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Spousal support guidelines can be used for settlement purposes in addition to being used by trial judges. The guidelines vary widely from state to state but all states offer some sort of calculation to use as a benchmark for what amount of support is reasonable in different situations.
Spousal Support Guidelines Can be Only a Guide
Most states use actual income and/or potential income as a guide in setting alimony (more commonly known as spousal support). There are many different options though for arranging spousal support. Some spouses will simply make monthly payments for a predetermined amount of time, but some spouses prefer to pay a one-time lump sum at the time of the divorce in exchange for an agreement by the receiving spouse to not ask for monthly payments later. There are various tax advantages and disadvantages for both the spouse making payments and the spouse receiving payments.
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One option for spouses is to go to trial and have a court decide how spousal payments will be made, for what amount, and for what length of time. While the court can draft arrangements that are creative, it is not commonly done. It is more common for someone like a mediator who is in a position to discuss issues with both sides in creating an agreement that works for everyone. Attorneys may be able to assist their clients in coming to a creative arrangement as well, and may create a stipulated agreement for the court to sign. Attorneys are not neutral parties and must advocate for the client's best interests.
Mediators Benefit Both Spouses
A mediator is a neutral party though who is responsible for getting an agreement without regard for benefitting one party over another. A mediator can be more flexible in working with both spouses and can help the parties draft a more creative arrangement that may benefit both spouses by addressing specific needs. For example, a spouse with few assets at the time of the divorce may rather have a one-time lump sum payment so she can purchase a home rather than monthly payments for a lifetime. It may be advantageous to the paying spouse to also make this arrangement work because he can rest assured that his spouse will be able to come back for more spousal support at a later date.
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Before going to mediation, it would be wise to consult a family law attorney to better understand your rights with regard to making or receiving spousal support. Mediators must also be familiar with the law and starting your negotiation from a place of understanding what is in your best interest under the law will save you time and put you in a better position for negotiating, whether you choose to work with a mediator or not.
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Five of Juneau's 14 schools made Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act last year, down from six in 2009-2010.
Auke Bay and Glacier Valley elementary schools, Juneau Douglas High School, the Community Charter School and Johnson Youth Center achieved academic targets in each of 31 different categories to meet AYP. Three schools – Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alternative High School, Mendenhall River Community School, and Gastineau Elementary – missed in just one category. And three more schools missed only two. Thunder Mountain High School missed three categories in its third year in operation.
For the first time in three years academic and graduation standards increased under No Child Left Behind, but Juneau School District Superintendent Glen Gelbrich says test scores show more students meeting the law's targets.
"District-wide we met 95 percent of those standards. That's up from last year, which was 94, and up from the year before, which was 93. So, even with the higher bar, we're meeting more of the individual requirements than we were before. When you aggregate it all into the AYP formula it doesn't add up," Gelbrich says.
The standards will go up again this year. The goal of No Child Left Behind is to have 100 percent of students proficient in language arts and math testing by the 2013-2014 school year.
The law breaks students into nine different subgroups, including ethnic and socioeconomic status as well as students with disabilities. Gelbrich says that aspect promotes targeted improvements.
"It encourages you and you really need to do the drilling down in order to address what some of that criteria is," says Gelbrich. "I would argue that, I'm not sure we need the law in order to do that. We want to know about each student, where is he or she in relation to where we want them to be."
The district will host its second annual "School Summit" on Thursday August 25th at Thunder Mountain to share the AYP results with the community.
The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development released statewide results Friday. About 46 percent of Alaska schools met adequate yearly progress last year, a 14 percent decline from the previous year.
The Obama administration recently announced it would allow states to opt out of the Bush-era law's requirements starting this fall. State officials say they'll review the waiver requirements when they're announced, and decide whether Alaska will opt out.
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CDC: Half of all female homicide victims are killed by intimate partnersThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also found that black women and indigenous women are killed, in general, at higher rates than other races.
Juneau cops and homeless strike common ground at the bowling alleyThe event raised $3,325 from food sales, a silent auction and donations. All of the gifts will go to the Glory Hole homeless shelter.
Veteran prosecutor nominated to be the US attorney in AlaskaTrump nominated Bryan Schroder for the post, the acting head of the Alaska district since Karen Loeffler and 45 other U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama were asked to resign after Trump's election.


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:50 AM
This year, as in all the years since we have moved to "the farm," we will be away on Valentine's Day. And every year, we get a reminder that we must be lucky to have such a fun holiday on our cultural calendar.
That is a sharp contrast to some other parts of the world. I read a newspaper article with a dateline of New Delhi, India, in which a group of women called the "Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women" had been organized as a "provocative response" to Hindu extremists. Those extremists, calling themselves the SRS, or Army of Lord Ram, had attacked young women drinking in a bar in southern India. The women had been chased, slapped and kicked in the attack by these "guardians of traditional Hindu values." They were "briefly detained," but soon released; the resulting publicity caused a woman in New Delhi to start this new group.
The organizer of the group used Facebook to appeal to Indian women to send in their underwear - specifically panties - which would then be sent to the attackers as a "special gift" for Valentine's Day. At press time for the article I read, the Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women had 20,000 members and the underwear was flowing in "thick and fast."
The extremists, however, were undaunted, warning that "any shops buying into the Valentine's Day market would face attack," because that holiday was seen as "a part of Western culture corrupting our Indian culture." The group's leader was quoted as saying that it "welcomed the gifts," and in return it would send back pink saris, a symbol of Indian culture.
Another country was heard from in an article from Khartoum in North Sudan. There it was the Muslim clerics who were urging youngsters "to boycott Valentine's Day...it is a Western institution that could lead couples astray."
One Muslim preacher said, "Valentine's Day comes from Western countries. I call on Muslims not to imitate Christians," and the money spent on the lovers' holiday would be better spent encouraging young people to marry.
Thailand's culture is over 90 percent Buddhist, and while it takes a more laid-back view of Valentine's Day, it is not immune from anxiety surrounding this holiday.
When we were there last year, an editorial captured well some of the tension generated around the 14th of February: "Today is Valentine's Day. Actually no reminder is really necessary. It is almost impossible to miss the celebration of Cupid, the god of love. Thailand has not just adopted this very Western occasion, but has almost made it an institution."
It went on to point out the large number of weddings that will occur in Bang Rak district, because the name means "community of love." And there will be skydiving weddings and underwater weddings.
The editorial last year went on to say "And, of course, what would a traditional Thai Valentine's Day be without the noisy, widespread warnings from our guardians of the state about what our enfants terribles are plotting to do?"
The writer called it an "annual one-day orgy of youth condemnation." It starts with the Culture Ministry weighing in with "disapproval of such a non-Thai holiday - even though it is not a holiday, and as if love is a type of foreign disease."
While there is still some concern about what might happen on Valentine's Day, there is far more publicity enticing customers to buy the usual flowers and chocolates, and make it a romantic occasion. But lovers everywhere look for something different.
In the entertainment section of that same paper, another writer suggested a change from the usual same-old, same-old candlelight dinner. He suggested four "unconventional places around the kingdom that were commissioned in honor of romance....make your honey melt..." by visiting one.
Of these four, the two most romantic histories were behind first the Chedi Phra Si Suriyothai, a grand pagoda housing the ashes of Queen Si Suriyothai. The reason: "Behind every great man is a woman who bravely perched atop an elephant to fend off an invading Burmese army." It seems that in the 16th century when the Burmese attacked the then-capital city of Thailand, this queen was worried about her husband's safety on the battlefield. So she disguised herself as a soldier and fought with the troops.
At one point the King's elephant lost its footing, and as a result the King was about to be stabbed by a Burmese general. However, the queen "swooped in to defend her husband, and received the fatal blow instead." The King built the memorial as a "symbol of eternal devotion." That's pretty romantic.
The other one is Bangkok's Neilson Hays Library. Jennie Neilson Hayes came to Thailand in 1881 as a missionary and in 1887 married Dr. Thomas Heyward Hays who was chief of the Royal Thai Navy Hospital. Jennie was very involved in promoting reading and bringing English language books to Bangkok until she died of cholera in 1920. Dr. Thomas contacted a famous Italian architect and together they designed this library that would "represent the passion of Jennie Neilson Hays, complete with a grand entrance."
