the more time you will get to spend at the destination.
The canyons are pretty huge in size, the length can get up to two hunded kilometers! So, on the other hand, the day will not be enough to explore the whole place at all.
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The Modern Plans A Paid President And Seeks a 2d Site
By CAROL VOGEL
Published: January 28, 1993
The Museum of Modern Art, grappling with life after Matisse, is planning ambitious changes that include reorganizing its administration and hiring its first paid president. The museum has also acknowledged what has been rumored for years: that it is actively searching for a secondary exhibition space away from its West 53d Street site. Officials at the Modern said they had a space in mind but would not identify it or offer any specifics about its location except to say that it is not far from the museum.
"We're trying to keep the momentum up," Agnes Gund, the president of the museum, said in an interview at the museum shortly after the giant Matisse retrospective, which attracted 900,000 admissions and filled the museum's main galleries for four and a half months. "But even though Matisse was a great success, we're no different from every other museum. We have to get back to the difficulty of raising money and producing exciting shows."
The problems of keeping the Modern afloat -- last year it had a $2.5 million deficit -- led the board to its plan to reorganize the administration. The museum plans to adopt the model used by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, each of which has two chief executives, a paid president whose primary responsibility is raising money and financial planning, and a director who oversees the management of the art collections and exhibitions. Until now, the museum president has been a member of the board, like Ms. Gund, who served at no salary. The museum also plans to embark on a major capital campaign, its first since it raised $78 million in its 50th-anniversary campaign from 1976-86. A Divided Board
The proposed changes have brought conflict. Museum insiders say the board has been divided about the decision to find a paid president, which is said to have been instigated by David Rockefeller, the museum's chairman, who is to retire in June. This will be the first time in 30 years that a Rockefeller will not be either chairman or president.
"We're attempting to respond not just to present problems but to future challenges," said Richard E. Oldenburg, who is 59 and has been the Modern's director since 1972. "After our expansion in 1984, we recognized even then that this had become a more complex institution and more demanding." Once a paid president is hired, Mr. Oldenburg's duties will shift somewhat, and he is expected to move away from raising money and financial management and be able to concentrate fully on exhibitions and programming.
"Since we're talking about a major capital campaign, that calls for unusually large demands in time, effort and planning that cannot very easily be diverted from program questions," Mr. Oldenburg said. "Everyone in a museum has to worry about where the support is coming from." Mr. Oldenburg stressed that the museum's internal structure, where curators have always had considerable independence, will not change. "It has always been the role of a director to coordinate programs," Mr. Oldenburg said.
At Mr. Rockefeller's insistence, the museum recently hired a search firm, Nordeman Grimn, to help find candidates for president. The Qualifications
"We want someone who has a lot of interest and knowledge in culture and the arts," said Ms. Gund, who is expected to become chairwoman after Mr. Rockefeller retires. "We don't want someone who will turn this into a business. It's not a business, it's an arts institution."
Ms. Gund emphasized her desire to see the museum become strong enough financially to be able to continue to mount important shows that would not necessarily draw Matisse-size crowds. "There's been a change in the arts and we have to work harder at the educational aspects of the museum," she said. She added that although the president's job involves extensive fund raising, the museum would not be looking at candidates from financial areas but at people who had run foundations and universities.
Like all cultural institutions, the Modern is struggling to raise capital both for exhibitions and operating expenses. Its a $2.5 million deficit last year was half a million dollars more than in 1991. The Matisse retrospective was a financial success, bringing in money from catalogue sales, special events and the audio guide as well as 19,000 new members to the museum, but the show merely helped ease the museum's formidable deficits. Now the Modern must resume its eternal search for exhibition money. "The number of corporations who support museum shows has shrunk drastically," Ms. Gund said. "There are only a few players left." Where Budget Pinches
Right now, the Modern is trying to raise money for a Miro retrospective in October. So far Argentaria, a consortium of Spanish banks, has pledged about half the $2.5 million the show will cost. "We thought we could just go to Spain and get funding, but the money is simply not there," Ms. Gund said.
