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Now that we are well on the way into 2016, it is time to start asking the difficult question about how your SEO plans are working out. Are you making the gains you are hoping to? Are you managing to stay on top of your research and keyword goals? Have you been checking in on what your competitors are doing?… read more →
If you operate a website on the WordPress platform, it's inevitable that a hack attempt will come your way sooner or later. Just this week, the Return On Now website has been under a series of botnet attacks. Luckily, we have spent a lot of time studying how to secure WordPress from these sort of attacks. So far, the site… read more →
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WordPress is our CMS of choice for most small- to mid-sized businesses. There are a slew of benefits, from putting web content management in the hands of non-technical staff to providing a platform to launch a site in a short timeframe. It does come with some downside, though. When a platform is built and maintained via the community (a.k.a. open… read more →
Social networks are the backbone of social media, the places where we can virtually gather with likeminded professionals in different companies, locations, and industries. Leading platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ are well known and understood. And they serve a great purpose for the vast majority of us. From the perspective of the enterprise, however, public social networks are… read more →
Enjoy today's guest post from Tom Koh. Tom is an SEO enthusiast who runs his own internet business and is sharing some of the more unattractive SEO ploys he has run into during his time doing so. SEO can sometimes have a bit of a bad reputation. While good SEO is of course a perfectly legitimate and effective way to market… read more →
Today, I finally took a moment to go through my list of followers on Twitter, hoping to uncover some great new tweeps with whom I could engage. When I started going through the list, I noticed a slew of new followers who had jumped on board in the past 48 hours. Great news, right?
The news sort of came out a bit under the radar, but Twitter announced a very interesting change they are implementing on their blog (March 9, 2010). Positioned as a response to phishing, they will be changing URLs in Direct Messages to their own twt.tl shortened redirects. Essentially, they can then track for bad behavior and block the URL altogether if the target web page is found to be malicious.
Since the RSA Conference is happening this week, I thought it would be different to do a piece that hits on both Real-time and Information Security. The following blog post is my own original work that appeared on The Network View, the official blog for Anue Systems, on November 12, 2009. It highlights some important sociological differences between the various generations of today's adult population, and looks at how changing work habits and security need to find a workable balance.


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This is a Jubilee year, a year of celebration of God's mercy! This mercy comes to meet each person in the face of God, our loving Father, who welcomes and forgives, forgetting completely the sin committed. Let us practice this mercy by recognizing that it begins with us asking for it, being changed by it, and then sharing that same mercy with others!
Pope Francis has declared an extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy beginning the week of December 8, 2015, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. The Holy Father has proclaimed this holy year in order to express more clearly the Church's mission "to be a witness of mercy."
A jubilee year is a holy year marked by acts of faith, charity, and communion. It has its roots in Mosaic law when every fiftieth year was made holy for the Jewish people. Debts were canceled, slaves were freed, and lands were restored to their original owners. Ordinary jubilees occur every 25 or 50 years, and extraordinary jubilees are called for a momentous occasion.
The scriptural focus for the Year of Mercy is Christ's command from Luke 6:36, "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." One way that Catholics can partake in this holy year is by performing the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.
St. Norbert will be commemorating the Jubilee year by displaying a Cross of Mercy. Each month we will add a Corporal Work of Mercy to the cross, inviting each of us to be a witness of God's mercy through that practice.
The Jubilee Year of Mercy will end on the Solemnity of Christ the King, November 20, 2016.

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Natalie Morales-Rhodes (born Natalie Leticia Morales; June 6, 1972) is an American broadcast journalist, working for NBC News. She is the voice of a female news reporter - reporting of the discovery of the remaining Spix's Macaw in the Amazon Rainforest made by the ornithologist Tulio Monteiro and his assistant Linda Gunderson - in Rio 2.
- Morales: "I was really psyched about being turned into an animated character. I think I landed the role by just being a real-life news anchor, not to mention that I'm half-Brazilian. So this role really hits home for me!"


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Rachel Uchitel's bank account gained a lot of weight a few months ago when the Tiger Woods' scandal broke. He reportedly paid Rachel $10 million in hush money to keep the intimate salacious details out of the media's hands.
