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Theodora Uniken Venema: Building an International Client Base
To successfully build an international client base, learn their culture, which means traveling abroad and visiting those homelands, as well as guiding clients through each phase of what can be a complicated transaction. Also, develop a network of experts that can answer complicated legal, tax and immigration questions. Watch the video for more tips. - View
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This article was published 8/8/2014 (1109 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
UPDATE: According to the Brandon and Area Lost Animals Facebook page, Butterscotch the cat was found Saturday morning and has been freed from the trap on its head.
BRANDON—It's getting near dusk, and Toni Gramiak is down on all fours setting a trap for a cat. The bait is a piece of fried chicken tied to a string.
"It's KFC tonight," she says.
Gramiak sprays some pheromone in nearby bushes. She sprinkles catnip and lays out a handful of dried food.
The trap is not just for any cat. It's the orange-and-white tabby locals have dubbed "Butterscotch," otherwise known far and wide - with its photo splashed across newspapers and Internet sites across Canada - as the elusive stray with the bird feeder on its head.
"Obviously, he's become famous," Gramiak says. "A cat wearing a hat."
First, some clarification: It's not a bird feeder, it's a bug trap made of plastic. Second, the story behind the hunt for Butterscotch is more than just some cat-and-mouse effort by some unrelenting animal lovers that has now lasted more than two weeks.
In the words of Gramiak, who now spends most of her waking hours tracking the feline, it's "beyond bizarre."
Spoiler alert: She's right.
Butterscotch was first sighted in a suburb in Brandon's south end on July 23 by a concerned resident. Gramiak, co-ordinator for Brandon and Area Lost Animals, was notified.
So Gramiak loaded up her minivan with traps and night-vision cameras acquired for previous missions - she mostly tracks lost or stray dogs - and went to work.
Her goal was to follow the cat, track his routes and routine, and find the best spot to set her camouflaged traps. It's a mundane, time-consuming process. "We're interested in his path of travel, his behaviour," she explains. "We need to find a spot where he's calm."
From her minivan, Gramiak co-ordinates a handful of volunteers who station themselves around the upscale suburban neighbourhood. One is parked on a street frequented by Butterscotch. Another, Sandy Brown, is watching the monitors positioned outside the trap, set in a home where the cat was spotted by a paper carrier at the end of his nocturnal jaunts.
Gramiak notes spotting Butterscotch is easy. It's the trapping that's hard.
In the last two weeks alone, Gramiak estimates she's received about 75 calls, texts and emails of sightings from total strangers.
"These people are amazing," she says. "What people have done to help this cat. Incredible. They're going above and beyond. And it's just a cat, right?"
Sure enough, around 7:45 on Thursday night, Gramiak's phone buzzes. It's a text from a resident who has spotted the cat.
"He's here," Gramiak announces. "He's early."
Within minutes, Gramiak is parked in the area in question. And, behold, there's Butterscotch in the fur, lounging under a bush in a front yard across the street. The bug trap is still covering his head.
After a few minutes, the tabby gets up, stretches and prepares to cross the street right in front of Gramiak's vehicle. The moment the cat steps out on the street from behind a parked car, Gramiak notices a truck barreling down the street. She frantically tries to wave the driver down while Butterscotch, pretty much blindfolded, begins to amble across the pavement.
Fortunately, the truck misses Butterscotch by a split second. The wince-inducing moment was a glimpse of Gramiak's worst nightmare.
"To watch and know I can do nothing for him... it's hard," she says. "If he got hit by a car right in front of me... "
But Butterscotch is none the wiser. So he continues to a destination Gramiak says is a date like clockwork each evening: "His girlfriend's house."
"Without fail," Gramiak continues. "It's quite the relationship. But I think he has other girlfriends she doesn't know about. He's such a Casanova."
Gramiak knows the cat's routine because she and her volunteers have spent countless hours tracking him. Every night. All night. They say tranquilizer darts are too dangerous.
Gramiak also doesn't want to chase or spook Butterscotch using nets, given his limited vision. So they use only traps that are monitored.
So far, nothing.
Earlier this week was the closest call, when Butterscotch was seen by Brown and another volunteer, Laurie Unruh, milling about a trap in the wee hours. "We thought he was going to go in," Brown recalls. "We were like, 'One more step! One more step!' But he walked right by."
Adds Unruh: "It's frustrating. It's heartbreaking. It's a challenge. All you want to do is do the best for this cat."
It's unclear whether Butterscotch has owners, now or in the past - no one has stepped forward. If caught, the first order of business will be to "take that thing off his head, find out if he has owners (tattoo) and if he's a long, lost cherished pet. If not, we'll vet him and find him a home."
The good news is the trap has adjusted on Butterscotch's head to the point where he can eat and drink, which they didn't believe he could do at first. The bad news is KFC bait won't be so appealing.
Gramiak, however, insists Butterscotch would have been captured long ago if not for one man who has become her nemesis. Their bitter feud has resulted in threats issued, several calls to the local police and accusations of sabotage.
Oh, yeah, the bizarre part.
When asked about the "saboteur" in question, two area residents, who did not want to be identified, just exchange knowing glances.
Without prompting, they begin to rattle off stories, dating back years, of car windows being shot out by pellet guns, cars being egged, nails spread on driveways and dog feces left on car windows.
"It goes on and on," one says.
They suspect the man is the culprit, but have no proof. They just stay clear.
"Nobody will look at him," another neighbour says. "Who wants all that?"
Gramiak then explains how she was at first on talking terms with the man, but the relationship soured when she found him spreading lawn clippings in front of the trap soon after. The relationship turned sour.
Gramiak says the man began to intentionally create noise - using a water-pressure hose or banging on his fence - to keep Butterscotch away. He would turn on the lights (and cameras) that surround his home at all hours of the night.
"He started blatantly sabotaging right in front of me," Gramiak says. "We've had to start (tracking) from scratch."
As Gramiak is relating her grievances, the man steps outside his home and sits down on his front steps and stares at her vehicle, parked some 36 metres away. He then gets up and disappears into his attached garage.
Seconds later, Gramiak's vehicle is hit by a floodlight. It's the same man, standing in his front yard and pointing the blinding light towards Gramiak's vehicle. In the suburbs.
Gramiak isn't surprised. It happens on a regular basis.
"How do you like the spotlight?" she asks. "We might even get the strobe light if you're lucky."
After the man, in his 40s or early 50s, turns off the spotlight, a reporter approaches and asks for an interview.
"See ya," he says, retreating into the garage and shutting the door. "Get off my property or I'll call 911."
On one side, the Butterscotch Brigade of animal lovers. On the other, the man they believe to be keeping the cat out of the trap.
Volunteers like Jo-ann Pasklivich-Holder, who first brought Gramiak kippers and sardines to use as bait, know their efforts are seen by some residents as, pardon the pun, a little flighty.
"Some people say we're nuts. It's just a cat," the mental-health community worker shrugs. "To each his own. Everybody has a right to choose a cause. I'd help anybody in distress, people or animals."
It's the same reason Pasklivich-Holder recently volunteered to sandbag around homes in the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis, on the outskirts of Brandon. To help.
Pasklivich is adamant she'll keep up the hunt until Butterscotch is safe. Needless to say, Gramiak agrees.
"When I have to catch an animal, it's a job I have to do," she says. "It's something you can't walk away from. Not a cat that's in distress like this one. The cat has to be captured."
It's now approaching 1 a.m. early Friday morning and Gramiak is parked on a pitch-dark road, not far from the trap. Two monitors are flickering on her dashboard while she constantly scans websites and message boards for any word of her friendly prey. Another long night awaits.
What if you catch him, someone asks. What then?
"Sleep and eat," she replies. "And cuddle. He'll get cuddled whether he likes it or not."

