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Special edge treatments are one of the things that can set your homemade card apart from a store-bought card. This greeting card tutorial shows how to add a cutout edge detail to your rubber-stamped cards. You'll also see how to quickly draw a background on a plain white card using felt-tip markers.
Project extras: Make a card for Father's Day using printable strips of solid colors that coordinate with printable ePapers. You can also make gift tags with cutout edges using the gift tag patterns below—don't miss the printable Christmas gift tags.
This greeting card tutorial builds on the previous tutorials in the original Greeting Card Class set of tutorials, especially the Repeat Cards tutorial. If you are new to card making, review these tutorials for ideas and basic techniques.
Check out Aunt Annie's Rubber Stamping Tips for ways to get the best possible image from your rubber stamp.
Related craft: For another edge technique, see the Scalloped Edge Cards tutorial.
Refer to Card Class Tutorial #1: Four Patch Cards for how to make card blanks and envelopes.
This card's major design elements are stamped images and the cutout edge. The cutout edge is backed by a colored strip of cardstock, 1" by 5½″, that is glued to the card's inside right edge. The rubber stamp creates an outline to which you add color after stamping the image.
Select coordinating colors for the stamped images and the cutout edge's cardstock strip. For the sample card, the complementary colors of blue and orange are the card's major colors. The cardstock edge strip is blue, along with the mat for the card's message. To add interest to the stamped image, the flowers are given analogous colors: yellow, yellow-orange, and orange. The greens of stems and leaves are used as accents and in the background.
Complementary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel. They highly contrast each other and naturally exude high energy.
Analogous colors are near each other on the color wheel, have a cheerful effect, reflect color schemes found in nature, and create color harmonies that are pleasing to the eye.
ePaper extra: Instead of a solid color edge strip, use strips of marbled paper as the cutout edge's background. Download and print Aunt Annie's Marbled Strips ePaper for a variety of marbled designs.
Stamp three to five images of your rubber stamp on the card's front. One or two of these images will be partially cut out for your cutout edge. For these cutouts, stamp near the right edge, about 1/8" to 1/2" from the edge.
Using the colors you selected, color the stamped images with felt-tip markers.
Tip: For added interest, vary the color arrangements in each stamped image.
Using a ruler and pencil, draw a faint vertical line about ¾" from the right edge. The line should intersect one or two of your stamped images, but don't draw through the images.
Cut the edge following the faint pencil line and around the right-side of the stamped images. Leave a tiny margin of white cardstock around the images.
Using felt-tip markers, draw vertical or horizontal lines to make a background for your card. For the sample card, the lines are dots and dashes. A ruler was used to draw dots of blue and green—then dashes, mostly green, were drawn freehand.
Get creative: Use any combination of straight lines, dots, dashes, and squiggles to make the lined background. You can also use a ¼" hole punch to make dots to glue on the card. Keep the background simple and light so you don't overpower your stamped images.
Glue the edge's background cardstock strip to the right edge of the card's inside. Stamp a message on a piece of white cardstock and mat it with the same color of cardstock as the edge strip.
Project extra: Make gift tags with cutout edges using Aunt Annie's Christmas Cutout Edge Gift Tag pattern or Templates for plain cutout edge gift tags. To make the Christmas gift tags: Cut out each 3-section gift tag strip, fold on the black lines, glue the two left sections back-to-back, trim away the light green strip from the tag front to make the cutout edge. Use the Plain Templates to create cutout edge gift tags of your own design using rubber stamps, stickers or cut outs.
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Tip: It's quick and easy to make Christmas cards using the cutout edge technique. Gather your supplies, make a sample card or two, then setup a production line to make all the cards you need.
Father's Day Tip: Download and print strips of solid colors that coordinate with Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting ePapers. Use one of these strips as the cutout edge's background and combine this with circles cut from an Australian Aboriginal Dot Painting ePaper of your choice to make a Father's Day card.
For the sample card, brown cardstock and five circles cut from Dot Painting on Ochre ePaper were used along with the orange strip and a handwritten message.
Tip: Cutout shapes, like these hearts, are an alternative to stamped images. Download and print other shapes from Aunt Annie's Simple Paper Cutting project.
This card features an edge background strip cut from Aunt Annie's Marbled Strips ePaper.
Tip: Use markers to make the right edge's background strip. Make the background with vertical lines and punched dots.
Tip: Make a circular matted message with a circle punch. Use punches glued to the card front to balance the design on your card.
Tip: Make gift tags with cutout edges. Use one of Aunt Annie's printable patterns (see Project Extra under Step 6) or start with a gift tag blank of any size. Follow the steps for the Cutout Edge card to create a gift tag using rubber stamps, stickers or cut outs.


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Wild Mushrooms In Brioche
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- 6 small baked brioche rolls
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 tablespoons minced shallots
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 pounds assorted fresh wild mushrooms* wiped clean, ends trimmed, and sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly-ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup Madeira
- 1 cup veal stock (or beef stock)
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon chives
- 1 teaspoon Essence (see Bayou Blast recipe)
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
- 3 ounces enoki mushrooms wiped clean
Servings 6
Step 1
* Such as shiitake, oyster, woodear, chanterelle, or porcini.
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Place the brioche on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until warmed through but not hard, about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and cut the top 1/3 from each brioche. Cover with aluminum foil to keep warm.
In a large skillet or saute pan, melt the butter and oil over medium-high heat. Add the shallots and garlic, and cook, stirring, until soft, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the mushrooms, salt, and pepper, and cook, stirring, until the mushrooms are wilted and start to give off their liquid, about 4 minutes. Add the Madeira and cook, stirring, until the liquid is reduced by half, about 3 minutes. Add the veal stock and bring to a boil. Simmer, stirring, until reduced by half and thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the cream and lemon juice, and cook until reduced and thickened, about 3 minutes. Add the chives, Essence, tarragon and parsley, stir well, and adjust the seasoning, to taste. Remove from the heat.
Place 1 brioche on each of 6 plates. Spoon the mushroom mixture into each brioche and top with the brioche lid. Arrange the enoki mushrooms decoratively on the plates and serve immediately.
This recipe yields 6 servings.
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Archive for art
Persephone, Emily Dickenson, and all that poetic jazz.
I have found that in the last year, year and a half, I have let my creative muscle go completely unused. I know there are several good and not so good reasons for this. However, now that I am wanting to use it again, I find myself frustrated. I tried to write a poem the other night which, honestly, kind of sucked.
Do you remember when you were in high school lit class and your teacher would just jabber on and on about Emily Dickenson and the metaphor for death in this or that poem? After class you'd congregate with your friends and roll your eyes, so wise, knowing that there was no way Dickenson really meant to infuse that poem with so much extra stuff.
Wait was that just my school?
