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[Reprinted from Perspectives Fall 2011]
It may not yet be Thanksgiving, but holiday shopping is well underway. Some view the search for the perfect gift to be a big challenge; others see it as a big headache. But no matter how you look at it, one thing's for sure. It's big business. Understanding what motivates gift givers is important for retailers, manufacturers, and marketers who are looking to capture their attention—and their dollars.
What Kind of Gift Giver Are You?
The perfect gift, says Cele Otnes, is not necessarily the most expensive or the most popular. According to Otnes, a professor of marketing and advertising whose research focuses on ritual-based consumer behavior, it's much more personal.
"If you found a soda can that was run over in the road and you and your best friend had a private joke about soda cans run over in the road, that might be the greatest gift you ever give that person," Otnes says. "On the other hand, if you are in a hellacious relationship with someone and you give them a diamond ring, that might be the worst gift you could give. So it's not about the gift."
Instead, Otnes says, it's about the relationship. And she should know. Along with two other researchers, Otnes conducted a 12-year study in which they monitored the buying patterns of the same five people as they did their holiday shopping for an extensive number of family and friends. What Otnes found is that our gift purchases are driven by how much—or how little—we care about the relationship.
Otnes and her colleagues discovered six roles that people fill when buying gifts:
• The Pleaser, who tries to please the recipient;
• The Provider, who purchases needed items as gifts;
• The Compensator, who makes reparations for a loss the recipient suffered;
• The Socializer, who wants to pass on values or knowledge;
• The Acknowledger, who buys obligatory gifts; and
• The Avoider, who, through a lack of gift-giving, sends a deliberate message.
While you might not be cognizant of what role you are filling when you give someone a gift, you should be, Otnes says. "Think about what the gift says about the relationship. And what you want it to say about the relationship. Do I want it to keep saying what it's always been saying or do I want to take it to a different level?"
Gifts not only say something about the relationship; they say something about you, says Brittany Duff, assistant professor of advertising. Duff notes that she might not care what the tag inside a sweater says if she buys it for herself, "But if I give it to somebody else, I'm going to care a lot more about what that label says. Because when I give them a gift, it says something about me. So the brand becomes increasingly important there, as do little things like perception of price or time spent."
More Than Ribbons and Bows
With holiday gift-giving alone estimated to be more than a $65-billionper-year business, and weddings, birthdays, Valentine's Day, and other special occasions adding to the coffers,how can retailers and marketers increase their chances of capturing a share of the lucrative gift-giving market? It's important for business to understand the roles that gift givers fill, to assess how their products can fill those roles, to build connections with customers around this understanding, and to target advertising to capitalize on the roles and connections.
Otnes, Duff, and Tina Lowrey, a professor of marketing at the University of Texas at San Antonio who earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, offer some practical suggestions for businesses to follow as they position themselves in the gift-giving market or fine-tune their relationship with consumers in order to improve their position—and their sales.
• Anticipate recipient reaction. Many advertisers—such as jewelers—focus on the response of the recipient to the gift. The consumer thinks, "Oh, she's going to love this!" Or they envision the joy on their children's faces as they rip open their packages. "This is wise," Duff says, "because gift-giving is, among other things, a bonding experience."
• Consider the role of the consumer. "It's important that marketers realize that gift selection is almost as much about the self-identity of the giver as it is about the recipient," says Lowrey, who conducted multiple research studies on gift-giving with Otnes for over a decade, first as a doctoral student and later as a professor. "Only 'The Pleaser' sincerely wants to select gifts that the recipient will like. All other identities are more about the giver."
• Identify products as gifts during the holiday season. "At holiday time, people have gift-giving in mind, so it's a smart move to highlight products as gifts, not just as general sales," Duff says. "People are more likely to attend to it if it's matching something they would like to accomplish."
• Customize products. "Customers are really concerned with customization these days," Otnes notes. "For example, good old M&Ms, this plain chocolate product that's been around forever, has repositioned itself into this wonderful, almost luxury brand because you can customize it with pictures, with colors, with words. Right off the Internet you can order these things—and the prices are ridiculously high!" But people are buying, because they love the customization. Businesses that find original ways to offer customization find more customers interested in
their product.
• Accommodate customers. "The number one thing businesses should do to attract gift-buyers is to offer better service from start to finish," Lowrey says. "For online purchasing, this includes easier navigation, more timely and less costly shipping, more lenient return policies, etc. For brick and mortar purchasing, it means more salesclerks to help customers with their gift selections, free wrapping, and, again, more lenient return policies."
• Consider how rational arguments play out in emotional ads. "When you start bringing rational arguments into more emotional ads, you aren't making a singular connection," Duff says. "I don't care about your message for the most part, but if I am giving it a little bit of attention, I want something in return. I either want to feel good, be happy, or learn something or find a solution to a problem. I need to get something back. If you're giving me a jumble of things, that doesn't help. Having one main thing for consumers to grasp is probably best.
• Grasp consumer psychology. "Just increasingly understanding consumer psychology is incredibly important," Duff says. "Understanding the context in which your product or brand is used becomes very important also, because there's an increased understanding that people don't necessarily always use a product or do things the way you tell them to."
Less to Spend
The strategies these experts suggest are even more important as retailers continue to face the prospect of lower consumer spending in the current economic conditions. A 2009 study conducted by the International Council of Shopping Centers, reported that over three-fourths of more than 2,500 consumers said they had cut back their shopping in the past year (and women were much more likely to cut back than men). Most kept a tighter fist on their dollars as either a "precautionary measure" or because it "seemed like the right thing to do." While this study looked at all spending—not just on gifts—it's apparent that gift purchases have taken a hit during the recession. People are cutting back on how much they spend, how many people they buy for, and when they begin shopping (many start earlier, to spread the costs out). In addition, more shoppers are frequenting discount or outlet stores and finding other ways to save money on gifts.
"The recession has likely led to selecting less expensive gifts," says Lowrey. "Many people are also foregoing tangible gifts altogether—for example, going out to eat to celebrate an anniversary, rather than exchanging gifts."
"You might make group family decisions like, this year we'll do 'X' instead of giving Christmas presents— we'll take our trip and that will count," adds Otnes. Likewise, she says, the recipient of a Wal-Mart gift card might decide to spend it on needed groceries or other practical items instead of what we would traditionally consider a "gift." On the other hand, it's ironic that a recession can also do just the opposite—that is, it can prompt people to buy items that they might not normally buy. "You might not want to spend money, but maybe a $10 bar of soap will get you out of your funk— for example, if you didn't get a raise," Otnes says.
Pricing and bargains have become more salient during the recession. "People have gotten much more bargainconscious, and it's really shifted the way we shop for gifts," Otnes says. "In the good old days, the Christmas shopping season started the day after Thanksgiving. Then retailers started to push the season to start in September. Now retailers are really worried because consumers are waiting as long as they can, gambling that prices are going to go down as Christmas gets closer."
Gifts at Your Fingertips
If fallout from the recession doesn't complicate matters enough, e-commerce has created additional challenges, and opportunities, for retailers. Internet Retailer magazine estimates that more than 70 percent of consumers shop online during the holiday season.
"The Internet has changed gift shopping forever," Otnes declares. "Some folks resist it, because it doesn't allow them that ambient spirit of Christmas shopping—it dilutes the whole running around the night before and getting hot chocolate at Panera. So you have to choose as a consumer: What do you want to do? Most people do a little bit of both."
One great advantage of the Internet, Otnes says, is it puts stores at your fingertips that you would otherwise never have access to. "I would say," Lowrey adds, "that the Internet is probably the single most important change in shopping in general in our generation." It's not only
great for consumers, she says, but for businesses as well. "It has given businesses the ability to reach a much larger group of customers in a much easier way."
And it has spawned gift sites such as etsy.com, which specializes in handmade items, and redenvelope.com, through which you can purchase gifts by various categories. Sure, you lose out on the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping among the crowds, but you gain bargains, the ability to compare products and prices, and access to pretty much whatever you want when you let your fingers do the shopping.
And, if you're overwhelmed by all the choices, you can always go the increasingly popular route of gift cards. "There was this belief that consumers would resist this influx of gift cards because they're not very personal," Otnes says. "But the truth is they're so convenient and they take the risk completely out, unless you completely blow it and get a card from a store that someone is boycotting."
