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America versus the hacker
Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger's, has one last chance to avoid extradition to the US to face charges of hacking into Nasa and Pentagon computers. Will the new government keep its word and help him avoid a savage punishment?
By Sophie Elmhirst Published 07 June 2010On 15 December 2009, a photograph was taken of Janis Sharp, the mother of Gary McKinnon, and the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, outside the Home Office in Westminster. They were there to protest against the extradition of McKinnon, aged 44, to the US on charges of computer fraud. Eight years earlier McKinnon, an Asperger's syndrome sufferer, had hacked repeatedly into Pentagon and Nasa networks.
"They could try him here if they wanted to, so it's up to the government here to do the right thing," Clegg said in an interview that day. "If Gordon Brown really had a moral compass, he would do the right thing and try Gary McKinnon here instead."
Little more than five months later, on 25 May, Clegg, the new Deputy Prime Minister, said of the McKinnon case in a radio interview that "what I haven't got the power to do - neither has the Home Secretary, neither has even the Prime Minister - is to completely reverse and undo certain legal aspects of this. But that, of course, you wouldn't want politicians to do. It's legally very complex."
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Opposition made adopting principled positions simpler. Clegg also stated that his personal view on the case remained unchanged - McKinnon should ideally be tried in a British court. But his equivocation on the law had upset Sharp and, when I visited her recently at her home in Hertfordshire, she wept as she spoke about her son.
"I think we all thought that we had waited until this, the new government; and then we'd done it. They've all made promises," she said, referring to the support offered to the McKinnon campaign not only by Clegg but other senior Lib Dem MPs, as well as David Cameron.
In 2001, McKinnon was living with his girlfriend, Tamsin, in a flat in north London. He was, says Sharp, depressed - without a regular job, and spending most of his time alone in a room, on his computer. It emerged on his arrest in 2002 that, using the name "Solo", he had hacked into 97 US government computers between 2001 and 2002. His actions, according to US officials, caused networks to shut down, damaged computers and incurred costs of $800,000. McKinnon said he had been looking for evidence of UFOs, a childhood interest passed on from his stepfather, Wilson Sharp.
McKinnon was surprised at how easy it was to enter the US networks. There were no firewalls and many government staff did not even have passwords. He left notes as he went, pointing out security deficiencies. One said: "US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days? It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand-down on September 11 last year . . . I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels."
Sharp readily accepts that what McKinnon did was wrong, but denies that he caused damage. (No firm evidence of damage was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service by US officials, and it is not clear any was gathered; a report says their accusations were based on "hearsay".)
On 12 November 2002, six months after his arrest, McKinnon was indicted by the US government on eight counts of computer fraud. He remained at liberty until June 2005, when he was subjected to bail conditions - required to report to a police station every day and forbidden from using a computer. Later that year, the US began extradition proceedings that he and his supporters have been fighting ever since. McKinnon's case now rests with the new Home Secretary, Theresa May. (The Home Office will give no substantial statement on the case, nor any indication when a final decision will be made.) May is specifically considering the medical evidence - the only grounds on which his extradition can be overturned.
According to a number of medical experts, McKinnon is in no state to be transported to the US. His psychiatrist, Professor Jeremy Turk, has said that McKinnon suffers from a "serious major depressive disorder . . . aggravated and complicated by anxiety and panic attacks with multiple psychosomatic symptoms on a background of his having Asperger's syndrome". In November 2009 he said that McKinnon was a suicide risk. "He can't talk about his feelings, he can't open up," Janis said of her son. "I'm frightened that we are going to lose Gary. I'm frightened that he is going to do something. Because there have been close calls in the past."
Sharp had always known her son was different. She recalled how, as a child, he would refuse to travel on a bus and developed obsessions - with the planets and stars. But it never occurred to her that he might be suffering from a severe medical condition (McKinnon wasn't formally diagnosed with Asperger's until August 2008). Now, she is worried about how her son would fare leaving Britain, never mind imprisonment.
"He hates travelling on the Tube," she says. "It's a phobia. He doesn't travel abroad either, he doesn't leave north London. So for him to be put on a plane in chains, it would be torture."