Nor is money readily available to expand beyond the museum's 53d Street location. "We're in a difficult position. We either stay the size we are and become the Frick Collection of modern art or expand to keep up with the times," Ms. Gund said. Following the lead of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which recently opened a branch museum in SoHo, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, which operates several small satellite museums, the Modern also wants more space to display its permanent collection. "We want our collection to grow," Ms. Gund added. "We don't think we will attract the best artworks without a place to put them."
Ms. Gund also said more space was needed both for temporary exhibitions and for the display of more of the museum's growing permanent collection. Even after the major expansion completed in 1984, the museum consists mainly of smaller galleries whose intimate scale does not work for many very large contemporary works. What the museum needs to show contemporary art, its curators say, is a loftlike setting with high ceilings and uninterrupted wall space.


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Hundreds of Australian tourists and expats have queued outside Australia House in London to vote in the upcoming federal election, with the major parties claiming UK ballots could be decisive.
About 80 people turned up even before the doors of the high commission opened at 11am local time on Monday, which was a public holiday in Britain.
Australia House is the largest polling station in the federal election, having attracted 16,000 voters in 2010.
Labor, the Coalition and the Greens have said they believe ballots cast in London over the next fortnight could be crucial in some inner-city seats.
That is a sentiment shared by George and Josie Milford from central Victoria. In the UK on a sightseeing tour, the elderly couple were among the very first to prepoll vote on Monday.
"We're just keen to get it done," Milford told AAP. "What if it's a hung parliament again? One vote might make all the difference."
The Liberals had more volunteers handing out how to vote cards than Labor on Monday but the ALP was winning the war of the signs, at least in terms of numbers.
The Greens were represented by UK campaign coordinator Mat Hines.
He said he thought UK ballots could be key, particularly in Melbourne, which is currently held by the Greens' Adam Bandt.
"Some seats came down to a handful of votes last time, so it could quite easily be that the votes cast here in London do determine some of those," Hines told AAP.
Australian Liberals Abroad president Jason Groves was working on his sixth federal election campaign in London.
He said people travelled from across the UK to vote in person at Australia House.
"In certain inner-city seats there is a very large number of votes cast here and it's easily conceivable in some tight races that votes cast at Australia House could make the difference between winning and losing," Groves told AAP.
Stephen Boardman from Sydney had been in London for almost two years working for an airline.
He had been following the campaign closely online and thought the competing visions on offer were sadly "devoid of any excitement and true policy".
The expat said the only coverage of the election he'd seen in the UK media was the Jaymes Diaz gaffe and One Nation's Stephanie Banister referring to Islam as a country.
"That was hilarious," Boardman said. "But that's the only thing that gets press coverage here – which is a bit embarrassing."
Tony Abbott's misuse of "suppository" also got a lot of airplay, he said.
It's not compulsory to vote while away from Australia and, although 16,000 votes were cast in 2010, that's a small percentage of the 300,000 expats estimated to be living and working in the UK.
ALP Abroad president Paul Smith carried a large map showing the Australian electorates as he campaigned outside Australia House.
He wanted to ensure voters collect the right ballot paper because, Labor argues, expats vote two to one in favour of the ALP over the Coalition.
Prepoll voting at Australia House runs until Friday, 6 September.
Each party has about 40 volunteers rostered to cover the two-week voting period.


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Defend the Oath is dedicated to passing a
to hold government accountable.
This initiative will be passed directly by the people and added as written into the Michigan Constitution. It will not be subject to legislative review or modification, but all legislators and public servants will be subject to its provisions.
The initiative consists of three parts:
(1) Definition of the Crime "Betraying Your Oath of Office" as: Each instance when a Public Servant betrays their Oath of Office to support provisions within the Federal or State Constitutions by failing to enforce the many specific limitations on usurpation of power by government and failing to secure the People's God-given rights specifically protected within both Constitutions.
(2) Creation of a People's Grand Jury, created and operated by the people themselves, totally free from government control, to determine if a public servant has betrayed their of office, or if a rule, law, or regulation being imposed upon the people of Michigan is unconstitutional.
