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The worst moment of Katina Perry's job nightmare happened to take place at home. One afternoon in 2001, in the fog of depression, she decided to end the torment. She called a few...
The worst moment of Katina Perry's job nightmare happened to take place at home. One afternoon in 2001, in the fog of depression, she decided to end the torment.
She called a few mortuaries, got some price quotes on funerals. Then she went into the bathroom and grabbed a razor blade.
Her daughter walked in before Perry could make the first cut. After her panicked husband grabbed the razor, a defeated Perry lay down and fell asleep.
The cause of Perry's misery was a bully, a man who she says flirted, needled, sexually harassed and stalked her, triggering an emotional slide from which Perry hasn't recovered.
Workplace bullying has gained visibility in recent years, partly because a weak economy has miserable employees tolerating bullying a form of psychological abuse that ranges from mild but prolonged teasing to threats of violence because a bad job is better than no job at all.
Unlike Perry, whose bullying included sexual harassment, victims often cannot seek recourse under job-discrimination laws, which protect workers from bias based on race, gender, ethnicity, age or disability.
Thus bullying remains among the workplace's unchecked scandals, lowering morale and productivity while driving health-care costs up and making employers vulnerable to lawsuits or disability claims.
Bullies' styles differ: Some overtly abuse through humiliation and screaming, others through more-subtle means such as sabotage and gossip. They all have one thing in common, however.
"They have a tremendous need to control," says Gary Namie, a psychologist and founder of The Workplace Bullying & Trauma Institute based in Bellingham. "They're addicted to it."
Perry was working at the optical lab in Costco's Tukwila store when one of her co-workers began to flirt with her. When she didn't respond, his teasing became sexual and persistent until one morning, after their shift ended at 4 a.m., he exposed himself in the parking lot, according to a lawsuit that Perry later filed.
"His shorts were down and he was doing a little dance," Perry says.
She reported the incident, but Costco's investigators concluded that it was her word against the co-worker's. The company reassigned him to the day shift, and gave Perry a transfer to a Federal Way store.
When the bully began to show up in Federal Way, glaring at Perry as he waited in the checkout line, Perry's fragile emotional state worsened. She began to call in sick and was sleeping excessively. She felt isolated, lonely and angry that her complaints about the bully weren't being taken as seriously as she'd hoped. Her tormenter was still working.
Costco believes this was a case of one person's word against another, and that it handled the matter appropriately.
"I can tell you this," CEO Jim Sinegal says, "we don't tolerate bullying in the workplace and we have plenty of instances where we can show you that's the case."
Even after her legal victory, Perry remains on medical leave and still takes anti-depressants.
"I can't explain it," she says. "I still feel lonely."
Going home in tears
One in six American workers experiences some sort of bullying on the job, according to a 2000 study by Wayne State University in Michigan.
And while there's little scientific research on workplace bullies and their victims, an informal survey by the bullying institute sheds some light: Most of the bullies are bosses, although women are just as likely to be abusive as men. Eighty-four percent of female bullies target other women.
This is the case with one technology worker in Everett, who requests anonymity for fear of losing her job. She says her boss, a woman in her 50s, is giggly and deferential to men, yet jealous, manipulative and controlling with her female employees.
The boss has copied clients on e-mails scolding her team's performance, set up employees to fail with unrealistic expectations, and meddles for no other reason than to remain in control, the worker says.
"I'm used to being an empowered employee. Hand me a task and I'll do it. She can't let a task go without being a part of it."
The bully also frequently denies time off, saying that the workload won't allow it. She once reprimanded the tech worker for holding her husband's hand on company property, saying that such a display of public affection was inappropriate.
The bullying has caused the woman's stress level to rise to the point that she suffers headaches, depression and a stomach ailment that causes her to vomit at work.
"I go home in tears probably two or three times a week. She makes me feel like I'm not valued, that I'm not responsible. There's this very deep feeling of inadequacy and I feel trapped."
More than 80 percent of those bullied lose their jobs, and 41 percent suffer clinical depression, the bullying institute found.
Such psychological abuse carries a price: Workers with high stress levels cost employers 46 percent more in health-care costs than unstressed employees. And those suffering depression cost 70 percent more, according to a 1999 study by the Health Enhancement Research Organization, a national coalition of hospitals and public-health organizations.
Most companies have anti-harassment policies, which often prohibit abusive, insulting or demeaning behavior in general. But in the case of the tech worker, the person charged with enforcing that policy was her bully, the supervisor.
In instances of peer bullying, human-resources departments often chalk it up to a personality clash between co-workers.
Namie, the psychologist and co-author of "The Bully at Work," wonders why employers ignore or minimize the threat of psychological violence.
"We are social animals. You want to mess with people? They'll lose their validation if enough people turn on them and convince them that they're mean, stupid, cruel and worthless."
Teasing gone too far
Even good-natured ribbing can become bullying if it's unwelcome and persistent.
In October, a factory quality-assurance manager filed suit against Newly Weds Foods in Lakewood, Pierce County, for emotional distress when his boss and a co-worker continued to tease him after he'd asked them to stop.
"It got to the point where anytime I had to go to the front office they would make fun of me," says Christopher Eiden, 33. "The way I walked, the way I talked, the way I dressed."
Eiden said it wasn't the nature of the teasing that bothered him, but the fact that it was, in his view, unrelenting. Newly Weds Foods declined to comment while the case is pending.
Many employers might dismiss Eiden's reaction as overly sensitive, but Namie likens such harassment to water torture.
"No single incident would rise to the condition of outrageous conduct. That, reasonable people would agree about," Namie says. "But I will tell you from our experience it's the cumulative impacts, the unremitting exposure that causes the harm. These can seem to be small incidents, but you have to look at the pattern."
Eiden complained to management and received reprimands for his attitude, he says.
He eventually was fired. Eiden couldn't sue under job-discrimination laws because the incidents were not based on his race, gender, ethnicity, age or disability. The only other legal basis is the "intentional infliction of emotional distress," a claim that hasn't been too successful in court.
"If this employee was bullied, treated terribly, there were constant jokes, he does have an arguable claim for emotional stress," says Seattle attorney Michael Reilly, who represents employers.
But he'd have to show that his distress was severe, Reilly adds, and that the bully's conduct was outrageous a high threshold for many victims to meet.
Several countries, including the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden and France, have protection against bullies in their employment or health-and-safety laws.
Namie and Washington state Rep. Kelli Linville (D-Bellingham) are promoting a bill that would educate employers on the effects of workplace bullying. The Legislature is expected to take up the matter next year.
Other states, including Massachusetts, California, Oklahoma and Oregon, also are considering legislation on bullying.
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I've added a new progress picture to the list below. My hair is much less red than it was an much curlier. This is it washed and conditioned, combed into a parting and then left to dry with no interference. I swear my hair touches waist when I pull it straight but it's barely past bsl here! It's still very fine but I'm coming to terms with that I think. It does look so much healthier so that is a plus.
I think I'm going to leave the measuring again for a few months. Maybe hold out til the end of the year. I need to focus more on the health still. I've done a lot of S&D, which is how I've gone backwards, I think I need to do some deep conditioning now.

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Choice Hotels International opens 478 Hotels Worldwide in 2014
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Choice Hotels International, Inc. announced opening of 478 domestic and international properties in 2014. The outlook for future growth is robust based on the 566 new domestic franchise agreements signed by the company last year. Particularly exciting about this development momentum is that 159 of the signed contracts were for new construction hotels, a more than 70-percent increase over the same period in 2013.