We've already been to visit the pagoda, but not to the library. So a stop there is on our list of things to do while in Bangkok. Of course we won't make it there right on Valentine's Day. Instead, we will be at the beach, again listening to our friends sing beautiful love songs during their annual "gig" for Valentine's Day at a beautiful beach resort. That's romantic enough for me!
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The Internet has evolved quite a bit since I first logged on to CompuServe in 1994. I'd spent a few years tooling around on BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) connections throughout the country at that point and the most visible portions of a forming World Wide Web were quite innocent in appearance. But as I ramped up my father's 4600 baud modem and looked around at the fringes of online existence, I unknowingly caught a glimpse at the Web's early underbelly. From there, pornography, craziness and illegal activities were easily accessible. There weren't many people logging on so, naturally, there weren't many people to police this new digital space. Eventually, as AOL, Prodigy and other ISPs became more mainstream, the more nefarious outlets vanished into the shadows. But where did it all go? I recently took a plunge into the 'Deep Web,' a sub-surface area of the Internet not indexed by search engines and only available to those on the forefront of technology, namely people connected to the Tor Network. This network of hidden websites is the new underbelly of the Web, the New Underground, if you will, chock full of all sorts of illicit activities. Child porn peddlers, drug dealers, hitmen and other criminal groups thrive on the Deep Web and anonymity reigns supreme. The following post outlines my findings and hopefully sheds some light on the true Wild Wild West of the World Wide Web.
What is the Deep Web?: Wikipedia has an excellent overview on the Deep Web.
The Deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, DarkNet, Undernet or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.
Mike Bergman, credited with coining the phrase,[1] has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed. Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web – those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.
So if the Internet as you know it is an iceberg, the smallest part of that iceberg, the visible portion, is where you have been surfing your entire life. You visit websites, click links, use search engines to research topics of interest and generally just make your way around the visible Web. But below that visible portion, there is a much larger compilation of destinations beyond the reach of most Internet users. This portion, the Deep Web, is much harder for the average person to access and even harder to navigate. Much of the criminal activity that happens on the Deep Web is cloaked in anonymity, shrouded in secrecy or somehow hidden from the prying eyes that would love to put an end to this virtual land of OZ. Essentially what I'm saying is this: You may be familiar with the Internet, maybe even the darker side of the Internet. You may know how to find pornography for free, download music illegally, use a torrent program to download pirated movies and other media or purchase prescription pills from some online pharmacy. But if you haven't visited the Deep Web, you ain't seen nothing yet. Sure, there are research papers and legitimate and interesting pieces of content to view on The Other Side but there's also some pretty nefarious happenings there.
How do you connect to the Deep Web?: Though the Deep Web may be beyond those of you with little in the way of technical and Web savvy, it's not impossible, nor even extremely difficult to visit. First, you'll need to download Tor, the software that allows you to access the Deep Web. Tor is designed to provide Internet users with as close to complete anonymity as possible. The Tor website describes their software and their mission as follows.
Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.
You can use Tor on virtually any PC, Mac or even mobile devices like the iPhone and Android-operated smartphones. But, if, like me, you're using Firefox, you next need to install the Torbutton. With the Tor software up and running and the Torbutton installed, you'll see a small onion logo near the address bar of your browser. If you're correctly logged in to the Tor network, you can click this button and begin to explore the Deep Web. This collection of Deep Web links should get you started. But, keep in mind, you won't be able to maneuver in this new land quite as easily as you did back on the visible Web. There is no Google-like search engine of these sites that I'm aware of at the moment. Instead, it's a collection of Wikis and BBS-like sites that aggregate links to other locations on the Deep Web. These sites generally have bizarre, unmemorable domain names like SdddEEDOHIIDdddgmomionw.onion. That's right, instead of .com, these domains generally end in the .onion suffix. And because you'll never remember how you got to where you are if you spend any significant time here, it's best to save URLs or bookmark your way through this journey.
What can you find on the Deep Web?: The Silk Road is the most popular place to buy drugs on the Deep Web. From ecstasy, pure MDMA, marijuana, psychedelics and seeds to opiates, they have basically any drug with a userbase. They also have categories for 'services' like hacking, 'lab supplies' like sulfuric acid and liquid mercury, 'money' for stolen credit cards, travelers checks and forged bills and coins, 'jewelry' like uncut stones, stolen gold and other precious metals obtained via devious means and finally 'weapons' where they currently list a Glock 17 for sale out of Canada that "includes 1 clip with 9 live rounds." Another Deep Web drug outlet, the General Store, focuses on Ketamine, MDMA, MDPV and DMT (you may need to Google some of those).
Additional items in the 'marijuana' category on The Silk Road:
Forum posts like this are common (and often answered) and even include requests for murders:
(Note: This is not from The Silk Road, but a popular message board on the Deep Web)
Most transactions on the Deep Web are conducted via Bitcoins. You can purchase virtually anything with this digital currency, ranging from the legit to the oh-so-far-away from legit. You can buy all the items outlined above and you can even hire a prostitute. There is, however, some debate over whether or not these transactions are anonymous (more on that below). 1 Bitcoin = $9 US.
You can find literally ANYTHING illegal on the Deep Web. Speaking of illegal…
Let me issue a STRONG WARNING at this point. Be extremely careful what sites you visit and links you click. You could find yourself on a child pornography website or just all-around grotesque sexual deviance-focused site that will ruin your experience (and in the case of child pornography, your life). The wiki page linked to above contains mostly safe sites to search but stay away from anything labeled as a 'chan' or 'bulletin board' as they probably traffic heavily in child pornography. Anything labeled CP is to be AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. It will lead you to child porn.
There are sites on the Deep Web that offer the services of hitmen, advice to gang members, directions on how to build explosives, how to cheat at virtually anything and pretty much any other illegal activity or service that you can dream of – it's all there, some of it is frightening, some of it is interesting, all of it is anonymous. Wait, is it really anonymous?
Is this all truly anonymous?: Probably not. To the horse's mouth, we go.
Update: Jeff Garzik, a member of the Bitcoin core development team, says in an email that bitcoin is not as anonymous as the denizens of Silk Road would like to believe. He explains that because all Bitcoin transactions are recorded in a public log, though the identities of all the parties are anonymous, law enforcement could use sophisticated network analysis techniques to parse the transaction flow and track down individual Bitcoin users.
"Attempting major illicit transactions with bitcoin, given existing statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is pretty damned dumb," he says.
Though he may be saying that because Bitcoin hopes to be viewed as a legitimate business.
My journey though The New Underground, the Deep Dark Web, was interesting, to say the least. There's a lot of potential for trouble down near the bottom of this iceberg, so always be aware of what you're doing and the legality of your actions. Still, I have an unquenchable thirst for the unknown so by carefully maneuvering in a way that kept several meters and a snake pit between myself and the most vile content on the Deep Web, I was able to learn a bit about a facet of the Internet I had yet to discover. I'd encourage you to poke around a bit as well. But, remember, do so at your own risk. Be safe, watch what you click and refrain from purchasing anything along the way.
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Former Maccabeats Launch New Group "StandFour" And Hanukkah Song "Eight Nights"
Four members of Jewish a cappella group The Maccabeats, including Immanuel Shalev, David Block, Noey Jacobson, and Nachum Joel, have formed a new group called StandFour.
Their first release is a song called Eight Nights.
It's a parody mashup of "Some Nights" by Fun, "Die Young" by Ke$ha, and "Live While We're Young" by One Direction.
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new air quality standards for fine particulate matter, or soot. The EPA's updated standards set the limit for safe concentrations of soot in the air at an annual level of 12 micrograms (one-millionth of a gram) per cubic meter, and a daily level of 35 micrograms per cubic meter. These stronger soot protections will lead to cleaner, safer air nationwide and prevent approximately 15,000 premature deaths every year.