(3) Charges found valid by the Peoples Grand Jury will be brought to court to be decided before a jury of the people.
Every official within this State swears on their sacred honor to support the provisions within the United States and Michigan Constitutions.
Since the Constitution of the United States severely limits federal authority to a few specific functions required for our Union to interact in the world community and repeatedly prohibits Washington from addressing, interfering with, or imposing its will over any aspect of the daily lives of the people or the routine operation of the states, every official within the State of Michigan MUST enforce these limitations on government.
How do the people hold government officials accountable when they betray their oath and instead support laws which seek our submission and control?
The most common option today is to plead.
- Don't search my home without a warrant!
- Don't take my guns!
- Don't take my property!
- Don't take away my right to a trial by jury!
- Don't force me into Obamacare!
- Don't militarize our local police!
- Don't indoctrinate my kids!
- Don't force unconstitutional U.N. directives upon me!
- Please, Please, Please … and the list goes on and on and on.
And What Happens?
- Government searches anything, anywhere, anytime without a warrant.
- We've lost our right to a trial by jury.
- Government restricts gun ownership seeking confiscation and disarmament.
- The EPA, DNR, and DEQ regulate all aspects of private property and commerce at its discretion without authority.
- We're forced into Obamacare.
- The police are being militarized with the people now considered a threat.
- Our kids are forced into federalized indoctrination while being blinded to the greatness of our founding principles.
- Government ratifies unlawful treaties negating our Constitutional protections while destroying our national sovereignty.
The majority of elected officials and bureaucrats ignore every aspect of the Constitution and consider our "rights" privileges granted by government. They do not seek to secure our liberty but instead our submission through growth of government, enforcement of unconstitutional laws. Allegiance is given to those able to provide power and wealth. There is no accountability to the people.
Regardless of their behavior, the FACT is that within the State of Michigan our rights come from God, our Creator, as explained within our Declaration of Independence. We the People established and ordained our Constitution to protect our unalienable rights, limit government, and secure our liberty. The Constitution is the supreme law of the Land.
SOLUTION: Re-establish by law the ability of the people to hold government at all levels accountable through a Michigan Constitutional Amendment Initiative consisting of two parts.
First: Define a new crime.
As our founders defined the crime of Treason, we, the people of the State of Michigan must define and enforce a new crime entitled:
"Betraying Your Oath of Office":
"Each instance when a Public Servant betrays their Oath of Office to support provisions within the Federal and State Constitutions by failing to enforce the many specific limitations on usurpation of power by government and failing to secure the People's God-given rights specifically protected within both Constitutions."
Second: Establish a People's Grand Jury, totally free from state control to evaluate if the charge of "Betraying Your Oath of Office" against a public servant are valid and represent a gross betrayal of their oath of office. If found valid, the case will be forwarded to circuit court to be tried before a jury of the people.
This People's Grand Jury will have no bearing on the existing court-controlled Grand Jury, but will address only the crime of Betraying Your Oath of Office. The People's Grand Jury will not determine guilt or innocence, but simply if the charges are valid and reasonable. Valid charges will be forwarded for a trial by jury within the state court system.
Punishment for those found guilty by a jury trial of "BETRAYING YOUR OATH OF OFFICE" will be removal from office, prohibition from holding future public office, and complete loss of public pensions from any source.
All appeals of a verdict handed down by a jury trial must be heard before a jury of the people, not a panel of state appointed apleals judges.
Milton Friedman correctly observed that politicians will only do right when it's in their best interest to do so. This initiative provides that incentive.


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March 26 2010
Anthems - Electronic 80s charts the birth of synthesised pop music in the 1980s and ultimately the roots of contemporary electronic dance music. One thing is for certain for you who were raised in the era, it will flourish you with nostalgia and possibly even bring back memories you've tried to forget.
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Holey Water: Punctured fluid stays riddled
By Peter Weiss, 15:50 PM April 15, 2008
Imagine poking a liquid to create holes that persist like those in swiss cheese. Incredible as that might sound, a group of scientists has done it.
