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But what to do with those almost vintage devices we store in the garage. Here's one cool idea: create fun DIY fridge magnets to help your kid learn math.
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PEPFAR Programs
Support African Efforts to Fight Global AIDS
I just returned from a visit to three African nations, where I saw encouraging gains in the fight against HIV. In these countries, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is enabling countries to take leadership of the fight against HIV for their people.
In Johannesburg, South Africa, I was part of a U.S. delegation that met with representatives from medical schools from a dozen sub-Saharan African countries participating in the African-led, U.S.-supported Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) inaugural meeting. These schools are part of a collaboration that will lead the way in transforming and enhancing medical education within their countries and building a network across Africa. By doing so, we will be supporting an increase in both the quantity and quality of professional health care workers in the region.
Through PEPFAR, the U.S. will provide about $130 million in MEPI grants that are awarded directly to African institutions, including two in South Africa. By providing grants directly to African institutions and supporting their partnerships with U.S. and international medical schools and universities, we support their leadership in developing programs that will train and retain future health care leaders, and tailoring education to meet the needs of the populations they serve. In some cases, the opportunities for medical faculty to continue their professional development and engage in research are powerful incentives to remain in their countries and promote excellence in medical education and practice. Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), joined me at this MEPI meeting to highlight NIH's contribution through additional linked awards that will help support new professionals and faculty to develop expertise in research.
Dr. Collins and I visited a community site in Durban, South Africa where the CAPRISA trial of a vaginal microbicide for HIV prevention was conducted. The visit highlighted the critical contributions African researchers are making in advancing the science of HIV prevention. Through investments in medical education and local research capacity, African institutions will continue to provide sound leadership in preparing the next generation of clinicians and leaders in public health within Africa.
PEPFAR's support for laboratory systems has also led to tangible results. In Ethiopia, I joined seven African Ministers of Health for the launch of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM). As another organization led by Africans and supported by the U.S. through PEPFAR, ASLM advances professional laboratory medicine practice, science, systems, and networks on the continent. These laboratory services are vital to support quality medical care with correct diagnoses and monitoring, preventive medicine, surveillance and disease control. The ASLM will not only advance the processes for accreditation of laboratories, but also serve as a forum for communication across laboratories, biomedical scientists and clinicians, the medical community, public health officials and policy makers to enhance the effectiveness of laboratory services and science.
To support their efforts, the ASLM is launching an international peer-reviewed journal, the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, which will highlight advances in the roles of laboratories in clinical care and public health efforts. It will also provide much-needed South-to-South communication in the profession of laboratory medicine. As part of our health systems strengthening work, PEPFAR is committed to supporting African leadership to build strong laboratories that perform to international standards and provide prompt diagnoses and clinical management support for patients.
In Botswana, I met with officials from the Government of Botswana and civil society, and visited programs we jointly support that are making striking progress in addressing the AIDS epidemic and other health challenges. I saw how PEPFAR's impact has been enhanced through the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS), which enhances Botswana's supply chain and distribution for medicines and health commodities, advancing reliable and cost-effective practices.
By strengthening African institutions within countries, we are contributing to long-term, sustainable capacity building that will allow our partner countries to deliver care to their people for years to come. I am inspired by the growing leadership of our African counterparts. I want the American people to know that our efforts to support countries in taking the lead in the fight against global AIDS are bearing fruit today — and will continue to do so as we move forward.
By Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (Cross-posted from the State Department Blog)
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An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people in Guatemala were in attendance June 6 for the funeral Mass and burial of Msgr. Gregory Schaffer, a longtime CFCA board member and mentor to staffers, volunteers and sponsors.
Bishop Gonzalo de Villa of the Diocese of Solola-Chimaltengo said at the time, "We are here for thanksgiving to God for Father Greg's life; we thank the Lord for putting him as a pastor of San Lucas."
We asked the following people to reflect on Father Greg's life on the occasion of his funeral Mass.
Bob Hentzen, CFCA president and co-founder
I am happy and grateful to share a few memories:
I think it was 1968 when Father Greg was still a very young man. He came up to where I was teaching up in Huehuetenango [Guatemala] to work on his Spanish and Kakchiquel [Mayan language] at the school there.
I happened to meet him then. He always invited the missionaries in the country to come to San Lucas anytime we could, but in particular he liked to reserve July 4, Independence Day in the U.S., for a big wonderful gathering of missionaries, religious, diocesan and lay in San Lucas.
He would reserve a big boat and prepare a wonderful meal, and then we would basically go around the lake all day.
The '60s, '70s and early '80s were so very difficult. What a miracle it was that when Father Stan Rother was martyred, Father Greg suggested to me, "Could we start the sponsorship program in Cerro de Oro?"
In the video that was made by the dioceses of Oklahoma City, I recall something that Father Greg said at that time, "The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians."
Out of that group in Cerro de Oro, Father Stan Rother's parish, came a wonderful seed that has blossomed into more than 14,000 families that we at CFCA are privileged to work with in San Lucas.
Once I was going to bring some of my students to climb the Atitlan volcano in San Lucas, but I wanted to do it myself first.
So I came down from Huehuetenango, pitched my tent in Panajachel and came across the lake on the early Sunday morning boat.
I came up the main street of San Lucas in front of the church, and here was Father Greg. He had just finished the 7:30 a.m. Mass and was out talking to people, still with all of his vestments on.
He looked at me and said, "Have you had breakfast?"
I said no, and he took me in to the priest house, personally fixed a couple of over-easy eggs, with black beans and tortillas.
Wow, what a nice memory I have of that personal attention of Father Greg toward me.
Over the years as the program grew, he has always been so very helpful. In 1996 when we did the trek from Kansas City to Guatemala, he and Father John (Goggin) supported that tremendously.
Those are some of the wonderful memories I have of Father Greg and his service on our board of directors for many years.
His presence always represented that concept, "They are important; they must increase, we must decrease," and the prerogative of our creator to draw all things to himself does not give us the mandate to do the same.
In the early days Father Greg gave a lot of seminars, and I will also add the great Notre Dame Sisters were in San Lucas in the '60s and '70s; they were part of our formation.
I can remember sitting around that roundtable in the priest house that seated maybe 10 people. There was a lot of formation, a lot of listening, and then Father Greg would talk and share the theology of all this.
He has always been and will always be a great mentor of mine and CFCA.
Quotes from CFCA staffers in the Hermano Pedro project
MarÌa de Los Angeles Maldonado: Father Greg was a special human being, one with a big heart; he loved without distinction of race, color or social status.
He provided a helping hand for those in need of health care, education and spiritual guidance. Father Greg always talked about the importance of having strong family values, for the parents to love their children.
Father Greg had deep love for the children of San Lucas, and likewise the children felt this love for him. In his Mass celebrations, at the moment for giving the sign of peace, all of the children would run up and hug him.
Jose Manuel de Jesus Bajan: I remember so many things, but his love for children, his humility and sincerity really stand out. I felt his love for us since I was a little boy. He was very close to all of us, and he was a true servant of God.
Father Greg was a messenger of love, peace and fraternity. When I was a boy I still remember seeing him walking very early in the morning in the woods all by himself.
I did not know then, but now that I think about it, this was his way of talking to God.
Maria Patricia Santizo Letona: Father Greg did not have preferences for people because of their culture, color or religion. He always had the desire to help anyone in need, but especially for those living in poverty.
I have gratitude for Father Greg because he was there for me when I needed him most. He celebrated the Mass for my "quinceaÒera" (15th birthday), the Mass for my wedding and Masses for my children's birthdays.
His spiritual guidance and words of wisdom helped me to be closer to God.
He gave me a scholarship to be able to continue my high school education; this helped my father very much.
Father Greg was not a foreigner; he became a member of our community. He knew us by name and was more than a priest; he was also our friend and father.
Quotes from CFCA staffers in the Atitlan project
Byron Anibal Morales Ajanel: He was one of us, the people of San Lucas. His happiness was to see families happy, to be among the poor and see them improve their conditions.