Additionally, these updated standards are expected to save $118 billion in health costs annually and will help ensure Americans are better informed when their local air quality reaches hazardous levels.
The EPA's updated soot limits are a result of litigation filed by environmental and public health groups earlier this year, culminating in a federal court order requiring the EPA to issue updated standards for particle pollution. The standard takes into consideration the latest science and medical research, affirming that soot pollution must be limited because of its deadly health effects.
Soot particles are released into the air by burning dirty fuels like coal. Soot is composed of dangerous metals and chemicals, and the particles are so small -- as tiny as 1/30th the width of a human hair -- that they can lodge deep within the lungs and move into our blood streams. Even at very low levels, exposure to soot is harmful to human health and can cause heart attacks, strokes, asthma attacks, cancer, developmental and reproductive harm and even premature death.
The Sierra Club is committed to holding fossil fuel polluters accountable for pollution like soot, mercury, and carbon that threatens our health and our climate, and this new standard is an important step in the right direction.
In response, Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, issued the following statement:
"The Sierra Club applauds the Environmental Protection Agency for finalizing these crucial, life-saving protections. These updated limits will prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths every year and continue the Clean Air Act's track record of cleaning up our nation's air, avoiding pollution-related health costs, and protecting our children and families.
"We now stand ready to join the Administration in vigorously defending the stronger soot limits from Congressional attacks that would seek to roll back this victory for public health. We applaud the EPA for putting the health and safety of our children and families above polluter profits and corporate special interests."


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Experienced mobile network architects at communications service providers must feel overworked. But they certainly should not go underappreciated. These brilliant engineers have met one challenge after another while keeping us all connected.
Think about it. Not that many years ago, we were using basic cellphones to talk back and forth. Not much else happened on mobile networks. Since then we've thrown everything from smartphones to tethered laptops by the millions on our mobile infrastructure. In every case so far, network architects have risen to the occasion.
But the tablet's recent onslaught is truly a daunting challenge for them. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2011-2016 (Note: This links to a PDF), only 34 million tablets connected to the global mobile network in 2011, practically a rounding error when you consider that this year there will be as many mobile devices connected to worldwide networks as there are people on earth.
Still, while small in number, tablets are mighty big data users. Cisco says the average tablet handles 3.4x the amount of data as a smartphone, 517 Mbytes per month v. 150 Mbytes per month. Given the staggering growth in the number of 4G LTE-ready tablets hitting the market in the months ahead, the potential spikes in data loads on mobile networks likely will be notable. And to say this sector is expanding is to understate things. Goldman Sachs says the CAGR for tablets to 2020 will be 42%, while Gartner says CAGR for tablets will be 54% to 2016. (Pick your favorite explosive growth metaphor.) That's why Cisco estimates the amount of mobile data traffic generated by tablets will exceed one exabyte per month and be one-tenth of all the global mobile traffic in just four years. One has to wonder whether the networks can withstand this sustained surge of data-ravenous tablets.
A closer look inside the Cisco report leaves me confident that the world's mobile network technologists are up to the task. For example, while 4G LTE-capable devices comprised a mere 0.2% of mobile connections in 2011 they generated six percent of all the data traffic. Yet, our networks did not buckle under that spike in traffic.
Further, consider that mobile data traffic in 2011 was eight times the total global Internet traffic in 2000. But, oddly enough, while traffic levels skyrocketed worldwide, performance improved. The average connection speed for individual users jumped 66% between 2010 and 2011, which proves that our mobile network architects have built robust systems.
Smart ones, too. If you look a little closer at the study you'll see that CSPs have taken advantage of dual-mode devices or femtocell systems to offload traffic onto fixed networks to relieve congestion, reducing monthly data traffic by 72 petabytes. Cisco estimates CSPs will offload 22% of the total mobile data traffic by 2016.
So, while most of us celebrate tablets as devices that deliver rich content -- and that can help expand a business, mobile network architects confront them as yet another challenge to their networks. I have faith they will succeed once again. You should, too.
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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword
code geass
i guess this passes for a real story?
lol genfic
i. Aprés Moi...
ii. Gambit
Code Geass
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Spoilers certainly for R1, eventually for R2. I'm gonna make at least an attempt to incorporate the canon backstory, though it might be difficult. LOL Marianne.
FUCK GUYS I'M SORRY. Please don't jump ship just yet. There will be something happening soon, I promise - something that isn't, you know, "banter" and "furious expositing" and "the life story of a character you don't give a crap about."
"Language City"
by Wolf Parade.
There's a city that stands at the intersection of her past and her future.
Donato Garcia Galeano was fired at three twenty-one in the afternoon.
He wasn't a bad worker. He wasn't an especially good one, with a slight tendency to stay out late and come in late, and also sometimes hung over, and also he'd sometimes ignore work in favor of sketching on his legal pad. He was an artist by passion, a paralegal only by habit, so he had other things on his mind, but he had a good WPM average and a good memory. He wasn't a bad worker.
It wasn't the quality of his work that was the issue, though: it was the company he kept. It was the coincidentally named Donna Galliano, assistant to the secretary to the Lieutenant Governor, a Britannian of Italian descent, who had long straight hair down to her hips and spoke with an eyebrow raised in permanent irony and who sang in a low throaty alto and took bites off his plate in the cafeteria, who was the issue.
"When you were hired here you agreed not to engage in a relationship with a co-worker," his supervisor said. This was, of course, bullshit. Yes, he'd signed that document, and he could even vaguely understand the motivation behind it. Still, Maria and Ronaldo, both in the secretarial pool, were engaged, and everyone knew about how the (married) secretary to the Lieutenant Governor was banging the (married) Lieutenant Governor, but nobody said a word.
"I think there might be other factors at play here," he said. "Possibly.
Like the fact you don't like it that a Number and a Britannian - "
"I don't
anything," Anna said, which was comically accurate coming from her. "It's not me."
"Who is it, then?"
Anna looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"Tell me."
That expression turned into one of pinched annoyance. "And then what'll you do?" When he didn't answer, Anna sighed. "Lord save me from those with convictions. Are you in love with her?" Donato looked down with an uncomfortable shrug. "And her? Is she in love with you? Because you will be very sorry if she's not in love with you."
Normally, Donato would have hedged a bit. But the night before, Donna had kissed him on the eyelids and nestled in against him.
"I don't ever want to move from this spot," she'd murmured into his shoulder.
"So don't."
"I won't." She'd nuzzled him and murmured, "I'm going to freeze time. Watch me. And stay with you forever. Just watch."
So Donato said quietly to Anna, "I think so."
Anna pressed a hand to the bridge of her nose and said, "All right. Here's what we'll do, if you want to do this. It's going to be trouble as long as you're working here, and it'll still be trouble just a bit less trouble regardless, and she'll never make secretary, whatever, you'll regret it when you're older but now you'll be as happy as you can be. How old're you?"
"We're both twenty-two."
"You'll regret it when you're older. No matter. I'm going to fire you."
There was a feeling in Donato's chest like his lungs collapsing. "What?" he mumbled. "I, what - where will I go - "
"Oh my
I don't
something. There are some people I know I can call. For God's sake, you should be thanking me, because I'm going to pull some strings and falsify some information to get you three months' severance pay so that you can find something." She looked at him a little while, then rolled her eyes and said, "You're welcome."
It was only after that she was already offended that Donato understood the full weight of what she was offering. "Oh, I, um. Oh. Thank you. I just - " He took a breath. "Thank you."
She shrugged self-consciously. "I married my sweetheart when I was your age. Everyone deserves an opportunity to be as miserable as I have for the past seventeen years."
So Donato Garcia Galeano was fired at three twenty-one in the afternoon with a broad smile splitting his face. By three thirty he'd collected all his things; at three thirty-two he called up to Donna's desk and got no answer and told the answering machine he'd just wait for her at home; and at three thirty-three he exited the Buenos Aires Britannian Imperial Government Building.
