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The Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU), which represents more than 64,000 active and retired members in New York, announced their support for Adriano Espaillat in his bid to represent the 13th Congressional District.
This is the first major union endorsement for Espaillat following an unbroken string of endorsements since his announcement at the United Palace Theatre two weeks ago.
"We are proud to endorse Senator Adriano Espaillat's bid for Congress today," John Samuelsen, President of TWU Local 100 said. "We are a diverse union of hard working New Yorkers who deliver a vital service to millions of fellow New Yorkers every day. Adriano has pledged to work with us to ensure our members are treated fairly on the job; that they work in a safe environment, and that they receive a fair and just contract from the MTA. I am excited to work with him on initiatives to improve and expand transit service to the City's traditionally underserved communities. We view Adriano as a powerful force for social justice and we are proud to be part of his coalition of support. We are confident that he is the best person to fight for us in Congress and we are ready to get to work to make him our next Representative in the 13th District."
"I am thrilled to have the support of the union that keeps our City moving," Adriano Espaillat said. "Our district relies heavily on TWU's hard working members to ensure that we get to work on time, our children make it to school safely and our elderly and disabled population can get anywhere they need to go. A year and a half ago our mass transit system was jeopardized in Hurricane Sandy and these fine men and women kept us moving. There is still work to be done and our City needs funding to protect our mass transit system from future damage in a disaster. In Congress, I will fight tirelessly to secure the funding necessary to keep our transit system moving rain, snow or shine – united we can strengthen our infrastructure. I am honored to have TWU's support and I look forward to working with them on my campaign and on capital improvements that help them do their job."
Since announcing his campaign, Espaillat has received several key endorsements, including New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Senator Gustavo Rivera (SD-33), Assemblymembers Karim Camara (AD-43) and Gabriela Rosa (AD-72), Council Members Mark Levine (CD-7) and Ydanis Rodriguez (CD-10), the Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan, and the Democratic Club of El Barrio & East Harlem.
Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU) represents nearly 64,000 active and retired members who work on the City's subway and bus lines. Representing virtually all employees including those who operate trains, maintain the trains and tracks, staff the token booths, clean platforms and subway cars, and service and repair mechanical equipment such as elevators and escalators. TWU also represents most of the men and women who drive and maintain public buses in New York City under the umbrellas of MaBSTOA in Manhattan and the Bronx, NYC Transit Surface Division in Brooklyn, and MTA Bus in Queens and the Bronx. TWU is also proud to represent workers at several private transportation firms and school bus companies in Brooklyn and Westchester County.
Espaillat's plans as Congressman: Champion Affordable and Low-income Housing: Affordable and low-income housing is disappearing in our community, and longtime residents are being driven from their homes. Adriano Espaillat led the fight to renew and strengthen New York State's tenant protection laws, and he will bring the same determined focus to Washington.
Empower our District Through Immigration Reform: Immigration reform is a defining civil rights issue of our time. Espaillat believes the time is now to fix our broken immigration laws and bring over 11 million Americans out of the shadows. The current system has split families apart, and left Latino, Caribbean, and African immigrant communities in the 13th congressional District vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
Make Economic Development about the Community: Espaillat believes that economic development isn't successful if current residents are left behind. Espaillat will fight to shift public subsidies from the big box chain stores paying minimum wage salaries to existing small and minority owned businesses looking to grow, and local entrepreneurs who need capital to get started.
Fight for Healthcare & An End to Health Disparities in Communities of Color: From diabetes, to obesity, to childhood asthma, Upper Manhattan and the Bronx residents have urgent needs that are not being met in Washington. Espaillat will push to prioritize federal research, education and grant funding towards targeting low-income communities of color to close the minority health disparity gap for children and seniors alike.
More About 13th District Congressional Candidate Adriano Espaillat: Adriano Espaillat got his start as a community activist in Northern Manhattan, and currently serves in the New York State Senate. In the legislature, he quickly distinguished himself as a reformer and progressive fighter who has stood up for working families.
In 2011, Espaillat led the fight to renew New York State's tenant protection laws, which were set to expire that year. Espaillat's advocacy safeguarded over 1 million units of affordable housing, and earned new protections for over 2.5 million people, including the creation of the Tenant Protection Unit to stop harassment and abuse.
As Chair of the Senate Latino Conference, Espaillat has championed state-based immigration reforms, including: legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, the DREAM Act, and the Farmworkers Bill of Rights.
Espaillat has been a vocal advocate for tenants, consumers, veterans, immigrants and local businesses. He has championed marriage equality and civil rights issues, and efforts to protect our environment from hydrofracking and other dangers.
He has passed laws preserving affordable housing, giving low-income day care workers the right to organize and obtain health care, and sponsored measures to improve hospital translation services. He established a higher education scholarship fund for relatives of the victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed on November 12, 2001.
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The first rule to surviving in the luxury club market during a recession is to stop calling your club a luxury club. Instead, call it a lifestyle brand.
That's what Smaiyra (pronounced Smy-ra) Million, CEO of Millennium Partners Sports Club Management LLC, has learned. After 25 years in the hotel business (with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.), the spa business (with Candelas Spas) and now the high-end club market (with Millennium's Sports Club/LA clubs), Million knows a little something about luxury and branding. And with the recent recession, she's learned how to market that luxury so that it is not perceived as a discretionary spend.
Efforts put in place by Million and former CEO Art Curtis, who now works for real-estate developer and Millennium's parent company Millennium Partners on mergers and acquisitions of health clubs, plan to grow the company at a time when many club companies have chosen to drop their membership prices or open low-priced club alternatives.
Instead, Million and her team repositioned the Sports Club/LA brand from a luxury brand to a lifestyle brand after market research showed that people had a negative response to the word luxury during the recession. So, the company, which previously had referred to its six clubs as "urban country clubs," stopped using that phrase and "luxury" in its ad campaigns.
"We don't try to downplay the fact that we do have extras and that we do pay attention to the individual needs of our very discerning customers, but we just don't talk about it as a luxury because a luxury is something that most people think they should be doing without," Million says. Instead, the company's ad campaign focuses on how health and fitness are essentials of life and, therefore, must be commitments rather than à la carte items that can be easily removed.
"It's something that you need to do as a part of living and breathing," she says.
