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Monthly Board Meeting Minutes
Monday, January 9, 2017
Trustees of the Villageof Brandon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin met in the Village of Brandon Board Room on Monday, January 9, 2017 at 7:14 p.m.
President David Tarr called the meeting to order and presided. Clerk Corinne Vande Zande recorded the minutes of the meeting.
The following trustees were present: Shaun Hiemstra, Kurt Krohn, Gwen Shoffner, Angie Smit, Richard Vollbrecht and Mike Walgenbach.
The following were present in the audience: Director of Public Works, Vance Henning; Police Chief, Tom Dornbrook; Library Director, Christy Ross; Gary Bilke, Kevin DeCramer and Damian Lonnee.
The Pledge of Allegiance was recited by all those present.
The agenda for January 9, 2017 was approved on a motion by Tarr/Krohn and unanimously passed on a voice vote.
The January 2017 payments (as attached) were approved by the Board on a motion by Trustees Smit/Krohn and unanimously passed on a roll call vote.
The financial reports as of January 9, 2017 were approved by the Board on a motion by Trustees Krohn/Vollbrecht and unanimously passed on a roll call vote.
The minutes of the December 12, 2016 monthly meeting were approved by the Board on a motion by Trustees Walgenbach/Shoffner and unanimously passed on a voice vote.
Hiemstra asked if the newly approved parking signs had been installed. Dornbrook answered that because of the weather this has not been done yet. The curb needs to be painted and the frost is preventing the signs from being installed.
Library Director Christy Ross gave her monthly report.
Police Chief, Tom Dornbrook, gave his monthly report.
Old Business (Agenda item #1): There were no updates regarding the Village's request for the County to re-route County Road T.
New Business (Agenda item #1): Librarian Christy Ross reported the Bank of Oakfield recently updated their system resulting in the Village & Library accounts were grouped together as they share a FEIN number. In order for the Library to access their accounts online, the Bank of Oakfield is seeking permission in the form of Village minutes. Motion by Trustees Tarr/Vollbrecht, unanimously passed on a roll call vote, to allow Librarian, Christy Ross, access to Library accounts only.
New Business (Agenda item #2): On a motion by Hiemstra/Shoffner, passed on a voice vote, the Board set the bulk pickup date for on May 8, 2017.
New Business (Agenda item #3): Clerk Vande Zande reported it was brought to her attention that part time employees did not receive a wage increase for 2017. In years past it has been half of what the full time employees receive. After talking with Village Attorney he advised the Board make a decision on whether they would like to hold a closed session to discuss this further or dismiss this. It was the consensus of the Board that this was inadvertently missed. On a motion by Hiemstra/Walgenbach, unanimously passed on a roll call vote, the Board tabled this item until next month and proceed as the Village Attorney suggests.
Gary Bilke was in attendance to discuss his property tax bill with the Village Board. Bilke owns several properties in the Village as well as surrounding communities. He is wondering why his portion of taxes to Moraine Park went up in Brandon but down in the surrounding communities.
No other business came before the Board. On a motion by Hiemstra/Vollbrecht, unanimously passed on a voice vote, the Board adjourned at 7:45 p.m.


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Premier warns over Browse WA gas supply
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Premier Colin Barnett warned the Woodside Petroleum-led Browse consortium yesterday that he would use his increased bargaining power to force them to supply WA with domestic gas as well as help fund a supply base at James Price Point.
Development in northern Western Australia held up by red tape, high living costs, MPs told
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High living costs and government red tape are inhibiting economic growth in Western Australia's north, a parliamentary committee investigating the development of northern Australia has heard.
A public hearing of the Inquiry into the Development of Northern Australia was held in Broome and MPs heard from more than a dozen organisations about what could be done to boost populations and productivity in the Kimberley.
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Woodside, Barnett agree on Browse base
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A SUPPLY base being established to support the floating LNG processing of Browse Basin gas looks more likely, with Woodside managing director and CEO Peter Coleman saying he supports it.
