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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
Hello Everyone!
I have a question with regards to the Application to Change Conditions or Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor; we were told to include this when we send in our Sponsorship (in Canada for spouse) application and check off box "c" (an initial work permit or renewal of work permit). I spoke to a CIC rep on the phone, and she said it could take up to 8 months to recieve the work permit as well!!!!! OMG! Not sure why this (work permit) takes so long to process. Is it because they have to also make the decision of "first stage approvals" at the same time?
ejspet, I know you're anxiously waiting to work also....did you go this route as well? They also said that in applying for this and including this in our sponsorship application, my husband automaticlly has what they call "Implicit status" and that he wouldn't have to apply for extended stay seperately.....I hope I'm understanding tis properly! AAAAH! :)
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
The work permit part takes 7-8 months to approve as of today's date.The reason being as you got it,it is affiliated with your spouse being approved in principle or "Initial Decision" phase.If you send his application together with $150 for WP fees,once he is approved after 7-8 months,they will issue an open work permit,keeping in mind of the duration of time it takes to get his admissibility(medical,crminality,security) check done.
In many cases Vegreville,AB approves your application with "Decision Made" after 7-8 months period.This would mean everything is done and he is ready to land.That means during the same time he gets approved in principle,all admissibility checks are completed.
It is a debatable topic whether he must send an application to renew his visitor status with Vegreville,AB or just send the application for WP along with fees at the same time PR gets sent.If I am not mistaken it will be subject to "Deemed Status" if a joint PR-WP application is sent.So things look fine in that way.You can take this path.Alternately,he can send a separate application with $75 for visitor status extension checking box A in the application.
Hope this provides some insight.
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
hmmm I'm not sure.. I haven't heard that... well about applying for work permit with application would keep you from having to extend your stay.. because JC is right, you don't get a work permit unless you have Approval in Principal first... after I get my AOR i'm going to send in the work permit request form with the $150 so that when i do get IA, they can mail it with the work permit and I don't have to apply seperatly and waste another 2 months waiting.
I went ahead and did the visitor extension tho. I wanted to be safe and have something in my hand to show that i'm allowed to be here another 6 months. LOL now once you get IA, and if they issue you the work permit, you wouldn't have to extend a visitor status, as work permits are granted for a year, and that there would be your permission to stay. :D
if you find out anything else, please let me know! lol
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A little bit of input for inland.You will not receive any AOR or IA.Vegreville,AB will not send any communication to you in respect to whether your spouse was approved as a sponsor or when they're starting your part.Within the time frame of 1.5-3 months start checking e-CAS over the net.You already mentioned you have a client id and that would be handy for access.
I used to think of all those AOR and IA when I sent out.In real life so far I haven't received anything,being 5 months in the run.They just update over e-CAS.I know it's very confusing when they say over the guide that they will send an AOR.In reality they don't and their AOR is the update over e-CAS.A different pattern for inland applicants.
In reality,they are so understaffed and over worked that if they would start issuing AOR for all applicants in paper,they would get simply flabburgasted with amount of human resource required for this work.So they just go for electronic and no sense of co-operation.
Once e-CAS gets updated,you can send in your WP with $150 with client id written for direction.It even takes 4-6 weeks for them to attach that to your previous file mailed.I sent some additional documents to boost the success rate for my application in 3rd week of Ocotber.They received it but not yet updated that they attached with the package I sent in early June.Call centre told me,it will take 4 weeks at max first.Now they're saying it will be more 2 weeks.I will start my own forensic query through MP,if I don't hear anything by coming Monday in respect to this additional documents.
The IA would be your initail decision or AIP.Just pray that they somehow speed up and get off from March 21st gridlock.
Lastly for keeping faith,they will generally set aside your spouse's application and won't even bother to check it,till AIP comes on the way.For the duration he will be deemed legal in Canada only by virtue and not on paper.If for some reason an interview is required,which I hope never should,things will get more complicated in regards to visitor status.
It would be more prudent to renew the status.Likewise,not doing so and sending a WP application with PR would work,being 100% optimistic.
Amanda,they will send your application back to you if some things are missing.They will write to you if they need additional information for sponsor and you.There is also alternate ways to track in-process stage such as calling FOSS file.It is the transcript of comprehensive whereabouts.It is full of code signs.If you ever need any help in decoding ask me,I will send you the index and terminology section,which would enable you to understand in plain English.You're still in early stage so have time to relax.I have already ordered my FOSS and won't be available before Christmas.Guess what they are more slow in that office.
I recently understood one fact why CPC-V got so slow.In mid February Minister allowed out-of-status applicants to go ahead and apply for PR.
Before that it was regualtory requirement that,an applicant must have legal status.Due to this relaxation of law,more applicants who're statusless tend to apply.But the human resource required to work on them hasn't increased substantially.Officers took vacations during summer.Combining all these factors they are all way behind.In spring they were processing cases within 5.5-6 months.In 2004 I had my study permit renewed within 10 days.In contrast this year it took me 48 days in September.
Keep in touch if you need any help.
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
well, they received my application as of Sept 22nd, and nothing shows on e-cas. The only reason I have a client ID is because there is one on my extension approval notice I received. I don't know if that would even be the same client ID. But, nothing shows up with that, or with my receipt numbers for the application itself. Nothing, nada.
The CIC Call centre says for inland applications we will receive SOMETHING from CIC after 90 days after it was submitted so that would be end of december/first of january for me. I would think they would at least notify you if your sponsorship was rejected rather than not tell you.. but in any case it's been almost two months and i can't find out anything at all. E-Cas is worthless to me.
They would have to notify you somehow if you receive IA.. otherwise how could you know when you could work or get SIN/etc? something has to be going there.. you can't very well tell HRDC "i have approval, it says so online" to go get a SIN number... they want the approval in principal notice.. that's what the lady told me anyway at the office...
AND, I need something so that I can send in a few additional documents for added effect as well as a change of residential address. My mailing is fine but I'd like to change it anyway. So I need something to do that with too.
anyway.. I'm just one big question mark.. I don't know what's going on, or when something will. If anyone has in HARD evidence of anything, please pass it on. lol
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I hate to be the one to tell you this but CIC Call Centre isn't correct...I went through the same loop with them when I submitted an inland application in July...after talking with an actual immigration officer I was told that they do not send you ANYTHING before the AIP...unless a document is missing in your application.
Inland process is drastically different than outside Canada...there is no AOR, IA (if necessary), Approval of Sponsorship Notice, etc. Your sponsorship and immigration applications will be processed at the same time, not seperately as with outside Canada. Thus you will not receive anything regarding if your sponsor is eligible to sponsor until the AIP in 7-8 months.
To answer your question..there is no IA for inland process and usually not for outside Canada spousals either. your AIP is the proof that you may apply for a work permit and OHIP coverage. Until you receive the work permit in hand, HRDC will not issue you a temporary SIN number. The approval in principle notice will not do you any good at HRDC until you receive the actual work permit. This is because the work permit, similiar to my student visa, will carry a File Number beginning with the letter "F" ironically. HRDC needs this file number to verify with CIC before a SIN number is issued.
I'm sure you'll find that regardless of risk in extending your visitor status, withdrawing and applying outside Canada is the only way to get your PR status quickly.
I received a nice call from the MP's office today that from Buffalo's response my file did appear to be in the final stages and required the landing fee before they can issue the visa. Keep in mind that my application was approved for sponsorship on October 17th, Buffalo didn't start processing till October 25th and already not even a month later I'm into the final stages.
It's like someone else told me earlier, Buffalo is giving out early christmas gifts to spouses!!! Why wouldn't you take advantage of that?
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
I just got off the phone with CIC and this is what the deal is (Please note that I have called them numerous times and had various agents tell me the same thing): If you're a spouse or common-law partner of a Canadian citizen and are applying from with-in Canada for Permanent Residence then the following applies to you:
You do not need to send them a Statutory Declaration of Common-Law Union as it does not apply in this specific case. If you look on their website, click on Applications and forms, then click on Immigration applications for persons in Canada, then click on Spouse or Common-Law Partner Class under the PR Applications title. If you look at all the forms you will notice that the Statutory Declaration is not one of them.