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WHEREAS, correctional agencies have a responsibility to contribute to the public safety by exercising reasonable, safe, secure, and humane control of offenders committed to their custody;
WHEREAS, the nature of custodial responsibility requires that correctional staff adhere to professional standards of conduct which clearly define the use and exercise of authority and which emphatically reject all behaviors exceeding those bounds;
WHEREAS, any sexual harassment, activity or abuse occurring between correctional staff and offenders is inappropriate and unacceptable conduct and a fundamental violation of security which should not be tolerated by correctional administrators or the public;
WHEREAS, correctional administrators should aggressively promote equal opportunity for all persons pursing employment and advancement in the profession of corrections;
WHEREAS, on January 1, 1998 35,793 female correctional officers were assigned to supervise male inmates and 4,427 male correctional officers were assigned to supervise female inmates;
WHEREAS, correctional administrators have a responsibility to provide leadership, to pursue legislation, and to develop policies and procedures to ensure correctional staff perform their responsibilities within professionally accepted standards of behavior;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Association of State Correctional Administrators strongly encourages each of its members agencies to adopt and vigorously enforce specific policies prohibiting all forms of sexual harassment, activity, or abuse between correctional employees and offenders. These policies should: be in writing; clearly define unacceptable behavior; provide for a fair and timely investigative and grievance process; provide for criminal prosecution; and be widely communicated and emphasized to all staff through training and other appropriate methods.
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Come October, I think it is safe to say that we won't be watching the Mets in the 2011 playoffs. But if you like to live in the past, as I do, there's no reason why you can't watch the Mets in the playoffs next month- as long as those playoffs are from 1986.
A&E is now selling a DVD of Baseball's Greatest Games: Game 6, 1986 World Series. You might know it as the game that inspired a fantastic Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
I'll be giving away two copies of the DVD this week. Here's how to qualify for the giveaway:
2. On our Facebook wall, post your essay of 50 words or less on the following topic: What Does Nick Evans Mean to Me?
You'll be glad you did. My Nick Evans essay is below, as a guideline. Please don't plagiarize it for your essay, as I'll know where it came from.
Nick Evans is a tremendous hitter who had been buried by Omar Minaya. The player I first saw on the back fields at Port St. Lucie is finally getting a chance to contribute. My wife has an Evans shirt; it makes me like both Evans and my wife more.
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This article was published 16/11/2012 (1739 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The temperature is close to freezing at nightfall in early October, and the drizzle has turned to sleet.
It's miserable. Still, a small group huddled against the cold has gathered behind the Manitoba legislature, once again, for a chance to be seen and heard. Almost all of them are from families of missing and murdered women -- who have gathered for a frigid Sisters in Spirit vigil -- many holding home-made banners with the names of their lost loved ones.
Bernice Catcheway has been here before, every year since her daughter, Jennifer, was last seen near Grand Rapids in June 2008. She's clutching two things: A sign, offering $10,000 for the location of her daughter, and hope.
"She's always in my mind, my heart, my thoughts," Bernice said. "She never goes away. My hope and desire is we find her and bring her home."
On this night, however, it's too cold and wet for any candles to stay lit. And the backup bullhorn is on the fritz, so when Kyle Kematch -- the brother of Amber Guiboche, who went missing eight days after her 19th birthday on Nov. 10, 2010, and hasn't been seen since -- gets his chance to speak, you can see his breath, but you can't hear the words.
It's a vivid image that screams out the analogy shared by the vigil-antes. Because after several weeks interviewing those on the front lines of what has been called a Canadian tragedy -- an estimated 570 women missing or murdered women, almost half of them gone since 2000 -- there is a palpable sense of simmering frustration and anger toward the indifferent.
And that includes aboriginal leaders, almost exclusively male, who advocates believe have turned a deaf ear to their decades-long struggle.
Over the past two decades, some 80 aboriginal women have gone missing in Manitoba, according to aboriginal groups.
It's a messy, complicated, blood-stained story of misery. Too often, it begins with poverty, abuse and addiction and ends with police combing a garbage dump for a dead body. Another family grieves and society shrugs.
Why? Perhaps because the women who are never seen alive again are invariably the victims of a perfect storm of hurt: gender inequality, overt racism and social injustice.
Poor. Aboriginal. Women.
Little wonder that Brenda Osborne ends up sitting in a sharing circle in a women's centre in the North End, rolling a healing stone in her hand, wondering if the story of her daughter Claudette, missing for four years and counting, will ever disappear, too.
"It's like screaming from the deepest hole, and no one can hear," Osborne said.
"But how long will it be before somebody rescues us?"
Don't hold your breath. After all, almost every night you can find young women along McKenzie Street, in an alley behind a bingo hall. Or in front of a pizza joint that deals crack on Ellice. Or on Sargent, directly across from a church and a massage parlour.
The predators know where to find them.
The vast majority of the women are aboriginal. Most are addicted to drugs. And they likely have a history of family abuse and violence, or simply no family at all.
"A lot of it comes down to the way a child is made to feel," said Debbie Cumby, an outreach worker at Ndinawae Youth Resource Centre.
"You go out on the street, and you're wanted. You come to think of these people as family. I don't mean in any way to glamorize it, but it's a huge party in the beginning... until you realize the road you're going down. And there's no way out of it."
And then you're gone.
Leslie Spillet can do the historical math. If you want, Spillet can connect the dots from when Jacques Cartier first set foot on the shores of Gaspé Bay in 1534 to the moment a 20-something former ward of Manitoba's Child and Family Services agency set foot on Juno Street last week to offer oral sex for 10 bucks.
"It proves colonization works," Spillet offered, bluntly. "It's inextricably linked to our relationship with a dominant culture for centuries. It wasn't an accident. It was a methodical, strategic plan."
Spillet is the executive director of Ka Ni Kanichihk, a community-based services centre on McDermot Avenue, which in the last year has developed a support program for families of missing and murdered women in Manitoba. Counsellors at the centre are currently working with 14 families and have room for up to 25.
Spillet has spent most of her life preaching about violence against aboriginal and indigenous women, from Austin Street to Australia. In many ways, she's still searching for the choir.
Perhaps because she offers a clinical, fundamental history lesson, which could take generations to unravel, that deconstructs the victims who have become disposable "pieces of garbage" that -- and here's the bitter irony -- end up being found in or near a city's landfill site.
It's straightforward anthropology: Many aboriginal cultures were matriarchal. Women had power. In some indigenous tribes, they could choose or oust male chiefs. They were the caregivers and the conscience; the men were the warriors and hunters.
The European settlers, meanwhile, considered women lesser-than. Almost immediately, aboriginal women were characterized as "dirty squaws." It stuck. The dehumanization began in earnest. Laws were enacted specifically designed to separate native women -- and their offspring -- from their aboriginal roots. Or at the very least, their treaty rights.
Fast-forward through generations of reserves, relocation and residential schools, and go figure that nobody cares if another dirty squaw goes missing. She was probably just another whore looking for crack.
Too harsh? You can look it up.
"If native women are constructed as 'easy squaws' and are locked into this imagery through the behaviour of individuals, they will continue to be rendered worthless in public institutions such as courtrooms or hospitals," wrote aboriginal author and researcher Kim Anderson, in A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood.
"If we treat native women as easy or drunken squaws in the court system, we feed negative stereotypes that will further enable individuals to abuse native females, and so on. Native female images are part of a vicious cycle that deeply influences the lives of contemporary native women. We need to get rid of the images, the systems that support them and the abusive practices carried out by individuals."
In another dissertation, Pathways of Resistance: The Politics of Addressing Violence Against Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada (1980-2010), University of Toronto PhD candidate Robyn Bourgeois wrote: "The myth of the deviant aboriginal woman continues to plague us, reinforced by dominant cases that coalesce prostitution and aboriginal women into a single entity. Contemporary Canadian society dismisses violence against aboriginal women and girls today on the basis of these perceived deviances (addicted, sexually available). We are not even treated as human beings. Human beings have the right to a life free from violence, yet we have to convince the Canadian state to step up and protect us."
