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Here's the part that makes you an idiot. There's nothing stopping any single mother from realizing that she's *** and wanting to marry a female lover.
You're correct. And if the stated case for the TANF benefits is to encourage her to marry so as to reduce the likelihood of her producing yet another child out of wedlock, that reason no longer applies to her, right?
My argument has always been that the benefits for entering into a state marriage is to encourage heterosexual couples who might otherwise produce children outside of a marriage to get married, and thus increase the likelihood that any children they do produce will be produced within a marriage.
This is exactly the stated reason, in the source you provided for marriage benefits for TANF recipients. What more do you need?
The same goes for a single father (which although more rare, does exist) who decides he's *** and wants to marry a male lover.
Yes. The state also no longer has any interest in him getting married since the states interest here is to reduce the rate of children born outside of marriage. I got that the first time.
The same could even be said for an already *** couple who wishes to adopt a child.
Not a whole lot of TANF recipients are qualifying for adoption.
In all three cases, there's no legitimate reason to deny the same benefits to such a couple should they fall on hard times.
No. You're not getting it. The stated reason isn't to reward people who have children for marrying. The stated reason is to reduce the likelihood of someone already on TANF from producing more children out of wedlock by providing benefits for marrying. You quoted and even bolded text that said precisely this. Let me requote it for you:
Therefore, in light of this demonstration of the crisis in our Nation, it is the sense of the Congress that prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancy and reduction in out-of-wedlock birth are very important Government interests and the policy contained in part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (as amended by section 103(a) of this Act) is intended to address the crisis
Note, they said "out of wedlock pregnancy" and "out of wedlock birth". They did not say "we want to reward people who already have children and who marry after the fact". The source very clearly and directly states that the goal is to get people to marry each other so that their future children will be born within a legally defined marriage.
That does not apply to *** couples. Hence, there's no state reason to extend this benefit to *** couples.
This does not justify your argument that marriage is only for heterosexual child-bearing couples, nor does it preempt the legitimacy of any homosexual marriage at all.
Stick to the point. I'm not talking about "legitimacy". I'm talking about whether a given couple's relationship should qualify for state issued benefits. And the stated reason for the benefits in this law absolutely preclude granting them to non-child bearing couples.
This particular benefit has everything to do with providing for children, and absolutely NOTHING to do with the marriage of two people who love each other, except to say that marriage increases the likelihood that a child will have the benefit of two parents, regardless of the *** of each parent.
Ok. But the whole point of this exercise wasn't to look at *what* the law does, but *why* it was passed. My claim is that the state creates benefits for marriage out of a desire to encourage couples who might otherwise produce children outside of wedlock to get married so that their children are produced inside wedlock. The stated reason for this particular law, as quoted by you, absolutely and perfectly supports my position.
Try again.
I'm not surprised, but still somewhat disappointed that even in the face of absolute proof that my position is valid, you're still going to try to spin it away. Again, read the quoted part. It nearly exactly says the same positions I've been saying for years now, and which most posters on this forum have insisted isn't true. Well, there it is. And you can't refute the source because *you* provided it (thanks for that btw).
Just can't admit anything, can you?
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So while studying the other week, I had the pleasure of a bowl of brain food (m&ms) which was sitting on the coffee table.
Picard was running around, over the couch, floor etc as she does when she is out.
I was so engrossed in the study that I did not see that Picard had made her way down my leg and over to the coffee table, all of a sudden i heard this noise that is kinda hard to discribe, (imagine a cockatiel falling into a bowl of m&ms, and you've pretty much got the noise!)
I look up and there is Picard sitting in the middle of my bowl of m&ms looking rather pleased with herself. Her little head was cocked to the side and she was paddling her feet.
Now I am sure you have all heard of or have seen those playpens for children, that are filled with the bright coloured balls, you put the children in and they play to their hearts content, right, got that picture in your head?
That is what picard looked like.
Now before you all get alarmed there was no consumption off m&ms by Picard, I got her outta that chocolately death trap right away!!
Though she was rather mad at me for taking away her newly found 'playpen' i sware her expression was
A quick wash of ones little feet and she was good to continue the playing minus the m&ms!!!

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Review: All the Truth That's in Me, by Julie Berry
The pitch: After enduring two years of abuse, Judith escapes her kidnapper and returns home. Damaged and shunned by her community, including the man she's always loved, she must find a way to start to heal. The review: Outstanding. The spare prose carries along this creepy tale of a town … Continue reading


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Abdulmajed Alrajhi, an S.J.D. Candidate at American University Washington College of Law, is completing his dissertation titled, "Female Arbitrators Under Islamic Law." His academic interests and professional background include: International Business Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Islamic Law, Civil Law, and Common Law. Prior to joining the Washington College of Law S.J.D program, Mr. Alrajhi worked as an intern for the Commercial Department of the Board of Grievances of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During his time as a LL.M. student at Washington College of Law, he founded the Arab Association of American University Washington College of Law.
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OffBEAT with KONGOS
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South African band KONGOS has already had a pretty incredible year.
The band, made up of brothers Dylan, Jesse, Daniel and Johnny Kongos - the sons of musician John Kongos - self-released their debut album, Lunatic, in the United States last October after considerable success in their home country of South Africa. But it wasn't until radio stations in the United States started to play their song, "Come With Me Now," that people really started to take notice.
