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celinejansen on Jun 27, 2017
I ordered it more often because i love it as a gift for a new baby ;-)
wendywolle on Apr 11, 2017
Love this gorgeous handmade necklace! It came tied at the perfect length for me. It is so simple and beautiful. I chose the neutral color because I know it will go with anything I wear.
BBOUTIQUE beauties - colorful gifts for all young at heart!
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I am happily married and have 2 adorable daughters. They are a major source of inspiration, best critics and models for my little boutique:) We live in a beautiful place near the river. Every morning starts with a big cup of coffee on the balcony, looking at the colorful flowers in our garden and listening to birds singing. And while I am sipping my coffee ideas start flying around. By the time the coffee cup is empty I know exactly how my next creation will look like:)
How it got started..
Some time ago I was running a small shop of organic and handmade toys. Some of those handmade items were so cute that I decided to try to make something myself.
I started with a felt brooch. Everybody liked it:) I made another one, and another one, and another one :)
People started to ask if they could buy them from me and I began to sell them to friends and acquaintances.
Finally I adventured to open a shop here:)
There are 3 of us in our Etsy shop - one of my team member is a professional seamstress and creates kids clothing, accessories and toys, another one is very good at crocheting and makes wonderful toys for babies.
We love our families, we love life - and it reflects in our creations as well. Products in our boutique are colorful, joyful and amazing!
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A CHANCE to sample tapas-style dishes and fine wine is a recipe for success as far as a popular north Hampshire business is concerned.
Following a complete revamp at its Winchester Street shop in Overton, wine merchant Caviste now offers delicious tapas dishes made from Hampshire ingredients.
And to celebrate the change, Caviste held two consecutive launch parties, attracting 100 people each night.
Among the guests wishing the business success with its new concept was North West Hampshire MP Sir George Young. Caviste general manager Graham Devereux is delighted with the support the business has had from local residents and customers from further afield.
He said: "We had done quite a lot of research and found there is a genuine interest in a wine bistro offering here. And we were able to validate that during the summer's sheep fair when our shop was packed with people."
Back then customers were offered pie, but now they can enjoy a platter of tapas alongside a glass or bottle of wine from Caviste's range of more than 1,000 mainly boutique labels. Managing director Ben Llewelyn said: "Customers are now able to come and relax at a table and take in the surroundings whilst enjoying a choice of delicious tapas with a glass or bottle from our range of wines.
"We have intentionally kept the offering very simple. We are not cooking the food ourselves but providing something prepared by local producers, and the daily choice will be limited to a small selection. "However, we expect things to change daily, and seasonally, and as we discover more producers, so the breadth of the menu will increase too. "Our only stipulation is that the produce must be from Hampshire, grown with Hampshire ingredients by Hampshire residents."
Ben said Caviste is currently working with Laverstoke Farm and Newlyns Farm, supplemented with bread from Sherlock Parties, based in North Oakley, and chutneys and relishes supplied by The Wellington Arms, at Baughurst. He added: "Retailing in the current environment is not easy but there is absolutely no doubt that our customers are pleased with our offer as evidenced by our 10 per cent growth in sales for the same period last year. "The new concept, together with the wide range of events we have planned for the area, will continue to improve our performance."

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Although these Mini Courses are only four weeks long, they do contain substantial content that the dance teacher can put into practice in their studio immediately.
(PRWEB) May 23, 2013
Online learning is one of the latest trend in education. The National Dance Education Organization's Online Professional Development Institute (OPDI) is launching a new program called Mini Courses to provide opportunities for dance teachers to experience online learning in dance without the big commitment in terms of time and money.
Mini Courses run for 4 weeks instead of the traditional 12 week semester and are designed to introduce ideas and concepts in the field of dance education that can't be found in traditional technique classes, conventions or workshops. They are introductory in nature and appropriate for new dance teachers or those thinking of becoming a dance teacher, as well as seasoned dance teachers who wants to try online learning for the first time. In addition, since Mini Courses are offered entirely online, there is no travel or lodging expenses and the dance teacher can work at his or her own pace throughout each week. Each Mini Course costs $120 and is worth one NDEO-endorsed Continuing Education Unit (CEU) upon successful completion.
Dance teachers can experience a new level of dance education training and professional development with OPDI Mini Courses. To learn more about NDEO's OPDI and the Mini Courses please visit http://www.ndeo.org/opdi.
The first two Mini Courses offered this Summer are as follows:
OPDI-M1: Pedagogy - Learning Styles and Theories (July 8 to August 4, 2013). his Mini Course explores some of the educational theories that dance educators apply in the classroom and studio. A working knowledge of this material allows students to develop a tool kit of teaching approaches, which serves the educational needs of the students in their studios and classrooms. Each theory is accompanied with specific applications, usable in all teaching environments. In succession, this course will explore the work of Muska Mosston's Spectrum of Teaching Styles, Bloom's Taxonomy, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick's Habits of Mind, and Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. (Professor - Susan McGreevy-Nichols)
OPDI –M2: Elements of Movement (August 5 to September 1, 2013) This Mini Course explores the universal language used to describe movement, and dance in particular. This language, or elements of movement, is applicable to all dance styles, genres and techniques. Through movement and online discussions, students will examine how the body moves in space, in time, and with energy (dynamics). A working knowledge of this material allows the student to identify and describe movement with specificity and clarity which can be useful in creating dances, documenting choreography and ensuring accurate interpretation of specific styles and techniques. In addition, this knowledge can improve students' ability to analyze, interpret and write about dance choreography and performance. (Professor - Patricia Cohen)
To learn more about these OPDI Mini-Courses and how to apply to the program please visit our website at http://www.ndeo.org/opdi.
Founded in1998, the National Dance Education Organization is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing dance education centered in the arts. To that end, the organization provides its members, and the field at large, with advocacy, professional development, standards, leadership, support services, honor societies and research for dance teachers, artists, administrators and students in dance education across all genres. NDEO members can be found in PreK-12 schools, colleges and universities, dance studios, community centers and performing arts organizations. NDEO launched the Online Professional Development Institute (OPDI) in January 2012 and offers a Certificate in Dance Education (CiDE) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).


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What is the secret to a long and healthy life? Is it all in the genes or do the everyday choices we make have a greater impact on our overall health and wellness?
At The Magic of Healthy Living workshop, participants will explore this question and discover small steps that can have a big impact on health and wellness. Learn how to find whole grain foods and how increasing consumption of whole grains can benefit overall health. Food program participants will meet CACFP annual training requirements by attending this session.
The workshop is being held in Cambridge in the Community Room at Minnco Center at 236 2nd Avenue SW, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 27. To register, contact Janene Bougetz at 763-689-2740.


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Bush v. Gore: Judging the Judges
Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000, by Alan M. Dershowitz (Oxford, 2001), xii, 275 pages.
Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution and the Courts, by Richard A. Posner (Princeton University Press, 2001), xvi, 266 pages.
Too Close to Call, by Jeffrey Toobin (Random House, 2001), xxi, 297 pages.
The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election, by Howard Gillman (The University of Chicago Press, 2001), xxiv, 301 pages.
"No matther whether th' constitution follows
th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th'
iliction returns."1
"Here, then, is an attempt to induce a court of
equity to stop an election. . . ."2
On Dec. 8, 2000, the Republican candidate for president, George W. Bush, who had been declared the winner of the popular vote in the state of Florida, asked the Supreme Court of the United States to stay the recounting of ballots that the losing candidate, Albert Gore, Jr., had sought under state law. On Dec. 9, 2000, the Court granted the request by a 5-4 majority and ordered Florida to stop the recount of votes cast in Florida in the presidential election. Because the Court ordered it, Florida stopped counting votes. No guns or marshals had to enforce the order. By mid-afternoon on Dec. 9, vote counters across the state downed tools and went home. They did so because they accepted the Court's order as a legitimate exercise of moral authority in the conduct of the country's business, even though the Court divided 5-4 on its grant. No opinion of the Court accompanied the order. Justice Stevens dissented, joined by Justices Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer. Justice Scalia concurred.
The Court styled its order as a "stay."3 In fact, it operated as a preliminary mandatory injunction, in force pending disposition of the case after oral argument the following Monday, Dec. 11. Although a stay order is not unusual, the Scalia concurrence recognized that the tests that courts apply before issuing or denying preliminary injunctions guided the majority's disposition of the Bush request that the Court stop the votes from being counted. Those criteria include the probability of Bush's success on the merits and the likelihood of his incurring irreparable harm should the Court deny relief.4 On such findings, a court may exercise its authority to maintain the status quo while it considers the merits. Justice Scalia found the tests of success and harm met; the Stevens dissent concluded that Bush had satisfied neither criterion.5 The order, however, did not maintain the status quo, i.e., the counting of votes, but changed it by stopping the recount.
