text:
Previous Story
Next Story
By Clare D. McGorrian
Without proper planning and advice, losing health insurance is a real risk for a divorcing spouse who relies on the other spouse for coverage. Women in particular face this risk, as they are twice as likely as men to have coverage through their spouse's employer. Although state and federal laws provide protections, lack of understanding of these laws can result in failure to adequately protect health insurance for the dependent spouse.
This article reviews the legal rights of spouses in Massachusetts to remain on an ex-spouse's employer group health plan after divorce or legal separation. In addition, the article discusses alternatives for divorcing spouses who do not have access to a group plan.
Authority of the Probate and Family Court
Under Massachusetts law, Probate and Family Court judges presiding over an action for divorce or separate support must determine if the obligor spouse has employer-sponsored group health insurance that will cover the other spouse. If such group coverage is available, judges must generally order the insured spouse to extend coverage to the dependent spouse. The judge must consider the health insurance coverage of the parties:
(a) Upon commencement of the action, and if there is an existing policy that covers the dependent spouse, shall enter an order requiring maintenance of the coverage during the pendency of the action; Supp. Prob. Court Rule 411;
(b) Upon motions for temporary support orders; G.L. c. 208, ß 17 (temporary order of alimony), G.L. c. 208 ß 20 (order for spousal maintenance upon temporary separation); G.L. c. 209, ß 32 (temporary order of separate support); and
(c) Upon entering final judgment for divorce or separate support. G.L. c. 208, ß 34 (alimony upon judgment of divorce); G.L. c. 209, ß 32 (judgment of separate support).
Massachusetts laws on continued coverage
State insurance laws allow the dependent spouse to remain on the insured spouse's private employer-sponsored group plan after divorce and legal separation. See G.L. c. 175, ß 110I (commercial health insurance carriers); G.L. c. 176A, ß 8F and G.L. c. 176B, ß6B (Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans); G.L. c. 176G, ß 5A (HMOs); G.L. c. 176I, ß 9 (preferred provider arrangements). State, county and municipal government employees in Massachusetts enjoy the same protections. G.L. c. 32A, ß 11A; G.L. c. 32B, ß 9H.
Pursuant to the above laws, if a member of a group plan is a party to a judgment absolute of divorce or separate support, the member's spouse "shall be and remain eligible" for coverage, "as if said judgment had not been entered." See, e.g., G.L. c. 175, ß110I(a). Eligibility for coverage lasts as long as the insured spouse is a participant in a group plan, whether judgment was entered before the effective date of the plan. Id. The coverage ends when the dependent spouse remarries, but the judgment may provide for coverage to continue after the insured spouse remarries. See, e.g., G.L. c. 175 ß110I(b). As long as the insured spouse has not remarried, the insurer may not charge an additional premium for the family coverage. G.L. c. 175 ß110I(a).
Impact of federal preemption by ERISA
Health insurance may lapse after a divorce despite language in the judgment that reflects the foregoing state laws. The reason often lies in the type of plan the insured spouse's employer offers. Employer-sponsored group health plans may be either insured or self-insured. With an insured health plan, the employer purchases coverage from an insurance carrier or managed care organization (such as an HMO) and bears no risk for claims. With a self-insured (or self-funded) plan, the employer bears financial risk for employee medical claims.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. ß 1001 et seq., regulates private employer group health plans. ERISA does not mandate benefits but requires employers to satisfy procedural requirements with regard to plan beneficiaries. For example, an ERISA-governed group health plan must designate fiduciaries and a plan administrator to manage the plan. 29 U.S.C. ßß 1102, 1104. Employers subject to ERISA must also provide beneficiaries with a summary plan description of their health benefits. 29 U.S.C. ßß 1021(a).
ERISA's preemption clause, 29 U.S.C. ß 1144(b)(2)(B), exempts self-insured employer group health plans from state insurance laws, including the Massachusetts laws that extend health insurance eligibility to a divorced spouse. See Bergin v. Wausau Ins. Co., 863 F. Supp. 34 (D. Mass. 1994); Cellilli v. Cellilli, 939 F. Supp. 72 (D. Mass. 1996). Even if the employer only bears limited risk (due to reinsurance or "stop-loss" protection), the plan is still considered self-insured for ERISA preemption purposes. See, e.g., Cuttle v. Federal Employees Metal Trades Council, 623 F. Supp. 1154, 1157 (D. Me. 1985).
Only insured plans are subject to the Massachusetts insurance laws that deem a divorced spouse eligible for the ex-spouse's group health plan. Therefore, a lawyer for the dependent spouse must determine whether the plan is self-insured. The summary plan description must disclose whether the plan is self-insured. 29 U.S.C. ßß 1021(a), 1022, 1024(b). In figuring out a plan's status, it is important to remember that many self-insured plans hire an insurer or HMO to administer plan benefits. Also, some employers offer both self-insured and insured options to employees.
Continuation rights under federal law
Although state insurance continuation laws do not apply to self-insured plans, a dependent spouse may qualify for continued coverage under federal law. Under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), 29 U.S.C. ß 1161 et seq., private employers with 20 or more employees that offer health plans must offer continuation coverage to divorced and separated spouses of employees. (COBRA also applies, concurrently with state insurance laws, to insured group plans of these employers.)
Under COBRA, an employee's spouse who was covered on the day before the divorce is considered a "qualified beneficiary." 29 U.S.C. ß 1161(a). Divorce and legal separation are deemed "qualifying events." 29 U.S.C. ß 1163. The spouse, as a qualified beneficiary, may elect to continue coverage for up to 36 months. 29 U.S.C. ß 1167(2), (3). Coverage will end earlier if: a) premiums are not paid; b) the beneficiary becomes eligible for Medicare; c) the beneficiary becomes eligible for other group coverage that covers all her pre-existing conditions; or d) the ex-spouse's employer ceases to offer health coverage to employees. Id.
The employee or spouse must notify the health plan administrator of the divorce within 60 days from the date of the final judgment. In the case of legal separation, the triggering date for the 60-day notice period varies, as employer plans may define "legally separated" differently.
COBRA premiums can be 102 percent of the amount charged to non-COBRA plan members. Timely payment of premiums is essential to maintaining coverage.
Governmental employers and church health plans are exempt from COBRA. 29 U.S.C. ß 1003(b). However, many government workers have the right to continue health coverage under other laws. Spouses of Massachusetts government workers have continuation rights under G.L. c. 32A, ß 11A (state employees) and G.L. c. 32B, ß 9H (county and municipal employees). Spouses of federal employees who get divorced have COBRA-like continuation rights under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Amendments Act (FEHBA), 5 U.S.C. ß 8905a.
Massachusetts "mini-COBRA"
Massachusetts' "mini-COBRA" law requires insured group health plans of employers with two to 19 employees to offer continuation coverage to divorcing spouses of covered employees. G.L. c. 176, ß9. The Massachusetts statute generally tracks the provisions of COBRA. Because a divorcing spouse can continue health coverage for more than 36 months under G.L. c. 175 ß 110I and related statutes, invoking mini-COBRA in these cases may not be necessary.
Remarriage rules vary
The right to continue coverage under an ex-spouse's group plan after remarriage differs depending on whether state law or COBRA applies. Under COBRA, remarriage of either party does not affect continuation rights during the 36-month COBRA period. Under state insurance law, e.g., G.L. c. 175, ß 110I, parties need to plan for remarriage and how it will affect health insurance. If the dependent spouse remarries, the right to continue coverage under the member spouse's plan ceases. However, if the member spouse remarries, the dependent spouse may qualify for continued coverage via a "rider" to the family plan or an individual policy. See, e.g., G.L. c. 175 ß110I(b). The parties must specify these rights in their divorce judgment. Id. The insurer may charge the dependent spouse an added premium for continuing coverage after the member spouse remarries. Id.
Alternatives to group insurance coverage
Non-group insurance
Some divorcing couples do not have access to group health insurance. Under state probate laws, if the obligor under an alimony or separate support order does not have group insurance, the court must determine whether other coverage is available at reasonable cost to cover the spouse. See, e.g., G.L. c. 208, ß 34. If it is, the judge can order the obligor spouse to purchase a non-group policy for the obligee spouse. Id.
Any Massachusetts resident, other than a Medicare or MassHealth enrollee, is eligible for non-group coverage. G.L. c. 176M, ß 1. Non-group insurers may impose up to a six-month preexisting condition exclusion or waiting period in some cases. G.L. c. 176M, ß 3(b).
Non-group insurers must offer a plan with a standard set of benefits, including hospital and physician services and prescription drugs. G.L. c. 176M, ß 2(d). Insurers may vary premiums based on age, geographic area and whether the applicant seeks individual or family coverage.
Public and charitable programs
If affordable non-group coverage is unavailable, the only remaining options are public and charitable programs. The following programs provide free or low-cost health-care assistance to eligible adults in Massachusetts. (This is not an exhaustive list.)
MassHealth (www.state.ma.us/dma)
• Run by Division of Medical Assistance
• Must meet categorical (e.g., elder, disabled) and financial requirements
Medical Security Plan (www.detma.org/workers/msp.htm)
• For Massachusetts residents receiving unemployment benefits who meet income guidelines
• Helps pay COBRA premiums or provides direct coverage
Free Care (http://www.state.ma.us/dhcfp)
• Available at hospitals and community health centers to under- and uninsured residents
• Income guidelines
• Overseen by Division of Health Care Finance and Policy
Prescription Assistance
• Individual manufacturers set guidelines
• Information: www.massmedline.com or www.phrma.org
Language in the separation agreement or proposed judgment
Many divorce judgments require the insured spouse to cover the dependent spouse under the employer group plan "as long as there is no extra cost." This general language, which often reflects the parties' separation agreement, does not adequately address the allocation of costs.
It is critical for parties to work out payment details before submitting a separation agreement or proposed judgment to the court. State insurance laws prohibit insurers from charging an additional premium to cover a spouse after divorce. However, ERISA gives employers maximum flexibility to design their employee benefit plans, including whether to pay any portion of the costs. Thus, even though the insurer cannot increase the total premium, the parties may have to contribute more toward the cost of the family plan than before the divorce. Proper planning can prevent future confusion and distress and minimize the risk of coverage loss.
When COBRA applies, the non-member spouse is responsible for payment of premiums. However, a lawyer can ask the judge for an order that the insured spouse reimburse the dependent spouse for the premium cost. Knowing that COBRA coverage will end in 36 months, the lawyer may also seek an order requiring the insured spouse to pay for non-group coverage for the dependent spouse when COBRA ends.
Maintaining health insurance coverage after a divorce or separation is challenging due to the array of applicable laws. Family law practitioners must become familiar with these laws to better assist clients to maintain essential health benefits.