Getting Down to Business
So, if gift-giving is big business, even in down times, what do retailers and marketers need to know to get their share of the gift-giving pie?
First, their advertising must be relevant. Keep in mind, Duff says, that the typical person sees about 5,000 ads a day. She recently asked her students to recall as many ads as they possibly could from the day before, and the most a student could recall was eight. The other 4,992 ads are filed under "Sensory Overload/Not Paying Attention/Don't Care."
The only way advertisers can get people to care is to be relevant. Duff likens it to what is called the "cocktail party effect," which is the general ability to filter out important, relevant noises or those that require a response when there are many competing background noises. For instance, at a party, you focus on the people you're talking with, and try to block out all the other noise around you. But if you happen to hear your name spoken at a nearby table, you pay attention. "We're bombarded with messages as consumers, and don't have the time to pick through the things that we are exposed to every day," Duff says. "But we perk up when we hear something relevant." Being relevant—and thus being heard above the din—is perhaps the highest priority of an advertiser.
What makes an ad relevant? "At the core," Duff notes, "you look at a brand and say that it should communicate specific, constant things, things that don't change over time. But you need to communicate that brand messaging in a way that's current and relevant. Advertising is culturally situated—which is why I can show an ad from the '70s or '80s and my students just laugh. The ads might still hold the same idea for now, but the ads themselves are so situated in a time and place that they don't seem relevant anymore."
The content of an ad is not the only consideration as to its relevancy with an audience. Connection planning, which focuses on how companies connect with their existing and potential customers through ad placement, is a growing consideration as well. The process has evolved from just knowing, say, what demographic reads Woman's Day to understanding the mindset of readers or viewers who encounter their ads. "Connection planning brings in the emotional context," Duff says. "People have shifting identities. Through connection planning, companies can
better understand who people are while they are consuming their media or while they are reading their message."
The best ads, Duff says, understand a product from a consumer's point of view. "Advertising has increasingly moved from this idea that everything is about our product to maybe it's a little bit about you, too."
And that includes, she says, the realization that people might have a relationship with the product or store or brand. Again, just like gift-giving, it's all about relationships.
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Shelley Sauvé is not shy about speaking up about poverty. A single mom with two children with special needs, she has frequently spoken with the media about supporting the city's food bank, Winnipeg Harvest and the working poor.
By all accounts, the well-spoken, well-educated (she has an education degree) 39-year-old mother of a 10- and 17-year-old seems like an unlikely user of soup kitchens and food banks. Yet she is often forced to do so, even though she works as a teaching assistant.
Last year, she and her boys spent Christmas living out of her car when she couldn't pay the rent.
"Our rent was $1,100 and I was barely making that," she says. "Then, our rent went up by almost $300 a month."
Sauvé is one of many single-income earners in Canada heading up households on their own and struggling to make ends meet. Statistics Canada data reveal about 25 per cent of families are surviving on one income, while single parents account for a little more than 10 per cent of the overall makeup of Canadian families.
Many of them live below Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off -- Canada's version of the poverty line -- which is about $33,900 for a family of three in a city the size of Winnipeg.
On average, single-income families earn considerably less than double-income ones. The latest data from 2010 show single-income families earn on average less than $30,000 a year, whereas the average for dual-income families is almost $90,000.
Tax and estate-planning specialist Todd Sigurdson with Investors Group in Winnipeg says single-income earners often have to work more hours at more than one job, all the while paying more attention to how they spend their money. And that's just to stay afloat financially.
"In general, you've got a tighter budget to work with," he says. "In most cases, it means you've got less income, so you've got to be a little bit more determined to meet your objectives."
The investment and financial-services firm recently offered a list of tips for single-income families to save money (see fact box), such as taking advantage of tax credits and other government benefits for low-income families.
Yet even with the available tax breaks and benefits, most single-income families are scaling a slick slope out of poverty, says Lynne Fernandez, an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) in Winnipeg.
"You will find very few single-salary families by design out there," says the labour-force expert.
Many single-income families are headed up by women, and they tend to be the most economically disadvantaged, she says. In fact, single mothers are disproportionately among the poorest families in Canada, with a poverty rate of 23 per cent compared with a rate of nine per cent for all families.
A major challenge for many single-income families is child care.
"Daycare is ridiculously expensive -- if you can even find a spot," says Sauvé, who has never found affordable care herself.
CCPA has been lobbying for a nationalized daycare program similar to the one in Quebec, Fernandez says.
"It was very controversial at first because of its cost, but they have found that they have been able to more than pay for it because so many more women are in the workforce," she says, citing a 2011 Université du Québec à Montréal economists' study.
Of course, single-income families -- particularly those headed by women -- face more challenges than affordable daycare, she adds.
Many of these families are subsisting on minimum wages, she says. "There's not really any way a family can live on a minimum wage."
Social-policy organizations, including CCPA, have been pushing for an alternative to the minimum wage called a living wage. Fernandez says a living wage provides enough income to cover a "bare-bones budget" that covers rent, food, clothing, bus passes, child care and minimal recreation.
"It's just sort of enough to let you live on the margins with a certain amount of dignity," she says, adding New Westminster, B.C., became the first municipality in Canada to institute a living-wage policy for its workers and contractors. Several U.S. cities have similar ordinances.
For a single parent in Winnipeg, a living wage would be about $18.64 an hour with one child and $25.44 for two children, or about $52,000 annually before taxes, Fernandez says. In contrast, the minimum wage in Manitoba is $10.25 an hour. At full-time, that's about $21,340 a year before taxes and deductions, which is well below the low income cut-off.
Fernandez admits small-business owners would have a tough time paying a living wage, but the gap between the minimum wage and the living wage illustrates a need for better social supports for Canadian families.
"Theoretically, your living wage can come down if the government is providing more services -- for example, child care," she says.
"If it's going to cost you $600 a month to have a kid in child care, and all of a sudden the government is picking up $400 of that, theoretically your living wage can come down."
Sauvé says she earns about $20 an hour working almost full-time. Although she has worked three jobs to pay the bills in the past, she found it unsustainable because of child-care costs and the toll on her health.
She and her boys have since found an affordable place to live. The two bedroom apartment is small and the living room is her bedroom, but rent is only $800 a month. "At least we have a tiny kitchen and a bathroom, two things missing when we didn't have a place to live."
And Sauvé says she is grateful for what they have now, even though it often seems as though there's no light at the end of the tunnel. Still, she just keeps going, fighting to keep a roof over her children's heads and food on the table.
"Everybody always asks me 'So what's the solution?' but there isn't one easy solution," she says. "There are just so many issues involved."

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Does the violation have to occur in front of a law enforcement officer?
No. A police office may make a warrantless arrest of a PPO respondent if the officer has "reasonable cause" to believe that he violated the PPO.
A Police Officer can then quickly confirm the terms of your Order when investigating your report that the Respondent has committed a violation.
What if the PPO violator has left the scene before the police arrive?
The PPO statute does not impose a time limit on the police officer's arrest authority, so a warrantless arrest may happen even if the respondent has left the scene of an alleged violation. If the police cannot find the respondent, they may choose to file a warrant request for Stalking; repeated violations of a PPO may constitute the crime of Aggravated Stalking.
What happens if he is arrested?
The police may arrest the restrained party if he was previously served with a copy of the PPO. The police are encouraged to arrest if they have evidence of a PPO violation, but they have discretion to arrest or not arrest. If arrested, the restrained party will be brought to a Circuit Court judge within 24 hours. At that time, the Judge can set a bond; if the respondent posts the bond, he can be released. The Judge will also set a date for a Show Cause hearing where you and other necessary witnesses will testify about the how the Respondent violated the PPO. The Eaton County Prosecutor's Office may be involved in this Show Cause hearing (see below).
What if he is not arrested for violating the PPO?
The police might not arrest the restrained party, especially if the officer did not witness him commit the acts violating the PPO, or if there was insufficient proof that the respondent had been served with the PPO papers before the alleged violation occurred.
If the restrained person is not arrested, you will have to file a "motion to show cause" in the Circuit Court Clerk's office to have a hearing about the PPO violation. A "show cause" action focuses on whether the respondent should be held in contempt of court for violating the PPO. Like the original PPO application, you will have to write out what the respondent did & said, and attach supporting witness statements, police reports, photographs, etc. Your motion to show cause will be reviewed by the Judge. If he believes that a violation likely occurred, he will schedule a show cause hearing and will issue a show cause order directing the defendant to appear in Court to respond to your allegations that he violated the PPO. You must attend the show cause hearing; bring eye witnesses and supporting evidence, because testimony will be needed if the respondent disputes what you alleged in your motion.
