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For the last few weeks we've been highlighting the American Express Canada "Potentialist" – a type of person who is rethinking what life is all about and who is finding ways to enrich her/his life through meaningful experiences. For some it's about the challenge of exploring new places, as we saw last week in our post about the travels of Scarlett Johansson. For others it's about connecting with the world around them through getting behind a cause.
This week we continue our series of celebrity potentialists with someone who is very well known for getting behind a cause. And while there are plenty of celebrities to choose from, none is more timely and few more dedicated than Natalie Portman, the star of Black Swan, hyped to contend at the Oscars, with Natalie predicted to receive a nomination for Best Actress. Aside from acting however, Portman is very well known for her activism. For many years she has been an outspoken advocate for animal rights and green living, often combining both. In 2008 Portman donated the proceeds from her vegan shoe line to the Nature Conservancy.
Portman has also worked extensively with FINCA International as the agency's ambassador to promote micro-lending in third world countries as a way to stop what she calls the 'feminization of poverty' (a growing worldwide trend whereby women account for an increasingly disproportional percentage of people living below the poverty line), encouraging entrepreneurship in even the poorest neighbourhoods around the world. Her involvement with FINCA has taken her to Uganda, Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, to Congress to appeal for more government funding, to seminars and global conferences to promote the concept, and across campuses in North America to introduce the FINCA model to university students and social program participants. She has appeared in several documentaries in support of the women and children that FINCA has helped, and on television speaking eloquently in several interviews explaining FINCA's efforts to a wider audience. Unlike many of her peers, who sign on to something because it can help their careers but remain ignorant about the core concepts, Portman has demonstrably taken the time to learn about and truly understand the causes she supports, and genuinely puts her own time and emotion into those projects. Here she is on The View speaking articulately about FINCA and the amazing women it has helped:
What about you – are you a 'Potentialist' who, like Natalie Portman, challenges yourself through volunteering and philanthropy? Do you connect with the world around you by getting involved in a worthy cause? Tell us your story. Email me at [email protected] with AMEX Potentialist as the title. We read them all and we'll let you know if we select it for next week's post!
Once again many of you took the time to write about your experiences based on our post from last week about Scarjo's travels. This week we chose Sarah, who told us about the soul searching she did during a tough time in her life that lead to an upcoming trip to Africa, and Kaili, whose travels abroad helped shape her as a person. Here are snippets of their stories.
At my mother's funeral, I was inundated with questions about what I would do now. While I managed to deflect these inquiries with adequate answers, inside I found myself screaming, 'I don't know!' For the first time in my life, I didn't know. More importantly, for the first time, I didn't care. I could only be sure that everything had changed for me in ways I couldn't fully comprehend at the time. It had been only four weeks earlier that I sat in my flat in South East London as my mom told me she had only two months to live….
… I began to entertain ideas about how I could find fulfillment in what I actually want to do, and not with what would be considered successful on paper. I had always wanted to travel throughout Africa, but I knew that travelling for the sake of travelling would not be enough for me right now. Instead, I have made plans to set off for Africa after the holidays on a volunteer mission for a few months. I am going to travel and get behind a cause, see how others live, and gain perspective on my life in Canada….
Click here to catch Sarah's entire piece.
I come from a traveling family so it's in my blood. My mom travels more than anyone I know (sometimes for fun, sometimes for work as a doctor in Malawi or Zimbabwe) and she brought me and my siblings up traveling with her. She was the single lady taking her three kids to places most wouldn't think of visiting: horseback camping trips in the Yukon when I was 13, camel safari in Kenya when I was 15, remote Scottish castles when I was 19. I know I'm immensely lucky to have had such experiences and I owe my current need for travel to my mom – a gift she's given me that's worth the world (literally) and absolutely has defined who I am as an adult..
… I now know I'm comfortable in pretty much any random situation you can throw me in, because, well, I've already been thrown into it before.
I know I'm a better person for having gone on this trip, and I'll be a better person still after getting back from my next. Now I just have to decide on where that'll be.
I don't know if I've yet realized my full potential but each travel adventure gets me closer and closer… and I don't at all mind the wait.
Click here to catch Kaili's entire piece.
Visit the American Express Realize the Potential page to see how the company is encouraging Canadians to realize their full potential. Or to learn more about Amex Canada, check out their Facebook page.
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"We are yet to get stocks for exchange from the treasury. We probably will start exchange of notes only from tomorrow. For now we are accepting cash deposits by customers who hold accounts with us", said a staff from a South Bengaluru post office.
Customers waiting in long lines had to return empty handed as post offices refused to exchange notes citing lack of stocks. "I was hoping to exchange Rs 500 notes with the new notes but I was asked to come back either tomorrow or in the post-lunch session. There is confusion and the common man is bearing the brunt. One can only hope that ATMs will be of some respite", said Anand, a customer who had to return empty-handed from a post office. In many other places, people thronged post offices more than banks since the cap at post offices were pegged at Rs 4000/person as against at banks with Rs 2000/person.
In Mysuru, tourists including foreigners waited in line at post offices to exchange currency notes. Sudden move by the government towards demonetizing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes had caused massive inconvenience to people in tourist spots. Police were deployed outside post offices to bring the crowds under control and ensure smooth transactions.
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HAMBURG, Germany, July 11, 2014 – L-3 Marine Systems International's (L-3 MSI) core businesses will showcase comprehensive offerings of new-generation systems for ship-specific operations, including automation, communications, navigation, dynamic positioning, propulsion, energy generation and distribution, as well as entertainment systems, at the L-3 exhibit, Hall B6, Stand 310, during the Shipbuilding Machinery and Marine (SMM) exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, September 9–12.