The guys were soon signed to Epic Records, and they re-released the album in January. Fast forward a mere 2 months, and "Come With Me Now" is currently sitting atop the Alternative chart after the band was selected as an iHeartRadio On The Verge Artist.
KONGOS stopped by the iHeartRadio Studios when they were in New York recently, and the guys talked to us about everything from South Africa to Graceland. Get to know Dylan, Jesse, Daniel and Johnny in OffBEAT below.
How did you get here?
Danny: "We swam, we won the race. We beat 400 million others in the race to the egg... First accomplishment anybody makes."
Where are you taking us?
Johnny: "Down. And we're going to show you how.
"The song's really influenced, we say it's everyone, but it's true, it's influenced by this South African style of music called kwaito and you hear it when you walk around a lot of the downtown areas in Johannesburg and some of the townships. So it's just got this vibe that you can't really explain other than by going there and listening to their grooves. So that groove really led me on that journey for that song."
Danny: "We're going to take you to the Cajun country, South African, Hip Hop, House in South Africa."
Why wouldn't he take a bite?
Johnny: "It wasn't a buyers market? I don't know my economics. But you've got to have something worth selling you know?"
Jesse: "I think it's poking at the presumption that, you just assume that somebody's interested."
Who is your favorite lunatic?
Johnny: James Brown. I don't know if he's a lunatic, but that line where he's like 'I don't know karate but I do know crazy.'
Dylan: Yeah, I don't know if he's a lunatic either, he was a pretty genius guy but Nikola Tesla sounded like a bit of a lunatic, but obviously a genius at the same time.
Jesse: I'm going to choose a drummer called Tony Williams. He was a jazz drummer, and he was 16 when he joined the Miles Davis band and he just tore shit up.
Danny: Derek Trucks, I'll do Derek Trucks. Yeah, he's the best slide player, ever. I think.
Who is in on the joke?
Johnny: Just us four, and maybe friends?
Danny: The inner circle.
Jesse: Yeah, it's one of those things we just don't talk about but we like the fact that we get asked questions about it and we tell you 'Stop asking questions.'
Who is in the inner circle?
Dylan: The same guy who turned us down on selling ourselves.
What is Greek to you?
Johnny: Latin.
Jesse: The Home Shopping Network.
Where is your Graceland?
Jesse: South Africa.
Danny: Johannesburg.
Dylan: We spent 8 years there, we grew up there. We went to a Greek school in Johannesburg and we just made the best friends of our life. You know being a kid and one day you're going to school and you're in a metropolitan area and then you go to a farm on the weekend, and you're riding around looking at lions and elephants is a pretty unreal childhood.
What does the accordion say that other instruments can't?
Johnny: Ladies...
Who is the favorite child?
Dylan: Depending on who cooks that night. We all cook and when we cook we are the favorite child of our parents.
What did you leave in South Africa?
Jesse: We left 3 vehicles that were stolen.
Danny: Friends. We left friends. Just
Johnny: We left -- this is kind of abstract -- a feeling. We didn't go back for 16 years... it was when the radio started to pick up for us, so going back, people knew the song and knew everything. It kind of felt like we were not home, because I feel at home in America. We feel it in a lot of places, but there's just this feeling... you just go like, 'Ah, we're back here in South Africa.' It just felt right.
What do you want to learn this year?
Johnny: How to sleep sitting up.
Danny: I want to learn what it's like touring on a bus. I don't want to learn how to sleep sitting up.
Dylan: I want a bunk bed instead of a seat that doesn't recline for 12 hours.
Johnny: One of our sound engineers has been on the road a long time, and that dude can sleep literally anywhere. He would find a way to sleep on that little table there, it's amazing.
Danny: And he can switch his consciousness off and on, so we can get him in the van after having a meal or something, we've got a 3 hour drive and he'll just go out.
Dylan: He'll like sit down and (snaps fingers). It's quite a talent.
Jesse: He's a narcoleptic.
Tell us a secret.
Danny: No.
Dylan: It will cease to be a secret.
Johnny: Can you keep a secret?
Danny: I don't have any.
Jesse: I like baked beans on toast.
Johnny: If you visualize things, they all happen. That's the secret.
Jesse: If you make a vision board, children in Africa will stop starving. You can quote Dave Chappelle on that.
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Star NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette and 49ers wide receiver Quinton Patton are under investigation following an alleged sexual assault incident that occurred at Lockette's room at the Viceroy Hotel in Miami on April 1.
According to reports, the unknown Black woman said she began mixing drinks for the boys at 9pm when they requested she take a hit from their bong or they wouldn't drink their shots. After obliging, she began to feel light-headed and ended up in the bedroom to lye down where Kaepernick followed her. The woman says he then "came up behind her into the bedroom and started kissing her." He undressed her until she was naked. "Mr. Kaepernick told her that he was going to be right back and left the bedroom. They did not have sex," but have had relations in the past.
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Tornados suffer first loss, split doubleheader with CrusadersFebruary 20, 2009
Brevard moves to 5-1 in the 2009 season
Brevard, N.C. - The Tornados and the Crusaders split their Friday afternoon doubleheader with North Greenville taking the first game in extra innings, 3-2, while Brevard came back and took the second game behind the pitching of Liz Houser, 1-0. The Tornados suffer their first loss of the 2009 season as they move to 5-1, while North Greenville wins their first game of the season in moving to 1-7.
