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So today we get informed by the ex that while she does not have a problem with me being around the kids (I live with their father, so she doesn't really have a say in this although she seems to think she does), she wants the kids to only spend time with her or their father, not with me alone (this new idea has probably come from the fact that I took her daughter out to a movie and to see a live reindeer last weekend while my BF took his son and my daughter to a museum. I am sure the 8yo went to mom and told her what a great time she had with me). It's pretty obvious that I'm a permanent fixture here and nothing negative has every been brought up about me (from her or the kids), so she does not seem to have any specific concerns. I am positive if she did, she would have brought it up by now.
I realize that there are a lot of emotions that might be going on with her...she doesn't want to be replaced, she could be upset/jealous that her ex is with someone else, that her kids are spending time with another "mom", etc...but it is very hard to feel sorry for her because she cheated and left her husband, so what did she expect? She's not a stupid person. She knew he'd find someone else eventually.
Anyway, we'd like to get the kids for a couple of days over winter break. There is nothing in the divorce decree about who gets the kids during winter and spring break and we are pretty open about which days it is, but we'd like them for 2 days in a row. She is saying no because she knows he will not be taking time off of work and she does not think it is right for the kids to spend time alone with me. She wants the kids to only spend time with a parent and if one parent is not available, the other one should get the kids. We feel like she sees the kids every day and it would be nice to be able to have them for 2 days in a row. He probably will take one of those days off of work, but not both and we don't feel like he should promise her he will take that day off. She never tells us about the kind of childcare she provides for the kids on her days (and we know she's had a man watch them that has a record of child alienation with his previous wife and kids...), so why does he need to explain to her who is watching the kids? Again, I feel like she wants to control every aspect of the kids' lives, even when they are in his custody.
She's also requested he pick the kids up from her house at 3:50pm on Mondays starting in January so she can go to work (her schedule changed). Kids get out of school at 3:30pm and the school is a 5 minute walk from his job and our house. She refuses to let him or me pick the kids up at school on Mondays. She wants to pick them up at 3:30pm, drive them home where they will be for 5 minutes, and then dad will pick them up and drive them home where I will watch them until 4:35 when he gets home from work. He'll have to leave work at 3:35 when he can leave at 3:25 to pick them up and then go back to work or I can go get them. It's ridiculous. Personally, I think bouncing the kids around like that is wrong. On top of that, I just realized the 8yo has karate on Mondays at 4:15 now so he'll have to drop the kids off with me, go back to work and I'll have to load them into the car and bring them all to karate! I've suggested dropping Monday night karate, but then the ex will be responsible for taking her the other two days per week (she has to go at least 2 days a week to test up to the next level) and he doesn't think she'll go for that. I am tempted to tell him to tell her to just pay a babysitter until 5pm when he normally picks them up at this point because the whole thing is insane! It just makes sense that we pick them up at school if she has to leave the house by 3:50! Am I crazy? Am I missing something? I don't get it.
**ETA She drives right past his work and house when driving from school to her house, so I don't see why she can't drop them off if she doesn't want us to pick them up.
Regarding her request that only a parent be with the kids-- many parents have a "right of first refusal" agreement that says if one parent needs childcare, they need to give the other parent the option of providing that childcare. There is normally (and should certainly be) some sort of threshold, like 4 hours. Here's the thing: ROFR goes both ways. If she wants to be given the option of providing childcare every time your boyfriend wants childcare, she has to also notify him anytime she needs childcare. If she expects him to give her a certain amount of advanced notice, she needs to agree to the same notice. ALSO, ROFR doesn't preclude the kids from going over to friend's houses, out to a movie, for ice cream with their grandparents, etc. So ROFR shouldn't interfere with you taking one of the kids to the movies, especially not if your husband doesn't NEED childcare, he is allowing his child to go out to the movies with someone. It certainly wouldn't mean that the kids could never be alone with you (for example, if you all went out shopping, ROFR doesn't mean that you couldn't take one of the kids into one store while your husband went into another).
As for the request in changes in pick-up... We spent a long time allowing my husband's ex to dictate how things were going to happen, telling my husband what he could do, and holding us to a standard she wasn't willing to be held to herself. The first thing that finally worked for us to stop having my husband's ex try to dictate everything was to stand up to her and say "We can offer this or this." When she argued, he repeated it. And repeated it. So in your after school situation, he might say: We can pick the kids up from school at 3:30, you can pick them up and drop them off at our house after school, or we can pick them up from your house at 5" (or whatever the actual options are). The "This is what I can offer you" broken record approach when he first began standing up to her allowed him to keep his cool and stay "on message" without getting wrapped up in her responses. Writing it, it makes it sound like something really simple, but any time he changes the game and responds to her differently, she escalates her behavior quite a bit... so there was lots of getting yelled at, getting hung up on, threats about taking away his rights, and general terrible co-parenting in response for a while... but eventually she came to realize that he was playing by new rules and that when he said something he meant it.
It's the end of a long day and I'm not feeling very eloquent, so hopefully that made sense... perhaps someone with more mental energy will be along with some other advice soon :)
They do have right of first refusal, but it is only in regards to overnights. The kids would only be with me during the day and their father would be home by 430pm and be there all night and the next morning with them. It also only applies to when a non-family member is being asked to watch the kids, which I realize I am not a family member now, but we wonder if once we get married, will I be considered a "family member" then? If she wants the kids to be with only a parent, perhaps she should do so herself. She often leaves them with other people, overnight for "sleepovers" supposedly with friends so ROFR doesn't come into play or even leaves them alone at home for an hour or two to go shopping at Wal-Mart. I think the part that bugs us most is that she expects him to do things a certain way, but she is exempt from having to do those things herself. She has even complained when the kids go to a sleepover at their grandparents (maybe once every 2-3 months) because she feels they should be with him or her, not other family members.
And yes! Thank you! The broken record approach is exactly what I've been trying to get my BF to do! We know she can't afford a babysitter and it will be unlikely she can find a friend to watch the kids after school and take them both to karate, so she really won't have a choice other than to quit her job or let us pick the kids up. She is so used to him just saying yes to everything, she just assumes he will eventually say yes. And I'm not trying to make her life more difficult or be vindictive. It's less hassle for her as well I would think, not having to drive back and forth across town and sit with the kids at the house for 5-10 minutes with their coats on so they're ready to go when dad gets there since she has to leave at a certain time to get to work on time. The way she wants it seems stressful for everyone. The whole thing is insane. But he says he will give her the two options and that's it (we pick up from school or we pick up at 5pm like the divorce decree states).
We've also been discussing how to address her issues with me being alone with the kids. I feel like he should just ignore those comments for now and just address what schedule works for him and what he wants (as far as Christmas break is concerned) without getting into who is watching the kids (he actually has 2 days off that she doesn't realize, but we don't feel that should be her concern. In the past, when he was at work, they would go to his parent's so I don't know why she doesn't assume they could be going there as well). But at some point if she continues to bring it up, I think he will need to tell her in no uncertain terms that I will essentially be a third parent when they are with us, we are partners and I am here to help him with every aspect of our life and family together, and that includes taking care of the kids when they are with him. I think it's unreasonable for her to expect me to just be a separate person from the family because she doesn't want me to be alone with them. I'm open to speaking to her about anything she'd like, but he is afraid to tell her that and she hasn't said she wants to meet me or even know anything about me (which I think is odd. If someone was spending so many hours a week with my daughter, I'd probably at least like to know a little about them and say hello or something...).
So he's sending her an email tonight about all this. We'll see how it goes! thanks!