"Our success is based on our broad product portfolio and our ability to develop custom solutions that provide the highest level of integration for our customers," said Ulrich Weinreuter, president of L-3 Marine Systems International. "L-3's systems are designed to ensure safe and efficient operation throughout a vessel's entire lifetime. We also focus on eco-friendly and emissions-reduced solutions, and we are extremely proud to present our latest "green" capabilities at the world's most important shipbuilding exhibition, SMM 2014."
L-3 highlights will include live demonstrations of the advanced NACOS Platinum series, complemented by a bridge simulator with three large screens for navigation. Also featured as an integral part of the demonstrations will be an L-3 Valmarine multifunctional VALMATIC Platinum automation assembly and an integrated DP Platinum system developed by L-3 Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems. These systems provide fully integrated functionality for vessels of all types and sizes and support shore-based fleet control operations and remote maintenance.
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Acute Need for Psychological Data Protection Demonstrated by Sexual Orientation Survey
A Florida public school teacher was suspended and then resigned after giving the following "White Privilege" survey in Spanish class that asked questions about sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and disability status:
Message to Congress: Our Children Do Not Exist to Provide Data to Researchers & the Feds!
The US House Education and Workforce Committee recently held a hearing titled "Strengthening Education Research and Privacy Protections to Better Serve Students." Although there were some great positives such as hearing from a parent from the organization that took down inBloom, The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, there was an alarmingly pervasive attitude that student data belonged to the government and researchers and that parent concerns about privacy are over blown. What follows is the introduction, a summary of the pros and cons from the hearing, our conclusions and recommendations from our extensively referenced document written by our president, Dr. Karen Effrem – Response to US House Privacy and Research Hearing. A summary of this document is available HERE.
We are grateful that the committee convened the very important recent hearing, "Strengthening Education Research and Privacy Protections to Better Serve Students, and for the opportunity to comment on it. With the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act being 40 years old; the Strengthening Research Through Education Act (SETRA) continuing dossier building via state longitudinal databases; and the expanded efforts to psychologically manipulate and profile our children via social emotional and mindset assessments in standards, curriculum and tests; it is extremely important that these bills be updated. Government data gathering on our innocent children must be very significantly pared back in content and kept to the local level and privacy protections strengthened. It is not just the data security that is an issue, but the type and amount of data that is gathered.
It is wonderful that Rachel Stickland from The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, an organization that receives no government or special interest funding, founded and composed of parents, which brought down the Bill Gates multi-million dollar inBloom operation, was able to testify. Ms. Stickland did an excellent job given that she was defending herself and parents from three other Big Data witnesses. (See NEGATIVES below).
Some of the questions by members seemed to indicate a good understanding about the dangers of the extensive student data collection taking place and took parental concerns on that topic seriously, particularly Mrs. Foxx, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Brat, and Ms. Bonamici.
Ms. Stickland's description of the State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) was excellent and correct, especially the part about the result of this longitudinal data collection resulting in dossiers from birth. This includes genetic data at least in Rhode Island. I would just add that although the funding push for SLDS occurred during the stimulus bill, in a separate provision, in the Race to the Top grants, and in the America COMPETES Act, they were codified in ESRA in 2002 and continue in SETRA, which is why the data transparency language she mentioned is so critical for both SETRA and FERPA. If, as Dr. Hannaway mentioned, it is really true that the data is completely anonymized, this should not be a problem.
This question by Mr. Heck and Ms. Sticklands's response as reported by Politico:
"He asked whether Common Core has 'required new depths of data mining' of students. 'I've heard the same concerns from parents across the country,' said Rachael Stickland, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy co-founder and co-chairwoman. 'There's a lot of new measurements of student achievement that doesn't necessarily have academic purposes – grit and tenacity and those sorts of things, the sort of emotional factors. There are a lot of parents who are very, very concerned about this.'"
This is not just a concern, but absolute fact, and we applaud her for saying so. There is much evidence that non -academic social emotional teaching is being promoted through Common Core standards which means that there is psychological data gathering happening in the federally mandated mostly Common Core state tests.
We believe that student privacy and parental consent should always be considered pre-eminent compared to the research desires of the government or private sector, especially in the realm of psychological profiling.
The government has no constitutional, statutory, or moral right to collect data on highly personal and sensitive socioemotional data on our children.
According to data presented to this committee by the Cato Institute several years ago, federal involvement in education has yielded either stagnant or declining academic performance:
The vast majority of federal education programs are unconstitutional because the entire US Department of Education is unconstitutional, meaning that most of these programs should be eliminated with any remaining that can be shown to be effective and constitutional programs being block granted to the states.
Many studies showing the ineffectiveness and or harm of current government education and child social programs and the effectiveness of two parent family structure and other non-government academic and social measures are ignored raising the question of why we need so much research in the first place.
Remove the social emotional research language from Section 132 of SETRA.
Prohibit social emotional data gathering and the use of data for predictive testing in the FERPA reauthorization.
Put in strict data transparency language and update the data security language per the recommendations of technical experts like Dr. Joel Reidenberg or Barmak Nassirian in any FERPA reauthorization.
Require third party software and testing vendors to notify parents of what data is collected on students and how it is used.
Find a way for students whose identity and privacy is compromised to be compensated, not just researchers or private vendors to be penalized.
Close the curriculum and assessment loophole for invasive surveys in PPRA.
Immediately demand that the US Department of Education repair the federal data security failures found in the Inspector General's recent report and uncovered by the House Oversight Committee.
Strongly consider a moratorium on further federal research until programs already shown to ineffective and harmful are transformed or eliminated and until actually effective measures are actually implemented.