Game 1: North Greenville 3, Brevard 2 (8)
Jennifer Gift (2-1) threw her third complete game of the season, allowing three runs, two earned, while striking out four, but she was matched by the Crusader starter Kristyn Smith who also went the distance, allowing two unearned runs while striking out nine.
Beth Brooker and Jennifer Brown each drove in runs for the Tornados in game one. Lindsey Eargle paced the Crusaders offense, going 3-4 with a pair of RBIs.
North Greenville got on the board first, scoring in the top of the first as Hope Brewer led off the game with a double to left centerfield. A single by Eargle to right scored Brewer as the Crusaders went up 1-0.
Brevard tied the game up in the bottom of the second as Katie Thornburg led off the inning with a single up the middle. A sacrifice bunt by Brooker moved her over to second, then after a Kasey Fagan strikeout, Thornburg advanced to third on a passed ball before scoring on Jennifer Brown's single through the right side of the infield.
From there, the defenses and pitchers took over as Katie Brown made two spectacular catches for the Tornados from her catcher position, running into the fence both times to record outs, while Smith went through the Tornado lineup, allowing three baserunners in five innings.
In the top of the eighth, with Brewer on second, Lindsey Eargle singled, and moved to third during a series of throws that resulted in Brewer scoring from second. A flyball to right off the bat of Lauren Vick scored Eargle, giving the Crusaders a 3-1 lead.
In the bottom of the inning, the Tornados attempted to come back, as Thornburg drew a walk with two outs, while Becca Curlee stole third. A ball hit by Brooker glanced off the glove of Smith, scoring Curlee from third, but Thornburg was caught trying to go from first to third on a ball that did not leave the infield, ending game one in favor of the Crusaders, 3-2.
Game 2: Brevard 1, North Greenville 0
Liz Houser (3-0) won her third consecutive start and recorded her second shutout of the 2009 season as she went all seven innings, scattering five hits while setting down five Crusaders on strikes. Crusaders starter Taylor Roof nearly matched her, with only an unearned run given up in the fifth inning spoiling her start.
Brooker went 2-3 to lead the Tornados in game two, while Brewer went 2-4 for the Crusaders.
Brewer opened up game two with a single for the Crusaders, and North Greenville put two on with one out in the first inning, but Houser was able to dig deep and strike out Alison Bailey looking, and getting Whitney Center to pop out to Kristina Clayton at shortstop to end the inning.
The Crusaders loaded the bases in the top of the second, but a fly ball to left field off the bat of Eargle stranded all three runners, while Brevard came up empty after loading the bases in the bottom of the fourth as Curlee grounded out to second for the final out of the inning.
Houser mowed through the lineup, putting the Crusaders down in order in the top of the fifth, paving the way for Brevard to punch across the only run of the contest.
With two outs, Chelsi Mallory was moved to second on Brooker's single through the left side of the infield. Mallory scored from second the next batter as Fagan's grounder to third was misplayed by the Crusader third baseman, as she bounced her throw to first, putting the Tornados up 1-0.
With the sun setting, the Crusaders came up in the top of the seventh looking for an answer, but Houser was able to get Krista Laird to ground out to short, and Jessica Turner and Brewer to foul out to Katie Brown at the backstop, with Katie again crashing into the backstop, as she clutched the last out to end the game, 1-0.
Brevard takes to the road as they head to Black Mountain, N.C. for a doubleheader with Montreat College on Saturday, February 21st. First pitch for the games between the Tornados and Cavaliers is set for 1 p.m. North Greenville stays on the road as they take on Southern Wesleyan also on Saturday at 1 p.m.


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Chalet Le Sommet is situated in a panoramic location high up at the top of the resort with sensational views over the village, valley and mountains. Le Sommet is an individual chalet that adjoins the 'Des Neiges Residence'. It is close to the resort centre and offers good ski access as well as comfortable bedrooms, each with en suite facilities and a balcony, and there are two rooms with additional bunks, ideal for families.
A 5 minutes' downhill walk (500m) from the chalet leads to a bridge where skiers can join the blue Plein Sud piste, ski through the resort and link with ease into the rest of the ski area.
The free and regular resort shuttle bus stops only 400m away with buses every 20 minutes for the additional convenience of guests.
A particularly attractive feature is the impressive lounge/dining room with its vaulted ceiling, exposed beams and picture windows affording stunning views of the surrounding mountains.
In addition all guests have free use of the sauna and swimming pool in the adjoining 'Des Neiges Residence', which is open from 1600-2000 every day except Saturday.
For Val Thorens' lively night life a short stroll will bring you to all the action and fun. Approximate Transfer time to resort: Chambery 2 hours – Geneva 2 hours 45 minutes
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We set very high standards for our cuisine, and train our staff extensively before the season starts, to ensure that you will thoroughly enjoy every meal on your own holiday with us. We also take our Health and Safety responsibilities extremely seriously, so all our chalet and Chalet Hotel staff during the pre-season training course are trained to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health's Level 2 in Food Safety*. For six days of the week our staff prepare all your meals, as described below.
A good breakfast is essential on a ski holiday, so we provide both a cooked breakfast including your choice of bacon, eggs, sausages and beans, as well as a continental selection with a choice of cereals or porridge, fruit juices, plentiful tea, coffee and bread (and croissants in France), cold meats, cheese and preserves, which is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. On our staff's one day off a week, only the continental breakfast will be provided.