She is trying to do everything she possible can today to make sure I cannot spend time with the kids alone :( even though she has never once brought up any concerns she might have about me.This is very frustrating :( At least once we mentioned getting a mediator, she backed down some with other requests.
Wow. This woman is a real piece of work.
I would be upset about the kids staying alone at that age for her to run errands, too. They are waaayyyy too young to be by themselves. When she brings you up to your BF, just have him say, "Well they are supervised and it's for a short amount of time. I will be home asap, so what is the issue?" If she ever wanted to bring this up in court, bring up that the kids are left unsupervised, it may not be against the law but it won't look good.
The issue is you. That's it. It shouldn't be like that, but apparently it is.
My DSS's BM literally called the cops on me one night while I was watching DSS and DH was at work. This was about three months before we got married. The cop came to the house, I told him I was Andrew's fiancee and that I was watching DSS while he was working thirds. I gave the custody agreement to the officer and Andrew's work number. He looked over the paperwork, called my husband, peeked in on DSS sleeping. He apologized for getting me out of bed (1 am) and told me to not worry about anything. He said BM has legal grounds to take DSS from me, I may not be married but I am technically the babysitter and the father knew where his son was. He called BM told her there was nothing she could do and gave her the "your son is fine, there was no reason for you to call us," talk. She was infuriated and showed up at DH's work three hours later drunk with three other people. She was in a great state to take care of her son, right?
So as much as this woman may threaten to do this or that, as long as your BF knows that you are taking care of the kids and it's not overnight so the ROFR doesn't apply, there is nothing she can do. Unless she wanted to go back to court and in that case she would have to prove YOU were unfit (haha, right?).
Artist wife to . Mom to DSS (3 yrs) and DD (04/12). (2/28/10).
Thanks. That makes me feel much better :) I wonder, do you legally become a "relative" to the kids once you are married? I ask because the divorce states a relative can take the kids instead of giving the ROFR and we are wondering if I become a "relative" once we're married. I really want to avoid the whole cop thing for the kid's sake, but I know it could become an issue. She wants to change the ROFR to include any time the custodial parent can't watch the kids, even if it's only for a few hours. We are refusing to do so, but are worried about what kind of backlash that is going to cause.
Once you are married there isn't much she can do. You are legally recognized as your DH's spouse and would therefor be living with him and sharing a combined financial life, etc. No judge can say, "Don't let your kids be alone with your wife," that's absurd. She may be causing these problems to try and get you to run away and intimidate you. But the truth is she can't choose who he chooses and vice versa.
Including that in the custody agreement is unrealistic. What happens if there is an emergency? She is being irrational and on some level, she knows it. Again write all this down. And I don't know how serious you are with BF but I would think long and hard about where your relationship is headed before I got into this battle. I mean that in the most sincere and caring way, too. I got lucky with my DH and I wish you all the happiness and stability in the world.
Artist wife to . Mom to DSS (3 yrs) and DD (04/12). (2/28/10).
Yeah, that's what I figured but then someone brought up that legally a relative might be only blood related. But you're right...you can't tell a parent their spouse is not allowed to be alone with the kids (unless they have some crazy criminal history I guess...which I don't. I haven't even gotten a speeding ticket in over 6 or 7 years). She doesn't intimidate me, but I admit is scares me to think of the money he'll have to potentially spend on mediators and/or lawyers if this continues on the road it's going. We're trying to save up for something that is very important to us and somewhat time sensitive and this will put a big dent in that :( She was dating a man for a while that had a history of abusing children and my BF had to still let that man around his kids which seems insane to me, but shows she doesn't give a crap about her kids well-being as much as she claims she does.
I love my BF more than anything. He is the best father I have ever seen to his kids and my kid (who doesn't have a dad and is going through an "I hate you" phase towards my BF - she's 3 - and he is taking it so well and still tells her he loves her every day, etc..) I think dealing with this extra baggage is worth it. I never thought I'd find someone like him..I thought all the good ones were taken. He has his faults (too passive, too willing to say yes to everyone, too easily feels guilty about being a "bad" dad based on what ex says), but nothing terrible. He is just a sweet, unconditionally loving person. If his ex didn't exist, I don't think we'd ever even argue. He's a little too naive and optimistic though...even after all these years of her abuse, he'll still say stuff like, "Well, maybe this time she'll realize I'm being reasonable with my request" or "soon we'll be able to tame her and our life will calm down." He has a hard time thinking someone could continually be so mean, selfish and evil which isn't necessarily a bad trait, but it's a little unrealistic in this case I think.
Once you are married there isn't much she can do. You are legally recognized as your DH's spouse and would therefor be living with him and sharing a combined financial life, etc. No judge can say, "Don't let your kids be alone with your wife," that's absurd. She may be causing these problems to try and get you to run away and intimidate you. But the truth is she can't choose who he chooses and vice versa.
Including that in the custody agreement is unrealistic. What happens if there is an emergency? She is being irrational and on some level, she knows it. Again write all this down. And I don't know how serious you are with BF but I would think long and hard about where your relationship is headed before I got into this battle. I mean that in the most sincere and caring way, too. I got lucky with my DH and I wish you all the happiness and stability in the world.
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The former Iraqi dictator is said to have deposited the sum in a Swiss bank account in the name of Saad Al-Hilli's father. The claim, which apparently originated with German intelligence, adds a sensational twist to the baffling case. Cash deposit: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, left, is said to have deposited £840,000 into the bank account of murdered Saad Al-Hilli's (pictured right) father Kadhim Murder scene: Saad al-Hilli, his wife, Iqbal, and his mother-in-law were all killed in an isolated lay-by near Lake Annecy in Eastern France Mr Al-Hilli, 50, from Surrey was killed along with his wife Iqbal, 47, his mother-in-law and a French cyclist last month in an attack that left his seven-year-old daughter, Zainab, badly injured, and her four-year-old sister Zeena deeply traumatised. Brother of Alps shooting victim criticises French police for concentrating on 'wild speculation' about family feud Was French cyclist the REAL target? Girl, seven, who survived Alps attack tells police he was killed before her family Alps massacre family was killed after they saw cyclist get shot FIRST, forensics investigation reveals Mr Al-Hilli's father Kadhim was once close to Saddam's Ba'ath Party, but fell foul of the tyrant in the Seventies, and fled Iraq for Britain. The scene of the September 5 massacre – an isolated lay-by near Lake Annecy in Eastern France – is only an hour's drive from Geneva where the money was deposited. Swiss prosecutor Dario Zanni believes the family may have been returning from there when ambushed. Tragedy: How the killings were reported at the time of the massacre It raises the possibility that Mr Al-Hilli had managed to gain access to the account, which is thought to have remained in his father's name, and that this was known to his killer. The story was reported in the respected French newspaper Le Monde. It said that a French police source had revealed that the money's source had been discovered by German intelligence agency BND. The agency's operatives routinely monitored the flow of cash to and from Baghdad as Germany did more business with the Saddam regime than any other country. An intelligence source in Munich said last night: 'They know the money trail, and they know how to follow it. They have spent decades monitoring money transactions between the West and Iraq. The BND is the first port of call in such circumstances.' The BND said they had no comment on the report, saying: 'We do not comment on operations.'
