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|January 25, 2010, 04:29 PM
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AZ Appleseeds, 2010!
Folks, we have an Appleseed Shoot this coming weekend in the Phoenix metro area, January 30-31.
It's at the Joe Foss Shooting Complex, out in Buckeye. Great facility.
Come on out!
Learn to hit a 4 minute-of-angle target from actual field positions, and get off the bench. Learn how to properly use a sling, how to build stability in field positions, the six steps of firing a shot, what "natural point of aim" is and how to sight your rifle in, with 10 shots or less.
Learn about the heritage of the Rifleman, and how to wake up your sleeping neighbors for the good of the country and to honor our forefathers.
Hope to see you there!
|February 3, 2010, 04:26 PM
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The next AZ Appleseed is at Buckeye again, the Joe Foss Shooting Complex. February 20-21.
Come on out and see what all the excitement is about!
|February 3, 2010, 04:37 PM
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Yeah, we have one coming up in April. Just received my Tech Sights today. My plan is to buy a Marlin 795 and take advantage of that $25 rebate. I have a Glenfield Model 60, but heard magazine fed rifles are much easier to use.
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When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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|February 4, 2010, 12:42 AM
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Folks, the Buckeye Feb 20-21 is probably going to have a long(er) range component to it.
We're PROVING that the 25 meter work you do, works out further!
Rimfire shooters will shoot the AQT from 25/50/75/100 yards on appropriately reduced size targets at one point rather than at 25 meters the entire time.
Centerfire shooters will shoot the AQT from 50/100/150/200 yards on appropriately reduced sized targets at one point rather than 25 meters the entire time.
(200's the farthest we can get out of this facility).
Think you know your come-ups/downs? Your BSZ (Battle-sight-zero) all configured for your rifle? Come and find out!
And, keep in mind: In 1775, Morgan's Rifle Company members earned membership in their unit by hitting a target the size of a mounted British officer's head at 250 yards. With black powder front-stuffing rifled flintlocks.
How are YOU from real field positions at true known distances?
|May 5, 2010, 03:12 PM
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So, we've got 4 Appleseeds in Kingman this year.
Each and every one of them will involve a known-distance component out to 500 yards. Kingman has the facilities for this and has reserved them for us.
It is a very windy environment, which is excellent for a class rather than a competition.
Come on out, learn to shoot with your sling, from field positions rather than the bench, and learn WHY an American should always maintain his skills as a Rifleman, and WHY doing that honors the founders of this country.
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Andrew Dickson will start a game for the Belfast Giants for the first time this weekend – and not only once, but twice.
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This thread was started and there was no activity on it some time ago. I wish to open this subject anew with my history and look forward to your inputs. It is rather long winded. Please have patience.
Am I reformed? Probably not, but I didn't even know or accept that I was an addict until recently. First my story: I lost my virginity at 12. I have then cheated on every girl/woman I've had a relationship with since high school through four marriages (fourth and current marriage NOT PHYSICALLY). I did not cheat every chance I got, I did not search for cheating opportunities, I did not carry on affairs. I cheated in single digits total on these three first wives only. Does that make it any better? No, it's just a fact for your consideration.
I cheated on my third wife with my current wife. I have not had sex with anyone since meeting my current wife however I have had a number of inappropriate relationships with women to the exclusion of my wife and even putting these other women ahead of her for one reason or another. Mind you there were no sexual intentions whatsoever, one was a dinner with her friend, and two were with business associates. I have not flirted or played silly games or innuendo with anyone since an episode with a Fredericks of Hollywood cashier while buying my wife some lingerie.
I was brought up that if you didn't have sex with someone you weren't cheating on your wife. My current wife showed me how wrong that is and I fully agree with her and understand how my actions in the past have hurt her and how I cheated on her. I am very sorry for hurting her the way I did, and although I always say ignorance is no excuse, it again happens to be a fact. In the future I will always be especially cautious of my actions but most importantly will always put my wife first and foremost in every situation.
In late 2004 I was retiring from my job and had time on my hands. I discovered internet chat rooms. My kids had shown me messenger programs but I didn't know about chat rooms until this time. My initial intentions were very genuine as I did not go to any dating, fooling around or plain ole sex chat rooms. I went into a category of rooms related to my job field and thought I would actually get conversation. Much to my surprise there was a lot of sex talk and even more surprising there were people (mostly women) getting naked and "playing" on their web cam. My marriage wasn't going so well so I sought acceptance here thinking "maybe I can look and play here and people will like me". They did. And I guess at this point you could say it got addicting.
I continued this for three years and in that time I met hundreds, perhaps a thousand women. I had a friends list of over 200 although many were added for future reference while I only really talked and played with a much smaller number. I collected pictures from women and made pictures of myself that (in hindsight) I foolishly shared. I put them on cd to preserve them. I only collected "real" pictures of "real" people. I'm not a fan of pornography or men's magazines. My wife feels there is significance here and I agree with her as relates to my past and upbringing.
Then I met my wife in the room. My wife was not one of those that was playing or talking about sex or anything like that. She was in a not great marriage but I know her intent was not to go "trolling" on line for a man. We did somehow find each other and began chatting. I liked her a lot because she was a real person with a real life and wasn't all about the sex. Well that wasn't good enough for me and in short I dragged her into that world, totally humiliating her in the process. I'm not going to go into details but I am not proud of what I did to that great lady. In the end we really did like each other, fell in love, and came together. In the process I learned a lot from her including what marriage should be and how a wife should be treated and how a husband is supposed to act.
To detail my behaviors a bit, I spent many hours on the internet "playing". I had an infant son that while I didn't neglect, I would "take care of" in his crib, at his high chair, in front of the tv, while I played. I didn't miss work for my addiction but I did spend countless (9 hours of 12 hour shift) hours on the phone from work with my now wife. I left work for a few hours one particular weekend, when she came to town for our first meeting, to see her for sex. I didn't spend any money on my addiction at all on sex. I didn't go to strip clubs, pay for pornographic subscriptions or anything like that. I met one other person in person for sex who lived about 90 minutes from me. At that time (still late 2004) I wouldn't have gotten in the car to go to meet her or anyone but I had business to do in her area so we met. In later years it is likely I would have made that trip without thinking about it but never did meet anyone else until my wife came to see me.
To fast forward a bit, I got rid of the "for fun" web ID and no longer played on the internet after making a few bad mistakes. It took getting caught lying to her and covering up bad behavior when I claimed my love for her. I truly did love her but had a hard time breaking away from that life (first hit me over the head with a shovel sign of an impending addiction. Too bad I didn't see that until years later). I was still chatting the day she was driving nearly cross country to meet me. I was caught later on and paid dearly for that. Eventually, it was only her that I would play with on line and a couple close mutual friends who I would still play for. Then I even dragged her into playing with me on cam. NOT COOL.
This thread was too long so I am adding the remainder as a reply.
So aside from the exclusivity factor, my now wife put the fear of God in me. If I ever cheated on her again, and oh yes, internet play is cheating she would….fill in the blank. I stopped and I never went back, that is not until this past July. I'll catch up to that soon. Yes she scared the **** out of me, but I also have outgrown that. I truly don't have any interest in returning to that world. I'm too old and was too embarrassed by it to begin with. I thought it was stupid then and I really do think it's stupid now. I hate the social networking sites as well and this really isn't for me. I don't feel like I have to control it more than it's just not a part of me, or it wasn't.
So why did I go into a chat room, that same class of rooms, two months ago? I don't know. My wife tells me we were arguing then. Is that an excuse? Hell no. I went in, looked around, saw no conversation and actually went into another room. I quickly got out realizing I don't want to be here for one but that this is just wrong for two. This is wrong for me, my addiction and for my wife. What the hell am I doing here? And got out.