The campaign is beginning to pay off. Prior to the recession, attrition at most of the Sports Club/LA locations, which are in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Miami and Washington, DC, averaged about 30 percent, with the Reebok Sports Club/NY location averaging about 21 percent. In 2009, at the height of the recession, attrition rose as high as 37 percent, but by the end of 2010, it had dropped to 35 percent, Million says.
That attrition was partly the cause for a 10 percent drop in revenue in 2010. Million would not reveal revenue numbers for the private company, but Millennium reported its 2008 revenue was $114.7 million when it submitted for Club Industry's Top 100 clubs list. The company did not report its 2009 revenue for the next year's list, but Club Industry estimated a 4 percent decline that year due to the recession, bumping it down to $110 million.
Another factor in the loss was a decline in ancillary revenue as members purchased smaller private training and programming packages. The hit was perhaps larger for Millennium than for some other companies, as 35 percent of its revenue is from ancillary services.
To overcome these obstacles, Million, Curtis and their team implemented several initiatives that Million projects will increase revenue in 2011 by 5 percent over 2010. Most of those efforts involve focusing on the customer.
In 2009, Millennium established a small call center in Boston to woo back members who either hadn't used the club in the past 30 days or whose usage had dropped by 50 percent or more, Million says. The calls let members know that they were missed and promoted new classes and equipment they could try. Sometimes, the calls led to setting up sessions with a trainer.
The calls were important because the single largest precursor to a cancellation is non-usage, Million says. And even though the calls sometimes led to cancellations, most of the members were surprised and happy about being contacted.
"We saw that that has helped us and has been reflected in our numbers coming back in line," Million says. "People sometimes just need a gentle reminder that they haven't been there in a while."
Millennium also listened to members when it came to dues. Instead of raising membership dues in 2010, Millennium implemented three additional pricing options. The company introduced a gold membership, which offered a lower effective monthly dues rate for a 12-month commitment. It also introduced a young professional rate for people in their 20s who wanted to join Sports Club/LA but could not afford it. At one club, the company introduced a weekend rate that allowed access to the club (and its popular rooftop terrace) from Friday to Sunday only.
"We tried to slice it and dice it enough so we could draw in more people without cannibalizing the existing membership base," Million says.
Despite adjusting dues pricing, Million is not a fan of selling solely on price.
"As an industry, we don't do ourselves any favors by making [price] the focus of what we present to the consumer," Million says. "I think we need to do a better job of educating the consumer as to what the value of a health club can bring you. Whether it's coming out of a recession or in good times, these are discretionary dollars that people think twice about spending. As an industry, we need to be more committed to speaking with one voice about the benefits of exercise rather than the $19.95 membership. No one really wins when we all drop to the lowest common denominator, which is always price."
Millennium cannot afford to compete on price. And doing so there or anywhere else can affect the talent pool, Million says, because management cannot afford to attract the best people or train and mentor them.
"We need to develop a pipeline of professionals," she says, noting that the practice in the hotel industry is to recruit interns and graduates from hotel schools and provide training for them. "They spend their career coming up and then you have seasoned professionals who grow into management and leadership roles. As an industry, we haven't done that. We don't cultivate our own talent. We poach from each other rather than investing the time and energy in the training and development of people, not only for your own company but for the industry."
With the recession possibly easing, attrition rates improving and revenue rebounding, Millennium is now ready for the growth that Million and Curtis anticipated prior to the recession. The company had already spent $35 million in member-facing areas after it purchased its six clubs from the Sports Club Co., Los Angeles, for $80 million in 2006. Millennium had renovated the clubs, added new equipment, added private workout areas and created mind/body studios that, in some of the locations, fill an entire floor.
The company had also improved its infrastructure, centralizing its accounting functions, improving its information technology infrastructure and its customer relationship management capacities, all in anticipation of growth.
And growth is what Million sees in Millennium's future now. She has targeted growth possibilities in Boston and Washington, DC. However, she would not rule out moving into cities such as Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta sometime in the future. Most of the new Boston and DC clubs will be smaller (35,000 to 40,000 square feet vs. 120,000 square feet for the main Boston club) and probably will not have pools, court sports or executive locker rooms. They would be in urban locations, possibly in the mixed-use, high-rise developments that its parent company owns, and they would surround the larger existing clubs in these cities.
However, the suburbs also may be calling Millennium, just as it has called some of its members who moved to greener locales after having children. Those children would require child-friendly programming and possibly pools, tennis courts and outdoor facilities. And rather than going in mixed-use, high-rise developments, the suburban clubs would probably be free-standing, Million says.
The cost of building new facilities on par with Sports Club/LA's current facilities could be too cost prohibitive right now, Million says, noting that the company's clubs cost anywhere from $35 million to $50 million to build in the 1990s. Instead, most of the expansion will come through purchases of existing clubs with existing members, which decreases the ramp-up time and the lead time for the return on the investment, Million says.
"A lot of our competition have the bare bones of something that we could come in and do something with," Million says. "It's all about finding a good location and a good membership base."
With many club companies struggling due to the economy, the prospect of finding someone who wants to sell may be high right now. And that is what this lifestyle brand is betting on as it moves forward with its once-delayed plans for growth.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
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Sixty-two percent of Americans now say they believe that global warming is happening, but 46 percent say they are "very sure" or "extremely sure" that it is not. Only 49 percent know why it is occurring, and about as many say they're not worried about it, according to the April report of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Because information about climate change is ubiquitous in the media, researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Texas, Austin, looked at why many Americans know so little about its causes and why many are not interested in finding out more.
The study, "What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance" was conducted by Z. Janet Yang, PhD, assistant professor of communication at UB, and Lee Ann Kahlor, PhD, associate professor of public relations and advertising at UT Austin. It was published in the April 2013 issue of the journal Science Communication and is available at http://scx.sagepub.com/content/35/2/189
Yang says, "Our key variables of interest were 'information seeking' and 'information avoidance.'
"We found that emotions have different impacts on both behaviors and that those with whom we socialize also are an important influence on our communication behaviors."
In particular, according to Yang, the study found:
- Those who had negative feelings toward climate change – feelings marked by states of fear, depression, anxiety, etc., – actively sought more information about climate change. They also saw climate change as having serious risks, and considered their current knowledge about it insufficient.
- Those driven by a positive affect toward climate change – an emotional state marked by hopefulness, excitement, happiness, etc. – actively avoided exposure to additional information on the issue. They also said climate change presented little risk to nature and humans, and they viewed their knowledge about climate change as sufficient.
