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If You Think Facebook Is Irrelevant For Government, You Don't Understand Social Media Strategy
There is all this conversation going on now about the diminishing effectiveness of Facebook as an advertising/PR tool. But for government, the focus should be on responsible stewardship of taxpayer funds. Do we forget that in all the hype and fancy talk over this tool and that.
I disagree with the idea that FB is dying because it's a dwindling PR tool. From where I sit social media was never supposed to be about PR, and especially not for government agencies. Government agencies cannot do PR here in the States. Have we forgotten that? I like the communication that's happening around Healthcare.gov. Connect citizens to services. Go where they go. Use multiple channels. Perfect.
In addition to the fact that we lack a strategic understanding of which social media tool is good for what, in government the bureaucracy holds us back from adapting as fast as the tools evolve. I like what the GSA has done to proliferate tools as well as guidance. That's the way to go. Howto.gov, DigitalGov University, all excellent and pioneering stuff. If only we had that back in 2008 or 2009. And now the Federal Communicators Network is an official community of practice. This is all great.
I like the model that has been established at NARA to anticipate and grow with social media. It is housed in the Office of Innovation (where I work and I oversee the central administration of the function - note this blog is my personal one, and I am only describing the function not representing the agency here). Communications is a client. We keep the two separate for a reason. With the help of General Counsel and looking to the above for guidance and support, we stand up the tools and help others become responsible users of social media in their capacities as official representatives of the agency.
Based on everything I've seen and learned over the years, the most effective use of social media is to influence real users (not agency representatives) to spontaneously share information in their own ways. That may be as simple as a lunchtime conversation or as sophisticated as Snapchat or Spaceteam. I don't think we have to necessarily inhabit all the channels. I do think we have to communicate in ways that are simple and excellent and easily shareable. Give the public clear and understandable information and let them mix it, mash it, make apps out of it, and what have you. Just like the frontline employee knows best what the public wants, the agency outsider knows best how to reach other agency outsiders. This is also a better use of taxpayer funds than trying to "squat" over the entire Internet and social media space.
* All opinions my own

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...living the reality of a "retired" person, which means I work harder than ever at being a writer, lurching from one deadline to another.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Australia
- My life was described by one of my editors as "impossibly exotic" – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn't belong, always living in someone else's backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens); The Stormlord trilogy The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile, and writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar.
LATEST: THE FORSAKEN LANDS A clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land. THE LASCAR'S DAGGER and THE DAGGER'S PATH available worldwide now! Final book, THE FALL OF THE DAGGER out mid-April.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Weeping for the world
The only membership-based general conservation organisation in Malaysia has a measly 3,000 plus members out of a population of 23 million people.
And then this CNN report today:
"The Bush administration cleared the way Thursday for federal agencies to skip consultations with government scientists when embarking on projects that could impact endangered wildlife, the interior secretary said.
"The final regulations to the Endangered Species Act take effect before President Bush leaves office in January, but wildlife conservation groups say undoing the damage could take months.
"...the agency in question can satisfy the requirement that no harm will come to an endangered species, then there is no need to consult with either the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Services. The determination of 'no harm' will rest with agency bureaucrats instead of scientists..."
To me that is the most shocking, cynical step by a greedy president busily saying thank you to his cronies by giving them permission for a last bit of rape of the country before he bows out. What possible reason could there be to give federal agencies permission to do that unless it is to make it easier for someone to make money somewhere?
I will bestow a prediction on you all, one I will not live long enough to see: 50 years from now, the thing for which the Bush government will be most reviled will not be the Iraq War, or the Katrina mess, or the economic meltdown, or any one of the tens of things he did or didn't do; it will be for his deliberate lack of attention to both the environment and the biodiversity - of both his own country and the world where the US has an interest.
One of you youngsters can blog about it in my name on December 12th 2058. You, after all, will be the ones who will most suffer for the legacy of the Bush years. See if I am right.
And what are the pix above? Well, last time I went to Lake Bera, it was a thriving resort. Now, so typical of Malaysia, it is dirty and unkempt and untidy. Yep, throw that old urinal out in the camping area, where else? After all, no one wants to waste money on maintenance. The tourists will come without it...won't they? Hmm? And no one is going to sue us when they fall through the termite-eaten boards of the jetty, will they?
I despair.
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- Satima Flavell said...
I can't understand it, Glenda. Climate change and the abuse of the world's resources have been obvious to any thinking person for three or four decades (remember Rachel Carson, anyone?) but our leaders are still blinded by greed and haven't learnt a thing.
Yes, let's all weep.
- 9:36 pm
- Jo said...
Matt could never understand why I took such an aversion to Bush, but I discovered his total lack of interest in conservation right from the beginning and hated him for it through the last eight years. Now, his last, disasterous final stroke is enough to make thoughts of assassination pleasant. Trouble is there is so little we can do to stop such rape. I support World Wildlife Fund to the best of my ability, but I feel like a lone voice crying in the wilderness. There just aren't enough people who give a damn.
Mind you years ago I was much the same, it wasn't until conservationists made films which were shown on TV that it made me sit up and take notice. Hopefully a lot of others did too.
Its not just greed Satima, they just don't realise or give a damn anyway.
- 9:56 pm
- Imagine me said...
Nothing Bush does can surprise me but, of course, he's not the only one blinded by greed. It's happening all over the world. He's just in a position to implement laws that impact on a vast number of people.
I've always tried to live lightly on the planet but one individual can't make much of an impact and the despoilers have the ability to do so much damage so quickly.
I very much doubt that history will be kind to Bush much as he likes to think it will be.
- 9:06 am
- Satima Flavell said...
No. I suspect he'll almost be on a par with Caligula, 1,000 years hence.
And you're right, Jo. People just don't care enough, or are too blind or stupid to see what's happening.
But Helen, we can only do what we can as individuals. If all right-thinking people try their best it must make a difference, however small.
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DOP Chapter 427 – Sorrow Night (9)
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"Shit." Xuan Yuan Che's expression became extremely ugly.
"Che-er, it's not Yue-er, quick….." After receiving a blow to her back,
"I know." Xuan Yuan Che moved the cloth away. There was basically no injury to the chest at all.
He was shocked at moment because he cared for his mother. However, after a bit, he came back to his senses. He trusts his Liu Yue. He knows that she wouldn't do something like this at all.