Unfortunately my wife doesn't believe me. She caught me because a few females tried to make contact with me after I got out of the room and my wife saw the conversation record in my email. I didn't even know it was kept there but now she is convinced that I am lying about everything. Now, to provide some history there as well, I lie a lot. I wish I knew why. Well part of it is because I know how my wife will react to things; she will blow them out of proportion like she is this. Now that she has seen this and I came clean (read as, got caught) she doesn't believe anything I say (can't blame her) and is thinking the worst about everything. She now thinks I have carried on on-line affairs, been chatting previous to this, been on web cam before or on a regular basis, and even accused me of having real live sex with women. NONE OF THIS IS TRUE. How does a chronic liar convince someone of many truths intermixed with a lie or two? I've said it before to her, it doesn't matter how big or little the lie is, it's still a lie. I also have said it takes a thousand "atta-boys" to erase one mistake, but that is what I am trying to do. I LOVE MY WIFE VERY MUCH but now she wants me to attend in residence treatment, group therapy, and is convinced I am the devil when I'm really not. I slipped, yes, bad, and I lied and have done that quite often, worse. What can I do?
So am I reformed? I don't think so and I do want help but I am certainly not the devil.
Read the lives of the saints. Especially St Margaret of Cortona
The mercy of God is limitless. Try to reform your lives by reading the lives of the saints. The Diary of St Faustina is a great start.
Start over.
Learn about chastity, perhaps? There are quite some resources of chastity on the internet.
What you do is a mortal sin, and you should stop offending God or you can go to hell.
Try the free books offered on the saints. Read a couple of them, and imitate their lives.
Confession is a place where you can start over and get absolved from past sins, if you want to reform your life.
God Bless
Thank you sky1 but I don't want a lot of quotations and notations and telling me where to go. While I value your opinion and will check out your suggestions, I would like to hear your opinions. What do you see in my situation? Are there any professionals in here moderating or monitoring to help.
Please forgive me but far too many people pretend to live the life by hiding behind quotations and other literary works but don't live the life. I am trying by all that is holy to live the life and I would like to hear from you what you all have to say.
Thank you
I don't know, first of all....
There is nothing impossible with God. And his mercy is limitless. You are asking if you can be reformed.... well, you should learn about healthy sexuality first.
Theology of the Body - by Pope John Paul, explained by Christopher West is something that has healed my sexuality also.
You should learn about sexuality according to God's holy will, and his will regarding to our sexuality is chastity.
Fill your time with resources of chastity, maybe you can find something to answer your question regarding your struggles.
First of all you need to find God, and forget all the rest. He's the only one that can reform your life.
Try to find Christopher West's talks here. Maybe he will answer your questions. Or see his videos. There are free resources for that
I agree with literary works or quotations, but works by the saints are different. They live the life, not only teach them. And we can imitate that, by reading their works
In catholicism, I think you can only got married once, if you have a third or fourth wife, ... that is living in adultery, and not in conformity with God's holy will.
But to answer your questions, yes, you can be reformed. St Mary Magdalene was a prostitute (and could possibly be an addict, before she was converted)... a prostitute, then a saint. St Augustine and St Margaret of Cortona both had a child outside of marriage and did cohabitated. Yet they were reformed and became saints
God loves us... what he ask is us to love him back.
As a catholic, the sacrament of confession, and forgiveness and love from Jesus is the only thing that can reform our lives, and contrition, and sorrow from our sins.
And pray the rosary, and the divine mercy chaplet. Aside from the sacraments, the thing that can reform your life is prayer. Prayer and the Sacraments are the source of Grace. To reform our lives we need God's Grace, we cannot do it out of our own strength, it is beyond our capabilities. We need God and we need his help and Grace.
If you lean on God, and ask his help, he will help you to reform your life, and start over as a child of God. His forgiveness is something that will heal us and we need to ask his forgiveness because we are sinners.
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Thank you sky1 but I don't want a lot of quotations and notations and telling me where to go. While I value your opinion and will check out your suggestions, I would like to hear your opinions. What do you see in my situation? Are there any professionals in here moderating or monitoring to help.
St Augustine was a sex addict and he reformed.
Try a 12-step program--sex addicts anonymous is one. It can help if you really work the program and are willing to change. In the program, you must surreder all to God to change you and then you learn to do what is necessary to reform. It strips you of your lies becuase you must become accountable to others in person. It does work for those who really are willing to surrender and change. It doesn't work for those who just "talk the talk" but aren't willing to do the hard work.
Any sinner can be reformed. It's called "Redemption". It's kind of what this religion is all about... ;)
Rv; bad situation you have betrayed the woman you say you love. This thing to do now is to prove to her you love her. Most wife beaters tell their spouse how much they love them as they lay in a pool of there own blood. Yes, I am being harsh. It would seem from your posts you have done this for some time. You admit to lying habitually and still claim your love. You wife may not want words but action.
Get rid of the computer! Change the passwords to something your wife knows. YOU DONT. Then sign up for a new email address. Walk away from it, prove to your wife you do not need that stuff. You don't need it really, now you need to convince her and yourself you do not.
The temptation will be there.... if it means you don't touch a computer for a month, then leave it off. Leave it off and unplugged.
Or only use the computer with her in the room. What you have to do is teach responsibility. That you can use the device for it's intended purpose with no intent otherwise. And, ((EXPERIENCE HERE TALKING)) Have the guts to turn it off if tempted. Don't play the game with the devil....5 minutes that is.... then tomorrow 10 minutes.... "I can stop when I want" .... The famous last words of all addicts..I can stop when I want...
Stay away from that silly game it will only lead to another divorce and lead you further away from God. Here is another suggestion..............PRAY Pray when you are tempted that God would take it from you. Offer the temptation to him as Penance. Yes I prayed allot during this time. But it did work, for me and two other members to Catholic.com who I shared my experience with.
Lastly, stop the lying, why? Because you love her or so you say. I have been harsh and I do not blame you if I have upset you. Your post leads one to believe you have an 'unchecked' history of this and you asked the question. Forgive me for being the one to call you to the carpet so to speak. I'm in your corner, you can beat this. If you want, but do you? If you continue to lie and hide things it would seem your guilt is only in the fact that you were caught. You need to fix it for the right reasons to fix guilt is not a strong, why.


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After suffering shock defeats at the hands of Luton and Leeds at the weekend, both sides will be looking to put those giant-killings behind them on their return to league action
Martin, Turner, Bassong, Garrido
Pilkington, Tettey, Johnson, Snodgrass
Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto
Lennon, Dembele, Parker, Bale
Chris Hughton is expected to make a host of changes after resting several key players in his side's shock FA Cup exit to Luton, with Grant Holt, Alexander Tettey, Michael Turner, Mark Bunn and Robert Snodgrass all set to return.
Wes Hoolahan and Anthony Pilkington may also be set for a recall after coming on as a substitute for the last two matches.
Sebastien Bassong could be in the frame to face his former club after missing the last two games with a calf injury, but Steve Morison (hip) and John Ruddy (thigh) are still not fit to play.
Jermain Defoe may remain on the sidelines after missing Tottenham's FA Cup defeat against Leeds with a pelvic injury, meaning Clint Dempsey could continue up front in the absence of any other strikers.
The rested Hugo Lloris and Mousa Dembele should replace Brad Friedel and Tom Huddlestone in the only other changes from the match at Elland Road.
William Gallas (calf) and Younes Kaboul (knee) are still injured, while Sandro is out for the season after undergoing knee surgery.
- Chris Hughton spent most of his playing career at Tottenham after coming through the youth ranks, and enjoyed 14 years as a coach at White Hart Lane following his retirement, twice serving as caretaker manager.
- Norwich have not lost to Spurs in their last three encounters, and knocked them out of the Capital One Cup in their previous meeting back in October.