With regards to maintaining legal status within Canada by applying for an extension to your visitor, work or student visa this is what CIC has told me: When you send your PR application in to Vegreville, Alberta you should, if you intend to work in Canada, send in an application To Change Conditions or Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Worker. That is the title of the form. Follow the same steps I gave above to find this form except look under the title Temporary Residence Applications. As far as CIC has told me, if you send in this application with your PR application then you do not have to apply to extend your stay as a visitor ($75 fee) and will be granted an Open Work Permit without approval from HRDC or having a job offer, once you receive your AIP. Having applied for this shows your intent to extend your stay within Canada legally and thus you will be in the clear. Call CIC up if you want conformation of this advice, give them your situation in slow, clear English or French cause they may have had a long day.
Hope that clears everything up for you guys.
11-17-2005, 09:41 PM (This post was last modified: 11-17-2005 09:43 PM by yu274151.)
Post: #8
Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
May be you missed out what I have said earlier.It seems Steve has made it pretty clear whatsoever.
Yupp,true one should apply for Buffalo,NY.This is not so true for all.Steve and Amanda,you both are US citizens and things are pretty different for you folks.Non US or green cards often face hardship from US Consul in Canada,if an applicant has to attain interview at Buffalo.Off-shore cases can't be transferred to inland and viceversa.So if an applicant is refused admission to US which is quite often done due to US INS's brudish attitude,things can go wee wee.
Every class has its odds and ends.
And Steve many congrats to your quick success.
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
I have to admit it, you sound like a pro. LOL.
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
LOL.Wish this pro thing works in real life application.
How are you friend?How are you spending time over this waiting period?
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
Thanks for all the info everyone! :)
Ant, I too phoned CIC and recieved the same info....but you just can't be too sure, so thanks for inquiring about this as well! I'm feeling (a little) more at ease now.
On to the next challange!!!
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Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
I need that Chat room....
Post: #13
Change Conditions/Extend Your Stay in Canada as a Visitor - Question
I am in the same exact boat as Amanda. In-Canada class, CIC-V, waiting... But different from Amanda, I am on e-CAS, I am 22 days ahead of Amanda though so maybe that will give you hope. Like I said many posts ago, I sen in my app and the received it September 01 - on e-CAS it says they started processing my application October 19 - now, it did not say anything on e-CAS until November 5 or so. Therefore, they may be looking at your application but are obviously behind saying when they entered it in the system. Seems like they are behind in everything at CIC-V. I dont want to pull my application because I dont want to go through another hassle of re-sending and etc. After paying all those fees, and money being as tight as it is, we cant afford the re-payment. We can afford the wait. Its sad and I want to be able to go into the US to see my relatives over the Holidays, but I am in Canada, where I want to be with the one I love. We can hang on Amanda. We can. Hell, sooner or later we will have a chat room here and everything!! Keep the faith Amanda, you and I are the same.
In-Canada Class, Common-Law
CIC Received Application: September 1, 2005
CIC Began Processing: October 19. 2005
Approved In Principle: April 20, 2006
Decision Made: August 17, 2006
Landing Interview: September 28, 2006
Received PR Card: October 25, 2006
Citizenship Calculation: Eligible January 1, 2010
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thank you so much for that Alexandra... that was so sweet. and i'm keeping the faith!! LOL and you're right.. we're here.. with the ones we love. *smiles* that's the greatest gift of all. :D
Hopefully by beginning of next month i'll pop up in E-cas so at least I know they say they are processing~ LOL
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can i give ya'll a tip, don't go checking the e-CAS daily or even weekly, it'll drive you insane!! LoL.. just sit back and relax, it takes a long time for the application to be processed.. it took 3 months for them to start our application from when they recieved it, then another 3 months for them to cantact us and ask for Police clearances and other crap, then it took us 3 months to get that to them, lol, after that point they sped up tho, then they transefered us from Vegreville to London, and finally send us AOR's (10 months after our app was sent to them).. London is moving very fast tho, as my other post says we've had an interview scheduled, and re-sheduled..
as for the Client ID# my wifes has been the same since her very first Visitor Record a year and a half ago..
I even have a Client ID now.. cuz I'm a sponsor.. it came on my AOR.. oh, we never sent a thing to Mississagua, everythin went straight to Veg. now it's all in London..
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Wannabe MP's gender change 'humbling'
As a bloke, wannabe MP Kelly Ellis was as rugged as they come. Now she is appealing to the Whangarei electorate to embrace her softer side - as a woman.
It's a familiar refrain: Kelly Ellis believes her marriage would have failed if she hadn't made changes to her life.
"I am sure my partner would have left me," she says. "I was an arrogant fella who was out yacht racing and drinking four, five nights a week if I could. I was ready to have a battle with anyone."
Kelly Ellis's change was more dramatic than most; she was formerly Sean Ellis and credits her gender reassignment for revealing a humbler, more empathetic side. And it's this change that has this former teenage runaway, sheep-shearer, motorbike journalist, champion angler, yachtsman, criminal lawyer and pig farmer pursuing a place in Parliament.
Even putting aside that she was once a man and is now a woman, hers could be the most remarkable backstory of any would-be MP.
Asked last month if he knew the whole tale, Labour leader David Cunliffe intoned: "A lot of our candidates have dirt under their fingernails." That's rather a simplification given that before the age of 18, Ellis had lived in an orphanage, on a beach, in a commune and with drug addicts, was expelled from school and worked on a car-assembly line.
To add Labour MP to her bulging CV, Ellis must overturn retiring National incumbent Phil Heatley's "piffling" 12,000 majority in a seat last held by Labour in 1972. A national swing to Labour, her active pursuit of young voters, and a potential split in the grey vote should Winston Peters make good on a threat to stand as constituency MP could, she argues, deliver her the seat. It may seem unlikely.
"People have said I've no show here," says Ellis nonchalantly. "But people have said I had no show with lots of things."
Best to begin not at the point at which Sean became Kelly but much earlier, at the Home of Compassion orphanage, Wellington, in the early 1960s. "I remember seeing kids hanging off the hurricane wire fence on Saturday and Sunday week after week, month after month, and nobody ever came for them," says Ellis. "But they still hung there . . . they still had hope."
Ellis was left there by her mother between the ages of three and five. "I have very clear memories. Some things are etched to my synapses forever. Undoubtedly it did some damage. It taught me some self-reliance. One of the things I learned is if I close my eyes, I can go off into a world of infinite imagination and find all those things I dreamed of."
Her dreams were a home, a job, someone to love and a black Honda 750 motorbike. It took time for her to realise how to get there. When she left the home, she was a wild, unsocialised child who smoked and could cook and wanted to live on the beach and "cook anything that moved".
Thanks to an alcoholic stepfather and struggling mother, she spent time dodging school and living with hippies. She didn't know who her father was until she was 12 and didn't meet him until she was 14, but says both he and her surviving, final, stepfather are good men. Eventually asked to leave Wellington's Onslow College, she was flatting with junkies at 16. "I got through my childhood; I won't say just fine, but I got through and I kept my eyes on the things I hoped for."
She worked at General Motors, a shoe warehouse and a car-detailing company, punctuated by stints "in the bush" with the hippies and in Auckland, before studying School Certificate at night school. And so, in 1980, she was able to enrol in Wellington Polytech's journalism course, graduating alongside Mark Sainsbury, Metro's Steve Braunias (who says Ellis was "cheerful, a nice person, an outsider") and the Herald's Fran O'Sullivan, and got a job at the Taihape Times. From there, she specialised in motorbike journalism, before heading to law school and a career as a criminal barrister.
Ellis compares her experience of finally coming good to the travails of her youngest son, Dave, "a barista, painter's labourer and bloody good lawn mower" (who was, however, sacked from the Farmer's catalogue for suggesting the clothes were shit).
"Even though I thought I had it tough as a youngster, there were doors I could knock on and things I could do and they are not available to the youngsters of Whangarei," she says. "You'd think it would be enough if you worked hard, had a good attitude, did as you were told."
So because he's currently jobless, Dave, an enthusiastic 19-year-old with an emo haircut and a crumpled suit, is heading the Ellis caravan. She needs him, managing three diaries and trying to work, she seems a touch flustered.
