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Your website is often the introduction to your online business - so its important to make first impressions count! This website is not only striking in appearance, but also flexible and easy to navigate. You can add and/or edit the content, images, banners, you can add additional affiliate programs - all from within the websites own control panel, without the need to know any special coding skills!
Key Websites Features
Responsive Design! - Adapt To All Screen Sizes
No Coding Skills RequiredRunning a website with WordPress, requires no coding skills to add articles, or images - In fact you could build 1000's of pages of content, without having to do any coding whatsoever!
Articles IncludedEvery ready made website for sale, will include between 15 and 20 pre-written Private Label Rights Articles. You can re-write or replace these articles, and class them as your own.
Built on WordPressAll of our current ready made websites for sale, are built on the Wordpress platform. This allows your website to be easily managed and updated with a very small learning curve.
You Can Sell Your Own ProductsIf you have your own product to sell, you can easily add physical or digital products via one of many WordPress shopping cart plug ins many of which are open source free of charge.
Integrated Social BookmarkingSocial Bookmarking links are available at the end of every articles so your visitors can bookmark, and share your content with others, which creates additional traffic to your website.
Built In SEOAll of the websites for sale include an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plug in. This will eaily allow you to add your all important page titles, keywords and descriptions
Free Internet Marketing ToolsEvery turnkey website for sale comes complete with a set of bonuses. These are info products and training videos to help you learn how to promote your website for the best results.
No Inventory to Keep or Shipping to MakeThe great beauty of affiliate websites, is that you do not have any inventory to keep, or items to ship. You sell a product from your website, you get paid a commission from the merchant.
Built in Amazon Web StoreAll websites have a fully functioning Amazon Store which enables you to earn commission every time a visitor make a purchase. You can add as many additional products to the store as you wish directly from your Amazon console.
Built In Newsletter and Opt In FormCommunicating with your visitors is a no-brainer for building relationships and repeat sales. Each website, has a built in Auto-responder to allow you to send out your newsletter, make your affiliate or product offers.
Social Network ReadySocial integration is a massive part of web marketing, and your ready made website includes all of the tools for your visitors to like and share your website and content through Google plus, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
Integrated Affiliate ProgramsAll websites for sale are affiliate websites. This means that you earn a commission from every product sold from the site, from the webs biggest and most trusted vendors for you to earn from such as Google, Amazon, Clickbank and Infolinks.
Google Sitemaps and HTML SitemapYour website is enabled with a Google Sitemap XML file, so it will instantly be submitted and spidered by the major search engines. It also has an onsite HTML sitemap which makes it easier for visitors to navigate your entire site.
How The Website Makes Money!
Pay Per Click (PPC)
PPC works by placing targeted ads which are related to the content on the web page. You get paid a share of the advertisers cost when a visitor clicks on one of the ads.
Affiliate Marketing
Your will earn a commission for any sale resulting from affiliate links on your site. All sales are dealt with by the merchant, you simply get paid for the referral!
You Will Earn Income From....Google AdSense is probably the easiest money you can make on the internet. Once you are accepted into the AdSense program, the ads Google shows from its advertisers on the pages of your website, will earn you money every time one of your visitors click on them. Your new website page has strategically located AdSense ads on every page and now you can start to get checks sent to you each month from Google. There are many people making over 5 figures each and every month JUST on Google AdSense income.
How You Earn From Google AdsenseYour visitor sees a Google Adsense Ad (Example on right) on your page that interests him, so he clicks on the link to find out more
Google will now pay you a percentage of the advertisers costs, as you get paid for any legitimate 'clicks on Google Adsense ads on your website. (Google never reveal the exact percentage that they pay out however it is believed to be around 50% of the advertisers costs)
Google knows to pay you, as every Adsense link on your website is embedded with a unique tracking code that Google issue to you when you join their program.
The Amazon Associates program is among the most respected and favorite affiliate programs - it's a fantastic way to monetize your new website.
The website includes an online store with 1000's of products, on 100's of pages for your customer to choose from. You have no inventory to buy, stock to keep or dispatches to make, as the checkout button on your store seamlessly directs to Amazons checkout, and they deal with the sale, delivery and customers service.
How You Earn From Amazon Associates
The associate (you!) offers Amazon's products for sale on your website. Each product on your site has a specially formatted link embedded with your Associate ID.
This allows Amazon to track visits and sales generated from your site. When visitors follow your links, and proceeds to make a purchase, you will be paid a share of their profit - which is between 4% and 8.5%.
The Amazon Affiliate program is currently unavailable in US states of Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois,North Carolina, Arkansas and Rhode Island due to state tax laws.
Additional Clickbank Advertising from CBProAds
The Clickbank ads shown on the 'programs' page of the site will require you join a membership program. The program offers a free membership (Shown on the site) which enables your affiliate ID to be embedded in the ads 50% of the time.
The remaining 50% is the publishers ID will be embedded into the ads. You can upgrade to a Pro Account for $39.95 per year. This enables your affiliate ID to be shown in the ads 100% of the time. Please note there is no obligation whatsoever to upgrade your membership
Infolinks 'in-text' ads, creates a double underline link below your the most valuable keywords on your web page. This keeps your content appearance clean while enticing your visitor to click on the hyperlinked ad.
How You Earn From Infolinks
Your visitor hovers over one of the links, and follows through to the advertisers site to find out more about the offer or service.
Infolinks will now pay you a percentage of the advertisers costs, as you get paid for any legitimate clicks on Infolinks ads on your website.
Not an affiliate program, but a reward program for your and your customers, which will reward you and your customers a share of the profit and when either you or they shop online.
There are over 300 online stores to earn from including Walmart, Overstock, Drugstore, Beauty.com Gap, Old Navy, Circuit City, Target, Godaddy and many more branded names.
Not only will you personally save on much of your online shopping, when one of your website visitors joins through the link on your website, you will get a profit share , every time they shop - FOREVER.
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Q: Are there any other costs or charges?
A: The only additional charges you will have to pay is a domain name for your website (Approx $12.00) and the website hosting charge, of $59.40, which is payable prior to us transferring the website to you. This cost is renewable annually. The Domain Name Renewal charge to Godaddy (Approx $12.00 or less) will also be payable every 12 months. If you are not using Sitegap hosting, and would like us to install the site to your server, there will be a $25.00 installation charge.
Q. Do you sell 100's of copies of the same website?
A: No. We limit the amount of each website to around 40 copies before we totally redesign the site and add new content and images. You shouldn't worry about duplicate content as these sites have between 15 -20 articles that you are encouraged to replace and/or edit. Plus as you build your business and website you will be adding new content on regular basis so your site will be unique.
Q: I've never ran a website before - What Knowledge do I need?
A: Absolutely None! but you will need to learn how to grow a web business and grow your site, by adding more great content. This is a simple and enjoyable process that can be managed from the website control panel.
Q: Do you run my new website for me?
A: No. This is your business, and the operation is down to you. Advertising and promotion of your business, are not included with the purchase of this website.
Q. Is the website easy to edit/change.
A. Yes the site is built on the popular WordPress platform and has its own control panel which makes editing and adding content simple.
Q: Can I make money from this website?
A: Absolutely! Websites and Internet Marketing are proven money-making businesses and you can start generating income immediately through social networking, and by posting to forums and blogs with link back to your site. For your website to generate natural search engine traffic will not happen overnight, and if you study the SEO optimization course, given as a bonus here, you will be well on your way to an automated income system.
Q: Can I have a refund if don't like the website?
A: Unfortunately we don't offer refunds. We spend hours going into building the website and updating the codes etc. You able to see the actual site in operation before you decide to buy, and with proper promotion and marketing, your income will quickly out weigh the cost of purchase.
Q: How long does it take for my website to be ready?
A: We aim to have your website ready within 3 Working Days of receiving the required information from you, often a lot quicker.
Q: Can i change the existing and add new articles to my website?
A: Yes. The articles are Private Label, which mean they can be edited and classed as your own work (In fact we encourage this) You can also add additional content, banners, affiliate links, and any other changes you prefer as you have 100% ownership of the site.
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A. We are happy to make any requested changes to the website, but ALL and ANY work requests are chargeable. We are a business, and cannot carry out modifications free of charge, no matter how small they are. We are happy to quote prior to purchase of required.
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The expression, "Good feeling your vibe" is a unique one, and one not heard so often anymore. However, it may contain some deep insights.
As we have discussed in previous posts, John Anthony West in Serpent in the Sky presents extensive evidence, based upon the brilliant insights of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887 - 1961), that the ancient Egyptians understood the importance of harmonics and vibrations on many levels, and incorporated that knowledge into all aspects of their culture, from mathematics, to medicine, to literature, and of course to architecture and art. For previous discussions of this evidence, see this post, this post, and this post.