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The traditional 'welcome home' after a day on the slopes will be laid out for you in your chalet or Chalet Hotel, ready for your return, every day except on the staff's one day off per week. A good cup of tea or coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a delicious slice of freshly home-baked cake and keeps hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready. As an added benefit for guests in our Chalet Hotels, our chefs prepare a selection of cakes for afternoon tea.
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In Chalets and Chalet Hotels with family guests, High Tea provides children under 13 years with a healthy menu, tailored more towards children's tastes and puréed food is available for infants on request. High Tea is at 5.30pm, and children do not join the main adult-only dinner.
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This Thursday night, the only PowerPoints you need to worry about are how many you need until the bonus stage. After a highly successful Addy awards (if we do say so ourselves) the Ad Club of New Orleans is keeping the fun going with an After Hours to feature heated competition over games of no consequence. Barcadia is the newest night spot in the Warehouse District, and it has set aside a wall full of arcade machines for you to live out your nostalgia. From 6 pm to 9 pm, the Ad Club has a fistful of quarters for your evening entertainment with Pac Man, Skeeball, and life-size Jenga. Join the Ad Club this Thursday to remember a time when success in the work place meant the high score on Galaga.
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Girl's lung transplant deemed a success
Philadelphia • A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, the girl's family said.
Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon said.
The Murnaghan family said it was "thrilled" to share the news that Sarah was out of surgery.
"Her doctors are very pleased with both her progress during the procedure and her prognosis for recovery," the family said in a statement.
During double-lung transplants, surgeons must open up the patient's chest. Complications can include rejection of the new lungs and infection.
Panel rejects overhaul of military justice
Washington • Siding with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday to keep commanders involved in deciding whether to prosecute sexual assault cases, rejecting an aggressive plan to stem sex-related crimes in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice system.
By a vote of 17-9, the committee passed a bill crafted by its chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., designed to increase pressure on senior commanders to prosecute sexual assault cases by requiring a top-level review if they fail to do so. Levin's proposal also makes it a crime to retaliate against victims who report a sexual assault and also calls on the Pentagon to relieve commanders who fail to create a climate receptive for victims.
The committee rebuffed a proposal in a bill by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., to remove commanders from the process of deciding whether serious crimes, including sexual misconduct cases, go to trial. That judgment would have rested instead with seasoned trial lawyers who have prosecutorial experience and hold the rank of colonel or above. The committee also rejected a provision of Gillibrand's bill that would have taken away a commander's authority to convene a court-martial by giving that responsibility to new and separate offices outside a victim's chain of command.
Parents face trial in faith-healing death
Philadelphia • A Philadelphia couple who believes in faith healing over medicine faces a murder trial in the death of their second son in four years.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible are being held on third-degree murder charges after Wednesday's preliminary hearing.
Two-year-old Kent died in 2009, followed by 8-month-old Brandon in April. Both boys died of pneumonia.
Prosecutors say the Schaibles defied terms of their probation after the first case by failing to get Brandon medical care.
Their seven surviving children are now in foster care.
Castro pleads not guilty in kidnap case
Cleveland • A man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hundreds of rape and kidnapping charges, and the defense hinted at avoiding a trial with a plea deal if the death penalty were ruled out.
The death penalty is in play because among the accusations facing Ariel Castro, 52, is that he forced a miscarriage by one of the women, which is considered a killing under Ohio law. That charge doesn't include a possible death penalty, but a prosecutor has said that's under review.
The women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each said they had accepted a ride from Castro.
FEMA: No additional aid for fertilizer plant
Houston • The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide additional money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people.
According to a letter obtained by The Associated Press, FEMA said it reviewed the state's appeal to help but decided that the explosion "is not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration."
FEMA already has provided millions of dollars in aid to the town of West and its residents, but the decision prevents them from getting some of the widespread assistance typically available to victims of tornadoes, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
The decision likely means less money to pay for public repairs to roads, sewer lines, pipes and a school that was destroyed.
The blast killed 10 first responders and brought national attention to the agricultural community.
As of Wednesday, FEMA said the agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration had approved more than $7 million in aid and low-interest loans to West residents impacted by the blast. FEMA also is paying 75 percent of the costs of debris removal and will reimburse the state and the municipality for the initial emergency response.
It's not unusual for FEMA to turn down that level of assistance for emergencies not stemming from natural disasters.
Supreme Court sign ban ruled illegal
Washington • In a case that could end with the Supreme Court deciding how much free speech to allow on its own doorstep, a federal judge has thrown out a law barring processions and expressive banners on the Supreme Court grounds.
The law is so broad, the judge said, that it could criminalize preschool students parading on their first field trip to the high court.
Harold Hodge Jr. was arrested on the Supreme Court plaza in January 2011 while wearing a sign that criticized police treatment of blacks and Hispanics.
He claimed the law violates the constitution, and U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell agreed. She ruled Tuesday that the statute ran afoul of the First Amendment's free speech protections.
The Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties organization which challenged the law on Hodge's behalf, said that ruling "throws a lifeline to the First Amendment at a time when government officials are doing their best to censor, silence and restrict free speech activities."
If the Obama administration appeals, the case could reach the Supreme Court, historically the guardian of free speech rights. That could create the ultimate not-in-my-backyard case, except it would be more about the court's front yard.


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By Julie Muhlstein Herald Columnist
Take NBA legend Magic Johnson, Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson, Martin Luther King III, Gov. Jay Inslee, actors and activists Martin Sheen and Mia Farrow, and thousands of students, many from Snohomish County. Put them all together at Seattle Center's KeyArena.