As is often the case in litigation, the Court's exercise of its discretion in granting preliminary relief decided the case. The final decision of Dec. 12, 2000,6 confirmed the divisions that the Dec. 9 order revealed, and exposed the Court to an immense array of critical comment, most of it focusing on accusations that the majority did not apply the law but voted their personal political preferences. Countless books and articles have praised, condemned, dissected, and satirized the decision. Few, however, seem to have attended to the salient fact that when the Court on Dec. 9, 2000, without argument from the parties, ordered the sovereign state of Florida to stop what it was doing, the state did so at once.7 The Court's moral authority carried the day.
It sometimes happens that, when an institution like the Court asserts its moral authority, the very assertion may lay an axe to the roots of that authority, unless the institution can justify the exercise on the basis of principles that the subjects of the order accept.8 This review reflects, first, on how four "historians" of Bush v. Gore want history to remember the granting of the stay, and, second, on the impact that the Court's preliminary decision may have on the moral authority that alone made dozens of Floridians put down their pencils on Dec. 9, 2000, abandon the hanging chads and the butterfly ballots and leave the election of the next president of the United States to the nine justices of the Supreme Court.
When, in 1936, the Court moved from its quarters in the basement of the Capitol to its monumental temple behind the Capitol, the change was more than geographical. "The Supreme Court's [original] meager physical space [in the Capitol], later described by the building's architect, Benjamin Latrobe, as 'meanly furnished' and 'very inconvenient,' suggested the Court's lowly status É. [and was] embarrassingly inferior to the accommodations for the president and Congress."9 Moving to its magnificent new home marked the Court's emergence as a recognized equal branch, at least on the architectural front. Pedimented and columned, the building has an ecclesiastical aura, suitable, perhaps, for occupants who wear the contemporary version of the black robes of clerks in holy orders. Inside the courtroom, the churchliness continues. A prayer opens each session; the justices sit altarwards on chairs raised above the congregation; silence prevails except for converse between counsel and Court. We rise as the justices enter and leave. No television cameras desecrate the proceedings. After the arguments, the justices repair to a private zone of silence where they meditate, and mediate, results that produce the sacred texts that litigants live by and professors interpret.
It is easy to mock the architectural pomp, the clothes, the prayers, the solemnity and the rituals that are the outward and visible signs of the Court's presence. From the days of the Delphic Oracle, however, societies have adopted precisely these kinds of signs as the context within which the guardians of the law develop and assert the moral authority that they exercise to preserve peace among citizens. For reasons that philosophers have debated for centuries, getting people to stop doing something because it is, or may be, "against the law" depends on the authority that people ascribe to those giving the orders. That ascription seems to mandate that the buildings, clothes and rituals that surround those who give the orders be sufficiently out of the ordinary that they create an aura of awe or mystery. The real source of the Court's authority, of course, has nothing to do with the building it sits in or the clothes that the justices wear. It has everything to do with the Court's application of received principles of law in ways that society accepts as legitimate and free of private interest. The grant of the Bush v. Gore stay tested that authority more than any other action of the Court in recent memory. For some, it was the worst threat to the Court's integrity in its history.
On Dec. 9, 2000, the full apparatus was in place. The justices conferred privately. The stay was issued. The only hints of what the justices may have discussed come in the Scalia concurrence and the Stevens dissent. Five justices elected to exercise their discretion and grant the stay; four opposed. As in so much of the Court's recent work, the decision divided the five "conservative" judges from their "moderate" or "liberal" colleagues. Whatever the stereotypical labels that may apply, however, they should not conceal the several factors that unite the nine as judges.
As Linda Greenhouse has pointed out, the nearly universal background of the justices as lower appellate court judges has changed not only the composition of the present Court from its historical antecedents, but the definition, as well, of its function in the constitutional scheme.10 All of the justices except Chief Justice Rehnquist are former judges of other courts. Justice O'Connor was a state trial and appellate judge. The remaining seven justices were judges of the United States Court of Appeals: Justices Souter (who also served in the New Hampshire state courts) and Breyer from the First Circuit; Justice Stevens, the Seventh Circuit; Justice Kennedy, the Ninth Circuit; and Justices Scalia, Thomas and Ginsburg, the District of Columbia Circuit. None has served in Congress. Only Justice O'Connor seems ever to have run for elective office, as an Arizona state senator. Justices Ginsburg, Kennedy, Scalia and Breyer moved to the Court of Appeals after lengthy employment as professors of law. Justices Souter and Thomas had brief experience in private practice before becoming employees of state or federal agencies prior to their judicial appointments. Except for Justice Stevens, who turned 50 the year of his appointment to the Seventh Circuit following a career in public and private practice, all of the other justices were first appointed to their judicial posts in their 30s and 40s.11 Thus, by Dec. 9, 2000, the Court comprised two women and seven men who had spent major parts of their professional lives as appellate judges with lifetime tenure whose work was public only when they appeared on the bench and in the Supreme Court Reports and whose lives were far removed from the rough-edged political and public world from which so many of their greatest predecessors, starting with Chief Justice Marshall, had come.
As Senior Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., of the Ninth Circuit, writes, "the life experience of each [Supreme Court] judge" is a prime indicator of how a judge will act on the bench.12 When a justice's "life experience" has been subject for so long to the cloistral restraints of judicial existence, a certain sense of self-infallibility may develop. Hence, in Greenhouse's compelling phrase, the "Triumph of Discord" in the Court may be the result of its having evolved into a kind of judicial alumni association whose members, by virtue of their long judicial careers, are not much experienced in the art of compromise. Nevertheless, "[t]he great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course, and pass the judges by."13 On Dec. 9, 2000, the justices chose not to turn aside from the great dispute in Florida. They jumped right in.
Out of the hundreds of books and articles on Bush v. Gore, four illustrate a variety of approaches to the case. History is not mere chronology. Historians, professional and otherwise, cannot escape the burden of interpreting events, a process that implicates the writer's own experience, disposition, and philosophy. Those who write the history of events want to shape the public memory of those events, often ascribing meanings to them that serve the writer's own political, ideological or other purpose.14 Our four authors certainly come from different places and have different purposes. They engage in different literary genres but their effort is the same: to write the history of Bush v. Gore. How they deal with the Dec. 9 stay reveals their "take" on that event, and its consequences for the Court.
The books' titles are most evocative. Professor Dershowitz's title, Supreme Injustice,15 for example, carries the subtitle "How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000" and has as its epigraph these desperate lines from W. H. Auden's "Law Like Love":
Others say, Law is our Fate;
Others say, Law is our State;
Others say, others say
Law is no more,
Law has gone away.16
The title and the epigraph leave no doubt of Dershowitz's opinion of Bush v. Gore, and of the five justices who delivered the stay. In his view, they are no better than "highjackers,"17 if not murderers, of the Court's moral authority. The book falls into the literary genre known as polemic, a term whose root is polemos, the Greek word for war. Bitingly, and fueled by a nearly Swiftian saeva indignatio, the book more than indicts the five justices, it declares war on them. Dershowitz clerked for Justice Goldberg and holds the Court in awe:
[the Court's] enormous power has always been viewed as legitimate because of the unique status of the justices as transcending partisan politics, eschewing personal advantage and pronouncing the enduring constitutional values of our nation.18
Dershowitz accurately describes the apolitical ideal to which the Court ought to aspire, but, as a scholar, he knows that the Court on occasion has not "always" met that high standard. Nevertheless, in his view, no previous occupants of that bench have fallen so far:
five partisan judges have caused many Americans to question each of the assumptions undergirding the special status accorded these nine robed human beings. Bush v. Gore showed them to be little difference [sic] from ordinary politicians. Their votes reflected not any enduring constitutional values rooted in the precedents of the ages, but rather the partisan quest for immediate political victory. In so voting, they shamed themselves and the Court on which they serve, and they defiled their places in history.19
Of the Dec. 9 stay order, Dershowitz writes that, "[o]f all the judicial decisions rendered in this case, none was more surprising and controversial than the 5-4 ruling to stop the counting even before hearing argument."20 He contrasts that stay with the Court's refusal of stays in capital cases, where the denial sends the applicant to execution. Death, of course, is the ultimate harm. Dershowitz finds it inexplicable that a Court that regularly denies stays in death cases should find irreparable harm in the continued counting of ballots by hand.21 Thus, it is hard to fault Dershowitz's conclusion that
[t]he crucial point is that at the time they ruled [on Dec. 9], the justices had absolutely no idea which way the counting would have come out. Indeed, their finding of "irreparable harm" suggests that they anticipated the real possibility, if not probability, that Gore would have gotten more votes. . . .22
How Dershowitz wants history to remember the stay is unmistakable: "the [five] justices were so determined to ensure a Republican victory that they engineered a short-term resolution locking in that victory - at the risk of considerable long-term costs to the Bush presidency and the credibility of the Supreme Court."23
If Dershowitz writes a polemic, then Judge Posner's book24 is, in classical terms, an apologia, not in the sense of acknowledging regret for giving offense, but offering a defense of oneself or others.25 Posner thus strenuously defends the issuance of the stay as a superb example of the "pragmatism"26 that courts ought to employ to resolve disputes. In sum, Posner views the Court, at least when it faces high-profile issues, as a sort of elevated crisis manager that knows what is best for the country without regard to the shackles that precedent or mere jurisdictional limits would impose on its actions.