Although the bizarre effect showed up only under extreme laboratory conditions, similar effects might be present in some industrial and geologic processes that involve fluids, says physicist Robert D. Deegan of the University of Texas at Austin. He and his colleagues describe their hole-riddled fluids in the May 7 Physical Review Letters.
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THE SUPREME COURT: The Legacy; Justice Blackmun's Journey: From Moderate to a Liberal
By LINDA GREENHOUSE,
Published: April 7, 1994
WASHINGTON, April 6— Justice Harry A. Blackmun's impending retirement, while unlikely to bring about a drastic change at the Supreme Court, will remove a distinctly personal voice from the Court's often featureless mix and will mark the end of an extraordinary personal journey.
Harry A. Blackmun came to the Court 24 years ago at the age of 61, a well-schooled Midwestern Republican lawyer and judge who appealed to President Richard M. Nixon as someone who could be confirmed without controversy after the failure of two earlier nominations for the vacancy, and who would help restore a law-and-order sensibility to a Court still in the shadow of the Warren Court revolution.
He will leave this summer at 85, the third-oldest person ever to sit on the Supreme Court, in the completely unexpected position as the Court's most reliable liberal since the retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall almost three years ago, a spokesman for the indigent and voiceless.
Just two months ago Justice Blackmun, who had voted to uphold death sentences throughout his judicial career, startled the country by denouncing capital punishment as a failed experiment and declaring that "from this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."
President Clinton will almost surely replace Justice Blackmun with a nominee who also occupies the moderate-to-liberal end of the judicial spectrum. So this retirement does not offer the President the opportunity that his first Supreme Court vacancy gave him a year ago, when he replaced the conservative Justice Byron R. White with the distinctly more liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
That nomination increased the Court's margin of support for abortion rights to 6 to 3 from the tenuous 5 to 4 that prevailed during the years that Justice Blackmun fought to preserve the holding of Roe v. Wade, the landmark opinion that he wrote in 1973 and that cemented his judicial legacy three years into his tenure.
As Justice Blackmun said when he appeared with Mr. Clinton at the White House this morning to announce his impending retirement, the vote in Roe v. Wade was 7 to 2, and Justice Blackmun wrote not just for himself but for the majority, including conservatives like Warren E. Burger, who was then Chief Justice.
Yet, Justice Blackmun inevitably came to personify the abortion question, both in the minds of those who supported the right to abortion and those who deplored it. He receives a steady stream of hate mail, which he offered this morning to trade with the President.
Within the Court, Justice Blackmun mounted an intensely personal defense of Roe v. Wade as the Court's membership changed and support for the precedent eroded in the 1980's. 'A Chill Wind Blows'
"I fear for the future," he wrote in a dissenting opinion in 1989, when a 5-to-4 opinion in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, upholding portions of a restrictive abortion law in Missouri, indicated that there might no longer be majority support for Roe v. Wade. "The signs are evident and ominous, and a chill wind blows."
Three years later, when an equally narrow majority in Planned Parenthood v. Casey voted to reaffirm the right to abortion, Justice Blackmun wrote in his separate opinion, "Just when many expected the darkness to fall, the flame has grown bright."
But, in commenting on the 5-to-4 margin, he added, "I fear for the darkness as four Justices anxiously await the single vote necessary to extinguish the light." In that opinion, Justice Blackmun predicted a fierce confirmation battle over his seat when the time came for him to retire. "I am 83 years old," he said. "I cannot remain on this Court forever."
This was an unusually personal tone for a Supreme Court opinion. At a separate news conference at the Court this afternoon, he referred to his 24 years on the Court as "a fantastic, intimate experience," and he has brought a sense of intimacy to a role that can often be abstract. Focus on the People
Justice Blackmun's focus on the people behind the cases that came to the Court was perhaps most in evidence in a dissenting opinion in a 1989 decision from which Mr. Clinton quoted today. The majority in DeShaney v. Winnebago County held that because the Constitution does not ordinarily protect people from harm caused by other private individuals, the mother of a 4-year old boy whose father beat him nearly to death had no grounds to sue a county welfare department for failing to protect the boy, Joshua DeShaney, despite warning signs that he was in danger.