text:
Product info
Tech specs
|Brand :
|Coverage :
|0.075 m²
|Weight :
More information
- Can be applied to existing paving or tarmac. Produces an even and hardwearing finish
- Perfect for adding colour to children's play areas or creating unique designs in footpaths. This product can also be used for stepping stones, patio infill and plant pot toppers
- Pack contains aggregate, resin pounch containing both part 'A' and 'B', glass grit and protective gloves
- SuDS (Sustainable drainage systems) compliant semi-porous surface allows water to percolate through
- Not recommended for areas that will be driven on. Fully cured in 24 hours
Health & Safety data sheets for TradePoint products
This item may come with health and safety hazards. Find out more about this product and discover how you can stay safe and secure.Find more health & safety information on Stonebound Resin Bound Gravel, 3.15 kg Bulk Bagabout Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Game 2 Post-Game Transcript
May 17, 2011
Q. The players use the word "structure" a lot during the postgame interviews. What happened with the structure tonight?
GUY BOUCHER: Well, to be honest with you, it was a pond hockey game tonight, period. When you play a pond hockey game, there's a chance it won't turn your way. So it's your breakaway, my breakaway, your two-on-ones, my two-on-one. It might be exciting for the fans, but from the team's perspective and standpoint, it's not how we've played. And when the other team is that hungry, you can't let that happen. And we didn't.
And we could have come back. We always do in the third period. We're known for that. And one or two goals, you always come back, but three, it's a lot. We could have them. We missed some open nets there.
Even if we would have won that game, we certainly wouldn't have been happy with the way we played.
Q. It's so consistent in the structure, are you surprised that it wasn't there at all throughout most of this game, if not the entire game?
GUY BOUCHER: It's not that it wasn't there at all. It's that you've got two or three minutes and all of a sudden you've got somebody that's usually very reliable, all of a sudden do things that we don't normally do. That's surprising. But I mean it's been eight games. So if that's not consistency, I don't know what it is. At some point there's a possibility that you're going to have one of those games, and we had one today.
If we got another eight games, with our structure and consistency after, I don't think we'll be crying. But the reality is after eight games of playing solid, structured and tense and doing things down to the T, there's bound at some point to have something that's going to be a little different.
Q. Boston doesn't like to play that pond hockey style either. Are you surprised it turned into that up against a team like Boston?
GUY BOUCHER: Well, you've got two great goaltenders, 6-5 game, I don't think anybody was predicting that. You've got two teams that have played tight defense in the Playoffs. So I don't think anybody was expecting that.
But what everybody was expecting was that it was going to be a tight series and it's 1-1, and so, I think in the games, certainly it represents what everybody was expecting, including ourselves, and I think they're going to be better next game, and we certainly have to be better because it wasn't pretty at moments.
Having said that, we still scored five goals. There are things we did, we could have scored more. Probably turning points, second period, it's 2-1 for us, we get a breakaway, Marty St. Louis puts it over the net, turn around, they get their breakaway and they score. Instead of 3-1 it's 2-2. And then after that breakaway again we missed. They don't miss their breakaway. You get a two-on-one. We missed the two-on-one. They don't miss their two-on-one.
So either way it seemed like it was going to be a weird game. So I want to make sure we're not that weird for the next game.
Q. You guys to this point have won every game where you scored first in the Playoffs. Obviously this game is an anomaly, more wide open – most games are – how do you bounce back and get right into the next game?
GUY BOUCHER: Whether we score the first goal or don't score the first goal doesn't change anything for us. We're supposed to stick to our plan. And our players have been great at it. And we've reloaded many times. It was one-on-one, and we lost the two games at home in the first series and came back, so we know how to do it.
Now it's a question of making sure we pay attention to details and that we're ready in front of our fans to play our best. Certainly wasn't our best tonight. They played hard. But we have to be better. It was a one goal game again.
Q. Could you talk a little bit about Roloson, do you think he was just overwhelmed in the net with all the different looks he got, or do you think he was ordinary tonight? And during the year, he's been very resilient at coming off a loss to winning. So what do you expect out of him next game?
GUY BOUCHER: Same thing. That's exactly what he is. He's resilient. He's somebody that's got tremendous concentration. And you know he always bounces back. So we're not expecting anything less than what he's given us throughout the year. So I'm not worried.
I'm not looking for new ways to give some tools for our goaltender to rebound. He's got the tools. He knows how to do it. He's done it. We're not going to mess with it.
Tonight I thought in the first period he was great. If you look at the five-on-three, he was tremendous. And I think that five-on-three with one second left – nobody was there to front the shots so we didn't help him on that one.
And if we kill that, it's a different story, probably. And we get some kind of momentum off of it. But we got the goal back. It was 2-1 after the first period. We got that goal back. I think just in the second period is let's throw a puck on the ice, on the pond, and so we didn't help them there.
Q. The Bruins controlled play for much of the first, you go into intermission with the lead. What were your thoughts going to the break and did you think you were going to settle things down after that?
GUY BOUCHER: Well, we knew what we did wrong in the first period. And we knew exactly what we did wrong after the second period. As you can see in the third period, we came back a lot better. Started to look a lot like ourselves and created ourselves some chances and came back by two goals and certainly could have had one, two, or even three more goals in the third period. And I'm thinking of their missing open nets and nice saves. That could've gone in. And Bergeron at the end of 6-5 had the open net. And same thing with Moore.
So there's opportunities there. But I said it all year long, we don't want to win those games, because it gives you a false sense of having accomplished something when your process wasn't good.
So they deserved the game, and we don't, and period, that's it.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you.
FastScripts by ASAP Sports
Game 2 Post Game Transcript
May 17, 2011
THE MODERATOR: We're joined by Tim Thomas. Questions?
Q. First two goals in the game, Tampa's first two goals, the timing of them and just how they happened can often be dispiriting, but you guys responded not once but twice. What do you think that says about the team's character, and what were your feelings when they happened?
TIM THOMAS: Well, I mean, each time you get some odd goals like that, you know it can put you on your heels, and it can — the human tendency is to tell yourself: Oh, it's not going to be our night.
And the team didn't do that. And they fought back. They fought back after the first goal. We had really a pretty good first period and then we had another second goal there at the end of the first period which could deflate you. But being in the locker room in between periods, we were never deflated. We just were determined to stick with it in the second period there. Tyler Seguin and Michael Ryder stepped up and got big goals for us.
I've said it before, we know we've had character. We're battle-tested by now. But having said that, you have to keep stepping up every time you need to, and we found a way to do that today.
Q. If you could, talk about some of the big saves you made in the third period, and if it's the case there, as a goaltender, Stanley Cup playoff game, kind of putting the score aside and knowing that you need to make one or two or three big saves to win the game.
TIM THOMAS: I think experience helps in those situations. Just this year we're in a few games, I think we beat Philly 7-5 or something like that, and we had a similar game against Montreal.
And experience helps you to learn that each time a goal goes in, you just gotta put it behind you and you gotta start focusing on stopping the next one. If you start thinking about the goals that just went in, it's going to lead to other goals. And it's not going to be helpful.
With our big second period there, I knew we had a big lead going into the third period, and the plan wasn't to let them get close at all. But when it gets 6-4, 6-5, when you're a younger goaltender, it might be hard for you to keep your focus.
But I've been through enough situations similar to that. I was just trying to keep my focus and when it got 6-5 to do anything possible I could to keep it from getting 6-6.
Q. In a game like this, last couple of minutes, pulled the goalie, just getting hit from all sides. How tough is it not to even be able to look at a clock, those last few minutes time-wise?
TIM THOMAS: I personally don't like to look at the clock. I can hear it when they call out it's the last minute of the game, and that's the only reference point that I have, because it shouldn't matter whether there's 30 seconds or three seconds, you gotta have the same type of focus and try just as hard to stop the puck. So I really wasn't focusing too much on that.
Now, having said that, when Krejci took the puck down the ice with 15 seconds left, I looked up at the clock then. And I was hoping he knew that there was 15 seconds left so he could eat up as much time as possible. And depending on the situation, if there's 40 seconds left there, he's probably gotta try to go for the goal, but when there's 15 seconds, you can kill some time in the corner, and that's what he did.
And in the last couple of minutes there, I was just trying to make sure that I could find any way I could to see the puck. The fifth goal there, I didn't see the shot coming from the point, the one that went off both posts. And I was just battling as hard as I could to see the puck, because actually the third, fourth and fifth goal were screens or partial screens.
And when that happens as a goalie, it's your job to find a way to see the puck. So I was trying to work harder to find that puck.
Q. Can you go through the save that you made on Malone, the breakaway in the second period?
TIM THOMAS: Well, he got the pass up the middle. I mean, basically I just saw a guy coming in on the breakaway with the puck. I was determined at that point to not let them score.
And I did have time to realize that it was Malone, and he did that — he wound up for like kind of a fake slap shot, but I had to be on my toes to be ready in case he let that slap shot go because I saw him beat Fleury with it. But he didn't take it. And then when he got in on me, I was just trying to stay with him and get any piece of body I could on the puck, basically.
Q. And you make that save. Did you get a good look at Tyler going the other way on the rush right after?
TIM THOMAS: Yeah. I mean, well, yeah. I saw Tyler going. And he went in with a lot of speed. And I knew that was a good thing. I didn't know whether he was going to try to do the same exact thing that he did last time that scored, and probably neither did Dwayne Roloson, and that's probably part of why his move worked and he did such a good job with it.
But he went in there with lots of speed and his hands were quick enough to keep up with his feet. It was a huge goal for us.
Q. I see the nick above your left eye. Did that come from the Dominic Moore play in front of the net? And when your mask came off, could you go over the play?
TIM THOMAS: I didn't know Dominic Moore was the guy in front of the net or whatever. I think what made my mask come off was Adam McQuaid was trying to get across the crease and we just kind of ran into each other.
I'm actually — I haven't seen the replay. I've been told that the puck went off my head. But I didn't even realize it. At that point I was trying to find it, I think.
Q. You got a lot of nice things going your way right now. You had a good game tonight. We saw the birth of the Tyler show tonight. You evened up the series, and there's a chance you may get Patrice Bergeron back. Are you guys feeling real good about going to Tampa and taking control of this series?
TIM THOMAS: Again, I haven't really looked that far forward yet. I'm glad we found a way to win tonight. In the Playoffs it doesn't matter what the final score is as far as — as long as you're the one that has the higher number. So I'm not really worried about the fact that they were able to score five goals, because we found a way to score six, and it was a really good thing.
We found a way to win today and we deserve — the guys on the team deserve credit for that. They did an excellent job. But we still haven't played as well as we can.
But like you just mentioned, that's a good thing with Tyler stepping up and playing well and possibly getting Patrice back.
The rest of us can step up our games and then I'll feel good about it going forward.
I'm happy we won, but we've still got a lot of work ahead of us, and we have to put the type of game that we want to play. We haven't done that yet in this series.
Q. As a goalie, if you see a player kind of get in a zone like Tyler was in tonight, making the moves or whatever, what's it like for you when you're watching that sort of unravel as a goalie, when you have to oppose him, I should say, if you've seen another player like that catch fire?
TIM THOMAS: Well, I see Tyler in practice. And he's got some speed and he's got some good — some really good moves. He gets those opportunities. He knows how to score. It's hard to teach that. So I wasn't surprised that he buried the puck when he got the opportunities.
Those were big goals for us tonight. I don't really know what to say except for I'm very happy for him. I'm happy for the whole team because he was able to do it. But I haven't put — I was too focused on doing my job, basically, to think about the aspect that you were just talking about. Maybe if you ask me tomorrow. Probably not, though. After the Playoffs.
FastScripts by ASAP Sports