To help you document PPO violations, download our Stalking Victim's Log!
What is the Prosecuting Attorney's role in PPO contempt hearings?
The Prosecuting Attorney must prosecute all arrest and non-arrest criminal contempt proceedings, unless the petitioner retains his or her own attorney for this purpose.
What kinds of punishment can he get for violating the PPO?
A PPO is a court order, so any violation proven beyond a reasonable doubt is criminal "contempt of court". The Judge can send the violating respondent to jail for up to 93 days for each violation, and/or impose a fine of $500, and (as of July 1, 2000) can place the Respondent on probation up to 2 years in lieu of jail time.
What can I do to help "make a case" for a PPO violation?
PPO violations happen in seclusion and public, at night and in broad daylight. Many times, police are not present when the violations occur. The constant is you. Therefore, your help is necessary in order to prove that a violation occurred.
Preserve all available tangible evidence of the PPO violation, such as notes or letters, answering machine messages, etc. Keep written notes of when and where the violations happened, what was said and done, who else may have seen or heard the respondent's conduct, etc. Take photographs of property damage. Give all of these to the police or Prosecutor.
To help you document PPO violations, download our Stalking Victim's Log!
Can a respondent be charged with both a PPO violation and a separate criminal offense for the same behavior?
Yes. Michigan statutes clearly state a Legislative intent that criminal sanctions be imposed in addition to whatever criminal penalties apply for a separate criminal offense. [See MCL 600.2950(23) and 600.2950a(20).] Also, appellate decisions have stated that separate convictions did not violate double jeopardy, even though they were based on the same conduct. See People v Coones, 216 Mich App 721, 500 NW2d 600, 603 (1996) .
What if I resume contact with the respondent after the PPO has been issued?
The PPO is directed to the respondent's behavior, NOT the petitioner's. Regardless of the petitioner's wishes for contact, the respondent will have violated the court's order. The petitioner's invitation or consent may mitigate sanctions, but it is no defense to the violation.
A petitioner should not "send the wrong signals" to the respondent by actually or seemingly allowing contact that violates the PPO. The PPO means what the order says and applies when the order says ... not just when it is "convenient" to the petitioner for the terms to apply. If you do not want or need the PPO in effect any more, move to set it aside or modify it.
How do I change the terms of the PPO?
How do I dismiss the PPO?
Only a court can change a PPO; the parties cannot do this privately or informally. If you decide to get back together (reconcile) with the person you had restrained, or you no longer want the order to remain in effect, either you or the respondent must file a motion in court to "dissolve" the order. Otherwise, the order will remain in effect until the date the judge originally set for it to expire. A form to modify (change the terms of) or dissolve (dismiss) a PPO the PPO is available in the County Clerk's Office. The same form is used to change any of the terms of the order (i.e., your new home/work address).
The respondent may move to modify or rescind the PPO within 14 days after service or actual notice, or for good cause shown after the 14 days have elapsed. A hearing must be held within 14 days after a request for modification or rescission.
A motion is also necessary to obtain a PPO which is effective longer than the time allowed in the ex-parte order.
Is there a fee to modify or cancel a PPO?
There is no filing fee when parties seek to modify or terminate a PPO.
Out-of-State PPOs
Can I get my Michigan PPO enforced in another state?
Yes. If you have a valid Michigan PPO that meets federal standards, it can be enforced in another state. The Violence Against Women Act, which is a federal law, states that all valid PPOs granted in the United States receive "full faith and credit" in all state and tribal courts within the US, including US territories.
Each state must enforce out-of-state PPOs in the same way it enforces its own orders. Meaning, if your abuser violates your out-of-state PPO, s/he will be punished according to the laws of whatever state you are in when the order is violated. This is what is meant by "full faith and credit." To make this even clearer, every Michigan PPO says that the order is enforceable in any state as long as the defendant has been notified of the order. MCL 600.2950(11)(b).
A PPO is valid anywhere in the USA if:
- It was issued to prevent violent, threatening, or harassing behavior against another person, OR it was issued to forbid contact or communication with another person
- The court that issued the order had jurisdiction over the people and case (i.e., had the authority to hear the case)
- The abuser received notice of the order and had an opportunity to go to court to tell his/her side of the story. For ex parte and emergency orders, the abuser must receive notice and have an opportunity to go to court to tell his/her side of the story at a hearing that is scheduled before the temporary order expires. 18 USC 2265.
I have a temporary / e-parte PPO. Can it be enforced in another state?
Yes. Temporary ex-parte orders can be enforced by other states, just like any regular PPO, as long as the abuser has been served and will have the opportunity to have a court hearing set before your temporary order expires.
The state where you are going cannot extend your temporary order, or issue you a permanent order when the temporary one expires. If you need to extend your temporary order, you will have to contact the state that issued the order and arrange to be at the hearing in person or by telephone (if that is an option offered by the court).
What if the PPO was issued in another state?
As of 04/01/2002, a peace officer, without a warrant, may arrest and take into custody a person when the officer has positive information that a "foreign protection order" has been violated in Michigan. An officer may rely on a copy of the order if it contains all of the following: (i) parties' names, (ii) issuance date that is prior to the date when enforcement is sought, (iii) terms and conditions against the respondent, (iv) name of issuing court, (v) judicial officer's signature, and (vi) no obvious indication that the order is invalid (such as an expiration date occurring before the date when enforcement is sought). Verification on L.E.I.N. or the NCIC national protection order file is not required. The officer may rely on the petitioner's or respondent's statement that the respondent has received prior notice of the order.
A person who violates a foreign protection order that is a conditional release order or a probation order issued by another court in a criminal proceeding is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 93 days &/or $500. [See 2001 PA 197; MCL 600.2950m.]
How do I get my PPO enforced in another state?
Federal law does not require you to take any special steps to get your PPO enforced in another state. But, many states have laws or regulations about enforcement of out-of-state orders. These rules differ from state to state, so it is important to find out what the rules are in the other state before you try to get your PPO enforced there. For example, a state may ask you to "register" or file your order so that the court and the police know about it.
Although knowing the state rules can make enforcement easier, a valid PPO is enforceable regardless of whether it has been registered or filed in the new state.
Note: It is important to keep a copy of your PPO with you at all times. It is also a good idea to know the rules of states you will be living in or visiting to ensure that your out-of-state order can be enforced in a timely manner.
Do I need anything special to get my PPO enforced in another state?
In some states, you will need a certified copy of your PPO. A certified copy says that it is a "true and correct" copy; it is signed and initialed by the clerk of court that gave you the order, and usually has some kind of court stamp on it or embossed (raised) seal.
In Michigan, a certified order has a court seal on it and either the judge's original signature or a stamp of the judge's signature along with a "true copy" stamp. When the PPO was issued, you should have received two (2) certified copies of the order. MCL 600.2950(15)(b). If your copy is not a certified copy, go back to the court that gave you the order and ask the clerk's office for a certified copy. There is usually no fee to get a certified copy of a Michigan PPO, but you may have to pay for the copies.
Note: It is a good idea to keep a copy of the order with you at all times. You will also want to bring several copies of the order with you when you move. Leave copies of the order at your work place, at your home, at the children's school or daycare, in your car, with a sympathetic neighbor, etc. Give a copy to the security guard or person at the front desk where you live and/or work. Give a copy of the order to anyone who is named in and protected by the order.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of registering my out-of-state PPO?
Advantages: If your PPO is registered in the new state, it is easier for law enforcement officials to verify that your order is valid. When police officers arrive on a scene, they generally check to see if your PPO is registered in the state's registry. If it is not listed in the state registry, the police officer will have to look through the national registry or call the court where the order was issued. This takes longer and it could mean that your PPO is not enforced right away.
Disadvantages: When you register your PPO in a new state, some states (not all) will notify your abuser that the PPO has been registered in the new state. If you do not want your abuser to find out what state you have relocated to, it is important to understand what the rules are in your new state.
Do I need a lawyer to help enforce a PPO in another state?
You do not need a lawyer to get your PPO enforced in another state.
However, you may want to get help from a local domestic violence advocate or attorney in the state that you move to. A domestic violence advocate can let you know what the advantages and disadvantages are for registering your PPO, and help you through the process if you decide to do so.