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Family and friends of the Class of 2013 cheered the 370 bachelor's and 488 master's candidates who received their degrees May 25 during the college's 143rd Commencement ceremony. Full Story
Four top awards were revealed at McDaniel's May 25 Commencement ceremony. Full Story
Professor of English Mary Bendel-Simso received the Ira G. Zepp Distinguished Teaching Award for inspired classroom work and dedication to students May 24 at McDaniel College's Honors Convocation. The award provides a $5,000 honorarium for… Full Story
Members of the Class of 2013 were honored May 24 on the eve of their graduation from the College with academic, activity and leadership awards at the Senior Investiture and Honors Convocation while the surprise faculty speaker, Cinema… Full Story
Here's a proud salute to our graduates awarded bachelor's and master's degrees on May 25. Read on for the insider's view of the McDaniel College Class of 2013. Full Story
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Nine McDaniel graduating seniors were commissioned as Army officers at 10 a.m. May 24 in a ceremony in Baker Memorial Chapel. Hood College and Mount St. Mary's cadets in the Green Terror Battalion were commissioned at separate ceremonies. Full Story
Forty-two students received Duke of Edinburgh medallions at the annual Community Engagement luncheon held May 1. Full Story
Turning in final grade reports on May 21 marks more than the end of the spring term for faculty members Drs. Ron Miller, BoAnn Bohman and Herb Phelps. Having decided to retire, these teaching scholars were cited at the final faculty… Full Story
McDaniel College is among the best private liberal arts colleges nationwide making college more accessible and affordable for those with the greatest financial need, according to a report released by the New America Foundation. Full Story
The students in professor Sara Raley's Jan Term Honors class took their LGBT service-learning projects in directions that hadn't even occurred to their professor – and that makes Raley smile with pride. Full Story
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Katie Corson of Ocean View, N.J. accomplished her collegiate track goal when she broke the 60-second barrier in the 400 m May 5 at the 2013 Centennial Conference (CC) women's track and field championships. Full Story
Read on for a list of events on the Hill in the coming weeks. Full Story
More than 100 alumni, friends and family members of Leroy Merritt '52, gathered on May 4 during Reunion Weekend for the naming ceremony of Academic Hall, in memory of Merritt whose passed away in 2010. Full Story
Victor McTeer, a retired trial lawyer and one of the first African-American graduates of the College, has been named to the McDaniel College Board of Trustees at its annual meeting held on the Westminster campus April 27. Full Story
A diverse mix of topics and research characterizes the Environmental Studies capstone projects presented by 20 seniors at 4-6 p.m. May 7 in the 1st- and 2nd-floor atria of Eaton Hall. Full Story
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- mountain;
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Jefferson, Mount (0.6km)
- Frenches Knob (4.9km)
- Round Knob (5.8km)
- Little Phoenix Mountain (6km)
- Paddy Mountain (6.6km)
- Buck Mountain (7.3km)
- Mulatto Mountain (9km)
- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- Jefferson (3.2km)
- West Jefferson (3.8km)
- Orion (4.3km)
- Othello (5.5km)
- Beaver Creek (5.8km)
- Smethport (6km)
- Wagoner (8.1km)
- Local Feature;
- A Nearby feature worthy of being marked on a map..
- Luther Overlook (0km)
- Index (5.9km)
- Elk Shoals Camp (7.4km)
- Wagoner Road Access (8.5km)
- Mountain Aire Golf Club (8.7km)
Accommodation around Luther Overlook
- school;
- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- West Jefferson Elementary School (3.3km)
- Jefferson Elementary School (3.5km)
- Ashe Central School (4.9km)
- Beaver Creek High School (5.2km)
- administrative division;
- an administrative division of a country, undifferentiated as to administrative level.
- West Jefferson, Township of (3.9km)
- Jefferson, Township of (4.4km)
- park;
- an area, often of forested land, maintained as a place of beauty, or for recreation.
- Mount Jefferson State Park (0.4km)
- New River State Park (8.3km)
- airport;
- a place where aircraft regularly land and take off, with runways, navigational aids, and major facilities for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- Ashe County Airport (6.2km)
- tower;
- a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
- WKSK-AM (West Jefferson) (4.4km)
- meteorological station;
- a station at which weather elements are recorded.
- Jefferson, Ashe County Airport (6.6km)
- cemetery;
- a burial place or ground.
- Ashelawn Memorial Gardens (6.2km)
- reservoir(s);
- an artificial pond or lake.
- Ashe Lake (8.1km)
- dam;
- a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
- Ashe Lake Dam (8.1km)
- lake;
- a large inland body of standing water.
- Ashe, Lake (7.5km)
- second-order administrative division;
- a subdivision of a first-order administrative division.
- Ashe County (6.5km)
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- Jefferson, North Carolina city city o
- West Jefferson, North Carolina city city o
- Ashe County Airport airport airport
- Lansing, North Carolina city city o
- Howard's Knob city city o
- Boone (North Carolina) city city i
- Appalachian State University landmark education
- Mount Rogers mountain mountain k
- Whitetop Mountain mountain mountain k
- Millers Creek, North Carolina city city o
- Mountain City, Tennessee city city o
- Sparta, North Carolina city city o
- Mulberry, North Carolina city city o
- Troutdale, Virginia city city o
- Hays, North Carolina city city o
Airports close to Luther Overlook
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Charlotte douglas international(CLT), Charlotte, Usa (175.1km)


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Of ambulances, old-age homes, and dying in bed
So late last night, somewhere around midnight, I hear sirens--the soft whoop-whoop-whoop kind that make you think a cop's pulling someone over nearby and doesn't want to wake the neighborhood. After a minute or two, I looked out my back window to see if I could see what was going on, because I'm just as curious as the next person as long as there isn't blood involved. There were ambulances and emergency vehicles at the nursing home behind my apartment. I found myself wondering if it was one of those "Grandma didn't make it" situations, and trying to decide to wish the person would make it or not make it. Sometimes, death is a blessing.
My father didn't want to die in a nursing home. He was diagnosed with ALS in February of 1999. At that time, I hadn't been speaking to him for three years. We had a fight that culminated in my telling him to go fuck off and slamming the door behind me. That was after he threatened to disown me if I left after I told him I didn't want to stay and fight with him. So then for the next three years, every few months, I'd call Dad up and this would be the conversation:
Me: Do you want to talk?
Then we'd both hang up.
So one day a little over two years ago, my brother calls me at work to tell me that my father is going to be calling me soon. He tells me further that Dad's been diagnosed with ALS. Which is one hell of a thing to throw at someone while she's trying to work. So I wound up leaving early because it was just too much to absorb--my father's going to reestablish contact, but only because he's dying.
So, yeah, I was a good daughter. I became part of my father's life, and helped my brothers figure out how to take care of him. I was astonished to find that the only part of our fight he remembered was my stalking out of the apartment and swearing. I did ultimately tell him the entire story from my point of view, wherein he did admit remembering it, and even said, "I must've been some kind of jerkoff or something," which, for him, was basically an admission of guilt and translated means, "I wish I hadn't been so stupid as to bar you from my life for the last three years."