text:
A HEREFORD hospital that provides specialist clinics without GP referral is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Nuffield, formerly Wye Valley Hospital, opened its doors in Venns Lane in 1974 as one of a wave of 15 new Nuffield hospitals.
Since then, significant development has seen it widening its health services and helping around 3,000 people a year.
A £700,000 upgrade has taken place at the hospital within the past three years and specialist clinics are now available, including breast and testicular cancer screenings, baby scans and treatment for back pain.
Val Gardiner, who is the hospital's matron, has been at the site ever since it opened.
She said that Nuffield "take the qualities of the traditional NHS matron of yesteryear and blends it with the contemporary leadership and clinical skills required in a 21st century healthcare environment.
"Much is said about consultant-led care within a hospital, but combined with our unique matron-led nursing care, patients can be assured that they are receiving focussed, individual and holistic care, based on evidence, best practice and innovation," she said.
To celebrate its anniversary, further developments will be made for the hospital's self-pay, insured and NHS patients that use the 'choose and book' service.


text:
Core Faculty
Hadi Alhorr, Associate Professor; Director, Boeing Institute of International Business
John Cook School of Business, email@example.com
Research interests: global economic integration, global business strategies, regionalization, diversification strategies and environmental efforts, role of cultural difference.
Michael D. Barber, SJ, Professor
Department of Philosophy, email@example.com
Research interests: phenomenology, philosophy of the social sciences, ethics, the ethical dimensions of intersubjectivity, intercultural understanding and misunderstanding.
Elizabeth Blake, Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, email@example.com
Research interests: mobility and empire studies, inter-religious tensions (particularly Catholic and Orthodox), exile and émigré cultures, the nineteenth-century novel (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Prus, etc…), prison fortress/camp literature, interconnected networks of nineteenth-century European revolutionaries. .
Ellen Carnaghan, Professor
Department of Political Science, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: the roles citizens play in political change, how opposition groups work to develop new identities for the people they hope will become their supporters, democratization and social movements.
Monica Eppinger, Assistant Professor
School of Law, email@example.com
Research interests: sovereignty and selfhood. Her main areas of expertise include property, national security, and international law.
Philip R. Gavitt, Professor
Department of History, email@example.com
Research interests: social, cultural and intellectual history of late medieval and early modern Italy, especially the history of childhood, gender history, history of science and medicine, and the history of poverty and charity.
Olubukola Gbadegesin, Assistant Professor
Department of Fine and Performing Arts, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: Aesthetic and political parallels in late 18th c. portrait photography in colonial West Africa and Antebellum US; transnational negotiations of contemporary artists of African descent in the diaspora.
Judith L. Gibbons, Professor Emerita
Department of Psychology, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: cross-cultural and cross-national studies of the developmental psychology of gender and adolescents, intercountry adoption.
Claire Gilbert, Assistant Professor
Department of History, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: Early Modern Iberian Worlds, Mediterranean Studies, Social History of Language, History of Translation and Translators.
Torrie Hester, Assistant Professor
Department of History, email@example.com
Research interests: immigration and region, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, as well as law and foreign policy during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
Kevin Ingram, Professor, Madrid Campus
Department of History, Madrid Campus, email@example.com
Research interests: history of the Jews in Spain, converso and morisco studies, the golden age of Spain, and Spanish humanism.
Claudia Karagoz, Assistant Professor
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, email@example.com
Research interests: Sicilian culture and society; Mediterranean cross-cultural encounters in Sicily; migration and intercultural dialog in contemporary Italy; Italian women's and gender studies; Italian and U.S. gender theory.
Nori Katagiri, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: international security, terrorism, counterinsurgency, East Asia, Japan, US foreign policy.
Pauline C. Lee, Assistant Professor
Department of Theological Studies, email@example.com
Ancient Chinese Thought; 16th-19th century Chinese Thought; Confucian Thought; Daoism; Comparative Ethics; Comparative Religions; Play; Children and Childhood; Li Zhi; Women in China; Conceptions of Fertility, Motherhood, and Marriage; Chinese Feminisms; Space and Place; Authenticity; East-West Intercultural Dialogue.
Julia R. Lieberman, Professor
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, email@example.com
Research interests: Family life, women and children in Western Sephardi communities: Amsterdam, Hamburg, London in the early modern period.
Filippo Marsili, Assistant Professor
Department of History, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: Early China, nomadic cultures of Central Asia, ancient Mediterranean civilizations, historiography, metaphysics, and power, comparative religion, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue.
Hisako Matsuo, Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, email@example.com
Research interests: inequality (gender, race, and class), immigration, migration of organizations and people across borders, refugees and their cross-cultural adaptation, and Americans' attitude toward immigrants.
David T. Murphy, Professor
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, email@example.com
Research interests: Russian linguistics, Old Russian architecture and painting, comparative Slavic morphology, Old Czech literature, Czech and Polish languages
George O. Ndege, Associate Professor
Department of History, email@example.com
Research interests: history of health and society in Africa. Most recently he examined the complex interlacing of the past and present political, economic, and social formations.
Bruce T. O'Neill, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, email@example.com
Research interests: Cultural and Social Anthropology, Urban Anthropology.
Charles H. Parker, Professor and Chair of the Department
Department of History, email@example.com
Research interests: Religions and cultural history of modern Europe with particular emphasis on the Low Countries.
Jean-Louis Pautrot, Professor
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, email@example.com
Research interests: 20th and 21st c. French literature, cinema, and culture; Interrelations of France and the U.S. (literature, cinema, arts, general culture); Cultural differences in historical perspective.
Jeff A. Redding, Associate Professor
School of Law, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: Comparative Law, Religion and Law, Family Law.
G. John Renard, Professor
Department of Theology, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: Medieval Arabic and Persian religious texts, art and architecture, comparative theology and the history of Sufism, courses in Islam, history of religion.
Michal Jan Rozbicki, Professor
Department of History, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: cultural history of early modern America; relations between culture, power, and liberty; colonization; theory of interculturality.
Daniel L. Schlafly, Jr., Professor
Department of History, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies in the context of Russian, Central, and Western European history, plus languages, literature, economics, religion, and political science.
Karla Danette Scott, Associate Professor
Department of Communication, email@example.com
Research interests: Language, race, identity and culture; Black women's communicative practices; Culture and health in African American communities.
Nitish Singh, Associate Professor
John Cook School of Business, email@example.com
Research interests: international business, marketing, web globalization, global branding, sustainability.
Katrina Thompson, Associate Professor
Department of History, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: interplay between race, gender, and popular culture in nineteenth and twentieth century North America.
Joya Uraizee, Associate Professor
Department of English, email@example.com
Research interests: Currently she is working on a book length analysis of the aesthetics and politics of representing the voices of child soldiers in memoirs, fiction, and film.
Emmanuel Uwalaka, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: international relations, comparative government and politics, and research methods.
Anders Walker, Lillie Myers Professor
School of Law, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: intersections between constitutional law, criminal law, and legal history.
Lisa M. Willoughby, Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, firstname.lastname@example.com
Research interests: Cognition with special interests in memory functioning in older adults; the psychosocial well-being, health concerns, and the health care experience of older immigrants in the U.S.
Core Faculty - Click to expand
Affiliated Faculty
Semahagn Gashu Abebe, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, firstname.lastname@example.com
Irish Centre for Human Rights, Galway, Ireland
Ph.D. candidate, School of Law, University of Gottingen, Germany
Research Interests: Cultural Rights, Human Rights, Constitutional Law, African Laws, Federalism and the accommodation of diversity, African Studies. He has taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
Joseph R. Allen, Professor of Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, email@example.com
Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
Research interests: Classical Chinese literature and culture, as well as modern Chinese language. Recent research has included semiotics of urban space (Taipei, Taiwan), Japanese colonial photography, and translation studies.
William Childers, Associate Professor, email@example.com
Department of Spanish, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Research interests: The Moriscos, descendants of forcibly converted Muslims, in sixteenth-century Spain. He is particularly interested in how state power stigmatized their cultural difference and marginalized them, at the same time as a less polarized intercultural dialogue took place, contributing to the successful integration of at least a substantial minority within the minority.
Christopher S. Collins, S.J., Assistant Professor, email@example.com
Department of Theological Studies, Director of Catholic Studies Program, Saint Louis University
Research interests: Systematic Theology.
Nuria Fernandez, Researcher, firstname.lastname@example.com
Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Research interests: Media representations of women, political communication.
Benjamin John Hebblethwaite, Assistant Professor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures, firstname.lastname@example.com
University of Florida
Research Interests: The languages and cultures of Haiti, the Haitian diaspora, and France. He writes on Language Policy, Bilingualism, Morphosyntax, and Literacy. He has published several books that include Haitian Creole texts alongside English and French; for example, Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English (2012), Yon sezonmatchyavel/Une saison en enfer [Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem] (2011). In addition to directing the NEH-funded Vodou Archive Digital Library, he is also working on The Bilingual Dictionary of French Rap.
Rev. Paul V. Kollman, Associate Professor, firstname.lastname@example.com
Department of Theology; Executive Director, Center for Social Concerns (CSC)
Research interests: History of Christianity and World Religions/World Church, with a focus on African Christianity, mission history, and world Christianity. Has carried out research in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. He has also taught at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and the Philosophy Centre in Jinja, Uganda, and was previously a fellow of the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame and a Lilly Fellow for Theological Education at the University of Chicago.
Jelte Olthof, Assistant Professor, firstname.lastname@example.com
University of Groningen in the Netherlands
Research interests: Antebellum United States history from a rhetorical and constitutional point of view. He is currently finishing his PhD-thesis on rhetorical construction of "we the people" in United States constitutional debates from 1765 to 1865.
Tatyana Permyakova, Professor, firstname.lastname@example.com
Department of Foreign Languages, Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia
Research interests: Intercultural Communication Theory, discourse analysis with emphasis on EFL and ELT situations, tourism, professional and business communication, translation, and English for Specific Purposes.
Christine Skwiot, Assistant Professor, firstname.lastname@example.com
Department of of History, Georgia State University
Director of the Program in World History and Cultures
Research interests: Race, nation, and empire, with particular interests in U.S. imperialism in national, comparative, and world history and in cross-cultural relations among Europeans, U.S. Americans, and Hawaiians in the revolutionary era.
Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, Associate Professor, firstname.lastname@example.com
University of Kentucky
Research interests: Relations between Christians, Jews, and Jewish converts, particularly through the mechanism of the early modern Inquisition. This research is also regionally comparative, examining communities in Venice, Spain, Portugal, and the New World.
Thomas Worcester, S.J., Professor, firstname.lastname@example.com
Department of History, College of the Holy Cross
Research interests: Early modern Catholicism and visual culture; France and New France; Jesuits and the development of global consciousness; the papacy vs. nationalism. Editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits (in progress, under contract with Cambridge University Press).
Affiliated Faculty - Click to expand
Visiting Scholars
Ling Wang
Visiting Scholar
Center for Global Citizenship, Suite 124 F
phone: 314-977-5811
Visiting Scholars - Click to expand
Mary Petri Bokern
Administrative Assistant
Center for Global Citizenship, Suite 124 E
phone: 314-977-2690
fax: 314-977-6915
Cho-Chien Feng
Student Assistant
Center for Global Citizenship, Suite 124 E
phone: 314-977-5811
Staff - Click to expand