If McKinnon is extradited, he could be given a 70-year sentence in a high-security prison (he would, as an overseas national, be considered a "flight risk", hence imprisonment with violent criminals rather than in an open prison). If tried in the UK - his home country, and where he was living when he committed the crimes he admits to - the sentence would be more lenient. As the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, QC told me: "The real impropriety of the McKinnon case is the disproportionality in the merciful sentence that he would have received here and the sentence that awaits him."
How have we got to a point where a seriously unwell man might be locked up overseas for the rest of his life for a crime that hurt nobody? The answer goes back to the Extradition Act of 2003. This law implemented the UK's extradition treaty with the US, under which US prosecutors did not need to provide contestable evidence in an extradition case. In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, the treaty was geared to help extradite terrorists. It would also remove politicians from the process - a good thing, in principle. However, adequate discretion was not given to judges either, making automatic extraditions worryingly easy to perform. Ultimately, it put politicians in a bind. Over the past eight years, a succession of Labour home secretaries, culminating in Alan Johnson, refused to reconsider McKinnon's case.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, dismisses Clegg's idea that the law is "complex". "If anything, it's far too simple," she told me. "Too much discretion has been squeezed out of the system, and at this point politicians rather than judges are the only ones who can put it back."
Reforming the extradition treaty would be difficult. But in this specific case, there is a simple political decision to be made - one, says Robertson, that should not be cowed by our "special relationship" with the US. "We were quite happy to upset the US by sending the mass murderer Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi back to a hero's welcome in Libya - a false compassion masking a desire to curry commercial favour - and yet we are incapable of true humanity and mercy by sparing a harmless individual whose political offences were driven by an undiagnosed mental disorder."
Instrument of torture
At the Sharps' quiet house, you feel distant from Westminster machinations. We sat surrounded by dogs and musical instruments. Before McKinnon was arrested, the Sharps wrote children's books and played music. McKinnon was also a musician, playing in a band with friends. They showed me a film of him singing against a sci-fi backdrop of moonscapes and UFOs circling night skies.
"Gary can't pick up an instrument any more," says Sharp, "because he says that there's so much emotion he's frightened for it to come
to the surface." Mostly he stays at home, doing very little. His one enthusiasm is cooking - but because of his condition, says his mother, "he has to cut up his mushrooms into an exact amount, and if someone takes a bit he has to do it all over again."
What does the future hold for McKinnon, if the Home Secretary's decision goes in his family's favour? Sharp hopes that he might work with animals - something he has always wanted to do - or return to his music. But first they have to get Gary "back to normal", as she puts it: to rescue him from the "dark place" he now inhabits. And what about her? Her son's case has taken over Sharp's life for the past eight years. It is, she says, all she has thought about every day. She says that if the decision does go their way she will "cry for a year".
McKinnon would then be tried in Britain, but his parents would be close by to support him. He would receive a sentence proportionate to his crime, and would most likely go to an open prison where he could see his psychiatrist regularly. Life for the Sharps could, in some way, return to normal. Someone once said to Janis that at least she didn't have a boring life. "And I said, 'I'd give anything to have a boring life.'"
Sophie Elmhirst is an assistant editor of the NS.
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"Still" "suffering" from Asperger's...
Firstly, there is no cure for Asperger's and secondly, many would contend that there is nothing to cure anyway. I consider that the evidence shows that Mr McKinnon has certain skills and an intelligence which most likely are part and parcel of Asperger's.
I'm not saying that everyone with Asperger's is some kind of genius, but it's recognised that there is a higher frequency of certain skills and abilities associated with it.
The right decision, probably arrived at for less noble interests...lucky for him he wasn't a Muslim.
The right decision, probably arrived at for less noble interests...lucky for him he wasn't a Muslim.
Full praise to Teresa May for having the back bone to stand up to the massive diplomatic pressure from the US she has faced.
Labour's concession approach to foreign policy would have traded McKinnan for a nice trip to the US and photo opportunity to promote the Labour elite.
Well lock the creep up in Broadmoor for the rest of his days along with Mummy. They will be looking for someone to Sue or a way of making loads of money now!!!
If I were the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, I would be hiring this man, not imprisoning him. The U.S. lost a glorious opportunity at securing it's computer systems, and preventing intrusion by individuals who are literally seeking to do harm to the U.S Gov't and it's people. You wouldn't even need to give him money: just pay him in photo-shopped photo's of aliens. Seems like a win/win to me. There's something were not being told about this case. I'm not quite sure what it is, but as an American, I'm somewhat taken aback by the level of arrogance my Gov't is imposing on GB. Something isn't right about this.