She gave him face and didn't kill his grandfather, the right minister, who tried to murder her. She would even let someone who tried to kill her go, let alone Empress Chen who had always been on her side.
There was one thing that Xuan Yuan Che didn't understand.
This was planned by someone…. But who?
He didn't think that they would use his own mother to frame his beloved Yue for killing the Empress. They dare use the person closest to him as a sacrifice?
How can he not feel sorrow? How can he not be angry?
At that moment, he couldn't think of anything else. He couldn't say anything.
But this silly girl. She's usually smart. Why was she so stupid today. Why did she run? She brought more problems to herself by running.
That stupid girl…. She made herself the scapegoat.
"Go quickly……"
"Men. Come protect mother and bring her home. Qiu Hen, Yan Hu, if anyone dare move the troops in the capital, make sure that they don't ever see the sunlight again."
He quickly stood up. His eyes were filled with coldness. It looks like a storm was brewing again. His words were filled with coldness.
"Yes." Qiu Hen and Yan Hu quickly answered.
Xuan Yuan Che was filled with a murderous aura. The imperial guards who appeared out of nowhere looked at each other and didn't dare to move. They wanted to kill Liu Yue but something told them that they would back off if they want to live….
People are selfish.
After Xuan Yuan Che laid down his commands, he quickly turned around and flew out the palace. He flew towards the direction that Liu Yue left in and quickly followed in pursuit.
This Liu Yue, why is she acting so impetuous today? What had happened?


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If you are using WordPress for your blog, then you must installed and uninstalled several plugins. During your blogging journey, you must be received thousands of spam comments. You must have edited your older post to make the content updated.Whatever you do with your WordPress blog all will be backed up to your database.If you are using any WordPress backup plugin then because of these redundant file stored in the database, your backup process will get slow.
Some of you might be faced an issue like your site is slow, not performing well as expected or any other matter. If you are not cleaning up your database, then you are making a terrible mistake. It means you are still storing the spam comments, revision history, unnecessary files to your database which will make your blog slower.
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Are your tears collected or wasted?
Everything God creates reveals something about Him
Where are those avocados?
Jesus promises us eternal life in heaven
Take heart.
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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Hi. When my son was 3.5, his fathers new girlfriend hit my son at the back of the head for misbehaving. At 5 yrs old, he had what appeared to be a right sided seizure. An EEG showed at 7 yrs as abnormal with rolandic spikes and predisposition to seizures. Directly after the seizure, my son changed and developed what appeared to be OCD. He would tap things and couldnt get up from his seat / would be stuck so he couldnt leave the house. Started hoarding and wearing many hats and necklaces and acting very strange. He was having strange thoughts and would accuse people of doing things they didnt. He had a lot of abnormal eye movements, headaches, regression in learning and would walk on his tip toes and was now non functional. He bottomed out and was at the worst of OCD and at 10 yrs old, a Psychiatrist gave him Prozac and after 2 pills he went ballistic / hyped up and ended up in psychiatric ward for a few days and was given Resperidone. The Resperidone seemed to calm him and the OCD. He immediately went in for a 30 day stay to a childrens psychiatrist assessment centre and they concluded he had Tourettes / OCD / Anxiety disorder, language disorder. He stayed on Respiridone for 2 years and gained 100 lbs so he switched to Abilify at 13 yrs. While he was on Abilify, he went through a period where he was always angry / aggressive and hyped up. (Has been tested many times for drugs and always negative). He would pace and rant and rave about topics, one topic after another for hours on end. He had severe anxiety and couldnt make friends so he dropped out of school. He seemed to have some paranoia. His eyes would widen and he would look like he zoned out for a second at a time. The school suggested that he had Autism and My heart was telling me maybe its seizures or brain damage. He went through Autism testing and they concluded he didnt have Autism. He had an episode where he said he wasnt feeling well and became very agitated and left the house. The Police found him standing outside the police station in a stupor. He appeared to be in shock and couldnt remember events and what I looked like. He was trying his hardest to remember our camping trip that we had the day before but couldnt and started to sob uncontrollably like he has never done before. The police initially thought he was on drugs but after talking to him for a long time they felt that there may be something wrong with his brain and suggested I go to emergency. The hospital ran a drug test (negative) and suggested it could be anxiety or seizure but refused to give a CAT scan. I asked my doctor for a brain EEG at 14 yrs and it showed focal cerebral dysfunction in the bilateral anterior quadrants. MRI scan was normal. The Neurologist said she didnt know what it was and because all of his symptoms were different, they couldnt be seizures. No follow up was done. I had him in to see a psychosis team and because they couldnt see his rantings and ravings, they concluded that he didnt have schizophrenia or psychosis and felt he had OCD and anxiety - a high form and was prescribed a low dose of Quietapine. He refused to take it for 6 months and his condition worsened and police were called many times for his mental health and aggression. He was taken to the hospital and then was willing to take the Quetapine which seemed to calm him. He then developed really bad motor tics, breathing and facial tics so his family doctor prescribed Clonodine and it slowed the tics down initially but now at 15 he has numerous facial, neck tics that he cant control. Since then my son started to withdraw from all people that he knows. Does not go to school. Does not shower or brush his teeth and wears the same clothes for months on end. He appears depressed but not in a suicidal way. He stays in his room 24/7 and sleeps all day / stays up all night and alternates between staying up over 24 hours and then takes his medication (quetapine, melatonin, clonodine) and then sleeping for 12 hours straight. His OCD is as bad as it was when he was 10). His cognitive ability has declined to the point where he cant do anything for himself. He thoughts take a long time to catch up so he is unable to have a conversation with anyone because by the time the other person goes on to the next word, he is still trying to process the word that the person said 10 minutes ago so it is very frustrating and he just shuts down. He cant touch things as he thinks he is spreading germs. He hardly ever leaves the house, has no friends or activities and gets extremely agitated at any question or the slightest bit of stress. He asks hundreds of times a day, did you spit on me?, did I spit on you? He will question every move I make and think that he is hurting the things that he lightly touches. He asks me 100 times a day did you say something? I ask him if he is hearing things and he just looks away. He is unable to hold a conversation as his obsessions and thoughts get in the way. He started loosing track of time in the night. He would spend up to 6 hours in the bathroom with the water on and spitting and splashing the water in the sink. A month ago he told he that he would sit up every night and laugh uncontrollably and have conversations (dialogue) with himself in his head. I had to eventually take time of work as he was / is deteriorating. He goes into the bathroom up to 3 times a night for hours on end and stands there and talks and laughs with himself. When I question him he just laughs and says I dont know. He was in his bathroom last night for 2 hours, whispering and laughing and having a conversation and when he came out he was very happy and calmer ( which is very weird because that is what he is always like after his talking sessions). He was able to partially have a conversation with me and opened up and told me that he has visions of himself doing everyday things in the future and there are other people in his visions and they respond back to him and have a dialogue with him during these talking sessions. He says he has them all the time and that he can clearly see the visions as if he were truly there. He says that he doesnt see people or have people talk to him as in hallucinations or auditory hallucinations but he does say that these visions and conversations that he has are so vivid that he feels like he is there. He says he doesnt control what the people say and insists that they never say anything bad to him. He explains it as having a dialogue or really vivid daydream in your head and imagining these conversations but he has no control and cant stop them and they feel so real as if he is truly there. He says when he thinks about it, it seems a bit scary but he cant control it. Its almost like he is having another life going on at the same time as this one, that is what it seems like. My impression is that he is having normal daydreams that we all have but they are uncontrollable and they are so vivid that he feels like he is actually there. He is desperately fearful of doctors, police or psychiatrists so he wont go and see them. Recently he did see a psychiatrist and he prescribed Zoloft but my son refuses to take it as it is in the Prozac family and he had a bad experience with that. I am all consumed with healing my son and I am trying to look at every angle to find out what is wrong and how can I fix it. He used to laugh, want friends, loved doing activities and now he is isolated and is getting weirder tendencies by the day. Both schizophrenia AND Brain Damage will cause problems with detaching from reality, attention, concentration, reasoning and cognitive skills and alter the way a person makes sense of or interacts with the world around them. They both have a way of changing the thought process or behaviours of the person.