Robert Holland Describes Federal Psych Profiling in Town Hall Column
Robert Holland interviewed Dr. Karen Effrem about the growing dangers of federal psychological profiling in multiple federal education programs in an excellent article entitled Do Parents Want Their Children on Uncle Shrink's Couch?. He discussed how the US Department of Education is psychologically profiling our children in preschool programs like Race to the Top, Head Start, and now ESSA; via the reauthorization of the federal education research bill, SETRA (Strengthening Education Through Research Act – S 227), and planning to test subjective, non-academic, psychosocial "mindsets" via the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The government's term for all of this is social emotional learning (SEL). We have frequently discussed this topic in relation to child mental screening, Common Core, and preschool. Here are some excerpts:
One of the most influential ways the federal government is molding young minds is through "social and emotional learning" (SEL) programs, a prominent feature of the omnibus Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2015.
SEL has no clear definition in federal law, but many education sites tout SEL as instilling in students the necessary attitudes and skills that will supposedly enable them to manage their emotions, which in turn theoretically helps them do good things, such as showing empathy for others.
Very much in the same vein is the Strengthening Research Through Education Act (SETRA), which is currently being considered by Congress and will likely be passed soon. SETRA is a reauthorization of a George W. Bush-era law that extended the U.S. Education Department's research arm into the collection of personal data about students and also authorized the use of linked state longitudinal databases.
Proceeding so far with minimal debate in Washington, DC, SETRA would expand federal education research to pupils' "social and emotional learning, and the acquisition of competencies and skills, including the ability to think critically, solve complex problems, evaluate evidence, and communicate effectively."
This kind of subjective probing of children's attitudes, beliefs, and behavior amounts to psychological profiling that (thanks to electronic dossiers) could haunt an individual throughout a lifetime.
Dr. Karen Effrem, a pediatrician who has tracked this trend for years as the president of Education Liberty Watch, laments, "Parents are expected to submit their children to this kind of government profiling and psychological experimentation with no explanation, no way to express concern, [and no way to] opt their children out."
Effrem also says SETRA is incredibly problematic because parents are afforded "no way to see the federally mandated assessments or to find out what private, sensitive psychological data was collected on their children as part of some online assessment and shared with some third-party vendor without their consent."
Starting with the 2016–17 school year, the exploration of what education theorists call "the affective domain"—meaning feelings and emotions, as opposed to actual thought—will spread to the fairly well-respected National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also called the Nation's Report Card. A background survey accompanying NAEP will attempt to assess a child's grit and motivation, among other qualities.
Holland goes on to describe the preschool programs and the family engagement rule draft that are both very heavy on SEL and what the effects would be:
In plain language, this means the government will assess children every single step (or crawl) of the way, from cradle to career, to be certain they acquire all the attitudes, beliefs, and dispositions the omniscient, omnipotent government deems they must have. SEL, baby, SEL.
The plan to assess children and have this life long dossier determine their futures has been the plan for a very long time – at least as far back as Mark Tucker's infamous 1992 "Dear Hillary" letter:
His vision is "…to remold the entire American system" into "a seamless web that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone" that is coordinated by "a system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels" where curriculum and "job matching" will be handled by counselors "accessing the integrated computer-based program."
It has continued through the tenure of Arne Duncan's tenure as Secretary of Education:
We must as parents stand together to protect the lives, privacy and futures of our children.
New Details on the Dangerous Social Emotional Research in SETRA
Karen R. Effrem, MD – President
Although there are several major problems with the reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA) now called The Strengthening Research Through Education Act (S 227, SETRA), the most pressing and concerning is the expansion of federal education research to psychologically profile our children beginning in preschool:
1) Lack of Constitutionality – The federal government has no constitutional authority (Tenth Amendment) to be involved in education, much less doing research and collecting data on the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of our innocent children. The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution says:
Having the federal government sanction and fund psychological profiling of children is the worst kind of privacy invasion.
2) Subjectivity These parameters are admitted even by experts in the field to be extraordinarily subjective and difficult to define and measure. There is still no agreement about their meaning or even their selection over a period of ten years:
"Lack of longitudinal outcome studies"
"Broad parameters for determining socioemotional outcomes are not clearly defined" (National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy Addressing Social Emotional Development and Infant Mental Health in Early Childhood Systems 2005 (Emphasis added)
- The Committee learned at the November 17, 2015 hearing that the US Department of Education:
o Continues to be "vulnerable to security threats" according to the IG, and has repeat findings in annually-required FISMA audits;
o Failed to detect a penetration test of its systems conducted by the IG during its FY2015 FISMA audits [Federal Information Modernization Security Act];
o Received an "F" on the Committee's FITARA scorecard [Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act] .
- The Committee learned at the February 2, 2016 hearing:
o Despite the IG's evidence to the contrary, Acting Secretary King asserted that Mr. Harris did not violate any law, regulation, policy, or standard of ethical conduct.
o Mr. Harris testified his home theatre installation and car detailing activities were "hobbies" and not businesses. The IG testified that these activities qualified as businesses.
o It was in excess of two years before ED responded to the IG's initial report of findings and referral for administrative action.
o The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to prosecute the IG's criminal referral and deferred to ED leadership for action. Acting Sec. King deemed verbal counseling and a three-page ethics guidance letter as appropriate consequences.
5) Consent Issues – If curriculum and assessments are used to gather this data, will the consent requirements for this socioemotional research be circumvented by that loophole in Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)? PPRA, cited in section 82 as 20 USC 1232h, prohibits the collection of psychological, political, religious, and other sensitive data in surveys, however, the law says that these prohibitions do not apply to "curriculum and instructional materials" or to "tests and assessments," such as those required to be aligned to Common Core in most states.