Among the most notable gains in 2014 are ten new construction development agreements signed with Love's Hospitality, LLC, the hotel development and management division of travel center conglomerate Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, which operates more than 300 travel centers in 39 states, generating more than $26 billion annually. A family-owned business, in 2013 Forbes ranked Love's the 9th largest privately held company in the United States. Love's develops and manages select service and full service hotels and resorts across the country. Underscoring the great appeal of the company's different hotel brands, these multiple agreements include projects with the Comfort brand, Sleep Inn and Choice's innovative MainStay Suites & Sleep Inn dual-brand concept.
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Upscale business traveler brand Cambria hotels & suites continues to surge, opening five new hotels with topnotch developers in key corporate travel destinations such as Washington, D.C., White Plains, New York and Plano, Texas. This year, two more Cambria properties are scheduled to open in Manhattan in addition to the brand's flagship property in Rockville, Maryland across from Choice Hotels International Headquarters. On the development front, Choice executed several new Cambria franchise agreements, including four with institutional capital advisory firm, Fillmore Capital. Notable 2014 deal signings include leading travel destinations such as Miami, New Orleans, Nashville, and Houston.
Heightened developer interest in the refreshed Comfort Inn and Comfort Suites brands is especially evident in the brands' new construction activity. In 2014, Choice Hotels signed 70 new construction franchise agreements for the Comfort family of brands across all market types including major U.S. cities such as New York City, Austin, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston and Pittsburgh. Choice Hotels and existing Comfort franchisees have already invested more than one-quarter billion dollars in the system-wide revitalization, including the company's landmark $40 million property improvement incentive. Hotels that participated in the incentive program have now completed renovations and last year guest satisfaction for the Comfort brands was at an all-time high.
Providing guests with a whole new style of rest, the Sleep Inn brand's Designed to Dream next generation look and feel continues to attract interest from developers. The company successfully executed 38 new agreements for the new construction brand in 2014, up more than 50-percent from the year prior. The Designed to Dream new construction prototype and mandatory system-wide redesign program is fueling the brand's double digit RevPAR growth which is outpacing the midscale segment. The brand's lower development costs and efficient operating model has great appeal with both experienced hotel investors and first-time developers.
The upscale Ascend Hotel Collection, a pioneer in "soft branding" independent hotels, continues to expand. The concept, which allows hotels to maintain their autonomy while benefitting from the firepower of Choice Hotels' distribution channels and technology, is now also generating significant new construction interest from the development community. Designed-focused developers in urban markets are attracted to the Ascend Hotel Collection as a new construction alternative. In 2014, Choice Hotels Global Development executed 11 new construction agreements for the Ascend Hotel Collection, most of which are located in New York City, as well as continuing to expand the system in major markets which include Los Angeles, Dallas and Minneapolis.


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Ron Paul gets relevant in a hurry
In the space of 24 hours, Ron Paul achieved the extraordinary feat of raising over $4 million online in 35,000 separate contributions.
And he is still going.
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As of Tuesday morning, the Republican congressman from Texas had already tallied $7.25 million for the quarter.
At that pace, he'll likely outraise or at least be at parity for the time period with most of the GOP field (not including Mitt Romney's self-funding).
In an interview, Paul's campaign manager said the campaign would likely use its burgeoning war chest to broaden its ad campaign.
"It's reasonable to assume we'll increase our presence on TV," Lew Moore said.
He wouldn't say exactly where, but he did note that the focus is on "the early states" and that the path to victory would be through the "traditional primary process, starting in Iowa."
"We have offices in Des Moines, Concord and three in South Carolina," Moore said, citing the capitals of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Paul ads are already on TV and radio in New Hampshire but have yet to go up in Iowa or South Carolina.
Moore said he was surprised — "I cannot tell a lie" — about the amount of money the campaign raised Monday and was particularly proud of attracting 17,000 new donors.
"I think there is a tremendous hunger in America for a politician that is real, truthful and more interested in principle than in having the job," Paul said in explaining the phenomenon.
The Paul camp did have a hint the money was coming. In fact, though Paul received all his contributions Monday, his big fundraising day was really three weeks in the making.
On Oct. 18, Trevor Lyman, a Paul supporter from Miami Beach, began soliciting pledged contributions through an independent website he registered, ThisNovember5th.com.
The name is a reference to the date in 1605 that a group of anti-Protestant activists unsuccessfully tried to blow up the British Parliament.
The goal was to get 100,000 people to pledge $100 each, for a total of $10 million, which would all be contributed Nov. 5, said Lyman, a 37-year-old music promoter.
Though the goal was not reached, he is still thrilled with the results thus far. "It's just a website that said, 'Hey, let's all donate money on this day,'" Lyman said.
Paul spokesman Jesse Burton said Lyman didn't coordinate with the Paul camp, but Lyman said he did contact the campaign to sound the alert for an influx of contributions Monday and to encourage the campaign to bolster its server.
Lyman plans another Paul "money bomb" on the weekend of Dec. 15 and 16 — Bill of Rights Day and the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
"It's an accumulation of many, many years of frustration with a slicked-down, Madison Avenue-type approach to politics where the only grass roots are very narrow special interest groups," he said.
Paul's quixotic run for the White House has never been taken seriously by Beltway insiders, and his GOP opponents have treated the populist iconoclast with a libertarian bent as little more than a nuisance when he has voiced opposition to the Iraq war (and suggested that U.S. actions were partly to blame for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks) during debates.
Yet Paul raised a respectable $5.3 million during the last quarter and now has raised almost that much in one day — putting him behind only Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama when it comes to fundraising sums amassed in a 24-hour period.
So why is this happening?
One explanation is that Paul's small but fervent following is particularly receptive to his campaign's increasingly sophisticated — and successful — Web-based fundraising pitch.
Monday's remarkable total came as part of an effort mounted by Paul backers, but without the direct support of the campaign, to send a surge of support Paul's way on Guy Fawkes Day.


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Ioannis Kompatsiaris is a Senior Researcher (Researcher B') at the Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests include semantic multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, Web 2.0 content analysis, knowledge structures, and reasoning and personalization for multimedia applications. He received his Ph.D. degree in 3D-model-based image sequence coding from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2001. He is the coauthor of 40 papers in refereed journals, 20 book chapters, 4 patents, and more than 150 papers in international conferences. He is coeditor of the book Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications and the guest editor of four special issues. He has served as a program committee member and regular reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences. He has been the coorganizer of various conferences and workshops, such as the ACM CIVR, WIAMIS, and SSMS. He was the coordinator of the WeKnowIt–Emerging, Collective Intelligence for personal, organisational, and social use European Integrated Project. Recently, Kompatsiaris has been appointed as Chair of the Technical Committee 14 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-TC14, Signal Analysis for Machine Intelligence). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Member of ACM.
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City raiding means forming a raid group and attacking a capital of the enemy faction. The goal is usually to kill an enemy faction leader. On realms with good population balance, city raids can be hard to perform, as the defenders of the capital usually outnumber the raid group.
Raiding the Alliance Edit
The Alliance has four capital cities: Stormwind City, Ironforge, Darnassus and The Exodar. The most populated ones are Stormwind and Ironforge, while Darnassus and the Exodar contain few to no players at all.