When I went off to college, and was privileged enough to get to work with Diane Wakoski for three wonderful, if not brutal semesters of poetry writing, I was surprised to learn just how wrong I was. While I am forever grateful to Diane for teaching me that the best poetry isn't just pretty words (in fact, quite often they are not pretty words at all), but that good poetry is like great irony- saying one thing when you are meaning something else.
The second semester I was in Diane's class, I wrote a poem about a woman (a specific woman, if you care, although I'd rather not name names) whose daughter is only just starting to realize that there is something very wrong with her mother, even though she doesn't know quite what that is yet. Originally, the poem was pretty much a straightforward story, descriptive and almost prosy. Really it only had a few salvageable lines in the whole thing. The problem was that I was trying to write about something using words when there really weren't any words to explain what had happened to this young girl. At that moment in time, she didn't really know what was wrong, or that anything was wrong. She just felt something. She saw something in her mother that tripped a kind of inner switch. No one else saw what she did at that moment, and no one else felt it. But she did and it stayed with her into adulthood. As an adult, she knew and could tell me that what was wrong was that her mother was an alcoholic, and bipolar. But that's a story, not a poem. The poem I was trying to write was capturing that moment.
Anyway, I left that poem for a long time. Maybe four or five years. Until one day, completely randomly, I ran into a story about Persephone. Keep in mind that I had completely forgotten that the original poem existed at this point. So I was interested enough in this story to do some research (I am woefully ignorant when it comes to this mythology stuff). I started to kind of see this woman's disorders differently. In another life, would she have ended up in the same place? Would she have chosen the life she ended up leading? I started to see her as a kind of Persephone, who was bound to Hades for the majority of her life, able to leave only for a short period of time, all because some guy forced her to eat some pomegranate seeds. Guys can be so lame.
Ok, so it isn't exactly the same. Still, I could see how this girl's mother would never have chosen the life she ended up leading. I knew her daughter well enough to know that her mother tried, time and again to sober up, to clean up her life. But her life was inextricably mixed up with the alcoholism. It was as if she too, had eaten the pomegranate seeds, and therefore, would never really be able to leave Hades.
So one night, when I was supposed to be sleeping, I was instead kept awake by all of these thoughts. The next day I sat down and spent hours pounding out what has become my favourite poem to date. While I am sure that will change as time goes by (and if it doesn't, how sad would that be?).
Anyway, I wanted to write about this because poetry, and the art of poetry has been on my mind for a little while now. As I try to get back to a creative and poetic kind of mental state, it is important to remind myself that I won't get it right the first time, or second, maybe even the third. But also, I wanted to remind myself that it is hard for a reason. If it was just pretty words on a piece of paper, anyone could do it. As it is, I am still not sure that I can do it. Knowing though, how much it takes, and how hard it is, helps. To me, the art of poetry is the ability to say something true, something important, without saying it directly, because a lot of time, the direct words are the ones that clutter up the true emotion behind the statement. They make it prosy, or over dramatic, cliched or trite. A good poem will get right at the intuition behind it, even if you don't see it right away. So, to answer my naive 17 year old self, Yes. Emily Dickenson did indeed intend to put all that in there.
Does feeling it make it so?
I think it must be in the air. I've been reading others blogs and there seems to be a general feeling of suppressed creativity. I think most writers (and I speak for writers because that is the only art I really know. I would say all artists, but I can't be sure), feel this way at one time or another. As if something is rising up through them, but they don't know what it is just yet. I can feel this today, inside. I have a story to tell, words to place. They are unfamiliar yet. I don't know their shape or meaning.
There are times when I love feeling this way. It is a feeling that reminds me that I still have it. I still have the drive and desire to write. That there is still something tangible that I want to grab a hold of. I don't know if all writers feel this, but I worry that one day, it will be gone. That I will wake up numb and not even realize. Not even miss it. Does that make sense?
Conversely, I dislike this feeling because it feels stuck. Static. I feel like I want to be writing something meaningful and true, but I don't know what it is yet. And sometimes, nothing happens. I end up crocheting like a madwoman or reading some Sharon Olds and just forgetting about it because nothing comes.
I feel like I know what I want to write- a story idea that came to me in the midst of a 4 am feeding. It might be absolute lunacy, considering my state of mind at the time. However, I've learned that I can do it. I realize that sounds completely hokey. But it is true. Completing my NaNo novel in '07 taught me that I absolutely can write a book. Before I did NaNo, I was always afraid that I didn't have enough story in me. That I wasn't creative enough to write a whole book. Especially after years of poetry writing, during which I learned agonize over each word., when I struggled to learn the art of speaking in four words what should take 50. Unlearning and allowing myself to use as many as possible (50,000 ideally), was a struggle, but I did do it.
Ok, so maybe my NaNo novel is no masterpiece. In my defense, it was written on a whim, in 30 days. And maybe I'll never complete it, and there is a great chance that no one will ever be allowed to read it, but that is ok. Because I can look at it and know that I have it in me.I feel that I must add though, that all this talk about being a writer is making me a bit self conscious. As if others will read it and think, " How presumptuous for her to call herself a writer." I'm not published, not many have read what I have to offer, and I may not even be great, good or mediocre. Does feeling something inside make it so? All of my life I have known that this is what I love more than anything. That I have the desire to write. Does this make me a writer, or is that insanity and arrogance?
Now if only I had some spare cash and a room of my own. Instead, I think I'll go make a bottle and plot my strategy for writing during afternoon nap time.


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Perspective Market Commentary, 11/19/2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Wednesday afternoon's release of the October Fed meeting minutes was quite revealing in more than one way. First, it revealed that the majority of the voting members believed that conditions to justify a rate hike "could well be met by the time of the next meeting." In fact, the minutes indicated that some members felt those conditions had already been met. Keep in mind that the October meeting took place prior to the bullish October jobs report released on November 6 that increased the chances for a December rate hike. As such, the market now fully anticipates a rate hike on December 16; likely of 25 basis points.
The other factor revealed was the lack of panic by the markets. I've been saying for some time that we need to get the first small rate hike in place so that young fund managers who have never seen one ( the last was in 2006) would see that the sun would still come up the next morning. The overall reaction of the global markets to the meeting minutes suggests that the trade has come to both anticipate and accept the rate hike. Stocks are stable and the dollar is weaker. That's largely because the market has also come to anticipate that this rate hike will be small, with the second rate hike likely some time down the road.
Meanwhile, a rate cut in China receives relatively little attention from the markets, which have accepted the fact that China's economy is slowing, necessitating more stimulus. Once again, the United States is moving towards monetary tightening, while the rest of the world is essentially in stimulus mode. However, U.S. tightening is expected to be modest at most due to the fact that our economic growth is less than spectacular and Fed members remain concerned about the lack of growth overseas.
As such, commodities continue to face head winds. Asian iron ore contracts hit new record lows on demand concerns, while nickel posted a 12-year low on weaker demand from China. Some bears argue that the commodity markets have not yet priced a Fed rate hike in, but that suggests that commodity traders have been living in a bubble.