If these scholars are correct, the concept of "vibrations" -- as well as the idea of "good vibrations" and "bad vibrations" -- is a very important concept indeed, and one that the ancient Egyptians took very seriously.
In his 1961 book Sacred Science: the King of Pharaonic Theocracy, Schwaller de Lubicz discusses his belief of the importance of this subject to human beings, which he labors to demonstrate was a belief shared by the ancient Egyptians as well. He explains:
The higher animals, as well as the human animal, are totally bathed in a psychic atmosphere which establishes a bond between the individuals, a bond as explicit as the air which is breathed by all living things. In this psychic ambiance, every human can be compared to a radiating energetic source offering a kind of vibration of its own which is received by the other beings. Beings can be more or less aware of this, depending on the degree of their mental neutrality. 153.Later, he explains the same concept in slightly different language, saying:
In reality, every living being is in contact with all the rhythms and harmonies of all the energies of his universe: The means of this contact is, of course, the self-same energy contained by this particular living being. Nothing separates this energetic state within an individual living being from the energy in which he is immersed, if not the cerebral presence, such as is the case with man. The animal does not lose this contact as it is not yet in possession of this mental "superiority." 163-164.It is very interesting that de Lubicz expresses this energy source as "a kind of vibration," which in terms of physics could be described as a wave (all vibrations can be expressed in physics in terms of frequencies, which is a method of describing a wave in time, just as wavelength is a way of describing a wave in terms of distance, and wavelength and frequency are related such that knowing one will allow the determination of the other).
The assertion that everyone we meet is "a radiating energy source offering a kind of vibration of its own" brings to mind the wave patterns created by islands in the ocean (see diagram above), and the traditional navigation techniques used by the Polynesian Voyaging Society described in previous posts (see here, here and here). The techniques used by the wayfinders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society were passed on to them by master navigator Mau Piailug (1932 - 2010), whose ability to sense distant islands by the "vibrations" they gave off is described in the 2009 book Wayfinders by Wade Davis:
Expert navigators like Mau, sitting alone in the darkness in the hull of the canoe, can sense and distinguish as many as five distinct swells moving through the vessel at any given time. Local wave action is chaotic and disruptive. But the distant swells are consistent, deep and resonant pulses that move across the ocean from one star house to another, 180 degrees away, and thus can be used as another means of orienting the vessel in time and space. Should the canoe shift course in the middle of the night, the navigator will know, simply from the change in the pitch and roll of the waves. Even more remarkable is the navigator's ability to pull islands out of the sea. The truly great navigators such as Mau can identify the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon simply by watching the reverberation of the waves across the hull of the canoe, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its own refractive pattern that can be read with the same ease with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint. 59.This is a stunning metaphor for the same concept that Schwaller de Lubicz is talking about with regard to human beings, each of whom he says has the same kind of "personal fingerprint of vibrations" that Davis describes above regarding islands in the Pacific. The phrase "no man is an island" comes to mind, ironically, in that according to this view we are actually quite similar to islands in one way, and yet connected by the ocean that carries these vibrations, in which we are all "totally bathed" at all times, in the words quoted above from Schwaller de Lubicz.
Curiously, this appears to be a possible connection between the ancient science of harmonic manipulation which thinkers such as Schwaller de Lubicz and John Anthony West perceive in the ancient Egyptians and the ancient science of deep ocean navigation which the ancients also appear to have possessed (as we discuss in other posts such as this one, this one and this one).
Based on this information, the phrase "good feeling your vibe" should perhaps make a comeback.


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Education & Training
Facilitation of School Mapping Exercises and Reporting in Rasuwa, Dadeldhura and Kapilvastu Districts – DANIDA
Mid Term Review of Technical Assistance for TEVT (Soft Skills) Development in School Sector Reform Plan in Nepal
Strengthening Higher Engineering Education – NEP: (45192-001)-TA-7973
Preparing the Education Sector Development Program I-TA – 4754
Skills for Employment Project – Training MIS Design and Development Loan No.- 2111 NEP
Teacher Education Project-Loan No. -1840 NEP
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HR Consultancy of Infocom
HR Restructuring of Prime International
Energy & Power
Energy Access and Efficiency Improvement Project II -TA-7666-NEP
Assessing the Social Impacts of Rural Energy Services – WB
Baseline Domestic Customer Survey for National CFL Distribution Program in Nepal – ADB
Detailed Design and Preparation of Tender Documents for Upper Tamakoshi HEP(463 MW)
Detailed Survey of Marshyangdi 132 kv Transmission Line Corridor Project
Support to EIA Study for proposed Arun – III Hydro Electric Project (900 MW) in Nepal
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Nepal Dam Safety Review Project
Preparation of Project Report for Construction of Approach Road from Brahmdev, Nepal to Pancheshwar, Nepal & Hydrographic Survey in the river Mahakali at different locations of Project area for Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project (TENDER NO: WAPCOS/Hydro/PMP/Survey/2015-16)
Consulting Services for "Scaling up Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Business Line in South Asia" (P147807), World Bank, Energy & Extratives Global (South Asia Region) Practice
Detailed Engineering Design & Preparation of Bidding Documents of Rolwaling Diversion
Consulting Services for Detailed Review of Proposed Private Sector Hydro power Projects in Nepal
Feasibility study , Initial Environmental examination, Detail Design and Preparation of Tender Documents of Sisa Khola "A" Hydroelectric Project
Feasibility review, DPR Preparation, Detailed Engineering Design, IEE Review and Preparation of IEE for HEP and 132kv Transmission Line, Preparation of Tender Document for Upper Solu Hydroelectric Project
Power Development Project- Part C Consulting Services for Energy and Customer Accountability Enhancement (IDA Cr. No.: 3766-NEP, and Gr. No. : H039-NEP)
NEA Energy Efficiency and DSM: Impact Study of Compact Fluorescent
Nepal – Removing Barriers to Hydro power Development – WB
Nepal Power System Master Plan – ADB TA No.- 4492
Promoting Private Sector Participation in the Power Sector in Nepal – ADB TA -4997 – NEP
Identification & Preliminary Study of Hydro power Projects for Survey Licensing
Restructuring of Nepal Electricity Authority – ADB TA No. -4492
Undertaking Scoping, TOR, EIA of Proposed Khimti II Hydropower Project (27 MW)
Feasibility Survey, Design Cost Estimate and Construction Schedule Preparation of Kharekhola Small Hydro Access Road Project
Consulting Services for the Feasibility study for new transmission facilities in Trishuli 3B Hub and Chilime Hub 220/132/33 kV substations and 220 kV overhead line (26.5 KM Length)
Finance & Governance
Access To Financial Services Survey – WB
Mapping of Microfinance Sector for Access to Financial Services Project – WB
Defining A Strategic Vision and Preparing A Strategic Plan for NAVIN
National Research Institute – Promoting Accountability in Nepal – WB
Preparing Governance Reforms and Decentalzation Cluster Program I – ADB TA -4834-NEP
Capital Market and Infrastructure Capacity Support Project- (i) Bond Market Development, (ii) PPP framework, (iii) development of PPP demonstration Projects
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Agriculture and Irrigation
Situation and Policy Analysis in support of Practical Action Nepal AIM 2 Program Development
Project Completion Report for the Third Livestock Development Project
GRANT-0299 NEP: Water Resources Project Preparatory Facility – 3 Flood Hazard Mapping and Preliminary Preparation of Flood Risk Management Projects (45206-001)
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Preparation of landslide inventory Map of Bhojpur, Sankhuwasabha, Khotang and Solukumbu districts of Eastern Development Region, Nepal
Preparation of landslide inventory Map of Dolakha, Ramechhap, Sindhuli, Okhaldhunga districts of Nepal
Preparation of landslide inventory Map of Gorkha, Dhading, Nuwakot and Rasuwa districts
Social Development
Strategic Review of The Women's Development Program in Nepal
Japan fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Grant 9159-NEP: Support for Targeted & Sustainable Development Program for Highly Marginalized Groups
Dalit Empowerment and Inclusion Project (DEIP)
Law & Justice
CMP II Assisting to implement visibility activities for Judiciary and Human Rights institutions in Nepal
Production of an Audiovisual Documentary Followed by Impact Assessment of European Instrument for Democracy & Human Rights (EIDHR) in Nepal
Information & Communication
IT Master Plan for Ministry of Education and Sports, Nepal – DANIDA