Dave, however, is serene. Cheerfully, he says he's not bothered by his father's gender reassignment, and says while he originally kept it quiet at school, experienced no teasing. It made sense, he says, it was Kelly "casting off the facade".
He's on driving duties when we meet. Ellis is enveloped in the first wave of fluff candidates must both endure and be seen to enjoy, so our interview straddles a visit to a Niwa research centre at Ruakaka, on the rugged coast south of Whangarei.
There's a long, very long powhiri in a room decorated by a giant plastic kingfish, in which Shane Jones smiles beneficently and Cunliffe nods along, and even, at one stage, sways. It's Ellis's first meeting with the leader.
"Kelly is a very bright woman who is committed to work hard for the interests of the people of Whangarei," he tells the Star-Times. To those who wish to make a fuss about her background, "get over yourselves". No, he doesn't expect any dirty tricks.
Ellis emerges smiling, and as a keen angler, seems to have genuinely liked it. After our next chat and some photos, she's off to see primary school teachers with Chris Hipkins.
On policy, she seems particularly leftist: she argues for the redistribution of wealth, government support of industry and job creation and against the "bailing out of all those fat cats who put their money into South Canterbury Finance". But Ellis admits she was a lapsed Labour member when the idea first arose to stand for Parliament. This isn't, she emphasises, the selfish, solitary ambition Sean Ellis would have pursued.
A group of liberally-minded Whangarei criminal lawyers met, considered what they might do to make the town better, and agreed one of their number should run for Parliament. Ellis was suggested. "We'd all like to do ourselves out of a job," she says. "That would mean a better and safer town for our kids."
Now, she says, she's merely part of a tight campaign team working for her election.
Politics, strangely, will be something of a release from the misery which confronts her in her day job, where she mainly defends accused sex offenders on legal aid. Until last year, her herd of pigs fulfilled a role as confessors. "They were always willing to listen," she says. "Sometimes they would give a contemptuous snort when I became a little self-indulgent. But you can't expect entirely professional counselling from swine." She cried when she sold them.
Ellis refuses several of our photographer's suggestions for poses, saying they will reinforce stereotypical images of transgender people. And she reckons that the voters of Whangarei are "over" her sex change.
"My cats don't care, my partner doesn't care, my kids don't care, the judges don't care, the clients don't care - who the hell does care?" She becomes theatrical. "If they do, where's a rock, I'll give it to them. Stone me! Stone me!"
She charts the start of her "slow, incremental" journey from man to woman to the sale of her Holden Monaro and its replacement with a less blokey Peugeot. She also got rid of her gun collection and the camouflage pants: "My masculinity slipped like fine sand through drunken fingers."
She considers herself, and says: "I didn't think I would look this feminine. I thought I would be some strange androgynous fruit of the South Seas. I never anticipated being a middle-aged blonde matron."
But then she begins to explain it more in terms of character than physicality. She talks about how initially, when she was still wearing a suit but taking hormones and "looked rather queer" she would strive to avoid conflict, a strategy that one day left her eating her lunch in the rain outside a Hamilton courtroom because the lawyers inside had been rude to her.
She considered emigrating somewhere more liberal. Instead she set up an advocacy group TransAdvocates, which also pursued marriage equality because "I felt railroaded out of my marriage by the legislation."
Ellis, originally named Sean Kelly Ellis, has since remarried her former wife, confusingly also called Kelly but at home she's K1 and her wife is Kel.
Ellis says she had toyed with all this when she was a 15-year-old, "hanging around Carmen's coffee lounge, desperately trying to get into trouble - I never did get into trouble I was well looked after".
She said the career options then for a transgender person were sex work or exotic dancing; she didn't want to sleep with men and wasn't much of a dancer.
The options are, of course, much better now. She nods to the trailblazing of the first transgender MP, Georgina Beyer, but what has intrigued Ellis most has been the loss of her white male privilege - something she didn't believe in until it was gone. "It's the freedom from the prejudice that everyone else gets for being a woman, brown, trans, gay, disabled.
"It was the most humbling experience an arrogant lawyer could possibly have, to feel this stripping away of privilege. I won't say I know what it's like to be disabled or a racial minority, but I sure know what it's like to experience prejudice and I'd never experienced it before."
That, however, has been a good thing. "It has made me an easier person to get on with, that's for sure. My wife says if she'd known it would be like this, she would have put oestrogen on my cornflakes years ago."
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The researchers used data from the AHRQ 2002 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample to examine the cost impact of five patient safety problems. Five AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) were used to identify adverse events during hospitalization: decubitus ulcer (DU) or bed sore, iatrogenic (hospital-caused) pneumothorax (IP), postoperative hematoma or hemorrhage (PH/H), postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (PE/DVT), and postoperative sepsis (PS). The rates varied from 1 case of IP to 34 cases of DU per 1,000 discharges of patients who were at risk for these problems. The Medicare payment for these adverse events under the Prospective Payment System (PPS) ranged from $735 per case of DU to $8,881 per case of PS, and an estimated national total of $313 million a year for the five types of adverse events studied.
Nevertheless, hospitals absorbed most of the costs of treating adverse events under the Medicare PPS. For example, hospitals received no additional payment from the Medicare PPS in 48 percent of postoperative sepsis events or in 80 percent of DU events. These extra charges were estimated per case as follows: $10,845 for DU; $17,312 for IP; $21,431 for PH/H; $21,709 for postoperative PE/DVT; and $57,727 for PS.
See "Medicare payment for selected adverse events: Building the business case for investing in patient safety," by Dr. Zhan, Dr. Friedman, Andrew Mosso, M.S., and Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., in the September 2006 Health Affairs 25(5), pp. 1386-1393. Reprints (AHRQ Publication No. 07-R008) are available from the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse.
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The National House of Chiefs has cautioned against the politicization of a donation by president John Mahama to the institution in Kumasi, Wednesday.
Some persons including Rt. Rev. Stephen Bosomtwe Ayensu, the Methodist Bishop of Obuasi Diocese, described as "naked politics", the presentation of 13 pick-up vehicles to the National House of Chiefs by president John Mahama at a meeting with members of the House in Kumasi.
It was in fulfillment of a promise the president made to the chiefs sometime ago.
The Rev. Minister in an interview on Adom FM Thursday described it as: "a total waste of government money that is being spent by the politicians on such cheap things just to get some votes".
But a statement issued Friday and signed by President of the National House Of Chiefs, Wulugu Naba Naa Prof. John S. Nabil described such comments as uninformed.
According to the statement, the vehicles are for the Houses of Chiefs as Government (State) institutions but not for the individual chiefs as it has been misinterpreted.
"It is very unfortunate that people who are discussing this matter, imputing negative intentions into same, do not know that the Houses of Chiefs are creatures of statute and therefore need to be resourced by the Government (State) like any other Government Institution or Agency or Department. The Houses of Chiefs are Agencies under the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs.
"The 1992 Constitution and the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (1959) provide for the creation of the House of Chiefs. Article 270 (1) of the Constitution provides that 'The institution Chieftaincy, together with its traditional councils as established by customary law and usage, is hereby guaranteed. Articles 271 and 274 of the Constitution and Sections 1 and 6 of the Chieftaincy Act 2008 (Act 759) created the National and Regional Houses of Chiefs, just like other bodies of State".
The statement urged the public to show support for the chieftaincy institution for the crucial role it plays in the development of the country, and avoid reading political meanings into efforts to resource it.
"What people do not know is that the National House of Chiefs is composed of fifty (50) members and the combined membership of the ten Regional Houses of Chiefs is over 250. It is therefore preposterous to conclude that one pick-up is given to over 300 chiefs. The cars are not for the individual chiefs. They are for the Houses of Chiefs as Government (State) institutions.
"The National House of Chiefs want to state it categorically that it is the responsibility of the Government (State) to resource the Houses as any other MDA and that is exactly what the President did during his recent meeting with Nananom. It is very unfortunate that people have twisted the position of the law to suit their own limited interest". Story by Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Jerry Tsatro Mordy | [email protected]
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Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya
28 Aug 2012 // 6:04 PM
An apt reflection of the ruinous impact of human beings on our environment, Novaya Zemlya is desolate, but not inhospitable. A tenuous thread of melody lies within, as fragile as nature's own battle to survive.