If there is anyone that has any knowledge or the ability to look deeper to find out what is really going on and how to fix it, please let me know. As of today, he is non functional and getting worse. I would appreciate any and all help that I can get.


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The AHPCS Announces a New Print Conservation Grant Program
Wendy Joan Shadwell passed away on October 23, 2007. She was a past president of the AHPCS, an active board member, and author of many scholarly articles in Imprint. In her last will and testament Wendy Shadwell generously left to the American Historical Print Collectors Society a substantial bequest. One of the specific areas mentioned for the use of the bequest was for the preservation of American historical prints. In November, 2014 after receiving the final distribution, the AHPCS board created the Shadwell Bequest Committee.
At its meeting on June 25, 2015 in New Orleans, the AHPCS Board of Directors voted to implement an exciting new program, the Shadwell Conservation Grant.
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The second chapter, "The Kidnapping of an Aardvark," is the key to everything that follows. Cerebus finally gets his fight, though it is an abrupt affair that is quickly ended - Cerebus makes short work of the McGrew Brothers which makes us think of them as incompetent, but in retrospect considering how much Cerebus was itching for a fight the fact that he went immediately for an incapacitating blow may have signaled that he actually took them seriously as a threat. He didn't want to give them a chance to wear him out.
In any case, he takes over and from that point manages his own kidnappiong. There are two key things in this chapter which will be repeated throughout the book and another which will have repercussions through the book as a whole. I'm tempted to say "introduced," but in fact all three of them were introduced in the first book (as I pointed out in my essays regarding that). But they are emphasized more thoroughly examined here.
The first is Sim's critique of mass media journalism. This was barely mentioned in the references to Weisshaupt and his messages from the President. Here, we have a critique of TV news. This chapter was first published in comic book form as Cerebus #27 with a cover date of of April 1981. The U.S. had just gone through the Iran Hostage Crisis, a tumultuous period whose social anxiety and political upheaval seemed enormous at the time but has been largely forgotten because it was dwarfed by what happened on 9/11/2001. One of the things that was so stressful about it, and caused great strain in the body politic, was the length of time the crisis lasted. One usually thinks of a crisis as of short duration, but the U.S. was operating in crisis mode politically from the time the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was seized and hostages taken November 4, 1979 until the last hostages were released on January 20, 1981, 444 days later.
Sim is, of course, Canadian, but our neighbor to the north largely shared a sympathetic angst, plus of course American TV is available in the major cities in Canada, and it is in particular one American TV show that is being lampooned here. ABC had been for some time contemplating putting a news program up against "The Tonight Show" in the slot following the local news. Various attempts at more-or-less imitative talk shows had failed, and some network executives thought some kind of counter programming for those who wanted more substantial than light entertainment and celebrity interviews might do better. The show would eventually be called "Nightline" and as of this writing (4/7/2014) is still on the air, but when the hostages were taken, and it became clear after a day or two that the crisis was going to last at least a week or two (though certainly no one at the time dreamed it would be more than a year), the show was rushed onto the air on November 8, 1979 as "America Held Hostage: Day 5," and that became the running title for the duration, with the day changed each day to reflect how long America had been held hostage. From day to day, there was in fact often very little news to report on the situation, but the title stayed and the logo, even when the news report was largely about other matters and the hostages were referred to only briefly at the beginning and ending of the show.
This is, of course, the basis for Sim's "Cerebus Held Hostage" pages, with "Day One" and "Day Two" as heading and a special logo in the upper right hand corner of each. Secondly, the behind-the scenes machinations of Iestian politics as the money is raised for Cerebus' ransom, whether it is presented as a reality or as Cerebus imagining what is going on, introduces us to the byzantine nature of Iest's legislative government and its corrupt Prime Minister, which of course sets the stage for the major plot element of the book. Indeed, it is the need to repay this ransom that becomes the motivating factor for Cerebus' launch into politics. Finally, the game of Diamondback, which had been briefly mentioned in chapter 11 and elaborated somewhat in a backup story in one of the "Swords of Cerebus" volumes, is more fully fleshed out. This becomes important, because it turns out that some people (Weisshaupt, for instance) view the various cards in the Diamondback deck - Magician, Priestess, King, Queen, Priest - in much the same way that many people view the Trumps in a deck of Tarot cards, as having deep and supernatural significance. Indeed, Tarot-like themes will develop throughout two of the three multi-volume novels within the saga, Church & State and Mothers & Daughters.
Media, politics, Tarot symbolism (or something very much like it) and its relation to magic, and of course traditional religion in the form here of the Church of Tarim, which isn't really discussed in this chapter but was so clearly introduced in the first book that it's not a surprise when it shows up here. Three of these will dominate this book, and the four of them will dominate the next two big novels.