I am eternally grateful for Father Greg because he helped my family with a loan to purchase some land; and I believe that many people of San Lucas received many things from him.
His generosity, humility, love and smile will live with us forever. He was always there to listen and help; he never expected to be served. He called us "mi gente" (my people).
Pedro Ibate: Father Greg leaves a big emptiness for the people of San Lucas; his mission work has done so much for the Catholic and non-Catholic people in this town.
The people of San Lucas were inspired to work, move forward and improve their current conditions thanks to Father Greg's example of hard work.
For those of us who had the opportunity to meet Father Greg, there are no words to describe how great of a human being he was with his simplicity, humility and peacefulness.
He never left anything unanswered; he always had an answer to our concerns.
Nazario Yoxon Lopez: I treasure the teachings that he has left us, the love that he gave to all of us, to his people. He treated everyone with love and dignity as an equal; he had no distinctions; and he treated everyone with respect.
I believe he is a messenger of God, and he came to us to bring that message of love to every child, man and woman of this town.
Today I have much sadness in my heart; I will never forget his love and that was his greatest gift for me. I am also happy because I can only imagine the joy that he is now living in the presence of our Lord.
Quotes from CFCA families in attendance
Maria, mother of a sponsored child: Our town will always remember Father Greg because we know that he took us with him in his heart; he remembered each of us by name.
In his humility he greeted us by taking his hat off and bowing his head, I will always remember this from him.
His love for children will also be remembered; he would come down to his knees to give our children a hug during the sign of peace in Mass.
When he came back from his trips to the U.S. he would always bring lots of chocolates. He would stand in the atrium of the church and call the children to share chocolates with every one of them.
Father Greg was not born in Guatemala, but our people consider him a Guatemalan.
Fermina, mother of two sponsored children: I remember Father Greg as my dad because I lived in an orphanage that he founded called "Casa Feliz." There he treated us with love.
My parents were killed during the armed conflict years ago in Guatemala. I was alone, but Father Greg picked me up and gave me love.
He always tried to bring happiness into the orphanage. He laughed and told us jokes. He was very caring; he would be in the dining room at 6 a.m. to make sure that we all had our breakfast.
I am joyful because he is now in the arms of God, but my human nature also gives me sadness because he is no longer physically with us.
Father Greg touched our lives, and he will forever remain in our hearts.
Carlos, father of two sponsored children: Father Greg was a great person. He did so much good for the people of this town.
My family and I lived on a plantation, but thanks to Father Greg we were able to get for a very low price a piece of land to build our own home.
One day he told me, "I do not feel like a foreigner. I feel I am from San Lucas."
Thanks to Luis Cocon, CFCA communications liaison in Guatemala, for this report and the beautiful photos.


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Access Management
Most people would agree that the number of cars on our roads is increasing while funding and support for new roads is decreasing. Greater traffic volumes, congestion, and accidents concern many drivers and land owners on our roads. If we are not building new roads to accommodate this traffic, we must find another way to manage the cars.
Can we make our roadways safer and more efficient through better design and regulation? The answer is yes, when good access management is applied to our roads.
How serious is the need for Access Management? In a rough, conservative estimate, the yearly number of access related accidents is 5.5 million nationally. More than 21,000 of these accidents, or about 404 a week, are fatal. This number of fatal access accidents is about equivalent to 2 DC-9 plane crashes a week. Access accidents across the country could be reduced by 30 percent to 50 percent through access management. In order to reduce accidents, we need to recognize the magnitude of access-related accidents although they do not necessarily occur in the same place.
The goal of access management is to encourage the safe and efficient flow of traffic. This goal is achieved through the regulation of driveways, medians, median openings and traffic signals. Good access management results in fewer accidents, increased capacity and reduces travel time on our roads. Access management allows our roads to handle more cars without decreasing the level of service or building new roads.
Access management not only improves safety and traffic flows, it can decrease the costs associated with access accidents. Each year, 11 million vehicles are involved in access accidents; 2.8 million people are injured; 900,000 passengers are injured, 300,000 of whom are children under 15 years. The cost (losses) of access related accidents is estimated at $90 billion.
How does access management accomplish these goals? The regulation of traffic movements limits the number of places where cars traveling in different directions cross. Each intersection of different driving movements is called a conflict point. Conflict points frequently occur at intersections, driveways on busy roads, or places where drivers make left hand turns across traffic. The more conflict points present on a road, the greater the number of accidents on the road. Access management reduces the number of conflict points and separates the remaining points so drivers have to deal with only one conflict at a time. This allows drivers more space to anticipate and react to conflicts.
Conflict points are controlled through permits for access to a main road, by road improvements for better design, and cooperation between local governments to plan for the safe development of their roads. New Jersey adopted the State Highway Access Management Code in April of 1992. This code applies the principles of access management to all state roads. It also allows county and municipal governments to work with the Department of Transportation to develop local access management plans. When the municipal, county and state institutions work together to develop access management plans or policy, the results are more likely to be coherent and effective. Access management must fit into the overall picture of planning, zoning and land use in order to achieve its goals. When the different levels of government agree on common goals and work together to develop plans, the overall planning process is more integrated. As more communities adopt access plans, the effects of good access management are seen across the state.
Mercer County is beginning to develop a county access code. Similar to the state access code, the county access code will apply to roads under county jurisdiction. This code will address the safety and efficiency concerns in the county. The county access code will be developed through a public process and will build on previous codes and adapted to address specific local needs and concerns.
Access management is being more widely used as its benefits become clear. As more planning is done across various levels of government, we can expect safer, more efficient roadways in our communities.
All statistics were provided by Phil Demosthenes of the Colorado Department of Transportation; they are rough conservative estimates for national, annual access related accidents.


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Change is inevitable in politics and change is definitely coming to the Tuscaloosa City Council as four new council members take their seats in November.
Change is inevitable in politics and change is definitely coming to the Tuscaloosa City Council as four new council members take their seats in November. Newly elected officials usually come to the table with some kind of agenda and a sense of optimism.
Burrell Odom, Matt Calderone, Eddie Pugh and Sonya McKinstry will have ideas that they will want to implement for their districts and for the city. We hope they will approach their new positions with a cooperative spirit and the mixture of confidence and humility that is needed to succeed in public service. They inherit a city that is on sound footing but still rebuilding from the April 27, 2011, tornado.
We also wish departing council members well. They served during an eventful period in the city's history that included the devastating tornado, but also saw tremendous growth at the University of Alabama and challenging economic times.
Bobby Howard, the outgoing councilman from District 1, had his occasional spats with city staff members and other council members. But they were usually generated by concern for serving his district. During his eight years in office, the residents of District 1 had a passionate representative.
William Tinker, "Tink" to his friends, worked quietly and non-confrontationally during his two terms serving District 7. He was respectful of his fellow council members, tried to listen to his constituents and usually greeted people with a smile.
Departing District 6 Councilman Bob Lundell took a no-nonsense approach to serving his district. Not the typical back-slapping politician, he could be blunt to the point of curtness. But he brought business experience to the table that served the city well.
Councilman Lee Garrison came to the Tuscaloosa City Council 16 years ago still wet behind the ears. He leaves the council a seasoned public official who knows his way around local government. He was elected to the City Council District 4 seat under a cloud of controversy closely mirroring the election challenge in this year's city Board of Education District 4 race. But Garrison worked hard to win over residents who were concerned about his ties to the University of Alabama Greek system political machine, and served a district with unique challenges.
Garrison alone among the four will continue to serve in local government as he will become the city Board of Education's chairman. As a member of the City Council, he has been a visionary who pushed forward development on the city's riverfront. He and Mayor Walt Maddox were among the chief proponents of building Tuscaloosa's amphitheater.
But Garrison also has a good grasp of government finance as he served as chairman of the city's Finance Committee for several terms. We hope that he will put both of those attributes to good use as he serves Tuscaloosa City Schools.