As he went, for some reason despite his love-drunk stupor he noticed the young man who walked past him. The boy might have been eighteen at the most. His clothes were heavy, especially for September, but otherwise he looked fine - clean-shaven, well-groomed. It was just this thing he did, this little gesture as Donato walked past him - a nervous tic of his wrist that twisted his hand in a circle and then snapped it back down towards his thigh. Donato looked at him. The boy just looked at the ground.
Donato walked on.
At three-thirty four, as Donato approached the guard station, the Buenos Aires Britannian Imperial Government Building exploded behind him. He knew the sound immediately for what it was, and the shockwave sent him to his knees, upended his box and scattered his possessions over the ground.
Slowly he turned to look at the wreckage. His lips were numb, but beneath his hands the ground was pebbly sharp. There was the smell of burning skin and hot iron and gasoline, and there were screams. As long as he knelt there, his face craned around to see that pyre, he thought of Anna, and he thought of Donna. He thought of Donna. He thought of Donna.
"Bother," sighed Odysseus. "Two this month and this month's hardly started. What did we think of Area 7, Guinivere?"
"Too muggy," Guinevere replied with a twist of her lip.
"Too muggy," Odysseus said. "Still, the poor damp bastards hardly deserved that." He made a sorrowful clucking noise with his mouth. "By God, what I wouldn't give for a proper war with proper soldiers in proper uniforms who shoot at each other properly. None of this skulking about in shadows. With dynamite. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but it's simply not for me."
"It's beastly," Guinevere agreed languidly. "Those poor people. Never even knew they were on the front lines of a war."
"Terrible," Odysseus murmured. "A rude awakening indeed."
"And in Area 7 of all places," Guinevere sighed. "They love us there."
"Well," coughed Odysseus.
"Or near enough."
"Indeed, it's a terrible thing," Schneizel cut in softly. Both Guinevere and Odysseus fell silent at the sound of his voice, as they always did when he spoke. He smiled gently at them both, as he always did when they fell back to make way for him. "And it won't go away, I fear. It will only get worse."
Perfectly self-evident though it was, Schneizel explained, "Zero."
"Oh," said Odysseus. He sounded almost dismissive. "Him."
Guinevere took issue with his tone. "Good Lord. Don't say it like that," she said.
"Like what?"
"Like he's beneath our notice. He killed Clovis, you know, and..." She trailed off. That he'd killed Euphemia was a truth all of them knew but none of them acknowledged. It was only with the cover that the Empire itself had punished Euphemia for her actions that they'd managed to suppress worldwide rebellions; any comment on this lie, particularly in potentially mixed company, was quite the faux pas.
(Schneizel frowned to think of Euphemia.)
"And God only knows what happened to Cornelia," Guinevere continued. "Dead or captured, I imagine. And at his hands."
"That knight, the one with the odd name - has he given up yet?" asked Odysseus.
"Guilford?" Schneizel said, then shook his head. "Not yet."
"Good on him, I say," said Odysseus. "We need more men with convictions. He won't find her, though, I don't think," he added thoughtfully. "Wild goose chase."
"Dead or captured," Guinevere said again.
There was silence a moment before Odysseus roused himself and said, "Well, this is a right depressing topic. What's past is past, you know, so. We need to look to the future."
"What's to be done about Zero?" said Guinevere.
Schneizel looked at her mildly. "Does something need to be done? Zero won the Battle of Tokyo, and won it stunningly. We haven't gained an inch of territory in three months. It would be best to leave him be, don't you think?"
"Don't be disingenuous; I don't think so and neither do you," Guinevere said. "Even if he stayed ensconced in the foulest den in Tokyo we would still have an obligation to hunt him down, just to prove to all the Numbers that they're not to follow in his footsteps."
"Strong words, Gwen," laughed Odysseus.
"Strong feelings, Odysseus," Guinevere replied. "I don't fancy watching the world dissolve into chaos."
"Right, you wouldn't want us to lose the colonies. You just built that house in - where was it - ?"
"That's not what I'm talking about. And Dubai City. What I'm talking about is that I don't like people killing each other."
"I'm afraid that people will always kill each other," Schneizel said, "but your protests against this very fact..."
"Moving," Odysseus snickered.
"Don't patronize me," Guinevere said sharply.
"I happen to agree with you, Guinevere," said Schneizel, which stopped Odysseus laughing. "We Britannians have an obligation to the world."
"You sound like my old tutor," murmured Odysseus cautiously.
"Perhaps I do," agreed Schneizel. "But I believe it. Forgive me for saying this but we're in the unique position of being able to bring peace to the world, and forgive me for thinking it but I think we should. There are people out there, we all know, like Zero, who would stand in the way of that, but the road to peace has never been an easy one. It wasn't for our forefathers, and it won't be for us. That doesn't mean we should give up." Schneizel smiled. "Hold me to the word I give now, Odysseus, Guinevere, I beg you: If I have to take up the sword personally against Zero for the sake of peace, I shall. I assure you."
His brother and sister nodded - her appreciatively, him knowingly. "You always were quite the blind idealist, weren't you, Schneizel," said Odysseus.
Schneizel laughed and spread his hands. "Like I said. I hope you both will forgive me it."
"Hey, Lelouch!"
Rivalz caught him by the arm as he was making his way home. Lelouch tensed and jerked his arm away before he could control himself. His mind had been on darker matters. When he said, "Yes?" it was more of a snarl, and Rivalz shrank back.
"I, um," he said. "No. Nothing." Then he laughed, waving Lelouch away. Then, when Lelouch turned to go once again: "Actually, something. Listen. My ma. She's been getting more insistent, you know..."
"Has she?" Lelouch asked neutrally.
"She just doesn't like it. I don't blame her. Though, I mean, I tell her all the time, it's safer here now with the El...Japanese in charge than it was with the Britannians, we both know that, they're not all freedom fighty anymore...But even so. She doesn't like it."
"It's understandable," said Lelouch.
"I know. She's got a point. But, I mean - Shirley's staying on."
"Is she?" God, in this place that held for her so much horror...
"And you, too, right?"
"Most likely. I do have obligations here."
"Ooh, you say that so impressive." Rivalz' laugh was false, and it quickly petered out. "Um. But I mean, you guys, and Kallen, too, if she ever quits with the whole, um, you know, uh, Black Knights thing and comes back to us. And the President, too. She might, you know. Start showing up again."
Milly acted the same as ever, and Milly hadn't graduated, but one day she'd just stopped coming to school.
"Sure, she might."
"And it's the finest education in the world. You know. Right here." A moment. "And I don't want to abandon you, too."
"Don't worry about me."
"I mean, who knows where Suzaku is now, and you need a guy friend around. Keep you from getting overwhelmed with those girls. Right?" Rivalz' expression was almost desperate.
Lelouch hesitated. What could he say? He knew he was a poor friend to Rivalz now. He was only still coming to Ashford to support his cover. He was tired, and he spoke rarely. Rivalz would probably be happier back in Britannia. And it would allow him to escape from this terrible, haunted place. In the end, Lelouch said nothing. Rivalz looked down.
"So I should stay," he said. "Right?"
Lelouch still had nothing to say.
"And - I mean - " Rivalz shrugged uncertainly. "There's also - It seems like there should be...someone here...to remember. You know." Quieter, "You know."
Lelouch knew. He looked away. "Listen, I should go - "
Rivalz' mouth snapped shut. "Yes! Of course. I'm sorry to keep you, you know - "
Lelouch knew, but even so he shrugged and turned away and said nothing as he left. He tried not to think about it. It was difficult when he had to walk past the place where Nina had died.
The taking of Ashford should have been bloodless. It should have been bloodless, and it was, until a point. The Britannians weren't stationed near that part of the city, and they'd been too occupied with the battle to rescue a school.
But then Nina had come out, armed with some terrible weapon, and one of his soldiers had responded in the only way a soldier responds to such things.
The others hadn't been there, but they'd been in the student council room with its clear unobstructed view, and all of them - save Nunnally, thank God save Nunnally - had seen. Milly had attacked the guards, as though trying to go save her friend, as though the bullet weren't lodged with commendable marksmanship in her head, as though it hadn't killed her instantly. Minami had pinned Milly to the ground and had had to hold her there. In the end she'd just exhausted herself.