The Le Monde story was published under the headline: 'The potential links between the Al-Hillis and Saddam Hussein.' It said: 'According to a French police source, the German secret service informed the gendarmerie's anti-terrorist branch that there were links between the Al-Hilli family and Saddam Hussein's fortune. 'The tensions began after Saad Al-Hilli's father [Kadhim] was struck off the list of beneficiaries of the former Iraqi dictator.' It has always been suggested that Kadhim's multi-million pound legacy – he died last year – led to conflict between Saad, who lived in Claygate, Surrey, and his brother Zaid who lives in nearby Chessington. However Zaid strongly denies there was any such feud. Close ties: Mr Al-Hilli's father Kadhim is believed to have been close to Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party but later fled for the UK Fall out: But Kadhim Al-Hilli fell out with Saddam in the seventies Shortly after his murder, it emerged that Saad Al-Hilli had put a block on his father's will, which effectively stopped his brother from inheriting his share until 'unknown' disputes were resolved. But Le Monde says it was the money in the Swiss bank account – not the rest of the legacy – that may have caused friction between the two brothers. Swiss investigators discovered the secret account earlier this month, but according to Le Monde they didn't make the link to Iraq. Mystery: It is still unknown why Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and 77-year-old Swedish mother-in-law were killed Specialist police were last week questioning Geneva-based bankers about the Al-Hillis' assets, while financial records in countries including America have also been requested. Kadhim, a former factory owner, left Baghdad in the late Seventies with his wife, Fasiha, and two boys, after allegedly falling foul of the Ba'ath Party. The family settled in Pimlico, Central London, later moving to Surrey. Another theory is that Kadhim never fell out with the Ba'ath Party at all – and that he was simply managing many accounts for Saddam behind this smokescreen.
Shortly before the dictator was executed in 2006, it was revealed that he withdraw around £620 million from the Iraqi central bank in 2003, which he had begun to hide around the world. The assets would have been added to millions already deposited in accounts in other countries – mainly through Iraqis who had moved abroad. Saddam is known to have concentrated large amounts in Switzerland and France, where he had at least two homes and moored a £17 million yacht. If Saad Al-Hilli was party to this secret information – and indeed the location of the hidden millions – then he would have been an obvious target for an attack. Eric Maillaud, the Annecy prosecutor leading the inquiry into the quadruple killing, said he had 'not yet been informed' about the intelligence from Germany. However he confirmed that Mr Al-Hilli's financial affairs and his background in Iraq were at the top of subjects being investigated. Another theory previously mooted was that Mr Al-Hilli was targeted by Iranian spies desperate to get their hands on high-resolution satellite technology. The Briton was an expert in that field, and worked for Surrey Satellite Technology in Guildford. The family left their Europa campsite after two nights and moved to the La Solitude du Lac campsite, which overlooks Lake Annecy Peaceful spot: Walkers on the remote 3 km track to the scene of the attack outside the village of Chevaline where the Al-Hillis and Sylvain Mollier were murdered Emmanuel Ludot, a French lawyer who defended Saddam Hussein following his capture, admitted that the deposed regime still had funds in Swiss accounts, but said the notion of a 'hidden fortune' was fantasy.
Zaid Al-Hilli has been questioned by police, but is being treated solely as a witness after denying any involvement in the slaughter. When asked about the Le Monde story, Zaid told The Mail on Sunday last night: 'It's all rubbish, they can speculate until they're blue in the face to be honest with you.' Further asked if his father had ever mentioned links to Saddam, he said: 'We have no links with that regime. We live outside [Iraq] because of that regime, that's why we have been here for 41 years.' In a separate development, it emerged yesterday that Mr Al-Hilli made a desperate attempt to drive his family to safety under a hail of bullets, but his car got stuck on a verge. The gunmen then moved in to finish them off at close range. Investigators believe the killer was alone and used only one weapon, a pistol common in the Swiss army in the Twenties and Thirties. Grief: Family friends outside the Al-Hilli home in Claygate, Surrey, soon after the murders were reported Concern: The Al-Hilli's home in Claygate, Surrey. Speculation still surrounds the motive for the shootings in which three members of the family died Prayers: Saad Al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, and her 74-year-old mother Suhaila Al-Allaf, were laid to rest in the same grave in Surrey Zainab told police she and her father were outside the car when the shooting started. Unable to get her into the car, he then attempted to escape in the vehicle with the rest of the family under fire. However, as he backed up to get away, the car became stuck on an embankment, leaving the family at the mercy of the killer who then shot the three adults, including Mr Al-Hilli's mother-in-law Suhaila Al-Allaf in the head.
While it is unclear when cyclist Sylvain Mollier was killed, it appears his body was hit by the Al-Hillis' car during the attempted escape. After running out of ammunition, the killer pistol-whipped the older girl in the face, but was apparently interrupted and fled the scene. Additional reporting: Peter Allen and Ian Sparks
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FAMILY TIME and B IS FOR BOB, by Ziggy Marley, Tuff Gong Worldwide, $13 each, www.TuffGongWorldwide.com; all ages.
Ziggy Marley, multi-Grammy award-winning recording artist and eldest child of the late, great reggae pioneer Bob Marley, is no stranger to children's music. Ziggy's music has been prominently featured on a variety of children's programming, including Nick Jr.'s "Dora the Explorer" and the PBS children's show "Arthur." So it is no wonder that he has recently released two recordings designed especially for children and their families.
"Family Time" is a collection of original tunes along with a couple of new arrangements of classic children's songs, including "This Train" where Marley teams up and sings a duet with Willie Nelson. This CD boasts a star-studded cast of friends who have stopped by to help, including Paul Simon, Jack Johnson, Noggin Network star Laurie Berkner along with Rita Marley (Ziggy's mother) and Cedella Marley (Ziggy's sister) just to name a few.
"B is for Bob" is a collection of Bob Marley's most beloved songs re-imagined for kids. Ziggy rearranged eight of his father's most memorable songs, including "Three Little Birds," "Jamming" and "Stir It Up," expressly for this CD. But four of the Marley classics, including "Lively Up Yourself" and "One Love/People Get Ready," appear untouched and in their original form.
For those of us who like to pick and choose, remember you can find all of Ziggy Marley's CDs and individual songs for sale at any number of online sources including iTunes.
MELTDOWN, by Lanny Sherwin, Sandman Records, $12.98, www.SandmanRecords.com; ages 4-12.
Being a music reviewer for Chicago Parent definitely comes with some nice perks, like free CDs. About a dozen new releases arrive in my mailbox each week hoping to receive a review in this column. But when a new recording comes from Lanny Sherwin, it immediately moves to the top of the "play pile" because Sherwin consistently delivers creative and child-centered original songs like few other artists.
I was impressed with everything about Sherwin's "Meltdown," from his clever song-writing sensibility ("Your Mountain is Waiting") to his playfulness ("I Can't Rhyme") to his knack for weaving musical instrument connections into his songs ("Harmonica Veronica" and "This is Not a Guitar").
As with all of Sherwin's recordings, it is difficult to pick a favorite. But for me, "I Am A Guitar" is it. What I like so much, aside from being a memorable and singable song, is that it subtly helps kids start to understand how playing a musical instrument can be a powerful experience.
Another musical concept Sherwin explores is a capella (the musical term for vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment). In fact, on his last three albums, he has included an "A Capella" song. This version, "A Capella (Part 3)," where Sherwin sings all eight parts, is another fun example that educates while it entertains.
And then there is "I Can't Rhyme"—a perfect way to emphasize "rhyme scheme" in writing. It is actually quite hilarious!
There are so many possibilities with this format; maybe Sherwin will include "I Can't Rhyme (Part 2)" on his next release.
Sherwin is one of those great independent artists who is creating really wonderful music for kids, so be sure to stop by his Web site to check out all of his award-winning recordings. I can personally attest to the fact that his company's motto, Don't Drive Parents Crazy, is more than a cute slogan.
One more important note: Please do what you can to help support independent artists like Sherwin. When you do, you make it possible for these passionate and dedicated artists to continue to create memorable and meaningful music for your children.