Consultancy for Specialized Regulatory Advice – Tariff and Interconnection Regime (NTA 02)-WB
Consultancy for Support and Supoervision of the Spectrum Management and Monitoring System (FMDS-3) in MOIC – WB
Consulting Services for Capacity Building for Frequency Management Division (FMD), Ministry of Information and Communication (MOIC)-Credit No. 3581-NEP
Consulting Services for Designing M&E/MIS System for RWSS sector in MoPPW of the GoN- WB
IT (Information Technology) Master Plan For Local Governance
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Certification of Rural Telecommunications Services – WB
Transportation & Civil Aviation
Road Sector Development Project:Feasibility, Detailed Design and Construction Supervision-IDA Grant No. H339-NEP
Feasibility Study & Detailed Engineering Design of Road Connectivity Sector Project – ADB Grant 0051
Consulting Services to Koshi Bridge (Chatara) under Emergency Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project-ADB Grant No. – 0150 – NEP (SF)
Feasibility Study, Detailed Engineering Survey, Soil Investigation and Detailed Design of 20 Bridges
Detailed Engineering Survey and Design and (DPR) of Kaligandaki corridor (Gaindakot-Rampur-Pipaldanda, 130 km )
Hulaki Rajmarg Project-Detailed Survey and Design of 5 Bridges
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Consulting Services for Detailed Survey, Design & IEE for Road Improvement Works in Parbat, Sindhupalchowk, Dhailekh & Jumla Districts-RAP3/2013/021
Detailed Engineering Survey , Design and Report preparation of a Packages: i) Chitwan Piple Gadauli Parewakot Chepangmarg (5 km); ii) Nawalparasi Ghosarghat (Narayani River) Magarkot (9 km); iii) Nawalparasi Bishnunagar Bulingtar (30 Km) and iv)Tanahnu Gomantal Bulingtar (25 Km)
Detail Engineering Survey Design & Report Preparation of: i)Jiri Sikri Hawa Kirne Road, Dolkha, Ramechhap ii)DukuchapVDC Debichaur Ghusele Malta Baguwa to Makawanpur (Kantilok path), Lalitpur
Puspalal (Mid Hill) Highway Project: Detailed Design for Upgrading of Highway to Blacktop Standard – Package 3
Detailed Engineering Survey, Design and Preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) of North-South Lokmarga Mahakali corridor(Tanakpur-Jhulaghat-Darchula)
Feasibility Study of Rupnagar kanchhanpur Bypass Road, Saptari, Begadawar 9 Dhaneshwarchowkkhola Chaulikha bazar Road, Dhanusha & Banjyangkharka Sakine Paithapata Thaldung Road, Argakhachi-Contract ID: P21-PMEU-070-071)
Surveys, Investigations and Detailed Design for Sub Regional Transport Enhancement Project as VO No. 4 under Road Connectivity Sector I Project – ADB
Surveys, Investigations and Detailed Design for Koshi Bridge as VO No. 2 under Road Connectivity Sector I Project – ADB
Review of Road Safety Management Capacity in Nepal – WB
Consulting Services for Feasibility Study of Ridi (Gulmi)-Balkot-madichaur-Sulichaur-Surkhet Road (150 Km)
Detailed Survey, Design,Cost Estimate of Bhim Dhunga Lami Danda Road Project – WB
Detailed Survey ,Design ,Cost Estimate of Dhading Besi Salyan Tar Road Project – WB
Detailed Survey,Design,Cost Estimate,Report and Tender Document Preparation of Banuwa_Karmidanda Road Project
Detailed Survey,Design,Cost Estimate,Report of Kaliksthan -Bhanjyang-Dhunge Road Project
Detailed Survey, Design, Cost Estimate of Katunje – Banakhu Road
Detailed Survey, Design,Cost Estimate, Report of Dharapani- Rupsepani Road Project
Urban Development & Water Supply
Consulting Services for Project Management Consultancy (PMC) Melamchi Water Supply Project
Review of policy Environment, Legal Framework and Institutional arrangements Related to Urban Sanitation and Hygiene
Regional Solid Waste Management Project in Nepal – Gov. of Finland
STWSSP: Sector Efficiency Improvement Unit Consultant – ADB Grant 0157
Preparing the Kathmandu Valley Urban Environment Improvement Project
Resource Person in the capacity of MIS/IT Expert for M&E Unit, MoPPW
Community Based Water Supply and Sanitation Project (CBWSSP) : Package I for the Pilot Batch
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Preparing the Improved Water Quality Supply, Sanitation and Service Delivery Sector Development Program – ADB TA No. – 4972-NEP
Review of the Policy Environment, Legal framework and institutional Arrangements related to Urban sanitation and Hygiene
Nepal Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Sector Study on Modalities of Services Delivery & its features and options to efficiently increase access and sustainability
Conceptual Design of Sanitary Landfill Site (Regional Solid Waste Management Project)
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Nepal Water Resources Knowledge Base Development Project
Monitoring and Evaluation of Cross Border Communication – South Asia
Nepal Enterprise Survey- WB
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Water Resources Project Preparatory Facility – 3 Flood Hazard Mapping and Preliminary Preparation of Flood Risk Management Projects
Innovations for More Food with Less Water- Task 2: Country and Project-Specific Recommendations and Pilot Initiatives
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Support to EIA Study for proposed Arun – III Hydro Electric Project (900 MW) in Nepal
Survey to Access User Satisfaction and Assessing Demand for Service by DHM Under PPCR: Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards Project
Nepal GIS based Environmental Information System
Tourism & Travel
Preparation of Guidelines for Sustainable Tourism Development Section (STDS); Sustainable Tourism Development Committee (STDC); and Sustainable Tourism Development Fund (STDF); Sustainable Tourism Village Fund (STVF) for Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Program
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He crossed the ages just to kill the thing he loved
While living on Ibiza, a former classics scholar called Mark Compayne stumbles on a Roman tomb. It contains a skeleton of a woman called Veleda and three scrolls. The scrolls describe their author Satyrion's first-century career in Alexandria, Britain during Boudicca's revolt, and then Rome where he becomes secretary to Petronius, Nero's Arbiter of Elegance, who he helps compose the erotic epic the Satyricon. Satyrion is involved in Nero's conspiracy to burn down Rome but caught up in the persecution of the Christians he is exiled to Ibiza. The woman he lived with in Rome, Theodosia, visits and betrays him. He takes up with Veleda, a German slave. Theodosia tricks him into returning to Italy where he witnesses the elegant suicide of the now-disgraced Petronius. Back on Ibiza, Satyrion erects a secret tomb for Petronius. A mysterious intruder disturbs the burial.
Satyrion's account contains numerous parallels to Compayne's own life. Veleda resembles Monica his partner who is away detoxing in Sweden. Compayne goes on a cruise during which he takes a drug that induces time travel and witnesses Satyrion's execution. The scrolls enable him to locate Petronius' tomb, where taking the time-travel drug again he disturbs Satyrion in the act of burying Petronius. Then alone in the tomb he discovers the great secret Petronius has been buried with. The drug does not wear off as intended and Compayne is trapped in the past where he is taken to be Satyrion. In the local town, he meets some of the characters in the scrolls, amongst them Sporus, a slave married to Nero who recounts the emperor's death. Finally, he encounters a Veleda with terrible consequences.
"I thought the book impeccably researched. In fact I was full of admiration for the way that details of the period were worked into the narrative with complete naturalness. Details of dress, custom, social and military organisation, were all handled extremely well. The prose itself is fluent and expressive and can go from ironic observation to a vein of poetry."
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Brain drain damaging Northern Ireland's economy, warns QUB chief
Northern Ireland's 'brain drain' will continue to damage the economy here unless Stormont invests enough in higher education, the man in charge of Queen's University has said.
Vice-chancellor Patrick Johnston said 38% of students currently leave Northern Ireland and there are not enough graduates in some sectors to meet demand.
In an interview in today's Belfast Telegraph, Mr Johnston said the issues cannot be ignored, and he plans to raise them with the new Economy Minister - the DUP's Simon Hamilton - in the coming days.
Queen's University saw its subsidy from Stormont slashed by £8m last year. Mr Johnston said in fact between 2010-2014 it has in real terms seen a 24% cut.
"Northern Ireland then as a result of that lost 2,250 student places - that's over 10% of the total undergraduate student places," he said, adding. "Some 38% of students have to leave Northern Ireland at the age of 18, that's a really serious situation for any society because in particular your most talented people are leaving.
"You do want people to leave and come back, people only come back to where opportunities sit.
"This situation still prevails and has to be addressed if we are going to develop a prosperous economy."
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Mr Johnston said Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where Government is not investing in higher education, and also the only region which exports its talent.
He emphasised these issues need to be addressed if Stormont wants to develop a prosperous economy in Northern Ireland, warning that reducing corporation tax would not be enough.
"I think our policy makers and political leaders have now begun to really understand the importance of this, so I am actually hopeful that we will see a resolution of this and will see investment in higher education," he said.