Raiding Stormwind City Edit
Stormwind is the capital of the Humans. Stormwind is one of the harder cities to raid. To get to King Varian Wrynn you have to go through the Valley of Heroes which contains a lot of guards, and the Trade District where the majority of players are located. You will most likely face tough resistance from the Alliance here. There is an alternative way into Stormwind, the Deeprun Tram. The Deeprun Tram is almost always used after raiding Stormwind or Ironforge. Stormwind Keep is very close from the Tram, so this is a good way to get in. There are areas of Stormwind that contain no guards, for example the catacombs under the Cathedral of Light. A raid can easily be summoned there to attack the city from behind.
Raiding Ironforge Edit
Ironforge is the capital of the Dwarves and Gnomes. Ironforge is usually considered the main capital of the Alliance, which means that a lot of players are there. The only way into the mountain is on a long ledge full of guards which leads to the gates. Just inside you will find the square where everyone is. You will probably be attacked here. From here there are two ways to King Magni Bronzebeard, left and right. Get through, and the king's fortress is on the south side of the Great Forge. You can come through the Deeprun Tram, but it is a lot closer to the main square than it is in Stormwind. There are small unpopulated houses spread out in Ironforge where raids can be summoned.
Raiding Darnassus Edit
Darnassus is the capital of the Night Elves. Darnassus is a rather easy city to raid. The only way into Darnassus is through a portal in Rut'theran Village on the coast of Teldrassil. The only way there is with a boat from Auberdine, Darkshore. You will be teleported to almost the center of the city. From there, get to the Temple of the Moon in the south. After a couple of stairs you will find Tyrande Whisperwind. Darnassus is a very unpopulated city because it's very far away from the main cities Ironforge and Stormwind. You will face little to no opposition.
Raiding the Exodar Edit
The Exodar is the capital of the Draenei. The Exodar is also a very easy city to raid. To get there, you must get on a boat in Auberdine, Darkshore. It will take you almost directly outside one of the two entrances. Get down and Velen is just in the other side of the room. There is an another entrance, the main entrance. This one is almost never used because there are more guards there, and it's a longer way to Velen. The Exodar is most likely the most underpopulated city of the Alliance. An Exodar raid goes very smooth.
Raiding the Horde Edit
The Horde has four capital cities: Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff, Undercity and Silvermoon City. Orgrimmar is the main capital and is heavily populated. There are usually a lot of people in Thunder Bluff and Undercity as well, while Silvermoon is very underpopulated.
Raiding Orgrimmar Edit
Orgrimmar is the capital of the Orcs and Trolls. Orgrimmar is the main capital of the Horde, and is very hard to raid. There are two ways in. The first is the main gates. There are usually a lot of players outside, dueling each other, and the people waiting for the zeppelins in the two towers. If you enter this way, you will find yourself in the Valley of Strength. There are always a lot of people here doing their buisness. From there you will have to go through the Drag until you finally come to Grommash Hold where Thrall and Vol'jin are located. The other entrance is the western entrance, the Talon Gate. This entrance is almost unknown by many, and not many players hang around there. All Horde players who use portals will end up in the Valley of Spirits however. Be aware of them. From the Valley of Spirits, run on the ledge past the Cleft of Shadows. You will them reach Grommash Hold. Not many places empty of guards are known.
Raiding Thunder Bluff Edit
Thunder Bluff is the capital of the Tauren. Thunder Bluff is the second most populated Horde capital. Thunder Bluff is somewhat unique, as the entire city is located on four high mesas. Don't fall down, you will fall to a nasty death. There are two ways inside, two pairs of elevators. The first pair is located on the end of the road to Thunder Bluff. When you come up you will be directly on the main Square where the Horde players here will do their business. Run straight across the square and into the large totem pole tower in the center of the mesa. Run up the tower and into the first exit. On the other side of this square is the tent of Cairne Bloodhoof. The other way in is the other pair of elevators, located on the other side of the center mesa. Go up the elevator and into the tower again. Go out on the square where Cairne has his tent. Beware of druids when in Thunder Bluff. If they have Typhoon then can knock you off, sending you to a long fall.
Raiding Undercity Edit
Undercity is the capital of the Forsaken. Undercity is a bit underpopulated, but not by much. It is located under the Ruins of Lordaeron. The Ruins themselves contain no guards, but players will most likely run past. There are two ways down. One is the main entrance, which is a couple of elevators beneath the Throne Room. These will take you to the Trade Quarter. A lot of guards and NPCs are located here. Run down to the lowest level of the Quarter and get to the Apothecarium. In the middle is the way to the Royal Quarter. The way down is long and there are two elite guards next to every opening. When you finally get down, you will see Sylvanas Windrunner and (possibly) Varimathras. The other way in is the sewers. The entrance is on the western mountainside in the Tirisfal Glades. Hordes will most likely fly over your heads, as the people flying to and from Undercity will go through the Sewers. A bit down you will find a couple of guards and a hole that leads straight into the Undercity. Jump down and you will find yourself in the War Quarter. Go south to the Apothecarium and down to Sylvanas.
Raiding Silvermoon City Edit
Silvermoon is the capital of the Blood Elves. Silvermoon is a very easy raid, but also the largest Horde city. The city is somewhat remote and not many Horde go there. There is only one way in, the main gates. You will find yourself in the Walk of Elders. Run up the western way to the Murder Row and then northwest to the Court of the Sun and the Sunfury Spire which contains Lor'themar Theron and Rommath. Horde players who use the Orb of Translocation in Undercity will appear behind the Blood Elf leaders. Have an eye fixed on the Orb.


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Since the upcoming political transition will be the first in wartime since Vietnam, Pentagon officials say they are prepared to begin briefing the President-elect's transition team, "almost immediately" after today's elections on a wide range of military operations and Pentagon programs.
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"We are undertaking Herculean efforts to ensure the transition goes as smoothly and seamlessly as possible," according to one official.
The officials tell NBC News they intend to expedite the security-clearance process so that transition members would actually be able to sit alongside top Pentagon and military leaders during secure satellite briefings with combatant military commanders from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Given that the U.S. military is engaged in two shooting wars overseas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered dozens of senior Pentagon leaders to come up with an aggressive plan for a smooth and rapid transition.
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The Importance of Imagery in ebook & Materials Design
"Our students must be able to move gracefully and fluently between text and images, between literal and figurative worlds"
Lynell Burmark
This article is part of my own research into visual literacy and book design.
What if we could create visual mnemonics that could capture feelings, experiences and trigger the imagination in powerful ways?
What if images helped us to move from linear thought to holistic engagement?
What if our use of imagery was so tangible that students could see, feel, hear, and touch the essence of a story through interaction with the eperfect textbook?
Of course, with the plethora of multi-media tools available and the possibility of creating interactive text books comes the responibility inherent in making correct choices. As we discussed in the google community for #ebookevo yesterday, we've got to make learning tangible but not confusing. That's why I favour a minimalist approach to visual design where nothing is included that doesn't specifically engage the learner or serve the purpose of inspiring creative thinking.
What are the characteristics of a good-looking book?
While there are as many artistic interpretations on what constitutes good-looking, we can narrow down visual requirements by following the principles of visual intelligence.
Here are some design principles that I picked up from my research.
Just to get you motivated, professor Richard Mayer, author of multi-media learning came up with the following results after much research. " Retention and recall are boosted 42% with multi-media learning and a whopping 89% with illustrated texts."
. Images are said to improve learning by up to 400%, and here are some findings on the use of colour from the 3M Meeting Network, which is a business research centre, but it's findings are highly applicable to education.
1)Color visuals increase willingness to read by up to 80 percent.
2)Using color can increase motivation and participation by up to 80 percent.