So the kidnapping, which seems at first just a funny episode featuring the likenesses of Dave Sim's friend Gene Day and his brother Dan presented as versions of Warner Brothers cartoon character Yosemite Sam (Sam: "I'm the roughest, toughest, root'nest, toot'nest fastest gunslinger west of the Pecos!" Dirty Fleagle McGrew: "[I'm] the dirtiest, rottenest Onliu freebooter who ever dropped outa th' third grade!"), in fact sets the stage not only for the rest of the novel, but in fact for much of the rest of the saga.
The shallowness of mass media journalism will not just be referred to glancingly but skewered in the later "one-sheets" put out by each side in the campaign. Although these were in fact directly published by the political parties and had more in common with today's political advertising than with any sort of journalism, in their presentation they more resembled the screaming headlines that often grace tabloid newspapers. Which also applies to the description of them in this unattributed quote (but obviously from the same "Suenteus Po" who wrote the book on the election):
As for the so-called "one-sheets," one would be hard pressed to find a less suitable appendage to the body politic. If, as was devoutly wished in the previous chapter, we are someday to witness full-blown republicanism in Iest, surely the first casualty of the people's will would be these brazen testimonials to the colossal vanity of the ruling classes! Shamelessly slanted, impervious to truth and catering only to those aspects of human nature which might best be described as "base" …
In any case, within this chapter Po is presented as the same person we met in the first Mind Games, though he so clearly seems not to be that even Cerebus notices. "The last time we talked, you were surprised when Cerebus told you the Cirinists had plans -- and even more surprised when he told you they were dangerous."
It's possible that Sim had already thought of the idea that the voices Cerebus was talking to in the Mind Games episodes were not the real Po, or it could be that he just decided he needed Po to be a more serious character to get across the information he wanted to impart here, and while wise enough to realize that he couldn't make the change without at least admitting something was different, he'd worry about how to explain it somewhere down the road. The intricacies of plotting a 6,000 page novel as you go with the ending and some major signposts along the way in mind but details left deliberately vague until you get close to them are complex, and at this date I doubt if Sim himself could tell you clearly which details he imagined when. Perhaps when all his notebooks are archived and available future scholars will be able to determine some of this.
(If anyone - other than a few die-hard fans - still cares by that point, but as the reason for possible pessimism on this point lies far in the future of the reread, we'll let that go for now.)
Cerebus returns from his sojourn to the Eighth Sphere to find that he has been discovered and returned to his suite at the Regency Hotel. The McGrew brothers have, as far as he knows, made off with the ransom, which the Prime Minister now requests be repaid.
Cerebus' attempts to raise the money to pay the ransom impress the Prime Minister enough to invite Cerebus to go hunting with him, during which they discuss the current state of Iestian economics, and the Prime Minister mentions that he could forego asking Cerebus for the ransom if one of the businessmen who solicited Cerebus' attention in the first chapter were to forgive the Iestian government a loan made by his company. Cerebus arranges this, but immediately after the businessman, who is the godson of His Holiness the Pope, is crushed by a giant stone sculped into the likeness of a crescent moon, hurled at him by the Roach, who is now calling himself "The Merely Magnificent Moon Roach." After chasing him down, Cerebus finds him in a room with a woman named Astoria, who begs Cerebus to take the Moon Roach costume so that "Artemis," as she calls him, won't be able to become the Roach anymore, rather than turning him in. When he balks, she threatens to kill herself.
Cerebus reluctantly agrees, and thus is manipulated for the first time by this mysterious woman who Sim has said was based on Mary Astor's character in "The Maltese Falcon" and Deni Loubert (who was Deni Sim at the time) has said was based on her. On the one hand, the obvious dichotomy here is like the cases of Elrod and the McGrew brothers, where the physical appearance is based on one thing (Barry Smith's Elric, Gene and Dan Day, Deni Sim) and the personality on something else (Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Bridget O'Shaughnessy). However, there's a little more to it than that. There is a subtle criticism of his wife inherent in having Astoria represent here in more than looks as this novel progresses while being the manipulative, untrustworthy analog to the murderess in the famous book and movie.
When "Petuniacon" comes along, which is at once a parody of political conventions and comic book ones, Astoria arranges things and tells Cerebus where to be, at it seems pretty obvious that, as "publisher" at Aardvark-Vanaheim, Deni Sim was almost certainly handling all the details and arrangements and Dave Sim was going where he was told and signing or sketching or both. Later, he would be handling the details for himself and finding them to be no big chore, and promoting the idea of self-publishing to all his fellow cartoonists.
This is important, because while it will seem clear to some people reading this, as it does to some of the characters in the book, that Astoria is in charge, pulling the strings, making the decisions, from Cerebus' point of view this is never really true, and to the extent that it ever was, it ends with his visit to the Abbess. From then on, he thinks of Astoria as a glorified secretary.
On my first reading, indeed, on my first several readings of this book, I had the opinion that Astoria was indeed the one in charge and Cerebus was delusional. But this time, while Cerebus does seem to sometimes be passively acted upon rather than active in his own administration, I see that it's a bit more subtle than that. It is Astoria's nature to manipulate people, in particular to manipulate men. It's not so much that she truly wields the power in Cerebus' administration. Indeed, it's quite obvious that she's completely unaware of much of what Cerebus does, and is playing catch-up, pretending to be on top of things as she dances as fast as she can to keep up with events changing around her.
Theresa shows up again from the three-chapter story that ended the first book. She becomes Astoria's assistant. There's a bit of funny byplay as they both become enchanted with Dirty Drew McGrew. This is interesting for a couple of reasons. Theresa will in fact remain a character for some time to come in the saga. Which itself is interesting because of what happens to another character from that story, the one who seems to be set up to return.
Katrina seems to be set up to be Jaka's sister. She is Lord Julius' niece, and "her sister" told her in a letter of his version of what happened in the underground tunnels in Palnu (a much different version from what we saw in "A Night at the Masque," with a heroic Lord Julius). You would expect from this that she might appear again, or at least be mentioned again. But Theresa is the only one of the three girls in that story that we ever see again, and when we explore Jaka's background and childhood in depth in "Jaka's Story" there is no mention of her ever having had a sister. Katrina's existence seems to have been completely forgotten.