Crude oil slipped below $40 per barrel overnight, its lowest level since late August. Prices are currently back above $40, but the charts remain weak. Crude oil continues to be a leading indicator for the broader commodity indices. Those indices are consolidating early today after some posted new multi-year lows on Wednesday.
The grains are faring a bit better than the broader commodity complex. That makes sense, since the poor will spend their last "dollar" on food. They may move down the food quality scale, but they will still do all they can to eat. Wheat fell to new lows for the move on Wednesday, but corn and soybeans held above recent lows and continue to consolidate, resisting selling in the broader commodity markets for now.
Support comes from strength in cash basis for corn and soybeans. Processors continue to push bids in most areas to pull grain out of the hands of farmers. Producers don't like current flat prices and still have enough money in the bank at this point to keep the lock on the bin door, hoping that a weather problem will emerge overseas to re-energize the markets. This morning's USDA export sales data for the week ending November 12 was encouraging, with good sales across the board for the grain and oilseed complex. However, that demand has been relatively price sensitive this year, suggesting that buyers aren't willing to chase a rally.
Weather remains largely favorable, lacking fodder for the bulls. Wheat received good moisture in both the U.S. Plains and Former Soviet Union, and now looks to go dormant over the coming week as cooler temperatures settle in. A cold push in China next week will result in only isolated damage. Widespread rains across Brazil should support crop development.
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Waller Assistance and Restoration Ministries, Inc. (W.A.R.M.), is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) Texas non-profit charitable corporation.
W.A.R.M. was formed through the merger of two long-standing Christian outreach ministries in the Waller area. The ministry is based around two primary services: the assistance office and the thrift store. The W.A.R.M. Assistance Office provides supplemental food, clothing and personal assistance to families in need in the Waller area and Waller Independent School District. The food is purchased through thrift shop sales or the generous donations of local and area citizens, churches and businesses. The WARM Treasures Thrift Shop sells gently used clothing, furniture, books, music and other goods. It is a great place to shop for that unique item or to supplement your home or wardrobe. Proceeds from the WARM Treasures sales support the assistance office and other expenses of the ministry.
Historically, the Waller-Prairie View Ministerial Alliance and others in the area Christian community were concerned about better ways to serve those in need in the Waller area. Pastors, church staff, volunteers and other organizations often found themselves making assistance decisions regarding the needs of individuals and families without having the time or staffing to fully evaluate the situation. Many congregations simply did not have the resources to help those outside their own church families.The Waller Pantry and Closet was formed by the Ministerial Alliance in 1986. The Mission Closet, a ministry of Waller Baptist Church, had been at work since 1985. The merger of those two ministries with the assistance of the Ministerial Alliance formed W.A.R.M. as it exists today.
The merger fulfilled the desire of all concerned to cooperate in a Christ-centered approach to providing emergency assistance and restoration for those in need. After much prayer and discussion with similar organizations, both inside and outside our community, the consolidation of this effort now provides a great benefit to those in need in the Waller area. W.A.R.M. serves the needs of our community through the efforts of those who desire to communicate Christ's love through acts of giving and serving.
We often serve families in danger of homelessness due to a sudden emergency or job loss. The W.A.R.M. Assistance Office assists people who need temporary financial assistance and ascertains their need for additional resources.
The work of our Assistance Ministries would not be possible without the generous donations of people like yourself as the majority of our funding comes from public donations. Having considered the reasons and having developed your personal philosophy for giving, we hope you will participate in our donation drives. If you cannot contribute financially, you may consider donating items for our WARM Treasures Thrift Store. Also, please consider donating your time as a W.A.R.M. volunteer.


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We need to bring out this HORRIBLE TRUTH, NOW
As the Jewish Child Abuse Plot involving the emotional torture and terrorizing of children thickens; I need to bring to your attention some details now to protect all of us.
I need to do this because as millions of us know and history has shown; sick, abusive people, those who aid them and the organizations they control will stop at nothing, legal or illegal, to keep their terror and abuse going so they can maintain their sick, abusive way of life.
Just look at what Sandusky and those around him kept hidden for years as more and more children were being abused. We also know the same story with the Catholic Church.
Now I, a Jew myself, have uncovered the Jewish Child Abuse Plot and their emotional child torture and terror which has been going on for about 50 years to children of divorce and their families. It is very profitable for these Rabbis, synagogues and other Jewish organizations monetarily and in other ways as this acclaimed book cited in the references at the end of this article shows1 as well as the Jewish Child Abuse website page2, on the Parental Alienation Solutions website, also cited in references.
These Jews accept monetary, political and other favors from these sick, abusive parents at the time of divorce in exchange for ignoring the emotional torture and terror of precious children. They use these children as their bargaining chips, pawns and toys and allow the sacred, loving parent/child relationship to be destroyed.
It is truly horrifying that the Jewish Rabbis, leaders, organizations and journalists prey on innocent, precious children at the time of divorce. These precious children so desperately need love and support and are very vulnerable as these evil Jews know but take advantage of them by allowing this emotional torture right in front of their eyes.1
I need to bring some details to your attention and make them public now. I am going to begin by saying:
- If the Jewish leaders, their organizations and Jewish journalists had good intentions and were not trying to hide a child abuse plot and their emotional child torture and terror; WHY have they been deliberately refusing to talk and write about this abuse called parental alienation for about 50 year now, which they have been very well aware of?(Way back in the 1970's the late Rabbi Gerald Wolpe referred to this emotional torture of Jewish children as "epidemic" in Stephen Fried's acclaimed book, "The New Rabbi:"1)
- Furthermore, traditionally Jewish people value knowledge.
***So, if there really is not a plot to hide how the Jewish Rabbis, Jewish leaders, Jewish organizations and Jewish journalists are helping these sick, abusive Jewish parents emotionally torture precious Jewish children and destroy the sacred parent/child relationship; WHY are they refusing to talk or write about it so their congregations and communities can become educated?
This has been the Jewish way throughout history; they value education and educate their communities. Why are Jewish leaders and their organizations refusing to have speakers, discussions, school programs and other events to enlighten their congregations and communities about parental alienation as this emotional child abuse and emotional torture is affecting millions of Jews?2,3 This is not reasonable or rational behavior for well-intended people or their organizations.
Rabbis, Jewish leaders, Jewish organizations and Jewish journalists have all ignored this "epidemic" problem of Jewish child abuse and emotional child torture which has been afflicting the Jewish community since the 1970's as Fried's book shows.1
The late Rabbi Gerald Wolpe discovered this child abuse but then deliberately ignored it while accepting monetary and other favors from abusive parents. It is horrifying that this late Rabbi Gerald Wolpe's own sons are continuing their father's reprehensible legacy of ignoring this child abuse:
- One son is the very influential Rabbi David Wolpe and also an influential Jew;
- One son is the influential Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University and a Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, Paul Wolpe;
- And his other two sons are also Rabbis,
- All of these sons are educated in Judaism and know better.