Yeah, well.
So. At first, Dad decided he would only go to a veteran's hospital. Well, Dad's a WWII vet, but he didn't stay in the service, so it would have cost us $800 a day to keep him in one of those. We passed. Then he decided he could live at Daughters of Israel, the nursing home where his brother spent the last years of his life after suffering a stroke, and where my grandfather spent his last year. So we pulled some strings there and got Dad fast-tracked to be admitted for about $800 a week, a huge improvement over the previous hospital. But then Dad decided he wanted to die in his own bed.
By this time, it was the end of April and I was laid off from my job at Lucent. Now that I had all that free time on my hands, I got to be the point woman to find healthcare for Dad. We'd already hired a home healthcare worker to stay with him during the day, and my brothers were taking turns staying overnight. Dad's ALS got progressively worse incredibly fast, because while we were researching all the various ways to keep dad alive longer, he'd already decided that he "didn't want to live life a cripple". And a bout of food poisoning or the flu changed him literally overnight from being fairly independent to needing round-the-clock care.
So we finally found a live-in healthcare aide sometime in May. He lasted less than two weeks, as his version of taking care of my father was not to do the things we asked him to do and treat the whole thing like some kind of vacation where he had to cook food for some old guy three times a day and help him walk to the bathroom. We dumped him and got a woman who had to be made to understand that it didn't matter how good a vitamin shake was for him, my father was going to eat Oreo cookies for breakfast and potato chips for lunch if he felt like it. The first few days, I admit I took a guilty pleasure in knowing that my father, the ultimate control freak, was under the control of a Polish woman whose last patient thrived under her intense (and intrusive) ministrations, including body massage. Then after Dad started complaining too much, I sat her down and explained to her that if he wanted ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, she was to give it to him. That he didn't like to be touched. That he didn't like to be spoken to like he was a child or a pet. I made her realize that not only was he dying, but that he did not want to live, and therefore wasn't going to eat healthfully to prolong his life. And finally, when I was sure things were going all right, I headed down to Richmond, Virginia for the weekend and for a job interview on the following Tuesday.
Tuesday morning, as I was getting ready to go to the interview, I got a call from my younger brother. Dad had become unmanageable in the middle of the night and began hallucinating. He thought his nurse was trying to kill him. She called my older brother, who got there in time to hear Dad's paranoid assertions that the doctors and nurses were all in league to steal his money, and who managed to convince Dad to stop trying to kill our helper. The reason all this was happening was that Dad's lungs were failing, and the lack of oxygen was causing him to hallucinate. He ultimately fell into a coma and died later that night.
Sad. His last hours on earth were filled with paranoid delusions that people were trying to steal his money. Dad was born in 1923, and he remembers having no money and little food during the Great Depression. It affected him for the rest of his life. He hoarded his money and almost never bought expensive items--store-brand toilet paper was a staple that my brothers and I complained about for years. Dad lent so much importance to money that it took precedence over a lot of things--including helping his children. And it made his death that much more horrible.
But he died in his own bed.
Which bring us full circle, and makes me realize why I even started thinking about all of this. Almost exactly two years ago, I was laid off from my job at Lucent. The more things change...
I wonder if the person who needed the ambulance made it through the night?--MAY permalink
Cultural relativism is the refuge of moral cowards
I've felt this way for a long time, but now I simply have no tolerance whatsoever for cultural relativists.
First let me explain the term. A cultural relativist is one who says that one culture (e.g., the U.S.) has no right dictating their values to another culture (e.g., African nations that practice female circumcision) because what one culture "believes" is wrong is not necessarily wrong, since that other culture believes it is right.
To all cultural relativists, I have the definitive response: Bullshit.
In the last three weeks I've read more about Islamic fundamentalism than I ever cared to, and learned more about the plight of women and men under the iron fists--and unpredictable whims--of the Taliban. I watched films of women and men executed for such minor offenses as criticizing the Taliban. And it made me realize that cultural relativism is the last refuge of the coward, to paraphrase an adage. Because if you say that everything is cultural and we have no right pronouncing judgment on another culture, then you relieve yourself of having to take a side in a morally difficult decision.
Like whether it's all right to see nations subjugate fifty percent of their population because that fifty percent happened to have been born with a uterus.
Like whether it's okay to watch nations imprison, torture, and execute people for the crime of preaching--or practicing--a religion different from the majority population.
Like whether it's acceptable to let young girls be mutilated, made sterile, or even killed by female circumcision, to which they are brought forcibly, screaming, all in the name of cultural relativism.
This is one of the arguments we see time and again used in Third World nations: Don't criticize us, this is our culture, you Americans are too stupid to understand.
It isn't we that don't understand. It is they.
Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new concept: That all men are created equal. In this century, of course, the concept also applies to women.
That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
That among these are Life--the freedom simply to live--
Liberty--freedom itself--
and the Pursuit of Happiness.
If you accept these rights as set out in the Declaration of Independence, which prefaces these basic human rights with the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident"--in other words, they are so basic as to be obvious to every thinking person--then you cannot, should not, MUST NOT be a cultural relativist.
If you still think we have no right dictating "our" cultural values to the rest of the world, let me remind you of a few cultural phenomena in recent history that ended up in the enslavement and death of millions of people on several continents: Slavery. Hitler's "final solution". "Ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia.