"Poor Joshua!" Justice Blackmun exclaimed in his dissenting opinion, in which he criticized the majority for retreating "into a sterile formalism which prevents it from recognizing either the facts of the case before it or the legal norms that should apply to those facts."
Chai Feldblum, a law professor at Georgetown University who clerked for Justice Blackmun in the mid-1980's, said today that while Justice Blackmun's "ability and desire to look behind the law and see the people is not the classic way to do law," it shaped his approach to his work on the Court and defines his legacy there. "He brings a sense of caring and compassion that will be missed," Professor Feldblum said.


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Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel
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Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel
About the hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Guilin Lijiang Waterfall Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Guilin, steps from Gunanmen Gate and Jingjiang Princess House. This 4.5-star hotel is within close proximity of Ancient South Gate and Shan Hu.
Make yourself at home in one of the 639 guestrooms featuring minibars. Complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take advantage of recreational opportunities offered, including a health club, an indoor pool, and a spa tub. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and a hair salon.
Grab a bite to eat at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a business center, and express check-in. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center and meeting rooms.
Hotel Facilities
- Spa tub
- Conference center
- Children's pool
- Bar/lounge
- ATM/banking
- Porter/bellhop
- Sauna
- Library
- Elevator/lift
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Express check-in
- Grocery/convenience store
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2002
- Concierge services
- Total number of rooms - 639
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Meeting rooms 16
- Wedding services
- Health club
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Indoor pool
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Number of floors - 16
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Business center
- Spa services on site
- Free WiFi
Room Facilities
- Free toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Desk
- Phone
- Minibar
- Cable TV service
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Television
- Room service
- Access via exterior corridors
- In-room safe
- Coffee/tea maker
- Slippers
- Hair dryer
Hotel Policy
National Rating
For the benefit of our customers, we have provided a rating based on our rating system.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: CNY 140 per person (approximately)
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Popular property highlights
Located in Glasgow Westend, Argyll Hotel is a leisurely stroll from popular sights such as Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and The SSE Hydro. This 3-star hotel has 38 rooms and welcomes guests with a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. It's in central Glasgow and also close to Clyde Auditorium and Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Enjoy a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, or relax with a drink at the bar/lounge. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service. Start your day off with full breakfast, available for a fee.
All 38 air-conditioned rooms provide coffee makers and phones. Guests can expect to find TVs and stay connected with free WiFi. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries.
At Argyll Hotel, guests have access to free WiFi in public areas, a meeting room, and free newspapers. If you drive, take advantage of free parking. Front-desk staff can answer questions 24/7, and assist with dry cleaning/laundry, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Additional amenities include laundry facilities and wedding services.
Property features
- Walking distance to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and Museum of Transport
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
Argyll Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This Glasgow hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Argyll Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Total number of rooms - 38
- Number of floors - 4
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- One meeting room
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Wedding services
- Free WiFi
- Parking (limited spaces)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
Argyll Hotel offers 38 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Cribs/infant beds (surcharge) are also available.
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- Television
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Free WiFi
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Sutherlands - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for GBP 10 per stay.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
- Fee for full breakfast: GBP 8.5 per person (approximately)
- Crib (infant bed) fee: GBP 10 per stay
Hotel Name
- Argyll Hotel Glasgow, Scotland
- Argyll Glasgow
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National Rating
This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitScotland, the National Tourist Board for Scotland.