You may also want to check with the prosecutor in the county where you are to see if that office can help. PPO violation hearings can turn into "mini trials" with witnesses, testimony, exhibits, etc. The local prosecutor may be required by state law to help put your evidence before the court.
Do I need to tell the court in Michigan if I move?
You are not required to tell the court in Michigan if you move. However, it might be a good idea to give the court a current address so that you can be notified of any actions that are taken regarding your PPO. Ask the court to keep your contact informaton confidential if you do not want the defendant or others to find you by looking in the court file.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Bikini season may be over, but this is no time to tone down the workout. Many of the styles on the runway at New York Fashion Week flash a bit of skin here or there: bare midriffs, cutout backs, keyhole necklines.
The silhouettes in spring previews that entered a fourth day Sunday aren't necessarily skin tight, but it's not a season of full-on floaty frocks, either.
"We've gone so far away from overt sexiness, but the reality is, sex sells. At some point the shopper wants to be sexy," said Hal Rubenstein, fashion director of InStyle magazine. "Illusion fabric on a shoulder or a little skin showing on a midriff gives you a hint without giving it all away."
Victoria Beckham continued the trend with bra-style tops. Many of Alexander Wang's looks were seemingly held together by fishing wire. Rag & Bone flashed some skin with strategic cutouts and at Peter Som, midriff-baring cutouts were carved into ladylike sheath dresses.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week continues through Thursday before the fashion crowd heads to London, Milan and Paris.
Diane von Furstenberg called her spring collection "Palazzo." ''La Dolce Vita" also would have worked.
The muse has "the polish of a princess and the heart of a gypsy," von Furstenberg said, and she travels from Rome to Marrakesh and then off to Jaipur, India.
She takes with her on this journey tunics and skinny-leg pants -- practically silk leggings -- to wear during the day, and a blood-orange scarf gown attached to a silver choker and cuff bracelets for the night. She brings her kiwi-green gown with a cutout neckline just in case she'll need it for a last-minute, black-tie invitation.
The trip is definitely more play than work, a bit of a departure for von Furstenberg whose label often is the workhorse of a career woman. But these clothes fuel the fantasy she might be having at her desk.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin was on hand and Von Furstenberg and some of the models wore Google Glasses that were collecting video for a project to be released on Google-Plus and YouTube on Thursday.
Victoria Beckham's show not only looks like her signature pulled-together, well-edited style, but it feels like her, too.
She's the thoughtful hostess with waiters offering morning juice to the crowd at the New York Public Library, but she keeps the guest list very tight. She's one of the biggest draws of the week, but there's no frenzy of paparazzi photographers. (Husband David Beckham, however, did take some photos from his seat.)
Beckham said she checks -- or doublechecks -- every look to make sure "it looks good from every angle."
The clothes for spring had a delicacy that she said was new for her this season, although the clothes remained substantial and structured. It was the touch of illusion lace, the lingerie bra top or hemline of pleated chiffon that took the edge off banded short skirts, zip-back sheaths and shirtdresses.
The lingerie influences built on her knowledge of corsetry and fell naturally into the collection, Beckham explained after the show. Black and white were dominant as elsewhere in these spring collections, and Beckham used a poppy red as her bold contrast color. She was more interested in texture than crazy colors, she said, noting the black dress she was wearing, which mixed canvas, georgette, lace and chiffon.
"I want to design what I want to wear," she said.
What can stop traffic in always-bustling New York? Donna Karan in a taxicab-yellow raincoat.
Karan took her bow in the eye-catcher at Sunday's DKNY New York Fashion Week preview to the delight of the fashion insiders and to the passers-by on the street who could peek in the open doors to the Chelsea studio space.
She turned out a collection of mostly sporty looks featuring white perforated leather (think golf-glove material), camouflage prints, bathing suits-turned-bodysuits, bra tops and long neoprene dresses with mesh backs and sexy inserts. One of those dresses was in the same super-bright yellow that Karan wore.
DKNY is supposed to dress its customers every day and for every occasion, said Karan in a post-show interview: "When I can wear the same thing as the girls on the runway, I've done my job."
Tracy Reese rode her Michelle Obama bump from the Democratic National Convention to the runway, putting on a show of juxtapositions in color, textiles and embellishments.
"It's still such a big high," Reese smiled backstage after the show. "It reminded us how grateful we have to be to live in this country."
In a range of foliage greens, cool blues, warm ochre, tangerine and crimson, Reese put wide bands of flat industrial shingle sequins on airy loose trousers in yellows and reds.
She mixed a dainty, beaded floral pattern on top of one sleeveless shift dress with zigzags outlined in black sequins against bold blue on the bottom. Reese worked in phosphorescents to embroider bright pink flowers on the top of a tunic, using the same technique in yellow in a tribal pattern at the bottom.
Anything for the first lady this time around?
"We have a lot more back in the showroom," Reese said. "I think there's going to be a lot of things that she'll like."
Burgundy foil paillettes for cocktails or skinny madras plaid trousers with matching jacket in a military green for the office? You can take your pick from Derek Lam's spring collection.
Lam's edgy but wearable runway at a downtown venue included black lambskin halter tops and a fitted black leather dress with a pleated hem. Solid-color leather pieces, including a foldover bodice vest and matching skirt in bright blue, stood in contrast to lasercut foil accents on dresses and skirts and macrame and lace work in tweeds and basketweave patterns.
Lam went metallic gold for a skirt with macrame that stopped at the knee. Most hems landed just above or below the knee.
Kyle Anderson, the accessories director for Marie Claire, said Lam creates what many young women want, including those who crave fashion but may not be looking to take extreme risks.
"It's never weird," Anderson said. "It's always something new, always something fresh. He delivers every single time."
The audience at Alexander Wang is trained to know the best is coming last.
The mostly inventive black-and-white, pieced-leather looks that filled the first part of Saturday's show would have held Wang's place as one of the princes of cool. There were sporty parkas, tops inspired by hockey jerseys and even some more refined halter dresses.
Wang could have called it a collection and be done with it.
However, the final parade of nine models -- all wearing a cream color -- had their embroidered tank tops, pencil skirts, crewneck dresses and Bermuda shorts turn into glow-in-the-dark lightsticks when they assumed a final pose on the runway and the lights went out.
Wang also created a stir by having model Liberty Ross -- the wife of the director Kristen Stewart had an affair with -- walk the runway, along with the likes of Erin Wasson. Jennifer Aniston's fiance actor Justin Theroux sat in the front row along with rapper A$AP Rocky.
"In such a short time, Alex has redefined urban utility," said Laura Brown, Harper's Bazaar features and special projects director, who picked a cut-out silver dress as her favorite. "There's always a sexiness to his clothes, but this season he brought a glamour, too."
It was a rainy Saturday night in Manhattan, and getting a taxi was murder. But fashionistas lined up patiently under umbrellas, undeterred, to catch one of the most buzz-worthy spring previews of Fashion Week: that of rising star Joseph Altuzarra.
Inside the Industria Superstudio in the chic meatpacking district, the excitement was palpable. Actress Kate Bosworth, a big Altuzarra fan, kissed acquaintances and greeted Mamie Gummer, the actress daughter of Meryl Streep. The NBA's Tyson Chandler posed for photos not far from actress Jessica Chastain.
The looks that greeted them on the runway were a combination of the very casual -- navy-and-white striped cotton jackets and overcoats, for example, evoking kids' overalls -- and the glamorous, in the form of gold fringes on everything from skirts to tanks, and crystal-encrusted garments like dramatic scarves draped high around the neck. Workday looks of simple cotton graduated to looks that suddenly shimmered and glistened under the lights, occasionally perhaps a bit blindingly.
"He's going sky-high," said Nina Garcia, the "Project Runway" judge. "A real original."
The red carpet during the upcoming Hollywood awards season could be a sea of ocean-inspired gowns if Monique Lhuillier has anything to do with it.
Lhuillier, a favorite source for celebrity gowns, presented a bright aqua lace gown draped with a tulle overlay that gave the illusion of rippling waves -- and so did a one-shoulder tiered gown in crepe. A sea-glass green gown was embroidered with sparkly beads and had a low, sheer illusion back, and a textured jacquard strapless gown with a trumpet hemline was an underwater kaleidoscope of colors, including blues, greens and purple.