What do you have? It's We Day.
The day-long celebration of the power of kids is meant to inspire them to help in their communities and around the world. It's happening Wednesday in Seattle, the first U.S. city to host the movement that has drawn big crowds across Canada.
About 8,000 kids came together for the first We Day at Toronto's Ricoh Coliseum in 2007. On Wednesday, about 15,000 are expected at KeyArena to learn how volunteerism can change the world.
Thirty students from Vince Ivelia's leadership class at Snohomish High School will be part of the crowd. "The kids are really excited. I envision it will create opportunities to do more," said Ivelia, also the school's ASB activities adviser.
You can't buy a ticket to We Day. Students earn their way in by completing service projects throughout the year. Schools and youth groups get involved by registering with We Act, a free, yearlong educational program highlighting volunteerism.
Ivelia said We Day organizers contacted many area schools. The program fit with what many students are already doing. "We brought it to our kids, and the kids are excited to be participating in this movement," he said.
We Day and We Act are organized by Free the Children, a nonprofit organization founded by brothers Marc and Craig Kielburger, Canadian activists and co-authors of "Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World" and "The World Needs Your Kid." Marc Kielburger talked about his own childhood initiatives to help other kids in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes."
According to Publishers Weekly, Craig Kielburger was a 12-year-old Toronto schoolboy when he read an article about a boy shot to death in Pakistan, presumably because he had spoken out against child labor.
The Canadian boy's reaction was to create Free the Children. Today, its global initiatives have tackled needs for clean water, health care, sanitation and agriculture in Africa and Latin America.
At Snohomish High, students conducted a blood drive and collected more than 3,000 pounds of food for the Snohomish Community Food Bank to get to We Day.
They also partnered with Monroe High School in a competition called "Cat Fight," raising $6,000 for the American Heart Association by selling "Cat Fight" T-shirts and collecting money at sports events. The feline fight refers to Snohomish Panthers vs. Monroe Bearcats.
"Cat Fight was a really good event. It was the first time doing it, bringing the two schools together," said Lindsey Shackelford, an 18-year-old Snohomish High senior who will be at We Day.
"I'm really excited to be able to go. It's a really good way to learn about more ways to get involved in the community," said Shackelford, a past ASB president at her school.
The We Day experience is meant to build on students' own volunteering. "We take our students to the food bank to see the impact they're making," Ivelia said. "We go there and work, and the kids get to see how real the need is."
Monroe School District spokeswoman Rosemary O'Neil said students from Park Place Middle School and Monroe High will go to We Day.
Students from the Edmonds School District will also be at We Day. Beth Marriott is activities coordinator at Meadowdale High School.
"I learned about this organization through a '60 Minutes' interview. My husband saw it and said, 'Why aren't you doing this at your school?'" Marriott said. "It was just in Canada then, that was my excuse."
Now that it's coming to Seattle, Marriott and her students can't wait. Projects at Meadowdale included selling bracelets to help children in Guatemala have the resources to attend school. They also collected items for Clothes for Kids, a charity that helps Edmonds district children, and held a food drive for the Lynnwood Food Bank.
She excited about the lineup of celebrity speakers, especially Magic Johnson. She saw the former basketball star once before — up close.
"When I was in high school, in 1979, he was playing his inaugural season with the Lakers. They played the Sonics," she said. "I was sitting with a family in the front row, and he landed in my lap." That probably won't happen again Wednesday.
Marriott believes We Day will leave a lasting impression on kids.
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Sandy • The toddler's face was squashed against the window. Her hands pressed against glass that separated her from an exhibit home to several penguins at The Living Planet Aquarium.
Entranced, the girl studied the birds as they slipped off the edge of rocks into a tank of water. Her eyes widened, watching the penguins zip through the water, leaving trails of bubbles behind.
"Mommy, they can fly!" she said, eyes locked on a penguin flapping its arms under water, before her mother corrected her about the flightless bird's abilities.
Such was the scene at the aquarium on a recent weekday a facility that expects to draw 460,000 visitors in 2012 and is preparing to break ground on a state-of-the-art complex in Draper.
On Wednesday, the aquarium's supporters will gather to celebrate construction of a 136,000-square-foot, two-story facility at 12047 S. Lone Peak Parkway. The new aquarium, scheduled for completion in December 2013, will be nearly three times the size of the current facility in Sandy and will be renamed The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium.
The aquarium will remain open in Sandy until Sept. 8, 2013, and will close for a few months while everything is moved to the new location. The $20 million expansion is possible because of several factors: a large growth in the number of people who visit the aquarium each year, donations, grants and a $13 million bond from Draper City that will help pay for the building.
The aquarium's founder and CEO Brent Andersen said the new facility will be "world-class." It will feature a climate-controlled environment for each ecosystem housed in the aquarium, including hot, humid conditions in a South American rainforest exhibit and desert conditions in a Utah exhibit. The building will hold up to 62 exhibits, including a 300,000 gallon shark tank with a 40-foot walk through tunnel. Fish and animals from the marine, freshwater, and rain forest ecosystems will be on hand for visitors to view, he said.
A 400-seat banquet hall, café and a gift shop are also part of the location's blueprints. The facility's upper floor will feature classrooms, access to exhibits and Utah's first 4-D theater. That means visitors who take in a movie won't only see a shark popping out at them in 3-D, but they'll feel an actual spray of water on their faces when the shark on the screen swims by, giving them a more interactive experience, said Andersen.