- "In national policy, there is increasing attention on 21st-century competencies (which encompass arange of noncognitive factors, including grit), and persistence is now part of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics." (US Office of Educational Technology -emphasis added.)
- "ASCA [American School Counselors Association] Mindsets & Behaviors align with specific standards from the Common Core State Standards through connections at the competency level. (Emphasis added)"
- "[A]s new assessment systems are developed to reflect the new standards in English language arts, mathematics, and science, significant attention will need to be given to the design of tasks and situations that call on students to apply a range of 21st century competencies that are relevant to each discipline. A sustained program of research and development will be required to create assessments that are capable of measuring cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal skills." (US Office of Educational Technology-emphasis added.)
- "There are important opportunities to leverage new and emerging advances in technology (e.g.,educational data mining, affective computing, online resources, tools for teachers) to develop unprecedented approaches for a wide range of students." (US Office of Educational Technology -emphasis added.)
For these and many other reasons, please continue to contact your US House member at 202-224-3121 to let them know of the dangers of this bill. Please let them know that not objecting to an unrecorded voice vote or voting yes in a recorded vote will be considered allowing federally sanctioned psychological profiling and invasion of your children.
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I was so scared of what might happen to me if I actually got to the point of drunkenness that the beginning of the night passed in perfect clarity. I took minute sips of beer, inwardly wincing each time. Brian could only put up with Camilla and I for a few more minutes; after that, he quickly abandoned us for Nora's company. Camilla and I stood nervously in the corner.
"I feel like we're going to get in trouble or something. Are you having fun?" Camilla asked me, furtively looking around before taking a big gulp of her drink.
"I know! Awkward that I've never done anything like this before." Camilla and I were, apparently, both inexperienced when it came to the kinds of socially-acceptable fun typically found in a college party setting.
We heard a cheer erupt from another room, and we curiously wandered over to see what was happening. A large ping pong table was set up; numerous cups were scattered around the floor or lay strewn around the sides of the table, and teams of two stood on either end of the table. I had heard of this, I think, in that previously-mentioned stereotype. Beer pong. Hello, college.
The team on the opposite end of the table both had ping pong balls in their hands, and they were staring at their opponents' one remaining cup with pinpointed focus. The girl pushed her ball into the air, splaying her fingers as if to waft it in the right direction. She missed by roughly a foot, prompting a laugh from her opponents and a light shove from her partner. Her partner edged towards the middle of the table, then backed up a step. Without taking his eyes off the cup, he launched the ball lightly into the air; his feather-light motion seemed at odds with the intensity of his stare. The moment of elation that crossed the boy's face when the ball sank into the cup was simultaneously absurd and oddly appropriate.
"Fuck! Alright," groaned one of the boys on the losing team, glancing around and catching sight of Camilla and I. "You guys next?"
Camilla and I looked at each other in a moment of mild panic, both muttering incomprehensibly in noncommittal denial.
"Have you ever played pong before? What year are you guys?" Apparently freshman naiveté is something that's hard to hide. We both shook our heads in answer to the first question, and ignored the second.
The boy ushered Camilla over to the other side of the table, while his partner gestured me to the nearest side. I watched as the boy surreptitiously placed his hand on the small of Camilla's waist, ever-so-subtly establishing that touch was okay. I glanced dubiously at my partner. He was attractive, or would have been had he not been sweating profusely. He was tall, about six foot, with disheveled auburn hair and dark eyes. He was obviously less than sober, and he took a moment to focus before extending his hand.
"I'm Will. You've never played pong?"
I reached out and shook his hand; it felt like an odd formality, in the context of our present situation. "I'm Amy. And no. I didn't really do the whole drinking thing until tonight, actually."
"No way! So we're corrupting you. Welcome to college. Are you any good with hand-eye coordination?"
I thought for a moment. I had played tennis throughout my life, so there was probably something there. But I have a severe tendency towards self-deprecation, so I said, "Probably not." Will looked slightly crestfallen. "But I've been known to dominate at ping pong, so maybe there's some hope."
Will grinned. "We got this. There are a bunch of rules, but for now just get the ball in the cup. That's all I actually care about." He handed me a ball.
Across the table, Camilla's partner was conspicuously maintaining his arm's position around her waist under the cover of explaining the rules of the game. Camilla, despite her Catholic-school background, didn't seem to object. She was giggling and leaning in towards him, enraptured by the apparent allure she had over this drunken semi-stranger.
That's when I felt Will's hand lightly graze my own waist. I glanced over at him, expecting an apology or a look of discomfort. Instead, he smiled and nodded towards Camilla and her momentary paramour. "Ready?" He tipped his arm back and lightly launched the ball into the air, where it curved in a graceful arc before flying off the rim of a cup on the opposite end of the table.
"Fuck! Bad start. Okay, Amy, don't miss." I smiled nervously at him, internally berating myself for appearing so weak on the outside.
"Don't hate me if I miss." I launched the ball into the air. It followed a similar path, but arced sharply down at the last minute and disappeared into a cup.
"Whoa! Skills!" Will cheered. I turned toward him, expecting something as benign as a high five, but instead was swept off my feet into a bear hug. Drunken human contact, it turns out, is wildly aggressive and overtly familiar.
Camilla winced at me from across the table, feigning irritation as she picked up the cup where the ball had fallen. Smiling at her partner, she tipped back the cup and downed the beer in a few sips. She made it look effortless, but I knew she'd practically had to turn off her taste buds to do it. Then it was her turn to throw.