"The inspiration this season came from a wonderful trip I had in Turkey and I was on a boat and I was looking at the beautiful landscape and water and I was like, that's it. This is the feeling I want for spring," Lhuillier said backstage.
"The Emmys are coming up and some of the looks have been selected so they're on hold," said Lhuillier. Bet the gold, coral-embellished sculpted gown that served as the finale is one them.
AP writers Leanne Italie and Jocelyn Noveck contributed to this report.
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I've read the 'How Tos to make forum use easier' and 'General Discussions Guidelines', and I think this is the most appropriate forum for this topic. If not please correct me for future reference. And sorry, this isn't a witty post :-p
On to my topic...
First of all, hello, nice to meet you all!
I'm one of those closet developers, where I'm pretty active in the communities of the tools I use, but I don't often visit general forums like these.
My intent is not to be rude, or to avoid giving back to the community. In fact, the reason is because I'm so busy working on open source code that I hope the community will find useful. My time is divided between writing code and documentation, research through google and various books/documents, and spending time with my little girls. Since I have so much to do and only 24 hours in the day, I feel the biggest contribution I can make, and also the most productive (other than spend time with my girls), is to crank out at much code as I can, and to work on improving my skill set so that my code contributions continue to improve.
But I've found that I've run into a problem caused by my focus. I have a project that I'm very passionate about and I want to see if I can get others involved and have fun collaborating with other folks and get a discussion going regarding design decisions and implementation. I love the social aspect of open source projects, and I've recently left the main community I was a part of due to lack of faith in the direction the project was going and the management style.
Now I find myself a sole developer on an exiting project with no one to share it with, and no one to get feedback from. I'm not complaining at all. I love what I'm doing, that's what matters.
But back in the day there were more resources to find other developers that are interested in getting involved with a project. I can't quite remember the site names of most of them, but I remember that after I finally learned enough about code to be able to do something worthwhile I would be able to go to these sites and connect with other developers and hone my chops on an existing project. Sourceforge was one of those resources.
For some reason I've got an over powering urge to just go running around the web announcing that I'm working on a project and if anyone is interested they can contact me, because I don't want to promote/spam about the project, I just want to get some interest and find a few people that understand what the heck I'm talking about and have some fun creating something.
The main problem I've had with that is that most sites require a minimum amount of posts in order to reach out to the community in that way. I can understand that, but I really don't think it's fair to those communities if I around creating filler posts just to mention that I'm looking for folks to help collaborate. I'm trying to be respectful and do this the right way, or at least the way where my concience doesn't bother me.
There are plenty of freelance sites, but this is open source, and the goal is to have fun and be proud of what we are making (not just talking about me, but the open source community in general).
Just to cut off some comments, this is how I've been informing folks about my project's activity:* It's is on github and I try to keep issues current* I have a project specific twitter account and tweet often* I have a project specific fb page* I have just created a Google+ page* I've just started a project specific google group and have been posting my thoughts on some design decisions I've been contemplating* I've got a project specific IRC channel* An article has been written about my project on a very reputable web site
I want everyone to know what's going on and informed about the latest developments. I also want folks to know that the project is active. I encourage everyone to leave feedback and get involved. But other than the article that's been written, people have to know that the project exists. If you don't know something exists, how can you be aware of any communication that project directs towards the community?
What are the best resources to let people know that your project exists and that it highly promotes feedback and collaboration? Are there any communities that I'm unaware of that is specific to developers that are actively looking for open source projects to work on, or where open source projects can announce that they are looking for collaborators? Can you suggest any resources that might help with this process?
It might seem like I'm just trying to promote my project in this thread, but I'm really not. If I'm having this issue (not really an issue per say, more along the lines of 'I just don't know'), then I'm sure there are many other folks out there that might be having the same issue.
Maybe sitepoint can add a forum along the lines of 'collaboration opportunities/volunteer help wanted/looking for project help'? There is a
I'm open to suggestions and a friendly point in the right direction. Thanks!
I find it a little odd that I didn't receive any feedback regarding this post, but I've had time to think about the situation, and have come to some conclusions regarding what I can do to improve the situation for mysql.
Check it out and please feel free to leave some feedback: http://jbwebware.com/home/content/networking-fun-and-profit
You got me over night and I suspect my staff are all thrown by your smart and non-spammy approach!
Anyway, you're right – most forums DO have an issue with this kind of post and for a while there we would have as well, but I'm trying to turn this place on its head a bit and encourage smart motivated people like you to get involved in the community, and in order to do that we need to give something back.
So for those reasons, and because I like your idea, I'm going to move this thread to the News and Announcements forum where it might get more attention. I'll feature it as well. I'll pose it as a thread asking for collaborators, because that is more likely to attract attention than asking people where you can go to find collaborators. The old bait and switch.
Sounds great Hawk, thank you!
If it wasn't for the social side of Open Source software, and the people involved, I might have lost interest long ago. Also, there might not be 'Open Source' as we see it today. Maybe just a lot of freeshare/shareware like in the 'bad' old days
P.S. Pay no attention to the typo's behind the curtain! lol
I'm always interested to read about a new CMS. I didn't find the Features section really answered the kinds of questions I have up front, though. I'd prefer to read a conceptual overview of what the CMS offers at a glance, rather than start with technical details about how to install it. By conceptual overview, I mean something like a comparison of how it compares in functionality to other systems like WordPress, ExpressionEngine and Perch etc. That helps to give me an idea if it's the kind of thing I'd like to use or not.
I hear you ralph, and thank you for the feedback.
I agree with you, and right now my main target audience is other developers, folks that don't mind getting their hands dirty, and folks that understand what an alpha and beta release really is, and who might understand that's it's actually really exciting have a hand in the direction of a project.
But I did come to the same conclusion as you, where I needed to communicate with everyone and express my views, and what AllianceCMS is all about, it's goals, and what it's going to offer as we move forward towards a stable release. You can find that info in the 'Not-Your-Typical-CMS' wiki article: https://github.com/AllianceCMS/AllianceCMS/wiki/AllianceCMS:-Not-Your-Typical-CMS
If you have any questions please let me know. I've am available to answer questions or explain what I can, and I'm open to suggestions and feedback. There are no stupid questions, and there is no such thing as negative feedback. So called 'negative feedback' is actually one of the best ways to find out what needs improvement!
As a side note: I don't want to open up a free-for-all for project devs to go nuts sharing about their project here without sitepoint's approval, but I have something I'm working on, and idea for a "community in between the communities", for all Open Source community members, from users to devs to doc/blog writers, etc... It's somewhere to stretch your legs and take a walk around to socialize, a virtual "water cooler" if you will, before you head back to your favorite tool(s) community.
I've started a Google Group for it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bits-and-giggles
It's called 'Bits and Giggles'
The first post should give you an idea of what it's all about. To Hawk/Sitepoint staff, if you feel this is spam, please do not approve this post, or delete it at a later date, no offense will be taken. I'll work on getting the word out in a different manner
This is not a project, it's an attempt to start a project/technology neutral community for folks in the OS space. I don't have a site for it yet, although I do have the domain (wait a minute, do I sense an opportunity for collaboration!?!? lol)
If you're interested, stop by and say hi, shoot the hey, talk about what your working on, or what ever. Just saying
Ah, that's great. Thanks for that, and well done on presenting it in such a clear and logical way. Perhaps make sure to link to that on the home page of the web site.
Very good suggestion, ty
Whoops, it is there actually, the link titled "Why Another CMS?". Maybe I should be more descriptive in that title.
Changed the link label to "Learn About AllianceCMS!"
That's better ... although I should have seen it before. :rolleyes:
I can see why you're so passionate about this project and it looks really exciting. Also the presentation is great and very clear which helps.
As Hawk said, we have been a bit (or a lot) tight with links but that's because of the amount of spam we receive. That means being a tighter with everyone because the rules should apply to all of us.
But we do obviously want to encourage interesting and legit projects like this and then a link is never a problem.
I do encourage everyone interested to participate. There's no better way to improve as a programmer than participating in a project like this.
I feel you, and I do understand the situation.
It's like anything that has ever existed. Something starts out as a really great idea, then the knuckleheads (spammers in this case) come out of the wood work and mess things up for honest folks like us.
It's really great to see that such a vibrant community as this one has active leadership and moderation that actually looks at individual situations. There are a lot of places where people don't care enough, they just pigeon-hole something, throw a label on it, and then resolve issues based on that label, not even considering that things might not be so darn cut and dry.