- Our social environment has the potential to strongly influence whether we seek or avoid climate change information. This, the researchers say, may be because we are most often around people who agree with us about important issues, reinforce our perception of risk and support or discourage further action.
The study involved an online survey of 736 undergraduates from two large U.S. universities (61.3 percent female, 62.5 percent white, median family income, $90,000).
The research survey was developed and executed using Qualtrics software and was designed to ascertain:
- The subjects' general affect in relation to climate change – positive (excited, hopeful, happy) or negative (concerned, worried, anxious)
- How much information about climate change they thought they had and how much more they thought they needed
- How severe they found the threat of climate change to be to themselves and to nature, and its impact around the world
- How valuable they thought seeking information on the subject would be to them
- How much they valued others' opinions toward seeking information about climate change
- The confidence each had in his or her ability to find information about climate change
"Earlier research in social psychology has found that emotion, both positive and negative, is motivational and involves action tendency and action readiness," Yang explains.
"Those with a negative affect may seek out information, even if it includes negative predictions, in order to reduce their uncertainty and perhaps reassert control over the situation," says Yang.
"On the other hand, those with a positive affect who say they avoid seeking information may do so because they want to maintain their uncertainty – and their emotional equilibrium – from negative information that might upset them as well as contradict the attitudes of their social support group."
The researchers say the study results present several ways to improve the communication of risk information related to climate change. They say the data on subjects' reported information sufficiency suggests that risk communication about climate change might benefit from these approaches:
- Arousing a sense of curiosity and debunking false beliefs about ecological risks so people are not complacent about what they already know
- Highlighting potential negative consequences and fostering a positive attitude toward learning about climate change
- Monitoring the audience's social environment and its perceived ability for finding and understanding information about climate change
- Promoting optimism that human action, such as reducing greenhouse gas, could actually combat the consequences of climate change.
Yang conducts research centered on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, and on social cognitive variables that influence information seeking and processing, health decision making and public perception of environmental and health risks.
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The 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from March 4 to 15 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. In conjunction with the events focused on this year's conference theme, "The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls," Penn State's International Center for the Study of Terrorism (ICST) is co-sponsoring a discussion on the growing trend of female suicide bombers with UAEZE Consulting. The event, titled "The Allure of Female Suicide Bombers," will take place from noon to 2 p.m. March 8, at 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120.
ICST Fellow Mia Bloom, associate professor of international studies, will present the findings from her recent book, "Bombshell: Women and Terror." In addition to Bloom, analysts Farhana Qazi-Ali and Rosemarie Skaine will discuss their work on women and global terrorism. U.N. representatives will also participate in the interactive dialogue.
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Tim Pastoor, a scientist with Swiss ag giant Syngenta AG, calls atrazine "easily one of the most studied molecules on the planet." More than 600 studies have been done on the weed-killing herbicide over the years, he said. The secret of atrazine's success - and staying power - has been the yield benefit offered corn farms, controlling tough weeds that, if left untended, would crowd corn plants.
Tim Pastoor, a scientist with Swiss ag giant Syngenta AG, calls atrazine "easily one of the most studied molecules on the planet." More than 600 studies have been done on the weed-killing herbicide over the years, he said.
Registered by CIBA-GEIGY about 50 years ago, atrazine has been around far longer than most farm chemicals. Syngenta is now the primary producer of atrazine and stands by the product. On the Web site, atrazine.com, the company declares, "Syngenta believes in atrazine, its effectiveness, its safety, its importance to agriculture - in the U.S. and worldwide."
The secret of atrazine's success - and staying power - has been the yield benefit offered corn farms, controlling tough weeds that, if left untended, would crowd corn plants.
Lori Laughlin, a spokeswoman for Bloomington-based Illinois Farm Bureau, noted that "Atrazine is one tool among many available to farmers. The product provides a lot of economic benefits to producers; it helps to improve the efficacy of other products and is important for conservation tillage."
"Atrazine has been researched and studied rigorously. The application rate has decreased in recent years," she added.
What has not decreased in recent years is controversy over the herbicide. Concerns over atrazine being a carcinogen were first raised in the 1980s. In 1991, detection of atrazine in drinking water brought regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture conceded in a 1994 study that "restricting atrazine use would protect public water supplies (but) restrictions would impose costs on farmers and consumers."
"Farmers would use alternative herbicides to control weeds. Other herbicides are not as effective as atrazine and heavier applications (of other herbicides) would be required to achieve the same level of control. As a result, costs of production and food prices could rise and some of the environmental gains made by reducing atrazine could be offset by increased discharges of other chemicals," said the USDA.
While efforts to restrict atrazine have not proved successful in the United States, the herbicide was banned by several European countries in the 1990s and by the European Union in 2005.
Despite the ban, EU countries use terbuthylazine, a herbicide similar to atrazine, said Syngenta's Pastoor. "The European Union's decision not to use atrazine was not science based but directed by a groundwater limit for all pesticides of .01 part per billion, regardless of toxicity," he said.
Bureau County farmer Keith Bolin said he's used atrazine since he started farming in 1978. His family uses well water, but he has never had the water tested for atrazine contamination. Bolin believes there is less risk with atrazine than with biotech corn.
Bolin farms 600 acres with 40 acres in organic production. He plans to slowly expand organic production, gradually phasing out the use of atrazine and other chemicals. "The organic corn (sells for) $7 a bushel. The conventional corn (sells for) $3 a bushel and the organic corn takes $300 an acre less than the conventional, but organic is a lot more labor," he said.
Saving labor is something else that can be attributed to atrazine, said Chuck Foresman, Syngenta's senior technical brand manager, who recalled that atrazine changed the way he spent his summers as a boy.
"I grew up on a farm in Hancock County. Until my father started using atrazine, we would spend eight- to 10-hour days clearing weeds all summer long. It was the most dreary job on the farm," he said.
Atrazine's chief benefit is that it helps produce more corn per acre. Illinois corn treated with atrazine yielded between eight and 10 bushels more per month compared to corn grown without it, said Richard Fawcett of an Iowa-based agricultural consulting service.
"As glyphosate and glysophate-resistant weeds increase in the future (as many weed scientists predict), atrazine will become more important," noted Fawcett in a 2007 study.
Jean Payne, president of the Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association, called atrazine "like salt in a recipe," referring to the fact the herbicide's effectiveness increases when mixed with other chemicals. "It makes everything else work better," she said.