Thomas Köner: Nunatak/Teimo/Permafrost
31 Oct 2010 // 5:00 PM
Much like the soundtrack to a day spent trapped inside a refrigerator, each of Thomas Köner's minimalist drone albums kept in this three-disc tri-fold release are rather limited in their sonic palettes.


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The 2017 Dakar Rally saw Peugeot Sport and BFGoodrich monopolize the podium at the two-week event's finish in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Saturday, January 14. It was the ideal result, the brand's 13th overall victory at Dakar, to mark the off-road tire brand's return to the world's most famous cross-country rally after a four-year absence.
Desert and short-course off-road racer Bryce Menzies will be using his Pro 2 race truck for something other than racing next month, as he will attempt a 300-foot off-road jump in a ghost town in the Southwest next month. The event is supported by his sponsors Red Bull and Pennzoil, and in a formal press release testing the event the jump is described as symbolizing "both the progression of his career and his leap into international racing."
Greenville, S.C., June 6, 2016 – It has been more than two years since BFGoodrich Tires has not claimed the overall win in a SCORE International desert race. While that streak ended, the tire company did help their drivers to eight class wins. Additionally, eight of the top 10 overall finishers raced on BFGoodrich Tires at the 48th SCORE Baja 500.
For the first time in 11 total races in the series, a driver not running BFGoodrich Tires claimed the overall win in a SCORE race as Gus Vildosola, Jr took the prize by three minutes.
Ensenada, Mexico – Eleven consecutive races over the last two years. That is the current run of overall race wins for BFGoodrich Tires in SCORE International races. Since the SCORE Baja 1000 in November 2013, racers on BFGoodrich Tires have claimed the overall win in every race held.
BFGoodrich Tires is focused on claiming its third consecutive and 32nd overall SCORE Baja 500 win. The race is held in Ensenada, Mexico starting Saturday, June 4.
Last year, in one of the closest finishes in recent memory, Mexican native Carlos Apdaly Lopez claimed the overall win at the 47th running of the SCORE Baja 500 by just 50 seconds over BFGoodrich Performance Team member Rob MacCachren.
Led by veteran champion off-road truck racer Dave Westhem, the winning relationship between Westhem Racing and BFGoodrich Tires has spanned a remarkable 29 years and numerous desert race wins and series championships. Next week, that long-standing partnership will be celebrated at the 2016 NORRA Mexican 1000; a vintage-flavored, four-day competition that takes place from April 23 – 27 in Baja, Mexico.
The 2016 Polaris RZR Mint 400 presented by BFGoodrich Tires took place March 12th just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. The race featured one of the most stacked fields in off-road racing history. There were 350 of the world's best off-road teams that showed up to battle each other and the brutal Mojave desert for the chance to call themselves a Mint 400 Champion.
MESA, AZ: Bower Media has announced a contest to find a female co-driver for three separate off-road events happening this year with BFGoodrich Tires. The contest is designed to gather entries from girls all across the country and, using social media, have fans vote on which girls they would like to see become Charlene's co-driver for one of the events. There will be three winners, one for each event this year.
Editor's Note: Below is a press release for BFGoodrich Tires regarding the opening round of the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series this past weekend.
The 2016 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing season got off to a fast start for racers on BFGoodrich Tires in Rounds 1 and 2 at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Ariz. BFGoodrich Tires claimed six wins and 12 total podium finishes at the opening weekend which featured near record high temperatures and tough competition on the 1.1 mile circuit featuring 11 jumps over a mostly clay surface.
BFGoodrich Tires and its stable of short course off road racers are poised to continue on the success of last year's championships in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. The season begins this weekend at Wild Horse Motorsports Park in Chandler, Ariz.
After 116 miles of brutal racecourse in Johnson Valley, California, Brad Lovell crossed the finish line first in Hammertown to take the win in the Smittybilt Everyman Challenge today.


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"The Obama Effect," released in October 2010, offers an interdisciplinary analysis of President Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential bid and the cultural effect his election has had on America.
The only chapters that focus on the president's literary accomplishments are contributed by two University of Richmond faculty, English professors Suzanne Jones and Bertram Ashe.
Both Ashe and Jones offer a literary analysis of the President's most famous non-fiction work, his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," which Ashe calls "a work of art."
Ashe says he was drawn to study the book not only because of the rising political status of its subject and author, but because its themes overlap perfectly with the topic of a book he's writing—on something he calls the post-soul aesthetic.
"The post-soul aesthetic is a post-civil rights movement era that surfaced in the mid-1980s with the release of [Spike Lee's movie] 'She's Gotta Have It,'" Ashe said. "It offered a look at blackness that was far less reverential, and far more irreverent in terms of how we talk about and deal with racial issues."
Ashe says the movement opened the door to play with the definition of 'blackness.' He says that the president's struggle to determine his own racial identity fits perfectly into the movement.
"A number of books came out right around that time about African Americans who grew up biracial or black, but in bicultural situations," he said. "They had a foot in the black world and a foot in the white world, and the experience was seen as transformative and beneficial. Previously, most people who were in those situations saw themselves as being tragic because they were caught between the two."
Ashe argues that it's this duality, President Obama's ties to both cultures, which made him a particularly appealing candidate during the 2008 election.
"For better or worse, electoral politics in this era that we're in has people thinking, 'I want a leader who seems like me'," Ashe said. "You so often hear, 'He seems like a guy I could sit down and have a beer with.' This also plays into this rise of Sarah Palin. People feel like she's one of them."
While this image helped the president get elected, Ashe says it may work against him now that he's in office.
"I think part of why some think he's struggling is because the various constituencies may have projected on him what they thought he was or what they wanted him to be," he said. "And maybe he's turned out not to be that. He was able to present this image that allowed people to project onto him what they thought they saw and go, 'Boom, I like that guy, I'm voting for him'."
Ashe is still in the draft stages of his book, and says his essay on Obama will make up just one chapter of the work. He'll also examine other prominent political, musical, and pop culture figures.
Suzanne Jones, who specializes in the study of southern literature, says she decided to analyze the president's autobiography as part of a larger study she was completing on the re-emergence of the biracial character in the American imagination.
She was studying a broad spectrum of mediums: novels, biographies, and family histories. "Dreams From My Father" fit perfectly into her research.
Jones' essay focused on the President's path to self-identify as African American and how Americans have reacted to that decision.
"It was one of the hardest essays I've ever written," she said. "I was of course writing about the book he had written, but I was writing about it in the context of how everyone was reacting to him. I'm not writing about him coming to terms with his racial identity, but how other people perceived him and how the American public had to come to terms with his racial identity."
She says younger Americans particularly have had a hard time understanding why the president does not identify as biracial, but that it isn't as much of an issue for older generations.
"In some ways I don't think the average American understood the history of identifying as African American. Older people did, and it goes back to that old "one-drop" rule that unfortunately existed for a long time—that if you had one drop of African American blood in you, then you were considered black."
Jones says that the rule is being bent and broken now by figures like President Obama and Tiger Woods, who famously stated he identifies himself as Cablinasian—a combination of his four heritages: Caucasian, African American, American Indian, and Asian.
Jones says she too will incorporate her essay into her next book, which she hopes will provide a modern context for America's ever-shifting definition of race.
Originally printed in the spring 2011 issue of Artes Liberales.


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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Olek Czyz scored 25 points and Dario Hunt added 20 points and 15 rebounds as Nevada outlasted Fresno State 78-76 in triple overtime Saturday night.
Czyz's putback with 55.3 seconds remaining in the third overtime and Deonte Burton's free throws with 21.4 seconds left helped Nevada (23-5, 11-1 Western Athletic) clinch a share of the conference regular-season title.
Kevin Foster scored a career-high 20 points for Fresno State (13-17, 3-9), and Jonathan Wills added 19 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bulldogs inbounded the ball with 1.5 seconds left but couldn't get off a shot before the final buzzer ended the 55-minute contest.
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BALTIMORE -- Federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna traveled several times in recent months to the area of Pennsylvania where his body was found, and authorities were not immediately aware of any work-related business that would have taken him to the region, a federal law enforcement official said yesterday.