3)Color enhances learning and improves retention by more than 75 percent.
4)Color accounts for 60 percent of the acceptance or rejection of an object and is a critical factor in the success of any visual experience.
5)Using color in advertising outsells black and white by a whopping 88 percent.
Here is a very useful website to help you explore the art and brainfriendly nature of colour, its moods, associations and educational applications. Even if it's just in our ebook design, it's quite clear that we need to bring some art into education even when we are not teaching art itself. Language teaching and language arts constitute the art of self-expression.
Critical Factors to guide design:
1) Content (what)
2) Technique (how)
3) Purpose/impact (why)
By following the three designing principles above we can make sure that our book or lesson designs are relevant, practical, creative and engaging.
For me, number three is the most important. If your purpose is sound, the rest will follow.
Critical factors to promote engagement:
1) Images with suitable emotive impact
2) Humour in context
3) Clarity and space
4) Fun areas in the book where students do some real creativity work.
5) Socialising and collaborating areas in the book.
Here's a great image to match a great article on ideas and design.
(Visual Notetaking: This original image was created by Giulia Forsythe, and she granted me permission to remix this image and use it in Mapping Media)
Lastly, I'll leave you with an two amazing resources for elearning design.
One is called the rapid elearning blog
The other is a collection of idea and technology tips from Nik Peachey's edtech blog.
Here's a nice motto that I think we can all relate to:
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
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Suddenly Ricky Ray is good again.
One local TV guy told him that Wednesday.
This week, iats being widely reported around the Canadian Football League, that the ninth-year Edmonton Eskimo quarterback has remarkably rediscovered his old form.
Another local microphone carrier informed him of that as well.
Its quite clear.
Ricky Ray has been born again.
He has remarkably risen from the refuse and the rubbish.
Suddenly hes smart again. Hes the only quarterback in the league who hasnt thrown an interception so far.
Overnight his arm is live again. His average pass has been for 16.2 yards.
Its a minor miracle.
When the crowd had cleared in front of his locker, I asked Ray if it didnt frost him off, these suggestions that hes got good again and remarkably rediscovered his old form.
It does, he said.
I see myself as the same guy in different circumstances.
Its been a little bit frustrating when people doubt you. You go from them saying youre the best quarterback in the league to saying they should be starting another guy.
But it comes with the territory. Its a performance-based business. You go from the penthouse to the outhouse any time the team isnt playing well. Criticism can be unjustified. It works that way. Is your team winning? Do you have the stats?
Last year we werent winning and I didnt have the stats.
Two weeks into this season the Eskimos are 2-0 with a chance to go 3-0 against the 0-2 B.C. Lions Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium, and Rays numbers are ridiculous.
The guy the 10 TSN commentators and 10 football writers around the league ranked as the 16th-best player in the league in the networks top 50 and your correspondent was one of them and ranked him third, which tells you that the other 19 had him even lower want their ballots back.
Its only two weeks into the season, but Ray is 42 for 58 for 682 yards and 72.4%, with four touchdown passes against no interceptions, and has the leagues highest pass-efficiency rating at 134.4 slightly ahead of Anthony Calvillos 132.8. The other starters Saskatchewans Darian Durant (85.0), B.C.s Travis Lulay (78.7), Calgarys Henry Burris (78.1), Torontos Cleo Lemon (74.5), Hamiltons Kevin Glenn (63.7) and Winnipegs Buck Pierce (61.5) are way back.
Ray has three receivers in the top six Fred Stamps second, with 10 catches for 212 yards, Adarius Bowman fourth, with 11 receptions for 173 yards, and Jason Barnes sixth, with eight grabs for 169 yards.
His top three receivers have caught passes for 68, 37 and 33 yards.
It takes 12 guys, said Ray.
This offence is dramatically different.
Ray wont say it unless you read between the lines, but he hasnt seen any protection in three years, hasnt had any real weapon beyond Fred Stamps and has had brutal conservative and predictable dump-and-dunk offensive game plans, with highly debatable offensive co-ordinator play calling.
The emphasis was getting the ball out quick to help the guys up front, he said. That made us conservative.
So far this year Ive had a little more time. Ive been able to go through more reads and not worry about getting the ball out in a hurry.
Another thing is, guys are making plays and that makes you want to go down the field and get them the ball.
Weve been a pretty balanced team so far on offence. Weve controlled the line of scrimmage giving me time to throw it.
Were not relying on any one guy to get the job done. In the first game Adarius Bowman and Jason Barnes had big games. In the second game Fred Stamps and Jerome Messam had big games. We havent had this kind of balance for quite a while.
I just try to do my job and make good decisions and accurate throws.
Or hes got good again. Remarkable return to his former form.


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Last summer, when the price of gas skyrocketed to $4.00 per gallon, it seemed to surprise Detroit as much as it surprised drivers.
Actually, today's engines are much more efficient than they were 30 years ago. Manufacturers are using technologies like variable valve timing, cylinder deactivation, and downsized engines with turbocharging.
It's just that the efficiency has been diverted to power jackrabbit starts in heavier cars.
Now, manufacturers say they need time to develop cars that sip gas rather than guzzle it. At the start of World War II, Detroit switched to tanks and jeeps in just six months. But short of that national mandate, it'll take a while to design new products and re-tool factories.
Experts say lighter cars or smaller engines would be an easy way to achieve fuel efficiency. Detroit could even keep the weight in cars that makes some people feel safer, according to David Kittleson who teaches mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
"I think smaller engines would do wonders," Kittleson says. "We'd probably be able to obtain at least a 30-percent fuel economy gain if we just dialed back to acceleration rates typical of the 1980s, which were perfectly adequate."
"People like their SUVs."John Broadhurst
Most cars are available in two or three different-sized engines. Kittleson says Detroit could just eliminate the larger engine; no need to re-tool.
"If they wanted to, they could run the factories that produce the smaller cars 24-hours-a-day until they get more production lines out there."
But would Americans buy those cars? That's the question auto executives have to answer.
Another U of M professor, John Broadhurst, was a consultant for the British auto industry. Here in the wide-open spaces, even with more expensive gas, Americans will still want high performance, he says.
"People like their SUVs, they like their large Ford Explorers and things like that, and they do convince themselves they are safer," Broadhurst says. "And of course they are safer, if they run into a Smart Car or something like that. But if they run into an 18-wheeler, they're no safer than anything else. But they like to feel they're at the top of the food chain."
On a recent morning it was pretty quiet on the sales floor of the Walser Buick Pontiac GMC dealership in Bloomington.
A half-dozen cars are on display -- with huge red Christmas bows on their hoods. It's early in the morning, but these days it's quiet all day here.
Doug Sprinthall shows me a Buick Lucerne. It gets 26 miles to the gallon on the highway.
"Even a relatively large car like this, with modern engine technology and front wheel drive, gets respectable gas mileage," says Sprinthall.
Sprinthall's job is managing new car inventory for Walser. People aren't buying much these days because of the shaky economy, he says. But what they are buying has changed like a see-saw, with the drop in gas prices.
"A few months ago we had no Pontiac Vibes in stock, which is the Pontiac version of the Toyota Matrix, and we were swimming in Yukons, which is the GMC version of the Chevy Suburban," says Sprinthall. "We had a big sale on Yukons last month; we sold more Yukons in one month than we had in the previous six, and we've got Vibes sitting all over the lot right now. "
Sprinthall acknowledges that it's partly because the company promoted them heavily.