Fred Koch lives in Lake Bluff with his wife and son and is an award-winning music educator, recording artist and producer. His Web site, BestChildrensMusic.com, helps parents, teachers and librarians select quality children's music. E-mail him at [email protected]
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Baldwin says that the word 'queen' that he used to call a reporter 'has different meaning' from what people think, adding that he meant it as 'somebody who's just above.'
Alec Baldwin has offered explanation concerning homophobic slur that he used when he went ballistic on Twitter after his wife was accused of tweeting during James Gandolfini's funeral service. In his Twitter rant, the actor called a Daily Mail reporter toxic "queen" and launched other offensive words. Speaking to the Gothamist, the 55-year-old actor said that the "queen" word he used has different meaning.
"The idea of ... that being something that people thought is homophobic ... a queen to me has a different meaning. It's somebody who's just above," Baldwin said. He added that he would have moved out of New York long time ago if he were a homophobe.
Baldwin explained further, "I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny. It doesn't have to be a definite sexual connotation, or a homophobic connotation. To me those are people who think the rules don't apply to them."
Following the violent outburst, Baldwin also sent a letter to GLAAD to explain his choice of words and apologize. "My ill-advised attack on George Stark...had absolutely nothing to do with issues of anyone's sexual orientation. My anger was directed at Mr. Stark for blatantly lying and disseminating libelous information about my wife and her conduct at our friend's funeral service. As someone who fights against homophobia, I apologize," Baldwin wrote, as reported by Fox News.
Daily Mail reporter George Stark incorrectly reported that his wife Hilaria Thomas tweeted during "The Sopranos" actor's funeral. The hot-blooded Baldwin exploded on Twitter after learning of the accusation. "George Stark, you lying little b***h. I am gonna you up. My wife and I attend a funeral to pay our respects to an old friend, and some toxic Brit writes this f***ing trash. (I'd) put my foot up your f***king ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much. I'm gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna f***k...you...up," he wrote angrily.


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In light of recent results from the "world's longest experiment", spanning more than 90 years, at the University of Queensland, a group of researchers from Trinity College Dublin explain the background behind their own pitch-drop experiment in this month's Physics World and offer an explanation as to why their research hit the The pitch drops that got the world talkings in 2013.
Capturing the release of a drop of pitch - a thick, black, sticky material - from a funnel on camera seems mundane, yet created a storm of media interest last week for the Australian experiment, as it did over a year ago for the Irish one. Researchers at Trinity were the first to capture their pitch dropping on camera and the subsequent footage was viewed more than two million times on YouTube.
In their article, the Trinity researchers say they believe the attention came from their story being short, quirky and something that both aroused curiosity and came with a high amount of tension and human interest. The latter was caused by a dramatic sequence of events and bad luck related to the similar experiment in Queensland.
The Australian researchers had also been hoping to record a drop of pitch, but when the previous drop finally fell in November 2000, they annoyingly discovered that their camera wasn't rolling. In 2013 the curator of the Australian experiment sadly died and therefore never got to share his findings with the public.
This scientific saga came to a climax on 11 July 2013 when a camera recorded a heavy, tear-drop blob of pitch falling to the base of a beaker at Trinity College Dublin.
The drop was a long time coming for the team based at Trinity's School of Physics, who had struck upon the experiment in the 1980s when clearing out dusty cupboards. The apparatus was dated October 1944, but there was no indication of who the experiment's creator was.
"Year after year, undergraduate students idled past it, paying no heed to the 'slow science' of the pitch drop," the researchers write.
In their article, the Trinity researchers make reference to the "pendant drop" experiment, which included a similar set-up to the pitch drop and was a staple in physics lessons before the Second World War for teaching students about surface tension.
Instead of using water, their experiment's creator had used the rather strange material pitch, which feels solid when you hold it in your hands and will smash into pieces if you hit it with a hammer, but if placed under the influence of gravity for long enough will flow like a liquid.
The dripping of a highly viscous material such as pitch, which can take anything between tens and thousands of years depending on the apparatus and the sample, involves a combination of three forces - viscosity, density and gravity - but the mechanism by which a drop detaches still remains a mystery.
"Back in Dublin, we now intend to set up a larger version of the funnel apparatus, one that may enable us to see the stretching of a viscous filament to a much greater length, and perhaps its eventual denouement," the researchers write.
"The pace of data-gathering and publication is not hectic, but slow science provides good food for thought in tranquilitude."
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Who will be on "Dancing With The Stars" next season? Announced today: Andi Dorfman, Lolo Jones, Randi Couture, Antonio Sabato Jr. and rumor has it Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson will be added too. The list isn't complete, they will be adding more in the next few weeks.


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Bulldog Coach Mullen was right about the final score being the vital statistic, but there was another set of digits that loomed plenty large. Senior RB Anthony Dixon battered both the Kentucky defense as well as the MSU record book with 252 rushing yards, not just the most of his career but the highest total ever by a Bulldog back. Dixon surpassed his friend Jerious Norwood's previous mark of 247 yards set in 2005 against Houston.
In the process Dixon also tallied his second 1,000-yard season, with 1,001 through the eight games he's played this senior season. Behind the big Dog the MSU offense was able to pound the Wildcats for 348 total rushing yards, as quarterbacks Tyson Lee and Chris Relf had 27 and 60 of their own.
Yet it was no surprise this was a game played mostly on the turf, featuring a pair of squads that rely on big-play runners. The difference is Dixon did his damage mostly between the tackles; where Kentucky relied on speedsters Derrick Locke (103 yards) and runner-receiver-thrower Randall Cobb or quarterback Morgan Newton dashing for the corners. Ironically, it was the pounder Dixon who completely out-ran all those Wildcat racehorses.
Kentucky won the toss and deferred, which worked out well initially as WR Leon Berry bobbled the kickoff at the goal and got only out to the ten-yard line. A flip to WR Chad Bumphis for ten yards dug the Dogs out a bit, and QB Tyson Lee found TE Marcus Green for another ten yards before the drive stopped at State's 37. Heath Hutchins hit a 44-yard punt caught at the Wildcat 29.
The home team could not advance as Randall Cobb was caught by LB K.J. Wright for no gain on 3rd-and3. Ryan Tydlacka crushed his punt all the way to MSU's 14-yard line, and after one first down—on a 14-yard catch and run by Dixon—Hutchins was punting again. This one just covered thirty yards and took an odd bounce…right to a Kentucky blocker. Gene McCaskill was able to get 14 yards back to State's 48 before nicking the sideline.
With SS Charles Mitchell banged-up on the punt play, State's subbed-defense left one Kat uncovered in the slot. Kentucky tried to take advantage with a lateral throw to Cobb, but he tried to run before the catch and LB Chris White fell on the loose ball. The play withstood review and the Bulldogs seized on their break with Dixon bursting for 37 yards on second down to the Wildcat 21. On third down Lee was rushed into throwing wide of RB Christian Ducre at the ten, so Derek DePasquale knocked a 33-yard field goal through at 4:23.
But DePasquale didn't hit the kickoff as well, and a 21-yard return by Derrick Locke let UK start at their 41-yard line. Locke turned a second-down draw into a 19-yard gainer, and on third down quarterback Morgan Newton evaded pressure long enough to find La'Rod King on the sideline for 18 more yards. Locke took it the rest of the way on runs of seven and ten yards for the touchdown at 1:28 and 7-3 Kentucky lead.