A recurring theme in several studies is that restricting the use of atrazine would hurt U.S. farmers. In one performed by University of Illinois researchers, weed scientist David Pike set the cost to farmers of replacing atrazine at $15 per acre. "This cost does not include the cost of additional soil erosion where tillage will be used to replace atrazine use," he said.
In a separate 2007 study, atrazine was viewed as critical to Illinois farmers. Illinois corn farmers and the state's economy could suffer annual losses in excess of $500 million without atrazine, according to the study released by the Illinois Farm Bureau.
"In nearly 50 years of use, atrazine has proven (to be) cost effective, reliable, flexible and safe when used in accordance with federal label instructions," said University of Chicago economist Don Coursey, who performed the study.
But that work was questioned by Frank Ackerman, director of research for the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. "In 2007, Don Coursey completed a study of the value of atrazine to the Illinois economy, performed for Syngenta, the principal producer of atrazine," noted Ackerman in a 2007 article in the International Journal of Occupational Environmental Health.
"It is often claimed that atrazine is of great economic benefit to corn growers but support for this claim is limited," wrote Ackerman, adding that, after both Italy and Germany banned atrazine in 1991, neither country saw a decrease in corn yields.
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That's Barack Obama in 2004. And, here he is in 2006:
Those big-ticket items, fixing our health care system. You know, one of the arguments that sometimes I get with, uhh, my fellow progressives and -- and some of these have -- have flashed up in the blog communities on occasion -- is this notion that we should function sort of like Karl Rove, where we -- we identify our core base, we throw 'em red meat, we get a 50-plus-one, uhhh, victory. See, Karl Rove doesn't need a broad consensus because he doesn't believe in government. If we want to transform the country, though, that requires a -- a sizeable majority.And 2007:
[Health care reform] is an area where we're going to have to have a 60% majority in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk. We're going to have to have a majority to get a bill to my desk that is not just a 50-plus-one majority....We're not? Or were you lying?
You gotta break out of what I call the sort of 50-plus-one pattern of presidential politics. Maybe you eke out a victory with 50-plus-one but you can't govern. You know, you get Air Force One and a lot of nice perks as president but you can't -- you can't deliver on health -- we're not going to pass universal health care with a -- with a 50-plus-one strategy.
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Under the rules, the reconciliation process does not permit that debate. Reconciliation is therefore the wrong place for policy changes. In short, the reconciliation process appears to have lost its proper meaning: A vehicle designed for deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility has been hijacked.Yes, it has.


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It is striking that the writing of abolitionists in the early days of the Civil War often are zealously insightful. Despite being largely reviled figures at the time, even in the North, they had the best handle on what the nascent conflict was really about and what it would become.
A good example is a column by William Lloyd Garrison that appeared in the May 3, 1861 edition of The Liberator, under the title, "The War–Its Cause and Cure." After bemoaning that the Founding Fathers had betrayed the principles of the American Revolution by not ending slavery, Garrison criticized the sentiment in the North common in early May 1861 that the conflict should be exclusively about preserving the Union. He wrote:
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it. That it may go well with us, let us break every yoke!
Hence, Garrison asserted that peace could not be restored, or at very least maintained after peace was restored forcibly, without an end to slavery. He editorialized:
It alters nothing to say, that the South is guilty of unparalleled perfidy and treason. Granted! But why overlook the cause of all this? That cause is SLAVERY! If that be not removed, how is it possible to escape the consequences? Suppose we succeed in "conquering a peace," leaving things as they were; in due time, a still more fearful volcanic explosion will follow.
William Lloyd Garrison believed that no more peaceable nationhood was possible between the free and slave states. Hence, he contended the war should continue until slavery was destroyed completely or that a permanent separation of North and South take place. Garrison clearly preferred the former alternative, seeing the Civil War even in its early days as an unprecedented opportunity to effect emancipation. He wrote:
Now, we solemnly maintain, that it is the most deplorable infatuation to aim to restore the old order of things. No blessing can attend it. God has frowned upon it, and, through judgment, provided a way of escape. Nothing is more clear than that an "irrepressible conflict" between slavery and freedom must continue. It is useless to deny that the Union is dissolved, and every slave State virtually in rebellion against the government. Let there be no more compromise. In humbling the Southern conspirators, let the government, UNDER THE WAR POWER, either proclaim emancipation to all in bondage, or else take measures for a final and complete separation between the free and slave States. Unquestionably, the former course would be justified by the exigencies of the country, and be the readiest way to bring the war to a close, and the traitors to terms. It would also be the greatest boon that could possibly be bestowed upon the South. But if this measure be deemed questionable, then for a free, independent Northern republic, leaving the South to her fate!
Out of the slave system comes this terrible civil war, with whatever ghastly horrors may follow in its train. So Divine Justice has ordered it, that both North and South may be scourged for their transcendant [sic] iniquity in tolerating such a system in the land. Is it not so, Mr. Edward Everett, Mr. Millard Fillmore, Mr. Franklin Pierce, Mr. Stephen Arnold Douglas—Democrats and Republicans all? Say, are they freemen or slaveholders who have perfidiously captured forts, arsenals, magazines, mints, revenue cutters, steamships, and custom-houses, and are now plotting the seizure of the Capital? Men of the North! is it not your mission, in this campaign, to make it possible for a free government and a glorious Union to exist, by decreeing the extinction of slavery as utterly antagonistical to both? No class of human beings living have such claims upon your sympathy, justice, and benevolent intervention, as the slaves of the South. No cause is so sacred as theirs. In Heaven's name, do nothing to keep them longer in their chains! Do everything rightfully in your power those chains to sunder!
If this war shall put an end to that execrable system, it will be more glorious in history than that of the Revolution. If it shall leave it unscathed, and in full operation, —even though Southern treason may for a time be "crushed out,"—there will be nothing to look for but heavier judgments and an irrevocable doom! "For the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land to the other: no flesh shall have peace. . . . 0 house of David, thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, BECAUSE OF THE EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS. . . . Undo the heavy burdens, break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free; then shalt thou be like a watered garden, and like a fountain whose waters fail not; and they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt be called, THE REPAIRER OF THE BREACH, THE RESTORER OF PATHS TO DWELL IN."
So clearly, William Lloyd Garrison in May 1861 saw slavery as the cause of the Civil War and emancipation as the only cure to end it and avoid renewed sectional conflict. His position was in a distinct minority then among white Northerners, but events in the first year of the war would increasingly convince other people in the free states of its wisdom.