- Andre Villas-Boas is yet to record a win at Carrow Road in his time in England, after being held to a goalless draw whilst in charge of Chelsea last season.
- However, the Canaries have now lost five of their last six Premier League fixtures, with their 0-0 draw against Newcastle in the last home match their only point from a possible 18.
- Spurs, on the other hand, have lost just once in their previous 11 league games, and are unbeaten in seven.
- Stand-in striker Clint Dempsey (pictured, right) is in his best form in a Spurs shirt, having hit five goals in his last five games.
- Norwich have picked up 1-0 wins over Manchester United and Arsenal in their own back yard this season, but will struggle to contain a Spurs team that has hit the back of the net in all but one of their 11 Premier League away games.


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Athletes turned off by the latest biotech breakthroughs can try this recipe: Strip down and rub mustard oil all over your body. While exploring the role skin plays in the production of red blood cells, Randy Johnson's team of researchers at UC San Diego found that rubbing mustard oil on mice caused spikes in natural EPO production, and that led to increased red blood cell levels. It's unclear how much mustard oil a human athlete would need to enhance performance, or how much mustard oil could lead to strokes and heart attacks. With all the crazy, complicated doping schemes out there could the journey to the top of the podium simply require a trip to the grocery store?
I'm sure the cadre of writers at this site have varying opinions on the ethics of using so-called performance-enhancing substances. And at the risk of you collectively lumping our opinions into a singular position on the matter, I'll briefly give you my take: it's a bullshit crusade. Whatever testing, developed, or implemented, they'll never catch everyone. And the lengths to which these agencies are willing to go, at the expense of the personal rights of athletes, would seem unconscionable in any other walk of life. But mustard oil...I could get down with that. Cheats of Strength: 10 Next-Gen Olympic Doping Methods [Wired]


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If you have ever bought amaranth greens, water spinach, Asian cucumbers or bitter melon at the Lowell Farmers Market or received them in your World PEAS CSA share, most likely it was grown by Visoth Kim ("Mr. Kim" to all of us at New Entry) and his family. Intensively managing a small farm in Dracut, Massachusetts, Mr. Kim was the principle supplier of most Southeast Asian crops at the Lowell and Lawrence Farmers' Markets as well as one of the most prolific growers for the World PEAS cooperative-and one of the first farmers New Entry ever worked with. Mr. Kim passed away late last year after a long illness.
Mr. Kim emigrated from Cambodia, where he was a teacher and a farmer. After arriving in the U.S., Mr. Kim worked in electronics manufacturing, but continued to grow vegetables in his backyard, selling any surplus in his community. After joining New Entry's first Farm Business Planning Course in 2003, Mr. Kim met John Ogonowski, who provided Mr. Kim and several other early New Entry farmers with a plot on his family's land in Dracut. During periodic trips back to Cambodia, Mr. Kim continued to teach, this time showing farmers the novel farming practices, such as drip irrigation, which he had come to use on his Massachusetts farm.
The community of New Entry staff and farmers have benefited greatly from Mr. Kim's contribution to the organization. Organized, thoughtful and hard-working, Mr. Kim has provided a role model to farmers of efficient, intensive production. Personable and savvy, he demonstrated successful marketing, selling through a variety of retail and wholesale channels. Sincere, gregarious and undeniably photogenic, Mr. Kim also became one of New Entry's best ambassadors.
I recall a World PEAS shareholder meeting in Andover that Mr. Kim attended. After discussing the mechanics of the CSA, shareholders had the opportunity to talk to Mr. Kim. He described his passion for growing high quality produce and a desire to keep his customers healthy. His testimony demonstrated the value of supply chains that are short enough that farmers and customers can know one another. His warm smile remains prominently featured in most of New Entry's literature and on the large mural, hand-painted on the cooler for World PEAS farmers.
His wife and sons plan to continue farming on the same plot, and selling the same crops to the World PEAS Cooperative. Mr. Kim will be dearly missed by all of us who knew him as our farmer and friend.


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BlazBlue Ships to Stores, Fan Explodes
In what happens to be the bizzaro news of the day, a fan 'unleashed the beast' after it was officially announced by Aksys Games that BlazBlue: Continuum Shift had officially shipped to retailers nationwide.
*This is about to get a little mature, so kiddies, do us a solid and avert your eyes.*
"We get alot of fanmail, but normally they're the kind where people shower us with words of kindness and affection. The following is not one of them.
"F@*K YOU F@*K YOUR MOTHERS F@*K YOUR SISTERS F@*K YOUR WIVES F@*K YOUR BROTHERS F@*K YOUR DAUGHTERS F@*K YOUR ENTIRE F@*KING FAMILIES YOU SONS OF F@*KING WHORES I WILL FIND AND RAPE EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF UR FAMILIES IF U RELEASE THIS GAME AS UTTERLY DISGUSTING AS IT IS IN THE US, I WILL F@*KING RAPE THEM MARK MY WORDS U PPL ARE THE WORST F@*KING GAME DEVELOPERS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY F@*KING LIFE, MARK MY F@*KING WORDS SO HELP ME GOD I WILL SEARCH AND FIND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR C@*T DAUGHTERS AND WIVES AND I WILL RAPE THEIR GUTTS OUT TILL THE ONLY THING LEFT OF THEM IS THEIR ROTTEN FLESH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WILL BE SITTING THERE WITNESSING THIS TRAGIC EVENT WHILE FEELING JUST AS HAPPY AND EXCITED AS I AM, I WILL RAPE THEM SO HELP ME GODDDDDD I WILL MAKE IT MY LIFE'S GOAL YOU DESPICABLE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF WHORES YOU PEOPLE ARE DONNNNEEEE, I WILL MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOU TO ALL THE RETARDED DISGUSTING GAME COMPANIES OUT THERE U PEOPLE WILL ROTT FOR THE DISGUSTING MESS U HAVE DONE HERE" Hate much, guy?"
Funny how easy it is for people to escape insane asylums now adays....but I digress. For everyone else who is looking forward to the new sequel to the highly successful PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 fighter BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, the game should be available at a local retailer near you at a MSRP of $39.99.
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|Property type
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|1 - 3 nights
Fabulous modern ground floor apartment in the heart of the village is a popular holiday choice for the elderly and small children.We love families and always warmly welcome young people. To ensure maximum comfort during your stay, we can provide for an extra fee items such as baby cot, high chair and baby bathtub. Walking distance to all that an exclusive suburb has to offer. Boutique shops, supermarket, deli, cafes,restaurants. Balmoral Beach, Taronga Zoo, gymnasiums and indoor swim centre.
Please enjoy the WiFi with our compliments.
Your lovely home away from home apartment includes gas cook top and oven, microwave, dishwasher, Nespresso coffee machine with unique coffee blends ready to enjoy. You have the convenience of European built washer / dryer with complementary powder supplied. Ironing board and iron are also supplied.
The living room comes with fold out sofa bed, a selection of family board games, Sony TV, DVD, Floor fans and Gas Heater.
The main bedroom has Antique Queen bed with new quality mattress, built in wardrobes, light and airy, and secure with new curtains and Persian carpet rugs.
The second bedroom has single bed with built in desk and plenty of built in cupboard space. Again, solid wooden bed with brand new quality mattress and curtains.
This home has been freshly painted this year, with beautiful parquet flooring with a selection of Persian carpet rugs throughout.
The bathroom has been renovated including modern shower, glass shower screen, full size mirror, shaving cabinet. Freshly laundered linen bath towels are provided for your exclusive use as well as beach towels for your leisure. GHD brand hair dryer and straightener is provided, to ensure you look your best.
The apartment comfortably sleeps five people for your exclusive use. Guests will have access to full apartment. This two bedroom purpose built apartment is made for family, friends and business guests wanting a comfortable 'home away from home'.
Visitor parking available on site but not guaranteed. However, there is plenty of street parking.