- Something must be dreadfully wrong with Judaism today if its leaders continue to harm innocent precious children at the time of divorce and hold themselves out to be leaders and righteous, respectable people.
***Well, "the buck stops with me," as I have quite a lot of evidence to show the truth that these sons as well as many Jewish leaders and organizations are emotionally abusing and torturing precious children by turning their heads and allowing it in exchange for favors and benefits. As I will explain, this is why these leaders have tried to silence me and even told a friend of mine that I "had fallen off the deep end," because they don't want me to reveal the truth about them and their child abuse plot. They want to defame me so people will not believe what I have to say, which is the truth. This is an old strategy used by tyrants and other corrupt people.
If the Wolpe sons and these other Jews are truly people who support the teachings of Judaism as they claim they do, why would they behave this way and run their organizations which behave this way too? It seems they have all shamefully put the dollar and other benefits above the well-being of our precious children and our society but pretend to be righteous using God's teachings as their front or image? This is so evil beyond words and so difficult for me to write as I am a Jew and will persevere for the sake of all these precious children, for the sake of Judaism and for my own morality. I am so horrified and disgusted.
Apparently Rabbi David Wolpe, the most influential Rabbi in the US, has many other problems besides intentionally emotionally torturing children.
I need to make you aware of some details. His repetitive harmful behavior is quite typical as the bestselling book; "The Power of Habit, why we do what we do in Life and Business," by Charles Duhigg explains: habits create a person's behavior and character as does their business and home environments. In other words, a kind, caring person is generally that way throughout their life as is a mean, corrupt evil, person or organization with corrupt methods. This book scientifically explains human nature and that one's habits and behaviors will continue unless they diligently transform their detrimental habits with an effective program.
This is what makes all forms of child abuse including emotional child torture so devastating because unless these children are taught new habits and behaviors, besides their destructive, corrupt ways; they will teach these destructive habits to others and destroy the good values of society and humanity. This is happening already as many in our society have depraved values and have become very violent.
Continuing, I met Rabbi David Wolpe about five years ago, about a year before his divorce. I had consulted him regarding the Jewish perspective on what several professionals had determined was "parental alienation" affecting my children and myself caused by my ex-husband. Rabbi David Wolpe recommended that I email him and begin to come to events at his synagogue since I was new to the area. I did and found them enriching. Rabbi David Wolpe and I had many email conversations involving parental alienation and Jewish teachings. I would even question his posts and sermons and found him to have certain tendencies of a narcissist, despite that his controlling, dictatorial ways are contrary to Jewish teachings. I even brought this to his attention as Jews have a responsibility to try and help those who have strayed from God's ways and teachings as this is not healthy; especially basic teachings of being collaborative and discussing matters respectfully. There are emails about this, one where he even referred to me as an "object."
We continued to email for several years about various Jewish topics and parental alienation. Then about two years after Rabbi David Wolpe was divorced;
I have emails and other information showing how Rabbi David Wolpe came on to me. However, I refused his overtures and told him he needed to change first as he showed signs of those of a narcissist and I was not interested in another relationship with a controlling, narcissist.
I also found myself exiled from his synagogue but in a very unusual way: I attended a dinner at the synagogue one Friday evening in October, 2012 and had very nice conversations with the clergy, a board member and Rabbi David Wolpe even came to greet me. When I went to the synagogue the following morning for services, I was told by security I was not allowed to enter to pray. I was shocked. Since then, for over a year now, I have not been given any clear explanations as to why I have been treated this way.
- Did my ex-husband make a contribution to the synagogue in exchange for an agreement to defame my character by exiling me?
- Was Rabbi David Wolpe angry because I turned down his overtures?
- People at Sinai Temple know I have good character as this character reference written for me by a clergy there and who works with Rabbi David Wolpe shows:I met Sara about 3 years ago when she was volunteering. I have found Sara has always shown and expressed very good values. I think that it is not right that her ex-husband is not encouraging their children to have any relationship with Sara. I believe that this is not in the childrens' best interests, I have lived through a similar situation in my life and it was not healthy for the children. I know that Sara's children would greatly benefit from a re-newed relationship with their mother so that they could see, now that they are older, the type of caring individual that she is and experience the values by which she lives her life. Ralph R. ResnickRitual Director
Sinai Temple (2012).
Here are the Jewish leaders and others I have contacted since being exiled from Sinai Temple, who have ignored my reasonable, civil and polite requests to merely UNDERSTAND why they exiled me from this synagogue.
Some have even blocked my email address.
***You know something is gravely wrong if all these people will not even respond to my civil requests to understand why they exiled me from Sinai Temple for praying and other events. They are a non-profit organization too and receive tax benefits for serving the public, not abusing them.
***I have all the evidence to show how corrupt all these Jews and Jewish organizations are and that this emotional child torture was deliberate and ignored by individuals in supervisory positions in many Jewish organizations.
Here is the list of the people and their email addresses.
In case something should ever happen to me, you have this information to follow up on.
It is quite obvious that they are not reasonable since they will not even talk or write about parental alienation or even tell me for over a year now why I have been exiled from coming to all events and services at the Temple where Rabbi David Wolpe officiates. They are a non-profit organization and receive our tax dollars for carryout out this horrific emotional torture and child abuse of millions of our children and their families as the Jews have been doing for 50 years.
Here are their names and email addresses:
1) Rabbi Julie Schonfeld; an executive of a Jewish organization which is responsible for overseeing the conduct of Rabbis and other Jewish leaders. She is even a member of one of President Obama's Advisory Councils. I sent her many emails, even one entitled "woman to woman." It discussed how I found it very inappropriate for a Rabbi to behave making overtures in his emails. He is acting as a "Rabbi", not as an individual. I have emails discussing this liability. Any professional knows that they have certain duties and standards when acting under their professional titles; many professionals call these ethical standards of conduct.
In additional I requested that she get Rabbi David Wolpe off the internet until he takes some internet ethics classes. I said that I am older and more mature than many of the students and young people who email him. They may not have the experience to appropriately handle it if they too should be exiled from his synagogue.
Since then, I have learned that there has been a young woman who had consulted Rabbi David Wolpe for counseling did commit suicide with a note in her hand addressed to him. I was told he was the cause of her suicide. I don't have verification of this but, I doubt the person who told me would make this up.
Why are the Jewish leaders keeping all of this hidden and not getting Rabbi David Wolpe and others the help they need?
I have also been told by many that Rabbi David Wolpe got divorced due to his "women problem." But, Rabbi David Wolpe is allowed to continue creating more problems for women on the internet and elsewhere?