I really love the personal feel of this place. And not just with the staff/moderators, but with community members too.
That's nice to hear! We are trying to make it a friendly and interesting place to visit.
I'm excited about what I'm doing, and I'm not a junior dev by any means, so I face major feature design decisions on a daily basis.
This stuff is so much more fun when there are two or more brains working on something.
I'm not looking for a minimum commitment, no pressure at all. Let just get together on Skype or IM and chat it up. This is an exciting project, and it's fun to put together quality code.
I'm going out of my mind from not having another brain to bounce things off of.
If you're new to PHP this would be a great way to sharpen and improve your skill set.
I use modern tools and framework components if there is one, or build them if needed. I stick to PSR recommendations, I lean towards current 'best practices' if prudent, and I'm using this as a learning tool at the same time by strengthening my knowledge of design patterns, unit testing, and all the other cool tools that are at our disposal.
So get back to me if you're either bored or if you're burned out and want to play around with a no stress project where you can actually have a say in it's design, rather than just fixing bugs in an existing system.
BTW, I actually do have code, and it's even installable using a web based installer.
Hit me up!!!
I just wanted to give everyone an update to let you know that my project is still going strong and I would like to get more people involved.
Please check out the alliancecms link in my signature and come by to say hi
If anyone is interested, I've just posted a request for feedback regarding a pretty large design change that is halting development until I work out the details. Here's the link if anyone is interested: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alliancecms/kbZQzEDuI9w
the project which category is it? and as a "web server" are you going to use?
AllianceCMS is a Content Management System that is being designed to create advanced community sites, a form of social networking site on steroids.
This is pretty awesome and I think it definitely has a future. I've been throwing around the idea of creating a similar CMS or at least a high-level framework-like structure for a little while now. I have been involved with a community based site for the past couple years where other groups have joined in and moved some of their stuff to the site. Most of these groups each have their own sites, with their own hosting and own programmers and everything, so I got to thinking "Why not create a universal structure for them?"
I was a pretty big fan of MySpace in it's prime and I loved the level of control you had over your page. Of course it was all not supposed to be there and completely hacked in with exploits, but I think that if you allow people that sort of control but limit them just enough that it doesn't become a mess, that it could work.
It's cool to see someone on the same train of thought I have been on. Too bad it's PHP. I really have no interest in the language and I need to enjoy the language I'm working in to do something in my free time. But maybe we can bounce some ideas off each other in the future.
@mawburn: What is your language of preference?
One of my main goals is simplicity, and out of all of the server side web dev tools that I've used, installing php software is as simple as it gets. Upload with FTP, aim your browser at your domain, and follow some prompts.
And with the promising look of HHVM, and maybe even a little Hack, the scalability and speed issues can be addresses. Zephir looks promising too.
I've explored other options for a language, and have actually been looking around the landscape the past couple of weeks.
The only reason I'm even looking at other options is because of the type of site that can be created using AllianceCMS. It is geared for communities, hopefully large communities.
I don't like ruby from an installation stand point. I was trying to install <popular-app-name-here>, which is a Ruby/Rails Project Management suite, and the steps to get it working, especially on a shared hosting environment with CPanel, is just ridiculous. There is no reason I should have to install so many things, then execute 10 commands, then mess with configs, just to get a web app running.
Don't get me wrong, the same type of thing is happening in the PHP world when it comes to Composer. Yes, Composer is nice if I want to add 3rd party libraries to my existing project, but if my intent is to download a fully working system so I can upload it and install it, don't make me download your code base, then use composer to install the dependencies, before I can use it. What is the purpose, so your repo is smaller? Blah, that irks me lol :-p
Right now my thought is that if I'm going to move from a scripting language then it would be because of performance, minimal usage of server resources, scalability, and features that are offered by the language, and who the majority of the end users are. If the majority of AllianceCMS users (site admins) have their own infrastructure or plan on using the cloud, then they will probably be more knowledgeable users, and they will probably be more technically savvy and not mind a more complicated installation. Then again, I'm a more knowledgeable user with my own server and I still didn't want to go through the junk I had to in order to get a Ruby/Rails app installed
Computers were designed to do common repetitive and mindless tasks. So computers should do that stuff, not make me do it. If I have to perform the same 15 steps every time I want to install a Ruby/Rails app, then why is it not an automated process? I'm not a Ruby guy, so I really don't know, but I think part of it is because us techies like to feel like we are gods of the computer and like typing cryptic commands into the computer to make it do our bidding. It makes us feel POWERFUL!!! But I think I want to spend more time getting the job done by using software, rather than using a secret handshake to get the darn thing to run
Back to my thoughts on language. I wouldn't move from one scripting language to another (well, Hack is probably the only one, since it can be in the same file as php, and it's easy to refactor and port php functionality to Hack functionality).
I think if I were to make a transition to another language then that language would be Go (or golang, if you want to be able to search for it ).
It has all of the above points I mentioned as requirements to move to another language, it's a pleasant language to use, it's a modern and forward thinking language, but most of all, it supports concurrency and makes concurrency easy to use.
But then again, installation becomes an issue again, unless you have full control of you servers or are hosting AllianceCMS on a cloud.
Yeah, PHP is great for being able to run anywhere. My reasons for not liking it are purely personal, I just don't enjoy it. A good part it comes from a recent long-term project I backed out on that left a bad taste in my mouth.
I'm a full time Java developer and I have a lot fun there. I'm not sure if I would suggest it or not. It's a recent job move and I'm currently exploring some frameworks in that area in my free time, just for the fun of messing around and learning, nothing serious (yet). Specifically Play has caught my eye. It can actually be packaged into it's own standalone server, so it can basically just be installed on a VPS and ran out of the box. Of course it's got it's own drawbacks.
I read your Introduction on your Google Groups post and noticed you had C#. Why is ASP.Net MVC not a consideration? With the recent open sourcing of the compiler, I can see it really taking off. Mono has been at the point where it's a serious and viable consideration for hosting. I hope to see good things in the future of C#. It's a great language. Windows VPS hosting is fairly inexpensive and ASP.Net MVC has a good bit of support on a lot of Shared Hosting plans.
I remember when Go was launched and I haven't too much from it since. Is there a large community behind it?
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers hope they are on the Brink of having a breakthrough at quarterback.
Never mind it's the last game of the 2012 CFL season and the last game in the old Canad Inns Stadium and the possibility of the playoffs are long in the rear-view mirror.
When the Bombers take the field on Saturday at 2 p.m. against the East division-leading, 11-6 Montreal Alouettes, the 5-12 Bombers just need somebody to finish a football game and that somebody, this week, is Alex Brink.
"Brink will start, Justin Goltz will play and R.J. Archer is the third quarterback," said Bombers head coach Tim Burke after Tuesday's practice at the stadium.
It's the same Alex Brink who started out earning the No. 2 spot on the depth chart behind oft-injured starter Buck Pierce, started three games going 1-2 before being demoted to third-string and leading the wildcat package on short-yardage situations.
There he has languished since Aug. 3 after a 36-26 loss to Montreal when the offensive reins were handed over to Joey Elliott, who also struggled. Pierce came back after his foot injury, suffered a concussion and left last week's loss to Hamilton with a shoulder injury. Elliott is out with a knee injury also suffered in the Tiger-Cats game.
In his three starts earlier this season, Brink went 60-of-111 for 790 yards with three touchdowns and four interceptions.
"The thing with Alex is a little more accuracy with his throws and quicker decision-making, which I think you'll see that," Burke said. "I think Alex has really progressed in that area. Early in the year, he was a little bit slow in his decision-making. He knows where to go with the ball. It was just not happening as fast as he'd like it to."
Brink isn't reading too much into getting the tap on the shoulder to start, calling it "a fun opportunity in the last week of the season to get the ball, and go out there and try and get ourselves a win."
"I've been through about as many ups and downs in one season as one person could possibly go through," said Brink, 27. "To be honest with you, I feel like I have a really good perspective on it. I'm just going to go out, have fun and enjoy this last week that I can be together with this group of guys."
As teammates jokingly shouted "Brink for Mayor" in the background behind the media gathered around his locker, Brink said his status with the team is "out of his hands."
"As a professional, you approach this very seriously," he said. "It's not about just going out and slinging the ball around. We're going out to try and get a win."