But back to Astoria. Like Bridget O'Shaughnessy, she admits fairly early on that she lied, but promises that "that's all over," and then immediately proceeds to lie some more. She attempts to manipulate events, but she is actually clearly out of her depth. Blakely dismisses her early on like the glorified secretary Cerebus will later think of her as ("Now, be a good girl and run along …" - and it's important to note that at this point Cerebus is stunned that *anyone* could treat Astoria that way and she would take it; she slams the door on her way out, but she does indeed run along). The Abbess refuses to even see her. She goes out into the snow with the Roach trying desperately to drum up votes when Cerebus has (or thinks he has) already sewed up enough votes to win the election.
On the other hand, we do have the hiring of Suenteus Po (the book writer, not the one Cerebus meets in the "Mind Games" episodes), whose interview is conducted entirely by Astoria while Cerebus is apparently napping at his desk.
Once we realize what kind of character Astoria is, we look back on her account of how she met the Roach and begin to question its veracity.
If the Countess Michelle (up ahead, but bear with me) is to be believed (which is problematic, but she is certainly more trustworthy than Astoria), Astoria's account of meeting the Roach is wholly fictional. However, it's entirely possible that he did indeed "rape" her. I put quotes around it because if he did, it would almost certainly have been because she manipulated him into it, knowing that she could connect with some part of him that would find that act utterly reprehensible and use that guilt to control him.
That's Astoria's nature. That's what she does. Although she is one of the few characters in this book who actually matures and changes, and also one of the few who seems to have been given a genuinely happy and peaceful ending to her story, the Astoria we first meet here, and the Astoria we encounter through most of her appearances in the saga, is a conniving, lying, untrustworthy, manipulative bitch.
And yet Deni Loubert considers that she was meant to represent herself, and apparently made no objection to her depiction in this fashion until Cerebus raped Astoria near the end of "Church & State." That, finally, was too much for her and she reported several years ago that she quit reading at that point and as far as I know had never gone back to read the rest.


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Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, will join artist Heather Morison, our publishing partner Magdalena Malm, Director of Public Art Agency Sweden and Claire Doherty, Director of Situations, and to mark the launch of the international survey publication – Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now) – by discussing the risks and delights of public art producing.
Tickets to the Whitechapel event have now sold out, but if you can't be with us in person, join us via live stream…
We are teaming up with this is tomorrow to live stream this event on Thursday 16 April. You can watch the event live from anywhere in the world by simply visiting thisistomorrow.info at 7pm (GMT). We have partnered with a number or groups, organisations, institutions and individuals to host screenings from Kent to Cape Town and back again. See below for a list of just some of the live streaming partners
Atlas Arts, Isle of Skye
A3 Project Space, Birmingham, UK
Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town University, South Africa
Champ Collective, Bristol, UK
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Field Notes, Cornwall, UK
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
Threads, Canterbury, UK
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We are also inviting you to be part of the conversation by tweeting at us during the talk. If you have something to say or have a response tweet at us (@SituationsUK) or use the hashtag #PublicArtNow. Our team will be collating the responses and handing them over to the speakers during question time.
The book inspiring this event, Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now), is available to purchase for £29.99 from Art / Books Publishing. It is an essential publication for anyone interested in the dynamic and ever-changing world of public art (now). Click here to buy now.
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Director, Naval Public Affairs Office
Sunday,27 December 2009
After four days of aerial search by our Navy Islanders and two days of sea surface search for missing passengers by four of our ships, we are yet to see survivors from Catalyn B. Accounts from survivors that the ship capsized in less than two minutes reinforces our apprehensions that those twenty one (21) missing could have gone down with the ship.
We are hoping otherwise in case of the reported 22 still missing among the 88 reported personnel of MB Baleno 9 (per Coast Guard PIO: 70 passengers; 18 crew; 62 survivors; 4 casualty; 22 missing). After navy aerial search at 7:55 AM onwards today and accounts of survivors that more could have perished, the Navy search and rescue teams aboard PS 32 to be joined by PG 394 race against time to save any of or all the missing passengers. We are soliciting prayers that may the rescuers find the survivors at the nick of time. (End)
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Statement of the Naval Public Affairs Office re Sinking of MV Catalyn B and MV Baleno 9 as of 271430H Dec 09
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New Trends in The Real Estate Industry Show Larger Firms Are Going to Flex Space Campus Option to Meet Needs
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Sept. 5, 2017) - On August 24, 2017 Newmark Knight Frank Devencore (NKF Devencore) joined Allianz Global Assistance (Allianz) for the ground breaking ceremony starting construction on their new state of the art campus in Cambridge, ON.
With over 600 employees their current complex could no longer accommodate Allianz's long-term growth requirements under one roof. NKF Devencore was tasked to find a solution that solved both immediate and long term growth and accommodation requirements. Allianz required a space that could be customized to create an employee friendly working environment, above average parking capacity, as well as high visibility.
Allianz Chief Executive Officer Phil Hibbert commented, "As Allianz continued to grow to over 600 employees we decided to invest in the future and relocate our operations to a larger facility. The entire team looks forward to 2019 when Allianz will relocate to the new 115,000 square foot state of the art campus."
After two years of work, NKF Devencore was able to source an unknown opportunity that fit Allianz's criteria. NKF Devencore negotiated a transaction that allows Allianz to design and build a state of the art campus environment within budget, with occupancy set for late 2018. The campus will have above average parking, superior signage facing the 401 and walkable amenities a few hundred metres away.
"The trend in the real-estate industry is that larger firms are moving to a single floor plate, flex space campus option as opposed to a traditional building, said Mark Petznick, Principal and Senior Vice President Sales Representative for NKF Devencore. "This is a cost effective, highly-efficient choice that allows firms to build out to meet workplace demands."
NKF Devencore Senior Vice President and Managing Principal Rob Renaud commented, "The team at NKF Devencore was successful in negotiating a great transaction for Allianz's future location, with all requirements met within budget. We are thrilled to see construction start on this forward-thinking vision."
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St Albans International Organ Festival Begins
Today, Monday 10th July, marks the official start of the St Albans International Organ Festival which includes one of the world's leading organ competitions. For the next two weeks, there will be a number of events held in the Cathedral as well as in several venues across St Albans and London. The biennial festival will be a celebration of organ music and more, with a variety of large scale concerts, exhibitions, fringe events and more, the festival has something for everyone.