He was glad he hadn't been there. He was glad he hadn't seen Nina die. He knew it made him a child, shaken by this death over the others just because he'd known her, and known her at best tangentially, just because he considered her a friend, even though (though she was delusional and misled) she'd taken up arms and could have killed so many. That soldier had done what he'd had to do, yet even so Lelouch hated him. Lelouch knew he should have been mourning the death of his soldiers, the death of the innocent, yet he was fixated on this death. He couldn't get her out of his mind.
There'd been one other incident. A Britannian had broken in somehow and shot Ougi, then fled. Ougi, after a three-month hospital stay, had largely recovered, and he was now resting a bit at home, and Lelouch was glad of that, but the incident was odd. He'd resolved to watch Ougi's activities.
"I'm home, Nunnally," Lelouch called.
"Welcome back,
," came the piping reply.
Here at home, they didn't talk about the war. He didn't know what she thought. There were times when he wanted to ask, but...But then he'd come home after a day of silence, and she'd be there with her smile and her embrace, and he couldn't. He'd remember what he was fighting for, and he'd remember too why he couldn't hear her condemn that.
"How was class today?"
"Quiet," he called back. The school didn't have even a tenth of the students it had before the battle. Zero had decreed that the United States of Japan were open to all people, even Britannians, even Britannians who had served in the colonial government. It had been Diethard, of all people, who had protested this the loudest, wanting perhaps to prove his distance from his former self, but Zero had insisted.
"This will be a country of renewal and forgiveness," he'd said, and the others had seemed leery (Kallen) at the least, angry (Diethard) at the worst, but in time they'd acclimated to the idea. Among the working and middle classes, a fair number of Britannians had stayed, but the wealthy (and, much to his frustration, the taxable) had fled.
"It'll be better when the school opens to the Japanese."
"Sure." Why would they want to learn at a school run by the people who'd oppressed them for so long? Japan wasn't composed of a hundred million iterations of Suzaku.
Perhaps that was unfair.
"Welcome back, Lelouch-sama." Sayoko had appeared suddenly - as was her wont - from God only knew where. "How was your test?"
"Fine. Thank you," he said as she took his coat.
"Did you say how your test was?" Nunnally called, and Lelouch raised his voice, laughing a little: "I said it was fine, Nunnally."
Sayoko caught his arm as he started to join Nunnally. He looked at her; she shot him a glance and murmured, "The E.U. will be gathering for a summit in a month's time."
Her smile was apologetic. Lelouch looked at her, and then swallowed and looked down at the ground and murmured, "Thank you." When he looked up again, she was gone, and his discomfort was momentarily displaced by curiosity over how exactly it was she did that.
" Nunnally greeted, stretching her hand out to Lelouch. He took it between both of his.
"And your day? How was it?" Lelouch asked, smiling at her. She responded to the warmth in his voice and smiled back.
"Terrible," she said sunnily. "A full hour and a half of French conjugation drills." Lelouch groaned on cue, and Nunnally giggled. "Every irregular verb you could think of."
"Beastly," Lelouch said.
"Terrible," she beamed again.
"An hour and a half?"
"A whole hour and a half!" she cried.
Lelouch hmmed. "Actually, what I meant was -
an hour and a half?"
"What do you mean, only?"
"I mean what I mean, only. I think you need three hours of practice."
"No!" she gasped.
"'Non,' I think you mean to say," Lelouch corrected playfully.
"Non!" she agreed.
"Come on. Practice with me."
"You wouldn't."
"Oh I would, and I will. Come on.
Je ris, tu ris, il rit
"Don't," Nunnally laughed.
Nous rions, vous riez, ils rient
- "
"Stop it!"
"Would you prefer the subjunctive mood? We can do the subjunctive if you'd prefer. Come on.
Je rie
- Come on.
Tu ries
- "
"Stop it! Nooo, stop, don't make me do it!" she cried, hunching over and clutching herself in mock-agony, and in that moment she looked just like Euphemia.
The image struck Lelouch in the throat. It drove all laughter from him. He rocked back on his heels, the breath gone from his mouth, dizzy and nauseous. Slowly, Nunnally's smile slipped from her lips, and her brows drew together.
"What is it?" Lelouch opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't find any words. All he could do was kneel there, next to her, as she inclined her face towards him, her face more and more worried.
"I just - um - remembered that I forgot to turn in an essay," he finally managed.
"Oh," said Nunnally, the worry still written across her face. "Well, do you need to go back...?"
"Um, I - " He cleared his throat. "Nunnally, I have to ask you something."
"What?" She gave an uncertain half-laugh.
"I...may have to go away. For a little while. Not very long, I promise," he begged as that concern deepened.
"It's, um...I just...You know that the Ashfords are leaving, and..."
"Even Milly?"
Lelouch hesitated. That was a whole different thing, a whole different topic. "I don't, um, know, to tell the truth. But it's, um - we sort of need to start thinking about...things."
"You want to get away from here."
Lelouch winced. This whole line of conversation wasn't precisely a lie, but it was close enough to make him uncomfortable. "In a way."
"Is it because of Euphemia?"
It was a question he was expecting. He still had to take a moment before he said, "In a way. Yes."
"I don't know about this." Her voice was sweet, but her face was approaching sternness.
"I won't be gone for long."
"I don't know about leaving." She worried at her bottom lip. "I think maybe it's our duty. To stay and remember - "
"We don't - we can't - have any sort of duty to the past. Do you understand?" Lelouch became aware he was speaking far too loudly, far too heatedly, but even so he continued on: "The very idea is absurd!"
Once that was out, and once Nunnally didn't react, he fell back weakly, spent by that fervor, and looked at the ground. Nunnally still said nothing at all.
"It'll only be a few weeks," he finally said, this time far too quietly.
A moment. "I guess we can talk about it over dinner."
"Sure." He stood and took Nunnally's hand again, then turned away and retreated.
"You heard the news from Sayoko?" C.C. asked lazily the moment the door had closed behind him.
"I heard," he said tersely, going over to the closet to hang up his school jacket, then crossing over to the sink to take out the lens that covered that stigma in his eye.
"All right," she sighed, and was quiet a while, picking at the crumbs on the dirty plate at her right hand. Then: "I much prefer this situation," she said, rolling onto her stomach. "Me not having to hide whenever she comes into the room...She actually treats me, as a high-ranking member of the Black Knights, as an honored guest." She lolled onto her back again. "It's charming."
"It sounds it."
"She asks me the strangest questions, though. 'Oh, are you the one who helps him with his clothes'? As though clothing like that could come from any hand but yours."
There was a moment, and then she turned over onto her stomach again. "For all that, though, I like her. She makes a good pizza, and in less time than it takes the delivery man to deliver. And she doesn't ask for a tip. I never tip," she added with a cruel little smile.
"I let him know that it's your money, and that I don't think you'd want me to give a tip. Besides, I don't want to spend freely. Like I said, it's your money." Another pause and a tiny, almost inaudible scoff. Then another moment before she asked, "Do you know how the pizza is in France?"
Lelouch looked at her. "Haven't you been there?"
A coy smile slipped across C.C.'s face, and she took her sweet time answering, tipping her head back and considering her answer carefully. "Not in a long time," she finally said.
"Well, don't ask me. I haven't been there in a while, either," Lelouch said, rather conscious that his definition of a
long time
and hers diverged sharply.
"And you probably didn't have pizza, either." There was a deliberate pause. "Assuming Nunnally was with you." Lelouch turned to look at her, then looked away, and then looked back, and C.C. smiled, a superior smug triumphant little thing. "She doesn't want you to go?"
"It's complicated."
"You shouldn't let that stop you."
"It's complicated, I said, and I'm hardly going to look to
for advice." Lelouch sat down irritably at his computer and opened an internet browser. "Besides," he muttered, "I know that there are times when I'll have to do something she doesn't like. For the sake of it all. I'm perfectly aware of that."
"You don't sound like you've accepted it."
He jerked his head in a shrug.
"My word," C.C. said, her voice twisted into a jeer, "you really do love her."