An after-play personal foul spotted State on the 40-yard line and before the quarters changed the Bulldogs were already sitting on Kentucky's ten-yard line. Lee snapped off 25 yards on an option-keeper, and Dixon netted ten and 15 more on consecutive carries. But Dixon was held to two total yards on another couple of tries, and an inside-route by WR Brandon McRae only got inside the two-yard line. State called time to talk, and went for the touchdown. Lee rolled left and had both Ducre and Green on that side of the end zone but in-between was Sam Maxwell to make a leaping interception. Two Locke runs netted a Wildcat first down before DT Devin Jones sacked Newton on third down. Berry fair-caught at the Bulldog 35-yard line.
On 3rd-and-10 Lee went down the middle for Berry only to have Randall Burden get in front of the target and intercept. His return put the Wildcats in positive field position on State's 41-yard line. Even after two rushes lost eight combined yards, State coverage broke down on the right sideline for a 20-yard catch and first down on the Dog 29. Jumping offsides on 3rd-and-9 made a much easier third down call with Newton keeping around left end for first down at the 15.
Newton called his own number on second down from the 11, too, and followed a wave of blockers into the end zone at 5:16 for the 14-3 lead.
Mississippi State changed quarterbacks for the ensuing series, starting at their 38-yard line. Chris Relf's first play nearly was disastrous as well when the ball came loose after a seven-yard gainer. But he fell on the fumble, and on second down burst through left guard for 53 yards down to the Wildcat two. On second down out of a wishbone Dixon vaulted right guard for touchdown at 3:43.
The Bulldogs got the ball back after a three-and-out but the punt rolled to their 14-yard line, and even after Dixon moved the chains once a holding call pushed it back to the 18. So State tried to run the clock by running the ball, but Dixon cracked the door for Kentucky by going out of bounds once and use of two remaining timeouts meant a punt at 0:27.
Hutchins kicked it 40 yards but Cobb got the blocks, some of them even legal, and brought it back to the MSU 26-yard line before Hutchins pushed him out at 0:12. Newton scrambled out of bounds leaving six ticks and a 38–yard field goal that Lones Sieber punched through for a 17-10 halftime lead.
Moreover the Wildcats also got first turn of the second half with Cobb returning out to the 38. But on second down Alfonso Smith was tagged by State's Mitchell with the ball popping loose and right into LB Jamar Chaney's hands for possession at the UK 47-yard line. Dixon went to work with hard runs of eight, 17, nine, and seven yards, ramming the ball close enough for Ducre to hold it over the goal line at 11:48 for the tying touchdown.
Starting from their 35 the Wildcats got one first down on the ground, then another at State's 34-yard line as CB Marcus Washington was flagged for interference. Locke countered for ten yards and with the Dogs crowding the line on first down a reverse to Cobb got the ball down to the 13. A false-start on the UK right guard cost five yards but Locke got ten on an option and Cobb made it first-and-goal from the three. He did the honors on a direct-snap dash of left tackle at 7:49 to put Kentucky back in front.
It took State two plays to answer, the first a eight-yard rumble by Dixon. With the Wildcats and everyone else for that matter looking for more of the same Lee was able to play-fake coverage cold as Wilder got behind his only defender. Lee's heave was caught in-stride at the 20 and Wilder, who was almost interfered with by the downfield official, long-strode on into the end zone at 6:56 to re-tie the tally at 24-24.
The Bulldogs were off-sides on the kickoff, spotting Kentucky on the 39-yard line. On 3rd-and-5 Newton was run down two yards shy to dictate a punt caught by Berry at the 14.
Dixon immediately flipped the field with a middle-burst of 47 yards, but soon State faced 4th and a short two yards. Without taking time to talk, Lee sprinted out to a sideline and on a direct snap Dixon bulled ahead to the 30. On 2nd-and-11 Ducre successfully battled linebacker Danny Trevathan in the air for the Lee pass at the three-yard line, but landed badly and had to be helped off. Play resumed with Dixon bouncing around left end and inside the pylon for touchdown at 0:59 and a 31-24 Bulldog lead.
Cobb nearly evened it up instantly with his kickoff return, as Marvin Bure had to knock him out at State's 42-yard line. On second down Newton had a receiver utterly open down the right sideline but threw short to the left side. The fourth quarter began with 4th-and-3 at the Bulldog 35 and there was little doubt Kentucky wasn't going to kick. Instead Locke went round right end for 20 yards and only tripped himself at the 14.
With 4th-and-2 Moncell Allen squirmed for just enough inches to make it first-and-goal. Two Newton keepers netted nothing, so on third down he tried to throw but was caught by McPhee. His desperate toss was intercepted by Chaney at the nine-yard line to prevent any sort of fourth-down points play.
The Bulldogs weren't able to score any more points themselves but did use up almost five clock minutes grinding just across midfield. Lee made a clutch throw to Bumphis for one move of chains and Dixon got another with a nine-yard rumble. A swing-pass on 3rd-down didn't get the yard and Hutchins' punt bounced into the end zone at 5:55.
Newton rose to repeated occasions now, looking like an old hand instead of a freshman. He converted 3rd-and-13 despite DE Nick Bell having a hand on him, finding Chris Matthews for 14 yards. On 3rd-and-6 he got time and King got open for 13 to the 48-yard line. It was Matthews again on 3rd-and-6 after Newton scrambled from one side to the other, this time for 17 yards as the clock wound inside two minutes. But having got to State's 21-yard line the Wildcats' ran out of steam. S Johnathan Banks deflected a throw for Locke; Newton found tight end T.C. Drake but linebacker White kept it to a five-yard play; and then the Dog broke up another throw to that same target.
On 4th-and-5 State poured right through the blocking, Newton stepped up but had nowhere to throw or go as Chaney and Company got the sack that sealed the victory. It was the last of a game-high 15 tackles for Chaney to go with his two turnovers collected.
State added 145 passing yards, all by Lee on 10-of-17 throwing, to finish with 493 total yards. For Kentucky, Newton was 11-of-18 with 119 yards, a pick, and three sacks though he did run for a net 39 yards. Cobb had just 17 yards on eight rushes and 32 yards on two catches, while his one pass try was not caught.
All stats that Mullen could savor as he and the Bulldogs flew back to Starkville through the Halloween night skies.


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Donna Stearns, 65, of Fayette, Mo., passed away Wednesday evening, Aug. 7, 2013, at her daughter's home in Ashland.
Donna Kay Stearns was born on Sept. 2, 1947, in Wichita, Kan., to James and Imogene (Newcomer) Wiley. She graduated from Maine East Township High School in Park Ridge, Ill., in 1965. She went on to earn her bachelor's and master's degrees in education from the University of Missouri. She married Sonny Stearns on Sept. 2, 1992, and they resided in Fayette, Mo.
Mrs. Stearns had been a vital part of the College of Veterinary Medicine Dean's Office staff since June of 2003 working for the Office of Research and Postgraduate Studies. She joined us as a Grants and Contract Specialist and three years later was elevated to the position of Grants and Contracts Administrator. She excelled in her role assisting investigators with fiscal management of their grants and as the College's grants and contracts liaison with other University departments and funding sponsors. She also contributed her time and talents to raise the Phi Zeta Program and Phi Zeta Annual Research Day to the level of excellence they have achieved at the CVM. Her organizational abilities, thorough knowledge of grant policies and procedures and helpful nature were among the traits that earned her the College's 2009 Dean's Impact Award for outstanding and sustained impact on the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Her career with MU began in 1990. Prior to joining the CVM, she was employed at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center and the School of Medicine. Mrs. Stearns also served on the MU Staff Advisory Council. She served a three-year term beginning in 1993, and was serving a second three-year-term that commenced in 2011 alongside her daughter, Pam Cooper, who is employed at the Bond Life Sciences Center. She chaired the Council's Staff Development Awards Committee for 12 years, most recently in 2011. She was elected vice-chair of the Staff Advisory Council in 2012, a position she held at the time of her passing.