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Earlier this week, PBS presented the documentary, Slavery by Another Name, based on the book of the same name by Douglas A. Blackmon. It shows how powerful economic interests in the U.S. South, between the end of Reconstruction and World War II, abused the convict labor system and flouted federal anti-peonage law, to turn many thousands of African Americans and even some whites, into what in effect were slaves. Indeed, in some localities it was common to arrest black people on flimsy pretexts specifically to enslave them. Convict labor and peonage, in essence, became part of the repressive machinery of Jim Crow. A way to keep African Americans in line, while extorting their labor for the benefit of the powerful.
While Slavery by Another Name gets preachy at times and resorts to questionable devices like trotting out the descendants of whites involved in the abuses of convict leasing and peonage to express guilt over the ancestors, on balance it is powerful television, and makes well a point that Civil War Emancipation has made on several occasions. To wit, that coerced labor did not entirely disappear in the United States after the Civil War and continues to persist in various guises even today.
If you missed the program, PBS has made it available on their website. You can watch it by <clicking here>.


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Builds OK (on LMDE tracking sid) with ./configure - make - sudo make install but I also had to do:
(Where molly3 is my user) to get it to run. I copied it rather than linking it as I will destroy the home/nemo folder at some point.
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sudo cp /home/molly3/nemo/libnemo-extension/.libs/libnemo-extension.so.1 /usr/lib/libnemo-extension.so.1
This technique may not work if you are using LMDE latest as it uses an older version of Nautilus.


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While it may not approach Jon Hamm-trouser snake levels, Percy Harvin makes an impressive appearance in The New York Times this morning. Click to enlarge.
A much-deserved slow clap to the wonder of subtlety and innuendo responsible for that headline, as well—extremely well played. No one wants in-your-face penis puns. You've got to be gentle and finesse it. Like a penis.
h/t Douglas


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Finally you are done to the filler part of your roster. On Monday we detailed the parameters of why you are only able to spend $50 million and also reviewed the starting eight. On Tuesday we went through your starting rotation. Yesterday we looked over the bullpen. All of that has left you with $8.7 million to purchase backups and role players. Though in most seasons this would be filler and padded with minor league players developed from within, you need to make sure your backups can contribute as the majority of your starters are raging question marks.
You manager is the type that likes to play the odds early in the game, sending up a pinch hitter in the first quarter of the game if necessary to take an advantage so you want to stockpile him with the weapons that will give him the edge. In an offensive-minded team, you are not afforded the luxury of a late-innings glove man. Your team's philosophy has been to outscore and outlast your opponents - playing emphasis on scoring early and then handing the ball over to a stable bullpen.
You know that you can jump out to 5-0 leads every game and that the majority will be hard-fought contests that will require a well-timed pinch hitter in critical situations. You and your staff scour the market trying to allocate just such resources with your minimal budget.
4OF/DH | Fernando Tatis | 8 WSAB | $560k
"Fernando Tatis." One of your advanced scouts recommended at a meeting. Your mind immediately went to the scene in Major League when the front office was reviewing the list of player's invited to spring training and one staff member quipped, "Half of these guys I haven't heard of and the ones I do know are way past their prime." You lump Tatis in with the latter group. Here is a guy that has been trudging the past two seasons in AAA - hitting the ball fairly well in 2007 mind you, as evident by his 44% xbh% - but he is 33 years old. What the hell, offer him a minor league contract, you say. He might be able to play some corner infield in a pinch too. Tatis responded by hitting .311/.393/.415 off of lefties in 147 plate appearances in those times platooning for Gerut in left per the instructions to the field manager. What surprises you more is that in 159 plate appearances against right-handed pitching, Tatis does even better, hitting 10 of his 11 home runs and slugs .545 with a .409 OBP. After the 2008 season, you promoted that advanced scout to director of scouting.
C | Miguel Olivo | 3 WSAB | $2.5 M
You presented Olivo with a rather hefty offer considering that you paid what ended up being your starting catcher, Rod Barajas, a million less. The fact of the matter was you were not sure which catcher was going to win the starting spot. What probably is most telling about this is that under Olivo's Baseball-Reference page, his top comparable batter is none other than Rod Barajas. When it become apparent that Barajas's bat emerged as the everyday type while Olivo would succumb to providing Barajas with a breather during weekend day games. Olivo finishes the season emulating his historical stats with a rather pathetic on-base percentage (.278) thanks to his just seven walks in 317 plate appearances. His 12 home runs provide some pop to your lineup but is brutishly awful against right-handed pitching (2/58 BB/KK). Defensively, he throws out nearly 40% (38.7%) of attempted base-stealers and allows just four passed ball - a feat that is looked upon as a great revelation as Olivo allowed 26 passed balls in the past two years combined.
3B/1B/PH | Russell Branyan | 3 WSAB | $500k
When you saw Branyan on the market, you knew you had to get him. He is the perfect weapon in to have on the bench in a pinch against right-handed pitching. You just wish there was a way to give him more plate appearances. Your manager was convinced he was able to handled left-handed pitching as he had been pigeoned holed with for his entire career. Over the course of 11 seasons, Branyan had accumulated over 2,319 plate appearances and just 7% of those were against left-handed pitchers. It was like that everybody was convinced that Branyan couldn't hit left-handed pitching that they didn't even let him attempted to prove otherwise. And 2008 was no exception despite your pleas to the field staff. He was hitting a home run every 12.6 plate appearances, why not let him try to swing against the port-siders? Right-handed pitchers were better off pitching around him as in 138 match-ups, Branyan slugged .653.
OF/DH/PH | Cliff Floyd | 3 WSAB | $3 M
Floyd's asking price of $3 million was a lot for a man that had played in 108 and 97 games in the past two seasons. You figured that you were going to need a "professional" hitter no matter how limited a role he winds up playing. There were plenty that still admired him approach to the plate and his ability to get on base as well as hit for power. With your finances dwindling, you and Floyd reach a deal. Like Branyan, you know that Floyd's role in this organization would be to face right-handed pitchers and right-handed pitchers only. In 272 match-ups against righties, Floyd hits 11 home runs and slugs .466. Next to Kaz Matsui's 4 WSAB for $5 million, Floyd's 3 WSAB for $3 million was about the least cost efficient.
INF | Omar Infante | 3 WSAB | $1.4 M
You needed a super-utility player and you turned your sights to Omar Infante. In 2004, Infante popped 16 home runs as a shortstop/second baseman for the Detroit Tigers and finished the year batting .264/.317/.449. Because of his high strikeout rate and his inflated batting average on balls in play, this production was not sustainable and he came crashing to earth quickly. Each passing season his role was demished a bit further until he was only given 178 plate appearances in 2007. You liked that he could man just about every position good, but none great. After his pitiful 2007 campaign where he hit .271/.307/.355 that to a bad 9/29 BB/K, he rebounded to hit .293/.338/.416 with a 22/44 BB/K along with 30 extra base hits in 317 at-bats.
OF | Reggie Abercrombie | 2 WSAB | $400k
This one time top prospect for the Marlins never materialized in their organization, mostly because of his propensity to, you know, not get on base. He had shown power in his early development and then stalled out as other elite prospects passed him by. He was the epitome of the Peter Pan prospect: the one that never grows up. His 2007 season in AAA Albuquerque showed some flicker of hope as in 353 at-bats, Abercrombie had 49 extra base hits. You signed him to a minor league deal and call him up to pinch hit and provide a body for when others are injured. In his small sample size, he hits .309/.339/.509 despite his horrendous 1/29 BB/K ratio (thankfully, your manager is smart enough to not be fooled by the numbers, the walks mean everything and keep him to a pinch hitter extraordinary). On 13 occasions, Abercrombie is asked to pinch hit, where he deposits two home runs and one double among his four hits. Too bad he never realized that patiences is a virtue.
Your bench costs you $8.36 million and leaves you with a surplus of just $340,000 from your original budget.


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The Power of Propaganda.