Like Dershowitz, Posner finds few subjects of public interest unworthy of published comment. His book on Bush v. Gore was one of the earliest contenders on the scene, and, like Dershowitz, he tells his story in his title, Breaking the Deadlock. While Dershowitz's highjacking metaphor may seem excessive, it goes to the heart of his argument: the stay order did not so much steal an election as steal from the Court its right to claim moral authority. Posner's choice of "deadlock" as his controlling trope, however, rests on a false premise. A "deadlock" is a "complete standstill or lack of progress."27 Posner assumes an "election deadlock"28 but the facts are opposite. No deadlock had occurred in Florida; far from being at a standstill, the counting of ballots was in full progress before the Court put a stop to it. From that false premise, Posner moves to a false analogy: "all this [the Florida election dispute] was reminiscent of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and its aftermath, about which I had written a book that could, I decided, serve as a model for a study of the election deadlock and its aftermath."29
Posner never explains how the Clinton impeachment trial offers a single insight into the use by the Court of its extraordinary equity powers. Rather than an explanation for the connection, Posner offers only an assertion, namely that both events were political crises that showed the "indispensability of pragmatism to the resolution of tumultuous, law-saturated public issues."30
Posner's discussion of the stay comes late in the book, after his lengthy analysis of the Court's final decision, and concentrates mostly on the balance-of-harm test.31 He defends the stay on the basis of hypotheses and assumptions, unsupported by facts, that for him demonstrate the stay as a "realistic"32 disposition, especially when, as he seems to say, (as does Dershowitz) that the justices had made up their minds on the merits before the case was heard.33 Thus, that which shocks Dershowitz (a Court making up its mind before hearing the case) comforts Posner, who palliates the finding of harm by reference to Bush's likely success on the merits. The shock and the comfort, however, derive from the authors' fundamentally different concepts of what courts are and do.
Though defending the stay, Posner nevertheless writes that "Justice Scalia was . . . ill advised to go public with his ground for voting for the stay . . . [which] he did not defend . . . effectively. . . ."34 Curiously, the apologist for the stay finds its official defender ineffective in its defense. It may be that this nearly throw-away line in Posner's book says more about the stay than anything else that Posner offers to support it. In Posner's lexicon, failure to defend the stay effectively may well be a soft way of saying that the ground of harm on which Justice Scalia relied, the possibly adverse consequence to Bush of the counting of votes, was really indefensible. He leaves no doubt, however, that he wants history to remember the majority's action as a high judicial achievement.
Jeffrey Toobin's book, Too Close to Call,35 is a page-turner. Unlike Dershowitz and Posner, he writes for an audience not impressed by the mountains of footnotes and the "scholarly" apparatus of their productions. Toobin also unabashedly favors Gore, and treats the stay in novelistic fashion. He captures what must have been a weekend of intense activity at the Court and turns it into high drama and low. Chief Justice Rehnquist emerges as the chief villain, with Justices Scalia and Thomas his willing allies. In Toobin's recital, a sub-plot follows Justice O'Connor from the Court to two glamorous parties at the homes of a "wealthy [Washington] couple"36 and of the "widow of a prominent diplomat."37 Amid the candles and cocktails, alert ears catch the justice condemning some reported Gore tactics and hear her husband say that she is "very disappointed because she was hoping to retire," which she could only do "with a Republican president to appoint her successor."38 After planting these gossipy seeds, Toobin piously declines to identify "O'Connor's ultimate motivation" for agreeing to the stay, "whether principled and judicial or craven and political."39 The book leaves no doubt, however, where on that spectrum he locates Justice O'Connor.
Shifting the scene from the machinations of the cabal, Toobin takes us to the camp of the "moderate-to-liberal quartet. . . . [ Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer and finds them] stunned, shell-shocked by the determination of their colleagues. . . . [L]ike the Gore campaign as a whole [they] misread the intensity of feelings that this election had prompted."40 Allying the dissenters with "the Gore campaign" is a telling touch. Nevertheless, for all the screenplay approach, Toobin clearly, and effectively, wants history to remember that the issuance of the stay grew from the soil of base motives, and that when it came down, mid-afternoon on Dec. 9, "the election was finally over."41 And it was.
Professor Howard Gillman's The Votes That Counted 42 is the most measured and least partisan of the four books. A scholar of the Constitution and the Court, he writes of the stay (and the final opinion) with a certain detachment. In addition to a detailed historical relation of events, he analyzes the Niagara of contemporary and post-decision commentary on the case. He tries to understand and give the benefit of the doubt to Justice Scalia's justification for the order, but concludes, more in sorrow than in anger, that "[i]n the end, after all the talk of law and high political principle, we are left simply with the raw power of an unrestrained conservative majority intent on making sure that it would decide which votes counted - and which votes would not be counted."43
Unlike Dershowitz and Toobin, Gillman concludes that Bush v. Gore, in all its particulars including the stay, "is likely to be a relatively harmless self-inflicted wound,"44 merely "a rare example of low politics within the Marble Temple."45 Gillman's cautious estimate of the long-term impact of the stay and the then inevitable final decision does not seem to depend on any partisan, Bush-favoring impulse on his own part. Rather, his conclusion may be another "triumph of hope over experience."46 History may not be as forgiving.
Critiquing the four books, and betting on how future ages will remember events, is easy. Judging the justices themselves, and attempting to measure the impact, if any, of the stay on the Court's moral authority is much more difficult. Will Gillman be proved right in his view that that impact may be minute and its importance lost in the welter of work that the Court will continue to perform to general satisfaction? Perhaps, as Posner writes, history's verdict will depend on the success or failure of the Bush administration in the public's mind, thus showing that public approval of judicial pragmatism will depend, as the decision seems to have done, on political factors.47 Dershowitz would like to see a massive public outpouring of rage to get the Court back on course, but that seems unlikely to occur. In the face of Sept. 11, debates about the niceties of how to measure degrees of irreparable harm may not send citizens to the barricades. Perhaps, if Toobin is any kind of a prophet, the significance of the case will merely be its adaptability to cheap melodrama: a cowering four crushed by a triumphalist five, doing whatever it takes to get their man elected.
The justices themselves, as Gillman relates, moved swiftly to explain themselves, though not through opinions and decisions. Rather, both judicial sides took to the hustings and were unanimous in one thing: their divided decisions had nothing to do with their political opinions on who should be elected.48 That effort showed just how conscious at least some of the justices were of the peril to the Court's authority of a perception that the result was purely partisan. When an institution feels obliged to deny the obvious, and assert that it is acting only in accord with high principle, it acts in a way that feeds the very doubts that the institutional decision created.