She was also an active member of Linn Memorial United Methodist Church in Fayette.
Survivors include her husband, Sonny, of the home, one son, Michael (Jamie) Taylor of Lee's Summit, Mo., one daughter, Pam (Dale) Cooper of Ashland, stepson, Calvin (Lindsey) Stearns of Marceline, Mo., brother, James Wiley of Fayette, sister, Laurel McNamara of Parkridge, Ill., 13 grandchildren, Emma, Rachel, Ayden, Jeshua, Austin, Shayla, Aaron, Tristan, Brayden, Kaylee, Barrett, Baylor and Brenner. She was preceded in death by both parents.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, at the Friemonth-Freese Funeral Home in Fayette, Mo., with a visitation Sunday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to Linn Memorial United Methodist Church or University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine Gentle Doctor Benefit in care of Friemonth-Freese Funeral Service, 174 Hwy. 5 and 240 N., Fayette, Mo., 65248.
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'Community' Season 3, Episode 16 Recap - 'Virtual Systems Analysis'
I was just saying last week that this season seems to alternate the calm, character-driven episodes with the epic, story-driven episodes. This one is one of the latter, favoring a pretty neat gimmick to get us inside the mind of Abed and advance his relationship with Annie and to the rest of the world.
Now that Annie knows about Troy and Britta's mutual crush, she decides to set them up on a lunch date. However, that leaves Abed alone with his Dreamatorium, so Annie offers to look after him while Troy is literally out to lunch. The problem is that Annie isn't so good at Imagineering, so Abed gets impatient quickly.
So, Annie messes with the Dreamatorium's "engine," changing things so that Abed has to think about others and use empathy. This just about breaks him, and we're taken down a delightfully meta and very trippy rabbit hole that has Abed impersonating everyone in the group to avoid being himself.
That involved Abed becoming Jeff to show Annie that she may have set Britta and Troy up to get Britta out of the way (a bit of a "Grey's Anatomy" spoof/homage helps out there), becoming Troy and Britta and making out awkwardly, and even becoming Annie so that Annie can have a conversation with herself.
Pretty soon Annie starts getting the hang of the Dreamatorium and becomes Abed, which creates a serious system error. That's when we get to the root of the problem: Abed has insecurities, just like the rest of the group. He worries that they won't be able to deal with him anymore after a point, and worries that he'll never find anyone who will. But Annie reassures him that that makes him just like the rest of them, so he's not as isolated as he thinks.
The really nice touch in all this are the effects, and the way that characters will briefly adopt the voice of either Abed or Annie as they are moving to imitate them. The sound blend is especially nice. And a great performance from Joel McHale, who manages to do Jeff as played by Abed very well.
It's a strange episode to say the least, and one that would be completely inaccessible to someone who had never seen the show before. But that's nothing new, and it is otherwise a great episode for fans, full of striking character moments and delicious little meta bits.
Notes & Quotes:
- "Kevin, please come over for gay sex."
- "I think I went too far with this one." In fact, Pelton's whole journey this episode was fantastic. Jim Rash has been on fire the past couple of weeks.
- I totally want to see Troy and Abed play dinosaurs versus riverboat gamblers.
- Abed's kissing simulation
- "I use Hitler comparisons to win arguments on the Internet at the drop of a hat!"
- "Meta meta."
- "I almost sat on my balls."
- The jazz song "Daybreak" comes in a third time!


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- 3⁄4 cup milk
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- 8 ounces crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
- 1⁄2 cup sweetened flaked coconut, toasted, divided
- 1 lime (zest and juice)
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- Combine the milk, sour cream and pudding mix in a bowl; whisk until smooth. Stir in pineapple with juice and 1/3 cup coconut. Zest lime to measure 1 teaspoons zest. Juice lime to measure 1 teaspoons juice. Stir both zest and juice into dip. Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes before serving. Spoon dip into a pretty serving bowl. Sprinkle remaining coconut over the top. Serve with chunks of beer bread (which I normally do) or fruit as noted below.
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But what is the mode and measure of punishment which public justice takes as its principle and standard? It is just the principle of equality, by which the pointer of the scale of justice is made to incline no more to the one side than the other. It may be rendered by saying that the undeserved evil which any one commits on another is to be regarded as perpetrated on himself. Hence it may be said: "If you slander another, you slander yourself; if you steal from another, you steal from yourself; if you strike another, you strike yourself; if you kill another, you kill yourself." This is the right of retaliation (jus talionis); and, properly understood, it is the only principle which in regulating a public court, as distinguished from mere private judgement, can definitely assign both the quality and the quantity of a just penalty. All other standards are wavering and uncertain; and on account of other considerations involved in them, they contain no principle conformable to the sentence of pure and strict justice. It may appear, however, that difference of social status would not admit the application of the principle of retaliation, which is that of "like with like." But although the application may not in all cases be possible according to the letter, yet as regards the effect it may always be attained in practice, by due regard being given to the disposition and sentiment of the parties in the higher social sphere. Thus a pecuniary penalty on account of a verbal injury may have no direct proportion to the injustice of slander; for one who is wealthy may be able to indulge himself in this offence for his own gratification. Yet the attack committed on the honour of the party aggrieved may have its equivalent in the pain inflicted upon the pride of the aggressor, especially if he is condemned by the judgement of the court, not only to retract and apologize, but to submit to some meaner ordeal, as kissing the hand of the injured person. In like manner, if a man of the highest rank has violently assaulted an innocent citizen of the lower orders, he may be condemned not only to apologize but to undergo a solitary and painful imprisonment, whereby, in addition to the discomfort endured, the vanity of the offender would be painfully affected, and the very shame of his position would constitute an adequate retaliation after the principle of "like with like." But how then would we render the statement: "If you steal from another, you steal from yourself?" In this way, that whoever steals anything makes the property of all insecure; he therefore robs himself of all security in property, according to the right of retaliation. Such a one has nothing, and can acquire nothing, but he has the will to live; and this is only possible by others supporting him. But as the state should not do this gratuitously, he must for this purpose yield his powers to the state to be used in penal labour; and thus he falls for a time, or it may be for life, into a condition of slavery. But whoever has committed murder, must die. There is, in this case, no juridical substitute or surrogate, that can be given or taken for the satisfaction of justice. There is no likeness or proportion between life, however painful, and death; and therefore there is no equality between the crime of murder and the retaliation of it but what is judicially accomplished by the execution of the criminal. His death, however, must be kept free from all maltreatment that would make the humanity suffering in his person loathsome or abominable. Even if a civil society resolved to dissolve itself with the consent of all its members- as might be supposed in the case of a people inhabiting an island resolving to separate and scatter themselves throughout the whole world- the last murderer lying in the prison ought to be executed before the resolution was carried out. This ought to be done in order that every one may realize the desert of his deeds, and that blood-guiltiness may not remain upon the people; for otherwise they might all be regarded as participators in the murder as a public violation of justice.