"But you can only promote when there's market," he says. "If we had done that when gas was $4.00 per gallon, we would have just been burning advertising money in the lot."
One thing seems apparent: as long as gas prices are low, consumers don't have much appetite for fuel-efficient cars.
Sprinthall's experience is that some people who bought fuel-sippers last summer, when gas prices were high, have come back to trade them in for what they had before -- SUVs, trucks and vans.
"There's some culpability in this whole crisis, with the big three manufacturers: they were chastised on Capitol Hill for not building cars that people want," says Sprinthall. "The sad reality is they actually were building the cars people want. Maybe they weren't building the cars that people should be driving."
So if we want to know how Detroit will design its cars of the future, maybe we should look in the mirror.


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Roberto Alomar, Ty Cobb and the 13 Biggest Jerks in the MLB Hall of FameJuly 25, 2011
Roberto Alomar, Ty Cobb and the 13 Biggest Jerks in the MLB Hall of Fame
The small town of Cooperstown in New York with a population of just over 2,000 gets bombarded late every July because of Hall of Fame weekend.
The class of 2011 not only included players Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven, but GM Pat Gillick, sportswriter Bill Conlin and broadcaster Dave Van Horne.
In case you didn't know about the voting process, eligible players are voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWA). A player must receive 75 percent of the vote to be elected.
There are other nuances, but that's the gist of it.
While it is the highest honor to be voted into the Hall of Fame, it's a political and bias process.
Some baseball writers have personal vendettas against players for not being respectful toward them during their playing careers.
Some baseball writers penalize for inappropriate conduct.
It's why we've never seen an unanimous vote. Tom Seaver is the closest; he received 98.7 percent of the vote.
It's why 16 writers didn't vote for Mike Schmidt on his first ballot.
It's why Eddie Murray didn't get more first-ballot votes.
It's why Roberto Alomar wasn't a first-ballot inductee. He received 73.7 percent of the vote (I'll get into why during my slideshow). He got 90 percent of the vote in his second go-around.
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13. Roberto Alomar
What happened on Sept. 27, 1996, is why Roberto Alomar wasn't a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
During the top of the first inning in a game pitting Baltimore and Toronto, umpire John Hirschbeck rung up Alomar. The 10-time Gold Glover argued the call and Hirschbeck tossed him.
Things escalated from there.
For reasons still unknown (Alomar stated after the game that he uttered a racial slur), Alomar spat in Hirschbeck's face.
Crew chief Jim McKean commented on the incident.
"We've had bumpings, we've had fights, but I've never really seen a ballplayer try and directly spit in an umpire's face. Only animals spit in people's faces."
To add fuel the fire, Alomar had this to say about the incident in the press conference after the game.
"He (Hirschbeck) had a problem with his family when his son died. I know that's something real tough in life, but after that he just changed, personality-wise. He just got real bitter."
This enraged Hirschbeck who had to be restrained the following day. He was forced to sit out the game.
Meanwhile, Alomar received just a five-game suspension.
He appealed, which allowed him to play the following day. His go-ahead home run in the 10th inning not only won the game but clinched the Wild Card for the Orioles.
Alomar played in the postseason and served his suspension during the first five games of the 1997 season.
12. Ted Williams
Ted Williams was very ill-tempered during his playing days with the media and the fans.
He disliked the media when they discussed his personal life and upbringing.
Williams stopped showing approval towards the Boston faithful when he committed two fielding errors during a double-header in 1950.
Whenever the Boston fans asked for a curtain call, Williams always refused.
11. Jim Rice
It took him 15 years, but on his final year of eligibility, Jim Rice got enough votes to garner himself a spot in the Hall of Fame.
He had a strained relationship with the media. Rice often clashed with reporters in the 1970s and 1980s.
Nonetheless, those same reporters finally, but narrowly, with 76.4 percent of the vote in 2009, got Rice into Cooperstown.
10. Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth loved his teammates and adored children, but there was a dark side.
He was a drunk who dabbled with women even though he was married.
Ruth's the greatest player who ever lived in my opinion, but off the field, he was a raging alcoholic.
9. Juan Marichal
A game pitted between the Dodgers and Giants on Aug. 22, 1965, Juan Marichal and Sandy Koufax squared off in an anticipated pitcher's duel.
The game was overshadowed by a 14-minute brawl.
Twice within the first three frames, Marichal threw near the head of two Dodgers players.
With Marichal batting in the third inning, Roseboro threw the ball back to Koufax which grazed Marichal's ear. Words were exchanged, and Marichal used his bat as a weapon as he struck Roseboro several times in the head with his lumber.
Roseboro needed 14 stitches and filed a lawsuit. They settled on an amount out of court and became friends.
8. Tommy Lasorda
In a June 4, 1976, game against the Dodgers, New York Mets slugger Dave Kingman hit three home runs and drove in eight runs en route to an 11-0 Mets win.
In the postgame press conference, Lasorda was asked of Kingman's performance.
"What's my opinion of Kingman's performance!? What the f--- do you think is my opinion of it? I think it was f------ horse s---! Put that in, I don't f------ care. Opinion of his performance? Jesus Christ, he beat us with three f------ home runs!
What the f--- do you mean, 'What is my opinion of his performance?' How could you ask me a question like that, 'What is my opinion of his performance?' Jesus Christ, he hit three home runs! Jesus Christ! I'm f------ pissed off to lose the f------ game.
And you ask me my opinion of his performance! Jesus Christ. That's a tough question to ask me, isn't it? 'What is my opinion of his performance?"
7. Rickey Henderson
Rickey Henderson loved the game of baseball but always had a me-first attitude.
He's a character who always talked in the third person, and it rubbed people the wrong way.
After breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record, he's famously know for stating, "Lou Brock was the symbol of great base stealing, but today, I'm the greatest of all time, thank you."
6. Reggie Jackson
Once Reggie Jackson got to New York, the team chemistry was in shambles.
Thurman Munson hated him and manager Billy Martin despised him.
Although the Bronx burnt down in 1977, the Yankees still managed to win a World Series despite all of the clubhouse chaos. There's a reason why his nickname is Mr. October.
In my opinion, he has the biggest ego in the history of baseball.
5. Rogers Hornsby
Rogers Hornsby never got along with his teammates, and he was always critical towards them.
If you didn't read my slideshow from last week, I'll reiterate Hornsby's thoughts about Roger Maris during his single-season home run chase to surpass Babe Ruth.
Hornsby stated it would be a disgrace for a lifetime .270 hitter to hold the record.
4. Cap Anson
Jackie Robinson integrated the game of baseball when he debuted in 1947, but he isn't the first African-American to play in the major leagues.
Prior to 1890, baseball allowed black players.
Cap Anson planned to organize a strike in 1885 which sent several African-Americans packing.
In 1887, he refused to play in a game because George Stovey, an African-American, was scheduled to start. Stovey didn't pitch and Anson played.
His actions toward umpires were vile. Fines became ordinary as he often cursed at umpires when a call didn't go his way.
3. John McGraw
John McGraw was a decent third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals and New York Giants, but he's recognized for his 30 years as manager of the Giants. His 2,763 wins rank second only to Connie Mack.
During McGraw's playing days, only one umpire was used during games. When the umpire looked away while a runner ran the bases, McGraw routinely tripped his opponents
As a manager he got into heated exchanges with his teammates regularly and constantly argued with umpires. He was ejected a record 118 times during his tenure.
"McGraw eats gunpowder every morning for breakfast and washes it down with warm blood," Giants coach Arlie Latham said.
2. Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis served as the first MLB commissioner from 1920 until his death in 1944.
After the famous 1919 "Black Sox" scandal, he banned every single member for life, although Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver are presumed to be innocent. During that World Series, Jackson hit .375, while Weaver hit .324.
Landis was the main reason why baseball was segregated.
In 1943, Landis blocked the sale of the Phillies to Bill Veeck because he wanted to stock the team with players from the Negro Leagues.
It's not a coincidence that Jackie Robinson made his debut in 1947, three years after Landis' passing.
1. Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb stole 892 career bases.
He sharpened his cleats on a regular basis. Quite frankly, he stole a lot of those bases by gauging the legs of his opponents by jumping in, spikes way up high.
During a May 5, 1912, game against the Yankees Cobb and a gentleman by the name of Claude Lueker went at it for several innings. It climaxed when Lueker called Cobb a half-n@gger, referencing the color of his mother's skin.
In the sixth inning, a la Ron Artest, Cobb went into the stands and attacked the heckler who had one hand and three fingers missing on the other.
The fans told him to stop, and Cobb replied, "I don't care if he got no feet."


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Udupi: Bhoja Karkera, who was driving his autorickshaw to return home to Kodavoor, died in a mishap on Wednesday night.
He had gone to attend a 'mehandi' function in Petri with his relatives – Suresh and Soorappa Karkera – and were on their way back.
As they reached Kunjalu around 11-30 pm, a dog is said to have crossed the road. To avoid hitting it, Bhoja suddenly turned the vehicle aside ad it rolled over.
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Heavy trucks will continue to be allowed to use a 131 mile segment of Highway 41 stretching between Green Bay and Milwaukee under a provision written by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl and approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee today. That segment will become an Interstate Highway in 2014, prohibiting trucks that weigh over 80,000 from using Highway 41. Kohl's measure lifts that restriction, out of concern that heavy trucks would be forced to by-pass the Highway 41 corridor and travel on streets that were not built to handle their size through neighborhoods with schools, populated city streets and narrow rural roads. The proposal was included in the FY2013 Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, which passed the committee today.
"Highway 41 is a heavily-trafficked commercial corridor that our industries rely on for business and growth. We know that diverting heavy trucks from the highway into our neighborhoods and rural communities will create safety hazards, and I'm pleased that my colleagues have agreed to lift the heavy truck restrictions from that stretch of road," Kohl said.
Heavy trucks associated with agriculture, paper companies, recycling and waste management are estimated to comprise ten to fifteen percent of truck traffic on Highway 41. In 2005, the segment of Highway 41 was designated to become an Interstate Highway in 2014, resulting in trucks over 80,000 pounds currently traveling on the highway being subject to fines.
Kohl and Congressman Tom Petri have worked to build a broad coalition of bipartisan support for the Highway 41 proposal among business and law enforcement in Wisconsin. Kohl's provision was supported by the Wisconsin Towns Association, the City of Oshkosh, the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce, the Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce, Heart of the Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, the East Central Wisconsin Planning Commission and the County Executives of Milwaukee, Winnebago and Outagamie. Petri is also working to clear the Highway 41 proposal in the House of Representatives.
Source: http://www.kohl.senate.gov/newsroom/pressrelease.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1464=4983


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Have you ever dropped your device and felt your heart shatter because you just knew that it is over? Well Motorola has come to save you the heartache a shattered screen would cause you with the new Motorola Moto X Force which boasts of a shatterproff display.
The Motorola Moto X Force comes with pretty impressive specifications. There is a 5.43-inch display with a 1440 x 2560 resolution, placing pixel density at 541 pixels per inch. Underneath the hood of the device is an octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor with 3GB of RAM. There is an in-built storage of 32/64GB which is expandable with a memory card. Motorola has also slapped a massive 21-megapixel camera with a dual-tone LED flash at the back of the Moto X Force, and a 5-megapixel selfie shooter with its own LED flash rests in front. The device has Android Lollipop preinstalled on it (disappointing, really, but Motorola has promised an Android Marshmallow upgrade) and runs on a 3760mAh battery.
Motorola has introduced the Moto X Force as the device whose screen would not shatter. The screen of the Motorola Moto X Force is made of five different layers, including an aluminum core, designed to keep the screen rigid and to absorb shock when dropped on a hard surface.
Despite the impressive shatterproof display, the device is not water resistant. Adding an IP67 waterproofing feature would have made the Motorola Moto X Force completely rugged. I mean, what's the point in having a shatterproof display when your phone is as good as dead if it drops in water?
Motorola has promised about two days of battery life for the Motorola Moto X Force. In addition, the device supports fast charging and will give about 13 hours of battery life after just 15 minutes of charging. This is very impressive.
The Motorola Moto X Force will be available in stores in the UK in November and will cost £499 for the 32GB model, and £534 for the 64GB model.


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MONTESANO, Wash. – Campaign sign vandalism has become part of local support for Rob Mckenna's Gubernatorial run.
After reporting smiley faces spray-painted on McKenna signs across the county, local supporters printed up new shirts, replicating the vandalized signs.
One campaign worker with the Grays Harbor Republicans told KBKW they were "turning this into a positive," and that "people will be happy if they vote for Rob."
Unless they get caught stealing or vandalising a campaign sign, which will get you up to ninety days in jail, or a fine of up to one thousand dollars, per sign.


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Dillon Freeman returns from World War II to Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, where he confronts the coal mining industry as a union organizer and falls in love with his conventional cousin, Rachel. By the author of Storming Heaven.
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Cliftonville bade farewell to Celtic Park with a 3-2 win over Bangor on Saturday afternoon and boss Eddie Patterson admitted he and his players were desperately looking forward to their return north.
The Reds will face Linfield at Solitude on October 27 and, though he expressed his gratitude to Donegal Celtic for the use of their facilities for the last couple of months, Patterson insisted there was no place like home.
"The people who have been affected most are our supporters," he said. "It's an inconvenience for them but they've continued to turn out in decent numbers and, when required, they've done what they can to create at atmosphere.
"I was delighted to see them at the Bangor game because they were kicked in the teeth against Crusaders last week. That was the perfect excuse for them to stay away, but they turned out to support us and kept getting behind us when we conceded and that's very pleasing."
They were certainly kept entertained. Chris Scannell opened the scoring on three minutes only for Dominic Melly to restore parity just before the half-hour. It was 2-1 within 30 seconds, though, as Scannell restored the lead.
A dubious penalty award allowed Marty Verner to find the net early in the second half but, within a minute, the Reds found a matchwinner in the unlikely shape of Ciaran Donaghy.
"We made it tough for ourselves," added Patterson. "Bangor will probably look at it and say they had chances to claim a draw, but we should have been out of sight and I think we were worthy winners."
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Wes Chatham, who attended White Bluff Elementary School in Savannah before his family moved to Lawrenceville, may be better known these days as Isaac Rosenberg, "the white guy with soul."
Chatham, 26, plays Rosenberg on Showtime's "Barbershop: The Series."
His acting career ignited after he graduated from Central Gwinnett High School in 1997 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Near the end of his military stint, his ship, the U.S.S. Belleau Wood, was featured in the film "Antwone Fisher." Chatham met the movie's producer, who in turn introduced him to a casting director, whose sister happened to be a manager.
Chatham headed to Los Angeles to take advantage of these contacts after he was honorably discharged from service. He landed some commercial work and a bit part in "The Fighting Temptations," but his big break came when he was cast in "Barbershop," a serialized version of the popular film franchise. The first season is now airing at 10 p.m. Sundays on Showtime.