Investigators also were looking into a credit card Luna held without his wife's knowledge and into postings by someone who went by the name Jonathan Luna at websites where people advertise for female sex partners, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
A Baltimore FBI spokesman, Larry Foust, said yesterday that investigators were still trying to determine a motive for Luna's killing. His body was found in a creek Thursday. He had been stabbed dozens of times.
The federal law enforcement source said investigators have found nothing to indicate that the killing was related to Luna's work, but Luna's father and friends appear convinced it was tied to his career.
Luna's father, Paul D. Luna, said authorities are asking questions about his son's personal life, including his finances, relationships, and trips he made in the last month.
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INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) has published its 18th annual report on the nation's Top 100 accounting firms. The IPA annual ranking is one of the longest-running reports of accounting firms' operations and management, and the resulting IPA National Benchmarking Report has received national honors as the award-winning Best Single Topic Product by the Specialized Information Publishers Association.
IPA Top 100 Analysis: The IPA Top 100 firms enjoyed their fourth straight year of double-digit growth, with an impressive 14 percent jump in net fees. Growth in net income was up 14.6 percent for these firms, also the fourth year in a row for double-digit growth. Firms in the western U.S. continued their impressive run and charged forward at a clip of almost 20 percent, down from 25 percent growth last year but still exceptionally strong.
"IPA Top 100 firms continue to show strong metrics, continuing the red-hot run of the profession," said Michael Platt, consultant and publisher of IPA. "Average net income per partner has topped the half-million dollar mark for the first time in history," he added.
Some key metrics to consider among the INSIDE Public Accounting Top 100:
- 14.04% â Average revenue growth (not including mergers)
- $167.61 â Average net revenue per charge hour (effective billing rate)
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- $580,714 â Average equity partner compensation (does not include Big Four)
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- 15.4% â Average turnover in Top 100 firms
Early warning signs amid strong growth: Amid all the good news are small signs that the sizzling growth over the past four years is beginning to slow. This year, 10 IPA Top 100 firms reported a loss in net income and four firms reported a loss in net revenue, mainly due to divestitures of business service lines and losses of larger clients due to mergers, acquisitions, and so on. Net income as a percent of revenue (profit margin) has dropped for the first time in four years, to 31.9 percent. Growth in net income per partner has almost stalled ($501,633) after three years of double digit growth. Firms with a year-end in 2008 are reporting lower growth rates on average than their counterparts with a 2007 year-end, indicating the impact of an economic slowdown in 2008.
Not surprisingly, succession planning, staffing, retention of staff, training, and growth remain top challenges in 2008. IPA notes a few additional items of concern uncovered in this year's survey: the economy, the waning impact of Sarbanes-Oxley, and the ever-increasing requirements of industry standards.
"IPA Top 100 firms have made strong management decisions in the last couple of years to guide them to future success," said Platt. "But with new challenges ahead, we won't be surprised at all to see additional mergers among the top firms to ensure that they have the capital and the resources needed to continue to grow."
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Fundamentalist Christians Being Victimized By Entire Internet, Fundamentalists Report
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North Carolina Hick Only Likes Sucky, Uneducated Parts of His State
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Porno Pete Begs TV Network To Hate Gays More
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The 'Ex-Gay' Myth: In Demise, Yet Still a Danger
(Weekly Column) In the past two years, there has been an epidemic of eight suicides in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin school district. Anti-gay bullying may have played
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Regional Park,
Sonoma County Regional Parks,
Sonoma County
2.2 mile loop around small lakes and oak woodlands near Windsor.
Distance, category, and difficulty:
This 2.1 mile loop hike is easy; there is one steep uphill and one sharp downhill that can be avoided. Trailhead elevation is about 200 feet. The featured hike climbs to 540 feet, the park's highest point, then descends gradually back to the trailhead -- total elevation change is about 500 feet.
Mixed sun and shade.
Trail traffic:
Trail surfaces:
Dirt trails and fire roads.
Hiking time:
1 hour.
Very pretty in early spring.
Getting there:
From US 101 in Windsor (Sonoma County), exit Arata. Drive east on Arata about 1.5 miles, then look for the signed park entrance on the left side of the road, past where Arata turns into Hembree Lane.
Get driving or public transit directions from Transit and Trails:
GPS coordinates* for trailhead:
(* based on Google Earth data, shown as degrees, minutes, seconds)
Gas, food, and lodging:
Pay phones, gas, stores, and restaurants back in Windsor near 101. No camping.
Trailhead details:
5 parking spots in a paved lot, with more equestrian parking in an adjacent gravel lot. Most visitors park on the street, where there is abundant space. $7 fee (self register) if you park inside the gates. Restrooms and drinking water at the trailhead, along with a park map at an information signboard (no paper maps available). There is one designated handicapped parking spot, and several trails are well-suited for wheelchairs. There is no direct public transportation to this park.
Dogs are permitted on leash. Park is open from sunrise to sunset. Although trails vary from fire road width to narrow paths, on my visit none of the trails were signed as restricted to equestrians or cyclists.
The Official Story:
Sonoma County's Foothill page
Sonoma County's Regional Park office 707-565-2041
Map Choices:
Map from Sonoma County Parks (download pdf)
North Bay Trails, by David Weintraub (order this book from Amazon.com) has park descriptions and a map with only a few park trails shown; the book is helpful if you follow the featured hike.
Foothill Park in a nutshell -- a printable, text-only guide to the featured hike.
View photos from this hike.
Go to Bay Area Hiker Home page
Foothill Park is a jewel that shines particularly brightly in spring. Pressed right up against housing developments to the
west and south, once you head into the heart of Foothill Park's 211 acres
you'll find quiet ponds, hillsides popping with wildflowers, and black,
blue, and Oregon oaks with soft fresh leaves. Like other Sonoma County
parks such as Helen Putnam and Shiloh,
Foothill preserves a classic gently rolling north bay landscape, but Foothill
is augmented with 3 man-made ponds (created in the 60's, long before the
land became a park). Although you can't swim here, the park district does
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SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 16)
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations called today upon the Congress to adopt a resolution "urging the Soviet Union to cease discrimination of any kind against its 3,000,000 Jews."
At the same time, the plenary session of the 48th biennial assembly asked its 664 member congregations to "pledge their energies to an intensified educational campaign, in concert with all other Jewish organizations associated in the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry to inform and mobilize public opinion in our country and throughout the world."
Irwin Fane, chairman of the UAHC board of trustees, expressed "dismay" at the "empty promises" made by the Soviet authorities in recent months in which they indicated that conditions of the Jews in their country were improving. He charged that "instead of improvements, we have witnessed the shocking performance of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations which last month flung an outrageous insult at the Jewish people by linking Zionism with Nazism under the rubric of hatred and inhumanity. Even Communists in various parts of the Western world have labeled this as monstrous.
"The Soviet Government must be put on notice," he continued, "that it cannot hope to misguide the world Jewish community of public opinion generally with empty promises, or even with token concessions. It can expect nothing less than the ceaseless and persistent demands by liberal humanitarians all over the world for a full restoration of rights to Soviet Jewry."
(From London, it was reported today that a Society of Friends of Russian Jewry, including long-standing friends of the Soviet Union among its members, was formed there. The members include the famous philosopher Lord Bertrand Russell, Philip Goodhart, Member of Parliament, and Joseph Hermann, the painter. The Society plans to publish a monthly bulletin called "Focus on Soviet Jewry.")
At last night's session, the UAHC launched a $2,000,000 campaign for establishment of a religious art center in New York for the creation of various artistic projects dealing with Jewish religious and cultural themes. The center will encourage member congregations to utilize newly created works, including music and drama, "to deepen and enrich religious worship and experience."


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By Muyiwa Adetiba
One, two, three crashes in a week! It seems the aviation industry has never had it so bad in recent times. It didn't help that I was thousands of miles away from home that week. It didn't help that I had four flights to connect from two airlines a few days later.
It certainly didn't help that I was on one of the two airlines—British Airways—on a long haul across the Atlantic Ocean when I stumbled across an article from the 'Mail of London' screaming 'what if Hamas was to shoot down a British Airway plane?' I didn't read the article.