The rest of the game became a blur. I shot, I missed, I scored, we won, but not before I had to drink multiple cups of bitter, frothy beer. At some point, it occurred to me that this was not an entirely sanitary operation; we were throwing scum-covered ping pong balls, with our germy hands, into cups of dubious origin. The cups themselves could have been roofied or, for those of us with a more extensive imagination and a past littered with the conniving minds of the antagonists of historical fiction, poisoned. But we played nonetheless, and I sank comfortably into what I could only assume was a state of tipsiness. Will's hand no longer felt so foreign as it slipped itself around my waist and wandered southward.
"Will, Alec, you guys gotta get out. They busted two forty-one and I guess they're out to get everyone tonight," yelled a tall, skinny boy, poking his head around the corner and gesturing at Camilla and my partners. The boys nodded and moved to get their phones and wallets.
Camilla and I grinned surreptitiously at each other, each thinking the same thing. We had no prior experience, but we both thought we knew what came next. We would all walk home together, and the boys would insist on seeing us to our respective doorways. You know, to ensure that we made it home safely. You can't be too careful; life's tough on the mean streets of elite private college residence halls. Upon reaching the doorway, we'd pause and turn to each other. There would be a small moment, not quite awkward but not entirely comfortable. Then, without knowing exactly how it happened, but wanting it to happen all the same, there would be a light kiss that translated as passion and hesitancy all at the same time. And then he'd smile, promise a follow up, and walk away down the hall. He'd glance back one more time, you'd smile at each other, and then go to sleep and anticipate a text the next day. That's what should happen. That's what we're told will happen.
That's almost, but not quite, what happened. We made it all the way to the part when Will insisted on following me to my door. I even got as far as unlocking it. And then, just as the little pause was supposed to take place, he looked at me and said, "I would kiss you right now, but I have a girlfriend. She doesn't go here. You're really cool, though. Coolest freshman I've met. You're my favorite freshman!"
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Tim Timanus is college friends and business partners with the person's daughter that received the $488,000 in stolen funds. This attempted cover up will decimate Prosperity Bank. This is not slander and all stated in Federal Court.
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Less Than Human, 9
Light spilled across his upturned face, warm and intruding, and he squinted against it.
His back throbbed; sleeping while sitting upright wasn't a good decision. Numbness tingled along his toes. His shoulder pulsed with a low but evident pain. Helena was still sleeping peacefully on his chest, and the sight of that dulled his aches. He absently stroked her pale hair, smiling.
"Did you sleep well, Reid?"
Tiberius watched him, his amber eyes unblinking and curious. Gray covered his features; apparently rest hadn't been enough for the older Celestial. The egg-shaped communicator rested silently in his grasp. He noted Reid glancing toward it and shook his head. "No further correspondence, I'm afraid. They know where we are. That's the best news that I can offer."
"They will come," Reid said. Apparently, kisses from a beautiful woman, alien or not, went a long way in laying a foundation of confidence. "I believe it. It's going to be all right."
Tiberius nodded once. He turned his eyes to the ceiling of the car and sighed. "It shall be, Reid. I only hope that it is soon."
"As do I," breathed a soft voice below his chin. Helena looked up with bleary, golden eyes. She offered Reid a sheepish smile. "Thank you for your comfort. It helped."
He couldn't contain the blood that rushed to his face, and he was surprised that he was able to manage "You're welcome," without stumbling over his words. As her weight lifted from him, a new pain awoke in his lower back. He also realized, with some embarrassment, that he really needed to pee.
When he admitted he needed to step out, Helena smiled and excused him.
He walked a good length from the car, standing before the tall grass and watching as it swayed against the breeze. It was a warm morning; the heat baked the top of his head and face and promised a sweltering afternoon. He unzipped and felt sweet relief as he watered the grass. He stood there for a while, saturating the ground. He hadn't ever gone this long so far as he could remember, and he chuckled at the thought.
He turned and zipped, and felt slight embarrassment as he watched Helena approach him. He hoped she hadn't seen him taking a pee. If he had known she was going to follow him, he would have at least gone further into the grass…
"Stop worrying," Helena said with a laugh. "I wasn't watching you. I am just stretching. That vehicle is far too small for the likes of me." She leaned from side to side, limbering her back. She rolled her shoulders and sighed. "This is much better. I couldn't imagine staying in there much longer."
"They'll be here soon, and then we won't have to hide in the car anymore," Reid replied, and he found that her smile wasn't as happy as he'd hoped it would be. He opened his mouth to ask her what was the matter, but she put a hand on his lips and shook her head.
"It's nothing, sweet Reid." She sighed.
"Is he going to stretch his legs?" Reid asked, gesturing toward the car. "It's going to get awful hot soon. He could get sick being in so much heat." He paused and shook his head. "Then again, I don't know. Could he get sick? I know people like me do, if we get too hot. Humans, I mean."
"It would not do for him to be too hot," Helena agreed. "But he is too weak to move. I offered him some of the food we brought, but he did not wish for any." She pointed at the vacant hangar. "We should perhaps park in there, to keep the sun from the car. I can handle the communicator while Tiberius rests."
Reid pulled the car into the hangar. He glanced in the mirror on occasion, and while Tiberius was awake, his eyes looked distant. His breathing had become labored and he visibly winced with even slight movement. Reid hoped that the shade would be of help.
He walked beside Helena, who stood with her face to the bright sky. She was visibly serene, the most calm that Reid could remember. He drew close to her and put his arm around her waist, and was relieved when she did not pull away. He shared her view, marveling at the bobbing masses of white and gray, floating past sluggishly, fading into the blue.
"I will miss this place," Helena said. "Despite everything, I will miss it. The clouds…they are so beautiful, Reid. I often find myself marveling at them. The humans I knew thought me strange. They ignored the wonders of the everyday. I think that is disappointing."