Highlights of the festival are set to include The High Sheriff's Charity Concert at St Albans Cathedral on Saturday 15th July at 7.30pm. The event will see the St Albans Bach Choir, Mosaic Chamber Choir and the London Handel Festival Orchestra joined by soloists for a performance of Handel's much loved English-language oratorio. Also at the Cathedral will be one of the most eagerly anticipated festival events, the Three Choirs Concert featuring the choirs of St Albans Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral and Temple Church. The event will take place on Monday 17th July at 7.30pm and will feature spectacular music for choir and organ.
The festival will also feature some of the world's most talented young organists for performances around St Albans and London, culminating in the final rounds at St Albans Cathedral on Friday 21st July at 7pm and at London's St John's Smith Square on Saturday 22nd July at 7.20pm. There will also be a number of 30 minute recitals held in the Cathedral throughout the duration of the festival as well as jury recitals in local churches.
This year, there is a new addition to the festival programme with the introduction of intimate candlelight performances on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
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A third constitution that briefly controlled part of America
We all know about the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, and the Constitution as we know it today. But for a brief time, a third constitution controlled the lives of about 9 million people.
On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. And much of it mirrored the Constitution of the United States as it existed at the time.
In 1860, there were more than 9 million people, including 3 million slaves, living in the states and territories that would leave the Union, compared with 22 million people outside those areas.
The document was drawn up and approved just a week after Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States. There were seven southern states that had seceded at the time, and a total of 13 would eventually sign the Confederate constitution.
At first glance, much of the Confederate document was taken directly from the U.S. Constitution.
Link: Read Confederate Constitution
But there were several passages related to slavery that were much different. The Confederate version used the word "slaves," unlike the U.S. Constitution. One article banned any Confederate state from making slavery illegal. Another ensured that slave owners could travel between Confederate states with their slaves.
The Confederate constitution also accounted for slaves as three-fifths of a state's population (like the U.S. Constitution did at the time), and it required that any new territory acquired by the nation allow slavery.
In other ways, the Confederate constitution was closer to the Articles of Confederation, which preceded the U.S. Constitution—it was focused on states' rights.
The Confederate preamble begins, "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character…"
The U.S. Constitution starts with the more familiar, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…"
Confederate states had the ability to impeach federal officials, collect more taxes, and make treaties with each other under certain circumstances. They could also create lines of credit.
When it came to elected officials, the Confederate constitution limited the president to one, six-year term in office in a person's lifetime. The vice president didn't have term limits.
The president also had use of the line-item veto in budget matters.
Senators and representatives served under circumstances that were very similar to rules in the U.S. Constitution.
It also had a Bill of Rights, lumped together with rules about Congress. (Most of the rights in the U.S. Constitution's original Bill of Rights were incorporated.)
One additional right stated that the government couldn't impair "the right of property in negro slaves" to owners.
The Confederate Congress operated in a similar fashion to the United States. But the Confederate Congress couldn't pass legislation about amendments. That role was reserved for the states.
Cabinet members could also answer questions on the floor of Congress.
The Supreme Court system was also very similar to the one used by the United States. But it was never formed during the Civil War because of the government's instability.
The Confederate Congress met for six sessions during the war. Political parties didn't form in the Confederacy, but there were political factions in the electorate.
Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator, served as the Confederate president.
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The Queen's Secret hardback cover has now been agreed upon - real eleventh hour stuff, as the book should be in the shops by February 17th - and I'm just arranging a series of launch-month events. More details of these to follow soon.
My other novel, which is a Tudor paranormal for Young Adults called Witchstruck, is due out in July and is now at the copy-edits stage. I've just written my dedication and acknowledgements for the book, plus seen a possible cover for it - very exciting! - and am currently planning the next book in this paranormal series. The Amazon blurb for Witchstruck says:
Twilight meets The Other Boleyn Girl in this gripping and passionate tale of Meg, a spirited young witch learning her craft amidst the danger and intrigue of sixteenth-century England.
I almost wish I hadn't written Witchstruck. It sounds like such a great read - and I already know what happens!
You can pre-order these books on both Amazon UK and Amazon US, or grab them from a bookshop as they come out.


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Feel Right As Rain with Finance Employment in North Carolina
Undoubtedly the hot spot for finance employment in North Carolina is the Raleigh area. The reasons for this need of employees are straightforward. The Research Triangle Park area of Raleigh Durham, and Chapel Hill is a national behemoth providing a culture of new business entrepreneurship, business growth and development, strong growing supportive economy, and a very high educational level of the residents. Essentially where there is money flow, there is finance employment of all kinds.
If you have experience in financial operations and seeking a better position, whether it be a high-level position or an entry-level with opportunity for growth, the Raleigh and surrounding area puts North Carolina on your A-list.
But life is more than work. You may ask, "Will I like it?"
That depends on you. North Carolina is certainly beautiful country. There are mountainous areas on the west and ocean on the East. There are fields and trees and birds of all sort. Grant you there are no volcanos or tsunami, but there is the one-day-per-year ice storm. But the southern climate is relatively mild through the winter and the drive through the Appalachians during fall is year after year spectacular. There are great people in North Carolina and the Raleigh and surrounding area is very stimulating, yet family oriented.
If you are not familiar with this part of America, fly to or better drive through the area. Get a tourist map and visit some sites. Sense the area and give it chance. Sure you miss where you are. But change takes a little time, and with great financial employment in a growing environment, chances are you will soon forget all about that struggle and feel right as rain.
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When it comes to hurting people in the Queer community, it is true that I can be pretty damned heartless when it comes to taking pleasure in the demise of those responsible for doing the hurting. One such case came when I was browsing the Internet a few moments ago and I learned that Flip's Wine Bar & Trattoria was gutted by a fire last night. I could hardly sit still, overcome with glee. Until I learned that the wretched place is going to reopen. As far as I am concerned, the only travesty here is that it'll reopen – and that two fire fighters were injured trying to put it out. Oh, and that Gail Vines – its homophobic co-owner – is likely going to obtain a huge settlement from fire insurance. Yes, those are the only tragedies here today.