Peter Moss
First published by Richamarksentinal
The highly emotional issue of toy guns and children regularly comes up, especially around Christmas time when the proponents of gun control propaganda suddenly spring to life urging parents not to give toy guns to their children.
"Toy guns and children" is another "pencils cause spelling mistakes" myth promoted by gun control. Children are thereby denied a valuable means of expression and release of anger because a feared hated object can be falsely demonised and made to seem undesirable or evil.
Children are attractive to gun control organisations because poisoning children's minds to fear guns awards them a conversion to gun control for life. Education giving knowledge of firearm use, handling and safety is far better. Unfortunately for these children parents and schoolteachers practising such repression most probably have been influenced in some way by the propaganda publications of gun control lobby groups or their parents, rather than more relevant scientific research.
Who is in possession of this so-called irrefutable evidence? Has anyone apart from the proponents of gun control actually found any real verifiable peer reviewed evidence, not pictures, horror stories and junk science produced by black propaganda that toy guns are a problem? Frankly no. Repression can be easily shown to breed sick minds but would you seriously ask serial killer Ted Bundy's mom for her view on the subject of her son's deviant nature?
One should study with an open mind the rise of Christianity and the Catholic Church to understand what propaganda really is. The genocidal Church sponsored and instigated crusades for more than seven hundred years annihilated by unthinkable torture, burning alive at the stake many, many millions. Such unrelenting hatred and inhuman violence should never be forgotten. A good place to start is where the desire for power began with Constantine's edict of 324-6, giving the Catholic Church the power, license and support to do so.
Given unrestrained power the Church invoked a ruthless reign of persecution, destruction, terror and death to innocent victims, Manichists, Gnostics, Cathars, Bogomills along with any other heretics the Catholics could sniff out, force to confess or provoke added to the list. The persecuted lost everything, their lands, culture, heritage, knowledge, freedom as well as their lives. The Catholics took every advantage of what they had been given and expanded it into a monopolistic empire by completely eradicating all other competing believers, documentation and views.
How did the Church turn so many into either victims or supporters when they had previously lived in relative harmony and why? "Because they could" is probably the best answer and one every citizen had better remember well when giving such power to rulers, governments and organisations.
One should be prompted to ask, "Why did the good citizens not stop the Church from committing such atrocious acts"? Only silence will be obtained. The unspeakable, unmentionable, unprintable, grossly misunderstood and feared word "propaganda" is the answer.
The propaganda methods of the Catholic crusades have many parallels with Gun Control. For the purpose of demonising and vilifying both firearms and those who own them. Lawful firearm ownership is falsely aligned with criminal possession or criminal acts.
· Legitimate firearm owners are accused of being responsible for crime by supplying the criminal demand for guns.
· Firearm owners are blamed for subsequent crimes committed by the perpetrators of crime using stolen guns.
· Words like cowboy, gun-nut, gun-freak, irresponsible, incompetent and untrustworthy are bandied about.
Accompanied by equally hideous accusations and dire warnings of the appalling fate if their advice is not followed, offering compelling promises of a utopian dream that all can benefit from.
If law-abiding citizens firearms are strictly controlled or confiscated thereby prevented from falling into criminal hands, somehow crime will decrease. Such thinking results in a host of lies and deceptions to achieve this objective of demonise and remove any possible justifiable use. By incorrectly claiming that firearms:-
· Have a design, which serves only one purpose, to kill.
· Cause crime.
· Increases suicide.
· Cause an escalation of violence.
· Force criminals to reply by arming themselves.
· Are not an effective means of self-defence
· Are more a danger to the owner.
· Are more likely to be taken away instead of being used to arrest or prevent a crime.
· Are a danger to others and children.
· Will just be stolen by criminals.
That victims should act according to their social 'norms', such as :-
· Loss, rape or injury is preferable to making a criminal angry.
· Any criminal action is preferable to taking a human life.
· There is no need for self-defence as the police will protect citizens.
The inducement; if the advice is not followed guns will continue to fall into criminal hands, therefore violent crime will increase and innocents will die. Nobody will be safe.
The false promise; any gun removed is one less crime.
The reward; living in a peaceful crime free country that has no guns.
Creating the perception that criminals can use only guns; therefore guns cause crime, is a circular argument without proof of causation many mindlessly believe with heart and soul. Thus depriving citizens of lawful possession of the best means to self-defence must be justified if they are of no real use.
All these unrealistic and unsupported claims are part of a propaganda plan making the removal of citizens guns possible by force if need be by eliciting the collusion and help of government in the same way the Catholic Church went about eradicating opponents and installing a monopoly.
The propaganda is presented as a crime fighting measure originating from gun control organisations that purport an objective of reducing crime. When in reality the only result can be the creation of a criminal friendly environment where criminals can operate in safety with little risk to life or injury. Crime is more likely to increase; only the indoctrinated are surprised when it does. Thus classifying the propaganda as black propaganda.
Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. [1] It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the target.
Yet I can find no evidence other than the publications of Gun Control that supports any of these attempts to induce hated and fear in order to persecute firearm owners. Victims of gun control may as well be Cathars or Gnostics who were burned alive or tortured to death without protest from citizens because they have been painted black, demonised by black propaganda.
[1] Doob, Leonard (1950-09-13). "Goebbels' Principles of Nazi Propaganda". The Public Opinion Quarterly 3 (Vol. 14, No. 3): 419-442.
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I've been able to find lavender at Jon's (under the name of alucema), and I think I've seen it at the spice station. I'm pretty sure, however, that you could also just use the flowers from the plant (which grows everywhere) and dry them yourself.
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Michael Fassbender, the cool chameleon among Hollywood's legion of stars (headlining this fall in the movies Steve Jobs and Macbeth) talks about anguish, fame, longing, and baring all in front of the camera
Mr. Fassbender, Do you still understand German?
Of course, it's what my father spoke!
Do you pay the occasional visit to your native city, Heidelberg?
Sure I do! I still have folks in Heidelberg, and plus it's a lovely city. My family moved away when I was two and I spent my childhood in Ireland. But I always came back and visited my grandparents, while they were still alive, and my uncles and aunts.
When and how did you first come into contact with Shakespeare's Macbeth?
Meine erste Begegnung mit "Macbeth" war im Alter von 15 Jahren, da stand es auf dem Lehrplan meiner Schule in Irland. Zum zweiten Mal beschäftigte ich mich damit auf der Schauspielschule in London. Am Ende jedes Semesters mussten wir Teile eines Dramas vorführen und wurden von den Lehrern dafür benotet.
Macbeth is about the corruptive force of power. Stars are also considered to be powerful – do you sometimes feel corrupted by fame?
Fame brings with it a certain standard of living that can be very tempting, and you can get used to it all too quickly. But I don't see myself falling into that trap. I like the things in my life to be as simple as possible. In this line of work, it's not a wise move to make money your sole motivation.
Great masters, like Akira Kurosawa and Roman Polanski, have filmed the play before. Did you draw on their work?
Yes, I watched everything on the subject that I could lay my hands on. Kurosawa's version was grandiose, in my opinion. It's my favorite movie adaptation.
What's the best way for an actor to approach Shakespeare?
You have to respect the language and rhythm of Shakespeare, but not be awe-struck by it. I spent four weeks practicing on my own and knew my lines pretty well by the time general rehearsals began. For me, dialogues are like music; you basically have to get the rhythm right.
What makes this play a classic?
On the first day of shooting, the director, Justin Kurzel, handed me a self-help book on post-traumatic experiences. At first, I was surprised because I had never associated the subject with Macbeth. But it's obvious really: That's exactly what Macbeth is about. All that time ago, Shakespeare understood the anguish soldiers suffer.
After World War One, no one could fathom the traumatized veterans, but Shakespeare had already described their behavior in Macbeth – in the banquet sequence, when Lady Macbeth says: "Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth." So we know the damage anger, revenge and violence can cause. During his very first scene, we see how vulnerable Macbeth already is. Committing the murders is how he finds his way. Killing becomes a rigid pattern of behavior for him.