He said the reason for building an aquarium in land-locked Utah is simple: It provides a venue to enhance community education.
"I think it impacts everyone, no matter where you live … to understand how we are connected in the world," Andersen said.
Murky waters • The aquarium's expansion to Draper marks a milestone in what has been a long journey to becoming a popular Utah attraction.
In 1998, Andersen, a marine biologist, announced plans to build a $40 million aquarium with hopes to open 2002 through raising funds from private donations and publicly issued bonds. But that didn't happen.
The Salt Lake City Council agreed in 2001 to buy 4 acres at 336 S. 500 West, where the aquarium would be built once it raised funds for a $67 million, 90,000-square-foot facility.
By 2004, when little headway had been made in fundraising goals, then-Mayor Rocky Anderson urged the Salt Lake City Council to rescind the aquarium's lease on the downtown property. He called the attraction a risky venture. Despite the aquarium's struggle to meet fundraising benchmarks, the City Council extended the lease for several months while the Salt Lake County Council debated putting an aquarium bond on a ballot for residents to vote on.
The County Council in August of 2004 decided not to put the aquarium on a ballot.
The City Council in February 2005 agreed to continue holding downtown land for the aquarium through June 2008. Council members decided if enough money was not raised to build the project by 2010, the city would take back the land.
A preview exhibit for the aquarium at The Gateway, which opened in 2004, moved to Sandy in June 2006. Also in 2006, aquarium backers again proposed a $34.5 million bond for the 2006 Salt Lake County ballot, but the County Council nixed the idea.
The aquarium made headlines again in 2007, when it fired its financial clerk in February of that year for theft. The clerk was later charged in connection with stealing $5,300. Around the same time as the theft charges in 2007, 10 members on the 12-member aquarium board resigned citing irreconcilable differences and problems with management.
Despite the controversy, attendance at the aquarium in Sandy continued to grow. In early 2012, Draper agreed to issue revenue-financed bonds for the aquarium, in an effort to bring the attraction to the suburbs. At Wednesday's groundbreaking, the aquarium will at last be closer to a permanent home.
A new beginning • Parents like Shaylyn Peterson are excited for what the aquarium's future holds.
The Stansbury Park mother visited the Sandy location recently with her two children, ages 2 and 4. The field trip was a chance to show her kids things they don't normally get to see, she said.
"It is a great learning experience for the toddlers to see it in person rather than in a book," she said, calling the new facility in Draper "a great opportunity for Utah."
Andersen, a Sandy native, always had an idea of building a massive aquarium, but didn't know how he would execute it.
"Since I was a little kid I've always had a fish tank … and it kept getting bigger and bigger I guess," Andersen said.
He said he's proud that attendance at the aquarium has grown, even during the recession.
"To be successful in the best of times is good, but to be even more successful in the worst of times speaks volumes," he said.
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Overseers is a term referring to employees of plantation owners before 1865 who served as general managers of routine farming operations. They sometimes were former indentured servants themselves, liberated and in search of a better life. Others had been unsuccessful small farmers or the sons of small farmers who sought a more reliable source of income. Often lacking formal education, they generally were knowledgeable in the fields of agriculture, planting, harvesting, and husbandry and in the care and management of servants, slaves, and other laborers. Overseers routinely were entrusted with the care of property valued at thousands of dollars.
Although generally treated with courtesy, and despite the critical role he played in the life of the plantation, the overseer and his family were rarely accepted into the society of the planter class. In addition, he was typically despised by the black population for his role as disciplinarian on the plantation. The overseer could absent himself from the plantation only with the permission of the planter and had to be present whenever the owner was away. Although slaves usually worked no more than nine hours a day, an overseer's workday was frequently longer. He arose early to prepare for the day's tasks and remained late to attend to the needs of the workers. He had to see to the security of all property, often making rounds at night to do this. Attempting to maintain order and peaceful relations among the workers and enforcing the directives of the owner were also among the overseer's duties.
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Julie Tanner joined Christian
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joining CBIS, Ms. Tanner spent ten years in the financial services
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Annette Hoover moved briskly across USC's Horsehoe one April afternoon, rattling off instructions to the dozens of local chefs who would soon circle the historic landmark and give visitors a chance to sample food and drink from some of Columbia's signature restaurants.
"Come on, let's move!" the diminutive Hoover ordered.
Hoover knows all about the need to keep things moving. As an event and wedding planner -- and an instructor in the University of South Carolina's school of hospitality, retail and tourism management, she also knows the importance of getting it right – from the big venue to the tiny details.
The April event, Chefs on the Shoe, was classic Hoover event planning, and it was organized by the students in her hospitality, retail and tourism management class. It was being held on the night before another big event that has made Hoover's name synonymous with dream-come-true weddings. For the past six years, Hoover and her students have planned a complete, expenses-paid wedding for one lucky couple. It's a chance for students to receive valuable hands-on training in wedding event planning.
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In her life before the car crash, Hoover had wanted to become a doctor. But she came of age in the 1960s, and her caterer father told her that was no career for a woman. Instead, Hoover distinguished herself in multiple careers — as owner of a real estate business, a real estate appraiser and in appliance sales.
But perhaps she learned the art of event planning through osmosis. After her car crash, with encouragement from her husband, Hoover returned to school at USC and earned a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in business and education and a masters degree in international hospitality and tourism management. In the years since, she has established a booming event planning business. That's in addition to teaching classes in the college from which she graduated.