In a telephone interview from his newly-furnished L.A. apartment, Chatham talked to Diversions about his Hollywood experience so far.
Diversions: What was your first-ever acting job?
Wes Chatham: It was in Savannah, actually. I was 7 and went to an open call for a series of Tide commercials. That's when I knew I really wanted to get into the acting thing.
D: What were your first few months in L.A. like?
WC: It's a big city and it moved too fast for me, but I've caught up with it now. The industry is really hard on you when you first get here. There were thousands of struggling actors already here, and when you see the competition you get a dose of how far away you are from finding work. Going on auditions is tough. You're being judged, you're nervous, you don't know what to expect. Most casting directors are pleasant but some are brutally honest. You've got to have a thick skin and learn to take rejection.
D: What kind of characters are you asked to play?
WC: I get submitted for a lot of young, frat-guy-type roles, but I try to do as many different things as possible. I'm always trying to challenge myself and learn as much as I can.
I've learned so much from [co-star] Barry Shabaka Henley. He's so wise, and has such a body of work behind him. He's so relaxed and committed to each scene, which is why he comes across as so believable and real.
D: What are the challenges of being a series regular on a TV show?
WC: We put in a lot of hours. They'll rewrite a scene 10 minutes before they start shooting so you have to be able to make adjustments quickly. It's a lot of work, but I don't notice because I enjoy doing it so much. I mean, my job every day is to get up, go to the Paramount lot and act. It's a dream come true.
D: When do you plan on heading back to Savannah?
WC: I was there two years ago visiting family. I really miss River Street, especially during St. Patrick's Day. Maybe I'll come back this year.
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Dear David May, I am pleased to hear from you and of your work there in the State of New Mexico . Much of the complaints we receive here at JAIL4Judges regards the Family Courts around the nation. The reason, I believe, is because of the proximity to that which is near and dear to our hearts: namely, our spouses and our children. You are correct in that there are groups all over this country centering upon this very subject.
From the tone of you letter, it appears you are well aware of the focus of J.A.I.L being bringing Judicial Immunity directly to the forefront of the citizens to decide as to whether it shall be allowed it to protect judges from both civil liability and criminal prosecution. Indeed, two Deputy District Attorneys here in the County of Los Angeles called me and asked who J.A.I.L. might be of assistance in namely two cases in which the Los Angeles Judges were being protected from being criminally prosecuted by other judges ruling they were covered by judicial immunity.
With success in the areal of Judicial Immunity, absolutely every other organization concerned with the unconstitutional direction which our country is headed, including Family Courts, shall benefit. In fact, we attest that until this is accomplished, no other cause shall ultimately prevail. We shall merely continue to vent our hardships to one another.
I have taken the liberty, because of the positiveness of your words, to unilaterally sign you up as a New Mexico JAILer, and I therefore welcome you. I am sure we shall have many future opportunities to address the mutuality of both our efforts.
Now as to your invitation, I accept. All we need to deal with is the technically and set up a date and time to get together, whether it be a telephonic interview or a webcam interview. By responding hereto, and am also manifesting this to our JAILers regarding your communication. Doubtless you shall be hearing from many of them regarding this contact. There is already an effort at foot to see if the various judicial reform groups can agree on a collective effort.
God bless you, David May. Again, I welcome you as our newest New Mexico JAILer.
Ron Branson
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Mr. Branson,
I am a board member of the New Mexico Center for Family Justice, a group much like your own fighting for the rights of our members in family court. I run a TV show here called You Judge, where we expose judicial acts to drum up local support. We have actually been successful in having 3 judges removed from the bench and believe we contributed to the decision of several others to take early retirement. We have, of course, not been able to get any of them prosecuted.
I was wondering if you would be interested in a telephonic appearance on our show, or even possibly a web cam interview. Even if not, we would still be interested in joining with you in an alliance, whatever that might look like. There are many organizations like ours which exist in every state. I believe that if we were to combine our efforts we would be able to achieve more than each of us has been able to alone.
Please get back to me at your earliest convenience and let me know your thoughts on these matters.
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Since Andrew Gilligan's reports on the BBC were broadcast last May, the debate in Britain has become absurdly narrow. Was the September dossier "sexed up" by Downing Street? Did Tony Blair know that some of the intelligence was wrong? Did he knowingly publish it against the wishes of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)? How did David Kelly's name become public? All through these months of seething debate, the real story and the real scandal have been obscured. The intelligence in the dossier was wrong. Mr Blair probably believed the intelligence to be accurate, in which case he made a calamitous error of judgement.
The reasons why Britain went to war were not part of Lord Hutton's verdict. His remit was limited to the circumstances leading to Dr Kelly's death. Those who have slated his report without any qualifications ignore the broad evidence he had in front of him in relation to his narrow brief. On the one hand, there were the BBC reports of a "senior intelligence source" claiming that the Government sexed up the dossier. On the other, there was the chairman of the JIC, John Scarlett, insisting that the reports were wrong and that he had retained control of the document. Mr Scarlett's emphatic denial suggests there might be a story about the degree to which the JIC colluded with Downing Street, but that is a different allegation from the one made by the BBC. Indeed, it is almost the opposite one. Lord Hutton had no choice but to make his criticisms of the BBC, and the corporation must respond to them by reforming its editorial structures. The BBC's former director general, Greg Dyke, would have been the best figure to lead that response. He was an inspirational leader who had the trust of his staff. Under the circumstances, it was appropriate for Gavyn Davies to step down as chairman of the board of governors. But the governors he left behind should not have accepted Mr Dyke's offer of resignation so meekly.
Lord Hutton's report was hopelessly one-sided - rightly critical of the BBC but comically lenient on the Government. The fact that Lord Hutton was wholly uncritical of the way Dr Kelly's name became public exposed a naive gullibility about government and the way it operates with the media.
No doubt the flaws in the report will continue to make waves. But none of this is significant compared with the bigger picture. While Britain has been debating how Dr Kelly's name got into the newspapers, the death toll in Iraq has continued to rise. Thousands of people have been killed as a result of a war that was started because of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Yet he possessed no weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq Survey Group has given up a substantial search for weapons. It appears now to exist purely for the sake of President Bush and Mr Blair, as both men play for time. No doubt Mr Blair would like the group to pretend it is searching for weapons until after the next general election.
Meanwhile, US leaders are not being especially helpful to the Prime Minister. Condoleezza Rice has raised questions about whether any weapons will be found. Mr Bush declared last week that he wanted to know why the intelligence was so wrong. This is the real scandal. Why did he and Mr Blair not ask more questions about the intelligence before starting a war? The former US Treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, provided the answer when he suggested last month that Mr Bush resolved to remove Saddam long before 11 September. Mr Blair was too weak to break the alliance with the US, the so-called special relationship that in this instance has brought no obvious benefits to Britain. For Mr Blair, the build-up to the war was not a time to ask searching questions about the intelligence.
So far Britain has had an inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Committee, which was derailed by the BBC row, a secret investigation by the Intelligence Committee, and the Hutton report into the death of a single official. It is disgraceful that Mr Blair has refused to hold a proper inquiry into the origins of the war. Assuming that he will not call one at this late stage, he should at least come clean and admit that the intelligence was wrong and that he made a misjudgement in placing such store by it.