How do you feel about Macbeth?
I get Macbeth. He is the person keeping the borders safe. He is fighting the war for Duncan, who holds the throne, but in many ways Macbeth is the rightful king. That doesn't justify murder, of course – and Macbeth kills every day. But he sacrifices himself and that is why I do understand him. There are a lot of Duncans in this world.
I like the things in my life to be as simple as possible
How do you see Lady Macbeth?
The classic view of Lady Macbeth is of a woman driven by ambition. The opposite is true. She sacrifices herself to save her marriage. She and her husband have lost a child but cannot share in their mourning because Macbeth is constantly on the move, busy consolidating his power. Ultimately, it's all about loss and how people cope with it.
Shooting in the middle of a British winter can't exactly have been a picnic …
It was cold, wet, and yes, well, very intensive! (Laughs) Raging winds, hail, snow, the works – we were constantly hoping it would at least all look good on screen! The extras, in particular, were phenomenal. They would stand in the rain for ten hours at a stretch one day, and turn up the next without turning a hair.
Is bad weather good for acting?
It lets you know exactly how it must have been for those people. They were constantly wet and half-frozen, and their homes were pretty basic. Sleeping in a wet blanket is anything but pleasant.
We get to see your naked torso again …
Yes, it's written into my contracts. I love getting naked. (Laughs) Getting into a role is always a physical thing for me. I am not so much an intellectual or analytical actor, I'm more the physical type.
So you go in for intensive workouts?
Depending on my mood, I sometimes exercise a lot, other times not at all. Exercise is more a mental than a physical aid for me. I want to maintain a certain level of fitness obviously, but I'm not crazy about exercise machines or weights, I prefer to use my own body weight.
Could you play any role, as people say?
No, I definitely cannot play everything. Watching other actors, I often think I could never do as good a job.
What was your toughest role to date?
Hard to say. The last one, where I played Steve Jobs, was pretty challenging – I had lots of lines. (Laughs).
What is an actor's most important asset?
The ability to be relaxed, otherwise you won't really take in what's going on around you. Plus, it's the only way to be a good listener, which an actor needs to be.


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Template:Development The ImageJ project, and related projects in the SciJava software ecosystem, are governed as Open Source software projects. Everybody is welcome to contribute with plugins, patches, bug reports, tutorials, documentation, and artwork.
That said, every project needs leaders: the ones who participate in governance of the project, maintaining the software and making key decisions.
Project roles
Because open source software is highly collaborative, it is extremely important to understand the difference between various roles on the project, to avoid misconceptions about authority (who makes decisions) and responsibility (who must do the work) concerning each project.
The most common roles are:
- Founders are the people who originally launched the project.
- Leads are responsible for making final decisions. In the open source world these people are often referred to as benevolent dictators. Changes with a serious impact on the community are typically discussed on open channels first.
- Maintainers keep the project functional, fix bugs and make releases. They often make day to day decisions, and are typically involved in discussion with the project lead(s) regarding major decisions, although the lead has final decision-making authority.
- Developers are people who work on the project significantly or often. Typically they have direct push access to the source code. In some cases they make day to day decisions, depending on their experience and comfort level with the project.
- Contributors are people who help with the project either currently or in the past. They may participate occasionally or sporadically, and are typically not involved in project decision making.
SciJava projects
Here is a summary of roles for some projects in the SciJava ecosystem.
1 Pietzsch leads on day to day issues. Pietzsch, Preibisch and Saalfeld vote on primary decisions, with Pietzsch's vote breaking ties.
2 Schindelin is currently on sabbatical from Fiji; see this thread on fiji-devel.
3 Rueden maintains the Bio-Formats update site for ImageJ, but is not otherwise a Bio-Formats maintainer.
4 For the purposes of this table, "KNIME" means the KNIME Image Processing extensions, not the KNIME project as a whole.
Further reading
- OSS Watch's article on Governance Models
- Eric S. Raymond's Homesteading the Noosphere
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A blocking operation was interrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall.
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Manager Ozzie Guillen said on Sunday that he is torn between letting Hudson pitch out of the bullpen and occasionally have a spot start as opposed to pitching every five days at Triple-A.
I asked Guillen for an assessment of Hudson at this point.
"I love him," Guillen said. "Right now if he doesn't make the ballclub, it's better to get his innings because we never know what is going to happen with the five starters." …
Decisions will have to be made about what to do with rookie Daniel Hudson, who is competing for the long-relief spot. Manager Ozzie Guillen indicated on Sunday that Hudson might be better served getting his regular work in the Minors, as opposed to being used sporadically by the White Sox.
Freddy Dolsi, Lucas Harrell, Sergio Santos, Carlos Torres and Daniel Cabrera all are in contention for that long-relief job, while Guillen said Randy Williams has the upper hand for the left-handed specialist spot but is no roster lock. That assessment is good news for non-roster invite Erick Threets, the hard-throwing southpaw who has impressed during the first week of camp.
The second left-handed relief spot is Randy Williams' job to lose, but Erick Threets has been given an extended look and has impressed the coaching staff so far. Look for Threets to challenge Williams.


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The A'Salt Creek Roller Girls had one heckuva Memorial Day weekend. On Saturday, they utterly domintated the Rushmore Rollerz and the Madhouse Madams, scoring well into 3 figures in each game. This double header was about as rough neck and hard hitting as it can get. Twice the games had to be stopped for someone to be stretchered out. That aside, a fun time was had by all, as these pics from our sister station Rock 96.7 prove.


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PLASMA 2.3.0 Release
PLASMA 2.3.0 has been released.
The new functionality includes:
Explicitly calculating an inverse of a matrix using Cholesky factorization (symmetric positive definite)
Tree-bases QR factorization and Q matrix generation for tall and skinny matrices
Thanks to Julien Langou and Henc Bouwmeester for providing the Cholesky inversion code.
This release also includes parallel and cache-efficient in-place matrix layout translation routines provided by Fred Gustavson and Lars Karlsson. From this point on, PLASMA can switch between LAPACK layout and PLASMA's native tile layout without any memory overhead.
Thanks Fred and Lars!
Also a binary installer for 64 bit PLASMA libraries has been released for Windows x86_64. It includes statically compiled PLASMA libaries, and testing executables. Use of the PLASMA libraries requires a C compiler (e.g. MS VC, Intel C compiler) and a BLAS library (e.g. Intel MKL, AMD ACML). Reference versions of LAPACK, BLAS, and other required libraries are included in this binary package for simple testing purposes, but optimized math libraries should be used for any real work.
All files are available for download in the Software section of the PLASMA site.
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Frankly, shopping isn't my thing. I've been to Dubai several times and never entered its fabled shopping palaces. When someone tells me Mall of the Emirates is one of the world's biggest malls, my reaction isn't amazed anticipation. Rather, I look aghast, like an Edwardian spinster confronted by a flasher.
Still, the best of travel should be about challenging yourself. If I can dune-bash to loud rock music and drink foul camel's milk, surely I can visit a shopping mall. If nothing else, I can stickybeak at how Emiratis spend their dirhams and leisure time. Perhaps I can get some airconditioned exercise before observing all this consumer madness from a cafe table.
This is what I tell myself when I discover my hotel is right beside Mall of the Emirates, which covers an area larger than the Vatican. It has 7000 parking spaces, 400-odd shops, 70 restaurants, a Magic Kingdom leisure centre, a 14-screen cinema and a community theatre. It has its own Metrolink train station. Australia claims about 6 million visitor arrivals a year; Mall of the Emirates gets 30 million.
In short, entering it quickly makes me feel like a tiny cog in the great capitalist machine. I need a map just to get around. Fortunately, maps are doled out by Filipino attendants who, savant-like, know directions to every single shop.
"Sunglass Hut? That is zone C, No 24, madam. Go along the corridor, turn left, descend the escalator, pass through the Galleria, turn left when you see The Body Shop. Then you will see the Carrefour and Sunglass Hut is opposite that. Would you like a map?"