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Creating a Jewish Hospice System in New York
Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA), Winter 2010
In May 2001, UJA-Federation of New York's Caring Commission convened the End-of-Life Care Task Force, composed of lay leadership and staff, to examine the state of care for adult Jews facing advanced and life-limiting illnesses. The impetus for the Task Force was an unsolicited gift from a community rabbi whose wife spent her final days in a Catholic-sponsored facility. At that most difficult time, he felt that the Jewish community had failed them. Looking back, it is clear that UJA-Federation has changed the Jewish end-of-life care landscape in a meaningful way in New York. The Alliance has highlighted the role of the Jewish community as a whole in end-of-life care. The process of dying is not an issue that should be relegated to medical institutions. Rather, the Jewish community can offer important resources --volunteer and professional -- to provide caring support to those at lifeâ??s end and to their families. Moving to the next level, however, will require more work toward changing the culture, which shies away from planning for better care as people approach the end of life. To do so will require creating a dedicated agency or program, originally envisioned as an institute, to focus more time and attention on this important issue.
Topic: Jewish Federations, Communal Responsibility, Institutional Care, Elder Care, Death and Mourning, Emotional Support, Medical Care, Health and Healing, Aging, Elderly
Name of Publication: Journal of Jewish Communal Service
Editor: Naron Chalew, Gail
Volume/Issue: Vol.85/No.1
Page Number(s): 93-96
Genre: Article
Coverage: New York, New York , United States
Language: English
Copyright Holder: Publisher
Copyright Information: Download for personal use, freely distribute link
Bibliographic Information:
Cohen, Alan. Kronish, Paul. Creating a Jewish Hospice System in New York. Journal of Jewish Communal Service. Jewish Communal Service Association of North America (JCSA). Winter 2010: 93-96. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=8086
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The sun was a glowing red sphere that rose above the mountains and forests. The world was lit by its striking sunrays. The light shone in Ella's clear brown eyes as she gazed into the sky that was becoming anew. A week had already passed since Samuel's and Danielle's disappearance. The whole kingdom was in uproar now that her father declared that they would be going to war. Andorra had taken her sister. Father told her family about Andorra yesterday and their past.
Ella sighed. She hoped Samuel returned home soon so that she could see him one more time before he departs with his father and go to war. She didn't know the outcome the war would bring but she hoped none of her loved ones would be killed.
Ella walked down a hall where her feet made faint sounds as she made her way to her bedroom. On the way, a group of knights passed her. Walking head of the group was Cynric. He stopped and so did the rest of knights and they looked at each other. Cynric smiled at her.
"Good day," he said. Ella gave him a sweet smile and nodded.
"Where are you off today?" she asked him.
"King Seth ordered me and my knights to search for the prince one again. We are going out right now."
"Oh, well please find him," Ella said softly. " And be safe."
"Will do." Cynric held her hand to his lips and kissed it. Then he and his knights turned a corner and headed toward the front entrance of the castle.
Danielle's eyes drooped as she watched one of the bandit gang's members, Shannon, massage her bow. She did not get much sleep last night for she was too worried about Samuel. She glanced at the sleeping prince. His bandages were dried with blood and his chest rose up and down slowly. Her eyes turned back to Shannon's bow.
"What is it you want?" Shannon asked in an irritated voice.
"Uh … nothing. I ju-." Shannon raised her left arm.
"Don't speak."
"Why?" Danielle stared at the bandit in bewilderment.
"Because dragons are not supposed to speak." Danielle didn't reply but watched her take an arrow and slip it into her bow. If dragons were not allowed to speak how could she?
Shannon pulled back the arrow released the arrow. It zipped through the air and landed smack into a tree trunk that was at least twenty feet away.
"Wow! You're an expert!" Danielle exclaimed.
"That was amazing!" Mue exclaimed also as he perched on Danielle's head.
"The squirrel can talk also," Shannon murmured.
"How did you learn to do that?" Danielle asked. The woman sighed and sat back down on the ground.
"My father was taught me. He was an excellent sharpshooter."
"Where is your father now?"
"He's dead." Shannon stood up, clutched her bow and walked away carrying her arrows with her.
"Nice job Danielle. You made her depressed now," Mue said.
"I didn't mean to, I mean I didn't know." Danielle walked over to Samuel looked at him. Sweat trickled down his face and his lips were cracked. She could tell he was in pain.
"Danielle." Herman appeared beside her with a sack over his shoulder.