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TMZ has learned the actual settlement could fluctuate $1 million either way, depending on future circumstances. But the baseline is $10 mil.
Compare Rachel's settlement with what other A.M's received, if they got anything at all. We're told several mistresses got several hundred thousand dollars, and others got nothing. That speaks volumes about how much Rachel knows.
Insiders are saying Rachel's settlement could be a precursor to what Elin Nordegren could get if she pulls the plug on her marriage to Tiger. Reports that Elin could get $300 million under the prenup are absurd. It's more likely the prenup is in the $5 – 10 million range, with provisions for support. But insiders tell us — with the backdrop of Rachel's settlement — there's no way Tiger would get off cheaper than $20 mil.
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Are you aware that funding from the United States is given to NGOs (non-governmental organizations) around the world to fight HIV/AIDS? Are you also aware that they have to sign an anti-prostitution pledge to receive those funds? The pledge reads like this: No funds…may be used to provide assistance to any group or organization that [Read More…]
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Figure 15-3 - Change in Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Selected Mode: 1993-2003
Figure 15-3 - Change in Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Selected Mode: 1993-2003
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NOTES: Highway includes passenger cars, buses, light-duty trucks, and other trucks. Total, all modes does not include international bunker fuels. International bunker fuel emissions result from the combustion of fuels purchased in the United States but used for international aviation and maritime transportation. Thus, aircraft and ships and boats data, which are included in U.S. total emissions, involve only domestic activities of these modes as do all other data shown. Aircraft emissions consist of emissions from all jet fuel (less bunker fuels) and aviation gas consumption. Alternative-fuel vehicle emissions are allocated to the specific vehicle types in which they were classified (i.e., passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and other trucks and buses).
The large annual variations in ships and boats data may result from methodological problems related to the domestic/international partition of maritime fuels. Economic factors may also contribute.
SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990–2003 (Washington, DC: April 2005), table 2-17.


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Beijing (AFP) Dec 16, 2012
China's state media Sunday urged Japan to seek a post-election foreign policy that will improve relations with its neighbours, as Japanese voted in a poll likely to bring in a more hawkish administration.
It came just days after Beijing's latest effort to bolster its claim to disputed islands at the centre of a fierce row with Tokyo, by submitting to the United Nations information on the outer limits of its continental shelf.
The state Xinhua news agency commentary called on whichever party comes out on top to "devise its foreign policy with a long-term and pragmatic" view so Japan can "repair its strained ties with neighbours".
Ties between the Asian giants have soured in recent months due to the row over the East China Sea islands, which are controlled by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing.
Commentators believe the dispute has given a boost to right-wingers in Japan, where the conservative Liberal Democratic Party is expected to defeat the ruling Democratic Party of Japan in Sunday's elections for parliament's lower house.
Shinzo Abe, LDP president and the likely next premier, has said he would take a harder line on foreign policy and revitalise ties with the United States.
The Xinhua commentary cited a "troubling sign" that some Japanese political parties are advocating a hardline over the country's territorial disputes.
"These policies, if carried out, will surely further sour Japan's relations with its neighbors and even increase political and military risks in the region," it said.
China's foreign ministry said Friday that Beijing told the UN in its submission that geographical characteristics "show that the continental shelf of China in the East China Sea extends to the Okinawa Trough, an important geographical unit with remarkable partition."
Such a definition of China's continental shelf would include the disputed islands. Japan's Okinawan islands lie to the east of the trough.
The escalation in the dispute over the uninhabited islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan, was triggered when the Japanese government in September purchased some of the islands from the private Japanese owner.
The purchase triggered at times violent anti-Japanese riots in China.
Ships from Japan, China and Taiwan -- which also claims the island -- have engaged in stand-offs and last week Japan scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese state-owned plane flew over the area.
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Shaffett, Bobbie Ruth Dixon Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-1113102-162549 Title Community Organization Staff Perceptions about the Importance of Selected Practices in Building Effective Community-University Service and Learning Partnerships Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Vocational Education Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2002-10-28 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe purpose of this study was to explore community organization staff perceptions about the importance of selected practices in building effective community-university service and learning partnerships. The target population was community organization staff members who were current or potential partners for community-university service and learning partnerships. The accessible population was community organization staff members listed with a southern metropolitan volunteer placement organization in a an area served by several universities, one large Research I Land-grant university, a historically Black Land-grant university, and at least two other state universities.