"My mama used to tell me that when people get used to stuff, they get bored with it," Reid answered. "She said that's why sometimes daddies and mamas don't stay together, and that's why sisters and brothers fight so much. She told me to always appreciate what I have, because if I didn't, I'd always want what I couldn't. And you can't always have everything."
"Your mother was very wise, Reid. I am sad that I will not be able to know her."
"She was the best." Reid laughed. "Wanna hear something funny? You talk about how pretty the clouds are, and my mama used to tell me that angels live on them same clouds, looking down on us and smiling. Well, maybe that's why the clouds look so pretty today. Mama's an angel now, so she wanted to make sure that her new home looked its best when she got a chance to see us.
"That's a beautiful point of view," Helena said, and as she looked down upon Reid, he could see the tears in her eyes. "No matter what may come, I ask that you always look upon things this way, Reid. Always look for the good. It's what is so special about you."
He smiled. "Thank you. You're special, too."
A trembling smile rested on her lips, and she looked away. "Forgive me, Reid, but I feel like I need to speak with Tiberius. I will be right back."
She loped away, no longer looking to the clouds. Now she seemed much more focused on the ground beneath her feet. Reid noticed her sadness, and he wondered if he had perhaps said something wrong. He opened his mouth to call out to her, but was distracted by a noise in the high grass. He stared for a moment, and by the time he was certain that his mind had been playing tricks on him, Helena was already talking to Tiberius.
The floodgates were filling to their limit, and Helena was certain that they would overflow. She felt so terrible about the inevitable truth. As she looked upon the older Celestial, she felt a mixture of pity and frustration. She'd hoped so badly that he would say something to surprise her, but as it was often, Tiberius was a dear friend with predictability.
"Whom will he harm?" she asked him, her voice cracked and desperate. "He does not know corruption. He is a lamb that lives amongst wolves. Leaving him here and now, after all we have been through, is nothing short of cruelty."
"He is of them," Tiberius wheezed. "There is a possibility of gentleness even in a hungry beast. That gentleness is never enough to erase the possibility of the hunger taking over the beast's mind."
"He may be of them, but he is not them. He sees beauty in the midst of madness and he sees love over all of this world's hatred. How can you not see that?"
Tiberius shifted and groaned. "What I see in Reid does not erase the sight of humanity doing all in their power to destroy those of us that came to help. Our people would never understand us taking one along with us. We would be accused of madness. We would be cast out. Is that what you wish for him? To leave here, only to be exiled?"
"No." She sniffled. The first tears began to flow. "I care for him. I do not wish to see him hurt. If we leave him here, they will hurt him."
"We cannot control what the humans will do. We never could."
"I have seen his heart. Tiberius, he loves me, the way a man is to love a woman. If I leave him here, the betrayal…" Her face crumpled under the pressure of her grief. "It will destroy the goodness in him, I fear."
"There is naught we can do concerning that, my dear. Our brethren would never allow him on the ship. It is past time that we face the facts before us, Helena: Reid cannot join us when we leave. He must stay behind."


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It's not every day that you come across a 6-2, 280 pounder with the arm and agility to be a mobile quarterback and the size and strength to be a defensive tackle. That, however, adequately describes the skill set of Jatashun Beachum. Nicknamed "Big Tex," the Dallas Maceo Smith high standout was big target for a number of programs this fall, evidenced by his offers from Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Miami, Utah, Arkansas, and a host of others. Many of his suitors coveted him for different positions, and this confident youngster believes he could excel at any of them.
"I'm 6'2", 280. I run a 4.6," said Beachum. "It's true man. I'm probably one of the biggest recruits playing quarterback out there. I broke my ankle like two years ago and once schools found out, I guess they thought I wouldn't move like I'm supposed to move. They had watched my other friend's tape and liked me better. They see a big fast kid… I mean, like wow! They say 'oh we getting him. We want him.' They are literally trying to get back on me at the last minute, but I got down to my two (finalists)."
Suddenly a recruitment that seemed settled is anything but. The school Beachum previously committed to a mere three weeks ago, (Arkansas), now has a strong challenger.
"It's Arkansas and Michigan," he stated. "Ha ha… the Big M baby!"
For Beachum, the glow from receiving his Michigan offer last month still hasn't worn off.
"Aww man, I was so happy," the Dallas native recalled. "Once I got the call, I ran to living room and told my brothers and mom. They were happier than I was. It was great. I'm happy man. I was like, let's turn around and de-commit."
The excitable youngster resisted the urge to make a hasty decision, opting instead for the most patient approach of setting up a visit first. He plans to make it up to Ann Arbor for the annual clash with Ohio State in two weeks.
"(The Wolverines) have a very big chance," said Beachum regarding Michigan's odds of landing him. "From one through 10, they up to nine right now. You never know what can happen. I could de-commit right now and just commit to Michigan, but I'm going to wait and see how the campus (visit) everything goes when I get up there just to see."
Beachum has already forged good relationship with a few of the staff members in Ann Arbor, but he is anxious to meet with them face to face and get an in person account of just what they and their program have to offer.
"The coaches I talked to, they're cool," he said. "All of them cool, I'm just funny so I had them laughing. I want to get up there and see the atmosphere and see if it is where I feel comfortable… all types of things."
One factor that won't play a prominent role in Beachum's choice, at least in an adverse way, is distance from home. It's a discussion he has already had with his mother.
"She wants me to go where I feel better at," explained Beachum. "She pushed me to go far. When I told her that I was going to Arkansas, she was like that's nice and that's good; that's where she from. If I go out farther, it is going to make me become a man and all that. Michigan would be a good spot."
Whether it's THE spot is something the four star prospect won't take long to determine once he gets home from the Great Lake State.