******* Emotionally abusing vulnerable women who come to him for counseling and emotionally abusing and emotionally torturing children of abuse must be Rabbi David Wolpe's pattern of behavior, his habit, his character.
I have yet to receive a response from this Rabbi, Julie Schonfeld who is one of the top executives of a Jewish organization responsible for the ethics and behavior of Rabbis and other Jewish leaders. All I want to know is why I have been exiled from Sinai Temple since October 2012. If you were exiled, I am sure you would want to know why too. What are they hiding?
2) Rabbi Daniel Nevins– Dean of the seminary who ordained Rabbi Julie Schonfeld and the Wolpe family Rabbis. No surprise as it appears they ban together and apparently have some horrific reason for ignoring this emotional torture of children. He responded to me and told me he was not getting involved and to contact Rabbi Julie Schonfeld. Why would he not want to get involved and help an alumni, Rabbi David Wolpe and help me a fellow Jew figure out why Rabbi David Wolpe's congregation has treated me this way? His behavior also does not seem reasonable or responsible. firstname.lastname@example.com
3) Joe Berkofsky, Managing Director, Communications and Media Relations Strategic Marketing & Communications of the Jewish Federations of North America. He never responded to my polite requests to try to understand what I had done to be exiled from Sinai Temple.
4)The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest rabbinical body in the world. They never responded either to my polite requests to try to understand what I had done to be exiled from Sinai Temple.
5) Mr. Hertog at the Tikvah Fund. This organization sent me an all-expense paid trip to NYC for a convention for leaders. When I inquired who was paying my way and what particular accomplishment of mine were they referring to when they invited me, I did not receive any responses. Were they trying to buy me off or corner me at this convention due to my activist work? Needless to say, I did not go and never did receive a response from them. I do believe Rabbi David Wolpe attended this conference. firstname.lastname@example.com
6)The Board Members at Sinai Temple. I sent them emails but they all blocked them. This is how tyrants behave not collaborative, peaceful people. I then sent certified letters to the synagogue and to some of their business addresses but never received a response.***Again, this is not reasonable as I am ONLY trying to find out what I did that caused me to be exiled from the synagogue. Also, why did I find out when I went to services to pray? Why didn't they let me know during the week that I was doing something wrong? What is truthfully going on here? These are the board members I contacted:
– Howard Lesner, Executive Director email@example.com
– Ira M. Friedman, Past President;
– Eric Diamond, President at the time.
7) Clergy at Sinai Temple- Rabbi David Wolpe and Rabbi Ralph Resnick, both who blocked my email.
8) Penny Dain, the donation/campaign director at Sinai Temple. I requested that my small but none the less my donations be returned so I could give them to an organization that represents freedom and other important values. She refused and blocked my emails.
***Please note, this synagogue is a non-profit organization and is receiving tax benefits for treating people this way and emotionally torturing children. Disgraceful.
9) Danielle Berrin, a Jewish journalist who refused to look into why I have been exiled from Sinai Temple and even told me to forget about it and go to another synagogue. She refused to try to understand my concern for the emotional torture of children and why Rabbi David Wolpe and others refuse to talk and write about this abuse.
This is not reasonable behavior for a competent, caring journalist. firstname.lastname@example.com
10) Daniel Gordis, another Jewish journalist who wrote an article entitled "Our Responsibility to Speak." After contacting him and explaining this situation he told me he was inundated with work and wanted me to stop emailing him about this Jewish child abuse concern. Again, not reasonable behavior for a competent, caring journalist; especially one who wrote an article about our responsibility to speak. firstname.lastname@example.com
11) Jay Sanderson, President of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles
He keeps sending me emails for contributions and telling me he wants to hear our requests as to what issues we want addressed. His words are worthless as he just continues to ignore my suggestion to discuss the child abuse and emotional torture of millions of Jewish children that has been going on since the 70's. This is such an important issue too.
12) Paul Wolpe and several at Emory University.
I emailed them to alert them of what I have found and to please help me rectify this abuse and figure out why I had been exiled from Sinai Temple. I never heard from any of them.
There are others but these are the main people and institutions I wanted to bring to the public's attention.
People with a heart and soul filled with kindness, compassion and love who have a moral conscience do not stand by and watch innocent children be emotionally tortured with lies, schemes and misleading statements so they believe their loving mother or father no longer loves them or is horrible and should be hated or feared.
These children become angry, confused, insecure, emotionally and physically fragile individuals which is what these abusers want because then these precious children are too weak and scared to fight back.
***I and many of us are neither too weak nor too scared to fight back. This is our responsibility to be the voice for these millions of children, Jewish and otherwise, who have lost their voice, spirit, beautiful heart and soul and moral conscience.
Can you just imagine, just imagine for a moment, not years, what it would feel like being told your loving mother or father is horrible or crazy and you are not allowed to see them or talk to them ever again. Is it any surprise so many youth have been acting out in schools, theaters and many other public places? We have lost our family values and are using our children, not teaching our children how to be kind, caring, compassionate, and peacefully work things out; not just fight and be destructive.
If I don't fight this corrupt Jewish establishment, the Jewish child abuse plot and the emotional child torture will continue. 2014 was a time I made a deliberate decision to take a proactive approach as I have been trying to reason with all of these people for about four or five years. As the facts and history show, you cannot reason with abusers and corrupt people; many also have narcissistic tendencies and other personality and emotional problems.
However I kept trying because of this story:
Esau was full of hatred for his brother, Jacob. But when Esau felt genuine love and kindness coming from Jacob, he couldn't hold on to his negativity.
Esau's hatred could not exist in the energy of his brother's love and kindness. I had to give these Jewish leaders the benefit of the doubt before I came out publically with what they have done and continue to do. Their child abuse plot and their emotional child torture is just so evil and I am a brother, a fellow Jew. I even told them this would not be good for the Jews when I brought this out publically as it would be better to resolve this problem internally, immediately. They just ignored me as always.
I thought if I could generate some rational, positive energy of pure love for these precious children who they have mentally abused and emotionally tortured then they, especially Rabbi David Wolpe would change.
I have always in life tried to set boundaries not only for myself but to bring others, like my children up to a high moral and ethical standard and way of life. I thought I could do this with these Jewish leaders and journalists. Boy, was I wrong. I thought with my own efforts to connect with the Light that I have within myself, I could turn their hatred for themselves, many around them and these precious children into love, kindness and compassion.
Most of the time, the reason there is hatred in a relationship is because there is no room for one party to bridge the gap and create a different dynamic. Jacob's ability to embrace and to care for Esau allowed him to create a change in his brother. I hoped I could direct positive energy towards these Jews, especially Rabbi David Wolpe through our email conversations about parental alienation and they would realize the errors of their ways and change. Well, I was wrong, but I did try.
My red line was 2014 and we passed it which is why I am bringing out these details publically.
*** It is common knowledge that a kind, caring and mentally healthy person or organization with fair and just policies would NEVER abuse children and emotionally torture them, destroying the sacred parent/child relationship.