text:
All Boots Ship Free (more...)
- Pig suede leather upper
- Stroble construction
- Composite toe
- Molded phylon midsole
- Rubber outsole
- Removable sock liner
Get the job done with the comfort and safety of the DeWalt Equalizer CT™ High Performance lightweight oxfords. These low-top shoes are made with top-quality pigskin sueded leather uppers which offers long-lasting wear and durability. Stroble construction on these shoes provides flexibility and durability. The removable arch support liner provides all-day comfort while you on and off your feet. An added rubber toe bumper equals added protection and durability in a high wear area. These shoes are complete with a rubber sole that is high in abrasion, oil, and slip resistance for safety on and off the job.
Style(s): D41102, D91104


text:
We saw awesome performances from this year's Merrie Monarch Festival. Now we want to turn up the volume on the competition and spotlight the artists that performed!
We put together a list of just some of the musical talents that were present at this year's festivities! Go over and check it out now!


text:
A council has agreed to help pay for some of its young people to go to university through an innovative scholarship scheme.
Wychavon District Council has awarded the £500 scholarship to 49 first year students this year, using funding from New Homes Bonus allocations
The scholarship scheme is designed to support undergraduate students from Wychavon who are studying full time courses at the University of Worcester.
Some of the recipients were at a recent reception at the University of Worcester Arena along with University of Worcester vice chancellor, Professor David Green; councillor Gerry O'Donnell, chairman of Wychavon district council; and councillor Paul Middleborough, the council's leader.
Professor Green said: "Wychavon District Council approached us with this proposal a couple of years ago, as they wanted to encourage the young people in their area to enter higher education.
"They are renowned as an innovative and enterprising council, and they recognised that the future of their area lies in educated, skilled people participating in society and making the most of their own rich potential."
Mr O'Donnell said: "I like to think of Wychavon as a family, and we look after members of that family in a distinctive, unique and considerate way.
"Our young people are about to be launched into a global race, and we want them to have the best start possible.
"We hope the students enjoy their time at University, and that they stay, work and prosper in Wychavon."
Scholarship recipient Lesley La-Croix, who is studying Drama and Performance, added: "It's great that the council are recognising and helping people in the area, and I think that the Scholarship scheme will certainly inspire other Wychavon residents to attend university and make the most of their potential."
The scholarship will also support undergraduates who enrol at the university in 2014 and 2015.


text:
I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve and isn't hurting too much today!
This recipe comes from the PBS show Pati's Mexican Table. I made some minor adjustments, the most important being the decision to grill as much of the meal as possible.
I started with a pound of top sirloin that I cut into small pieces.
I lit a small pile of lump charcoal and charred the vegetables. The recipe calls for 1 jalapeno but I opted for 2 serranos.
The beef, bacon, and vegetables were cooked in my alloy pan over a hot lump fire.
We rarely use corn tortillas so I decided they'd make a nice change of pace, and figured they'd hold up a little better on the grill than flour tortillas.
Colby-jack cheese definitely isn't authentic but it's what we like when shredded cheese is called for. The vegetables were nice and soft and the filling had plenty of flavor, so we didn't even add any bottled taco sauce. There's a chicken taco recipe associated with this episode and I'm looking forward to trying it next time.