"With one stark exception," Gillman writes, the several courts, state and federal, involved in the Florida debacle avoided "partisan decision-making."49 Where the exception to that conclusion is the Supreme Court of the United States, the ultimate arbiter of rights under our political system, that Court's moral authority stands in grave jeopardy. Out of the squads of judges who spent much of November and December 2000 adjudicating state and federal election law, Gillman concludes,
[t]he five justices in the Bush v. Gore majority are thus the only judges involved in this election dispute who fall uniquely within the category that is most indicative of partisan justice: they made a decision that was consistent with their political preferences but inconsistent with precedent and inconsistent with what would have been predicted given their views in other cases.50
In its final opinion, the Court wrote that "[o]ur consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities."51 Justice Scalia's disdain for confined-to-the-facts decisions is well known. For example, in United States v. Virginia,52 he wrote: "The Supreme Court of the United States does not sit to announce 'unique' dispositions. Its principal function is to establish precedent - that is, to set forth principles of law that every court in America must follow."53
Confining a decision to its "unique" facts, as Justice Scalia then notes, can be a cover for actions that impair the principled basis of the court's moral authority: "it is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court, acting on its Members' personal view . . . can impose its own favored social and economic dispositions nationwide.54
Nevertheless, with Justice Scalia's concurrence to the stay order its only stated support, the Court majority indeed acted uniquely in issuing the order. The order did not continue the status quo, but changed it. It contorted the balance-of-harm test for preliminary relief to achieve its predetermined end: the elimination of a threat to a Bush electoral college victory that a continued counting of the ballots could have presented. In the long run, that misuse of the Court's equity powers may have greater consequences than the actual outcome of the case.
In 1867, Congress enacted the "Reconstruction Acts"55 to repair the political and other casualties of the late war. The nation was in the midst of an immense crisis concerning the re-establishment of the Union. Among other provisions, the Acts mandated that the rebel states, including Georgia, register voters free of racial distinctions and conduct local elections. Georgia sued the Secretary of War and other federal officials charged with implementing the Acts, seeking, among other forms of relief, an order enjoining the respondents "[f]rom holding, or causing to be held within the State, any such election, or elections, or causing to be made any return of any such elections for the purpose of ascertaining the result of the same. . . ."56
"Here, then," the Attorney General of the United States argued in moving to dismiss, "is an attempt to induce a court of equity to stop an election, - a political election; - to prevent the registration of voters by a decree of a court of equity before any registration is made. . . . [W]ho has heard that it was the function of a court of equity to stop an election?"57
The Supreme Court granted the motion to dismiss, noting that "[t]he distinction between judicial and political power is so generally acknowledged in the jurisprudence . . . of this country, that we need do no more than refer to some of the authorities on the subject. They are all in one direction."58 That direction is unambiguous. Because Georgia called "for the judgment of the court upon political questions, and, upon rights, not of persons or property, but of a political character,"59 the Court lacked jurisdiction to enjoin the elections. Georgia v. Stanton, of course, differs in many respects from Bush v. Gore, but the Georgia Court's attention to precedent, jurisdiction, and the separation of powers contrasts sharply with the Bush majority's willingness not only to ignore long-standing precedent but to depart from its own repeated expressions of respect for the sovereignty of states. Those manifestations of what Gillman calls the majority's "insincerity"60 of reasoning have left the Court's moral authority wounded. Recovering from that wound will be a major task of Chief Justice Rehnquist's successor. President Bush is thought to favor Justice Scalia for the post.61
Robert J. Muldoon, Jr.
Robert Muldoon is a lawyer with Sherin and Lodgen LLP, Boston, and acknowledges with thanks the assistance of the firm's librarian, Scott B. Armstrong, and legal interns Erin Fitch and Matthew Hefferan of Northeastern University School of Law.
1. Finley Peter Dunne, The Supreme Court's Decisions, in Mr. Dooley's Opinions (R.H. Russell 1901), quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 645 (17th ed. 2002).[back]
2. Georgia v. Stanton, 73 U.S. (6 Wall.) 50, 59 (1867) (Remarks of United States Attorney General Stanbery).[back]
3. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 1046 (2000).[back]
4. Id. at 1046 (Scalia, J., concurring).[back]
5. Id. at 1047-48 (Stevens, J., dissenting).[back]
6. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).[back]
7. Justice Breyer's dissent from the final opinion saw the significance of the stay in its first two sentences: "The Court was wrong to take this case. It was wrong to grant a stay." Id. at 144 (Breyer, J., dissenting).[back]
8. See, e.g., Donald Cozzens, Sacred Silence 148 (2002): "If Andrew Greeley and others are correct, nothing so weakened the credibility and moral authority of the papacy É as Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae É. affirming an absolute ban on all forms of birth control save the rhythm method."[back]
9. James F. Simon, What Kind of Nation 138 (2002). The Court sat in the basement of the Capitol from 1801 to 1860. From then until moving to its own building in 1936, it sat in the modestly more ornate Old Senate Chamber. [back]
10. Linda Greenhouse, Ideas & Trends: Impolitic; The Separation of Justice and State, N.Y. Times, July 1, 2001, § 4, at D1; see also Ideas & Trends: Divided They Stand; The High Court and the Triumph of Discord, N.Y. Times, July 15, 2001, § 4, at D1.[back]
11. See generally "The Supreme Court" 3 ff in 2 Almanac of the Federal Judiciary (Aspen Law & Business 2003).[back]
12. John T. Noonan, Jr., Narrowing the Nation's Power 8 (2002).[back]
13. Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process 168 (Yale Univ. Press 1971) (1921).[back]
14. The locus classicus is Thomas More's The History of Richard III, which, some claim, created the myth of the crippled, prince-murdering villain to support Tudor legitimacy. See, e.g., Richard Marius, Thomas More, 108-115, (1984) for a brief review of the debate. (Marius concludes that Richard was every bit as bad as More pictures him, but discussion continues.)[back]
15. Alan M. Dershowitz, Supreme Injustice (2001).[back]
16. W.H. Auden, Law Like Love, in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden 74,75 (1945).[back]
17. Dershowitz, supra note 15, at 11-12.[back]
18. Id. at 4. Dershowitz indulges in rhetorical exaggeration here. Political partisanship on the Court is no new thing: "Once the Sedition Act was passed . . . Federalist judges at the highest level - members of the Supreme Court . . . engaged in the official process of stifling criticism of the Adams administration. Their blatantly partisan actions . . . reinforced . . . profound distrust of the federal judiciary. . . ." Simon, supra note 9, at 53.[back]
19. Dershowitz, supra note 15, at 4.[back]
20. Id. at 46.[back]
21. Id. at 48.[back]
22. Id. at 51.[back]
23. Id. at 52.[back]
24. Richard A. Posner, Breaking the Deadlock (2001).[back]
25. Oxford Concise Dictionary 43 (6th ed. 1976).[back]
26. Posner, supra note 24, at viii.[back]
27. Oxford Concise Dictionary, supra note 25, at 261.[back]
28. Posner, supra note 24, at viii.[back]
29. Id. at viii.[back]
30. Id.[back]
31. See id. at 163 ff.[back]
32. Id. at 163. Posner's fundamental erroneous assumption is that the Supreme Court is a sort of Platonic guardian, unfettered by technicalities: "what exactly is the Supreme Court good for if it refuses to examine a likely constitutional error that if uncorrected may engender a national crisis? É It is not an ordinary court É." Id. at 162. Posner's belief that the Court exists as the constitutional crisis-manager rests on nothing in the Constitution, but reflects his own apparent belief that the judicial branch of government is the supreme branch.[back]
33. See id. at 165.[back]
34. Id. at 166-67.[back]
35. Jeffrey Toobin, Too Close to Call (2001).[back]
36. Id. at 248.[back]
37. Id. at 249.[back]
38. Id.[back]
39. Id.[back]
40. Id.[back]
41. Id. at 251.[back]
42. Howard Gillman, The Votes That Counted (2001).[back]
43. Id. at 196.[back]
44. Id. at 199.[back]
45. Id. at 202.[back]
46. Christopher Hibbert, The Personal History of Samuel Johnson 99 (1971). Dr. Johnson was referring to certain second marriages.[back]
47. Posner, supra note 24, at 222.[back]
48. Gillman, supra note 42, at 172-3.[back]
49. Id. at 205.[back]
50. Id. at 189 (footnote omitted). An example of the five's "insincerity," is "their strongly held beliefs in other cases about the importance of limiting federal intrusion into traditional state practices." Id. at 187.[back]
51. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 109.[back]
52. 518 U.S. 515 (1996).[back]
53. Id. at 596 (Scalia, J., dissenting).[back]
54. Id. at 601 (Scalia, J., dissenting) (emphasis added).[back]
55. Act of March 2, 1867, ch. 153, 14 Stat. 428; Act of March 23, 1867, ch. 6, 15 Stat. 2; Act of July 19, 1867, ch. 30, 15 Stat. 14.[back]
56. Georgia v. Stanton, 73 U.S. (6 Wall.) 50, 53 (1867).[back]
57. Id. at 59.[back]
58. Id. at 71 (emphasis added).[back]
59. Id. at 77.[back]
60. Gillman, supra note 42, at 187.[back]
61. Id. at 200.[back]


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As members of the Lawrence Tech community, residents of University Housing must abide by this Computing and Network Policy.