But that was all their problem, wasn't it? We needn't have gotten involved. And slavery--well, that was the South's "peculiar institution"--no need for the North to bother about it--until, of course, brother fought brother in the Civil War.
A little foresight would have helped, but even more an absence of cultural relativism would have saved millions of lives. Which is why I say the cultural relativists ought to make up their minds: Whose side are you really on? Think carefully. Your answer will affect millions of lives.--MAY permalink
Safety first
I found this on the AP news site. It's tips on what to do in case of a terrorist attack. I think it needs to be deconstructed.
Pick two places to meet family in an emergency -- one near the home and the other at a more distant location if the area is evacuated.
I have a problem with this. The problem is that I live alone, and so do, according to our last census, something like one third of Americans. Now, those of us who are schizophrenic enough can still pick two, or three, or however many necessary for the number of personalities--places to meet. But those of us with just one personality--hey, what about us? Who do we meet, and where? Hmph.
Put together a kit with a three-day supply of water and food that won't spoil, changes of clothing, first aid items, prescription medications, battery-powered radio, flashlight, extra batteries, spare car keys, tools, bedding, matches, backup eyeglasses, sanitation supplies, important family documents, non-electric can opener.
Okay. Three days' worth of chips and dip and a sixpack of my favorite beverage (which would be Coca-cola here). The rest? Too much trouble. Fuhgeddaboudit.
The average person needs two quarts of water a day to drink and should have two quarts for sanitation. Nonperishable food choices include dried fruits and nuts, canned goods, peanut butter and crackers.
Are you trying to tell me there won't be flush toilets in the bomb shelter?
If evacuation is necessary, use travel routes specified by local authorities, not shortcuts because some areas could be impassable or dangerous. Wear sturdy shoes, long-sleeved shirts, long pants. Listen for instructions on the radio. Lock your home.
Yes, lock those doors, because in case of nuclear attack, you want to make sure that the radiation has to break down the door in order to get inside and steal your stereo.
Take note of emergency exits when inside buildings, subways, stadiums. Be aware of heavy or breakable objects that could move, fall or break in an explosion. If trapped in debris, use a flashlight and don't kick up dust. Cover your mouth with a handkerchief or clothing. Tap on a pipe or wall to alert rescuers.
Show of hands, those of you who can make it through seven innings of a Yankees game and still pass a DWI checkpoint! Okay, you're the ones who get to yell "DUCK!" when you see a pillar falling. Oh, and if you bring your survival kit along with you from step 2, you can probably tap on the pipe with that non-electric can opener.
If a chemical attack occurs, authorities would likely instruct residents either to evacuate immediately or seek shelter where they are and seal the premises. Leaving the shelter to help victims can be a deadly decision. Chemical agents, which can be odorless and hard to detect, can kill or incapacitate people, destroy livestock or ravage crops.
You mean like, oh, anthrax in Post Offices?
Similar instructions might follow a biological threat. Biological agents, such as contagious smallpox or non-contagious anthrax might be dispersed as airborne particles and be used to contaminate food or water. Anyone exposed should see a doctor as soon as possible.
You mean, like, oh, Postal employees?
Beware of mail that is unexpected or comes from an unfamiliar sender, is addressed to someone who no longer lives or works at the address, has no return address or a return address different from the postmark, is of unusual weight, given its size, or is lopsided or oddly shaped. Also of concern: mail marked "Personal" or "Confidential" or mail with protruding wires, strange odors or stains. Such mail shouldn't be opened or agitated: Call police.
Has anyone yet copped to the idea that all junk mail is unexpected, most is addressed to "Your Name or Current Resident", and half is of unusual weight, size, and is oddly shaped? Man, if Our Buddy Bin really wanted to slaughter Americans, all he'd need to do is bulk mail anthrax and title the envelope "YOU HAVE WON ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
If told to stay inside your home, lock all windows and exterior doors. Turn off fans, heating and air conditioning systems. Close the fireplace damper. Get to an interior room without windows that's above ground level. An aboveground location is better because some chemicals are heavier than air and may seep into basements even if windows are closed. Use tape to seal cracks around the door and vents into the room. Listen to radios or TVs for news and instructions.
An interior room without windows that's above ground level? Hm. In some houses, that would be the bathroom. In most apartments, that would be a closet. Okay, everybody pile into the closet!
Sources: American Red Cross, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Service.
Hoo-boy. We're in trouble now.--MAY permalink
That was no lady, that was just me
At work today, one of the guys who came to take our old computers called my boss "Sir," wherein he said, "I hate it when you call me Sir, it makes me feel older than I am." Which reminded me of the various titles I've been given from the customer service sector. Miss. Ma'am. Lady. Ms.
At least no one's calling me "Old Woman" yet.
But here's the thing: At what age do you go from being a Miss to being a Ma'am? When do you start getting called Lady? I've looked all over for a rulebook, and I can't find one. And it isn't consistent: I've been called Miss by teenagers in one story and Lady by teens in another. I'm a Ma'am to nearly all telemarketers, except for the few who call me Mr. (my voice is not that deep, and believe you me, I have never purchased anything from any idiot who has called me Mr.). I'm apparently Ma'am to women who are near my age or older. And nearly all children who don't know me call me Lady. I hate that the most. It makes me feel ancient. It makes me feel like being a mean old lady to the kids. Well, not really. But it is a bit aggravating.