I prick my ears when I hear about Carrefour. I don't mind a quick cruise through a foreign supermarket, where prices and products can inform of local lifestyles. I follow my map and enter a gargantuan space full of robed Emiratis, bare-shouldered expats and Indian workers in baseball caps.
Almost immediately, I find things I can't buy in the average supermarket, such as mobile phones and date-flavoured yoghurts. The washing powders smell different. A vast aisle is devoted to cooking oils.
At the deli, I spy kebbe, or meatballs, and dozens of varieties of tabbouleh. Customers shovel spices from hessian sacks: cumin and rosemary, basil and dried mint. I munch a marzipan-stuffed date from a tasting plate. Gourmet delicacies are flown in from around the globe: mussels from South Australia, halal foie gras from France, pickled plums from China. The fish counter offers kingfish, red snapper and prawns.
I start to enjoy myself but, fearful I'm not pushing my envelope, hurry away past Debenhams and Zara to the recently opened Fashion Dome, which has added 40 shops to Mall of the Emirates under a whopping glass dome that looks like a greenhouse on steroids. Just the place, I see, to drop $1363 on a Louis Vuitton laptop case or $19,000 on a hideous Boucheron sea-horse ring. The walls of the Paul Smith outlet seem eccentric, decorated with old record sleeves, scribbled envelopes and awful oil paintings. The windows of French shoe designer Christian Louboutin display signature red soles and killer heels.
I wander down to an outlet of the Parisian confectioner, Fauchon, beckoning with candied chestnuts and pistachio-flavoured madeleines. Eclairs come in flavours apparently exclusive to Dubai: orange-lemon, salty caramel or date. I have a modest macaron and an Emirati coffee, which is strong and thick. Around me, men sport spotless white dishdasha, while Saudi women lurk in black burqas whimsically edged with rhinestones.
I fortify myself with caffeine for the expected horror of Ski Dubai. Outside it might be 45 degrees but, inside one section of Mall of the Emirates, people are stuffing themselves into thermal coats to experience the big chill. Six thousand tonnes of snow create a 400-metre ski run and a startling sight: a winter wonderland behind huge panes of glass.
Soon I'm in rented boots and skis and taking a chairlift up the slope. Below, women in black are lurching around like penguins. The snow is sticky and it takes me all of 20 seconds to ski to the bottom but I'm euphoric with the sheer folly of the experience. I sit at the Avalanche Cafe and celebrate with mulled wine. Sans actual wine, of course: is there no end to this ersatz experience?
Maybe it's the placebo effect of my non-alcohol but I relax into the experience. I even make another couple of ski runs, just because I can. Really, this is more fun than I imagined. Fir trees are white with a dusting of frost and locals are throwing snowballs like wide-eyed children. Grown Saudi tourists giggle with incredulity and press ice against their cheeks.
Time for dinner. A skip away from Ski Dubai and I'm in Harvey Nichols, a piece of Little Britain selling Duchy of Cornwall jam and skinny clothes by Victoria Beckham. I head to its third-floor eatery, Almaz by Momo, a branch of London's hip Momo restaurant. You can't get more Dubai than an imitation London restaurant that already imitates an Algerian restaurant. Silver stars flash from the ceiling and green chandeliers cast teardrops on the walls. Sheesha smoke and Arab pop music float through the air as I indulge in a lamb tagine of pear and prune.
I'm rather pleased with myself: I've been in a shopping mall for an entire day. Better yet, a door leads out of the mall and right into my hotel, the Pullman Dubai. Who can resist a brand-new hotel? Everything is immaculate. The staff members are a little confused, as if still working out what they're supposed to be doing, but they try hard and have nice smiles.
The Pullman doesn't have all the amenities of Dubai's resort-style hotels. I like business hotels, however: they're often quiet and well run. It appears to have a sense of humour, too: its Soda Box recalls a 1950s soda bar in bright, Willy Wonka colours. Businessmen with loosened ties and self-conscious grins scoop up ice-cream and multi-hued cakes.
I opt for a last glass of Moroccan tea beside the rooftop pool, which has views all the way to the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. I feel happy to be here and reckon I can soon boast that I have spent 24 hours in a shopping mall.
In the morning, when I wake, I peer out of my window down on the vast roof of Mall of the Emirates, a patchwork of tar and airconditioning units. Ski Dubai sticks up like a giant metal elbow. Pakistani workers stagger in the scorching heat, fiddling with vast airconditioning units.
I'll just wait an hour until the mall opens for business. Then I'll nip down for another little look. Shopping isn't my thing but there's no harm in looking, is there?
Brian Johnston travelled courtesy of Emirates Airlines and Accor Hotels.
Shopping there
Mall of the Emirates on Sheikh Zayed Road is open 10am-10pm Sun-Wed and 10am-midnight Thurs-Sat. See malloftheemirates.com.
Staying there
The five-star Pullman Dubai Mall of the Emirates has direct access to the mall, a floor of executive facilities and 481 rooms and suites, from $197 a night. Phone 1300 656 565, see pullmanhotels.com.
More information
See dubaitourism.ae.


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Brooks sentenced to 18 months for embezzling
by Chris Braithwaite
BURLINGTON — Kim Brooks will serve 18 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $160,000 from her former employer in Orleans.
The 48-year-old Brownington woman was dismissed from her job at Desmarais Equipment in the spring of 2011 after an audit of the farm equipment dealer's books revealed significant discrepancies.
She has since been an active volunteer with the Orleans County Fair, where she served on the board of directors.
Indeed, the thousands of hours Ms. Brooks donated to the fair were cited by two people who spoke on her behalf at her sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court here Monday.
Her attorney, David Sleigh, used their remarks as the basis of a request for a "downward departure" from federal sentencing guidelines that would have reduced her prison sentence to five months.
But Judge William Sessions was unmoved. His remarks suggested that the fact that Ms. Brooks is "obviously an extraordinarily intelligent person" who enjoyed her community's respect made her crime all the more serious.
"How can someone who is so respected commit such a flagrant violation of trust?" the judge asked before he handed down the 18-month sentence. He said he would request that the sentence be served at a federal prison camp in Danbury, Connecticut, and ordered Ms. Brooks to surrender herself there on October 8.
Ms. Brooks was first cited to appear in state court in early 2012 following a State Police investigation. Her case moved to U.S. District Court after a federal grand jury issued a three-count indictment in October 2012.
Ms. Brooks pled guilty to one count after negotiating a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in late April this year.
Judge Sessions waived any fine, which could have been as high as $250,000. But as part of the plea agreement she was ordered to forfeit $11,885 to the government in a "preliminary order of forfeiture" issued by the court on Friday.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's office, Ms. Brooks must pay a total of about $163,000 in restitution. Judge Sessions ordered her Monday to give up 10 percent of her future gross income for that purpose.
That was one of several conditions of a three-year term of supervised release the judge added to her prison sentence. He also ordered Ms. Brooks to avoid work that involved any fiduciary responsibility.
The judge told Ms. Brooks he had considered several factors before passing sentence. None of them seemed to work out in her favor.
"What was most important in my assessment is the level of planning," he said. "This is a case in which money was taken over three years," he noted. "It was not some casual act. That level of calculation is extremely serious."
Judge Sessions noted that Ms. Brooks had been working with a small company for 15 years, and knew that her embezzlement would make it impossible for her co-workers to get raises or bonuses.
"That's a pretty flagrant violation of a person's level of trust," the judge remarked. "That you could go to work, knowing full well you have been stealing from them for years, is inconceivable to me," he added.
Turning to deterrence, the judge said embezzlement cases have become so common in Vermont that "some have referred to it as an epidemic."
"There needs to be a statement to the community that these violations of trust are treated seriously," Judge Sessions said. "There needs to be a clear understanding by people who are in charge of other people's money that to steal it is a serious crime."
The brothers whose business was the victim of the crime, Rene and Roger Desmarais, both had a chance to speak to the court Monday.