"If we don't we are in trouble - we will not deliver on corporation tax, we will not deliver a prosperous society, we will begin to lose some of the global leaders that sit in Queen's today to other institutions across the UK and in the world that are actually investing."
However, despite this stern warning, Mr Johnston said he is hopeful for the future of higher education in Northern Ireland.
"I think it is a very challenging time, but there is an optimism now that Fresh Start will deliver something different, and certainly I tend to be an optimist and am very hopeful that will be the case," he added.
Since Mr Johnston was appointed vice-chancellor in 2014 he has received some criticism over his £250,000 salary.
However, he told the Belfast Telegraph that there are a lot of myths around his employment benefits and emphasised he has been offered other jobs with much bigger salaries.
"The reality is that my salary is set by a remuneration committee and senate, it is not set by me," he said.
"I have been offered salaries multiple times bigger than the salary I am currently on.
"I don't have a car provided for me - that is a myth - and I pay rent for the house that I live in. I don't get a house free. There are certain myths out there.
"If you actually look at the other leading universities, you'll find my salary is - by a significant country mile - the lowest.
"I don't do this job for the salary."
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Remember When...
President Bush Has Head Wound
"As you can see, I have an injury myself -- not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion..."
-- President Bush
At Brooke Army Medical Hospital in San Antonio, Texas
(...where he kidded in a way that again showed his jarring lack of empathy with the amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan.)
Republican$ Endor$e Ca$h and Carry
"Now that Dick Cheney has freed Congress from the bother of advising and/or consenting, lawmakers can work on new ways to game the system and wallow in the GOP's culture of corruption -- while tit-tutting about the decline in American moral values.
Since the Republican-run Capitol doesn't have to worry about holding the Bush White House accountable for excesses in torture and spying, and the other myraid ways it has placed itself above the law, congressmen have more leisure hours for Abramoff successors to treat them to some Redskins games and steak dinners.
Checks and balances are now as quaint as the Geneva Conventions. Congress is complicit in putting its thumb on the scale for the executive branch."
-- Maureen Dowd
The Debate Continues at ontheborderline.net
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President Bush Nominated For Sainthood
...sort of
President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Methodist Church outside Washington as part of his campaign.
Bush's campaign manager made a visit to the Bishop, and said to him "We've been getting a lot of bad publicity among Methodists because of Bush's position on stem cell research and the like. We'd gladly make a contribution to the church of $100,000 if during your sermon you'd say the President is a saint."
The Bishop thinks it over for a few moments and finally says, "The Church is in desperate need of funds and I will agree to do it."
Bush pompously shows up looking especially smug today and as the sermon progresses the Bishop begins his homily:
"George Bush is petty, a self-absorbed hypocrite and a nitwit. He is a liar, a cheat, and a low-intelligence weasel. He has lied about his military record and had the gall to put himself in a jet plane landing on a carrier posing before a banner stating 'Mission Accomplished.' He invaded a country for oil and money, and is using it to lie to the American people. He is the worst example of a Methodist I've ever personally known. But compared to Dick Cheney and the rest of his cabinet, George Bush is a saint."
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Quote of Note:
"I'd rather be ashes than dust. I would rather have my spark burnout in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and persevirant planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."
Jack London
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Jack London Born January 12, 1876
London (1876-1916) was an illegitimate child, and spent his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing. He became the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His vigorous stories of men and animals against the environment, and survival against hardships were drawn mainly from his own experience.
His years in the Klondike searching for gold left their mark in his best short stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His best novel, The Sea-Wolf, was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined individualism and Darwinism in its exploration of the laws of nature.
London was a socialist and supporter of the workers movement, but like many socialists of his time, especially in the "settler nations," he was prone to racism and was a populist rather than a communist. He retired to his ranch near Sonoma, where he died at age 40 of various diseases and drug treatments.
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Remember the Sago, West Virginia Miners
"Jesse was and is a coal-mining man. Jesse's gandpa and his daddy's side died in a mine exposion. Coal mining runs deep in the blood of many of our families."
Reverend Donald Butcher
Buckhannon, West Virginia
Jesse Jones, 44, died with 11 other miners after the January 2, 2006 mine explosion in the Sago coal mine.
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Borderline Humor: Free Market, Capitalist, Worker Exploitation Training Course Offered
Dr. Bill the OTBL blogger walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand and a bucket of buffalo manure in the other. He says to the waiter, "Give me a double latte you socialist, working class swine."
The waiter says, "Sure, coming right up." He gets Dr. Bill a tall latte, who then drinks it down in one gulp, picks up the bucket of manure, throws it into the air, blasts it with the shotgun, then just walks out.
The next morning Dr. Bill the blogger returns. He has his shotgun in one hand and a bucket of buffalo manure in the other. He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter, "Give me a cup of coffee". The waiter says "Whoa, fella. We're still cleaning up your mess from the last time you were here. What the heck was that all about, anyway?"
Dr. Bill smiles and proudly says, "I'm in training to be a free-market, capitalist, worker-exploiting pig. You know! Come in, drink coffee, shoot the shit, and disappear into my corner office and spend the rest of the day cutting and pasting Ludwig von Mises quotes into really long and boring posts that only grown men who never read anything more indepth than the pictures of Penthouse find so extremely intelligent that they find it necessary to call me "doctor Bill'."
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Note To Mark Pribonic at OTBL
Misinformed ignorance is curable...
Redneck stupidity ain't!
I noticed a post over at ontheborderline.net by Mark Pribonic titled "Self-Reliance." He pulled it from a web site out in Wyoming. It compared a 2005 blizzard with 52 inches of snow and 80 mph winds to Hurricane Katrina. Above is a comparison picture of a Wyoming blizzard and Hurricane Katrina. Below is an what Prubonic posted under the heading of "General Humor:"
Subject: Why Wyoming is a great state!
Wyoming News Bulletin
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of Wyoming after the storm.
Amusing, if it were not so true…WEATHER BULLETIN
Last winter in Wyoming we recovered from a Historic event —may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" –with a historic blizzard of up to 52 inches of snow and wind to 80 MPH that broke trees in half, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
George Bush did not come...FEMA staged nothing...No one howled for the government...No one even uttered an expletive on TV...Jesse Jackson did not show up...Nobody demanded $2000 debit cards...No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House...No one looted...Phil Cantori of the Weather Channel did not come...And Geraldo Rivera did not move in.
Nope, we just melted snow for water, sent out people on horseback to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars, fired up wood stoves, broke out oil lanterns and put on an extra layer of clothes because up here it is 'work or die'. We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sitting at home' checks."
I hi-lighted the last sentence, because I believe it helps illustrate what kind of thinking goes on at the OTBL blog site. Look at those pictures above. If you've lived in Wisconsin for a few decades, you've seen some substantial blizzards. Only a heartless, selfish redneck would be stupid enough to compare a blizzard with Hurricane Katrina. I'm sure if you read between the lines of the sentence in red, you can understand that racism is alive and well in the good ol' US of A.
Check out the pictures below. They show the day after the Wyoming blizzard and Hurricane Katrina. I hope Mr. Pribonic notices the family struggling through the flood waters is white folks. I hope Prubonic knows that two of the parishes in New Orleans each have a population equivalent to the population of Wyoming. I hope Pribonic knows Katrina devastated a section of the Gulf Coast the size of Great Britian.
...and to think it's people like Mr. Pribonic and the OTBL klan who think they know how best to run this country.
What would Jesus say?
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I Compared: OTBL Post Is A Cheapshot
Last week I read a post on ontehborderline.net titled "You Compare." The post links to a home school advocate site. The site compares two letters to the editor published recently in the Charlotte Observer. One letter writer is a 19-year old education major at Appalachian State University in Boone, KY and the other letter writer is a 14-year old home schooled in Charlotte. Below are the two letters as they currently appear in the Charlotte Observer. I used these copies, because -- for some reason -- they are slightly different in the OTBL post.
Haley Price, 19, Appalachian State University, Boone: As an education major, I feel the most pressing issue is the public school system. The idea engraved in No Child Left Behind is noble, but the way in which the government has gone about it is doing nothing but pushing good teachers out and making young people less than eager to join the education field. How are we expected to solve world problems and make them better for future generations when the future generation is not even literate? Where is the logic in sending boys and girls to fight overseas when they don't even know the location of the country they are being sent to?
Post comment: "That 'graf' is absolutely horrible. Not even Fisk-worthy. And then... "
Dane Keil, 14, home-schooled, Charlotte: "While it may not be the nation's top priority, finding alternate sources of energy is very important. If we had homes, cars and businesses that ran on electricity generated from wind, solar and hydroelectric power, we would have less dependency on foreign oil. One area to consider is electric power generated by the tides. A tidal generator works on the natural movement of the ocean, thereby providing a virtually inexhaustible energy source."