As we continue to make a positive difference helping millions of emotionally tortured children and confronting, not turning away from evil, corrupt people, organizations and journalists like these Jews; who are truly a disgrace to Judaism. Be proud and keep forging forward for our children, humanity and ourselves.
1-The New Rabbi by Stephen Fried: http://www.palienation.org/the-new-rabbi-by-s-friedchpt-2-rabbi-gerald-wolpe-aiding-parental-alienation/
2-The Jewish Child Abuse website page: http://www.palienation.org/donation/
3- Background website page:http://www.palienation.org/background/
-By Sara Hassman, Parental Alienation Solutions, Founder, www.PAlienation.org.
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The attack on America which occurred on 9/11/2001 is now a "Man Made Disaster- (MMD)" in accordance with language recently used by Secretary Napolitano of the DHS.
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I've only got this piece of cardboard to write on.
What's the acronym?"
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You'll need to buy a radio of course, but a basic set is a lot less than you might think. Good quality brand new sets can cost less than £50 (considerably less than this for second-hand brand named units on your favourite 'internet auction site'). There are two main types of marine VHF radio. The first type, generally newer, is Digital Selective Call (DSC) radios and these have in-built features like push-button distress calls, GPS, they are waterproof and float. The second type is the standard VHF radio; the vast majority of VHF sets in use today are like this. They are basically the same as the DSC sets without all the add-ons. At present, there are plenty of bargains to be had because the market is very competitive and as the better-off users upgrade to DSC sets the standard units tend to cost a lot less. Having a basic VHF radio set (maybe as well as a mobile phone) means you can stay in touch and it isn't just useful for when things go wrong. You can listen to the regular inshore and shipping weather forecast broadcasts, receive information about any hazards in your area, including port operations and updates about marine traffic, and have a chat with other kayakers or in fact anyone else turned-on and tuned-in.
It's a pretty impressive list which shows that the radios are versatile and useful on a whole number of levels. So if they're cheap and so useful there must be some other major barrier to having one. Is it that you need a licence? You can get a licence by attending a one day course. The course will cover how to say things when on the radio and can cover the DSC aspects too. This means you can get a unique DSC identity known as a Mimsy number (MMSI - Maritime Mobile Service Identity). There will be a separate article on the advantages to paddlers of the DSC system. As paddlers, we tend to be in closer contact with the sea compared to most other water users. So the radio is likely to get wet. By putting the handset inside a protective waterproof case you can make an inexpensive set waterproof and ensure it floats. It can then be kept handy in a buoyancy aid pocket (it won't be much use buried in the bottom of a watertight compartment). When choosing what to buy, think about the ease of use (e.g. imagine you are swimming and have numb fingers). Waterproof sets can be small enough to clip to a shoulder strap on the front of your body. Think about extended trips too. Keeping the radio charged on the expedition can be a challenge. Most manufacturers offer an optional battery pack as an accessory. These take AA batteries and a fresh set of batteries can be fitted in the campsite when required. This is a lot easier than trying to keep your mobile 'phone charged throughout a two-week trip!
Sea paddling offers all sorts of opportunities to see great natural spectacles and get close to wildlife. So learning how to set-up the receiver (using what's called the squelch control) will avoid having an annoying noise maker blaring out sound like that of a sizable waterfall; particularly when you are trying to get close to wildlife. You are in control, and apart from the volume and squelch settings, can choose to turn the set on and off as you like. One way of keeping the radio off most of the time, whilst working with others, is to pre-arrange to turn on for an agreed 10 minutes say on the odd-numbered hours. There are plenty of options. Having the ability to use a VHF set is important to British canoeing, so much so that there are plans to include VHF training as a valid British Canoeing coach update. Soon you'll be able to attend a sea kayak symposium, learn how to use a radio, get a licence and a coaching update and all for a modest fee. While you're at it, why not learn how to use GPS sets properly too! There is plenty of help on offer to make sure you can continue to safely enjoy your paddling. Make the most of what's out there - it's your call.
Courtesy of Canoe Scotland


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DATAFIRST and I'Car Systems announce their intent to join forces to become the leading software developer in France and a major player in Europe for Cars & Trucks dealers and manufacturers.
Paris, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Lyon – April 13th, 2018
DATAFIRST and I'Car Systems, software developers and providers of services to automotive and trucks vehicle dealers, announce today their intent to team up.
The aim is to become the French sector leader and a major player in Europe, with 50,000 users.
The majority ownership of the new entity would be held by the private equity fund Argos Soditic, already majority shareholder of I'Car Systems, alongside the managers of the two companies.
The execution of this is subject to finalisation of the information and consulting process of the personnel representative bodies.
Aim of the operation
The aim of the operation is to create a major player that would cover all automotive manufacturers and brands over an expanded area of 12 countries across the world (mainly on the European continent).
A global offer would then be proposed to answer all customer needs with integrated management software packages (DMS), management of spare part platforms (PR), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence applications and performance management, digital solutions and managed services.
The operation would allow the group to support the digital transformation and fundamental changes in the automotive industry. In addition it would encourage the growth in distribution groups with an aggressive innovation strategy, the increase in production capacity, reducing time to market, and improve the return on investment of the offer as a result of an expanded customer base.
« The arrival of new entrants, the evolution of technology and consumer habits, the issues linked to mobility are revolutionizing business models and services established in the automotive and trucks vehicle manufacturers and their dealers networks. Our project to join forces would enable us to better support these changes and to improve speed of execution thanks to an expanded base of experienced collaborators and reinforced financial means with the support of our shareholder, Argos Soditic. » announces Philippe Almouzni, current President of I'Car Systems, and future CEO of the potential new group.
Patrick Prajs would take general management of DATAFIRST by replacing its founder and chairman Jules Arié Tolédano, who has decided to commit to new projects, and states: "33 years after the creation of DATAFIRST, I am pleased to contribute to the alliance with I'Car Systems, two companies united by their business, their history, their culture and their size. Two players that will also strengthen one another to better serve their clients with an extended product offering, referencing alongside car makers and wider geographical coverage."
Karel Kroupa, partner at Argos Soditic: "our ambition with this project is to give additional means to I'Car Systems and DATAFIRST in order to capitalize on their respective strengths and take a step forward in terms of development."
Once the operation is finalised, the two developers' products would still be marketed separately by each player and the evolution of the product offer would continue within the new entity.
Press contact
toBnext agency – Antoinette Darpy: + 33 (0)6 72 95 07 92 – email@example.com
About DATAFIRST
DATAFIRST develops and deploys modular management, marketing and sales solutions for the automotive market: Automotive CRM, Automotive DMS, Web & Business Intelligence solutions. DATAFIRST was founded in 1985 and today has over 150 employees. The company headquarters are in Lyon and it maintains an active global presence with several tens of thousands of users throughout Europe. Indeed, to widen the range of services on offer, DATAFIRST has built strategic alliances with local partners who are themselves specialists in the automotive distribution sector.