"Do you think you could stay here and wait for us to return until Samuel gains his health back?"
"But why? Why can't I come?" She blurted.
"A dragon like you will alert the villagers," Herman replied sternly. Danielle sighed. He had a point.
"F-fine," she answered.
Her eyes rested on Samuel's dirty face.
"Oh I hope he will be alright," she said to herself.
"He will, don't worry." A voice behind her said. She looked and saw Alec.
"There is a doctor in the village that can use magic that can heal a wound like this. As long as we get him to the doctor fast enough, he won't die." Danielle smiled.
"Thank you so much for what you did," Danielle said. Alec nodded and turned away.
"Well I am going to get my pack," he said and walked away.
"I can't believe we are sticking to these lousy mutts. We could find Andorra on our own if we wanted to. Judas's and Andorra's relationship makes me curious," Zacharias said and took out his sword. Storm stood beside him and agreed.
"And that black dragon. It's a shock that there is one standing before us," Storm said.
"Oh yes and it's worth a fortune. I still don't understand Judas's meaning for asking them to come along but I hope we don't get too involved with their problems." Storm and Zacharias saw Judas and Alec walking toward them already set to go.
"Are you two ready?" Judas asked. His determined eyes stared into theirs.
"Yeah, whatever let's just go," Zacharias replied and sheathed his sword.
Herman picked Samuel up in his strong muscled arms and carried him.
"Stay here and wait for us. We won't be long," Herman told Danielle. The dragon nodded and watched the group disappear into the mountains.


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Molecular Cell Biology provides the essential linkage between important basic fields of biomedical sciences, such as genetics, developmental biology, immunology, neurobiology and cancer biology. Cell biology has indeed matured from a descriptive discipline into one that is focusing on the elucidation of function at cellular and molecular levels. As we will soon have identified all the gene products that are potentially synthesized by an organism, it will be essential to connect sequence information to physiological function with the context of the cell. Cell biology at the University of Florida is a highly interdisciplinary research area which is undergoing rapid growth in areas such as cell regulation and cancer, manipulation of stem cells, liver pathobiology, and the role of aberrant protein processing and trafficking in disease processes. Therefore, Molecular Cell Biology will be at the center of the new era of biomedical research.
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Outlook It is not the done thing to say you are in favour of squeezing the pips out of pensioners, so we should at least give the Institute of Economic Affairs top marks for bravery. In a paper published today, the think-tank says we could be saving £16bn a year by 2015 "if older people shared the cuts burden".
It is a rather pejorative phrase – after all, many public spending cuts are already being felt by all users of public services, whatever their age, as is the increase in the VAT rate – but the IEA has a point nonetheless. On welfare spending, it is remarkable how pensioners have so far been spared during the cuts process.
Now, to get to the £16bn ofsavings that the IEA has identified, the Chancellor would have to abolish a string of benefits altogether and scale back the rises promised on the basic state pension and the minimum income guarantee. Many of these proposals – saving £800m by linking the latter to wage inflation rather than price inflation, for example – would be a step too far for many people.
Still, some of the IEA's ideas should be a no-brainer to all but those who would defend the indefensible. For example, how do we justify spending £2.1bn a year on a winter fuel allowance paid to all pensioners, no matter how wealthy they are – particularly since child benefit, at the other end of the spectrum of age-related benefits, is now to be means tested?
Similarly, why are income tax allowances higher for older people – again, regardless of their resources – than for those still of working age? And is spending £700m a year on free TV licences for all pensioners really a sensible use of taxpayers' money in this time of austerity?
In moving so quickly and aggressively on reducing the deficit, the Coalition Government is making a gamble that is political as well as economic. It hopes that people will put up with the austerity in the knowledge that the fiscal realities require it. Well, maybe so, but if one section of society is unfairly burdened with more than its fair share of the cuts – the flip side of pensioners not "sharing the cuts burden" – the necessary goodwill is likely to be in short supply.
In short, the IEA is right, and somebody had to say it: pensioners should not be spared their share of the austerity simply by virtue of their age.
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