The researcher designed a mail survey questionnaire based on scholarly and practitioner literature asking demographic information about interest and experience in community-university partnerships, as well as current staff position or role. Respondents were also asked to indicate perceived levels of importance and levels of frequency with which 52 partnership practices had been observed on a two-part anchored scale (0 – 4). Data from 261 usable surveys were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).
Principle component analysis of mean importance levels was used to reduce 52 partnership practice items to seven primary factors or constructs: University Institutional Context, Community Organization Context, Preparation/ Training, Community Partner Roles, Faculty Partner Roles, Relationship/ Communication, and Evaluation/ Outcomes. The researcher synthesized a COMparre Model for planning, evaluating and reporting community-university partnerships from research findings and the literature: C for the partnership context, including organizational missions and purpose; O for outcomes or results; and M for mechanisms or processes involved in the partnership, including preparation, action, relationship, reflection and evaluation.
Multiple regression analyses identified experiences that explained statistically significant portions of the variance in perceived importance including: (a) the total amount of experience with community university service and learning partnership as measured by seven selected types of experience; (b) a particular type of experience, service-learning training for community partners; (c) experience making decisions about whether or not to use university students to fulfill community service goals; and (d) experience in a combination of specific positions or roles played at their organization, volunteer placement coordinator combined with direct service supervisor.
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Unfortunately it seems that this thinking is flawed. Customers these days are so used to having their rights, privacy, whatever abused that they expect to be ripped off by the Lexmarks, Microsofts etc of the world.
What happened to the old days when the customer was king and great customer service was the way to do business.
How can I be so sure?
Next time that you visit your local electronics store, walk on over to the section selling computer printers. Find the print cartridges. You will notice that print cartridges from Canon are now about 1/3 the cost of a print cartridge from either Lexmark or HP. No. I am not in error. The Canon cartridges are now super cheap and are as low as $8.
By the end of the year, you will notice a downward motion on HP stock.
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I'm quite worried that my eyelids will not heal properly. With my eyes open the right eye brow sits noticeably higher as if the surgeon did not cut enough from the right eyelid. With my eyes closed it seems thats the case. I asked my surgeon but he says that after the swelling heals it will be normal
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The eyebrows are asymmetric, not the eyelids
When looking at your photo, assuming that your head was straight, the distance from the incision to your eyelashes is the same. The problem is that your left eyebrow is lower than your right eyebrow, which accounts for the asymmetry of. Speak with your surgeon about the position of your eyebrows and see if he can correct this. One little trick is to even them out with Botox. Even though this is temporary it gives you a better idea of how things will look after surgical correction.
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Eyelid surgery will change your eyebrow position
You still have swelling and bruising. Please listen to your doctor and wait till you heal from surgery. The concern about the eyebrow is not related to the eyelid lift. You had uneven eyelid and was noticeable because of the excess upper eyelid skin.
Eyelid asymmetry
Everyone has asymmetry as you rightfully point out from your eyebrows. The eyelid crease also varies a bit. Give it time to heal first.
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You still have bruising from the surgery. It is way too early to be looking at the results. It takes weeks for the effects of swelling, bruising, muscle weakness, etc. to abate. I ask my patients to not look at their results too critically for at least 6 weeks, especially the eyelids where a millimeter or two of temporary difference can be very noticeable.
You are still early from eyelid surgery
Time is an amazing thing. Almost every issue after eyelid surgery gets better in time. Eyebrow position after eyelid surgery is a funny thing. Even a little asymmetric swelling can stimulate one eyebrow to rest a little higher than the other. Occasionally it turns out that the eyebrow asymmetry is present prior to surgery but no one notices. I make a point of looking for eyebrow asymmetry and talking about it prior to eyelid surgery otherwise it is natural to suspect the surgery when it is discovered after the fact.
Please do not push your surgeon to take more skin out of your eyelids. He appears to have removed as much as possible. I would recommend that you allow your eyelids to heal for 6 to 12 months before even remotely considering having anything else done to them.