Source: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=577


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The University of Rochester has received $168,000 through NYSEG/RG&E's Commercial and Industrial Rebate program for leadership in data center energy efficiency. This rebate corresponds with the University's use of OptiCool modular cooling technology, a locally produced innovation that has helped significantly reduce energy use and costs in the University's second data center.
The University's data centers are controlled access environments housing critical technology equipment, applications, and data. The primary data center in Monroe County is the hub of the University's computing resources, which are shared by the academic, medical, research, and administrative communities. The second data center in Ontario County serves as a hub backup, with both locations operating 24/7.
The OptiCool system in the second data center effectively cools the electronic equipment close to the source of heat by using rear-door units installed on the back of computer cabinets. The heat from the electronic equipment is captured by refrigerant that circulates to cooling units, and is eventually looped through coils to outdoor air condensers for final heat rejection. There are multiple efficiencies in using OptiCool for high heat density cooling: the system is up to 95 percent more energy efficient than conventional cooling within data centers; it has up to 500 percent more cooling capacity; and it can reduce floor space dedicated to cooling by up to 90 percent.
"We are always looking for innovative ways to reduce our energy footprint, even while our reliance on technology grows," said David Lewis, University vice president for information technology. "The data center provides critical support to University-wide operations 24 hours a day, every day of the year, so investments in its energy efficiency will have exponential benefits far into the future."
"Energy efficiency is of critical importance to RG&E," said Mark S. Lynch, president of NYSEG and RG&E. "RG&E is pleased to assist the University of Rochester's efforts to use energy wisely. This is a prime example of how our Commercial and Industrial Rebate Program can help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions something that helps not only this fine institution, but the state as a whole."
"We are proud to support the University of Rochester in leading data center sustainability in health care and higher education," said Jeff Burke, OptiCool Technologies president. "Data centers consume nearly 3 percent of all electricity in New York State, which can be reduced substantially with new innovative technologies." OptiCool Technologies is an affiliate company of Calvary Automation, with both based in Webster, N.Y.
This is not the data centers' first recognition for sustainability. In 2009, a $300,000 RG&E rebate recognized energy efficiencies within the primary data center's construction, and in June 2010 NYSERDA awarded the University a $189,000 grant for energy efficiencies built into the design of the primary data center. In 2011, NYSERDA also recognized the primary data center as a High Performance Building, with energy-saving features that include a building management system that optimizes efficiency, and a cooling system that takes advantage of Rochester's moderate climate.


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Chances are you will deliver a healthy, full-term baby. But just in case, it's reassuring to know that our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) doctors in Johnson City are ready to provide critical care to premature infants, low birth weight babies and those with special needs. Sophisticated equipment, advanced technology and our highly-trained staff have helped thousands of infants since the NICU opened in Johnson City over 30 years ago. And this important care is delivered in a sensitive environment dedicated to the developmental needs of the babies. Obstetricians and parents have such confidence in the NICU that most of the region's uncomplicated and complicated births occur at UHS Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City. The New York State Department of Health has designated the NICU as the area's only Level 3 nursery for caring for both babies and their mothers. Our staff of obstetricians, certified nurse midwives and nurse practitioners includes the area's only perinatologist and neonatologist to care for high risk pregnancies and newborns.
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basvar Links to useful MoI information on the web (French version here)
MoI help file online (French) (German) (Spanish) (Italian)
Petr's MoI page, contains a variety of MoI information including scripts and custom commands.
Language packs: (Spanish help file) (Italian UI and help file)
MoI documentation video tutorials
Steph's video tutorials - note one of the older quicktime ones needs this codec, and you may need to hit "reload" on your browser after waiting for it to load before it will play.
Daniele's halogen lamp video tutorial
Joe's classical column video tutorials
Ring tutorial by Jesse Kaufman, and #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
Simple ring using rail revolve, and variant using sweep + scaling rail for more control
Product design forums modeling challenges (not specific to MoI but useful for general CAD modeling strategy).
Modeling a water can out of one smooth surface
Helper programs
Some standalone small programs to help accomplish specific tasks.
Obj23dmWireframe converter
Download Obj23dmWireframe converter
This enables bringing polygon data in an .obj file into MoI to use as a construction guide. Unzip it to some folder, and then you can run the Obj23dmWireframe.exe program. It will prompt you for the name of an .obj file to read, and after that the name of a .3dm file to create. It will read all the polygon data from the obj file and convert the edges of polygons into line segments, and then write those line segments to the 3dm file. You can then load that 3dm file into MoI and use those line segments to snap on to. Originally posted on the forum here.
3dmCurves2DXF converter
Download 3dmCurves2DXF converter
This enables converting curves from .3dm to .dxf format, to help export data from MoI to some CAM programs. Unzip it to some folder, and then run the 3dmCurves2DXF.exe program. It will ask you for the name of an input .3dm file, and then the name of an output .dxf file. It will read through the input .3dm file and convert any curve objects it finds to Spline entities in the DXF file. Originally posted on the forum here.
SeparateOBJ editor
This will edit an .obj file to break objects down into smaller pieces to help with material assignment in some other programs such as Poser, HyperShot, and Bryce.
If your .obj file was exported with default settings, this will break apart pieces between any sharp edges. For example, a box will break apart into 6 different objects. But if you have rounded all the edges of the box so they are smooth, it will remain as one single piece. However, if you export your .obj file with "Weld vertices along edges" unchecked (expand the Meshing options dialog with the arrow in the bottom-left corner to see this setting), then that will set things up so that all surfaces will be broken out into individual pieces, including pieces that are smooth with one another.
To use the program, unzip it to some folder, then run the SeparateOBJ.exe program. It will ask you for the name of an .obj file and after you give it one it will edit the obj file to break larger objects into smaller object pieces, and also assigns separate material ids to each piece, which HyperShot needs to have present to assign materials to different pieces of the file instead of just one material for everything. Originally posted on the forum here and here.
MergeOBJ editor
This will edit an .obj file to combine all the different objects in it into one single object. This can be useful if you only want one single material for everything instead of having things split up into different objects. To use it follow the same instructions for SeparateOBJ above.