text:
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 1/10/2010 (2517 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OTTAWA — Voters in Afghanistan's capital city awoke Sept. 18 to the sound of rocket fire.
It was election day and insurgents terrorized the populace with more than 33 bombings and 60 rocket attacks in cities all over the country.
It was an organized attack, intended by Taliban forces to keep Afghans at home and out of the polling stations.
To some extent, it worked.
Voter turnout was lower than the year before. More than 20 people were killed as they attempted to vote. Election workers were murdered as they delivered ballots. Security forces were killed trying to keep the attackers at bay.
And yet still, millions of Afghans managed to cast a ballot.
Some travelled many kilometres to Kabul, expected to be the safest place to vote.
More than 2,100 coalition soldiers -- 152 of them Canadian -- have sacrificed their lives to give Afghans the chance to vote.
Election results won't be known for weeks and low turnout and widespread reports of fraudulent voting have already created strong doubts about the legitimacy of the election.
But hope is strong that somehow, someday, a vote in Afghanistan will signal democracy and freedom have prevailed.
More than 10,000 kilometres away, democracy and freedom are entrenched in Canada.
Voting without violence is a privilege Canadians have enjoyed for more than a century.
Yet, it's something we do in increasingly smaller numbers every time we're given the chance. Work, kids, even picking up the dry cleaning take precedence over choosing our government.
And that's a big problem.
In 2008, 58.8 per cent of Canadians cast a ballot in the federal election. It was the first time federal electoral turnout dropped below 60 per cent.
Canada's chief electoral officer, Marc Mayrand, said Canadians surveyed overwhelming said they didn't bother to vote because of competing priorities.
"When you start looking at those who don't vote, 57 per cent told us it was not really convenient," said Mayrand.
Declining voter turnout is a trend across the developed world. From western Europe to North America and even Australia, where voting is mandated by law, fewer and fewer people bother to cast a ballot.
That means governments are elected based on the desires of a shrinking number of people. It's government by a small fraction of the people making decisions for all the people.
When Gary Doer won his third majority government in May 2007, he seemed to walk away with a huge affirmation from Manitoba voters. The Manitoba NDP increased its seat count for the fifth consecutive election and was just two points shy of breaking through the 50 per cent barrier in popular support.
But while the election results showed Doer and company to be supported by nearly one in every two voters, when looking at how many people voted, the reality was not quite as rosy.
Only 56.76 per cent of registered voters cast a ballot. More than 320,000 people who were registered to vote chose not to.
It meant Doer was elected not by one in two Manitobans, but by about one in four.
The current federal government was elected in 2008 with 37.7 per cent of the vote, or about two in five actual voters. But really, the Conservatives were the choice of just one in five registered voters.
Across the whole population those figures are probably even worse. They don't take into account the number of eligible voters who aren't on the registered voters' list.
"When you reach the point when more than half your citizens are totally outside political life, it's a serious problem," said Henry Milner, a politics professor at the University of Montreal and author of The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts.
"More than half of all citizens are on another planet when it comes to the world around them," he said.
"I am worried."
At the current rates of voter turnout decline, both Canada and Manitoba will see their turnout drop below 50 per cent in the next two decades.
In the 2008 federal election, 23.7 million Canadians were registered to vote. Just 58.8 per cent of them cast a ballot, Canada's lowest voter turnout ever. Although the number of registered voters increased by more than 600,000, the number of people who actually voted fell by nearly one million.
In the last 20 years, the number of Canadians registered to vote grew by more than 34 per cent; that's six million people. At the same time, the number who did vote grew by a mere 4.9 per cent.
Manitoba has among the worst voting turnout records in Canada across all age groups at both the federal and provincial level. Provincially, only Alberta has had a lower average turnout in provincial elections over the last three decades. Federally, Manitoba's voter turnout has been among the lowest three provinces in each of the last four elections.
-- -- --
Manitoba junior cabinet minister Steven Fletcher is an anomaly.
The third-term Conservative MP for Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia is just 38 years old, but already he's a veteran politician with a lifetime of political involvement.
That came by design.
For as long he can remember, Fletcher's parents ensured their kids were exposed to government and politics. They read newspapers and talked about issues they raised at the dinner table. When it was time to go to the polls, they took their kids with them.
"I remember going to Shaftesbury High School when I was a kid and thinking it was cool and creepy being in the school when it was empty of kids," said Fletcher. "It was a big deal to be there."
Since he turned 18, Fletcher has not missed a chance to vote and he believes strongly his family emphasis on it is in part the reason why.
"You've heard of Take Your Child to Work day? Well, I'd like Take Your Child to Vote day," said Fletcher. "If a kid is engaged in political discourse at an early age, they are much more likely to vote."
As the minister of state for democratic reform, Fletcher is the man in charge of trying to improve democracy in Canada. Improving voter turnout is one of his chief assignments.
To that end, he has introduced legislation to add an entire additional day of voting during federal elections. The bill, which has been introduced before but has never been debated, could increase turnout three to five per cent, Fletcher predicts.
Fletcher is appalled at the lack of knowledge Canadians have about their system of governance.
"I was speaking to a first-year university political science class, and people were talking about the president of Canada," said Fletcher.
These were students who chose to study political science and one might expect to be a little bit more knowledgable than others about politics, Fletcher noted.
In a survey of U.S. and Canadian young voters, Milner found the political knowledge of young voters in both countries to be exceptionally low. He also found links between the level of political knowledge and the likelihood one voted.
Although two-thirds of the respondents to the survey claimed to follow what was going on in government at least occasionally, the average score was 2.12 for Americans and 2.89 for Canadians out of seven.
Nearly half of Canadians could not choose who -- citizens, residents, taxpayers or legal residents -- has the right to vote in Canada. The correct answer is Canadian citizens. Only one-third could name a federal cabinet minister and his or her portfolio.
Milner said more sources of information are available than ever before, but it's actually easier for young people to avoid reading them. That's particularly true because young people don't read newspapers as often as their parents and grandparents.
"Even people who may not be that interested in politics will at least meet some of it when they read a newspaper," he said.
Elections Canada lists young Canadians' declining involvement and interest in politics as the overarching reason for the drop in voter turnout. After each election, the agency analyzes turnout, and every election, fewer and fewer first-time voters opt to go to the polls.
Each successive generation votes in smaller numbers than the one before. In 2008, more than two-thirds of registered voters over the age of 55 cast a ballot compared to about half of voters between 18 and 35.
But the real proportion of young people who vote is even lower. Elections Canada argues that voter turnout must be viewed in terms of the number of people eligible to vote, not in terms of those who register to vote. Young people make up the largest group of eligible voters who do not register to vote. Thus, when the total number of young people eligible to vote is considered, the turnout among young voters is a mere one in three.
First-time voters are also declining in successive elections. In 2008, Canadian citizens between 18 and 20.5 years old were eligible to vote in their first federal election. Only 35.6 per cent of them did.
In Manitoba, that number was 20.4 per cent, the lowest first-time voter rate among all provinces.
Younger Canadians not only know less about politics, they care less. They do not embrace, as their parents and grandparents do, that it is a citizen's civic duty to vote.
Mayrand said older voters are more likely than younger ones to say they voted when they hadn't, a suggestion that, among older voters, the sense it is one's obligation to vote is much higher.
They are embarrassed to admit they didn't cast a ballot. Young people don't have that same concern, Mayrand noted.
Mayrand said much study has gone into the problem of low voter turnout, which plagues all Western democracies, albeit at different levels. Even in emerging democracies after the first election or two, turnout starts to decline, he said.
One approach is to make it more convenient to vote. Elections Canada is taking steps toward that, Mayrand said, adding more polling stations and more advanced polls.
The downside to that is the turnout to advanced polls has increased, but the overall turnout hasn't. He suspects people who would have voted anyway decided to vote early.
Elections Canada is also hoping to launch a pilot of electronic voting, likely via the Internet, in a byelection within three years. It's expecting to launch an online registration system before then.
The latter project could add more young people in particular as youth are least likely to be registered through conventional enumeration. They also tend to move a lot, and the system could allow them to update their address information online keeping them on the voter's list regardless of where they live.
-- -- --
Chris Adams, a politics professor at the University of Manitoba and vice-president of Probe Research, said low voter turnout casts doubt on the legitimacy of government. It breeds apathy among an electorate who feel less like the government represents their views. That in turn leads to an even steeper decline in turnout.
Adams noted a citizen's sense that her vote matters plays a significant role in whether she will vote, which means when elections are competitive or a candidate is particularly engaging, more people vote.
In the last Manitoba election, the two ridings with the tightest races -- margins of victory under 100 votes -- had among the highest voter turnout. Conversely, five of the 12 ridings with less than 50 per cent turnout had margins of victory of more than 2,500 votes.
Adams said an analysis of one of Probe's political polls found the groups least likely to have a voting preference were young people and mothers with less than high school education and with kids still at home. More than one in three women in that category didn't know who to vote for.
However, Elections Canada data shows overall, women generally vote at the same or slightly higher rates than men do across most age categories.
Manitoba's rate reflects a large aboriginal population, which is young and the most disengaged and disadvantaged group in the province.
In Rupertsland riding, where 93 per cent of the population is aboriginal, the 33 per cent turnout in 2007 was the lowest of any riding. On some reserves, fewer than one in 10 cast a ballot.
Winnipeg's Point Douglas is the city riding with the largest aboriginal population at 36 per cent. It had a 40 per cent voter turnout, the lowest in the 2007 election.
Voter anger at a sitting government or excitement about a particular candidate can also drive people to the polls.
In Great Britain, voters were compelled by a growing distrust of the Labour Party, an MPs' expenses scandal and anger about the conflict in Afghanistan. Voter turnout actually improved more than four points to 65 per cent, the best turnout in 13 years.
In 2008, when Democratic Senator Barack Obama ran for the presidency, his personal charisma lit a fire under young voters -- particularly minorities.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported more than two million additional black voters and two million addition Hispanic voters cast ballots. In particular, young black voters saw a significant jump, to 55 per cent, making black voters between 18 and 24 the highest voter turnout in that age group.
"I would have been less hopeful (about improving voter turnout) were it not for Barack Obama and that election," said Adams. "That sure energized people, particularly people who are marginalized."
Milner however is not convinced the Obama phenomenon had an overall impact or will last beyond one election.
Although voter turnout grew for young voters and minorities, he noted, overall turnout was virtually the same as it had been four years earlier.
"If Obama with his personal skills and campaign skills was unable to (improve turnout overall), I'm not sure what can," he said.
Voter turnout, federal elections, Canada (Manitoba turnout)
1867 - 73.1 (n/a)
1968 - 75.7 (76)
1972 - 76.7 (74)
1974 - 71 (70)
1979 - 75.7 (77)
1980 - 69.3 (69)
1984 - 75.3 (73)
1988 - 75.3 (75)
1993 - 69.6 (68)
1997 - 67 (63)
2000 - 61.2 (62)
2004 - 60.9 (56)
2006 - 64.7 (62)
2008 - 58.8 (56)
Average turnout, 1945 - 2009 71.7 per cent
-- Elections Canada
Voter turnout, provincial elections, Manitoba
1969 64.42 per cent
1973 78.34 per cent
1977 75.59 per cent
1981 72.39 per cent
1986 67.91 per cent
1988 73.97 per cent
1990 69.05 per cent
1995 69.20 per cent
1999 68.10 per cent
2003 54.17 per cent
2007 56.76 per cent
12: number of provincial ridings in Manitoba where fewer than half registered voters cast a ballot in 2007
31: number of provincial ridings in Manitoba where fewer than half the population over 18 cast a ballot in 2007
57: total number of ridings in Manitoba
-- Elections Manitoba
Voter turnout, municipal elections, Winnipeg
1971 60.70 per cent
1974 34.80 per cent
1977 40.10 per cent
1980 38.30 per cent
1983 52.60 per cent
1986 34.00 per cent
1989 34.00 per cent
1992 58.35 per cent
1995 53.50 per cent
1998 53.60 per cent
2002 48.70 per cent
2004 58.77 per cent
2006 38.20 per cent
-- City of Winnipeg
Provincial voter turnout by province, average between 1980-2009
Yukon 77.7
Nunavut 77.4
New Brunswick 75.8
Saskatchewan 75
Quebec 73.98
Newfoundland 73.6
Northwest Territories 69.7
Nova Scotia 68.2
Ontario 59.6
Manitoba 57.5
Alberta 52.4
-- Elections Canada


text:
Newest testimonials
"Suffer No More"
"Feel younger, better!"
After 10 days of colon cleansing, while eating a normal healthy diet (fruits, veggies, grains, fish and raw dairy) - I feel 10 years younger energy wise, my eyes are bright, whiter and no longer sunken. Transient aches and pains I've had are gone.
[ read more ]
-- Jennifer L. Williamsburg, VA
"I Lost 14 Pounds!"
A Toxic Colon can put your health at risk.
Oxy-Powder® can help restore it!
It's a fact, an unhealthy digestive system impacted with mucus, toxins, and impacted waste can trigger a host of health issues such as:
If you suffer from any of these symptoms then oxygen colon cleansing is what you need.
Colon Cleansing with Oxy-Powder® can:
- Cleanse, Refresh, and Detoxify
- Eliminate Waste Clogging Your Colon
- Help Restore and Maintain Regularity
- Boost Your Immune System
- Maximize Absorption Of Vital Nutrients
- Renew Vitality
Oxy-Powder® helps to gently cleanse and detoxify your colon without the dangerous and embarrassing side effects of laxatives and herbal colon cleansers!
Your digestive system is your lifeline to good health! Each day your body processes approximately 2½ gallons of food, liquids, and bodily secretions. Over time the stress and demands of modern living can gradually run your body down and life can become downright miserable!
It doesn't have to stay that way. Oxy-Powder® provides the ultimate in colon cleansing to get you back on track to a healthier lifestyle.
Magazine Publications:
|Oxy-Powder® Featured on NaturalNews.com!
"This is a powerful colon cleansing product that actively releases small amounts of cleansing oxygen in your large intestine. If you're looking for some serious cleansing that cleans
out the plumbing, you've found it!"
"Oxy-Powder is phenomenally good..."


text:
Fun spaces with light and color
Celebrate childish innocence with this Philips suspension light. A delicate combination of colorful butterflies and flowers fashioned from safe and earth-friendly wood, this luminaire brings to mind a dance in a daisy fields. See all benefits
Save up to 80% energy compared to your standard bulb. It pays for itself and saves you money year after year. So reduce your energy bill and start saving Now.
This Philips light is delivered with long cables to offer you a maximum flexibility during installation. Choose the perfect height matching your needs.
Philips Kidsplace goes a long way to helping little ones feel cozy in the comfort of their own room. Friendly characters encourage children to play and explore, by the kind light of this reassuring luminaire.


text:
It's not enough to encourage students to take STEM courses or talk about worker shortages in order to close the skills gap; to attract the Next Generation workforce, young people need to see what manufacturing is really like. CycleStart, a new web series created by Hurco in partnership with Sandvik Coromant and with support from SME, shows real machinists at work to give viewers a taste of the challenges and rewards of a manufacturing career.
Each of the short episodes (about six minutes each) takes place in a work environment, with a featured machinist completing a task and explaining each step to the viewer. For example, the first episode features Adam, a machinist for S-3 Industries of Ontario, Canada, who describes his work as he manufactures an aluminum part on a three-axis CNC mill.
You can watch current episodes on CycleStart's YouTube page.