Renowned leader in its markets, DATAFIRST anticipates the technological evolutions and successive mutations of its ecosystem for an optimal sustainability alongside its users, vehicle Manufacturers and Dealers and partners.
The company has generated 16.6 million euros revenues in 2017, including 11% out of France.
About I'Car Systems Group
I'Car Systems is a software editor, that proposes management solutions for car repairers (agents and registered repairers) as well as for franchised dealers and distribution groups. Created in 1979, I'Car Systems, which was integrated to the Sage group from 2005 has regained its independence in 2013 thanks to its acquisition by the French Private Equity fund Argos Soditic, majority shareholder, alongside the management of the company. I'Car Systems generated 14.3 million euros of revenues in 2017, including 23% out of France. The company has 155 collaborators split between its headquarters in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (Indre-et-Loire, 37) and its subsidiaries in Spain and Portugal.
About Argos Soditic
Argos Soditic is an independent European private equity group based in Brussels, Frankfort, Geneva, Luxembourg, Milan and Paris, that is supporting buyouts of SMEs with turnover of €20m to 600m. Argos Soditic supports management teams in place (buyout) or newly recruited (buy-in) and takes take majority stakes and invest between €10m and €100m.
Since its creation in 1989, Argos Soditic has invested in more than 75 businesses in the European mid-market, giving the group in-depth industry insight and strong experience in various situations: international expansion, external acquisitions, divestments or changes to business models. With 960 M€ under management, dedicated to company transmission, the group develops an original investment strategy based on complex operations, that favours transformation and growth of companies over a leverage effect. Its entrepreneurial approach allows Argos Soditic to work closely with management teams to support them in the implementation of their strategic projects.
Advisors on the operation
Advisors to DATAFIRST
Legal: Ernst & Young (Jean-Christophe Sabourin, Patrice Mottier)
Advisors to I'Car Systems – Argos Soditic
I'Car Systems (Philippe Almouzni)
Argos Soditic (Karel Kroupa, Nicolas Trani, Antoine Forgeard)
M&A: PwC Corporate Finance (Geoffroy Pacault, Salim Berkaïne, Charles Recape)
Finance: Grant Thornton (Frédéric Zeitoun, Jonathan Delangle)
Legal: Bryan Cave (Rémy Blain, Mathieu Taupin, Stanislas Boyer, François Alambret)
Tax: Arsène Taxand (Franck Chaminade, Vincent Briand, Blandine Trabut-Cussac)
IP: Feral-Schuhl / Sainte-Marie (Bruno Grégoire Sainte Marie, Richard Willemant)


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What is to be done?
Abstract theoretical solutions are fine for intellectual discussion … but a concrete, realizable model is better. We need an answer for … "What do we do now?".
The government of the United States of America is on the verge of dissolution. It will most certainly collapse. We do not know the when of it. What is needed is a practical solution waiting in the wings so that something other than civil war can result … something more rational.
RPG … Reasonable People with Guns … or … Re-Placement Government … or … Rational People's Government … or …
This is the proposed name of a hypothetical organization that would embody the command and control system given on page 2. We might imagine a gun club that forms a political unit in a nationwide network of such units. Each selects, by the given voting method, a representative who meets with other such representatives and the hierarchy is formed. It would resemble a political party but would have no set party platform. It has the hierarchical structure but no formal agenda. That would be set by those elected. Presumably, they would endorse a much smaller, less fascistic government with a stable, non-debt based monetary system. If they did not endorse more individual liberty, they would be de-selected by the feedback process built into the command and control system.
With such a system in place, candidates for office could be placed on the regular election ballot and voted in from the bottom up and would challenge any and all evil government edicts. Many army veterans would be pleased to join such a group if it existed as well as perhaps half of all police officers (the ones who are not evil – yes, they exist, in quantity). Also included would be an army of government informants … but all are welcome … nothing is hidden here. It's all out in the open.
You could go online to the RPG web site and track the path of your vote to the highest representative … and … clicking on a link on that map … a bio of that representative would pop up and maybe a personal video of him as well. You would not immediately recognize most of these representatives because they are not public figures … just honorable men and women you never heard of before. But you'd be hearing plenty in the run up to the standard elections.
What does the Democratic or Republican party endorse? Libertarian? Constitutional? Communist? … and … RPG?
If RPG had 20 million members, it would be formidable and could not be ignored. On election day you could have a shooting festival at the gun range using cardboard cutouts of Demopublican officials for targets just as Homeland Security uses cardboard cutouts of old men, children and pregnant women as targets. Once in power, the actual intent of the Constitution could be restored.
This is a major problem for any upstart, waiting-in-the-wings, shadow government. At the beginning, the members would have to kick in a few bucks to send their representatives to meet with other representatives in other parts of the country and to set up a usable web site (and later an on-line bank). If 20,000,000 members ante up $10 … that's $200,000,000 which should be enough money to get it off the ground. Startup costs are not prohibitive if you have millions of motivated possible contributors.
Having established a viable preliminary political party, it is then necessary to set up a default, debt-free digital currency and an on-line banking system for commercial transactions and later brick and mortar banks to handle hard cash.
The initial offering would be for, say, $15,000 to each member of the RPG party. They wouldn't be called "dollars" as these would be discredited (pun intended). They could be called "bullets" or "ballots" or "bux". There would be digital bux with a "DB" followed by the 100 digit code and the consecutive bill number as given on page 7. When the present government has collapsed and the dollar is no longer viable, you could take your DB's to the RPG bank and trade them for HB (hard bux). That is, the bank would erase the digital DB from the database and replace it in the database with an HB, meaning that that particular note could no longer be used in digital form but would be a physical paper bill of that denomination.
So that,
would be converted to …
and you'd have in hand a 20 BUX paper note listed as such in the bank's database which you could check on line for authenticity by the method already given. Paper money gives anonymity to transactions after the note has been passed around a few times.
This mechanism will drive people to join the RPG system because they get 15,000 bux to join at no cost to them. Initially, it would be simply an insurance policy against destitution in the event of total currency collapse. You would receive your 15,000 DB by setting up a secure account at the on-line RPG bank. The bux would be deposited there.
To spend it, the bank acts as the middleman between you and your purchase like PayPal. You can't spend the same money twice because it's a 100% reserve banking system … no fractional reserve allowed.
But … there's a catch of course.
The catch is that you must take a voter number and join the party. That number would be just like the bux except that the 100 digit code would have a "V" attached to it and the consecutive number would be your enrollment number.
And … you don't get your cash until and unless your vote makes it up through the hierarchy to the highest representative. And … part of your 15,000 bux is "shaved" to pay the salaries of the representatives as per the mechanism given on page 3.