"I'm surprised you were able to recognize that," Lelouch snapped in response, then immediately winced and looked down. That had been so much harsher than he'd intended.
But C.C. didn't flinch. Instead, she just smiled faintly, rolled over onto her back and murmured, "That was cruel. You're enough to make a girl cry."
Next installment: Epic C.C. backstory! New characters! An end to this TIRESOME FUCKING EXPOSITION.
2008-09-12 12:15 pm (UTC)
Hahaha, thank you, internet, for that grammar. =D I feel Nunnally's pain, though - verbs aren't even hard in Russian and they're awful. DDDDD=
It was so much fun to write the Royal Brats conversation. GOD THEY'RE IN-BRED.
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Britain's cosying up to the Gaddafi regime may have happened under Labour, and Tony Blair, with his "Dear Muammar" and his pseudo-Islamic salutations, may have been a simperingly enthusiastic licker of the Colonel's blood-bespattered posterior, but the shoddy deals now being exposed in Libya bear the unmistakeable stamp of traditional Foreign Office cynicism.
Take, for example, the rendition in 2004, through the good offices of the CIA but with British intelligence making the whole thing possible, of Abdul Hakim Belhaj. Embarrassingly, Abdul Hakim Belhaj turned out years later to be a key figure in the revolt that (with NATO backing) has toppled Gaddafi, but at the time he was just another dissident - someone, moreover, who could be portrayed as having "links" with the wider world of Al Qaeda-style terrorism. He was only ever interested in Libya, but the weird psychology of the War on Terror meant that Gaddafi's enemies for a time became ours. And anyway, he was a pawn in a greater game.
Except of course that - Torture Convention and all that - we're not really supposed to hand people over to foreign governments who are in the business of pulling out their fingernails or electrifying their genitals. It's not just that it's not nice - it also happens to be illegal. But don't worry, there's a way round that little problem:
Assurances were sought and received that the suspect would not be mistreated and ministerial approval at Secretary of State level was received, sources said.
Aha, assurances were sought. So that's all right then. No British complicity in torture at all. Assurances were sought. Assurances were received.
It's enough for Gaddafi's men to have promised they wouldn't torture their detainee, once he "arrived safely" - as MI6's Sir Mark Allen put it in one of his chatty letters to Moussa Koussa. The Libyans wouldn't lie, would they? They wouldn't be in the business of giving "assurances" that turned out to be worthless, not our allies, not our new bestest friend Muammar.
Were the British security services so staggeringly naive that they actually believed these assurances? It's hard to imagine. But that doesn't mean that the assurances were worthless. They were (or so officials would have hoped) legally exculpatory. The seeking of assurances was not a means of exercising pressure on the Libyan government, still less a way of preventing torture from actually taking place. It wasn't even about Abdul Hakim Belhaj and his fate after his "safe arrival" in Tripoli. It was a ritualistic dance - like so much in bureaucratic life - performed for the benefit of the assurance seekers themselves. The aim British authorities in seeking assurances wasn't to prevent torture. It was merely to receive assurances.
This sort of institutionalised cynicism, it may be felt, is defensible if it for the higher good. By the higher good I obviously don't mean the ability of BP - for whom Sir Mark Allen went to work shortly after leaving MI6 - to win juicy oil contracts. Of course not. I mean freedom and democracy, regional stability, persuading the Colonel to give up his WMDs, that sort of thing. As the wise and urbane former ambassador Charles Crawford puts it:
The key thing to understand in all this is that there are only two basic choices available to democracies when it comes to dealing with odious regimes: Isolation, or Engagement. And that both can have perverse consequences, because it is impossible to deal with perverse regimes without some perverse outcomes...
Above all, if you engage with dirty people, how to avoid some of their dirt ending up on you? The promise of Engagement is that it offers the hope of slowly but surely changing things for the better; the danger is that while you are doing that, the key leaders of the regime in fact get far richer and learn how to be oppressive in new, cleverer ways.
...without outside democratic engagement (and the high-level civilisational rewards which rightly flow to the regime for behaving in a less extreme way) the chances of reducing Libyan torture at all (and thereby opening some small new space for opposition trends) are hugely reduced.
What is wrong with this analysis, which draws on so much experience, is so rational and unsentimental and, for want of a better word, plausible? One answer is that it leads, all too often, to embarrassments like the one the British government now finds itself in. Someone that British intelligence knowingly (assurances or no assurances) handed over to Gaddafi's torturers ends up in a position of power and our politicians and diplomats look grubby. The country's interests are damaged as a result.
Revolutions invariably take practitioners of realpolitik by surprised. The more ruthlessly analytical, the more unsentimentally realistic they consider themselves to be, the less they seem able to imagine the overthrow of the brutal dictatorships with which they do their Machiavellian business. Events catch them napping.
On the day that Julius II was elected, Cesare Borgia told me that he had thought of everything that might occur at the death of his father the Pope, and had provided a remedy for all, except that he had never anticipated that, when the death did happen, he himself would be at death's door.
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Britain's cosying up to the Gaddafi regime may have happened under Labour, and Tony Blair, with his "Dear Muammar" and his pseudo-Islamic salutations, may have been a simperingly enthusiastic licker of the Colonel's blood-bespattered posterior, but the shoddy deals now being exposed in Libya bear the unmistakeable stamp of traditional Foreign Office cynicism.


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Some members of a local environmental group have raised concerns about the amount of earth material that would have to be obtained to construct a levee for a proposed coal ash landfill in Labadie.
But Joe Feldmann, Franklin County's environmental resource officer, says obtaining material for this project is no different from any other development when it comes to moving dirt.
Labadie resident Kay Genovese recently said that excavating that amount of clay for the project could be harmful to the county.
"They are going to turn the eastern end of Franklin County into a moonscape," Genovese said at a recent public hearing on the coal ash landfill. "The only way that I can describe it is the rape and pillage of Franklin County. It is obscene."
Officials "are going up and down Highway T" looking for land to lease and buy so the clay can be obtained, Genovese said. All of the trees and clay will be removed, she added.
Ameren could not be reached for comment Thursday about the project.
But Feldmann said Ameren plans to build a 20-foot high levee around the 166-acre landfill containment area.
Construction on the levee would not begin until after Ameren Missouri gets final approval of its coal ash landfill construction permit from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Feldmann noted. He said the landfill would be constructed out of clay material.
About 700,000 cubic yards of clay material will be needed, said Labadie Environmental Organization President Patricia Schuba.
Obtaining the material could be similar to a strip mining operation, Schuba said.
This could have an impact on neighbors by causing runoff problems, she said, adding that it could also reduce property values.
Anytime there is an excavation of material over a certain amount, DNR requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan and a discharge permit, Feldmann said. This is to ensure the material is removed in an environmentally sensitive manner when it comes to issues such as erosion, he added.
MDNR says a land disturbance permit would be required.
First District County Commissioner Tim Brinker said it is wrong to say property values would decrease over this issue. And Brinker said he does not foresee stormwater runoff problems resulting either.
Feldmann did not know how much material would be needed for the project specifically but said it would be a "bunch."
It is unclear where the clay material would come from.
Labadie real estate agent Fred Thatcher said he is representing a property owner who may sell land so the material can be excavated. That property is on Highway T in Labadie, Thatcher said. But Thatcher said other property may be purchased for the levee material.
Since Thatcher stands to potentially profit from representing the land sale, he has recused himself from a Board of Zoning Adjustment appeal hearing that Schuba's group has filed over the landfill project.


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Introduces dance as an art form. Studio experience in various dance forms. May include ballet, modern dance, musical theatre/jazz, and dance composition. Includes attendance at outside events. Prerequisite: DANCE 102.
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1) Understand dance as a cultural practice that reflects and impacts local communities and global cultures.
2) Develop and practice analytic, evaluative, and contextual skills requisite to critical thinking, kinesthetic understanding, and personal growth.
3) Develop and practice skills in rhythmic, movement and compositional analysis.
4) Engage in personal assessment and reflective practices that encourage self-directed learning.
5) Understand how basic principles of dance science and teaching methodologies can be applied to technical and aesthetic development.