Gary was the perfect loss leader. Now financial spivs can plead on the basis of their 'human rights'. Horse laughs from Tory backwoodsmen.
Next it'll be 'ealth & 'safety'.
Would like to know when British Justice last found a financial trickster or banker guilty?
Now they won't have to do the 'perp' walk. Gosh darn it!
Teresa May or May not! Remember Nixon's promise - "There'll be no whitewash at the White House"
And even Chuck's dictats to government will not be seen by his prospective subjects.
Surely Tessie has no intention of re-introducing the Star Chamber. A constitutional monarchy is all very well but the LibDems are intent on removing the House of Lords( & Ladies ) and replacing it with a "People's Parlace".
Afraid Tessie has flunked her secretarial course exam. She'll have to survive on anMPs salary and Bank of England pension.
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believe it or not, i had a dream in which that face-tentacle thing appeared. it was scary and made people do evil things. also there were schools of flying hammerhead sharks and ghosts of children searching for something in a park at night. by the way, cool flash.
Rated 5 / 5 stars November 13, 2010
High or not, still amazing to watch.
i dont have to be high to enjoy your flashes. the art is incredible, the music fits (in all of them, its hard to find that nowadays.) and the'yre so random, its awesome, keep up the good work buddy.
Rated 5 / 5 stars September 24, 2010
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Trios/quartets/quintets for pno w/2-3-4 winds | M317, M417, M517 |
Wind quartets, quintets (etc.) | M357, M457, M557 |
Orchestral music |
Instructional works, studies, etudes, etc. | MT384, MT385 |
Biographies of clarinetists, wind players |
Books about wind instruments | ML930 |
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- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)Indexes over 900,000 music periodical articles, with some full text included.
- RIPM Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodical LiteratureThe development of musical romanticism coincided with the parallel development of musical journalism and the creation of a very large number of periodicals dealing entirely or in part with musical activities.
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Hi Kindergarten Teachers! This is
School is just around the corner for most of us. Today is actually my first day with my new class.
{Side note-I get so nervous and excited the first day that I hardly sleep. My BIGGEST fear is the crier. I bribe my class with a cupcake each if the can get through their first day of Kindergarten without crying! It works!}
As I was working in my classroom this summer, my center chart (pictured below) was driving me crazy.
Center time is a favorite in my class
and an important time for social interaction, creative play, and
learning. We have 6 work centers a week and the rest are free/play
All this interaction takes it toll on my center board. It can only take so much abuse!
I made it a few years ago and it fits all my classroom needs.
I know it needed an update but I had no clue how to do it.
I was inspired by Caitlin from Kindergarten Smiles.
All those "Teacher Stores" have center packs that are great looking but not practical. I need my chart to be in a small area and very versatile. I also couldn't find a chart set that included exactly what my class uses. We have working centers at our tables, but play center throughout the room.
Then, I thought... {insert thought bubble here}
Mary- you can just make your own on the computer!
Here is my updated Center Chart!
Here is my center chart pack with over 40 center pictures.
You can print it out on your printer or on your school's poster printer!
This is how you can make your center chart!
Grab my center chart file, here on TN or here on TpT, poster board if you can't print this on a poster printer at school, and matching velcro. (I used a black poster board, so I got black velcro.)
1. Printed out all the needed center cards.
2. Organized the center cards on the board how you want them.
3. I added circles with construction paper to match my clothes pins. One circle for each pin.
4. Laminate chart and cards separately, THEN add velcro to the back of the cards before attaching them to the chart. (This allows you to change out specific centers if needed. I have found that my centers change about half way through the year, as my students mature.)
5. Add clothes pin to circles.
6. Hang chart up. (I attach my chart to a filing cabinet using magnets.)
I hope this pack and these directions help you create the best new and versatile center chart around for your new class.
How much time do your students get in centers each day?
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Thanks for letting me guest blog for you today!
My day was... odd! I can't wait to share the story of the day... you will LAUGH!
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Thanks for sharing on your first day! I know on my first day they only thing I can manage is to crash on my couch and turn the tv on! I wanted to tell you that I LOVE the way you added circles on some centers to limit the number of students. What a great way to combine accountability and independence without having to say a word! I will definitely use this idea.
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A new poll shows that Canadians are split on Thomas Mulcair's attacks on the oil sands industry.