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An autopsy was pending Tuesday on the body of an 89-year-old man who died in the hospital over the weekend, three weeks after he allegedly was beaten on an MTA bus near Culver City.
Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale said the victim was David C. Martinez.
Authorities said he was assaulted Oct. 21 on a bus near Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, near the Culver City border, for reasons that remain unclear.
Luke Schoedel, 35, was arrested at the scene of the attack and booked on suspicion of felony assault and felony elder abuse. He remains jailed on $80,000 bail, according to jail records, and could face a more serious charge after the autopsy, officials said.
Martinez was treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center but left the hospital, then checked himself back in to Cedars-Sinai Nov. 6. He died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Sheriff's Department.
Detectives were not sure if the alleged bus assault or Martinez's advanced age led to his death.
"If the coroner determines the man died as a result of the assault, then Schoedel may be rebooked on a murder charge," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
Schoedel was scheduled to appear for arraignment Dec. 12 at the Airport Courthouse in Del Aire.
The attack on Martinez was one of two recent assaults on MTA buses near Culver City. On Wednesday, a South Los Angeles man allegedly stalked and raped an 18-year-old woman who has the mental capacity of a child, sheriff's deputies said.
Kerry Trotter, 20, was arrested at a home in the 1400 block of West 99th Street in Los Angeles in connection with the alleged attack, said Sgt. Dan Scott of the county Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff's detectives said the woman and suspect had boarded the bus at the same time at La Cienega and Jefferson boulevards, and he followed her to the rear of the bus and raped her as it crossed Culver City. Scott said Trotter got off the bus at Sepulveda Boulevard and Slauson Avenue, near the Westfield mall.
Scott said sheriff's investigators initially believed another passenger on the bus had tried unsuccessfully to alert the driver of the crime, but it was now unclear if that actually was the case.
Marc Littman of Metro said the bus driver took action as soon as he was alerted by the victim "at the end of the line."
"The operator immediately called for help after the victim told him she had been raped," Littman said.
Littman said surveillance video shows about four or five passengers on the bus at the time, but none of them came forward in an attempt to alert the driver.
Trotter remained jailed on a no-bail hold, according to jail records.
Scott said Trotter "has an extensive criminal history, including charges of sexual assault."
Trotter is scheduled to appear for arraignment Wednesday at the Airport Courthouse.


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Washington police detectives continue to search for leads in two armed robberies committed within a three-day period.
While investigators are looking at some possible suspects, they lack enough evidence at this time to seek charges in the holdups, according to Detective Sgt. Steve Sitzes.
"We're kind of in a holding pattern at this point," Sitzes told The Missourian Tuesday.
Last week, police announced that a $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect or suspects in the crimes.
A lone robber wielding a large kitchen knife got away with an undisclosed amount of cash Saturday night, Sept. 14, after threatening a clerk at the Fischer Phillips 66 gas station at Fifth and Elm streets.
Late Tuesday night, Sept. 17, two men believed to be in their late teens or early 20s, entered the Fas-Trip BP gas station at Highway 47 and Fifth Street and demanded cash from a clerk on duty. One of the men displayed a long knife. After they were given cash from the register, the two left the store and were last seen crossing Fifth Street on foot toward the Mercy Hospital parking lot, according to reports.
It's believed to be the first time that back-to-back armed robberies in Washington were committed in that short of a period of time.
In both cases, the suspects wore bandanas to hide their faces and baseball caps.
The robbery at the Fas-Trip station occurred at about 11:52 p.m. Tuesday, according to the time on a suveillance video obtained by police.
Sitzes said when the one suspect with the knife announced a holdup and demanded cash, the clerk said she would have to complete a transaction with a customer before she could access the register. The suspects waited about 30 seconds then were given the money.
Sitzes said there were four customers as well the cashier in the store at the time.


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Pulling Mega Man apart and seeing what he's got clicking and spinning around inside appears to be a popular pastime these days, and for a couple of guys over at The Daily Robot, that fascination doesn't end with Mega Busters. They specialize in detailed schematics of make-believe robots and things that could be robotic, like pandas and human hearts.In the case of the Mega Buster, they even go as far as to render different layouts for his robo-buddies, playing around with the screws and tubes that produce those beautiful, throbbing, charged-up shots that put evil robot masters out of their misery.