The equalization of punishment with crime is therefore only possible by the cognition of the judge extending even to the penalty of death, according to the right of retaliation. This is manifest from the fact that it is only thus that a sentence can be pronounced over all criminals proportionate to their internal wickedness; as may be seen by considering the case when the punishment of death has to be inflicted, not on account of a murder, but on account of a political crime that can only be punished capitally. A hypothetical case, founded on history, will illustrate this. In the last Scottish rebellion there were various participators in it- such as Balmerino and others- who believed that in taking part in the rebellion they were only discharging their duty to the house of Stuart; but there were also others who were animated only by private motives and interests. Now, suppose that the judgement of the supreme court regarding them had been this: that every one should have liberty to choose between the punishment of death or penal servitude for life. In view of such an alternative, I say that the man of honour would choose death, and the knave would choose servitude. This would be the effect of their human nature as it is; for the honourable man values his honour more highly than even life itself, whereas a knave regards a life, although covered with shame, as better in his eyes than not to be. The former is, without gainsaying, less guilty than the other; and they can only be proportionately punished by death being inflicted equally upon them both; yet to the one it is a mild punishment when his nobler temperament is taken into account, whereas it is a hard punishment to the other in view of his baser temperament. But, on the other hand, were they all equally condemned to penal servitude for life, the honourable man would be too severely punished, while the other, on account of his baseness of nature, would be too mildly punished. In the judgement to be pronounced over a number of criminals united in such a conspiracy, the best equalizer of punishment and crime in the form of public justice is death. And besides all this, it has never been heard of that a criminal condemned to death on account of a murder has complained that the sentence inflicted on him more than was right and just; and any one would treat him with scorn if he expressed himself to this effect against it. Otherwise it would be necessary to admit that, although wrong and injustice are not done to the criminal by the law, yet the legislative power is not entitled to administer this mode of punishment; and if it did so, it would be in contradiction with itself.
However many they may be who have committed a murder, or have even commanded it, or acted as art and part in it, they ought all to suffer death; for so justice wills it, in accordance with the idea of the juridical power, as founded on the universal laws of reason. But the number of the accomplices (correi) in such a deed might happen to be so great that the state, in resolving to be without such criminals, would be in danger of soon also being deprived of subjects. But it will not thus dissolve itself, neither must it return to the much worse condition of nature, in which there would be no external justice. Nor, above all, should it deaden the sensibilities of the people by the spectacle of justice being exhibited in the mere carnage of a slaughtering bench. In such circumstances the sovereign must always be allowed to have it in his power to take the part of the judge upon himself as a case of necessity- and to deliver a judgement which, instead of the penalty of death, shall assign some other punishment to the criminals and thereby preserve a multitude of the people. The penalty of deportation is relevant in this connection. Such a form of judgement cannot be carried out according to a public law, but only by an authoritative act of the royal prerogative, and it may only be applied as an act of grace in individual cases.
Against these doctrines, the Marquis Beccaria has given forth a different view. Moved by the compassionate sentimentality of a humane feeling, he has asserted that all capital punishment is wrong in itself and unjust. He has put forward this view on the ground that the penalty of death could not be contained in the original civil contract; for, in that case, every one of the people would have had to consent to lose his life if be murdered any of his fellow citizens. But, it is argued, such a consent is impossible, because no one can thus dispose of his own life. All this is mere sophistry and perversion of right. No one undergoes punishment because he has willed to be punished, but because he has willed a punishable action; for it is in fact no punishment when any one experiences what he wills, and it is impossible for any one to will to be punished. To say, "I will to be punished, if I murder any one," can mean nothing more than, "I submit myself along with all the other citizens to the laws"; and if there are any criminals among the people, these laws will include penal laws. The individual who, as a co-legislator, enacts penal law cannot possibly be the same person who, as a subject, is punished according to the law; for, qua criminal, he cannot possibly be regarded as having a voice in the legislation, the legislator being rationally viewed as just and holy. If any one, then, enact a penal law against himself as a criminal, it must be the pure juridically law-giving reason (homo noumenon), which subjects him as one capable of crime, and consequently as another person (homo phenomenon), along with all the others in the civil union, to this penal law. In other words, it is not the people taken distributively, but the tribunal of public justice, as distinct from the criminal, that prescribes capital punishment; and it is not to be viewed as if the social contract contained the promise of all the individuals to allow themselves to be punished, thus disposing of themselves and their lives. For if the right to punish must be grounded upon a promise of the wrongdoer, whereby he is to be regarded as being willing to be punished, it ought also to be left to him to find himself deserving of the punishment; and the criminal would thus be his own judge. The chief error (proton pseudos) of this sophistry consists in regarding the judgement of the criminal himself, necessarily determined by his reason, that he is under obligation to undergo the loss of his life, as a judgement that must be grounded on a resolution of his will to take it away himself; and thus the execution of the right in question is represented as united in one and the same person with the adjudication of the right.


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Destination Pacific Rim
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A photographic diary of a holiday in beautiful British Columbia, with stays in Vancouver, Whistler, Vancouver Island, and the Gulf Islands
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- Categoría Viajes
Cuadrado grande, 30×30 cm
300 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación jun. 04, 2012
- Idioma English
- Etiquetas Pacific Rim, Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Salt Spring, Vancouver, Whistler, Tofino
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Howe Sim is an award-winning commercial travel photographer whose portfolio spans 64 countries on six continents. His subjects are as diverse as his destinations, and include Varanasi's mesmerizing cremation ghats, the semi-feral felines of Santorini, and the mammoth sand dunes of the Sahara. He works primarily on assignment, providing stock images for his corporate clientele. A perpetual nomad, he is always busy charting out the next adventure ... the more bizarre or unearthly, the better. Howe's work has been featured by National Geographic, Nature's Best, and numerous other trade publications. Some of his images grace magazine covers and countless others appear in calendars, books, advertising and promotional materials, and on websites. His photographs adorn the walls of many homes and businesses, with the very best showcased in his series of sixty-nine travel photography books.
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Ari feels trapped: parents demanding he get married on one side, the need for a 'real' job on the other. He relies on his raging hormones for guidance, creating further problems as he struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and the difference between honest relationships and unbridled, anonymous lust.
Right from the off, it is clear that this is going to be a frantic ride. Set within the uptight Greek community in Australia, this small urban drama follows Ari (Dimitriades), a handsome teenager, snorting, smoking and screwing his way through one crazy night. The subsequent journey is real, graphic and littered with casualties.
Director Kokkinos, herself of Greek extraction, attacks some of the anachronisms in the lives of modern teenagers who are part of an immigrant family. As characters on both sides of the tradition-versus-modernity debate are offered up for judgement - transvestite Johnny (Capsis) or honourable Joe (Fotiou) - Kokkinos does a fine job in making you wonder about the futility of both.
Another bonus is that rather than create a straightforward hero, this is a movie that dares to be deeply ambivalent about its leading man. Essentially, Ari is an unlikeable person, self-absorbed, amoral and stubborn. But Dimitriades revels in his character's flaws, quickly realising that it is these very traits which make him so compelling.
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Buggies must be folded by law, if a wheelchair user wishes to board(1000 Posts)
I know this can be a hot topic so thought I'd share that stagecoach have new signs on their buses stating that buggies must be folded by law if a wheelchair user wishes to board. Let's hope it's actually enforced.
That's great news that the new signs are up, hopefully it will make things clearer for the
fuckwits people who don't understand wheelchairs have priority
The signs mean nothing if the drivers do not enforce then. Let's hope that the drivers so their bit and the management/ complaints department back up the drivers .
And please let the drivers throw the idiots who refuse off the bus
For the first time ever I got on a bus which already had a lady in a large fully motorised wheelchair and a lady with a baby in one of those carriage type prams. I've a double P&T Nav with two babies in it. I doubt if the other lady could've folded her pram and mine would have taken up more room folded, but with a bit of manoeuvring we all managed to fit fine and comfortably.
I've heard a lot of people panic about getting on buses with their babies when they see things like this. Of course a wheelchair user has priority over pushchairs but in general, buses can accommodate a couple of hefty prams along with a wheelchair.