Post comment: "It's a sad but unsurprising commentary on our schools that a 14-year-old HEK can write a more literate and cogent paragraph than a 19-year-old education major."
Maybe I'm missing something in these letters, but they both seem adequately written. Some of the sentences are long and wordy and could be revised. Although they are not English-teacher perfect, I don't see any evidence that would condemnemn either writer to literary hell. However, check out these comments to this post:
Comment by ChoosingLife ([EMAIL]), 1/4/2006 @9:59 pm
"This should be a red flag to people that socialization, aka socialism, has taken over as top priority in government schools, to the detriment of education. No matter what your parental preference is for your children, e.g., government education, charter schools, home education, or vouchers for private school, education should be about education only leave the socialization and socialism indoctrination out of taxpayer-funded government schools. Supervised socialization should be for parents' discretion after the education has been completed to merit a passing grade to standards of old. Taxpayers should not have to pay for socialists/isms to be indoctrinated into their children without parents permission. Dr. Dobson has some fantastic resources available on his web site: www.Family.org. Just type in "homeschool", and you'll receive pages of information and examples of what was discussed in this original post."
I find it interesting that OTBL'ers Choosing Life plays the socialist card so quickly. How quickly judgmentsements are made ontheborderline.net! From a couple wordy paragraphs by a 19-year student, we jump to a condemnationnation of the public education system and the glorification of home schooling. I work on this site as a supporter of education -- regardless if it's public, private, homeschooled, etc. No provider of education is perfect. Part of effective education is to have patience, understanding and empathy with the student. With this in mind, I e-mailed letter writer Haley Price to get her side of the story. She quickly responded to me and provided the following answers to the questions I submitted to her:
Mr. Nelson,
Thank you for your concern. I would be more than happy to answer your
1. Yes, I have attended public schools in North Carolina from 1st to
12th grade.
2. The following is the saved letter that I sent the Charlotte Observer
(not known, might I add, for it's highly accurate editing staff):
As an education major, I obviously feel that the most pressing issue in
America is the lack of substantial growth in the public school system.
I think that the idea engraved in No Child Left Behind is noble, but
the way in which the government has gone about it is doing nothing but
pushing good teachers out and making young people less that eager to
join the education field. As a principle, I think that most people
would agree that a more educated society is a better one. How are we
expected to solve the current world problems and make them better for
future generations when the future generations that we are growing are
not even literate? Where is the logic in sending young boys and girls
to fight overseas when they don't even know the geographical location
of the country they are being sent to? Education and the problems
therein should defiantly be a top priority for the American people and
it's government.
3. I never rewrote the letter. All of my responses, as they always are,
come straight from my reaction after reading the question.
4. I tend to rely, I suppose sometimes too much, on the spellcheck in
the email server that I use. Other than that, I simply do a quick scan for accuracy of the message I was trying to convey and let that be that.
5. My Word application is set to check both spelling and grammar.
Again, thank you for your concern and have a wonderful New Year!
Haley Price
Haley's response to my question strike me as very honest and intelligent. Part of the criticism leveled at her in the OTBL post dealt with spelling. Evidently the Charlotte Observer is responsible to a large share of the criticism focused on Haley. I don't know how the other letter writer wrote his letter, but we do know that Haley typed it in e-mail, spelled checked it and sent it to the paper. It appears to be a spontaneous response to a question posed by the newspaper and not a homeschool writing project with mom and/or dad guiding the hand of the writer...
This OTBL post is another excellent example of their agenda. They will twist something as innocent as a young college student's letter to the editor in a monsterous, socialist conspiracy from which only Dr. James Dobson can save us.
How do you spell "fruitcakes?"
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Dr. James Dobson Speaks!!!!!!!!!!
"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
"One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit."
"State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism and drug abuse."
Admin's note: I believe that final quote would also apply to most local bars frequented by high school dropouts and graduates not currently enrolled in a college degree program.
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I have a question concerning the covariation of two time-discrete stochastic processes.
Let $(\mathcal{F}_i)_{i\in T}$ be a filtration. We call a time-discrete, real-valued, adapted process $X$ (e.i. $X : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{R}^{\Omega}$ and $X_i$ is $\mathcal{F}_i$-measurable) a discrete semi-martingale.
A theorem from Doob states, that every discrete semi-martingale $X$ can be uniquely represented as $X = M + A + X_0$, where $M$ is a Martingale, $A$ is a predictable process and $M_0 = A_0 = 0$. This representation is called the Doob decomposition of $X$. The process $A$ is called the compensator of $X$.
For two discrete semi-martingales $X,Y$ we call $[X,Y]_n := \sum_{i=1}^n \Delta X_i\Delta Y_i$ the variation of $X$ and $Y$. The compensator of the discrete semi-martingale $[X,Y]:=([X,Y]_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ is called the covariation of $X$ and $Y$ andis denoted by $\langle X,Y \rangle$.
One can show that the variation as well as the covariation are symmetric and bilinear. The variation maps a tuple of discrete semi-martingales onto a discrete semi-martingale. The covariation maps a tuple of discrete semi-martingales onto a predictable process.
Here is my first question: Is there any connection between a scalar product (or even a Hilbertspace) and the variation or covariation?
Here is my second question: Is there any functional analytic interpretation of the Doob decomposition (e.g. in words of projections) ?(Answered, thank you A Blumenthal!)


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Meet Huemn of India
May 17, 2019 | By Anupreet Bhui
Oct 23, 2013
The scariest and most stylish holiday of the year is just around the corner and the Stylesight Youth Team are making costume decisions, party plans and lining our pockets with candy. We thought, who better to get us into the spirit than the queen of dark and subversive leatherwear, Zana Bayne? Her hand-crafted harnesses and accessories were spotted all over the catwalks this year and worn by the biggest names in music, including Beyonce, Madonna and Lady Gaga. During our interview with Zana, we found out that her bondage-inspired brand was actually inspired by a personal Halloween costume project years ago! Check out our not-so-spooky interview with her below.
Shannan Elinor Smith: Do you ever make pieces for your own Halloween costumes?
Zana Bayne: Absolutely! My mom used to sew costumes for me when I was a kid and I have definitely enjoyed carrying on that tradition. My proudest Halloween moment was a few years back when I decided to dress up as a skeleton, and made the costume entirely out of leather, with straps to emulate the shape of bones. I later incorporated that piece into my collection as the infamous 'Skeleton Harness'!
What has been your best costume, ever?
My favorite Halloween costume was the Skeleton Harness, but I went to a 'May-o-ween' (Halloween in May) party in San Francisco back in the day– I must have been 16 and I threw on every piece of leopard print clothing that I owned (quite a lot) and went as a 'confused leopard'. Not the most creative, but certainly a memorable night. There's a great photo of me in this ensemble holding a can of Sparks…
What are some of your all-time favorite scary movies?
I don't like scary movies! I don't enjoy the sensation of being scared. But my favorite Halloween movie would be The Nightmare Before Christmas – it's a classic that only gets better with time.
If you could dress any horror film character in Zana Bayne who would you choose?
I think Elvira would be a great candidate for Zana Bayne Leather. Those curves!
Scariest place you've ever been?
Pitch-black post Hurricane Sandy Manhattan last year. Since I live in Brooklyn and work in the garment district I ended up commuting by cab or carpool to my studio daily during the post-Sandy blackout. I never lost power in my apartment or studio, but the ride in between took me directly through the affected areas. There was something so spooky, dangerous, wild, and out of control about driving through a city without any light. It felt less cautious, and more 'every man for himself'.
If you could bring one celebrity back from the dead who would it be?
Klaus Nomi and Aaliyah– gone too soon!
Can you share your favorite Halloween memory?
Can't say that I have a favorite Halloween memory as most end up getting a bit blurred after too many adult beverages. But I do love seasonal shopping in the Halloween section of most stores! It's the best time of the year to buy home furnishings, in my opinion.
-Shannan Elinor Smith
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Click here for a PDF version of this document, Sanctuary Cities PDF.
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The Definition of a Sanctuary City
There is no standard definition for what makes a municipality a "sanctuary city." Generally, jurisdictions are considered "sanctuary cities" when they enact or implement ordinances, local laws or policies of noncooperation with federal immigration authorities in the enforcement of federal immigration law.