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Book Notes: S, by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams
This fascinating book (Amazon.com, Amazon UK, iTunes Store) is one of the oddest printed objects I've ever seen. It's a novel; it's an enigma; it's a treasure hunt; it's a non-linear story. Written by Doug Dorst, apparently from an idea by J. J. Abrams (the creator of Lost and Alias, the director of Star Trek and soon Star Wars movies), it is a multi-layered immersive reading experience. And there's a story in there somewhere.
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I read the first chapter last night. It's not an easy read; it makes me think of books by Thomas Pynchon, but it's more confusing because of the notes in the margins. (You have to have some suspension of disbelief, that these two people could have written hundreds of notes, each visiting the library where the book is held to add a comment. At the rate of a few notes a day, it would take a year or more to write all the notes.) Jen is a student and Eric is researching the mysterious author. They write their ideas and converse over time, glossing parts of the novel, and just chatting, as though by instant message in the book's margins. (No respect for books, these two, writing all over them…)
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Do you know the names of his children? I saw Ephraim and Akilly in Twiggs census but did not know the connection between them or Hampton. For some reason Hampton was indexed as Sisle while Akilly and Ephraim were Lisle or Liles, the handwriting was very fluid with lots of swirls.
I copied the rev papers for Ephraim when I copied John Lyles rev papers but they really didn't help me link Hampton to anyone. John has been linked to Ephraim (or an Ephraim) as grandson.
I saw that Ephraim and Akilly seemed to stay in Twiggs while Hampton moved to AL (Barbour then Butler counties) John married Sally Ada/Ady in Jefferson County GA and moved to Covington Co AL, Sherwood/Cherwood/Sherrod/Sherd also went from Jefferson to Covington. Cassius, another son attributed to John was in Butler Co AL and named a son Hampton. Hampton was born 1806 in GA
There is a Liles/or Lisle(memory fails me now) in LA and then Lyles/Liles in VanZant TX. Hampton is said to have left AL for TX.
My line, son William, married Sarah Elizabeth Highsmith in Butler AL and stayed in AL
Was Hampton born in Twiggs? Did Hamp marry in Twiggs? any siblings in Twiggs
Did Ephraim go from SC to Twiggs GA
Any suggestions for researching in Twiggs would be greatly appreciated.
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10 Unbelievably Sh**ty Things America Does to Homeless People
For decades, cities all over the country have worked to essentially criminalize homelessness, instituting measures that outlaw holding a sign, sleeping, sitting, lying (or weirdly, telling a lie in Orlando) if you live on the street.
Where the law does not mandate outright harassment, police come up with clever work-arounds, like destroying or confiscating tents, blankets and other property in raids of camps. A veteran I talked to, his eye bloody from when some teenagers beat him up to steal 60 cents, said police routinely extracted the poles from his tent and kept them so he couldn't rebuild it. (Where are all the pissed-off libertarians and conservatives at such flagrant disrespect for private property?)
In the heady '80s, Reagan slashed federal housing subsidies even as a tough economy threw more and more people out on the street. Instead of resolving itself through the magic of the markets, the homelessness problem increasingly fell to local governments.
"When the federal government created the homelessness crisis, local governments did not have the means of addressing the issue. So they use the police to manage homeless people's presence," Jennifer Fredienrich told AlterNet last year. At about the same time, the arrest-happy "broken windows theory," which encourages law enforcement to bust people for "quality of life" crimes, offered ideological support for finding novel ways to legally harass people on the street.
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 04:20 PM
malthaussen (11,409 posts)
1. "Are there no workhouses?"
Actually, the answer to that one is "no." They say the GOP wants to take us back to the 1950s, but in this regard they want to take us back to before the Poor Law -- which was no piece of sterling legislation to begin with.
Community harassment of the indigent is nothing new. As with so many things, our big mistake as Americans of reasonably good will has been thinking we had risen above such crap.
-- Mal
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 04:39 PM
countryjake (8,426 posts)
2. That's an eye-opener, for sure!
Thank you so much for posting that!