Shannon Buck, the program co-ordinator for Red Road to Healing at the West Central Women's Resource Centre, noted: "It's a huge part of it, seeing that big picture of history to where women are now. The concept of the squaw is alive and well in North America, and all the ugliness of that word."
The dehumanizing can start early on the streets of Winnipeg, with preteen girls (and boys) propositioned on the way to grade school in the North End.
Or as Spillet would say, "We know that every morning, a man in south Winnipeg wakes up and drives to the North End to rape children."
Years ago, Chickadee Richard, a longtime activist and outreach community worker at the Stella Mission, was walking her then-10-year-old daughter to school when a car pulled up on Balmoral Avenue. The man offered her $10 for oral sex.
"That traumatized me," Richard recalled. "What right do you have? I don't drink. I don't smoke. Because I'm native and walking down the street you have the right to do that? When is it going to end? You've been beaten down so much you don't want to get up. You lose faith in humanity."
But back to the "drunken sluts" who are their own worst enemies, who by choice expose themselves to the deadly risks of the unforgiving street. Without question, that is a prevailing attitude that has for so long muted the voices of the families of murdered and missing women -- at least to the ears of the general public, police and legislators.
In reality, the vast majority of the young women who end up peddling themselves in back alleys for crack are the children of addiction and abuse, veterans of CFS, some with symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome. Most have little, if any, self-worth or realistic options. The most vulnerable of the vulnerable.
In fact, Spillet readily agrees with U.S. feminist activist Andrea Lee Smith, co-founder of INCITE: Women of Colour Against Violence, who has long argued the role of native women was to literally "absorb the violence of the colonial project."
"That has followed us to this day," concurred Nahanni Fontaine, a longtime activist who is now a special adviser on the file of missing and murdered women for the provincial government. "If you have somebody that has all this rage, who better to take it out on than someone who's considered dispensable or less-than?"
Worse, considered worthless or less-than even by themselves and the justice system.
On April 18, 1995, two young white men in their early 20s beat a 28-year-old aboriginal prostitute named Pamela George to death just outside Regina. Although originally charged with first-degree murder, the two men -- one the son of a former Saskatchewan cabinet minister, the other the son of a university professor -- were convicted of manslaughter. The two men were sentenced to 61/2 years in prison.
The judge ruled alcohol played more of a factor in the murder than race. Clearly, that ruling was from the defendant's perception, not the victim's circumstances, critics of the decision argued.
In a seminal study of the case, published in 2002, scholar Sherene Razack noted that "in contemporary Canadian society, violence against aboriginal women has become normalized, and that the circumstances of aboriginal women tend to be presented outside of any historical context, absolving any responsibility or accountability to the people who perpetrate the violence and marginalization."
Brenda Osborne doesn't require an academic treatise. Her lessons have been etched in personal tragedy, including the murder of her cousin, Helen Betty Osborne, in The Pas in 1971 -- a case that became infamous for the conspiracy of silence, in which police didn't solve the crime for 15 years because witnesses refused to talk. The story of the Osborne case was later told in the book Conspiracy of Silence.
Another cousin, Felicia Solomon, was 16 years old when she disappeared in 2003 during a lunch break at school. Three months later, Felicia's arm and leg were found in the Red River. Nothing else was ever found, including the killer.
Brenda Osborne's daughter, Claudette, vanished after leaving the Lincoln Hotel on McPhillips Street in July 2008.
In telling the stories, one after the other, Osborne seems resigned to what a professor might call "historical context." She would call it her life.
"My mother told me a long time ago that we (aboriginal women) are nothing better than the dirt white people walk on," Osborne said. "That hasn't changed. If you're at a certain place, they see you as easy pickings."
A place where Sally finds herself. Sally is not her real name, but she is a 43-year-old woman sitting in an office at the Ndinawae Youth Resources Centre on Selkirk Avenue. Sally has been working in the sex trade in Winnipeg's North End for more than 15 years, and describes herself "as a connoisseur of the pills, the alcohol, the crack."
"A lot of us have disappeared," she explained. "I have no clue what's going on. These are my sisters who are missing, who are dead. It scares me, but I work because of my drug problem. I'm still at rock bottom. It's a bad, bad life, to say the least."
Then she smiled, or tried to.
"But," Sally said, "I enjoy my drugs."
Aboriginal women used to have power. They used to be protected. They used to have a voice.
Sometimes, history lessons reek of alcohol in the middle of an afternoon.
When Nahanni Fontaine recalls the day she first met Shawn Lamb, she still shudders.
It was when Fontaine worked as an advocate for the Southern Chiefs Organization a few years ago, and she was asked to go to the Winnipeg Remand Centre to meet with two inmates claiming to have aboriginal roots who were reaching out for representation. The first inmate told Fontaine he was raped when he was four years old.
"Then in walks Shawn Lamb," Fontaine recalled.
Lamb proceeded to describe a life that was -- according to court documents -- like Oliver Twist on crack. Literally.
Adopted by a white family off an Ontario reserve as a toddler. Sexually and physically abused in childhood. Drinking at age nine. Using heroin at age 16.
Fontaine quickly came to the conclusion that the the Southern Chiefs Organization could help neither Lamb nor his fellow inmate. But instead of returning to her office, a shaken Fontaine drove straight home. Why?
"I just wanted to pick up my (two) sons from school," she explained. "I just wanted to be with my children."
In June, Shawn Cameron Lamb, a 52-year-old drifter, was charged with second-degree murder in the cases of three aboriginal women -- Tanya Nepinak, 31, Carolyn Sinclair, 25, and Lorna Blacksmith, 18. The bodies of Sinclair, who was pregnant when she died, and Blacksmith were reportedly wrapped in plastic and dumped near inner-city garbage bins. Nepinak's body has not been found.
The Free Press reported in June that Lamb has 99 convictions, according to court documents, dating back to 1976 in four provinces and 11 different cities, including a four-year sentence for sexual assault in Peace River, Alta., in 1992.
Lamb had most recently been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and procuring the sexual services of someone under the age of 18, the offences dating to an incident on Oct. 23, 2011. Lamb was charged and released on a promise to appear.
The Free Press learned the girl at the centre of that case is 14 years old. She met a man behind the Portage Place mall and asked him for a cigarette. He asked if she wanted some crack, then they left the mall to go to his house.
The meeting of eerie happenstance occurred just one month after the disappearance of Tanya Nepinak.
According to the girl's mother, the man eventually left the house to "get a friend." The girl, who has a history of substance abuse, left before either man returned.
The mother was aware of the charge, but wasn't notified Lamb was the accused until almost a year later, when he was arrested on murder charges.
"I was in total shock," the mother said.
The number of killings of missing women does not seem to be a deterrent to the most vulnerable women themselves. Cumby, the outreach worker on Ellice, walks the streets to hand out "harm reduction" kits to girls and women in the North and West ends: everything from 50 cents for a phone call to hand sanitizers to mittens to nutrition bars. ("Not the peanut butter ones. They don't like those.")
The mission statement, she said, is getting the women "off the street and into safety." It's a tough slog against addiction, easy money and few options. She knows women who have shared drugs with Lamb and asks them, "Doesn't that scare the shit out of you? After getting high with (an alleged) serial killer? Aren't you afraid to be working?
"They just try not to think about it. Some girls won't even read the bad date sheets because they don't want to be scared thinking, 'Is this him?' If they focus on that, how are they going to do what they need to do?"
Indeed, Lamb's arrest undoubtedly raised the profile of missing and murdered women in Manitoba. It also exposed the often unspoken reality that violence perpetrated on aboriginal women is not confined, and never has been, to the affluent men of the suburbs -- the stereotypical everyman -- who cruise the North End streets for sex. ("These girls from the north are like candy to these pigs," one longtime women's advocate spat.)
"Yeah, we have First Nations girls on the street," one former sex-trade worker said. "But there's a lot of First Nations people picking them up, too. They (the aboriginal community) don't want to believe their men do it as well."