Your unique designated pass code upon entry will ensure privacy, security and discretion.
No pets, no smoking, no parties and no more than 5 guests overnight stay.
The Neighbourhood And Attractions
10 minute walk to Beautiful Balmoral Beach. Hire a canoe, go for a swim, do some fishing, paddle boarding or just sit and watch the world go by.
There are two fitness centres in walking distance to the apartment. Fitness First opens early and closes late and Anytime Fitness is open 24/7.
The Mosman Indoor Swim Centre provides lap lanes for beginners, intermediate and squad swimmers, children lessons, aqua aerobics and leisure splash about area.
For kids and the young at heart seeking some adventure, amusements, rides and just simply fun, Luna Park is a must! A short bus ride to Milsons Point nestled adjacent to The Harbour Bridge with a view to die for!
The famous Taronga Zoo also in Mosman is a short bus ride away and boasts stunning views of Sydney Harbour, The Sydney Opera House, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, The city skyline and beyond. Explore amazing bush walks along the Harbour foreshores and surrounding suburbs.
There are fireworks at Darling Harbour every Saturday night with an endless choice of food venues, 10 pin bowling, laser tag and IMAX cinemas.
A short bus ride away or even a leisurely walk is the majestic Hayden Orpheum Cinema in Cremorne.
The Marina at The Spit is also a short distance away. Take a fishing rod and chill for the day. Didn't catch anything? Don't worry, plenty of yummy food spots to choose. From 5* dining to casual.
There are many local restaurants catering to every tastes, and many are children friendly. From Thai, Japanese to the local pubs with Aussie steaks, there is something for everyone.
Pleasant ten minute stroll down to the famous sandy Balmoral Beach where Moreton Bay Fig trees line the Esplanade. You'll find the best fish and chips at "Bottom Of The Harbour" cafe. This historic beach is ideal for families with small children as it is one of Sydney's most protected beaches with minimal surf. Ideal for trying paddle boarding, kayaking and canoeing which you can hire from The Boatshed by the hour. Great also for an evening swim or a run. The perfect Getaway experience.
Manly Beach is a world famous surf beach and is ideal to learn how to surf, skateboard, dive, or play volley ball. Enjoy snorkeling at Shelley Beach, walk the many tracks or make a diary entry in your calendar for the Manly Food & Wine Festivals and/or The Manly Jazz Festivals or Surfing Competitions.
Book a Sydney Harbour Bridge climb to face your fears or cantilever out high above Centre Point Building or for something a bit more cultured, roam through The Art Gallery of NSW, The Hyde Park Barracks to learn more about Australia's Convict Settlement, The Mint Gallery and Parliament House. Sit for a while in the sun at Hyde Park overlooking St. Mary's Cathedral or stroll down to The Botanical Gardens to connect with nature.
Whatever your thing is, you'll be sure to find it here.
Transport and Getting Around
At the end of the street just a few metres away from your door step you can find public transport to commute to Sydney's CBD, Chatswood, North Sydney, Milsons Point, the Northern Beaches and our famous Manly Beach to Palm Beach.
The City is just 10 minutes away by direct frequent buses to Wynyard. The Express M30 is destination to the trendy inner city suburb of Newtown home of the famous Enmore Theatre which hosts comedy nights and many Australian and international artists. Along the way, the M30 stops at the historical yet fashionable Queen Victoria Building, Town Hall Station, Pitt St Mall and Westfield where you can find world class shopping precincts, night life, restaurants, The State Theatre, music venues, bars, hotels ....... the list is endless.
All buses bring you back to Spit Junction then less than a flat level 5 minute walk to your front door.
For a more tranquil and serene way to get into the city take a ferry ride to Circular Quay from Mosman Wharf or Taronga Zoo Wharf. Take in the sites along the way of The Prime Minister's Home "Kirribilli House", Fort Denison, Sydney Opera House, The Harbour Bridge and much much more!
From Circular Quay you can further connect by ferry to Darling Harbour, Balmain and the RiverCat takes you out along the Parramatta River to connect to the Western Suburbs. Trains from Circular Quay connect you to Central Station, Bondi Junction and The Blue Mountains.
Comfortable, convenient to shops, clean, quiet, friendly ... highly recommend
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay here. The unit had everything we needed and more. Lots of nice extras such as the pods for the Nespresso, fresh fruit in the bowl and eggs, butter and milk in the fridge. Located a very short walk from everything you need in Mosman.
We loved our stay at Clifford Gardens. The apartment is clean, bright and so well stocked with all the pantry and bathroom items you may need. It's much more spacious than I expetted. Communication with the owner was always easy and prompt. Perfect location in Mosman. Highly recommend staying here.
Thanks Susie we loved it
We really enjoyed our stay here. The apartment is very comfortable and "home-like", clean and tidy, and very handy to shops, supermarkets and public transport. We'd definitely be keen to stay here again when we return to Sydney
A lovely 2 bed apartment, very clean, great facilities and close to the shops. Would definitely stay here again.
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U.S. Multinational Corporations Pay More Taxes Than We Think
May 31, 2013
In recent years, President Obama has argued that multinational companies are avoiding taxes so the United States should establish a minimum tax on business income. Unfortunately, such claims are either based upon a misunderstanding of how U.S. international tax rules work or are simply careless portrayals of the way in which U.S. companies pay taxes on their foreign profits, says Kyle Pomerleau, an economist for the Tax Foundation's Center for Federal Tax Policy.
The United States has a complicated "worldwide" system of taxation that requires American businesses to pay the 35 percent federal corporate tax rate on their income no matter where it is earned -- domestically or abroad. When it comes to foreign profits, companies pay income taxes not once but twice.
- According to the most recent IRS data for 2009, U.S. companies paid more than $104 billion in income taxes to foreign governments on foreign taxable income of $416 billion.
- The largest concentration of foreign earnings for U.S. firms was in the European Union, at $164.5 billion. U.S. companies paid nearly $38 billion in income taxes on those profits to European tax authorities for an average effective tax rate of 24 percent. This is a more than $10 billion increase over 2007.
- Asia comprised the second largest concentration of taxable earnings at $60.8 billion. U.S. firms paid more than $18 billion in taxes to Asian tax authorities for an average effective tax rate of 31 percent.
Companies first pay income taxes to the countries in which profits were earned. Then they pay additional U.S. taxes on any profits they return home (repatriate).
- For example, if a subsidiary of a U.S. firm earns $100 in profits in England, it pays the British income tax rate of 23 percent (or $23) on those profits.
- Since our system gives companies a credit for the taxes they pay to other countries, the additional U.S. tax the firm is required to pay is equal to the difference between the U.S. rate of 35 percent and the British rate of 23 percent -- $12.
- Between the two nations, the U.S. firm will have paid a total of 35 percent in taxes on those foreign profits.
While it is undoubtedly true that U.S. multinational firms use tax planning techniques to minimize the taxes they pay on their foreign earnings, IRS data shows that the subsidiaries of U.S. multinationals paid more than $100 billion in income taxes to foreign tax authorities on roughly $413 billion in taxable income. Averaged across some 90 countries, U.S. companies paid an effective tax rate of 25 percent on that income.
Source: Kyle Pomerleau, "U.S. Multinationals Paid More Than $100 Billion in Foreign Income Taxes," Tax Foundation, May 21, 2013.
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Apartment for sale in centre of MilanLombardy - Milan - Centre | Appartamento in Viale dei Mille Ref. code 3A7N
Apartment with balcony on fourth floor of stately home
Details and accessories
- Surface: 162 mq
- Bedrooms: 2
- Bathrooms: 1
- Land: 0 mq
- Conditions: good
- Energy efficiency rating:
- EPi: 325.9
- Balcony
- Fireplace
- Lift
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Brief description
Apartment for sale in centre of Milan on the fourth floor of a pretty period palazzo. Large living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom, 3 balconies and cellar on the ground floor.