One of the things I've learned as I've gotten older is that teenagers have no concept of age, so anytime I want to get a free compliment, I'll ask a teenaged girl how old she thinks I am. She's usually off by at least a decade. This has also led me to a complete understanding of the phrase "fishing for compliments." And here's a free bit of advice to all you guys out there: If a woman ever asks you "How old do you think I am?" you must always, always subtract five years from what you were going to say. Subtracting ten is all right depending on how old she really is; never under any circumstances attempt to guess correctly a woman's age.
I have never looked old, but I've finally realized why women lie about their age. It's not vanity. It's much simpler than that: We just don't want to be that old. Which is why my favorite age-related phrase is "You're only as old as you look." Yes, I know, I changed the popular phrase. Why? Because I don't look my age.
And yet, I am called "Lady" by ten-year-olds.--MAY permalink
Immortality through pets
Science Diet's marketing mavens have come up with a unique marketing ploy. They want to make sure you keep using their brand, so they have a zillion different kinds now--light, adult, senior, hairball remedy, sensitive stomach, I-only-eat-on-tables, you name it, they've got it. I feed my cats adult, light, hairball remedy, by which you can tell they're not kittens, they're fat, and at least one of them coughs up hairballs on a regular basis. (Wow, this is neat enough to go on the GRE's logic portion.)
Anyway. Instead of my usual dollar-off coupon, inside the newest bag of cat food is a chart titled "Do you know how old your pet really is?" with four bar graphs, one for cats, three for different kinds of dogs. But I don't care about dogs, so forget those other three bars. The way the bars work is they have pet years on the y axis and human years on the x axis. Or is it the other way around? I never can remember which one is x and which one is y, even though I was a typesetter and the x-y coordinates were all we had to plot by in those days. Um. I'm digressing again, aren't I?
Okay. Here's the thing. They have dots on 7 pet years, which apparently translates to 45 human years for cats. My cats are about four and a half years old, which makes them the equivalent of 35. (Stay with me, the numbers don't go up evenly, they have a weird exponent.) Okay, no problem, I can deal with that. But in four years I will ABSOLUTELY NOT be 50, and in about four years, they'll turn the equivalent of 50, at which point they become older than I. Which is a neat trick, actually, as one year they're younger, the next they're shopping on Wednesdays and going to the Early Bird dinner at the Ramada Inn.
And I get younger still--as they hit their 60s, I will be a decade behind them, and then the age difference increases exponentially--they're in their 70s while I'm still in my 50s. And by the time I'll be searching for an assisted-living home for my cats, I'll still be far too young to retire with Social Security benefits (assuming it still exists then).
So, in effect, if you keep on having pets, and especially if you time it so that you get a new one every few years (I'm sure a mathematician could figure out a formula), you can achieve immortality through your cats. And since they have the lowest graph on the chart, lower even than Small Dog Breeds (up to 25 lbs.), I recommend you not use dogs for this attempt to never grow old. Just get a cat every few years, and watch it grow older than you. It's almost like having your own picture of Dorian Gray, except you don't have to keep it in the attic, although you do have to feed it and clean the litterbox.
Just another way of helping you all think outside the box. You're welcome.--MAY permalink
Hidden messages
You know, I completely forgot to mention this. Actually, I didn't, but you probably forgot since I mentioned it a week or so ago. When last we left our intrepid writer, she had just discovered the TITLE attribute to the HREF property, thereby ensuring that hidden messages can be cleverly placed throughout her blogs, including one or two in this very paragraph! (Note to Netscape 4.x users--it does not support the TITLE attribute, and you're missing out on a lot. Upgrade to a browser that has full HTML 4.0 support. And my AOL users need to tell me if their version shows these links, as I've just made one especially for them.)
Mind you, one of us is going to get tired of doing this first: Me or you. I'm betting it's going to be you. I never grow tired of some kinds of childish humor. Elephant jokes, for instance. I can listen to them forever, especially since I generally forget the punchlines and so can be amused by my each succeeding generation of children to discover them. Here's one for you: Did you know peanuts are fattening?
Sure. Have you ever seen a skinny elephant? --MAY permalink
Welcome, furriners
I was just checking out the website stats and noticed that I'm getting a few more international visitors, and it occurs to me that I should try to make them feel welcome here. One of the things I could do, I suppose, would be to welcome them in their own language, but I forget--do the Swiss speak French and German, or just one or the other? Bienvenu? Is that how you spell it?
Anyway, I figured I'd do it this way. For those of you who are reading this from another country and have a little trouble with English, I'm going to speak to you the way Americans have been speaking to non-English speakers for generations:
Anyone who didn't see that coming hasn't been reading this site often enough.--MAY permalink


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The advantage of borrowing it is that you can play the video with the audio in English and the subtitles in Spanish to comprehend the full meaning of the story. Nevertheless, I don´t think it is a difficult film to follow since the images are quite clear and once you recognise some words, I bet you won´t have any problems with the general meaning of the story. Here´s some vocabulary you should make sure you understand: mercury poisoning, slaughter, cove, international captivity trade, pest control.
Read the following information about the film as well, that way you´ll be ready to understand the actions and the sequence of events:
The Cove begins in Taiji, Japan. There is where former(=in the past) dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry is searching for redemption; in the 1960s, it was O'Barry who captured and trained the five dolphins who played the title character in the TV series "Flipper." When one of the dolphins died in his arms, he realised he had just started something terrible: dolphin captivity.
Ric discovered that the fishermen of Taiji carry out a terrible hunt in a remote cove in the area, surrounded by barbed wire and "Keep Out" signs, under cover of night.