"We were in business for 49 years and had a lot of good help — people you trusted," Roger Desmarais said. "Apparently we had a silent partner we didn't know anything about."
He said the loss cut into the price the brothers got when they sold their business. "We weren't showing the profit we should have been," he said.
He recalled the day an accountant "figured out something was wrong," and confronted Ms. Brooks.
"She said she had made some mistakes in life. She was as cool as could be," Mr. Desmarais said.
Reading from a pre-sentence investigation that was not made public, Judge Sessions said that Rene Desmarais felt humiliated by the case, a feeling that was "fueled by her arrogant public behavior."
After Ms. Brooks was caught, the judge asked Roger Desmarais, "was she acting in an arrogant way?"
"No," Mr. Desmarais replied. "Kim was being Kim."
"We considered her a real friend," Rene Desmarais said when it was his turn to talk. He said the crime also affected 12 to 14 people who worked for the dealership. They got no raises for four or five years, he said. "At the end of the year there was no profit to distribute."
The judge asked Rene Desmarais if Ms. Brooks was arrogant after her crime was revealed.
"If I was accused of doing what she did, there's no way I would have flaunted myself," Mr. Desmarais replied. "She goes on as if nothing ever happened."
Judge Sessions established the fact that Ms. Brooks hadn't paid any of the money back since her crime was discovered in early 2011.
Ms. Brooks' attorney, David Sleigh, took responsibility for that. He routinely warned his clients against contacting their alleged victims before the criminal case was settled, he told the judge.
Two friends were in the courtroom to speak for Ms. Brooks.
Lori Royer said her friendship with the defendant went back to their high school days. "She did a lot for the fair," Ms. Royer said. "She kept the harness racing alive and well."
"She's got a very kind heart," Ms. Royer said of Ms. Brooks. "She's a very good person."
Judge Sessions asked if the two had talked about the criminal case.
No, Ms. Royer replied. "Rene's my neighbor, Kim's my friend, we just don't talk about it."
Randy Patenaude told the judge he had worked with Ms. Brooks at the fair, and that she had also cared for his mother, who suffered a serious stroke.
"Without her motivation, my mother would not be where she is now," he said of Ms. Brooks' care.
"Kim devoted thousands of hours to the Orleans County Fair," Mr. Patenaude said, "not for any glorification or monetary gain."
Mr. Sleigh did not argue that his client should not go to jail, but urged the court to shorten the term from the federal guideline of 18 to 24 months.
"Kim for years has given enormously to her community," the attorney said. "It is hard to overestimate the importance of the Orleans County Fair to the community."
"Little of the wrongful taking wound up as a benefit to Kim," Mr. Sleigh added.
The judge pursued that issue. He noted that three checks involved in the crime had gone to her partner, for a total of close to $45,000.
"Where did that money go?" the judge demanded.
During a later exchange with Ms. Brooks, Judge Sessions said the three checks went to Harvey Cleveland, Ms. Brooks partner and, until he stepped down in July, president of the Orleans County Fair.
"What were they used for?" the judge asked.
"One, and a significant portion of another, was sent to Ohio to assist someone I knew," Ms. Brooks replied.
According to the grand jury indictment, "$11,885 in proceeds from one of these unauthorized checks was used to purchase a used truck in Ohio."
"One went to a young farmer who was trying to start up a business," Ms. Brooks continued. "At the time I anticipated it was coming back," she said of the money. "I found out that was not true. I never received any of the money back."
Then Ms. Brooks turned to face the Desmarais brothers and their wives.
"I'm sorry I betrayed your trust," she told them. "I'm sorry for losing your friendship. I will do everything I can to pay you back."
contact Chris Braithwaite at [email protected]
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LMC Employees Donate $630,018!
Lexington Medical Center is pleased to announce that it has raised a record-breaking $630,018 in its annual Universal Employee Fund (UEF) campaign. During the past month, Lexington Medical Center employees have donated generously to the UEF, which designates resources for items and services that enhance patient care. The UEF also assists hospital employees who are experiencing emergencies or severe hardships.
Within the community, the UEF supports the hospital's Cancer Care Fund, which gives necessary supplies and services to oncology patients who do not have adequate financial resources during treatment. It also funds nursing scholarships, medication vouchers for indigent patients, the mobile mammography van, exercise programs for cancer patients, the hospital's Doula program and Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Rehabilitation programs. Additionally, the UEF provides resources for the Partners Program, a summer internship offered to the best and brightest high school students in Lexington County who are interested in pursuing careers in health care.
Within the hospital, the UEF helps fellow hospital employees during catastrophic situations including house fires, natural disasters, domestic violence, life-threatening medical conditions and unaffordable funeral expenses. In 2011, the UEF helped 52 hospital employees during such situations.
LMC held a luncheon for employees the week of April 17th to celebrate the UEF campaign. Here are some photos.
You can view the stories of some of the people helped through the UEF by watching the video below. Hospital multi-media coordinator Stephen Wessinger composed original lyrics for a song that is sung by Kenyottia Gray, an employee in the hospital's Emergency Department.


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A man in Christchurch, New Zealand was enjoying his evening porcelain meditation when all of a sudden he had an unexpected visitor in the form of a four-wheel-drive truck (not pictured). Let this be an important lesson that, when parking on a hill, you need to engage that handbrake properly. Also, don't put your bathroom on the bottom of thirty-foot-long hill. Police said the vehicle belonged to a contractor next door who was a little displeased to find out that said truck was suddenly parked in someone else's house. Our favorite part below the jump.
From the article:
When the home owner was asked how the builder might be feeling, he reportedly said: "What about me? I got knocked off the toilet. I got a hell of a fright."
Seriously, it scared the crap out of him. [News.com.au, photo Photobucket]


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ORGANIZER: The Kelly Gibson Foundation
EVENT DATE: Apr 04, 2015
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The "Run For It" Program is the Official Charity Program of the Allstate Sugar Bowl Crescent City Classic. The goal of the "Run For It" Program is to raise $1 million and serve the Greater New Orleans area needs. Each year, the Crescent City Classic donates 100 Charity bib numbers (guaranteed race entries) to each Charity Partner for the Allstate Sugar Bowl Crescent City Classic 10k. Official Charity Partners recruit 100 runners/walkers who can commit to raising a minimum of $200 for their Charity by race day (April 4, 2015)
The Allstate Sugar Bowl Crescent City Classic is produced by the Crescent City Fitness Foundation, a 501C3 non-profit entity. The funds and positive impact of the "Run For It" Program are important to the success of the Crescent City Fitness Foundation's mission, and the Classic is proud to support local charities and their fundraising endeavors.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Voyager' started by LeadHead, Mar 23, 2012.
Voyager goes to warp, starting its 7 year journey...
Woo hoo!
I think that's the second time I got the final line in!
And I LOVED saying THAT line to my heroine!
It's been awhile since I got the last word, I think I was lucky and got Sisko's last speech "In the Pale Moonlight"
I'm glad that was what you wanted. I hope you don't mind that I asked if you wanted to flip flop those. When it's just me and one other person doing the finish, I like to make sure that I'm not taking all the good lines. The first time we did this in The Wrath of Khan, Vanyel and I split Spock's Space the Final Frontier... speech at the very end. Vanyel and i had been working on it since they entered the Mutara Nebula, it just seemed appropriate.
I've gotta get some sleep, nice working with ya tonight, JanewayRulz!
Good work guys.
And I remember that too LeadHead, it was quick ride, that fight, in the Mutara Nebula.
Fine work everyone, as always.