Geographic position
Large apartment of 162 sq.m for sale in the centre of Milan, in Viale dei Mille, on the fourth floor of a stately home with concierge.
The location is central and convenient, well served by public transport (bus, tram and rail link) and with the main streets of the centre accessible on foot (Corso Buenos Aires and Piazza Venezia are only 1 km away and Central Station 2 km).
The location of the apartment is also convenient for the University quarter, only 700 metres away, where there is the school of Engineering and other scientific faculties of the University of Milan (Veterinary Medicine, Nutritional Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science and Technology and Motor Science)
Milan is the economic capital of Italy, an active and vibrant city and an epicentre for fashion, design and contemporary art while at the same time rich in history, monuments and cultural events.
The nearest airport is Milan Linate, just 6 km away, while Milan Malpensa and Bergamo Orio al Serio are 55 and 49 km away.
Description of buildings
The apartment, situated on the 4th floor of a stately home, with lift and concierge, has a total surface area of 162 sq.m, plus 3 balconies of 11, 3.5 and 2 sq.m and a cellar on the ground floor of around 14 sq.m.
An entrance, with a large and useful cupboard, leads into the apartment which comprises a large living room of over 50 sq.m, with fireplace and 11 sq.m balcony, dining kitchen, also with 3.5 sq.m balcony, two bedrooms, (one with little balcony), and a large bathroom.
On the ground floor, from the internal courtyard, it is possible to access the cellar area where there is one for exclusive use, of 14 sq.m.
State and finishing
The apartment is in good condition and other than a little maintenance work, can be lived in immediately.
External areas
The residence has 3 balconies, the first, of 11 sq.m, is accessible from the large living room, that of 3.5 sq.m from the kitchen and the other, of 2 sq.m, from one of the bedrooms.
Use and potential uses
The apartment in Viale dei Mille is ideal as a main residence, thanks to its central location and public transport links.
Distances and location
- Milan 0.1 Km
- Ligurian sea 139 Km
- Lake Como 55 Km
- Lake Garda 119 Km
- Airport Milano Linate 6 Km
- Bergamo Airport 49 Km
- Milan Malpensa Airport 53 Km
- Motorway 3 Km
Lombardy - Italy
Neighboring regions: Veneto, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Trentino-Alto Adige and Switzerland
Main centers: Milan, Como, Lecco, Bergamo, Mantua, Brescia, Cremona, Monza, Lodi, Pavia, Sondrio, Varese
Characteristics: situated in Northern Italy, is one of the largest regions. Its territory extends from the Alps to the Po Valley, giving rise to a wide variety of landscapes.
Lombardy is a region particularly rich in art cities, lakes (Lake of Como and Lake Maggiore, and also the western side of Lake Garda), streams, mountain landscapes (thanks to the presence of important ski resorts in Bormio, Livigno and Tonale, this region is a tourist destination for winter sports lovers), social events and shopping havens, harmoniously blended with an atmosphere of continuous technological and industrial innovation.
Its capital is Milan, one of the largest and well-known historical centers of Italy being every year a destination for tourists from all over the world, along with many other very important art cities of the region.
The climate is very variegated, depending on the different conformations of the territory. In the lowlands and cities the summers are hot and winters are not too cold, in the mountains the climate is Alpine, with winters characterized by heavy snowfalls.
Property offer: in the Lombardy region you can buy elegant apartments in Milan, Bergamo, Lecco, Como and Mantua or in the characteristic villages of Cernobbio, Bellagio, Menaggio, Tremezzo, luxury villas with park on Lake Como, Lake Maggiore and Iseo Lake, castles and historic houses, wineries, hotels and accommodation facilities in Milan.
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Leo Grillo is an actor, but it's likely that you won't recognize him from movies or television. That's because Grillo is famous for something a little different: rescuing animals. He's made it his life's goal not to win an Oscar, but to care for abandoned animals.
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There are few things you can bet on that are absolute certainties. In the music world the top of the list has to include how Kenny G will always confound critics while at the same time delighting his fans. Few instrumental artists, save perhaps Herb Alpert, have understood over long periods of time, and here we're talking decades, exactly what kind of music will respond to the public's heart. G has never had that problem.


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Lotta yummy hotties! I'm guessing we'll soon have a collection of the 12 Gays of Christmas. 😉
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That's the word according to messaging security vendor Postini, which on Monday released its Message Security & Management Update for July. The report identified a 160 percent increase over June in IM attacks against corporate networks.
Among the more disconcerting attacks Postini detected was Prokeylogger, which logs keystrokes, captures passwords and screenshots, and forwards them to identity thieves.
On a positive note, Postini also reported a rise in the use of encrypted e-mail messages, which demonstrates that organizations are becoming more aware of the problem.
Postini, itself, processed more than 325 million encrypted messages in July, which is a 13 percent increase over June but still represents only 8 percent of all valid e-mail messages.


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Having had the pleasure of access to an Audi 80 2.6 Quattro for 4 years i've had plenty of time to get aquainted with the style and quality that oozes from these 4 ring-badged beauties. The 80 is long gone and now i'm even more priveleged to be able to drive an A4 S4 Avant with a 2.7 Bi-turbo V6 engine. And it's a beast of a motor. 0-60 in just over 5 seconds although I find this irrelevant as the overtaking speed is of far more importance. With a six speed box this car has no trouble in performing safe manoeuvres. Hitting the throttle in top gear produces a response keen enough to whizz you past slower vehicles with the utmost of ease. The biggest problem is the speed you come up behind other vehicles. No problem - the massive brakes keep you in check if you need to be stopped in a hurry. Quattro transmission ensures grip is tighter than Scrooge in a Christmas card shop and it would be hard to get this car out of control provided it's being driven sensibly. Of course, sendibly for this car means making the most of the available performance. The two turbo units ensure there is no turbo lag and the capacity of a six cylinder ensures that power is delivered smoothly and with silk precision. It really is a pleasure to accelerate in this car and such is its response that i've never had to exert full throttle at any time. There is a slight but hardly noticeable whistle from the turbos but sound deadening is so efficient that you're hardly troubled by this or any road noise. Perhaps the most intrusive noise comes from the big fat low profile tyres but it's reassuring to know you've got this substantial contact with the tarmac. In terms of quality, the Germans have it cracked and no other nation builds cars like this. Interior fixtures are rock solid and rattles are a thought that need never enter your mind. Handling is not as sharp as in the old 80 and has been a criticism of the S4. Wit
h the 80 Quattro you could just position it almost down to the last millimetre. Not so in the S4 and this is where it gets marked down. Still, it depends just how keenly you want to drive it and on our over-clogged highways you get be too keen. It's not an issue that I worry too much about. The equipment levels for a £37K could be a little better and i'd have at least expected a CD player to be standard and not a £400 option. Leather is also not standard but the jaquard sports seats do just fine. Climate control is of course standard and very easy to use and efficient. And that's about all you need. Even fuel consumption is respectable and if driven carefully can be in the 30s. Don't look upon this car as an estate. That does it an injustice. The S4 is the top of the range (until the RS4 arrives later this year and I can't wait to be driving around in that!) but all Avants ooze the same kind of quality from their respective (and very fine) range of engines. I just hope that when Audi replaces the Avant that they don't lose it's character. They got it right with the 80 Avant and the A4 Avant. I believe they'll crack it the third time as well.


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- I let it all go by pulling her closer and everything else fades away. For a second.. the last second before my brain shuts off and I become all body, I can't help but think what a bad idea this is... And I smile. Bring It On.