Of Course, not mentioned in the coverage provided by The Oklahoman (not surprisingly) is the fact that Flips has been under boycott by the smarter half of the Oklahoma queer community for several months. The reason for this is that Gail Vines also sits on the Oklahoma City School Board, where she voted to fire an openly gay teacher Joe Quigley. The Oklahoma City School District really wanted to get rid of Joe. Why did they want him gone, you ask? Did he molest a pupil, rape a turtle or smoke a blunt in class? No! Our friend Joe committed the audacious sin of trying to get sexual orientation and gender identity included in the district's anti-bullying policy. Thankfully, he has since been reinstated while the school district pisses away taxpayer money pursuing a frivolous appeal.
Often after a fire, people get soft and compassionate. Gail doesn't deserve our compassion. There is nothing to indicate that she has changed her queer-hating ways. Lets not allow this to be used by a homophobe and an enemy of our community. Gail had her chance to walk her talk and show she was not homophobic. She instead choose to hide behind her lawyer. May all of you stay strong in our joint mission against queerphobia – and stay away from Flip's Wine Bar & Trattoria.


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There's a Riot Goin'...Somewhere
White Light Riot
50 Records
"Mark and I talked about this before," blurts out Joe Christenson, the lead guitarist for Minneapolis pop band White Light Riot.
Christenson is sitting at a picnic table outside Whiskey Junction, two hours after his band played to a sun-baked and beer-boiled crowd of 300 on the main stage at Finnegan's Summerfest. Christenson has been eagerly interjecting his thoughts throughout my interview with Light White Riot about their upcoming full-length album, Atomism.
He's not rabid (or drunk), but he is excited. He bashes congressional Democrats for their unwillingness to stand up to the Bush administration (this in reference to a comment from drummer Mark Schwandt that the band practices a stringent policy of checks and balances); he throws in an invective against the corporatization of the United States countryside, saying "there's a Subway and McDonald's in every town and it's just fucking sad" (a reaction reference to frontman Mike Schwandt's declaration that the band's aim with the latest album is "to speak to people our age about things that are actually goin' on and about how people are, and about how our culture is").
Now, after a question about where the band is going with it's decidedly Anglo-pop sound, he tears into the state of popular music.
"I think that popular music progressed more between 1963, when the Beatles released 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' to the end of '66/early '67, when they came out with 'Strawberry Fields,' than it has since then," he says, hovering over the digital audio recorder, his shaggy dark locks casting a shadow on his smooth olive complexion. "You think about it, and you can trace everything back to the '60s at least, except really lame reverbs on drums and way too over-the-top guitar solos. There is a loss of creativity in popular music.... How far have we come? Well, not as far as we should have in 40 years."
His comments do smack of truth, but they also smack of tired generalization. They are, in short, the words of a 20-year-old. And, like any group of friends mixing righteous declarations with testosterone and Jay-Z at 3:00 a.m., his bandmates don't dismiss any of it.
That's because this band, like its guitarist, is at a crossroads. Down one stretch is cynicism, and down the other, hope. Where they're going, they don't know, but they sure know where they've been. And they seem to have an inkling that their future is predicated by more than ability and intent. Mark Schwandt, the younger of the band's brothers, lays the whole situation out, sage-like.
"We try to dip our feet in both areas," says the mop-topped drummer. "I consider us a commercial band because our record is polished. But at the same time, we're huge indie fans and we like so much indie music, you know? So, we try to bring that in as well. And our integrity is very important to us in a lot of ways."
To be fair, White Light Riot are a dyed-in-the-wool pop band. Atomism is a practice in epic pop rock, the type of sound—from the climbing vocal lines of a song like "Grey Divide," to the dirty guitar of "Out of Sight," to the soft-pedaled social consciousness of "Our Formative Capital"—that's aimed more for the arena than the hipster dive bar. Asked to name their influences, the four members topple over each other to put another band on the list. And that list is decidedly radio-friendly.
"A lot of Foo Fighters," says one. "Radiohead," offers another." "...well, the Beatles—" "—of course the Beatles!," "—but at the beginning we were mostly like Sparta." "Queens of the Stone Age," "Coldplay," "The Strokes," "Oh yeah, the Strokes!" "We were really derivative at first...."
The truth is that they are still an incredibly derivative band. While Atomism has been scrubbed clean of a lot of the navel-gazing lyricism that defines the turn-of-the-millennium Brit pop the band openly worships, it is still fenced in by the constraints of the pop music that Christenson so fervently criticizes. Still, these four guys are excellent musicians. Mike Schwandt's vocals are both strong and versatile (able to cover ground between a Julian Casablancas croon and a Richard Hell squawk), the guitar work is crisp and studied, and the rhythm section is tastefully restrained in most spots, but booming when appropriate. To witness all of the above, listen to "Midway Souvenirs," a brilliant piece of melancholy pop that croons and soars its way to being the cornerstone of this band's sound.
Still, there are hints of experimentation that move the band in a more interesting direction—the near-minute of ambient guitar canoodling at the end of the otherwise plodding Stone Temple Pilots cop, "Dive;" the muted monotone vocal track on "Grey Divide" that, among other things, literally announces Christenson's guitar solo.
This, the band members say, is a result of making the album with Brent Sigmeth, a producer who let the band take the reigns in the studio, a marked difference from the group's experience with local music-man-about-town Erik Applewick, who adopted the group after hearing a demo, and produced their debut EP.
"I guess the first band we really looked to in the local scene was the Hopefuls," says Mike Schwandt. "[Erik] Applewick and Darren [Jackson] really helped us understand how to record. How to get the album out there. How to make connections in the scene. They really introduced us to this whole world."
Still, as Christenson states (and his band silently concurs), the training wheels are off—and while Atomism isn't a great departure, it might be the first step in the reinvention of a hopeful bunch of Minneapolis pop scholars.
"We liked it," says Christenson of the band's one-and-a-half-month stint recording Atomism at Pachyderm Studios. "I think it was a relished change, because everything that anybody wrote about us at first was, 'With the helping hand of Erik Applewick, blah, blah, blah,' and we were like, man, we can make such a good record on our own, we think, and we really want to move beyond that and show that we can do it ourselves."


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The 6 Essential Qualities Of An Automotive Design Engineer (Part 1)
You have no vehicles in your storage. To add a brand new vehicle, choose the yr, make, and model at left. Hoodliners – Over the past few a long time, millions of automobiles have been manufactured with automotive hood liners constructed from asbestos fibers. Whereas asbestos is remarkably fireplace-resistant, it's also the main reason for mesothelioma, an especially deadly form of most cancers. It will be important for the car producers to provide the shoppers with reliable and safe automobiles. This results in their automobiles becoming more popular and in excessive gross sales. Satisfying the customers in vital them for higher identify, recognition and improve in sales.