Residence hall access to the campus network is granted to individuals. Each individual is responsible for assuring that his/her personal residence hall room connection is not misused. Each individual is also responsible for assuring that the residence hall room connection is not misused by guests in the room.
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The University provides laptops to registered undergraduate students, full-time faculty, and teaching adjunct faculty in support of the University's mission. Graduate and doctoral students are charged $95 per credit hour per semester for a laptop. Availability is not guaranteed to graduate and doctoral students. Laptops are not generally available to University staff.
Before users can be assigned a Lawrence Tech laptop, they must agree to the terms and conditions contained in the Lawrence Tech Laptop Lease Agreement. The term of the lease agreement is up to one year.
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Last night Smalltownland offically observed the Halloween tradition. Trick or Treat times were set and all the kids came out to collect. Toots was ready....or should I say The Dragon Lady Ninja.
And, away we went.
The great thing about Trick or Treating in a small town is that it becomes a time to visit for a few minutes with friends. And, receive kisses from the family dog.
The girls received plenty of candy and Pocohontas developed a blister on her toe. Thus, we called it a night.
This Halloween would not be complete without sharing the photo that I took in Denver, just a couple of weeks ago. It is a marshmallow ghost that someone had stuck on top of a wrought iron fence post.
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Get the Supernatural Hunters Challenge Coin! The origin of the Challenge Coin has long been debated, some think it started during World War I, others during the Second World War. The artisans at Quantum Mechanix have discovered that the Demon Hunters may have been using them for centuries to identify friend or foe while in the field. Whether they were the first to use what is now known as a Challenge Coin, this coin depicting the Devils Trap on one side and the Anti-possession Symbol on the other, may have saved the lives of many past Demon Hunters.
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Dubbed Australia's Enron, HIH went bust in 2001 with debts of A$5.3bn (£2.1bn; $4.1bn).
Nine former executives were charged over the scandal and Williams, known for big spending, admitted misleading and reckless corporate behaviour.
Williams's lawyers will appeal against the "manifestly excessive" sentence.
The scandal affected tens of thousands of policy holders across Australia and sent the industry into a crisis from which it is still fighting to emerge.
The jailing of Williams comes a day after former HIH director Rodney Adler was also sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, said Phil Mercer, the BBC's correspondent in Sydney.
"The government in Canberra said it hopes the jail sentences would send a strong message that corporate crime would be investigated, and that heavy penalties would continue to be imposed," our correspondent says.
Sixty-eight-year-old Williams was found guilty of hiding the true extent of HIH's perilous finances.
In order to increase its share of the insurance market, the company had drastically reduced the price of its premiums.
It left HIH, which was Australia's second-largest insurer, without enough money to cover future claims.
Creative accounting
Senior HIH executives were found to have manipulated accounts to show non-existent profits, and charged into the US and UK markets without making adequate financial provision.
When it collapsed, many thousands of policy holders were left uninsured, or out of pocket.
Investigators have said Williams' criminal behaviour went "to the heart" of HIH's demise.
The size of Williams's spending sprees shocked many observers, and he was said to have spent thousands of dollars on jellybeans, cigars and gold watches, as well as giving large loans to friends and workers.
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Defence lawyer Robert Heathcote said Williams was "bitterly disappointed" by the length of his sentence and would appeal immediately.
Bruce Dennis, a lawyer representing about 3,000 HIH shareholders, said that the court had weighed up the case "very fairly".
HIH was eventually brought down by the purchase of Australian former insurer FAI.
It paid about A$300m without verifying FAI's value properly, only for it to turn out to have a net worth of minus A$300m.
The failure of HIH put the spotlight on the behaviour of senior executives in Australia before the Enron and Worldcom scandals in the United States.


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Purple Cake Day Announces Aid for Kenya in 2013
7 February 2012
Purple Cake Day Announces Aid for Kenya in 2013
The fast-growing international charity Purple Cake Day aims to raise NZD$100,000 this year, which will enable them to extend their support to a new education project helping children in Kenya to change their lives through education.
Purple Cake Day, which was founded in Nelson, New Zealand and has gone international in just three years, is raising funds through a host of activities including the Global Day of Action, Purple Cake Day 8 March 2013. This will enable the charity to sustain support for education projects in Haiti and Nepal, and extend this to Kenya through a new partnership with the Hilde Back Education Fund (HBEF).
Founder Emily Sanson-Rejouis, who began Purple Cake Day after losing her husband and two daughters in the tragic Haiti earthquake in 2010, hopes to see more than 500 schools around New Zealand and internationally participate in the Purple Cake Day Global Day of Action.
"Purple Cake Day activities encourage our kids to learn about children in hardship in other countries, and take action to help them," says Emily. "Purple Cake Day is about celebrating, and having fun, as well as developing compassion, respect, and leadership. We hope kids will learn, early on, that what they do really can make a difference.
"The first year we held Purple Cake Day, we raised $30,000. Last year we aimed to double that and hit $80,000, which was just fantastic. This year we're aiming even higher!"
The newest recipient of Purple Cake Day support, the Hilde Back Education Fund, helps talented kids from poor families in Kenya get access to education. HBEF founded by United Nations Human Rights Specialist Chris Mburu, who, through the small act of an anonymous donation, got the education that now enables him to help others.
"We are thrilled to have this partnership with Purple Cake Day," says Chris. "This will enable hundreds of desperately needy children in Kenya to access an education that will help them secure a bright future."
Fergus Broman, Chairman of the Children of Haiti Project (COHP) Board, and CEO of The International Educator, says COHP is also very grateful to continue to partner with Purple Cake Day this year.
"Since sustainability is one of our key challenges, an organization like Purple Cake Day can really make a difference because they don't focus on one-time donations, they set fundraising goals for their partner charities, forming a more lasting partnership than a typical fundraiser."
Dame Suzie Moncreiff, Patron of Purple Cake Day, says that the charity is doing something very significant by raising awareness, both locally and internationally, of the hardship children face around the world.
"Many children must fight just to get what we consider basic rights here in New Zealand," she says. "I'm proud to support Purple Cake Day in its endeavours to make a difference through education."
Purple Cake Day Schools Coordinator Hannah Cameron says the best way to get involved is to download the free Resource Kit from the Purple Cake Day website.
"The Resource Kit is a multi-level curriculum resource, designed mainly for teachers and students, but it can be used by anyone," says Hannah. "It's contains lots of ideas for learning and fundraising activities, information about the education projects we support, including the new project the Hilde Back Education Fund, and our 2013 Country in Focus, Kenya."
Parents, teachers, schools, and students can also get a free fundraising page through the Purple Cake Day website, which will allow them to share their Purple Cake Day activities with friends and family.
About Purple Cake Day
Purple Cake Day is a charity that supports children to get the education they need to break the poverty cycle and create a better future for themselves, their families, and their communities. The Purple Cake Day Global Day of Action is 8 March 2013.
Purple Cake Day is about kids helping kids. It celebrates and connects children all over the world, and helps them learn about their role in the global community. It aims to grow our children's spirit of compassion, respect, and leadership.
Education is the single most important factor in reducing poverty – but currently accounts for only 2% of humanitarian aid. Purple Cake Day partners with established projects in developing countries to ensure that we provide direct and effective benefit to children in need.
Purple Cake Day 2013 aims to raise NZD$100,000 to sustain current education support for children in Haiti and Nepal, and extend this support to children in Kenya.
Purple Cake Day is an initiative of the Kenbe La Foundation Charitable Trust, a New Zealand Registered Trust. (no CC44756).
The Kenbe La Foundation Charitable Trust and Purple Cake Day were founded by humanitarian Emily Sanson-Rejouis following the loss of her husband Emmanuel (39) and daughters, Kofie-Jade (5) and Zenzie (3), in the Haiti Earthquake in January 2010.
For more information visit www.purplecakeday.org


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Consumers Digest names Seven Chrysler Group Vehicles 'Best Buys' for 2014
AUBURN HILLS, MI--Nov. 1, 2013: Chrysler 300 and Town & Country earn "Best Buy" awards Dodge Durango and Grand Caravan honored Jeep Grand Cherokee named a "Best Buy" Ram 1500 honored in Full-Size Pickup segment Fiat 500 awarded a "Best Buy" in Subcompact segment
Seven Chrysler Group vehicles, representing each vehicle brand, have earned a spot on Consumers Digest's list of 2014 Best Buys.