Blender importer
Download Blender import script
Anthony D'Agostino wrote a custom blender .lwo import script to enable exporting data from MoI to Blender while preserving the accurate vertex normals to get high quality smooth shading. To use the script, you need to turn vertex welding off when you export from MoI - in the Mesh options dialog, click the small arrow in the lower-left corner to expand to detailed options, and uncheck "Weld vertices along normals". Getting the accurate normals makes a significant difference in increasing render quality, it eliminates small shading glitches that happen when the shading normals are created just from averaging adjacent polygons. More information in the forum post.


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Shrimp Orzo Skillet
- Category: Seafood, Main Courses
- Servings: 4
- Print Recipe
- 8 ounces large uncooked shrimp (10-12)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon sugar
- 8 ounces orzo pasta
- 1 garlic clove, pressed
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup clam juice
- 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon thinly sliced fresh mint
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 tablespoon butter
For shrimp, peel and devein shrimp. Add oil to skillet and heat over medium high heat 1-3 minutes or until shimmering. As skillet heats, combine salt, black pepper and sugar in small bowl; add shrimp to bowl and toss to cost.
Arrange shrimp in a single layer over bottom of skillet and cook about 1 minute or until one side is browned and edges are pink. Remove skillet from heat and turn shrimp over; let stand an additional 30 seconds or until centers are opaque and shrimp is cooked through. Remove shrimp from skillet, set aside.
For orzo, in same skillet, combine orzo, pressed garlic, broth and clam juice. Bring to a boil; cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook 10-12 minutes or until orzo is cooked through.
As orzo cooks, zest lemon to measure 1 tablespoon zest; juice lemon to measure 1 tablespoon juice. Thinly slice mint.
Remove skillet from heat and stir in peas, butter and lemon juice. Arrange shrimp over orzo; cover and let stand 3-5 minutes or until heated through. Sprinkle with lemon zest and mint before serving.


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I named it Over the Garden Gate. The white bars remind me of a fence and the color combinations remind me of a flower garden. I also was trying to capture the feeling of how, as we click our way through blogs and link parties, it can feel like we are peeking into someone else's craft room or living room or kitchen - just stopping by for a minute to chat before heading out to the next link down the street. There is a sense of community out there that I just wasn't expecting to find at the outset.
I all but stumbled into blogging at the end of May, basically deciding I wanted to do it because I found out there was something called the Blogger's Quilt Festival. What I could not have known was what a warm, generous and creative group of people I would find on my travels through blog-land and how the very act of blogging itself would push my creativity and give that part of my life focus, definition and goals. As I was cutting and sewing and quilting this quilt, I was thinking about the many comments I've gotten from some of you on my various projects, your insights into your own crafts and some of the beautiful things you guys have made and shared on your blogs. It is amazing to me how we just keep putting ourselves and our projects out there and how often someone has something lovely to share with us because of it. This quilt is for each of you, even if I could only make one.
On a personal level, it's nice to finally have a group of individuals that are truly interested in all of my crafts and not just humoring me because I just dragged them up to my craft room, again, to show them things that they just don't get or can't understand the amount of hours I just "lost" creating whatever it was. I thank you and my friends and family thank you. :)
This quilt is washed and ready to be sent to one of you. It still needs a label and I promise it will have one before I send it out. I just haven't decided what I want it to say yet.
Thanks for reading my blog and a special thank you to all of my followers - you make blogging fun. :)
Here are the
You have 3 chances to enter. Each comment is considered an entry (no more than three per person):
1. Leave a comment about this quilt or what you might do with it if you win it or about what blogging has meant to you.
2. Become a follower. Just leave a comment, whether you're a new follower or old, just saying that you are one.
3. Blog about this quiltaway or post one of my buttons (located in my sidebar) on your blog. Let me know which you did and post the link in the comment.
Please make sure there is a way for me to contact you by email! This quiltaway will run from now through Sunday, September 12th at 6:00pm. The winner will be drawn by random number generator and announced Monday, September 12th at 9:00am.
GOOD LUCK!! I hope YOU win!
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Few transactional relationships are more relational than those between health club employees and their members. Club owners, group exercise instructors and personal trainers have the opportunity to help their clients stay motivated by supporting them both inside and outside their fitness facilities. Most of your members are over programmed and time impoverished. Maintaining member relationships away from your club can be a huge differentiator. Consider this statistic: a current customer is eight to 10 times more likely to buy again from you than a new customer.
Touching members using technology does not mean purchasing sophisticated point-of-contact (or sales) software, although these can be a highly leveraged way of managing individual relationships. Providing support can be as simple as using an e-mail system that can be tracked and used in a systematic manner. Here are a few examples of the programs that I've found to be highly effective through research at FitAdvisor.
Create e-mail follow-up guidelines for personal trainers, group exercise instructors, dieticians or physical therapists to stay in touch with clients between club visits. All you need is Internet access for your employee and the ability to capture a member's e-mail address. It's critical that you provide guidelines on the frequency of the e-mails and type of information that can and should be included in the messages.
Few of us are good writers, so you would be doing your employees a favor by creating a template for their correspondence and training them in how and when to use the technology. Make using "technology touch" a non-negotiable for all your customer contact employees. Check with them on a regular basis to make sure that they are delivering follow up consistently. If you want to know whether or not this contact is working, then track your retention numbers and your referrals.
Contact infrequent-use members in actionable ways. This can be done by creating a series of "scripts" that relate to the membership status of an individual who has not been in your club regularly. These are not simply "we miss you" blast e-mails. This type of contact should include personal information including goals, past challenges or work schedule issues so members know your club understands their needs. You can also include short messages about family members and friends who might be within the circle of influence of your members.
Develop a consultation system within your current member sign-up process that prompts sales consultants to ask not only about goals, but also to inquire about foreseeable challenges including travel, job changes and family responsibilities. This can be used in conjunction with a current electronic sales contact system.
Create and use a client profile card. Each salesperson should rotate these cards monthly on an ongoing basis to contact their customers all year long. The profiles are entered into a point-of-sale system when a new customer purchases a product. These profile cards include personal information from customer goals, family members and their needs, products purchased and a time frame for service, and interest in special events.
The foundation of a system that uses technology at any level needs to be easy for employees to execute and track clients. The less sophisticated, the better — at least when beginning an electronic member program. Of course, to do this, you must know why you want to reach out to your members and set goals for the outreach. You must also determine how these clients prefer to be contacted and obtain permission to contact them if you're planning on sending them an e-mail message or giving them a call.
Most importantly, you must ensure that not all the contacts you make with your members are sales oriented. It's fine to provide pricing for special programs, but the majority of these messages should be motivational and programmatic. Otherwise, members will begin deleting them without reading them.