Harris-Decima says 45 percent of Canadians disagree with the NDP leader, while 41 percent agree with him.
Alberta and the other prairie provinces had the most opposition to Mulcair, while BC and Quebec had the most support for him.
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Recently Project Open Data launched Next.Data.gov as a vision for where Data.gov might go. It does a nice job of promoting the use of government data and modelling examples of companies who have successfully used that data. It builds on some of the ideas of the earlier Alpha.Data.gov which presented the idea of showcasing data sets and connecting them with stories of the data in use by the private sector.
The launch was accompanied by requests for feedback. I put together some thoughts on an area I think could be explored a bit: profiling prominent data sets through conversations with subject matter experts who understand and can share the value of the data with people who may not immediately understand its value. Take a look at what I put together.
Danny Chapman got me thinking. He asked, "What would it be like if our legislative bodies were more balanced between lawyers and people who make things we interact with every day - designers, entrepreneurs and engineers?" Better, for sure. I don't know what it would take for that to come about, but having people who are thinking about the experience of the implemented law would definitely make the experiences better.
Then I started thinking about how things are made now. Making things inside government is different than making things outside of it.
I'm not in the camp that believes the private sector is a panacea. There are problems in the private sector just as in the public sector. Most of my career has been outside of government, and I haven't experienced a perfect project yet. But I believe that an awareness of the context within which you are making something helps make that thing better.
I've made things in both worlds. In the hope that they may be helpful in improving the making of things within government, I thought I'd lay out some of my observations about the differences.
In all our efforts creating, designing, and developing websites or other digital products, our goal should be improvement. Yes, our craftsmanship and technique. Of course, our content and tools. But more importantly, the efficacy of all this work. This article explores one approach that may help tackle one of our biggest challenges: communicating effectively about complex, confusing topics.
I don't write much about the Web medium here. I've tried to keep the content here more broadly applicable than just specific to practitioners of my industry. But I think about this stuff a lot. It's what I spend most of my time doing. "Communicating Complexity" is a long-form look at some of the problems we face communicating complex issues on the Web and proposes a possible route to doing it better.
techPresident ran a piece I wrote about the Presidential Innovation Fellows program, which I believe is a wonderful opportunity for designers, technologists, and everyone from the broad spectrum of specializations that make up the Web and tech world.
"I'm not being hyperbolic. You will do deeply meaningful work. You will work with truly inspiring people. And you will become significantly better at whatever it is you do. You'll step up your game. My time working on HealthCare.gov was truly life changing. The opportunity that is being made available through the Presidential Innovation Fellows is remarkable. You should request an application right now."
Not long before Lake Area Middle School was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Jess Rimington was facilitating a classroom exchange program there; one of the earliest implementations of her then-fledgling organization, One World Youth Project. Jess's classroom was paired with a classroom in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Over the course of the academic year, the students in her New Orleans classroom and their Mongolian counterparts shared their experiences, stories, and learned the similarities of their lives. They got to know each other.
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Frank Langella, Derek Jacobi, Parker Posey and Milo Ventimiglia are also in the cast. The Weinstein Co. will release the film in the United States on Nov. 27, while Warner Bros. will release it in the U.K. on Nov. 29, according to Deadline.com.