The former prostitute said one of her regular clients, about 40 per cent of whom were aboriginal, was a prominent native leader who would drive by her on the street and throw a crumpled $20 bill out the window to get her attention.
"It would take him 45 minutes to drive to the hotel," she said. "He would be going up and down all these streets. He was scared someone might see because he was a politician and all."
At the same time, there exists a pronounced frustration echoed among women in the aboriginal community about being heard by their own leaders.
Just attend the vigils. Witness the sharing circles. Men are a tiny minority, if they attend at all.
"Write that we don't hear from our leaders," Brenda Osborne insisted. "Write that down. Come and sit with us and share our pain. They're the ones who are in power. They're supposed to be our voices. We're not taken seriously. And we don't want our leaders to be behind us. We want our leaders to be beside us or in front of us."
Make no mistake. These women, such as Osborne, are distrustful of police. They see the justice system as ineffectual, at best. And they loath the men who continue to cruise their neighbourhoods to buy sex.
But they also are disillusioned by their leaders, who have not in the past reinforced the families' attempts to raise awareness for their collective plight.
There is a caveat to that disappointment, however.
Said Richard: "Our families are devastated by history. Nobody knows their responsibilities."
"No one wants to talk about the uncomfortable things," Buck added. "In our community, sexual abuse, violence and addiction are huge. Our leadership in a lot of ways is unhealthy. Part of it is that men don't know how to help. They've lost their role as protectors and providers. They've lost a part of themselves.
"And there's a lot of angry women who won't let them get involved. They shut them out. They still view all men as predators. They're not able to allow men to come beside them."
In a recent interview, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak was asked about aboriginal women who felt "let down" by their own leaders, and he replied: "I think we've all been let down."
"People ask where our leaders are," Nepinak said. "I'm a leader who is committed to finding an answer. Are we truly living up to that responsibility? We have to awake the warrior spirit in our people. The men have to take that role once again."
Buck described the relationship between men and women of the aboriginal community -- in regard to the issue of missing and murdered women -- as "very complicated and sad," which only serves to undermine the ultimate goal. "It can't just be one group of people doing it (pressing the issue)," she reasoned.
For Spillet, the dysfunction is only more proof that colonialism works: the human toll of residential school abuse, systemic racism and the weight of poverty. Go figure the male leadership role in the aboriginal community has been eroded.
Besides, Spillet noted, that unfortunate -- she would say calculated -- reality only distracts from the obvious: "The freaking army would be digging up every inch of that garbage dump" -- the Brady landfill site believed to contain Tanya Nepinak's body -- "to find a white child. We know it. We see it. It just tells us who we are.
"Do you think if a bunch of kids from River Heights started killing themselves or each other that something wouldn't be done?"
Spillet doesn't wait for an answer. The question was rhetorical.
It's Saturday afternoon, and Kyle Kematch and his brother Faron Girouard are walking up and down Main Street, a stone's throw from the Winnipeg police headquarters, putting up posters and a brave front.
It's the second anniversary of the disappearance of their sister, Amber Guiboche, then 20, who was last seen Nov. 10, 2010, getting into a red pickup truck in a William Street back alley.
The brothers -- Girouard in property management, Kematch in the drywall business -- are no strangers to loss. Their older sister, Crystal, died of an overdose at age 19, just over 20 years ago. Within a week of that death, their mother -- who also suffered from addiction -- committed suicide by jumping off the Redwood Bridge.
The posters contain a picture of Amber and the details of her disappearance. The brothers have learned, by experience, to put the posters higher up, so they are not so easily torn down, and to concentrate them at bus stops and intersections.
"We've been all over Manitoba putting these up," said Kyle, 29. As far away as Dauphin and northern Ontario.
"We may be beating the pavement for nothing," added Faron, 36, "but we have to do it."
Such is the mantra of the families who gather at the vigils, join searches for bodies of the missing or march at the rallies to raise awareness for their lost loved ones.
For them, it's a sometimes dreary, sometimes terrifying, sometimes humiliating journey.
There are days when the phone rings and the cell reads "Private number," which Faron instantly recognizes as the police.
Always, the initial anticipation is bad news.
"My heart just drops," he said.
Or dealing with the perception that every missing or murdered woman is involved in "a high-risk lifestyle."
"The onus always seems to be on the family to prove their daughter was worth mourning, and that they didn't do anything to get what they deserve," offered Shawna Ferris, an assistant professor in women's and gender studies at the University of Manitoba.
The brothers agree. Amber Guiboche wasn't known to be in the sex trade. But here's a little secret: Being a 20-year-old woman out drinking with friends on any given volatile night in the North End is a "high-risk lifestyle."
After all, what's considered a "high-risk lifestyle" when 12-year-old girls walking to elementary school are routinely propositioned by brazen grown men? The same men who will even proposition social workers?
"Even when we're out there with 'Outreach' written on the back of our jackets, they will be trying to pick us up," Cumby said. "How stupid is that?"
"It's not just happening to sex-trade workers," added Christie Paul, neighbourhood resource co-ordinator with the North Point Douglas Women's Centre.
"It's sisters. It's daughters. Some of these girls are 14 years old. You can't tell me they're choosing this life. They live in a high-risk environment, but that high risk is poverty."
Or some psychopath. Or a taste for meth. Or just getting into the wrong red pickup truck at midnight in November.
"Who is attacking these women? It's not just these lone, monster, serial guys," said Ferris. "They get all the media attention. It's males, mostly white, relatively educated and young."
The exact demographic is difficult to determine, Ferris added, "because there are a lot of people that don't get caught. Often it isn't any direct motive. It just happens: 'She pissed me off so I hit her.'"
Hence another distinction: Missing and murdered women might be considered an aboriginal issue, but the root causes are not just racial, Ferris suggested. They're gender-based across the ethnic board. For example, she said, "What if we addressed the problem from birth onwards? What if we actually acknowledged that the reason women get hit is because there's an assumption they should submit? And if they don't submit, it's a problem."
Poor. Aboriginal. Women.
So where is the progress? It's hard to find at the vigil in early October, where one frustrated family member yelled into the bullhorn: "How many other women could be in that (Brady) landfill? You never know. They're not going to do anything. If you want action, you have to do it yourself. When are you guys going to wake up?"
The two brothers, Kyle and Faron, feel that same helplessness, but they nonetheless have taped up more than 1,000 posters of their lost sister.
Bernice Catcheway will continue coming back to the vigils, holding a picture of her daughter.
"As long as there's breath in me, I have hope," she said. "Without hope, there's nothing. We'll keep searching. We'll keep hoping."
In fact, that indelible image of Kyle Kematch standing in sleet in the backyard of the legislative building, speaking into a bullhorn that didn't work, could be symbolic of a lost cause.
Or perhaps the mirror image: refusing to stop speaking even if you can't be heard.
"It was so cold, but we were there," Buck noted of the vigil. "Even if there's one person standing in the wind and the rain holding a candle... If that ever stops happening, we're in trouble.
"I get pessimistic and become cynical. But I believe ultimately we can change it. It's going to be a very, very long process of reversing things. But we will go anywhere. We will do anything to bring our daughters home. All we want as mothers is someone to listen to us, someone who will agree with us that our children matter."
Fontaine points to progress: the raised awareness -- such as the recent National Aboriginal Women's Summit on missing and murdered women in Winnipeg -- and the advances in posting media advisories for women "at risk."
"Where we are today is nowhere near where we were four or five years ago," she said. "I've literally seen change. If nothing's changed, that means all of this work for 20 years has meant nothing. It's taken 400 years to get where we are. I have to have faith that things will get better. Not as fast as we want, obviously, but things will change.
"I'm always amazed by the resilience and strength of our people," Fontaine concluded. "I am in awe of the mothers who continue to go to the vigils, continue to speak out. It's the courage of our women and our girls that is the beautiful piece of this story. Not that we're less-than, not that we're savages. We're not whores, we're not prostitutes. Our bodies are there to absorb every bit of violence. We're there to shed the light."