We must stay in contact with our customers when they are away from our businesses. They live complicated lives making it necessary to exercise and stay healthy while traveling or at home. Simple technology allows you to add value in a more comprehensive manner. Missing this opportunity can cost you in many ways — goal attainability, meaningful retention and keeping good customers from finding another means to become and stay healthy and fit.
Gregory Florez is CEO of FitAdvisor Health Coaching Services and First Fitness Inc., which was rated as the No. 1 health coaching online training service by The Wall Street Journal. Gregory can be contacted at [email protected].


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Your Right to Request to Know and How to Submit a Verified Request to Know
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6) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information.
The CCPA permits requests to know from the same consumer up to twice in a twelve (12) month period.
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To the extent that you have provided us with the above information and wish to submit a request to know, please email your request to firstname.lastname@example.com. To process your request, you may be required to submit your name and email address in conjunction with your request. The name and email address which you provide will be used to verify your request and to attempt to identify you within our data records. If you elect to use an authorized agent to exercise your right to submit a request for information, proof of your consent to utilize such authorized agent as well as verification of your own identity may be required before processing the request. The information which you submit in conjunction with your request to know will be used for the express purposes of verification and providing you with responsive information to your request, if required.
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Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver UETTDRTP24A, 'Erect power systems transmission structure hardware'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
- Books
- Reference books for 'Erect power systems transmission structure hardware' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
Prepare to erect transmission tower hardware
Work instructions are received and confirmed.
Relevant requirements and established procedures to be followed for the work to be preformed are discussed with all personnel to establish and confirm the work schedule.
OHS policies and procedures to be followed for the work to be performed are received and confirmed.
Suggestions to assist in meeting the erection of transmission tower hardware outcomes are made to others involved in the work.
Hazards are identified, OHS risks assessed and emergency exits kept clear according to given instructions and established procedures.
Scope of responsibility under the relevant work permit are received and confirmed according to requirements and established procedures with relevant personnel.
Resources including, equipment, tools and personnel protective equipment required for the job are obtained and, in working order according to established procedures.
Relevant responsibility associated with First Aid, Tower/Pole Top Rescue and/or other related work safety procedures at the work site are confirmed in accordance with requirements and established procedures to ensure safety measures are followed in the instance of an incident.
Client issues are referred to appropriate personnel in accordance with industry/acceptable /community standards.
Site is prepared according to given instructions and the work schedule for a quality outcome and to minimise risk and damage to property, commerce, and individuals in accordance and established procedures.
Road signs, barriers and warning devices are positioned in accordance with given instructions and requirements.
Carry out the erection of transmission tower hardware
OHS and sustainable energy principles and practices to reduce the incidents of accidents and minimise waste are followed in accordance with given instructions, requirements and/or established procedures.
Lifting, climbing, working in confined spaces and/or aloft, and use of power tools/equipment, techniques and practices are safely followed in accordance with given instructions and, according to requirements confirmed to eliminate the prospects of incidents
Operational knowledge for the erection of transmission tower hardware to be applied to the work is confirmed to ensure completion in an agreed timeframe and, to quality standards with a minimum of waste according to requirements and established procedures.
The erection of transmission tower hardware is carried out in accordance with given instructions and established routines/procedures.
Hazard warnings and safety signs are recognised and hazards and assessed OHS risks are reported to the immediate authorised persons for directions according to established procedures.
Non-routine events are referred to the immediate authorised personnel for directions according to established procedures.
Problems associated with the erection of transmission tower hardware are dealt with using acquired known solutions and skills related to routine procedures to ensure work instructions and established procedures are met.
Ongoing checks of quality of the work are undertaken in accordance with given instructions and established procedures.
Complete the erection of transmission tower hardware
Work undertaken is checked against work schedule and anomalies reported to Authorised personnel in accordance with established procedures.
Accidents and/or incidents are actioned and reported to authorised personnel in accordance with established procedures.
Work site is rehabilitated, cleaned up and made safe in accordance with given instructions and established procedures.
Tools, equipment and any surplus resources and materials are, where appropriate, cleaned, checked and returned to storage in accordance with established procedures.
Appropriate personnel are notified of work completion according to established procedures.
Works completion records, report forms/data sheets are completed accurately in accordance with given instructions and established procedures.


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A young English musician of Czech origin, currently residing in Berlin, Emika is carving out a place as the golden girl of Europe's electronic underground. She has collaborated with DJ Pete, a pioneer of Berlin's techno circuit, has received raves from Thom Yorke, and is the mastermind behind "Pretend", a track that turned into a hit rearrangement on Brand Brauer Frick's record, Mr. Machine. A trained sound designer, she produces, writes, sings, plays piano and manipulates synths and sequencers, among other ambidextrous musical talents. Her eponymous debut was released in 2011 on Ninja Tune, which also distributed many of her EPs and will release her forthcoming sophomore record, Dva, later this June. A child of dubstep (and torch song), she takes a root sound known for its aggro, muscular tendencies, and twists its parts into songs. While Emika will be performing solo at her MUTEK debut, she has been conceiving of her live performances in various formats, among them a string quartet version of the new material.
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Divorce: move on, trade up, whatever ... but don't be bitter for ever ... and get some decent counselling
It's now three years since my marriage ended. Hey, taihoa, easily embarrassed people. I'm not going on another diatribe about my long, dark teatime of the soul. Although there is a noble tradition of columnists chronicling their divorce crud - the old "bastard stole the best years of my life and ruined my pelvic floor" genre.
Rachel Royce grizzled regularly in the Daily Mail about how her husband, Spectator columnist Rod Liddle, decamped for a 22-year-old blonde muppet. Not so bad, but Royce was still wheezing on about her misery four years later when he married the muppet. Oh you sad, sad chook.
And author Kathryn Flett turned her divorce into a career, writing about her ex-husband and how useless he was in bed and possibly worse, "He had a boxed set of Yes CDs." So cruel, sister.
But it's not just women. Film-maker James Cameron, asked why he got married five times, said, "I could never resist an upgrade." Doofus.
But I don't need to vent any more. I'm happy with my lot. And the only reason I am bringing this topic up again is because I want to say what made me better. Yes, my ex-husband was a non-doofus apart from his uncharacteristic lapse of taste in not wanting to be married to me. But even so, I would not be as chirpy as I am if I hadn't been going every week for the past three years to see a therapist. That costs $180 an hour per week. Yes, I know. "I'd like to spend $20,000 on a shrink," said no person ever.