6) Recognize and expand creative, artistic, and intellectual potentials.
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Attendance at the M.F.A. Dance Concert Attendance at the M.F.A. Dance Concert Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 7:30pm through Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 2:00pm Turn in your ticket stub with your signature on it before the last day of classes.
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"I can see where she comes from," said Simon Marais, managing director of fund manager Allan Gray, which owns about 9 per cent of Fairfax.
"This business is not there for editorial independence," he said. "This business is there to make money. I think [chairman] Roger [Corbett] loses track of that. That's where we're vastly different from him."
Mrs Rinehart, who owns just under 15 per cent of Fairfax, publisher of The Australian Financial Review, is in a stalemate with the board over her reluctance so far to agree to the editorial independence charter and certain corporate governance principles. This has prevented her from gaining the two board seats she is seeking.
However, last week Fairfax appointed Mrs Rinehart's friend, fast food entrepreneur
Mr Cowin told The Australian Financial Review last week that he hoped there would be a resolution between Mrs Rinehart, who is Fairfax's largest shareholder, and the board.
However, a senior Fairfax source said yesterday: "Fairfax has repeatedly said that editorial independence is not only at the heart of the company, but it is also a commercial imperative."
Mr Marais said that while maximising profits – and not editorial independence – should be the board's main focus, the company could not be "a mouthpiece for Gina because it will also destroy the profitability in the future".
He welcomed Mr Cowin's appointment. "He's made money in a tough business. It's [fast food] very competitive," he said.
Fairfax shares closed down 3¢ yesterday to 55¢.
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The Buffalo Sabres wasted little time today as the NHL free agency period opened.
The Sabres began their day by trading a 2016 second round pick to Montreal to acquire defenseman Josh Gorges. The Sabres would then double-dip into Montreal's pool by signing their former captain, Brian Gionta, to a three-year deal.
Buffalo wasn't done, landing a few more players, some of which are familiar faces to the organization. Below is the full list of moves the Sabres have made thus far:
- Matt Moulson signed to a five-year, $25 million deal
- Cody McCormick signed to multi-year contract
- Marcus Foligno re-signed to a two-year deal
- Brian Gionta signed to three-year deal
- Josh Gorges acquired for 2016 second round pick
There have been reports that the Sabres were interested in bringing Steve Ott back for another stint, though those reports have been disputed and Ott remains as a free agent. Moulson's return will bring excitement to Sabres fans that didn't want to see him go in the first place. Moulson and McCormick were both parts of a deal to Minnesota at the trade deadline last season, and will be welcomed back by both fans and the organization.
The Sabres are likely not done this offseason, as Tyler Ennis is still in need of a long-term contract. Still, with the draft and beginning of free agency, Tim Murray has given Sabres fans something to look forward to as the team continues to rebuild.Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Sabres, Hockey, NHL


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The End Of Marketing
Brent Filson
Working with top companies worldwide in all major sectors for 20 years, Ive discovered that few of them come even close to achieving their potential results.
A key reason is that their leaders "dont know that they dont know".
They dont know that marketing as we know it has come to an end. A more successful growth-dynamic must replace it. That dynamic is tied to human emotions and the results-producing actions those emotions trigger.
No question: Emotion is a critical driver in business success. Clearly, people in business have to be skilled and knowledgeable about products, processes, and customers. But simply having rational knowledge is not enough to get big increases in results. We must have emotional knowledge too.
A fundamental truth of human motivation is that we define ourselves in terms of our emotions. Descartes didnt quite have it right: its not, "I think therefore I am; its really, "I feel therefore I am".
Yet most marketing strategies and programs focus on the rational — market share, target identification and validation, and customer needs analysis — and ignore the emotional. In doing so, such strategies ignore great opportunities.
To achieve quantum leaps in results that most businesses are capable of, "the end of marketing" must be recognized.
Conventional marketing served companies in relatively stable economies when businesses were like large ships, with captains giving orders to the mates, the mates to crews. But today businesses are in white-water canoeing races.
In rapidly changing markets, exclusively rational marketing cant compete well.
What will replace marketing To answer that, lets understand what marketing is all about. Its about one thing, organizational growth. Such growth happens through strategy and action.
Todays marketing activities are superficially linked to strategy and have little to do with action. The result: businesses rattle along not hitting on all cylinders.
Strategy: We grow in business or ultimately die. So it behooves each business to have a strategy for growth.
We might develop a growth strategy. It might seem convincing on paper. It might interest security analysts. It might brighten an annual report. But unless employees and customers alike believe it passionately, wake up in the morning motivated by it, spend each day exciting others about it, see it as a key stimulant of their life, and zealously realize it in their work activities, then it is merely a recitation of dry postulates. It can only realize partial results.
When strategies resonate with peoples heartfelt needs, great things happen. History is replete with such strategies: Themistocles naval strategy for defeating the Persians; the Pilgrims strategy of attaining religious freedom by building a "city on the hill" in the New World; Jeffersons strategy for realizing an America bounded by the Atlantic and Pacific; Americas strategy for putting a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s, etc.
And the history of business has its examples too: Ford Motor Company of the first decades of this century; IBM of the 1950s, Apple of the early 1980s, Wall-Mart of the 1990s, Dell of the past few years.
There are three ways to get a motivational growth-strategy.
First, link it to what people feel strongly about.
Many leaders wrongly believe that just because they have taken the trouble to develop a marketing strategy, that strategy automatically excites others.
If you dont root your strategy in the fervent convictions of employees and customers, you dont have a motivational growth-strategy.
Steve Jobs strategy for providing bringing a powerful, versatile computer into the hands of average people around the world, fired the imaginations and the ardent actions of his colleagues and, ultimately, customers.
Second, raise the stakes. Follow Emersons dictum: "Hitch your wagon to a star." Distinguish between vision and motivational growth-strategy. A vision is the star. The strategy is how you will hitch your wagon to it. When peoples vision and strategy provide a higher purpose in their lives, their motivation is of a higher order.
Jobs convinced John Scully to leave a high-level, fast-track position at PepsiCo and commit himself to the uncertainties of working at Apple by asking: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world"
Third, make the strategy simple and short. Growth can be complicated, but peoples needs are simple.
Bill Gates wrote a strategy in longhand on a single sheet of paper when he founded Microsoft. He still has possession of that paper and is still following that strategy.
The processes of putting that strategy into action may take comprehensive descriptions. Still, those descriptions should flow from simple, brief motivational elements.
Action: Motivational growth-strategies arent plans, theyre action. Without people taking action, results cant happen.
Rational marketing stumbles because leaders often view such marketing as some kind of magic dust that, sprinkled out, changes behavior. But only motivated people change their behavior.
In trying to realize marketing plans, top leaders often get jammed up in middle-manager meatgrinders. Those leaders can usually persuade their direct reports to participate in the changes.
However, the far more important task is to persuade middle-managers to lead change. Because traditional marketing ignores the emotional needs of middle-managers, needs that frequently illuminate ways to increase results, those managers can and will make mincemeat of even the best-intended, rationally consistent, and brilliantly-conceived marketing strategy.
Hey, this isnt black hole physics! Getting results is simply about strategy and action: making a simple, powerful motivational growth-strategy happen in the many, little actions taken daily by skilled, motivated people.
Because motivational growth-strategies flow out of the hearts of people, rather than rain down from above, those strategies get those people championing actions that get big results.
The end of marketing is the beginning of success that can only now be dimly imagined.
2004 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Copywriting Makeover: Making An Emotional Connection - Part 2 of 2
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The Google Phenomenon: Greatest Hits Collection
As my readers know, Ive been one of Googles harshest critics. However, Im also a firm believer that its okay to criticize, as long as its justifiable and fairly balanced with deserved praise.
Turning Challenge Into Opportunity
There is a common saying that whenever you are presented with a problem or a challenge, you should turn it into an opportunity. Some of the people who have mastered this concept are; the United States Government, Large Corporations, Self Made Millionaires.