First, trainers of sea aquariums from all over the world choose dolphins for their shows - a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry. Then, the remaining dolphins are slaughtered for their meat, mercury-poisoned meat which is very often sold as whale meat. What they do is so horrifying — and the consequences are so dangerous to human health — they do their best to stop anyone from seeing it.
When Ric O´Barry told the Oceanic Preservation Society about all this, they decided to film this Oscar-winning feature documentary. And this is the result: a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and sometimes beautiful and other times chilling imagery.
Inspired by this documentary, stars from film, TV and music got together to help save Japan's dolphins. You can also help by spreading the word out; if you want to take futher action, click here


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Mid tier is top for women partners - TressCox Lawyers - Lawyers Weekly - 23 November 2012
Media Coverage 23 November 2012
TressCox Lawyers has been mentioned in an article titled 'Mid tier is top for women partners', published in the Lawyers Weekly 23 November 2012 edition. The article looks at recently published information that reveals the gender profile in more than 40 firms shows mid-tier firms have the highest proportion of females.
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Hello fellow IBOTees! How are you on this fine Tueday? (I'm hoping it's fine. I actually wrote this on Monday night, so it's being very positive of me isn't it?)
The faithful among you (and by that I mean the people who read last weeks post), will know that I put the call out for some #IBOT help. Our humble little linky is growing, and I can't be reading and commenting on each and every post each and every week.
Well, I'm more than delighted to say that six wonderful IBOT faithfuls, answered the call, and #TeamIBOT has been formed.
What does this mean? I hear you ask.
Not much is changing. IBOT will still be here, at Diary of a SAHM, every Tuesday, live at 6:30am EST.
But instead of receiving a comment from me each week, you may instead get one from the lovely ladies of #TeamIBOT.
I will still, of course, be reading and commenting, but may only get round to say 30, instead of all of you. I do love this little linky. I love the community and the people and the content. I think it is a wonderful place, and I'm excited that I can share that with all of you.
So today's post is just a quick introduction to the wonderful ladies who will be visiting your blogs on my behalf.
Make sure you thank them and show them some love, just like they are showing you. 🙂
(The get extra love from me for acting as if my autocorrect fail was totally normal.)
So here they are….
Whats your name: Denyse Whelan
Where do you blog: www.denysewhelan.com.au
Blog is called Denyse Whelan. Education Specialist.
Do you have a favourite topic: Education – it's life long…
Do you believe in love at first site: Yes, and at first sight too…..LOL…I met my hub that way, 42 years next year…
Which cartoon character do you most identify with and why?: Oh, Jess I can't answer that…OK… Marge Simpson.
If you could have a super power would would it be: To predict the future (only if it's good news though)
What food would you never eat: Mashed up RIPE bananas
Finish this sentence: #IBOT is….to the blog world as the logies is to the world of TV
My name is Rachel and my blog is Redcliffe Style (www.redcliffestyle.com). I have only been blogging for 6 months and loving it.
My favourite topic? I don't have one. I seem to talk about everything but it tends to be positive and maybe a little funny (hopefully).
Do I believe in love at first sight? Nope. Lust yes, but I think you have to know someone to love them. I think you can feel a special connection at first sight
My cartoon connection would have to be Katara from Last Airbender. She is kind and controls water. I control water too, with a dishwasher, washing machine etc. and I like to drink water so we have a bit in common.
If I had a super power is would be flying. I hate road trips and this will really help. I could go overseas at the drop of a hat. Travel the world over and over.
I would never eat dog.
#IBOT is a safe haven for bloggers to share.
Whats your name: The newly Mrs Yvette Bowyer (Delightfully Tacky Little Squirts)
Where do you blog: http://delightfullytackylilsquirts.blogspot.com
Do you have a favourite topic: I do like blogging about my bento lunches – though wish I was as creative as the mothers in Japan who make amazing lunches for their children! But I have been known to make a ham & cheese sandwich have that wow factor!
Do you believe in love at first site: I believe in love at first sight (my husband was mine – who can't fall in love with a guy that packs up his life in Perth and moves to the UK to be with you after a 1 week holiday fling!!) – as for a site – There has been a few I've been stalking lately because I am in love with the way they are so open, honest and make me laugh, cry, smile and feel all squishy inside!
Which cartoon character do you most identify with and why?: Pre-Children/Husband I would definitely say Betty Boop – but that was in the UK where life was completely different from now. I definitely relate to myself more of a Lois Griffen with hidden talents that pop up every now and then while trying to keep together my mildly dysfunctional family!
If you could have a super power would would it be: To pull a $10 note out of my handbag when it is needed.
What food would you never eat: Cooked Fruit *in a pie, cake, muesli bar etc.
Finish this sentence: #IBOT is…. what encouraged me to blog regularly and build up my site! If it wasn't for a regular linky I would probably still have only 1 follower (myself!). It has helped me find other small blogs to read and build friendships!
What's your name: Lyndal
Where do you blog: http://familyofkillers.com
Do you have a favourite topic: life! at the moment there is a lot of fitness and organisation stuff, because those are some of my goals for the month… I foresee travel talk, more fitness, nutrition, marriage, babies, house buying, uni finishing, random talk writings happening in the future 🙂
Do you believe in love at first site: Yes! I'm such an introvert, and I feel like your heart knows. I fall too easily and love too hard – with every area in my life!