Brink said he's taken time in the last 10 weeks to evaluate himself.
"I got some opportunities early to play a lot so when I went back and evaluated those things, I was certainly able to take a step back and see where I could grow from a developmental side of reading defences," he said.
"Starting fast is an important thing for me. The start I had against Edmonton (July 26) when we won, we started really fast and controlled that game. Against Toronto (July 18) and Montreal (Aug. 3) we didn't start as fast in those starts for me. So getting off to a good start is going to be important."
Brink said he's ready to build on the five career starts he's had for the Bombers.
"As a backup, you have to find ways to grow and learn without necessarily getting the actual live reps in a game.
"I've had a number of game reps, only five starts, but I feel like I can learn and grow from this opportunity."


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THE yellow warning for rain has been extended into the weekend with more rain set to fall in the coming days.
The Met Office is predicting further spells of heavy and persistent rain from this afternoon into tomorrow morning and again from late tomorrow evening until early on Saturday.
This will be followed by frequent heavy showers accompanied by gales.
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Rainfall of 15 to 25mm is expected widely and the Met Office's chief forecaster said: "A further Atlantic frontal system will bring a band of rain quickly eastwards during Friday night and early Saturday, with the heaviest rain again likely to be across parts of southern England and south Wales, followed in turn by heavy showers.
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Last Monday I began my trip from the Oakland Zoo to Atherton, Queensland, Australia to volunteer for three weeks at the Toga Bat Hospital. From the moment I arrived (on Wednesday, because of the long travel time and the time difference) it was straight down to business. My first duty as a volunteer was to feed a fun little Yellow-Bellied Sheathtail Bat (Saccolaimus flaviventris) named "Buttercup". Buttercup is one of approx. 100 bats that reside permanently at the hospital. Injured as a juvenile far away from the bat hospital, the people who found her thought she was a fruit bat out of her normal range and so fed her fruit until she ended up at the bat hospital. Because she was never fed a proper diet of insects she needs help eating her daily diet of mealworms. What makes her funny is she likes to eat in very ungainly positions such as seated on her
rear on the feeder's leg, "standing" with her feet barely touching the feeder's leg, and the slightly more natural position of upside-down against her feeder's chest.
She may take a mealworm in one position but want to finish it in another. Sometimes she needs to be rotated between the positions. We try to get about 20 mealworms dipped in supplements into her while juggling her between the three different postures. It was quite the introduction to my life for the next three weeks as I sat there in the sundress that I had just changed into in Cairns because of the intense heat and humidity feeding a bat, sitting her upright on my lap. It was the first of many fantastic experiences that I would have.
I am extremely happy to be here due to the generosity of Elaine and Warren Lash who established a yearly fund to send an Oakland Zoo staff member to participate directly in a conservation project. Without their contribution, I would not have been able to partake in this incredible experience.
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Paolo Cirio works as a media artist in various fields: net-art, street-art, video-art, software-art and transmedia fictions. His primary inspiration is in corporate and state interventions through the tactical use of information power, which is depicted and interpreted in his radical and controversial art works. Paolo carves information flows through the re-contextualisation, manipulation and dissemination of data via various media. His artistic work explores the social, political and economic influence of information, through the media and techniques necessary for spreading it. Paolo creates works that structure information, in which data take on forms that are able to influence a mass audience actively, while embodying innovative aesthetic qualities.
His subversive projects are often covered by the global media, occasionally with legal consequences. For his much-publicized project "Face To Facebook," part of the Hacking Monopolism Trilogy, he stole a million Facebook profiles and republished them on a dating website without authorization. He also freely (and illegally) redistributed digital books from Amazon.com, highlighting discrepancies in Amazon's e-commerce model. He was once investigated by the Departments of National Defense of both the U.S. and Canada for organizing an internet participative action against NATO. At Eyebeam, Paolo is researching tactical transmedia fictions, critical finance and privacy issues related to monopolistic Internet platforms.
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All of us experience the joy and power of music in our own way.
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• compunction •
Pronunciation: kêm-pêngk-shên • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Guilt, reservation, the sting of conscience, the source of our qualms.
Notes: The need for today's Good Word seems to be diminishing: rappers advocate immorality, radio and TV thrives on it, while business and political leaders seem to be losing their moral bearings. 'Tis a shame, too, for this word has a happy family of relatives: compunctious is the positive adjective and compunctionless, the negative. Both may be used adverbially by simply daubing on the suffix -ly.
In Play: It is respect for compunction that prevents us from behavior that makes us uncomfortable: "Ally Monie must have gotten a great settlement in her divorce: she now spends $400 a week on hairdos without any compunction." Compunction borders either side of the straight-and-narrow that we all try hard to follow: "Sturbridge felt no compunction including the gifts to his girlfriends in his travel expenses."
Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from Old French componction, the legal heir of Latin compunctio(n) "puncture, prick of conscience". This noun came from the verb compungere "to prick, sting", made up of the prefix com-, used here as an intensive prefix, plus pungere "to prick, stick". The root of this word goes back to Proto-Indo-European peuk- or peug- with a Fickle N that comes and goes mysteriously, such as the one we saw recently in the ancestor of languor. Without the Fickle N we see in pungere, this root appears in Latin pugil "boxer", origin of English pugilist. (Without the least bit of compunction, indeed, without so much as a qualm, we generously thank Lee Blue for suggesting today's Good Word.)[/quote]


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On the way to a diverse energy portfolio in OhioComments Email Print
They all are helping to achieve the state's quest to have a diversified energy portfolio, which is a prudent strategy to mitigate long term risks in our energy needs and supply. Just as relying on only one or two investments for retirement would be a very risky endeavor, so is relying on just one or two energy sources, even if those sources are in abundance today. The projects highlighted at the conference help to meet the goals of the alternative energy portfolio standard established in Ohio by Senate Bill 221. The state law, enacted in May 2008, requires that by 2025, 25% of the electricity sold by each investor owned utility and electric services company within Ohio must be generated from alternative energy sources. At least 12.5% must be generated from renewable energy resources, including wind, hydro, biomass and at least .5% by solar.
Advanced and renewable energy projects create jobs and leverage natural resources and industrial supply chain capabilities already available and growing within the state. The major projects highlighted at the conference include:
• Iberdrola developed the 304 MW Blue Creek Wind farm in the lands of Northwest Ohio where the wind is strong
• In Northeast Ohio, Lake Erie Energy Development Corp. is pursuing a 27 MW offshore wind project to leverage the abundant wind resource found on Lake Erie and to launch a new industry
• Turning Point Solar, LLC is developing a 50 MW solar project on acres of reclaimed strip mining land in Southeast Ohio and thereby establishing a stronghold for a solar panel manufacturer in the state
• Throughout the state, quasar energy group is developing anaerobic digesters that convert biodegradable waste into bio gas, which is used to generate electricity and as a transportation fuel. They have five already in service and several more in process; each can generate up to 1 MW.
These projects, and the projects to follow, are important contributors toward achieving a diverse supply of electricity in the state and increasing our capacity for the future. The Energy Industry Administration (EIA) surveys electric power producers regarding their capacity plans. As of the end of 2010, electric power producers planned to add 72,273 megawatt (MW) of capacity between 2011 and 2015. Of this, 47.3% was planned to be fired by natural gas (34,151 MW) and 13.1% from coal (9,480 MW). Planned wind additions totaled 15,043 MW, or 20.8% of total reported planned additions. Wind has seen a tripling of its generation capacity since 2004. According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Ohio was the fastest growing state for new installations in 2011, and now has enough wind installed to power over 100,000 homes.
Though Ohio may be front and center in the game changing shale gas development picture, it is also rich in alternative energy resources and scale projects are on the way. These projects and the many that will follow, along with the many other smaller scale projects throughout the state, will play a large part in creating our energy future. We need to remain committed to furthering advanced energy sources to ensure our robust energy future over the long term.


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April 15 - Creative License: Exploring the Music Sampling MarketplaceProfessor Peter DiCola from Northwestern University Law School will give a lecture and multimedia presentation regarding his recently published book Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling. Professor DiCola's lecture will be followed by comments from Professor Patricia Aufderheide of the American University Center for Social Media, Professor Peter Jaszi of the American University Washington College of Law, and Jay Rosenthal of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA).