Two of the crashes happened within 24 hours of each other while the third was just two days before. Two involved Asian Airlines. In fact, the air crashes of February 16, March 8 and June 24, all involved Asian airlines. This is unfortunate because Asian Airlines are usually among the best in the world. They are known for efficiency, courtesy and quality service. They are also known to spoil their customers silly especially if you are in the First class or Business Class cabins.
I can however understand the fears, though unrealistic, of many travellers who decide not to patronise Asian Airlines any longer. I can also understand if the number of people with the fear of flying has doubled in recent weeks.
Four high profile crashes within a month can send the chill down any spine. In the midst of all these, the US government issued a statement that terrorists were targeting US bound planes. The intelligence report had it that mobile phones which everyone carries, and computers could be used as the next weapon of mass destruction. These are indeed stormy times for air travellers and the aviation industry as a whole.
But I refuse to press the panic button; partly because of an article I read some 35 years ago in the Punch which influenced my thoughts and my subsequent observations which reinforced the views of the article. Titled 'Unsafe at any height", the writer, I think it was Prof Akin Oyebode but it was so long ago— went through a brief history of the aviation industry and concluded that every crash made the industry safer. Facts, and observations through the years have proved him right.
Every crash, irrespective of where it happens, is investigated until remote and immediate causes are unearthed. Reports are written and recommendations made which are implemented by all stakeholders. The result is that air travel is still the safest and fastest means of mass transportation known to man.
The world became a global village because of air travels which shrank space and made commuting to hitherto unknown destinations possible. Today, there are many airports in the world where planes take off and land every 30 seconds to and from far flung places.
So, in spite of all the hue and cry, the aviation industry, which is getting bigger by the day, is still relatively safe and the industry intends to keep it that way. Last year had the safest record in aviation history and this year could still be better if crashes can be capped this mid-year.
It must bother us though, that some of the crashes took sinister turns this year. On March 8, a Malaysian Airline plane simply dropped from the open sky and disappeared—an improbable occurrence in this day of satellite and high- tech surveillance.
Those who believe the Super Powers are up to their dirty games and are not telling us all they know may not be day dreaming given the capabilities of these powers to spot even a shining penny from the skies. Another Malaysian plane was brought down on July 17 in Ukraine. This time, a Super Power has been fingered in a disgraceful show of blame trading. Less than a month before this, on June 24, a Pakistani plane was shot down.
All of this might point in one direction. The skies are becoming stormy as terrorists are taking their chilling and murderous activities to the skies. The capability to shoot down planes over 20 thousand feet high has obviously increased. These soulless people would think nothing of shooting down a plane just to score a murderous point even if their parents were in it.
And the fact that they do not care who they hit makes air travel potentially hazardous. But I am consoled by one fact; which is that aviation industry seems to be at least one step ahead of these people who live to kill. We had plane hijacks and bombings in the 80s. These have been brought to the barest minimum today. Then we had 9/11 which for me, was the most heinous crime against humanity. We have not had a repeat of it and it is not for want of trying on the part of the terrorists.
I believe terrorists everywhere thrive in chaos and when there is none, they try to create one because this is their oxygen. Their raison d'etre is to create fear and insecurity and thereby destroy the world order. Religion is just a ruse to recruit susceptible individuals who can then be indoctrinated. The greatest evil today are perpetrated by these people who claim to do 'Allah's will'. They rape, they maim, they kill. And their sponsors who must rot in hell, watch.
I salute the men and women who work hard to ensure that terrorists do not control the skies and that evil will not triumph over good. They have succeeded in making air travel safer for all of us. Can a group of people stand up and be counted in Nigeria in its commitment and determination to ensure that terrorists do not take over our land? We, the people, are waiting.


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Minnesota: Full of niceness, good education, sports
About a month ago, Detroit Lakes celebrated Minnesota's 150th birthday by becoming, for one day, the State Capital. That was when I should have written about Minnesota's sesquicentennial, while the festivities were in full swing and the state (and town) pride at it's most intense, but I didn't; must have forgotten.
However, I feel an obligation to approach the subject of one of Minnesota's most important birthdays before 2009, when it really is too late. Minnesota's birthday does, after all, last all year. I guess the yearlong birthday is just one of those privileges that come with being a state.
Minnesota's reputation throughout the Union is very interesting and sometimes contradictory. The people (and in describing any state, you must start with the people) are just hard to figure out.
We're known throughout the world for our outstanding educational facilities, and have pioneered many advances in science, technology, and, thanks mostly to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, medicine. But at the same time, and thanks to Garrison Keillor and the blockbuster movie Fargo, Minnesotans are stereotyped as Scandinavians who think ketchup is too spicy for human consumption, talk like they have tater tots stuffed up their nostrils, and refuse to go outside if it's hotter than 75 degrees.
We're not really like that, right? Right. However, there is one stereotype that Minnesotans have which is actually true: "Minnesota Nice." For example, my 85-year-old grandma makes it especially clear that when she lived in Texas, she had one good neighbor, and now, when she lives in Detroit Lakes, she has one bad neighbor (who really, to be truthful, isn't really that bad).
This "Minnesota Nice" phenomenon was especially apparent during last year's collapsing of the 35W Bridge in Minneapolis. People that came upon the scene of the collapsed bridge jumped into the dangerous waters without hesitation, pulling people who had fallen in out and saving countless lives in the process.
I am proud of those valiant heroes who put the lives of other people they most likely didn't know before their own, and hope that they were rewarded greatly for their heroism.
In spite of this, the people of Minnesota have, throughout the years, taken great steps to further the cause of this U.S. of A. For example, the Minnesota 1st Infantry, during the Civil War, held off the Confederacy until reinforcements could arrive at Gettysburg.
It was a suicide mission, as the enemy drastically outnumbered the boys from Minnesota and the 1st ended up losing 82 percent of its men, but it was a successful suicide mission, nonetheless. Had it not been for the Minnesota 1st Infantry, Gettysburg probably would have been won by the Confederates. And since Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War, it is arguable, but still possible, that had it not been for the 1st Minnesota, we'd all be singing Dixie.
On a more peaceful note, Minnesota's educational system has established itself as very competitive. Our largest college, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, has one of the premier agricultural programs in the world, evidenced by the fact that it is constantly inventing new varieties of the apple. Carleton College draws high achievers from all over to the medium-sized town of Northfield. And finally, Mayo Medical School, is considered by many to be one of the nation's foremost institutions for people who decide to specialize in medicine.
To go in a very different direction, Minnesota has several professional sports teams. Well, come to think of it, maybe I'd best not mention them.
I am proud to have been born and raised in this beautiful state, and am continually fascinated by how much we have achieved. There's no place in the world I'd have rather grown up in. Happy birthday, Minnesota!
Nathan Kitzmann will be a sophomore at Detroit Lakes High School this fall.


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A widow dodged two speeding tickets by claiming her husband was driving – even though he had died a year earlier.
Former business owner Catherine Goodwin got away with it until she applied for a passport in her husband's name, sending in the photo of a man she had met in Spain.
Civil servants became concerned and alerted police who found Goodwin's husband, Alan, died in 2007, Derby Crown Court has heard.
But he had two speeding fines recorded against him in 2008.
Six penalty points were put on his driving licence and the £60 fines were paid by his wife. Details of the speeding incidents were sent to her home and she replied to say her husband was the driver.
Alex Wolfson, prosecuting, said: "The DVLA didn't realise he had passed away until these matters were drawn to their attention.
"Somewhat bizarrely and for no apparent reason, this defendant later made an application for a British passport in the name of her late husband, who passed away in 2007."
The first application was made in 2011 but was returned to her.
Goodwin made a second one, again in the name of her late husband, and included the photograph of a man who has never been identified.
Goodwin, 60, of Mill Street, Ilkeston, was jailed for six months.
She admitted two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of making fraudulent applications to get a passport.
Steve Gosnell, in mitigation, said she had no penalty points on her licence and so did not risk a ban because of the speeding tickets.
He said: "There would be an increase in insurance but this is clearly not the situation where somebody has nine points and gets a partner, grandfather or uncle to take the points so they avoid disqualification."