The self-professed workaholic needs little more than three hours of sleep a night, and is up and running again.
"The students will tell you that they can call me at three o'clock in the morning, and I'm still up. I go to bed at 3:30 and get up around 5:30 or six o'clock," Hoover said.
When Hoover began teaching the wedding planning and management class six years ago, she used case studies of weddings to show her students how to plan big affairs. But she wasn't convinced that the students were fully grasping the magnitude of what it takes to pull off the important event. That's when she got the idea to let the students plan a real wedding and she turned the idea into a class assignment. Students were to launch a contest to find a couple willing to let the class take over their wedding plans, to select everything —attire, rings, reception venue, food and honeymoon.
In customary Hoover chutzpa, she used her professional event connections and convinced dozens of vendors in South Carolina and beyond to donate their goods and services in the name of education. She told them were several advantages to them helping her and the students.
"Number one, it will help your industry. Number two, it will help the wedding planning industry, and number three, it will have a positive economic impact to our community, and they have been so generous…so generous," Hoover said.
For her students, the class has provided them invaluable preparation for careers in event planning.
"As a professor, Mrs. Hoover holds her students to exceptionally high standards, and ultimately it helps each of us realize the full extent of our capabilities," Richardson said. "She is understanding and respectful of what we can achieve and demands excellence. That is what made this learning experience valuable beyond belief. My classmates and I will carry this knowledge throughout the rest of our careers, whether we become event planners or choose to find success in other endeavors."
The wedding planning industry has exploded in popularity, and is becoming a crowded field, but one in which Hoover has distinguished herself. Richard Markel, president of Association for Wedding Professionals International (AFWPI) is a huge Hoover fan.
"This gal has energy that she instills in her students, and I think she's incredible. It's a very difficult profession and key to being successful is to have backup plans, and Annette has that covered," Markel said.
Hoover turns 68 this year, but she isn't thinking about backup plans or slowing down. This year she launched a new event planning business with a partner, called Eventus, of which a significant portion is dedicated to wedding planning, Southern style.
"What we are doing differently is creating the charm of the South on a budget, and with, as the brides say, the 'bling' of today," Hoover said.
As she pushed up her sleeves to get busy directing the caterers where to set down their tables, Hoover stops just long enough to leave this morsel of wisdom--
"You have to give back what you learn," she said. "I firmly believe that if you're blessed with an ability to do this you have to give back."


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28th July 2012 06:08 AM #1
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Language for the Baby
Hi everyone, may I ask if someone here has an experience regarding language learning with a baby? My husband speaks a foreign language and a lot of our friends are telling us that according to their experience, a baby who hears two or more different languages being spoken around him will have a delay in terms of his ability to talk. Is there any scientific basis to this claim? My son will be celebrating his first birthday this coming Sunday and I think that he is starting to really understand spoken language (because he shows an attitude when I say No!), and so my husband is insisting on teaching his own mother tongue to the little bub. I just wan to make sure that we are not contributing to any developmental delay in our child.
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Hi Xamismum,
There are a lot of myths surrounding children who grow up in bilingual homes. But in general, hildren who learn two languages in a loving, supportive environment develop very well. Children who learn two languages in a stressful environment may have language development problems or developmental problems, but so would a child learning a single language.
What's most important here is that your child be raised in a non-stressful, loving and supportive environment. Children can learn 2 languages easily, when both are spoken regularly in the home.
You will find that your son will understand language before he can speak. This is very normal and is very healthy.
I think it's wonderful that your husband wants to teach your son his mother tongue and your son should pick it up easily if he is exposed to it regularly. A child who goes to school and hears one language all day in school, but whose family speaks a completely different language at home will learn both languages very well and it won't cause a developmental delay unless the child is in a stressful environment. There are families that also teach their young children sign language, and this is something you could teach your son now so that he can communicate easier with you. He will be able to sign the word "more" before he will be able to speak the word.
Learning two languages... it's a good thing :-)
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I appreciate your reply, Kate. Your suggestion about teaching my son how to sign is genius.
31st July 2012 12:16 AM #4
We have just finished 'baby signing' classes. As Kate says, children can comprehend language before they can express it so this is a great way of helping your son to communicate what he wants. You may also find it helps his behaviour to settle down as he is no longer frustrated.
Best wishes,
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As I as a certified English teacher, I can assure you that children growing up in bilingual homes rarely show delays in language development. On the contrary, they tend to grasp it sooner and have higher reasoning skills. I think that baby sign language is a great suggestion for helping your little one to cope with frustration regarding communication. Didn't I read in a previous thread that he is only 11 months old? He sounds to be in the perfectly normal range for that age. Getting an attitude and refusing to obey is part of testing limits and something that all children go through, by the way.


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Hi there
Now that xbmc works on my ubuntu htpc I would like to make the display of my case working. I searched the forum and found some threads regarding howto make a soundgraph VFD/IR work.
Unfortunately none of those descriptions worked in anyway. Means; no IR and no LCD functionality at all (using jaunty, most of the howto's were for hardy)
For the moment I use my old MCEUSB receiver which is working fine. But the LCD is still just turned on, showing non information.