Some definitional elements of sanctuary elements of sanctuary policies include:
- "Policies or laws that limit the extent to which law enforcement will go to assist the federal government on immigration matters."[i]
- Policies that disregard requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold indefinitely immigrant inmates beyond their detention dates (commonly known as "detainers").[ii]
- Policies that bar local police from asking for proof of citizenship and from arresting immigrants who lack documentation unless they are suspected of committing other criminal offenses.[iii]
The term "sanctuary city" is a misnomer, and some have confused sanctuary city policies with the idea that immigrants in these communities are protected from any immigration enforcement action brought against them. Contrary to this common misconception, nothing in a sanctuary city policy prevents federal enforcement actions.
There also is confusion about the difference between a "sanctuary city" and the "sanctuary movement" in churches, wherein undocumented who are in danger of being deported take refuge in a church and seek protection or "sanctuary" there. While both share the word "sanctuary" in their names, these two concepts are not synonymous with one another.
Why The "Sanctuary City" Issue is in the Public Eye Now
Sanctuary cities have long been an issue with immigration restrictionists in Congress and with both Republican and Democratic Administrations. Indeed, even the Obama Administration has opposed the concept, challenging Cook County Illinois, in particular, in its efforts to shield itself from calls for cooperation with the federal government in immigration enforcement actions.
The issue emerged as a powerful federal legislative issue in 2015 after the death of Kate Steinle in San Francisco, California. On July 1, 2015, Ms. Steinle, a U.S. citizen, was killed by Juan Francisco López Sánchez, an undocumented felon who had been previously deported from the country. López Sánchez had been released from prison in April 2015, but the local city government did not honor a detainer request by ICE for his custody. Subsequent to Ms. Steinle's death, several bills to penalize sanctuary cities gained new steam in Congress; The U.S. House of Representatives passed some of them. However, none were enacted into law.
President-Elect Donald J. Trump addressed the issue of sanctuary cities extensively during his campaign, expressing strong criticism of such jurisdictions and pledging that he would make ending sanctuary cities a top 100-Days priority, if elected.
In the wake of recent elections, many cities and mayors have publicly stated that they will renew protections for unauthorized immigrants and sanctuary city policies in their communities. Currently, mayors of Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Newark, Providence, and Baltimore have reaffirmed their "sanctuary" policies.[iv]
The Catholic Church's Position on Sanctuary Cities
While USCCB has never categorically expressed support for or opposition to sanctuary cities, it has spoken out against specific pieces of legislation that would have curtailed sanctuary city activity.
On October 19, 2015, Most Reverend Eusebio Elizondo, then-Chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, wrote to the full Senate expressing the Committee on Migration's opposition to S. 2146, the "Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act of 2015." Bishop Elizondo wrote in that letter that "in our view, the legislation would undermine public safety, harm poor communities and individuals, and remove discretion from the courts, thus increasing the costs of enforcement and incarceration." He concluded the letter by asserting, "it is our strong view that S. 2146 is an overreach and would make our communities more dangerous for U.S. citizens and others."
On February 11, 2015, another representative of USCCB's Committee on Migration spoke publicly on behalf of the committee against federal legislative efforts to have local police carry out federal immigration enforcement actions.[v] At that time, Most Reverend Gerald F. Kicanas, Bishop of Tucson, Arizona, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security on behalf of the USCCB Committee of Migration, of which he was a consultant, on the Catholic Church's perspective on interior immigration enforcement legislation. He expressed the Church's opposition to H.R. 2280, the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act, asserting that it "would criminalize undocumented immigrants and those who offer them basic needs assistance."
In 2016, USCCB opposed an effort to force local entities to engage in immigration enforcement, in part, by cutting off funding to non-compliant jurisdictions. USCCB's Committees on Migration and Domestic and Social Development along with Catholic Charities USA came out against S. 3100, the "Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act."[vi] This bill would have allowed and pressured state and local law enforcement agencies and officials to act as agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when conducting local law enforcement and community actions.[vii] In addition, S. 3100 would have denied certain public works and economic development grants, as well as Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), to jurisdictions identified as "sanctuary jurisdictions."[viii]
The Case Against Sanctuary Cities
Opponents of sanctuary cities assert that immigrants are guests in the United States and that when they commit heinous crimes, they are removable under federal immigration law and should be removed so they can-not continue to commit crimes in the United States. They contend that sanctuary cities, however, permit criminal immigrants to remain in the country and to continue to commit crimes that victimize both U.S. citizens and law-abiding immigrants.
Opponents of sanctuary cities are not limited, how-ever, to those who seek to use state and local law enforcement officials to deport criminal immigrants. Many sanctuary city opponents also want to use state and local law enforcement officials as a force to remove even non-criminals who are present in the United States without authorization, such as children and workers who have not committed any crimes. They justify this by contending that "illegal immigrants" take jobs from Americans and cost taxpayers by their very presence in the United States.
The Case in Support of Sanctuary Cities
While every piece of legislation should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, there are some general public policy arguments for supporting reasonable sanctuary city policies.
- Having local officials enforce federal immigration law erodes community trust and does not prevent crime. Statistics show that a cooperative relationship between law enforcement and immigrant communities enhances public safety and reduces crime.[ix] In contrast, greater involvement of local police in immigration enforcement has significantly heightened many immigrants' fear of the police, contributing to their social isolation and exacerbating their mistrust of law enforcement authorities. Public safety strategy, including building trust through community policing, is a matter of legitimate concern to city government. Congress should defer to the expertise of these local leaders to create and foster community safety responses.
- Allowing local enforcement of federal immigration law has led to lower crime reporting by immigrants and less information sharing between immigrant communities and local police. Rather than feeling safer because of increased police involvement in immigration enforcement, many immigrants feel less safe and feel that they can no longer go to local law enforcement to report being the victims of or witnesses to crime. To this end, a recent study on Latino communities undertaken by the University of Illinois Chicago reported that 45% of Latinos surveyed stated that they are less likely to voluntarily offer information about crimes and 45% are less likely to report a crime because they are afraid the police will ask them, or people they know, about their immigration status due to increased local enforcement efforts on behalf of the federal government.[x]
- Requiring local law enforcement entities to enforce federal immigration law complicates their responsibility to protect and serve the local communities of which they are a part. Building and maintaining trust between local law enforcement and residents is an important mechanism in any effort to stop criminal behavior. As local law officials take on the responsibility to enforce federal immigration law, the risk emerges that rifts will occur between local law enforcement and the local community. Immigrants living in these communities may become less likely to report crimes or to cooperate with police for fear that their immigration status might come into question. The challenge of building and maintaining trust between police and immigrant communities is a fundamental reason why the involvement of local law officials in the enforcement of federal immigration law is problematic.
What "Sanctuary Cities" Can and Cannot Do
In recent years, numerous individuals have brought lawsuits against their cities for carrying out allegedly unlawful detainer holds.[xi] These suits have included constitutional challenges, such as Fourth and Tenth Amendment claims.[xii] Sanctuary cities may cite the desire to avoid such litigation as part of the justification for passing their sanctuary city ordinances.
While cities may argue that they should be permitted to exist as sanctuary cities, the new Administration and Congress have attempted to punish sanctuary cities through efforts to cut federal funding from local budgets across the country, as well as the DOJ's recent efforts to have California's sanctuary-related state laws deemed unlawful. As noted above, the Administration's efforts to cut certain federal funding is subject to ongoing litigation. To learn more please review our related backgrounder.
Individual Bishops' Public Comments on this Issue
- Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, issued a statement on July 24, 2015, in which he expressed support for the City of San Francisco's "right to exercise reasonable and appropriate discretion in the handling of immigrant detainees, consistent with their need to maintain public safety." He called for greater cooperation between local and federal but cautioned that "just and humanitarian policy should not be abandoned because of flaws in the system. Rather, proper authorities should make prudent adjustments in the application of the law in order to protect the public safety of all those living in our country."[xvi]
- Most Reverend Joe Vasquez, Bishop of Austin, was critical of HB 12, a Texas anti-sanctuary city bill in April of 2011, stating that the issue is a "moral one, not just a political one" and that the Texas bishops' opposition to the measure "stems from the belief that every person is created in God's image." Continuing, he said, "[The bill] would prohibit a municipality from adopting a policy that prohibits employees from inquiring about the immigration status of a person lawfully detained or arrested. This bill threatens public safety and endangers the civil and constitutional rights of Texas residents. It is an expensive way to make our cities less safe and our schools less safe."[xvii]
[i] Michael Pearson, What's a 'Sanctuary City,' and Why Should You Care?, CNN (July 8, 2015), http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/06/us/ san-francisco-killing-sanctuary-cities/index.html.
[ii] Maxwell Tani, A Chilling Alleged Murder Has Thrown a Major New Wrinkle Into An Already Complicated Debate, BUSINESS INSIDER (July 20, 2015), http://www.businessinsider.com/ what-are-sanctuary-cities-2015.
[iii] Id.