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Aug. 11, 2011 GREENVILLE, N.C. - The East Carolina University Athletics Hall of Fame 2011 induction class features four distinguished individuals. The class will be enshrined during a ceremony Sept. 30 at Harvey Hall inside the Murphy Center. In addition, the new inductees will also be introduced during halftime of the Oct. 1 football game against North Carolina. The 2011 induction class includes: Michelle Clayton (track & field, 1995-99), Tony Collins (football, 1977-80), Justin England (cross country/track & field, 1996-2000) and Stuart Tripp (football, 1940-41). Tripp is the eighth person to be elected posthumously. Clayton was the first ECU female athlete to earn All-America honors in the hammer throw as she placed ninth in the event at the 1999 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. During that same season, she earned Athlete-of-the-Meet honors at the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championships, winning the discus, shot put and hammer throw; and became just the second individual ECAC champion in school history. She collected multiple All-East Region accolades and was a three-time recipient of the team's Most Outstanding Field Performer Award as well as the school's Most Outstanding Female Scholar-Athlete in 1997, earning District III Second-Team Academic All-America honors. Collins was a four-year letterman for coaches Pat Dye and Ed Emory and was the Pirates' all-purpose yards leader for three consecutive seasons. As a junior in 1979, he led the team in rushing with 1,130 yards, which helped him earn First-Team All-South Independent honors. That season he helped the Pirates set team records for rushing, rushing yards per game, total offense, total offense per game and points per game. He currently ranks ninth on the school's single-season and career rushing charts and its career points scored list. His 100-yard kickoff return against Florida State in 1980 still ranks as the longest in school history. The New England Patriots selected Collins in the second round of the 1981 National Football League (NFL) Draft. England was the first athlete in school history to qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championships in 2000 with a fourth-place finish at the Southeast Regional Championships. A two-time All-CAA cross country performer, England captured the conference track title in the 10,000-meter run in 1999. He set school cross country records in the 5K and 10K, while also establishing track and field marks in the indoor 5K and outdoor 10K. England was named ECU's Male Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Year for the 1998-99 academic year, following a season in which he earned cross country all-district honors, won the individual title at the state championship cross country meet and was named to the NCAA Division I All-Academic Cross Country Team. Tripp played two years of varsity football at East Carolina Teachers College (ECTC) in 1940 and `41 for coach John Christenbury, helping his team to 12 wins against three losses. Tripp was a member of the only undefeated team in school history as the Pirates posted a 7-0 record in 1941. Tripp, who played center, wasn't afforded the opportunity to compete beyond 1941 due to the onset of World War II, which caused ECTC to drop its football program for four years. Tripp graduated from ECTC in 1944 and was elected to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2004 after a distinguished coaching record at Ayden High School that included two state basketball championships. Since it was established in 1974, the ECU Athletics Hall of Fame has inducted 134 members. |


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This pattern is perfectly drafted. I made no alterations and cut a straight size 4. It fits amazingly in the bodice! This is the third time I've sewn a Sewholic pattern and all times I've never made adjustments.
I did however alter the straps so they tie at the front using Caroline's idea from one of her variations, which involved sewing both straps to the back and making a loop at the front. (She's Tasia's aide over at Sewhoalic Patterns, and yea she's got the same name as me!) I guess one other thing I did was lop off a bit on the end of the ties because they're too long for me otherwise.
The fabric is a polyester crinkle fabric from Fabricland. It's got such a lovely pattern! I didn't try to match the pattern at the side seams but rather made sure it was centred down the middle of the front and back. I also took care to line up the pattern for the back seam.
I used Bemberg lining throughout the dress and added a skirt lining even though I didn't really need it. I used the lining method suggested by Caroline. I handstitched the entire lining down to my zipper tape though as I prefer not to have things flying around loose! Linings make everything feel so lovely and luxurious! Well worth the extra effort.
I am definitely going to get a lot of wear out of this dress. It's going to transition well into autumn with a pair of tights. I'm warming up to the idea of having more wearable dresses with elastic at the waist. When done well, elastic waists don't have to be tacky. I ate so much food today wearing this dress. Couldn't have done that with something like my Lonsdale or one of my other projects!
What a way to kick off the end of summer -- I've got a new dress and successfully participated in another sewalong.
I do have a funny story to tell about the Saltspring dress though...One day this summer a couple of weeks ago, I went to Spool of Thread to buy the pattern. When I go shopping for sewing related things, I have a laser focus and bounce from one thing to another in the store with blinders on. I take notes in my notebook and muse about future projects as I feel up the fabrics. I was pretty quick with my purchase since it was the only thing I wanted to buy that day.
So I go up to the cash register and the person working asks me if I was ready with my purchase. I said, "Yes. Just this pattern. I'm going to join the sewalong!" The employee at Spool of Thread says something like, "Oh, well the creator of the patterns is right here!"
I turn my head to the left and there is Tasia! Standing right next to me! She had been at the store earlier than I had been, purchasing fabric and I didn't even notice her the entire time I was there until I got up to the register. My mind froze. Here standing before me was one of the local sewing "celebrities" that I admire for her talent and all the hard work she's put into her own small business.
I tried to chat with her as calmly as I could but I was so nervous and felt like a buffoon. So Tasia, if you ever get to read this, I think you're awesome and you're as friendly in real life as you seem from your blog. That was the highlight of my week to get to meet you! Thank you for creating Sewaholic Patterns. It's been great to follow along all these years through your journey and sewing your patterns has brought me great joy.