And what did Kematch say into that broken bullhorn, anyway?
"I thanked everybody for their help and support," the brother of Amber Guiboche said, trudging down Main Street, with a backpack full of posters. "Even though we're not getting much, I still said 'Thank you.'"


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I was at the cancer center today for my CT scan results and they gave me a form to fill out to get a copy of my records. They will release them to ME and I can send them wherever I want. As for the biopsy slides, I was told that generally they are requested by some other institution on my behalf when someone wants to see them. From reading someone elses posting this doesn't match up, but we'll see.
I talked to Mayo Clinic in MN today and they started a file and told me how it works if I don't have insurance to cover. Similar to other posted experience, they require a $3000 deposit before they will see you and then use that money for tests/procedures, whatever. When it is spent down, they require more upfront payment before they will continue.
Ok, I'm avoiding the CT results. One of the tumors grew
It went from 3.8x3.2 to 4.7x 3.4 cm and is in the lateral segment of the left lobe. Another in the left lobe changed sizes, but not much bigger, if at all. The one on my right lobe was 3.2x3.2 and is now 2.8x3.5, again, essentially the same.
They want to start me on the oral chemo Xeloda. The nurse told me that one of the main side effects was diarrhea, and when I told her I have that constantly for like 10 years, she said she wanted to get back ahold of my Dr and ask her about that. I have another appointment with blood tests Monday morning.
I can't say that I'm a happy camper. I hated the wait and see stuff, but now I hate hearing that one of the adenocarcinomas has grown. Just won't be satisfied I guess! I gave her my whole spiel about consulting someone else, finding out about surgical possibilities, referring me to someone who is more experienced in GI matters, etc and she promised to discuss all of that with my Oncologist too (My Oncologist is out of the country for 3 weeks).
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A nursery that has received complaints about its childcare provision has taken Ofsted to a tribunal for removing it from its list of registered education providers.
The independent education regulator cancelled Mini Me's Nursery and Pre School's registration after a series of inspections which found it was breaching the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (EYFS).
Ofsted carried out the inspections after a receiving a complaint raising a number of concerns with the nursery, based in Fallows Court, East Finchley, in February last year.
These included the lack of suitability checks for staff, lack of qualifications and heating, as well as the number of unsupervised visitors and confusion over the nursery's management.
When Ofsted inspected the nursery in March 2013 it found staff had not had a suitability check, and the nursery was temporarily closed.
Following two further visits later that month, Ofsted made the decision to suspend the registration of the nursery because it believed children were at potential risk of harm as a result of the breaches.
In a statement on Ofsted's website, it states: "These breaches related to unsafe recruitment of staff, lack of suitability checks, risks on the premises and lack of overall knowledge of EYFS."
The suspension was lifted three months later after the provider took "appropriate action" to minimise the risks, but Ofsted continued to monitor the nursery - and in August and September more complaints were lodged.
An inspector visited the site again and found further breaches of the EYFS surrounding the safe recruitment of staff, the stability of the management and their knowledge of EYFS.
As a result, a decision was taken to cancel Mini Me's registration with Ofsted.
In the online statement, Ofsted said: "At this time insufficient action has been taken to secure and sustain compliance with EYFS and further breaches have been identified relating to welfare requirements relating to learning and development, supervision, attendance registers, failure to identify and minimise risks, failure to meet needs of children with special educational needs and management of existing injuries."
Mini Me's objected to the decision to cancel its registration but the objection was dismissed.
Mini Me's then appealed to an independent external tribunal, the Health, Education and Social Care First-tier Tribunal, which heard the case this week.
A report outlining the result of the tribunal is expected to be published within ten days.
A spokeswoman for Ofsted said: "In relation to the nursery, Ofsted can confirm that it has served a notice to cancel the provision. The provider has appealed and the case is currently with the tribunal. As a result it is still a registered setting whilst the tribunal is ongoing."


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Why read words when we can kill stuff the words tell us about?
You have dreamed of death, you thought to escape it. Now, my little puppet, death is all you will ever know.
Not a mog, just testing alternatives with the wardrobe. Goodbye, dumbass skirts.
The weapon on the left picture looks much better with that set imo
I wanted to use the Replica Shado-Pan Helmet in keeping with the spirit of the expansion, and I've finally found a mog I love. I haven't changed since I finished it. Thought I'd share.
I decided to base my mog around the Mountainscaler Battleplate set (purchasable in Townlong Steppes), since it has that samurai-ish style; the matching shoulders for this set, however, are too large and make you look top-heavy and goofy, so I fired up WMV and eventually found a subdued shoulder replacement that picks up the grayish-pale green and ridges of the armor. They're a reward from a post-Cataclysm quest in Tanaris that I had luckily never done.
I matched it with the Indefatigable Greatcloak, purchasable for JP. It forms a neat, green "T spine", and the rust color picks up the red in the set, with a little fancy flourish at the bottom. I then farmed the Dreadlord's Blade, since its color reflects the reddish parts, and its model is both unique and looks brutal.
Another decent 2-hander match with a unique model is the Sword of Justice; the green in it matches fairly well. I just don't like the "tuning fork" look of it.
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Oh my God that looks amazing! Incredibly unique and fits together perfectly. It looks best with the Dreadlord's Blade imo.
I love how original a lot of the set are that have been linked, very cool to see all the variations. Still working on mine.
I haven't seen those shoulders be really worked into a set. You kept in mind the color scheme while still holding out on the reddish theme. I'm very impressed, Majestian.
What are some good shields and weapons for the challenge mode gear. Just finished my gold runs and now need some cool transmog items to go with it. I'm a blood elf.
I've see a couple people pairing that gear with Life and Death and Barricade of Eternity.


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I still know all of the lyrics from Michelle Branch's "Everywhere" from her 2001 platinum selling album, The Spirit Room. She followed up that release with her 2003 album, Hotel Paper. When she and Nashville singer/songwriter Jessica Harp decided to part ways after forming the country music duo The Wreckers, Michelle released a personal EP, Everything Comes and Goes, in August 2010.
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One of the most annoying jingles to hit Australian televisions in recent years – Status Quo's Down Down – has caused an Adelaide radio station to breach new commercial radio codes of conduct.
Adelaide's Classic Hits station, 5DN, played a three-minute version of the song during the Craig Huggins Weekdays program without telling its listeners it was an advertisement for Coles.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority found this breached a new code of conduct because listeners would not have known it was an advertisement. The song was immediately preceded by a station promo and was followed by two songs.
The ACMA acknowledged that the breach was not intentional and caused by a technical error because a pre-recorded announcement failed to play. However, the rules do not provide exemptions in the case of technical difficulties.
The owner of 5DN, Australian Radio Network, has since upgraded its software to prevent recurrence. Chief operating officer Geraint Davies said he was satisfied with the outcome of the ACMA's investigation.
"I think it was thoroughly investigated and other than a technical studio error ... I think the findings were solid." The station has not been penalised.
This was the first breach of the new rules since it was introduced last May.
"Long-form musical advertisements like this are a relatively new innovation in radio advertising," ACMA chairman, Chris Chapman, said.
"During the investigation, the ACMA remained conscious of the need to balance the regulatory requirements for advertising with industry's drive for innovation and competition in radio advertising."
The ACMA found the 2012 version of Down Down was a promotion for Coles because of the slogan "down down prices are down", reference to Coles and mention of the "big red hand" that forms part of Cole's advertising campaign.
The regulator decided a normal listener would not be able to distinguish the advertisement from normal programming because it had the same length and characteristics as the "classic hit" songs played immediately after it.
The ACMA concluded that the licensee breached the code of practice by broadcasting the advertisement without distinguishing it appropriately.