Vehicles chosen as "Best Buys" deliver the most value for the money in their respective segments; value is determined by purchase price and ownership costs as well as comfort, performance and utility among other factors, according to Consumers Digest The automotive editors at Consumer Digest drive "Best Buy" contenders in a range of circumstances and conditions and evaluate vehicle characteristics such as acceleration, ride quality, fuel economy, fit and finish, styling, and interior ergonomics.
"We are constantly making improvements to the performance and quality of our vehicles," said Doug Betts, Senior Vice President – Quality, Chrysler Group. "Our work never ends, but it is paying off with increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, as well as product awards like this from Consumers Digest."
The 2014 Chrysler 300 was named a Luxury Car "Best Buy" as were the 2014 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan for the Minivan segment. Dodge also earned an award for the 2014 Durango in the Large SUV category.
The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the most awarded SUV ever, added another honor as a Midsize SUV "Best Buy." Also updated for 2014, the Ram 1500 garnered a "Best Buy" award in the Full-Size Pickup category. In the Subcompact Car segment, the Fiat 500 achieved a "Best Buy" as well.
Chrysler 300 The 2014 Chrysler 300 lineup delivers world-class craftsmanship, technology and value wrapped in 'Imported from Detroit' style. Chrysler 300 remains the most luxurious vehicle in its class and provides best-in-class rear-seat volume along with the comfort and roominess expected in a world-class flagship sedan. Best-in-class fuel economy is provided courtesy of the 3.6-liter aluminum Pentastar V-6 engine with state-of-the-art ZF eight-speed automatic transmission that delivers 31 mpg highway. Chrysler's available AWD system features a segment-exclusive active transfer case and front-axle disconnect for maximum fuel efficiency and even more all-season capability for the 300.
Chrysler Town & Country The world-class interior of the Chrysler Town & Country minivan is beautifully crafted with high-quality materials that are soft to the touch, and offers tech-savvy entertainment features and smart storage and seating options including Stow 'n Go® seating with one-touch fold-down function, dual DVD entertainment system, navigation and SIRIUSXM satellite radio with Travel Link making the Chrysler Town & Country the ultimate family vehicle. A 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine is a "Ward's 10 Best Engine" and produces a best-in-class 283 horsepower and is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission with a fuel economizer mode.
Dodge Grand Caravan Dodge Grand Caravan, America's most affordable minivan, is celebrating its 30th birthday in 2014 with special 30th Anniversary models and unique content. The Grand Caravan offer industry-exclusive Super Stow 'n Go seating that can be easily operated with one hand, allowing users to convert from carrying seven to hauling cargo in a matter of seconds. The Pentastar 3.6-liter V6 engine provides best-in-class 283 horsepower without a penalty at the gas pump, getting up to 25 miles per gallon. The Grand Caravan is equipped with more than 45 safety and security features and is an IIHS Top Safety Pick.
Dodge Durango The new 2014 Dodge Durango takes everything that customers love about Durango and adds the latest advancements in technology to enhance its design, capability and functionality. With a new standard eight-speed automatic transmission that improves fuel economy up to 15 percent with the available HEMI V-8 engine and delivers up to 25 miles per gallon highway with the standard Pentastar V-6 engine, new LED exterior lighting and the Dodge brand's signature racetrack taillamps, new available 8.4-inch Uconnect Touchscreen, a new customizable TFT gauge cluster and an available high-definition dual-screen Blu-ray entertainment system, the 2014 Dodge Durango reaches even higher levels of sophistication building on its proven performance, utility and comfort.
Jeep Grand Cherokee Jeep Grand Cherokee completely redefines the premium SUV, delivering an unprecedented combination of best-in-class fuel economy and driving range, available clean-diesel technology, legendary benchmark capability, world-class craftsmanship, and a host of advanced user-friendly technology and safety features. For 2014, Grand Cherokee offers a new EcoDiesel engine with best-in-class 30 mpg highway and an unmatched driving range of more than 730 miles. A new eight-speed transmission drives all Grand Cherokee engines, including the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 - achieving up to 25 mpg and more than 600 miles driving range - and the 5.7-liter V-8, now achieving up to 22 mpg.
Ram 1500 Ram 1500 - the most recognizable pickup on the road - delivers best-in-class fuel economy of 18 MPG city and 25 MPG highway with a truckload of pioneering, fuel-saving systems including a fuel efficient and powerful 3.6-liter V-6 engine and first-in-segment technologies: TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission, stop-start system, thermal management system, pulse-width modulation and active aerodynamics, including grille shutters and air suspension. For 2014, the Ram 1500 offers a new, 3.0-liter EcoDiesel engine that delivers an outstanding combination of best-in-class fuel efficiency - greater than 25 mile per gallon (mpg) - unsurpassed torque and up to 9,200 pounds of towing capability.
Fiat 500 Reminiscent of the original 500 or "Cinquecento" born in 1957, the new Fiat 500 builds on the vehicle's global popularity. Since its initial launch on July 4, 2007 more than 1,000,000 Fiat 500 vehicles have been sold in more than 100 countries around the world. In addition to success on the sales front, the Fiat 500 has earned more than 80 international awards, including being named the 2008 European Car of the Year, 2009 World Car Design of the Year and Best New Engine of 2010 (Fiat MultiAir® Turbo). In the U.S., the 2012 Fiat 500 was named "Best Buy" in the subcompact category by Consumers Digest and was deemed a "Top Safety Pick" by the influential Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). This year, the 2013 Fiat 500 was named to the "10 Coolest New Cars Under $18,000" list by Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com.


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Overcoming an eating disorder takes professional help, but it is also important to have a strong support team. Whether you have been personally affected by an eating disorder or care about someone who has, NEDA's programs and services are designed to help you find the help and support you need.
Find Help & Support
NEDA's Information and Referral Helpline is a great place to start if you are contemplating getting help or already know that it is what you need, as we are equipped with the necessary resources to help you find treatment, support groups and research studies that can be of assistance. We also have a variety of programs designed to provide personal support to individuals who are suffering and family members who are supporting a loved one with an eating disorder. From insurance issues to loss support to recovery maintenance, NEDA has programs and resources that can help. Learn more.
One of the most important things you can do about eating disorders is to learn more about them. Take the time to more fully understand these very complex illnesses. We have a wide variety of resources that can help educate and are available for distribution in your local schools or community. Learn more.
Get Involved
Find out how you can make a real difference by volunteering for NEDA or by using your voice to advocate for change with our STAR and Media Watchdogs programs. You also have the opportunity to educate your community by coordinating a NEDA Walk or conducting outreach during NEDAwareness Week. There are so many ways to get involved with NEDA, both large and small. Everyone can do just one thing. Learn more.
Don't miss our interactive website for young people, Proud2Bme.org! It is a safe community where teens can talk to each other and get support, without the confusing mixed messages found on many popular websites. The content is fun and interactive, and, most importantly, it puts teens' voices front and center.


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RIHANNA's stylist Lysa Cooper has been announced as the third mentor on Sky
Living's Styled To Rock.
The Bajan pop star, who is the executive producer of the show, handpicked the
fashionista to join designer Henry Holland and pop star Nicola Roberts on
the judging panel.
Lysa has styled international superstars such as Mos Def, Salt-n-Pepa,
Beyonce, Aerosmith, Shakira, Mary J Blige, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and
Rihanna to create some of their career defining looks.
Sky Living's Styled To Rock will celebrate creativity in the British fashion
scene, and search for the next generation of designers.
Over ten weeks twelve unknown designers, personally selected by Rihanna, will
be challenged by the mentors to create outfits for a string of A-list music
artists to wear to a variety of occasions, including stage, shoots,
high-profile events and more.
The show will provide a springboard for the aspiring designer's future fashion
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Win a Signed Josh Abbott Band CD and Full Album Library – 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway
If you win the Day 8 prize in the Josh Abbott Band's 12 Days of Christmas contest, you'll win the group's new 'Small Town Family Dream' album and everything else they've ever released! Enter here for your chance to win.