She was "primary carer" for her husband, who had cancer.
When he died, she suffered from depression and discovered he was in debt. That resulted in "loan sharks" chasing her, said Mr Gosnell.
He said: "There were debts with legitimate companies and loan sharks were also coming out of the woodwork. Her husband had passed away and she had no one to turn to.
"She was not thinking clearly, not thinking as she would normally. She was not aware of the seriousness of what she has done."
The court heard Goodwin used to own a printing business and was a trained bookkeeper. After being widowed, she lived in Spain and was ordered by debt collectors to produce her husband's passport.
She used a photograph of a man she met in Spain. Mr Gosnell said: "She signed it to say it was a likeness of her husband. There is no sophistication. She gave her phone number and email."
Judge Ebrahim Mooncey told Goodwin: "It sounds quite callous what you did.
"Perverting justice is attacking the very fabric of the justice system.
"Your husband may have been very demanding and a spendthrift and you spent a lot of time looking after him before he died. But that doesn't excuse what you did."


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Marin Superior Court issued a preliminary judgment last week on the 2010 lawsuit brought by Forest Knolls-based Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) against the county, alleging that a 2007 countywide plan failed to protect salmon habitat in the San Geronimo Valley, in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act.
The 16-page tentative ruling largely favors the county, repeatedly rejecting the merit of SPAWN's claims. However, a single line leaves an opening for a building moratorium—a possibility that has concerned some, including the San Geronimo Valley Stewards. "The judgment is somewhat confusing. We agree with 99 percent of it, but it doesn't make sense to leave room for a moratorium," Stewards member Taylor Hamblett said. "I believe that same question was sent back to the judge."
Todd Steiner, executive director of SPAWN, is confident that the final decision will support his organization. "This is a victory for the endangered coho salmon and the reason why we filed our lawsuit—to finally get the county to take action to protect streamside habitat from further degradation," he said.
Mr. Steiner says coho salmon are caught in an "extinction vortex" and that action must be taken to ensure their survival. While the county already has general rules prohibiting building within 100 feet of streams, SPAWN is asking the county to set up a more expansive stream conservation ordinance. The county is already planning to do just that, but SPAWN wants things to move faster.
In her preliminary ruling, Judge Lynn Duryee wrote that SPAWN is "essentially asking the county to move this program to the front of the legislative line, without regard to the other competing and diverse needs of the county's residents. When to prepare and place for consideration the ordinance on the legislative calendar is the consummate discretionary decision. Petitioners have cited no legal authority on facts like these, to support their petition."
Supervisor Steve Kinsey said a court-ordered moratorium would be "Draconian" and hard to swallow. "I'm convinced the fish will not be better off if people of the San Geronimo Valley are punished," he said.
Judge Duryee is expected to issue her final ruling in the coming weeks.


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John Glass
b.ABT 1711 Banbridge, County Down, Ireland
d.Bef. 21 May 1755 Tripple Forks, Augusta County, Virginia
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m. est 1708-1710
m. BEF 1735
Facts and Events
John Glass was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
John Glass's land (Beverley Manor SW, 236 acres, 1749) as shown on the map meticulously drawn by J.R. Hildebrand, cartographer. This map is copyrighted©, used by permission of John Hildebrand, son of J.R. Hildebrand, April, 2009.
Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:
Will of John Glass
From Chalkley's Augusta County Records:
Processioning List of 1755
Records of John Glass in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's Augusta County Records:
Records in Frederick County, VA
Information on John Glass
From "Pioneers of Old Frederick Country, Virginia", by Cecil O'dell, pg. 303:'
John Glass (b. 1710c) was deceased by 21 May 1755 when his will (dated 26 January 1755) was probated in Augusta County Court. He bequeathed the 250-acre section of his father Samuel's 900-acre tract to his brother-in-law John Beckett. The 250 acres were composed of two sections; one tract of 150 acres on the east side of the Cedar Creek Grade road between David Glass' line and Wood's (James Wood's Tract 140C, Map 8) and the other tract of 100 acres between Joseph Glass' and John Beckett's properties. Beckett sold the 100-acre tract to Joseph Glass (b. 1722) for 100 pounds on 28 February 1772. John's will listed his children: Samuel, John, William, Elizabeth, Sarah and Mary. He appointed his wife Sarah, William Wright and Richard Pilson to serve as his executors. John's sons Samuel, John and William Glass (and daughter Martha) were in Botetourt County, Virginia in August 1775.


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By Alex Curtis
From: Rexburg, ID
Jul 30, 2008
rating: 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
|I would rate this route a 5.9+ or 5.10a. It is fairly slanted, and although the holds are tough, it isn't as bad as some of the other climbs on this rock which are rated lower. The route is a scramble up to the slanted rock which made this climb about 45 or 50 feet. Do not climb on the left side of this rock, well you could but that is not the route. Climbing on this side by the crack on the right will make this about a 5.7 or 5.8
By Taylor Christensen
Sep 1, 2008
|agreed... hand holds are tough, but you can dig in with your feet and let your legs do most the work.
By liveit P
From: Mammoth Lakes, Ca
Oct 10, 2009
|I led this route and thought it was about 5.8 when you climb more toward the corner.
By LifeIsGood
From: Reno, NV
May 15, 2010
Interesting to read what others have said.
This was one of my early leads - certainly early face/slab climbing. I started on the right of the bolt line and {who knows why} ended up moving to the left of the line.
I did not find this to be an easy 5.7 or even 5.9, but maybe that is a reflection of my (lack of) experience at the time. I'd be interested to climb this again, several years later, and see what I think.
Something to keep in mind, for early leaders.
By Josh Cameron
From: California in my Mind
Aug 24, 2011
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
|I always called this climb 10a or 10b by staying on the true arete. Unexperienced leaders should be careful getting to the first bolt. A fall before then could be bad since you scramble up a bit to start the climb.
By mattymck
From: Rocklin, Ca
Jun 13, 2012
rating: 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
|This is a fun little climb, but is not a 10+. This was among my first ten or twenty leads, and even then I didn't find it very committing despite the high first bolt. I have repeated it several times over the years and comparing it to other similar routes in the Carville guide I think it was just a typo that wasn't corrected. It can't be harder than an 8/8+ climbing straight up past the bolts. But you could definately make it harder working left on the licheny arete or easier going right to the gully. The climbing is easy to the first bolt, and well protected after that. An easy 5.10 tick if you own the right guide book.
By DJ Reyes
From: Northern Nevada
May 13, 2013
|I almost feel like I did a different route than the others here. I found the climbing to be mid-ten for sure. Perhaps this is a reflection of being on the couch all winter, or the fact that I rarely do any slab routes. Get on it and let us know what YOU think.
By weiss666
From: Truckee, CA
Aug 13, 2015
rating: 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
|Great slab route, but no way .10+ or even .10-.


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Whether you need to send a quick email or are visiting NYC and need to contact loved ones back home, you'll have no trouble keeping connected in the City. If you're staying at a hotel, chances are that it has a business center with computers and printers available for guests. International visitors should remember that US power sockets deliver 120 volts at 60 hertz; you may need a converter to use your laptops, chargers and any other apparatus here. Besides what's detailed below, you can find a bit more information in our article here.
Wireless Internet is available throughout NYC, including in many hotels, coffee shops, parks and libraries. At some locations, you have to pay for WiFi. At others—like Starbucks and branches of the New York Public Library—you can surf the web for free. At the library, you can use your own laptop; use of the on-site computers generally requires an NYPL card, though there are some locations, such as the Mid Manhattan Library, that have computers for guests without cards—see details about Guest PCs on the NYPL's information page.
If you're planning on spending time downtown, visit the Downtown Alliance website for a list of spots with free wireless Internet in Lower Manhattan. And thanks to City initiatives (and in one case, some localized help from Google), a number of neighborhoods, including southwest Chelsea, Harlem and Brooklyn's DUMBO, are fully connected, as are parts of others—St. George in Staten Island, the Flatiron District and Downtown Brooklyn, among them. More are on the way.
Remember to use caution at wireless hotspots. For a good starting point, visit microsoft.com for safety tips that can help safeguard your private data.