But maybe they should. Maybe we would all be better off, including children in splitting families, which is a lot of children, if everyone who was going through a divorce took all the money they spend on lawyers ($300 an hour) and spent it on therapy instead.
Oh, I don't mean just any old hand-patting nonce. Bad counselling is worse than useless. There are lots of psychologists who seem to want to keep clients coming back week after week as their mortgage-payment fund. Where is the incentive for a client to stop their pity party if it means a lucrative revenue stream is going to dry up? But the kind of practical guidance, like mine, which helped me to let go of anger and stop seeing myself as a rejected loser victim is bloody helpful.
Oh I know I'm smugly middle class and I had a generous ex-husband but trust me, even I could have been consumed with anger and bitterness. So imagine what some people go through.
And just in case you don't know what going through a divorce is like, it is as though when you got married you got on a plane to Paris, looking forward to eating croissants and going to the Louvre. But instead you landed in Beirut.
Why am I here? Where are the pastries? Coming to terms with being in this new place is painful. It involves accepting the world is not what you thought it was. And frankly, just trying just to stay alive.
My psychologist (his name is John McEwan) helped me to face the annihilation of my old self and the creation of a new life. This is a frightening process; an existential crisis.
The only way is to go through it, rather than avoid it. Yet for most people the only help they get is from lawyers. I once asked a top divorce QC what she advises her clients in terms of getting emotional support. She looked genuinely puzzled and said something crisp like that wasn't really her remit. Which is true, I guess. Lawyers know about arguing. Letting go of anger ain't their gig.
It may even save money in the long term if warring parents could have a more constructive outlet for their anger and pain. The system we have for helping people whose marriages are ending could be a lot better. Unless you're a lawyer; it's great for them.
Editor's Note:
The Law Society did not recommend that the Family Court should stop funding voluntary counselling services, as stated in Deborah Hill Cone's column and the Simon Collins report of 14 July 2012. The recommendation was to stop funding mandatory counselling.


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Miami Pier Collapse Sends People Into Water
The deck at Shucker's Bar and Grill fell into the water, authorities said.
June 13, 2013 -- An outdoor deck at a Miami sports bar partially collapsed Thursday night, sending dozens of people into the water, authorities said.
About 100 people were on the outdoor deck at Shucker's Bar and Grill when it fell into the water, Miami Dade Fire and Rescue spokesman Lt. Eugene Germain told ABC News.
Germain said some people were pulled from the water underneath the deck.
"We have located and we're in the process of treating approximately 24 victims," he said.
At least three people were in critical condition, Germain said.
Everyone is accounted for, but divers and choppers are still looking to make sure there are no additional victims, according to Germain.
The incident occurred at about 9:20 p.m. as restaurant patrons were watching the NBA finals game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, according to restaurant officials.
Sadiyah Taba, a hostess at Shucker's Bar and Grill, escaped injury. She had just stepped off the deck before the collapse.
"It just happened so fast, and everyone started screaming and they ran," she said.
ABC News Radio contributed to this report.


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Hal Barr brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 80 Designs von 20 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
The Hal Barr Consulting Group is based in Houston, Texas and is committed to helping individuals and organizations of all kinds discover their passions and purpose. Hal Barr is the principle and his objective is: That by showing people a way of understanding and communicating with each other that they will achieve greater success, have less stress and great joy and freedom in their lives.
Currently, the company is transitioning from HDB Consulting Group to the Hal Barr Consulting Group. In addition, various sub-brands are in development. The new names will be executed using the trade dress and iconography from the original HDB logo treatments with possible variations depending on final design.
The Hal Barr Consulting Group is passionate about empowering and improving the ability of individuals to communicate and interact more effectively. We are energetic and positive about helping people to find their passions and purpose and to realize their full potential. We do it in a way that is engaging, motivating and enthusiastic with a strong client-focus to develop a level of trust that builds and broadens relationships
Our relationship with our clients is defined mentors, advocates and advisors. Through a set of tools and techniques we give your teams a clear sense of their natural talents that can best be utilized to achieve personal professional and organizational goals.
C-level Officers and decision-makers who want to improve the effectiveness of their teams and organization. Some are looking for hard results related to sales and job performance, while others are trying to improve communication and conflict-resolution.
Take a look at the current logo. I like the colors and the design is to be clean and professional. I have attached the current logo and branding pieces to the document.
I am planning to use a bi fold business card with my info on the front and back and inside I will be using a chart that is used in or work.
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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The mission of the certification program is to promote professionalism within the electrical inspector field-of-practice through a widely accepted, respected and professionally sound certification. Two certifications are offered: Residential and Master.
Program features
Who is eligible?
Certified Electrical Inspector Residential
High school or GED
Completion of Registered Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program, or
Associate Degree in Electrical Construction Technology (or equivalent), or
Journeyman Electrician (or equivalent) or Master Electrician, or
BS in Electrical Engineering or PE in Electrical Engineering, or
4,000 hours as an electrician, or
2,000 hours as an electrical inspector
Certified Electrical Inspector Master
Eligibility requirements are the same as the Residential program with the exception of:
8,000 hours as an electrician, or
4,000 hours as an electrical inspector
It is possible for you to be considered for acceptance as a transfer from other recognized electrical inspector certification programs. For a transfer application, download the Applicant Handbook.
Other Certification Forms
Meet Your CEU Requirements
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May 23, 2011
State legislators watch as Col. Thomas Roe gives a presentation on the Center for Army Lessons Learned in the Lewis and Clark Center at Fort Leavenworth on Friday, May 20.
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Tag: A Fathers Love
A Little Girl's Insight of Her Father's Love
"Fly free I say, for someday fall you may. Yet in my safe arms you shall always stay." (Quote by me, Jules . Inspired by the love that my brother has for his child.) It's Father's Day weekend.


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Abstract: The dissertation seeks to answer the following questions: Which semantic properties allow for a verb to appear as well transitively as intransitively without any morphological changes, i.e. a semantic characterization of the verbs that alternate. When does the reflexive pronoun se appear in the intransitive version of the alternation? What characterizes the situations referred to by the alternation and what makes them so apt to appear in the causative alternation not only in Spanish but also in typologically related and unrelated languages, i.e. a more general characterization/description of the situations referred to by the verbs in the alternation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7945
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