JAB signed the 'Small Town Family Dream' CD, making this one heck of a great Christmas gift for your best friend, brother, wife or … yourself! 'Scapegoat' from 2008 and 'She's Like Texas' from 2010 are part of the prize. To win, just retweet the message below and wait for us to contact you via Twitter. One winner will be chosen from all who retweet before the Day 9 prize is revealed on Tuesday (Dec. 17):
Today's #12DaysofJAB prize is JAB's FULL LIBRARY. RT + follow @tasteofcountry @joshabbottband @thebootdotcom to win: http://t.co/clMWiwXmo3
— Taste of Country (@TasteOfCountry) December 16, 2013
Check back daily for more prizes in the JAB 12 Days of Christmas giveaway. Please read Taste of Country's official contest rules before entering, and good luck. Winners for each prize will be chosen daily. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Josh Abbott Band.
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Chanel presented its Resort 2014 collection in Singapore this week, and the slightly punky hair and electric-blue eye makeup is something to emulate. Summer beauty means taking risks: sporting vibrant makeup hues reserved for warm-weather functions and coifs that are both cool and functional. And the rich black and neon blue eye makeup, coupled with overexaggerated, swooped bangs, provided the perfect accompaniment to designer Karl Lagerfeld's spectacular creations. See all the looks up close here and get the exact makeup shades used backstage.
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Ultrasound Estimation of Spleen Size
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|Device: Vscan Ultrasound (GE Healthcare, USA) Device: Conventional Ultrasound
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Estimation of Spleen Size With Hand Held Ultrasound
- longitudinal measure of spleen in centimeters [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- Diagnosis of spleen size [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- No Splenic Enlargement
- Moderate Splenic Enlargement
- Massive Splenic enlargement
- time to complete Vscan examination [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
Time to complete Vscan exam
- <5min
- 5-10 min
- 10-15min
- >15min
- Image quality and best views [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
Adequacy of study
- Image quality inadequate to make diagnosis
- Image quality adequate
- Image quality excellent
Best Views obtained
- Supine
- Right Lateral Decubitus
- Diagnostic Certainty [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
Diagnostic Certainty
- Not confident
- Somewhat confident
- Very confident
|Study Start Date:
|March 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: normal and various degrees splenomegaly
Vscan Ultrasound (GE Healthcare, USA) Conventional Ultrasound (Ultrasonix) used to determine spleen size Crossover design, all subjects will be measured with both devices. half will have the handheld done first, then conventional half the Conventional done first, then handheld
Will complete questionaire for both:
Device: Vscan Ultrasound (GE Healthcare, USA)
Vscan Ultrasound used to determine spleen size and the other qualities described in the arm description.
Other Name: handheld ultrasound (HCU)Device: Conventional Ultrasound
Conventional Ultrasound used to determine spleen size and the other qualities described in the arm description.
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
The diagnosis of splenomegaly (abnormal enlargement of the spleen) is extremely important in managing patients with many medical conditions. The ability to recognize an enlarged spleen in a timely manner can impact patient outcomes. Although the physical exam can be used to confidently diagnosis massive enlargement of the spleen, evaluating lesser degrees of splenomegaly at the bedside proves more difficult. In current practice, the gold standard for diagnosis of splenomegaly is the standard abdominal ultrasound. The prevalence of splenomegaly in patients with several medical conditions such as blood disorders and cirrhosis is relatively high. Therefore, the demand for abdominal ultrasound is evergrowing and similarly the cost of caring for patients with these diseases increases.
Examination of the spleen is one of the core competencies that we expect our students and residents to learn as part of their training. This physical diagnosis manoeuver is frequently used to examine residents at the Royal College level and determine their fitness to practice. Unfortunately, the sensitivity and specificity of examination of the spleen at the bedside is not very good.
With the introduction of handheld ultrasound (HCU) devices, rapid bedside assessment of a patient is now possible. The Pocket-sized Vscan Ultrasound device (Vscan) (GE Healthcare, USA) allows for 2D imaging on a 3.5 inch display and has been shown to have comparable image quality to standard ultrasound for some applications. The Vscan and other HCU devices have been used at point of care to evaluate a number of conditions and can greatly impact treatment decisions in medical patients at the bedside. The ability to recognize splenomegaly in a timely manner can impact patient outcomes. In addition, the use of this technology could significantly impact training standards for students and residents.
It remains unclear whether bedside evaluation with the Vscan is able to accurately measure spleen size. Our study aims to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the Vscan when used by trained ultrasonographers, in patients with varying degrees of splenomegaly. If we can reliably show that a trained ultrasonographer can accurately characterize spleen size at the bedside with a handheld device, the next stage of the study will involve training medical residents in the use of handheld ultrasound to see if they can also reliably assess spleen size.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients in the practices of hematologists at VGH (Vancouver General Hospital) who are expected to have normal size spleens as well as various degrees of splenomegaly
Exclusion Criteria:
- will exclude patients who cannot speak English or who cannot give informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01810419
|Canada, British Columbia
|Vancouver Coastal Health (VCHRI/VCHA)
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 1M9
|Principal Investigator:
|Graydon S Meneilly, MD
|University of British Columbia
|Responsible Party:
|Graydon Meneilly, MD, FRCPC, FACP, Professor & Eric W. Hamber Chair, University of British Columbia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01810419 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 7, 2013
|Last Updated:
|April 12, 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Keywords provided by Graydon Meneilly, University of British Columbia:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
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MARRIED life is treating the Skelton-Myler household well so far according to the happy couple after they tied the knot in December last year.
Daredevil Helen described her Warrington Wolves hubby as a modern man and housewife doing the cooking and cleaning while she is away filming in London and admits the topic of conversation with fellow commuters on the train often turns to all things primrose and blue-related.
She added: "I'm always travelling up and down to London and people always ask me now about Warrington.
"There's lots of work to do with the house so we're looking forward to getting that done and getting our dog (former Blue Peter pet Barney) moved in with us."
The pair added they both had big families and enjoyed spending their wedding day with them including their highlight of the night...prop Garreth Carvell rapping.
Former teammate Richie added: "We had a live band and then he suddenly got up and started doing Rapper's Delight.
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Michigan's new recruiting strategy for wide receivers favors size and hands above speed. But most importantly, recruits should look like "Michigan Men":
"When he walks through that door, he should look like a Michigan wide receiver," Hecklinski said of Michigan's philosophy on recruiting receivers. "That thought, when a kid walks in and you say, 'Does he look like a Michigan Man?' That's important to us. That's very important to us because he represents us."
Big guys that can catch are nice to have, but you won't go far without any game-breakers.


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Palestinian Authorities Release Political Scientist
Palestinian political scientist, Abdul-Sattar Qassem, was freed late on Friday after being held since February for criticizing corruption in Yasser Arafat's administration, the Associated Press reported Saturday.
The political scientist told the agency that his release was the result of the efforts of "many mediators."
According to the agency, Qassem was first arrested in November for signing an anti-corruption manifesto.
He was released after 40 days, but was arrested again on February 18th and has been held ever since without charges in a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho.
Qassem, a political scientist at Najah University was among 20 intellectuals and legislators who asked their countrymen in the manifesto to fight the "tyranny and corruption" of the Palestinian Authority.
The manifesto held Arafat directly responsible for alleged misuse of funds.
Palestinian police arrested many of the signatories and pressured them to recant.
Most did and were released, said the agency - Albawaba.com
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Apple's retail stores can release AT&T iPhones if the unlocked pile runs low
0. phoneArena posted on 27 Jun 2011, 06:58
Apple is advising staff at its retail locations to just grab an iPhone 4 from the AT&T pile, and release it from the carrier shackles, if it runs low on stock with unlocked iPhones. Of course, this will still run you $649 for the 16GB version, and the healthy $749 for a 32GB version, but it's nice to have options...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Apple is clearing stock ahead of the launch of the new iPhone in September....
2. Su-Rio (Posts: 51; Member since: 05 May 2011)
they should sell the iphones for double on-contract price... like 16gb = 400$, then even more people would buy it... and i think apple would make more money by eliminating the stocks of iphone 4, then in sept, release an iphone for all carriers to make even more money
3. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Why sell the phone for less if you are running out of stock? They have a quick way to convert AT&T-locked phones to unlocked GSM world phones. If they are selling out, why should they sell the phones for less?


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Author | Priyanka Mehra | Thursday, Jun 23,2016 8:04 AM
Sapient Nitro's Global chief creative officer, Donald Chesnut talks about how mobile has become the most important communication vehicle and how Cannes has adapted itself over the years. According to him, the festival needs to continue to keep up its momentum since the communication landscape going ahead will be much more fragmented. In his words, "you need to press your foot on the gas paddle of continued change."
What is your view on Cannes this year, what are you keenly watching out for at the festival?