text:
Video Available: A Celebration of the International Polar Year
The event was held April 6, 2009, at the National Academy of Sciences
View videos of the IPY celebration (clip1, clip2, clip3, clip4, clip5, clip6, clip7, clip8).
On Monday, April 6, 2009, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) jointly hosted a celebration of the early research accomplishments of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008.
IPY fieldwork, a two-year deployment of scientists from more than 60 nations into the polar regions, officially concluded on March 1, 2009, but science results from IPY-funded research can be expected to be published for many months and even years to come.
The U.S. National Committee for IPY, established by the Academy's Polar Research Board, formulated the vision for U.S. participation in IPY.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy identified NSF as the lead federal agency for coordinating U.S. IPY activities. NSF administers the U.S. Antarctic Program and the NSF director chairs the Interagency Arctic Policy Research Committee.
The afternoon seminar at the Academy was held in conjunction with a morning event organized by the U.S. Department of State related to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, a joint meeting of the Arctic Council and a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the landmark Antarctic Treaty, which sets Antarctica aside as a continent for peaceful uses and for scientific research.
The IPY event was attended by officials from many of the nations involved in the Treaty meeting and the Arctic Council.
As noted by Arden L. Bement, Jr., NSF director, in his opening remarks, the IPY celebration occurred exactly 100 years to the day after U.S. explorer Matthew Henson became the first person to stand at the North Pole. Henson, a native of Maryland, was a member of the expedition led by Adm. Robert E. Peary. Henson was belatedly honored by the nation for his achievement and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The agenda for the afternoon celebration included:
A welcome by James White, chair of the Polar Research Board. Opening remarks by Ralph J. Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences and Bement, followed by six 20-minute talks about various aspect of IPY research.
Karl A. Erb, director of NSF's Office of Polar Programs, and David Bromwich, of Ohio State University, introduced the speakers, who included:
Media Contacts
Related Websites
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2017, its budget is $7.5 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 48,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards.
Useful NSF Web Sites:


text:
Women's Clothing List Pages 8
Women's Clothing List Pages 8Pop & Artisan T-Shirts by Rotem Gear
Must-Haves for Summer '08
Diary of a Hoodie Addict
A Punk Rocker's Dream Closet
Shop Robertson Wish List
Swimsuits that love you back
Dad's day- not another tie.
Get Fit Summer!
Haute Tops
the bottom half
Vintage Inspired and Retro Swimwear by Skinny Dip
A Girl's Green Guide: Dresses
Hot clothes and accessories for summer
Yummie Tummie Shapewear
All Time Favorite Fashions
Clothes: Fall/Winter Fashions 08
treats for me
Smart Style Shopping Finds
the new stay at home mom's autumn '08 fashion list
Fitness Fiend
I'm in love with Mary Jane.
Sea This List
Retro Dresses
Gladiators & Sandals!
the new stay at home mom's summer '08 fashion list
Yummy head to toe
Summer Necessities
Cute & Classy Jeans
Ladies Corner
The Search for the Perfect Summer Pumps
If I Was Rich
World Tee Party
Ones to Watch - Designers that is...
Bumble Bee Fever
Brush Stroke Fashion
hot swimwear
A Day at the Races
Gossip Girl Fashion: Chuck Bass and The Boys
It's all right here in black and white . . .
Wear Me: Shoes, Bags & Clothes
The Media Mistress
Who Wears Short-Shorts!
Long Summer Dresses I Love
Summer Flats for Work
In This Club: Party-Girl Dresses
Gossip-Worthy Fashion from Gossip Girl on the CW
Dog Mom's Mother's Day Guide
Spring Heels - Flower Power
Gossip Girl Fashion: Nylon Photo Shoot
Winning Looks from Miley Cyrus / Hannah Montana
Delightfuly Dressed
Back to Basics
Summer Block Party
Send in the Gladiators!
Gossip Girl Fashion: Georgina Sparks
Casual Summer
Hating Winter. Loving these 'Winter Woolies'
Style: April 2008
amazing amazing
Suburban Safari
Ynot Women
Menswear S/S 08
"Fashions" from the Ladies of MTV's The Hills
Best of the Brits - Top Picks from the UK
A Girl's Green Guide
Dresses I fell in love with at Urban Outfitters
Sexy Swimwear
Knitted Details and Knitting Yarns
Crochet Details and Yarns
Super Sale
Top Summer Dresses Under $250
The Hills Fashion: Lauren Conrad
Fantastic in Fuchsia
Time for Turquoise
Designer Skirts
kaTie land ToTTally T's
Shoes shoes shoes
Designer Clothing
Trend Alert: Give Peace a Chance
Exotic Glamour
Sea Worthy
Twinkle, Twinkle Fashion Stars!
Wedding Guest? Wear This.
Beach Chic
Indie Kids
Fantastic Florals
Woven Details
V is for Victory
Animal Prints Gone Wild Guide
Aruba, Jamaica, Ooh I Wanna Take Ya
StyleBBW's Chic Sheet
Matryoshka madness!
Kitty on a Budget: Fashion Under 50
Designer Wedding Dresses
Trend Alert: Bringing Backless Back
Spring Skirts
screw plaids, give me argyle
breaking off some japanese - kogal - kawaii style
Spring In to Heels
Celtic Wedding Gowns
Style: March 2008
Red Wedding Gowns
Scene kids
Long Sleeved Wedding Gowns
Spring Abounds, Just Look Around
Cotton Wedding Gowns
Blue Wedding Gowns
Pink Wedding Gowns
Dreamy Wedding Gowns
Sale Shoes @ Lord & Taylor!
Lipstick Jungle Fashion: Nico Reilly
Get Your Tribal On...
Lipstick Jungle Fashion: Wendy Healy
Bettie Page Clothing - Retro Dresses, Tops, Skirts
We all live on a yellow fashion scene
Spring Shoe Trends
Gift Ideas: Teen Girls
Converse - ation
Necessary Threads
That 70s Dress! (and shoes and scarf and....)
March Trend - Gladiator Sandals
march trend: to dye for
march trend: foxy pantsuits
march trend: floral
Purple Your World!
March Trend - Bandeau Bikinis
Ruffles on the Floor Laughing
Watercolor Stains
Purple Reign
St. Patrick's Day
Retro Wear
Fall 2008 Trend Alert: Purple Power
Fall 2008 Fashion Trend: Go Gray
Citrus Splash
Flirting with Floral Flair
Sexy Gray!
I <3 Shoes
March Trend - Ombre
Give in to Mello Yellow - SS08 Trend!
Lipstick Jungle Fashion: Victory Ford
Summer Fun. All things hot and happening.
The Novelty of Nature
march trends.
Wild Woman: Safari Chic
80s mayhem and fashion
Naughty Nautical List
April Showers
May Flowers
march trend
March Trend
Wacky weather up ahead . . .
Favorite Online Shops
Williams+Asti Lifestyle
Stunning Flat Sandals for Summer 2008
Spring Break 2k8: Wasps Gone Wild!
Pink Persuasion
Not the Nabokov kind...various lolita fashions
Those lazy days of summer
Nothing but blue all day long
Sprung Spring
Summer Dresses and Cute Sundresses
Live Free and Dye!--dip dyes, tie dyes and ombre
Cheap & Chic: Simply Vera Wang
Mens Fashions
Asian Fashion!
Packing for a Spring Fling Getaway
Leopards, Tigers and Zebras! Oh My!
Cashmere Mafia Fashion: Favorite Character?
Tennis Clothing
Skittles Season
Jovovich-Hawk for Target: Spring 2008
Mellow Yellow
Cardigans and Sweaters
Celebrity Fashion Finds
modern style items
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend - What to Wear?
style & fashion
Cat Accessories
Product Shame: Yes I like THAT!
Safari Clothing for Women
Mellow Yellow!
Creepy or Cool?
Bettie Page Clothing - Top Notch Vintage Repro
ABC's Cashmere Mafia
Ms. Modular
Glam rock that shamrock!
RX for Winter Blues
Pretty Pretty
Shopbop - Retro Fever
Zebra, Tiger, Cheeta, Giraffe oh my!
My Favorite Trend pieces
Glorious Gray!
2008 Academy Awards - Red Carpet Looks
Style: February 2008
have it, love it
Never Enough Ruffles
In Full Bloom
More Than a TeE
Marc Love - The Best of Marc Jacobs
Birthday Must Haves
Booties for Winter
Sex and the City Movie: Carrie Bradshaw Fashion
Dressed Up
The Best of Beads - Beaded Fashion for All
Spring Necessities
The Color Block Craze
The Sporting Life
Lipstick Jungle: Kim Raver as Nico Reilly
Lipstick Jungle: Brooke Shields as Wendy Healy
Lipstick Jungle - Lindsay Price as Victory Ford
Fashion is in Style
Purple & Pink
Blue, Green, Turqouise
Can't Live Without
dawanda finds!
Seeing Red
Cute & Classy Tops
Cute & Classy Dresses
Tulips are oh so precious! Especially in fashion.
Cashmere Mafia Fashion: Zoe Burden
Robot Love
Shoes and handbags
Things that are so cool they defy categorization
Grammy Style Studio
Clothes: Fashion from Asia
Clothes off My Back- Valentine's Day
The Coolest Clothes Currently on the Market
Project Runway Stars
SALE FINDS - Buy Quick, Before It's Gone!
Sensational Sequins
Here Comes the Sun: 2008 Spring and Summer Fashion
Wear Me Out!
Keeping that fall chill out--capelets


text:
The 84th Annual Academy Awards
"Yes, I know it's aimed at my penis. That's why I made her wear it there."
Here's the rest of the Oscars red carpet photos plus Brooklyn Decker who wasn't technically at the Oscars but her breasts are huge, so close enough. Think of this post as honoring the splendor of the Academy Awards if not the spirit hence all that side-pussy talk beneath George Clooney because, seriously, what the hell is that thing? Does he just turn to the right whenever he gets bored. "Hey, Brad, didn't see you over there. And, oh, look, you brought pictures of the kids." *turns to the right*
Photos: Getty


text:
Not a member? Join now
Great Grandmother
Added by MARYALICE1231 11 Apr 2011
Connect me or another page to Irene Brown?
There are no stories about Irene. Add a story
Add a photo or record for Irene Brown
Search through millions of records to find out more. Find more records
Name is Actually Mary Irene Miller Brown
Anyone can contribute to this page. Please sign in or sign up—it's free.
Added by MARYALICE1231 11 Apr 2011


text:
Guess what?! I'm giving away one of my favorite crafting machines – the Silhouette Cameo! Similar to a home printer, it plugs into your computer and uses a little blade to cut and craft away! It can cut vinyl, paper, cardstock, even fabric! I even made a bumper sticker out of the vinyl – so many options! Plus, it cuts up to 12 inches x 10 feet! The software comes with the machine and allows you to use all the fonts already on your computer (no extra purchasing required)! You can purchase shapes and other ideas if you'd like for just 99 cents.
Here are a few project ideas for the Silhouette! You can easily see that it's a total crafter's must-have! Here are some monogrammed napkins I made with my Cameo 2 years ago and still love them! Here is an ornament I made with my monogram last year!
- Ho Ho Ho Boxes – Design Dining Diapers
- Dog Pillows – South of Main
- Christmas Card – Silhouette Blog
- Jolly Apron – Silhouette Blog
- Food Labels – Silhouette Blog
Enter below in the Rafflecopter widget! Don't worry if you're not our winner, we will be sharing a fabulous Black Friday deal (with code Pizzazzerie) on November 28th so HURRY BACK that day to take advantage of the big sale!
a Rafflecopter giveaway