Which cartoon character do you most identify with and why?: spongebob square pants – he loves to laugh, takes pride in his work, is such a loyal friend, optimistic, energetic and a little bit naive.
If you could have a super power would would it be: the ability to move things with my eyes… Imagine, I'd never have to pick dirty clothes up off the floor again!
What food would you never eat: if you had asked me a few months ago it would have been calamari – then it got added to my 52 in 52 list and I did it. So now I'm gonna say…. Haggis. No way, no how. And no, it's not going on next years list!
Finish this sentence: #IBOT is…. A warm and vibrant community – it gets me through my hardest working day of the week, and has been the start of some of my greatest online friendships!
My name is Chantel
I have been blogging for about 6 months, I am a bit hit and miss with consistency, but really hoping to get into this as a regular thing. My blog is currently www.pinkelephantsandlemonade.com , but I am in the process of having a blog makeover, so it will be www.bossymummy.com so my screen name for most things is BossyMummy.
At the moment, I tend to write about our life, hopefully in the future it will be about pregnancy and newborns and then ultimately I would love to blog about 'play' which as an OT is one of my passions.
Love at first sight???? – I think true love comes from friendship first……but there has to be an instant connection for that to develop.
Cartoon character – Lisa Simpson – I am a bit bossy, a bit of a know it all, with major insecurities and really just wants everyone to like me.
SuperPower – mind reading
Food I will never eat – coriander/cilantro – devil's spawn! No way, now how 🙂
#Ibot is knowing my Tuesday is going to be filled with good quality writing to read within a supportive community.
Whats your name: Rhianna
Where do you blog: http://aparentinglife.blogspot.com.au/ primarily but also over at http://makingtimetomakeitmatter.blogspot.com.au/
Do you have a favourite topic: I tend to share a lot of my thoughts as I try to be the best me I can be. I am of course by no means even close to the best me I could be. But that is okay. It means I always have something to work towards. Goals are important. I know that but I can't actually set ones that are both achievable and meaningful. I want my life, and all that I do to matter.
Do you believe in love at first site: Yes and yes, but love can also grow.
Which cartoon character do you most identify with and why?: I couldn't really think of one. I asked my husband if he had a suggestion. He asked me to get back to him. When I got back to him he apparently still needed time. Cartoons aren't really my thing.
If you could have a super power would would it be: Yes well if I had a super power it would be the power to chose any super power at any point in time if I so needed to. Because when talking super powers surely you should be able to pick and choose.
What food would you never eat: Do you know I honestly couldn't think of one. Even after reading everyone else's I still can't think of one. I am pretty sure I can recall having haggis as a child. We had some very Scottish friends…
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When I'm jittery from too much caffeine, I don't blame it on Starbucks. It's not entirely Hershey's fault that I have an unhealthy love of chocolate. And if, in a moment of idleness, I click on a headline like 35 Foods From Your Childhood That Are Extinct Now, I don't blame BuzzFeed for wasting three minutes of my life. I made that decision all on my own.
So I think it's time to challenge the all-too-easy argument that the Internet is making us stupid in the same way that high-fructose corn syrup is making us fat. The case against Internet content was made most recently by Alexander Macris, founder of the video game magazine The Escapist, in a TEDx talk at Binghamton University (embedded on page 2, below). You are what you read, Macris says. And just as real food has been replaced on supermarket shelves by processed products heavy in sugar, leading to an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, the "nutritional value" of the content we're served by mass media has been going down, Macris argues—with dire effects on literacy rates.
There is a genuine nutrition crisis in this nation, and the agricultural-industrial complex bears much of the responsibility. But the food wars aren't a very good metaphor for what's going on in the media today. I'd like to try to shift the discussion back toward the idea that each of us is personally responsible for finding and consuming worthwhile reading material. When we try place blame for plummeting SAT scores or declining attention spans on the creators of candy-coated content, we're sidestepping our own duty to keep learning even after we're finished being students, to grapple with complex or challenging ideas, and to be active citizens.
Here's Macris's reasoning in a bit more detail. Not only do consumers prefer tasty food over nutritious food, but thanks to our corn-centric agricultural system, it's also cheaper to produce and to buy, turning America into one of the fattest nations on Earth. The media equivalent of comfort food—tasty but non-nutritious—is text aimed one or two notches below a consumer's reading grade level. Publishers, more concerned with earning profits than with edifying the public, have spent decades simplifying the languages and ideas in books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks, and websites, Macris charges. In 1950, newspapers like the Miami Herald or magazines like Time and Newsweek assumed readers were at an 11th-grade reading level. Today, he says, those same publications are aimed at readers with an 8th- or 9th-grade reading level.
At the same time that the American "diet of the mind" has coarsened, some other troubling changes have taken place. People are buying fewer books, reading less for pleasure, scoring lower on standardized tests, and falling behind in their general reading ability. In 1949, 54 percent of the population could read at the 10th grade level or above; by 2003, only 20 percent could. Meanwhile, movies and television shows have adopted a faster, more frenetic pace, with few shots lasting more than a couple of seconds. Pop songs have become louder, simpler, and more homogeneous.
To Macris, the overall implication is that the dumbed-down content our cultural overlords are serving us—including most of what's on television, the Internet, and our mobile playlists—is destroying our minds. "We need to begin to balance our content diet as urgently as we need to balance our food diet," Macris concludes.