This is my sixth year; last year I was on the jury, I have come in all different roles over the years, this year, it meant stage presence. (Chestnut led a varied panel of creative visionaries who shared their personal journeys on exploring ways to improve inclusion and access that exists in creative fields around the subject of "Make Some Room" to address diversity in the advertising industry at the Cannes stage this year).
There is a lot going on at Cannes but for me, honestly, the most important category is mobile.
It has become our most important channel and I am surprised that more people aren't focused around mobile. Mobile does everything - it's our TV today, it's our communication vehicle, it's how we shop, it's a product, it's a wearable, it's Virtual Reality. So I'm really focused on mobile as a category from what's coming out of the mobile jury, the shortlist, what wins awards, what wins the Grand Prix because I don't think 'it's one channel of many', I think 'it's the channel.'
Do you think the festival has been able to keep up with fast evolving technology?
I salute Cannes for how much they have adapted, every year it is different and I really give them credit. I came six years ago thinking I am a user experience designer, and this is about advertising.
I then realized this is not about advertising; this is about creativity. I do feel the festival needs to continue to keep up its momentum, to keep up with the dynamic change, like it has in the past six years since I have been coming. The next six years will have the same, if not faster, rate of change. I mean we have changed the way we watch TV, it's changed dynamically, so, you need to press your foot on the gas paddle of continued change.
It's really thinking through what are your distinct ways of engaging a consumer that could be a product idea.
So, you think the festival has adapted itself and is moving ahead with times?
It is where it should be for today, we are all observant of how much they have changed. If they slow down their rate of change, in the next few years, they will be way behind. But, it's good where they are, they are catching up and they need to continue to do that because the communication landscape ahead is going to be that much more fragmented.
What is it that you look forward to the most at Cannes?
It is the people and the conversations that are happening, meeting people from different networks and from different countries.
I love to see the work and go to award shows at night, and take notes if I am not on the jury, because you get to see the work from all over the world.
I call Cannes a yearly graduate school that helps us in understanding where our world is, where it is going and where are the gaps.
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June 13, 2013
PM should bin strike-breaking bill
National MP Jami-Lee Ross' bill to legalise strike-breaking should not proceed any further given the Prime Minister's assurances he will not support it, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union.
The bill would allow employers to hire strike-breaking labour during industrial disputes, effectively rendering strike action ineffective for low income workers.
"John Key has assured the New Zealand public that this legislation will not go ahead and we expect him to stick to his word," says EPMU national secretary Bill Newson.
"This is extreme legislation that would only empower bad employers and entrench low wages.
"The reality is low paid workers have little negotiating power beyond the ability to withdraw their labour. In a time of high unemployment any workers who tried to better their conditions would find themselves down the road with someone else doing their job.
"That's not fair and it doesn't help lift wages. John Key should stick to his word and bin this extreme legislation."
The strike-breaking bill comes on top of other amendments to the Employment Relations Act that would allow employers to:
• Refuse to negotiate a collective agreement with
their employees
• Pay new workers less than the rate in the collective agreement
• Opt out of industry agreements in order to undercut their competitors on wages
• Deny workers meal and rest breaks
• Reduce the wages and conditions of vulnerable workers such as cleaners when taking over a new contract.
• Dock the pay of workers taking partial strike action
• Impose more restrictions on the right to strike
• Refuse to provide employees the information they need to challenge an unfair redundancy or dismissal
John Key's comments on the strike-breaking legislation are here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8719252/Today-in-politics-Monday-May-27-2013


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Old Richians U14s 5 Dursley U14s 5
IN THE fifth and final round of the county cup group games, Dursley made a trip to Gloucester to take on a strong Old Richians side.
Dursley chose to play the first half with the wind at their backs but it was Old Richians who spent the whole half inside Dursley territory with repeated assaults through their forwards, only to be stopped at the line by the stubborn Dursley defence.
With no score at half-time, Dursley looked to move the ball in the second half but the final pass seemed to let them down time and again.
Richians continued to batter Dursley and finally with ten minutes remaining Dursley fumbled a lineout catch five metres out and Richians pounced on the ball over the line.
It looked to be all over until the last play when Dursley were awarded a penalty and quickly spread the ball to winger Robert Dakin from inside their 22 and he out-sprinted the Richian tacklers to score in the corner for the draw.
Dursley now must wait the results from many rescheduled games in their pool to see if they go through to the cup or plate round quarter-finals with a record of three wins, one draw and one loss.


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Morning Frills #115: 'Bell, Yeah!' Edition
Kristen Bell seems to be everywhere these days. The 28-year-old actress can be seen and heard on the hit series Heroes and Gossip Girl, in the hit 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, sucking down bubbly in a public fountain…
Add Complex magazine to the list of the ubiquitous Bell's appearances. The perky young workaholic graced the mag's cover for its December 2007/January 2008 issue, but outtakes from her steamy photo-shoot have just been released. Why? Why not?
Aside from revealing her luscious form in the pages of the magazine, Bell also offered some penetrating insights into her personality. Such as…
On following one's own path: "For the longest time trying to be cool was cool, and then trying to be cool became annoying. And what was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into—it just means you're not a follower. People who like what they like and don't apologize for it just because it's not mainstream."
On embracing her sexiness: "I very recently stepped into my body as a woman. Before, it was, 'Hey, you can wear a bathing suit in a photo shoot and that would be cute and everyone will like it.' And I was like, 'Me? I should be in overalls or something cool like that.' Um, thank God for airbrushing."
On the romantic side of Kristen Bell: "The idea of dating makes me want to vomit. And not out of grossness—OK, a little bit out of grossness, but just nerves."
On that lovely note, click through our gallery of sexy Kristen Bell photos. They totally won't make you want to vomit from grossness, or nerves, or anything else.


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The Large Munsterlander Club Handbook – everything you need to know about Munsters!
The 8th edition of this full colour, 238 page manual, is the only currently available UK book entirely devoted to Large Munsterlanders: a truly versatile HPR breed that is happy to turn its paw to most canine activities.
The handbook explains the origins of the breed in its homeland, its history and development in the UK, gundog training and activities Munsters find fun. Full of colour photos and useful information it is a 'must have' for both owners and anyone wanting to find out more about the breed.
£14 (including UK postage). £12 if collected from a show. Available via Lynn O'Connell – email: email@example.com
The Large Munsterlander Natural Aptitude Test will be held on
The LMC is dedicated to ensuring the future of the breed and aims to promote responsible dog ownership. Like-minded individuals and families are invited to come together and share their common interest - the Large Munsterlander.
Regardless of whether your dog is a pet, a working dog, a show dog or a therapy dog the Large Munsterlander Club is for you and your dog.
The LMC hosts three shows a year - open shows in February and October, and a championship show in June. The Club also holds many working events and natural aptitude tests. There is a social element to All LMC events and we would encourage anyone interested in Large Munsterlanders to come along and meet both owners and dogs.
Please feel free to browse the website and follow us on Facebook. Members of the Committee are happy to help, where they can, with any queries.
Get involved - join the Large Munsterlander Club.
Membership is ideal for anyone interested in the breed, as well as for those who are current or prospective owners.
Single £10
Joint £12
Overseas £15
Gamekeeper £5
Breeders interested in having their litters placed on the LMC Puppy Register/website are asked to contact the Committee Member responsible for coordinating details: John MacGregor 07747 800841 or 01389 732490. Email
Please visit Puppy Register page for application form.
Visit The Large Munsterlander Club
Breed Archives
The Large Munsterlander Club Health Survey 2016 results are on our Health Page


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What a wonderful afternoon I got to have yesterday! There was giving, there was helping, there were volunteering children… there were smiles and there was so much joy. In past years I've loved donating my time on international Help-Portrait Day (more info is here), but I couldn't find a local event in Boston, so when this opportunity presented itself, I was thrilled to be able to donate my time for such an extraordinary event.
I spent the afternoon as one of the volunteer photographers at the Cradles to Crayons 2016 Un-Gala, where over 400 people came, volunteered their time, and made a difference. (And I think the number might have been as much as twice that, since there was a whole 2nd shift of people who came in the morning!)
I'm going to let the photos speak for themselves. My job was to shadow the incredible founder of Cradles to Crayons, Lynn Margherio, and I was honored to spend the day watching her do her thing with her fantastic assistant Patrick by her side.
I have almost 100 photos from the day, though! If anyone would like to look through them or download them, you're more than welcome to do so — you can find them on my client galleries page.
Thanks for letting me be part of an incredible day. What a great event!