text:
Monday, October 18, 2010 - 18:48 PM
Funk + Doener
in 2006, a band appeared on the german scene. they are called rivo drei and their drummer is felix lehrmann. their album "yeah! jawohl! und ueberhaupt!" has become one of my all-time favourites. i've seen them live many times, and i have invited them to perform at our 2006 meinl drum festival. maybe some of you have seen them there too.
felix lehrmann has had an awesome career in the german drumming scene during the last couple of years. he's one of the first-call studio drummers. his style is unique and recognizeable with a deep pocket. just check out some of the videos we recorded with him demonstrating our various cymbal series.
i am pleased to see that rivo drei has now released their second album, "funk + doener". it's got everything that you'd expect from rivo drei: felix' flashy yet groovy drumming, german lyrics that really mean something, and oliver rivo's songwriting skills. this cd is going to be in my cd player for quite some time now and "hallo phantom" is my new favourite song.
you can order the cd at rivodrei.de. there is an english version too. or download on iTunes or amazon.
- norbert


text:
source GAIA package: Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410306100071_5675.zip Origin key: Sx_MilitaryTimes_M6201410306100071 imported at Fri Jan 8 18:18:17 2016
A Defense Department investigation into a 2012 insider attack that killed a MARSOC Marine and corpsman in Farah province, Afghanistan, found the perpetrator was a newly minted Afghan policeman who may have felt slighted by American troops and estranged by his village.
Staff Sgt. Greg Copes and Navy HM1 Darrel Enos, of Marine Special Operations Team 8313, out of Camp Lejeune's 3rd Marine Special Operations Battalion, were killed Aug. 17, 2012, by a single gunman near the region of Ganjabad just days before they were due to return home.
According to the investigation, released to Marine Corps Times through a Freedom of Information Act request, the shooter, Mohammad Ismail, was an Afghan Local Police candidate who had enjoyed a good rapport with Marines in the unit prior to the attack. The probe found no conclusive Taliban connection, but showed evidence that suggested Ismail may have acted to avenge a perceived insult in accordance with the tribal ethical code of Pashtunwali. Officials also found that religious devotion may have played a role in the murders, which occurred at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
According to the 26-page investigation, Ismail, a 59-year-old Ganjabad village elder, was known among Marines as an outspoken supporter of the Afghan Local Police and made a point of shaking their hands and bowing to them every day, when the Marines would not.
The morning of the attack, a full third of the Ganjabad police were absent from training. Copes asked where they were, Ismail replied that they were at a funeral.
"This is the second or third day that they are at a funeral," Copes said, according to the documents, adding that Ismail was responsible for the men and needed to get them to training.
Ismail then turned away, beginning a conversation with someone else. Shortly after, he locked and loaded his AK-47 using armor-piercing rounds, careful to conceal what he was doing. As he was bearing down with the gun, Copes saw him coming, and drew his knife. Ismail shot him several times and continued firing, hitting Enos. He was finally stopped by a local Afghan interpreter, who grabbed the AK-47 by the barrel and began to punch the attacker with his fist. The whole shooting episode lasted about five seconds.
Another unidentified Marine gunnery sergeant charged forward through the chaos, shooting and killing Ismail at close range. Another Afghan National Police officer who appeared to be reaching to load his own weapon was also shot and killed.
Copes and Enos were pronounced killed in action on the scene within minutes of each other.
In the wake of the shooting, officials discovered that, days before the murders, Ismail had been seen weeping after Ganjabad elders mocked him for taking a position with the ALP. He had also experienced recent family tragedy: His son-in-law had disappeared, and his daughter had chosen to burn herself to death. Because Ismail used steel-core rounds, which are not issued by the U.S. military, investigators found he may have been planning an attack for days, possibly intending to coordinate with the holiest day of Ramadan, when Muslims believe the gates of heaven are opened and the gates of hell are closed.
The perceived insult of being publicly reprimanded may have triggered his violence.
"According to Pashtunwali, he had the inherent right to regain his honor, even if killing is involved," the investigators wrote.
The tragedy took place despite the team's state of heightened alert following several deadly insider attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan that had taken place just days before.
Andrea Enos, wife of Darrel Enos, said her husband had sensed the rising danger.
"Less than 24 hours before the attack, I had spoken with Darrel. He had told me, 'the attacks are getting worse and I don't trust any of them anymore. I'm just wondering which of these f*****s are going to take a shot at one of us next,' " she told Marine Corps Times.
Enos said her husband was a great man who will always be missed and loved.
Tia Copes, Staff Sgt Copes' widow, said she and her four children had been looking forward to seeing him just 17 days from when the attack took place.
"It was shocking, as [the Afghan Local Police] were training, to just turn on them like that," she said. "[Copes] put everyone before himself. He was just always looking out for everybody."
August 2012 marked a tragic peak for green-on-blue attacks within Marine units. In two separate incidents Aug. 10, six other Marines were killed in insider attacks: Capt. Matthew Manoukian, Gunnery Sgt. Ryan Jeschke and Staff Sgt. Sky Mote of 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion in Sangin district, Helmand province; and Staff Sgt. Scott Dickinson, Cpl. Richard Rivera and Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley, of Headquarters Co., 3rd Marines, in Garmsir district in Helmand.
Following these attacks and others like them, Marine officials said they increased Afghan cultural training for commanders to help them better understand cultural sensitivities and other issues that might trigger violent behavior. Col. Chris Dowling, commander of the team currently advising the Afghan National Army's 215th Corps, told Marine Corps Times in an interview last month that he sometimes canceled training and other joint events when "atmospherics" didn't feel right.
"Your head's on a swivel," he said.


text:
The deal
- Option 1: 1 session for $98 (rrp. $480)
- Option 2: 3 sessions for $238 (rrp. $1,440)
- Option 3: 6 sessions for $428 (rrp. $2,880)
Package includes
- 1.5-hour Korean 4D eyelash extensions
- 15-min eye massage
- Eyebrow shaping
- 15-min RF machine eye treatment (options 2 and 3 only)
- 15-min dark eye circles mask application (options 2 and 3 only)
Eye Beauty Limited
Flaunt natural-looking full eyebrows and enhanced eye lines with the help of trained beauticians at Eye Beauty Limited. Located along Portland Street in Mong Kok, it features a reception with warm colours and a striking mix of dark and light browns, and treatment rooms that soothe with its relaxing tint of cool.
1/F, Golden Name Commercial Building
400 Portland street
Mong Kok
Mon-Sat 11am-8pm
Sun 11am-7pm
PH closed
Tel: 2237 1600


text:
Two images stand out from the 30% Club's latest report into why relatively few women make it to the highest echelons of UK companies.
Both illustrate that the main problem with gender imbalance lies in the executive committee and below – the so-called "talent pipeline". A man starting his career at a FTSE 100 company is 4.5 times more likely to reach the executive committee than a women, the research says. This is how far short big UK companies fall:


text:
ORLANDO, Fla. - Lake Baldwin has been deemed safe to swim in after 50 gallons of sewage backed up spilled into the lake, officials say.
The popular lake is located near Orlando's Baldwin Park neighborhood, between Semoran Boulevard and Lakemont Avenue. Fleet Peeples Park is right along the lake, where dog lovers often take their pets to splash in the water.
"Eww. Yeah, that's not good," said Robin Arndt, whose dog, Winston, was playing in the water right before Arndt found out about the spill.
Arndt said she brings Winston to Fleet Peeples dog park at least once a week. She didn't see the warning signs posted along the lake or know about the sewage spill until it was too late.
"Maybe put a sign up before we get all the way down here (by the lake) and the dog's in (the water)," said Arndt.
Winston wasn't alone. Local 6 spotted several other dogs, even a young girl, swimming in the lake as well as a fisherman out on a boat.
"It's pretty disgusting and I didn't know about it until (my dog) went into the water, so it was a little too late for me to do anything about it," said Lillian Friedman, who brings her dog to the park several times a week.
Orlando officials say the fifty gallons of sewage backed up late Monday night after cooking grease clogged a sewer line.
The back-up happened in the Baldwin Park neighborhood on Anissa Avenue, near the Upper Park Road intersection.
Officials said crews were able to pump out about 30 gallons of raw sewage, but the rest went into a storm drain. Although there is a filtration system in the storm water drain, the drain flows right into Lake Baldwin. The spill prompted city officials to issue an immediate lake alert.
City officials said the state recommends closing lakes when bacteria levels are above 400. Test results from Lake Baldwin that came back on Wednesday revealed a bacterial level of 34, but city officials decided to shut down the lake to swimming out of an abundance of caution.
City officials told Local 6 the lake is expected to reopen in a few days.
The city is asking residents to not dispose of cooking grease in drains. Instead, city officials recommend recycling used cooking oil. By recycling used cooking oil, officials say Orlando residents can help prevent thousands of gallons of used cooking oil from clogging sewer systems and ending up in local landfills.
The following types of oils can be recycled:
- Grease leftover from cooking of animal fats (i.e. bacon grease)
- Vegetable Oil
- Corn oil
- Olive oil
- Peanut oil
- Sesame oil
- Soybean oil
- Sunflower oil
- Canola oil (Rapeseed oil)
- Lard
Cooking oil should be free of water, soap suds and food scraps, and should be transported in a clean, non-breakable, leak-proof container with a tight lid.
For a list of locations where you can dispose of cooking grease, visit the city of Orlando's website or call 407-246-2213.
Copyright 2013 by ClickOrlando.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
When you use the FormDataIntegration Service in LiveCycle ES2 to merge XML data into a PDF file, you may encounter the following exception:
2010-03-29 14:58:31,885 ERROR [com.adobe.livecycle.formdataintegration.client.ImportFormDataException] ALC-FDI-001-305: Operation aborted: Malformed input PDF or data. 2010-03-29 14:58:31,964 ERROR [com.adobe.idp.workflow.dsc.invoker.WorkflowDSCInvoker] An exception was thrown with name com.adobe.livecycle.formdataintegration.client.ImportFormDataException message: ALC-FDI-001-305: Operation aborted: Malformed input PDF or data. while invoking service FormDataIntegration and operation importData and no fault routes were found to be configured.
This exception occurs only for certain PDF files and other XML datasets cause the same error in the PDF file. However, you can use the same data XML in other PDF files without error. There are no visible problems in the PDF file, and no problems reported by Preflight.
This error occurs because of a bug in our Gibson library. Gibson doesn't correctly handle a rich text field with an empty body element as value.
This issue has been addressed in LiveCycle ES2 SP1 and later versions.
reference: (181504595/2591446)