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Other Characters:
- Madame Web
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Super Hero Squad) (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only) (Cameo)
- Upper East Side
- Super Hero Squad Universe (Appears on a Computer Screen, TV or Hologram Only) (Cameo)
Synopsis for "Long-Term Arrangement"Edit
Madame Web is held captive in the Upper East Side, given irregular meals, unable to bathe and placed in a room without windows. Tataina asks if she's dead, and proceeds to drug her with a lethal spider by forcing it down her throat; if she bites down it will kill her, so she must tell her what Spider-Man is doing in her visions (the spider induces her powers.) She manages to lie, stating that he is "surrounded by loved ones."
- This is the first appearance of Madame Web since Amazing Spider-Man #600.
- This issue is reprinted in comics and books, see references for more info.[1]
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Look out, Spidey! Hot on the heels of his old girlfriend's trip home, The Black Cat's back (and front!), sexier and more dangerous than ever! The deck is STACKED as the one woman that loves Spider-Man more than Peter Parker is up to some devilish shenanigans…and nothing bugs Spidey more than shenanigans! BRAce yourself for danger, Spidey! It's gonna be …umm…sexy?
- The drugged spider that Tataina forces on Madame Web is referred to as "Mr. Anansi"; Anansi is a trickster, and one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.
- Hulk from Marvel's new Super Hero Squad Show can be seen on the giant television above the display of Spidey kissing Cat on the last page.
- This issue ensures that Super Hero Squad is existed as fiction on Earth-616.
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My husband and I are so glad that we decided to add on a photobooth
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Im in the middle of 11th grade and shortly before I transitioned to grade 9 in 2009 I was told that high school teachers normally assign LESS HOMEWORK? I just wanted to know if this is actually true or not. Effective this summer, you can say that I have had a good three years of experiencing high school and all the ups and downs that it has to offer. I have read news articles online such as this and this regarding teachers that assign homework each night that takes an average of THREE HOURS for the average student (like me) to complete. I was never burdened with a workload as big as this when was in elementary school, however I just need some clarification as to whether the difficultly level actually goes down, the system changes, or if it's just based on mental maturing and environmental factors.
I have a gut feeling it may be all of the above.
High School versus Elementary School
Started by MIKON8ERISBACK, Apr 30 2012 02:14 AM
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 02:34 AM
I think the difference is, in Elementary School there's more of an obligation to do the work, same with Middle School. By high school, the teacher's attitude changes to "do the work, or don't do the work. I don't care either way"
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About the Creator/Author of Sistah Vegan Project, Breeze Harper
I have a book coming out this fall called Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak (Lantern Books, 2009). I was also just awarded the University of California, Davis Graduate Research Mentor Fellowship for the academic year of 2009-2010. Below is what I'm all about, in terms of academic research and what I'll be doing with my fellowship grant.
As a PhD student in cultural geography at UC Davis, I have been interested in the hypothesis that one's perception of animal rights activism, veganism and/or plant-based dietary philosophies, within the USA, will a) be deeply connected to each individual person's socio-spatial and racialized-gendered consciousness; and that these socio-spatial and racialized-gendered epistemologies and ontologies subjectively influence how and why one practices plant-based diets, veganism and/or and animal rights activism.
One of my current research interests is concerned with uniqueness of the racialized-gendered consciousness of USA black identified females (hence, the Sistah Vegan Project) and uniqueness of racialized-gendered consciousness of USA white class-privileged identified people in the USA. Some of my research questions focus on the experiences and differences between these two groups within the vegan/animal rights USA based movement, particularly since the latter group dominates the knowledge production within this "cruelty free consumption" movement.
When I read the introduction to Arlene Avakian and Barbara Haber's book, From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food, I saw an excellent example of how I may potentially formulate the introduction to my critical race food studies-oriented doctoral work. The editors of the volume explained several concepts to me that enabled me to better define my research, as well as understand how to approach a multi-disciplinary feminist analysis of the material culture of food. By doing a literature review of food studies texts, Avakian and Haber illustrate how my desire to pursue critical race food studies, centering on U.S. black female's lives, is quite timely and fits perfectly within the realm of postcolonial and poststructural feminisms.
Incorporating some of the critiques made by women of color and the theoretical positions of postcolonial and cultural studies, many women's studies scholars now focus on the specifities of women's lives in all of the complexity of their intersecting and embedded social formations. Some women's studies scholars have discovered that food practices and their representations, interwoven as they are into the dailiness of life, can reveal the particularities of time, place, and culture, providing an excellent vehicle to contextualize women's lives (Avakian and Haver 2005, 7).
In addition, the movement is significantly populated by white and female identified people (Einwohner 1999; Hamanaka and Basile 2005). I have noticed, throughout my own discourse analyses of mainstream vegan cultural materials, that a significant number of USA white identified vegans/vegetarians and animal rights activists collectively believe that their particular praxis, epistemologies, and philosophies are: 1) colorblind; and 2) untouched by structural racism and processes of European and USA racialization. Thus, I have become concerned about the diversity of epistemologies and praxes as well as how these "colorblind" and "universal" beliefs affect USA black female vegan experiences. Avakian and Haber notes that Doris Witt
argues that the connection between Black women and food is the "central structuring dynamic of 20th century U.S. life"…Black women are represented both as nurturers and givers with no appetite themselves, and as women with huge appetites. (Witt in Avakian and Haber 2005, 17)
Their brief review of Doris Witt's work helps me understand how my own research questions are most likely rooted within the larger socio-historical context of black females' expected roles as consumers and providers in the history of USA's institutionalized racist-sexist ideologies.
In "Early Millennial Feminist Qualitative Research: Challenges and Contours", by Virginia Olesen, I was met with a diverse array of possibilities and challenges that scholars of feminisms have experienced and continue to experience. Olesen reminds me that, "if one accepts gender as a variable, then one must acknowledge that it is never fixed, but continually constituted and reconstituted" (Olesen 2005, 15). Hence, I must be mindful, when engaging in my research, for example, that the black female gendered experience of the 1984 Chicago vegan will be different from the black female gendered experience of the 2008 Atlanta vegan; black female vegans are not monolith. Olesen also notes that "failure to attend closely to how race, class, and gender are relationally constructed leaves feminists of color distanced from feminist agendas" (Olesen 2005, 16). Though I understand the necessity to not look solely at gender within feminist research, I do question if the trinity of race/class/gender needs to be re-evaluated as an analytical framework, particularly for my emphasis. For example, there are black identified females from the same class background that have strikingly different interpretations of how one should practice veganism or plant-based diets, as well as deal with the pervasiveness of whiteness in vegan and animal rights movement. What would happen if I added "nationalism" and "spiritual beliefs" as analytical categories? My research shows how Black nationalism and/or Afrikan centered nationalism and spirituality can significantly influence the gendered experiences of many black females who follow black or Afrikan "nationalism" versus those who choose not to. This is curious to me, particularly since the philosophies of Black nationalistic and Afrikan holistic health centered plant-based dietary communities view "feminism" (a "white" thing) as undermining the goals of their community philosophies. Female vegans who appear "feminist" in their approaches to black liberatory politics are frequently silenced.
Marjorie De Vault and Chrys Ingraham's piece, "Metaphors of Silence and Voice in Feminist Thought" analyzed how "silence" and "silencing" are interpreted and practiced , in regards to each individual own identity politics. On www.soulvegfolk.com, March and April of 2008, there was a forum discussion about "Homosexuality as a dis-ease in the Afrikan Holistic Health community." The female vegan and vegetarians who contested that homosexuality is a "dis-ease", were forced to "be silent" by several male vegan and vegetarian members who felt that the females' anti-homophobic philosophies were "dis-eases of white feminist propaganda" and destructive to the black heteropatriarchal family. My observation of this experience resonated with Chrys' interview, when she says
I had been thinking about the kinds of punishment meted out to feminists who say things that those in power can't hear or accept, and about how feminist writings have been censored and suppressed…I wanted to show how this mechanism of suppression was related to the ideological interests of a ruling group and how these specific episodes of suppression developed. (De Vault 1999, 176).