I won't argue with that last sentiment. The question is whether the problem is on the supply side (the content and the way it's delivered) or the demand side (the choices we make about what to consume). Macris belongs to a school of supply-siders founded in the 1950s by Marshall McLuhan and recently revived by Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
Interestingly, these writers have long been using food metaphors to explain our supposed thralldom to technology-mediated content. "The content of a medium is just 'the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind,'" Carr wrote in his 2010 book, quoting McLuhan. "Not even McLuhan could have foreseen the feast that the Internet has laid before us: one course after another, each juicier than the last, with hardly a moment to catch our breath between bites."
It's time to get up and leave the supply-side table. Let's put aside the fact that Macris's evidence about reading levels shows only a correlation between simplified content and lower cognitive ability, not cause and effect. And let's not pick on the logical contradictions in his argument. (If reading material has been dumbed down to make it tastier, then people should be consuming more of it, not less.) Let's just focus for a moment on the food metaphor, and where it breaks down; if we do, I think we'll learn about wiser ways to fight junk content on the Web.
Once you've watched documentaries like Food Inc. or read anything by Michael Pollan, it's hard to see the U.S. food economy—which is really the corn economy—as anything but a conspiracy to keep millions of people addicted to processed foods and sugary snacks and drinks. The beauty of the system, from the point of view of the giant chemical, ag-biotech, and food-processing companies, is that they can make money coming and going. Not only do they sell the seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, and fuel needed to grow huge crops of corn; they also transform the corn into diapers and trash bags and Gatorade and ethanol, and feed vast piles of it to chickens and cattle, which are later turned into fast-food nuggets and burgers. All at the expense of taxpayers, who are on the hook for $3 billion to $7 billion per year in ethanol subsidies and other payments to corn farmers, not to mention $150 billion in medical costs from diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.
It's a system so full of perverse incentives and negative externalities that you can't help going there for comparisons when you're thinking about other kinds of social challenges—for instance, the way technology is commodifying content in the media business. Ideas, after all, are food for the intellect. (I'm pretty sure Plato said that. Or maybe it was Julia Child.) When you can pay a writer next to nothing to collect 27 funny cat GIFs, slap a viral headline on them, and earn a few hundred thousand banner ad impressions, there's not much incentive to worry about whether your readers are getting their recommended daily allowance of complex ideas and above-grade-level reading material.
But here's where the content-as-nutrition metaphor begins to fall apart. People's food choices are limited by their household budgets and by the proximity of a decent grocery, supermarket, or bodega. Food deserts are real: the USDA says 23.5 million Americans live in low-income areas without ready access to fresh, healthy food. But thanks to the very technologies that Macris and Carr worry about, access to high-quality content is nearly universal. According to the FCC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, more than 97 percent of the U.S. population has access to the Internet at speeds above 10 megabits per second, and a surprising 56 percent have access to speeds above 100 megabits per second.
With broadband, you get everything the Internet has to offer. Yes, that includes celebrity gossip sites like TMZ and Perez Hilton and viral farms like Upworthy, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Distractify, and Viralnova. But it also includes Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg and American Memory and the Google Cultural Institute and YouTube and the Worldwide Telescope. It includes free or inexpensive online courses at places like Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, edX, iTunes University, and Udemy. It includes the thousands of free e-books available at public library websites and the 20 million public-domain images, sound files, and video clips at Wikimedia Commons. And it includes most of the publications I listed a few weeks ago in my column 15 Places to Turn for Technology News That Really Matters. Even BuzzFeed publishes some great longform journalism. This kind of bounty was unimaginable just 30 years ago, and to say that it's making us dumber is a form of willful ignorance.
Granted, some people need help steering toward the "nutritious" content on the Internet and away from the dreck, just as millions of low-income people need help getting access to healthy food. But the policy prescriptions for these two situations look completely different. The state of our food system is a public health issue, and fixing it will require major changes at the federal, state, and local levels; I'm talking about the way we regulate food producers and advertisers, label food packages, subsidize farmers, pay for healthcare, and educate children, just to start.
But on the Internet, there's a little thing called the First Amendment. The freedom to say almost anything you want, subject to a few exceptions, carries with it the freedom to read, watch, or listen to the content of your choice. It's hard to interfere with someone's information diet without immediately running afoul of their constitutional rights.
So, what to do about the growing supply of viral junk on the Internet? Well, nothing. We've got to acknowledge that people like and want it. It meets a need, and readers are entitled to spend their time on it. But that doesn't mean we have to despair over the ravages of technology.
I have a friend who says he agrees with people like Macris and Carr. "My own experience is that I no longer read the 3,000-word articles I used to enjoy in the New Yorker or the Atlantic," he says. "I've grown impatient with anyone who uses words I have to look up. While I may be capable of reading at an advanced level, I simply choose not to. That's new; it is only in the decade or so."
This friend says he has a very intelligent group of Facebook friends, but the things they recommend to each other are shallower than what they used to share before social media. He thinks it's too hard to find intelligent content, since Google buries it under the listicles that viral publishers have learned to promote through search engine optimization techniques.
I like this friend very much, but I have no patience with this line of thinking. When you walk into a public library, you can stop at the paperback shelf and grab something by Danielle Steel or Stephenie Meyer, or you can roam a bit farther into the stacks and discover a whole world of artistic striving, literary grace, and scholarly jousting. It's up to you—and no one else—to decide where to wander. The Internet is a library too, and sooner or later, the viral sites will be seen for what they are: the vending machines in the basement.
Here's Alexander Macris's February 2013 TEDx talk, If People are Getting Smarter, Why is Our Content Getting Dumber?
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