Copywriting Makeover: Making An Emotional Connection - Part 1 of 2
One statistic shows that over 80% of all buying decisions are emotional. That means your copywriting should be, too. This is something I firmly believe in and have preached for most of my copywriting career. However, all too often, I find people skipping the vital step of making an emotional connection with their customers. That can be a tragic, and costly, mistake.
Attracting Good Affiliates
Good affiliates can be hard to get. There could be any number of reasons for this, but I am going to focus on what I believe is the one major problem that prevents someone from attracting good affiliates. But first lets look at what the make up of a good affiliate may be. A good affiliate is:Hard WorkingPersistentMotivated to work their businessDoes not need constant reassuranceMakes and implements goalsOvercomes obstaclesRecognizes and takes good adviceAnd Never, Never, Never quits!
Using Demographic Data For Your Direct Mail Marketing Campaign
Targeting high potential markets with a direct mail marketing campaign can be a very affordable and efficient way to get new customers for most companies and entrepreneurs but how can you find a way to reach those high potential markets Using demographic data could be your solution.
Maximize Attention for Your Small Business
If you have a great product or service that people want you are well on your way to being successful. However, in order to lock in and grow your success you need to maximize the attention your products and services get.
Which is Better: Digital or Offset Printing
As technology continues to improve, the quality of digital prints also improves. Technology advancements have also made it easier for more and more businesses to enter the printing industry. Good digital printers cost a few thousands dollars…good offset printing presses may cost a few million dollars.
What Is Most Important – Copy Or Pic
When, some little time ago now, I first descended upon the advertising scene, we were a good deal more concerned than most people seem to be today about the nature of the business we found ourselves in. We were always holding debates – in the saloon bar of the Coach & Horses in New Bond Street, to be tiresomely precise – about the meaning of advertising, the significance of advertising, and the past, present and future of advertising. And an unconscionably serious lot we no doubt were. Not to mention drunk.
The A-Z of Exhibiting Overseas
Exhibiting overseas is one of the fastest and most cost effective ways to identify the best foreign markets for your products/services. International trade shows and fairs offer opportunities for multilateral contacts and business deals. They allow you to test your product's export suitability; explore the strength and scope of your competition; and gain exposure to potential suppliers, in-country distributors and customers before making any sizable financial commitments. However, to effectively trade internationally, top management must commit to developing foreign markets.
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The Truth About Traffic Exchange Programs and Guaranteed Traffic
Its about time someone let the cat out of the bag,regarding traffic exchange programs and guaranteed traffic.I wasnt seeing the truth being written about the subjectanywhere, so I decided to take it upon myself to reveal thetruth about these programs.
Irresistible Click-Me Tools for Marketing
Never mind the irritating, but effective, pop-up window. There is another type of interruption advertising that is much more subtle, much less annoying, and just as effective.
Slogan For Your 05 Business
Logos and slogans are big eye catchers for the big businesses we're used to seeing every day. It's the seldom thought of products that are fun to watch as they create new ways to market their ideas to the user and consumer. As the Olympic International Committee is in its early stages of preparations for 2010 in Vancouver, BC we're seeing some interesting news stories. One story in particular will be based on its court case to settle the issue of the noteworthy Olympic rings. The subject business has been in business many years prior to the 2010, but protection of a certain issue is serious business when the backdrop of winter sports athletic stage will be the symbol known around the world. Is it this potential revenue that is at stake instead of the gold, silver or bronze the athletes have trained and worked so hard to win
20 Top tips to writing effective surveys
Writing surveys is easy; or is it The truth is that writing surveys is easy but writing effective surveys is more difficult. The following are twenty tips that if followed will help you write more effective surveys.
10 Tips For Bringing Your Event To Life
Your job as an event planner doesn't stop with the meeting in the company boardroom.You may be call upon to organize an employee appreciation event, an awards dinner, a product launch, the celebration of a company milestone, a gala recognizing a longtime employee's retirement, an incentive event for the company's sales force, a fundraising event, a holiday celebration…the list goes on and on.
The Seven Secrets of a High-Sales Marketer
If you want to boost your website sales to the next level, youve got to think and act like a high-sales marketer. Heres how:
Explode Your Sales With Free & Exclusive Content
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What Can Apples iPod Teach Us About Marketing
Apple Computer just announced that their earnings from the last quarter more than quadrupled mainly due to robust holiday sales of the iPod digital music player. More than 10 million iPods have been sold since it was introduced in 2001.
Some of The Best Ways To Get Visitors To Your Site
Before building a site there are many things that you need to take in mind. For example, how are you going to design your site, what is it going to cost you, how long will it take you to build, etc. All of these things mentioned a both are important aspects to consider when designing a site, but there is no point in doing all of this if you can't even get visitors to your site afterwards.
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Smelling the Beginnings of Aromatherapy
In India buy spice online, individuals were currently exercising a standard system of recovery called Ayurveda. Stemming there for around 5000 years currently, it highlights setting up an equilibrium in your body via proper diet regimen, way of living, cleaning, as well as the health and wellness of the mind, body as well as spirit. It uses cleaning, elimination of contaminants as well as the application of natural herbs like triphala, ashwaghanda, gotu kola as well as bosweilla. The expertise of the Egyptians reached the nation the Greeks, which they utilized more to create even more explorations. They found out that various fragrances had various problems with the body and also mind. As an example, unstable oils stemmed from certain blossoms were promoting, while others were loosening up. The Greeks likewise utilized base or provider oils, through olive oil, for natural herbs and also blossoms; consequently resulted in their usage for numerous cosmetic and also medical functions. In the 11th century, a Persian medical professional called Avicenna created a purification tools and also procedure, which caused the emphasis of additional development of fragrant oils and also their lots of benefits. This expertise infect the various other locations of the globe via attacking pressures.
Subsequently, the Romans gained from the expertise of the Greeks. They ended up being preferred in the past for perfumed bathrooms, adhered to by massage therapy making use of fragrant oils. As a result of the interest in aromatics to them, it led the instructions to the putting together of trade routes. These trade routes permitted the Romans to import unique oils and also seasonings to lands like India as well as Arabia. Carefully connected with just what we've today, the method of using oils from fragrant plants started with the Egyptians. They established a means of drawing out oils from plants via a mixture procedure. These oils offered numerous functions to them in the past, as a substantial part of medical recovery, compose, along with embalming. Fragrant oils were after that being generated in Germany, distilled from natural herbs brought from parts of Africa and also the Far East. When the Conquistadors attacked South the United States, increasingly more fragrant plants were discovered. The wide range of plants found in the yard of Montezuma offered the structure for additional therapies as well as therapies utilizing plant essences.
Old individuals substantially depended upon their environments for whatever that they required. They needed to take advantage of exactly what they had; that's why they found strategies of using plants for dealing with disorders and also maintaining life. That is just how aromatherapy started – among the earliest techniques of all natural recovery. At the same time in a couple of various other area of the globe, the Chinese were likewise making use of various natural herbs as well as their fragrances for great deals of applications. Inning accordance with a natural publication going back to around 2700 BC, old Chinese were utilizing greater than 300 various type of plants. Aromatics in China were utilized for both spiritual and also healing functions. The Chinese scorched timbers as well as scent throughout spiritual events – a routine still noticeable today. Likewise, using aromatics was additionally gotten in touch with old settings of therapy, like massage therapy and also acupressure. The Middle Ages produced lots of research studies on natural herbs as well as their benefits. One such publication that was created formerly, called Culpeper's natural, is still being sought advice from as much as today.


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Bilingual Family Night Scheduled May 7
April 24, 2013
A special program where bilingual families can share their public education experiences will be held Tuesday, May 7, in Portola Pavilion of Cal State Fullerton's Titan Student Union. Sharon V. Chappell, assistant professor of elementary and bilingual education, and Debra L. Cote, assistant professor of special education, are facilitating the public event from 6-8 p.m. Adrian Jung, professor of special education, will give the keynote address and the film "Con Mucho Orgullo: Oral Histories of Bilingual Families in California Schools," based on Chappell's research, will be screened. Reservations are requested by May 5 and can be made by contacting Chappell or Cote.


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