20,000,000 members x 15,000 bux = 300,000,000,000 bux (in the current money supply)
20,000,000 = 2 x 10^7
So, we anticipate about 7 levels of representatives to pay.
1 (president) x 800,000,000 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
20 (supreme court) x 40,000,000 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
200 (senator)x 4,000,000 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
2000 (governor) x 400,000 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
20,000 (mayor) x 40,000 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
200,000 (alderman) x 4000 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
2,000,000 (local rep) x 400 bux = ~800,000,000 bux
20,000,000 (base members) x 40 bux = 800,000,000 bux
At around 800 million bux per level, ~5.6 billion (give or take a billion) would be shaved for the first year salary of the representatives. Thereafter, they would have to be paid by the aforementioned collective consensus income tax as given on page 4.
~6 billion bux / ~300 billion bux = 2 percent
Of your initial 15,000 bux about 2% or about 300 bux would be shaved off to pay salaries. So, after your vote makes it to the top representative, you get 14,700 bux instead of the 15,000. Understand that this money just pays for the representatives to flit about the country in the service of their constituents for the first year. You would need to assess an income tax to pay for any continuing salaries and government services they might devise. And if you don't like what they offer, you 'de-select' (unvote) them and they lose status and salary in the hierarchy.
Note: As a permanent feature, if your vote is not advanced to the highest representative, you do not get paid your salary during the time that it is not fully advanced. So, if a high representative is undecided about who to give his votes to, none of his constituents get paid during the time he holds back his votes. This is the incentive for him to make a decision because if his immediate electors and constituents are not being paid, they may de-select him and advance their votes through someone else who will get them to the highest representative thus resuming their salary payments.
For change, the coins now in service will do nicely. They don't get counterfeited because it's not worth the bother. They just facilitate very small transactions. One quarter would be equal to 1/4 bux. It's not worth quibbling over and they're already in circulation. They don't amount to any significant impact on the BUX economy.
Every time a new voter is added to RPG, the money supply is increased by 15,000 bux. When a member dies, the money supply must be reduced by 15,000 bux (an income tax item). This means that the bux per member remains constant and no inflation occurs. But if bux are accepted with confidence, deflation will occur as bux migrate to other countries. Therefore, this economic system could be made available in other countries … if … they agree to set up the same rational command and control system.
And … people may acquire bux without joining RPG by engaging in free trade with members who offer bux for goods or services. So, no one is economically isolated if they choose not to join.


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The Alaska Behavioral Health Association is a statewide partnership of leaders from community mental health centers and substance abuse treatment providers. Directors from member organizations are updated on industry trends, initiatives, and opportunities. Working with our partners, the membership develops strategies to improve the behavioral health system in Alaska. Together, we help ensure a strong system capable of helping Alaskans live healthy, productive lives.
Benefits of Membership
Strength in Numbers
Directors of behavioral health provider organizations are increasingly called upon to make difficult financial, legal, technological, and employment related decisions above and beyond their clinical responsibilities. In the extremely fast-paced environment of change we find ourselves in these days, it is helpful to confer with colleagues facing similar decisions. But change is not something simply to be endured. We are living during an exciting period of transformation. Together, we have the ability to actively shape and define the world in which we live.


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The teams involved in this fixture both have pressing needs to grab all three points in this fixture at opposite ends of the table.
Reading will be desperate to try and find a 3 points from anywhere so they don't lose touch with the chasing pack as they try and stave off relegation.
Manchester City will be under slightly more pressure you suspect though with the fans expectant of a win and a goal glut against an indifferent Reading side.
Roberto Mancini's men still lie six points adrift of Premier League leaders Manchester United and will be looking to close that gap wherever possible.
They surrendered their long unbeaten record at the Etihad Stadium to United a few weekends ago but firmly got themselves back on track at St. James's Park last time out.
An impressive display and a 3-1 fixture ensured that they regained the momentum they had before their derby day loss.
The Royals sit rock bottom at the foot of the Premier League and haven't won in six matches and a trip to Manchester would not have been on their Christmas wish list. McDermott as a consequence remains the favourite with the bookies to be the next Premier League manager to be sacked.
Vincent Kompany the club captain for City is expected to massively lift the side return from injury. Mario Balotelli may have taken the headlines midweek over his wage docking but misses out on this one with a virus. Samir Nasri (hamstring) has been ruled out and full-back Aleksandar Kolarov (knee) is unavailable too.
Reading look set to be without striker Jason Roberts for the trip to the Etihad stadium. Jem Karacan (knee), Jimmy Kebe (groin) and Danny Guthrie (thigh) all come back at a crucial time as options for the Royals. Sean Morrison and Alex McCarthy remain out for a significant period of time.
Reading have faced more shots than any other side in the top five European leagues this season and can expect more of the same in this fixture.
Prediction: Man City 3-0 Reading
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5 Unique Cellulite Treatments To Try Today
August is prime tanning season. This means bikinis and lots of skin. Unfortunately for us, this skin doesn't always look exactly the way we'd like. We already figured out how to do away with pastiness thanks to the best self-tanners, but cellulite is a whole separate beast to conquer.
We asked around to find out what girls-in-the-know are using these days to treat the dreaded dimpling. Of course, we would never give names (who wants to admit to cottage cheese thighs?!), but trust us when we say these suggestions are tried-and-tested. And just in time for bikini season…
1. Dry Brushing (from $5)
Not only does this technique help to limit toxins from your body, it can also smooth out pesky lumps and bumps. Spend extra time brushing any trouble areas with long, upward strokes.
2. Frank Body Balm ($25)
You've heard about the effectiveness of coffee scrubs, and this product achieves the same results but in a lotion form. The coffee arabica seed oil will stimulate blood flow to target cellulite and stretch marks (lovely combo!) while also increasing production of collagen and elastic production. This product is the creation of Australians, and judging by their bikini bods on Instagram, they know what they're talking about.
3. Ultherapy (starting at $800)
Drastic times call for drastic measures. While Ultherapy is designed for the face and décolleté, Dr. Julie Russak finds it effective at rejuvenating any part of the body that needs help building collagen and tightening. If you're serious about fighting cellulite, look no further.
4. Vita Liberata Body Blur Instant HD Skin Finish ($45)
Fake it 'til you make it, right? This product is like your favorite Instagram filter, but for your body. It has a unique formula that blurs and masks skin imperfections. So while you're working to make your cellulite less prominent, you can conceal during these bikini-baring months.
5. Sarah Chapman Skinesis Bodylift ($45)
Not only do the 72 nodules on this device feel amazing, they also stimulate circulation to encourage lymphatic drainage. This means that muscles will be soothed, but skin will also appear noticeably smoother and less puffy. Almost as good as a deep tissue massage in a beachside cabana… almost.
-Casey Sharbaugh is the blogger behind www.comfortablycasey.com