In this case, the ruling group within Afrikan holistic health and plant-based dietary communities, on this particular SoulVegFolk forum, were males who supported the notion that heteropatriarchal gender roles and heterosexuality are the only acceptable ways of being an African diasporic identified human being. My interests were piqued as I thought that this sounded very similar to white supremacist ideologies in which the epistemologies of Black people have been silenced or "scientifically" proven to be "diseased". Hence, how can I use De Vault's concept of silence and silencing to analyze how these particular black identified vegan and vegetarian males seek to "silence" black vegan females, engaged in feminisms that oppose the core heterosexist philosophies of the Afrikan holistic vegan movement?
Other concerns I have are:
- how does my own situatedness bias my approach to my interests in critical food and feminist theories? What does it mean for me to be a black identified female vegan, born and raised in the USA, whose politics do not align with the white class-privileged vegan and animal rights movement, nor with the Afrikan holistic and black nationalistic plant-based dietary community's politics? Would I ever be allowed to enter these communities as a researcher who considers herself a black/postcolonial feminist and who is critical of white class-privileged consciousness?
- How do I navigate my own emotional struggles and biases about my "distaste" for the rhetoric of both of these movement's philosophies? In the words of Olesen, "It is important to note some contexts that shape and are shaped by feminist qualitative research agendas" (Olesen 2005, 257).
- What exactly are my "agendas?" How can self-reflexivity help me flesh this out further, before embarking on my dissertation research?
Works Cited
Avakian, Arlene Voski, and Barbara Haber. From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies : Critical Perspectives on Women and Food. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
De Vault. Feminism and Social Research. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.
Einwohner, Rachel L. "Gender, Class, and Social Movement Outcomes: Identity and Effectiveness in Two Animal Rights Campaigns." Gender & Society 13.1 (1999): 56-76.
Hamanaka, Sheila, and Tracy Basile. "Racism and the Animal Rights Movement." Satya Magazine.June/July (2005).
Olesen, Virginia. "Early millennial feminist qualitative research" in The Safe Handbook of Qualitative Research. Denzin and Lincoln (eds). Thousand Oaks: Sage Press, 2005.


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Hospira Issues Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Certain Lots of Liposyn™ and Propofol Products That May Contain Particulate Matter
Hospira, Inc., a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company, is voluntarily recalling 85 lots of Liposyn™ II 10%, Liposyn II 20%, Liposyn III 10%, Liposyn III 20%, Liposyn III 30% and 73 lots of Propofol Injectable Emulsion 1% products that begin with the lot numbers 79 and 80 because some of the containers may contain particulate matter. The source of the particulate matter has been identified as stainless steel equipment used in the manufacturing process. The affected lots were distributed between July 2009 and October 2009, and no other lots are affected by this recall. Hospira is undertaking this recall in consideration of the potential for safety issues if the products are administered to patients. Since these particulate contaminants do not dissolve in blood they could potentially act as emboli and impede blood flow. Particulates may also cause mechanical damage to the body and may escalate damage through the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS). Restriction in blood supply to tissues could lead to stroke, respiratory failure, kidney failure, liver failure, heart attack and/or death. Hospira has not received any reports of adverse events related to this issue. Hospira has identified the root cause and corrective actions have been implemented. Hospira has made the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aware of the situation.


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Extreme Speed Motorsports took the overall victory in the Monterey Grand Prix Sunday, ending the DP domination in the series.
MONTEREY, Calif. (May 4, 2014) – It was a breakthrough win achieved at a breakneck pace, caution-free and milestone-marked. The team of Ed Brown and Johannes van Overbeek tamed a field of Prototypes, co-driving their No. 2 Tequila Patrón HPD ARX-03b/Honda to victory in the Continental Tire Grand Prix of Monterey powered by Mazda on Sunday – the first victory for a P2 Prototype in the inaugural TUDOR United SportsCar Championship.
This was significant – and fast, with the winners posting an average speed of 97.318 mph in the two-hour race on the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course.
Brown and van Overbeek won the second of two races Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, featuring the TUDOR Championship's Prototype (P) and GT Le Mans (GTLM) classes.
Sunday's breakthrough win for the No. 2 came on the heels of an "adjustment of performance" made by IMSA that lessened horsepower capabilities for the Daytona Prototypes, which had won the season's first three races.
Van Overbeek took the lead for good with 15 minutes remaining when he passed No. 10 Konica Minolta Corvette DP driver Jordan Taylor in Turn 3. Taylor and his brother Ricky finished second; finishing third were Memo Rojas and Scott Pruett, in the No. 01 Telcel Ford EcoBoost/Riley.
That pass ""was sort of inevitable," said Jordan Taylor, conceding that on this day and track, the No. 2 had too much car. "I mean, we came into this race knowing the P2s would be strong. We led a lot, but that was mostly due to strategy."
"This will probably soak in, in a week or so," said Brown, who started the car from the pole. "We've worked really hard. I felt really good coming out of qualifying yesterday knowing that I had the fastest guy on the track racing with me."
Added van Overbeek: "[Our next race at Detroit] Belle Isle will be much like [our previous one] in Long Beach (both street races) so it will suit the Daytona Prototypes more than us. They have a lot more torque. With every race, ESM Patrón guys will show up prepared, work hard, and do the best job."
Corvette Racing completed a California sweep Sunday, with Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R to its second consecutive TUDOR United SportsCar Championship victory, winning the Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix powered by Mazda at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Garcia passed Giancarlo Fisichella's No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari F458 Italia for the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class lead with 21 minutes remaining and drove to a 4.710-second victory ahead of Bill Auberlen in the No. 55 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE. Garcia and co-driver Magnussen scored the first TUDOR Championship victory for the Corvette C7.R one race ago at the Long Beach street circuit.
"Traffic in this series is very [difficult] and as soon as I saw a Prototype going to pass [Fisichella], I really went for it and made a run as much as possible," said Garcia. "He had no chance to block me and after that [I could use] all the tires I had saved."
While Garcia cruised to victory, an intense battle ensued between the No. 55 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE of Bill Auberlen and the No. 911 Porsche North America Porsche 911 RSR of Nick Tandy for second.
After both cars found their way past Fisichella, the battle led to contact between Tandy and Auberlen on the second-to-last lap, forcing Auberlen off course. Despite the incident on the prior lap, Auberlen caught back up to Tandy and got past in the final turn to take second place.
After a review by IMSA officials, the No. 911 team received a post-race "stop, plus 60-second" penalty for the contact, moving the car to ninth and the No. 62 Ferrari of Fisichella and Pierre Kaffer to third.
"We assessed a penalty similar to what we assessed throughout the entire race for an on-track incident which is a stop, plus 60-second penalty to the (No.) 911," said Scot Elkins, IMSA vice president of competition and technical regulations.
The second-place finish for BMW Team RLL was its fourth consecutive podium finish to start the TUDOR Championship season. Auberlen and Andy Priaulx entered the event leading the GTLM points.
"Today was a balancing act, especially on strategy," said Auberlen. "Everyone went one way, and we went one way. And then we all met up at the end."
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I am currently seeing unacceptable battery drain on my GT-P7500 (original SGT 10.1).
Battery capacity falls at 1.4% per hour overnight when the device should be in deep sleep. The problem seems to have started when I updated to ICS. Using BBS and other apps, I have established that the KWL l2_hsic prevents my tab from sleeping when mobile data is off. When data is on, other KWLs, notably, multipdp, secril_fd-interface and PowerManagerService, take over. My tab is not rooted.
I have been trying to sort this out for a few weeks but I'm no nearer to resolving the problem. The support from Samsung UK has been extremely disappointing (I'm being polite!).