Lord Hutton has reported, and the BBC must reform itself in order to retain the trust of those who fund it. It must stop giving so much ammunition to its enemies. The real point, however, is that the Hutton hysteria has been as much of a side-show as Alastair Campbell's current tour of theatres around the country. Britain went to war on a false premise. Now that Lord Hutton has reported, we need to know why.


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A Date With Destiny
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Published: March 2, 2007
CHRISTMAS. New Year's Eve. Spring break. There are certain dates on the calendar when travelers know that hotel rooms in prime vacation spots will be nearly impossible to come by, even if they try to book months in advance.
This year, add another day to the list: Saturday, July 7.
That's because that date -- the almost numerically perfect 7/7/07 -- is being sought after by couples around the country as the ideal day for a wedding. More than 31,000 couples have already signed up with theknot.com, a wedding-planning Web site, saying they plan to marry that day, a figure that is roughly triple the number for any other Saturday that month -- and nearly 20,000 more than the number of couples who got married on the corresponding weekend a year earlier.
And it isn't only prospective spouses who think that the 7-7-7 combination could be lucky for them. The travel site Vegas.com said its hotel reservations for the weekend starting on Friday, July 6, are about six times greater than those for the previous weekend. ''We've never seen anything like this,'' said Bryan Allison, vice president of marketing for Vegas.com. ''We were all shocked.''
Meanwhile, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Miss., which was originally scheduled to open just days after Hurricane Katrina hit, says it plans to open on July 7. William Hill, the noted British bookmaker, has placed the odds at 7 to 1 that Tony Blair will resign on that date. And when the Pepsi 400 Nascar race at the Daytona International Speedway takes place on July 7, will Clint Bowyer -- who drives the No. 07 Jack Daniel's Chevrolet car -- have an unfair advantage?
The number 7 has held a special significance at least from the time of the ancient Babylonians, who revered the seven sacred planets, and it is a crucial numeral in the Bible, as in the seven days of the Creation to the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer. Evie Bagwell, 23, and Derek Novotny, 22, from Brownsville, Pa., say they chose the date for their wedding because of its spiritual significance. ''The Bible explains 777 as being perfection, and that is how we feel together,'' Ms. Bagwell said.
The Ritz-Carlton chain reports that more than 65 percent of its hotels in the United States are playing host to at least one wedding on July 7 -- and for some, it's two, three or more. The New England Inns and Resorts Association estimates that more than 50 percent of its 250 members have at least one wedding scheduled then. Other hotels and resorts across the country, already long booked with weddings on July 7, report that they have been turning dozens of couples away.
''We're getting between three and six calls a week specifically asking for this date,'' said Michelle O'Neill, director of catering sales for the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, Nev.
Some July 7 brides say they believe they are being forced to pay a premium for services that wouldn't cost as much on any other Saturday this summer. ''Once we told them we were getting married on July 7, the tone changed,'' said Esther Marius, from Brockton, Mass. After calling 20 limousine companies, only to find that they were all committed to other weddings on July 7, she ended up paying $400 more than she had planned to secure the 24-passenger stretch limo she wanted to arrive in on her wedding day.
If it weren't for the deposit she has already paid to the wedding hall, Ms. Marius said she would consider changing the date. ''It's gotten to a point where we said if someone wants to buy the date, we'll sell it,'' she said. ''We could get married the month before or the month after.''
Others aren't so flexible. Jennifer McVay, social and travel sales manager at the Sagamore resort in Lake George, N.Y., which is holding four weddings that day, said that at least three brides demanded to be put on a waiting list in case any of the weddings were called off. One has even checked back to see if any of the other couples had decided to break up.
''They're just desperate for that date,'' Ms. McVay said. ''I really appreciate it's such a big day and it's really special -- but I was surprised they weren't as willing to move to another date.'' She said several couples had already turned down her offer of July 6, which has plenty of openings.
Among those who have had to scramble to find a place for their wedding on the 7th are Lisl Kludzuweit, 33, and her fianc?Artie Jones, 35, both from Philadelphia. After calling roughly half a dozen places only to find out that other couples had already taken them, Ms. Kludzuweit booked the Camden Windward House in Camden, Me., sight unseen. (Still to be found: a photographer who is free that day.)
Ms. Kludzuweit said it was important to her to secure this specific day for her wedding, despite the hassles. The couple picked July 7 after finding out that a tumor removed from Ms. Kludzuweit's abdomen last year was benign. ''For us it was symbolic,'' said Ms. Kludzuweit. ''It just felt so lucky.''
Even destinations like the Caribbean that tend to slow down in the summer are seeing a surge in bookings that weekend. One bride has bought out all but nine rooms at the 40-room Jumby Bay in Antigua, plus most of the resort's other accommodations like villas. The Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and Casino, which accepts only one wedding a day, has had to turn away at least 10 couples looking to marry on July 7. The Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman, which has the added cachet of being on Seven Mile Beach, said one groom settled for July 8 after learning that July 7 was already taken, but emphasized that ''price would be no object if he could migrate to the 7th,'' said Melissa Ladley, the hotel's communications director.
Given such heated competition for July 7, some couples are having a hard time finding a band, photographers or other wedding professionals. ''It is a bit challenging to find vendors who are still available for that date,'' said Karle Coppenrath, a wedding consultant and owner of Weddings by Design in Port Townsend, Wash. ''Many photographers, for instance, tell me they have been booked since the summer of 2005.''
Jill Ann Parrett, 27, from North Providence, R.I., was caught off guard by how popular the date was. ''Every vendor we were considering said they got a call that someone else was interested.'' Because of the pressure, she added, ''we ended up pulling the trigger sooner than we would have wanted.'' She'll marry at an estate on a University of Rhode Island campus in West Greenwich.
Some hotels around the country are trying to capitalize on the date with packages that play on the lucky-seven theme. The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park has created a Lucky No. 7 Wedding Package for a party of just 77 people with seven guest tables, a seven-tier wedding cake, seven diamonds for the bride from Tiffany & Company, Room 2007 for the bridal party to dress in, and a seven-night honeymoon at any Ritz-Carlton hotel for $77,777. Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes, Vt., is promising any couple who books a wedding that day for 100 or more people a free seven-night stay on their seventh anniversary.
Wedding planners love the thematic possibilities of the date. One bride at the Sagamore is planning to include Lucky 7's scratch-off lottery tickets in the party favors. Others are doing everything from serving seven courses at the reception to seating seven people at each table.
Oddly, some numerologists aren't sure what all the fuss is about. ''For most couples, this is not the most desirable wedding date for long-term bliss'' said Daniel Hardt, a numerologist and owner of the Life Path Numerology Center in Indianapolis. ''The triple 7 can lead to miscommunication. Interactions between the partners is likely to be strained.'' Marriage is difficult enough to sustain without the added burden of a potentially troublesome anniversary date, he said. ''Sorry to be so negative about this unique date,'' he added, ''but I read the numbers, I don't create them.''
Meanwhile, none of the hotel wedding planners said they had had an event planned for a slightly similar -- but apparently not as popular -- date last year.
Somehow 6/6/06 didn't have quite the same ring.
Photos: YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY -- Bridal party room at the Ritz-Carlton in New York, above. Michelle O'Neill, left, says the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas gets three to six calls a week requesting July 7 weddings. Lisl Kludzuweit, right, will wed Artie Jones on July 7 in Maine; their announcement is at top. (Photo by Ryan Donnell for The New York Times); (Photo by Jared McMillen for The New York Times); (Photo by Ryan Donnell for The New York Times); (Photo by Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times)(pg. F5)
Drawing (Drawing by John S. Dykes)(pg. F1)