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Today is Thursday, Feb. 21, the 39th day of the 105-day legislative session.
In addition to speaking to legislators about climate change Wednesday, Gov. Jay Inslee also testified in support of House Bill 1872, his proposal to improve education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The bill would create a STEM Education Innovation Alliance that would advise the governor. The advisory group would also issue an annual report card reflecting how well Washington state is doing at advancing STEM education.
Seattle's law requiring employers to offer paid sick-leave was the hot topic Wednesday in the Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor. Opponents testified that Seattle's sick leave law creates an unwelcoming climate for businesses, while supporters said it improves the health and well-being of workers.
In advance of Friday's deadline for policy bills to pass out of committee, the House Education committee is scheduled to vote on 19 proposed laws at 8 a.m. Some of the most noteworthy bills up for a vote include House Bill 1452, which would hold back third-graders who fail the state's reading test; House Bill 1412, which would require students to complete community service to graduate from high school; and House Bill 1450, which would reduce the number of standardized tests students must take to graduate.
Also in the morning, a proposal to punish anyone who sells or gives an electronic cigarette to a minor will receive a hearing in the House Government Accountability & Oversight Committee. Under House Bill 1937, giving a minor an e-cigarette — a product that contains no tobacco, but uses water vapor to deliver a dose of nicotine — would be a gross misdemeanor. The bill, sponsored by Republican Rep. Charles Ross of Naches, will have a hearing at 8:30 a.m.
Expect to see some pink around the Capitol campus today. Members of the Susan G. Komen Affiliate of Puget Sound will come to the Capitol for their annual Advocacy Day, during which they will urge lawmakers to continue funding the Washington Breast, Cervical and Colon Health Program and Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program.
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families. - Improve the standard of literacy and general education amongst the pupils.
- Provide technical education and vocational training to disadvantaged women and young men
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opportunities. - Create and support income-generating programmes that directly benefit low-income groups,
especially women, through the sale of KTS Fair Trade products.
- Provide education, welfare and training to orphans and destitute women.
- Empower the local community and other beneficiaries to take greater responsibility for
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My grandmother was a resident at this facility. Outside appearance was well maintained however the inside was not quite what I expected. As with most nursing home facilities there was a very pungent odor of urine. The facility was kept clean and neat. As for staffing, there always seemed to be a shortage of both licensed nurses and aides. When visiting, I would spend several hours with my grandmother. During this time you were compelled to watch the occurances in the facility. I took note that there seemed to be no more than 2 nurse aides per shift. Working in the medical field myself it wasn't difficult to distinguish who held what positions. I found it very distressing that there were only 2 nurse aides per shift to carry out the duties of changing linens for 50+ patients, get them dressed and ready for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and then get them ready for afternoon activities or bed. Needless to say, my grandmother did not get the care that I felt she deserved. Therefore, I made several visits each week to ensure that she was being looked after properly. While visiting the facility I also observed that emergency call lights were answered either very slowly or not at all. I would also like to include that there is a very distinct difference in patient rooms and care between self pay patients and medicare patients. I feel that every patient should be given the same care regardless of their situation. There were several instances where I arrived to find my grandmother soiled and obviously had been left that way for some time. There were also issues with keeping track of her personal propery. For instance, we were constantly bringing her socks and house robes and none could ever be found when visiting.
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A prison riot in Pattani Central Prison turned deadly yesterday as Buddhist and Muslim inmates clashed.
Pattani Central Prison staff yesterday survey the aftermath of a prison riot, which left two inmates dead. Injured inmates lying on the ground were taken to hospital. PARES LOHASAN
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Inmates moved as jail riot kills 2
Buddhists relocated after prison erupts
Two inmates at Pattani Central Prison were killed yesterday in a riot fuelled by tensions between Muslim and Buddhist inmates.
The conflict culminated with prison authorities last night agreeing to move the prison's 39 Buddhist inmates who were involved in fighting with Muslim rioters to a Songkhla jail.
The clash started after the prison decided to appoint a Buddhist inmate to help warders inspect the prison.
Reports said more than 40 prisoners started attacking five fellow inmates, who later fled to the roof of a dormitory.
Three of them accidentally fell from the roof and were seriously injured as a result.