"Michigan will be the last (visit)," Beachum reported. "I'll probably (make a decision) two weeks or a week after."
For the time being, Beachum's total focus is on his immediate goal helping his team get another much need win.
"(The season) hasn't been going how I wanted it to," Big Tex admitted. "We had 19 seniors last year and we got like half of the team is sophomores. So we really got a young team. (Individually), you know man, I'm doing my thing. But (overall) it isn't going the way I want it to go so far. If we win we'll be in the playoffs."
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How to get rid of unwanted SMSs: All you need to know
In an effort to curb pesky messages from unregistered telemarketers, TRAI has come up with new measures.
New Delhi: Subscribers have been facing the menace of receiving unsolicited promotional SMSs from unregistered tele-marketers who often take the advantage of concessional SMS offers by telecom operators. In an effort to curb pesky messages from unregistered telemarketers, TRAI has come up with new measures. Here is everything that you need to know:
1. To prevent unregistered telemarketers from misusing SMS packs or tariff plans for sending bulk promotional SMSs, a price restraint has been placed on sending of more than one hundred SMS per day per SIM at a concessional rate. The subscriber is free to send SMSs beyond this number, however, all such SMSs sent beyond one hundred SMS per day per SIM shall be charged at a rate not lower than the rate prescribed by the Authority. For every SMS beyond the cap of 100 SMSes, a charge of minimum 50 paise will be applicable, the regulator said.
2. Operators have also been asked to put in place a solution within three months, which will ensure that no commercial SMS are sent having same or similar characters from any source number. The solution will ensure that no more than 200 SMS with such similar 'signature' are sent in an hour.
3. The lodging of a Unsolicited Commercial Communications (UCC) complaint through SMS has been made easier. Now the complaint can be lodged through SMS by simply forwarding the UCC SMS to 1909 after appending the telephone number and date of receipt of the SMS.
4. Access providers will also establish a web-based complaint registering system and a dedicated e-mail address to receive such complaints on UCC.
5. For increasing consumer awareness and to caution against misuse, Access providers have been mandated to send SMS to all customers on periodic basis, advising them not to send any commercial communications and informing them about the consequences of misuse.
6. Whenever a new customer is enrolled for service, the Access Provider is required to take an undertaking from such customer in the Customer Acquisition Form that he shall not use the connection for telemarketing purpose and in case he uses the connection for telemarketing purposes such connection shall be liable to be disconnected.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal had last week said he too was a victim of the unsolicited communications. "Every two minutes I get such SMS," he had said. TRAI is taking up the issue of pesky calls and SMSes, he had added.
However, registered telemarketers, transactional message sending entities and telephone numbers exempted by TRAI are excluded from this provision, Parameswaran added.
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The EU's fourth largest economy stood still last year. Average growth over the past five years has been less than 1 per cent. The public finances are in an appalling state. Not surprisingly, when Italians go to the polls today, they might be minded to punish Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for their collective malaise.
Mr Berlusconi is not wholly responsible for leading Italy down a blind economic alley. Structural problems gestate over decades. But he did promise, when elected in 2001, to stop the rot. He promised 'an economic miracle', enriching his fellow Italians with the business expertise that made him the country's wealthiest man. The flaw in the plan was that the media empire that made Mr Berlusconi rich was founded not in the field of open competition but in the backrooms of Italy's cronyist political establishment. Since coming to office, he has spent more energy protecting himself from prosecution than on modernising the economy.
Italian society has traditionally thrived despite the corruption of its national leaders, functioning, instead, on good local government and strong family ties that have reduced pressure on the state to provide social services. But there are signs this, too, is changing. The birth rate is among the lowest in the Western world, while one in five Italians is older than 65. This demographic imbalance points to a coming pensions crisis. No party in the election has policies to confront the problem.
Mr Berlusconi's rival at the ballot box is Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister and European Commission president. His lack of charisma is the exact counterpoint to Mr Berlusconi's exuberant showmanship. Both head fractious coalitions that, if elected, would find it hard to co-operate on radical reforms.
But there is a decisive factor. Mr Berlusconi has not only neglected Italy's economy, but he has warped its politics. He controls 90 per cent of broadcast media, a grotesque conflict of interest. He has diminished public life, deploying personal slurs instead of policy debate. He embodies a culture of corruption that devalues democracy in Italy and, by extension, the rest of the EU, which has been forced to do business with him.
There are no quick cures for Italy's sickness, but purging Silvio Berlusconi from the body politic would signal the start of recovery.


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Advancing on our Knees - Part 2 (2 of 4) by Ernest Easley
This content is part of a series.Advancing on our Knees - Part 2 (2 of 4)
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Ernest L. Easley
Matthew 14:13-23
We're thinking these Sunday nights as we begin this new-year about advancing! The dictionary defines the word ''advance'' to move or bring forward in position. To ''advance'' means to aid the growth or progress of, to further; to raise in rank or to promote. To ''advance'' speaks of making progress, to improve, to grow.
Last Sunday night we were thinking about our church's ministry and how we need to advance this year, not retreat. It will require our leadership and membership working together to advance our ministry.
After worship last Sunday night a member came up to me with an advancing idea and said ''Pastor, I'll contribute $1000.00 to help! And if you need more, just let me know.'' With that spirit, 2015 is going to be the year of advancing!
What areas in our life need advancing this year? What areas need: progress, to improve, to grow? If you were asked to name three areas in your life tonight that need advancing this year, what would they be?
All right. I'm asking. I'm asking you to write down the first three areas in your life, that come to mind; areas that need advancing this year. Areas that need to make some progress, areas that need improving and growing.
You say, ''I'm drawing a blank.'' All right, let me help you get started.
My spiritual life.