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Police employ new tactics as suburban riots spread110605 news36Athens Banner-HeraldACHERES, France - Youths armed with gasoline bombs fanned out from Paris' poor, troubled suburbs to shatter the tranquility of leafier towns, torching nearly 900 vehicles, a nursery school and other targets Saturday in the worst wave of arson since the violence began more than a week ago.--> Police employ new tactics as suburban riots spread France Story Photos A youth walks past charred remains of vehicles in a covered parking lot Saturday in Suresnes. Hundreds of vehicles have been burned since the violence in France began Oct. 27. Associated Press Photo
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By John Leicester | Associated Press | Story updated at 9:38 PM on Sunday, November 6, 2005 ACHERES, France - Youths armed with gasoline bombs fanned out from Paris' poor, troubled suburbs to shatter the tranquility of leafier towns, torching nearly 900 vehicles, a nursery school and other targets Saturday in the worst wave of arson since the violence began more than a week ago.
Police deployed a helicopter and small teams of officers to chase down youths who sped from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes. The new security tactics yielded more than 250 arrests during the ninth straight night of unrest.
The violence - originally concentrated in neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large immigrant populations - is forcing France to confront anger long-simmering in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with unemployment, poor housing, racial discrimination, crime and a lack of opportunity.
Triggered by an outburst of fury over the deaths of two teenagers, the unrest has taken on unprecedented scope and intensity.
The violence hit far-flung corners of France on Saturday, from Rouen in Normandy to Bordeaux in the southwest to Strasbourg near the German border, but the Paris region has borne the brunt.
In Acheres, arsonists burned a nursery school and about a dozen cars in four attacks over an hour that the mayor said seemed "perfectly organized."
Children's photos clung to the blackened walls, and melted plastic toys littered the floor. Residents gathered at the school gate demanded that the army be deployed or suggested that citizens band together to protect their neighborhoods. Mayor Alain Outreman tried to cool tempers.
"We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere."
In one particularly malevolent attack, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project. They pelted rescuers with rocks, then torched the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.
By daybreak Saturday, 897 vehicles were destroyed - a sharp rise from the 500 burned a night earlier, police said. It was the worst one-day toll since the unrest erupted Oct. 27 following the accidental electrocution of the two teenagers who hid in a power substation, apparently thinking police were chasing them.
Anger has spread to the Internet, with blogs mourning the youths.
Along with messages of condolence and appeals for calm were insults targeting police, threats of more violence and warnings that the unrest will feed support for France's anti-immigration extreme right.
"Civil war is declared. There will no doubt be deaths. Unfortunately, we have to prepare," said a posting signed "Rania."
"We are going to destroy everything. Rest in peace, guys," wrote "Saint Denis."
Police detained 258 people overnight, almost all in the Paris region, and dozens of them will be prosecuted, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said after a government crisis meeting. He warned of possibly heavy sentences for burning cars.
"Violence penalizes those who live in the toughest conditions," he said.
Most rioting has been in towns with low-income housing projects where unemployment and distrust of police run high. But in a new development, arsonists were moving beyond their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with less security, said a national police spokesman, Patrick Hamon.
"They are very mobile, in cars or scooters. ... It is quite hard to combat" he said. "Most are young, very young, we have even seen young minors."
There appeared to be no coordination between separate groups in different areas, Hamon said. But within gangs, he added, youths are communicating by cell phones or e-mails. "They organize themselves, arrange meetings, some prepare the Molotov cocktails."
On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people took part in a silent march in one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois. Local officials wore sashes in the red-white-and-blue of the French flag as they filed past housing projects and the wrecks of burned cars. One white banner read "No to violence."
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What is proficiency-based education?
Rockland — Since the 2012-2013 school year, Regional School Unit 13 has been developing a proficiency-based education system.
The RSU 13 board approved, at its April 3 meeting, new graduation requirements that will be required of all students, beginning with the class of 2018 — this fall's freshmen class at Oceanside High School.
But what is proficiency-based education, Common Core, and what do these new requirements mean for students?
In August 2013, Carissa Veit was hired has the district's proficiency-based education project manager. Veit has answered some of these questions below:
What is Common Core?
Common Core are standards that were developed by 16 states, including Maine, that are a part of the Council of Chief State School Officers, or CCSSO, as it was realized there was a need for common standards across the states. The CCSSO worked with an organization called Achieve, Inc. to write the standards and after they were written each state approved them.
"That's one of the biggest misconceptions is that they are a federally-funded thing and they weren't originally," Veit said.
Is Common Core the same as proficiency-based or standards-based education?
With proficiency-based or standards-based learning, every single subject has set standards and Common Core is the standard used in math and English. Next Generation are the standards used for science and the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages is the standard for world languages.
"Every single content area has its own set of standards and every single one of those standards are now encompassed in the Maine Learning Results," Veit said.
Maine Learning Results outlines what students should know and be able to do in all eight subject areas defined by Maine statute, according to the Maine Department of Education website.
The eight subject areas are: math, science, English, social studies, world languages, visual and performing arts, physical education and career and technical studies.
"So every teacher is teaching the Maine Learning Results and the Maine Learning Results are aligned to Common Core or Next Gen, etc.," she said.
What are the new graduation requirements just approved in the district?
Under the new law that was passed a couple of years ago, students must be proficient in the eight content areas and show proficiency in guiding principles, such as being a responsible citizen, a self-directed lifelong learner and a good communicator.
Another part of the requirement is that a student has to take a math, science and English learning experience every year they are in a secondary school.
Veit explained the graduation standards as cups. Students have to complete the content standards in all eight subject areas to fill the cups.
"So if you fill all your cups by the time you are junior, you can graduate and you could have taken your courses every year until you were a junior. If it's going to take you five years, you have to take them for five years. There are no more credits," she said.
The learning is much more student-driven and students can choose personal learning pathways, where students direct what they are going to learn and how they are going to learn it.
Has some of this already been implemented?
The current eighth-grade class (Class of 2018) is already using the proficiency-based learning system for math, science and English classes and are somewhat integrating it into social studies classes.
"When these eighth-graders go to ninth-grade they will have that and understand it," Veit said, adding that every single teacher district-wide is looking at a piece of it right now. Next year at Oceanside East, every teacher will be piloting some example of standards-based learning in their classes.
Traditional grading system going away?
"We are trying to change instruction before we change grading, but the problem is as soon as you change instruction you see that the old way of grades won't work anymore," Veit said.
Instead of traditional As and Bs, students will be graded using a 1 to 4 rubric. Students who do not meet standards will get between a 1 and 2.5. Eighth-graders are already using the number system for grading and will continue with them on through high school.
Why is it changing?
"We realize students are graduating with what we call 'Swiss-holer' or 'Swiss cheese learning,' with these big gaps in their knowledge. Teachers did not know what the holes were the students had in their learning and this way students may still have holes, but educators will be able to pinpoint what students need."
Veit, who works closely with Director of School Improvement Neal Guyer, leads a Proficiency-Based Steering Committee that was established in September 2013. It is a group of 20 teachers and administrators in all 10 schools in the district who represent various content groups and grade levels. The group is charged with chartering proficiency-based education for the district.
More information about the district's move to proficiency-based education can be found by going to sites.google.com/site/rsu13pbsc/
Where are other local districts in the process?
Camden-Rockport Middle School has already been using the new system and Camden Hills Regional High School is in transition, Veit said. Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro is also in transition. Students in younger grades have been using a technology system that promotes proficiency-based education and it is being implemented at the high school.
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Self directed learning sounds nice but looking back at my education at Maranacook high school in Readfield I would have been better served being forced to take another math or science class , rather than the "elective fluff class" I chose. At age fifteen, it was difficult to see how the math class I disliked so intensely was a vital part of my economic future.
Also, I see no mention of Civics or Home economics being taught in today's schools.


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