Media Ecology was very much about making that distinction. Other packages, such because the Annenberg Faculty in Philadelphia, had been additionally vitally concerned with communication. But their idea of communication studies was mainly analysis of content material. Journalist Fons de Poel of Catholic TV and radio (KRO) and cinematographer Lajos Kalanos at work through the birthday celebration of the dictator.
And so, as the brand new millennium dawns—precisely when relies upon upon your mathematical metaphysics—McLuhan rides excessive. As somebody as soon as remarked about Chomsky and his revolution in generative linguistics, it succeeded not as a result of he convinced his contemporaries or critics, for he didn't. It succeeded as a result of graduate college students had been convinced.
Wall Street banksters who created toxic mortgage securities and bought them world wide played an necessary position in inflicting the recession, and there may be plenty more blame to spread round-Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's bad loans, Ayn Rand disciple Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's failure to behave to restrain the housing bubble, repeal of the Glass Steagal Act by Congress and signed by Clinton, unscrupulous mortgage bankers like Angelo Mozillo's Countrywide who made undocumented … Read More ...


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Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley
I'll admit it. I saw the movie first. We watched it in my promotional writing class last quarter. I absolutely loved the film, and I'm warning you now that may have colored my judgment.
I didn't mind that the book had a slower pace than the film, I expected it. What I did not expect was its more sedate tone. I'm used to novel-inspired movies being toned-down mainstreamed versions of the book. With Thank You For Smoking, this was reversed.
The book felt a little dated. I realize Mr. Buckley penned this bestseller a decade and a half ago, and I didn't expect it to be technologically current. But the slightly antiquated feeling was more than that. Buckley's sentence structure felt starch with too much lengthy winding for today. Perhaps this is a sign of pre-millennial authorship, but should not a classic be able to withstand the test of time, especially so little time as this? The film felt like a classic.
Another issue I had with the book was Buckley's use of stereotypes. These of course, could be character faults of the protagonist, Nick Naylor, but they were assimilated throughout the third person narration. These include Naylor's thoughts on the sexuality of black women, "It was true what they said about black women, every word – they were insatiable. No wonder black men fled their homes in droves. They needed sleep."
When riding in a cab Naylor's thoughts (or Buckley's) often maligned immigrants: "'National Airport. And hurry' It was unnecessary to say that to any foreign-born D.C. cab driver, since they only drive at two speeds dangerously fast and really dangerously fast." and "Even highly trained government drivers are no match for the ordinary Middle Easterner."
One more issue I had with the book was the slight presence of Naylor's son Joey. The movie, made ten years after the book was published, features a more-involved relationship between father and son. This probably is a "sign of the times" now that greater father-figure involvement is in vogue, but it also made the movie's protagonist more lovable than the book version.
I had high hopes for this book which were largely disappointed. I plan on reading another of Buckley's books before I judge what idiosyncracies are his and which belong to his characters.
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I don't have any pity on people who abuse children. Especially former police officers!
A former police officer wanted on charges of encouraging child sexual abuse has surrendered in Jackson County. Authorities say 42-year-old Mark Allen Heckerman, a construction company owner, faces 20 counts.
Investigators say he previously worked for 18 years in law enforcement in Hawaii and California, and he once tried to join the Ashland police force…
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Celebrate America's Independence the Life Leaders Way with this Independence Day excerpt (PDF) from our Patriotism in Action book. Here is a handy guide to America's patriotic holidays (PDF) in general.
Life Leaders programs such as Patriotism in Action and Veterans Day Founding History and Education Character Traits inspire and guide our service on Independence Day and at ceremonies throughout the year.
The American Village offers educational programs and events focused on history and citizenship to help people learn and remember the meaning of Independence Day and more of the sacrifices necessary to start and build the United States of America. Thousands of citizens and families attend on Independence Day in Montevallo, Alabama.


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When the G20 leaders meet, they are expected to tackle an ambitious agenda that includes: mapping out a strategy for countries to withdraw enormous economic stimulus, finding a way forward on resolving global imbalances, pressing for an open and rules-based trading regime, and strengthening the global financial regulatory system.
"This summit is an opportunity for Canadian leadership," says Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. "Toronto gives Prime Minister Harper an opportunity to promote Canadian values and present solutions that serve our own interests and the global community's in a balanced way."
The G20 leaders must embrace an effective and efficient rules-based trading system, reaffirm their commitment to open markets, and remove existing barriers to trade and capital flows. They must set an example by quickly removing protectionist measures adopted during the downturn, including barriers contained in stimulus packages. "When so much of our prosperity depends upon trade, the prime minister must call on world leaders to not simply talk about their opposition to protectionism, but to demonstrate their commitment through their actions," says Beatty.
The prime minister must also urge world leaders to emulate Canadian financial system practices and regulations. As part of an international financial reform agenda, leaders need to ensure adequate capital and liquidity standards, and build a principles-based framework for global financial supervision through better collaboration and coordination among regulators. Achieving a commitment to ambitious peer review will be an important milestone. "In the end, new standards for banking regulation and supervision must be able to avoid another financial crisis while still encouraging growth and innovation," says Beatty.
Canada must remain adamant about its opposition to a global financial transaction tax. Such a tax would increase the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. It would institutionalize moral hazard by setting aside dedicated funds to help major financial institutions in times of distress.
"Although Canada is but one relatively small voice, this is an opportunity to have a great impact. We must seize the moment," stated Beatty.


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My Family
: Ahmad Kay Soon
He's the computer genius in the family. Learnt everything on his own.
He's a Harbour Pilot in (guess what???) PSA (my company!!!).
Yeah, he's the reason why I'm Chinese!!!
: Siti Kalsom a.k.a.
My mom is very good at baking cakes & cooking. Everyone loves
the cakes she bakes. Should open her own cake shop!!!
|Brothers :
|Ayyub Kay Chein Hsin
The older of my 2 younger brothers. He's 19 this year and is pretty good footballer.
|Ismail Kay Jianming a.k.a. Ming
Hey!!! This is the 'devil' of the house man!!! Once he gets to know you, he has the ability to irritate you to death!!! This is how my youngest brother got so notorious. He's a terror for a boy who's only 12 this year. Visit his webpage at http://ming.tsx.org