The event will begin with drinks and appetizers at 4pm on the sixth floor of the American University Washington College of Law (WCL), 4801 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016. The lecture by Professor DiCola will begin at 4:30 pm, and the event will conclude at 6pm. A live webcast will be available through the WCL website. Parking will be available in the WCL garage.
For a description of the book, please click here. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. To register for the event, please go to: http://bit.ly/creativelicense
Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.
The Washington, DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA is co-sponsoring this event with the American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) and the American University Center for Social Media.
50% discounts on Copyright Society membership will be available to anyone who joins the Society after attending the event, so please bring non-members!


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The Daily Show correspondent also lists his three favorite interviews on the fake news show and warns Jon Stewart of a potential John Oliver takeover.
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SOUTH DAKOTA - An 11-year-old Michigan boy reported missing after his father didn't return him to his mother last month has been found safe on a pheasant hunting ranch in South Dakota and is with the FBI. Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte says Friday that authorities had received tips that 53-year-old Mark Grabowski and Connor Grabowski-Cracchiolo were in at least a half-dozen states.
FBI agents arrested Grabowski at the River Hills Lodge ranch in Platte, S.D., where he had obtained employment after leaving Michigan.
Grabowski was supposed to bring Connor back to his mother, Kelly Evans, in St. Clair County's Casco Township on Aug. 30.
Grabowski and Evans separated before the boy was born.
"So relieved that Connor has been found and he's safe and he's in the custody of the agents out in South Dakota," Evans said.
Hours before he was located, a YouTube video surfaced in which the boy defended his father and said he was not being kidnapped. The boy also made accusations about his mother, which are being investigated by Child Protective Services.
"I just have to say that, you know, when people are held against their will I'm sure that they will say anything they need to say to survive. So, I don't believe one word of it," Evans said. "They'll talk to Connor and figure things out and then we'll have a big party."
Evans says she won't be able to see him until next Monday at the earliest.
Grabowski is expected to appear in federal court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He faces a federal charge of unlawful flight, and a Michigan charge of parental kidnapping.
Grabowski is a former Detroit Lion.
Grabowski has left the State of Michigan with his son. Grabowski has apparently abandoned his residence in Livingston County and efforts to contact him have been unsuccessful. Information was obtained that indicate Grabowski was planning to leave the United States and establish a new life in Costa Rica
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If you haven't seen the Barclays pay story on the front of the FT it's worth having a read.
The co-head of Barclays Capital, who won a bonus of £9.9m for 2010, was also awarded a long-term incentive plan for that year of £3.35m. At the same time he also received £30m of shares released under prior incentive plans. Read more


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Data Collection for Patients With Low Grade Ovarian Carcinoma
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|Ovarian Cancer Peritoneum Tumors
|Behavioral: Data Collection
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
|Official Title:
|Data Collection for Patients With Low Grade Ovarian Carcinoma
- Data Collection for Patients with Low Grade Ovarian Carcinoma [ Time Frame: 28 Years ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|May 2006
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|May 2034 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Ovarian Cancer Data Collection
Behavioral: Data Collection
Data collection from ovarian cancer patients seen at M.D. Anderson since January, 1950.
Detailed Description:
Low-grade tumors of female organs are considered rare. Because of this, doctors do not know the best treatment for these kinds of tumors. Researchers want to learn more about patients' experience with these types of cancer to help find ways to develop better therapies to treat them.
If you agree to take part in this study, information about your type of cancer, the type of treatment you had or are having, and details about your follow-up care will be entered into a research database. These data will be collected from patients seen at MD Anderson since January, 1950. This information will serve as a basis for research studies about patients with low-grade ovarian tumors.
Your data will mostly come from your MD Anderson medical record. However, information may also be requested from you, your local doctor, or an outside hospital. Information collected from sources other than MD Anderson will be included in your MD Anderson medical record as well as entered into this study's database.
Information may be directly collected from you, if there are additional questions not provided in your medical records, if your information is not complete, or if your information collected from other sources does not match what is in your MD Anderson medical record.
To help ensure confidentiality, the database will be password-protected with access strictly limited to study staff.
This research database will be updated at least once a year to include information about your current treatment and/or follow-up care. This information is usually collected from your MD Anderson medical record, or it may be necessary to contact you directly. This information will be collected indefinitely. If you wish to end your participation in this study, you may request that your data remain in the database or that your information be deleted from the database.
This is an investigational study. Up to 2000 patients from MD Anderson will take part in this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
1) All patients seen at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center with the following tumor types or diagnosis are eligible for inclusion in this database. This includes patients whose disease progressed to a higher-grade carcinoma since the time of original diagnosis: Ovarian tumor of low malignant potential, Low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary, Primary peritoneal tumor of low malignant potential, Low-grade serous carcinoma of the peritoneum, Psammocarcinoma
Exclusion Criteria:
1) None
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00488878
|Contact: Lisa Nathan
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator: David Gershenson, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|David Gershenson, MD
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00488878 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 18, 2007
|Last Updated:
|December 19, 2016
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian Carcinoma
Low-Grade Serous Carcinoma
Low Malignant Potential
Peritoneum Tumors
Data Collection
Research Database
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ovarian Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
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Topic: Hi, All
Hi, everyone,
This may not be the last message I will write to all of you, but just in case, thanks for all your concern about me over the past 5 years.
It is not a journey that I want to travel, but when asked to travel on it, I have to accept without argument.
From my point of view, the cure is still a long way to come base on current research development.,
As patients who currently have this cancer, we are the pioneers of finding the cure but not the recipient of the fruitful outcome. Knowing that, most if not all about the current treatments are palliative in nature . The lucky few are the 5% or so who have the chance of complete removal the tumor with surgery.
The most important prognostic factor is the location of each of the tumor occurrence as far as my experience is concern.it dictates the treatment plans and therefore the outcome of the progress of this disease. When it metastasize outside the organ, most likely it will be too late for cure under most current treatment plans.
Good luck to all and
God bless.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A former Ohio Education Department employee has been charged with tampering with records and forgery involving high school diploma equivalency certifications in Ohio.
The Ohio inspector general's office said Thursday that 41-year-old Kathleen Garner of Columbus was indicted last week in Franklin County on two counts of tampering with records and one forgery count. The state says she resigned from the education department in August.
The inspector general began the investigation in April after Education Department officials said Garner was suspected of issuing GED diploma certifications without necessary backup documentation. Authorities say she allegedly issued questionable GEDs to her husband and other people including family members and friends.
Court records don't list an attorney for Garner. A message was left at a residential listing for her Thursday.


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New York Fashion Week Exclusive!
Joy Cioci has plenty of pedigree (it doesn't get much better than assisting Olivier Theyskens), but this season she's putting her name out there for the first time.
Design DNA: "I come from a background in luxury and contemporary, so I created a collection to offer women fresh, modern apparel with lush detailing. I have a deep appreciation for craftsmanship, and sexy, romantic, and influential personal inspirations play into each of my designs."
Dream models: "Marie Antoinette, Grace Kelly, Jackie O, Cleopatra, Kate Bosworth, Keira Knightley, and Natalie Portman."
Backstory: "I apprenticed at Gucci and Carolina Herrera while I was at FIT. Afterward I joined Nina Ricci to assist Olivier Theyskens for four seasons, where I learned the highest levels of craftsmanship. I left to help launch Chelsea Flower and WiNK, respectively, prior to creating my eponymous debut collection."
Guatemalan designer Guillermo Jop launched GUiSHEM in 2009 and it's popped up on celebrities like Kristen Stewart and Kelly Osbourne. He's hoping to break out at NYFW.
Design DNA: "Structure with innovative pattern cuts."
Dream model: "Natalie Portman."
Backstory: "My family is in the textile business, so I grew up surrounded by the fashion industry. I later studied textile and apparel management and got interested in the design part, so I went on to study fashion design in Italy and England. After working in New York for a while, I returned to Guatemala to start my own collection."
Inspiration: "Superheroes."
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The high-low hemline trend is going strong among the celeb crowd and it's easy to see why, considering it's a fun and flirty alternative to one-length gowns. Everyone from Naya Riversa, to Nicole Richie, to Victoria's Secret model Lindsay Ellingson, and more have chosen various styles on the red carpet. Polka dots, sheer, hot pink, sequined . . . the list goes on. Step inside to see which celebs have worked the high-low trend and to shop similar pieces for your closet.
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