text:
Submit News
Obama's EPA to Farmers: No Ethanol Waiver, If You Go Out of Business, Tough
Jason Mick
November 19, 2012 11:23 AM
Recipient E-mail
Sender E-mail
Big corporate corn farmers celebrate major win, share prices in corn corps. inch higher
Battered by a drought, and hit a second time by the U.S. government's artificial inflation of corn prices, many small livestock farmers were desperately hoping that the Obama administration's and its appointed leadership at the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) would
agree to a temporary waiver
on blending requirements of ethanol in vehicles.
I. Big Corn Gets a Helping Hand from the Obama Admin.
The EPA on Friday echoed the sentiments of big corn special interests saying it found no evidence that "significant harm" would be caused by not granting a waiver.
The decision came as somewhat of a surprise. Many sources had expected the Obama administration to
instead punt on the issue
; the decision to side with the well-heeled special interests to push a program that is unpopular and likely will now cost American jobs was unexpected.
The auto industry has also vigorously opposed the EPA's decision to
bump ethanol blending requirements to 15 percent
. They argue that the higher blend will
ruin the engines of older vehicles
, increasing emissions and forcing consumers to pay for expensive repairs or abandon their vehicles.
Obama and Bush both backed big corn special interests. [Image Source: Politically Incorrect]
The EPA has alleged that it knows the science behind fuel blending better than the engineers who make cars, essentially
calling the automakers liars
The decision will also impact consumers, as ethanol provides less gas mileage in traditional engines that gasoline. In other words, unless gas stations start charging less at the pump (which seems rather unlikely) consumers will be paying the same amount per gallon, for less equivalent fuel.
Even environmentalists are outraged at the Obama administration, given that ethanol has been shown to not only waste energy, but also increase carbon emissions.
, Michal Rosenoer, biofuels policy campaigner at Friends of the Earth, to
The Detroit News
If the worst U.S. drought in more than 50 years and skyrocketing food prices are not enough to make EPA act, it falls to Congress to provide relief from our senseless federal support for corn ethanol. The RFS is a broken policy — rather than giving us clean energy, it's incentivizing biofuels like corn ethanol that are exacerbating our economic and environmental problems.
Congress needs to cut corn ethanol from the RFS entirely to protect the economy and the environment from this destructive and dirty fuel.
But despite the united opposition, the Obama administration appears resolute in following its predecessor, the Republican Bush administration, in choosing to side with the big corn special interest groups.
II. EPA to Small Farmers: "Deal With It"
Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air and Radiation fires back at the critics, commenting, "We recognize that this year's drought has created hardship in some sectors of the economy, particularly for livestock producers. But our extensive analysis makes clear that congressional requirements for a waiver have not been met and that waiving the RFS will have little, if any, impact."
In other words, the EPA admits it recognizes that farmers are struggling, resorting to desperate measures like feeding their livestock candy waste; but when it comes to bucking a key special interest's agenda the EPA's answer to farmers is basically "tough luck".
EPA claimed to be sympathetic to farmers, but refused to help them with a waiver.
[Image Source: US News]
Over 200 members of Congress, eight state governors, and numerous college professors sign a letter arguing that the blending targets would indeed have a dire impact on farmers.
So who wins? The biggest winners are the corn and ethanol industry, particularly the growers, who benefit the most from the artificial inflation of corn prices. Many of these growers are not even family owned, but rather are large corporate farms run by deep-pocketed entities like Archer Daniels Midland Comp. (
) and ConAgra Foods, Inc. (
). Indeed, both companies saw a rise in share prices following the EPA's decision.
Big corn donates deeply to federal politiicans, who in turn reward it with billions in subsidies.
[Image Source: Agriculture.com]
So the word is official -- the U.S. will continue to manipulate prices in the fuel department, despite the cost to consumers, the environment, automakers, livestock farmers, and U.S. jobs. That's bad news for most -- unless you happen to be an Archer Daniels Midland shareholder.
The Detroit News
"People Don't Respect Confidentiality in This Industry" -- Sony Computer Entertainment of America President and CEO Jack Tretton
Related Articles
Obama's EPA May Punt on Ethanol Decision, As Big Corn Argues "Just Trust Us"
November 14, 2012, 3:40 PM
Obama's EPA Faces Decision Between Corn Ethanol Profits and Farm Jobs
October 12, 2012, 2:51 PM
EPA Clears the Way for E15 Fuel at Local Gas Stations
June 19, 2012, 9:34 AM
EPA Calls Automakers Liars, Says Cars Can Handle Higher Ethanol Blend
July 8, 2011, 10:32 AM
Ford and Toyota Blast EPA for Forcing Ethanol Blends on Public
July 6, 2011, 9:38 AM
Latest Headlines
Lyft Steps into the Autonomous Car Market
July 22, 2017, 7:02 AM
30 People will get new Tesla Model 3 vehicles on July 28
July 11, 2017, 8:24 AM
Intel is buying Car-vision Company for $15.3B
May 6, 2017, 6:10 AM
Tesla will announce electric lorry in September
April 19, 2017, 6:20 AM
Dubai announces passenger drone plans.
February 14, 2017, 7:56 AM
Lucky LA Residence
January 28, 2017, 4:00 AM
More Headlines
Most Popular Articles
Samsung 2017 QLED TV – Guaranteed no Burn-In Display
August 18, 2017, 6:55 AM
Two great updates from Google
August 20, 2017, 6:42 AM
Best Buy Student Discount on the HP Spectre x360
August 17, 2017, 6:00 AM
Shonin – Palm-sized cam that attaches to the body to record videos and store them to the cloud.
August 17, 2017, 6:00 AM
Asus Zenfone 4 Pro – Craftsmanship and Technical Brilliance in the palm of your hand.
August 16, 2017, 6:53 AM
Latest Blog Posts
Samsung has a Smart Speaker in the Works
Nenfort Golit
Aug 24, 2017, 6:00 AM
Own a Sony Xperia? – Not as waterproof as they say.
Elroy Bethell
Aug 23, 2017, 6:56 AM
Do you want to know who's driving in your neighborhood?
DailyTech Staff
Aug 22, 2017, 6:04 AM
US Navy ship collides with oil tanker off Singapore
DailyTech Staff
Aug 21, 2017, 6:25 AM
Japan launches satellite for better GPS system
DailyTech Staff
Aug 20, 2017, 6:52 AM
Apple Watch 3 gone to final testing Phase:
DailyTech Staff
Aug 19, 2017, 6:24 AM
Can Didi out-network Uber to win the global ridesharing market?
DailyTech Staff
Aug 18, 2017, 6:23 AM
HBO social media hacked in latest cyber security breach
DailyTech Staff
Aug 17, 2017, 6:49 AM
Android O – Arrives in August 21, 2017
Elroy Bethell
Aug 17, 2017, 6:43 AM
Smart Biochip that helps to repair injuries and restore health.
Elroy Bethell
Aug 16, 2017, 7:10 AM
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 - One of the Biggest Smartphones so far by Samsung
DailyTech Staff
Aug 15, 2017, 6:23 AM
Google Voice Typing Update
Nenfort Golit
Aug 15, 2017, 6:00 AM
Google looks at health issues with purchase of Senosis
Elroy Bethell
Aug 14, 2017, 7:06 AM
Alzheimer's patients make soon find relief by playing video games.
Elroy Bethell
Aug 13, 2017, 6:35 AM
New LG V30 arrives in two weeks.
Elroy Bethell
Aug 12, 2017, 6:57 AM
Ready for an even larger iPhone?
Elroy Bethell
Aug 11, 2017, 6:35 AM
Google fires engineer for violating company's code of conduct.
Elroy Bethell
Aug 10, 2017, 6:50 AM
T-Mobile new android smartphone.
Nenfort Golit
Aug 10, 2017, 6:00 AM
Want to take the Perfect Selfie? Try this Selfie App.
Elroy Bethell
Aug 9, 2017, 6:45 AM
New Fitbit Smartwatch coming this fall.
DailyTech Staff
Aug 8, 2017, 6:00 AM
More Blog Posts
Copyright 2017 DailyTech LLC. -
RSS Feed
About Us
Terms, Conditions & Privacy Information
Kristopher Kubicki


text:
Lady GaGa as you never seen her before. (But not really.)
Here's Lady GaGa performing at the Oxygen Music Festival in Ireland where, like 99% of her performances, it was Ass Ahoy! I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but she's like an oddly arousing car wreck. I know I should call 911, but at the same time, what if I made love to that gas tank? These are the trials of my life.
NOTE: Astute readers have pointed out we have nipple in the ninth shot, folks. Repeat. We have nipple.
Photos: Splash News


text:
A company exploited foreign workers it had illegally supplied to about 500 farms across the country, a jury has been told.
Marden Management Ltd and its boss Christopher Blakeney, 50, are accused of having flouted gangmaster laws by providing workers, mainly Filipinos, to the dairy industry.
It is said they breached regulations introduced in the wake of the Morecambe Bay tragedy, when 21 cockle pickers died, by not having a licence. They deny the charges.
Brendan Moorhouse, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court the Wiltshire-based firm had applied for the permit in 2006 but were refused as the £2,130 required was not paid.
And, despite being warned that they were contravening the regulations when they asked if they were exempt, he said they kept on with the illicit trade.
Blakeney, of Conock, near Devizes, and Marden Management Ltd, of Calne, each deny four counts of acting as a gangmaster without the proper licence.
The jury was told workers were brought into the UK, having already provided financial bonds, and were then deducted half their first two months' wages as a second bond.
Some were then subject to deductions for accommodation, which was supposed to be provided by the farmer.
Time sheets were not properly kept, meaning they worked extra hours for nothing, and many were paid less than the Agricultural Minimum Wage.
"Every opportunity to take that extra little bit of money out of them was taken by the company as part of their exploitation," Mr Moorhouse told the jury.
He said the company had suggested to the Gangmaster Licensing Agency they did not need the permit as their workers fell into certain exempt categories.
"Marden Management were told that those exclusions did not apply to them at that stage and told why," he said.
One ruse was to try and get round the rules was to set up a 'bogus educational scheme' to claim the workers were trainees and so were exempt from the rules, he said.
The offending was said to have taken place between October 2006, when the law changed, and June 2010.
"During that time there was systematic underpayment of workers, money unlawfully withheld, money deducted, workers in poor conditions with no alternative but to carry on because of the bonds held against them," he said.
Blakeney and Marden Management deny any wrongdoing. The case continues.