The ACMA also investigated the broadcast of the same advertisement on the same day by ARN's other Classic Hits stations, but found these radio stations did not breach the code because they "distinguished the advertisement from the surrounding 'classic hits' by broadcasting announcements that clearly connected the 2012 version of Down Down to Coles Supermarkets."
The ABC's Media Watch program aired similar concerns about radio stations playing the Coles version of Down Down as full-length songs on August 6 last year, a few days before the ACMA receive a written complaint.


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Thermaltake Goes Big: Water 3.0 Ultimate CLC Launched, 3x120mmby Ian Cutress on 8/4/2014 10:00 AM EST
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asendra - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkAnd I built a mITX gaming box, guess that's not gonna fit LOL.
Ian, given that you are a fan of CLC, which CLC do you currently use?. I'm looking for a single 12~14mm fan, to put in a push-pull config in my node 304 case (4770K cpu). I'm leaning on a Hydro H90 at the moment. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkReally wish these companies were selling these things optionally without fans. Most of us already have ideas about what fans we'll use and I'd say that's especially true with an already niche tri-120mm setup. Reply
NeonFlak - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkAt one point I had 2 Thermaltake Water Pros. Both failed in less then year. Both failures caused problems with other items. Thermaltake did not cover any of it, nor did they replace either of the coolers. Which are both still sitting on a table in the basement. And those failures have me slowly switching everything back to air coolers. Reply
darckhart - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkSoo... do they advertise that users can expand the loop to cool other components? do they provide instructions how? do they suggest other components one may need to purchase? otherwise a triple rad seems a tad overkill for just the cpu... Reply
DanNeely - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkThe entire point of CLCs is that everything is sealed so you can't screw anything up messing with it. I'm hoping this was designed around bigger allowing slower quieter fans for the same amount of cooling; in the attempt to make a silent solution. Not bigger is better marketing BS; because only the most extreme OC is going to be pushing enough heat for a 360 rad to give a meaningful benefit to a CPU only loop. Unfortunately the lack of any mention about it being quieter/silent in the marketing makes me suspect it's marketoid BS driven. Reply
Treynolds416 - Monday, August 04, 2014 - linkThose hoses look barely long enough... It would be wise to check those dimensions against your case before buying Reply
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Rational Robot Interim Fix 2 for 188.8.131.52
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IBM Rational Robot 126.96.36.199_iFix002 has been made generally available and contains fixes to version 220.127.116.11 including all predecessor fixes.
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|This section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable.
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Before you install Interim Fix 2 for Rational Robot 126.96.36.199, install IBM Rational Robot version 7.0.3 and then install Rational Robot 126.96.36.199.
If you are installing Rational Robot on Microsoft Windows Vista, you must configure certain security settings for using Rational Robot. For more information, refer to technote 1286101: Pre-requisites for recording Robot scripts on Microsoft Windows Vista .
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- If IBM Rational Robot version 7.0.3 is already installed on your computer, install Rational Robot 184.108.40.206. After installing Rational Robot 22.214.171.124, install Interim Fix 2 using the Update wizard in IBM Installation Manager. Ensure that the Search service repositories during installation and updates option is enabled in the Installation Manager Preferences page and Internet connection is available.
- You can also download Interim Fix 2 and use it to install the fix locally.
- If IBM Rational Robot version 7.0.3 is already installed on your computer, install Rational Robot 184.108.40.206.
- Download Rational Robot version 184.108.40.206 Interim Fix 2 from the location specified at the bottom of this page.
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- In the IBM Installation Manager, click File > Preferences and add the temporary directory to the list of repositories, for example,
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Talib wrote:Okay. Am I correct to say【中文】是指「中國人的語文」 means "Zhongwen means the spoken language of Chinese people"? As I understand it, 語 means speech or spoken language, and 文 is written language. Right?
First and foremost of all, it is of most important to realise the Chinese language is a multi-syntax language; thus, words can change their meanings depending upon their usages.
語‧this word when used solo, it can mean "speech".
文‧this word when used solo, it can mean "writing".
語文‧the above two words when combined in this manner, it means "language".
「中國人的語文」‧indeed it can be translated as the "Language of the Chinese" but NOT "spoken language of Chinese people" because, 語文 refers to Both the Spoken and the Written Language of which, it simply means "language". Since "Chinese people" can mean "all ethnicities within the country known as China", it is a crime to consider the those who are not ethnic Han as having 漢語 as their language.


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Competing for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, which is the highest prize in Motorsports, can be a very trying experience. However, Brad Keselowski has shown that he is up for the task, even at his young age.
Maturity in NASCAR's elite division usually takes many years to develop, but Keselowski is handling his title run like a seasoned veteran. The key is to keep things in the proper perspective.
"When you're at the racetrack you're in the zone and you want it really bad," said Keselowski on winning the Championship. "It's also important to maintain your sanity and to do the things that you did to get where you're at right now, and for me that's finding a happy spot in my life and my place and role as a human being on this earth."
Still, the young driver always keeps his eye on the ultimate prize for a racecar driver.
"Certainly my focus is on winning the championship," continued the young driver. "That's the primary focus of my life right now, and I don't see that changing."
Despite the pressure he is under to perform down the stretch, Keselowski finds time to help his teammates stay connected to their lives outside the track. In fact, in the heat of battle during last week's race, Keselowski found time to keep up with his teammates' fantasy football selections.
"One of my guys is on the fantasy football deal, and he had an opportunity to pick up Mikel Leshoure, who ran for three touchdowns and had a great day in and he turned him down," said Brad his radio transmission. "He was really, really upset about that, so I had to give him a little bit of business about that over the radio."
Had it not been for a few bad breaks in the last few races, Keselowski could have a seven-point lead instead of a seven-point deficit in the Chase. However, Keselowski is not letting those unfortunate times get him down.
"Those little things have fallen against us, and that's frustrating," continued Keselowski. "We're doing a great job of controlling what we can control, and those little breaks that we're not catching right now; they'll come back full circle."
Despite adversity, Keselowski has a definite plan for the last two weeks of the season.
"My goal is to go to the next two races and win," replied Brad when asked about his strategy to the finish. "That's quite frankly where my head is at, and we control our own destiny if we do that."
Keselowski has been up and down with the fans over his short career. Some like his brash ways and compare them to a young Darrell Waltrip. Others think his confident nature reflects disrespect to many veteran drivers. For me, he is a breath of fresh air amidst the vanilla style of most drivers in the garage. He has shown that he has real compassion for his fellow man off the track but, once he's behind the wheel, he's a man on a mission. It will be interesting to see how he handles the next few weeks, but regardless of the outcome, Brad is winning over a lot of his critics.
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The color of this cake alone is enough to bring me great joy on a dreary day. The ruby top is a mixture of tart cranberries and sweet raspberries. Raspberries both sweeten the cake and also create a luscious texture. I personally love the tartness of cranberries alone, but they have so much natural pectin that the consistency was more like tight jam then I wanted. The cake underneath is rich with butter and almond flour. Serve with ice cream for dessert, and then enjoy it for breakfast the next morning with coffee.
Cranberry-Raspberry Upside Down Cake Recipe
Makes: 8-inch cake
Prep time: 30 minutes
Bake time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Skill: Easy
24 ounces (6 cups) cranberries (fresh or frozen)
10 ounces (about 2 cups) raspberries (fresh or frozen)
2 cups sugar
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 eggs, room temperature
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup almond meal
1 cup buttermilk
To make the cake:
Grease an 8-inch springform cake pan with butter and line with parchment. Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a saucepan heat the cranberries and 3/4 cup sugar over medium heat, just until the cranberries start to burst and sugar melts.
Turn off the heat and stir in the raspberries. Pour the berries into the prepared pan.
Mix the batter:
Cream together the butter, 1 1/4 cups sugar, zest and vanilla until light and fluffy, about 5-8 minutes. Scrape down the bowl and add the eggs, one at a time, scraping after each. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and almond meal. Add half the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, mix to incorporate, then add half the buttermilk. Repeat with the remaining flour and buttermilk. Mix just until it is smooth.