The three were reportedly beaten by the rioting inmates. One was found dead at the scene; the other two were seriously wounded. One of the injured inmates later died in hospital.
Prison warders were unable to help those attacked inside the prison as they were outnumbered by the rioters.
The number of rioters swelled to about 200 after officers were forced to release more prisoners from the Narathiwat and Yala blocks.
Officers said some rioting prisoners were pounding on the walls in an attempt to escape.
More than 300 police, soldiers and officials from other areas were deployed to the prison to help control the situation, said Pattani Central Prison chief Arwut Suwanno.
A prison source said the riot began with a scuffle between a group of Muslim inmates and a group of Buddhist inmates who had been selected to be warder assistants.
Muslim rioters claimed the warder assistants led by Phanuwat Khong-in had treated them unfairly, particularly in relation to food allocation.
Phanuwat was one of the two inmates killed in the riot.
Muslim inmates wrote a letter to the prison's executives and senior provincial administrators, saying they would end the riot if executives agreed to their demands.
They demanded changes in the way inmates are regulated in prison, wanted harsh regulations to be relaxed and said inmates assigned to manage the prison's kitchen must be Muslims.
They also demanded that prisoners assigned to help warders inspect inmates' belongings and those in other prison units be replaced with Muslims.
Senior provincial administrators led by Pattani deputy governor Lertkiat Wongpopan and prison executives agreed to accept the inmates' demands, and the prisoners called off their riot.
survey – to make an examination of something to find out about its condition สำรวจ
aftermath – the effects and results of something bad or important ผลที่ตามมา
riot – a violent protest by a group of people ความไม่สงบ การจลาจล
inmate – someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital or other institution นักโทษ
injured – hurt in an accident or attack ซึ่งได้รับบาดเจ็บ
relocate – to move someone or something to another place โยกย้าย
erupt – to start suddenly ปะทุขึ้น
fuel – to make something increase or become worse ทำให้รุนแรงขึ้น
tensions – the feelings caused by a lack of trust between people, groups or countries who do not agree about something and may attack each other ความตึงเครียด
conflict – an angry disagreement between people or groups ความขัดแย้ง
culminate – to end with, after developing for some time สิ้นสุด, ถึงขั้นสุดท้าย
authorities – people who have the power to make decisions or enforce the law เจ้าหน้าที่ผู้มีอำนาจ
involved – taking part or having a role in something เกี่ยวข้อง
clash – a brief fight between two or more people การปะทะกันสองฝ่าย
appoint – to choose someone officially for a job or responsibility แต่งตั้ง,ตั้งให้เป็น
warder – someone whose job is to guard prisoners in a prison ผู้คุม
inspect – to look at something carefully ตรวจสอบ
fellow – used for talking about people who are similar to you or are in the same situation เพื่อนร่วมชะตากรรม
fled (past of flee) – escaped; left an area very quickly because of a danger there หนีไป
dormitory – a large building where students, prison inmates, etc. live หอพัก
beat – to hit someone violently several times ตี, เคาะ, หวด, ตบ, เฆี่ยน
scene – site; a place where something happens or happened สถานที่เกิดเหตุ
wounded – injured, especially where your skin or flesh is damaged, usually seriously บาดเจ็บ
outnumbered – having fewer people than another group มีคนน้อยกว่า
swell – to increase in size or number เพิ่มจำนวน, เพิ่มขนาด, เพิ่มปริมาณ
release – to allow someone or something to go free ปล่อย
block – buildings that form part of a school, prison, hospital, etc. which are used for a particular purpose ตึกใหญ่
pound – to hit something hard many times, especially in a way that makes a lot of noise ตำ
deploy – (of police, soldiers or equipment) to put in place ready for action ส่งประจำการ
source – someone who gives information แหล่งข่าว
scuffle – a short and sudden fight, especially one involving a small number of people การต่อสู้กันอุตลุด
select – to choose คัดเลือก
assistant – a person who helps or supports somebody, usually in their job ผู้ช่วย
claim – to say that something is true although it has not been proved and other people may not believe it อ้าง
allocation – an amount or share of something that is given to someone การแบ่งส่วน
executive – a senior manager in a business or other organisation ผู้บริหาร
administrator – someone whose job is to manage a business, organisation, or institution ผู้บริหาร
demand – a very firm request for something ข้อเรียกร้อง, การเรียกร้อง
regulate – to control an activity officially by using rules ควบคุม
harsh – strict, unkind and often unfair อย่างรุนแรง
regulation – an official rule that controls the way that things are done กฎระเบียบ
relax – to make rules, controls, conditions etc less strict
belongings – the things you own ข้าวของเครื่องใช้
replace – to put a new person or thing in the place of someone or something แทน
senior – with a high rank or position อาวุโส
deputy – a person whose rank is immediately below that of the leader of an organisation รอง
call off – to decide to stop something that is already happening; to decide that something will not happen บอกเลิก
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I think I've come to another one of those crossroads in life when one steps back to examine what is being accomplished in their life. I'm not distressed, discouraged, or upset about my life at this point, it's just that there are about a thousand more things I'd like to be doing along with the thousand other things I'm already doing.