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The Pionen White Mountains underground data center has fog, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and ….
…… was also designed to withstand a near hit from a Soviet nuclear weapon.
It is not a joke, this is a serious and real data center, a newly opened high-security site run by Banhof, one of Sweden's largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below Stockholm, sealed off from the world by steel vault doors 16 inches thick.
Facts about the data center
- Originally a nuclear bunker: The data center is housed in what was originally a military bunker and nuclear shelter during the Cold War era. The facility still has the code name from its military days: Pionen White Mountains.
- Located in central Stockholm below 30 meters (almost 100 ft) of bedrock: The facility has 1110 sqm (11950 sq ft) of space and is located below 30 meters of solid bedrock (granite) right inside the city.
- Fully redesigned in 2007-2008: Pionen was completely redesigned in 2007-2008 to become the data center that it is today. More than 4,000 cubic meters (141,300 cubic ft) of solid rock was blasted away to make more room.
- Can withstand a hydrogen bomb: The bunker was designed to be able to withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb.
- Houses the Network Operations Center for one of Sweden's largest ISPs: The bunker houses the NOC for all of Bahnhof's operations. They have five data centers in Sweden, Pionen being the largest. The facility also acts as a co-location hosting center, so you can actually put your own servers here.
- German submarine engines for backup power: Backup power is handled by two Maybach MTU diesel engines producing 1.5 Megawatt of power. The engines were originally designed for submarines, and just for fun the people at Pionen have also installed the warning system (sound horns) from the original German submarine.
- 1.5 megawatt of cooling for the servers: Cooling is handled by Baltimore Aircoil fans producing a cooling effect of 1.5 megawatt, enough for several hundred rack-mounted units.
- Triple redundancy Internet backbone access: The network has full redundancy with both fiber optics and extra copper lines with three different physical ways into the mountain. Pionen is one the best-connected places in northern Europe.
- Work environment with simulated daylight and greenhouses: For a pleasant working environment the data center has simulated daylight, greenhouses, waterfalls and a huge 2600-liter salt water fish tank.
- Staff: 15 employees, only senior technical staff, work full time in Pionen.
Breaking the mold and focusing on humans
I couldn't resist asking the people behind the Pionen data center what made them design such an insanely cool and unusual environment deep inside the bedrock of Stockholm.
Jon Karlung, CEO at Bahnhof explains their motivations.
"Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus," he said. "Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff."
We suspected that the unique location itself must have been a big inspiration, something which Karlung confirms.
"Since we got hold of this unique nuclear bunker in central Stockholm deep below the rock, we just couldn't build it like a traditional – more boring – hosting center," he said. "We wanted to make something different. The place itself needed something far out in design and science fiction was the natural source of inspiration in this case – plus of course some solid experience from having been a hosting provider for more than a decade."


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Happy Thanksgiving & Hanukkah ! Brrr...
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:03:09 GMT —
A rare event - Thanksgiving and Hanukkah sharing the same date. I read somewhere it won't happen again for more than 7,000 years. WOW!
Another January-like day on tap. Early morning snow showers which won't add up to much but beauty give way to a mostly cloudy day. The saving grace today will be that the winds, which have howled since the weekend, have finally diminished. High temps this afternoon will be 10 to 15 degrees below seasonal norms - we're talkin' right around 30 degrees. A great day to sit in front of a fire, help yourself to 2nd's and enjoy the traditional Turkey Day grudge matches on the gridiron. Enjoy your family and friends!
Overnight offers some gradual clearing and more cold as many head off to the malls with temps in the upper teens and lower 20's. Black Friday will look nice with plenty of sunshine as skies will be partly cloudy. It will be another frigid day with highs maxing out in the lower 30's... layers, hats & gloves tomorrow.
As busy holiday weekend is on tap as we have the BIG game going on at The BIG House. In Ann Arbor, SE Michigan and in NW Ohio skies will be partly cloudy with highs in the lower 30's north and mid 30's south. Go Bucks!
Sunday offers more in the way of clouds but will be much milder as we take a run at seasonal temps. Under mostly cloudy skies we'll see highs near 40 degrees Sunday afternoon.
Have a great holiday and long weekend - I'll be trying to burn off some calories Saturday, Sunday & beyond. Mmmm.....


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As an inherited cancer syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) produces hundreds and sometimes thousands of polyps in the colon and rectum. If not treated early with radical intestinal surgery, patients usually develop cancer by the time they reach the age of 40. The most radical surgery is removal of the large intestine and rectum, with an incision made in the abdomen to connect the small intestine with an external colostomy bag. The cancer risk approaches zero for this surgery, but it may cause male impotence, female infertility, and severely altered quality of life. Other less radical surgeries have more risk of cancer and less, but nevertheless substantial, impact on quality of life.
Surgeons can do more for these patients than just perform the procedure, concludes a new study. The researchers note that patients need their surgeon's help in making the surgery decisions as well as long-term support in coping with the body-altering changes, future complications, and quality of life.
A total of 14 patients with FAP and 11 health care providers were interviewed in depth about their experiences. The median patient age at surgery was 23, and 41 at the time of the interviews. The health care providers who were interviewed included colorectal surgeons, nurses, gastroenterologists, nurses, and geneticists. Throughout the interviews, three themes emerged. The first was information. Most patients received information about FAP from other family members who were affected and then from their doctors. Patients underscored the need for upfront information, including the risks and benefits of various surgical options. However, providers felt that providing this information was challenging, as patients were often overwhelmed at the time of their diagnosis. A second theme emerged over decisionmaking. This was influenced by the patient's family experience with FAP, the age of the patient, their emotional state, and the support being received. While patients actively sought out the opinions of family and others, the majority wanted to have an active role in the decisionmaking.
The final theme was life after surgery. During the interviews, it was emphasized that the care of these patients does not end after surgery. Patients felt that living with the aftermath of surgery was the most difficult part, particularly worrying about complications and changes in quality of life. The providers who were interviewed agreed with these patient feelings and tried to prepare them for the long-term relationship they would have with medical providers. The study was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (T32 HS00066).
See "Risk-reducing surgery in FAP: Role for surgeons beyond the incision," by H.B. Neuman, M.D., M.S., L. Robbins, D.S.W., J. Duarte, M.D., and others in the Journal of Surgical Oncology 101, pp. 570-576, 2010.
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Grub hangs when booting Windows XP
I have an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe motherboard from ASUS with the famous Jmicron controller, and I have some problems booting into Windows in Grub.
This is my connector setup
SATA1 Western Digital Raptor 36GB
Seagate 200GB = Windows XP
My bios is set to configure IDE to SATA and NOT AHCI (I do not have a floppy to install AHCI drivers when installing Windows)
.. So in Windows Seagate 200GB is seen as a SCSI disk.
NOTE: I have preserved the NTLDR bootloader on the Seagate 200GB and I need to switch the harddrives priority in the BIOS so the Western Digital Raptor 36GB is the first drive to boot to load Grub and the Windows IDE Seagate 200GB is the second.
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
NOTE: NTLDR is still on the Windows XP IDE disk, can this give any problems? I have Grub installed on the root ArchLinux partition (/) .. There are only 2 partitions on the Linux disk, the root and the swap.
Is it because NTLDR is still on the MBR of the Windows XP disk?
Is it because the Windows XP disk is the 2nd harddrive, when I switch the priority to boot from Grub on Linux Disk MBR?
I'm not sure if this will work, but try adding these lines:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
That actually worked!
What is the meaning of those two lines and why do they make it work? I would like to know ..
It confused me in the start, cause I thought it would switch hd1 to be hd0 so that I would be running the commands of my Linux disk.. Confusing bootloaders that no-one understands!
But thanks alot for the tip!
Is there a HOWTO of some kind for Grub with alot of troubleshootings like this one? It might be a common problem I would think.
Here is a helpful link; http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Of course I know the official site!
This is what you want: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/
The answer to this is in this section: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...OS_002fWindows
Of course when I was looking for this info a few months ago I didn't think to look there.
Thanks again greeniguana00 ..
Topic closed :)
I hope the topic will come in handy for other users searching for the same solution!
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