Spread the batter evenly over the berries.
Place the pan on a baking sheet covered with foil, just in case the berry juices leak from the pan. Bake for about 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Let the cake cool for about 30 minutes.
Invert the cake onto a platter.
Serve and enjoy.
Zoë François, author of Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day and Artisan Pizza and Flatbreads in 5 Minutes a Day, studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. She now calls Minneapolis her home, where she has worked with some of the top talent in the culinary world — Steven Brown, Andrew Zimmern and many chefs at the D'Amico company. In addition to writing, Zoë teaches baking classes and consults at restaurants. You can find her writing and recipe creations on Devour, on her baking blog, zoebakes.com and on the site, www.breadin5.com.
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Find general information about the Affordable Care Act at these Federal Government Websites:
Maryland is one of the states operating a state benefit exchange. Find information on these sites from the State of Maryland
Maryland Health Benefit Exchange
Maryland Health Connection
"Connector" Agencies in Maryland
Connector agencies will employ Navigators who can help you to register for health insurance. There are six Connector Agencies in Maryland. Find more information about available plans from the Connector Agency that covers your county.
Capital (Montgomery and Prince George's)
Central (Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County)
Lower Eastern Shore (Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester)
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Audio Recording (streaming or MP-3 download) of a public presentation given at Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 1, 2013 by Suzanne Schlattman, Deputy Director for Development and Outreach at the Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It was nothing short of a thrill in the Malkin Athletic Center for the University of Pennsylvania volleyball team, who took down Harvard in a five-set barnburner, 3-2 (17-25, 25-22, 19-25, 25-13, 18-16). Sophomore Alexis Genske was killing it on the court, literally, whose 20 kills were the most recorded by a Quaker this season. Genske also helped dig the Red and Blue out of a hole with 12 digs, behind senior captains Dani Shepherd (19) and Kristen Etterbeek (25).
There was a lot of hype leading up to the match and it certainly didn't disappoint.
Penn began with a rocky set-one after leading, 6-3. At every turn, the Crimson halted any momentum for the Red and Blue. Whenever the Quakers closed the gap, Harvard responded with steady runs to pull ahead and ultimately take the set, 25-17.
The Crimson kept rolling, maintaining the lead until late in the second set when Penn surged ahead, 23-22, off of a block by junior Kendall Turner and sophomore Alex Caldwell. Harvard proved responsible for its own undoing with two more attack errors, handing over the set, 25-22.
To make up for the second set loss, the Crimson held down the fort after the Red and Blue took the first point with a block by Turner and Genske. The Quakers were unable to capitalize on the momentum from the second-set win, as Harvard went up 2-1 with a 25-19 third set gain.
Surprising no one in attendance, the fourth set told yet another story, as Penn rallied with their backs against the wall. The Red and Blue took a commanding lead -- scoring 20 of their own 25 points with 12 kills, four blocks, and four service aces – and tied it at two a piece with a 25-13 rout.
Determined to defy the odds, the Quakers channeled the momentum from the fourth set into a victory, but it didn't come easily with the Crimson maintaining a consistent edge. Time and again, it seemed that Harvard would walk away with a victory, standing just a single point from winning three different times. After a Penn timeout, a kill from Etterbeek tied the game for the final time, at 16. With an attack error by the Crimson, the Red and Blue finally broke through the Harvard line to forge ahead. Sophomore Ronnie Bither finished off the Crimson on a service ace, making the score of the final set 18-16.
Setting the pace for the offense was Caldwell (32 assists) and Bither (18), who also finished with 11 digs. The team produced 13 blocks to extend its win streak to six.
The Quakers will be back in action for their final matches of the season, when they host Brown and Yale next weekend.
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BitFenix Merc Alpha: Just How Much Can $39 Buy?by Dustin Sklavos on 10/5/2011 12:00 AM EST
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ckryan - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkBitFenix is company I'd never heard of before recently, but it looks like they're going for the mainstream case segment jugular. If nothing else, it's nice to have an inexpensive case with competence standard and not optional. Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThey really are. I'm fond of saying they're young and hungry, but it's true. Their stuff is stellar. Reply
SunLord - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkNot to mention the lack of gaudy and cheesy over the top "gamer" case bling on the outside and lack of fail on the inside like alot of other cases. I can't stand all the BS most new cases come with. I got a FT2 for a reason though my old case is a Thermaltake Armor+ Reply
MonkeyPaw - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkI just bought a Diablotek EVO case for $45, and I must say I was surprised at how nice it was. It has a few minor design flaws, but quality was pretty good (solid feeling) at the price point. In fact, it has a lot in common with this model on the inside, and it doesn't look like a nerd warrior case on the outside. Reply
venomblade - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkBitfenix is awesome! The White Shinobi Window is such a sexy case. Reply
futurepastnow - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkYeah, same here.
This is really a nice looking case (although I prefer a solid, rather than vented or windowed, side panel). None of the gaudy, flashy bits that usually mar inexpensive cases.
I've never had a truly tool-free case, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing, but I don't mind having to break out the screwdriver to replace a drive. Reply
StealthX32 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkParty like it's 1999!
Glad to see someone is interested in serving the budget segment (again). Reply
StealthX32 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkAlthough come to think of it, $39 used to get you a power supply with the case... Reply
dertechie - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkMind, those PSUs would likely explode if you actually tried to pull anything close to their rated power. Reply
MarkLuvsCS - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - link++1 Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkBut would you want to use that?
Also, fuck, those cases were basically scrap metal. No rolled edges. Hope you like bleeding all over your new machine, and then blowing it up after plugging in the tin-pot POS PSU. Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkNot I don't mean this case of course!
This case actually looks pretty decent, and they even bothered coating the inside instead of leaving it bare. Damn fine for $39, no matter how you slice it. Reply
aguilpa1 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkAw the good ole days, when you weren't hacking unless your fingers were bleeding...., wait maybe not so good. Reply
Thermalzeal - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThis ^ Reply
Spazweasel - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkOh, you still can. You can get a case + PS for as little as about 25 dollars.
You would want neither case nor power supply, though. The lowest cost power supplies worth having, even for a budget build, seem to start around 40 dollars (Antec and Corsair both make very nice 400-watt class power supplies in that range). Reply
JonnyDough - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkWith the extra $20 spent on a better PSU, we're not only saving the environment a little, but helping to ensure longevity of our motherboard and components by going higher end. Yep, around $40 is my minimum, as that's basically the starting point for a 300w 80+ Bronze certified from Seasonic. Most systems don't use that much, and amps are much more important than total wattage anyway. There need to be better standards regulating power supplies. In fact, they should have to list certain factors on every OEM PC sold as well. The big mass market PC builders should be unable to fool consumers by not listing the gpu specs for instance. Reply
CloudFire - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkGood budget case indeed, the only other one I would recommend near this price range is the CM Haf 912. Reply
CrystalBay - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkCoolermaster 690's were 30-40 back a couple/few years .
Thanks Dustin, keep posting the deals! Reply
Vepsa - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkWould make a great case for my home server (so I could swap its 80mm fans out for 120mm fans) but Newegg doesn't have any BitFenix cases :( Reply
xcomvic - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkYea, as soon as I finished this review, I tried to look it up on Newegg, very surprised that they aren't on there...maybe they are "too" cheap for the egg, can't make any profit on the resale... Reply
AssBall - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkI think they are not available for retailers yet; I can't find them to buy anywhere so far except Australia. Reply
Airwick - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThey've been available here for a little while now.
http://canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=... Reply
TrackSmart - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThey sell $20 cases on Newegg. So it's not a price issue. Reply
blckgrffn - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...