[iv] Josh Sanburn, How Mayors Across the U.S. are Defying Donald Trump on Immigration, TIME (Nov. 16, 2016), http://time. com/4578847/sanctuary-city-mayors-donald-trump-immigra-tion/?xid=emailshare.
[v] Statement of Most Reverend Bishop Kicanas, House Subcommittee Hearing on Interior Immigration Enforcement Legislation (Feb. 11, 2015), https://justiceforimmigrants.org/ documents/Kicanas-Final-2015Feb10.pdf.
[vi] Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act, S. 3100, 114th Cong. (2016), available at https://www.congress.gov/ bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/3100/text.
[vii] Id. at § 2.
[viii] Id. at § 4.
[ix] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, INSECURE COMMUNITIES: LATINO PERCEPTIONS OF POLICEINVOLVEMENT IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT (MAY 2013), http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/INSECURE_COMMUNITIES_REPORT_FINAL.PDF.
[x] Id.
[xi] See, e.g., Morales v. Chadbourne, 996 F. Supp. 2d 19 (D.R.I. 2014), affirmed on appeal, 793 F.3d 208 (1st Cir. 2015); Galarza v. Szalczyk, 2012 WL 1080020 (E.D.Pa. Mar. 30, 2012), reversed in part on appeal, 745 F.3d 634 (3rd Cir. 2014); Davila v. NRJPB, 2013 WL 5724939 (W.D. Pa. 2013).
[xii] In 2014, a federal court in Oregon determined that detainer orders violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of holding someone without probable cause. Miranda-Olivares v. Clackamas Cnty., No. 3:12-cv-02317-ST, slip op. at 21 (D. Or. April 11, 2014). In addition, some individuals have argued that such orders violate the 10th Amendment's separation of powers between federal and local authorities. Moreno et al. v. Napolitano et al., No. 11-cv-05452 (N.D. Ill September 29, 2012); Brizuela v. Feliciano, No. 3:12-cv-00226-JBA (D.Conn. February 13, 2012). As a result of this line of argument, the 3rd Circuit has interpreted detainers to be voluntary requests. Galarza, 745 F.3d at 644-45 (finding that any other reading would put detainer requests in conflict with the 10th Amendment).
[xiii] Department of Justice, Letter to John A. Culberson (July 7, 2016), available at http://culberson.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2016-7-7_ section_1373_-_doj_letter_to_culberson.pdf.
[xiv] 8 U.S.C. § 1373.
[xv] Note, however, that the law does not impose any affirmative obligation on the state or local officials to collect information or take specific actions (such as comply with detainer requests).
[xvi] Archbishop Cordileone, Sanctuary Cities, LA PRENSA (July 24, 2015), http://laprensa-sandiego.org/editorial-and-commentary/ commentary/sanctuary-cities-a-statement-by-archbishop-salva-tore-j-cordileone/.
[xvii] Diocese of Austin, Catholic Spirit, May of 2011, http://archive. austindiocese.org/newsletter_article_view.php?id=5827
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Have you heard the one about the former athlete who spends his vast fortune and spirals downwards into the seedy underbelly of bankruptcy, drug abuse and fraud before spending time behind bars?
Oh, you have?
Well, you can hear it again, thanks to former Phillie Lenny Dykstra, who was sentenced to three years behind bars on Monday, stemming from grand theft charges following an investigation into the former All-Star's business dealings.
In an article for Sports Illustrated, David Epstein detailed the fall of Dykstra, who not too long ago, was living the high life thanks his sharp business acumen and a successful car wash business in California. But like so many athletes before him, the one called "Nails" lost it all, thanks to a combination of bad investments, greed, and above all, hubris.
Epstein's column is a detailed and interesting read, and he chronicles the investigation, soup-to-nuts, from the detective working the case, to the accomplices that Dykstra brought in to help propagate his many lies, to the slip-ups that finally proved to be the nail in "Nails" coffin.
I won't go into too much detail here -- I'll let Epstein's piece speak for itself -- but here are some quick hits that serve to paint a rather vivid portrait of Dykstra:
- He tried to break former teammate Dwight Gooden out of Celebrity Rehab, when the former pitcher appeared on the show in 2011, as he underwent treatment for cocaine and alcohol.
- In a completely non-suprising turn of events, he teamed up with Charlie Sheen to create a line of energy drinks, as well as electronic cigarette that they called "Nico-Sheen." Those plans have since fallen through.
- On a tip received from a former personal assistant, police learned that Dykstra failed to delete a series of incriminating emails that would ultimately linked him to another one of his accomplices. You'd think that a guy who had a knack for playing the stock market would have better sense than to not cover his tracks.
- Throughout the piece, it's alleged that Dysktra forged pages upon pages of bank and financial statements in an attempt to bolster his credit and to procure properties and vehicles.
- Perhaps his biggest mistake came when he tried to fleece a Los Angeles car dealership that just so happened to have one of the L.A. Police Commissioners as their general counsel, which only served to hasten Dykstra's fate.
- According to one of his accomplices, Dykstra's carefree life was the result of being told, by a fortune teller, that he'd die at age 52. The irony is that a half-decent soothsayer could have steered him clear of some of those bad investments.
All told, it's a very good read, and it paints a picture of Dykstra that is not too dissimilar from so many con-men in movies. Sharks that can spot a rube a mile away, only to bring them into the fold for the express purpose of extracting something from them. In Dykstra's case, the lure of the high-life led his pawns to him, and their trustworthiness and naivete proved to be their own downfall.
For some, Dykstra will forever be the scrappy, tough centerfielder who had a moderately successful Major League career, and the indelible image of a wad of chewing tobacco wrapped in bubble gum. For others, he will be no different than other has-beens: Done in by his own devices and the same stubbornness and relenting will that made them such successful athletes in the first place.


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Economics and Environmental Studies major Thomas Gumbley '16 has been awarded a $50,000 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowship For Undergraduate Environmental Study. In addition to supporting his final two years at Stonehill, the fellowship also includes an internship with an EPA-funded research project this summer.
The GRO Fellowship is designed to enhance and support quality environmental education for undergraduate students enrolled in an environmentally related field. The overall objective of the GRO Fellowship Program is to encourage undergraduates in these areas to continue their education beyond the baccalaureate level and pursue careers in fields that address environmental problems and issues. Gumbley, who is a Moreau Honors Scholar, is the first Stonehill student to receive the GRO Fellowship and it is the largest amount of federal merit awarded to a Stonehill student as well.
"Tom's receipt of the EPA GRO Fellowship is a tremendous accomplishment and a wonderful acknowledgment of what he's done, the potential for what he is capable of, and likely to achieve," said Stonehill Dean of Academic Achievement Craig Almeida, who along with Environmental Studies Program Director Susan Mooney, worked closely with Gumbley throughout the rigorous application process.
It was Gumbley' s trip to the Everglades with Mooney's Learning Community course "Swamp Walks and Roadside Shrines" last winter that sparked Gumbley's interest in environmental justice inequalities.
During a visit to the low-income agricultural community of Immokalee, Gumbley learned of the farm workers exposure to harmful pesticides. "I thought about how these workers had no other choice but to continue working in the fields exposing themselves to the long term health risks of pesticides in order to support their families. The beauty of the Everglades, I observed, conflicted with the struggles of the farm workers and the pollutants in their environment," noted Gumbley, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in economics and will focus his research on environmental economics.
"Last summer, I was able to participate in Stonehill's Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program in which I conducted economic research and this summer, the EPA GRO Fellowship will give me the opportunity to experience environmental research. Receiving this fellowship will allow me to participate in the environmental field and lab work that results in information used to create economic policy and regulation."
For Mooney, encouraging her students to apply for such competitive awards like the EPA Fellowship and getting an end result like this, is one of the most rewarding parts of her job.
"I am so happy for Tom. His intelligence, his experiences in environmental studies and his career plans in environmental economics, made him a strong candidate for this fellowship" said Mooney. "In addition to the honor and the funding, the research internship provides an absolutely amazing opportunity for him."


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To create a positive first impression, you send a prospect a formal business letter. Perfect! Well done, you. What a great way to use your own services and demonstrate the power of print.
The letter is well written. It tells a little bit about your company, has an action statement (like "I will call you the week of March 16th) and has a PS. It is even signed in blue ink, just like Dr. John Bickley—my University of Alabama professor—said it should be. Into an envelope it goes, stamped and off to the client.
On the receiving end, the customer opens the envelope and reads. Impressed, he is. You've come across as professional. That's exactly the impact you were hoping to make.
Also in the envelope, you included some samples as an example of the kind of work that you do. These are beautiful pieces, of course. It's some of the best work that your company has ever done and you are certain that the client will get the impression that yours is a capable company.