MOVIE - Insurrection_________________________53 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes
VOY - Bride of Chaotica_______________________42 days, 1 hour, 1 minute
DS9 - Trials and Tribble-ations_________________36 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes
VOY - Dark Frontier__________________________33 days, 14 hours, 31 minutes
ENT - The Forge/Awakenings/Kir'Shara___________32 days, 19 hours, 35 minutes
VOY - Message in a Bottle_____________________30 days, 12 hours, 53 minutes
VOY - Scorpion______________________________27 days, 2 hours, 12 minutes
MOVIE - Nemesis____________________________26 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes
MOVIE - Star Trek XI_________________________26 days, 9 hours, 57 minutes
MOVIE - The Voyage Home____________________25 days, 4 hours, 36 minutes
VOY - Caretaker__________________________24 days, 11 hours, 21 minutes
TOS - The Menagerie_________________________23 days, 21 hours, 20 minutes
DS9 - The Homecoming/The Circle/The Siege______23 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes
ENT - In a Mirror, Darkly_______________________23 days, 13 hours, 40 minutes
MOVIE - First Contact_________________________22 days, 0 hours, 41 minutes
MOVIE - The Motion Picture____________________21 days, 2 hours, 20 minutes
ENT - Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments___20 days, 4 hours, 27 minutes
TNG - Measure of a Man______________________18 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes
MOVIE - The Wrath of Khan___________________18 days, 4 hours, 20 minutes
DS9 - Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast_________18 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes
DS9 - The Visitor____________________________17 days, 9 hours, 7 minutes
DS9 - The Way of the Warrior__________________16 days, 23 hours, 36 minutes
TNG - Peak Performance______________________16 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes
TOS - Bread and Circuses_____________________16 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes
VOY - The Voyager Conspiracy_________________15 days, 5 hours, 4 minutes
MOVIE - The Final Frontier____________________15 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes
VOY - Counterpoint__________________________15 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes
TOS - Requiem for Methuselah_________________14 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes
VOY - Future's End__________________________14 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes
VOY - Body and Soul_________________________14 days, 10 hours, 23 minutes
DS9 - Emissary__________________________14 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes
TOS - Spock's Brain_________________________14 days, 8 hours, 47 minutes
TOS - The Man Trap_________________________13 days, 22 hours, 6 minutes
MOVIE - The Undiscovered Country_____________13 days, 3 hours, 58 minutes
MOVIE - The Search for Spock_________________12 days, 20 hours, 31 minutes
TOS - Journey to Babel_______________________12 days, 12 hours, 32 minutes
MOVIE - Generations________________________12 days, 10 hours, 50 minutes
DS9 - The Maquis___________________________12 days, 2 hours, 31 minutes
TOS - Where No Man Has Gone Before__________11 days, 19 hours, 57 minutes
TOS - The City on the Edge of Forever__________11 days, 11 hours, 9 minutes
TNG - Lower Decks_________________________10 days, 18 hours, 19 minutes
TNG - Chain of Command____________________10 days, 6 hours, 18 minutes
DS9 - Favor The Bold/The Sacrifice of Angels_____10 days, 1 hour, 21 minutes
TOS - Balance of Terror______________________ 9 days, 8 hours, 18 minutes
TNG - The Enemy___________________________8 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes
TNG - Yesterday's Enterprise__________________8 days, 5 hours, 22 minutes
TOS - The Trouble with Tribbles________________8 days, 1 hour, 59 minutes
DS9 - Whispers____________________________8 days, 1 hour, 23 minutes
TNG - The First Duty________________________7 days, 21 hours, 13 minutes
TNG - Sins of the Father_____________________6 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes
TOS - The Doomsday Machine________________6 days, 1 hour, 27 minutes
TAS - The Counter-Clock Incident______________5 days, 22 hours, 27 minutes
TOS - Space Seed__________________________5 days, 16 hours, 58 minutes
ENT - Shuttlepod One_______________________5 days, 13 hours, 6 minutes
DS9 - Far Beyond the Stars__________________5 days, 3 hours, 15 minutes
TNG - Contagion___________________________5 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes
TOS - Amok Time__________________________4 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes
TNG - The Best of Both Worlds________________4 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes
TOS - Tomorrow is Yesterday_________________4 days, 13 hours, 8 minutes
TNG - All Good Things..._____________________4 days, 10 hours, 0 minutes
ENT - Twilight____________________________4 days, 2 hours, 58 minutes
DS9 - In the Pale Moonlight__________________4 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes
TNG - Remember Me_______________________4 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
TAS - Yesteryear__________________________3 days, 9 hours, 24 minutes
TNG - Deja Q_____________________________3 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes
TOS - The Tholian Web_____________________3 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes
TNG - Face of the Enemy____________________3 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes
TOS - Mirror, Mirror________________________3 days, 1 hours, 13 minutes
TOS - The Corbomite Maneuver______________2 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes
TNG - Sarek_____________________________2 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes
TOS - The Squire of Gothos________________2 days, 4 hours, 3 minutes
TNG - The Defector_____________________2 days, 0 hours, 13 minutes
TNG - Cause and Effect____________________0 days, 17 hours, 51 minutes
TNG - Data's Day_________________________0 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes
VOY - Basics_____________________________0 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes
TNG - Q Who?___________________________0 days, 2 hours, 57 minutes
^^ Not bad for a two parter!
Of course... Basics puts all other time trials to shame.
This sure took a long time...
Yeah, some go quick, some don't. I'll do the randomizer tonight so we can get going again.
Did take a while.
No, Q-Who was less than half of that.
Yes, but Basics is a two-parter, hence the comparison.
Can't help....myself....mu...st...type:
Damage Report!
OK, didn't realize that. I don't have episodes memorized.
Huh, Voyager ended up stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Who knew?
Here is the list of participants for our latest completed episode!
1. LeadHead
2. Athena28
3. Brian
4. JanewayRulz!
5. Vanyel
6. Enterprise1981
7. BlueStuff
8. leandar
9. Ziz
10. CoveTom
11. Alienesse
12. CoffeeAddict
13. Orac
14. Iamnotspock
Those names should be in the order in which each person first posted to the thread. No "weight" is given for who posted more or less often.
And, now the moment you've all been waiting for! Random.org, Activate Emergency Medical Random Number Generating Program!
So, Alienesse the next move is yours. Would you like to select the next episode we are going to do line-by-line? You are free to select the next episode or pass and I will re-run the randomization. You can pick any episode from any of the Trek series that you like. For reference, the ones we've done so far, ordered by series, are:
The Original Series
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Man Trap
The Menagerie
Journey to Babel
The City on the Edge of Forever
The Doomsday Machine
Requiem for Methuselah
The Trouble with Tribbles
Spock's Brain
Space Seed
Mirror, Mirror
The Tholian Web
Bread and Circuses
Amok Time
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
Tomorrow is Yesterday
The Squire of Gothos
The Animated Series
The Counter-Clock Incident
The Next Generation
Measure of a Man
Yesterday's Enterprise
Peak Performance
The First Duty
The Best of Both Worlds
Sins of the Father
All Good Things...
Face of the Enemy
Cause and Effect
Chain of Command
Q Who?
Lower Decks
Deja Q
The Enemy
Remember Me
Data's Day
The Defector
Deep Space Nine
The Visitor
Trials and Tribble-ations
The Way of the Warrior
Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast
Favor The Bold/The Sacrifice of Angels
Far Beyond the Stars
The Homecoming/The Circle/The Siege
The Maquis
In the Pale Moonlight
Bride of Chaotica
Dark Frontier
Future's End
Message in a Bottle
The Voyager Conspiracy
Body and Soul
Shuttlepod One
Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments
In a Mirror, Darkly
The Forge/Awakenings/Kir'Shara
Once a new episode has been chosen, I will fire up the next line-by-line thread in the appropriate forum and post the link here.
NOTE: As has been agreed, when a person is selected as the "chooser," they will have 48 hours to post their selection. After 48 hours, I will assume they "pass" and will re-run the randomization.
Funny, I barely contributed to this line-by-line and the randomizer chooses me. I guess that's why they call it the randomizer.
My choice is DS9's "Second Skin". We've already done a lot of TOS and TNG episodes, so it would be nice to balance the situation with a healthy dose of DS9 goodness. I won't choose an ENT episode because BlueStuff expects me to.
Well, lets start the next party then! Right this way, please...
Separate names with a comma.


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