So what is a person supposed to turn loose of and what does one add to their life without disappointing others? Well, don't feel sorry for me because I've learned that lesson well. I've learned that when one pushes and bends life in their desired way, life has a tendency to fight back. The more one pushes to make things happen, the more life pushes back and incompleteness or total failure sets you back on your heels.
Things happen in life that get completely ignored and are not taken advantage of because we deem them as irrelevant, when in reality they could become a life- changing experience, if only we would allow it. There is an ebb and flow of life that my faith and trust in God has allowed me to see and enjoy for many years now. I continue to learn that life's great accomplishments can and do change lives, but it's the little things in life that make life enjoyable. Worry, fussing and fighting, and feuding are the things that make life hard. I look for the wisdom of God as He works in my life, bringing me ever closer to Him.
A Chinese proverb says: A farmer had one horse and one son. One day the horse broke out of the corral and fled to the hills. The neighbors said to him, "Your horse got out. That's too bad." The Chinese gentleman asked, "How do you know it's bad?" The next night the horse returned to his familiar corral for his usual feeding and watering, leading twelve wild horses. The farmer's son saw the thirteen horses in the corral, slipped outside, and shut the gate. The neighbors said, "Oh, you have thirteen horses. That's good." The Chinese farmer replied, "How do you know it's good?"
A few days later, the farmer's young son was thrown from one of the wild horses and broke his leg. The neighbors said, "Your son has a broken leg. That's too bad." Again, the farmer said, "How do you know it's bad?" Not too long after that, a Chinese warlord came through the countryside and took every able-bodied young man off to war, never to return again. The farmer's son was left behind because of his broken leg.
[Proverbs 3:5-6] "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Likewise, Paul states in Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
Think about it and you will discover that God is constantly calling out to every living soul. Like the Chinese farmer told his neighbors, we can't always see how things that appear to be bad can be used for good purposes. But the Lord's promise is that He will bring good out of the bad experiences of life if we will trust Him to do so.
Some have the mistaken idea that when God stopped working miracles, as He did in the Bible, that He stopped working. God has not stopped working in the lives of mankind. We don't have to understand the mechanics of how the Lord works to know it's true.
As Christians we don't live by explanations, we live by promises. If you are a Christian who loves and trusts God, you can take it to the bank; He will take care of you. If you have found yourself at a crossroad in life, let go and let God have a chance.
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Sin will shipwreck you
(February 1, 2012)
January 2012
Dec. 22, 2012
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God is still in charge
(January 18, 2012)
Where is God in all of this?
(January 4, 2012)
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Hex is a British television programme developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel. The story is set in a remote English boarding school with a mysterious past. Series one explores the supernatural relationship between a Fallen Angel named Azazeal and a student called Cassie who is also a witch. In the second series the story centres around 500 year old anointed one Ella Dee, and Azazeal's son Malachi. Both series of the show are currently available on Region 2 DVD, with the first series released on Region 1 DVD in June 2007.


text: Whilst browsing on the internet for defunct Disneyland attractions I came across something which I was astounded had managed to pass me by before. I found out about a 3D, sci-fi, short film,starring Michael Jackson, which used to be on at the Disney theme parks in the mid 80s-late 90s. It looked so cool! I saw that it had this cute little flying character in it, who is seen in many pictures sitting on Captain EO's (Michael's) shoulder. As it is 80s fantasy I felt quite inspired by it, and although I have never seen the film myself (but am sure it was amazing) I felt the sudden urge to make one of these guys for myself! By the way Fuzzball flies back to the screens at Disneyland California in 2010. :)