Here in my neck of the woods, our county seat has a great big empty abandoned Salvation Army store, a building that could easily house every single one of this county's homeless, if only someone took the initiative. How ironic that even an org founded to help the unfortunate no longer cares.
That same town is considering adopting some sort of law or statute to prevent people from stopping to speak with the sign-holders who sometimes line up at the freeway off-ramp, asking for work or other help. The city leaders even think they can make it a traffic violation to communicate with someone on the sidewalk, while driving. Some claim that panhandling must be outlawed, but since that won't totally sweep away the "Will work for Food" people, they are attempting to take it much further. It's a sad example of just one despicable tactic in one little burg in this land of plenty.
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 04:41 PM
xchrom (108,903 posts)
3. Ironic for a Good Friday topic, yes? Nt
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 05:48 PM
countryjake (8,426 posts)
5. Ya, but especially pertinent reminder to a nation...
any day of the year, that has this sentiment emblazoned at its gateway:
The New Collossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 05:25 PM
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 05:59 PM
Swede Atlanta (3,596 posts)
6. Yes, we treat our fellow citizens like lepers......
I'm not suggesting there aren't some good programs around the country that try to address homelessness and poverty but as a nation overall we do a very poor job. I'm also not suggesting that a country that is, despite debt and the deficit, extremely wealthy, that we should terminate foreign and disaster relief any similar programs.
But for a country that so many claim to be solidly based on a Judeo-Christian tradition, we fail in how we treat our own citizens. Many will say we do a wonderful job by pointing to the record number of people receiving food stamps or unemployment insurance. But as a practical matter, food stamp assistance barely covers food needs and certainly doesn't allow a recipient to eat healthy, nutritious food. Unemployment insurance is never anywhere near a replacement for the income lost. And while yes, people should save for that rainy day, given the stagnation in real wages for wage earners for the past 3 decades, it is hardly surprising few Americans have that 6 months of income saved or, for that matter, much saved for retirement.
And as this posting points out we demonize those that are homeless. Many of them are not only down on their luck, out of work, etc. but suffer from physical and mental illnesses. We warehouse them or as Atlanta did during the 1996 Olympics, we clean them up a bit and buy them a one-way bus ticket to another city.
I would like to see the so-called Christians put their money where their mouth is.
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 07:20 PM
pscot (20,520 posts)
8. Most seem to put their christianity where their money is
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 06:09 PM
provis99 (13,062 posts)
7. we're onlly one step away from actually killing homeless people.
all these laws are designed to keep homeless people from existing, so the next logical step is to actively kill them.
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 09:50 PM
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Fri Apr 6, 2012, 10:18 PM
Iris (14,827 posts)
10. Sickening.
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Sat Apr 7, 2012, 01:13 AM
Aristus (39,339 posts)
11. I see the consequences of this every day.
Police taking away my patients' medication, for the love of God...
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Mon Apr 9, 2012, 02:49 AM
rppper (2,931 posts)
12. here in Daytona beach....
"In Daytona Beach, service providers and business groups banded together to lower rates of panhandling with a program that hires homeless people to clean up downtown areas. In exchange, they received transitional housing."
There is a huge homeless problem here in Daytona...has been for many years. our esteemed police chief, Mike Chitwood, initially tried to give them bus tickets to the town of Deland, 20 miles west of Daytona, until Deland city officials caught wind of it. Chitwood still does "round-ups" of homeless before the two NASCAR races and two huge biker events we have during the year, usually to keep them out of sight via tresspassing, drunk and disorderly or vagrancy laws. The churches here and other private organizations do a good job, and there are many groups that feed and house the homeless...temporarily in most cases, but it is a growing problem as Orlando's homeless have made their way east. Seems the mouse city is doing everything in their power to give Orlando the appearance of the perfect city....i'm glad this article exposed Orlando and the surrounding area for what it is...and now with Sanford, an Orlando suburb, gaining negative attention, maybe this will hurt them where these city councilmen and women will feel it the most. Orlando is downright nasty to their homeless, as are a lot of Florida cities. i'm glad to know the town i live in is doing something more productive than trying to sweep it all under the rug.