Same internals, right down to where the SSD mounts. Reply
Bozo - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThe inside of that case looks like an Antec 100. Hmmm Reply
TyphoidMary - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkI bought a Rosewill Blackbone from the 'egg on THG's recommendation last year, and it was a genuine pleasure to build in. Cheap too, I think it was like $50.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8... Reply
crimson117 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkIt may be $39.99 MSRP, but the lowest price I can find including shipping to the east coast is ~$55 from the BitFenix store. FrozenCPU wants $30 for ground shipping. Reply
iamezza - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThanks Dustin for another excellent Case review
I too dislike those non-recessed slot covers, it's something I have only really seen on either very-cheap cases or OEM cases. Reply
hrbngr - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkAs a previous poster mentioned, I think that for a little bit more $$, the Coolermaster HAF 912 is a stellar budget case. The detachable middle bay that allows room for big video cards along w/decent width--allowing for larger/taller heatsinks--makes this case an easy choice for most installs. I was previously an antec 300 fan, btw. Reply
Samus - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkThis thing costs less than two 'hotswap adapters' for my Silverstone FT01! Reply
dac7nco - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkAgreed. By the time I'm done a $150 case is $300.
Daimon Reply
mrcaffeinex - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkto the Thermaltake V3 Black Edition that I picked up for my wife's desktop not too long ago. They are in the same price range (the V3 was $29.99 from the Egg a month or so ago, usually $39.99 or $44.99). There are some nice improvements on this one over the V3 though: the motherboard doesn't require standoffs to be installed for normal installations, the PSU can be mounted normally or inverted, and I think I prefer the simplicity of the front panel design on this one a bit more. Reply
JonnyDough - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - link"At just $39 it would be reasonable not to expect much, but as you'll see this case can hang with enclosures at twice the cost or better."
We've been trying to tell computer case reviewers this for years...we don't need $200 cases to house our PCs. It isn't worth it when you replace a PC every 3 years. Yesterdays prized system is tomorrow's too slow to use piece of junk. Reply
Zoomer - Saturday, October 08, 2011 - linkHow about adding in numbers for the antec 300? It'll be useful as a basis for comparison.
On that note, how about asking Antec when they'll update the 300? Reply
EthanW - Thursday, October 13, 2011 - linkI don't understand why everyone likes the Merc. I've messed around with one and the front is very plasticky (it's not the same soft-touch the other cases had), while the guts aren't anything special. Don't get me wrong, I love Bitfenix cases. It's just that the Outlaw puts the Merc to shame for about $10 more. The Outlaw has the proper soft-touch finish, an inverted motherboard and nicer build quality - not to mention how much better the outside looks.
Guys, if you can talk Bitfenix into it, review an Outlaw, instead. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Reply


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CLAY COUNTY, Fla. - Two topics -- electronic billboards and electronic gaming machines -- drew a lot of controversy for some residents during Tuesday night's Clay County Commission meeting.
Proponents of the billboards said they will help drive business in Clay County, but several critics said the billboards will distract drivers and be an eye sore.
"We have billboards, yes," said Virginia Singer. "Do we need to replace them with the lights? We have them now, yes. They are stationery, but they're not constantly changing."
Billboard operator Jim Hogan said billboards are important to him.
"It's my livelihood, my job, and how I support my family," said Hogan.
One of the ideas behind the ordinance is to phase out the old billboards throughout the county. For every new electronic billboard to go up, three old ones will have to come down first.
In the end, the commission passed the ordinance and limited it to Blanding Boulevard and Wells Road. They believe those are the only areas of the county that are truly impacted. But that wasn't enough for critics of the ordinance who feel these bright signs hurt the county.
"People move to Clay County for the beauty of Clay County," said Joy Elrod. "When we put these signs up, it's going to be a detriment to the county and the progress of the small business."
The commission also tackled the controversial issue of allowing electronic gaming machines in Clay County.
Some call the gaming machines a form of gambling and don't believe veterans halls in Clay County should be allowed to have them if they are close to places like schools and churches.
Veterans groups said the machines would be critical as funding sources for their community outreach.
"All the money that goes into those machines is coming from veterans and going back into the community," said Steven Schneider, a veteran.
The machines would only be for members of the veterans groups to play, and there would be a limit of five machines for any building. However, this idea didn't sit well with many family values advocates who showed up to Tuesday's meeting. They feel these are gambling machines that hurt Clay County.
"Families move here for family atmosphere, and we really don't want to become Portersville," said Mary Lib Stevenson.
"It's going to hurt the (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and all the other vets groups, with the economy the way it is to keep our doors open," said Schneider. "Posts throughout states are struggling to fund and keep their doors open."
In the end, the commission did not approve the gaming machines even though each commissioner praised the veterans for all the community service their groups do.
Still, the decision to not allow veterans to have the gaming machines if they are too close to schools or churches didn't sit well with the vets.
"We fund a lot of money into charities," said Sid Newberg, a veteran. "Either the County Commissioner supports the vets or they don't support the vets. Well, I think you got that answer tonight."
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The October 2007 edition of the monthly magazine Espace de Libertés, published in French in Belgium, carried a report concerning Atlas of Creation. The article in question described how in his Atlas of Creation Adnan Oktar made use of "21st-century skepticism" to preach belief in Allah (God) in "a very plain and much enhanced style of expression." The report also went on to say:
"Atlas of Creation, a most beautiful object, has been distributed to a large number of schools and state libraries. The book, which comes in large format, richly illustrated and printed on 772 pages of glossy paper, is both very attractive and also easily comprehended. It is impossible to dislike its appearance…
If the book is a critique of Darwin's theory of evolution, using fossil analyses performed all over the world (a substantial part of the book consists of large, color illustrations), and if its objective is to show that Darwin was wrong since there are no fossils exhibiting any evolutionary transitional stages, then it seeks to confirm and once again verify the claim that 'everything on Earth is the work of Allah.'
… This is in order to demonstrate the following irrefutable truth: 'Flawless creation and the omniscience of our Creator are too clear and evident to be concealed in every detail of life.'
In conclusion, the book aims to combat materialist philosophy by setting out its evidence one piece after another, with extracts from the Qur'an being used as the final proof on every occasion. The author summarizes the content of his book and his perspective in one perfectly expressed section: 'All of Harun Yahya"s works share one single goal: to convey the Qur"an"s message, encourage readers to consider basic faith-related issues such as Allah"s existence and unity and the Hereafter; and to expose irreligious systems" feeble foundations and perverted ideologies.'"
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A group of friends hope to raise £5,000 for charity when they cycle the length of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal next month.
Andy Williams, Simon Barns, Adam Knight, Lee Moss, David Know, David Woods, Gordon Clasped, Mark Keiss, Mark Gardener, Paul Chapman, Tom Hunter, Richard Birch, Gary Fields and Chris Holmes will set out from Liverpool early on June 5 to pedal the 127 miles to Leeds over the course of two days.
They will be joined by Peter Williams, who is driving their support van. The team, which has already raised more than £2,000, hopes to generate £5,000 for the Yorkshire Cancer Centre. All money donated will go to the charity.
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At UK HealthCare, we are committed to improving the lives and health of patients using the most advanced health care techniques.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a perfect example.
With Gamma Knife radiosurgery, our neuroscience team can treat neurological (brain) disorders and diseases without invasive surgery. The system's leading-edge technology allows our specialists to operate on the brain without general anesthesia or incisions. Learn more about
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Gamma Knife's technology allows patients to avoid the risks of traditional surgery as well an extended hospital stay. Our patients can return to the same level of activity they're used to within 24 hours of Gamma Knife surgery, which means you spend less time in the hospital. Our goal is to return patients to a normal, healthy life as quickly as possible and Gamma Knife's noninvasive surgery makes it possible.
The Gamma Knife's noninvasive (no surgery) method also offers new hope to patients with inoperable neurological disorders. Watch the videos below to learn more.
Thomas Pittman, MD, of UK Radiation Medicine discusses the conditions that can be treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery. (2:15)
William St. Clair, MD, PhD, discusses the role of multidisciplinary teams in Gamma Knife radiosurgery and what patients can expect during and after the procedure. (2:27)