I would really appreciate if someone could tell me what exactly I will have to do to make lirc work with the soundgraph hardware. When i install lirc there is this little setup tool where I can define the hardware i'd like to use. After setting this info it is written into the lirc.hardware.conf (or something like that) This is allready the start of my little dilemma ^^ because I have no Idea how to change this hardware.conf. After De- and reinstallation of lirc the setup is not coming up again and the lirc manual contents not a word of this hardware.conf file
Btw. I installed lirc with this command: sudo apt-get install -y lirc. So i did not use the latest svn because as far as I understood the description my Soundgraph device should be supported by this version (0.8.3)
Thx a lot
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2009-07-03 12:04 Post: #2
Afaik you need lcdproc as well. As it's a rather common display you got, having a google about the hardware and lcdproc will surely bring up some howto about getting it to run with linux in general. xbmc is only feeding lcdproc IIRC.
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2009-07-03 13:08 Post: #3
oh yes sorry forget about that. i installed lcdproc as well and i defined the driver imon. I think the problem is that i kind of need to load the device first before lcdproc is able to access it.
maybe thats also the reason why the IR receiver wasn't working.
to google for lirc in combination with lcdproc could probably deliver me a usefull input
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2009-07-03 13:19 Post: #4
Can you supply the lsusb output of your device please.
it is a tricky setup, If you are just going to use the LCD as your ir rcvr and the display then all is fine. If you plan on using both the M$ USB dongle and the LCD display and it's built in IR rcvr then it is a little more involved.
I did a how to on mythbuntu forums on how to set this all up and use the two devices together, the lcd to display data and receive commands and then the M$ dongle to trasmit only to sat rcvrs or cable boxes.
As I run myth and xbmc together I has to set it up this way.
another note about the lcd in the case, the only way to have the blue light completely go off is to have the pc suspend of which you need to create some pmutils scripts, The backlight with not shut off on power down of the pc.
There are some pre-defined scripts for this in the forums if you search those out. here are some links the first one is to get the display working follow that to the letter to step 10. Make sure that you have the same display device as listed in the thread. The second link is to a few how to tricks for irsending and setting up the mce remote after you have the display working.
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2009-07-03 15:54 Post: #5
hi dave
Its a Vendor=152c and ProdID=0038
i just tried to install lirc with imon drivers:
i installed and compiled lirc 0.8.4a
sudo apt-get source lirc
sudo apt-get build-dep lirc
cd lirc 0.8.4a
sudo ./setup.sh
choosed the soundgraph device from the list and clicked save and run configure
sudo make
sudo make install
then I ran the following command (as seen @ this place)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source
the result:
Error! Build of lirc_imon.ko failed for: 2.6.28-13-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/lirc/0.8.4a/build/ for more information.
Installing initial module
Error! Could not locate lirc_atiusb.ko for module lirc in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic (i686) first.
I found some fixes debdfiff patch files and downloaded this one
tried to apply the patch like this from the lirc 0.8.4a folder
sudo patch -p1 LP306346-jaunty-updated.debdiff
nothing happens.
any idea how I can get this working (or maybe just how to correctly apply the patch )
I might have no idea what this last command should do. at the moment no driver is loaded for the hardware and i guess that without a proper run of the command I will not get the correct imon driver loaded.
thx a lot
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2009-07-03 23:40 Post: #6
That is not the LCD I have. I have the ffdc model. The 0038 device is a pain if i recall. you should look over at codeka.com and see what those guys have done. The basic setup is the same I think.
I never had to patch lirc I did install 4a at the time I set this all up. The links I supplied include the steps I took to make mine work.
I would spend some time on codeka I am sure they have it nailed down by now.
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2009-07-04 06:15 Post: #7
Follow this
I had fresh jaunty install running with "Vendor=152c and ProdID=0038 Remote Veris RM200" in 5 minutes.
Then LCD:
follow just the part about LCD
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try this mate
good luck
it helps me
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2009-07-06 08:55 Post: #9
hi and thx for the links. I had no time to check it last weekend. but will try it as soon as possible and report if it was working
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2009-07-07 21:22 Post: #10
guys guys
this lirc installation is drivin me insane I screwed up the whole installation and now not even xbmc is running properly. at least i was able to see a clock on my display... jipiiee i thought this might be a good sign that the correct driver has been loaded... guess I was wrong. Its really annoying. I tried the patches, the latest cvs but irw was not starting at all.
I definitly need a break now. my PCH will do the job for the next two days gonna buy myself a family pack of snickers and continue my research on friday
but please, if you have any ideas why it won't run on my jaunty installation let me know.
greetz from switzerland
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The display and remote work just fine with XBMC/Linux, I have the Fusion Remote myself.
On my (Gentoo) system I used the current CVS-version of lirc and lcdproc-0.5.3, with these versions I'm 100% sure that everything's supported properly.
Maybe this'll give you some hints on how to install.
First lirc:
As soon as you do "modprobe lirc_imon" you should get /dev/lirc0 and /dev/lcd0
In the folder remotes/imon/ are sample lircd configs for this device.
One important thing remains - the usb device acts as a HID device, thus it's being handled by the Kernel's HID driver, you have to prevent that by adding
options usbhid quirks=0x15c2:0x0038:0x04
Installing lcdproc isn't too hard either:
./configure --enable-drivers=imon,imonlcd
The parts in LCDd.conf that may differ from the default:
LCDd is started with
/usr/local/sbin/LCDd -c /etc/LCDd.conf
The only thing I am now struggling with is scrolling speed on the display, the LCD is a little sluggish and xbmc (or LCDd?) scrolls so fast everything get's blurry, but adjusting the TitleSpeed value in LCDd.conf didn't help...
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