My knowledge of the word of God.
My marriage.
My parenting skills.
My lack of generosity.
My career.
My financial security.
Three areas in your life that need to grow this year. Three areas in your life that need to make some progress, to advance!
All right. Do you have them? Have you written them down? Now look at them. I mean, really look at them. Are you looking at them?
Now look up here? How are you going to make that happen? Listing them is one thing; but seeing advancement this year is something different. You can attempt advancing in those three areas of your life in one of tw ...
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i can't go on
I look out at the world
Its too-shiny pink pastels
And pretty, pale skin
And then at myself-
Something odd, unrefined
The rough without the diamond-
And it's hard to breathe.
They say the greatest human desire is to belong
But I'm the sharp note not meant for the song
I've tried
Struggling in quicksand
I've lied
To those in my hand-
But it's easier not to fight the current
To let it rip me limb from limb
Than to face the overwhelming torrent
Of emotions within.
I will never be enough
I've known it all along
No diamond, simply rough
And I can't go on.
But then I see the world,
So full of life
Not an oyster, a pearl
Spinning by my strife
And I watch it swirl
And I see the light.


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Allergy Statistics
Allergy is widespread in the UK. Millions of adults suffer from at least one allergy, with numbers continuing to rise. Each year the number of allergy sufferers increases by 5%, half of all affected being children.
Below is an overview of allergy related statistics. Please contact the press office for more information:
In 2011/12: there were 18,471 hospital admissions for allergies in England. In 2015/16 this was 25,093. This is an increase of 6,622 cases or 36%. (Data obtained by NHS Digital, published by BBC Yorkshire)
In 2011/12 there were 3735 hospital admissions for anaphylactic shocks. This had risen to 4451 in 2015-16. This is an increase of 19% (716 cases). (Data obtained by NHS Digital, published by BBC Yorkshire)
- 615% increase in hospital admissions for anaphylaxis in 20 years, 1992-2012 (Turner et al, JACI, 2015)
- In the last decade, the cases of food allergies have doubled and the number of hospitalisations caused by severe allergic reactions has increased 7-fold (EAACI, 2015)
- Nearly 1 in 5 (17%) of the Uk population consider themselves to have a food allergy or intolerance:
• 6% have food allergy
• 12% have a food intolerance (YouGov, 2015)
- A quarter of UK households include at least one allergy or intolerance sufferer (YouGov, 2015)
31% of parents have to send their children to school with a packed lunch due to their allergies/intolerances (YouGov, 2015)
- 39% of parents buy specially designed 'free from' products – compared to 28% last year (YouGov, 2015)
- About 1 in 3 of the population or 21 million have a disease where allergy may be involved. Up to 7 million have allergy severe enough to require specialist allergy care (National Allergy Strategy Group, Dec 2015)
- There was a 615% increase in hospital admissions for anaphylaxis in the 20 years to 2012 (National Allergy Strategy Group, Dec 2015)
- 'Prescriptions for allergy symptoms cost nearly £1 billion a year – about 11% of the total community drugs budget. Prescribing information for the 12 months to February 2014 shows that the rate of prescribing emergency adrenaline products was 353 per 100,000 head of the population, one item per 283 people' (National Allergy Strategy Group, Dec 2015)
- Over 20,000 admitted to hospital each year with allergy, 61.8 per cent (12,560) of admissions due to allergic reactions were emergencies, a 6.2 per cent increase (730) on the same period last year (11,830).(HSCIC, 2014)
- By 2025, asthma will represent the most prevalent chronic childhood disease and result in one of the highest causes of health care costs (EAACI, 2014)
Over 150 million people have allergies in Europe, the most common chronic disease (EAACI, 2014)
Allergic diseases are affecting the lives of more than one billion people worldwide. With an epidemic rise during the last 60 years, their prevalence is expected to reach up to 4 billion in 2050s. (World Allergy Organisation, 2013)
6–8 % of children have a proven food allergy (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, 2011)
Allergy is a chronic disease that is expected to affect more than 50% of all Europeans in 10 years' time (EAACI, 2011)
- Up to 1 in 5 allergic people suffer a serious debilitating disease and are in fear of death from a possible asthma attack or anaphylactic shock (EAACI, 2011)
An estimated 21 million adults in the UK suffer from at least one allergy (Mintel, 2010)
- An estimated 10 million adults suffer from more than one allergy (Mintel, 2010)
Seasonal allergic rhinitis is associated with a detrimental effect on examination performance in UK teenagers. (Walker et al, J Allergy Clin Imm 2007)
UK hospital admissions for food allergies have increased by 500% since 1990 (Gupta, 2007)
- The prevalence of diagnosed allergic rhinitis and eczema in children have both trebled over the last three decades (Gupta, 2007)
- 20% of the population are affected by allergic rhinitis (Allergy The Unmet Need, 2003)
- The number of sufferers from rhinitis has tripled in the last 20 years (Allergy The Unmet Need, 2003)
- Asthma, Rhinitis and Eczema have trebled in the last 20 years (Allergy The Unmet Need, 2003)
- 10% of children and adults under the age of 45 have 2 or more allergies (Allergy The Unmet Need, 2003)
- 13 million people below the mid forties have 2 or more allergies (Allergy The Unmet Need, 2003)
- 50% of children and young people have one or more allergy within the first 18 years of life (Journal of Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 2009)
- £900million per annum spent by Primary Care is due to allergy (Enquiry Into Provision of Allergy Services, 2004)
- £68million per annum is the cost of hospital admissions due to allergy (Enquiry Into Provision of Allergy Services, 2004)
- The UK is one of the top three countries in the world for the highest incident of allergy (The Allergenic Invasion, 1999)