Instead, the prospect looks at your samples and thinks to himself, "These look pricey. I'll bet he's expensive."
Wait. What? That's not fair!
No, you are absolutely right. It's not fair. But it is the risk that you run by sending samples along with your introductory letter. Sure, you can send simple, boring samples but then you run the risk of making your company look simple and boring.
What's the best approach? If you must send something along with your introductory letter, send a story. That is, send a sample and tell the story of how it solved a problem or how it increased their sales or whatever.
You only get one chance to make a first impression. Make sure that you are projecting the image of a problem solver. After all, that is the brand that you want to build.
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The jury behind the world's most prestigious English-language literary award said the novel was a "shocking and unexpectedly funny" portrayal of Beatty's native Los Angeles, using satire to explore racial equality in a fictional neighborhood.
Beatty said readers should think of the novel as a work of fiction rather than solely focusing on race.
"I tend to bristle when people say it's black, it's angry, it's about race," he told journalists after picking up the award at a glitzy black-tie ceremony in London's historic Guildhall building Tuesday.
"Hopefully it's not so mono-directional.
"These labels are more malleable than we like to think about them," the 54-year-old writer said.
Beatty appeared overwhelmed when he took to the stage to receive the award from Prince Charles's wife Camilla.
"I can't tell you guys how long a journey this has been for me," he said.
The jury said that through his "equally affectionate and bitterly ironic portrait of the city and its inhabitants, Paul Beatty dodges inherited views of race relations, solutions or assumptions."
The author "presents through his beguilingly honest and well-intentioned hero an innocent's view of his corrupt world," the jurors added, bringing "the unendurable status quo of present day US race relations to an absurdist conclusion."
The winner of the Man Booker receives 52,500 pounds ($64,100), although the real prize is seen as the huge sales prompted the moment judges announce their decision.
The Man Booker was launched in 1969 and has awarded writers including Ian McEwan, Iris Murdoch and Salman Rushdie.
It was only opened to non-Commonwealth authors from 2013 -- a decision that was highly controversial in Britain.
No US author had won it until now, despite concerns that writers from the United States would dominate the prize.
Jury Chair Amanda Foreman said nationality had nothing to do with the choice.
"It did not weigh on the jury that Paul was American," said Foreman, who herself is American and based in New York.
"It shows that there is a global reach to this prize," she added.
|US author Paul Beatty, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for fiction, poses for the media with his book "The Sellout" after an award ceremony in London, Tuesday. (AP-Yonhap)
"The Sellout" is Beatty's fourth novel and earlier this year won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US.
It is narrated by Bonbon, an African-American resident of the run-down town of Dickens in Los Angeles county, which has been removed from the map to save California from embarrassment.
Bonbon is on trial for attempting to reinstitute slavery and segregation in the local high school as a means of bringing about civic order.
The judges said that "the framework of institutional racism and the unjust shooting of Bonbon's father at the hands of police are particularly topical."
Five other authors were nominated for the prize in a shortlist celebrated for taking risks and tackling tough subjects.
Foreman said the judges were "excited by the willingness of so many authors to take risks with language and form."
"The final six reflect the centrality of the novel in modern culture -- in its ability to champion the unconventional, to explore the unfamiliar, and to tackle difficult subjects."
The favorite had been Canadian Madeleine Thien with her third novel, "Do not say We Have Nothing," a weighty 480-page book that portrays a young woman recounting her family's past in revolutionary China.
British author Graeme Macrae Burnet's "His Bloody Project" had also been tipped by bookmakers.
His second novel is set in 19th-century rural Scotland and tells the story of a young and poor tenant farmer who murders the village administrator and his family.
The book's Glasgow-based publisher is run by just two people and is struggling to meet demand.
Other novels shortlisted include "Hot Milk" by South African-born British author Deborah Levy, who depicts a torturous relationship between mother and daughter in a Spanish village.
Canadian-British author David Szalay's "All That Man Is" traverses different countries to follow the lives of nine men in a tale about contemporary Europe.
Judges called it "a post-Brexit novel for our time."
The final shortlisted book "Eileen," the debut novel by American Ottessa Moshfegh, follows a disturbed young woman who cares for her alcoholic father and works in a youth prison.


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Attainable Accommodation: Growing the workforce in South Georgian Bay
Anyone whose business relies on tourism in the region or is experiencing worforce attraction and retention challenges. CEO's, Presidents and HR leaders will find the presentation and discussion particularly relevant.
Blue Mountain Village Conference Centre. Georgian Bay Room.
The South Georgian Bay Labour Task Force has been hard at work since the Fall Business in Motion event implementing some of the great ideas the audience developed. On May 10, find out how their projects are progressing, including an update on affordable accommodation as well as a more specific deep-dive into attainable accommodation. A must-attend for employers facing workforce challenges.
The keynote presentation will be by Mark Conway, President and Senior Partner, NBLC consultancy. His company was hired by the South Georgian Bay Labour Task Force as a direct result of the recommendations that came out of the fall Business in Motion event. He will share his early insights from the in-market research he has been conducting. This will provide a great foundation for group discussions inspired by examples of attainable accommodation solutions from around North America.
Registration and a light breakfast will begin at 8:30. Presentations will commence by 9 a.m. with the event finishing by noon.
- Opening remarks: Andrew Siegwart, Blue Mountain Village Foundation- What is Attainable Accommodation and what are our gaps: Mark Conway, President and Senior Partner, nblc consultancy
- Inspirational examples of attainable housing solutions: NBLC consultants
- Collaborative worksession on potential local accommodation solutions: facilitated
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Dr. Tracey Marks returns with Part II of her sleep advice for college students. Sometimes most vulnerable to an erratic lifestyle and sleep deprivation, 5 easy guidelines can keep even the loftiest student grounded and in bed on time.
Last time we talked about how detrimental sleep deprivation is to the process of learning. College is a time of multiple responsibilities and that includes high volume learning. Here are five tips to help you get more sleep so you can optimize your learning and memory retention.
Manufacture your own dark, quiet environment
One thing about college is the fact that you can't always control your sleeping environment. If you are in a dorm, you may have a noisy roommate who stays up later than you with all of the lights on. There may be light from the hallway and noise from your neighbors that can keep you awake. To get your best sleep, you need your room to be as dark and quiet as possible. Use eye covers, also called sleep masks like those found here. The ideal mask is one that blocks out all of the light and doesn't allow light to sneak in under the edge of the mask.
As for creating a quiet environment, there is not much you can do to force everyone to be silent. The solution is to use a white noise machine to block the sound of the voices. What is white noise? White noise is a combination of all of the sound frequencies. Because it includes all the frequencies, it masks sounds of a single frequency. It is called white noise because the color white is a combination of all of the colors on the spectrum.
The sound is similar to a whooshing fan and can be helpful for blocking others voices, radios, sirens, etc. I use one in my office for privacy and to block to sound of others in the hallway. You can pick one up on Amazon here.
Fit exercise in your schedule as if it were a class
Physical activity that increases your heart rate for at least twenty to thirty minutes improves the quality of your sleep. What is good quality sleep? It is an adequate amount of deep sleep and dream sleep. If you sleep for 6 hours and you remain in the light stages of sleep for most of it, you will wake feeling tired as if you did not get enough sleep. Exercise has the effect of improving your sleep quality such that you can sleep less (you still need at least six hours) and feel more rested. The usual recommendation for exercise is thirty minutes a day for five days a week.
Limit alcohol especially close to bedtime
Alcohol has the effect of fragmenting your sleep and it degrades the quality of your sleep. It has the opposite effect of exercise.
Maintain a regular sleep schedule
We have an internal body clock that wants to stay on schedule. If you vary your sleep time by too many hours, you can throw off your rhythm such that it becomes hard to fall asleep when you want. This doesn't require you to fall asleep at the same exact time each night, but you should aim to keep the timing within an hour variance. This includes the weekends.
Limit consumption of sugary foods especially at night
Foods high in carbohydrates and simple sugars burn fast and can cause insulin surges and blood sugar instability. If your blood sugar drops too low at night, it stimulates the production of cortisol, glucagon and other body chemicals that stimulate the brain into wakefulness. You can end up waking in the middle of the night hungry or craving a snack to fill the void. Your eating habits during the day affect what happens at night. If you get into the habit of grazing all day on high-carb foods, your body will be conditioned to expect this even at night and it may not be able to make through an eight hour period without another snack. Try limiting your food intake to three meals a day with few snacks in between. If you must snack, try high protein snacks like nuts or whole grain foods.
College doesn't have to be a time of poor sleep and poor health. With a few changes, you can sleep better which can help you maximize your potential and more easily manage all your responsibilities and activities.