It has always been the case that wheelchairs have priority and it should be obvious to most people that a wheelchair user's needs outweighs the needs of a parent and a buggy (even if the baby is sleeping and the buggy is hard to fold and they have a ton of shopping etc).
I guess it wasn't obvious to some else they wouldn't have had to do this though. I will make it easier on their drivers to enforce as they now have a written notice they can point to which proves all buggy users know the score - there's no arguing about who needs the space more or about who it is designed for.
Most Stagecoach buses can take 2 or 3 pushchairs and a wheelchair quite easily these days.
Some heavily laden buggies just can't be folded safely and in those cases the owner should be given a free ticket for the next bus and asked to vacate the space.
This currently doesn't happen and I can understand people being annoyed at having to pay twice which is why some get aggro.
Unless the drivers enforce it there is still a problem. We do have stickers stating that wheelchairs have priority.
I managed to fit DDs adults wheelchair and someone elses pram into the parking space, but it involved taking the foot plates off and tucking her feet under the wheelchair.
There was no way the pram owner was going to put the pram down and make it easier for me, the passengers complained about the driver letting me on with a wheelchair, and the driver sat there whilst a queue built up behind me, whilst I tried politely to get the idiot to collapse his pram.
For my troubles the idiot told his girlfriend that if I was a bloke he would have smacked me in the mouth.
It needs an organised system regarding onward travel for those with pushchairs who get off to vacate the spaces to partially sort the mess out really (you'll never get over the people being twats factor) - if you knew the driver was going to radio the bus behind just to ask if there were pushchair spaces looking like being empty on his bus, and re-do your ticket so you wouldn't have problems getting on and be expected to pay twice (I quite often don't have the cash to pay a second bus fare on me on the way home since they're so bloody pricey round here) then I think people would be a lot less defensive about it - I'd have no problems waiting another 15 mins or so for the next bus - do it fairly regularly if I don't fancy getting on a busy one anyway.
Before I get jumped on for even quibbling about the logistics of onward travel - it IS a factor and if people knew they weren't going to be left high and dry it would sort a fair bit of the mess out.
Oh and something done about the bloody wheelie shopping trollies in all of the spaces that NO drivers will dare ask to be moved at all round here! I actually can't get on one of our local services at all because I know I'll never be able to get a pushchair on for the shopping trollies (on the rare occasions they run an accessible bus).
They complained?
Good god. It's unbelievable that we need a law these days to get people to
artificially have manners.
Not your problem other people are idiots who get on buses with massive tanks and can't collapse them. Get the down to Argos and get a stroller ffs.
How big are stagecoach buses then?
Most buses around here are Arriva and if the person in the wheelchair is positioned correctly...ie with their backs against the large cushion on the wall, there's just about enough room for a small stroller buggy to slot in by their feet.
This is good news. It should be blooming obvious really, but it's good news either way.
That said where I live I have only seen one wheelchair on a bus. I live in Essex. (Accident of when or which I've caught I'm sure) We all reorganised for her. Then discovered that because of the angle of the pole her wheel chair wouldn't fit the space. It wasn't a big chair nor did she seem to have trouble manoeuvring it. Just the pole was in the wrong place/had a bend at the wrong point.
It was .....dunno the best word tbh exasperating (?) on her behalf and it hadn't occurred to me would be an issue! Is it often? Am curious. This thread made me think of it again.
it isn't fair that if you got off to vacate the space you would have to pay to get on another bus. I would collapse if I could but if its a pram with carrycot its difficult.
It sure makes me glad I have a car.
Minnie, we have problem poles on our buses, the trick is to move the chair up the aisle and then reverse into the space. Which is fun when no one wants to move.
I agree it's the onward travel situation that can make it difficult for people to 'just agree' to get off the bus. Of course wheelchairs have priority and buggy users should vacate the space if needed, but they shouldn't be financially penalised for doing so. As PP said, they might not have enough money on them to get home and buses are v expensive these days. Yes buggy users do need to be aware that they may be asked to leave but other bus users with large suitcases or shopping trollies aren't ever asked to move, I don't really know what the difference is as they are all bulky items that take up extra space.
The easiest solution to this problem would be for a woman with a buggy to automatically be issued with a "day rider" ticket - so if she needs to get off a bus for a wheelchair user, she doesn't have to pay again.
The other thing is that people need TIME and if they're alone HELP to juggle collapsing a pram whilst managing the baby too.
Yes it is simple manners on the part of the pram user to fold if possible. However it is also simple manners for people to treat them nicely and offer help.
The buses around here could easily accommodate my double p&t plus a couple of other pushchairs but they wont.
Its 1 double or 2 singles or a wheel chair
Surely if someone with a buggy has to get off a bus, the driver would give them a ticket so they don't have to pay to get on the next one? Same as if your bus breaks down and you have to get another one.
I find it sad that this has to be spelled out. I've been on many buses where an argument breaks out between a buggy user and a wheelchair user, with the former behaving as if they're just as entitled as the latter. What on earth makes people think like that?
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On our single decker buses you could get a wheelchair in the larger space and possibly a small buggy opposite where there are two single seats facing each other, or three buggies in total. Less on the double deckers.
The other day I had to stand up at the front simply because I couldn't get past the guy with his huge trolley parked in the buggy bay. It wasn't a shopping trolley but some sort of contraption (complete with a plastic bread tray on top) for hawking his flashing LED tat from. There were also two buggies on the bus. Quite often, if there's two buggies on already, the drivers don't allow a third if it's a big one. And most parents around here will check before they board that there's space. I don't think trolley guy should have gotten on that bus at all. When one of the mothers with a buggy got off, three of us had to get off the bus so she had room to get off before we could get back on (but we could still barely get past him).
The onward travel thing is a good idea, though most people I know get a day pass unless they are only going one way because it works out a lot cheaper.
Our stagecoach buses have room for a buggy at the foot of a wheelchair and drop down seats opposite, so plenty of room usually.
Apart from when occupied by shopping trolleys.
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Where i live there are no spaces for pushchairs or wheelchairs. Where you get of the bus there is a large standing area and people use that... But most of the time just fold down their pushchairs and carry the kids making way for just wheelchairs. Buses are not a gods given right but a priviledge. People take them way to for granted.
Buses should be designed with more storage space, I would have no problem with folding a buggy to board a bus but sometimes there is nowhere to put said folded buggy and it's hard to hold onto it along with toddler and shopping.
I think half the problem now is that prams are a fashion accessory. They are expensive which puts people off buying the parents buying a second light weight stroller, and they all come with a million accessories like matching change bags and different seats etc. They all look lovely and I'm sure provide comfort to the baby but are bloody huge and impractical if you use public transport regularly. I rely on buses so ease was the factor for me. I didn't care if looked expensive or fancy and had the accessories. Because sleeping new born or squirmy toddler, it's polite to collapse for someone who CANNOT just move or get out and collapse the chair.
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"Lovers of poetry," the editorial declares, "the world over heartily endorsed the appointment of John Masefield to the distinguished position of England's Poet Laureate. Indeed, it is questionable whether the choice would have been different had it been left to a group of his peers to make the selection. A man of liberal views with a fine sense of imagery he has won a permanent place for himself in the history of English letters.
"It is especially interesting to note that the questionable reference to the Jewish people orginally contained in his ballad "London Town," has been changed in the next edition of his works. It was in this city, at a meeting of the Contemporary Club, since eight or ten years ago, that the matter was brought to the notice of the distinguished poet by David Werner Amram, our esteemed fellow townsman. The line referred to originally read:
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